Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, »pot ..12c to 13< Cotton seed, ton, wagon_33.0< Cotton seed, car lots __ 36.0< Probably Rain Weather forecast for North Car olina: Cloudy, probably rain Thurs day and In west portion Wednes day. 450 Are Killed By UNITED PRESS MADRID. Spain, Oct. 10—A las estimate of the casualties indicate: the number dead to stand at 4i with 1600 more wounded in the re volt against Spain's conservativ government. Send Body Home By UNITED PRESS MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 10. The body of King Alexander o Jugoslavia whose assassination b; a fanatic yesterday precipitated i tense European political situation started home today. Muffled drum sounded as two battalions of Frencl infantry paraded in review befor the body of the monarch who wa struck down with Foreign Ministe Louis Barthou of France just as h arrived on a delicate dipiomatii mission affecting the balance o power in Europe. The grief strick en widowed queen Marie said fare well to the body and proceeded V Paris to meet her 11-year-old son who Is now King Peter II, to go t< the funeral in Belgrade. 11-Year-Old King By UNITED PRESS BELGRADE, Oct. 10.—Eleven year-old Crown Prince Peter, pro claimed King of Yugoslavia on th murder of his father, will rule un der a regency during his minority The regency will be composed o Prince Paul, his 41-year-old grea uncle, Redenko Stankovitch, ex minister of education, and Gover nor Pervoc of the educational min istery. Approves Trial By UNITED PRESS ALBANY, Oct. 10.—Governor Leh man of New York returned to th capital today and was expected t approve before nightfall extradi tion of Bruno Richard Hauptman to New Jersey for tHal on a charg of murdering the Lindbergh baby. The March Of Events King Assassinated Just 30 years ago, a mad Serbia] assassinated Crown Prince Ferdi nand of Austria, precipitating th World war. Yesterday (Tuesday Petrus Kaleman, native of Zagreb armed with a repeating pistol o sub-machine type, and severa bombs, slew King Alexander o Yugoslavia, dictator-ruler of th land where the World war firs flamed, and Foreign Minister Bar thou of Prance. The killing occurrei In Marseille, The only politics consequence so far is that Peter II 11-years-old, comes to the throne succeeding his father under a reg ency until he is 18 years old, bu there is talk of war in Europe. Want Hauptmann Attorney General David T. Wil entz of New Jersey presented hi 'state’s request for extradition o Bruno Richard Hauptmann to Gov emor Lehman of New York las night. New Jersey wants to tr; Bruno for the murder of the Lind bergh baby, and has already hat him indicted by a grand jury. It i customary for a governor to hono such a request. Study Work Hour President Roosevelt’s new NRi governors collided head on yester day with the labor controvers; about the shorter work week. Hov this is worked out, observers agree may spell success or failure for th new Eagle. The A. F. and L. ha voted overwhelmingly for the 30 hour week, but representatives o the electrical Industry have jus been before the recovery board witl a demand for a 40-hour week to re place the 36-hour shift. Kiwanians To Attend District Conventioi Thousands of Kiwanians from thi two Car-olinas are gathering toda; and tomorrow in Asheville for thi district convention. Attending fron the Shelby club will be Mr. am Mrs. Rush Hamrick. Max Wash burn, J. H. Grigg, Fred Blanton am Henry Edwards with perhaps others The Shelby people plan to leavi Thursday and attend the banque Thursday mgh*> » The »Gewanng ZM I VOL. XL, No. 122 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mail o*r ymr. (la AdTADMI _ UK Drive To Collect I Professional Tax I Of $25 Due State | Also Push Collection 1 Of Privilege Levies Lawyers, Doctors, Dentists, Engi neers Must Pay This Week Or , Face Action In Courts. | RALEIGH. Oct. 9.—All profes sional men and women in the state will either have paid to the state of ■ North Carolina the license fees due r | or will have execution served ' | against them by the middle of this ‘jweek, and, in due time, if the fees •|are not paid, will have to answer j »1 in court and show cause why their ,! licenses should not be taken from j , I them. 