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WEATHER Nnrth Carolina: Cloudy to m(thi and Saturday, occasional ugh, rains, colder tonight In Cis-JJT e vall Mm Ists-If 12 Paget TODAY Member of Associated Press I VOL. XLI, No. 137 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. "T M .11, t»t mr. on Mnam Catrltr, o»r y«ar. I la idvurii f B 3 Report Fall Of Harar Imminent As Italians Go Forward 28 Miles Primitive Guerrilla Tactics Of Natives Halt Advances Yesterday; Ambush Reported At Asbi, Killing About 75 (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ROME, Nov. 15.—Italian correspondents in Ethiopia re ported today that capture of the strategic city of Harar was imminent. A dispatch to Rome said the Italian general, Ma letti, leading a force of native soldiers, had advanced in the valley of the Fafan river to a position only 28 miles from his immediate uujcluvc. Defenders of the Harar region were reported retreating in disorder after a pitched battle yesterday. Second Largest Harar. .second largest city in Ethio pia, is just south of the important railroad connecting Addis Ababa and Djibouti, French Somaliland. Italian forces in both the north and south were reported heading for this railway. Ethiopia’s primitive campaign of guerrilla warfare developed stub born resistance to the modern Ital ian invasion today as 75 men were reported lost on both sides after a bitter skirmish on the northern front. A mobile body of the native war riors near Azbi ambushed the left column of Italy’s northern army and fought a day-long battle yes terday before scattering to the south. Fascist forces replied to the campaign of swift Ethiopian raids with renewed bombing attacks. One squad, roaring south from Makale, detected an, Ethiopian troop en campment outside Antalo and liter iffy blasted it from existence. The Rttopian campers apparently as aped. Report Air Raid The Addis Ababa government re ported that another raid on the southern front brought half a hundred bombs down on Daggah Bur. The government reported one pnest died in the assault and a church was leveled by fire. Reports said that if the Italians maintained their swift advance they would soon menace Jijiga and Harar, thus farcing the Ethiopians fete a decisive stand. On the European side of the vftis the diplomatic truce called ■tonng the British elections ended, (Continued cm page twelve) Training Class* At Presbyterian Church Closes A week of training under the gen topic of Christian Education brought to a close at the Pres Vtertan church last night. to charge of the work this week 1*84 been Rev. J. O. Mann, synodi C*1 director of religious education ® North Carolina. * Stev. L. p. Burney, of Charlotte, ®ad« the closing addresses to the Ktoup of teachers and officers * the Shelby church taking the •ourse. Miss jane Hall of Wilmington “as been directing a study of the “ftncipies of teaching during the Sir churches in this district :&ve been represented in the work b Wee*. according to the pastor, **»• H. N. McDiarmid. Morning Cotton LETTER K,~'1 '’ORK, Nov. 15.—Under a ^ demand prices advanc m ^ ri'w high ground yesterday !"_ f5. sain® of 31* to 38 points. ,ht 'l;as given the market by '"nmenfs statement that _ -stunty date of the 13c loar ^ 1430,000 bales held by the yxH would he extended be «~Wbruary *• We heHeve the brosden 40 *uh6tantla, ®- A. Pierce it Co. Cotton Jf® MARKETS CS :“**• u Cottn, 7’ Waf°n- — - *3i N* £**; car l®t. ton .... |3) U J ,York cotton at 2:30: E Hiss ?a,D 1179- Mar. 11.72. N 1 W u y 11 52- Oct. 11.40. •" ***.11* u, u To Lead Again Dr. Zeno Wall who was yesterdaj elected for the fourth successive time to the presidency of the State Baptist convention. He is pastor ol the First Baptist church of Shelby Dr. Wall Elected Convention Head For Fourth Tune Popular Shelby Pastor Will Lead State Baptists Another Year. For the fourth consecutive time Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shelby was elect ed to the president of the North Carolina State Baptist convention. The convention closed its annual session in Asheville last night with a powerful address by Dr. Ellis A Fuller, pastor of the First Baptist church in Atlanta, Ga. Other offi cers of the convention were also elected and many items of businesf disposed of as the three-day