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Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot . 1354 to 14’4 Cotton seed, ton, wagon _ 25.00 Showers Saturday Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Probably showers tonight and Saturday. Cooler tomorrow. Get $50,000 By UNITED PRESS BUTLER, Penn., Aug. 24.—Ban dits in two automobiles today forc ed to the curb a truck carrying reg istered mail, raided it, and escaped with three sacks containing $50,000. They deserted one of their automo biles, which bore an Ohio license. Their loot consisted for the .most 1 Da... r C Pittsburgh. Woman Suspected By UNITED PRESS SAINT PAUL, Au[. 24.—One woman U being held today on an open charge In connection with the police slaying yesterday of Homer Van Meter, one of deceased DiUin ger’s arch lieutenants. She was jail ed a few minutes after police ma chine guns killed the gangster. Set For New NRA By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Gener al Hugh S. Johnson today said the whole question of NRA organization would be settled two weeks from Monday at Hyde Park, New York, after a conference between him and Roosevelt. He insisted that he bad no Intention of resigning. Hold 2 Suspects By UNITED PRESS PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 24—A suspect held here in connection with the $4274)00 Brooklyn armed car hold-up was identified today as Armour Lee Phillips, aged 40. hus band of Clara Lee Phillips, notor ious Los Angeles hammer slayer. Leo Glorgte is also held as a sus pect. Phillips’ wife Is serving a 30 year sentence for killing a steno grapher who was friendly with her husband. The March Of Events Gangster Dies Homer Van Meter may sound like a Park Avenue name, but it wasn't. It’s just the name of another dead gangster. He was a Dillinger hench man, and he died Thursday night as he had lived—with a gun in his hand and a snarl on his mouth. He was shot down by a police machine gun in St. Paul after a two week’s search. Prices Double Prices soared to more than dou ble last year’s opening day aver ages as the world’s largest tobacco markets started selling the produce of North Carolina's bright belt. Unofficial figures Thursday placed the opening at approximately 4, 000,000 pounds, one of the lightest in years, for an average of $25 a hundred, the best in ten years at least. Died For Honor Faye New died In defense of her honor, according to the coroner’s report. The Alabama girl, whose body was found in a thicket near Birmingham, was not criminally at tacked before a knife was thrust twice into her throat, the coroner said. City detectives and investiga tors from the solicitor’s office today are making a thorough search for the weapon. One suspect is held Union Stay* Firm A call to ignore any reports oi peace overtures was issued by the textile union yesterday to all local unions. Francis J. Gorman, in com mand of the strike committee, sent the message a few minutes before Robert Bruere, chairman of the cot ton textile industrial relations board, made his offer of services to both labor and manufacturers in an effort to avert the strike set for September 1. Russia Protests The Soviet government has pro tested directly to the Japanese gov ernment because of arrests of Rus sian citizens along the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchukuo, it was learned Thursday. The protest also took exception to the Japan ese statement that the Russians were fomenting trouble in China. Acts On NRA Quick adjustment of differences within the ranks over re-organiza tion of the NRA is seen now that President Roosevelt is himself back on the job. The first steps have been taken, but Mr. Roosevelt will confer today (Friday) with General Johnson in order to speed the work in preparation for the expected up swing in business this fall. The Ell c voll II n d ZEIT f VOL. XL. No. 102 SHELBY, N. C FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 Published Mondnjr, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mall DM year. (la adyaoaal .. U.M carrier, dot nar. (in adranaai _ aiM A Girl Today, Boy Tomorrow Clara Schreckengost j Clara Schreckengost, above, 20 year-old dwarf of Dayton, Pa., has agreed to undergo an opera | tion which surgeons believe will change her from a sickly girl to a normal, healthy boy. Two deli cate operations already have been i performed on the girl, who is af flicted with an abnormal gland condition. Ickes Sees Delay In Picking Route ForN.C. Parkway Secretary Fears Month Will Pas* Before He Can Consider Smoky Park National Highway. