SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17, 1927. 8 PAGES TODAY . ' M J By mail, per year (in advarn)..$2.Aff By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 Off What’s THE News m STAR’S REVIEW. v you know all the details of gu’ccn-Van/etti cnscr Can you " a discussion regarding it7 ,ct read in The Star today u ai survey of the killing and hie man is under bond in tilt mishap Monday that proven ,1 to an aged Lawn(fa*j woman, hearing is scheduled cor the n£v court here Monday. T,c third assault case in two ..faced Recorder M'uii here yea-' jfly; but it “fizzled." There will mere county court until Fri > as the judge is vacationing lea sw days. • * * [oath "Casey” IWtrrs, athletic f,tor is hack in the city getting j.. for the football season after weeks of study at Harvard. * * • ’our airplanes have hopped oti Honolulu, one carrying a wo ■ Get the late details In The ir. # * * A considerable bit or improve >nt is jjbirig on in the Clevelaru rines section and several new donees are likely there at an •|v date. ♦ . * * A Kings Mountain man says cot i will be 17 cents this rail. * »»« * The city fathers he?sical shape himself after his r weeks of training and study Harvard, and is also well posted new football tactics which will introduced this year. Whether not the Shelby highs will take using the lateral passes ani. ter new departures of the game mains to he seen, but neverthe ss it seents sure that tnetr coa< h i not be sleeping should onpcs k teams attempt to “strut” the ’* nu‘thods of advancing the Tdden Falls former f,att;more ia' !'■ "'I;| work as nn assistant to l^'s year and the two In le r’( xt weph or so win perhaps IB™ UC their candidates for the ani ami get the city park, now mg used for he summer paatrnte ini'1,- 'all'“ into shape for gridiron Although several of last [*' s*:ars a,'e gone ;viorif3 cts a fair team at teas*.. years pre heir Brother Dies At Plainview Texas Tli,..",anv friends of Miss Lil ' 'u'r brother Mr. Henry r ''ill he grieved to know that * ~othpr Mr. Ed Kerr of Plain • , died on Thursday at ' .me in that town. The mes eri!.'' ! 'n Pridayand no pur" e " ai s have been received. Mr. ta|i.,Was contemplating a visit to ritt '?.tho near future, he had is wif, ,sister’ Miss Lil Kerr (L "‘d st‘v<*ral years ago and dm i'i1,1 mahin(f his home with fcjther^ 'T’ IIis other sisters and S p, S,ar'' Mrs- Tom Black. Mrs. *e Kerr>n’ !IM(* ^r' ^op> arid'Mr. w° Trucks Used In Tuesday Blaze Bt« usVouy !!re trucks were called rhe,, , h,lrt,y after noon Tuesday fcy «eSteofVenant *0Use on *'* « fir„ „ f Morgan street caught ±,P,I’;,S at tpe r-re m-parr *>m a flue thHp the blaZ<‘ cau,fht teatened t . Por a tIm« the fire loth tr„\ to he ser'°us but with *tin»uilkm °n' hand ^e fire was Siting iS' considerable damage T»i„ u n the ro°f Jr. 'pl!’ *s said, belonged to ’• King. TO HI IMS OF Fill WRECK HERE Oil IKY C. F. Silvers, of Morpanron, For merly of Shelby, I'nder $1,000 Bond. A hearing will be held before Recorder John P. Mull here next Monday morning, it is announced, at which time an error: will be made to ascertain where t?ie blame lies in the tragedy last Monday when Mrs. Ruff, of Lawndale, wa» fatally injured when struct; by a car at Beam’s Mill. It was said at the rLerlff’s of fice here yesterday that C. F. Sil vers, of Morganton, was placed un der bond there Monday night by Deputy Bob Kendrick, of this coin: ty. The amount of the bond war $1,000 and was given by Silvers' son. Officers and others say that Silvers, who formerly lived here hut now lives in Morgatnon, was the driver of the so-called “third car’’ featuring in the tragic Inci dent. It will be remembered that In formation about the ratal Injury w'as that Miss Williams, whose car struck Mrs. Burr, was going north and just as she passed Mfs. Buff and the others walking she met two other cars coming south. According to general information the second car coming south at tempted to pass between the otwer cars just as they were passing each other forcing Mrs. Williams to the side of the road where the aged lady was struck and so injure* that she died two hours later. Any way that is the general statement of people in the Beam’s Mill sec tion. Silvers, according to Officer Kendrick, stopped some 