Reporter’s Holiday
Edit Moser, the furniture man, has the distinction, if dis
tinction it is. of being the only person in Shelby whose
n,om was ever searched for the Lindbergh baby.
Bob was in Atlantic City when the child was kidnaped—
R1.i unless you w^ere in New Jersey, New York or one of the
neighboring states at the time you’ll find it hard to compre
hend the amazing search that went on—and every room in
t verv hotel was thoroughly inspected. His was a hotel room,
on his way home, his car was stopped several times.
During that frantic week ' after
t!i, disappearance, it wasn't safe for
jnJ. person to appear in Pennsyl
• ;.» or Or?nd Central Stations
ranying a package or bundle that
| n remotely resembled a baby.
There was one pitiful family that
, ,d come to New York from Kan
1, City on their vacation. They
C;n.,Kht tlieir fair-haired, two-year*
ijaby boy along, and were start
:n, h0mc just when the Lindy baby
.,,, stolen. Going through the Hol
•1,'nd Tunnel they were stopped.
Tru v were held overnight until they
, nild prove it was their own child.
And reports trickled in of their atf
\futures for more than a month—
bffKiise of police vigilance, it took
t!v m that long to get home.
Lindbergh always Intimated that
he didn’t get the proper kind of co
operation in the search for his
,'iiild. but he probably never realiz
ed. in his aloof anguish, the trou
bles thousands of people went
through in an effort to help him.
\OV\ XIIE FISH STORY
By telephone, just as we reached
breathing speli, we get a story
that undoubtedly belongs on page
one. but Holiday reserves it for its
own scoop today.
j H. Lee, Shorty Roberts, and
t nn Stowe—if there were others,
let have your names—went frog
tigging in Kings Mountain lake Fri
day night, paddling about with a
shining lantern to attract the frogs.
They were surprised, but not too
much amazed, when a ten-inch bass
ierped into the boat and began to
flop on the floor. Some one caught
him and threw him into a bucket,
and they paddled on. Fish frequent
ly leap into lighted boats at night.
They'd gone but a few feet when
another fish leaped. A perfect bulls
eye—right into the same bucket!
WADS OF WIT. MAYBE
A smart young sprout of the town
says he knows how to save money
on haircuts: he washes his hair very
often to make it shrink .... Who
raws Shelby has lost its little-town
individuality? We saw two mules
running down the street yesterday,
and they were hitched to nothing
but their hoofs. Then, there was an
old hen clucking around on the
street, and this morning we saw a
contented animal being hauled past
the plant of the county enlightener
. . Maybe the next pair of socks
vou buy will have been made by the
local Byrum factory. You’d* be sur
prised at the scope of their busi
ness .... While wereTe in that sec
tion of the city: Chickasaw thread
is used in Ford upholstering, Curlee
rlnthps JpwpI nnH n
variety of other things, in case you
didn't know .... “Lefty” Fisher,
Cleveland Cloth mill hurler, is weav
ing in Greenvlle, S. C. now. Need
less to say, he playing baseball . . .
Wish Shelby would have a team
his year." That's an oft-repeated
sentence around town these base
ball days .... We’lll see ya at the
ole swinimin’ hole.
EXPOSED!
We have the number -of the
town's hello girls. Believe it or not,
but the local exchange handles be
tween ten and eleven thousand lo
ta! calls daily, to say nothing of
about 275 long distances. And be
bpve you me, the fifteen operators
must learn to be plenty nimble-fin
twed in order to handle all those
alls. Here’s Manager S. M. Gault’s
operators In case you didn’t know
"ho those pleasant inquiries belong
u to: Mrs, Ola Smith, chief op
rator; Mrs. Pearl Bowling, Mrs.
tHadys Dunton, Mrs. Edna Gold,
Hrs. Sarah Lucas,•• Mrs. Juanita
‘tinnick, Mrs. Lena Ware. The
nisses are: Dennis Byers, Mildred
'-abaniss, Emma Ervin, Ray Green,
‘■'hie Smith, and Jenny Lee Pack
’ d The lady who stays in the of
flce Mrs. F. H. Taylor.
Now you're told. So don’t‘get
"fought upi if you 'happen; to be
‘■ 'n a wrong number occasionally.
1 MAC.
r«iS \Nr> THAT
hlOl r TOWN
On- m Boiling Springs, B. S.
JH>n is making a success story
,l °ne reads about in The
a'?ncan Magazine. In a small way,
;f s'iartied making sandwiches for
•e !/ac‘e- His business has grown
-° 4 too sandwiches a day and his
•■otorncrs extend from Chimney
’■‘T11 t0 Union, S. C. The bank
a' Boiling Springs during the
«pr;*.vuon and today the Cleveland
nciwich company owns and oper
; *u the old bank building . . . .
