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Late News the markets {niton, *pot . 11 12f Cotton seed, ton, wagon.26.00 Cotton coed, ton, carlots-28.00 Fair But Cold Weather foreeaat for North Car olina: PdKIy cloudy and colder; showers on the coast this afternoon or tonight. Tomorrow fair but cold fr, light froat in west and north to night. Dies In Chair By UNITED PRESS RALEIGH. April 27.—Theodore Durham, negro, who was paid U kill J. N. Kid Iasater, white, was put to death in the electric chair ,t the state prison at 10:30 o’clock Ulis morning. Will Hessee. white man who Instigated the Lasater murder, is serving a life term as an *f,essory. Open For Ransom By UNITED PRESS TUCSON, Arizona, April 27.—The avenue for ransoming June Robles, age si*, was open today when peace officers withdrew 1,500 possemen Who have blockaded the town since the girl was seized by kidnappers tw o days ago. The March Of Events Dillinger Dead? Tne wide flung hunt for John Dillinger focuses today on St, Paul •*ith the disclosure that the des perado has gone there twice to have wounds treated. St. Paul’s city health officer has been dismissed for treating Dillinger. It is thought that Dillinger may be wounded as many as three times -and some de tectives say that he is dead. Study Weed Tax The Administration will devote serious study during the next fetf days to the study of the federal tax structure as it affects tobacco pro ducts, and as it relates to the treas ury, the growers, and the process ors. Machado Sought Gerardo Machado, the man who ruled Cuba with an iron hand, re mained in hiding somewhere in New York last night as federal au thorities in four states sought his arrest for extradition on charges of murder and embezzlement Seek Kidnaper A thousand men with six-shoot ers swinging at their belts, among them the men who once caught Dillinger. are gunning today for the abductors of six-year old June Robles of Tucson, Arizona. The kid napers of the child suddenly re duced their ransom demand from SI 5,000 to $10,000. The Arizona moos are out like the frontiersmen of old. and are set for a lynching. Ask Japs Explain A Nanking government official ■'aid yesterday that the United States is dispatching & sharp note to Japan asking a full explanation of the Japanese ‘‘hands off China” policy. Tills spokesman also said that. Washington wants to know what Japan means by saying that the Asia for Asiatics” program in volves the Philippine Islands as well as India and other Oriental coun tries. Trial Nears End The case against Bishop Cannon charged with violating the corrupt practices act in the 1928 campaign against Alfred E. Smith went be fore the jury yesterday. Sometime today. Justice Peyton Gordon will tell the jurors what evidence to consider in trying the churchman. Surface Topping On Polkville Road Contractors Putting Surface On *h«'lb.v-PolkvlUe Highway. Distance Given. The stirface treatment to the i[r Polkville road k ap; Fi™ in- the contractors and rapid P^snas is being made. This week .,e flrst coating was applied on we stretch from the Dover Mill to * Ciint Owens place about six »iles north. _ Several tank cars of asphalt are thf Sid’;ns at the Southern de » cl this coating goes down nth".1? 1)6 fo51owed by stone, an ish cv!’lack coat and tilen the flo th. 'tn lhe Weather is favorable • contractors can complete about * mils a week. f Wilson Construction Co *'hich ln 1US had grading equipment Shelby since the Polkville pro cur./aS started last fall, has se Wi. ,a state highway contract neai ■' mgron. This equipment wei M r‘ i'^ether this week and mov - ^ rrt»y to the new job FThk Mkv ellEmd Hka VOL. XL. No. 51 i _ SHELBY, N. €. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. - ■j MMI. par r«u. (la adraaoa) _ ft M Cantor, par mr. (la advaaaa) _ PN I Baby, Aged 2, j Is Sent To Jail Mrs. Fda Biro and her 2-year-old son John Reed Biro pictured be hind bars of Yorkville court Jail New York, where they served a four-hour term because the mother could not pay a $2 fine imposed on boy's conviction of hoeing in the grass of Central Park. Crop Loan Office Is Told To Stay Open Until May 15 Receives Applications (ip To 9145. Larger Sums Handled By The CherryvtUe Office. The final date on which appiica toins can be made for crop loans has been set up to May 15, F. T. Wag ner, who is in charge of the Emer gency Crop Loan office of the Farm Credit administration, announced this morning. Previous instructions had been to close his office on April 30. A number of incomplete applica tions have been held back, he said, because the landlord or the tenant did not sign the waiver of Interest in the crop until the loan is paid. If these farmers will complete their applications, they will be immediate ly considered, he said. 407 Applications Made To date, 407 applications have been made by Cleveland county farmers for amounts up to 9145. For sums larger than that, thify must go to the Cherryville Production Cred it administration. But if their loan i