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CUMWW VOL. XU No. 62 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hit Mail tier r»»t. on itlvuneii _ u M ('arrlar Mr r—t. <M> kdvanm) _ |)H I the markets K,(h>n. spot -to 12Ki (niton seed, ton, wagon - 23.00 (otton «eed, ton. cariots-25.00 Fair Tomorrow Weather report for North Caro 1,,,,, Generally fair Wednesday and Thursday. Barrow Killed By UNITED PRESS 5MI.ES. Louisiana, May 23.—The ,rin>e career of the notorious Clyde ,(J,ri>w and Bonnie Parker, his rig ar.smoking consort, southwest ter Kirists and bank robbers, ended here today in a Sun battle with federal ,ml stale authorities as thoj- rode jn(p a trap set by officers and died ,, fusillade of gunfire. Appoints Justice By UNITED PRESS n t LEIGH, May 23.—Governor Eh rnuhau.s today appointed Superior ludse Michael Schcnek of Hcnder m nville to the associate justiceship of I hr supreme court, succeeding ihr late Justice Adams. The gov ernor first offered the place to Major 1,. V. McLendon of Greens h"ro. formerly the governor's eam p.,ign manager, who declined. | The March Of Events Predict Inflation A bill to authorize a silver pur , : . ( pregram that would form the i-i-r lor issuance of more money backed by silver trailed a presiden !wi message to the congress yes ry...\ and seems to have good .rwperts of passage. The bill con s almost inflationary powers, ...ui might mean the issuance of more than two billion dollars of new Currency. Killed In Strike Or. man was killed and blood uicd the market area of Minne : poll" yesterday as 5.000 persons noted in the truck drivers' strike before they learned that a truce had been called by their leaders. Gover : .or Olson and law enforcement of i.ee'rs conferred on ways to meet ihe situation, but. C. Arthur Lyman, r president of the American Ball Co lay dead, victim of the mob. Act On Wage* Wage differentials for the South we demanded yesterday by the Southern States Industrial council, "imposed of manufacturers of 13 stales, who declared that unless the m\ eminent respected these differ enri-i’■ . It. "would bring pressure to bmr on the industries wrongly and ■adversely affected toward wage re fit;. ions and successful resistance to the code program.-’ Resolutions etc*, that neither the president nor congress had authority to abolish differentials which existed before the depression. Hits At Monopoly Senator Nve. North Dakota Re publican, charged yesterday that , NRA fostered monopolies, and Rep resentative Britten, Illinois Repub lican, moved to start an investiga tion At the same time came a statement from the president of *b» United States chamber of com merce declaring that, although in dustrv had been greatly benefitted *>V NRA. he feared too much regi mentation by the government. Arms Embargo Hate leaders last night planned 10 take quick action on the resolu tion bv which President Roosevelt hopes to stop wars in South Amer ica -by cutting off their supply of arms and ammunition. The resolu n°n empowers the president to prohibit sales, and will be brought [ UP t°r action today. Praised For Hop i .'Oeorui Pond and Cesare Sabelli j brought their Rome-bound mono plane to Dublin yesterday, and ex pert to take off tomorrow for the Efrrnl City. They had a scare on off, when their plane bare nus.j'd fence. Cummings Speaks Here Thursday *n nriore s. Cummings of HiCk l'1 -cheduled to speak at the |c'uu i‘Hise in Shelby on Thursday I ‘fitmc May 24th in the interest I* ,!!l candidacy for solicitor in I n" Uij-trict. Mr, Cummings is op ^Purgeon Spurling, the 111 P®1*™ of UnQir_ jEunoral 1, Held l ir Ashley Child Henry Ashley, eight months °‘ Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ash his home Saturday. Fu |B ' : vices vvere conducted at the l Darn ciiurch Sunday. OtrUviog I'M Dorothy are the parents and Bonnie. Frankip. Rubie Darrow Aide Charles Edward Russell, who aldci | Clarence Harrow in drafting repor of the NR A review board which call the Recovery Act the tool of grea trusts. Russell, one of the nation' foremost Socialists, once was So cialist candidate for Governor o New Vork and mayor of New Yort 3 Relief Projects Being Continued Under U,S. Granl raintine County Home. Ruildin Gym And Completing Ball Park. Three more relief projects, con tarnations of CWA work, have bee approved for Cleveland county b Raleigh authorities, and men wer set to work this week. They are the county home pain job, the Casar gymnasium and th | Kings