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WEATHER North Carolina: Generally <aU 'onight and Saturday, .tiffhtlv colder tonight, slightly Jfnner In extreme west Sat. «__ Ehe MW r 10 Pages TODAY VOL. XLH* No. 29 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, a* m u. a*r m>. (in BdTtnM) _ n.n Curler. mt mu. On •dniim _ UM TREASURY ENDS SEARCH FOR WAYS TO GET REVENUE Begin Movement To Aid The Blind In This County Commission Aided By Federal Funds |nnP, is Begun And Will Ascer tain Number And Condition Of Blind. A survey of the blind in Cleve land county will be started here today under the direction of the North Carolina state commission for the Wind and under the sponsor ship of the Shelby Lions club. Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Parham, of Charlotte, and both formerly blind Were in the city today making ar rangements and distributing survey cards which will be filled out by biind persons in the county. The state commission is in pos session of a $25,000 fund from the general assembly of last year which vill be matched with a similar amount from the federal govern ment to conduct the survey, and where possible arrange for opera tions and other treatment which will restore sight. Dr. Jensen of Duke university, working with the commission said recently that 75 percent of all blindness is prevent able and that a large percentage nav be restored if handled proper ■y Cleveland county is estimated to have from 50 to 60 blind persons. It is estimated that there are four thousand sightless and near blind persons living in the state. That sixty-five per cent of all Kindness comes in adult life and that around seventy-five percent of all visual defects can be prevented. I The definition of blindness gen rally accepted by workers for the Mind in America is: Any person is considered blind who is totally blind or wnose eyesight is so seriously de fective that he cannot see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses. There are also persons who, though able to read, have such Seriously impaired sight that work Carried on in the ordinary way will cause blindness. Baptist Classes To End Tonight The annual Training Union study course at the Firsrt Baptist church will end tonight and leaders said today the attendance will average clasp to 175 per night since it began on Monday. Seven classes of young people have been studying methods, inspi rctional. and mission topics. TNvo hours study each evening have been held at the First Baptist church. One hundred fifty awards or more are expected to be made. Teachers this week have been: Rev, A. G. Sargeant of Kings Mountain, teaching adults; Rev. David Bobbitt of Cherryville, "Planning A Life”; Wyan Washburn Senior Manual; Clay Cox, ]r., Mes sengers of Light; Miss Charlotte Tedder, Intermediate Manual; Miss Lalene Grigg, Junior Manual; Mrs. James Hopper, Bible Heroes. Morning Cotton LETTER N'E.V, York, Mar. 6.—Aside from hedging sales and scattered liquidation, offerings were light aurtng yesterday’s session. Domestic and Europe absorbed most of cne 5el!ing. mainly for price fixing Purposes. Trade generally following he meetings between farm leaders Vlti. government officials now In session to adopt the program for he coming season regarding agri tur# under the new farm bill, re were no indications of any j*ol sales of futures yesterday, otrairhtening out of the tax sltua "°n 5tloiild result In a broadening * mill demand. The immediate trend depends hjfv on the disposition of the pool holdings. E. A. Pieroe & Co. the markets *P0t- 11% to 18%c Tn "" seed- wagon, ton __$31.90 Cot on ***• car lot, ton_$34.00 lomW»,Ywk cotton at 2:30: J»n ... T1.24. May 10.77, July ,M7- Oct. 10 08. Dec. 10.09 Strike Leaders In Parley Assistant Secretary of Labor, James F. McGrady (center), noted for his arbitration of strikes, arrives at New York to pour oil of peace on build ing service employees troubles. Major Political Race Seen As Allen And Cline Enter Incumbent And Former Sheriff Get Even Start By Filing Within 24 Hours Of Each Other; May Bring Others A major political race in the Democratic primary for Cleveland county became a certainty today as announcements were recorded by two men who will seek the nomination for lllgll S11CI Uli The men are Sheriff Raymond! Cline, incumbent and Irvin M. Al len, former sheriff of the county for two terms. Mr. Allen filed with Democratic Chairman John P. Mull yesterday afternoon and made a brief an nouncement, stating that he will j present his views and platform to the voters next week. Sheriff Cline filed early today saying that he is running altogether on his record. Even Ground As candidates for the office, both men are