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Legion Would Snub Russia, Increase U. S. Army And Navy Weather wOFTH CAROLINA: Fair and jjjghtly warmer tonight and , Tharfdayi probable showers Friday and Friday night. V * THE LEEVMNUD wa ( r TODAY 10 PAGES ___ VOL. XLI, No. 115 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, SEPT. 25,1935 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. n» M'U. Wf r»«, Un ■drtncti _ j]«rti«> txf T«»r (in _ «*.## ITALIAN NOTE BREATHES DETERMINATION TO FIGHT * * ' # ****** ****** County School Program In Balance, Funds Doubtful, Says Baity State Won’t Get Enough For All Chief Declares “Disappointing” He Tell* Grigg Superintendent Of Schools Talks To State Head In Ickes Office The status of Cleveland's $437,000 school building pro gram, including the $150,000 Shelby High school, was in doubt today as Horace Grigg, superintendent of county schools, reported the gist of a telephone conversation with D. Herman G. Baity, state PWA administrator, in Wash ington. County officials and school au thorities. puzzled by the suddenly shifting program of PWA and WPA activities, asked Mr. Grigg to get a statement from D. Baity on the Cle\ eland program, for which spe cial taxes were recently voted in an election. Telephoned Washington. ’ After trying in vain for several days to contact Dr. Baity, Mr. Grigg and Troy V. McKinney, county I accountant, located him in the of fice of Harold Ickes. secretary of the interior, and director of the PWA administration. I can’t say definitely what the status of your application is,’* said Dr Baity, speaking from Secretary s office, “but my Information Bow is that there will not be suf ficient money to care for all the applications from the state. I expect to know more about this soon. Disappointing. in the meantime, all I can say ,s 'hat some of us are going to be disappointed.” Can we do anything about it?” Mr Grigg asked. “Suppose we send 8 delegation to Washington—” Wouldn't be any use.” said Dr Baity. The Cleveland applications have been made through the PWA, over "hich Secretary Ickes presides. This h the organization which, as dis 'mct from the WPA, allows grants nf 45 per cent for materials and Sitr* WPA Victorious. The WPA, Harry Hopkins’ organ ization. has emerged victorious over the pwa by Presidential decree. It relief labor and is designed to rrtate employment rapidly, without engaging in permanent projects. More money has recently been ? Jotted to the WPA than to the hWv through which the Cleveland Poiects have been submitted. Morning Cotton LETTER NFW VORK. Sept. 25.—Few, if! *" notices are expected to be is- i 'oday due to the small perti ,rri -tock. Sentiment is apparently ! cr wore friendly to the mar ^ m the belief that the crop has j |ast some ground since the last es •uate and the market’s ability to orb the hedging sales. The sit . '?r‘ a:> we see it, offers little pos of «ny important decline in ^ rather a gradual improve 'nd Relieve the setbacks - ^ ken advantage of to •~ke P'hchases. E A FIERCE & CO Seed, ’ES MARKETS 'P*'* —--10 1-2 to 11 1-2 !ae4> wagon ton_$27.00 rar lot, ton..$30.00 Co; 10«S ’°w. IVc 0,1 closings: M»y. 10.73; 10.55, Jan. July 10 59; Mar.’ 10.78; Oct. Senator 111 Senator J. Hamilton Lewi* U. S. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, who is ill in Moscow with bronchial pneumonia. His condition is reported as being: grave. Byrnes Proposes New Computation On Base Acreage S. C. Senator Would Fig-ure It on 1933-1934-1935, Instead of j 1928 to 1931 (By Associated Press* Washington, sept. 25.—The! base period for compution of 1936 i allotments to cotton growers would j be changed under a proposal yes-; terday by Senator Byrnes of South | Carolina. Byrnes suggested to the farm ad ministration that 1933-34-35 be made the base period instead of the four years from 1928 to 1931. He said; accurate government records as to j acreage and production were avail able only for 1933-35. Byrnes predicted a reduction in the tax on cotton produced in ex cess of 1935 Bankhead allotments, saying the President could, by strict ly adhering to the law, lower the j levy three-fourths of a cent to five and a quarter cents a pound. He also proposed that the price j of tax-exempt certificates which may be sold by growers who pro duces in excess to growers who die not raise their quotas be reduced to four cents. _l Ice Cream Supper At Mary’s Grove There will be an ice cream supper at Mary’s Grove church Saturday night. September 28. The public is cordially invited. The proceeds will go for the benefit of the church. Peace Enforced After Strike Riot At Mooresville State Copt Holding Crowd In Check Mill Continues While Pickets Sur round It; To Hold Mass Meeting Today. (By Associated Press) MOORESVILLE, Sept. 25—Peace enforced by two score highway pa trolmen and deputies ruled the strike-disrupted cotton mills here today after an afternoon and night of fist fighting. demonstrations and parades that landed four strlk ers in jail on charges of affray. A squad of patrolmen was rushed here during the night to augment deputies after nearly 600 men. wom en and children staged a demon stration and