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VOL. XLL No. 98
SHELBY, N. C FRIDAY. AUG. 16. 1935
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Smith And Trustees
Ask Serious Thinking
On School Election
Jmucs Statement Explaining Present Situa
tion, Congestion, Need of Building, Meth
of of Financing Project
A statement from the Shelby public schools board of
trustees and City Superintendent B. L. Smith, was issued
this morning asking for serious consideration of the propos
ed high school building program under the PWA.
Registration books for a special
election to determine the will of the
majority of the people of the city
mi the matter will open Saturday,
xqtit't 17, and the actual election
will be held September 14.
Every person who wishes to par
ticipate in the election must regis
ter, and persons who wish to have
nothing to do with the election need
not register, as all who vote for the
measure will vote against the reg
istration. To register and not vote,
ts to vote against the measure, ae
tording to state statutes.
The Statement
The statement issued today fol
lows:
There are two main questions for
the community to answer:
1. Are additional rooms needed?
3. If so, is this the best method
lor securing them?
The answer to the first question
is implied In the fact that the cap
acity to accommodate enrollnient
has been reached.
The development of the No. 3
township high school has relieved
toe congestion during the past few
yean. The depression has' necessi
'Oontinned on page eight.)
Five B. and L’s
Have Strong Assets
In Thie County
Mn P. Midi V-Tyhlitf
"on; Need For
CMp Emphasised.
Opera
te
The live building loan asso*
nations, three In Shelby and two in
Sings Mountain have combined as
“*» of two and a half million dol
Ws. said John P. Mull speaking last
night before the Kiwanis club.
These associations have 37,500
doefcholders and the organisation
have aided to building or buying 75
per cent of the homes in the two
cities, he pointed out. Showing the
"Wive strength of the local asso
ciations, Mr. Mull said that there
** 300 associations to the state
vtth combined assets of 75 millions,
tohcating Cleveland is a strong
"Hiding and loan center.
“We are not a bank, we do not
J“*Pt deposits, we do not pay in
~rest> we pay dividends. Associa
tions are not liquid since they are
*nding money on first mortgage
*7 Batata to encoutage home own
•WitP.” added Mr. KOI.
The speaker emphasised systems
* saving and pointed out that as
sociations are mutual affairs where
nshareholders share equally In the
Profits. ‘There is a scarcity of houses
rent. I have ten to tewelve tele
phone calls daily from people want
r* to rent houses that cannot be
oaa Last year we helped build or
ouy seVen houses. Already this yedr
!* have made 33 loans for new resi
enees. The same thinf Is true of
MrVu]T°datl0M' 1 am SUr*'” “ld
Morning Cotton
letter
eoSr -ORK’ Aug. l«._Growi
eam.j b*;, ^ ^wde is more cc
w'' Wth deveIoPm«nts in Was
JJ** regard possible loan than t
present. The demand t
whu» ri *n the near mont
DomestllStfn^ hav« »>« neglect
“Odwate hade lnterests h*™ »*
beutoJtye” °n "* backs 1
deman i f8t a rather aubetant
«* >» '«“~i
^ *-^
Final Additions
Made To Faculty
Of City Schools
Mrs. Troy McKinney Resigns As
English Teacher; Good son To
Coach Athletics.
In s meeting of the city school
trustees Wednesday night five
teachers were definitely added to
the teaching list for Shelby this
year, and announcement was made
today that faculties for the high
school and all elementary units are
complete.
The French vacancy will be filled
by Mrs. Paris Yelton, formerly Miss
Donnis Gold, who has been with
the Hickory school system for some
time.
• English Teacher
Resignation of Mrs. T. V. McKin
ney as teacher of English was ac
cepted and the appointment of
Annie Christa! Harbison was made.
Miss Harbison is a graduate of Duke
university and has been teaching at
Morganton for some time. At pres
ent she is in New York state where
she is in charge of counsel work at
a girls camp.
