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Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot.12<4c to 13Hc Cotton seed, to, wagon _38.00 Fair and Colder Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Generally fair Wednesday and Thursday; colder Wednesday and at night. Demands Insurance William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, makes It clear that he expects In dustry to bear the burden of unem ployment insurance for the work ers. He says that Industry would not bear the cost, but that it would be passed on to the consumer, and argues that labor has no way of passing such a cost along. HOLC Shuts Off One of the government’s foremost money lending agencies closed its doom yesterday against new appli cation. This is the HOLC, which has more than one million unan swered applications on file and only $1.2000,000,000 remaining in its treasury. Pleads Not Guilty Ralph Dill, young High Point tex tile worl/ r, testified in Superior court yesterday that he had no con nection whatsoever with the mur der of William Davis. 26-year-old Sumner township man, for which he and four other men are on trial. Graham To Capital Dr. Frank R. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, will arrive in Washington today to attend a social welfare conference at the White House. Secertary of Labor Perkins yesterday gave news papermen the impression that no new deal policies are receiving more serious attention than those to care for the unemployed, the idle and the infirm. „ Bank Liquidation Liquidation of 53 of the 183 banks which have been closed in North Carolina since 1927 has been com-1 pieted and in 26 of these banks de positors and creditors have been paid in full, Gurney P. Hood, state banking commissioner, announced yesterday. For Cheaper Juice President Roosevelt’s tour of the Tennessee Valley this week is re garded in high circles as the first attack the administration will make for cheaper electric rates to inspire UUfcHc ownership of municipal utili ties. The president will leave to morrow (Thursday) night for a tour which will end in Warm Springs. Billings May Act If Tom Mooney, serving a Cali fornia sentence for life for his al leged part in the Preparedness Day rioting in 1516, is successful in his appeal for a habeas corpus, Warren K. Billings, his partner, will take the same action, it was announced yesterday. S. and W. Open New Washington Cafeteria Sherrill And Lineberger Complete Another Branch Of Big Chain Of Eating Houses. Prank Sherrill of Charlotte and J. D. Lineberger of Shelby opened in Washington this week another branch of their system of cafeterias. The Washington eating place is across the street from the U. S. treasury department .on Fifteenth and G streets and is said to be the largest in the city, having a seat ing capacity of 1,000. Mr. Sherrill, president of the sys tem, is the son of Mrs. C. F. Sher rill of Shelby, while Mr. Lineberger, vice president, is a Shelby resident. Mr. and Mrs. Lineberger are both in Washington for the opening. It was explained that S. and W. are the initials of Sherrill and Webber who started the system. Mr. Web ber is a native of Earl, but has not been connected with the company for ten years. Now the S. and W. cafeterias op erate in Atlanta, Knoxville, Roa noke. Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh and Washington. A great throng attended the opening of the Wash ington branch this week. Spangler H«me *s Destroyed By Fire Dathia Spangler Loses Home ArfU Practically All Contents By Night Fire. The pretty country home of Da thia Spangler near the old Marcus Mouney place eight miles northwest of Shelby was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Monday even ing about 7 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Spangler were at a nearby neigh bor’s home when the fire was dis covered. Neighbors gathered quick ly and saved a few household things, but the majority of the personal ef fects and furniture were lost as well as the entire home. It is understood that the fire started from an unknown cause in the attic. It wai erected six or eight years ago. A small amount of insur ance was carried. « TIJEMEMMW Styx VOL. XL, No. 137 SHELBY, N. CL WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mtik. Orrlat. | r HM, mr. a* 37 (In Unul _ DM Bulwinkle To Act For Twin-County Homestead Plans He Will Investigate U. S. Possibilities Cleveland And Gaston Boards Join in* Hands; Want 6,000 Acre Project. Representative A. L. Bulwinkle left for Washington Monday night, leaving