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WEATHER «orth Carolina : Cloudy tonight .nd Tuesday. Showers Tuesday, farmer in extreme southwest. The Miedelldcnd Stak [ 8 PAGES TODAY Member of Associated Press a VOL. XLII—N0.118 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ■MI4 w |Mt, ua irmw . am Carrier. w> ym*. (la adraaMI _ O.N Fall Term Federal Court Op ens CONSTITUTION DEFENDED BY WEBB Lowery I* Named Grandjury Leader Federal Jurist Also Raps “Sev enteen Counties” For Booze Policy. A vigorous defense of the Constitution of the United States, sprinkled with charac teristic advice about lawmak ing and lawbreaking, compos ed the greater part of Judge E. Y. Webb’s charge to the grand jury as the fall term of Federal District court got un der way here this morning. Jessie Lowery of Patterson Springs was named foreman of the grand Jury which had begun this afternoon to sift through 50 new bills, 13 of which are for the Shel by territory. Sixteen cases were larried over. Human Rights “The constitution of the United States is the greatest charter of luman rights ever written,” de clared the federal jurist in the dtarge to the grand jury. He said It was framed mainly by southern ers whose aim and desire was the protection of the inalienable rights of man. "It is a shield and defend er, an arsenal which guards our liberties and we should guard it with our treasuries and our lives.* Judge Webb lashed out at the efforts which the well known “sev tnteen eastern counties” are mak ing to collect revenue from liquor. He declared that they are being blindly led by the big liquor inter ests of the north and west and that they are “for the sake of a little revenue, selling their lives and ■orals.” He added that 11 the counties sell the liquor, they also •ught to make It . . , and make that profit too. Members of the grand jury be lides the foreman are: P. L. Home ly, O. o. Leonard, A. C. Brackett, T c. Moore, W. A. Abemethy, P. D Koone, Zeno Gamble, Bate Blan (Continued on page eight) Litvinoff Attacks Nazism and Fascism ♦Copyrighted 1936 by The Associated Press.) GENEVA, Sept. 29.—(JP)—Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign commissar fought launched a fierce attack before the League of Nations as sembly against NaUan and declaring them to be “the deadly enemies of all working people and of filiation.” tVTthout mentioning Germany by «*»* Litvinoff opposed the entry J? lpa*ue of any nation T the id~ of "racial and thequality which describes ^People except its own as sub hu Morning Cotton letter ^°RK- ^pt' 28—Th® hu; WneraMh C 0S* lMt week WB® mo ^ Dom^(reCently *>“*»« *> Sv ®pinner* M» appa " 5 more confident of the nre ?"* ®nd t£rf*apS of m UJ8 ^PPattion on the pa tat*~** •» *5.5 hedging sai h°WS mor* hiterei R2y B is rath Uken S th*t the ste, ttructive With th WtU prove 601 % harvested th* °r°P hedges .h* the Pressur® froi *Me. wehJ! d soon he^tn to sul ties In con™ that the P°«ibO five side— v i*?, on the construi E A Pierce and Co. ^ Markets ^tw(l ..wh «• u t’Wton WNrfl* t**-033.1 ^ ®m lota, tan „ m, u” T« “>“» * 2*. .'UK „ *• MaT- 11». Ms n.ta ^ ll«. Oct. 1208, De Sheriff Given NewTaxBooks; $213,000 Due ""** 1 i' County tax books were today turned over to Sheriff J. R. Cline by County Auditor Troy V. McKin ney, and tax notices, already pre pared, are now being stamped for the latter part of the week. About $213,000 in taxes is to be collected- by the county this year. Before the tax books were turned over to the sheriff’s office a gross sum of $38,294.54 was paid by Cleve land residents who took advantage of discounts. In paying this gross total residents saved $697.24 in dis counts, making net collections for the county $27,597.30. For the rest of September tax discount is one and one half per cent. During the month of October there will be a one per cent dis count. Sheriff Cline and his aides have in their office some 14,000 to 15,000 little blue notices which will go out in the next few days notifying tax payers that the “taxes are now due.” They will be mailed to arrive about October 1. Initial Exercises For Graduation Of Nurses Are Held Dr. Zeno Well Preaches Baccal aureate Sermon; Larva Crowd Present. The baccalaureate sermon for the graduating class of the Shelby hos pital, delivered Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the First Baptist church by Dr. Zeno Wall, was heard by a tremendous crowd which Included, in addition to the regu lar congregation, all student nurses able to be away from their duties, the entire hospital staff lad fac ulty melhbers of the board of trus tees and physicians of the county. Members of the graduating class are Misses Vela Vastlne Covington of Shelby, Doris Fredda Bennett, Tallahassee. Fla., Lillian Ruth Vickers, Albemarle, Ruth Lytm Westmoreland, Hickory move, 8. C, and Mary Lee Harrill, Shelby. Finals Friday Commencement exercises will be held at 8 o’clock Friday night, at the American Legion auditorium. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, chairman of the board of trustees, presiding, and the address will be delivered by J. H. Grigg, county superintendent of schools. Following the graduating exer cises members of the graduating class will be honor guests at a dance to be held by the Nurses Alumni asodation. Members of the board of trustees, in addition to Mr. Hoey, are O. M. Mull. Dr. S. S. Royster, J. F. Sehenck, jr„ A W. McMurry. Tom Cornwall and Mrs. W. B. Nix. Blum Wins Test PARIS, Sept. 38.—Premier Leon Slum, winning the first parliamen tary test of his devaluation program rith a comfortable majority, decid ed tonight to ask the chamber of iepufcles for full power to prevent nice increases by decree. 4 ACCIDENTS MAR CALM HERE 2 Dead, 5 Hurt In Auto Mishaps Gastonia Child Fatally Hurt When Struck By Shoffner Automobile. A series of tragic auto ac cidents marred the week-end calm of a number of Cleve land county families, bringing deaths in two instances with at least five others barely es caping serious injuries. Little Jennie Mae Russell, IS year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur H. Russell of the Mutual Mill Community in West Gastonia was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when she ran in front of a car driven by R. W. Shoffenr, former county farm agent here and now a district supervisor with the Tennes see Valley Authority, working under the direction of the Extension De partment of State College. On Way Here. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Shoffner were on their way to Shelby. The child, witnesses said, was frightened by a dog and ran in front of the car which was being driven at a mod erate speed. Coroner L. E. Kincaid conducted the investigation and said an inquest would not be necessary. He termed the accident “unavoid able." Mr. Shoffner rushed the child tc the hospital but she died before he arrived. He then reported the af fair to Sheriff Clyde Robinson. No charges were filed by the pareits. Mr. Russell is superintendent of the Mutual Mill. Four Are Hurt. LATITMORE, Sept. 28.—Miss Ed na Hoffman. 16 and Miss Clara Bess, 10, both of Lowell are in the Shelby hospital and T. J. Stanley of Shelby and Freddie Monroe of Lat ttanore are recovering from minor in juries as a result of an accident near Washburn’s Station yesterday afternoon. A Terraplane coach in which they were riding failed to make a curve and turned turtle. Miss Hoffman sustained a fractured nose and Miss Bess is suffering from severe bruis es. Young Stanley was said to have been driving the Bess car. Neither be nor Monroe were hurt. Witness es said the car was traveling at a rapid rate of speed. The curve is not unusually sharp. The car was (Continued on page eight.) Notables To Attend Big Cleveland Fair , Among notables in the agrtcul- * tural field who plan to attend the ‘ Cleveland county fair next week are Col. J. W. Harrelson, Cleveland ' Bounty native and dean of admin- ( tot ration of N. C. State college, F. ^ H. Jeter, editor of the extension < service, Dean I. O. Schaub, dean Bf the extension department of < State college, all of Raleigh, several i officials of the Agricultural Adjust- i ment Administration of Raleigh, < wid numerous regional and county , farm officials. i I l Tom Dixon, New Deal Critic, Will Speak Here October 26 I Tom Dixon, scathing critic of the 'few Deal and rated as one of the lations most gifted orators, will peak in the Cleveland county ourthouse on Monday evening, October 26 at S o’clock. This announcement was made to lay from local Republican bead [uarten which has just received a elegram from W. C. Meeklns, state >OP executive chairman who made he Shelby appointment for Mr. Mxon. Pxpee* Dn»« ? coming » expected to stir ;uite a ripple at excitement in the ranks of the Democratic camp. He claims to be a lifelong Demo- 1 crat, the last time be spoke in Shel by was while campaigning for franklin D. Roosevelt and the New , Deal. Cleveland voters will be keenly ] interested in his explanation of his j “about face." I The eastern part of the state will be the battleground for more of the Shelby native’s castigation of the < New Deal. His itinerary calls for 1 several speeches In hist section 1 while In North Carolina He will ' (Continued on page eight) i ADJUSTMENT APPEARS CERTAIN Russia Denies Forcing Prices Series Of Astonishing Devel opments Occur In Financial Markets. By Associated Press Five naitons were joined today in the break up of Eu ropes gold bloc and the march toward currency adjustment, led off by France under the protection of a "monetary equilibrium” agreement with the United States and Great Britain. While the SocTUist government of Premier Blum won a majority In Its first parliamentary test of the French devaluation program Switzerland, the Netherlands, Lat via and Greece were listed as em barking on new ciarency stabiliza tion programs. Moscow Denies Meanwhile from Moscow came denial by the Russian state bank that sales of British pounds were intended as an effort to force down the British currency rate. The sales were "ordinary” banking transac tions, the bank declared. The series of financial develop ments sent the price of bar gold up 78c an Ounce on the London ex change where operations were lim ited. Defeat RigbticU The French chamber of deputies in extraordinary session defeated a rightist motion to send the legisla tion back to the finance commit tee by a vote of 868 to 248. The Italian government, informed sources said, Is studying issuance of tourist lire on a lower basis but au thoritative observers expressed con fidence there would be no devalua tion of the lira. The Belgian stock market open ed for business with transactions barred in the foreign currency scheduled for readjustment. From Germany and Turkey came announcements those countries will make no adjustment in their moneys. Queen Of Rotes p , .. _.. ' JW s Priscilla Sousa, gi^nddaughtei of the celebrated bandmaster, John Philip Sousa, ia pictured above holding an armful ol very precious roses. The flow ers, the newly developed “Sweet Memories" roses, art insured for $10,000. The new variety of roses will hav premier showing at the Secorn Annual National Rose Show a Balboa Park, San Diego, Calif Oct 10-12. ARRANGEMENT MADE FOR FAIR Final arrangements for tak ing care of the greatest crowd in the history of the Cleve land Coutnty Fair are being rushed this week by Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary, and his corps of assistants, as the time for the opening, next Tuesday, approaches. Cleveland’s fair this year, as has been the case in the past several years, will be more of a sectional than a county fair, people from all of western North Carolina and a great section of South Carolina making it a yearly habit to see : Cleveland’s fair. Over 100,000 free ticket* have (Continued on page eight) American Seaman Is Convicted, \ Sentenced By Coart In Berlin Jackson Rites At 3 O’Clock Today J’uneral services for Charles raokson, 84, who died at his home it the Ella mill at 1:18 o'clock Sun lay afternoon, are being held at 3 •’clock this afternoon at LaFayette Street Methodist church, of which le was a member, Rev. F. H. Price he pastor, conducting the services, hterment will be made at Zoar emetery. Mr. Jackson had been ill for about . year with a heart ailment. Sur lving, in addition to his wife, who ras Miss Mae Blanton, are five chil Iren, Howard, Aileen, Homer, Ma le and Elizabeth, three brothers, jester, Felix and Church Jackson, nd two sisters, Mrs. Madge Taylor ,nd l&rs. Alice Wall. Final Rites Held For C. D. Parker Funeral services for C. D. Parker, 17-year-old farmer of the Belwood immunity were held Sunday at 11 >’clock at the David’s Chapel Uethodist church. Mr. Parker died suddenly Friday morning with ieart trouble. He had been ill for wme time, but had remained ae ive The well known farmer is sur-1 hved by his second wife, two laughters by his first wife, Mrs. Randolph Peeler of Belwood and drs. Hillard B. Houser of Cherry dlle; three children by his second rife, Kettle Sue, Morgan and Clay-! on Parker, and three brothers. BERLIN, Sept. 28.—(A5)—Lawrence Simpson, American seaman, was convicted of sedition by the Peoples 1 Court today and sentenced to three 1 years in prison—minus the four teen months he spent in Jail await- ' tag trial. ] Simpson, a sailor on the S. S. 1 Manhattan, was convicted in a one- 1 day trial during which he admit- < ted without reservation that he « and three German Communist friends had tried to set up a Pop* | ular Front government in Naa Germany with three small balloons and packages of Anti-Nazi propa ganda. The venture failed Simpson said < because one of the four turned out * to be a police spy. c At the close of the testimony the c prosecuting attorneys asked the 1 court to sentence Simpson to four years in prison minus the one he t already has served. He also recommended an eisplon age charge be dropped, as unsup ported by evidence. Defense attorneys asked for clem ency for Simpson pleading as in American "he had no real oppor tunity to learn the benefits of life in the Third Reich, therefore, as an outsider he must be Judged less harshly.” 