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By mail, per year (in advancej>„$2.6l By carrier, per year (in advance) |3 0« r~ What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. February departs today and March and the bill collectors come in tomorrow. Shelby’s sensational hunt for a missing man and the details told by him upon his return following a terrible night in which lie wu:i kidnapped and kept in an automo bile are a part of today’s news. * * «*• How many automobiles are there Cleveland county? Read today’s Star thoroughly and you’ll know. A petition that has been for warded to Raleigh is mentioned in the news items of this issue. » * * Saturday night in Kings Moun tain a negro man killed himself and it ;s presumed that he shot the wo man another man’s wife, before ending his own life. For the details i,ec the news columns. • • • Arguments in the Wiseassett mills case involving nearly two mil lion dollars were heard here Satur ,!;;>■ by Judge J. L. Webb. A news item today says that a decision wril not likely be rendered for several days, $heiby defeated the deaf team in basketball here Friday night, and other sport items say that Latti more was eliminated in the Ashe ville tournament after making a good start. * * • Cotton, dresses and cotton hose have not staged a come-back in this state according to a Charlotte dis patch. * * * ••Too Many Benefits”—perhaps you would be interested in an edi loiial under that head in this issue. Are you reading the new fee teres of The Star.? South Shelby School Installs Com pic to flutfit of Fine S(r-ge Scenery at Cost of $350. (Special to The Star.) South Shelby, Feb. 28.—Mr. M. S. Young, who is manager of the Southern division of the National Scenic and Equipment company Charlotte, has just installed on the stage of the South Shelby school a complete outfit of stage scenery and equipment. This outfit includes a garden scene, an old Dutch scene tormenters, and a front drop cur tain A crew of especially skilled artists has been working day and fight building, painting and trans forming big stretches of canvas i'to beautiful and varied effects. The school has been greatly handi capped in its dramatic work due to the lack of scenery. The South Shelby school like most schools, seldom have funds on hand to buy equipment so the plan adopted by the Soutli Shelby school was to sell the advertising spaces on the front drop curtain to local concerns which would take care of the entire ex pense. This makes an excellent ad vertising medium for local con cerns and at the same time gives our school a fine outfit of scenery. There were thirty-one advertising spaces on the front drop curtain, ihc price of these spaces ranging from 819.50 to $7.50. The thirty-one spaces were all sold in a very short time. The faculty and pupils of the houth Shelby school wish to take this opportunity of thanking the following local concerns for the spares which they bought on the fine dron curtain and which made pomilde this stage scenery: Lily' mill and Power company, Janet hosiery mill, Belmont mill, Cham Reinhardt, South Shelby pharmacy and Quinn’s drug store, Paragon Furniture company, Cleveland Bank and Trust company, Cleveland --.w.njtanq l^oan association, t>nei b.v Hardware company Paul Wehb f s°n. A. V. Wray & G Sons, Shel by Building and Loan association, Flrst National bank, Union Trust toninany. Shelby Shoe Shop, Chas 1 ■ l'.skridgo Blue Ridge Ice Cream company; The Whiteway Dry craning, company Wakefield Flor e : hop Thc Chocolate shop, The > hflhv Drycleaning company, Ideal ■n ice station, Hawkins Bros.. ; at*°n’s Tin shop, Pendleton's Mu ®!1' st°re. Ellis Studio, Princess "‘ H'e Stenhenson’s drug com P->r,y; ( oca-Cola Bottling company, 1 icdmoiit cafe. Cutting 'Em Down Raleigh.—(INS)—The State of * Carolina or the Stato Lcp s <|,',re would not be permitted to employ more than one member of ?ne family, under a bill introduced !" | * Senate by Senator Grier of rodell. Early action is expected on 1 proposed piece of legislation. Marble Championship. ^Hendersonville, Feb. 28. (INS.)— " marble shooting championship estern North Carolina may be decided soon. Sewn Counties Have More Than 10.'"10. Guilford Leads. Meck lenburg Second. There are 5,401 automobdrs in Cleveland county. Twenty-two counties in the state have more automobiles than Cleveland county. Two nearby counties, Gaston and Catawba, have more motors than this coun ty. Gaston las 10,604; Catawba, 5,534; Lincoln, 2,800; Rutherford, 4,151; Burke, 2.375. Seven counties in the state have more than 10,000 automobiles each, and first of these is Guilford with 23,307, according to figures com piled by Sprague Silver, director of the automobile license bureau of the revenue department. Wake i county with 15,157 stands fifth, j Lincoln county has 2,890 cars. The leading counties in number of ears are: Guilford, 23,367; Mecklenburg, 23,291; Buncombe, I 16,620; Forsyth, 16,257; Gaston, ; 10,604 and Rowan, 9,454. At the bottom of the list, comer Graham with only 202 car.