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VOL XLII, No. 13
SHELBY, N. CL WEDNESD’Y, JAN. 29, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES REVISED FARM BILL
Distinct Need Is
Seen Here For
WP A Certification
Cases Are Cited
Which Need Help
r.oed Appointment Of As
sociate In Welfare Work
At Early Date.
A distinct need for some
method of continuing certifi
cation of persons who wish to
work under the WPA was ex
pressed here today, when it
was learned that scores of
workers who are in dire need
0f work and money cannot be
employed.
The last certification ctone was by
the ERA in November which was
discontinued in December. Even
then they could not be certified to
work unless they had been on relief
last May.
Ab the situation now stands there
ere approximately 350 persons work
ing m the county under the W1»A,
and the projects under way coifid
absorb several others. Director John
Hudson has sent out calls to those
listed on his rolls numbers of times,
but they are either working or have
private employment.
Many Calls
Yet he receives calls and the U. S.
employment office receives calls by
persons who need work and can't
get it.
Appointment is pending of an as
sistant who will be associated with
Mrs., L. H. Ledford, county welfare
worker, whose special duty will be
j
i Continued on page ten.)
Grass Rooters
Unite Against
F. D. R. Policies
MACON, Ga., Jan. 29.—<£>)—In
surgent, southern Democrats, rallied
by the cry of ‘'states rights,” organ
ized at a grass roots meeting here
today for a drive against the nom
ination of President Roosevelt for a
second term. Resolutions bitterly
condemning the administration’s
record were presented and the
Roosevelt policies assailed in speech
es by Governor Eugene Talmadge,
himself a tentative candidate for
president, and J. H. Kirby, of Hou%
lon Texas, wealthy head of the
southern committee to upheld the
constitution. ,
Governor Talmadge said "There
K nothing to becloud the issues of
sovereignty "of local self govern
ment, If the president’s program is
continued for four more years the
lines between the states will be only
a shadow on paper and government
of separate states will be subser
vient to the will of the will of the
central power in Washington.”
Talmadge and Kirby, called Jeff
ersonian Democrats o' 17 cotton belt
and border states to the session.
The thing President Roosevelt is
providing for us,” Kirby told the as
sembly. "is some fashion of slavish,
contemptible, all-oppressing bureau
cracy. The security it may give will
be no better than that found behind
be walls of the Atlanta peniten
tiary.
Morning Cotton
LETTER
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—In the ab
vc.ice of definite news from Wash
Cluring the d&y on new agri
cmim- program or on pool and loan
won market appeared aimless and
victualed within narrow limits.
Opera hon largely of a trade charac
final prices showed small
inr from previ0Ufi clo8e_ Worth
; ;<]« again very limited and
M mere*y to immediate re
.•7/.*?* Th* spofc tnwkets in the
: f Towed very small trans
A s '-<** for a trading mar
"’porarlly. E. A. Pierce & Co.
c THE MARKETS
SS 2*. n% to Vt%c
Totton a' Waf0n’ ton- IM.Ofl
car lot, ton .... $34.00
cotton at 2:30: Jan.
10 ee 1113’ JuJy
-’Ct 10 43, Dec. 10.3®.
to
k*t”*
4
Happy Birthday!!
More than three years of pilot
ing the ship of state through
troubled political waters have
not noticeably dimmed the
Koosevelt smile, as shown in
the above comparison. The top
picture was taken shortly before
his 61st birthday in 1933, the
lower photo shortly before his
54th birthday, Jan. 30, 1936.
Recreational
Gasses Begun
In Gty Today
Beginning of actual work on the
county’s part in the statewide rec
reation project was begun today, ac
cording tb Mrs. Pansy Fetzer, sup
ervisor in charge.
Two instructors in a class to be
started Thursday at the South
Shelby school building were named
as Mildred Laughridge and Margar
et Smith. Thtfse are the first of ten
who will be selected from time to
time throughout the county, and who
will hold regular classes and give in
structions in recreational and leisure
work for the next several months.
