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I Tka ACllkszmd SEND the markets Cotton, spot.- m« to US, Cotton seed. ton. wagon.22.00 Cotton seed, *<»"• c»r,oU —* 24 00 Fair And Cooler mmthrr forecast for North Caro „ . Kair tonight and Saturday. “ f>(hat cooler In the north and „„,mc west portions tonight. Seek* Insull Bond j By UNITED PRESS CHICAGO, May II—Samuel In „ H ill be free under bond before thf md of ‘be day, it was predirt f<i br his son Samuel, jr., who is ‘uper'ising efforts, to raise the ne cessary collateral. Pay In Silver By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, May 11.—Diplo mat), of "»m* war-debtor nations minted today the payment oi silver a* the only means of avoid ing universal default. Payment! from 13 European nations are due In June. Default would mean the In® of Slit,000,000 to the United Stales. Demands Changes By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, May 11.—Sosth me* Behn, president of the Inter national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, today demanded amendments to the Rayburn Com munications Bill to permit consoli dation of Western Union and Post al Telegraph. The March Of Events Leas In Prison Protesting the ‘‘terrible wrong'1 that had been done him and his son. former United States Senator from Tennessee Luke Lea and his son, Luke. Jr., became Inmates of the North Carolina state prison yej terday, ending their three-year fight for freedom. A six-to-ten year sentence faces the father and the son gets from two to four years They are being punished for vio lation of state banking laws. The younger man had the alternative of paying a $25,000 fine, but said he was broke. New Re verniers A force of 3,300 detectives were turned loose yesterday by the gov ernment to enforce repeal liquor traffic, with Secretary of the Treasury' asserting “we mean busi ness, ’ The treasury department has created a new alcohol tax unit. Mob Disperses A detachment of cavalry with tear bombs dispersed a mob of about 1.000 unemployed demonstra tors in West Wichita, Kansas, yes terday. The crowd refused to scat ter until the cavalry charged. Insull Complains Samuel Insull, still unable to put up a $200,000 bond for freedom, charged yesterday that the U. S. government shanghaied him from !he Greek freighter Maiotis. Insult's attorney will yk what his status is -whether he was deported, extra dited. or Just kidnaped. Seek Kidnaper "'i'.ile the fullest force of !w, including department of justicec operators under Washington in structions. rushed last night into >farch for the kidnapers of Will v00r ’p °ettle, oil millionaire, his ;“ulv offered to pay any reason ab‘tf ransom for his return. But to a* is known, no ransom demand ,'a , n made by the abductors. aclers 01 the California search ", the kidnaping had all the signs of a big time” operation. Sign* Tax Bill ,.Indent Roosevelt signed int - yesterday a measure whici °'ts the Income taxes on larg ticomes but cuts little ones. It wii a” additional $417,000,000 to • d balancing the budget. Th stT,,„,aw creates a new Income ta: c„..!Urp- a Wishes consolidate ^ P- ate Income tax returns, boost mo'I "<lW& and surtaxes and re ^ ■ certain nuisance levies. I Publ'c CPnain income tax return Mother’* Day At Lutheran Church ^Mothers Day sermon will featu war Ph°C <?k servlce at the Lut] invi-. thurch this Sunday. Speci 8unir-ch Tended t0 fh001 children and Church lregl!larly attendlng a. proti vecial music will be a| sP‘,‘ t0 the day m ’ttda>, school promptly at 10 ’u"g People’s meeting at 6: irj, 0 ereiHng service on * n high school i«P«t ,WI rnmmpm j VOL. XU No. 57 SHELBY. N. a FRIDAY, MAY, 11. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. •J m«u. ««r n*>. (I* irnuti _ nsi Curtot. Mr mm. <ta Mraacr) _ ll.oo Candidates For (Congress Select |Their Managers House Opponents Pick Representatives Frank Hoyle la Manager For Bui winkle And Cicero Pattersen For Ham Jones. 