Shelby Baseball Club Surrenders Franchise In Carolina Loop
WEATHER
jtprth Carolina: Cooler tonight
anr> Thursday, probably occa
s,on8l showers. Official Shelby
temperatures for last 24 hours,
Mlcen at 8 a. m. High 105, low 72.
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VOL. XLII, No. 92
Member of Associated Press
SHELBY, N. a WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
By M U. a*r mi, its umM) _ DJI *
Carrier, Mr mi. (la advance! _ H.N
SAN SEBASTIAN QUAKES UNDER REBEL CANNONADING
‘One-Eye* John Lutz,
Knife-Slayer To Face
First Degree Charge
Statement* From Wife And Daughter Say
Peeler Had Never Courted Lutz Girl;
Expect Trial Thi* Week
"One Eye” John Lutz will face a charge of murder in
the first degree for brutally stalling Forrest Peeler to death
near the Lutz home near Belwood Sunday afternoon.
It t likely that his case will come |
„p at this term of court. Lutz hasj
Mid to Sheriff Cline, “I want to be:
tried during this term of court and
gel. it over with.”
The 82 year old man who faces
a charge of murder in the first de-i
gree fame home from state prison
a few weeks ago after serving aj
term for cutting a Lincoln county
man three years ago. He claims in
prison to have been "conjured” or
••under a spell” and that his feet
hurt him badly. In his pockets were
found several hundred articles, in
eluding rabbits feet.
Peeler Never Courted Girl
Forrest Peeler, the 38 year old
jon of Mr. and Mrs. Will Peeler had
never "courted” the Lutz daughter
and had said less than a dozen
words to her in all her life, accord
ing to a signed statement made by
loth Mrs. Lutz and daughter.
Forrest Peeler never courted my
daughter. Her child was bom be
fore we knew there was a Forrest
Peeler in the world,” says Mrs. John
Luts, wife of the imprisoned man,|
1 was not acquainted with him. I'
Just knew him when I saw him,”
the writes.
Louie Lutz, unmarried daughter
of the man charged with first de
gree murder and mother of a child,
issues a signed statement saying:
“Forrest Peeler never came to see
me In his life. He was not the fath
er of my baby. He was not drink
ing when he passed our house that
evening. I just knew Forrest when
I *aw him. He never talked to me
over a dozen words in his life.”
Young Peeler had been calling on
another girl down the road with
some degree of regularity and Lutz
i* alleged to have made remarks
about the attention he was paying
another girl in the neighborhood.
Angry words followed and Lutz
tnshed info the house to get a
^e*?on, in company with young
w!er was Clause Towery Hoyle
and Lutz made a slash at Hoyle as
he emerged with a heavy-bladed
wny knife. When he returned to
yard he pursued Peeler into a
", where he overtook him,
elaroopd his head under his arm
and sobbed the youth in the heart.
^°e.er died shortly without making
any statement,
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It’s Sizzling Hot,
At 105 In Shelby
It was sizzling hot in Shelby
yesterday, in fact the hottest day
; of the summer, according to the
' official government recording
thermometers. The top was 105
; degrees, the low 72, indicated by
readings taken this morning at
8 o’clock.
People couldn’t sleep last
night. Many of them sat up and
fanned or sought cooler places
than a bed. Electric fans are in
demand, as well as cold drinks
and ice cream.
Crops are suffering badly un
der the burning sun. All field
crops and gardens are wilting
and growing sick. The weather
man is somewhat encouraging
when be predicts cooler weather
this afternoon with probable
showers in the west on Thurs
day.
Superior Court
Clearing Docket
For Murder Trial
Seek Way To Get To Blakeny And
Loti Capital Cases This
' Week.
Superior court kept pace with the
warm weather today and was rap
idly clearing the docket of minor
cases in order to reach the first
degree murder trial of John Lutz
who killed Forrest Peeler at Bel
wood Sunday afternoon.
One other murder case will take
the time of the court efther Thurs
day or Friday morning, that of Eva
Mae Blakeny who shot and killed
another negro woman about two
months ago.
The only sentence of any serious
importance, this morning was in
giving M. M. Smith a year and Ar
thur Clemmons 18 months in the
pen for forgery. Lloyd Richards
who was being tried along with the
former two was given a "not guil
ty” verdict by the jujry.