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23—Secre tary Ickes said today he doubted whether he would be able to hold his proposed hearing on the Great Smoky Mountain parkway route in North Carolina and Tennessee un til sometime early in September. Ickes last week said he expected to hold the hearing on the disputed location of the route within a week or 10 days either here or some place in North Carolina or Tennes see. Just returned from a trip to Maine, he said he found a large amount of business on his desk and he is going to Pennsylvania Monday for an address. “I don’t think I will be able to get to the parkway matter this month,” the secretary said at a press conference. “I hope to take it up in early September.” The route for the parkway which will connect the Shenandoah Na tional park in Virginia and the I Great Smoky Mountain National . ark in North Carolina and Tenn ee has been tentatively determ i hied as far as Blowing Rock, N. C. From that point there is consid ’ arable tension between North Caro : and Tennessee over the route ' • at? v.'anh a ‘‘main en •anes,” designation to the Great ■y rk which lies aim's: J!y between them, i The scenic highway is estimated 1 , i cost more than $16.000,0C0. Al j ready $6,000,000 in public works i funds has been allocated for the i project which has the strong back i ing of President Roosevelt. i_ Wilkins Advocates Training Quarters. For Incorrigibles Say* Curfew Law Will Aid Police Force Police Chief. In Strong Statement, Challenge* County to Furnish Camp. Following closely upon the state ment of Baxter J. Hunter, member of the Mecklenburg county board of commissioners. Chief of Police D. D. Wilkins this morning in a statement to The Star vofbes what he feels Is the most Imperative need of the hour—a training school for youthful delinquents In Cleveland county. Chief Wilkins, for years a cam paigner for some method of cor recting youthful Incorrigibles, re cently made an attack upon the child labor laws as fostering the great increase in Juvenile crime. In this statement he said "When boys are not allowed to work until they 18, there Is no hope of ever making good citizens out of them.” Challenge to Board. Mr. Wilkins says that his state ment Is a challenge to the county board of commissioners to “build a detention camp for delinquents and giv# them a chance to have educa tional training.” “The crime situation among North Carolina’s youth has spread beyond the state's control, and the present equipment and facilities for correcting the evil are hopelessly Inadequate. “Jackson Training school, the only detention camp operated by the state, Is just a drop In the flood. Why, Mecklenburg’s delin quents alone would keep that Insti tution filled," Wilkins said. Many Delinquent*. “Here In Shelby we have a large number of boys both white and col ored who are continually breaking the law by stealing, breaking Into places of business and many other crimes and the police department is powerless to stop It as long as the county will not provide any place of confinement or detention quarters nor any form of punish ment allowed by law. “Soma opponents of the measure for building such a camp Ip this county say that Juvenile crime will decrease during the school months when the children are attending their classes. My records show that last term, mere was not the slight est drop during the 'school term and I believe that this year will also show no decrease. Uiges Curfew Law. "And another law badly needed by Shelby is a curfew law which will require all children under 16 to be off the streets after dark, unless accompanied by their parents or some other elder person. “The county will have to pay 10 times the amount a camp would cost them In the expenses of keep ing these boys out of trouble." Chief Wilkins further outlined his idea saying that a teacher and matron could be used to give the boys proper educational advantag es, Just as is done at the state train ing school. Make Boys Work. It was urged that the boys who would be sent to the local deten tion and training school would be enabled to work and gain valuable exercise and knowledge of farming by growing part of the fod whicli they consume. “The object would not necessarily be to make the detention and train ing home