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Weather N. C„ Generally fair tonight. Slightly warmer in extreme west portion Tuesday. Probably cooler ,pd local showers in afternoon. The Ellevkkmd ka 10 PAGES Today *--4 VOL. XLI, No. 96 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUG. 12, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. »* Mill, por mi, OP Mnaeai _ «a.M r»rn«r. a«r y»»r. (la advtnml _ UM RECOVER BODIES OF 2 MEN DROWNED IN LAKE JAMES CCC Camp to Remain As New Site Is Found On McMurry Farm Soil Erosion Project Hovered In Balance As j Army Officers Prepared To Take Unit j Out Of County Last Week With few minutes to spare as Army officers prepared to : move the CCC camp out of the county because no road could ' b obtained for their site near Belvedere, a group of Cleve- ' 1 nd civic and business leaders Friday afternoon saved the ■ *j] erosion project for the county by finding a new camp lo- 1 c _ xi_A XAT MnMurrv form nn niHnov ctrpof’ inst , ui 1 tilt canon off of South DeKalb. Captain L. C. Rosser, construction quartermaster dispatched herd to get. a road or move the camp, tele phoned Brig.-Gen. Manus McClos kv at Fort Bragg for permission to use a new site. Ordinarily, the Arm., requires at least a month to inspect und approve a location, and it wa,. thought Impossible that one could be obtained in time. Told To Move Camp. "Tf they don’t want the camp, move it right out.” were the ..iscruc tions the general gave the captain on sending him here. '■I was afraid the phone might ex plode .in my face when I.had to call the general and talk abeftit a new site, said the captain yesterday. The CCC camp dilemma arose when- Lieut. J. S. Adams and 25 ne gro campers arrived here two weeks ago to start construction of the camp on the R. L. Wilson farm, only to find that adjacent prpoerty owners refused permission for rights of-way for water, lights, and roads. Belvedere Heights, residents also signed t petition protesting the proximity of the 200 workers ex pected here within 30 days. Lieut. Adams, who on Friday was relieved of his command by Lieut. H. H. Vestal, has been Instructed to remain with the detail. It is not known whether his assignment will be permanent or not. TWO SHELBY MEN INJURED IN CRASH Word received from CKy hos pital in Macon, Ga.. late yester day indicated that Dewey How ell, injured Friday night in a truck smash-up, was slightly Improved and that at intervals he gaine da semi-eonactons con dition. Moody Ham bright, who was with him at the time of the wreck, returned to Shelby with relatives yesterday. Ife received minor injuries on the knee and shoulder. Dewey Howell 23 and Moody Hambright 25 were in a Macon Ga. hospital Saturday morning follow ing a crash Friday night of a How ell Transfer truck which they were I driving. The crash occurred about 12 miles out of Macon, and incom plete reports indicated that the truck was demolished and that Howell was in an unconscious con dition. Hambright was not so seri °usly hurt. The nature of their in . Juries was not learned. Grover Howell manager of the lo [ fal transfer company left Saturday afternoon with Guy Wortman and a Mr. Withrow and the wives of the f"’0 lr>jured men for Macon, where they will investigate the accident. The truck was not heavily loaded. bm was enroute further south to Rn s load of goods. Morning Cotton letter VEW YORV O. •p°» cotton THE markets 1254 to 1354 .123 Six Cars Wrecked; In Three Crashes' On Local Streets ^ h I W. Miller’s Auto Turns Over In , Front Of Lineberger ^ Residence. Three wrecks occurred In Shelby , yesterday, although no occupants of ( any of the cars were seriously In- : jured. The accidents happened at 1 various parts of the city. Perhaps the most serious occur- ( red yesterday afternoon about 1 jur l o’clock jin the Cleveland Springs 1 bridge. J. W. Miller, who owns a * service station next to Mac Poston’s , residence on highway 20, was driv- ] iiig an Essex coach and had a col- < lision with a man freon Charlotte j4 on the bridge. Mr. Miller’s automo-j, bile ran up the bank in front of J.!‘ D. Lineberger's residence, and' turned over. Not Injured Seriously - j! Mr. Miller was laaen to the hos-!