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Vote For Hoey For Governor In Saturday’s Primary And Finish His Fight For Victory WEATHER North Carolina: Occasional ghowcre tonight and Saturday. 10 Pages TODAY VOL. XLn, No. 81 Member of Associated Press SHELBY. N. CL FRIDAY, JULY S, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By M U. nr J»u, (IB (Andot) _ U N CarrWr. Mr yt»r. Mb NdranM) _ UN . City Ha* Surplus j To Begin 2nd Year Of Woodson Term Book* Balanced; Audit Due Soon Mayor Compliments Work Of AH Departments; To Con tinue Program. Administrative forces of the city of Shelby were today viewing a full year’s work under the direction of Mayor Harrv S. Woodson and a re port made by the city clerk indicated that the new fiscal year was begun with $29,776. 16 in the treasury. A full aud it will be made in a few days and surface figures indicate that the city stayed almost entirely within its budget throughout the year. Beginning this year with a budget of 1265.591.25, the administration spent *267,512.49. This was offset however, by collections which was estimated to bring only $247,968.91 but, which actually Drougnu reven ues amounting to $269,119.64. Well Pleased Mayor Woodson said today that he was well pleased with the rec ord of the entire force, police, fire, clerical workers.” He said that his water and lights, maintenance and second year “will be- devoted to a continuation of the our same pol icies.” During the past year the city has paid $11,562.44 for debt service. There are no outstanding payments due in the next few weeks. Besides taxes and assessments the city water and light departments brought most revenues and profit. The water department spent $19, 623.47 and received $48,281.98 and the light department $59,950.96 and received $125,488.79, giving a total pioflt of $94,196.34. The board of aldermen will meet | Monday night, but will not consider the new budget until after the audit has been made. The mayor said this morning that no change in the present tax rate of $1.20 per I $100 valuation is expected. [Peddler* Law Says Certificates Due Clarification of the '"peddler’s llaw” with reference to the city lt hcense of $25 was made today at the [city hall. A fanner or grower of farm pro duce may sell his goods in the city Shelby without license, provided N procures a growers certificate fr°m the clerk of court and pre >ents it to the chief of police. The growers certificate is to prove to F'ty officials that the peddler grew the produce on his farm in thl3 Jounty. for those other than growers, a license of $25 or the sum of $3 per F 15 char8ed. Officials said the Certificates have been abused so ^iuch in the past they will have to “ very strict this year. Iff « t 1 morning Cotton letter l'EhEH| Y?RK' Ju'y 3-—The new Wrri ''cre not maintained Lr_ ) due to an influx of real L , ">EPth<,r with the sell 11* mJ.0"8 Ort0ber by the pool lurotv°^Prfl'P hettgin& operations. L. P a buyer here and there better speculative khter 1,1 trade purchafies were kS mdl('at^ that the demand rJSS “ apam broadening and | advancing prices. I Issued «hreaee estimates recent n rm„n S ow a downward revis Papd t0 Previous releases. E A. PIERCE & CO. bio THE maRKETS Jtton s^1 *. to 12Kc Itton Zt' *‘"n' ton- 327.00 T wd| car l°t, ton_ 330.00 P H i' »i ,n ,nn r*'v‘ed lodav: u.3o ZrZv'ZJmv ii53 it 71. Dec. 11.74. Ambassador Under Secretary William Phillips (above) has been named U. S. Am bassador to Italy to succeed Breck inridge Long, wno has resigned be cause of serious illness. Mrs. C. C. Roberts Is Buried Today; Was 86 Years Old ’asses At North Morgan Street Home After Lingering Illness. Funeral services were held this .ftemoon at S o’clock for Mrs. Co umbus C. Roberts, 86 year old resi dent who died yesterday at her some an North Morgan street. She lad been in ill health far more h&n a year and had been seriously 11 the past several days. Services were held at the home »nd were in charge of Dr. Zeno Vail, her pastor, assisted by Rev. V. G. Camp, of Cherryville snd lev. John W. Suttle, of Shelby. Native Of S. C. Mrs. Roberts before her marriage n early life was Miss Sara Frances effries of Union county, South Carolina, but since young woman iood has lived in Shelby. Her hus band, who died in 1910, was a farnt r and merchant. Five children survive. They are Martin Roberts, C. C. Roberts, ames Roberts and Mrs. Luther Thompson, of Shelby, and Mrs. J. I. Austell of Greenville, S. C. There ire seven grandchildren, Virginia ,nd Roberts Austell, of Greenville. I. C.; W. C., James’Hogue, Wilbur, tartha Frances and Don Roberts, ’he great-grand child Is Billy Ann toberts. Pall bearers were Paul Webb, Jeorge P. Webb, Will Harris, Bax er Kirkpatrick, John Irvin, Dr. E. J. Lattimore, Lee B. Weathers, Tom iabington. Summey Spangler, Rus ell Laughridge. tfosiey Mill Opens WINSTON-SALEM, July 3.