Tuesday’s Session
In the Tuesday session of court
Roy Hopper got 18 months for lar
ceny; Jim Hall got a two year sen
tence on a similar charge.
A case which was largely St
tended and on which the interest
of the Fallston-Belwood section was
centered was the clearing up of the
robbers about two months ago of
(Continued on page twelve.)
Financial Losses
Become Too Great
For Club Owners
To Forfeit Remainder
Of Games
League Will Probably FtnMli
Season With Only
Seven Clubs
The Shelby Cee Cees, semi
pro baseball club, this morn
ing surrendered their fran
chise in the Carolina league
in a surprise move which was
the result of continued loss
es both financially and in the
matter of games.
A seife of managers from other
clubs in the league upon Shelby
this morning indicated that a ma
jority of the local players would
have little trouble obtaining jobs
in the league. Valdese, at eleven
o’clock this morning, had signed
Murray and Brannon in addition
to Amette and Hasty. Hickory took
on McGaughy, Perkins, Ruble and
Larson, and Skipper Cnlbreth said
he wanted one or two more. Other
clubs were making telephone calls
to the various players at noon try
ing to obtain their services.
J. W. Gardner, president of the
club, said this morning: "We’ve
been losing too much money this
year, and we can’t afford to con
tinue at the present rate far four
or five more weeks.”
The remainder of games in the
league will be forfeited, it was re
ported after the league president
in Charlotte, Gene Lawing, Indi
cated that no other team had ex
pressed the desire of Joining the
league.
The sudden decision to give up
(Continued on page twelve.)
Recreation Heads
Open Playground
At Marion School
Plans for an additional major
unit in the recreational set-up un?
der the WPA were announced to
day saying that a playground,
workshop and with other features
will be opened Monday at the Mar
ion school grounds.
The new project is being sanc
tioned by the board of education
and recreation leaders have scout
ed around and have found some
antiquated equipment which will be
repaired and some new pieces add
ed, with supervisors in charge of
plays from 8:30 until 11:30 in the
mornings and from 2:30 until S
o’clock in the evening.
Mrs. Pansy Fetzer who has gen
eral charge of the recreation pro
gram said there will be softball,
tennis and other games. Smaller
children will have slides and
swings and sandpiles to play on. In
the basement of the school build
ing will be a workshop which is to
be adequately equipped.
She said today that the recrea
tion program in the entire county
last week had a total of 2,200 in at
tendance. There are ten instruc
tors at present with a possibility
of more when the new certification
has been initiated.
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South Carolina To Pave Road
From State Line To Gaffney
Bids will be received in Col um-1
bia, S. C., on August 11th for sur-<
face treating highway No. Ill from
the state line to Gaffney In Cher*
okee county, thus fulfilling an
agreement fnade by the South
Carolina Highway department a
number of years ago when North
Carolina’s Highway No. 18 was
built from Shelby to the state
line.
When this link is completed,
Shelby and the area in this part
of North Carolina will have an all
weather road to Gaffney, where
there is a connection with the ;
Bankhead highway No 29 running
north and south.
The project calls for bituminous
surfacing of 7073 miles from a
point near Gaffney to the North
Carolina state line. Work to be
done consists of about 95,000
cubic yards of excavation, 83,000
square yards of bltuminus surfac
ing and Incidental items Including
clearing and grubbing, overhaul
ing, scarifying, mixing and Shaping
and drainage structures.
At the same time the surfacing
contract will be let, another pro
ject calls lor the erection of a 106
foot bridge over Cherokee creek
approximately 2.5 miles northeast
of Gaffney, requiring approximate
ly 250 cubic yards of cement con
crete, 56.500 ponds of reinforcing
steel, etc. '»,
Cleveland Cleared $1,000
Last Year New AuditShows
Reveals That All Departments Except Hos
pital Kept Within Budget; Building
Achievements Are Cited
Cleveland county made $4,149.92 last year.
That sum is exactly the amount this county had in the
treasury as of July 1 over and above the amount in the treas
ury at the same time last year, according to an audit which
is virtually complete, it was revealed today.
The audit shows that the county
now has on hand $104,878.17 and
that last year at the same time had
$103,528.85.
Every department of county ex
penditures stayed within the
bounds of its allotted budget, with
the exception of the hospital which
was appropriated $11,000 and spent
$22,759, the extra money going into
the new building erected this year.
