Shelby And 10 Districts Vote Saturday On $437,000 School Plan
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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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FRANCE BACKS GREAT BRITAIN IN UPHOLDING LEAGUE
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Ballot T o Decide
On Special Taxes
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Polls Open Saturday
At Sunrise
Count? Education Leaden Are Op
timiatic Voten Will Ap
prove Program
The sun rises and sets to
morrow on the fate of Cleve
01 land county’s $437,000 school
building and improvement
program.
polls will be open at the crack
sf dawn for the special tax election
in which registered voters in ten
county districts and in Shelby will
make their marks on ballots bear
ing the legend; “For Special School
Bond Tax” and “Against Special
School Bond Tax.”
Optimism Expressed
Optimism was expressed today by
school authorities, who said they be
lieved the majority of the school
patfbns favored the special taxes,
which range from three to twenty
cents, and which will buy PWA dol
lars at 55 cents.
The Shelby local school board
earlier in the week issued a state
ment urging residents to vote in fa
vor of the special tax for a pro
posed >150,000 high school.
Shelby Election
In the city, ballots will be cast at
the regular polling {daces and in
louth Shelby- la this Instance, the
ax rate has not been set, but it is
Kumated-maf wot beftteae
dun eight cents.
following are the eommunities,
tax rates, an# voting places in to
morrow’s election:
District Tax Kates
Piedmont—3 cents; vote at Cleve
Itnd Mill and Power Co. store. .
No. 1 Township—20 cents; vote at
Holly Springs school.
No. 2 Township—15 dents; vote at
Shanghai school/
Moore&boro—7 cents: vote at high
•ehool. .
Latumore—10 cents: vote at high
•ehool.
Waco—4 oents; vote at high
•ehool.
Bethware—16 eents; vote at high
ichool.
Bel wood—5 eents: vote at high
•ehool.
Fallston—15 cent*: vote at high
ichool.
Casar—10 eents; vote at high
•ehool.
tAwivr Ktnr baptists
TO MEET OCTOBER 9-10
ruthertordton, sept. is.—
The forty-sixth session of the Sandy
Run Baptist association, composed
of 56 churches In Rutherford, Polk,
Cleveland, and Cherokee, S. C„
counties win meet with Green Creek
Baptist church, Polk county, on
Wednesday and Thursday, October
t and to.
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Morning Cotton
LETTER
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. —Sentiment
mixed, many people expecting
'a "s gainst the actual to depress
Prices but so far producers have
Z?own 110 disposition to press sales,
secretary of agriculture is
with the statement that
on cotton will hardly be
for distribution before early
T**mbw ** "certain phases" of
« «tup must be ruled on by the
»»Ptro!ier general but that the
ZT“ t!!!j subsidy machinery is be
5tljKt5bl,!d Wlth ^ possible
wd The situation as we see it
no material decline from
*nd we would
' antage of the easy spots to
‘ Purchases.
®- A. Pierce * Co.
rotian ™E MARKETS
®2S £.»Hc re um
s«d. CM0, ?,OB’ —- mX
*r lot. ton_i_|28.(
mark-h* cl08e °* the New Yoi
'ca, **** following quoti
10:50-5{
W * J , May I0c«3: Jul
06■ 1P:«: Dec. 10:47 —
**tt32 m, *v.r». op
f!n» points, middlu
Reach $4,500 Settlement
In Byrum Auto Crash Suit
Settlement for approximately $4,
500 In the suit brought by six Cleve- I
land youths against Earl Byrum, in ;
which they alleged damages upward
of $50,000, for injuries in an auto- :
mobile accident, was reached by
compromise agreement before the :
case went to the jury Thursday aft
ernoon.
The boys were injured on the
morning of December 2, last year,
on Hjghway 20, when their car was
in collision with a vehicle operated
by Mr. Byrum. Mr. Byrum was
also injured but not seriously.
Shannon Hamrick of Double
Springs was the most severely in
ured, and sued for $50,000. By the
compromise, he is to get $2,000. and
lis hospital bill will be paid.
