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T NO M W nd St ak: VOL. XU No. 70 SHELBY, N. (1 MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. UM ■» Mail par »Mt. tin advanea) _ Carrtar. par rapt. (In adrancal _ the markets Cotton, spot--22 10 13r (otton seed, ton. wagon .... 23.00 fotto„ *ee<V ton. carloU .... 26.00 Probable Shower* Wrather forecast for North Caro ,inH fair tonight, Tuesday partly rlourt» with scattered showers in rfntral and west portions of state. Strike Threaten* By UNITED PRESS « WUNGTON, June 11.—The Rational steel strike threat gTew so iron* today that only emergency measures are believed capable of preventing it. Three steps are un der consideration: that Roosevelt make an appeal to labor; the Con jrcr rush through special legisla te: that Johnson attempt an ap pears nee before the meeting of un ionists Thursday to decide upon the Saturday night walk out. Plane Found Bv UNITED PRESS NEWARK, N. J., June 11.—The American Airways company w »s adused this afternoon that the mhsing plane has been found burn od with seven occupants killed. First Lady Speak* By UNITED PRESS RAI.EIOII, June 11.—A fair wag minimum and a standard of living lor ail backed by an informal and socially conscious public directed lor the benefit of the nation as a whole was the keynote of Mrs Roosevelt's address before thous ands here this morning. The March Of Events Air Liner Down The plight of seven persons on board one of the nation's greatest air liners, lost in the Catskill mountains, was still in doubt this morning as intensive search was made, but the common belief was they had all been killed. It was a 16-passenger Curtiss Condor plane carrying two pilots, a stewardess and lour passengers. Kaiser Approves Former Kaiser Wilhelm, whose iron-hand rule brought Germany be ruin through militarism, says he thinks Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who practises militarism without weap ons, ‘‘has done marvelously in put ting new life and soul into the Ger man nation. He said he thought Germany would be better off under a monarchy. Found Guilty The Ouija board told her to kill her father so her mother could marry a handsome cowboy—but the the cowboy said he hadn’t any thing to do with it Anyway, an Arizona jury brought in a verdict of "intent to murder” against Mrs. Dorothea Irene Turley In the kill ing of her husband, retired navy gunner s mate, by their 15-year old daughter, Mattie. Business Better Threatened tie-ups in the steel industry and the searing damage of droughts in the west failed to im pair very seriously the nation's pur rhawng power last week, survey re vealed. Retail trade quickened Moderately outside the dry areas, Dun and Bradstreet said, and the Seel industry expanded output. Fear* Spending The first organized effort to rh«ck expenditure of vast sums by President Roosevelt was made by organized business yesterday, when ’ request went to the senate to Urn-. 11 the President’s authority to shift funds in the pending *1,172,000.000 deficiency bill. This plea was made • Henry L. Harriman, president of „e chamber of Commerce of the I Umted States. Announce Changes In Dudley Plumb Shop I Dudlt-v has purchased J. G. I r' 'nterest’ in the plumbing ,t|1 hoP °n North Washington t, ppf and will continue to operate l nlb,)Mness as heretofore. J. G. I 'tljp> *111 maintain headquarters I _ ~p same location and will de h» t 18 f,'me plumbing and m? contracting and state dts °f stokers and heating ^o„l Library To Re Open To Public I ibliu-l.n? 1,1 e summer months, the I oten \ sctlool library will be I dun the publlc from nine to ■T ‘‘lock on Monday and KT* mornings. Mrs. T. V. Me e> ^Ul act as librarian. “Big Girl” Of Quintuplets The first published closeup of one of the girl quintuplets of Mrs. Ovila Dicnne, of Corbeil. Ontario This ti ny mite, the most robust of the five the nurse's hand as she is prepared girls. Is easily held in the palm of jaundice, physicians believe the for a bath. Despite development of quintuplets will survive. 1932-33 Taxes In County Only 8 Percent Delinquint Wejtfrn Carolina OrganiztdToPush Monazite Industry Shelby Takes I/ead In Revival, Ask ing Neighboring Communities To Get Information. Business organizations in neigh boring towns in the inonazite s°c tion are being asked by the Shelby Chamber of Commerce and Mer chants association tc join in its ef forts to t ee what can be done in re viving the monazite mining indus try in this state. As it stands lodaj the problem is one of getting proper information. It is understood that tariff will be needed on the finished produces made from monazite and monazite derivatives as well as on the mona zite itself. Business men in other counties are being asked, in the meantime, to get in touch with their congres sional representatives to impress on them the importance of the indus try throughout this section. A num ber of Shelby business men hate written Congressman Bulwinkle and Senators Bailey and Reynolds call ing their attention tc the value in this and adjoining counties of ihe revival of the industry. John Berry Hamm Of Gastonia Dies, Age 87 GASTONIA. June 9.