WEATHER Nnrtti Carolina: Generally fair ■ v’,slit and Tuesday. SomewhRt „ :.mPr in interior Tuesday Offieial Shelby temperatures: H,c, R6. low ft«. Rainfall .33. . TM Mkvkkmd ka 8 PAGES TODAY ■ -. ^ VOL. XLII—NO. 106 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUG. 31, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hr M U. par year, Iln adranaat _ M.M Carrier, orr year, (in adranrai _ H.N VICIOUS TACTICS OF SPAIN DRAW U. S. PROTESTS foster son OF ICKES DIES Wilmarth Ickes Ends Own Life •Unquestionably Suicide” Is Verdict Of Police; Found At Home. Ry Associated Press CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Wil marth Ickes, 37, foster-son of Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes. was found shot to death today in his foster father's home in suburban Winnetka. Mac* said Unquestionably it is suicide.’’ ®nek MacMuson, caretaker, found rt* body at 8:10 &. m. There was; ow bullet wound through the head. Wife Away Half an hour later Ickes’ wife telephoned to MacMuson from Chicago where she and their three children had just arrived on a lake steamer from a trip to Michigan. He told her of her husband's death and she left at once for the home. The body, clad in pajamas, was found by MacMuson when he enter ed to bring Ickes his breakfast. A pistol was on Ickes’ chest, the gardener said. The bullet entered the temple abova the right ear, and emerged from the top of the head. Winnetka police had reported to ;h* Chicago coroner that there was a note written by Ickes but Ser geant Harold Lewis said he had riot found any communication. The sergeant said Ickes had been in HI health and recently suffered from severe headaches. He was under a physician’s care. Ickes was treasurer and principal inner of the General'Printing com pany in Chicago. Secretary Leaves WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—(A>)— "formed of the suicide Of his fos rr son, Wilmarth Ickes, Secretary lekes arranged today to fly to Win la Illinois, on a plane scheduled to arrive m Chicago late this aft ernoon. Polkville Plant Amateur Feature r>n# «f the most, interesting en 'r-rtainment feature* of the Polk J'tnior fair will be the amateur show. *tunts, impersonations, popular 'Jags, tap dances, cowboy songs, music, etc., will be featured '* hhi’ Program. Prizes will be pre •nted to the winners in the var >oue groups. V"’ person hvmg within number township is eligible to try out * place on the program He would, however, get in touch with r® Marde<;ls Eaker, chairman of w* wmatatn-ment committee by Morning Cotton LETTER Aug- 31—Pricee r,mgUlariy lower 1*st week , net lo6ses of 8 to 17 points lose of preceding week. ^L .T'tlC continued to * h,(?h r»te last week but n.Ji 'to «Pand suffi --MhnW “ mcreMe in hedge ** feur'mlUs ** ■■uth v.in^r' ,of 382 000 compare lust *° same period mills for 1 Forwardings to foreign cjpj? “■?“* ot 258-000 last ^v,35^000 88,016 period f»U«ion ^ disturbing foreign •*5ir3»""01 M“rt Amcncan cotton by ’h* m,m h8* *>«« one of le-!®, „r'*” influencing the vrr »;"» '■'sj-rt-er, should coming r‘duc !r,*e d0n,-*«< fen*det, *-d for«ign migh Cu.um J"K MarKets wVilw, _ i 1. 1214 to I3ts( LV-a« *!;■ "***• 1011 —- *30 a ' fc&r lot. ton_ J33.CM ” >1 m"? NMWAYwk marke( -Ian J’“. h* *** >’H Juij - * • *>c. H.M. New County School Garage Is Completed —. * Above is the newly completed $10,000 garage and supply storage built by the FWA to house the fleet of 52 school buses and to be used as a workshop in servicing them. It is located on West Warren Street. Cool Breezes Whet Mr. Hoey’s Appetite As He Plans To Complete 38 Years Of “Campaigning” Alf Landon Asks Emergency Rates In Drought Area Republican Nominee Requests Rail roads To Continue Rates; Meeting Near. TOPEKA. Aug. 31.—(A5)—Amid preparations tor a drought confer ence with President Roosevelt. Gov ernor Alf Landon planned toua., a new plea to railroads for emer gency freight rates in Kansas drought areas. The Republican presidential nom inee, whose aide said he would at tend the Des Moines conference Thursday as a governor and not as a presidential contender, summoned state officials for a rtjyiew of the situation in withered Kansas areas. To Expand Meet President Roosevelt, after dedi cating the image of Thomas Jeff erson at the nearby Mount Rush more national memorial, arranged yesterday to expand a Des Moines, la., drought conference Thursday to include the governors and senators