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VOL. XXXIV, No. 137
SHELBY, N. C.
WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 16. 1927.
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons
By mail, per year (in advarrw)_.$2.&«
By carrier, per year (in advance) |8.C*
late News
The condition of Mr. C. C. j
. n prominent Shelby banker who j
underwent an operation at |
IT, Shelby hospital, was reported
his mon'inK lo bc “about the same”.
ur Blanton has been resting better :
rerentlv and relatives slated yester- j
they were more encouraged |
#ver his condition.
jamo Young. 19, was accidentlly
:hct anct killed near Forest City yes
‘ day ' lien he and A. C. Allen and
iont Jeter, all of Forest City, were ;
returning heme from a rabbit hunt, j
voutiu iirew his coat and two rab
bits in the car and put the dogs in !
the b e'k scat. The dogs began eating j
the rabbits and Young turned his |
nun loose to get the rabbits away
from the d0&s' The gun fel1 out of
the open car door and the hammer
.truck the edge of the door. dis
ebargm" it. The load entered the
de of Young's face tearing away
most of the head. He died before he
could Be taken to the hospital.
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PHOFERTY IS OFF |
Twenty Seven Percent Cleveland
Valuation Is. I'crsonaL Disap
pears From Tax Books.
There will be no personal prop- j
ertv tax in North Carolina in 1925 !
if i; continues to disappear from
the tax books at the rate it has for ;
the past 15 years, according to a I
disnatch from Raleigh,
During the recent tax listing in
this county the decline in personal
property values was noticeable as
it pulled down the total county ;
values According to figures from
Raleigh 27 percent of the Cleveland i
tax listed is personal. This is high- j
er than in many counties. 25 per
cent of the Rutherford tax is per- |
sonal and 30 percent of the Lincoln
county tax covers personal proper- J
ty. Other counties in this section
fall below the 20 percent mark In
personal propety tax.
The personal property decline be
comes evident as a result of a study
just completed by LeRoy Martin,
secretary of the state board of
equalization, in which he has work- j
ed out the percent of the total tax
borne in each of the various coun- j
ties by personal property and a
table showing how rapidly per- j
sonal property and has escaped
taxation in the last fifteen years. In
1910 more than half of the proper
ty tax—64 percent to be exact—
was upon personal property. In 1915, i
the yield from the tax on personal
property had dropped to 57 per :
cent, and by 1920 it had decreased
to 41 percent. By 1925; the tax on
personal property was yielding only 'j
30 percent of the revenue—a de- ;
crease of 11 percent in six years— j
and at the same rate of decrease,
an average of 9 1-2 per cent de
crease every five years, indications
are that in 1930 the personal prop
erty tax will yield not more than j
31 1-2 percent of the total yield !
from property taxes. By 1940 the
income from taxes on personal
property will have decreased to only
51-2 percent and by 1945, the yiled
frem personal property will have
been wiped-out altogether.
But the alarming thing about the
situation, according to Mr. Martin,
is that whatever loss of revenue
results from a decrease in the
amount of personal property being
taxed, is added onto the tax which
is levied against real property. This
is shown by the fact that while in
1921 there was $848,320,645 worth of
personal property listed, and $1,
£25093.767 worth of real property,
in 1926 the personal property list
ed amounted to only $595,756,803,
while the real property listed had
increased to $1,899,094,133 which
**hows a decrease In personal
property listings of $74,539,022. and
in increase in real property assess
ments cf $274,000,366 in five years.
The wide divergence in the per
centage of personal property on
the tax books of the various coun
ties—a property tax is levied only
ty the counties in North Carolina
now—is shown by the study which
Mr Martin has made, the percent
age ranging from only 12 per cent
In Pamlico county, tha lowest, to 87
Percent in Forsyth county, the high
est.
The only counties with 40 per
cent or more of the property listed
is personal property are as follows:
Durham. 60; Forsyth, 87; Graham.
18; Henderson, 41; Randolph, 46.
This study me.rely serves to show
the wide divergence in the differ
ent counties with regard to the
•mount of personal property listed
•nd assessed for taxation. And in
those counties where the percent
age is smalt a higher tax on real
P°Perty must of course be levied,
: hi order to provide the revenue for
Much the county budget calls.
