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Weather Nortii Carolina: Fair, slightly 8rrripr in north and extreme portions Monday; Tuesday, partly cloudy. _ TM MEVMMD SEND 8 Pages Today VOL. XLI* No. 75 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mill p*« T*»r. (in odvaaool — M.oo Can Iff, Mr yaar. tin advance) _ $3 00 Cleveland Maintains • Lowest N. C. Tax Rate; 1935Budget$198,730 Commissioners Retain County-wide Figure Of 36 Cents; District Levies Up For Vocational Teachers Cleveland’s tax rate, lowest in the state at 36 cents, and the county, one of the biggest in local hostory at .$198,730, re mained unchanged as the commissioners met this morning for final adoption of their financial plans for 1935. budgft, county auditor Troy V. Mc Klnney said, but the total 1s not af fected materially. Several changes were made in gpectal district tax rates, however two of them raises in order to pay jor vocational and agricultural teachers. Break-Down A break-down of the 36 cent tax nte is as follows: General fund 10 cents, poor fund T cents, debt service 7 cents, capi tal outlay 2 cents; maintenance 2 cents and school debt service 8 tents. All road tax rates remain the lame with the exception of the No. t Lawndale district, in which there , le a jump from 7 to 10 cents. Vocational Depts. The Lattimore school rate goes from 7 cents to 12 cents. In order to meet, expenses of a vocational and agricultural department. The Boll-1 ing S;R\}gs rate Is cut from 13 to 10 cents. No. 8 is raised from 20 to 28 cent* for vocational and agricultural departments, and Piedmont takes a 10 to 12 cents Jump for the same purpose. | Capt. W. N. Dodd County NativeDigs Pussing Is Bather Sadden In Col umbia, s. C. After Attending Family Reunion. New* was received here this morning of the rather sudden death in a Columbia, 8. C., hospital of Capt. W. N. Dodd, for forty years an employee of the Southern rail way. He had attended the Dodd re union in the Sharon section at the home of his brother, D. D. Dodd, Sunday and appeared to be in the best of health. Returning to his Columbia home he was taken sick at midnight and died this morn ing at 7 o'clock, age 68. Capt. Dodd was the son of D. C. and Elizabeth Wesson Dodd of this eounty. He was twice married, first to Mamie Martin of Greenville by which marriage two children sur vive; Mrs. Hattie McMillan of Greenville and James Dodd of Wis consin. His second marriage was toj Mrs. Chatham of Columbia who! survives, together with four broth er* and three sisters: D. D. and B. O. Dodd of Sharon, Claud of Green ville, Fred of Union, Mrs. Lizzie Blanton of Greenville, Mrs. Pink B. McMurry of Shelby and Mrs. Robert Ramseur of Winston-Salem. Entering the railroad service forty years ago he worked to a position of conductor. He was later promoted to yard master at Columbia. No funoml arrangements had been made this morning. Post Office Job j Near Completion Addition* to the Shelby postoffice and construction of a new federal building In the rear are between 70 and 75 per cent complete now, Mor rison-Fallg, the contractors, said to day. All outside or brick work has been •wnpleted and only the finishing and plastering remains. The buildings will be ready for; b** bi about two months, it is esti mated. Morning Cotton LETTER NEW YORK, June 34—Sentiment m speculative quarters remains Growing conditions have been more favorable except for the overflows in parts of the central be'1 where some damage has un doubtedly resulted. We believe that •ellmg will become more noticeable cn the advances unless the textile filiation turns matrially for the better—E. A. Pierce & Co. the markets J;#‘ton, spot.11% to 12?Sc otton Seed, wagon, ton_ 32.00, Sed. ton, ear lot_ 35.001 NRA Savior Though he professes to be pretty dull and not at all a glamorous fellow, James L. O'Neill, New Tork banker ap pointed by President Roosevelt to head the reconstructed NRA, has stated his Intention "to save all that is good of NRA.” Before being called to head the stop gap organisation, he was NRA control officer. No Radical Shift In Sales Tax Plan, Maxwell Asserts Commissioner Promises Liberal In terpretation Of New Act Ef fective July 1. RALEIGH, June 24.