Instructors are taken from lists
certified under the late ERA, but
the classes will be for everyone who
wishes to attend.
Music, drama, indoor and out
door games, clay modeling, arts,
crafts, and a score of other educa
tional and recreational features will
be planned.
“Bring your fathers and mothers
and sweethearts and friends,” said
Mrs. Fetzer. “We w4nt to make
this project one of the best in the
state and want to meet the need
here so well that the county will
adopt It permanently in some form.”
The work will be carried on in
both white and colored races, and
will not necessarily be centered in
Shelby.
Children Killed
COLGATE, Okla., Jan. (/P)—A
school bos driver and three children
were killed near Tulepo early today
when the bus overturned on an icy
highway.
Plans Are Made
To Hasten Work
For Vet Money
Application Blanks
Already Here
Local Officials Seek To Execate
Papers Free Of Any
Charge.
Arrangements are being made by
which all veterans of Cleveland
county, bo^h white and colored, may
get and have executed necessary
papers to secure their Adjusted
Compensation bonds, provided for
by Congress without any cost, It
was stated today by Everett Hous
er, commander of the Warren F.
Hoyle post of the American Legion.
About 50 application blanks were
received today and others are ex
pected within the next few days.
Veterans who wish to make out ap
plications can secure blanks by see
ing Mr. Houser, who, as command
er of the local post, is authorised to
witness signature to applications.
It will be necessary for veterans
who have borrowed on their certifi
cates to bring with them their pink
slips issued at the time they borrow
ed money. Those Who did not bor
row will have to bring their adjust
ed service certificate. Mr. Houser
also ask that every veteran have
ready his Army. Navy or Marine
serial number, date of enlistment
date of discharge and rank and or
ganization at date of discharge.
Without all this information it
will be Impossible to fill our prop
erly one of the applications. Those
who have lost this information will
have first of all to make applica
tion for duplicate information.
Legion officials, locally as well ai
nationally, are joining in urging
veterans to cash their bond* Ml]
for necessary expenditures. The]
point out that one ef the chief ar
guments of those opposing payment
was that veterans would squandei
their'money on foolish things. This
• belief is not held by officials of vat
jerans organizations who know the
'average age of veterans and theiJ
I disposition as to money matters.
! It is expected that Issuance ol
the bonds will stimulate business ta
| necessities, such as clothing, furni
ture, etc. It is not believed that, ex
cept for an extremely small per
centage, there will be any local
squandering of the delayed payment
to World War veterans.
Rural Teachers
Meet Saturday
For Conference
Nearly 300 teachers in the sural
school system of Cleveland county
will hold the first county wide tea
chers meeting and conference here
Saturday.
The meeting will begin at 10
I o’clock and will be in charge of
Supt. J. H. Grtgg. There will be a
general session and small group con
ference as well.
The meeting will be ons of five
expected to be held during the year
all mainly of an administrative na
ture. Problems and business and
angles of professional study will al
so be considered.
Mr. Grigg said today that ha is
expecting Miss Juanita McDougal,
of the State Department at Raleigh
to be present. It is possible, too, that
Miss Frances Mauney, a native of
Cleveland county and now a spe
cialist in Home Economics in Ra
leigh, will also be present.
The main theme of discussion
Saturday will be on the new cours
es of study, with particular refer
ence to elementary work.
Scout Leaders Of Piedmont
Meet To Decide New Policy
Formulation of nefr policies for
the 13 counties in the Piedmont
council was carried out by some 50
men, who are leaders in their re
spective districts, in a meeting and
Luncheon held in the city last night.
Judge Bismark Capps, of Gastonia,
president was in charge, and re
ports from all the vice-presidents
were heard. M. A. Spangfer, presi
dent of the Shelby district made the
report for Cleveland county.
Among local men named on im
portant posts were J. A. Propst, to
lead rural scouting. He succeeds R.
