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« TM He Tllkvc Md me UMW — .. Late News the markets tot ton. »P"t . 12 40 15c Cotton seed, ton. wagon.26.00 Co((),n wed, ton. carlots 2S.00 Saturday Fair Weather forecast for North Caro lina: North Carolina fair tonight in(t Saturday, slowly rising temp erature tomorrow. Dillinger Strikes By UNITED PRESS WARSAW. Indiana, April 13.— John Dellinger returned to his old .tamping grounds today with a sen sational raid on a police arsenal. He barelv escaped capture, getting away with his companion, identified as H„mer Vanmeter, Indiana parole violator. The bandits fled south west with a posse of fifty vigilantes roaring hard on their desperate heels. Insull Confident By UNITED PRESS ENROUTE for SMYRNA, Turkey, April 13.—A new and confident Samuel Insull, seemingly reconciled to the extradition which will hand him over to the American govern ment at Smyrna Harbor today, shook the depression which gripped him at Istabul and wisecracked with reporters on board. Braced against the shiprail, he chatted pleasantly with all comers. F. D. R. Welcomed j By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, April 13.—Pa rading Congressmen, headed by a marine band, welcomed President Roosevelt home from his fishing i trip today amid the blare of brassy music and with whoopees of en thusiasm. The president arrived at 9:50 this morning. Bids On Planes By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, April 13.—Wil liam Denning, Independent Airlines attorney, today told a senate com mittee that the post office depart ment had assured him his clients would be permitted to bid on con tracts for certain routes for the use of single motored airplanes. Most specifications require multi-motor equipment. Aviators Rescued By UNITED PRESS MOSCOW, April 13.—The last six men of the Cheliuski Arctic expedi tion, who were stranded on the ice for 53 days have been rescued by airplane, It was officially announced today. The March Of Events Wirt Charges “Flop” "There Is nothing to the Wirt charges,” Representative A. L. Bul winkle, chairman of the congres sional committee investigating the red plot accusations of the Indiana schoolmaster, said in Gastonia yes terday. "The thing is a flop. When the six persons named by him . . testify next week . . . the whole ri diculous matter will collapse.” President Welcomed Democrats and Republicans alike will welcome President Roosevelt back to Washington today. A Ma rine band will be there and lots of trimmings, for It has been an ex traordinary thing for a President to be absent during a session of Con gress. Cannon’s Cash Bishop James J. Cannon, Jr, tes hlied in court yesterday that he ordinarily carried between four and the thousand dollars in cash on his person and had other large cash ■unds because he didn’t “want the oourt house gang to know about , Hr used the money to fight Al reri E. Smith’s candidacy for President in 1928. Close Call A* General Hugh S. Johnson rushed through Miami yesterday under motorcycle escort, he nar ™ ■ missed being run over by a which approached a crossing o° ast to stop when the party came S!ght- “If anybody had been .r?, u! an ^rcoat,” said the Gen ai, he'd have been hit.” Probe Air Pacts Senator Warren E. Austin, Publican of Vermont, bitter of *ut of the administration’s .ia' Policies, was authorized day to investigate cancellatli witracts between the posh department and private air summons all posts _ „ who Participated in th n“Kolia Mona. VOL. XL. No. 45 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■» «»a pm mt (i» i««uni _ m.m OarrHW, m jrmr. (in tdvtnM) _ UN Bishop on Trial Bishop James Cannon, Jr« well known Southern Methodist Church man, pictured as he arrived at Washington court for opening of his trial on charge of conspiring to violate the corrupt practices act by failure to report anti-Smith Presi dential contributions in 1928. High School Music Contest Program Set For Saturday Student Performers From 5 Coun ties To Compete Here Tomor row. Teacher Judge. The program for competition In the Shelby district high school music contest, which opens here Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, was announced today. High school mus icians from Cleveland, Gaston, Rutherford, Lincoln and Catawba counties will participate. The morning contests will be brought to a close at 12:15. The afternoon contests will begin at 1 o’clock. Winners here will enroll for the state contests. Miss Charlotte Barnes of the public school music department of the Women’s college of the Univer sity of North Carolina will be the judge. Mrs. Charles Austell is dis trict chairman and Miss Bertha Bostic assistant chairman. The program follows: Piano solo: class C: Mountain View. Piano solo, class B: Belmont, Newton, Kings Mountain, Shelby. Violin solo, class B: Newton. Clarinet solo, class B: Lincolnton. Soprano solo, class B: Belmont, Shelby, Lincolnton, Forest City. Alto solo, class B: Belmont, Shel by. Forest City. Tenor solo, class B: Shelby. Baritone solo, class B; Belmont, Shelby, Forest City. Bass solo. classB: Belmont. Shel by. Bass solo, class C: Lattlmore. Boys’ unchanged voices: Shelby, Lincolnton, Hickory. Girls’ trio, class B: Belmont, Shelby, Lincolnton. Mixed quartet, class B: Belmont. Boys’ quartet, class B: Belmont. Boys’ glee club, class C: Cherry - ville, Lattimore. Boys’ gle club, class B: Belmont. Girls' glee club, class C: Bessemer City, Cherryville, Lattimore. Girls’ glee club, class B: Belmont. Mixed chorus, class C: Cherry ville. Mixed chorus, class B: Belmont. P. T. A. Meeting Is Postponed The regular monthly meeting of the high school Parent Teacher as sociation has been postponed from Monday night. April 16 to Monday night, April 23. U. S. Board Rules! Seniority Lost By Shelby Strikers State Board Decree Is Sustained Strike Breaks Continuous Term Ot Service; Decree Clarifies Dis puted Paragraph 8. (Special to The 8tar.) RALEIGH, April 12.