^ pital, but his injuries were not]* found serious, and after receiving! first aid treatment, he returned toll his home. Yesterday morning about nine ‘ o’clock, a negro named Ed Martin, 1 who was driving a car belonging to J Norman Harris, and Loy Roberts collided at the intersection of ' Sumter street and Oakland Drive. :Both cars were damaged rather ! badly. Martin was arrested and charged with reckless driving. Mr. Roberts little daughter received minor cuts about the face. ’ The third accident happened at the intersection of Morgan and Lee street. Police did not have particu lars of the accident, other than the fact that both cars were dumped badly. Two Pound Tomatoes Grown by W. F. Davis1! The biggest tomatoes seen in these parts were exhibited in The Star; office Saturday afternoon by W. P. < Davis, amateur, gardener, who lives. j at 316 McBrayer street. Many of the specimens shown by j Mr. Davis weighed over two pounds, t and he said he had just gathered i three bushels of the same kind < from a row of vines in his garden. Aside from growing plenty of i vegetables for his family table, Mr. < Davis makes a hobby of growing to- \ matoes. The big ones were of the l New Windsor variety, and were ! pruned and fertilized in a modem If way. 11 Wilkins Discusses Escapes, Paroles In State Prisons Scores Officials In Statement Jies Three Convicts Who Were .'ensured Here As Examples Of Laxity In Camps. In (xuiuinamm with recent state wide attach on the appalling con ict escape and parole situation, 'hi,-! of Police D. D. Wilkins today ised three Cleveland county es :apee^ as examples of the laxity iracticed by the prison camp offi cials throughout North Carolina. The three men concerning whom le received notices of escape to iay, are as follows: Howard Poston who was sentenc 'd from this county on July 27, es caped from the Polk county camp in August 7; W. T. Denton, a coun y man who was sentenced to five 'ears imprisonment in Asheville in 932 escaped from the Buncombe ounty camp on August 8: Enoch ilillen, who was sentenced to* 11 nonths here in March. escaped rom the Polk county camp on Au :us_t 7. Gets Three Daily Chief Wilkins said this morning hat he received an average, of three irr four escape notices every day, md talked at length about the sit tatlon in the state. “I endorse everything Chief Lit lejohn of Charlotte has said re ently,” Wilkins stated. “The state las absolutely no control over these irisoners who are escaping faster han officers send them up. “I charge it directly to the high way department whose carelessness ets them escape. Then the officials xpect local officers to go to the xpense of recapturing them." “Another instance concerns Gra lam Padgett, who was sentenced in he July term of Superior court for igaret stealing. He escaped the fay after he was put in prison ■te was nnaiiy iru«piuir>i Spartanburg." Wilkins continued with an attack in the parole situation. He said The police department and the heriff's department here has never n history been. consulted about a larole. Commissioner Gill grants he paroles, and local officers cer ainly should know more about whether or not the prisoners deserve t parole,” hollandhTswain IS CHOSEN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Word has just been received here if the election of Holland McSwain is county superintendent of public ;ch.oolf> in Caswell county. Mr. Mc is a native of the county and brother to Attorney Peyton Mc Swain. Si;: r.tendentn McSwain suc ceeds Vance Swift, who was called nto government service last spring, dr* McSwain had been acting head n his place since that time. The ounty board of commissioners nade his appointment permanent or tVo years. The new superintendent has been .ctive In school work In Castvell Ince his graduation from the Uni ersty of North Carolina in 1927 nor two years he was principal at /Iilton. and then principal at An erson and Prospect high schools espectively. Tiny Black Widow Dances In To Hairy Arms of Giant Tarantula TARANT1SM: Nervous affec- ' tion producing melancholy, 1 stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance Supposed to be due to bite of the tarantula. It ) is cured only by protracted dancing to appropriate music — Webster’s Dictionary ‘ The Merry Widow Waltz" might have been appropriate music as a vicious. gnome-like Black Widow spider danced to her death here Saturday afternoon in the hairy arms of a tarantula ten times her size. Dropped into a bottle containing the tarantula, which arrived here in a shipment of bananas, the Black Widow waltzed courageously down the opaque glass toward the tusk-like mandibles of the hungry tarantula. j There was one brief whirl as the tarantula gathered his multiple legs, spread like an octupus, snatch ed the widow from the dance floor, and bit. Then the band played ‘he funeral march. It was a complete victory