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SHELBY, N. U. MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advaz?e)— By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.09 THE News .THE STAR'S REVIEW. b. " . mmJ The latest on the latest trans atlantic fliers in The SUr today. (Vhere did Chamberlin land? Read the news columns. What does former Police Ch>ef g. 0. Han rick think about the changes made by the new admiuis-j [ration? Read his first public state ment since the late municipal elec tion in this issue. A vetch worm, that threatened [he Double Springs section, is now, iiider control. * ♦ * Better not take the steering nheel of a car in Cleveland county f you have had a drink. Judge Mull criil not let you drive any more for three months at least, he says in ihis issue-. a * * * How many children attend the rural schools in Cleveland county? Did a bad year on the farm have ,ny effect on the coupty schools? figures made public today by Superintendent Grigg answer both queries. Six people were injured, two very seriously, in a wreck just west of Shelby last night. • • * Want to write a letter to Lind bergh ? Postmaster Quinn tells you how today. * * * The program of the big home coming Thursday at Boiling Springs is in this paper. Write rLindy’ By Air Mail On Arrival Postmr.iter General Urges Every body to Send Letter of Wel come to Young Aviator. Write Lindbergh a letter and Bend it hy air mail to welcome him on his arrival in Washington Sat urday June 11. Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, hero flier of the world, is now en route home from France. He is expected to arrive in Washington on June 11, and will be given the greatest reception any country has ever ac corded a private citizen. The mam noth exercises at Washington will nclude the pinning of distinguish 'd flying medal on the 25-year-old aviator by President Coolidge. The ceremony will take place at the foot of the Washington monument and is expected to be seen by at least 100.000 neople. After several days of the highest honors Amerca can pay in its capital Lindbergh will fly in his plane, which is being brought "with him on the cruiser Memphis, ito New York where he will be the honor guest as the metropolis’ celebration for any individual. Oth er cities are vieing with each other to welcome him. Send a Letter. Since there will be hundreds of thousands who will not be able to welcome the young hero home Postmaster J. H. Quinn, of the Shelby nostoffice, at the request of the Postmaster General urges that letters of welcome be sent him by air mail. Mr. Quinn says: “You may not I'f able to be present in person at the national reception to Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, at Washing ton, but for ten cents you can help tnake his welcome home the most impressive national reception ever tendered any one by sending bv air nrail a personal expression of ap preciation of his great exploit that [has so redounded to the credit and [glory of American aviation. Let Shelliv and Cleveland county join heartily in this reception. All mail should be addressed: Capt. C harles A. Lindbergh, C;0 rpstmaster General, Washington h f., and should carry the air mail P®rlage, 10 cents per ounce, and the envelope marked ‘via air mail only.' These letters may be depos 'ted in any postoffice box.” Final Cotton Cron Nears 18 Million Washington.—Cotton of the 1926 P'cked and ginned amounted to 17,977,374 equivalent 600 pound “ales, the census bureau announc e,ln '^s final report after a spec 141 oanvas in May, l ^'na* K'nn*nK were Alabama MJ7,821 equivalent bales; Arie ona 122,902; Arkansas 1,647,932: California 131,211; Florida 31,964; Jfe6* L°ttie and Delia E. Beam c.. , ato Elliott returned home Judge Mull To Take Away License Of Drunk Drivers County Recorder Following Watson Exam* pie Says Every Defendant Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated In This County Will Not Be Permitted To Drive For 3 Months At Least. County Judge John P. Mull in an1 interview with The Star annouces that hereaftar ill defendants in his court convicted of operating a car, while under the influence of an in toxicant will not be allowed to drive a car in the county again for a pe riod of three months, and perhaps longer according to his discretion. Judge Mull is emphatic in his stand and says it will apply to ev ery such defendant coming into his court regardless. Based on Law. In the opinion of the recorder his decision is nothing more than the fulfillment of his duty in carrying out the letter of the law. ‘‘There ara some who interpret a loop-hole in t|ie new state law about drunken drivfers on the highways,” says Judge Mull, ‘‘but it seems plain enough for me. The law reads that upon conviction the license of the defendant ‘SHALL be taken away for a period not less than three months nor more than 12 months.’ If you will notice there is no ‘MAY about it. The word is ‘SHALL’.’ This penalty is in addition to the fine or other sentence deemed as necessary punishment by the court. Judge Tom Watson, of Winston Salem, was one of the first jurists to announce strict observance of the law and,in several cases since he has struck to his decision, news dispatches state. In speaking of the intoxicated driving law Judge Wat son said “Furthermore I am going to hold that a man is under the influence of whiskey when he has had one drink.” The interpretation of being intox icated hasn't been so closely de fined yet by Judge Mull. Stay Sober or Walk. “If they dp not want to walk they Had better stay away from the steer ing wheel of an automobile when drinking,” Judge Mull concluded. “I have about a dozen or s,o walking in this county now.* " ,r ~ ' ONES E IN THIS COUNTY Fall Army Worms Eat Cotton And Cut Corn In Double Springs Section A retch worm or a fall army worm gave the Double Springs farming section quite a scare lost week. but according to County Agent Hardin the de structive worm is vnow under control after riddling several acres of cotton and corn in that section. ' The worm, which is described by Hardin as just like the usual army worm but without dots, first made its appearance on the farms of Elijah Hamrick and J. C. Green, it is said. The worms were eating the cotton practically up and were cut ting the corn near to shreds, it is said. The county agent making a trip up there last week advised dusting with calcium arsenate and this was done with the result that the worm is thought to be under control Fly Was Killer The county agent explains that, although several bales of cotton were saved by dusting, the worm would have been under control by an enemy fly within a period of S about 10 days Every destructive in sect has a fly that is deadly to it and the county agent noticed thet jthe fly, which is deadly to the army worm, had already been at work on the*wprms and had laid eggs on practically all the worms The damage created by the worm covered about eight to 10 acres, it is said. It hqB not bqen re ported in any other sections of the county. Cotton Co-Ops Members Will Receive Million And Half Dollars This Month Raleigh, —Approximately one and one-half million dollars will be distributed this month in the final settlement with members of the North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative association, according to General Manager U. B. Blalock. All of the 120,000 bales delivered to the association last season (1926) has been sold and the last ship ments are now going out from the warehouses, Mr. Blalock explained in a report to the members today, and the office force is now work ing day and night to make the. amounts duo each member. Thirty-eight per cent of the 1926 crop was sold directly to the mills, 33 per cent exported and 29 per cent to merchants and exporters. The average netted members for short stapale cotton was 12 1-2 to 14c. Although one-fourth less cotton was delivered to the association last year than in 1925, the operacing ex pense per bale was inenreased only four cents, Jlr. Blalock points out, the operatic? cost in 1926 being $1.98 as compared with $1.94 for 1925. The carrying charge for short staple was reduced from $3.59 per bale in 1925 to $2.32 in 1926, he explained, so that the total ex ! pense cost per bale in 1926 was $4.30 as compared with $6.53 in i 1925. The total expense includes the operating cost and the carrying charges. “We have practically cut the to tal expense cost per bale to half what it was in 1922,” said Mr. Bla lock points out, the operating cost in 1926 being $1.98 as compared with $1.94 for 1925. The carrying charge for short staple was reduced from $3.59 per bale in 1925 to $2.32 in 1926, he explained, so that the total expense cost per bale in 1926 was $4.30 as compared with $5.53 in 1925. The total expense includes the operating cost and the carry ing charges. “We have practically cut the to tal expense cost per bale to half | what it was in 1922,” said Mr. Bia I lock “In 1922 our total expense i was $8.11 per bale as compared | with $4.30 last year. This reduc ! tion has been made possible by in | creased efficiency of our personnel j and by the reduction of interest rates from six to 4 1-2 per cent. IS 1927 YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER? Is 1927 to be a year without summer ? Numerous weather prophets have predicted a cooler