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8 PAGES I TODAY .--.-* By mail, per year (in advjKW*)—tSJt By carrier, per year (in advance)'98.09 What's THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW - r^lidge does not want to run Trident again, or so he says. Khelby, according to reports, m ‘ i * * rhe county commissioners met „ week and handled their usual itine business under the new wty accountant system. A final Kk of tax assessments was made the meeting. ^ ^ P A. Tedder had his seventh yCle stolen ^this week. Only seven couples were married this county^in July. Superior court is moving along , week in disposing of civil ti. The Dorsey, McDaniel, Hord ended in a non-suit. • * • |An account of tiansactions at , meeting of the city fathers is today’s news. ^ ^ Charlie Cordell, former boxer ■e is ill in a Charlotte hospital. Community items and general i of interest on every page of lay's paper. painent Citizen of the Double ISprings Community Dies at The Age of 68. leine buried at Double Springs i afternoon at 3 olclock is the wins of Mr. Cleophus Hamrick, , of the most beloved citieens (that section who died Tuesday Lrnoon at 2 o’clock following [illness since last spring. Mr. nrick was a farmer by profes i, but did painting and carpen f work at odd times and was a l beloved and esteemed citizen, ,Jendid neighbor and faithful Ithman. Mr. Hamrick was twice .d. the first time to Miss > Washburn, a sister of Coun .jnmissioner W. W. Washburn. | tbit union one child, Mrs. Sam lha of Macon, Ga., survives, i second marriage was to Miss Ue Doggett who survives with ^children. George Hamrick of l»it, Mich. Mrs. Dan Gold of ,_kv. All of the children I to his bedside last week from j distant homes. Also surviving |tk* w’fo, one brother Elijah fck, father of Clerk of the .t A. M. Hamrick, and two sis , Patience Hamrick and Mrs. cy Bridges, now 80 years of ! funeral was conducted by |r. J. W. Suttle amid a large of friends and relatives. icr Boxer In erious Condition fith Bad Appendix Cordell in Chaslotte Hos *1. Was Well Known in Boxing Circles. trlie Cordell, young and husky Ate policeman and one-time! i of Shelby boxing fans as a' I artist, is in a Charlotte ho?- j I recovering from a serious op n. Reports here late Wednes-1 [night were to the effect that' I hope was entertained for the , [good-natured slugger. He suf-1 II sudden attack of appendi-i ^•nd his appendix bursted, it l before he could be operated •over information yesterday ■f bad it that Cordell was ving after the operation and flees for recovery were bet •* Pendleton and other rela W Shelby are at his bedside, has been on the Charlotte force for several months. *hat time he appeared on fls boxing cards in this sec 1 about Charlotte Back whe 1 [Bempsey, the come-back P;w»s training at Henderson »Coraeil was one of his spar receiving while in jjf one of the famous sleep ? haymakers adminstered •ey’s left fist. McDowell To f Wed Vice Consul Many fri(.nds of Miss G IBrDowell, a sister of 1 ^McDowell, American Rj r*ss agent in Shelby, v •ted to loam that she to he married early Fto Mr. Manuel Crus [ »nd New York. Miss B pont a year in Shelby s tly remembered he i graduated at the Si Re, Boston in June f k v me been making 1 tj? Y»rk City. Mr. Cr from Mexico is statb Y°rk City. The i i tt.!narLiasr(’ annouiv j^eien Warde McDowell '“other of the bri Their Go?l Won, After Smashup Flowers decked the shoulders and -smiles wreathed the faces ot Iftnory Bronte (left) and Ernest Smith, civilian flyers, who re* ontly flew from Oakland, Calif., to Hawaii. The two aviators crashed in a tree on the island of Molokai aftsr their gasoline supply had been exhausted. New Pep On Realty Market An activity that has been missing for several months is making itself felt again on the local real estate market, Shel by real estate dealers state. ‘For the first time in several weeks we are having prospects for houses and farms come to us instead of getting out and ‘drumming’ up every sale as we have been doing,”’ stated a prominent local realtor yester day. ‘Some how or another, due to general business conditions perhaps, the people who have money to invest and usually keep things moving in the real estate market have been expecting the worst or a real hard time panic. With the months passing and nothing of i the type developing investment money has begun to ease up. “Added to that feature is still another: These months of conservative waiting mean that a considerable amount of money has been saved up and there will be more for real es tate investments when the re newed activity gets going good,” it was stated. Generally speaking it seems that prospects of good crops and a measure of prosperity in the fall have had to do with the change in real estate circles. It is needless to say, because it is generally known, that real estate transfers in this, or most any other section of the state, have been ‘on the blink’ for several months. State May Go To Third Place In Federal Taxes Raleigh.