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The GENUS-End ZWE VOL. XL, No. 109 SHELBY, N. CL MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Ilf Malt oaf roar. It* adranoa) _ IIJ1 Carnar. oar faar. (In adranoa) UJI Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot. 13V4 to 14H Cotton Med, too, wagon „_k_ 25.00 Fair Tomorrow Weather forecast for North Car olina: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Board Confers By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 10. —•President Roosevelt’s strike med iation board began a conference with George Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute shortly after ten o'clock this morning. Investigation By UNITED PRESS ASBURY PARK, N. J„ Sept. 10. —The proud liner Moito Castle which was a death trap for nearly 200 men, women, and children Sat urday smouldered op the beach of the pleasure ‘resort here today as authorities labored to care for the living and the dead and the Fed eral government conducted a searching investigation. 1 By UNITED PRESS NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—William P. Warms, chief officer of the Mor ro Castle, testified today that the 'fire which destroyed the ship may have been purposely started. He believed a previous fire of Septem ber 3 Incendiary, as charred new pbpers were found near some card board bundles where the blase was discovered. Incendiarism U*e “Squeeze »* WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Ef fort* of American manufacturers to kB airplanes to the Chinese government last year necessitated playing a "squeeze” to obtain the contract correspondence. placed before the senate munitions com mittee revealed today. A “squeeze” was interpreted by witnesses to mean the same as greasing the way. The March Of Events Probe Sea Tragedy Most of the survivors of the Motto Castle were members of the tSrew. Seme of them came ashore te lifeboats with clothes carefully packed, while almost 200 passen gers suffered the agonies of being burned to death in a floating fire trap. So much has been establish ed as fact. Now the official inves tigation begins as to how and why the great liner, one of the War Line steamers plying between New Toric and Havana, burned off the coast of New Jersey on Saturday morning. Hie Department of Com merce will begin its investigations tomorrow. Roosevelt Jr. Safe James Roosevelt, the President’s eldest son, who was reported lost at sea last night, is safe at Port land, Me., telling United Press men that it was “all very silly” that 30 coast guard boats were sent to look for him. The schooner Black "Ar row, on which he was aboard, was over due several hours and caused the alarm. Cite* Recovery More than eight million jobs and a billkm dollar increase in farm in - come were recovery milestones pointed out to President Roosevelt bjr Donald Richberg, NRA counsel, in a report yesterday. The report has political significance, in that it was issued on the eve of the Maine election and primaries in 10 states later this week. F. D. R. May Talk President Roosevelt may take the people into his confidence soon about his plans for future recovery moves, it was rumored in Wash ington yesterday. After the ex change of ideas on the EPIC plan advanced for California by Upton Sinclair it was vouchsafed that some such announcement might be made. Johnny Dobbs Dies John Gordon Dobbs, Sr., presi dent of the Charlotte baseball club, died at noon on Sunday at the Charlotte Sanatorium of acut* heart attack and complications. His entire right side was paralyzed shortly before death. One of the best known figures in minor league baseball, he had managed clubs in the South for 22 years Ideal Installs New Tire Treading Dept. A Lodi-super treading tire ma chine has been installed at the Ideal Service Station, announced J. Reid Misenheimer this morning The machine retread's worn auto mobile tires, making them last longer and give more service, rath er than be discarded New Reporter Comes To Star ' r Wyan Washburn, native of the Dou ble Springs section of the county, re cent graduate of Wake Forest col lege. who begins today as a report er on the staff of The Star suc ceeding Colbert McKnight who en ters Davidson college. Squadron Makes ! Peaceful Tour To Close Week No Threats No Picketing At Double Shoals, Not Even A Stop At Lawndale. Shelby's noted flying squadron made its last excursion for the week on Friday afternoon, visiting the mills at Double Shoals, Lawndale and Kings Mountain as one mem ber said “to »"iow our strength.” Some fifty cars and a truck load ;of people numbering approximately j 250 went first to Double Shoals. A committee of three from the squad ron headed by President O. P. Al len conferred with Tom Moore in charge of the mill asked that the mill shut down. Mr. Moore told them that he did not intend to close unless picket ers made it embarrass ing to his employees. Mr. Allen suggested that they might picket the