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Cee Cecs Picking Up Steam For Drayton Mills Contest with tom «lna in a row unde the belt* the much enlivened Clot) inU baseball team la Tuesday nigh racing the powerful Drayton Mill team to the final game before th official opening of the Carolim tongue championship eerie*. The winning streak began In th' second game with Pacific Mills li Lyman as Charlie Borne led th ' way to a victory. The team thei ~ picked up so much steam that the: slugged their way to an ll to o wh over Vsides# Friday night thtr <* While Lefty Stallings carved a plac - for himself by allow Jig two-hit bai » the entire nine innings. Then the Brewers came to towi * Saturday night and sap the Ce GieS on the rampage again, th local club winning the nightcap l tog. Lankford did the pitching am Suddeth, Murray and Heaventr fo the winners and Bollck and Bran don for Valdese clouted the app] out of tbs park. P. D. Eubanks la tbs hitting with four for fiva. " 'Batteries: Shelby. Lankford an •Murray; Valdasa, Lunsford am Brandon. The Carolina league will open 01 Friday with tbs first gams at For ,‘aat $nty. tha two taama coming t Bhetoy fog tha Tttum game Satur •'day night. Details erf features fo **' wUl bs announced Wed bp Stove Woodson. 77 Year Old Man ' Has Largo Family -(Continued from put One) laud and Ruthefcrd county, mot 6t them supervisors of machtn Tun and wholesome humor tak« up a tot of Mr. Hawkins' time. H rays it 1b on* thing that hat give: Mm good health for ao long. H fMyv h» la hearty and eaU anyth*: he want* and just at much of i at he can. ‘1 think I wet bom 1 the afternoon and the folks ha later dinner that day and I hav been hungry ever since. Another Ml of philosophy brough out to the interview was that "th young people who are said to b going to the dogs inherited it horn astly from parents who went to th dop to their day, and on back fo several generations. "Another trouble Is that we hav fot toe much duet on our Bibles. I we woftldTttad the Bible more so do ae It says, we would be a W better.” Mr. Hawkins joined High Shoal Baptist church when he was 1 years of age and has been one c the strongest members. He has bee A Meson U years and an Oddfello' 40 years. He hea never been drunk In hi life, but said he was tempted some tones to his older days to Just bu about two gallons, call in all hi friends and have “one good nigh Hoey In Warning Of Enemy In Cami (Continued from page one.) ate* In the union, he said, whll the Nbrth Carolina corporate straight 9 per cent Income tax 1 the second largest in the countrj When the two are added togethri he said, the corporations in Nortl Carolina pay more taxes to th state titan do corporations in an; otlter state. "And in addition to that,” sail Mr. Hoey. “they pay every cent o property tax that ia paid by an individuals. “Maybe we should tax some cor porations more,” said Mr. Hoej “That will be a matter for the nex legislature to decide. And also, 1 may be that we can find net sources of taxation. But the mai who says that the Democratic part; of North Carolina has taxed cor porations leu than they would t> taxed in other states Is not telllni Mr.- Hoey reviewed the progres to chasin’ old Reely.' wi Kiutnuuu in mis otaie, poinun out that North Carolina Is the onl state to the union which operaV Its schools and maintains Its road without resorting to a tax on lane! “I agree that we should pay ou teachers more, that we should pro vide more money for the schools, he said, "but I want to remind yoi that if the state had not takei over the schools when It did, li ®any counties the school door would have been closed and teach an would not have been paid any thing at all. “Now that conditions have lm proved, we should put more mane; into education and provide Ire text books for the school childrer TWe I am to favor of doing a Methodist Conference At Kadeeh Tuesday The Oasionie district of the West em North Carolina conference c the M„*. church. South, will hoi It* district conference an Tuesds; May t. at Ttsdssh church to Bei wood. Many conference leaders wi be present and Rev Claude H. Mm er, presiding elder, will preside. Re W. L. Scott, pastor, will act as hos The meeting will begin at 9 a. n and lunch will be served on tt / ' Local Tennismen Defeat Gastonia , In Six Matches , Take Win In First Match Of |m i son; Plan Soma Fast Mstchao i Bara. Shelby's fast country club tennls i men made their initial spring bow with a breery win over tha strong i Gastonia club here yesterday, the > score being 6 to 3 for four single . and two doubles matches. 