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VOL. XLI, No. 125
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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Aftemoona.
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ANGLO-FRANCO TENSION HIGH OVER NAVAL SUPPORT
City WPA Machinery
Thrownln High Gear;
2 New Projects Start
Grice Starts Shelby Machinery on Sewer and
Water Main Program Costing A
Total of $15,234
.Inhri Grice, district Works Progress Administrator, yes
terday threw the Shelby machinery of his organization into
higti gear.
He announced two new projects,
to brzin immediately. These arc a
117.260 schedule for new sewers and
a <67.974 job for installation of wa
ter mains in nine city streets,
start Community House.
Relief workers, meantime, heaved
the first shovelfuls on the start of
construction of a $11,124 commun
ity house between Jones Place and
East Warren street, while yet an
other sewer project, valued at $25.
000 go' under way. and work con
tinued on the surfacing of 18 miles
of city Meets.
The total of all WPA work now
in progress in the city comes close
to'tlOf',000. With relief labor and
federal rrants. the city's share is
negligible.
New Sewer Projects.
The newest sewer project eom
prr the following:
East Marion street—Crescent Ave
nue to branch, 3.000 cubic feet. $3,
(00.
Poston Street. Marion to end of
Breet. 1.000 cubic feet $1,000.
Dover Street, Marion to S. A. L.
H R, 15.000 cubic feet. $12,360.
Water Main Project.
The new water main project com
prise'
"’‘tenant Street, Graham to
Star®, 800 feet, $600.
Belvedere Avenue. old Kings
Mountain Road to Crescent Avenue,
tMO feet. $3,724.
Crescent Avenue. Belvedere to
Marion. 1.200 feet. $840.
South Washington Street, end of
Present, paving to Earl Road. 40r
feel. $300.
Weathers Street, Buffalo to pres
to' Washington Street main. 600
feet. $480
Washington Alley, Washingte
Street to LaFayette, 500 feet, $300.
Buffalo street. Weathers to East
lido school, 1.200 feet, $1,094.
Hamrick Alley. Warren to Mar
ion. 700 feet, $546.
Seek Missing Man
Near Hendersonville
ASHEVILLE. Oct. 18— <AP)—
Searchers combed the heavly forest
ed Mills River section above Hen
dersonville today for W. T. Rowland,
?ne 0{ the state’s most widely
known men missing since he left a
nuntmg ramp in mid-aftemoon
Thursday.
The alarm spread last night when
Rowland failed to return to camp
15 he had promised his companions.
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Morning Cotton
LETTER
tr»ri " 'ORK' Oct. 18.—In early
yesterday the market was
steady but later developed a
nr„fn'; tendency, under moderate
^ire. December contracts sold
n‘, P '"‘4 during the afternoon un
ed tVy selling which was believ
w e bquidation. Part of the
JZT, uere regained in the late
to 6 Pnd the cl06e was about 4
Heavy6 °Wer with the tone steady,
in,.,.' ''p°l sales continued in the
hoiriiir .marke^ with the basis
Ported*1 f,rm‘ Mills activity is re
fio.j^uv,wUy, increafiin8 and no
Dt if result heavier con
aaon.t’h :~ures t°r the current
that the strong spot sit
Wnf,. — 5000 be reflected in
te futures—E. P.
Cdttm, T.HE MAR*ETS
Cotton' U I® 11
**4. JT?\w**on» ten .... $3!
^ lot, ton. ««
HljjJ;* Jotk cotton at 2:30:
i»W, Oef'ml!81, May 1095
l ,090' Dee. lone.
County To Get
$59,434 Project
For WPA Sewing
The largest single WPA project in
Cleveland goes to the women.
Miss Ruth Catlin, women's district
director, announced from Charlotte
this morning a $59,434 sewing proj
ect which will employed more than
100 women over a period of 12
months with sewing machines and
needles.
i Court house officials were sur
prised this morning by the size of
i the project, which gives a federal
grant, of $47,325 and calls on the
county for $12,109.
