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WEATHER rHTOims-v r»n. note quite *c ■old tonight. Saturday mostly rioudy, warmer, possibly light snow >n west. The Mkchkmd SEND 10 Pages TODAY Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoona VOL. XLII, No. 11 Bf M il Mt r»tr. on MniNi _ iih Carrier. per nu. (la advance) _ UN Shelby Plans Gala Ball On President’s Birthday Fight On “Polio” ToBe Waged With Money FromEvent Local Committee Is Being Named Mavor Harry S. Woodson Is Named Chairman For 1936. Shelby’s part of a million birthday dollars to help fight and kill and drive from the earth that dreaded infantile paralysis was in sight today as first announcement was made that this city will have! a part in the Roosevelt Birth da v Ball. Major Harry S. Woodson has ac cepted the general chairmanship Of the gala affair which will be held the evening of January 30 in the ballroom of the Hotel Charles. In announcing that the script will be $2 the mayor said he will make later announcement as to the fea tures and novelties planned for the program. It bids fair, however, to be one of the best events ever staged here. Complete Committee* Complete committees and direc tors of various features will be named Monday by Mayor Woodson and 8. C. Hewitt, who will collaborate with him in making arrangements for the celebration. It was learned late today that Bill Davidson and his well known orchestra from Charlotte will fur nish the music for the hilarities of the evening. The 1936 ball will be the third ever held and is expected to bring more than $1,000,000 into the central "birthday ball1, treasury to be used solely in the national fight against poliomyelitis, commonly and fear fully known as infantile paralysis. The president was once inflicted with this disease, and still carries a <wne because of it. He gave liberal- i If to Warm Springs Foundation in his adopted state of Georgia, before ! the initiation of the ball idea, which! has since, carried on the work. More than 7,000 communities, dlties and towns are expected to give s ball tn honor of the 54th birthday Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and were are said to be some 300,000 Pulto victims in the United States who are now in dire need of finan dal and medical help. I ---- Morning Cotton LETTER ■ ' W YORK, Jan. 24.—Prices ad need principally on buying in the months, a large part of the nanrt |or the new crop being for r)?' account, contracts for p 7"1 anci May In greater supply. tfrn^r* ’dually operating for gov ivm.l a<'<coitnt supplied January ti *nd 14 18 now estimate' Ct producerc P°ol bill take de n nf approximately 20,000 be’ No doubt the inf la bjv 1™Pllcations m the bonus hrr, 7 lcb passed the house has opiS 'n fneW buylng- However, the Si K.khe Pr°P°sed farm mittep ” by the senate sub-corn hesitatHn agriculture may cause Cro7 7 the dernand for new niteh- t east Untu more i* defi rlSir 0f the vaaa** plans ft c° tro1 Productk>n. E. A. Pierce Co,tot, THE MARKKTS Cout y} . UK to 12 Con eed' waS°n. ton_$31 U"" ***• ear lot, ton .... $3i llT/ J°rk cotton at 2:30: J tc>r,-‘ r, V' 11 M May 11.07, J * r*‘ 10:7. Uec. p) 2j. Political Ball Begins To Revolve; Several Are Near Announcement At last! The political ball is be ginning to roll in Cleveland countj and imprints made today indicati that at least four and possibly oth er would-be candidates are on thi brink of a race, and a number oi others may be on the firing line any moment. Roscoe Lutz, well known under taker and business man said thii morning he is on the verge of an nouncing tor the state legislating from this county, saying that his race is assured, “if ho one else comes out." Ernest Gardner, incumbent, indi cated some time ago that he will be a candidate for re-election. Friends of Cobby Horn, D. Z. New ton, and George Wray have been dropping intimations that either of ' these three may be prospective leg (Continued on page ten.) Post Office Gains 3 Clerks As Inspector Notes Growth See Associate Welfare, Relief Aide In County Possibility of a permanent asso ciate in Cleveland county welfare and relief work loomed as almost a certainty today following a meeting of She county welfare committee with Mrs. L. H. Ledford, present worker and a high official from the Raleigh office, Dr. 8. 