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Weather North Carolina: Pair, frost to mghr. Saturday fair, allghtly rarmrr. i The KGliedciikmxwd Styx 12 Pages Today VOL. XLI, No. 128 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. a FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 193f> Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. •r m .ii d« mi. o» mtumi _ «.w CtrrMi. Mi m>. tt» _ «.## “Laissez Faire” Policy Assured In FDR Answers Battle Stage Is Set In Ethiopia Hnlians Sure They Will Win; Clash Of Four Armies Imminent. Rv Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.— A prompt reply was promised bv President Roosevelt to in quiries about the American attitude toward League of Nations sanctions to be ap plied in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. The President indi cated a feeling that there is room for little discretion in the matter of an answer be cause this government’s posi tion is st rictly dictated by the neutrality law. Thai strengthened the feeling in Mme quarters that the reply would be used as a vehicle for a restate ment ot the United States attitude 10 keep hands off things which do not concern it. The President said the reply prob ably would come from the state de partment. Asked about embargos on 011 and copper, he said those ques tions would be taken up when they arose. LONDON, Oct. 25.—(AP)—King George expressed “gravest concern’’ over the Italo-Ethiopian crisis to day in am address on propagation of the eighth parliament of his reign. Domestically he noted _the king dom’s "further considerable ad vance' toward prosperity. Uncounted thousands of Ethio pian warriors converged on two 'Continued on page ten.) Recreation Board To Be Formulated A recreation board for Cleveland county win be one of the out growths of the eountywide recrea tion school which ended here last night, according to word this morn ing from County Agent John S. Wilkins. __ _______ This board will be composed of prominent leaders from all parts of the county, working under the ad visorship of the extension depart ment and outlining a general pro gram of recreational activities for the year, especially among rural South and farm organizations. Attendance at the school this week was large, and L. R. Harrill, state 4 H leader was well pleased with Cleveland's reception. Short social period with refreshments was enjoyed at last night's close. Poikville School Opens Thursday According to an announcement from J. A. Kiser, principal of the Polkville school, the No. 8 town ship unit will begin the regular fall hrm Thursday, October 30th run ■hng on the regular schedule. Practically all other: county schools will begin Monday. Polk Tillc closed a week later. Morning Cotton LETTER NPW YORK, Oct. 25.—Spot continues active in the sou , and while some of h ic mills show hesitation _■8t ^ increased basis, apparently are really b - to fill their urgent foreign ■’-t'emant*. The ginning report census bureau is due for p a !or showing gmnings _ T 1* There is expectation In tr .nritlrreaBe to the hedging to na tomorrow. However, we bel: hed8tog occurs It will me > good opportunity for acci etauon of cotton at slight recess] widlCore*n‘ Values—E- A. Pi( («, ™E MARKETS 2 0,1 s««* . liw to Sfca 1 *^d' wa*ron, ton_ rar lot. ton . : tewj." I'lrk rfltt°n quoted at tan, .,0r Dec. 1094, 1007, May 11.00. They Smile A* Helena Quakes Armistice Day Parade Seen As Success; Buglers Coming Assurance of a colorful parade Armistice Day comes with the defi-1 nite acceptance of the Gastonia j and Greenville, S. C<, drum and ; bugle corps. Greenville this year is ! the champion drum and bugle coiy>s j of South Carolina and made the I trip to the national convention at | St. Louis. The Gastonia organize - I tion. which appeared tn last year’s j parade, is one of the best organ! . zations in this state. There is a chance that the corps j j from Rock Hill, S. C., Kannapolis and Albemarle will also be present. Tmitations have been extended cm and the posts in these towns c trying to make arrangements ome. Close In Aftemroon. Meanwhile local preparations are lg along steadily. Business will suspended in Shelter during the ■moon, merchants and other jsiness firms having agreed to close at noon. Numerous organi zations have made arrangements (Continued on page ten) Girl Scouts Get. Certificates In First Aid Study A group of eight girls, of Girl Scout troop No. 1, has received cer tificates in a course in First Aid, as a step in passing off their second