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(By International New* Service.)
Los Angeles.—Lindbergh whom
President Coolidge designated
“the ambassador without a port
folio,'" is not without hrtftor in this
city. It now is proposed to change
the name of Main Street here to
Lindbergh Boulevard and a public
meeting has been called for the
near future with this purpose in
view as a means of honoring the
non-stop flyer hero.
Members of the Central Im
' ppftvpment association have pefi
* ttoned the city council to change
the name of Main street and be
stow upon that main artery of the
city a name that sounds of some
thing rtiorc sophisticated. A num
ber of names have been suggested,
but Lindbergh Boulevard ranks in
the foreground of all those sug
gested.
Public Hearing
After listening in on the sug
gestions, Councilman Pierson Hall^
chairman of the city planning
commission, announced that a
public meeting will he held soon in
the council chamber in city hall.
It remained for Sinclair I/Cwis
to make “Main Street’’ famous
and give It the smack of small
townishness. But Main Street of j
Los Angeles has always been pail
and parcel of this western metro-1
oolis. Time was when Main street
here was the lending and impos
' ing thoroughfare of this Califor-1
nia city. It was, years ago, the prin
eipal retail street of Los Angeles.
In 1894 its lending first class hotel
was located on Main street. The
retail emporiums of the city were’
1 on that street. Not to know Main
street was to Ire ignorant of Lcs
Angeles.
Lost Its Business
But other streets became fa
mous as retail marts of trade.
Spring street and Broadway be
came prominent commercial arter
ies, and Main street commenced to
backslide. Where once stood im
posing buildings occupied by mer
chant princes of retail trade of
this city, particularly the lower
end of the street, now are hourcil
many penny grabbing concerns and
individuals who years ago would
have done honor to the old Bowery
of New York city. Cheap picture
shows are there. “Professors” gar
gle at the public while delivering
lobby “lectures’’ to those who will,
stand and get an ear full about
nothing. Girl shows hearing the;
imposing name of “burlesque,” are |
offered to the public for .r> cents,
and 10 cents, and the girls ( ?> are j
paraded before each performance
in the lobby of the theatres just
to give the passer-by a flash, j
Cheap restaurants abound, where
“pounded" beef steaks are sold.
That portion of Main street has
. become a practical Bowery.
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ators to answer requests for the time of day,
* tJhe location of fires and other information not a
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time of dav, and in the interest of improved service, we ;
urge telephone users not to make calls of this kind.
The conditions under which we ate now operating
are greatly changed from the past. The rnpid growth
and extisnsion of the local telephone service and the
greatly increased use of the telephone by the public
has placed A heavy burden on our operators. The lines
are crowded With’important messages and the opera
tors are busy as never before. \
The operators are asked for the time of day hun
dreds of times daily. Every minute given to calls of \
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of vital Importance.
The operators and equipment employed in render
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SPEW TO BIBLE
. LEAGUE AT MEET
“Blue Law” Governor Of South
Carolina To Be Highlight Of
(fathering.
Charlotte.— (INS).— Governor
John G. Richards, of South Caro
lina, whose gubernatorial edict to
enforce the Palmetto State's an
cient "blue laws” a few months
back created muion-wide attention,
is expected to be a headline speak
er at the semi-annual meeting of
the North Carolina Bible league
here on June HO.
In his address the South Caro
lina Governor is expected to as
sail the advocates of modernism. It
was rumored here that Governor
Richards’ presence at the meeting
and his attendance at the execu
tive meeting of the league may
Dress a decision on the part of the
league to enter South Carolina.
Heretofore the Bible league has
cot fined its operations solely to
North Carolina. It came into be
ing as a state organization last
December when it was merged
with the famous “Committe of One
Hundred,” a militant organization
of fundamentalists formed here
in May 1926. Prior to the merger
the league functioned only as a
Mecklenburg county association.
During the 1927 session of the
North Carolina state legislature,
the Bible league was the sponsor
of the second edition of Rep. D.
Scott Poole’s “anti-evolution” bill.
League officials have announced
their intention to introduce a sim
ilar bill in the 1929 legislature.
Business Better
That business is booming Ir. the
South is demonstrated by the re
ports of building operations from
all the Southern states. The Man
ufacturers Record sees now “a
big forward movement in building
and industry in the South.” It finds
that throughout the section build
ing and industrial expansion is
under way on a big scale. This is
proven" by reports covering- build
ing operations, engineering and
general construction work, and the
voting and sale of municipal sec
urities.
