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SHELBY, N. G. FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
■r Mill, mi vim, (la MniiO _ War
Carrier, an |M1. (la MTUMl _ ILM
WPA Set To Start
Work Next Week
On Sewer Project
Slated To Start Work
Here Next Week
Ihelti* and Concord First to The
Coon Soy* 300 to 400
To Get Jobs.
(By Associated Press.)
RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—Works Pro
gress Administrator George Coan
jr said yesterday that work should
jtart next week on Shelby's 0,000
»ewer project, which, along with a
project in Concord, are 'he only
projects for which money has been
allocated.
No derails of the projects were
available at the engineers office.
Administrator Coan said that be
tween 300 and 400 workers wtuld
be employed in Shelby and Con
cord.
The Works Progress administra
tion. Mr. Coan said yesterday, will
(il* a blanket application with
Washington to make the state’s to
tal request reach at least $53,000,000
Today la the last day for filing dis
trict applications.
Shelby: Storm and sanitary sew
ers, grant 16,994, sponsor $5,686, to
tal $22,680. Shelby: Sanitary sew
ers, grant 17360, sponsor $7,634, to
tal 24,804. Shelby: Recreational
center, grant $37,862. sponsor $16,
198, toal 54,000. Grading and devel
oping county school property, grant
$15,894, sponsor 14,036, total $29.
930.
Woodson, Frazier
Back City Plans
As DeadteftUears
Mayor and Eniintw Stick Close
to PWA and WPA Center* in
Raleigh, Chapel Hill
Mayor Harry S. Woodson and City
Engineer Dan Frazier left yester
day afternoon for Chapel Hill and
Raleigh, where they will confer
with PWA Director Herman G.
Baity and PWA Administrator
George Coan, Jr., on municipal
projects.
With so much uncertainty sur
rounding all work-agency projects
« the dealluines for applications
draw near, the mayor and engineer
are sticking close to headquarters
with the Shelby proposals.
County municipal and school ex
ecutives gathered at Dr. Baity’s of
fice in Chapel Hill Wednesday,
with Cleveland represented by Hor
ace Grigg, superintendent of county
schools, and B. L. Smith, superin
tendent of city schools. They re
turned to Shelby yesterday with the
declaration that “all projects were
uncertain.'
Electrocute Negro
For Cripple Murder
By Associated Press
RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—Caesar Mill
er- 18 negro, died In the electr
chair today for the murder of J. D
Gwaltney. aged cripple county store
*«oper last December.
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Morning Cotton
LETTER
YORK> Sept* 6.—Domestic
,f lnd European Interests were
®°?erat« buyers again yesterday
*hlh absorbcd the hedging
-Z?h,has hew checked by the re
Z™ inclement weather conditions
, ‘ m5*t of the early producing
belt An amount esti
OcmilU Upwards «* 30,000 bales of
Du-l r was 801(1 and replaced by
Ju>yh bTbrokere *wh1St*ntSiiJIlainly
u, ... ..°r°kers who usually oper
8? the *the Cotton P001* a major part
« the opposite sajeg the64) tran8.
^ jere taken by large spot In
to o,l_ 'm’ate estimates continue
So- 1 moderate upward revl
ur« Pr°b*ble production fig
. t° ’-eat month. Ad
*!ev tertCr* laat month. Ad
In 4 graduaJ hroadenlm
: d.mawr, * gTaauai broadening
tereieri J°r the actual both fron
Wp k.v*”3 dome*tlc spinners,
be to,mrileVf that support wll
H1Bd the declines.
E A. PIERCE & CO.
r"«m, J"E MARKETS
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c«teB w,, - 11 He to 12
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Backlash of Storm Whips
Carolina*, 'Killing Pair
By Associated Press
Two persons were electrocut
ed by falling wires, wharfs were
shattered, a few houses dam
aged and communications in
terrupted in the Carollt&s last
night and early today by the
back lash of the disastrous hur
ricanes that roared up from
Florida.
