WEATHER
v c Partly cloudy tonight
t.d Thursday, possibly showers
n«r coast slightly warmer.
" official Shelby temperatures:
High 85, low M. Rainfall 192.
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SHELBY, N. CL WEDNESD’Y, AUG. 12, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
REGULATIONS,
, UNDER pwa
HURT
May Cost County
4 Major Projects
To l»« Belief Labor
Maf Delay Or Rule Out
Many Projects.
The present regulations re
pfefag that labor for all Pub
^ Work? projects, whether it
M of the skilled, common, or
i^mi-skilled type, must come
local relief rolls, is ser
iously hampering the PWA
program in this county and
in all North Carolina, a com
munication from state head
quarters said today.
Tt would seem that the present
palkff discriminates against many
ami-skilled and skilled men who
i_
Alter 19
I
president Boosdjdt today clari
fied a mistmdtaWKiding in re
gard to employing!' relief labor on
pqbix- Work* administration
projects.
He SKpl&ined that the 46 per
eent of the total cost alloted b
the government must, be spen
for labor from the relief rolls.
Moreover, be explained thai
web relief labor need not come ,
from the immediate locality in
Thieh the project* is located,
but mv bedrafted from nearby
areas where the labor is avail
able.
ire unemployed and are registered
vttfc the Unemployment Service,
tat who are not on relief." it was
tad.
Srave fears are being voiced here
that, unlees there is some provision
side for labor, the Shelby and
Kings Mountain project* listed un
to the PWA, may never be com
pleted. There is a $235,000 power
plant a $150,000 high school build
ing, and a $212,000 public improve
ment project here and a $94,000
•treet Improvement project approv
ed In Kings Mountain.
Survey Showa.
A survey here Indicated that
there are less than 300 persons who
on relief now working under
the WPA, and there sre very few
more, even if they were certified
The could work under the PWA
program,
There is actually a. labor short
«•» for skilled and semi-skilled per
WB* hi the county.
Over The State.
A survey just made by Dr. H. G.
8»iU. state PWA director at Chap
^ shows that there are now on
pi* * Washington and Chapel Hill,
FWA applications that have been
281602 for schools.
Morning Cotton
letter
markets
Confessor Of Co- Eld Slaying
Left to right are Sheriff I* Brown, Martin Moore, hotel bell-hop, and
Detective John J. Qninn of New York, after the arrest of Moore (inset)
who, the police say, has “confessed” the shooting of Helen Clevenger,
pretty Staten Island, N. Y., co-ed.
rloey Will Go To Raleigh
For Meeting Of Committee
Will Make Public Announcement Of Choice
For Democratic State Chairman;
It Still Undecided
Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic nominee for Governor, will
leave for Raleigh Friday in order to be in the capital city
when the 132 members of the State Democratic Executive
committee meet Friday night.
Mr. Hoey is not planning to at
tend the meeting, he said today. But
he will be m Raleigh during, its
duration. O. M. Mull Is the member
from Cleveland county.
When asked about the next state
Democratic chairman, Mr. Hoey
said “I haven’t definitely decided
yet, and probably won’t until tomor
row or Friday. I have been in touch
with' certain parties throughout the
state, but as yet know nothing def
inite.
“I will probably make public my
recommendation Friday.”
The recommendation of th$ gub
jernatorial candidate for the chair
! man and vice-chairman la almost
Leauvatent to M* elect ion tar the
I committee.
j Mr. Hoey said this morning that
no definite plans had been made
for the campaign which will open
about the middle of September. ‘‘As
■soon as the chairman and vice
chairman are chosen, we will begin
making plans. Headquarters will
probably be opened about the first
of September, and the campaign
will get underway about the mid
(Continued on page ten)
Sale Of $52,000 In Bonds
Set New Low Rate Few City
Preparing Lots
For Parking Space
Preparations of a number of up
town parking lots is being car
ried out' by the city this week, as
preliminary work to beginning
the one-hour parking limit
around the square.
The lots are located for the
most part in the block back of
Cohens and Wrays stores, the
Charles hotel, and back of the
Shelby hotel. They are being
cleared of all rubbish and will
be leveled and graveled. Stone
dust will be placed on the sur
face, providing an excellent
place for parking.
The mayor and chie^ of police
said when they are completed a
deadline will be set to begin the
one-hour regulation during busi
ness hours, for the busiest part
of the city.
