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THE CLEVELAND STAR Shelby, N. C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Subscription I'rice BJ Matt, per year __•----$-.60 Ay Carrier, per year -----—...-—- $3.W The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS President RENN DRUM . . Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005, at the post-office tt Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 5, 1870. We 'wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been anr custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards >f thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been pub lished. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, MAY 2. 1027. w* TWINKI.ES. Old King Cot ton may si ill be on the throne in these parts, but he seems to be vamped by some silken-elad queen, or several. . Have you contributed yet to the flood relief fund? Just because the raging waters are receding do not get the idea that the suffering and want has ended. Henry Ford may be the world’s richest man, but ere long A1 Smith will bo running him a race as the world’s best press-agented citizen. And the front page stuff is free. Otto Wood started a row in the State Prison “death row’’ - the other day, and we hereby claim the honors of being first to get the “one man crime wave’’ back in the paragraphs. North Carolina is Rearing considerable talk these clays about the state’s champion hikers, male and female, but when the records are chalked up the fact that we have a few l'airly good runners in Our Bob and Miss Julia shouldn’t be overlooked. One may be inclined to worry about Andy and Min’s, financial hereafter, even including little Chester, but since it is Springtime Ye Twinkler believes Unde Bim Gump has as much right to let his fancy wander to the Widow Zan der as do any other gumps in the season of Springtime, heart-beats. « One candidate for alderman in the city election today says that he has been accused of lining up with “the ring” and he’s wanting to know who “the ring” is so as to deter mine the quality of the company he’s said to be keeping. Without giving him any real information Ye Twinkler would say that he should do very little worrying either way. There may be a ring in Shelby, but as doubtful as the ordinary citi zen is about who may he elected today a ring, or any other political circle, doesn’t seem to have done much monopoliz ing. PICKING BIG DEMOCRATS John Maynard Harlan, prominent Republican, is now ./conceded the honor of being the man who “uncovered” Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic party in 1912 and gave the party one of its greatest readers. R. It. Clark, .writing in the-Greensboro News,-rises to remark: “Thought the honor had been firmly cinched by Colonel George Harvey, who afterward wished he hadn’t." Wilson has had a number of finders, as we remember, bpt the big thing in our mind now is for some fellow to do aome more uncovering to relieve the present muddle. CONGRATULATIONS, MAYOR By the time this is read by those who go home1 late from Jheir work this evening the next mayor of Shelbv will have been elected. A few hours later the vote will be tabulated and it will be another two years before Shelby picks Hizzoner all oyer, ihe Star would take this premature opportunity of - congratulating him, whoever, he may be. May he have the s ipport of the entire town. Ditferences of a campaign, if there were any, should he forgotten with every citizen pull ing together tor an improved Shelby. ROAI) SIGNS ANI) WIVES Editorial pmagraphers of the present day occasionally remind their readers of the days when Mark Twain and 6. Henry dashed off humorous thoughts with points attached. The Montgomery Advertiser tells of the following road sign found in the West: “Four thousand and sixty-seven people died from gas list year. Twenty-seven inhaled it. Thirty-one struck a match to it; the rest of ’em stepped on it.’ The Columbia State queries about Eve being a model wife as follows: “No one contends that Eve was a model wife, hut she tried to be a goad provider for Adam, as is evi denced by the undisputed facts that she cooked his goose, made a hash of his affairs, stewed a pretty kettle of fish.' spilled the beans in gener.il, and her cake was all dough, just because she sampled the devil’s brew.” WAS METHUSELAH DROWNED? The question and answer craze has brought forth a rage for information. News dispatches of the day reveal marly unusual bits cf knowledge and supposition advanced by an swers. Somebody asked how Methuselah died and along comes a church saying that he was drowned in the flood. The news item from Boston reads: Methuselah, famed for his age. might have lived even