(j“ s murder to describe a preacher
* criminal,” said Patrolman
a re a‘ he walked across the
ol ., ;i?lUl'essing his remarks to
*.-no Wall. A stranger in town
•lie 'd.10 S(’e Dr- Wall and asked
Patrolman for a description.
see more criminals than
tjc iers. that’s why It is more dif
b, M .t0 t!escribe one ..... Have
" iks costs advanced and If so
uhsch? Griffjn P. Smith says he
| has Just finished duplicating a resi
dence he built in 1925. The cost to
day was only $35 more than 19
years ago .... Coleman Doggett
knows every screw, belt, pulley and
machine at the Southern Cotton
Oil company's plant in Shelby. He
has been with this local plant for
'32 years and is now superintendent.
| Success crowns a man who sticks to
lone job that long .... Gary Smart
I teaches a class of red blooded
American boys in a local Sunday
school. On these spring-like days, a
genuine bc^y can't keep quiet for
long. They were a bit restless * in
i class and Gary called for order. "I
j guess 1 will have to tie you boys if
(you don't keep still," said he. At
i the next meeting one of the boys
obligingly brought a rope on class.
They had a laugh and the boys re
strained themselves without using
the rope .... The dogwood and
spirea look like they are covered
with snow. It’s worth your while to
drive around and see the flowers
which seem to outstrip their nor
mal abundance and beauty.
LEE.
ANYWAY, HE'S MARRIED
Husbands can't seem to remember
the date of their wedding anniver
sary, much to the distraction of
l their never-forgetting wives. But
when,one forgets after only three
months, that’s the limit. During
the Kramer revival, recently mar
ried couples were requested to stand
up in church, so that the couple
who was married last would re
ceive a Bible. J. L. Suttle, minus his
beter half, was one of those pres
ent. When it came his turn, Big
Jim thundered out "When were you
married, young man?" J. L., shaking
like a leaf in the spring breezes,
managed to utter "February the
twenty-ninth.” What, and only
twenty-eight days in that month?
The date was really January 19,
but he got the Bible anyway.
NOTES
Bob Kendrick believes in boost
ing his opponents. He has the po
litical card of T. H. Upton stuck in
the window of his new car, the one
which has b^en fooling moonshin
ers ... . Candidates galore were
parading up and down the Union
Hall at the meeting of the local la
bor group Saturday. Next Saturday,
each office-seeker will have an op
portunity of saying a few words to
the workers. What a show that will
be. —PETE.
State’s Finances
Called Excellent
By The Governor
Ehringhaus Sees Carolina In Posi
tion To Lead Nation's Parade
To Recovery.
ELIZABETHTOW.., April 29.—
"North Carolina is in an. excellent
financial condition, and is in a posi
tion to lead the states’ parade of
recovery,” declared Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus in an interview to
day.
Speaking informally after his in
spiring address before the Bladen
county celebration gathering, the
governor enthusiastically told of
some of the measures that have
helped to strengthen the state’s fi
nancial status at home and else
where.
“We in North Carolina are ready
to share in returning prosperity,” he
declared.
Asked about the sales tax and its
operations, the governor said that
although its revenue is not so large
as its sponsors hoped, nevertheless,
it is aiding the state to meet its
just obligations.
"The sales tax is no different
from other taxes in that it is not
yielding as large as return as we
should like,” he added.
There was no doubt about the
genuineness of the reception ten
dered the governor. He was fre
quently applauded. When he finish
ed long lines of Bladen citizens,
young and old pressed up to him to
shake hands. He called many by
their first names. He had a cheer^
smile for all.
State Senator George McNeill of
Fayetteville said: “Governor Eh
ringhaus is one of the most mis
understood men in the state. Few
realize what he is doing to help
North Carolina. After that asinine
legislature of 1933. of which I was
a member, failed to produce a rev
enue bill after so long a time, the
governor finally did the only thing
he could do, support the sales tax,
although he started his campaign in
opposition to it.”
The Royal Canadian Air Force
will get an increase of more than
$400,000 in tire coming fiscal year in
spite of a general reduction of the
Dominion’s budget.
Hgure in "Asia for Asiatics” Crisis
SfStstoHN
Slmoio
UCHIROYOKOYAMA Kok: HlftUtA jPIW' i . ..^i|Tn~
Principal figures in the new Far Eastern crisis, precipitated by Japan’s “Asia for Asiatics" policy an
Uchiro Yokoyama, Japanese Consul General at Geneva, who acted as his country’s spokesman in serving
formal notice on the world of a Japanese “Monroe Doctrine" in Asia: Sir John Simon, British Foreign Min
ister, who dispatched a note to Japan, reminding that country of Nine-Power Pact, which establishment of
a protectorate over China would violate; Quo Tai-Chi, Chinese Minister to London, who bluntly accused
Japan of attempting to gain domination of the entire Pacific area; Koki Hi rota, Japanese Foreign Minister,
who declares that Japan’s only aim is to preserve peace in Eastern Asia, and Hiroshi Saito, Japanese Am
bassador to Washington, who says his country will honor all pacts and hints that cause of “hands-off"
policy is result of sale of American bombing planes to China.
