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Call Phone 11 ,n(| Insert A Want Adv In The Star For Results TM Eltkvmmd SEND VOL. XLI, No- 22 -—■ — —I - —I— SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hr Matt, par year, (la adranaal _ «3.M Currier, per year, (la adranee) _ »3 00 Hill Liquor Bill 1, Under Attack OfN.C.DrysToday Wet Forces Also Go Before Solons ■mhibllioni^tf) From All Prats Of C« To Raleigh To Fight I.iqoor Proposal. RALfU-H, Feb. 19.-Whiskey d tht ate-wide drivers’ license 5,11 will locus the attention tomor m 0f Uni .lators who today ban ned gambling” slot machines from lhe ita^' and disposed of numerous local measures. prys troni every section of North Carolina are expected to descend on the capitol tomorrow afternoon to lodge a vigorous protest against Senator John Spnint Hill’s bill to jet up liquor stores. Predictions were today that wets, too will be represented amply and will urge favorable action by sen gte judiciary committee No. 2 on the proposal. The hearing will be hdd in the hall of the house at 2:30. lilt nw The house at its noon session will consider as a special order the licensing of automobile drivers, »hirh rode through the senate last week The act was written by a subcommittee of the joint roads group. draft Wage Scales The joint appropriations commit tee decided to suspend action in executive session momentarily while theoretical figures on pay raises of 30 and 35 per cent for all state employes and teachers are being worked out by the budget bureau. The budget commission recommend ed a 15 per cent increase horizon tally. Decision on the allotment for the public schools for the next bien nium hinges in part upon action to be taken to raise the pay of teach ers. Although not specially set, the proposal to appropriate $3,000,000 of the highway surplus fund for im mediate repairs and improvements to state roads may come before the senate for concurrence In house action. Tlie bill passed the upper branch last week with an amend ment providing a 10-hour work day. Late News THE MARKETS Colon, spot . 12 la to 1314c Cotton seed, ton _ 44.00 Fair Wednesday Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Fair Wednesday and probably Thursday; not much change in tempera! ur«. Respite For Bruno Bnmo Richard Hauptmann’s New Jersey counsel, openly defiant of Chief Defense Counsel Edward J. •Wily of Brooklyn, carried the Bronx carpenter’s appeal from the death sentence in the Lindbergh iidnap-rmirder to the state’s high est court yesterday. Hauptmann was sentenced to die In the electric ehair in the week of March 18, but - Ui rxccuuon was incacatea ^ the appellate action. Bonus Bill Up Tycilngs bill to pay off the soldier.s’ bonus at face value In ne PHiable interest bearing bonds was ''•(’wed by some Democratic lead |rs Mu basis for an administra .Wr' compromise. The measure was produced today by Senator Tyd *es- ^mocrat of Maryland, as the T* *a-V!i and means committee ,a e dc!l|iite plans to consider the wiencan Legion-backed Vinson aid the Patman proposal to off the certificates in United “tstes notes. Pit. top-When-01»i!;, Expiration notices are being * week to subscrib J!* rhe st»r as their snb nm„.nR ^pire- We haye ^ vr c nave aaopt 1 nr™ system of “Stop.When UUt ffriliiri ntr _l « in „ .rpquirin* cash-ln-advance tjn r.,r 10 cut down subscrip Hn °sses and avoid a“y ad* ,n the subscription price. ^ of requiring caah fdiance baa been in force and ThaCtjCaUy aU newsPaPers ZtJ** Slar «* compelled to in, P‘ “• ,f >°» *et a notice say *nd «ju ''“bscription wiu expire stop on a specified f 7d or bring a renewal 5 ”r 12 months. The cash li>r '-" pr??' ",rM,,i, y applies to th I^JnaSn f "* W'tho,,t dls Mellon In $300,000 Appeal W. A. Seifert Andrew W. Mellon Andrew W. Mellon, multi-millionaire former secretary of the treas ury, indicated by the arrow, conferred in low tones with his counsel, W. A. Seifert, during the hearing at Pittsburgh on his appeal from a government levy of $3,000,000 for income taxes and penalties for 1931. A three-man United States board of tax appeals is hearing the appeal which Mellon stated was more for the purpose of clearing his name of fraudulent charges than avoiding payment of $3,000,000. ^Cleveland A Week Ahead In Ban On Slot Machines Solon C. Spake Burie dAt Ross Grove On Sunday Solon C Spake, 56 year old prom inent farmer and sawmill operator of near Kings Mountain who died of heart failure Saturday was bur ied at Ross Grove church Sunday when one of the largest crowds to gather at the church in years came to pay last respects. Mr. Spake was born and reared in Cleveland county, but for a number of years had lived in the Battleground community south of Kings Mountain He has many relatives and acquaintances in and near Shelby. In charge of funeral services were the Revs. J. J. Hicks, pastor of the Mountain View Baptist church, of which he was a member. Rush Pad gett, and Lawrence Roberts. Surviving him are his wife who before marriage was Miss Gertrude Whitworth, William, Roy, Ralph James, Laura Bell, Marie, Alma, Jessie May and Velma Spake, all of the Battleground