Mountain ball park. From 1 to 12 men will be employed on eacf About 25 •men have been at wor for two weeks on the grandstand a the Cleveland county fairgrounds. The sanitation- project, considpre one Of the most imperative in th county, has been halted beeaus semi-skilled labor is lacking on th relief rolls. The only workme available now are common labor ers, incapable of the carpenter wor necessary to construct the careful ly designed little houses. Copper Reunion To Be Held At Buffalo The annual Hopper reunion wi be field with the congregation c Buffalo church just over the stat line in Cherokee county on Safin day before the fourth Sunday i r/ay. All friends and relatives ar cordially invited to attend. Kev. P. Parks, pastor of the Elizabcl church will deliver the memorn address at 11 o'clock. Dinner wi be served in picnic style at noon Baptist Ministers Back From Assembl; Dr. Zeno Wall and Horace Easor of the First Baptist church and th Rev. C. V. Martin of the Secon Baptist church of Shelby returne today after a 10 days stay in Foi Worth, Texas, where they attende the annual Southern BapList cor vention. The convention will be hel next year in Memphis, Tennessee. Boiling Springs Has Finals Between Rain: Between sudden gusts oi show ers, class day exercise- were hel at Boiling Springs Junior colleg yesterday morning, and 30 senioi received their diplomas from J. f Carpenter of Gastonia, who mad the principal address. Emergency Crop Loan Offices To Remain Open Until June 31 Loan operations* in the emer gency branch of the Farm Credit Administration will be extended un til the first of June instead of end ing May 45, as was previously plan ned. it was announced yesterday from the office of P A. Wallenbom, field supervisor In charge of the emergency loans In this territory. The manager of the Cleveland county office could not be reaci led today for further information about local loans. ' Most of the loan applications are j already in since the planting sea son is so far advanced. John Spano. assistant to Mr. Wallenborn. said yesterday, but some few late ap plications are still to be served and | these will receive attention troni the office. The emergency loans this year'are not for so large amounts, nor are they so great in number as last year, it is said, this tending to show that farmers in this section of the state, ftt least, are in better shape finally than formerly. The greater part of the work to be done in the next 15 days will be on loan applications rejected by the Production Credit association, it was pointed out. Farmers unable to meet the requirements of the Pro duction Credit association may ap ply to the emergency loan office for consideration, aiid it is these applications that are expected to require the attention of Mr Wallen born s office. I Open Bids Today jOn Three School Building Projects Education Board Will Award Contracts Receive Estimates On Dover Mill. Negro School And Arcade For Shclbv High. Members of the Cleveland county board of education were at the court house this morning to receive con tractors' bids on the three school projects by federal grants. These bids will be examined by the board, along with the county commission ers and architect George N, Rhodes, of Charlotte, and contracts will be | awarded Saturday. ! The Dover Mill school, an addi ; tion to the Shelby negro school and I i an arcade for the high school an ;j nex will be constructed with funds . | made available by long-delayed fed : ! era! grants. si Grant I’ays‘One-Third The Dover Mill school, to cost ap f proximately $20,000 will be (inane . ed by a one-third payment lrqm the government, one-half by the mill and the remainder by the county. The building will have seven class rooms and an auditorium, steam heating, and modern equipment. The addition to the negro school will cost approximately $11,000 one third of which is again paid by the government, the remainder by the ' city. This will consist of six class rooms, steam heated. ; The covered passageway between the high school and its annex will come to approximately $3,000, one third of which is to be paid by the ■ government. , Work will begin on these bulltl • ings as soon as possible after the , contracts are let. ; i Mrs. Wade Bostic Passes In China 1 Shelby Missionary In China Coses : His Wife Who Was Native Of Raleigh. j i > I l r i i Mrs. J. D. Eskridge and Miss Bertha Bostick have just received word of the death of Mrs. Wade Bostick