is refused there, they may return to 1 the crop loan office with an aDDli cation for a loan up to $250, which j will be sent on to Washington if -the nature of the crop warrants it. The crop loan office is in the Hoey building, upstairs above the FERA administration to the rear of the Shelby post office. CJeve O. Hambright Dies In New Mexico Cleve O. Hambright of Greenville, S. C„ brother of Mrs. Maude Ham bright and Mrs. C, M. Hardin of Grover, died in Denning, New Mex ico Wednesday afternoon, according to word received here yesterday. The body will be brought to Cowpens, S. C., and is expected to arrive to day or tomorrow. Funeral arrange ments have not yet been announced. Cotton Gains Back Yesterday’s Loss Cotton on the New York exchange today gained back the twenty points it lost yesterday. At 2 o’clock today July was quoted at 11.12. Lincoln Im Mine To Be Re-Opened;; Ask Building Bids■ To Spend $200,000 For Equipment $17,000 Payment Made On Rhyne Property; Plant To Employ Hundred* Of Workers. Lincolnton’s old tin mine, which has been a dream of wealth for many a year, wll be reopened soon. Dtfnite assurance of this was forth coming yesterday with the an nouncement that bids will be ad vertised this week for the construc tion of a *200,000 foundation plant on the property. The announcement was made by W. M. Bennett of New York, vice president and director of the Am erican Consolidated Tin Mines cor poration, owners of the property, $17,000 Changes Hands Mr. Bennett was in Lincolnton yesterday arranging for the adver tisement of bids and conferring with W. W. Glenn, general manag er of the estate of the late D. E. Rhyne, who formerly owned the property. Another cash payment of $17,000 on the property was made yesterday Mr. Glenn said. The tine mine property, which lies two miles south of Lincolnton, con tains several hundred acres and was sold by Mr. Rhyne to the New York eoncem in April, 1932, for $350,000 Since that time thousands of pounds of ore have been taken from the property and tested in northern mills, and. according to i statements made by State Geolog- 1 ist H. J. Bryson, some of the finest | specimens he has ever seen have j been found. Mica Deposits Found. Mica and kaolin have also been found in the ore taken from the local mine in sufficient quantities to make profitable the mining of these two by-products, it was said. Many mining experts have analyzed ore taken from the local mine, it was said, and all have agreed as to its high quality. No announcement has been made by MT. Bennett regarding operating details of the new plant, but other officials of the New York concern previously stated that, when pro duction begins, several hundred persons will be employed. C\uh To Give Dance Against Own Wishes Would Postpone Affair Because Of Revival, But Orchestra Won’t Break Its Contract. Officers and members of the Shelby German Club found them selves this week in the embarrass ing predicament of having to give a dance which they'd rather not In deference to the “Big Jim” Kramer revival now going on at the j First Baptist church, the German j club intended to postpone the dance planned for tonight, and telephon ed the booking office asking for a postponement of their contract. They were told that the orchestra was on tour, that its expenses would go right on whether it played or not, and that the contract there- j fore could not be postponed. The j Shelby club, which will have t» pay J approximately $150 for the arches-; tra and rent to the Hotel Charles decided that the only thing they could do was “go on with the dance,” The dance Is open to club mem bers only, who have already been assessted costs of the orchestra and hotel Gangster Captured Ludwig (Dutch) Schmidt was captured in Chicago yesterday by a patrolman walking his beat—mak ing the law’s score 6 to 2 against the Touhy gang. Dutch is wanted for the kidnaping of John Factor and for the $105,000 Charlotte mnil truck robbery. Sees Sentiment Growing For Drivers’ License Law J. C. Baikenill In Gastonia Gazette RALEIGH, April 26.—With the number of (persons killed and in jured in automobile accidents in creasing almost every month and with the cost of automobile liabil ity insurance increasing every year due to the number of accidents in the state, a growing sentiment in favor of a state drivers' license law and of a larger and more adequate highway patrol is being noticed here. As a result, it is already agreec that the 1935 general assembly will be asked to enact a strict drivers | license law. also to increase the p& troi to provide for more adequate enforcement ol the highway laws. In March, 7R pcrsiw were killed and 358 injured in 301 automobile accidents, the largest number killed and injured in March since the motor vehicle bureau started keep ing accident statistics. In March, 1932, there were only 86 killed and 338 injured, while in March, 1933, only 45 were killed. In 1933, a total of 852 persons were killed, 5,193 in jured in 3,435 accidents. These figures are beginning to make the public generally, as well as automobile owners sit up and take notice. In addition, the auto mobile owners are complaining at the high cost of liability insurance while the liability insurance com (Conti ruled nn p-)gr eight.