—The North' Car Aina Cotton Textiles Indus trial Relations board, through its chairman, Theodore 8. Johnson of State college, yesterday announced that it had been upheld by the Na tional board in its decision that' strikers at the Cleveland Cloth mill ! in Shelby lost their seniority rat- j ings when they struck. The state board met in Shelby On April 4 as the question was present ed as to interpretations of a para graph in the National board ruling referring to the rights of workers under continuous service. C W. Bo lick, union organizer, had claimed that the strike did not break the continuous term of service records of the workers, but the state board rules otherwise, as follows: State Board Interpretation “. ... It is the opinion of the majority of the members of the state board that those employees who struck and voluntarily left their employment thereby broke their continuous service record and ! lost such seniority of employment as they had. In the phraseology of paragraph 6, a strike or a walkout does not count as an excused or ex cusable absence. i “It is the desire of all parties, in ■ eluding the board, to have this point more clearly established, or clarified. “Since the recommendation was from the National board, the state board desired that its clarification be stated by the National board as either confirming, modifying or de nying the interpretation cited above. Praise Co-operative Spirit “The state board expresses itself as very much gratified over the fine, cordial, and co-operative spirit manifested by both employes and employers at Shelby." Copies of the ruling by the na tional board were mailed to Odus M. Mull, secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland Cloth mill, Fred A. Sen ter, member of the union commit tee in Shelby, and E C. Dwelle and W. O. Watson, members of the state board. National Board Baling Paragraph 6 of the National | : board ruling which ended the Shel- j by strike reads in full: “In case of a lay off in quiet busi ness periods or of curtailment of production due to market conditions or to any other reason, the man agement agrees to start their work ers in employment in accordance with continuous term of Service, al lowance being made for excused or excusable absences, as said service is shown by the company’s pay rolls. When at any time increases are made in employment, employes will be returned to work in accord ance with their continuous terms of service, allowance being made for excused or excusable absences, as such service is shown on the com pany’s payroll, provided, however, that the above provision does not obligate the management or com pel them to place or retain incom petent or Inexperienced employees on situations or jobs that they are not competent to perform ” Editor Favors True Family Physicians Dr. J. M. Northington, editor of a medical journal published in Char lotte urged that every family care | fully select a family physician and entrust all ills and complaints of the family to him, in an address last night before the Kiwanis club. He suggested this as the most econo mical and satisfactory way to raise i private health standards and there- j by public health conditions. Senate Boosts Taxes To New High Legacy And Gift Levies Increased j WASHINGTON, April ^.-Pre liminary to the final vote on the big revenue bill, the senate yester day pushed peace-time taxes to g new high and hit a hard blow at in heritance, gifts and corporations. The estimated revenue to be pro duced by the bill was raised by (480,000,000. The new rates begin on net es tates under $20,000, compared with HO,000 in existing law, and grad uate up to 60 per cent on those aver $10,000,000. Taxes paid under this schedule ire not subject to the 80 per cent credit for similar taxes paid to states There are two schedules of estate taxes, the present scales run ning from 1 to 20 per cent, against which the 80 per cent credit is al lowed and another form 1 to 45 per cent, on which no credit is permit ted. The LaFollette schedule affects only the l-to-45 per cent scale. LaFollette contended the higher levies were needed to met “expendi tures made necessary in order to relieve distress* and provide em ploymeht.” His gift tax schedule begins at 3-4 of one percent on net gifts un der $20,000 and graduates up to 45 percent on those over *10.000.000 1 J t Con turned on page ten) j. About That Revolution, Doc—” Cotton Bill Riders Killed In House-Senate Conference Locate Addressee Of Negro Corpse Louts