'I It is learned on good authority ’(that the state will have been com ‘! pletely covered by the middle of the : | week and those who have not then , 'paid all of their delinquent profes r sional taxes, for back years as well as for last year, will have execu tion served on them. It is also learned that when a professional 1 finds that it is either the fee or • the execution, the money Is forth 1 coming. Only two or three execu tions are necessary in any county, after'the taxpayers find they will issue at once unless the tax is paid, it is learned. 2400 Lawyers Pay Tw’o years ago, for instance, only 1800 lawyers paid license fees. This year, in contrast, the number will . i reach 2400 or possibly more. The ” same is true of all professions, to a greater, but usually to a lesser j extent. Doctors, dentists, engineers, i eye doctors of whatever name, photographers and others classed as professionals, are required to pay $25 a year for license to practice. TWo years ago more than 40 per cent of the lawyers paid the half fee, $12.50, swearing that they re ceived not more than $1,000 the preceding year, from their profes sion. Following the clearing up of the ■! professional taxes, the field men of *' the department are said to have i been instructed to proceed against ‘ ■ those delinquent on sales or privi lege taxes. Privilege taxes were due June 1 and a penalty of five per c?-'* a moruh may be imposed. In . the ease of delinquent, sales taxes penalties of *en, twenty or even a 1 hundred per cert may be required, j ^ nerding upon circumstances, ' Stroke Is Fatal j ,1 To Matt O’Shields ■ i - ’ Well Known Shelby Salesman Dies I j After Illness Of Seven Years; Is Bnried At Union, S. C. M - II Matt O'Shields, one of Shelby's r popular traveling salesman, who ■ numbered his friends by the score. - died late Monday afternoon In the ■ Shelby hospital, released from more • than five years of invalidism from 1 paralysis. He had been a resident > of Shelby, with his family, for the > past 17 years, and was 53 years old. Mi'. O'Shields suffered a stroke ' on Saturday evening, his third in recent years, and was taken un conscious to the hospital. # Was Widely Known He was a shoe salesman, trained ■ in the technique of two decades s ago, when, before radio and tele f phone and fast newspapers were ■ known, the salesman was the bear ; er of news, and a romantic figure. i Contemporary salesmen are not so ■ widely traveled, as a rule, or so 1 well-known. > Mr. O'Shields was buried yester ■ day (Tuesday) at Union. S. C. Services were held in Shelby at the Presbyterian church. He is survived by his wife and five children, four boys and a girl, i They are Matt, Phil, Dan, Buck and . Jessie. Several brothers and sisters r are in Union. His father died last r year. New Hearing Is Ordered On County School Bonds Supreme Court Decision In Yadkin Case Makes Re-Advertisement Necessary; County Is Agent For City Another public hearing' for discussion and final action on $28,WO in bonds, to be issued by the county and secured by the note of the city of Shelby for school building purposes, and re-advertisement of the bonds, has been ordered by the muiiLy lummissiuiiem. This action is now necessary be :ause of a Supreme court decision an a Yadkin county bond issue, in ahich it was held that the taxpay »rs of the county, contrary to a rul ing bjt Attorney General Brummitt, had the right to vote on the issu ance of bonds. County Acts As Agent The difference between the Yad kin issue and the Cleveland is that, In this instance, the county is mere ly acting as agent for the county in order to obtain a PWA grant. Eventually, the county will pay nothing, says County Attorney Pey ton McSwain. The schools for which the bonds are to be advertised are the Shel by high school and Dover Mill. The mill company will pay one-half of the cost for their school. This bond issue, which came prominently to the attention of tax layers many months ago, had ap parently been settled, after county citizens attended a commissioners’ nearing and were convinced that they were not paying for Shelby schools. The bond issue was ap proved by C. N. Malone, counsel for the Public Works administration, nut ITSd never been delivered by the county to the federal government. Had they been delivered earlier, it Is doubtful that another issue would nave been made against them. May Call Election As the matter now stands, tax payers may, if they wish, call