The Clikvkwnd Straf
VOL. XU No. 71
SHELBY, N. a WEDNESD’Y, JUNE 13. 1934
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Late News
THE MARKETS
Cotton, spot
Cotton seed.
Cotton *eed,
ton, wagon
ton, carlota
. M to 13c
_23.00
_26.00
Fair Tomorrow
Weather forecast for North Caro
,ira Fair today and Thursday. •
Sees Dillinger
By UNITED PRESS
n0RTHFIELD, Minn., June 13.—
TtlP, re seeing Dillinger again. This
,jmP the report comes from a tran
sient here, who says that he saw
the noted ghost outlaw and that he
faVe him a cigarette.
Act On Strike
By UNITED PRESS
WASHINGTON, June 13.—Presi
dent Roosevelt's conciliation board
pondered today ways and means to
meet the threatened strike in the
steel industry, and at the same time
scented further Industrial troubles
this summer. All the resources of
the administration are being used
i„ intensive activity to find a solu
tion to the steel strike.
Ship Sinking
Bv UNITED PRESS
SCW VORK, June 13.—The sink
ing Norwegian steamer Knut Ham
mn was reported today from the
the t arribean Sea by radio. The
chief officer and sixteen members
of the rrrw are missing, the mas
sage said.
The March !
Of Events ;
To Fix Tariff
Sole power to fix rates on all ar
ticles imported into the United
States and to negotiate reciprocal
trade agreements with other na
tions was assumed last night by
President Roosevelt when he sign
ed the administration tariff bill.
Under the new act. the President
has the authority io increase or de
crease existing tariffs for the next
three years by 50 per cent, and to
make agreements with other na
tions. All customs houses in the
nation were closed yesterday, sc
that provisions'of the act could go
into effect simultaneously today.
Threatened Doris
An attempt to extort $3,000 from
Doris Duke, North Carolina's to
bacco heiress, was admitted yes
terday by a 17-year-old Newark
boy. who threatened to bomb her
if she didn't pay. The boy, Thomas
Layden, entered a plea of guilty
and was sent to a reformatory.
Bill Collector
All right, John Bull—If you
won't pay cash, pay us In goods—’’
that's the message Secretary of
State Cordell Hull sent across the
waters yesterday. It applies to oth
er European debtor nations as well
Uncle Sam wants to collect that
110.000,000,000 obligation. Hull re
jected all reasons offered by Great
Britain in her recent decision to
suspend payment.
Air Crash Cause
There was some sort of explosion
aboard the American Airways liner
Saturday, and it probably came
from a little black bag carried by a
chemist. So said investigatora prob
ing the crash of the plane that kill
ed seven people In the Catsktll
Mountains. They believe Chemist
Wiliam Bader of Buffalo had a
mysterious fluid In his satchel and
that it went off.
Profiteering
I The cry of “profiteering” was
| f*«ed in Washington yesterday.
I «A officials are trying to reduce
I «« spread of pirces between the
I Producer and the consumer, and
I “'' middleman is aparently going
I <o be called on the carpet. Huge
I SL°nts 0n the Produce that brings
farmer so little were disclosed
eitie<fUreS compiled 111 the great
G.O.P. Organizes
he next step for Republicans—
■osc co-operation bettween the na
p7>a committee and earnest O. C.
__ • ;ng to get elected to Con
hf SfThat s the immediate object*
t- 0 hew Chairman Henry P.
■e.cher, recently elected in Chi
|^° Stalls will be settled later
Darrow Again
Imw vCf Darro" and his NRA
I CnH „ board have made their sec
I Kr a Ppnn and *n it they liken the
I Gene ' 10 a military regime
I J°hnson's reply: “Ridica
l.b
lYy To Get
*100 From County
|^'p^lby Public library will
Ifttr, twir-eLfr0m the county next
I year n, . amount donated this
|aount% / 8ift was vot€d by the
I > commissioners on Monday.
Grizzly Baer!
Fema.e lumirers and fistlcutts don’t
mix with Max Baer, so the Cali
fornia challenger U, the world's
heavyweight crown keeps charmers
away with dark goggles and trick
beard, He Is winding up his training
at Asbury Park. N. J., for his bout
with Champion Pritno Camera to
morrow night.
