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VOL. XL, No. 105 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Ilf M»U oar rm Ob Otumi _ mM Orrft. M» WH m MnMlI _ DM Late News The markets Ostton, spot .. 1354 to 14<4 Cotton teed, ton, wagon_25.00 | Warmer Saturday Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Fair and continued cool to night. Fair and somewhat warmer tomorrow. Wreck Train By UNITED PRESS HARBIN, Manchoukuo, August 31.—Robert Lori Dana and Jon Johansen, American motion picture officials, are missing today after bandits had. wrecked the Harbin Hsinkiang night express, killing firs persons, Including three pro fessors of the Imperial Valley uni versity at Tokyo. Telegraphic re ports said eighteen persons had been killed. Yarn In Toil* By UNITED PRESS NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Federal authorities today took custody of Benjamin Franklin Yarn, disabled former Naval mechanic, charged with threatening bodily harm and kidnap to the grandchildren of President Roosevelt, ftlstie and Bur sts Dali. The March Of Events Kidnap Threat Benjamin Franklin Zarn, 33, ot Charleston, S. C., was arrested last night under the Lindbergh law charged with threatening to kid nap the grand-children of the President of the United States, the Dali children. He Is said to have asked $168,000 of Mrs. Roosevelt. Zero was arrested in a New York Y. M. C. A. His letter said bodily harm would come to Buzzie and SlsUe if the money was not paid. Davis Cleared Ballistics experts said on Thurs day that the bullet which killed Sheriff G. C. Kimball of Iredell did not come from the gun of Ralph Davis, Lexington outlaw held for the murder, but from the pistol of Deputy R. L. Gilbert, the Sheriff’s companion in the raid. Two Wit nesses said Davis killed the Sher-1 iff, and he will be prosecuted any-j way, in an attempt to clear up the < mystery. Bul winkle Named Representative A. L. Bulwinkle ot Gastonia was today slated by the Democratic campaign committee to be one of the board of strategy for the forthcoming campaign to keep the house safely in the Democratic j column. It is now two to one Dem-! ocratic and majority leader Byrnsj is determined not to lose a single man. Criminals Captured Two of the seven criminally in sane inmates of the State Hospital at Raleigh, who escaped early Wed nesday morning, were back in their calls Thursday night. Joe Stafford wife murderer, and Tom Jackson, burglar, were caught near Wilson Mills by Johnson county officers. They put up no fight, and were tired and hungry after .their hours of travel through the woods. State Population Worth Carolina continues to be th# most populous state in the southeast. The state population on July 1 was estimated by the census bureau as 3,301,000. South Carolina has 1,760,000, Georgia 2,911,000, Ala bama 2,710,000, Tennessee 2,767,000, Virginia 2,446,000, Louisiana 2,166 - 000, Florida 1,575,000 and Missis sippi 2,057,000. District Meeting Of Mail Carriers To Convene Monday Many Prominent Speakers On Pro gram Of Meeting To Be Held At Rutherford College. The 11th district, N. C. Rural Mail Carriers Association will con vane at Rutherford College, near Connelly Springs in Catawba coun ty, on Monday, September 3, for their regular district meeting. Many prominent speakers are on the program whit* includes the following addresses: Devotional ex ercises, the Rev. O. L. Robinson, pastor of the Connelly Springs M E. church; Address of Welcome, J B. Cooper, rural carrier of Valdese; Greetings, Prof. R. L. Patton, supt of the Burke County schools; Re sponse, W. C. Johnson, rural car rier; Address. G. V. Hawkins, re tired rural carrier of Shelby; and address, Arthur Talmage Abernethy author and humorist of Rutherford • College. The feature address of the day will be delivered by W. P. Cooke, president of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carrier Association, who makes his homo in Asheville The convention will open at 10:30 o’clock Monday morning. » Boy Survives Cult Neglect Fighting for his life after an operation which was delayed four days by faith-healing cultists, eight-year-old Wallace Doyle Sharp, Jr., is shown in bed In the humble Sharp home at Fort Payne, Ala. Below Wallace Doyle* Smith, cultist, accused of hiding the boy from doctors while he suffered from a tubercular leg infection. It was only after a circuit judge warned that he would ask murder indietments aglnst the boy’s immediate relatives if he should die without medical attention that the operation was permitted. Moore Quits County Poet, Thompson Named Successor Quarantine Officer Resignation Accepted " Ending Dispute Over Fees; New Appointee Hasn’t Yet Been Notified. 