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Rains Hamper Fair But Officials Expect Big Day Saturday WEATHER c probably showers tonight Jd aiturttov, cooler in Interior Saturday night. Official Shelby temperatures: nJJ 78, low 88, rainfall 2.26. TM EW W 10 PAGES TODAY . VOL XLII—N0.123 Member of Associated Press SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By Mali. per y»»r, (In •dvaaMt _ «M Carrier. per year. (la ad venae) __ »J no ENVOYS OF 27 NATIONS IN SECRET MEET IN LONDON lint estimate UP 488,000 BALES Condition Only 61.8 P. C. Normal Report Bv Government Caus es Market To Become Unsteady. By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.—A jotton crop in 1936 totalling 11.609.000 bales of 500 pound weight as indicated by Octob er i conditions was forecast resterday in a report releas ed by the donartment of agri uilture. A crop of 12,481 000 bales was in dicated August. 1 this year, and 11, 121.000 bales were indicated on Sep- j Cotton futures broke slightly then the report came out, then gamed 30 points but later came back to about normal. The mar ket at two o'clock today was about the same as before the re port Little or no change was noted in the price of local cotton. (ember 1. Last year's production *»s 10,638,000 bales aqd that of 1934 was 9.639,000 bales. The condition of the crop on Oc 1‘tober 1 was 61.8 per cent of a nor ' sal. compared with 72.3 per cent a August l and 59.1 oh September 1 this year, 64.0 on October 1 last j year, and 56.2, the 1923-32 October 1 averages. Rains Halt Openings The rains were said to have halt I M premature openings of cotton bolls which results in decrease In I held Favorable weather improved the I erop m the eastern part of the belt unce September 1. it was said, with 1 plants making rapid progress to | offset a late start,. The cotton crop in North Geor I pa and the Carolinas was reported I still subject to damage. by early |fn*ts. while rapid opening of the oolk was said to have exposed a I large amount of cotton to possible Continued on page , nine.) ———-LL Dr> Dixon Is Hurt A. His Car Skids Dr H C Dixon, local dentist was “lured last night when . his car Ldde? on th* slick pavement near „ Blanton farm on Highway No. \ *est; and went down a deep wbankment. Dr. Dixon is receiving tWntion in the local hoajital for dislocated hip and body bruises. I Hrvrv ^OCt°r Die*. rJO^TVlLLE, s. c> ^ lersa *y n FuUer- 82, consid Idoctor. r. d''an of Laarens county liar lt hi* home here to Morning Cotton UTTER 1 *£?,**“ trad® both at home mcre confWent of »2 ”® Pn“ level and * WesJ^v “ demand from these Bings S,Uld devel°P The large iich%. lert toe rapidity with Ulf prewnt rr°P is moving, s* inrr. Cf0p f,gures indicate^ ! *6tiU *s bed** I 7T- Tb® Pressure 1 W! 5hortly wuie 1^ situation fav and that to * token « ^^aake purchases.—E. A. iljj* Market* Z* Z. 18,4 t« «e wH«n, ton-$35.00 ...ss •,»n'Vs-t<>M*t 2 °’0lOck t,0‘ '**• Mar. 1192, Mav Jub 11.86, Oct- ll«, Dec Roberta Semple Demands Damages L08 ANGELES, Oct. (fft— Roberta Semple complaining she was "injured, disgraced and defamed’’ demanded $150,000 to day as damages from the per sonal attorney of her mother. Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc Pherson as the latest turn in the family rift at Angelus Tem ple. A slander suit on file in su perior court by the heiress to Mrs. McPherson’s temple pulpit was directed against Willedd Andrews, veteran Los Angeles lawyer. , Miss Semple quoted Andrews as having said. “Mrs. McPher son has been threatened, inti mated and blackmailed for the last time’’ and the evangelist would take ail precautions to preserve the four-square gospel church she founded in 1923. Troops Withdrawn From Monarch Mill As Tension Eases Governor Johnston Finds No Fur ther Need Of Soldiers; Go To Rock Hill. COLUMBIA. S. C., Oct. 9.—HP)— j Governor Olin Johnston withdrew the national guard company on duty at the Union textile strike to day after being told by Sheriff J. G. Faucett of Union that special deputies remained on guard. "The need of troops at Union apparently no longer exists,” the governor said. Union. S. C., Oct. 9.