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Federation of Labor Grooms to Battle For 30-Hour Week! Weather NoTth Carolina: Partly cloudy anight and Tuesday. Mild tem yrature. Possibly shower*. The Menelsmd Zle 10 PAGES Today VOL. XLI, No. 123 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. •) M kl), p»r >Mt, (la UnaNl Ctrcttr. acr y«»r. (la tdvuwi UM a» Four Persons Injured, One Near Death, In Auto Crash ClarenceDixon, 18, Lies Unconscious In S. C. Hospital Grover People Hurt In 2-Car Collision Fractured Skull, Broken Jawbone And Double Pneumonia; Boy Has Narrow Chance. Clarence Dixon, 18, of Grover is m a Spartanburg hospital where he tvjs been unconscious and at the point of death since he was injured at noon the same day when a heavy Plymouth car crashed into his model T Ford truck. Four other persons were injured in the crash which was one of the worst the county has had for sev eral months. They are Harry Roark, of Grover, who was riding with him; Mrs, C. B. Davis, a Mrs. Meredith and her daughter of Blacksburg. They were treated at a Gaffney hospital where it was found the younger Miss Meredith had a frac tured collar bone. Death la Feared A broken jawbone, fractured skull, a blood clot on the brain, and * number of skin injuries and abras ions comprise the injuries of young Dixon. In addition to these, word from Grover at noon today indi cted that he has only a narrow dunce to survive as he has already wotracted double pneumonia. He has not regained consciousness, flarerice is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Dixon of Grover route 3. The accident occurred about one and a half miles south ot Grover where a side road intersects with the Grover-Blacksburg road. The Ford truck was entering the high way and was hit broadside and knocked across the road into a ditch. Both vehicles were greatly damaged:' Responsibility for the accident has not yet. been placed. Mrs. D. W. WasWbprn Dies la Virginia Message was received by relatives here this morning announcing the death oi Mrs. D. W. Washburn, of Cape Htnry, Va., which occurred at her home on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn lived here ' number of years ago, Mr. Wash burn having formerly been mana ger of the old Central hotel here. Mrs. Washburni had been in ill health for several years. Before her marriage she was Miss Katie Bris tow, of Stormont, Va, Besides her husband, and a number of brothers and sisters, she is survived by seven children, Mrs. Ed Woodhouse, Mrs. Hope Barcoe and Mrs. Don Brown of Virginia Beach, and Charles, Hilly, Seaton and Willard, of Cap® Henry. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon. Morning Cotton LETTER NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Exports continue at an increased rate over corresponding period of last season, 2.^1 exports to last Friday being •to.000 bales as against 809,000 fo* uar period last season. The trade generally believes that exports will ' uw a more rapid expansion as the -son advances. The increased rate "fment of the crop was evi *n tile steady hedging orders figures of 3, T bales vs. 2,710,000 last sea «^lC0etlaue to tovor the eon S!ds « the market.—E. A & Co. Co*ion THE markets coho ' --- 11 to MHc wagon, ton_$33.00 Wlr ,ul- ton ...$36.00 to«2 tT rk cotton at 2:30: toot t,rr' 1n83- Jau. 10.81, ^*5 10.97, jpiy lL00. Cutie-Pie That stone which Shirley Tem ple, screen starlet, smilingly displays is worth more than a million dollars. R’s the famed ■J06-carat Jonkere diamond, on display in Iioe Angeles. Farmers Purchase Tractor At $4200 For Erosion Work Elect Directors And See Terracing Demonstration; Cooperate With CCC Camp Project. After witnessing a terracing dem onstration Friday at the county home, 225 Cleveland farmers inter ested in soil erosion work elected a board of directors and bought a $4,200 tractor as one step in their cooperation with the CCC camp erosion project. ' The tractor is being underwritten 'by the board of county commission ers, and the plan is for it to be self liquidating. Farmers who use it will pay $2.75 an hour, and a fee of $1.50 will be charged for moving it Ifrom one farm to another. The tractor will be under the charge of the assistant county agent. The directors are Mike Borders, George Cornwell and Joe Blanton. Mr. Blanton is president, Mr. Bor ders secretary, and the county audi tor will act as treasurer. County Agent John S. Wilkins said that the terracing unit would also be able to do small amounts of grading on road entrances to farm houses. The movement for more modern terraces was begun several months ago by former county agent R. W. Shoffner, but until now had been delayed. The terraces will be broad ;i%se,d, smooth, and scientifically planned. Some of the work will be done in conjunction with the CCC Soil Ero sion service. 