—The Jaynes hosiery mill opened here to lay apparently without curtall ncnt as the strike entered its third !ay.( Union officials claimed 300 of he plant’s 1800 had walked out but nill officials said the strikers’ ranks; rer#» much smaller. Bolt Of Lightning Kills Ruth Sneed, 15-YearWacoGirl Parents Are Shocked By Same Stroke b Killed While Family Were Hoe ing Cotton On T. C. Beam Farm Tragedy played hi a lightning and thunder storm which hit the northeast section of Cleveland county late yesterday afternoon and Alma Ruth Sneed, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sneed of near Waco, was killed in stantly by a bolt of lightning which struck in the field where she and her parents were hoeing cotton. Mr. Sneed was knocked to the ground from the shock when the bolt hit the field at 3 o’eiook and Mrs. Sneed was unconcious for sev eral hours following the tragedy. At noon today she was much Im proved but in a highly nervous state. The family was hoeing cotton on their farm, which belongs to T. C. Beam of that community and, in cidentally, the nearest tree to the field was a hundred yards away. Hair b Singed It is reported that the child’s body was marred by surprisingly icw lpuiiib. xxcr nair wa& oaaiy singed and the only severe burn was over her heart. Apparently, the bolt of lightning struck the right side of her body and crossed over to the opposite side Just below the neck and burned down the left hip and leg. No trace of the cotton be ing burned could be found early this morning. Funeral services for Miss Sneed will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at either the home or at the Waco Baptist church, de pending on the condition of Mrs. Sneed tonight. Rev. H. M. Robin son of the Cherryville charge will be in charge of the services. Ruth is survived by her parents; three brothers: Olan, Herbert, and Billy; three sisters: Aileen, Sue, and Mrs. Richard Angel also of Waco. Hood Asks Reports RALEIGH, July 3, $P)—Gurney P. Hood, state bank commissioner, issued a call for the condition of all state bonks in North Carolina as of the close of business June 30. , Thousands Hear | F. D. R. Dedication BIG MEADOWS, Va., July 3, (#)—Into a natural amphitheatre, s flanked by jagged peaks of the Blue Ridge, thousands of per sons converged today to hear President Roosevelt's dedication of the 180,000-acre Shenandoah . National park. At Washington the chief ex ecutive packed a picnic lunch in his car to travel over the 100 I mile route into the heart of the , mountain country. With Mr. Roosevelt’s dedication at 3:30 the great tract of wide wooded country becomes a part of the vast eastern park system which (eventually will stretch from the Shenandoah to the Smokies in Tennesee. “Grandest Show We Ever Saw”; Shelby Men Tell Of Convention “The grandest show I ever att ended," was the unanimous chorus roiced today by four Shelby men vho attended the National Dem icratic convention at Philadelphia ind who have just returned after taking in the sights” in the espi al city and the Virginia valley. A check-up on the role which jeorge Wray, Ralph Gardner, Rush Hamrick and A. W. McMurry played n the convention indicates that no >ther small town in the nation jlayed any larger part in the car ■ying on of the affair. George and Ralph were both nam id sergeant-at-arms and had pos tions on the stage next to the dig nitaries, and Mr. Hamrick and Mr. HcMurry had reserved seats on the "age within a few fee* of Big Jim Parley, ‘Hell and Maria' Dawes, Htnry Morgenthau, and Franklin Roosevelt, jr. “We met all these personally and can say that the leaders at our party are “regular fellows.” They are easy to meet and have remark able personalities. We met Miss Frances Perkins and on returning to Washington were on the same sleeper with Jack Gamer, vice-pres ident." The delegates said that despite all the noise and reports heard over the radio that the convention was a remarkable event. There was an average of 17,000 persons in the hall, and some 150.000 in the pa rade. There were gay colors, ban ners and a lot of enthusiasm. They reported that for such a large con vert ion there was only a com paratively small amount of drink ing. | Hoey Denies Charges Made In Letter Sent To Field Managers Bsandsng it u “just about the last word in misrepresentation" Clyde R. Hoey on last night read over the radio a letter which he charges had been sent to McDonald managers all over the state, and was being circulated by acme one in a last desperate effort to ‘save their man." Mr. Hoey did not charge that the letter was sent out by McDonald himself, but said that It was sent out by McDonald followers. Referring Jointly to the letter, the Durham speech and the latest ex tra edition of the “Wendell Gold Leaf” Issued in behalf of McDon ald, Hoey said: “That is the sort of thing this man from Illinois is making of North Carolina. Reads Letter “Dear Sir: I wish to call your at tention to the following statement by Clyde R. Hoey, candidate fo* Governor, in a speech before the Memphis, Tennessee, Fair Tax As sociation on January 12, 1984: “II I were Governor of North Carolina I would do my best to make it a rich state. I would tax every per son on pay rolls at least 10 cents on each pay check or envelope. 