Best Of New Deal
Enjoyed By Dixie,
Says Cotton Head
Anderson Cites 100 Per Cent Rise
In Payrolls And 145.000 Given
Employment.
ATLANTA, June 12.—The bright
est spot during the first year of
President Roosevelt’s recovery pro
gram has been the south, W. D..
Ander. on, cotton mill operator of
Macon, Ga., said in an address to
night before the Southern Gar
ment Manufacturers association.
Anderson, president of the Bibb
Manufacturing company and of the
American Cotton Manufacturers as
sociation, said that since the New
Deal was launched 145,000 have
been added to textile payrools and
that of the number 103,000 were
employed In southern mills.
“During this time wre have in
creased our payrolls 100 per cent
and hourly wages of our employes
have been increased 69 per cent.”
he said. "The things have been ac
complished despite an increase of
150 per cent in the cost of our ma
terials, including the $21 a bale
processing tax on our cotton.
Benefits enjoyed by the employes
in the textile industry not only
have been shared with those in the
garment making industry but have
come to the cotton farmer as well,
|dr. Anderson said. He quoted Gen
eral Hugh S. Johnson. NRA admin
istrator, as saying that the general
improvement under the cotton tex
tile code has been the best in the
country.
Grigg To Accept
Call To Albemarle
Claude Grigg, superintendent of
the Kings Mountain city schools
yesterday announced that he woiud
accept the superintendency of the
Albemarle schools. He expects to
go to Albemarle soon to make ar
rangements for moving there and
beginning his work. The Albemane
schools have an enrollment of be
tween 2,000 and 2,500 pupils.
Claude Grigg is a brother of
Horace Grigg, superintendent of
education for Cleveland county and
son of Dr. W. T. Grigg of Lawn
dale.
Long Term Relief Program Seen
By Hopkins In Chapel Hill Talk
CHAPEL HILL, June 12—A long
term program of relief for the un
employed, an improved plan for the
rural areas as well as teh cities, in
surance against unemployment, old
age and sickness, enormous pro
grams for the control of land, great
park and recreation centers, and
rebuilding of forests, was visualized
here tonight by Harry L. Hopkins,
federal emergency relief admimstra
tor, in an address at the final grad
uation of North Carolina’s 139th
commencement.
Asserting there arc 16,000.000 peo
ple In America today, one In every
seven who receive some part of
their livelihood from public relief
funds, Mr. Hopkins predicted that
even when conditions return to a
so-called normalcy there will be •>.
000,000 unemployed, as a result of
mechanical inventions, instead of
3,000,000 in 1929
Mr. Hopkins >pokt from a bai’
I
Tags For Cotton
To Be Distributed
By County Agent
Schoffner To Head
Federal Labeling
Markers WiU Designate Bales Which
Are Exempt From Tax Im
posed Under BUI.
The first move toward putting
the Bankhead Cotton Reduction bill
into effect will be made between
now and July 1, County Agent R.
W. Shoffner said yesterday. This
will be to tag the old cotton.
Cotton now on hand is exempt
from the over-production tax to be
imposed on the 1934 crop, and
some'means must be taken to iden
tify it. This will be done by tagging,
unckr the supervision of the county
agent. Mr. Shoffner said yesterday
that no definite instructions had
been given, but that the tags would
be sent to his office and that he
would make the proper announce
ment in time. It is likely that a rep -
resentative ol me Department of
internal revenue will issue the tags
personally.
Tlie cotton tax, under the Bank
head measure, begins on July 1.
Players Will Enact
Barry Comedy Friday
C ommunity Actors To Present "The
Youngest” At High School Under
Direction Paul Neal.
The second production of the
Community Players’ summer sea
son. Phillip Barry's comedy, “The
Youngest,” will be presented Friday
evening in the high school audi
torium.
Miss Harriet Gidney and James
Sheppard head an unusually talent
ed cast, directed by Paul Neal, who
[scored a success with his first pro
duction here, "The Heart Ex
change,” last week.
In the cast are Reeves Porney,
Loris Dover, Bill Bailey, Mrs. Harry
Cohen, Caleb McSwain, Sarah Lee
Hamrick and Mrs. James Sheppard.