W. Shoffner. H. N. McDiarmid was
named a member at large of the ex-.
ecuttve committee. As a council
commissioner, Captain B. L. Smith
is also a member of the committee.
Adoption of the policy of using A
board of review far actual test work
among scouts was something new in
this district. From now cm the Court
of honor meeting will be far recagr
nition.
Plans were made far observation
of National Scout Week, February
7 to 14 to be followed by the annual
financial canvass. Announcement
was made of the organisation at a
Scoutmasters club headed* by Sam
Smith of the Shelby mill troop.
David White is vice president.
Plan Induction Of Royal
Blood In Livestock Ranks
Fair Association, 4H And Extension Leaders
To Purchase Guilts Bred To National
Champion Sires
introduction of a type n
which is expected in the next
the etate on the national map
show stock was announced ear
J. 8. Wilkins and John L. Rettzel,
county agent with C. C. Falls of
Belwood, R. W. Wilson of Fallston.
and 8. 8. Mauney, county farm
chairman left this morning for Prai
rie City and Canton. Illinois where
they are expecting to purchase as
many as half dozen year old guilts
or young sows, bred to one of three
boars whic hhave won National
Grand Champion titles since 1083.
Mr. Wilkins said the 3,000 mile
>yalty into Cleveland county
two years to put this part of
with hijgrh bred Poland China
ly today.
trek In Ice end snow is to attend
the sales of two of the foremost
livestock farms in the midwest and
make inspection of several others.
Tor Fairs.
Purchase of two guilts will be
made for the Cleveland County Fair
Association and the others will be
for the 4H Clubs of the county
whose members will exhibit them at
(Continued on page ten.)
Highway 18 I* Left Out
In Cherokee Road Program
Keen disappointment, was voiced
here today when it was lebmed that.
the $361,000 PWA application for a
paved road program in Cherokee
county does not include surfacing
the remaining link in highway No.
18 from the state Una to Gaffney.
It was learned that the loans and
grants will allow for surfacing eight
miles of highway on the Gaffney
Boiling Springs road, which project
was not expected.
Telegrams received In Gaffney
Tuesday indicated that $140,000 of
the sum will be in the form of a
loan and that $117,000 will be a
thought the whole project might go
through.
Following is the program adopted
and the 56 miles due to be surfaced
In the neighbor oounty: From Gaff
ney to Irene bridge over Broad river
by way of WUklnsvUle. 15 miles;
from Gaffney to Pacolet, 10 miles;
from Gaffney te Bolling Springe, N.
C., by way of Grassy Pond, S miles;
from highway No. 39 to Cherokee
Falls; from Blacksburg to the York
county line by way of Hopewell
5 1-3 miles; from Pondfield to Me
Knowns Mountain, 4 miles; from
the Spartanburg oounty line to Cow
ipens battleground monument, l
milfs; and from Gaffney to th«
Cherek* county hdkie eg Midway,
I mdec.
Violet Thomas, Educator and
Pageant Producer Is Dead
ELECTRIFICATION
PLANS DISCUSSED
Mot* than M persons who are
vitally Interested hi the construc
tion of rural! electric light lines
were in a meeting here yesterday
afternoon to hear D. J. Jones of the
Rural Electrification Sendee at Ha
1 eight explain some of the details of
what most he dime to actually have
lines built and power connected.
The body was composed of spokes
men and other Interested represen
tatives from 10 or more communi
ties or groups where electrical sur
veys and estimates were made sev
eral weeks aga
Surveys and requests representing
30.0 miles in ths the 10 different
groups in all parts of Cleveland were
presented.
Mr. Jones said the federal gov
ernment was willing to loan money
to build the lines at three percent
Interest, provided there was as
much as 30 miles of line in a com
pact group.
At present the Cleveland projects
are too scattered to get that much
together. The longest single one is
about eight miles and the shortest
about a mile. The leaders of the
groups will take the matter up more
definitely with County Agent Wil
kins, possibly building some with
private capital. Some TOO to 800 per
sons would be benefltted.
