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VOL. XXXIV, No. 69 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. £T p®1" y#ar _By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 What’s THE News THE STAR'S REVIEW Cleveland county’s cotton crop S(>(1 all records last year with ^HininK of over 47,000 bales, says, ■ item today. Prohibition officers captured 86 0f liquor near here during two days. 25 gallons were Jred out in front of the city hall bet* yesterday. # # when Max Gardner is elected wivcrnor, Tom Bost says, he will C different from past governors ,hat he will not have promised *nr office* to anybody. Read the host article today. There was a killing yesterday .1 Uks Lure. A Spindale painter J head and a Rutherford farmer it being sought. ^ ^ Cooperative cotton farmers in the tmmtv had a big day here Thurs L, when over *.'10,000 in money n, paid out to ^them. Cleveland county may have one '■June bride' for every two days of the month, the registers book dis doses. • ♦ * One of the youths who rode with "Moot- Bynum in his death car re cently at Winston-Salem was fined in court there for speeding. * » * Community correspondence, tex til* village news, town news and county events—~in 'l he Star. Assault Of Girl At Rutherfordton Called A Thrashing Fither of Girl Thinks Reported Assault Was by Lady in Man's Clothing. Concerning the recent reported assault of a girl near Rutherford ton, recently, about which there has been much publicity in the news papers, the Rutherford County News says: “It was reported here last Thurs day night that a young white girl 18 years old. had been assaulted near Central high school. It was published in eome of the State pa pers Friday morning. The girl was attacked near Central High school, choked and struck in the head with a rock three times and- -received painful though not f^tal bruises, ahe still maintains that it was a man. Her father thinks that it was a woman disguised in men’s cloth ing who wanted to “thrash her.” “Tha general opinion here is that it was a fight. The girl was en rout# to Spindale where she works in a mill at night. Officers have done everything possible to solve tha mystery but so far, have fail ed." Driver Of Bynum , Death Car Draws ' Small Court Fine Gentry, Who Was Riding With "Moccf’ Bynum When First Ch.ased, Fined $10. Winston-Salem. June 9.—J. J. Gentry, Winston-aSlem youth, who was riding in the ear with B. R. (Moeo) Bynum, at the time Bynum was killed in an auto accident near here, was fined $10 and the costs today in municipal court, for speed ing. A warrant was sworn out for Gentry following a chase by the motorcycle officer of the car, which was later involved in the accident. Gentry was driving at the time the officer was chasing the car. County Man’s Place On Board Taken By Rudasill Of Crouse Raleigh,—Two new members were added to the directing board M the North Carolina Cotton Grow * Co-operative association as the ult of an election held by the “•°P membership throughout the this week. . ' H. Liles, business man and fnier of Wadesboro, succeeds lonrier Congressman L. D. Robinson of 'Vadeshoro, who declined to 'o* his name to be presented for rejection, while M. S. Rudasill, w t rouse, succeeds J. A. Horne of "ndale, Cleveland county. Areyg Buy Agency For Frigid&ire ®r°thers on yesterday ttl” Wncy for Frigi F.n 'T and county Cli "s wh0 operate stores in I mountain and Shelby. The Fi 1* a.P^duct of General M rat'on and one of the fa Ai«< K 0 metric refrigerators o SenHan market Falls »Pd from tl 0Ver t*le 8ales Arev I* “S^elby Electric com] KonV- Pu n to open 8a,es offic «Pd Lawndale, r Sheisf tke °f^'cer already opi Shoibv andKinSf® Mountain, bi the H offlce "dH he moved *hoeu7,uUliding on Ea8t Gri to the Arty building on f Washington street. OFFICERS NAB 36 GALLONS LIQUOR JUST OVER LINE Twenty-Fire Gallons Toured Out in Gutter Just in Front of City Hall err Thirsty Gaze. Prohibition Agent Evon Houser, of Cherryville, and Officers Bob Kendrick and Claude Harrill pour ed out 25 gallons of captured li quor about 4:30 yesterday after noon in front of the city hall while a score or more of people looked on —some eagerly. The liquor was found near the home of Jesse Miller, in Burko county just across the Cleveland county line, this morning by Hous er, Kendrick, Harrill, and Tom Sweezy. The same officers togeth er with Deputy Plato Ledford cap tured 11 gallons at the same place1 Wednesday night. At that time Federal Officer Houser states the officers were watching Miller and nabbed him with 10 gallons just as a delivery