on April 19th, at Killing, China. Mr. and Mrs. Bostick re turned to China four years ago, aft a year's furlough in America; and a few months later Mrs. Bostick contracted influenza which left her in such a weakened condition that she has been confined to her bed the greater part of the time since. Mrs. Bostick, before nuirriage. was Flora Holloway of Raleifn; and besides her husband and her mother and several sisters, she leaves two children: Wade H. Bostick of Dur ham and Mrs. A. J. Moncrtef, jr„ of Tampa, Fla. She has been an ear nest and untiring worker for over thirty years in the Pochow Mission field of China and will be intense ly missed in the work. rjA. A. Powell Open* i Law Office Here i i t 1 Native Of County Returns From Carolecn Where He Has Been Teaching. A. A. Powell, native of Cleveland 1 county, lias opened law offices in ithe Webb building here. Mr. Pow ell recently moved here from Caro leen, where he has been teaching -hool for the past 12 years. • Mr. Powell was graduated from Wake Forest in 1930, and studied in - the graduate school of the Univer i sity of North Carolina. He passed the North Carolina Bar examina ■ tion in August, 1933. Mr. Powell, with his family, lias ? j taken an apartment with R. E. Car Ipenter on South LaFayette street. Runs For House There ought to be more women in congress, thinks Miss Melinda Alex ander, New York society girl, so she's going to se if she can’t make just one more. Miss Alexander hopes to win' the right to represent her “Silk Stocking” district in the na tional capital. Bulwinkle, Jones Report Campaign Expense Accounts i Secretary Of State Figures Show Jones Has Spent $1,736, Bul winkle $287. Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte, candidate for congress in the tenth district, tops all other candidates in campaign expenses, according to preliminary reports issued by Sec retary of State Stacy W. Wade this morning. Mr. Jones has spent $1,736.62 as against $287.50 by his opponent. Maj i or A. L. Bulwinxie, wno now rep resents the tenth in congress. Six teen congressional candidates have filed their expense accounts with the secretary of state. Bulwinkle On Tour The large difference between Bul winkle’s fund and Jones’ is partly explained by the fact that Bul winkle has hardly conducted any campaign at all, having been in Washington mast of the time. On the eve of the election, however, he is making a whirlwind tour of the district. He arrived in Gastonia, his home tow'n, yesterday, and announced that he would spend the remainder of the time between now and June 2 traveling over the district. Major Bulwinkle opened his present campaign with an address in West Gastonia this evening to a goodly audience. He will spend today in Cleveland county, and will probably go to Catawba on Thurs day. He also plans to revisit all of the mountain counties of the dis trict before the primary. Annual College Play At Boiling Springs Miss Mary Sue Holland Plays Lead ing Role In “The Charming: Pretender.” The annual college play, a joint production oi the two literary so cieties, was presented in the college auditorium last Monday night. The production was "The Charming Pretender,” a comedy romance built around the pretenses of a middle class beauty contest winner who showed her aristocratic rela tives the true meaning of happiness. Tire job erf pretending was han dled by Mary Sue Holland who act ed the role of Sue Alexander. Miss Holland's performance was excep tionally good and she was roundly applauded on several Instances. Fel ix Hamrick, acting the part of Andy Carmichel. was the lucky hero who won the pretender. After she had cleared herself of the usual number of suspicious coincidences. Others taking part in the play were Lallage Sperling. Bill Harrill, Broughton Ramsey. Elmo Scoggins and James Hamrick. The entire cast did creditable work. Curtis Moser Joins Staff At Sterchi’s Curtis Moser oi Shelby has been appointed assistant manager in charge of the wall paper, paint and tire department at Sterchi’s store. D. D Pou is manager of tjie depart ment. i Alcohol, Wars And Bad Movies, Worst Evils Says Judge Judge Webb Speak* At Y. M. C. A. Meet ■>avs There Is A Conspiracy To Teach Youth, Irreverence And Disrespect. Decries War. • Alcohol, bad moving pictures and Aar are the three principal scourges )f American civilisation," Judge E. Yates Webb, of Shelby. presiding |urist of the Western North Caro lina district of llie United States