North Carolina Newspapers

\n aged woman of the Lawndale section was fatally injured early this morning near Beam’s Mill wh’en struck by an automobile driven by a young school teacher. Two rape cases were given a preliminary hearing in county court here this morning. The evidence jn one was considered unusual in that the man was 60 years of age and the girl only seven. « * • How long does it take a letter t0 runic from Los Angeles to Shel hv if it travels by air mail? A new. gt.brv in The Star today tells. * * * The annual Beam reunion will be held Thursday at New Prospect. The Ark of the Covenant will be found within 10 years in the belief 0f ciyd. R. Hoey and the veracity of the Bible will be upheld. Several out of town ministers spoke in Shifty churches yesterday. * • m I The county Sunday school asso ciation will meet at Fallston early in September, it is announced to day. * * * Two Shelbys were mixed up Sat urday night and it was thought for a time that Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, who was fatally burned, was summering near this Shelby. uisL MED 1 WIRE 1B0UT WHEELERS Burning Of Mrs. Wayne Wheelei and Father’s Death Thought To Have Happened Here Saturday afternoon woen Mr:;. Wayne B. Wheeler, wife of the anti-saloon league heae, was burn ed and her father died of tTie shock news, wires were central ized on this city for * period. Late Saturday night the International News Service and nearly papers were trying to get the details iron newspapermen here, me wlreJMiav tr;g mixed two Shelbys. Mrs, Wheeler, her husband, and father wore at a summer camp at Little Point Sale, just out of Shelby, Michigan, and after tin. Burning Shelby, Michigan, rn some manner became tangled with Shelby North Carolina. Mrs, Wheeler died early Sunday morning from hei burns. According to news dis patches she dashed some otr on n tire in her summer cottage and her clothing caught on fire. Running to another room she so shocked her father, Robert Candy, 82, that h» died suddenly. Cover Section Here Late Saturday nig«it a memer The Star staff was routed from bed by a long distance telephone Message from the INS bureau at Asheville trying to get rurt'ner lata on the burning. “Can you give me the details ot lirs. W heeler getting burned and ter lather dying?” came me query. What Mrs. Wheeler 1" was the reply. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler." Wd it happen around here?” sk«i the local newspaperman. Its, she was burned at hei UMrner cottage there tills after noon according to a wire flash.’ Asheville answered. 1 rwreiipon ensued a ctieck ot l«tients at the Shelby hospital, of [ * frUt'sts at Cleveland Springs ™ elsewhere, but no Mrs. Wheel ' could he located. finally the ' >J' reporter suggested that un FSs " heelers were travelling PeoEnito the burning must have P en place at some other Shelbv. L ,,t>u'ri- other Shelbys' • pheville asked. 1 Oh, yes,” this Sherny answered. L U k"'w there’s Shelby, Mon L.a',! |e tow'n that ‘went broxe F tw Hempsey-Gibbons fight; ^y: Kentucky; Shelby, Michi ’ ‘ Mbyvflle, Tenn., and num mus others.” L.hen Sunday morning it was r( 1,1 the papers here that the lich"^ t0°k I,|at'e at Shelby, 4 Twinkle - Ion!, , "<wsPt»Per reaeers out I news, aflC the 1,31110 “PPlies to 1“^ apermen) can lieither I of e."Pr°nounce the names |les ,and Vanzet::, much l»hv n W"at il *s a!I at>out, or In met, the Inch • i A,m'*-“'an -nows as ■letti ,l 111111 the Sacco-Van. |cf>tt< naM'as O’oolidge did about R,*01"* to cents. And, Eo8enrse’ Cal wouldn’t have L,w touch008e ^ he had 1*00(1 beforehand just how Ftof° r,farmers were *> I p. 11 el about now. feeV"fmu note: Severa! more "t canned heat and ex M •A-i t0Unty coutr this -rri J"aise more corn? tHE TVVINKLER. 8 PAGES TODAY i . By mail, per year (in advac?