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( III-) VIIka N d L- EUID K l Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot _... 12 to 13c Cotton seed, ton, wagon -23.00 Cotton «eed, ton. csrlots_25.00 Thundershowers North Carolina Weather Report: Local thundershowers this afternoon and tomorrow. Hitler Asks Aid A new crisis In the Nazi govern ment sent Chancellor Adolf Hitler speeding by plane to apeal for help to President von Hindenburg, for mer German war lord, who controls the allegiance of the regular army, and who can, by law, depose Hitler If he wishes. After a cabinet meet ing In which he had failed to de pose von Hindenburg’s old friend, von Papen, Hitler sped to the presi dent, who anounced that he held the regular army responsible for von Papen’s safety. Get Big Raise Railroad workers have approxi mately fifteen millions more to spend now, with one-fourth of their 10 per cent deduction from pay checks restored on July 1. This was the first restoration after the com promise agreement between work ers and management. Hits Speculation Violent opposition to gambling ir stock market was disclosed by Jo seph P. Kennedy, chairman of the new securities and exchange com mission. He made it plain to re porters yesterday that he Intended to go the full limit in eradicating manipulation and deception in the markets. Name Miss Cobb Mrs Palmer Jerman’s successor a? national committee woman from North Carolina will provode a real contest within the Democratic party—and chairman J. Wallace Winbome holds the cards by virtue of the time element. He can call a committee meeting soon and stop a campaign for the job if he wishes. Miss Beatrice Cobb, pub lisher of the Morganton News-Her ald, la prominently named for th6 post. Fight In ’Frisco Amid fierce fighting between po lice and union pickets, and despite repeated appeals by the president for pace, heavily-laden trucks be gan to move cargoes yesterday from the strike-locked docked of Sac Francisco, Two officers were injur - Ac1 ed in the fighting. To Check Banks The first unified check-up of ad the banks of the country was or dered yesterday by the United States treasury. Statements as ol June 30 are called for all national banks; the federal reserve board and the federal deposit Insurance corporation making the same de mands. J Abandon Arc&de To Regain Grants For Two Schools High School Project Is Sacrificed to Get PWA FUNDS for the Dover and Negro Schools. By abandoning plans for the Shel by High School arcade, members of the boards of county commission ers and education in joint session yesterday afternoon, saw a way clear to retain PWA school grants that were about to slip out of their grasp. Superintendent of City Schools Captain B. L. Smith, just back from Raleigh; had acted swiftly on re ceiving a telegram from PWA offiv ials telling him that unless work started immediately on the Dover, negro and high school projects, funds would be withdrawn. Bids Exceeded Grant Work could not start at once be cause contractors’ bids on these three projects exceeded the amount of the grants, and had therefore been rejected. Withdrawal of the long-talked of arcade was seen as the only meas ure which would allow the other two important projects to continue. This grant, of $4,000, will be ap plied t the other schools, with the PWA permission, and contracts will be let to the previous low bidders. Quinn Will Attend Postmasters Meeting Postmaster J. H. Qumn of Shelby will attend the state convention ol the National League of District Postmasters to be held in North Wilkesboro Friday and Saturday of this week. Company K Ready For Trip To Coast Shelby's Company K boys will leave Saturday for their annual en campment at Morehead City — 64 men and three officers. A com plete roster of the company will be published in Friday’s Star. VOL. XL. No. 80 SHELBY, N. G. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. *y Matt par pu. (to adraoaai _ S3.M Carrlar. oar jaar. (ta adraoeai _ UN Figures In Grim Drama Of German Revolution With a ruthlessness and completeness reminiscent of the French revolution, Adolf Hitler, German chancellor and Nazi chief, crushed a reported rebellion that brought scores of executions among his own subordinates and monarchist “conspirators”. Here are the principal characters in the tense drama: (1) President Paul von Hindenburg, whose illness adds seriousness to the present crisis; (2) Vice Chan cellor Franz von Papen, monarchist Junker protege of the president; (3) Gen. Hermann Goering, Prussian prime minister; (4) Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a typical oratorical pose; (5) Dr. Joseph Goebbels, minister for propaganda and enlightenment; (6) Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm; (7) Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank; (8) Nari storm troopers; (9) the famed “Brown House” at Munich, national headquarters of the Naris in which “mutinous" leaders were trapped; (10) Reichswehr, Germany’s' official army. Women’s