8 PAGES TODAY >---.— , .. j By mail, per year (in advazr*)_..$2.M By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 u Iki have never golfed bo ‘ are to Stage a unique tourney Cleveland Springs tomorrow aft won a ; a feature of tile last [{.holiday of the summer. What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW Saa.„ an,i Yanzetti have been rtrocuted and the aftermath has >n quiet. ♦ * * The annual Shelby mill prizes been awarded and are listeo lay * * * ju(!f,(. Webb in Gaston county ‘ ' ,|,j- week scorn’ a C’aslonla i',,',. because of criticism about Conley Robinson case in Char-1 te. . * * \ Boiling Springs teacher, who ■„ was a pupil, may be on the | ntpic athletic team, New York ! per,:- say. C I). Brabble, popular hol.t an here, is to take charge ot ilumhia’s biggest hostelry. Four hundred and eighteen peo died in this county last year. jlijj,. Asutell is game warden thi. county; game laws are n in a news item today. harlot te city officials ate to t Shelby today to Inspect the ■ abattoir. King Mountain reports several auto larcenies. One fellow left ,..,r in the. middle of the road be saw an officer coming. wn ,G. Hammett Is Sensation On Track in N. Y. May Be Ovmpic l rospect. _ I Cleveland county people, espe-e-; By of the Boiling' Spring-! j •ctid$ will be interested tn a news j •ticlaWrom Xew Y’ork telling of j tesanation made in a track meet iero te 11. G. Hammett. Mr.mlammett is a former Boil ig Springs sudent and is now a schcr there. The New York arti- > says: *'s that the re wni |)0 enforce(j The .' ,‘elm’ral Assembly made it to n't U *° ^unt w*thout a license, •' 11 or kill came birds or ani Jtals out ,,f season, to »a*Ke in one ■ "lore than the bag limit to kill ,e c ■ e (,oer during the next five rahi o '" buy or sel1 except bv :i'K* sy auto J"a ’ to ,ia't f°r upland game. ... ' ''”inty resident nunttng li licon-.1' 1 IT'1, ^e state resident deni ( s ar,d the non-resi m- ’’cense is 515.23. Appll a. ”)r hcense may be made te r>i». county game warcten, deputy »urt it ' Hpn' or c,er"K or *'iperIoi rt Hunters must wear buttSn Ft}™* I'cense with them. Ta . w>tn xnem. L; awful masons for the fol rw11 of 16. For many years he served as clerk of the church. He was married to Miss Jane Brooks. To this unton were born ■ eleven children, seven of whom sur-j vive: Mrs. W. H. Humphries, Mrs.-' J. C. Washburn, Mrs. Malcom Put nam. Messrs. Perry, Arthur, and John L., jr., and Miss Ella Me-1 Swain. He is also survived by his widow and 20 grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Double Springs church Monday afternoon by Rev. J. W. Suttie, as sisted by Rev. D. G. Washburn ana interment was in tne Trouble Springs cemetery. A Targe crowd was present to pay their last tri bute. The grave was covered with beautiful flowers. T^e family has the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. 418 Died In This County Last Year According to statistics from the State board of health there were 418 deaths in Cleveland county tn 1926. The death rate in adjoining coun ties was as follows: ,Catawba, 369; Gaston, 733; Lincoln, 16-r>, Mecklenburg. 1,308; Rutherford. 363 Buncombe county had the high est death rate with 1,464 deaths, and Graham county the lowest with 29 deaths. The many hospitals and sanatoriums in Buncombe where sick folks go are accountable for.! the high death rate there, it is said ' Bonded Debt Of State More Than 500 Million Dollars i | Chapel Hill.—(INS)—The bond* etl debt of North Carolina—state, I county, municipal, and special tax | districts—is more than $500,000,000 ; according to an article by A. J. Maxwell, chairman or ine newly I appointed State tax commission, i: I the current number of the Univer I sity News Letter. According to Maxwell, the I weighted average interest rate on the county, municipal and local ! district debt is 5.320 percent. This, he said, was too high considering the safety of the investment and the fact that the bonds are tax free, or partially so. Maxwell pointed out that a large part of the public debt has been incurred by officials with little or no experience in handling bond sales.and notes a number of weax-: nesses in the existing order, con sidering as the worst the fact that many counties and munteipalities are not accumulating funds wit;* which to retire the bonds when they shall come due. As a remedy for these weak nesses, Maxwell suggested the adoption by the state of a State bond and sinking fund commission as the clearing house and controll ing body to pass upon ail bond is sues, to negotiate sales, and to look after interest payments, sink ing funds and other essential mat ters. The State tax commission, ot which Maxwell is chairman, was created by the 1927 legislature to make a sweeping investigation of tar