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All Cleveland Stores Stocked With Easter Merchandise At Bargain Prices I WEATHER North Carolina: Pair, cc on .southern coast, not so cot wrst, frost In interior, clear night, Thursday, warmer. The GEMEINER SEND 12 Pages Today Member of Associated Press VOL. XLH, No. 43 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APR. 8, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■r M U. POT |M>, in IdlUMI _ W.M Carrier, par rapt, lip Mnani * UK CAROLINA RIVERS FLOOD LOWLANDS AND CLOSE ROADS 2,500 Farmers Gather To Hear J. F. Criswell ( N,C. Administratoi Gives Explanation Of Farm Program Believe Cleveland 90 P. C. For AAA Hundreds Hear At The Loud speakers As Big Court house Is Jammed. More than 2,500 eager, en thusiastic Cleveland farmers, rich and poor, landowner and tenant, from every commun ity in the county, converged on the courthouse yesterday afternoon to hear Jack F. Criswell, state administrator of the new farm program ex plain the details of the gov ernment’s efforts at soil con servation. After three hours of explanations, asking and answering questions, the throng dispersed, and Farm Agent J. S. Wilkins said today he believed the cpunty will be almost whole-heartedly, perhaps 90 per k cent for the farm program. f ' The meeting wM* adjudged the embryo of a farm policy tor Cleve land county which will affect a *6 000,000 annual farm income, more (Continued on page nine.) Over 200 Coining To Discuss Road Matters Thursday Over 200 business and professional men and farmers will gather around the banquet table at the Hotel Charles Thursday evening at seven o'clock to discuss road matters in Cleveland county with Chairman Capus Waynlck, Boss Sigmon of Salisbury ar. I E. p. Allen of Lenoir, members of the highway board. The officials will arrive Thurs day morning and make a swing around the county with local com missioners and other interested cit wns, inspecting roads with a view of determining a road improvement program to be inaugurated soon. At the close of the day, members of the Kjwants, Lions and Rotary club6 of Shelby and the Business Men’s club of Kings Mountain to | get,her with 40 representative I farmers from every township in the county, will gather around the banquet table to discuss the road program in the county with the •tate officials. Morning Cotton LETTER new YORK, April 8.—Trade de mand for old crops and covering in croPs lifted prices 5 to 9 points. I k..COnttriued unfavorable weather! m both the eastern and western! e 1 are beginning to receive seri- j attention and no doubt incon 'emenced some buying. The old 'rop months were steady and eas-l v absorbed some liquidating sales no later advanced on price fixing | fade. Continued firmness in the ’ear months seems most likely with e'v crop under influence of weath conditions as the normal plant n6 season advances.—E. A. Pierce * Company. THE MARKETS o on. spot . 11% to 12% n ***4 wagon, ton_$29J ' '<»n seed, car lot, ton .... $32.1 Cotton on N. Y. exchange at 2:: (^ay was, quoted: Jan. 10.44, Ms ■ Lr1' ,^av U-28. July 10.98, Oct ar 10.37. I Important Questions About AAA Answered By Criswell Scores of questions bearing on what farmers must do to get “in line for payments” were asked Mr Criswell at the iarm meeting here yesterday, some of which will be given below with his answers. Q. If I have 150 acres of soil de pleting crops, 100 acres in cotton and 50 acres in wheat. And if I fol [low the wheat by cowpeas and turn the peas under, will that count? Answer: Yes, but the peas must be left on the land or turned under. Q. I have three small farms close | together. May I use the same work sheet for all the farms. Answer: Yes, provided all the farms are in the same county and the tools anc teams and labor all come from the same source. Picking Peas Q. Will oats followed by peaf count, and may I pick the peas foi seed? Answer: Yes, provided yoi do pick the peas by hand and don’1 harvest them with a cow or horse [or let the hogs run on the land And all of the seed may be harvest ed, if done rightly. Lespedeza seed must be taken by a pan, and nol have the hay cut off and thrashed. Q. Will I get credit for pea: (Continued on page nine.) Mrs. Carl Baxter Is Buried Today In Fallston Area Funeral services were held today at 2 o’clock at the Methodist Prot estant church in Fallston for Mrs. Carl Baxter, 48, wife of a well known farmer in that community. Mrs. Baxter had been in declin ing health for many months, but only seriously