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! The WWMWD SEND Late News the markets (niton. spot - ^ 1° l^c toil on seed. ton' w**on. 2600 (otion seed, ton, carlots-28.00 Cloudy Weather Weather forecast for North Caro )jnl c ontinued cloudiness tonight and tomorrow and possibly more ,iRht rains. Somewhat warmer in central part of state tomorrow. Johnson Is Silent Bv UNITED PRESS \\ vsilINGTON, April 9.—Nation al Hecovery Administrator General Hiuli S. Johnson permitted senate hearings on the controversial Wag ner labor dispute bill to end today M ithout testifying. Neither did the administration viewpoint on the measure transpire. Counters Charge By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, April 9.—Henry T. Itainey, speaker of the house, w as reported today to be turning over to ll,r committee investigating charges nf |[cd plots by administration of ficials. documents said to have been lsMiod by Dr. Wirt two years ago, Hhich. it is said, showed Wirt fav ored a recovery program along the line of the New Deal inaugurated h, President Roosevelt and the ac cused Brain Trust. Wirt is due to appear tomorrow before a congres sional committee headed by Repres entative Bulwinkle of North Caro lina. Oppose Bank Bill By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, April 9.—Strong opposition to pending bills which would provide payment of govern ment money to depositors of closed hanks was expressed today by Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation. Denies Gambling By UNITED PRESS W ASHINGTON, April 9.—Colonel John Sullivan, New Orleans attor ney. denied today before the sen ate finance committee he had any thing to do with the appointment of D. t). Moore, Louisiana. Internal Revenue collector, and swore that he had no gambling connections. Student Is Shot TUSCALOOSA, Ala., April 9.— Student politics flared Into violence at the University of Alabama today with the shooting of Andrew Man ning. Birmingham candidate for the editorship of “The Crimson White,’’ school newspaper. Manning, who was attacked by an unknown assailant, was shot through the thigh. His condition is not thought to be serious. The March Of Events Ask Air Pacts Legislation to restore cancelled sit mail contracts pending settle ment of Postmaster General Far ley’s charges of fraud and collus ion will be proposed today by three Republican Senators — Austin, Da vis and Barbour. This bill is offer ed as a substitute for the Admin istration* permanent air mail measure, Industry Speeds Industry and commerce moved through the first week of the year’s second quarter with volumes still expanding Increased purchasing power derived from extensive wage boosts and the urge to buy, spurred b' rising prices, have inspired high hopes of continued commercial gains. The automobile Industry con tinned to lead the procession. Securities Issued The largest issue of securities yet filed under the “truth in securities ” was announced yesterday by thf trade commission in Washing 'on This commission reported a 2rnuP of registration totalling $70, 000.000, the largest group hitherto announced, and including an issue r'- ms 000.000, the largest single is «ip-r' er filed. Hits At F. D. R. America is being fed poison? ,rbm which it will take generations to recover,” warned Republican '>nr Reed of Pennsylvania, an* ecuncing his candidacy for re-elec ,]r'n yesterday. He said the Roose rec.overy program had carried nation to the brink of chaos. Farm Mortgages democratic leaders conceded yes tevday that a house vote would b( R'-’ced soon, probably on April 33 a farm mortgage refinancing >1 calling for the issuance of al lf'rist *2,500.000,000 new currency ernocratic Leader Byrn.s of Term doubts that the bill will o< piaswi. VOL. XL. No. 43 I SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1984 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. "t Mall par yaar. (la arfTaaaa) _ l)M r»r«»r. wr year. (In advanoai _ MM Faces House Quiz This is the much-publicized Dr. ! William A. Wirt of Gary, Indiana, ! who will be questioned tomorrow by a special house committee headed by Representative Bulwinkle of ! North Carolina. representative Byrnes, Democratic house leader, declared that Wirt must "Put his marbles on the line or stop saying administration advisers told him j they were plotting a revolution.’’ | Bulwinkle received a telegram j from Dr. Wirt last week accepting i the house invitation to appear be i fore the committee. Negro Minister Preaches 49 Years; Teacher 54 Years Rev. John W. Roberts Has Be«n Presiding Elder For 32 Years Of Colored Methodist. Rev. John W. Roberts and his wife, who before marriage, was Ida Roberts, celebrate their 50th wed ding anniversary Tuesday and there by hangs a tale of the preacher's unparalleled record as a farmer, teacher and preacher. "I had to fol low three vocations to make a liv ing for my wife and six children, but work agreed with me and I am still going at the age of 73,” said Preacher Roberts today. John and his wife Ida bore, the same name but were not related by blood or marriage. Their fathers were slaves of William Roberts who lived out in the Waco section of Cleveland county. All six children are living, three In Shelby, and two in New Jersey and one in New York. There are 18 grand-children The six children received a high school education and three were graduated from colleges.. The pres iding elder owns nis own home in Shelby and operates a small farm For 54 years he has been a teach er, 49 years a preacher, 32 years of which time he has been a presid ing elder of the C.M.E. church. At present he is presiding elder of the Durham district. Preacher Roberts and his family have made good citizens, and lived In peace and harmony with both their white and colored friends. Child Has Fracture Of Skull In Fall In falling from the front door steps to the cement walkway Sun day afternoon. Will Donald Godwin, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Godwin, sustained a fracture of the skull. The youngster was taken to the Shelby hospital for treatment where he is getting along very nicely. The parents live on N. LaFayette street. Cotton Experiment Station To Open At Statesville Project Is Sponsored By U. S. Dept. Carolina Has Money To Buy 131 Acres, Build Laboratory And Greenhouses. Collegr. Station, Raleigh, April fi. —Two projects to develop better cotton and improve work In eros ion control are being launched at the State test farm near States ville, Dr. R. Y. Winters, director ol the experiment station at State College, announced today The United States Department ot Agriculture has instituted the pro jects, which are to be carried out in cooperation with the State depart [ ment of agriculture and the State j College experiment station. To Buy 131 Acres. Money to buy 131 acres of land adjoining the test farm and to erect laboratories, greenhouses, a cotton gin, and otheT buildings i needed to carry on the work has j been appropriated by the federal ; government. Experiments are to be conducted m breeding cotton with a high yield and a strong resistance to di sease, cold, drought, and other ad verse conditions. The establishment of this project. Winters said, should greatly strengthen the cotton im provement program. Nursery Experiments. A nursery will be used to conduct Investigations with plants suitable for planting to prevent erosion. Members of the college experi ment station and the State depart ment of agriculture will cooperate in the work with the farm person nel being increased as soon as the two projects get under way. The branch station, known as the Piedmont test farm, will be come one of the outstanding sta tions in the southeastern United States when the two projects are functioning, Winters stated. J. W. Hendricks is superintendent of the farm. P. H. Kime, State Col lege agronomist, will have charge of the cotton work at the test farm. Mrs. Mary Shaw Dies At Home Of Her Son Georgia Native Died Near Grover At Age 73. Buried Sunday At New Hope Church. Mrs, Mary Shaw, age 73 years, died at the home of her son, Char lie Shaw, between Grover and Beth lehem Friday night and was buried Sunday afternoon at New- Hope Baptist church, Earl. Funeral serv ices were conducted by Rev Rush Padgett. Mrs. Shaw was born and reared In Georgia but had lived in several communities of Cleveland county for the past, ten years. She is sur vived by two children. Charlie Shaw of this county and Mre. L. E. Hoopaugh of Candor, this state. Nineteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive. jW. E. White Talked A* Candidate For The State Senate W E. White of the Polkville sec tion is being urged by friends to make the race for the state senate from this district. Mr. White who was in Shelby Saturday stated that he had been approached by many influential citizens and is seriously considering the race. He is a son of the late M. L. (Corncracker) White, a graduate oi Piedmont and the University of North Carolina a teacher of wide experience and historian for Cleveland county. Mr. White says he is personally and politically “dry” and considers the 7,000 majority against repeal in Cleveland county is a mandate from the people not to change any of the present prohibition laws. Carl Thompson announced for this office about ten days ago. ShelbyJoinsState- WideMovement In Highway Beautification Week This week. April 8 through April 14, has been designated by the State Highway Beautification Com mittee, of which noted author Struthers Burt is chairman, at ‘‘Roadside Improvement Week” in North Carolina, and a Shelby com mittee has been appointed to help Community groups and owners of roadside property are asked to co operate in removing rubbish, and old machinery, cutting grass, re pairing buildings, painting, remov ing un-igJiMy si'us and other <i tivities that aill make the road sides more attractive The Shelby committee is com posed of Harvey White. Charles