WEATHER
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy
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VOL. XLH. No. 22
SHELBY, N. a WEDNESD’Y, FEB. 19, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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TAX PLANS AND
NEUTRALITY IN CAPITAL
SPOTLIGHT
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Highway Forces Work
Overtime To Repair
Damages Of $100,000
Will Soon Have 1200 Miles Of Rural Roads
Passable; Superintendent Broadway Says
It Is Worst In 28 Years
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Cars, trucks and school busses were rapidly being per- j
mitted to resume normal traffic on the 1200 miles of rural j
roads in Cleveland county today as crews of the state high
wav department dumped load after load of sand and gravel
into muddy ruts and sought to repair what is thought to be
nparlv $100,000 damage to the roads.
A statement today from W. A.
Broadway, district suilrrvisor in
charge of roads in Cleveland coun
ty indicated that the condition of
the roads for the past two months
“Us the worst in the 28 years I have
been connected with road work.”
Only one school bus was reported
unable to make the grade yester
day and it was soon extracted from
the mud and sent on Its way.
Need Sunshine
Mr. Broadway said that while it
is impossible with his present ma
chinery to cover the entire county
so quickly after a rain or snow, that
•with a few more days of fair
weather we will have every road in
the county passable again.”
Seven regular sections, two state
highway sections, two extra sections
with six extra trucks, comprising
about 40 or more men, with the aid
of 193 prisoners are now working
lull time on the roads. All the
drags and motors in the county are
being used.
While the prisoners are not al
lowed to run machinery, they are
helpful In shoveling the sand, open
ing drains and side ditches.
Surfaced Reads Suffer
The clay roads are not the only
ones in the county which have suf
fered greatly from the cold weath
er. The surfaced roads, especially
the gravel and tar roads have been
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Shelby Teachers
Exchange Pupils
For Entire Day
“Exchange day” is being set this
week by teachers in the Shelby
school system, in which all the
teachers are allowed at least one
day to teach some other class other
than his or her owft, which practice
is found to be quite stimulating both
to pupils and teachers.
B. L. Smith, superintendent, said
today that he allowed the exchanges
to be made during one week at this
time of the year. One half of the
teachers changed places Tuesday
and the other half will change
Thursday.
Effort is made to let the teacher
perform in a different subject ahd
altogether different age of pupils
than she has been accustomed to
teaching. The schedule is so arrang
ed that one teacher from each
school will exchange with some one
in every other school.
Supt, Smith said that insofar as
he knows Shelby Is the only school
in the state that uses this plan tc
promate a wider understanding of
educational responsibility.
Morning Cotton
LETTER
YORK, Feb. 19-Trading
n-ou and principally for trad*
wonnu. Report* received of eon
^ !elllng of 8pot cotton bj
. ' l'ei pool, contracts taken bs
bll.^' /<Uso reports of arbitrage
.„L -i of jtliy in this market against
month ta Liverpool, dlf
er oriween these option!
pw'-f8 narrowing. Less em
t'*»* Placed on retroac
BrooJ es 40 °°ver unconstitutional
tor is rftf n3*68 1X11 1111411 41118 mat’
Ukpiv *a i settle<1 g00ds business
only- i' “*• Trading market seems
Cottnn ™E MAKK®TS
°U<*n ***. car lot, ton_%
103^ Jork cott°n at 2:30:
le61' 5!r'1n1128' Ma> 10 90.
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Italians Conquer
Solid Hno indicates position of D
Dace’s legions before huge offensive
in which 6,000 Ethiopians are re>
ported killed. The broken line shows
extent of the advance made by two
divisions of Italian white soldiers.
Candidate McRae
For Local Option
In liquor Control
Opens Campaign For Nomination
In Mecklenburg
Courthouse.
CHARLOTTE, Feb. 19.—Advocat
ing among other things the adop
tion of a local option state control
liquor store act analogous to the
Virginia control plan, John A. Mc
Rae of Charlotte in an address last
night to a large crowd at the Meck
lenburg courthouse formally launch
ed his campaign for the Democratic
nomination for Governor.
Mr. McRae’s position upon the
liquor question was clear-cut, un
equivocal. “We are confronted with
a practical situation and it must be
dealth with in a practical way,” he
declared in prefacing the principle
underlying his plan.
Nb Sales Tax Advocate.
