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k The Mkvklkmd gle VOL. XL. No. 110 SHELBY, N. a WEDNESD’Y, SEPT. 12. lO.'U Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. "J MaU. PM WI, (la UnaM) _ nji C'arrtM, par iw. On uItum»i _ |1M Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot _.. 13 to 14c Cotton seed, ton, wagon _35.00 Partly Cloudy Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Partly cloudy W'ednesday and Thursday, with scattered thunder showers. Why No SOS? _________________ By UNITED PRESS Chief Operator George Rogers who sat at his key in his smoked fUIed room as the steamer Morn Castle burned beneath him, told the federal investigators today why his SOS was not flashed until ap proximately half an hour after part.' of the ship were burning fiercely. "They were running around the bridge. I cant get intelligent co operation out of the men,” he quoted his first assistant as saying after being sent to the bridge for instructions. No Reason By UNITED PRESS HYDE PARK. N. Y., Sept. 12 Presldent Roosevelt believes that th« rule of reason is not being used by the Federal Bank examiners in passing on loans, especially small ones, he said today. F. D. R. Studies HYDE PARK, N. J., Sept. 12. Commenting on the disaster of thi Motto Castle today President Roos evelt said that Congress will b asked at the next session for legis latlon which will eliminate the fn tore construction of passenger ship with wooden Interiors. Robbed 4 Times MAGNOLIA, Sept. 1?.—For th fourth time in two and a half year the bank of Magnolia' was robbn last night of six thousand dollars Bandits entered a side door an> opened the safe with a torch It wa revealed when the bank opened to day. The March Of Events New Labor Set-up The National Labor Relations board, as part of a nation-wide re organisation, yesterday named ttv< new regional directors to succeec chairmen of existing boards and al tered their system of hearing lab or dispute cases. Territories hav< not been assigned nor full detail! announced about how this new se up will function. Crew Summoned After a day of startling disclos ures In the Motto Castle fire mys tery, the first assistant radio op era tor and members of the crev were served with warrants to ap pear before the federal grand jur; In New York. It was revealed ii testimony yesterday that two life boats were lowered and only threi passengers aboard. Not only hon the fire started, but why so man; of the crew escaped while passen gers perished is to be rigorouslj probed. Ask Shelby Help To Get Parkway Representatives From 20 Counties To Go To Washington Mon day Night. ! Postmaster Wythe Peyton anc Banker Colburn of Asheville wer< In Shelby last night asking the sup port of the city, county, civic clubs and Chamber of Commerce in get ting the Park-to-Park highway ex tended from Blowing Rock via Lit tle Switzerland, Mount Mitchell Asheville, Waynesville and into th( Smoky Mountain park from the eastern entrance. "This parkway will be the finesi highway in the world. Twenty mil lion dollars has been appropriatec for Its construction,” said Mr. Pey ton. "North Carolina has mor< beautiful scenery than Tennessei and Is entitled to It over Tennessei because ou rsister state to the west has the forty million dollar TV/ project and North Carolina pay. $10 to every $1 that Tennessee pay: Into the Federal treasury.” A special train will leave Ashe ville Mlonday evening at 7 o’cloct and reach Washington at 8 a. m Tuesday morning. Secretary Har old L. Ickes in whose power th« routing Is left, will give North Car olina a hearing Tuesday aftemoor at 2:30. Gov. Ehringhaus and thre< former governors of North Caro Una, together with the entire Con gressional delegation from thi: state will be at this hearing U t press Carolina’s claim for the park way. Mayor McMurry, A. Pitt Beanr and Lee B. Weathers were appoint ed a committee to urge that a dele gation go from Cleveland county tc this hearing. Highest Tribunal In State To Pass I On Saunders Case Is Asked To Render Unusual Decision -- ! Judge Harding Upholds Industrial Board's Decision; To Su preme Court. The much mooted case as to whether a county is liable for the (death of a deputy moved to the North Carolina supreme court yes terday when Judge W. F. Harding of the superior court upheld a de cision made previously by the state i Industrial commission. The decision was that a deputy, whether part time or -full time, or if he received a set salary or mere ly collected fees, was rated as an employee of the county and would be entitled to workmen’s compen jsatlon from his employer. Unique Case As the case now stands it will be unique in that