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yOL. XLH, No. 72
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SHELBY, N. a FRIDA, JUNE 12, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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LANDON-KNOX TO BE GOP TICKET AGAINST NEW DEAL
J. M. Broughton Defends State Democratic Record
Kansan, Publisher
Are Nominated In
Democratic State
Convention Hears
Defense Of Party
Raps High Priest
Of Big Business
Choice Of Tragic Circum
stances And Inspired
Leadership Given.
(By Associated Press)
RALEIGH, June 12.—J. M.
Broughton, keynote speaker
for the Democrats of North
Carolina, this afternoon of
fered the people of the State
their choice between what he
called the “Tragic circum
stances of the last Republican
administration and the “in
spired leadership” of Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Ac well ordered district con
ventions North Carolina Demo
crats today named delegates to
cast 22 of the state’s votes in
the national convention in
Philadelphia Some indicated
they favored the administration
of President Roosevelt and var
ous members of the state con
gressional delegation.
4VUU*V001Mg OVQM/ ,
convention, in session at Memorial
auditorium here, the Raleigh at
torney asserted virtually the only
murmurs of protest against policies
of the New Deal were the “carping
criticisms of the high priests of Mg
business.”
More than 3,000 delegates and
spectators were here.
Confidently, Broughton submit
ted for approval the records of
President Roosevelt and Governor
thringhaus.
Greatest Friend
Roosevelt, he termed “The great*
Set friend of mankind in the world
ted ay.”
Because of Ehringhaus and prev
ious Democratic governors in North
Carolina,” he said: “The ground
work has been laid for the building
£ a civilisation unsurpassed any
where among the states of the un
(Continued on page twelve)
Gertrude Hunt
Passes Today;
Funeral Sunday
Funeral services for Miss Ger
trude Hunt will be held Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock at Salem
Methodist church, midway between
Shelby and Kings Mountain on
highway No. 74. Rev. J. N. Wise, the
pastor vtili be in charge.
Miss Hunt died about 9 o’clock
this morning following an illness of
acveral years. She was bom Sept.
Kth, 1886, daughter of the late
George and Julia Hunt. In early
girlhood she joined Salem church
*hd up until her health failed, was
I faithful teacher in the Salem
Sunday school.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. W.
* w&re and one aunt, Mrs. Corrie
pa m rick with whom she lived near
ylcrn church and one brother, B.
C. Hamrick.
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Morning Cotton
LETTER
KSijy YORK, June 12.—Aggressive
■ "K partly trade and partly for
Wfc'ment or special accounts car
prices to new highs’yesterday,
be larger purchases were appar
Wly inducted by the pronounced
“Pavement in demand. The
rather was somewhat more favor
P* ltl east but attention at
2®f*nt ** focused more on the gen
5? P^ture than the weather. The
wuation in our opinion, warrants
• higher level of prices and we
jcuid take advantage of the dips
Pmake purchases.—E. A. Pierce &
"tepany.
. the markets
rjon, spot-11% to lt%c
seed, wagon, ton_$27.00
seed, car lot, ton_$30.00
K' v. York cotton closed today:
t"' ''10. March 11.14, May 11.16.
W‘y 1170- Oct. 11.14. Dec. 11.00.
I
Won’t Give Up
"I shall never surrender,” Presi
: ent Roosevelt said at San Antonio,
Texas, yesterday as he repeated
Travis’ famous message in an ad
dress delivered in the shadow of
fhe Alamo. His message urged
Americans to retain the "virility
and ideals of the pioneer" in meet
ing new problems.
State Convention
Of Democrats In
Id Session Today
First Session Is At Noon; Mr. Hoey
And Cleveland Ileiegatea
Attend.
The state Democratic convention
met in Raleigh at noon today in
the midst of a gubernatorial cam
paign in which the HO.OOO.OOO-a
year general sales tax has been
made a paramount issue.
Whether the controversial issue
would be projected on the floor was
a matter of conjecture, and it was
said that if the convention follows
precedent, it will take no sides.
Mr. Hoey Leave*
Clyde R. Hoey left early yesterday
to attend the convention, and more
than a dozen Cleveland democrats
left yesterday ana toaay. Mr. noey,
who last Saturday led his sales tax
repeal opponent by 4,320 votes, was
expected to confer with his manag
;r, Hubert Olive, about further cam
paign plans In case Dr. Ralph Mc
Donald calls for a second primary.
Winbome Silent.