lunger had he not been left out in the rain at the time of the Flood. At least that is the conclusion reached in a report by members of thi Brookline Inter-Church council following an exhaustive -study of the question, “Why wasn’t Methuselah with his grandson, Noah, on the Ark V’ The report refers to Genesis 5:25 to show that Methuselah was 187 years old when Noah’s father, L-mech, was born. According to Genesis 5:28, Lemech was 182 when Noah was born, and (Genesis 7:0, Noah was 690 when the flood came. Totalling these figures the council found that it was 960 years from the birth of Methuselah to the time of the flood. They pointed to Genesis 5:27, which says that “all the days cf Methuselah were 969. years and he died.’’ This proves, according to the council, that when the flood came Noah gathered his menagerie and entered the ark, leaving his vener able grandfather out in the rain. • . „ SPIRIT OF TOLERANCE America isn’t broad-minded enough. That’s the charge made by a recent foreign visitor of note. The critics of his statement ran their rage through several columns, but a sane view is that the visitor was not so far wrong after all. There may be considerable graft in various affairs over the country ! public ami semi-public, and humans are not perfect in any circle, business, professional or social. |L . The other fellow usually has right sound reasons for his . beliefs and convictions. Too many people pass snap judg-l merit and take warped views of public acts. ' I a The public official these days who sells the bonds ofijthe town, city, state or nation he governs is lucky if he gets by without some person with a slant brain remarks that “he’s getting his.” Sinclair Lewis’ unjust novel introduces an era in which ministers and their actions fall under the same narrow-minded criticism. It is an old maxim of the backwoods that “the fellow who thinks everybody else crooked is not so straight him sdf.” The Spartanburg Herald commenting on tolerance says: The Newberry Observer quotes the following utterance from Voltaire, the famous French philosopher: “I disagree with every word you say, but will defend with my life your right to say it.” Had Voltaire written or uttered no other sentence, that would have insured his name perpetuity with all who think and reason and grapple with life and its problems the world over, from generation to genera tin'; . Our Newberry contemporary suggests that we all practice this sentiment, and try to give our fellowman the right to his opinion and ts expression without imputing to him sinister, selfish or unworthy motive . S»eh a course, if universally adopted, would bring about a revolution devoutly te be wished. There is a spirit of intolerance and prejudice and bigetry abroad in the land in every sphere of human activity, rot confined to politics, business or religion. A certain man i selected to head some organization, and the usual question encount er, d from the cynic: “What does he get out of it?” Some benevolent or philanthropic soul expresses himself, cither by word of mouth or in prir.t, on come issue, and however sincere and disinterested the action, at once there are those who echo and re-echo; “He’s financially inter ested, you know,” and with a wink or a nod leave the1 impressive that such is the case when nothing could be further from the truth. It is tins spirit of cynicism and intolerance that to a degree keeps some men, admirably adapted and equipped for the public service, to enough alone" predominates. If there is one thing needed in this age it is a spirit of tolerance broadmindedness and liberality among mankind and womankind the world over. When we disarm suspicion and doubt and conjecture and are billing to admit that others have convictions and are not only en t tied to them but to expressing them, however at variance with our, own, this will be a "better world to live in.—Spartanburg Herald, shrink frem offering themselves for office, and as a result, “let well SCHOOL PROPERTY SHOWS GAIN OVER Nows and Observer. Value of school houses and school, property used for elemen tary and secondary educational purposes in North Carolina in creased from $70 705,835 in value in 1925 to $84,541,828 in 1920, the current issue of State School Facts states. AVith the value of school houses and property increasing year by year, the number of school houses steadily decrease. Consolidation of | rural schools, with large invest ments in modern school structures, I is the primary cause for the in crease. in value of the school I property. Figures compiled by L. H. Jobe editor of the publication, reveal that the value of tlie school prop erty last year was more than three tunes the value of property n®ed frtr similar pur ^'ses , dllring the school year of 1920-21, or more than 20 times the value of that used in 1905-00, An indication of the mergin'* of the “little red schoolhouses’’ into twentieth century structures is seen in the gradual reduction from year to year of the number of ele mentary and secondary education al structures. At the close of the school year 1925-20. there were 0.795 schoolhouses in which ele mentary and hitrh sch ml instr-ir tion was given to both the wh!