no ruling has ever been handed down by the highest court in the state giving the rela tionship of a county to a deputy. The case referred to is the one In which Deputy Sheriff E. W. Saun - ders was killed on December 31, 1932 by Mark Connor and Red i Kelley In the yard of the county jail after they had in a drunken • t spree resisted arrest. I The state industrial commission, (ruling that he was an employee of the county, awarded his widow Mrs. . Ella Saunders, compensation amount . ing to seven dollars per week for l 350 weeks and a sum not to exceed $200 for funeral expenses. County j officials claimed that as a deputy 5 Saunders was not an employee of . the county and insisted that the county was not liable. The case was aired in the July term of superior court here and the presiding judge, W. F. Harding withheld his decis ion until now. ! Just what will be the decision of jthd supreme court is still a matter jfor conjecture. If the present de cision is upheld it will establish permanently the status of a deputy used as an employee of the county. Saunders was employed by Sheriff Irvin Allen at the time of his death. He was not paid a -regular salary, but collected fees for arrests made while on duty. If the decision is not upheld, Mrs. 1 Saunders will not get anything from the pounty for the death of : her husband. Shelby Phone Rate Probe Under Way RALEIGH, Sept. 11—Resuming its investigation of telephone rates . in North Carolina, the state utili r ties commission today prepared to [ cross examine witnesses of the . i Southern Bell Telephone and Tele , graph company, which has been , ordered to show cause why its rates r should not be reduced approximate . ly 22 per cent. The hearing was started in June, applying primarily to the city of Raleigh, but subsequently nine oth er cities served by the Southern Bell company intervened. They are Ashe ville, Charlotte, Goldsboro, Burling ton, Wilmington, Greensboro, Shel by, Salisbury and Winston-Salem, in which are located 75 percent of the Bell company’s customers. Rev. Wilson In Revival Here * _____ Rev. A. Howard Wilson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Lyman, S. C. and graduate of the Baptist Bible Institute in New Orleans is assisting Rev. C. V. Martin in a revival meeting which began Sun day at the Second Baptist church. The meeting is to run for ten nights, with services each evening at 7:30. Paul Bulllngton is leading the sing ing. Much interest is being mani fest in the meeting. AAA To Accept Records, If Any, Set By County Fair Speedsters If the score or more of demons who drive racing cars in the auto mobile races at the Cleveland coun ty fair this year manage to circle the speedy half-mile track at such a dizzy gait as to establish new speed records, those records will be recognized officially since the races are to be under the governing rules and auspices of the American Au tomobile association. The races, which the first year came to be the most thrilling sin gle feature of the big fair, will be ; held this year on the closing day, i Saturday, of the farm event. This has been a record-smashing year on the racetracks of America and the odds are better than even that some of the courageous young sters who roar around the Shelby oval may set a new speed mafk. The racing card will be staged Mono Castle’s Burned Lifeboats And Officers Swinging forlornly between the davits bent by the enormous heat, these unlaunched life boats aboard the smouldering Morro Castle tell a graphic story of why many were unable to use them when the luxury liner began biasing six miles off the New Jersey coast Below, some of the crew; left, George W. Rodgers, chief radio man of the Morro I Oastle, recovering from bums he received when ! fire drove him from the wireless room after • tress signals had been sent; right, Chief Officer H\ F. Warms who became acting captain when Com mander Wilmott succumbed to a heart attack, with C. Hackney, center, second officer, and Ivan Freeman, right, first officer, all survivors. 