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VOL. XLU, No. 19
Member of Associated Press
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, FEB. 12, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
Report Distress In Relief And Public Works Circles
Mayor Could Use
Hundreds Of Men
On All Projects
Weather Man Has
Relief In Grasp
Baber Seeks to Transfer PWA
To WPA Projects; Con
tractors Anxious.
Seeking relief from the
hardships enforced by the cold
weather, halted activities of
the WPA and PWA labor and
construction projects, and the
general increase in calls on
the county and city for food,
medicine and shelter, were
the general problems facing
officials here today.
Mavor Woodson said his city
forces and the WPA people working
with him were “faced with more
work than 5,000 men can do” and
added that if "the weather doesn’t
clear up or If we don’t get more
men to work, we will be so far be
hind with the projects we will never
catch up.”
Seek Transfer '
C. M. Baber at the Federal Em
ployment office was seking a trans
fer of PWA- labor, which has been
unable to work on the rural school
projects to the WPA, which projects
have not been so much hindered by
the weather. Kings Mountain work
»rs have put in one day since
j Christmas. 4
A construction company working
on the Fallston project hoped to be
able to start by Thursday, but was
uncertain. Others expect to start
eonstfuction just as soon as temp
eratures rize sufficiently.
City Problems
Continuing on the city’s problems
the mayor said that “due to sbal
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Deputy To Aid
In Filling Out
Income Reports
A deputy from the internal reve
nue service at Greensboro will be in
the city February 24 and 25 for the
purpose of aiding in filling out and
filing forms for the payment of in
come taxes.
This announcement is made by C.
H. Robertson, collector who said the
deputy will be stationed at the city
postoffice in the room formerly oc
cupied by Federal Judge E. Y. Webb.,
' If your net Income is 1,000 or
over and you are single (or if mar
-eci and not living with your hus
band or wife), you are required to
file a return. If you are married and
living wi;h husband or wife and
jour net income is over $2,500 or
over and your gross income is $5,
000 or over, you are required to file
a return.”
No charge will be made for the
•crvices of the deputy in aiding with
filing returns.
Late Bulletins
hlr j nean irmi
_ and romplications. Funeral will
the markets
U94 to 1296c
-$33.00
-$36.00
account of Lin
Lattimore Lassies Bathe In Snow
I “Who is afraid of the big cold snow?” Not these Lattimore girls who
ventured out in their bathing suits while the snow blanketed the ground.
Reading from left to right, Lillian McSwain and Patsy Philbeck who
prance in the snow and like it, even in their bathing suits.
Continues Cold And Snow Sees
Olympic Winter Sports In City
Drivers License
Statutes Given
By Court Clerk
A copy of the drivers license law
under which state driver’s licenses
are revoked at a rapid rate in all
parts of North Carolina was present
ed today by William Osborne, clerk
oi recorder’s court.
By law he is required to report to
Raleigh each convicted violator of
the law and the state department in
turn notifies the highway patrol of
the section and a representative
goes to the violator and collects his
license and informs him that he is
not to drive during the suspension.
While Cleveland county has had
comparatively few violations of the
law and a minimum suspensions
have been reported, the clerk feels
that the geenral public will profit
by reading the provisions of the law
enacted by the last legislature. They
are:
(a) Whenever any person is con
victed of any violation of the motor
vehicle laws of this state a notation
of such conviction shall be entered
by the court upon the license of the
person so convicted. Whenever any
person is convicted of any offense
for which this act makes mandatory
the revocation of the operator's or
chauffeur’s license of such person
by the department, the court in
which such conviction is had shall
require the surrender to it of all op
erator’s and chauffeur’s licenses
then held by the person so convict
ed and the court shall thereupon
forward the same together with a
record of such conviction to the de
partment.
(b) Every court having jurisdic
tion over offenses committed under
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Testimony In Statler Mystery
Aided By Cleveland Mediates
Testimony which is this week be
ing brought out in the mystery
death of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson
is in a conclusive way being based
on the findings of two people from
Cleveland county.
Here is how: Allan Wilson and
Yulan Washburn were at the time
of her death last year medical stud
ents at Wake Forest college and
were the internes assigned to the
case with Dr. C. Cf. Carpenter, now
testifying in the case.
Wilson and Washburn did most of
the work, mgde the tests for carbon
dioxide in the heart and blood, aft
er they had taken specimens to
Wake Forest laboratories. Wilson is
Change of styles, habits and gam-1
es for the youth of Shelby has been
j noted the past few weeks as King
Winter has reigned in white splen
dor as snow has remained on the
ground for the longest period since
1918.
St. Moritz games are becoming
quite popular and a visit to No. 8
hole at the golf course or the high
school athletic park would give the
impression that the Olympic Winter
Games are in, progress here.