Action of the play, which Is In
three-acts, takes place in a small
New York state city. This is one of
Barry’s most popular pieces, and
had a long run on Broadway.
Assisting In the production are
Carobel Lever and Harriet Gidney,
make-up; Lindsay Daii and Pete
McKnlght, business managers;
Harriet Gidney, Reeves Forney and
Mrs. Harry Cohen, publicity, and
[Mrs. Dail and Mrs. Cohen, proper
ties.
Grigg To Confer
On School Project*
Projects Pending Upon Results Of
Conference With Officials In
Raleigh.
Superintendent of County Schools
J. H. Grigg, will go to Raleigh next
week, to confer’ with officials on
three school projects in Shelby, the
Dover Mill school, an addition to
the negro school, and a covered
passageway from the Shelby high
school to the annex.
Previous general contract bids
were too high for the PWA esti
mate, and were rejected by the
county school board. The federal
government does not approve of re
letting contracts, and the only way
out of the difficulty is for the board
of education to cheapen materials
so that the cost may be lowered to
fit the PWA estimate.
Grigg hopes that his conference
will clear the way out of the diffi
culty.
outline in notes he had jotted down
on his way south, but his delivery
was forceful and effective and he
was given c’ose attention; he was
applauded vigorously and President
Graham, Governor Ehringhaus and
and President Weathers of the out
going class all took occasion to
commend Mr. Hopkin’s views.
Owing to rain the exercises were
held in Memorial hall instead of
Kenan stadium as had been plan
ned, and the building was packed.
It was the first time since the
tadium exercises were inaugurat
ed four years ago that they had
been rained out.
Relief in the future, said fAi
Hopkins, will be of a far different
type from that of 1929 which he de-1
scribed as a “shame and disgrrv
•o America.''
Discussing some of the problems
(Continued on page %ight>
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Re-elected
I ■ ' . .
Oliver Anthony. 8helby real estate
man, who on Monday was re-elect
ed to serve as chairman of the
| Cleveland eofihty Democratic com
mittee.
Mrs. Moser Dies
| From Injuries
In Auto Wreck
Former Kallston Residence Suc
cumbs At Lexington. Third
Victim Of Wreck.
Mrs. Mary Starnes Moser, for
merly of Fallston, this county, died
at midnight Monday from injuries
received in an auto wreck in which
her husband, Rev. J. P. Moser, and
Hinton Griffin were almost instant
ly killed on Saturday.
Two of the Moser children,
Worth, age 18, and Mary Lois, age
18, are seriously injured and still in
the hospital. Jt will be recalled that
the Maser car with four members
of the family was headed from
High Point to Kannapolis on Sat
urday and It struck head-on with a
car driven Dy Hinton Griffin of
Washington, D. C. Both Mr. Moser
and Griffin died a few hours after
the accident in hospitals. Mrs.
Moser lost an eye and sustained
other injuries which proved fatal,
while Worth has a broken leg and
Mary a broken jaw.
The funeral of her husband was
held Monday in High Point while
that of Mrs. Moser will be held
this afternoon at 8 o’clock at the
home of her daughter at Kanna
polis. Interment will be beside her
husband.
Louis Wood Out For
Seat In Congress
Brother Of Mrs. George Blanton
And Draper Wood Of Shelby
In Politics.
Shelby friends of Mrs. George
Blanton and Draper Wood will be
Interested to know that their broth
er, A. Louis Wood of Gaffney Is a
candidate for congress in the fifth
8outh Carolina district.
He will be in the race with Con
gressman J, P. Richards of Lan
caster and former State Senator J.
E. Beamguard of Clover. Pew, if
any knew Mr. Wood was contem
plating entering politics, even in his
home city of Gaffney. Announce
ment of his action was contained
in a telegram sent from Columbia,
to the Gaffney Ledger. His plat
form is “South Carolina let's
march.”
Broken Wash Pot
Gets Negro 3 Months
Joe Henry, colored, backed a
truck over'his neighbor’s wash pot
and broke it all to pieces. And that
was bad, because Joe knew he had
to replace that pot, and he didn’t
think his finances would allow him
to do so at the moment.
So he stole one from Murphy
Green of West Graham street very
early last Sunday morning and ran
home with It.