20 Miles Highway Polkville And Fall a tan Roads Open ed; Other Proposed Projects Uncertain. Traffic was admitted this week to a little more than 20 miles of tar and gravel surfaced highway in Cleveland county. The roads open ed were the Shelby-Polkville and the Polkville-Fallston connections. After thirty days traffic they will be subject to an inspection by the state highway commission, pend ing an acceptance by the commis sioners from the contractors who surfaced the road. After the road has hardened shoulders will be added and grass planted on each side to prevent erosion. This completes the second of sev eral projects hoped for in Cleveland county. The first was a general im provement of the Boiling Springs road, and the two in view now are the Shejby-Grover road and an ex tension of West Marion street to join highway No. 20. Mayor McMurry said today that since Chairman E. B. Jeffress has been ill he has heard nothing fav orable for these projects and fears it will be late fall at least before they will be put through. It is understood that some 60 FERA unemployed men were used on the Polkville project and they will be out of work until the others are begun. To Plant Grass under the auspices of Ralph A. Hankinson, of New York City, vet eran promoter of the motor speed game. Mr. Hankinson has for more than 20 years sponsored the sport and is today recognized as one of the world’s leading auto-race pro moters. Just as the names of Poxx, Sim mons and Gehrig have supplanted those once famous names of Cobb, Speaker and Wagner in baseball, and just as younger and more hardy lads have supplanted the fame of Red Grange on the prldiron, so have new faces appeared in the headlines in the most dangerous sport of all. There will be no Bar ney Oldfields or Ralph DePalmas crouched behind the steering wheels at the Cleveland races, but there (Continued on page eight.) Flying Squad Speeds Out; County Mills Unmolested Union Motorcade Turns Toward Gaston Kings Mountain Lawndale And Byrum Plants Hum Without Pickets Riders of Shelby’s Frying Squadron slipped out of towi last night and this morning under sealed orders, destinatioi unknown, leaving the city quiet and its citizens to contem plation of a variety of strike rumors that poured in by radi and by word of mouth. Captain Peyton McSwain, cow U. T. W. Office Established In Law Office Shelby strike headquarters were established today In the office of Bynum E. Weathers. Judge elect of the Cleveland County Recorders’ Court. Mr. Weathers’ office ts In the Royster Building. C. E. Lowrance, secretary and publicity chairman for the local chapter of the United Textile Work ers, and O. P. Allen, president, are established in the office and have installed a telephone. The office was crowded this morning with members of the union. Mr. Weathers received union sup port in his race for election against Judge Joe Wright. Grayson And Wife Allowed To Return Mr and MTs. Beach Grayson convicted at the October term of the Superior court of 1933 of oper ating a disorderly house and sen tenced to serve six months in the county Jail, sentence suspended for 2 years on condition they leave the county, have received a parole from Governor Ehringhaus. The Graysons left the county upon order of the court, but wish to return and promise good behav ior. Judge Wilson Warlick, trial judge, recommends the parole. He says the couple has had a very hard time finding work in other counties. “I am told they have a job waiting them upon their re turn and that the folks are willing to give them a chance again,”’ he says. Solicitor Spurling likewise recommended that they be allowed to return to the county and it is granted by the governor on condi dition that they show good behav ior and engage in gainful employ ment. mantling Company K at Kins Mountain, reported this mornin that members of the squadron pai ed through town and turned ea; toward Gaston county. C. E. Low ranee, strikers’ publicity chalrmai said that yes, the squad was ou but he couldn’t announce the: destination. Milk Operate. While mills in Kings Mountak Lawndale and the Byrum Hosier Mill here hummed as usual, unmc Jested by pickets, tales of violenc in New England and threats t possible trouble in nearby con: munities assailed the peace of min of Shelby people. More than 400 strikers plckete the Phenlx Mill in Kings Mountai yesterday (Tuesday), but none wt on hand this morning. The Byrum Hosiery Mill, whic does not operate under the cotto textile code, has been running sine last Friday, but the walkout set ft ! hosiery workers today poses anott er problem for that busy plan President O. P. Allen of the unlo said today that the mill would l requested to close, and that " would be advisable" for It to do i Paul R. Christopher, president < I the North Carolina United Text! j workers, was at home last nigl j and this morning at 302 Chestm street, but declined to make ar I comment cn the strike, referrir I newspaper men to the public!! i committee. He will leave today f< Burlington, he said. In Kings Mountain, ail mills a1 operating except the Diiling ar the Core, with number of worke: | variously estimated, but with i ! least enough for full operation. Railroad Installs 3 New Crossing The Southern railroad is now er gaged in putting in new