High waves and high winds
along, the coast were reported
as having done only minor dam
age.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Thomp
son, of Newbem, were electro
cuted early today when they
came in eoatict with power
lines fslisrf near their home.
The storm was accompanied by
scattered inland tornadoes
which seemed to do more dam
ace than the hurricane.
Fishinc settlements alone the
coast report no damafe.
Reports from Georgetown said
a number ot cottaces on Paw
ley’s Island, a nearby summer
resort, had been damafed by
waves which ate into the pro
tective saxM dunes.
The officers quarters of the
Port Macon CCC Camp, across
from Beaufort, N. C„ was blown
down but none was hurt.
City Public Schools Ask
$16,000 In WPA Projects
Three WPA p/ojects for the city
schools were sped to Charlotte dis
trict headquarters yesterday by Su
perintendent of Schools B. L. Smith
as the deadline for applications
drew near.
The Shelby requests, totaling $16,
000, are for ground improvement,
janitorial and library service. The
[ground Improvement project In
cludes grading, grassing and erec
tion of a $2,000 chain link fence,
similar to the fences around many
Shelby mills, at the high school ath
letic field.
The library and Janitorial projects
would provide a librarian and maid
for each city schools.
Waynick Give* Promise
Of Patterson Springs Spur
Red Lights To Glow
From Water Tank
* To Get Policemen
Red lights at four corners of tht
i city’s tali water tower, directly be
hint. tine police department, wift'
glow in the night when you call a
cop.
D L Willis, new chief of nolice,
has instituted the new system.
Heretofore, night officers have pa
trolled the city in a squad car. As
soon as the signal lights, one for
each ward, can be established, the
car will be kept at city hall and
policemen will patrol the streets
afoot.
With the car immediately avail
able, Chief Willis reasons, calls
can be answered quicker, and pa
trolm’en can be summoned to head
quarters by flashing the lights.
Saturday Deadline
For WPA Requests
Tomorrow is the deadline for I
PWA applications, according to an j
announcement by John Grice, dis-t
trict supervisor . Mr. Grice issued;
the following statement:
“As announced. 5 o’clock Satur
day afternoon, September 7, is the
deadline to receive applications for
projects under the plan of the
Works Progress Administration.
Seventh district. Indications are
that the volume of applications in
the district office at the deadline
time will keep the district engineer
ing department busy over the
week-end and Monday, checking
and completing these applications.
The district office will receive ap
plications for projects after the
deadline date, but no assurance or
commitment can be made that the
applications for projects can be
checked and forwarded to Raleigh
by the state deadline date of Tues
day, September 17.”
A spur road leading from Pat
terson Springs through Earl and
connecting with Highway No.. 18
near the state line was promised
by the state highway department’s
chairman. Campus Waynick, whan
be *as caned on thiwweelr-toy Rep
Commissioner J. R. Morris.
It will be recalled that contract
will be let soon for the grading and
surfacing of a road from Shelby
through Patterson Springs to Gro
ver. In order to serve the lower
section of No. 3 township, an effort
has been made for years to get a
road through Earl. This is now as
sured by the state, provided the
Federal Road Commission approves
the use of federal funds as a sup
plement to state funds.
An all-weather road leading from
No. 18 at pelwood to Carpenter’s
3 rove church was promised Gard
ner and Morris in their conference
with the highway commissioner this
week. This is road No. 182, about
five miles in length. Under a road
Betterment fund, the federal gov
ernment spends four dollars for
every one spent by the state and
this fund will be used. The pres
ent road-bed and grades will be
used and gravel and asphalt applied
to make it an all-weather road.
Gardner and Morris also asked
that a portable rock crusher be
placed in the county and that con
vict labor be used to crush stone for
this and other roads.