Vemo Wright, also of Double
Springs, will receive $800 and ex
>enses. Pleaz Gold Is to receive
1350, and will be paid for his car,
vhich was wrecked In the crash;
vlarvin Gold will receive $75, and
iarvey Crawley $150.
Mr. Miller, a bone specialist of
Charlotte, was put on the stand as
m expert witness to testify as to
he extent of the boys’ injuries,
rhe case had been postponed
.hrough several sessions of civil
court.
Mayor And Three Aldermen
| To Inspect Power Plants
Mayor Harry S. Woodson and
three members of the board of
aldermen, Chairman R. Z Riviere,
W. C. Harris and Charles Cobie, are
today on their way to Paris. Ky.,
to inspect a municipal plant which
generates power through Delsel en
' gines.
They departed by automobile this
morning, making no statement
about possible plans for a Shelby
city plant. The plan of installing a
generator to supply city power has
long been discussed at city hall, by
various administrations. The city
now buys wholesale from the Duke
Power Co.
Novel Education Methods
Are Inducted In Schools
Artillery Convoy
Of Sum; Trucks
Passes Through
Speeding across arterial highways
(ram Maryland to Texas, an artil
lery convoy of the United States
army rumbled through Shelby Wed
nesday noon, bivouacked for the
j night at Forest City, climbed the
tall hills to Asheville yesterday and
today is well on its way to Fort
Knox, Ky.
There are SI trucks in the eon
i voy, which is carrying army mater -
j ials, tractors and artillery, to form
a new battalion of six-inch guns at
San Antonio, Texas. Seven officers
and 133 enlisted men comprise the
detachment.
In command is Capt. R. L. Mabie
of Fort Bragg. His outfit includes
men and equipment both from Fort
Bragg and from Fort Hoyle, Md. In
the convoy are four high-speed ex
perimental guns. Two short-wave
telephones are used to enable the
lead car to keep in contact with
the column at all times.
Jeanette Trotter
U New Librarian
Miss Jeanette Trotter of Pilot
Mountain has been added to the
faculty of the Shelby high school
and will be In charge of the library,
taking the place of Miss Minna Le
Grand, who has accepted work in
Charlotte.
Miss Trotter is a graduate of the .
University of North Carolina in li
brary science, and following her
graduation was assistant in the li
brary at Greensboro Woman’s col- <
lege for a year’s time. Since, she
has been faculty librarian In the
Pilot Mountain high school.
Today Is Friday The Thirteenth,
Bat Kirkpatrick Defies The Fates
Alton Kirkpatrick, who's bif
enough to take care of himself ant
several others, put himself down ai
from Missouri and joined thi
“I Doubt It” club this morning ai
Friday the 13th brought forebod
ings of ill luck to the superstitious
Mr. Kirkpatrick, K. and S, Truck
ing Co., Inc,, employee, did all th<
unlucky things a man could do, am
when last interviewed early thi:
afternoon was seeking new bad
'uck precedents to break
It began when he got ou' on th(
wrong side of the bed f- ' mc.-r ■:
(Realizing What lie W «
; such a day. he concluded, he said, i
• that with such bad start he might H
' as well test Fate to the utmost. So
1 he broke a mirror.
On his way to work he looked for
black cats and ladders. He saw a
horseshoe In the road and passed it
up. Downtown, he' picked up a pin
and dropped It. He spied a ladder
across the street and walked under
it. Then walked under it again,'
just to make sure. j
But no black cats appeared. This
tcwrung touch of malicious luck
i . Afipstffiusa * em mm _ j
A novel method, which was teat
mr„ w ^tpecJmenKfc.
choteftr and health education, was
inducted tide week in Cleveland
county schools, the first county In
the state to get the work from the i
Btate Board of Health.
The project is a puppet show of
some 35 minutes’ duration, played
by Frederick Koch, Jr., and Wal
lace Borne, former students of the
University of North Carolina, play
makers’ division, and now employed
by the state board.
A series of scenes in which the
itage artiste make the puppets talk
tnd act Uke real people actually
Shrills hundreds of tha school chil
ireri, and at the same time conveys
aest educational ideas for the care
if teeth—food, sleep, rest, visits to
lentiat, how the tooth is made up,
he importance of baby teeth, and
ither items.
