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Th c M E Vkl N U D Ska f VOL. XL. No. 72 - SHELSY, N. & FRIDAY. JUNE 15, I9.*14 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. SHE* •» Mail, oar nu. itn miuhi . OK Carrur oar mi. <t» »dv«no«i _ li M Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, *P»t -. 1° 13' (oUon -Mid. K>n- w**on ---- Z300 (otton *eed, ton. carlots 26.00 Showers Saturday Weather forecast for North Caro ns partly cloudy tonight and to morrow. with probable local show ers Satprday. Congress Speeds By UNITED PRESS M tSHINGTON, June 15.—Con cessional leaders today applied full prevsitre toward passage of the four major administrative bills be (nrP recessing tonight. Members of thP house are eager to be In a posi tion to leave immediately, but in (hr senate. It’s an isue whether congress wil be able to adjourn to morrow night or not. Green Cheered By UNITED PRESS PIT/lBliRGH. June 15.—Presi dent Green of the American Fed eration of Labor today pleaded with embittered steel workers to cancel their plans for a walk out. He of ,cred them a solution through the Federal government of the difficul ties which have brought the indus try to a crisis. Workers cheered him wildly. Camera Crippled By UNITED PRESS NliYV YORK, June 15.—Primo Camera, who last night lost the hoawweight championship of the world to Max Baer after 11 rounds of terrific fighting, will not be able to walk for two weeks because of a j badly swollen ankle, his physician, | l)r. Famoni, said today . Raise Announced By UNITED PRESS HEIDSVILLE, June 15.—More than 3,000 American Tobacco Co. j employees were notified today of j ■equitable” increase# made in their j wages on a hourly and weekly basis. The new rates were made ef fective as of June 8. Electrocuted By UNITE DPRESS RALEIGH, June 15.—Ossie Smith, twenty-year-old Northampton ne gro, was electrocuted at State Pri son this morning for the murder of 4. E. Hedgepath. The prisoner maintained hfs innocence until the last. The March Of Evenk_ Tugwell OK'd North Carolina's Senator Bailey notwithstanding, Dr. Rexford Tug »e!l was confirmed by the senate last night as under secretary of ag riculture by a vote of 53 to 24. Dr Tugwell. frequently called the head Brain-truster, was crltiaed for al leged radical leanings. Dictators Meet A meeting of dictators that may i make history occurred yesterday when Benito Mussolini and his imitator, Adolf Hitler conferred in Venice. Mussolini urged on Hitler the importance of Germany’s return to the league of nation’s conference at Geneva to insure peace. Utmost secrecy surrounded the meeting but n leaked out that this was Mus aolini s chief request. 12 Default The United States had to write up 12 nations in the profit and loss wlumn last night-®9 and a frac on cents out of every dollar owing 1° ps in war debts has been de faulted. Great Britain, Italy and 1 ”y lt;ad the way, followed by Belgium. Estonia, Hungary, Latavie, Roumania, Czechoslovakia and Po land. Huns Won’t Pay Onnany has declared a morato ™'m on payment of all foreign 0 i*. her most dramatic step yet an effort to avoid national bank »i,P/r But she wtl1 not tamper the value of her mark, she in lontiect the world. Cry For Strike 0f the “strike now” la , movtment in the steel industrv thi '10Vfu' over conference victories ' miming, and declare there is Pr*'' tr> avert the strike unless Roosevelt steps In. Their Bm was shown in a straw vote, last tuP ln*isted R strike was the -in th ' 8 in the worlc* they wanted ^^lZtpreparing for au Pres;rJ°b For Son Roo6eve»'s son Elliot of day elected vice-president Ael°nautical Chamber oi »SrCf America- me. He is an **l|nn problem*,tUdeDt °f tramP0'‘ Smallest Girl Here is dainty two and one-half pound Lorraine Delaine, smallest of the Wycoff quadruplets, in the arms of Dr. G. H. Swearingen of Sac City, la., who helped deliver her into the world. Her tiny sis ters and brother are helping to sustain America’s high position in the multiple birth contest led by the Ontario Dionne quintuplets. Chief Of Police Injured In Fall Pursuing Negroes D. D. Wilkins Suffers Injuries As He Falls From Moving Automobile. Chief D. D. Wilkins, head of the Shelby police department, is con fined to his bed at his home suf fering from injuries received in a fall Saturday afternoon. Wilkins, in an auto with other policemen, was