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Theglkvkhmd SEND 8 Pages Today VOL. XL. No. 28 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mali par »aar, (la advanea) _ M.M Carrtar, par yrar. On adraneal _ UN Late News the markets Cotton. *pot - 1254 to 13)4 Cotton seed. ton. wa*on-28.00 Cotton seed, ton. carlots-30.00 Fair Tomorrow Weather forecast for North Car olina: Generally fair tonight and tomorrow. Possibly a lltle colder to night and Tuesday. Insull Must Go (By UNITED PRESS) ATHENS, Mar. 5.—Police today notified Samuel Insull, American utilities magnate, that he must lea»e the country tomorrow. Coste Safe (By UNITED PRESS) MUENSTER, Germany, Mar. 5.— Oieadoone Coste, French aviator, landed here Saturday. Coste was on his way from Copenhagen to Paris, when he was forced by bad weath pt to land. The aviator was appar-: Piitlv unaware of the anxiety felt for him over the week end. In Hof Water WASHINGTON, Mar. 5.—It wjs revealed today that J. P. Morgan and Company unloaded 4,500 shar es of United Aircraft common stock in the New Fork Exchange immed iately prior to the cancellation of the domestic airmail contracts by President Roosevelt. The revelation I i-ame during a report made to the j Senate banking and currency com-| mittee by Richard Whitney, presi- j dent of the exchange. Will Not Resign WASHINGTON, Mar. 5.—Secre tary of the Navy Swanson, return ing to his desk for the first time In three months, said that under no circumstances would he resign. Defense Rests CHICAGO, Mar. 5.—The counsel for the defense in the Dr. Alice Wvnekoop murder trial rested its j case at eleven o'clock today. Dr. W.vnkoop fell in her jail cell this j morning and was badly bruised, i Denies Petition HENDERSONVILLE, Mar. 5.— .lodge T. B. Finley today denied a petition of four prominent Brevard men to make permanent a writ of Habeas Corpus which saved them temporarily from going to prison for two year terms because of a vio lation of the state banking laws. The defendants served notice that they will seek a writ of certioran to bring Finley’s decision before the Supreme court. The men are now seeking bond. The March Of Events Crop Reduction All farm crops would be made eligible for coverage in marketing agreements for the reduction i acreage or production ,or both, in an act suggested by the secretary of agriculture. NRA Conference Industry’s leaders crowded into Washington last night for the meeting of code authorities, which today will begin a drastic overhaul ing of the NRA industrial control program, Hugh s. Johnson was to "pen the meeting today, and the President to speak at 11. The meeting will run through Wednes day. Price Of Gold Citing a declaration by Secretary nl the Treasury Morgenthau that the gold program has been working v--‘ and that the price of commod ities has been going up, the com mittee for the national has asked that the price of gold be raised mmin. They demand the $41.34 an ounce maximum authorized by con gress. Toward Recovery Tlie merchant’s business march *d aiong in quick-step last month, even if there were blizzards. Dis tribution of merchandise quickened decisively as transportation service returned to normal, steel, autoroo "les expanded their output. Busi ttev 'Perns, according to the sta wticians, pointing toward a grati 'mg spring. Cost Of Plane* _ 'c war department spent $24, ^'.,000 on airplanes in the last and one-half years of the Corner administration and $3,000. 00 m the last few days, according ° tiftures presented to congress Jesterday. Committee members 9 uckly denied they were trying to p u all the blame on the Republi cs. Detailed statements of all war department contracts since 1926 been submitted. Only Yesterday A Nation Paused, All Banks Closed County Finance Stops For 16 Weeks But Today, National Banks Report New Highs In Deposits And Tha Gears Of Commerce Spin. Only yesterday, one year ago, scores of Cleveland county Demo crats went to Washington to see the Inauguration of a Democratic Pres ident—went to see the pageantry and hear the shouting, and stayed to see the new president dramati cally meet one of the most drastic financial crises the world has ever known. Only yesterday—and every bank in the nation was closed, shut tight, every dollar frozen by presidential edict. Clevelands banks stayed open until the last minute, then were closed for sixteen weeks. Travelers were stranded without funds. In dustry was checked. A whole nation paused when the president applied the tourniquet to the arteries of industry. Today's Reckoning. Only yesterday—but let's see where we are today. J. F. T. O’Con nor, comptroller of the currency, sums It up in a statement, which shows that national bank assets reached a new high of $21,747,483, 000. These assets are held by 5,159 national banks, and they represent an increase of $548,834,000 over as sets held by 6,057 licenced banks October 25. Balance due from correspondent banks and bankers, including re serve with federal