meet ing closed. Suttle On Board Rev. J. W. Suttle, moderator oi the Kings Mountain association, was re-elected to serve on the gen eral convention board. Other officers to the convention are John T. Coley, Rocky Mount, first vice-president; Rev. W. D. Poe, Oxford, second vice president, and Rev. B. E. Morris, Statesville, third vice president. Claude B. Deane, of Rockingham, was re (Continued on page twelve) Annual Toy-Fixing Work Begun By Industrious City Firemen Scores of hnght-eyed youngsters will have bright red toys for Christ mas for certain, says Fire Chief J. L. McDowell today as members of his department began work on the first box of toys brought in this season. During their spare time between now and Christmas, city firemen will repair old and broken tricycles, wagons, trains, rocking horses, and numerous other toys which have been discarded by more fortunate children in the city. “The boys have been doing this work for years,” said the chief, "and they want to do their part again this year in making somebody happy at Christmas. If you have any toys, and would like to have them mended and painted to be WPA Supervisors For Five Sewing Rooms Are Named Appointments Made In Charlotte Office Work Begins At Once To Employ 132; Mrs. L. W. Gardner Leads Work. Appointment of supervisors and sewing room managers for the $25, 310 sewing project under the WPA was made today and announced by Miss Ruth Catlin, general supervisor of Woman’s work under the WPA. i The announcement was made from | her Charlotte office. Mrs. L. w. Gardner will be gen ieral supervisor of the entire county where five shops will employ a maximum of 132 women who are at present unemployed. 25 Per Room There will be three divisions of the project in Shelby and two in Kings Mountain according to Miss Catlin. About 25 persons per room will be used to begin work. Actual sewing will begin Monday, although preliminary work is being started today. Other Locations One of the rooms will continue to be located in the city hall and will be in charge of Mrs. Jean Thomp son. The other will be in the South Shelby school building in charge of Mrs. Pulton Weaver. The room for colored will be at the Cleveland high school building in charge of Dovie L. Cabaniss. The Kings Mountain room will be supervised by Mrs. Rossie Byrd and will be located in the elemen tary school building. The colored manager and room for Kings Moun tain has not been chosen. Salaries allowed In the original t-up of the project caH for 2129 $42 per month for sewing roon managers; $32 per month for skill ed seamstresses; and $22 per montl for unskilled workers. Farmer Thad Allen Has Skull Injury Thad C. Allen, prominent farmer living just north of Shelby has a two inch fracture of the skull as a result of a fall Wednesday night. Report that he was waylaid and robbed is untrue, following an in vestigation made by Sheriff Cline, Mr. Allen was walking alone to Ross Grove church Sunday night. As he started to step around a mud hole he fell, his head striking the cement pavement. He managed to walk back home, but remembered nothing from the time he stepped around the mudhole until he re gained consciousness after reaching j home. Thirty dollars was missing from his pocket and it was feared he had been robbed, but after he recovered from the shock, he stated that he had not been assaulted and that the missing money had been given to his daughter who is in school at Boiling Springs. After receiving an examination and dressing at the hospital, he was able to be removed to his home. Anastasia, Russian Grand Duchess, Dies CAP D’ANTIBES, Prance, Nov. 16. (AP)—Grand Duches Anastasia of Russia, 67, widow of Grand Duke Nicholas, stfid sister of the Queen of Italy, died at her home today in the French Maritime Alps. given away, just bring them to the city hall.” A list of names will be given the firemen on Christmas eve of chil dren in charge of welfare organisa tions in the city, and the presents distributed. Word from several of the Boy Scout leaders of the city said they will also be glad to aid in gather ing toys, delivering packages and helping in any other way to aid the project. Persons who have toys for this cause may bring them or merely telephone and someone will call. For years this has been one of the