200 yards or so on down the roar* and went back to the scene. The other car coming south wai. said to have*been driven by a road man. Three witnesses are name* on the Silvers warrant to tie used in the hearing next Monday. Birthday Dinners And Reunions Ahead With the season on for birthday dinners and reunions, many are scheduled throughout the county. The Hoyle reunion, an annual af fair held always on Thursday be-1 fore the fourth Sunday in August. | comes this year Aug. 25th, and will be held at Kadesh church. At the home of Mr. Monroe A. Wright there will be a birthday dinner August 21st in honor of the natal day of Mr. M. A. Wright. Filled baskets and an invitation to all. There will be a reunion at the home of Mr. A. J. Self on Sunday, August 28th, according to an nouncement by C. A. Seif of Route 2, Bessemer City. Public invited and well filled baskets expected. The Glover reunion will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Glover on Saturday. August 20th. This will be held at the Glov er old homestead hetween Eller. boro and Hollis. Public invited. At the home of Mr. W. E. Ham rick there will be a birthday din ner on Sunday, August 21st Friends, bring well filled baskets. Vara To Direct Sales Of Brushes J. C. Vara arrived this week from Jacksonville, Fla., to become direc tor of sales of the Elizabeth Brush Company, one of Shelby’s new in dustries to open up during the past year. Mr Vara has already secur ed thirty men who will start to canvassing from house to house next Monday and expects to build the sales force up to 100 as quick ly as possible. He is opening up North Carolina South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia and expects to enter the Florida territory in December. The Elizabeth Brush Company manufactures household and personal brushes and is owned by W. Judson Jones and J. E. Burke. Wood Will Preach Here This Sunday Rev. A. B. Wood will preach at the First Baptist churcn nere Sun day morning at 11 o’clock, It is an nounced. Rev. Mr. Wood was educated Ju, Piedmont school, Lawncrne, at Wake Frest and at the Baptlsij seminary. He is a pastor now trr Kentucky, bur is spending his vacation with relatives Just across the Cleveland county line in South Carolina. Mystery Plane May Break Speed Marks In this “mvsteiy ship," Lieut. Al Wiriknns, t'. S. Navy flyer, hopes to break all seaplane speed rec ords at the Schneider cup races this fall In Italy. The plane, shown here when it first took the water, W expected to do at least 000 niles \n hour. Williams is shown standing in tlie cockpit. | mat’s It AU About T\ | Sacco-Vanzetti Case j Do you know what the Saeco Vanzetti stir is all about? Nu merous readers have requested that The Star give a survey of the Sac- I witco-Vanzetti case and in seeking a near complete review of the en- I tire matter it was found that D.! D. Wallace writing recently in The j Spartanburrg Herald practically covered the entire case and inci dents thereunto. In a manner ( Wallace expresses some views, hut for a general summing up on the matter his article is fairly good . j It follows: I ■rrmjvr you indulge men m a re view of the essential facts of the ease? The fact that Governor Ful ler and commission of three emi nent Massachusetts citizens have published of the court does not appear to the minds of millions of persons to have settled the one es-; sential question, Were these men justly convicted? I Let us remember that the law of Massachusetts does not permit the court of appeal to grant a new trial on any grund except an er ror in law. As the court itself said, even if newly discovered evi dence should be such as to render it probable that the jury would have rendered a different verdict, we cannot grant a new trial unless some error in law was committed in the trial. In practically any other state, the after discovered evidence would long ago have been made the basis for a new trial. But in Massachusetts only the trial judge can grant a new trial on that ground. Governor Fuller’s own commission officially reported that w'hile Judge Thayer's conduct had not been illegal, it had been grave ly indiscree^. And yet that man alone, who after all he has been through in the matter, fixing his opinions and his