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Call Phone 11 And l"»erl ,A ^ant In The Star for Result* —— . 8 Pages Today VOL XU. No- *6 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. MARCH 2ft. 193ft Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. nr Mult P#r jMr. (In idtUNI _ *!.*• CirrlM, p«r yrmr. (la idvBDN) _ H.M fill Not Tolerate Reckless Driving Declares Phillips Warn* Against Theft, Racketeering „ Term Opens Today With 53 ^ fuse Set: One Murder Trial. -.rtf.* ring, snatching, driving, professional hold and mystery murders have no Ice tn North Carolina and will not Z tolerated tn this part of the state, according to Judge Donald Phillips . Rnckmgham who is holding the fir March term of court here, hotrinning this morning. hjs charge to the jury the , business-like jurist scored the j taritv of law enforcement and said that the personal responsibility of citizens, in many cases, was just as much a cause as poor officers. Drivers License Law Judge Phillips declared that the newlv passed drivers license law would ho "as valueless as the paper it Is printed on in its preseiit form. said drunkenness, carelesness, poor machines and drivers who are ioo young are responsible for the tlarmingly high figure of three per j&v being killed on the highways of North Carolina. Solicitor L. S. Spurling of Lenoir ha' sufficiently recovered from a fpcent attack of flu to be able to meecute with his usual vigor. Pour Big Cases Fifty-three cases out of a docket gf 109 were billed to be tried this wet. Among these will be four of primary interest to the county. Hey am Jack Parks, charged with the murder of. J. R. Downs, Henry Brink, held in connection with a b»m-buming near Casar, the six (Continued on Page Eight) Loan Is Granted To Repair Schools, Smith Announces Shelby High And Negro Buildings To Receive $3,500 For Furrflsh ings And Work. The State Board of Education has approved the $3,500 loan requested lor Improvements, repairs and new furnishings for the Shelby High ichool and the colored school. Su perintendent B. L. Smith announced this morning. The actual cash will be received about May 1, he thought, but pro jects can be started immediately, Mr. Smith said. The loan is being made through | the Literary Fund, which has a re volving sum for the use of schools for building. Repairs for the buildings include new floors, weather-stripping, paint ing, and work to be done on the high school to make the auditor ium more comfortable in cold wea ther. The negro school is to receive a large amount for new furniture. Hie repairs will likely be made by WRA workers, Mr. Smith said. Late News THE MARKETS 0#‘*°" spot. 11 to llttc Cotton seed, wagon, ton_$45.00 Cotton seed, car, ton_$48.00 Warmer Tuesday weather forecast for North Caro ana: Cloudy, probably local show tf* Monday and Tuesday; warmer Tuesday, Confer In Berlin while Italy massed her man !J0'ver in a movement designed to 660 000 soldiers in the field, Sir 0 n Simon, British envoy, arrived Sunday afternoon for his mo mentous conference with Adolf Hit " brings the British protest wainst Germany’s re-armament, a 'n '"io'stion, which Britain, ap ^arT ! ' Pr°teste much leM • 411111 38d Germany. Trapped In Flame ^ 151 seething flames, six fd and losen were Sl 8nd burned severely yes 1nferno of fire that t!ub Club Rendevous, night ■ near Chicago. tv fating Machines Perm, Navy conducting ex S , that m«y r«ult in for “flvin„ * rirst-line defense of 30 Plane l!leshiP«.” giant fighting ’n«chn '' ng both bombs and deariiv"l„E,Uns and caHed the most n'mrm of war ever in Baptist Speaker Dr. J. T. Henderson, Knoxville, Tennessee, who will be heard In three messages to religious groups In Cleveland county next Sunday. He will be here at the First Bap tist church Sunday night. Baptist Deacons Meet March 31 At Double Springs More Than 400 Key Men Will Hear Dr. J. T. Henderson; First In South. More than 400 deacons are ex pected to gather at historic old Dou ble Springs Baptist church Sunday, March 31 to observe the first as sociational all-Deacons Day fellow ship meeting ever held in the state, and, according to Dr. Zeno Wall, the first ever held in the south. The gathering will be composed of Deacons, their wives, all pastors in the Kings Mountain association and deacons and pastors from both the Gaston and Sandy Run associa tions. It will be an all day meeting with dinner furnished by members of Double Springs church. Feature Speaker. The feature speaker of the day will be Dr. J. T. Henderson, general secretary of the Baptist Brotherhood with headquarters at Knoxville, Tennessee. He will make two ad lesdes during the day on “The Of fice of the Deacon” and “The Deac on at Work.” Presiding over the meeting will be the Rev. J. W. Suttle, pastor of the Double Springs church for nearly 20 years and moderator of the Kings Mountain association for 36 years. The association has 43 churches and nearly 14,000 members. Proposed By Wall. t Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First church in Shelby and president of the Baptist State convention pro posed the idea of having the deac ons, as key men of the church, meet together one day this year for fellowship, and be instructed more fully as to their duties and the hon cr of their office. Following is the program on which several men prominent in the re ligious life of the state will also ap pear; Morning. 