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! The Cyllkvkwnd Stak Today 10 Pages VOL. XU No. 89 --- i1 '.IH.IfWIW—BggT* SHELB%, N. a >VEDNESD’Y, JULY 25,1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. --- . ■» Mu a mi mu. (ia uuMti — hjn ■ c»rrt« p«r r—r. (la tlnMWi ^ W4W ] I Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, *pot. 12% to 13% Cotton seed, ton, wagon 23.00 Cotton «eed, ton, carlots 25.00 Showers Today North 'Carolina. Weather Report: Thundershowers tonight or Thurs day, with fair weather following In southwest portion. Nazis Triumph Dolfuss Held, By UNITED PRESS VIENNA, July 26.—Austrian Nai ls struck swiftly today against the Dolfns dictatorship in a dramatic coup d’etait in which' the chancel lory was seized and Chancellor Eng lebert Dolfuss and members of his •ablnet were made prisoners. Marit al law was declared and streets filled with troops. Heimwar bayon ets and machine gune guarded the prisoners, and the Nazis threatened violence if an attempt was made to rescue their prisoners. Storm Warning By UNITED PRESS HOUSTON, July 25. — The Gov ernment Weather Bureau reported this morning that a storm was ex pected to strike the Texas coast be tween Port O'Connor and Rockport between noon and 2 o’clock this afternoon. Many persons are al ready jparooned as rising tides flood the lowlands. - — - - $ Paroled In Time For Son’s Funeral Vernon Branton tiets mo me in iizne ) to Attend Funeral of Son Who Was KHled. Vernon Branton, convicted in De cember, 1933 in the Cleveland coun ty Recorder’s court for non-support of his family and sentenced to serve twelve months, was paroled by Gov ernor Ehringhaus just in time to reach Shelby to attend the funeral of hit son James who was killed Saturday when run over by South ern train No. 29 at Gaffney. James Branton and his compan ion Fall* Spencer of Gaffney were both run over by the train Just out side of Gaffney. Branton’s body was decapitated and Spencer’s was cut in half. Branton’s body was brought here Sunday afternoon and buried at Ross Grove church in the com munity where he formerly lived. Funeral sendees were conducted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop. The father was serving his sentence for non support of his family at a highway road camp when the pending parole papers were speeded up in Raleigh and acted upon. Thread Mill To Be Sold Aug. 6th Lincoln ton Mill in Receivership Will Be Sold—Has 67 Tenement Bouses. 1INCOLNTON, July 25. — All property both real and personal of the Uncolnton Thread Spinners, Inc., will be sold at public auction here on Monday, August 6, accord ing to an order made by Judge Wil son Warlick, when the plant was thrown Into receivership. The sale will include the brick manufacturing plant, 67 tenement houses and a large quantity of ma chinery and other equipment. J. A. Abernethy, Jr., receiver of the mill, in his report, lists the assets of the company at $96,353.49, with liabilities amounting to $185, 596.40. Included in the list of lia bilities is an item for more than $82,000, representing payments due on the plant. The mill, formerly known as the Wampum mill, was owned for years by J. A. Abernethy and sons, and was sold by them to the present owners in July, 1933. Bethlehem To Begin Revival August 5th A revival meeting will begin at Bethlehem Baptist church in No. 4 township on the first Sunday in August, it is announced by B. G. Logan. All who have relatives ct friends buried in the cemetery there are asked to report Friday July 27th to help clean off the graves. Also, on Saturday evening of this week there will be an ice cream sup per at the school house, proceeds to go for the benefit of the church, Gardner Buys Arey Home In Belvedere ' James Webb Gardner has pur chased the Will Arey home in Bel vedere and will occupy the same shortly. Mr. Arey purchased the Roy Newman home at Cleveland Springs some two months ago and wl£ hie family there. Court Thrills Lag As Big Audience Swelters In Heat Hendrick Attack C&*< Postponed To Oct. Escaped Convict Found Guilty Bu Is AUowed to Escape Chair; SenteU Case on Monday. Steaming spectators Jampacka the Cleveland County Court hous yesterday and today waiting in valj for a vicarious thrill from one c the many lusty cases scheduled fo trial in the criminal term. Assaults, seductions, statutor rapes and murders are due to b heard, but little of drama has stir red the court room so far. Delay is Granted Woodrow Hendrick, charged wit! . attacking a 16-year-old Clevelam County girl was brought up yester day, but his attorney, D. 2. Newtor succeeded in postponing trial unt October on the grounds of insuf ficient time to prepare the defend ant’s case. Yesterday, trivial