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VOL. XU, No. 25
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1936
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Sentiment Strong
For Local Option
In Hill Measure
Author Approves
Proposed Change
Amendment May Be Inserted To
Replaff Referendum If BiU
I* up Today.
RALEIGH, Feb. 21.-The Hill 11
^or control and referendum bill,
wbjCb is causing more sUr and corn
et m North Carolina than any
stiier pending measure, was re-,
ported ou* ol committee yesterday
“without prejudice” and becomes
0,f seventh bill on the senate cal
endar for action today. Senator
John Sprunt Hill, author of the
bill, said the sooner the debate the
better he would like it.
Another story from Raleigh this
morning, however, changes the en
tire complexion of passible liquor
control In this state.
Amendment Looming
If the Hill bill is taken up the
senate today, and the measure is
on the calendar for action, there
are strong indications that an
amendment will be offered strip
ping tt of its referendum provisions
and providing, instead, local op
tion.
The author has been approached
by a number of senators and rep
resentatives urging him to elimin
ate the referendum clause. Their
plan is to submit the question of
state- operated liquor stores to lo
cal option. If 20 per cent of the
registered voters of any municipal
ity sign a petition an election could
be called on the question of such a
state-operated store. Senator Hill
would not be adverse to such a plan,
it was reported.
Late Newt
THE MARKETS
Cotton seed wagon, ton_47.00
Cotton seed, car, ton_50.00
Cloudy, Colder
Weather forecast for North Car
olina: Cloudy, colder In central and
east portions Wednesday; Thursday
fair, rising temperature.
Fight To Finish
Organized labor leaders summon
ed hastily into a secret conference
in Washington late yesterday agreed
to fight to the end for the prevail
taf-wage amendment to the $4,
W0.ooo.oon jobs bill despite vigorous
opposition from the White House.
action further widened the
5«ch between the unionists and
•resident Roosevelt which began
Jdth the extension of the automo
bile code over objections of labor.
« President William Green of the
«nerican Federation of Labor met
th members of his executive
wuncil and Sen. Pat McCarran.
Tug Of War
A tug of war was on late la
*8ht as politicians both wet ai
wy waited impatiently for the fii
n ,yesterday's Alabama prohit
.arl,.*leflon- K appeared fro
■ Ttums that modification
y^r old dry statut
Wkhd,««the order of the ds
„ "v 165 °ut of 2.156 precincts r
, ‘he vote 5t00d I4-096 I
r -r and 68811 for rete;
°f the present statutes.
McCracken Jailed
th^n, the authority
William « S,ates senate or a ye
P- M^Gracken, assista
. * ry of commerce under He
trio ntTf' WaJked into the Dj
•^l a ^Tbla Jal1 y^terday
temnt » day eentence for era
S' , Rl8 offense was that 1
from Jjroduce certain pape
f after the ^ate hi
pHarr Appointed
Pharr- Charlotte laWyi
Carolina h Speaker of the Nor
15 the ia,i!?USe of representatlvi
Position in app°intee to a fedei
began hi n Washington. Mr. Pha
ter'of thP lniei Monday a® » mer
National Hergal department of tl
RP in fv overy administrate:
will aid in m !&1 deP“tment ai
tag out oi r-he tnal of causes ari
ann ”.violatlon of the NF
bury a ,h/,hJ al,e*ed »<*s co:
Summoned In Munitions Probe
Eugene G. Grace
Charlee M. Schwab
Senate munitions investigators have summoned Charlc M. Schwab,
right, of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., and Eugene G. Grace, left,
head of Bethlehem Steel, to appear before the committee to answer
questions concerning their companies’ activities in munition and
warship manufacture.,
Two-Bale Exemption Asked
By Agriculture Group For
i Tenants, Share-Croppers
I
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The
house agriculture committee yester
day moved to include tenant farm
ers and shard-croppers in the two
bale exception proposed lor small
cotton farmers under the Bank
head control act, after hearing
farm administration adjustment
officials argue such a policy would
destroy the program.
Cully A. Cobb, AAA cotton chief,
told the committee the administra
tion thought best to apply the ex
emption only to small farmers
owning their own farms, adding
that to include share-croppers and
tenants working on the farms of
landlords would complicate admin
istration of the act.
Members of the committee, how
ever, contended share-croppers and
tenants were as much individual
farmers as small producers who
>wn their own land and should be
entitled to the exemption.