Bob sleds, improvised skiis, and
'other sleds made from barrel staves
and rocking chairs are being used
ito slide on the snow.
Girls at the high school and
I about town have chagrined the gal
llantry of the boys by changing to
'men’s attire and are now wearing
j riding pants, high topped boots and
| brilliant jackets, with slender necks
wrapped in bright hued scarfs.
Others who desire speed are even
tying sleds and old mattresses to
the rear of their autos and strike
out across the frozen fields, by
roads and anywhere there is snow.
Meanwhile, the weather man
promises still more snow for the
city tonight or tomorrow, with the
thermometer ranging slightly up
ward. For the past few days it has
appeared fastened below freezing.
Driver* License
Revoked By Court
According to records In recorder’s
court, Robert Dayberry has been
convicted of driving drunk and sen
tenced to pay a fine of $50 and the
costs and to refrain from driving a
motor vehicle for a period of 12
months.
There have been comparatively
few other arrests this week and the
county court has had unusually
light dockets.
now at in Emory university in At
lanta and Washburn in Jefferson
Medical college in Philadelphia. Dr.
Carpenter is being used as material
and expert witness in the Carthage
trial.
CARTHAGE, Feb. 11.—(#>—Mrs.
Elva Statler Davidson's mysterious
death was drawn into the litigation
over her will today as witnesses were
called for the foster relatives con
testing it.
Over the protest of attorneys for
H. Bradley Davidson, jr., her hus
band, the principal beneficiary un
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Charge Collusion
Of Catholics And
Rhine Communists
Arrest 100 Suspected
Of Treason
Nasi Leaden Say Robes Of Church
Cannot Protect Of*
fenders.
BERLIN. Feb. 12.—(IP)—Charges
of collusion between Roman Catho
lics and communists were heard In
Germany today as at least 100 Cath
olics and communists were under
arrest after simultaneous raids were
made by secret police. Catholics par
ticularly were charged with conspir
acy with communists in the Rhine
land, center of the police roundup.
The official organ of Adolph Hit
ler’s blackshirt guards, Oas Schwarae
Korps, issued a sharp challenge
meanwhile to charges that the
Catholic church was being persecut
ed.
Points Suspicion
"The fact that the Catholic church
feels Its self menaced and persecut
ed by Nationalist, Socialist Germany
can be clearly seen In sermons and
pastoral letters,’’ the publication
said.
In reality the organ asserted It
was the old story, "as old as the
church Itself’’ which always raises
a cry of “persecution” whenever its
political ambitions are thwarted.
The organ said,. “No Catholic
Priest has been arrested because of
his spiritual or welfare work but
priestly rdbes are not a safeguard
against punishment for treasonable
activities.”
Fanners To Meet
On March 28 In
Annual Luncheon
More than 100 Cleveland county
farmers will be among the 600 who
will attend the annual better farm
ers luncheon at the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce building on
Saturday March 38.
The parties are being selected and
transportation arranged by the vo
cational teachers and leaders in the
county. There will be numbers of
the local vocational students who
will attend. Some will be awarded
prizes for work done the past year.
Courftles In.
Boys and men who have had the
best results in carrying out the well
rounded program of the vocational
agriculture department will be
guests at the dinner. They will be
from Mecklenburg, Union, Cabarrus.
Stanly, Anson, Montgomery, Gas
ton, Cleveland and Rutherford
counties.
Speakers will Include Clyde Er
win, State superintendent of public
instruction; Dr. T. E. Browne, State
director of vocational education;
Roy H. Thomas, State supervisor of
agricultural education and other
leaders in the better farming move
ment in North Carolina. Agricultur
al teachers of the district will select
the men and boys eligible to attend.
J. M. Osteen of Rockingham, dis
trict supervisor of vocational educa
tion, said that a similar dinner will
be held in Fayetteville for the bet
ter farmers of the eastern half of
the district.
Showstock Is Here
For 4-H Clubsters
The babes are here, and are
proudly showing their royal arches
and indulging in princess-like grunts
for Cleveland 4-H club members.
TO clarify the situation, nearly
$700 worth of 4-H club showstock
in high class Poland China gilts and
a boar have arrived in the county
and have been distributed to the
members who will keep them for
breeding and exhibition.
The seven young specimens were
bought last week by the Cleveland
fair association and individuals in
the county, after a party had at
tended a sale in Illinois.
According to some, they appear
to be “Just seven other pigs,” but
farm leaders expect the purchase
to boost Cleveland in the form of
dollars and blue ribbons at future
fairs.
Night Fire Ousts
Pneumonia Victim
FromBedToSnow
Two Families Driven
From House
No Lives Lost But Father And Ono
Son An Seventy Burned About
Their Heads.