class scout requirements. The course was taught by Miss Harte Oliver, county Red Cross nurse, and the certificates were presented by School Superintendent B. L. Smith. In addition to the presentation of certificates the girls presented a skit, under the direction of Miss Oliver, showing how accidents were formerly treated in the home, and how they were treated after taking i the course in First Aid. Wednesday Miss Margaret An thony, captain of the troop, and Miss Oliver took the group of girls to the Regional Red Cross meet ing in Gastonia where they pre sented the skit as a part of the program. The eight girls who re ceived their certificates are Marie, Marqpret and Jeanette Smith, Catherine Chandler. Katherine Wil son, Hazel Allen, Christine Langley, and Velma Shepard. *Three other members of the troop, Thelma Grigg. May and Margaret Jolley also attended the regional meeting in Gastonia. The troop, sponsored by the Shel by Mill, was organized and char tered ip April. Miss Anthony is reg istered with national headquarters as captain. Miss Mildred McSwain is her lieutenant. and the troop committee includes Mrs. Sam Smith, chairman. Mrs. A. M. Chandler and Mrs. Buren Wilson. Student Aid to Children Whose Parents on Relief i — Any .person between the ages of 16 and 25* whose family is now re ceiving relief is eligible to make, ap plication for student aid from the N. Y. A. through the local school authorities. He or she must be cap able and desirous of doing school work and must be worthy* The number that can be approv ed is limited. One may receive as much as six dollars a month. City pupils or prospective pupils who are eligible should secure from Supt. B. L. Smith the forms on which to apply. All applications should be made out not later than Tuesday, Octo ber 29. Cotton Ginnings Reach 6 Millions (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Cotton of this year’s crop ginned prior to October 18 was reported today by the census burer.u to total 6,589,799 running bales compared with 6, 743,904 a year ago and *8,608,090 two years ago. Round bales, counted as half bal es, included in total, numbered 103,603 compared with 121,618 a year ago and 273,418 two years ago. Ginnings prior to Oct. 18 Includ ed North Carolina 267,845 bales and South Carolina 509,989 bales. $17,000 Poplar Springs Church PaidForOn “Lord’sAcre”Plan Poplar Springs, the meeting place of the Baptist association this year has one of the most interesting Backgrounds of any church now In the county. A modern, typical rural church it has a new church building with adequate class rooms, electric lights and heating plant. It was all paid for last year by what members called the “Lord’s Acre” plan, in which 116 bales of cotton were promised dring a three year period of payment. Dedication services were held the seme year and Alonzo Hamrick held a note until It was burned to a crisp, leaving the $17,000 structure free of debt. Not wishing to be left behind in the project of paying for their church, women of the community raised and sold chickens to pay their part. Ttie biggest amount paid by the congregation any one year was $1,700—all paid in cotton grown ! close by the church. When all promised was in the church had $400 pxtra cash left 1 ''onturned on page ten.) Baptist Churches Vote More Aid To Association Gathers 85th Time Membership Of Kings Moun tain Baptist Approaches 14,000; Gifts $100,000. Representatives of nearly 14,000 Cleveland county Bap tists neared the close at noon of the annual 2 day session of the Kings Mountain associa tion being held yesterday and today at Poplar Springs, five miles southwest of Shelby. Without a single exception the churches voted to extend support in the form of desig nated gifts and a special Har vest Day to Boiling Springs Junior college, in efforts to liquidate its debts and meet actual running expenses. Have 13,581 Members Progress along all lines of work was revealed in every report made during the two day session. The present membership of the 42 churches comprising the associa tion reaches 13,581, the largest ever ! recorded and one of the largest in jlhe entire state. Baptisms last year were 709, an increase over last year of nearly 100. Sunday schools have enrolled 10, 066; training unions 2,144 and wom an's work( 1,538, all showing gains with the exception of Sunday school, which is slightly short of last year, leaders say, on account of the in fantile paralysis situation this year. $100,0M In Gifts 1 Nearly $100,000 hi gifts