WEATHER
v c lair, colder in east and
‘,'rai' severe freeze tonight.
SJ’y fair- not so cold in aft
prnooD in aest.
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Member of Associated Press
I VOL- XLII. No. 12
SHELBY, N. CX MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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City Makes Application For $225,000.00 PWA Loan
Would Be Used
To Build Local
Electrical Unit
Baity Approve*
At Chapel Hill
Would Use Deisel Engine
Power And Pay For Self
In 12 Years.
An application for a loan
and grant of $225,000 with
which to build an electric gen
erating plant to furnish pow
er for the City of Shelby, has
been forwarded to T>r. H. G.
Baity of Chapel Hill. It is
understood his stamp of ap
proval has been given and the
application has been sent on
to Washington for consider
ation.
The present city administration
has been discussing for sometime
the wisdom of building a generat
ing plant, and made a visit to Paris,
Ky, last year to inspect a Diesel
plant there.
Seek 45% Grant.
Several manufacturers of Diesel
pints have sent representatives to
Shelby to present their proposition
for building generating plants in
which crude oil is used and Mayor
Woodson and Aldermen Doggett.
Riviere, Coble and Harris have look
ed with favor upon the plan.
While the cost of an adequate
plant would be $225,000, an effort is
being made to secure a grant erf 48
per cent from the government.
One manufacturer has agreed to
build the plant with four Diesel en
gines generating 2,700 horsepower
snd reoelve pay for <its investment
out of saving in the cost of primary
(Continued on page eight)
Shaw’s Brother
Killed On Road
Shelby friends of W. R. Shaw,
West Warren street will regret to
learn that his brother, Linwood B.
Shaw, age 36, was fatally injured in
an automobile accident Friday
morning about 1 o’clock when the
Chrysler sedan which he was driv
ing alone, failed to take a iurve
near Vanceboro and struck a pole by
the road. He died at 8:30 in a New
Bern hospital.
Mr. Shaw was taken to the hos
pital by a passing motorists. He
sustained a double compound frac
ture of the left leg, a fracture of the
tight leg, lacerations of the face,
*nd a possible fracture of the skull.
1'uneral was held_ Saturday after
noon at 4 o’clock.
i —
Morning Cotton
letter
NKW YORK, Jan. 27.—Hie ad
wnp o( s to 23 points Saturday
■'’ fine more to a scarcity of con
cts than to heavy buying. The
actuations were generaUy within
narrow Innite throughout most of
t',' "rfk and outside speculative in
r'^ ; )n market has not been large
„" lhf uncertainty as to legal
' new farm legislation pending
before congress.
''n‘th,,he acivance of sterling and
tion t currenci«« with rela
b(- ,h(’ dollar, following passage
f'Jt nU* bU1’ Inflationary in
are being drawn in many
Wlr, 7nf- " h,Ch Ptobably haa had
^ influence in recent price ad
Jbc immediate trend of the mar
W afi? 10 depend on a^ion in
PnS nf0n„With relatlon to farm
haoriiin' &"d 40 the futupe plans for
eotton e *e *overnment controller’
wn' E' A. Pierce & Co.
Cotinn THE markets
Cotton Zl \ 11% *° UHe
Cotton Z ^?n’ Un —- »»
^ car lot, ton_$34.00
f..cn- York ^on at 2:30: Jan.
t*M rv, ’’J°- May 11-13, July
0,1 10 «. Dee. 10.39.
Where Thousands Pay Respects To Late King
MUaMtBK
flickering tepeni and fanmoMe pidi, the body of George V Mae in state la amOon! Woo*,
minoter Hall in London. Hon the subjects of the mourned monarch an paying their last roopecta. Picture
transmitted by radio.
Italians Claim Slaughter Of 10,000
Ethiopian Troops As Duce Pushes On
When It Rains
It Pours Fast
Say 3 Victims
Comm* in an unsuspected
wave, a series of accidents dur
ing the week-end at Patterson
Springs left the little commun
ity wondering what was going to
happen next,
John Hamrick, respected term
er, aged 60, fell out of his barn
and was unconscious for such a
period of time members of the
family thought he had sustain
ed a broken neck.
Vqs Allen, 11-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gaither Al
len fell from her bicycle and was
knocked insensible for a long
while.