Mrs. Harry Hudson was named
principal of the Graham elemen
tary- school? a vacancy made by the
resignation of Miss Louise GUI, who
has accepted work In her home
town of Laurinburg.
Other Teachers
i Miss Helen Roberts, with the
city schools last year, and idrs. A.
A. Powell, who taught last year at
Caroleen in Rutherford county, were
also added to the list, but have re
ceived no assignment.
Of particular interest to many
school patrons is the fact that
Coach BUI Goodson has been sign
ed to teach In the high school again
and will coach athletics this fall
and winter.
Speaking of the entire faculty,
Captain B. L. Smith, city school
superintendent said, “We are highly
pleased and feel that we have one
of the best faculties ever. All the
old ones are well known, and the
new ones come highly recommend
ed.”
No Action On Loan
Within 36 Hours
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aar. 16
—At noon today Senator George
of Georgia emerged from a con
ference at the White Howe and
■aid that no announcement on
cotton loans for the 193d crop
will be made within 36 hours.
Southern members of congress
have been insisting on a loan of
13c or higher. Secretary Wal
lace stated some weeks ago that
a decision on the loan would be
reached after the bureau’s crop
estimate was issued.
Officers Pay Little Attention
To Doster’s Toahy Gang Story
F. K Littlejohn, chief at detec
tives of the city of Charlotte and
J. R. Cline, sheriff of Cleveland
county, both feel that Ernest Dos
ter had no connection with the
Ch&rlotto mail robbery and the
Touhy gi.ng a year or more ago.
Dosisr was arrested in New Or
leans last week for shop lifting, and
told officers that he had been scout
for the Touhy gang in their Char
lotte mail robbery.
Officers arc paying little attention
to Doster’s confession believing it
to be purely fantastic. Charlotte
police records show'that for several i
months prior to the Charlotte rob-j
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Registration For
Special Elections
Begins Saturday
Registrars To Be At
Polling Places
Period Extends Through August 31;
New Registration Required;
Election Sept. 14.
Saturday is the first day for reg
istration for the special school dis
trict bond tax election to be held
in various school districts of the
county on September 14. All poll
ing places will be open- for regis
tration Saturday.
The registration period extends
through Saturday, August 31. and on
each Saturday, the registrars will
have their books at the polling
places. The books will be open for
registration any other week day ex
cept Sunday at the homes of the
various registrars.
New Registration
The requirements are the same
as for regular elections. However,
officials want it understood that
this must be a new registration, and
although the citizens have register
ed before, they must do so again to
take part in this election.
September 7 will be “Challenge
Day" on which day anyone may
challenge the right for another to
vote. The election will be held on
the following Saturday, August 14.
Names Of Registrars
Following is a list of the districts
voting, with the polling places and
the names of the registrars:
Piedmont: Cleveland Mill and
Power Co., P. P„ Richards, registrar.
No. 1 township: Holly Springs
school: J. D. Ellis, registrar.
No. 2 township: (Sharon, Shang
hai, Beaver Dam,) Shanghai sehoaH
D. D. Dodd, registrar.
Mooresboro: Mooresboro high
school; F. X. Davis.
Lattimore: Lattimore high school';
A. p. Weathers.
Shelby: regular polling places,
Ward 1, Mrs. Tilden Falls; Ward 2,
John Anthony; Ward 3, Ray O. Kale,
Ward 4, Mrs. Annie Smith Long;
Ward 6, Marvin Blanton.
Waco: Waco high school; A. J.
Pittman.
Beth ware: Beth ware high school;
Mrs. F. F. Herndon.
Bel wood: Belwood high school;
Mrs. P. L. Peeler. ^
Fallston: Alston high school;
8tough Beam.
Casar: Casar high school; Clyde
Warlick.
All Auto License
Tags Are Sold Out
Advertising pays, even a city. A
shipment'of 1,000 auto license tags
were sold out by noon yesterday at
25c each and there aren’t any more.