major projects of the city firemen, wielding mending tools. paint brushes, and rarving implements, a I few weeki before Christmas. Protest Removal Of Landmark 1 Sal* of America’s oldest windmill (above), built in 1633, to Henry Fore for the motor mapna^e’s museum at Dearborn, Mich., brought a wavi of protest from citiaens of West Yarmouth, Mass., where the mill ha* stood for 302 years. Illegal Machines Must Go, Says Judge Of County Court Issues Statement As Ultimatum And Sets ...finsi p—dlias As November- 23; Vending Machines Different Acting on information that Shelby is again becoming in fested with illegal slot machines, Judge of Recorder’s Court Bynum E. Weathers and County Attorney Peyton McSwain this morning issued a statement in regard to the matter. An uiumaium was l.ssuea, iurtn- < * i ermore, which gives owners or op erators until Saturday, November 2J, to remove slot machines of any description from Cleveland county. ! Set Precedent Judge Weathers set a precedent I for the state last spring in initiat- j ing a movement which caused more; than 100 illegal machines to be de-j stroyed. Then the legislature sup ported the move by drastic laws. Protests from various citizens have ccme to the recorder's court, ac cording to Judge Weathers, who aid. "Tlie.se illegal machines have got to go.” "Illegal machines will be ordi (Continued on page twelve.) Hill Gets 12, Years In Pen; Robbins,Deputy Slayer Free Gardners Return From Air Flight To Mexico City Ex-Governor and Mrs. O. Max Gardner returned Wednesday from Mexico City where they spent sev eral days as the guests of Ambas sador and Mrs. Josephus Daniels. The round-trip was made by reg ular scheduled airplanes. They left Washington Wednesday of last week and after a few days in the American embassy with North Car olina’s distinguished Daniels family, they departed from the Mexican capital on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Tuesday night was spetit in Port Worth. Leaving the Texas city Wednesday morning they arrived in Spartanburg Wednesday after noon at 4:30 where Mrs. Gardner was met by Mr. and Mrs. James Webb Gardner and brought to Shelby to be at the bedside of her mother. Mrs J. L. Webb who is quite ill and now confined to her bed. Ex-Governor Gardner continued to Washington where he will b jorned by Mrs. Gardner on Sunday if her mother’s condition is no worse To Get Scores By The Quarter The Star will receive the scores by quarters tomorrow aft ernoon of the Carolina-Duke football game. Watch the win dows of The Star office oi phene telephone No M. 'Special to The Star) RUTHERFORDTON. Nov. 13 — Twelve years hard labor in th' late penitentiary was the sentence passed this morning In Rutherford ■ ton on O. Edgar’Hill, who was be ing tried there for the murder ol Mrs. Faye Tessner last summer. Judge W. F. Harding passed the I sentence on Hill at 9:30 this morn ' ing, after he voluntarily entered a plea of guilty to second degree murder. He is alleged to have caus ed the death of Mrs. Tessener bj giving her drugs. She and her hus band were both natives of Cleveland county, although at the time of hei death she was living in Ruther ford. After being locked together sinct Tuesday noon, the Rutherford jury found Arthur Robbins “not guilt' as charged" of the murder of Dep uty Doggctt last spring. Full acquit tal was given. Hr had previouslv been acquitted by a magistrate’ court, but was later re-indicted anr brought to trial. Jean Batten Down In Brazil Swamp RIO DE JANERIO, Nov. 15—fAP) —Jean Batten, forced down fifty three miles north of here in Brazt" while on a flight to Rio de Janerio, reached here today in a Brazilian army plane, leaving her own dam aged ship In a salt swamp. The New Zealand aviator, first woman to fly alone over the South Atlantic had landed because of lack of fuel. Three army planes search ed for her after she was hours over due following her •eparture from Nr last leg of England to Brazil flight Kings Mtn. Grade Crossing Project May Be Cancelled City Asked to Furnish Right-of-Wsy l nlest l it) Fumtihn Rlght-Of W»j And Auumn All Pr#jffts 1* Eliminated. Kn.to Mountain may las* ihe SlW.OOOO nillfoad crossing project, it m learned from Charlie Row. at torney tor the state highway com mission lu Raleigh. The city Is asked to furnish tht