The same day, a mad dog bit
Pete Sutherland and then hit
his fine hog. Mr. Sutherland had
to kill the dog and the porker,
is having to take Pasteur treat
ment now.
All these accidents happened
within a radius of one mile and
within a few hours of each
other. Mr. Hamrick and Miss
Allen are much improved from,
their falls.
Meet In Washington
BERLIN, Jan. 27.—(AV-The air
ministry announced today that a
special German diplomatic mission
would go to Washington next month
to participate in negotiations for
the establishment of a trans-Atlan
tic air line.
(By Associated Press)
The Italian government announc
ed today its military forces' in Ethi
opia had reported the slaying of
10,000 Ethiopians In a series of bat
tles cm the southern front.
The army reported it had moved
as far north as Wadara, 43 miles
northwest Neghelli.
The action appeared to be that of
an advance column moving away
from the spearhead rammed into
Ethiopia, north from Dolo.
The advance was that of a partly
motorized division commanded by
General Agostini whose movements
previously had been only hinted a
in Italian communiques.
Agostini’s men, meeting a stiff re
sistance, were'reported to have led
an Ethiopian counter attack into a
trap, massacreing thousands of na
tives in the fire of machine guna
Still no definite word has emerg
ed from the battle front to substan
tiate who was the victor in last
week’s battle near Makale.
Scores Are Hurt
As Train Derails
CHICAGO, Jan. 27—</P)—Ten per
sons were injured seriously and
more than two score others were
hurt when 2 cars of a 3 car Chicago
Rapid Transit Company southside
express jumped the rails on a curve
near the Chicago stock yards early
today'. None of the cars overturned
but the 2 derailed tottered dizzily on,
the elevated structure with the
front ends overhanging the edge
and tilted at an angle of almost 45
degrees over the street 35 feet be
low.
Hoey Opens Campaign In
Charlotte, Thursday Feb. 6
Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby will of
ficially open his campaign for the
Democratic nomination for gover
nor with an address in Charlotte on
Thursday night, Febraury 6, tenta
tively set for the Armory-Auditor
ium.
His speech will be broadcast over
radio station from 8 to 9 o’clock.
“At the Charlotte meeting I will
outline my position on public ques
tions that will be of interest in the
campaign,” said Mr. Hoey, “and at
later meetings in various sections
of the state I will go into each ques
tion thoroughly. We are expecting a
big meeting and I am delighted
that this campaign is being opened
in Charlotte.”
• Several other rUies had a^kerl tor
the opening meet mg oi the Hoe\
campaign, it was revealed, including
Raleigh, Greensboro and Asheville.
After careful consideration it was
decided to begin with the meeting in
Charlotte. During the campaign,
however, Mr. Hoey will speak In j
every county in the state. He la onfri
of the best known, if not the best'
known Democratic orator in North j
Carolina and in numerous cam
paigns has carried the colors of
Democracy into every county.
Mr. Hoey declares prospects for
his nomination are unusually bright
and he is preparing to enter the
campaign in fine shape. He is in
good physical condition for a strenu
ous speaking itinerary and is fac
ing the fight for the nomination
eagerly and in excellent spirit*, he
declared
Auto Tag Sales
732 Above ’35;
Total b 6078
Auto ownm are buying tags
better this pearthen .last. It wu
indicated at the office of the
Carolina Motor dub, license bu
reau. . ..-mm
To date 6,0TB autew.
•truck* and trailers hare been
sold, which i* 733 ahead of the
same period last year, and which
lack* only 1,077 having tags for
an t registered vehicles in the
county.
, The number being sold each
day is steadily decreasing and
are said to be going mostly to
old model cars or to newly
bought autos.
Of the 6,078 tags, 6,4011 went
to automobiles, 540 to trucks
and 137 to trailers.
Reports from patrolmen and
other officers Indicate that
there have been but very few
persons who tried to drive autos
improperly licensed this year.
Mrs. Mamie Crews
Dies In Hospital;
Funeral b Today
Was Graduate Of Greensboro Fe
male College; Had Been Hos
pital Patient 3 Weeks.
Mrs. Mamie Ware Crews died in
the Shelby hospital this morning at
6 o’clock following an illness and
treatment in the institution for
three weeks.
Mrs. Crews was. 58 years old and
the daughter of John A. and Ola
Heading Ware. After the death of
her parents she made her home with
her aunt, Mrs. Laura Wells on West
Marion street.
