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7 Mc LlvaM and« Stark ,,«.-« T- s» -: « VOL. XL. No. 26 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, FEB. 28, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. •f Malt, par mar. <n adtanMi _ u.M Oamar. par r«ar. (in adTanoai _ UK Late News THE MARKETS l niton, spot-1214 to 13V4 ( otton seed, ton, wagon-28.00 ( otton seed, ton, carlots —. 30.00 Snow Probable Weather forecast for North Caro lina Cloudy and not so cold tonight1 ,nd Thursday Probably snow in mterio rand rain or snow on the , oast tonight and Thursday, chang- j ,nti to rain Thursday. Fight Postponed By UNITED PRESS Miami, Feb. 28.—The heavyweight championship fight between Cham pion Primo Camera and Tommy (amghran, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until Thursday night because of rain and unset tled weather conditions. This is the ,eoond postponement, the first hav ing been made on Feb. 22. Russ-Jap Trouble By UNITED PRESS Tohio, Feb. 27.—The foreign office said today that word had been re ceived from the Kwantung army in Wanchoukuo that Russian soldiers had fired on a Japanese airplane on Feb. It and 23. It was claimed that the plane did not leave Manchou kouan territory, although it flew near the Russian border. Had Two Jobs By UNITED PRESS Washington. Feb. 28.—Earnest Smoot, son of tbe ex-senator from Utah, told the senate air mail com mittee that he was engaged as a public relations representative here for the Western Air Express in 1930, at the same time receiving *3,325.00 a year as his fathers pri vate secretary. The March Of Events Parties For Army Harry M. Woodring, assistant sec retary of war, late yesterday con cluded a two-day appearance be fore a District of Columbia grand jury, to tell of dealings for army supplies. 1116 grand jury was in vestigating reports of gay parties aboard yachts as commercial houses entertained army buyers. Goodbye Economy In a session that voted down a plan for immediate payment of the veterans bonus, the senate today almost annihilated the economy act which saved $400,000,000 in vet erans benefits and federal pay. The independents’ office bill was re turned to the house loaded with ap proximately $350,000,000 more for veterans and federal employees. This liberalization was accomplish ed by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, but they refused to adopt an amendment, hv FTtiev P l ong of Louisiana for immediate 'payment of the soldiers bohus. Erosion Project Selection of 137,000 acres in the upper watershed of Deep River in : s state and 58,000 acres ip South Carolina and North Carolina for a tederal soil erosion project was an nounced today by the department ■ flt the interior. The project will be one of 20 major undertakings scat tered throughout the United. States. Phone* President A Mississippi negro had been told that if he was about to lose his home, the thing to do was to let President Roosevelt know about it. i He called the president on the tele- ‘ phone. Now, of course, there are secretaries to catch calls like that, hut the negro wasn’t going to be stojxd by anything like that. He j insisted he had to speak to the s president. As the negro reported it, « I> president says quiet-like, ‘Syl- J pester, I’ll investigate, and you’ll 8 near from me’.” The president did, c snd this week Sylvester heard. ^ They re going to save his home for . him. Gee McGee Says flat rock, s. C. febby *7. 1934. ^er mr, editor: airs, hokum moons our new resident from cedar lane, Is ® •eving to get Into the u.d.c. local chapter of flat rock, but ' is hawing a hard unr . finding anny of her kinfolks ‘ who fought betwixt the states and winned hounor on the ic’d of battle as required by [ <he buy-laws ansoforth. yores trulk, 1 mike Clark, rfd. corry ipondent. . CLOTH MILL SHUTS DOWN, CHARGES THREATS NRA Chief in Labor Debate General Hui resentative Johnson, NRA Administrator, pictured (left) with Rep illiam P. Connery, chairman of the House Labor Com ICt Qnnouiw/I ko/AMA 4>L»A x. x x x« a ... , , — - • wu,,“vij* vubiuhoh ui wic uuuse juauor V/orn* ma611 he appeared before that body to protest the enactment of a rigid •}0-tiour_week bill. General Johnson favors a procedure that would L. im ,-,-: yi«vuis a procedure mar w have NRA codes bring about the reduction in working hours. Grocers Set Up Code Authority To Govern Industry In District John Pruett Dies At Union, Age 83 Respected Farmer Buried This Aft ernoon At Union Baptist Church. One Daughter Survives. John Pruett, respected farmer ol the Union community, was buried at Union Baptist church this aft ernoon at 2 o’clock the funeral be ing conducted by Rev. D. G. Wash burn. Mr. Pruett died Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock following ar> illness lasting since New Year’s. He is survived by one daughter. His wife before marriage was a Miss Beam. She preceded him to the grave nine years ago. Mr. Pruett, age 83, was a member of the Zion church. He was very industrious, a quiet, honest and dependable citizen, highly respect ed by his wide circle of friends One tenant has lived on his farm for twenty years. Mr. Pruett built with his own hands his nine room home, all outbuildings and made much of the furniture in his home Income Tax Man Here Three Days Deputy Commissioner R. A. Hoyle will be in the office of the Cl»rk of Court at the courthouse for three days March 8. 