reserve banks, totaled $4,060,818,000 as compared with $3,833,678,000 and $3,793,460, 000 on the respective prec?ding calls. Cash holdings of $343,117, 000 represented increases of $13,331,000 and $54,639,000. Active banks at the end of 1933 had paid $14,934,000 into the deposit insurance fund. A capital stock figure of $1,588, 250.000 December 30, represented par value of $1,589,454,000 composed of $140,295,000 in class A preferred stock, $4,400,000 in class B, and $1, 444.750.000 in common. The comptroller said the book value of capital stock had Increased respectively $21,553,000 and $72,603, 000 and the par value $211)28,000 and $72,249,000 since October 25 and June 30. Surplus funds of 880,670,000, un divided profits of 236,022,000 and reserves for contingencies of $197, 224.000 totaled 1.319,916,000 and rep resented $42,987,000 and $26,991, 000 decreases since the last two cans. National bank note circulation at tiie year-end was $778,566,000, as compared with $749,913,000 in Oc tober and $730,435,000 in June. Deposit Liabilities Increase Deposit liabilities increased $534, 674.000 over October and $730,435, 000 over June to a total of $17,589, 882,000, Of the year-end total $2, 290.257.000 was due to banks, $554, 736.000 was in government deposits and $8,351,967,000 in other demand deposits. Since enactment of the 1933 bank ing act last June 16, demand de posits have not drawn interest ex cept where state law has required interest payments on state funds. Blanton’s Condition Reported Unchanged The condition of Mr. J. H. Blan ton remains unchanged. He has been in serious condition at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mai Spangler in Belvedere where he has been suffering with a heart trouble Mr. Blanton is nearing his eight ieth birthday. Cotton Unchanged On New York Board Cotton on the New York exchange at 2 o’clock today was unchanged from Saturday’s close. May was quoted at 12.17 and July at 12.30. Well, If Steal You Must, Don’t Try It While You ’re In The Jail \ After all, if you must steal, bet ter not get in jail first. Likely enough you'll get caught and be clapped In anyway, but to try It after the bars have clanged—well, this is what happened. John Camp, negro, was arrested a week ago for drunken driving and Sheriff Cline put him in the coun ty Jail. John was drunk, very drunk, so pickled that he confided to his fellow prisoners that he had $147 in cash on his person. When he sob ered up, the cash was gone. Used to playing detective all over j Cleveland county, Sheriff Clinr 1 Where Dillinger Crashed Way to Freedom At left is the jail at Crown Point, Indiana, from which John Dillinger, notorious bank robber and killer, made a daring escape after Muffing guards with a toy pistol and securing a machine gun. Above, Dillinger is shown leaning affection ately on shoulder of Prosecuting Attorney Katell after his arrival from Tucson, Ariz. At left in group is Mrs. Lillian Holley, woman Sheriff of Lake County, who had eharge of the desperado. Summary Reveals How N. C. Solons Voted In Congress Reynolds and Bailey Split On Span ish Veterans Pension Bill And Again on Sladh. A record of the votes of North Carolina members of congress <y\ Important pieces of legislation now pending is revealed in the following summary: Senate On the Stiewer-McCarren amend ment ■ to' increase pensions of Span ish war veterans (adopted 51 to 40): For, Reynolds; against, Bailey. On the Long amendment for im mediate cash payment of the bonus to World war veterans (defeated S4 to 24): For, Reynolds; against, Bailey. On the Borah amendment to re tain the 15 per cent cht on all fed eral salaries over $6,000, Including those of members of congress (adopted 45 to 39): For, Bailey; against, Reynolds. On the modified amendment re storing benefits of which World war veterans were deprived by the Econ omy Act 1933 (adopted 69 to 16): For, Reynolds; against, Bailey. On the motion to send'to commit tee the resolution of Robinson, Ind„ calling for information from the president respecting war debts (adopted 51 to 253: For, Bailey, and Reynolds. House On concurring in the senate amendment to the postoffice ap propriation bill which would have permitted purchase of postoffice supplies from a proposed govern ment plant at Reedsville, W. Va. (defeated 275 to 110): For, none; against, Bulwinkle, Clark, Dough ton (paired), Hancock, Kerr, Lam aeth, Umstead, Warren find Weaver; not recorded Abernethy and Pou. Truck Rip* Board* From Old Bridge A transfer truck belonging to the Misenheimer Trucking company ripped several boards from the old bridge on East Graham street this morning in an accident which dam aged the truck to a considerable ex tent. The accident occurred when a length-wise board under the body of the trailer, broke, falling to the floor of the bridge, and caught sev - j eral planks. wasn't stumped long about finding •hat money In his own Jail. He re sovered $40 from Jay Hill, negro, when Jay tried to pass a note