11 This was the first formal ap pearance of the Shelby club this] j season although the racketeers have! r bam fielding their weapons for aev . era! weeks. The Results i * Results of single matches: Zadlata (S) defeated Rhyne (O). 1 9-7, «•«, 9-3. I; Buttle («) defeated Wlnecoff (0>, 9-9. 9-9. 9-9. t' Rankin (O) defeated S. Kendall . (») 7-9, 9-7, 9-1. ) Laughridge (8) defeated Howe . (O) 8-8, 9-4, 9-1. r Edwards (O) dsfsated L£>rand . (•) 4-9. 9-9, 9-3. Holland (8) defeated Carton (O) 9-4, 9-3. Result* of doubles matches: Zedlets and Buttle (8) defeated Wlneooff and Howe <Q). 9-4, 6-1; ' 8. Kendall and Laughridge (8) de feated Rhyne and Rankin (O) 9-1, 3-9, 9-9; Edwarda and Carson (O) defeated Holland and LeOrand (8) 1 one aet 9-9. ' Quite a large gallery was present i for the contests, and even la£er I attendance are expected this spring ’ and summer due to the Improved i courts and seating facilities. e Oeorge Wray is general manager * of the club this year. i Americans Fighting With Guns For Life 1 (Continued from page One) e troop*, acting a* “advance point" tor - the main Italian body, were vlr s atally at Atidla Ababa. Italians re r newed their assertions the Ethiopian empire had crumbled and that Ital 3 .an domination must be recognised t by the world. ' In the south Badagllo advised i.ome "Our rapid advance continu ed despite heavy rains and our a troops have reached .a point fifty 9 allies beyond Daggah Bur." I j 2,000 Refugees »| After the American legation was V attacked a dispatch having the 1 combined signature* of American s correspondents In the Ethiopian - capital said, on the whole, looting ? had diminished. It was estimated s 2.000 refugees of twenty-three na t .tonalities were being sheltered In he British legation. A nescue party from the legation found five persons dead In front of the Turkish legation from which de I fenders had fled after an attack by rioters and it was estimated that at least ten Europeans had been „ killed In Addis Ababa In the last ' forty-eight hours. Among them was * ono American, Mrs. A. R. Stabln of 1 California, American medical mis • sionary who was struck by a stray ; bullet. , Engert made an urgent appeal to ; the state department In Washing ton to request British assistance In t holding the United States legation t against the rioters. He said two , servants had been wounded and the situation was getting worse. , Four hundred uniformed members of the chamber of deputies assent ^ bled In Rome expecting Premier t Mussolini to announce the climax of , the seven months long campaign for j East African conquest. , Confronted with Italy’s virtual . domination of Ethiopia the Brit , ish cabinet assembled and, reliable ' sources said, pondered three vital ' questions, the first being: • What , should be Britain's policy at Gen , tva when and if pressure Is applied ,; tc remove sanctions against Italy, Balloting Under Way In 4 States (By Associated Press) Voters of lour states ballot this week In preferential primaries. I Maryland—Democratic contest to day between President Roosevelt and Colonel Henry Breckenrldge of New York. California—Three Democratic and .two Republican tickets were enter ed for tomorrow's primaries. On the Republican side the choice lay t between a slate pledged to Oover nor All M. London of Kansas and I an uninstructed one. On the Demo > cratlc side in addition to President r Roosevelt the names of Upton Sin Mair and Representative J. 8. Mc . Grarty were involved. both t .re supporting President Rooeevelt. j South Dakota—President Roose vplt will be unopposed in tomorrow** J primary. On the Republican side ll the struggle was between eight dele . (rates, pledged to Senator Borah of r. idaho and an uninstructed slate. t. j claimed by London supporters, l.! Alabama—President Roosevelt e is the only name on the ballot in (Tuesday’s preferential primary. Sunday School Teams Will Meet In Softball Play A four turn eoft-ball lMgua with tentative schedule of at least one game each per week was announc ed today with two games