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J Thkgllkvklland Zij VOL. XL, No. 37 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■7 ftteU. 9*t 7MI, (la HWIMI «. *au C*TTttr, tm 7MT. (la a«rMM> _ H.M Late News the markets Cotton, spot _- H t» 13e Cotton wet*, ton. wagon-18.00 Cotton seed, ton, carlota-30.00 Rain Tonight Ifwthtr forecast tor North Caro* Nnat Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday. Not quite so cold tonight. Asks Inquiry »y UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, March 38.—Con grrtwwnn BnlwlnUe, North Caro lina, Introduced la the house today a resolution calling for congression al Investigation of the charges that the "brain trust” is plotting to over throw the government. List Basic Crops By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, March 18.—The house adopted today the conference tv port on the Jones-Connally bill, adding dairy and beef cattle, pea nut*. flax, rye and barley grain, and sorghum as basic commodities. The American Agricultural Administra tions list was revised. The meas arc must be approved by the sen ate before it goes to Roosevelt. Accept Air Bill By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, March 26.—Con l regional action on the emergency airmail bill was completed lb day as the house accepted the senate amendments which authorise the army to flj the mall one year. The measure now goes to Roosevelt. Tornado Strike* By UNITED PRESS NEW ORLEANS, March 18.—A tornado struck the edge of the city today leveling a score of houses in the suburban Gentilly district. Eight were hurt, one critical^. The March Of Events Strike Prevented After conference with both sides, President Roosevelt yesterday an nounced a settlement of the auto mobile labor dispute, and both sides said they were happy. Mr. Roosevelt reduced NRA’s famed section 7a to plain language, gave employees the right to organise in to a group or groups, forbade dis crimination against employees be cause of their labor affiliations. In actual practise, details of the agreement, which prevented a strike at the last minute, are yet to be worked out. Taxicab Warfare The first gunfire in the New York taxicab strike occurred last night when a bullet struck a cab at Broadway and Fifty-fifth street. No one was injured. A crowd of striking hackmen invaded the mid town district and renewed their at tacks. They threatened to wreck every car in sight. Confesses Murder Cudjoe Jones, 18-year-old colored boy yesterday confessed to the mur der of Bernard McCullen, 18-year old white boy, whom he clubbed to death near Lancaster, S. C., last Friday. It was one of the state’s most fiendish crimes in recent years. II Duce Upheld Premier Benito Mussolini receiv 'd mi overwhelming re-avowal of faith and support from Italy’s voters yesterday, when, at the head of 400 government-elected cancfi <iates he was elected to a seat in the 29th chamber of deputies. Ac cording to early returns, II Duce’s *!ection would be unanimous. uneral Services To Be Held Today For Mrs. McMurry Heart Attack Proves Fatal To 90-Tear-Old Woman; Six Children Survive. Mrs. George McMurry died sud at her home on the Kings Mountain road early yesterday morning, death resulting from a hsart attack. Mrs. McMurry, age 60, was mar J*ti In 1890, and had been a life »n8 member of the Methodist •nu-ch. At the time of her death, *"* belonged to the Salem Meth °i : t church, and her funeral serv es will be conducted by her pas the Rev. j. n. Wise, assisted by Rev. R. l. Forbis, former pas Mrs. McMurry is survived by her aiisband and three chUdren; Mary h’ Esfceile. Edna, W. B., J. D.. and "r;\ Solon Philbcck. Three other '"’'f-n preceded her to the grave. ‘’,-lrv'"'lnS are three grandchil Union Protests Order Of N. C. State Board To End Strike Here Hits At Johnson, Member Of State Relations Board Appeal It Taken To National Board By Union Committee ' Strikers Protest Re-employ ment Clause And Criticize Release Of Ruling. Striking union workers of the Cleveland Cloth Mill on Saturday appealed the decis ion of the North Carolina cot ton textiles industrial rela tions board, which set the mill opening on April 2, to Chairman Robert Bruere, chairman of the national board. The appeal, in which Chairman Theodore S. John son of the state board was denounced, was made from Charlotte by the union com mittee in conference with George L. Googe, .southern representative of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. The telegram to Chairman Bruere waa signed by Fred Senter, John N. Green and Thomas C. Veal. As an appeal, It stays the decision of the state board. Hit Re-employment Clause The union committee protests against provisions four and five In the ruling of the state board. These rulings give preference in re-em ployment to workers who were on