However, a shipment of 500 more
will arrive within a week says
Mayor Woodson and upon their ar
rival, those who have failed to com
ply with the law by purchasing city
auto license tags, may do so. No
arrests for failure to have tags
will be made until all owners have
had an opportunity to buy.
Sandy Run to Hear
, Dr. R. C. Campbell
Rev. R. C. Campbell, pastor of a
large church in Lubbock, Texas,
and a native of this county will
conduct a revival meeting all next
week at Sandy Run, Baptist church
at Moores boro. The first service of
the revival will be Sunday evening.
Dr. S. E. Welchel. of Avondale. Is
pastor of the church and announces
that services Will be held both morn
ing and evening.
bery. Dorter was in custody of var
ious police authorities and could not
have been connected with such a
group as the Touhy gang.
Shelby people are more or less
inclined to support the officers in
this theory, and to discount the
veracity of Doster’s story.
Detective Litlejohn says, “Doster
is a small time, petty thief and a
real large gang would have absol
utely nothing to do with his kind.”
Doster formerly lived in Shelby
where he broke the plate glass
shoe window of the Alexander
jewelry store in- a robberv attempt
in 1929
Their Jaunt End 3d In Tragedy
Shown above are Will Rogers, famous columnist and movis actor,
and Wiley Post, internationally-known aviator, who wore killed last
night when their plane on which they were taking a pleasure Jaunt
through Alaska crashed MS miles south of Point Barrow. The above pic
ture, showing Post’s new seaplane, was snapped bettors the tamous pahf
left Seattle for their aerial vacation.
1500Hear Clyde Hoey Laud
County's Heritage At Meet
IT diiliMEw—rii Umiawh-t- of
ter Beam G&fker at New Prospect for
an d Picnic Dinner
As 1,600 descendants and relatives at the Me .frrtvn
Teter Beam crowded around a long dinner table, Clyde R.
Hoey, a relative of the pioneer settler by marriage, yesterday
swayed the audience with a dramatic word picture of the
past, present, and future of the county which has so many
members of taw family.
The occasion was the annual re
union of the Beam clan held at New
Prospect church fhre miles northeast
of Shelby, when residents from all
parts of this county, a dozen other
oounties, and several states were
present.
Mr. Hoey pictured fleet the type
of county, government, people and
economic conditions that were here
when the first Beams settled in
Revolutionary war days. He then
pointed out, in part, some of the
things members of the family have
done to promote progress in this
section.
His last picture was of the her
itage the county now holds In rela
tion to state and national life, and
the lead In agriculture, Industry,
religious and civic life residents of
this county have always taken.
Rev. H. C. Seefeldt was in charge
of music for the occasion and read
a necrology on the life of D. Au
gustus Beam who died a few weeks
ago.
J. H. Quinn gave a brief history
of the Beam family and other re
marks were made by C. A. Williams,
Clarence O. Kuester and C. C. Beam
of Charlotte.
The conclave Is held annually the
third Thursday in August.
Not To Enforce!
20MileSpeedHere
The twenty mile speed limit with
in the city limits will not be en
forced In Shelby, It was announced
this morning by the chief of police.
“The twenty mile limits within
cities is a regulation set by the state I
highway commission. This seem6 to
be too slow & speed. What the Shel
by police department has been In
structed to do, however, Is to stop
excessive speeding and reckless driv
ing,’' says the chief.
“We are determined to stop this;
menace to life and property and
warn drivers of pasensger cars and!
-rucks that they must exercise duej
care and caution. Especially is it;
necessary to slow down at street In
tersections and In congested dia
tricts,’ the chief added. t
'
Advkory Board
For Sod Erosion
To Meet Saturday
ConujrittMt Named From Each
Township To Work, With
County Body.
A special advisory board of rep
resentatives from' each township hi
the county nas been named to work
wjth the county soil erosion com
mittee named last week. Two men
from each township were named by
the committee.