right-of-way and assume any dam age to property by reason of the crossing elimination, but the city officials have never gotten together on this point. Citizens want highway j No. 30 to traverse the business sec-i tlon as it does now and to eltmln tlon as it does now, but to eliminate the present grade crossing by an overpass or an underpass, wouid do damage to property which the city Is unwilling to assume. Attorney Ross says the matter has been hanging Tire for several weeks. City officials have been meeting and giving consideration to the problem but they have not agreed. Unless there Is an agree ment and a Willingness on the part! of the city to secure the necessary' right-of-way and assume damage toi property, if any. the project call-; Ing for the expenditure of $80,000 federal funds, will be cancelled. Joint Meeting Of Lions Club Is Planned Here Hon. G. H. Hastings, prominent member of the Winston-Salem bar will be the guest speaker of the Shelby Lions club Tuesday evening. The local club will hold a Joint session with Lions clubs from Bes semer City and Cherryvllle, follow ing out the policy of having at least one meeting annually with clubs of neighboring cities. Morgan on came here last year. Mr. Hastings is a former member of the International board of direc tors of Lions and Is one of the out standing Lions In this state, The joint meeting will be in the form of a banquet at the Hotel Charles. Rev. Mr. Courtney Speak* To Kiwanis Rev. R. M. Courtney, pastor of; Central Methodist church was the guest speaker last night before the Kiwanis club, using for his subject, •'Be all there, when you are there.” He pointed out the Importance of concentration of Interest and effort on tilings in hand, the good uses to which memories and experiences of Ihe past can be put. Mr. Courtney, former presiding elder of this district, was introduced by Clyde R. Hoey. Court House Closes Saturday At 12:00 The county court house will be' closed Saturday afternoon, accord ing to the commissioners in a state ment Issued today. Attaches did not take the half day off granted for Armistice day. as rein prevented the scheduled auto races. The city hall will remain open and local business houses are no expected to close, as had been prev iously planned for the Armistice holiday. I Star And Theatres To Receive Funds For Rogers Memorial The Star has been appointed to head the local campaign for funds to help create a worthwhile mem orial for Will Rogers, noted humor ist and philosopher. Contributions will be received by The Star while both the Carolina and Webb theatres will have boxes in the lobbies of these picture houses where patrons might make contri butions. The nature of the memorial has not been determined. It will not be a cold granite or marble monument, but some humanitarian foundation I or mtitution designed to do good :in the world. Nation-wide sugges 2nd Rental Payment Two Months Overdue Will Be Given Out First Payment For 600 Not Yet Here, Al though Urgent Efforts Are Being Made; Farmers Must Wait Cotton checks totalling approximtely $125,000 for Cleveland county farmers arrived today from Washington and distribution will begin on Monday, it is learned from John Wilkins, county agent. Ask High Court To Speed Action On TVA Standing WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.— (AP)-The government was re ported today to be ready to ask the supreme court to speed Its decision on the constitutionality ol the TVA act. Stanley Reed, solicitor general, was said to be planning to ask the high court to set an early date for argu ments on the case which the government won in the court of appeals at New Orleans. They were also reported plan ning to ask delay In replying to an attack on the AAA by eight southern rice millers. They asked a temporary Injunction pja ns.t paying processing taxes. %he court will hear argu ments on the validity of the AAA on December 8 arid right behind that will come argu ments on the Bankhead cotton production contra) act. RamsayMcDonald Labor Leader In England Defeated Anthony Eden Re-elected; Aitor Clan Also Get* Three heats. (By Associated Pres*) Prime Minister Stanley Bald* win gained a 3 to 1 decision to* day on his demand for a man date on rearmament and recon struction In yesterday’s general elections. LONDON, Nov. 15.