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Cotton Yield Of 11,489,000 Bales Indicated By Conditions Now Weather North Carolina: Fair Friday ipith exception of rain Hi extreme MSt portions; Saturday fair. TM Mkmldmd SEND - .—.Ii.......... ^ 8 Pages Today VOL. XLL No. 108 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 9. 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoon*. -***» By if ill. par yn*r, iib Miun) _ tt.M Carrur. Mr yut. (la tdruM _ WBO Dept Of Agriculture Releases Forecast On Production For Year Approximately Two Million Bales Above Last Season’s Crop; 1,320,700 Bales Is New York Ginning Report (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The Department of Agricul ture said today a cotton crop this year of 11,489,000 five hundred pound bales was indicated by September conditions. .. r A month ago, * crop of 11.198.000 ru indicated. Last year, the pro duction was 9,636,569, and the total for the 1933-34 period was 13,027362. From New York it was reported that 1.320,700 bales of cotton had been ginnetf so far this year, as compared with 1,402,845 last year, and t.396,139 two years ago. The condition of the crop Sep tember 1 was reported as 64.5 per cent of normal, as compared with 73.6 per cent a month ago. Indicated yield per acre is 192 pounds, compared with 1983 a month ago, 1703 a year ago and ITU for the 1933-34 period. Cotton in cultivation July 1 was *.166,000 acres. Cotton futures' opened fairly Stady on the New York Exchange, fin higher te one low, with steady ainng and some hedging. Shoots Up Town And Disappears Clem Johnson shot up the town ind fled. He’s s marired taan, aged about I S3, who expressed his indignation »bout things-as-they-are Friday night with a shotgun. He sprayed lead about the Dover Mill com munity like a prankish boy with a ho«e. He fired half a dozen shots, some et which went into nearby houses, but no one was injured. Neighbors said they heard him threaten his wife, and they supposed it all start ed from domestic trouble. Deputies are searching for John- , ion. who hasn’t been seen since he ; laid down his barrage. Bootlegger Swim* But Officer* Get Him Doc Mayfield, who escaped offic ers one time by swimming more than a mile in Lake Bridgewater when they raided his moonshine ■till on an island, was bound over under $500 bond here by United States commissioner John P.'Mull. His two sons, Frank, 14, and Jim, 12. were also held. Deputy United States Marshal Mack Poston head ed the posse that captured May held. Morning Cotton LETTER NEW YORK, Sept. It is rath « generally expected that today’ report will reveal a minor increas* the probable production compar to last month’s figures. The gen •ra.1 situation appears to have turn *d for the better judging by th< "cent developments^ textile; .^nr!? ln the recovery to no smal Extent of hedging sales wil K;,/rse’ ** v* determining factoi ‘ 5661115 Kk us that world de 7 *0uld p)>ve substantial anc £ doubt if PrX will go material!: 1’0UP take advantage o: - -wes *o- make purchases. El A. Pierce St Co -he markets sss.««•<• •«. - --1 on the New *10 60 M»y. *10.57; •‘WW.St'- *10«- “d lie,, - ftv« pwots up; Huey Long Has A 50-50 Chance, Doctors Believe Huey P. Long has about a. fifty-fifty chapce 91 recovery, several Shelby physicians agreed this morning, making a longdis tance diagnosis through radio and press reports. Since he has survived the hock of a bullet wound through the abdomen, they said, the dan ger now lies in peritonitis, or blood poisoning. This w.ould probably set in within a few days, they said. Paralysis Takes R. C. Covington; Is Buried Sunday 15-Year-Old Farmer of Doable Springs Dies Saturday After Long Dlneas Funeral services for one of the >ldest resident of Double Springs :omm unity were held Sunday when final rites were held at the church for R. c. Covington, 85-year-old 'arjner, who died at his home Sat lrday. Mr. Covington had been in de fining health over a period of ten fears, and had been gravely ill more han a month. He suffered a stroke )f paralysis several years ago and lad suffered several minor strokes ►ince that time. Many at Funeral A large crowd of friends and rel atives were present yesterday as ■lev. D. G. Washburn and Rev. W. 3. Gibbe were in charge of the iervice. Mr. Covington was married three ■imes, first to Miss Catherine El iott, to which union was bora four ihildren who survive. They are Wayne of eastern Carolina, Mary of 3reenville, S. C., R. M of Mon ana and Joe Covington of Union xwnmunity. Other MarriagM The second marriage was to Miss Sally Grigg, and to this union one laughter, Mrs. Vertie Pruett of At anta, Ga., survives. Mn Coving on was wedded the third time to Hiss Essie Grigg, who survives, with i son and daughter, R. C., Jr., and ifela Covington, at home. Two daughters, Mary and Vela, ire nurses, the latter taking train ng in Shelby hospital. Mr. Covington was a hard-work ng man who practiced simplicity ind frugality. He had been a mem *r of Double Springs Baptist fiurch for many years. Governor Urges Protest Against AllegedN.C. WPA Discrimination RALEIGH. Sept. 9.