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The Ellkvkkdmd Stmk
Member of Associated Press
I VOL. XLI» No. 142
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 27, 1935 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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ITALY MAY USE FORCE, IF NATIONS PRESS SANCTIONS
7-Year Scholarship
Recofd Is Eclipsed
By Shelby Hi Pupils
All Time Record For Good Work Establish
ed; Senior Leading Current Honors With
39 Percent, Says Abemethy
Students at the Shelby High School made the best rec
ord in scholarship for the second month just ending of any
month during the past seven years. This record is probably
the best ever made at the local high school. Definite records
are available for only the period mentioned above.
Pioneer Spirit Marks 1935 Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, 1935, finds new hope and prospects
of prosperity among citizens of United States, an
attitude reminiscent of the courage with which New
England colonists faced the hardships of founding
a new nation as they celebrated their first Thanks
giving with religious sendees and a day of {easting.
Trainloads Of Japs Swarm Into China
To Assume Control Of Latest Autonomy
County Included
In New 7 Million
WPA Allotments
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Up
wards of 20 million dollars is now
at the disposal of George W. Coan
jr., state Works Progress adminis
trator for North Carolina, by vir
ture of the comptroller of the treas
ury having countersigned warrant
No. 684, for $7,171,830 for projects
throughout North Carolina. This
is the third large warrant that has
been approved by the comptroller
making funds available for con
struction work in the state.
It is stressed hy the comptroller
af the treasury that selection of
projects for which money is ap
proved, is solely within the discre
tion of the state administrator, who
may select projects most adaptable
to the speedy prosecution of a state
program.
The greater part of the money in
cluded in the new allotment of over
seven million dollars, is for road
work, including $375,739 for Meck
lenburg county, $164,179 for Gaston
jounty, $60,603 for Cleveland coun
ty, $51,927 for Anson county, and
195,183 for Iredell county.
Other counties in the western part
3f the state which will get large
sums are: Caswell, $23,686; Guilford,
1404,505; Richmond, $81,079; Rock
ingham, $48,283; Rowan, $110,326;
Watauga, $58,408; Burke, $69,419;
Cabarrus, $85,946; Lincoln, $29,750;
Union, $57,298 and Avery, $77,097,
with $36,062 for Mitchell county,
Thanksgiving Celebration Here
Featured By Legion Activities
Hence, Shelby’s Thanksgiving day
jbservance will Include six Three-A
sanctioned speed events at the
Cleveland county lair grounds; stock
»r competitions, and a big “turkey
lay” dance In the ball room of the
Hotel Charles. Music for the even
ing entertainment will be furnished
»y Hod Williams' orchestra.
Merchants and industrialists
and employees of the Cleveland
county court house and the Shel
by post office will have a holi
day. The post office will be
'Continued on page eight)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 37.—Japanese
troop moved into North China to
day by train loads while north Chin
ese leaders wavered on the issue of
secession from the central national
government. Troop trains, bearing
3,000 Japanese soldiers and war
equipment arrived at Tientsin from
Chlrfwangtao,' treaty tort of Hopeh
province.
At Peiping where the Japanese
garrison has more than doubled in
the last 34 hours, the military at
tache announced that the Fengtai
railway junction a few miles from
Peiping had been sieaed because of
rumors that rolling stock on the
Peiping-Mukden railway was being
moved south, jeopardizing north
China communications and threat,
eing to isolate the Japanese forces
at Peiping. Public nervousness was
intensified by the arrival of the
troop trains.
General Sh&ng Chen wired his
resignation as governor of Hopen
province to Nanking, accepting the
responsibility, for the failure to
check the north China autonomy
movement.
The unobstructed Japanese mili
tary movement into north China
was described by Japanese spokes
men as merely one phase of wide
spread maneuvers. Chinese sources,
however, conjectured that the troop
influence might be aimed at inti
midating north Chinese officials in
to acceptance of the autonomy pro
gram and forestalling any Nanking
efforts to suppress the campaign
forcibly. A detachment of Japanese
troops appeared suddenly in the lo
cality of north China where never
before had they been seen.
