North Carolina Newspapers

Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot . 12'; to 13*ic Cott.n seed, ton, wagon_42.00 Fair, Warmer Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Fair with slowly rising tem perature Monday; Tuesday cloudy and somewhat warmer, probably? occasional rain. More War Threats Alarming threats of war come from Europe, according to a copy righted Associated Press story this morning. Nation after nation joins fa the cry of "Who's your ally?” According to this report. The most Alarming rumor of all comes from ■taribor, Yugoslavia, where all mil ftnry leaves have been cancelled. Yugoslavia accuses Hungary in the murder of King Alexander. Plan Legislation President Roosevelt has called his aides In Warm Springs and begun the task of charting his adminis tration’s 1935 legislation for relief, permanent NRA re-organization, so aocial Insurance, and other plans. Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the powerful finance committee, and Joe T. Robinson, majority lead er, are at Warm Springs. . Editor Dies Alexander Lowric Stockton, 58, for 23 years managing editor of the Greensboro Daily News, died Sun day morning at Wesley Long hos pital, where he had been a patient for two days. He succumbed to hemorfhages from a chronic peptic ulcer. Mr. Stockton was born in Florida, but had been a resident of North Carolina since childhood. Ford Sees F. D. R. Considerable interest was felt in Washington about the visit of Ed sel Ford to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. It was reported that he submitted to the president a hopeful and optimistic slant on business In the nation, and his visit was taken to mean that more cor dial relations would be enjoyed be tween the automobile manufactur ers and the administration. Insurance Studied Broad scale insurance by the gov ernment on private loans has bean proposed in a memorandum drawn up for study by administration economic advisers. Shelby-Salisbury Short Cut Road Is Opened To Public Cute Distance About 15 Miles; Grading Nearly Finish Kings Mountain To Gastonia. The short-cut road on highway No. 150 from Shelby to Salisbury is now open for traffic, cutting the distance between these two points 15 miles as compared with the Gas tonia-Charlotte route. It is 75 miles from Shelby, through Lincolnton and Mooresville to Sal isbury, as compared with 90 miles via Gastonia and Charlotte. High way Chairman E. B. Jeffress, when mayor of Greensboro, became inter ested in this road and enlisted the co-operation of officials in Shelby, Lincolnton, Mooresville, Salisbury, High Point and Greensboro in urg ing that this link be constructed. Drivers from this section going north, turn from No. 20 at Cleve land Springs, go through Waco, Cherryville, Lincolnton, Goodson Ville said Mooresville. This road was completed some weeks ago except for two miles at the Catawba river. Traffic was turned over this last link last week. Grading is nearing completion on the new road from Kings Mountain to Gastonia. This will be a new section in highway No. 20 and shorten the distance between these two points 3.2 miles. Surfacing will be done next summer. Injured Men Improve; LeGette Back Home Royster’s Broken Lee Not Yet Set; LeGette Brought Home From Salisbury. Alderman D. W. Royster and Jas. 8. LeGette, manager of the local brokerage office of J. F. Clark and Co, are improving from injuries sustained on Nov. 17 when the car in which they were riding to see the Duke-Carolina game collided with another car driven out in the highway in front of them near Sal isbury. Alderman Royster is in the Shel by hospital with his left leg broken below the knee and above the ankle. Thirty-six pounds of weight hangs to his broken limb. When the swelling subsides the bone will be! ■et. Mr. Royster suffers a great deal, j Mr. LeGette who remained in the Salisbury hospital for a week with a broken rib and internal injuries, was brought to his home on South . Washington street yesterday. He is < improving, but very comfortable j and will be confined to his bed for several days yet. This morning he! w»s removed to the Shelby hospi The MEWMO SEND Today 8 Pages i VOL. XU No. 142 _ . _ . . X SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 26. 