1 would tax the farmers crop and a sped Hi tax should be levied on fer tilisers. I would would stop highway building aa our state owes too much now on such roads. It seems our people want whiskey and 1 would ask far statewide control. I mean by this that our state should receive the profits and not the counties, as in the case in other states. You have a great state and we should follow your plans and ideas. I would propose using our money in building larger and bet ter state buildings.” “You may use this In any way you may see fit, using our name if you care to do so.—Yours very truly, Fair Tax League of North Carolina. "This letter contains no address and no signature,” said Hoey. "I do not know who sent it out and I do not say. But it was sent to McDonald managers all over North Carolina and some of them are circulating it. “There is no such thing as "Fair lax League” in North Carolina. There is a Fair Tax Association and this faked signature was an obvious effort to make the people of North Carolina believe that it was sent out by that organisation.” Communities Must Help Us To Enforce Law Says Cline “Residents of any part of the county can have the kind of com munity they want, It they will Just rise up aad help us," Sheriff Ray mood Cline said today as he point ed out several Instances tn which co-operation and non-co-operation has helped or hindered the progress of enforcing the law. "If my deputies and I don’t get co-operation, then we get criticised and don’t catch the criminal either," he said. He pointed out that in the past few days he has made the arrest of .Oscar Willis and the re-arrest of Dave Willis and Steve Crow in the W. R. Porter store robbery of Bel wood and that another arrest if Im minent. Robert WUlts is still under arrw^ wnd aU w*H await trial far the larceny of about $200 worth of merchandise several weeks ago. Hie second arrests cleared three Waco boys of suspicion. All have confessed to part In the crime. Sheriff Cline also pointed out that he and his deputies were un able to get a real “break” in the Roy MoSwaln alleged “public nuis ance” place at Beaver Dam until the community came forward against It. "We will go the limit If people will help us,” he said. Three Blessings For Farmers Come In Rain, AAA Changes Postal Receipts Show Increase In 1st 6 Months Postal receipts for the first six months of 1036 showed an Increase of $5,749.87 over the same period last year, It was revealed today. Prom January through June, 1935, the receipts were $31,851.88 as com pared to $37,601.75 during the first six months of 1936. Hie month of June this year also showed an increase over last year. This year, the receipts during June were $4,865.16, and in 1935, the fig ure was $4,180.15, an increase of $685.01. The average monthly increase during the first half of 1936 has been slightly above $950 each month. The small figure during June was explained by the fact that the April. May. June quarter is usually the lightest quarter of the year. Attention Called To Holiday Stops Attention was called again today of the businesses and public offices which will close on Saturday and Monday. Banks, building and loan, the post office, and the city hall will take July 4 as a holiday and the most of the business houses, mer chants, grocers and attaches at the court house will take Monday as a holiday. The county board of commission ers will meet on Tuesday instead of ‘first. Monday" and the board of education will mdefc Monday after noon. Three blessing at the same time came to Cleveland farmers today, one the copious showers of rain with promise of more and the other two in important announcements by the county agent County Agent Wilkins said early today that he has received instruc tions that his office will be allow ed to take in worksheets during the next few days. The signing will be done at his office and will be fur only a very limited tim;. The days of grace were allowed only because of the serious drought conditions. The second announcement is that officials of the new AAA have class ified this countv as being in the “drought area" of hi* southeastern United Stages and have ruled that farmers may “increase food and feed crops for their own home use without any penalty on their bene fit check they re to receive for di version to soil improvement crops ” Mr. Wilkins said this county has received a commendation from the state department for its efficient work in clearing up cotton adjust ment work. The local office nae sent in applications for the adjust ment