—UP)—A third of the national guardsmen at the Monarch mill strike aone received orders for immediate demolization today. Twenty-four of the 66 soldiers, camped opposite the mill since Sunday packed for the trip back to Rock Hill, home station of the company. Major L. Dunn Matthews of Rock Hill, field commander, continued to hold the others ready for orders and posted Observers near the mill gates on each change of shift as the plant approached the end of its second week of operations un der protection of deputies. Approximately a full shift re ported^ Jbr du^y this morning with out disorder. French Communists Defy Government PARIS, Oct. 9.—UP)—French Communists openly defied govern ment efforts to restrict their meet ings in historic Alsace Lorraine to day. Amid threats of virtual civil war in the border provinces the com munist party declared it was pro ceeding with plans to hold wide spread demonstrations there. Fears of open strife immediately were current. Vote To Unify ASHEVILLE, Oct. 9.—<£>>—The Blue Ridge Atlantic conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted unanimous approval today of a proposal for unification of the three branches of Methodism. MAN-TO-MANf TUSSELS OCCUR Smith Is Labeled As “Malcontent” Ryan And Coughlin Tangle, Also Mills And Bailey; F. R. Travels. By Associated Press While President Roosevelt and Governor Landon steam ed along on their campaign travels today man-to-man tus sles broke out all over the map. Monsignor John A. Ryan told Father Charles E. Coughlin he was wrong and Father Coughlin replied that he would retire from the pic ture if he could not prove that Fr. Ryan erred. Alfred E. Smith assailed the New Deal party again and was called a "malcontent” by Senator Bennett Champ Clark Ogden L. Mills and Senator J. W. Bailey voiced op posite views from the same plat form while Harry L. Hopkins and the Republican national commit tee cried "fies’' at each other. Heading for a major apeech at Omaha tomorrow night President Roosevelt traveled to Iowa and Minnesota for a series of motor pa rades, federal works inspections, rear platform talks and political and farm conferences. On a tour of four Great Lakes states Governor Landon issued a statement saying that the people by their ballots are going to de mand in no uncertain way that their county be given back to them. Landon will deliver a major ad dress at Chicago tonight. Plans For Ocean Hop Is Revealed Information received from a re liable source here discloses the fact that R. Glenn Nichols, son in-law of Mrs. Jack Pounders of South LaPayette street, will take off on October 15 for a trans-At lantic airplane flight from New York to London, the flight to be made with Clyde Pangbom in the latter’s plane. Mr. Nichols and Roscoe Turner were with Pangbom when the lat ter entered the London-Melbourne air race several years ago. Nich ols is a radio operator on the Pangbom plane. Mrs. Nichols and their son. Jack Glenn, who have been visiting at the Pounders home here for several weeks left Wednesday, accompan ied by Miss Mildred Pounders, for New York City. Mr. Nichols, who spent several days here three weeks ago, joined them in Washington, D. C. for the remainder of the trip. Mrs. ptchols, Jack Glenn and Miss Pounders will return to Shelby in about two weeks. NEWMAN BUYS QUINN DRUG STORE EQUIPMENT Roy Newman was high bidder for the stock and fixtures in the Quinn drug store in Shelby. The sale was confirmed to him yesterday by the bankruptcy court in Charlotte. Slogan Of “Show Must Go On ” Illustrated Before Grandstand The time honored slogon of the stage, “the show must go on” was never more true than In front of | the grandstand at the Cleveland county fair this week, as the dozens of sensational acts moved on dur ing the deluges of rain and were brought to a climax—with scarcely a hitch and ccnid the applause of the audience. Lifting clouds at noon today gave promts# of weather possibly clear enough for the continuation of the program tonight and tomorrow, and a troupe of some 60 artists and actors were Teady to go "on with the show," ra.n or shine. George A. V.unid of New York, promoter and booking agent for outstanding outaoor musleales and extravaganza features, will be here In person Saturday. At present bis interests here are represented by Henry Cogert, assistant. The applause of more than 1, 000 persons in the grandstand Wed nesday night highly complimented the "show in the rain” as the spec tators watched the bears ride their bicycles, the trained dogs go through th*r acts, and laughed heartily at the comedy acts. Elaine Dowling and her co-ettes. premiere girl tumblers tumbled in the