out. PYom another prisoner he took $21, ind then found $42 hidden in some ;rash in a comer of a cell. On Sun lay, he recovered $2 more. So far, he sheriff has got all but $42 of the nissing money. "Hie negro Camp was sentenced dr $90 and costs. Judge Joe ] Wright's fine for drunken driving, i !n this instance, at least, it was the iherif who raised the money for: i >im. .; Mute Preaching is Conducted Here On Fourth Sundays Preaching service is held in Shel by each fourth Sunday in the mute language. Rev. A. C. Miller, who If perhaps the only mute evangelist In the United States, conducts the service in the language of the deal in the Sunday school room of the Shelby Presbyterian church. Mutes from the surrounding section gath er here for the service. Mr. Miller visits a number of cities in Western North Carolina regularly and holds religious ser vices for the deaf. H» “Is a graduate Of TBlTBfate School Tor tfie Dea*f at Morganton and was ordained as a minister by the Presbyterian Synod a few years ago. This Vicinity Has Largest Rainfall In Many Months Instraments Measure S.54 Inches Of Rain Here In Seven Days. Johnny Phifer, the fellow over at the post office who watches after ill those gadgets which measure the imountof rain that falls, announced his morning that the city had 5.54 nches of the liquid In just seven lays, an unusually large amount. On February 24, there was .98 of in Inch, followed by even two Inches in the 25th. March 1st there was 04; March 2nd, .54; March 3rd, .84; March 4th, .72, and this morning he Instruments registered .42, mak ng a total of 5.54 inches for the vhole seven days. The proverbial groundhog made a ;ood guess when he prophesied 4C lays of bad weather, but he has only line more days to reap his ven geance. Shelby citizens will heave a >igh of relief when Wednesday, March 14, passes. Mrs. Owens Buried At Union Sunday Sister Of "Rambling Bill” Who Writes For The Star From Phoenix, Arte. Mrs. Oecrgle Anna Williamson Owens died Saturday night at her home in the Union community fol lowing an illness of some length from a heart trouble and paralysis. She was 47 years of age and Joined the Lawndale Baptist church 27 years ago. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock* by Rev. D G. Washburn at Union church and the interment took place in the church yard. Surviving are her mother, one brother W B WUllamson who writes often for The Star under the name of "Rambling Bill” One son, Yates, also survives. STATE PAYS HALF OF ' FEDERAL TOBACCO TAX North Carolina paid $187,082,311 n federal lclilgftrette taxes—the tot illl almount was $355,534,823—in 933, the monthly business summary if the Fifth District Federal Re erve bank at Richmond shows. L. R. C. Authority Is Given Powers; To Function Soon To B« Handled Throngh The Cham ber Of Commerce And Mer chant* Association. A local retail oode authority for Shelby, formed several day# ago by Shelby merchant*, haa been given temporary authority by the Nation al authority and will begin func tioning aoon. ... In.-order to,how shpsmts «w> as much as possible the local or ganization will be handled through the office of the Shelby chamber of commerce and merchants associa tion. Membership Obligatory Expenses for the national organ ization are 36 cents per employee of each firm per year and membership is obligatory. It is hoped the local organization. by being handled through the merchants association, can be handled at no extra cost. Pull details of the organization will probably be received from Washington this week. While groc ers and drug store organise on a congressional district basis all gen eral stores, women’s and men's wear, music stores, furniture and hard ware stores are being organised on a city basis. I_ Sunday School Clast Has Enjoyable Meet Boiling Springs, Mar. 5.—MCo dames Unie Hamrick, Jennings Hunt, Joe Lee and C. I. Putnam were delightful hostesses to the members of their Sunday school class at a quarterly social Friday evening at the home of the latter. The home was attractively ar ranged with spring flowers and pot ted plants. Several spirited gamer were enjoyed. Two contests were engaged In. The winner of the first a safety pin question game, was Mrs. A. I. Jolley. The second a heart contest, was won by Mrs George Bell and Mrs. Harold Hon eycutt. The winners were given awards. The hostesses served de licious sandwiches, cakes, candy and coffee. Miss Mae McBee of No. 1 town ship is visiting Mrs. John Mints. Asks That Potatoes Be On Major List Raleigh, Mar. 5.