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THE MARKETS
Cotton, spot .. 12 to 13c
, Cotton seed, ton, wagon_23.00
r Cotton «eed. ton, carlots 25.00
Thundershowers
Weather forecast for North Caro
lina: Local thundershowers today
and tomorrow.
Cotton Estimate
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The De
portment of Agriculture today esti
mated cotton under cultivation July
1 at twenty-eight million four hun
dred thousand acres, compared with
forty million eight hundred and
fifty two thousand at the corres
ponding dote last year. The AAA
seeks to limit the 1934 harvest to
between twenty-five and twenty-sis
million acres. Estimates for North
Carolina on July 1 this year were
announced as nine hundred and
seventy-seven thousand acres, as
against one million three hundred
and twenty thousand acres last year.
New Labor Board
WASHINGTON, July 9. —Presi
dent Roosevelt’s picked triumverate
, J of labor mediators were formally
f organised today as the new National
Labor Relations Board and were
immediately confronted with grave
situations, with strikes and blood
shed In disputes throughout the
country.
The March
Of Events
Warn. Of War
AdoU Hitler’s alter ego, Rudolph
Hess, made a speech yesterday in
which he defied the world to at
tack Germany, sounded a warning
against impending war, and plead
ed for an understanding with Ger
man’s traditional enemy, France.
His speech, translated and broad
cast to the world, was made to Nazi
chieftians just a week after the
bldody “purge" of the Nazi party.
German government activities were
suspended Saturday as plans were
made to reconstruct the Reich and
consolidate the strength of the
party.
Set Plane Bases
As England moves toward build
ing the greatest air fleet in the world
for national defense, France was re
ported yesterday as being willing
to let her establish airplane bases
on the continent to combat possible
future attack.
Rockefeller 111
John D. Rockefeller was 95 years
old yesterday, but not feeling well.
For the first time In years he was
too ill to receive visitors or to at
tend church on his anniversary. He
is at Lakewood, N. J.
Unrest Spreads
Labor unrest which led the bloody
riots on tile San Francisco water
fronts last week spread omniously
yesterday. The powerful teamster
union, with 2,500 members, voted to
walk out on Thursday, the butchers
voted to strike, and at least 10 of
the 229 unions in the city were
ready to join the walkout.
Johnson Relaxes
General Hugh S. Johnson won’t
be cracking down with his Blue
Eagle any more. He’s delegated that
task to subordinates this summer,
and will retire from the news pic
ture temporarily, acting only when
his personal decision is necessary.
A “board of directors” will have
charge of NRA while the General
takes a vacation.
Farmers Rush Mill
With New Wheat
Over 3,000 Bushels Received In
Single Day. Customers From
13 Counties.
From dawn until dark farmers
from thirteen counties of North and
South Carolina were arriving with
wheat and leaving with their
flour and feed or money for wheat
sold.
On Saturday over three thousand
bushels of wheat were sold or ex
changed for flour and feed.
During the week over fifteen
thousand bushels were delivered.
This wheat was grown in Cleve
land, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba,
Burke, Rutherford, McDowell and
Polk counties in North Carolina and
Spartanburg, Cherokee, Chester and
Union counties in South Carolina.
The quality of wheat this year is
good but not as good on an aver
age as for the last two years.
The best wheat of the year so far
received was from Toy B. Webb of
near Beaver Dam church. This
wheat was of the Coker Red heart
variety and weighed 61 1-2 pounds
to a measured bushel.
This mill furnishes a ready mar
ket for wheat and corn at all time?
and expects this year to pay farm
ers of this section more than fifty
thousand dollars in cash for wheat
sold besides the wheat exchanged
for flour.
VOL. XL No. 82
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. JULY 9. 1984
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Miss Cobb Named
Likely Candidate
For National Post
Gets Strong Support
In Burke County
Morganton Editor It Put Forward to
' Succeed Mrs. Jerman As N. C.’s
Democratic Commttteewomen
RALEIGH, July 8.—Miss Beatrice
Cobb, publisher of the Morganton
News Herald, is being put forward
by her friends all over the State for
the past of national committee
woman to succeed Mrs. T. Palmer
Jerman, Raleigh, who has resigned
as a result of the Washington order
prohibiting federal officials from
holding political positions. The
place is to be filled by the national
Democratic Executive Committee,
but upon recommendation of the
State Democratic committee.