Small Cotton Farmers
Will Be Allotted A
Poundage 0 f Lint
COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
April 30.—North Carolina cotton
growers having small acreages run
ning one, two, three, four and five
acres each will be alloted a certain
number of pounds of lint to sell
and this amount will be based on
past production per acre, said
Charles A. Sheffield in charge of
the cotton adjustment campaign in
this state.
“We are having numerous re
quests at this time, particularly
from those who grow small acreages
wanting to know how much cottoti
they can plant: The only answer we
can make is that they will have
only a certain amount to sell, ta>
free, this fall," Sheffield said. "Thii
amount wll be determined by the
production of past years. For In
stance if a man has been growing
10 acres in the past and has signed
a contract to reduce 40 per cent
thus means he can plant six acres
But if his production has averaged
150 pounds of lint cotton per acr<
during the base period, he can sell
only 900 pounds of lint which is ai
the rate of 150 pounds for the tota
six acres. If the grower sq desire*
he might try to produce this 90<
pounds on a less acreage but woulc
get renta lpayments only for th<
four acres rented to the secretary oi
agriculture.”
Sheffield said allotments to small
growers or to those who could not
establish a base production and
wanted to sign, would be as liberal
as possible under each county al
lotment. North Carolina has beer
given 607,840 bales of cotton as its
allotment under the Bankhead bill
Ninety percent of this will go tc
contract signers and others whe
can establish a base. The contract
signers will get rental and benefit
payments in addition while othen
will not. The remaining 10 percent
will be used to provide allotments
for those hurt by drought, insect
damage and other causes during th<
years of the base period and foi
those who have reduced so in past
years that they could not sign con
tracts.
Grover Students
To Be Graduated
On Monday Night
Rev. MrDtarmld To Preach Sermon
On Sunday: D. Z. Newton Will
Speak On Monday.
The Rev. H. N. McDlarmid, pas
tor of the Shelby Preabyterlan
church, will deliver the commence
rtftnt aermon for the Grover high
school graduating class at a o'clock
Sunday evening at the Shi
loh Presbyterian church. The Rev
Rush Padgett will make the Invoca
tion.
Graduating exercises will be held
on Monday evening .with an ad
dress by D. Z. Newton, who will be
Introduced by J. H. Grlgg. superin
tendent of schools. The invocation
will be by Dr. Joseph T. Dendy
Elotse Bookout Is salutatorlan and
Sara Faye Moss la valedictorian.
Rush Padgett, Jr., will read a paper
on history, and awards and diplo
mas will be delivered by B. F. Bird.
Members of the graduating class
are Rush Padgett, Jr., Elotse Book
out, Ethel Elliott, Sara Faye Moss,
Ruby Watteraon and Alton Wells.
First Lady Can't
Attend N. C. Meet
WASHINGTON, April 28.-Mrs.
Roosevelt, wife of the president, will
not be able to attend the state
meeting of the North Carolina Au
tomobile club, at Charlotte next
week, she Informed Senator Rob
ert R. Reynolds Friday. The first
lady expressed extreme regret that
she would not be able to accept,
saying that she had appointments
for more than a month ahead, and
that she would not be able to go to
Charlotte.
Grigg Will Speak
At Rutherfordton
Rutherfordton, April 27—J. II
Grigg, of Shelby, Superintendent
of the Cleveland county schools iwll
deliver the literary address at the
commencement exercise of the
Mount Vernon High school Friday
night. The play Saturday night will
close the exercise.
Superintendent Clyde A. Erwin
will deliver the literary address at
the closing exercises of Harris High
school Friday night.
Silver Shirt Probe
Set For Asheville
House Nasi Investigating Oommlt
tff Vote* to Dig Into North
Carolina Group.
WASftTNOTON, April 28 A spe
cial house Investigating committee
will (to bo Asheville. N. C„ at a date
yet to be aet to Inquire Into so-cell
ed propaganda of the Silver Shirts
lesion of America, Tnc.
The Nasi Investigating committee
whlth plans to open hearings soon
Into all anti-American propaganda
activities, decided at a closed ses
sion yesterday to make the trip to
Asheville. Other cities are to be
visited but no dates were decided
upon.
It was Indicated by Chairman Me
Cormack, Democrat of Massachu
setts, that the Investigations prob
ably would not be started until
early June, after congress adjourns.