was about to be made. Miller was brought to Shelby and gave a 5500 bond before U. S. Commissioner John P. Mull. Returning to the Mil ler home Thursday morning the of ficers found five 5-gallon glass jugs i full of booze hid in a nearby stream of water. This was the liquor pour ed out on the street here Thursday afternoon. Portions of a still were also lo j cated, it is said, but the still was ! not in use and had not been for ! some time although it is the opir. I ion of officers that the captured I liquor was made in the plant found. MORGAN REMAINS IN SERIOUS STATE _ Slow Improvement Shown in Con. dition of Two Wreck Victims. Morgan Unconscious. Ralph Morgan, one of the two i Henrietta men seriously injured in an auto crash between Shelby and Mooresboro, Sunday night, remains in a serious condition, according to reports this morning from the Shelby hospital. Members of the hospital staff say that Morgan is 1 not conscious at all and that he shows very little improvement. He suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and several fractured ribs in the crash. Pink Bright, the other seriously injured man, is showing slight im provement, it was said. Bright re ceived a fractured skull. Robert Lovelace, young boy in jured in the same wreck, improved to such an extent that he was re moved to his home west of Shelby Wednesday. Drivers of the Forest City car, which is said to have struck the Henrietta car with injuries to six resulting, are under bond. Jones Quits Head Henrietta School Will Go to Brevard. Succeeded by A. C. Lovelace Formerly of Shelby School Faculty. J. B. Jones, superintendent of the Henrietta-Caroleen school system the past two years and principal of Caroleen graded school for four years previous, has resigned to ac cept the superintendency of the Brevard public schools. Mr. Jones is an honor graduate of Wake Forest college. He will have charge of 800 pupils at Bre vard high school. He goes to Uni versity at Chapel Hill this week to complete his master’s degree and will move to Brevard August 1. He will be succeeded by Prof. A. C. Lovelace, who was principal of the Shelby high school the past year. Mr. Lovelace is also an honor graduate of Wake Forest collego and was principal of Henrietta public school while Mr. Jones waE head of the Caroleen school. Mr. Lovelace is teaching at Lenoir Rhyne college summer school. Number Go To See “Lindy” Come Home Several Shelby people are report ed to have left today for Washing ton to be at the reception for Col. Charles Lindbergh, trans-Atlantic flyer. Others of the county likely made the trip on the week-end ex cursion. Among those going were Mr. W. T. Alexander and family and Mr. Forrest Hamrick. Mr. Alexander will go on to Atlantic City and Mr. Hamrick will visit New York while away. Lindbergh’s Smile of Victory r KoMirmriK home to me«t fli** greatest w^lrur:*- ^vei ur her-, th history this Is the smile ot' victory •Lucky" t'li berth wore nTter his flight Mom New York to Parts 1 plane WHS Hlrnost demolished by the - row-Is in Paris a, Th1« la i n unusual photographic study ot the yoilnt 2a-y •bout whom more baa been written than any other pei day’s news. corded any .tries Liiid •tiMlbei;’!) a id London. a i oid flyer con in the County Cotton Crop Record In a cotton year that was al most disastrous to the South ern* farmer owing to a price slump Cleveland county estab lished a new ginning record it was revealwf here ” yesterday when Miles H. Ware, special agent, gave out the complete ginning figures for 1926. The complete figures show that 47,550 hales of cotton wete ginned in this county during 1926 as compared with 37,221 in 1925, or a gain of 10,000 bales over the previous year. At the end of March, the customary time for the final ginning report, 46,567 bales had Preadher Changes Hour Of Service So Congregation Can Golf Or Go Fishing Charlotte Members Attend Rotary Here Local Club Plans Work for Crippled Children. Drs. Myers and McKay Make Talk. Dr. Alonzo Myers and Dr. Ham ilton McKay, of Charlotte, were guests of the Shelby Rotary club here today, both men making brief talks. Dr. McKay talked upon the principles and objectives of Rotary generally, while Dr. Myers, who has charge of the Rotary clinic at Char lotte, told of the work being done there by the club for crippled chil dren. The Shelby club is planning to cooperate with the state vicational rehabilitation department in aiding crippled children in this county. Urging Payment Of Town Taxes The town of Shelby is today urg-; ing a payment of all town taxes for 1926. No date of advertising1 taxes unpaid has been set, but the J advertisement today calls for pay ment prior to July 1. Notice is also called to special privilege taxes, which are now due the privilege tax permits having . been out on May 31. -| Thief Gets Money At Ebeltoft Store Early Wednesday morning while1 T. W. Ebeltoft, proprietor of the ; book store, was next door getting a bucket of water a thief slipped , into the store and made away with ’ some money that was in a drawer 1 of the safe. This is the second time | Ebeltoft has been the victim of thieves in recent months. There is no clue to the theft, it ; is said. i (By International News Service.) Watertown, N. Y.