- Deputy Bob Kendrick was put on
the trail, found the pot, and , ar
rested the negro, and in Recorders
Court, Joe Henry was given three
months on the chain gang.
Candidates Required
To File Cost Account?
All candidates must file then
final expense accounts with the
'erk of the court by June 22. John
P. Mull, chairman of the count\
board of elections, announced yea
terday.
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Anthony Chosen
County Chairman
OfDemocratsHere
C. C. Horn It Made
Secretary
i Sufi’fnsful And Detested Candi
date* Speak At County Con
vention. Hoey Speak*.
Oliver S Anthony was again
chosen chairman of the Democratic
county executive committee here
I Monday, following the county oon
veutton. C. C. Horn waa elected
secretary. A vice chairman who will
be a woman, will be chosen later.
A small crowd gathered for the
county convention at 3 o'clock In
the court house, but it was on en
thusiastic crowd, however, and all
enjoyed the speeches of the suc
cessful and defeated candidates for
county offices. Good fellowship pre
vailed and not a single defeated
i candidate displayed the least blt
| terncss or disappointment. All
pledged their loyalty to the chosen
ticket In the tall election.
Clyde R. Hoey was the principal
speaker and he made a sweeping
review of Roosevelt’s year In power
and what he has done to bring the
country out of a state of chaos.
The Literary Digest poll was cited
to show the popular backing of the
people. "It’s the thing now to be a
Democrat and even some of the
strongest Republican states are
showing support of our president In
his recovery policies,” said Mr. Hoey.
He made an appeal for Democrats
to go the polls in November as they
did In the June 2nd primary and
support the party nominees.
All loyal Democrats who care to
attend the state Democratic con
vention In Raleigh on June 23nd
are made delegates. It is necessary,
however, for them to be certified
as such by the chairman, Mr| An
thony.
Five From Cleveland
Get U. N. C. Diplomas
Virgil Weathers. Student President,
Par* High Tribute To President
Graham At Exorotma.
Among the graduates who receiv
ed diplomas at the University of
North Carolina from Governor
Ehringhaus yesterday were five
from Cleveland county.
They were Virgil Weathers of
Lattimore, president of the student
body, who will return next year to
enter law school; Franklin Wilson
of Fallston; Ray Weathers of Shel
by; Minna LeGrand of Shelby and
Maude Crowder of Lattimore.
Also among the graduates were
Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., son of
the late University president and
Robert Rice Reynolds, son of the
North Carolina Senator.
Virgil Weathers, expressing the
appreciation of his graduating class
mates, paid special tribute to Pres
ident Graham. He received vigorous
applause when he turned to Gra
ham and said, “You have a place
in our hearts that no one else can
fill.”
Cotton Mill Men
To Meet On Taxes
Cotton mill owners have been
asked to confer with the county
commissioners tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock in an effort to work out
a tax valuation satisfactory to
them.
No changes in tax valuations have
been made since estimates were
made in 1927. and cotton mill own
ers have pointed out that many
plants have depreciated while oth
ers have been Improved. The own
ers are invited to this conference to
give them a chance to say what
they want done about their own
problem. About 22 mill owners are
expected.
I**’’chard* Is Leader
In G. O. P. Primary
Official results in the Republican
primary for county commissioner
.rare announced yesterday by John
Mull, chairman of the county
‘■card of elections.
The six candidates received the
'nllowing votes: P. P. Richards 54:
J. R. Price 50; P. M. Mauney 47; B
j G. Logan 43; R L. Jolly 15 and J.
D. Ellis 14.
The three high men were declar
■ ed the candidates.
Dr. Plaster Off To
Life Saving School
Dr. H. S. Plaster, director of life
raving In Cleveland county, left this
morning to spend 10 days at the
American Red Cross aquatic school
it Camp Carolina near Brevard.
The purpose of this school is to
rain and develop directors in the
'atest methods in first aid and life
i saving.
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Will Vote On Tugwell Today
The sSSteTgncujTurafrommiUr e\s favorable vote of in to'a on
Professor Rexford Tugwell arrived ri after hr had snapped at them
on the stand for several hours, denying he la a dangerous radical- goes
to the Senate today, where Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas
win present it. He Is nominated for Under Secretary »f Agriculture, a
promotion from assistant secretary, and the President asks for him a
salary of 110,000 a year, or what he would reeelve at his Columbia
University Job.