Ben Dover Is Held On
White Slavery Charge
Ben Dover, 27 year old white man
is charged with violation of the
Federal Mann Act and will be giv
en a preliminary hearing this aft
ernoon before U. S. Commissioner
John P. Mull. Dover Is alleged tc
have taken a girl under 14 years ol
age across the state line into South
Carolina for Immoral purposes. Hr
Is in jail and bond has been set at
*5.000.
McKnight, in Wind-tossed Plane,
Reports Rescue of Liner Dixie
Cleveland county sees the Florida
hurricane through the eyes of a
native son—John P McKnight. son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McKnight.
John P McKnight is head of the
Miami bureau of the Associated
Press, world-wide news agency,
whose dispatches now appear In
The Star As head of the bureau in
Hanava. he covered the Cuban
revolution. and was later trans
ferred to the European cable desk
in the New York office. He was
formerly employed by Tlie Star
To cover the rescue of passengers
from the liner Dixie. Mr. McKnight
took an airplane to fly through
treacherous winds, above the angry
seat. He describes the rescue m an
AP dispatch, dated from Miami:
Miami. Fla., Sept. 6.—They got
the last of the grounded Morgan j
liner Dixie’s passengers off this
morning
A skeleton crew aboard her. the,
once proud ship sits disconsolate'
on French reef, hurricane-battered,'
listing to starboard, hard and fast j
and likely to remain so—another ;
tragic witness to the viciousness of1
the Caribbean hurricanes.
Weather Favors Work
Weather favored the rescue op-1
erations today, in sharp contrast!
to yesterday's tumbling water andj
stiff breeze.
While the sun pcrped in and out.
(Continued on page tenJ
League of Nations
Falters in Move
To Prevent War
Premier Laval Say*
Parley Failed
Leaden Fail to A«ree on Firkin*
Committee; May Cm Whole
Council
(By Associated Press)
GENEVA, Sept. 6.—Leaders of
the League of Nations' council meet
ing today failed to reach an agree
ment concerning appointment of a
sub-committee to deal with the
Italo-Ethiopian conflict.
Premier Laval of Prance said
“An agreement has not yet been
achieved" as he emerged from a
meeting with representatives of five
counties, and indicated the whole
council might be called on as a
commltte to consider the dispute,
rather than aligning a body of
three or five representatives.
It was learned the conferees had
encountered difficulty in determ
ining what scope a sub-committee
would have.
LIFT QUARANTINE
TODAY ON CC CAMP
Lieutenant Vestal of the local CC
camp, which by the way. has been
named the “McMurry Camp'.’ since
it is located on the McMurry farm,
stated last night before Kiwanis
club that quarantine will be lifted
today on the camp boys, 225 in
number.
Lieutenant Vestal told of the mil
itary discipline that governs the
boys while in camp and the pros
pects for an educational director
soon to teach the boys anything
they wish to leant
General McClosky of Fort Bragg
Is expected to visit the camp soon.
Mr. Joumagan of the soil depart
ment emphasized the value of the
natural resources of America and
declared the soil to be the most im
portant. “Teddy Roosevelt suggest
ed soil conservation but was laugh
ed at," said Mr. Journagan. “It was
left for F. D. Roosevelt to carry out
the program and stop the enormous
waste.” The speaker said there
would be no compulsion on farmers
but that co-operation in the pro
gram would be entirely voluntary..
Minna LeGrand To
Work In Charlotte
In City Library
Miss Minna LeGrande of Shelby
last night accepted the position of
librarian of the children’s depart
men-of the Charlotte Public library.
Miss LeGrande is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. LeGrande of
Shelby. . She is a graduate of Mere
dith college, Raleigh, and received
her library science degree at the
University of North Carolina
Miss LeGrande has just returned
from a tour in Europe, where she
spent the summer. She will report
for duty at the library Monday,
September 16
Miss LeGrande has been librarian
at the Shelby high school and her
work has brought forth much fa
vorable comment by scool authori
ties throughout the state.
Supt. B. L. Smith says her suc
cessor here must be one who has
been especially trained for the work.
