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Weather WMther forecast for North Carolina: Generally fair Wednes fijv *nd Thursday. s K. 8 Pages Today VOL. XLI, No. 92 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST, 2, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. *T U\l\. par jroar, (la adranea) — Man rarrlar. par jaar. (la advaaea) _ HOC CCC Camp Water Line To Run 1,900 Feet; Will Build New Road Blaek Boy* Easily Controlled, No Problem To City, Says Lieutenant Stallings, Guaranteeing Behavior Shefby’s Ethiopian problem seemed settled this morning with the announcement that the city and county had com bined finances to lay 1,900 feet of water pipe line to the col ored CCC camp, on R. L. Wilson’s farm near Belvedere, and I that a private road would be built for the use of the negroes. Where ine rusu wm gu ID » umt ter of doubt. Some means of reach ing the highway, without trundling heavy trucks through the Belved ere residential section, is highly de sirable. «rr5 Army engineers were conferring today in an effort to locate a suitable route. Announcement that the camp would be manned by colored boys, more than 200 of them, came as somewhat of a shock to Shelby residents this week, but most fears have already been alfeved. "The Army guarantees to handle these men,” said Lieutenant Adams, in charge of the camp. "As a matter of fact, they have a record of be having much better than the white camps. You see, we can ship ’em out of camp immediately if they don't behave.” Lieutenant Stallings, construction engineer, said, "Why, we have been controlling negroes in the south for more than 400 years. As a matter j of fart, most of the progress of the Southland has been built on the broad shoulders of black boys just like these. They’ll be no problem to the citv at all. whereas White boys often are.” BUCK WIDOW BITES 3 YEAR OLD Billie Mull, three year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Roy Mull, who We about two miles from Shelby, was bitten by a black widow spider last night, and was taken to the Shel by hospital for treatment. Word from the hospital this morn ing 'aid the child suffered intense pain last night, but was resting bet ter this morning. The child was bitten on the left leg MISS GREENE DIES AT BROTHERS HOME Miss Harriet Greene, age 70, died it the home of her brother. John Greene, near Casar at 10 o'clock Thursday night. Miss Greene had been ill about three vears, and paralysis is thought » have caused her death. Funeral services will be conducted it the Palmer Mortuary Saturday morning at 11:00 o’clock. The ser vices mil Be conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shelby. Burial will be in the Zion church cemetery. John Greene, a brother, is the only survivor. HANS COMPLETED FOB HOLLIS COMMUNITY FAIR RUTHERFORDTON, Aug. l— Plans have been completed for the Hollis community fair to be held September 30-21. L. C. Price is pres ent; H. T. Reavis, secretary; Grady Withrow, W. W. Bridges, Clav Blanton, Claude Waters and *hnlc Crow compose the executive •ommittee. Morning Cotton LETTER Corning cotton let front R ‘ BW YORK, Aug. 2.—Generallj 'orable weather conditions anc .’*fr indicted yields are ahowr . Private reports Induced scat ,, liquidation yesterday. Worth reports indicated some an ^waent la, sales. There is gvi * 80Od sl**i potential de ?or constructions being ap Speculative perticipatlor ^ expected to broader surti time as the uncertain !5___ n ®*e situation are removed but- ! f!fher setback may resull te ma?w°Ubt any “aterlal change ^arket .will be seen for the pres E A. PIERCE & CO. 4 the MARKETS cr^, .»*- »« ty, w . ** -1. "* tea_M New Dealer ! Robert Wood Johnson, millionaire sew Brunswick, N. J., manu j acturer, who urges industry to cut vorking hours to less than forty 1 t week and increase wages. Unless I his is done he predicts permanent irmy of fifteen to twenty-five mil 1 lion on relief. IPWA Adds $1,200 To School Grant; Estimate Was Low Original Grant For Colored School Addition Was $3,000; Found More Was Needed j The. Public Works Administration has added $1,200 to a previous grant of $3,000 for Cleveland County, for completion of an addition to the [colored high school in Shelby, i The estimated cost of the project [was about $11,000. and the PWA, in order to be sure that the grant did not exceed the stated 30 per cent, set the allowance at $3,000. Later, however, when the addition W'as completed, it was found that the total cost was $14,000, and the extra $1,200 was added. This has already been done in the case of one or two other school projects in the county whose total cost exceeded that estimated. Textile Worker* To Meet Here Saturday O. P. Allen, president of the Shelby Textile Local Union No. 1901 announces a meeting of the far western textile counsel at the