for the tarantula, who immediately retired to a corner and went to sleep. Both types of spider are known to, be viru!ent( and dangerous—how dead ,yl no one seems precisely to kijgwi But there’s no doubt now abmft which is the better spider in a fight. The tarantula was captured by Ed Hamrick, grocery store clerk, who says he bottled it up quick, before he stopped to think how dangerous it was. The Black Widow raine from the garden of D. P. Rob erts, who says scores of them are crawling around his back yard. SAYS HE WAS SCOUT FOR TOUHY GANG STEERED GANGSTERS—Ernest Dos ter, 24-year-old Shelby Sian who was arrested In New Orleans and confessed that he showed the waj for the Touhy gang: in the Charlotte mall robbery in 1032. He Is showr with fbrmer Chief of Police A. L. Richards when he was arrested in 192f after an attempt to rob George Alexanders jewelry store. Shelby Man Confesses. He In Charlotte Mail Robbery Steered Ernest Dost.er, 24, who was ar rested in a New Orleans 5-and-10 cent store Friday and who later co: tossed to aiding In the $105,00 Touhy gang mail robbery in Char lotte in 1932, is the same person wh made a daring attempt to ro George Alexander’s jewelry stor here on Thursday, November 1 1928. The accompanying photograpl showing Doster and former Chief c Police A. L. Richards, was made im mediately after the sensational rob bery attempt, and was published ii - The Star on November 8. Miss Juliet Blass, ten-cent store i clerk, was responsible for Doster’s 3 arrest in New Orleans. While the young woman was busy at her coun ter Friday, she noticed Doster re 3 moving articles on display. |?he told 3 a floorwalker,-who summoned a po ? liceman. Meets Gangster*. Doster later told police officials ' that he served a term In the peni tentiary for robbing Geo. Alexan der’s jewelry store and shortly aft ) (Continued on page ten > T. B. Is Far More Dangerous Than Black Widow or Polio 20 Miles Per Hour In Shelby Limits Will Be Enforced To Begin Campaign This Week; ! Motorcycle Cop To Arrest All Violators. The state law of 20 miles per hour | ( inside city limits will be vigorously I enforced beginning this week, the f police department announced to- ( day. i ‘ This campaign will be kept up until all speeders are caught and , prosecuted." Chief Wilkins said this' morning "We now have a motor cycle cop, and this will be part of' his duty.” There will be no allowances for first offences, the chief announced. First-offenders will be prosecuted just as strictly as any others Wilkins called attention to the i dangerous situation resulting from l bicycle riding In the city streets. \ and said that It was absolutely man 1 datory that the speed law be en forced. I He warns the public that the po- ; lice department is serious about the i matter, and will start the campaign !< this week, ji One person in every 40 of the 55,000 residents of Cleveland coun ty has tuberculosis. Added to this alarming reality It the fact that the dreaded white plague is Increasing every month md now finds this county 68th from the top, or 32nd from the bot tom in 100 counties in North Car olina, in percentage of cases ac ;ordlng to the population. Discussion of this condition by he county Red Cross committee >ver the week end brought a pro ,est at the big flare of anxiety to ng aroused over the Black Widow pider, Infantile paralysis and other liseases, when tuberculosis la 200 imes more prevalent than ' polio' md incomparably more dangerous (Continued on page ten.) B. Hudson DePriest Injured In Fall B Hudson DePriest, a former esident of Shelby was painfully, iut not critically injured yesterday (hen he fell about 10 feet while ixing a radio aerial. Mr. DePriest was in the news paper business here for some time everal years ago and is now in the .dvertising business In New Yor! lity. He is here on a »»cation vie ting his father, G W DePriest. 10 Percent Gain In High School Enrolment Shown •s aIaI. Near For Whole County BeppHa From County Mmol finite Wwn By Snprrintmd ent Griff. A Jump of approximately M per cant In enrollment, In rural high school* of Cleveland county wm be ing checked today by County Sup erintendent J. If. Grlgg as reports from county high schools and asso ciated elemental* schools showed that more than *,300 pupils have befun work for the two months sum mer session. According to Mr Ortgg, elemen tary attendance te about normal with an average Increase, but the high school Increase la above nor mal. Reports were in from every school in the county with the ex ception of Moores boro and the Mo riah unit. The exact total of the number enrolled la 5.228, with an es timated 500 more to be adde<k Still others will be added In the regular fall term. Following are the enrollment^ at thg^various units: Piedmont. Including Double Shoals and Lawndale, high. 104; elemen tary. 340. Rnthtro re Viioh AT • . 