North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXIV, No. 73 Published MondayWednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (In advas?«)-_$l£i By carrier, per year (in advance) #3.09 Heat’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW rt’9 a cool June and June brides ‘ scarce in this county. * • • If you have a dog what is his _L» Head in today’s Star just J* much dog tax is paid in this . . • Cleveland county will this year t a considerably larger suin for Jhools the State equalisation fund, nere is a probability if land vel ‘" stand up that the tax rate may Z diehtly lowered owing to the big ,um coming from the state County officials however are reluctant to "diet such as the increased school Ly last year was taken from the * oral levy and if a school re JJtion is in order should go back there. A sitr has been selected tor me proposed new school building in West Shelby, the building to be ready for the new school year. Rev A L. Stanford, former pas tor of central Methodist church here scored modern dancing in a jernion last night at Charlotte. One new policeman has been add ed ot the Shelby police force, and pml Dover, traffic cop, is in the hospital Buffering with injuries re ceived Sunday afternoon m a col lision. A new fire siren is being in stalled on the city water tank. • * • A big docket of county court {seed Judge Mull here today, nu emuos cases accumulating over the week-end. -*** PHOTS OF FIVE on comas Deal Involving Millions Announced From Charlotte. Takes Over l Public Utilities Charlotte, June 18.—Involving: j transfer of control of public utili- ] ties in a dozen or more cities and towns in North Carolina and South Carolina, including Greens boro, Winston-Salem, High Point, i and Salisbury, the Duke Power company yesterday afternoon j signed an agreement with the General Gas and Electric company preliminary to the purchase of cer tain of the later’s extensive’ prop erties in the two states. This announcement, made at the offices of the Duke interests in Charlotte, made no mention of the money value of the properties to be transferred and no figures were forthcoming from representatives of the companies, but it is known that the deal involves many mil lions of dollars. The properties involved in the agreement are: The North Carolina Public Serv ice company. The Winston-Salem Gas com ply. Ihe .South Carolina Gas and Electric company. The properties formerly known ** the Blue Ridge Power company. The lines of the Broad River Power company from a point near onion, S. C. to Spartanburg. Through the purchase of the North Carolina Public Service com pony alone, the following proper "es will pass to the Duke inter ests: U) The electric distribution sys , 5 at Greensboro, Salisbury, High Point, Burlington, ™ham, Mebane, and a number of cr towns in the central part of Jwth Carolina. (2) The gas plants and distribu a systems at Winston-Salem, wensboro, Salisbury, High Point *“ Burlington. rj1* Properties of the South 0 'na Gas and electric company Z,7e thc electric distribution em and the gas plant and dis wouUon system at Spartanburg. clmJ.u Ue Kidge Properties in tern electric distribution sys m at Hendersonville and a num Uie s"’al|er communities and 0 hydro-electric plants on “• Green river. kn !„Duke interests also entered ■* smn airr(“enient for the purchase ■•PPwximately half of the pow to } — J A OI wie Pow e produced annually fron J*,,n*ton Water Power com - new hydro-electric statioi ilf nfU.k °n tbe Saluda river an< ot ‘he capacity 0f the Phar “>c'S'."“,rlc pUnt 11 explained that the pur n em plated in the agree i(N ,!fned yesterday simpl; i G* *nvestment of the Gen Hen-8 and Elec'tric company ii »IH( 0Ttrht,e8- The COrP°rate eX “'ll a* if -6 companies will re , is and the companie iCal tCd by the ««*tin, |M. <ns’ said the announce MMr anUjth„HopPer accompanied M Mr "d .M“‘ Herb«rt E. Smith BJ: *nd Ml'8- E. A. Wooten Ka * trip t0 Lalte Wac | 1 u> vv rights ville Beach. NEW OFFICER ON FORCE; ONE HURT IN SHiRY CRASH Speed Cop Fred Dover Severely Hurt When Motoreycle Hits Car. New Patrolman. Shelby has one new patrolman on the town police force and an other member of the new police de partment is in the Shelby hospital suffering with severe injuries re ceived Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with an auto ombile. The new policeman, Rufus E. Sparks, was