a promise to the Cleveland and Gaston boards of county com missioners to Investigate the pos sibilities of obtaining federal funds for establishment of a 6,000 acre rehabilitation homestead project for relief families from the two counties. The boards of commissioners met Monday afternoon in Gastonia and 1 passed Joint resolutions approving! the undertaking, which would estab lish some three thousand persons on farms which they could buy from the government on the easiest pos sible terms. Options On Lands Options on land for this project have already been obtained. Hie proposed homestead area lies on the Cherryville road, to the left of highway 20 near Kings Mountain, and between that town and Besse mer City. Most of the tracts of land included in the area are owned by the Clark family of Kings Moun tain. Price will naturally be an im perative consideration in the pur chase by the government of this land. It is held for $85 an acre. Expect Appropriation Representative Bulwinkle, in a conference yesterday with Grady Gaston, chamber of commerce sec retary in Gaston, said he under stood that all available money for these projects had been allotted, but the Cleveland board said this morn ing that it was from a forthcoming allotment that they hoped to see the land purchased and farm build ing made. Gaston and Cleveland counties 'are co-operating fully in the plan, Iso far as agreements between the two boards of commissioners go. Of the 6,000 acres, each county would be allotted half for its purposes. Many On Relief In this county today there are more than 400 families on the relief rolls, in Gaston more than 3,500. Many of these would be acceptable to the homestead plan. The federal government not only buys the land, but erects the homes and other necessary buildings to make a complete and livable com munity centre. Homesteaders are fi nanced over a period of 30 years, and will consider their homes their own property. Thirty-One Make Dover Honor Roll Thirty-one names are listed onj the October Dover Mill school hon- i or roll with the first grade leading! with eight. They are as follows: First grade: Fred Cash, Jack Dover, Avis Carter, Charles Robert son, Catherine Farrow, Elizabeth Gantt, Christine Sisk, Ned Nanney. Second grade: Jewel Woods, Jet tie Lee Ledford, Rebecca Smith, William Kimbrell, Robert Ledford, Eugene Gantt. Third grade: Charles Carter, Nell Greene, Clyde Putnam, Johnnie Tate. Fourth grade: James Nanney, Frances Wright. Fifth grade: I. J. Wolfe, Paul Grady, Virginia Henson. Sixth grade: Ruth Newton, Rae nelle Ramsey. Seventh grade: Pauline Sisk.) Frances Davis, Sarah Proctor, Do- i lores Morgan, Beatrice Ingle, James' Wright. Shelby On Direct Route To Great Smoky Parkway — 1 Decision Of Ickes, Giving Entrance To This State Instead Of Tennessee, Seen As Vast Boon To Western N. C. Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, on Monday formally announced that the Federal government would build a $16,000,000 highway through North Carolina instead of through Tennessee. Which means—that the entrance to the great Smoky National Park comes through this state and that, if N. C. has better scenery and better hotels, the world of tourists will usq the path. It also means that Shelby is on an inter sectinpr route to the parkway. To western North Carolina, from Blowing' Rock to Sylva, this decis ion was the greatest news of the week. It means that millions of dol lars invested in tourist accommo dations will not be wasted and that thousands more visitors will be di rected through this mountain sec tion to buy gas, food, shelter and maybe real estate. Shelby Delegation. Shelby thought the highway was Important enough to her to send a delegation to Raleigh. Joe E. Blan ton, chairman of the board of county commissioners, Roland Hol land, D. W. Royster and W. C. Har ris, city aldermen, Lee B. Weathers editor and Henry Edwards, lawyer, formed the delegation that went to Washington to plead with Secretary lekes. He made his decision in favor of (Continued on page nine.) Current Problems Attacked By Club At Teachers Meet Draw Up Basketball Schedule And Discuss Aims Of Education; Promise Trophy. The aim of education and the points of view that ought to be taken by the high school teachers In dealing with educational prob lems was the subject of discussion when all the men teachers of the county met Monday night in the county court house. Preceding the meeting a supper was held at Mrs. Alice Lineberger’s where the schoolmasters had a so cial hour. Coaches AU Here All the coaches