rain, anil the 20 beautiful chorus and dancing girls danced and play ed, sometimes slipping dangerously, but to the music of Art Morro’s “Revelations of 1936” orchestra. Even the sensational races, acro bats and trapeze artists swung from bars 110 feet high though! they were dangerously wet. War Threatens C ity Of Shanghai War clouds are hanging low over Shanghai as Japanese troops crowd streets of the sixth largest city in the entire world. Gen Kai Shek, inset, is' rallying his forces to show the invaders that the city will not be dominated without a struggle. World War Aviator Sought In “Missing Legs” Murder Legs Of 41-Year Old Boston Widow Fished From Boston Harbor; Police Run Down All Available Clues Rv AsRAoinipH Praafi WEYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 9.—Spurred by the identifica tion of Mrs. Grayce Asquith, 41 year old widow, as the wom an whose severed legs were hauled from Boston harbor four days ago detectives today held one man for questioning and sought a missing world war aviator. While police grappled in the harbor for the head and torso of the victim a woman’s tip sent de tectives scurrying last night to a lonely cottage on-the Weymouth shore, 12 miles from Boston. There, MTs. Isabel Murphy of Boston told'police her friend Mrs. Asquith, who "disappeared” Sep tember 20, lived. Resemblance She said the widow, a former photographers model resembled the harbor victim as pictured by medi cal examiner William Brinkley. Police found the cottage ran sacked: "The walls of tne living room were sprinkled with blood,” Boston police said. "Two blood stained sheets and a spread were found upstairs in a bedroom. "In the cellar we located a saw. There are brown specks on the handle. We have sent the saw to (Continued on page nine.) Registration Books To Open Saturday For Fall Election Registration books for the 26 pre cincts in Cleveland county will open on Saturday, October 10 and will re main open on the two successive Saturday’s according to announce ment today from John P. Mull, chairman of the board of elections. Registrars have been notified and have been given their registration books and will record the names of unregistered voters on October 10, 17 and 24. Only registrars, and not judges, are required to be at the polls, said Chairman Mull. October 31 will be “Challenge Day,” and if required, the judges will be called in. “Persons who have moved out of their precinct who have become of age, or who have moved into the county and have never registered but are 21 years of age and are oth erwise qualified as a voter, are eli gible to register,” he said. Cleveland county made a remark able record with a 13.000 vote in the Democratic primary, supporting Mr. Hoey and other members of the ticket. Word from Wallace Win borne recently indicated that the state organization is counting on this county to swell the numbers on the same ticket this fail. AAA To Pay Only 90 Per Cent First WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.—(/IV To “avoid possible deficits”, the AAA said today idRISI payments to farmers who participated in this year’s soil conservation program will be limited to 90 per cent in virtually all regions except the northeast. Producers in the northeast, in cluding New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, will be paid in full in one check, A statement issued by the farm administration said that estimates of participation in thf program in the northeast, "although not com plete," showed funds would be available for full payment in those states. H. R. Tolley, the AAA adminis trator. said that in the other reg ions where 90 per cent would be paid at first “the second part of the paymeut will be made as soon as participation and the expenses of the county conservation associa tions have been determined.” The igcrtcuiture administration has a total of $470,000 000 available to mak" payments under the soil conservation program. AUTO RACING DEPENDS ON WEATHER Many Activities Forced To Close School Children Ticket* To Be Honored On Saturday Aa Well As Friday. A heavy deluge of more than three inches of rain in the past thrfee days brought almost to a standstill the ac tivities of the Cleveland coun ty fair, and officials were look ing for hopeful signs of fair weather this afternoon and tomorrow for a successful cli max to the 13th annual expo sition. Dr. J. 