Bale Per Acre
Or Nearly So
b Lint Record
Hearty a bale per acre of pot
to* tar an entire county is an'
actuality in Cleveland when an
nouncement was made today
that to date 46.3M bales have
bden ginned in the county, with
Compared with Met,year’s fif
th of 43,389, thd County made
more than DA 1034, and at
it is believed to be the
leader in the state, other coun
ty reports will be made soon,
according to oountv statistician
T. C. Beam of Waco.
Approximately all the figures
for the past year are saig to be
in. One more cotton report is
due in February.
Violet Thomas, negro eduoatoc
and producer of the “Heaven Bound’1
pageant which gave over 3,000 per
formance* in eight or ten states,
died in a Charlotte h capital y ester
day and funeral service* will be held
in Shelby at the colored Methodist
churoh Thursday afternoon a* 1:30
o'clock.
“Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
Violet was held in high esteem
by both white and colored. She
came to Cleveland county as super
visor of colored schools under the
Jeanes Fund and worked for sev
eral years among the rural colored
schools. After this work was discon
tinued, the department suggested
that supervisors develop some proj
ect, so VtOIet produced the well
known “Heaven Bound," which met
with marked success.
Her part in the pageant was to
climax the story of pilgrims along
life’s Journey to the gates to Saint
Peter and dressed as a negro mam
my of the old south she sang “Swing
Low Swbet Chariot” In a way that
thrilled the hearts of thousands.
Double Tragedy In Cast
Singularly. R. M. Potter, another
colored educator who toe* the part
of “Hie Tempter” in the original
cast, was killed tn an automobile
accident between 8helby and
MooresviUe on October 19 last year
when he was en route to a football
game at Davidson college.
Violet was 39 years old and was
bom in Athens, Qa. She was grad
uated from Atlanta University in
1914 and took up work in Cleveland
county eleven years ago. At the time
of her death she was teaching at
Patterson Springs school.
Suffering with a thyroid gland
trouble for the past six months, she
Had an operation for removal of ton
ells last fall. Another operation on
thyroid glands was necessary and
this was done in the Good Samari
tan Hospital, Charlotte.
Her remains will be taken after
the funeral here Thursday to Ath
ens, Ga for interment.
POSTAL OFFICIALS
RE-EMPHASIZE HOURS
Postal officials today re-ampha
stoed the opening and closing hours
of certain windows under the new
arrangement begun last week.
Windows for money order, regis
try, postal savings, and C. O. D. will
hours will be from 9 until 1 o’clock.
Saturday hours will be from 9 until
1 o’clock.
Cleveland Gains
White And Loses
Negroes On Farm
Neighbor Counties
Compared
Cento Report For Put Five Yearn
Indicates White Owner
ship.
Cleveland wan numbered today
among the 57 counties of the state
which showed a gain in percentage
of farms tilled by whites and a loss
in farms tilled by negroes in the
past five years.
Some striking figures about the
counties as a whole have been tak
en from the recently completed farm
census and white farmers have In
creased 14.2 percent and that color
ed farmers have deceased 0.8 per
cent.
Rutherford Report
Rutherford Is the only neighbor
ing county which shows a gain In
colored farmers, as Cleveland, Oas
ton, Lincolnton and Burke register
an exodus of negroes.
Of the 6,368 farms In the county
this year, 4,038 are operated by
whites, a gain of 6.3 per cent over
1080. There an now 1^40 negro
farms, a decrease of 10.7 persent
since 1030. Ruhterford had an Inc
rease of 14.7 In white farms and of
80 persent of negro operated farm.
