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Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot . I3J4 to 1454 Cotton seed, ton, wagon_25.00 Fair Tomorrow Weather forecaat (or North Caro Ru: Fair today and Tuesday, slight ly cooler in north and west portions tonifht. To Attend Rites By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The White Honse announced today that Freeldeot Roosevelt would probably attend the funeral of Speaker Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois who died last night In a Saint Louis hospital of ancina pectoris while eoncalescing from bronchial pneumonia. It Is believed that the funeral services will be held at Carrollton, Illinois, Rainey’s home. Representatives Joseph Byras of Tennessee, John MoDuffle of Ala bama and William Bankhead of Alabama am mentioned as possible success are of Rainey. Weed Sale High LAKE CITY, 8. C„ Aug:. 20.—The total tobacco sales here last week were announced today as 698,284 pounds at 9140,226.77 or an average of 921-51 per hundred pounds. The total for the season to date is 2, 917,744 at 9629,549.66 for an average of 922.34. Wait For Askew GOLDSBORO, Aug. 20.—The Rev. R. & Askew, the Foursquare Gos pel evangelist was overdue today on his return from Nashville where be appeared Saturday saying he had been hi the hands of kidnappers since Tuesday. Officers were wait ing here to question him. At Nash ville, two hotel employes refuted Askew’s story saying Askew spent the time In a hotel instead of in his captor's ear, as he stated. Dictator Kingfish Invested with the same kind of authority that Hitler. Mussolini and Stalin Wield, Huey P. Long, now become Kingfish in fact said yesterday from his armed head quarters at Baton Rouge that he I would start immediately his inves tigations in wtiich he will seek to remove his enemy, Mayor T. Sem inas Wahneley of New Orleans.1 ‘They'll find out about it so quick j they won’t have to ask when it will start,” he Mid. Hklgr Leads Adolf Hitler's teat of popularity, in which he asks Germany to vote pea or nay on bis assumption of <h* Residency, shows—as every body supseted—overwhelming sup past 9pr tbs leader. Yesterday’s vote mowed that only ten per eeri. i of tbs more than 48,000,000 Ger-1 awn voters opposed him. Balloonist* Safe Professor Max Gosyns and Neree Bundtolst, Belgian scientists, de ftetad theta- huge stratosphere balloon ip a cornfield yesterday near Binovlfe, Yougoslavia, and esUsd their flight a success. No new records were set, but the two tor cantons* believed they had frnugpt deem data which will be tatonsMt to scientists. Armt Kidnapers MU alleged white slavery racket that hat victimised several young gMs in Johnson county is believed to have been broken up with the •mat on Saturday of Mrs. Sarah Mb—ley Crane and her young bro ther Clinton. The two are wanted for kidnaping two young girls and carrying them to New York tor immoral purposes. Snake Stuff Hee Rev. H. A. Kuykendall, dis trict overseer for the Church of God, seised a rattlesnake and wrapped it around his neck. "Glory be to God, Glory Hallelujah!” he eriad. The Rev. Mr. Kuykendall did not know that Evangelist Rev. Dewey L. Dotson hed removed the fangs, at the behest of a news reel man, before bringing it into the ehurch. Reaches Century Marie On Sunday Mrs. Mary Gantt will celebrate her 100th birthday on next Sun day. She will reach the century mark on Wednesday following, but children and relatives will gather at her home near the Southern Cotton Oil Co. In West Shelby on Sunday and felicitate her on reach ing the century mark. Mrs. Gantt continues in excellent health for one of her age and is able to "tend" her small grocery store which she runs in her resi dence k The Elteka kund ZM Today 8 Pages VOL. XU No, 100 SHELBY, N. a MONDAY, AUG. 20. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. *» Mall, par mt. (la adranaa) _ n.M Appointment List Shows West Leads i In Number Of Jobs 16 Local Men Included In Appointments Check-Up Shows That Criticism Directed At Governor Is Not Justified. By M. R. DUNN AG AN RALEIGH, Aug. 19.—Criticism that Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaua, eastern governor, Is partial to the east in his appointments, is not borne out by a check of the lists of appointments he has made during the 20 months of his administra tion, which disclose that he has made during the 20 months ot his administration, which disclose that he has made 295 appointments, of which 164 are of western residents and 131 are of eastern residents. These are exclusive of strictly lo cal appointments, which are made by the governor at the direction of the general assembly for some lo cal unit of government and are not subject to an east-west division. Directorships The appointments include 84 di rectors or trustees of institutions, six of which are in the west and five in the east, for which it is de sirable to name officials within clc*e proximity to the institution, in order to promote attendance at meetings, as well as saving mileage allowed all such officials. Of