> Soviet Flyer Honored - -----J "—.— ■ ■ -.. Commander Maurttz Shlpnov, Soviet airman, received flags of the So viet and the United States from the Chamber of Commerce at Nome, Alaska, before he boarded his plane for flight to the lee pack where 191 survivors of the ill-fated freigter Chelyuskin were awaiting rescue. Shlpnov received highest Soviet honors for his gallant work in reach ing the castaways. Labor To Enter Politics With Full State Program Shoffner Calls Option Holders Farmer* who are holding their cotton options and have neither borrowed the four cent* nor sole their options are urgently request ed by County Agent R. W. Shoffnei to come to his office immediately to have their options extended for another year. , This extension, he explained, will cost about 40 cents a . bale per month to carry. He requests that the growers bring their option pa pers to the office. Shelby B. And L. Pays Out $17,900 As Series Matures And Cancels Loans Amounting to $7,000. 249 Shares Are Matured. A total of $17,900 was paid out m c&sh and $7,000 worth of mortgages were cancelled this week upon the matured 79th series of the Shelby Building and Loan association. Capt. J. Frank Roberts, secretary sreasurer says the 79th seriee car ried 349 shares and as will be seen from the maturity, the majority of the stock was unencumbered. The shareholder in this series paid in $19,456.50 and received not only their installments but a prof it of $5,443.50 The three local build lug and loan associations are in itrting financial position and never missed maturing stock on time dur ing the depression. Funeral Services For Two Victims Of Auto Accident Large throngs attended the fu leral services lor Cletus Reep and Marshall Brittain, both of the Vale •ection, which were held Tuesday. Reep and Brittain were almost In stantly killed when the car in which hey were riding Sunday night jvertumed in the North Brook :ownship. Zeno Martin, another oc njpant of the car, was slightly ln lured. Services for Marshall Brittain ,vere held at the Hebron M. P. :hurch Tuesday morning at eleven >’clock. Surviving the 22 year-old accident victim are his wife his tether and mother, two sisters and me brother. The services were con lucted by the Rev. H. P. Fogleman. Rites for Cletus Reep were held he same day at 2 o'clock p. m. at dulls Grove Baptist church. The services were also Conducted by the Rev. Mr. Fogleman. Mr, Reep is survived by his wife, three children, lis mother and several brothers and its* era ' Indorse Candidates Who Are OK On Questionnaire Organized labor in Shelby mil take its first step in organized pd li lies on Saturday in a movement to join the North Carolina labor Tot era league, which Is actively foster ing a legislative program and sub mitting questionnaires to candi dates. Leaders in the Shelby union to day announced a meeting to be held in Union hall Saturday morn ing after the James Barrett ad dress at 11 o'clock. “All persons in terested in the cause of labor, whether union members or not, tex tile workers or farmers are Invited to attend," union officials an nounced. May Form Local Unit. The object of this meeting is to set up a Cleveland county unit of the state organization. Union men stressed the point that there is no fee for Joining this organization. Promise Organised Support. All candidates for election and up pointment to public office in North Carolina, from the township con (Continued on page eight.) Child Delinquency Talked At Kiwanis Mr*. Holly Ledford And Mr. Ml Of State Welfare Department With between 30,000 and 35,000 delinquent children, in the juvenile courts of American, a problem Is presented that challenges the courts, churches, civic organisations and individuals, said Mrs. Holly Ledford, county welfare officer who spoke last night before the Ktwanis club. She traced the history of law making which provides for the pro* bation and vocational guidanoe of delinquent children. The Kiwanis club was giving consideration of un derprivileged children and plans to adopt a definite program along this i line. j Mr. Ezell of the state welfare de I partment cited surveys to show that i delinquent and underprivileged children usually come from homes where there Is ignorance, insuffi cient income and bad moral In fluences. "It’s a challenge to the j taxpayers to lend a helping hand to I these children. John Dillinger, the bandit, has already taken lg lives, stolen a million and a half dollars and cost the government another million and a half to search and try and punish him." Grocery Personnel Changes Announced R. K. Wilson, former A. and P. employee, and Ray Beam, formerly with Keeter’s store in Kings Moun tain, have recently been employed by the Keeter* Grocery store in Shelby A