Rock of Gibraltar credit for the
city of Shelby was reflected yester
day afternoon at Raleigh when the
local government commission sold
$52,000 worth of city public improv
ments bonds at a recordbreaking
interest rate and with a premium
of $37,10.
The first $36,000 of the bonds
were sold at the given premium
rate and will bear interest of three
and one half percent, with the
remainder to bear a rata of three
percent.
The bonds were sold through
the R. S. Dixion Company and the
| money recieved will be used for the
contribution of the public improve
j nient program now underway here.
Mayor Woodson and other city
I officials were delighted that the
I bonds commanded such a low in
i terest rate.
On July 1 the city of Shelby had
an assessed valuation of $8,076,841
with a bonded indebtedness of
(Continued on page ten)
Mystery Of Chandelier Cleared;
Deputies Find Unique Hide-Out
The mystery of the chandelier
and the light that wouldn’t burn
was cleared by county deputies to
day.
And after clearing the mystery,
the officers showed 21 half pints
and a full pint of bottled m bond
liquor, all taken from an ingenious
safe, of which the chandelier and
light were the door. A little screw
allowed it to turn aside as a hinge.
For several days officers had no
ticed that the Tom Yarboro filling
station near nere was a dispensary
of a sort of power that got the boys
“ail lit up,” but they had been un~
aoie to find where it was caciied.
The sharp eyes of, Gus Jolley I
noticed that one light, in the up
pers room wouldn't burn, and that
there seemed to be no switch for
it. A tall stool ana a screwanver
turned the trick. He was aided by
Deputies Hoyle, McKinney and
Hamrick Trial 1s to be by recorder
and jury on September 1.
In court today Prank Cook of
near Kings Mountain drew six
months on the roads for stealing
roasting ears from T. M. Ellison.
Two cases of roasting ears stealing
were tried last week.
George Phillips and Dwight Ham*
rick appeared on charges of assault
and profanity. The former is al
leged to have threatened the latter
with an axe. Ju/ ment was post
poned
Erble Cogdell was found guilty
of drunken driving, find $S0 and
the costs, with license suspended
ior three months.
RACIAL STRIFE
IN ALABAMA
SERIOUS
Stake Soldiers
Called To Scene
Negro Is Lodged In Birming
ham; Two National Guard
Companies There.
By Associated Press
ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 12.
—Threatened racial strife
brought one hundred state
soldiers into Calvin county to
day while a negro* accused of
shooting three white posse
men, was jailed in Birming
ham for safe keeping.
Two companies of national
guardsmen from Birmingham ILnd
Jacksonville were stationed at the
latter place.
Admits Shooting
Art Bush, wanted in the shoot
ing of Pat Hicks, Albert Hicks and
Forney Martin, was quoted by chief
deputy Ed L. Summers, as admit
ting he fired into a group which
came to his house near here Mon
day night.
, Last night was one of deep ap
prehension throughout the Annis
ton district which has seen state
troops called out five times since
July IS when a negro attacked a
farm wife.
Placed in Jail
Bush's wife and her five children
were placed in the Anniston jail
after th* woman told authorities
she had been threatened with
hanging unless she told armed
troops the names of other negroes
thought by her ques«oners to have
been in her house Monday night.
She said she was afraid her
house would be burned “with me
and my children in it.” The Bush
bam burned yesterday.
U. 3. Win Refrain
From Spam’s War
WASHINGTON, Aug.
The intention of the United States
government to “scrupulously refrain
from any interference whatsoever
in the unfortunate Spanish situa
tion” was announced today by the
state department.
This attitude was promulgated in
the publication of instructions sent
to all American representatives in
Spain on August 7 by William Phil
lips, acting secretary of state.
While asserting that the Ameri
can neutrality law prohibiting as
sistance to warring nations does not
apply to the Spanish civil war,
Phillips said that the United States
intended to conform with its “well
established policy of non-interfer
ence with internal affairs in other
countries, either in time of peace
or civil strife.”
In making public the instructions,
the state department revealed that
they had been the basis of its re
ply to certain undentifled Ameri
can aviation companies who had
been approached with tentative of
fers from Spain and had asked the
department’s advice before closing
negotiations.
Build 4 Roads
In This Section
t
A bulletin from the State High
way and Public Works Commission
shows the following roads in this
section under construction:
U. S. 2fl: Kings Mountain to
South Carolina line, 8.0 miles of
bituminous surface treatment to be
completed August 18. Detour via
York and Blacksburg; 45 miles
hard-surfaced.