—Although not yet re- , covered from the surprise occas-1 ioned when North Carolina out- j stripped its boasted place as the t “Fifth State” and became the “Fourth State” in the payment of_ federal taxes with the close of the fiscal year on June 30, Collector j Gilliam Grissom ventures the pro- ■ phecy that there is a good chance of North Carolina moving still fur ther towards the front ai.J becom ing the “Third State” in the pay-, ment of federal taxes for the new fiscal year says The News & Ob server. The prophecy was based on re ceipts for July, the first month of the new fiscal year, which amoBnt ed to $17,516,293.43 as compared j with $16,418,646,293.43 two years ago. Two years ago North Carolina climbed to fifth place and it was felt that it would be impossible to ! go higher. However, the federal ex ' cise rate on automobiles was low 1 ered and last year North Carolina,1 by climbing from $192,000,000 to ! $205,000,000 passed Michigan which 1 dropped from $212,000,000 to $198, 000,000. Now with only New York. Penn sylvania and Illinois collecting more revenue for Uncle Sam than , is collected in North Cvtlina, Col lector Grissom still feels that there is room near the top and is hope ful of passing Illinois, despite the fact that it contains the great city of Chicago. Oil Mill Adding To It* Building Two additions are being made to the plant of the Southern Cotton Oil Mill’s Shelby plant of which J. Frank Jenkins is superintendent. A brick addition 32x40 feet is be ing added to the mill itself to re lieve the crowded condition of the tinting machines. Another addition 32x160 feet is being made to the fertilizer department. Mr. Jenkins says the plant capacity will not be ' increased by reasons of these addit ions which are made simply to give more floor space which is greatly needed. The construction is being done by two contractors, Ramsey and Morrison. Community Brawl In County Court A three-cornered scrap in the Buffalo (Stubbs) community last Friday night drew a big crowd from that community to the court house here yesterday when the affair was aired before Recorder John P. Mull. Judge Mull is holding court temporarily in the clerk’s of fice while Superior court is in ses sion upstairs, but yesterday Judge Mull had a larger gallery than Judge Schenck. Just why so much community in terest developed in thfc affray did not come out, several score peo ple, including women and children were on hand for the trial. Evidence introduced was \o the effect that rocks played a role in the fight, but Judge Mull, could not see very much visible damage wrought by the alleged rock-throwing. One wo man injured in the affair, it wrs said, had three front teeth knock ed out, but the versions of how the teeth were, struck differed. At the conclusion Judge Mull fined two defendants $10 each and one $5. From the standpoint of Cupid and his love affairs July was a disastrous month in Cleveland county. Only seven love-lorn couples se cured marriage licenses from the county register of deeds during the j month. Just how many Cleveland county couples wedded in South Carolina Cupid corners is again a matter of estimate, but the number here last month approaches a near low record. Despite the fall off in June, the month of brides, and July Register Newton says that at the end of the fiscal marriage year more license will have been issued this year than last. August started off mernly at the license bureau with license be ing issued to the following couple; G. C. Sellers and Virginia Grace Harmon, both of the county. MEAT DEALERS LICENSE AGAIN UP BEFORE BOARD —_ * ■ i City Board Adjusts License4 Tax. Unauthorized Water Con nections Unlawful. • A delegation of local meat deal ers was again before the mayor and board of aldermen last night asking for an adjustment on their license tax, a question which has been under discussion for the past few weeks. It was voted to make the license for wholesale dealers $60 a year, a reduction from $75. Where a dealer sells at wholesale and retail the license is set at $100 a year. Unauthorized connection with any water main or line in the town of Shelby is made a misdemeanor and punishable with a fine of $50 and. costs by an ordinance adopted last night. The city water department has experienced considerable trou ble in the collection of monthly wa ter bills. Service has been discon tinued but the patrons would cut the water back on and there has been no law with which to pun ish those who do such. There are state laws, it is understood, that prescribe a penalty for the unau thorized connection with light lines but nothing covering the water sys tem. so the board has passed an or dinance to cover this situation. As has been customary in the past, the members of the fire de partment are exempt from the pay ment of poll tax. R. H. Wilson presented a petition asking for the paving of the side walk recently' constructed on the north side of West Warren street. Action has been delayed until the cost is ascertained. J. B. Smith, county welfare of ficer, made an appeal for a fund from the city to help take care of emergency charity cases in the city. This matter has been taken under advisement and will be act ed upon later. Many Large Suits Continued Until Next Term Court Suits Against Physidrns Not Com ing up This Term. Other Cases Non-Suited. - I Although Superior court is grind- j ing through a full calendar this week several of the suits attracting ! considerable interest will not come up this term, it was learned today. The two suits against