ill a few days. Imme diate cause of her death was un certain. Rev. H. F. Fogleman and Rev. E. E. Scott were in charge of services. Before marriage to Mr. Baxter, Mrs. Baxter was Miss Emma Grigg, daughter of Sidney Grigg. Her father and husband survive. There are six living children. They are Jessie, Ellen, Blaine, Madeline, Herman and Blanche. One child, Nixon, is dead. Mrs. Baxter was known as a quiet, devoted mother and was a faithful member of the Methodist Protest ant church. Methodists Plan Musicale Friday Conclusion of pre-Easter -services which are being conducted at the Central Methodist church will be made on Friday evening when three choirs under the direc tion of Miss Nettie Rayle will give “The Crucifixion” by J. Stainer. Mrs. Jack Hartigan will be at the organ and three choirs, junior, young peoples and adult, will give the numbers. Preaching during the past series has been being done by Rev. R. M. Courtney, but Friday night’s program will be entirely musical. Pig Nurses Cow On Toluca Farm S. A. Sain of Toluca has a pig that has adopted a cow for Its mother and for its nourishment. After the pig was purchased, it was turned loose around the ! bam. Noticing that the pig fail ! ed to come for its regular meals and at the same time one of the j cows suddenly failing in her milk, a watch was kept. Where upon It was discovered that the pig was milking the cow and both seemed perfectly satisfied with the arrangement. Red Cross Asks More Money For Stricken Areas Another call for donations has come from the American Red Cross headquarters with which to admin ister relief to the stricken areas of OraaMbom, H, C~ Gainesville, ©*., Tupelo, Miss., and other communi ties In the South. Richard F. Allen bf the Red Cross wires Henry B. Edwards, chairman of the Cleveland chapter in Shelby that recent disasters in the South have created more needs and Red Cross relief units are now working in these places, using funds already contributed as a result of the call made following the floods in the East. Already some contributions have been received. If others wish to contribute, send your donations to Troy McKinney, local treasurer in the Court House, The Star office or to J. D. Lineberger, chairman In the emergency drive. In the call two weeks ago the Cleveland chapter raised over $1, 000 and Kings Mountain over $400 which has been forwarded. Although those donations were made on the strength of the floods up East, the Red Cross is caring for the suffer ers In the South and will continue to do so as long as the funds will permit. More funds are needed since fur ther need has arisen and whatever you feel like giving voluntarily will be cheerfully received and prompt ly forwarded. Contract Awarded For County Audit The county commissioners had a very light day at their regular i business meeting Monday and the | only important Item was the awarding of a contract for the county audit to the E. W. Smith Co., public accountants of Lenoir. The audit will be completed in time for the fiscal year to close June 30. If Ehringhaas Were Republican GOP Would Make Him President By W. J. SADLER RALEIGH, April 8.—If Governor John C. B. Ehringhaus, of North Carolina, were a Republican instead >f a Democrat, he probably would se occupying the national spotlight is a potential candidate for the presidency of the United States. Dozens of newspaper stories and nagazine articles have been writ ten about Alf M. Landon. governor >f Kansas, balancing the budget of ;hat state. This publicity has en ibled him to jump to the forefront in the race for the Republican pres idential nomination But Governor Ehringhaus has lone more than balance the state budget since assuming office three years ago during a period of ex- i treme economic distress throughout j the entire country. In addition to ! accomplishing that feat, he has | managed to pay off several million dollars of the state’s Indebtedness; j restored salary cuts, to state em ployes; but the credit of the state on a sounder basis than it ever be fore has "enjoyed, and, last but not least, accumulated a sizeable sur plus. The North Carolina Chief Execu tive cannot hope to rise to the po sition of eminence in national Dem (Continued on page nine.) i Italians Seeking Total Annihilation Of Negus Forces Eden Protests Use Of Poison Gas Tells Conciliation Committee The Practice Is Irregular. (By Associated Press) Anthony Eden, British for eign secretary .protested to the League’s conciliation com mittee of 13 today the alleged use of