North Carolina Newspapers

Stores are Loaded with Christmas Goods; Do Your Christmas Shopping Early; Only Ten More Days Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot- 12*4 to 13*4c Cotton seed, ton, wagon_43.0(1 Fair and Warmer North Carolina Fair Wednesday and Thursday, rising temperature. War On Crime A unified attack of federal and local agencies on the nation's crime problem was urged Sunday nig hi by President Roosevelt to an aud ience composed of the nation's leading criminal fighters. Yesterday the attorney general held a crime conference And started immediatelj to achieve the object set by the President. Suggestions ranging front an enlarged federal enforcement agency to state compacts for appre hending law breakers were received by the 500 men and women sum moned to Washington by Mr. Cum mings to fashion weapons againsl the underworld. Fire And Cold Fire and cold snuffed out the liv es of several score persons Tuesdaj A- as the cold hands of Winter smote most of the nation. At Lansing Mich., 12 were counted dead and 81 were missing after flames raced through the Kerns Hotel. Some ol the victims were members of the slate legislature. Others met death as they leaped into the icy water! of the Grand River to escape the fire Thirteen families were driver from a Minneapolis building by a $35 000 blaze in sub-zero weather The frigid weather extended from Ma’ne to Forida. Mid-Air Crash A crash in mid-air during flight maneuvers at Maxwell field. Mont gomery, yesterday, resulted in the deaths of two flyers, Capt. Audrej O Dnllnrrl rsf nlrl O hfTYlO Q TV fl T .1 Ol it Ricardo L. Castenada Leon of Mex ico City. Coolidge Parley A White House conference on the advisability of helping Italy builri a poison gas plan, arranged for the du Pont company by ranking army cffii ers, was disclosed yesterday by the senate munitions investigating committee as one result of the close company relationship with the war department. The meeting, said to have occurred toward the end of ' the Coolidge administration, was * attended by Irenee duPont and A I el lx du Pont. Mrs. Callie Earle Buried Tuesday Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 2:30 for Mrs. Cal lie Earle, 59, at New Hope church. Mrs. Earle before marriage was Miss Callie Randall, being married to Mr. Josh Earle 31 years ago, who preceded her to the grade 11 years. Surviving are four step-sons, Horace Earle of Franklin, Va.; Bub ber Earle of Gaffney, S. C.; Dan and Curtis Earle of Earl; two sis ters. Miss Doan Randall of Grover, Mrs. Sarah Cabaniss of Kings Mountain; two brothers, Dock Ran dall of Grover and Prior Randall of Earl. She professed faith in Christ and joined the church in early child hood and was a kind and loving wife, and a very much devoted step-mother, and was loved and re spected by all who knew her. Pallbearers were Fred and Carl McSwain, M. A. Francis, Sloan Wil liams, Olin Warren and Evans Earle. Judge Don Phill’D# To Hold Court Here Judge Don Phillips of the 13th udicial district, who defeated Judg" Stack in November, will be on the bench at the term of criminal court beginning here January 8. Because of the illness of Judge Herding of Charlotte, both criminal and civil terms were skipped in October. With only one week o1 criminal court allowed here in Jan uary, an unusually heavy docket will be faced. L. Spurgeon Spurling ol Lenoii is the solicitor. r Polls To Be Open From 9 Until 5 Voting on the Bankhead cot ton control measure, which will decide whether or not a tax on over-production shall be en forced during 1935, will begin at 9 in the morning and end at 5 p. m., Friday, Dec. 14. Polling places in each of the 11 townships in the county have been established, and every cot ton grower will be eligible to vote. Election returns will be receiv ed at The Star office Friday night and will be posted on the big bulletin board. Election offi cials will please call telephone numbers 11 and 4-J and give in returns. GEMEINER THE > 16 PAGES Today VOL. XU No. 149 SHELBY, N". CL WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 193 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Moll Mf mi tin odvoncoi _ it >• I'otr'oi wr root <!