N. C. 73: Newton to Toluca, 12.6
miles of topeOil surfacing to be
completed September 15. Detour via
Lincolnton; 32 miles hard-sur
faced.
N. C. 96; Hickory to Toluca, 5.98
miles bituminous surface treatment
to be completed August 20. Detour
over county road; 13 miles sand
clay.
Lincolnton to Reepsville <county
road) 5.6 miles topsoil surfacing to
be completed October 1. Traffic
maintained; drive carefully
—
Sulphur Springs
Revival To Open
(Special to The Star.)
The revival service* at Sulphur
Springs will begin Sunday night at
H p. ui. There will be no service
Sunday morning. The evening serv
ice will be under the direction of
the Rev. R. M. Courtney,
i Likewise there will be no serv
tees Monday morning, but services
will be held earh evening at a p m
and each morning at 10 a. m. after
that,
i
Wins Again
JOSEPH T. ROBINSON
Above is Senator Joseph T. Robin
son. of Arkansas, who Is leading by
two to one fn his race for renom -
ination in the Democratic prlfary.
Murder, Burglary
ChargedToMoore;
To Plead Insanity
Trial To Begin Wednesday Under
Don Phillips; Allow No
Pictnres
ASHEVILLE, Aug. 12—</P>—Solic
itor Zeb Nettles said today Martin
Moore, negro, would be called to
trial next Wednesday morning In
Buncombe county superior court for
the slaying of Helen Clevenger.
The solicitor said the former hall
boy at the Battery Park hotel
would be charged with murder and
first degree burglary, both of which
would demand the death penalty.
Nettles explained that Moore,
who, Sheriff Laurence Brown said,
confessed Sunday to the slaying,
will be arraigned Monday after the
grand Jury has drawn up the in
dictment.
The possibility that attorneys for
Moore, may base his defense on an
insanity plea arose here yesterday.
It was learned that Thomas A.
Jones, Jr., and J. Scroop Styles, the
latter added during the day to the
defense staff, plan to obtain an or
der from Judge Don Phillips, pre
siding In superior court here, to al
low two defense alienists to ex
amine the negro as to his sanity.
Ready For Trial
“We will be ready for trial next
week," Mr. Styles said, silencing re
ports that the defense attorneys
might not have their side of the
case in sufficient shape to defend
Moore at that time.
Judge Phillips, who is presiding
at a civil term of superior court
here now and will sit at the crim
inal term beginning next Monday,
will not allow photographers to
make pictures In the courtroom
while the trial is in progress.
Photographers will be permitted
to make as many pictures as they
wish before court convenes, during
recesses and after adjournment.
Astor Compromise
Appears Certain
LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Aug. 12.
After a night of conferences
Attorney Joseph Anderson, rep
resenting Dr. Franklyn Thorpe,
said today a settlement of the
marital dispute between Thorpe
and his wife appeared to be
approaching a settlement.
Anderson said he was pre
pared to go into court for a
continuation of the trial of the
case which involves the custody
of the couple’s four-year-old
daughter, Maryln.
An abrupt end to the
series of dismlosures produced
by Actress Mary Astor's child
custody case seemed immient
today through compromise, a
development for which an ex
cited film colony watched
Assurances were given by at
torneys for Miss Astor and her
former husband. Dr. Franklin
Thorpe, of definite headway
toward a .settlement which
would change the custody of
tour-iyear old M&ryin ' Thorpe
so that Miss Astor shall have
i at least partial custody.
Keyed to a pitch it had not
experienced since Director Wil
liam Edward Taylor was mys
teriously shot i» awaited devel
opments with intense interest.
LET CONTRACT
FOR ROAD TO
GAFFNEY
7 Mile Stretch
Will Be Paved
Spartanburg; Contractors Get
Award; Contemplated
For Year*.
A hard-surfaced road be
tween Shelby and Gaffney—a
project contemplated since
North Carolina extended a
road to the South Carolina
line years ago—is at last to be
realized. The contract for the
new stretch of road was let in
Columbia yesterday.
Pennell and Harley. Inc . of Spar
tanburg were the low bidders on
the project, their bid being $02,
419.56 for .seven mile* of bitumin
ous surfacing on S. 8. highway No.
Ill, which la the aama a* North
Carolina No. 10.