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mall p*r year, (la adrallMI _ H.M Carrlar. Mr yaar. (In adraCMI _ UN Alumni To Mark ;« Duke Endowment Anniversary Here County Organization Will Celebrate To Commemorate Signing Of Inden ture On December 10; To Hold Dinner. Duke day is to be observed wher ever there are Duke university ' alumni on December 10 in com- j I memoration of the signing of the' ^indenture creating the Duke endow- : ' ment. Capt. B. L. Smith, president of the Cleveland-Rutherford county association, has just announced that elaborate plans are being made for a dinner meeting at the Central Methodist church at 7 o'clock, Dec ember 10. Mrs. Troy McKinney, secretary, has sent out notices for all gradu ates and former students of Trinity | college and Duke university. They ' are being urged to make reservation so that the missionary society pre paring the dinner will know how many to prepare for. Mrs. George Hoyle has charge of the preparation of the meal. Miss Isabel Hoey, Mrs. Alton K. Kirkpatrick and W. H. Brown are the members of the committee on decorations. The committee on attendance is as follows: Everette Houser, Milton Loy, Joe Whisnant, Renn Honey cutt, Troy McKinney and Dr. B. M. Jarrett. L. E. Spike, Rutherfordton, Frank Biggerstaff, Kings Mountain, and Miss Isabel Hoey, Shelby, constitute the nominating committee. Charles A. Burrus has charge of the music for the occasion. A num i ber of the Duke songs will be sung, | and Miss Nettie Rayle will sing a solo. Mrs. C. E. Rankin will give a read ing of Dr. Pluto Durham’s “The Bells of Trinity” and Robert Lee Durham’s "O Duke, Alma Mater.” Dr. Gilbert Rowe will deliver the address of the occasion. He will be preserved by his classmate. Dr. E. K. McLarty. A special effort is being made to secure the attendance of the Rev. ’ J. E. Thompson of the class of 1878, who is the oldest alumnus in the county. Approximately one hundred alum ni and alumnae are expected. It is hoped that everyone residing in the i two counties will be one hand. The | alumni office records are incom iplete, so that some name may be i missing from the secretary’s list. JKowever, it is hoped that each one will send in his reservation and will be present. Roberts Farm To Go At Auction Another Auction By Penny Bros. Twin Auctioneers on Friday November 30th. Penny Bros., twin auctioneers, will conduct their third auction sale of real estate in this county on Friday, November 30, offering the Mrs. Ella Roberts farm, three miles out on highway No. 150 on the Waco road and near the Wilson cotton gin. This farm has been sub-divid ed into small farms, all with a highway frontage and accessible to power line. The farm is offered by Aaron Roberts, administrator, to -settle the estate of his mother. Five lots in the C. S. Young resi dential development were sold last Friday morning. Mr. Young has a beautiful home site development in the western edge of Shelby where four large lots have water and sew er line available. The attendance on this sale was targe but bidding was indifferent. Sketch of $150,000 Gymnasium Planned For Wake WAKE FOREST, Nov. 25.—Shown abo\e is an architect’s drawing of Wake Forest! College’s new physical education building and auditorium, construction of which is now well1 underway. The structure, which will cost approximately $150,000, will be ready for occu- j pancy in late spring and will be dedicated at the 1935 commencement exercises. Located; across the street which forms the west boundary of the campus and facing south on the ! avenue which leads to Gore Athletic Feld, the building will be in easy access for many col-1 lege activities. The building will be of Georgian design and built of oversize common brick with cast stone trim. Women May End Future War Says DeanC.W. Jackson ! Says Fight For Women’s Education Not Complete In Address Here Saturday. — Speaking before a large group of alumnae of Woman's college of the j University of North Carolina in the Hotel Charles here Saturday after noon, Dr. C. W. Jackson dean ol that part of the university declared that the fight for woman’s educa | tion and suffrage is not completely ! won yet, and said that as an aid against war, the world’s worst enemy, women are more valuable than men. Dr. Jackson’s address in 8helby was sponsored by the W. C. U. N. C. alumnae association, headed by Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, who presided over the meeting. Miss Alpha Gettys is secretary, and Mrs. Rosalyn Gil liatt led the group in the college song. Captain B. L. Smith Introduced i the speaker as a leading figure in North Carolina