- own ed in the entire county; Clay, with 232 and Dare with 249. Daughter of the Lr*e Mr. and Mrs. J. I*. I). Withrow Passes at The Age of 35 Years. One of the largest crowds that ! has ever attended a funeral at Big Springs Baptist church was pres jent Sunday afternoon when Mrs. ' R. L. Thompson, nee Mattie With ; row, daughter of the late “merchant ' prince” of Hollis, J. P. D. With ! row and his wife. Funeral services | were conducted by Rev. D. G. Washburn and a number of other I ministers. Mrs. Thompson died at ; the Rutherford hospital Friday night at 9:30, leaving a new-born son just one day old. The child is healthy and normal and doing nice ly. After the birth of the child the mother never fully regained con sciousness. Mrs. Thompson was only 35 years of age. She was a very popular and beloved young woman with many of the fine traits of her sainted par ents. After her marriage she and Mr. Thompson lived at Tate Springs, Tenn., where he was clerk in one of the large hotels. They had expected to go to Florida last fall, but owing to the illness of her father, Mr. Withrow, she remained at Hollis to do what she could for him. Surviving are her husband, the infant son and one brother, Mr. Grady Withrow who is continuing the mercantile business at Hollis established by his father. Herman Eskridge, head of the j Shelby Fire Department, vitally j interested in fire prevention, and cutting down the fire loss, has i prepared for The Star the follow* j ing data on the monetary loss to ! this state annually from fire, the I information appertaining to a I forthcoming fire prevention and ■ clean-up campaign which is to he put on a nation wide scale. I Mr. Eskridge’s communication I is as follows: A "Fire Prevention Clean-Up ! Campaign" will be inaugurated by the National Fire Protection association, to be conducted throughout the United States and i Canada during the third week in | April. This clean up drive is in addition to Annual Fire Preven tion Week, which is held in the fall. I will expect the citizens of Shelby to cooperate with me in this drive and hope that we will be able to make it a success in Shelby. Tne total fire loss for North Carolina in 192(5 was $6,049,032. These figures are a little less than , those for 1925. The loss to proper ty in 1926 was $1,664,642 in Small towns only. The average per ; capita loss being 2.98 for the , state. The loss per day being a I little more than $18,211.00. j I hope that the people of Shel I by will do all that they can to i help me lower these figures for i 1927 and the way in which we can do the most to make these fig jures less is to prevent fire. Keep In Style And Informed With The Star’s Feature News Observant readers of The Star within recent we^ks will have noticed that the paper has added two informing features appearing in each issue—Paris Style Hints and the Daily News Letter. With the hope that these two features, to ho carried regularly hereafter by the paper, will,be of ival worth t< the thousands of Star readers a little information concern ing them might be timely. Paris Style Hints will when pos sible be found on the social page of each issue of the paper. These hints are passed along by Alice Langelicr, staff cor respondent of the International News Service in Paris. Each day she tells of the latest fads and style* for milady as seen about the shops and streets of gay Puree where’the : stvies comes front. And her hints are written in an inter esting style with an ever interesting topic to women. The Daily News Letters come from INS correspondent the world over. The one today may be of interesting sid< - | lights in Rome that one never reads in the regular news columns, tomorrow it may be from New York, and the next day from Constantinople, or some center in another country or America. Once you start reading them they will prove one of the most interesting sections of the paper. Both the Paris Style Hints and Daily News Letters are rushed daily to Shelby from the New York INS office. These features together with the regular INS service, the NEA photo service, full local, county and slate news re ports help make The Star the South’s newsiest payer outside the daily field. Watch these features sure. Cotton Dresses And Stocking Fad Fails To Take Good In This State ^'harlotte.—The epidemic of cotton dresses, that has been ’v- onj, jr rities in the south, has failed 10 “take” among' the wo i men of Charlotte, j Silkj is still the standard. | There are, it was learned yestor i day, a few of the high school girls ' who started wearing light cotton ! garments during the warm days of j last week, but as yet ihere has | been nothing general. I The style in cotton goods was begun in the hope that if cotton became fashionable, the price in ; the south’s staple would be boost i ed. It was pointed out by experts that the last few years have seen silk dresses in constant use, while the cotton stockings and under wear have been practically dis carded. A “cotton” party was given last spring by the woman’s club tit which nothing but Vo*ton was rero in an effort- to popularize the cot ton garments. Style authorities in Charlotte stores say that cotton will be in creasingly popular this year and will, in part, supplant silk. This it is said, is very largely the re suit of the effort of the women tr aid the farmers. North Carolina Produces The Smokes hi Quantity—Just Read Over TKra i iNortn Carolina tooacco factories 'in 1926 put out 52,546,883.000 cig | arettes, according to estimates made on the basis of the tax pay ments on the product. ! 