their Jobs when the strike was oall ed and the mill closed. Hitting at Johnson, the union committee complained that he act ed as counsel for the mill rather than as impartial chairman of an arbitration board. He was also criticized for releasing to the Shel by correspondent for the state pap ers a copy of the ruling without first handing a copy to toe labor committee. Reporter Gets Ruling First As a matter of faet, copies of the ruling were handed to neither side in the controversy. The reporter, who had been waiting outside the conference room, asked permission to make a copy of the* board's res olutions immediately after the con ference ended Thursday night. Aft er he had made his copy, the board departed for Charlotte, where ; another point in the controversy was to be settled, and an official decision released. No copy was given at the time to either Googe or Mull. This point was the collective bar gaining clause, which has long been a major request of the Shelby union. It was brought before the state board here by Googe, and was turned down by the board in Char lotte, which decided it did not have authority to force such an agree ment upon the unwilling mill man agement. Telegram Of Protest The union committee sent the following telegram of protect to Washington: “We plead and petition your board for full hearing early next week against Chairman Johnson's ruling issued to newspapers with out furnishing us copy and consid (Continued on page eight.) I Andy Newton ! Andy F. Newton, Register of Deed* for Cleveland who announced his candidacy this morning to suc ceed himself. Andy Newton Asks For Re-Election As Register Of Deeds ‘'Tatar” Andy Announces His Can didacy For feegteter Of Deads For Cleveland. Andy Newton, known to many as !; Tater” Andy because he made a specialty in sweet potato flowing over In No. 4 township before he was elected to public office, an nounced his candidacy to succeed himself as register of deeds this morning. Mr. Newton hurried to Die Star office this morning with a brief typewritten statement in one hand and grasped hands with passing people with the other. He had noth ing to say about his candidacy other than make the typewritten announcement, the substance of which is “I do choose to run." Mr. Newton was bom in No. 11 town ship, worked for sixteen years with the Cleveland Mill and Power com pany at Lawndale, tilled the soil for sixteen years, worked three years at Double Shoals Mill. He has lived in five of the eleven town ships of the county. Mr. Newton has served for seven years as register of deeds. He is opposed by W. A. Rldenhour of Kings Mountain whose announce ment appeared last week. Lutherans To Hold Services This Week ■Services will be Held at the Lu ' theran church every evening this 1 week, including today, at 7:30, Dr, Cooper announced. Junior Order To Meet There will be a meeting of the Junior Order tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock. The meeting is for the purpose of class initiation. All mem bers are :rs??d to attend. ‘Bear, Forebear Don’t Overbear’ \ Motto Of Couple Wed 67 Years Morganton, Mar. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin Lyman, who observed their 67th wedding anni versary recently, call their formula for a happy marriage "the three lit tle bears.” These are “bear, forbear and never overbear.” Mrs. Lyman told how her hus band’s mother, Mrs. Louis W. Ly man, gave her the formula years ago as she and her husband spent a quiet anniversary day marked only by a reunion with their children, Mrs. A. H. Wynekoop and Mrs. Harry L. Millner. "I also believe you should belong to a good church, live by the teach ings the Lord left us and never get angry both at the same time,” said Lyman, a lumber manufacturer in j northern Pennsylvania for 40 years before coming to Morganton In 1904 to retire, and his wife reminisced about their wedding ceremony at Ayers Hill, Potter county, Pennsyl vania, in 1867. It was performed at 6 a. m. be cause the newlyweds wanted to go to Port Alleghany, Pa., 30 miles away, the same day and the dis tance was an all-day bus journey by buggy over the roads of that era. Lyman, who will be 90 years old next August 8, was born while James K. Polk was president. Mrs. Lyman was 86 on February 11. Both are In good health and an nually motor to Pennsylvania. Lyman attributed his sound health at his advanced age to mod erate living and a proper diet, in cluding abstinence from coffee, whisky and tobacco. Local Code n_ l Is Recognized By National Authority | Will Arbitrate On All Sales Practises Doen't Function On Labor Dis putes; AU Merchants Affiliat ed With Organisation. The Local Retail Code Authority for Shelby has been given formal recognition by the national author ity and Is now ready to function. Grocery and drug stores are han