of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Marvin H. McIntyre, presidential secretary, who was instructed to send invitations to the officials of the two states, also received definite word from the Secretary of Gover nor Alf M. Landon of Kansas that the Republican presidential can didate would be present, although the parley had to be postponed from Tuesday to permit Mr. Roose velt to attend the funeral of Secre tary of War George H. Dern in Salt Lake City, Utah. Not until Thursday at the Des Moines conference and the gover nors of Iowa. Missouri. Nebraska, and Oklahoma, will he focus his at tention again on the drought prob lems of the mid-western dust bowl. Political Machine COLUMBIA, Aug. 31.— hay baijcf and a quan tity of feed Vernon Webb. h!> ^on j lived on the plantation and was at, home when the harn was struck, j but he and neighbors were power less U) save anything. Ml Webbs iuoc k. ri UOU Willi iiu insuiBiice. About two months aso Mr. Webb lost a crib by lire, with out insurance. All of his other property is protected by insurance. I le si in pi-, nv-i i overage on Hie iwo destroyed buildings. COMPLIANCE BEGUN BY AAA 7S Committeemen Go Into Fields Process By Which AAA Pay ments Are Made Is In Full Swing Today. This week will he one of the busiest t^rnes of the year for farmers and farm super visors as some 75 county com mitteemen have the full pro gram of AAA compliance un derway and are going from farm to farm, armed with stacks of sheets and figures and apparatus for measuring fields. The committeemen and their helpers will visit dll the farms in the r&Unty for which worksheets have been signed. They will check acre ages of cotton, soil Improvement crops and pasture lands. Growers will be paid five cents per pound for cotton that would have grown on part of their land. County agent Wilkins said today it will take several weeks for ail the work to be completed. Too, there Is a tremendous amount of office work to be done before the AAA pay ments are made available. They will however be expected by late fall or early winter. Much will depend on what the farmer does with the crops he now has on the land, whether he cuts the improvement crops for feed or whether he turns them under for the good of the land. Asked about the condition of the crop in Cleveland, the agent said that at present it looks good. The early cotton Is the best in years, but the large amount which was late has very little fruit on it. A late fall may make a big difference. A number of fields out In the county are beginning to look speck led with opening cotton, and some picking will begin in a few days. Patrolman Enters Suit Against Keeter Officer Claude Allen of Mecklen burg county ha* entered a suit against D. J. Keeter of Grover, seeking damages for personal injury when the Keeter car and the Allen motorcycle crashed on the Wilkin son boulevard about four weeks ago. Officer Allen* charges that Mr. Keeter ran up on him from behind and- smashed into his motorcycle inflicting a fractured skull. At the time of the accident it was reported that Allen turned his motorcycle directly in front of the Keeter car without warning. Allen has had several injuries on the highway while on duty. It will be recalled that Mr. Keet er and members of his family were motoring to the beach one morning this summer when the accident oc curred. Crawford Offers Blood For Child KINGSPORT, Tenn., Aug. 31.—(A») —F*at Crawford, a scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, offered today to give blood transfusion in an effort to save the life of Hilllip Levitt, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mor ris Levitt of Chicago. The child is suffering from a blood stream infection which medi cal authorities describe as ‘‘almost always fatal." The only known antidote, physi cians said, is blood from a newly re covered victim. Such persons are rare because of the high morality rate of the infection. Crawford, former Davidson col lege and major league baseball star, who is conducting a baseball train ing camp here said he had recently recovered from the disease. Traffic Resumed On Highway No. 29 Traffic has been resumed on D. •S. highway No. ‘29 from Kings Mountain to Glover, which piece of load haa been under repair for sev eral Weeks. The loud was greatly damaged by ourt weather last winter bin is giv en a good rating now by the high way department. Week-End Events Lead To Tense Military Situation Unidentified Plane Bombs U. S. Destroyer; Mussolini Flaunts Armed Power; Rebels Win Victory MADRID, August 31.