parade. The mill con tinued work today. W. F. Summers, mill superintendent, said the pa raders threw sticks and stones at his home but that no damage was done. He said he knew of no pro po6sd conferences looking toward settlement. Pickets Surround Mill Pickets surrounded the mill today in great numbers while leaders an i nounced a mass meeting for late today and said an address would be made by R. R. Lawrence, president of the State Federation of Labor. A representative of the labor de partment is here keeping a close watch on the situation. A sound truck was operated in the town last night with announcer threat ening harm for persons who con tinued to work in the mill, but an investigation showed it had no state license and it was silenced. Blacksburg Mill Closed. BLACKSBURG. S. C , Sept. 25.— . The Broad River mills here did not operate today following a presen tation of a list of “grievances'’ by the management yesterday by the shop committee. The principal com plaint was on alleged increases on hours. Officials said some departments had run extra hours recently but that all employees were paid in proportion and that more than half had signed a petition asking to continue. Highway Patrolmen Speed to Mooresville Two Shelby Stale Highway Patrolmen, Corporal Greenway and D. C. Wheeler, sped at 1 o’clock this morning to Moores ville where they joined two score other patrolmen in quell ing strike' riots at the Moores ville mills. Grigg To Address Methodist Laymen A Methodist laymen’s meeting will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Pine Grove church with Prof. J. H. Grigg leading the discussions, j Officials and members of all Methodist churches in the county are asked to be present. £ L. Whitworth Is Lucky To Lose Pocketbook For 8 Long Days E. L. Whitworth of Waco was i lucky to lose a pocketbook last i week which contained over $100. In the first place £e was lucky to have $100: he was lucky in that the negro who found the wallet was honest enough to return it, and the luckiest cart of it was that when he counted the returned money, : them 'v?s $10 more than he thought \ he had The background of this story j goes something like this. Mr. Whit- ji worth is section foreman of the!; state highway In the Waco area and j he was taking last week for a little vacation period, during which time j: hr was planning to build a garage, u buy a cow and do a number of re pair jobs around his place. On last Monday he lost the pock etbook containing the money col lected for these various projects, and one, two, three—eight whole days went by with nearly all of Waco searching in vam for the leather container. ‘Monday at noon Manuel Patter- I son, colored fodder puller, was rest ing on a lumber pile near the field and spied the pocket,book, and after a little inquiry, returned it intact to its owner. Mr. Whitworth had visited the same lumber pile prewously to get i material for his garage. • , Roosevelt Asks Clergymen Aid Adminstration <By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Presi dent Roosevelt has asked clergymen for council and advise on “how the government can better serve our people." In Rhode Island, Indiana and Maryland identically phrased letters of the president were made public • today. “Because of the grave responsi bilities of my office, I am turning to representative clergymen for ad vice and council, feeling confident that no group can give more accu rate or unbiased views," the letters said. The Republican campaign to de feat President Roosevelt was opened here meanwhile with the first meet ing of the national executive com mittee since the 1934 election. Eastside Church Plans Dedication Services Sunday R«v. J. W. $ tittle to Load In Dedi cating $25,000 Modern Church Houftf Dedication services for Eastside Baptist church will be held Sunday, September 29, at which time offici als of the church will bum the final notes on the church debt, and Rev. J. W. Suttle, who helped start the church In 1922, will preach the ded- | icatory sermon. A large crowd of former members from out of the city and other friends of the church are expected j to come back for this service. It is hoped that all former pastors of the church will be present. They' are Rev. C. Johnson, Rev. W. G. | Camp and Rev. H. E. Waldrop, the latter being pastor for 10 yeare. He was succeeded by the present! pastor. Rev. R. p. Hamby. With a few more than 30 mem- | bers the church was begun In the ' village nearly 14 years ago and since i that time the body has grown to about 375 members, has built the \ handsome brick structure and Sun day school annex, valued at approx imately $25,000. The church has recently completed , a religious census and has one of the I: best teaching and training programs j. of any church in the city. KiVanis To Ride Thrillers At Fair / All members of the Kiwanls club. \ which includes some of the city’s i most distinguished leaders, will ride . the rides and loop the loops at ,the county fair Thursday night, Dr. J. S. Dorton announced this morning The club, which sponsored organi zation of the fair eleven years ago. has accepted the fair secretary’s in vitation to attend, and will be per- ■ sonally escorted over the midway , by Rubin Guberg, president of the ] Rubin and Cherry exposition. The , Kiwanians will see all the shows and it take all the rides as the guests of the fair. . f *’?r:on Will Hold .