WEATHER North Carolina: Scattered J*er* tonight, changing to oW flurnes in mountains. Efat partly cloudy and colder. The lemkimd thak 8 Pages Today VOL. XLII, No. 20 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1936 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By U .a Mi year, (la Mnngii _ wao Carrier Mr year, (la adranrM _ not WORLDWIDE WEATHER DISTURBANCES TAKE 275 LIVES AgricultureCommittee Approves Smith Bill Directing Cotton Sale Senate Approves Measure 13 To 2 I Over Opposition Would Sell Staple In Weekly Blocs Qscar Johnson Says Bill “Un sound" And That Markets Cannot Be Created. .(Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— Over the opposition of govern ment officials the senate agri rultural committee today ap proved the Smith bill, direct ing the sale of approximately five million bales of govern ment owned cotton in weekly blocs of between 20,000 and 25,000 bales. The vote was 13 to 2. The bill, introduced by Senator Smith. Democrat, South Carolina, committee chairman, had been be fore the committee nearly two weeks for secret hearing. It would set up a board of three to sell the cotton. Market Drag Smith contends the large govern ment holdings are a drag on the market and that to dispose of them in small weekly allotments would . not affect prices. He argues that |f 25.000 bales, the maximum to be r allowed to be sold at one time, Is less than 10 per cent of the world’s (Continued on page elgbt) Milk T o Children To Be Furnished Much needed milk for a number of needy school children will,be the daily good turn for the next several weeks of Shelby civic clubs. Rotary. Lions and Kiwanis clubs voted this week to set aside a fund which will buy a limited amount of milk each day for at least six weeks. Leaders of the clubs 3o not pro pose to have a “free milk dispens ary" but to give through the teach ers milk to children of needy fami lies who have such a small amount of food at school that their health is being impaired. The milk fund idea was initiated 4" this city by the Rotary club sev eral years ago and the other clubs have also aided In time of need. Leaders in some of the civic clubs have said that if there are other persons in the city who would like tu«lmve a part in aWln8 underfed children, contributions may be made through either of the clubs. Georg wray. Kiwanis; William Osborne, hmns: and C. B. MpBrayer, Rotary, ™ he contact men. Morning Cotton Civic Clubs LETTER NEW YORK. Feh IX !Tn prevail. Co. ^or the present a trading market A. E. Pierce & I N. C. Will Share In First Check Of Security Act WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.——Bre vard Springs, prominent Charlotte business man, died of a heart at tack today at the old Springs home stead on the Fort Mill road. No funeral arrangements have yet beep made. Rain and roads will control th opening- of all the rural schools ii Cleveland county, closed a weel ago today because of the impass able condition pfjnpet pf therurq routes, over which transport busse had to go each day. A meeting of all the principal of the rural schools will be held ii the office of the county superin tendent in the court house Satur day afternoon at 1:30 when the; will report the conditions In th various communities. 1'neir decision will then be for warded to the county board of edu cation who will make the final rul ing before Monday. J. H. Grigg, superintendent sail today that if the weather continue so rainy and roadbeds continue si rotten, travel will be almost as im possible now as it was a week . igo. However, most school official wish to start schools Monday if a all possible, as they will have t< make up the time in the sprini which will disrupt schedules alread; planned. Observers have noted that thl is the longest, most severe perloi of unfavorable weather seen in thi county in many years. Little trave except rural delivery of mail is car ried out on the roads and a num ber of the carriers have had to b pushed from the miry places in th< roads. Mrs. E. M. Bridges Dies Early Today On Gidney Street Funeral services will be held Sat urday at 3:30 at the Zion Baptis church for Mrs. E. M. Bridges whi died at her home this morning 01 Gidney street. Her death occurrei at 3 o’clock. Cause of Mrs. Bridges’ death wa gVen as paralysis as she has beei suffering for more than a yea with the disease. She was 56 year of age. Mrs. Bridges joined the Salen church in Rutherford county ii early childhood and has been i faithful member since that time Surviving are her husband, E. M Bridges and six children. The chil dren are H. M. Grayson of Wash ington, D. C.; Yates, Eugene, Hay wood and Ruby Bridges, all of Shel by. Also there are three brothers an< one sister. They are Miss Almi Grayson of Greensboro, R. N. Gray son and Summey Grayson of Shel by and W. M. Grayson of Blacks burg, 8. C. FRANK HOEY PATIENT IN HOSPITAL AFTER OPERATION Frank Hoey underwent an op eration yesterday morning at th local hospital and his condition to day is reported as satisfactory. WP A Certification Fails To Come To Expected Policy Mrs. Bost Gives Note In Explanation Can Come To