The funds were taken from a sur
plus which the hospital had on
hand.
General Pond
The general fund was allotted
$49,650 and spent $45,841.66; the
poor fund, allotted. $24,280 and
spent $22910.34; road bonds and in
terest, $38,200 as allotted; bridge
bonds and interest, $16,269, includ
ing discounts, as allotted.
Total figures for school expendi
tures have not been ascertained, but
the auditor said it was somewhat
static, as the amount of fines and
forfeitures which go to this fund,
varies but will range in the neigh
borhood of $60,000, directly from the
county.
It was learned that the county
would have a very comfortable sur
plus indeed, had the county not
met expense In helping to build the
new county community house and
the county agricultural building.
The sum of $2,300 was given those
objects from last year’s budget.
Auditor E. W. Smith, certified
accountant from Lenoir, was high
ly complimentary in telling of the
good condition of the records of
Auditor Troy McKinney, Treasurer
Mrs. Lillian Newton, Sheriff Ray
mond Cline, Reglstar Andy New
ton and other records he had to
examine.
Lattimore Road Difficulty
Ends With 2 Routes Chosen
The long standing road controv
ersy over the routing of a highway
between Lattimore and Boiling
Springs has ended and both ‘ the
“west route” and the “east route”
will be graded and surface treated,
it was learned this morning from
Representative Ernest Gardner.
Mr. Gardner and Wythe Royster
visited Road Commissioner Ed Al
len at Lenoir yesterday and had
assurances from him that there will
be a complete loop from the June
Lovelace home by way of the John
McBrayer home across highway No.
74 into Lattimore by the Baptist
church, thence from a point near
the Lattimore school house back
across highway No. 74 the “east
route” via George Hamrick’s diary
and Pleasant Ridge to the June
Lovelaoe road fork. Prom the Love
lace farm, there will be one road
south into Boiling Springs.
When Mr. Gardner was asked if
Commissioner Allen had final au
thority in the matter, he replied,
“the solution of the road problem
has been left in Mr. Allen’s hands
by the commission and he assured
us that the complete loop will be
built. He promised to notify J. C.
Walker, district engineer, today to
begin the surfacing of these two
routings as soon as possible.”
The loop road will give an en
trance from the east into Latti
more and Boiling Springs and an
entrance from the west at the two
points where the loop road will
cross federal highway No. 74 .
Mr. Walker says surfacing will
begin as soon as the entire loop
route is topsoiled.
Rev. Claude Moser
To Lead Revival
Tba Rev. Claude Moser of Gas
tonia, presiding elder of the Gas
tonia district will come to Cleve
land county Monday night to con
duct a series of revival services to
be held next week at El Bethel
Methodist church.
The meeting will be opened Sun
day morning, at the regular !1
o'clock service, by the pastor, Rev.
J. N. Wise, who will also conduct at
the Sunday evening service. There
will be no service Monday morn
ing but after the arrival of Pre
siding Elder Moser Monday evening
there will be services twice dally
throughout the remainder of the
week.
Members of El Bethel church will
welcome friends from all over the
county to join with them in these
services and enjoy the privilege of
bearing the Rev Mr Moser.
Cleveland Grew
Garden “Sass”
Worth $146;608
Anyone have peas, beans, toma
toes, onions, other truck and vege
tables?
Apparently someone wanted such
truck and vegetables last year in
the county according to a report
Just issued by the Bureau of Cen
sus in announcing the results of a
survey in the county.
Cleveland county with 3,258
farms included in the survey pro
duced truck crops and garden veg
etables worth $146,608 on which a
number of farms produced mark
etable quantities.
Of these 75 produced beans, 10
cabbages, 59 sweet com, 51 tomatoes,
164 watermelons, 112 all other veg
etables besides Irish and sweet po
tatoes.
Comparative figures from three
nearby counties are given:
The 2,380 fanners in Gaston coun
ty who planted vegetable crops re
ceived an estimated return of $77,
993. Watermelon was the favored
crop in Gaston county since 379
farmers had 354 acres in that veg
etables.
Cabarrus—Farms, 1,980; crop
value, $64,328 ; 50 farms produced
beans; 22 cabbage; 57 sweet corn;
63 tomatoes; 77 watermelons; and
77 all other vegetables except Irish
and sweet potatoes.