1. The state produced enough | cigarettes in 1926 to provide one | smoker using a pack a day enough j cigarettes to last him 7.118,066 years. j 2. North Carolina cigarettes laid out in the well-known end to end | fashion, would circle the equator 91 times and would be equal to . the distance between the earth and I the moon. j 3. The state produced enough cigarettes during the year to i provide a cigarette a day for I every man and every child in the : United States and ’ have 10,750, i 889,000 left over. That’s a lot of cigarettes. 1 No figures have yet been pub lished by the bureau of the cen sus on cigarette production but North Carolina paid $157,527,667 in cigarettes taxes. It was stated at the bureau of internal revenue that every three dollars of tax represent approximately 1,000 cig arettes. Figure it out for your self. Gault To Manage Telephone Here Former Gaffney Manager Takes Charge Here. Has Good Service Record | bam M. Gault, manager of the | Gaffney telephone exchange foy , 12 years and several years dis trict manager of the Piedmont] Telephone and Telegraph com- ! pany, has been transferred to Shelby as manager of the loco! (exchange division, it is learned. He has been succeeded there by J. B. Harmon, recently manager at Kings Mountain. The changes were made last week. The transfer of officials follows the recent absorption of ihe Pied mont Telephone and Telegraph company by the Southern Bell system. The Piedmont concern, which had headquarters at Gas tonia, operated in a number of j North and South Carolina cities. The Gaffney Ledger says of Mr. Gault: “Under the management of Mr. Gault the local telephone busi ness has grown steadily, the num ber of instruments in service here j more than doubling during the 12 j years. Mr. Gault is personally popular, and many Gaffney people regret that the business change will take him and his family away from this city. He has been an ac tive member of the Cherokee County Poultry association, and has done much towards assuring j the success of that growing or ganization.” 300 Petition For Annual Cou:/ty Audit Thrbe Petitions Bearing 300 Sig natures Are Sent To Raleigh Three petition:! were forwarded Saturday to Representative I>. T. Fails, Raleigh, a,: king that he and Senator Tom Fulton enact a law calling for an annual audit of the books of the county by certified accountants and that the result of such audit be published in some newspaper in the county for the information of the tax payer. A well known citizen who had much to do with the circulation ;>i' the petition says that three others are out and will be gathered in within a few days to be sent to IJ/aleigh to re-enforce) the three that have already been sent. The three petitions which have been forwarded were circulated mainly in Shelby, Fallston and Kings Mountain. The circulation of the petitions asking for an annual county audit does not mean to insinuate that there is anything wrong with the county’s financial affairs, says one of the sponsors of the petitions. It is simply a safety precaution. Publicity usually dispells suspic ion. Already there is an audit made quarterly by the county recorder and auditor and these audiis are published but the men responsible for the petition want disinterest ed parties to make a full and com plete audit and make publication of an itemized statement of all re ceipts and disbursements. Training School At First Baptist The training school for teacher.; officers and other Sunday school workers of the Kings Mountain Baptist association opened last night at the First Baptist church with the largest enrollment on re cord. Twenty-three of the churche of the association are represented in the classes which are being taught by Rev. J. F. Byrd. I). I*., Sunday school, secretary of Missis sippi, Miss Lillian C. Forbes, ele mentary secretary of the Baptist Sunday school board at'Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. O. M. Gerald, elemen tary secretary of the Georgia Bap tist Sunday school beard and Harrv M. Pippin, assistant pastor of the First Baptist churen. An inspirational address is de livered each evening by Rev. Dr. Byrd and these addresses will no doubt be largely attended. Tha training course continues through Friday night of this week. \ i; • mint nt Attorn1 vs Here Satur day Ip ltig Litigation Invr’v ing Huge Sum. Following n hearing here Satur day Judge James L. Webb has taken under advisement the man datnus suit against the Wiscassett •-.nil.