The hero of the show is little
lack, a hed-haired, freckle-faced
youngster, a typical boy, who wants
;o go to the circus, has a toothache,
is forced to go to the dentist, and
here learns of teeth.
Spinach, carrots, combread and
he practice of health habits then
iecome a pleasure to Jack. To a
surprising degree, according to Dr.
E. A. Branch, board of health rep
•esentative, and Mr. Koch and Mr.
Borne, children in both elementary
nnd primary grades, assimilate the
information.
This method was experimented
tar five weeks last year, and was
•rought to Cleveland this year to
Degin an eight months’ run. All
he schools in the county will have
wen visited this week, and the play
srs will move to Rutherford, Bun
»mbe and Madison counties later.
They visit only counties which
nave the annual dental health pro
rram.
The Zambesi is the largest river;
>f Africa entering the Indian ocean.!
Pierre Loti was the pen-name of
Louis Marie Julies Viaud (1850
1923, the French author.
County Schools
Closing Today;
Open In 2 Months
Cotton Picking Time
Ha* Arrived
PoMtble Exception of Four Units
Made; Hundreds of Stu
dents Pick Cototn
With the possible exception of
four units, all schools in Cleveland
county are expected to close the
annual summer term today, for the
current cotton picking season.
The schools which may extend;
their term another week are in the
northern part of the county where
the cotton crop is not expected to
press immediately. They are Polk
ville. Piedmont, Casar and Moriah.
40,000-Bale Crop
Today’s closing will end the sec
ond month of the eight months’
term of all schools. The six months’
session will likely begin about two
months hence, depending on the
weather and rapidity with which
the expected 40,000-bale cotton crop
is harvested.
A number of the teachers living
out of the county are expected to
return to their respective homes,
but many will remain in the com
munities where they will aid in the
preparation of exhibits for com
munity and county fairs. Nearly
every school in the county will have
part in the giant exposition, the
Cleveland county fair. October 1-6.
Attendance Good
J. H. Grigg, county superinten
dent, said this moraine that atten
eclipsed any previous record in the
county.
Many of the schools are so
crowded with students, trustees are
auxiously awaiting the approval by
the PWA and' the special school
election Saturday, assuring new
buildings. r
Red Cross Gets
CheckFor $350
A gilt, of I3M from the National
Red Crou organization received re
cently by local Chairman Henry Ed
vards has made possible continua
tion of the public health nursing
program in Cleveland.
Without this check. Mr. Edwards
said, the Red Cross might have been
rorced to abandon its program here,
tt will soon be exhausted. Treas
lrer Troy V. McKinney eatimated,
tnd unless local contributions are
generous the Red Cross will be se
verely handicapped.
Rules Are Given
For Baby Contest
Announcement has come from
Miss Elva Diets. Instructor In home
economics at Polkville that there;
has been a slight misunderstand-'■
ng In the rules for the baby con-!
lest to be held In connection with
>he Polkville Junior Pair Sept. 30. j!
The rules are: (1) Baby must be
in exact age of six and 18 months.!
(2) Baby's home must be In Ho. 8
school district. (3) Babies entered
nust not have any contagious dis-!
;ases. Dr. Ben Gold of 8helby will
;xamine the babies.
Slaking Plans For
Business School Here
Mrs. Samuel T. Carter of Sails
>ury was in 8helby yesterday mak-1
ng plans to opep a business college
n Shelby at an early date. She was
iccompanied by W. G. Propst, Uni- j
erslty of North Carolina graduate, j
■•ho will be an associate teacher,
drs. Carter has been conducting
uccessfully a business college at •
Salisbury since 1917. It is planned
o offer courses in secretarial work,
lookkeeping and stenography.
WISS WILSON PLACED IN
CAST FROM CAR INJURY |
Mr. and Mrs. David Wiljon have
ome from Littleton to be at the
ledside of Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss1
5mlly Wilson who Is a patient at
he Shelby hospital, suffering from
spinal injury. She was hurt when '
i car In which she was riding turn- i
■d over near Gastonia *wo weeks! 1
tgo. She has been placed ir a plast- ’
tr cast. Her condition la quite ser-; t
Five Lieutenants Seek Huey Long’s Job
(nxiWnafto
JwlfUlBu TVNMS
Who wp'rale'!
