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Circulation 5040 The MEVMNM Ska 8 Pages Today VOL. XLIf No. 6 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ** *” »•**• «■ Cmrri*. nr ywr. <l> advanot) . $1M s Tenant Status Is Cleared As Agent Issues Statement 1935 Contracts Arc Similar to 1034 Farmer* And Tenant* Pointed To Contract; Acreage Is Still In Doubt, In reply to the numerous queries as to the status of tenant farmers In the county for next year the of fice of the county agent has issued a statement explanatory to the sit uation. r W. Shoffner sold today that section 7 of the 1934-35 cotton re duction contract Is very clear on the tenant problem ahd adds that the new contract will be virtually the same. The county agent gives this il lustration which is purposed to make the contract agreements clear: - If a landlord had a managing share tenant or a cash tenant or a cash tenant or share-cropper or any form of tenant in the year 1934. he can not change the status of this tenants whereas it will en able him to collect more of the rental fees. He will retain on this farm the same number of tenants so far as possible, for the year 1935 as he had in 1934. However, there is no objection In changing tenants. I would advise reading vour contract thoroughly to be familiar with this particular ques tion. “As to the number of acres that can be planted to 1935, we are un able to give this from official an nouncemn*. We hope to have this information to a week or so. How ever, the contract states that you will be allowed to plant 75 percent of your base acreage. If you base acreage refrains the same. You ; will be notified Just as soon as this j information Is available.” , Late News THK MARKETS Cottea. spot . ... --.-Mtt «e UHv Cotton seed, ton, wagoa_MAM Fair and Colder Weather forecast for North Caro* Him: Fair and colder Monday, much colder Monday night; Tuesday fair and colder. Hitlerism Wins Half a million Saarlanders voted yesterday, and the majority of them wanted to reunite with Germany— ur.der Der Feuehrer Adolf Hitler— after 15 yean under the control of the League of Nations. Even pro French voters admitted the Hitler victory. The election was to settle an Issue between France and Ger many, and the prise was the rich coal fields to the Saar. The terri tory lies close to Belgium, between France and Germany. Upholds Profits Secretary Roper announced yes terday that business was beginning to realise that the administration was saving the country from So cialism, "The government is with business," he said, and "wishes to encourage it. The bugaboo that the government is opposed to the profit motive jn business is gone.” To Free Assets The securities and exchange com mission yesterday announced new measures to smash the ice-jam of frozen assets and permit some $3, ooo,000 of new securities to flow down the recovery channel. In the most far-reaching financial step of commission, it has made new regulations simplifying requirements f°r new issues. Seek Air Marks Miami will witness several tries nr new world records In the atr opening there today. Approxi mately jog army CTaft wui try for • mark of their own. In the mean time. about 30 planes will take off « the annual good-will tour of Florida. Builders Conferring On School Colonnade Architects, contractors and Tom Kennedy, PWA inspector, were con ferring at the high school this rooming on possible alterations to ** made in the colonnade, or ar ®8|fe, to be erected between the two high school buildings. Contract for the colonnade has bwn awarded to the Morrison-Falls company of Shelby, and construc ' °n 15 expected to start this week. _*^ork is already under way on the V*T sod negro school buildings Two Witnesses In recognition of their successes, John Boggs, top, and his brother, Dan Boggs, below, life prisoners at Ohio penitentiary, Columbus, have been freed at the order of Governor George White. While inmates at the prison, where they had been sent for murder, John won three college degrees in a correspondence course, and Dan built up a mail order business that netted him a small fortune. Dr.H.C.Thompson Chosen Physician For County Today WUI Assume Duties At Once; The Health Board Plans For Spring Clinics. In a meeting at 10 o’clock today the county board of health elected Dr. H. C. Thompson to the office of county physician and certified his recent appointment as county quar antine officer. He succeeds Dr. D. F. Moore who has had the office for some five or more years. Dr. Thompson will assume his new duties immediately and will have in charge the care of patients at tfte county jail, county home and will do other medical work for the county on the recommendation of the board of commissioners. Quarantnie Officer. As quarantine officers, other