North Carolina Newspapers

THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. j,j|g,ly in Shelby may now wear Lindbergh” dresses. Such is popu J,rity. A music store is also selling lindergh records^ ^ Rutherford and Cleveland coun ts will likely stage a celebra tion at the completion of the last paving Imk in Highway 20 through Rutherford, it is said here. The Cleveland County Bar asso ciation is asking Governor McLean for a special session of court in September to relieve the jam of the civil docket. ^ ^ ^ Another car has been stolen by th« theatre thieves here. Four more men other than those named in The Star recently are be ing talked for sheriff, Dame Ru mor has it. ■ ^ ^ A Shelby party will sail for Eu rope on July 1, a news item today ,Utes. . , , , Traffic signals must be observ ed in the uptown business section this week says Police Chief Rlch »lds- . . . A youth asked a passing car for i ride last week. After getting in the car he found the driver to be »n officer out looking for him. The ride ended at a cell door. • • • An open-air revival will begin at the First Baptist church here on June 26. <1 Influential Woman and Descendant Of Distinguished South Car olina Ancestry Passes. Mrs. Pink Miller, one of the most prominent and influential women of Waco passed away at her home* there Saturday morning at 2 o'clock and was buried Sunday beside her husband at Old Capernium > grave yard. She would have been sixty years of age in August. Four years ago her husband who was a prom inent and wealthy cotton buyer of Waco, preceded her to the grave. Mrs. Miller was of distinguished South Carolina ancestry and was a most cultured and refined lady. Be fore marriage she was a Miss Means, daughter of Hon. Isaac Hugh Means, one time secretary of state of South Carolina who re signed to join the Confederate army Her uncle John Hugh Means was governor of South Carolina before the Civil war and her mother’s brother, General Johnson Hagood years ago she was married to Mr. Pink Miller, of Columbia, S. C. One child was born but this child died at the age of five months, leaving surviving one brother, J. H. Means of Columbia, four nieces and two nephews. Two of her nieces, Miss Alice Means of Columbia, S. C., and Miss Kate Latimer of Pageland, S. C., had been at her bedside for a week. Mrs. Miller was a fine looking woman with beautiful gray hair snd stately demeanor and a face that radiated culture and refine ment.. She and her husband were i most devoted couple and since his death she waited the opportun ity to join him. Rev. John W. Suttle conducted the funeral services at Waco Bap tist church of which she was a faithful and consecrated member, Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock and the interment was at Old Ca I*rnium after the services. IE Raleigh.—Pointing out that the n*w motor vehicle law goes into in a few weeks—July 1, to w exact —Sprague Silver, chief of he automobile license bureau, and i Houghton, revenue commis •loner, reiterated their advice to torists to familiarize themselves H1 the provision of the statute. , “twists’ attention was called he portion of the new law con mg speed limits and penalties r<-'f^<ms driving. Although on „aft0!' July 1 the speed limit jie highways will be increased 0 miles an hour, the legislature so materially boosted the penalty * reckless driving. m of the drastic provisions ^cowed in an effort to curb . cuuil to cu „ oss driving clothes a judge or >■ ate license bureau with au ^ruy to completely revoke li jses in cases of dangerous and Jdoss driving. 4 o'** *1° ^ep*- on number (tori'1 "T* 'n which a driver is tke no i °ne of the Provisions in |i * providing a way for h . 0 or i'oense bureau to keep * in ^ate check on license hold m 10 tin* respect. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advacre)— f2.W By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.04 VOL. XXXIV, No. 70 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927. BAR HERE TO ASK SPECIAL SESSION OF COURT IN SEPT. Will Ask Governor for Extra Term To Clear up Civil Docket. Lawyers Flan for Ficnic. At a recent meeting of the Cleveland County Bar assoscia-.. „.tion it was decided to ask Gov ernor McLean for a special ses sion of Superior court for the county beginning September 12. The special term if granted, will he for the purpose of clear ing up the congested civil cal endar. The next regular term of Super ior court comes on July 25, at which time, both criminal and civil dockets will be taken up. How ever, local lawyers say that for sev eral terms only a start has been made to clear the civil calendar and that numerous suits are piling up. A special term, they say, is the only method by which the civil calendar can be cleared for years. Flan Ficnic. At the same meeting of the bar association the lawyers decided to have a banquet, or picnic at the next session of court in July. De tails of the legal get-together will be announced later. Hollands Auto Taken From Street Theatre Auto Thieves Get Busy Again. L. I*. Holland’s Road ster Stolen Friday. Shelby’s generally dreaded thea tre automobile thieves are on the job again. Friday night Mr. L. P. Holland parked his Ford roadster near the Webb theatre and City hall and iourneved to the theatre to see “The Unknown’’ and when he came out some unknown had departed with