The fifty-seven counties that show
a loss in the number of negro farm
ers are almost without exception the
cash-crop counties, that is, the cot
ten pod tobacco couQtipe of the
state. The largest losses were in the
eastern bright-leaf tobacco belt, not
ably Nash, Wilson. Edgecombe,
Greens, Pitt, Lenoir. Halifax, North
AOnaoco county af any Importance
loet negro farmers. The next larg
toe cotton counties
6f the southern piedmont area, all
toe way from Robeson to Ruther
ford, a solid group of nineteen coun
ties Looses wars also suffered by
toe northern piedmont tobacco coun
ties. In other words, practically
every cotton or tobatoo county lost
negro farmers, the largest numerical
and percent losses being In the
combination tobacoo-eotton counties,
with emphasis on tobacco. For sev
eral yean prior to 1938, these same
counties led the entire south in In
crease of negro farmers.
Fisher Unfair
Says DePriest
In Complaint
"I wish to say that Lieutenant
Fisher gave me an unfair deal."
(Signed) A. B. C. DePriest.
Above is a statement presented
this morning in the form of a com
plaint against Lieutenant Fisher of
the State Highway Patrol who war
In the city several days ago ant*
made a statement that most of the
complaints for alleged "irregulari
ties” in regard to false returns for
arrests to the county had been com
ing from the office of Justice De
Priest.
Lieutenant Fisher gave patrolmen
In his district orders to have their
*»aee tried in the offices of othr
magistrates.
Mr. DePriest said the above state
ment was all the comment he wish
ed to make, that he harbored no ill
will against any of the other Jus
tices In the city or county, but felt
he was discriminated against by the i
Patrol lieutenant. He did not Indi
cate however that he would carry
the matter further than a public
statement.
Scores On A1 i
JOSEPH T. ROBINSON
Say* AT Smith
It “Turncoat”
And A Traitor
WASHINGTON, Jan. >0.—(A*)—
The new deal officially portrayed
Alfred E. Smith last night aa a
turncoat “warring against his own
people and against the men and
women wifh whom he fought should
er to shoulder In the past.”
The spokesman, in reply to the
Satfirday speech impugning the
Americanism and integrity of Roose
velt policies, waa Smith's running
mate in the 102* campaign for the
pUMUency—Senator Joseph T. Rob
inson, Of Arkansas.' "
He said “the hour long nagangur
before the miscalled Liberty League
was barren and sterile, without a
Engle constructive suggestion."
“Governor Smith," he concluded
“I’ve read you the record.
Said He Approved Pel idea
“You approved of NRA. you ap
proved farm relief, you urged federal
spending for public works,you urged
congress to cut red tape, you urged
autocratic power for the president,
and you exposed with merciless
logic the false cry of communism
and socialism.
"The new deal was the'platform
of the ‘Happy Warrior.’
“The policies of the Liberty lea
gue have become the platform of
the ‘unhappy warrior'.”
Whether the rejoinder would Im
pel further moves by Smith became
an immediate topic of speculation.
Since his speech, capitol leaders were
still uncertain whether or how he
would seek to “stop Roosevelt.” He
Indicted In New York he might an
swer Robinson.
Dolph L Hoyle,
Age 69 Dies bi
No. 5 Township
Adolphus L. Hoyle, prominent
fanner of No. 5 township, died Tues
day afternoon at S o'clock at his
home between St. Paul and Pros
pect churches, following a protract
ed illness.
Mr. Hoyle was a iaithful member
of Pleasant Grove Baptist church
and there his funeral will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock by
Rev. D. G. Washburn, pastor.
Mr. Hoyle was married lo Mar
garet Anthony who survives. There
are no children and no brothers or
sisters.
Bottled In Bond Captured;
Jury Day Sees Convictions
Bottled In bond, government dis
tilled. high-priced concoctions of
liquor seemed to be the catch of
several county deputies this week.
Deputies Jolley and Hamrick of
No. 1 copped nearly a case from an
Ellenboro car early this week after
the car had collided with another
at a croes-road in their township
Three men who said they were from
Elenboro were nabbed with nearl*
a case of varied brands of the booze
They were released on bond and
will appear here for trial Saturday
Bob Kendrick also found part of
a case of bottled in bond spirits in
No. 7 township yesterday, but thus
far has made no arrests, but ex
pects to soon.