Hoey, Mrs. Grady Lovelace. Mrs. A. Pitt Beam and Mrs. Prank Hpey. Mrs. Walter J. Cartier, director of Highway Beautification for the Carolina Motor Club, will be in Shelby this week to promote the movement in this community. The Motor Club, which is taking an ac tive part in the work, is offering prizes of $50, $25 and $15 to indi viduals or groups showing the rosiest improve! it in road ^e.! ification between now and Jul> 1 Revivalist Coming j Dr. Frank Kramer, of Denver, Colo rado, who will conduct a two week"* meeting at the First Baptist church, beginning Monday night, April 16. ! Dr. Kramer, nicknamed “Big Jim,’" I is a nationally-known speaker and | crowd* are expected to hear him. j---— —--*—-J ! Physicians Assert County Can’t Cut Quarantine Fees ; Quote Attorney General In Claim ing Dr. Moore I* Entitled To 25c For Each Report. The county has no authority to | reduce fees paid to the health offi cer in quarantine cases, officials of j the county medical society said to day, quoting a letter from Dr. James M. Parrott, secretary of the state board of health and state health officer. They side with their colleague, Dr. D. F. Moore, Cleveland health officer, who has protested reduction by the county commissioners, who set the fee at ten instead of twen ty-five cents per case. Quarantine fees are, by statute, limited to $35 a month on a yearly average, but the doctors assert that this means lean months can be compensated for by heavier months when the fees would run over that amount. Quoting Attorney General Brum mitt, Dr. Parrott wrote: “Payment of compensation should be limited to the maximum amount as ... set forth In each month, but that such maximum amount may be paid to such officer In a particular month where the fees do not equal such sum if the credit upon such fees ; for a preceding month or months ; during a calendar year should ; equal, but not exceed, such maxi I mum amount for such month.’’ The Cleveland county commis sioners, upon being presented in December with a bill for $136.75, re duced the fee to be paid to the health officer. December was the “measles month," with hundreds of j cases reported all over the county. Contemporary Club Presents 12 Books To School Library Continues Custom Of Past Year And Makes Gift Of 12 Recent Volumes. The Shelby high school library has just been presented with a gift of twelve of the most /ecent books. These were, donated by the Contem porary Book club. Each year this club makes a similar contribution to the high school library. TAe students annually look forward to these additions, since the books are so much newer and more expen sive than the dhes regularly added each year from the small student fees. The books are in a number of fields, including fiction, economics, humor, essays. The list follows: "Autobiography of Lincoln Stef fens;” “America as Americans See It,” Ringel; “Death in the After noon,” Hemingway; "The Foun tain,” Morgan; "The Harbour Mas ter,” McFee; "Mexico,” Chase; “Nothing But Wodehouse," Wode house; "Only Yesterday," Allen; "State Fair,” Stong; “Two Living and One Dead,” Christiansen; "Cor onado’s Children.” Dobie: “These Restless Heads,” Cabell. Auto Overturns West Of Shelby A Ford V 8 coach belonging to Claud Johnson, employee of the Dover Mill, overturned Saturday night on highway 20 just beyond the Broad River bridge, and plung ed down a steep embankment. None of the occupants were in jured other than receiving slight bruises and cuts on th<* face and •body The automobile was slightly J damaged. I McCarley Is Loser I In Accident Suit; iCivil Term Ends - I Former Shelbyite Sues In Car Crash Case Fail* To Recover 115.000 Aaked Ol ( onnhil As Result Of Crfih Two Years Ago. A Cleveland county Jury decided in Superior court Saturday that R. J. McCarley, former Shelby real dent, was not entitled to damage* in his suit against c. K. Counsll ef Wilmington, upon whom the plain tiff sought, to place responsibility In an automobile wreck at Btscoc Jan. 27, 1932, McCarley was badly Injured, and was accorded compen sation by an insurance company. He was suing Counsll for $15,000. , It was understood Wiat McCarley who, up to the time of the acci dent, was a cotton broker, ha'd been earning a large salary, and that ac a result of his Injuries his earnings had been reduced to a very small ! amount, 16 Divorcee Granted. Sixteen divorces, all on ground! of two years separation-all that's necessary in this state—were grant ed by J.udge John M. Oglesby, who presided over two weeks criminal and civil court here. Most of the civil eases last week were unimportant, and a number were non-suited. Herd Wins $5,500. Dwight Hord, represented by bis “best friend,” J. B. Hord. was awarded a total of $6,600, lass stipu lated attorneys’ fees, in a suit against J, J. McMurry and Sons. D H. Cline, in a suit against M. Z. Wright, won judgment of $146, and W, W. Raleigh, suing 8. C. Dye. W W Dye. T. T. Dye and William I Williams, won a suit for $366.51. -- Local Retail Code Authority Listing jShelby Retailers ’Seek To Determine Merchants Who Come Under Provisions; Most Complete By April 14. ■ -- The Local Retail Code authority is this week conducting a registra tion of Shelby retailers who come under the local code. Under the law. registration must be completed by April 14. Cards were last Friday mailed out to retailers and they have been filled out and returned to the local authority. Registration Law Receipts by the local authority Is equal to registration so far as the law Is concerned. However, it is proposed to have a meeting of members of the code au thority and all merchants who come under the code sometime dur ing the week for definite and per manent organization Sidney Price, Age 33, Succumbs To Cancer; Was 111 Three Months /Funeral Service* For Cramerton Mill Employee To Be Held Tues day At Knob* Creek. _ Sidney Price. 33-year-old em ployee of the Cramerton mill, died at the home of his sister, Mrs Marks Hamrick, at 3 o’clock thlf morning after suffering for more than three months with cancer. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Knob Creek church in upper Cleveland at 3 o'clock. He had been a member of the Protest ant Methodist church all his Ilfs. Mr. Price, who was unmarried, is survived by five sister and twe brothers. The sisters are Mrs. Ham rick, Mrs. Mabel Daniels of Ashe ville, Mrs. Clyde Wilson and Mrs Edith Daniels of Shelby and Mrs Fred Swink of Lexington. He was employed at the Cramer jton Mill aa a loom fixer. Sheriff Moore Out For R-election 1 Forest City, April 9.—Sheriff Charles C. Moore has announced as a candidate for re-election. Mr Moore has given almost universal satisfaction in the efficient and quiet manner in which he has con ducted hte office Constable J. E Robertson of Car oleen has also announced as a can didate for sheriff. Mr. Robertson has had 22 years experience as s deputy sheriff and as a comporation policeman. He served under Sher iff Beam and Hardin. He is a native of the community and is active in the community life of Caroleen. The other candidate to date, foi I sheriff is V B Cooper, superin tendent of the i Car lecn-H'nrlctts {Avondale high school 14 Negro Prisoners Saw Way Out Of State Camp; Posses Scour Country ; Limbering for Kentucky Derby This fleet-footed three-yeer-old, “Reverein being trained at Aqueduct, I* I., under the watchful aye of Sunny Jim Fituimmona, for participation *n the Kentucky Derby, to be run at Louisville, Ky., on May 6. Tnrfmei think well of the youngster'* chances. Judge Webb Denies Costner Plea To Stay In Charlotte Women Arrested for Street Fight Blow* flew thick Mid rest Satur day afternoon as Mrs. Posey Blan ton and Mr*. Wayland Dover rue In combat on South LaFayette St In front of the CatdTlna theater Cops quelled the disturbance ant scattered the thronged spectator before the combatants could do an; damage to each other. They were both arrested and belt under bond. Mrs. Dover, a petit blond, was alleged to have sto'ei the affections of Mrs. Blanton' husband. The older womans desir for revenge. Is said to have cause; the disturbance. Mrs. Blanton was tried In Re carder's court this morning aw given a suspended sentence of 3 days upon payment of costs, WT" Dover will be tried tomorrow Students Make Hanoi Roll At Universitj Miss Selma Webb. R W. Card ner and R. E. Weathers of Shelb: made the scholastic roll of hono at the University of North Carollm for the quarter just ended, accord Ing to announcement by the regis trar’s office. Out of a student body of 230C only 317 students won this high dis tinction. To make the honor roll i student must average a grade of 1 (00 to 95) in all studies. The honor students were classl fled by schools as follows: Art: 205; Commerce. 62; Engineering 29; Applied Science, 24; Pharmacj 7. By classes they were; Senior; 82; Juniors, 95; sophomores, 6' freshmen, 76 Will Send Him On Tc Penitentiary Thi* Week, He Says. Marvin Hitch, fomleily secretary to Judge E. Yates Webb, appeared before his former boas here Satur day morning to file an appeal for his client Isaac Costner, convicted of participating In the Charlotte mall robbery and sentenced by the judge to 30 years in prison. Mr. Hitch announced in Charlotte before the appeal that It would stay transfer of Costner from the county Jail, but Judge Webb Aild that he would consign the prisoner to a fed eral penitentiary this week. Goes To Washington The attorney added that he wai going to Washington immediately t< 1 confer with "high authorities” about 1 Costner's caw*. "Suppose Costner was sent to s government penitentiary to serve his 30-year sentence and was killed , for aiding the government? Th< government would then be respon sible for his family,” said Mr. Rltch Police Arrest Two For Breaking Window Police last night arrested Wtllli Connor rmd Robert Lovelace, botl white, on suspicion of breaking Intc and entering Campbell's department store. About twelve