Thousands^ Are Expected For County Fair Opening Tomorrow I
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N,,th Carolina: Fair and
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VOL. XLI. No. 117
Member of Associated Press
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 1035 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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CArrirr. per year. on odvpncm
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Cleveland Exposition
To Offer Big Parade
Of County Resources
Arrival Of Midway Paraphernalia, In 30
Cars, Herald* Annual Show; Many
Entries For Horse Races
Small boys who stayed up late enough saw the unloading
of the midway shows last night as the Rubin and Cherry
Exposition, Inc., riding in 30 gayly painted cars from Toron
to. Canada, unloaded at the Southern station.
A huge crowd of more than
30,000 people is expected to pass
through the gates tomorrow, the
opening day of the fair accord
ing to Dr. J. S. Dorton, secre
tary and manager. Thousands
of school children from Cleve
land and neighboring counties
will be admitted free to be a
part of the throngs which will
swarm the midway, grandstand
and exhibition halls. The gates
will r.pen at 9:00.
It'.> a $1,000,000 portable wonder- ]
land, according to the press agent I
who came to town last week with j
posters and pieces to put in the pa
per. It will be at the Cleveland
County Fair, which opens Tuesday
morning.
And as a matter of fact, the Ru-;
bin and Cherry outfit, which has j
played here for several years, is!
exceedingly^ popular. They are the
pebple who bring those giant rides,
those swooping shoot-the-shootes,
the merry-go-rounds and the tent;
shows,
County Show Leads.
In the meantime, the county pre- |
pared its own show, which fetches ;
more attention, even. than the j
gaudy doings of the savory midway
(Continued on page eight.)
Negro Is Charged
With Attack On
Own Daughter, 8
Charged with criminally attack
toe his only daughter, aged 8. Joe
Kirkley, 30-year-old negro, was ar
festpd late Saturday afternoon by
r"v police and is in jail pending a
hearing.
Although he strenuously denies
hie attack. Chief of Police Willis
few 'his morning that there was
amp[e evidence. from the child's
own Ups. and froifi circumstantial
sources, to convict Kirkley.
The attack took place in a junk
room of the City Ice and Fuel Com
pany on Graham street, where
Kirkley was employed, according to
ponce.
Rape is a capital offense in North
Carolina, punishable by death in
lethal gas chamber.
Morning Cotton
LETTER
,P w YORK, Sept. 30 — Hedging
more active Saturday but the
offtake and far- eastern buy
'' ‘ Proied sufficient to absorb the
The market continues • to
• resistance to the se.lling due
hf foreign and domestic spin-i
” Purchases at scattered down
' " 1 mits. Sentiment ts less bear
'Peculative demand is slow to
,,ic" evidently awaiting Uie
■ rt movement and the bureair
■ ^ 1 which should definitely as
r most interests the maximum
c op.
™e. cont*nue to believe world de
■ will gradually broaden and
,J,‘ imichuses made on easy spots
1 Prove profitable.—E A, Hieicc
«4U I’u,
* ht MARKETS
\:\ir ^ 1-2»«
on seed, wagon ton-$29.00
'wr lot, ton _
11 1-2!
i.OO i
$32.00
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ton
‘losing:
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Oct 10 46, I>r.
March 10.53, May
Heads Legion
Ray Murphy
Ray Murphy (above), Ida Grove,
Iowa, lawyer and insurance com
missioner of Iowa, is the new na
tional commander of the American
-Legion. He was elected at the
Legion’s St. Louis convention.
Clyde Hendrick
Injured As Auto
Topples On Curve
Shelby Man's Skull Fractured in
Wreck Near Hickory: Cams
panions Unhurt.
Clyde Hendrick, son of E. C.
Hendrick of the Fairground Filling
station, who suffered a fracture
at the base of the brain and a dou
ble fracture of the jaw in an au
tomobile accident on No. 96. near
Hickory, early Friday morning, will
probably be brought to the Shelby
hospital late this afternoon, his
relatives here said.
Mr. Hendrick had beerr to the
Catawba County fair, *11 Fred
Seaboch, of Hickory, who was
driving, and Dock Galloway, who
lives two miles east: of the fair
grounds here.