—Returns from yesterday's general election showed that the National government re tained its majority in the House of Commons today, although Ramsey MacDonald, Lord President of the Council and first leader of the Na tional government was defeated. Voters had returned 368 National government members to the Com mons, according to the vote coun up to 3 P. M., and that number constituted a majority in the tota’ of 615 seats. Eden Gets Majority. Anthony Eden, minister for league of nations affairs ,was re-elected by a hug? majority. Sir John Simon, home secretary, squeezed back in to his seat by a bare majority. The />stor clan, headed by Lady Astor, the Virginia born peeress, had at least three successes out of its six ca ndldatcs. Winston Churchill former Chan fContinued on page twelve.) tlotV) along this, line are asked by the committee. Will Rogers had hundreds of in timate friends in North Carolina and visited this state on numerous occasions. Many thousands who never saw him were acquainted with him through his newspaper writ ings, his screen performances and his stage and radio engagements. Contributions received by The Star and the two local theatres will be sent to Carl Ooerch of Raleigh, state chairman. The Will Rogers Memorial commission is a national (Continued on page twelve) AilCTC curi;iw> wr tor we SPCOIia ,m rental payment although 600 first payment checks have not been re ceived. The 600 fanners who have not received first rental payments, are. of course not included In this second batch. Agent Wilkins has oeen very much disturbed over the long $lay and has written letters, sent telegrams and made long distance telephone calls to officials, urging the pay ment of rentals but has hM very little success. There has been some unexplained delay in Washington. 3,469 Under Contract In Cleveland there are 3,469 cot- I ton farmers under contract. The *136.000 payment Just received was due two months or more ago. Also '■fline 600 farmers are due both their first and second payemtne. Ml. Wilkins had intended to go to Washington this week to matte an investigation, but J. F. Criswell, ■;tate allotment board member, is in Washington now conferring gb:ut late contracts. Many other counties in the cotton belt have suffered the same delay experienced In Cleve land county. | Work Overtime Members of the office force in the county agent’s office are checking over the contracts and will beg.n mailing cut cards on Monday. Night work will be required to do this. Farmers are asked not to report to the office until they * havr de ceived their notices. Those notices must be brought in person tg the agent’s office and surrendered whOn the checks are delivered. German Jews Are Deprived Of All Political Rights BERLIN, Nov, 16 —CAP)—All W lltical rights were taken from. Jews In Germany today by, official de cree defining closely the citizenship ancl racial laws promulgated by the Reichstag at its Nurnbcrg session during the September convention of the Nazi party, "The Jew cannot be a raich citi zen, cannot vote or occupy public olfice," ruled the decree. "Jewish functionaries of the government will be pensioned on December 31, I I 1935." Another decree was for ban mar riages between Jews and "quarter Jews" or between "quarter Jews" .hemaelvee. Colder Weather Is Impetus to Buying NEW YORK. Nov. 15.-r<AP>— Stating that cold weather was aa Impetus to buying Dunn and Bead* street, Incorporated. In its aurvey issued today said, the mos tsatis | factory progress thua far this ■month was recorded lor many trad* loranches during the week. ! Although reliance was placed to Isomc extent on mark-down offer* lings and special promotional events jto achieve the large volume, retail 'distribution advanced 5 to 12 per cent over the totBl of the week pre ceding. Sewer Project Is Approved Here Another sewer project for the City of Shelby has been approved by the WPA for which *13,200 will be furnished by the federal govern ment. Mayor Harry Woodson this morn ing that this approved project tak es the place of one recalled about a week or ten days ago. The sewer will be put down on streets in the old and new corporate limits that ’’re to be paved under paving pra» iects already approved.
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