Jury day was held by Recorder s
Court yesterday, with a number of
convictions.
Charlie Fortenbury on a larceny
charge was ordered to pay the costs
and continue 12 months in good be
havior.
In a previous session of Recorder'?
court L. O. Lowery, of Valdese, was
charged with violation of the pro
hibltion statutes and was fined $100
with an appraisal fee of $50 goinr
to Officer W. K. Harden who help
(Continued on page ten.)
Believe Measure*
Constitutional;
Vote Was 15-2
To Make Grants
For Farm Lands
Few Changes Made In Pre
vious Drafting; Speedy
Vote Seen.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.—
The Senate agriculture com
mittee today approved the re
vised administration soil con
servation farm bill by a 14 to
2 vote.
Senators, leaving the cloned meet
ing, reported the vote and satd very
few raw changes were made In the
measure which was Introduced by
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Ala
bama. after a White House confer
ence. Although Secretary Wallace
and Solicitor General Bead had ex
pressed the belief the bill la consti
tutional, several committee men
still considered it outside the bounds
of the supreme oourt decision in
validating AAA.
Bread Powers
The bill vests broad powers in the
secretary of agriculture to make
grants to farmers for economic use
of their lands. The Mil la a tem
porary two year measure, designed
to serve as a stop-gap until the fed
eral program may be enacted, based
on federal grants to Mates.
Today's action WW attributed by
some senators to demands from the
farm belt for a speed vote.
The search for an AAA replace
ment formula^was punctuated with
a caustic assertion bar Secretary
Wallace that the high tribunal's de
cision refunding $300,000,000 to pro
(Continued on page ten)
“ThriirKilier"
Slain By Mate
With Own Razor
JOLIET. Ill, Jan.
ed S3 times with * raaoSclnthe
hands of an enraged fellow oonvict,
Richard Loeb, 30. co-perpetrator of
the “thrill slaying” ef Bobby Wanks
in 1924, was killed y—tertay in
Statevllle penitentiary.
James Day, 38, serving a term for
larceny, confessed the killing of
Loeb, State's Attorney WiU McCabe
of Will county said, and blamed it
to Loeb's persistence in pursuing
him over a long period with improp
er advances.
Sullen at first, Day refined to
discuss the case except to tell War
den Joseph Ragen it waa 'Just a
fight.”
Day Gives Full Statement
Bift later, to Edward O. Powers.
Investigator for the state’s attorney’s
office, he gave a full statement of
the furious fight he said ne and
Loeb engaged in, and the incidents,
which he said, led to it.
He denied he had stolen the rasor
with whic hhe "cut to pieces" the
partner of Nathan Leopold in Chi
jcago’s most revolting crime of
[nearly a dozen years ago.
I The razor, he claimed, he wrested
| from Loeb’s hand when Loeb threat
ened him with it.»
Hounded By Loeb
“Ever since I have been a prison
er here,” said Day’s statement to
Powers, "Loeb has been hounding
me, trying to get me to submit to
him. I always refused.
“I had words with him Triday.
This morning I was passing Loeb's
and Leopold's cell. I stopped and
spoke to Loeb. I wanted to settle
with him.
| "Loeb told me that he was going
to his private bathroom after din
ner this noon and would see me
there. Loeb and Leopold eat in their
j cell.
"I went to the room and waited
five minutes. Loeb came tn and
[undressed and then told me to un
dress. He had a razor. As I was go
ing into the shower I hit him rath
er roughly and knocked him down.
I fell on top of him and the razor
fell out of his hand.
"While we were wrestling. Loeb
got the razor and took a couple of
swipes at me. I managed to get the
razor away from him and cut him
several times. He hit me on the left
cheek. Then I cut him some more.
'Then I finished him."