“Throughout the year," says
Thursday’s bulletin issued by The
Record, "construction and build
ing has progressed steadily, bu't
during recent weeks there has been
a noticeable increase in activity in
practically every line of work"; the
localities represented are widely
scattered throughout the territory
from Maryland to Texas, indicat
ing a generally healthy condition
of business and Industry.
“A strong market now prevails
for Southern securities and there
have been many recent sales of
municipal, county, district and
state bond issues at remarkably at
tractive prices.
"With the funds available from
the issues recently marketed and
the funds to be obtained from
sales scheduled for the immediate
future, there will be in the aggre
gate a vast sum of money avail
able for public improvements of
all kinds in the Southern states."
—Gastonia Gazette.
STATE HOLDS SECOND
PLACE NUMBER OF FARMS
North Carolina ranked second
In the number of farms in the
Southern States at the end of
1925, the last year in which the
Federal Farm census was made,
according to the Manufacturers’
Record.
Trvus. with its vast area of land
topped the Southern States in
farms, the number being 466,305 as
compared to the 283.492 in North
Carolina.
A steady increase in the number
of farms in North Carolina has
boon noted since 1900 when the
number of farms stood at 224,(537.
Ten years later the number had
grown to 258,725, while in 1920.
the peak of the inflation period,
the number had increased to 201',
763.
North Caiolina, however, ranked
fouth in value of farm properly.
Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma
rai'.ki: g in order named.
PHONE SYSTEM GAINS
781.000 IN A YEAR
(By International News Service.)
Boston.—The increase in tele
phone facilities and the stupendous
acceptance nr the advantages of
the telephone as taken by the
American public in recent years is
told in figures recently computed
by the telephone companies of- the
Bell System.
During the past year there has
been a gain of 781.090 telephones
owned and operated by the Beil
System which spread over the land
in homes and business offices is
considered a marked increase. Dur
ing the same period the total
number of exchange telephone calls
increased by 1,091,000,000 over the
previous year, and the number of
toll and long distance calls in
creased by 90,500.000.
More than 664,000 miles of toll
wire was added during the year,
the largest number of miles add
ed in one yenr. Exchange wire
mileage in 1920 increased over
1925 by 4,723,000 miles.
Man Wearing Ring
480 Years Old
Probably Oldest In America Its
Owner, II. M. Cornelsen,
Thinks.
Kinston.—H. M. Cornelsen wears
a gold finger ring 480 years old.
It may be the oldest in America
for nil that Cornelsen knows, but
there are possibly fifteen or twen
ty as old in Holland. He came to
this couhtry from The Netherlands
less than two years ago, but
speaks almost perfect English.
The history of Cornelsen’s ring
it established. “There isn’t the
slightest doubt about its age," he
said. "It has been in the family
ever since it was made, and that
was before America .was discover
ed.”
The ring is the largest ,ever
seen here. It is almost butden
somely heavy, and weighs, about
eight times as much as the aver
age modern finger band. It is
broad and thick and heavily de
corated with furbelows. The band
is set with an enormous amethyst.
| “There isn’t anything unusual
about it except its age,” Cornelsen
said. “I do not know that any great
warrior or any famous statesman
evef wore' it. It has never been
out of our family. It W’as passed
along on my father’s side. It des
cended from son to son, of course.
Some Dutch goldsmith made it in
the 15th century, about 1445 or
1450. Tt has seen many a quaint
thing, seen the history of the
world rewritten several times, this
old ring. I don’t know what its ac
tual value is. I have been offered
$2,800 for it. I wouldn’t consider
that sum. I don’t know what sum
I might consider it, if any. Cer
tainly, I am not anxious *n sell it.
None of the Cornelsens has ever
been So hard un as to be willing
to part with it.” Cornelsen is a
traveling salesman
SEWING IS EECOMING A
“LOST ART” IN BRITAIN
(Special to The Star.)
London,—-Sewing ie becoming a
lost, art in England, according to
William P. Stewart, head of the
great Coats’ spinning cotton firm, j
Addressing Coats’ shareholders,!
Stewart declared the demand for j
thread was less, and indications
pointed to the fact that less hn-s«
hold sewing was being dime In Eng
land than ever before.
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CHAS. L. ESKRIDGE,
Shelby, N. C.
FATHER AND 5 !
SONS IN PRISON
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Moonshine and T ianessee ,
Mountain Life blamed
for Downfall.
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Five of his !