planned tor this ./eek. At present the organisations are among Sunday school classes and the plan la to continue the playing among Sunday school claeees, with the central -*lm to provide recrea tion and entertainment for bueUwaa and professional men who attend .hese classes. The two games this week will be contests between the Berean Bible class of the First Baptist church and the Ed Poet class of the Cen tral Methodist church, playing at six o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the high school ball park. A class of men from the Lutheran church will play the Newton Bible class of the First Baptist church Thursday afternoon at six o’clock. C. E. Rankin, principal of the South LaFayette street school la president of the league and Henry Clark, Jr., to assoclata. Other dense which want to Join the league are hsked to contact tae officers. Soft ball to similar to baseball, except the diamonds are smaller, there are 10 players on the team, end many of the technical rulas are different. There to a growing inter est in the sport In this section at present Lawndale Woman It Buried Today Funeral service* were held at 3 o'clock today at the home for Mrs. Caledonia William*, 80-year-old resident of the Lawndale commun ity. Mrs. Williams died Sunday after noon at 1:48 after an Illness of about two weeks, the had been in a deollnlng period of health for some time. Her husband died many years ago. Rev. Mr. Madison, pastor of the Lawndale Protestant church of which she was a member was in charge of services, with Rev. J. V. Devenny assisting. Interment was at Palm Tree Methodist church ceme tery. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Maude and Miss Julia Williams. N. C. Alcohol Unit Takes 133 Stills _____ » The alcohol tax unit at the fed eral government, serving North Carolina from a Charlotte head quarters under Ed Patton, special agent In charge, captured 188 stills during the month of April, just ended, and made 44 arrests, accord ing to the monthly summary. Whisky seizures totaled 1.400 gal lons. Mash destroyed totaled 148, MO. Automobiles found transport ing whisky illegally wave confiscat ed. totaling 18, and assigned a tem porary value of $3,387.50. Persons recommended to district attorneys for prosecution totaled 81, including the 44 persons arrested. Federal courts sentenced 38 per sons to a total of 13,081 days dur ing April, on alcohol tax cases. Ele ven others were fined a total of 88, 150. Rainfall Is Double Normal In April April showers havs been April rains and floods, according to a re port made from the local postoffice where a record of rainfall has been kept. A total of 7.88 or nearly eight inches of rain fell here during April or Just about twice the nor mal amount. And the biggest part of It came the first six days of the month with 3.78 Inches falling on April 8. Twenty of April's days have been clear with weather as pretty as any normal April; ten were misty days and four partly cloudy. Building Booms In City And County (Continued from pace cme.) for the past two months Is slightly halted as growers seek to prepare ind seed most of their land while the weather is good. A surrey of costs of a number of DUildlng materials such as brick, :ement, lumber, nails, shingles, and >ther articles indicates that there has been no general advance; In feet, so muqh volume has tended to pull prices slightly down. Labor is high and still rising. One reason Is the scarcity. A monthly report made today by C. M. Baber head of the local employment office indicates that In the past month he has put 913 persons to work and that the active unemployment file for the county is down to 1700, com pared with above 1000 In March. The outlook for increased employ ment is good. At least two rural school building projects under the PWA ere slated to begin this week, at Piedmont end at Latttmor* Con tractor Beam said today be had only i little mote work to do at Waco to be reedy for the $35 000 high school building at Lattlmore. Plan Reception On May 9th In New Community Building Bauer Reviews Fishing Havens Of North StaU By LU1T BAUEB There ere innumerable Hitt stream* and lakes not accessibl by motor road or by the beats) path that afford good sport to the fisherman who seeks them out Unheralded in print and nog looted by the crowd, some of