Car Overturn**.
Neither Galloway nor Seaboehj
was injured when their car failed
to round a curve and turned over.
The car was a 1929 model A' Ford.
Hendricks, who is 31 years old,
was conscious yesterday and was
reported hv attending physicians
to be getting along as well as
could be expected. The automobile
was badly damaged.
Mr, Hendrick, sr, father of Clyde
suffered the loss of an eye in an
automobile accident in this county
less than a year ago.
Big Advance Sale
of Grandsland Boxes
An advance suit- of grandstand
box^asat tickets was put oil tins
year for the first tune and met
with a ready sale. After today, how
ever. box seat tickets can only be j
obtained at the fair grounds. Reser- j
rations may be made by telephone
at the secretary's oilue at the fair •
ground <
\kt.
Liner ‘Rotterdam’
Caught In Reef
In Wake Of Storm
600 Passengers All
Safe, Says Radio
Kiroini Residents Unscathed. But
60 Per Cent Of Houses
Destroyed.
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'By Associated Press) ,
new YORK, Sept. 30.—The Hol
land America liner “Rotterdam,”
j carrying 600 passengers on a West
Indian cruise in the wake of a de
structive hurricane, struck a reef j
and went aground today 60 miles'
southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. I
."Everybody well and quiet. No dan
ger,” said a wireless message to the
A.P. from Captain Van Dulken.
Weather reports indicated the big
:ship was not directly in the storm’s
path when she went around,
i Tite storm had taken an esti
I mated 37 lives in central Cuba
and had caused heavy property
i damage.
The British steamer Ariguani was
! standing by in a calm sea to
'take off the passengers of the
l Rotterdam. The first attempt to
| float the liner off the reef was un
j successful. Captain Dulken’s latest
i message said "Making arrangements !
! to forward passengers per Ariguani I
! to Kingston. Passenger* quiet, j
Weather fine."
The line's office after recheckmg
I the passenger list said the Rotter
dam carried about 460 passengers
and a crew of 526.
BIMINI RESIDENTS SAFE
MIAMI, Sept. 30.—A Pan-Amer- \
ican air way plane that flew from i
Miami to Bimini early today re- !
ported no lives were lost in Satur- j
day's tropical hurricane although '
property damage was great,
j Governor Clifford of the Baha
mas chartered the plane to survey
the eight square miles of coral
forty-five miles off the Florida
coast where 610 persons lived. Char- J
les Lorber, piloting the plane, j
[radioed .. —j
“No lives lost at Bimini . How- ,
ever, great destruction of property.
Sixty per cent of houses destroyed.j
Food supply sufficient until mail j
boat arrives Tuesday. All drinking
i water salty.”
Junior Order Men
■ Hear Hoey Speak
Six Juniors Are Here From Fifth
District; Marvin Shuford
Couldn't Come.
Sixty members of the Junior or
der of the fifth district comprising
the counties of Cleveland, Ruther
ford and Lincoln gathered here Sat
urday and heard an address by
! Clyde R. Hoey.
Marvin Shuford, head of the
| Junior Order home at Lexington
I was scheduled to be here with a
class of children from the institu
I tion, but Mr. Shuford is sick and
could not attend. Mr. Snyder, how
ever, showed pictures of the Jun
ior Order work in the state and
these proved very interesting and
enlightening.
Monroe Adams, state councillor,
delivered a very telling address on
! the Junior Order principles and its
work. A1 Smith, local entertainer,
and singers from Henrietta, were
other features on the program.
A fish fry at the home of Hoyt
| Hayes on highway No. 20 was en
! joyed between the afternoon and
night program*.
Program For County Fair
The Cleveland County Fair will officially open at 8
o’clock Tuesday morning, Oct 1, with the exhibit hall
opening at 10 o’clock.
An information bureau will be maintained at the
Main Office, where all questions will be cheerfully an
swered.
Horse racing and free shows begin daily at 2 o’clock.
The free shows, best observed from grandstand seats,
will be interspersed between the trotting and pacing
contests.
