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VOL. XLII—NO. 115
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SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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SEE MINING
WEALTH IN
COUNTY
King* Mountain
Area Favorable
Companies Obtain Option For
Gold And Tithium
Properties.
T-u;o m i n i n g industries
(rhicb hold wealth beyond a
mere prospector’s dream are
in the verge of being opened
into » thriving business in
the Kings Mountain area.
A survey this week-end Indicates
Hist » new search for gold in a sec
tion which once, contributed more |
thsn *1.000.000 of the metal will be
started soon
Gets Option
An nnnamed mining company,
! nought, to be a Canadian interest,
hi* obtained an option on what is
tnown as the Laughridge property
sight miles south of Kings Moun
tain. A ear load of we which as
sayed *40 per ton was shipped
from this mine two years ago.
The other mining development is
the announcement that the Geor
gia-Carolina Mining company of
Franklin in Macon county has ob
tained options on some property in
the Long Creek section four miles
north of Kings Mountain and ex- |
pert to operate machinery soonj
which will extract spodumene, a
new mineral containing lithium, in j
marketable quantities. A recent re- j
pert of the state geologist said!
there is potential wealth In certain
rock formations near Kings Moun
tain.
Sought Beryllium
Mineralogists were looking for
beryllium and found the lithium
bearing ore.
Gold mining is not a new thing
‘Continued on page eight)
Two Births Sunday
At Shelby Hospital
Two children were born Sunday
;u th? Shelby hospital, a son to
*hd Mrs. Hobart Green of Lat
f,m°re and a son to Mr. and Mrs.
■'« Curry
E Gankin, principal of the
•neibv high ^nool who underwent
operation for appendicitis a
ago has beet} extremely 111
' reported much better this
’wrung
r<*lix Hamrick of Boiling Springs
>o has been quite sick also shows
improvement, Mr. Hamrick'
recently moved to the local;
Pitai from Charlotte where he;
vod treatml'nt for several I
eks.
■h* Charles Dover and her new
"" daughter were able to return
mrir home at the Dover mill
W Sunday.
Lithe Shirley Costner who un
dent an operation for appendi
•v was removed to the home of
Parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ham
"tier on Lee street today.
■ • ■ ohn Caveny and her new
lrP son were __ *_
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Market
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Boulder Dam Starts To Work
Here is the scene from the air as 3,600,000 cubic feet of water
rushes from 12 Boulder Dam outlets each minute, generating elec
tric power for western cities. The giant federal project was put
into full operation when President Roosevelt pressed a button in
Washington, D. C„ on the opposite side of the continent
Harrelson Showers Praise On
County At Club Women's Meet
Landon Favors
Crop Insurance
AgainstDroughts
TOPEKA, Kansas, Sept. 21.—(O’
—Governor Alf M. Landon said to
day "the question of crop insurant
should be given the fullest atten
tion.”
The Republican presidential can
didate took this position in a twc
paragraph statement which he sale
was an excerpt from tomorow's Def
Moines speech. It was given tc
newsmen when they asked com
ment on the president's announce
ment of the appointment of com
mittees to work out a crop insur
ance plan leading to ‘‘better per
manent protection against drought.’
Landon’a statement follows:
“I am going to mention a subject
:hat is in neither platform—crop
insurance. It is a question in which
we have long been interested in
Kansas. In fact some of our Repub
lican leaders in farm legislation
lave been in the forefront in work
up on it.
“We realize that there are diffi
culties but insurance companies are
writing policies today covering risks
;hat they dfdn’t consider feasible
i few years ago. I believe that the
juestion of crop insurance should
je given the fullest attention.”
Selassie To Geneva
GENEVA, Sept. 21.—With
laile Selassie flying to Geneva in
,n attempt to protect the rights of
lis lost kingdom a league of nations
redentials committee met today to
lecide whether Ethiopia stUl is en
itied to sit on the league assembly.
| Copious preisj was showered on
Cleveland county from an sygricul
tural and social point of view by Col.
j. W. Harrelson, Dean of N. C. State
College at a picnic on Friday night
attended by some 500 farm club
women and their husbands.
'! hi meeting was the initial ven
ture in the state of home demon
stration club women with a “hus
band's night.' It was held in the
form of a picnic at Boiling Springs
junior college, and was termed one
o.' the most successful meetings of
-ts kind ever sponsored by the ex
tension department.