thee may be in the district where yo1 live. Perhaps you know of such i stream or pond, but have said “Oh, there are no worthwhile flsl in that." A pleasant surprise often await the angler who Arles “flshed-oul or “no-fish there’ water We knoi a chap whose hobby, if you wan to call it that, is taking fish fron places with a reputation of beln barren. With development of the motor car and the coming of good roadi many creeks, brooks and littl lakes have been neglected by fish ermen who like to drive afar lo their sport. The grass in the othe pasture always looks greener, etc. Good streams have been mine by overfishing when paved high ways reached them. Several mile of legwork from where you leav the car will pay dividends in thrill in an out-of the way spot. Ther are still plenty such spots left. North Carolina Bam. George O Myrover, man agin editor of the Fayetteville Observes ■ends us this hearty piece from hi paper: When it comes to catching pris base the fishermen of Cumberlan county are second to none. In fact Cooper Hall of Fayetteville an MaJ. George A. O'Connell of For Bragg top the list in the entir south of catches of prise large am small mouth bass, while C. I* Mos lngo„ of Cumberland county, is th winner of a prise for the secant largest big mouth bass. Broad us M McKee, also a North Carolinian caught the third largest In th waters oC Lake Adger. Fisherman Hall relieved the wa ten of Big Cross creek of his prla winner. It weighed 11 pounds, l: ounces. The second prise wlnne was hauled from the waters a Rockflsh creek by Fisherman Mo alngo. It tipped the scales at 11 pounds, 14 ounces. MaJ. O'Connell' smallmoutb prise was caught ii McKellar's pond at Fort Bragg an« weighed I 1*4 pounds. Power Company It Loser In Tax Suil WASHINGTON, May 4.—<*>>—Th< Duke Power Co. and its subsidiary the Southern Public Utility Co, o: Anderson, S. C., lost today in thi supreme court their attack on th< 1934 South Carolina tax on electric power. The court declined to review i ruling of January 6th by the fourth circuit court of appeals which up held the act and denied the utili ties claim for refund. Attends Funeral Of Uncle In Alexander Jacob Moser, age 66. died at Stonoy Point In Alexander county Friday, following a stroke of para lysis. He was an unde of Mrs. 8. E Hoey who attended the funeral at New Salem Presbyterian church Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Serv ices were conducted by the pastor Ftev. A. N. Moffatt of Taylorsville, usiated by Rev. M. A. Alexander >f Taylorsville, Rev. J. H. Pressiy of Statesville and Rev J. a. Yount of Boone. The Masons were in charge. An Informal reception to which the geenral public in Cleveland county ic invited will be held at the Legion Community building from 4 to g Saturday, May g, it wea an nounced today. Member* of the Le gion Auxiliary, of which Mrs. Tom Abernathy is president, will be in Charge of the affair, which, in ad dition to being an Informal recep tion, will give visiter* the oppor tunity of inapecting the entire build ing- Light refreshments will be eerved. AH Invited. Mr*. Abernathy 1* particularly anxiou* that the term reception not keep men away. Men and women, aa well as children, are invited. De cision wae made to have the affair on Saturday afternoon and evening in order that a* many resident* of the rural motion* a# possible who might be In Shelby at that time may ba able to inepeot the building. Thie will be the firat official um of th* building, which ba* luat been completed- It has been used for one or two meetings of email else but thie open reception will be the first time th* building has been thrown open to th* general public, there win. of course, be no charge of any sort. Ttidloatlon. , TuMd*y night, May 19, tha dedi cation meeting will ha held In tha form of dinner at 0:80 o'clock at which time member* of Shelby civic club* will meat with members of tha lotion and tha Auxiliary. This ' meeting will be a home-town party with local people furnishing brief talk*. Wives of members of civic elube as well as member* of fami I lies of Legionnaire* and members j of the Auxiliary are invited to at . tend the dinner but it is pointed opt that it will be necessary to noti fy Mrs. Abernathy as those prepar • in* for the dinner must know how ■ m*ny to inspect. * At 8:80 p. m. following