■> odToncoi _ uv I Her $27 Outfit 0 LucilU Morris The stylist of 4-H dub members of the United States is Miss Lucille Morris, who is shown wearing the dress outfit which won her the title of style cham pion at the 4-H club congress h* Chicago. The whole outfit cost only $27.92. 1 Sheffield To Act On Complaint Here By Non-Signers N'. C. Chief Will Investigate Com plaints Of 90 That Their Al lotments Were Unfair. i _ | Charles A. Sheffield, chief of the | cotton section of the AAA in North ! Carolina, will maice an Immediate ] investigation of alleged unfair al ■ lotments to 190 non-signers of cot j ton reduction agreements in Cleve land county. P. Cleveland Gardner, Shelby at torney, who has been retained by a group of protesting cotton growers, ' returned from Washington Monday 1 after a conference with both Shef- ' field and Cully A. Cobb, chief of the U. S. cotton section. He has receiv ed a letter from Cobb stating that Mr. Sheffield had promised to 1 make the investigation here. Claim Heavy Cuts Mr. Gardner bore to Washington 1 a complaint signed by 90 cotton 1 ; growers who claimed their produc- : tion had been cut from 80 to 60 per cent, in individual instances, where- 1 as it was the intention of the Bank head measure to cut 40 per cent. One paragraph of the petition 1 stated: 1 “We are informed, and therefore 1 allege, that approximately 2,900 : farmers voluntarily signed con tracts for reduction of cotton pro duction for the year of 1934 in Cleveland county, and that . . . these contracts show that these 2, 900 farmers alone had a five-year ; average production of more than 90,000 bales of cotton. Whereas, ac tual records of the government show (Continued on page fifteen.) Expect Several Hundred Here For District Legion Meeting Several hundred legion member! and members of the legion auxiliary of the 16th district are expected t< be in Shelby Friday afternoon anc night for the first district meet ing ever held in Shelby. State Commander Hubert OUv< of Lexington will deliver an address at the couH house at 7:30 o’clock Frior to the address a barbecue U which the public is invited will b< held at the Cleveland county fair grounds beginning at 5:30 o’clock Nominal charge to take care of ex penses will be made at the barbe cue. In addition to State Commandei Olive, Adjutant J. M. Caldwell anc other legion officials, including District Commander Ralph J. Shell of Hickory and Wiley Pick ens of Lincolnton, Immediate past ; district commander, will be here. A brief business session will pre cede Commander Olive’s address, to which the public is likewise invit ed. > The legion auxiliary meeting will be held at the Frst Baptist church. Supper will be served the visitors by the focal unit and after the busi ness meeting and the supper mem bers of the auxiliary will Join the legion at the court house to hear Commander Olive who will be in troduced by C. B. McBrayer. 3 FERA Offices Merge Tomorrow; Woodson Retires New District Is Under Miss Ruth Catlin Headquarters Now At Forest City; Office Here Is Open Under Mrs. Ben Goforth. With the retirement from the FERA Thursday of Administrator Harry Woodson, the Cleveland coun ty relief office becomes one of three units in District 5 under Miss Ruth Ratlin, administrator for Rutherford, Cleveland and McDowell counties. This consolidation is part of thf plan being executed by Mrs. Thomas D’Berry, state relief administrator, x> merge 104 offices into 33, making i saving of at least a hundred thousand dolars, she estimates. Mrs. Goforth In Charge. This does not mean that the Ceveland relief office will close. It neans that Cleveland will no long ;r operate as a separate unit, with ,ts own administrator. The office >ffice will remain open under the ;harge of Mrs. Ben Goforth, heai :ase worker, who will be assisted by Mrs. T. W. Hamrick, Miss Margaret Vnthony and Miss Alice Goode King. Ml projects, six in number now', will se continued. Mr. Hord will remain with the FERA until the first of the year in :harge of cattle in the slaughter prolect. Paul Stacy, fromer-p with this office, has been assigned to the listrict office as statistician. Office In Forest City. Offices for the new administra tive unit have been established in .he handsome $75,000 residence <nown as ‘the Thomas place” in Forest City. There, Miss Catlin, who was formerly with the Gastonia of fice, will