Oppose* Discrimination
“If some plaid cannot be worked
sut to Include tenants and share
croppers in the exemption, we are
joing to run Into Infinite difficul
ties,” 'said Chairman Jones. “Such
liscrimtnation against them would
io more to wreck the program than
anything else.”
Immediately after the hearing,
Jones instructed subcommittees
(leaded by Representatives Fulmer,
Democrat, of South Carolina, and
Doxey, Democrat of Mississippi, to
prepare exemption legislation to in
clude share-croppers and tenants.
Fulmer already has introduced such
i measure.
Cobb told the committee the farm
(Continued on page ten.)
Want an Old School Bus?
Here’s Chance to Buy One
By popular demand, says Super
intendent of Schools J. Horace Grigg
the county will on Monday after
noon at 3 o'clock offer at public
auction a dozen or so battered, out
moded and delapidated school buses
some of which, he says, will actually
run.
The sale will be held at the coun
ty garage, conducted by an auc
tioneer yet un-named. Mr. Grigg de
nied the report that he himself
would be the auctioneer.
Hie usefulness of an aged school
bus does not end when that vehicle
is no longer fit to transport boys
and girls to and from Cleveland’s
big red brick school houses, Mr.
Grigg insists. In fact, his sales ar
guments for an old bus are rather
compelling.
They make excellent playhouses
| for children, he says. They are swell
chicken coops—though you’d better
take the wheels off, with hen thiev
es working on a wholesale basis
! these days. And they are grand din
ing cars—like those antiquated
| street cars now adorning North La
Fayette street. In fact, you could
just about set one up and live in
lit—if you were the kind of person
who wanted to live in an old school
bus.
There are all kinds of stray gadg
ets and thingumbobs for sale too,
;Mr. Grigg announces.
Marble Shooting Slot Machines
Held Illegal By Attorney Gen.
Marble-shooting slot machines,
whose destruction on bonfires or
dered here by Recorder Bynum
Weathers brought protests from
owners—and from some players,
who said they weren’t gambling
machines—were outlawed yesterday
by a ruling from Attorney General
A. A. P. SeawelL
Slot machines that offer an ele
ment of chance so as to lend them- |
selves to a transaction based upon
unpredictable return yielded by the
device are illegal, the attorney gen
eral said:
"The difference between the new
law and the old law relating to slot
machines or coin-operated devices,”
Seawell wrote, “is that the old law
regarded more closely the device it
self. and denounced a machine
which, upon question, did not yield I
at all times Identical returns In
market values. The new law, in
addition to this, denounces a slot
machine device which may be
adapted to use as a gambling ma
chine by yielding an unpredictable
return of something of value or
something that may be converted
into value.
‘ GeneraJy speaking,” Seawell ad
vised, “the act covers ‘border-line’
machines and transactions there
with which have not been consider
ed definitely included in the pro
hibition of the criminal law." Ma
chines that give no return. but
which may be played with aki un
derstanding with the proprietor
would be covered under the law,
Seawell said.
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All Automobile
Owners Must Get
State License
Ratification Of Bill
Assured Today
No Charge Made Prior To November
1, When Law Goes Into
Effect.
Defeat of Senator Arthur B. Co
rey’s motion for the senate to re
consider its vote on concurrence in
house amendments to the drivers'
Ucense bill yesterday insured rati
fication of the measure today, to
take effect November 1. Author of
one of the original drivers’ license
bills of the season. Senator Corey
saw his motion killed by a 27-19
vote.
Provisions Of Law
The Uniform Drivers’ License
law will Include the following ma
jor provisions:
All drivers of motor vehicles, ex
cept those expressly exempted, shall
be licensed. An operator's license
shall not be issued to anyone under
the age of 16; no chauffeur’s Ucense
16 anyone under 18; operators of
public passenger vehicles shall be
21. Parents or guardians must sign
license applications of minors be
tween the ages of 16 and 18.
No Charge Until Nov. 1.
There will be no charge for li
censes obtained prior to November
1, 1935, when the law will take ef
fect. Thereafter the charges will be
$1 for operators and $2 for chauf
feurs. A lost license will be replac
ed at a cost of 50 cents.
Applications for licenses shall be
made upon approved forms fur
nished by tile department. "The
department” is the agency having
control of the highway patrol—at
present, the Motor Vehicle bureau.
Prior to November 1, one year’s
driving*license will be' fcriiria facie
qualification for a license. There
after, applicant without previous
experience must pass an examina
tion.
Persons specifically exempted
from Ucense requirements include;
drivers of Army, Navy or Marine
vehicles; operators of industrial and
farm machinery; holders of licenses
from other states.
