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I Call PI‘one 11 And Insert A Want I Ac!'' In The Star For Result* »Ehe Mkvekand SEND SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. *T Util. p»r far, (In advance) _ »l»a v Carrier, per year. (In advance) _ gun Textile Men Open Process Tax War in Capital Today TUey \ftk U. S. Erect High Tariff Wall In Meantime Explain Back Up Roosevelt Program. Wie American Cotton Manu farturprk Association was this morn Z explaining that their action in to the processing tax was in Zrt accord with the view of their tmnK president, and that ‘ the Lgram of President Roosevelt must be guarded, treasured «and made per manent." other cotton textile in terest.' prepared to storm Washing too with the demand that aid be even the mills immediately. The rot ton manufacturers associa tion in convention at Macon, Ga., issued the following statement to explain their position: Manufacturers’ Statement. 'Our industry is not objecting to payments to the farmer in Such amounts as are needed to make his situation equal with that of other titpens 1n this oountry. Our con tention is that in raising the money [or these benefits by levying them on the processing of cotton, wheat com and hogs, a gigantic sales tax of from 15 per cent to 25 per Is be ing levied on the meat, bread, and clothes of the people. This is an un ressonable levy on the necessities of life and the base of the tax should be broadened. This Is the content ion of the textile industry with re ject to the processing tax on cot Opening the campaign in Wash ington in an attempt to convince the cabinet committee that removal of the processing tax and erection of tariff walls against Japanese im ports will be Governor Brann, Sen ator Hale and a delegation of mill ouners from Maine, while in the next two weeks other state groups, manufacturers, labor leaders, cotton growers and others will appear at the conference called by the special cabinet sub-committee. Meanwhile, the controversy over the processing tax raged unabated along many fronts.. Siding with the cotton manufacturers, the Foreign Policy Association asserted In a statement today that the processing tax. the rise in price of raw cotton and increased labor costs all have contributed to “reduce domestic sales of raw cotton and have bought distress to the cotton tex tile industry.” i aimadgr Denounces. Governor Talmadge of''''Georgia continuing his denunciation of farm 4dminust ration policies, yesterday isserted the price of cotton would Jump to 16 cents a pound If the processing tax were removed and also recommended that the govern ment "kick out the NRA.” Southern mill owners yesterday lined up with part of the program of the northern mill men, adopting »resolution recommending that cot ifcn benefits be paid from some oth er sources than the tax, and calling 4ttention to the increase of im ports. They agreed with the northern foup that there was no desire on the part of the industry to deprive the farmer of any benefits,' but that some substitute might be found to relieve the present burden on the industry. Child Run Down, Is In Hospital Ruth Dixon, small daughter ol and Mrs. J. w. Dixon of the Double Shoals community was re ported much better at the Shelby hospital today where she is recov er'ng from lacerations and abrasions sustained in an auto accident Fri Thfi rh'ld was said to have been n do» n by John Waters of Lawn s'1’ although details of the acci oent were lacking. Wm. Webb Awarded School Fellowship y. Webb, son of Judg '* ‘>bb of Shelby has bee: rded a fellowship in the depart Univ PC°nomics at Columbt lea rr according to a news re tatV "t' lssued by New York Grad Mr Webb te alread ifcjg 'p New York on a fellow yea- ' 'v*5 awarded him las Shower» Tuesday £6r forecast for North Care ably Y- “*?rs M°nday and prot north ay: somewhat cooler i h 8,10 "est Tuesday. Z™ MARKETS ££ Zirar’ton - - ^ wagon, ton . Confident The new Presidential headgear, worn in Washington last week, was a pretty good symbol of the con fidence he expressed for national recovery in his radio address last night. Chief Wages War On Bootleggers; Makes 5 Arrests Finds Liquor In Model Club For Third Time; Negroes Held For Peddling. “I'm going to clean up the boot legging business here in short or der," said Chief of Police D. D. Wil kins Saturday morning. He made a lair start, arresting five suspects in a ninety-minute drive. 