Illegal Machine
Owner, Operator
Are Given Fine*
W. R, Shaw, owner of an al
leged illegal marble table was
fined $300 yesterday in record
er’s court and Veal Bivins of
Lawndale and operator of the
machine was fined $60
Both gave notice of appeal to
appear at the next term of su
i perior court. Shaw posted a
bond of $500 and Bivens posted
l $200.
The machine in question was
the only one officers could find
in Cleveland county on Monday
after an ultimatum had been is
- sued a few days ago for their re
moval.
Through their attorney, C. B.
McBrayer. owners of a number
of slot machines in the county
will use thin as a test case.
Soft Pedalling
Of Christianity
Weak Says Fuller
"Soft pedalling and minimizing
personal witnessing in Christianity
has been a weakening force in our
modern churches," said Dr. Hails A.
Fuller, of Atlanta, Ga„ to a large
congregation at the First Baptist
church last night.
Dr. Fuller is leading a revival
meeting at the First Baptist church
here until December 6. Numbers of
visitors from neighboring towns and
members of other denominations are
hearing him, both at the morning
service at 9:30 and in the evening
at 7:30 o'clock.
Morning Subjects
Morning subjects for Dr. Fuller
during the meeting will be under
the general topic “The Kingdom of
God,” and evening sermons will be
evangelistic.
Continuing his topic of personal
religion last night, Dr. Fuller said
that of the 44,000,000 persons in the
Southern states, 24.000,000 are not
Christians, and said that one of the
main reasons for this amazing con
dition is that so few people who
profess to be Christians “spread the
gospel and bring others to a saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ.”
Quotation
• Bearing personal and individual
testimony is a genuine Christian ex
perience, and is the most natural
expression one can have . . . I am
worried about the silence of our
church members ... no person tn
the world will take offense at the
gospel message ... a solution to the
problem is family prayer, church
co-operation, soul-winning and in
tensive study of the Bible.
[Four Local Hunters
Get Geese and Ducks
! Four local hunters returned last
night from Lake Mattamuskeet in
eastern Carolina where they were
[successful in hunting ducks and
geese. They returned with four
teen of each. In the party were Dr
B. H. Kendall, Dr. D M. Morrison
[S. M. Gault and Patrolman Ray
Erwin.
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L. A. Beam Killed
As Train Hits Car
At Kings Mountain
Accident Occurs At
Margrace Road
Former Resident Of Shelby Struck
Ry No. 44 Southern Pass enter
Train.
Lawrence Augustus Beam, 48 year
old textile worker of Laurens, 8. O.
and for eight years a resident of
Dover Mill community near Shelby,
was Instantly killed Monday night
by No. 40, northbound Southern
train.
The fatal accident occurred at
7:30 o'clock about two miles south
of Kings Mountain station at a
grade crossing near Margrace mill.
A Plymouth car which Mr. Beam
was driving, stalled on the track
and was demolished.
Driving Alone
Mr. Beam was on his way to visit
his brother-in-law, Clyde Kee. resi
dent of Kings Mountain, but had ,
not reached his home. He had left!
hi* wife at the home of her father
Mr. Kee, In Huntersville, N. C. They
were both employed at Laurens. 8.
O.
According to Rev. W. A. Elam,
Mr. Beam was one of the first mem
bers of the Dover Baptist church
here, and In his eight years In Dover
made a wide circle of friends. He
moted away about two years ago.
.———- Funeral Service*
Funeral services for Mr. Beam
were held today at 11 o’clock at St.
Marks Luthern church near Cherry
ville. Rev. Mr. Elam was In charge.
Surviving are his wife, his father.
Jonas E. Beam of Cherryvllle: two
sisters, Mrs. C. D. Self, of Malden,
land Mr*. Mae Clanton, of Belmont;
a brother. Beverly Beam, Uvea at
Cherryvllle. He also has numerous
other family connections there.
Mr. Beam was known as a hard
working man, deeply religious and
intensely Interest in the work of his
church. A large number of Shelby
people went to Cherryvllle for the
funeral.
Action Deferred
On PWA Projects
Until Tonight
Pinal action on bids for the con
struction of five school buildings in
Cleveland county will be taken to
night by the county board of edu
cation at a called meeting.