mill and promised that in that event it would be done in an order ly manner without violence or threats. Mr. Moore stated that his employees were satisfied and that no one in the mill was a member of the union to his knowledge. Mr. Allen says he made inquiry among employees and found them fcp be satisfied so the caravan headed north to Lawndale. News of their coming to Lawndale [had reached there and a large 1 crowd was present to look on. The caravan stopped on the east side of the river lined up then paraded with horns blowing through the highway of the village, not even stopping their cars. Sheriff Cline and several deputies were present for any emergency. The squadron however, had notified Sheriff Cline a few minutes earlier that its visit to Lawndale would be nothing more than a parade to show their strength. A shift of employees in the mill had been made at the usual i 2 o’clock hour—thirty minutes be fore the squadron’s visit. The squadron returned to Shelby, then proceeded to Kings Mountain for a parade. That concluded the ac tivities of the striking employees for the week. A Floral wreath was sent by the Shelby Local to Honea Path, S. C. Saturday where funerals were held for six dead. A number of local union members attended services there. Four Die In Crash An airplane crash at Clingman, 15 miles east of North Wilkesboro yesterday afternoon took the lives of four persons. Carl s. Coffey, 36 pilot and owner of the plane, and his passengers were killed when I the motor stopped and the plane struck the ground, turning com ! I pletely over. No Violence Today On Strike Front-18 Mills Resume Work By UNITED PRESS RALEIGH, SI pt. 10.—Plying .squadrons with 300 striking union ists Irofti Moo.esville and China Grove roared into- Towel City at Kannapolis at clawn this morning1 and, faced by heavily armed guards men, failed <n an attempt to close i the great Cannon towel mills. Throughout he Carolines, ma chine guns, shotguns and pistols in the hands of hundreds of guards- > men and special officers brought j peace to the strike-torn sections. Almost no violence was reported ' Shelby Children Back To School; Enrollment 2,766 _ Attendance First Day Cut By Strike Eighty-Five Teachers Greet Pupils In Clsnsrooms And Start On Regular ^rhedule. A- total of 2,700 Shelby school children responded to the toll of the bell this morning at 8:30 and, Judging from their eager cries in the streets, were happy enough to end the long vacation and get back to school activities. Registration by schools was an n(JOneed this morning as follows: South Shelby—366. Graham—280. Lafayette—252. Marion—302. Washington—241. Jefferson—314. High school—502 Zoar—104. Colored schools—405. Shelby's big red school houses are staffed this year with eighty-five teachers, two more than last. They greeted students in the class rooms and started immediately on the regular schedule, enrollment having been taken care of on Friday and Saturday except for a few ten o’clock scholars. Strike Cuts Attendance The textile strike has cut enroll ment to some extent, Superintend ent B. L. Smith said this morning, but he expects the figure will soon swell and that this year’s registra tion will be a large one. There are approximately 600 students at the high school. One elementary teacher has been added this year, and a new librar ian for the high school has been provided. Captain Smith said he wished to thank Shelby residents for the co operation in many ways in working for and with the school authorities. Various necessary contributions have been made to equipment, and more are on the way. Growers Required To Put Up Bonds Prior To Ginning Necessary Before Government Tags Wfll Be Issued—And Cent SeM Cotton Without Tegs. i _ Speaking: before an open meet ing of Cleveland county glnners and cotton fanners here Saturday, O. C. Turner of the Department of Internal Revenue, explained In full the method which the federal gov ernment will use in collecting tax es «mi excess cotton this year as specified in the provisions of the Bankhead Bill. In the first place, all ginners will be required to post a bond with the government before they will be allowed to gin any cotton. This is absolutely necessary as no government tags will be issued to ginners who have no bond and farmers cannot sell any cotton which has not been tagged. To Make Reporta According to Mr. Turner, ginners will be asked to make monthly re ports to the Collector of Internal Revenue at Greensboro. Remit tance of taxes collected will be made at the time of the report. All cotton ginned must be tagged at least twice. The first will be a little metal tag placed on the end of the bale, which is placed there when the producer pays the gov ernment tax with money or with his exemption certificate. The sec ond is a lien card or government mortgage placed on the cotton (Continued on page eight.) Mills where no strikes are on, are resuming operations. Reports from \ Charlotte indicate