negro cases oc cupied the court. This mornlnj Harry Ross, alias William Thomp son, was brought up for trial on burglary trial, but this was chang ed to breaking and entering. Tha slight shift in phrasing meant th I difference between a few more year in th pen and frying in the elec trie chair for Harry. He was on of the convicts who escaped frot the prison camp on April 8, and wa found guilty of entering the hom of W. A. Ridenhour in Kings Moun tain after the escape. Flagman Costner of train 13S cap tured him a week later. Murder Trial Monday The only authentic thriller, fror the spectators’ point of view, tha has been set for definite trial, 1 that of the murder charge agalna Louis SenteU, accused of killia Mrs. William Drake (Florenc Jones). This trial will start Mon day. i Claude Bridges, | Merchant, b Dead Passes In Spelby Hospital—WU1 B Buried 4* Pleasant Grate ■ Church Thursday. Claudfe Bridges, merchant an farmer living six miles north _o Shelby on Highway No. 18, died thl morning at 8:30 o’clock in the Shel by Hospital where he had been i oatlent • for h few days. . For at months he had been in failim : i.ealth from Bright’s disease an 1 eal sick for the past week. Mr. Bridges was a native of th county and highly esteemed by hi | host of friends. He was 49 year 1 of age in March. He was married t Sallie Norman who survives witJ five children, Paul, Ed, Mrs. Jame Costner, Clarence Lee and J. P Bridges. Four brothers died li young manhood and his parent have preoeded him to the grave. Funeral services wiD be held a Pleasant Grove Baptist churcl where he has been a long and faith ful member on Thursday affcernooj at 2 o’clock. Bev. D. G. Washburn pastor, assisted by Rev. Yance; Elliott who is conducting a meetim there, will be in charge. The Junto order of which he was a membe will probably accord him honor*. Revival To Begin At Zion Hill July 29tl A revival meeting will begin a Zion Hill, known as Three Count; Comers, on Sunday July 29th Preaching will be done by the pas tor. Rev. Seth Ives ter, assisted b; Rev. M. L. Cot* of Glen Alpine The public Is invited to these serv ices. Governor’s Leth If N, C. GasPn (By M. E. Dun.na.gan) RALEIGH, July 25. — Goverao Ehrlnghaus, who “soft-soaped” th representatives of several oil comp anies who gathered at his call i few weeks ago, asking them to pleas do something about the disc rim 1 nation practiced against North Car ollna in the prices of gasoline. The; have done nothing In that time, s he has pulled off his coat and glov es and is landing into them in sol spots. He has written them another let ter, calling attention to the discrim inations and his previous confer ence with their representatives, tell ing them, in substance to get bus; with reductions on gasoline price is. the state, cc else—and he hasn’ Crowd Stares At Spot Where Dillinger Fell ' INDIANAPOLIS. July 25.—(UP)—The wax-like body of John Dillinger lay today in a cheap pine casket . at the home of hi* sister in suburban Maywood. Oonfldanta ware told today that the funeral would be held at three this afternoon, but to the general public the announcement was given that it would be held tomorrow. This was on the advice of police. Above, the picture shows the spot in front of the Bl ograph Theatre in Chicago where DQhnger wae felled by a stream at bullets from Federal operative’s guns. > Impetious Young Democrats > Put Big Shots. On The Spot They Ask Hoey And Farmer Boh To Speak, Which Is A Very Great Slight To Other Would-Be Candidates* ! 5 A couple of prominent North* Carolinians—one of them a Shelbyite—are to be “put on the spot” at Asheville Satins clay by the organize#** of Young far Heel Democrats, The t-urrt an r'n-norrpQcmnti tf T. ((Warmer 'Rnh'l Doiurhton And —*—' .t***-—t > Mrs. Proctor Dies : In Hospital Here; ; 111 For One Week « Funeral Services This Morning For Mother of Mrs. J. S. Me ' Knight of Shelby. Funeral services were held this morning for Mrs. A. M. Proctor, fondly known to hundreds in Cle veland County as “Granny Proctor,” who died at the Shelby Hospital at 6:46 yesterday morning. She was 72 years old and had been malting t her home here with her daughter 1 for many years. She had been in ill health, suf 1 faring from high blood pressure for > approximately a month, but had r been critically ill for only a week. > The services were conducted this ’ morning at 10 o’clock \t the home : of her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Mc Knight on North LaFayette street. Interment was at Sunset Cemetery. The Rev. H. N. McDiarmld, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officia I ted. Mrs. Proctor, who was bom in ( Denver, Lincoln County, had been ’ a resident of