put on tbe force Sat urday morning by Chief Richards and is not a replacement so far as is known. Sparks was formerly em ployed as a truck driver with the No. 6 highway commission, is a na tive of the eounty and an ex-service man. Has Hoodoo Leg. Sunday afternoon, it is said, traf fic Officer Fred Dover failed to make a turn about one block down on South Washington street and his motorcycle collided with a car driven by Hal Rogers, negro. Dover painfully injured, was rushed to the Shelby hospital for examination and treatment. Reports from the hospital this morning had it that the policeman suffered considerably last night, but that his general con dition was better. Hospital authori ties stated that so far as had been determined there were no broken bones, but that the officer had suf fered a severe laceration on his left leg about the knee. that left leg of Dover’s seems to be a hoodoo to him. Years ago it is said to have troubled, him and ■not so many months ago the leg was broken in a truck accident and he still had a slight limp at the time he was injured again Sun day. Dover is one of the new of ficers put on by the Dorsey admin istration. The officer was the only one injured in the crash, it is said. At the time of the collision officers say he was headed for an alley on ■ h Washington just off the square where a disturbance was i orced. The motorcycle failed to make a turn, reports have it, and the colored man driving the car is not held to blame, it is understood, iur the collision. swiff FOR 016 MEETING Prayer Services For Men to be Held From 12:30 to 1 in Best Old Building. Rev and Mrs. R. L. Scarborough | of Fort Worth, Texas, will arrive Saturday of this week for the big revival meeting which Dr. Scar borough will conduct at tbe First Baptist church for two weeks be ginning next Sundry morning at the 11 o’clcok hour. Dt. Wall, pas tor of the church announced Sun day that services will be held dur ing the week at 9 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. The evening service will be held on the lawn on the north side of the church building where a large choir loft has been built for the 200 singers who will make HD the choir. An orchestra under the direction of Dr. Plaster, will $dd to the musical part of the program. Facing the temporary pulpit and choir loft are new-made benches that will seat 3,000 people in the open air arena. Services will be held in the open each evening, while the morning services will be I held in the church auditorium. Dr. Scarborough is one of the ablest revivalists in the Southern Bap tist convention and Dr. Wall feels that he will fit into the situation here in a great way. As has been previously noted, the congregations from country churches will be in vited to come on certain nights. Each week-day except Saturday from 12:30 to 1 o’clock a men’s prayer service will be held in the Blanton building formerly occupied by the Best Furniture store. All men are invited to attend this short prayer service each day. Aged Woman Dies As Choir Sings Roll Call Song Rutherfordton.—As the choir at Hickory Grove Baptist church, near here, sang “When the Roll is Called up Yonder,” Mrs. Elbert Hall, 70, one of the worshippers, put her arm about her husband’s neck and said: “Dont be uneasy. Im going to answer the roll call.” She sank to the floor before her husband realized her condition and died in a few minutes. Consternation reigned in the con gregation as ‘efforts at resusci tation proved futile. America’s Hero,' r~ 1 "'r""""'." -- Home From Atlantic Conquest C*--.—t-7-- ■ Tb8 tumultuous; redcpMon ercr accorded a national Jcro was that riven Colonel "Charley** Lindbergh. the young man who flew from New York to JVtlris In «. monoplane. The .pictures above show Incidents ot the recctif.cn at Washington—“Mndy- t. fore O’.? mle-ophoue. while million* throughout the country are listening in. and the young mori net! If., trrther in the oflicial presidential tr as It paraded through the ftUeets ol the capital. -i.ll.... j -U’.i. _’i"—jan'i1--'.'