dled on a congressional district basis. All matters of argument as to sales practices, labor matters In the retail field and other problems are to be referred to the local board and on anything which can be set tled locally efforts are to be made to settle by conference. No Labor Authority However, no matters of fair trade practices or of labor can be settled by the local board whose only con cern in these matters Is to receive complaints and foaward them to the national board for settlement. The code emblems, It is believed, will be ready for distribution with in the next 10 days at which time the local authority proposed to complete the organization for Shel by. All merchants, other than groc ery stores and drug stores, will be affiliated with the Shelby organ ization. Committee Members Members of the local authority, which is maintaining Its office at the chamber of commerce and mer chants association In the Llneber ger building over the Western Un ion with I. A. Houser, Jr., as sec retary, are R. K. Campbell, A. ▼. Beck, F. O. Smith, H. G. dark and I. D. Skeen. Mrs. Alice Bridges Dies InMooresboro At Advanced Age 1 I Ww WMw Of Ths Lata Mm. M*n rat Bridge*; Death Dm In fluenza, Heart Trouble. Mooresboro. Mar. 35.—Mrs. Alice Bridges, widow of the late Rev. Monroe Bridges, died at the home of her son, Johnnie Bridges, of near here, shortly before 9 o'clock Thursday morning. She was near ing her 79th birthday. Mrs. Bridges had been 111 for about a week with influensa at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Freeman Hawkins, of Shelby, but expressed a desire to be moved to the home of her son, which is in sight of the homestead, Wednes day. The request was granted and her oondition grew worse Wednes day night. It was stated that she possibly had a flight stroke early Thursday .morning, but the attend ing physician attributed the cause of death to heart trouble and in fluenza. Mrs. Bridges was before marriage Alice Blanton. Her husband died in 1928, at which time they had been married 54 years. Funeral services , were held at Sandy Rim today at 2:30 o’clock with the Revs. Mr. Washburn, Zack Harrill and 8. E. Welchel in charge. Interment was later made in the Lattlmore cemetery, where her hus band is buried. Those surviving are: Johnnie Bridges and Mrs. Dwight Morehead of Mooresboro, and Mrs. Dock Queen of Newberry, S. C. Five chil dren preceded her to the grave. She vras the last of a family of seven. Those serving as pallbearers and flower girls werp; Oladys Turner, Mrs. Annie Greene, Lois and Rebec ca Bridges, Burton, Ruth and Ola Blanton and Grace Turner; Boyd and Cheaver Blanton, Everett Brid ges, Richard Philbeck, Willie Jones and Arthur Turner. Flower And Baby Shops Open Here In Royster Building Two new business enterprises for Shelby have been launched in the store room formerly occupied by Quinn's Drug store, South Wash ington street side of the Royster building. Miss Mamie Cabaniss has. opened a flower shop and will keep a sup ply of cut flowers, potted plants, plants, etc., and make up corsages, floral designs,-etc. Her greenhouse! is on S. Washington street. A large I flower refrigerator has been Install-! ed. Mrs. W. M. Roberts has opened a baby shop, handling infants and children’s wear. In this connection she will operate a woman’s ex change. selling hand-made articles on • commission basis. Gardner To Act As Attorney For Aerial C. Of. C.j Seeks To Work Out A Better Program Former Governor Represent* Mr Industry At Capital. Imw tt For Cent. WASHINGTON, March 16.-0. Max Gardner, former governor of North Carolina, said yesterday ha is working with the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America “in its effort to cooperate with the administration to work out a con structive program for commercial aviation.” The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce represents 03 per cent of the aviation industry, including all of the companies whose air mail contracts were cancelled, but Gard ner said he was not interested la any particular oompany. The former governor, who Has been practicing law here sines his term expired, has been holding con ferences with administration and aviation officials for the last ten days. He said no definite decision has been reached on any of the mat ters discussed. Gardner gave «out the following statement: “For the past tea yean I have been serving the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America representing 93 per cent of Hie aviation Industry, In its efforts to cooper? te with the administration to work out a constructive program fdr commercial aviation. I am not interested in any particular oom pany whose contract has been can celled. My service has been in be half of the whole aviation industry of America. “A number of conferences have been held wHh government offi cials. 