—J. Paul Leonard, secretary of the N. C. Pair Tax association, conferred in Ra leigh Friday with Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell on reports of drastic changes in the rules and regulations governing the sales tax collections under the new law be coming effective July 1. As a result he wired Frank E. Griffith, Secre tary, Winston-Salem Merchants as sociation, as follows: "Just conferred Commissioner Maxwell who assured me no radical changes will be made in sales tax rules and regulations relative to transaction of nature we discussed yesterday. He promised liberal in terpretations to avoid addition busi ness from Carolina dealers. Ofd regulations still in force and no drastic changes contemplated foi present. He says newspaper story unfortunate.” Mr. Leonard said several hard ware, food and other classes of merchants had been contemplating erecting branches of stores in near by points across the state line and doing their business by truck be tween these and their stores in North Carolina in order to avoid the stringent regulations indicated in the newspaper story referred to, as coming from an official of the -'venue department. Dr. Robert Wilson and Dr. D. M. Morrison left Sunday morning to attend the American Optometrist association meeting in Miami .his veek. They will return Sunday. Scout Troop No. 2 Wins First Place; CC’sOffTo Camp Cloth Mill Boys Go For Week’s Stay Beal In Competition Against 14 Other Troops At Piedmont Scout Camp. Shelby scout troop No. 2 was in camp at Lake Lanier last week and took top honors In near ly a dozen scout activities and brought back the prize “scout hatchet" for winning first rank in 14 troops from six counties. Another troop, Shelby's newest. :the Cleveland Cloth mill organiza tion, left early this morning to spend a week at the same camp. Three troops from Kings Mountain were there last week. Contests Under the direction of Scoutmas ter Paul Wilson. No. 2 won Its prizt by making the highest score In the Camporee events of knot-tying fire by friction, fire by flint ana steel, water boiling, tent pitching and canoe racing. The winner with 14 points nosed out Kings Mountain No. 5 with 12 points. Who Went Those making the trip were Scoutmaster Wilson, George Mor gan, Bruce Morgan, Haywood Cline John P. Mull, jr„ Robert Hullckfi Joe Whitaker, Jimmy Freeman Avery McMurry, Roy Toms, J. C. Newton, Charles Logan, Harold See feldt, Jr. Also Van Austin of troop 5 and Theron Farrow of Dover Mill. Rush Hamrick, jr. and Edwin Span gler were already at camp. Spangler Is a member of the camp staff. Scouts from the Cleveland Cloth mill troop at camp this week are Jack McGill, Fred McGill. J. A. .Tfmmv TVntnn Bvnum McCraw, Harold Veal, 8hermaii Montelthfl, Freeman Williams, Ralph McCarter, Arthur Sides, jr„ James Hudspeth, D. L. Peake, Wal ter La wing, Clint McDonald, Dalton Dixon, Joe Davis, Bill Moore, Carl ton Cobb, Russel Craig, and Banks Cash Ion and George Hannah, assist ant scoutmasters of the troop. Lloyd. Little ts scoutmaster, hut could not go on account of work with the cloth mill ban team. Paul Wilson. Edwin Spangler, Willis McMurry and Rush Hamrick will go in a few weeks 'to the In ternational Jamboree in Washing ton, representing scouting from the Shelby district. Batters At Door Until Wounded As Bullets Fly TJndtscouraged by two shots fired at his feet, B. B. Bamett persisted in his efforts to batter down Mrs. Fannie Burke’s front door until he was stopped by a pistol bullet In the left hip. That was the story Mrs. Burke told police after the shooting Fri day night. Barnett, according to the police, admitted that he was very drunk, and said that he wasn’t sure whether he was trying to break down doors that night or not. No charge have been made against Mrs. Burke, who lives on LeGrand street. Barnett Is In the hospital, suffering from a severe wound as the bullet coursed down his leg, and will face drunk and disorderly charges. Nab Bootlegger On Way From Dance The gayety of an open-air dance was probably dimmed Friday night when the bootlegger was pinched on his way home for new supplies. Deputies Gus Jolly and Kester Hamrick arrested Monroe Blanton on his way home from the College Filling station, on Highway 20, near Boiling Springs. They found three pints in his car and seven more in his home. Bomb Shatters Patio of Embassy, BatDanielsSays, ‘Notlmportant’ MEXICO, D. F., June 34.—A bomb apparently made of several sticks of dynamite and cape exploded early yesterday In the patio of ths United States embassy, making s hole about nine inches deep and breaking several windows, Including one in the private office of Ambas sador Josfphus Daniels. The ambassador called all foreign correspondents to his office and in formed them of the incident, which he described as "a matter which has no importance.” Daniels declined to inform local authorities of the bombing and re fused to make a comment A police man on duty at the embassy, how : ever, recovered fragments of the missile and reported the explosion to police headquarters. The matter ; was then taken up with the foreign 'office. No one was hurt. Foreign Undersecretary Cenlceroe j who is acting foreign minister, lm-! 