The veritable last; straw was add
ed to the burden of Benney Owens
by of Grover, seriously 1U with
pneumonia, when the house In which
he lived with his family was burn
ed to the ground early Tuesday
morning, about 1 o'clock, and all his
household goods destroyed.
Hie house, located on highway
205, between Kings Mountain and]
Grover, and just In the edge of the j
latter, was owned by J. G. White;
and occupied by two families, those]
of Benney Owensby and his broth
er, Columbus Owensby.
Columbus Owensby and one of
his small sons received burns but nq
lives were lost. The former was bad
ly burned about the face and hands
when an electric light bulb explod
ed, In a freak accident, scattering
fire about his head. The child's hair
was burned from his head, and this
was also thought to have been a re
sult of exploding electric wiring or
fixtures.
Mrs. Joe Owensby, mother of the
Jam youox men, and their brother,
Howard Owensby, and his wife, til
living nearby, were “sitting up" with
the sick man when they heard a
noise in the other side of the house,
occupied by the Columbus Owensby.
They thought that some members of
tne other family were up and stir
ring about grid did not investigate
immediately. However, as the noise
increased and seemed to be coming
from the other kitchen they went In
to see about the other family and
found them all still sound asleep
and the entire kitchen In flames.
Calls for help brought two neigh
bors, Frank Westmoreland and J.
D. WSterson who wrapped the pneu
monia victim In blankets and mov
ed him to the Waterson home. He 1
was later moved to the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Owensby.
The Columbus Owensbys and their
four children were all awakened
and gotten out of the house and a
few pieces of their furniture were
saved. The Benney Owensbys and
their two children escaped from the
burning house but all their belong
ings went up in the flames. The
house was burned completely to the
ground. ,
The two families, stripped of all
their worldly goods, with the excep
tion of their nightclothes, are being
taken care of at the homes of rela
tives and neighbors. The Star was
unable to leaAi whether the pneu
monia victim was greatly set back
by his harrowing experience.
Seek Information
Of Missionary In
War Danger Zones
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. CJ.
S Minister Cornelius Van H. Engert
requested more information from
the Ethiopian government today
concerning the detention of the
American missionary, Harold Street,
in a remote Gamo province.
The minister Indicated he was
concerned over the possibility that
a ruling, calling for removal of for*
elgners from Ethiopian danger
zones, might be used as a tool for
extortion.
The missionary’s wife, In a letter
to the Ethiopian government, blam
ed a native landlord for the arrest,
charging blackmail.' She said that
the landlord, falling in attempts to
obtain money from Mr. 8treet, per
suaded the local chief to order the
missionaries to leave under the reg
ulation that any foreigner could be
ordered out of a dangerous area.
An Ethiopian government state
ment that the town of Kora All in
southern Ethiopia had been recap
tured from the Italians was virtual
ly the only sign of activity In the
Italo-Ethiopian war today. They
also reported an Italian bombing
plane raid on Waldia.
The Italians reported "Nothing
new on either front.’*
His Birth Celebrated Today
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"With Malice Toward None.
Birthplace 0/ the “Great Emanci
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**. . . That n>e here highly resolve , . . that this nation, undcf Cod,,
shall have a nev birth at freedom—and that government of the
people, hit the people, fot the people, sfutll not perish from the earth ”
Abraham Lincoln
Engineer States $160,000
Allotted For Highway 18
Mrs. R. Chapman
Buried Tuesday;
Lived At Dover
Funeral service* were held Tues
day at 2:30 at the Dover Baptist
church for t$rs. Rosa Chapman who
had been 111 for the past three weeks
at the Shelby hospital.
Mrs. Chapman died late Monday
evening. She was 42 years of age
and leaves her husband, R. Q. Chap
man, four d-iiidren and a brother
and sister. The children are Ruby,
Clyde, Verdie and Archie, all at
home. The brother, J. P. Nolan, and
sister, Mrs. Brack McDaniel, of this
county.
Rev. W. A. Elam was In charge of
the service and interment was at
Oak Grove cemetery In Rutherford
county. Mrs. Chapman was a mem-,
ber of the Cllffside Methodist
church, but had lived at the Dover
Mill village for 11 years.
Out For Senate
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 12.—(/P)—
W. T. McKinnon of Columbia,
youthful state secretary of the
Townsend old age pension clubs said
today he planned to run for the
United States senate this summer.
Lincoln Day America Sees
Two Parties Claiming Spirit
Today la Lincoln Day and thous
ands of meetings of various kinds In
the entire nation are being held In
honor of the Oreat Emancipator.
Political meetings have been hold
ing the spot light as both Republi
cans and Democrats alike have been
claiming the qualities of "America’s
Greatest Man” to be in their own
ranks.