The bids were opened Monday by
Dr. Herman G. Baity, state direc
tor of PWA.
Bids will be received December 10
for the six remaining PWA pro
jects in the huge school building
program, according to J. H. Origg,
county superintendent. These pro
jects include a new high school
building at Lattimore, an auditor
ium and four classrooms at Beth
ware; auditoriums and six class
rooms at No. 1 elementary, audi
torium and six class rooms at 'o. 2
elementary (Shanghai) and four
room additions, noth at Mooresboro
and Waco.
Salisbury Body
Out Of U. S. CC
SALISBURY, Nov. 27.—(AP)—
The Salisbury chamber of commerce
by unanimous action of the direc
tors last night voted to withdraw
its membership from the United
States chamber of commerce until
such time as that body reverts to
Its original status as a trade organ
ization and discontinues its activi
ties as a political organization.
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High School Girls Will Solicit
Rogers Funds At Picture Shows
Eight attractive Shelby high
school girls will solicit contributions
at the Webb and Carolina theatres
today atyl Thursday from the pa
trons of these two show houses.
The active drive for funds for the
Will Rogers Memorials will be made
this week and three young ladles
will receive contributions, large and
small, as picture show patrons come
| and go.
Mr. Webb, manager of the Webb
[theatre, and Mr. Reynolds of the
| Carolina will run a trailer at each
jshow bouse during these two days,
Furloughs Canceled
For 100,000 Troops
As Duce Pushes On
United States Continues Vigorous Stand
Against Further Shipment Of Wag
Materials; Front Flashes
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The conflict between Italy and Ethiopia engendered near
European unrest today as sources close to the Italian govt
ernment said forceful resistance might be expected if thi
league of nations pressed for an extension of sanctions.
Rebels Surrender
To Loyalists In
Brazil Uprising
Group Of Aviation Youngsters Give
In At Point Of
Bayonet.
By Associated Preee
RIO DE JANERIO, Nov. 27—
Loyal government troops froced the
surrender of a rebel group of en
listed men at the aviation school
here today then fixed bayonets for
a charge against the third Infantry
regiment which had risen against
the government.
The rebellion, which broke out in
northeast Brazil, spread to the
troops stationed in the capital early
today, only a few home before the
government announced it had cap
tured Natal which the rebels slesed
Saturday.
The Brazil government claimed It
dominated the fresh rebellions and
said a civil corps of loyal villgantes
fought the seditious communist sol
diers in the state of Rio Orande do
Norte, battling to put down the last
remnants of the sanguinary north
east rebellion.
Postoffice Painting
To Forest City Firm
Smith and Wilson, painters of
Fores} City submitted the lowest
bid to paint the plastering of the
interior of the Shelby postoffice,
according to an announcement from
Washington. The firm's bid was
$366, the lowest of a dozen bids
submitted.
Corn Under Com
Found By Police
Off Highway 20
Forty-eight half pints at bot
tled In bond whlnxey nas been
turned In at the office of Sher
iff J. R. Cline, after being found
under a com shock In a field on
the left side of highway No. 20
between Cleveland Springs and
the fairgrounds.
Discovery of the high priced
booze was made by some work
men who were hauling up feed
for Grover C. Hamrick who had
the field rented the past year.
The men were surprized to
find com under com, but fig
ured nothing short of a miracle
could have transferred the
spirits from the ears of com to
the corked bottles.
As yet, no one has laid claim
to the stuff. Acting on informa
tion that the whiskey was there.
Chief of Police D. L. Willis and
Depbty Lortn E. Hoyle confis
cated it.
calling attention to the Rogers
Memorial fund being solicited
throughout the nation to be used
for handicapped and underprivileg
ed children.
High school girls were invited to
do the Job here. A dozen were need
ed, yet 30 or more volunteered to do
their bit for the handicapped chil
dren in memory of their idol Will
Rogers, humorist and philosopher.