education and as the man best fitted to head the wom an’s division of the greater univer sity. Dr. Jackson’s address was i preceded by greetings from Miss Clara Byrd, dean of women and followed by a reception during a social hour. “College is one of the tools and agencies which we use to help our civilization along,” said the dean, who Is still connected with the de partment of history and is chair man of the faculty of social sciences. He commented briefly on the prog ress of the university since a citi zen of Shelby, O. Max Gardner, combined Woman’s college with State and the Chapel Hill division, j He feels that nothing but good can come from the merger, but add ed that his division will stick to the training of undergraduates ex cept for a few exceptions in elemen tary education, home economics and music. It will not be co-education al. Dr. Jackson told the alumnae group that their college now has en rolled 1304 students, an increase over last year, and that plans have just been released for a new alum nae building which will cost $110, 000, which Is part of a proposed fed eral public works project. He closed by saying that all peo ple should not go to college, and that he wanted only the very best in his school. Legion Will Hear Carolina Commander Hubert E. Olive, commander of the North Carolina American le gion, will address members of the Shelby post at a meeting to beheld here on the evening of December 14, Commander Everett Houser onnounced this morning. Gary Requests Bodyguard As He Writes Biographies Of Teachers i Editors of The Star were as tounded this morning to realize that they had agreed to let W. R. Gary, principal of Fallston high school, write the biographies of the Cleve land County Schoolmasters. But they did agree, and Mr. Gary is now engaged in sharpening keen pencils for his task. Frankly, The Star does not know just what to expect, save that what ever Mr. Gary writes will be inter esting. His fellow schoolmen have approved of the series, which will begin as soon as Mr. Gary turns in his first article. As a prefactcry gesture, he makes I the following announcement; j “I have tried for years to think of some proposition that would be accepted unanimously by my fellow principals. I have introduced many resolutions in meetings of our Cleveland County Schoolmasters’ club, but they have met defeat in many cases. and were not even heard in other cases. "Ingenuity is the step-mother of invention, and T have my brethren on the spot at last. I proposed to write biographical schetches of them for the Cleveland Star. I said that the men who molded the characters of the next generation should be known throughout the county, etc. (Continued on page eighth J. C. B. Declines To Name Successor To E.B. Jeffress Governor Looks On Stricken Highway Head As Casualty Of Service; Won’t Let Him Resign While Hope Lasts By M. R. DUNNAGAN RALEIGH, Nov. 26.—Rumors that there is dissatisfaction over the State because something is not done to provide an active head of the State Highwya and Public Works Com mission, probably implying the resignation of Chairman E. B. Jeffress, who has beei\ stricken at his home in Greensboro for three or four months, are beleved to-be as so much water on the duck’s back to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, in whom GinningForCounty 35,383 To Nov. 14 Ginnings In Cleveland county to November 14th were 35,393 bales as compared with 42,596 bales up to the same date a year ago. according to figures released this morning by Thamer C. Beam, special agent for the census bureau. This places Cleveland county near the county's allotment, above which there Is a tax of four cents per pound. It Is estimated now that the county’s total cotton crop will be betw n 37,000 and 38,000 bales. 