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VOL. XLII. No. 50
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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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DEMOCRATS IN STRONG ATTACK ON NEW TAX MEASURE
Give Instructions
ToAAACommittee
Here On Saturday
Important Ruling
Is Made On Wheat
National Leaders Say Wheat Must
Be Depleting Crop; Agent
Explains.
Important instructions and ex
planations regarding the new farm
program will be imparted to some
75 township committeemen here at
the county court house Saturday
atumoon beginning at 2 o’clock.
The meeting is being called by
the county agent and purposed to
clarify ’ worksheets,” what the 3,500
farmers must do to “get in line” for
payment and any questions that
have arisen in starting the new
AAA.
Wheat Is Out
•One thing Is definite,” County
Agent Wilkins said today, “and
that is that as the situation now
stands, wheat will be counted as a
soil depleting crop, which will of
necessity eliminate lespedeza In
whbat from qualifying as we for
merly thought.
“Since J. F. Criswell, state leader,
was here It has been learned that
wheat will not be classed as a soil
conserving crop, although Tom
Cornwell was in Raleigh this week
and the tforth Carolina committee
to Washington is urging a relaxa
tion 6f the order. Something may
come later.
“I would advise, in the face of
that,” said Mr. Wilkins, "that in
planting the cotton, com and other
crops, you plan to put enough peas
or soy beans in your com to get
your required 20 percent in im
provement crops. You will still
make enough com to care for the
’ home heeds.”
No major change with the excep
tion of wheat was included in the
report from national authorities.
“Even at that,” the agent said, “it
is still much better than any farm
program we have ever had, and
there is still plenty of time for every
farmer to get in line for payment
and have better crops too.”
Coming Home
PARIS, April 24.—UP)—Colonel
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were
believed to be on the road to the
Riviera today after coming to
France quietly aboard a British
freighter.
Mooresboro Finals
Begin On Sunday
Closing exercises of the Moores
boro high school have been an
nounced by Principal B. M. Sim
mons to begin with the baccalaur
eate sermon on Sunday, May 26, by
Prof. A. C. Lovelace, president of
Boiling Springs junior college.
Recitation and declamation con
tests will be held Monday night,
April 27, beginning at 8 o’clock and
the senior play will be given Wed
nesday night, April 29.
Graduation exercises will be
Friday night, May 1 with J. J.
Tarleton, superintendent of the
Rutherford county schools giving
the literary address. A large grad
uating class will be given diplomas.
new YORK, April 24.—After a
CWer opening, price fixing became
more urgent and when assumulat
ed selling orders were executed
prices recovered and made new
d'Khs. Average spot price at ten
srkets 10.67. Rain in Oklahoma
end west Texas, scattered, temp
ures lower, drouth as yet being
‘relieved, no liquidation appeared
mar*tet for producers pool. With
8e outstanding interest in May
ot to be liquidated we look for
otinued firmness in near months
, ‘c favor constructive side of mar
on reactions.—E. A. Pierce and
the markets
rj;rm' sp«t.mi to izwc
_° ton seed, wagon, ton_$33.00
otton seed, car lot, ton_$36.00
v°rk cotton at 2:30: Jan.
wring Cotton
LETTER
Jobless Block Jersey Legislature Activities
Following the failure of New Jersey solons to vote for an "adequate" relief measure at Trenton. N J
assembly, a handful of members of the Workers’ Alliance of America moved in when the assembly ad
journed and began a sitting campaign in the Assembly Chamber. They are shown voting on ^measure
of their own.
Full Story Of Entombment
Is Told By Rescued Men
Jersey Assembly
Work Is Halted
By Jobless Mob
TRENTON, N. J., April 24.—(&)—
New Jersey assembly leaders, their
legislative chamber held in siege for
three days by jobless men and
women, demanded resumption of
state relief payments, suddenly
cancelled the session which has
been called for today to deal with
the problem. No reason was given.
The chamber, which had been oc
cupied by the unemployed since
Tuesday, except for a brief period
yesterday when they moved to the
senate, again was thronged with the
jobless. After learning of the post
ponement leaders of the jobless
drew up a resolution promising to
remain encamped in ever increas
ing numbers and improved morale
and await the return of the “sissy
legislature.”