direct a staff of aboutT*2b workers. ftaminiMiduvr owm. A. F. Weaver, of Weaverville, has been named supervisor of prelects. Helen Rinehart, of Lincoln county, will be case work supervisor, Mrs. Dobbins, of Rutherford, will be dis bursing officer, and Mr. Ward will direct rural rehabilitation. The Cleveland staff will have the use of the building on Erst Warren street until the 29th of this month, when new quarters will have to be provided. These have not yet been selected. Crop Credit Body Collections Show Loans All Paid COLUMBIA, 8. C., Dec. 11—The Sierryville Production Credit asso :iation is the third production credit tssociation in North Carolina to re jort a 100 per cent collection of all oans made by it this year, accord ng to Ernest Graham, president of he Production corporation of Col lmbla. Likewise, it was the tenth issociation in the entire nation to jay out in full, five associations in South Carolina, two associations in Georgia and two other associations n North Carolina having attained he 100 per cent goal a few days ihead of it. The Cherryville association made oans to 492 farmers, totaling $104, 114. The association comprises the counties of Lincoln, Gaston and Cleveland. R. E. Eaker is president, md M. A. Stroupe is secretary measurer. BOWEN INFANT DIES; FUNERAL ON SATURDAY The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Clifton Bowen died this morning in the Shelby hospital at the age of five days. Funeral will oe held Thursday at Beaver Dam Baptist church. County Cotton Production 39,792 Bales Report Shows Federal Ginning Report Up To December Compares With 46,249 Last Year; Value Of Crop Is Three And Half Million Cleveland County Agent Robert W. Shoffner’s estimate three months ago of 40,000 bales of cotton ginned here for 1934 was substantiated this morning by the report from the Bureau of Census, which shows 39,792 bales ginned in the county up to Dec. 1. This is compared with 46,249 bales for thp mimo nnrinrl in I -... With a Bankhead Bill allotment of approximately 35,000 bales, thl< report Indicates that Cleveland wll pay the federal tax on some 5,00< bales. Still, despite the drop In ginning and the payment of this tax, tin value of the crop Is greater thl; year Mr. Shoffner's figures show the lint this year worth $2385,099 me seed worth *700,000 and a *455, 004 payment from the government, to the fanners for land taken out of production. The total la *3,540,703 l ast year, the lint was worth *2. 154.433, the seed *253,269, and the federal payment was *331,304, a to tal value on the Cleveland crop of 52,739.000, In 1932, the total value waa *1 497,760. Urges All To Vote For Or Against Cotton Control Bill One More Voting Preeinct Added In No. 2 Township; Judges Will Advise. Friday, Dec. 14th, Is election day for cotton growing farmers when j the Bankhead cotton control bill will be Judged. R. W. Shoffner, county agent issues the following notice to those who are eligible to vote: "I would like to ask that the fanners in the county go out and express their views on this matter,! whether it is for it or against it. If there are any questions in your mind that you are not absolutely sure about, please see the Judges at the voting places or any of us here at the office, because we would like for everybody to be absolutely fam iliar with what they are voting on before they vote. “'Hie voting will be held one day only, from 9 o’clock in the morning until S o’clock In the afternoon. The places of voting have already been announced in The Star; and we have added one more place in No. 2 township which 1s at Sharon. "Those who are eligible to vote are any farmers who own. rent, or grow cotton. Those who rented 100 per cent of cotton land to the gov ernment this year are eligible to vote. Those who have rented their farm for standing rent are entitled to vote. There is no age limit or color distinction made. Those who can present satisfactory proof that they will grow cotton during the year 1935-36 are eligible to vote. "This vote is Just for one year only.” Dr. J. Will Gidney. Passes In Texas; Native of Shelby Kush Hamrick Is Named P resident Of P.T.A. Group rru« kinVi H<vicifkn nf thp News has been received here Dy relatives, of the death of Dr. J. Will Gidney, native of Shelby, who