o'clock, a watch man heard the sound of breakint 1 glass, and upon investigating, dis covered one of the men reachlnj through the door. The watchmar , promptly notified the police wh< . rounded up the two suspects. The men were preventing froir . obtaining any loot, and the only damage done to the store was th< broken glass. Well Organized 4-H Clubs Had Good Year Despite Depression The plans of good organization In 4-H club work was clearly demon strated by the way well organized clubs weathered the storm of adver sities in 1933, L. R Harrtll. state club leader, said in Raleigh yester day. Economic conditions and the need lor leaders to devote their time to the crop adjustment programs of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration have Handicapped club work during the past year. Some of the less well organized clubs experi enced more difficulty than at any other time since 1925. At the beginning of the year 1933, with an enrollment of 26,000 mem bers the clubs had aroused more en thusiasm than had been shown sine' ^1937 Then handicaps began to ap pear. Ftrbt came the seed loans, which required the attention of agents ant club leaders. Then came the cot,tot plow-up campaign, the tobacco re duction, the wheat campaign anc the com-hog program. As a result club work has been neglected to i certain extent, as have been man? other activities of the State college extension service. But clubs that were well organis ed, and which had members whc could assume the responsibility or in spite of outside Interferences. Harrlll also pointed out that club* with programs built around th« members themselves have mad( more progress than those with pro cram' based on achievement of cer jfain projects Seven Captured j As Bloodhounds Aid In Pursuit | Desperate Criminals With Long Terms Yet To Serve Sowed Way Through Heavy Ram During Last Night's Thunderstorm. Seven dangerous negro , sriminals, the remainder of i imnd of fourteen which esoap ed from the State ccmuicl camp near the Fair Ground; last night, are roaming some where in Cleveland or adjoin ing counties today, seeking escape from armed posses aided by bloodhounds who are desperately pursuing them. • % Six of ihe convicts were captured this morning, four at early day light, and three others about nine o'clock. No word had been rwatvad from the hunting parties at three o'clock this afternoon as to the other seven. The prison camp near the Cleve land county fair ground ie supported by the state, and the prisoners art sent from Raleigh. All of the four' teen are long-term hardened crim inals, some with sentences of SO *nc 40 years. Sometime yesterday, a steel saw was smuggled into camp, and whlli the remainder of the prisoners kept watch for She lone guard, the to papers sawed two or three of th« heavy Iron bars from a window making an entrance large enough to wriggle their bod lea through They waited until the heavy down pour of rain and thunder atorra at 10:30 o'clock last night to make their flight. Immediately after Um alarm W*i spread, word wae sent to neighbor ing police and sheriff department! to be on the look-out. The King* . Mountain police caught three at nine o’clock this morning and halt them for the prison officials. / j Seven Mill Free. Seven still have their freedom Several armed posses are attempt ing to pursue them, although thi heavy rain this morning practically obliterated all traces of the flight Tom Osborne, official in chargi of the camp, expressed confident* that tire remainder of the ban* would be rounded up either today or tomorrow. He also stated the I to prevent a similar occurrence if the future, an extra night and day watchman would be placed on duty The fourteen men who made goo* t.heir escape are: Robert Miller John Williams alias Jackson, .Run es McKay. Jess Williard, Browr Huntley. Jimmie Diggs, Buddy Jon es , Sam Lockhart, Authur Little john, Harry Roes, Robert Brown Gnry Reimster. Alfred Wilson, and 1 Henry Register, Wilson, Registei I and Diggs were captured early this f morning. The Identity of the three held In Kings Mountain is nneer- 1 tain. Brother Of Shelby * Woman Is Missing Capt. Waller Hix, Age 45, Kami Manager From South Carolina Stm Missing. South Carolina officials report j that no trace has been found ol | Capt. Walter Hlx, age 45, missing I from Lockhart, S. C. for several 1 days. Mr. Hix is a brother of Mrs. M M. O’Shlelds of West Warren street, Shelby. He war. manager of a farm for the Lockhart Mills and has not been seen since last Tuesday. Hs was traced as far as York, B. C„ to which place he went to buy aonw seeds, but officers have been un able to find further trace of him. Officers throughout the State of South Carolina have been ontlfled by Governor Blackwood to be on i the lookout for him. The negro who drove Mr. Hix to YdfR Is being held In prison In Co lumbia It is reported that Hlx hart I a considerable sum of monev on his M jperson
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