■sons In felon’s cells, the eldest con
demned to n living death—life sen
tence, without ho|»e of pardon, for
the cold-blooded murder of n voting
woman—t lie sixth, barely fifteen,
snatched from him by the law in
the hope that change of environ
ment may eradicate the criminal
tendencies Hint apparently are In
herent, Frank Anglian, fifty-three,
liquor-snaked product of the Ten
nessee hills, la In the county Jail
meditating on an Ill-spent life. i
Like n tale from the Arabia®
Nights reads the story of the sons,
whose criminal machinations have
run the gamut from common lar
ceny to automobile theft, burglary,
arson, assault, highway robbery
and. finally, murder. It was the
brutal slaying of Shirley (ilnrdim,
referred to as the '‘flaxen-haired
flapper," a young and esVnhNTd
wife, whose life was snuffed out
h.v a bullet from behind ns she in
dulged In a petting party with Pe
ter flrown on a lonely road, which
bared tho detail# of many roadside
robberies and other crimes in wldyh
three Anglian brothers confessed
participation, ns well as the check
ered page of a lifetime of more or
le»s seldous crimes In which the
male members of the family rev
eled.
Ill-Fitted to Face World. |
Psychologists will contend, and1
not without substantial basis, that
the hemmed-ln life in the mountain
valleys that preclude schooling uud
a healthy environment sounds the j
keynote. Certain it Is the Anglian
faintly emerged from their cabin in
the hills, ill-fated to face the pit
falls of the outer world and were
easy prey to the gllb-tongued erim-,
Inals Infesting the city.
It was easy for Bill Anglian, un- j
sophisticated mountain lad of sev
enteen, when the family migrated
to Cincinnati 12 years ago, to have
Ids liend turned by the easy man
ner In which, under the tutelage of
'he criminals with whom he had
?nst his lot, he “stripped” an auto
mobile—his first job. The acees
torles and tires did not bring much
•eturn financially, but to the mind
jf tlie mountain youth, to whom a
lollar was utmost a fortune, it was
big money. And getting It was M
?asy.
Again and again the gang ea
sayed similar jobs successfully, un
til the small return began to pall on
Anglian. Big, raw-boned moun
taineer, with muscles hardened by
hardship, he visioned reul money
In a bigger field, leaving the auto
Jobs to the pikers.
It was easy to induce Ids 'broth
er John, two years Ids junior, to
loin him In leadership of what be
came kliown to tlie underworld no
the Anglian gang, the existence of
which, strange to say, was un*
known to the authorities until a
keen-eyed patrolman, following a
slender clew, brought about tlie ar
rest of one of the gang, which
proved the opening wedge In tear
ing apart the well-constructed ali
bis and revealed the gruesome tala
Of theft, assault and murder.
Brothers Make Confessions.
With the elder Anglian, now
twenty-nine, a confessed murderer
awaiting only a Jury to decide
whether death or life without hope
of pardon should he the penalty ex
acted ; his brothers John and
fleorge, the latter only sixteen
years old, confessed participants
with Hill, nud Cecil Bennett and
Cordon Lawrence, other members
of the gang In Jail pending trial,
the wheels of justice began to
move swiftly.
• One by one the remaining An
gilnns were disposed of, I-Tunklln,
twenty, going to Atlanta for auto
mobile stealing; Ted, seventeen, to
Mansfield reformatory for a sim
ilar crime, the father In Jail tot
drunkenness and neglect charge,
and Krnest. the baby and the Ion*
male Angitan us yet apparently un
stained by crime, ordered to the
children's home by the court lti the
hope of saving hint. Followed tlie
nttlck conviction of Bill with a life
sentence with pardon barred; life
for John Anglian and Bennett, and
the reformatory and later the peni
tentiary for George Anglian and
Lawrence, minors.
Through the maze of crime nnd
intrigue surrounding the Angilans
there stalks the vision of two sis
ters, who In reality are the chief
sulTerers us the result of paternal
neglect nnd Illiteracy of the moun
tains that sent their brothers into
the world potential criminals. The i
Anglian sisters took the road di
rectly oposlte to that selected by
their brothers and today are mar
ried happily.
Dancing at He Nears
America Brings Death
New York.—Harming on the deck
of the liner Mlnnewaska In celebra
tion of his sixtieth crossing Is said
to have Induced nn attack of heart
disease which caused the death of
M. M. Hodklnson, en route to this
country. The death and burial at
sea was reported by oHIclais of th«
Atlantic Transport line when the
ship docked.
ltodklnsnn. who was said to have
been a native of Louisiana, bad
lived In London for many years,
where be was engaged In the lui
|*©rt and eximrt business.
betrayed by Heels
New York.—A pair of high heeled
slippers peeping from a pair of mas
culine trousers caused the arrest of
Helen Jacks, eighteen years old. of
havannah, (la., who toid police
had come North as a stowaway to
search for her mother.