The free show includes: Gertrude Avery’s Diamond
Revue, a musical revue with 50 performers,'ballet danc
ers. singers, novelty acts, with a special band and special
lighting effects; the Cimse Sensation, a thrill act;
Wier’s elephants; Renee, Vic and Emily, aerial acro
bats, and Daisy the Wonder Horse.
R. Ward Ream’s international congress of dare
devils in motorcycle races, head on automobile collisions
and auto polo.
The AAA auto races will be held on Saturday aft
ernoon only.
Horse show Friday 10:00 A. M.
The County 4-H Clubs will give their Health Pag
eant, with the crowning of the king and queen of health,
on Friday night at 7^-lock.
The free shows will be repeated nightly, beginning
at 7 o’clock, and followed by elaborate fireworks dis
plays. The evening performance lasts about two and a
half hours.
Judging in all departments begins at. 8 a. m., Tues
day, except in the livestock competitions. In this de
partment, the judges will start at 10 o’clock Wednesday.
The exhibition hall will be thrown open daily at 10
$19,825 For WPA Projects
In City Approved By FDR
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Shel
by, N. e. was Included In a $1,075,
1277 allotment approved by President
Roosevelt for the Works Progress
*
j prbgram In North Carolina. The
projects, In a list from which will
be selected projects to which the
allotments will be applied, are for a
sewer, federal .funds $17,250, spon
sor $7,634 and a community service
program, federal funds $2,532, spon
sors contribution $1,300. •
South Carolina Veterans
Riot, March On Capital
Ellenboro Man
Hurt In Wreck
A G. Brooks of Ellenboro, Route
' 2, is in a semi-conscious condition
[in the hospital today as the result
of an accident Saturday afternoon
in which his car turned over three
times on Highway 18, near Zoar.
He suffered many bruises about
the body, a badly lacerated scalp,
and possible concussion of the'
brain.
Details of the accident were un
available today, but it was reported
that no jne else was injured.
S -
14-Foot Man To Be
At Cleveland Fair
Stalking around in the tall tim- ,
ber at the County Fair this week
will be Tommy Nelson, of Richmond,
Virginia, said to be the tallest stilts
walker in the World.
He makes it a habit to walk
around constantly at 14 feet in the <
air. He has been to this fair be- i
fore, likes Shelby, and is being spoil- <
sored by a nerve medicine and <
headache powder Company ■
<By Associated Press)
The Columbia Record says a new
movement of disgruntled World war
veterans on Washington had begun
today as a result of the abandon
ment of four veterans camps in
South Carolina.
The newspaper added that a riot
attended an effort to send a num
ber of veterans to Civilian Conser
vation corps camps where work Is
harder and pay less and that many
veterans quit the camps, instead of
permitting themselves to be sent
home or to a transient camp at pay
of $12 monthly compared, with
their former $30 a month.
It was estimated by reliable
sources that approximately half the
910 veterans of the World war and
previous bonus marchers had head
ed for the national capital when
their FERA camps, described as
"paradises" were broken up last
week-end.
The riot was undersiood to have
occurred at Augusta, Oa. when a
train bearing veterans from the
Charleston camp at Fort McPherson,
Ga., for enlistment in the CCC halt
pd there briefly.
Mussolini Sends
12,000 Soldiers
ToAugment Army
Haile Selaaaie Ready
With 2,000,000
Meanwhile. The League Awaits
Hostilities Before Taking
Definite Action.
(By Associated Press!
In the face of Emperor Halle
Selassies announced readiness to
put about two million men in the
field, Premier Mussolini today dis
patched 12,000 more troops to aug
ment his army in East Africa.
It was estimated that about 250,
000 Italian with another quarter
million native troops would be ready
for the ’ campaign when the dry
season begins in two weeks. The
emperor awaited a final word from
his delegation In Geneva before go
ing ahead with mobilization plans.
Wait For Hostilities
Meanwhile, the French and Brit
ish governments were in close con
sultations as to what the League
should do* to prevent hostilities
while diplomats at Geneva sug
gested that probably nothing would
be done until fighting actually
broke out. Objections were voiced
to ‘‘trying to put out the fire be
fore it really starts."