*» and colored school children of the state. Two yen'® nrev’ons. 1023 24, there were 7,359 schoolhouses used for this purpose: and in 1904-05 there were 7 375. Consolidat’cn of schools, 00° of the maioT hobbies of State Super 'n*°n ent \ T. Allen, has “arriv tpd" with leaps and bounds durn** ♦he Past three y*ars. The result hss been that larger and better. I school structures have been ercct : "d in every county throughout the state. The )v ak in th- number of schoolhouses in the state was readier) in 1914-15 when there | were 8 049 sehpothouses—5.040 for white en l 9 409 foe colored— i in North Carolina. Five years later. 1920, there were 7.094 and in 1925 there were 7.0R6. One year later there Were <5.795, of which 4,402 were for whites and 2.393 for colored. The decrease in num ber in one year amounted to 291. Editor Jobe states that the aver age value of each school plant in the state last year was $12,306. as compared to an average value in1 1904-05 of $432. or in 1918-19 of $1,798. From 1919-20 to 1924-25 the value of schoolhouses in North Carolina trebled, he writes, i Bv 1929-30, he thinks the value ! will reach $30,000, if the present1 rate obtains. From charts and table in School 1 Facts it is ascertained that 54 per cent of the white school prop erty is in the rural districts. This is not considered surprising in view of the fact ihat 75 per cent of the white enrollment last year was in rural schools. The average value of the rural schoolhouses for white children is I $9,727; whereas for city children) the average schoolhouse has a value of $102,550. Value of the ) rural school in average is kept j down by the large number of j small schoolhouses still in use in the rural districts. Good roads, which have resulted ! in rural school children being en ahled to reach school more eas-; ily, has made the path of con- ‘ solidation less difficult, he writes, j The !>erage schoolhouse used by the rural colored children was valued at $124 in 1904-05 and $1, 068 in 1925-26, where as the aver | age schoolhouse used by the city colored children was valued at $3,134 in 1904-05 and $31,069 in 1926-26. J Twenty-two years ago the value ; of rural school property per whit J child enrolled was $4,79; whereas in the same year the average value of city property per child enroll ed was $37.61. Last year the value per white child in the ‘ rural dis tricts was $92.53 and for city children $250.41. For colored rural children the value was $18.96 and for city children $86.94. There are more schoolhouses used for the education of the white children of Wilkes county than any other rural system, 121. There are fewer schoolhouses for white children in Camden county, eight. TRY QTAR IDS Iky uta'r Hds MHWlES STB IK MURDER 111: SOUS SOME Blames Cray, Her Lover, For Brut tal Murder of Husband. Says He Was The Slayer. New York,—Holding high h. v blonde head, Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder, took the stand Friday and denied she killed, or plotted to kill, her husband, Albert Snyder, maga zine art editor. i Her denial, accompanied by tears, was categorical. She repudiated hei t confession as a statement obtained under duress and, after denying snecific points, denied it in toto. Point by point she was taken over the state’s case, denying that sic schemed to get her husband insured for $50,000 and then plotted his death. She fixed upon Henry Judd Gray, her corset salesman paramour, the responsibility for the killing. Fought With Gray. Not only did she deny participa tion in the crime, but she told of a struggle with Gray in her hus band’s bedroom, where she grappled with him, she said, in a last desper ate effort to save her husband’s life. Gray, she said, pushed her so hard she fell on the floor in a faint and, when she levivod, made her agree to tell a tale of burglary by two Italians. She complied, she said “in mdrtal fear.” ! She was ou the stand, riady for cross-examination when court ad journed this afternoon until Mon day morning. Her testimony follow ed upon that of several witnesses called in her behalf, including her mother, Josephine Brown. Opening addresses were made by counsel for both defendants. Counsel for Mrs. Snyder outlined the story she told from the stand and