Equal One Third Of The Res? Of
The Woman’s Costume,’
Says Speaker.
Asheville.—The stocking's the
thing! Blame short skirts.
Would you march with the snap
py dressers in dame fashion’s big
parade, then look well to your
stockings. Others will.
That’s hot tip from fashion's
inner circles for the hopeful
dame or damsel who craves dis
tinction in her dress. The modern
frock is merely the background in
the picture. The hat has lost im
portance. Accessories simply make
the costume.
So—look well to the nether
Jimbs. Thby’re wearln’ ’em 1C
inches an up now. Goodness knows
how much higher they’ll go. So
pick your stockngs first of all and
look well to the legs!
! Miss Marie Higley, of New York
so told delegates, attending the
20th annual convention of the
American home economics assoc
iation in a speech here. Mom than
1,000 persons, were in the audience. !
-‘begin with deckling about
your stockings first of all,” said
Miss Higley. “They are acknowl
edged to be of first importance and
the subtly correct shade you select.
will be the measure of smartness
by which you are judged.
“One third of the costume now
adays is stockings. It is the most
important accessory to the cos
tume. The wrong shade of stock
ing spoil the smartness of shoes
and costume costing five to fifty
times as much as the stockings.
The least expensive item in your
wardrobe may be the most costly.” ;
Cotton Outlook
Very Favorable (
But Farmers of North Carolina j
Have to Complete With Cheap
Costa in Texas.
It was hoped that the aeerape j
in cotton in North Carolina would
be cut heavily this season, but it j
now pppws doubtful that thy actual
leduction is ns heavy as it was first
reported to be.
The stand of cotton is reported
a generally good. The seed were
slow in sprouting, due to the early
drought but this has evidently been
advantageous to the crop as the
plants ere deep rooted, strong and
vigorous. Since the rains early in
Jane, crops are growing fine. It has
been most too cool during the past
two week.' for the best development
i f cotton, but it is generally recog
nized that th? crop is ’n better
shape and further advanced titan
last year at this time,
The principal need of the crop
just now is a period of hot, dry
weather for intensive cultivation,
as the rainy spell ha3 left the
fields very grassy. Little cultiva
tion has been permitted during the
past ten days, especially in .he
Piedmont counties.
Several farmers state that tha
cotton crop is the best it has beer
in the past three years. It has been
good boll weevil weather, too.
Watch out for these.
While the price of cotton is now
better than it was last full and
winter, the large acreage rather
shakes the stability of these prices.
It. reed not be forgotten tbut we
are competing with 0 to 0 cents
production in Texas an I Okl
'■ h<' emu is handled
tors. No fertilizers, choppi^ ^
Hi;
hand labor at all is used n,
:s picked bj' u sled l 'illi> /m'1
Lolls off. The gins ar ' 8 th*
take cure of this dirty ndxtu!' 1
Dodging The Cl:
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•’notorin
' bor
resident:
r fliniati
The time is almost
when American? v,- li
away bom the “di-mat'
ter where they iivc, if
the means they will !,
away or otherwise go
their ordinary places <
in search of pleas.ut
The President leave \\:.
for the Dakota hills; t .r.'
of North Carolina will f
m Wisconsin. The noiu ,|„ h
unknown join in the ,.Tea< "
mer movement. Few „T
dodge unpleasant dim, I i,,,’
ment over ihe steamy hoy ,|:iv'
nights '-of. Washington (an 1
found in the middlew ^ '
tain range or in North < ar’„ih
hdls, but other than nr- ,n;.vn ,M
sea breezes with th,
relief of the heat,
m the summer time is "h
for you” anywhere W(, n s'
parallels of lattitude which
brace Continental America. '
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., and
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.
Via
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Round Trip Fare Shelby To A tlantic
City $22.50; tc Niagara Falls $32.35.
Tickets will be on sale one day each week from
June 21st to October Gth, and are limited 17 days
from date of sale. Stop overs allowed on return trip
at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
Cal! on nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent for dates
of sale and other information or apply to
II. A. HARRIS, Agent JOHNT . WEST, D. P. A.
Shelby, N. C. Raleigh, N. C.
THE PILOT
For Twenty Tears
This skip’s lifeboats were idle
jik liner’s officers never
1 dreamed their ship would
cvet go down. Yet day in and
day out, its lifeboats rested on
their davits, always feady for
instant service, always kept in
condition. On every trip, the
first day out, lifebpat drills
were called.
i hen ... after twenty years
of idle-net;;, “Man the li'e
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mar,! W hen disaster threat
ens, first thoughts are of
'vo.i en and children. They
must be carried to safety. Wise
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