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» WEATHER North Carolina: Showers in n.st, colder in north central and west tonight. Possibly rain in central and southeast Saturday. TM Ellievielandgkwk 10 Pages TODAY if Associated Press VOL. XLEI, No. 38 N SHELBY, N. a FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. .. Bj M U. Mr im, ua MnMU — Hn Carrlar. gw y»ar. (la Mhraawi) _ u.M AgentExplainsNewAAA, Announces Mass Meeting Fanners Indorse Program Thus Far In Soil Building CrisweUWill Be Here On April 7 Details Of Entire Program May Be Obtained At That Time. Complete explanations of the new farm program are being given in detail today at the office of the county agent who has just returned from a state meeting. J. S. Wilkins, agent said this* morning he was finding farmers practi cally 100 percent for the “new AAA” and that they like' it even better than the old. He also announced a county-wide meeting of all farmers here on April 7 when J. F. Criswell, state director of the new farm program will-speak to them in a mass meet ing Mr. Wilkins is explaining the pro gram by telling a story about “a colt which had never been away from the bam out into the pasture. Last year the owner cracked a whip at him a few times and had him to | get plenty to eat. This year there V is going to be no whip—only a bag of nice oats—and the gate is open.” That is, he explained, ‘‘the new 1936 agricultural program is volun tary. entirely voluntary and no one enters unless they understand It ana want to do so. There are no contracts and no compulsion.'’ Farmers who co-operate will do so by diverting land from soil de pleting crops such as com, cotton, potatoes, sorghum, wheat, oats, rye, grasses, etc., and in their place planting such crops as soy beans, (Continued on page ten.) Tax Listers Meet Monday, March 30 There will be a special meeting on Monday of the county tax listers, commissioners and the general su pervisor, at which time the listing books will be given out along with detail instructions. Tax listing will begin April 6 by the eleven representatives. In each township. The meeting on Monday will be at 2 o’clock. Hiking At Age 90 NEWBERRY, S. C., March 27.— (/Pi—William M. Miller, age 90, left here today on a hike to Columbia in Ian effort to see Governor Johnson about a Civil war pension he says '* due him. Miller who has already made one such walk in a futile at tempt to set a pension, said he hop to ratch a ride but If he does not. would walk the 49 miles to the eapltal. Morning Cotton LETTER NEW YORK, March 27.—Strength m old crop months yesterday was a reflection of the strong spot situa tion. The scarcity of better grades and staples available is becoming more acute and with the ready de 'fand for both domestic mills and nroign account as shown by the rapid absorption of producers pool 'Won since February 12. We be iieve near months should show in i' 'easing firmness with tendency to advance closer to spot price level -L* demand for distant position broaden around 10c level.—. E * Pierce & Co. the markets r! ...-11K to 12tte o on seed, wagon, ton-929.00 oUon seed, car let, ton_$32.00 Cotton on New York exchange at today: Jan. 10.24, March 10.24, 11.21, July 10.85, Oct. 10.23, 10.21. 38 Cases Face Civil Session; $5,000 Injury Sait Is Settled Thirty-eight cases, some of long standing and others of more recent origin await hearing here Mondaj and following when the March term of civil court convenes under J. H Clement of Winston-Salem who ha: just completed a term of criminal court here. Settlement for $1,000 in the case of Ethel Bookout against Y. L. Hon ey of Charlotte was announced thli morning through her attorney. Misi Bookout was suing for $5,000 for in juries received last year when she fell in the Goody Goody shop, own ed by Mr. Honey. She alleged that soapy water on the linoleum in' the shop caused the fall. She remainec i In the hospital many weeks follow ing. Judgment of $4,000 is being asked in the case of the Sllcott estate In Oklahoma against J. N. Dellinger for funds which are allegedly due on some real estate there. A double suit involves $4,000 in which the Union Trust company is charged with an error in that amount in a transaction with Kath leen Hord. Another case is Colt vs. Howell in which Mr. Howell of near Kings Mountain seeks an adjustment on a certain lighting plant he bought, and the company claims the time for servicing had lapsed. S. C. Rayburn, 74 Is Buried Today; Foreman 35 Years Railroad Officials And Masons At tend Funeral At Lattimore Church. Funeral services were held today for S. C. Rayburn, 74 year old re tired Southern Railroad foreman of Lattimore who dfed suddenly at Vein Mountain in McDowell coun ty. At the time of hits death he was on a business trip to Vein Moun tain. Heart failure was given as the cause of Mr. Rayburn’s death. He was in apparent good health