Shel by union hall on Saturday night, August 3rd. Good speakers are ex pected and President Allen asks that all members be present, es pecially the delegates. Shelby Gasps As Hot Sun Spins Mercury To Thermometer Top Shelby sweltered yesterday under the scorching rays of a flaming in ferno, as the old orb which furnish es us light and heat relentlessly shed shimmering rays on a blistered earth The thermometer said it wa only 95 dgrees In the shade, but surely that gadget was mistaken. It must have been a Hoover thermo meter, chary about setting new precedent. For undoubtedly yesterday was one of the hottest days Shelby has had experienced this summer. The siczling heat was the main topic of conversation under every shade tree at every soda fountain, under every electric fan. No twto thermometers on the main business streets agreed They ranged from 95 to 103 degrees. The One Negro Killed, Another Carved In Two Affrays Two Officer* Capture Fleeing Hacker No. 3 Man Shot Near Heart. Shelby Negro Attacked With Heavy Axe. Yesterday's searing heat, record ed at 12ft in the sun, apparently went j to the heads of two colored men i last night. /tfAfca result, one negro Is (dead with a bullet near his heart, jand another is in the hospital with head and face carved by an axe. , Jack Meeks, No. 3 township, died at midnight in the hospital suffer ing from a bullet wound said t« have been inflicted by a negrc called "Archie," whom the sheriff's office is seeking today. On Way From Church. Meeks was shot at three times witnesses said, after he and Archie got into an argument over a pack age of cigarettes. The altercation occurred as a crowd of negroes were returning from church. Fuller Ellis is in the hospital suf fering from severe head injuries said to have ben inflicted early this morning by Louis Ellis, who fled Louis is said to have entered Full er’s home about 4:30 this morning and to have attacked him and his wife with an axe. The woman was not seriously hurt. Ellis was captured at noon todaj by officers Hardin and Stamey as he was hiding under some bushes along a, branch near Flat Rock Officers had previously made tw< trips to the same vtcimity. but hat been unable to locate him Ellis of fered no resistance Sigmon Will Push For Earl Highway Since the map has been posted a the court house on the propose* Shelby-Grover road project 01 which bids will be asked for tht month, an effort is being made b; citizens of the county to serve th< highway commission to include th* Earl road in the same project. The proposed Earl road woulc lead off the Shelby-Grover road a! j Patterson Springs, extend through Ear) and connect with highway No i 18 north of the state line. Commissioner Ross Sigmon whc is working on the Earl project writ es Editor Lee B Weathers as fol lows "I have your letter of July 23rd | relative to the Shelby-Grover road The plans and specifications foi this route have not been completed by the Engineering Department however. I am. sure your request wil be given every consideration so fai as the Commission is concerned I Due to additional restrictions adopt ed by the Federal Bureau of Roads we are unable to do exactly as Wf would like in many instances. Yoi: may rest assured that I will cooper ' ate with you to the fullest extent." Mr Knight Promoted In U. N. C. Faculty j W. A. McKnight. son of Mr ant jMrs. J S. McKnight of Shefby, hai been promoted to Instructor if Spanish at the University of North Carolina for the next school year Mr. McKnight graduated fron ■Davidson college in 1932, taught on« j year at the Mount Pleasant Col llcgiate Institute, and last year studi ed at the University under a teach ing fellowship one which registered 95 points was. accepted as authentic, because it was a new refrigerator thermo meter supposed to be accurate However, w'hen it was put m the direct glare of the sun s rays it jumped toward its capacity mark of 130 degrees with alarming swift ness, and the experimenters were forced to draw it. back into t: shade to keep from damaging it. One small gadget at The Star office was put in the sun and left there, but it rose to the very tip, 124 de grees, and stopped there from lack of space to advance further. One reporter tried the old trick of frying an egg on the sidewalk, but it wasn’t quite hot enough for that. However, the typewriters in the office were so hot that the keys singed the paper as they touched—almost No Nudist Lawrence W. Cramer, newly ap pointed governor of the Virgin Islands, appears before Senate Committee in Washington and, among other things, denies he is a nudist despite publication of names of himself and wife in book on nudism. Historic Church WiU Hold Final Services Sunday Friendship M. P., At Fallston, To Be Replaced by New Build ing On Same Site i An event‘of historic significance ! in