Drs. E. A. Houser and J. W.. Harbison are so far back on the calendar that they mav not be taken up until the spe cial civil calendar term called for September. Also the suit of Clar ence Lebnard against the Gulf Re fining company has been continued along with several other important minor litigations. Quite a number of litigations have ended in non-suits this week while still a number of interesting affairs are to come up before court adjourns. The suit of J. A. Walker and T. G. Howell vs. the Cleveland Motor company and C. P. Peeler ended in a non suit yesterday. Similar dis posal was made of the suit J. C. Green vs. E. Wray and Josh Crowd er vs. N. V. Petty. V. C. Peeler an old resident of Shelby now living in Charlotte with his family, were visitors to Shelby this morning. Mr. Peeler is now with' the Efird firm in the bg town side kicking with his old pals here, Messrs. Neely and Bettis. i ._._ HOW OLD IS WORLD? SCIENTIST IN STUDY OF GRAND CANYON (By International News Service) Berkley, Cal.—How old is the world ? AJwut 6,000 years according to the account in Genesis. More than 75,000,000 years, according to the University of California scientists, who have just returned from a geologic survey in AiTizona, Utah and Colorado. The California professors—C. L. Camp, paleontologist; S. C. Pepper of the philosophy de partment, and James P. Fox, geologist—studied the deep gorges of the "Grand Canyon and the peculiar geologic formations of Arizona’s Painted Desert. Three fragmentary phytosaiir skulls, which they brought back with, them, fix the age of the world at more than 75,000,000 years, the professors contend. The skulls, futhermore, ac cording to the discoverers, show that even at that somewhat re mote age the process of evolu tion was at work. k She's Skipper Mrs. Eugene Overton. Los An ..ele* society woman Is a skipper net because she skips, but because she commands a seagoing schoon er Her nusband is mate Of th< boat which is bound for the tin) Islands of the Sauth Seat. 1UD SUIT GETS NON: SUITED HERE IN COURT GRIND Suits of Mayor Dorsey, Hord and McDaniels Against Stock Salesmen Ended. Three suits in Superior court here against J. P. Lindsay and E. C. Stothart, of* Charlotte, alleging fraud in the sale of stock ended in a non-suit yesterday at noon after nearly a day had been taken up in reviewing the evidence in the case. The evidence centered about f>*i>ck alleged to have been sold to Mayor W. N. Dorsey, some years hefore he became mayor, and to V. E. McDaniel and Robert C. Hord. The stock was that of the Parfay company of Charlotte, it was test! fifd. One basis for the suits was that the plaintiffs understood that in buying the stock if they were not satisfied by a certain length of time their money would be refunded. Fraud was charged on this count and also in allegations that wrong representations of the company were made. However, at the conclu sion of the evidence it developed that a Supreme court decision holds that a promise, even in writing, of a refund of money on stock on a stock sale not proving satisfactory is not fraud. At this juncture Speight Beam, attorney for the plaintiffs, entered a motion for a non-suit, which was granted. Plummer Stewart and Hueling Davis, ef Charlotte, were attorneys for the defendants. Two Wreck* But None Badly Hurt John Russ And W. H. Hudson Smash On Highway. Riviere And Elliott On Morgan. I No one was seriously hurt but four cars were more or less dam aged in a couple of auto accidents yesterday and this morning. While W. H. Hudson, traveling salesman, was making an early start this morning out highway 206, John Russ came into the highway from a sideroad. The views of the driv ers was obscured by the Champion filling station near Max Wilson's home on the Waco road and the Russ car struck the Hudson car on the port side. The Russ car turn ed over and the five occupants scrambled from beneath. The Hud son car jumped a ditch but kept on its feet. Russ was brought to the hospital with no injury except a flesh wound in the forehead. Yesterday after Richard Riviere of The Star force had stopped in front of E. W. Wilson’s on N. Mor gan street to discharge passenger he attempted to cross the street and enter the W. B. Nix side street. 'A man by he name of Elliott driv ing another car collided with the j Riviere car and both were more or I less damaged, but the occupants jwere unhurt. Miss Frances Whisnant is in Charlotte attending a house party. Prof, and Mrs. I. C. Griffin and son left this week for New York city to visit their daughter. COOLIDGE NOT SEEKING THIRD TERM, HE SAYS I Ir it President Coolldgc’s inter.