—Governor. Ehringhaus has wired other mem >ers of the special committee named i >y the group of city, county and ehool officials in Chapel Hill last reek to protest against apparent! liscrimination against North Car-: >lina projects in the WPA program, teeking an early appearance in Washington to take the matter up vitto the authorities there. The troup will probably go to Washing on early in the week. progress was slow because of a possible change and granting more projects by WFA officials Also, Governor Ehringhaus has been con fined to' the mansion most of the last half of the week with neuritis; Senator Bailey has been down on the coast fishing; Senator Reynolds is on his jaunt over the country; but Congressman R. L. Doughton, the other* member of the commit tee, has been in the state, he an nounced, for the purpose of check ing up on this very matter. The committee will go to Wash ington as soon as the members can get together and arrange tor a hearing - ■ K.&S. Truck Co., Barnwell Bros., Merge Interests Will Be Largest Firm In Southland To Operate 110 Road Freighters, Carrying Textiles Between Carolina and N. Y. Merger of the K. <Sc 8. Trucking Company, Inc., with Barnwell Brothers oi Burlington to' form what is probablj; the biggest truck ing organization in the entire south was announced here this morning. M. M. Stuart, president and man ager of the K. & S. Company, li on his way to New York today, but the merger has gone into effect without affecting operation or sched ule of the Shelby company Forms Huge Fleet The combined resources of the tw< companies will form a fleet of aboul 110 Inter-state trucks, speeding be tween here and New York, witf stops at Washington, Baltimore an’c Philadelphia. One hundred o these trucks are the property of th< Barnwell company. Details of the merger were no made public, but it is understock that stock was traded and that Mr Stuart will become an officer o Barnwell Brothers. The latter met will be retained. The K. & S.Com pany was established hare in Jan uary 1. 1931, and has built up < thriving business, engaging chiefl; In transporting textile materials be tween here and metropolitan oen ters. Present officers of the Barnwel company, which has headquarter at Burgllngton, are R. W. Barnwell president; John Barnwell, vice president, and James A. Barnwell secretary-treasurer. BIG ARMY PLANE VISITS SHELBY Lieut. Nye and Sergeant Buff Comi to Shelby on VUit—Plane Lands at Blacksburg Lieutenant G. C. Nye of the arm: aviation corps visited his sister, Mrs Ben Buttle in Shelby over the week' end, coming from Langley Field Va., in a big Keystone bomber, weighing 13,000 pounds and havinj a wing spread of 75 feet, i Lieutenant Nye and his mechanic Sergeant W. B. Buff, of Rutherforc county, soared over Shelby Satur day afternoon flying low, lookinj for a suitable place to land. Fail' ing to find a field, the plane movet south to Blacksburg, where thi government maintains the onl: emergency landing field betweei Washington and Atlanta. The Keystone bomber was one o: the largest planes to visit Shelby Although it was landed at Blacks burg, many visitors motored dowi to inspect it. Lieutenant Nye is‘only 23 year of age. When his father taugh school at Kings Mountain, thi young aviator lived there when i lad. The plane left Sunday foi Fort Bragg. Speed’s His Business And He Is Speed, Too Rutherford has the tallest speed cop in North Carolina, a recent graduate of idle state highway pa trol school at Raleigh. He is six feet five inches tall and his name is Speed. .. St She’s Called World’s Prettiest Sraorite Lux CaxioU beTie8JePre8entiBK 12 Senorita Lux Gaxiola of Hermosillo, Mexico, was crowned queen of an intern. ,is“i ci» - *V5S and White ball, outstanding social event at the Mexican capital. Ethiopia Rejects Moves Of League Toward Peace (By The Associated Press) Anxious world statesmen shot , nervous glances toward British and Italian fleets in the Mediterranean as they studied the diplomatic moves , at Geneva, which may mean peace or war. The Italo-Ethiopian crisis over ■ shadowed all other problems as Dr. Ruitz Guinabu of Argentina con : fessed the “world was distracted with anxiety." As concentration of the British ' home and Mediterranean fleets off Sicily was carried out, the Italian ' fleet went through manoeuvers. Emperor Haile Salssie was in I .formed of important troop move ments along his country's bordei which were said to Indicate ar early offensive. The emperor, after' a conferenci with his "brain trust." directed hli ; Geneva representatives to rejec outright all solutions thus far pro posed for the settlement of thi dispute with Italy. The Italian press commentec caustically on the part played bj Great Britain and the deliberation! of the league commission investi gating the controversy. Premier Laval of France, reportec passlmlstic regarding hope of pre senting armed conflict, headed foi ! Geneva to direct his efforts towarc I saving the League. t Civil Term Opens Today; Judge Williams On Bench With 74 cases listed on the calen dar, Judge Clawson Williams this ' morning opened the September ' term of Cleveland civil court. Twen . ty-seven of the cases involve di vorces. On the calendar for today are the following actions: Weathers et al to. Manning et al; Armour Re ceiver vs. insurance company; Cooke vs. Price; Palmer vs. Harris; McDonald vs. Harris and Harrison vs. Lutz. The Tuesday calendar: Spangle vs. Hunt; Bridges va. Hicks; Stati vs. Hullender; Bumgardner vs. Put nam; Bumgardner vs. Plonk, am Dale vs. Eaker. On the Trhusday docket Is listei ilie Earl Byrum suit In which fiv Cleveland county boys, who wer seriously injured In automobile ac cident last year, are suing Mr. By rum for more than $50,000. | New Plan To Finance Junior ! College Passed By Trustees i __ j BOILING SPRINGS, Sept. 9.