—The International military situa tion grew more tense over the week-end as the bombing of an American destroyer was protested by State Department officials of the United States, as Mussolini flaunted his mili tary strength before the eyes of a worried world in a martial statement, and as rebel forces won an important victory over Loyalists at Oropesa, Spain. An unidentified monoplane drop ped six bombs at the U. S. S. Ksnr, off the 8pants coast yesterday aft ernoon. but the American destroyer escaped uninjured. • The Kane returned fife with anti aircraft guns after the third bomb, but failed to hit the plane. Hall Protests. President Roosevelt directed Sec retary Hull last nlfht to protest to both the Spanish government and Spanish rebels. The incident was brought to the attention of each Immediately through the American embassy here, and Hull set to work to draft formal representations. At Avelitno, Italy, Benito Mmso llni warned a re-armed World last night he could mobilise eight million soldiers “In the course of a lew hours and after a simple order." Reject* Peace. Speaking from this heart of mimic war to his fighting men and his people, the dictator “rejected" whn’ (Continued on page eight.) Peep Into “Good Old Days” Shows Low Tax, Slow Travel People who are always crying “take us back to the good old days of easy taxes and the simple life,’’ should have been merchants in Cleveland county in 1856. To Demonstrate Cotton Picker In Mississippi STONEVILLE, M1m„ Aug. 31.—(fP) —Two farm experts who came here today-to view a demonstration of a mechanical cotton picker, predicted that success of the machine would threaten the agricultural balance and “spell the end of the small farmer.” Oscar Johnston, government cot ton specialist, forecast the doom of small scale operations. A. F. Toler, his business associate on a 43,000 acre Mississippi plantation said: "Southern agriculture would be in a turmoil," if mechanised picking supplanted hand labor. Johnston came from Washington and joined eight agricultural lead ers, planters and cotton glnners who examined the picker, developed by John and Mack Rust of Memphis, Tennessee. Johnston said it might be possible to coordinate the machine and hand labor on large scale operations. “I hope the machine won’t work” said Toler "because it would upset our present system and southern agriculture would be In a turmoil.” He and E. C. Westbrook, Georgia cotton specialist, were not alarmed over the possible effect of the ma chine. He said “It might not dis place tenant labor as much as some observants fear. I believe the two can be coordinated.” SMALL GOLD CHILD DIES NEAR DOUBLE SPRINGS Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 o’clock at the Double Springs church for the month old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gold of that community. The child died early today after a brief illness. Mr. Gold is a well known young farmer in that com munity.. I Minutes from tne county court or pleas and quarter sessions of that [year have Just been Indexed by County Historian P. C. Gardner. Among the Important items of that year was the tax report made to the September term of court by Sheriff Christopher Grlgg. Fourteen Merchants All the fourteen merchants In the county had only a capital In mer chandise amounting to only $44,700, which brought taxes totalling $111.74. The tax rate In the good old days was one-fourth of one percent—the same amount for taxes as people get In discounts for a month's pay ment in advance now. Of the merchants, the D. and Ft. Froneberger and Co. listed the big gest Investment, $5,871. The biggest amount by a single merchant was Joseph Herndon with $4,012. Othera'"^.