Miss Cobb has been a newspaper
publisher for a number of years,
succeeding to the Morganton paper
which was left the family upon the
death of her father. She has been
particularly successful as a pub
lisher, and her ability has been uti
lized by the North Carolina Press
Association, which has kept her as
its secretary for a dozen years.
Aided Sightless
In adition to her civic and com
munity work. Miss Cobb has been
interested as a director of the State
School for the Blind at Raleigh, and
of the State School for the Deaf at
Morganton. She was one of the
most faithful of the groups named
to promote the interests of those
deprived of sight or speech.
Also, Miss Cobb has been an ac
tive and aggressive Democrat and
has held several important political
posts. She was a delegate from
North Carolina to the Democratic
National Conventions of 1928 and
1932. She has been a delegate to
the State Democratic Convention
a number of times and served as
secretary of the recent convention.
Also, she is a member of the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
Supported in Burke
The Burke county Democratic ex
ecutive committee adopted a strong
resolution recently endorsing MisS
Cobb for national committeewoman,
citing her many qualifications for
the post. It would not be at all
surprising, in fact, probably the
normal thing, if the editors, to
gather this week in annual conven
tion at Banner Elk, adopt a reso
lution offering Miss Cobb, their
official for so many years, as their
choice for national committeewoman
for North Carolina.
Carolina Officials
To Deliver Bonds
RALEIGH, July 8.—Dr. ‘John
Dickinson, assistant Secretary at
Commerce, has been added to the
list of speakers who will address
the 62nd annual convention of the
North Carolina Press association at
Banner Elk Julyll-13. He will speak
at the night session Thursday, July
12.
Dr. Dickinson is a former law
partner of William G. McAdoo and
is looked upon as one of the ablest
men in the “little cabinet.”
Lower Acreage Is
Cause Of Spurt In
Cotton Price Today
Cotton took a spurt of forty
points or $2 a bale on the New
York exchange today after the
Census Bureau Issued Its esti
mate of the acreage. The gov
emmate finds that 28,024,000
acres have been planted to cot
ton under the reduction pro- i
gram and as this is considerable
less than twenty nine millions
expected, the price had a sudden I
jump and was holding well at
noon today. i
Newton Says Siamese Twin Could Wed Here
Denied permission to marry in New York and New Jersey because she is a Siamese twin, rr.c -haued Violet
Hilton and her would-be bridegroom, Maurice L. Lambert, orchestra leader, have decided to launch a legal
battle for a license. Andy Newton, who issues marriage licenses in Cleveland county says ‘TU be glad to give
them a license. As I see it,’ there is nothing in the law here to prevent it.* You issue them the invitation, and
I'll issue the license.”
Burglars Crack Safe, Get
$600 While Two Look On
Witnesses Held Back By Womenfolks As 3
Marauders Leisurely Victimize Coca
Cola And Produce Companies.
Prevented from interfering by frightened womenfolk,
two men with guns peered through the darkness from their
respective homes Friday night and saw three burglars crack
the safe of the Cdca-Cola bottling works, rob the Carolina
Fruit and Produce Co., and walk leisurely away with more
than $600 cash.
Dog Saves Life
Of Shelby Man;
Lightning Strikes
Lightning Strikes Pole In Curtis
town, Damages RatNo And
Bed.
A dog scratching in the door to
get into the home of Mr. Walker in
Curtlstown. no 4cubt saved Wal
ter’s life during the thunderstorm
Saturday night. Mr. Walker was
lying on the bed, but got up to let.
the persistent dog in out of the
storm. While he was at the door,
lightning struck the bed and tore a
hole in the mattress.
During the thunderstorm, light
ning struck one of the city’s elec
tric light poles and ran in several
homes. In the home of Mr. McEn
tire, a radio cabinet was splintered
and pieces thrown into another
room.