community. There is one grandson and one brother, Cletus Spake, lives in Shelby. A sister, Mrs. Mary Gentry, lives in Alabama. Shoffner To Hear Wallace In Asheville Robert W. Shoffner, county agent, will hear Secretary of Agriculture Wallace at Asheville Saturday in an address before the “God’s Acre" j organization. Mr. Shoffner will at- j tend a meeting of western district: county agents in Asheville Thurs- ; day and on Friday will be present at a Tennessee Valley Authority conference. He said he had not been inform ed of the purpose of the TVA meet ing. Earl Byrum Reported In Serious Condition Earl Byrum. executive of the By rum Hosiery Mill, who was taken to j a Charlotte Hospital late last week,' is reported today to be in a serious, condition. He suffered a head in jury some weeks ago. Visitors are ] not allowed to see him. Cleveland county's slot machines fell under literal axes a week ahead of the state decree, which makes all such machines illegal in North Car olina. The senate yesterday passed the I hill fostered by Senator Johnson,! presented in the House by Repres- ! entatives Erwin, Thomas and Thompson, After ratification at noon today, it will be unlawful any where in the state to own, possess, lease, transport, have in one’s place of business or cause to be operated one of these machines, of which there are several thousand in the state. Cleveland’s drive against the gambling gadgets ended last Friday with destruction of 97 machines de clared contraband by Recorder By num E. Weathers. . "That damnable slot machine fattening off school lunch money and furnishing Cumberland county promoters Packards from profits obtained from fools like us,” thun dered Senator Johnson in urging passage of the bill. It was passed without a dissenting senate vote. Bingo-It’s a Game Offers 60 Prizes At League Party No written invitations are being sent out for the Bingo party which the Junior Civic League is sponsor ing, so here is your personal invita tion from Mrs. E. Yates Webb: Time: Saturday, February 23rd. Hour: Party begins at eight o’clock. Place; Main dining room of the Hotel Charles. Mrs. Webb, chairman in charge of arrangements, announced yester day that sixty prizes would be distributed to the lucky Bingo win ners. Bingo is a game similar to lottos. “Tell those who have never played this game before not to stay away for that reason,” Mrs. Webb said, “We guarantee to make them Bingo experts in less than thirty seconds. And remember, there are sixty handsome prizes.” Those assisting Mrs. Webb in clude Mrs. J. D. Lineberger, Mrs Draper Woods, Mrs. C. B. McBrayer, Mrs. Frank Hoey, Mrs. R. U. Woods, Mrs. Jean Schenck, Mrs. Cameron Shipp, Mrs. A. D. Brabble, Mrs. Flay Hoey, Mrs. Floyd Smith and Mrs. Tom Moore. Two Cleveland Physicians Read Papers At Memorial Convention Two papers by Cleveland county physicians were read yesterday and today before the Tri-States Medi cal association convention, meeting in Charlotte. Dr. S. M. Schenck spoke yester day on “Infection of the Terminal Phalanges of the Fingers,” and Dr. W. J. Lackey, of Fallston, spoke to day on “The Family Doctor." Among the Cleveland doctors who attended the convention were, be sides Dre. Lackey and Schenck, were the following: D. T. Bridges, E. V Moore, D. F. Moore and B. B Mat thews. Dr. W. G. Cliees. of Bun'1 was a guest of Dr. D. F Moore. Doctors attended the convention from the two Carolines and Vir ginia, reporting one of the best meetings since the association was organized in 1899. The next con vention will be held in South Caro lina. A memorial service honoring members who have died during the last year, preceded'the election of officers and the choice of next year’s meeting place, will conclude the convention, which has brought to Charlotte many of the leading physicians and specialists of the j section and a number of men na lionally and internationally dis tinguished in the field ol medicine. Youthful Gunmen Taken In Shelby Confess Murder Cleared On Charge of Marshal Holdup In Asheville Jail After Killing; Of Aged Storekeper; Didn't Kob Jolley. Following up a number of clues and Unking a number of tell-tale facU together to point towards their guilt officers of the law in Madison county yesterday forced a confession of a gruesome murder frdm the three youths who were arrested here Friday by 8helby po licemen. The three alleged murderers and gunmen were suspected of the hold up and fatal beating of William Thomas, 70-year-old storekeeper of the Shelton Laurel section above MarshaU. Their real names are Robert Thomas, Otis Gunter and Arthur Gosnell. although thev irave their names in Shelby as Kemp London and Sam and Bill Bishop. Followed Here Chief of Police Yates Duncan of cSpindale traced the trio to Shelby after tht-y had been suspected also of robbing J. T. Jolley ol near Chesnee of more than $300. How ever, their confession eliminates their possibility of being connected with that affair. Word from Ruth erford county officers today indi cated that one arrest has been made, that of a man near Chesnee. Two guns- were taken from the boys at the time of their arrest, and since