chasing some color ed men behind the post office. He evidently thought the car had stop ped, and started to get out. A lurch threw him to the ground. His injuries, while not serious, are extremely painful. Several muscles in his back and hip:, are sprained. He will be unable to leave his bed for several days. Chief Wilkins was recuperating from another accident at the time this one happened. A week or two ago he steppd into a hole while ex amining a water line project, sprain ed his ankle and injured several ribs. Ask Re-Employment Bureau Continufe Here Shelby citizens, backed by the chamber of commerce, are protest ing abolition of the U. S. Re-em ployment office here. Under a new set-up, announced more than a month ago, employment offices in Lincoln and Cleveland were to have been absorbed by the Gastonia of tices. The chamber of commerce points jut that the Shelby office has been iveraging 26 placements a week as igainst nine at the Gastonia office. No Slot Machines Whirl In Charlotte The whirr of slot machines and the occasional tinkle of rewarding nickles was checked in Charlotte yesterday. The city council had ruled the day before that they must be stopped, just as Judge Joe Wright ruled more than a month ago here. North Carolina Remembers Her Veterans With $1A Day Pension North Carolina, who sent more nen and boys to the Civil W»r than iny other Southern state, has not forgotten her old soldiers, though ,hree generations have passed since hey first shouldered their muskets. \t least, none of them who has isked for help is forgotten in the semi-annual payments. A. M. Hamrick, clerk of the su perior court, announced this morn ng that the June pension checks iad an-ved and are now in his of fice for distribution. Each year here are a few less. This time there are checks of >182.50 each for 18 class A soldiers, ’aid semi-annually, that means one Mill Owners Ask New Valuations On Vast Holdings Urge Tax Adjustment In Meeting Here County Equalization Board to Art On Request Affecting Plants Worth $4,400,#00. Twenty mill owners representing property listed on the Cleveland county tax books at $4,400,000 met at the court house yesterday after noon to protest certain alleged dis crepancies of valuation place d on their plants and to try to work out with the county commissioners an equitable way to adjusting then complaint. At a meeting presided over by Joe E. Blanton, chairman of th? board of commissioners, mllj nun pointed out that valuations have not been taken since 1927, and that vast changes have taken place in textile properties since then Some feel that their plants, in com parison with others, are not being properly valued. 6 Dissatisfied. Of the twenty owners represent etf, six were completely dissatisfied with the present set-up and asked a review or re-valuation of their plants. A. G. Meyers, receiver for Tex tiles, Inc., who controls the Ora and Dilling Mills, was one of those who protested. Palling to reach an agreement yesterday, the mill men left with the understanding that their prob lem would be laid before the board cf equalization on Monday, that the board would take the matter under consideration until Friday, when another meeting with the mill rep resentatives wll be held. Board Will Act The equalization board, recently [appointed by the commissioners. Is composed of J. B. Nolan, W. J, Arey and E. L. Campbell. The board will cooperate with the mill men in an effort to reach a sat isfactory agreement. The mills, incidentlly, represent about one-seventh of the total as sessed valuation of the county—al most $28,000,000. Dr. Wall7. Brother Honored In Mitt. Roland R. Wall of Brookhaven, Miss., was last week re-elected pres ident of the Municipal officers as sociation, an organization of may ors of the various towns and cities of that state. Mr. Wall has been the mayor of Brookhaven, a beau tiful Mississippi city, for three terms. Swimming Pool To Open On Saturday The Cleveland Springs swimming pool, uncVr the management of Charles Wells and Wallace Mc GTnty will open for business Sat urday morning. A new and better system of supplying water for the pool has been put into use. The pool will remain open during the ’remainder of the summer. Charlotte Attempts To Shift Bond Load Members of the city council in Charlotte, meeting Wednesday aft ernoon, asked the board of county commissioners to assume $1,708,000 of school building bonds. This would decrease the city tax rate 13 cents and increase the county’s 10 cents. Babies Strangers To Own Mother SAC CITY. Iowa, June 14.