Costs County Little
The county’s share, however, will
'not be all cash. In fact, very little
cash will be needed. Materials, ma
chines, etc., will be supplied, and
tfie women will stitch for the coun
ty home and other county institu
tions.
Miss Prances MacGregor, home
demonstration agent, will be general
supervisor of the sewing project.
The women will make sheets,
clothing, comfort, etc. and will
renovate old garments.
75 Unskilled Workers
Seventy-five unskilled workers
will be employed, for which the sum
of $19,800 has ben set aside.
Twenty-five seamstresses will get
jobs, at $9,600. Four supervisors will
get $4,032. A superintendent will be
paid $1,440 for mileage and salary.
Joe G. Lutz, 57
Is Buried Today
At Kadesh Church
Well Known Merchant And Fanner
Dies Thursday Of Paralysis
Stroke.
Joe G. Lutz, 57, one of the best
known farmers and merchants of
Cleveland county was buried today
at 2:30 o'clock at Kadesh Methodist
church where he .has been a mem
ber for many years.
Mr. Lutz died early yesterday aft
er he has been gravely ill following
a stroke of paralysis at the first
part of the week.
In charge of services was Rev. W.
L. Scott, pastor of the church.
Survivors
Surviving are his wife, a son and
a daughter, Wilbur Lutz and Mrs.
Roscoe Dixon: two brothers, Marvin
and Ambrose Lutz; three sisters,
Mrs. Charlie Houser, Maggie and
Anne Lutz, all of this county.
Mr. Lutz was one of the biggest
farmers of the Bel wood community
and was in partnership with his
son-in-law in the Lutz-Dixon store.
He was prominent in the civic and
religious affairs of his community
and was known as one of the most
progressive spirits of the county. .
Kings Mountain
Highway Hazard
To Be Eliminated
$69,000 Allocated By
Works Progress
Overpass To Be Constructed At
Kings Street; 18 Other Coun
ties Get Sums.
An appropriation of 869,000 to eli
minate the grade crossing on Moun
tain street. Kings Mountain, and to
construct an overpass at Kings
street for Highway 20 is Included in
the $1,579,000 approved by the works
progress administration yesterday
for grade crossing elimination in
North Carolina.
Kings Mountain civic leaders have
for months urged approval of this
project, and greeted Its passage
with high approval, pointing out
that it would eliminate one of the
jmost dangerous crossings in the
county.
$4,823,958 For Stale,
The total appropriation to the
state under the $200,000,000 alloca
tion for elimination of highway
I hazards is $4,823,958. of which there
[remains a balance of $3,244,958 to be
, covered by later programs.
Eighteen counties have similar
I projects. They are Mecklenburg, Ala
mance, Anson, Buncombe, Cabarrus
and Rowan, Cumberland, Davidson.
Guilford, Iredell, Lee, McDowell,
Person. Pift, Richmond, Rocking
ham, Surry and Wake.
O. Max Sees Boom
In 1936 Building
Max Gardner slipped in and not
of Shelby Wednesday, shot taro
rounds of golf, and made a predie*
tion.
The foroeer governor, now a
practising attorney in Washington,
had business In Charlotte, but he
sped over to the home town to see
old friends. Friends surrounded
him when he appeared in an up
town drug store.
At the country club, he dubbed a
quartet of tries from the first tee,
but had a good time anyway.
And he told friends that he ex
pected to see in 1936 the biggest
business boom In history.
He said it was bound to come,
starting with the building trades.
He pointed to the scarcity of hous
es, a scarcity notable in both Shel
by and Charlotte, as the spring
board of the boom.
Merchandise Spurt
Continues Speed
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—CAP)—
j Improvement in production and’dis
It.ibution of merchandise during
j September, haiNseen extended thus
far with <ew exceptions, the weekly
Dunn and Bradstreet report said
today.