for a ieneral bond election. The bonds were authorized on Feb. 12 and advertised. They are now re-advertised in today's issue of The Star. The new public hearing is set for Monday, Nov. 5. at 10 o'clock in the commissioners’ office in the court nouse. Scout Delegates From 11 Counties Will Gather Here Piedmont Council Plan* To Hold Dinner And First Board Meet inf October 15. Men representing; eleven counties of the Piedmont area council of the Boy Scouts of America will- come to gether here at a dinner meeting at the club dining room of the Hotel Charles on Monday night, October 15 at 7:15 o’clock at which time the first board meeting of the organiza tion for 'the fall and winter months will be held. Reports on the summer training camp of the council, the Piedmont Boy Scout camp, which Is located at Lake Lanier, near Tryon. will be received and plans for the fall and winter season will be the feature of the meeting. Work will be started by the Pied mont Scout organization In laying plans for the great National Jam boree of the Boy Scouts of America next August at which time 30,000 selected Scouts will come to Wash ington upon the invitation of the President to demonstrate the Ideals and principles and the program of this great youth movement of Am erica. The selection of Scouts to at tend the Jamboree will be on the hasift flf nnp flrnnf fitr par Vi tmrn There are now 112 troops in the Piedmont area with a total boy membership of more than 5.000 Scouts. Announce Dance At Union Hall Kid Hornbuckle has announced that he is promoting a benefit dance Saturday night in the U. T. W. Union hall. Musicians from Dov er Mill will play during the even ning. Every one is invited to at tend. Script is 35 cents. Both round and square dancing Is being planned. Spain In Revolt Spain’s six-day-old revolt, engi neered by red, was a dangerous mass of embers last night, flaring Into violence here and there, but Premier Leroux somehow managed to keep himself as head of the state. Socialist and communist rebels hang on to northern Spain, rallying a* an Austrian province. while the army awaits re-inforcements for an attack. : $500Spurs Genius Of Negro Boy, ; Who Cracks Safe, Gets Old Coins Sixteeu-year-old Arthur Daven port, Shelby negro, seems to know as much about swiftly cracking e [ safe as a post-graduate yegg frotr Smg Sing university, ; In less than a half hour during ' the lunch period Monday, he open ; ed both the office and the hugt l safe of the Shelby Creamery Co I office in the Lineberger building and made off with a pocket book I containing a number of curious ole . coins. > To his disappointment, he failec ; to gpt the $500 he had seen Misr , Verti« Hendricks counting just a few minutes before. Watching from outside, he saw her preparing the bank deposit. and apparently thought she had put the money in the office safe. What he did get was Miss Hend rick’s own pocketbook. The first door of the safe was open, but the inside door was locked. He opened it by cleverly remov*hg tfto thumb screws, ransaced it, and ried. In the pocketbook were aged coins, a Canadian 50-cent piece the size of a dime, a Canadian 20-cent piece, and some sixteen other old or for I iContinued on Page Eight) Masons From Four Counties To Meet Here On Thursday Dr. RoiirHe Of Lenoir To Be Prin cipal Speaker; Over One Thou sand Expected. Over a thousand Masons are ex pected to attend the meeting of districts Nos. 36 and 37 here Thurs day evening in the Masonic temple building at which time Dr. C. E. Rozzelle will be the principal speak er. A number of other grand lodge officers are expected and there will be short talks by them. The program is planned by J. W. Lee of Lawndale, district deputy, who says that Cleveland county lodges alone have a total member ship of 750. Cleveland county is dis trffct No. 37 while Burke, Caldwell and Catawba counties compose dis trict No. 36. Large delegations are expected to attend from these three outside counties. The meeting will begin at 8 o’clock and following the speeches, refreshments will be served. Mr. Lee expects the largest gathering of Masons ever held in the county. Red Cross Nurse Will Begin Work Here October 15 County Chapter Will Finance Activity Miss Irene Covington. Sponsored By Local Chapter, To Start On Educational Talk. Miss Irene Covington, graduate Red Cross nurse, will report for duty in Cleveland county on Octo ber 15. Miss Covington's activities here will be financed by the county Red Cross chapter, of which Paul Webb, sr., was yesterday elected chair man, and her duties will be mainly educational. College Graduate She comes from Bennettsvlllt. 