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WEATHER North Carolina: Partly cloudy o unsettled tonight and Tuesday, -lightly warmer in central and northeast Tuesday* The Elevewnd Zwk — 8 Pages Today VOL. XLH, No. 51 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. CL MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ESS V* ■» M U. prn rma. Carrier. par mr, Ua Mnaw _ UN ll> Mnrni _ O H Plan Community House Dedication On May 12; $13,000 Unit Is Ready Plans For Formal Dedication To Be Dis cussed At Meeting; Roof Garden And Other Features Of Plant Described Plans for the formal dedication of the Legion Commun ity House will be discussed at the regular meeting for April of officers of the Warren F. Hoyle post to be held Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the Community building, it was an nounced this morning by E. A. Houser, jr., post commander. Tho fnrmn.1 ripdication nf th« - ine luiiimi uciuuHiuu UI 1410 building at the intersection of Jones place and Warren street will be held Tuesday night, May 12, at which time ail civic clubs of the city will meet with the legion, the auxiliary and others who care to join with these organization at din ner. Details of the meeting will be worked out at the post officers meeting. Final Cost $13,000 The structure, which was spon sored by the legion and the auxil iary, and which was secured through tne co-operation of the county, the city and the WPA, is completed, al though considerable work is still to be done around the grounds. Final cost was approximately $13,000. Not only is the building complet ed but it is practically furnished. In addition to complete cooking equipment, including dishes and sil verware, 300 folding chairs suitable either for auditorium or dining room purposes have been placed in the building, and a piano has been purchased. The main, or auditorium floor, contains two office rooms, one on (Corifinued on page eight.) Closing At Waco Begins May 3rd ■>%ls for Waco school will begin Sunday, May 3 at 2:30 in the aft ernoon with the baccalaureate ser mon by Re-. Mr. Ham, Lutheran minister of Kings Mountain. "The Land of Dreams Comes True" will be the name of an op eretta to be given Thursday night. May 7 at 8 o’clock, with the gram mar grades in charge. Graduation exercises will be Fri day evening. May 8 at 8 o’clock when 22 seniors will be given dip lomas. No literary address will be made this year as several members ot the class will read specially pre pared essays on the “Centennial of Education in North Carolina.” The senior play, “Mill of the Gods" will be given Saturday even ing at 8 o’clock. Principal C. M. King will be in charge of the com mencement programs. Morning Cotton LETTER NEW YORK, April 27.—Price fluc tuations last week were irregular, with May ending the week 12 high er and Oct. 8 lower. The old crop inonths continued to maintain strength largely due to government holdings in these positions while new crops declined partially on im provement on the weather eastern and central belt, and also to hedge filing in new crop positions against ‘Oreign growths and to tranferring hy near month shorts to later posi tions. The statistical position con tinues to show Improvement due to heavy consumption. Stocks to 0. 8. « end of March amounted to 8, 73' 000 hales vs. 9,973,000 a year ago *hile the stock abroad 2,448,000 vs. 2.631,000 year ago. Good demand for spot cotton by shippers seems to in dicate a rapid absorption of offer jn*s of !2c loan cotton which we behave will move largely into im ™ptiiate consumption channels, "hi<* should result In a minimum w pressure on futures markets. Tak rf, ^ factors into consideration we oc* for increasing demand for new crop positions on all setbacks.—K A Kerct and Oo. THE MAEKETS ■**-11K »e l**c v»u>n teed, varan. ct« on Cotton see? ^ -W W 1n*ew York 00tt°n at 9:30; ???