the din > ner, a dance will be held in the * main auditorium. A splendid radio : broadcasting orchestra, on* of the 1 beet and most exenslv* ever to ap pear in Shelby, has been secured by \ the dance committee, compoed of Melvin K. Olsby, J. L. McDowell and [ Griffin P> Smith, the auditorium ' win *• decorated and favors will be 1 distributed and there will be enter 1 tainment ^features for non-dancers. Already indications are that this ’ dance will be on* of the largest J dance* ever held in Shelby. r Agent Advises r On AAA Program \ (Continued from page one.) s by a separate worksheet s Or If several farms are under i the earn* ownership, but art operat i ed by different persons as separate fanning units, each separately op erated unit will be covered by a [ separate worksheet. , Where a tenant rents part of his i land on shares and a part for cash, separate work sheets shall be used s to cover each part unless all the I cash-rented land is used for hay. meadow, pasture, or the like, j However, if the cash-rented land k 1* used entirely for hay, meadow, , pasture, or the like, and if 1 t is . owned by the same person from whoa the land on shares is rented, ' then both the cash-rented and the share-rented land may be covered 1 by the same worksheet. A farm consisting of adjacent • tracts in two or more counties, but ! I under the same ownership and j operated in 1830 as a single fann ying unit by the same operator, ; shall be regarded as located In the I county in which the principal ' dVgllHlV An mink fa*M 1 | Finance Committee Work* On Tax Bill 1 WASHINGTON, May 4.—1The senate finance committee pressed Its hearings on the Roosevelt tax program today as spokesmen for the Chamber of Ootnmeroe of the United States aimed a broad at tack at the house approved bill. : One declared It Impossible to accept the measure as the way to attain a ’ balanced budget. , Government spending passed thr' six billion dollar mark for the first I time In the present fiscal year. A compromise ship subsidy bill! was Introduced by Senator Ouffey, Democrat, Pennsylvania, In -an ef fort to break the long deadlock over this type of legislation asked bv President Roosevelt Methodists Vote Fop Unification COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 4 Delegates to the quadrlennlal con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church overwhelmingly approved today its unification with the Meth odist Episcopal church south and the Methodist Protestant church. •Unification of the three. If ap proved by the other two, would give the Methodist church a mem bership of eight million, the largest Protestant body In the world. The approval vote was 470 to 13. PERSONALS Mr. Mid Mrs- J. Roy Mull at tended th« funeral of Mrs. W. D. Wlccins in Danville, Virginia yester day. Hack Wall, Oene Pranks, Wayne Abercrombie and Charles t. Keel attended the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Miss Elizabeth Roberts spent Fri day night In Spartanburg, e. o. with her sister, Mrs. L. O. Hunter. Straw Balloting Sees 2 Primaries (Continued from page one) i with Graham trailing with half the \ number given Hoey. In the land of the sand burs and j wit water McDonald has, on the , >asls of the returns through Tnurs- < lay, done his work well, in five i :ountles in the Wilmington area i ihe Forsyth doctor of philosophy Is s ceding the Shelby orator 3 l-a to l and he outvotes the liteutensnt fovemor by a shade more than 3 i to 1. McRae is not cutting an ap- < preclable figure. 1 ranner north in the hom* pre- < elnets of Qovcrnor J. O. B. Bluing- 1 h&ua—seven counties In the Eliza beth City area—McDonald Thurs day evening hod a majority of one vote over both Hoey and Oranam McRae had not weakened the en thualaam of a single Democrat. Switching back to the Durham and Orange vicinity, stronghold presumably for Lieutenant Oover Oraham, five counties In that area were giving Dr. McDonald a 4 to 1 vote over Mr. Hoey and a 9 to 1 vote over Lieutenant Governor Ora ham. In the Raleigh territory, made up of five counties. McDonald must have the feeling that be has found a happy hunting ground. He has a total three times as great as the vote east thus far for Hoey and Oraham with McRae barely able to collect more than a few doeen. McDonalad and Hoey are running a close race In the