the car. Officers of surround ing cities and towns have been notified and reward cards are out with the hope of finding the car. The majority oL, automobiles taken in Shelby in recent years have disappeared from in front of theatres while unsuspecting car owners were locked in the story of the screen on the inside. Nearly One Month Since A Fire Here The newly organized fire depart ment here seems to have the “red ! demon” hoodooed—that is, unless there is a fire today, this being the | 13th. The new city administration and reorganized fire department has been in charge for almost two weeks and during the time the fire alarm has not sounded a single time What’s more there was no alarm for nearly two weeks prior to the administration change, or a run of almost a month without a blaze. Read The Star At 25c For 4 Weeks Thirteen Carriers Boys Now Cov er Shelhy and Suburbs Every Publication Day. For the convenience of subscrib ers who wish to pay monthly, The Star has arranged with its sub scribers . to take subscription at 25c for four weeks. Since this plan has been adopted, 225 new sub scribers habe been added and 1J carrier boys are delivering papers each afternoon of publication from the Eastside Mill on the East to the Ora Mill on the West; from the Shelby hospital on the north to the Lily Mill on the south. More than sixty subscribers have been added in Freedmon alone; East side and Cleveland Cloth Mill have doubled as well as the Ora and Dover mills section. West Shelby and South Shelby have come rap idly as well as the toehr sections both inside and outside of Shelby. The suburban delivery is proving popular because the price is pop ular, four weeks (not thirty days) for twenty-five cents. If you wish to take The Star, hail a carrier boy as he passes your door and he will deliver to you regularly. Each carrier boy is an authorized collector from the short time subscribers. In order to keep them from collecting all through the month, pay up to cer tain periods, either June 18th, July 16th, August 13th. etc. and be •will not be bothered with collect ing from his many subscribers ex cept on these periods—four weeks apart. Remember The Star by car rier Is 12 issues, or four weeks for a quarter. That includes the paper and the carrier charges delivered to your home on the afternoon of publication. Complaints are quickly attended to and missing papers are supplied. IK FOUR MORE US EMITS FOR SHERIFF COlinST Sextet Mentioned by'Star Gets Ad dtiion of Four More Men Discussed by Friend. This next sheriff's race in Cleve land county, whenever it is, prom ises to fulfill the prediction of a hot affair. In a recent issue The Star men tioned the names of six men who are being talked by their friends, even though the men may have no such ambition themselves, and aft er the paper was read over the county word comes in of four oth ers also being discussed. About the court house in a Sat urday crowd it is learned the ad ditional four are Marshall Moore, I present Shelby policeman and ; former resident of the Sharon sec I tion; Fred Finger, Kings Mountain j business man; Andrew Elliott, No. j 8 township farmer; and Whitney Wells, former police chief of Kings ! Mountain. j Just how many of the 10 mer | tioned really entertain thoughts . of entering the race is not known. One or two of those mentioned as prospective candidates in a pre vious articles have since declared such thoughts have not entered their heads. But out of 10 candidates in the minds of friends at least five should enter the race, and the political prophets have said there would be at least six in the race. S. C. PLANS ROAD TO STATE BORDER BY WAYOF GROVER Gaffney, —Financial arrange ments for the biggest road improve ment program in the history of Cherokee county were completed last week by the county commis sioners with the sale of a $600,000 bond issue for par, accrued interest from January 1, and a premium of $1,900 to the Guarantee Trust Co., of Cincinnati. The bonds will bear 4 3-4 per cent interest annually The proceeds of the bond issue will be used in carrying out a re imbursement agreement with the highway department for hard sur facing the National Highway from Blacksburg to Grover, which is lo cated on the Cherokee county line, paving five miles east and west of Gaffney on State Route No. 11, and constructing a new and shorter road from Thickety to Cowpens. The next step; in carrying for ward the program is expected to be the advertising for bids and letting by the state highway department in Columbia. Several factors will prob ably prevent this from being done earlier than within a month or two, it is understood. Money From Dairy Aids Farmers Now William Lineberger is authority for the statement that the Shelby Creamery, of which he is head, put out $10,711.09 for the month of May. Other creameries around here Mr. Lineberger said, paid the farm ers eight to ten thousand more. And the banker called attention to the fact that The Star announced Fri day the cash payment of $33,000 “cotton money’” to the local grow ers. “It is money like that that makes good times,” Mr. Lineberger declar ed. "These figures tell of income in an ‘off’ vear. If farmers will pay more attention to dairying, poultry raising, hog raising and growing of fruits, and vegetables, we will have no more lean years here.” Flood