—John Berry Hamm, 87, died suddenly early to day in SarvLs Heights, South Gas tonia. Funeral services will be held at Calvary Baptist tflrurch 8t 2:30 Sunday afternoon and interment will be in Armstrong Memorial cemetery. Mr. Hamm, a carpenter by trade, was a native of Cleveland county, but had lived here many years. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Anne Hughes Hamm, and the fol lowing children: J. C., Clifford, and Glenn Hamm, Mrs. J. J. Brindle and Mrs. Jeanette Hester, all of Gas tonia; T. H. Hamm of Shelby, and Clett Hamm and Mrs. Forest Huff stetler of Kings Mountain. One Of Ten Counties In North Car olina With I,es* Than Ten Per Cent Of Taxes Unpaid. WASHINGTON. June 11—A pre liminary statement on property tax collections and delinquency for the state of North Carolina as coni pi 1 ed by the division of real estate taxation, bureau of the census, wat announced today by Director Will tam L. Austin. This survey of tax delinquency will comprise all state* and all cities of ovtt- 25,000 popula tion, was sought by officials ol state and local governmental units throughout the country, specialists in municipal finance, representativ es of insurance companies and oth er investing interests, as well as va rious federal relief agencies. The purposes are to Indicate areas that have suffered most from the depression as reflected in non payments of taxes, the effects of such tax delinquency on municipal cred it, the need for state and federal aid, and the results of recent tax legislation on the collection of'tax es. It is one of three major projects financed by the civil works admin istration as part of the national re covery program. "The rate of tax delinquency in North Carolina, 23.5 per cent on the levy of 1932, is fairly representative of that prevailing in many states in the country,” Director Austin said. "This delinquency rate is that of December 31, 1933, six months after the last delinquency date, as re ported by the local government com mission. On Dec. 31st, only eight per cent of the 1932-33 taxes had not been (Continued on page eight.) Will Hold Meetings To Give Out Books County Agent R. W. Shoffner announces that meetings will be held In various townships in the county tomorrow. Tuesday, for the purpose of distributing farm record books to farmers. The meetings wilJ be held at the following places: Township No. 1: Holly Springs school, 9:00 a. m. Township No. 2: Boiling Springs school, 10:30 a. m. Township No. 3: No. 3 school, 1:30 p. m. Township No. 5 3:30 p. m. Waco school. Illiterate Worker Jailed On Charge Of Starting Five Fires RALEIGH. June 9. -An illiterate cotton mill worker was lodged In the Wake county jail last night aft er he confessed burning five build ings in the Falls of Neuse com munity “for the excitement of the fire." Capt. W. A. Scott, deputy insur ance commissioner, who investi gated a recent outbreak of myster ious fires at Neuse. charged the self admitted fire-burg, Charlie Lassiter. 24. with incendiarism Captain Scott said he was going to conduct a thorough investiga tion in an effort to ascertain it Lassiter s activities were connected with the series of unexplained blazes at Wake Forest, which is about eight miles from the mill community of Neuse. Lassiter said last night he had nothing to do with the fires in Wake Forest. Lassiter's confession. which he volunteered after first denying im plication in the Neuse fires, reveal ed his activities in setting fires over a period beginning fve years ago. His most recent fire, he said cccurred near the latter part of Ap ril when he set fire to the mill of 'Continued on page eight) Better Spirit In Textile Circles Says Secretary Union Plans To Build Temple Here Secretary Say* 87 Per Cent Of Worker* Are Member* Of Union. Mill* Run Better Here. (By C. K. f-owranre. Secretary) On July the 4th, 1933, not quite a year ago, the 8helbv Textile Workprs affiliated with the United Textile Workers of American and the American Federation of Lanor, were organized at the Cleveland County Fair Ground. On the. first day over 400 textile workers ol Shelby joined this new organisa tion. C. E. Lowrance, recording secre tary of this organization states that although Just a little less than a year old, the union has progress ed so rapidly that It has a member ship of 87 per cent of all textile workers in the Shelby mills. On the first day of our organiza tion at the Fair ground it was evi dent that the public thought that we would cause a lot of trouble, hut tme to the spirit that we started out with, we still mean to "always be an upright citizen, treat* every body fair and square.” Anyw’ay we had a good time, and the large crowd was as orderly as any picnic, for we had plenty of barbecue and all kinds of cold drinks for 'both officers and the textile workers. Sf far as the writer knows, not a sin gle arrest was made, and both of icers and workers had a real pic nic. It has been known for a long time that organization always pays, if carried out like it should be. It this were not true there would t. no Ministerial association, no hank ers association. no merchant as sociation and many others that could