Licenses may be cancelled when
issued to persons not entitled to
have them or to persons who have
made false statements in their ap
plications.
Drive Begun Un
Infant Mortality
And Tuberculosis
An energetic start on the two
fold heatlh program outlined by the
Cleveland Medical society has been
made by Miss Harte Oliver during
her first week's duties as Red Cross
nurse here.
Infant hygiene, with special em
phasis on pre-natal care, and the
care gnd control of tuberculosis
were the points emphasized by the
doctors. The death rate from tub
erculosis is high here, and the in
fant mortality great, according to
state records.
There are today 200 reported
cases of tuberculosis in the county.
There were 19 deaths from this
disease in 1932.
Miss Oliver, in her first week,
has given instruction in eight pre
natal cases, advised parents of 11
new babies, visited 13 tuberculosis
cases, and in all has called on 23
homes, in addition to 21 other pro
fessional calls. She has also visited j
a few of the schools.
She will continue next week the
home hygiene school begun under
Miss Covington at the colored
school.
Prisoners Destroy
Their Own Beds
Something will certainly have to
be done about those beds in the jail
Sheriff Raymond Cline and County
Auditor Troy McKinney talked it
over yesterday, and planned a trip
to Charlotte. They want to find a
bed a mischievous prisoner can't
maltreat.
Prisoners aren't supposed to have
knives, but they manage to get
hold of razor blades—and they take
out their ire against the persons
who locked them up by slashing
taeir canvas beds into ribbons. Many
a pot in the Jail looks more like »
:att"red but dirty Mardt Gras ban
ner The sheriff suggests steel bed.'
U. S. Baby Bonds
On Sale March 1
United States sayings bonds,
familiarly known as “baby
bonds,’’ will go on sale at the
Shelby postoffice Friday, March
1, says Postmaster J. H. Quinn.
A supply of bonds in all de
nominations has already been
received at the local postoffice.
Issued only in registered form,
the “baby bond" will mature In
ten years and the maturity val
ue, together with the Issue prloe,
will be as follows: $35 bonds will
sell for $18.75; $50 for $37.50;
$100 for $75; 500 for $375 and
1,000 for $750.
New Dairy Plant
OpensHereToday;
Public It Invited
Machinery Is Revelation In Modem
Sanitary Efficiency; Bays
From Cleveland County.
How a modern dairy pasteurises
and bottles creamy white milk,
passing it through stainless steel
pipes straight to the bottling ma
chine without contact with human
hands wi.l be demonstrated to the
public this afternoon at the formal
opening of the Carolina Dairy, Inc.,
on North Lafayette street.
Albert S. Browning and Dr. S. B.
Till, proprietors, invite the public
to call between 4 and 8 p. m. to
day. Glasses of cool milk and fresh
orange Juice will be served.
Everything Sterilised
A pre-view of the plant Is a rev
elation in modern efficiency. Pumps,
pipe lines, vats—an are arranged
so they may be dismantled instant
ly for sterilization. This la accom
plished in a huge tank, a larger
replica of the device used In hos
pitals, into which live steam la
turned. * , - -*t- *~
A special feature at this sani
tary plant, Mr. Browning said, to a
laboratory supervision of Dr, Till,
a licensed veterinarian, who has
specialised in this type of work.
All milk to purchased from
Cleveland oounty producers! Mr.
Browning expects to buy even more
this summer when his Henderson
ville plant is called on to supply
the thousands of summer visitors.
Milk, orange Juice and butter
milk are the products offered now.
Some time next year, the plant will
begin the manufacture of ice cream.
S. J. Browning is plant manager.
Union Promises
To Aid Receiver
At Byrum Hosiery
C. Lester Adams, representative
of the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers, yesterday an
nounced a special meeting to be
held at Union Hall Saturday even
ing at 7:30 which hosiery workers,
union or non-union, are urged to
attend.
The meeting win be for all tex
tile workers, but special emphasis
will be placed on the hosiery In
dustry. Mr. Adams will speak on
“Hours, Wages and Codes.” Paul R.
Christopher, of Shelby, president
of the State Textile Union, will also
speak.
“At this time, we want particu
larly to co-operate with the re
ceiver, Mr. Fearrlngton, at the By
rum Hosiery mill,” Mr. Adams said.
About one-third of the workers of
that mill are now employed, but
Mr. Fearrlngton Is making every
effort to start soon in full opera
tion.