self sustaining.” Mr. Wil kins said, “but the boys held there could in some measure aid in de fraying their own board bills.” Chief Wilkins said that the ex ! penses rf setting up the camp could easily be taken care of from ! the $100,000 surplus with which the | county is blessed. “No better use for part of this fund could be found.” Wilkins stated. COLORED PEOPLE TO HAVE BRUSH ARBOR MEET Adam Hord says the colored peo ple are planning to hold a brush arbor camp meeting for the better ment of the colored race. Time and place will be announced later. musical Tinkle Of Silver Coins \ Echoes Stringfield Concert Here The North Carolina Symphony concert here Tuesday night was a financial 'as well as a musical suc cess, according to the report made today by Mrs, Everett Houser chairman of the symphony com mittee named by the Contemporary Book club, which, together with the Cecelia Music club, the Ishpenniug club, the Renaissance cfub, the Readers club and the Twentieth Century club put up the guarantee of $100 necessary to insure the con cert. Two hundred and seven four people paid 25 cents each, this fig ure representing a special rate for teachers as well as for students and children, a total of $68.50; while 277 people paid 50 cents each, a total of $138.50, making a grand total of $207.00 received for the concert. In addition to the 551 per sons purchasing tickets, 20 Were ad mitted at the gate, making a total of 571 admitted by ticket. A num - \ her of children under school age were admitted without tickets: (Continued on page eighth ( Century Of History Speeds By As Mary Gantt Works On Keeps Store, Gets Up At 5 O’Clock At 5 A. M. Blue-eyed, red-headed little Mary Ledford, daughter of Mr. and Mrt. Joel Ledford of upper Cleveland, was nine years old when the ftrit telegraph line In the United State* clicked a message from Baltimore to New York. She was 35 years old when John Brown raided Harpers Ferry. She was 33 when Abraham Lin coln was killed by Booth. She was 37 when the dermal) empire was farmed. As she celebrates her 100th birth day this week, so much of crowded history has passed before her eye* that current events hold little In terest ^for her. You’ve known her for years, prob ably all your life, as Mrs. Mary Gantt, who runs the little grocery store on South Morgan street. More than 300 relatives and friends have been Invited to her birthday party on Sunday, when she will cut a fifty-pound cake lighted by 100 candles. Today, her eyes are still blue and her hair is still red and thick, hough. Time has frosted It slight ly. Plump and hearty, with good appetite (“She eats as much as I do,” says her 54-year-old youngest son), Mrs. Oantt manages her accounts, and does her own buying and trading. In answer to the stock question, "What’s the secret of living to be 100 years old,.", she said: “Why, I guess lt*s Just hard work, I always worked hard, every day. (Continued on page eight.) Three Cleveland Mills Get “A” Rating In State Labor Department Inspection In 17 Counties Reveals Enviable Law Observance Record During July Three Cleveland county mills were given an “A” rating by the North Carolina Department of Labor following in spection of industries in 17 counties during the month of July. The Cleveland mills were the Cleveland Cloth, at Shelby, Neisler Milla, Inc., and Park Yarn Mill, both at Kings Mountain. __ . ... . . . ^ .• _ . The textile Industry as a whole Toy Webb Was First Ginner Of 1933 Lint The fact that the cotton crop is so much later this year than it was in 1932 and 1933 is clearly revealed by turning back through the files of The Star to August 28, 1933. On that date, Toy Webb, well known fanner, picked and ginned the first bale which weighed 800 pounds. It was auctioned off at the »urt house on August 24 apd was purchased by Mason Carroll at 10.35 cents per pound. The grade was middling and the staple 1 1-32. While the Webb bale was being auctioned off, a bale was picked and ginned on August 24 on the farm of E. F. McKinney, prominent Shelby business man and fanner. McKinney’s bale weighed 604 pounds and was sold to Mose Bro thers at 10.40 cents per pound. The first bale in 1933 was the earliest in 11 years. This years crop will fal lfar behind, since farmers are lust now bringing in examples of their first open boll. Easom’s Father At Smithfield Dies James H. Easom Passes At Ad vanced Age. Funeral There On Saturday. James