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WEATHER wnrt*, caxolma: Fair tonight .^Saturday, lightly cooler to ^perature for Shelby yee Jd& mn 90, low «. The Etevemd " th 10 PAGES TODAY - ■ -.^ j VOL. XLH-NO.ll4 Member of Associated Press SHELBY. N. a FRIDAY. SEPT. IS. 1936 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. TON OF TIT. FAILS TO ROOT REBELS FROM ALCAZAR a H 400 Ocracoke Islanders Safe After Night Of Terror hurricane is PAST COAST OF N. C. Only On« Lif« Reported Lost ■Mr Vo Wmty Mite Per Soar Hurricane Pm»«8 On tfp Coast. By Assoeiated Press JPORFOkK, Vs., Sept. 18.— eo pgrscms trapped in Oera S*« Island, N. C., emerged Hfe}y today from a night of bOTieane terror while the peat windstorm swept north ®srd along the east coast bat tering thf Carolina* and the roast of Virginia. _ i Copyrighted By Associated Press) Tb« Atlantic hnrricane Mow ing with thunderous fury northward along the coast lash ed aewathediow* oftheCaro tijsas and Virginia into Mary land today catting off Ocean CM? from fhe mainland after having swept the tide com pletely over Ocracofce Island. With downs of small com munities isolated with com munication sundered with gxent eaves flooding across coastal areas no one could determine accurately how gna* tha las^ in fives and property might he. tip until noon only one man, i Baltimore resident, had been reported killed bat what the surveys of succeeding days may ihow was only conjectural. Coast guardsmen said they un derstood the inhabitants bad tak er shelter in the famous Okracoke lighthouse a sea beacon since 1798. From elsewhere along the coast There communications were wreck 'd and seaside communities flood 'd, the same encouraging reports raise in from wireless amateurs: "Ho loss of life.” Much Concern nevertheless the fast moving hurricane, with Ms attendant wind •Continued on page ten.) Hoey Opens At Rally Today roe* pooer, sept v., Roey « Shelby, Democratic nwsinee ftr governor, said be rrill '-oeH his campaign for election at 5 'Jemoeratte rally here tonight. He is to be principal speaker at "r evening session. Other speakers T’Hl include Governor Ehringhaua, S«oat«* 4 y. |&ney, of BaUgh, ,nd Robert It. Reynolds Of Ash» »nd congressmen and state «f ftdsls. Meanafcjfc, soon* Democratic ea fcnttves Of tfie Carotin as, Virginia ^Weet, Virginia will meet at *» hf plans for t%e Monfag Cotton LETTER | SSL^Jjy ***** «* ■Ty* •***« «MUy absorb 5 graduaUS' topwv , Sentiment ®-^i*aein to**** te *»» to* ■P*culetive demand <*• *o fee be i » "* «ng * town: price level 1 2? 5“*nt prospects there to •Meant at* easing of jSSS'yg," «“ «« 5coT4 Ty., PM*H* Prt«» « ss^0****--* *■ »«• C*t^ - -.»»4 te l»* •otU,,, "a*on- *••» .... 130. ”*• ,ar *«*». tvu .... ,33. ***?j*T fw, York colt°n for U.M. f ! Big Tin Strike Reported By Lincolnton Mining Co. Tin cans made from rooks in Lincoln county appeared to be al most a certainty before very long as preparations are going forward j for a tin mill near Lincolnton, fol lowing announcement of a rich strike there yesterday. Louis R. Hepp, superintendent in charge of operations on the properties of the American Con solidated Tin corporation said re cent assays revealed that the new tin ore was worth from $25 to $50 ! per ton. After Six Year* The announcement of the strike' came as result of some six years j prospecting and after the excavation ' of thousands of cubic yards of earth. There are now six well de fined bodies of the ore-bearing ma terial with the reefs extending! nearly a quarter of mile. He soon hopes to get enough ore above the ground to warrant the erection of a mill. ’BRYSON HAD REPORTED EVIDENCES OF MINERAL RALBIGH, Sept. 18.—Officials of the department of conservation and development withheld comment to day on the announcement from Gastonia of a rich strike of tin ore on the properties of the Consoli dated Tin corporation at Lincoln ton though they have been inter ested in development of the prop erties for some years. Paul JCeUff, assistant .director, (Continued on page tecj Wall To Address Sunday School Meeting Sunday Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church here and president at the North Carolina Baptist State convention will be the principal speaker here at 2:30 Sunday after noon when representatives from all the churches in the Kings Moun tain association close a week of Sunday school training with a big rally. Forty-four teachers to ail the rural and city churches will to night close the classes which have bean attended this week by some 5,000 persons and for which study approximately 