Appeal Gets Home Agent; Board Gives $950 State Contributes Like Amount; Selevcion to be Made Soon After Consultin Club. The board of county commission ers, which declined to pay the ex penses of a home demonstrator when it took office almost two years ago, on Monday acceded to the pleas of a group of Home Dem onstration club women and allotted $990 to pay the salary of an agent The state -will contribute another $950 bringing the salary to $1,900, and the agent will be selected by th commissioners after consultation with members bf the home demon stration clubs, Mrs. Huff Hamrick of Boiling Springs is president of the council that went before the board Monday. The commissioners have for some time recogniized the need of a dem onstration agent for Cleveland, and in June set up the sum of $600 in the budget for this purpose. Word from Raleigh, however, was that this sum would not be sufficient to pay a qualified woman. It is expected that the selection will be made soon. Official Canvass Upholds Reports In Second Primary Only One Small Error Made In Telephone Figures At Star’s Election Party Saturday. Only one error was contained in the unofficial report of Saturday’s second primary contest for Demo cratic nomination to the State House of Representatives, John P. Mull, chairman of the county board of elections, said yesterday. In the report from Ward 1, Shel by, Ernest Gardner was credited with 244 votes instead of 240. This changes his official majority over J. B. Smith from 367 votes to 363. In Gardner’s home town of Fall ston, he won 217 votes against 61 for Smith. Although this was prominently mentioned in the Star’s news story on Monday, some con fusion resulted from a mis-print in the tabulation. The 217 figure is correct. County Changes Budget for Farm Agency Work Here County Schools Open July 23 Just 19 more days for county boys and girls to frolic before the school bell rings. The Cleveland county board of education yesterday an* nounced that the 68 county schools would open this year on July 23 In* the 16 districts, 36 white schools and 32 colored. They will stay open until cot ton picking time, when most of. their pupils will drop readin’ and writin’ and help their par ents garner the bolls from the fields. Gardner To Fly To Brazil Soon Spending July In Shelby, Then Takes Flying Trip To South America. WASHINGTON, July 3.—Former Governor O. Max Gardner left Washington tonight for Shelby, where he will spent the month of July. On August 1, Mr. Gardner will leave New York for Brazil on the new 45-passenger Pan-American airship "Sikorsky” which was built for transatlantic service but will first be placed on a South American run. After attending ceremonies in Brazil, Mr. Gardner will return to New York on the airship on August 17. The former North Carolina chief executive is counsel for the aero nautical Chamber of Commerce, as well as for shipping and textile in terests of the government and has one of the largest practices in Washington before governmental departments. Miss Allie Nooe of Charlotte ar rived this week to spend some time here visiting her sister, Mrs. J. T. Gardner on West Marion street. I $9,000In Taxes Paid In Advance, i But It Irks The McKinney Scotch More than $9,000 on 1934-35 taxes have been paid to Cleveland Countj during the past week, Troy V. Mc Kinney, tax supervisor, said yester day—with a wry grin. Not that Troy V. doesn't relist getting in the money. But It does Irk his Bcotchness to see on each of a number of corporation checks the 3 per cent reduction for pay ing ahead of time. That comes tc $270 in the present batch of checks And it figures more than that, ll you look at it another way. That 3 per cent is for paying taxes five months ahead of time You can wait until January to pay your 1934-35 taxes and receive neither discount nor penalty. So— the county is paying 7 1-2 per cent per year for this early money, which it doesn’t particularly need right now. This month, the premium is 2 1-2 per cent and so on until Novem ber when it will be one-half of one per cent. Beginning in February, 1935, a 1 per cent penalty, gradu ally rising, will be exacted. So—here’s one chance to worry the tax collector—by paying your taxes in advance. New Home Agent Will Arrive To* morrow To Enter Duties— Shoffner Assistant to Leave Unless the county commissioners let their agreement remain, to ap propriate *1,200 for the mainten ance of the office of county farm agent Shoffner and his assistant A. D. Stuart, the assistant which name upn the Job about two weeks ago will be called away by the State Extension Department. Considerable negotiations have been under way between the state extension department and the county commissioners within the last month relative to the county farm and home agents. With re ference to the home agent, the com missioners set $600 in their budget for the present fiscal year but the extension department said this was not enough to get a trained worker. At the regular meeting of the com missioners on