«)„$SL5t By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.09 TWO RAPE CIS II COURT TOBAT DRAW AMI Both Defendants? Bound Over. One Was White Man. Drunk Drivers Must Sop Two serious charges were be fore Recorder John Mull in the bij week-end county court docket fac ing him today. Both were by war i ant termed attempts to commil rape. In one case John F. Wright white man said to be over 0$ year? of age was charged with attempted assault on a seven-year-old white girl of the section aimve Double Springs. According to the testi mony the assault itseslf, or any ac complishment, was not committed The evidence tended to snow tha; the little girl and a smaller slstei went to a cotton paten with the de fendant to find a watermelon. The defendant was spending the day with the child’s parents, and tnc child, it was said, c** not tell oi the events transpiring in tiie cot ton and watermelon patch until aft er the visitor loft the next day. At that time her mother testified that the little daughter told of be ing handled. The defendant was bound over to Superior court un der bond of $500. Also Hound Over I In the other case Ab McDowell, S colored, was charged with an at | tempted assault on « married col ored girl. The evidence was that | the boy started to take the girl to her aunt’s, but turned off on an I other road stopped his car, ani according to the girl, made improp er proposals. No attack was made j according to the exigence. How ever, McDowell was also bound | over for the alleged attempt under abond of $500. Wine And So On I Wine, “mule,” and other so-cailea < kicking Beverages featured the re mainder of the docket. During the course of the court grsruT sev 1 eral defendants lost their right to drive an automobile hereabouts fot a period of six months because or j driving while intoxicated. Two white boys and a white girl were in the court charged witii being drunk and engaging !n a brawl near town yesterday arernoon. The girl was fined $10 and tile costs, i one of the boys $25 and the costs, and the other ?50 and the costs. Both boys are not to drive a cai ; again for six months and if caught I doing so have a suspended sentence over them. Another white man who it was alleged ran »nto Police Chief Richards car Saturday after noon at the Cyeveland Springs roan intersection with Lineberger strec., was fined $50 and is not to drive again, it being testified that he was drinking. A colored man from Winston-Salem, “Snowball” by name and anything but snow white was fined $50antl orderou not to drive again for s*x months owing to a wreck Sunday at Kings Mountain. ' Miss Frances Wisnant is at Blowing Rock attending a delight ful house party. She returns home on Tuesday. Six Hundred Of Mauney Kith And Kin at Gathering Held At Tryon. (Mrs. Joe Gribble in Gastonia Gazette.) Over in the western section of Gaston county, Thursday, in the spacious grove beside the road, and in a large arbor built express ly for the purpose, gathered the Mauney generations for the 14th ,consecutive annual reunion. Be tween 500 and 000 braved the ele mets and came amid a down pour of rain, loath to miss even one of those joyous occasions. Within a stone’s throw of the place stands an old mulberry tree that has seen its best days, its once wide spreading limbs now wore stubs draped with a pro fusion of ivy and wild honeysuckles svmbolic of the memory of this spot which it once represented as if to keep ever green and fresh the everlasting truths for which the forefathers stood. On this identical spot once stood the home of Christian Mauney, \1 pioneer and patriarch, where the, ups and dotvns of court procedure were transacted for nine years, j This home served as the court, house for Tryon county which in cluded then Cleveland Lincoln, (Continued on page four) A Queen and a Mayor I Tins young l 1y is bon my queen of California, and will represent her stale in the Atlantic City pageant She Is Miss Rillie Copolanc r.f Ventura Calif-., and she is shown here with Mayor James Ralph o | Kan Francisco Jiini after „.ie had received he» ei'.trnv -- Letter From Los Angeles Gets Here In Two Days By Speed Of Air Mail 20 Cent Cotton Is Open Already Here The new 20-cent cotton is al ready opening in this section. I W. G. Parris, who lives on the I Graham Dellinger farm south of town, today brought into The Star office the first open cotton exhibit ed here this year. The boll was fully open when exhibited and was to have been open yesterday, Sun day, August 14. Parris, it will be remembered, was one of the first farmers to ex hibit blooms this year. Well Known I.sundry man Succumbs To Long Illness—Buried Today At 1‘leasant Hill. Mr. H. Tom Willis, laundryman in Charlotte and Shelby for many years, died Sunday night at 10 o’clock following a protracted ill ness which has confined him to hk bed for some time. His condition has been critical and the end was expected