counsel for Gray asserted they would prove that Mrs. Snyder, “a serpent woman,” not only’ plotted but actually killed Albert Snyder, to get his insurance, and that Gray was a tool. Attracted by the report that Mrs. Snyder would take the stand to bare her life, people poured into Long Island City from Manhattan and added their number to those drawn from Queens village and oth er nearby places. When court »e sumed after lunch, the time Snyder was expected to testify, the crowd jammed around the court room door. Reporters fought for half an hour to get through the mob, and only got through when j police ejected hundreds without: passes. The court room was packed yhen Mrs. Snyder was called to the^st-aed shortly after 2 o’clock. She woia the costume usual with her since the trial began—black hat, black coat and black dress. Henry Judd Gray sat chin in hand, almost in differently, as she told her story, rousing himself once when she tolu of seeing him astride her husband as he lay in bed, bludgeoning him with a sashweight and at other points, shaking his head slightly as a in a disagreement with her story. Mrs. Snyder’s testimony was given, for most part, in unusually good English, spoken in a modu lated but at times, metallic voice. She cried when she spoke of her husband being angry because their daughter Lorraine .now 5) years old. was not a boy. She wept a sec ond time when she described Gray’s bludgeoning of her husband. A headlight adjustment clinic designed to instruct mechanics and electrical station employes in ac cord with rules and regulations of the North Carolina State Highway I commission will be held here Wed nesday evening. May 11 on the li t located at W. Marion street ad joining the garage, it was announc ed today by Chas. L. Eskridge who I is directing the local work. Garage owners, mechanics and electrical station employes who expect to ren der official headlight adjustments must attend the clinic. Responsible garages are request ed to register their employes who will attend the clinic with Mr. Esk ridge immediately. The clinic is made necessary through certain technical rules for safe head light ing made by the State highway commission under the terms and re sponsibility of the new North Car olina state law regulating the glare of headlights. The clinic is being held by the state highway commis sion, Eskridge Motor company and the Carolina Motor club cooperat ing. The public may secure official headlight testing at this clinic fre' of charge. Car owners who desire adjustments are requested to he u* the clinic lot at 7 o’clock in the ev ening of May 11. While no certi ficates will be issued at this time, the adjustment may save consider able time and provide better light ing for the car owner without cost to him. The law requiring adjustment fo‘- ’ lows: “Section 51. The commission er is authorized tp designate, furn ish instructions to and to supervise official stations for adjusting head lamps and auxiliary driving lamps to conform with the provisions of S'V'ti'-n 47. When hdad lamps and auxiliary driving lamps have bpen adjusted in conformity with the ir^ structions issued by the commis sioner a certificate of adjustment shall be issued to the driver of the motor vehicle on the forms -issued in duplicate by the commissioner and showing date of issue, registra tion number of the motor vehicle• owner’s name, make of vehicle an ) official designation of the adjust ing station. “The driver of any motor ve hicle with approved lamps who Is arrested upon a charge that such lamps are improperly adjusted or | are equipped with bulbs of a candle power not approved for use there - with, shall be allowed 48 hours within which to bring such lanip3 into Conformance with the require REASON ENOUGH When we sell a man a used car we are naturally hoping that some day he will come back and buy a new car. Honesty aside, that alone seems reason enough for selling him a GOOD Used Car at a fair price. LITTON MOTOR CO Successors To CHAS. E. LAMBETH MOTOR CO. A USED CAP? IS ONLY AS DEPENDABLE AS THE DEALER WHO SELLS IT I One of the 4"M Hotels 1 CAIR0 4-M I COLONIAL ul' c I FAIRFAX HOTELS I MARTINIQUE WishinjIan^lC TlLDEN HALL Jill 6*1 ways A ROOM “A ROOM WITH WITH RUNNINO RRjVATt WATIR. (ATM _ !2 ?3 * OPtRATED BY MADDUX, MARSHALL. MOSSlr MALLORY mi WRITi FOR A m COPY OF.OUR. '1.00 PICTORIAL GUIDE MAP OF WASHINGTON merits of this act. It shall be a de; fense' tq any Such chadge that the person arrested produce in court a certificate from an official ad jus t> ing station showing that within 18 hours after such arrest such lamps have been made to conform with the requirements of this act." Skating And Gum Chewing Contests Gin Parties Give Away To New Crazes. Roller Skating Fad And Gum Honors. (By International News Service.) Indianapolis, Ind.