* L. DAVIS DIES WHILE
ASCENDING MOUNTAIN
Rutherfordton. Nov. 15.—W. L.
r»vis. 75, of Chimney Rock, died
ftddenly while ascending Bald
inuntain, near here.
Reports reaching here said that
e and his wife were walking along
* mountain road when he sud
denly fell to the ground and died
Quickly. Over-exertion was given as
** cause of death.
CUT OFF SCOlES
OF UGH! USERS.
BILES VET IN
With 15 Days Grace 148 Light And
Patrons Cut Off By Cijy
Over Bills
Water and light users of the city
cf Shelby will have to pay their
bills by tile 15th of each month or
be cut off, according to a definite
statement made today by Mayor W.
N. Dorsey.
The statement followed the an
nouncement that 148 patrons, who
have not paid their bills this month,
were cut off this morning.
"Fifteen days of grace is long en
ough and every one has been prop- I
crly notified,” Mayor Dorsey said.
"We've got to close down some time '
or through carelessness we would
never collect all the money due the
city. Nobody is being favored and
when a patron has not paid his bill
by the evening cf the 15th his light
and water will be cut off the
next morning. There is a charge of
5Q cents for cutting back on.”
Orders Are Given
"Many people,” according to the i
mayor, "bother the meter reader, or
whoever gees to cut them off. This
isn't proper for the man sent to
do the work is only carrying out or
ders and it is not his business to
collect—many want to pay him as
he goes around.
"Another trouble we experience
with the water and light bills is a
continuous arguing with the meter <
reader about this month’s bill being |
larger than last month's. The meter i
reader cannot help it and it merely |
takes up his time. Likewise the j
city clerk, even in his biggest rush, ■
is bothered by people who wish to
argue over the bill. The clerk never
sees the meters, or has anything to
do with them until the meter read*
ings are turned over to him. He has
nothing to do with the amount
charged and it is unfair to take up
his time.. If there is some com
plaint it may be taken up with me,”
Mayor Dorsey said.
No Favorites.
“Many folks when we go around
to cut them off say ‘you know I’m
dood for my bills .so why don't you
let them run on and I'll pay them?'
But over at the city office we do
not have time to look over every
body's bill. Many of those cut off
no doubt pay their bills promptly or
dinarily, but we have no method
of telling and we cannot afford to
cut off one man because his bill is
unpaid and leave another one on
because he ‘is good for it’. We are
playing no favorites and intend
hereafter, beginning today, to cut off
every water and light user who has
not paid his bill by the 15th. Fil
teen days is time enough. Many
people w'ould impose on us if the
period of grace was 20 or 30 days.
But that is not business, and here
after the water and light bills must
be paid promptly, or in the 15 days,
else there will be others cut off as
were the 148 today,” Mayor Dorsey
concluded.
Incidentally the 50 cents that must
be paid by each patron to get jack
on will bring in $74 from the 148
cutoff. There are 1,710 water and
light users with 3.500 meters in the
City now. it is said.
In connection with payment of
water and light bills it is urged by
Mayor Dorsey that the city hall of
fice hours be observed—these hours
are from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. in
the afternocn. “After 5 o'clock the
clerk must start balancing his
books and this cannot be done if
money continues to dribble in. If
you cannot come to pay your bill
within these hours, send it by some
one,” the mayor requests.
FLOWER SHOW ON
FOR SHELBY ILL
The ladies of the Shelby mill vil
lage will stage a flower show in the
big basement of the mill on Satur
day evening, November 19, from 6
o'clock until 8 o’clock, it is an
nounced. Prizes will be given in the
various classes of flowers and visit
ors from all sections -of the city are
invited, especially flower lovers.
Some time back the Shelby mill
officials encouraged flowers and
gardening in the village and the
women of the village now have a
fine collection of flowers and plants.
These flowers are stored in the
heated and lighted basement of the
mill ruring the winter months and
it is there that the show will be
held.
FIDDLERS fcONVENTION AT
HOLLIS SATURDAY NIGHT
The biggest fiddlers convention
held in this section in years will be
at Hollis Saturday night, Nov. 19.
If you enjoy good music, come.