b» all causes were given through the channeh Of the Baptist churches last year. Of this amount $75,368.92 went to local expenses, $13,063.14 to the co-operative program, missions and other causes, and $3,874.06 was (Continued on papa tan.) Cale K. Burgess i To Make Address Here On Sunday ; Noted Raleigh Lawyer And Prohibi tion Leader Speaks At Meth odist Church. Cale K. Burgess, one of the state's strongest defenders of some form of absolute control of alcoholic bever ages will make his initial appear ance In Shelby Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Mr. Burgess will speak a( the morning worship service at the Central Methodist church in the absence o< the pastor. Or. E. K. Mc Larty who is attending annual con ference in Salisbury. Mr. Burgess will speak on the subject of temperance and prohibl . tion in relation to problems now arising in our state, according to a letter to Dr. McLarty today. All the churches in the city will study an international temperance lesson. A large number of persons from other congregations in the city and out in the county are expected to hear Mr. Burgess. He directed the 1931 state campaign against repeal of the 18th amendment and won by a majority of 184,573 votes. He is a Raleigh lawyer, has taught a Sun day school class for 20 years, and is vice president of the United Dry Forces of North Carolina. He spends nearly half his time in the field. During the program the Method ist chair will sing "Hear My Prayer Oh Lwd,” by Arcadelt. Lail Gets Pay For Garage Disability T, P. Lail, garage worker for D. H. Cline, Inc., has been awarded a | decision by the N. C. Industrial | Commissioner J. Dewey Dorsett in | the sum of $18 per week from Au gust 5th, 1935 during disability re j suiting from an occupational dis ease. He is directed to follow the instructions of the attending phy sician as to re-entering his former ! employment. Defendants, D. H. Cline, Inc., and Travelers Insurance Co., are to pay costs of medical and hospital treatments and costs of hearing, according' to the decision of the commissioner. Heart Last Call ——. General Hunter Liggett, com mander of First Army Corps of the A. E. F., and one of two ipen to hold rank of lieutenant general, ii criti cally ill in San Francisco. He is 78. Machinery It Set In Operation To Save On Cotton T* CM Adjustment Payments Sal« .-HUM ytmmt B* filed Before November l. A telegram late yesterday from Raleigh to County Agent J. 8. Wil kins has started machinery tc working at the farm office which is destined within the next seven days to add a cent and a half per pound to all 1935 cotton sold in Cleveland county prior to October 23. The telegram read: Notify all growers that for cotton sold prior to October 33, sales cer tificates must be delivered to your office not later than Nov ember 1. Also, certificates must I be filed in your office seven days after sale. A supply of certifi cate forms are being sent to yon today. Vital Announcement According to Wilkins, this is one ol the most vital announcements made this year. Every grower who hais sold any cotton this year and expects to receive the promised cot jton adjustment payment of the difference between * ' the average spot market price and a 12 cent price for middling 7-8 staple, must procure sales certificates, fill them out and present them to his office by November 1. He estimates that approximately 110,000 bales of cotton has already been sold and the adjustment pay ment will mean $60,000 extra, al ready guaranteed by the govern ment, on a 40,000 bale crop. Work Overtime With an enlarged office force working overtime, hg is notifying all growers of the situation. The let ter explains that sales certificates must be obtained from and filled out by the purchaser of the cotton a separate blank for bales sold on separate days. This blank must then be brought in person to Wil kin's office. This also applies to tenant* who had cotton sold in their name. Serial numbers on the new form and on the grower’s gin certificate !or the, 1935 Bankhead application blank must correspond. To apply for the payment doer not obligate a grower to a 1936 Bankhead contract, but merely put* him In line for the adjustment pay ment. Addition To Dye House At Lawndale An addition is being built to th« dye house at Lawndale, contract foi the building having been let to Bar ger Bros, of Mooresville. The build ing will be 20x70 feet and will house a new dye machine as soon as com pleted 10,000 Building iFor County Agents Will Be Erected