This board, along with the erosion
committee and the county agent
will meet at the court house Satur
day afternoon at 2:00 for the pur
pose of clarifying information about
the new terracing program and
other work planned this fall.
Township Meetings
Plans are being made, according
to J. 8. Wilkins, county agent, for
further meeting in the various
townships later this month.
Tlie meeting Saturday will be to
enable the committee and advisory
board to get clearly In mind the
main objectives of the program.
The Committee
No. I township: J. A. McCraw,
R-l, Gaffney, S. C., T. P. Wood,!
R-3, Gaffney, 8. C.
No. 2 township: C. E. Hamrick,
Bolling Springs, J. A, Lattlmore,
8helby.
No 3 township: Byron Davis, R-7,
Shelby, B. Austell, Earl.
No 4 township J Bun Patterson,
R-3, Kings Mountain, E. B. Hern
don, Grover.
No. 6 township J B. Smith, R-l,
Shelby, John Black, R-4, Kings
Mountain.
No. 6-township. A W. McMurry,
Shelby, Tom Cornwell, R-l, Shelby.
No. 7 township: Toy B. Webb, R-4,
Shelby, Dr. R. VL. Hunt, Lattlmore.
No. 8 township: Dobb D. Latti
more, R-l, Lawndale, J. R. Lee, R-l,
Lawndale. c
No. 9 township: Geo. Cornwell,
R-l, Lawndale, R. W. Wilson, R-2,
Lawndale.
No. 10 township: C. C. Palls, R-4,
Lawndale, Curtis Ledford, R-l, Bel
wood.
No. 11 township: R. L- Carpeh
ter. R-l. Belwood Dr J T Buff.
Casar
. .
Jurors Announced
For Federal Court
Term in September
fUet k AwioiiMd By
. Bin Barnette
MafrrMy Of Chn To Come Up Ar*
VloHtioiw Of Upm Inm
Defendants Named.
Ttniy-sla elMeenn of Rutherford,
Cleat on. Cleveland and Lineohi
eoimMea were drawn yesterday to
aero on the Jury In United States
district oourt to convene In Shelby
on September M with Judge Bdwin
States Webb presiding.
A majority of the caaee to £ome
•up at this term of'the federal court
we violations of die various whiskey
tews, John P. Mull, United States
commissioner, announced today.
Soma of Mm defendants whose
eases have pasted through Mr. Mull’s
tiaeds are: Cheriie Ford. Ben Dover,
Harrison Moon, Warren Hoppes,
BtH Smith( colored), Philip Proctor,
Dave Lingerlelt. Lonnie Llngerfelt,
George D. Midi, Oliver Brittain.
Bobeet Whittier, Bus Hardin, Dock
Wesson, Olgrd^Mattoic f colored), and
F. 6. Stockton.
BM Of Ivm
Vkm Met of jurors announced by
Mat Wan Barnette, deputy siesta of
fcho court, M aa foOowct
t, K. BnMns, Bostic. BuMcrtord
county; L. b. Henderson, Oastonta;
Charles MdtoMc, Oltkoy, Rwther
foad; Frank Mamey, Belwood, Cleve
land! W. M. MsOinrus, Kings Moun
tain. CManfeandtl V. A Oettys. Hollis,
Rutherford; Mm R OHovee, Men
MWiimm a, a moon,
baa. OMMdc, Rutherford; W. A.
Loohman. Mm Motion. Lincoln
county; W. R. Caaatevens, Shelby;
O. Jack Logan, Rutherford ton; Clint
Hawkins, Shelby; Wray Sifford,
Davidson, Lincoln count; R. B. Al
mand, Gastonia; Butler Seronce,
Vale. Lincoln county; Fred Hill,
Rutherford ton; Summey Seln, Vale;
Grover McDaniel, Foiust City,
Rutherford county; John Mauney,
Shelby; Benjamin R. Harrison, Boa
tic; J. O. Croswold, Rutherfordton;
Roland Hamrick, Boiling Springs;
J. M. Ledford, Lawndale, Cleveland
county; J. M. Beamguard, Otaerry
vllle; Thomas R. Dye, Kings Moun
tain; J. D. Morris, Splndale, Ruth
erford oounty; Preston Bynum, Lln
colnton; C. C. Childress, Llnoolntoo;
Charles R. Grlgg, Shelby; F. D.