3,400 Farmers ClaimRight To Tax Free Lint Approximately 3,400 applications for ginning tickets, which will cer tify exemption of a certain amount of cotton from the over-production tax under the Bankhead Act, have been made by Cleveland county growers, it, was learned today at the county farm agent’s office. These applications will be mailed to Ra leigh and the tickets distributed as soon as received here. At the same time, it was announc ed that the tremendous task of checking cotton acreage offered un der the AAA reduction program— for which Cleveland county farm ers have already received more than $150,000—will be completed this week. The county committee has been In the field for more than a month. Ickes WiB Hold Parkway Hearing On September 10 Secretary Of The Interior To De cide Then Whether Tennessee Or N. C. Gets Entrance WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Secre tary of the Interior Ickes will hold a hearing in Asheville on September 10, to determine whether the Great Smoky National parkway will en ter the newest national park cm the North Carolina or Tennessee side. > \ He told Representative Zeb Wea ver today he will conduct the hear ings himself, after Mr. Weaver had (Continued on page nine.) An old dispute between the Corn ty Commissioners and County Phy sician and quarantine Officer Dr. D P. Moore was brought to an en< Thursday when the Board o Healt haccepted the resignation a the doctor as quarantine officer He had offered his resignation sev eral months ago to Joe E. Blanton The trouble between doctor ant board was over fees during th< measles epidemic which ragec throughout the county last winter affecting so many children that t dozen schools were closed at on< time. ngr. Moore’s fees, the boerc said, were too high. Dr. Moore sail the fees were set by law. Severs decisions by Attorney Genera. Brummltt, and opinions by the State Board of Health, were invok ed without settling the controversy Successor Is Picked. The Beard of Health immediate ly named Dr. H. C. Thompson young Shelby physician, to take over the quarantine duties, but ha* not yet officially informed him oi his appointment. He said at the hospital this morning that be had nothing to say until he had beer so hotJfled. * Dr. Mbore retains the office oJ county physician, whoee duties are principally to look after inmates oi the jail and the county home. Moves to name a full-time health officer in Cleveland have met with no success recently. The Medici Society insists that only a phy sician can accept this job. The board of health is composed of Chairman Joe. E. Blanton, sec retary Horace Grigg, and Drs. Lat timore, Kendall, Moore, - Dorton and Beam. No Recorders Court On Monday Morning Bill 06borne announced this morning that there would be nc session of the county recorder’: court Monday morning since that date will be a holiday for Laboi Day. Sensational Story Proves Flop As “Kidnapped” Girl Shows Up Shelby almost had another sen sational story today—or rather one that had all the indications of be ing the most startling yarn to break here In years. But the young girl, thought to have been abducted, turned up at her home, mad at the county of ficers for trying to find her. And plop! went the story. It happened like this, according to Sheriff J. R. Cline: Lula May Sweezy, age 16, alleged ly left her home in No. 9 township with Howard Grayson, to attend a :hicken stew in Rutherford coun ty. That waa on Tuesday night. And Wednesday morning, she had not returned. Neither did she show up all day Wednesday, 01 Thursday morning. Her parents naturally became worried over her absence, and eu officers had reports that the chick en stew had developed Into some what of a wild, drinking party, they started a search for both Grayson and the girL Grayson was taken Into custody, and allegedly told the officers that (Continued on page nine.) Cotton Reduction To Be Continued For Another Year AAA Will Use Same National Set Up t Secretary Wallace Declares Action Necessary Because Of Droaghti Bankhead Act Continues. MEMPHIS. Tenn., August 36.