determinaton not to'exhibit himself as acknowledging an injustice wrought by his own court is the only authority that can* grant a new trial. It w'as the hope of those who are convinced of the; injustice of the first trial that Gov-! ernor Fuller would at least reprieve, the men until the Massachusetts legislature could consider a recom mendation to enable the court of appeal io grant new trials on after discovered evidence. How did Sacco and VanzetH, come to be accused of the crime? The murderers used a Buic-k and a Hudson car. Their crime bore all the marks of skilled professionals. The 'police conceived the idea that an old Overland in a repair shop in a near-by town was connected with the crime, and instructed the shon owner to inform them w'hen anyone called for the car. May 5, 1920, Sacco, Vanzetti, Boda (the owner), and another TtaBan called. The fourth man was released the next day on absolute proof of in nocence: Boda has never been caught, and Sacco and Vanzetti were held. What possible ground for connection with the South Braintree murders on April 15,, 1920 this affords does not appear. These anarchists were then scar ed stiff by the federal government campaign of imprisonment and de-1 portation. One of their friends had I just been found mysteriously dead j after having been held for some days by the federal authorities. Saccco and Vanzetti of course showed “consciousness of guilt,” i which Judge Thayer persists to this day is the principal proof of their (Continued on page seven.) SACCO-VlZEni JUROR HAS HOME RUUD BY BOMB Powerful Hirst Almost Brings I)ea‘>^ To Entire Family. Bomb Under House East Milton, Mass.—An explo sion believed by the police to have been caused by a bomb equipped with a time fuse, wrecked the home Tuesday morning of Lewis McHar dy, a juror in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial seven years ago. McHardy. his wife, and three grown children who were blown from their beds by the force of the blast, narrowly escaped death. All five suffered cuts and bruises and Mrs. McHardy was thought to have suffered from concussion. She was trapepd in *ier room on the second floor of the two and one-half story wooden house. Po lice rescued her. Her husband was able to work his way from the ruins and his two sons, Jack and Theodore, carried their sister, Helen, from her boom. The family was cared for at the home of a neighbor. Windows were blown from houses a mile away and nearby trees were stripped of their leaves. With the exception of the rear wall of the McHardy home, the sides of the house were blown out. The granite foundation was cracked, the front piazza torn off and a bulkhead was blown out of the back of the house. A line of police was thrown about the wrecked house and an investi gation started immediately In state police. Guards were dispatch ed to the homes of three other ju rors who live in the vicinity. The family had seen no one in the immediate neighborhood during the evening who aroused any sus picions. The McHardy home is in a sparsely settled section of the town with woods bordering two sides of it. McHardy said that a long time ago he had received a threatening leter as had others of the jurors in the famous trial. He said that he had not feared an attack and had had no misgivings as to his safety. He is employed in a choco late factory in Milton. During the investigation by Gov ernor Alvan T. Fuller into the en tire case McHardy had been called for an interview. He was in the executive chamber about two hours, he said. Thorwn To Floor “The first I knew,” said Theo dore McHardy describing his im pressions of the explosion, “I found myself on the floor of the attic where Jack and I had our rooms. I thought at first I had simply fall en out of bed in a nightmare «r something of the kind, and then suddenly the floor began to shake under me and I heard a dull roar, followed by a strange humming sound like an airplane in tip? dis tance. “Then the door fell in upon me, the glass in the window fell smash ing on the floor and before I was reallv awake the roof onened up and I could see the sky.” PLIES nearing HAWAII, LATEST DEPORTS INFORM Hearst Plane And Jen sen’s Plane Leading Race. Miss Doran Fourth Now. (By International News Service.) Four planes nearing nearing Hawaii at eight A. M., Pacific Coast time. Hearst plane. Golden Ea gle. and Martin Jensen’s Alopa believed leading, with Woolaric close third, and Miss Doran fourth. Honolulu. — “Every thing running as per schedule,” radioed Art Gobel in Woolaric at sev en A. M.. PCT Wailupe radio station reports. Young Woman School Teacher Rides In One. Two Planes Wrecked Getting Off. Oakland.