i» Latest WPA Work From County Will Holier All Extension Workers, laboratories And Farm library. A new S 10.0(H) office building a* a home base for agricultural exten sion work in Cleveland county Is the latest WPA project to Wash ington officials from Shelby. The project has Just been ap proved by the oounty board of commissioners, a lot furnished for building site, and Commissioner Lester Herndon and John S. Wil kins took the project to Charlotte yesterday with all plans In detail. Part Of State Plan Plans for the new structure were first submitted to this county by the state extension department In Raleigh and the Cleveland projects will be one of several suggested all over the atate, the general plan of which has already been approved by Washington. According to the plan submitted the new building “will be a brick, county agricultural building to house the county agent, his assist ant, the home demonstration agent with a laboratory, a oounty farm library, and an auditorium for farm meetings and educational purpoeee." To Face Jones Street Pacing Jones street, - near the county Jail, the building will be 70 by 98 feet, single *Wry, all of the ! material of which will be of beet quality. The federal government will pay $8,882.50 of the cost; the oounty fur nished the lot at $800 and will pay an additional $888 for materials. RefiJJar m will b* used. Agricultural and community dub buildings are the only types of WPA projects that can still be eubmit 1 ted. The county Is now paying 829 per i month for office rent. County Trying To Save $40,000 In Interest On Bonds County Attorney And Auditor Seek Permission To bene IS Year Instead Of 30 Yew Bonds An effort is being made by the county officials to save $40,000 in bond Interest by issuing IS year bonds instead of 30 year bonds to raise money with whclh to meet the county's part on the ten PWA school building projects. The county's share of 66 per cent of the cost will be $139,000 and the federal government has sent in ap proval for the issuance of bonds in this amount to run over a period of 30 years. Interest on the principal for 30 years would be $91,726 as compared with the $50,920 for 15 years. However, the county’s finan cial condition is such that the bonds can be paid off with ease in 15 years and County Auditor Troy McKinney and County Attorney Peyton Mc Swain left today for Raleigh with copies of the county’s annual audit in the hope of getting the bond is sue approved for 15 instead of 30 years. Mr. McKinney has figured the , interest on the principal for both the 30 and the 15 year periods at jfour per cent. It is planned to sell these bonds in the open market at i three per cent, instead of four, the j basis on which the calculation was made. 81-Year Old Jim Allen Tends Farm, Antient Mill\ Is Happy By CHARLES A. EVERETT j Nestling In the valley of Calf Pen Branch between Patterson Springs and Mount Pleasant Is a pictures que structure that Is one of the old est flour mills In the county If not the oldest. The exact date of Its | erection Is not known, but It stands ![* weather-beaten frame building, in • all the dignity of old age. a memento to Cleveland's pioneer days. Hand made shingles of hard pine protect it from the elements. its I water power conies from the branch] ion whose bank it is built. Inside I mill-stones over a century old grind the plump kernels of wheat, corn, rye and oats, brought by farmers for score of years, Into flour and meal, thousands of bushels for the farmers wives to turn Into delicious hot biscuits and corn cakes. Acres of fertile farm lands have replaced the primeval foresU that once grew over the valley. There are many newer mills in the county to day. there were none close when it was built. but still the old mill (Continued on page ten.) 3,268 Enrolled In White Schools Here; First Honor Roll Gain Of 174 Pupils Over Last Yaap, 94 Of Whom Are In High School In the ten school buildings constituting (Am system for white children in Shelby, there were 3,268 pupils snrollsd, S gain of 174 over last year. The greatest gain was mads by 64 additional in the high school, according to figures just ! issued from the office of Supt. B. L. Smith. Roosevelt Says Long Term Plan Is Now His Aim * _ WASHINGTON. Oct. (API— President Roosevelt today sought to point the farm program away from an "emergenoy phase" application to a "long term” plan, saying the latter "is developing naturally out of the present adjustment efforts." The president remarked it was not the Intention of