coun ty physicians will notify him of all reportable diseases in the county, such as whooping cough, measles, and others on a list prepared by the state board of health. In addition to the election of Dr. Thompson the board made prelimi nary plans for a number of pre school clinics to be held in the county this spring. At that time children who will go to school next year will be. asked to come to school for an examination of eyes, ears, nose and throat, that the physicians may make recommendations to the parents before the child enters school. Hit And Run Hit and run drivers were con spicuous in the seven deaths count ed in North Carolina this week-end. Deaths were reported in many sec tions of the state. Legislators Are Organized Now To Begin Long Grind Organization Week Is Over Hear Message, Name Committees, And Pnt Several Bills In Law Hopper. RALEIGH. Jan. H.~The North Carolina general assembly met last Wednesday, organized, notified the governor It was ready for business, heard his biennlel message Thurs day night, received a few bills, nam ed the necessary committees and called it a week, having brief ses sions each of the four days, and with only a handful of members in either house Saturday, when local matters oflly were considered, with few of those to claim attention. One election contest loomed, that of John Woodfin, Alexander, Demo crat, who ran as an independent, against Dr. C. R. Zickler, Democrat, declared elected. Several bills were dropped into senate and house hoppers, but wait ed for the naming of committees Monday night. Many of them had to do with highways and automo biles. Two would abolish tolls on the Chowan and Cape Fear river brid ges, the highway fund paying the bonds. Another would provide for right-of-way for the Parkway going to the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional park. Motor bills include one to increase penalties for drunken driving; another would change the date of sale from January 1 to October 1, another reducing the license plates from the present 55 cents a 100 pounds to $5; another calls for a drivers’ license law, examinations costing $1.20 for drivers and $3 for chauffeurs, with revoking for man slaughter, drunken driving, hit-and run, and other violations, with radio for patrol, sheriffs and police con trol; and a resolution asked con gress to curb reckless interstate driving, using federal highway pa trolmen. One bill, in line with Governor Ehringhaua’ recommendation, would provide for unemployment, old age and other forms of social insurance, with a minimum of $3 a week and $1 for each dependent, and going to women eight weeks before and eight weeks after childbirth. The state would furnish the fund. Other bills introduced during the first week, in brief, follow: Tax persons, firms and corpora tions engaged in buying or selling stocks, bonds, cotton, grain, provi sions and other commodities on a graduated scale from $100 to $000, depending on the size of town or city where operated. Abolish the absentee ballot law, bills in bo'll houses. Limit divorce, by allowing the injured party only to get a divorce in two years. Establish the South port Port commission, to establish a port terminal. Outlaw slot ma chines. making it unlawful to make or operate them in the state. Place a special tax on cigarettes, cigars, snuff and tobacco, to be earmark ed especially for the school fund, 15c per 1,000 on cigarettes, $25 per 1,000 on cigars. Provide constitu tional amendment raising Income tax limit from 6 to 12 cents. Nolan Infant Is Buried At Dover The Itev W. A. Elam, pastor of the DdVer Baptist church will con duct this afternoon at 4:30 funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Nolan which was born at the Shelby hospital yester day and died there this morning. The child lived about 17 hours. Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. E. White a fine son Saturday night, Mr. and Mrs. White live on the Fallston road. Mother and baby, fyrbert James, are doing nicely. I Judge Holds Man Null and Void; Shelby Jury Almost Has The Case A voluntary jury, composed most ly of lawyers and impanelled at the request of O. M Mull in a divorce case Saturday morning found them selves charged by Judge Felix Alley to remain for the day in the cus tody of the sheriff to consider the Hall Johnson case, and some of them were getting worried until they learned what the gag was. Mr. Mull, who seldom appears in court, came to ask a divorce for Lena Bright, whose husband wa$ W. H. Bright. Requesting a Jury, the following volunteers walked into the box: C. C Horn. Peyton McSwain, C. B McBrayer. Bynum Weathers, Cleveland Gardner. Ernest Gard ner, B. T. Falls all attorneys'. Cameron Shipp, Roecoe Lutz, A1 Smith and Junie Vaughn. This Jury was