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WEATHER Norrh Carolina: Occasional -jiowcrs Tuesday and in west and Ljtral tonight. Slightly warmer tonight except »n southwest. TM GEMEINER Zwsr 8 Pages Today VOL. XLII, No. 36 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ny an u, par rear, un lavSQM) «. Carrier. i>er yt»r. (to Advance) ^ tS.W Miller Block Comer Sold For Approximately $35,000 Mrs. Rush Stroup To Erect Modern Store, Office Unit L $6,000 Per Front [ Foot Given Cfwner Shelby Loan And Mbstgage Co. Were Owners Of The ^ Property. S a 1 e *of the well known ■ Miller Block” corner to Mrs. Rush Stroup for approximate ly £35,000 and her plans to erect a modern store and of fice building in place of the present structures was made known here today. The property was purchased from The Shelby Loan and Mortgage Company, which is composed of C. C. Blanton, George Blanton and Forrest Eskridge. The deal is one of the largest to take place in Shelby real estate this year and had been projected for sev eral weeks. Mrs. Stroup recently sold her Eagle Chain stores for $200,000. $6,000 Front Foot Approximately $6,000 per front foot, one of the highest front foot prices Shelby property has ever brought, was paid. The lot Is B2 feet (Continued on page eight) I Merchants Pleased With Dollar Days Saturday was an excellent trade day in spite of unfavorable weather when customers were taking advan tage of dollar day bargains offered by merchants on a two day dollar event. Rain marred Friday’s shopping, but it became brisk Saturday and a canvass of merchants finds the fol lowing reaction. Boyd Propst said it was “pretty good”; Gerald McBrayer of Pen ney^ “stimulating”; Houser-Brewer 'well pleased with both days”; J. C. McNeely “better than expected”; Clark Hardware, well pleased with both days.” Manager Joyner of Belk’s says, “it was exceptional”; Manager Red fern of Eflrd's “very successful trade days, both of them”; Manager Wells of A, and P. “had good days, both Wday and Saturday”; Wray’s “most effective dollar days we have ever had”; Nash “very good—better than expected”; Manager Baird of Ster chi’s “good”; Julius Suttle “brought larger crowds and stimulated busi ness”; Campbell’s “better than ex pected.” I Morning Cotton LETTER Morn cotton let— front NEW YORK, March 23.—The past *eek at the close showed advances °f about 10 point* in the old crop months and about unchanged in aew crops. The pressure on new crop ha* been due largely to a tendency trade to place hedge sales in the distant positions. The southern spot markets were somewhat more active »st week -with basis firm and sightly more mill and export in to-fF'. However amount of cotton bailable is small outside of pro m-er.s p00i releases. Sales of tex «s moderate and considerably be l0* production. S!f,a dines in near months under. ^j:|tcer,s pool gradual release of ^ month holdings see min pros with a considerable difference n °P’11'°n in trade as to etfecUve ,rs‘s of the new soil conservation in restricting acreage'—E. Pierce &. Co. THE MARKETS £Uon. spot - 11% to 1294c r “on S€ed« wagon, ton_$29 00 tton s<*<i, car lot, ton_$32.00 ? v,eW, York 001 ton was quoted at ,,f,, Jan- to.23, March 11.42, May 1#,, July 10.68. Oct. 10.22, Dec rv Taken By Death Prof. W. E. White, county histor ian, who was killed in an auto ac cident Saturday and who will be buried today at Polkville. W.E. White, Local Historian Dies From Car Injury Native Of Cleveland Is Killed In Samson County When Track Strikes His Car. W. E. White, age 45, official comi ty historian for Cleveland, native of the Polkville section and son of the late M. L. (Corncracker) White, was killed Saturday morning at 10:30 In Samson county when he drove his car onto the hard surface and was struck by an e&stbound truck. The accident happened near the Taylor’s Bridge high school where Mr. White was a teacher. He was driving his car alone. Emerging from a filling station on the Wil mington-Clinton highway, a heavy truck driven by W. H. Lane of Apex, struck the White car, practically demolishing it. The truck was also damaged and Lane was ordered held for grand jury investigation. Mr. White had been teaching at that school for two years. He had taught in Cleveland county and was a brilliant student, a graduate of the University of North Caro lina. He had written many histori cal articles bearing on Cleveland county for The Star and was doing research work for a Cleveland coun ty history to be published by The Star at the time of his death. Two' (fears ago he was a candidate for the state senate in this county and was defeated by less than 100 votes. Mr. White was married and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cath erine Wilson White, his mother, Mrs. Mary J. White, cme sister, Mrs. J N. Kelly of Clinchport, Va„ two mothers. O. E. White of Lynch, Va., and Lucian White of Jeffersonville, Sa. Rev. Ban Harrison, pastor of the Polkville Methodist church conduct ed the funeral this afternoon with members of the Masonic fraternity to which Mr. White belonged, ac cording him the usual honors. Clement Declares Unrelenting War On Drunk