- j tion not to run for President again, or if. he behind a bit of fne press agenting to boost his candidacy for the third term? That uery is one muchly discus sed about Shelby today in view of the fact that the President yester day made a statement that has all he politicians and newspapers guess ing. H s statement was “I do not f>,o. *o run for President in 1928.” That was all. nothing more. It doesn’t say that he will not run if others choose him and opinion is mixed as to what is really meant, if anything. The method by which the Presi dent gave out the news that he would not choose the nomination again was as usual unique and to the point. After his morning conference yesterday with newspaper corres- j nondents in the Black Hills, where, he is vacationing, he asked that the newspapermen return at noon. At the appointed hour the writers, expecting something important, filed into his office “Is everyone here?’ asked Coolidge. Learning that they were he took from his desk a collection of small white slips of paper and requested the newspapermen to file by mm to rc ceive the announcement. As the writers filed by and 6pened their slips they were astounded by the single sentence: “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.” Asked if he hid other comment to make Coolidge answered “No.’ and called for his hat to take a Hereabouts local leaders of both parties seem to be divided in theiT nninions. FORTH TOR HEELS Auto Accidents Take Mote Tha® Death A Day And Injure 230 Raleigh-—Forty persons killed in automobile accidents in North Carolina in 30 days! And 230 automobile accident's on the high ways of the State in which persons were seriously injured in the same period! These are the astounding facts revealed by the records being keot by the Automotive Bureau of the State Department of Revenue for the first month the new law has been in effect, requiring officers over the State to make reports on all serious automobile accidents in their jurisdiction—but only of seri | ous accidents, in which persons are seriously injured, or killed. So if all j accidents were included, the figures would be yet higher. But even on | the basis of these figures for the .first month, taking it as an aver age, the total number of deaths in automobile highway accidents for the entire year would amount to 480—an average of 1.34 deaths a day in automobile accidents. But the economic loss from these nreidpnts is eauallv as astoundine as the loss of life, and the number of persons injured. Estimating the actual monetary loss in damage to each automobile involved as $ 100— and this is regarded as extremely conservative, since in many in stances automobiles valued at more than $1,000 are virtually destroyed beyond repair—the loss for the month of July alone, in terms of property destruction, would amount to $230,000. And yet, despite the fact that there are adequate laws governing reckless driving, speeding, and al most every phase of highway traf fic, because here is no single State agency, such as a highway police force, to enforce these laws, life and property are continuing to be destroyed daily. SEA fllAIN TOUR PASSES HERE The good will motor calvacade from the ocean to the mountains over the paved ribbon of Highway 20 passed through Shelby late Mon day afternoon. The good will tour was sponsored by the Wilmington chamber of commerce and boosted a big water pageant to be held at the Carolina seaport next week. It was the first tour of the type made over the first paved highway all the way across the state. More than 20 cars were in the party and short stops were made at Kings service station and opposite the court house. The delegation was escorted through Shelby by Motor cycle Officer Poston. Jncoln Man Saves Pigs With His Gun _____ j Lincolnton,—Marvin Propst, residing near Reepsville, heard a noise near his barn late at night He went out to investigate the racket, he found that some one had sacked up siy pigs and had tied two cows near the road, apparently with the in tention of stealing them. A volley or two pf shots from a handy gun dispersed the would-be "robbers. Lawyer Has Seven Bicycles “Swiped” One On Wednesday Tedder Has His Seventh Bike Taken. About “Fed Up” on Furnishing Wheels. Daniel Allen Tedder, barrister, secretary to Federal Judge E. Y. Webb, and former minister, is about "fed up" on furnishing bicycles for the general public. Enough of anything is a blooming plenty, as Tedder looks at it, and now that his seventh bicycle has been stolen he has enough. Job with all his troubles and Blackbeard—maybe ’twas Bluebeard —with all his wives never had the trouble the nature student-lawyer has had with his bikes. Four Taken Here. Wednesday morning Tedder park ed his bike, on which he commutes to and from his home in the east ern part of the city, under the shade of a tree on the south side of the court square. Bikes, y*know, like a shade in August just as much as horses and flivvers. Late that night after the day’s work was end ed Tedder journeyed out to get his faithful mount and found it gone. “Number Seven” he said sadly as he looked at the place where the wheel had been but was not. "Yes, number seven.” And he might have added: “Believe HI start a bicycle factory of my own.” It was the fourth bicycle Tedder has had stolen since coming to Shelby. Two of the four have been recovered, and Tedder, like a fond parent of his children, has hopes for this one. He has offered a re ward of |5—and |5 in these times gets action usually. Three in Capitol. But the four wheels taken here are not the full account of his mis haps with bikes. In days gone by when Judge Webb was in congress and Tedder his secretary, he had three bicycles stolen in the nation al capitol. And just like other things that pass away and never come back in Washington those wheels were “long gone.” But the fdd part of it is that aft er suety a run of misfortune Tedder still has faith in his fellowman. Expects to get that seventh bicycle back this week. He's built that way and, of course, if you happen to see that seventh • stolen bike, you may make $5. New Mail Service To Rutherfordton From Gaffney Now Gaffney.