The Cleveland Star
SHELBY. N. C.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934
" TWINKLES
That swish you heard was Spring, hurrying back
around the corner.
You saw a paradox in Shelby Tuesday morning
jonquils pushing their blooming heads above the snow.
Stiffen up and stand it until July 1st. 1935, The
bank check tax will be repealed then.
A one-armed bank employee in North Carolina is
accused of forging hundreds of dollars worth of checks.
Think what he could have done with two arms.
The need for highways in North Carolina will never
diminish. Every dady a new organization is formed
and that means a convention.
Two trains wrecked in Russia ten days ago. The
Soviet government suppressed the news for nine days.
There is no freedom of press oi speech in Russia.
Republican congressmen fear the Bankhead bill is
the first step in the regimentation of American agri
culture. That’s all right with us: anything to get crop
control over that weed, spinach.
Charlotte police have caught the "pants ’ thief.
The depression robbed many a man of his pants and its
contents, so a Charlotte negro capitalized on the idea.
He entered fifty homes at night and got a total of
al^out $1,000. Figure it yourself and learn the average
amount a Charlotte man carries in his pockets.
“The Boiling Springs Road May Be Extended On
T» Cliffside,” says a headline in our favorite tri-weekly.
That’s all right as far as it goes, but this road should
turn north at Boiling Springs and go on to Latrimore
and Polkville, also branch South from the Junior College
ai£d open up No. 1 township.
BUILDING IS RESUMED
The amount of money being spent for construction
* throughout the nation is increasing rapidly, indicating
thjit recovery is on its way. For three or four years,
biftlding was virtually at a standstill, thus creating a
shortage in homes. At the rate children are being
b#n, couples are marrying and establishing "home
mjfcts/ thousands of homes should be built every year
in North Carolina.
There is no big building project on just now in
Cleveland county, but a number of small homes are go
ing up in Shelby and in the country. Driving to Bel
wood yesterday, the editor of The Star saw three new
homes in process of erection. If this amount of build
inf is going on in every fourteen mile stretch in Cleve
land, we have a right considerable building program
under way. Carpenters, masons and painters are find
inf more jobs than in three years. They need and de
serve work for the brunt of the depression fell on them
and the unskilled workers. It was gratifying to see this
week that a local building and loan association was ad
vertising the fact that it is ready to make loans for
home repairs and remodelling.
GROWING CATTLE IN CAROLINA
Cattle ranges have been confined to the west where
wide open spaces abound, but are moving back east,
judging from an experiment that is underway in the
Asheville section. C. A. Bauman of New York and
Florida has shipped in 125 Hereford cattle from Texas
and 400 more are to arrive this week. Mr. Bauman has
a ranch that at present embraces 1 000 acres and if his
experiment with cattle raising in Carolina mountains is
successful, he plans to add to his acreage and to hi*
herd.
A thorough investigation was made as to climate,
soil and grasses before Mr. Bauman decided to locate
his ranch in the Westeni part of the state. He is con
vinced that high grade beef cattle can be raised here
that will compete with cattle raised in the beef belt of
the West.
Fanners will watch this experiment with interest.
If the soil, climate and grasses lend themselves to the
successful growing of beef cattle, the song of the cow
boy, the lowing of cattle and the colorful scenes of life
«n the cattle ranch will be typical in Carolina mountains.
LOSING OUR SECTIONALISM
Over in Hickory this week Carl Goerch, editor of
“The State,” an interesting weekly North Carolina mag
azine, declared that North Carolina is losing its sec
tionalism and is abounding more and wore with co-oper
This is good news, for there was a time, not so
many years ago when sectionalism was very threaten
ing to the peace and well-being of the State. The east
is purely agricultural, the Piedmont is a combination of
industry and agriculture. Serious breaches were threat
ened in our General Assembly over legislation. Fac
j tions were springing up but, to offset this situation,
groups have formed that are not confined to geograph
ical lines. The interests of the farmer, whether he
lives cast or west is identical. Labor constitutes a
strong group that must be reckoned with, merchants in
whatever locality they live have common problems, mo
torists whether they live by the sea or on the moun
tain top are watching the tide roll higher for a reduc
tion in gas tax and license tags and the school teachers
are of one accord for more pay.
While sectionalism is passing, these groups are or
ganizing and the next General Assembly will have every
organization to listen to from every part of the State.
FARM INCOME ON THE RISE
Farm income in 1933 was $1,240,000,000 greater
than in 1932—a jump of 24 per cent.
The chief reasons for this, according to the De
partment of Agriculture press service, Were increased
prices for crops, and benefit and rental payments by the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration. And it should
likewise be remembered that the farmer’s great allies
in raising and stabilizing prices, and in framing govern
mental farm legislation, were the farm cooperatives.