1 mediately asked Mr. Daniels too as i sist his department with the Investl- j 1 station. He also expressed official re grets because of the incident. The ambassador told the torn pondents he had received no ■ threats of any kind and could not. explain the bombing j “Send Dentist/’ Cry Flyers MERIDIAN. Miss.. June 24 — There was a bad toothache aboard the plane Ole Miss yes terday as Fred and A1 Key continued to soar overhead, only four days away from a new world's endurance record. The brothers sent an SOS for pain-relieving drugs and pliers, so Fred could pull the aching molar from his brother’s mouth. They radioed that if this did not relieve the pain they would ask that a rope be tied around a local dentist so ha could be low ered to the plane. At 6:32 p. m., yesterday the filers passe dthelr 462nd hour In the air, having traveled 36. 969 miles since the take off June 4. The brothers must remain In the air until Thursday If they wish to break the record of 663 hours, 41 minutes and 30 sec onds set in 1930 by John and Kenneth Hunter at Chicago. ......---—I ,, —.- "" New Hospital Unit Nears Completion Ahead of Time Unusual speed has been shown on construction of the new wing to the Shelby hospital. Dr. S. 8. Royster, chairman of the building commit tee said this morning. Continuing at this rate, be said, the building will be completed and ready for occu pancy on Aug. 1, a month ahead of time. The general contract for the $30, 000 structure was let to the Barger Brothers Co., of Mooresvllle. whose bkl was $33,630. Workmen, are now working on the Inside, installing a sprinkler system, plumbing, heat, wiring. Dr. Royster spoke with high praise for the efficiency of the Job being done here under the direc tion of I* Y. White. ToUJ cost of the hospital will tft about IM.000, Hi e««*rncttop Was made possible through'1 ft %l»,o$® gift from Hatcher Webb, who desir ed to establish a maternity unit in honor of his mother, $13,500 from the Duke Foundation and $3,500 from the A. C. Miller estate. Wilson and Edgecombe Set For Liquor Store Opening RALEIGH. June M.-^Waho went forward in Wilson county today for ! the opening of a liquor store Thurs- i day or Friday as the result of the ejectors there having voted by a 10-to-l margin Saturday for a i county Uquor-oontrOl system. < It appeared that Wilson would be the first county to attempt to set its liquor-control system In opera- i tlon, though Edgecombe county vot ers by about the same margin also approved a county system Satur day. First Of 18. Edgecombe commissioners had no definite plans for opening stores. jThe counties were the first of 18 to hold referendums on the matter | under two 1935 laws. A legal right appeared in the off- , ng as Cale K. Burgess, vice presi- , lent of the State United drys, said , ast night “injunction will be taken ■ promptly If any effort is made to ; >pen liquor stores in Wilson or Edge :ome counties,’* but in Wilson local i lry leaders Indicated they planned ] 10 contest Burgess was out of the \ :lty today, and could not be reached ] or further comment. i If Wilson's stores open this week i ind continue In operation, North : Carolina will have a unique status ] n the nation. Only 18 of its 100 i jounttes were authorised In the con trol and will get no revenue from ;he sale of whiskey except the gen >ral sales tax which applies to every ■etail sale. IckesPablishesNewBook on PWA; Flays ‘Dukite Humanitarianism> Peddlers Subject To $25 Tax Says New State Law Just what peddlers are and what Uie law says about them U> madej clear In a little bulletin issued re-j cently to the county commissioners by the Government Institute at Chapel Hill. As it stands now. peddlers are subject to a state tax of $25 each and also to a city tax for the same amount, but the county may not levy any tax on the group. The law describes peddlers as be ing “any persons, firm, or corpora tion, who or which sells or offers to sell from a cart, wagon, auto, truck, or other vehicle fresh fruit and vegetables.' There Is a sub-provision in the law that allows a county tax to be col lected provided the peddler is dis tributing his products from a rail way car or by wholesale truck-loads.1 The law excepts farmers or ped-; t iers who have grown or produced I heir own products. Few peddlers licenses have been j issued in Shelby. Secretary of the Interior, latest of the New Dealers to author a book about the New Dealers, lets fly with j full force against the Duke Power; Company In “Back to Work, the j Story of the PWA,” published this week. He says that George W. Allen Is president of both the Duke Power Co., and the Duke Endowment Trust and Is playing a Jekyll and Hyde role in opposing the 13,787,000 PWA loan and grant to Greenwood coun ty, S. C., for the Bussards Roost power plant. “On the surface,” he said in cit ing a case “typical of the resistance ( put up by the private companies” to , such public works allotments, “it ap- i peered that only the finer humani- 1 tarianlsm of the Dukeltes was pain- j ed by the prospect of lower rates to j the people. “Nothing was said about the busl- e ness of the Duke power company In 1 Greenwood county; it was the ben- j evolent Duke endownment that £ would suffer irreparable damages l unless consumers paid more for a electricity than it was worth.” 