'Hie two Democratic candidate* for congress in this, the tenth dis trict. were in Shelby this week look ing after their interests. Frank L. Hoyle is managing the campaign for Major A. L. Bulwlnkle and Cicero Patterson is managing for Hamilton C. Jones. Max Waah |bum is assistant manager for Cleve land of the Jones campaign. Mr. Jones makes frequent trips to Cleveland and has been spending much time over the tenth district since his announcement a few months ago. Major Bulwinkle of Gaston county has been greatly handicapped in making a personal tour of the district because congress is in session and his duties compel him to remain there. He slipped home for a few days this week and visited Shelby as well as a number of other more Important points In the district. He returns to Washing ton over the week-end and will hardly have time to do much cam paigning as congress will not ad journ until after the primary to be held June 2nd. Head Severed As : His Car Overturns Ben Bumgardner Lost An Eye And Horace Devenny His Head When ' Car Overturned. BOSTIC, R-l, May 9.—Horace ! Devinney, young married man of the Golden Valley section, was in stantly killed Sunday afternoon when his Ford roadster overturned near the home of Garrett Jones. Young Devenney’s head was sever ed from his body, and he died in stantly. Esell Bumgardner and Ben Bumgardner were in the car with Devinney when the accident occur red. Both were injured, Ben Bum gardner lost an eye which was knocked out when the car over turned. He was taken to the Ruth erford hospital, and as The Courier goes to press his condition remains serious. Horace Devinney was married about two months ago to Miss Mo zelle McNeely, daughter of Ambrose McNeely, of upper Cleveland coun ity. He was about twenty years of I age, and a son of J. Miller Devinney, prominent lumberman who resides near the Rutherford-Cleveland line, within a short distance of Mt. Mor iah church. Funeral services were held Wed nesday. The body was held awaiting the arrival of brothers from Florida and Virginia. He is survived by his parents, his widow and several brothers and sisters. Funeral serv ices and interment was at Mt. Mor iah Methodist church, on the Cleve land-Rutherford county line. It is said that the Devinney car left the road for some unaccountable reason and overturned, causing fat al injury to the driver and serious injury’ to his passengers. The wreck occurred near the county line. Sunday Services At Second Baptist Tire Rev. C. V. Martin, pastor of the Second Baptist church, an nounces the following services Sun day: At 9:45 o’clock, Bible school; at 11 o’clock, sermon by the pastor on the subject "Great Mothers”; 6:15, B. Y. P. U. meeting; 7:30, song service; 7:40, Baptismal service, and at 8:00 o'clock, sermon on the sub ject “Haaman.’’ The Rev. Mr. Martin announces that the church will send cars to bring any mother to church for this special service who would otherwise be unable to attend. He urges each member to attend. ! Oldest Veteran ' {Captain J. M. Walker, oldest Con {federate veteran of Cleveland ant {Rutherford counties, who enlisted li | the War eBtween the States befon I secession and before he was to ! years-old. He is now 94. — Veterans In Grey Meet Once Again i In Memorial Rites Six Survivors Of War Betweer States Meet For Annual V. D. C. Affair. i Only six4 veterans, the last ol . Cleveland county's men who hurlec ■ rebel yells of defiance against thi Yankee hordes In. the 1860’s, mei at the Baptist church yesterday foi the annual memorial services spon sored by the United Daughters o: the Confederacy. Last year then were seven, but the sparse grey 'ini is rapidly glowing thinner. { J. M. Walker took the cake foi ' the greatest number of years, 84. J | M. Morris was the youngster of thi j gathering, with only B7 milestone to his credit. Mr. Walker receive; i a year’s subscription to The Star a: ' a prize few being the oldest, j The list of veterans who we* present at the dinner, with the re spective dates of their births, rol j A. P. Conner. Nov 27. 1846 J. M. Morris, June 1. 1847; J. V .