10th Anniversary For Dr. Zeno Wall Celebrated Here Congregation Gives Him New Car Recapitulation Of Decade Of Prog rnn In First Baptist Church Made. Climaxing ten years of the service of Dr. Zeno Wall as pastor of the First Baptist church here a huge congregation of above 1,200 persons yesterday greeted him with a special meeting at which leaders in the church recapitulated a decade of progress and at the close presented the popular minister with a new 1936 model Pontiac automobile. The whole proceeding came as a big surprise to Dr. Wall who had planned to proceed with his regular service as usual, but who was asked to step aside for the feature musical numbers and reports which had been prepared while he was at Reidsville conducting a meeting. Will Stay Here • Counted by religious leaders as one of the most important events of the day was announcement of his decision to begin his eleventh year at Shelby after he had been given a call to the First Baptist church al Winston-Salem and had also been approached ' from scores of othei churches. During the day Dr. Wall received greetings and congratulations from all parts of the state and south Among some of the outstanding met telegrams came from were Dr (Continued on page ten.) Lawrence Lackey Buys Riding Club A deal which would have pat an amusement center in the Shelby Riding Club building, abandoned for several years, was abruptly checked Saturday when a stock holder, <1. Lawrence Lackey, assert ' ed his right to first refusal of the building, and then bought it. Previously, it had been announced that George Wray, S. C. Hewitt and D. Huss Cline had purchased the building. This trio was making rather elaborate plans for bowling alleys, dance floors, and other | amusements. | Mr. Lackey said he had no im mediate plans to use the building. | Map Of Ethiopia ! Shown at Negro Fair Graphic proof of the keen inter : est Cleveland county negroes are < taking in development in Ethiopia was seen at the negro fair last week | in a base-relief map of Ethiopia The map was made by the Doug i las school, and it is first-rate. II shows the capital, Addis Ababa, the railroad line, the telegraph line, the Red Sea, and the surrounding pro vinces of British and French Soma liland. Lake Tsana, which feed: the Blue Nile, Is vividly pictured. Alice Falls Wins Style Revue; Other 4H Winners Go To Raleigh Nine Cleveland oounty lads who have just been judged winners in a county-wide 4-H judging contests in crops, livestock and poultry will go to Raleigh this week-end to com pete ior state-wide honors. Miss Alice Falls, member of the 4-H girls club at Fallston was on Saturday adjudged the best dressed girl in the style revue and will also go to Raleigh and to the state fair where she will try for state distinc tion. In the contest here Miss Falls was awarded the decision over repres entatives from many other clubs after she appeared in a handsome self-made sports suit in two shades of brown. 1 Aiding the pattern and art m the clothes was a smile and eyes and complexion that earlier this summer gave her a health championship. These young men were accorded this honor as a result of an elimina tion contest during and alter the Cleveland county fair. They are Harold Herndon. David Black, and Boyd Dixon, Judging field crops: Jack Falls, James Pon der, and Dan Harrelson, dairy cows: Robert Morgan, James' Winn and Tom Cornwell, Jr., poultry. The group will leave here Thurs day with one of the leaders at the office of the county agent. Judging will be on Friday and the state gathering will be banqueted Friday night, after which they will attend the state lair. $150,000 High School Plan Forwarded to Washington; Baity Hopeful of Success A PWA project for a $150,000 Shelby high school, which was not included in the county’s $250,000 recently granted by the relief agen cy, has been forwarded to Wash ington, according