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on Private Agencies To Take Over Relief Work Weather NORTH CAROLINA: Fair ro m?l,i and Tuesday; cooler to night * The MNWM SEND 8 Pages Today VOL. XLI, No. 114 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By m ill p«r fur, <ia idnaui . m.j-> President Sees Better Economics Ahead For Nation Emphasizes Coming Task Of social Security “Greatest Step In Government.” , (Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — Pointing to “definitely bet ter economic skies this year,” President Roosevelt today called upon private agencies to take over a good share of relief Work. He spoke from the porch of the White House to leaders assembled on the lawn for the third annual mo bilization of human needs. We have a problem still,” he said. "It demands the best both of us can give. 1 know the great mass of pri vate employers realize they must help by offering employment to the utmost. - The government has been help ire uiih loans to industry, to banks and to home owners. The actua purchasing power of the people has greatly risen since 1932. This mean;, that as a whole we are better abl to provide for private charities.” Mr Roosevelt- emphasized the forthcoming task of the new social security commission and asked co operation. He said that is one oi the greatest steps ever undertaken bv government. He was introduced bv Gerard Swope, chairman of the third annual mobilization, who de clared the economic light seems 'more promising for the future1 (ban since Presidential leadership us first given to this movement in 1931.” -] Junior Leaguers To Canvass For Red Cross Funds Members of the Junior Civic league, headed by Mrs. Dan Frazier and Mrs. Louis Gardner, will have »■ charge of the Red Cross annual canvass, it was decided at a meeting of the Red Cross executive commit tee last night. The roll call will be made about • the middle of November. Mrs. Mary Camp Sprinkle, field representative, attended the meeting and spoke in terms of the warmest praise of Miss Harte Oliver, Cleve lan nurse, who. she said, was recog ! nized as undoubtedly the best nurse in the state. She also praised the Cleveland workers for their ambi MSUS program The Red Cross budget is $2,400, Henry Edwards, chairman, said Members of the executive commit tee who attended the meeting were Clyde R. Hoey, Lee B. Weathers, Horace Grigg, B. L. Smith, Odus M. Mull, Mrs. Frazier, Mrs. Gardner •nd Mr, Edwards. Reynold’s Daughter Seeks Reno Divorce RENO, Sept. 23.—Mrs. Francis Reynolds Colt, daughter of U. S. Senator R. r. Reynolds of N. C. ’ec* here today to divorce Lee aron c°h, charging cruelty. Morning Cotton LETTER _ ^ i'ORK, 3ept. 23.—Hedging a'-nyp Saturday and there * #0 ** Mne liquidation by buyers, and from abroad. Purchases accounted for rf the buying power at limits h, I ,lc ^own which character of . R? will liicely continue. It ts the * ,eXpected i-hat sales against jj ' ltl1 will increase but we doubt e\U‘"‘11 e'dse to any important , '“ii Uoin (lie prevailing trends i that purchases may prove 1 '* E A. PIERCE & CO. hie w«t toil. MM)1 Cot,<m Sre<i- car lot. markets 10 1-2 to 12 1-2 wagon ton... _ $27.00 ion _$30.00 C r>t t,rm 1^. u V; / la: 'ngs: Oct. 10 48; Dec Tetn , . ,r,r’’n. Mar, 10.64: Mav ■ Jul* io.7a. Narcotic, Liquor, Embezzlement Cases Head Docket As Federal Court Opens • The Shelby term of Federal court opened here this morning under Judge E. Yates Webb with District' Attorney Marcus Erwin and Assis tant District Attorney Roy Francis seeking indictments against 60 of fenders haled into court for a vici ous variety of alleged illegal enter-! 1 prises. Liquor and narcotic cases head the list, with charges of white slav ery and prohibition violation against Ben Dover leading in local interest. Mr. Dover, formerly pro prietor of a club on South Wash ington street, is held on several li quor charges and for taking a minor girl to South Carolina. Accused in Bank Fraud Mr. Francis said this morning that immediate indictments will be sought against three former em ployees of the Charlotte National Bank who are accused of embez zling funds and covering the short- '■ | age with false entries. The men are |W. B. Kiser and J. E. Denton, who | are accused of having taken $1, 866.49, and Fred O. Beatty, accused of embezzling $5,336.60. The prosecution alleges that the men took the money in 1932 and 1933, and covered the discrepancies with false entries in daily accounts. White slavery, motor vehicle vio lations. counterfeiting and forgery are included in the indictments ! sought. Dohn Dixon, narcotic agent for the western district, on Sunday completed a busy week of rounding up offenders, just in time to bring them before Judge Webb. He made his arrests under the new state narcotic laws, which, he jsaid, “have real teeth in them.’ 