180 Bales Cotton i Ginned First Month ] Up to September 16 180 bales of cotton had been ginned in Cleve- i land county as compared to 116 i bales ginned to the same date last 1 year, an increase to that time this ’ year of tw bates. according to 1 Thame? C. Beam, special agent, de- i partment of commerce. i Floods And Fires Leave Many Homeless In West 2,000 Homeless As Raging Waters Flood Texas Valleys WAOO, Texan., Sept. M.—Low lander* fieri today before flood water* wh^h moved southward from Waco where 3,000 of the clty’a 80.000 person* were rendered home U'M by the overtto\ging Brmsos river. The river reached a crest of 41 feet. Authoritlea warned that a Junc tion of flood water* of the Brazos and Uttle rivers might prove of serious consequence to the lower Brazos valley where a flood took 334 lives in 1*31. As residents of east Waco count ed more than $350,000 property damage rain and floods elsewhere In the state took four lives. Three were klleld in a collision in blinding rain north of San Marcos drowned when three automobile were washed from a road. Remembering the flood history of their region residents below Waco abandoned homes. The Lit-! tie, Leon and Lampasas rivers and numerous creeks broke over their; banks inundating fertfle areas and! flooding houses. Agents Open Drive Against Narcotics wausmscmae. Sept. J8.-<*v ■i'h* treasury today threw a,800 nar cotics agents and law enforcement officers Into a nation wide drive against narcotics and Illicit liquor. to scattered cities throughout the country treasury agents were order ed to make a series of sudden raids In an effort to round up a large number of suspected law breakers. Officials said several hundred ar | rests w?re expected to result from jthe raids. Use T car Gas Bombs In Student Strike CAMPBELL, Ohio, Sept. 38.—UP)— F°Uce threw two tear gas bombs to day to disperse hundreds of striking memorial high school students, pro testing against the transfer of a fa vorite teacher. Three youths were held on charges of suspicion. Police discharged the bombs near the throng as the students refused to halt a demonstration outside the school and enter the building. Per Hour, Per Minute 1 It Makes Difference' To some people it would make l littla difference, but to the facts, it < makes much difference. A story In Friday's Star about the 1 city water plant stated that three pumps had a capacity of 3,780 gal lons per hour. The story should have ’ »alr 3,760 per minute, which to wa- 1 ter officials means Just 60 times as much water. Hudson Becomes Safely Supervisor John Hudson, former head of Cleveland WPA work and also dis trict time keeper has been notified of his promotion as Safety Supervis or for the entire seventh district of WPA. Mr. Hudson said this morning that the safety offices will likely be locat ed In Shelby. Explosion Kills One, Injures 15 FLINT, Mich,, Sapt. 28.— —One person was killed and fif teen Injured today when a gas oline tank exploded In the Gen eral Tire company's service sta tion here, hospital attendants said some of the Injured might die. The dead was Identified only as a tire retreaded. The explosion occurred In downtown Flint and demolished the offices of the tire company and damaged nearby buildings! Fire followed the blast and firemen were attempting to pre vent the spread of the flames to surrounding property. Fascist Armies Command Toledo; Approach Madrid Government Fames Bexin Defen sive Shelling Of Approach ing Foes. By The Associated Press A Fascist army, 8,000 strong, commanded the ancient city of To ledo today after routing govern ment defenders and freeing com rades from the ruins of the long besieged Fortress Alcazar. The government forces fled to the sduth and east their path north to Madrid blocked by insurgents. In ragged flight the loyalist mili tia stopped at Intervals to shell Toledo and then sped on their way. Shell fire Late today government forces took up position about ten miles north of Toledo and began artill ery shelling of Fascist concentra tions at Bargas, about five miles north. Aerial bombers aided the jffenslve. A vicious counter attack also fas being pressed against the To edo Fascists, the government re ported, taking cognizance of ru nors its leaders were abandoning dadrid. The minister of the inter or