J. Wallace Winbome, of Marlon,
state democratic chairman, arrived
n thd capital late last night, but
le was reticent on any convention
movements. He announced a few
weeks ago J. M. Broughton, Raleigh
lawyer and former state senator,
would be the keynoter.
A. D. (Lon) Folger, of Curry coun
;y, probably would be elected na
tional democratic committeeman to
succeed C. L. Shuping, of Greens
joro. Folger managed the campaign
>f Sandy Graham, eliminated from
the governor's race In last week's
jrlmary.
North Carolina will have 36 votes
it the national democratic conven
ion. Winbome said the maximum
lumber of delegates from North
(Continued on page twelve.)
McDonald Calls For Run-Off
With Clyde Hoey On July 4
.
Makes An Appeal For Graham’s 125,000
Votes; “Beat The Machine” Is
His Slogan
(Special to The Star)
RALEIGH, June 12.—Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, second
man in the Democratic primary race for governor, has called
for a second primary from the State Board of Elections and
Claims that followers of Sandy Graham will become his sup
nnrfors nn .Tiilv ifk I ——-.. ■■■■ 1 1 .— •
A check-up of the members nom
inated for the general assembly re
veals that a majority of them an
against Dr. McDonald and out oi
sympathy with his platform. In
McDonald's home county of For
syth, anti-McDonald men were
nominated by large majorities.
Hoey Is Confident
Hoey’s headquarters in Raleigh
claim that fully 75 to 80 per cent
of the Graham vote will go to Hoej
in the run-off. While Hoey’s lead
was slight, it is felt that the lea
thousand plurality will be worth
20.000 votes in the second primary
Figuring another way, Mr. Hoe5
received 183,873 votes, Graham 136,
682 and McRae 6,735, a total ol
327,388 votes which were cast
“against” McDonald.
Hoey, therefore, feels confident
that he can muster enough strength
to put him across with a good ma
jority on July 4.
Anti-Machine Slogan
Aseerting that “the gloves age
off” and “We have just begun tc
fight” the Forsyth eendhUU de
clared:
“There will be a second primary
This machine must and will be
broken.
“On June 6,” be said, “a great
army of militant Democrats voted
against the perpetuation of the
Gardner-Ehringhaus-Hoey dynasty,
while all the desperate tactics
which money and machinery could
employ Clustered only 193,860 votes
for Mr. Hoey, the power company
lobbyist whom Mr. Gardner has
uub w iuu> mo piuvuu^Oi
domain in North Carolina whild he,
Gardner, draws his 9100,000 lees lor
representing special interests • In
Washington.”
He said that “developments” dur
ing the lirst primary placed in a
secondary place "many o1 the is
sues.”
“Not that they are unimportant,
but that one Issue stands out so
commanding that the second pri
mary will center entirely upon this
question: Shall machine rule be
permitted to continue its iniqui
tous dominion in our state?”
Frank Kendall Opens
A Salvage Place Here
Frank Kendall is opening this
week in the Beam building on North
Washington street a salvage busi
ness in which he will buy and sell
second hand furniture, clothes,
rugs, stoves, refrigerators, etc. The
building has been completely re
modelled' and stocked with used
merchandise.
Taxi Driver Drowns
CHARLOTTE, June 12.—(/P)—R. A.
Gores, Charlotte Taxi driver drown
ed in the Catawba river early to
day while he and a number of com
panions were fishing.
“TightBritches”, Mountain Play
Brings Pathos, Realism To City
“Pore Lly, he was Just a little too
Jig fer his britches,” is only one of
;he climaxes which a selected cast
)f Community Players is expected
xj reach next Friday night when
,he amateurs players organization
jresents “Tight Britches’* at the
llgh school auditorium.
Full rehearsals are being held
:ach day now with the cast of ten
ictors and actresses working under
.he direction of Jack Hartigan, a
barter member of the players, as
listed by Miss Mamie Lou Forney,
ast year president of the Dramatics
:lub at Meredith college.
Isabel Hoey is playing the lead as
nother of the hero of the mountain
lrama and in parts of the play has
i! ready been said to match the artj
with which ner mother, Mr*. Clyde
R. Hoey, made "Sun-Up” a prem
iere production for Shelby theatre
goers.
Charles Wray has begun to get
an ecclesiastical tremor in his
voice for the part of a mountain
preacher who will be twined
around the finger of Mary Jen
kins as Sally Tabor, the “girl” of
the story, the person who can make
him “lay down his Bible and be a
man."