1 Followed by Officers Sparks, Put nam and Kendrick, he descended for the third time on the Model club on South LaFayette street. This raid netted a small amount of whiskey and two prisoners. Charges of selling were made against Warner Hoppis, a white man, and Bill Smith, colored. Three Negroes Held Other arrests included Ab Little, colored, charged with selling near Buffalo creek; Willie Watts, and J. G. Thompson, both colored and both accused of selling liquor. Ben Dover, manager of the Model club, already under bond for ap pearance in federal court on liquor charges, may be indicted again as the result of Saturday's raid, the chief said. Gangrene Poison Causes Death Of Mrs. B. E. Price Mrs. B. E. Price, 21 year old resi dent of Dover mill village, died at 8:35 in the Shelby hospital of gangrene poisoning and other com plications which followed a serious operation Thursday. Before marriage she was Iva Pos ton, daughter of John Poston of Shelby. Funeral services will be held at Zion church, but at present ar rangements are not complete, due to the uncertainity of the arrival of a brother-in-law, P. P. Stubbs, from New York. It will likely be some time Tuesday with Revs. W. A. Elam and D. G. Washburn in charge. Surviving Mrs. Price are her hus band, textile worker at Dover, a two year old son, Gerald Ray; four sisters, Mrs. J. W. Hardin, of Cliff side, Mrs. P. P. Stubbs. Mrs. Guy Smart, Mias Lillian Poston, all of Shelby; two brothers, Daniel Pos ton and Coy Poston of Shelby. Education Board To Meet All Day Next 1st Monday 150 Appointments To Be Made Will Confirm New Member, Appoint 150 County School Com mitteemen. An all day meeting of the county board of education will be held on next first Monday when a new member of the board will be con firmed and installed and appoint ments of approximately 150 school committeemen in the county will be made. Terms of all committee^ men in all the schools in the coun ty except Shelby and Kings Moun tain expire in April, according to Supt. J. H. Origg. Coy McSwaln of No. 6 township is the new member of the board and will replace W. A. Ridenhour, Kings , Mountain merchant, and member of the group for 12 years. Chairman Eight Year* Mr. Ridenhour said today that In his Chairmanship of the board for the past eight years he has missed only one meeting. At the present | time he is running for mayor in {Kings Mountain. The school year 'will officially close Tuesday night of this week with finals taking place at Piedmont and Bethware Tuesday night. Ap pointment of the 75 white commit teemen and about the same number of colored will pave the way for ■ election later of new teachers, and other school officials. Teachers, patrons, or others with school problems will be heard at the all day meeting of the board. It will be one of the most import ant meetings of the year. County Wins One First Place, Four Seconds At Meet Mike Borders, student at Shelby high school brought back to Cleve land county a first place rating from Greensboro where some 15 stu dents from this county were enter ed ip tt>e state pciuslc contest. He was awarded the'honor in Class B-C competition In Boys Voice. Second place ratings were receiv ed by Woodrow Wall, of Shelby and William Lee Harrill, of Lattimore for Baritone solos, and to Lamar Young for bass solo. Lattimore’s en trant was in Class C competition. In the case of Mr. Young the sec ond rating was equivalent to a tie for first. Miss Dorothy Plonk, of Kings Mountain won a second place rat ing in Class B for piano solo. Cherryville in Class C took four second ratings, one first in the meet. The first was for the girls trio and seconds for boys quartet, boys glee club, girls glee club, and mixed chorus. i Lenoir high school carried off the most first places with five first hon or's and Greensboro and Durham followed with close numbers. Ra leigh tied Lenoir’s crack high school band for performance this year. Shelby Men Find Unidentified Body A man dressed as a U. S. Marine but who had no other marks of identification was found near Fred Iricksburg, Va„ by Robert Ellis of Shelby and M. A. Fortenbury of 'Beams Mill, early Sunday morning after a new DeSota had crashed into the back-end of a truck. The two Shelby men helped di rect traffic a short time and called an ambulance from Fredricksburg, until they left for Shelby the un fortuante man had not been iden tified. Two Thousands Scouts Will Heat James E. West In Gaston Today Because of a bright idea and a large letter signed by more than 1200 Boy Scouts. Dr. James E. West, chief scout executive of the United States will be at Gastonia at 4:30 this afternoon. A, number of Shelby scouts and scout leaders will be among the ex pected 2,000 boys and their leaders to hear an address by Dr. West. He will appear at the Memorial build ing and will be presented the group by Judge Bismark Capps, president of the Piedmont Council and R. M. Schiele, scout executive. Several years ago the Scouts of the Ffedmont Council united in in viting Chief West to visit the Pied mon Council, sending what was perhaps the largest letter ever sent through the mails. The invitation was three feet wide and 12 to 15 fret long and was signed personally by more than 1.200 Scouts of the Pied mont area. Dr. West was so over whelmed with the invitation that he wired that he would accept the in-J vitation when opportunity came. Dr.! West was in the state last week toi (ake part in the Scout Silver Jubi-I lee celebration at Chapel Hill and advised Scouts of the Piedmont council that he could be In Gastonia Monday to greet them. All Scouts m the Piedmont area, which includes the counties of Gas ton, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford, Polk, Iredell, Alexander, Caldwell, Catawba, Burke, and McDowell are planning to greet the