Mrs. Crews was graduated in
music at the Greensboro Female col
lege and taught in public schools
and private classes in music for
many years. She was appreciative ol
the finer things of life, music, flow
ers and children and was a faith
ful member of Central Methodist
church.
The body is resting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wells until
the funeral services which will
take place at Central Methodist
church Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
in charge of the pastor, Dr. R. M.
Courtney, assisted by Dr. Zeno Wall.
Interment will be in the Ware
family plot in Sunset cemetery One
aunt. Mrs. Augustus Ahspaugh of
Barton. Oregon survives.
Mrs. J. R. Dover
To Be Buried In
Shelby Tuesday
E1U Mill Wat Named
For Her
Widow Of Prominent Textile Man;
Nine Children Survive; Bury In
■anaet Cemetery.
Funeral services tor Mrs. KUa
Toms Dover, widow ot the late John
R. Dover will be held from the resi
dence on 8. Washington street Tues
day morning at 11 o'clock and inter
ment will follow in Sunset ceme
tery in the family plot where her
husband was buried four years ago.
Funeral services will be in charge
of Dr. Zeno Wall, assisted by Revs.
W. A. Elam and John W. Buttle.
Senring aa pallbearers will be J. L.
Buttle, la P. Holland, Carl Thomp
son and L. F. McBrayer, while cou
sins and neighbors will be in charge
of flowers.
Mrs. Dover died this morning at
1 o’clock at the age of M years.
About a year ago she suffered a fall
and a broken hip from which she
never fully recovered. For the past
few weeks her condition had been
quiteaarious.
Before marriage M yean ago,
Mrs. Dover was Ella Toms. She was
bom in Rutherford county and after
marriage she and her husband lived
on a farm on Buffalo for eight years
before moving to Shelby In lMg. She
was a devoted wife and mother and
wm Baptist Shurch, Mm was a
member of Bm Woman's club aad
Daughters of American Revolution.
The Ella Mill, built and operated
by her husband, was named in her
honor, This mill was sold to the
Consolidated Textile corporation,
after which Mr. Dover was the or
ganiser and operator of the Dover
and Ora mills 'In Shelby.
Surviving are three sons: J. Toms
Dover of Richmond, Jack and
Charles of Shelby, and six daugh
ters, Mrs. DeWitt Quinn, Mrs. R. O.
Laney, Mrs. Charles Roberts and
Miss Katherine Dover of Shelby,
Mrs. Frank Love of SsLxapahaw, this
state, and Mrs. John Fox of Ridge
wood, N. J. Two half brothers and
two half sistsn also survive: H. L.
Toms of Shelby, Bate Toms of Salis
bury, Mrs. Baylus Justice of Ruth
erford ton and Mrs. Mary Wilson
Log aft of Stevensvllle, Montana.
Committees For
Roosevelt Ball
Are Selected
Committees for the President's
Ball to be held Thursday night of
this week were announced today by
officials of the Junior Civic League
which is sponsoring the event.
Mayor Harry 8. Woodson is gen
eral chairman of the ball which in
addition to honoring the President’s
birthday will gather funds to fight
infantile paralysis. The mayor will
address the guests at the begin
ning of the evening.
Tickets committee will be compos
ed of Mrs. Krank Hoey, Mrs. Draper
Wood and Mrs. Dan Frazier.
The receiving committee will be
Mrs. J. S. Dorton, Mrs. 8. F. Park
er and bliss Burton Gettys.
Johnny Davidson and his troupe
of musicians from Charlotte will
furnish the music for the occasion
which will begin at ff o’clock.
A large crowd is expected to at
tend the Shelby affair. There will
be more than 7,000 such bells in the
nation the same night and more
than $1,000,000 is expected to br
raised to combat poliomyelitis, or
infantile paralysis.
2 Crash Victims
LOS ANGELES, Jan. «—(*»>_
W. E. Matlock, the man aC a thou
sand crack-ups, who rode with At
Gordon yesterday when the racing
driver crashed to death at Ascot
speedway, died today.
Matlock, mechanic and stunt ar
tist, succumbed to internal injuries.
Gordon, bis skull fractured and
rbest crushed, died a short time
after the accident.