'He said the new law would materially aid in getting convictions. Arthur Blggerstaff was arrested ;in Asheville and will be tried in t Superior court under the new state | law. Harold L. Walker was also arrested under the new state law and will be tried in county record er’s court here, where if probable cause is found: he will be bound over to Superior court. William Long was arrested at Sunshine, near Forest City, on charges of forging prescriptions. A supply of goods was found on him, ! Mr. Dixon said, and he will be taken [before the grand jury in Shelby to -morrow on this charge. : Charles D. Carpenter was arrest led at Concord and will be taken | before the grand jury at Shelby for I action. Garland Taylor, arrested in | Asheville, will be tried for violation of the federal narcotic laws. Dewey Johnson, now on parole. Is charged with receiving narcotics through the mail and Judge E. (Continued on page eight) Price Adjustment. Payments Certain; Rules Are Given PRICE ADJUSTMENT 24 cheltscj Preliminary Instructions From Ex- ; ecutive Secretary in Hands of Officials Here Preliminary instructions pertain-j ing to 1935 cotton price adjustment i payments arrived at the office of; the county agent, today to assure j growers a maximum of two cents! per pound, up to 12 cents, for this j year's crop, provided they keep the ■ necessary information about each j bale grown, sold, or held for a bet- i ter price. Cotton sale certificates will be available in a few days which will call for the grower’s name, date of ginning, and selling; weights of the seed or lint cotton, price per pound paid the*producer. the total value, and the amount of money paid the producer. Forms in Triplicate Forms will be made out m trip licate, the original to be kept by the county agent, and the producer and purchaser keeping one each. The object of the plan is to give producers, insofar as possible, an •average of at least 12 cents per pound on the 1935 crop, sold prior to August 1, 1936. Price Basis Adjustnpent payments per pound will be based on the actual markets each day of cotton in Norfolk, Au gusta, Savannah, Montgomery Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock. Houston, Dallas and Galveston. The official average price for spot cot (Continued on page eight.) Lawyers, Marshals Here in U. S. Court United States Marshal Charles Price and five deputy marshals are here tor the federal term of court under Judge Webb. The deputies are John Edwards, Paul Sossaman, Mac Poston. J. H. Shannon of i Charlotte and Fred Yorke of Bry- I son City. ! Among the out-of-town attorneys are S. J. Ervin, Jr., H. J. Hatcher, J. Ed Butler ^nd Russell Berry., all ! of MorgantOn; Joe Murphy and W A Self of Hickory, and Mack Spears I jof Rutherfordton. j Cotton Ginning Million Behind Last Year Mark • By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.— Cotton of this year’s crop ginned prior to September 16 was re ported today to have totaled 2, 318,395 running bales, including 14,011 round bales, counted as half bales and 580 of American i Egyptian. To that date a year ago gin ning* were 3,129,794 running bales, including 49,373 round bales, and 1,658 bales of Ameri i can Egyptian. Ginnings to September 16 in cluded North Carolina. 8,024; South Carolina, 123,547. John Reitzel Is Assistant Agent John L. Reitzel, of Statesville has been added to the busy office force at the office of the county farm agent.. He will be assistant to John S. Wilkins. . Mr. Reitzel is. a graduate of State | College of last year's class where he made a brilliant record in his agricultural studies. He will assume the duties former ly handled by H. B. James, lately appointed county agent for Mont gomery. This will include 4-H dub work, demonstrations of various jkinds all over the county. His im mediate task will be arranging for ' the huge health pageant at the 'Cleveland county fair which will !be one of the evening features. Lee Harmon Dies At Kings Mountain KINGS MOUNTAIN. Sept 23 Lee Harmon, 73, died Friday morn ing at 3:30 o’clock at his home here after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held Satur day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home.Rev. Mr. Kerr of Bessemer City officiated ;uid burial was made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Harmon is survived by his widow, and the following children: H. W. Harmon of Shelby, Mrs. W. A. Thompson of Charlotte. Mrs. John Marks of Morganton and Miss Virginia Harmon of this ci*y. Friends Who Knew Bride At 16 Present At Her Golden Wedding With the benediction of friends who "stood up" with them fifty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. R L. D. Green of Boiling Springs celebrated their Golden Wedding Sunday The friends who were at the wed ding on' Sept. 20. 