Keeter, Rutherfordton; R. J, Jones,
Ellenboro; Robert Thornburg, Kings
Mountain: Lee Cline, Lincolntm,
and C. A. Goodson, Lincoln ton.
Will Celebrate
101st Birthday
Plans are being developed this
week for the annual celebration
of the birthday of Mrs. Mary
Gantt, Shelby’s oldest woman,
who will be 101 years of age Au
gust 36 th.
A special service will be held
and a big picnic dinner spread
at her home in West Shelby,
Sunday, August 25th.
All friends and relatives and
acquaintances are being Invited
to take part in the occasion.
Mrs. Gantt is still In good
health, but does not work as reg
ularly as she used to do. She
sends word that she win be glad
to see all of her friends again.
Coinage Committee Kills Measure
Which WouldProvideMidgetCoins
The House Coinage committee
yesterday voted 9 to 1 to kill the
midget coin bill which would have
provided coins of small amounts to
facilitate payments of state sales
t-fyyftfti
The oh airman of the committee
contended that the supreme court
would not uphold the attorney gen
eral’s contention that stae coinage
of sub-penny sales taxes pieces was
illegal.
At about the same time,, however,
the treasury announced a minor
change In one of Its products, is
suance of a new and rpore resplend
ent dollar bill. Instead of the utlll
tarlan "one dollar on the back, the
Famous Aerial Jaunt
Ends In Tragedy As
Public Idols Killed
Ceesh Occurs 15 Miles From Polnt Barrow;
Bodies Recovered By Signal Corps
Operator Who Wired News.
Tfc* headquarters of tha Alaska Telegraph »ys
tom operated by United States Army Signal Corps was In
formed today that Will Rogers, noted humorist, and Wiley
Post, famed aviator, were kiled whan their plane crashed fif
teen miles south of Point Barrow* the northernmost tip of
Captain Frank R. Stoner of the signal oorps informed
the Associated Press that the operator at Barrow had recov
ered the bodies of the pair who were on an aerial vacation In
Alaska. The bodies were brought to Barrow and cared for by
Dr/ Henry Greist, missionary at the Barrow hospital. Stoner
said he had advised the families of the tragedy.
Mr*. A. M. Martin
Diet Of Cancer;
Rite* Thursday
«*-Year-Old MM Of Mi* BW
Community Pmh; low*
Large Family
On# of Mm oldaet woman In Oleva
land county was taken by death
Wednesday afternoon at 8:40 when
Mrs. A. M. Martin,-as. passed quiet
ly at her home In Hint HU1.
Mrs. Martin had been in nearly a
yea* suffering with cancer, and
[had been ® nearly ftttc
— --an
moouB. •«.
Hinaril sendees ware held Thurs
day afternoon at 3:S0 at the Hint
Kill Baptist church with Rev. Rush
Padgett, Rev. Nolan Howlngton and
Rev. P. H. Price In charge. A large
crowd was present.
Mrs. Martin had been a member
of Buffalo Baptist church since
early woman hood, but had lived In
the Hint Hill community for many
years and was a faithful attendant
on services there, until her age and
health prevented it.
She was a native of Mis county
and has lived hers all her life. Her
husband, the late A. M. Martin, pre
ceded her to Mie grave three years
ago last Chrttmas.
Surviving are eight children. They
are J. E. Martin, Shelby; 3. L. Mar
tin, Rutherfordton; A. L. Martin,
Hint HU1; L. V. Martin. Swains
vllle; Cash Martin, Kings Mountain;
Mrs. Lewis McSwain, Bolling
Springs; Mrs. R. H. Champion, GU
key; Mrs. Herbert Blanton, Shelby.