poison gas by the Ital ian armies in Ethiopia while Premier Mussolini, in an ex traordinary session of his | cabinet, said Italy would fight I for the “total annihilation of the Ethiopian military forma tion.” The French came forward with the publication of their plan tc maintain peace in Europe with the establishment of permanent military forces to guard against violation 01 frontiers. Mexicans File The Mexican delegation filed a protest with the League against the ; "paralyzatlon” of sanctions against Italy and did not wish to partake of the lessening of punitive meas ures against the aggressor nation while France made a demand that the League investigate the Italian atracity charges against the Ethio pian army. Mussolini proclaimed tc his ministers In Home that security for Italy and her colonies coulc come only when the army of Em peror Haile Selassie had been com pletely overpowered. The French memorandum for an European security system, based on mutual assistance pacts on a ter ritory basis in Europe, was put forth in opposition to the German proposal for settlement of the Rhineland crisis. The plan expressed doubt as to the sincerity of Adolph Hitler's in tentions and demanded assurance that he would refrain from violat ing European frontiers in the fu ture. The British government dis closed in a white paper that Hitler feared Berlin might easily be reduc ed to a “heap of ashas’’ by a Rus sian air attack. The British publication covered the Anglo-German-French negotia tions from June 1834 to March 1936 and treated extensively of Hitler’s alleged fear of aggression from Soviet Russia. Italian airplanes were reported by the Ethiopian government to have bombed Dessye this morning. The same report said one of the planes started for Addis Ababa but re turned to the north after recon noitering over Scholameda. Mrs. G. L. Moore, 75, Buried Today Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 o’clock at the Pat terson Springs Baptist church for Mrs. Victoria Watterson Moore, 75, who died today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. B. Camp. Rev. W. G. Camp and Rev. W. E. Lowe will be in charge. Mrs. Moore had been in declin ing health for some time, but the immediate cause of her death was not learned. She was a member of the Patterson Springs Baptist church, since early girlhood, and is a native of the county. Her husband, the late G. L. Moore, preceded her to the grave 12 years ago. She leaves three stepsons and three stepdaughters and four grandchildren. Also, a brother, T. H. Watterson of Grover and a sis ter, Mrs. E. J. Harrill. of Candler. Interment will be at Mt. Paran cemetery near Grover. s Relief Allotments WASHINGTON, April 8.—UP)— Allotments of $1,000,000 each for tornado relief in Georgia and Mis sissippi were approved today by Harry Hopkins from a $2,500,000 fund allocated to PWA by Presi dent Roosevelt. Hopkins also allot ted $200,000 to South Carolina and SIOO.OOO each (o Alabama, Arkan sas and Tennea**. Where Blast Destroyed Mexican Train A terrific blast of a dynamite-laden freight ear made a shamble* of this railroad station at Tulenanget Mexico, where 38 persona were killed and 60 injured. | School Men Elect Huggins; : Plan For“ Music Festival” At their regular meeting Monday night Schoolmasters of Cleveland county elected J. D. Huggins. Polk ville English teacher president for the coming year and at the same time decided to sponsor next year a series of practical demonstration;; and observation tests throughout the entire county covering every subject which is taught. Emphasis was also placed, in the meeting, on the coming music fes tival which will be held at the Polk ville high school next Tuesday night at 7:30 when representatives from eight schools will gather in a con test for honors in glee club, male quartets and girls trios. Hundreds of parents and children and friends of all the rural schools are expected to attend. Shelby and Kings Mountain schools have been invited, but their entries will not be in competition. An out of county Judge, one com petent in music will be announced later. The schools have been prac ticing for weeks on the numbers to be given. At the meeting Monday night stu dents from Shelby and Kings Moun tain spoke on types of commence ments, character building, the stu dents point of view of the teacher, and eighth grade literary emphasis. H. B. Covington, Grover principal is retiring president of the School masters Club and also the origina tor of the demonstration idea. A committee