the religious life of Cleveland will . occur Sunday evening when the last public services will be held in Old Friendship M P. Church at Fallston, first church to be estab lished there, and the building In which the early Baptists of that community met under the leader ship of Rev. Thomas A. Dixon, father of the writer. Tom Dixon Jr. The oW church will be salvaged ! and a new building will be erected | situated In part upon the site of the . present building, Fallston Landmark In many respects the church is | one of the landmarks of Fallston. The nucleus of the present school system of Fallston was organized and once housed in this building The arly Baptists met in this church for worship under the leadership ol the late Rev. T. A. Dixon, distin guished Baptist leader, thus bring ing to pass a unity between the present Baptist congregation in Fallston One of the most Interesting facts concerning the individual life of the church grows out of the fact that the late Noah Wright served the church as Sunday school superin tendent for 61 consecutive years. He also left a legacy which is now being used to assist in building the new church. The church now has a membership of approximately *00 members. Produced 4 minister The Influence of the church has gone out through Its own denomina Ition. It now has four members ac tively engaged In the ministry of the M. P. church: Rev. J. D. Mor ris, Pinnacle. N. C.; Rev. C. E. Mor ris. Danville. Va.; Rev. E. A. Bing ham, Denton. N. C.; and Rev. P. E. Btngham. Matthews, N. C. The fellowship that exists between the three churches In Fallston is indicated by the nature of the pro gram to be rendered Sunday night. Lloyd Wilson will represent the Me thodist Episcopal church, South, and Mrs. W. F. Hamrick will bring a message from the local Baptist cnurcn. Rev. E A Bingham, of Davidson !who recently assisted in a success ful revival held in the church, will 'also have a part on the program, as will all local ministers who may j find it possible to be present. Shelby Motor Co. Buys Keever Motor _ The Shelby Motor Co. a newly chartered organization has taken over the Keever Motor Co and will continue the agency for the Dodge - Plymouth cars with Norris Lackey as manager G C. Keever who has :been with the Keever Motor Co. now has the agency for the Olds mobile and is temporarily associated with Allen Hines on S Washington street. Dr. Wilson Presides As Eye Men Gather Dr. Robert L. Wilson. Shelby op ornetrlst, presided at the educa-1 lional meeting of the Charlotte ,.:roup of the state Optometric As sociation Wednesday evening. Di Wilson u chairman of the group Lynching Inquiry Fails To Develop Holding Evidence Franklin Probe It Recessed Attorney Graenl Report* Prugrem. But No Identifies Fixed In Killing Probe LOUISBURG. Aug I—With “no evidence on which to hold any one" having been brought out at a three-hour Judicial Inquiry Into the lynching Tues. of Roosevelt Ward, negro, who earlier that day had chopped off the head of a promin ent fanner. Judge W. C. Harris re cessed the hearing indefinitely yes terday afternoon. Solicitor William Y Bickett and Attorney General A. A. P. Sea well asked that the matter be kept open for further action upon the request of the solicitor. "There was no evidence on which to hold anyone today,” Judge Harris said. “A continuance until some fu ture date Is ordered.” Progress Claimed "Real progress has been made In laying the foundation for a more thorough investigation." Attorney General Seawell said after the con tinuance was ordered. 'We will push our Investigation based on Information obtained at to day’s hearing and the matter will be reopened at the proper time,” Solicitor Bickett said. No Identities Fixed There was no evidence adduced at the hearing to link anyone with the lynching of Ward, first identified in official records as Govan Ward. Ward early Tuesday assaulted Spurgeon Ayacue. a youth In the Hayesville section of Franklin county, and while Ayscue was securing a warrant for his arrest also assaulted»his (Ward’s) sister. Rowena Kearney, and killed Char les G Stokes, prominent, farmer. No Recognition John P. Moore, who Monday was named sheriff of the county by the commissioners but has not quali fied, and two deputies started to spirit Ward away to Nashville for safe-keeping due to high feeling In the vicinity to which Stokes lived, and an unmasked mob of some 35 men sized the negro, carried him back within two miles of where he committed the crime and lynched him. ."I did not recognize any of the men,” Sheriff Moore testified. Grover Named For Former President WASHINGTON. Aug 1,-Oldf! heads In (the postoffice department shook when the naming of a post master for a Cleveland county postoffice was reached. The office is Grover. and postal employes checked back to ascertain if