payment of which **12.000 have been approved. A great par* of that money has been sent here and checks are coming in deily. More that! half the total has been paid. Poll* Open Here At 5:10; Close At 7:42 The polls for the second primary to be held Saturday In a run-off for three state officers, will open In Cleveland county at sun-up, 5:10 a. m. and close at sun-down, 7:42. Down on the coast of North Car olina where the sun rises and sets earlier in Us travel from the east to the west, the voters start thirty minutes earlier by the clock than their comrades in the west and the polls. therefore, close thirty mm*, atae earlier. Promise Of Relief Seen In Rainfall; Wallace Also Aids Southern Crops Bathe In Heavy Rain More Showers Promtoed Over Sooth And The East I Soon. ATLANTA, July 3.—(A*)—Heavy rainfall that bathed drought with* sred southern crops during the past 24 hours gave promise today of | continuing Into the weekend. ( Tennessee, Arkansas and north- < em Louisiana received the heaviest. ‘ The showers were general along a ! sweeping arc from the Texas coast to the Carolines and Virginia. ( Arkansas Dry. Among the forecasts, that of Ark* ansas alone predicted fair weather! The Atlanta weather bureau said there were no important changes In southern temperatures. Lack of rain still was reported from the east Gulf coast, southern Georgia, Florida, and Kentucky. It was Im possible to estimate the value of rains to farmers but It was figured millions In potential damage was halted even though it did little to cut an already established toll of 1150,000,000 damage suffered by crops in the drought stricken re gions. Duluth, Minnesota, July 3.—Re lief by rain and a three-fold pro gram of government aid cheered residents of drougth ravage agricul tural sections of the nation today. Rain Forecast. Showers fell in southern states and in the Great Lakes region. In many cases they meant the differ ence between a fair crop and none at all. Rain was forecast for the parched upper Mississippi valley but there was no moisture to soften the prairies of Minnesota and Dakotas, focal point* In the widespread drought. Secretary Wallace authorised fed eral purchase and procefarihg of up to 1 million head of distressed cat tle In north central states. It was Indicated extensive buying would not be necessary if drench ing rains come in the next fortnight. Works Progress Administrators in Minnesota, the Dakotas. Montana, and Wyoming completed plans for construction of farm to market roads and water conserving dams. Post Office Will Close On Saturday The post office will be closed to morrow, it was announced this morning. Mail will be put up In the boxes, but the windows will be clos ed and there will be no delivery on either the county or the city routes. Death Toll Rises MERIDA, Yucatan, July 3, (/F*>— The death toll of labor and political disorders rose to 18 today as fed eral troops paced capital streets. Three men and two police officers ! died in a 4-hour gun battle in Til lman after a political argument. Claims 73 Of 100 Counties Will Be In Hoey’s Column Envisions A Great State Witli Higher Paid Workers And Diversified Farming; Brands Falsehoods RALEIGH, July 3.—Nomination of Clyde R. Hoev by he largest majority ever accorded any candidate in a Dermo ratic primary in North Carolina is predicted by Hubert E. )live, state manager for the Shelby candidate for governor. 'I have no hesitation or reservation in making this forecast,” laid Mr. Olive. “It is based on reports from all parts of the itate and upon information received from the same sources vhich enabled me to prediet accurately She vote Mr. Hoey vould receive in the first primary.” 3 Hoey Friends Speak On Radio The flnei contact the name of Clyde B. Hoey will have with the radio-listening public in North Carolina during the present cam paign for the Democratic nom ination will be tonight from 1 to 11 o’clock over a state-wide hook-up. Mr. Hoey will not speak at that time, but three other per sona, Mrs. T. W. Biekett, R. N. Simms and State Manager Hu bert B. Olive will use the hour for the broadcast. All three will give personal endorsements of the surihy man and. reasons why voters should name him hi the election Saturday. L O. Hunter Dies In Spartanburg; Rites Saturday Husband of Former Miaa Fmttle Roberta of Shelby Succumbs To Illness L. O. Hunter, husbapd of the for ner Mias Pattie Roberts of Shelby, lied last night in Spartanburg, 'ollowing an illness of several nonbhs. Mr. Hunter was a native of Mecklenburg county but had lived n Spartanburg for a number of 'ears where he was traveling sales nan for the wholesale drug firm of Parke-Davls Co. He married Miss Pattie Roberta of Shelby ten years igo and she survives with two srothers, J. B. Hunter of Char otte and L. W. Hunter of Bartow, Pla., three sisters, Mrs. John M. Walker of Charlotte, Mrs. W. H. Pharr of