— Alter three hours of debating and ! proposing, thirty men, members of the board of trustees of the col lege and pastors from the King’s Mountain and Sandy Run associa tions, the parents of Bolling Springs college, passed a bill that may bring the Baptist school out of the red. These men followed up their lengthy session with a resolution to recommend to the individual churAies of the two associations that they forward 50 per cent of 'the co-operative program collec tions, for the support of the state Baptist institutions, directly to the junior college, and whatever other amounts able to be gathered Many Plans Offered The pastors and trustees agreed unanimously that the time has comi when something must be done t< aid the struggling Junior collep in order that it may survive. Man; suggestions were offered, but the 50 per cent plan was the only one placed before the body for a vote. The pastors and trustees also ap pointed a committee to devise ant bring before the assembly at some later date a plan for meeting the college’s incurring debts. Judge B. T. Falls, C. A. Maddry J. A. Brock. D. F. Hord and A. G Sergeant were appointed as mem bers of the committee. Both the pastors and the trus tees brought out that the ^choo must fall back to the churches fo» | (.Continued on page eight) Doughton Denial Dispels Clouds 1 In N. C. Politics i Leave* Dr. McDonald Holding Bag Clyde R. Hney And Other* Who Seek Governorship, BMe Time j For Firework*. By M. R. DUNNAGAN Cleveland 8Ur Staff Writer j RALEIGH. Sept, fl.—Statement of Congressman R. L. Doufchton In Winston-Salem last week that he | positively will not be a candidate | for Governor in the Democratic primary next spring was not unek- ( pected, but did clarify the political ( air. and caused a collapse of the “draft Doughton for Governor" movement that had gained some little headway. "Farmer Bob" Doughton also in- ' timated very strongly that he would be found supporting Clyde R. Hoey for the nomination, and would have , nothing to do with the palm prof- t fered him recently by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, Forsyth legislator and candidate for Governor. Dr. Mc Donald had said he would retire from the race if Congressman Douehton would run. a statement though by the politicians to be a bid tor the Doughton support, ap parently to no avail. Dr. McDonald, meanwhile. U "get-' ting around’* and covering lots ot area In his campaign, which he claims Is developing nicely, and that thousands of letters are pour, inf in to him, many containing $1. $5 and other small amounts. He can also vouch far the fact that trains sometimes cross on the grade crossing between Nelson and Chap el Hill. He ran a loaned car into a , freight passing there Thursday night, due to rain and bad visibil ity. He had almost stopped when he hit the freight, coming out with pushed in radiator and a slightly bruised shoulder. He was In Ra leigh conferring Friday. MeanWhlle, Candidate Hoey says ; he will be quiet for some time, then will take the stump and call on the press to present views he will ex press on all issues. A. H. ‘ Sandy'’ Graham is appearing here and there in public, Including Installation of officers of the Young Democratic ’ Club of Wake county Wednesday. • Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, Charlotte, said he would not start his cam paign for some time, while John A. 4 McRae, also of Charlotte, is getting I around over the state rapidly in his gubernatorial campaign. Paul D. Grady, Kenley; W P Horton, Pittsboro, and George Me-, 1 Neill, Fayetteville, are also covering territory for their announced can didacy for Lieuafcenant Governor, while W. L. Lumpkin, Loulsburg, al though unannounced, is busy in his campaign for the same post. He expects to announce later, he states. Plenty of political activity may be : expected during the coming months. J Four Townships Get Gin Certificates i _ ' Distribution of approximately 13. ? 000 books of gin certificates to cot ■ ton growers in the first four fcown - ships will have been completed by tonight.. John S. Wilkins. county - agent, said at noon today. His office is crowded daily with applicants. John C. Humphries, Shelby Boy, To See World Through Porthole (Special to The Star) SAVANNAH. Sept. 9—John C. | Humphries, formerly of Shelby, and now a member of the U S Marine Corps, is serving in the marine de ; teachment aboard the battleship U. S. S. New Mexico Humphries entered the Marine Corps through the Savannah office In May, 1934. and after completing tile basic training course at the ma rine base, Parris Island, 8.