the i name was correct. They found that j it was—that years ago the pqpple of I Cleveland county honored the man who was 22nd <1885-9> and the 24tn i '1883-7) president of the United ; States by having the map read, | "Grover. Cleveland county. N. C.," j and thus It was recorded The town was named bv the late J A Anthony, father of Oliver and ! John Anthony of Shelby. Mr*. Jan Anna Ware Die* In Arkansas Cleveland county friends will be grieved to leam of the death of Mrs. Jane Anna Ware, wife of T. M. A. Ware who passed away June 29th at 4 a. m. at Pine Bluff. She was bom in Cleveland county and resided In No. 4 township before moving West about 28 years ago. She was 83 years of age and Is sur vived by her husband and the fol lowing children. Mrs Lucy Watson of Pine Bluff, Ark., Prank Ware of Norfolk, Va., Perry Ware of Dar denelle, Ark i Charles Daniels Is Accidentally Hurt! Charles Daniels, nephew of 8 D tovelac* and grandson of M A Lovelace, was accidentally shot and wounded In Wllliamston yesterday by another youth, Henry Lee Hardi son Hardison said he fired his nfle at a marauding cat and the bullet; traveled a circuitous route for about 300 yards and hit Daniels. Daniels was taken to a Washing ton hospital where it was found a lung had been punctured. His con dition wag said to be serious. Mrs. Ralph Royster and two children Stephen and Mary Louise, •’re spending aa month in Green ! ' ood. S C . with the former s pai enU, Mr and Mrs. J. G. Mattlson. Two Youths Implicated In Death Bed Statement Seek Treasure Of Lusitania Th« full-equipped salvage vessel, the Orphir, is being used in an at tempt to find the *4,000,000 to $15,000,000 treasure believed to be locked in tha sunken g. S. Lusitania, which wwt sent to the bottom by a German W-boat during the WorM war^The Orphir is shown above at Head of Kinsaie, Ireland%.L‘A- Bestic, who was one of the junior offices* on the Lusitania, will be chief officer on salvage ship. Shelby Infant Death Rate Lowest In North Carolina Shelby hu never produced quin tuplets or quadruplets, but It's the best city tn the state of North Caro lina to have a baby In. The State Department of Health revealed this yesterday In a report which showed that, although the infant death rata for the stdte as a whole Increased, the death rate in Shelby was lowest In North Caro lina. IS Deaths Here. For the state, the Infant death rate increased from 66 per 1JX)0 live births in 1933 to 76.3 last year. The Shelby rate was reported as 59. There were only 18 infant deaths here last year. There were 79,558 birth# in the State in 1934, iand there, were 6,072 deaths of Infanta under one year of age. Only four States had a . higher Infant mortality rate than North Carolina. They were Arlcona. 103; ^Georgia. 78.9; New Mexico, 132.1: and Sleuth Carolina, 86.1. This state's birth rate last year was 24.1, as compared with 23 In 1933. Only New Mexico, with 27.9 (Continued on page six' Board Of Aldermen HungUp Avoiding Ballot On Chief •Well file your application and let you know If any vacancies oc cur.1’ said the board of aldermen to seven applicants who»wanted to be chief of police. To date the seven have heard no more, nor has any vacany occurred. The office of chief of police has been no more vacant than that of the mayor, for D. D Wilkins, and all the force were sworn In July 1, shortly after the new administra tion took the oath. No Vote Taken In other words If the board de cides to retain Mr Wilkins, it Is not necessary to put the question to a vote. He holds his Job so long as he does not resign, voluntarily or otherwise. And as a matter of fact the board, though plauged on all sides by political friends urg ing the merits of their candidates, never has taken a formal vote. * It Isn’t necessary for them to do so—each knows how the other stands, each knows whom the other favors. If and when any changes are made in the police de partment. a good guess is that the minutes will show the board voted unanimously They’ll settle their differences before pointing the question. Aldermen Spilt As the police dilemms now .stands, the aldermen are split too many ways for unanimity. While Aldermen Harris steadfastly holds nut for Wilkins Mayor Woodson Is believed to favor Doc Willis, and the entrance of Rush Thompson has tangled the allegiance of other board members. Most energetic of the candidates Is undoubtedly Ed Hamrick, whose petition to the board contains the names of two score prominent citizens, but hit chances are probably depenrten* upon the Inability of the board tc decide on some other candidate presently more favored. Mack Poston, deputy U. S. mar shal; H. C. Long, county gunip warden; Lorln Hoyle, former chief of police of Cherryvllle; J. R (Lefty) Robinson, formerly chief of the fire department, Thompson Hamrick and the present