Relief Fund Continues To Grow Already D. Z. Newton, treasurer of the Red Cross flood relief fund has sent $750 to headquarters and the money is now being used for the relief of distress in the Mississippi flood area. He thinks the total amount collected to date through the appeals made in The Cleveland Star amounts to approximately $850. A report will be published la ter. Since the last acknowledge ment, the following contributions havp been received: Golden Links Sunday school class Central M. E. church Shelby — — —-27.25 Mrs. T. P. Hamrick..1.00 Mrs. D. P. Green ---60 Cash_— —-— 1-00 Mrs. Cletus Plckell, Mrs. Her bert Randolph and Mrs. Rosooe McWhirter spent Thursday and Fri day in Charlotte. They Reconquer Atlantic With Airplane /, Following bard on the wings of Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, who tflew from New York to Paris, Pilot ,Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine went the daring young American one better, flying approximately 4000 miles, from •Mew York to Helfta, Germany. (While their goal was Berlin, which they failed to reach owing to • 'forced landing and broken propel lor, Chamberlin and Levine set a new non-stop distance record, since Lindbergh’s distance was approxi mately 3630 miles. Up to the hour of leaving America Chamberlin kept the name of his companion on the trip a secret, and it was a sur prise even to Levine’s wife when he jumped into the cockpit for the transoceanic Jaunt. Levine, r^ iputed a milionaire, was financial 1>acker of the Bellnnca-designfd monoplane’s trip. The plane Cham berlin and Levine used is shown above. To the right are Chamber Jin (left) and Levine, v-ltk the life pre servers they carried on the voyagu. Youth Wanted By Officer* Flags Them Down For Auto Ride To Jail One night last week “Buster” Bridgman, a young boy who form erly lived here, flagged down an automobile for a ride while walk ing between King* Mountain and Grover. He got the ride, and the man driving the car happened to be Police Chief Irvin Allen, of Kings I Mountain, who at the time was seeking Bridgman. So Bridgman secured his ride and the police got their man. A mighty important little event it was. Bridgman not so long since fin ished a term at the Stonewall Jack son reformatory, being sent up for store thefts here. Since his dismis sal his career has been somewhat hectic. One night last week Kings Moun tain police wore 'notified that a Chevrolet car had been stolen at Kings Mountain. A few hours later two boys walked back into Kings Mountain along the Grover road and told of having been picked up i at Bessemer City by another boy in a Chevrolet. The youth who pick ed them up dodged, going through the main part of Kings Mountain and ran out of gas below' the town. \t this point the two Bessemer City boys got out and walked back, tell ing of their suspicions regarding the other boy. The Kings Mountain officers hopped in a car and started along the Grover road. Down the road a short distance a youngster waved at them and asked for a ride. The officers pulled up in a hospitable Southern style and took him aboard. The ride ended at the Gaston county iajL When Gaston gets through with Bridgman officers here have asked that he be turned over to them regarding other automobile mat ters. Lindbergh, Flying Ace, Holds Records As Revolver Shot Ahd As Bike Rider OPEN 1 SERVICE III FIRST BAPTIST DURING REVIVAL Dr. Scarborough to Preach at Ev angelistic Services Beginning Sunday June 26, -- | The evangelistic services of the First Baptist church here this year will be conducted as open air serv ices, it is announced by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor. The revival begins on Sunday, June 26, with Dr. L. R. Scarborough, persident of South western Theological seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, doing the preaching. Lumber is noW being placed on the vacant lot north of the First Baptist church for the purpose of building a platform and seats to be used during the open air services. It is planned to seat around 3,000 people. A choir of about 200 voices is being arranged and will be direct ed by Harry Pippin and an orches tra will assist. There will be serv ices both morning and evening, the evening services to be held at 3 oclock and the morning hour to be anounced later. A cordial invita tion to members of all Shelby and county churches to attend is given by Dr. Wall. Max Gardner And Wife And Judge Webb To Europe Shelby Party Will Sail from New York on July 1 For Several Months Stay Abroad. Mr. and Mrs. O. Max Gardner and Federal Judge E. Y. Webb plan to sail from New York on July 1 for Plymouth, England. The trip over will be made on the Pen land, it is said. The Shelby party will be joined in New York by several people from Charlotte and Asheville. While away Mr. and Mrs Gardner and Judge \tfebb plan to visit England, France, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. They will return on September 11, landing at Montreal, Canada. Liked Gang Here Better Than His Freedom Elsewhere A convict who made his getaway from the local gang camp some time back after having served nearly all of a long sentence gave himself up last week to officers in Birmingham, Ala., and wanted to come back. Since he had only a short time to serve the cost of bringing him back would be more than the worth of serving the re mainder of his sentence. Among officers it is thought that he is seeking transportation back home. (By Harry Bloombargh, INS Staff Correspondent.) ; Fjftssbuirg.