Woman Shuns Drugs
In All Forms And
Dies At 83 Years
Rutherford ton, Nov. 15.—r.Irs.
Catherine Cook, with a distaste
for medicine in all forms that
caused her to shun it completely
for the past 70 years, died at her
home here last night at the age
of 83.
Agile until a few days before
her death, she worked in the
fields ail of last summer and had
been active about her home this
Hard work, she often said, was
the secret of her long and
healthy life.
PICK PRETTIEST
GIRL ID SCHOOL
Lawndale School Names Superla
tives of Senior Class. Beauty
Is Flirt.
< Special to The Star.)
Lawndale, Nov. 15.—The prettiest
girl in the senior class at the Pied
mont High school was also voted as
the biggest flirt by her fellow stu
dents in picking their superlatives
recently.
Meredith Carpenter was the girl
and in addition to being voted the
prettiest she was also voted the most
attractive Lula Vay Elmore was vot
ed the best-looking and it now re
mains up to some debating society |
to explain the difference between
“prettiest” and “best-looking."
Popular and Pretty.
In picking the superlatives the
Piedmont class of '28 picked almost*
every thing frem looks to big feet.
Harvey Warlick was rated as the
most popular boy and Lula Vay El
more, the best looking girl, was voted
the most popular girl—which goes
to show that the other girls were not
jealous of Miss Elmore’s good looks.
Here goes the entire list of the
Piedmont superlatives:
Most popular boy, Harvey War
lick, most popular girl, Lula Vay El
more; most influential, Kathleen
Miller; most attractive, Meredith
Carpenter; most lovable, Pauline
Buff; most dignified, Roy Propst;
qiiietest, Gazzie Putnam; most re
served, Lawrence Lattimore; most
athletic, Oren Champion; wittiest
boy, Harvey Warlick; wittiest girl,
Meredith Beam; happiest girl,
Madge Whisnant; prettiest girl,
Meredith Carpenter; most talkative,
Kathleen Miller; best natured, Pau
line Buff; man hater, Kathleen
Miller; woman hater. John Phil
beck, Jr.; best all-around, Pauline
Buff; most ambitions, Madge Lat
timore; best looking girl, Lula Vay
Elmore; best looking boy; Roy
Propst; Shiek, Harvey Warlick;
Sheikess, Irene Smalley; Cutest,
Madge Whisnant; silliest, Lawrence
Lee; biggest feet, Oren Champion;
baby of class, Madge Whisnant; big
gest flirt, Meredith Carpenter; most
dependable, Madge Lattimore.
Clyde Thackson
Weds Miss Waldrop
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Waldrop an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Muriel Waldrop to Mr.
Clyde Davis Thackson on Septem
ber 4th at Cowpens, S. C. While
their marriage took place over two
months ago, it was kept a profound
secret until yesterday when Mr.
Thackson came home from Chapel
Hill for the week-end where he is
a student. The ceremony was. per
formed by Rev. C. H. Martin. Tire
bride is a most popular young lady
with a host of friends. She is tak
ing teacher training course at the
high school here. She was grad
uated here last May. Mr. Thack
son is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Thackson of Shelby and is
now attending the University of
North Carolina where he is a mem
ber of the Delta Sigma Pi frater
nity and president of the Cleveland
county club. Both young people ere
finishing their education.
WATAUGA TO SHIP 15,000
TURKEY FOR HOLIDAYS
Boone. — Watauga county will
probably furnish 15,000 turkeys for
the Thanksgiving and Chrastmas
dinner tables of the country, but
the breeder are strongly advised by
dealers in produce not to market
them all at once.
Farmers are advised to send only
a few turkeys to market each week
during the season, so that the mar
ket will not be drugged.
Watauga turkeys usually move
through North Wilkesboro to north
ern and eastern markets and
through Lenoir to southern markets.
Gold Resigns From Board,
Arrange For Bond Issue
Technical Arrangement Made For $175,000 Bond Issue. Will
Not lie Sold Now. New Parking
Regulations Made.
The Shelby city board meeting
last night experienced an unusual
evening for a regular session of
“city fathers." For the first time
sine 3 the new board has entered
office not a single delegation, or
individual appeared before the
board.
However, there were several im
portant incidents at the meeting.