Myrtle Beach, 8. C., and Miss Helen Hunter who lives with ier father. Dr. L. W. Hunter at Sardis in Mecklenburg county. Mrs. P. L. Hennessa of Shelby a also a half-sister of Mr. Hunter. Funeral services will be held Sat urday morning in Spartanburg and nterment will take place at Sardis ;hurch, his former home, in Meck enburg county. Attending the funeral from Shel ly are Capt. and Mrs. J. F. Roberts, Dr. Lewis Roberts, Misses Elizabeth Roberts and Mamie Cabaniss. Shelby Is A “Good Little City ” With No Crime In Police Report M crime, comes in wave*, the city v of Shelby Is now experiencing one 1; of the calmest lulls in the memory t of D. L. Willis and D. D. Wilkins, * police chief and desk sergeant. * For the first time in the memory of either in his experience as a t police ^officer, in a full month has e passed without the city of Shelby 1 with a population of 15,000 persons a having a single misdemeanor to [ report to Edgar Hoover, head O- t Man with the Department of Jus tice at Washington. r Furthermore there has not been c a single arrest for any cause up 1 to date this week. 1 All other Rrrests and trials which City officers have mad* {juringthe > month of June have for public t drunkenness and for petty cAmae r rhlch are not called for in a month r police report. There has been no aurder, arson, petty larceny or tajor larceny. ‘In fact,” Serg ant Wilkins said, ‘‘my sheet is en Irely clear.” There has been no liquor cap ured In June, although the oute rs have made numerous searches, tecords reveal that to date there re no fugitives wanted here, and olice are having such a little to do bey almost fear for their jobs. One observer said. “I think the eason Shelby has so few major rimes Is that we have a good po ce force and the criminal knows e wont get away.” Meanwhile, the chief feet that . may be a Htt-le abnormal and bat there'may be a "break" al >.ost any day. 1 When Mr. QMve, shovtojr befcre the June C votiog paedtoled that Mr. Hoey would toed Dr. McDonald most observers put tt down to the natural optimism of a aampaSgw manager, but whan return* from the potto shewed Mr. Oliva to be riuh-, he mtttied quite a reputation «s a pel; heal forecaster. According ly more than a little faith to being put in his latest prediction. As crmpalgn closes, it becomes obvious to most impartial observers that the McDonald drive reached Its peak some three weeks before the hrst primary and that the defeat of the Winston-Salem man in the first round seriously handicapped his second primary efforts. No where ha* lip been able, t o stir his followers to the same pitch of, al most religious real which animated many of them prior to the June Sth voting. As i result, canny political bookmakers are offering long odds that Mr. Hoey will win on July 4lh, though it Is conceded that uncer tainty exists by reason of the cn ticipated difficulty In getting a large vote to the pe lls on a day ordinarily set aside for holiday excursions and general u< reatlon. The c osing week of the campaign has seen Dr. McDonald making wilder and wilder claims with each new address. So reckless of the truth has he become that two of pits leading newspaper spo.irors, the News and Observer, of Raleigh, and the Vinston-Joumal and Benton el was forced to carry retractions and apologies fer one of his statements in v hfch he viciously attacked the banking deportment. noey supporters are awaiting the voting with full confidence in the result. They feel that McDonaldtam will be sunk beneath a wave of bal lots such as rarely has swamped a major candidate in North Carolina. The western counties, in which Mr. Hoey registered such tremendous Dluralitles on June Sth are even more enthusiastically for him now and a recent survey by John Bas Icerville, Raleigh news bureau head whose Impartiality is general recog nized, Indicates that Hoey will carry 52 of 56 counties west of Durham, and 25 of 44 east of the BuH city, leaving only 23 of the 100 North (Continued on page tan.) Election Returns At Star Office On Saturday Evening Primary election returns will be received at The Star office Saturday evening and announced over a public address system pro vided by Prank Conner. Pull Associated Press returns from all precincts in the State will be received with summaries as to the standing of the can didate for the three state offices every hour. Election officials in the 26 pre cincts of Cleveland county are asked to make prompt returns to The Star office. County re turns will be posted on the bul letin board. Interest is keen in Mr. Soap's candidacy and the public is In vited to The Star office to re ceive return# from the county and the state. As there is only one short state ballot, with candi dates for three state offices, the return# will be received much earlier than Us the first primary. I ■ I IH maw——Simps
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