—Golf playing on Sunday is all right in its way, and to prove that he believes men and women who are employed dur ing the week should secure their recreation where they can find it, Rev. Harry Westbrook Reed, pas tor of All Soul’s Universalist church here, will hold Sunday services here in the future at 8:110 a. m. The early morning service, he explains, will give members of the church an opportunity to attend divine services and then go fish ing, to a ball game, out on the links, for a motor ride or work in the garden. Announcement that the Rev. Mr. Reed would hold special “golfers” service each Sunday in the future at 8:30 a. m. caused a wave of re joicing among members of his congregation. It also caused a wave of protest from other denominations. But none of his fellow' preachers cared to publicly criticise Dr. Reed’s move. “I believe that every man, wo man and child should attend serv ices at some hour Sunday,” Dr. Reed declared. “I believe that in order to give men and women who are confined to their desks or other forms of employment during the week an opportunity to both worship and play, a special morning service is needed and I propose to hold serv ices for those who wish to attend at 8:30 each Sunday. “If members of my congregation wish to attend a ball game, pay a visit to the golf links or enjoy a ride into the. country, they will have plenty of time to do so.” If at thirty she cultivates sweet ies of twenty it’s because mere rotteness doesn’t attract men of her own age. been ginned in this county How ever the government decided to have a final survey and nearly 1,000 more bales were ginned in this county after that j period, it was shown. The previous ginning record in the county before 1926 was slightly over 42,000 bales. It is estimated by farm lead ers following the latest report that near 50,000 bales were produced in the county last year, 1,500 or 2,000 bales being ginned in South Carolina and j points in nearby counties, while a quantity of cotton was not picked, or ginned. GARDNER IN FINE STANDING FDD 1928 HONORS IN STATE Shelby Man Hasn't Any Promises To Fulfill, or Office Pledges To Carry Out, Sara Boat Tom Host, shrewdest of all politi cal writers in the state, apparently believes that Max Gardner i* to be the next governor of North Car olina, and without opposition at that. Dost writing in the Greensboro News this week says: Max Gardner’s trip to Europe in July is the last necessary element in proof that the next governorship nominee on the Democratic ticket has things exactly as he wishes them and that he may stay a year on the east side of the pond with out damage to his politics. The young man who refused to go into the eclipse of an also ranner seven years ago, is peculiarly at vantaged today. He was beaten i the 1920 contest with Page an Morrison. The labor unionists lii to think they did it and the ylelt to-noners and “originally-oppoeet to-woman suffrages,” such - Judge Heriot Clarkson and cx-Go' ernor Cam Morrison, also like I think the laborites did it. But i putting out the pizen the Morrisc folks touched the loud pedal almo; entirely, “originally opposed t owman suffrage.” Gardner likes I be gallant and tell the girls thi they didn't hurt him seven yeai ago. He knows they did. Claut Kitchin told him that the weerae S era, would cost him 60, 000 votes. But suffrage has come, everybody dotes on the women vot ers, there are now no yield-to-non ers, and no “originally opposers." Meanwhile Gardner has ail the votes, the entire strength of the Wimmen, the originally opposed ers, the yield-to-noners, the proper place -for -the- women- is -in -the honiers, the whole outfit on both and all sides. There are no votc3 which he can lose. There is no ehan,ce on eartii to scare anybody up to run against him. The old or ganization which worked on him in ly-° has joined the everlasting i Gardner can stay in Europe until j *'wo day’s