On the sales tax he was also clear
in his position. “Were I a member
of the General Assembly in 1937, I
would vote to abolish the sales tax,
if we could balance the budget
without this tax and without plac
ing the tax which it supplanted
back uon real estate and without
hampering industry by destructive
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Get Oht The Old Rod And Reel
As ftshing Time’s Almost Hen
"Hunting season to over and it k
time to get out your rod and reel,’
said H. C. Long, county game ward
en as he made a few seasonal com
ments about the condition of game
I birds and animals after coming
through a hard winter.
‘T really think they are in better
condition and we have a larger
number at the close of the year than
j we would have had, if the weather
jhad been better—it has been so bad
hunters have been unable to hunt
very much.” >
Mr. Long continued by saying
that while game birds and animals
furnish grand sport during the win
ter months, its a good thing t
thing about their protection durin
the nesting season, this period be
gan February 15 for Cleveland coun
"The county is becoming so thick
ly populated and woods and wil
places are becoming so few it won
be long until there is no natun
place for them to hide.”
House cats and dogs were pointe
out as dangerous natural enemies c
birds and rabbits and other sma
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Free Fertilizer
Under TheT.V.A.
Farm Topic Todaj
Applications Being
Received
Raspberries Seine Revised Aftii
As Expert Is Expected
Thursday.
Today’s farm story Is about frei
fertilizer under the TVA, last pay
ment on rental checks, electrli
power and raspberries.
Nearly a score of applications fo
their farms to become demonstra
tlon units under the Term esse
Valley Authority have been recelv
ed by the farm extension depart
ment, according to John 8. Wilkins
and all these farms are being vis
ited this week and inspected am
examined.
Crop Rotation
After all applications are In, th
farms will be selected, one In eaci
township, by the Soil Erosion Com
mittee, after which they will be ac
cepted by the TVA to work out
rotation, soil erosion and conserva
tion policy for the next few years.
Free fertilizer for the pastun
legume and improvement crops wi
be furnished.
As for the raspberries, growth c
which last year took Cleveland b
storm: H. R. Niswonger, of th
come in the regular allotment
county Thursday and make in spec
tion of the vines. Ho will go wit
Mr. Wilkins and other agents 1
this district Thursday night for
meeting to discuss 1936 marketlz
outlooks and pedicles.
The last rental checks for Gleet
land county were given out th
week, and the local office has n<
a one left, but there are seven
scores of checks which did n<
come 3n the regual allotment
which lywe not as yet been set
out from Washington. A Washing
ton report said today that the Uu
work was being done on the delas
ed checks, and it Is hoped that a
will be sent In the next few days
Mr. Wilkins said In regards t
the proposed loans by the feden
government to prospective powr
owners that Cleveland already hi
many more than the average powc
lines, and the scattered lines whic
are lacking prevent development o
a big scale and may have to b
worked out locally. About 500 pi
Crons are now said to be wan tin
lines built to their homes in Clevt
land.
4 Firemen Die
In Columbus, 0
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 19.—
(fp)—Four firemen ' lost their
lives, one was missing, and at
least 12 injured in a spectacu
lar early morning fire that left
a 72-year-old lodge hall in ice
covered ruins.
A falling wall killed Captain
Otto Ignats and Robert Welch
and firemen Herbert Harring
ton after the three alarm blaze,
which threatened an entire
block, had been brought under
control. Lieutenant Harry Mc
Fadden died in a hospital.
Fifty workmen dug into a
huge pile of brick seeking the
body of another firemen, miss
ing since a rear wall of the
three-story lodge hall, a block
from the Ohio capital, caved in.
Firemen continued to pour wat
er on the smouldering ruins.
Seniors Link Scholarship
With Dignity For Honors
Mid-Term List Of Students On Honor Rol
Released By School Officials; Sophomore
Class JRanks Second
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Combining scholarship with proverbial senior dignity
the members of the senior class led the entire school durini
the first four months of the school year. The mid-term hor
or roll has just been released by school officials for the en
! tire Shelby school system.
The sophomore class was second
: best with 19 percent of Its mem
bers taking honor. Eighteen per
. cent of the first year students
wer,e on the list and the Junior
class tagged with 16 per cent.
■ Students who made the top in
■ grades are:
Eighth Grade.
Thelma Bumgardner, Carolyn
Carrick, Barbara Cooke, Ina Lewis
‘ Forney, Sara Hamrick, Josephine
* McWhlrter, Sara Mull, Sara New
ton, Eliae Putnam, Betsy Rpberts,,
Elva Ann Thompson, Phyllis Yates,
» Billy Rlchbourg, Benjamin Smith.
i Ctiarles William Webb, Arthur
. Grigg, Walter Laughridge, Mary
Ella Apple, Mildred Bates. Cath
erine Dendy, Mable Wray Doggett,
Flora Hubbard. Elisabeth Poi
Pearl Weathers. Shirley Coetnei
Vera Lee Hamrick. Ruth Shas
Carl Lynn. E. P. Reviere Jr., Jac
Gladden, D. L. Towery, Walt*
Wilson, Mary Margaret Silvei
Gene Crowe.