• 10.36, May HAS, l*H. Oct, mjb, a*. MJ8. Candidate? ■a Miss Josephine Roche, above, an assistant secretary of the U. S. treasury, is considered the most likely candidate to succeed Colorado’s Senator Ed ward P. Costigan, Democrat, who recently announced that he would not seek re-election. Miss Roche gained national prominence through her han dling of labor problems in Colorado, and was an unsuc cessful candidate for governor of that state in 1934. Mrs. J. M. Wilson Buried At Zion; Was 80 Years Old Funeral services for Mrs. Monroe Wilson, 80 year old resident of the Zion-Dottle Shoals community, were held yesterday at the Zion Baptist church at 3 o’clock. Rev. J. L, Jenkins, Rev. D. G. Washburn and Rev. J. W. Suttle were in charge. Mrs. Wilson died at her home Saturday afternoon, following a period of declining health and a stroke of paralysis last Tuesday. Her husband, the late J. M. Wilson, died five years ago. In early life Mrs. Wilson was Miss Ann Elizabeth Elliott, and joined Elligtt’s Methodist church as a young girl, but later transferred her membership to Zion and had been one of the leading members (Continued on page eight) Murder, Accidents Mar City’s Record During Week-End Frankie Toms Is Shot On Sunday Four Auto Accident* Smash Ma chines, But Driven Un injured. I .. ■ ■■— A murder in the street, four auto accidents, and An unusual number of arrests for drunkenness and fighting marred the surface o< an otherwise quiet week-end for Shel by officers and residents. Eva Mae Blakeny, 30 year old negro womap shot and killed Frankie Toms, 35, another colored girl in mid aftemon yesterday when the two became engaged in an al tercation on South LaPayette St. She then calmly strode down the street with the smoking gun in her hand, giving scores of onlookers the impression of a real “western shoot ing.” Was Interferring "Weil, she was Interferring with my business,” Eva Mae told officers who arrived at the scene a few min utes after the shot was fired. Eye witnesses gave no indication that there had been any prolonged quar rel. An argument and scuffle ended with the shot. A small fruit paring Knife was found in the hands of Frankie Toms. The wounded girl was taken to the hospital, but lived only until 8 o’clock. Charge of murder was lodg (Continued on page eight.) Rush Hamrick, Jr. Takes First Place In Music Contest Rush Hamrick, Jr., tied with three other class B schools In the state for first place In the high school piano solo competition in the state music contest In Greensboro last week. Shelby also sent three other entrants, Miss Virginia Falls, as Junior high school piano soloist, Miss Evelyn Elam as soprano soloist and Mike Borders, Jr, as soloist in the boys’ unchanged voice gfcup. Each of the three tied for second place in their contests. Young Hamrick, Shelby’s only first place contestant, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Rush Hamrick; Miss Falls is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Falls; Miss Elam a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Elam and young Borders a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike L. Borders. Other contestants from the coun ty who took honors In the contest were John Blanton, Jr., son of Mr. land Mrs. John Blanton of the Lat timore community, and Miss Mary Sue Walker, daughter of Mr anri Mrs. Willie Walker of the same sec tion. These two entrants, from the Lattimore school, were entered In the class C schools contests, young Blanton as baritone soloist and mim Walker as alto soloist. Both tied for second place in their division. Daylight Saving In Effect In U. S. Time leaped ahead one hour in virtually every part of the United States yesterday morning at two o’clock as the nation adopted “daylight saving time” until next September. Except for favorite radio pro grams the change will have little effect on Shelby and vicinity, but stock markets will close an hour earlier, at 3:30 and business men get reports earlier. Another Chech From Gainesville Tornado Is Piched Up In County \ Special delivery, and free airmail service was given a check found in the county this week. The check was found in the field of R. M. Grigg, by his grandson, Arthur Lee Putnam and was blown all the way from Gainesville, Ga.. to Mr. Grigg’s farm at Waco, about eight miles northeast from Shelby. It had apparently lighted in the field soon after the storm. This is "the second check report ed foUnid in Cleveland county, both traveling the nearly 200 miles by air. The other was in the Sharon community, ten miles away Made payable to The Herald, pre sumably and indorsed by Guy Clos ton, the check was written by the cleric of Hall county, paying funds out of the treasury of that county, apparently for some printing done this year. The number of the check was 8718, and was signed by T. Lumpkin, clerk. Other names and figures on the voucher were lllig ible. Young Putnam is planning to keep the check as a souvenir of the storm which took the lives of more than 200 persons in the Georgia city and did r property damage of some ten million dollars. Keynoter Senator Frederick C. Steiwer (Rep., Ore.), top photo, a farmer and lawyer, will detiyer