8. Royster is chairman of the welfare committee and is as sociated with W. A. Ridenhour of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey of this city. Announce Soon The only information that could be learned of the new associate Is that if chosen, they will have charge of the materials left the county under the ERA which was discontinued December 1 and will also do relief certification work for the present WPA needs. As the mat ter stands now only those persons on relief last May are eligible for the WPA, Too, there is an unusually large amount of case work that must be done in the county at the present time. It is understood that four or five applications were considered today, but the announcement will be made from the Raleigh office, possibly during the week-end. Salaries will be paid by the state, but the figure was not named. Certificate Pool Closes February 1 A telegram from Bankhead control headquarters to J. A. Propst, at the office of the coun ty agent indicated today that the pool for 1935 cotton'tax exemp tion certificates will be closed February 1. This is nearly two weeks ear lier than last year and farmers and glnners who want to tag their cotton, so as to render it tax free should get these cer tificates from Mr. Propst at once. Reflections of prosperity for fair were seen at the city post office to day when announcement was made that three new full time men have been added to the clerical force, and that a utility window will, be ginning Saturday, remain open dur ing the afternoon. The addition of new men came on i the heels of a week’s visit of F. G Hoback, federal inspector from Washington who felt the Increase In trade justified the move. Russell Latighrtdge, assistant postmaster said today that he is expecting well over $1,000 increase over January of 1080, as receipts an mounting, every I da*., w | The utility window wO! be opetx | Saturday afternoons from 1 until 6 o’clock for the sale of stamps, and the mailii>p of registers and parcel post only. There will be no delivery service of any kind, with the excep tion of special delivery. Money orders, postal savings and "general delivery will continue to close at 1 o'clock. The postal savings and C. O. D. departments have been transferred to the money order di vision. Regular hours for these will be from 9 until 6 o’clock. Hours for general delivery, stamps and parcel post will remain at from 8 until 8 o’clock. The new men added to the cleri cal force are G. C. Self. R. R. Black and T. O. Grigg. Temporary substi tutes are Bloomfield Kendall and Riley McCord. The Shelby office now has 39 men in its organization, and the entire body got the hearty approval and a good recommendation from the In spector. Says Radio Under Partisan Control HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 34<flV E. H. Harris of the National Radio committee of the American News paper Publishers association charg ed In a speech today thgt radio in the United States is under a “very definite and partisan control.** The existing set up for supervi sion of the air through the Federal Radio commission makes control possible "through the power of fear,” he said in an address for delivery at the convention of the Pennsyl vania Newspaper Publishers associa tion. “This power Is applied by the par ty In control of the government to further its own ends,” he said. This Family Must Live On $200 A Year And Be Happy-They Are “Tee, my dear, we have got to live on $200 a year. And furthermore, with that $200 we have got to buy slothes for these five children, the groceries we have to have, medicine, household supplies, and any luxuries rou think we ought to have in 1936.", The above may not be the exact speech, but it is much the substance in actual farmer of good parentage uid background had to tell his wife md family who live in a well known md prosperous community near nere. This family, who may be called :he John Smiths for convenience, is ine of more than 100 such groups of neopV who are now turning over] the leaf of a new year, beginning with the soil again under the direc tion of the Rural Resettlement work, directed in this county by George Dedmon. t Beginning at the bottom, with nothing except the will to work, and the promise of the department of agriculture to help them, the John Smiths will in 1936 try to grow di versified crops, can fruits and ber ries, live economically, and raise enough in truck crops and gardens in addition to a money crop to start them on their way to security again. Ttie quota for Cleveland is 128 (Continued on page teu) Where George V Lies In State T WastmimUr Abbsy Pinal tribute front Um Mbjecta wfco lovad him so well ud the formal eulogy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, inset, mark the state cere monies at Westminster Abbey, London, for the late King George V, whose place of burial