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VOL. XU No. 25
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. FEB. 26, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Late News
the markets
Cotton, spot. 12^ 10 13V«
Cotton seed, ton, wagon-28.00
Cotton seed, ton. carlots - 30.00
Fair Tonight
tVcather report for North Caro
lina: Fair tonight and Tuesday.
Miirh colder with a cold wave In
cstrcme east portion tonight. Cold
„ on the coast Tuesday.
More Jobless
Washington. Feb. 26.—Industrial
unemployment increased again in
January, William Green, president
of the American Federation of Lab
or said in a statement today, but
not quite as much as In other de
pression years.
Double Guards
Hsinking, Manchukuo, Feb. 26.—
Fearing plots against Henry Pu Vi
uhirh might end in his death on
the day of enthronement, March 1,
Japanese and Manchukuo authori
ties redoubled their precautions to
day.
CCC Continued
Washington, Feb. 26.—Members
of the Civilian Conservation corps
now scattered throughout North
Carolina, chiefly in the western
section, where camps are located,
are to be issued certificates of selec
tion in anticipation of the “forest
camps” being continued for another
six months after July 1.
Increase Output
Washington. Feb. 26.—Sharp in
creases in industrial output and a
general wholesale price rise were
reported by the Federal Reserve
board yesterday for January and
early February.
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I
The March
Of Events
Freak Weather
While lashing rain, accompanied
by streaking lightning and resound
ing rolls of thunder gave Cleveland
county a loud evening yesterday
the rest of the state got a freak
variety of weather. In the north
east section, there was five Inches
of snow and the upper .half of the
Piedmont was covered with Ice. An
electrical storm zoomed up tc
Ashevil'e and sent the thermomricr
up to 50 degrees. It was about 32 in
Shelby. Salisbury and Charlotte
had freezing weather. No senoifs
accidents were reported.
12,000 Dismissed
Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, civil works
administrator, said yesterday that
12.000 employees on N. C. projects
would be cut off the payrolls this
week, with the eastern Memties
getting the "larger percentage of
the cut than they did last week.”
Air Crash
Eight persons were killed yester
day in the crash of a United Air
Liner, which was found at the rim
of the Salt Lake Valley. It was re
ported that Ed Bering, a skier, had
mushed through to the scene first
and had found all eight occupants
dead.
Things In Space
An amazing atomic mist, which
gives a new idea of the content ol
space left its traces in the cosmic
■«* Miauuiuents laKen eleven ana a
half miles from the stratosphere by
the Settle-Forney flight last sum
mer. This announcement was made
yesterday. The mist filled in some
°f the jigsaw scientific bits of in
formation, and seems to indtcati
that "space” is filled with all sorts
of little flying things, some of them
charged with millions of volts.
Work Starts On The
Polkville Highway
TnP Soil Is Being Patched And
Surfacing Will Begin In About
A Month.
A crew of men is working on the
Shelhy-poikville road, patching up
jhf top-soil and getting the road
in condition for surface treat
ment. The surface treatment, how
fver- will not start for a month yet,
"siting for winter to break.
Contract for the surfacing of th?
Sh'lbv-PoikviHe and the Polkvill"
■■ 'dale-Fallston road was let
*°me months ago to thb Brown Con
•w.ict on company of Whitevllle.
hntrfr weather made it imprac
■'Hbler to begin the surface treat
f1Pnl so the construction company
a* been maintaining the road bed
J!:r>hg the winter. At present a
orfe °f hands is working near the
N'cr two miles east of Shelby
:th n the next month it is hoped
0 have material placed and equip
’eady to begin the surface
h'eatment.
,fv Huff is the superintendent in
ar8* of the work.
UNION PICKETS MILL AS 125 RETURN TO WORK
* *
More Than 40 Killed As Storm Sweeps U.S.
i o invaae u
pick in England, so Miss Violet
Webb. England's 80-metei hurdling
champion, plans a visit to the United
States in search of further con
quests She is shown during a
I workout in London She repre
j sented England in last Olympic
I Games.