Several electric meters were
burned out and slight property
damage was done, but no one was
hurt.
Hoyle Loses Post
In Revenue Dept.
R. A. Hoyle of Shelby, deputy
•evenue collector in charge of sales
ax collections in Cleveland County,
s one of the state department offic
es recently dismissed in the de
sartment’s current shake-up and
iconomy move. No successor has
jeen named for Mr. Hoyle, and it
vas reported'today that none would
>e, it being, understood that his work
vill be assumed by collectors from
>ther districts.
A bandonedFleetwood Hotel Seen
As A Possible Hostelry For TVA
RALEIGH, July 8.—The incom
plete Fleetwood hotel, occupying a
high point on Jump Off Mountain
overlooking Hendersonville, would
be purchased by the Tennessee Val
ley Authority, completed and used
as a housing place for the many
officials and employees of that or
ganization in its development of
the impounding lake on the French
Broad river, near Asheville, if that
plan is completed, if a suggestion cf
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the
state highway and Public Works
commission is followed.
Mr. Jeffress is back from a trip
to Asheville and the mountain sec
tion and brings back that sugges
tion. The TVA is seriously constd
^ering building a dam in the Bent
Creek section across the French
Broad river, primarily for impound
ing water, but with electrical power
development as an incidental ac
tivity, he said.
If this project is carried out, as
he is inclined to think will be the
case, Mr. Jeffress thinks there
would be nothing foreign in the
suggestion that the incompleted
hotel be purchased, finished and
used for housing the folks who will
be engaged in the TVA work. Some
place will be required as a residence
for all the workers and the Fleet *
wood would make an admirabi>
place, he thinks.
The Fleetwood, started during '.he
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une or me Durgiars aroppea ruiy
cents on the street and came back
after it. \
Leave Burglary Insurance
Then they went behind the Shel
by high school, apparently to divide
the loot, and discarded the insur
ance papers covering the $815 los3
of the Coca Cola company.
The robbery occurred, according
to Moody Hambright, employee of
the produce company, and J. L.
Gaffney, who lives next door to the
bottling works, at about 2 a. m.
They saw the whole thing from
their homes, which don’t have tele
phones. Mr. Gaffney oould 6ee
through his front window into the
office of the Coca Cola company
where the cracksmen attacked the
safe with a sledge hammer and
drills, knocking off the combination
dial and smashing through to open
the safe.
Entered Through Front
The burglars, none of whom were
seen clearly enough for identifica
tion went in the front door in each
Instance, smashing the glass to
reach the lock.
At the produce company they
didn’t attack the safe. They appar
ently didn’t have to, for evidence
the next morning was that it hadn t
been locked. There’s a dispute about
whether this loss is covered by in
surance or not. They took about
$100 in small bills, disturbing noth
ing else, and went next door to the
bottling works.
Elias Kourl, M. L. Kouri and J.
J. Owens are the proprietors of the
produce company.
Went To High School
Hubert R. Jones, who learned ot
the robbery through Mr. Gaffney
about a half an hour after it occur
red, Joined Bob Kendrick and other
officers in a search, and were di
rected by the witnesses toward the
high school. There they found the
two small "wooden boxes that had
contained money and papers in the
safe. The insurance policy was in
one of these boxes.
Also at the high school was the
sledge hammer used to knock the
lock off the safe. It is a heavy one.
with a short handle, recently saw
ed off. Drills and cold chissels were
j also found.
Suspect Local Talent
Police said today that they sus
pected local criminal talent, hold
ing to the theory that outside
cracksmen would have used an au
tomobile to escape, and would not
have stopped at the high school.
Good fingerprints were appar
ently available Saturday morning.
City Lays Water
Mains; Cost $3,400
Water mains costing $3,400 have
I been put down in Shelby within the
last ten days, it was learned this
| morning from Mayor McMurry.
; Other projects are under considera
tion and will be carried out when
I the budget for the incoming fiscal
(year is approved this week.