One was the technical arrangements
made for a $175,000 bend issue to be
floated when deemed necessary by
the aldermen. It w'as stated this
morning that although the aldermen
voted for the issue and had it placed
on the minutes that it was under
stood and assured the bonds were
not to be sold at the present time
or in the near future. The issue was
formally voted and placed on the
minutes, it is said, because it was
the last meeting at which the tpll
board elected would meet and
through technicalities it is best for
the sale of bonds that four aldermen
vote for them.
Dr. G. M. Gold, veteran physician
and member of the board, resigned
at the meeting last night as some
time back he retired fro the prac
tice of medicine :n South Shelby
and has moved to his new country
home in the Polkville section. A suc
cessor to Dr. Gold will be appointed
right away, a< cording to Mayor
Dorsey. Bond exper's informed the
board that brads voted over by three
elected niderjnen end an appointed
alderman would not sell as easily as
an Issue voted by the full board as
elected and for this reason. It Is
stated, the issue was voted last night
At the city hall today it was urged
that it Ire made plain to the people
that the bond issue would no go out
any time soon, and not until the
lepriring of certain sewage points is
necessitated by the State Board of
Iifa:th.
One floor Parking.
During the meeting Chief of Po
lice Richards, appeared before the
board and asked for a one-hour park
ing regulation in the busiest section
of up-town. This request was grant
ed by the board and autoists here
after are advised to follow the reg
ulation.
The regulation says that from 9
o’clock in the morning until 8 In the
evening each week day automobiles
may be parked for one hour only on
the west side of LaPayette street
from Campbell's store south to the
Episcopal church at the Graham
street coiner, and on the east side
of LaPayette street from Graham
street up to Swofford’s grocery. In
ether words, three blocks on the
west side of LaFayette will be cov
ered by the regulation and one block
on the east side in the southern
part of the business section.
CLASS FOOTBALL
AND CADE DAME
STARTHERE SOON
Coach Morris Starts Developing
Young Players With Class
Contests. Basketball On
With the football season near a
close Coach Casey Morris, of the
Shelby High school, this week began
preparations for two new branches
of athletics in the school—class foot
ball and basketball.
According to the plans every class
in the High school will have an
eleven and play for the class title.
Members of the High eleven will be
barred from this play and the boys
of the varsity will assist Coaches
Mcrris and Falls in training the
class elevens. Several good games
are anticipated in the class pro
gram and many boys who have not
heretofore participated in athletics
will be given a chance. Likewise the
coaches hope to find some new
material of promise in the class
elevens.
Good Cage Team.
Prospects for a winning basket
ball quint are high at the present
time. The majority of last year’s
fast-moving cage team is again in
school and will be re-enforced by
such stars as McSwain and Cline.
McSwain.who played last year for
Tilden Falls at Lattimore, is regard
ed as one of the best basketball
players in Western Carolina. With
Gold, Beam, Grigg, McSwain, Wall,
Cline and a half dozen other fast
youngsters the Shelby coaches hope
to make a big splash in the basket
ball title race.
Practice in basketball will begin at
an early date in the "tin can" gym
nasium and ere long the regular
schedule will open.
GAFFNEY COTTON PRICES
CONTINUE FAR IN LEAD
Gaffney, Nov, 15.—The Gaffney
cotton market continues to be higher
by at least a half cent than the
neighboring markets.
This may be attributable to the
fact that the local mills are paying
higher for cotton because the staple
of Cherokee cotton is better than the
ordinary staple, and is therefore
more valuable, as shippers from a
distance are coming to Cherokee for
the purpose of purchasing the sta
ple.
Senator W. C. Hamrick was the
pioneer in making higher prices for
Cherokee county cotton, and con
fines his purchases as near as may
be to cotton raised here.
COTTON CROP YIELDS
STATE PEN $125,000
Raleigh, Nov. 15—The state pris
on. North Carolina's biggest farm
er took 1,600 bales of cotton to mar
ket today. Tonight the institution
was flashing a $125,000 bank roll.
The sale of cotton was authori
zed as a detail of the regular month
ly meeting of the prison board of
directors. Registering good grades,
the cotton brought approximately 21
cents a pound.