of J. H. Grigg, coun ty superintendent. Prof. Lawton Blanton, of the No. 3 school; Prof. B. N. Barnes, Kings Mountain su perintendent, will arrange a sche dule of demonstrations. The main object is to Improve classroom in struction. Dillinghams Off To New Orleans Meeting Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dillingham will leave Sunday for New Orleans where Mr. Dillingham, agriculture teacher of Polkvillc school will at tend the Southern Regional con ference of vocational teachers from the south. A number of Washing ton officials will also be present, in cluding Roy Thomas from the State Department of Agriculture. Mr. Dillingham was recently ad judged the ‘‘Master Teacher" of agriculture in North Carolina and because of this honor he attends the conference. Water Recedes And Two Mills Resume Water is receding rapidly in all streams and both the Lily Mill of Shelby and the Cleve land Mill at Lawndale have re sumed operations. Because of high waters as a result of the heavy rains on Sunday and Monday, U|ese mills which generate their current from dams on Second Broad river, raised their flood gates and closed their plants for a day to a day and a half. Now that the water has receded, the mills are operating under their own power again. 1 I Roosevelt Wins ! Over Sen. Borah In Primary Tilt | MILWAUKEE, Wk, April 8. | 'VP)—Senator WiUiam E. Borah of XUaTifli, itt the first mid-western test of his presidential strength had gained control today of all but two of the 24 Wisconsin delegates to the Republican national convention, on the basis of incomplete returns. 1 While several contests were so | dose that Borah's margin might be | revoked in the f(nal count, the can didate generally prevailed over the state party’s uninstructed slate. Prom the standpoint of presiden tial preference, however, Wiscon 1 dn voters In yesterday’s election showed that President Roosevelt was a two to one choice over Borah on the basis of returns. The presi dential primary was purely an ad visory one, having no effect on the delegate contest. Borah, however, made a clean sweep of the delegate contest and apparently will control 24 delegates at the national convention. Kings Mountain Triumphs to Win Literary Events Kings Mountain high school was triumphant today when of ficials learned that its repres entatives have in the past two weeks won* the three major for ensic county-wide contests. This school furnished George Plonk as winner of the Hoey oration contest, and on last Fri day night Miss Margaret Coop er, speaking on "A Wedding’’ won the readers medal given by the Schoolmasters club, and to day, officials announced that Miss Parry Grace Patterson has been given first place in the essay contest. Wijl N. Dorsey, Ex-Mayor, Dies Suddenly Here Ex-Mayor W. N. Dor.spy who serv ed the city as chief executive, died suddenly this morning at home on N. LaFayette street, following u heart attack. He had been in fall ing health for a year or more. Mr. Dorsey arose early this .morn j vng and alter making a tire, enter |ed the bath rodm where he wai [heard to slump on the floor. Hf I breathed only one time after hii !step-daughter, #Mrs. R. W. Short nor reached him. His wife went tc Washington ten days ago to be ai the bedside of her second daugh ter Mabel, who underwent an op eration in a hospital there and Mrs. Shoffner remained lie re with Mr. Dorsey. Mrs. Dorsey came from Wash ington to Raleigh yesterday expect ing to visit members of her family for a few days. They were prompt ly notified of the death and will arrive here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements will then be made. Mrs. Shoffner says the funeral will likely take place from the resi dence sometime Thursday. Dr. R. M. Courtney, pastor of Central Methodist churdh of which Mr. Dorsey was a member, will be in charge. Mr. Dorsey was 66 years of age. He was bom in Chattanooga, Tenn., And was railroad agent at. North Carolina and Georgia points, later rural mail carrier in Rutherford county, real estate dealer and an authority on minerals and precious stones. He was first married tc Miss Ada Barnes who died in Shel by about 15 years ago. Later he married Mrs. Corrle McBrayer Hord who survives, with one brother, C S Dorsey, in Chattanooga. Tenn. Sav* Rains Over WASHINGTON, April 8 Relief within a few days from floods sweeping sections of the south was predicted today by the weather bu reau. Many rivers in Alabama. Georgia and Carolina* are at flood siage but officials rays "the rains seem to