Shelby for the past 17 years. She is survived by her ' only daughter, Mrs. McKnight, and ’ three grandchildren, J. P. McKnight now with the Associated Press in New York. W. A. McKnight and Colbert McKnight of Shelby. r Implies Threat ‘ce Doesn’t Drop yet said exactly what that “else” : will b*. > Moreover, he has written to Sec ■ retary Harold Ickes, who has charge t of the petroleum code, setting forth i the North Carolina condition and - representing that North Carolinians - are paying at the rate of about j $14,000,000 a year more for the gas j oline they use than they should be - pajdng. He asks the code head to t take a look at the North Carolina situation and if he finds it needs - attention, not to hesitate to give it - what it needs. Just what can* be done is not ■ stated, but Governor Rhrlnghaus ! has set his hand to titt plow and s will not turn .back until discrimlna i Won is removed. j I8y» wimfa*. Mrs. May Evans .Thompson comas her Young Omaerats in the mountain metropolis lor their annual confab, she will have Sena tors-Bailey and Reynolds and Gov ernor Bbringhaus on the program along with Several other leu no table notables. But the eyes at the voters' of the State as well as the eyes of the Young Democrats themselves win be centered with man interest upon Messrs. Dough ton and Hoey. The reason—as you, no doubt, have guessed—Is that one of the two will likely move into Raleigh’s Blount street executive mansion when Governor Shring haus’ rental lease expires in 1936. Peaky Politicians. Thoee Young Democrats have a way of making life troublesome for hopeful politicians. Last year at Wrightsville they voted as wet u the lapping I^umina tides and there by embarrassed any number of staid old party fence-straddlers. This year the organisation invited Dr. Rex TugweU as chief speaker and some got the idea that it was a thrust at Senator Bailey, who has let it be known that be was none too fond of a sleek young col lege professor trying to tell toil experienced North Carolina farm ers how they should till their soil. But Senator Bailey said, in effect, that "it’s okay by me; TugweU it. a smart youngster.'* Then TugweU declined. Subsequently Mrs. Thoznp son decided to make it a North Carolina oratorical barrage — and Just how can Tar Heel orators be out-orated? She invited North Car olina’s scholarly senior senator to (Continued on pag6 ten) Child Survey To Run For One Week More Banks Suttle who Is in charge of the child's survey made under the American Legion and Auxiliary, has been notified that the survey will be extended for one week. All vet erans are expected to fill out the cards, whether they have children or not, as the survey includes hus band and wife where the husband is a veteran. Mr. Suttle will be at the city hall for the remainder of the week and cards may be obtained from him then. REGULAR COMMUNICATION MASONIC LODGE FRIDAY Regular communication at Cleve land Lodge No. 202 AF. and AM on Friday evening at 8 o’clock. Country Worker* Vie The Hardest For Chicago Trip honors while their city colleagues axe slightly behind, ftt' spit* of the fact that a few more subscriptions are required from, members who live In the country. Evidence, of this fast was first seen when Miss Dorothy , Washburn, of Shelby Route 4, became the tint to qualify for her trip. Miss Wash* burn was followed closely by Miss Virginia Mints, of Shelby, but it was learned that Miss Mints had leaned heavily on the support of friends in the country. No other club member1 from Shlaby has as yet qualified although several are within striking distance of their goal and undoubtedly will before the weak la over. Community Support Community spirit and family pride era factors which are making them selves felt as taany club members near tht finish ijw Naturally each community is jealous that one of its own shall take this coveted trip and not an outsider. Whole .com munities are throwing their sup port to favorite sons apd daughters. Typical is the ease of one young man who 1% near his goal .and yet aC but a vary few of the subscrip tions he secured were on.his own rural route, dub members from every section in Cleveland County are expected to be in the advance guard of The Star's guests to the fair. In spite of the fact that tfcro have already qualified and that mapv others are in sight of their goal, there is still room for mi# non IB the club. There will be only one Oqntury of Progress Exposition* and to pasa up this qhanee of -a free trip is to 1st slip the opportunity of a lifetime. Friends of The Star in your oommunity will do their utmost to help you win one of those wonderful trips.. And It's Easy! Surely this opportunity is worth