8. Dorton. secretary, said today that ticket* issued Ho school children in Shelby. Kings Mountain and in the 31 neighboring counties (or attendance on Friday will be honored Saturday. More than 100, Q00 such tickets have been issued. Show Postponed. The district horse show which was to have been held today with more than 50 show horses was postponed until tomorrow. Barring continued rain, the diH tract auto races sponsored by Ralph Hankinaon and the AAA racing board, will be held Saturday after noon with Mr. Rankinson here from Mew York to personally direct the events. A score of daredevil drivers are already in the city. * Races Uncertain, i Promoters said'the races are now problematical.: Sunshine late this afternoon and tomorrow combined with scraping and treating the track would allow the races without dan ger.. If the rain continues, the races will be cancelled. Dr. Dorton said this morning that this is the worst siege of bad weath er the management has experienced (Continued mi page nine.) Shelby Selected For District Meet At the annual meeting of the fourth dlatrict of North Carolina Federation of Woman's clubs, held in Lincoln ton Wednesday, Shelby was selected as the place of meet ing for next year. Clubs from Oaston. Cleveland. Rutherford and Lincoln club6 were represented by about 13S women present at the meeting Wednesday.) Among them were Mrs. H. T. Hud-' son, president of the Shelby’s Wom an’s club, Mrs. Z. J. Thompson, Mrs. Charles L. Eskridge, Mrs. Charles' Wells, Mrs. Maynard Washburn, > Mrs. C. C. Carpenter, Mrs. C. H. Shull and Mrs. Brantley 8mlth. I Mrs. Ray Horne of Forest City1 was elected district president, suc-| seeding Mrs. F. H. Chamberlain of Llncolnton, and Mrs. Colt Jones of Gastonia, was elected vice-president succeeding Miss Cleo Burns. Dr. A. L. Stanford, pastor of the First Methodist church in Llncoln ton opened Wednesday’s meeting with invocation. Rainfall Heavy In Past Few Days Rain. ruin. go away, comf ■again another day, the Cleveland fair want* tq play. The chant began by thousand* of persona here In the county Tuesday and ha* not stopped. Neither ha* the rain. In fact, it has rained more since Tuesday morning than It rained all during last month. A total of 3.M Inches fell in Shel by since that time. Two and a quarter Inches fell yesterday and more than an inch and a half last, night and today, ac cording to the report made by John Phifer who checks for the government. Aside from the fair being halted, field work in the county such as fall grain sowing, break ing land and picking cotton are all suspended for the present. Creeks and rivers in the vicin ity of 8helby were out f»f their Danks and steadily rising, Aviation History Made As Newsmen Fly Round World Wealth? Men Also On Filthl; Ekina Leads Reporter's By The Aaaoeiated Preaa A maaa flight of millionaires and American huatneae leaden, a Jour* nalistlc preview of the China Clip* per'e transpacific course and the Oth day of the reporter's round the world race contributed to aviation history today. The men of wealth and power, 73 of them, were up tor a 618 mile cruise over six eastern states In the Oerman dirigible Hindenburg. China Clipper Out in Honolulu the China Clip per's engines were wanning up in preparation for the second leg oI the flight westward to Manila. The ship carries five New York report ers who are getting an eye full of the route regular passengers will be shortly be seeing. In the other newspaper flight— the globe circling race. H. R. Ekina, New York Telegram and Scripps Howard newspaper reporter was still far In the lead. Jean Batten, New Zealand avia* trtx, who Is trying to break the England-New Zealand flight rec ord, landed at Singapore. Concord Druggist Dies On Highway j CHARLOTTE, Oct. 9 —tfP>—Zeb ' V. Moore of Concord died of a heart attack this morning on the Char* lotte-PtneSlle highway shortly aft er his car narrowly escaped wreck ing. , t Moore, who was being driven byj a chauffeur, was forced from the i road by a truck it was reported to j Mecklenburg police who were call ed to the scene. Apparently endeavoring to look over the situation with a view to getting his car back on the road he was seen to halt suddenly and col lapse. He died in a few minutes. Moore is survived by his widow. He wcs connected with a drug com pany here.