Monday, the appro priation was increased to *950 and this is acceptable. Members of the home clubs were asked to recom mend a leader who would be satis foctory to them and on Thursday Miss Current, district supervisor will arrive in Shelby, accompanied by a home agent. Her name, however, has not been learned, but she is said to be a trained leader and ac ceptable both to the club women and to the state department. With reference to the farm agent, the state department proposed that if the commissioners would appro priate *14100 a year, Shoffner would be given an assistant and the bal ance of the pay for the two men would be met by the state and Fed eral department as long as the Ag ricultural Adjustment Administra tion functions. About two weeks ago the board agreed to appropri ate this amount, but made no rec ord of it in the minutes. Their action, however, brought A. D. Stuart and he has entered upon his duties. At the regular meeting on Monday of this week, the board agreed to appropriate *950 for the farm agent with an assistant this being the same amount appropri ated for .the home agent. When Dean I. O. Schaub of Raleigh was notified of their action, a telegram came back immediately saying that the appropriation was sufficient to maintain Shoffner, but not suffici ent to Justify the keeping of his assistant. An adjourned meeting of the board will be held Thursday at which time it is thought further consid eration will be given to the agency problems. Also the tax rate will be set, the budget approved and un paid bills will be gone over. Ladies Appeal To Board For Library A delegation of ladles appeared before the city council last night and made an appeal for an increase in the city's monthly appropriation to maintain the Shelby Public li brary. At present the city contri butes $30 per month to the support o ft£e library. No action was taken by the board last night. They have taken the matter under advisement until the city’s budget is finally set up within the next few days. { Max Gardner Acts As Duke Counsel In Power Dispute Former Governor Appear* Before PWA Board In Effort To Bar Grant. WASHINGTON, July S —O. Max Gardner, former governor of North Carolina, appeared yesterday before the Public Works Review board as couneel for the Duke Power com pany In Its efforts to block allot ment of 92,707,000 to Greenwood county, S. C., for construction of a publicly owned power plant, which, the company contends, would be nothing but a "governmental sub sidy” to a South Carolina textile manufacturer. “It would be unfair and unjust for one textile manufacturer, under the guise of federal control, to come Into use of 80 per cent of the pow er that would be produced by the proposed Oreenwood plant,” Mr, Gardner declared. Beneficiaries Protest Beneficiaries of the Duke foun dation, created in 1924 by the late James B. Duke, North Carolina power and tobacco millionaire, Join ed in asking the Public Works Board of Review to disapprove the allocation, granted last week but held up pending a hearing. Henry T. Hunt, chairman of the review board, indicated an early de cision would be made. He said no adverse action would be taken with out giving representatives of Green wood county an opportunity to be heard, and added the board might decide tomorrow whether or not to call them to Washington. Objectors Heard Only objectors to the allocation Including the heads of several edu cational and charitable institutions In North Carolina and South Car olina, which benefit from the Duke foundation were heard today. The contention that the allot ment would be a "governmental subsidy” to James Self, a Green wood county textile manufacturer was based on the ground that his three mills would use approximately 80 per cent of the power that wou'd be produced by the proposed hydro electric plant on the Saluda river. Self, it was pointed out, Is not a customer of the Duke Power com pany, using current produced local ly by a steam plant, which, It was said, Is included as a part of the proposed project In order to sup plement the water power. “It would be merely a subsidy to Mr. Self, who would receive 83 per cent of the power produced at the perfectly ridiculous rate of 8 1-2 mills,” said W. R. Perkins of New York, vice president of the Duke Power company. The Duke company also said the project would cost more than esti mated and would not be self-li quidating, and that its operation would be unfair to the Duke Inter ests, ultimately decreasing if not de stroying the fundatlon’s share In the profits. Files Protest J Hayden Burke, candidate for Judge In the 17th, yesterday file'1 TOte't against allejcn 1—egulariHe-, .q the victory of J. A. Roussca with the state board of elections. Postpone Tagging Of Old Cotton to First of August Announce 2nd Delay In Bankhead Act Law Will B* Carried Out m Blmpl.v w Ponaible. Cotton Glnners Told By Revenue Department. Tagging of cotton ginned prior to June 1 will be deferred until August 1, according to a letter re ceived here today