Only Thoae On Re lief In May-November Of Last Year. General disappointment was reg istered here today when It was an nounced from Raleigjh that very few certifications for work on WPA can be made by Mrs. T. W. Ham rick, newly appointed welfare work er. Certification can go only to per sons on relief under FERA In the May-November period of 1935. This disappointment was offset however by the announcement that distribution will begin at once of commodities from the warehouse of the late FERA but distribution will be only to families who have been certified for relief. Attend Meeting Mrs. L. H. Ledford and Mrs. T W. Hamrick attended this week a meeting In Raleigh, Composed of welfare workers from all over the state. The discussion was led by Mrs. W. T. Bost, head of the state board of charities who advised them as to eligibility regulations. Mrs. Hamrick is today present (Continued on page eight) Mrs. G. Kendrick Will Be Buried At Kings Mount Funeral services will be held al 1 2 o’clock Saturday at the First : Baptist church at Kings Mount&ir . tor Mrs. George Kendrick, 74, wh< • died at her hone in that city earlj today alter a lingering illness « 5 tour months. Rev. A. G. Sargeant and Rev. J 5 M. Garrison will be in charge ot 1 services and interment will be at Mountain Rest cemetery. Before her marriage as a young ' woman to the late George Kendrick 5 she was Miss Willie Borders of thii county and has lived in Cleveland all her life. Her husband died 1! years ago and her only son, Arthur, died 13 years ago. She leaves one daughter, Mrs ' Will Byrd and a granddaughter 5 Mrs. Harold Crawford, of King: * Mountain. She was known as one of Kings Mountain's best loved women. 5 » Open Recreation ' School For Tots l A Recreation room for the tiny ‘ kiddles of pre-school age will be | opened the first of bext week in the Arey building, according to an I nouncement today by Mrs. Fetzer, , director of the recreational work in . the county. Classes will be field from 10 until 12 o'clock each Monday, Wednes day mornings this spring and will be in charge of Miss Mildred Laugh ridge and Miss Margaret Smith. The classes will be part of the county and statewide recreation project under the WPA. All chil dren of pre-school age will be ad mitted and asked to attend. District Music Contest April 4 A district music contest which will Include all schools in Ruther ford, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston and Cleveland counties will be held at Linoolnton April 4th. This announcement was made to day by Ray 8. Lowder of Llncoln ton, who is district chairman of ar rangements. The meeting will bf held in the high school auditorium and precedes the annual music con test held each year at Greensboro. Capture ‘‘Delight” In Delight Area Five gallons of “delight” wai found in the Delight communltj yesterday by Deputies H. A. Guinr . and E. J. Cordell and brought t< the office of the sheriff. The fluid was found concealed ir ! an old earthen jar hidden alone the banks of a branch. No person! ■ claimed ownership and no arrests ! have been made. The liquor will b< - poured out at the regular time b] the officers. See Fight On War Money Bill Prospects of an open battle on the floor of congress over the pro posed military appropriations bill of approximately $888,000,000 loomed as alarmist notes were sounded during debate on the meas ure. The war department program proposes an increase of $88, 808,000 over the 108$ appropriation. Senator Key Pittman of Nn, vada caused considerable comment by his attack un Japan white Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois discussed the possibility of a Russo-Japanese alliance which would dominate Asia at American Gardner Presents Analysis Of Textiles, Farms, Finance Qpe of the clearest analyses of the present national situation with regards to textiles, agriculture, business and finance heard in Shel by this year was given at the week ly meeting of the Kiwanis club last night by O. Max Gardner, former governor of the state and now of Washington, D. C. Mr. Gardner did not make an ad dress, but discussed in round table and an Informal manner the ques tions asked. He was presented by Forrest. Eskridge, in charge of the program. He was introduced as the first president of the Shelby Kiwanis club which was begun 14 years ago this spring. In short, Mr. Gardner sees a 15 to 20 percent increase in general business during 1936, voices optim* (Continued on page eight.) Floods Threatened From N. C. Rivers RALEIGH, Feb. 14.