Weather north Carolina: Generally fair >xcept afternoon thundershow ,r5 tn west and north central x>rtion Monday. The Ellwkkand Aar I 8 Paget Today VOL. XLL No. 87 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. nr Mill, par jaar. (la artaia—> _ WJP Carrlar, par J«ar. (ta >mmi .. W.MI Rain And Cold Increase Danger Of Boll Weevil Few Instance* Arc Reported Here Vl,tered Rep«t» Of Peste In This County, But Threat Alarms Farmers. r,rtd hard ram smiting Cleveland eotton fields last week threatened farmers with the scourge of the boll ; nffvil This is the kind of weather |' rtjat encourages the insects to bore, j ind this is egg laying time. Warm dry weather would be bet- j for the cotton crop at this par ticular stage. Few Reported Here. County Agent John S. Wilkins said this morning that he had re- i reived scattered reports of the pres- j ence of the pest, but had not seen g definite “epidemic” as yet. Increases in weevil infestations, n-ere reported by county agents for i the week ending July 13. An aver-1 age of counts indicates that slightly i more than 10 per cent of squares! are punctured in the state on un- j poisoned cotton. The crop is fruit ing well, the reports show. Differences between early poison ed and unpoisoned fields are no ticeable An average Infestation of less than five per cent of square", was found in fields receiving early applications of poison. With a continued abundance of j rainy weather, and emergence of, weevils from squares, rapid in creases In infestations may be ex- ! pected.” says W. C. Nettles, exten- j sion entomologist, advising Individ- J ual growers to watch infestations 1 closely and apply poison dust where ; conditions justify the practice. 1 Mrs. Julia Paris Dies At Age 38 Funeral services were held Thurs day at the home of Hamlet Harvey ' ol Dover Mill for Ms mother, Mrs. i Julia Harvey Paris, who died Wed nesday of heart trouble after an 111- . ness of two months. Hie was 88 years of age. Rev.. W. A. Elam was in charge 1 of services and interment was in the Dover Baptist church cemetery. ] Mrs. Paris, until a short time ago , lived in Pacolet, S. C., with her Orly daughter. Mrs. Walker Moiris. 1 twice married. Mrs. Paris’ first 1 husband preceded her to the grave ‘ several years ago. Of her Immediate ‘ family only her son and daughter ■ survive. Three CCC Camps Open In N. C. Soon ■ ROCK HILL, 8. c., July 32.— j South Carolina youths numbering several hundred will soon occupy three Civilian Conservation camps * York county. The camps will be located as fol- J '°ws: One m the Ebenezer sec tion near Rock HSl for work on 1 the Pishing Creek soli conservation ‘ Project and two in the Kings Mountain battleground National Park, one a State forestry camp and the other a national park eatnp. U. W. H. Redfem will have ' t^arge of the Ebeneeaer camp and P B. McAlister will be superin tendent. ' Mm. Lem Cornier’* Brother Is Dead ■Jordan Franklin Setzer, age #0, well-known Catawba county farm er. died last Monday set his home near Catawba. He suffered a stroke of paralysis some time ago which he never recovered. Two sons and < five daughters survive, together with 1 one brother L. N. Setzer of. Clare- ■ mont and two sisters, Mrs. Lem Conner of Shelby and Mrs. Hugh Belk of Union Mills. I Morning Cotton LETTER VEW vork, July 22.—The dis tant months bore the brunt of sell ing both purchases of Oc '°°er tnd what appeared to be new partly hedging, which forced t widening in discounts, Textile reports show little im — *oodf demand and the weat..er is favorable. However, con tacts are tightly held and sales •gainst the new crop will havc to increase to warrant any decline ol consequence.—E. A. Pierce and Co. the markets ^ Oft, spot.UK to 124c <2; Iff -”ton' —-3200 tog, car lot Over 2 Thousand Gather To HearOklahomaQuadruplets They Give A Popular Program At Kings Mtn. Saturday Night; Mother Keys Tells Of Their Arrival And Traits Two thousand people gathered last night to see the Keys quadruplets who rendered ^*ffrogram of sacred music at the First Baptist church and appear again Saturday night of this week at Kings Mountain under the auspices of the American uegion. At Kings Mountain they will give i program of popular music, re ritations, etc. The mother of Roberta, Nona.! Mary and Loeta was here last night I md got as big a hand from the! arge audience as the quads. They, ire spending two weeks with Rev. j 3r. Crouch at Morganton and fill-! ng daily engagements in Western j Vorth Carolina. Dr. Crouch was heir pastor at one time in Hollis. I Dklahoma. Only One Other Set "How many sets of quadruplets lo you know of it America?” Mrs. Keys was asked by a Star reporter.! T know of only one other set. four I jirls about four months old in Lans- i ing Michigan. Quadruplets have been bom to other mothers in Am erica. but they did not live." The girls