Hb«- Long m deafr£-ftie slate'is a jentWed i_
ofpoiitios and yet before the senator-dictator died,
battle tines were drawn, t Conferences wore staged
and observers point out that the following develop
ment may occur: | 6ov. Q. It. Alien will resign,
being succeeded by Lieut. Gov James Noe, who
’aw
tfcan M>point Allan *o Wie vacant senatorial
# Friends of Long who may play a part be
hind the scenes are Abe Sbu^han, millionairei mer
chant, said to have financed Long’s early cam
paigns , AMen BMender, speaker of. the house, who
desires to be governor, and Seymour Weiss, owner
of a New Orleans hotel and chief chum of Long.
Roosevelt Favors Hopkins Relief Plan;
To Speed Work On Temporary Projects
Flying350m.p.h.
Howard Hughes
Breaks Record
(By Associated Press)
SANTA ANNA. Calif., Sept. IS —
Howard Hughes, millionaire movie
producer and flyer, today establish
ed a new land plane speed record
in a series of flights over a closed
course near here. Officials said that
although the exact time had not
been compared, it was "around 350
mph.”
Hughes made six attempts to
Lieak the recoid set by Raimond
Lemotte. of France, at 314 319 m.
>Ji. On the-sixth attempt he exhaust
ed his gas supply while roarine
Sewn the course and made a forc
ed landing. Hughes was not hurt.
First Week Civil
Court Ends Today
The first week of the September
term of Civil court adjourned at
noon today, with presiding Judge
Clawson Williams leaving at once
'or Charlotte.
Ten divorce cases were tried this
.nomlng, but final judgments were
stayed temporarily. Judge Williams
sill notify :*e clerk the first of.
next week of his action on the css-!
•s A rather crowded docket remain:)
V? the second week.
Included In this rooming's cases
;> as a compro.rJse In wit-.n the city
>greed to pa; Mrs. Anna Ornm the
>um of $350. Mrs. Oreeo was injur
sd about 18 m;mhs ago when she
el> over an jpen water meter and
iuslained a broken hip.
Labor Files Charge
Against S. C. Mill
WASHINGTON Sept. 13 -United
[•extile workers’ headquarters an
nounced today a complaint charg
ng the Clinton. S C.. Cotton Mills
pith violations of the Wagner labor |
ict had been filed with the n»r.(nwt!
shot relation* board, I.
Must Let Contracts by
Dec. 15; Average
Pay $850
(By H»a Associated Press)
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 13— j
President Roosevelt announced or
ders today for the WPA under Har
ry L. Hopkins to take over the work
relief drive until the permanent pub
lic works program of Secretary
lekee reaches a greater volume of |
employment.
In a detailed explanation of the
whole works problem at his press
conference the President related
that yesterday's parley provided a
program for the coming six weeks
with $88,000,000 additional for direct
relief.
As for the contest between Sec
retary lekes’ public works plan and
Hopkins’ temporary works idea, he
said that the problem was reduced
to the proposition of dollars, men to
be employed, and the time for com
pletion.
The said It was unlikely that the
funds already allocated would reach
a peak of employment before next
June. Therefore, the gap must be
filled in by temporary work under
Jurisdiction of Hopkins.
Because of this, Mr. Rooseveltsaid
the four billion dollar fund to be
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New Police Order
Gives. Patrolmen
Regular “Beats”
"Bf Courteous" Is First Rule of Set
Of Seven Issued By Chief
D. L. Willis.
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Chief of Police D. L Willis, in his
first formal order to the depart
ment. yesterday Issued a set of sev
en rules, the first of whch com
manded members of the force to be
(Continued on page eight.)
Three New Homes
To Be Built Soon
Three new residences are under
construction or will be in a few
days. Roy Newman is building a six
room brick residence with large
garage on East Marion street, ad
joining the Zeno Wall. Jr. home.
W. A. Pendleton has let contract
to B. L. McMurry few two five room
trick residences at the corner ol
Chestnut and Warren streets.