their confession they are in the Buncombe county Jail, after threatened violence in Marshall necessitated their transfer. Sauline Players To Present Plays At Shelby High Two Performances At High School Auditorium On Friday Of This Week. —— sr On February 22, Mr. and Mrs Josef Sauline and their all stai players will present two outstand ing and successful plays in the Shelby school auditorium. These players have not been presented in Shelby since 1933, when they pre sented two excellent plays “Peg O’ My Heart” and “Your Uncle Henry." This year the plays to be given are “Flaming Youth,” oi “The Patsy," and “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp." “Flaming Youth” is a light, en joyable comedy. The story con cerns a young girl, her older sis ter and two lovers. “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" is based on the legend of the same name. This play is suitable for children, but it will also be most entertaining for adults. There are spectacular scenic effects and dazzling cos tumes of the orient which accom pany this play. The afternoon performance be gins at 2:50 and the night per formance, “Flaming Youth,” begins at 7:30. Any room of the elemen tary schools that presents $2.50 at the door and comes in a group with the teacher will be admitted for this price in the afternoon only. These performances are being sponsored by the Publication club of Shelby high school. 2 Negroes Sentenced For Stealing Chickens If Walter Myers and C. O. Phil lips, colored, in whose imagination the savor of roast chicken was strong, get a taste of chicken for six months they'll be lucky. Chick en isn't staple diet on the chain gang. Both were convicted in Recorders Court yesterday morning of hen thieving, Walter forayed in the chicken house of Cecil Eaker, In No. 8 township. Phillips attacked Dr. S. S. Royster’s, hen house. Constable Bob Kendrick caught them both. Walter got nine months Phillips six. FERA Offers To Buy Eggs For Hatching EGGS WANTED! Nope, this Isn’t a classified ad slipped in here by mistake. It's an PERA news story. It comes from County Agent R. W. Shoffner, who announced that the FERA people at Forest City will buy 500 dozen hatching eggs a week, from the heavier breed of hens, for their new chicken project. The young chickens will be sold at nom nal prices to rehabilitation home raders. Bee Mr. Bhoffncr about it. \ Generalissimo General de Bon* General Emilio de Bono, above, ha* been placed in charge of Ital ian troops mobilized on the bor ders of Abyssinia, where warfare threatens to break out between the Ethiopian forces and Italian troops. Pneumonia Take3 Miss Hollifield; Buried Thursday Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 o’clock at the Zoar Baptist church for Mias Hattie Hol ltfield, 42, who died of pneumonia and a heart attack at the Shelby hospital Tuesday after an illness of about three weeks. She had been in declining health since Christmas Miss Hollifield, until she was carried to the hospital was making her home on South Morgan atreet with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Champion She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Hollifield. In charge of funeral services will be the Rev. C. V. Martin pastor ol the Second Baptist church of which she was a member. He wil be as sisted by Revs. Rush Padgett and W. A. Elam. She is survived by four sisters f and one brother. They are Mrs, Mattie Champion, and Mrs. Fannie Owens, of Shelby, Mrs. J. W j Owens, of Bostic, Mrs. D. A. Jones ; of Blacksburg, and C. L. Hollifield of Zoar community. John Falls Dies In Newark, N. J. John D. Falls, age 85, died this morning at 7:30 o’clock hi a New ark, N. J. hospital where he had been under treatment for several months. Funeral will be held Thurs day in Newark, N. J. and Claude C. Falls of Shelby and FalLston will leave here tonight to attend the Deceased was a son of Thos. D. Falls and was born In Prentess county, Miss., to which place his father moved In 1866. John came back and lived In Cleveland county for awhile before going to Newark where he was a federal meat In spector in a packing house until he was retired some years ago. Surviving are his wife and three children, together with three broth ers, Claude Falls of FalLston, Flet cher Falls of Rising Star, Texas and Ben Falls of Lincoln county. Holland Child Is Buried On Tuesday Herman Lawson, eleven months old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Hol land died Sunday night at tan o’clock. Funeral services were held at Dobbins church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, after which interment was in the cemetery there. He is surlived by his parents, two broth ers and one sister, Gertrude, Dale and Norman, five half brothers and one half sister, Grady, A. D„ Les ter, Paul, Nix, and Mrs. Buren Humphries. Serving as flower girls were the seven little cousins, and pallbear ers were the four uncles. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. W. M. Gold. Propst Is Building Duplex Dwelling J. O. Propst has let the contract to Claude Mitchem for the erection of a duplex dwelling on Gidney street on the rear of the lot where the Propst, family lives. It will be of frame construction with each apartment having three large | rooms, with baths, breakfast looms, ■ etc. School Supporters Ask Legislature Increase Budget Endorsement Follows Talk By Smith Aaka Restoration Of 98 Percent Of Salary Cat: Hn* Condition* Greatly Improved. An assembly of more than 300 Shelby school supporters on Mon day night enthusiastically voted to call upon the North Carolina legis lature to appropriate $33,000,000 for public schools and to glvu the teachers a 36 per cent Increase in salary. The emphatic endorsement of the program of the state school of ficials, the officials of the P. T. A., and the emergency committee fol lowed an explanation on the part of Capt. B, L. Smith In which he pointed out that the provision for the operation of schools over the next two years will be made by the general assembly within the next few weeks. Salary Cat M Percent He spoke of the out of thirty eight per (sent from salaries amount ing to $8,000,000 by the legislature of 1933. He said that conditions l^ave greatly Improved and that living expenses have Increased. He called attention to the more than 3,000 resignations during this year and warned that It will rep resent only the beginning unless hope bf improvement Is held out. Conservative Estimate He said that the sum of $22,000, 000 Is a conservative estimate of the needs for essential operating re quirements and provision for a 35 per cent Increase in salaries. It was made clear that the Increase represents a restoration of only half the cut that was made. Any hope of preferential treat ment was disclaimed. It Is the hope of the friends of education that the 900,000 public school children and their teachers be not discriminated against. Asks Mr Rhare Capt. Smith expressed the belief that the roads will receive a sub stantial Increase as win the Univer sity of North Carolina and other public services of the state. He ex pressed the wish that public schools will receive their fair share of ap propriation. Dr. Shelton Phelps made a most lavoraoie impression wun ms thoughtful address. He declared that we live In the most Interesting period of history; that it is the most difficult age; and that it is necessary to read and study as never before to meet the demands of the times. Speaks On P. T. A. Mrs. R. L. Sanborn told of the 38 years of the P. T. A. work. Her subject was "Realizing the Objec tives of the Pounders.” She touch ed upon every phase of endeavor from the beginning to the efforts at securing *22,000,000 in North Carolina for schools. Graham school was awarded the five dollar prize for having the largest per cent of parents pres ent. Mrs. B. T. Palls. council presi dent, congratulated the officers and members of the several associations upon their accomplishments for the year. She spoke not only of the tangible benefits of added radios, sets of encyclopedias, first aid kits, playground equipment, and library books, but also of the Intangible benefits of cooperation, organized effort, and sustained morale. BANKS AND B. AND L'S TO CLOSE ON FRIDAY All local banks and building and loan associations will be closed Fri day of this week in observance of Washington’s birthday. McSwain Offers Bill To Let School Units Issue Building Bonds Sends Measure To Erwin For Approval; Would Permit Districts and Townships to Obtain Funds From PWA County Attorney Peyton McSwain yesterday mailed to Superintendent of North Carolina Schools Clyde A. Erwin 8 statewide bill amending the consolidated statutes so as to al low special school districts to incur indebtedness and issue bonds for repairs and new schools. Red Cross Head R«*r Admiral Cary T. Oray •on, above, one-time Whlta llousa physician, bas been ap pointed chairman of the Na tional Red Cross by President llooeevelL Grayson sucoeeds John Barton Payne, who died recent ly Mrs. M. A. Howell, 90 Years Of Age, Paralysis Victim Dim At Home Of Son On Uldney Street; Funeral At New Prospect. One of Shelby's oldest and most respected residents was taken by death this morning at 2:30 when Mrs. M. A. Howell, BO, succumbed to a stroke of paralysis following a general decline of health for about a year and a half. At the time of her death she was at the home of her son, T. O. Howell, on Oldney street. Funeral services will be held liom the home at 11 o'clock Thursday, conducted by the Rev. C. V. Mar tin, and interment will be at New Prospect cemetery. Lived With Son Mrs. Howell Joined New Prospect church in early life and had been a faithful member until her death. She attended services there regu larly until her husband died sev eral years ago and she came to Shelby to live with her son. Surviving Mrs. Howell are T. O. Howell, of Shelby, C. M. Howell, of Kings Mountain, and one daugh ter, Miss Dora Howell, of Shelby, There are 27 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. She was known to a large circle of friends and relatives as a kind, devoted mother and church mem ber. Your Pocketbook’s Neither Richer NorLeanerFromCoartGoldDecree WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.