Plan To Abandon
Pact For Ginners;
Parleys Fruitless
Farther Negotiations Usalssa, Farm
Administration Believes; Can’t
Set Agreed Minimum.
WASHINGTON, July 8. — The
farm administration is preparing to
abandon the proposed marketing
agreement for cotton ginners. Re
peated conferences have failed to
budge the ginners in their demand
for mlnlmums for ginning deemed
too high by administration officials.
And, considering further negotia
tions fruitless, the administration
has decided to drop the matter en
tirely, leaving the ginners without
an agreement of any sort.
A dozen hearings seeking the
view of growers and operators on
the proposed agreement, held
throughout the cotton belt, were
completed recently.
Demand Guarantee
Gin men have been holding out
for provisions in the agreement
guaranteeing them a return amount
ing at least to what they oonslder
cost. Farm administration officials
disputed that demand, contending
the farmer gets no guarantee of cost
of production for his products.
The maximum charges proposed
at a hearing here by ginner repre
sentatives were as follows:
In Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
North Carolina and Virginia, 86
cents per hundred-weight of seed
cotton.
In Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and
Tennessee, 40 cents per hundred
pounds.
In Oklahoma, and In the non
irrigated areas of Texas, 46 cents
per hundred pounds.
For pima cotton 90 cents per
hundred pounds of seed cotton.
Cleveland Received
$172,691 In Relief
Mrs. O’Berry’S Figures Reveal Guil
ford Topped List; Lincoln
Got $89,089.
Cleveland county received
$172,691, about $3.40 for every
person in the county, in CWA
and PWA relief, according to
figures released last week by
Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, state re
lief administrator.
Of this sum, $115,270.82 went
into the pockets of unemployed
men and women who were given
work on CWA projects, and
$10,772.71 was spent on CWA
materials. FERA expenditures
were $46,648.55.
The total for the state was
$19,098,998.15, and each of the
100 counties shared in the
money. Guilford county 'got the
largest share with a total of $1,
350,736.90, Gaston received $335,
695.06, Lincoln $89,088.70 and
Catawba $231,690.53.
In the strictly CWA projects, be
tween November 16 last year and
April 1 this year, Cleveland county
is shown to have had 10,686 men on
the payroll, some of them dupli
cates, an average of 486 men ea~h
week during the life of the CWA
and that the average weekly
amount paid these CWA workers
during that period of five rnoi/V'
was $10.79, the figures announced
show.
N. C. Pioneering
In Rural Relief,
Hopkins Is Told
So Says Report To
Administration
Rehabilitation Far Enough Along
To Reveal Beginning Of New
Era In Farm Life.
WASHINGTON, July 8.—The ru
ral rehabilitation program In North
Carolina was reported today to be
“far enough along to reveal dis
tinctly the beginning of a great en
terprise that will change the rural
life of America.”
This report of progress In the
rehabilitation work was made to
Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief
administrator by Mn. Ligon 8.
Forbes of the FERA Information
division after .existing numerous
rural families in the state.
“The families Invariably felt,”
Mra Forbes said, "they are finally
getting the kind of assistance that
will help them most to help them
selves. The officials state that
there Ik a decided change In the
attitude of rural relief families to
ward relief since the Inauguration
of the program.”
To date 1,000 mules and horses
have been purchased and distrib
uted on a loan basis with farm
families In the state. Before they
were placed, the ability of the
families to care for. and properly
use them waa checked. Several of
the county administrators said
they had no Idea that land could
be obtained far the families with
out outright purchase, but surpris
ingly found county officials and
others ready and willing to coop
erate. State lands, railroad lands,
and tracts from Individuals have
been offered.
“A disadvantage In moving ad
ditional families now Is, of course,
the lateness of the season and the
Inability to make crops on new
lands this year. For this reason
many families have been establish
ed on a temporary arrangement for
this year, through trades for the
use of land made with landlords
for the part-time work, a share in
crop*, and Improvements la the
property.