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Bankhead Cotton
Bill May Set Up
50% Surplus Tax
1 House Committee Confers On Con
trol Measure; To Make Changes
In Original Program.
i Washington, Peb. 25.—Members oi
| the house committee on agriculture,
[ of which Representative Marvin
Jones, of Texas, is chairman, held
informal comerences last week on
the Bankhead bill for the compul
sory control of cotton production,
and these conferences, for an ex
change of viewpoints, will be con
tinued. The first of the week the
committee will meet in executive
session when, it is hoped, there will
have been such a crystallization of
opinion that it will be possible to
begin the work of formulating a
bill
It is unlikely that the Bankhead
bill will receive committee approv
al in the form in which it was found
when the opening hearings were
i concluded. and when President
Roosevelt addressed letters to the
chairmen of the house and senate
committees on agriculture, approv
ing the cotton measure "in princi
ple.” As hitherto explained, there is
conflict here of philosophies, social
and economic, the question being
whether American agriculture is
ready for the complete regimenta
tion that would be discernible In
any federal program contemplating
control of production by law, a
drastic control of production in the
case of cotton that would be ac
complished by a sy- tern of allot
ments of bales each farmer would
be permitted to produce, with a
prohibitive tax imposed on all ex
leess cotton.
An alternative course would be
the imposition of a tax on surplus
cottqn that even the courts might
regard as a revenue producer, rath
[er than as a punitive measure di
rected against the non-conformists
o^ the non-signers in the reduction
program, and that would make the
‘Continued on page eiehr i
15 Are Killed In
Tornado Sweeping
Southern States
Air, Rail And Road
Traffic Periled In
The West
Nine Boys Die In Fraternity
House As Furnace Creates
Carbon; Train Wreck.
By UNITED PRESS
Violent storms, sweeping
the United States from the
Rockies eastward blanketed
more than half the country
today and caused the deaths
of at least 42 persons, direct
ly or indirectly.
Due to the abnormal weather,
traffic was hazardous, shipping was
endangered and planes all over the
United States were forced to the
ground wherever they could make
a landing.
Among the deaths attributed to
' toe storm were the fifteen persons
killed in a tornado which ripped
across Mississippi, Alabama, and
Georgia, and the crash of a United
Airliner near Salt Lake. Three are
| dead in Southern Illinois because
j of accidents, and nine were killed
- in the Theta Chi fraternity house
i at Dartmouth college because a
| faulty furnace, during the height
| of the storm, created carbon mo
i noxide and asphyxiated them.
Engineer Killed.
The engineer of a train in Maine
was killed today when his locomo
tive was derailed by the snow, and
j five were reported dead In Western
i Pennsylvania.
North Carolina, although suffer
ing from freak weather, ranging
j from snow to sleet to windstorms,
rr--J nivuwui/ umui i
or severe accident.
Other tragedies were reported at
the same time by United Press cor
respondents. Six persons were burn
ed to death in a fire of unknown
origin in the Mirone Hotel, in
Utica, N. Y„ while in Delphos,
Ohio, three were killed and four
injured as a locomotive of the
Pennsylvania raftroad overturned.
Seven coaches were derailed in a
collision with a truck in Delphos
early today.
$50,000 Heart Balm
Suit Started Here
By R. G. Hamrick
Charging that he was divorced
from his wife through fraud and
collusion and that her affections
i were alienated, R. G. Hamrick last
week instituted suit in the Superior
court here asking damages of $50,000
from G. S. Dellinger.
In a long bill of complaint drawn
by Hamrick’s attorney, Peyton Me- ,
Swain, it is charged that DelUnger
paid attention to his wife over a ■
period of more than seven years.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamrick were mar
ried Sept. 15th, 1920 and divorced on ;
Oct. 3rd, 1933 in Lincoln county In ]
the divorce action brought by Mrs. i
Hamrick, the two years separation I
iaw was resorted to. Mr. Hamrick (
has held a job in Washington dur- ,
, ing that time and asserts that his i
j wife declined to live with him.
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P. M. Examination 1
Held Here March Sji
An examination for the position J1
of postmaster at Lawndale will te -
held at the Shelby post office 1
March 3rd, according to an an- 1
nouncement by Talmadge Gardner i
Kid WoodKayoes 2 In Evening
One On The Street, One In Ring ;
Kid Woods, Shelby fruit stand
operator and professional boxer, won
two bouts with knock-outs Satur
day night, one on the street and the
other at the Red Men's boxing pro
gram in the Thompson building.
The first victim was CurtL Wal
ker of Fallston who was said by po
lice to have tampered with the
"Kid’s" fruit and is alleged to have
drawn a knife on him. Woods warn
ed the man away, but as he became
more insistent, unleashed one blow j
for his chin. Walker’s hyd struck |
the pavement and he was taken to I
the hospital where first it was (
thought that he had suffered a
fractured skull. A little fir t aid !
treatment soon revived him and he 1
weTit back to Fallston with a head ?
ache.