summer generally than ever before with numerous storms, floods, and tornadoes. Locally speaking the weather so far seems to indicate that sum mer is late!in making its ar * rival to say the least. Anyway it was considerably warmer on the average a year ago than it is now. T. W. F.beltoft keeps the temperatum of each day, re cording it in the morning and evening, and according to his record for May of last year and June1 of last year as com pared with May of this year and three days of June this year it was much warmer last year. The thermometer last year was placing the mercury from 2 degrees to 16 degrees higher than this year. The weather chart for Shel by shows that the mornings in May last year and this year are about the same in tem perature but that the evenings this year are considerably cool er than last year. On the first day of May this year the temperature was the same in the morning as last year, but 14 degrees ' er in the evening. On May 10 it was warmer in the morning this year and cooler in the afternoon. On May 15 it was 15 degrees cooler this year in the evening than last year. On May 20 this year it was four degrees cooler in the evening this year than last, while on May 30 this year and last the temperature was practically the same. First day of June, this year, was cooler by two degrees. The evening of June 2 was cooler by 16 degrees. On June 3, 1926, the tempera ture in the morning was 68 and 84 in the evening. On the same date this year the morn ing temperature was the same but in the evening it was 70 degrees, or 14 degrees cooler than last year. 6 HURT IN CRASH LAST NIGHT NEAR HERE; TWO SERIOUS Car Crashes Into Another by Road side West of Shelby. Two Henrietta Men Hurt. Six people were injured, two of them seriously, and two cars badly demolished in a crash ls<?tnight about six miles west of Shelby on Highway 20 to wards Mooresboro. The two seriously injured are from Henrietta in Rutherford coun i ty. One has a fractured skull and the other a compound frac ture of the right leg and frac tured ribs. According to information obtain able here this morning a car of young men from Henrietta had stopped on the highway near the home of Fred Lovelace to fix a puncture. While they were at work another car from Forest City, said to by accupied by Bob Looney, Ruth erfordton printer, and Charles IJuntley came along and in some manner struck the Henrietta car knocking it 200 or 300 feet, it is said. Three of those at, or in the Henrietta car were injured togeth er with Fred Lovelace and his small son, Robert, who were just coming up to assist in fixing the puncture. Pink Bright, Grady Haynes, and ■ a man by the name of Morgan, all of Henrietta, and Mr. Lovelace and j his son were rushed to the hospital j here. Haynes and Lovelace were able to return home after receiv ing treatment, it was reported to day, while Bright, Morgan and the young Lovelace boy are still in the hospital. Furthermore, it is said that one of the two Forest City boys was treated upon his return home. In Had Jshape. Hospital officials stated this morning that Bright has a frac tured skull and is in a semi-con scious condition, while Morgan has a compound fracture of the right leg and also several fractured ribs. The young Lovelace boy, who is about six years of age, is said to be bruised and cut about the face but not in serious condition. The two Henrietta men were slid this morning to still be in such a condition that they were unable to tell about the accident. Details of the unusual crash ^rq hard to obtain in a definite form.' j Whether or pot the car being re paired was on the pavement is not i definitely established. Mr. Love ' lace and his son, it is said, were | coming across from their home to ! assist the Henrietta men when the | other car came along and either the impact against the Henrietta car or the Forest City car struck the two approaching. Officers here, it is said, made a trip last night to Forest City and i located one of the men, but did not locate the other at the time. County Taxes Roll In Books Disclose _ With the end of the limit for advertising and sale of property for county taxes near the late taxpayers are making somewhat of a rush to Sheriff Logan’s office, j It is estimated at the sheriff’s office that only about one percent of the entire county taxes is now j unpaid. Last year less than one I percent remained unpaid, and it is likely that the same will be true this year when the tax books are turned over to the commissioners for property sale on July 1. Lutz Goes With Best Furniture Roscoc Lutz who for a number of years has been connected with I Paragon Furniture company has ac | cepted