In the meantime, many of the
workers have gone to nearby hos
iery centers, like High Point, until
the Shelby mill resumes on full
time.
Chickens Stolen,
Found, Lost Again
This Is a sad story.
It Is about a man whose chick
ens were stolen. About a dozen of
W. W. Putnam’s fine chickens were
taken from his farm on Kings
Mountain route 1 a short time ago.
Deputies Bob Kendrick and
John Hord found some chickens and
turned them over to man who said
he was the owner and satisfactorily
identified the flock. The officers
considered the matter settled.
Yesterday Mr. Putnam, the real
owner, was still looking for his
fowls. He went in the direction of
Lawndale where he was working
on some clues. He fears however,
tat the birds have already been
old and are not in the county now
FHA To Institute
New Home Drive,
Arranging Loans
Possible To Borrow
Up To $16,000
M ran while, Shelby CwTUwn Re
port Widespread Demand For
Repairs.
Dr. J. S. Dorton, chairman of the
county Better Homes Campaign
under the Federal Housing admin
istration, this morning announced
the impending opening here of the
second division under the FHA
plan, which will finance loans for
new homes.
In the meantime, canvassers un
der the FERA reported 473 calls on
homeowners in Shelby through the
week ending Feb. 33. Their reports
continue to indicate there are hun
dreds of homeowners in the city
who are Interested in making re
pairs—and the majority of them do
no require loans.
Lean Up To $18,000
Under the second division of the
FHA program, loans will be arrang
ed through the National Mortgage
corporation up to 80 per cent of the
value of the property and propos
ed building, but not exceeding a
total of $18,000.
Six canvassers have been work
ing in Shelby, two in Kings Moun
tain. So far. none has been assign
ed to the county. The week’s re
port shows that 188 tenants were
contacted, where owners could not
be reached, and 81, owners were
seen.
The following recapitulation of
work requests was made:
Carpenter 40. concrete five, elec
trical one, heating three, landscap
ing five, masonry five, painting 66,
plumbing seven, roofing 34, paper
hanging eight, termite eradicating
two, weather stripping five, altera
tions two, additions 1$, miscellan
eous seven.
No Word Received
On 1935 Reduction
A routine question by every cot
ton farmer when he calls at County
Agent Bob' Shoffner’s office is
“When does the 1035 reduction cam
paign start?”
Alvin Propst. Bankhead Admin
istrator for the county, said this
morning that not a word has been
received from Raleigh or Washing
ton, not a hint as to when or how
to start.
By this time last year, the county
campaign was virtually complete.
Hotel Chimney Blaze
Wain’t Really A Fire
Blazes spurting from the kitchen
chimney of the Hotel Charles this
morning brought the fire depart
ment and a crowd. It wasn’t a fire
at all, said Manager S. C. Hewitt
just some soot firing off.
Can’t List Streets
For Paving Project
Mayor 8. A. McMurry, who is
still confined to his home after
an attack of Influenza, said yes
terday that no statement could
be made now on the streets to
be paved under the project re
cently approved by the FERA.
No specific list of streets to be
paved has been made, he said,
so the many queries of “When
will our streets get some atten
tion?” cannot now be answer
ed. The project, however. Is
ready to start soon.
Match Gifts By Webb
And Miller To Build
Addition To Hospital
Off For Pole
Lincoln ElUworth
Her* it Lincoln Ellsworth, well
known polar explorer, at he ar
rived by plane at Miami, FI*., «n
route to New York where he hopes
to obtain financial backing for a
/light over the Antarctic regions.
Ellaworth has just completed an
expedition to the Antarctic.
Surprising Talent
Claimed By Males
In Chorine Parts
Legionnaires Striving To Appear
Ridiculous In Show Tomorrow,
But Art Will Out.
With the American Legion show
‘put together" and ready to go
from the opening song and dance
act of the ballet to the final chorus
of the entire company in celebra
tion of the weeding of William 8.
Crowder to Daniel Allen Tedder,
blending into a finale with the
sound of off-stage bugle calls as the
color guard marches front and
center, the entire cast of 75 or
more Shelby business and profes
sional men are entirely satisfied
that nothing funnier has ever
been seen, heard or thought of in
this section of the county. Final
dress rehearsal is being held Wed
nesday night.
The show, which will be given for
the benefit of the American Legion
building fund at the high school
auditorium Thursday and Friday
nights of this week at 8:15, will
last for two hours and a half.