—yp)—Floods were in prospect again today. Fore casting North Carolina streams the weather bureau here issued advis ory warnings that overflows could be expected in the Cape Fear, Tar, Neuse and Roanoke rivers due to rains and melting sleet and snow. Pneumonia Takes Mrs. Zora For< Pneumonia, which came as r< suit of the extended cold and rain weather was responsible here Wee nesday morning of Mrs. Zora Olat Ford, wife of Richard Ford, tei tile worker of this city. Funeral services for Mrs. For were held Thursday at Provident church near Henrietta. Mrs. Ford was married in 1890 i R A. Ford and was 65 years of aj at the time of her death. She w« the mother of 11 children, nine < whom are now living. There aro i grandchildren and four great grand children. The children are James and V B. and Mrs. Mary Scruggs, < Qaffney, S. C.; Mrs. Minnie Ingl Mrs. Nora Henson, Mrs. Julia Whil and Mrs. Irene Origg of Shelbj Mrs. Sara Morrison of China Orovt Mrs. Rozelle Ford. of Charlott Sisters and brothers are Mrs. Cai rie Littlejohn, Mrs. Leila Tume Thomas and Charles Clary of Oaf] ney, S. C. and Grover Clary < Charlotte. R. M. Wilson is improving at h home on North Washington St. Mrs. bskndge Escapes Serious Injury When She Falls From Cat Mrs. John Eskridge, nearly 60 years of age, of South DeKalb street, narrowly escaped death yes terday when she was the victim of ar. unusual accident which . cata pulted her from a car, running at a reasonably high rate of speed, to the pavement where she landed on her head and was dragged 20 or 30 feet along the highway before the car could be brought to a stop. She suffered severe bruises and abrasions over her entire body, and especially about the head and | the left arm, her clothing was ■! practical torn from her body, and I yet, so far as physicians at the lo I cal hospital have been able to de : ermine, no bon as were broken ar there are no internal or other ii luries likely to prove serious. Mrs. Eskridge and her daughte Mrs. Paul Hawkins, were on the way, about 9 o’clock yestcrdi morning, to visit the former’s & year-old mother, Mrs. Monroe M Swain, in the Beams Mill sectic when the accident occurred. Tl jar, being driven by Mrs. Hawkir was going about 35 or 40 miles s lour, along the Fallston road ju north of Shelby. They were pas ing in front of the George Spurlir lome when Mrs. Eskridge, in f ;ffort to raise the window of tl (Continued on page eight) i Climatic Variety Deals Out Storms Of Fatal Nature Europe And Asia Suffering Most EpidemicN Follow In Wake Of Storms; United States Stricken Too. (By Associated Press) Virtually all Jorma of at mospheric and climatic dis turbances, except a heat Wave plagued some part of the northern hemisphere today. The elements dealt body blows with windstorms on land and sea, dust storms in the southwest, snow, hail, sleet and rain various parts of the United States, earth quakes in Montana, fires, fan ned by winds, hampered transportation and threatened floods. Epidemics followed In the wake of the storm*. A Hollywood Cali fornia movie company was isolated high in the Sierras and several members of the troop, including Mary As tor, actress, were ill with influenza. Hundreds HI An undetermined malady caused Illness of hundreds of Indian^ chil dren of the Navajo tribe near Gal lup, New Mexico. k 9 Montana reported a moderate earthquake In the western part of the state. Dust storms struck parts of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico. Colorado and Kansas. Cold winds dropped temperatures from 80 de gress to aero. Visibility in many places was limited to 80 -feet. An estimated number of deaths for the last 48 hours neared 875, including at least 38 in the United' States, 100 in Bulgarian blizzards, 40 in Italy, 38 in Great Britain and an unestlmated number in coast storms in European waters, LONDON, Feb. 14.—«V-A heigh tened blizzard reached across Tur key today, killing 78 and raising the death toll of storms In Europe and Asia Minor to approximately 378. From Istanbul it was reported that the cold storm Which has been underway three days has frozen 48 (Continued on page stgfhtt y S li 6? c | a e 0 e s f 1 r. f !, e !. r. f is ► d i r. tr iy i n le s, ie Mrs. Hamrick Dies Of Heart Trouble; Funeral Saturday Funeral aervksas for Mrs. Ros anna Hamrick, 80-year-old resident of the Latttmore community will be held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock at the Latttmore Baptist church. Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. D. a. Washburn will be in charge. Mrs. Hamrick died at her home at 1:40 Thursday afternoon of heart trouble. She had been seriously ill for two weeks following a fall in which she sustained a fractured hip. She had been in a period of de clining health since last tall. If she had lived until March 18 she would have been 81 years of age. Were No Children She was married in early wom anhood to E. J. Hamrick who pre ceded her to the grave 23 years ago. There were no children. Survivors are ohe sister, Mrs. L. C. Putnam of Mt. Sinai commun ity; three brothers, J. A. and R. L. Jones of La' timore and A. C. Jones of Forest City. Mrs. Hamrick came from a large family of 11 children and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alvft Jones. She was reared and lived her entire life in the Lattl more community. She was a mem ber of the Latttmore church and was regarded one of its most faith ful members. Consumed WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(JP>— Cotton consumed during January was reportd by the census bureau today to have totaled 591.309 bales of lint and 55.974 of lintera, com pared with 498,339 and 55,170 for December last, and 550.533 and 81, 034 for Janoinry last yew.