the keynote address at the opening of the Republican national con vention in Cleveland, June 9. At the conclusion of his ad dress, Steiwer, who also will serve as temporary ' chairman, 'will hand over the gavel to Representative Bertrand H. Snell (Rep., N. Y,), lower photo, the arrangements committee’s choice^for permanent chairman. Hoey Leading In 23 Of 30 Counties In Western Section In a newspaper poll conducted by Charlotte, Hickory and Asheville papers, Clyde R. Hoey Is leading lor governor In 33 of the 30 Western Carolina counties, with McDonald holding second place with a plur ality in five counties. Hoey and McDonald are tied in Graham with two votes each. A group of North Carolina news papers is sending out postal card ballots to every 12th name on the registration books of two years ago. A portion of these goes out each week to qualified voters and while it is not expected that a complete return will be made, it is intended to reflect the mind of the voters by the law of averages. In western counties, served by the Asheville papers, Mr. Hoey pil ed up more votes in the first week’s poll than his three opponents. In the Charlotte territory, • Mr. Hoey has 84 per cent of the ballots cast in the ten counties. The returns to date by counties and candidates, follow Western Counties County Avery . ._ 4 Buncombe ... 64 Cherokee . ... 30 Clay . __ 3 Graham . .... 2 Haywood __14 Henderson ... 7 Jackson __29 McDowell . .. 42 Macon _ ...... g Madison __ 13 Mitchell. 4 Polk. 6 Swain __ 11 TTanslvsnla .. 13 Watauga __ 4 Yancey ..17 Gra- Me- Mc Hoey ham Donald flae 1. 17 15 1 2 6 6 9 2 3 1 1 50 4 1 4 4 4 23 1 3 1 2 1 2 3 7 Totals . .. 361 76 111 Piedmont Counties Mecklenburg ._ 41 Rutherford ... 99 Anson ._ 12 Gaston . __28 Union . ...... 16 Lincoln _ __28 Richmond . *. 21 Stanly __10 Cleveland __71 Iredell . __22 28 2 2 66 20 13 17 21 7 9 41 3 9 16 21 1 2 1 ? Totals- 348 48 202 In Hickory Area In the Hickory area, the Dal Record’s straw poll reveals Hoey leading in Burke and Caldwe counties by sixty percent, with Ci tawba 54 percent for McDonald. Motorized Forces Of Italy Meet No Strong Opposition Planet Drop Warning To Destroy City France Faces Crucial Test In Voting; Austrian Leader Speaks. (By Associated Press) --A motorized column of 15, 000 troops from Italy’s north ern army drove down the Im perial Ethiopian highway to day en route to Addis Ababa. No opposition has been encoun tered by the main army on the drive. The southern army was re ported menacing Sasa Baneh, strat egic outpost of Harrar, after a bat tle Friday In which Italian sources reported 1,000 Ethiopians killed. An Italian airplane circled over Addis A aba and dropped a warning leaflet to the populace saying the city would be destroyed if any resistance was offered to the Fascist attack. Vote In France France faced a critical test of its resources today as the election re turns showed the community party making gains. The voting, however, showed that the Radical Socialist party would still retain a leader ship in the new assembly. The Spanish voting for electors to replace the deposed president, Zamora, brought forth Premier Manuel Asana as the most likely candidate. The common electoral front of the leftists in most of the country succeeded in choosing the majority of the 473 electors who will meet with a similar number of members of parliament to choose a new president. In Austria Vice Chancellor Von Starhemberg said flatly he would flppbse Shy atempts to disband his private army instigating a succes sion of conferences of government1 officials to deal with the impend ing crisis. ■ Late Bulletins King* Fuad Worse CAIRO. April (A*)—1The con ation of King rood. gravely ill with a throat and mouth Infection, became worse today, the royal phy sic lane announced. 8 Accident Deaths CHARLOTTE, April *7,—(Ay Week-end accidents over the Caro lina* took a toll of eight lives, three in South Carolina and five In North Carolina. To Quit Chamber TRENTON, N. J„ April *7.— Powell Johnson, secretary of the Workers Alliance whose members have held possession of the New Jersey assembly room night and day since Tuesday afternoon said today the group would surrender the chamber when the lawmakers re turn to their desks tonight. Refuse Appeal ‘ LONDON, April 27.