Ninth Grade.
Margaret Elliott. NeU Web!
Mary Frances Williams, Bemic
Childers. Ruth Dixon, Edn
Downs, Harriett McDowell, Eth<
Patterson, RuUh Thompson, Mar
tha Arrowood, Willie Mae Baile?
Martha Eskridge, Marjorie Esk
ridge, Edith Fitch, Mary Olein
Mildred McArthur, Rachel Robert
Evelyn Self, Ann Smart, Kathry
Spake, Virginia Toms, Ruth W1
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Two Main Objectives Set
|By 500 In PTA Gathering
Editor’s Widow
Will Come East
Following Trial
lOmnOPOUl, Minn., wnE-'
(/Ph-Saying she would have only
about a month to live should she
slain husband’s
paper, Mrs. Edith
newspaper pub
lisher, who December B by
a machine gunner mM agf was go
ing east to "get a Job a* soon as
possible” and that lt was fear for
her children’s.future rather than
bar own personal safety that
prompted her decision.
Ner statement toBnwed the ac
quittal last night of Isadora Blum
enfleld, former booflfeggcf, found
Innocent at the murdee of Liggett
by a jury in district Cdpt
MINNEAPOLIS, PW». • «B.—(/P)—A
district court jury tonigfifc absolved
Isadora (Kid Gann) Blumenfield,
liquor salesman and Convicted boot
legger, of a first degree murder
charge in connection with the assas
sination of Walter W. Liggett, cru
sading weekly newspaper publisher,
last December B.
Tears filled the eyes of the pallid
Blumenfield a the verdict was read
by Judge Arthur Selqver.
Dabbing at his face with a hand
kerchief, Blumenfield shook hands
with the judge and kissed the hands
of the four women jurors.
So intense was “CannV eagerness
as the verdict was read that his
counsel, Thomas McMeeklns, was
obliged to restrain him by tugging
at his coat. McMeekin and Blumen
fleld’s wife likewise showed emotion
al strain, both brushihg away tears
and the latter burying her face in
her hands.
Scarcely had Judge Selover pro
nounced the words “not guilty" be
fore the handful of spectators, most
ly relatives and friends of Blumen
field. cheered and rushed toward
the defenant and ju^y.
The Jurors, It was reported, reach
ed their verdict on the first ballot
after three and dne-half hours’ de
liberation.
Blumenfield placed his reliance In
the alibi that he was in a down
town Minneapolis barber shop at 6:45
( p. m., the time the militant editor
was machine gunned in an alley
behind his apartment home.
‘ Observe Holiday
i . On.February 22nd
All banks of the city and the
post office will suspend operations
. Saturday, February 22 as part of the
a celebration of the national holiday
i —the birthday of George Washing
, ton, the first president.
There will be no rural free dellv
i ery or city delivery on that day.
{ It Is understood, however, that
j building and loan associations will
remain open on that dky for the
regular transaction of business.
More tftan 900 parents end teach
fill bay of the national organlsa
Uon of the Parent Teacher* asso
ciation which was held at the higt
school auditorium Monday night.
Two main objectives for the com
lug year were passed by the com
Wnari, ■■■iNMMpa of all the unit
the city whici
are; (1) Boom, for every child; <3
A nine months echoed term.
Every association in the city wai
represented in large numbers by thi
parents and teachers, with Mariot
street school winning the $5 aware
for the best percentage.
In clarifying the objectives Sup
erintendent B. L. Smith said it in
cludes the need for a building pro
gram to give adequate classroom
playroom and workroom space foi
every child In Shelby. Too, t
the nine months term is adopted
it wilt mean an Increase of the lo
cal school tax.
“When the state took over th«
school system it did not presume tt
do more than give an eight month;
school as a minimum term. Progres
sive cities and towns which wish U
add more features and addition*
service must pay It themselves.”
During the Founders Day fea
tures It was learned that Parent
Teachers associations were foundec
in Washington, D. C., February 17
1889 at the Instance of Mrs. Fran
ces Burney, a Georgian. She wai
aided by Mrs. Grover Cleveland
wife of the president of the Unltec
States.
Since that time they have swept
the entire nation so far as school;
and patrons are concerned.