Driver Is Inexcusable Crime To Commit Explains How All Laws Came Into Being: And Their Support. Court machinery began its second week of grinding here this month as the March term of Superior court opened with Judge J. H. Clements of Winston-Salem presiding and charging the grand jury strictly about drunken driving and the plausibility of circumstantial evi dence. If found guilty, his court will punish to the limit of the law, he said. Federal court was closed during the week-end and a third week of court will open next week with the civil docket coming up. Grand Jury. R. E. Campbell was chosen fore man of the grand jury and the fol lowing men were elected to serve: Hershel Blanton, C. J. Borders, P. Z. Harrill, P. F. Dilling, James Cornwell, Jesse Bridges, J. M. Car penter, D. F. Hamrick, R. H. Led ford, L. F. Grayson, Lester Camp, G. C. McClure, A. W. Greene, D. J. Allen, Guy Lattimore, and John D. (Continued on page eight.) 100 Year Old Deed Is Recorded Here Banker C. C. Blanton sent to the court house a few days ago a deed made in 1837 to be recorded in the office of Register of Deeds Andy Newton. It was drawn 99 years ago on January 6th and conveyed 168 acres on “Big Brushy Creek” from O. G. Camp to Charlie Blanton, gandfather of C. C. Blanton, The consideration was $600. Mr. Newton says this is the oldest deed he has recorded since serving as registrar. $75,000 Contract In PWA Projects To Bet Let Today Contracts will be let today for the $75,000 worth of buildings remaining in the huge PWA ru ral school building program in Cleveland county, lettings to be gin at 2 o’clock. A representative from the state office of H. G. Baity will be present along with numbers of contractors who have submit mitted bids. Buildings, on which construc tion is expected to begin next week, will be a new high school building at Lattimore, auditor ium and classrooms at Beth Ware, additional room at Lawn dale elementary, a garage for county school trucks and ma chine shop, a septic tank and plumbing at Casar. The lettings today represent about half df the entire rural building program, and the first part of the work is rapidly be ing carried out. First Cleveland Court Delayed Because Judge Was A Day Late Priceless records, locked for near ly a century in the genuine leather bound volumes at the county court bouse are being Inspected, dusted, classified and re-conditioned, and In the precess some charmingly quaint and interesting bits of infor mation are revealed. For instance, at the first session 3f court in 1841 court was held up tor a full day, merely because the |udge didn’t arrive, and didn’t ex plain why when he got here. His name was Matthia E. Manly. The same court granted a di i/orce (yes, even in 1841) to Eliza beth Hord and James Hord. And ether records show that a divorce n those Puritan days was a rarity. Cleveland was spelled “Cleave land” on all occasions and the books which arc being examined have evi dences of being written painstak ingly and with goosequill and ink. Charles Blanton waa high sheriff and C. C. Durham was clerk. It is said that O. M. Buttle now has the Seth Thomas clock that kept time at the first court. Members of the first jury had names which are for all the world like persons who live in the county now, and in almost identically the same communities. In the first books in the register of deeds office are found transfers of slaves as property and scrawling yet quite legible accounts of mar riages, mortgages, deeds, and other legal papers. The first charter, rat knawed and abandoned for a long (Continued on page eight.) European Powers Seek To Liquidate Two Grave Crises Italy, Germany Still In Limelight Seek To Settle Italo-Ethiopian War And German Coup At Once. By The Associated Press The European crisis, which sprang iii to being with the clump of the Nazi military boot in the demill tiarized Rhineland, culminted swift ly today in efforts to liquidate the German question and the Italo Ethiopian war. Foreign offices and the League of Nations linked both questions to a final solution of the problem of European peace. The League's con ciliation committee of 13 in London ordered a new direct plea for peace transmitted to Italy and Ethiopia even as Fascist soldiers Inaugurated a new slashing offensive on the southern front. Events of critical importance meantime transpired in Rome. Premier Mussolini climaxed his crea tion of a "corporative" fascist state in 1933 by abolishing the Italian chamber of deputies and replacing it. with a chamber of Fascists and corporations. Informed sources in London anti cipated a strongly conditioned ac ceptance by Adolph Hitler of the plan conceived by the Locarno pow ers for settling the Rhineland crisis. Both Italy and Ethiopia have ac cepted the peace apeal made by the league but to his reply Mussolini ap pended today by the political chan ges in Italy on the 17th anniversary of the founding of the Fascist party ic preparation for a possible Euro pean war. War Is Coming “When and how war will come one does not know but the wheel of fate turns fast,” he said. From Addis Ababa came word that Italian plane sagaln had bomb ed Jimiga, strategic city on the southern front. 