Dr W. F. Moore and Mr. Robert
Hord visited at Lake Lure Sunday.
South Carolina Town May Become
Regular Mail Port For
This Section
Blacksburg.—Survey and perma
nent locations for the Blacksburg
landing field were completed last
week and the work of grading the
ground preparatory to the installa
tion of cables and tower for the field
and beaoon lights is under way now.
The beacon light will be of the
light-house type. 3,000.000 ray can
dle-power revolving light .mounted
cn a 75ft. steel tower. The mach
inery and other apparatus, Mr. Polk
says, is probably en route in a car
load shipment, which is coming di
rect to Blacksburg and will have in
cluded with it the material for the
Gaffney and Kings Mountain fields
to be hauled by truck from here.
In an interview with Chas I
Stanton, superintendent of exten
sion,' airways mail service, it was
learned that the government is
speeding up the work over this
route as much as possible, because
an early and rather severe winter
had been forecast by the weather
bureau, and that owing to the ab
sence of snow and ice along this
way this southern route would be
used almost exclusively for through
service to the west coast during the
winter.
Mr. Polk also states that there is a
probability that Blacksburg will be
made a regular mail port before a
great while, since it is a railroad
junction point; that with convenient
railroad schedules it is possible that
sufficient mail to justify this can be
concentrated here from Rock Hill,
York. Clover, Grover, Shelby, Ruth
erfordton and Marion. He says that
if the demand requires it, Blacas
burg will be made a regular port of
call or regular airport, since it is a
logical location and directly on the
route as the crow flies.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES SHOW
DECREASE IN STATE NOW
Raleigh.—Contagious diseases in
North Carolina are falling off, was
the good word from /the state health
department.
Whooping cough dropped from 169
to 106 cases, diphtheria from 225 to
129 cases, scarlet fever from 173 to
84, smallpox from 15 to 14 and ty
phoid fever from 24 to 10 the last
seven days compared with the pre
ceding seven.
TOWN CUTS WEDDING FEE
TO MEET “COMPETITION”
Piggot, Ark—Because it cost fifty
cents more to procure a marriage
license in Clay county, Arkansas,
than in a neighboring county in
Missouri, the Clay county quorum
court decided to meet the competi
tion and as a result ordered that li
censes to wed be reduced from $3.60
to $3.10.
Mr. Meredith Hennessa, visited
High Point Tuesday on a buying
trip for the Paragon Furniture com
pany, with which he is associated.
trom Idaho
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(nt i>**&*• i<1 *• n- v. his
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Get Boys Here For
Greenville Police
One Said To Have Taken Money
From Roommate Here. Both
Boys Very Young
The Shelby police department
yesterday turned over two youths,
Odell Doster and Eugene Hill, to
Greenville, S, C., police who came
here for them on an alleged charge
of house-breaking, or larceny tlgere.
The boys were apprehended here
| yesterday after it was claimed one
of them stole some money from his
roommate in a local boarding house
Monday night..
Doster. whose family moved here
just a few days back, is said to be
around 16. while the other youth
is even younger.
Wants More Large
Checks For Fund
Raleigh.—O. Max Gardner, Shel
' by, general chairman of the Bap
tist Centennial Campaign, has chal
lenged 500 of his friends in the state
to join him in giving $1,000 each
to the campaign, thus forming a
“Thousand Dollar Centennial Club."
Already quite a number have Joined
this club, and the way is still open
for many more.
Several weeks ago Mr. Gardner
mailed Dr. Charles E. Maddry, gen
eral director of the campaign, a
check for his $1,000, at the same
time challenging 500 others to do
likewise. However, the managers
I of the campaign are not asking for
cash, but for subscriptions to be
paid in 10 quarterly payments,
closing the campaign by the time
the centennial of the Baptist State
Convention will be celebrated in
1930.
Mr. Gprdner, who has shown great
interest in the campaign from the
beginning,, will preside over the
session of the Baptist State Conven
tion in Durham Wednesday night
when the subject of Christian edu
cation will be discussed. He will
also make an address, the first he
has ever made before the conven
tion in recent years. This is ex
pected to be one of the high peaks
in the forthcoming convention.