chief are the candidates. Harry Hudson says he is not seeking the office and would hot accept it If elected Couldn t Even Feel Whiskey, Says Man, After Bite By Black Widow - With the Black Widow spider that bit him before daybreak on June 13 prisoned In a bottle, corked with a corncob, H H. Green, 65-year-old Mooresboro man, told how it felt, with baleful glares of anger at his snemy He said he was only about 75 per :ent normal now, more than a month after the bite. “It was like a wasp bite, at first," be said, “And I became awfully sick ibout an hour later.” He took sev eral spoonfuls of alum, and then rushed to a doctor. An hour after the bite, he said, harp and violent pains coursed hrough his entire body, even being :r!t in his feet and legs. A Latti nore doctor gave him an ln.i'r'io.i,. iut it brought no relief. A half1 pint of whiskey, he declared, wasn't felt in the least An hour after being bitten. Mr. Green said the poison had spread "all over my body The pain was unbearable, worse than any tooth ache I ever had My feet burned, as if they were m hot ashes Cold water relieved them temporarily. 1 couldn’t stand still. I Jumped and quivered. "Pood tasted terrible. I tried snake bite herbs, but they didn’t ease the pain. Nothing eased It.” One week after the bite, the pain began to subside, but Mr. Green stayed in bed two weeks. His tem perature ranged from 101 to 102 1-2 hq said. Un»il abou’ 'cn d* as?. h* .am., be was to weak to do anything | MeSwain, Dying, Declares Blanton And Upton Guilty State Rests Today In Trial for Murder A statement Implicating Monroe Upton and Jack Blanton as his at tackers, made by Irvine McSwaln as he lay dying in the hospital, was admitted as competent In a pre liminary hearing this morning. James McSwaln. brother of Irving, with whose murder Blanton and Upton are charged, said that he talked to Irving a week before he died. The last lime he waa con scious. "They done It," Irving said. "Who?” "Monroe Upton and Jack Blan ton." Male Beets Case The state, represented by Solicitor C. C. Horn, rested as court adjourn at IS 30, and defense attorney Hor ace Kennedy announced that he would call a number of state wit nesses. First witness for the state was Lee Cabinet*, of No. 1 Township, who told he K*ard men fighting near his home on the night of July 13, the same evening that McSwaln was found unconscious In his apparent ly wrecked car. He Identified two rocks, which he said he found at the scene of the fight., and which, he said, were covered with blood (Continued on page six.) i DRIVED LICENSE i READY SEPT. 1ST CHARLOTTE. Aug 2.—Informs* j lion has been received by the Caro lina Motor club from the Motor Vehicle bureau. Raleigh that state wide driver's Uoenses will be made available to the public on Septem ber 1. The cards will not. however, become effective for use on North Carolina highways until November first. Considerable delay was experi enced by state officials In effecting the preparation and delivery of the license cards, which, as specified by the statute covering the new pro visions. were to become available to the public within 90 days after the passage of the act, which took place on February 38. There will be n6 charge for issuance of license In the event that application is received before November 1. After this date a fee of (1 will be exacted from the dilatory car owner. No announce ment has as yet been made from the Motor Vehicle bureau regarding the method of distribution which will be employed In disseminating the new cards among North Caro lina's motoring public. The new licenses will be perma nent until revoked for cause. Cer tain provisions are specified which make revocation mandatory by the court": and state officials are re questing that motorists familiarize themselves with the provisions ' the statute before the law become; effective in the fall. Announce Services At Episcopal Church On Sunday, August 4th, there will be prayer and preaching serv ice at 11 o'clock followed by the Holy Communion, at the Church '* of the Redeemer, 8. LaFayette St Rev. J. B. Sill Is staying over . the. week-end at Mrs. Packard’s, 501 N. Morgan street. Making Plans For Cleveland’s Fair Cleveland County Fair dates have ben set for October 1st to 5th inclusive and Dr. J. S. Dor ton, secretary, together with the home and farm agents and their organizations, are making ex tensive plans for exhibits. With excellent crop prospects, Indications are that the fair will ! have the best exhibits ever col lected. Miss K. Owens is solicit ing advertisements for the prem ium list which will go to prees in a week or ten days and contain between 80 and 100 pages. The premium list will be illustrated with coming free sets and prize ' inning booths of previous years. i
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