— Another ootton reduction program next year was forecast here today by Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture. Secretary Wallace also revealed In an Interview that he believes the provisions of ths Bankhead act must be continued throughout the present crop year In spite of the reduced yield. There have been pleas from some for suspension of the provisions. To Equalise Drought The action Is necessary, he saM, in order to equalize the effect of the drought through the sale of gin ning certificates • by those under their quotas to those over them. This section, he said. Is above the average in cotton "and It is prob ably your fanners will have to buy some of these certificates from less fortunate ones." The secretary did not reveal the form he thinks next year's reduc tion program should take, but said that "our carry-over in ootton Is still- abovt normal,” even with this year’s reduced production. Secretary Wallace spoke this aft ernoon at Marianna. Ark., where he planne dto elaboftite on his inter view here. He did not prepare an address in advance. Ha warned that the south Is, fac ed with the necessity of making up Its mind whether K Is going to shrink Its cotton production to ac tual domestic needs—about 6,000, 000 bales—or oontinue to grow a surplus of about 8,000,000 bales for world markets. “It is a question of which policy will bring the cotton farmer the greater prosperity,” he said. "»er sonally, I would prefer It If we bad a way to Increase profits sufficient ly to go ahead with our customary world trade. It Is not the duty of the southern fanner, however, be ' prqduc* for foreignrnarkms ‘ aW o aa^kw* exporters can profit from It. Unless it brings the farmer a greater pros perity, there b no use growing such surplus.” Jenkins Is Dragged By A Team Of Mules TRINITY, Aug. 30.—Joe Jenkins of this community was rather bad ly hurt last week when he was dragged by his team of mules for several yards. Mr. Jenkins was un loading fodder on the wagon, when his mules started and Mr. Jenkins got tangled In the lines. He was dragged some distance before being released. i Mrs. C.R. Hqey 4s Mom Cagle This 1* Mrs. Hoey—Miss Bess to you—In costume and make-up for her role In the Community Players production of Lula Volltner’s “Sun Up" tonight. She plays the part of Mom Cagle, hard-hearted, stoical mountain woman In the three-act play which, It Is believed, will be the Shelby players’ finest production. The dress, by the way, is authentic —Mrs. Hoey bought It way back thar in the mountains, and she treasures It highly. Shoffner Returns With 131 Checks Due On Reduction County Agent Went To Bat WMh AAA To Get Money Due Mnee June. R. W. Shoffner, Cleveland coun ty farm agent, returned from Washington yesterday with checks lor 1S1 cotton farmers who failed to receive their redaction payments Imat Jun*, ;Kp mw|«ll|(lKtSi Mr. Shoffner went to bat for his farmers with the AAA and learned that the Ml neglected applications had been shoved aside, failing to go through the regular channels. The checks are here now, amounting to almost $5000 and notices were sent out today for the owners to call for them. In the old Washington post office building, the eounty agent, said he saw 3,700 clerks working day and night In three shifts in order to expedite the tremendous task of the Agricultural Administration. He thought this activity compared favorably with his own office here, where typewriters have been stead fly clicking for many months. —-— i Jesse Willis, Old Coffin Maker, Made ’Em To Measure And Lined ’Em With Calico .. ■■ "1 1By Wjmi W»»hbum . — Tales of ghosts and haunted places are always revived In the Beams Mill section when Virgil Gardner, prominent fanner and citlsen of that community, begins to recall the facts about “coffin making," one of the county's ori ginal and most necessary indus tries. The tale begins in pre-Civil war days when people were buried in coffins and not “Interred in cask ets.” Those were the days when deaths were few enough to seem more serious and