for the past several days by members of the family. Mr. Willis was born and reared in No. 10 township and is ttie son of Mrs. Dave Willis who survises and lives here with her son, Crem Willis, He was -14 years, one montn and one day old and will be burred this aft ernoon at Pleasant Hiu Methodist church in upper Cleveland. He joined the church at the ape of 14 and was a splendid Christian and fine business man. Prve years apo he came back to Shortly as mar. a per of the Snowflake Laundry until his health failed. Mr. Willis is survived by tits wife who before marriage was Miss Ellen Walker antf seven chil dren, topether with his mother, four brothers, Dock, Joe and Cleni Willis of Shelby. J. K. Willis of Kinps Mountain and one sister, Mrs. Jason Turner. He was a mem her of the Junior order and Wood men of the World and actively in terested in fraternal affairs. Mr. Lattimore Dies At Tellico Plains A telepram was received here last week announcinp the death of Mr. C. Fred Lattimore at Tellico. Plains, Tenn. He died on Thurs day and was buried Sunday. Mr. Lattimore visited his relative Dr. E. B. Lattimore and others here last summer. He was the prand son of Buck Lattimore. who left j this sectio nabout a century apo j Mr. Fred Lattimore was the first of the family to return. He j was a banker and farmer and quite wealthy. An idea as to the speed with which mail moves in these days of airplanes is given in the trans mitting of a letter from Los An geles, California, to The Star, in i Shelby, in two days time—all the way across the .American continent, and practically from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The letter written by “Rambling Rill” (W. B. Williamson) in Bell, California, left the aviation field at Los Angeles at 7:45 Wednesday morning, August 10. The letter was delivered to The Star at an early hour Friday night, August 12, or two days later. Williamson estimated that the letter would cross the continent by Saturday morning and his expectations were surpassed. Bill’s letter follows: Editor of The Star: The purpose of. this letter is tc test the time of the U. S. Airmail from Bell, California 'to Shelby, North Garolinafl I am mailing: this at 1:30 p. n on August 0th at Bell, but the let-i ter will not leave the aviation field at Los Angeles until 7:45 a no tomorrow, therefore the actual time if flight should he firured from tomorrow a. m. Presuming that Charlotte is your nearest airport, and that it will! take this letter two and a half days to go from California to Charlotte and (me day to reach your desk, I will say that this let ter will be read by you Saturday a. m„ when you open our desk for the day. See how far off my guess is, and let me know just when you get this letter. Within a few day* I will be back in Arizona and will later furnish you with correct forwarding ad dress. However, in the meantime, you can start sending my paper to postoffice box 1642, at Phoenix, Arizona. With best wishes to The Star and its many readers, I am, Sincerely, “RAMBLING BILL.” Miss Grace Web arrived home last week from Andrews, this state, where she visited Misses Margaret and Lorene Mauney for two weeks The Misses Mauney accompanied Miss Webb home and will spend a few days in Shelby. Judge Gary Died Earlv This Morn. Judge Elbert H. Gary, presi dent of The United States Steel Corporation, died this morning at four o'clock. The death of the great captain of j industry was sudden, coming ; as a shock to the financial j world. COUNTY MEETING sun schools | TO BE HELD SOI Cleveland County Sunday Sclioo. Association Meets. At Fail ston In Septent-er. ft is announced by officers ot Cleveland county Sunday sclioo.; association that the annual county Sunday school convent on will he held on Saturday and Sunday, September ,'S and 4, l'.i27, in the •I#i hodist church at Faliston. Sahing part on the program will *.’