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<* 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.—— 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.