*—Four airplanes, out* carrying a woman, were racing out over the Pacific ocean toward Honolulu late Tuesday afternoon In quest of fame and $35,000 in prize money offered by James D. Dole, ot Honolulu, for the first transoceanic air derby in the history of avia tion. Miss Mildred Doran, the "flying school teacTier” of Flint, Mich., in the biplane named for *ier, braved the 2,400 ocean stretch as a late! starter after the plane had been! forced to return to the airport due j to engine trouble. Replacement of spark plugs and other hasty repairs delayed thu plane more than an hour, but the school teacher, her pilot J. "Auggy Pedlar and Navigator Vilas R. Knope climbed into then- seats and took the air on the »econd at tempt. Others In Lead The other three planes In the air, with a lead of ariour on hour and a half, were blessed with the! good luck of beautiful tafceoffs. | They were the Golden Eagre, pil-j oted by Jack Frost of New YorK,! and navigated by Gordon Scott, Santa Monica the Aloha, piloted by Martin Jensen .he only Honolulu entrant, navigated by J*au! Schul ter-of San Francisco; and the Wol laroc, with Art Goebel or Holly wood, Calif., at the stick and Wil liam Davis, San Diego naval all officer navgating. Two planes were sent crashing' to earth because their wings would not lift the heavy cargo of gaso line on the take-off. Gastonia Child Dies From Drink Of Kerosene Oil Edgmoor, S. C., Aug, 16.— Harry McAlliser, Jr.. 18 months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McAllister, of Gas tonia, died today at. the home of his grandparents, Hr. and Mrs. J. N. Gaston. * neastern Chester county, from the ef fects of kerosene which he drank several days ago. I Devi loped Info Scuffle Over Dollar Between Ynunu (lirl \nd V Married Man The third alleged assault case in two days cam*' i’p before Ite corder John P. Mull yc-ferdny. On Monday two defendant: were bound oyer to Superior court or; char-go of attempted rane However, the case Tuesday failed to materialize that far, the indictment being charged to an assault on a female and the defendant given a small fine. According to the evidence the af fair hinged about a silver dollar. A married roan stopping at a house with a friend in the Boiling Springs section and was showing an old coin to a young 16-year-old girl visiting there when according to his evidence she snatched a silver dollar out of his hand and kept it. The assault, the defendant continu ed, was noting more than that he twisted her hand and took the dol lar away. The young girl, however testified that he fondled her, al though adroiting a scuffle over the dollar. The fine was allotted by Judge Mull because in his opinion, he stated, a married man had no busi ness carrying on in any stye with a young 16-year-old girll. Tuesday's Court grind was a varied affair. A eoolred man charg ed with stealing a sack full of roast ing ears was termed not guilty bv the court. A Lenoir ran was fined and made to pay the costs for being drunk and carrying a 1 concealed weapon here some nights back. Two Lenoir policemen testi fied as to his character. In another case a young husband of the South Shelby section was charged with abandoning and failing' to support his 16-year-old wife and four weeks old child. The jury after hearing the evidence stated they would not find the defendant guilty if he would get a home away from either his or his wife’s parents' and the young couple go back together and live. And so the case ended. At the conclusion of the days docket Judge Mull announced his court adjourned until Friday, the Judge meantime journeying to the home of his fater, A. T. Mull, for a few days vacation up county. Kings Mt. Broker Expects 17 Cent Cotton This Year King’s Mountain.