Several year* ago. North Caro
lina constructed a hard-surfaced
road to the South Carolina line. It
being understood at that time that
the sister state would also build a
similar road from Oaffney to the
North Carolina line.
Yet one delay after another pre
vented the accomplishment of this
plan, and the road remained gravel
surface.
Finally Arranged
Untiring efforts on the part of
certain local eltisens, highway of
ficials. and a few Oaffney business
men finally arranged the project.
It is not known Just when the
construction will start. Grading
will be necessary before the sur
face can be laid down.
Among the contracts let in Col
umbia yesterday was another
Cherokee project, g 010,270.47 bridge
project over Cherokee Creek which
was awarded to Wannamaker and
Wells of Orangeburg.
Polkvitle Plant
Community Fair
At a meeting this week of feed
ers of ell community organisations
In the Polkvllfe community a decis
ion was reached to have a Polkvllfe
Community Pair again thU year.
The date Is set now as October 2
and 3.
There had been some discussion
of discontinuing the fair this year
on account of the extremely dry
weather and tha lateness of the
crops.
A difference in the fair this year
will be that all persons In the com
munity will be allowed to enter ex
hibits. Last year it was limited en
tirely to students.
Tentative plans call for riding
devices, an address by some well
known speaker In the state, and an
amateur night for the expression of
local talent.
Officers will probably be elected
in a few days.
N. Y. A. Officials
Distribute Funds
(By the Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 13.—
Distributing $10,863,000 among the
states for aid to students not other
wise able to attend school, officials
of the National Youth Administra
tion said today that additional
funds probably would be given later
to states where drought has im
poverished farm families.
A list of conferences scheduled
Included South Carolina, August 14.
Allotments to states included
North Carolina $186,000; South
Carolina $175,000.
Borah And Robinson
Lead; Presidential
Fight Tops Politics
Arkansas And Idaho Veterans Apparently
Renominated; Townsendite In Florida
Becomes Nominee
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D. August 12.—A stream of pri
mary ballots with tho two nationally prominent senators
commanding the leads for renomination and a burqt of argu
ments in the presidential campaign featured today’s politics.
Raleigh Comments
On Local Phones
In the "Under the Dome" col
umn of yesterday's Raleigh News
and Observer, the followtnK
paragraph about telephones In
small cities appeared:
"Use of the telephone In small
towns has a neighborly quality
that city folks miss. For Instance,
a reporter In Raleigh called
Clyde R. Hoey In 8helby yester
day. The operator rang No. 282.
" ‘Mr. Hoey 1* not here.' said a
voice at 282. This Is hts office 1
saw him standing In front of,the
drug store a few minutes ago.
He may be still there. Try 88. If
you don't get him there, try 116.
I saw his daughter drive down
the street and she may have
taken him home.'
“The operator tried 65 Sure
enough, she got her party. Just
through with his afternoon Coca
Cola, the next governor of North
Carolina stood in the drug store
and conversed with Raleigh as
frealy as If he had been behind
his own desk."
Efforts To Crush
Spanish Rebels On
Northern Seaboard
BlUer Fighting Between Govern
ment And Rebel Forces; With
out Water And Power.
By The Associated Press
8pain’s northern Seaboard was
the focal point toda yfor the gov
ernment’s drive to crush the fas
cist revolution in the face of an at- j
tack by the rebels to break through!
to the sea.
Madrid looked upon prospective
capture of the rebel stronghold
Ociedo In the northwest as the be
ginning of a."turn" in Its efforts to
crush the rebellious forces.
Immediate atacka on Cordoba and
Granada In southern Spain were
scheduled. The government said
rebels In Cordoba, Granada and
Seville had been without electric
ity and water for 34 days.
Dispatches from Tangier Indicat
ed that most of the rebels, under!
Generalissimo Franglsco Franco j
were under orders to begin a major j
drive from Madrid.
Most bitter fighting between gov
ernment and rebel forces’, debat
ing with shell and rifle fire the
procession of the Bay of Biscay,
appeared to be taking place in the
San Sebastian Vicinity.
Men and women, sympathetic
with Madrid, fought side by side
to defend It against Fascist ad
vance.
At Burgas rebel forces announc- j
ed government militia had aban
doned San Sebastian In the face of
rebel onslaughts.
Cleveland Murderer Branded
“M”In Palm Of Hand,-In 1848
The acrid smell of burning hu
man flesh pervaded the courtroom
of Cleveland county.