175; Patterson Grove, 98; Oak Grove, 66. Bolling Springs, high, 176; ele mentary. 300, Including Sharon, Shanghai and Beaver Dam. Grover, high. 91; elementary, 369. Cuar, high, 139; elementary. 373; Philbeck, 38. Belwood, high. 99; elementary, 348. PolkvlHe. high, MO; elementary, 439. No 3, high. 342; elementary Pat terson Springs. 178; Earl. 234; Elis abeth. 100. No 1 township, no high school; elementary. Holly Springs, 76; Pal mer. 63; Prospect. 69. Waco, high, 103. Fallston, high. 194; elementary, Beams Mill, 107; Poplar Springs, 61; Ross Grove, 92 Lattlmore, high, 170; elementary, 408. Including Zion. Mooresboro (approximate) high, 125; elementary. Including Trinity ; and Mt. Pleasant, 300. , JAIL IS FILLED TO CAPACITY NOW; SLEEPING ON FLOOR A check-up at the sheriff's of fice this morning revealed that the county Jail is housing 57 prisoners, white and black, male and female. The offenses run the full gamut of minor and major offenses of the law. J “We haven’t beds enough on 'which to sleep ’em, but ti is cooler 'on the floor than in a bed during this hot weather," said Sheriff Cline this morning. For the past several weeks the Jail has been filled to capacity. The number in Jail and the personnel is constantly changing. Over the week end, several new offenders were admitted, while others were dismiss ed because their sentence had ex pired or they had managed to get up money with which to pay a fine. Others come clear in the recorder’s court and are dismissed Sheriff Cline says it is a real | problem to have room enough at the j jail in which to safely keep the! prisoners. I Two Men Meet Death After Losing Frantic Race In Leaking Boat Ocli« W. Ramsey and Walter Drum of Shelby Are Fifth And Sixth Drowning Victims Of Year; Three Others Are Safe Tricked by a leak in their boat, Oslie W. Rame<w, 39. and Walter Drum, 33, both of Shelby lout their live* at Lake James Saturday at 6:15 when, after a desperate effort to row ashore, the boat capsized and threw them into waiter about . 1935 Birth Rate hi North Carolina Lowest On Record IlfveUnd County'* Vital SlttMIfi Included In Report leaned From Raleigh. By M. R. DUNN AO AN RALEIGH, Aug; 13.—North Caro lina had a total of 8.468 illegitimate children. 1.487 white*, 4,846 negroes ind 66 Indiana, during the year 1933, out of a total of ‘75,323, or a birth rate of 33 per 1,000 population, -he annual report, of the Bureau of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health shows. The blrtha were 3,888 fewer than lor the year before, 1833, and a de crease of one per cent from 1833, the lowest rate ever recorded In the state. The whites show a birth rate of 33.3 per 1,000, the negroes 34.8 and Indians 36.4. The birth rate for the state ranged from 33.4 in 1818 to 37.8 in 1838 for the first 18 yean of registration. with a steady decline since 1831. The still births In the state numbered 3.133 in 1833. a rate of 41.4 per 1,000 live births. In every 100 deliveries, there were approximately four stillbirths. The state registered 30,488 deaths In 1833. exclusive of the 3,133 still births, which gives a death rate of 1.3 per 1,000 population. In 1832 he death rate was 8.6; in 1831, 10.3; n 1830, 11.2. and in 1838, 13.4, which s a gratifying Improvement in gen eral health conditions In the state. Cleveland county's vital statistics or 1833, are as follows; Births: bom In county, 1,348; rate 12.8; county the usual place of resl ience, 1,362; rate, 32.8; white: born n county, 868; rate, 33.0; resided In sounty, 971; rate. 33.00; colored; born n county. 380; rate, 33.0; residence n county, 381; rate. 33.1; percent ige attended by physicians, white, >3; colored, 17; number Illegitimates jom In county. 62; white, 14; col led. 48; number Ulegtlmates re dding in county. 63; white, 14; col >red, 49. Deaths; died In county; number, 134; rate, 6.0; white; number, 266; rate, 6.2; colored, number, 69; rate, 1.4; usual residence In county, num ber, 346; rate 6.3; white. 