—The Wycoff quadruplets are strangers to their mother. She sighed today and remarked that she’d only been allowed to see them once, and could not tell them apart. dollar a day, including Sundays. For the widows, there are 38 checks for $30 each for class B and 19 checks of $150 each for class A. This doesn’t mean there are only 18 surviving veterans in the coun ty, for all of them are not receiv ing the pension. Mr. Hamrick recalled that in 1927, just seven years ago, checks came for 72 class A soldiers, and that four negro laborers received $50 each. Only one class A widow received a check, but there were 106 in class B who received $50 each, in addition, there were four blind veterans' who received $35 a month They are all dead now. Been Married 66 Yean Squire and Mrs, J. Z. Falls of Shelby who have been married Sfl years. On December 26th next they will celebrate their 67th wedding anniversary. The Squire was tf? years old ia* l September and hi* wife who bo fore marriage was Sara Cline, was 8fi in May They have nine living children, four sone and five daugl) ters. Both parents enjoy good health, considering their ages. City And County Finances Excellent So Reports The Mayor And County Auditor Newton Receives Threashing Cards And You’re Supposed To Get And Sign One, Says Recently Dis covered But Aged Law. Register of Deeds A. F. Newton has Just received a batch of special blanks which threshermen are re quired to use this year. It seems that an old law was dis covered on the state statutes mak ing it mandatory of the register of deeds to notify operators and to Is sue free threshing license cards to each. This might, have slipped by but for the great need of official county acreage and production facts by the crop control county committees. Information Wanted The purpose is to provide reliable information on acres and produc tion of small grains and peanuts. It is best for this information to come directly from the growers and threshing records. The department of agriculture has really been considerate, by providing quite handy record^ books which the operators may* keep for their own usage. Hie county farm agent and ag ricultural teachers are probably familiar with this matter. Any | way, all operators of threshing ma I chines should see the register of {deeds at once about this matter. I - Dixon Is Defeated In Alabama Race ! _ | Cleveland County Man Loses In Contest For Governor As Precedent Is Broken Cleveland county's chance of claiming the governor of Alabama as native son was blasted In the returns yesterday. Frank M. Dixon of Birmingham, son of Frank Dixon of this county and grandson of the Rev. Tom Dixon, noted Baptist preacher here, was decisively de feated by Governor Bibb Graves, who broke a precedent of 30 years to be re-elected. Returns from 1,836 out of 2,185 boxes in yesterday’s run-off pri mary gave Graves 131,213 to 109,754 for Major Frank Dixon of Birming ham today. It was Graves' third race for the highest office in the gift of Ala bama Democrats, since nomination 4s equivalent to election. In 1922 ! Graves made an unsuccessful cam- j paign and offered again in 1926' when he was elected to serve the four years from January 1927 to! January 1931. Old Cotton Forms Are Received Here Application blanks for tag* to be attached to old cotton were received today by R. W. Shoffner, county agent and anyone who holds any number of bales of old cotton, may se cure them by calling at Shoff ner’s office. The law requires hat all old cotton must be tag ged with an official lag and to get the j lag . the application blanks must first be filled nut. County Tax Rate Lowest in Stale And Will Remain Same it Bud get la Approved. Mayor McMurry and County Au ditor Troy McKinney gave reviews of the city and county finances at the weekly luncheon of the Klwan is club, showing that both govern mental units are in spletodid finan cial condition, economically operat ed and that neither unit has de faulted in bonds or interest. “The city's bonded indebtedness is (1,095,000 and during the past year $114,000 was paid out for bonds and interest. Total collections for the year Just ending