before the inauguration, | hop intoa Bellanca and come back !hon,,e in time for the celebration if he wishes. He will be gone only 60 days. But j lhere is nothing for him to be look : |n* after now. His fences are all in shape. He is having no opposi j t*on and he is not obligated to a -soul on the globe. He does not have to appoint anybody in payment of i any political debt. He can make I sort of choice for public officers without having to think baout any . thing done for him in the campaign. Nearly always an ordinary newspa per forecaster can tell who will get i t he first Supreme court vacancy, ; the super intendency of the state prison, the secretary of the North ; Carolina railroad, likewise the pres ident of the North Carolina built road. Always there is some man ; wh® has interested himself so much in a governorship candidacy that public opinion crowns him months before the primary or election. But there is nobody who would attempt to guess whom Gardner wouid name as Supreme court justice were there a vacancy during his regime; nobody would think of try ing to pick his private secretary; guessing at the presidency and sec retaryship of the North Carolina railroad, the North Carolina and Old Mullet would be idiocy and if there should be a lot of Supreme court judges to name Mr. Gardner’s obligations would not be foreseen by any man. COTTON MARKET (By Jno. F. Clark & Co.) Cotton was quoted at 10 o’clock on New York exchange: July 17.03; October 17.35 De cember 17.60. 8 p. m. Southern weather. Clear west; maximum temperature at Abilene 06, mostly cloudy central and east, rain fall at Atlanta, Ga., .02; Macon, .08; Memphis, .04; Mont gomery .18, Vicksburg .40; fore cast west Texas fair today and to morrow cooler north portion. East Texas fair, Arkansas and Oklaho ma part cloudy, Louisiana showers central and north portion,, Georgia and Carolinas showers. Mississippi river falling at St. Louis, but ris ing from Cairo to mouth of Ar kansas river. Moderate business in Worth street cotton looks a purchase on any reaction based on large acie age in west Texas that never got any rains, showery conditions east increasing weevil and new floods threatening along Mississippi and | tributaries. Want Chamberlin To Fly Back Over Berlin—Clarence Chamber lin reiterated Wednesday afternoon that he had not de cided on his future plans. "An American consortium has offered me $100,000 if I would fly back to the United States,’’ he said “but natur ally 1 can only begin to think about it now.’ OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER SOON MAY BEABOUSHED Raleigh Politcal Experts See Coun ty Accountants Taking Over Treasurer's Work. Raleigh.—Is the county treasur er doomed to become a “man with out a job" as a result of new regu lations in the county government acta, and will he eventually be abol ished as a county officer? This would seem to be the case, from a cloae scrutiny of the new county fiscal control act and other acta relating to the finances of the counties. Formerly, the treasurer was a sort of combination bookkeeper, au ditor and banker for the county commissioners. To him was given the function of selecting the de pository for the county funds, and while he was required to give bond himself, he was not required to have the depository he selected give ) bond. And the fact that as county treasurer he had full say so as to where the county funds were to be deposited, made him an influential county officer, and one to be cul ti rated politically. But now all that is changed, un der the new laws: The depositories for county funds are now to be designated by the board of county commissioners, instead of by the treasurer, and each bank designated as a deposi tory must give bond for the amount deposited. The banks so designated are also required to pay interest to the county—not to the treasurer on the sums deposited, and to gu arantee their ability to pay any checks drawn against them. These deposits are to be made by the county auditor or accountant, with the approval of the county commis sioners, and some of it can be check ed out without his approval and or der. Thus it is that the county ac countant or auditor is clothed with all the former prerogatives of the county treasurer, and that the treasurer ceases to be anything more than a figurehead, except in those counties where the office of treasurer has been combined with that of the office of accountant or auditor. Furthermore, no check or warrant is valid unless it is signed by both the treasurer and the ac countant. Thus the accountant be comes