•"alls, Sept. 30, 1846, J. C. Elliott j July 12, 1845; Pink Glenn, July 14 j 1846; J. M. Walker, Feb. 11, 1840. ' Besides thf veterans, two wive6 Mrs. WaJker and Mrs. Glenn, ant • one widow, Mrs. Hill Beam, weri ! present. Also Dr. Zeno Wall, of thi ; First Baptist church, Rev. H. N ! McDiarmid, pastor of the firs i Presbyterian church and Dr. E. C j Cooper, pastor of the Lutherai J church, attended. Shelby High Finals Begin On Sunday Dr. E. C. Cooper To Preach Snodi] Night At First Baptist Church. Closes Next Week. _ | Commencement exercises for tht j Shelby high school begin Sundaj • night with a sermon at the Firsl i Baptist church by Dr. E. C. Cooper : pastor of the Lutheran church. The auditorium is expected to be fillec iwith visitors and in the congrega tion will be the 64 members of the graduating class dressed in cap anc •gown. Special music will be furnish led under the direction of Horace Easom. I Class day exercises will be helc j Tuesday, then on Thursday eveninj !Dr. Julian Miller, Charlotte editoi will deliver the literary address lr the high school auditorium. Grad uating exercises will be held or Friday of next week. Smith Proposes Bill To Prevent Forced Sales Of Cotton Loans WASHINGTON, May 10.—Senator i Smith, Democrat of South Carolina, i today introduced a bill to amend I the agricultural adjustment act so as to give Secretary Wallace au thority to borrow money upon all ] cotton in his possession or control | and allow him to deposit as collat- i eral for such loans the warehouse | receipts for the cotton. j Smith said his bill would enable j the secretary to take over cotton ( !on which 10-cent a pound loans have been made b; banks. Sc^ie ot .these banks, hr said, air sn need of noney and may be forced to *el his cotton without waiting for s ligher market. $100,040,000 Appropriation TTie bill wouid authorize an ap jropriation of $100,000,000 for “pro ecting title to any cotton whict nay have been or may be acquiree ly the secretary of agriculture” anc or paying expenses such as ware house charges, salaries and othei osts incident to marketing. The appropriation would l> mu dr Continued on page tcriji ' Crop Loan Office j Here To Be Closed After May Fifteen Farmers Have Only A Few Days Left N« Applications Will He Received After That Date. Some Now Heli For Waiver*. No application* for crop lot ns will be received at the Emergency Crop Loan office here after Tues day, May 18, J. T. Wagner, man ager, announced yesterday. The local office has been notified not to accept any applications aHer that date, and that no application for a loan will be honored by the Washington office showing poet mark later than midnight, May 15 Held On Waivers. I The office here is holding a *ew i applications that arc not complete, 1 Tenants making applications have failed to have their landlords sign waiver, and the landlords making applications have failed to have their tenant* sign. It Is the lntentloh of this office to help every farmer that is ?11 i gible to get sufficient funds for his crop production this year, Mr. Wag* ner said, but any one desiring to l secure funds through this office must get his applications in, and i have it completed by May IS. Limestone Choir To Sing Sunday College Choir Will Sing At Central Methodist Church. 43acred Concert. A program of sacred music will be rendered at Central Methodist church Sunday by the Limestone college choir of Gaffney, under the direction of Miss Katherine Pfohl of Winston-Salem. The program be gins ft 3:30 o'clock. A program of sacred song, lnciud I inf compositions by composers of the highest order, wiU be rendered. 1 The finely trained Methodist church choir, closely affiliated with the i Westminster choir school and that great body of singers known as Westminster Affiliated choirs, will have a part on the program under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Kalter. Music lovers will no doubt fill the church auditorium to capa , city to hear this program given by , some of the best singers of the Piedmont Carolinas. No admission , charge. I School Stars Shine At Kiwanis Club 1 Honor Winners Are Special Guests Of The Club At Weekly Luncheon. Honor winners of the county school system were special guests of the Kiwanis club at last night's weekly luncheon meeting, Forrest Eskridge chairman of the boys and girls committee having charge of ;the program. Miss Jo Shaw’s class in typewrit ; ing from the Shelby high school ;had won first place for speed and , accuracy in a state-wide contest and >a special demonstration was given, I lasting five minutes before the club. Miss Shaw is receiving congratula . tions upon the honor her class has brought to the school. Parttcipat- | ing in this contest were Esther Ann j ' Quinn, Margaret McNeely, Mary-1 'Ward Loy and Walter Panning. ; Loy Crowder of Polkville, vice president of the Tar Heel Farmers club represented President