—Governor Bh inghaus has written Chester C. Davis, of the AAA, Washington, urging that the potato be included in the list of major crops in order that growers may benefit by the legislation provided for cotton, to bacco, corn-hog, wheat and other crops. Share planting, Governor Eiiring haus points out, Is largely respons ible for the over-production of to day, and any plan that leaves It out cannot reach the problem. “It Is the most positive, reductive and po tent Influence In bringing abqut overproduction of potatoes that f know,” he writes saying that be fore advent of share planting, the, " was no overproduction problem. Bankhead Cotton Bill It Approved; Sait To Congress Local Cotton Growers Support Measure Crop Control Mooanro Favorably Reported In Committor And Fa mage Recommended. Th# Bankhead compulsory cotton control meaaura, which has had the approval of many Cleveland coun ty fanner# was approved on Fri day by the house agricultural com mittee and will come before con gress for consideration soon. Sharply revised from the original proposal by the Bankhead brothers, representative and senator from Alabama, but oarrylng the stamp of administration approval, the emer gency measure apparently la slated for favorable action at this session despite some opposition In both house and senate to the compul sory principle involved. ■eta Limit On Crop Production for the ootton year 1034-96 Is restricted to 10,000.000 bales, but that for the year 1035-36 Is left to the secretary of agri culture to determine. The provisions of the measure, however, may be extended for a third year by presi dential proclamation. Although the measure is slated to aid the voluntary acreage reduction program already completed for this year by the farm administration, It provides a levy of 80 per cent of the value of ootton produced by farmers in excess of their quotas based on the pro rata average of the last five years’ production. Passage Is Urged Depslte the announcement by Secretary Wallace that the farm administration had already signed up enough cotton farmers to re duce acreage by about 4,500,000 bales of anticipated production, President Roosevelt asked congress In a spe cial message for the Bankhead leg lslatton tor compulsory control. A canvass of cotton growers was made fag the agriculture depart ment, and about 05 percent of these answering questionnaires approved the compulsory plan. * The senate agriculture committee previously reported the bill by Sen ator Bankhead calling for a lim itation of 0,500,000 bales for the coming ootton year and a 13-cent a-pound levy on all that produced In excess of the quotas. However, the Identical measure sponsored by Representative Bank head was changed In mady respects by the house agriculture committee before approving it today. Overton Buys Suttle Hatchery; to Enlarge D. X. Overton has purchased the Buttle Hatchery from Ben Suttle who Is giving his whole time as a feed and flour salesman on the road. Mr. Overton has rented the McConnell Poultry farm near Joe Blanton’s store on highway No. 18 Just north of the city where the hatchery will be moved and en larged. Mr. Overton will operate the plant. He Is a graduate of N. C. State College, taught poultry tn the Georgia State college and was poul try specialist for the United States Veterans Bureau in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Overton was formerly with the Suttle Hatchery at this place.. Arrests Expected In Mill Robbery County and city officers today expressed confidence that the Dover Mill robbery, In which nearly $1,000 was ta&en from a safe, would soon be solved. Important clues have been found, they said, which may lead to arrests within a few days. Burglars entered the mill office early Thursday morning, removed the locks from the high safety vault, and cracked the smaller sale inside. It is believed to be the work of out-of-town cracksmen. Union Temporily Shelves Strike To Plan State Political Campaign With R. R. Lawrence, president of the State Federation of Labor, in command of the strike front dur ing the absence of C. W. Bolick. textile organiser, the union yester day turned its attention from its dispute with the Cleveland Cloth Mill and discussed politics. The executive board of the feder ation met at the Hotel Charles and made plans for united action at the oomlng elections. The federatoin will endorse its candidates and line up its 410 local union- with the foui railroad brotherhoods 4 In Fighting Phrases, Roosevelt Calls For Continuation OfNRA I H Held for Ransom To “Kid Boots," prum Boston bull ioft. owned by Louis Rudginaky inction of being the first cnnine tonored by tho attentions of kidnap ers. The dog was stolen fro in s Chicago hotel, whore he had ap peared in a show. Abductors de manded $500 ransom. Four Per Cent On Relief In County During January Might Drop At The End Of Janu ary. Over $4,000 Spent For January Relief, Mty li. R. DIJNVAGAN) Raleigh, Mar. B.