1 have nothing fwlbw to Urge Carl Thompson To Run For Senate Tbfw Am Oat For The Inn 9mi Three candidates have announced for die house of representatives from Cleveland, George Allen of Kings Mountain, J. B. Smith of Waco and Bmest Gardner of Shel by, but no one has announced yet for the senate. Over the week-end sentiment was swinging to Carl Thompson for die senate and he has been seen and urged by many to make the race. Mr. Thompson has not been in po litics, but Is a good business man, religious and olvlc leader. Some seasons ago Mr. Thompson was sug gested for a seat in the general as sembly and he gave serious consid eration to the idea. Tax Penalty To Be 3 Per Cent April 2 The penalty for late payment of county and city taxes for the year 1033 will be Increased to three per cent on April 2nd, It Is learned from the city hall and from the court house. Tax collections for 1038 levies have been much better than usual, but still quite a few have not paid. The penalty Is set by the law and collecting authorities have no right to waive these charges. Mac Green Hurt As Train Hits Car J. Mac Green was bruised about the body and cut on the noee when the Lawndale train struck his car at Metcalf’s, six miles north of Shelby on Friday morning. Mr. Green was driving alone In hte car when the engine struck the left rear wheel of his car, damaging H badly. Mr. Green Is confined to his home, but his injuries are not con sidered serious. Bob Kendrick Out For No. 6 Constable Bob Kendrick today definitely announced that he la a candidate for constable in No. 6 township. Bob is a familiar personage in po lice circles having served in various capacities for 36 yean. He was a deputy for 14 yean and has been No. 6 constable for four yean. Asks All CWA Workers Report Harry Woodson. Cleveland county CWA administrator, today sent out » call for every person who has ever worked on the CWA here to report st his office as soon as possible. It Is important that he get in touch vtth these persons, ■* once, he atirl Back-To-FarmProgram, j C WA Successor Would Make Soil Support Needy j As Auto Strike Cloud Faded • i Strike shadow that overhung the automobile industry which was avoided by President Roosevelt in conferences with both sides yesterday, was already fading as this picture was made. It‘shows Alex Marks, Pontiac representative, A. F. of L.; William Green, president of the Federation, and William Collins, Detroit representative, in a conference after which it was announced settlement of differences was near. Criminal Docket Crowded As Superior Court Opens Hoey To Speak In Party Drive; Not For Self . Clyde R. Mock, whoee powariul and persuasive oratory baa swayed audiencM In many a atat# and na tional Democratic campaign, re vealed in Raleigh last week that he planned to take the political plat form In behalf of party candidates —but about his own political future ho revealed not a thing. The Senator ship or the Gover norship are within hia grape as a result of last year’s successful cam paign, say potent party leaders— but Clyde R, talks charmingly about the weather or the cotton crop. In Raleigh, he Is reported to have hinted that, because he has been so pushed for wq answer, he might have to make a statement soon. ■e has held only two political or semi-political posts. Me was assist ant district attorney for a white during the Wilson administration, and he was named to fill out the unexpircd term of Federal Judge K, Tates Webb in Congress. Me wouldn’t run again. If he ran for Governor m the primary two years from next June, plenty of aspirants would lose heart. If he chose the Senatorshlp. four years hence, Robert R. Reyn olds would have to look close to his laurels. But Clyde R. hasn’t ohossn to run—yet. Methodists Hold Dally Rites The Central Methodist church Is holding two services daily during this week In observance of Passion Week. The morning services are held between 8:00 and 8:30, and the evening services begin at 7:30 o’clock. Judge Declare* Grand Jury It Fountain Hoad Of Law Dtetartag the Orand Jury Is the fountain hand of aU criminal law, «y| "Dll morality af tha eiunmua lty depends In large measure on how you perform your duties" Judge John M. Oglesby opened the March term of Superior court here this morning with hts charge to the Orand Jury, The criminal docket la crowded with new and old eaaes, the most sensational one being the murder charge against Louis Sen tell, who is held for the murder of Florrnoe Jones (Mrs. William Drake). The case will be presented to the Orand Jury immediately by Solicitor L. a Spurling. It may, however, bo lie- , cessary to call a special jury for this caae. Judge Oglesby urged the Juey to (Continued on page eight.) Shelby Students At Hot Springs For Guest Week Mtae Bather Ann Quinn Wins