these, 44 are in the west and 40 are In the east. These do not include all di rectors of institutions, for terms are filled only on resignation, death or expiration, and only a few mem bers of some of the institutions have been named by the governor. When he has completed his appointments at the end of his term, an eastern majority may be expected, as there V iitva V IIVUW U1UMVUV1VUU Ul WIV east than in the west. But in the cases of appointments for general state-wide posts, In which they might easily come from east or west, the check shows that Governor Ehringhaus has named 211 persons, of which 120 are from the west and 91 from the east. East-West Division The division used is what is gen erally termed east and west, the east being that portion of the state east of and including Granville, Wake, Harnett, Hoke and Scotland counties; the west that area west of those counties. If the division were made on a strictly population basis, the dividing line of which would pass north and south Just a few miles west of Greensboro, the numbers would be about even. If the appointments made to of fices which are full-time or part time jobs, with galaries attached, are considered, the east has a bulge on the west. The check shows that the east has received 11 full-time full-salary appointees, to only five in the west, while the east has six part time appointments to five in the west. Local Appointees The complete list of appointments contains several names from Shel by. They are as follows: The New Unemployment Insurance commit tee, P. R. Christopher; board of conservation and development, J. W. Harrelson, Raleigh and Shelby; State Hospital for the Insane, O. M. Mull; State Board of Agriculture, Charles S. Young; N. C. Railroad board, D. W. Royster, and High School Textbook committee, J. H. Grigg, superintendent of the Cleve land county schools. Charles Caveny To Graduate Tuesday Charles Caveny is listed as & member of the graduating class ot the Furman university summer school. The commencement exer cises will be held on Tuesday morning. Dr. B. E. Geer, president of the school, will address the class Toning Up For Concert Here Tuesday Here's the big band that play here tomorrow night. It’s the Nortl Carolina Symphony orchestra, witl more than 50 pieces, from the drun as big as a bus to the piccolo a shrill as a penny whistle. It playi at the high school, and it’s com poeed of natives of this state. Oni of the most interesting numben will be “Old Joe Clark Steps Out,’ by Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Nortl i Carolina oomposer. Mr. Vardall's i work was given its premier presen , tation in Asheville two weeks ago, and the composer directed the 1 symphony in person at Blowing 1 Rock on August 15. It has been i praised by musicians and critics alike lor the originality in thought 1 and the native folk music upon > which it is founded. Mr. Vardell was born In Salisbury, in 1893, and was graduated with an artist's diploma from the Institute rf Musical Art in New York. He studied musical composition with Percy aoetschius. He is director ol music at Salem college, Wtnston 3alem. “Old Joe dark Steps Out” la aa sresslve of an influence based upon American folk lore, which provides i strong instrument for expressing individualism. It is drawn from the xjpular tune, “Old Joe Clark.” Lincoln Man Shot To Death In Car On Lonely Road 25-Year-Old Textile Worker Found WMh Wound Through Buck Of Head. CHERRYVILLE, Aug. 19.—Clar enee McGee, a 26-year-old textile worker of Lincolnton. was found •hot to death yesterday in his au tomobile on a little-traveled eoun try road near here. A shotgun charge in the back of the head had killed him and he was slumped over the steering wheel as though he had been kill ed without warning and while Ms back was to his slayer. Oarl Rudisttl who lives in the section, discovered the body about 8 o’clock this morning while he was coming to Cherryvllle. Coroner George Riddle and Sher iff Clyde Robinson of Gaston coun ty were called to the soene. Had Little Money The sheriff said he learned that McGee left home late yesterday without telling his father, Ed Mc Gee, also a textile worker, where he was gflng. The elder McGee told him, he said, that his son had very little money with him and that he did not believe robbery was the motive for the slaying. A negro family living in the neighborhood told the sheriff they heard two shots about 8 p. m. last night and Coroner Riddle estimated the youth had been dead since about that hour. The road where McGee’s car and body was found runs from Cherry vllle to St. Marks Lutheran church. PLAN ICE CREAM SUPPER AT T. H. EAKER’S HOME There will be an ice cream sup per on Saturday night at the home of T. H. Baker near Marsgrove church. 