-jgaggw »■-. '""I-1 One Man Gets Into Sheriff’s Race Early—Pink E. Lackey Announces Pink E. Lackey, of South Shelby, formally announces that he is out to get into Sher iff Hugh Logan’s number 12’s when the sheriff lays his bro gans aside—which is a way of i saying Mr. Lackey announces his candidacy for the big job. He told The Star Saturday that he made the statement during the last race that when the next one rolled around, he would be in the running with both feet. Mr. Lackey is well known in | this city, having lived here 15 years or more. For more than 10 years he has been an opera tive at the Ella mill. “I am a poor man,” he as serted. “but I am ambitious to ijold the job of sheriff of this „ county, and am going to put all the sense and energy I have got into this race—and believe I am going to win.” Floyd Collins’ Body On Exhibition In Cave; Brothers Will Bring Suit Horse Cave, Ky.—The body of Floyd Collins, whose imprisonment in Sand Cave and final death there attracted the attention of the na tion, has been placed ®n exhibition in Crystal Cave. After Collins body was removed from Sand Cave where it had been sealed up for several months, it was buried over Crystal Cave, but on Monday Dr. Harry B. Thomas, a local dentist who owns Crystal Cave, had the casket removed from its grave and placed in the grand canyon of Crystal cave, 280 feet under ground. “The top of the casket is not fastened down,” he said in answer to questions, “and it is optional with people whether they want to look at the body itself through the glass top. It is in a state of perfect preservation.” Dr. Thomas said he had permis sion from Lee Collins sr., father of Floyd, to bury the body on his Crystal cave property, Collins’ brothers, Lee jr., and Andy, how ever, planned legal action to re cover the body, and will seek dam ages.. Floyd Collins was trapped in Sand cave—a mere sink hole—on January 30, 1925. His plight was discovered a day or so later and then for more than two weeks a fight was waged against the forces of nature in an effort to rescue him. His body was reached in Feb ruary 17, after he had been dead several days. Three Negro Women Engage I n Affray With White Farmer Deputy Sheriff Jerry Runyans Saturday morning arrested 01 i Hardin, Johnnie Mae and Avalane Hoskins, three young negro wo men, at Red row on a charge alleg ing assault with deadly weapons on L. Y. Randall, white farmer of No. 3, Friday afternoon. A hearing is set for recorder’s court here today. As the information came to the officer it is said that the women approached a field where Randall was working with a pitchfork in some hay and started an argument about some hoeing they had been doing. .The officer was told that rocks, a stick, and an axe were among the weapons alleged to have been used, Randall managing to defend himself until Jim Cooper happened by and came to his assist ance. No one was seriously injured, ;t was said. Turners Indicted In Bank Affair Grand Jury Returns True Hills Against Marvin And W, E. Turner, Former Bankers Charlotte.—Marvin A. Turner, president of tjie defunct Charlotte Bank and Trust company, and \V. E. Turner, cashier, were indicted hv the Mecklenburg grand jury Friday for making false entries in the books of the bank. Solicitor John G. Carpenter said last night that bonds for the two brothers had not been fixed but will probably be $2,500 each. The indictment came as the cli max to a grand jury investigation that has been under way for the past two terms. John Fox, trust officer of the American Trust company; W. Lati mer Brown and A. H. Mundy gave evidence before the jury, the true bill showed. The names of J. E. Haskins and C. D, Nevitt were also given as witnesses, but the bill indicated that they had not been examined. The indictment also charges the two brothers with concealing the correct entries of the bank and its true transactions. An audit made by Haskins and Sells for the American Trust com pany, receiver of the defunct bank, was reported to have been tendered as evidence to the grand jury. The Charlotte Bank and Trust company failed last December. Shortly afterwards Marvin A. Turner had a nervous breakdown and is now a patient in an Ashe j ville hospital. Marvin A. Turner was at one i time in the banking business in this county at Grover and is relat ed in the county. Home Brew Raids Not So Successful If Shelby brews its own kicking beverage prohibition officers as yet have failed to j find the brewery, or breweries. Information has it that last week prohibition officers searched several Shelby homes for “home brew,” but -«o far as can be learned the raids failed to materialize in the capture of the product that has become so well known since