- C„ he served at the Sea School Norfolk Navy Yard. Portsmouth. Va„ where he received a specip.1 course of sea training preparatory for service afloat. Service afloat, the choicest as signment available to a marine, la eagerly sough* for Cruising about the world, often under the critical eye of foreign observers, it u es sential that the members of the ( marine detachments afloat be the i highest type of young American manhood. Humphries Is a graduate of the Lattimore htgh school, class of 1934 He Is tlie son of Mr William W Humphries of Route 4 Shelby. A limited number of vacancies will se filled at the Savannah office luring the month of September Applications will be ®p'!?d to*high! ichoqj graduates ump muest. .j; Louis ana's Kingfish Is Reported Sinking And Recovery Feared ienitor Felled By Dr. C. A. Weiss, Jr., 30 Year-Old Physician, Whose Body Was Riddled By 40 Bullets fftv The AmkoHjiIpH BATON ROUGE,Sept. 9—Although physician declined o comment, it was learned reliably that Senator Huey P, *«ong took a turn for the worse around noon today. He was reported as passing blood with an increased ough and a second transfusion waft being considered. Callers it his room turned away with grave faces and general con* 'em was felt in the hospital over his condition. The last official bulletin was issued before six o'clock A. d. Central Standard Time, and his attending physicians re* used to discuss his case. BATON ROUGE. La.. Sept. 9.—Senator Huey P, Long allied today from his serious abdominal wounds as his law nakers proceeded with the program laid down by the dicta Huey Sinking Huey P. Long, felled by an as sassin's bullet last night, is re ported today loosing strength in a Baton Rouge hospital. Senator Felled \s He Prepared Io Outlaw Guns one-Controlled Legislature Was About To Pass Law Selling , All Firearms. BATON ROUOE, La.. Sept 9 — in assassin's bullet felled Senator luey P. Long last night just as his tate legislature prepared to pass tieasures giving the senator control yer all machine guns and sawed ff shotguns in the state. One of the bills being pushed hrough the special session of the egislature provides that all ma hlne guns, gas guns, gas shells, gas irenades, or rifles or shotguns less han 20 inches in length must b« egistered with the superintendenty if the Bureau of Criminal Identifi ation and investigation. The superintendent may refuse to (Continued on page eight.) lor ior me special session. A hospital bulletin said Senator Long was gaining strength, follow ing a bullet wound Inflicted by Dr O. A. Weiss. Jr.. 30-year<-old eye specialist, who was slain by the senator's bodyguard. While optimistic reports came from the Senator's bedside, state polio* and National < Ouardsmen were ready to speed here On short notice. There was no indications * that martial law would be declared. * Members of the family of Dr. Weiss said he was a quiet, cultures, man. who studied at Tulaae anf abroad, and they knew of no mo tive for his attempt on Senator Long's life. "He was a deliberate man,"..* brother-in-law told the Associated Press. "There was nothing on his part to Indicate to his family thad ‘ ha would ever do such a thing." Dr. Weiss never had been la poli tics. but was known to bo to Long. Asked if he thought a bill ptitg ing befcte the legislature for the transfer of Dr. Weiss's father-in law, could have been a factor the relative said: i "My father was not ^ losing his judgeship, he was merely being t:ansferied from om district to another. Dr. Weles felt bitter to ward Long but not for p—«*•» reasons.’ .. The bulletin Issued by Long's physicians said he was experiencing considerable hemorrhage internally, but added his general condition was satisfactory and that “no important information will be available for about 72 hours." The capital, thrown into a fever of excitement by the incident was still restless today. Dr. Weiss, who was 20 yean old. walked up to Long and placed the muzzle of the pistol close to his body and fired one shot. Then the bodyguard turned on the eye spe cialist and riddled his body with bullets from automatics. He -was shot 40 times. The senator has. just finished di recting passage of bills to one of his amazing legislative sessions. Tlte meeting adjourned at 2:20. Senator Long retained consciousness. . '7 At the hospital, where he was tak en an emergency operation tow per formed. The shot punctured . the colon in two places. The Pullet pass ed entirely through the body, and unless compile*tlooh’set in. physic ians said. Long has a good chance to recover. Farmers to Study Lespedeza Field T1” study the effect of ptswtnwg eetton on fields previously grown to lespedesa. Cleveland farmers are invited to visit the farm of Arthur Turner. No. II township. Wednes day afternoon at 2:30. At 3:30 they are invited to the farm of Kelly Spake, in the same community, to tee 30 arres of lespedesa, planted to hree varieties. Korean, Kobe i
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