Doggett House
Has $500 Damage
A stubborn fire which for mori
than an hour threatened the C. R
Doggett residence on N. LaFayetti
street Monday night was finallj
subdued by firemen after smoki
and water and actual fire damagi
was estimated to be above 1500.
Several valuable pieces of fuml
fcure were destroyed and smok<
damage extended throughout th<
large residence.
The fire occurred at nine o’clpcl
in the evening and cause was at
tributed to an open grate. Inst
ance was carried on the house, bu
none of the furniture.
Add 3 Reserves
To Fire L&ddiei
At the regular monthly meetini
of the city firemen last night thre
new men were authorized to b
ready to answer second calls for a]
future fires in the city.
The men are James Reid, J. B
Hull, Jr., and Hub Ellis. They ar
the first three of ten who will b
added to fill the city’s allowed quoti
for second call men.
These volunteers will not go oi
the first call, but if a fire is dan
gerous enough to need more men
they will be used as reserves.
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1 Dead, 3 Injured
In Goldsboro Fire
As Truck Wrecks
Tries To Min Child
On Highway
W. W. Woodward Of Durham Is
Burned To Death; Two Others
Are Critical.
GOLDSBORO, Feb. 10.—<*>)—W.
W. Woodwar of Durham sms burn
ed to death near here and three
other persons were injured, two
critically, In a wreck and explosion
of an oil truck trying to avoid
striking a child.
Samuel W. Whitaker and Charles
Olive, both of Durham, riding with
Woodward, said to be the driver of
an Independent oil truck, owned by
the father of Whitaker, as well as
Ralph Mood, four year* old, of near
Goldsboro, were In a hospital here.
All except Olive were said to be
critically Injured with little hope
held for Whitaker.
Darts In Front
Witnesses said Ralph, son of Les
lie Hood, owner of a nearby ftlltni
station, darted across the highway
six miles south of here, directly lr
front of the truck.
Woodward they aald, In an effort
to miss the child, steered the true!
suddenly off the road where It
crashed with an explosion and toot
fire.
Woodward waa burned almost
beyond recognition. Hospital attend
ants said the child suffered a frac
tured shoulder and leg as well m$i
possibly fractured skull.
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Bank Deposits
Bigger Than Evei
WASHINOTBOh ihbl III '01
The comptroller of the currency re
ported today that national ban!
deposits of $34447,733,000 at thi
close of 103ft were the largest ii
history.
The total shown In conditio*
statements of 5,393 active Institu
tions last December 31 exceeded b;
3.06 per cent the previous peak b;
$•00463.000. That was establishe<
December 31, 1938, when 7,63ft ac
tlve banka reported.
Officials attributed the uptuw
primarily to heavy goveramen
spending.
On June 30, 10$$, date of the firs
can for bank condition reports aft
er the banking holiday, 4,003 li
censed national banks had deposit
Of $16,774,115,000.
A gain of 3.39 per cent, or $814,
407,000 in deposits was reflected De
cember 01, over the previous repor
on November 1, 1938. The total al£<
was 14.63 per cent or $3,171,430,001
higher than on December 31, 1034
New Explosion
Imperils Utica
UTICA, N. Y.. Feb. 10.—(JPh
A new underground gas explo
sion momentarily Imperiled the
lives of several telephone line
men In downtown Utica, where
all business had been practical
ly at a standstill since the series
of explosions yesterday. All
downtown buildings had stood
empty since 11 a. m. yesterday
when the first explosion oc
curred.
A dozen city officials, Includ
ing the police chief, were stand
ing 15 feet from the telephone
tunnel In which the new explo
sion occurred. Six linemen In the
tunnel escaped Injury.
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George Gettys, Nabbed 4th Time,
Gaily Pays Fine With $100 Bill
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Haunting a 1100 bill as payment
of bis fine, George Geltys, 30 year
old convicted bootlegger, was in the
Cleveland county court yesterday for
the fourth time In as many months
after he was caught with -the
goods” the night before.
Furthermore, the arrests for the
most part have been made by two
city officers, Paul Stamey and Knox
Hardin, and on at least two occa
sions the liquor hauler has jumped
from the car and escaped, but came
the following day and surrendered.
All told, yesterday’s action cost
Gettys *170.20 counting the court
costs and the appraisal fee for his
auto. He was freed on the county’s
charge after willingly paying the
fine, but officers warned him not to
drive any more for 12 months.
The court couldn't suspend his
driver’s license, as he was never
granted one by the state. He will
face- a federal charge under Judge
Webb next mon.h.
J. L. Luckeydo was driving for
Qettys and also gave himself up
and was fined with the costs and
put under a good behavior sentence
for 12 months.