passed at his home in West, Texas on December 11th. Dr. Gidney was a brother of the late Dr. R. M. Gidney, Lauriston Gidney, Lamar Gidney and Misses Daisy and Leona Gidney of Shelby, Dr. Charles Gid ney of Texas. He was born here in 1871, the son of the late Capt. J. W. Gidney and Mary McFarland Gidney. Here he spent his youth until he finished his education and located in Texas. He was twice married, the first time to Miss Maude Mitchell. Two chil dren by this union survive: Dr. Hayes Gidney and Mrs. K. V. Ader hold. His second wife Mrs. Evelyn Br#*t Gidney and son, James, also one brother Attorney S. E. Gidney of Muskogee, Okla. survive. Deceas ed was a successful physician and j prominent citizen of Texas. Face Roof Fire In Chilling Wind Facing a sub-freezing wind* mem bers the fire department last night tinswered a call at 8 p. m. on Jennings street to put out a roof fire on the house of Dock Jones, negro resident. About $50 damage was done be fore It was extingV’hed. Proof of the cold weather was that when firemen started to refill the reseryp tanks from the meet hydrant it; was frozen in th ■ hose and they had to fill from an in side spigot. P. T. A. met Monday evening in the high school auditorium, and despite the unusually cold weather, the meeting was well attended. A report from the pupil-aid com mittee was made by the chairman, W. E. Abemethy. B. T. Palls re ported the plans of the library com mittee for obtaining an encyclope dia for the library. After a discus sion of these reports a program was given, composed of talks on the following topics by members of the association: "Reduction of School Costs in Shelby,” Thad Ford; "Why These Reductions Wede Made,” John P. Mull; “What Are the Effects of These Reductions?” Mrs. J. C. Whitaker; "What Are Our Present Needs?” the Rev. J. N. Wise; "What Others Are Paying For Schools.” Miss Gertrude Taylor and "Is North Carolina Able to Provide These Needs?” Mrs. Billy Davis. The following officers were elect ed for the remainder of the year: Pres/srt, Rush Hamrick; vice president. Mrs. Judson Jones; see retary, Miss Joe Shaw and treasur er, O. V. Hamrick. Theatre Will Give Benefit For Christmas Jim Reynolds, manager of the Carolina theatre, will give a benefit show for the Salvation army Christ mas tree fund at 10:15 Friday a. m . He will hold a special showing of “She Loves Me Not.” "Bing Cros by’s greatest triumph since the twins,” and all proceeds will go for purchase of toys, candie~> and other nrifts for the 500 children who will ' i he Christmas tree party on the 21st. To Make Survey Of Rehabilitation Homestead Tracts Federal Land Bank Appraiser To I ns pert Proposed Hite At King* Mountain. As soon as the appraiser for the Federal Land Bank completes some pressing tasks In another district of the state, he will be assigned to Cleveland county to investigate the possibility of purchasing land near Kings Mountain for rehabilitation homesteads. » Ths is the project fostered by the boards of commissioners of Cleve land and Gaston counties. It has the active support of Representa tive A. L. Bulwinkle and tha ap proval of Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state relief administrator. Money la Available If the appraiser approves the proposed tract of land, which com prises some 5,000 acres, it is believ ed that the project can be started Immediately without waiting from congress to enact legislation allo cating additional funds. This will be possible, it is said, because an al lotment is available from the $500, 000 already set aside for relief work in North Carolina. George Ross is head of the rural rehabilitation department under the FERA at Raleigh. Grady Gaston, executive secretary of the Gaston county chamber of commerce has co-operated actively with the commissioners in setting the proposal before the authorities. Shelby Firm Gets Post Office Job; | Starts Work Jan. 1 Award Morr»on*Fallg $34,441 Contract Bid Is Lowest Of Three; Will En large Lobby, Build New Federal Offices. The Morrison-Falls company of Shelby, successor to C. A. Morri son & Son, has been awarded the United States post office contract for remodeling the Shelby building and for construction of a new fed eral building on East Warren street, In the rear of the present