—(Ay.The court of criminal appeal today dls mi used an Appeal by Dr. Buck Rux ton, “Devil’s Beeftub” killer from the death sentence for the murder of his wife last September. Kathleen Wagoner Is New President Miss Kathleen Wagoner of Shel by, has been elected president of the rising senior class of Queens Chicora college, Charlotte. The an nouncement of the election was made at the traditional junior-sen ior prom held at the college Friday evening. Miss Wagoner is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Wagoner of Shelby. Miss Wagoner transferred to Queens-Chicora college from Mitch ell college at the end of her sopho more year. At Mitchell college she was president of the Spanish club, president of the History club, and president of the Grace Ramsey Lit erary society. She was a member of the Student Volunteer Band and was active in the student govern ment association. Since entering Queens-Chicora, j Miss Wagoner has been the chair man of many important class com mittees and has been very active in the athletic association. She Is a member of the International Rela tions club, the Liter? ry society, and the athletic association Glass For Big Eye Unloaded a—EE-—,I .—-Vmmd Workmen required last seven boon to transfer this fJ.OOO.OOO piece of class from railroad ear to track after its arrival at California In stitute of Technology, Pasadena. Daring the next four years, the glass will be ground into a mirror for the 200-inch world’s largest teleeoope, atop Mt. Palomar, The telescope, with the now mirror, will extend vision twice as far as any other. Two Liners Speed To Aid Ship In Distress In Mid-Atlantic Governor Takes to Air i d uive Tobacco Views ■ ■ ....—»1 ... RALEIGH, April 27.—Following tin speech of last Tuesday at Rid dck Held of North Carolina State ollege, which was broadcast over , state-wide setup, and In which he ittempted to explain to 6,000 antag lostlc fanners his reasons for not ailing a special session of the gen ral assembly to consider control egislatlon for the tobacco crop of 936, Governor J. O, B. Ehringhatis lain will take to the air from 8:30 o 9 o’clock Tuesday night In anoth r effort to make clear his position n an Issue which has attracted na ion-wlde attention. This broadcast will follow a sche luled meeting of the advisory com mittee of growers from the eastern ection of the state which has bean ndeavortng to persuade the gover nor to assemble the legislators in laleigh before the regularly sche med session called for next Jan lary. Evear those who may disagree with tis attitude on the special session re of the opinion that the gover ior has been one ofcthe best friends he tobacco growers have had dur ng the past three years. He has ought their battles tiipe and again, nd still Is willing to aid them whenever he thinks that it can be lone in an adequate manner. C B. Redmond, Jr., has just re urned from a New York buying rip for Eftrd’s. By The Associated Frees NEW YORK, April 37.—Tw» greet liners sped to the eld of the crip*' pled freighter Bt. Quentin In mid Atlantic today after another strick en vessel, the Ivanhoe, reported Im mediate assistance was unnecessary. The liner, Pllsudskl, which raced through heavy seas to stand by the Ivanhoe after the letter’s rudder broke notified the line's New York office that she was again proceed ing on her way. “After communication with the captain of the Ivanhoe proceeding on way as Ivanhoe now considers can wait arrival of salvage tug al ready cm way," the message said. The St. Quentin, however, was be lieved in a more precarious condi tion than the Noraslatic freighter. The last wirelessed report from the British cargo ship last night said her steering apparatus was damaged and her radio room flood ed. The Bremen and the Washing ton, queens of the Qerman and American merchant marines, sped to give assistance although bad weather and heavy seas slowed their progress. Messages yesterday from another British freighter, the Rush pool, also told of difficulties but, In the absence of further reports, no vessels swerved from their courfts [to aid. I : ■. - NEW VJCCINE SUPPLY HERE AND WORK GOES ON All Inspectors of rabies In the county have plenty of vaccine now and will be able to resume the work of Immunizing the remaining hun dreds of dogs in the county within the next few days. The work has proceeded rapidly the past three 'weeks, and the co operation in the new project has been unusual, and county officers feel there will be little or no dan ger from rabies when the task is completed. Activity For Hoey Shown Here; His Engagements For This Week When Clyde R. Hoey came home or the week-end after a busy week n which he made 14 speeches In entral Carolina, he was looking as fit as a fiddle” and felt confident f his nomination