The weekly rate has been moder
!ate, it said, adding “the momentum
gained during the special Columbus
Day promotional events led to a
vigorous expansion of consumer
buying throughout the week.”
Burke Club To Hear
C. R. Hoey Tonight
Clyde Hoey will go to Morganton
tonight to address an expected
large gathering of members of the
Burke county Roosevelt Re-election
club.
The meeting will be at the Burke
courthouse.
Counties Ought ToHuveMayors,
Commissioners Meeting Is Told
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—<AP)—Crea
tion of the office of “county mayor”
was advocated before the first na
tional convention of the American
County association yesterday,
Joe E. Fraser, president of the
Mississippi association of supervi
sors, made the proposal before the
representatives of 200 counties in
all sections of the nation.
“I believe the county should have
a Aahaging head with authority
similar to that of mayor or gover
nor,” he said. “By this means, re
sponsibility may be specifically es
tablished and a great improvement
will be achieved in the handling of
county affair*."
In contrast to other governmen
tal units, he added, the county
"has no head—only a. gang.”
Other speakers assailed the fed
eral government’s practice of tak
ing tax dollars from counties and
returning the small change.
Dr. John Robinson, president of
the North Carolina association of
County Commissioners, asserted:
‘‘North Carolina pays into the
federal government more than
$250,000,000 yearly, the bulk as a tax
on tobacco. The state collects less
than $6,000,000. and the counties
nothing from this source."
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North Carolina Railway
Not Exempt in Labor Act
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—(AP)—
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion ruled today that the Piedmont
and Northern is a railway within
the meaning of the railway labor
act.
The railway, which operates be
tween Charlotte and Gastonia and
in South Carolina between Green
ville, Greenwood and Spartanburg,
had attempted to have the commls
slon hold il as a suburban or elec
tric railway, which would exempt it
from the lajmr act. Such a decision
|also would open the way for the
company to extend Its line to con
nect the Gastonla-Charlotte divi
sion with the South Cnrollnn divl
siort, whTch the commission refused
several years ago.
The Piedmont and Northern Is
| controlled by the Duke Power Co.
Cleveland Sets State Pace
In Yams, Oats, Farm Values
State Publishers
Bulletin to Show
Alcohol Effects
RALEIGH, Oct. 18.—CAP)—A two- j
page bulletin on “alcoholism and|
narcotism” Is being sent out this
week by the State Department of
Public Instruction for distribution
to every school principal in thej
state so that instruction on the ef-|
fecte of alcohol and narcotics can
be given in the schools as required
by a 1935 law.
The legislature early this year
passed an act requiring instruction
on the subjects and empowering
adoption of a new textbook “which
would give more adequate treat
ment on the subject,”
As the new textbook has not been
selected, Clyde A. Erwin, superin
tendent of public instruction, is
having the bulletin distributed in
“an Attempt to meet this require
ment of the law until the textbook
commission find the proper mater
ial which may be adopted for this
purpose.”
Bar Is Warned
Of Centralization
RALEIGH, Oct. 18— (AP)—W. L.
Ransom of New York, president of
the American Bar association, told
attorneys of North Carolina today
that “in the discussion of great na
tional issue immediately ahead, the
lawyers of America should set an
example for tolerance, breadth of
outlook and recognition of the other
fellow's point of view.”
The Bar Association president
warned against following the mod
ern trend toward centralized and
arbitrary power in government.
Ransom and Angus D. McLean,
assistant attorney general of the
United States, were the principal
speakers at the second annual con
vention of the North Carolina State
Bar in Raleigh.
McNeely’* Brother
Stricken Suddenly
Word was received here late this
morning of the sudden death of T.
B. McNeely of Charlotte and broth
er of J. C. McNeely of this city. Mr.
McNeely was stricken with a heart
attack.
Funeral services are at present
only tentative, but will take place
sometime Saturday or Sunday in
Greensboro, his former home. The
Shelby McNeelys went to Charlotte
at noon today.
Mr. McNeely was in Shelby yes
terday afternoon visiting his broth
er, and seemed to be in perfect
health.