1,000 awards will be given. This gathering will be the last meeting of the aesociational year. Horace Easom will be in charge of music for the afternoon and the First church will furnish special music. Reports will be made for the week's work before Dr, Wall’s in spirational address. J. W, Costner, general superin tendent, said today fully 1,000 per sons are expected to attend the 'meeting Sunday. City Has Low Debt Service Payment CMy 5650 in debt service for the entire city of Shelby will come due in October, according to a state ment from the city clerk today. This is the lowest amount for any one month in many years it was 'learned. The payment will be for interest r. No outstanding payments are until late fall. 149-Year Old U. S. Constitution Defended Vigorously By Webb /udge E. Y. Webb, veteran of the Federal court bench and strong defender of the constitution of the United States said today in the in terest of “constitution week” that "many millions at persons accept the blessings of the constitution as they do the beauties at the sky. the glories of the sun and life-giving air—take them as a matter of course. Tlie able juri.Nl spoke yesterday at the weekly luncheon oi the Charlotte Ki wants dub and re viewed briefly some of tne im portant phases of (he document. ->nd made a strong defense for (Jv beet known piece of writing in all Kings Mountain Rocks Are Rich In Spondumene Possibility that the rugged rocks over which Revolutionary war he roes scrambled to dislodge Colonel Ferguson may contain untold wealth was revealed here today in a state ment from H. J. Bryson, state ge ologist. Evidence, of rich deposits of spon dumene, a rock which contains a high percentage of lithium, have been found in the areas of Kings Mountain, and other parts of Clev eland, Gaston, Lincoln and Alex ander counties. According to Frank L. Hess and O. C. Ralston, both of the bureau of mines, deposits recently examined near Kings Mountain show that much of the spondumene bearing rock lies on top of the groondrHe said hundreds of tons of the pro duct could be produced without dig ging. Lithium is coming to be one of the most widely used m the small er alkali groups. It closely resem bles sodium, and when burned the salts give off a brilliant red flame. Medically it is used for curing cal culi and dissolving uric acid. It is also used for hardening alu minum and lead in storage batter ies and has been used in making glass. Kings Mountain Enrollment Less Fear that two teachers may be lost to the Kings Mountain school system next year if enrollment does not show an Increase was express ed today by Superintendent B. N. Barnes. Enrollment for the Kings Mountain schools thus far is only 1,637, 87 less than last year. Reasons given for the decrease in enrollment were that the en tering age for beginners has been set for those who will be six years old by October 1. Last year the date was January 1. Too, the rail ing mill has not been in operation. The largest decrease was shown in the East End school. Following are the figures for this year and last year: 1935 1936 Central elementary -- 485 400 West elementary -- 369 354 East elementary _ - 384 354 High school _ -. 304 319 (Colored) Davidson Elementray - ..- 353 345 High school . .. 79 65 Total - . 1734 1637 Tides Receding NORFOLK. Sept. 18.—(/P)—A tropical hnricane which today rak ed the southeastern Virginia coast line pa seed the Virginia capes this morning and wind and tides be gan to fall back here. Ask Due Rights PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18.—m— Employee; representatives of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation, Sheet and Tin mills have asked the management to give them the right to share in the hiring and firing of worker* H was disclosed today. the world, 140 years old today. Sketching briefly the types of government under which the Unit ed States has been, Judge Webb gave the background for the fram ing of the Constitution in 1788. North Carolina was next to the last state te ratify »t, and he said that if two-thirds of congress and three-fourths of the states want it changed, it eau even now be chang ed. The first ten amendments to the constitution make up the “Bill of Rights” dealing with personal and property lights, trials and crime,- . 