Shelby Post Office
Sets Up New Record
The Shelby post office set new
records both for the month just
passed and for the first eight
months of the year. Assistant Post
master Russell Laughridge revealed
today.
The increase for the eight months
was $10,179.26, and for the month of
August, cftfer the same period in
1934, it was $1,197.33
Here are the toals: first eight
months.of 1934. $32.807 71; first
eight months, 1935, $42.986 97; Au
gust, 1934, $4,771.93, and August
1935. $5,969.16
Lockjaw Case In
Shelby Hospital
Prank Reid, 10-year-old colored
youth, is suffering with lockjaw in
the Shelby hospital, where he was
remove^ Monday. The lockjaw case
is very rare and Is being studied by
local physicians. Reid stuck a
splinter in his foot a short time
ago and his jaw has been locked
tight since Sunday,
Captain Of Dixie Keeps Tradition Of The Sea
CHARLESTON, Sept. 6.—(AP)—While Captain E. W. Sundstrom of the battered liner
Dixie stayed by his stricken vessel with a skeleton crew today, twenty homeward bound
survivors of the ship stepped from the bangplank of the United Fruit Liner Attenas here
today. They praised the rescuing skipper. Captain Davis Kerr and voiced appreciation for
the efforts of the Attenas passengers to make them comfortable.
President Declares New Deal Complete
And Sees Breathing Spell for Industry
Smith Announces
List Of Teachers
For City Schools
Superintendent banes Barter of
Tutors Who WW Open Semion
■ere Monday, September M
B. L. Smith, superitendent of city
schools, this morning issued a list
of teachers in all the Shelby schools,
which open September 16. The Met
follows:,
Washington School
Agnes McBrayer, principal; Mrs.
Marian McCord Nash. Mrs. Viola
Dixon Tiddy, Mrs. Margaret Davis
Eskridge. Ruby McDonald. Augusta
Alexander. Clara Edwards.
Marion School
Laura Cornwell, principal; Anne
Hamrick, Mrs. Esdale Ramseur
Blanton. Hattie Gidney, Mary
Crowell. Minnie Eddins Roberts,
Lucy Hamrick, Alpha Gettys, Mrs.
Prank Kendall.
Jefferson School
Mrs. G. P. Hamrick, principal;
Mrs. Helen Robbins Eskridge, Mrs.
Martha Matheson Mills, Mrs. Madge
DePriest Baker. Helen Roberts, Mrs.
Zeno Wall, Jr.. Mrs. C. 8. New. La
lene Grigg.
Lafayette School
C. E. Rankin, principal. Mrs.
Beuna Bostic, Lucile Blanton. Anita
Winkler, Lucille Nix, Mrs. Hugh Ar
rowood, Plora Pettit Nolan, Jessie
Mae Mackle.
• Graham School
May Wells Connor, Mrs. May
Wells Connor. Ettalie Moses, Mrs.
Beatrice Nye Suttle, Mrs. A. A.
Powell. Thelma Young Suttle, Bess
Freeman. Mrs. Ruble T. Hudson,
priuupm.
Morgan School
Selma C. Webb, principal; Nora
Cornwell, Mrs. Kimmie Falls, Mary
Hardy, Mrs. Minnie Osborne, Mrs.
Sara Austell Nolan, Mary Elizabeth
Black, Mattie Sue Propst. Winnie
Blanton, Mrs. Florence Doggett,
Mrs. Louise Andrews, Elizabeth
Morrison Hopper.
Shelby High School
W. E. Abernethy, principal: Mrs.
W. E. Abernethy, Mrs. Mary L.
Doggett, William Goodson, Annie
Christal Harblson, Mrs. Elizabeth
Byers Hendrick. Mrs. Robert Hord,
J. Y. Irvin, Minna LeGrand. Mag
gie Murray McGowan. Josephine
8haw, Amelia Stephenson, Gertrude
Taylor, Kate Wilson. Mrs. Donnis
Gold Yelton and Dorothy Mc
Brayer
Music
Bertha Bostic. Mary Roberts Aus
tell, Mrs. A C. Dellinger, Mrs P. L.