—Mr. Havnc Blacknier, prominent loca: cotton j broker is of the opinion that the 1 price of cotton will range :n price j from 16 to 17 cents per pound dur ing the heavy selling season in Oe- j tober. says the Kings Mountain! News. Seventeen cents cotton isn’t as j bad as eleven cents, the price that most farmers got last fall, and with the fact that guano bills around Kings Mountain having been cut about half, the old tiller ox ; the soil will be sitting on top o* the world when the frost ’1165’ on the pumpkin’. With the dandy seasons tile folks are perking up and there Is 1 every indication of a good fa!, | business. New Store Buyers On New York Jaunt William Lineberger and Joe E. Nash, president and manager, re spectively, of the newly acquired! Paragon’s department store, with j Mrs. Lineberger, Mrs. Julius Sut-j tie and Mrs. Henley, head of the store ready-to-wear department,' are leaving Shelby for New Yo:k fomorrow. Mr. Lineberger and Mr. Nash are going on a buying trip for the big store, and the ladies are going' for the big town jaunt. Mr. L,ine borger said today they will stoeic the store heavily with new mer chandise, much of which has al ready been bought. Five Couples Get License In August i The marriage license business is truly “on the blink’ ns »ne Cleve land county mart. With naif the month of August gone license has* boon issued for the marrrage oil only five couples. The most recent license was issued yesteroay to R ! B. Jolly and Lenna Elliott. Other couples securing license durirg the month were: J. H. Tul lah and Olene Rippy: Cletus Smith and Nellie Killian; T. B. Falls and Leah Martin; G. C. Sellers anti Virginia Grace Harmon. 1 Over $1,500Paii For Two Audits Of Gty Affairs All Monies Properly Accounted For, Say Both Auditors, But They Differ As To Some Totals. IDP SOIL ROODS «IMPROVE I! SPRINGS ESTATE E* /abet h Ho; I By Development Graded And Topsoiled. Other Improvements Going On A renewed activity of recent weeks is in evidence in the Cleve land Springs section. Workmen are now completing working in grading and top soiling the Eliza bethh road from the point where it leaves Highway 20 north of the new club house. In addition to this the Park Cir cle road in the Cleveland Springs Estate has been graded and im proved together witli other general j roadwork thereabouts. Work on t he exterior and inter ior of the handsome new golf club house is now about complete and the new structure will be formally opened at an early date. Drives in from Highway 20 have been con structed, culverts built, and park ing space levelled. Working On Dam J. D. Lineberger stated yesterday that work on the dam for the pri vate lake to be constructed by himself and Carl Thompson was now underway and that there would be some activity in the sectiorr un til the lake and two new residences are completed as announced. Reports also are that several more new homes will likely go up in the Cleveland Springs section before many months. cur mt sew cm Also Sewer Line On Fallston Road Before Hard Surface Is Put Down. Most of the time of the city fathers last night in mid-month meeting was confined to a discus* sion of a new septic tank below the Ella Mill property. It is understood that this disposal is greatly over run and insufficient to ta*e care of the outflow. Roy Bishop, engi neer of 'Charlotte was here in con ference with the board and wih probably be engaged to make a, survey as to the cost of the new: disposal plant. The city fathers are also con sidering a sewer line out the Fall s-ton road before the state paves highway No .18. Already the water line extends out this highway and before the paving is done, the sewer line will be put down. The sewer line serving that territory extends down the creek and has been put under the Seaboard rail road fill to the rear of the Eagle Roller mill by Fred Wagner, con tractor. Gaffney Football Team Will Train In The Mountains Gaffney, S. C.