Grlgg; K#ys Gary of Fallston was there wearing the Hoey medal which he ,won In a recent contest, Paul Bull ington, president of the Shelby high senior class and scholarship win ner; 8ara Williams winner of the Selma C. Webb essay medal; Kath ,leen Hamrick of Boiling Springs I winner in readers contest. Paul Mc iGinty who won in a nation-wide i editorial writing contest was out of |town and unable to be present. . Says Carelessness Not i Cause Of Accidents i - ;• Addressing the Shelby Rotary club at noon today in the Interests of National Safety Week. C. B. Mc Brayer, well known attorney, de clared that statistics show that most accidents are not due to careless driving, or even to Intoxicated driv ing, but to mechanical defects In automobiles. He urged the Rotar ians to have their cars sone over immediately as their first step in h promotion of. this campaign t*> . save lives. 1 “Get-Together” Of Pulitzer Prize Winners ..... .k__ Four of this year's Pulltser prise winners, pictured at the alumni dinner of Colombia University School of Journalism. Left to rlfht, Robert Hillyer, professor at Radrllff College, 11.000 for heat volume of verso| Caroline MUier. Baxley, Go., $1,000 for novel, "Lamb In His Bosom"; Royce Brier, San Francisco Chronicle, $1,000 for best example of a reporter’s work, and Tyler Dennett, Princeton University professor, whose "John Hay” won him $1,000 prise for the best American biography. New History Book Called Inadequate Labor Treatment R. R. Lawrence, Labor President Wires Protest To Ehrlnghaue About Selection. R. R. Lawrence, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor who arrived here last night for conferences with Shelby labor lead ers, released a telegram he had sent Governor Ehrlnghaus protest ing adoption of a seventh grade history book by the board of edu cation which, he says, does not pre sent an adequate picture of the growth of organised labor. The book la "History for Young Americans" by Latine and La tine and was one of four submit tod U) the board by the textbook com mission. Mr. Lawrence declared that there is nothing unfair to la bor in the book, but that the treat ment Is inadequate. He would ap prove any at the other three books he said, which cost from four to eleven cents more. Asks Re-Consideration. "It should never be too late for you and the board of education to reconsider action that involves such a, large number of citizens of North Carolina,” he wired the Governor "Seventh and all other grade stu dents In our opinion should have the opportunity to learn the his tory of the American labor move ment as wel las the bloody butch ery of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.” He said last night that the La tine book not only gave a skimpy account of labor, but was Inferior In other respects to the other books submitted. He talked enthusiastically about the organization of the Labor Vot ers League, but said It had been organized too Ate thi6 year to be come a power in the coming elec tion. There are now 200,000 mem bers of the Union in the state, he declared. Shelby Hospital To Graduate Gass On Tuesday Night Commencement To Be Held At Methodist Church; Baccalaur eate Sermon at Presbyterian. The graduating class of the Shel by hospital ha* Issued Invitations to their commencement exercises to be held Tuesday eVenlng, May IS, at 8 o'clock at the Central Methodist church. The baccalaureate sermon will be at the Presbyterian church on Sun day, May 13th, 11 a. m. Members of the class being grad uated are: Miss Mary Elizabeth Jones of Wadesboro; Miss Margar et Louise Burnette, of Callison, 8 C.; Miss Ruth Virginia Bridges oi Lattimore; Miss Julia Lovenia Jones of Shelby; Miss Kate Gregory ol Kershaw, 8. C Miss Sarah Eliza beth Tyson of Ansonville; and Misi Emily Virginia Davis of Lucama. The principal speaker at thf graduating exercises on Tuesday evening will be Dr. John Hill Tuck er of Charlotte. BAPTISING SUNDAY AT MISSIONARY METHODIST Rev. H. C. Sisk, pastpr of the Missionary Methodist church will baptise at 2:30 Sunday afternoon in he fir.