that eighteen! closed plants in North Carolina re opened today with half of the state's six million spindles opsraf- j ing. At iater estimate on the basis ot spindles and the number of plants that have resumed operations In North Carolina today, 197 plants I out of 400 are still shut-down and ' between 62,000 and 64,000 employees are still idle as a result of the trike. y Royalty Plans Wedding Prince George, youngest son of King George of England, is pic tured in this exclusive photograph with his fiancee, Prineass Marina of Greece, right, as they received the congratulations of a friend upon the announcement of their engagement. The photo was taken on the grounds of a hotel at Salzburg, Austria. New Ginning Cost Is Set At 70 Cents Per Hundred Price Exceeds Last Year’s By Ten Cents; Increases Due To Higher Wages And Governmental Costs In a countywide meeting of Cleveland ginners In the court house here Saturday afternoon the price for the cur rent ginning season was set at 70 cents per hundred pounds .. .. WVI/Vlla Cotton Picking Old King Cotton beckons through classroom windows to Clevela»r youth this week. Bursting bolls of white mark cotton picking days In the offing, and it’s time to drop square root for square acre. And so, to gather in the crop, the county schools will close on Friday of this week according to annual custom. All county schools with the exception of the Dover Mill and Park Grace will close for about six weeks. according to instructions from the board of education. School Children Free On First Day At County Fair: It's Just Two Weeks Off Now. And Biggest Grandstand In South Is Ready For the Crowds. Classes Two weeks from tomorrow, Tues day, September 25, thousands of school children, coming from all sections of Cleveland and adjoin ing counties, will swarm upon Shelby for the opening or the tenth annual Cleveland county fair. Opening day this year, as in the past, will be school day and “all school children in this and adjoin ing counties will be admitted free. ! Many schools in this and other ; counties are expected to close for j the day in order “to permit pupils to attend the big event. School of ficials are already being asked for passes, which will again be distri buted through school heads. The Big Free Day To a majority of the youngsters in this section the big free day ranks as the red-letter occasion of the year. Admitted without charge to the fair grounds they are per mitted to see a circus, racing, mid way, farm and school exhibits all assembled in one vast yet composite array of entertainment. First in interest to the thousands of boys and girls from the school room is, of course, the educational department in which their own handiwork is exhibited. In this de jiartment twenty-one cash prises and ribbons are awarded. The maj or and most coveted prize of the lot Is the $20 which goes to the school with the booth which best exibits actual school work and activities. The second best in this class gets *15 and the third *12. Then prizes are also offered for the school booth showing the best agricultural tContinued on page eight) r ms ngure is 10 inciune me coni of bagging and ttee and the same rate will hold either above or be low the normal WO pound bale. ... ' .Wabb-Waatadi. _ Toy Webb, of the Beaver Dam Ginning company was elected pres ident for the coming year. He suc ceeds W. G. Hord of the Waco community. Mr. Webb presided at the meeting at which about 50 of the 53 ginners In the county were present. Last year’s ginning price was 60 cents per hundred pounds of lint cotton, and the ginners gave the slight increase as necessary to cover the extra expense of higher wage costs, the necessity of posting a government bond, and being re quired by the government to keop a full set of records to take care of exemption certificates and Hen tags. No Ginners Coda. P. D. Herndon, county represen tative at the recent state ginners meeting In Raleigh, reported that contact was made with NRA of ficials In the meeting, but that the 400 ginnery present would not ac cept the proposal for a code and negotiations were abandoned. Ginners present Saturday agreed that the price set would be uni form throughout the season and it is expected, although they are not under the code, that the govern ment will check all prices for labor and will Insist on uniform gin prices being maintained. At the close of the meeting R. W. Shoffner, county agent called tor closest co-operation on the part ol all cotton dealers and agents In helping assure the proper applica tion of the Bankhead Bill. Junior Civic League Opens Fall Season The Junior Civic League will open the fall season with a business meeting at the Hotel Charles on Wednesday afternoon at four o’clock. At this time, C. B. McBrayer will give the first of a series of four lec tures on parliamenatry law. All members are reminded that attendance at this meeting is com pulsory unless the president, Mrs. A. D. Brabble, is