Carobel Lever is Pairdy Tabor,
Sally’s mother, a typical mountain
mother who has brains, determina
tion and dialect. Other players will
be James Shepherd. Alton Kirkpat
(Continued on page twelve)
Foreign Elements
PARIS, June 12.—(&)—Fear of'
"foreign elements” In Prance’s ever
widening strike sent Socialist lead
ers and police officials into critical
conferences today. Refreshed by
four legislative victories. Premier
Blum declared his government would
take strong measures to prevent the
walkouts from getting beyond con
trol.
Detachments of mobile guards,
some armed with muskets reinforc
ed police patrols in the streets here.
Even as Blum spoke new out
bursts rocketed into prominence in
scattered sections where dissatis
fied employees sought further con
cessions to labor.
The first quartette of social re
form measures temporarily approv
ed by the government, provided
paid annual vacations, gratified the
employers-workers agreement for
Increases, restored pay outs of
government service and exempted
war veterans Aram certain taxes.
Late Bulletins
Cotton Seed Report
WASHINGTON^ June 12.—(/p)_
Cotton seed crushed In the ten
month period August 1 to May 31
was reported today by the census
bureau to have totaled 3,739.429 tons
compand with 3,416,414 in the
same period a year ago. .
WASHINGTON, June
The Navy department was advised
today that an officer and an en
listed man were killed when a plane
launched from the eraiser Memphis
crashed into the sea off Cuba early
yesterday.
Libby In Retirement
NEW YORK. June 12.—<;p>—The
Daily News said today that Libby
Holman, Bin, Smith Reynolds, and
her three and one half year old son
havo retired under an armed guard
to a 50 aero Oyster Bay estate.
Ilf_I_ a_. •
Are Strike
i
2 Die In Crash
”«*n. vii •jaiibuuns
PARIS, June 1*.—<A>)—Grant Brit
ain and France moved toward a
common sanctions front today which
informed sources predicted would
reach its culmination at Geneva
late this month.
The new Socialist administration
harassed by strikes began a study
of a British proposal to lift sanc
tions from Italy and revamp the
League of Nations covenant.
Department Predicts
Small Potato Crop
WASHINGTON, June 12.—(jpy—
An early potato crop, 12 percent
smaller than In 1035, and 27 per
cent smaller than the five year
average was forecast today by the
department of agriculture.
It reported that the eastern sea
board drought had seriously affect
ed the product now ready to move
to market from North Carolina, Vir
ginia and Maryland.
To Hold Baby Show
At Mauney Village
A score or more of smiling, cooing
or booing babies are expected this
afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Mau
ney mill village in Kings Moun
tain for a real "baby show.”
The judges will take measure
ments and will weigh all the infants
end will award prizes and ribbons
co the winners.
Forgers, Robbers
Are Bound Over
To Superior Term
Store-Breakers Under
Heavy Bonds
Alleged Forgers Give Fake
Mortgage On Cow They
Didn’t Have.
Charges involving the death
of a child, convictions of forg
ers and store-breakers, and a
number of other sensational
cases, were aired in Record
sr’s court today with subse
quent binding over to the
July term of superior court
announced.
Jack Rush, youth driver of an E
W. Orannts Construction company
truck which on May 6 killed nlne
year old William Carl Herndon, ww
bound over under 11,000 bond until
July term of court. The Hemdor
child was the eon of Mr. and Mrs
Emeat B. Herndon of near Grovei
and the child was carrying water U
the field. He and companions were
walking in the road and clouds oi
dust were said to obscure him from
MOO Bond
Oilreath Shields, 36 and Boyce
White, alleged forgers and <$ecji
flashers, were bound aver undei
$400 end $150 bonds respectively.
Hie two lnen have formerly lived
in N6. 0 township and now live in
Shelby. They were charged with
forging a check on Baxter Bettis ol
Earl and of giving a fake mortgage
on cows and pigs they did not own,
to the Southern Bonding company.
Attempted Robbery
A confession was taken earlier
today from Frank Lltlejohn, Gaff
ney colored youth, charged with
breaking and entering the Hass
Phillips store in Boiling Springs
Hie owner of the store was in the
wheat field and came to investi
gate the noise. He found the thief
in the house who said he only
broke In to “play the slot machine.'1
Deputy Gus Jolley’s house, Frank
Broke and ran, with his shoes in
his hands. Officer Jolley arrested
him at a sister's home. He confess
ed he is a fugitive from South Car
olina officers.
Three men were placed under
bond for the alleged breaking and
entering and robbing the Porter
Store at Belwood last week. Steve
Crow, taxi driver met a bond of
$250; Robert Willis, $600 and his
father Dave Willis $100. Most of the
Porter goods were recovered. Ray
mond Grey, Everett and Dwight
Bridges were released after their
cases were nol prossed.