but had not been as strong as In for mer years. He retired from active service with the railroad six years ago. Services Services were held today at 3 o'clock at the Lattimore Baptist church with Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. W. C. Lyhch, pastor and for mer pastor in charge. Masonic rites were observed at ] the funeral and Mr. Rayburn was buried with the honors of his lodge, in which he had been secretary and treasurer for many years. He was a faithful attendant of all services at the Lattimore Baptist church. In terment was In the Lattimore ceme-1 tery. A number of prominent railway officials were also present, Mr. Rayburn having served for 35 years as track foreman, missing only a few days during the three and a half decades. He was a native of McDowell county and was married In 1887 to Miss Drucllla Bright who survives him with the following children: Mrs. S. L. Beam, of Shelby; Mrs. Lee Powell, of Drexel; Mrs. I. H. Harrill, of Lattimore; John Ray bum of 8ummerville, S. C.; Willard Rayburn, of Waco; Miss Candace Rayburn, Durham and James Ray bum, at home. A brother, L. A. Ray bum, lives at MeadsviHe and a sis ter, Mrs. A. P. Nannie, lives at Un ion Mills. Four County Meet Of Teachers To Be In City Saturday Atony Teachers WM Gather Per Recreation, llaslth Studies. ▲ fourth region conference far improvement of health and recrea tion, to be attended bp teachers from the counties of Cleveland, Gas ton, Lincoln and Rutherford, will be held here tomorrow at the high school auditorium and playground. Miss Juanita McDouglad of the state department of public instruc tion is in charge of the conference, and Mrs. Charles Whisnant, of Gastonia, will preside. Some 400 are expected. The program fodows: 9:30—Registration, high school library, local student committee. 10:00—Welcome, Superintendent B. L. Smith. 10:10—'The program of N. O. High School Girls Athletic association, Janice Little, Gastonia high school Girls Athletic association. Discus sion led by Miss McDougald, execu tive- secretary of N. C. High School Girls Athletic association. 10:20—How Gastonia High school Observed Play Day In 1996, Mva Charles D. Whisnant. 11:00—Play Day Demonstrations of Sample Week’s Program of In struction Dances for Inexperienced Teachers and Pupils (auditorium); Elementary grades (playground); high school girts, Mrs. Whisnant, (playground). Local committees Include: Play Day for Primary Children: (Continued on page tsnJ Will Surface Road To Boiling Springs RALEIGH, March M.—<)p>— Eleven projects to be included in the next highway letting, Ap ril 14 or 16, were announced to day, including Cleveland county, surfacing from route 18 to Bod ing Springs. Telephone Gathered In Basket As 6 Folf Survive Thunderbolt Providence is kind, yes even mer ciful. Por no other reason can Yates Hawkins, 38 year old employee of a local furniture store account for the fact that he, a colored attendant, and four members of his mother-in law's family are still alive. They went through yesterday an almost unbelievable siege of fury of thunderbolt and came out alive, not even hurt, although a house was well nigh destroyed, a radio Jerked i to the middle of the floor and the telephone knocked off the wall and broken into so many pieces It had to be icked up in a basket. Young Mr. Hawkins drives a de liver truck for his company. Yes terday about 11 o'clock ^e and the colored man, Marvin Byers, 35. and former driver for the late R. L. Ry burn, were delivering a consign ment at the home of Mrs. M. B. Kennedy near Henrietta. While in the house a terrific bolt of lightning struck. The home, al though it was built strongly, shiv ered and shook. Hie underpinning was scattered yards away; the radio and telephone were demolished, windows shattered, and a curtain ignited. “Dinnymite,” Marvin Byers said in describing the Jar he received. He was in the car at the time of the bolt and said the hood looked like a ball of tire. A canvas top over the metal covering of the car was burned and cut and tom to shreds. In it all not a person was hurt The only trouble was: No one could hear very well for hours after the crash. Extensive repairs are being made to the Kennedy Home. • Give Call To Anns For Party Heads; Women Favored Democratic Chairman Issue* Call Meeting Dates Of Precinct And County Elections Named. Political leaders of the Democra tic party in Cleveland were this week laying the ground work for an intensive campaign to extend over the entire county in the next few weeks. The call to arms was given today by county executive chairman, Oli ver Anthony who predicted that the vote in the coming primary of June 6 will top 12,000 easily and that “we will have one of the best elec tion years we have ever had.” Saturday, May 9, was announced as the date of the precinct meet ings in Cleveland and on the fol lowing Saturday, May IS delegates