—Front 25 to 30 school’s football sqaud will leave candidates for the Gaffney High will leave here Friday to spend tw'o weeks in training at an isolated spot near Little Switzerland, N. C. The boys will be in charge of C. O. Boris, high school principal, and "Red” Smith, coach, who is suc ceeding L. F. Carson in this capac ity. Gaffney’s prospects for another good team this Fall are considered encouraging. Maxie Welch and Ben Clary, two of last year’s back field stars, are expected to return to school and are counted upon to add strength to the eleven. Several of last year’s substitutes will fill gaph in the line. The high school will open Sep tember 5. The pre-session train ing period was decided upon to familiarize the players wru the' new- rules which become effective I with the opening of the coming ! If politics makes strange bedfel lows it is due to their fondness for the same bunk.—Florence (Ala.) Herald. The sum of $1,512.75 was paid for two audits made for the city upon the recent change In admin istrations, according to records In the city hall, Each audit gives ils O. K. to the money received and ex pended, saying all money was properly accounted for. There were several discrepancies in the mat-/ ter of classifying the accounts, ac cording to Mr. J. C. Hoyle who made the second audit and Mr. Hoyle arrives at different totals from E. C. Carpenter, Hrst auditor in a number of instances. Each audit is a godo.size volume of fig ures. showing the standing of the various departments. It is recalled that when the olo administration retired it employed E. (. ( arpenter, a public account ant of Monroe to make an audit of the books before Mrs. O .M. Sut tle’s resignation took effect. Car penter was to do the job for $250, but he found it a grearer task than he calculated it would be and that it would require several weeks. lie heard that the present administra tion which had been elected, but had not been sworn in, had secured the services of Auditor J. C. Hoyle to make an audit and that there was objection to Carpenter’s audit on the ground that he was not a “certified accountant.” Carpenter offered to quit the job if the ad ministrations raised any objection whatever to the fact that he was not a “certified accountant,** bu» the former administration asked him to hire additional help and finish the job before the term ot the Suttles expired. For this auefn Mr. Carpenter was paid the sum of $636.75. There was a disposition at first on the part of the present admin istration to accept the Carpenter audit, but when it was learned that Carpenter was not “certified,” that Hoyle was “cerified” and that Hoyle, having been hired and ex pected to do the job, Mr. Hoyle came upon the job after Carpen ter finished an dworked for weeks. Hoyles charge was $885, making a total cost to the city for the two jobs of $1,521.75. According to both Hoyle and Carpenter the total bonded indebt edness of the city is $1,016,000. Mayor Dorsey says the city Is pay ing approximately $12,000 a month in principal and interest on bonds. Hoyle says the capital deficit was $93,448.92 at the end of the fiscal year. Carpenter places the capital deficit at $92,947.52 and with the operating expenses in ex cess of the revenue by $4,115.28 and combined capital deficit at the end of the fiscal year was $97,052.80. This is a decrease in the capital deficit at the beginning of too Weathers administration when it was $134,196.61. Nearly a Million During the Weathers adminis tration nearly a million dollars was spent for improvements and new projects according to both audits. To be exact the amount' is $922, 052.48. * Hoyle placed the uncollected taxes at the change of administra tions at $24,746.85. Cupid Corner Gets 2 Shelby Couples Among the numerous love-lorn North Carolina couples married during the past past weeK at Cupid’s Corner in South Carolina were the following iwo Shelby coupes: Fitz L. Hill and Nora 8. Wood. Eddie Earwood and Ethel Black welder. -< Percentage of accidents due to drivers asleep at the wheel greatly increased last year. Motors are now fool-proof, but the fool must be awake.—Wichita Eagle. - A Twinkle Some of the statisticians have figured out that just 25 years ago there was only one telephone for every 57 per sons. And just for one we be- ' lieve we’ve caught those fig ure-jugglers asleep at the switch, for if you try to talk on a party line now you 11 reach the conclusion that there is still only one telephone for every 57 persons. We wonder how Cleveland county would vote should damp’ A1 Smith and Hell and Maria Dawes be the Democratic and Republican candidate for presi dent ? THE TWINRl t R. ^