a constant check upon the treasurer, since no money can be expended without his approval. Thus, since the office of treasur er has been so nearly stripped of all real authority, the question is being asked in several quarters re garding the possibility of doing away with the office entirely, the only objection to this being that if his duties were consigned to the county auditor, it would place him in the position of having to audit his own books and approve his own acts. And it is generally agreed that this would be an unwise situ ation. However, the office of treasurer is not a constitutional office, and has not been since 1875, according: to Frank Nash, assistant attorney general, with the result that many counties undoubtedly now have the existing authority to abolish the offiee if they so desire. Those that do not have this authority by stat- j ute would have to await special | legislation to enable them to ao, so, however, should they so desire. But until some way is found to Impose a check upon the county auditor or accountant, such as the accountant now 'exerts upon the treasurer, there is but slight likeli hood that the treasurer will be completely done away with since1 he in a way is as beneficial a check upon the auditor as the auditor is upon the treasurer. Something of a change in the system of signing and paying of warrants is set up by the new fis cal control law, which provides that warrants need ro longer be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and the clerk —that is, the register of deeds— but that they may now be signed by the county officer who is head of a particular department in which (Continued on page five.) t Farmers Get $33,000 Here; New Contract Explained One June Bride For Every Two Days At the present rate Cleveland county will have 16 “June brides" married at home. To date, on June 10, Register of Deeds Newton has issued license for only five couples during the month. For three days not a license was issued but on the fourth four couples sought and secur ed license and only one couple hns sought the necessary bind ing papers since. Jack Davk, Spindale Painter Kill ed by Clarence Raff, Farmer At Resort Center. Rutherfordton, June 9.—Jack A. Davis, 30, Spindale painter, h dead and authorities of Rutherford and Polk counties were scouring the mountains tonight for Clarence Ruff, a farmer as the aftermath of a shooting affray at the fashion ble Lake Lure resort settlement today. Davis died early tonight at the Rutherford hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen. He was shot in the center of the resort colony about noon and eye-witnesses de scribed Ruff as his assailant. Ill feeling was said to have ex isted between the two men for some 1 time, and neared a climax last night I when they engaged in a violent ar gument. They met again today in front of the Duraway store on highway No. 20 and with a score of people look ing on, Ruff was said to have whipped out a revolver and fired three times at Davis. One of the shots took effect in the arm, one in the abdomen and the other went wild1. The wounded man crumpled to the ground, and was immediately rushed to the hospital here. After the shooting Ruff drove away in his automobile, saying that he was going to Rutherfordton to surrender to the authorities. When he failed to appear here, Sheriff Hardin organized a posse and began a search for him. Polk county officers were communicated with and they, too, joined in the hunt. The fugitive resides in the moun tains of Polk near the Rutherford line and it was thought that he was in the vicinity of his home tonight. This belief was substantialted by re ports reaching here late today which quoted him as saying that he would visit his mother and then come to the sheriff’s office and surrender. With officers scouring the moun tains in droves it was believed that the accused assailant would be in custody before midnight. Stop Signal Change Results In Wreck The change in the stop and go signals under the Dorsey adminis tration caused the crash of a motor cycle and a new sedan car Thurs day afternoon at the First National bank corner. Since the change has been made, a left turn is allowed at the two congested corners. A sedan driven by Ben Palmer and a motorcycle ridden by Hugh Brittain crashed together and were badly damaged but no one was hurt. Pal mer going west on Warren street stopped on the “stop signal.” On the change of the signal to “go’ he proceeded to the signal post, held out his hand and turned left. A mo torcycle going East found the sig nal “go” and