systems in the State. Gazette Editor Says All Facts Were Presented. Says Webb Version Was Robinson Side. The Gastonia Gazette which was attacked this week by Judge J. L. Webb for its criti cism of him over the Conley Robinson case, has “no ap ology to offer” for its criti cism according to an editorial appearing in Tuesday’s Gaz. ette following Judge Webb’s denunciation of the paper. “We have stated our opnion of the affair and it still stands,” the Gazette editor writes. The editorial reply is headed “The Facts Were Given” and reads as follows: With all due regpect to Judge Webb and the courts. The Gazette feels called on to enter a vigorous denial of the charge of nvsropro sentation of the facts in the Rob inson case. Judge Webb is quoted as saving, with reference to a recent editor ial in The Gazette relative to the case: “The editor of a newspaper ought to be careful how he writes about or criticizes the workings of a court without having ip his pos-1 session all the facts of the case ” said Judge Webb. “The editor should have all the facts and should lay them before the people so they may judge whether justice has been done or not.” The Gazette maintains that all the facts in the case had been faithfullv and fullv presented >n news articles in this pappr, both before, during and after the trial. It is admitted, of course that the j whole thing was not rehearsed in the course of the hundred-word editorial referred to; that was] man''fe<-Gv impossible. Besides! od'.*orial comment is not supposed, to be news. It is based on news ac counts. If we wprp rt'snosen fo argue the I case with His Honor, Judge Web*’ | might, rpsr)pr*f'il]v lnnuire of him how much of the McGinn evi dence was eited and rehearsed hv him in his charge to the grand jury here. His version and recital of the “facts” were simply a re hashing of the Robinson side of the trial, as we see it. Both the Associated Press and the two Charlotte papers carried full accounts of the Robinson af-! fair from the night it happened,' through the many delays and post- j ponements, of the trial itself which lasted two or three days and | all the many and detailed side lights. Nearly all this was car- i ried in the news columns of The Gazette and the facts were thor- 1 oughly familiar to Gazette read-1 ers. This paper did not suppress i any of the facts and it is here and now enters a denial of such. That is as far as this paper ‘ cares to go with the case. We , have stated our opinion of the af fair and it still stands, backed by many expressions of commenda- , tion and approval from many sources. We have no apology to affer. Crack Shot Off For j Big Rifle Contest j Lieut. H. C. (Shorty) Long, of Comnany K. will leave this week, for Camp Perry, Ohio, where he will enter in the national shooting, contest representing me national guard of this state. Lieut. Long for the second con secutive year won regimental j •-.hooting honors of the North Caro-, ina guards at Camp Glenn, More- j lead City, this summer. M. C. Green Takes Firs* Prize And Florence MeSwain Second For Prettiest Yards. In order to encourage the keep ing of clean and neat premises, tho Shelby Cotton mill each year of fers prizes for the best kept and most attractive premises and this year the rivalry was very keen. It was a evelation to go through the mill village and see the attractive premises. In making the awards the judges S. C. Lat timbre, Alvin Har din and C. B. Cabanlss visited all of the homes and inspected the front, side and rear yarcs, paying especial attention to the attention given to flowers and as a result ot their visit they announced the fol lowing prize winners: First prize—M. C. Green, $7.50. Second prize—Florence MeSwain, $5.00. Third prize, $2.50 each to: T. W. Roberts, Mrs. L. M. Wiikre, I. X. Shepherd, M. K. Wilson, W. E. Turner. Fourth prize. SLOP each to: A. L. Laws, Non MeSwain, W. t. Floyd, A. R. Chapman, J. H. Wil liams. J. M. Hawkins, J. R. Cost ner. I. A. Goodwin. Janie Cook, L. Z. Hoffman. W. R. Gary Heads Schoolmaster Club \\ . R. Gary of the Fallston hign school was elected president of the School Masters club a funcheon held Monday night at the Central hotel. The club has for its mem bers, ihe high school principals and superintendents of the county The retiring president Lawton Blanton, of Lattimore. and Mr. J. A. Moore, of Waco schools, were elected vice presidents. J. H. Grigg is ex-offl cio secretary of the club. Plans frr the year were discussed including the publication again this year or a school paper for the county and membership in the North Carolina educational association. Wash Women Pay Fines Of Lovers Who Get Caught The family wash and can ned heat march along hand in hand in th? community life and dispensing of jus tice as viewed