8 C., is a graduate nurse of Williams burg. the Columbia, S. C., TVCWpital, and Peabody college. Capt. B. L. Smith, superintend ent of Shelby schools and a mem ber of the Red Cross nurse com mittee. said that she would begin her work here with work In the high schools, where she will con duct hygiene classes, weigh and In spect children in all the schools and visit their homes. This work will be jinder the supervision of Dr E. B. Lattlmore. of Shelby a mem ber of the county board of health. Later on. an adult home-making class will be formed, financed b\ the federal government. Enviable Record It Made By Hi School Perfect Score For Promotion Fro nr SeverAh To Eighth Grade. Average Is N. The Division of Instructional Service of the State Department ol Public Instruction has just released the results of the state-wide stand ard tests given during last March tc all schools. The Median score for the state is 88; that for the Shelby system i< * 89 which happens to be the perfeei score for promotion from the sev enth to the eighth grade. The thing that is most gratifying to Superintendent B. L. Smith b the excellent showing the Shelb> schools made in the distribution oi pupils. Whereas the State distribu tion was spread over eight years Shelby's distribution was confined .to three years. He points out that [excessively high scoring would re flect poor administration in classi fication to only slightly less degree than excessively low scoring. When it is observed that this test was given on the 18th day of school and that it included those whe were retained for further instruc tion, it is easily seen that the wort is being excellently done. Deluge Of Rain Marks Opening 01 Fair For Negroes Small Crowd This Morning; Show And Free Acts Ready; Many Exhibits. Despite a steady downpour o rain the Cleveland County Negr Fair opened this morning with thou sands of exhibits depicting the agrt cultural and educational life of th negroes in this section. Bunt’s Greater Shows are on th grounds and have set up 10 ridei 12 shows and a number of conces sions. All the players for the bi free acts to be given twice daily be fore the grandstand are In thei quarters ready to perform if weath er will permit. . Small Crpwd. . Officials at the fairgrounds sat this morning that a comparative! small crowd was braving the show ers to see the fair this morning, bu that a larger crowd was expecte this afternoon and tonight. A cer tain amount of insurance again! rainy weather is being carried b the Fair Association. Free tickets have been distribute to four or five thousand colored school children in Cleveland an adjoining counties, and a big even of field day sports in contests be tween these schools has been ar ranged for the afternoon, in addi tion to the regular program. Exhibits Goad. Some of the best exhibits eve reen at the Negro Fair are display ed in the big new exhibit hall! Judges are awarding prizes and rib bons today for the best articles ii field crops, horticulture, home eco noinics. arts, antiques, and schoc booths The livestock barns have creditable exhibit of farm animal crown hv the colored farmers c the county. Paul Webb Headi Red Cross Roll ' Call For Count} 5 Other Officers Elected Vesterda As Plans Are Made For An nual Campaign. i _ f! Paul Webb, sr„ popular Shelb _ I druggist, who could call the Cleve . j land county roll from CasAr to #111 » Perry, was yesterday elected to job that just suits his talents. He' 5 been made county Red Cross Rol Call chairman. ? Henry Edwards remains chalrmai - of the Cleveland county chaptei r Troy McKinney, treasurer, Mr • Harry Speck, vice chairman, Lee I Weathers publicity chairman, C. I McBrayer, home service, Miss Seim 1 Webb, Junior Red Cross chairmar f O. M. Mull, chairman of men’s dlv - ision for roll call, with Mai Spang t ler as vice-chairman, and B. I 1 Smith chairman of the nursing dlv • ision. J. H. Grigg is roll call chair t man for county schools. f The Cleveland county chapter In eludes all townships except No. - I j which Includes Grover and King II Mountain. 