bgeinning on comparative ly “even ground”, both have had two terms each since 1928. Mr. Allen served from April 1928 until April 1933 and Mr. Cline will soon start on his last year of two terms. Both are natives and original resi dences of the Kings Mountain sec tiqn of the county. A spirited race was predicted today by political acpesters around the county court house. Filing by the two candidates for sheriff is expected to pave the way for other candidates who thus far have been unusually slow in filing. Most of them are said to be waiting (Continued on page ten.) ‘House-Warming’ Is Planned F orNewCommunity Building John Lane Dies Of Tuberculosis In East Shelby John Lane, 24 year old Shelby' youth died Tuesday of tuberculosis following an illness of two years. At the time of his death he was living at the home of his father in east Shelby on the old Kings Mountain road. Funeral services were held Wed nesday for the young man at Lees Chapel in upper Cleveland county. Interment was at the church ceme tery. Rev. J. W. West, pastor of the Brethren church at Spindale was In charge. Surviving are his father, W. S. Lane, five sisters, and one brother, bis mother preceding him to the grave four years ago. A joint meeting of the Warren F. Hoyle post of the American Legion and members of the Legion auxil iary will be held in the nature of a house warming of the new Com munity building at 7:30 O’clock next Friday night, March 13, it was an nounced today. While the building is not com pleted and probably will not be un til about April 1 construction has gone ahead to such an extent that it will be possible to utilize the structure for the Friday night meet ing. Regular meeting of the post is for Tuesday night but it was decided to postpone the meeting on account of the play to be given at the high school under auspices of the Junior Civic League. Since meeting of the auxiliary for March is regularly scheduled for Friday afternoon ar (Continued on page ten) Post Office ‘Dungeon’Doomed To Spend $9,000 On Offices At last the government has seen the wisdom of converting the "diyi ?eon” basement of the Shelby post office into federal offices and plans ind specifications will be here in a few days. Postmaster Frank L. Hoyle who made a trip to Washington in Jan uary and secured the support of Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle in utilizing the basement space under the addition built late last year. The space under the work room gras left unfinished, without win dows or doors, yet it has sufficient h.eight for offices to which conven ient entrance can be gained from East Warren street. Although the plans have not been seen, it is] thought that the embankment will be graded away on the south side ol the postoffice and entrance pro vided to the basement under the work room where several offices will be provided. Postmaster Frank Hoyle says the estimated cost of the job will be $9,000, An effort was made to have.this part of the building made suitable for use when the addition was built last year but the government did not see fit to heed the requests of the civic club6, the postmaster and the contracting firm of Morrison-Falls who built the addition. Bids will be received on March 30th. t Misunderstanding Seen In New AAA At Memphis Meet Wallace Speaks To Gathering Hard For Farmers To Understand How New Plan Will Work Out. Some measure of dissatisfaction was being voiced yesterday and to day at the preliminary surveys of the new AAA which Is being un folded to delegates to the soil con servation conference In Memphis Tenn. Cleveland farmers and farm lead ers are watching every movement with eager eyes, hoping to catch a glimmering of what the program Is going to be like. Vague, Indefinite Only one Cleveland county man. Tom Cornwell, Is attending the con ference, In the capacity of a state committeeman. He will be expected to make matters clear on his re turn. Associatd Press reports Indi cated that many of the representa tives were looking on the new plans with some fear and distrust and that they were "vague” and very Secretary Wallace was scheduled to read some explanation of the new plan today which was thought would clear the situation. Conditions Stated Tentative plans, Wallace said, would require fanners who receive soil subsidies to meet these condi tions: They must plant in 1936 an acre age of soil-conserving crops a stip ulated percentage of their lands, based on their total acreage of soil depleting crap*. ....a,,—4. They must plant in 1936 not more than a stipulated number of acres in soil-depleting crops. They must maintain this year the usual number of acres planted in food and feed crops for home con sumption. This general outline, It was em phasized, would be temporary and would be effective for not more than the first two years of the con servation program. After that time, the program will be based on a system of Federal-State co-opera tion. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 5.—UP) —This explanation of how the new soil conservation farm program might work was written for news paper men here today by J. B. Hut son director of the AAA division of ( bacco and miscellaneous crops, (Continued on page ten.) Adult Education Classes Increase 70 In Enrollment Enrollments in the eleven Adult Education Classes being conducted in this county under the supervis ion of the WPA by Mrs. Ben Go forth showed an increase of 70 pu pils last month and reached what is expected to be near the peak for the year. There are now 467 men and worn-' en engaged in the pursuit of learn ing in these classes, said Mrs. Go forth today. Enrollments by classes is as fol lows: Mrs. Edna Ware, 34; Mrs. S. T. Greer, 58; Mrs. C. E. Carpenter, 52; John Kennedy, 15; Mrs. E. B Olive, 52; Summie McBrayer, 76; Edward McCloud. 47; Mrs. Annie Byers. 41; Mrs. Terrah Perree, 15; Mrs. C. C. Carpenter, 24; Harold Hamrick, 33. Mrs. Byers has started a new class at Stubbs at the Buffalo cot ton mill and Mrs. Greer has relin quished her work since accepting work on the historical survey, but the other teachers will further the work with her pupils. Prominent Lawyers Before E. Y. Webb A number of prominent attorneys were in Shelby yesterday to present their cases before Judge E. Y. Webb in the case of Autrey vs. Universal Mortgage company. Among them were J. G. Merri mon, Alfred Barnard, Attorney Lof tin of Asheville and Attorneys Poe and Carey of Baltimore, Maryland. Judge Webb did not give a final ruling on the case, but will hold another hearing May 18 at Ashe ville. . ' Fear Germany Will Denounce Locarno Pact (By A mods ted Press) A suggestion In Berlin that Ger many may denounce the Locarno treaty gave a gravely Important angle to the Italo-Ethiopian war today. It was hinted that Germany, long the most drastic critic of the League of Nations, from which she resigned on the basis that it was prejudiced against her, might be Joined in her attitude by Italy. Italy is growing increasingly resent ful against the restrictions and sanc tions imposed against her by the league. Both nations are signatories of the Locarno Pact which binds them and Prance, Great Britain, and Bel gium to repel mutually any aggres sion by another signatory. Another possible repercussion from the Fascist operations in Africa was indicated by the report from Addis Ababa that a retired British major, G. A. Burgoyne, had been killed by an Italian bomb as he served with a Red Cross unit be hind the Ethiopian lines. He was a member of the unit which the Brit ish foreign office had advised Italy was operating ip the area. An authoritative London source said Great Britain would deliver a stiff protest to Italy against the ac tion. Official quarters were plainly indignant. The Red Cross flag, which was spread on the ground, actually was hit by a bomb official sources said. Choose Marshals ... For High School Closing Events Election of marshals for 1036 at the Shelby high school was an r«wnced twi«y uy principal w. e. Abemethy, giving to 12 sophomores and Juniors one of the highest honors that can come during high school. The office is coveted and held in high esteem because of the method followed in selecting the marshals each year. Mr. Abemethy said: "To be eligible for it one must be nominated and elected by the fac ulty: must have made an average of at least 85 on all school work; and must possess poise, friendliness, neatness and a fine attitude. girls as possible may have this honor, marshals are not eligible for relection. They serve as ushers at all public entertainments of the school and help in every way to maintain good conduct at these af fairs.” The following pupils have recent ly been elected to serve as marshals for 1936: sophomores, Catherine Bailey. Aim Smart, Mildred White ner, Sims Blanton, Avery Willis Mc Murry, James Sanders; juniors, Floyd Bost, Lloyd Bost, Clifford Bost, Clifford Hughes, Nancy Line berger, Agnes Silver and Ada Wall. Miss Era Wolfe Is Buried Today At Beulah Church Funeral services were held today at 2 o'clock at the Beulah Method ist church for Miss Era Wolfe, 68 year old resident of the Sandy Plains community. 