Mumps Troubling Schools;
Two Teachers Are Added
The Shelby high school began the
second semester’s work with an es
timated enrollment of 3.600 and a
report that the average attendance
has been cut short the past two to
three weeks due to an epidemic or
mumps. More than 100 cases are re
ported to be among teachers and
Ipuplls.
| Two new teachers were added to
| the high school faculty this week In
an announcement made by Supt. B.
L. Smith.
Miss Mary Louise Bradley, of
Lima, Ohio, has accepted the posi
tion of English teacher in the local
high adhool. She replaces Mrs. W.
E. Abemethy. who has taught In the
system for the past five and a half
years.
Miss Bradley received her training
at Duke university, where she made
an outstanding record. Miss Brad- |
| ley was a classmate of Miss Bara
(Continued on page eight)
Makes Plea For
Surfacing No. 18
h Cherokee Co.
Geffaey Bariums Mm Urge* RoaUi
Carotin* Road Authorities To
C*R7 Out Promise.
Cleveland county people win be
Interested in the pie* which R. B.
Johnson. Gaffney business man la
malting for the surfacing of high
way No. It from the state Hm to
Qaffney.
North Carolina surfaced this road
to the state line six or eight years
ago with the promise that South
Carolina would connect with a sur
Ur. Johnson of Gaff
toJ.iL
with Mr. Sawyer to
pave our road from Gaffney to Shel
by, N. C., and his excuse was that
It would be paved juat'as soon as our
county graded it.
"The last time I was down then
ha said this road had already been
approved by all 'and would oome in
the next contracts.
five years I have
"I have; watched the lists of con
tracts every since expecting to aee
this road In the letting, but for some
reason. I can’t guess why, ft has
been left out
“ThU road will give as a direct
road to Bristol, then No. 23 right
straight to the Orest Lakes, being
the most direct route from the r*r»»»
to Columbia, Charleston and Miami.
"Lay your rule on Detroit and
Miami and aee how straight this
route is.
**I believe with this road com
pleted with a few road signs from
Chicago to Portsmouth, Va., from
Buffalo to Marion. OKlo.'ws could
make this one of the moot travelled
i roads In the south.
“I will appreciate It very much if
you will put this road contract up
| the next work is let."
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Second Lyceum
Program Tonight
The second number of the enter
tainment program being given by the
Shelby Inter-Club Council will be
given at the high school auditorium
at 7:30 o'clock tonight when Miss
Lucille Elmore, accompanied by a
violinist and a singer, will appear In
a comedy revue.
Miss Elmore, cousin of Fred
Stone, has appeared on the New
York stage In several shows, in
cluding the Stone show, Stepping
Stones, and In addition to being a
gifted entertainer gives an amusing
ventriloquist number.
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“Illiteracy Out”
It Goal Of WP A
Adult Education
VtMUoMl, Recreational Awl Trade
Subject* Will Be
Taught.
The light of day is at last break
ing lor adults of this county who in
their youth did not leant to read and {
write and who do not know the
rudiments of language and math
and geography.
A group of eleven teachers In
adult education met with Mrs. Ben
Goforth Saturday to report that
above MO persons an now enrolled
in the tlaiwee and this morning a
plan to extend the program Into the
‘Step the "X”
“We want to put a atop to the
deplorable oondltlon of a man or
woman not being able to read or
having to put an "X" to his name.”
the supervisor said.
A conference was hel dwlth Mrs.
L. W. Gardner who has agreed that
some of the teachers wlU go Into
the seven sewing rooms at least
three hours per week and present
courses In literacy, borne hygiene,
health, sanitation, geography, home
finances, etc.
Mrs. Pansy Petser, supervisor
of WPA recreation also agred that
her agreed that her program will
Include three two-hour periods per
week of recreational work with the
sewing room workers and possibly
some other work with other WPA
workers. Schedules were worked out
together to prevent a duplication of
the program of each unit.
Glasses are also being planned for
the men on WPA who may have
some spare time to attend either
afterneon or night classes to study
some trade or vocation such as
masonry, nursery care, gardening, j
landscaping, carpentry, home me
chanics, etc.
lYle work %U1 be with both colored
and whites, the county having the
two divisions.
Cash’s New Book
To Be Out Soon ,
A completed manuscript on "The ,
Mind of the South” written by W.
J. Cash of this city was mailed to \
Knopf, publishers, last week, and ,
will appear on the market this ,
spring.
The book contains about 100,000 |
words and Is said to be very com- ;
plete. Mr. Cash has been working
on the book, gathering material and i
writing since writing several articles
for the American Mercury some
months ago.