10:00, Devotional, W. A. Elam; 10:20, Special Music; 10:25w Wel come, Pastor Suttle; 10:30, “The Of fice of Deacon,” Dr. J. T. Hender son. Knoxville. Tenn.; 11:15, Boil ing Springs College Quartette; 11:20, Offering and Announcements; 11:30, ‘What A Deacon Can Do," Supt. I. G. Greer, Thomasville; 12:00, Ad journ. Afternoon. 1:30, Devotional, A. G. Sargeant; 1:45. Male Qsiartette, First Baptist church. Shelby; 1:50, “The Deacon it Work,” Dr. J. T. Henderson; 2:25, 3olo, H. C. Seefeldt; 2:30, “How A Deacon Can Best Serve His Church,” Judge G. H. Jones, High Point 3:15, Adjourn. Revenue Measures Before Assembly; To Act on Liquor House Expected O.K. Money Bill Today Act h Expected To Raise Almost S62.000.000 Millions With .2 Per Cent Sales Tax RALEIGH, March 25.—Revenue and appropriations measure will take first rank again this week in legislative consideration, but may be closely followed in public inter est by senate action on the Hill li quor bill and 5 per cent beer. The house tomorrow afternoon is expected to give final approval to the revenue bill and thrust upon the senate the major legislative ac tivity for the week, as both the beer and liquor acts are pending in the upper branch. The senate meets to morrow night. Anti-sales taxers had not decid ed. it was learned, whether they wlli stage some fight on the revenue bill on third reading in the house torporrow or pin their hopes on re ducing or blocking the three per cent general levy in the senate. Completing consideration of the finance bill as a committee of the whole, the house, with Represen tative Cherry of Gaston showing the way, passed the act on first reading early Friday night, and then met. for two hours early Sat urday morning, just after midnight, to jam it through on second read ing. To Raise 62 Millions The revenue bill in its present form, carrying the three pier cent, exemptionless sales tax and a tax on dividends from corporation stocks, is estimated by revenue de partment officials to raise slightly less than $62,000,000 for the next biennium. The appropriations measure slat ed for immediate consideration by the house, calls for expenditures in excess of $64,000,000 Including 20 per cent increases in pay allotments for school teachers and state em ployes the first year and 25 percent increases the second. The house likely will begin dis Jcussion of the allocation of funds by to® “Trow night or Tuesday. Senator Harriss Newman of New Hanover, chairman of the senate finance committee said the revenue bill will be sent to his committee Tuesday, in the eVent it is passed by the house on third reading, •swman said there is a possibility of more public hearings. He plans, however, to get the measure on the floor of the senate after no more than two days in committee. Senator Thompson Amends Charter RALEIGH, March 25.—Senator Carl Thompson’s bill to amend the •charter of the town of Rutherford ton was passed by the senate Sat urday. It re-defines the corporate limits and empowers the mayor and council to purchase, lease, construct, operate, and maintain a golf course, swimming pool, parks, and other places of recreation . The measure was given a favor able report by the senate commit tee on counties, cities and towns. Criminal Calendar Measure Ratified RALEIGH, March *5—The general assembly has ratified the act to provide for a calen dar for the trial of criminal cases in the Superior courts of Cleveland county. This act, drawn as a bill by a committee composed of Pey ton McSwain, Maurice Weathers aiM C. C. Horn, acting for the Bar Association, was presented i in the House of Representative Ernest Gardner of Cleveland. * Most of the counties in the state already hav«^ provisions for a criminal calendar. Presidential Veto Seen * Certain For Patman Inflation Bonus Bill \ WASHINGTON, March 36.