1885. when the bride. Miss Molly Elirabeth Jolly, was just 16, were Mr. and Mrs. An drew Green. Toliver Green, William son Holland and A J, Lovelace. More than 125 guests were at the home, bringine presents for the couple. Mr and Mrs Green have lour i living children. Pink Green of Boil ing Springs, Summey Green of San Francisco. Rochell Green of Los Angeles ami Dennis Green oi Clin ton, S. C. Mr. Green is 73. his wife ttti Tn the receiving line were Mrs Annie Green of Charlotte, Mrs. Ga lena Jolly of Boiling Springs, Mr and Mrs. A. J. Green of Bt iling Springs, Mrs. J. A. Lovelace of Lat timore. Mrs. Permilia Hopper oi Boiling Springs. J. M Goode of Boiling Springs, and T. M Green ] of Mooresboro Certified Seeds To Bring $10,000 Agricultural Pie 771 Acres Of Cleveland Cotton Cer tified During Week-end; Also Com And Lespedeza. A piece of aggcultural pie worth at least $10,000 in actual cash to Cleveland county farmer# was an nounced certain today as reports on 771 acres of cotton were being filed in Raleigh with the North Carolina Cotton Improvement Association. This Information was learned to day from County Agent John 8. Wilkins who said that during the week-end, Max Culp a represents | tive of the association was here and 'personalty conducted the inspection I for five kinds of cotton on the lands ;of 23 different growers Small Grain Earlv. I Nine acres of Korean lespedeza I was also certified, being for B. P, ! Dixon of Bethlehem. A quantity of small grain was certified earlier in !the season. Cotton is this year expected to .produce and average of 25 bushels per acre, and certified seed are ex ■ pected to bring 50 to 75 cents per bushel premium. The 771 acres would yield 19,275 bushels of this better type of seed. Farm Relief Leads. Of the five varieties of cotton to be certified. Farm Relief No. 1 leads with the number of growers, 14 in all. their entire crops to be ginned at Double Shoals. Farm Relief No. 2 had the big gest acreage, 347, tafro hundred I C which is grown by the Blanr.a brothers, four miles west of Shelby. There are 54 acres of Farm Relief No, 3, and 20 acres of Cokers Cleve land Nos. 5 and 6 Also there are five acres of cer tified dent com. Program Is Given For District Meet A complete program for the As sociational Group meeting of the Baptist Training Union to be at Ross Grove church Ttie.-’ • night e 7:30 was released today %v Paul Wilson, new' president. Clyde Gardner, of Double Springs will be in charge of music. Special numbers will be given bv Misses Trula Mae Dixon and Eunice Sharpe of Eastside and Miss Madge Spurling of Ross Grove. Roperts of three months work will be hear;1, from 10 churches; Charlotte Tedder will conduct the devotional and an inspirational address will bo rnsi; by a speaker not yet announced. L indi* b y Sftnir't'efi By A 3 > ': d Press? WASHINGTON, S.• jt T;, Self m of James M ...uv»ix. <• chair n of the -(v urities and rschaj'r; .>nvn.- ion was announced tort«« by J. P. Kennedy, retiring chain/han after a conference with the Presi dent. Polkville Junior Fair Is Attended By 2,500 Persons 1500 Entries Listed In Big Event Winners Are Announced Irt Many Divisions; Clyde Hoey Speaks To Big Crowd. Progress in every inch of No. 8 township was reflected Friday and Saturday in the more than 1500 in dividual exhibits and the 2.500 per sons who attended the big Polk ville Junior fair. Unique in that the huge com munity agricultural and education al exhibits were directed entirely b.v students, residents of Polkville com jmunity and officials of the school feel that such a project has not been duplicated in the entire stale. AH entries were grown and made by ! students of No. 8 school. Priies Awarded. j Prizes were awarded Saturday to ithe hundreds of winners in the three classes of agricultural, school and home economics exhibits, being donated by persons In the com munity or county. Visitors said they were the best in quality ever seen at any community fair in this county. Clyde R. Hoey. of Shelby spoke Saturday morning to a large aud ience. depicting the progress Cleve land has made In the field of agri culture and education through the years, and commenting on the civic value of letting the younger per sons take a leading part. J. H (Continued on page eight) Legion Officers And Auxiliary Meet Tomorrow , A combined meeting of post of |iicers of the Warren F. Hoyle post of the Alnerican Legion and of J members of the building committee, (together with members of the aux iliary building committee, will be iheld in the Chamber of Commerce office Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock, i according to Everett Houser, post (commander. Among matters to be discussed are the recently approved WPA com munity house, plans for a celebra tion oi Armistice Day, a dinner which the Legion proposes to have within the near future, and mem ; bership matters for the coming year. Interested members of the aux iliary and of the Legion who do not happen to be on committees named are invited to meet with the group. Work Resumed At Mooresville ! _ (By Associated Press) MOORESVILLE, Sept. 23.