The chief subject of discussion in
London was “sanctions" with the
Diajeff ponncal taiiflles tfiating the
questions of penalties against ag
gressors as matters of primary Im
portance.
England remained firm in her
stand that all League members
should work together in the appli
cation of sanctions, or In any other
means of averting war that might
spread to Europe.
Calling the League of Nation's
attention to the “Increasing gravity
of Italian agression," Halle Selassie
said in a telegram to Geneva “the
time has come when we would be
falling in our duty If we longer de
layed general mobilization." -'*■■■■
Races Begin At 2;
Night Acts At 7
O’CIock At Fair
Rates at the Cleveland county
fair ground begin at 2 o'clock each
afternoon with free attractions be
tween heats, it was announced this
morning by J. 8 Dorton, fair secre
tary.
Free attractions and fire works
for the night entertainment begin
at 7 o'clock.
Admission at the fair is 25c for
car and 25c per person. Grandstand
admission is 35c general admission
day and night or 50c admission to
grandstand with box seat.
County school day on which
school children of the county
school systems will be admitted
free on Tuesday the first day of the
fair.
Shelby and Kings Mountain
school children will be admitted
free on Friday.
School children's tickets have
been placed in the hands of the
various school superintendents and
principals and children are asked
to secure their tickets from the
head of their school.
i —
Mr. and Mrs. A. P Hord of
Greensboro, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wilson, Miss Frances Lucas and
Furman Campbell of Columbia. R
C. were, week-end guests of Mrs.
Jossie T Wilson.
Roosevelt Calls On Industry To Supply Jobs
BOULDER CITY, Nev.. Sept. 30 —
On the .site of the Boulder Dam
huilt here with ttbo.OouOoo govem
mcQt funds, President Roosevelt
told private industry today it must
take over more rapidly the finding
of jobs for America's unemployed.
In dedicating the huge power,
flood control and irrigation dam on
turbulent Colorado river, the presi
dent cited it as an example of use
ful Government work but declared;
!Federal projects were de&irable
chiefly to “throw in the clutch and ]
start the wheels." i
Mr Kooaevell said "it t?. a sun- i
pie tact that government spending
is already beginning to allow dell- i
nite signs of Its effect on consumer i
spending; that the putting of peo- i
pie to work by the government has i
put other people to work by private i
employment, and .that in two years ;
and a half we have come to the I
point where private industry must •
bear the principal responsibility of jl
keeping the processes of greater
employment moving forward with
accelerated speed "
Mr. Roosevelt declared the pub
lic works expenditures by tile fed
eral and the lesser branches of
government had left the credit of
government "stronger and safer
than at any time in the past six
years.” He proposed a state power
line from this project as a "yard
irk” to measure the cost of power
through the U. S.
The president strongly defended
the countless other federal projects
now underway through rapid tire
jot* making Works Progress ud
nnuistratlon.
Secretary Ickes, presiding at the
dedication, defended changing tile
name from "Hoover Dam” on the
[contention It was too vast a project
j“to carry the name of any living
jman” He gave major credit for
!pushing through the project to
i Senator Hiram Johnson of Caliior
nia ° *
County Gets Biggest
l Share In State, But
High School Ignored
Loan Of $139,000 And Grant of $111,727
For 12 Communities; WPA Fund Set Up
For City Water Mains and Sewevs
Public Works Administration funds totalling $26£,727
lor school building* in 12 Cleveland communities have been
approved by the relief administration. • *
Must Find Way
For High School,
| Says B. L. Smith
I *
I "Shelby must have a new high
' school building. A way has to be
found," Superintendent of City
Schools B. L. Smith said this
morning when asked to com- ,
ment on the disappointing news
that the proposed $150,000 high
school had not been Included In |
PWA allotments approved for
the county.
"There are several possibili
ties for the realization of this
AMgh school," he said.
"First, it may - be possible to
< secure the transfer of *67,500
from the loan column to the
grant column in which event a
(Continued on page eight)
Teacher Training
Swings Upward In
Geveland' County
Nearly AH White Teacher* Had 4
Veara College experience,
Reports Show.
College traihlng of teachers In the
public schools of Cleveland county
has advanced rapidly in both white
and colored divisions in the past 10
years, according to figures just re
leased from the state department
of education.