—A louhle blow of veto-overridding pro portions was struck at the president Friday when the house voted not inly to pay the $3,000,000 soldiers’ bonus now but also to use the cur rency inflation method of paying. Applause and window-rattling cowboy yells greeted preliminary de cisions which led to the final pas sage of the Patman bonus payment bill by a 318-to-90 vote. And the 207-to-204 choice of the Patman currency expansion plan against the orthodox Vinson-Amer ican Legion bill created an uproat that looked and sounded like a riot. The Patman bill now goes to the senate, and none knows what will happen to It there although polls have shown a majority In favor of cash payment. Even leaders con cede the house could muster the necessary two-thirds to override a presidential veto. The senate is another story. Months ago,' the president ex pressed his opposition to paying the bonus now on the ground that It would Interfere with his recovery program and at the same time give the soldiers something they were not due to receive until 1945. He informed party leaders he would veto it, 'although there have been suggestions of compromise. ^ Goose-Step Under Hitler Order Germany’s regular Reichswehr army ot 100,000, a section of which is shown above, will be trebled as a result of Adolf Hitler’! sensational announcement that universal military conscription would be resumed throughout the Fatherland, Versailles treaty to the con trary. At the head ot the now. powerful Nail army will be Gen. Werner von Blomberg'. inseL Grading Contract to be Let April 2nd on West Marion 12-Cent Lint Loan To Be Continued South Is Informed Wallace Denies Processing Tax To tc Lifted On Bread, Meat And Clothlnf. WASHINGTON. March 24 —The south was told Saturday by Secre tary Wallace that cotton loans would be continued on the 1935 < crops, although whether at the present 12-cent-a-pound rate re mained to be revealed. The secretary denied an Intima tion by Senator George, Democrat of Georgia, that proceesslng taxes were to be lifte£ on “bread, meat, ano clothing." George, after a visit to the White House, had combined the predic tion about processing taxes with the assertion that he was certain that the president would not permit the price of cotton to fall below the 12-cent loan level now in effect. Prom all indications this forced the department of agriculture to anounce that It intended to con tinue the cotton loans, an an nouncement that would not have been made in the ordinary course of events for several months. The 1935 crop does not begin to move to market until late summer. Prices Drop Sharply An accumulating surplus of cot ton attributed partly to the pres ent 12-cent loan has reflected it self recently in some of the most precipitate price drops in the staple for years. The cotton experts of the AAA and department of agriculture have concentrated on the problem and apparently have decided to con tinue loans and keep the several million bales now held by the gov ernment off the market until con sumption of the staple both here and abroad increases. Wallace in announcing that loans would be continued this year, also said that the 12-cent loans on the 1934 crop would be extended in definitely beyond July 31, 1935, | their present maturity date. The farmer has been permitted ] to borrow 12 cents a pound on his ! cotton, and the government takes the loss If the prices goes below that figure. Textile Executive* Are Guests Here Executives and agents of the Con solidated Textile Corporation were guests here Saturday of H. B Mill er, manager of the Ella Mill They included N. H. Wood, assistant treasure. George Hathaway, agent; Douglas Rupprecht, son of the pres-! ident of the company, and Mr. Dommerich an agent. Grading contract will be let lor West Marlon street on April 2nd when bids will be received by the State Highway and Public Works commission. At that time bids will be received In Raleigh. mi -twenty road and street projects, estimated to cost approximately (525,000, W. Vance Baise, chief highway engineer has anounced. Twenty five per cent of last year’s road allotment from the Federal government to North Carolina was earmarked for Federal highways through incorporated towns and cities. None of this money has been spent in Shelby heretofore. It is planned to grade and sur face West Marion street through “Lover’s Lane,” a distance of .92 of a mile, connecting with Highway No 20 at the river bridge. East bound traflce will be routed through Shel by as at present over Warren street, while west-bound traffic will be routed over Marion street, thus eliminating traffic congestion In the city. Chief Robinson Moves to Gaffney J. R. Robinson, for six years chief of the Shelby volunteer fire depart ment. has returned to Gaffney, his former home, to open a lunch stand and pool room on Limestone street. He has closed his pool room here, but his family has not yet moved. J. L. McDowell, assistant chief, will be in charge until an election can be held by the firemen. Chief Robinson came to Shelby to pitch for the local team in the old Blue Ridge league, and was a pow erful left-hander. Some seventeen years ago he also pitched for Gaff ney. and has always maintained a lively interest in thd sport. His son, Harry, is mana^r of the high school baseball team. R. E. Campbell Asks Merchants To Meet R. E. Campbell, head of the Shel by Merchant's association has an nounced that he Is calling a special meeting of all members of the as sociation to be in the court house this evening at 6 o’clock. The pur pose of the meeting was not made known, but it Is understood that a short but very important business matter will be taken up. Indians To