H. Easom, ninety-one year old father of Horace Easom, edu cational and musical director of the First Baptist church of Shelby, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. G. Gray at Smithfield near Raleigh Thursday afternoon at 4:30 and will be burled there Saturday afternoon, the funeral to be con ducted from the residence at 3 o’clock by Rev. H. N. Massey, pas tor of the Baptist church, assisted by Rev. T. H. King, former pastor. Mr. Easom’s condition has been critical for some time and his son Horace of Shelby has been going back and forth to his bedside for several weeks. The deceased was bom seven miles from Smithfield in Johnston county and moved to SmlthTielrf thirty-three years ago to engage in business. He was one of the most prominent men of that county. Surviving are the follow ing children: Horace Easom of Sh Tty’\ Delma Easom of High Point. Mrs. D. M. Hall of Clayton, Mrs. Lizzie Medlin and Mrs. H. G. Gray of Smithfield. W»s found In this Inspection to be nuking mi enviable record in ob servation at state labor laws, ac cording to the report received Thursday by W. M. McLaurlnd, sec retary of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association. The inspection made was for 17 counties during the month of July. These were O as ton, Rowan, Samp son. Davie. Onslow, Pender, Stokes, Craven, Anson, Richmond, Stanly, Union, Cleveland, Iredell. Person and Wake. Textile and textile prod ucts’ companies in this section em ploy 28,947 persons and only 30 violations of the labor laws were found, a record of one eighth of one per cent. In the report is also a list of in dustries given an "A” rating in the inspection. Establishments receiv ing this grade for July were: Stlmp son Hosiery mill, Statesville; Stat esville Cotton mill, Statesville; Margrace and Patricia plants of the Neisler mills, Inc., Kings Moun tain; Pam Yam mill. Kings Moun tain; Cleveland Cloth mill, Shelby; Roxboro Cotton mill, Roxboro; Col lins and Alkman corporation, Rox boro; Erwin Cotton mills, No. S. Coolemee; Carlton Yam Mills, Cherryville; A. M. Smyre Manufac turing company. No. 1 and No. 2, Gastonia; United Spinners, No. 3, Dallas; Cramerton mills, Inc., May flower plant, Cramerton; National Weaving company, Lowell; Mill Devices, Inc., Gastonia; Eflrd’S Manufacturing company, Plants 4 and 5, Albemarle; and Mlscassetr Knitting mill, No. 7, Albemarle. Dr. Plaster Talks On Life Saving ! Dr H. L. Plaster, Instructor In life saving for the local chapter of the American Red Cross, gave a demonstration before the Kiwanis club on how to revive one who has been overcome in water. “Swimming is one of the most popular sum mer time sports," said Dr. Plaster and as there is a certain danger attached to. swimming, the Red Cross has been waging a nation wide campaign which has reduced the annual death toll. Subjects who have been over come in the water should be placed an the ground, face down, rubbed rhythmically With the palms of the hands at the rate of about four teen strokes a minute. He suggest ed the “buddy” system of swim ming where two swimmers go to gether, has little faith in the pul motor in restoring one overcome in water and says bodies do not go down three times before drowning. No one should bathe or swim for an hour after eating, he said. Dr. Plaster made an appeal for a jswimming place in this section with a supervisor in charge and emphasized the ir, —e of every child being taught to swim. Liberty League Not Anti-New Deal Bailey Declares Carolina Solon Denier G.O.P. Intimation Al Smith. John W. Ilsvls Head Nr< Oroup Ostensibly To Protect National Constitution. North Carolina's Senator Bat Icy . famed lor doing hla own reckoning, even when the reckoning waa un popular. and blasted tn many quarters for opposing certain poli cies of the New Deal, Is today named as one of the members of the new American League—but quickly Issued a statement, denying that he or his associates would join the Republicans In opposition to Roosevelt. John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Democrats, and former Oovernor Nathan Miller of New York and Representative Wadsworth, Repub licans, are organisers of the league, which Is looked upon with deep suspicion, yet avows as Its only pur pose the protection of the consti tution. Such a noble purpose, of course, can’t be criticised. “Not Antl-Roosevelt" Senators Class and Qyrd of Vir ginia, Tydings of Maryland and Bailey of North