In Cleveland county as a whole
10 years ago the white teachers had
college training of 1.187 years, and
last year this training was equal to
3.306 years, while the negro teach
ers had training 10 years ago of
3.23 years In high school and last
year of 1.527 years In college.
In rural schools of this county 10
years ago white teachers had the
equivalent of .693 of a year In col
lege and last year had 3.116 years
of college training, while the negro
teachers had 2.86 years of high
school training 10 #ears ago and
(Continued on page six.)
Lillian \ iughes
Is Buried Today
KINGS MOUNTAIN, Sept. 30.—
Funeral services for Lillian Hughes.
16. who died Saturday niRht of
pneumonia after illness of two days,
were held at Grace Methodist
church here today at 2 o clock by
Rev. W A. Parson. Surviving are
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C
Hughes, twb sisters, .Janet and
Ruth, all of Kings Mountain In
terment will be at CarOleen.
Three Men Charged
With Stealing Pigs
Three negroes charged with steal
ing pigs were bound over tins
| morning under bonds or $3i>0 each
by Judge Weathers in recorder's
court.
The *ien, Percy Daniels. Clar
ence .Johnson and Jim Zachery.
were alleged to have stolen tlie pigs
from Dave Beam. They were ar
rested by Chief ot Police Willis
after he discovered the sale of pork
with no city stamp attached
The sum, representing more Mian
a twentieth of the five million dol
lar state allotment, does not include
the $150,000 Shelby high aoiloot
project, but school authorities said
this morning they were hopeful^
that this project would be approved
out. of the $10,000,000 emergency
fund set up by the president.
Grant Of $113,727 .
The county school allotment, ac
cording to a telegram from Dr.
Herman O Baity, acting PWA ad
ministrator for the state, to .Horace
Grigg county superintendent of
schools, comprises a $139,000 loan,
and a *113.727 grant. The grant la.
according to Dr. Baity, “on condi
tion that the county meet, the presi
dent's requirements on construction
schedule and that legal and finan
cial requirements be fulfilled."
Working plans will be immediate* j
ly prepared by Architect, Brecee ewU
submitted to Dr. Baity. • -ff
*19.18* For Sewer*
A Shelby WPA project approved,
for sanitary sewers, allows $19,1$$
from federal funds, with the spon
sor's contribution $5,203.
At the same time, it. was announc
ed by the division of applications
and information in Washington
that the president had made an
allotment of federal funds totalling!
$4,033,090 to be used by the works
progress administration In the North
Carolina program.
Water Main Protect
Shelby also gets in this allotment
a water mam project, federal funds
$10,952, sponsor's contribution $13,
712.
Water mains are to be laid 111
Whitman L, Belvedere. Crescent,
Washington, Weathers, Buffalo,
Buttle, Cline, Oakland, Carolina
and Graham streets.
State WPA Program
The presidential approval for tha
WPA program in the state tndud
ed projects in Cleveland. Iredell,
and Cabarrus counties, in addition
sum of $2,988,056 has been pledged
to many others in other bounties
from which Administrator George
Goan, Jr., will select those to which
the allotment will be applied. The
(Continued on page eight)
Sale of Papers
Nets Club $135
To Buy Glasses
Scores of Shelby children with
defective vision will be benefit*
ted through sale of special edi
tions of The Cleveland Star last
we6k by members of the Lions
Clubs and their wives.
On the streets of Shelby Fri
day and Saturday, the Lions
club members sold 770 copies.
In addition to street sales, The
Star mailed thousands of copies
to chambers of commerce, indus
tries and banks in states along
the Atlantic seaboard from Flor
id* to Maine, sent copies to all
public libraries in North Caro
lina, all banks, newspapers and
three county officials In each
county in the state.
The club realized a profit of
$135.65 from sale of the special
county fair and historical edi
tion, alt of which will be used to
purchase eia-v*-* for children
whose parents cannot afford
them. ■*
The Lions Club has arranged
to test the yes of all school,
children who are unable to af
ford doctors. .... '
Melvin Olsby and Robert
Cooke were in charge of ths
sale.