8he died yester day following an attack of para lysis several days ago. At the time of her death she was at the home of her sister, Mrs. G. W. Jenkins. She had been a semi invalid practically all the time since she was a young girl, but had taken an active Interest in her friends and was a constant reader of the Bible. She joined the Beulah church in early womanhood. Surviving Miss Wolfe are two brothers, George F. Wolfe of Shel by. and L. M. Wolfe, of Kings Moun tain. There are three sisters, Mrs. D. F. Grlgg and Mrs. O. W. Jen kins of 8andy Plains, and Mrs. W. N. Blanton of Sharon. Marooned On Ice YONKERS, N. Y„ March «.—{#)— A man floated down the Hudson river on a cake of ice this morning while police looked on the ice choked channel helpless from shore. He was being rapidly carried down sdrram. New York City police were notified. Million Workers Under WPA Lose Jobs By July 1st Will Drop Worker* j By July 1 Effect On This County Uncer tain; Need More Finds For Work. Effects in this county of the new drive on the part of Harry L. flop- i kins, national head of the WPA, to j force relief workers to seek private employment could not bo ascer-: tallied today, but it was not thought that it would cut the number seri ously enough to hamper the work now started. A conference at the White House in Washington yesterday failed to reach any conclusion as to the amount of money leaders should ask congress to appropriate for the continuation of this form of relief. It now appears that a full million men and women will r be cut by July 1. Associated Press reports said that before going to the White House Hopkins disclosed that work relief employment rolls would be slashed from Its present 3,804,888 total to 3.300,000 during the next four months. On Relief Although he insisted that in most cases Jobs In private industry would be available to the 500.000 dismiss eri WPA workers, he acknowledged that some would be forced back on direct relief. Each state, Hopkins said. will make a gradual reduction in its work relief employment, and WPA will be cut from its present 3.037, 444 jobs to 2,300,000 by July 1. This big cut, however, will be offset by some' additional employment by other relief agencies. In some quarters there had been advance estimates that Mr. Roose velt would ask for one billion if a six months’ program is decided upon ot two billion for the full year. Hopkins told reporters about his plans to cut the relief rolls a short time after Secretary Perkins, fore casting better business ahead, said she was “strengthening the employ ment services in the belief that they are going to be busy this spring." Thompson Nam^dl Publicity Head For Clyde Hoey RALEIGH, March 6—Clyde R. Hoey’s publicity as a candidate for governor will be handled by Robert L. Thompson, formerly with the Greensboro Dally News, then the Raleigh News and Observer, later with the United Press, then the Associated Press, the Baltimore Sun and the News and Observer again: Announcement was made that Mr. Thompson has resigned his staff position on the News and Observer and will go into the Hoey head quarters at once. Mr. Hoey* has not , yet announced his manager but that statement is expected within the next 48 hours. A circumstance of unusual inter est is Mr. Thompson’s signup with Mr. Hoey. The young man lived a good deal of his boyhood in Greens boro. His biases, if any, have not been generally in the Hoey direc tion. Mrs. Thompson, who is also ar. exceedingly clever newspaper writer, prepared the articles which went out from Fountain headquar ters four years ago. It was general ly agreed that she did Mr. Foun tain more good than all his other assistants combined. Attention Is Centered On Co rpo rationFunds; Tax Outline Is Given Leaders Are Ready For Debate On Measure; Expect Stiff Opposition; Cover Ground Very Thoroughly WASHINGTON, March 6.—Indications that the treas ury has completed presentation of possible major methods of raising money emerged today from a session of the House Ways and Means tax sub committee. Not Premier Prince fummaro Konoye, the youni man pictured above ha* just refuse* the task of forming a cabinet in thi Japanese government. The cabinet was broken up in the recent mili tary revolt. No Bids Submitted On Byrum Hosiery No bids for the entire stock anc eauipment of the Byfum Hosier) mill were submitted to Marion Ross referee in bankruptcy in Charlotte yesterday, so the mill will continue operation under D. W. Royster trustee, who has been operating the plant since it entered bankruptcy last April. The Hemphill Machinery Co. of fered to buy for $13,500 the hosiery machinery in which it holds a mort gage, but the sale was denied by the bankrupt trustee. Attending the hearing in Char lotte from 8helby yesterday were Attorneys D. Z. Newton, O. M. Mull Peyton McSwain and D, W. Royster The mill building is owned bj Charles Victorious of New York and !'