—Flank 'ed by a heavy guard of special of j fleers the Mooresville cotton mill resumed operations today without I disorder respite a strike of 600 of the more than 1000 employees. tickets, answering a strike call by K. L. Lisle, Unite^ Textile organ aer. were kept well away from the plant by special Iredell county de-1 Mrs. and workers desiring to con inae were not molested. Miss Neihlein Cut In Auto Accident M'ss Elizabeth Neihlein was giv er. treatment at the Shelb/ hospital ,„t night for lacerations and bruis es around the throat, received yes terday when the car In which she was riding and one owned by for mer Sheriff C. C. Moore of Rutlier fot'Hon crashed at the corner of • Gold and Warren streets. 1 One, car was driven by W; H. iLytle, deputy clerk of the Federal court here this week, and the oth r by a son of Sheriff Moore. Only I minor injuria? were sustained by .members of the Moore family. A hearing of details of the acci dent will be hold Wednesday night of *his week it was learned Miss Neihlein was able to leave the hos pital today, but was unable to as sume secretarial duties idl the court. Quarter Million Workers In Coal Mines On Strike . 'fty Associated Press) The lone-threatened unit coal , strlkr mi on today. In Pennsylvania and West Virginia more than 250,004) men joined the walkout. In Illinois about 25,000 were said to have been afefeted. Even in Wash ington state orders were issued for the 2,000 members of the United Mine Workers. At the capital a conference was planned to effect a compro mifte on the one and one-half cent tonnage wage differnce that blocked negotiation* early to day. E. F. McGrady. assistant sec retary of labor, took a report on the aituatlon to the White House but did not ask Presidential In tervention. He said prospeeU for a settlement were "good." j Desperado Shoots Way Out In Battle With Deputies (By Associated Press) j BREVARD, Sept. 23 — Ray Bailey, (Western North Carolina desperado, (Wanted for murder of a Greenville. IS. C„ policeman in 1932, shot his 'way out of a police raid in the mountains here today, wounding one deputy slightly. Officers from both Carolina and Tennessee surrounded a house In a remote section of Transylvania,' knocked at the door and were met j with a bla^e ot gunfire as the fugl- [ tlve burst from a shuttered window to escape In the darkness. Charle Batson, Greenville, S. C.. deputy, was struck by a bullet In one arm and the wrist broken. Hoey Upholds Human Right In Constitutional Address Lewis Reported As Seriously 111 (By Associated Press) MOSCOW. Kept. 23.—Phy sicians In ateiMance on Sena tor J. Hamilton Lewis. Ill with pneumonia. Issued a bulletin here today describing his con dition aa “very serious.” The outlook although not hopeless is still unfavorable." Waikus Says He Won’t Go On (By Associated Press,) - BALLINORBE, Ireland, Sept. 23. Officers of the Irish Free State air force arrived toddy to under take dismantling the monoplane of Felix Waikus, American trans-At lantic flyer, smashed in a forced landing which ended his 3.000 mile solo flight from New York. The i 28-year old flyer said his future plans were undecided, pending a final report from engineers who are examining the plane but that he! considered resumption of his flight to Lithuania out of the ouestlou. Legion Delays Bonus Action (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS. Sept. 23 —The busi ness of the bonus supplanted a car nival spirit here today when Nation al Commander Frank N. Belgrano. : Jr., formally called to order the ifirst session of the national Legion ! | convention. The session was dedicated largely to formalities with ohe principal convention business, action on the long sought payment of adjusted compensation certificates, probably not coming up before Wednesday. Speaking to a large assemblage | of % the rural population of upper! Cleveland county Saturday mom- j lag at the Polkville fair, Clyde ft. j jHoey said that the observance of | Constitutional week in the United States should bring about a greater emphasis on human rights. He further declared that the Con- j •stitution is an instrument which I ! ought to and does protect both property rights and the inherent: i right of all human beings to receive i I justice. | Dictatorship kvils J "This Is Constitution week and It jls worth while to discuss this great !document in order to properly ap praise its value to us. This nation has a written Constitution and so long as we preserve it we. are sale from tile evils of a dictatorship We so often discuss Its provisions ius they relate to property rights and we stress the Importance of : these safeguards, but I am more I Impressed with its guaranties of hu man rights and the foundation upon which rests the peace, happi ness and tranquility of our people. “In great free America we cannot : afford at any time to tolerate intol erance and least of all can we un dertake to persecute people because of their religious beliefs. Religious i intolerance is the most vicious of I any unless it be racial hatreds wihch result in persecutions and oppres-1 jslons. ' i "The observance of Constitution : week should result in placing great- i cy emphasis upon human rights. We need a redcdication to the ideals and spirit of our Constitution touch- i ling the right of a citizen to think I for himself, to express his