'Continued on page ten.) New And Retiring Red Cross Heads DR. 8. F. PARKER HENRY B. EDWARDS Dr. S. F. Parker was this morning elected by the executive committee as chairman of the Ceveland County Red Cross Chapter, succeeding iVnry B. Edwards who has served for eight years. Mrs. C. E. Neisler Is chairman of the Kings Mountain Chapter which embraces No. 4. Town ^_* Heavy Boom Of Dynamite Starts Process Of Taking Out Granite “Are you ready? .... O-k-a-y! ... then FIRE! A heavy boom and a convulsion of the earth follows with an upheaval of solid rock and belching clouds of smoke. Win dows rattle and even the entire city of Shelby feels the trem LI I », No sir, it Is not an attack of the Spanish rebels on the city, but just a daily shooting of dynamite at the ro<V quarry at the southeast edge of town. R. A. Spangler, “Lon” the boys call him, is foreman of the quarry from which the city Is taking daily approximately 200 cubic yards of crushed stone each yard weighing about 2,600 pounds. The stone and stone dust is being used in the city’s 20* mile street improvement program, and an average of 20 men work 10 hours per day in the hole and at the crusher to get Dr. Parker Made Red Cross Head Of Local Chapter Mrs. E. Y. Webb Will Serve As Roll C*ll Chairmen; Henry Edwards Thanks For Service. Dr. 8. F. Parker was this morn ing elected chairman of the Cleve land county chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross, succeeding Henry Edwards who has served faithfully as chairman for eight years. Mrs. Mary Camp Sprinkle, dis trict chairman, was in Shelby yes terday and today in conference with the executive committee, and elected officers and planned for the future work of the organization. The executive committee is com posed of Dr. Parker, chairman, Henry Edwards, vice chairman, Troy McKinney, Rush Hamrick, J. H. Grigg, R. T. LeGrand and Lee B. Weathers. Roll Call Chairman Mrs. E. Y. Webb has been eleoted and has accepted to serve as chair man of the attnual roll call which is due to be made between Armis tice day and Thanksgiving in the local chapter. The Cleveland county chapter embraces all of Cleveland county except No. 4 township which has an active organization to .serve that community with Mrs. C. E. Neisler of Kings Mountain as chair man. Plans are being considered for a whole time health nurse and; clinics to better safeguard the health of the community. Thanks of the executive commit, tee were extended to Mr. Edwards tor serving as general chairman of the local chapter for eight years. He will continue his active interest in the health program and has as ■ured Pr. Parker of his co-opera tion. J - - - ■ the stone, said to be some of the best quality granite in this part of the state. Making pebbles from mighty boulders or even from the solid granite leages is not so easy, but it is interesting. Two powerful air compressor jack hammers keep the sputtering drills running all the time, making boles for the ex plosives to be placed, which in turn tear the granite, placed there mil lions of years ago, to pieces. The drills are soon worn to a (Continued cm page ten) Library Board States Position On Club Building Willing To Waive Plana, Provide First Floor And Adequate Quarters Are Provided. Anent the plana for a combined public library and Woman’s club building under a grant from the federal government about which there has been disagreement be tween the two organizations, the Library Board issued the following statement this morning: The Library board wishes to make its position clear In its relation to the prosed project to build a combined library and Woman’s club building. At present they have rooms with rent, light, h;*at and water gratis through the generosity of Messrs. Wm. and J. D. dneberger and Mrs. Julius A. Suttle. To enter a project which involv ed inadequate quarters for the fu ture with added expense for main tenance offered .ho benefits, but on the other hand .the fact of associa tion with the ^lub would make it excedingly difficult to obtain funds for maintenance from the public treasuries and the task of develop ing the public^ into a library con sciousness would be more difficult. We had ambitious plans for an adequate fireproof building stock ed and equipped with reference works in the sciences, history, economics, government and the arts, with plenty of space for work ing students. CM maintained at the public exi>eiis4. aud which would be frequently ,arui freely used by all the school of the county as well as the citizens of the county It is apparent |hat this goal could noi hr reached without mu«h frie \ Continued on page lend Give 100,000 Fair Passes; Dorton Booms Race Events Find Formula To Keep Haile Out Of League GENEVA, Sept. 18.