a position with the John M. Best furniture company giving his attention to both undertaking and furniture. Recently the Paragon sold its undertaking department to Jack Palmer who operates the Palmer Funeral home. Mr. Lutz is a licensed embalmer and will be a fine addition to the Best store or ganization. —Hr.teher Back—Hatcher Webb is back in Shelby, arriving last night from a month spent in Hot Springs, Ark., Mr. Webb says the big resort is a little skimp on pat ronage owing to the flood. Telling of the big disaster, he said when he passed over the Miss'ssippi at Memphis he found a river virtual ly 40 miles wide More o; less all the state highways are flooded, he declared, but be said the people are cheerful, taking their losses in good temper ami philosophically, “They will make no farm crops ou there this .ear”, he asserted. ! Grigx Credits Decrease In Rural School enrollment to Moving Away From Farm A bad season on the farm— rather low prices for farm products—resulted in a de crease in enrollment in the rural schools of Cleveland county during the school year just ended,'’ according to an , opinion expressed by J. H f Grigg, county superintendent of schools. The total enrollment in rural school of the county during the year just closed was 9,521 pupils, 7.096 of which were white and 12,425 colored. On the previous year, 1925-26, the total enroll ment was 9,618. A decrease of 97 students in the enrollment despite the growth of the county, is attri buted to numerous families moving away from the farm with the children being enrolled in the city 1 schools of the county. Two Decreases j The enrollment this year *was .nearly 500 below that of the en rollment two years ago, but ap | proximately 400 students of this 'enrollment decrease in rural 'schools is explained by the fact t that the South Shelby and East ! side schools were taken into the corporate limits of Shelby and be came town schools. High School Increase An increase in high school pup ils was shown during the past year. In 1926-27 there were 744 students in the rural high schools of the county as compared with only 584 during the previous year. The average daily attendance in rural schools last year was 4,994 white pupils and 1,534 colored pupils, or a total of 6,528 rural pupils in school every day. The attendance average for the whites was 70 percent and .63 percent for the colored. Near Hundred Schools There is a total of 87 rural in the county, 55 of which are for white students and 32 for the colored. A summary made of school ex penses last year shows that $135, 765.15 was paid out in teachers’ salaries. The interesting information about the rural schools of the coun ty came from the budget of school expenses and operation being pre pared by Supt. Grigg as required to be turned over to the county commissioners by the new state wide budget law for counties. In a few weeks it is hoped to be able to publish the entire budget for Cleveland county rural schools to gether with an article of simplify ing an explanation as to how much is spent on the schools of the county, where and why. The first suit resulting from the wreck last August near Gas tonia when the Crescent Limited, crack passenger train on the Southern struck a truck one Sun day afternooij, killing six girls who were riding thereon, was tried in Gaston Superior Court last week. Clyde R. Hoey.’s cap bears another feather because he won the $50,000 suit for'the Southern railway. W. F. Wright, father of Bertha Wright, driver of the ill fated truck which attempted to cross the Southern tracks when Crescent .Limited bore down upon it, was suing for the death of his daughter, Bertha Wright. The trial of the case lasted four or five days in the Gaston court. On Friday the jury returned a ver dict awarding the plaintiff nothing on the ground that the Southern was at no fault. It was alleged at the time of the accident, a freight train was passing on the double track when the girls rid ing the truck reached the crossing and that when the freight passed, they attempted to cross and were struck by the Crescent Limited going in the opposite direction on the second track. Evidence at the trial tended to show that the freight train was not in sight, at the time, but did pass shortly aft er the tragedy. The jury held, therefore, that the death of the Wright girl was due to no negli gence whatever on the railroad company. li will be recalled that four girls riding the truck were killed outright and that two later died from injuries received at the time when the train demolished the truck Chamberlin Reaches Germany But Forced To Land In Mud Hole 70 Miles Out Berlin CHIEF HAMRICK IN OUTLINE