be over in the southeast section.” Dogdom Of Cleveland All Set To Be Immunized Against Rabies Thousands of pain-denoting yelps from as many dogs in Cleve land county will be held in the next 1 lew days, as full quantities of anti | rabies vaccine have arrived and of j fleers will begin today shooting j quantities of the fluid into the veint j of all dogdom. i From the tiny lap dogs and wooly I headed poodles who take the place j of children In the affection of some' ! fanciers, to the biggest St. Bernards j and fox hounds, the vaccine against the dread hydrophobia is scheduled ■ to be given. Representatives from all the i townships were conferring with ! i Dr. J. S. Dorton, County vetemarian j today and will beptin the work im | mediately to immunize an estimat ed 4,200 dogs in the county. There are only about halt that many on the tax book* however. A fee of 50 cents will be charged for each dog vaccinated, but, credit on dog tax will be given. Each per son will be given a receipt and another receipt will be brought to the sheriff of the county. If dogs are not vaccinated before July 1, Sheriff Cline must by law kill them. Vaccine officers are: No. I town rhip, Clyde Bridges; No. 2, Huff Hamrick and Chlvous Bostic; No. 3 John Ab Borders; No. 4, Prank Shepherd and Doc Griffin; No. 5. Bemis Smith; No. 6, Ed Dixon; No. 7, T. B Harris and G. T. Cabaniss; No 8. Carl Ivester; No. 9, J. C. Lewis; No. 10, J. L. Propst; No. 11, O. B. Wall: Tornado-Stricken Areas Bury Dead AndRemoveDebris Predict S^Feet Of The Cape Fear Closed Routes On Highways Hamper Travel In North. South Carolina. (By Associated Press) RALEIGH, April 8.—East ern Carolina’s four major streams were in flood todaj, doing damage to lowlands and closing two highways. Weath er bureau officials here said midday data showed: | The Neuae at Smithfield passed 19.7 feet this morning with 21 feet, 8 feet above the banks, expected tomorrow. At Rocky Mount the Tar waa 1Q.2 feet, with 11 expected tomor row night, two feet in flood; while at Tarhoro it was 18.8, with 26 feet, 8 feet above ilood expected Saturday night. I lie Roanoke at Weldon was j37.7 feet with 40 expected to morrow or Friday to make the stage 9 feet in flood. Water covered some lowlands near Fayetteville today as the Cape Four river rose slowly to flood crest but little damage was done and riv ormen said none o* conaequenece was expected M the orest was no higher than the weather bureau predicted, 68 test,- . ' High waters closed route SI be tween Elisabethtown and route 74, and route 130 between White viile and Charlotte. Route 34 was still closed near Brevard and be tween Franklin and Hayeeville, due i to slides. Route 376 was closed be tween Brevard and Caeaar's Head I » • .. . (Continued on page i Committee Would WhfcTax Program Into Final Form WASHINGTON, April 8.—(A1)— The house ways and means com mittee Democrats assembled behind closed doors today to consider the final form of the $700,000,000 tax program. Chairman Doughton, Democrat, N. C.. Indicated some modifications would be made In the plan which some business men, including spokesman for the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States, had pounded until ao early hour today. Republican committee members were not present. While prominent Democrats have indicat ed most of the tailoring of the pro gram will center on minor matters, they agreed that the opinion was fairly well solidified within the committee to grant some measure of special treatment to debt ridden corporations. In connection with the absence j of Republicans Doughton said “We had hoped to work out a non parti san measure but Republican mem bers apparently are in agreement to oposc the plan with every means | at their disposal.” He said they hoped to have the Dill ready for the house early next week. The battle will be on in de bate there and later before the sen a‘e committee and on the senate floor. City Will Contribute Toward Public Nurse The city officials In regular meet ing Monday night agreed to make a contribution toward the mainten ance of a Red Cross nurse in the county. Present at the meeting wefS Mayor Woodson. Councilman Dog gett. Harris and Riviere. A delega tion appeared asking for $300 this year with a small monthly allow ance put in the budget for next ' year. While the city did not specify the , amount it will give, the officials 'expressed themselves In favor of | public health and agreed to poy the I city’s proper part
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