to a letter from H. O. Baity, acting state PWA di rector, to Superintendent of City schools B. L. Smith. Dr. Baity says: This project! which (appears to me to be a very worthy one and of the type preferred by the Public Works Administration, has been forwarded to Washington. If addi tional funds are made available, to us it is my hope that the project may be in line for an allotment. At this time I can see no reason, for your abandoning hope for Its ulti mate approval. "It Is to be regretted, of course, that many more projects of this type have not yet received approv al In Washington. However, the amount of funds made available to the Public W orks Administration by the President was so small when distributed throughout the nation that In North Carolina we only re ceived about one dollar for every seven dollar's worth of perfectly sound and socially desirable appli cations on file with our Washing ton office." Contract for Grover Road To Be Let on October 29 Bids will be received on October. 29th by the State Highway Com mission for the grading, structures, topsoil Mid stone surfacing of the Shelby to Orover road with spur from Patterson Springs to Earl, a distance of U.5 miles in all. It waa learned from Raleigh Saturday. It is understood that the state highway department has sent the Shelby-Grover project, together with eleven others in North Carolina tc the Federal Bureau of Public roads in Washington for approval and that approval Is only a matter of form. This road project has been prom ised for four years and Interested citizens have made many trips to Raleigh to urge its letting. Citizens will be gratified to know that al though it has been delayed for var ious reasons, the contracts on Oct 29th will call for a. completed road graded and surfaced. Citizens of Bari and other public spirited tax payers are anxious tc have the spur which is included ir the above contract from Patterson Springs to Earl, be extended a mile or so into highway No. la in ordei that this spur might have two out let*. Cleveland’s School Bonds May Sell at New Low Rate Tests Reveal Butcher Slew Three Persons (By Associated Press) SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 14.—Po lice Chief W. L. Payne said today ballistic tests showed a pistol found in the possession of George L. Rut ledge, 31, a butcher, fired the shots that killed three and wounded two others near here last night. The chief also announced that a car used by Rutledge yesterday con tained bloodstains. Rutledge was arrested shortly after dragging the body of Mrs. Blanche Nelson, 48, from a car, firing several bullets in to it, and then slew Mr. and Mrs. John East. Fanners, who apparently had witnessed the shooting said Rut ledge told officials "I might have done it." He explained, "I forget the whole world when I am drink ing." He sakl be had taken several drinks yesterday before leaving to drive to Salt Lake City., Officers said he had known Mrs. Nelson for several months, and had attempted to make dates with her, but that she had spumed him. After the killings, Rutledge sped away and while passing a town near here, fired from his machine, striking George Reich in the head and critically wounding him. Con tinuing, he shot Keith Sechrist as he walked along a highway. Wacaster’i Home Is Destroyed By Fire * ______ Mr. and Mrs. John Wacaster, of near Waco, whose home was de stroyed by fire Thursday afternoon, will rebuild immediately, they said .today. Their handsome six-room house was burned to the ground during their absence late in the afternoon. Nothing was saved. Cleveland County bonds to be is sued for the county school program, in cooperation with a PWA pro gram, will be sold at a saving to the county of $1,390 a year, if plant of the county commissioner! ma ture. The total amount of bonds to be issued is *139,000. These would be taken by the government at 4 per cent, but the financial status of the county is now so highly regarded that bond houses say the bonds can easily be sold for three per cent. It is the intention to have the bonds mature in IS years, the coun ty amortising them at the rate of 99,000 a year for the first 11 yesrs and $10,000 a year for the remain ing four years. Three per cent, it is thought would be a new low rate for North Carolina county bonds. Recreation Work Comes to County; To Be Oct. 21-24 