will come to Shelby for the county convention where other delegates will be chosen to go to the Raleigh meeting June 19. Other officers on the executive board are Mrs. C. E. Carpenter of Kings Mountain, vice president, and Attorney C. C. Korn of Shelby, sec retary. "Women will feature more strong ly in the N36 Democratic attack,” said Mr. Anthony, "and we are ask ing that either the chairman or vice-chairman to be elqpted in all precincts May 9 be a woman. In each precinct will be an executive committee of five Democrats. Pre cinct chairmen wiU notify Mr. An thony of their election and other business matters as soon as possi ble after the meeting, and he will in turn send the information to Wallace Winborne, state chairman. The names at al present precinct chairmen and voting places win be given shortly by Mr. Anthony May Un 2 Shift* WPA Man on Now County Building County and WPA officials ware yesterday considering (fee poeeibtt tty of using a double force of labor in the construction of the new agri cultural budding in the next three Such a proposal was made by the state and if carried out would result in the employment of about 40 ex tra men and' an additional foreman. However, there are several details which would hinder such a plan which would have to be disposed of. Plans for the building have final ly been out to a little less than $8, 000 and the building will be a little smaller than the one first proposed. Sketches of the plans are in the hands of state officials for final ap proval Work is expected to begin .soon after, as the present commun ity building is practically complete. When the new unit Is completed, 4fc wOl house in the basement floor an auditorium and stage for an aud ience of 160. On the first floor will be offices for the cotton agent, coun ty agent and assistant, the home agent and laboratories, storage rooms and vaults. On the second floor will be offic es for the county school superin tendent, book storage rooms and a small meeting room for teachers. The ground has already been staked on a county owned lot on East Warren. Phillips, Worley Take Sentences; Coart Term Ends Four years on the roads was the sentenoe given C. O. Phillips, Boil ing Springs negro, late Wednesday afternoon for. killing his father Rosamond Phillips last fall. The sentence was made by Judge J. H. Clement who cleared the Cleveland docket in half the time al- i lowed for the cases. It was matfe after the defendant had through his counsel entered a plea of volun tary manslaughter. As one of the last actions of the court Jack Worley, convicted of embezzling money from 8. A. Ellis, monument maker, was sentenced to eight months on the roads. Not a single prison term was meted out by the Winston-Salem Jurist this week, all the sentences being for labor on the highways of' North Carolina. • Committee Is In Washington ToAid Kings Mountain Park In an effort to expedite the de velopment at the Kings Mountain National park five men have gone to Washington to confer with of ficiala in that city. The representatives are from OEs tonia, Kings Mountain, and from York and Clover, 8. C.p three are from this state and two from South Carolina. They wish to stave off the possibility that the work may be temporarily abandoned. The main purpose is to keep the park work in the body of the de velopment work, and incidentally to insure the retention of two CCC camps which have been threatened to be removed within the put few days. Along with the business commit* tee will go a representative of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion from York. 8. O. W. O. Finley, York county solicitor said the deci sion to go to the capital came fol lowing a muting in that olty this week. Ho said Congressman J. P. Rich ards and Senator J. F. Byrnes will beeenllsted to aid. Work on the park hu been hampered the put few months by bad weather, but is Just now in position to be done success fully. Red Cross Fund Total $955.59; $405AtKingsMtn. Grand Total Of 11,1*0 la Contribut ed By Cleveland County Pwv pie To Flood Fuad. The Cleveland county chapter of the American Red Craea report* a total of $055.SO raised for the flood sufferers, while a total of $406 was raised by the Kings Mountain chap ter, making a total of $1,106 in the entire county. Contributions were frotrf men, women and children in evesy walk of life and from evesy section at the county. Chairman Bdwarda and Tseaauser J. D. Uneberger of Shelby are mak ing remittance today to national lwgrtquarlaia fhsrlae F. Thomas aan, Kings Mountain chairman has forwarded the $406 from Ms shap ter. Although quotas have been ex ceeded through the two local chap ten, others who wish to donate may do so, but there will be no further (Oonbmnd on page tan» Two Candidates Seek Nomination For Coroner Job s _ Following the precedent aet by practically all candidates who have come out far office