Officers are still holding Ed Davis,
alias Ector Case, paroled prisoner
from Charlotte, who assaulted offi
cers and was finally taken last Sat
urday night after a 20 mile chase in
which his tires were riddled with
bullets.
Homer Kilgore, Burke colored
man was arraigned yesterday be
fore Federal Commissioner John P.
Mull and bound over to. the Sep
tember term of Federal court un
Sei a $500 bond on the charge of
operating a distillery illegally.
Bonus Information
Meeting Arranged
Complete information as to how
to go about cashing bonus bonds
will be give nail ex-service men of
the county, both white and colored,
it a meeting arranged at the court
bouse at 7 o'clock Saturday night
oy Warren F. Hoyle post of the
American Legion.
The early hour for the meeting
is set because at that time Post
master General Farley will broad
:ast general Instructions and It Is
lesired that veterans hear this
Broadcast, as well as instructions
from local postoffloe officials which
will be given all ex-service men of
address.
Arrangements have been made at
;he court house to take care of all
veterans who wish to attend and
Bost officers Join with postal au
:hfrfiles to urge all veterans to at
end the meeting so that full in
'ormation may be secured by all
veterans.
L&ndon And Knox Lead GOP’s
■■ Above are Alfred M. Landon, governor of Kansas and Col.
Frank Knox of Chicago who were yesterday and today nom
inated for President and Vice-President from the Republican
party to contest the Democratic nominee in the fall election.
Relief For Farmers Is Forecast
In $85,000,000 Deficiency Item
WASHINGTON, June 13.—Sena
tors and representatives from the
drought stricken southeast saw in
the deficiency appropriation bill
today a possibility of relief for
farmers. Representatives N. O. Tar
ver, Dembcr&t of Dalton, Georgia,
a member of the appropriation
committee said aid might come
from an $11000,000 item set up in
the Mil for loans and relief to
farmers and livestock growers.
Carver saM he had been told by
resettlement administrator Rexford
Tugwell that the fund could be
retumW to drought relief If lan
guage placed In the bill by the sen
ate la retained.
The. department continued Its
study of conditions In the drought
area but no official report has
been issued.
Mrs. Heyward Hull
Dies Early Today;
Funeral Saturday
Civic, Religious Leader Passes Aft
er 13-Montha 111
• ness.
Funeral services for Mrs. Loula
Abernethy Hull, wife of James
Heyward Hull, will be held at the
home Saturday afternoon at 2;30.
Mrs. Hull died at her home on N.
LaFayette street early today after
an extended illness of 13 months, a
year of which was spent In the Lln
colnton hospital.
Services will be In charge of Rev.
R. M. Courtney, pastor of the Cen
tral Methodist church here, assist
ed by Dr. A.L. Stanford and Rev.
D. D. UTllbon, Llncolnton ministers.
Was Loula Abernethy
Before her marriage to Mr. Hull
in March, 1907 Mrs. Hull was Miss
Loula Abernethy, daughter of J. A.
Abernethy, sr, and the late Mary
Rhyne of Lincoln county. She has
lived in Cleveland county since that
time and has been a leader lh re
ligious and civic affairs. She was
formerly president of the Twen
tieth Century club, was active in
the U. D. C. and was a much loved
teacher of primary children in Sun
day school. She was reared a Pres
byterian, but later joined the
(Continued on page twelve)
Tom Dixon Joins
Republicans; Had
Been A Democrat
Last Visit To Shelby Wu On A
Speaking Tour In The Intereat
Of The New Deal.
1 Tom Dixon, noted playwright and
author, native of Cleveland county,
haa landed in the Republican camp.
A ltfe-long Democrat, he appeared
at the Cleveland, Ohio, convention
of the Republicans this week and
was scheduled to place in nomina
tion for president, Judge I. M. Mee
ting of Elizabeth City, the "favor
ite son” of North Carolina Repub
licans.
Mr. Dixon, however, did not make
his nominating spech. The nomina
tion of Gov. Alf Landon of Kan
sas was apparent on the first ballot
bo in order not tat delay the pro
ceedings, Mr. Dixon withheld his
speech.
"I thing the nomination of Gov
ernor Landon should be made by
acclamation,” said Mr. Dixon.