Carolina thought It necessary Thursday to Issue a for mal statement, saying that the Liberty League Is not antt-Roose velt. There may be great Importance to this new organisation. Secretary I ekes, himself a 1912 progressive said it marked the beginning of a division of political parties "along ’the lines of real Issues.” He said hr would like to see all progressives get together In one party and all con servatives In another. Kendrick, Stamey Get Four Gallons Of Carolina Corn HUM Made On Colored House Yes terday Afternoon; Liquor Hid den In Ground. Constable Bob Kendrick and Po liceman Paul Stamey yeeterday aft ernoon raided the home off Mos« Allen, oolored, on Hopper H1U be low the Washington street school snd discovered four and one-hall gallons of Carolina com Mquor. The raid was made after a til had been handed to the officers The place had been under suspicion for some time. Mose himself Is an invalid, but the officers arrested his wife, Mary on liquor charges, Kendrick said she had been In court on slmtlai charges before. The liquor was burled In varlotu places in the yard and in the field; and the officers were forced to dig it up with a post-hole digger. Doyle Ernest Auto Wrecked On Warren Ernest Himself Only Slightly In Jared, Bat Csr Is Damaged Badly. Doyle Ernest tills morning wreck ed a Chevrolet sedan he was drlv ing and Injured himself slightly ii front of the home of Charlie Youm on West Warren street. 1\ was said that Ernest was com Ing toward town at a supposed!; high rate of speed. He lost contrc of the car and smashed into a tele phone post in front of Young' residence, clipping It off. Then th hurtling car bounded up the cemen steps and stopped In the front yarc but not before it had smashed int a tree. Ernest was rushed to the Shelb hospital, but it was found that h suffered only a minor laceration 01 his right temple, and he was re leased as soon as he was given firs aid treatment. The sedan was almost a tot* wreck, and the damage has bee estimated at approximately $300. County Gets$585,269 Federal Farm Loans, Could Get Lots More SnakelnPalpit Had No Fangs This is Dewey Dotson, itinerant evangelist, who Imitated North Car olina's imitator of 8t. Patrick. Al bert Teester, Syla Holy Holler, who allowed a rattlesnake to bite him and lived through it. Dotson also took a snake into the pulpit, but It was later revealed that its fangs haa been drawn. Threat Of Strike Not Much Concern To ManyMiH Men Chion Workers, Haring No Major Complaints, Hops For A Set tlement Soon. There Is not much concern here , about the threatened natton-wlda : strike of textile workers who are demanding shorter work hours and a stoppage to the abuse of the so called stretch-out. Local mill em i ployees have no major complaint against their working conditions , and are In the main very well aat , lsfted. The mills in this section I have been more fortunate than the ■ mills In many other textile centers and have been operating on the i summer schedule which calls tor t i 28 per cent reduction. A union of ; flclal stated a few days ago that the workers are in the main satisfied except for a few minor matters, anc Vinlssa IViaI Ikii lltMniAMiul xklillej can reach a settlement. If It is call ed, he predicts that the workers would obey orders. Several textile executives saj they have been running at a loss that orders are scarce and hard U get, that they are adhering to th< code, and have been doing th« best they could under strain anc handicaps. "A strike would be wel comed,” said one mill man. ‘‘Wi 1 arc growing desperate from worry [ losses and threats and wouldn' mind stopping except for the hard ship it would work on loyal, patient ' employees, who want to work t( support their families." ' There is a growing feeling on thi l part of the public that the threat * ened strike will be adjusted an< never ordered. "If it comes, it wll ’ be a twt of the union's strength ’ and loyalty. I believe the worker in Shelby where there are no majoi ' complaints will work right on.1 ’ predicted one man. Hoyle Reunion At Bel wood t The forty-second annual reunioi of the .Hoyle family was held a 1 Belwood yesterday. A huge crowi i including many Shelby people at tended the event. Many Firms Have Yen For Shelby, Bat It's A Racket, Houser Shows Firms indicating they are Inter ested in moving their plants pro vided towns and cities are willing to offer inducements are, to a cer tain extent, indulging In a racket eering enterprise, says Everett Houser, secretary of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce and Mer chants association. MT. Houser says he has received during the past several months i number of enquiries from firms in dicating U>-'- - . nx iou1” of ! 