1 No definite date has been set fe t the annual campaign. Chalrma - Edwards said this morning, but 1 - will be held between Armistic# Da ■ and Thanksgiving r Fellowship Meeting At Central Churcl Cleveland county fellowship meet 1 ing will be held in Central M. I • church October 11th at 7:30 p. n 1 All the pastors and officials of th i M. E. church, South, in the count i are urged to be present. Goo f speakers and . ptendid music will b jthe features of the meeting. Ole Pepper Box Takes A Slide Pepper Marlin, colorful St. Louis Cardinal third base man, is shown taking a slide in one of the games that helped his team to win the World Series crown in baseball. The seven games played were the most sensational in years. Pep I per is one of the Cards’ best. U. S. Agent Is Absolved ; Of Charges Of Sedition Manufacturing In City Shows Gain For 1933 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—A slight gain In the value of total produc tion of manufacturing and print ing establishments in Shelby. N. C. was shown today In a census bu reau report for 1933 as compared with 1931. Value of products turned over last year was placed at $3,418,612 compared with $6,293,105 In 1931. A slight Increase also was register ed in the number of wage-earners and In wages paid. Wage-earners in 1933 totalled 1, MS and received $1,089,701 while in 1931 1.568 received $1-,042,105. There were 19 such establish ments in Shelby In 1933 compared to 17 In 1931. Speed Up Mails To Mid-West States Arrangements jiave recently been completed for speeding up mail from Shelby to West Virginia, Ohio and Middle Western states. Mall leav ing here at 6:15 p. m. Is handled on train 40 to Lynchburg and trans ferred to Norfolk and Western train 15 for Cincinnati and Colum bus, a saving of 12 hours to the lat ter point. Casar Will Hear Bulwinkle Addres* Major A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gas tonia. candidate to succeed himself as representative of the tenth con gressional dsitrict, will speak at the Casar school house tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7:30. . Hit next address will be in South Shel by on Friday night. Gibson Is Freed As Witnesses Fail To Push Charges R UTHERFORDTON, Oct- 9 The hearing of Roland Olbson whc laced sedition charges here todaj before United States Commisslonei W. J. Mode resulted in a "flop.1 Judge Mode did not find probable cause and dismissed the case against Gibson and he will leave today foi Washington The chief prosecuting witness Robert Watkins, who swore out the warrant first went on the stand and stated that he did not hear any seditious remarks by Gibson. R. T Flynn, C. L. Keeler, Jap Upton and N. B. Reid followed Watkins on thf stand with similar statements None of them would admit that they heard Gibson make any seditlom (Continued 6n Page Eight) Officers Installed By Local Legion Post Everett Houser Commander; An nounces Meeting To Consider Plans For Armistice. Everett Houser, commander, ant other new officers of the Shelb; American Legion post were install ed last night at the court house. A meeting will be held Octobe: 30, Mr. Houser announced, to dls cuss plans for the celebration o I Armistice day. Legion officers are: vice-corn inlanders, Basil Goode. Dr. D. M Morrison and D. Mills Cline; ad Jutant, A. W. Benoy; finance offi cer, A. R. Snyder; service officer Thomas Abernathy; guardlanshlj officer, Capt. Peyton McSwain sergeant-at-arms, H. White Har mon; chaplain, A. P. Smith; his toriam J. H. Grigg; athletic officer Ih. C. Long. 1 Child welfare officer. R. D. Crow der; employment, Harry Woodson graves registration, R. Lee Lowman Americanization, Capt. B. L. Smith publicity, R. H. Cooke; member ship. B. Edgar Hamrick; Sons o Legion chairman, R. D. Crowder. • Post Office Sets Up New Record; ■ May Get First Class Rating Soon t Just around the Shelby po6toffice y corner is that first. class rating snatched away two years ago by the late and unlamented depression. Assistant Postmaster Russell j Laughridge this morning revealed that Ills office set an all-time rec - ord for receipts during September, !. exceeding even the biggest Christ i. mas business for the past 20 years, e and showing the largest monthly y Increase yet recorded, i Receipts last month were $12, e *613.21, as against $10,282.94 for 1 September. 