xnirt, told leaders and workers at the Y. M. C. A. membership drive dinner Monday night In A she vile. Judge Webb's opinions on liquor are well known, he having been an ardent prohibitionist for years, but It was the first time an Asheville Biidlence had heard his opinion on products of the moving picture In dustry. Liquor, Judge Webb has al ways listed as the leading acourge of the land, with war a close second, Sees Conspiracy "I have seen more moving pic tures than most men have the past three and one-half years,” Judge Webb said. “I have been interested In keeping up with the trend of thtf great and powerful industry and It seems to me that there is a consplr* acy somewhere to teach the youth of the land irreverence for the sanctity of the home, disrespect foi religion and preachers and a dis regard for the holy state of matri mony. t ‘With the possible exception ol a motion picture about youth call ed “Sklppy,” and another for youth, called ‘Three Little Pigs,’ I have not seen a picture In all this time that did not have some pleasant drink ing scene and lines that show a breaking down of moral fibre. Not one time have I heard in one of these powerful moulders of public opinion a single word of praise for the Y. M. a A. or any of the Ideas and Ideals we are working for here and now." Cotton Pact O.K. Expected Word from Raleigh on Cleveland county’s 3,000 revised cotton con tracts is expected today, County Agent R. W. Shoffner said as he prepared to leave for the county agents’ conference at Catalooche In the Smokies. These contracts, which were sent back by federal authorities foi changes after the first reductions In acreage were made, were revised by county cotton growers in con sultation with the reduction com mittee, and are believed to be sat isfactory now, Mr. Shoffner will be away for thf remainder of the week. Plan Joint Meet Of Postal Workers Cleveland And Rutherford Official To Meet At Potkvllle On May 30. A joint meeting of the Clevclan*: and Rutherford county servici councils of the post office depart ment will be held in the hlgt school building at Polkville Wed nesday, May 30, according to ai announcement made today by J. H QUinn, Shelby postmaster. Th< program will open at 9:30 o’clocl with separate meetings of post masters and rural carriers, to lx followed with assembly at L o’clock in the auditorium for t joint meeting. The opening song •'America’’ wil be followed with the Invocation b’ Rev. R. S. Troxler, Prof. E. L. Dill ingham will give the address o welcome, with the response by J. H Quinn, postmaster of Shelby, Mu sic, election of officers and reading will be followed by an address U; Professor Charles C. Erwin, prirt cipal of the Forest City high school The councils will adjourn fa lunch at 12:30 and will reassembli at 1:30 for the afternoon session. All postal employees of Ruthei ford and Cleveland counties are cx pected to attend and to carry wel filled baskets, which will be sprea< on the ground picnic style. Shelby B. And L. To Hold Annual Meel The annual meeting of the share holders of the Shelby Building anc Loan Association will be held in th< office of the association on Wesi Warren street on Thursday after noon at 4 o’clock. J. Prank Robert.1 Is secretary of this association, the oldest of its kind in the city. Just Plain Laziness Cause Of Most Crime, Says Webb Judge Who Sentenced Touhy Gangsters Quotes Paul Banghart . ... Costner . Con ■ners , . . Schmidt . . . machine gun ners, gangsters, mall robbers, bark ed by the dark and swift resources of the Touhy gang . . , twenty-five years, thirty years in the pen—all of them. The man whose heavy gavel smashed their career of crime sat last night on the front porch of his South Washington street, home en joying the solace of a fragrant aft er-dinner cigar, more disposed to .speak quietly about travels In Italy, or to spin the story of the senator who fell 1 tithe creek, than to dis cuss rackets and criminals, or the outburst of General Smedley But ler. Federal Judge Edwin Yales Webb adjourned court in Asheville yester day, where he sentenced Banghart and Schmidt, and Is home today to be with his family on his birthday. ! Trim and slim and erect, he’s as fresh looking as the day President Wilson took hltn out of congress In 1918 to place him on the Federal bench. "If I had my way,” he mused. ' “I’d put signs over every school muse, over every court house, over very public buttdtriK. I’d put It In >ig letters: 'Clime Doesn't Pay’. "The answer to today's problem? Well no, I hardly think General lutler was serious In the Charlotte ipeech. The cure for Communism nd gangsters is in the churches, in (Continued on page nine.) Escaped Convict Admits Part In Newton Shooting 27-Year-Old Will King Snared In Mountain Hideout, Says He Was On Way To Rob Bank, But Did Not Shoot NEWTON, May 22.