when born in Hollis June 4th twenty years ago weighed from 3 3-4 to 4 1-2 pounds. Now the are juniors in Baylor Univer sity in Texas and their weights range from 130 to 157 pounds. One is a blonde, the others of the brun ette type. Two are much heaviei than the others. Father an Undertaker Their father. Flake Keys, is an undertaker and hardware dealer in Hollis and u’hen the four children arrived, there was great excitement (Continued on Page Eight) Bailey to Cast His Vote For Proposed AAA Measure Youth Loses Arm I As Car Overturns At Filling Station Kay Whisnant. Kings Mountain Boy, Injured in Wreck On Highway 20 Ray Whisnant, 21-year—old son >f Mr. and Mrs. C .C. Whisnant, of Stings Mountain, lost his left arm in the operating table of the 8hel >y Hospital Friday night as the re sult of *n automobile wreck on Highway 20 earlier In the after ioQn. The arm was torn and shattered is his car overturned near the Cit es Service Station. Apparently, te was trying to avoid a collison vith another car, said to have been lriven by Gene Franks, as he em ■rged from a side road. His car iwerved against cars in the service station lot, overturned, and pinned roung Whisnant underneath it. * A negro who was riding with him n the front seat was uninjured. Mr. Whisnant is in the hospital oday, uninjured save for the loss >f his arm. Lynch Buys Herald At Kings Mountain Haywood E. Lynch, formerly of Soldsboro and now of Kings Moun ain has purchased the Herald »ublishing House from G. G Page if Buies Creek. Mr. Lynch has been In Kings fountain for the past several mon hs as editor of the Kings Moun ain Herald and business manager if the Publishing House. He has been recommended highly j iy Mr. Page, and has been well re- i eived in Kings Mountain. Medical Society To Meet Tonight The Cleveland County Medical society will hold a meeting July 22 it 8 p. m. at the Shelby hospital.! Papers heard at the American Med cal association meeting will be dis :ussed. All members are urged to be >resent. Shelby Scouts Plans To Attend Jamboree Of35,000 At Capital With “on to Washington” as a ilogan, half dozen Shelby Boy scouts are planning to join 35.000 American youths in a few weeks an he National jamboree in the espi al city which will celebrate the !6th anniversary of the scout novement. Scoutmaster Paul Wilson win be 5 charge of the Shelby contingent *ieh will spen a week at the >i*geet scout meeting ever held. Vith him will be C. Rush Hamrick r. Edwin Spangler, Avery Willis IcMurry, Bill Legrand, Ben Smith, ,nd perhaps one or two others, rhose applications have not been eard from. There will be 135 scouts from the ouncil. embracing 11 counties who oil meet at Lake Lamer lor a week .. of intensive training August 15. prior to entraining that week end at Gastonia for Washington. The .jamboree wil lbe situated mostly on the Virginia side of the Potomac river, m a camp which oovers more than 400 acres, which is now being fitted with facilities of a modem city. The gathering of scouts from every nook and comer of the United states is at the in htation of President Roosevelt, who s also honorary president of the organization. The first day in Washington will oe featured by a review of all the scouts lined up in columns of eight on each side of Constitutional Avenue while the president passes through this rank and file of future American citizenship i Senator J W. Bailey of North Carolina will support the new Con gressional measures designed to ceep the AAA alive. He gave his •easons In the following statement Saturday: "The present situation k as fol ows: "The department of agriculture Is issuming that the old AAA, that s the existing law, will be held un sonstitutional. This includes the Bankhead act and the Kerr-Smith ict. The so-called AAA amendments low before the senate are really lot amendments, but they consti ute a new bill. The effort in this lew bill is to substitute for the •Id AAA, provisions which will make t cbnstitutional, and therefore, sub stantial, I know that our farmers ire satisfied with the existing law, >ut the difficulty here is that the existing law may be held uncon ititutional in the midst of the harv :st, and the new bill, or so-called imendments, is by way of antici lating such an event and prevent ng disaster. “I have not opposed the bill as t came from the department of ag iculture at any time or in any man ler or degree. I have opposed two ommittee amendments. There is a iroad difference between an amend - nent inserted by a committee and he bill as prepared by the de lartment of agriculture. One of he amendments put in by the ommittee clearly contemplated a eturn to cooperative marketing of obacco. I mink our farmers in initely prefer the present system o cooperative marketing. Regard ess of opinion as to the theory or irinciple of cooperative marketing, ts application to tobacco brought lisaster in North Carolina and cost ur tobacco fanners almost the alue of one entire crop. I do not hink there ts any likelihood they rould welcome a return to any hing of that sort. "In your presence and In the pre ence of about 4,000 farmers in the taleigh meeting this year by the ecretary of agriculture, I am un willing to pursue any course tend ng to depress prices. No matter jest the farmers are not receiving teps to bring them down. When hey get low I think we are all ustified in taking steps to bring hem up, but when they get high do not think either you or I or he department of agriculture should ndertake to bring them down. At (Continued on page eight.) 