asserted, "Several ministers left dadrtd to visit the various fronts >ut their return Is a matter of lours.” The Madrid regime, admitt ing officially the fall of Toledo, is lued an urgent call for all mili tiamen and volunteers to hasten 0 their barracks. Entered Yesterday The Fascist troops smashed their vay Into Toledo yesterday after loon. Next objectives of the Fascist irmy. consolidating Its lines here, vas expected to be a crushing drive oward Madrid, 40 miles to the lorth. Meanwhile at Bilbao Span** government warships gave the city 1 respite from Fascist attack, a laval bombardment halted the ln lurgents advance. TOm Batcheler has moved from he F. D. Quinn residence to the Roberta inn. Wilbur Wilson, principal of Dover nlll school Is confined to his home iuffering with a slight Illness. B. T. Falls Named Bar President At Dinner And Annual Meeting Judge B. T. Falls was named president of the Cleveland County Bar association at a meeting held ' Friday evening at the home of D ! Z. Newton, retiring president Henry B. Edwards was turned i vice-president, A. A. Powell was re- ] elected secretary and Gerald Go forth. youngest member of the bar, J was named treasurer, succeeding ; Frank L Hoyle, Jr Mr Edwards succeeded fudge Fills, who was vice ' president last year j< Twenty-nine members of the bar w>re present for the dinner, served Vf Mr. and Mrs. Newton In the mnken garden at their home in Jelvedere Heights. The dinner was »rved at seven small, flower dec »rated tables, arranged about the wol In the lighted garden. Mrs. Newton, with the help of drs. J. a. Lattimore, Mrs. Cline aendrick, Mrs. Boh Austin, Mr*. Oliver Anthony and Mrs. *>hn < £eChird. served the Hms»f jjjii muses. ,, BIG BLAZES THREATEN OTHERS Southern Oregon Is Blazing Torch 1,500 Left Homelewi WH1* Armories And ioapiWi Crowded. < MARSHFliLD. Oregon, Sept. 28.—A town of 1,500 and « nearby settlement were in ruins, seven persons were dead and other small towns were threatened today m for* est fires converted virtually the whole of timber clad southwestern Oregon into a (riant torch. Another settlement mi wiped out in Northern California. Fear Wind Change United States Forest service ln« formation that a third at Myrtle Point, Oregon, was In flames was disproved later but M. M. Craven, Myrtle Point fireman said a shift in wind would endanger the town of 3,000, thirty miles from Bandon. destroyed Saturday night. Fires crackled at the outskirts of Coquille, North Bend and Marsh field. The settlement of Prosper was wiped out. Damages was in tha millions. Fifteen hundred were homeless, armories and hospitals wen crowd ed. Only a shift or dlmunlttan In daily winds or a rain could save at least three towns and thousands of acres of timberUmd authorities said. More than 3,000 men were on the fire lines. In northern California thousands of acres' lay blackened kg tin. School Officials From 50 Counties To Convene Here School mon of fifty western North Carolina counties together with men of the 60 oounttes re sponsible for bus transportation of school children will gather In Shel by Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock for a program that will take most of the day. the opening session to be held at the American Legion building at 11 o’clock. Lieut. Oov. A H (Bandy) Gra ham, chairman of the state ifjnnf commission, will preside at this session. Talks will probably be made at this meeting by |lr. Gra ham. Lloyd Griffin, secretary of the state school commlslon, and by several members .of the commission, which comprises a man from each of the 11 congressional districts of the state. The Delegates School superintendents from the fifty counties, chairmen of the boards of education and of the county commissioners, and the me chanic In charge of school busses from each county will meet in this Joint session. About 1 o’clock the 250 people expected to attend the meeting will be served lunch by the American Legion auxiliary. The lunchkon will be served in the newly com pleted county garage building. In New Garage Following the luncheon all of the school mechanics will have a meet ing In the county garage building and at this meeting matters of in terest In providing transportation tor school children wil be disbuss sd Informally. Safety And economical operation jf the busses will be the chief topic or discussion at this meet ing. In addition to school officials representatives of bus and body ■nanufacturcTs will be present and nil take part, in this informal <fie ■usekxv bringing experience game* r? manufacturer* to the aOuet
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