New Talent Revealed
Diversified numbers of dances
jokes, solo song numbers and choral
singing will be enjoyed. While the
ridiculous Is being striven for,
friends and relatives of the cast are
due for a tremendous surprise as
latent talent discovered here by
Mrs. William M. North, the direc
f Continued on page ten)
Gardner Occupational Disease
Bill Is Approved In Committee
The joint legislative insurance
committee yesterday made a fav
orably report on Ernest Gardner’s
bill to allow compensation for vir
tually all occupational ailments, af
fording relief to workmen who con
tract disease peculiar to their trade.
It is a state Industrial commission
measure.
The workmen’s compensation act
of 1929 covers accidents only.
Necessity for such a blU was
brought out last year year when the
state supreme court held in the
McNeely case that an occupational
ailment was compensable as an ac
! ciden.t
Most prominent in the disease
".roup mentioned are lung diseases, j
which Include various kinds o!
poisoning, and anthrax, a malady
which results from handling cattle
and hides.
Chairman Harry McMullan, T.
A. Wilson and J. Dewey Dorsett of
the Industrial commission, appear
ed In behalf of the bill, as did R.
R. Lawrence, president of the State
Federation of Labor, and Dr.
McPheeters of Charlotte, a special
ist In dust diseases.
Pasasge of the Mil would cause
workmen’s compensation rates to
mount. Dan C. Boney, state com
missioner of Insurance, told the
committee. He added, however, that
he saw no ten th for f*>t?ct:'.n since
the priori;).'! t «■' i are
willing to bear the extra cost.
$5,000 Is Needed
FImm Are Now Beta* Drown By
Architects For Appnnl Of
The Hospital Tract ssa.
The Duke Foundation trustees
hove voted a Rift of $13,500 to the
Shelby Public hospital for bunding
purposes, to match the gift of tie,*
000 made lost fall by A. Hatcher
Webb, It was announced yesterday
by O. U. Mull, a trustee on the hos
pital board.
Mr. Mull was notified yesterday
afternoon by telephone that the
Duke Foundation has sot said* this
amount and that it is available im
mediately for building purposes.
The trustees had applied for a gift
of $15,000.
Making Drawings
The hospital trustees have not
decided exactly on the plans for
the enlargement, but It is under
stood that architects are making
drawings in line with suggestions
to be submitted for approval by the
trustees.
The $10,000 gift by Mr. Webb
will provide a maternity unit on the
second floor of the addition as a
memorial to his mother, as set out
in his donation worth *«f
flheiby bonds. Ttwr maternity uipi
will be used for mothers and their
new-boms, while the first floor oi
the addition will provide more
wards. At present the hospital has
between 40 and 50 beds and this
number is not sufficient to care
for the patients that apply for en
trance at times.
The Miller Gift
Some years ago A. O. Miller left
a bequest of $3,500 to the hospital
to be used as the trustees see fit.
This amount has not been used
and is still available, having been
placed to the account of the Bhelby
hospital fund in the county tress
It Is thought that ths $35,000
will provide between 13 and II
more beds than the hospital has
now. In addition to Accommodation*
for patients, it will be necesssr? to
sdd some equipment, enlarge the
heating plant and install automatic
sprinkler system as a matter of pro
tection against fire.
Mr. Mull says a gift of $6,000 to
veneer the nurses' home would be
very acceptable. The frame build
ing needs brick veneering to add to .
Its comfort and place It in keeping
as far as appearances go with the
hospital and the colored ward
buildings.
urer’s office.
t
Two B. And Loans
ke-EIect Officers -
Both Make Gratifying Showings
During Past Year; Make $180,
0M In Loans.
Two building and loans associa
tions have Just held their annual
meetings and made gratifying re
ports to shareholders.
The Cleveland B. and L. held its
annual meeting at the Union Trust
Co. last week and re-elected Wm.
Lineberger president. Dr. J5. B.
Lattimore vice president and J. L.
Buttle, secretary-treasurer. During
the year tl43.000 had been loaned
and refinanced and the association
had paid out in profits to share
holders $17,000. The same directors
were re-elected.
The first meeting of the Shelby
and Cleveland County B. and L.
was held in Its new quarters In the
Lineberger building yesterday at
which time R. T. LeOrand was re
elected president, A. V. Hamrick
vice president and John P. Mull
secretary-treasurer. Gerald Morgan
was added to the directorate, suc
ceeding Lowry Austell, resigned.
I Shareholders were pleased with the
new offices of the association as
well as the excellent report on the
year’s bu^nass. Loans to the
rmount ol *75.000 had been made
I during the year.