Will Dream Unravel Mystery
Of Missing Ellenboro Man?
Had $3000 When He Vanished
Dennis McKIney Discount* Htory.
May Dlf Up Gartfr Floor To
Test The Dream Story.
Some do and acme ekm’ts—believe
In dream* or that dreams ever
amount to more than the prover
bial "hill of beans.”
At any rate, the controversy re
garding the validity of dreams had
the citizenry of Ellenboro quite
agog one day last week. They are
still puzzled to know If the body of
a former citizen of the town is
burled under several feet of clay
and concrete where he was "dream
ed” to have been .burled twelve
year* ago after having been rob
bed of near three thousand dollars.
But here la the story:
Thirteen years ago this fall,
Frank Wiggins, son of Lem Wlggin,
of Zion community, this county,
lived in Ellenboro and had from hie
crop, -sundry notes and loans, a
sum of money estimated by his
friends to be from five hundred to
three thousand dollars. His wife,
who is a resident of West Shelby,
said at the time she knew that he
had at least two thousand dollars
or more in cash the night he dis
appeared from her and five chil
dren.
Grover Spurltng, at that time
owner of the garage where Frank
was last seen In Ellenboro, and a
close friend to Wlggin, said that he
took him to Oaffney, 8. C. in his
car the night of his disappearance
where he promised to write to
Spurllng within a week No letters
were ever received.
Dream Of Murder
Dreams come into the story when
the widow and five children moved
to Zion community and lived quiet
ly for seven years, later coming to
Shelby to live. Pranks mother
dreams of seeing her son beiug
killed and robbed and burled under
a garage answering to the descrip
tion of the one in Ellenboro, and
right away her husband and several
of Frank's brothers go up to the
little Rutherford county town to
Investigate.
Discredits Dream
However, on arriving, Dennis lyic
Klnney of the Ellenboro community
told them that he was an eye wit
ness to the construction of the gar
age and that he was there when
concrete was poured In the hol<
arranged for serving crankcases and
(hat there was no possibility oi c
man being buried there. This In
formation caused the Wiggins l<
decide that perhaps the lost son
was elsewhere.
, May Investigate latter
As the ease now stands. Ellen
boro has the garage, Spurling Is in
Charlotte with the Standard Oil
company, the family has a dream
| to work on, Frank and the money
are still missing, D A. Jones, the
present owner, says he Is willing to
dig up the whole floor of the gar
age, and Frank s father dnclarcs he
will continue the investigation
he can get enough money to put
the floor back again. tones says
fainting would be the first thing lie
would do if he found out that lie
had been stepping on a dead man
every time he changed the oil in a
custoiiKr’N car.
Numbers of people say that the
dream Is Just a silly notion, but for
jthe most part Ellenboro and Mr
Wlggln are ready Tor the dtgglng to
begin.
Dionne Record GoodForModerns,
But The Countess, Now, Hud 36
Mrs. Ovtla Dionne, ol Corbeil,
Ontario, Canada, mother of the fa
mous quintuplets, is just a bush
leaguer In medical annals, Dr. R.
L. DeBuys, Touro infirmary pedia
trist, said In New Orleans the oth
er day,
But even at that, he said, the
Dionne family won a long-shot bet
in the stork sweepstakes. Medical
odds-sheets show that quintuplets
are born once in 41,600,000 times,
quadruplets once in 747,000 Instanc
es, triplets in 7,103 instances and
twins once in every 87 cases.
Mrs. Dionne did very well accord
ing to modern charts. It is only
when the medical men goes back
into the distant past, when records
tended to exaggeration, that Mrs.
Dionne and her five children ara
shoved into the bush league circle.
Dr. DeBuys said there were rec
ords of exactly 30 other quintuplet
occouchments. But then he reeled
"iff case histories of sextuplet births
ni other wholesale baby cargoes
which were topped by the report of
Martin Cromerus, Polish historian
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that the Countess Margaret, wife of
Count Cirbo&laus, brought forth at
one birth in 1296 a total of 38 liv
ing children.