Hennessa. Mrs Gerald Morgan.
Expression
Elizabeth Austell, ,Mrs -C E.
Rankin
LEGION MEETING TONIGHT
Members of the American Legion
anu the*' Legion auxiliary will meet
at the court house at 7:30 tonight
to hear a radio address by retiring
r'mn-'"r C'ive. The public is in
vited to attend
Condition* Ready For
Wide Recovery, He
Tells Howard
% The Associated Press
HYDE PARK. N. Y., Sept.
6.—IVMident Roosevelt to
day declared ttie Mew Deaf s
“basic program” had reached
“substantial completion,” and
a “breathing spell” for indus
try "» here—very decidedly
so.*
He asserted further “that at, this
moment conditions are such as to
offer substantial and wide recov
ery."
Stocks Go Up
By Associated Frees
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—WaU
Street free ted President Roose
velt's announcement that "a
breathing spell for industry is
here." by breathlnf a sigh of
relief. Leading bankers and In
dustrialists were chary of for
mal fommerft bat many said
privately that relief from the
uncertainties arising from far
reaching reform measures were
what business most needed for
recovery.
Stocks turned upward after a
morning of hesitancy and show
ed numerous gains of erne to
3 points a share. In steels, mo
tors, and miscellaneous Invest
ments.
Among the few who com
mented publicly was F. E. Will
iamson. president o fthc New
York Central, who said “the
breathing spell policy would be
very helpful to business."
Interprets New Deal.
The President gave his views In a
letter to Roy W. .Howard, publish
er of the Scripps-Howard newspa
pers. who reported fears of bus!
ness men and said "there is neec'
to undo the damage that has been
(Continued on page ten)
Charlotte Airport
Site k Approved
By District WPA
Municipal Project Totalling $749,98$
Receive* O. K.; Other
Application*
ONARLOTTE. Sept. 6—The Char
lotte district office of the Works
Progress administration approved
the Charlotte municipal airport
project totaling $749,985 yesterday
and received for consideration the
:ity's park projects totaling around
>600.000.
Walter J. Cartier, superintendent
3f parks and recreation, field the
applications for grants for nu- 1
merous park Improvements and de
velopments late last night, and the
mglneers of the office Immediately
began a study of the requests of
the Charlotte Park and Recreation
commission The projects probably
will be approved by the district of
fice today.
Projects already approved for the
13 counties of the district- total
more than $6,000,000. Applications
totaling about $1,500,000 had been
filed on August 1 and about $3,
500.000 had been asked for teh last
week In August. For the last six
lavs, the district office has received
and approved applications totaling
an average of $600,000 a day, and
yesterday’s projects ran more than
tl,000,000 The local office has
sleared the desks each night and
disposed of all applications.
R. J. Reynolds Pays
> Dividend Of 75c
WINSTON-SALEM. Sept. 6,—Di
rectors of the R. J. Reynolds To
bacco Company met here yesterday
and declared a quarterly dividend
3i 75 cents a share on common
stocks, payable October 1 to stock
holders of record September 18
Seperated 74 Years, Two Women
Meet And Talk Ante-War Days
Seventy-four years ago a little
girl by the name of Rachael Cody
was staking calves to eat grass
where a number of important Shel
by business centers are now locat
ed, and this week Miss Cody, who
is now Mrs Lawrence Leonhardt of
Belwood was visited by Miss Mat
tie Adams of Shelby, whom she
knew here, but had not seen since
that time.
This Information was learned to
day from C. G. Hictmrds. a son-in
law. with whom site is staying in
the northern part of the county.