McDowell, who is an offi cial at the Hallway Express office here, was baffled Wednesday when he received a corpse addressed to Mrs. Dlllle Gaston, Shelby, N. C. The body was that of a colored man, Luther Cooper, who died from a shot-gun wound at Mechanics ville, N. Y. McDowell was unable for a day or two to locate Mrs. Gaston, but yesterday afternoon, he delivered the corpse and the mystery was all cleared up. Dr. James Kramer To Arrive Monday For Revival Here Evangelistic Services To Begin Sunday. All Committees Ap pointed. Dr. Wall's Subjects. Dr. James W. Kramer, of Denver, Colorado, nationally known evan gelist, who Is well known In North Carolina for his splendid work in the field of soul winning for Christ, will arrive in Shelby on Monday, and will preach In a two weeks series of revival services at the First Baptist church. There will be no day services, except on Sunday, when the extra day service will be held each Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The services will be held each jvening at 7:30. There will be eight simultaneous personal workers meetings each evening, Monday through Friday at 7 o'clock. All members of the church are asked to be present on, Sunday and hear all announcements. Dr. Kramer will use the follow ing subjects: Monday, ‘‘If I Had a Million;” Tuesday, “Third And Market, San Francisco—What of It?;” Wednesday, “How Much Are Vou Worth?”; Thursday, “Honest I’o-God Folks”; Friday, "Are You Riding the Blind Baggage?”; Sun iay, 11:00, "Sheltering Wings;” Sunday, 2:30, home service for all, What’s the Matter with the Amer ican Home?”; Sunday, 7:30, “Don’t Die on Thud.” “Were They Drunk,” will be the subject of Dr. Wail, in the service it the First Baptist church ,on next Sunday at 11 o’clock. This message will open the two weeks revival services at the church. The day’s activities and services at the church will open with the Sunday school an Sunday morning promptly at 1:30 o’clock. A record-breaking at tendance Is expected in opening the revival. In the evening at 7:00 o’clock the twenty training organizations will neet. All unions invite every mem jer of the church to be present. “The Heavens Opened,” will be Dr. Wall’s subject in the unified worship and preaching service, which begins on Sunday evening, promptly at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Easom announces splendid ausical programs by the large ■horus choir for all services during he day. Everyone is given a warm welcome to all services. Senate Amendments, Including Bailey’s, Are Deleted (Special to The Star.) WASHINGTON, April lS.- House and senate ooriferes yesterday re jected virtually all the many amend ments proposed by the senate to the Bankhead cotton bill. Including Senator Bailey's six-bale rider, and steps were taken to obtain final ac tion on the measure so that it may be sent to the president for signa ture early next week. The conference favored a tax of fifty cents and a minimum of five cents a pound upon cotton produced in excess of the allotted quotas, payable at the time the cotton is sold. Life of the legislation was lim i ited to two years. Postpone Gin Payments The house provided that the tax ! shall not be collected upon the gln i ning of cotton which is to be stored !by the producer either on the farm or at such place as may be permit ted by regulations prescribed hy the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of the treasury. In suh cases, the payment of the tax shall be postponed, but shall be paid at the time when bale tags are secured for such cotton. Bale tags will be available for the cotton at any future time upon payment of the tax or upon the surrender of certificates of exemption. Subject To Lein Until bale tags are secured for such excess cotton, it would be sub ject to a lien in favor of the Unit ed States for the amount of the tax due. It had been proposed by the sen ate that payment of the tax be re quired at the time of ginning. Some of the senators still would prefer that method of collecting the levy, (Continued on page ten) Thieves Take $35 From Slot Machine In Station Theft Break Open Slot Machine And Get 700 Nickel*. Also Snatch Cigarettes. Enterprising thieves in Shelby have discovered a new method of deriving revenue from their Illegal operations. Sometime Wednesday night, one or two men broke a window in the service station belonging to Fred Hannon, located on highway 30 west of Shelby. Refusing to be baffled by the lack of valuable mer chandise, the robbers snatched two or three cartons of cigarettes, and gathered up a slot machine.' They carried the contraption about 100 feet from the station, and proceeded to break into It, deriv ing light for their operations from numerous matches, later found strewn about the place. Harmon stated that the machine had ap proximately 700 nickels inside. The police have fingerprinted five negroes, and have three more suspects in connection with the crime, and as soon as the prints can be compared with those on the battered ijtachine. will decide up on a course nf act ion l Shoffner Explains Cotton Pool Plan; Grower Has Choice Option Cotton Cash To Be Distributed Unsold Option Holden lltvr Until l To Soil Without Carry ing ChtrfM. Robert