# the following wet: vnoivn Sun school workers: Mr. D. \V. S»is, Raleigh, general superin tendent of the North Carolina Sinday school association, and Daisy Magee, Illckory, direc tor of religious educatton, First Methodist church. In addition to these outside speakers, several of the best kfown Sunday school workers in the county will have parrs on tht pfogram. The convention rs :nter | denominational, and workers from all Sunday schools in the county are invited to participate in the work. The Cleveland county Sun day school association unoer whose direction the convention is being held, is one of the units of th«* North Carolina Sunday school as sociation. Each of the 100 coun ties in the state is now organized into a county Sunday school as sociation. In charge of the arrangement for the convention Is J'rof. I. t'. Griffin and J. F. Ledford, presi dent and secretary of the county Sunday school association. The officers are requesting the co-op eration of all pastors, superrn tendents and other Sunday school leaders in the effort to make the convention a success. Following the custom Inaugurat ed several years ago, the officers have announced that again this year a pennant will he presented to the Sunday school having In the con vetion the largest number of re presentatives. sixteen years of age and over to the number of miter traveled. It is expected that there will be much friendly competition for the pennant among the Sun day schools of the counrv. BEAM (Mil MEETS IT NEW PBOSPECT The foqrth annual reunion of the Beam family in this section of the state will be hel da: IVew Prospect church, near Shelby, next Thurs day, August 18, the program be ginning at 10 o’clock in the morn ing. The devotional exercises will bi conducted by Rev. B. J. Wessinger, and the address of welcome will tm by Prof. L. Bcrge Beam, president of the clan. Ten minute talks will be conducted by Rev. B. J. Wessin ger, and the address of welcome will be by Prof. L. Berge Beam, president of the clan. >en minute talks will be made by r. C. Gard ner, W. Speight Beam, Vf. A. Dennis, Prof. M. S. Beam and Dr. J. A. Beam. The talks will be matte prior to the big community basket dinner. Prizes will be awarded to the old est member of the clan, the oldest married couple, the youngest mar ried couple, the one w?jo came the greatest distance, the largest fam ily in attendance, and the county sending the largest representation. Prof. Loy To Head Casar High School The fall term of Casar high school will begin Monday, August 22nd with almost an entirely new corps of teachers. Prof. H. M. Loy, of Shelby, is the new principal. For the past six years Prof, has had charge of the Consolidated schools of Cherryvilio township, Gaston county and has ! done very fine work there. For the] past four years, he has been a ! member of the summer school fac ulty of the Appalachian State Nor mal school at Boone. He now comes to Casar with a determination t-» make this one of the best rural high schools in the county. Heretofore, the Casar high school has been doing only ten grades of work, but this year, the school will have three full-time high school teachers and eleven grades. Also the trustees are con fidently expecting the school to be placed on the list of accredited high schools. The other high school teachers are Mr. A. S. Hunt and Miss Euna DeanAllison. In the lower grades, there will by six well trained and efficient teachers. Fruit and Art A fruit store has little in com mon with an artist's studio, hut Gustave Falkenburg, 15, of Chi cago, divides his time between the j two, earning his living by clerking in a fruit store and putting In his spare tin* painting pictures. * So favorable un impression did his j pictures make at a recent eshibi- \ tlon that a trip to .Europe Is being ; planned for him. KINGS ML CHIEF MAY ENTER RACE! FOR CO, SHERIFF Irvin Allen Considering Getting In He Tells Kings Mt. News paper Man. Kings Mountain.—Chief Irvin Allen head of the police depart ment of this city told a News re porter Wednesday that he was ser iously considering entering the primary for the Democratic nom ination for the office of high sheriff of Cleveland county next year. “While I have not definitely made up my mind to enter he , told the reporter, “still I am • thinking seriously of making the race and in all probability will contest the nomination with the other boys at the proper time.” Chief Allen has been the faith ful guardian of the law in this city for six years or more and there is no more fearless officer in the state. He is a tireless worker and is eternally on the job and makes it hot for the law breaker. Kings Mountain Democrats will be solidly behind Chief Allen in the event that he should decide to make the race and it is understood that he has considerable strength