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Late News THE MARKETS Cotton, spot- 1254 to 1354c Cotton aeed, too, wagon_$44.00 Cloudy, Warmer WratKer forecast for North Caro lina: Partly cliody Monday, warm er Monday night; Tuesday probably occasional rain and warmer. Curtis Quits The grizzled veteran of politics, Charles Curtis, who served as vice president of the nation during the Hoover regime, yesterday said he was “definitely out of politics.” ‘I am practicing law and enjoying life,” “I don't have the worries of politics and make more money." Profits Increase A huge rise in profits of more than 70 percent during the first nine months of 1934 over the same 1 period of the preceding year was yesterday reported by the monthly bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board. This increase occurred, the report said, In spite of a small de crease in the earnings of a number of large corporations, and showed conclusively that the smaller con cerns were incurring the greater in- i crease in profits. 6 Mexicans Die Mexico’s long standing feud be tween the Catholic church and the state flared anew yesterday and re sulted in the violent deaths of four Catholic men and one woman by a barrage of machine gun fire. The victims were fired upon by a group of red-shirted radicals, one of whom was afterward seized by an Indig nant mob and beaten to death, bringing the total to six. Party Finds Plane A pilot of an American Airlines plane last night radioed Albany j that a searching party had reached the plane forced down along the ] boundary of Hamilton and Hark lmer counties Friday night. “Search- | ing party reached plane. Food drop- ' ped. We now coming back" was the content of Dean Smith’s terse mes sage over the air lanes. Relief Costs High ; Uncle Sam donated a liberal sum of money to North Carolina during 1934, it was revealed yesterday by a report by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry in j Raleigh. Mrs. O’Berry’s report shows ! that total expenditures In both CWA and ERA based on actual figures for 10 months and estimat- j cd expenditures for November and December, amounted to $25,626,230. 70. Woman Loses Eye I In Auto Accident; Two Negroes Held i Mrs. Florence Lackey Injured, Zemri Warlick Hurt, In Cra^h At Faliston. ' i Mrs. Florence Lackey, teacher at1 the Lawndale public school, is in a Lincolnton hospital, suffering from the loss of her right eye. and a broken leg, as the result of an au- ! tomobile crash near Faliston Wed- j nesday evening. Her son-in-iaw, Zemri Warlick, j who was driving, her daughter and ■ three children were also injured, but not seriously. Two Cars Crash The accident occurred when the car driven by Mr. Warlick collided with a car driven by Lee Munford, colored, In which four other negroes were riding. No responsibility has been fixed for the crash, which was a head-on collision as the cars , rounded the curve in front of the Frank Spurlln home. The Warlick party was return ing from the home of Mrs. J. M. Wilson, Mrs. Lackey's mother, in the Zion community, where they had spent the day. They were given first aid treatment in Faliston and taken in an ambulance to Lincoln ton, where Mr. and Mrs. Warlick and Mrs. Lackey remain. The chil dren are with their uncle, W. T. Warlick. Two Negroes Arrested Two of the negroes in the acci dent have been arrested and plac ed in jail. They are Archie Young and £harlie Hall. They have not been given a hearing pending fur ther word as to the condition of the injured persons. TRAIN HITS CAR FRIDAY AT ETON MILL CROSSING Seaboard passenger train No. 21 coming west Friday afternoon crashed into a car at the Eton mill crossing owned by M. J. Dover, em ploye of the mill. The car was stalled on the edge of the track but Mr. and Mrs. Dover saw the train in time to es cape. The steps of the engine smashed the fenders and head lights of the auto, but there were no injuries with the exception of •light bruises of Mrs. Dover. " I Ehe MONEY-nd Zitak 8 Pages Today VOL. XL, No. 156 SHELBY, N. CL MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. »* M«a NT m (ta idnMN _ UH CwfKT. m iw. tin tdnMtl _ HjM James A. Wilson Buried Today At Elizabeth Church Succumbs To A Heart Attack Prominent Fanner Passes After An Illness Of A Month; Astrono mer And Weather Prophet. James A. Wilson, member of one of Cleveland county’s oldest fam ilies, passed away at his home on the Cleveland Springs road Sunday morning at 7 o'clock after an illness of a month with heart trouble. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Elizabeth Baptist church, services being in charge of the pastor, the Rev. B. P. Parks, assisted by the Rev. H. C. Seefeldt. Mr. Wilson was a farmer, astron omer and weather prophet. He was a son of Samuel O. and Almina Blanton Wilson and was born near Shelby. Oct. 24th, 1865. All of his life was spent In Shelby except two years lived in West Virginia. At the age of 15 he joined Pleasant Hill Baptist church and was bap tised with 45 others by the Rev. G. M. Webb. His grandmother gave the land for Elizabeth church site, so when it was organized, he moved his membership there where it remained until about 1910 when he moved it to the First Baptist church. He regularly attended services when his health would per mit. Mr. Wilson was a constant reader, had a remarkable memory and was a most Interesting conver sationalist. He was married to Amanda Dover and to this union were bom eight children, three of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Isabel, who became the wife of Me- 1 Bride Poston, died 13 years ago. The devoted wife with four chil- i dren survive: Mrs. Jarvis Hamrick,! Mrs. Maurice Weathers, Hackett ■ Wilson of Shelby and Mrs. Minor , McSwain of Asheville. Mr. Wilson was a half brotherj of the late W. Hackett Blanton of Shelby , Prof. J. B. Blanton of RTodfesboro. One sister Mrs. J. D. Anders of Richmond survives. Thomas Love and Elizabeth Love Wilson who formerly owned Cleve land Springs were his grandparents. Poston Arrests Parole Breaker Deputy U. S. Marshal 1 Mack Poston this morning reported the :apture of Big Boy Bob Ivester, 250 oound, six-foot offender In the South Mountains. Ivester, who is known under many aliases, was charged with sale and nanufacture of liquor. A forty gallon cache was found near his! louse, and further along the dep uties came across a large still. Ivester was out on parole from :he state prison,' where he had been sentenced to five year in connec tion with the death of a woman in in automobile crash. His parole! will be revoked. j Marshal Poston was accompan-, ed on the raid by Deputy Cordell if Lawndale. Plato Ledford, and ! D. H. Cline, jr. He was to be given a hearing to lay before U. S. Commissioner John P. Mull, and has been in jail without bond in the meantime. Two Small Fires Quickly Extinguished Two fires were quickly extin guished by the Shelby fire depart nent over the week-end. The first, >n Saturday, was in a small closet n the Ellis Building on West Mar on street. The second, this morn ng, was at Pink’s Auto Parts office ind is believed to have started in i wastebasket. Small damage was lone. These Men Will Play Important Part In Next Congress Vie* President Garner, Representative Bankhead Prominent Azures in the seventy fourth congress, opening Jan. 3, are these men—Representative Joseph Byms of Tennessee, slat ed as speaker; Vice President John N. Garner, presiding senate officer; Representative John J. O'Connor of New York, chairman of the rules committee; Represen tative William Bankhead of Ala bama, majority floor leader, and Col. Ed Halsey, secretary of the senate, in charge of that body’s many activities. I J Secretary Heleey Flu Has Little Effect On School Attendance Today Attendance Is 92 Percent Enroll ment Says Superintendent Smith. Counseled by physicians over the week-end as to the possible effects on the schools of the reported large rumber of cases of influenza in the city Captain B. L. Smith was at a loss to know whether or not to open the city schools on regular sche dule. However, in a statement this morning Superintendent Smith said he was most agreeably surprised toj find an attendance of 92 percent of the enrollment of approximately 3,000 children. Above Average. This figure is much above the average for the first day after holi days and especially for rainy and damp weather. Normal days give about 95 percent of the enrollment. Attendance on the part of the children totaled up a higher per- j centage than the teachers in the i city schools were able to muster, j Four teachers have not reported as yet, but are expected here by Wed nesday. They are Principal and Mrs. W. E. Abernathy, who announc ed their marriage over the holidays, j Mrs. Abernathy was formerly Miss Ethel Thomas, English teacher in the high school. Misses Claire Ed wards and Louise Gill have not re turned on account to the illness of1 their fathers. Substitutions are Mrs. W. L. Angel, Mrs. Grover Beam, Mrs. H. G. Bail ey. and Mrs. Jessie White. Reports from a number of schools in the eastern part of the state in-' dicate that a flu epidemic will keep them closed for several weeks, and Shelby school officials are instruct ing teachers and students to take all possible precautionary measures to prevent the spreading of the di sease here. Senator Bankhead Will Present New Plan For Control Of Cotton WASHINGTON. Dec. 31.