In his second bout, Wo -is Knock- t
ed out Mutt Hutchins in the third 1
round of their bout t
Survived Airmail Tragedy
f5h8vDe,at,V5T*T BrrMdo° c*rry„Lt; Wm. Poawk ashore it
Brooklyn, NY, following his rescue off Rocks way Point, L I rrom
the crippled Army plane to which he and Lt. J H Rothro ,< (laftt
clung for five hours in a stormy sea. A third Army man. I t Georee
McDermott, was washed away and drowned. At right, New York do line
plane which located crippled Army craft.
Slash In CWA Hits County Hard;
234 Workers Dropped Last Week
Gee McGee Says
flat rock, S. c.
febby 26, 1934
deer mr. edditor:
everyboddy In the farming
class is copper-rating with
the govvernment to cut down
crops, a great manny of onr
cltty farmers is trying to rent
their entire farms to uncle
sam for cash, by doing, so,
they wont have nothing to
worry about and can play
checkers all day this summer
instead of only about 7 hourss
out of each day in front of
the fire department, as here
tofore.
yores trulie,
mike ('lark, rid
corry spondent
Mrs. Dan Jarrett
(s Buried. Today
Mrs. Martha Isabelle Jarrett died
it the Lincolnton hospital Sunday,
February 25, after a lingering iil
less of several months. She was
>orn January 4, 1861 in upper
Cleveland the daughter of late
fames and Vina Willis. She was
named to Dan J. Jarrett, Dec. 18,
878 who preceded her to the grave
2 years ago. To this union were
tom 11 children, nine of whom sur
vive as follows: Mesdames Ollie
Jlanton and Thad Peters of Shelby,
drs. T. B. Camp of Salisbury, Mre.
«f. E. Threatt of Lattimore, Mrs.
V. H. Galloway, of Farmville, Va.,
dessrs. George, of Cherryville
Ranch, of Michigan, J. L„ of Call
omia, and Arthur S., of Chester,
5. C. She is survived by 43 grand
children and 22 great grandchil
dren together with a host of near
elatives to mourn her departure.
Mrs. Jarrett was a devoted moth
r and neighbor who was known
or her many fine qualities. She
ras a member of the South LaFay
tte Methodist church where the
uneral service will be conducted
his afternoon at 2 o'clock and tn
erment will follow at Zoar church
emetery.
Mrs. Jarrett was the last of a
amil" of seven. She had been a
rtember of the Methodist church
ince early girlhood.
The funeral this afternoon will
>e conducted by Revs. Mr. Price and
lev. J. M Wi e of Shelby, assisted
iy Rev Cobb of Cherryville.
The recent curtailment In Civil
Works appropriations has dealt
Shelby and Cleveland county a hard
blow, one which will be felt for
months. Accustomed as they were
to receiving government employ
ment, a great many workers will
feel the effect of lack of employ
ment.
Two hundred and thirty four la
borers, 44 women and 190 men,
were dropped from Saturday's pay
roll of $8,090,23. This cut will lower
the roll to approximately four or
five thousand dollars next week
and to about $3,000 the following
week when nearly the same num
ber will be dismissed, accorfffhg to
Administrator Harry Woodson.
A total of 21 projects were can
celled Saturday, leaving approxi
mately twenty to be carried on this
week. Next Saturday, this number
will be reduced again, leaving only
| the principal projects in the course
| of construction.
The curtailment came as a result
| of President Roosevelt’s oft vowed
intention of “taperlng-off” this
branch of the relief work in the
United States.
Nearly Three Inch
Rainfall Reported
! Thunder And Lightning Thought
To Indicate That Winter Has
Broken.
■ Nearly three Inches of rain-fall
visited this section from Sundey
l morning at 4 o'clock until, Monday
! morning, it Is reported from the
weather reporting service at the
Shelby postoffice.
A check-up this morning by Post
master J. H Quinn reveals that .98
Inches fell from 4 o’clock Sunday
day morning until 6 P. M. Sunday
The heaviest fall, however. was
Sunday night when two inches fell,
making a total of 2.98 Inches with
in less than a 24 hour period.
Early Sunday night there was
thunder and lightning, considered
by some to be a sign that winter
has broken and sprine has beguj.
The heavy rumble of thunder was
eve re enough to break the back
i bone of most anything.
Last year’s rainfall was 32 inches
while the average for this section
1 $2 inches. With a twenty Inch
Mortage from normal, heavy rains
■ re expected to fill the streams and
, wells. ?,f. •
Victim Of Shotgun
Attack Succumbs;
Seek Death Note
Alleged Threat Made
In Note To Girl
Florence Jone|. Revested As Mar
ried Woman. Die* In Hospital I
Sentell Face* Murder Char re.