composed of law yers, a newspaperman, an undertak er, a furniture mender and a ven triloquist. They granted the divorce, where upon Juror McSwain sprang out of the box, and tried his divorce case with Mr. Mull acting as a juror for the first time in his life. At this moment, there arose At torney W. E. Breese, defense coun sel in the Sentell case, to ask that the Jury be held for the Hall John son trial. Judge Alley solemnly ap proved the idea, and gave the jury into the custody of the sheriff. ^Continued on page cignu In Newest Hop Across Pacific v. 8 Amelia Earhart Putnam, who has twice sped across the Atlantic through the air, on Saturday made the great hop across the Pacific ocean in her red Lockheed Veda monoplane. She landed In California at 4.30 p. m„ completing a 3,400 solo flight from Hawaii. To Hold Last Rites Today For Late Dennis Brummitt Thomas Costner Buried- Sunday Seventy-Six Year 014 Farmer It Buried At Pleasant throve ' Church. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Pleasant Grove enuren for Thomas Costner who died is the Beams Mill community Friday, following a long decline in health. Mr. Costner was a prominent fanner in that section but suffered a breakdown in health several years ago. He was bom June Sth, 1858 and was 78 and a half years old at the time of his death. He was a son of the late Jacob and Martha Gladden Costner and was married to Ida Hamrick on April 24th, 1879 to which union eleven children were bom, seven boys and four girls. Surviving are his wife and the following children: Press ley, of this county, Mrs. L. G. Smith of Cherryville, Hoyle Cost ner, Mrs. C. F. Hendrick, Mrs. Es per Cooke of this county, Mrs. Fred Grlgg of Burlington, Evans of Kings Mountain and Yates Costner who lives at home. Also surviving Me three brothers, Alex, JuliuS and Perry Costner. An only sister preceded him to the grave. The Rev. D. G. Washburn, pastor, had charge of the funeral services and a large crowd was in attend ance. City Buys Three Tons Asphalt For Streets Three tons of asphalt has been purchased for the repair of the city streets, it is learned from Mayor McMurry. Many holes are in the paved streets and in order | to repair these holes and patch up the curbs, a quantity of material is I being ordered for work which will begin perhaps this week. CHILD OF VAN HORN’S 18 BURIED YESTERDAY Funeral services were held yester day at 4:30 at the Dover Mill Bap tist churc> for (she infant son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Van Horn. The child was bom at the Shelby hos- j pital early Sunday morning and lived only a short, while. The Rev. i W. A. Elam was in charge of the service. Clyde Hoey To Talk At Banquet Tonight At least 150 persons are ex pected to attend the Chamber of Commerce and Merchant’s Association1 banquet at the Hotel Charles tonight. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock, and Clyde R. Hoey will be the principal speaker. After the program, square dancing will be enjoyed in the ballroom. Officials To Attend Services At His Former Home RALEIGH, Jan. 13.—After lying in state from noon to 3 o'clock, this afternoon, Attorney General Den nis G. Brummitt. wtf0 died Satur day afternoon at 12:10 was taken to his old home In Oxford and on Monday he will be burled from the First Baptist church, of which he I was a member and many yean a deacon. Testimony to the admiration which the public had for the dead official was given In the large number of people who called at his home on North McDowell street, and who passed in review of the casket as It was opened In the capitol rotunda. Soldiers of the North Carolina national guard stood at the head and the foot of the attorney general and the state flag hung at hplf mast. Tomorrow all departments will remain closed and it Is understood that the gen eral assembly which convenoa at 8 o'clock, will adjourn without go ng into any business. There is no official sta^bent, however, to that effect. Mr. Brummitt's funeral will take place on the anniversary of his first official oath-taking as attorney general. He was sworn in with Gov. A. W. McLean January 14, 1925. W. N. Everett that same day took his oath of office after his first elec tion to the office to which ha bad been appointed by Governor Mor rison in 1923. Masonic Officers Installed Here At a meeting of Cleveland lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M., the fol I lowing officers were installed for the ensuing year: John T. Honeycutt. worshipful master; Hackett C. Wilson, senior warden; J. L. Gaffney, Junior war den: Capt. J. Frank Roberts, treas urer; George A. Hoyle, secretary. Appointed officers: Evans Shull, senior deacons; Beth Weaver, Junior deacon; Charles R. Eskridge, senior stewart; Ray L. Allen. Junior stew