-: Bioacl river near the Oridgr '•n No iO highway west. Murder, Conspiracy, Theft Cases Up In Rutherfordtori 3 Charged With Plot I To Kill; F.F. Black To Face Tribunal (Special to Tlic Star) RUTHERFORDTON, May 10,— Three cases In which Cleveland county people are concerned will be tried In Rutherford county Su perior court, which opens Monday with Judge T. B. Finley of North Wilkesboro presiding. F. F. Black, of Forest City, charged with receiving typewriters said to have been stolen from the Shelby high school by boys of about high school age, will be tried in this term. The boys themselves will be tried In Cleveland county, their trial having been postponed so that Black might be tried first. It is aTTeged that the machines were tak en to him, that he sent the boys with them to his brother In Ashe ville, who in turn shipped them to another brother In Alabama. Murder Trial. Three negroes, now being held in jail in connection with the death of Ous McDowell, wealthy colored man well known In Cleveland coun ty, will be placed on trial. McDowell waa found shot to death and had been robbed. waiter mum ana isveiyn weasi, both of Shelby and Mrs. Joe Amos of Ruth, will face charges of con spiracy with Intent to kill and rob N. L. Walker recently. This case came up In the County Recorder's court here Tuesday of last week and was hard fought. The three de fendants were charged with forcing Mr. Walker out of a car, assault ing him and robbing him of $60 and leaving him alone at night. He re vived about 1 a. m. and went to a neighbor’s house and gave the alarm. Rabb was bound over to Su perior court under a $700 bond while the Weast girl was bound over under a $500 bond and Mrs. Amos under a $600 bond. The lat ter made bond while the two for mer are in jail here. Attorney C. O. Ridings appeared for the de fendants while Hamrick and Ham rick assisted in the prosecution. Mistion Methodist Class To Sell Cake The mother’s Sunday school class of the Missionary Methodist church In West Shelby will sell home made cakes Saturday from a stand next to Campbell’s department store, also at E. E. Sisk’s home on Gard ner street Saturday beginning at i o’clock. The cakes will sell for 25. 35 and 50 cents. Sliced cake will also be sold as well as sandwiches and lemonade. The funds will go for the benefit of the class room. Charlie Harmon Dies From Sudden Paralytic Stroke Prominent Parmer Succumb* To At tack Late Yesterday Afternoon At Hia Home. . Charlie Harmon, ace 04. promin ent farmer of the Stony Point Mo tion. died at hla home on Shelby route one late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Harmon was walking in his yard when he suffered • stroke of par alysis. Doctors were hurriedly sum moned, but all efforts proved un availing. Funeral services are Indefinite. The rites will be conducted at Beu lah church, of which Mr. Harmon was a faithful member. The time depends on the arrival of one son, Luther, from Nebraska. Seven Children Survive Mr. Harmon married Mary Jane Gamble on December 4,1895. To this union were born nine children, of n iuvu i/Hc iwiivnum ovtou 0 MTS. Fred M. Goode, Mrs. J. L. Wolfe, Mrs. 0. D. Henderson, Mrs. O. C. Sellers, Mrs. James Lackey and Frank Harmon, all of this county, and Luther H. Harmon of Nebraska. Three brothers, J. A. Harmon of this city, T. N. Harmon and M. L. Harmon of Kings Moun tain, and three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Crawford, Miss Ella Hannon, and Mrs. T. P. McGill, all of Kings Mountain also survive. Mr. Harmon was a prominent farmer and land owner of his sec tion. He waB well known and re si>ected among all his friends, and served for years as a' trustee of Beulah church. Richards Arrested For Knife Brawl Charged with assault with a dead ly Weapon, Ed Richards was arrest ed by county officers and placed in jail yesterday. He Is accused of stabbing his neighbor, Ernest El liott, in the shoulder during a dis pute over a boundary line. The two men are said *to have; fought because each accused the other of planting cotton over the line. Elliott, while painfully hurt, Is not believed to have received a ser- ‘ ious wound. Reynolds Demands Investigation \ Of Home Loan Corporation In N. C. WASHINGTON, May 10.