in the mirror ' of the county court This week a colored man took on too much caned heat and was really ‘“canned" by ' the officers. At the hearing Judge Mull spoke as he us ually speaks: “$10 and the costs.” The witness didn’t have the price, but from up in the colored gallery came a sound as a hefty colored woman wended her way down stairs and up the aisle, , where she asked the solicitor ? “How much is dem costs?" [ Getting the exact amount j she extracted a hefty roll of bills from somewhere in No J Man’s land, paid up and took ’ the man home. Several family washings were no doubt represented in the roll that dwindled to get the canned heat drinker back to freedom. Often, court officials say. the washer women foot the bills of their more sprightly and reckless lovers. Still, it is said, gentlemen prefer blondes. GETS THREE CARS IN DAY TO LAND j IN COUNTY JAIL I Man In Jr'l Charged With Triple Larceny Cars. One r'ellow Leav es Car In Hoad. Kings Mountain this week has been experiencing some visitations from alleged ear thieves. Chief Irvin Allen last night, brought a young man to the jail here for lodging while officers continued the hunt for his pal. Preliminary reports are that the young fellow and his missing pal will be connected with the theft of three cars in a day and night if the state can work up its case. As the officers tell it a car was stolen in Spartanburg Mor day. Later in the day it was left at a Gastonia garage. At that place the thief took up with a Gastonia car, and the second car was in turn abandoned at Kings Mountain, where the third car was picked up. The Kings Mountain car, it is al- , leged, was abandoned back in Spartanburg, where the first car was taken. Spartanburg officers are credited writh the arrest and j the Kings Mountain officers j brought the prisoner here for a hearing in connection with the lar ceny of the Kings Mountain car. The preliminary will he held, it is said, after a searen is made for the fellow who accompanied the man row in jail. Had tiuilty l onsrience. One auto driver roust have been labor.eg under a guilty conscience about midnight last night at Kings Mountain, according to Deputy Creel Ware. The officer says he was riding up Railroad avenue near midnight when he met u car coming toward him, but upon sight of the officer the driver suddenly stopped the car, jumped from it and “skiddoed,” as the officer put H. The car was abandoned in the middle of the street. After looking about for a t me the officer push ed the car over to the curb and waited for the driver to show up. As yet he is still missing. The re sult is that Officer Ware has a fairly good Chevrolet coupe on his hands and the owner had not ap plied for it this morning. It is sup posed by the conduct of the miss ing driver that the car was slolen. An investigation, the officer says, i wealed that the car had been started without a key. One fender was bent down over the wheel. WILLISClTO OPEN THURSDAY Greenville, S. C. Aug. 23.—The widow of Sheriff Sam D. Willis and his chief deputy will go on trial Thursday morning, jointly, on charges of murdering him near his garage here late on the night of June 11. xriai was set yesterday sitter a grand jury had indicted both. They have been at liberty on bond since their arrest a short time after the mysterious slaying. Townsend, a comrade of Willis in France during the World war and later his chief officer, was taken m custody three weeks later, Sev eral days intervened before the arrest of the 31->tear-old widow and mother of four children. In a habeas corpus hearing when both were released on bond, the State by testimony of several wit nesses sought to prove that close friendship existed between the two defendants, Mrs. Wallis submitted an effidavit to deny any undue in timacy with Townsend. Club To Put On Big Dance Year The Cotillion club will bring to Shelby, on September 6th, Hal Kemp and his orchestra. The dance will be held in the Thompson dance hall and the hours of danc 1 ing will be from 9 until 2 o’clock. ! The club is now working out plans whereby it can accommo date and entertain the large at tendance that is expected to at tend. Hal Kemp is a Brunswick recording artisa and is from the , University of North Carolina. He has become famous because of the fine quality of music which he gives to his devotees. He was booked the early part of the sum mer in some of the leading thea tres of the North, The Cotillions are looking forward to, this being the best dance ever held in Shleby. j An Inventor’s Golden Anniversary Thomas \ i: 1*-••II. tUrtrkal wizard or tlir u^u. is pictured telling it to a microphone during the recent golden anniversary observ ance at his j.’