Author Dixon's last visit to his
native Shelby was to make a
speech in the interest of the New
Deal. He, with many other speak
ers, toure# the country in the in
terest of the Roosevelt policies. He
filled a number of .speaking en
gagements in the south, upholding
(Continued on page twelve)
Roosevelt Strikes At Monopoly
And Chiselers In Dallas Speech
DALLAS, Tex, June 12.—UP<—
Striking at monopoly and "chisel
ers” and calling for "Democracy In
opportunity,” as well as in govern
ment, President Roosevelt declared
here today "The net results of eco
nomic control has meant the own
ership of labor as a commodity.”
Standing In the packed Texas-Cen
tennial stadium the chief executive
also said, “A lessening of section
alism was apparent on every hand”
and the “good neighbor” policy
should be extended across the bord
er to Mexico and to other lands so
that war may be forever banished
from this hemisphere.
“If labor Is to be a commodity
in the United States In the final
analysis it means that we shall be
come a nation of boarding houses
nstead of a nation of homes" he
declared.
If our people ever submit to that
they will have said "goodbye’’ to
their historic freedom. Men do not
fight for boarding houses. They will
fight for their homes.
The President said the very na
ture of free government demands
that there must be a line of f ofense
held by the yeomanry of business
and industry and agriculture.
“Any elemental policy, economic
or political, which tends to elimi
nate these dependable defenders of
democratic institutions and to con
centrate control in the hands of a
few small powerful groups ls di
rectly opposed to the stability of
government and to democratic gov
ernment itself.’*
Cleveland Meeting
Other Proposed
Nominees Out
Convention Overwhelmingly
Names London aud Knox
To Lead Party.
(By Assoeiatcd Press)
CLEVELAND, June 12.—
The Republican ticket against,
the New Deal is London and
Knox.
The national convention
overwhelmingly nominated
Col. Frank Knox of Illinois
for the vice-presidency today
After Senator Vandenburg of
Mich., had asked in a letter,
read to the delegates, that his
lama not be considered.
Landon Nominated
Alfred Mossman Landon, gover
nor of Kansas was nominated last
night on the flrat ballot to repres
«nt the Republican party In the fall
election. Frank Knox, Chicago pub
lisher and Senator Arthur Vanden
bcrg both had delegates pledges to
them for the presidency, but they
released their supporter* In tha
face of the sweeping Landon aentl
uient.
Michigan had announced It
would cast its votes for tha, sen
ator but Chairman Snail read tha
letter at once saying "this Is con
clusive and I am convinced I can
serve* more effectively on the floor
of the senate during the next Lon
don administration"
Borah Lose*
Senator W. E. Borah received 1#
votes on the ballot, one from West
Virginia and 18 fr6m Wisconsin,
but on motion by the Wisconsin
delegation the vote was made Un
animous for London.
John D. M. Hamilton, hard work
ing manager for London, put Bis
name in nomination. A demonstra
i lion lasting several minutes—punc
1 Lv.ated by a bond rendition of “Oh
; Susanna"—held him smiling on the
I platform before he could launch
into his praise of the Kansans, who
stood alone in the presidential can
didate field since early morning.
Someone brought lm a big shock
of corn fodder and stacked It be
side the state standard.
Senator Dickklnson of Iowa, who
earlier today released that state's
delegates to Landon, stood talking,
an ear of com in his hand.
In Kansas Landon. added to the
platform of the Republican con
vention a personal declaration for
a gold-backed currency and a con
stitutional amendment, If necessary,
t>: permit state regulation of wages
and hours.
The nomination of Knox was by
acclamation. Oovemor Nice of
Maryland and former Ambassador
Walter Edge of New Jersey releas
ed their delegates to the platform
to advocate the popular choice.
The name of A. W. Little of New
York also was withdrawn leaving
Knox the only name before the
convention. Knox had left the city,
evidently with the landslide for him
farthest from his mind. He indi
cated an expectation that Vanden
berg would be nominated and ac
cept.
The convention adjourned sine*
die at 1:15 P. M. E. S. T. ‘
V
Shelby Lions Club
Gets High Ranking
Following his return from the
state meeting of the Lions club at
High Point where he was made
Rtate director, William Osborn® to
day presented to the 8helby club ft
silver loving cup which he also won,
for having the best secretary’s re
port in the state.
The Shelby club also got honor
able mention for achievement dur
ing the past year.
Education Progress
Is Topic Of Meet
The progress of the colored race
in education will be the central
theme at a program to be held to
night at Mt. Calvary church In East
Shelby when teachers of the adult
educational program will tell some
of the accomplishments of their
work.
The program will be at eight
o'clock and Miss Mabel Bacon, dis
trict supervisor of Emergency Edu
cation in this state will be a spe
cial guest and will address Ih#
gathering briefly.