Also, there are 48 grandchildren and
M great grandchildren.
Pritchett It Silent
On R&ee For Sentlt
CHARLOTTE, Aug. 16.—George
M. Pritchard, Asheville attorney, la
non-committal as to whether or net
he will make the race for the Unit
ed States Senate next year.
Mr. Prltched was the Republican
candidate opposed to Senator J. W.
Bailey In 1030, and was credited with
polling 70,000 more votes than any
Republican candidate had ever poll
ed in an off-year election.
He was in Charlotte on a busi
ness visit. He expressed the belief
that the meeting of the state Re
publican committee of which he is
a member will be held in Charlotte.
The meeting is to be held the week
of September in Charlotte, Win
ston-Salem or Greensboro.
new certificate will bear the groat
seal of the United States,
“In opposing the midget ooln
plan,” Chairman Somers, Democrat
of New York, said, "we took the
attitude that the question Involved
—the minting of a coin with which
to pay sales taxes—Is a state mat
ter and should be solved by the
states." ¥
His committee, he said, did not
oppose the use of tokens so long as
the states did not pass them as
legal tender.
“I do not believe the supreme
court would uphold the attorney
general's ruling that the use of these
contended
- ' ^
'.oken&
la Illegal.”^
The plane warn eoroute from
Fair hanks to Bsnw at the
time. It was equipped with
pontoons for alighting on *h«
water when ¥• left Fairbanks
in tfre interior of Aiaaka fast
night for the 600 mile flight.
The tundra land south of Bar
row is generaly devoid ' of I
water large enough for a plane
of that type to make safe
landings and while no details
of the crash were received, it
was assumed the plane came
down on frozen ground.
Barrow has a population of
several hundred nativea and
about one dozen whites in
cluding signal corps operator
and nurses in the Presbyter
ian hospital.
From Point Barrow, 'Ser
geant Morgan sent the follow
ing message: "Post and Rog
ers crashed 16 miles south of
here at five o’clock last night.
I have recovered the bodies
and placed them in care of Mr.
Greist. Am standing by on An
chorage hourly."
No further details came
from Morgan immediately.
The acident ocourred at the
height of the brief Arctic
summer when it is daylight
around the clock. The United
States coast guard cutter
Northland was waiting in the
ice pack only a few miles sway
ea Vagi
Mn. W. L HarriD
I* Buried Today;
Diet Of Paralysis
Member Of Stall Church M Tears
Psmh Thursday; Leaves
Seven Children.
Funeral servtoee ter Mn. W. L.
Harrlll, 71 year old resident and
mother, of the Mt. Sinai commun
ity will be held today at the Mt.
Sinai Baptist church. '
Mr*. Harrlll bqd been a member
of the church for nearly 00 years,
and 1a one of the best known wom
en In the southern part of the
county.
Ill Two Years
..Death came quietly at S:W Thurs
day mbraln*. after a lingering ill
ness of two yean and a serious ill
ness of about a week. Paralysis
was the Immediate cause of her
death.
In charge of funeral rites will be
Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. J. t.
Jenkins, pastor of Mrs. Harrlll.
Survivors
Surviving Mrs. Harrlll are two
softs. Attorney £. A. Harrlll. of
Kings Mountain and Chve HarsUl,
at home; five daughters. Mn. M. O.
Moore, Shelby; Mrs. A. T. Hamrick,
route 3, Shelby and Misses Kesle
Mignon and Ocle Harrlll. all at
home. A sister, Mn. Josie Granling
lives at Gaffney and a brother,.
David Champion on Blacksburg
route 1.
Her husband, the late Wyatt L.
Harrlll died some two and a half
years ago.
Bora, reared, married and haring
lived In the same community all of
her life, Mrs. Harrlll leaves a host
of friends and acquaintances who
tnow her as an idea! mother, gpn
srous neighbor and friend.