Wednesday’s workers are as fol
lows:
At the Webb: Evelyn Elam. Sara
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On the African fronl Ethiopian
reporta of vlctoriea on the aouthem
front were followed with a com
munique from Addle Abate saying
that 1.000 Italians, occupying Me*
kale on the northern trout) in
terated yesterday to Adtgral i
Italian advices were sharply eon*
tradlctory, they said Ethiopians on
the northern and southern fronts
were putting up a bitter but ineffec
tual resistance. •
V. 8. in Neutral
Despite Rome's bitterness against
sanctions Which were reported as
already being felt by Italy the Unit
ed States appeared to be stiffening
Its vigorous stand against tha ex
port of essential war materials to
belligerents, under .tha Roosevelt
neutrality policy. ri
Authoritative sources In Wash
ington Indicated that a new step
under consideration was the crea
tion of a system of qubtaa which
wofUd limit the shipment of cargoes
such as oil, copper, sqrap Iron and
steel ta. warring nations.
As the league of nations general
staff of experts assembled at Gen
eva to determine if sanctions al
ready voted can be carried out ef
fectively—the projected oil embargo
—the British cabinet met to debate
against Italy still being in abeyance
the question of Including such an
embargo in the penalties already as
sessed against It.
Grave Decision
Observers commented that, fax this
the British government Is faoed with
what appears to be one of the grav
est decisions of the Itaio-Ktbloptan
conflict. Spokesmen for tha Italian
government said tha addition of oil
and coal embargoes to tha eocuomlo
and financial penalties already ap
plied would mean slow straugaiatem
of the nation. They added tbatfBs
longer Italy awaited an attack by
another European power, the weak
er she would be at the critical mo
ment, therefore, It might te tetter
to face a showdown while Italy wag
still fresh.
ROME, Nov. 77.—Reliable sources
said today It was believed that the
government had largely pgfuwlled
the furloughs recently intended to
about 100,000 soldiers and new troop
movements had been ordered. Au
thorities said Italy was sufficiently
worried about tha talk fal the lea
gue of nations concerning placing
oil on the embargo list to make aocne
movement of troops.
Gin Report Shows
39,356 Bales Here
There had been ginned <9,356
bales of cotton In Cleveland county
prior to November 14 as compared
with 35,393 bales to the same date
a year ago, according to official fig
ures gathered by Thamer c. Beam,
special agent for the bureau ><
census.
With the crop nearly 4,000 bales
ahead of last year, It Is now certain
that this year’s crop will ex
ceed that of last year and that
Cleveland county will exceed that
of last year and that Cleveland
county will reclaim first place t^s
the largest cotton county In North
Carolina. First rank was lost for
two years to Robeson county which
exceeded Cleveland by a few hun
dred bales.
POLICE FORCE IS CUT
• BY ONE MAN. MR, MOORE
The local police force Is being cut
down. One man, Marshall Moore,
has been relieved and another la
scheduled to go, as an economy
move. Mr. Moore i* Reid In great
favor and no char. compbmt
was made against him.
•
Tweniy-unree percent, oi tne en
tire enrollment and 39 percent of the
seniors made the honor roll. The
averages for thet above period is
about 18 percent for the school and
22 percent for seniors. Not only
was there the highest percentage of
pupils making the honor roll but
also there was the lowest percent
age of failures. For the month just
ending only 3J percent of courses
of all pupils and 1.4 percent of the
courses of the seniors were failed.
This is against an average of 15 per
cent of all pupils and 9 percent of
seniors. The 85 seniors study a total
of 349 courses. Only five of these
were failed.
Poor Attendance
A careful survey of the records
for this month and other months
show that the most common cause
of failure is poor and irregular at
tendance. Many of the failures this
month can be attributed to absences
of from three to ten times from the
object failed. The average attend
Ke of 96.7 far the month was very
atisfactocy.
These apd comparisons were
lathered and made by if. E. Aber
aethy, principal.
Students making the second
month’s honor roll follow:
Graham School
Second grade: Dean Hamrick,
Ray Loflin, Jr., Mary Jean Jarrett,
Jean Keever, Marjorie Honeycutt,
Fannie Mae Hudson, Jenell Ham
bright, Linda Lee Lovelace. Gwen
dolyn Baber, Mary Wilkins Gardner,
Betty Mauney, Margaret Stroup.