Perform At Grover School There will be a real Indian pro gram put on by a troupe of Omaha Indians at the Grover school audi torium Tuesday, March 26 at 7:45. The purpose of the event is to show Indian methods of marriage, games, songs, dances and other customs There will be a small admission charge as it will be used for library benefit Valuable Papers Lost When Thief Gets Hotel Trunk Medical Man Victim In Robbery Here PoIIm Arrest Negro. Find Clothing. Shorn, But Document "Worth Thousands" ft til Miming. Documents invaluable and trre placable, belonging to the medical aaociation for which he works, were reported stolen from a Shelby hotel Saturday night by J. B. Long, of St. Paul. Minn. Mr. Long lost his trunk, sevcgil suits of clothes, two pairs of shoes, and the papers, the latter worth thousands doUars, he said. The papers, he said, were worth “thousands of dollars." Chief of Po lice D. D. Wilkins, informed of the robbery, immediately set in motion some of the detective resources he has at his command here, and the result was the arrest of a negro, O. V. Humphries, an ex-convict, in whose possession was found the shoes and one suit. The trunk, which was of the steamer variety, Is still missing. Chief Wilkins held up police broadcasts this afternoon, believing that certain clues would lead to the recovery of the trunk and paper to day or tomorrow. Mr. Long, who is a traveling repesentatlve, will stay here, he said, until he can locate those valuable papers. David D. Weaver Out For Council; Runt In Ward 3 Dnvid D. Weaver, muter me chanic of the Blla Mill, this morn ing announced his candidacy for the board of aldermen, running from ward 3. Already announced from that ward is Coleman A. Dog gett, for 36 years superintendent of the Southern Cotton Oil plant here. Mr. Weaver made the following statement: *T hereby announce myself a can didate for the position of alderman in ward No. 3. If elected. I pledge myself to give the city a fair, econ omical and business-like adminis tration. “It is my belief that charges for electric power and light, Including water, are too high and should be reduced in keeping with other towns and cities of this section. Also, I believe that the minimum charges for both lights and water should be reduced. “Since it is generally known that our streets are in bad condition, I feel that more attention should be given to the maintenance and up keep of same throughout the city. Also, I believe that the city should avail itself of all government aid in constructing streets, sidewalks play grounds, parks and extending elec tric light service.” National Director To Address Scouts O. H. Benson, director of Na tional iwUidi fc. w.ii ad dress a meeting of members of the Schoolmasters club and Cleveland County Scout officials In the Young People’s depart ment of the Methodist church at 7:30 tonight. The meeting was first an nounced as being held at the court house. Cleveland county has been designated as the model county for scouting activities. R. W. Shoffner, county agent, is com missioner of rural scouting. Election Day Falls on May 7th; New Voters Required to Register Shelby's five precincts go to the polls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May to elect a mayor and a board of aldermen, all according to the regulations under Section 3648, Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina. In short, the election will be held between 8 In the morning and sundown on May 7. That's the cor rect date, according to City Attor ney D. Z. Newton, who this morn ing supplied The Star with some election information because there has been no little confusion in the minds of voters about the Who, When, What, Where of the impend ing balloting. You have to be registered to vote. If your name k. not already on the polls, il you are a new resident having lived four months in th< city, or if you have come of votini age this year. the books will b< open for registration between 9 a m. and S p. m. for seven days pre ceding the election. You cannot register on the day of election, un leas you turned 31 that very day. For the election, there will be tlu usual four boxes at the court houa and one In South 8helby, for No 1. Registrars and judges will be ap pointed not leas than 30 days be fore the election. And this will settle some dls putes: the mayor will not take of flee immediately, but ou July 1. These election rules apply in al |cities in the state fovc three or four including Charlotte. City Council Votes To Cut Power Rates, Effective May First Tree Expert James A. O. Davey. noted tree sur geon, who will lecture here Tuesday night under the auspices et the Oarden club. Davey Will Show Beautiful Trees In Film-Lecture rimed Arboreal Surgeon Went To Strange Parte Of World To Prepare Material. Free picture* of beautiful and unuaual treee will be ehown In the court houee Tuesday evening at 7:S0 by Jamea A. O. Davey, vloe presldent of the Davey Tree Co., of Kent, Ohio, and