Chief Scout, Dr. West will make a short addess Officials of the Scout movement ap peal to parents and friends to Join together in taking Scouts to Gas tonia so they may have the oppor tunity of meeting the chief leader of America. A* Father Coughli n Opened Drive His parents, Mr and Mrs. Thomas Coughlin, above, wer« present and beamed with pride as their aon. the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin, left, launched his National Union for Social Justice into the tur* bulent sea of American politics. First of a series of proposed state conventions, the initial meeting, held in a Detroit sta dium, was attended by a crowd of>17,000, which heard the mili tant Detroit priest speak on th« purpose of the union, and de nounce men in public M4e "who have promised us redress and failed." Several congressmen, among them Senators Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Ger ald P Nye of North Dakota, also spoke in behalf of tits drive. May 1st Last Filing Day; Absentee Voting Illegal City Council Sets May 1st At S O'clock As Last Hour For Candidates To File; Heavy Registration May 1st is the last day on which candidates may file in the city election to he held May 7th. Registration was heavy in all five of the Shelby pre cincts, 1310 names being added to the poll books. There will be no absentee voting in the city election, according to a ruling just received from Attorney General a«u*v«u s uumtt iu xvaieigitt • An unusual registration of new voters in the four wards and in South Shelby was recorded as reg istrars closed their books Saturday. Ward 1 came through with a phenominal increase of 700 new voters, with 1,100 qualified voters already on the books. The figures follow: Ward 2, 592 old, 100 new; ward 3 , 800 old, 300 new; ward 4, 515 old. 110 new; South Shelby, 600 old, 100 new. Filing Date There was a called meeting of the city council Saturday evening at which time it was decided that all candidates who wish to run must file not later than Wednesday, May 1st at 5 o'clock. This will allow ample time for the printing of the ballots. Piling must be done with the city clerk, Mary Reeves Forney, and there is no charge. It is thought that all entries are in except that of Alexander Hatcher Webb who has been issuing a series of circulars bearing on his probable candidacy, and other matters. Twice The Star asked Mr. Webb if his circulars meant that he is a candi date. Each time he replied "Not yet.’’ A bulletin bearing on municipal (Continued on page eight) Senator Thompson to Vote For Referendum on Liquor Senator Carl Thompson of Cleve land, home for the week-end, will vote for the amended liquor bill, which calls for a state-wide refer endum June 8, he said yesterday. This bill, passed by the house last week, provides for the state sale of whiskey if as many as 51 counties vote approval, but Senator Thomp son said the senate would probab'y cut the requirements to 26 counties. Making no predictions on what would happen to the bill in the sen • ate, he observed that it would be a close fight whichever way it went. Adjournment may be as much as four weeks off, he said, declaring that it is now impossible to tell how much longer it will take for the as sembly to agree on the revenue and appropriation bills. Senator Thompson looked we'l and cheerful, and is apparently en joying his Raleigh experience. Daniels to Hold Civil Term Here Judge F. A. Daniels of Golds boro has been named by Gov ernor Ehringhaus to conduct the special two weeks term of; civil court beginning lHhy 20. He will take the place of Judge Don Phillips, who was to have served. He will take the place of Judge Don Phillips, who was to have served. The special term was provid ed through a bill offered in the legislature by Representative Ernest Gardner. So many im portant criminal cases have crowded the dockets since last September that few civil ac tions have been heard since . ther Injunction Taken In Nine Ejectment Cases At Eton Mill A temporary restraining order has been signed by Judge J. IT. Clem ent, holding court in Gastonia, en joining Eton mill from ejecting nine families from houses in the village and May 10th has been set as the time for hearing the restraining order. It will be recalled that as a re sult of the strike now under way at Eton mill, nine non-working families were served with papers to vacate the mill houses. Justice of the Peace A. B. C. DePrlest’s de cision was appealed from an appeal bonds set at $300 each. No bonds have been given. Tom Moss, Forest City attorney for the U. T. w. and defendants, secured from Judge Clement a restraining order, re straining the mill from putting the defendants out of the mill houses until a hearing can be had before Judge Wilson Warlick on May 10. D. Z. Newton, attorney for the mill and Tom Moss, attorney for defendants expect to confer today and agree on an earlier hearing be fore another attorney as Judge Warlick Is out of the district for the present. In the meantime picket lines have been strengthened at the mill gates. Big Crowd Attends Eskridge Funeral A crowd that would have filled the