is the royal chapel at Windsor Castle. $.lQ9*®(HLfiQQLJkJ>epo8it8 Represented In Meet Here More than $100,000,000 in bank de-1 posits was represented' in the 300 bankers who gathered.at the Hotel Charles Wednesday night in the annual business meeting and ban quet of group No. 9 of the North Carolina Bankers association. A company of high officials of the state organization from Winston Salem, Raleigh and Charlotte was present, as well as bankers and bank representatives from the seven coun ties of Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, | Rutherford, Gaston, Lincoln and Mecklenburg. Leinback Speaks C. T. Leinback, president of tht North Carolina Bankers association was the principal speaker of the evening and voiced a vigorous sup port of the New Deal for banker! new banking laws, and closed hb brief address with an explanatior of the latest rulings of the Federal (Continued on page ten.) Roosevelt Seeks Productive Agriculture In New Plans Late Bulletins i Get Sentences GREENSBORO, Jan. Zt.—UD— Marvin Cannady, 33, and Horace Nichols, 31, of Burlington, pleaded1 guilty in Guilford superior court to* | day and were sentenced to 30 years! at hard labor in state prison for ribbing a filling station near here uecember S. Sarraut Premier PARIS, Jan. 24^—Senator Albert Sarraut was successful today in an attempt to form a new cabinet for France, the 101st government of the third republic. Sarraut, who already has served his country as premier is a veteran of the radical-socialist party. The cabinet formed is a transition party to keep the government running un til the parliamentary elections in April or Stay. Kiw&nis Meeting ELIZABETH CITY, Jan. U.—i/P)— I. H. Leroy, Jr., Carolina’s Klwanis district governor announced today the annual midwinter conference of the district will be held in Greens boro, January 30. City Buys New Car For Police’s Use Speed and comfort in catching robbers, thieves, and law-breakers are the joint mottoes of the city executives, who have just bought a new car for the police department to use in making calls and in chas ing down clues. However, the boys on the regular beats still have to walk. j Mrs. Beulah Nixon returned tot Shelby ypsterdny after .spending a! few days in Roxboro with friends j WASHINGTON, Jail. 34.—W The goal of making agriculture at >roductive as it was 100 years ago,’ vas set by President Roosevelt to lay as administration and congres ional leaders sought to form a nea arm program. Mr. Roosevelt coupled with thi* expression of the broad objective s lope that farm legislation to re ilace AAA would be possible with mt a constitutional amendment. He aid his hoDe that a constitutional nethod of writing farm legislation emained after the supreme court’s 1AA decision. The president left to congress the ask of working out the details ol ibtaining the goal he outlined. 6n apitol hill both the senate and the louse agriculture committees were it work with Secretary Wallace and Chester Davis, who administered VAA before the latter group, but a lumber of congressional leaders, in ludlng Senator Norris, Republican Nebraska, already had questioned he constitutionality of the soil con ervation subsidy bill, drafted bj he agriculture department. Today this measure had been re lsed tentatively to add to the stop ;ap program a system of 48 little lAA’s by which the federal govern uent, after the two year period oi he direct subsidy method would :rant money only to states cooper ting and con rolling production. Mr. Roosevelt declined direct com nent on this substitute for the AAA ►ill or the constitutionality chal enge raised against it. He remark d there were perhaps 15 direct pays of reaching the objective Lsked about suggested taxes to fi lance the farm program Mr. Roose elt said he was still studying thb |i lest ion and had no lemment tc nake at this time. Send Oat Urgent SOS For Funds To Complete Community Center An earnest 8. O. 8. sent out from the building foreman of the community building and from legion and county officials today as a check-up indicates that an extra $150 to $1,000 will be needed to complete the recreation center. Work is progressing rapidly on the building which when completed a little less than two months hence will be used as a meeting place for the American l^eglon and Auxiliary, Boy Scouts, civic clubs or other non profit organizations In the county. It is being constructed under the direction of Earl Lowman and WPA labor Is being used entirely. To date the legion and auxiliary have given $1,000 In cash and al most $1,000 In materiel „mt plies: the county ha*, *-1,0* the city $1,500 and the WPA's quota for labor Is $1,337. < Tlie foreman stated that he will be ready to*put on the root' of the building in a little more than 10 days. The extra money will be need ed for electrical fixtures, finishing materials, and a number of other things such as paints, etc. Con tract for plumbing was announced as having been let to Randall of till* ,city. May Build 16 Miles Power j Lines For 94 Families Soon Lethal Chamber Has 1st Victim In Allen Foster RALEIGH, Jan. 24.