art: James Tiddy, tyler. ! Zoric Machinery Put j In By R. J. Howard ■ - - The Star said In Its Friday’s is | sue that the Zoric machinery In the Shelby Tailor shop on South Washington street *as Installed by a factory representative. As a matter of fact, It was installed by R. J. Howard, a member of the firm, according to Mr. Howard. A factory demonstrator was here for four days following the installation. The Shelby Tailor shop is owned and operated by Mrs. Rhadar Dodd. R J. Howard, dry cleaner and W S. McMurry. route manager. Zoric j is a new and odorless process of | cleaning Courtroom Awed By First Sentence In Three Decades Tears In Judge's Eyes As He Reads It Hushed Crowd Stand* A* Judge Alley Reads Impressive Decree To Prisoner Sentell. Throng* In an over-crowded court room Saturday afternoon stood In solemn fascination and sympa thy as Judge Felix Alley pronounc ed sentence of death upon Louis Sentell. It was the first time In thirty years, rlnce a negro was found guilty of the murder of Chief of Police Ed Hamrick, that a man had been sentenced to die In this coun ty. Judge Alley's Remraks -A tremor passed through the court room as Judge Alley revealed 8entell’s fate In his first slow, care ful words: “The law has imposed upon me the unspeakably paintful duty—” But sentell himself did not flinch. . . that of pronouncing the sentence of death upon a young man whom I never saw before un til .. . ” The crowd caught Its breath. Voices of children playing In the court yard echoes through the tall windows, streaming with sun light. "... he was brought before me charged with the crime of murder tn the first degree.” Slow, Telling Words Slowly, Judge Alley half-recited, half-read his address. He said: “At all times and under all cir cumstances, a feeling of Indescrib able solemnity attends utterance of the stern voice which with relent less Justice consigns a fellow being to an untimely and ignominious ■ Joe Wright Returns To Practice Of Law | Joseph M. Wright, formerly Judge of the recorder's court, has re 1 opened his offices in the Webb building for the practice of law. ‘ After serving his term aa county ; Judge, for which he received high ; praise from Cleveland attorneys, ' Mr. Wright was succeeded by By [ num E. Weathers. ! Red Cross Nurse \ Resigns Post Here ] Miss Irene Covington, Red Cross I nurse, who has been serving this county for several weeks, has re signed because of ill health, but a successor will be elected at an early date and enter . upon her duties here. Guy Roberts Goes \ To Clevecloth Today Guy Roberts who has been one . of the head tellers Kt tha First Na , tional bank for more than a dozen . years, has accepted a position in I the office of the Cleveland Cloth . mill. He enters upon his duties to day, doing clerical work for this organization. Teacher* Will Be Paid $7,000 Today , Checks will be distributed on ! Wednesday of this week to all . teachers in the Shelby public school system for their past month’s sal I aries. It is understood that the . checks will total approximately . $7,000. SentelVs Doom Set For 1st Anniversary Of Florence s Death - - • Hushed Courtroom Hears First Extreme Pen alty Sentence Here In Thirty Years; Appeal To Supreme Court In a hushed and crowded courtroom, oppressed by the foreboding of impending death and awed by the solemn timbre of a gentle judge’s voice, Louis Sentell, murderer of Mrs. William Drake, was sentenced to die#in the electric chair Feb. 15, the first Cleveland county man to meet such Has $25,000, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., above, hail reported ,to the Bo unties and Kxchanite Commls ion that his Standard Oil stock holdings total more than 10 million shares, worth approxi mately 1280,00.0,000 at present ot the Securities Act.. Speed Record Set In Week’s Court; Jail Is Geared Sheriff Cline Leaves For Raleigh With Five Prisoners, Including Condemrited Man. Judge Felix Alley and Solicitor L. S. Spurling set a remarkable record for speed during the one week criminal term which ended here Saturday. The docket was crowded because the last term had been postponed, yet the jail was cleared of all save two prisoners— Henry Swlnk, accused of barn burn ing, and Jack Parks, negro, held for the murder of Robert Downs. Five prisoners were taken to Ra leigh yesterday by Sheriff Cline. They were Louis Sentell, who will die In the electric chair; R. D. 1 Lockman, two to three years for forgery; Cannonball Owensby, 18 months to two years for breaking i and entering; Edith Tarleton, two to three years for larceny, and Jesse Jones, who was taken to the hospital for the criminally Insane. Jail sentences were: Luther Alex ’ ander, 8 months for assault; Tom Cullen, six months for short change lng; L. J. Foster, four months for