E. Gregory, former mar ket man at Keeter's. has gone to Tillmans in Charlotte. I i Kramer Revival Has 132 Additions ToChurchToDate Church Building Drive Brings $4,220 Revival Clones Sunday With Three Sermons. Morn, afternoon And Night. Inducting the five additions to the first Baptist church at the morning service today, the Dr. James Kramer revival has resulted tn 133 additions. The revival Is moving to a climax and will dose Sunday night. Dr. Kramer's wife arrived today and Joined him. He gave one of his pa triotic Chautauqua lectures last night, making a spiritual applica tion at the close. His subject was “Are You for Uncle Sam?" The large auditorium was again filled to capacity. Tonight his subject will be “Quit Kicking My Dog Around," a sermon based on an expression made by the late Senator Champ Clark. His appeal will be for a lov ing and uplifting hand to be ex tended to the man who Is down and out. Three Services Sunday Dr. Kramer will preach three times on Sunday his closing day. At 11 o'clock his subject will be “The City Beautiful.” Then a great rally at 3:30 Sunday afternoon when his subject will be “Are You a Man?" He is a great believer in an honest to-goodness, four-square man who Is true to his Ood, loyal to his friends and faithful to the worth while things of life. “Your Verdict For or Against Jesus” Is thp dos ing sermon subject for the two weeks. hum iwiaiug runa With a total of 95,400 needed to meet obligations due on the church property the first of May, $4,220 was raised Thursday afternoon In a whirl-wind drive by forty men. They gathered at Mia church for a luncheon meeting Thursday noon and there received card assignments and Instructions front O. 1C. Mull, chairman el tha finance commit tee and Horace Besom, educational director. At the evening service the canvassers reported $3,970. A spe cial plate collection was taken last night which brought the total to $4,220. Not all of the membership could be seen yesterday so the cam paign will continue through Sunday, at which time it Is expected that the necessary amount to meet the May building payments will be met. All pledges are to be paid by Sun day, May 6th. Heavily Loaded Truck Overturns, Injuring Three Accident Occurred On North Wash Inton Street Near Dudley's 1 Plumbing Shop. Three colored men, Cohn StroUd John Luther, and Benny Jones, all of Charlotte were Injured yester day afternoon when the truck In which they were riding overturned on North Washington street. Stroud Is In the Shelby hospital with a fractured bone, and Is suf fering from minor contusions and bruises. The other two were releas ed after receiving first aid treat ment. The truck, belonging to the Buck eye Oil Company of Charlotte, was heavily loaded with cotton seed. The driver, attempting to avoid a car coming out of Marietta street Jammed on his brakes. The front wheel brakes evidently locked, and the weight on the back hurled the truck over to the curb, where It turned turtle, throwfhg two of the negroes from the rear where they were riding. The truck was consid erably damaged. Lights Shine Inside Woman Men of arlenee all over the warM are intermted In the earn of Anna Morano, no-called “Lumlnoua Wom an” of Ptrato, Italy. For some rea eon aa yet anexplalnedl silver-toned light emlnatee from her body when ■he eleepe. Below la an arttafa eon eeptlon of the phenomenon. Time Is Extended On ’33 Tax Sales, McSwain States Laat General Aaaembly Set Up Date, County Attorney Says; Now Hare Until May 1. County Attorney Peyton McSwain, announced toaay that the sheriff will not on May 1 advertise the property on Which the 1933 county tax hue not been paid, but will wait until’ August 1 to make advertise ment, The atatement of Attorney Peyton McSwain la as follows: "The state law requires the sher iff of each county to advertise the first of May and sell the first of June all property on which the tax has not been paid for the previous year. Some few weeks ago I advised Sheriff Cline to make up the list of unpaid tax for 1933, and be ready to advertise same on the first Mon day In May. During the past week; I found that the laat general as sembly passed an act extending the time of advertisement from the first Monday In May to the first Monday In August for this year only. Therefore, I deem it necessary that this public statement be mads as to why the time of advertise ment is being extended to the first of August, 1934.” Mrs. David Boyle* Found Dead In Bed Had Bmo LI vine Alone, But Couple Wu WHh Her At Time Of Death. Mrs. David Boyle* was found dead In bed at her home In upper Cleve land on Wednesday morning, hav ing been stricken with paralysis during the night. Mrs. Boyle* was 09 years of age and had been liv ing at home alone, but on* the night of her death Mr. and Mrs. Crowder were spending the night there. Her husband and one child pre eded her to the grave. She Is surviv ed by one sister. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Fogle man, pastor of Hebron M. P. church on Thursday and a large crowd and beautiful floral offering paid a fit ting tribute to her. “Big Jim” Kramer Speaks On How To Be Born Again Or. James C. Kramer, known to thousand* as “Big Jim,” spoke on the subject “Ahe You from Mis souri” on Tuesday night. His ser mon synopsis follows In part: “What Is it to be saved, and to be born Again? Nicodemus said ‘How can a man be born again?' Everything is being torn up by tha roots. The world must be shown. That’s why we have show windows, to show off to the world. *T cannot tell you why Qod saves a person’s soul. My Ood does that very thing. I cannot tell you why cotton grows, but If It did not grow, the world would have to do with out clothing Every man will not haw th« same experience. God does nol nave every man In the tame way. God was in the still quiet voice. I be lieve that God saves in the twinkle oi an eye. Paul Took One Minute “When Jesus was born, wise men were there. It takes some ministers a long while to tell why a person should be saved, but it took the Apostle Paul one minute to tell why we should be saved. “Get right with Qod. When you are right with God, you are right with money and every relation of life. There is no finer way. "How can a man be born again? j (Osntsnued on pngr eignt.i I • ii;«n g Carolina Ba Greatly Improved, Eskridge Asserts Black Foracaats End Of Major Partiat rrMldfnt Of lltte ImnIMIh taps S Buntnm h Bettor Sat IN "Businos* are steadily result, bank depoalte am Forrest Rnkrtdgs, at dent of the North era association soclation opened Its convention at Ptnahorsl “It la a pleasure to banks of North OanMn moat excellent condl ttan." Proud Of “Kvery cltlaen Pi the slate should have a high degree at petds la the visible signs of a return pt pros perity. “There has bean a tendency on the part of some people ta ah Butt of business to or 1 tides the Moovary administration, the so**, and the vartous changes ntftit t He government, but enmethlag has caused this Improvement «ht our natural conclusion must ba that the 4 recovery movemsats SM the bash of this improvement, HmssCqto. II behooves us as budosss mtm and citizens to support the tsetnas plans IVM. IVWVWJI. Eskridge rewlntrt Mm MFC eta and temporary deposit insurance have "played an Important part In the improved banking condition*” and mild much has been aooompllsh ed through the new North Oaroltna Clearing House association "toward establishing sound and uniform banking practices throughout the state" ea contemplated by the eode •Meldal Policy He said that in his opinion a banker refusing to oooperat* in es tablishing rules of fair practice in competition follow* a "suicidal pol icy." Addressing the convention yes ter- A day, Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey forecast an and toattf party alignments and a century of poli tical rule in the United States by coalitions. "You will never aae another alignment of old partlss like you have seen,” he declared. "Regard less of the name It’s known by, there will be a hundred years of time which will see our political destiny held in a merged party. Thefe will be other partus, too, but they Will be parties of the extrema left. Own- - munists will be in them, and more Important in them than ever be fore. The groups of the extreme left will Include thoaa who believe in tearing down what we have and in inflating currency.” Both Speaker Rainer and Bugsnt R. Black, governor of. the Federal Reserve board, who alio addreoeed the bankers, viewed Mia futere with extreme optimism. All association officers have been advanced a step, Millard 7. Jones, cashier of the Planters National Bank * Trust Co. of Rocky lfesnt, succeeding to MM plaaa held kr Mr Eskridge. Hjgh School Pupil Wins Honors k National Contest Paul McOlniy’s Editorial Mid Fourth Boot Asa—g JMM IMoott Foul McGlnty, son of Air. ana Mrs. Luther McQinty, wad member of the senior class of the Shelby high school, recently von a distinct honor when his editorial, “War Possibilities in Europe," was judg ed fourth best in a national contest in which 30,000 pupils participated The oentest was one of the many sponsored annually by Scholastic magazine, a publication for student.* and teachers. Every member of the senior class of the local school en tered the contest as a requirement for history. SMOt Entrants Thirty thousand pupils from a, 500 schools sent in editorials, only three of which were ranked above McGHnty's by Scholastic-appointed judges. Mias Octavia Jeter is the teacher of the history class which entered the contest Last week, the same class took part in another contest sponsored by Scholastic. This was in the nature of a test on current topics. The questions dealt with important men in United States government, acts of congress, and other important current topics. Paul also made the best grade from Shelby high school In that. Those papers have been submitted to tbe contest commit tee. and word is expected them m the near future.
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