—A plan of permanent control of cotton pro duction patterned after the present set, which would have the effect of giving to the secretary of agricul ture a powerful weapon against overproduction and the carrying of huge surplus stocks into the next :rop year, will be presented to Con gress before the close of the com ing session by Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Confronted with probable expira tion of the present law by the close of the next season and the long de lay that may occur in the liquida tion of the carryover of more than 3,000,000 bales, machinery which would enable the secretary to keep production under control is deemed by the senator to be essential. According to Senator Bankhead, the proposed new legislation would follow the lines of the present law, but with definite power vested in the secretary of agriculture to grant exemptions from the operations of those provisions in the case of farm ers whose base production is two bales or less. Amendment of the present law in this respect is to be made during the coming session of Congress. A change of this nature would be in fulfillment of the pledge of President Roosevelt that in the event of the continuance in oper ation of the Bankhead law for an other year he would recommend to Congress an exemption for small producers. Because of the overwhelming vote cast in favor of the law early this month, an order by Secretary Wallace continuing it for the 1935 36 season is now awaited. j Industry And Agriculture First In News During ’34 Picture of Swiftly Changing Economic Order Seen In Recapitulation Of Year’* Ten Best Cleveland Stories By CAMERON SHIPP Newt Editor Choosing the ten biggest news stories of the year In Cleveland county resolved itself into the task of retracing steps of a parade of dramatic economic events unparalleled and unique in the history of this or any other county. The decalogue of great events in | .. ■ . the county during 1934 ts theatn- | cally dominated by the swift move- i ments of a changing, sometimes I faltering, sometimes dazzling, order in both economics and society. And Cotton Is King King Cotton, sometimes jovially happy, sometimes puzzled, some times shackled, finally exhalted, plays the lead in six of the actions. The hand of the New Deal shifts the scenes for most of the drama. Oddly enough, stories of pity and tragedy, crime and passion, so frequent in any twelvemonth any where, are pushed aside in a re capitulation of the year’s import ant occurences. These things hap pened, in the smallest cottage and the greatest home, but only one story of the lot stands forth as an authentic example of the great emotions. That was when a simple mill worker, in rage and despair, killed the girl he loved. No stories of crime were sup pressed by this newspaper, but the year’s record shows that Cleveland was unusually free from crimes of violence. Murder, assault, burglary and accident blot the pages of the files, but with the exception of the Sentell case, possibly of the heroic story of young J. R. Downs, and the appalling number of .automo bile deaths, such reports are over shadowed in value by the greater events of agriculture and industry. Events That Mattered In choosing these ten stories, your correspondent has been guided by the thought that they should be the events which, more than any; others, not only interested but vi tally affected the greatest number of people. Often, they were not the most entertaining stories to read. Surely, the drowning of Miss Pearl Pulton in Kings Mountain, the suicide of V. E. McDaniel in Asheville, the arrest of F. F. Black, the death of Leander Hamrick, Bob Kendrick’s duel to the death, the escape of fourteen prisoners from the state prison camp, and a fire that threatened to destroy the! whole of downtown Shelby—surely, stories about these things were im (Continued on page two.) Dividends Are Paid By Finance Cos. Four thousand five hundred dol lars in dividends was paid just be fore Christmas by the M. & J. Fi nance company, and $3,750 was paid to 107 persons by the Cleveland County Building and Loan associa tion. The latter is starting a new series immediately. , 10 Biggest Stories Here During 1934 Following are the ten biggest news stories In Cleveland coun ty during 1934, as selected by the news editor of The Star. They were picked not only for color and human Interest, but because they recount events which affected the lives of the greatest number of persons. 1. The general textile strike. 2 The huge Increase In cotton values. 3. The Cleveland Cloth mill strike. ♦. The Webb hospital gift. 5. Hoey boomed for governor. 6. Bankhead bill upheld. 7. Cleveland county fair. 8. CWA, PWA and FERA gifts. 9. Sentell kills Florence Jones. 