worthless checks; J. Poston (color ed) 12 months for violation of pro hibition laws; Ed Robinson, 30 days in county home for drunkenness, and James Thomas, six months for assault. Charmingly Vague, Clyde Hoey Again Avoids an Announcement Clyde R. Hoey’s attitude toward reporters who plague him with that ubiquitlous question, ‘ Will you or will you not run?” U still as suave, as characteristic, and as unsatisfactory fbr reasonable spec ulation as the flame-red carnation In the lapel of his sharply-pressed frock coat. Mr. Hoey has been to Washing ton, where he talked with Parmer Bob Doughton, chairman of the ways and means committee, and much-talked of as a possible candi date for governor. This conference, newspaper folk reckoned, which would decide which giant of the currrent political scene would run I for the office. j "We talked about the Male of the nation," Mr. Hory told your corres pondent. And he leaned precariously far back in his great swivel chair and talked charmingly about the state of the nation, the courtesy of con gressmen on his recent trip, the vagaries of the weather, and the inconsequential but Important tri via# with which an expert conversa tionalis4 weaves his interesting pat tern. Yes, he saw Mr. Doughton. An old friend of his, great fellow. Spoke to him mostly on the floor of the house, to which Mr. Hoey was wre corned, of course, as an ex-member, and there were some interesting (Continued on page eight.; a rate in three decades. Perhaps It was coincidence. Per haps It waa the cyole of fate spin ning the pattern for the formei hosiery weaver. And maybe It was< by design. Be that as It may. Peb 15, noon, will be the anniversary one year to the day of the kUllnt of Mrs. Drake—the girl known i Florence Jonea. Sentell Resigned. Judge Felix ®. Alley, with tea. glistening on his cheeks, read hi decree Saturday afternoon In a voice sometimes wavering with emotion. Louis Sentell sat before him, silent and unmindful, as If long ago he had read the will of the law and was resigned to it. His aged mother and father wepi on either side. His two bright-fac ed children and his dark, grieving wife sat behind, dry-eyed and pale. Courtroom Crowded. A courtroom crowded to the limit bUnked a few tears and shaded Its eyes from panala of pale mid-after noon sunlight streaming through the huge windows. Outside, the hap py cries of playing children were wafted up to mingle with the pro nouncement of death. The crowd was moved not sc much by the fate of Sentell, ami the emotional revelations of hi thwarted, tragic romance with 23 year-old Florence Jones (M Drake) aa by the eloquent perk of, Judge Allgy*a address *0 t*ie pr. oner before passing sentence. ■arlier In the day, the Jury hi brought In the verdict odT guilty ( murder In the first degree. Jury Asks Information. Nixon Whlsnant, of No. 8 Town ship, had been designated by his fellow jurors to ask the Judge what the sentence for second degree mur der would be. "It Is tip function of the Jury to decide the facte In the case. The punishment Is the duty the law (Continued on page five.) Dorton Heads N. C Fair Association Shelby Mu Stated Aa Plui Are Piece—ed Far Coming Inwe At Meet. RALEIGH. Jen. 13.—Or. J. 8. Dorton of Shelby today wee elected president, of the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Pairs as plans were discussed for the fair season In the fall (Ml 1934. Dr. Dorton suoceeds C. 8. Parnell of Mebane, who was elected secre tary of the ensuing year. C. W. Hollowbuah of Wilmington was named vice president. Elected to the board of directors were: O. M. Height of Henderson, John Robertson of Hickory, N. Q. Bartlett of Kinston, N. Y„ Cham bliss of Rocky Mount, and Jack W. McMahon of High Paint. About 150 fair operators and concessionaires were preeent and heard talks about fain and their relations to farm, home and school life. Senator Thompson In Car Wreck; Is Unhurt Both Members Of The General As sembly Spent Week-End At Home. Senator Car! Thompson has a slight cut on his forehead aa a re sult of a car wreck. He was return ing home Friday afternoon and Just on the edge of Raleigh, a cable on the steering apparatus broke, the car left, the road and struck an em bankment. Mr. Thompson driving alone was unhurt except for a slight head bruise. The car was repaired and he drove It on home. Representative Ernest Gardner came on Friday to be with his family. His brother-in-law, Her man A. Beam, cashier at the Union Trust Co. at Fails ton Is a patient In the Shelby hospital and waa reported to be much Improved this i morning Thompson and Gardner left Shelby this morning together, re 'turniop. to Raleigh where tonight j the governor's budget will be pre sented to the general assembly.
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