LIQUOR SPILLS ON STREET
AS RUM CAR HITS HEARSE
Goldsboro.—One hundred gallons,
of whiskey, en route through the
"Big Funnel" in a car driven by
Richard Roycroft of Raleigh, were
scattered on the streets of La
Grange when the car smashed into
a hearse.
Roycroft was bruised and was
taken to a hospital in Kinston and j
left under guard.
Talk Morris For . . .
Coach At Wake
Forest College
For several days now there has
brrn talk on the sport pages of
various newspapers in the state
concerning the likelihood of a
new football coach at Wake
Forest college. Among those
mentioned for the post have
bern Nemo Coleman, Bingham
coach; Harry Kabenhorst, form
er Wake star, and others.
Of interest here is the follow
ing dispatch from Raleigh today
stating that Casey Morris Is a Co
being mentioned for the berth:
Raleigh, Nov. 16.—The News
and Observer published a letter
today from a prominent Shelby
football observer who stated that
"prominent Baptists of this
I Shelby) section, who are great
Wake Forest supporters are very
much enthused over getting Roy
Morris ‘to join the Deacon's
coaching staff.” Morris, now
coaching Shelby high school, is
a former football and baseball
captain at the University of
North Carolina.
HIGH SCHlTfl
GIVE PLAY FRIDAY
i Three-act Farce Directed by Miss
Upshaw Will be Shown at
Auditorium Friday.
The whole town is talking “The
Whole Town’s Talking "—so say the
school children, if you can fig’ire it
out.
On Friday night at 8 o'clock the
dramatic department of the Shelby
school will present a three-act farce
"The Whole Town's Talking.” This
play was written by Anita Loos, au
thor of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’
and John Emerson. The play has
been directed by Miss Ora Upshaw,
head of the dramatic department,
and is said to be one of the most
entertaining performances ever of
fered by Shelby High students.
Around 15 high school students
will participate in the lead parts of
the play and for several weeks these
students have been carefully drilled
each day for Friday night's perform
: ance.
Music for the evening will be Turn
ished by the well known Shelby
High school orchestra. There will be
no reserved seats and patrons of
the school and those who desire to
sec the play are urged to attend and
| come early.
Swiped Bride But
Wedding Was Flop
Sunday afternoon Squire Sylvanus
Gardner had a call from the City
Hall stating that a colored couple
wished to be married. When Squire
Gardner arrived the anxious groom
to-be dashed to his feet, pulled the
bride up and wanted to get it over
with. Yet the marrying magistrate
refused to perform until the li
cense made an appearance. When
produced by the shaking colored
youth it was found that the license
came from Rutherford county and
could not be used here.
“You’ll have to get married back
in Rutherford county, where you
secured the license,” Gardner in
formed him.
"Oh My! Boss, can’t you do the
tying here. Yo see Ah stole dis here
gal and wanted ter git mahied
quick,” the frantic groom pleaded.
The pleading was in vain and
the dusky couple set their faces to
the west in an attempt to slip back
in Rutherford, get married and get
out again “befo de old folks finds
put anything.”
Drove First Auto To Raleigh,
Returns Now In An Airplane
, Raleigh, Nov. 15.—As a lad. An
drew Crinkley drove the first auto
mobile in Raleigh. Later he thrilled
the natives with daredevil stunts
with racing motorcycles. Then the
war came and he went away with
the Naval Aviation Corps.. Yester
day he c-.rue home in about the big
gest and noisiest airplane ever to
land here.
Enroute from Hampton Roads Air
Station to Pensacola. Fla., Lieuten
ant Crickley swooped down on the
Marshburn-Robbins field shortly be
fore dusk yesterday. He shook
hands with old acquaintances, stak
ed down his ship, and came into
town to spend the night with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Crink
ley, 18810 Glenwood avenue.
This morning at nine o’clock he
is scheduled to take off on the next
leg of his journey. Another Navy
ship, piloted by Lieutenant Cornwell,
is due to come down from Hampton
Roads, circle the city, and join the
Raleigh pilot for the hop South. If
[all goes well they will lunch and
refuel in Spartanburg or Atlanta
and wing their way on into Pensa
cola before dark.
