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* > Weather 'Jorth Carolina and South Car ollna — Local thundershowers Monday and Tuesday. ■■ n I The WÆM 8 Pages Today --- VOL. XLI, No. 84 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JULY 15. 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By M»U, par |W, UP MruM _ BN Cprrlar. par yaar. (la atfvaoaa) _ U.OO All FERA Workers To Be Transferred To Works Progress Order Received Here From Mr*. O’Berry •Unemployable*” Are Slated To Go Under County Care; To Meet Here On Monday. Cleveland’s 478 families now re ceiving employment and relief from the FERA office will soon be trans ferred to public projects under the Works Progress Administration, the county commissioners learned today from Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state administrator. J. Lester Herndon, chairman of the board of commissioners, Miss Ruth Catlin, district relief super visor, Mayor Harry S. Woodson, and Rev. W. M. Boyce of Kings Moun tain will meet here Thursday morn ing to prepare for the shifted relief load. Te Withdraw Grant*. “It is expected that all grants from the Federal Government to the states for direct relief will be discontinued when the Works Pro- i gress is in full swing,” Mrs. O’Berry wrote to the commissioners. "The local government officials are urged to make provisions * in their annual budget for aid to those persons who cannot find work on public projects or in private em ployment." Up To The County. The jist of this order is that all persons who can work will be trans ferred to Works Progress projects. Those who can’t work will be on the county’s hands. Still, this won’t be’ much of a problem for Cleveland. Most of them can work, and want to work. Only three families on relief now are classed as "unemplovables’^ persons physically or mentally un able to .work.” Evergreen Pest At Work In City A new pest to evergreens, the bag worm, has been found in in creasing numbers In Cleveland coun ty by assistant county agent H. B. James, and which is doing quite a little damage to aborviate, junipers', red cedar, and other members of the cedar family. The adult stage of the insect is a moth which lays eggs in the leaves and the grub which hatches out spins a web around itself, at the same time cutting the tender, grow ing buds of the evergreens. They cause the trees to appear gagged, and unsightly, and may later hind er growth or even kill the tree. They may be killed, Says Mr. James by picking them off and by spraying the tree regularly for a few weeks with a preparation of arsenic of lead. * . Mooresboro Rt 2 Resident Passes r" - Funeral syvices will be held at 3 00 this afternoon at Holly Springs Baptist church in Rutherford coun ty for Mrs. Etta Atkins, 52 year old resident of Mooresboro Route 2 who died Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Atkins had been ill only a short time and death came at the Rutherford hospital. She is survived by her husband and three sons. Courtney Infant I* Buried Sunday Funeral services were held yes terday at 4:00 at the home for the Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Courtney who live on Suttle Street. The child died at the age of three days at the Shelby hospital. Mis Courtney Is still in the hospital, but is recovering nicely. Services were In charge of Dr. Zeno Wall and interment was at Sunset cemetery. The child is sur vived by its parents. There are no other children. ■ Morning Cotton LETTER new YORK. July 16.—There was no important selling Saturday but ~e demand was rather thin. The favorable weather in the south And lack oi any important broadening — demand for goods discouraged new buying dominate market’s movements, at least until hedging starts to become & factor. E. A. PIERCE & CO. THE MARKETS Cotton, spot.11% to 1214c Cotton Seed, wagon, ton __32.00 Cotton Sod, ton, ear lot_35.00 Two Score Lives Lost in N. Y.’s Worst Flood ' In New York state’s worst flood hi 70 years, more than twoscore Uses were lost, mnufu bridges were swept away, towns were isolated and property damage exceeded $20,000,000. Swirling flood waters stranded scores, their autos and even their pets, as evidenced in the above scenes. In the top photo, two autos which had been crossing a Kingston, N. Y., bridge lust as it crumpled before swollen stream waters, ware hurled together and hung in midair. In the picture at left, below, sev eral autos are sltown trapped on an inundated Horneil, N. Y.. highway. Stranded pn a raft in the same locality, the Boston ball shown at .tight evidently grander* what It’s all about. Cohen Says Living Standards Higher In U. S. Than England; “One thing I wish to im press upon you is that the standard of living in America is at least 200 per cent higher j in every walk of life than it is' here,” writes Harry Cohen,1 Shelby merchant, who is in his native England on a visit.: Mr. Cohen was born in Manchest er, England, one of the largest tex tile centers in the world. Says he,! “Oi course the Manchester district ’ has been hard hit. Foreign com petition has played havoc with their j export trade. However, the home market is securely protected.” • the conveniences we have in \mertca are a luxury here. 