8tringe music will be a fea ture of the entertainment. Every body Is invited to attend. He Was Just A Gay Lothario> But His Gal Spoiled The Game He was just a Gay Lothario. He wafted between two loves, .telling each of his devotion and grinding the other under his feet. It went on for years. Neither married him. But the one who said she had the strongest and longest hold on him finally spoiled the game, so WU1 Pruett, long, lanky six-footer tes tified in Recorders court this morn ing. Siller Hudgins, his 14-year sweetheart, according to her state ment, was on trial for assault upon Pruett with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill. The alleged event happened Sat urday night on Arrowood street, which branches off from North [ Morgan. I Pruett with hi* side bandaged and with a bloody shirt to offer as testimony, first took the stand and told the following story: “Miss Lintzy Lane and I were riding on highway 190 Saturday ; when Siller Hudgins began chas- j ing us in her car. She chased us , all the way to Miss Lane’s home on ( Arrowood street and when we stop ped, she stopped also. “She got out of her car and came up to ours and with a knife in her hand, tried to stab Miss Lane. I prevented her from doing thisi however, and showed Miss Lane from the car, and she went up on the porch of her home. Siller then stabbed me tinder the left arm! •.Continued on page eight.! In Which County Business Looks Like Good Business Comparisons—Not Odious—Show That The County Had A Good Year; Audit People Prove It In Report. When you come right down to cold ftgwes—In esse you’re interested in coming down to a cold figure this warnr afternoon—the county ©f Cleveland seems to hew been t pretty good business man last year. 1,000 In Herd \ On Rail Ride A thundering herd rumbled through Shelby at 6:46 yesterday morning, but paused not to seek green pastures here. This herd, unlike the pioneer bo vines, rode the rails. There were 1,000 head of cattle, in SB Seaboard Air Line cars, headed for various points in North Carolina, and they came from the drought-stricken areas of the mid-west, where their parched tongueS dbuld no longer find leafy sustenance. None of them was unloaded here because none has been assigned here. It is unlikely that Cleveland will get any of these cows, because the FERA people have an Idea the county doesn’t provide enough graz ing land for the cattle industry. A. J. Brown Dies At Local Hospital Was Section Foreman On Seaboard Railway For Eleven Years; Funeral Tuesday. A J. Brown, aged 39, died early -his morning at the Shelby hospital vhere ha had been a patient for ibout two weeks. Mr. Brown, a sec ton foreman on the Seaboard rail •no H onH Irnnnm CUnlk.. seen in ill health for several weeks. Elis death was attributed to high Jlood pressure and resulting com plications. Mr. Brown had been in the serv ce of the Seabord railroad for a otal of 18 years, the last 11 of vhich he had served as section ’oreman. Funeral services will be conducted it the Lutheran church in Shelby ruesday afternoon at three o’clock, interment will be at Pisgah church n Lincoln county. Mr. Brown is survived by his wife, vho was Miss Mary Carpenter of Lincoln county before marriage, his ather, J. J. Brown of Crouse, one irother, Fred Brown of Hamlet and ine sister Mrs. L. L. Reynolds of Arouse. Teachers Tickets Are Priced At 25c In an advertisement in Friday's Star, tickets to the Lamar String field orchestra concert for teachers vere priced at fifty cents. This wa« an error, as the correct price for eachers, students and children t‘ 25 cents. The Leslie A. Kimble company oi Lenoir has been auditing the book/ for more than a month, and todaj their report was available. Big Sum On Ham) It shows that the county has to day, cash on hand, $101,730.07, m against $80,875.30 as of June 30, 1933. Moreover, the county has bought in $33,000 in bonds not yet due. “And this aint politics,'' said Troy McKinney, plenipotentiary for the county commissioners, ax he explained the figures t5 a reporter “ ’cause the same board was in last year.” For once, comparisons aren't odious. Here’s some more: Taxes receivable for 19M were $27,623.86 and for '32, $15,473.27. Last year, the uncollected levy, m of June 30, was $58,797.45. Budget Comparisons To get the true picture, you re call that last year’s budget was (Continued on page eight.) Labor Has Minor Complaints Here Union Members, However, Will Walkout If General Strike Is Called, Says Lowrance. "Shelby U one of the best organ ized spots in the South and the union members on the whole are the best satisfied,” said C. E. Low rance, recording secretary of the Shelby local this morning. "There are some complaints against work ing conditions, but the complaints are of a local and more or less minor nature and are being worked out gradually,” he added. Mr. Lowrance says union workers will strike in sympathy with the general strike when ana if called upon to do so in order that the ;ause of the textile workers gener tfly might be enhanced. Attending the national laboi meeting in New York last week from 3helby were Paul Christopher, presi ient of the textile workers in North Carolina, O. P. Allen, president of the local union and Raymon John son, as delegates and C. M. Fox, 'ormerly of Shelby but recently ap pointed a member of the National Industrials