for governor In he first primary. Wherever he goes, he crowds are large and enthus-j astic. He found great activity on the < >art of his friends In Shelby Across he street he saw his name embla- i oned across two sides of a store, uilding “Hoey for Oovernor" where headquarters had been opened, j tobert H. Cooke Is in charge and' Its. Hoey la hostess. A dozen or more typewriters iave been put in and volunteer ypists are working full time, writ-' ng personal letters, sending out loey literature and perfecting the Hoey organization. Mr. Cooke says the host of friends ate volunteering their serv ices In Mr. Hoey’s behalf. The room is usually filled with visitors, many of whom are Hoey supporters pass ing through the city. ‘ Thousands of cars are now car rying stickers, and many tire cov ers, bearing a likeness of Mr. Hoey going to supporters all over the state. Mr. Hoey’s schedule of addresses for this week is as follows: Monday, Sparta at noon and Lenoir at night; Tuesday, North Wilkesboro at noon and Statesville at night; Wednesday, Morganton at night; Thursday, Murphy at noon and Bryson City at night; Friday, Hendersonville; and Saturday. Waynesville. LaFoUete Voices Proposed Change; Primaries Tuesday Charges Lodged Against Big Firm (By Auaodatod Preew) Supreme Court Fails To Act On Guffey Coal BUI in Seaaion. WASHINGTON, April 87— Taxes, cotton, and president* ial primaries were the chief centers of interest in the na tion’s capital city today re volving chiefly around a quickly called meeting of Re publicans tonight, a continu ation of the senate inquiries, and the Pennsylvania primar ies beginning tomorrow. * Shortly after house Republioaoa were summoned to a night msetlng to discuss the administration’s tax bill Senator LaPoHette, Progres sive, Wisconsin, said today he would press amendments to boost indivi dual Income and surtaxes. LaPollette disclosed his plan to newsmen after another closed ses sion of the senate finance commit tee to discuss the tax program. Re said he would propose a lower rate of personal exception from Inoome tax—probably from P.SOO to f 1.500 tor married and from $1,000 to 1800 for single persons—and Increase in surtaxes on net Incomes up to' too and a boost from 4 per cent to 6 percent In the normal Inoome levy. He said he would offer each sepa rately In committee and, If defeat ed. would take the Issue to tire floor, .*mmm«m*. WASHINGTON, April ».-<« B. R. Jones, former Norfolk, Va„ cotton merchant told the senate agriculture committee today that big cotton trading firms dominated the agriculture department’s bureau of economics. Jones contended that Just before delivery dates on the ten designated spot markets representatives of the burau insisted that the difference between grades of cotton be widen ed. thus giving the big firms the ad vantage in hedging operations. He testified his business was “ruined” (Continued on page eight.) W. P. Rippy Dies At Grover Today; Funeral Tuesday W. P. Rippy, 8& year old Grover resident, who lived his entire life on the farm where he was bom, and who until a flu attack a week ago had never been ill, died this morn ing at 11:30 at the home Of his son. G. O. Rippy. Funeral services for Mr. Rippy’ will be held at the Mt. Paran Bap tist church Tuesday at U o’clock with the pastor of the church, Rev. W. E. Lowe officiating. Mr. Rippy hod been a member of the church the greater part of his life and in terment will be at the Mt. Paran cemetery. Mr. Rippy was one of the bo&t kncwn and most successful farmers of the Grover community and had oeen very active throughout his long life. He had known only very short and not serious illnesses, until he became ill with flu last Tuesday. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. H. W. Durrell, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. J. R. Hardin, of Charlotte; Mrs. E. C. Cornwell and Mrs. H. J. Campbell of Blacksburg, 8. C. There are three sons, G. C. Rippy. with whom he was living at the time of his death; Rex Rippy. of Grover and Frank Rippy of Shelby. His wife- preceded him to the grave in 1908. Wilson Re-Elected As Dover Principal School trustees of the Dover ele mentary school announced today the members of the faculty chosen for next year. Prof. Wilbur Wilson was re-elected principal for the third time. , . Other teachers are: Mrs. Clyde Bridges, fifth grade; Mrs. Bay Greene, fourth; Mrs. Floyd Dover, third: Miss Agnes Lattimore. sec ond; Miss Elizabeth Gidney, fink
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