Dean Harrelson, who is a native
of this county, said that in traveling
from or# end of the state to an
other he finds that Cleveland is held
in high regard for the advance the
county has made in modem agricul.
ture. in electrical lighting of homes,
in education, rural schools, and gen
eral progressiveness.
He was introduced by J. 8. Wil
kins. county agent. Greetings were
extended by members of the county
board of commissioners, Mrs. N. B.
Lee, county president of the club6,
and Miss Frances MacGregor, home
agent.
Miss Ruth Current, district agent
from Gastonia, spoke briefly on
group recreation and charmed the
gathering with old time songs and
let in a community sing.
Mrs. Harold Honeycutt, presided
over the table and was in general
charge of the program. The tables
were decorated by Miss Lillian Rich,
college dietitian. Mrs. Huber Gold
presented resolutions.
Fliers Reach N. Y.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—i/P>—Dick
Merrill and Harry Richman brought
down their silvery monoplane Lady
Peace at Floyd Bennett airport at
1:18 P. M„ (EST) today to complete
a round trip trans-Atlantic flight to
London, begun September 2.
Demonstration By Coast Guard
Will Feature Big State Fair
_ l
RALEIGH, Sept 21.—Arrange
ments for a Coast Guard demort
tration at the Sttt6 fair, which
rtll be held in Raleigh the week of
Jctober 13, have been made by
longressman Lindsay C. Warren,
f the first district.
Hfc action followed many re
uests for a repeat performance of
breeches bouy life-saving dem
ns tration such as a group of coast
uardsmen gave at the n>34 State
air,, Manager Nurman Y. Cham
lias said today in announcing
Congressman Warren’s success in
ecuring this additional attraction.
The Coast Guard unit to per
»rm a* *be fair will be taV»n from
he seventh district, which fats,
headquarters at Elizabeth City.
Chief Boatswain W. Ch Etheridge,
with a mate and seven surfmen,
will have charge of the exhibition,
which will be presented on three
days of fair week, beginning Wed
nesday.
In commenting on widespread
interest which the forthcoming
State fair has engendered through
out the state. Manager Chambliss
empnasized that race tans, includ
ing devbtees ot horse and automo
bile racing, will be thrilled by the
high class competition which will j
bring to the fair some of the best |
known harness racers and auto
(Continued on page eight)
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CRIME WAVE
SWEEPING
COUNTY
Gamblers Raided,
Forger Is Caught
Twelve Men Taken in Ingen
ious Raid; Four Lose
Drivers License.
Nearly every officer in the
city and many of the county
deputies were called into ac
tion this week-end to man the
law boats on a crime wave
that ended today with 12 con
victions for gambling, four
drivers license suspensions, 18
cases of public drunkenness,
and a number of minor of
fenses.
This was by far the heaviest
week-end officers have had during
the summer or fall.
Check Forging
■ Marion Walton, Mooresboro col
ored youth is in jail by default of
$500 bond on a charge of forging a
check for $100 on J. U. Rollins, of
ficial of the Mooresboro Creamery.
Walton alleges that Joe Wilson,
who is at large, forged the check.
He is a brother of C. V. Walton who
was convicted for stealing a quan
tity of money from Mr. Rollins
previously.
D. W Carlan was fined $50 and
costs and eleven other men and
boys $5 and the costs after they
were taken by surprise about eight
o’clock last night in Carlan’ club
i house located in the Webb build
ing on South La Fayette at ret. They
I were charged with gambling.
Took Ladder
“Not having a pass or a key to
the plaoe,” Chief D L Willis said,
"we Just borrowed a ladder from
the city hall, took it to a window,
and while three men were entering
there, two others and myself forc
ed the door” There were two tables
being used, and the cards were con
fiscated and shown in court. Offi
cers in the raid were the chief,
Knox Hardin, Bob Kendrick, Paul
Stamey. Patrolman Wheeler and
T. H. Upton..
Convicted gamblers fined this
morning were W. J, Laughlin, Lee
Heafner, Grady Wiggins. Jess
Robinson, M. G. Brooks, Donnie
Workman. J. T. Turner, Hubert
Blanton. W. O. Putnam. J. T. Ray,
Fred Troutman.
Drivers licenses were removed for
12 months from Jessie Davis of
Earl, caught carrying nine gallons
of liquor in his auto and fined $25
and the costs; M. D. Moncrtef,
drunken driving. $50 and costs;
Josh Beam, drunken driving, $50
and costs; Luther Borders, drunk
en driving, $50 and costs.