10. Tragic highway accidents. Two Are Bound Over For January Trial' Clyde Hoyle is in the Cleveland] county jail, unable to put up a $400 bond, bound over for Superior court on a charge of stealing cotton seed from Lloyd Elliott. Beach Grayson was bound over, under $500, and is also in jail, on charges of embezzlement of pota toes and gasoline belonging to Sam Eilis. Cleveland Solons Uphold Sales Tax, Oppose Diversion State Representatives Discuss State Issues Roth Take Dry 8t*nd. Favor I.W|«r Teacher *Salarlr«. Oppour Bond Scheme. Opposition to diversion of high* way funds and support for the gen eral sales tax were expressed by Senator Carl Thompson and Repre sentative Ernest Gardner, who will leave thta week to take their Beats in the legislature, opening Jan. 9. Mr. Thompson, who will be In Ra leigh for the first time, declared that It was hts Intention to keep quiet. Introduce no new legislation, and try to learn the ropes during the first 30 days. Favora Sales Tax. “I didn't make any campaign promises," he said, 'except I said I would support the sales tax unless somebody could show me a better system, and 1 have no new local legislation to offer.” Both representatives said they would vote for a continuance of North Carolina's current stand on prohibition, this being clearly the mandate of the county voters. For School Teachers. Both are In favor of Increased salaries for school teachers, and both are opposed to the plan where by the state would take over the counties’ bonded road Indebtedness. “I'm against that," said Mr. Gardner, “because It would saddle counties like Cleveland with the debts of other counties that over stepped themselves. Many of them defaulted, and I don't see why we should be stuck on their account." Gardner will support Grady Johnson for speaker of the house he declared. Drainage District. He has only one piece of local legislation In mind, which he will Introduce, he said. If the voters af fected desire It. That would be a bill to eliminate the Buffalo Creek drainage dlstrlot. which now acts as a Hen upon certain properties, and Is thus a hindrance In financ ing loans. He also has in mind some legisla tion revising the tax foreclosure law, which as It now stands sets the costs at $8.50—too low, he declared. He expects the sessloo to last about three months. Mr. Thompson will leave on the eighth, and will be at the sir Walt er. Mr. Oardner will leave on the sixth, and will be at the Carolina Hotel. Rutherford Boy Killed As Auto Skids In Lenoir LENOIR, Dec. 90. — Thrown against the pavement when his light automobile skidded at a railroad crossing, Dowell Annas. 19-year-old Rutherford college student, was In stantly killed here this morning. Annas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Annas, of Saw Mills, near here, sustained a badly crusned skull. His companion, Brlttian Annas, uncle of the wreck victim, was painfully Injured. The accident occurred at 8:00 o'clock this morning. Annas appar ently lost control of the strip-down roadster as It skidded at the cross ing, careened into an electric light pole, and overturned on the pave ment, pinning his body In the ma chine. Funeral service will be held at Saw Mills tomorrow afternoon. Surviving the youth are his par ents, a brother and a sister. These hr* the lawyers who will de fend Richard Bruno Hauptmann when he goes on trial Wednesday at Flemlngton. N. J„ charged with the murder and kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby. Barn Destroyed, Mules, Cows, Bum In Night Blaze Fire of undetermined origin last night destroyed the barn belonging to a. B. (Billy) McSwaln, near the Pleasant Ridge church. The barn, which Is only a few yards from the house, across the road, was seen In flames about 10 o'clock, and the blaze developed so rapidly that all efforts could not extinguish It. A fine pair of mules, two cows and one hog were trapped and burned to death. A quantity of feed stuff and about 15 bushels of corn were also lost. A bale of cotton, In a near-by crib, was saved. The bam was partly covered by insurance but there was no protec tion on his personal property. 25 Drowned At least 25 women and children were drowned at Tampico, Mexico, yesterday In te sinking of a pas senger launch in the Panuco river. The boat, en route to Tampico, struck a submerged obstruction as It pulled into the landing at El Ca rtfcol, and sank within a few min utes. County Has 43 Violent Deaths Last Year As Autos Lead With 19 And Guns Account For 12 By WYAN WASHBURN As a tragic climax to the senes ot nine important stories of the year which have involved Cleveland county and its citizens, it is reveal ed in an examination of the files of The Star that 43 persons either In the county or directly connected with the county have met violent deaths since 1633. According to the files, which o! course did not include all accidents of every nature, more than 180 persons were injured in the acci dents and at least 93 others were directly involved. Auto accidents take a startling lead to total 19 deaths for the year, while deaths by gun wounds either accident, self-inilicted. or murder, come second with 12. Four persons were drowned, three died as result of falls, while there was quite a diversity in the types of ac cident injuring many others, such as gas