Cotton Textile relations xsard. These men were expected to retufh last night, but neither of hem could be contacted this mom mg. Miss Helen Gladden spent the week-end in Earl with her grand mother, Mrs. P. M. Roberts. * Sandwich Factory And Store Burn At Boiling Springs Jwo Story Buildinj Gutted By Flames & U. Bmmw U«ri Property, Bui Started Immediately To IU um« Operation. Mm puttied at 2 o'clock Sunday morning the two atory brick build tag formerly occupied by the bant at Batting Springs but used now at a grocery store and sandwich fnc tory. The Oteveland Sandwich company la owned and operated by B. O Season who had recently purchaser the building from C. J. Hamrick. / large stock of groceries on the first floor of the building and the sand wtoh factory on the second floot wwc uumpieivu)' uooiruyra. n 11 understood that Mr. Beaeon cnrrlet no Insurance. Origin of the fire li unknown. Windows were bffiaklni from the Intense heat. when th< fire was discovered. A metal covered fire door pre vented the fire from spreading U the poatoffice and four adjolnini buildings. Material was on hand In th< sandwich shop to make up sit thousand sandwiches on Sunda; night for Monday's trade and this with all of the machinery anc equipment were a total loss. Thi shop does not make sandwiches ot Saturday nights, but works ever] other night during the week, mak ing nearly 4,000 sandwiches for dis trlbution among dealers In this sec tlon of the two Carolina*. Machinery and materials wen gotten together Sunday so the bus! ness of making sandwiches could b< resumed Sunday night. County4-H Groups HearWorkOutline At Friday Meeting Mow Than M Member* Present Oowsty Agents Outline Work Per Coming Season. More than 80 members of thi county’s 4-H clubs assembled In thi young people's department assem bly room of the First Baptist church Friday night and after i series of club songs listened to i tentative outlay of the fall’s pro gram of work by County Agent R W. Shoffner and Miss Frances Mac Qregor, home demonstration agent .Casar community had the larg est representation with 52 members Bethware, Patterson Grove ant Poikville had the next largest dele gations. Agents Rpui Mias MacOregor discussed t*i< home work projects and gave ad vice for oounty fair preparations while Mr. Shoffnor advised aboul wheat, oats, livestock and othei projects for the fall. Charles Palmer, only Clevelanc county honor member of the state wide 4-H organization spoke on th< importance of keeping good rec ords. He brought greetings frorr state headquarters. L. R. Harrill, oj State college and a former citizer of Cleveland county is head of th< state organization. R. L. Carpenter. director anc advisor of large Casar club spok« on the recreational advantages ol 4-H club work. Skeleton plans wer< considered for the establishment oi a permanent camp for regulai county wide meetings. Grinds This Year's Com C Y. Lewis, miller of the Fall ston section, thinks he is the firsl to grind new corn this year. H* ground a half bushel of new corr for T. M. Sweezy last Friday. Real Kingfish . This Is Dictator Huey P. Long, whose former title was King fish, who Is Incidentally Senator from , Louisiana. Yesterday, his state be came a dictatorship In a land of democracy as a subservient state , legislature, after a three-day special session, gave him extraordinary . powers as commander-ln-chtef of three armies, and created 36 new | laws givtng him complete power . over all elections All this power Is t nominally vested In Huey's tool, , Governor Allen. County Fanners Given Opportunity To Certify Seeds May Obtain AppUcatlon Blanks From County Agent’s Office; Mmall Fee Charged. Farmers of Cleveland county in terested In certifying cotton, corn, lespedesa, soybeans and oowpeas thi stall should call at the county agent's office and obtain applica tion blanks to secure certification by the North Carolina Crop tm i provement association. Inspection fees of the association are as follows: Membership: |1 per year paid in advance or a time of inspection. Farm fees: $3 covering the In spection of 1 to 10 awes. 1. Must be paid with application. 2. May cover more than one crop wiicii iiiBpccuun cun av maun on one trip. 3. Will be the only Inspection foe paid If crop does not certify. Acre fee: For each acre above above ten there will be an addition a laasessment as follows: 10c per acre in case of corn, soy beans. peas. 30c per acre in case of cotton, small grain, leapedeaa, vetch or other crops not designat ed. 50c per acre In case of Sweet or Irish potatoes. Tag fee: Tags to be Issued for cash only at a cost of 3c each. Wheat Yield Large At Cleveland Home An article in The Star several issues ago said that the Ruther ford county home harvested 390.5 bushels of wheat this year. "Why ther’re way behind," says a Shelby man. "The Cleveland county home made a total of 430.5 bushels, one of the largest crops ever harvested at the home." The opinion was expressed that most of the harvest would be con sumed by the 55 Inmates and eight prisoners. Only 300 bushels