amounted to $243,466," said Mayor McMurry. who added that this is $3,000 short of the budget estimate of $348,000. The expenses have been $16,000 be low the budget estimate. $61, M3 was collected from the 1933 tax levy. Uncollected from last year's levy is about $18,000 although dur ing the year, $19,000 has been col lected for prior years." Operation of water and light de partments brought a gross revenue of $71,624 to be applied to bonds and interest, added the mayor. The Duke Power company from whom the city buys Its electric power was paid $49,348. The city has cash in the bank of $23,600 and today Is paying the last note of $2,800 on ‘.he fire truck obligation. County Rate The Same. The county tax basic rate will remain the same 36c; as last year, if the proposed budget for the next fiscal year Is approved, said Troy McKinney, county auditor. Mr. Mc Kinney said the county’s tax rate in 1889 was 66 2-3c; from 1880 to 1913 it remained at 86 2-3c. In 1919 it reached its peak of $1.30, but has since been declining, ranging from 90c to as low as 36c. Property values in the county were four millions in 1900, increas ed to a peak of 38 millions in 1930 and reduced to 28 millions in t933 when a horizontal 25 per cent re duction was made. Pointing out the folly otf long term bonds, Mr. McKinney cited the fact that in 1910, No. 6 town ship issued $100,000 road bonds to become falling due serially in 1933 For these 23 years No. 6 has paid $115,000 in interest and by 1944 when the bonds will have all be come due, the interest will amount ■ o $150,000 which added to the prin cipal will make the No. 6 roads " 'fit $25,000, or two and a half iiies as much as r?cei\ed. In calling attention to the city high school building, built with a bond issue of 35 thousand, the principal and interest will have amounted to $87,500 In 1937 when these bonds are due to be retired. Reports Are Expected On Precinct Elections Complete reports on elections of precinct committees and officers by Cleveland county Democrats arc expected tomorrow by Oliver An thony, county chairman, he said yesterday. Atlantic City Man To Head Kiwanians Dr. Wiliam J. Carrington of At *'»nt}c city wa< yesterday elected presi'’ *-f of Kiwanis infv: '(infI nl the of the I8lh annual con vention ir. Toronto yesterday. . Athlete Succumbs After Injection Of Common Serum Moore Ca«e Called One Injl0,000 Ei-Football Star Dies After I na tion of Tetanus Anti-Toxin; Treated For Slight Wound. William Hubert Moore, six-footer ind ex-football star, died on his re- ' turn to the hospital yesterday aft j ernoon after an Injection of tetntvr antl-toxln commonly admlnlstcn < by doctors to prevent blood-potxoi Inc after accidents. He had suffered a slight wound on the hand from n rusty nail, while working at the Weaver bridge between Shelby ana Sharon.' Doctors said this morning tlvu Mr. Moore’s death was “one In ten thousand," that he had no heart d* ( sease. and that his was the unusua' j case of a bad reaction to the toxin Treated at Hospital. j j Mr. Moore, better known here ft's J “Zeb” came to his cousin, Dr. D. F. , Moore, county physlblsn. to have his hand treated yesterday afternoon. < Dr. Moore dressed the wound, which , was slight, and sent him to the hos pital, where the tetanus antl-toxln!1 was administered. Accompanied by his uncle, J. An-1 drew Lattlmore, Mr. Moore was rid-1 tug up-town when the attack oc i urred. They stopped at the Clove >nd Drug store and Mr. Moore sat , 'own on a bench on the sldewa'b while his uncle went to get a dose of amonla. As he continued to suf fer, Dr. Robert Ollreath was called and Moore was rushed to the ho; pital In an ambulance. He died jU3t 1 as the automobile turned In the I driveway. t The serum Injected at the hos pital Is the same used daily to pre vent Infection. Dr. Moore explain -1 ed this morning that he had treated 1 several patients several hours be fore, and that his supply was cx- i haunted when hla cousin came In. < At the hospital. It was said that In jections from the same supply used ) for Moore had been given to other,! patients with no 111 effect the same day. < Mr. Moors, who was a farmer in ' the -Sharon community, was ' th son Of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Moore He was the picture of health, hart I a remarkable physique, ahd had 1 played football for several