of the athletic teams in the 12 high schools of the county were present and drew up a composite schedule for all basket ball games. This schedule will be released in • short time. It is pro posed to eliminate conflicts and to assure all teams a minimum and maximum chance to do well in the county’s foremost fall sport. The clyb renewed its promise to give a sportsmanship trophy to the school which has the best team, the best fans, and the best support, based on sportsmanship and regis tered by a vote of all the schools next spring when the basketball season is over. It was reported that every school, with the exception of Bethware, the newest standard high school, has access to facilities for indoor sport, in most cases a "tin can” gymna sium. In the round table discussion of ideas the. principals and teachers came to the conclusion that em phasis should be placed on creating in the student the proper attitude toward things—such as home, com munity, government, and social life. The basic things as tearing how to read, write and make a living are a’^ady receiving proper attention, it was said. • Ellenboro Farmers Will Meet Nov. 19 Beginning Monday night, Novem ber 19, a series of farm meetings are scheduled to be held in the El lenboro school building. These meet ings are especially designed to give farmers information on the cotton situation, and help them to under stand how much cotton they should plant next year or how much they will be allowed to plant should the Bankhead bill continue in opera tion. For 8 Years, He Invested Money For Orphans, And Lost None Of It A tall, somewhat stoop-shoulder ed figure of a man bending studi ously over great red leather covered tomes in the' northwest comer room of the court house—late at night—adding appallingly long col umns of figures with dollar marks besides them . . . That’s Uncle Lon Hamrick, clerk of the superior court, whose respon sibility it has been for eight years —at the behest of the Democratic electorate—to supervise the invest ment of thousands and thousands of dollars that are not his dollars, or the county’s, or the state’s. The money belongs to widows, parent less children, estates, receivers. And all that other money—fines im posed by the superior court, vari ous fees. It worries a man a lot. This morning, the auditors brought in the report of their in vestigation covering the past eight years, all the time Uncle Lon has held office. His accounts were in first-rate apple pie order, of course, as everybody expected. But it does' a man good to have that kind or substantiation, and Uncle Lon could not suppress a grin of satisfaction. The audit, a purely routine pro cedure, was made by Robert H. Cooke and John M. Shannonhouse of Shelby. In tidily typewritten form.it is available, if you’re inter ested in such matters, at the coun ty treasurer’s office. It says that "all revenues have been received, remitted, or ac counted for,” and that's a pleasant line, for a great share of the money j every clerk of the court handle-,' must be invested, according to law. (Continued on page nine.) j Baptists Report Increase Of 15% In Mission Gifts Convention Is Oat Of Debt, Huggins Says In New Bern; Dr. Wall Presides Over Meeting;. Contributions to state missions have increased 15 per cent this year, the state mission board is out of debt, and the convention now owes the Raleigh banks nothing, M. A. Huggins reported yesterday to the throngs of delegates at the Baptist convention in New Bern. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shelby and president of the association opened the meeting at 2 o’clock. Sees Meaning Fade Dr. Hugh A. Ellis, Wilson pastor, declared in the principal address of the day that “We are producing a race of spineless Christians who have lost all sense of the meaning of the cross in Christian experience." The evening session was given over to a mass celebration by the convention and the city of New Bern of the 125th anniversary of the historic First Baptist church there, of which the Rev. Dr. Oscar Haywood is pastor. Debt Is Reduced Mr. Huggins, who is general sec retary, said that the convention’s total indebtedness had been reduced by $75,000 this year and that mis sion offerings exceeded last year’s by $5,000. The convention’s goal for 1935 is $500,000. Boiling Springs Seniors In Play Will Present Three Act Drama To night At College Auditorium; Cast Given. The senior class of the Boiling Springs junior college will present a three act play, titled "He’s My Pal,” In the college auditorium building