—A 27-year-old escaped convict, caught in his mountain hideout, Monday admitted he was one of a trio of bandits who shot and wounded two officers here, but refused to "squeal” on his companions. The bandit, Will King, was put in | the county Jail here after he wasj captured by deputies early yester day in a raid on a shack near Er-, win, Tenn. Six or eight other men escaped from the shack during an exchange of fire. After searching the rought mountain country for other mem bers of the band, officers brought King here to a hospital where Dep uty Sheriff Ray Pitts and Night Patrolman Arthur Hoffman, victims of the gun battle here, arc recover ing from bullet wounds. "Yes, I was on the front seat of the car with the driver,” King was quoted as saying, after both offi cers had identified him. "But I I didn’t do the shooting.” I Pressed by his inquisitors. the escaped convict refused to say who his companions were, or who fired the shots that wounded the offi cers when they attempted to search the automobile. “Were you fellows hired to come Into Newton and shoot the officers ! because they had been active in I capturing rum runners?” King was !asked. “No, we didn't know anything about rum-running trouble here. We * were just preparing for another Job like the last,” officers quoted the escaped convict as replying. The “Job” to which King refer red to, officers said, was a robbery the trio possibly had in mind here King, who escaped from Sanator ium, N. C., where he had been taken by prison authorities to be treated 1 for tuberculosis, 'was under a sen tence of from 20 to 30 years for a bank robbery at Biscoe. He was sen tenced In 1932. Authorities, asserting they be lieved they had" "a good chance" of 1 rounding up the other members of the band, said they would hold King here for a preliminary hear 1 ing before turning him over to state’s prison. Newtons, Hoeys Vie Tomorrow In Bible Class Baseball Game , Forget business worries, drop your dignity, roll up your shirt sleeves ■ and saunter over to the city ball park tomorrow afternoon for the 1 biggest entertainment Shelby has 1 seen in months. The occasion Is the highly touted, much discussed and expectantly awaited baseball game between the J. C. Newton Bible class of the First Baptist church and I; the Clyde R Hocy class of the j Methodist church. Rival pitchers, bench-warmers, jand water boys are all stirred up over the conflict, and il game pro duces as much fun, sparkle and i j color as indications imply, then the j grandstand and the side-lines will J be packed and jammed with spec tators. ' % The Newtons challenged the Hoeys ,o the conflict, and were astonish* jd at the alacrity with which the taunt was accepted. Both teams are taking the game seriously, but t will be anything but a solemn affair to the fans. The rosters of the two teams are too long to publish since they con ;ain names of approximately every well-known business man in Shelby Both managers, Casey Morris and riieos Hopper, urge every member >f the classes to turn out for the Conflict, and say that all will be [iven an opportunity to demonstrate heir ability. There will be no admission charge md an-open-house invitation is ex ended to every pet sou r a Shelby. Negro *s Legacy Goes To Head Take a 21-year-old colored boy, $2,000 In cash, a sport* roadster with radio, five or six bottles of re peal beer, mix thoroughly, garnish with hi-de-hl-de-ho and a head ache and serve hot In recorder’s court the next mprnlng. That's a chocolate colored recipe that couldn't fall. It didn't in the case of Willie Strickland, who had everything, Including the headache. Willie Is a Shelby negro who In herited the $2,000 from his father, who was killed In a coal mine crash In West Virginia some time agq. First thing he did was go down to Rogers Motor company and buy a Ford V-8, with accessories and radio. Then he went to the leading haberdashery stores and MU him self colorfully streamlined. Then he went hl-de-hl-hoetng, hitherlng and yonning, and gulping repeal beer. Saturday night, officers found him in his car down by the Southern