thoughts J untrammeled, to voice his approval i lor disapproval of governmental pol icies, to enjoy the blessings and j protection of a free press—and fin-j i ally for every person that sacred ' j right of religious freedom unimpair ed and without persecution or dls- i (crimination, as the overlasting heri tage of a free people." $48,000 Girl Revue Flash Act For The Cleveland County Fair Gertrude Avery’s Diamond Revue is the title of one of the flash acts booked for the Cleveland County Fair by Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary of the association. This Revue cost forty-eight thous and dollars to produce and has one one of the most gorgeous drops ever to be seen with any outdoor revue The back curtain forms a particu larly beautiful background as it is executed in a modernistic design of blue, gold and orange velvet. Inci-! dentally, there Isn't any painted j scenery in the revue. Each piece is hand made and the whole thing is: made entirely of velvet and .multi- i colored rhinestones. ft took four j vrarb to complete the above men-: tioned curtain. There are fifty thousand rhinestones used in the levue and eighteen hundred are used in the costumes of each chorus girl. So valuable are the jeweled settings that each section of the scenery Is taken down after the, performance and packed away in i steel boxes I Each of the ensemble numbers is} un original Iden. In one of the scen es the ballet girls make their en trance atop huge jewvled globes This novelty originated in India and was brought here and develop ed by Miss Avery. The Fair management ran give Fair attendants assarancr that the ahovr Revue will not only meet with their expectations but will far ;-urpaas them ' i Five-Power Group Tosses Dispute In Lap Of League British Galhei ,»ar Fleet In Mediterranean, But Only “As Precaution'* (By Associated Press) Lobbies of the League of Nations were filled today with reports that the Italian dele gation might quit Geneva as a result ol the League’s com promise plan for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopia dispute. The committee ot live' Intrusted with working out the plan decided to submit the whole matter to the council and It was said that Article H of the covenant, which calls upon the council to make decision In the event of conflict, might be Invoked. From London came word through an authoritative source that Great Britain would not reduce her mUl ltary and naval strength In the Mediterranean. Italy Calla More Men In Italy, 300,000 soldiers ol Uis classes Of 1911, '12, T3 and ’H re ported for duty, bringing Italy’s to* tal military mob obligation to 1,000, 000. Another possible deadlock In the j (conflict was Indicated by the re port that the British had found j Italy * counter proposal to the League peace plan unacceptable. Ask More Territory The plan, offered as a, compro mise to both Italy and Ethiopia was rejected by Italy over the week end. The govefnffieararrarecTWar ter proposals which wwr reported | to improve the demand for a wid# belt of Ethiopian territory, connect ing the Italian colonies of Somali land and Eritrea. This demand was characterised as "preposterous" in Addis Ababa, where a spokesman for the emperor said such a grant would cut the most fertile provinces from the em pire. leaving Ethiopia only moun tains and deserts. The tense situation in the Medl frr in ,-a.a where both Italian and h iIrvts are deployed, waa eased considerably by an Official i ui m communique assuring Italy that neither of the naval conoen tratlons meant Immediate war. The communique was Issued after Sir Eric Drummond. British ambassa dor to Rome, had assured the Ital ian government that the flee ma neuvers were solely precautionary. Judge Webb Strong For Constitution Centralization of power was the cause of the failure of nations of antiquity, said Judge E. Y. Webb, speaking before the Ktwanis club last night on a “Constitution Week" program. “That’s why the authors of the constitution in the United States gave certain powers to ths federal government and reserved other powers to the states,” said he. . After explaining the various terms of the constitution, Judge Webb said was created by the states and that the states never Intended to sur render authority reserved for them selves. Star Subscribers Will Get Special No Extra Cost While thousands of extra copies of the Special Historical and Industrial Edition of The Star will go on sale Friday, aad will be distributed throughout the United States, every sub scriber will receive his copy Just as if it were the regular Friday edition. Persons who desire extra cop ies. however, are urged to re serve them immediately. The Shelby Lions' club will ,eil the editiou in the city, and is now taking orders for copies at prices ranging from 25 cents to $1. The club will use the pro ceeds of this sale to boost their fond for children with defective vision. The Star will not share in the profits of this sate. 3
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