1 Pastor Will Tell How Churches Can Avoid Debt “How to get the Church Out of Debt and How To Keep It Out” will be explained here Tuesday night by a pastor whose success was so not able In church finances that he has been sent out by the Presbyterian general assembly to give the bene fit of his experience to other pas tors of all denominations. He is the Rev. G. L. Whitley, pas tor of the Belmont Presbyterian church in Roanoke, Va. He will speak here Tuesday night at 7:30 at the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Whitley’s addrlss has no de nominational aspects. He presents a plan that was highly successful in his own church and which has been adopted in many others. Church leaders of all denominations are cordilly invited to hear him. Post Office Bids Go To Washington Bids for enlargement or the Shelby post office and for erectim of a new federal building in the rear will go to Washington today. Postmaster J. H. Quinn said this morning, and will not pass through his hands. He was unable, hr said, to say how many bids would be made, but hazarded that there would be a number from distant points as well as from one Shelby contractor, C. A. Morrison and son. The post office department, has reserved two weeks after submis sion' of bids to award the contract, Mr. Quinn said. Joe O’Leary Is Host At Legion Barbecue Barbecued pig and sheep and succulent Brunswick stew wcn< en joyed by members of the Shelby American Legion Post at Boiling Springs Saturday noon when they were the guests of Joe O’Leary. Ed Hamrick, membership officer of the post, announced that anoth er barbecue, with roasted oysters, would be held at the Cleveland county fairground on the afternoon ef Dec. 14. which will be attended by the state commander. the decision rests. Belief Is that the attitude of Gov ernor Ehringhaus Is that as long as there is hope of the recovery of Mr. Jeffress or as long as the depart ment can continue to function with out an active head, within reason able limits, the resignation of Mr. Jeffress, even If tendered by some one supposed to speak for him, would not be acceptable or accept ed by the governor. The chief executive apparently looks upon Chairman Jeffress as a casulty of his state service, seem ingly believing that the work he has done as chairman of the depart ment is largely responsible for the stroke coming from the abscessed tumor on his brain. It Is a matter of common knowledge that Mr. Jef fress was an Indefatigable worker, spending many hours, night and day, at his desk, in his room, on the highways, or elsewhere, doing the work that was required of him only in business hours. It might be assumed, without much overstatement, that Mr. Jef fress has put In six months to a year of extra time on his Job since he became chairman of the com mission some three and a half years I ago. Two Cent Check Tax Off Jan. 1st Collector Robertson Announces That Ii Will Not Be Collected After That Date. The federal tax of two cents on checks, levied by a section of the revenue act of 1932, will not be lev ied bn and after January 1, it was announced Saturday by C. H. Rob ertson, collector of Internal revenue. This means that no tax will be col lected on checks presented for pay ment on or after that date. Collector Robertson explained that while the tax on checks is be ing terminated the tax of 10 per cent on safe deposit box rent, lev ied by the 1934 revenue act. remains in force until repealed by Congress. Therefore it will be necessary for banks and trust companies to con tinue collection of the safe deposit box tax and make returns as here tofore required Business To Close Here On Thursday For Thanksgiving Stores, banks, building and loan associations will cease business on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, and eat turkey if they have any, see a football game In Shelby. Davidson or Durham, or go hunting. Business will suspend as usual at the post office where the city and rural car ries will not deliver, windows will close, but incoming mail will be worked for the boxes and outgoing mail will be dispatched. General Delivery Open Thanksgiving The Shelby po6t office. always; closed on holidays, will open the <?errr?l '-’ivory window between 11 and 1' ;ck on Thursday, Thanks giving day. i Shoffner Explains How Cotton Parity Payment Is Made Hundreds of Farmers Call Too Soon Tenant To Receive Share According To Share In Crop; No ('hecks Received Here Yet. Hundreds of requests for Informa tion about the parity payment to be* made to cotton growers have been received during the past few weeks by County Agent R W. Shoffner. To explain the situation, he has made the following statement for! The Star: “I would like to make a statement1 to clear in the minds of the cotton farmers the status of the parity pay ment which will come Into the coun ty before so long to be distributed among the cotton producers. There are dozens of Inquiries every day . from especially the tenants, asking j what part they will get of this par-: Ity payment and whether they will be sure to get It. We have not re ceived any of