notfied and a sat isfactory excuse given. All neglect ing to do this will be fined twenty five cents. Officers and committee chairmen have been busy during the vaca tion period working out plans for the new organization’s civic and cultural activities. The reports of these committees will be heard on Wednesday. Miss Martha Eskridge has resigned her position as secre tary and members will be asked to vote on a new secretary. More than sixty young women evi denced keen Interest In the forma tion of this organization last spring and it Is the hope of the organizers that all will attend this first meet ing so that the plans for cultural and civic welfare can go forward as planned. Shelby Troopers First To Action At Kings Mountain Company K Speeds Out On Duty Repeat* Gastonia Feat; Sixty-Three Men Under ('apt. McKwaln Guard 9 Mills. Shelby's company If. lUOth In fantry, National Guard, which was first on the scene during the Gas tonia communist riots, mobilised on the double -quick last week and was the first on the front at, Kings Mountain, where mill* are running this morning under troop protec tion. Since Its arrival it has upheld its reputation of being one of the best disciplined and best drilled outfits in the state. Commanding. Under Major Dolly of Gastonia, are Captain Peyton McSwatn. Lieutenant Henry C. Long and Lieutenant Andrew W. McMurry. Lawrence Runyans is first sergeant. The complete roater of «a men called to Kings Mountain is as fol lows: Sergeants Ray E. Brown, Forrest J. Grayson, Loy 8. Hoffman, For rest R. Wartick. Brooks L. Williams, Willie B. Wright, Purvis Barrett, William M. Huffman Corporals Jap Dayberry, William O. Duncan. Tom B. Ellis, Obte Ir vin, Raymond Lewis. First Class Privates Ernest Car ter, Bynum P. Cook, Robert E. Crousby, Ouy E. Brown. Harry R Galloway, Ray H. Gibson, Paul 8. Gibson. Hubert Hoffman, Joseph Curtis, David P. Ledford, Horace O, McKee, Coren H. McSwatn. Clayton N. Newton, Otha Roberts, Norman X. Taylor. Privates Lawrence J, Adams, Paul D. Ashley. Eugene Black, Jack Bor ders. Solon M. Deal. Marrin L. Ell iott. Howard R. Grayson, Ray H. Hoffman. Woodrow Humphries, Oble Irvin. Faul Irvin, Leater P. Lall, Willtard E. Ledford. Osborne W. Lae, Odts F. Mull, Harlin W. McSwatn. Harry S. Putnam, WlllUm II. QnlnR. baffle O fcefd. Doris C." Roberts. Archel D. Sanders. Lebron E. Seism. Hugh E. Spangler. Ever ett G. Sparks. Darvln 8. Street, Roy B. Walker, Earl H. Williams. Lawrence Williams. Willie W. Wil liams. Clyde T Wright. Lawson A. York, Alfred R. Ward, Lawrence V. Wright. New Circulation I i Manager Of Star H. B. Owen Succeed! Celeb Mc Swaln; Waahburn Succeed! Pete McKnight. H. B. Owen enters upon his duties today as circulation manager of The Star, succeeding Caleb Mc Swaln who has resigned to accept a position in a retail store at Roa noke, Va. Mr. Owen is a native of Spartan burg who has been connected with circulation departments in Spartan burg, Columbia and Greensboro since he was route carrier boy. For the last five years he has been dis trict ofrculation manager of the Greensboro News. His connection with The Star means that he will have charge of 34 carrier boys, who deliver about 2,200 papers in the county and of the mall circulation of 2,700. Each carried boy will be given special training In salesman ship. Colbert McKnight who has been handling sports for The Star dur ing the summer, enters Davidson college tomorrow and succeeding him on the news staff Is Wyan Washburn, of Double Shoals, grad uate of Wake Forest college last Spindles Whirr Again In Kings Mountain; Shelby Mills Closed ii Leads Troops To Guard Mills nap tii In Pry ton McSwain, who sommands Shelby'* company K, 120th Infantry, on the strike front In Kings Mountain. The Shelby unit was the first of three com panies to reach the scene. Industry Rejects Peace Proposal By Union Leader Can Suggestion Utterly Impossible,’ Gorman Would Force Action; Mill Men Meet Tuesday By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10,—A flat rejection of labor s terms by Indus try for a truce In the textile strtiF was announced here last night. Tiaktng more difficult the taak of the mediation board appointed by the president, and disappointing Francis J Oorman, strike com mandant, who had made the pro posals. In the face of this rejection by industry, Oorman now proposed that the president'* mediation aoard should summons George A. SToan, president of the Cotton Tex tile Institute, and demand that he set In that capacity to effect a settlement. Labor, through Gorman, warned thsrt Its proposals would be wlth Irawn If not accepted by 6 o'clock tonight (Monday). Industry, through Sloan, retorted that the proposal* i were "utterly Impossible from every j standpoint." Sloan Indicated that any sort of irrangement before Tuesday would be Impossible. On that day he meets with the manufacturers com mittee. He said he was not author ized to a<jt for the employers. Blanton Child Dies In