be mentioned. We as textile workers In Shelby have pledged our selves to make this organization one that no one can honestly and justly criticize, and try to make ft one that Is surpassed by none. It U true that we have had some controversies with different mtll managements, but this was to be expected, for we are all living in a new age, with the management not used to dealing with organized la bor, and the workers not being used to being represented at all, but both of us have learned a lot during the (Continued on page eight) Negro Boy Shoots Mr .And Mrs. Pearl Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pearl, well Known in Shelby where their daughter. Miss Rosina Pearl is teacher in the Shelby high school, are in an Augusta, Ga. hospital suffering with gun shot wounds, inflicted by 12 year old Sam Lyons, negro, Thursday night. The middle-aged traveling salesman for the National Paper Co. and his wife with Lyons in the back seat* of their sedan were driving to the home of the boy's relatives where they meant to confer, concerning a check allegedly forged in Mr. Pearl’s name by the Lyons boy. Mr. Pearl was shot in the left side of the neck and the bullet came through, shattering his right Jaw. Mrs. Pearl was shot twice, once in the back and once in the neck. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pearl say the negro boy riding in the rear seat of the car with them djd the shooting. He made his es cape in the woods and has not been apprehended. Fletcher Sain To Get Medical Degree In Pa. Mrs. 8. A. Sain of Toluca left Sunday morning to attend the graduation exercises at Temple uni versity of Philadelphia, Pa. where her son, Fletcher will be graduated getting his degree in medicine. He 1 will return home with her to spend several days after which he will go to Raleigh to take the state board i examination. Then he will return to j Philadelphia where he will take his Interne work this next year Show Pictures Of Palestine At Waco On Saturday night at eight o'clock, the Waco Community club will present the Rev. Mr. Jenkins pastor of the Rutherfordton Bap tist church, In a lecture at the high school auditorium. Mr. Jenkins will demonstrate colored slides which he photographed on one of his visits to Palestine. Everyone is urged to i attend. Small admission charge will [ be made. Flying Envoy i William C. Bullitt, first U. 8. Am bassador to Soviet Russia, shown climbing from the cockpit of his piano after first .flight over Mos cow. Owing to paucity of transpor tation facilities in the Soviet, the air plane was sent from the U. 8. for the use of the ambassador. Former Pastor In Cleveland Killed In Auto Crash Funeral Held This Morning At 11 O'clock At Main St. Methodist Church, High Point. Rev. J. F Moser, for several years a beloved Methodist pastor of Falfcton, was fatally injured Sat urday when the car in which he was riding crashed with another car driven by Hinton Griffin, age 30, of Washington, D. C. on highway No. 10, four miles northwest of Lexington. Griffin also died from his injuries a few hours after the accident. Three Others Hurt Three members of the Moser family were hurt. Mrs. Moser lost an eye and suffered other injuries. Their daughter, Mary Moser, sus tained a broken Jaw. Worth Moser, a son, suffered a broken leg. De tails of the accident were not learn ed, but the two cars crashed on the highway and Mr. Moser was taken to a High Point hospital where he died shortly afterward, while the Injured wife and daughter are suf fering with serious injuries in the hospital at Lexington. The four members of the Moser family were en route to Kanna polis when the accident occurred. Besides the two children in the car at the time of the accident, the Rev Mr. Moser is survived by three sons, the Rev Claude H. Moser of Hendersonville, Dr. S. E. Moser of Gastonia, Frank Moser of Kanna polis and four daughters, .Mrs. Charles Goldston of Kannapolis, Miss Beatrice Moser of Marlon, Mrs. Graves Wilson of Winston Salem and Miss Pauline Moser of High Point. Funeral Today Funeral services for Mr. Moser were held this morning at 11 o'clock from the Main Street Methodist church, High Point and interment took place in Greenlawn cemetery between China Grove and Landis Revs. C. 8, Kirkpatrick, presiding elder of the Salisbury district, L. D. Thompson, presiding elder of the Greensboro district and W. A. Lambeth, pastor of Wesley Memor ial Methodist church of High Point, conducted the services. A number of friends of the Moser family went from Cleveland county yesterday to attend the funeral. Cp.pt. B. L. Smith To Study At Duke Shelby School Head To Prepare In formation On Beginning Of Education. Captain B L. Smith, superintend ent of the Shelby public schools, will leave for Durham this week to take up a study course which will extend over a period of approxi mately six weeks. Capt. Smith is tb« chairman of the committee for the observance of the beginning of educe tion in North Carolina for the North Caro lina Educational Association, and will spend quite a while in the Duke library looking up information con cerning the beginning of education In this state. The