11 Duce’s conditions for establish ing peace were expected to be stringent. Adding to the League’s problem also was Emperor Haile Selassie’s demand that peace be achieved only by evacuation of Italian troops. Differences Berlin and Paris looked across a broad gifif of differences in at tempting to settle the Rhineland problem. Foreign, Minister Flandin of France Warned that his country would insist on “common and im mediate" action by the Locarno powers if Germany rejects the pro posals drawn up in London. Mr«. Cornwell Of Kings Mountain Dead KINGS MOUNTAIN, March 23.— Mrs. Arthur H. Cornwell, 57, died at 12:30 Saturday a. m., at her home on Kings street from a heart at tack. Surviving are her husband and nine children, Mrs. Leon Furse, Florence, S. C., Mrs. Ernest San ford, Greenville, S. C., Mrs. J. A. Dunnigan, Quantico, Va., Mrs. Mac Vincent, Rocky Mount, Misses Mar garet and Dorothy Cornwell, Mrs. Ernest Hayes, Giles, at home, De Witt, New York, N. Y. Funeral serv ices were held at the residence Sun day at 3:30. Rev. E. W. Fox offi ciating and interment was in Moun tain Rest cemetery. Colored Child Killed By Auto L. D. Monday, five year old child of Mary Harrington, col ored woman of east Shelby was instantly killed late Saturday afternoon by George Wallace, of the Mulls Chapel commun ity, when it dodged in front of a car driven by Mr. Wallabe. The scene of the accident was North Washington street, and officers investigating the death said it was unavoidable. Mr. Wallace was not held. Funeral services for the child will be held this afternoon at 3:30 at the home and interment will be in the local colored cem etery. Latest Pictures Show Horrors Of Flood water* The most destructive floods in many years took great tolls in life and property In the northeastern section of the United States after heavy rains sent rivers and streams—already swollen by melting snows from the Allegheny mountains—miles out of their banks In addition to having Its business district deeply inundated, Pittsburgh was without gas and electricity for several days. The top photo shows "The Point,” where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers converge to form the Ohio. Pittsburgh’s flooded business district la in the right background Johnstown. Pa., saw the Conemaugli river rise to a stage almost equaling that of 188!) when the entire town was destroyed. In the pic ture' at the lower left, one of the city’s bridges is shown washing down the river after the Cone maugh had torn it from the banks. The view of Hancock, Md., at the lower left, shows the swollen > Potomac river surging into the town with another washed-out bridge in the foreground Red Cross Flood Drive Nets $633In 4 Days; More Needed R. M. Wilson Dies Of Heart Trouble; Burial Is Sunday Funeral services were held Sun day at 4 o’clock at the First Bap tist church for Robert McCamee Wilson, 69 year old resident who died at his home on North LaFay ette street Saturday morning at 3 o'clock. Services were in charge of Rev. J. W. Sutlle, who was his pastor for a number of years, assisted by Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. W. A. Elam and Prof. Lawton Blanton. Mr. Wilson’s death came follow ing a long decline of health which lasted over a period of seven years, but he had been gravely ill only about a week. A form of heart trou ble was immediately responsible for his death. He had recovered slightly from an attack of about six weeks ago. School Board. Mr. Wilson was born August 22, 1866, a native of Rutherford coun ty, but moved to Cleveland county when a young man and until ill (Continued on page eight) Legion, Auxiliary To Meet Thursday There will be'a joint meeting of the American Legion and the Le gion Auxiliary in the new com munity building Tuesday night at 7'30 according to announcement by Everett A. Houser, comander of the post. The purpose of the meeting will be for consideration of the purchase of furniture and furnishings for the building. Cleveland county people, touched by the stories ol horror and suffer ing In the flood stricken sections, where 300,000 are homeless and property damage runs into the hun dreds of millions, answered the ap peal of the American Red Cross and are still answering. A quota of $350 was set for the Cleveland chapter. At 9 o’clock this morning $633.09 had been contri buted, according to J. D. Lineberger, treasurer for the emergency drive. The response was prompt and generous. Children and widows gave their mites. Farmers, business and professional men, textile-jforkgrsr Cierks, laborers, all were anxious to lmve a part in bringing relief to the distressed. No public collection ever taken In Cleveland county has met with such county-wide response. People from all walks of life contributed. Sunday (Continued on page eight) Farmers Will Get $10 Per Acre For Diverting Crops WASHINGTON? March 20.