-. Other mercuants with tTielr in vestments are; BlacK> and Borders, $4,750; H. Schenck and 8oh, $3,300; H. K. Roberts, $840; Williamson and Hord, $900; John Mull, $1,400; Ream and Jenkins, $2,975; Fullen wlder and Roberts and Co., $5,100; Durham and Beam, $5,000; Thomas Dickson, $3,816; Green and Mc Swaln, $950; D. D. Durham. $1,453; Nlchleson and Champion, $3,333. The court, at that time was hav ing a controversy about, how to build a courthouse (the one preced ing the present structure) and had quite Bn argument, about placing the bar, the seats, and possibly the spitoons. A resolution was passed (Continued od page eight) Government Liquor Taken At Fallston Twenty-four cases of bottle In bond government distilled liquor were taken in toll here Saturday after Sergeant Duncan of the high way patrol captured a pick-up truck with the cargo near Fallston. Two drivers escaped, but the pa trolman thought he would be able to make arrests In a few days. The truck and liquor are now In storage at the county Jail The contraband was consigned from Columbia, 8. C. Recorder’s Court Cracks Down On Driving Drunk Convictions Judge Bynum Weathers this morning cracked down on two vio lators of the prohibition law with ♦ he heavy fiat of the law Jim Mitcham was hit the hardest by the stuff punishment. He was ac cused of smashing into the automo bile of Ora Bowen near the Mar grace Mill while under the influ ence of liquor. Hie sentence was 12 months in jail, suspended upon the payment of a line of tisu and ^oets. His license was revoked tor ■ per iod of 12 months. .Innas Hoyle got off a liulr light-i er, hi,- sentence heing jx months in lari. suspended udod a payment of ^ b $85 fine and costs, and the yoking of hi* license for 12 months. He was accused of hitting the automobile of Irving Richards near Wash hum’* Mrttch. •Judge Weathers caught two more violator* of the M.m* law m Kings Mountain court Wednesday giving each a fine of ISO and cost*, and revoking their licenses. They were Raul Ruttersoii ami Jim Whiteside. “Driving drunk. i® one ul the most j&ngfeiaui offenses. We re go tng to fry to stop some uf it,’ tile recorder said. Other cases on the docket this mowing were of rmnor im(>ort ante. 162 CHURCHES BURNED BY REBELS Neutrality Plans Are Being Made Months Prom Planes Blast Holes In City Of Irun; Many Are Dead. By Associated Press Rebel bombs tore two wom en to bits in the northern Spanish city of Irun today while the U. S. Government, stunned by the bombing of an American destroyer, dispatch ed stiff protests to Madrid and to the Fascist insurgents alike. In « vicious attack rebel planes blasted eight holes In the streets as tile city was being evacuated. Be fore the attack had begun more than 4.000 Inhabitant* had fled Into France Churches Burned With the Vatican in an unoffi cial .summary announcing 162 chufehea and othrr religious Insti tutions had been burned In Spain, uncensored advices from Madrid It self disclosed a long list of prom inent personages which the gov ernment reported "dead.’* It was assumed most of them died of firing squad bullets. Germany, declaring It could not count upon the Madrid government for protection of Its embassy an nounced the embassy had been mov ed to a southeastern fort. Neutrality Efforts As for neutrality efforts It was announced in London that eleven nations headed by Great Brtialn, Fiance and Italy had approved for mation of an international commit tee to formulate an arms embargo and consider measures to stop artro cltiex. Madrid strengthened Its air de fenses and dispatched reinforce ments to prevent encirclement of the capital. Authorities claim Im portant. yet bloody, victories In the mountains north of the city capital and In central southern Spain, the government announced rebels were repulsed In the Toledo sector al though official circles earlier had acknowledged a rebel advance. Other successes for the govern ment militia were reported front Badatoz province. From Burgos the rebels announced plans to continue bombardment of the Madrid air port as a prelude to a final drive on the capital. S. C. Man Pushed For Dern’s Post COLUMBIA, S. C. Aug. Jl.-i/F) Governor Olin Johnston, tele graphed President. Roosevelt today recommending appointment, of J. Monroe Johnson of Marlon, p. C., assistant secretary of commerce and the governor's World war colonel as secretary of war. The. governor sent the president a message, saying: "It gives me great pleasure to recommend to you Col. J. Monroe Johnson for the appointment of secretary of war. In my opinion he i qualified to fill this posi a creditable and capable manner. was my colonel during the World war and I would appreciate any consideration you see lit to show him.” Governor Johnson, commenting on the war service: said: ‘I can safely say that Colonel Johnson knows a great deal about war.” Reoords indicate John C. Cal houn in 1817 and Joel R. Poinsett, 20 years later, have been the only two South Carolinians to hold the war portfolio Legion Baseballert To G