W. Shoffner, Cleveland county farm agent, explained to day several of the hard-to-under stand points of the cotton option pool which have been puaallng farmers In this community. A num ber of cotton growers, Mr. Shoffner sal4, were punsled by the recent statement by the Agricultural Ad ministration about sale of options before May 1. He made the following explana tion: "When the cotton options were Issued near the close of 1933 farm ers who received them were giver the choice of asking for immediate sale, of holding their cotton options for later sale, or of taking an ad vance of four cents per pound and placing their cotton In the cotton option pool for sale by the manag er of this pool at any time he could secure 18 cents per pound for the cotton, with the understanding that if the cotton does not sell for IB cents by July 3tst he may sell as he deems wise. Majority In Pool. “The majority of farmers of this county chose the latter course and placed their cotton in the pool. This cotton Is now entirely In the hands of the manager of this pool, so far as the sale Is concerned. When the cotton Is sold the net proceeds of the sale will be equally prorated to all farmers who have cotton in the pool. / “Those farmers who still have options which are unsold and which have not placed them in the cot ton option pool, have until May 1st to sell them without cost or carrying charge. After that date the carrying charge of 40 cents per bale per month will be charged those who ask for an extension. “Partners who have put cotton In warehouses fund borrowed 10 centi per pounds oh H may sell at any time they desire, provided this Is agreeable with the bank or banks holding their notes secured by the cotton.” , «u, oiuMiun opcm imwi ui nesday In Charlotte at a meeting of farm agents, where a represen tative of the Agricultural Adminis tration explained to them the use of the new record books to be Is sued to farmers. These books will soon be issued from his office, he said, and will be of great benefit to cotton growers. They are free. Start Surfacing Road On Monday Material Will Be Hauled And Sur facing Of Polkville Road WUI Begin Next Week. Now that winter la over, material will be placed and the lob of sur facing the Shelby-Polkvllle highway will begin on Monday by the con struction company that was award led the contract last fall. The construction company has been maintaining the road during the winter, waiting for warm weather to put down the stone and asphalt. For several weeks, workmen have been patching up holes and shaping up the surface of the road td get In condition for the black top coating. The road extends from Shelby to Polkvillei thence through Lawndale to Fallston where It connects with No. 18. Curves and grades were taken out and a new location was followed in places last fall when the grading crew followed the new sur vey. It is expected that the surface I will be finished and regdy for trav f el In several weks. ! Candidate Bird ». F. Bird, principal of the Grover school for the past eleven ;Mri who announced his candidacy for elerk of the Superior court of Cleveland el In several weeks. 1,450 More Motor Vehicles Here Now Than A Year Ago Cleveland County Had S.S00 Li censed Motor Vehlclee In County On April lit. By M. R. DIJNNAGAN Raleigh, April 12.—North Caro linians have evidently passed through the "truck-for-all-pur poses" use and are now buying au tomobiles to ride In, Instead of making the truck serve as the fam ily car, along with Its other uses, as was the case during the depres sion period. Motor vehicle in the state April 1 numbered 334,714, or 66,748 more than the 269,066 licensed in the state a year before. Passenger cars had reached 278,638, aa compared with 227,091 a year before, while trucks had shown an increase of 13,201, from 42,876 to 66,076 111 the year, cards In the office at Direc tor L. S. Harris, of the motor vehi cle bureau, ahow. Buying Speeds lip In fact, the number of vehicles licensed In the first three months of the year was ohly 74,381 smaller than the entire number licensed during the year 1933, which was 409,095, as compared with the 334, 714 licensed to April 1, 1934. Non resident passen(/ r cars increased 100 over a year before, while motor cycles Increased from 577 a year ago to 711 on April 1. Guilford county led In both cars and trucks, with 19,125 cars and 2,81)0 trucks; Mecklenburg had 16,060 cars and 2,725 trucks; For syth had 13,575 cars and 1,800 trucks; Wake, 11,600 cars and 2,535 trucks, and Buncombe,' 10,475 cars and 1.650 trucks. Cleveland Increase Cleveland county had 4,850 pas senger cars April 1, as compared with 3.400 a year before, and had 650 trucks April 1, as compared with 625 a year ago and 850 on Decem ber 31, at the end of the year. These figures are obtained by counting and measuring a given number of the cards on file In the motor vehicle bureau office, each representing a license plate, and then measuring the cards for each county, so that the number given Is within half a dozen of the actual number, Director Harris states. Ship Garden Seeds For Relief Familie* Garden seed to be distributed to Cleveland county relief families were shipped from Philadelphia on the tenth of this