crepe was hung on door knobs and people mourned far days over the loss of loved ones. People stayed at home, grew what they needed to eat and wear, made what they used, and when they died were buried in a box made from timber, they grew within sight of their house. Wife Helped Make Coffins. Jesse Willis, a carpenter by trade and whose father was the forbear of many of the Willis clan in the Belwood section, was the only man in the Beams Mill neighborhood whoee handiwork would be trusted as a last gesture to protect the dead He was born sometime before 1820 and from about 1880 until 26 years after the close of the war was known as a most skilled artisan in his trade. The old house where he fashioned the coffins for many former citizen of the county Is still standing 9 miles north of Shelby on the Fallston road. However, it doesn’t appear to be an old house despite Its three-quarters of a cen tury of age and the fact that four generations of children have be*n reared there since Mr. Willis brought his blushing bride Viney \ Petty there to live and help him make coffin*. In fact. It 1* almost i new house, having been remodel sd for Mr. Gardner'* son-in-law ivho now live* there. "If I do say it myself, the eight inch corner-poet* in that house are is solid and as plumb as a sky scraper,” said Mr. Gardner as he sold how the logs were hewn and not sawed out with a broad-axe. 'And the old crib we tore down was still solid enough to hold shelled jom.” , Choicest Timber Used. An imaginary visit across the years to the humble home of Mr. Willis will help the average reader to better conceive what needs must take place In preparing coffins to be used. According to Mr. Gardner, the genial old artisan would tell the visitor that he used pine timber alone. The Umber was obtained by Butting down the most choice trees In the then virgin forests. Trunk* standing straight, knotless and 70 feet to the first limbs were chosen, sut down, and the proper cuts fragged by a powerful yoke of oxen to the shop in hls back yard. Dur ing the first few years Mr, Willis sawed the timber by hand, but a little later carried hls logs to a nearby sawmill on the creek Here the logs were “slabbed" and the choicest cuts made by the use of ‘sash-saw” which ran up and down in a vertical position instead of the present horizontal method. Too, the saw, and not the log. traveled from i>ne end to the other, again con trary to modern sawmill methods. At any rate, sturdy Inch boards >f close grained heart pine were (Continued on page two) Buddy Jones Dies From Accidental Discharge Of Gun Wat Shooting Birds With Cousin Thlrlff# Tow Old Hon Of Mr. And Mro. Rcktie Jones llrn Only Hoar After Aoeldent. Eugene Douglas lanes. better known M '‘Buddy.'1 died within an hour yesterday afternoon as a re sult of » wound from a .93 calibre rifle with which ha had bean shoot ing sparrows tn the yard of a neigh bor and playmate. Bari Jones The aaotdent happened on Broad St. In South Shelby near the home of bis parents. Buddy had shot at a sparrow, re loaded his rifle and aet It down by hla aids. It Is supposed that the Jar of the butt of the gun oaused It to discharge. The bullet entered his right aide, ranged upward and came out of the left aide. Its course was near the lungs and heart and phy sicians think a blood vessel was punctured. Hie popular youth was rushed to the hospital where he died within an hour without re gaining consciousness. Buddy was 13 years of age and his playmate cousin, Bari Jones Is 13. Ha had finished the fifth grade In the South Shelby school and received hla promotion to the sixth. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Jones and one sister. Louise, age 13. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. 