in other parts of the county. Several prominent party workers in the city have expressed pleas ure that Kings Mountain Is likely to have a candidate and will roll up their sleeves and seure a hano sorne majority for him if he decides to make the race. W. M. U. Gathering For Sandy Plains _ i Kings Mountain Association Group Will Hold One Day Meeting On August 25. The \V. M. U. of the Kings Mountain association will hold its annual meeting at Sandy Plains on August 25. The executive commit tee in session Monday decided to have just a one day meeting this year. Each church is asked to send a good delegation. The program will begin at 9:30 promptly. Beam Solicitor In Court This Week Attorney Speight Beam will prosecute in the Recorder’s court this week in the altMnee of Coun ty Solicitor P. Cleveland Gardner who has gone to Chapel Hill to join Mrs. Gardner and baby who have been on a visit there with her relatives for several weeks. Tho Gardners expect to returned to Shelby the last of the week bu# while the solicitor is away, Attor ney Speight Beam will acr In his stead and prosecute the cases that come up. Bulwinkle Speaks At Hord Reunion Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia, was the principal speak er at the annual reunion of the Hord family held in Cleveland County Thursday. Three hundred or more members of the family in this and other counties attended, it is said. Aged Woman Killed Early This Morn When Struck By Automobile At Beam’s Mill Mrs. Buff Dies In Hospital Here From Injur* ies Received When Hit By Car Driven By Young School Teacher. j Newton Stop* 16 Newton.—In a recent ) meeting of the aldermen of I J Newton, a special law wis I J passed supporting the state 1 * law prohibiting children un- ] the age of 16 from driving an | ! automobile. I ) The enactment of this law I ) which Mayor Smyer says will ^ be strictly enforced, has al- J . ready been the means of safe | J guarding traffic here, for | ) previously many accidents I j happened in and about New- I l ton while children were op ' crating cars. iioFcisir WILL BE n SOI. NOEY SAYS Bible Teacher Here Thinks Bible Facts Will Be Reenforced Before Many Tears. “Some of these fine mornings, within 10 years I believe, and sure ly within the lifetime of many here, we will pick up a morning newspaper with the *>?ggest hend i lines and the biggest news we ever | read,’’ declared Clyde K. ««>«?, I mer congressman, in addressing his i Bible class at Central Methodist, ! church Sunday morning. “That news,” he continued, “will tell of the finding, or unearthing by archaeiogists of the Ark of the Covenant in some of the subter ranean passages under Jerusalem. The finding of the Ark of the Covc for the world, and because such a nant will be a very timely event revelation would prove very bene filial now I believe that God will bring this revelation to pass before any great length of t:me.” Mr. Hoey, who is a well know* Bible student and well versed on the recent findings or arehaeolo-' gists about Jerusalem continued on the topic long enough to explain his beliefs. “Many of those who scout at out Bible—the unbelievrs—hinge their cynical aatitude about the Ark 01 the Covenant. ‘There was no such1 thing, they say, but there was. I1 expect, as I say, that the Ark oi j the Covenant will be found, eovereu 1 in gold, as the Bible says, with the cherubim and mercy seat en graved thereon, and the original stones of the Ten Commandments along with it. Tha: revelation win mean much. It will strengthen the belief of many who have weaken ed and will bring to belief many who now scoff. There was no such splendor and gold in the Bible days according to the scoffers, but the findings in King Tut’s tomb rebuffed them with its splendor, and they will find the Ark of the Covenant just as described, prob ably hid in an underground pas sage under Jerusalem to keep It from being destroyed by vandals.' iiut-ut-1 own Ministers Several out-of-town speakers appeared in Shelby churcnes yes terday as several of the local pns* tors are awav on their vacations. Mr. M. G. Daniels, Wake Forest student, spoke at the Sunday school hour yesterday at the First Bap tist church, at the IT o'clock hour at the Second Baptist, ana at the Central church during the evening hour. Mr, Daniels related his own experiences in the East, telling of the butchering of his Assyrian family and other Christians by the Turks. Rev. Carl B. Craig, Laurinburg minister, filled the pulpit yester day at both the morning and even ing service at the Presbyterian church. Rev. Mr. Craig was a room mate of Rev. Hector McDiarmid, Presbyterian pastor, now away on his vacation. Rev. R. C. Campbell, pastor 01 the First Baptist church at Hick ory, occupied Dr. Wall’s pulpit at the First Baptist here yesterday morning in the absence of Dr. Wall. The sermon at the Centra* Methodist church Sunday morning was by Dr Hugh K. Eoyer, the pastor. Death stalked the Clevelai.