years at 1 Bolling Springs Junior college. ‘ He Is survived by his parents, tlvojl brothers, Halys, Buren. Howard, '' George and Joe; two sisters, Jessie 1 Lou and Mary Lee. He had been a member of ih- i Boiling Springs Baptist church for more than seven years. Funeral 1 services will be conducted Satur- ‘ day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the ■ Poplar Springs Baptist church, with the Rev. J. L. Jenkins, poster of the • Bolling Springs church, officiating ’ Few Responding To | June’s Vernal Urge That’* To gay, Only Seven Marriage Licensee Have Been Issued In Cleveland This Month. Moonlight and roses and June nights notwithstanding. or even sitting on laps—romance chills be fore the cold figures of A. F. New ton's office. You’d think the young folks would be responding more heartily | to. the vernal urge for light house keeping. boy and girl, but apparent ly they’re not. In other words, | mighty few of them are getting I married today, according to the rec- * ords In the register's office. Maybe they’re still hiking over to Chero kee county, where marriage certi ficates are sold at cut rate, but here t you are: It's June, and only seven licenses Issued so far in Cleveland There were eight In May, same a« last year. ( Still, Mr. Newton said he believ ed marrying was showing a slight upswing, along with other businesses under the new deal. He’s register ed more deeds recently, too. Democrats Face 2 Controversies In Sales Tax and Constitution RALEIGH, June 14.—Neither the aalea tax nor the % proposed new state constitution will find favor at the state convention to be held here next Thursday, according to veteran observers. No one doubts that the conven tion will acclaim the administra tions of President Roosevelt and Governor Ehringhaus, but.the tax and the constitution are controver sal matters—even if the tax is Gov ernor Ehringhaus’ own child. The sales tax is probably tht most bitterly controvert e tion la'.-eci slnr- ■ ’ .v . nn •I p i ; m wrote suffrage p»ograms into their Slight Rise Shown In County Budget For Yeur to Come Free Beans To Cases On Relief Families on relief are asked to come at once to the office of Harry Woodson, relief ad mlnlstrator, and get a quan tity of snap ben ns, shlpp-'d here yesterday from Eastern Carolina where the market It 'llutted. The snaps were pur chased by the state adminis trator for distribution In Coup ties where the crop is short Mr. Woodson has 300 bush ids for tree distribution to fam tries on relief. They are ad vised to “eat all they can and can what they can’" for later use. Only families on relict will be eligible to the beans. 100 Bushels Beans roBeCannedHere \s Relief Project >ln«lon Vegetables Arrive In Hhel by. County Buys Cooker for , Future Use. Three hundred bushels of fresh tins ton snap beans, which will iroduce 9,800 quarts when canned, rrived yesterday at the Cleveland county federal relief office. These beans are part of 4,500 tampers distributed by the state relief ofices,, and the move has al* eady resulted in raising the price >f beans in soma localities. The state relief organisations are tot making these purchases above he market, but are simply taking the surplus stock 0 the bean gfrnw ng sections and transferring it to he sections where there is a scar rtty of the commodity. When prices life above the cost of ploklng, pack tig and transporting these organ satlons will cease to buy. These trganisations simply are buying the tock that otherwise would be tlowed under or left In the fields j md making It available for relief amllies. Other counties receiving bean i hlpments Included Rowan. Dur ham, Guilford, Iredell, Forsyth, ■fecklenburg, Union, Avery, Burke, ishe, Cabarrus, Chatham, Gaston, llleghany and Alexander. Counties from which beans were hipped include Carteret, Sampson, Vayne and Duplin. One truckload of cabbage was hipped from Lumberton to Char otte to be distributed through the ellef organisation. In most places emergency rellei abor was being used to pick snd mck these beans. Bob Turner To Fly Here Over Week End Bob Turner, air pilot of Spartan burg. 8. C., will be in Shelby Sat urday and Sunday and fly his Cur tis-Roblns cabin plane. Mr. Turner has a fine record of flying to his credit and brings a late model plane to the city. He will operate rrom the Henry Byers flying He'd In South Shelby. 