-— Almost everything has been written about Gapt. Charles A. Lindbergh, the man who made aviation history with his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris, however, it; only became known this week that “I.indy” was one of the best shots with a rifle and re volver when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and that he made a solo motorcycle ride from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., in 24 hours with only a two hour stop seven years ago. Anoth er time he made a motorcycle trip from Jacksonville, Fla., to Little Falls, Minn., in less than a week. Told By Buddy These two added accomplish ments of Lindbergh were made known by W. D. O’Connor, em ployed by a large electrical con cern who was the aviator’s buddy during their two years at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. O’Connor has not seen Lindbergh since they left the engineering department of the university, but they have cor responded ever since, Lindbergh was not much of a "mixer” at college, O’Connor de clared and always preferred to play a lone hand in most every thing he undertook. Lindbergh was “some shot”,” his friend proudly told visitors. “Lindbergh could shoot the fire off a cigaret in the mouth of one of the fellows as he stood against a wall fifty feet away,” O’Conner asserted. “I have seen him do it many a time. “One of us would hold an ordi nary playing card with the edge toward Lindy. When Charley pull-, ed the trigger the rifle bullet rare ly failed to cut the card through the middle. And that was at 60: feet too.” Sent Mother Postals Lindbergh was nearly as good. i with a revolver as with a rifle. | O’Conner exhibited a picture showing a large snake which Lindbergh had shot through the head with a pistol while the rep tile crawled through the grass. Lindbergh never forget his mother, no matter where he went or what he did, according to O’Conner. During his motorcycle trips, Lindbergh would stop at every town and send a postal card to his mother,” O’Conner said. “He never had a date in school, but there was nothing he didn’t know about a motorcycle,” O’Con ner explained. “We were proud of his marksmanship and would like to show him off to the girls, but he would never allow one of them in the shooting gallery while he was there.” Three Deaths Occur In Three Weeks In A Single Household Three deaths in the short space, of three weeks in a single house hold at Dover mill have brought ^ a triple sorrow to Mrs. Frank Flynn. Her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Williams made their home with her. On May 31st her mother died. On Monday of last! week her husband passed awaj i and on Wednesday following her ^ father died, making the third death in the same household in three j weeks. The Flynns and Williams, families came to Cleveland from Spartanburg county and were held i in the highest esteem by the peo-1 pie of the Dover Mill community. ' Mrs. Bee Manous and children, of Albemarle are spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMurry. INCREASE OVER N. C. SAKS REPORT Cleveland Among 15 Counties With Increasing Coat In Opera tion Of Schools. Raleigh.—The average increase o f costs of school operation in North Carolina for 1926-1927 over the 1925-26 terms was 5.9 per cent, according to a compilation avail able today at the office of LeRoy Martin, secretary of the State board of equal izaton. The figures were based on teachers’ salaries, plus 15 per cent for operating ex penses. There were ten non-participat ing counties whose average was 6.7 per cent while the remaining 90 participating counties showed an average of 5.8 per cent. Nine counties expended less last year than the year before, in cluding Alleghany, Alexander, Camden, Currituck, Durham. Hali fax, Hoke, Person and Rocking ham. An increase of more than ten per cent was shown by fifteen counties, including Buncombe, Cleveland, Craven, Franklin, Gates, Greene, Henderson, Hyde, Madison, Nash, Northhampton, Pender, Rutherford, Scotland and Transylvania, with Rutherford showing the biggest increase— 19.9 per cent. Young Child Ha. A Remarkable Escape In Fall From Auto Small Daughter of Erneat Johnson Falls From Fast Moving Car, Gets Up Unhurt. Irene Johnson, two and one-half year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johnson had a remarkable escape from serious injury last "week when she plunged from a car traveling at a fast speed and was only slightly bruised. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were mo. toring in Eastern CCarolina and the little girl was riding in the front seat with her father when in some manner she got the car door open while he was not looking. The car was traveling about 40 miles per hour at the time, it issaid, and Mr. Johnson looked around just in time to see the little girl go sailing out the door on the pavement. Stopping the car, Mr. Johnson hurried back expecting to find the child badly tom and broken up by the hard fall on the pavement. In stead he met the little girl running , full speed to catch up with the car. Her only injuries were bruised spots on one knee and her head, neither of which was very severe. Famous Collegian Orchestra Coming For Shelby Dance Kyke Kyser, one of the best known collegiate orchestra leaders in the South will bring his famous Carolina Collegians here for a dance to be given Wednesday ev ening in the Thompson building by the Cotillion club. Kyser, a top-notch comedian, at tained fame as cheer and orchestra leader at the University of North Carolina, his orchestra playing for many of the college dances, while Kyke Kyser’s band was a highlight at all Carolina athletic contests. The orchestra is made up of 11 pieces and Kyser is a sideline at traction by himself. Greatest Auction Of Year Coming On A dinner for three thousand; That is what the J. B. Nolan com pany is advertising for Wednes day, when they are staging what they proclaim is the greatest auc tion sale of the year. The Miles P. Green estate is to go under tho hammer. This is a hig tract of 300 or more acres, all to be sold. Tha big event is slated for 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, but it is an ticipated that the doings will carry over until the afternoon, hence the invitation of three thousand to the big feed—the biggest ever in these parts, according to the prepara tions. Kings Mt. Outfit Beat By Belmont Playing here Saturday after noon the Belmont textile baseball team defeated Kings Mountain 11 to 6 in an interesting game. The twirling of Anthony was one of the features of the the game. The Belmont outfit is a smooth working amateur team and will play numerous games during the summer, it is announced, Willis Mc Murry having charge of the team. Cleveland Folks Would Like to Join Other Counties at Chimney Rock Celebrating Road. ,, Following a suggestion from Rutherford county a celebration is being talked here for the opening of Highway 20 when the present paving work between Rutherford ton and Chimney Rock is completed. The opening of this link at the completion of the paving will be a real event in that the state’s most beautiful highway, from seashore o the mountains will be paved prac ically. the entire distance. To the section west from Shelby it means even more than that. For two years much of the traffic that ordinarily, passes over Route 20 to the ipoun ain resorts has sought other travel channels. With a solid run of pave* ment far down in Eastern Carolina to Shelby, Rutherfordton, Chimney Rock, and Asheville the highway this summer, during the vacation season, should be one of the heavi est travelled in the state. Resorts and resort towns west of Shelby consider the completion of the pav ing of great importance, and as a channel for business traffic the paved highway will mean much to the entire section and state. To Invite Officials. Although preparations for the event planned are in the prelimin ary stages now it is proposed hero that the celebration be held at Chimney Rock some time in July, as the highway will likely be op ened for travel beyond Rutherford ton soon after July 1. Those sup porting the celebration here think that several state leaders should be invited together with official representatives of Rutherford, Bun combe and Cleveland counties. An other suggestion is that the mayor of Wilmington, on the coast, and the mayor of Asheville, in the moun tains, be honor guests together with the mayor of every town and city between Wilmington and Asneville. A big picnic dinner, or barbecue, is also talked as a feature of the day, and Cleveland county citizens stated today that they stand ready to cooperate with Rutherford and Buncombe in staging a real cele bration honoring the opening of one of the most attractive pave<J roads in the South. TRAFFIC SIENALS ' MUSTJE OBEYED Police Chief A. L. Richards stated! this morning that he wished tai make an appeal today to the citi zens of Shelby for strict observance of the business district traffic sig nale. “I do not want to carry any one up for failure to observe the signals,’ he stated, “but I believa everyone has been given ample time to get acquainted with the changed system, and I have warn ed enough on early violations.’’ No dates as to when violators cf the signals would be arrested was given, but considering that the po lice head stated that ample tima to get acquainted has passed the date is apparently this week. By the new signal plan an auto mobile is not to make a right turn until the traffic sign reads "Go”1 for the traffic aline on that street. One left turn may be made at any of the uptown signals on the “Go’' Kiwanis Delegates ' Back From Meeting Messrs. J. F. Ledford and Ma< Washburn, delegates from the Shel club to the international conven tion at Memphis, returned Friday night. Hency C. Heinz, of Atlanta, waS elected president of Kiwanis in ternational for the coming year. Seattle was selected as the 19281 convention city by the delegates. Other cities contesting for next) years convention were Atlantia City, Kansas City, Tampa and De troit. Golf Club House Going Up Rapidly The new club house at thd Cleveland Springs golf club is go ing up rapidly now and the contrad tors, Roberts and Evans, hope to have the building practically com pleted before so many weeks. The new club building will ba modern in every detail and it is expected to add much to all the Cleveland Springs section in addi tion to giving more conveniences pt golf fans of fhe section, -a .