Rowan-Salis bury area with Oraham submerged under a 3 1-2 to 1 vote for each of the leaders. Likewise In Rocking ham and Caswell McDonald has a plurality with Hoey and Oraham ; neck and neck. The Rocky Mount territory where tobacco fields and big warehouses are the stock in trade, McDonald is piling up s I to 1 lead over Hoey J and 6 to 1 over Oraham. In Kin- , ston and that territory the McDon- 1 aid total has been reduced, al though he remains a strong favor ite. In Goldsboro and the truck farm belt, where tobacco Is a less important money crop than In the Rocky Mount and Kins too territory, McDonald had, through Thursday night, a clear majority over Hoey, Oraham and McRae. The ratio was 3 to 1 better than Hoey and 3 1-2 to 1 better than Oraham. Bpwra Hoey Supporters The result of the straw balloting has served to spur the friends of Mr. Hoey to greater activity In the hope that they can win the nom ination for him In the first pri mary. Reports from the state Indi cate that Mr. Hoey Is rapidly gain ing ground and that his nearest op ponent, Dr. McDonald Is losing be cause be “promises too much” and his supporters are beginning to realise that he cannot accomplish what he says he can. Big Springs Plans Memorial Services Annual memorial services for the Big Springs Baptist church will be held Sunday, May 10, beginning at 10:30 o’clock with an address by Editor R. E. Price, of Rutherford ton. The pastor. Rev. D. o. Wash burn will preaeh at 11 o'clock and decoration of the graves will be at noon. winner on me ground* will be spread immediately after service* and a song service will be held In the afternoon being led by Prof. Wade Humphries of Gaffney, & c. Penny Column LOST OR STOLEN: A LADIES white gold Boluva wrist watch. Re ward for return, no questions ask ed. Telephone M7-M. ltc FOR RENT: TWO UNFURN1SH ed rooms with private entrance. 311 Martin street. ltc ROOMS WITH OR WITHOUT meals, hot and odd water. Rea sonable rates. Phone 773-J. 850 West Warren. St <p Pass In Review Notes And News From Here And There Abm.i Cleveland County People You Know SEWING ROOM WORK for wo-j men needing employment has been1 resumed over the state,—a 1,500! additional allotment having been1 made to Cleveland county from WPA funds last week. Raleigh WPA headquarters made appropriation of funds for 50 state projects, in sluding 31 sewing rooms, one of! trhlch has headquarters In the city lall at Shelby. A REGULAR size bed is too short or Charles Eskridge, tor Charles is m irregular size man. He stands 6 eet three in his stocking feet and its intimate friends say he “lies" onger. In order to stretch to a com ortable position while sleeping, he ilaces his head in the northeas: omer and bis feet in the south rest, When recovery comes, he 'lan* to invest in an oversize bed, prtngs and mattress. A SHIPMENT of a hundred thou-1 and “Hoey for governor" buttons arrived at the Sir Walter hotel in laleigh a few days ago. Two gub-. 'material candidates have head-1 luarters in this hotel, so the ex-, jress man would make a mistake ind deliver the Hoey package to I 3raham headquarters. Having no' ^articular use for Hoey buttons, thej 3raham headquarters turned over; he package without delay. FUNERAL CUSTOMS vary in dif ferent parts of the country. Up in Virginia, men instead of women are ilways used as flower bearers. In :ity funeral homes, immediate members of the family of the de based are ushered into a small mte-room where they cannot be seen in their sorrow by the audience In the chapel. Eulogies are rarely indulged in and seldom is the name i*f the deceased mentioned by the minister. MEN WORKING witheir shirt sleeves rolled up to their vaccina tion scar, barefoot children tread ing lightly on tender feet. dusty roads, blooming dogwoods, plow lands and waterboys, and ice cream -ones. Why, it’s summer time. The | )le finish* hole calls. Trees are ( .hooting forth their leaves, hasten-! ng to have them full grown by May 10th, as scheduled. PRISONERS IN the McDofell county jail are displaying Hoey for 3ovemor pictures on the walls of heir cells, according to a report srought back by Dean Duncan, >uilding inspector for fire insur inee underwriter* erhoir inn*),, hours pus more swiftly as they iw into the kindly face 0f lhe governor." 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