—Here’s an A-B-C glance at what the gold decision means: To the wrinkled dollar bills in your pocket—nothing, with a big "N.” They 11 buy Just as much as they did yesterday and still make 100 pennies, 20 nickels, 10 dimes and four quarters. As to the $1,000 railroad bond you may own which has a clause prom ising to pay In the old dollar or Its equivalent In gold—agaig practical ly nothing. You can collect $1,000 in the kind of dollars you’ve been using every since the government cut—on its account books—the gold content of the dollar from 25.8 grains to 15 5-21 grains. To the holder of a $1,000 govern ment bond promt' mg to gay in gold (of the old dollar which today would J mean $1,690 In the devalued dollar —once again practically nothing The court held the government did not have the right to break it* promise to pay the bond In the old gold dollar but—try and collect. The court of claims wont receive youi suit so the only thing left is tc accept $1,000 In the kind of dol lars you’ve got in your pocket now. To the holder of gold certificates —if you’ve got one—are subject to prosecution. If you put In your claim for an extra payment in the devalued dollars when you turned the certificates over to the govern ment, It won’t mean much. The court held in effect that $1, 690 in devalued dollars was due for every $1,000 in gold certificates but like the federal bonds- try and ..rr.vn..„nvv,|r WV WUUblCD, ill" eluding Cleveland, would be affect* ed. In three counties, schools were erected and have been maintained by districts, which are now barred by law from Issuing bonds, and therefore from deriving help from the Public Work administration. In Shelby, for Instance, the request for a $20,000 high school building la an Idle demand until the legislation enabling township No. « to float bonds Is passed. In Instances where schools were built by county-wide bonds, the bill would not apply. Approved By Grig* The county attorney's measure goes to Raleigh for approval by Mr. Erwin with the endorsement of County Superintendent Horace Grlgg and City Superintendent B. L. Smith. If It falls as a state-wide measure, Mr. McSwatn said, it will be offered as a local bill. Among the provisions of the bill are these: "The board of county commis sioners of any county in the state shall, upon the petition of the coun ty board of education, order an election after 30 days' notice at the court house door and a publication of four weeks In some newspaper published in the county, to be held In any county, township or school district to ascertain whether the voters . , . are in favor of Issuing bonds for the purpose of building, re-bullding or repairing school houses, and furnishing the same. Petition Necessary "The petition filed by the board of education and the order for the election by the board of county commissioners shall slate the amount of the bonds to be Issued, the rate of interest they are to pay, the length of time said bonds are to run, and the maximum tax that may be levied thereunder against the property in said coun ty. townahtp or district. If the peti tion asks for an election to bp held in a township or school district it shall bo signed by 10 per cent of the resident freeholders of such township or school district before It Is presented to the board of com missioners. If the petition Is for a district It shall also set forth by metes and bounds the territory In ciuurn m saw district, and the or der for the election by the board of commissioners shall also contain a description of said district by metes and bounds. "All bonds issued under this ar ticle shall be serial bonds, the pro portionate part of the principal amount thereof being payable dur ing the term for which they are is sued. None of said bonds shall be issued for a longer term than 90 years, and the Interest on said bonds shall not exceed five per cent (Continued on page ten) Shelby Legion 10th InState Roster For Membership The Warren F. Hoyle post of the American Legion now stands tenth In number of members in the en tire state, according to figures just released from state headquarters at Lexington. The post now has 226 members, the largest number In Its history with the exception of one year when 226 men were members. However, a number of other mem bers are expected to join the post within the next few days and Shel by is lssured of the largest post in Its history. The nine places in North Caro jlina having larger posts than does I Shelby are Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, Wilmington, Wil son, Greenville, Gastonia and Oteen. Smaller Posts. Among the towns and cities as large or larger than Shelby in which the legion posts are smaller than the Warren F. Hoyle post are Win ston-Salem, High Point, Salisbury, Statesville, Concord. Asheville, Hick ory, Elizabeth City, Goldsboro, Kin ston Fayetteville, Burlington and Reldsville. In addition to the 226 members of the Shelby post there are 66 ad ditional legion members in the two 'other posts in Cleveland county, 60 at Kings Mountain and five at (Grover.
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