„ county highways early this morn' ing and as a result Mrs. Easter Buff, CO-year-oId woman of the Lawndale section is dead. Mrs. Buff struck hy u car early in the morning just above Beam’s Mill, died in the Shelby hospial about 10:30 o’clock or two hours after being taken there in an un conscious condition. The driver ’ of the car which struck Mrs. Buff was said to be Miss Lena Williams, daughter of Mr. Kim Williams, daughter of was reported, was en route to Bel wood where she teaches school. Details of the tragedy were hard to secure at noon today but it is understood that there , were three cars near the point in the road at the time Mrs. Buff was struck. Walking with Mrs. Buff was her daughter-in-law, whom she waa \ isiting, and Mrs. Buff’s baby boy, Charles, eight years of age. One of the others it was said was knocked down but not badly in jured. Mrs. Buff, who lived on Mr. Jim Elmore’s farm near Lawndale, was at Beam's Mill visiting her son, George Buff, and was out walking with her small son and her elder son’s wife. She is survived by the two sons, George and Charles, and a daughter at Kinston. Three Cars In Road Later details secured from Mr. Josh Wright had it that three cars attempting to pass in the road at the same time so jammed the road as to make it necessary for one car to pull to one side. According to Mr. Wright, Miss Williams was go ing north and just on this side of the V irgil Gardner home met an other car coming towards Shelby. The Buffs, it is said, were walking on the right side of the road going north, or in the same direction as the Williams car. Just as the Wil liams car and the other auto were about to pass each other near the point where the others were walk ing, it is said that a third car com ing south behind the other ear at tempted to pass, going between the Williams car going north the other car going south. In the excitement to avert a collision it is thought Miss Williams pulled to the right, her car striking Mrs. Buff and one of the others. Mr. Wright at the time did not know the drivers of the two oth er cars, but stated that he under stood some one there secured the I'cense number of the third car. So far as he knew at the time, he said, the accident was considered in that section as practically un avoidable on the part of Miss Wil liams, although opinion was ex pressed, according to reports, that the third car by attempting to pass probably forced the two other cars to pull out some. A brother of Miss Williams was riding with her, it was said. Fatally Injured Mrs. tsuff after being struck ftbod*. 8:30 was rushed to the hoa* pita! here and given all available treatment, but died a couple of hours later. She was unconscious when brought in and had suffered a fractured leg, injuries about the head, and severe internal injuries, it was said at the hospital the lat ter injuries perhaps causing her death. Although funeral details were not complete at the time this was written it is thought that the fun* pral will be held some time Tues day in the upper county section. Ladies’ Shoo Will Open This Friday The new electric elevator having been installed, . TVottons Tha Ladies Shop, to be located on the second floor of the Blanton Wright establishment, will open Friday, of this week, according to Paul Wootton, proprietor. The nee stock has been bought and received, and has been placed for display in the new sftow room, which is highly attractive, de corated in cream and blue, and bearing all the ear tnarxs of a modern establishment. Wotton says the shop will seh everything that women wear, In cluding shoes. The newly installed elevator In charge of an onerator. is located at the front of the Blanton-Wright shop, with entire convene . fot! the Wotton customers.