-—Old-fashion ed gin parties have yielded to two new crazes in attracting the fleet ing attention of the flaming youth of Indiana. Singularly, one of these vogues is a revival of the roller skating fad that swept the country when the present fast young married set had turned sixteen. The other attraction is the eager contest for the world’s gum chewing championship, now in possession of a young man of Gary, who chewed 120 sticks sim ultaneously, a cud that weighed seven and one-half ounces. When faculty members of In diana and Butler Universities pani^hfRd the dilapidated flivvers and other cars used by the stu dents, the roller skating revival was born. Nowadays, if you don’t skate to classes, you're a bit be hind the times. r rom the institutions of learn ing, the vogue spread to the home towns of the students to such an extent that the Lake county traf fic authorities were forced to issue public warnings against skating in the streets. Like the ambitious coffee drink ers and long time dance contest ants, the gum chewing champion ship record has been broken near ly every dav for several weeks. Vernon King, of Goodland. thought he was chewing right powerfully when he chalked up 75 sticks, but his mark was gum med up a few hours later bv Buck Heisterburg, of Crown Point, who masticated 85 pieces. Michael Miller, Gary fireman, courted Lady Championship with all his Irish blarney and won her with 100 pieces, only to lose her to Carl Cupy, of Brookston, "ho had had her before with 75 sticks Cunpy’s second effort reached 101. The fickle lady, along the line,' had lilted youths of Fort Wayne and High’and, the later lad even after he had scored'.a record at a chamber of comerce party with 105 sticks. Lady Championship now is heck She Wants Bip Coin For Scar On Her Leg Baltimore. Md,—Fawn Gray, dancer, filed suit in there federal court here against the Panama Pacific Steamship romnany for $100,000 damages alleging enforc ed vaccination by physicians of the ships. She w^s bound from Panama to fulfid an engagement she declared, when ship’s doctors; forced her to he vaccinated—on* the thigh after she protested it being done on her arm. Miss Gray alleges the operation ' was performed in a “careless and reckless manner,” obPg'ng her to undergo treatment and that she! is ‘seriously and permanently in- j jured about the body and limbs.” May White Goods! — SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK_ Brighten Up Your Home. You Will Find The Items You Need At Gilmers. — BED LINENS AT A SAVINGS — 81x90 “Gilmer Special” Hemmed Sheets_Si.00 81x90 MOHAWK HEMMED SHEETS _ _ _. Si.39 81x90 MOHAWK Hemstitched Sheets __Si.59 9 42x30 MOHAWK Plain Pillow Cases, Pair S0c 9 12x00 MOHAW K Hemstitched Cases, Pair _ 9(>c 42x30 Embroidered Cases, Pair :-_- ... 50c 400 YDS. LONGCtOTH! There’s only 100 yards of this, special, soft, finish Longcloth to sell at this low price. WT.iie it lasts—Only _ STAMPED SPREADS-CASES! — PILLOW CASES — Beautifully stamped pil low eases. Ready t > em broider. See this at Gilmers. Only— — STAMPED BED Size 80x94 Stamped Bed Spreads. Beautifully stamped in Floral and ScroH Designs. A real value at ordy _, 600 YARDS NEW t' Curtain I Scrim 1 Of Cream Ecra and White. I ECIAL i Eli YD. 38 INCH MAR QUISETTE Excellent quality Mar qeictttc at a real sav ings. Per Yard_ 25c 36 INCH BROAD CLOTH Superior qr rtv White English Broadcloth. Sup ply your needs QA at sm low price OJ/ w -SCHEDULES— I«iicr-C&rohna Motor Bus Compa nv ,®helhy—the odd hours, making connection! lor Xutherfordton, Hendersonville, Asheville* and Statesville. Gastonia to Cherryvillo-^8:.to, j^iio, 4-10 310 Cherryville to Gastonia—7:15, 10 2 6 n. m Charlotte to Rock Hill—8, 10-30'4-’l5 6:15 p "• ’«—*■• •* Telephones: Ru^erL,«ft^671C: Ga8tonia Shelby 450; Shelby to VheihJ^ a’ Jni- and 1 P- «"• Rutherfordton to tsoelby—9:,0 a. m. »nd 2:15 p. m. Shelby to AsheviHe—10:»;y n. rji., 12 2 4 6 ** m ^sbe ville to Shelby-S, 9 and 11 a. m. and 2, 4 p m. ' ‘ Shelby 7:20 a. m.; 10:00 a. m.; 1 p. m.: 4:30 p. m. Lineolnton—8:3° a. m.; 11 a. m.; 3:00 p. m.; 6:30 p. rr. Schedules Subject to Change. ’’l' l' 7:l30~Ch-ar'oUo tl t0 Charlotte—'7:3C 9:30. 11.'JO, 1:30. 3 30, q‘nriftnhii * lr,e^ connection made in Kings Mountain ror over GrPcnvil!e i" the morning-One hour by over in the afternoons. ^ Ilessemer City to Charlotte—7:45, 11:45, 1:45, 3:45, 5:15, Gastonia to Charlotte, leaves every hour on the hour, from * a. m. to 8 p in. Connection made there for Rock Hill, rheri-’wiRartvn i rK’ /,r”envihe, Cramerton, Lineolnton and Cnerryville, \ork and Clever SC. U I 1
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