Sohol arahlp In Piano At Contest. Three members of the senior etase of the Shelby high school were in vited guests at Flora McDonald col lege, Red Springs, for the annual Hospitality week over the week-' i end. Mias Esther Ann Quinn won sec ond place in a piano contest, re ceiving a scholarship award for next year. Miss Margaret Thompson en tered the voice contest, and Miss i Margaret Louis McNeely was anoth er invited guest. Hie students were driven to Red 1 Springs by Mrs. DeWitt Quinn and Charles Roberts. Judge Oglesby Files Candidacy; Has No Opposition In District IS I Judge John M Oglesby, resident judge of the 15th judicial district, who opened criminal term of super ior court here this morning, on Saturday filed as a candidate to succeed himself in the Democratic Juna primary. Judge Oglesby mailed to Raleigh his formal notice of entry together with the $66 entry fee required by the state law passed by the 1933 general assembly. So far no other candidates have filed and reports reaching Shelby from other counties—Rowan, Ire dell. Randolph and Montgomery— in the district Indicate that he will not have opposition in the primary. Judge' Oglesby in April wilt com plete nine years’ service on the su perior court bench of the state, hsv Ing been appointed in 1925 by Gov ernor A. W. McLean to fill the va cancy created by the death of Judge B. r. Long, and having been nom inated and elected for an eight year term the following year. One of the youngeet men ever to be appointed to the superior court bench In this state, Judge Ogles by has made an enviable record, and friends throughout the district are confident that this record will result In his nomination and elec tion. Only voters in the district will cast ballots for candidates in the judgeship race In the primary but In the general election the noint- < nee's name will be carried on the < state ticket Who the Republican candidate i 'nan hf has not been determined Io Go In Effect | \pril 1; Seek Land ] For New Tenants j 4im To Have Jobless Paying Own Way • By Docomber 1 Woodson Will So* room Undo For CtovolMd RoHof Coooo. Marking back to ttio days when a new empire was found ed by pioneers who treked through wilderness to sink their plows into rich earth, the Administration announced »n Saturday a plan to guide the army of jobless out of the j wilderness of machine-made lepression back to the soil igain. Abandoning the OWA Mid eur laUing the ITO*, the gorarnmont Prill at up t Rural Rehabilitation urogram. A* outlined for North I Darolina. and baginning on April t, the plan la tide: Self-Support Sg Dec. 1. 1. All farm famltlea with om or non, able-bodied men'to sett mpportlng by December 1. t. The beginning by the end the year, of a permanent reheblli tatlon program baaed upon home ranorahip. I. The development of email it Juitrte* In rural areaa. Harry Woodaon. Cleveland Coun ty Relief Admlnlatratar, wm tola the eeeentiale of this program In a nsetlng of OWA officiate in New ton on Saturday, The plan la the nitgrowth of a program outlined in i meeting at Atlanta a week ago. During February, Cleveland had MS famlliea. or S.0M persona, on (Continued on page eight. ,) Grocors Meet Hart Tomorrow Night To Eloct Coda Board Of SMIv. AM Wfcdleaati and Mtim grocer* n the Shelby trading are* will meet it the oHloe of the Cleveland Star omorrow night at 7:*0 for the pur wee of electing a Branch Coda Au thority end determining the Trad* ng Area for the Olty ef Shelby. D. Walter Turner. peM eecretarv X the code group for tide district rill be preaent at the assembly te ild the grocers. The code eet-up for eevaral ad lolnlng counties has already been approved by Washington, and will >egln Its functions to toe near tu* ;ure. The local groups, such as th« >ne to be elected in the meeting to norrow night, will serve In each rading area, under* the district au horlty. , All grocers ef all olaesiffcgttoni >f the trade are urged to be pres ent. Cleveland County Orators Make Good Showing In Contest Mooresboro Entry TnkM Second Mace; No. S Plnoes qpe hi Pi nolo. Vaughn Whitaker. Mooreaboro school student, took second place in Am annual oratorical contest for Western North Carolina school* at >notr-Rhyne college Friday. An ither Cleveland county entrant Ikon) ile No. 3 township high school, fii, imong the four finalists. This contest le an annual affaU with high school orators In western forth Carolina eligible for entrance, rhe Kannapolis entrant won first ronors this year. Whitaker, who won second place vas the victor in the annual ooun ;y-wlde Clyde R. Hoey contest last , rear. The judges wished to Include an >ther Cleveland county youth, Oerv «f Fallston. in the final bracken nakin* five instead of four, but heir wishes *ere over-mini In th» 'Uthwlttes
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