In addition to his brother here, he
is survived by two sisters and a
brother in Greensboro.
Schiele Shows Scout
Camp Pictures Here
Camp life at Lake Lanier, the
Piedmont Boy Scout summer train
ing ground, was depicted last night
by R. M. Schiele, Piedmont scout
executive, as he showed movihg
pictures in colors to members of the
KiVanis club.
It was a revelation to see how the
boys are taught to live together
peaceably, work in harmony, learn
good citizenship, etc. They are
taught basketry, Indian lore, swim
ming, boating, life-saving, wild life
botany and many other interesting
subjects. All of these activities weir
shown in pictures, showing many :.f
the 400 or more Cleveland county
scouts Who attended the summer
■camo.
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Cleveland county /armors will this
year harvest more than 1,000 acres
of sweet potatoes above the acreage
harvested any other previous year.
This Information was made known
this week through the agricultural
census which was taken here in the
early spring and summer and which
has just been compiled In Washing
ton.
Other crops, with the exception of
cotton show an almost correspond
ing Increase. Cotton holds Its own
In production per acre. although
acreage has been cut by the AAA.
In fact farmers harvested 1,608
acres of sweet potatoes in 1934 with
a production of 192,663 bushels as
compared with 580 acres in 1929
when the crop was 69,822 bushels.
In Cleveland county, acreage of
corn for grain increased 12,567 acre*
over a period of five years. The pro
duction for the county has remain
ed about the same.
The 1934 wheat crop in the count;
was almost three times as large Iasi
year as it was five years before, in
creasing from 5,804 acres and 83,
145 bushels 48,888 ma and 177
760 bushels. Production of oats in
creased during the five year period
so greatly that Cleveland county it
one of the three largest producer*
of oats in North Carolina.
Farms under cultivation this year
in the county number 5,268, an in
crease of 87 the past five years. The
average value decreased from $3,576
to $2,445, while the average is in
creased from 46.9 acres to 50.3 values
now being regarded upon a more
stable basis and not of $16.80 per
acre.
New Stratosphere
Flight Proposed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—<AP)—
Possibility that a new attempt to
soar into the stratosphere would be
made tomorrow was reported today
by National Geographic society of
ficials . Weather conditions at Rapid
City, S. D., where the society’s huge
balloon is kept, were said to be such
that it might get an early start to
morrow.
To Hold Services
At Shelby CCC Camp
Sunday services will be held at
the mess hall of the CCC camp he
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, in
charge of pastor J. H. Moore.
Lieut. Herman H. Vestal, com
mander, makes the announcement,
and cordially invites the public to
attend.
Italian Soldiers
Suffer From Fever
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 18.—(AP) —
Reports reaching here today stated
that the morale of the Italian sol
diers on the southern front was low
because of racking fevers suffered
in Ogaden desert and difficulties
In the terrain. Large numbers of
Italians were said to be suffering
severely from intense heat. ’
Ethiopians Massed
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 18—(AP) —
Emperor Haille Selassie today order
ed the massing of 100.000 Ethiopian
troops in the Dolo region in expec
tation of an Italian advance from
the Italian Somaliland.
Four Are Killed
In Bus Accident
MERIDIAN, MISS., OCT. 18.
(AP)—One chil dwaa killed, four
persons were seriously injured
and ten otehr pupils slightly
hurt today when a school bus,
carrying 30 passengers enroute
to the State fair at Jackson,
turned over twice and crashed
into a tree.
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Canipe Says York,
His Son-in-Law,
Was Barn Burner
Convicted Man Makes;
Jail Statement
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Absolves Himself. Blame* Raymond
York For Destruction Of Pruett
Barn In No. 10.
Under oath and In the presence
of three witnesses, Charles Canipe,
sentenced to serve 10 to 13 years
for burning Asor Pruett’s big barn,
today named his sBn-ln-law, Ray
mond York, as the Incendiary In an
effort to cut his own time or win a
pardon.