OF TERM. PROUD OF FRIENDS Had No Vacation For 10 Year*. Said Nearly Everybody Tried Obey Laws. Friends Stand By. Former Chief of Police B. O. Hamrick made a statement to The Star today, concerning: his plans and revealing the way he' feels about the turn of affairs in muni cipal politics. He stated that he has no per sonal feeling against the present administration; that in the course j of events it was about time for hint to step out of the job anyway;! that a man working as he did for a small salary has no opportunity | to save anything or to get ahead financially. Has Many Friends. “The most gratifying circum stance to me,” said Mr. Hamrick, “is the way my friends have stood by me. The fact has been demon strated to me that I have many, many friends, both in Shelby and all over the county, and that gives me great satisfaction, and it was worth working all the years I put in in Shelby’s service. Appointed By Webb. “I entered upon my duties as chief of police ten years ago, ap pointed by Paul Webb, then mayor. The appointment came to me un solicited. Since then I have served under five administrations, and each appointment was unanimous. Insofar as I know n<*t a vote was cast againnst me. a sued no nay. “During those ten years, I did not take a vacation, didn't ask for one, and wasn’t offered one. And insofar as I can remember, I haven’t lost a full day’s time from sickness.’’ Afked as to his future plsn^ Mr. Hdmrjclc said: “I am undecid ed. I have bad two or three .propo sitions made me, but I haven't definitely made up my mind to accept any one of them. One was from out-of-town, but this I shall not accepted. I am going to stay right on in Shelby. It is the best town in North Carolina, or any whe«e else that I know. Too Many Trifles. “It was my policy while in of fice to look over the little things. I never was one to grasp at little violations of technicalities, and I believe this way of conducting the office made friends for the town. I think I succeeded in creating the very best of feeling between the country people and the town. I don’t believe that friendship was ever stronger than it is now. I never believed in picking on minor infringements. It is my belief that the average man tried to do pretty nearly right as he sees it, and I think the less interferences a po liceman offers, commensurate with keeping reasonable order, the bet ter. Good, Little Town. “This is no metropolis; the peo ple like freedom, and I think they are the better for it. We have too many laws. 1 want to thank my many friends most heartily for their loy alty to me and the support they have given me. It is highly grati fying to me. While I have no ene mies that I know of, I certainly did not know I had so many well wish ers. Especially this is true of the county people. They have certain stood by me splendidly. “Personally I tried during my term of office to make my own conduct above suspicion. I plan to rest a few days or a week, look after a few matters on the farm, and after that we will see.” Ware Nabs Plant And Some Booze Officer Greel Ware Saturday morning brought into the sheriff’s office here a distillery and a gal lon and a quart of whiskey found and captured by him during the morning. The still and booze, it was said was found in the Oak Grove section. Dick Bell said io have confessed a connection wit the plant to the officer is under bond for a hearing today in re corder’s coqi-t. Propeller Breaks In Mud. Both Men Safe. Columbia Out Of Fuel At Eisleben And Lands To Fill Up And Start Again, But Comes Down 70 Miles From Berlin. Proud Journey Ends In Mud Hole. (By INS.) Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine, millionaire airplane manufacturer, riding their Bellanca monoplane Co lumbia to a new non-stop record ended their proud flight at l :35 in a mudhole at Cottbus, Germany, 70 miles from Berlin. OUT OF FUEL. Previous to the forced landing at Cottbus the Columbia landed at 5 in the morning at Eislebjei^ .Germany, 110 miles west of Berlin when the plane’s fuel supply ran out. After filling up again the Columbia, piloted by Chamberlin, sfct out again for Berlin, but was forced down in a swamp. JOURNEY ENDS. Cottbus, Germany—(By INS)—Bellanca monoplane Columbia, which startled world in a New York to Germany flight ended its proud journey in a mudhole here todav. The Bellanca was forced to make a landing two miles outside of Cottbus and came down in the soft mud causing the carriage to sink and the plane sag until the whirring propeller struck in the mire and broke. Neither Chamberlin nor Levine were injured. Other dispatches state that when the first landing was made at Eisleben, Germany, 110 