Bus Driver Freed
On Murder Charges
A dispatch from Newton this
morning indicated that Farris Mar
tin, Banoak school bus driver has
been released from murder charges
in connection with the death of
Hazel Costner, 13-year-old school
child who was dragged to her death
last week when her clothes were
caught in the door of the vehicle.
The case was dismissed in a pre
liminary hearing held yesterday in
a Catawba county recorder’s court
at Newton.
The Costner child was fatally in
jured when she alighted from the
school bus at her home in the
Vale community. Her coat was said
to have caught in a splinter on the
floor of the bus, and she was
dragged to death. Young Martin,
who was employed as bus driver,
had only been driving the bus for
three days before the accident.
I MOOSE RIVER, N. S„ April 24.
!(/P)—Through the long dark hours
j before their rescue from the Moose
! River gold mine Dr. D. E. Robert
son and Charles A. Scadding des
paired of life, it became known to
day from the full story of their ten
day entombment.
Dr. Robertson, practicing his
profession as a physician, even
through his own danger, helped
Scadding to keep alive and held
Herman McGill when the third man
died.
Patiently and quietly the - two
survivors conserved their strength
facing their dangers sensibly and
working to overcome them until the
miners of the rescue crew finally
arrived.
Only today when Dr. Robertson
was recovering rapfdly in an
emergency hospital here and Scad-,
ding was being treated in the Hali
fax hospital was the whole story
learned.
Four sharp cracks, like rifle
shots, warned the three men of ap
proaching disaster Easter Sunday
night when they were making an
inspection tour of the mine. Mc
Gill, already ill when he entered
the mine, was too sick to worry
about the chance for rescue. His
two companions, during the first
five days of their imprisonment
also saw little chance of rescue.
HALIFAX, N. S., April 24.—(>P)— j
Dr. D. E. Robertson, Toronto phy-j
sician, imprisoned with Charles A. |
Scadding in the Moose River gold1
mine for ten days, joined his com
panion in a Halifox hospital today.
Robertso nwas brought from the
emergency hospital at the mine
head to the Victory General hospi
tal by Royal Canadian Air Force
seaplane.
Scadding’s condition, arising from
a severe case of trench feet, caus
ed concern among physicians at
tending him. They worked to pre
vent aggravation of the infection,
known as an incipient stage of
gangrene.
Hoey Takes Praise Of His Foe
Lightly And With Grain Of Salt
LUMBERTON, April 24.—(#)—
Clyde Hoey told a Robeson county
audience last night that he “had to
laugh at Professor McDonald, who
first charged my party and myself
with betraying the people and then
said I was a fine man.”
“In other words” continued Hoey,
“I’m a nice man as ever cut a
throat or scuttled a ship.”
The Shelby candidate for gover
nor said he did “not like to criti
cize his opponents and made no
reference to any candidate until
after an attack was made on the
party and myself in a demagogic
attempt to stir up class prejudice.”
Calling attention to McDonald’s
statement that the campaign should
be based “entirely on issues,” Hoey
said:
“It is a man that the Democratic
party must choose as its candidate
lor governor—not an issue or a |
plank from a legislator’s platform.:
j and I know that the Democrats will
; first consider the character and the;
j record of the man they choose.
“North Carolina Democrats know
me as a worker in the party’s
ranks. They know I have not been
connected with any state _ adminis
tration for 30 years. They know my
only connection with any so-called
machine is that I have worked for
Democratic nominees and supported (
'Continued on page ten.)
MuUSpeaksBefore
FarmBoysAndDad
At Polk ville School
Author Of BUI To Create Voca
tional Training In N. C. High
School* Speaks.
POLKVILLB* April 23.—The local
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America were hosts to their dads
at a father and son banquet held
in the school gymnasium Wednes
day evening, April 22. Covers were
laid for 90 and the ladies of the
Woman’s chib served a delicious
four course meal. James Turner,
president of the chapter, acted as
toastmaster.