this year hi Cleveland county for the Demo cratic primary, two more candidates this morning announced their In tention of running for the office of county coroner. Dr. D. M. Morrison, optometrist, and Roscoe Luts, undertaker, both of Shelby issued brief statements In presenting themselves for consider ation in the primary of June 6. Dr. Morrison Is a native of the county and has been practicing here since 1933. He Is an ex-service man, and said today this Is his first ven ture In politics, and does not plan a vigorous campaign, but will pre sent himself on his record as a citizen. Mr. Luts, present coroner, has held the office since the death of the late T. C. Eskridge several years ago. He said this morning he felt his business and his experience and the record he has made Is a good platform to run on. He Is a native of the county and has lived heie practically all his life. T H. Lee Awarded Brown Scholarship Talmage Hoyle Lee, graduate of Pall*ton high school. Mars Hill col lege, Wake Forest college, and now a graduate student at the Univer sity of North Carolina, has been awarded one of the few scholarships at Brown university for the year 1933-1937. Mr. Lee was awarded a scholar ship in the Graduate school at the University of North Carolina last year. His work as a student in his undergraduate day, his work in the University, and his ability In general merit the award from Brown university 1A Rhode Island. Cleveland county is stepping out lately. Miss Byers of the southern part of Cleveland county recently took first honors in the two year class at Asheville Normal and Teachers’ college, and Ruth Evelyn Boggs of Fallston received second high honors for the term just end ed. 2 Announcements Concern Clients In Rehabilitation May Give Umiu To Other Farmer*; AM May Share AAA f Two Important announcements 1 regarding rural rehabilitation poM 1 otoe were made today, one local and * one from the capital in Washing ■ ton. s In Shelby George Dedmon, in charge of rehabilitation work said ha ha* received permission to take ' on at least 16 more clients who rjill : be able to receive government loans > up to approximately $300 or about 00 percent of their estimated ki . come. ^ The county now has soma 86 1 farmarc end fama families wider i am loaned nee—ary money for . livestock, seed, feed, food and far-1 tihser, and during the year live un der a supervised program of Mve . at-home' fanning. ' From Washington eomee the an nouncement from notional director Rexfard O. Tugwell that more than a half million rehabilitation client* may also receive benefits under the “new AAA”, that la fhey may be gin on the ground floor and plant soli improvement crop*, and get the *ve cents per pound for the cotton MtonMnued on page tenj Cltrvwland YoutK Chief Engineer Of New Warship BATH, Me., March 38.—W)—The U. 8. B Drayton, first-line destroy er of 1,600 tons, displacement, slid into the waters of the Kennebec river at the Bath Iron Works ahip 1 yard today. Three thousand per sons saw the launching. Mtos Barbara F. Drayton, great i grand niece of Commodore Perclval i Drayton, U. 8. N., for whom the , vessel was named, christened the craft. The 13-year-old sponsor is the daughter of Captain Harry C. Drayton, U. 8. army, retired of Warley, Penllyn, Pa. Among the naval officials who witnessed the launching was Com mander Ralph G. Pennoyer, former attorney general of the navy-gov erned island of Samoa. He will command the destroyer. Fondville Lee Tedder, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Tedder of Grover and nephew of D. A. Tedder, of this place is chief engineer of the new craft. Drops Townsend Ilpj Hobart K. Olwinli Hobart Ohmnta aaui ata i s and oo-foundar irTtha ao-calladTown send Plan « old-aga panaiona, haa rcaifmed <nrar raportad differences with Dr. Franola £. Townaend, on fudamantal principle* of the plan and ita enactment into am C.R.Hoey Escapes Serious Injury HU Car U HMeswiped By- Mum chuwtti Car, Near Bessemer Cttr; Launches Campaign. CMyde R. Hoey, Democratic candi date for Oovemor barely escaped serloue Injury yesterday when his car was side swiped on the highway near Bessemer City as Mr. Hoey was driving to his Raleigh campaign headquarters. Mr. Hoey was driving alone when a ear from Mawachusetts coming In the opposite direction swerved over the center line and stdeswiped his car, breaking a wheel, fender and the running board. Mr. Hoey was uninjured and continued his trip by the train, leaving hU wrecked ear st Bessemer City. Unscratched in the accident, Mr. Hoey reached Raleigh determined now to plunge with all hU vigor In to the campaign. “From this point on our cam paign will be waged with Increasing vigor,” said Hoey. "I do not believe the Democrats at North Carolina wanted a long, drawn-out campaign and I declined to make one. But the time to open up has come and I Assure you that Is exactly what we sre going to do.’’ Hoey said he would speak in ev sry section of the state and in as many counties as possible. Hubert E. Olive, state manager, said he had booked Hoey for a speech at Danbury at noon Monday And in New Bem, Fayetteville and Ullington on Tuesday, Wednesday ind Thursday, April 7, 8 and 9. 700 Recreation School Children Make Airplanes, Rugs, And Toys Pretty toys, baby carriages, tiny beds, pocketbooks, rugs, scrapbooks, airplanes, and tennis nets are all being made in a day’s play—not work, under the direction of the WPA recreation heads in Cleveland county. A district supervisor here a few days ago took several samples to the district office, and praised the work highly. More than 700 youngsters of pre school age and children of the city and county who have leisure time are being Instructed under the rec ■ reation program, at the various cen ters in South Shelby, the Arey building, the Kings Mountain and in the colored school. | Mrs. Prances Chewning. who ii, ___ J* In charge of the program during the illness of Mrs. Pansy Fetzer said today she was delighted with the response they are getting and the work the instructors are doing. An amateur contest for pupils in (he Jefferson school area was held a few nights ago and winners were were named as Nellie and Clyde McAllister, Harry Teele and Sara Starnes. Three meetings per week for rec reation are held and two other ses sions are held by the leaders fort council work. Leaders are Mildred Laughridge, Margaret Smith, Hazel’ Brackett, and Hubert White, all of Shfelby and Beth Randall of Kings Mountain. Annie Dell Price, color ed, has 141 in her class at the col ored school. 87,000 Electrons Crowd Hear Ruin’ Demand His Right Foreign Secratary Confers With Eden WHK Vigor* (By Aaaodaiud Prnai’ ESSEN, GERMANy/iL* 27.—Adolph Hitler ec liin election oampaign industrial Krupp wor' fore an audiano# oi persona said today »n be no teal world peaoi without equality beC3 partners.w i eea bo long* be booosed vanquished," be deolaved, *3 listeners Peered enthusiasMes* md rum ils "There oen no rad dishonored.* Re me muoh more a mwcy than the Weimar ^rrs Ihs ”1 am dependent on no ctro be mid In explaining bis own position u heed of the government. Me referred aeorafuUy to the H-potnt pesos program advocated by for mer President Wilson of the United States before the Versailles peace treaty. k He said he never entered on any secret arrangement nor would he In the future, but "If other nations arm to the teeth X shall certainly see to It that our sovereignty over our town territory is safeguarded," LONDON. March >?.—<#)—Joac him von Ribbendrop, seeking Oreat Britain’s latest word before ra te mihg to Berlin to report 'to Adolph Hitler on the Rhineland crisis negotiations, conferred with Foreign Secretary Anthony Zdhn today. Informed sources said the Reich emissary sought an explana tion 01 parts of Eden’s speech to the House at Oommooe yesterday In whicH Eden warned’ Germany a cons Ilia tory gesture of some * kind was necessary to solve the Rhineland impasse, advised Pnnee to tip to ♦Continued on peps CCC Camp May Be Retained Anyway Says Congressmen The status of'the Cleveland CCC camp was a little more hopeful to day than It has been for the past week as a letter from Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle came from Wash ington, verifying the newspaper re ports that President Roosevelt has changed his mind in regard to the economy program which would have caused Camp McMurry to be aban doned. The matter has been In much doubt by farm and CCC officials all spring, and even at present orders [or breaking camp April 1 have not been cancelled. However, official crders for retention are expected to make their rounds in a few days. The Camps It is understood the camp here, Newton, Polkton, High Point, Rock ingham and YanceyvUle are ef fected by the order. Bulwinkle’s let ter In regard to the carap read In part: “The president issued instructions some time ago for reduction In the number of camps In line with his economy program. It might also be said that they were never able to enlist up to 800,000 strength ordered In the president’s executive order, rhe most recent executive order of the president states that the corps will be brought to a 350,000 enroll ment and that the present number of CCC camps will be maintained in operation until the work programs upon which they are now engaged »re completed. The order alia pro vides for the closing for the summer of a few camps now in operation md the personnel moved to higher elevations where work can be per formed more advantageously during summer months, but, In the case if the camps closing for the summer nior to the completion of their ap uoved work programs, they will irobably be re-occupied in the fall or the completion of the isugis—
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