'T’rom, ny observations I find everything s as high or higher than at home (Shelby), but wages and salaries ire down. I don’t see how the peo ple here exist. The way I see it .he textile workers around Shelby and in all the textile centers of the South are 100 per cent better off (han over here. Wear Wollen Underwear ' The weather is very changeable aere. Rains nearly every day. The aative here all complain of a heat wave. The hottest it has been is )Continued on page six.) Mrs. C. A. Parker Is Killed In Field By Lightning Bolt Death came to Mrs. C. A. Parker, t 30 year old resident of the Double i Springs community Friday after noon at 6 o’clock in a flash of light ning which also struck down her eight year old son. The son recov ered quickly and ran for help. Mrs. Parker with her husband and four children lived on the farm ofI Cletus Greene, and at the time of1 her death she was leaving the cot-1 on Held to so xo her home nearby. The lightning struck in a storm vhich was not unusually violent ana t had not yet begun to rain. She vas in an open field with no ob ects such as trees or’Virr fences lear by. She was carrying a water ug m her hand. Robert Jones of the ajoimng Union ommunity was killed by lightning (Continued on page eight.) Believe “Pure Cawn ” Extinct; Carelessly Made Stuff Poision Chemists of the Federal alcoholic | tax unit say moonshiners are not j making any more "pure mountain! cawn” back in the coves of the Southern Appalachians, They're reported still in business' at the same old stand, but the chem-1 ists say they’ve abandoned thei painstaking distilling methods of j their forefathers for hap-hazard| practices that result in quick “runs ’ j and terrible liquor. The old-fime moonshiners, say, the chemists, really did make “pure j mountain cawn” usirtg sparkling spring water and clean com mash > carefully distilled. The quality of a; man’s liquor in many communities determined his reputation among his neighbors ; The chemist explained the source ■>f terrible headache familiar to the imbibers of a stuff that passes for 'pure mountain cawn.” The first run of the mash through a still, he said, produces a iauor strong in acetaldehyde con sent and the last run results in a high percentage of fuse! oil. Both tend to congest the blood and exert iepressing effects on the heart ac hoit Expert distillers in Government licensed plants know that, and so they discard the first and last runs. But the moonshiners, knowing lit tle about chemical principles lump the poisonous liquor in with the rest, leaving the customers to won ier why the trrific ‘hangover’s. Pink King, Age 7( Dies This Morning Of Heart Trouble Respected Fanner And Lives toe Dealer Passes Quietly; Funeral Tuesday At 3:00. A prolonged illness of severs •Tars was brought to end at 10:3 today at the death of Pink King, ^ year old farmer and livestock deal er and well known resident of Shel by. Funeral services will be held a the home on Sumter street at 3:0 Tuesday afternoon and will be li charge of Dr. E. K. McLarty and Di Zeno Wall Interment will be a Sunset cemetery Mr. King had been suffering wltl stomach and heart trouble for eigh or ten years, and had been conftnei to his room for the past two month; Ho had no; been active in busines for nearly a derade. A native of Rutherford count; Mr. King was the son of Barne and Susan King of that county, bt came to Cleveland in early yout and has lived here since that tlmi He was married 51 years ago t Mrs. Laura Goode, who survives hii with nine children The children are Mrs. Yates Mos of Forest City; Miss Iona King, Wi King. Rafe King. Mrs. R. A. Spang ler Misses Bertie, Louise, Margare • nd Grace King all of Shelby. Pall bearers at the funeral will t S. A. Washburn, Grover Beam, Bas Suttle, Paul Webb. C. R. Dogget and John Honeycutt. McSwain Youth Is Unconscious After Auto Wred Irvin MsSwain, 24 was still in emi-conscious