structure. The Morrison-Palls company was the lowest of three bidders with an offering of $34,441. The next low est bid was that of the Alger no* Blair company of Montgomery with $46,727, Claude Falls of Fallston la the new member of the firm. New Federal Building The federal contract, which Is awarded on condition that the com pany supply satisfactory bond, calls for enlargement of the lobby, con struction of an additional mailing room, a marquee In the rear for mall trucks, and erection of an en tirely separate building on the site of the Hoey building. This building will be two stories, with three offices on the ground floor for federal officials, an office and small court room on the second floor for the federal judge in this district. Land Purchased Some $80,000 had been approp riated by congress for this work, at the behest of Republican Congress man Charles Jonas, now state leg islative representative from Llncoln ton. Part of this sum was used for the purchase of more land to make the improvements and erect the new building. Construction will start about the first of the year. 80 Attend Duke Alumni Banquet; Hear Dr. Rowe Joe Whlsnant la Elected President Of Alumni For Three Counties. Eighty Duke alumni and parents attended the annual banquet given Monday evening at Central Meth odist church where a sumptuous meal was served and Dr. Qllbert T. Rowe of the School of Religion was the guest speaker. Joe Whlsnant, attorney of Shel by and an alumnus of the institu tion, was unanimously elected presi dent of the alumni association for Cleveland, Rutherford and Polk counties, Mrs. Paul Mauney, secre tary, the Rev. W. R. Kelly of Spin dale, vice president, Miss Mabel Connelly of Kings Mountain, mem ber of the alumni committee and Everett Houser, corresponding sec retary. Dr. Rowe reviewed the "inden ture” signed by J. B. Duke creat ing the Duke foundation and its allied Interests. The indenture was (Continued on page fifteen.) City Schools Close Friday, December 14 The Shelby public schols will close on Friday, Dec. 14, earlier than usual in order to permit stu dents the opportunity of working in the stores during the holidays. School will open again on Dec. 31. The county schools will close Dec. 21. Piedmont Scout Council Reports Record Membership andFinunces — i Membership today stands at an alt time record In the Piedmont Council, Boy Scouts of America, it was announced last night at a meet ing of executives from II counties, who held their final session for the year with a dinner at the Hotel | Charles. , The membership is 2,200, and may I before the year closes top 2,i>00 Judge Bismarck Capps, president, declared. B. L. Smith, superintendent of . Shelby public schools and commis sioner for the district, reproted ex '•el'ent iv^ress and said that plan0 ne po -ng made tor the winter campaign According to the treas urers rejjort, finances are the best in ttiree years. Scout Executive R. M. Scliielc called attention to the Camporee to be held at Chapel Hill, under the auspices of the university, in the spring, which will be attended by more than 2,000 Scouts, and the big Silver Jamboree later in the year at Washington, where 30,000 Scouts will gather at the invitation of President Roosevelt A committee on arrangements was namea as follows: J. W Atkliu, Gastonia: Robert Jacluon. Lowell B S. Neill, Kings Mountain; O t lo'ooins. Lenoir; Karl E. Sherrill ot Lowell. Shelby High School To Be Dropped From College Credit List Will Lose Standing With Southern Associa tion Unless Term Is Longer, Library Larger, And More Salaries Paid The Shelby Iliph School is among the sixty-two North Carolina high schools to be dropped from membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools un less the requirements are met before the opening of another ..... • - Hr hi ml vnnr Heads Churches ! i Rttirtnd Ivan Lit Holt Kevrrend Ivan Lee Holt, of St, Louie, above, in the new president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the largest Protestant church or ganization in the nation. He was elected at a convention of the church group in Dayton, CX Laurels Of Hero Accorded Downs In Funeral Rites Hold Service* Thl* Morning For Boy Who Gave Life In As alstlng Deputy. Funeral services for Janies Rob ert Downs of No. 