the Vol | stead act. SALE OF PROPERTY FOR UNPAID PAVING POSTPONED TODAY ayor Holds up Sale Today. Will Advertise Again and Sell Sure For Unpaid Assessments. I he schedule sale ot bhelby prop erty today for unpaid paving as sessments was postponed at the sale hour following instructions from Mayor W. N. Dorsey, it is said. The sale advertised to be hied today by the city to collect paving assessments that have been due for some time will be held at a date to he announced later, the mayor saya. Such was announced at the sale hour with the added information that the new date of sale will be announced later and that the next time the sale is scheduled it will be held. Numerous citizens who have not paid their assessments have come to his recently asking for a few days longer, according to the may or, and the days of grace granted by him in the postponement today will be the final chance, he says. The names of those who have not paid were read out at the sale hour and warned that their prop erty would be sold at the next ad vertised date. nuns MOMS. SI Police Chief Irvin Allen, of Kings Mountain, here for county court to day stated that Odessa Wilson, al leged to be the mother of the dead infant found at Kings Mountain last week, is improving and may be able to be out of confinement in a few days. Opinion as to the manner of the infant’s death is divided about Kings Mountain where inside de tails of the revolting affair are known, the officer stated. Coroner T. C. Eskridge has stated that legal action, may be taken in the matter when the con dition of the 18-vear-old girl is so improved that questioning may bo permitted. ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR AT GILMER’S When Archie Galloway married Miss Ellen Jarrett in December, | 1924, he started something. Gal i loway is of Gilmers, the advertis ing genius of the local organiza tion. Since that happy day five cou i pies have stepped the primrose path the Rhodes headquarters. 1 And the end is not yet. j Recorded in today’s issue is the matrimonial alliance of the assist i ant manager of the store, L. V. Mulkey, to Miss Beulah Boyles. Meantime J. D. Penninger married Miss Sallie May Wilson; Kennon Goforth married Miss Gertrude Cobb, apd Miss Myrtle Lee of the organization, also went joyfully to the altar. SITE SELECTED ■ FOR NEW SCHOOL IN WEST SHELBY I City School Board Purchased Block From J. Frank Ware for $5,* 000 on Ware Street. A vacant lot fronting 316 feet on Ware street and extending a depth of 400 feet along another I street was purchased Saturday by the city school board from J. Frank Ware of Asheville, at the price of 15,000. On this site will be erected the new ward school building out of the funds remaining from the $200, 000 school bond issue sold two years ago. The lot is level and beautifully situated for a school site. It was selected out of four sites under considertaion by the board for some weeks. It lies one block south of the handsome new home of J. N. Dellinger. Mr. Bloom H. Kendall, secretary to the school board says that plans are now being drawn by a Raleigh architect and as soon as submitted and approved, bids will be asked from contractors. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy by September when the fall term opens. All grades heretofore attending the Sumter street school to the rear of the high school building will be transferred to this new school build ing on thre Ware property. Big Court Docket Before Recorder City and Cqptnty Officers Roll Up Big Numler of Canes During Week-end. Court Today. The past week-end was a busy one in the realm of the night stick and policeman's badge. County Judge John P. Mull this morning faced one of the heaviest week-end court dockets in some weeks. The cases for the most part cen tered about bootleg and its attend ant evils,, it is said. Many of the charges were preferred by eity of ficers, while several cases came in from the cOunty. Officers In Raid But Man Escapes Patrolmen Roach, Poston and Sparks Saturday morning visited the home of Joe Pearson, father in-law of Bob Kendrick jr., look ing for liquor they having infor mation that young Kendrick was staying there. In the meantime, officers say, young Kendrick, whose house was just across the street, poured some liquor in a [ sink and threw a gallon across in the yard of Rev. Mr. Walker, mak ing his getaway in the