The co-ops entered 1933 after one of the worst years
I in agricultural history—a year in which farm income
was at the bottom. They went forw-ard courageously
and undismayed. They fought the farmer’s battle with
the middleman—they brought his point of view before
the public and won its sympathy — they conferred
with governmental officials on all manner of matters
directly and indirectly affecting agriculture. They were
a steadying factor when the farm strikes brok^ out, and
they stood solidly on the side of law and order and reas
oned action as distinct from violence.
The cooperatives deserve a world of credit. They
did much in 1933. And now,-with the new year-well
started, they are going on to greater, more permanent
achievements.
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
The Trouble In Flat Rock Continues
To Spread
Hat rock, s. C-, inartch 21, 1934.
deer mr. edditor:
i am sorry to have to report that
trubble which brewed in rehober
church 2 weeks ago when rev. hub*
bert green resigned his pasturage
for a better field with more mon
ney promised in cedar lane, plus a
3-room manse to live in, is growing
worser instead of better.
faction no. 1 (which totes the
church keys) found that faction no
4 had took off the regular lock on
the door and put on another one
when they tried to hold prayer
meeting Wednesday night, and they
could not get in thru the door. :;c
they crawled in a back winder and
hell same as usual.
faction no. 3 says it is willing to
join faction no. 2, provided it do
not want to hire a regular pasture
for 8 months, and will leave off the
young smart elllck preacher, a cuz
zln of miss Jennie veeve smith, who
has just finished the cemmiterry
and took up being a preacher; no.
3 wants a supply from another field
till the c. w. a. makes up its mincf
to go on.
one of the factions tied the bell
clapper with a big rag and yore
eorry spflndent, mr. mike Clark, rfd.
seceker-terry of rehober church,
could not ring same when he pull
ed on the rope sunday morning, he
went up into the bell-fry and un
loosed same and rung it 25 mlnnets
just for spite. sotneboddy allso
smeared the bell rope with tar an
soforth, and it got on his hands.
the faction which miss Jennie
veeve smith, our organist, belongs
to has benn a-cused of cutting a
hole in the bellows of the organ and
now it wont hold wind, and a tune
can not therefoar be played on
same, someboddy allso tore “bless
ed be the tie that binds” and "shall
we know each other better over
there” out of all books in ttn
church.
well, mr. edditor—1 can't say
where this fuss will end. it has al
reddy got into the publick scholl
and the u. d. c. society and the la
dies aid. as well as sevveral stoars
in town, in fact—all 3 of same is
effected, if anyboddy gets his heads
knocked off enduring this row. i
will rite or foam yore paper prompt
ly. it looks like some big news will
a-crue verry soon.
yores tfuhe,
mike Clark, rfd.
seeker-terry.
tv. A. James of Morganton, route
3, harvested 3.000 pounds of Ko
rean lespedeza seed from a five acre
field. Lespedeza is steadily taking
the place of cowpeas after wheat
i for soil improvement in RurKc
i county.
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Jim Billinger Is At Large Again
our little town is all excited thii
| morning, tne noted.crimmlnal^Jte
• billinger, was captured last week
[and was kept under a heavy garc
i in our cltty jail until he escapee
! yesterday just after dinner time.
< billinger is a bad man and he it
guilty of all kinds ol crime from
committing murder on up to steal
ing chickens, which is verry dan
gerous and risky, he was cought by
some county officers and fetched
i here 3 weeks ago for safe keeping.
our mayor realized how desplrite
a man billinger was, and he hired
7 more depputies in addition to the
regular poleesman and the jailer
billinger was locked tight in the
best sell in the jail and had ma
chine guns pinting at him from 7
diffrent peep-holes, but he is gone
i now.
; it seems that while piddling
around in his sell, he found a big
pocket knife and some planks, and
!a suit of nice, clean clothes. to*
j gether with some seegars and candy
; ansoforth, allso a fine suit-case for
i travel, and a key that would fit a
l fine sedam ottennobeel which hap
pened to be setting out in front ol
I the jail house.
when the jailer come in to manni
cure billinger's finger-nails and
shampoo his hair, billinger poked a
wooden pistol into his ribs and said,
‘here, take these 3 dollars and hold
up yore hands and let me lock you
jn my sell ' it seems that they trad
ed and he locked him up. after
dressing and shining his shoes he
left by the front door, he woke up 3
gards, but they just turned over.
bn his way out, he met 2 gards
i and grabbed 2 machine guns out of
their hands and gave them a box
iof cigarettes, after chatting pleas
antly a few minutes, he went into
ithe jailers offis, and told the other
gards and the Jailer's 4 assistants,
| good-bye, and told them not to
waste their money, and asked them
to excuse him. billinger then lit a
seegar, and looked back at the of
! fisers and said—"ha. ha, ha, ha, ha,
so long boys," and crawled into his
j car and drove off.
after billinger had beim gone long
enough to get away, the alarm was
| given, and everboddy took after him,
i but went the wrong way. nobody
| knows how much it cost him to
! break jail, it was a bold dash and a
well concockted plan, and had it
not of benn for the wooden gun, he
mought of had to make-like hi*
finger wjas a pistol, no doubt, he
left with less monney than he ar
I rjved with. be will be hard to
ketch as it seems most of the law
I is in sympathy with him and big
I crimes.
vores trulie,
mikp Claik. rid.