* Herman, in his Russian Vital
statistics tells of the all time grand
champions of paternity and ma
ternity. He cited the case of Feo
dor Vasellet, of Moscow, whose first
wife presented him with 69 child
ren—4wtna 16 times, triplets seven
times, and quadruplets four times,
never a single birth—and his sec
ond wife who gave birth to 18
children.
But, getting closer to modern
times. Dr. DeBuys said on June 37,
1847, a woman in Maine gave birth
to six children the same day. Four
died and two grew to maturity.
In 1888 a mother at Dallas, Tex
as, gave birth to sextuplets, four
sons and two daughters. Whether
they survived Infancy was not
known.
Dr. DeBuys said medical men had
never definitely determined fust
how many children it Is possible
for a woman to bear at one titae.
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Board Postpones
Plan To Increase
County Personnel
May Employ Health
Office Full Time
Won't Spill With SUM On In
crease For Nhoffner; llomo
Agent ronuldrrod.
Proposal* to employ a lull Urn*
county health officer and a home
demonstration a Kent, and to raise
the salary of the county agent,
thus Insuring an assistant supplied
by the state, were tentatively re
jected bv the board ot county com
missioners on Monday
A proposition bad boon made by
Mi*? slut** extension department to
raise the silt Ary of R. W. Staoff
ner. county agent, amt supply him
with an assistant, which waa re
garded as necessary In view of the
large amount of his time spent on
cotton reduction punt rum* At
present, Mr Shoffner receives $760
yearly from the state, a like amount
from the county and a $600 automo
bile allowance from (he state. The
slate proposed that. If the county
would pay Mr Shoffner $1,300, the
st,ate would pay the same amount,
plus automobile expenses, and
would pay the full salary for an
assistant and his automobile
Offer Same Contract
Commissioners Blanton. Herndon
and Morris declined to make this
agreement, and Mr Blanton waa
authorised to roiicw the lame con
tract with Mr. Shoffner for the year
ending June 30, 193ft
But it Is their Impression that the
state will supply the much needed
assistant at all evrnta,
They postponed decision on em
ployment of a full-time health ot
firor. An inquiry has been sent Ui
Raleigh asking for qualifications for
such an officer, and action will be
taken when full Information h1-*
been received.
Moore Still Physician
In the meantime, Dr. D
Moore coni,times, to ait as eui!\~. ' |S
physician, although he has rwf'n
**d as quarantine officer.
No action was taken In the mat
ter of obtaining a honv diinon-’
strutlon agent except to ask the
county demonstration clubs to rec
ommend some one to the position.
The county has not bad such an ^
. fflce since February. 1933, when
the preseni heard of c'-mmlaslmievs
'oolt office
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N. C. Privilege
Tax Again Due
More l>i i til th Ate To IV' Assigned
. For Work In Colter Un* Tax
* This Year.
North Carolina privilege taxes
are now In effect for the 1034-35
period and citizens of tills terri
tory who may be subject to the
provisions of this particular section
of the state revenue act are urg
ed to make their returns at an early
date, it Is announced by deputy col
lectors.
The last year's work has recently
been concluded, much delinquent
taxation having been cleared. It, >s
understood.
'Flie campaign which was put on
by state revenue authorities in all
the centers of population In North
Carolina several weeks ago was re
garded as highly successful by of
ficials, ,
It Is stated that the privilege
taxes include the operating licenses , |
for such establishments as depart
ment stores, grocery stores, resetau
rants, drug stores and the like.
Under the privilege license sec
tion also comes the professional
men, It was pointed out. Lawyers,
doctors? dentists and others whose
work is of a professional nature
are subject to the provisions of the
act and must make the tax pay
ments as soon as possible, the dep
uty collector said.
Efforts are being made by author
ities of the state revenue depart
ment at Raleigh to augment the
force assigned to the Piedmont area
so that the work here ran be ex
panded.
The present force for the terri
tory having the largest population
In the state is regarded as Insuf
ficient and It is expected that two
additional deputy collectors will be
assigned for full time duty as soon
as arrangements can be made.
Mull To Attend
State Convention
John P. Mull or Cleveland and
Shelby Building and Loan assoc'a
tion, left yesterday afternoon for
Elisabeth City to attend the state
convention of budding and loan
men on June 13, 14 and 13.
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