9, and 10, for the purpose of assisting taxpayers In filing their state income tax re turns. All unmarried persons who lad an income of $1,000 or over dur ing 1933 and all married persons who had an income of $2,000 or aver are required to file a return jn or before March 15, 1934. Mr. Hoyle will be at Kings Moun tain at the Mountain View Hotel ’or two days, March 6 and 7. VIr*. D. F. Parker Dies "At Albemarle Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blanton and [. F. Sikes were called to the bed ide of Mrs. Blanton’s and Mr likes’ grandmother, Mrs. D. F arker who died Sunday afternoon t the age of 83. The funeral was onducted Monday at Albemarle ■hey returned yesterday. J. S. McK night Elected President At Gastonia Meeting; Shelby Men Attend. At a meeting in Gastonia last night attended by wholesale and re tail grocers from the counties of Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Burke, Polk, Caldwell, Cleveland and Ruth erford, a Local Food and Grocery Distributors’ code authority to be charged with the administration of the code in this district was elected. The chosen committee consists of J. S. McKnight, Shelby, represent ing the wholesale grocers, J. Harvey Williams of Gastonia as retail groc ers representative. Ralph Spencer, Lenoir, chain store man and W. J Clifford, Gastonia, from the colun tary chain stores. The committee elected its own officers: Mr. McKnight, president, J. Harvey Williams, treasurer, and D. W. Turner, Lenoir, paid secre tary. It will be the duty of this com mittee to form a trading area in each city of 2,500 or more popula tion, and to decide upon opening and closing hours and any other matters affecting the food indus try. Also attending the meeting from Shelby were C. S. Young. T. P. Eskridge, Dewey Hawkins, Mr. Gregory, Boyd Propst and Messrs. Roberts, Lail and McFarland of the Propst concern. Wray And Six Sons Connect Store Rooms Doorways are being cut in the wall between the store room of A. V. Wray and Six Sons and the Shaw Clothing Co., connecting the two rooms. The Wray company has leased the store room formerly oc- ■ cupied by the Shaw Clothing Co. , where the men’s wear department will be operated in connection with the department store. Merchants Meet To Plan Trade Event J The Spring Trade Event commit- [ tee of the Shelby merchants asso- ^ ciation will meet at 10 o’clock Fri- c day morning at the Hotel Charles j to discuss arrangements for the c proposed event. All merchants, re- , gardless of whether or not they are t members of the committee are £ urged to attend. . To Inaugurate Vast New Program To Replace Abolished Civil Works Washington, Feb. 38—A vast new nd comprehensive program to meet he needs of the unemployment ituation and to replace the Civil Vorks administration will be lunched this spring and will oon Inue in operation for approximate p a year, according to an an ouncement from the White House y President Franklin D. Roosevelt oday. The president plans to divert for ttls new relief project the $950, 00,000 recently appropriated by snares* for continuing CWA ac tivlties. It is believed by official t source* that this amount will be a sufficient to carr? through to com- c pletlon the new program. r The program will be designed to a meet three main conditions; first, s to aid distressed families in rural areas who have no means of sup- fc porting themselves by agriculture; r second, to relieve stranded popula- v tlons living in communities of a I single industry such as miners, and S who have no hope of future em- c ployment; and third, to succor un- \ employed families in urban areas Service Charge On Checks To Begin Here On March 1 Three Checks Free On Small Accounts First National Arid Union Trust In* stltute Clearing House Charges Now. A service charge on unprofitable checking accounts will be Instituted ^ginning March 1st by the First National bank and the Union Trust 3o. and its branches in conformity with a system worked out by the forth Carolina Clearing House as sociation. All Banks Institute It A service charge is already in :ffect with the First National bank >f Kings Mountain but not exactly n line with that approved by the I Clearing House association. Mr. feal of the First National of Kings Mountain, stated to The Star by telephone this morning that the charges as approved by the clearing muse association would be adopted >y his institution either March 1st >r April 1st. It is understood that every bank n North Carolina that has not had i service charge on unprofitable iccounts will Institute this system ‘ither March 1st or at an early date. 3ome of the banking Institutions In he larger cities, however, have been charging for service for years past md at much higher rates