Lindon—Farms, 2,546; crop value,
$108,607; 38 farms produced beans;
20 cabbage; 23 sweet com; 42 toma-|
toes; 44 watermelons: and 46 all
other vegetables except Irish and
sweet potatoes.
Mkc Bridges, 81,
Is Buried Monday
funeral services for Mitt Amanda
Bridges, 81-year-old resident of the
Sandy Plains community were held
&t her home church Monday after
noon at 2:30 following her death
Sunday morning after a brief ill
ness.
Miss Bridges was the oldest mem
ber, from the point of membership,
in her church, lacking only a lit
tle having been a member for 70
years. She Joined at the age of 12
years. Pinal rites were in charge of
Rev. Lawrence Roberts and Rev.
Rush Padgett.
jfer death came at the home of
her only brother, Rev. J. D. Bridges.
A sister, Mrs. A. Z Price lives at
Garner Pallbearers were nephews
and flower bearers were nieces.
Sheriff Pledges
Self To Solution
Of Clevenger Case
Thinks Gaddy Knows
Much More
H May Take Lone Time; Still
Believes Gaddy Should
"Talk.”
ASHEVILLE, July 39.—<JP>—Sher
iff L. E. Brown today renewed hi*
prediction that the Helen Cleven
ger murder mystery, now almost
two weeks old, would be solved. He
said, “We are still going to solve
this ease. It’s going to be a diffi
cult job and may take a long
time.”
He Mamed much of the difficul
ty on the fact that his office was
not notified until almost two hours
after the girl's body was found in
her hotel room here the morning
of July 1«.
Sheriff Brown, who took charge
of the baffling case two hours after
the shot and beaten body of the
co-ed was found in her room at the
Battery Paifc hotel, has released
the other prisoner, L. D. Roddy,
negro elavator operator.
Sheriff Brown, who said Gaddy
is the “key to this whole mystery,
although he suspected him of no
part in the actual crime, did not in
timate how long he expected to re
tain the night watchman.
"I think Gaddy is still the key
to this mystery,” the sheriff said.
"When he talks—and I think may
be hell talk soon—we shall solve
this crime.”
Roddy was taken into custody a
week ago. The sheriff did not ex
plain why until yesterday when he
said, "I think he knows something.”
He emphasised, however, he did not
suspect the negro of the crime.
The sheriff released the negro
after a conference with the pris
oner's father, who obtained a law
year earlier in the day with the
view of instituting habeas corpus
proceedings.
Florida Storm
May Curve Back
MIAMI. Fla., July 20.—<#>—The
weather bureau said at 11:30 a. m.
a tropical storm in the Gulf of
Mexico off Florida’s lower west
coast, now apparently has attained
hurlcane intensity over a mtii
area.
The bureau warned persons In
low places against high tides and
predicted strong gales poesiblly
reaching hurricane force on the
Florida west coast late today.
MIAMI, Fla., July 39.—{JP}—'The
tropical storm which cut across ex
treme southern Florida during the
night without doing serious dam
age showed signs today of recurv
ing toward the Florida west coast
and increasing to hurricane inten
sity. Storm warnings were up from
Fort Pierce on the Atlantic side,
around the tip of Florida to a
point just south of Carrabelle on
the northwest Gulf coast.
Strong southeast to east winds
were forecast for the gulf coast
late today. The weather bureau
said the wind might reach hurri
cane force.
Fascists, Loyalists
Launch Fresh Drives
To Gain More Control
Government Begins Purge Of Enemies From
Within; Confiscate Schools, Property;
148 Americans In Madrid
(B.v Thr Aaoriatrd Press)
The seacoast city of San Sebastian trembled under re
newed canonading today and a Spanish government subma
rine was reported sunk by a rebel seaplane as fresh drives
for control in Spain’s civil war were launched by Fascists
and loyalists. To speed its work of crushing the revolt the
government initiated a purge of its enemies from within.
Death Unsolved
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Tfala is a hitherto unpublished pic
ture of Helen Clevenger, 19, New
York co-ed, who was found slain in
an Asheville, N. C., hotel room. The
authorities have been unable to
pierce the veil of mystery which
surrounds the crime.