fires, acid burns, attempted hanging, knife wounds, explosions, lightning, run away teams, base ball bats, spider bites and the like. There is no accurate estimate as to the total property damage in the abcidents which took violently al most four lives per month of per sons in the county. Following are the names of the persons who were listed in the col umns of The Star last year in the order they were killed: Ralph Crenshaw, auto; Pearl Fulton, drowned; V. E. McDaniel, shot; Leander Hamrick, auto; R. C. White, shot: Ed Haynes, shot; Luther Blackwell. shot; Rirhard Moss, shot; Florence Jtmes. shot; James W. Carson, fall; Stokes Smith, auto; Elam Mayhuc. auto; James Inman, auto; Clctus Reep and Marshall Brittain, auto; Hor ace Devinny, auto; Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll (in Raleigh), auto. Mrs. Ella Roberts, auto; LeRoy Lewis, auto; Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Moser, auto; W. E. Moore, nail In foot, plus tetanus anti-toxin; Izetta Wright and Albert Jacobs, drown ed; Ransom McEntyre, auto; Mrs. P. D. Hinson, auto; Robert Jones, lightning. Jim Branton, Felix Spencer, train; Lawrence Camp, fight; Sterling Morrison, auto; R. C. Les ter, auto; Joseph Oates, shot; Hoyt Whitaker, auto; Clarence McGee, shot; Buddy Jones, shot; J. D. Al len, auto: Tom Ivey, falling tree; Homer Ledford. auto: Mancel Nance-, auto: J P. Wood, shot; J R. Downs, shot. i . vvuiicio uun jrtjnr# * Never before, not In the vivid boom years of 1038 and *30, hiu the poet office equalled this year'a bud- 1 neae ToUl receipt* were 181,463.48. J Increue Of 18 Per Cent. In 1033, receipts were M8J68J8, which means there was an In urease of $8,178 56. or a fraction more than 18 per oent. This record was more than ample to lift the of floe back to a tint dase ratine which It lost under the Economy Aot In 1033. The require ment is $44,500. The office has al ways done about $40,000 which would have kept It first dess save f°r that Economy yt Holiday Receipts Up. Christmas business helped shell the total. The month of December showed $3,017.08 more than the same month a year sgo. Postmaster Quinn and distant Postmaster Laughrtdge, both highly delighted when they were asked tor the figures this morning, «*fd they thought the general «»—«ittt Increase was responsible foe the up swing, end oited the increased bust JMM given them by the Lily MM as the largest single Item. FERA Expenses For Ten Months Tops $25,000,000 RALEIGH, Dec. 30.—Total expen ditures in both CWA and ERA. based on actual figures for 16 months end estimated «* for November and n mounted to 335,636.330.70 In North "oitnn for the year 1034, 13 k“ Mrs, Thomas ■tate administrator, today. on March 31 at -'A was virtually oompleted and era was continued on a scale. Expenditures In the two oifaaft zations were $31327,000.70 toe the period January 1 to November I. For the month of November $1, 744.325 was allotted to the state and for December $1.954AM, miMm a total of $25,626,230.70. Group Off Today To Sunday School Moot Dr. Wall To Speak Twice At Sevtfc wide Sunday School Gathering. Dr. Zeno Wall, president Of the State Baptist convention Is on tho program for two speeches at tho Southwide Baptist convention held this week In Raleigh. His sub ject on Tuesday Is “Oonquest Through the Bible.” On Wednesday his subject will be “ConQuest Through Growth in Numbers Evangelism." Attending the convention from the First church, Shelby, are Dr Wall, Miss Dorothy Washburn, ac companied by Yates Wall who re turns to Wake Forest and Dr. Ed Byrd of Mississippi. In other care will go Mrs. Earl Hamrick. Mrs. J. A. Lyles, Miss Charlotte Tedder. Mrs. J. C. Whitaker, Mrs. Rush Stroup. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. 8ee feldt will go tomorrow. Bond Approved For Contracting Firm On Local Po*toffice Clarence Morrison of the contract ing firm of Morrison Falls Co., re ceived yesterday notice from the D. 8. Treasury Department at Washing ton that bond had been approved and that instructions would be sent soon to proceed with the enlarge ment of the Shelby postoffice. Mr. Morrison and Claude Falls of Fall ston were the successful bidders for the postoffice remodelling and the first work of the contractors will be to bear down the Hoey store rooms io the rear, facing on East Warren street. Defends Bruno Shelby Post Office \ Sets All-Time Mark; Shows BusinessBdom Tops 1933 Receipts By Eighteen Per Cent, Thus Becoming First Class Office; Mill Receipts Biggest Item Flyinjr cancellation marks in the Shelby post office this year thumped off an all time record for receipts, lifting the office automatically hack into first class, increasing the post master and assistant postmaster's salaries, and emphatically indicating how rapid and how substantial has been business I recovery here thlc i
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