3 Prision Guards Freed By Jurors In Mecklenburg Release Captain Little On Cruelty Charge j "Not Guilty" Is Verdict After July Stays Out AU Night On Convict Case. CHARLOTTE. July 32 —Three former convict camp official* were acquitted yesterday by a Jury in Ktecklenburg Superior court of mis treatment to two short term negro convicts wnoee feet had to be am putated after their imprisonment. Those acquitted were Dr. C. 8. McLaughlin, former prison physic ian; R. C. Rape, a guard, charged with neglect of duty, and Capt. Hen ry C. Little, former camp superin tendent. charged with assault with Intent to kill. Jury Ou* All Night. The jury returned its verdict at 10 o'clock after having recevted the case Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The trial occupied two weeks in a special session of Su perior court before Judge Wilson Warllck. The state charged that the con victs, Woodrow Shropshire and Robert Barnes, were confined last winter in an unheated cell and that their feet froze, necessitating am putations. The defense, denying mistreat ment of the negroes, sought to show that the convicts themselves were j responsible for the gangrenous con idition of their feet by wrapping rags I and cords about their ankles, cur | tailing the blood flow. Assault charges against Dr. Mc Lauehlin and P.arw» wprp Hismiuari Friday by Judge Warlick upon com pletion of evidence. The three defendants, together with T. M. Gordon and J. W. Eudy camp guards, orlnally were indict ed on several counts, including three felonious charges, assault with a deadly weapon. maiming and torture. Charges against Gor don and Eudy were dismissed early last week. Shropshire and Barnes. the stumps of their legs exposed to the Jury, were the chief prosecution witnesses. Capus Waynlck, chairman erf the state highway commission, the de partment having charge of prison camp operations, said he was not surprised at the verdict. Waynlck said there was little 11k lihood of any of the defendants be ing re-employed by the department as prison officials. They were dis charged because of what was inter preted as infractions of prison camp regulation. “The action of the commission,” Waynick said, “was not based on any possible developments with ref erence to the outcome of the super ior court trials." Waynick said the case Illustrated the difficulty a prison camp offic ial has in determining where an of ficial’s actions cease to be those prescribed by duty and become acts of a criminal nature. The Observer said “when a Jury retired about 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon they took a ballot and four men wanted to convict one or more of the defendants. The jury continued to discuss the verdict and , take ballots and at 9 o’clock Sat.ur j day night there was only one mar. j holding out for conviction. The Jury I then retired for the night and Sun j day morning took another ballot. | This ballot revealed the jury was ! unanimous for acquittal of all de fendants on all counts.” Announce Faculty At Lattimore Hi; Expect Good Year A complete faculty was on hand at Lattimore this morning to be gin the current school year with prospects for an increased enroll ment over last year. Prof. R. D. Arrowood said that his faculty would be composed of ?1 teachers, eight in high school and 13 In grammar grades work. Following are the teachers: Pau line Dedmon, Shelby; Mary Robin son, Kings Mountain; Eunice Robb:, Gaffney; Helen Collins. Shelbv; Madge Sperling. Shelby; Inez Bea:r. Cherryville; Ruth Whlsnant, 8h* by; Lillian Logan, Rock Hill, S C.: Margaret Hamrick, Grover; France Graham, ■ Earl; Christine Maunev, Davidson; Mildred McKinney, Shei by; Irene Hamrick. Rutherfordton; Mrs. Yates Harrill. Lattimore; E. E. Davis, Spindale, H. D. Stetler, Mid dlesburg. Pa.; H. E. Mosley, Kin ston; Felix O. Gee, Shelby; P. M. Coley, and R. D. Arrowood, Latti more Two rooms are being fitted in the gymnasium to take care of extra classes, pending PWA allotments for an addition to the main high school building. Teachers Certain To Get Increase, Raleigh Reports Those Who Taught In ’34 Will Benefit Hubbub And Hullabaloo Was Pre mature. Says Authority Ob School System. RALEIGH. July 32.