WEATHER
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■ v’,slit and Tuesday. SomewhRt
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Offieial Shelby temperatures:
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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.—</P)—Mayor
Frank Barnwell reported today that
operations of a city administration
machine in the primary at Charles
ton Tuesday would have warrant
ed placing national guardsmen par
tly in charge of the election.
Injured In Wreck
BUDAPEST, Hungary. Aug. 31.—
(A5)—Agnew Dahnson. jr., of Win
ston- Salem, N. C., and David Griggs
of Cambridge, Mass., assistant pro
fessor at Harvard university were
injured seriously today In an auto
crash near Czegled.
They hare been conducting arch
aelogical investigation in the Balk
ans.
RECALLS DAYS
OF INTENSE
INTEREST
{ MANY SPEECHES
Mr. Hoey Poised For Another Cam
paign This Fall For His
Party.
—
Clyde R. Hoey, veteran political
campaigner and Democratic nomi
nee for the governorship in North
Carolina said today the cool breez
es are whetting his appetite for more
work and added that “I have never
felt more like going into a cam
jpaign than I do now.”
With only a short time left be
fore he will launch a two-fold cam
paign, Mr. Hoey is busy with the
: details of his law office but took
time to review briefly, almost 40
years of speech-making, having
spoken in state campaigns every two
years and national campaigns every
four years since 1898. With one or
tw'o exceptions he has spoken in
every county in the state, many
times in the same counties.
" The purpose of his campaign this
fall will be to help elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and incidentally to in
sure his own entrance to the man
sion on Blount street at Raleigh in
January’.
Best Campaigns.
"The campaigns of 1898, 1920, 1928
and 1932, to me stand out as being
most significant in my experience.
iThe one in '98 was certainly im
' port ant to me as I was only 20
!years of age at that time I had
been elected to the legislature on
Nov. 6 and was not 21 until Decem
ber 11.
“Political feeling was very high in
those days. The Republicans had
just carried the county and state
(Continued on page eight)
Five Die, 4 Hurt
In S. C. Car Crash
UNION, S. C., Aug. 31.—UP)—
The death toll in a head-on au
tomobile collision near here yes
terday stood at five today,
while four others lay seriously
injured at the Union hospital.
Hayes Webber, 58, Jonesville
rural mail carrier and George
Benton of Union were killed in
stanly while Marcia Robinson. 4,
James Black. 24, of Jonesville*
and J. W. Hendley of Spartan
burg died a few hours later.
Dick Merrill, Who Plans Flight
To London, Crashed Here In 1930
Dick Merrill, who with Harry
Bichman plane to hop off for
London this afternoon in a com
mutation" flight if. the same Dick
'Merrill who cracked up his plane
near Casar on the morning of Nov
ember 12, 1930 when he became lost
ui ruin and fog
Merrill'a crash is well remembered
by Shelby people Several oi them1
met him the morning alter the
ciack-up, and two ot them, Dwight
Houser and Tom Abernathy. last
wvek sent, him i telegram wishing!
him luck on his tr&ns-ooeanic hop. j
Merrill, it will he remembered,
wa* flying the mail from Allan*'?
to Richmond when he became lost.
He left Charlotte. ahou* !J nt-iock
the nigh* of November 11, heading
for Greensboro He had refueled at
Spartanburg. After leaving Char
lotte, Merrill lost track of all lights
ou the ground due to the tog and
rath
Aftei^tiylng for some time with
out reaching the Greensboro airport,
he became worried. Then he circled
(Continued on page eight)
No Clues Found
In Hit-And-Run
Death On Highway
Roland Canipe, 25, Of Lower Burke,
Found Dead Near Crow'i
Store.
Clues were stUl lacking today in
the death of Roland Campe, 25
year-old resident of lower Burke
county who was killed last Friday
night, apparently by a hit-and-run
! driver. He was struck while walking
ion highway 18 in Lincoln county
| and was dragged 20 feet across the
line into Cleveland county.
The tragedy occurred near the
Pink Crow store which' was burn
ed a week ago when struck by
lightning. Mr. Crow recognized the
young man as Canipe w'ho lived in
the Lower Fork township of Burke
county. ,
Find Body
Tlie body was discovered by a Mr.
Young of Vale who was bringing his
wife, a nurse at Morganton, home
for the week-end. Mr. Young noti
fied the sheriff and coroner of
Lincoln county, thinking the body
was in Lincoln. Then the sheriffs
and coroners of Burke and Cleve
land were called in. The body was
finall ytaken to Valdese.
Sheriff Cline thinks the young
man was struck about midnight. It
appeared that he had been walking
beside the road. Both legs were
broken and the head and body were
badly bruised.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon at Mt. Gilead Bap
tist church in Lowerfolk township.
The closest survivors of the young
man are two uncles, Jink and Jul
ius Canipe of Lowerfork His par
ents died several years ago. Hr was
not married.
Colored Tenant
Picks First Bale
Of County Cotton
Will Hopper, a colored tenant
living on the John C. Hamrick
farm for 37 years, picked the first
1936 bale of cotton and sold it Sat
urday to Moser Brothers for 13.10.
The cotton was ginned on the
Toy B. Webb gin in the Beaver
Dam community Saturday and was
immediately brought to market
where Maser Bros, paid a premiujn
for it. The bale graded middling
with 1 1-32 inch staple.
Hopper is one qf the most Indus- i
trious colored farmers in the coun- |
ty.
Toy Webb’s Barn
And Cow Burned
A barn, practically new. on Toy
B Webb’s farm west of Shelby was j
struck by lightning Fridav night;
and destroyed by fire, including » ,
row a n«u> 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<pt Free Trip
AH members of th* Americans Le
gion bss*b»!1 ream are asked to meet
at the post office a* noon Wednsa
day fm- a frre irip to Spartanburg.
S. C„ where they will see a game of
me Little World Series
avcfcU A. Ruuser said the am*
erii'iiii Legion post oi tins city wUi
give Uie local teaiii tile trip as a
,(rc:it The Siatiby tram licked Spar,
t.mhurr one of Mr' Little S®riac
contes*anti, earlier in the mama,