than the ates recently approved by the North Carolina Clearing House association. Briefly the charges to be Institut ed by the First National and the Union Trust Co. tomorrow and by he First National of Kings Moun tain either tomorrow or April 1st, ire as follows: Three (3) checks will be allowed »5h month irrespective of balances, ito matter how small the account. Df course, also, on accounts where here are no checks or debits, there will be no charges. The drawing of more than three hecks, where the monthly balance averages lees than $100, a service harge of one dollar a month will >e made. Where this charge is made on ac »unts that do not keep an average rnlance of $100, the customer can iraw ten (10) checks without addi tional charge, and above ten (10) hecks, at the rate of 4 cents per heck. Where the average balance is $100 en checks will be allowed for the irst $100 balance and one check illowed for each $10 of collected >alance above $100, all checks drawn n excess of this allowance shall be harged for at the rate of four (4) :ents each. To illustrate, if you keep an aver age monthly balance of $150 you can live 15 checks, if necessary, with out charge. Should you give 16 hecks the charge would be only 4 :ents. On accounts with great activity, there the balances are larger, a ystem of analysis to find out if the tccount is run at a loss will be naintalned. Mr. Hamrick Pushes Highway No. 18 A letter from Dr. W. C. Hamrick, enator from Cherokee county, 8. says he has the promise from tie South Carolina highway com lission that the Cherokee link in ighway No. 18 will be let to con tact this spring. North Carolina onctructed this road to the state ne several years ago with the un erstanding that South Carolina rould build from the state line in j Gaffney, but for some reason the Iherokee end has been delayed, enator Hamrick is pressing for arly action on the South Caro na end of the road. Singing School To Close At Bethlehem The singing school which is being aught by Professor W. L. Hannon t Bethlehem Baptist church, will ome to a close next Saturday ight, with a musical program and n oyster supper at the Bethlehem ;hool building. Professor Harmon is one of the etter type singing teachers with ew methods, having had training 1th the Vaughn’s school of music, awrenceburg, Tennessee and the tamps-Baxter music school of hattanooga and Dallas. Any one i b ltercsted in a class of this kind ! f: muld attend this program. ih Bari to Wed Dancer The Earl of Suffolk and Berkahire, announcement of whose engagement to Mimi Crawford. London musical comedy dancer, caused a sensation in the English capital. He is a grandson of the late Leri Letter. Chicago millionaire, his mother having been the former Daisy Lei ter. Processing Tax On Com And Meat Has Exemption Farmers May Sell Home Orown Meat Up To 300 Pounds. Cora Tax Explained. There are exemptions from the arocesslng taxes on meat and com which cover the small grower, ac cording to J. K. Livingston of Ashe rtlle, collector of these processing lanes who wan hr Slielby yesterday n connection with his work. Farmers have been very much soncerned about these processing axes, not wishing to evade their layment or violate the law In any vay, so when Mr. Livingston was in Ihelby he was asked by The Star or an explanation. • Pork Tax Explained In the case of a fanner raising ils own hogs, he may sell as much is 300 pounds during a season wlth 'ut paying the processing tax. If a armer grows and sells as much as non fYllinrtfc t Vl <3 Wo <■ wo avamnilAti whatever, not even the 300 pounds, f he buys hogs, kills and sell them he processing tax must be paid. In ''ebruary this tax is $1.60 per hun Ired on foot, in March $2 26 per mndred on foot. Tax Ob Cora As to the procesing tax on com, ach farmer Is allowed one bushel * week during each calendar week f the year without being subject to he processing tax without signing , producer’s affidavit. If more of its home grown com is needed to eed his household, stock or fam lies on the plantation, he may have larger quantity of com ground luring each week, but must sign a iroducer’s afidavlt In the presence f two witnerses. If the value of he com is $10 or more, then the roducer’s affidavit must be signed efore a notary public. Whenever processing taxes are aid by a producer of meat and ora, this tax is not supposed to ome from the producer’s pocket, ut passed on to the consumer. ^Irs. G. G. Humphries Dies Here, Age 38 Mother Of New Bom Infant Bur ied This Afternoon In No. 1 Township. Mrs. G. G. Humphries, age 38 'ears, died Tuesday morning at 4 •’clock in the Shelby hospital where he had been a patient for the past wo weekss. She lost her new-born nfant eight days ago. Mrs. Humphries was Dovlp Pot er before marriage. She and her amily lived in No. 1 township and he funeral took place there at lamp Creek church this afternoon Surviving are her husband and four mall children. )r. Houser Falls And Breaks Ribs Or E. A. Houser, confined to his ed with several broken ribs, will ot be able to attend to bis prac ce for