Change Is Noted In Policies
Of Resettlment Work In N. C.
i
A fundamental change In agricul
tural credit policy haa been lnaug
ura.ed by the Resettlement Admin
istration, which extends loans to im
poverished farm families, in an ef
fort to help them become self-sup
porting, Regional RA headquarters
announced today, through George
Dedmon of the Cleveland county of
fice.
Under Resettlement policy, each
farm family granted a loan agrees
to follow approved farm and home
; management plans worked out by
local supervisors, who are trained
practical farmers, in on-oneration
with the county agricultural agent.
With this plan, Resettlement makes
certain In advance of the utiliza
tion of every possible method of
making the farm pay and operating
the home economically.
At the same time, the client Is
given the benefit of the farming
knowledge of trained men and
women who are familiar with local
conditions, to the end that he may
be able to repay his loan. During!1
the crop season the fanner is ex- 1
pected to confer with the supervl
i
' Continued on page eight t
Override Veto
Of President;
May Mean Taxes
Gives 2 Billion
Dollars To Vets
Both House And Senate Act
Against Wishea Of
President.
(By Associated Prews)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.—
Immediate payment of the '
toldiera’ bonus was made law
>y Congress today over Presi*
lent Roosevelt’s" veto as the
Senate voted 76 to IP to over-'
ride.
The house had smashed daws the
ihlef executive’s veto lest week 324
o SI.
The two ballots, which saw top
democratic leaders go qm
jresldent on the iS-year-old Issue,
>ut the $3,491,000,000 band payment
ilan on the statute books.
They raised also for Mt.’ltoaee*
relt and his financial adviaem the
wrlous problem of finding funds to
neet the new drain on the treasury.
Whether new taxes will be- asked
o meet this budget outlay, which is
a require Immediate expenditure of
>ne billion dollars, remained to be
teen. V
An actual appropriation Will have
» he made latav< in eante regular
tupply Mil.
One Near Death
Four Injured In
Lincoln Auto Crash
ions or C. M. Walker Of EUenboro
Were On Way Prom Nor
folk. Vn.
R. f . McClellan, Unoelntssk poul
try dealer wa* sahMB tr HTTVery
critical condition at the Reeves hos
pital In that city today, following
ui auto accident Saturday In which
to received a broken leg an4>*tJttr
ither persons wen injured.
All In Hospital
AH four ate still in Lincoln hos
pitals. They are L. K. Monroe, of
South Carolina and brother-in-law
o Mr. McClellan, Mrs. H. W. Lall.
lames and William Walker, au of
lorfolk, Va. •
Mrs. Lall and ths Walken were
m their way to EUenboro to visit
3. M. Walker, father of the boys,
when the wreck occurred. >
McClellan and Monroe each have
i, broken leg, and severe face lac
erations and soalp Injuries, while
Mrs. Lall and the Walker brothers
ire badly bruised and cut about the
>ody.
Hospital attaches said this after
toon that the full extent of their in
luriee had not yet been ascertained.
The accident happened about •
>*elock this morning an highway
ISO at a point near KUUan’s stars in
test Lincoln.
McClellan end Monroe wsra en
•crnte to Mooresville In a light pick
ip truck end the Norfolk party Was
.ravelling toward Lincolnton in a
"ord V-8. The cause of fibs Nkfcck
•ould not be determined but both
nachinee came' together„* in the
niddle of the highway.
So terrific was the impact that
xiggage stored in the back of the
Ford car was broken open. Both
pars were almost completely de
nollshed.
Abel R Hill Dies
In Kings Mountain
Abel Lynch Hill, age 56. died sud
ienly Sunday morning at the home
>f Mrs. Mike Plonk at Kings Moun
a In where he and his wife had
>een living for two years.
Mr. Hill had been in declining
lealth and suffered a heart attack
which brought the end rather, aud
ienly. He was at one time sheriff
if Polk county and was a licensed
unbalmer.
Surviving are his wife who before
carriage was Miss Cira Compte of
[owa and two children, Dr. L. A.
■fill of Kings Mountain and Mrs. J.
E. Carrigan of Burlington. Remains
ire being taken to Burlington for
nterment.
Mr. Hill had patented a looping
Machine which is being used in the
ielsler mills at Kings Mountain.
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