committee is planning some type of a state-wide anniversary celebration in the future, although the date has not been definitely de cided upon. The celebration wil' I probably last over the period of a | year or two. Farm Crops Suffer From Excess Rain In This District Corn, Colton, Grain Injured By Rain I* In Sharp Contrast To Drouth! In West; Rainfall Heavy For Two Weeks. In striking contrast with the ter rific drought which has destroyed crops fn the middle west, Cleveland county and other sections of the South Atlantic states are suffering from too much rain. For the past two or three weeks, the excess rainfall has prevented farmers from working their crops, and has consequently thrown them far behind. The rainfall, although It was not so heavy, was distributed over a two week* period and prevented the farmers from working their crops. In the first nine days of June, rnln fell every day, a total of 1.76 Inch es. This was enough, however, to keep the planters out of the fields In the last four days of May, 1.37 inches fell making a total of. 3.13 for the thirteen day period. The cotton crop situation Is ser lousi Grass has almost completely seised oontrol In some section* of the county, and what hoeing ha* been between shower* of rain An added danger 1* threatening cotton planted in sandy soil. The wind storm two week* ago whipped up the loose sandy gravel, and whirling It against the young cotton plants, bruised them seriously, in some parts of the county, the cot ton Is reported to be dying from the effects of this storm County Agent R, W Shoffner states that the most serious situa tion Is facing the corn crop In this county. Most farmers planted cot ton first, anxious to get that part of the work out of the way, but the continued rains have prevented a majority of planters from complet ing the corn planting. He reports that some farmers in the egynty have failed to plant k single hHl of com. That which has been planted. Is also threatened with grass. The small grain crops, wheat and oats, are also similarly affected. Both are ready to harvest, but binders have been unable to get In the fields because of the wet ground. Also, the wind storm blew a great amount of the grain stalks to the ground, and unless the sun dries out the moisture soon, they will be injured. The fruit crops in this county were not hurt by the wind. In fact, faulty fruit was blown from the trees, leaving only the best quality. Mr. Shoffner believes that a week of good sunshine will remedy the condition before the situation gets too serious. First Summer Play Draws Large Crowd Community Player* Preaent "The Heart Exchange" At High School. The Community Players’ first summer presentation. "The Heart Exchange." presented at the high school auditorium Friday night un der the direction of Paul H. Neal, Belmont dramatic instructor, prov ed very successful, and drew a number of favorable comments from the large audience. The same play will be given at Grover on Wednesday night, June 13, and at Kings Mountain on Thursday. June 14. Both of these presentations will be at the high school auditorium at the two cities. On Friday night of this week, an entirely different cast will present Philip Barry’s famous play "The Youngest.” This cast is headed by James Sheppard and Harriet Gld ney. The play is slightly more dig nified than "The Heart Exchange." but is Just as clever and witty. Roosevelt Plans Social Program With Better Housing Conditions President Roosevelt Friday told congress that he was working out a plan to make It possible for “Amer icans to live as Americans should." The plan, which he promised to submit to the next congress, will comprise better housing, the plan ned use of natural resources, and provision against unemployment and dependent old age. In the message, Mr. Roosevelt Informed both friends and enemies that criticism had not swerved him from his vision of a planned na tional eoonomy to prevent periodical jarring falls into depression. He said that through millions al t County Farmers To Get $452,000 Cotton Benefits This Year Speaks At Hill L. HOPKtUS Hurry L. Hopkln*, Federal Emer gency Relief Administrator. who will deliver the baooalaurMta ad dress at the University of North Carolina's 130(h graduation exer cise* In Kenan Stadium Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Unemployed Meet But No Leader Reports For Talk Small Advertisement Draws Crowd Of Unemployed To Meeting Which Was Flop. Some two hundred people re sponded to a cal) for a meeting of unemployed in the Court House Saturday, but the gathering was a disappointment and a flop. No one seemed to know the purpoee of the meeting and no leader made any explanation as to Its purpose. Am Bridges and Baxter Wilkioe put a small twenty five cent adver tisement in The Star on Wednes day calling for the meeting. It was not signed by anyone but accepted as an authentic call for a meeting for a legitimate purpose. A member of The Star staff call ed over the week-end on Am Bridg es at his home on E. Oidney street to ascertain the purpose of the call and why no one appeared to ex plain Its object. Mr. Bridges said he knew very