Morgan Building
A New Residence
Gerald Morgan la building a new
home on East Marlon street on the
lot adjoining the recently com
pleted home of BUI Webb. The
Morgan residence will be of brick
veneer construction, two stores
high, with eight or nine roms. Gus
Evans la the contractor.
Mr. and Mrs. BiU Webb wlU
move Into their new two-story
brick home on this same street.
Matthews Critically
111 With Pleurisy
Dr. B. B. Matthews is In the
Shelby Hospital, suffering from
pleurtsy. It was reported this
morning that his condition was
critical.
Fletcher To Sfrealc
On NRA Codes
RALEIGH, July 8.—Major A. L.
Fletcher, commissioner of labor, has
been Invited to speak at the con
vention of the International As
sociation of Governmental Labor
Officials to be held at Hotel Btat
ler, Boston, Mass., Sept. 27-39, on
"What Follows if NRA Codes Art
Abandoned."
500 Will Attend
4-H Club Studies
More than 800 boys and girls ire
expected to attend the annual 4-H
club short course to be held at
State College in Raleigh July 25
to 30.
Asks Election
Mm W W. Hamilton, abom, at
Dodson, Mont., has tossed hor tint
into the Democratic senatorial
ling in her home state. Member
of the Montana state legislature
for two years, Mrs. Hamilton Is
seeing the seat of Senator 3. E.
Brdckaon for the short term at
two years.
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New Hosiery Mill
Is Given Charter;
May Operate Here
J. W. Cash And Associates Plan To
Operate A Hosiery Min In
Shelby.
A charter was granted Saturday
by Secretary of State Stacey W
Wade for the Shelby Hosiery mill
which will make hosiery under a
$36,000 authorised capital with $S.
ooo stock, subscribed toy John W.
Cash at Shelby, Fred a. Hahn, T,
0. Bridges nod Manta Bridges, nil
of Hickory.
Mr. Cash could not be located
this morning to find out where the
new industry will operate, but It
has been known for some time that
he and his associates were planning
to start a small plant In Shelby
Mr. Cash who has had considerable
experience In the manufacture of
hosiery at Bolling Springs recently
moved to Shelby. He and his fam
ily live hi Belvedere. *
Leonard Speaks
At Baptist Meet
RIDGECREST, July 8 —Th« Rev,
Dr. O. A. Leonard, Southern Bap
tist foreign missionary to Harbin
Manchuria, delivered the opening
address Sunday morning before the
more than 1,000 delegatee to the
fifth annual North Carolina State
Baptist Young Peoples’ union con
vention at Ridgecrest, Southern
Baptist summer assembly grounds.
See Cooley's Vote
As Endorsing F. D. R.
Democratic party leaders term
the smashing victory of Harold D.
Cooley of Nashville In the Fourth
district congressional elections as
an overwhelming endorsement of
the Roosevelt administration.
Put S. C. Strikers
To Work On Relief
ANDERSON, 0. C. July 8.—About
700 strikers, who have been fed for
several weeks, will be placed en the
relief rolls and required to work
two days a week. Direct relief will
go only to the aged and Infirm.
Wanted For Car Theft Two Yean
Ago, He Returns And Is Jailed
It was all of two years ago that
Curtis Ivey was accused of stealing
Henry Ledbetter's car, and It was
even before that that he was re
ported a destrter from the United
States Army. Apparently, he
thought Shelby folk had forgotten
these things.
When a Seaboard train pulled
into Shelby Saturday night, Ivey
stepped casually out of the smok
ing car—into the arms of two po
licemen.
They’d had no word Ivey war
expected here, but they recognised
him instantly and lodged him in
the Cleveland county Jail, where he
learned that he will face a serious
charge, that of transporting s
stolen car to another state. Chici
A
of Police Wilkins telephoned the U.
6. district attorney's office in
Asheville this morning, turning the
case over to Marcus Irwin.
Ivey was wanted at the time
Deputy E. W. Sanders was shot in
the jail yard two years ago, and it
was said that Sanders had a war
rant for his arrest in his pocket
when he died.