Evidence Offered
In Wendell Case
NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 21.—UP)—
Evidence gathered by the federal
investigators will be available for
the federal grand jury when it re
sumes its investigation of the Paul
H. Wendell kidnap-torture case Oc
tober 6, J. Edgar Hoover promised
today.
Hoover, director of the federal
bureau of investigation, said the
evidence would be turned over
shortly to U. S. Attorney John J.
Quinn.
The jury, which recessed August
7, was reported to have ordered
preparation of indictments against
six persons on the basis of Wen
dell’s charges that he was kidnap
ped in New York, held prisoner in
Brooklyn and tortured into a false
confession that he kidnapped the
Lindbergh baby.
Warn Of Hurricane
Off Florida Coast
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Sept. 21.
—An advisory issued by the weath
er bureau here at 9:30 a. m. said
‘Tropical disturbance of rather
small diameter has continued to
increase during the night to about
hurricane intensity and was cen
tral at 7 a. m. E. S. T., approxi
mately at latitude 27 degrees north
and longitude 71 degrees west,
wlinn is about 675 units east ui
Fort Pierce, Fioiiua, moving north
westward about 12 miles an hour
attended by gales and .squalls and
wind of about hurricance force, <75
miles an hour or more) over a very
small a'-a n-ar tb' renter.* Cau
tion advised, vessels in path.”
Held Captive?
Report* from the Spanish riril war
front state that H. R. Knick
erbocker (above), famed war cor
respondent, is being held in jail by
rebels at Caceres, Spain, after at
tempting to question airport at
taches about the landing of some
German manned'pumea.
Dynamite Wrecks
Paper In Havana;
Revolt Is Feared
Pacsion Flares Again In Cuban
Capital; At Least 30 Are
Injured.
HAVANA. Cuba. Sept. 24.—Fears
of revolt .spread through this city
today following a blast of dynamite
which wrecked the newspaper S3
Pais and blew up a Catholic church
46 minutes before the first Sun
day mass yesterday.
At least 20 persons were Injured.
Police arrested 20 members of
the Spanish Socialist circle in
their investigation of the blast and
raided the organization's offices.
El Pais, sympatheticv in editor
ials to fascists in the Spanish civil
war. circulates widely among Span
ish residents here.
Police prevented dynamiting of
the conservative newspaper Diarlo
De La Marina by breaking wires
attached to 1,000 sticks of dynamite
outside the plant.
Only a few statues remained to
verify the site of the church. Nu
estra Senora de Monserrate, across
the stryet. from 61 Pals. The altar,
pews, ceilings and walls were de
stroyed.
Debris was spread over a wide
area.
Many Building Damaged
Parts of the truck in which the
cjynamite Was cached outside El
Pais were spread more than eight
blocks. Front fenders were found
eight blocks from the tire*. The
twisted chassis and motor were
carried a block from the newspaper.
For three blocks along Neptuno
street, busy shopping area, every
window was shattered by the blast.
Official sources withheld com
ment but in some informed circles
belief was advanced that the dyna
mite was set off by residents who
sympathized with the socialist gov
ernment in the civil war.
Other unofficial sources advanc
ed the charge anarchists might
have planted the charges in an ef
fort to foster unrest and precipi
tate downfall of the government or
overthrow of the army.
Many buildings within the mid
town area were damaged. Citizens
were hurled from their beds. The
detonation was heard for many
miles.
The historic old church, Nuestra
Senora de Monserrate. was wreck
ed by the blast. It is just across the
street from El Pais.
First unofficial estimates placed
property damage at more than $1.
000,000 One unofficial source said
more than 500 building* were dam
aged.
Building Booming
At Kings Mountain
Building to booming la Kings
[Mountain as permits totalling I13.M0
iwere reported last week
Dr. S. S. Royster of Shelby is
building a filling station at the in
tersection of Highway No. 74 with
highway No jh in one of the busi
est pans of town. It wiu cost ap
proximately $7,009.
C. M. McGill is planning erection
of a i»w home on old street to cost
approximately $5,000. A numbc- of
real e-t^te changes are said to be
{ pending.
LAND BUYING
BY U. S. IS
ASKED
Futrell Speaks
To Tenacy Board
Ownership Of Farms Would
Prevent Wars—Better
Than Armies.