were used last year, and a very little was carired over. Hart grove Free-Wheels Home After 1,880 Mile Bike Marathon With aching thews, burning feet c and thirty-seven cents Jingling in his pants pocket, R. Craig Hart- 1 grove trundled into Shelby Satur- { day evening after unfurling 1,882 j miles under the speeding wheels of j his bicycle on his trip to the i World’s Pair, Chicago. c He made the Jaunt In a little ( less than four weeks and had to t walk about 300 miles through the 1 mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, where steep grades I made free-wheeling dangerous. t But he had, so he reports, one t swell time. He left here July 23 f with $9 and a letter of Identifies- f tion in his pocket, and returned l with a store-house of experience (and a high regard for the courtesy r f Chicago As for the fair, he wasn't so en husiastic about it. Thera were too nany people, he said, and they ushed him around a lot. But the 'air officials greeted him, took his icture for all the papers, and let tim Into everything free. In In ianapolis, the mayor met him and ut him up at the beet hotel—which 'as a real treat, after sleeping in aystacks. True son of the Cleveland soil, lartgrove was most impressed by tie pitiful condition of crops along tie way, where rain hasn’t fallen >r months, and rows of oorn are arched yellow-brown in the bum lg sun. After a day's rest, he said he was sady for another bike hike. FERA Give* 0. K. On Sewer Projects For Geveland Co. Start Work On Shelby Plan August 27 Kin** Mountain Oote Storm Sewer Project Approved By State P1CRA Barron. A *4,.13380 newer project for 8helby and a *3,036 storm aewn project for Kings Mountain, sub mltted through Harry WoodaotV' local FKRA bureau, have Juat beet, approved by the Raleigh bureau am> work will begin Immediately. The Shelby project calls for a. expenditure by the city of IM3.6' for materials and *300.00 for equip ment and will furnish newer Mne, on the following atreeU; 100 feel on Dodd street, 300 feet on Morton street. 630 feet on Ligon street, 380 feet on Lackey street; 300 feet on Blanton street. 300 feet on Oardnei street, and 1,180 feet on Carolina avenue, all of them to make con nection with the main Shelby aew er line. The work on this project will tx under the -supervision of R, v Tome, superintendent of the Shel by light end water department Work will begin on Monday, August 37. according to Robert Hord, local KURA official. The Kings Mountain project t. for repairing, draining aad main tenance of storm sewer lines. Thlr ty-el*-inch pjpe will be Installed across Oold street, 18-Inch across Oold street. 48-lnch pipe acroee the same street, 18-inch pipe across Lackey street, and 13-ineh pipe across Brice and Oantt streets. Work Begins Today The work in Kings Mountain will be supervised by L. O. Parson*. The city of Kings Mountain will expend 1170,00 for equipment and *38(1.88 for materials. The total «»*t of the project Including the two shove items and the labor will be 13,038.00. Work begins on this proj ect today. The Shelby plans were first re jected because they lacked the nec essary engineer's blue prints, but these were furnished, a re-applica tion waa made, and the Raleigh of ficials approved It. —si-—< County Pays More In Sale Tax Than 15c Ad Valorum Sales Tax For Cleveland Daring Year Ending June 30th Amounted To 178,340. Cleveland county paid ta sales tax during the fiscal year ending June 30th, a total of 878,340, or ap proximately $30,000 more than the fifteen cent ad valorum tax amount ed to during the last two years It was levied and turned over to the state for the operation of the pub lic schools. According to figures furnished The 8tar by A. J. Maxwell, com missioner of revenue, in-state mer chants paid a gross sales tax of $64,030.80. Out-of-state office* paid a gross of $10,784.80 and reg istration fees amounted to $486.40, making a total of $78,340.87 col lected as a result of the sales tex from Cleveland county. In the year 1932, the county lev ied a fifteen cent ad valorum tax which was remitted to the state for the operation of the public schools and this amounted to $68, 861.81. The county sent to Ra leigh from collected taxes $63.* 246.67, leaving a balance due the state by the county of $6,371.14 from 1932. However, Troy McKin ney, county acoountant claims that the county la entitled to a credit for collecting three percent on the total levy, and this credit amounts to $1,756.36. The remainder due the state Is from uncollected taxes. Back in 1931, the fifteen cent state levy on property amounted to $67,446.96 and the county ooUesSed and remitted $53,46737, leaving a balance due of $8,87337. After the three percent commission for sol lection k deducted, the oounty owes on the 1981 levy, $1,1XJJS less than the above amount. Poston Mill Grinds Turn Of Now Corn Bam Duakin who hem «C isr* Neal's plantation at NNMta Springs brought the first "torn” at new eorn to Paul Poston* grist mill near the County Bone on Sat urday. __
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