rain before the officers could nab him. Young Kendrick given a hearing today before Recorder Mull was acquitted of the liquor charges against him. He testified that he | had nothing to do with the liquor, had pypred none out and had not thrown any in the yard. It was further testified that he did not run away but went to Bridgewater fishing and came back when he heard officers were looking for him. One of the contentions of the defense was that the charges were ! planted to “even up” with the boy’s I father, an officer, who raided the Walker home some time back. The I case was handled by a jury and I the not guilty verdict returned 'within a few minutes after Judge Mull’s charge. COTTON MARKET (By Jno. F. Clark ft Co.) Cotton was quoted at 11 o’clock today on New York exchange: July 16.56; October 16.92; De cember 17.15. New York, June 20.—Eight p. b. Southern weather. Cloudy except Carolinas and Oklahoma, raining at Atlanta, rain fall there .04; Mont govery .20; Memphis .08; Shreve port 1.20; Vicksburg .04; Abilene .01, forecast Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and east Texas local thundershow ers, West Texas part cloudy, Caro linas fair. Greenville special quotes Harvie Jordan as saying cotton growers are unprepared for the present boll weevil menace that threatens large areas of the cotton belt having been lulled to sense of security by free dom from the pest last couple years. Moderate business In Worth street Saturday sales for week estimated 300,000 pieces. Look for higher market today on continued showery condition east, and west forecast. Mr. Hayden Clement, of Salis bury, a prominent lawyer, was jhere on Friday to see Federal • Judge £. Y. Webb. County Gets $47,201 From Equalization Fund- Lowers General School Budget Here County’s Quota From State Equalization Fund For Schools Boosted Considerably. Will Lower School Cost Some. Tax Rate May Be Lowered Slightly. Aviator And Pal } Coming To Shelby Now From Florida ’ An airplane doing a hop of 1 any kind since the feat of ' Lindbergh is quiet an event. So I it is with considerable interest 1 that it was learned here at noon that one or more birds of the air are now making a hop to Shelby from Pensacola, Fla. Fred Dean, of the Chickasaw thread firm here, received a day letter today from Grover 1 Turner, one of his Florida salesmen, stating that he was 1 leaving Pensacola with a naval aviator and would land in Shel by either this afternoon or to morrow morning. Just what time they will arrive and how many planes are coming is not known. An attempt is being made to have the planes land somewhere in the Cleveland Springs estates. Well Known Citizen of Earl Buried Saturday rt New Hope. Waa Forty Years <JM. Mr. John M., better known as “Bun** Runyans, beloved farmer of near Earl passed away Friday morn ing at 4 o’clock at the age of 40 years, seven months and six days. Mr. Runyans had not been well for a year but had been up and goipg most of the time until last Friday l when he was taken suddenly ilL All that loving hands and medical skill could do was done, but all to no avail. Funeral services were conducted Saturday by Rev. John W. Suttle, assisted by Revs. Zeno Wall of the First Baptist church and Rush Padgett of the Second Baptist church. He was laid to rest in New Hope church cemetery, being a de voted member of that church. De ceased is survived by his wife to whom he was married December 7th, 1910 and four children, threa girls and one boy. Ruth, John, Mary and Margaret and one step daugh ter Olene Rippy. Also surviving to mourn his departure are his moth er, one brother Seth Runyans, one sister Mrs. Reuben Blanton, all of Earl. His father and three sisters, and one brother preceded him to the grave several years ago. Mr. Runyans was a kind-hearted and de voted father and a kind, sympathet ic neighbor, always ready to help everyone. His host of friends was evidenced by the beautiful floral offerings. Serving as pall-bearers were: I.. V. Mulkey, Janies Tullot, Nethey Sepaugh, James Lee Ellis, Lewis Borders, Harry Hopper. Flower girls were Ophelia Moss, Lucile, Inez and Lorene Morehead, Millie Sepaugh, Winnie Borders, Lorene Blanton, Mary Ellis, Mary Turner, Sue Borders, Edna Borders, Edessa McSwain, Gladys Conner, Rebecca Austell, Kate Bettis. $7.73 If You Have Dog And No More Raleigh,—(INS.)