- of Albemarle involving one million seven hundred thousand dollars. S'-inie of. the most prominent at torneys in the state appeared here; in the trial, one of them terming , the suit the most important bit of I tip corporation litigation to come , in the state in 10 ydars. Owing to the importance of the | ease it was decided to file ft*! briefs before Judge Webb in addi tion to the complaints and «•»> wei so that he might thoroughly • ider the ease. Directors Differ i Oddly enough two directors of fh«* l :g plants opposed each other in the cast differing legally as to v hot shm-ld he dote with a <r'»nt sum in wh'eh both have an inter* - t. Th suit is brought by At ‘*>rm*y A I, brooks* of rjr^e. boro. representing the plaintiff, , and he himself is a director of the ! mill against which the action is 1 taken. K T. Canslcr, of Charlotte, is o' e of the defense lawyers and he too a director of the mill. The action is brought, hy J, F. and M. I,. Cannon, of the promin jf'! Cannon well krown in manu I ^during circles, they seeking to | compels directors of the mills to | pay out in dividends the surplus of the company over and above the capital and working stock. This sum it is said totals $1,700,000. ,J j F. Cannon is said to own 25 per cent of the stock in the mills, which are considered among the most prosperous in the country. Attorney Brooks for the plain tiff contends that there i,s a stat ’’nfe 'thJtf says such surplus slioulc , he declared in dividends to stock , holders and defense attorneys , consider it an important point as perhaps in future corporation af fairs it might establish a precedent as to stockholders compelling di rectors to declare dividends. The Cannons, it is said, petitioned the directors for the dividens and were refused before bringing the ac tion. Judge to Moke Anothem Decision In Shelby Church Matter Dur ing Lexington Court. Lexington. Feb. 28.—The cele i brated \\ ay salary case in which Rev. C. B. Way, of this city, form i er pastor of the Methodist ProteV ! tant church at. Shelby, in Cleveland county, brought suit in the courts to recover $328.0(1 back salary alleg ed due him for services as pastor, , was in Davidson county superior court here last week. A motion to vacate judgment secured by the plaintiff was discussed before Judge John M. Oglesby by counsel j for the defendant church and the i plaintiff pastor. I The judgment against the church ! for unpaid salary was secured fol lowing the decision of the Supreme court in affirming Judge Shaw, of Greensboro, in holding that a church is liable for the payment of | pastor’s salary. Judge ugiesny called tor the til ; ing with him of briefs on the case ' and he has the facts in the case un der consideration and is expected j to render a decision as to the mo tion to vacate the judgment. His decision is expected before the end I of the present term of superior court which will end March 4. The action started in recorder’s court here nearly a year ago has attracted wide interest during that period, an appeal in the recorder’s ! court taking it to the Davidson ! county superior court and from that ' court it was carried to the Supreme . court. With the hearing here the case is destined to go through the courts to the Supreme court again, according to an intimation of the counsel for the church. That church is not legally bound to pay the full amount of the former pas tor’s salary is the contention of the defense. BaLies in arms are prohibited at ! Aimee Semple McPherson’s meet ing in Idianapolis. Fortunate babies! Claude Weathers Returns To 'Town While Searching Party Drags River For His Body Believing Him Murdered—Was Kidnapped Negro Kills Woman Then Shoots Self At Kings Mountain Coroner Eskridge Proclaim • East Death Suicide, First Colored Suicide In Countc Eliza Boyd, married negro wo- j man, and Jaivu “Son" \ in ns, j. also colored, are dead ;.t K e Mountain in what is believed to be a ki 11 iner and suicide of Saturday : night. The suicide of the man I- be- i lieved to be one of the fir t in stances on record where a colored man has killed himself in this section of the country. The details of the double E l irtg as learned from Coroner Esk ridge are these insofar as the cor oner’s jury could learn: Adams and the woman were standing at the door of a raft Saturday night in Kings Mountain when it is presumed thai Adams j began shooting the woman. There j were no eye-witnesses to either j shooting. Bullets front the gun J came through the door into the (cafe, it is said. Those in the cafe ] rushed out found the woman with ; her body riddled with five shot,* | and she w as taken to a Gastonia | hospital where she died. I Sunday morning Adams’ body ! was found in a nearby field, a | bullet hole through his hodv near j his heart and his gun clutched in ‘a hand stiff with death. I The verdict of the coroner was I suicide, it being presumed that in ! leaving: the scene of killing the ! negro shot himself. Some ere of the opinion that it might be occi dental suicide, the negro falling upon his gun in the getaway. Just what lay behind the killing no one knows. Nobody heard the man and