Hon. O. M. Mull, author of the
bill to provide vocational training
in North Carolina, was the chief
speaker of the evening. In speak
ing of farming he said, "Farmers of
the future should enter into it
with a determination to be a real
farmer. Don't measure success in
terms of money. The main objec
tive is to make a real living by our
own work. Stay with the farm and
when you are old its will stay with
you.” Mr. Mull pointed out that the
farm boys in the Polkville commun
ity had a real opportunity because
of the richness of the soil. He said
"That poor soil makes a poor man
and rich soil makes a rich man.”
E. L. Dillingham pointed out that
the achievements of his depart
ment were due to the fine coopera
tion of the men and boys in the
community.
Others who made short talks
were Howard Elliott, Loy Crowder,
Ben Davis, Warren Warlick, Walter
Jenkins and Mrs. B. P. Jenkins.
Other guests out of the commun
ity were Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hern
don, Troy V. McKinney and Prof.
J. H. Grigg who also introduced the
speaker.
Rains Welcomed
By Farm People
Light showers the past two
days have been heartily wel
comed by Cleveland farmers
who are finding land becoming
quite hard after a week's sun
shine.
Too, workstock which had
done very little in the field all
spring were finding the heavy
schedule of plowing all day al
most too much. Several farm
ers reported mules unable to
go.
The past week has been the
busiest of the year as land is
being prepared rapidly for com
and cotton planting. Many
tractors have been put in use on
a full time schedule, both day
and night, with harrows and
drags following disc and mole
board plows.
Little cotton was reported
planted this week, but hundreds
of acres will be ready for plant
ing next week.
Straw Vote Has Hoey Leading
In 30 Western County Votes
Western North Carolina will vote
two to one for Clyde R. Hoey above
any other candidate and a good
majority over all the other candi
date# combined for the governor
ship, according to preliminary re
turns of three newspapers cover
ing about 30 counties In a test poll.
First tabulations In counties cov
ered by the Charlotte News, Ashe
ville Citizen and the Hickory Rec
ord which are cooperating with 17
other papers in the state, Indicate
that Mr. Hoey la well in the lead in
the Piedmont and Western areas of
the state.
In the ten counties surrounding
Charlotte Mr. Hoey got 54 percent
of all the votes, with McDonald
taking 36 per cent, Graham 10 and
McRae 10 percent. McDonald car
ried Mecklenburg and Richmond;
McRae Anson and Mr. Hoey Ruth
erford, Rutherford, Gaston, Union,
Lincoln, Stanley, Cleveland and
Iredell.
In the Hickory area Mr. Hoey has
53 percent, McDonald 42, Graham
tend McRae have six percent com
bined strength.
Asheville and surrounding coun
ties gave Mr. Hoey 60 per cent of
the straw votes; McDonald 36 per
cent and the remainder to the
other two candidates^ Other votes
are being sent out and o^ier tab
ulations will be announced later.
Second Half PWA
Building Program
Begins Next Week
State Approval Of Contracts Ex
pected Momentarily; To
To Employ Many.
Next week promises to be one of
the busiest in spring construction
work in Cleveland county as con
tractors were massing materials to
day for immediate beginning of
nearly $80,000 worth of buildings
which is the second half of the PWA
rural school projects.
All contracts were submitted to
State Director. H. G. Baity at Chap
el Hill yesterday and notification of
approval is expected momentarily
which will be the “Go" signal to
begin work on the following pro
jects: New high school building at
Laltinwt auditorium at Beth
Ware, room at Lawndale; a new
county garage at Shelby, and plumb
ing, heating, lighting, and fixtures
in these units.
First Half Ended.
J. H. Grigg, superintendent of
schools said today that construction
is nearing completion on the first
half of the program and that the
finishing work is being carried on
rapidly, with the good weather favor
lng plastering and finishing.
Nearly 300 laborers will be re
quired for the beginning of the
projects, and many of these will be
in addition to the ones now em
ployed.
Another project which is expected
to begin in a few days is the Zoar
Boiling Springs road by the Kiker
Yount Company of Reidsville which
will employ quite a crew. All requi
(Continued on page ten)
r
Italians Drive
To Addis Ababa
In Full Force
By The Associated Press
The drive of the Italian army
from Dessye to the Ethiopian cap
ital was in full swing today accord
ing to a communique from the com
mander in chief of the Fascist
armies in East Africa who reported
| that a body of native Eritrean As
karl had taken Xlorra Ilu about 38
miles south of Dessye.