Downs of inquisitive and mor- i
bidly curious witnesses looked on
with apparent ease and saw the
sheriff actually brand with a red
hot iron the letter “Min the palm
of John Prier's hand.
And John Prier. who had killed
a mail, he said In self-defense
dosed his eyea and clench his teeth
and bore the pain which made the
scar which he was to carry to his
grave.
He had asked for benefit of clergy ;
and had received It. after a jury i
; chosen from a special venire of 75
niilty of a felony as charged, but
ruUty of a felony of manslaughter.”
and had recommended that he be
branded, and the Judge, the Hon
William H. Battle, Esq. had decreed
it to be so.
Tha above acene actually took
place in the Cleveland coThity court
house on June 1, 1848. At that time
D. C. Durham was clerk and the
following names appeared on the
jury Some men by the same names
—poaeibiy grandsons of the men
live in the county now; Bartlett
Crowder, Abraham Crowder, Baidy
Williamsou, Lewis Hamilton, Chas,
Hendrick. Thomas McKeely, Aaron
Beam. William McDaniPl, Lewis
Gardner. Bamue! Paterson James
Wray and Joseph Lattimore.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson Of
Arkansas. Democratic leader, and
(hr veteran Republican leader, Wtl
liHm E. Bnrah, of Idaho, built up
big margins over their opponents
'vith Townaendlte becking, while In
Florida, C. O. Andrews, bearing the
Townsend club endorsement, Wnh a
Democratic senatorial nomination.
Gets * To 1
In the Arkansas returns Robin
son obtained better than two to
one margin over his two rival*
Tabulations of votes from 1,310
out of 3,186 precincts gave Robin
son 80,863; Cleveland Holland.
Townsend plan advocate, 19,608 and
Rosser Venable. Little Rock, 11,
826.
Unofficial returns front 381 of the
state's 830 precincts in yesterday's
primary gave for the Republican
nomination for U. S. senator: Bor
ah 21,485, Byron Defenbach 6,818.
Unofficial returns from 303 pre
cincts gave for the Democratic
nomination for ‘governor. C. Ben
Ross 13,569, John Carver, 8,778.
Down in Florida former Gover
nor Carlson conceded victory to
Andrews, a former circuit judge.
They contended In e special pri
mary for the nomination to sue
ceed the late Park Trammell.
Alphonso Plant
Flight To Spain
DELLACH, Australia. Aug. 13.—
—(Copyrighted)— Former King
Alphonso of Spain may try to fly
back to war torn Spain.
He called his two sons, Jaime and
Joan, Into family council today to
decide their course. ... .
What the three agreed to do the
exiled monarch would not say.
"As long as the disturbances con
tinue," he told the Associated Press
“I cannot, discuss my plans."
The one time monarch, stripped
of his regal prerogatives In the
revolution of 1M1 semed perturb
ed when told that an airplane,
flown to Czechoslovakia by an Eng
lish pilot, was confiscated yester
day.
Gaffney Police
Held Prisoners
For Many Hours
OAFFNEY, 8. C„ Aug. 13—
(/Pi—President W. C. Hamrick
of the Limestone Mill, where a
strike has been In progress for
some time, said he had been
informed today there would be
no further objections from the
strtkers to the removal of ma
chinery and the work would
proceed.
GAFPNEY, 8 C„ Aug. 13.—Arm
ed with makeshift weapons, a
crowd of Limestone cotton mill
workers held four officers and six
workmen in the mill for five hours
here yesterday.
The strikers, carrying dubs, base
ball bats and blackjacks began as
sembling around the mill fence aft
er the officers and workmen went
to the mill to remove a truckload
of machinery.
The gates were locked by the
strikers, and a hundred or more
guarded the mill gates. The offi
cers did not seek to leave until
around 8 p. m., and they were per
mitted to come through the crowd.
There was no attempt to move
the machinery from the plant tn
view of the tense situation. Offi
cers said, however, the machinery
would be removed later.
While they were trapped in ♦he
mill, the officers said, they took
two shotgun* from two men who
had slipped into the second floor.
The sheriff’s office reported n»
I arrests were made and that no one
| was. IIIjtiled.
After the Officers ami workmen
were allowed to come through the
gates, State Senator J. D. Pams of
! Ciaimey began a speech to ute
avembfed strikers.
The mill management wanted the
machinery moved, and the four
officers were sent with the work
men as a precautionary meaauy*.
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