A special counsel to conduct the In
ulries will be selected by a sub
committee named yesterday.
The Silver Shirts organisation
yesterday was refused permission to
operate In Pennsylvania after a
■perpetual protest against the
group had been filed by the Penn
sylvania department, American le
gion, the Pennsylvania Federation
of Labor, several Jewish orsanlea
tiona and the Civil Liberties uni m
The formal protests were filed at
the capital at. Harrisburg.
Richard J. Beamish, secretary of
state, recently received a telegram
asking tht the Silver Shirts appli
cation Tor operation be withdraw^
but a short time later a letter from
Asheville asked that the applica
tion be approved.
John Temple Graves
To Speak On Safety
Raleigh, April 30. —John Temple
Craves, II, of the Birmingham Age
Herald, noted son of a noted fath
er, will be the principal speaker at
the opening general session of the
fifth annual State-wide Industrial
Safety Conference, to be held at
Asheville May 17-18, under auspices
of the N. C. Industrial Commission
Commissioner T. A. Wilson will
preside at this opening session
starting at 10 o'clock Thursday, at
which Mr. Craves will speak. Thr
conference Is under the direction ol
E. O. Padgett, director of safety for
the commission which administer
the N. C. Workmen’s Compensation
Law. A second general session will
be held on the second morning, at
which Commissioner J. Dewey Dor
sett will preside.
Kramer Defines
Unpardonable Sin
Kvangellst Says Unforgivable Sin la
Whfn Man I .ones Capacity
To Receive C«d.
Addressing a oongregatton of 1700
at the Baptist revival Wednesday
night. "Big Jim" Kramer gave hla
definition of the “Unpardonable
Bln." «
He spoke earnestly about the sin*
which affect not only the sinner's
own life, but the lives of others
In that respect, he said, every «!»
is unpardonable and unforglvabl*
"Tlie unpardonable sin,” he declar
ed, “la the complete destruction of
man’s capacity for God. When man
lias no hunger or thirst. after righ
teousness, when there Is nothing to
appeal to. nothing to apeak to. theh
he has committed the unpardonable
sin.
On Thursday night.. Or. Kramar
spoke on'“Are You For Uncle
Sam?"
"We are not the men and women
our forefathers were,” he declared.
"America today stands at the crose
roads. If you arc for Uncle Sam,
the safety of the lost la bound up In
*»«v Uigiivo* uv>vi> IJI'I ia w*r
people and the final and last re*
sort of this country la the people.
The new order of the Kingdom
and humanity is togetherness. TV*
not the priest or the preacher. It'*
the people.
"This la a day of love, and prejae
dice must go. If you are for Uaelf
Ham you nre not only going to
stand for the supremacy of tbs
people, but. for the supremacy Of
law and order.”
The three greatest mistakes tbs
country ever made, he said, were
when the South refused to let Lin
coln buy the slaves, when the
North turned the negro loose with
out any moral education and when
we let In too many foreigners They
are crowding us to the wall," he
said. “Unless we Americanise and
Christianise these people, we are
doomed "
Policemen Rebel
At Facing Skunk
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Apr.
A call to police headquarters here
from a family In the residential
section of the city reported e skunk
In the back yard. The sergeant who
received the call asked for volun
teers to go to the aid of the tap
ped family, but men who have prov
m their bravery in the face of gun
men's bullets would not face tbr
little polecat.
OKUrldn. Hit. ft. J. fttrnouu TMmmo
I «J need healthy nerves,
I TOO, MR. CECIL SMITH, WITH
* A THRIVING FAMILY TO LOOK OUT FOR"
Robert E. Butterfield, Jr., who hat
two thriving youngsters, says:
father** job give* a fellow plenty of experience
with nerve (train, too! Providing for the children
keep* you keyed up to concert pitch. Then—coming
home from work, with Dick insisting on movies—
Bob’s eternal Up dancing—that’s the zero hour for
a father’s nerves! Although I smoke all I want,
jangled nerves have passed me by. That’s because I
smoke Camels. Camels have the fine flavor of the
choicest, most expensive tobaccos. And I find they
upset my nerves. ’ ’
Ceeil Smith, who rose to ths top of tho polo
■Id this year with ■ tan-goal rating, tsyt:
-non polo players, myself included, smoke a
great deal. And most polo players, myself included
again, prefer to smoke Camels. They are milder,
like their flavor and they never upset my ncr
How Are YOUR Nerves?
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work, roar r.crea.ij,’ your .l/.p ‘ T°Ur
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oanrw, befia to aaoka Carnal,.
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1 popular brand.
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■iflhted with Camel,' flavor...tbe
maot...well-beiufl...a,,d poke m
find in Camel,.
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