Miss Adams who was five year:
old when she last saw Mrs. Leon
hardt. who was 15 years of age a!
that time. At the age of 74 and 80
respectively, they got together for
an hour one day this week, very
happy to recall together reminis
cences of Shelby three quarters of
a century ago.
Mrs. Leonhardt has been to Shel
by only a few times since living
here before the Civil War, and said
she could hardly recognise any part
of the tqwn now. While here she
was with a relative, the late John
Dellinger.
Miss Adams does not remember a
sreat many things In Shelby at ths
time, but Mrs. Leonhardt. recall
that she as a lG-year-oJd girl saw
he Haney hanging, when an allcr
‘ Continued on page ten>
State’s Attorney
Acts In Florida
Storm Disaster
G&t-Matked Army U
Recovery Dead
Red Cross Totals 2M Dead.
But Estimates Vary*
Fear Disease.
MIAMI, Sept. 6.—State At*
Lomey G. A. Warley, today
ipenerl an investigation into
Uieged delay In dispatching
% special train intoHhe Flor*
ida keys to evacuate camps
housing 817 war veterans.
Wearing gas mask*, armies oi
men moved into the hurricane-dev
astated Florida keys today for ths
grewsome task of bringing hack the
dead, already totaling 366. accord
ing to Red Cross estimats.
There wers conflicting reports at
to the exact damage and death dealt
by hurrttane.
The Red Crow announced that 01 ■
the 817 war veterans caught by the
hurricane as they war* engaged In
construction work In the keys, UO
were missing and 144 bodies have
been recovered.
Seventy civilians were ntlaalag
throughout Florida.
A public funeral for veteran*'who
died in the storm will be held here
within the next few days,” Ool. Q.
E I Jams of the veterans' bureau,
said.
Disease feared
Governor Sholts today said there
was a possibility of disease in -the
Florida keys and he waa awaiting
further reports from health offi
cers.
Nathan Mayo, donvaai+stoner oi
agriculture, said,la TaUahaaasethat
he was without authority to stop
citrus growers from shipping imms* *
ture fruit knocked from trees, la
the Florida hurricane despite a
warning from Governor Sholts that
the green grapefruit and oreagaa
must not be put on the northern
market. ~v. sum,?
JACKSONVILLE, sept. 6.—Aubrey
Williamson, assistant to Adminli
rator Hopkins, said today he has
begun a “relentless lrwesttfatlOB”
yf the Florida keys hurricane dis
aster.
While weather reports preceding
he storm were under iftouifft. 1)*
laid that on a basis of his present
nformation, “Everybody seems to
lave done what they thought was
he right thing at the proper time."
END POOR VISION ’
. IS LIONS OBJECT
Many a child la muted Jn
school as a dunce simpJy because
iis eyes aren’t good. And perafML
i child goes thorugh life with per
manently weak eyes because te
didn’t receive proper attention when
be was a child.
Knowing these things, the titans -
club of Shelby last week voted to
do what it could to help poor Vttal
by children whose parents can’t j
afford proper treatment and Spec
tacles.
Through the Red Cross unit
clinics will be held this fall hk the
city schools. Children whose par
ents can afford to buy them will be
urged to purchase glasaee. Children
whose ‘ parents cannot afford the
expense will be fitted with glasses
as a gift from the club.
An investigating committee com
posed of club members will be call
ed upon to determine the financial
“tarns of the parents.
In jured Negroes
Are Recovering
, Three of the 27 negro picnickers
who were injured Tuesday in a
truck accident neat; Mooreeboro, re
mained in the Shelby hospital to
day one of them, Clifton Love,
still in a semi-conscious oohditioe %
Edna Tate was unconscious uhtll
last night but- was beginning te be
rational today. Catherine Lore will
go home today. Mason Freemen
was able to leave Wednesday aft
ernoon. All are somewhat Improv
ed ami have a chance at recovery.
The other 33 who were treated
ruesday after the "wholesale spill eo
Highway 20 were able to go tn thi
Hfternoon m their homes at Spar