The huge Martin, SC-1 ’plane,
powered with a 650 horsepower
Wright T-3 motor, attracted consid
erable attention as it roared over
the city. Landing beside a com
mercial plane operated here, the
ship appeared a veritable giant. It
is a combination bombing, torpedo
and scout ship, with wings arranged
so they can be folded up for trans
portation on a battleship.
Lieutenant Crinklay was accompa
nied by two enlisted men: R. W.
Ritchie, a pilot, and H. Hurley, me
chanic, first class. The hop from
Hampton Roads was accomplished
in two hours.
Lieutenant Crinkley said he had no
trouble locating the landing field,
but it was because of his familiari
ty with the country. He said he
did not see the marker atop the
city Auditorium, and urged that the
field here be marked and smooth
ed over.
SCHOOL BOY HIT
i
I llevenney Boy Struck Near Beth
Ware School by Car Said to
be Driven by J. A. Amos
Reports frortr the Shelby hos
pital today stated that D, C.
Devlnney, young school boy
struck by an auto near Beth
Ware school Monday, was rest
ing: better and had regained
consciousness.
According to information receiv
ed here the youth was hit by an
automobile driven by a man said to
be J. A. Amos, of the Ellenboro
section. Amos was today still being
held in jail here pending the out
come of the youth's condition, and
Recorder John Mull stated this
morning that no one had consult
ed him about bond for Amos.
School Was Out
The boy was struck just about the
time the Beth-Ware school turned
out Monday afternoon, it is said.
Just how it all happened could not
be definitely learned here. From the
best information it seems that the
boy, who is about seven years of age *
and the son of A.- L. Devlnney, well
known here, was crossing the high
way when the Amos ear started to
pass a Jitney and struck him. Just
where the fault was that brought
about the injury to the boy was not
known.
Leg is Broken
Immediately after it happened the
boy was rushed to the hospital here
and for a time it was thought that
his skull was fractured. However,
reports today stated that his right
leg was broken below the knee and
that he had injuries about the head,
but hospital officials were of the
opinion that there was ho skull
fracture none having shown up 30
far. Since he has regained con
sciousness the condition of the
youth is considered far more prom
ising.
The Beth-Ware school is located
on Highway 20 between Kings
Mountain and Shelby and is near
the highway, over which there is a
constant stream of traffic.
HIOHBTQGOVERiy .
SELVES IS PLAN
Shelby High Students Plan To
Operate With Student Gov
ernment. Own Laws.
An interesting experiment has
been introduced into the Shelby
high school by way of student gov
ernment. The initial idea is to
teach the undergraduates social re
sponsibility and the early stages of
citizenship. The plan is that of Mr.
Chappell, the new principal. He
was the president of the student
government at Chapel Hill last year
and is therefore familiar with its
workings. He believes it will heigh
ten the morale of the local school
The institution dates back to the
early days of England’s Rugby and
is in use in many of the more up
to-date schools of today in this
country. The effectiveness of the
plan depends entirely on the sin
cerity of the spirit in which it is
taken up.
To date the only action that lias
been taken kka the election of
eighteen students who will draw up
a constitution by which the govern
ment will act. Later another elec
tion will be held to choose the
president and other acting officers.
The following students were elected
for the former duty:
Zeno Wall, Bill Grigg, Ralph
Gardner, Ed Harris, Billy Me
Knight, William Webb, John line
berger, Milan Bridges, I. C. Gitffin,
Lalage Shull, Sara Best, Sara Rich
burg, Alice Saunders, Ruth Ham
rick, Virginia Hunt, Minnie King,
Lula Agnes Arey, and Elsie Gidney,
Nolan Auction Set
Saturday Afternoon
The Nolans are planning to ring
the welkin with another big auction
—this one of unusual proportions,
the date set for this coming Satur
day afternoon. Eighty vacant city
lots are going on the block, the lo
cation of the group being on the
Janet hosiery mill property.
There will be prizes (one of which
is especially attractive), a band
concert, and much hurrah, fuss and
feathers. Cols. John and Jim Rush
are coming over from Tennessee to
put the stur.t over, and the Nolans
are genially boosting the big sale.
This firm has had such success
with auction sales of late that they
are staging them at more or less reg
ular intervals. This one, they assert,
is of unusual merit.