, corrv '.ponrlent
Famous Signatures Penned On Apron
Of Frankie Bailey, Old Stage Star
Hollywood.—Hollywood Is the hap
py hunting ground for autograph
seekers, but perhaps the moot In
teresting collection in the movie
capital is older than Hollywood It
self.
Nearly two score years ago Fran
kie Bailey, then the toast of Broad
way. was attending a beefsteak din
ner at a famous old NSw "York ho
tel. She was wearing an apron, a
garment well worth while for util
ity but not to be considered an ar
tistic possibility. A fellow guest
scrawled his name on the apron
and an idea was born.
Miss Bailey recalled that Lillian
Russell had a bedspread with some
100 or more names of well-known
actresses and actors written on It.
She decided to have the apron bear
the names of famous people and all
who could qualify at the dinner
were asked to sign.
Original Apron Filled
Later, she elaborated on the plan
by working the signatures out In
.red cotton so the names stand out
just as clearly now as they did in
tire gay 90 s.
The original apron was filled long,
long ago and additions have been
made on napkins, parts of table
cloths and a towel or two.
Names of stage stars prominent
before the movies were bom dot the
original and some who signed as
stage stars have since become fa
mous on the screen. Starting as a
"who’s who on the stage,” the apron
broadened its activities to include
famous folk in other lines. Names
of presidents—William H. Taft, Cal
vin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt are Included.
And hardly a big movie name is
tJmchiA
detween^
Freshens the mouth
..Soothes the throat
VICKS COUGH DROP
missing.
The collection Includes approxi
mately 700 names. Some 200 or more
are dead.
"I started to count the ones who
have passed on.” said Miss Bailey.
“But I soon stopped. It was too de
pressing. There were too many.”
The former stage star will be 75
years old in a few months.
Plot Is Reported
To Kidnap Bing
Los Angeles, March 20.—Bing
Crosby, actor and singer, was warn
ed by police today of a reported plot
to kidnap him or his nlne-months
old son, Gary.
W. Vincent Noice, 22, informed
police that a man he saw making a
telephone call in the Pacific electric
station aroused his suspicions. He
followed the. man and said he over
heard him engage in conversation
with another, with such remarks as
these dotting the talk:
‘'Are you sure Crosby will pay?”
“Sure, he'll pay; he’s making $3,
000 a weewk.”
‘.We'll get the money so slick the
cojis won’t ever hear about it.”
Officers said the singer has long
kept a special guard at his Toluca
lake home.
Black-draught
Clears Up Sluggish Feeling
"I have used Thedford’s Black
Draught for constipation for a
Ion* time,” writes Mrs. Frank Cham
pion, of Wynne, Ark.
“If I get up in the morning feeling
dull and sluggish, a doge of Black
Draught taken three times a day will
cause tho feeling to pass away, and
in a day or two I feei like a new
person. After many years of use we
would not exchange Black-Draught
for any medicine.-’
P.8.- '• yon Save Cjiu.dhs.v, give
them t* new, pleaaant-taating
8YRVP ''ord't Black-Draught.
Jack Oakie Faces
Suit For Slander
Los Angeles, March 20.—Jack
Oakie, whose wisecracks for the
films, may soon be called upon to
talk for a Jury in a $125,000 slander
suit. ^
The action was filed yesterday by
Marty Martyn, studio dance direc
tor, who *»:eged the comedian ap
plied uncomplimentary epithets to
him.
“I'll have to get a paper and read
the details before I can make any
statement,” said Oakie when asked
to comment. “I can’t imagine what
the whole thing is about.”
The slander was committed. Mart
tyn said, on March 17 in the apart
ment of Carl Brisson, Danish actor.
lr
Within hearing distance, he said
were Brisson and his wife Ga‘ ‘
Grant and Virginia CherrUi, chl?
les Farrell and Virginia Vaiii. Ran.
dolph Scott and Buster Crabbe
his wife.*
Martyn identified himself „
Oakie’s former manager.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as the execute* .
will of M J. Baker, deceased thl 1 •*
notify all persona havtn* claims'^ '* t°
the estate of the aald M j „ ***lns'
present same to the undeVslrnrrt » ,0
before the 23rd day of Marfh d.«?n
this notice will be pleaded m bar* °r
covery. All persons indebted to ft,?' r'
estate will make settlement w th th. ‘
dersigned un tht hi
This the 32nd day of March ia„
BLAINE EUGENE BAXEP r,
of the Will of M 3 Ban1"*
Henry B Edwards. Atty.
e» Mr.
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