273; rate, 5.4; colored, 73; rate, 5.7. Infant mortality, deaths under >ne year of age, exclusive of still ilrths, and maternal deaths with •ates per 1,000 live births: Infant leaths In county, 54; rate, 43.2; In fant deaths residents of county, 55; rate, 43 9; maternal deaths In »unty, 1; rate. 0.8; maternal deaths )f county residents, 1; rate, 0.8. American Legion To Meet Tuesday The regular August meeting of :he American Legion post will be held at the court house Tuesday night at 8:00. according to an an louncement made today by Post Sommander Everett Houser. Al> members are asked bn be present Recorder *s Court Isn *t the Place ToBring Your Rolling Pin Trouble If you have a fuss with your' neighbor, or rolling pin trouble at] home, don’t expect recorder’s court] to be interested In fact, don’t air your domestic or neighborhood troubles there at j all If you’re not prepared to take a! dressing down from the judge and! to pay the costs. Judge Bynum Weathers let this] be known Saturday morning. One; Dlaintlff who appeared with com - ] Mnts igaUhst four neighbors had > pay $41.90 in ro;,l*. Five other;. 4&l*o bad to pay costs. j Malicious and frivolous prosecu tion must end ^ said the Judge. “It is not the purpose of this court to settle family and neighborhood rows. I think the practise can be ended with the co-operation of of ficers and magistrates. Moreover, the court wants to point out that this Is not the place for the collection of civil obligations. "Any person who feels that he has just cause for complaint against another. should first consult the p.Cv'cuting attorney, or a compet ent magistrate/’ Three companions, 'Bverptt Den. ton. Curtis Chapman And tJlyda Hunt, also of Shelby were Able to ^wim ashore but were unable to nut the two unfortunate men. Shortly before noon today" the body of Mr. Drum wee found After parties of swimmers and divers from Bridge water, Shelby, Morgan, ton. Hickory, Marlon and other points have been working at rescue since late Saturday. 4k * Recovery Of Barns*?. The body of Mr. Ramsey was re covered about 9:15 Sunday after be ing submerged 34 hours. Workers had found nothing until that time to encourage them except a Hntorn arid a package of cigarettes, hun dreds of spectators from many cit ies and towns in the western part of the state watched rescue operations yesterday even enduring a drench ing rainstorm to carry on Outwork. Hampton’s Landing was the point In the lake at whioh the double tragedy occurred. It Is a well known starting* fibint In the lake for all night fishing parties. The five Shel by men had planned to flab most of the night and wfun boat, noticed water In it but thought It was rainwater. When they were about 80 feet out. the boat began to fill rapidly and. although all efforts were made to come back to shore. Drum snd Ramsey went down, calling to their companions to help. Heavy Cotoes On Under ordinary circumstances the two men were known to be fair swimmers, but at this time wore (Continued on page ton.) NEW SHOE STORE TO OPENTHURSDAY Johnny Brower And George Til Poor To Opeit Brownbilt Shoe Store In Royster Building. Shelby's only exclusive shoe store opens Thursday in the Royster building store room formerly occu pied by the Bee Hive on Warren street. The store Is owned and operated by Johnny Brewer and Gettfge Houser, both well known local boys. Mr. Brewer formerly managed the Miller-Jones Shoe Stare here and was manager of the shoe depart ment of the Charles Store. More re cently he has been connected with the Brownbilt shoe store at Mon roe. Mr. Brewer married Miss Bev erly Jones of Shelby. George Houser Is a Kings Moun tain boy who comes to 8helby from Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he has been manager of a Brownbilt shoe store. Prior to that time he was with the Brown Shoe factory In St. Louis. He married Miss Laura Maunejr of Kings Mountain. , Both young men wll lbe actively identified with the operation of the store. Miss Sara Dellinger will be In charge of the hoeiery department. A complete line of popular priced Brownbilt shoes for every member of the family, as well as Buster Brown shoes' for children, will be featured. Souvenirs will be given on the opening day Thursday. Visiting members of the Brown organisation will be P. M. Bostic of Asheville Mr. Muneyhun of Salisbury, Allen Lee. manager of the Monroe Brown bilt store and Mr. Poplin, southern supervisor for the factory Voter* To Register At Shanghai School Those persons wishing to regis ter for the sharon-Shanghal-Beav er Dam school tax election which will be held soon, may do ao any Saturday. Prof. J. H. Grigg an nounced this morning. The registrar the Shanghai school on will be at Saturdays
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