—(/P)— Lifting the cover from the admin istration's new $470,000,000 AAA program. Secretary Wallace during the week-end estimated subsidy pay ments to co-operating farmers would strike a broad national aver age of $10 an acre for shifting to soil conserving crops, plus other benefits. In two swift strokes, the big con servattbn-subsidy plan was pushed, Into Jure stage of actual operation. the White House, President Roosevelt signed the independent offices appropriation bill, carrying > $440,000,000 for the farm program | and making available $30,000,000 of unexpended funds. The same meas- J ure carried a $1,730,000,000 author-, ization for paying the bonus. At the Agriculture department, I (Continued on page eight) 44Learn To Live Together” Problem Geer Tells Baptists "Education is a process under which men and women learn to live together,” Dr. Ben E. Geer, presi dent of Furman University told an audience of nearly 300 persons who attended the annual pastors and laymans banquet at Bolling Springs Junior college Friday night. Dr. Geer was speaking on "Eudca tion for a Modem World” to pastors and laymen, their wives and other visitors from the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run Associations, in a meeting represented by 48 churches. Churches having the largest num ber were Bolling Springs with 32, Shelby First with 27 and Eastside with 18. Judge E. Y. Webb was toastmaster for the banquet and special musical numbers were given by the college glee club under the direction of Miss Tillie Jenks, duets by Mark and A. C. Lovelace, jr, and quartetes by representatives of the First Baptist church. Short talks were made by T. W. Long of Forest City and Mrs. Rush Stroup of Shelby. Dr. Geer was introduced as a ‘ business man. a textile executive, a scholar and a teacher.” He was nam ed president of the University fol lowing the untimely death of Dr. McGlothlin in an auto accident near Kings Mountain several years ago. ‘‘Any system of education not (Continued on page eight) 181 Lives Taken In 13 States And OthersEndangered New Areas Being Swept By Waters Rescue And Relief Work Aid* Thousands Of HomeleM Victims. (By Associated Prows) Unchecked flood waters of the Ohio river poured through n score of small communities in Kentucky and Ohio today, the last menace of the thir teen-state disaster that cost 181 lives and made thousands homeless. In New England and Pennsylvania swollen waters gradually subsided, leaving behind a tremendous Job of relief and rehabilitation. While Cin cinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio, wens battening down against the Immi nent approach of the Ohio, flood crest Hartford. Connecticut!;, went under strict military discipline to prevent looting of fts water torn homes and stores. As in all the in undated communities, refugees and relief workers in Hartford were In oculated against typhoid. The water supply was pronounced pure. In the east the only water still rising were the Saco River In Maine and the Finger Lakes In Centrj New York. Extensive damage was not anticipated. Drops Rapidly. -- * * From WUkesbarre came word that the Susquehanna was dropping rap idly. Familes In western Ohion ran to tha hills as the floo^ approached and village after village was sub merged. The peak was passed at Hunting - ton. West Virginia, but Portsmouth. Ohio, expected a 60 foot reading late today. That Is the height of its (Continued from page One) Mrs. Geo. M. Webb Is Buried Here Funeral services were held here 3*>nday afternoon at > o’clock from the home of the Oeorge Blantons m West Marion street for Mrs. Oeo. M Webb who died Saturday In Bir mingham, Ala., following a protract ed illness. Services were conducted by Rev. John W. Suttle, assisted by Rev. H. N. McDiarmid. Interment was in 3unset cemetery. Before marriage, Mrs. Webb was Margaret Ellen Blanton, daughter of Burwell H. and Frances Doggctt Blanton. She was born December 25th, 1862 and on May 31st, lSfc2 was married to George M. Webb. As s young girl she Joined the First Baptist church here. After her mar riage she and her husband lived in Culpepper, Va.. eastern Carolina Hid Georgia, but for the past thirty rtars had lived in Birmingham, where she was an active member of she First Baptist church and prom inent in U. D C. circles. Surviving are her husband and wo children, Mrs. John B.'Oates'of Charlotte and Chas. Blanton Webb if Birmingham. Two other dhlldren. ifera Webb died In young woman lood and Wilma Webb died In th Fancy. Three brothers. Chas. C.. and 3eorge Blanton of Shelby, B. Edgar Blanton of Asheville and one sister, Mrs. Rush Oates of Asheville also survive. Another sister. Mrs. Mary Blanton Eskridge died here a few years ago. There are three grand children: Mrs. Joseph Holt of Lynn, Mas., Chas. B. Webb, Jr. and -ynn, Mass.. Chas. B. Webb, Jr. and n oners 1 WASHINGTON’, March 23.—<JP>— fheident Roosevelt today nominat 'd Thomas Parran of New York to lie surgeon general of the United States nubile health service. The lerm would be for four years. Par ran was designated to succeed Hugh 5. Cummings, resigned. RALEIGH. March 23.—(£V fhurning flood waters In eastern liorth Carolina moved Into the lower lortions today without doing math la mage except In the lowlands pre wired for planting.
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