by J. O. Propel, of the Planters and Merchants Warehouse Oo, from John J. Parks, regional supervisor of the depart ment of agriculture. M. R, Biggers of Patterson Springs la official cotton tagger for Cleveland County. R, w. Shoffner. county agent, estimates that be tween twelve and fifteen thousand bales will be tagged here. Second Postponement Postponement of the tagging is the second delay. It has meant, and means again, considerable con fusion at railroad centers, where It Is not known whether certain loads of cotton can be dispatched or not. WASHINGTON. July J—Cotton glnners throughout the cotton belt were advised today by the agricul tural adjustment administration that there will be very little “red tape” connected with their respon sibilities under the Bankhead cot ton act. The administration based Its statement on an Interpretation of the Bankhead act In relation tc i glnners prepared for It by the bu reau of Internal revenue. This showed the procedure allowed un der the law la extremely simple. Issue Statement k The statement waa issued ne ' cause numerous glnners who have misunderstood the provisions and , operation of the Bankhead act have complained recently about the “red tape" which they feared would be connected with Its administration c The act levies a tax of 60 pet i cent of the average central market . price per pound of lint cotton, which i has been determined as 113* cents . on all cotton ginned above the 10,* . 460,381 bale* of 476 pounds net I weight fixed as the maximum to be L ginned tax-free. Under the statute the average central market price , may be again determined should the . secretary of agriculture deem It de 5 slrable. In no case, however, mas the tag be less than five cents i 5 pound. r Issue Bale Tags Bale tags are to be Issued to gln ners who will attach them to all j producer surrenders tax-exemption cotton ginned this season when the certificates covering the amount ol the cotton ginned, or when he paye the tax. While these bale tags must be ! stored safely, the act does not re 1 quire them to be kept In a safe ■ The same office equipment used foi 1 safekeeping gin records under lock ! could be considered, In the Judg f ment of some glnners, a safe stor age place for bales tags. i Enlarge Cotton Warehouse Here WUl Have A Capacity Of 15.000 Bales When Completed. 100* 100 Foot Addition. An addition of 100 by 100 feet is being built to the Planters and Merchants Warehouse on the South ern railroad near the Southern Cotton Oil company on S. Morgan * street that will store from 1,500 to 2,000 additional bales of cotton. This is a bonded warehouse and one of the largest in this section An addition was built a year or so ago and when this unit is complet ed the entire storage space will cars for about 15,000 bales, it was learn ed this morning from R. T. Le Grand, one of the officials of the warehouse company. Lincoln Man Seeking Vast Gran tFrom PWA In New Power Project Parents * Eyes Dan nr GatltU 1 "lye* oi the world” for Ms blind parent*, Danny Gutilla, above, ' four-year-old eon of Dr. and Mr*. , Anthony Gutilla, of Bellefontaine, O., keeps hi* father and mother abreast of eurrent news by read ing to them from the dally news papers, although It will be two years yet before ha M concerned with school. Some of the big words, of course, he cannot read, so he spells them out. Harrehon Named To Be New Head Of State College Cleveland County Man la Selected Under "Greater University” Plan for Carolina. Col. J. W. Harrelson, native of Lawndale, has been appointed dean of N. C. State College at Raleigh, President Oraham of the University of North Carolina announced yes terday. His mother and aunt, Mrs. Andrew Spangler live on Lee street, Shelby. President Graham named W. C. Jackson dean of Woman's College In Greensboro and R. B. House dean at Chapel Hill. Naming of the administrative deans was seen as the step com pleting the merger of the three schools which was started by a legislative act of 1031. Last month at Raleigh, when the plan to name the dean was announced, former Gov. O. Max Gardner, who spon | sored the consolidation legislation, described the proposal as complet ing the merger. Favor Graham Policies Each of the new deans to wore under President Graham is known * to favor the policies of the head of the "greater university," and without delay they are expected to take the helm of each Institution. > When the posts of “dean of ad l ministration” were created by the board of trustees last month, it was i planned that the new officers take : charge yesterday, but their appolnt > ments could not be made before today. I As a result of the trustees’ ac tion in June, yesterday saw the re tirement from active service of Dr. J. I. Foust of Woman’s college and Dr. E. C. Brooks of State college Each had served as head of his In stitution before and after the mer ger, and now they are presidents emeritus of the respective colleges. Governor Ehringhaus Asks End Of Gas Price Discrimination RALEIGH, July 3.