several more days. The roken ribs were the result of a til su tained by Dr. Houser while e was bathing Saturday. Sentell Is Held; On Murder Count In Death Of Girl Held Without Bond On Myrder Charge Band Denied, Find Degree Murder 1 le Charted; Bloody Garments Put In Evidence. Thoroughly implicated by state witnesses, Louis Sentell wait held without bond this morning In Re corder’s court, charged with the first degree murder of Mrs. William Drake, who was known as Florence Jones. She died in the Shelby hos pital Saturday afternoon, her body blasted by a shotgun wound. Emily Drake, stster-ln-law to Florence, and Mrs. Joe B. Williams boarding house keeper, gave *he most devastating testimony against Sentell. Tells Of Shooting. Miss Drake described the shoot ing, telling how she, with Mart and Francis Anderson and Florence were walking home from the mill at noon when Sentell drove up in his car. She saw him raise the gun. she said, and cried. “Run, Florence he's going to shoot." The girls fled toward Mrs. William’s home, screaming. Emily heard another shot, and turning, saw Florence fall at the threshold. She testified that she saw a note Sentell placed on Florence’s ma chine In the mill when he left that, morning about nine o'clock. 8he read the note, She said, and quoted it. It said: "Dear Florence—May Ood b? with you." It was signed "L.” Mrs. Williams identified the bloody garments Florence wore at the time of the ahoctlng. Her dress and coat, riddled with shot gun pellets, and blood soaked, were piabear nr «vltfen6e. ‘ ' Sheriff Cline told briefly how he and Chief Wilkins captured Sentell In Polk county, and ho* Sentell speaking voluntarily, had said. ”1 don’t know what made me do it.” During the hearing, Sentell, a chinless, stooped man, sat nervous ly plucking at his clothes beside his lawyer, W. E. Breese, of Bre vard. Says America Plant t Motl War Cruisers [ London, Feb. 38.—A British ad- ® miralty report cites the United States as leading world powers to- M day In the number of cruisers ‘ planned or being built. The figures as given in the >f- r ficial report are: United States, 11 eruisers under construction, six projected; British ® Commonwealth, seven bulldinr. T three definitely planned; France t and Italy, six each under construe- t tlon; Japan, two building and two t projected. Far out In front in the number g of completed cruisers, the British , Commonwealth 4vas revealed we t having 60—the maximum accepted c under the London naval treaty. t Compared with the number, the h United States was listed as having 21; Japan 21; Italy 24; Franoe 15; a Russia six and Germany eight. Federal Aid For « Fishing Sought Raleigh, Feb. 27.—R. Bruce Eth eridge, director of the state depart ment of conservation and develop ment, was in Washington today to S' a s 0 n b seek federal aid for commercial fishing. The state conservation head will appear before a house committee hearing on bills to restore depleted oyster beds and provide loans to fishermen. c g 1 II New Cotton Reduction Program Drafted By Farm Administration Washington, Mb. 27.—The farm administration today announced a ruling designed to place responsi bility for failure to sign cotton ac reage reduction contracts when one of the parties to the contract de sires to co-operate and to permit “non-participating agreements" far farms ineligible for contracts. The administration said the new ruling would "prevent injustices” in the case of farms ineligible for reg ular contracts because of past cot ton production and in the case of producers desirous of co-operating who are prevented from doing .v through no fault of their own. Under the regular cotton adjust merit contract, the oo-ope rating producer is not allowed to grow cot ton on any land owned or operated by him unless this land is also cov ered by a contract. The new ruling changes this by providing that if a landlord or tenant has signed a contract cover ing one or more farms but is unable to obtain the signature of a party necessary to the completion of a contract covering another farm, his ^Continued on page eight.! Plant To Shut Down For Indefnite Time; Union Denies Charge Union Officials Say Newt Reports Fair To Both Sides The following statements were authorised today by union offi cials, relative to the labor trou blee at the Cleveland Cloth mill: From Organiser llotlok While I have heard some un ion men charge unfairness to organised tabor on the part of The Star, I see no reason for complaint or criticism. There have been a few minor errors, but In the main the newspapers have been as fair to both tides as it Is possible for newspapers to be, working under strain and handicaps as they do. C. W. BOLICK, United Tea tile Workers and organiser of American Federation of Labor. From President Christopher I have read the papers, es pecially The Star very closely during the trouble at the Cleve land Cloth mill and aside from a few minor mis-statements, the paper has been fair, to both sides. As official spokesman for union labor at the Cloth mill, I have frequently been called on for