—In January 10,1 per cent of North Carolina’s popu lation was on direct relief, as com pared with 8.9 per cent In Decem ber, and the number of families re ceiving such relief Increased from 68,042 In December to 65,882 In Jan uary, Mrs. Thomas O’Berry. N. O director of relief, reports. Cold weather and seasonal em ployment, the latter not overcome by CWA Job placements ,1s consid ered responsible for the increase of nearly 10,000 families In January over December. At the end of Jan uary 57,798 families were on the relief rolls, as compared with 47,636 at the end of December. January and February show the largest, re lief rolls during the period of re lief work. Stanly county continues to re main at the head of the percentage column as requiring less reller than any other county In the State. In January only 13 per cent of ita population required aid. Cumber land, Harnett, Davidson, Union and Lincoln had less than 4 per cent of their population on direct relief, Tyrrell continued at the other end of the list, more than half of Its population, 52.8 per cent, being on the relief list, but this was a drop from the 71.7 per cent of that coun ty's population on relief in Decem ber. More than one-third of the population in Pamlico, Currituck and Moore required aid In January. In 58 of the counties less than to per cent of the population required aid In January. Cleveland county, the report shows, had 4.1 per cent of its popu lation on relief In January. In this county 529 families were given re lief during January, at a total cost of $4,130.56, while at the end of the month the number of families on relief was 466, a smaller number, naturally, than the total given re lief during the month. Mr, Lawrence said Oils morning that another meeting of federation, and brotherhood representative* would be held in Salisbury within a few days. More than a thousand workers met at union hall yesterday after noon and heard speeches by then leadens. Bolick. accompanied by P. R Christopher and O, P, Allen have gone to Wasliington for the indus trial conference. Lawrence sale1 there was no announcement to make about the strike. Neither did | O. M Mull have anything to say President Addresses Code Authorities In Washington Flout* Theory Administration Tends Towards Fascism Or Communism. .i . (By UNITED PRESS) WASHINGTON, Mar. 8— In fighting words, President Roosevelt today proclaimed 1 the necessity for the National Recovery Act for economic rehabilitation of the nation and at the same time flouted 1 the theory that It ie the fore- i runner of Fascism or Com munism. He delivered Me addree* More 4,000 Industrial and labor leaden gathered for a general conference on the NRA. Code authorities and | trade association code committees are attending the meeting. FYosldent Roosevelt made Ms statement at the suggestion of General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA ad ministrator. Asks Win Increase. All through the President's speech which was one of the longest bs has delivered for many months, ran the warning that Industry must em phatically follow through with the government’s Ideas of Increased wagon to bring about stimulation Ot retail purchases. The President, said; "The first; task of ladustry Is to create con suming power. Therefore, I give In dustry this challenge: its immed iate task is the re-employment ol more people at ‘purchasing’ wages, and to do It now. Only thus can we continue recovery and restore the balance we seek." Native Of County Dies In Oklahoma J. C. Eskridge Who Left Cleveland SR Years Ago, Passes At Cushing, Okie. New* has been received here of the death ot J. C. Eskridge, age 00, who passed at his home near Cush ing, Oklahoma Saturday morning, Feb. 24th. Mr, Eskridge had been sick for two months. Mr. Eskridg* was a native of Cleveland county having left this section about twen ty-five years ago. A sister-in-law Mrs. E. Miller Eskridge lives is Shelby with a number of nlecci and nephews, He went to Okla homa from the Lawndale section. Deceased was the original ownei of a transfer company In Cushing and was employed by the city then for a iloaen years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and ths First Baptist church. Surviving an his widow, Mrs. Bella Eskridge, tws daughters, Mist Nellie Eskridge, English teacher In the Cushing high school, Ruth Eskridge, and one son, Lee Eskridge, the latter of Key West, Florida. Funeral services were held last Monday In Cushing from the Pint Baptist church of which he had been a member for 23 yean, Shelby Legion Meets Tomorrow The Shelby post of the American Legion will meet tomorrow nlghi at the Legion hall at 7:30 o'clock according to an announcement by Basil Goode. Gee McGee Says This dance broke up about 2:45 a. m. I had to walk them 6 miles back home. My bro gana had rubbed all of the skin off of my heel* and my toes had been stepped on so many times, they were plumb flat. My soul and body were completely worn out. I would not let anybody dance with Sara, and after 1 was two thirds dead, she was hopping about like a cricket... I toted my shoes under my arm (ten* perature was about 32 in the big road), and didn't know It til! 1 tried, to sHp-. up the screechy stairs to my., room that l had lost the left shoe In transit, and I newer did find it. So I had to go bare footed with my left foot the balance of that winter. Head more about Gee Mc Gee on editorial page et The Star.
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