1 PolkviUe School Vocational Unit Wins High Honor Threatened Epidemic Delays Meeting r«kn Second Place Out Of 72 I)r partmenta In North Caro lina Work. A iportal menage from the ■tate board of health haa Juat notified Cleveland county voca tional and 4-H club leaden that on account of the impending epidemic of Infantile paraJyala, the annual Tar Heel Farmer* convention will not be held thta year. Neither will the 4-H club abort eourae at State college be riven, uni era the tenacneea of the situation relaxes. PolkvlUe vocational department of agriculture has Just been awarded second place among the 72 depart ments of the state, according to a rating just received from the state lepartment at Raleigh. The rating was made on the basis of the number of boys enrolled, trade of class work, projects, night :lasses for community farmers and rommunity work done by the de partment, in addition to a personal Inspection of the district supervisor. Instructor E. L. Dillingham is Instructor at Polkville and has just returned rrom a state meeting of all voca tional teachers at Raleigh where he was an active member of the pro gram of work committee for next year. Prof. P. M. Coley of Latttmore was on the committee relating to the AAA in connection with voca tional work. The Adjustment Ad ministration has found many lead ers in vocational work. Lattlmore, No. 3, anti Piedmont made creditable showings in the date ratings, in comparison to jther schools in the district and the length of time they have had vocational work. boy Crowder of Polkville and Men Padgett, of Baltimore left.for Raleigh yesterday where they will today take part in the state-wide -peaking conest. They are winners n district contests In speaking and ivestock judging earlier In the iprtng. Young Medicoes Get Appointments Yulan Washburn of Latttmore ind Allen Wilson of Zion have Just eturned from Raleigh where they >assed the first two years state ex iminatlon for a doctor's degree. Both were graduated from Wake ’’orest medical school early In June. Wilson will do his senior medical vork at Emory university In At anta,. Washburn Is one of four rom Wake Forest to receive ap x>lntments to Jefferson Medical college In Philadelphia. Both have nade excellent records at Wake forest In undergraduate and ex jerlntental work. They were In the Jtatler-Davidson Inquest held at ■Mnehurst this spring and made the needed teats under the direction of Jr. Carpenter. Fallston Petitions For School Addition Fallston citizens met In the school auditorium Saturday evening, and decided to circulate a petltlin for an election on ob taining federal funds for pur pose of erecting four additional rooms to the present building. Several Beams Mill people have expressed a desire to be ’included with the Fallston dis trict. Nothing official has been done by patrons of the Beams Mill section, but If they should decide to consolidate with Fall ston, present building plans would have to be enlarged. YoungDemocratsPlan To Attend Convention Carrying Hoey Banner Cleveland Organization Calls Mass Meeting For Wednesday Night; Many Will Go To Annual Meet In Raleigh Cleveland’s Young Democrats will rally at the court house Wednesday night to plan their trip to Raleigh, where they will carry the banner of Clyde R. Hoey for Governor at A Royal Pair Above to* Mm Alice Full*, of iwi ston, and Andrew Bumgardner, of drover, who have Just been award ed highest health honors in 4-H dubs in thin county. Hfcfty wHI bomt compete for district and state hon on»- _ Mrs.CoraFloyd,66 Of Kings Mountain Is Buried Today Respected Church Woman And Sunday School Teaches Pasaes In Gastonia. Mrs. Cora Smith Floyd. 66-year old respected resident of Kings Mountain died at 6:00 Sunday at the City hospital In Gastonia. Shr had been In ill health for several months and for the past ten weeks had been in the hospital. Funeral services will be at the First Baptist church in Kings Mountain this afternoon at 4:00 with Rev. A. G. Sergeant in charge assisted by Rev. C. J. Black, of Bes semer City. Interment will follow in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Floyd has lived in Kings Mountain for more than 20 years. Her husband was a business man there until his death some 10 years ago. Surviving Mrs. Floyd are a daughter, Mrs. T. D. Hambright, and a son, John Floyd of Kings Mountain. Two sisters. Mrs. D. W. Haight and Mrs. J. O. Neely live in Char lotte. There are three brothers, W E. Smith of Peachland, S. C.; 8. A. Smith, of Fort Mill, S. C., and