the parity checks so. far. The parity checks will be madei payable to the person to whom the contract Is made, and this person is responsible for the parity and will divide this check with the tenants according to the share they receive In the crop. “This Is a trust fund set up by the United States Oovernment and must be divided according to the instruc tions that the producers will get at the time they receive their checks. There need not be any fear on the part of those who are en titled to get part of the parity be- ■ cause they will receive their por-: tlon of this payment. I will notify those persons Just as soon as these checks arrive. Need not call at the office until you receive a notice. "There are some few second rent al payment cheeks out that have not come Into the office yet. Just as soon as these are received you will receive a notice to come for these." i Royster Oil Truck Wrecked On Road Marion Camp And 8. E. Hamrick Of Shelby Escape Injury. Side ■wiped By A Car. LUMBERTON, Nov. M.—William Stanley and Pendleton Qr/y of Lumberton were Injured at 11:30 Saturday night when the automo bile In which they were riding, drlv en by Stanley, sldcswped a heavy truck five miles east of here that was hauling gasoline for H. R. Roy ster of Shelby, distributor for ths Oulf Refining company. The truck, which was carrying 4,020 gallons of gasoline, weighing with the load 40,000 pounds, went off the road and offered to high way forces a serious problem today. Five trucks were pulling on the wrecked truck at one time in an effort to get It out of a little ditch Into which It had plunged. Occupants of the car had a mr aculous escape, sustaining only cuts about their faces and bruises, with which they were taken to Thomp son Memorial hospital. Stanley was able to return home today. Marlon Camp, driver of the truck and companion, S. E. Hancock, both of Shelby, were not hurt. Red Cross Canvass Garners Only $450 Shelby’s Red Cross roll call, with a quota of $1,200, failed to reach that goal by more than $700. Troy MaKlnney, who has been acting as treasurer for the chapter during the canvass, said this morning that hardly $450 had been turned in. Because of this poor showing. Red Cross leaders were considering to day an extension of the canvass, be lieving that there are still a num ber of large contributions that might be obtained. Two Instantly Killed AsL ight Blinds Driver; One Is Father Of Nine Matt Marlow And Vernon S. Webber Die In Accident On Highway 20; Rutherford Driver It Held Blameless Two men killed on Highway 20 three miles west of helhy at 7:20 Saturday evening were identified by police as Matt Marlow, formerly a coal jmner in Lee County, Virginia, who had been living on the farm of Frank Hicks, near Latti more, and Vernon S. Webber, who lived on the Joe Wesson farm not far from where the accident occurred. Defends Cities Mayor T. Sammoi WolmtUy Pleading that cities are being bankrupted supporting states, and that farmers are being given preference by Uncle. Sam, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans, bitter foe of Senator Huey Long, is shown as he key noted the views of American city mayors in their convention at Chicago. Wntirtrtey Is president .■ ' ** nst..v.,.Hon. Father Of Four Fulfills Threat To End His Life J. P. Wood, Tenant Farmer, Kilts Self With Shot Through Heart; Note To Sheriff. James Pinckney Wood, 46-year oid tenant farmer, ahot himself through the heart last night with a single-barrel shotgun, leaving a note addressed to the sheriff re vealing that he committed suicide because of domestic difficulties. Members of the family said th<1 Mr. Wood had threatened to kl)' himself for the past several days. Mr. Wood, who was well known in Shelby as "Pink” Wood, killed himself at a tenant houses on th« property of Earl Hamrick about i . o’clock lost night. His father, Mos^S Wood, lives nearby. His suicide note, which he direct* ed no one to read except officers at the law, revealed little Information Sheriff Cline said, and was writtsf in a scrawl hard to decipher. Mr. Wood was the father of four children. Besides his, a half sister. Mrs. Lulu McAbee, and a half-bro ther. John Wood, both of Shelby, survive. Funeral services will be held to morrow at Ross Grove. The Rev, E. C Cooper, pastor of the Lutheran church, will officiate It’s For Charity And For Youth, So See That Game, SaysMcBrayer (By PAT McBRAYER.) On Thanksgiving morning at 10 