.pnt in West Orange N J The inv.ntor Is re pen tin a Mito the microphone the subject in the f;. t smind recorded and | f.f» h V < ‘ V* r> t • ' » . Champion Alimony Martyr Still Refuses To Pay It r Cremate Bodies Of Two Radicals Boston,—The bodies of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo \ anzetti, who were executed early Tuesday at the Char lestown state prrson, will be cremated at Forest Hills. Boston, next Sunday. The ashef of Vanzetti v, ill be taken abroad by his sister, Miss Luigia Vanzetti, who canrte to inis country from Italy to visit him be fore i>’R death. A previous plan *or ex hibiting the bodies >f the two men ir various American cities had been abandoned. - B01BLE BOB TO COWBU HOTEL Local Hotel Man To Manage Col umbia’s Largest Hotel. Will Keep Central Here. A. D. Brabble, popular proprie tor of the Central hotel here and one of the best known hotel man agers in the state, has accepted the managership of one of South Carolina’s finest hotels, the Jeffer son at Columbia. Mr. Brabble stated today that he would leave Shelby Sunday foi Columbia, where he will take charge of the Jefferson, which was recently bought by the Baron - Wilson chain which operates the Mecklenburg at Charrotie, Grabble being a former manager there. 1 he Jefferson is a 25U room hotel and the local hotel man says lie wac made such an attractive offer to take charge of it that he could not refuse it. He will retain the ownership and management of the Central hotel here, however, and will continue to operate it along the lines that have made it known as t*ie rear hon e hotel with home cooking and home hospitality. For the present, te says, Mrs. Babble win remain here in charge of the hotel assisted by Mr. Spurgeon Hew itt, who has as sisted Brabble in the management of the Central since he first came here. - A Twinkle - A headline over a disnatch telling of the marriage of a 72-year-old woman and an 88 year-oid man says "Never Too Lace,’’ hut after observing tn« outcome of these dash-over into-South Carolina marriages it is onlv reasonable to beileve that it is oft times too early. An old-timer says he once took a toddy when feeling bad and always had that chipper feeling shortly therafter, but in this day of dangerous lever age he contends that be always looks up the telephone num bers of the doctor and under taker before violatJng Vol stead. THE TWINKLES. Mr. B. T. Falls was a Gastonia visitor on Wednesday on legal business (By Clem Whitaker, INS Staff Correspondent.) . Willows, Cal.—Sam Iieid, star : boarder at the Glenn county jail, world's champion “alimony mar I tyr,” and a red-haired young man j "ho has had quite a disturbing in fluence on politics hereabout, is at it again. Not content with costing county officials several thousand votes and many sleepless night, Reid has determined to reopen his crusade for “freedom without concession” 1 by appealing to Governor Young. Linking with his clemency pl< a a request that the state make a thorough investigation into the reasons for his martyrdom, the 32 ' year-old apostle of “equal rights for men will petition the governor for a full pardon. j “Someone is acting loony in this case, and I’m not the man,” Reid told International News Service to day. “A jury of alienists has ad judged me perfectly sane. I can and 1 won t pay. I can be free and I won’t be free What’s the reason? Surely it is time the state makes an investigation before my board bill mounts to the size of the war : debt.” Third Year In Jail Reid, now entered on the third year of his self-imposed impris onment, is adamant in his resolu tion not to contribute to the sup port of his child while she is left in the custody of his former wife, who has re-married. He also stands pat on his original challege of “Not one cent for alimony,” but that | feature of the celebrated case hns | been solved by his ex-wife’s re marriage. i In this letter to Governor Young I tht* “alimony martyr” declared he j will present a complete review of the famous case, which began in February. ]‘I25, when Reid was ordered by Superior Judge Claude h. Purkitt to pay his former mate for the maintenance of their child, and refused. He will submit his record as a Soldier overseas and his record at home as a prosper ous farmer. He will present evid ence which he claims proves his contention that his former wife should not be entrusted with the care of their daughter. As further evidyce of his good faith nem declared he will agree to pay more than four times the amount for the support of little Zada May Reid required by the court. But he will pay it only “on condition that my daughter is placed in a good Christian home.” Mrs. Anna L. Saylor, newly ap pointed chief of the State depart ment of social welfare, will he asked to investigate the case. Political Issue _ Reid today is the biggest