depot, sound asleep. Wasn't bother ing anybody. Just tanked to his chinquapin eyes with hops. He’d run down the battery of his car tooring the radio. They brought him into recorder’s court and held him under $25 bond. Lattimore Quartet To Give Broadcast The male quartet of Lattimore high school will give a 30 minute program from radio station W8PA at Spartanburg Sunday afternoon at five o'clock. The quurtet is com posed of Max Padgett, Grady Davis, Clyde Gardner and William Har rlll. They will be accompanied at the piano by Miss Selma Davis. Cottons Industries Authorized To Cut Output One-fourth NR A O. K.’s Cutting For 12 Week. Ift'gin* June 4. With Proviso That No Nhtildowit* Be Culled For Period of Week Or More. (Special to The Star.t WASHINGTON, May 39—The cotton textile Industry today was authorised by NRA to curtail pro duction 25 per cent for 19 weeks, beginning June 4 on condition thm (he reduction be made without shutdowns of a week or mere. The order, Issued at the request of the Industry, required not orlv that the curtailment be done by cutting hours per day or days per . week, but also that weekly repons bowing the state of supply and de mand bo furnished. Rayon Cats 4 Weeks The rayon weaving Industry, un der the cotton code, wa* given a four-week curtailment on dress goods mills and an eight week cur tailment on staple goods. Complete exemption was given one-shift mills and provision wn^ made for fulltime work on govern ment contracts, and a selected list of products: tire yarns or fabrics for rubber tires; tobacco elothf, woven cotton blankets; upholstery and draper fabrics, Jacquard wov en bedspreads; merino yams; nar row fabrics: paper dryer felt; mil linery foundation cloth. Machinery for spooling, reeling or skeining thread also Is exempt. The rayon curtailment was con ditioned on continuance of a like curtailment of silk mills, under a separate code. Unsold Stocks. The curtailment was authorised officials said, because unsold stock: mounted from 250,330.000 yards on February 24. to 332,302.000 yards on April 28. Unfilled orders dropped from 1,137.384,000 to 756,037,000 while during March and April mill* produced "larger quantities of clot! than during any similar per In' since the code went into offeqt.M It was estimated that half tin production or 40 hours a we, against the 80 hours In two-sh1; allowed 'by the code, would eqc the prospective summer demand ■ John T. Patterson Dies From Apoplexy lutirral Held Yesterday For rrom ineni Farmer Of Ellentooro See ilea. John Thomas Patterson, age 72, died at his home on Elienboro route two Monday. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy on Friday, and his death was a direct result of the at tack. Mr. Patterson had been ill for about two months. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. W. A. Elam at Sulphur Springs Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock. Mr. Patterson is survived by the following children: Fennel E. Pat terson and Noah L. Patterson, both of Gastonia, Mrs. John Grayson, Shelby, George C. Patterson, Shelby route 7. Mrs. J. N. Kirkendall and Mrs. Spencer Elliott of Shelby rout* 2, and Joseph J. Patterson, who lives at his father's home. He also leaves one brother, Noah G. Pat terson of Patterson Springs, and one sister, Mrs.' M. L. Divine of Bessemer City. His wife died near ly 10 years ago. Mr Patterson joined the Baptist church when he was 21 yearf old, but was prevented by his age from giving active service for they past few years. Morgan Child Dies At Age Of Two _ t Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Harrelson Morgan Is Burled At Poplar Springs Today. Larry Jones Morgan, two year pin son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrelson Morgan died Tuesday morning at 11:30 o’clock at the Shelby Hospita, with pneumonia, and complication: The child had been sick for thr'r weeks and had been a patient r the hospital for a week. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon by Rev. Rush Pa # ett at 3:30 o’clock and interment was in the cemetery at Poplar Springs church. Surviving are the parents, a sister Joe Ann, sis months old and the grandparents on both sides of the house. The bereaved parents have the ! ympathy of their host of friends Messrs. Robert Crowder and Coir j man Daggett went to Greensboro i ...terday to inquire into the uoa fdifldt) of Cadet Franklin Jenkins who is seriously Hi at a hospital Urcre. Hts condition is quite serious.