He has been In the Cleveland
county Jail since the March term,
when he and York and Henry
8wink were given long terms for
the burning.
8wom Statement.
Canipe made his statement in
the presence of Lon Hamrick, clerk
of the superior court, his attorney,
P. C. Gardner, and Cameron Shipp,
news editor of The Star. He said:
"Raymond York, my son-in-law.
came to my house on the night the
bam of Asor Pruett was burned,
that Raymond York and I went to
the home of Bryant Spake on the
night said bam was burned for
some medicine for my sick -child,
that we came back by the home of
Asor Pruett, and as we approached
his bam, Raymond York said:
Said He’d Barn It.
‘“I am going to bum that damn
"I told him not to do It. He got
out of the oar while I was driving
about 30 miles an hour and I went
on home by myself.
“Raymond York came to my home
that bight In about an houev He
told me he had burned the bam of
Asor Pruett, and said that he pull
ed off his shoes and slipped up to
the bam. did not hear anybody,
and then went in the bam hall and
set fire to fodder in the loft."
Raymond York is already In state
prison, convicted of burning the
bam, along with Canipe and Swink.
who have remained In Jail here
pending appeals to the Supreme
Court.
School Building
To Start Nov. 15
Architect V, W. Breeze, who de
signed the school buildings submit
ted in the county PWa building
project, is this week racing through
the final deft strokes on complete
plans.
These will be submitted again to
Dr. H. Q. Baity at Chapel Hill.
Construction will begin at least
by Nov. 15, Superintendent of Coun
ty Schools J. Horace Origg said to
day. The federal deadline is Dec. 15.
The county submitted projects
that totalled $437,000, and included
a $150,000 Shelby high school, and
a Kings Mountain project. Both
were denied. The county did re
ceive $250,000 for the county schools.
City Service Sold;
Auto Parts To Open
W. Paul Bridges has sold the
City Service Station to O. L. Mc
Swain and Ben P. Turner who will
continue to operate it at the corner
of Sumter and LaFayette . streets,
handling petroleum products and
doing a general repair business.
Mr. Bridges will operate an auto
parts place, carrying a complete line
oi new and used parts at the Fink
'old stand.
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Cleveland 4H Judging Teams
Poised For Action At Raleigh
Cleveland county 4-H club judg
ing teams were poised for final try
outs at the state fair today, where
they will be in competition with
hundreds of other young experts
from ail parts of the state.
The club work is one of the fea
tures of the fair and assistant
'county agent, John Reitzel, accom
panied the Cleveland group, Word
today from him and from L. R. Har
irill, state director, indicated that
: crops and livestock entries by boys
and girls were the best ever made.
The corn club display and the
team demonstrations by the 4-H
| club girls were also on a high
plane. Indicating the strong posi
tlon of club work over the state.
Ray and Dempsey Morrison, Ire
dell county boys, captured top hon
ors In the Jersey calf club show.
Calves entered by these boys won
prizes In individual contests and
also won the junior. senior and
grand championships.
Iredell county also sfood first in
the county group exhibits, with
Caldwell taking second place and
Catawba third.
In the Guernsey calf club show,
Annandine Trons of Burke county
won the Junior championship and
Bud Rice of Buncombe won the
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Want to Know at Once
If France Would Help
In War Against Italy
Pierre Laval Says “No” On FrendK fttagport)
Fleet Street Tense On Rsnlf
From Paris
(By Associated Prtjasf
LONDON, Oct. 18.—Tension between Umi DiHMK sad
French mounted today as the British let it be known plainly
that recent events have shaken the public’s confidents In
France’s loyalty to the League.
Seeking Throne
said tel
Don Joan of
On _ , _ .
dec of Beoibea, shown in !
throw vacated bar Dor
father ex-Kinr Alfowo ot
Program Released
For Baptist Meet
During Next Week
Important Plan* For PoUn* Fi
nance Expected To Be
Developed,
The complete program tor the
annual Baptist associ&tlonai meet
for 1935 was released this mornlhg
by Rev, J. W. Buttle, moderator.