o'clock Bolling Springs Junior college will play a game of football against the Appalachian Training college, the proceeds from the game will go to buy Christmas goodies for the poor children of this com munity, the fund will be adminis tered by the local Rotary club. See this game—it will be pleas urable and profitable to a far reach Ing exter/t It will be charitable to the little poor, it will be charitable to yourself and the boys alike to expend a Utile i'i"' ' ‘ money a" this gaiv. . The -till *n I their teens; study and play at e 1 their businesses; they are not yet in the professions and trades_ and they need your patronage and sup port in this, their fine line of en deavor. Only here can they meet you and display their wares and of ferings. What of the crime wave? Have you ever stopped to think that you not the boys, are large’y responsi ble for the crime wave? You never take an interest in their efforts at progress and pasttime; you simplv I abandon them, ignore them and i leave them to their own devic»s rood or bad. You are a stranger to them and they sore!' H vour tCunuuued on Page Light) They were struck, by a Chevrolet pick-up truck driven by Frank Da vis, employee of n Rutherfordton i furniture company. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis and was released on his own recognisance after a police Investigation tended to show' that the accident was un avoidable. He said that he was not speed ing. but that the glare from an ap proaching ear blinded him so that he did not know he had struck the i men until after the accident. He stopped Immediately. Both men were on the right eld® of the highway, Mr. Davis was pro ceeding west. Instantly Killed. The two men, walking together apparently, were struck and instan* ly killed near the middle of the hill past the second bridge from Shelby. Mir. Davis ran to a farm house for help, and returned to Shelby wtth the ambulance. Neither victim was easy to identi fy. A coal miner’s union card, found on the person of Marlow, partially identified him, as did a letter from a former landlord In St, Charles, Vs. but at a late hour Saturday night, no one In Cleveland could be found who knew the men. On Webber’s person was found a list of names recognised as Cleveland count | farmers, and it was later discovered that these were men he Intended t see with a view of renting a fa from one of them. Here Only 4 Months. Marlow, who was 31 years old an the father of tpo .small children was born and reared in Georgia and had lived In Virginia for sewn i years He had been in Cleveland only four months. Besides his wir. and children, three brothers, 9l~ father and mother survive. His bodv was sent to St. Charles last night and his wife also returned there, Vernon Webber was 87 years old and the father of nine children some of whom are In Cleveland county. He also has two brothers In South Carolina. Funeral services were held for him at the Poplar Grove church a' 3 o’clock this afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Rush Padgett. Burial will be at the Mount View Oerae tery in Blacksburg, 8. O. He Is said to have one married daughter In Gaffney. Plan To Dedicate Poplar Springs Church Thursday A dedicatory Thanksgiving serv ice will be held at the Poplar Springs Baptist church Thursday of this week at 10:00 with Dr. Zeno Wall, of the First Baptist church here as the chief speaker of the oc casion. , At this special service the church will celebrate its relief from debt by burning the note held against members of the body for the big new brick Sunday school plant and church house. The Rev. Rush Pad will read a history of the church at will read a istory of the church at that time. Poplar Springs was or ganized in 1898 and the new build ing was begun In 1929. A Thanksgiving offering will |v taken and the Rev. D. F. Putnam will offer the dedicatory prayer. He is a former pastor of the church. I Medical Society Will Meet Tonight The Cleveland County Medt-al Society will hold a meeting Monday Nov. 26 at 7:30 p. m., at the Shelby hospital. An election of officers for 1935 will be held. This announce ment Is made by Dr. B. H. Kendall, : president. Two Year Old Boy Dies In Hospital Herman Ben Ellis, two-year-old son ol Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Bills of Shelby, route 3. died In the Shel ly ho-; - t Sunday night. He was - <• i-jeart a!*nent. Fu nei >! *1: be Tuesday j at 2 o clock at Beaver Dam.