brother of Oover nor-elect Martin L. Davey. Mr. Dav ay will lecture an “Pilgrimage hi Clod's First Temcle" in a program sponsored by the Oarden Club of Shelby. The public is invited and there Is no charge. Mr. Davey speaks on a "hunting"' expedition that he and Mrs. Davey made In 1038 which had as Its object not big game, but beautiful trees. Instead of rifles, the party was arm ed with a battery of cameras and note-books. The trip took the couple far oft the beaten lines of tourist travel. From the west coast of the United States they traveled into the South Seas, through Australia, New Zeal and, and Tasmania, from one end of Africa to the other, and through many other countries. Thousands of photographs were taken and for each one Mr. Davey book detailed notes regarding the colors of all the objects shown. When stereopticon slides were later made from these photographs, they were painstakingly colored by art ists In New York and Mrs. Davey's ni.tes were carefully followed. The result Is they faithfully reproduce the scenes they depict. The lecture will be Illustrated with his views of beauty spots In every part of the world he visited—gor geous and dainty flower pictures, landscapes of bewitching grandeur artistic settings of forest and sea shore, striking silhouettes, and un forgettable scenes of nature. Along with the scenes Mr. Davey will name the great variety of trees and pl&ntt shown and tell something about the lands where the pictures were taken S. C. Hewitt, manager of the Hotel Charles, who was 111 with In fluenza last week, is out again and was on the golf course Sunday. Three Cuts Made By Duke Pointed To By Committee q^ietby consumers of UuMt our* rent will receive a out on their Mey let Mile for April current. It wen unanimously voted Saturday night at a called meeting of the city council, with Mayor IfeHurry. Aldermen W. C. Harris, D. W. Roy ster and Roland Holland present. The council was called span by representatives of the chamber at commerce who asked that the total of the three reductions made bp the Duke Power Oo. be pesaed on to consumers. The board had previous ly discussed this action end agreed that as soon as the March bin from the Duke Power company comm In. the reduction will be made. Mr. John Tax. official of the Duke Power says the three reductions made to wholesale consumers all over the territory served by the Duke Oo. totals approximately twenty percent. However. Mayor McMurry says "it will not figure out this much." The council has In mind to cut 38 percent on the mini mum with smaller cute for the higher brackets. betters have been sent out from the mayor's office to Kings Moun tain. Concord. Statesville, Morgan ton and other places, asking for their new rate schedules as a guide to Shelby In making up new rates. Pauline Goforth Win* Recitation Medal In Contest King* Mountain Girl Tlku Tog Honor* In County; Im;i La tor. ■ j Miss Pauline Oororth. of the Kings Mtn. public schools clinch' ed top honors and a right to wear the recitation medal given annually by the Schoolmasters Club Friday night by eliminating five other con* tcstants. “A Minuet" waa the title of the winning recitation in a field of six others who had come to the finals after an elimination held a week ago for all the schools In the coun ty. Mins Borders Second. Miss Agnes Borden, senior in the Ho. 3 high school waa a close run* ner up for honors and placed sec ond. Her reading was “The White Hands of Telham.” An unusually large number of persona were pres I ont for the contest Other speakers who worn la the finals were Virginia McNeely, Shelby. •The Last Leaf”; Elisabeth Randle. Bethware, “Daddy Doc"; Elizabeth Craft. Waco, "The Grind Exceeding Small"; Minnie Anna Forney, Pied mont, "A Soldier of France." , According to J. H. Orlgg, speak ing for the club the Interest In read ing and the quality of the recita tions was unusually high this year. There were many tryouts In the pre liminaries In the 13 high schools of the county. Winners In the essay contest which Is held in conjunction with the reading event will be announced at a later date. Scouts Will Meet In Kings Mountain KINGS MOUNTAIN, March 25. Two hundred and fifty delegates from the 11 counties comprising the Piedmont Council, boy scouts of America, will attend a convention of Scout leaders here Tuesday after 1 noon. They will hear an address by : O. H. Benson, notional director of I rural Scouting. The meeting will be held at the | high school, beginning at S o'clock ’ At 6:30 a banquet will be served in the school cafeteria. Judge Bismarck Capps, president II of the Piedmont Council, will pre 1! side. MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETS TONIGHT AT HOSPITAL The Cleveland County Medical Society will hold a meeting March 25. 1935 at 7:30 P. M. at the Shelby, 1 hospital. Papers will be presented on ' “Pneumonia." All members are I lilted to be uresent
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