statements of the union side and no statement that I have Issued has ever been left out of print or changed. P. R. CHRISTOPHER, Pres ident W. C. Federation of Textile Workers. ICings Mountain Baptists Urging Missionary Spirit At the meeting of the general oard of the Klnge Mountain Bap lat association held recently, em hasis was given to mission work nd the following resolution was nunlmously adopted: “Owing to the fact that the mls lonary spirit Is not as manifest In ur churches as It should be, and by eason of this fact, contributions to illusions are too small In proportion j our home expenses, the financial roup of the general board of the :ings Mountain association beg to ecommend to the churches and lelr pastors some definite things sat we may do to Increase the In srest in missions as follow: “That we endeavor to put on a shool or class of missions for the hole church some time this year; sing the best method In each hurch that will reach and enlist tie largest number of the mem ershlp. “That we make greater use of ny mission literature that we may btaln from our mission boards and istribute the same among the lembership of our churches. "That we make greater effort to scure as large an offering on home nd foreign day in our Sunday ihools as possible. (Jetting a cash tiering from those who do not take a subscription to the church udget. “Ttiat we put the great mission luse on our prayer list. “The above was approved by the »neral board in session February 7, 1934 and requested to be pub shed in the Cleveland Star.” Not Threat, Prayer That Closed Mill, Bolick Says Strike Leader “Aghast* Ai Statement, Says Strict Ord er Had Been Kept. The Cleveland Cloth Mill, where union workers havi been on strike since Iasi Thursday in protest against the dismissal of a shop conr mitteeman, closed Its doors at 11 o'clock y» terday for an In definite period. Odus M Mull, secmtary-tmasur •r of the mill, announced In a for mal statement that t.hla action mu necessary because union striker* had made threats of violenci against workers who returned to their Jobe yesterday under the "open shop" day-shift only system. 0. W. Bolick, textile organiser is command of the strike front, gavt a totally different version In an In tervlew last night. He said he wai aghast at Mr. Mull's charge. Hi added that It was not threats that closed the mill, but “ths prayers e) the righteous." He said that, in stead of making threats on Mon day night, his canvassers, many o! them women, prayed with th* workers. Midi's Statement. Mr. Mull's statement follows: “Since Thursday, February Uth, we have bens operating one’ shift offering work to all of our employees without dis crimination and both Union and non-Unlon members are now working. But a put of those on strike am making such serious threats against those who are wonting, and such a bitter feeling is develop ing among our employees, that we think It better to close rath er than take the risk of vio lence. Most of those now work ing share this opinion. We are. therefore, closing the mill for an Indefinite period.” .* - Mr. Mull Added Informally that he Intended to devote himself fee hie 1,000 acre farm, on which he has 33 tenants. The task of adjust ing crop reduction for them, he I said, would be a large one. Picketed Since Friday. Since Friday, the mill had been picketed by unlonltes, who walked out on Thursday when Rodney Wilson, a shop committeeman, wa? dismissed for leaving his looms Lines were formed in front of the gates and workers, most of them non-union, who sought to go back to work were Jeered and argued with. But, so tar as appeared or the surface, there was no violence or threat of violence. Police and Sheriffs were on hand, but were not required to keep order. It was at night. Mull said, that the can vassers went to the homes of hi? workers and told them they did no? dare go to work the next morning The strikers attracted state-wldt ittention by their tactics of “sing ng in the rain.” Statement By BolJck Boltck made the following state ment last night: “After careful investigation. 1 can find no union member who hat even Intimated a threat of vio lence. Everything was so peacefu that not even a fight had occur red. I was doing my best to km down violence. “ ‘The prayers of the righteouf availeth much,’ so sayeth lb' scriptures. It was our prayers, not our threats, that closed the Cleve land Cloth Mill." Bolick said that the strikers had never “demanded” an interview with mill officials. He referred to their letter, in which the phrase “respectfully request" was used. Mr Mull avoided this conference by re ferring to instructions from the Na tional Cotton Industrial Relations Board, which were to present diffi culties to the state board before March 19. He said he. would grant an interview before that date. The strikers claimed last night that they were in excellent position to withstand a long siege. They have received offers of financial support from local unions from al' southern states, Boltck declared.
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