—Unusual dis criminations against North Carolina seemed to have been uncovered to day when Governor J. C. B. Eh rlnghaus summoned gasoline dealers to Raleigh and asked them why North Carolina pays so much more for its motor fuel than Virginia does. His excellency with a large num ber of wholesalers In his office ask ed them to end the discriminations against North Carolina. Travelers who have been going north have been good Virginia advertisers or. their return. The Virginia fining tations undersell North Caroline } much more than the service differ ential indicates. Virginia does not owe the money that North Carolina does and rates of interest on bor rowed money are much smaller. But the filling stations in the mother of presidents cut as much as five cents a gallon under North Caro lina in many instances. The governor referred to the next general assembly. He will have that body with him in January, 1935. There are two ways to interpret his sayings. The 1935 general assembly may be committeed to a diversion it the highway funds. It also may be tied hopelessly to the proposal to (Continued on page eight! I W. H. Child. Offer. Plan To Serve All Nearby Town. Offers Idea To Shelby, De* Haring He Haa Reeeir* ed Encouragement. Possibility of town# and cities in this section of the state producing their own power at greatly reduced rates through erection of a plant with PWA fund# wa# discussed with Shelby citi zens yesterday by W. H. Childs of Lincolnton, one of the incorporators of the Pied mont Electric Company, Inc. Mr. Childs, who has received con siderable encouragement from PWA and other government officiate In hie endeavors to obtain a PWA grant for a non-profit power pro ducing company, hopes that Shel by will be one of the oltlee to Join the group, provided the grant is ae rated. Receives Encouragement i While no definite commitment has been made by the PWA Mr. Childs says that the request is be ing given favorable attention In Washington and that he believes with enough interest being shown by towns and cities In Piedmont North Carolina the grant will be made. It the plan of the Piedmont oomp eny la made, all construction will be under the supervision of PWA engineers who will likewise decide where the plant will be located to be most economical In operation in relation to towns served and all contracts will be supervised by the PWA to aee that the entire opera tions of tbs company will be op a non-profit baste, Mr. ChiUte states. Oltlee Represented The proposal, briefly, la that aeon town or city entering into the agree* ment aa a member will be entitled to one member on the board of true* tees, the person representing the city being its mayor in all cases. The only other membera of the board of trustees will be a man named by the PWA and, possibly, one named by the state corpora tion commission. No money will be raised looally. No bonds will be issued and sold. The only requirement is that the cities snter into a contract with the corporation for a period of go years to buy current at cost, guaranteed coet to be not more than one cent per kwh. Opinion of PWA engineers, it is understood, is that current can be produced and dis tributed to the towna and citiae suggested at a cost of less than half a cent per kilowatt hour. Any saving under the cent will at the end of each year be credited to each city, based, of course, on the kwh. consumption of each city. 20-Year Amortisation The arrangement is for amorti sation during a period of 30 yean, the one cent maximum being deem ed sufficient by PWA englneen to take care of operations of the plant, distribution of the power, maintenance of lines, apd amorti sation of costs during (his period. At the expiration of the twenty years stock in the corporation will be Issued to the towna and cities on a basis of amount of power used. The corporation will not sell power to any firm or Individual; sales will be made only to cities or towns. These municipalities, in turn, may make any necessary ar rangements to sell to industries and individuals, such as textile and other plants. While each town can set its own rate for sale to manu facturing plants it is proposed that a rate of 1.002 be set. the .002 be ing a guaranteed profit to the town and any cost under 1 cent per kwh being that much additional profit to the town. It is also recommended that the towns decrease the rate to its citi zens with the view that with a rate reduction, which can easily be granted on account of reduced ^pri mary cost, larger amounts of elec tricity will be used with correspond ing increase of profit to the city. New Air Mail Rate Is Put In Effect Postmaster J. H. Quinn an nounces a new rate on air mail which went into effect on July 1. The former rate was eight cents for the first ounce or fraction there of, and thirteen cents for each ad ditional ounce The new schedule '’alls for six for the first ounce or free, on .hereof, and six cents for each additional ounce.
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