By Associated Press
HOT SPRINGS. Sept. 21
Governor Futrell proposed to
day that the federal govern
ment make it possible for the
south’s sharecroppers to pur
chase small farms of highly
productive land.
He told his farm tenancy com
mission that a home-owning, home
loving people "will give our coun
try more real protection against
foreign invasion and conquest
than the expenditure of billions on
our armies and navies.”
First Meeting
The governor'* aaaress, prepared
for delivery at the commission's
first meeting, laid the groundwork
for a study by the 57-member state
body of Dixie's seventy-jJ>ar old
share-cropper problem, bom of the
Civil war.
Whi* the two dpy conference
convened a federal grand Jury or
ganized at Little Rock and pre
pared to take up Wednesday char
ges that peonage exists in the
eastern Arkansas sharecropper belt.
"Complete annihilation of ten
ancy is a dream." Futrell asserted
"We may as wall bear In mind the
fact that worthless people cannot
be helped. The ultimate end to be
obtained is a substitution of farm
owners for farm tenants as far as
possible."
Shipping Corn To
Drought Stricken
Cleveland and Rutherford coun.
| tie* are supplying corn to the
drought stricken areas of Virginia,
Tennessee and Kentucky, says C. B.
Cabaniss, local grain broker.
Mr. Cabaniss says he ha* shipped
twenty car loads of last years com
from Cleveland and Rutherford
counties to the three states west
and north of us during the last sev
eral weeks. The com was grown
last year and ia available because of
the aurplus our farmers have for
their own use.
Prospects are good for an excel
lent com crop in this section this
year. Rains which began falling in
July relieved this section and pro
duced an abundant crop of corn
which soon be ready for harvest.
Find Womans Head
Wrapped In Paper
RICHMOND, Ky„ Sept. 31.—
WV-Finding of a woman’s head,
wrapped in newspapers, spur
red Kentucky authorities today
in an effort to solve the state's
second “head and hands’’ slay
ing within three months.
The head was found late
yesterday by a farmer residing
at Moberly ten miles from here.
Agents from the Louisville of
ce of the department of Jus
tice said the skull had been
crushed. It showed traces of
brown hair, they said, and ap
i pea red to be that of a woman
about forty years of age.
I-—
Beauty Queen
America’s Public Beauty No. 1,
Miss Rose Veronica Coyle, 22,
of Philadelphia, Pa., smiles tha
smile that helped her win the
title of “Miss America 1930”
from a field of the choicest
beauties of the United States.
Mias Coyle, displaying her
crown, scepter and cup, the
emblems of her rank, entered
the Atlantic City contest be
cause “mother dared me to.”
Murphy Appeals
For Peace Before
Legion Convention
Officials Say Attendance Will
Reach 200,000; Dedicate
Peace Gardens.
CLEVELAND, Sept 111.—(A*)—
National commander, Ray Murphy,
voiced a plea for universal peace
today as thousands of uniformed
World war veteran* cheered him at
the opening session of the eight
eenth national convention of the
American Legion.
"America will never start a war,"
Murphy said. “But America cannot
disarm in the light of existing con
ditions.
“It Is a tragic thought that the
‘War to end War’ which we fought
in 1817 and 1918 was In truth the
awful beginning of a series of con
flicts that fnny end wars only be
cause there Is no longer resource
to carry on, no longer men to
fight, no longer the will to live."
The military blare of trumpets
and the lively beat of drums achoed
through Cleveland's public halls
as ifie assembly gathered Conven
tion officials predicted a peak at
tendance of 200,000.
Dedicate Gardena
Dedication of Peace Gardens
whose said was brought, from sac
red shrines of fcmegin countries
and the 48 states, opened the for
mal activities of the America Le
gion’s eighteenth national conven
tion, business sessions of which got
underway today.
The legion, in an impressive cere
mony led by National Commander
Ray Murphy, unveiled in the uni
que gardens a memorial pillar bear
ing a plaque reading;
“These gardens, planned by men
who know the "horrors of war, was
dedicated to the brotherhood of
man and peace throughout the
world.”
Miss Shirley Costner was able to
leave the Shelby hospital this
morning and return to her home on
Lee street after having an e.ppendlx
operation last week.
New Story Of Missing “Charley
Ross ” Comes From Buckingham
Another story which hold* the
patent!*! solution of the 62-year
old ‘Charley Roc* ’ kidnap mystery
came out of the hill* of Bucking
ham county in Virginia this week.