miles from Berlin, that a new non-stop flight record had been made in that the plane had been up for 42 hours and had covered about 3,800 miles in the flighl from New York to Germany. Register Has Four Couples In Be lated “June Bride" Rush. 100 Couples So Far* THs'l'ear - The “June brides” failed to. show up locally for a day or so, but on Saturday Register A. F. j Newton issued license for one .June bride for each day of the month—or license for four coupjep. The couple to get the first ! li cense was Ben Mitchem and Jean Belle Biddix, the girl being the county’s first “June bride,” ac cording to the official record. The j license was secured about noon , Saturday. Other couples getting license Saturday were: Oliver Willis and Lalage Hoyle; J. H. Causby and Lola Causby; James Moore and Millient Weathers. The Causbys were married in the court house by Squire T. C. Eskridge, the marry ing magistrate, who had begun to wonder at the lack of June busi ness. According to Register Newton who filed the county marriaage re cords with the state up to June 1, there were 96 couples to secure li cense here this year up to the first of the month. With four couples securing license Saturday the total for 1927 so far is 100 copples. The greatest home coming ever staged by a school in this section is planned at Boiling Springs on Thursday, June 9. At that time it is hoped to have back as many of the old students and undergrad uates as is possible. The affair will be in the nature of an all-day pro gram with picnic dinner* speeches and other entertainment by Boiling Springs own boys and girls, old and young. Invitations have been sent as i many as possible but former and present Boiling Springs students t who do not get direct invitations' are asked to take newspaper no tice as an invitation and be pres ent, bringing with them as many former students as possible. The home-coming program, which begins at 10 in the morning, is as 1 follows: Song Service led by J. C. Jordan, t Devotional—Rev. C. M. Rollins.! Music—Joe D Hamrick, Welcome— Mrs. Mary Sue Pruett Jarrett. Solo—Rev. J. C. Carter. Address— Rev. Rush Padgett. Solo—Miss ' Camp. Address —Rev. W. T. Tate, j Quartet. Series of short speeches— Dr. Zeno Wall, Dr. W. A. Ayers and others. Music will be furnished by the Spindale orchestra, * ■K!LM New Eltctriciana Replace Old Ones. To Sail Horses And " Us« Trucks Only. The broom brought into use by the new city administration con tinues to whisk here arJ there oc casionally. Frank Spake and Louis Lipscomb, for some time city, elec tricians, were relieved ' of their position last week, at the urjfc of Mayor Dorsey, it is umfcrstood, and replaced by Winfred Hamrick and Z. L. Canipe, former employes of two local electrical firms, The replacement was made according to the “hire and fire” policy” of the administration announced prior to installation. Get Along Fine “Everything is getting along fine,” was the manner in which Mayor W. N. Dorsey summed up his first week in office this morning. The new mayor at the time was busy hearing com plaints and attending to routine duties of his office. Numerous citizens were waiting to see him J and it is to be supposed they are taking the privilege offered by him of consulting him concern, ing city matters and filing com plaints they deem necessary. Making Changes Other changes about the citv are under way, it was learned. Workmen will begin late today tearing down the old city barns and other buildings in the lot to the rear of the city hall, Where a general clean-up will be staged. It is planned to remove the horses ta the Dorton stables for the pres, ent, it is said, and later they will be sold, the new administration planning to use motor trucks only in the city street department. Miss Crowder To Head A Hospital Miss Margaret Crowder, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Crowder of North Morgan street, has been elected superintendent of tiie Cald well county hospital at Lenoir and leaves Wednesday of this week to enter upon her new duties. Miss Crowder is a graduate of the Shel by Public hospital where she fin ished last August, later passing a; successful examination before the board in Raleigh and receiving her certificate. Miss Crowder was in the first class to graduate from the Shelby institution, starting in training when the hospital first op ened. Her many friends congrat ulate her on her signal honor. —Second Stroke—Mr. G, A. Price father of Mrs. Tom Gold ana Mr. Bert Price of Shc!by, suffered a second stroke of paralysis last week at his home near Mount Oli vet church. He is in a critical cog* dition, ■ .,
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