Forrest Barber was fined 910 for
speeding; Charles McCurry was
placed under $500 bond on a lar
cency charge being alleged to have
stolen money from Grover Greene;
Hemey Champion was fined 950
and costs on a prohibition viola
tion.
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Roosevelt Sees Action
\ On Farm Plan, Taxes
In Very Short Time
Congressmen Eager To Go Home, To Begin
Work On Campaigns; TV A Decision In
Conflicting Interpretations
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Deb. 19.—In a stormy sea**of tax
plana, conflicting interpretations of the TVA decision, the
traditional policy of the freedom of the seas and the wish of
congressmen to go home to campaign, President Roosevelt
today launched into the breech of the legislative guns.
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Jutland Hero
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Condition at Eari Borttjr, «, »■
mains serious as the Admiral, who
succeeded Jellicoe as Commander d
the Grand Fleet of England, lies
stricken in a London hospital. He
contracted a severe cold while at
tending funeral of King George v
France Asks U. S.
For Reduction Of
Battleship Sizes
French Ambaaaador Present Ques
tion To The Uidler
Secretary.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 19.—
(IP)—The French ambassador, Andre
de Laboulaye, formally has present
ed his government’s request, direct
ly to the United States government,
for its consent tor a reduction to the
size of battleships, a question now
before the London naval confer
ence.
A French representation was pre
sented late yesterday to William
Phillips, under-secretary of State
who participated for awhile in the
London deliberations as a member
of the American delegation.
Over Davis’ Head.
In doing so the French govern
ment went over the heads of Nor
man Davis, head of the American
delegation at the conference, and
Admiral W. H. Standley, the chief
naval representative.
Under Secretary Phillips declined
(Continued on page ten.)
wtries about the busy W. I. Borah
jf Idaho; the senate almost unani
mously completed ita congressional
action on the compromise neutral
ity bill and final action was expect -
sd today on the 500 mtl'lon farm
program and poaaibly on the money
tor the veterans' bonus.
Farm Program
A conference with Representative
Bankhead of Alabama. Democratic
floor leader, enabled him to ascer
tain how legislators feel about
levies under consideration to fi
nance the new 500 million dollar
farm program and poeslbly bonus
payment expenses.
Whether this action really came
up was not Immediately apparent.
Summoned to talk taxes with the
president after the Bankhead visit
were Secretary Morgenthau, w. C.
Taylor, sworn in only this morning
as assistant secretary of the treas
ury, Herman Ollphant, treasury
counsel, and Daniel Bell, acting bud
get director,'
Speaker "Trnig rsltmtsd thai
oangrem might.he able to adjourn
by April 15 and said a new tapt bill
would be given right-of-way when
it comes along In an attemp to
speed adjournment.
The senate took the day off while
house leaders hoped current debate
for the soil conservation subsidy
brand of farm aid already passed by
the senate would lead to final ap
proval by Friday. A proposal for
Investment of the Townsend old
age pension movement was Die up
for consideration.
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Promises Relief
From Bitter Cold
CHICAGO, VMx Vlr-VT) foowly
rising temperaturte, ftHMIt for
several section! today and tonor
row, promised some relief from the
worst siege of frigid weather la the
30th century, hot the weather bu
reau here also reported a sew maw
of cold air advancing on the north
Atlantic coast and southward to
the Quit of Mexico )s de
gree.
Late Bulletins
Still In Charm
LONDON, IW». Dfofolo
efforts by the Fratmh |»use sen it
to go over his head, Nonna H.
Da via chief of the G. S. delegation
to the International Naval Confer
ence, wee informed by the govern
ment et Washington today that he
was still In charge of naval negotia
tions and all French niprsoontallnn
would bo referred to Mm.
Government Resigns
MADRID, Feb. M.-<«V-The
Spanish government resigned today
In the face of an apparent election
victory by radical parties.
Quotes Hauptmann
TRENTON, N. J, Feb. IS.—(A")—
A source who heard the death house
Interview Sunday between Bruno
Richard Hauptman and Attorney
Samuel Leibowits quoted Hauptman
today as having said, *T guess my
story (sounds pretty weak.**
3 Point Agreement
FLORENCE. Italy, Feb. 1#.—</P)—
A high authority disclosed tonight
that a 3-point agreement aiming
Italy, Germany and Austria is in
process of formulation.
S. C. Youth Killed
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Feb. I*.
—(>P)—Flying Cadet W. S. Barnett
of Greenville, S. C., a student at
Randolph field was killed in a plane
crash near here today.