• rented by the trustee, D. W. Roy ster, who has been operating the tCootinued on page ten) Carolina Store Here Withdraws Its Unit The Carolina Grocery store, here tofore operating in the Miller block at the comer of LaFayette and Warren streets, has closed, the mer chandise being consolidated with the Homes Stores in Shelby and Cher ryvllle. The chain of Carolina store; was recently purchased by the Homes Stores, so having a Home store unit here, the stocks have been consolidated. WPA Historical Survey Begins; ' Valuable Records Being Found interesting and historical things that claimed the attention of Cleve land county people from 80 to 100 yean ago, and the long and volumi nous accumulations of the decades since that time are being dug up in the court house. Mrs. Pauline Weaver and Mrs. Bam Greer, working under the lat est WPA project, a historical re search project are finding a number of things that will interest the coun ty and preserving them In a way to keep them more permanent. There is a tremendously large number of old records In the court house, dating from 1841, the year ; tli© county was founded until the present date. Until recent years, lit tle of the material has been alpha betised and put in general referenc< | order. i Too, there will be other historical ' events and articles which wilt be catalogued and recorded by the re search work. One room in the basement of the court house which the average resi dent has never seen Is full of ole census reports, marriage accounts, tax books, paint cans, supplies and a considerable amount of other ma (Cuntinued on page ten.) Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Demo crat, Washington, told reporters aft er the meeting that “Wa just re hashed what we have gone over bo fore." While indicating that attention centered today on a tax on undis tributed corporation earnings Hill said no discussion was given over to permitting corporations to build up a cushion of reserves which would be tax exempt or assessed St a low rate. It appeared the sub committee sessions were about tP resolve themselves into debate over the relative merits or demerits of money sources already suggested by the treasury and agriculture depart ment officials. These included: The Methods 1. A graduated tax, averaging 33 1-3 percent on undistributed net incomes of corporations. 2. A general manufacturing ex cise tax. 3. Revised income taxes with lower exemptions and higher rates. *. Processing taxes on farms and competing commodities. I. A "windfall" tax to bring bWK 1 government revenue lost by return or non-payment of processing taxes. 6. A 1-3 increase In present tobac co taxes. 7. Lower exemptions Jpr Emis sion taxes. v , President Roosevelt has suggest ed the corporation, windfall and processing levies. The other proposals were sub mitted at the request of the sub committee In order to glue If'a ♦ell rounded view of all possible means of augmenting the government’s In come. Speaker Byrnes said at his press conference he did not anticipate any general tax revision this ses sion. “I hope note,” he said on ques tioning. “That takes months and we haven’t time of course unless we want to stay here until next Sep tember." Electrification Bill Of Norris GivenToHouse Five hundred or more families in Cleveland county who have for the past few months been seeking aid on building rural power lines cheap* ly or in borrowing money to do so, will learn with Interest that the *420,000,000 Norris rural electrifica tion bill has been sent to the house. Despite warnings of Senator King of Utah yesterday the senate fav ored the Norris plan and as oppon ents said, "rushed madly Into the consolidation of all power In the federal government" to pass the bill. King vainly presented a substitute to trim the expenditures to *10, 000,000 a year for ten years, but said even as he argued that his case was “futile.” At a White House conference earlier in the week Senator Norris, Republican of Nebraska, author of the bill, agreed to scale the 10-year program from *10^,000,000 a year for 110 years to *60,000,000 a year for 1 the first two years and *4,000,000 'for the remaining eight years. Norris agreed to one of King’s : demands by reducing from 40 to 25 .years the maximum life of loans for 'rural power projects. | The bill would establish a new rural electrification administration and empower it to lend to states, rural municipalities, utility districts, farm co-operatives, or limited divi dend corporations to install and operate generating, and distributing systems where none now exist. Calvin Edney, of Marshal, who Is seeking the Republican nomination I lor congress in this district, was in j Shelby yesterday.
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