—(A*)—Allen Foster, 20, Birmingham, Alabama, negro was asphixiated here today lor criminally assaulting a Hoke county white woman, in the first lethal gas 1 executibn east of the Mississippi riv er. It was 11 minute* after the elec tric apparatus, operating the gas generating equipment, was set be fore physicians pronounced the man dead. Witnesses who had seen many electrocutions expressed displeasure with the way the. gas -acted.. Coro ner L. M. Waring or Wake county, who had witnessed 72 electrocutions, said. “My first gas execution will be my last." Foster breathed spasmodically and convulsively while the cloudy gas filled the chamber. Dr. C. A. Peterson of Mitchell county, legislator and author of the law, substituting gas for electricity in executions of the state said, after witnessing Foster's death, “There 1* no doubt in my mind that gas is more humane than electricity in taking human life.” The legislator, who saw hi* first execution after his proposal had be come law, and said It was not as bad as he thought it would be, pointed out Chat Foster’s body was relaxed, while in electrocutions the bodies are rigid. Lawrence Petty Dies In Charlotte CHARLOTTE, Jan. 24.—Funeral services for Lawrence M. Petty, 40, who died of a heart attack yester day afternoon while at work in his barber shop in the basement of the Independence building, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon In the chapel of Z. A. Hovis and Son. Rev. W. L. Griggs, pastor of Ninth Ave nue Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will take place in Forest Lawn cemetery. Mr. Petty, resident of Charlotte for about 25 years, collapsed about 2 o’clock and died before a doctor could be summoned. A native of Gaffney, 8. C., he made his home here in the Piedmont building. Sur viving are his estranged wife, Mrs. i Texie Petty, four children. Miss Mary Petty, Jasper, William and j Lloyd Petty, and one brother. Hazel (Petty of High Point. j (Mr. Petty lived in Shelby during | his boyhood and is related here.) Consideration of building at least 18 miles of electric power and light lines In Cleveland which will offer lighted rooms, electrical appliances and labor saving devices to more than 500 persons, will be made in a! meeting here at 2:30 next Tuesday afternoon. The meeting will be held in the office of the county agent and will be composed of a chairman and two i other representatives from at least six and possibly more groups which have made application to the state Rural Electrification survey. Specialist To Speak With them will be extension heads here, power officials and D. C. Jones, assistant in the state department of rural electrification and a specialist In this type of work will hold a con ference with the group. The chairman from the six com munities will act as spokesman to present the pleas asking aid and advice In building of the six new lines. Duke Power attaches here said today they stood ready to cooperate with the county and state leaders in any project. If completed, the six new lines will make the whole Cleveland total exceed 1,500 homes and nearly 1& 000 persons In the rural sections who use electricity for power and lighting. This is said by the county agent to be possibly the best rec ord in the state. Following are the proposed lines, mileage, families or houses they would serve, the name of the chair man and their community: 1. One and a half miles, 14 fam ilies, E. Q. Roberts, Grover route. 2. Three miles, 17 families, T. L. Camp, Qrover route. 3. Two and a half miles, 12 fam ilies, Mrs. Minnie Mace, Casar. 4k One and two-tenths, four families, A. D. Warllck, Lawndale j route. | 5. Five and two-tenths miles, 33 families, A. Y. Warlick, Lawndale route. 8. Two and a half miles. 14 fam ilies, Mrs. Blaine Baker, Lawndale mute. Two Are Killed In S. C. Accident KINOSTREE, S. C., Jan. 24.