crossing at Graham, Warren and Mario streets, topping new gravel wit tar to smooth the roadbed where crosses the tracks. Shelby motoris have long complained of the bumi at these crossings, and the chan ber of commerce, along with oth< civic organizalions, has asked tl railroad to make the repairs. Bankhead Project Almost Complete Propst Announces Applications Taken To Raleigh Office CertMcates Will Br Herr In II) Days; Office Force Discontinued. Dolan* of the local administrn- ! tlon of She Bankhead bill In Cleve- j land county are almost complete, according to a statement- today from Alvin Propst who has charge of the work here. Accompanied by R. W. Shoffner, county agent, to Raleigh yesterday, Mr. Propat took the last of the county farmers applications for ginning certificates and Inquired as to hpw soon farmers and glnticrs will receive the tickets required. Ten More Days He says that although Cleveland is on a preferred list, tt will be at least ten days before the certifi cates will be available. The cause for delay Is given as having to prepare certificates for the eastern counties which have been picking cotton for some time. Hoke and Anson have already been supplied. It U thought that Cleveland tickets will be here about a week from Saturday and that some eight to ten thousand farmers will be notified to get them at that time. Mr. Propst says that by the end of the week about half of the com pliance checking will be complete. That Is, to see tt farmers have plowed up cotton In excess of a oontract made with the govern ment. The offioe force of eight or ten which has been helping him with the work, has been discon tinued. i . School Teachers WiB Get Credit In Courses Here TeachMW May Add t Semester Hoars in Music and Curri culum Study. 1 1 ) s B S t r y e if d d n s h a e ir b. n e School teachers and college folk j who wish to add eight semester | hours chedlt from the Universityj of North Carolina to their teachers certificates .may do so In spare time during the next eight months here in Shelby. On each Wednesday and Satur day the extension department of the university will hold classes In the Shelby high school building each Wednesday at 4:30 Mrs Grace P. Woodman will teach a course in public school music, and each Saturday at 10 Dr. R. W. Mor rison will conduct courses In public school curriculum. Announcement has been made by J H. Grigg to all teachers In the city and county that these courses will be available and they are open to school teachers or anyone who has graduated from high school. Some work of this type has been going on here for the past nine years, but Mr. Grigg says he ex pects the largest number ever to be enrolled this year. Class periods will last approximately two hours. The class on Saturday by Dr. Morrison will In no way Interfere with the monthly teachers meetings as some of the time the work o< the teachers will coincld'e with the curricula Instruction. These teachers represent the uni versity other days of the week in nearby schools in this part of the state. ’> Little Black Cat Out On A Limb; e « Plays In Twigs Over Court House ^ a= a ft « y Somebody’s little black kitty. In *■ a fit of feline friskiness early this morning, scampered up one of the giant elms on the north side of the court house and can’t get down. :s n h tt :S IS ir e He's out on a limb. As a crowd gathered, Troy Mc Kiney, county auditor, clambered through a window three stories up and extended an Inviting plank. The little cat, clinging to a willowy twig, spat and chattered and leap ed through the branches for anoth er position. The pliant branches supporting him droop toward the portico of the building, but he can’t quite make it. Soothing words from Chairman of the Board of County Commissioner Joe E. Blanton from the ground failed to influence kitty. The pre carious exploits of the little animal (drew crowds all morning. That cat. Two Mills In Gastonia Run With Protection; Bayonets Rule In R. I \ Heiress Rides The Buses Too I Dorii Duka With enough money to buy a whole fleet of busses and then some., Doris Duke, reputedly the ! richest girl in the world, nevertho- ' leas isn’t opposed to paying $2 for a ride on one of the vehicles. A j bit camera shy, Doris is shown upon her arrival in Boston after a bus ride from Portland, Me. She boarded the bus when her plane was forrod nown near the Johnson Winner In South Carolina; Brann Holds Maine Young Spartanburg Attorney De feats Veteran Blease; Demo cratic Governor In Maine. Young Olin D. Johnston, Spar-j tanburg attorney, swept aside vet- , cran ex-governor and ex senator Cole L. Blease in yesterday's run off primary for the Democratic