investigating! Won't you come and let 1he Star's World Pair Tour Club manager explain how easy It will be for you to win a free trip?' Salvation Army Has Headquarters Here Capt Jack Wynn says headquart ers for the Salvation army has been opened in the old Shelby steam Laundry building near the South ern depot, owned by B. T. Palls. Two religious services have been held, the first being < attended by 410 and the second tiy 365. Each night the dtmy post takes charge of transients. A drive is how under way to .susure milnteaanwt funds. Start Measuring Cotton Acerage For U. S. Survey 70 Go to Work Under R. W. Shoffner OndkMI ConmittM Begin* To4»; Check Of Production tnte Crap Control Contracts, Soventy committeeman started this morning o nthe task of msut uring Cleveland county cotton acre age In a check-up against reduc tion contract* with the Federal government. These committeemen, who receiv ed their Instructlong .and...wire measuring line* yesterday after noon from County Agent ft. W Snoffner, will measure the number of scree planted to cotton and the number of scree rented to the gov ernment. They are armed with fig ure* end contracts and will check closely agflnst any misrepresenta tion—not that any te expected. 48.000 Acre Quota. Cleveland la supposed to grow 48,000 acres of cotton this year, which compares with an average for the past five years of 70.000 acres. Producers, landlords and farmers are supposed to assist the oomB *i teamen in nuking their survey. The committeemen are acting. In this instance, as Federal supervisors, apd will ask the farmer, or hie rep resentative ,to carry one end of thi line in making the measurement. Contracts Necessary. Whan measurements ere made and o, k.*d, compliance contracts will ha issued. Without this con tract, no further payments will be made for cotton reduction. And. as a aattmr <rf fact, the previous pay meet wtn be withdrawn. 1..ini' fin Announce Directors For Rotary Club it composed of JJm Reynold*, chair man; Draper Wood, XT. L. Hatter son, Tom Gold, Frank Hearts and cam Shipp.... . The program, committee, headed by Henry Hinson, is. composed of nuga ruisier, stums -tieavis. cui Brows, Bob Crowder and Everette Houser, Jr. A publicity eosunlttee 1* compos* ed of Cam Shipp, chairman; Bill Brows. DeWitt Quinn and Everette Houear, Jr. The classification committee: Frank Reavis, chairman; Roy Sisk, George Jacobs, and Sam Gault. Student loan fund: 0. 6. Thomp son, Ben Gold, Sam Schenek and J. C. Bechmas. Finance eosunlttee: Roy Sisk, chairman; S. W. Thompson and Frank Reavis. Pastor Received Into Presbytery GASTONIA, July 24.—Rev George L. Riddle, son of Mr. and Mrs. How* ard Riddle of the Bethel section, waa received Into Kings Mountain Presbytery at a railed meeting of Presbytery held Friday night at the Forest City church. Mr. Riddle, a recent seminary graduate, preached hie trial sermon, was examined by Presbytery and ordained as an evan gelist. He la the stated supply of this Forest City and Ellenboro Pres byterian churches. Dr. J. T. Dendy of Grover, preached the sermon. At tending from Gastonia were Dr. J. H. Henderllte and Mr. J. H. Ken nedy. .. fll —.. .. , 617 Persons Tak By Jobless Bun Six hundred and seventeen pur- r sons off relief rolls in Cleveland 1 county in one year—thus is the 1 story vividly told by final figures , prepared, by J. J. Lattlmore, head e of the Shelby branch of the U. S. t Unemployment Bureau. a Mr. Lattlmore has received ord- r ers to definitely close bis office the last of July. Several times before, r he has received similar orders, but t at the last minute, the closing has f bean postponed, and the bureau kept open on a temporary basis. r The figures released by Mr. Lat- t tlmore show that a total of 3570 t pi-rfrop?, Mtfiitiiij’ gainful employment t Hotel Raid Exposes Fake Liquor Racket; j George Johnson Held Soviet Star Here & Xlna Bokareva, ■0»X»w 14-yssr-eld Tnsrian entertainer, who, despite kr youth, lit de vnloped into ©»« of tk Beat IM (ton «t At Soviet radio tarn OttL she alM ta % favorite on 1934 Mbs Shelby Will Enter State Contest In August Ntfolro Dellinger, Cootie to last Tealft Winner, OOj* * :i rvwMMK GwMdolysi QiBBMMfc ncaa * tarn eapibi. judge* tut Boot beautiful gtrji A ihelby, will nter the state beauty contest'whtah rtH be htld at Otee&sboro during be ‘American Legion uigust 2«, V. and 28. Keerly forty Shelby girls entered be contest-held 'undertho antptoet f the Warren F. Hoyle post at the igb school auditorium Friday light. Five contestants at a time were Umlnated from the throng, and be final two were Miss Dellinger nd Miss Virginia Chltty, who in ontrast to the winner, was a londe. Complete Entry List A complete list of the