woman arguing and the shots bringing death to her came ■as a surprise. The woman w*s the wife, it is said, of Miles Boyd, and j has four children. The husband j interrogated about the matter I kliew nothing concerning it and I could give no explanatory why ; Adams should kill his wife. | Those on Coroner T. C. Esk ridge’s jury rendering the suicide ■ decision were: Moffett Wolfe, C, i L. Reynolds, Tom Braford. Ed. I Patterson, Chas. Dilling and M. H. j Austell. I _ 1 Wilson’s Brother Dies At Baltimore ! Daughter of War-Time Chief’s Brother .Married Kings Moun tain Boy. Lives in Tenn. Joseph R. Wilson, only brother of the late President Woodrow Wil son, died early Saturday at Malti ' more of Brights disease. He was ] 59 years of age and is survived by i his widow and one daughter. Mrs. I Alice Wilson McElroy. Burial serv ice^ were in Clarksville, Tenn., his former home. Mrs. McElroy, who had been in Baltimore for a week.! accompanied the body to Clarks ville. Mrs. McElroy, the only daughter was married at the White House ; (luring the administration of her dip j I tinguished uncle. Her husband if. the son of Dr. McElroy, pastor of ! the Presbyterian church at Kings ! Mountain. ; B. And L. Elects Former Officers •—■— The Shelby and Cleveland Coun ty Building and Loan association ! held its annual meeting on Wed nesday, February 23, 1327. The financial report of the secretary showed this association to he in fine shape financially. This asso ciation has notv been in operation for 17 years and have never lost I a dollar. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: A. C. Miller, president; R. T. Le | Grand, vice-president; .Ino. P. Mull, secretary and treasurer. All the old directors were elected for another year. Mr. LeGrand being added to the board. This is one of the oldest and soundest financial institutions of the city and hun dreds of people have been helped to own their homes by this in stitution. Highs Win From Deaf Cage Team Playing here Friday night in the Tin Can the Shelby High quint defeated the Morganton School for the Deaf, 21 io 10 in a game of , considerable interest. I Beam, Shelby center, was the [leading scorer of the game, Shelby Stages Most Sensational Mystery j Hunt For Hours. Missing Man Says He Was Doped And Kidnaped. (":;*u(ie Weathers, prominent local bridge contractor, for v. ho; »• bodv hundreds of Shelby and Cleveland county neople 3 searched late Friday night and a half day Saturday believ ing him h> have been murdered, is back at his home here at tendin'.' to his usual duties today and has been back since $ before noon Saturday. Shelby’s most sensational mystery hunt, which began 3 at midnight Friday and held sway up and down the*thickets | ol a river bank until Saturday at 11 o’clock, came to an nb nipt halt when the missing man, believed to have been mur- s, dernl, telephoned a message that he was living. An hour q0$, o later he drove up to his home in a car that he had sold dijj the previous day and related a startling kidnaping story thas^ presented a fitting background for what Shelby believed for '* hours to be the town’s first real murder mystery in TO ycarst Jn the history of the town excite ment perhaps has never run higher than during the early morning hours Saturday and over the week end the population gathered in groups and discussed the early alarm together with the perplexing kidnapping that brought it about, recording to the story related by Weathers. Ijie Mystery Search. The Star ascertaining the facts as far as possible finds the open ing of the excitement something ; like this: Friday, Weathers, a son ; of Z. B. Weathers, and couneete.l with the Weathers building and con ; crete making enterprises, journey ed to Gaffney, S. C., to sell his Hudson coach. Late in the after i noon he returned and after supper i mentioned to his family that he should go out to a small construc tion shack on the Second Broad 1 river about two miles from town | and secure a tape line that had been j left out. At this juncture it should i he stated that Mr. Weathers was su j pervising the erection of the new | Wesson bridge over the river at that point, the location of the bridge being, in a secluded -dale surround* ed by hills covered with thickets and heavy undergrowth. l>fore leav j ing for the camp, some time be tween 6 and 7 o’clock he mention : ed that ho had the money in his ! pocket. $550 in hills, which he had received for his car and it’s said, his | father remonstrated against his going out to the isolated shack with the money on him. The banks be. ing closed so that *je money could not be deposited. However, Weath ers borrowed his father’s Ford roadster and preceded to the shack. Worry About Him. Several hours pnssed by and he did not return, but his family at tlie time did not become worried, believing that he had stopped at the Masonic temple on the return trip to attend the regular monthly Masonic meeting, he being an of ficer of the lodge and one of the most regular attendants. However about 11 o'clock his family became worried at