congressional framers of the act or administrators of the law to let the AAA be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. "It was their intention as it is mine to pass from the purely emergency basis, precipitated by a grave na tional crisis, to a long term, more permanent plan for American ag riculture. "As I see it. this program has taro principal objective*: first to carry o«S tbs declared pofioy of congress A> maintain and to increase the gains made thus far, thereby avoid ing the danger of a slough back into the conditions brought about by our national neglect of agricul ture; and second to broaden the present adjustment operations so as to give farmers the Increasing in centive for conservation and effi cient use of the nation’s soil re sources." Retailers Get Seven Cents Code Refund Everett Houser, secretary of the chamber of commerce and also ad ministrator of the local Merchants Retail code authority before the Supreme court gave all codes a knock-out blow, has been refund ing to the merchants seven cents for each c)erk employed. There was an assessment of 25c per clerk, but all of this was not spent. About 125 clerks were employed by the retail merchants under the local code authority. County Schools To Open October 30th A number of schools of the coun ty, Including Fallston, Beams Mill, Poplar Springs and Ross Grove will reopen next week, on Wednesday, October 30, after being closed for six weeks during the harvest season. The above announcement is made by W. R. Gary, principal of the Fallston high school and superin tendent of this unit of No. 10 township. Yeggs Take $2,800 In Walnut Cove WALNUT ~COVE, Oct. *5.— (AP)—Yeggs cut a hole in the vault door of the State Planter* bank here during: the night and escaped with *2,800. Nam* Shelby High . —* South Shelby Marion . LaPayette Graham . Jefferson * ■ Total white.I,AM IjM , Hbnor roll for first month Is a* iollows: Shelby High School Eighth grade: 13 percent: Russel Craig, Harold Seefeldt. Benjamin Smith, Billy Webb, Thelma Bum garner. Carolyn Garrick, Barbara Cooke, Ina Lewis Forney, Sara Mull, Betsy Hall Roberts, Sara Newton, Elva Ann Thompson, Phyllis Yates, Joseph Weldon, Mary Ella Apple, Mildred Bates, Jack Gladden, carl Lynn. E. P. Riviere, Shirley Cost her, Vera Hkmrick, Ruth .ffraw, Walter Wilson, Mary «lvar. Mar garet Alexander, Josephine Mc Whlrter, Ninth grade, IS per cent: Rush Hamrick. Avery McMurry, Bruce Morgan, Billy Smart, Martha Arro wood, Catherine Bailey, Martha bkridge, Edith fitch,- Mary Glenn, Betty Laughrtdge, Cecile Rainey, Ann Smart, Virginia Toms. Ruth Toney, Margaret Trammell, Mil dred Whltener, Ruth Wilson, Mar garet Elliott, Joanna Plnkelsteln, Mary Frances Williams*Jamea Bar nett, Billy Buchanan, : Prancanna Clark, Ruth Dixon, Edna Downs, Marjorie Eskridge, Addle Lee Ram bright, Virginia McNeely, Ethel Patterson, Ruth Thompson. Tenth grade, 30 tier cent: BUI Beheler, Lloyd Boat, Floyd Boat, Carl Oalllmore, George Morgan* George Watson,’ Catherine Apple* Sara Esther Dover. Easaheth Fail*. Dorothy Greene, Nancy Llheberger, Dorothy Magneas, Dora MoSwaih* Ada Wall. Fred CaUahan, Bill Mc Murry, Margaret Bowen, Agnes i (Continued HOSPITAL AGAIN ON ACCREDITED LIST One Out Of Every 19 reeyii la United State* And "mill Were Patient* Laat Year. Again the Shelby Public hospital has been placed on the approved list by the American College ot Surgeons Board qt Regents which opened its 25th annual congress ta Chicago this week. “Approval” indicates that t|gg and other Institutions on such a list, numbering 3,533 in the United States and Canada, meet certain high standards in equipment and the care of patients, "One out of every 19 persons went to the hospitals of the United Stats* and Canada last year,” declared Dr, Geo. Crite of Cleveland, Ohio, chairman of the board. This is much less than a decade ago. when one out ot every ten went to the bos* pital annually. Twice this number attended the out-patient clinics of hospitals where they received am bulatory treatment. It is pointed out that there is an “approved” hospital within 20 to 30 miles of 96 per cent of the popula tion of the United States. “This means much, not only in the care of emergencies but in the combating iof all diseases to which the human body is subject,” says the board's | report. The Shelby hospital is listed as .having 50 beds, but when the addi tion was opened a few weeks eg*, i the bed accommodation waa la creased to f) ' .....
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