- %} (|J Plan Big Barbecue At College With Gardner, Webb As Speakers Plans for a rally or informal meeting, at which Dr. J. O. Bur nett, new president of Bolling 8prings Junior college will be pre sented to patrons and friends were announced today by A. W. Mc Murry, chairman of the faculty committee. The date is October 30 at 3:30 In the afternoon. The meeting will be In the form of a short program followed by a barbecue, the menu of which will include pork, chicken and lamb Five hundred or more person.* are expected to attend. O. M. Mull will be the toast master for the occasion and short addresses will be made by former Governor O. Max Gardner, chair man of the board of trustees. E V. Webb and possiW; other leaders in the Kip* Mountain association. I I Two men and a woman who are {prominent leadera In the Sandy ; Run aasociation will also make I short speeches. Those who are invited to attend the meeting, said Mr. McMurry are the pastors and their wives, all deacons and their wives, all teach ers and officers, church officers, and the finance committee of the churches in the two associations which sponsor the college. Also, a number of invitations to educational leaders and friends of the college will be given. j Dr Burnett is this week attend rng several sessions of the Sandy ; Run association which is meeting He is rapidly getting acquainted ! with the leaders of both groups and is highly pleased with his re ception by the people. . WILL CONSIDER WAY TO STOP - FACISTS Rebs Are Ne&ring Spanish Capital Will Thresh Out Chargee Of Infidelity And Aid To Rebels. By Associated Press In the tense atmosphere of continental crises neutrality envoys of 27 nations met se cretly at London foreign of fice today to thresh out sharp Russian and Spanish govern ment charges of broken pledg es and Fascist military aid to Spain’s insurgents. The basic problem baton the group was how to stop «n open rush by Fascists and Communist na tions to aid opposing beWgeranta on the Iberian peninsular. ' ■ Soviets Amw That might mean European war. Soviet Ruaaia flatly accusing Oer many, Italy and Portugal. wanted the committee to aand an investl gating committee to Portugal, al leged gateway tor Paaotat arm* shipment* to the apantati tneur gent*. There were concrete evidences that Portugal would not consent to an Investigation. that SJMnn be Neve* Ruaaia it bluffing. But a Soviet envoy entering the secret session said grimly, "We have stated our stand, it is up to the committee to do something." Noar MnVW West of Madrid fascists smashed through nigged terrain ta three powerful columns to capture strate gic cities. Madrid hailed the pros pect of Russian help and rejoiced In what appeared to be almost complete victory for Loyalists who long have besieged the Fascist cities of Oviedo. Heavy government reinforcements were rushed into the bne on the Biscay front where defense ct Bil bao Is the government's chief con cern. Conference Fairs TOKfO, October T n fgfgW ese officials declared today that toe conference Ohlang Kai-Shek, Cbiaa% dictator, and the Japanese nwlimln dees not warrant optimism, far settle ment of the Stno-Japanese artto. Mrs. Paul Webb, *r., is to toe Shelby hospital suffering from a broken ankle. She slipped on a wet doorstep this morning and Ml. She will remain In the hoepttil for sev eral days. , Winners Named For Livestock Judging Trials More than 300 students at voce* tionai agriculture competed lor western North Carolina Mvector k judging honors at the Cleveland county fair here yesterday, the teams using the prise wining horses, mules and cattle for Judg ing. ( Winners announced today by Roy H. Thomas, state supervisor and J. L. Osten of Troy sod T. H. Stafford of Asheville, district sup ervisors, sre: Roy Bridges at the Derlta high school in Mecklenburg county, first place with 933 05 points; Hugh Dil lingham at No. 8 high school in Cleveland county, second place with 513 points and W. S. Griffin of Marshall high school in Chian county with 492.5 points* Winners by schools, each reprea enter! by a team of three boy*, are Derlta. with 1474.55 points; Marsh ville with 1436.75 points and Tryon, in aa.stoa county with 1301.75 points. The vocational students were from 39 vocational department in the western part of the state. The Cleveland fair has eome to be the seene of the largest livestock judg ing events in the state with the «* cepuon of the state fair. i
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