Wednesday night, Novem ber 14. The play will begin at 8:00 p. m. The cast is composed of Tom Spark, a young carpenter, played by Elmo Scoggin; Wally Allen, in ad vertising, Bill Harrill; Ma Averill, everybody’s mother, Julia Renfrow; Lark Marie Sumner, Ma’s niece, engaged to Wally, Sybil Moore; Cal vin McCay, a hen-pecked husband, Palmer Brooks; Mrs. Blossom Mc Cay, his wife and boss, Jean Thomp son; Harry Booth, in real estate, James Anderson; Smudge, the cook, Mary Hamrick; Kitten Blake, a beauty specialist, Kathleen Dav idson; Dick Smith, a salesman, Somers Collins; Roger Gall, Wally’s pal, Broughton Ramsey; Mona Spark, Tofti’s sister, and ugly duck ling, Florence Hamilton. The play is being directed by Miss Josephine Arnette, stage managers are Wesley McMurray. Sara Lee Norman and Alex Ross. Stage fur nishings by Sterchi’s. — Bowling Hurt In Car Crash At Gastonia J. C. Bowling of the Shelby Dry Cleaning Co., was bruised and hurt, but not seriously early Monday morning when his car and one driv en by M. C. Blanton of Forest City collided at Gastonia. Blanton was taken to a Gastonia hospital for first aid treatment. Bowling is now able to be up and back at his work. Hi; had motored to Charlotte to be at the bedside of his wife who#is «* patient in a hospital there, follow |ing an operation. Immediate Survey j Of Smokies Route Ordered By PWA Engineers Start In N. C. Early Next Week In The Meantime, Disappointed Sister States Files Her Protest With Secretary tckafc Surveying parties will be sent in- ■ to the mountains of North Caro lina next week to begin work on the route of the scenic parkway connecting the Shenandoah and Great Smokies National parks, ac cording to developments in the state highway and public works depart ment yesterday. Already a portion of the route, from the state line in Surry coun ty to Blowing Rock, has been sur veyed. and location of It is complet ed with the exception of minor de tails. Area For Surveying The portion to be surveyed now, as approved by Secretary Ickes on Monday, will range from Blowing Rock to the Great Smokies at Cher okee, traversing the beautiful moun tain sections that Include Grand father Mountain, Llnvllle Falls, Black Mountain, the Mt. Mitchell sector near Asheville, and the ter ritory near Waynesvllle. A preliminary survey of the route has already been made. Until com pletion of the final survey, con struction of* the Dellwood-Cherokee link at the eastern entrance to the Great Smokies will be held up. Federal funds will be used for the construction if the parway Is rout ed through Dellwood. Tennessee Protests Senator Bachman, of Tennesse, said In Chattanooga a protest will be carried direct to President Roosevelt, adding that he will lay the matter before the chief execu tive when he visits Tennessee this werfc if the opportunity presents it self. Secretary Ickes yesterday approv ed an all-North Carolina route for the parkway, rejecting a route sug gested by Tennessee after leaving Blowing Rock, N. C. Meanwhile, It was said at the Federal Bureau of Roads that sur veys of the Northern section from the Shenandoah National park in Virginia to Blowing Rock, N. C. were proceeding rapidly. And O. A. Moskey, assistant national park di rector, said Virginia was about ready to certify some rights of way. Moskey said Virginia and North Carolina would be asked to pro vide 1.000 foot rights of way, but 200 feet would be acceptable if ease merits can be obtained for 1,000 feet to assure wide spaces on both sides the 20-foot concrete roadway. He estimated it would require five years to acquire rights of way and build the highway, which will traverse scenic sections in Virginia and North Carolna and avoid con gested cities. Legionnaires Seek Membership Boost Attendance Prise Offered For Each Meeting; Thank Community For Armistice Day Aid. Numerous routine matters were disposed of and arrangements for obtaining additional members were made at a meeting of the Warren F. Hoyle post of the American Le gion at the courthouse Tuesday night. Committees were named to in vestigate possibilities of a drum and bugle corps and a drill team. In vestigation of possible erection of a Legion hut was also ordered. A pew scheme of distinguished Un-Serv ice citations was ordered to be plac ed on the record in the event of any member named to do a Job falling down on his assignment.' An attendance prize of $1 at each meeting for one lucky member was decided upon and provided. Morgait School Wins. Announcement was made that the Morgan street school of which Miss Selma