—i/f)—Big Eu ropean power*, meeting In Geneva amid new war fear* over Europe's "Instability,” have found a formula to bar vanquished Ethiopia from Monday's assembly meeting and to obtain renewed collaboration of Italy's Duce, League officials dis closed today. The officials said they expected Haile Selassie's delegation of three, due In Geneva Sunday, to be refused seats at the assembly table on the ground they do not represent an effective government. They added, however, that the league is not prepared to recognise the Italian conquest of Ethiopia which It tried so hard to stop or to declare independent Ethiopian non-acceptanoe of being out of the league. The officials expected Italian delegates would remain absent un til Premier Mussolini Is satisfied that minor powers will raise no ob jection when the Italian come to present their aredggittala on behalf of the king and emparor. ■ In tun the league may accept the credentials without mentioning “emperor” which might Imply rec ognition of the Italo-African em pire created by annexation of Ethiopia. Democrats Plan District Meeting Under the call of J. Wallace Wmborne. state Democratic chair man, loyal Democrats and Demo cratic leaders will hold a rally at Gastonia, next Tuesday, Sept. 32 at two o’clock in the afternoon. The rally will be mainly for Democrats In the tenth congres sional district and all officials of the party, office holders, members of young Democratic clubs, and others are being asked to attend. Hon. J. Bayard Clark, U. 8. rep resentative In congress will be the chief speaker of the event. His ad dress will formally open the Dem ocratic campaign in Gaston coun ty and In the district. A large number of persons from this county are expecting to attend the rally. Gastonia is the home town of Congressman A. L. Bul winkle of this district, and there will be Democrats from Mecklen burg to Madison at the gathering Landon Welcomes Young GOP Leaders TOPEKA, Sept. 18.—^—Gover nor Alf M. Landon, emphasising that the presidential campaign, “goes far beyond partisan lines” welcomed young Republican leaders —and all young voters regardless of party—to a national conference here today. Headed by J. Kenneth Bradley of Westport. Conn., national president of the young Republicans, the con ferees met in a 3,500 capacity city auditorium to hear an address by Landon. the Republican president ial nominee. Women Lettuce Workers Defy \ Tear Gas And Officers In Riot SALINAS. Calif., Sept. U.—— Scores of women lettuce workers Jeering in spite of tear gee bombs and officers riot sticks, came to the aid of the men today in the tense strike situation. One woman striker received hos pital treatment for bruises she said came from a Hut .stick in street fighting A iruil and vege table workers union official said several women were treated for rffechs of tear and nausea c»s. Mostly, however. , the more »n Lbusiastic women have specialised t X-ttAr'id. * •« .. ^ .. Newly 100,000 free passes to the Cleveland County Fair are this week being distributed to school children In Piedmont counties In travel-dis tance of the giant exposition which will be held October 6 to 10. Dr. J. 8. Dorton, secretary of the big fair, said his field men are con tacting agricultural and education al leaders in 31 nearby counties in North and South Carolina and he predict* crowds the like of which this county has never seen. To Rural Folk. Free tickets to the 15.000 school children of rursl Cleveland county have been Issued for Tuesday Oct ober 6, and tickets Jor 8helhy and Kings Mountain t.lv schools and all the neighboring county schools are being issued Tor Friday, October 11. Rutherford county school officials have agreed to take a half-holiday to come to the fair on the ninth. Polk county schools will be closed anyway, and Tryon and Saluda children will be allowed to come. School officials In Lincoln. Castor., Catawba, Burke and Caldwell have been contacted and will co-operate. Lenoir Rhyne college students wtll come on either Thursday or Friday. Many Horae*. Dr. Dorton has Just returned from the famous Oalax Fair at Oalax, Va.. and has engaged some of the beat race horses in the east. Among thaxn■ - *■ ■■ « » From Joe Cannon’s stables at Con cord. George E. K., Calumet Vivian; Lucille McElwyn from the Cannon and Rogers stables at Concord; Cy clone Pete, owned by Charles Wil liams of Kings Mountain. This horse won the 3:15 pace yesterday In three straight heats. Williams has entered another horse. Tulsa Brew er. ; Joe Frasier of Chester, S. C., has (Continued on page ten/) Mr*. C. F. Putnam Buried Today At Pleasant Grove Funeral services were held this morning at 11 o’clock at Pleasant Grove