The girl who wan known as Flor
ence Jonee. but whose real naive
was Mrs. William Drake, died In the
Shelby hospital Saturday afternoon,
after surviving for ten days and
nights from a shotgun wound, said
to have been fired by Louis Sen
toll, whose advances she repulsed
Hdr young husband came from
Saluda several days ago, with her
mother, Mrs. Hamilton Jones.
Hearing Today.
Today, Sentell was to have a
hearing In Recorder's court on a
charge of flrat degree murder. In
the meantime, police Investigated
the report that he had written a
note threatening her life and left
It on her machine at the Byrum
Hosiery mill, where they were both
employed.
According to eye-witnesses to the
shooting, Florence and three girt
employees of the mil) were on their
way to lunch when Sentell drove
up In his car, offering to give Flor
ence a ride. She laughingly refused
Infuriated, Sentell grabbed a shot
gun from the back seat and fired
once from the car into the group or
girls. They fled screaming toward
the boarding bouse operated Ijy
Mrs. Joe Williams, and Sentell pur
sued them. He fired ageln, felling
Florence at the threshold of the
house. As she lay in a welling pool
A# KIa/uI Ku ainful AIM* n
struck her once over the head with
the gun. He was said to be trying
to reload the gun when Mrs. Will
iams leaped from the porch and
struggled with him.
Captured In Polk.
Sentell then fled in his car, and
was captured a few hours later in
Polk county by Sheriff Cline and
Chief of Police Wilkinss, who had
spread a dragnet through four
counties by telephone.
In the alleged death-throat note.
Sentell Is said to have used the
phrase, "May Ood have mercy on
your soul.” This note is believed to
have been seen by several of the
girls. Mr. Drake said on Saturday
night that his wife told him as the
lay dying that Sentell had threat
ened her life.
The remains of the girl were tak
en Saturday night to Saluda, her
former home for interment.
Arrowood Paroled
By State Governor
Had Served One Year Of A Two
Year Term For Trespass In
Cleveland County.
J. W. Arrowood, convicted at the
March 1933 teftn of the Superior
court of Cleveland county of forc
ible trespass and sentenced to serve
two years on the county roads nas
been paroled by Governor Ehrlng
liause, after serving a year of his
sentence.
The parole was recommended bv
Solicitor Spurgeon Spurlln and bj
the trial judge T. B. Finley. He has
served one year of his term and
will be released on good behavior,
to be under the supervision of the
superintendent of public welfare of
the county in which he Intends to
reside. The, governor reserves the
right to revoke his parole at will
for any cause satisfactory to the
Governor without evidence.
Presidents Of Sand Banks Visited
By Long Series Of Misfortunes
Ocracoke, Feb. 36.—A series ol
calamities, the like of which natives
had never experienced, has brought
acute want and suffering to the iso
lated sand "banks” off the North
Carolina coast.
The siege started last August with
hurricanes, which inundated all but
high spots and drowned wild cat
tle. which furnish inhabitants meat.
The soil wa* saturated with the salt
(from tha sea water. preventuy
'crops from growing. Then follower
five months of drought, shutting of
the supply of drinking water. On toj
of all that, came the bitterest win
ter In generations, bringing bits
sards which frose lagoons, cuttinj
off fishing fleets, and all supplies 01
' fire-wood.
However, the ice did halt for t
while the plague of mosquitoes bui
onlv temporarily
Gay Crowd Parades
In Holiday Spirit
At Cleveland Cloth
80% Of Loom*
Warped Today,
Mull Asserts
Odu* M. Mall, secretary
treasurer of the Cltvtlind
Cloth mill, announced at noon
today the following figures on
the operation of the mill to
day, as anionites picketed the
mill:
Weaving Depsrinent: New
weave room has 80 percent of
looms warped In operation i
old weave room has SO per
cent In operation.
Quilling Department: Quill
ing department has full quota
of help required for day time
operation.
Warping Department: Warp
ing department has full quota
of help required for day time
operation.
Sloshing Department: Slash
ing department has full quota
of help required for day time
operation. t
Cloth Room: Cloth room
has full quota of help requir
ed for day time operation.
Machine Shop: Machine
shop has full quota of help
required foe day time opera
tion.
Union And Mill
Agree To Confer
Within 48 Hours
Mull Grant* Interview, But Wlshe
To Refer Dispute To State
Board By March IS,
Arrangements for a conference
between striking union members an<
the management of the Clevelam
Cloth mill were made this morning
The following notea were exchang
ed between union and manage
ment;
Mr. O. M. Mull, Secretary-Treasure
Cleveland Cloth Mills
Shelby, N. C.