condition at tT Shelby hospital today where he ht '.een since midnight Saturday fo! lowing an accident near Pinevie I ike He was found about 11 ocloc Saturday'night near his wrteke car with a heavy laceration on tfc back of his head and a possible free ture of the skull. McSwain could not remembe anything that happened, whethi he was hit by another car. or whe ther he lost control of the machln Officers were investigating Sur day and today the possibility of foi play in connection with the acc dent. First Raspberry Crop Brings $765 To Local Growers Commercial Trial But Used At Home Agent Wilkins Makes Final Report On Money-Making Sideline Crop A year of growing raspberries m a commercial crop in Cleveland county resulted In bringing $706.63 to 35 growers in all parts of the county,- according to a seml-flnaJ report, made today by County Agent John 8. Wilkins. Coupled with the first venture which has been labeled satisfactor ily successful was the fact that cash outlays for at least 10 years In ad vance had to be made in staking, setting the vines and learning the culture, plus the fact that a firai year growth seldom brings ovei half a crop. Used At Home Aside from the hundreds of dol lars gained from marketing the berries, there have been large quan tities used at l$>me for making Jams and Jellies and used In othei ways. Berry shipments from Cleveland county were made through the Hick ory office this year In conjunctlor with Burke and Catawba count) growers and were shipped to north ern markets. gold Through Hickory Thlscgunty was reported by th« Hickoryoffice to have received toj prices during the selling season, du< to the fact that marketing was sev eral days earlier than other coun ties. J H. Morgan wjio lives west « Shelby on the Blanton Brother! farm reported the beat yield, selllnf enough berries to bring $30.81, whtcl counting berries used at home woulc I Will 1UO W/VOl I/IVDQ $160 per acre, or more than doubli the gross receipts from an acre a cotton. B. P. Dixon of Bethlehem got $47.01 on half an acre. Other top record were set by Mrs. C. G. Whianant Walter Davis, and Wayne Ware. As various growers came in thl last week to get their checks an make final reports Mr. Wilkin gathered Information that there ha been put up 303 pints of Jelly an 216 pints of jam, valued at a marke price of 17 and 15 cents each res pectively. Half a hundred quart of berries were put in cold pack fo fall and winter use. Definitely Here The county agent feels that ben growing as a sideline has becom definitely a part of Cleveland’s fare 11 program. Cost for labor, fertiliser! 'care and management of th “patches” has been kept to a mini jlmum, perhaps as little as $30 pe acre in some cases. Too, after th' vines are set and the stakes driven there Is little to do but cultivate fertilize, prune the canes and gath er the berries the following years Mr. Wilkins Is optimistic and salt for the moct part, growers plan ti continue berry growing. Teachers Won’t Get20P. C. Raise; Fund Is Exhausted Commission Did Not Complete Worl And Schedule Was Not Completed. RALEIGH, July 15.—North Caro lina's public school teachers will no | all receive Individual 20 per cent In creases in their salaries next yeai and in addition have the raises li j certificates allowed, because tlj ' fund of $20,030,000 allowed will no take care of that increase, it Is stat ed by Leroy Martin, secretary of th State School Commission, followlni I the meeting last week at whicl i teachers’ salaries were considered. The commission’s salary schedul committee did not complete it work and the schedule therefor could not be adopted. Another meet lng is set for July 25, when the wor is expected bo be completed. The fund will take care of the in crement and the 200 additional tea chers required as a result of the in creased enrollment last year, bu will not take care of the Improve certificates and at the same tlm give a full 20 per cent increase ti salaries, It is stated The 20 per een will include, in part, at least the in creases provided by the law for th higher ratings in certificates The schedule of salaries will thu result In increases probably as hlgl as 40 per cent In some cases, an not more than 10 per cent, possibl less, in other cases. Generally speal lng, it is presumed that the increas es will range from 15 to 25 per ceni the greater range being in unusua cases Charges Dropped Against 2 Guards; State Rests Today Gordon, Early Freed By Solicitor 'Proeer niton Slated To End fW, Defenn To Reply This Afternoon Wpeetol to The Star) CHARLOTTE. July M.