1933. December of this fiscal year wa close to the record with $12,362.95. And the total, from January 1 1934, through September is $36, 403.43. Requirement for a first clas post office is $40,000 a year, so k Sheiljy has to do is maintain a rea sonable pace of letter writing an stamp buying and the new" classifi cation is assured. Increasing business from the Lit thread mill, which has been ship ping in huge quantities, even dur lug the strike, Is largest factor i: boosting current post office reve nues. Mr. Laughridge said. Fanners Protest Alleged Errors In Crop Control 300 Sign Petition To Secretary Wallace P. C. Gardner Opens Meeting In Court House Here; Deny Bankhead BUI Attack. Investigation of distribution of Bankhead cotton allotments In Cleveland county Is demanded In a petition to Henry A. Wallace, aec rctary of agriculture, signed by some three to four hundred cotton growers who gathered in a myster iously promoted meeting at the oourt house Monday night. About 500 ’tnen attended. they heard the purpose of the meeting explained by P. C. Oardner, Shelby attorney, and were given copies of the petition. But who called the meeting, or who were the organ isers of the movement, was not ex plained. No speeches were made. Hupoort Bankhead BUI Neither the intent of the petition nor of the crowd was to attack the Bankhead measure, - Mr. Gardner explained. More than 90 per cent of the farmera in the aounty Ap prove of the bill, end have signed to support it. But when he asked for a showing of hands to determine how many growers had had their allotment cut more than 40 per cent, several hundred responded. In some Instances, Mr. Gardner said yesterday, farmers had been cut more than 70 per cent. “There’s no politics In this,** he said. “And we charge no one with wrong. But the Bankhead bill was put into operation so quickly that mistakes seem to have been made.” Administrators Silent County Agent R. W. Shoffner and Bankhead Administrator Alvin Propat said this morning they had no statement to make, save that the operation of the Bankhead bill had been explained time and again, and that anyone who didn’t yet under stand it could obtain the informa tion at the county agent's of floe. The petition to secretary Wallace. Mr. Gardner said, has not yet been (Continued on page eight) Health Official Warns County h Speech To Women John K. Floyd, Of Asheville, Ad vise* County Council Of Health Measures. The county council of home dem onstration clubs met in the oourt house Monday afternoon and heard an address on “Community Sani tation," by John E. Floyd, of the U. B. health department. After the ! address the club drew up a number of resolutions as to what the home demonstration clubs can do to Im prove public' health In Cleveland county. Committees were elected for the I year and the council will meet ’ again on November 6. “Achieve ment Day” will be October 19. Uvee An Lost “More lives are loet each year . from filth diseases than from auto, f accident.” said Mr. Floyd, as he' pointed out the fact that even In . Cleveland county there are numbers . of cases in which toilet and water . systems In the schools and In var ious communities are alarmingly , Inadequate. “Can It be that wa will i snend thousands of dollars for na. trolmen on our highways and then forget the health conditions in our rural sections?” , "Forty-sevep thousand children attend l/***) Schools which have no ■ toilet facilities and 1783 other schools have no water supply what ; ever.” continued the speaker. t Resolutions Resolutions drawn ' up by the council as to what women can do are: 1. Check their own homes. 2. Report unsanitary conditions to proper authorities. 3. Provide sanitation for farms. 4. Encourage house screening, pure water supply, and the building of sanitary toilets. 5. Endorse a county health proj ect. 6 Stage a health campaign. 7. Train children in good health , habits. Committees elected are: H06pt s tallty: Mrs. Boyd Harrelson. Mrs. 1 Boyd Warlick. Mrs. J. D. Elliott, - Mrs. Charles Morrison. Lunch: Miss i Lyda Poston, Mrs. Norman lee, - Mrs. Clifford Hamrick, Miss Min nie Katherine Allen. Mrs. C. W. f Craft. Flowers: Mrs. T. B. Ham - rick. Nomination: Mrs. Tom Wil - lis, Mrs. J. F. Crowder, Mrs. O. i Randall. Decorating: Miss Irene - Hamrick, Mrs. Yates Putnam, Mrs. Dock Wesson. ' . i