Meeting at Poplar Springs Thurs
day and Friday of next week, hun
dreds of representatives from the 42
Baptist churches in the organiza
tion are expected to be present.
Aside from the regular routine of
annual business matters the body is
expected to do some definite things
which will assure financial secur
ity of Bolling Springs junior college.
It is understood special committees
have plans outlined to recommend.
Following is the program:
First Day, Forenoon Session
9:30 Devotional, enrollment, an
nouncements; 9:50, Religious Liter
ature by J. B. Davis; 10:15, Wom
an's Work by Mrs. John Wacaster;
10:45, Mills Home by W. O. Camp;
11:30 Introductory Sermon by A. Q.
Sargeant.
Afternoon Session
1:50 Co-operative P r og r a m,
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whs restoration of this KXlBrtepwe.
it mi Mid, hinge* on g Preach re
ply to the British query M to
whether Franc* win bank England
if the British Mediterranean fleet
is attacked by Italy, Officials blunt
ly refused to say Whs* would h*p
pen if the reply from Laval was not
an unconditional affirmative, but
they let it be known that no other
reply would be satisfactory.
PARIS. Oct. IB.—(AP)--Authori
tative quartan said today Premier
Pierre Laval had virtually refused to
"legalise" England’s show of naval
strength in the Mediterranean by a
promise of aid until he learned how
far London la going in sanctions
against Italy.
British warships yoda at anchor
off Alexandria, Egypt, yesterday and
nearby hundreds of British ait
planas were stationed. The issue
drawn by the British was that Prem
ier Mussolini must abandon war In
Ethiopia, France, seeking a key to
peace and hoping desperately not
to be forcedvjo abandon friendship
with either England or Italy, through
Premier Laval is said to have asked
Mussolini for the last time phat his
most favorable terms for peece
would be.
The British press hinted that
Britain might denouooa the Locarno
treaty In the event of an unfavor
able answer from France. Uncer
tainty over the attitude of France
made the smaller nations anxious
over repercussions of a boycott to
their own national economies If
they should throw themselves into
sanctions enforcement.
The shake up of , the Austrian
cabinet yesterday was Interpreted
as forecasting a possible closer, re
lation between Italy and Austria
since the fascist, Price von Btrah
remberg, foe oC Naaism, long has
been a close friend of Mussolini.
Clash Is Imminent.
Reports of an imminent dash be
tween Italian and Ethiopian forces
near Makale, coupled with other
reports of incidental warfare in
East Africa today came with author
itative advices from London that
Britain had never propoaad mSRery
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Standard Won't
Restrict Enports
NEW YORK, Oct. W.—(API—W.
C. Ttagle, president of the Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey said today be
saw no reason under existing «m
dltions to Interfere with the regu
lar commercial oil business between
Standard and its Italian subsidiary.
He said the company had not been
approached with any suggestion that
it restrict regular shipments, to
Italy, and that he saw no reason to
Interfere with the regular commer
cial business which has been car
ried on in Italy.
J. H. Leroy Named
To Head Kiwanis
CHARLESTON, S. C„ Oct. 1«.—
< AP)—J. H. Leroy, of Elizabeth City,
N. C., today was elected to succeed
Judge P. M. McMillan, of Charies
ton, as* district governor of the Ki
wanis clubs of the two Carolines,
and Greensboro, N. C„ was chosen
the 1936 convention city. J. W. Hen
dricks of Statesville was named
j lieutenant governor.
Contract Is Let
For New S. C. Road
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COLUMBIA, Oct. 18 (AP)—Ap
proximately 20 bids were received
| by the state highway department to
day for four projects In Charleston,
Anderson and York counties, In
cluding 6.2 miles of Improved earth
type road on route 901 in York
county. J. B. Britton of Sum tar was
low bidder, with «4M6L