5 to ! pio vided certain iinancial aid could be secured. In each case he has promptly asked lor a financial statement o the firm in question. In most In stances the matter dies there im mediately because false statement sent through the mails are ealeu la ted to cause people trouble. Sev eral firms, however, have sent thei statements and In each of these In stances they were, to say the ver least, in bad financial condition A list of firm wlv h'>o enquirei (Continued on page eight; Applications Catlad Comparatively Slow Other CounMna Aak And Obtain Mow, Mji Edwards; $05,000 In (lorn* Lmm IMa Mow livestock, building improve ment*. end a breathing spell tram work fling off the mortgages ere some of the benefits that Cleveland farmers have been slow to obtain from the Federal Land bank. One of the reasons why appMca kione have been slow hare, to, of course, that times have never been so hard beset as In some other communities. Even so. the amount at maim loaned here since MM. arrived at by The Star from records In the register of deeds office, adds up to a startling figUre-gSMJM. It breaks down Ilka this: In 1030, 110,500; In 1050, $$0,000; In lost. $34,800; In 19M. $54,700; in 1034, $450,400. There were no loans m MM. Interact Ittt Lew * Henry Bd wards of Shelby and J. R. Davi* of Kings MounUln are attorneys and correspondents for the Land Bank. This organisation Is not one of the New Deal crea tions, but has been at wotte far more than 15 years. It Is, however, supplemented by a New Dealer, the Land Bank commissioners, who are allowed, when they think wtae, to add a 2B per tent loan to the fifty per cent the bank can make. In other words, If you get a land bank loan up to one-half the value of your farm, and need mote, the commissioners are allowed to go another 25 percent. If after apprais al, they think It wise. You ean't borrow this money to purchase new lands, but you can get It for any other farm purpose. Including re financing. Land Bank loans cost ♦ 1-J per cent for the first five yearsf four more yean of that to go) and ft per cent after that. With private loans ranging up to 8 per cent, this means a vast saving to farmers who take these loans. 400 New Applications Although applications have been unusually slow In Cleveland, oom pared with the rush for federal money In eastern counties, and In South Carolina, Mr. tdwards said that “business was picking pp pew. I’ve had about 400 applications this year." Applications should be ipsrte to the attorneys. with & survgyop's plat and a legal description of 1M property offered. $85,000 Home Loans The other federal money senses in Cleveland, Home Loans, for which C. B. McBrayer la attorney and Oliver Anthony appraiser, took a sharp upswing in the past mopth. Records in the register of deeds office show that loans aggregating $85,091 have been made. This, of course, Is far from a final total, for there are several hundred applications on file that will In all likelihood be allowed. : County Buys Bonds Before Maturity t Buys $13,000 Today, making A To tal Of $20,080 bought Since [ July lit. i Cleveland county’s strong flnanc i lal position enables It to retire un ' matured bonds and since July 1st, ’ $20,000 has been bought In to stop Interest. Thirteen thousand worth of No. 7 township, No. 2 township and No. a (Lawndale district) bonds | all bearing six per cent Interest were purchased today through a tlrm or security dealers. When any particular fund has sufficient money on hand to retire umnatured bonds, It Is the policy of the county to buy these bonds in when they are available. Not often, howeyer, are Cleveland county bonds floating around for sale. They are quoted at par and above. Troy McKinney says he was for tunate in buying the (13,000 lot a( par. New Film Teaches Buying At Home The Shelby Merchants associa tion is publicly acknowledging it* thanks to the managements of the Webb and Carolina theaters for running an attractive and ittter rstinr short ‘talkie” feature which t.- ♦v,p advantages of people, j doltv- | 'eir buying In their own communities. J-]
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