Ahead of these troops of the
main Italian army in the north were
the advance Italian contingent
which reports placed some seventy
miles from Addis Ababa. The Ital
ian communique said the advance
■was progressing in good form on the
'southern front. Airplanes continued
; bombing Ethiopian defenses of Har
rar.
Crown Prince Asfa Wosan was
; discussing plans for defense of Ad
dis Ababa with a cabinet and tribal
chieftains.
The Intentions of Nazi Germany
in regard to the Locarno question
and colonial expansion took the
spotlight in the capitals of France
and Great Britain with the Paris
government asking British authori
ties to demand of Adolph Hitler
whether he Intends to obtain for
eign colonies.
j The opinion in informed quarters
was that the next major move of
Hitler would be to demand restora
tion of Germany’s former colonies.
Disorders swept through several
small towns of Spain and one per
son, a civil guard, was clubbed to
death in Seville province and Left
ists attempted to burn a church.
Two City Schools
To Graduate 121
Hi Sdhool Seniors
Shelby To Graduate 81 And Klnfa
Mountain 40; Program la '
Released.
The commencement exercises of
the Shelby high school will be in
itiated this evening with the an
nual colorful junior-senior banquet,
and the entire class of 81 seniors
will end theta career here on May
IS when graduation exercises will
be held. Forty Kings Mountain sen
iors will be graduated June 1
Major plans for the entire com
mencement are complete now, ac
cording to Principal Walter E. Ab
ernathy. None of the program will
be elaborate, but will cover all the
phases of a proper closing.
The Sermon.
The baccalaureate sermon will
be preached by Rev. R. M. Court
ney, pastor of the Central Mtthodlst
church here and the meeting will
be In the First Baptist church on
Sunday May 10.
Class night will be held Tuesday
May 13, and tentative plans for a
j general meeting and a literary ad
dress are for Wednesday night May
13, but Mr. Abernathy said no
speaker has been selected, and this
date may be left open.
Seniors In Charge.
Following their usual custom the
(Continued on page ten.)
DAR’s Say Student
Movement It “Red”
WASHINGTON, April 34 —
</P)—The Daughters of the
American Revolution today
termed the American Student
Union part of a communist
controlled youth mdvement,
praised two other student groups
and heard Senator Reynolds,
Democrat, North Carolina,
charge that millions of aliens
; are usurping American jpbs.
The student groups commended
were the Student Amerlcaneers
i and the Practical Pacifists.
In another resolution the
i Daughters urged members to
purchase only American made
flags.
Abernathy, Barnes
i Are School Leaders
W. E. Abernathy, principal of the
Shelby high school was last night
elected to the presidency of the
South Piedmont Schoolmasters or
ganisation, and B. N. Barnes, of
Kings Mountain city schools was
chosen secretary-treasurer.
The association included 11 coun
ties in the south Piedmont section
of the state and the annual meet
ing was held at Charlotte.
Two Parties Assail
Administration Hopes
For Balanced Budget
Representative Lamneck Declares It Will Ut
terly Ruin Many'Businesses; Republi
cans Keep Up Fight
(By Associated Press) *
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24,—The administration’s
$808,000,000 tax bill struck its first blast of Democratic op
position in the house today when Representative Lamneck,
Democrat, Ohio, contended it would destroy the nation’s
Orphanage Head
Slated To Speak
In City, County
t. G. GREER
I. G. Greer, superintendent of the
Thomasvllle Baptist orphanage will
be a speaker In the city and coun
ty here Sunday. He will speak first
at the First Baptist church at the
11 o’clock preaching service and In
the afternoon at Double Shoals
A quartet from the orphanage
will accompany Mr. Greer and give
several special musical number.".
The meeting at Double Shoal:
[will be the April gathering of the
Kings Mountain Baptist associa
tions! Sunday school, and will be
attended by representatives from
the 43 churches. Mr. Greer's after
noon subject will be “Take This
Child . . . And I Will Give Thee
Thy Wages.”
4 Local Students
Enter Greensboro
Music Competition
Shelby sent four students from
its high school to Greensboro this
week to compete for honors In the
state music contest being held there
Wednesday, Thursday and today In
which three thousand students
from schools all over the state are
entered. The four students took
first places in class B In the dis
trict music contest held three weeks
ago in their various fields of abil
ity.