3 Get Diplomas At State College j Three Cleveland county seniors i received their diplomas from Sta* :■; ollege Tuesday, among the 284 aho were graduated. They were Thomas Mitchell Farris of Shelbv Hal Sloan Plonk of Kings Moun- < lain and Myron Alexander Rhyo-’ cf Kings Mountain ■latforms. Even so. North Carolina ras against suffrage, so much j gainst it that the Democrats beat > Jardner for governor on account if It. With this general and contra die-1 ory record on constitutional and egisiative questions It is not likely hat there wiN be a sales tax or i constitutional declaration unless here is a tremendous fight for it. rhe question now is whether Gov rnor Ehringhaus will ask that this lght be made as a part of his ad ninist ration. In 1920 the R*'( u aitei ] I i Continued on page U.01 Sh»»» HInc Of $6,7R4 Over Previous Year; No Salaries Itmtfd This Time. Clevelands county cotnmlsalonn J have drawn up their budget for the.f fiscal year ending July 1, 1935, and are advertising It, today In Itemlaed form so that taxpayers may suggest or criticise before final adoption after 20 days. In their tentative estimate, , set * forth In easily understandable form I by County Auditor Troy V. McKin ney, the commissioners set up sum of $176,855.34, Just $6,764.60 more than last year. This differ ence Is found in increased approp riations for a contingent fund, in a larger smn for maintenance of J school buildings, and In slight In crease for office expenses in all de partments. in no instances have salaries been raised. For The General Fund The total amount set up for the general fund Is $46,365, which In i ludes all salaries, administrative ex penses, tax collection costa and. election expenses. The total for the poor fund, which carries an In crease from $800 to $1,060 for a welfare officer. Is $23,660. This compares with $19,550 for last year. '■’he total for bond maturities and Interest is $96,640 34, which include* the No. 6 township hospital fund. For the county schools, exclusive of debt service, the total is 116,000. ius against $6,000 last year. A sum of $700 for a home dem onstrator, which does not appear on last year's budget, and an Increase of $1,000 in the contingent fund swell the total for the general fund, which is approximately $3,000 more than last year. In studying the estimates, it 1.* well to bear in mind that practie slly all offices In court house are 5 self-supporting. Such departments as the recorder's court, for instance show a large profit for the county Players Will Give Barry Play Tonight l ainoiM Comedy, “The Youngest." Will Be Presented At High School. Winding up a month of intensive dramatic study under the direction of Paul H. Neal, the Community . Players will present Philip Barry’a famous "The Youngest” tonight at the high echoed auditorium. The sparkling drama had a long run on Broadway, and is famous through* out the United States. The play will present an entire* ly different cast from "The Heart Exchange," which was given by the club last Friday night. Heading the cast are James Sheppard, In the role of the youngest, and Harriet Gldney. Six other talented persons will appear in the produc tion. | The program wil begin at 8:1# o'clock. As a result of an invitation by the South Shelby P. T. A.. the players will repeat "The Heart Ex changr ' at the South Shelby school on Thursday night, June 31. This play caused such favorable comment, that many requests have beeh received by the club to pre sent it again here. Baptists To Hold Drive In November Southern Baptists will hold their nnual every member canvass No mber 4 to December 9 this year. The dates were fixed yesterday py the convention executive commit tee in Nashville, Term. Tlaleij?h Will Gel Radio For Police RALEIGH, June 14.—A ehwt ave radio station is soon to be es tablished for the Raleigh police de partment. Five patrol cars and two motorcycles will keep in touch with headquarters. Buy Causeways Examination of title to th? Wrightsville Beach and Atlantic Beach causeways, which the state budget commission has decided to purchase with highway funds, be gins today, and formal transfer of the property will take place short ly. Miss Ruth Whealton of Spartan burg. S. C ' »s the attractive guest rf Miv- Katherine Morgan on W. Marion street.
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