0. V. Martin, pastor of the Seoond Baptist <*wrch and intermknt win take place In Sunset cemetery. Webb’s Condition Is StiM Serious fttMttW OoM BUr Bh Lun* Injury: Condition improve* To ftMfht Extent. Webb, Shelby youth grho woe injured in a wreck at Gastonia loot Sunday night, etin remain# in hoapftaL It waa hr*t thought that Webb had suffered only a compound frac tun In hia leg. However, later ex amination revealed that he has a lung injury. The phyalclena are not Eure whether or not the lung la punctured, but an of the opinion that It will heal provided pneu monia doesn't set in. Harrison Yarborough continues in practically the same condition Hia broken Jaw and numerous lac erations an very painful, but he ie perfectly conscious and seems to bo recovering nicely. Both boys will probably be in the hospital for the next few weeks. The other two Shelby occupants of the car, Hal Putnam and W. C Roberts, an not lnjund seriously. More Wheat Thieve* Bagged By Sheriff Scouring the county in search of wheat thieves. Sheriff Cline added two more negroes to his Jail col lection on Wednesday. He arrested Ernest Nivens and Leroy Degree and lodged them in a cell along with Nath Degree and Mason Rob erts, whom he arrested Sunday night on charges of stealing and selling wheat from a barn owned by Shovine Beam, near Buffalo. Another suspect, who fled through the bushes at the approach of of ficers, is still at large, but the sher iff believes he will have him in jail soon. Farmers Mutual Fire Association To Meet W. R. Newton, secretary-treasur er of the Farmers Mutual Fire In surance association has called for the annual meeting of policyhold ers to be held in the court house Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Officers will be elected and the an nual financial statement presented. Fires Glow In Cleveland Homes At First Whiff Of Autumn Chill Many a fireplace glowed in Cleveland county last night as the? first whiff of Autumn chill touched the night air, and piany a bouse* wife groped In the hall closet for those blankets she put away this spring. It was pretty cold—just how cold could not be determined, for Shel by has no weather bureau. But observers saw the thermometer low ered to 63 at night fall, and by midnight it must have been ten de ■ Union And Mill Men Uncertain Of Course Strike To Take Here Both Sides Of Textile Dispute’ WASHINGTON, Aug. Sl.~ The cotton textile argument In a nutshell Is this: The union dimtndi: A six-hour day; five days week; no cuts In present weekly wages; uniform pay 1 for all areas; a hRlt on the i •stretchout"; and end to’ ( "discrimination" against un ionists; recognition of the un ion as the bargaining agency: , an arbitration tribunal. The union says "reactionary" em ployers have "flouted the . \ economic and humane" pro- ( visions off NRA. I The employers reply; They have observed the law; the NRA code has boost- , ed labor costs; any more wage boosts or shortening of hours Is Impossible to carry; raw ( materials have jumped 100 | per cent; demand for cotton goods has fallen off; the strike , "will put a premium on force and violence as Instruments of law-making" In amending the code. Wide Disquiet , Feared As Strike Threatens Nation: Historic Labor Battls* Of Nineties 1 Recalled As Union Dissension 1 Crook* 1)1 Will. By UNITED PRIOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The J notional cotton textile strike today ] threatened the nation with Indus- i trial warfare smjh as hoo »<* boon 1 seen in the United States since the 1 historic labor battle of the nineties A thousand workers throughout \ the nation have disobeyed orders < by striking ahead of time, and more 1 have refused to strike, posing a pic- j ture of Internal strife among the , union men themselves. Rome Will Run Some mill owners nave locked 1 their plants, but others announced ( they Intended to keep running, us- ] Ing strike breakers if necessary. 1 All peace negotiations have ool- 1 lapsed. 1 President William Oreen of the American Federation of Labor to day warned the nation of a pros- 1 pectlve unemployment situation 1 throughout the nation this winter, rising to serious proportions, unless business revives vigorously In the Fall. He declared that the country Faced a loss of all Its recovery gains. Shelby-T o-Polkville Road Is Completed Engineers Now Turn To Asphalt Job On Polkville-To-Fallston Stretch, Last Project. The final drop of tar was smooth ed Into place on the Shelby-to Polkvllle road Wednesday after noon and the road Is now declared officially open by the highway de partment. It Is now a smooth, curving highway, IS miles between the two towns. The next step Is the Polkvtlle to , Fallston road, on which work start ed Tuesday on the final tar sur Facing. Engineers expect to com plete this road