little about it. “Some man from away from here was in Shelby a short time ago and sug gested the meeting. Then a young Shelby lawyer, whose name I do nol care to give out, was expected to appear and explain the purpose ol the gathering. A few of us chipped in the money earlier In the week and Baxter Wilkins and I went to The Star office and put In the no tice. I was present Saturday when the people began to gather, but since no one appeared to explain its purpose. I left. I certainly did not mean to disappoint any one," said Bridges. Bridges said he ‘‘did not. know much about It." He admitted put ting the call notice In the paper and claimed the “certain lawyer" was to appear and state the purpose of the gathering. Among those who gathered for the meeting of unemployed were many women and when no lender appeared to state its objects, sever al called at The Star office to in quire about the mysterious notice The names of the men who put the advertisement in the paper were given and an effort was made oy The Star to locate them,' but In vain. ready appropriated an attack upon housing problems in the great cities had already been made. He added that the housing bill now pending In congress “Can stimulate the lending of money tor the modern ization of existing homes and the building of new homes.” A significant phrase in that part of the message devoted to the planned use of land and water re sources said. "Only thus can we permanently eliminate many mil lions of people from the relief rolls on which their names are now (Continued on page five.) $176,946 It Expected This Week Average Cotton Production Oftr 5 Vear IVrimI Him Been Over M Million Pound*. Cleveland county farmers will receive tn rente Is and prtrlty fttr cotton »hl« year approximately *452,000, any* R W. Htioffnar, Coun ty agent. Rente I checks have already been received In some ol the smaller oot toh producing counties tn Ndrth Carolina, and Cleveland checks are expected to arrive thla week. The delay In the receipt of local checks Is due to the fact that Cleveland Is the largest cotton producing county In the state and has a large num ber of contracts to go through. Average of Lint. During the last five years, the average amount of lint cotton has been 25,278,000 pounds. Ftorty per cent of this amount has been taken out of production and farmers are to receive three and a half eenta per pound on 10,111,000 pounds or *352,802 ax rental payment for tha land taken out of cotton production Half of this amount la due to be paid now In nddttlon to the above amount a parity payment of one cent per pound on forty per cent of the five year average and this will amount to *101,114. • These figures are estimates made by Mr. Shoffner and are not offic ial figures received from Washing ton or Raleigh. Checks Coming tn. On June 7th checks were mailed out to Southern cotton farmers In sixteen states for *t 1,838,344. Ol this amount North Carolina receiv ed *297,454 for a total of 9,118 checks. These checks are a part of the estimated *100,000,000 that will he sent to co-operating farmers tu rental payments for the approxi mately 15,000,000 acres taken out ol cotton production this season. The money will be sent out In two in stallments totaling *50,000.000 each The first Installment la now being paid and the second will be dis tributed between August I and September 30. Shelby To Fotter Plans To Promote Tourist Business Commerce Chamber To Be lepn ■wiled At Charlotte Wednesday; Consider Advertising Plana. The Shelby Chamber at Commerce and Merchants association will he represented at Chailotte next Wed nesday when a meeting will be held to go Into details of a plan to ad vertise the two Carolines as a va cation land. While primarily a proposal to at tract tourists to the mountain and seashore resorts the plan embrace.) the entire state and Shelby should benefit considerably from the pro motional advertising planned. A very unique plan of financing has been advanced. Stamps larger than postage stamps, each With a picture of some Intel estlng Caro lina point, are to be sold through various organizations and societies these to be attached to letters go ing of the state. Proceeds from sale of the stamps will be used In a na tional advertising campaign. Miss McKinney Is Duke Honor Grad Miss Mildred McKinney who graduated from the local high school In the class of 1930, has just graduated from Duke univer sity with signal honors. At the beginning of her junior year she was elected to take what is called the "Honors Course in Edu cation," which is fashioned after the Oxford system of giving great freedom in preparation, but most exhaustive examination before a faculty committee from the de partment in which the work Is done and from other departments of the university. She was highly compli mented by the committee. Members of the committee told Captain B. L. Smith that her examination would have done credit to a candidate up for the Ph D. degree. She becomes the first honor graduate of the department of education of Duke university since the inauguration of the new type courses.
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