—A notice posted in the lobby of the Gaffney postoffice says sealed bids will be received by the assistant postmaster general in Washington until August 23 for carrying the mail on a star route from Gaffney to RutherfordtV. and return, a distance of 40.13 mil es one way. A one-way mail delivery from Gaffney ,*o Rutherfordton has been operated for the past year or more The new service calls, for a sche dule leaving Gaffney at 5:30 a. m., arriving at Rutherfordton by 8:45 a. m., with the return trip to be started as soon as the Asheville mail pouch is received or not later than 9:30. The towns to be served include Cliffside, Henrietta, Avondale. Caroleen. Ellenboro, Bostic, Forest City and Rutherfordton. Home Coming At Old C&pernium The annual Home-coming at Old Capernium will be held at the usual time, on Saturday before the first Sunday in August. (August 6.) The sermon will be preached by our pastor, Rev. J. W. Suttle. The remainder of the day will be given over to old time singing in charge of Miss Zona Hord. Every body cordially invited to be pres ent, especially do we invite the old people to join in ,the old time sing ing. Dinner will be served on the {ground at 1 o’clock. COUNTY HEADS IN i FINAL CHECK OF TAX ASSESSMENT Slight. Gain Shown Over County An Whole in Value*. Invoice Businena Syntem. Tax assessing in Cleveland conn* ty for the new tax year received its final okey Monday at the hands of the county commissioners in their regular meeting working complete* ly under the new county business system with Commissioner Chair man A. E. Cline and county ac- * countant and business manager. Mr. Cline stated following the meeting that it might be stated that the work of assessing is completed. The commissioners took up and discussed during the day various angles of the tax situation. A few adjustments, it is said, were made, but none to amount to anything of importance. With this final adjust ing and check by the commission ers the tax assessments formally go into the hands of the county tax board for the work of compilation. Slight Gain in Value, “A slight gain in taxable wealth is shown by the new assessment,* Mr. Cline stated Tuesday. “The gain comes entirely from real es tate as personal property values suffered a loss in nearly every township. Just how much the gain will be and the exact figures cannot be determined as yet.’* Other than discuss tax matters and handle routine affairs the com missioners did little of public in. terest. Two or three minor resolu tions lining up the new county business system were passed. The bills for the past month were paid along the methods of the new count system, by invoice in stead of the ancient method of board endorsement. All purchases now made by the county, or for tho county, can be made ' only with proper purchasing orders from the county business manager and this order is used to cheek against the bill. The new system was found to be very methodical and exact, it was said, but made necessary quite a bit of attention by county officials and the accountant. SMlffUi 01 JUDGE STUCK Judge A. M. Stack Adds His In dorsement of New York Gov. ernor for Presidency. Winston-Salem—Governor Alfred Smith is a greater man than Lin coln, declared Superior Court Judge A. M. Stack in indorsing the New York governor for the Democratic presidential nomination. The jurist is for Smith tooth and toenail. "I have traveled over five conti nents and have seeen many things the Catholics have done. Of course, there are some things of which they should be ashamed and they prob ably are,” said Judge Stack. “But they have a great deal to their cred it. Three hundred years before the Protestants even began to carry on the great work of today, the Cath olics were busy.” The judge said he had no interest in politics except that he has con victions of, mind in connection with certain men Who are prominent in the two major parties. And his con viction with regard to Smith is strong endugh to predict the gov ernor will play a major part in the next Democratic convention. Judge Stack does not hesitate ti say that the Democrats would make no mistake in naming Smith their standard bearer. William G. Mc Adoo, he pointed out, is a great American, but in his opinion it would be futile to nominate him for the presidency. Improve Building On Business Street Another first rate improvement for the. business section of La Fay ette street is under way. Rose's 5, 10 and 2K cent stores, Inc., hav ing taken a fifteen year lease eg* the Clyde Hoey building, which they occupy, are remodeling the store, putting in a new front, and re modeling the second floor. It is understood the Rose organi sation will occupy the down stairs section and a part of the upper flopr, in the rear. And the front of the building will be given over to offices. The improvement it is said will cost Mr. Hoey $5,000, Mr. Hoey pay ing the bill for the improvement, which is being done, however, ac cording to the Rose company’s s>pe» cifications. %
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