— Regard less of whether or not you have your share of the per cap ita wealth of the nation, you own $7.37 worth of property if you have a dog. More than a half million dol lars worth of dogs are listed for taxation in North Carolina according to the most recent report of the state revenue de partment. The canines numbering 68, 904, are valued at $532,636, an average value of approximate ly $7.73. Sampson county leads all others in the state insofar as dogs are concerned, with 7,610 of the four-legged ‘pals’ list ed for taxation. Then comes Wake county, with 3,571, and Davidson is third with 3,425. Has the department “got” your goat? There are 19,469 goats listed, with a valuation of $31,692. Brunswick, with 1,924; Gates with 1,124, and Randolph with 1,009, respect ively lead all other counties in the state in the number of goats listed. Although dispatches from Ra eigh did not give the apportion* | nent for Cleveland county from he state equalisation fund for ichools county leaders here learned rom A. E. Wolts, of Gastonia, Sat irday that the amount would be 147,201.92, a sum considerably in >xcess of that received in previous rears by this county. The present apportionment is nore in keeping with that of ad joining counties and is more fitting n comparison with taxable values I han previous apportionments. j The news of the money the coun« y will receive from the state is 1 teralded with interest by J. H. jrigg, county superintendent, and Dther educational leaders. With the natural expense of the schools dur ng the past year and the automatic increase of pay to teachers the preparing of the school budget for the coming year under the operat ing expenses of the previous year was proving an impossibility. With the apportionment of $47, 201.93 Superintedent Grigg esti mates that the school expense bud get can be cut several cents. . *" Just what effect the increased school apportionment from thu state fund will have on the gen eral county tax lev/ cannot be de termined as yet. County leaders ex press the opinion Saturday that tha tax rote might be slightly lowered, but the probable lowering depend* to a great extent on land values under present listing. It was learn- * ed at the court nouse baturday that values in several townships were shrinking. So, if tKe shrink age in value is not enough to *•' swallow up the lowered budget tha rate will not likely—rather cannot —be reduced. Should general val ues hold up to those of the previous year it is thought the rate may ba reduced to a certain extent. It will be remembered that tho additional school tax put on last year came from another portidg of the county’s taxable income and if the school rate is lowered by tho state apportionment it means that} the increase deducted from other • sources" for the schools will go hack to the general taxable income, and then if value shrinkage is not too much the rate may be slightly low ered. County officials, however, aro reluctant as yet to express an opin ion as to the tax levy. Too much depends upon tax values as return ed for any definite opinion as yet, they say. , * sirenMlwIn OF SHELBY FIRES City workmen today were install ing a big fire siren on the city wa ter tank at the rear of the city hall for the purpose of sounding fire alarms in the town. The big siren, the screeching of which may be heard for miles, will first sound a general fire alarm, according to Fire Chief Roach, and the short screeches will tell Which ward the fire is in. It will be pos sible it is said to hear the sireno as far away as Kings Hountain. Just when the siren will be ready for use is not known, but workmen may complete the installation, to day or tomorrow. I Baby Smothers In Bed—Found Dead The three-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Green, who live m a Kings Mountain mill village, was found dead in bed Sunday morning, it was said here today by Police Chief Irvin Allen, of Kings Moun tain. An investigation disclosed, the officer said, that the young chihl probably smothered to death. j Masons To Install Officers On Friday The newly elected officers of Cleveland Lodge No. 202 A. F. and A.M. will be installed at the regu lar meeting of the lodge Friday night, it is announced. The new officers elected a month ago will go through the customary installation ceremony and all local Masons are urged to be present. Visiting brethren will be given, 4 cordial welcome. „ „ . i