—Every teach er who taught tn the North Caro lina public school system last year will positively will get a 30 per cent Increase tn his or her salary this coming school year and also any Increases that may be due to either Increased experience or better cer tification. It was learned here yea itrrday from a high state official ! who Is in a position to know what ; he Is talking about. He declined to be quoted directly at this time, but indicated that plans are now in process of development which will make it possible for the State School Commission to grant a minimum salary Increase of 20 per cent, to every teacher employed this year who also taught In the schools' last year. It, was Indicated, how ever, that new teachers who are em ployed for the first time this year cannot expect to receive as mneh as teachers who were employed in the schools last year and in previous years. It was indicated by this state of ficial that, all the hubbub and hulla baloo raised over the state during te past week over the question of teachers’ salaries has been some what premature and that the entire problem would have been worked out by the State School Commission and the State Board of Education in due course of time. More Donations To Local Hospital Two more donation* have hem made to the Shelby Pubhc hospital, !*■ w** announced this morning: bv Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey of the Roapi tal Axillary, which organisation la seeking gifts with which to furnish the wards and private rooms. D. Huss Cline has agreed to fur nish a private room complete at a cost of (250 which includes every thing necessary such as furniture, springs, mattress, table, chairs lamp, etc. An individual who withholds his name, has made a contribution of $100. The hospital auxiliary will mert Wednesday morning at, 10 o'clock at the hospital and all members afr asked to attend, as well as these who handed their names to the dif ferent church circles, indicating a desire to Join the organisation. | COMPLIMENT MISS BELL AT CHARLOTTE PARTIES , KINGS MOUNTAIN, July 22 — Miss Louise Bell returned' to her home in Kings Mountain last, Wed nesday after spending a week with Miss Ava Barnett, at 1611 Grace | street, and Mrs O. A Steel of Gracon Park, Charlotte. Miss Bell vas complimented at a number of i social affairs during her visit. Mrs. G. O. Biggers complimented ; ner at a pretty Gypsy luncheon at her home on East Seventh street and her hostess gave her a fare well party on Tuesday evening be fore she returned home. Fourteen young people were present and en joyed a pleasant evening of games Refreshments in yellow and white were served at the close of the even On Wednesday she was hon< 8 Incheon given by Miss Ka erine Patterson at her home East Seventh street. The lunch the library, each table beng laid was served at small tables set ui two guests. To Begin Revival In S. A. Meeting Revival services wilUbegm at the IlHSund Salvation Army Hall^unday. jm 8 wlth Rev- L W. Martin doing the ('reaching. Regular services are v.eld each Sunday beginning with - Jnday school In the afternoon and ^nowed by preaching services at .h°° 7 « P- «n- Every person in he city not in regular attendance ette^d6 °ther 501,001 15 UlVlt*,S te Dr. Bridges Goes To Saluda Seminar Dr. D. T. Bridges, well-known physician of the Lattimore com munity. left Sunday afternoon for Saluda, N. C., to attend the pediat ric seminary for two week.", involv ing the study of children s diseases.j G-Guns Spat Leaden Death For Dillinger 1 Year Ago I Gangster* will feel safer now that Metvtn Purvis, chief of the GM cago office of the Department. of .luattca Bureau of Investigation, has resigned to return to private life. Mr. Purvis, shown on Mtn left afovue, wse a cMef faotor in bringing John DMiingor and “Pretty Boy" Floyd to thetr doom and proved hlmeelf a veritable avenging angel wher ever gangsters were concerned. Purvis in shown above as be turned over Mb office to Ms successor, Denial M. ImkM, friruwir of “Wash-, ington. It Was Ju*t One Year Ago Today That Pub lic Enemy No. I Fell Under The Guns Of Purris* Men Today a year ago John Dellinger, hold bad man preemin ent of modern times in the United States, died at the hands of Federal police officers as he emerged to the street from a Chicago fheatre in company with a blonde woman. Bankhead Control Act k Declared Unconstitutional eMon At G inner* Sue For eMon As Ghwn R«e Por Injunction SHERMAN, Tex , July 3B — Thf ! controversial Bankhead cotton con Itrol act, born of the New Deal, ha; been declared unconstitutional b; Federal Judge Randolph Bryant. Granting an injunction agains enforcement, the Judge flatly said: "I think the law is clearly anc plainly unconstitutional.” His ruling came on a plea foi injuction filed by D. C. Wallace Gunther, Texas, ginner, who