Eton Friday Edna Bernice Blanton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Blanton died Friday of last week In the Eton Mill village. The child was only eight days old and was burled Saturday at the Beaver Dam Baptist church. Investigation Begun To Find Cause Of 200 Deaths At Sea NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—A swift Investigation by officials of the U. S. Government has Juat begun in an effort to determine the cause of the burning of the gtant ocean liner, Morro Castle, off the coast of New Jersey Saturday morning. The catastrophe was the most tragic disaster ever to occur on this side of the Atlantic, taking the livee of at least 185 persons and leaving 27 others unaccounted for at present. Ploughing her way back to New' York from a trip to Atlanta with 558 passengers and crew on board the luxurious liner caught fire be fore daybreak and before SOS calls could be answered or the passen ( gers rushed into the ship's own life boats, the fire was out of control and was a biasing furnace In a short time. What was left of the red hot Iron hulk of the ship was towed ashore and beached by the tugboat Tampa, on the New Jer sey coast. Confusion has attended tha In vestigation of the holocaust thus far. The captain was dead on board at the time of the fire, having suc cumbed early in the evening from acute indigestion. A number of the survivors are being Investigated, wires were sent to ship officials in Havana to ascertain evidence of sabotage there, and the twisted ruins of the Morro Castle are be ing investigated to see where cause and blame in the tragedy may be placed. 55 Per Cent Back At Work, Says Major Byrum Hosiery Mill Run Hu-Open* Lawndale Plant Unmolested; Klying Squadron Rente. Spindles whirred again In King* Mountain, at Orover, at Lawndat* and at the Byrum Hosiery mill her* ihls morning as wheel* of the Ply ing Squadron ceased to spin. All the mills at Kings Mountain j were open today under troop pro tection except, flte DilUng and Snra. Major S. B. ^plly, In com mand of three companies of North Carolina Infantry, announced this morning. He said he eatimated shout 85 per cent of the 1,800 tex tile employees of the town were hack at work. Hosiery Mill Opel* The Cleveland Mill and Power Company at Lawndale, closed only one day during the strike, re-open cd without molestation or ptoket- 4 Ing. The Byrum Hosiery mtU here which Is not under the cotton tex tile code, and which union leader* admit should not have been forced to close, opened at 8 this morning with 100 per cent of Ha workers on the Job. At Grover, the Minette mill la operating under a contract with the United Textile Workers Shelby’s Plying Squadron on Friday whirled through tha coun ty. swooping on Lawndale, Dottble Shoals. Cherryvllle and King* Mountain In more than 80 automo biles. with flag* streaming. Early reports of threatened violence by 1 the squadron were denied both by union leaders and by mill owner* at whose plants the cavalcade call- 1 ed. At Double Shoal*, a committee *M Kent to taut with the manage ment. At Lawndale and King* Mountain, the car* hardly pawed, speeding by with cheerful shout* to workers who poured out to *tare at them. Few Picket* Out. At King* Mountain thl* morning, a few picket* were reported by Major Dplly. but he said they were quiet and no disturbance of any kind was expected. Shelby this morning looked as quiet and unconcerned as If it had no part in anything like a national * j textile strike, and no union crowds such as were seen on the street and on the square last week were in evidence. Union leaders had no an- | nouncementa to make. Rev.HambyCaOed ByEastside Church Wednesday Night; Will Answer lout A call to become pastor of the Eastside Baptist church of Shelby has been extended the Rev. R. P. Hamby, of Pelser, 8. C. The call by the pulpit committee was precipi tated by the recent resignation of the Rev. H. E. Waldrop. Preaching at Eastside Wednesday night, the South Carolina minister was reported to Impress the church favorably and will give answer to the call at an early date. As a graduate of Long Creek academy and with a degree from Furman University the Rev. Hamby Is at the present time pastor of Mt. Bethel church In the Saluda associ ation. This is reportedl ythe larg est country congregation in South Carolina. In addition to his qualification as a minister of the gospel he has also been principal of the Wert Pelser school, is a poet of some distinc tion. and is the author of two books. Negotiations for obtaining ths Rev. Hamby were aided by the Rev. C. V. Martin, present pastor of the Second Baptist, who was associated with him for a number of year* and teachers. You who are going away to schools and colleges should have The Star visit you every other day. Special rate for nine months . subscription, cash in ad vance. South Carolina Minister Preached Furman Man. STUDENTS i
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