—Chargee against T. M. Gordon and J. W. Eudy, Mecklenburg Prison camp guards, were dropped by the State in Judge Wttaon Warllck’s court this morning as the prosecution neared completloh'OC its case. Solicitor "jOdrpenter announced that he believed the state had lit* tie evidence against these men. and would drop the charges In the hope of clinching a conviction against the other three. Oapt. Henry C. Little, and Or. C. S. McLaughlin, county prison physician and R. C. Rape. Cruelty Alleged They are being tried lor alleged torturing and maiming of two negro prisoners, Woodrow Wilson Shrop shire and Robert Barnes, who con tend that they were locked in a small dark room which was so cold that their feet froae. necessitating amputation. The grandmother of Shropshire was on the stand this morning as was Barnes’ mother. It was believed at noon today that the state would rest when court opened at 2:30, after an adjournment at one o'clock. Introduction of testimony by the state began late Wednesday, after ! three days had been consumed in selecting a Jury from a venire of 175 men drawn for possible service. Both the negroes have been on the ' stand, exhibiting the stumpe of theli amputated ankles. ► Depression Is Over, | MeBrayer Announces , Undw MoBiwyer announced thli 1 moraine that the depression ni i raw. j It was Mr. MeBrayer who sever - 1 al years ago put a finger on the t advent of the great depression. He . knew It had arrived when he saw s drug stores putting their free r matches in cigar boxes with holes In the lids—so customers could get only two matches at a time.*.. * ir Now he knows the depression % « over because the negroes have start i ed riding In automobiles again. , "They were all over the state Sun s day.” he said, "and I haven’t seen ■ a Hoover-Cart anywhere." ' Herndon To Speak At State Meeting Lester Herndon, chairman of the 1 Cleveland board of county commii > sioners, will be one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the state association of county commissioners and auditors at Wrightsville, August 13. 14 and IS. Auditor Troy Mc i Kinney will also attend the meet ing. I . Mr. *Gus Beam Hat Severe ’Heart Attack O. Augustus Beam suffered a ser i ere heart attack Sunday aftemoor and his condition la reported to be quite serious. He lives on Sumtei street and had been on the court ■ Square with friends during the day l! feeling as well as usual. ;; Check For $10,000 sj Written For Hospital ■ | The county commissioners this ; I morning wrote a check to the Shel 5 j by hospital for $10,000. The monej 1' will be used to pay a part of th< | cost of the new wing, now rapidlj :; nearing completion. Moon In Total Eclipse Tonight; t You can look at the moon in total 1 eclipse tonight and tell whether It " is cloudy In such far places as Rus (. sla. south Africa and Hawaii. If it is clqufiy in those areas of s the world, the moon will be invis ible to all except the sharpest eyes s during the hour and 41 minutes of i total eclipse around midnight, east 1 ern standard time. i But if there are fair skies in those i far comers of the earth, you will - see the eclipsed moon dimly, as a , copper-colored ball. 1 Russia, south Africa and Hawaii mark a circle around the world < where the sun will be just rlsim Dr setting at eclipse time, rising h Hawaii, setting in Russia and sou* STrtea. The suns rays, principally the rec jnes which give the color to sunset ikies, will bend around the ear* though to shine faintly on th( sclipsed moon. Their reflection wll nake It appear as a copper colorec Use. But not if the sunset-sunrise belt s stormy or clouded through tot large an area. The clouds wll shut off enough of the scatterc< rays to make the moon almost en tirely invisible. Parking Situation Improves; Customers Rush To Pay Bills Car Owners Most Agreeable In Complying With “No Double Parking*’ Regulation; Extension To W. and L. Customers Parking of earn in the business section wan more orderly on Saturday than in many previous year* aind the car drivers accepted the city's new regulation in a most agreeable man ner, it is reported at the City Hall. ■ — * Mivnr VUimlnnn na.ua Uni nailer John D. Is 96 Copimoht, bu ft I. Knoefbrtic.ht John D. Rockvlvltar After haring reached hn 9Mh birthday, John D. Rockefeller is jura that he will live to celebrate hie MOth. The cfoeeup etudy above ahows the oil king at hie Lakewood, N. J., eetate. Farm Debt Body Urges Farmers File Applications Cleveland Organisation Holds Meet ing Here, Acta On Three Cases. The Cleveland