If the story is true, the little
curly-haired lad, the son of a
wealthy merchant, whose disap
pearance caused as much furore as
the more recent Lindbergh case,
lived on lite lonely Buckingham
farm ui Stephen Stinson, giew to
manhood In u»e backwoods mar
ried and was finally killed In a
railroad accident.
The last claimant who tried to
; prove he was Charley Ross wa* a
Charley Re's” her* to gh-ibv in
11939. He wa* claimed to have been
brought hare by a man and a
woman and abandoned. He mad*
dome tripe north to establish hli
claim but was unable to do *o
Periodically, for the past half cen
tury someone has come forward
with the claim that they are th<
lost heir.
This latest story which come;
out uf Buckingham comity will lx
difficult to contradict, and wil
likely stand as the correct soiutiui
for a long tune
At the end of the Civil Wit
Buckingham county was quite i
wilderness and . wa ys of rommum
cation with the outside, world wen
(Continued on page eightj
ADVANCE OF
REBS SLOW
BUT SURE
Airplanes Try
Bombing Tactics
Delay New Assault On Fas
cists Imprisoned In Alca*
zar Ruins.
By Associated Press
Sept. 21.—Maquada, key to
the highways to Madrid and
Toledo, became the crossroads
iof Spain's bloody civil conflict
| today.
rrom both Madrid and from the
camp of the insurgent* high com
mand at Talavera came reports of
« bloody battle for poaeeeeion of the
junction from which a smooth roed
leads direct to Madrid, 41 miww
away.
row Divisions
The government announced it
had thrown four division* of Moors
hack, at SAnta Oialla, near Maquada
after the attackers had penetrated
several kilometers through defence
lines.
Delved dispatches from Tala vers,
however, said massed government
forces had during the week-end
failed to halt the advance of Gen
eral Franco’s columns and that the
capture of Maquada wae but a mat
ter of daya.
Delay Assault
In Toledo government bombing
squads delayed a new aeeault on the
insurgents, still hiwUijiart in the
dynamited and ruined Alouar,
wiille snipers searched out new
Fascist machine gun neats installed
In the wreckage.
Madrid reports stated today's
battle at Santa Olalia lasted four
teen hours and was one of the
fiercest of the entire war, now
nearing ten weeks old.
Government airplanes attacked .
Talavera but their bombs mused
no casualties.
At Geneva Portugal* foreign
minister, In a signed newspaper ar
ticle, declared a "Communist, vic
tory for anarchy In Spain would
mean war for us," but insisted Por
tugal was not Intervening 1n the
dispute.
UNION MASONIC DEGREE
TEAM TO WORK WEDNESDAY
The Union Masonlo degree *—m
which bears a state-wide reputation
for Its work, will meet with the
Camp Call lodge Wednesday night.
Sept. 23rd at 7:30 and oonfer work.
Landon Quizzed
Of Farm Plank
By New Dealers
CHICAGO, Sept, at.—A Series Ot
questions concerning Governor Alf
Landon’s stand on farm legMMion
and his stand on the farmer's deal
in the New Deal were hurled ait him
last night by William X. Settle,
chairman of the All-RooeeveK Ag
ricultural committee.
Asserting that “The Republicans
are trying to face both ways at the
same time,” Mr. Settle » an ad
dress said:
"Do you believe, Mr. Landon that
Republican members of Congress
were serving the best Interests of
farmers when they voted last March
11 to adopt the n«w farm act?
Cites GOP Vote In Congress
"The members of your party in
Congress voted 11 to 5 in the Sen
ate and-64 to 19 In the House In fa
vor of this bill.
"Do you believe. Mr. Landon that
agriculture is just * local matter’
and that the AAA program lnvad
, ed’ the rights of states?
‘If you do. why did you not speak
out against such ‘invasion' of the
State of which yon era governor?
s1 "Also Mr. Landon, why did you
wait until you became the nominee
; l for President to refer to the AAA as
I ‘restrictive and coercive?'
II "Do you ihu& Mr Landon, that
11 the tanners of Kansas who ttgue*
‘273.000 wheat contracts and 139,000
'corn-hog contracts were coerced?’*
! Wrrr the farmers of Kansas who
voted a year ego ?t,76* to 10J(M
continue the wheat program to*
jsreed?’