Webb is principal, won the $2.50 prize donated by Dr. D. M. Morrison for the largest number of pupils in Saturday’s parade. Formal vote of thanks was voted the Gastonia drum and bugle corps for their assistance in Saturday's parade and similar resolution was passed thanking ministers and oth ers who assisted in arranging the two church services held Sunday. Post officers were instructed to ] write appropriate letters of thanks to these people as well as to ex tend to the Cleveland Star thanks for publicity given the organization in its Armistice Day activities. No Record Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, war ace, at 11:27 last night completed a round tri pfrom Newark to Miami, \390 miles in all. Bad weather pre vented {iis setting a record. Cobb Upholds Bankhead • Measure As Big Crowd! Applauds Crop Control Where Paris Battled Communists Several person* were Injured in a renewal of political ho*tilitlei in various parts of France as the nation sought to show its military strength in the face of new fears of a rearming Germany on Armis tice Day. This photo shows a view of Lille, scene of the most severe fighting, where Nationalists battled with Communists and Socialists. Decision On Bankhead Bill Will Be Made By Farm Vote All Eligible To Receive Gin Certificates Will Be Allowed To Vote In December; To Ballot At Precinct Polls Cotton growers will go to the polls juHt as if they were voting on constitutional amendment to decide early in Dec ember whether they want to continue crop control under the provisions of the Bankhead measure. The election will be held sometime during the first two weeks of December, but the precise date has not been set. John F. Anderson, 51, Dies Tuesday Invalid Of 10 Yean Succumb* To Heart Trouble; Has Large Family. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at his home on j South LaFayette street lor John F. j Anderson, 81, who died of heart, trouble Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. The rites will be held at 11:00 with the Rev. Mr. Nelson, of Char lotte. conducting. Interment will be in Shelby. Mr. Anderson had been trouble with heart disease for many years and had been an Invalid for the last ten years. He had made Shel by his home for about a year, com ing here from Canton, Georgia, where he was a well known farm er. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. MSYnie Lee Anderson, and eight children. The children are Mrs. Mary Page, Lillian, Isla, Kelly, and John Anderson, all of Shelby, and Jack Anderson, of Lowell. Brothers and sisters are J. M. Anderson, Canton, Ga.; E. W. Andegson, Smyrna, Ga ; W. W. Anderson, Al pharetta, Ga.; Mrs. A. T. West brook Canton, Ga.; Mrs. J. O. Ram sey, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Bob Cochrane, Marietta, Ga. R. w. Shorfner, county agent, naid this morning that all persona eligible to receive gin certificates will be eligible to vote. Tills Is the only requirement — ownership or tenacy docs not affect eligibility. As In Regular Election Votes will be cast at the regular polling places In the county. Just as In the recent state and county election. Ballots will be provided by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration. Echoing the words of his chief, C. A. Cobb, who spoke here Monday morning, Mr. Shoffner said "If we vote against the Bankhead bill It will leave us In a terrible predica ment." Rejection of the measure would throw crop control back to a purely voluntary basis. White Lilac Blooms 2nd Time This Year Hughlon Blanton has evidence that nature is taking advantage of the prolonged summer and fall weather. He plucked a bunch of white lilacs from a shrub In his garden in West Shelby Sunday. This Is the second crop of flow ers grown by the tree this year and the flowers look very much out of season with the advent of the pres ent colder weather. Pride And Price For Cotton In Compact Bring $3500 Tax In Day Whether it is pride, or whether it is the fact that cotton is bringing an average of $79 per bale. Sheriff Cline is at a loss to know, but he does know that his office was able to collect more than $3,500 in coun ty taxes yesterday. The occasion for the big rush was the big farmers meeting in the court house, _ but the sheriff has been getting over $1,000 on several days since the government turned loose $200,000 “extra money” on parity payments for land rentals. In fact, prosperity seems to have rounded the corner and hitting the farmers full tilt. An Industrious man says he sold more than $150 dollars worth of shoals