Third grade: Jean Baber, Nancy
tut*, Paul Brooks, Nettie Cash,
Nancy Blanton, Hamel Hambright,
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Terracing Outfit
In No. 2 Township
Terracing work by the newly pur
chased county outfit has moved In
to No. 2 township and Is now hum
ming along on the farm of J, A.
La$timore, according to director
John Reitzel, assistant county
Jgent.
Prom time to time this winter,
W? Reitzel says, the outfit will
*ovr to other townships to give all
Parts of the county some estimate
the type of work being done.
There is a possibility that the coun
ty will purchase another unit for
further erosion control work.
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Morning Cotton
LETTER
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The cot
ton market yesterday appeared to
. a waiting affair, and while there
"** battered realizing and liquida
tion bv longs this was largely offset
lradR buy*ng. Final prices were
about * to 7 up from the lows but
® 11 to 6 points from previous close.
he mason’s total exports up to
'wet-day exceed last season’s fig
j^s tor same period by 466,000
*!es- The present uncertainty In
, * 'r«rkefc appears to be the ef
%f outside influences such as
'mpendlng supreme court de
::Hons on processing tax eases and
French situation.
. ’ !oolc iat * narrow market
poratHy but think advantage
be taken of dips to SSe
purchases, as we believe much high
- Phces will be seen.
E. A. Pleroe Sc Co.
THE MARKETS
coiiT- spot.11% *°
°‘0tB seed, car lot. ten_ 940.00
11 a- ,York cott°n at 2:30: Dec.
U4R tT' l174' Mar n62’ May
, 4S J'iljjll.40, oct 11.14.
Assurance Given
For New $10,000
Extension Plant
Word From Washington Says Ade
quate Money Has Been
Appropriated.
Assurance of the proposed new
*10,000 agricultural building for the
extension department of Cleveland
county was made today in a dis
patch from Washington through
which it was learned that $800,000
Works Progress money has been
ear-marked for similar buildings in
i North Carolina.
j Word from the office of the coun
ity agent this morning was to the
effect that the dispatch was offi
cial, but no notification has been
sent here to specify just when work
will begin.
S8.00M00 In South
Comptroller General McCsrl at
Washington approved the expendi
ture of approximately $6,000,000 in
the entire southern states for farm
buildings and community centers.
The North Carolina projects will
be located in 60 counties, and the
agricultural buildings will cost
$479,200 and community centers in
41 counties will cost $338,153.
Campbell Optimistic
Phil Campbell, of the rehabilita
tion division of the AAA expressed
great optimism over the entire pro
gram. The program for this state
was sponsored by the extension divi
sion of the state agricultural col
lege.
The Cleveland county building,
for which plans were submitted some
weeks ago, will be located on Jones
street near the county jail, and will
provide space for the county agent,
his assistant, the home demonstra
tion agent, a small auditorium for
meetings, laboratories, and library
rooms. It will be of brick construc
tion and will be constructed along
the same general plan as the 60
other similar buildings in the state.
Lincoln, Gaston and Rutherford
counties will obtain similar build
ings.
Pennington Hearing
To Be December 9th
The data for a hearing of the de
tails of the accident in which Er
nest Pennington was killed Sunday!
has been set for Monday, December
9th.
Mr. Pennington was killed near
Boiling Springs when he was thrown
from a car driven by J. C. Bridges,
jr., after Mr. Bridges had driven to
the Pennington home to take the
family to dinner. The driver start
ed to lower the window of the auto,
hit a soft spot in the road, and lost
control. Mr. Bridges was overcome
with grief at the death of his friend
and neighbor.
■A deferred showing of North Car
olina’s largest holiday celebration
has been arranged by the Warren
F. Hoyle post No. 83, Shelby Ameri
ca* Legion, for this community to
morrow.
Orginally scheduled for Armistice
day, November 11, postponement of
the Three-A sanctioned auto races,
the highlight feature, became twice
necessary by the advent of incle
ment weather. The remainder of the
program, including street parades,
dances and drill competitions, was
presented Armistice day.
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