poli tical issue in Glenn county, accord ing to his friends here. One eour tv official went down to defeat at the polls recently as a result of his imprisonment, they say, and Judge Purkitt is declared to be facing almost certain defeat at next year’s election unless 'the white elephant in the county jail” is re leased. While county officials argue the matter and seek vainly for a solu tion ( Reid is working for the over throw of “unjust alimony laws.” He has joined the Alimony Pay ers’ Protective association, a na tional organization composed of those who believe that “It is the man who pays and pays,’ and 's working through the association to break down the present system. DUBS TO FROLIC DURING TUSH 1 GOLF COURSE I'nique Tournament On Tomorrow Afternoon At Cleveland Springs. Free ray. Bobby Jones wasn't any cham pion when he played his fust round of golf. Perhaps that will he some consolation to the numerous beginners who are expected to trek around the Cleveland Springs course tomorrow, Thursday afteri noon, in a unique golf tournament. 1 he oddness of the tourney to morrow is'that no one will be per mitted to play for the prizes who has ever played before. It is to be a real dub entertainment. Thurs day afternoon is the last half holi day of the summer season with the business houses of town, and the golf club and hotel are co-op erating in putting on a gara after noon. The dub golfers are not ex pected to get all the fun of the afternoon. Other golfers, who think they are not dubs but perhaps are, will be out to watch the beginners play. Caddies are expecting to find many balls in places w-iere balls have never been found before. The Cleveland Springs course Is In gooa condition but the unofficial guess is that most of Thursday after noon’s tournament will be played in the woods and corn fields in stead of down the fairways. Colt bulls have a habit of getting out of the fairway easier than money out of young fellow’s pocket. Doctors may play doctors, and ! business men may borrow a set of clubs and take on the professional men. v . | Incidentally, the afternoon’s en tertainment is to be at the expense ! of the golf club. All those who wish | to enter the dub tourney and have a half day of fun and exercise are urged to be at the club bouse short ly after noon. As far as Is possible clubs will be furnished all those who enter and the caddies will act as coaches about the course. Charles I,. Eskridge, glof club president was out yesterday ai.tt today rounding up entrants for the contest. But those he fails to see are invited to play. It’s an open event to every one that hasn’t play ed golf. Yes, of course, there will he prizes. A couple of them are nice enough to make Bobby Jones him self break into a grin—that is, if he could win one. One of the prizes is on exhibit in the window at T. W. Hamrick’s and another at George Alexander’s. And there will be still others. Prizes for the best scores and the worst scores will be given. Many To Play Members of the local golf club are asked to be at the club house Thursday afternoon to assist the so-called “dubs” in getting started and go with the various foursome around the course. Quite a list of business and pro fessional men who have never played golf have agreed to play Thursday. Among those who have already agreed to play are the fol lowing: Dr. H. K. Boyer, Dr. E. B. Lattimore, Julius Suttle, B. A. Lefler, Dick Brabble, B. Q. Steven son, Dr. H. C. Dixon, J. L. McDow ell. Fred Morgan, George Alexand ed, Ed. Morrison, Dr. D. F. Moore, C. B. McBrayer, Dr. H. S. Plaster, J. C. McNeely, Peyton McSwain, Henry Massey, Harry Hudson, Basil Goode, Bloom Kendall, Dr. J. W. Harbison, D. H. Cline, D. E. Honeycutt, Sam M. Gault, J. R. Mauney Paul Wellmon, C. J. Mab ry. Joe L. Suctle, Josh J. Latti more, Frank Hamrick, Mial Tiddy, Curtis Weathers, Ray Lutz, Er nest Johnson, Paul Webb, Sr., E, L. Webb, Ab Poston, Bill McCord, Louis Hamrick, J^ D. Campbell, W. N. Dorsey, Mike Austell, Dewitt Quinn, Casey Morris, J. H. Grigg, E. E. Scott, R. J. McCarley, Robert Hord, J. S. Leggette, Dr. Tom Gold, Dr. Ben Gold, B E. Williams, F. B. Litton, W. E. Jordon, Dur ham Moore, Tom Nolan, C. R. Webb. J. Q. Earl Dr. EVA. House* and others. Attorney Rush Stroup Home From Hospital The many friends throughout the county of Attorney Rush Stroup, for many years county treasurer, will be pleased to learn that he is improving in health and went ten his home this week from the hos pital where he had been a patient for six weeks. Mr. Stroup has been suffering with a heart trouble and, was forced to give up his practice some weeks ago. He Is, however, staging a “come back" and has sufficiently recovered hy his treat ment in the hospital to go to hitj home on West Warwa stream „ A