—Declar ing that “it i» an outrage that the people of North Carolina, sorely pressed as they are, should have to put up with tire existing condi tions In the Home Loan corporation in the state,” Senator Robert R Reynolds today made another at tack on the management of the in stitution and threatened congres sional investigation. "The}’ are entitled to the relief j that has been granted them eonfres-''." hr ecntn.t id in a forme•, statement issued irotu hi- ofttri-, "and I Intend to see that they get it. Should a congressional Investi gation be necessary to find the cause of the present inefficiency, then I shall without hesitation asl for such an investigation. “For some weeks 1 have been re ceiving complaints. Many of these complaints have been in the nature of vigorous protests against the de lay In acting upon applications Others charge gross inefficient.'! and bad management In tire con dun a( Hie affairs ot tb< ccropr it'ontinuea uti page if'nj Shoffner Extols Com-HogProgram As Profit Maker Declares This Is Best Reduction Plan rsrinen WUI Be Paid SIS Far HmS On Basis Of im-U, Omt; Agent Tell* Andieaea. By far the most advantageous re duction plan yet offered to farmers, was explained by K. W. Shoffner, Cleveland county agent, at an en thusiastic meeting of fanners from four counties at the court house last night. The meeting was called for the purpose of explaining to the Hum era, the com and hog reduction plan offered by the government. Plan la Brief The plan in brief Is this: these who reduce their hags will be paid 4 |1S a head for a reduction of twen ty-five percent of the average pro duction of 1M3-SS, regardless of the age of the hog. oonM a corn acreage with the lion, will be paid SO el for a twenty from the earn if the farmer han't raised over 10 ama of corn • nHto pm* Ji|3> yean, ha can baalflt by the keg re duction. without taking the gam proposal. But ha oant reduce hta torn crop, unites ho slashes Mg hog production the raqulrad B much The proposition favorable from the standpoint of the grower, than either the cotton or tobacco contracts plan. For Instance, aa llr. Bhoffner en plane, if a fanner has been raising ao bogs each year during ltta and 1931, he will reduce this numbs* twenty-five percent, raising only 10 nogs. For ths five, he will be paid |1S apiece, the total amounting to 075. In past yean, farmers have been getting from $3 to IB for hogs eight weeks old, and Uiia will mean a clear profit of approximately 0Hp to MO. Hava Until May 11 Mr. Bhoffner warns that fame:", have only to the lSth of May t< make application for corn and hw reduction. He sayrth«fceWbr“-* glad to explain to anyone Who “will call at his office in the court house any ' particulars ef the plan that they do not completely understand Those growers who attended the meeting last night, expressed them selves as in favor of the plan, and Mr. Bhoffner feels confident that there will be a great numbtr of farmers who will want to tHw ad vantage of the opportunity. Local Hi^i School Typewriting Team Wins State Teat Shaw'S Miss Joeephine Shaw te Jugt been notified that bee team la eee ond year typewriting hM been awarded the loving cup for winning first place in the state contest, tide is the highest distinction that could come to the commercial class. The pupils whose papers were submitted were: Walter fanning,. Mary Ward Loy, Margaret Louis McNeely, and Sethef Anne Quinn. &tlss Shaw’s classes have taken high rank, since she has been eon nected with the local high school In 1932 her shorthand team war second in the state. The team was composed of Madge Putnam, Emma Ervin and Clara Lee MeSwatn. Honorable mention was given BUI Loy, Vernle Morrison and J. P Austell in typewriting. Other Winners In 1933 Esther Anne Quinn won first place and the gold medal for the highest Individual scon In first year typewriting. In a fifteen min ute test she made the very high uet rate of 52.4 words per minute, which ♦he came rating as etie of the winners of the second year contest _• graduates of the commercial department are highly regarded b' the business and professional men with whom many of them are work Ing. Girl Charges Man With Seduction Alleging seduction with promise of marriage, Miss Ida Bell Cook tes tified against Cline Owens Lee in recorder’s court this morning, and brought a procession of girl wit nesses along In an attempt to prove that Lee had promised to marry her. Judge Joe M. Wright reserved de cision in the case in order to find time to consult several points of law regarding sur-pertini end corrobora tive evidence
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