—UP)— Mrs. W. H. Bales, 56, and T. P. Cape hart, 29, both of Asheville, were fa tally injured In an auto accident near here last night. Mrs. Bales was killed Instantly and Capehart died two hours later. , E. G. Bales, a son of Mrs. Bales, and the third occupant of the car, suffered minor Injuries. He said the lights of another car blinded them on a curve and the auto left the road and overturned. Disappearing Act Is Pat On By Mercury In Local Thermometers Winter’* coldest blasts had de scended on Cleveland last night and I today, along with more than three - | four.ha of the en Ire United 8tates, taking close to 100 lives in the en* tire nation. Thermometers of local weather ob servers squeezed their mercury down | into the tiny bulb at tlie bottom and stayed there, with water pipes fail ing to work except in protected places. Few thermometers agreed, but some of the lowest temperatures named here were from 10 to 12 above. Over the United 8tates as a whole, j the sub-zero fpinperaturet. ranged jfrom mills 56 on the bridge over the ! Rainy river between International Palls, Minn., anti Fort Frances, Ont.—for the second successive day coldest spot on the weather map and one degree more frigid than yesterday—to New York’s two be low. In the arctic belt’s 25-to-52 de zree-below range were Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of Ohio, Penn sylvania and West Virginia. Parts Jf New York State. Indiana. HU* lols; Nebraska tfcd the Dakotas saw readings of 10 to 20 under zero. Wings of the cold wave penerat ?d the southland bringing threats (Continued oo page ten.! Shout Vote! Vote! Before Ink Dries On Death Warrant President Tells Reason For Veto K.-caks Precedent By Sending Terwe Handwritten Veto Of Bill. n ASttim; I’UN, Jan. 24.— Immediate payment of the bonus was vetoed today by President Roosevelt. Break ing precedent of a quarter of a century he eonl a terse, hand-written message, return ing, “Without my approval” the $2,491,000,000 bond pay ment plan. The sudden actloft faced almost certain overrid ing by Congress. President Roosevelt vetoed immediate payment of the bonus today and it wm quickly over ridden by a heavily Democra tic house. 334 to 61. Member* barely awaited to hear the read inf of the brief handwritten veto message be fore demand* of “vote, vote,” were ahouted. Democratic leader* aoufht te delay the ballot until Monday but were voted down 168 to 131. The senate doe* not Moot un til Monday, so final action will be delayed over the week-end. < senate would Join representative* ■mate would Join repreaentatives . and make the MU law. Democratic leaders flatly predict ed the bill would become tow. Only a two-third* inaJSHtVu riiSded to make it law without the president's signature. The only question In the minds of the leaders was when the vote on overriding the ve^o would be taken. Speaker Byrns preferred waiting un til Monday and Democratic leader, Representative Bankhead,' agreed Former PoUey In'his message Mr. Roosevelt re ferred senators and representatives “respectfully to every word of prhat I said” in last year’s veto of a cur rency expansion bonus payment bill. “My convict tons Site J«a.fai*peiUn* today as they wore than’' tho presi dent said. •'Therefore, J earmot change them.” Mr. Roosevelt added: “Tit* MU f now return differs from last year's (Continued from Fanners Approved TV A Start Here; Mass Meet Held Field Representative Speaks 1* 1M From AH Eleven Town ships. More than 100 farm leaders from every township in the county were here yesterday morning attending a meeting in the county court house hearing explanations as to how at least 11 farms In Cleveland will be set up as demonstration units under the Tennessee Valley Authority. L. B. Auten, district agent for the state extension deportment was the speaker and told of a plan which will incorporate all the coun ties in North Carolina in • pro gram of conservation and improve ment of polls. The Demonstration The demonstration farms will be operated by their regular owner?, but with plans for rotation of oops, terracing, fertilising, use of legumes and other methods suggested by the TVA. A certain amount of Triple Phos phate and perhaps other fertilizer will be furnished by the TVA, al though the grower will nav freight and storage on It, and will use it under only soil improvement crops. Applications will be received at the office of the county agent and a special committee to be named later will co-operate with the Cleve land County Conservation associa tion In selecting the demonstrations farms. Officers of this association are Dan W. Moore, president; L. E. Hoyle, vice-president; A. A. Bettis, secretary-treasurer; Jess Hord and Joe E Blanton, directors. Actual work is expected lb twgtW early this yea*.