Met. Woods Sails
Today For Cruise
Mrs. Robert U. Woods sails today
from New Orleans, Louisiana, on a
two weeks cruise to Cuba, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Panama. Mr. Woods
was unavoidably detained from
making the trip at the last moment
due to pending business.
Hie trip was awarded Mr. and
Mrs. Woods by the Protective Life
Insurance company, for which com
pany Mr. Woods is southeastern
representative. Mr. Woods led the
production of the entire group de
partment of the company during
1935.
Gives “Girl'sEye View"OfHou>
4H Short Coarse Really Works
A girl’s eye view of the 4-H
Short Course held at Raleigh which
ended Monday is described today by
Miss Mary Ann Scott, club reporter
from Falls ton, which club won a
banner for having the best record
in the state. She says:
“There were 640 4-H Club mem
bers registered, representing 71
North Carolina counties, and a
large number of home and farm
agents and other leaders at the 1936
Short Course which was held last
week* the total in attendance being
well over 700, - C
The entire campus at Stale! Col
lege was for our use, and after the
registration on Wednesday, sup
per was served at the college caf
eteria, an informal program con
ducted by L. R. Harrlll, state club
leader, a one-act play presented by
a Gaston county group at Riddick
field.
“Miss Beatrice Rtmmer of Iredell
county, president of the State
Council, presided at the first as
sembly on Thursday morning at
which we met welcomes by Col, J.
W. Hurrelson and Dean I. O.
Schaub, followed by team, demon
strations with Mias Ruth Currant
in charge These were "Table Serv
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i To wipe out teachings which
j Leftists considered reactionary and
I inimical to their cause the govern
ment ordered coralflcatipn of all
remaining Catholic schools, colleges
and universities. As liberal militia
marched on Fascist dominated areas
the government claimed the re
volutlo nhad colapsed but Fascists
commanders predicted the fall of
Madrid with completion of military
maneuvers intended to drive a
wedge between the strategic and
Leftist-held cities of Barcelona and
Madrid.
Towns Captured
Capture of the coasul towns of
San Roque and Latino* was an
nounced and a fresh drive was or
dered on Zaragoza In the north and
Cordoba, Granada and 8evllle in
the south. In turn, rebel reinforce
ments sped to Zaragoza with or
ders to oppose government on
slaught and cut land connections
between Barcelona and Madrid.
Two lighthouse officials at Gi
braltar reported they witnessed the
sinking of a government submarine
C-3 by a rebel plane.
In Mountains
Leftists still dominated the
Guadarrma mountains, the gate
way to Madrid, but Loyalists began
to admit the fighting would last
longer than they had anticipated.
Leftists slew a dozen rebel air
men In destroying seven airplanes.
Washington advices said 14S
Americans, still stranded in Mad
rid, were prepared to board trains
tomorrow to reach the Cruiser
Quincy in Alicante harbor.
Three Americans, including Itath
erine Hayward of Columbia, B. C„
•left. Madrid for Valencia on their
own responsibility. An American
woman, wounded last week In
northern Spain, was identified as
Mrs. Fernando Gallardo, daughter
of Col. D. B. McKay, editor of the
Tampa, Florida, Times.
J. H. Carpenter
Buried Monday
At New Prospect
Seventy Year Old Mason Who
Worked 25 Yean for
Seaboard.
Funeral services were held at
New Prospect church Monday
morning at H o’clock for Jessie
Hill Carpenter, a well known farm'
er of that section, who died Sun
day morning, July 26, at his home
on the Waco-Shelby highway. Ha
was bom March 23, 1854 and lived
to be 78 years, four months and
three days of age. At the age of 20
years he joined New Prospect
church where he remained a faith
ful member until death.
Mr. Carpenter was married la
Rebecca Elisabeth Heavner* on De
cember 7, 1881 To this union were
bom 10 children, seven of whom
are still living Two infant daugh
ters and one son, Charlie, preced
ed him to the grave. Surviving are
his devoted companion and the
following children: Mrs. A. G.
White of Sharon, S. C., Will, An
drew, Lee, Clyde and John Car
penter and Mrs. Lloyd Stroup, all
i of Cleveland county. Also surviving
are 18 grandchildren and four
great grandchildren and one broth
er. A. C. Carpenter of Boone
He was a' member of the Meson!*
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