suet on behalf of himself and all othei cotton ginners of Texas and th( Texas Cotton Ginners’ association “Owing to the unusual and ex traordlnary circumstances presen in this case, I think that an injunc tion should issue upon the givinf of proper security,” Judge Bryan' said. “It is only a very thinly disgulsec attempt to regulate the productlor of cotton under he pretext, of th< exercise of t$ie taxing power of thi natipnal government. This power if it exists at all, is not c.ommittet to the national government unde: the terms of the Constitution o: the United States, but is expressli reserved of the States.” The case was set for hearinf September 11 on its merits. Judge Bryant set $100,000 as thi amount of bond the Texas eoltor ginners’ association must, make be fore the injunction becomes effec tive. __ Mr. Evans Hartgrove of Charlotti is spending this week with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J W Hartgrove Standing Room Only as Charlotte Sees Free Ball in Blue Law Defi CHARLOTTE, July 22.--Chariot-j te's blue law yesterday failed to stop baseball, golf and tennis inside the I city limits although no admission was charged for these entertain ments nd recreation activities. Three news-stands and four shoe shine parlors, however, felt the pinch of the law with their owners being! summoned to court on warrants is- i sued by cltv police yesterday when they were found to be operating in alleged violation of the blue laws i The Charlotte baseball club put: on a free game which drew such a crowd as has not been seen at the local field in many a day. In fact., the doors had to be locked finally to keep the crowd from taking pos session of the whole plant. Upwards; of 10,000 persons jammed the park and several thousands more - could I: not be admitted, baseball officials! stated. U The HMerest and municipal golf ;ourses, the only courses inside the :ity limits, reported good crowds in >pH« of rather heavy rains which ell during the afternoon. No fees vcre charged for the use of the course, it was stated. Tennis courts and bicycle rental igencies also operated all day with >ut benefit of fees for their services Police Chief E. D. Pittman stated hat his men circulated among the various recreational plants of the :ity and saw no money changing j tends, therefore no arrests were! nade for violation of the blue lawsj n spite of the fact, that all were crowded with patrons Chief Pittman did, however, ar •est three operators of newsstands md four operators of shoe shine parlors for operating in alleged op position to the mandates of the city •ouncil with regard to Sunday busi ies« activities 1 uir Klin wiiiui ir» nnui iih-vp iv * tually slain him was that, of Melvin Purvis, South Carolinian and for mer member of the detective staff of the Charlotte police force, who has since achieved nation-wide fame as the chief of Uncle 8am's oele j bra tod "G-men,” Purvis recently re igned his post, to write the story ol his exploits for a popular maga zine. Lima Jail Break. DttWnger, an Iowa farm boy who turned Chicago gangster in the days of rum-running and easy money, first came to general national notice when he delivered several members of his gang from the Jail at Lima, Ohio, where they were begin held on murder charges. In the fight at the Jail, the Sheriff at Lima was killed. Thereupon, the citizens of place. Shortly afterward Dll linger placee. Shortly afterward Dtllinger was captured and handed over to the keeping of the woman Jailer. But this bird was not to be held so i easily as that. Early in 1934, he fore ed his way out of the jail at the point of a false gun carved from , wood and painted, and made good his escape and that of several of his companions. Following that, somebody coined' the name of Public Enemy No. 1 for i him, the epithet, stuck, and has ap . plied to whatever famous gangster : has happened to be in the public 1 eye since. But, none of them has so , well deserved the name as Dillinger. i A slashing fellow in the style of the j ' old bad men of the western fron tier, he terrorized the entire north Middle Western part of the country j for the six months following his death and preceding his death. And not oniy the Middle West. The fame 1 of his exploits spread throughout | the nation, and he was continually reported as being seen in New York, in Maine, in Texas, in Louisiana, and even in North Carolina, down to Shelby's neighbor, Lincolnton, which was so impressed by the prob I (Continued on page eight) Judge Hoyle Sink Sees Grand Jury As Rubber Stamp Opens Criminal 1 arm This Morning J. T Roneyoatt AS* i* For KfflMi One SBorSm For THeA. Judge Hoyle Htak •or! a t or of She g*i n Nort h- Carolina, neeks' form of lust, before noon lervatton t/hat largely a "rubbur wHcttor." Solicitor Bpusgaan licnolr, « Cleveland lack at him from th •