The Ledbetter car was stolen in
1933 and recovered later that year
in Georgia. Police said this morn
ing they had witnesses who had
seen Ivey in the car. The U. S. at
torney will investigate the charge
of alleged desertion.
1 A brother, Jud Ivey, is in South
. .olina, wanted on liquor charges
i here
Auto Thieves Get
New Ford Sedan
At Rogers Motors
Break Open Window
Open Rear Dtors
Off In Brand New Greer,
Car; Shop la Victimised Fifth
Time in Three Tear*.
The oar stolen tram the
Racers Motor Company in Ihtl
by Retards? nifht wae famed
abondoned la Asheville this aft
ernoon, a H. Rogers, owner et
the company, was Informed If
telephone from Ford headquart
ers hi Atlanta. No arrrnte barn
boon made. The ear wae Ideott
fied by the motor umbm
Automobile thieve* aped out of
Shelby early Saturday night In •
brand-new green two-door IM
sedan, with a tank full of gas, which
they filched from the Rogers Motor
company after breaking * window
pane to open the rear double door!
of the shop.
They took the ear sometime be
tween 8 p, m. when the shop alosad.
and 10 o’clock, when eome at me
mechanics returned for a wrecker.
R. H. Rogers, owner at the east*
pany, said he gueeead the thadt was
committed about 8:18,
Trace Tracks
Shelby police found the nar door
open shortly after the robbery and
traced the car track* to highway SO.
The thieve* headed for either cW
lotto or Oaffney, they said.
Wires hummed to nearby s—nr
but no reports of the stolen ear
had been rsoetved this marntng.5
had no license tag when tt Ml
Shelby.
The motor number, Mr. Rohm
said. Is 878064.
This Is the fifth burglary fa
three yean that has occurred jt
the Rogers Motor Company, and
five can have been loot.
Three More Weeks
For Vets’ Canvass
Says Banks Suttle
VMLA Canvasser Urges All Vstsi
asm to nu Out Federal
Card*.
Ovly MO of the TOO nTtrem of
the world war la Cleveland county
have ao far filled oat cards re
quested by the federal goveromaot
la connection with the canvass be
ing mad* in the county Jar Beaks
Buttle.
Only three weahe remain lor IBts
work to be completed, and Mr. Bat
tle urges that all who have ad ob
tained cards do ao as goon ee pos
sible.
This canvass, which fc an MBA
project approved at tht rarpieei at
the American Legion, was begun a*
a survey to find out how many
under privileged children there are
in the county. It was later extend
ed to cover a census of all fmotee
of ex-sarvle* men, regardless at
whether the veteran le living.
The township committees follow:
Mrs. Paul Mauney, King* Mountain;
Jack Bails, No. X township; One
Jolly, Boiling Springs; W. L. Wilson
Earl; Thamar Beam, Waco; Mia.
Bull Ooode, Shelby; John B. Blan
ton, Mooreeboro; Tom Stamcy. PoOc
vllle; James Louis Osborne, Lawn
dele; j. o. Downs, Cesar; and Mbs.
Hugh Hoyle, Bel wood.
Big Part Of Income
Goes For Taxation
CONCORD, July 8. — Appearing
before the board of Cabarrus ooun
ty commissioners at Its regular July
session, Mias Jenn W. Goltran* set
forth the objectives of the Southern
Cross Relief association, of which
she Is president, and asked far the
co-operation of the commissioners
In the association’s program which
seeks to improve the financial status
of every farmer In the county.
With the co-operation of the
commissioners and the farmers as
a whole the Southern Cross Rellet
association, Miss Coltrane explain
ed, will attempt to develop dairy
ing on an extensive scale In the
county, the milk and Its by-products
to be canned and placed on the
market throughout the nation by
an established concern.
Hose Men Decry
Loss Of Blue £&gle
Southern hosiery manufacturers
In annual convention at Blowing
Rock on Friday unanimously passed
a resolution deploring action of Re
covery Administrator Hugh 8.
Johnson In removing the Blue Eagle
from the Harriman Hosiery Mill at
Harriman, Tenn
The text of the resolution wu
kept secret until yesterday.
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