County Farm Debt Adjustment committee held IU regular semi-monthly meeting Fri day afternoon in the Shelby anti Cleveland Building and Loan at which time three financially dis tressed farm debt cases were con sidered. Futher action on these cases will be made at the next meei tngof the committee on August 2 D. W. McPherson of Oraham and J. W. lamberson or Raleigh, assist ant state representatives attended the meeting. Mr McPherson told the members of the local commit tee of the program and progress ol the Farm Debt Commission in North Carolina. The members of the Cleveland committee are: B. P Dixon oi Kings Mountain, chairman: C. R Spangler of Lawndale, vice chair man: 8. S. Mauney of Shelby, sec retary; and the folowing members C. S. Young of Shelby, Thomai Cornwell of Shelby, and L. C. Pal mer of Lawndale. All financially distressed farmer! of Cleveland county are urged bj Chairman Dixon to file their appli cations with this committee »nd avail themselves of this free anc comparatively easy method ol solving their financial problems. department! report* that only an* driver objected to the regulation prohibiting double-parking and hit objection wa* mild. "PractloaHy all or the car driver* accepted th* regulation In the beet of humor and commended the etty tor taking thf* advanced etep In orderly and sAfer traffic handling." eeya Mayor Wood too, The proposed hour parking Unit haa not been paaeed upon. *n>lt phase of the new traffic eegulattont will be discussed further tonight at a regular meeting of the city coun cil composed of R. Z. Riviere, O, C. Coble, Coleman Doggett and W. C. Harris. They will consider making the hour parking limit apply only on Saturdays and not after 7 o'clock In the evenings so patrons of the picture shows ean be away from their cars during the two hour showing of a picture. Rush To Pay BUIs. There was a rush to pay water and light -btlls on Saturday and this morning. The city hall could hardly watt on the customers who stood in line to pay for Juns ser vice so their service would continue. In the five hours the city hall was open on Saturday a total of $1,375 was collected from water 4nd light patrons. Another rush was on this morning, Misses Forney and Rein hardt being too busy receipting bill* to run up the total collections f today. Because patrons had such shor, notice that service will be discon tinued after July 15th juplgu June sendee was paid on or before today, the city has extended time for pay ment until Saturday July 30th at 1 o’clock. The extension is for this month only and does not Indicate that extensions will be made In sub sequent months. According to the new regulations by the city administration which came Into office July 1st, all prior month water and light service bills must be paid by the 15th of the month following, also not less than five per cent on service bills for months prior to June 1st. *The audi tor finds that over $30,000 was due the city for water and light service for the fiscal year ending June 30th. Some customers were found to pwe for several months service, hence the council has decided to require payment on or before the ltyh for the prior month and not less than five per cent on over-due accounts In this way It is hoped that all de linquents will catch up their old account*. In this way It is hoped that all delinquents will catch up their old balances In twenty months. Urges Locked Cars To Stop Bundle Lifting and Thefts A sharp warning against the acti vity of vandals, package lifters, and street gangs was issued this morn ing by Chief of Police D. D. Wil kins. “The situation has come to a point in which I am asking all shoppers in Shelby who leave pack ages in cars to please jock the car, or better still, leave the package in the store until you are ready to go home.” He said that for the past few days many complaints have come in. "It is hard to run down a thiei when no one saw him take the » ;5>i *. a , ! goods, and only a vague description of property is given. It would much safer to lock the cars.” The chief said that there several classes of people doing the lifting from the parked on the streets. They are the unemployed and needy, idle negroes, and roving groups of street boys who take any and everythin* they can get their hands It happens every day in but Fridays and Saturdf worst said the chief Judge Weather* Carroll Brick Home Judge and Mrs. Bynum Weathers have purchased the Carroll brick home on N. Washington street from the Pilot Weathers days
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