|j Fairground Supper t Members of the Warren F. Hoyle r^ost of the American Legion mill | be fed at the fairgrounds by the r ?gion Auxiliary at 6:30 o'clock Fri day afternoon. The Auxiliary plans to have a booth at which food will be sold during the fair and they 1 have made arrangements to get the booth up a few days early. £ The supper will be served free to j ell members of the Legion post t Membership cards will gain admi - •don Members of th« board of cou:i- f tv commissioners and the city gov- i ernmg body are to be invited guest,-, c Convention Holds Soviet Agitation Imperils Nation Ex-Servic* Men Want Army Of 165,000 Demand Treaty Navy, As Big As Any World Power, No Immigrants. (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25.—The! American Legion asked the! United States to withdraw its 1 recognition of Soviet Russia. ! Delegates cheered as J. J. Twom- j ey, of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on Americanism Trade, offered the resolution. The resolution charged the Soviet government with continuing "in imical and subversive agitation" which lUadj»M(ied would cease upon lts/^pP^tlign by this eoun Active opposition to "Nasism, Fas cism, Communism and other ’isms’ contrary to the principles enunci ated in the Constitution" was vot- j ed. After commending legislation for national defense the convention adopted a report calling for a con centration of national methods. The resolution urged a standing army of 165,MO enlisted men with 14,000 officers augmented by 210,000 National Ouardsmen and continuation of officers training camps, the CMTC and ROTC In schools. Would Increase Navy. A treaty Navy on a parity with any navy In the world manned by 92,000 enlisted men and 15,000 of ficers and new naval training ships aiso was recommended. The veterans then went on ree- 1 ord opposing consolidation of army.' navy and marine flying corps, and asked more provisions for coast de fense. As a matter br> be considered In its legislative program, they voted demands for closing all immigra tion for ten years, deportation of undesirable and destitute aliens and fingerprinting of all persons. JOUAM Prepares For Gathering Of Fifth District Members of the Shelby council of the Junior Order of United Ameri can Mechanics were today complet ing arrangements for the entertain ment of members of the Fifth dis trict, comprising Rutherford, Lin coln and Cleveland counties, who ’ will meet here Friday. The Fifth district has a member-1 ship of more than 1400. A business session will be held at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon. At 7:30 there will be a public session. State Councillor Monroe Adams of States ville will attend the meeting. Boiling Springs To Hear “Wayside” Harold C. Brown, better known as Old Wayside,” will bring his group sf entertainers to Boiling Springs Friday night, September 27, and ivill give a program at 8 o’clock in Ihe school auditorium. This program is being sponsored t>v the intermediate department of the Sunday school, and proceeds will go for the benefit of shut-ins in -he community. Everyone is Invited to attend what is expected to be an jttractlve and helpful program. Fall** To Reunite Saturday, Sept. 28 The annua! Falls’ fanSily reunion ' nil be held Saturday, September 1 18, at the home of J z Falls In 3helby Mr. Falls is nearing 90 ' rears of age and Is the oldest mem- i ■>er of the family in the county. 1 All members of the family and 1 ’riends of the family are asked to ' ome and bring lunch for a picnie I linner. * \ Land Demanded by II Duce OCADEN A. R a. & r a I ?S/^S DANAKIL\ fDOWA |J GULF of I BOUT I </i DE.*f Lzeila DIRE. pAU/A ADDIS ABABA ■: ‘MARAR; v IT t <*!• »*P.*h»w» the territory Mussolini is demanding from Ethiopia as the pnce of peace. Circles indicate the territory Emperor Haile Selassie is willing to grant in return for British and French accessions of land permitting Ethiopia the seaport of Zeila. Mussolini demands that Ethiopia’s only outlet be through an Italian port. Ben Dover Gets 4 Years ' On White Slavery Charge j Twenty-six true bills, most of them for liquor eases, had been re turned this morning by, a hard working grand jury under the fore ti an.ship of Wiley McGinnis of Kings Mountain and the gavel of Federal Judge E. Yates Webb of Shelby. Few of the Indictments are local, most of them being cases that will j Je tried In Charlotte or Asheville. Although the grand Jury Is bur dened, the trial docket has been fairly light, with the heaviest sen tence so far being that imposed upon a Shelby man, Ben Dover, who was found guilty on three liquor counts and a white slavery charge. He was 1 sentenced to serve four years In Chilicothe, Ohio, federal prison, j W. David Echart and Alvin Ech- j ard were sentence to serve six months and Fonzo Martin to 18 ] months for owning and operating an unlicensed still. William C. Wil- i Hams got 18 months for violation of postal laws; Theodore Hudson six