Baptist church for Mrs Charles F. Putnam, 78. who (lied Thursday morning at 5 o’clock, after being seriously 111 for three months. She had been In 111 health for more than a year. The service was conducted by i Rev. J. W. Buttle who was assisted by Rev. A. G. Sargeant, the latter of Kings Mountain, and was fol lowed by interment in the Pleas ant Grove churchyard. Mrs. Putnam, who before mar riage was Miss Betty Jane Kend rick, was bom on August 7, 1858. She lived for many years In the Pleasant Hill community before moving to the Patterson Grove section fifteen years ago. She was a woman of fine, strong character and the large number of relatives and friends who mourn her death are a tribute to the position she occupied in her church and com munity life. She joined the Bap tist church In early girlhood and was, at the time of her death, a member of Patterson Grove church. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. A. L Neal; five sons, G. L„ M. C., C. L„ W. W„ and A. H. Putnam; twenty-one grandchildren and three great grandchildren. in raartng of officers and depu tised citirens. Approximately 2,30( 'worker* are affected by the walk out, 900 of them women. Hope for peace today was cen tered or Federal and state media tion efforts. Mrs. Roosevelt III WASHINGTON, Sept. IS-iPi - Mrs. Franklin O. Roosevelt I snf terina from an altark of inHum/a *w reported inanrovetl M»i* morn ms by White House physicians. MACHINE GUNS MANNED IN CELLARS Third Of Famous Fort Is Ruined iK<rst Of Three Mines Blasted ! Cnder 1,700 Men, Women, Children. MADRID, Sept. 1*.—The Fascists of Toledo’* Alcazar withstood the tremendous ex plosion of a ton of TNT to day and from the cellars of the ruined capital manned ma chine puns to hold off charg ing government militiamen. As the government, carried out the first part of its "ter rible decision" to blow up the Alcazar, powerful syndicalists in Madrid in an eight point program, which they declared was the only effective means of crushing Fascism, demand ed conscription of all able bori ied and sweeping administra tion reforms. At 6:15 A. M. The first of three great ;mines, laid under the Toledo capital where 1,700 men,' women and children have withstood shell fire for two months, exploded with a ter rific road at 6 5 A. M. today. Vicious Fire. From the underground vault* vic ious machine gun fire answered the charge. The initial blast, one ot three laid, enabled government troops to oc cupy surface buildings in the old capital but apparently did* not shake the Fascists from their grim determination to die rather than give up. Included In the syndicalist de mands was one for a revalutioqarv governmental system to give work ers a direct share of the 'idmmiatra tlon of public affairs. New Regulation*. Explosions of the first mipe at Toledo and the syndicalist ultima tum in Madrid coincided with , new and strict regulations limiting the stay of foreigners in Spain. All foreigners entering the coun try must, within M hours, present their passports and other documents to authorities and all hose whose documents are not approved by Sep tember 37, must leave the country forthwith. Fate Wellmon Taken By Death Fata Wellmon. age 81. promin ent farmer of the Bt. Fetal* ehurch community between Belwood and Toluca on highway No. 18 died Wednesday morning at T o’clock of heart trouble at hie hoftie. The funeral waa held -Thuradav afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. Peters M. E. church with Rev. W. L. Seott. pastor, in charge. A large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives attended the last rites. Surviving Mr. Wellman are his widow; one daughter. Mrs. Joe Costner, of Knob Creek; one son, Luther Wellman, who live* at heme; two grandchildren; two sis ters. Mrs. Roxana Huffman and Miss Mallie Wellman, both of Burke'county; and one brother, Webb Wellman, of Cleveland coun ty. Mrs. Mike Sepaugh Pastes Early Today Funeral services will be held 8at tuday at U o'clock at Smyrna Pres byterian church In South. Carolina for Mrs. Mike f«epsugh who died 1; at 1 o’clock lest night at her home : in Earl after a lingering Illness. She was 4« year* of age. 1 Mis Sepaukh follow* her hus band to the Jpv*. . He died laat ! February 2*' they leave three chil 1 dren. Frances. Joe and Bobby. She j L-. Mittfved also by Urn brothers. I Will f/id C. V KuKmgiit. . Mis Sepaugh WIM hetoie mar riage Ml*» Mumie McKtrfght and wh.s born and reared in Smyrna; 9. C. She was known a* a fine moth er and good neighbor. — : . .....
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