his continued absence and driving by Ihe Masonic temple it was noticed that the lights were out and the meeting over. There upon a member of the family tele phoned another Masonic officer and learned that Weathers had not been to the meeting at all. His fath or then fearing something had hap pened, and rememb»ring the large sum of money, drove out the road to the bridge construction scene. There he found the Ford roadster but no trace of his son. Consider ably excited he returned to town and secured officers and others to go with him back for a search. Find Hat and Blood. Officers upon arriving at the scene immediately made a search of the small shack used for a tool house and therein found the hat of the missing man with a cut through the crown. About shack on sticks and ground were red spots thought to be blood and on r. piece of roof ing inside was a new deck of cards that had not been shuffled. In addi tion to this the searching party also found the pocketbook of the miss ing man stripped of practically ev erything except a Masonic card. The finding immediately left the impression that the missing man hd beaen held up and robbed of the money, and either severely injured or killed and his body thrown into the nearby river or s»me of the thickets or undergrowth. At that juncture the search for the body became general. Hundreds Gather. By 9 o’clock Saturday morning the excited searching party had grown to three or four hundred people who walked the river banks and the woods near the shack while a boat was being used to drag the river in search of the body. At that time almost general belief was that the missing man had been murder ed. Arrest Three Negroes. Three negroes who worked for Weathers in the bridge construe tinn work had already been arrest ed and placed irrjqil. The negroes denied all knowledge of what had transpired at the snack during the night and claimed that they hod not been about the building during the day Friday as no work had beer, done that day. Conjectures as to why and how the missing man had been killed or kidnapped were many. Some tried to connect the new deck of cards with the miss ing man, while general opinion was that the money he had received for his car and carried with him was behind the entire matter. The Hunt Continues. Throngs continued to arrive dur ing the early forenoon und when the search ended one of the most ex cited crowds in the history of the county was on hands, some assist ing, while others stood by. word Arrives. The search was broken up just before noon when Policeman Pos ton drove to the scene and state that a telephone message had bee received from Weathers statin; that he would be home from Gas tonia soon and that he would ex ^ plain what had been an awfc night to him. The crowds the surged back to their cars com in to the bus station and city ha I where the streets and sidewall ! were blocked for an hour or moi ! until it was learned that Weather had arrived snortly before at hfe home. Weather’s Own Story. At his home a short time latev the man who had been missing for | about 18 hours related to officers, newspaper men and others the ex periences he had undergone. Even after hearing the complete story the affair is still tinged with mystery and will perchance remain perplex ing until the man to whom Weath ers originally sold the ear is ap prehended. Weathers’ story follows: “Thursday I was in Gaffney, S. C., on business and wftile there met a man giving his name as J. P. Wern and during a conversation with him 1 interested him in my car and contracted to sell it to him for $550, with the understanding that I was to deliver the car there Fri day. Shortly after noon Friday, I left Shelby for Gaffney, prior to that time consulting a lawyer about transferring the title. Arriving in Gaffney, 1 inquired at Smith’s ga rage for Wern and they told me they did not know him. Later 1 ran upon Wern on the street and wo traded. He gave me $550 in cash and saw me place it in my purse, the one that was found in the shack empty. At the time I remember ho - asked me if I was going back to Shglbyt but did not inquire how. I returned home by bus by way of Kings Mountain and reached Shejby about 4 or 5 o’clock. Saw Somebody. “After supper I decided to go back to the shack and put up the tools as we were not going to work Saturday and I did not want them out over the week end. I drove my father’s roadster. Before reaching the scene I thought that perhaps I had better hide part of the money so that if anything did turn up in the out-of-the-way place no one could get all of it. The bank was closed when I came home and it was impossible for me to depos (Continued on Page Eight) Lattimore Played In Western Meet The Lattimore high school bas ketball quint returned late las' week from Mars Hill where th cagers participated in the wester Carolina basketball tournamen" Coach Falls boys wone one gam before being eliminated. The tournament was won by th Leicester highs who defeated th Forest City was also eliminated i . the tourney. Farm school in the final