crashed into the back of the car, striking the body at the rear wheel. Army Band Of 25 Pieces Here Monday Commanded McIntyre of the Sal vation army and his twenty-five piece band will be here Monday to give a musical program from the steps of the court house. The band is on a motor trip from Atlanta, Ga., and en route the party stops over at towns to give,these concerts in the interest of the Salvation army. The program here will be rendered from 2 to 2:30 o’clock. At torney C. A. Burrus will introduce Commander McIntyre who will de liver a brief address. Under New Contract, Three New Feature* Are Added—Can Withdraw After One Crop—Quick Sale*. Checks totaling $33,000 were distributed here Thursday to farmers who had cotton in the long pool through the North Caro lina Cotton Growers association In final settlement of the 1926 crop. Mr. M. G. Mann, district secretary made the distribution and announc ed that checks for the short pool would be distributed later. About 300 farmers were in the court house to receive their checks. There are 545 members in the cot ton growers association in Cleve land county and the membership is constantly growing under the field agent, Mr. H. G. Moore__ Lower Handling Cost Mr. Mann was introduced by Editor Lee B. Weathers, after which Mr. Mann made a brief talk to the fanners telling of the new contract which they are asked to aign this year and showing the lowering coat of handlnig charges. Fire years ago the association was organized and handled 135,* 000 bales in North Carolina at an average cost $8.10 per bale. Year after year the handling cost has been reduced until the past year when it reached $4.30—nearly half the first year cost. Last year 120, 000 bales were sold throug tho association. The cost of storage and handling has been reduced twenty-six per cent. Forty-nine per cent of the cotton graded good and strict middling. Mr. Mann went through a part of the grades and told of the staple and grades and announced that thousands of dollars was secured in better prices last year by making a pool on the 15-16 inch staple. Gradually the association is dealing more and more direct with the mills who declare the system most satisfactory. Under the new contract, tha members can withdraw by notify ing the head office any time from January to March. Another fea ture has been added whereby members can enter their cotton, have it placed in the pool immed iately and ask for quick sale. Through this method a farmer can get a sale and complete settle ment within twenty-four, >our$, at the same time getting the benefit of the grade and staple which is characteristic of the association’s sales. The thrid feature in the new contract is that it can be changed to meet changed conditions. Mem bers may suggest to the director^ and the directors in turn will con sider all suggested changes for the good of the association and its members. This is the first year the checks have been handed direct to the members. Mr. Mann wouldd have them feel that they are stockhold ers and by gathering at the var ious county seats for final settle ment, they are told of the inside workings of the association in or der that they might understand all of its features. Most of the criticism heretofore has been due to a lack of understanding. Hundreds of thousands of dol lars are being distributed within two weeks throughout North Carolina in the final settlement. The money comes at a most ac ceptable time and the Cleveland county farmers were here 300 strong, leaving their pressing duties on the farms, to get their checks and hear Mr. Mann’s ad dress. He went from Shelby to Rutherfordton where checks were distributed in the afternoon. Small Negro Makes Escape From Jail Youth Awaiting Court on Attempt* ed Assault Charge Clips Out | Door and Leaves. 1 Tom Gathaway, 14-year-old ne gro boy, awaiting trial in the nex( Superior court for aiding in an at tempted assault, escaped from th« county jail late Wednesday even ing and is still at large. Gathaway, ‘former golf club caddy, and another colored boy were charged some time back with attempting an assault on a small colored girl. Judge Mull had then* placed in jail for Superior court. Wednesday evening when thd turnkey started to take some water to the prisoners Gathaway, it i* said, slipped out the “run-around”1 door in the cell floor and outside. A search has been made for him but the youngster was much of a rambler before being placed in jail and in the parlance of his racq hq is thought to be “long gone,*8
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