V. C. Smith of Sharon, 8. C. Pallbearers will be members of a Sunbeam band taught by Mrs. Floyd many years ago, as she was always a faithful worker in the church. They are: Jake Hord, Joe Lee Woodward. Bill Baker, Harold Crawford, Hoyle McDaniel and J. D. Hord. Chamber of Commerce Secretary Conducts Tours to See Big Fish occrewry or me unamber or Commerce Houser conducted per onally escorted tours to a meat narket Saturday to exhibit the irowew of the Houser clan in haili ng huge specimens of channel ■ass from the waters around South stand. Dr. E. A. Houser and sons. Ever tt and Dwight, spent several days wt week at Pawley’s Island and Outh Island. They returned to helby with three tasty bass, the irgest. caught by Dwight weighing 5 pounds Everett took his awe-struck friends around to meat market one at a time to see the fish. The big gest, he said, got away, as fish have a habit of doing. Besides bass. Dr. Houser snared a stlngaree weighing about 60 pounds that had to be shot between the eyes as It almost dragged the doc tor overboard. And they reported a fish story good enough for a Ripley cartoon. They met a fisherman, they said. I who had been casting for channel f bass for 33 years—and hasn’t caught one yet, and saw a ten-year-old girl l pull tn six in ten minutes. , 1 me mine convention. C. C. Horn, president, announced the meeting for eight o’clock. All young Democrats In the county, and other Interested persons, are Invited to attend, and to go to Ra leigh. Arrangements will be made for a number of cars to leave Shelby. Btther with the motorcade which reaches here at 12:30 Thursday, or in Friday morning. It Is believed that a delegation of at least fifty vlll make the trip. In the meantime, any persons m * rested—and by the way. “Young Democrat" Is a term that disregards »ge—are asked to telephone Mr Horn, or William Osborne, secretary >f the county organisation. There will be speeches at the nesting Wednesday night, but they’ll be short and informal. Mr. Horn said. Motorcade Mehedale The motorcade wilt leave Asheville it 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Hie schedule Is as follows: I.eHves Asheville 10:00 a. m. Ar rive In Hendersonville 10:40 via U. 3. No. 3ft. Leaves Hendersonville 10:40 via U. 8. No. 64 to Bat Cave U. 8. No. 74 to Rutherfordton. Ar rive In Rutherfordton 11:30. Leaves Rutherfordton 11:30 via U. 0, No. 14. Arrive in Forest City 11:40; leave Forest City 12:00 noon via V. 0. No. 14. Arrive In Shelby 13:30. Leave Shelby 13:30 via V. 0. No. 74. Ar rive In Oastonta 1:10. Leave Gas tonia 1:10 via U. 8. No. 74. Arrive Barbecue Lodge, throe miles west of □harlote, where we stop thirty min utes for lunch. Uaw Lodge 2:00 p. m.. Via H. 0. WofHT to Albemarle. Arrive Albemarle 3:00 p. m. Leave Albemarle 3:00 via N. D. No. 74 to Carthage via No. 16 to Banford. Arrive In Sanford 4:30 Stop there ten minutes for refresh ments. Leave Sanford 4:50 p. m. via U. 8. No. 1. Arrive In Raleigh 6:00 p. m. This motorcade will be aeoorted »y the N. C. highway patrol. Cline And Poston See Flood Damage 4h«riff And IT. 8. Marshal Visit Federal Prison In Kansas, In spect New Jail. Sheriff J. Raymond Cline and Deputy United 8tabes Marshal Mack Poston, formerly of the Shelby po lice department, saw the blackened fields of wheat destroyed by the re cent western floods and the bullet scarred station of the Kansas City station massacre as they took two narcotic peddlers to Leavenworth prison last week. The sheriff and deputy marshal made the trip from Asheville, with the two prisoners, in a drawing room. They left last Monday and returned Saturday night after de positing their dopesters at the Fed eral prison. Sees Scenes Of Distress. Flood waters of the Missouri were receding, but still high the sheriff said, and there were many scenes of distress frpm the car windows— ruined homes, and families making the best of It In improvised tents. At Kansas City they Inspected the new skyscraper county building and jail, fourteen stories high. One of the members of the Pretty Boy Floyd gang is in prison there, due to hang soon The scaffold is appro priately enough on the 13th floor. Counterfeit Bilk Reported in N. C. Merchants and banks in North Carolina are on guard this week igalnst the reported circulation of counterfeit twenty foliar bills hroughout the state. At the First National bank here, Forrest Eskridge, cashier, said that none of the fake twenties had been reported here. He added that coun terfeiting had been on the Increase Tor the past two years because, for iome reason, it was apparently eas er for crooked engravers to coun erfeit the new Federal Reserve ts ues than any other currency. Counterfeit five and ten dollar ►ills have been reported recently In fickory.
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