A recreation Institute, the only one of its type to be held in the state this year, and under the gen eral direction of the extension de partment will be held in this coun ty October 31-24 inclusive. This Institute will be in the form of a training school for leaders in recreation, both rural and city, edu cational and civic divisions. It will be In immediate charge of L. R HarrW, of Raleigh, and state (director of 4-H clubs, but the fea ture of the four evenings from 7:30 to 9:00 will be lectures and demon strations led by a representative from the national office in Chicago. All meetings will be held in the high school gymnasium and the quota has been limited to 60 per sons, because of space. Reservations for the course will be accepted at the office of the county agent or home demonstration agent. Rules Released For Transfer Of Gin Certificates Parties Must Come to Local Office Extra And Transfer Tickets Msy Be Had For Five Cents Per Pound. A consignment of tax exemption certificates has arrived at the office of Alvin Propst. Bankhead adminis trator of this county and may be distributed as supplementary tick ets for growers whose allotment will not cover this year’s crop. This yaar's price for these certi ficates from the national pool la five cents per pound, and the ac tual tax at the gin is six cents per pound. Important Change According to Mr. Propst there can be a transfer of certificates by a plan somewhat similar to last year’s procedure, buC some unsatisfactory details of last year will be elimin ated. Two Important things will be noted. 1. For a transfer of exemption certificates, the two contracting parties must be In the office of the county administrator. a. Actually five cents per pound for the certificates purchased must be passed ffbm the buyer to the seller In the presence of Mr. Propst County To County A leniency not allowed last year will be that certificates can be transferred by separate growers In neighboring counties, but cannot cross state lines, Mr. Propst also added that It Is still possible to exchange on equal basis the 1034 certificates for 1935 tickets. The administrator feels that there will be enough tax free certificates, along with his present supply, to have all the cotton the county will make ginned, stating today that it is unlikely that the crop will ex ceed, perhaps not reach, last year’s figure. No forms have been received as yet for the 110 pounds of lint cotton to be designated expressly for home Blame Japanese In Border Clash (By Associated Pres*) MOSCOW, * ct. 14.—Informed Ri ssian sources -.•..nmentinv’ on the clash yesterday on the Kusso-Man choukuan border said it was a pro duct of provocative tactics of Japa nese military ofli'’sJa. -The officials refrained from comment but pub lished a brtjf coni'i unlaue setting forth some aevails of the clash but n-t giving the number of casual ties. This latest ji a >erise of incidents on the Russo-Manchoukuan border in which Soviet guards and mem bers of a Japanese-Manchoukuan detachment met death, precipitated a vigorous protest today from Mos cow that the border should be marked more plainly. Dons War Bonnet Rm Ras Ismali, one of the fiercest Ethiopian chieftain* and com* mander of part of the defending forces .of Emperor Haile Selassie, is shown wearing the headdress worn only by those who helped to defeat the Italians at Aduwa in 1896. Vote Unanimously For Shorter Hours AtN.J.Convention Chairman Of Shorter Work Com mittee Saya No Opposition To Flan In Ranks. (By Associated Press) ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 14.—The American Federation of Labor voted unanimously today to fight for a 30-hour week throughout Amer.car industry and business. “We are going out of here and fight for this as we have never fought before.” shouted William Green, president, Just before the convention approved the shorter work week. W. R. Porter, delegates from In ternational Typographical Union asked whether advocates of the 30 hour week could depend on at least neutrality from these members of the council who do not support this. E. J. Gaynor, chairman of the shorter work week committee and a member of the council, said he knew of no opposition council mem bers. Trotter, interviewed by re porters, declined to enlarge on his remarks. Red Cross Launches Campaign To Eliminate Accident Causes “The Cleveland county chapter of the Red Cross launched a campaign to eliminate accident-causing haz ards In the home today.” it was said this morning by Henry Edwards, chairman of the local chapter. 