months for owning and operat ing. Tom Moore one year for own ing and operating. AAA Will Sponsor Races j At Cleveland County Fair Ea.steij>n championship automobile racing, sanctioned by the contest board of the American Automobile association, will again serve as the concluding feature of the Cleveland County Fair, Saturday, October 5, Secretary Dr. J. S. Dorton an nounced today. Sponsored by Ralph A Hankin son, peer of this nation's promo tional experts, the one-day race program promises to furnish the ul timate in speed attainments. Many of America’s outstanding drivers, Including leading contenders for the east and midwest. Three-A titles, (Continued on page ten.) Death Takes 97 Year Cleveland Native Who Saved Irvin’s Life Word has just been received here of the death In Joplin, Mo, of Wil liam Van Buren White, 97-year-old pioneer and civic leader, who was a native of Cleveland county and In his youth fought alongside Stone wall Jackson and was at the im mortal general's bedside at the time of his death. The adopted son of Missouri was best known In this county for hit ;!ose friendship for the late Rev. k. C. Inin, who was In the war with him and whqise life was saved miraculously by Mr. White in one of the fierce conflicts. Rev. Mr. Irvin was father of J. W. Irvin, well-known Zion community lay eader, and a founder of many of ihe churches now m Cleie ' land county. Mr. White enlisted in the Confed erate army in 1861 and was In near- I ly all the major ^battles of the war and was mustered out of the rem- ’ nants of the gray at Appomattox and walked the full 600 miles back to this county, subsisting on the i food he could beg or work for. | Soon after coming home he aat out for the west, where he became engaged !n lead mlnmg and a gen era! business practice. He retired from active life in 1930 He was In i fair, health until a few days ago, i< and a picture of Mr White four i< days before his death showed him t to be robust and strong, even at I nearly 98 years of agp. He had been \ a Mason for 68 years, c League Of Nations Observers Confess Ruing Pessimism Italy Reject# Terms To Insure Peace A Scorns Thought Of Pact With Ethiopia, Disdains Tb* League Covenant. (By Associated Press) >|j GENEVA, Sept. 25—Pub. , lication of Italy’s observa* f tions, which included the charge that the League fail ad to take into consideration ' Rome’s case against Ethiopia, today provoked new pessi* mism in the conflict. Italy’* observations, which constitut-: es rejection of terms, was contained in the published narrative of the activities (ft the committee. • Italy and the League are miles apart," was the comment of one dstl> egate and the Impression prevailed generally that the Italian memoran dum breathes a determination to t ake possession of Ethiopia by mili tary occupation. League Is Disdained The delegatee were especially struck by the ptfrese ti*tr ~The Ethiopian problem Cannot be set tled by means of the League cove nant.” They also were gived pause by Italy's emphasis on "the impos sibility of any agreement with Ethiopia because of the African em pires; incapacity to enter into the > ptili less to respect international agreements of any kind” Italy contended the frontier pee- » pie should be safeguarded once and for all "from the mlsgoverntheiit of a country which is not and wUl never be able to discharge hi re- ; spect to them the mission incum- | bent upon a state that contains peo ple of different races.” UN Naneuons •: S The council Is expected to decide tomorrow whether new attempts at f conciliation are feasible. All events > and all thoughts are moving to ward the idea that the council must : be ready to draft definite recom- [ rnendations for settlements. If they c are unanimously adopted by the ! council and accepted by Italy thep • Mussolini cannot launch a war with- I out making war on all league mem- I bers. Regretfully, therefore, the i thoughts of the delegates have I turned to the Idea that unctions i might have to be resorted to. • EMPEROR ASKS PROBE ADDIS ABABA, Sept 38—Em (Continued on page tan.) « I Red Cross Nurse jl Hygiene Courses | Largely Attended Two more hygiene courses and,a I \ Junior Red Cross first aid courts } by Girl Scouts were completed last j nionth, Miss Harte Oliver, Cleveland 9 Red Cross nurse, reported at a 1 monthly meeting of officers yeeter- i day. Eight girls will receive certifi cates for first aid, and 33 adults f j completed the tests for home hy- P giene. The three baby clinics being held i each week in the mill villages are i well attended. Miss Oliver said, with | 1 108 registered last month., Pellagra patients continue to call 'I 1 at the office for yeast, she said, 100 f 1 pounds having been distributed last f | month. There were ten new tubers f culosts patients reported. Babington Mat || Heart Attack W. D Babrngton. Sr. suffered * severe hesrt attack over the week- f end at his home on West Marion S street and his condition is reported ? to be quite critical. Mr. Babington | had just returned from Burlington, where he has been working, having '•me in lor a visit with his.family W. D. Severe
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