10 township, who heroically gave his life assisting Deputy Andrew Meade In the arrest of a negro Sunday night, were held this morning at 11 o'clock In the Casar Methodist church, and bur ial was shortly afterwards at the Baptist church, to which young Downs belonged. The Methodist church was used for the services because the Baptist building Is now undergoing repairs. Hundreds of friends and ma'ny relatives, some from distant points, attended the last rites for this 24 year-old boy who was killed as he helped the police on the very day President Roosevelt called upon the people of the United States to Join in a national war against crime. Jim Downs, who was not a dep uty, was shot by a negro, Jack Parks, from Georgia, on Saturday night, as the negro resisted ar ■ rest. W.riesses say that the negro I ran through a field, climed a barb 1 ed wire fence, whirled and shot Jim I in the chest. With a bullet hole | near his heart, Jim Downs climbed i the fence and grappled with the , negro until help arrived. | He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. | Barney Downs, well-known In No. I 10. When Interviewed Una morning Captain B. L. Smith, superintend ent of city schools, said he waa not surprised. He said that he had an ticipated such action and had warn ed the citizens of Its probability when they were voting on a sup plementary tax In the summer of 1933. Smith Deplore* Los* He added that he Is heartily aorry and considers It highly deplorable. He hopes that the community will take stems to obviate the loss ot menVbcrshtp. The requirements have to do with term, library facilities, class sizes and other matters that enter vital ly Into the efficiency of the work. Member In 19*0 The school became a member of the Southern Association In 1920. Under this accredited rntlng the school has come to be recognized aa one of the leading high schools of the south. Students have been ad mitted without examination by all Southern Association member col leges and by colleges In the north and west because of this accrediteo rating. The school holds membership in the National Honor society through its membership in the regional ac crediting agency. That too, will b* lost unless the standards of the ac crediting ngrncy are met. Hardship On Graduates Unles.'; strjw are taken to regain the local high school's membTHAtp, future graduates will probably have to take examinations for admittance to colleges and universities of the association. Admittance to state col leges will depend upon what action the legislature may take. Captain Smith said. Approximately (10,000 a year would be required to extend the term of Shelby high one month and to provide the required library fac ilities. The minimum salary require ment of the association Is 9000, and the maximum here Is 9730. More over. classes are too large and would have to be cut, Capt. Smith said. Mrs. J. B. Elliott Is Buried Today At Rutherfordton Taught School In Cleveland In Her Early Yean; Sister Of Mrs. Mary Jones. Funeral services were held thl* afternoon at 2 o'clock at Ruther fordton for Mrs. Jane Magness Ell iott, wife of J. B. Elliott, well known Rutherford citizen who died at her home Tuesday afternoon. 8he was 88 years of age and had been 111 since Friday, developing pneu monia Sunday. Mrs. felltott tvs Jane Magness taught school In Cleveland couqty as a young woman and one of her pupils was Bunker Chas. C. Blan ton. She Is survived by her hus band, one sister, Mrs. Mary Jones J of Shelby who is In Florida with her daughter, Mrs. Will Crowder for the winter and is unable to at tend the funeral. She had three brothers who serv ed through the Civil war, two of whom, J. J. Magness of the Grassy Pond section of Cherokee county, and David Magness of Illinois were captains, and one, Ben Magness, of Texas, was a lieutenant,. She was a granddaughter ot Benjamin Mag ness, captain in the Revolutionary war and was descended from one of the most prominent tainilics In this section. School Bus Law Is Cited By Horn C. C. Horn, solicitor of the Cleve land county recorder’s court, this morning issued a warning to motor ists about passing school buses. It Is against the law to pass the bus v hi> it Is loading or unloading, he s.'id, n oi fenders from now on will be prosecuted.