'It is the chapter’s purpose," Mr, Ed wards said, “to make the homes of this community safe. Home acci dents are due to carelessness, negli gence and lack of knowledge and most of them are preventable.” According to Mr. Edwards mil lions of pople are Injured in the home each year. Last year more than 34,000 were killed and the | number permanently disabled by1 accidents occurring in the home ran Into six figures. “People do not real ize that the home is not safe.” Mr. Edwards stated, "and it Is the pur pose of tills Red Cross program to correct this erroneous belief, to point out common and uncommon home hazards and show how each may be eliminated and to conduct an actual inspection of the homes of this comtnunity,” “Special home inspection forms have been prepared." Mr. Edwards said, "and are to be Introduced into the homes here through the chil dren in our schools. Arrangements have been made with school super intendents, principals and teaoers so that school children will receive these blanlcs, take ttfem home and conduct an actual inspection of the home to eliminate accident causing (Continued on page ten.) Committee of 52 Nations Decides On Credit Sanction General Lea gate Staff Approves Aeiot GKN-RVA, Oct. M—VDUMMM loo ts Uon of Ittov m In effect decreed by the Leaugue of junto— plenary committee of 82 nations. This committee, the lesg—» Mg general staff for sanctions, formal ly approved the financial eommlt tee's program an laen and credit embargoes aimed to Mffooattng Premier MussohnVs war a—Into Ethiopia. Two eaempMoae wave tfMtoded in the sanctions rcsoluClopi M—tome and homantfstoa pee——. That is, Red Cross funds and credits or the funds of lallghms or ganisations are not to be cut off by the blockade aimed by the member ship df the League against Maly, flank Attack Seen. The major battle In the offing In southern Ethiopia was sapseted fct occur when Halle Selassie's war- ' rlors attempt a flat* attack on the southern forces. Meantime, feass were expressed that popular Ire in the Ethiopian capital, aroused by unconfirmed re ports of widespread death ef civil ians, might vent itself against the Italian minister who was expected to set out for Rome. The govern ment declined to divulge any formal Information concerning Ha plans for the ministry. Ethiopian sources said they learn ed through diplomatic channels that the eleven nations had ap pealed to Mu* «n air attack the fee.' ng pre air raids had -—rr^nrfBfr. Unconfirmed reports said that two Italian vessels were denied en — • (Continued on" pa— teU >Utd to safrain from on the capital, and « of I Supreme Court To Give Ruling On AAA, TVA WASHINGTON, Oct.14.—(AP)— The Supreme court agreed today to pass on the constitutionality of two vital New Deal mea&ure*~-th« AAA and TVA acts. It refused however, to review the conviction of Thomas J. Mooney serving a life sentence In flan Quen tin for complicity in the Ult Pre paredness Day parade bombing. The controversy is pending before the California supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus. The eourt here said the case could not be passed on until Mooney had ex hausted his chances in the state court. Mrs. R. L. Nichols Dies Suddenly; Buried Sunday A heart attack which came sud denly and unexpectedly was the cause at 6:30 Saturday afternoon for the death of Mrs. R. L. Nichols of Lattimore. She was 61 years of age. Funeral services for Mrs. Nichols were held Sunday at 2:00 at New Hope Baptist church In charge of her pastor. Rev. Rush Padgett, Rev J. W. Suttle and Rev. J. L. Jenkins. A large crowd of relatives and friends were present and an unus ually large floral offering was made. She was a former resident of the Earl community where he had lived the greater part of her life, having moved to Lattimore about five years ago. --. Surviving are her sons. W. C. Nichols, of Wilmington; Aubrey Nichols, of Shelby route 1 and Wil burn Nichols, of Earl, Harvey Nich ols, of Lattimore; the following i brothers and sisters: W. C. Wilburn, of Kings Creek, S. C.; Harvey Wil burn, of West Palm Beach, FI*.; Mrs. E. E. Richardson, of Atlanta, Ga,
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