month. Harry Woodson relief administrator, said yesterday. They should arrive in Shelby within a few days, and will be Immediately distributed. Winter Howls In Expiring Gasps But April Sun Dispels His Chill Old Man Winter howled an ex piring gasp around the oaves last night and yesterday, 'blowing his chill breath so sharply that he threatened to lift the second mort gage of many a shingled home stead. Yesterday, according to re ports from papers all over the state, was the most unusual April weather recorded in years, with snow, dust storms and falling tem perature all over the south. But this morning, an April sun shone and weather prophets said everything would turn out all right, even If it was Friday the Thir teenth, Nashville had » In-minute *now fall after a 33-degree drop from Wednesday'* noon temperature of 71 and Mount Eagle, near Chatta tanooga, Term., also reported a light snow. A freak snow fell in Baltimore where the weather bureau predict ed freezing weather would visit Thursday night. Snow • flurries also were reported in Annapolis. The sudden change in tempera tures over most of the south was the result of northwest winds blow ing in from Ohio and points further north where snow has fallen with in the last 24 hours Most of rhr 1 (Continued no pygs ten; Jobless Bureau May Gose Doors; Gastonia Is Chosen | General Breaking Up Order It Given LaUlmcrc Receive* Word Front Ra leifh That Bureau WiU Re Conaolidated. The National Re-employment of fice, which has been in operatior here since last August 18, may eloet ita doors and cease functioning hart next week according to a bulletir received from Raleigh by supervl sor J. J. Lattimore. The bulletin stated that "Order. from Washington require some what general demobilisation of tht ; National Re-empjoymant service U this state Immediately, The service will be reglonallsed and approxi mately half of the present person nel employed. All others will eon elude tlietr work with the servloe.' Under New Zone Weather or no this bureau will b« entirely closed, or whether IS wtl' continue operations with a reducer personnel Is uncertain. However, th« order placed Cleveland eountj along with Lincoln and Oastom un der the Jurisdiction of a regions reemployment office to be located In daemonic. The service was inaugurated as a temporary medium tor placing unemployed men and women In either private or publio employ ment. Since Ita beginning last Au gust. the bureau has placed exact ly 1,336 workers. Three thousand, three hundred and ninety-seven persons registered- for employment in the servloe. Fleece 30 Tenants Recently Mr. Lattimore began « * drive to place tenants «n county farms, and thus far, he has founc places for thirty. During the fall, hi found work for 88 cotton pickers. At present, the bureau is employ ing approximately 360 men on fou: PWA projects. They are the Kings Mountain-York road, the Zoar-Boil tng Springs highway, the PolkvlU road, and the bridge building proj ect on the York road. This numl: will be increased 78 next week. Seeks Instructions If the local office Is dosed en | tlrely. all workers in this county will be hired through the Gastonia regional bureau. Details as to how this will be accomplished are lack ing. There is a strong possibility that the office force here will to slashed, and this bureau be kepi open. Mr. Lattimore wired Ratal ft this morning for further instruc tions, and Is awaiting a reply. HBSHtti Roberts Predicts Tourist Industry Rise For Carolina That Is, Say* Ait* Clab Hwi, If State Will Co-iymli To Beautify Hlchwaya. Coleman Roberts, president of the Carolina Motor club, and Walter Jf. Cartier, director of roadside beau tification work, spoke to the Shel by Rotary club at noon today on the extensive roadside work mapped out for North Carolina. "The fundamental aim,” Mr. Roberta said, "is hot to work out a problem in expensive esthetics, but to realize a fundamental economy Our plans are practical. We want to heal the scars of construction, give nature a chance, clean up de bris and automobile graveyards.” Need Roadside Farks One of the principle objectives, he said, is the establishment of road side parks throughout the state where tourists may stop and rest and have lunch. With more attrac tive roads, he predicted the state might enjoy a tourist business that would rank third In Industry. Sev enty-five to 100 million potential tourists Is not too much to expect he said. Mr. Cartier said that there were now 1,000 committee members work ing on roadside beautification in the state in 43 counties. It Is the ob ject of his department to coalesce the work of various women’s dubs and civic organisations. AM Wider Blght-of-Wag The prime need now, he declared, Is wider right-of-ways. "We need at least seventy-five feet on each side for planting,” he said. He disapproved of formal plant ing on the roadside, but urged that trees natural to the oountry be used. The first object now, be said, during Roadside Beautification week. Is to get people to clean up, not only In the country, but in the 1 cities. ^ B. L. Smith superintendent of Shelby school* and chairman of c «veittnd county committee, m (invoiced the speaker*,
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