within a week or , ten days. This will also complete the triangular link between Shel- ‘ by. Fallston and Polkvtlle, and will , end the current activity by the ( highway department. The Bolling | Springs road was completed several ( weeks ago. grees colder. i This first brush of winter wasn't ! a general cold wave—just a wave of i the hand from Old Man Wintry who’s looking the territory over t, preparatory to putting his frost or. the pumpkins. Other cities were chilly too. Asheville had a high of 70 and a low of 63. Charlotte's high was 73 and her low—by 8.30 Thursday night—was 63. The town of Alpena had a high of 64 and a low of Mt < —bnrrrri Rayon Mills Not In This Order Wretarr Lmtum Of The Vntm Say* Ho Dot* Not Know ruts* Of Comblnattoa Plants. A a tote at confusion sod uccsr nlnity both as to th* attHSd* of mil executives and tut work fra 't.t*nds the thro*toned strut* of cxtlle worker* called for Saturday light at 11:30 o’clock. In the flhelby area union offl slala say their member*, although n the main satisfied with thi vorktng condition* will "go down he line" and refuse to return to heir work when and U the whittles 'low. Min then are waiting to ms tow effective the strike Is before hey determine whether they win ittempt to iftart operations after he strike begins. No etrtke orders have been Inued is yet for the rayon industries. Hrlke orders only effect cotton extile workers. There are several ilants running wholly or In part on •ayon In Shelby. What these em iloyees will be called upon to do cmalns to be seen. C. E. Lowraoce, recording seer* ary of the Shelby local, stated to lay that he had received etrtke or* lers sent over the Postal telegraph ind mailed from King* Mountain, >ut he honestly did not know what »ffect the order would have on combination plants such as Sif 3over, Ora and Eton. He say* the Cleveland Cloth, uslhg nothing but ayon. will not be affected in this >rder. Byrum Hosiery mtll uetng ayon almost wholly, will not m. effected. It Is understood. A strike order Is understood to be n preparation in Washington at i (’clock this afternoon asking ftO.OM ilk workers to Join In the cotton itrlke and a conference to being held his afternoon between Francis J. 3orman and Peter Van Dam Of the •ode authority with refersnso toju iUk and wool Industrial. . < state is Uncertain Exactly how the strike would af* act the North Carolina cotton tex lle situation was hard to determlno « the strike orders went out today, dam meetings of textile workers '>1H be held Saturday by union writers in the Charlotte district rhese will be in the nature of pep” meetings, which the public rill be privileged to attend. AU plans for the strike in this l strict have been completed, said toward Payne, president of the un on district council, and nothing hag teen left undone except to pass out he word to the locals. Opposed To Strike Although the union claims solid upport throughout the strike, ru* non of dissatisfaction in various (Continued on page nine.) I Brain Operation Betters Condition Of E. B. Jeffress Highway Chairman Speeded to Well* , mood By Airplane. Clot Removed. The quick incision of a surgeon's mite, made in Richmond after the ratient was speeded there by air* jlane, may save the life of Chair* nan Edwin B. Jeffress of the 'tarth Carolina highway eommia* lion, who Buffered a stroke of pare* ysis Sunday. Late Thursday night, word came rom Richmond that Mr. Jeffreys iad rallied. The operation was per* ormed by Dr. C. C. Coleman, emi lent brain specialist, during the ruddle of the afternoon, and at i:30 announced that Mr. Jeff res* rad rallied splendidly. He bras eh* nuraged over his condition, but It s still "critical." Caused Paralysis The patient was in the operating' oom for four hours while the' ■urgeon removed a deep-seated rlood clot on the right side of the wain This is believed to have a used the paralysis. Mr. Asffress will not regain con clous nr ss for severe} days, it nt aid. Late yesterday he was given l blood transfusion. Three doctors are in attendance. Banks And B. and L’s I r<> Observe Holiday All banking institutions in tba •ounty as well as building and loan j rssociations wili suspend business | n Monday. Sept. 9 in >f Labor Day.
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