Lattimore Baptist church several times, gathered Sunday afternoon for the funeral services of John D. Eskridge, prominent farmer and ex-teacher who died suddenly in Shelby Friday morning. Services were in charge of R v. Rush Pad BOtt, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall. Ridenhour Seeks Chief City Post h Kings Mountain Politic* Begins to Spin Near Battleground Opposes DCtjFor J. E. Herndon In C% NmKihm Nh* Candidate* For Town Council. WMh Mo?or i. X. Herndon and the five-man board of city couneH men both up for re-alecfelon May 7, the Kings Mountain Political race, has eleven oandldatee for the Mx of ftce*. W. A. Bidentiour. member of the county school board, on Friday an nounced his candidacy for mayor. New oandldatee for the city coun cil are J. W. Blalock. George Cana ler and W. F. Logan. The present board la composed of J. X. Noisier, H. T. Fulton, fc. C. Gold, J. K. WIMla and J. A. Mauney. Five FOr School Board. Five oandldates have announced for city school board, to which two member* are to be elected. The oandldatee ate N. N. Houston. A. H. Cornwell, C. F. Thompson and A. X. Patterson Mr. Houston and Mr. Patterson are seeking re-elec tion. Just as in the Shelby scene, the books are not yet closed for new candidates. In each instance, candi dates may file up until the very last minute, or Just In time to allow for having the tickets printed. This will be a matter of three or four days. N«ar 6,000 Autos ka County During Month Of April RALEIOtf. April 39.—Cleveland county had 5,790 vehicles, 5,050 cars and 740 trucks on April 1, as com pared with 5,500 vehicles. 4.850 can and MO trucks a year before, and for the entire year of 1934, 0,735 vehicles, 5,876 ears and 850 trucks. The county count ts reaching by counting and measuring a given number of cards and then measur ing the cards for the county. The estimate is accurate within a doaen oars. North Carolina cltisens, including a few non-residents, owned 369,180 motor vehicles at the end of the first quarter of 1995, including 304, 087 automobiles and 65,078 commer cial vehicles, as compared with 334, 714 motor vehicles a year ago. in cluding 378,688 cars and 56,078 trucks, according to the cards on file In the office of L. B. Harris, motor vehicle bureau director. The number of vehicles is still short of the 382,967 cars and 88, 135 trucks registered for the entire year of 1934, as shown by the count at December 31. Guilford leads with 31,000 cars and 3,315 trucks; Meck lenburg had 17,855 cars and 3,080 trucks; Vorsyth 14,100 cars and 3, 100 trucks; Buncombe 10,700 cars and 1,875 trucks; Wake 11,800 cars and 3,040 trucks, the count shows. Senate Approves Gardner i^ear ^' On Foreclosures (By M. R. DUNNAGAN.) RALEIGH, April 39.—Represen tative Gardner’s bill, house meas ure No. 1064. relating to foreclosure suits in Cleveland county and ex tending the time of sheriff's sale for 1934 taxes, was amended by the senate Friday and passed as amend ed. It was returned to the house Tor concurrence in the senate amend ment. This senate amendment strikes out all of article two of the original bill which provided that the public laws of 1933 limiting the amount of fee or cost to be charged against the taxpayer or the property to ue foreclosed should not apply to Clev eland county. Spends Billions Tha Job of spending 94.M0,. WO.OOO where k *m do the moat good *oulrt proa* a boar on# for Frank a Walker, ahown above at wqrfc. In hla port aa band at tha National Bmergeney Goan cM, to whlota ha baa boon pantad by President Roosevelt, Walker wlH paaa on appNoattoaa tar allotmanta trorn tha hn«a work relief fond. Webb To Confirm Sale Of Sphdale Mis At $305,000 Webb To Mgn Order Taming Orar Plante To B. Prank Daw, Rep resenting Noteholder*. Judge E. Yates Webb will to morrow sign an order confirming sale of the Splndale. Spencer and Cleg horn cotton mill*, property of the Spencer corporation, to B. Frank Dew, representative of the note holders’ protective committee, for $•06,000. With the sale confirmed, the plant* will continue to operate aa usual. The corporation formed by the creditors will operate under the name of the Spencer Mill*, Inc. Eugene H. Timanus ha* succeed ed L. M. Carpenter, who was re ceiver of (he bankrupt corporation, as manager of the plants. Carpen ter resigned to accept the manage ment of a group of mMls near Spar tanburg. School Exercise Includes Battle Porter Love and Oary Huskey, colored, celebrated the Thursday exeroises at Shoal Creek school with an exhibition of pistol and knife play. Peter was slashed by Oary. who was shot through the hand by Peter. Love skipped out to South Carolina, leaving Huskey to have his hand treated at the Shelby hos pital. • Officer J. T. Borders has made three trips across the state line seeking Love, but had not located him this morning. Lattiniore Tulips Ruined By Rain The Tulip King's blossoms are gone. Gideon Price's 100,000 tulips In his Lattlmore memorial garden were all so open that last week's rains completely ruined them. But more than 10,000 persons from this and neighboring states paid their annual pilgrimage