entrants as just been released and contains Be following names: Frances Ellis, Mary Ella Souther*, lalen Bess, Mary Tedder, Radial yells, Virginia Chltty, second, Mrs. era Dellinger Beam. Mrs. Marten JcDonald, Ethel Hartgrove, Nancy Cauda Daniels, Katheryn Bulce, (nth DePrlest, Louise Austell, Mary cuts Wilson, Annie Ruth Dellinger, tosalyn Dellinger, Mary Louise D6r ey, Cornelia Sparks and Marietta toyie. In the second group were the allowing: Kathleen Hamrick, Ruth topper, Margaret Thompson, Fran cs Auten, Frances Carver, Selma Senoy, Anna Luts, Anna Cobi* ladle Laughrldge, Jane Washburn,1 Issie Bess, Virginia Whitlock, Vtr !inla Mints, Mildred McSwaln Mary yells, Betsy Eskridge, Gwendolyn Jelllnger (winner). Rebecca Hoyle nd Hazeline Webb. An Interesting coincidence lay in Be fact that Annie Ruth Dellinger, sousln of this year’s winner, was hosen Miss Shelby last year. m From Relief an In One Year iglstered at -his office In the year ; functioned. The total number of lacements amounted to 18581 Of this placement number, 443 ere given employment by private onoerne and-persons, 641 employed y the Civil Works Administration, nd 872 by the Public Works Ad ministration. Of this entire number of place ments, 817 persons were taken off Be oounty relief rolls, thereby af seting a vast saving. All the projects in this county ow under the supervision of this ranch of the government have een completed, or will be brought > oacaptettoa ia tte future. Get Gallons Of *i In Shelby Hotel And Dtst» i Rooms. Facsimile Labels era’ Stamps In Proprietor Held. Gallons of Carolina shine, colored with , and hundreds of fake In-bond* fatrel e,-dttitilU stamps, and other eqi for the production tad butlon of com liquor querading as Canadian were captured late yest afternoon when city and ty officers surrounded Isaac Shelby Hotel in a den and deftly executed Gears* Johnson, proprietor at hotel, vu arrested and held fl jury trial August 14 under a bond. He may face Federal alter a IT. 8. officer from Jotte completes BIS l»v hers today. ‘ Yesterday’s raid, national in Shelby for yeast, commanded by Chief ©fPoiioe kins and Sheriff CJihe, with entire city and county force to tion. Surrounding the guarding *11 exits, they __ thorough search of the whole isos while a crowd of spectator* milled side, ,:r Liquor was found 110 and 312. ttl quart* were discovered, m the ond, five and ten glUoh oak kegs, five-gallon glass Johns, 50 bottles of fated ^ in-bond liquor, SO gallons of „ in four kegs, so easei of empty ties, and all the paraphernalia faking liquor ware discovered* *efnee« To G*B Room. "Mr. Johnson. refused to i this room," Chief Wilkin* said day. "claiming It was a We took off tbr hinges __ sad entered. Them wasn't aren bed,eg A etodr tkwpr A aHlrfa aeenatto A w#» aisorwTieni or printed liquor labels was of them declaiming pure key. And all of .them | legend. -‘Beware of It! Stamps for affixing over tope,' slmUar to government i. were‘found, and composition __ era were enscoverea tpy the hull* dred. : ■ . > ' " Loaded On Track.'" - While the crowd outside chesto* end jeered, the police and deputtas carried out the hundreds <tf and klg*. loaded them on at city truck, and carried them to the Jail yard. • v#r In the meantime, officer* dispatched to raid Sir. pool room on South ■ street but no liquor waa feti | Johnson was given a he_m _ Recorders' court early thfciaorntog and was released on bond for Jury trial August 14 on the pin ofUt attorney. Peyton MeBwato. Chief Wllfclqs said today that ha would have made this raid more than a month ago If it had not been tor hie injury on June 8. It is not known thir morning how serious the threat of Federal ljq charges may be; ' Very proba-* charges of selling liquor without license will be preferred, and, I view of the faka labels, there is _ chance that counterfeiting charge* may be made: te||giaktafi3 Wm. Henry Hopkins Buried On Sunday (Special to The Star) KINGS MOUNTAIN. July 24 Last rites for Wm. Henry Hopktol, the 5 weeks old infant of Mr., a ' Mrt. J. D. Hopkins were held the home in the Phenix Mill tion Sunday afternoon at four o’clock conducted by Rev. e, W; Quthrie. Burial was at Pi drove. The baby was found bed. Surviving besides it*-'j are Edward, five, J. D., four, Chas. three. • ' “ Loy Crowder Wins In Essay Coni Loy Crowder of PottvSSe school won third pfoe* to an writing contest for Western Carolina, winner* war yesterday in Charlotte. Hahn of Cabarrus county place, Herman Russel! of burg county second. Arthur of Rutherford county fourth The subject on which the ants wrote their essays was cation and Co-operation to tbs i Dc— Ow Asri^iituso.’
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