Rush Hamrick entered the con
iest as high school piano soloist;
Miss Virginia Falls as Junior high
ischool piano soloist; Miss Evelyn
Flam as soprano soloist; and Mike
Borders, Jr,, to compete with other
.boys in the unchanged voice class.
[Miss Ruby Morgan went along to
play the piano accompaniments for
|Mlss Elam and Mr. Borders. Also
(Continued on page ten.)
Autoist Is Unhurt As Machine
Plunges Down 2,000-Foot Cliff
FRANKLIN, April 24.—</P)~G. E.
I Harrison of Greensboro escaped with
only cuts and bruises yesterday
from a 2,000 foot plunge in his auto
mobile down a series of cliffs on
Whitesides Mountain.
Harrison, 32-year-old insurance
company claim adjuster, missed the
road at a curve in a heavy fog and
went over the cliff, reputedly local
ly the highest sheer precipice in
eastern America. The car tumbled
and rolled, occasionally striking
projections. It apparently made one
sheer drop of 300 feet.
Harrison said he was semi-con
scious when he dragged himself
from the wreckage. He was three
hours climbing back to the road
where he hailed a motorist who
brought him to a hospital here. He
was expecting to be discharged
from the hospital momentarily to
day.
business.
Members of the ways and means
committee, which wrote Hie meas
ure, took tile floor after Represen
tative Reed, Republican, New York,
renewed the Republican opposition
to the intricate plan with such
terms as "drastic and coercive."
Too Mucli Power
Lamneck said "This' bill *tH de
stroy absolutely thousands of busi
ness concerns of this country "anc
added “It attempts by taxation to
compel business institutions to fol
low our bidding" and contended,
"No such power Is vested in the
constitution."
Lamneck said the principal aim
of the bill is to compel the distri
bution of earnings of the closely
held corporation, "The most strik
ing example of which is the Ford
Motor Co."
' Then he questioned the bill’s
money raising capacity and assart
ed the belief that thb revenue this
year will be less than under the ex
isting law. Appealing to the house
to consider the bill on its merits
and not from a party standpoint
he said, "It will tend toward mono
poly. It will prevent weak ’corpora
tions and those with impaired cap
ital from rebuilding their capital
structures which have been terri
bly depleted during the depression.”
"It will prevent the accumula
tion of the necessary surplus for
the rainy day to pay! dividends dur
ing the depression; , to keep men
I employed during the depression
years; and it will prevent business
from accumulating surpluses for
plant improvements and for de
velopments generally.”
Auxiliary Members
To Sell Carnations
| Members of the local unit of
Spanish American auxiliary will
‘•“ell carnations cn the streets of
'Shelby tomorrow to raise money
which will be used to make llfi a
little easier for disabled veterans of
.he war and their families.
The carnations are made by
j wives of veterans and distributed to
units throughout the country to be
.sold in the various localities. The
i price of carnations is small, what
ever the purchaser wishes to con
tribute though the cause to which
the proceeds go is a large and ap
pealing one.
Fear Disorders
. JERUSALEM, April 84—(>**)—The
Jewish telegraph agency said today
all Palestine was fearful the Mos
lem Sabbath would bring now dis
orders of the sort whleh In four
days have resulted in the loss of M
Jewish and 18 Arab lives.
Peace Reigns Again
.-MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 84.
i,—t<>P)—Horace F. Machado, minister
of Honduras to Nicaragua, said to
day that goverrAnent forces In Hon
duras had dispersed a-small groun
of rebels and that the nation was
"entirely peaceful.”
Carrier Service
Continues ’Til 6
If any subscriber to The Star
n Shelby or suburbs fails to re
vive their paper by 6 o’clock on
Jie day of publication, telephone
Mr. Jenkins, circulation mann
er at Th? Star, phone No. 11
and a copy will be delivered
promptly.
This service is maintained for
;he convenience of subscribers to
issure the delivery of tip paper
for evening reading. Give orders
for starts, stops transfers or com
plaints in the service to the cir
culation manager Mr. Jenkins or
to your carrier boy who serves
your route.
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