to the gardens, peren nial memorial to the son Ed who died in the World War, and saw the tulips ln< their glory before the rains shattered them. Pinks and iris are now starting to bloom, and will probably make an other flowery spectacle sometime this week. Doughton Will Decide Tonight; Washington Reports He Will Run Cleveland county today awaits with more than usual Interest the political announcement of a Con gressman from Ashe county. Tonight, for release in the morn ing papers, Robert L. Doughton will touch off the first big gun In the 1936 race for governorship. He will say whether he will or will not run. Cleveland county wants to know his decision because Cleveland county wants to vote for Clyde R. Hoey for governor—and Mr Hoey has made 10 announcement yet. Word from Wrshlngi-in, relayed hrough Raleigh, has if that Fanner Bob Doughton will most, certainly run. Mr. Hoey, asked last week about 'is intentions, reiterated his recent statement that he would announce his plans when the legislature had closed. This means that his an nouncement may be delayed any where from one to four weeks, de pending upon how speedily the state solons can make up their minds on revenue, appropriation.^ and liquor bills. Lieutenant Governor Sandy Gra ham is also regarded ns a certain andidate, but he too is unannounc U. S. To Purchase Kings Mountain Acerage For Park Government Will Buy Tract In S. C. To Recant* National Military Turk And Recreational Center. Decision to purchase more than «.ooo acres near the historic Kirim Mountain battleground for develop ment aa a mmtary park and recrru tlonal center was announced yester day by Marry L. Hopkins, federal re lief administrator. The land la in South Carolina. In York and Cherokee oountles. Part, of the acreage Includes the battle field Itself and win be sat aside as a national military park, to ba ad ministered by the national park sendee. Recreational Fart. Remainder dr the acreage, which Is unsatisfactory tor use aa agricul tural lands will be developed Into a recreation*! center with —gfrgt ment hi the hand* of the South Carolina state forestry commission. All lands to be acquired for the project, which has bean pending more than a year, have been volun tarily offered for sale by the own ers. Hapkins said. Field work Incident to the selec tion and acquisition of the area, as well as planning of recreational de velopments, have been carried on by the national park servloe, which la co-operating with the land program of the federal emergency relief ad ministration In carrying out demon strations in the utilisation of poor lands for recreational purposes. No Good For Farms. Hopkins said present evidences of the unsatisfactory use of the land for agriculture Influenoed the selec tion of this project area. The battle of Kings Mountain, fought in 1780, was an Important victory of the American Revolution and contributed to the successful termination of the War of Inde pendence at Yorktown the following year. Forty acres of the Battlefield la now owned by the Kings Mountain Centennial association, which haa_ offered to donate the tract to the United Staten Representative Richards of South Carolina, In whose district the bat tlefield Ues, has been Instrumental In getting the project approved for development. Education Power Of People Coming Bade Says Erwin RpMlM At No. S Closing; Awards An Made By Prof. Blanton. Commencement activities at No. 3 high school cloned Saturday with a literary address by Clyde A. Erwin, state superintendent of public in struction, the awarding of the maj or school honors, In the afternoon and the annual senior play In the evening. An auditorium full of school folk and No. 3 citizens heard Superin tendent Erwin declare that he thought more authority and power in running a school should be brought back. to the people and that he would bend his efforts to bring such a condition about. New Courses He further declared that since appropriations have been relegated to the past, things neglected In the school curriculum In the past, such as vocational agriculture, home economics, music, business and other arts and trades, will now be given first places. He advised young people to be careful and make most of opportunities.4 Awards made and announced by Prof. Lawton Blanton, principal of the school were: Helen McIntyre, $325 scholarship to Oglethorpe uni versity; Max Ponder, declamation; Agnes Borders, reading; Raymond Lowery, dramatics; Marsden Blan ton, best boy athlete; Kathryn Har din. best girl athlete; Elva Moss, $165 scholarship to Milligan; Evelyn Turner, $100 scholarship to Camp bell. No. 3 girls won the county bas ketball tournament, and the school won first place in sportsmanship for both athletic teams. “Heaven Bound” Play At Washington • “Heaven Bound,” negro religious pageant, will be presented tonight at the Washington school u a P. T. A. benefit. The pageant, written and direct ed by Violet Thomas, supervisor of ilcred schools in Cleveland, is well known throughout the state. The performance begins at 3 o'clock. 4
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