Stunt Flyer Will Fall A Mile
At Fair Before Opening Chute
Headlining the fifteen thrillers to:
oe exhibited by B. Ward Beams!
International Congress of Dare
devils/when they play at the Cleve
land County Pair. Shelby, Thursday
*fternoon only, October 3. will be
.he death defying stunt of Eddie
Wells, whose fame as a "stunter"
it Roosevelt flying field on Long I
island, N. Y., has encompassed the
sorld. Eddie will jump from an!
lirplane at an altitude of 6,000 feet
ind descend one mile before releas
ng his parachute. For the past:
hree years. Wells has been atari
ituat ®an at the Rational Auraces:
and it was at one of these perform
ances that scientists estimated that
this daredevile of the air descended
at a speed of 315 miles per hour.
Another outstanding feature re
plete with thrills offered by Mr.
Beam will be enacted by Ray Ken
nedy of Minneapolis, who won
fame throughout the middle wes;
for his dexterity In manipulating a
motorcycle. This sesstyi Kennedy
will drive his machine up an in
cline at terrific speed, from which
he will leap into space, passing over
iCoatmuea on page eighth
Laval Declares
French Opposed
To Italy’s Stand
Would Usd Economic
Boycott on 11 Duce
Roosevelt Approves The Hull
Viewpoint; Ethiopia Starts
War Mobilization.
(By Associated Press)
GENEVA, Sept. 13. —
France’s solidarity with the
League of Nations covenant
and the away of the French
policy to the attitude that fi
nancial and economic sanc
tions are necessary in case
Italy attacks were indicated
in Paris and Geneva.
Premier Laval demanded enforce
ment of the League Covenant in a
speech before the League. and
Ft-ench offlcUls in Paris interpret
ed his remarks as meaning the
French nation would Impose eco
nomic and financial, but not mili
tary sanction against the aggressor
nation in the. event of war.
Laval'a speech Had been eagerly
awaited since observers had debated
whether France would back Qreat
Britain in the stand for league
solidarity opposed to wftr. or would
back Italy In the latter's demand
for colonial expansion.
Ethiopia Mobilise.
WhUe the League met to preserve
peace. Italy continued troop move
menta towerd Bast Africa, end Em
tlftmr Katie gelaarfi 4.'a —eautlon
ordered mobilization of 7ft per een'
of all government employees.
At Hyde Park, President Room
velt announced thorough endorse
ment of the appeal by Secretary
Hull for adherence by the quarrel
ing countries to the Kellogg pea
pact and expressed his concert! ovet
the situation.
Italy Hits At England.
An Italian government spokes
man said Laval's "expression was
neither favorable nor unfavorable
and It would have no effect up
Italy's course of action, while the
■emi -official "Aziorie Colonials
said England's reinforcing of h"
Mediterranean and Bed Sea base,
and the sending of additional bat
tleships “is placing In a state of
alarm Italy's position In th«»Medit
erranean and the Red Sea."
The Oreek government made rep
resentation bo the Italian minister
at Athens over a visit, of Italian
naval vessels to Oreek waters with
out permission. Italians said ont
vessel put into Oreek waters be
(Continued on Page Eight)
Sunday
census In
workers -will
the city of
between the
Sunday *'tt
Keligious
Plani
A city wide religlou.
which more than 390
contact every home In
Shelby will be taken
hours of 1 and 3 i
emoon.
The details of i
ed out this week by Dr ^eno Wall
in co-operation with other Baptist
ministers of the city. The canvass
will be city-wide and the workers
will go into the homes of
of all denominations
needed information.
A body of the
at the First Baptist church for
lunch at 13:20. with 90 cars leaving
immediately following. Others are
expected to cover the eastern
southern areas of the city
Eastside and South Shelby
Special Student
Rate On The
A special rate of *1.7* Is
fered to students
who are away
term and wish to kee
with home through the every
otlier-day Issue* wf-The Star.
The Star wilt be mailed, post
age paid, to students and teach
ers during the eight or
months school term for
rial rate of *1.75. payable
vanoe. No reduction for
than full school year.
You are urged to start
vriptlon immediately upon
opening of schools and