Xn Springfield, 111., Secretary Ick
es. speaking In the state which Lin
coln made famous, declared that
Lincoln was almost paralelled by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The address was delivered before
the annual. Lincoln commemoration
Two letters, one from Capus Way
nick of Raleigh and the other from'
J. 8. Williamson, of Columbia, 8. C.,
both highway officiaJs of the re
spective states, indicated today that
the strip of highway 18 from the
state line to Gaffney will be paved
within the next year.
Mr. WillianuVn in a letter to W.
Vance Balse, of the N. C. state high
way department declared that “we
have included in our regular federal
aid program for the two fiscal years
ending June 30. 1937, an allotment
of $160,000 for bituminous surfacing
of this road.”
He added that as yet no provisions
have been allotted from the regular
state funds, but what he expects
this to be done shortly.
A protest was raised a short time
ago by the North Carolina road of
ficials for the unfinished “dead
end” piece of road toward Gaffney,
this state having paved highway 18
or U. S. highway No. Ill years ago,
in fulfillment of an agreement.
The road is part of a link in di
rect line from Detroit to Miami, and
the short unpaved part toward
Gaffney has been detrimental to
through traffic.
Bob Gantt, of Durham, visited
friends in the city today.
club last evening.
He declared that Lincoln had
been greatly criticized because he
championed people’s right against
the constitution.
"It appears to have been Abraham
Lincoln who scuttled the American
constitution, set up a dictatorship,
threw the Supreme Court into the
Potomac river and declared a mora
torium on Congress," he said.
Further north in Illinois it war
learned that Col. Frank Knox will
contest the Republican nomination
oI Senator Borah and wish the hon
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Farm Bill Study
Is Being Advanced
By Fiscal Heads
See $900^000,000
Fund For Farmers
(By AHHoriated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb.
The senate foreign relations
committee today unanimously
approved an abridged neutral
ity bill, extending the present
arms embargo features until
May 1, 1937, but exempting
American Republica from its
application when attacked by
non-American nations, a com
promise which brought sever
al divergent factions into line.
It completely omitted two major
provisions of the administrations
act: one would have permitted the
president to impose peace time
quotas on auch materials as oil and
cotton, and one would have per
mitted the chief executive to require
that trade proceed with belliger
ents at the shippers' risk.
Attachment To BUI
Attached to the bill as agreed
upon by the committee, however,
was an authorisation to embargo
credits to belllgerants.
A move to force consideration of
permanent legislation at thia ses
sion apparently awaited the bill on
the senate floor.
Farm Program
Prior to the passago of the neu
trality bill in the senate oeinmlttee
administration fiscal experts stud
ied plans today for a composite tax
(MU, which, if submitted as such,
would seek to raise $900,000,000 for
obligationst under the Invalidated
'•ro-’ram.
There was talk among the officials
concerned of seeking only $600,000,
000 immediately. The higher figure,
however, would b4 required to meet
all pending farm demands upon the
treasury.
An authoritative souree said the
program under consideration em
braced three tentative divisions:
1. Excise on processing of farm
commodities, intended to raise about
*',6'VOOO.OOO anntially, and compar
able In form to the outlawed AAA
processing taxes,
2. New levies, possibly through re
vision of Income tax exemptions, to
raise from $230,000,000 to $250,000,
000 annually.
3. Retroactive excess profit or In
come taxes to recover $180,000,000 to
t200.000.000 in court-impounded pro
cessing taxes lost to the government
In the supreme court's rice millers’
decision.
Jackie Coogan,
Fiancee HeU Up
Robbed of Money
CHICAGO, Illinois, Fob. 13.—W—
Jackie Coogan and Betty Grabble,
film players, reported to police to
day that at the end of a 50-mile an
hour chase, through the Chicago
loop, two gunmen stopped their car
and robbed them of *50 and Jewelry
they valued at $5,000. One of the
robbers saw Miss Orabble attempt
to hide on the floor the five carat
diamond engagement ring Coogan
gave her on December 0 and threat
ened her, she said.
Coogan said he and Miss Grabble,
who had been dancing at the Con
gress hotel started to drive back to
the Sherman hotel where they were
staying during a stage engagement
when they saw a car following and,
becoming suspicious speeded up. The
car followed and finally forced him
to the curb.
One of the robbers, armed with a
pistol, entered Coogan’s car, the
actor said and told them, ‘Take it
easy now Jackie, this is a stick-up
Miss Grabble give me that ring.”
Miss Grabble put the ring on the
car floor but the robber growled.
“Give me that ring or 111 blow your
brains out," she said. She then
handed it to the gunman. Coogan
also gave up a diamond ring and a
watch. _
Senator Reynolds
Will Make Address
WASHINGTON, Feb. (ft—
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of
North Carolina, today accepted an
invitation to address law enforce
ment officers of North Carolina and
South Carolina, on March 20, at
Statesville.