nomination for governor, while in Maine—important because "as Maine goes the nation goes”—Dem ocratic Oovernor Louis J. Brann saw his margin of victory mount to the amazing total of 30,000 votes. Republican Senator Frederick Hale slid in by the narrow squeak of 1, 238 votes, but is certain to be fac ed with a demand for a recount. Harley Wins Victory In the contest for lieutenant gov ernor of South Carolina, the only other state office involved there, J. Emile Harley, Barnwell legislator, won decisively from former state senator Joseph R. Bryson. seems positively to preier sitting out on those broeze-tossed twigs and disdains the safety of larger limbs. Passersby, perelng upward, feared the little cat, would tumble any minute, and several times he has missed his hold and had to scratch desperately to keep aloft. But sym pathetic opinion veered at noon when it appeared that kitty was a tree sitter of professional status and possibly a bit of a show-off. Chief of Police Wilkins is thinking of swearing out a warrant for viola tion of the Blue Sky laws in order to prevent a possible catastrophe. John McClurd, Jr., leaves tomor row to enter Wofford college in Spartanburg where he will resume his studies this year. Loray And Hanover Running Again Opening Of Mills In TextUo Centre 1* Signal For Non-Striking Plante To Return. By UNITED PRESS CHARLOTTE, Hept. 13.—While a Mute of martial law was declared today In Saylesvtlle, Rhode Island and additional national guardsmen called out to cope with strike viol* once, the l,oray and Hanover mill* in Oastonia, the world’s largest textile centre, resumed operation* this morning under the protection of North Carolina national guards men. This signalised the return to normalcy of mills not participating In the strike. In the meantime, officials at the Cannon mills In Kannapolis, who were this week harassed by Flying Squadrons, reported a state of peace ( and no picketing. Additional com pany troops were sent, to Burling ton at midnight, and flying caval cades visited Concord, but without causing trouble. Squadrons Repulsed Other squadrons thrust, at Ala mance county and Burlington plant* failed In their objective to close the mills. From Washington, the word waa \ passed at noon that strike lenders were expressing pessimistic hope* for an Immediate settlement of the dispute and were planning for at least, another month of the strug gle between capital and labor, Meanwhile, militiamen sent to Saylesvllle, Rhode Island, after a battle In which two men and a woman 73 years old sustained bul let wounds. were stoned by the remnants of a crowd of 3,00 pick- * cts. Clubs, guns and tear gaa had (Continued on Page •) BULLETIN! B. D. LltUe, son of the presi dent of the Florence Mill, at Forest City, waa myaterlonaly shot through the hip and blad der about t o'clock this after noon by a ,45 copper jacketed bullet. Investigators are trying this afternoon to determine who fir ed the ahot. The Florence mill opened thta morning, protected by troope. Forest City strikers had been on a trip towarda Asheville, bnt had returned before the shoot fug. It is understood that tha shooting pccurred somewhere near the mill office. He waa rushed In an ambulance to Charlotte. Cleveland Farmers Study Soil Loss Utenri Demonstration* And Learn How To Plant Soil Con serving Tree*. ^ County farmers are this week uklng steps to prevent the low of housands of dollars each year from oil erosion by attending dempn itratlons and lectures by R. W. traeber of the N. C. State College •xtension department. Demonstrations and lectures will le field on four different farms In | various sections of the county where hose interested will be shown the iroper way to set out young trees, :are for fofests. and how to pre ierve the soil. Friday of this week a number of Cleveland county farmers will at en da reforestation rally to be leld at the home of R. L. Stowe lear Belmont in Gaston county to see other evidences of the checking >f soli erosion by the planting of oblolly, longleaf. slash and white >lne. Mr. Graeber will conduct county demonstrations as follows: Wed nesday morning at. B. Austell’s at Earl; In the afternoon at L. M. Wolfe’s in Kings Mountain. Thurs day morning at Tom Cornwell’s of Shelby route 1; in the afternoon at D. B. Whisnant's of Lawndale route 1. Lowman Temporary Co. Game Warden lee Lowman is serving as game | varden of the county temporarily | n the absence of H. C. Long. Mr. Long Is engaged at Kings Mountain is an officer in company K doing iuty while the textile strike Is on. tfr. Lcvman will serve until Mr.' jong is released.
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