and fat | hogs in one day; others report many sales. The merchants in town are swamped from morning till night to fit shoes, shirts, suits and dresses to whole families who do most of their buying in the fall of the year. One old negro woman wielding a long toothbrush, in making a speech to some of her friends, said she didn’t know what the Bankhead bill was, "and it sho' is a powerful heap o’ trouble, but for the fust time in fo’ yeahs I’se got enough money to buy snuff, and I’se fo it.” It will take some time to get re adjusted to having money to spend, but taxes and salaries, and debts, ire 'X’i’ix paid, all of which help [to make the world go round. i Says South Faces Greatest Problem j Since Civil War ! Forecasts Rulrf or South'* Prosper ity ir Reduction Mensure* Are Dropped In 1938. With r drawl reralnacent of the cotton fields of Mississippi, when he wns born on a rented farm, O. A. Cobb, chief of the cotton section of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration, spoke here yesterday morning in behalf of crop control In the South, where, he said, “We are faced with the gravest crisis since the Civil War." More than 1.000 farmers hurried from the crowd around the county agent’s office, where they were **• * celvlng their shares of a $300,000 parity payment from the AAA. to hear Mr. Cobbs first speech In hla tour of cotton centres In support of the disputed Bankhead oontrol measure. for Bankhead Ait He Rave them .statistics, but ha spoke their language. Ha told them It was the responsibility of those who accepted price stabilization by the government and 13 cent loan* to support the government none. "It’s up to you to vote in Decern* her," he said, "I'm not conducting a campaign.” Implicit throughout his speech was the fact that the Administration supports the Bank* head Act. ■> "This has been a farmers' pro- • «ram from the beginning,” he said. ■ “designed for the man between the • plow handles. Do you believe that f voluntary control will work for 1935? We trusted that for three quarters of a century. The Southern farmer has had everything—every thing except control." Achieved Objective. "I have been attending cotton meetings ever since I can remem ber but this is the first time I ever attended one after we had achieved what we had set out to achieve. “The problem of laying a founda tion to safety and security under cotton Is the big problem. In 1933 we had a government plan thgr made It unnecessary for the farm ers to do all the sacrificing. Hither to. the farmers were expected to do all the sacrificing. They were al ways asked to sacrifice In order that the situation In the south and In the nation might be saved. Economic Justice. “Last year when our program was worked out and presented to you, it was a program which said to you If you will do certain things then the government itself will step in and do certain things’ with the ob jective of securing for you a parity price of cotton, with the object of securing for the cotton producer a degree of economic justice that the fanner had not been ableJto get up to the present time. * “It was on May 23, 1938, that I showed up in Washington at the invitation of the Secretary to help him work out a cotton program. I believe it was June 21, a month lat er, that we had our contract forms approved. It was about the same time that the president announced to you that we were going to have a program, and announced his in terest in the program, and called upon the citizenship of the entire south to Join hands with him in :.n effort to achieve this bairnoe be tween supply and demand and to achieve something of parity between the price received by the cotton farmer for his cotton and the cost of the things he had to buy. The Plow Under. “The result was that they plowed under 10.000,000 acres of cotton, an unprecedented thing in agricultural history. There never has been such an achievement, and none so profib able. The plow up literally did save the South. We were saved from com ing into the harvest last fall with a $17,500,000 bale crop. Otherwise, we might have had last fall upwards, with the carry-over upwards of 29, 000,000 bales, the greatest crop in history. “We came to the harvest with only a 13.000.000 bale crop. And the crop rose from a five-cent low to ten cents last year and higher this year. Cotton reduction not only saved the south from bankruptcy but has laid a foundation for security under our n'ire raUmrl re<'o-—-v progam I i (Continued on page nine.)
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