Dear Sir:
We, the below named committer
representing the overwhelming ma
Jorlty of the employees of tin
Cleveland Cloth mills, hereby sub
mlt a request for a conference wltl
a committee, representing thi
(Continued on page eight)
Despondent Husband
Attempts Suicid<
Boiling Springs Mast Hangs Sell
But Is Rescued; Estranged
From Wife,
Despondent over an estrangemen
from his wife, Jesse Pearson, o
near Bolling Springs, attempted t<
commit suicide by hanging hlmseL
in ‘the barn of his futhcr-ln-law
A. R. Melton, a tenant on the farm
belonging to E. B. Hamrick Frida;
night.
Shunned by peculiar noises is
suing from the barn, members o
the family discovered Pearson sus
pended by a trace chain which hac
been fastened around his neck. Hi
was unconscious when aid arrived
but readily recovered.
Pearson is apparently none thi
worse from his experience. He ha<
been separated from his wife fo
some time, but for several day
previous to his attempt to kill him
self, had been at his father-ln
law's home, apparently attempt In;
a reconciliation.
Mix Cheers And Jeers
In High Good-Humof
In Early Drizzle
Half Of l/ooittft Running, Man*
agement. Announces; Shop
Open To All Says Mull.
Lined up in the chill drizzle
of this morning’s early rain,
union picketeers marched in
front of the Cleveland Cloth
Mill and good-humoredly jeer
ed approximately 125 workers
who returned to their looms
at 8 o’clock, manning about
one half of the plant on the
day shift. Both men and wom
en were in the picket line.
Ah workers walked toward the
mill storm gates, they were occa
sionally halted by plcketeere, who
argued briefly with them, but never
sought to restrain them by foroe.
Ah the workers went on into tha
mill, they were saluated by ironic
cheers and a few catcalls. It all
Hounded more like a fraternity raiz
ing contest than a strike.
Maintains Open Shep
The mill 1> open. O. If. Mull, sec
retary-treasurer, has announced, for
all who want work, union or non
- union, and will be run on the prin
ciple of an open shop. But the
night shift has been eliminated.
in a statement issued Saturday,
Mr. Mull deelared that buslnees had
been bad far w tang that, jm the
two stuns, many loom* were tale.
Thin situation, he said, brought
about the dispute with Rodney Wil
son, the shop committeeman whose
discharge preclpated the strike last
i Thursday. It was either contend
with the Idle loom problem, or eli
minate the night shift. He denied
contemptuously the wide-spread re
r port that he would discriminate
t against union labor in employing
I the new day shift. In fact, several
. union workers reported this morn
■ lug. They won't, union men said,
• remain union workers very long.
Union "Utterly Confident"
■ O. W. Bolick, United Textile
Workers organizer and representa
tive of the American Federation of
Labor, who is here in command of
• the union strikers, said last night
• that he was utterly confident of
> victory In this dispute. The dis
missal of Wilson, he admitted, con
1 stltutes by no means the major
: grievance of the unionites, but ha
declined to reveal what further
complaints would be made. A state
ment could be expected from the
union the lattsr part of this week,
, he said.
• Before departing for Sptndale,
where he has another strike on his
hands, at the Stonecutter mills, Mr.
(Continued on page eight.'
; Mr. Blanton Very 111
At Daughter’s Home
J. H. Blanton is crlticaly ill at
i the home of his daughter. Mrs. Mai
’ A. Spangler In Belvedere. He suf
fered a heart attack Friday after
noon at 4 o'clock and it was feared
’ yesterday he could not live through
the day, but this morning he was
1 some better. Mr. Blanton is near
■ eighty years of age. Mrs. Merton
. Beam, a daughter, of Charlotte, and
Sam Blanton, a son. of Hartsvllle.
' S. C.. are at his bedside.
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i Oat Crop Hurt
By Severe Cold
: Severe damage was done to tht
Cleveland county oat crop in the
recent bitter weather. County Agent
R. W. Shoffner said this morning
In some Instances, he said, as much
as 50 per cent of the crop was lost.
The wheat survived, but legumes
were hurt. The damage might have
been much worse, he believed, had
the soil been wet
—
; Cotton Loses $1
Bale On Exchange
Threatened regulation of trading
: on stock and commodity exchangee,
brought weak markets today. Cot
ton at 2 o’clock was off twenty
points or $1 a bale from Saturday's
close May cotton was Quoted at
, It 97 and July 12.10.
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