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8 PAGES TODAY By mail, per year (in advare*)_ By carrier, per year (in advar.ee> |3.Ct I Late News Mayor W. N. Dorsey stated this naming that an alderman had not btfii appointed to take the place left fJfant on the city board by the re jignation of Dr. G. M. Gold, who has moved to his country home. The appointment will likely be made this f'ePk, however, it was added. It was stated at the Shelby hos pital today that Mr. C. C. Blanton, ghclbv banker, was “resting: better.” Ihere has been noticeable improve Bf„t in Mr. Blanton’s condition for spvrral days although recovery Is not to rapid. 1). c. Dcvinney, Beth-Ware school p,,. seriously injured last week when struck by an automobile, was also said to be improving nicely despite » head fracture and a broken leg. red mm HEBE GETS GOING IN FINE MINER Opening Drives Friday and Satur day Brought in Many Mem bers. Fine Support. The annual Red Cress rftll call lor Shelby and Cleveland county got underway Friday and Saturday of last week and continues this week. The two opening days proved highly successful in business firm memberships and individual mem berships. Saturday a group of girls worked the uptown section and stores were added to the Red Cross in the roll call. The drive for in dividual and firm members will continue this week and Red Cross officials urge that all join and push Eheiby’s total membership above any record in the past. Twenty-eight business firms lined up Saturday and a score more a.’e hoped for this week. These 28 firms had $5 as a minimum contribution and $4.50 of every $5 will remain in Shelby for work in night schools and relief work in time of disaster and suffering. The contributing business and professional firm members so far are: Cleveland Bank and Trust com pany. Shelby Creamery, Cleveland Hardware company, Shelby Hard ware company, Nix and Lattimore, Wcolwcrth's Store. Suttle Drug company. Efrids Department Store, Geo Alexander, Jewelers, Shelby Building and Loan association, A. V. Wray and 6 Sons, First National Bank. Gilmers. Inc. Best Furniture store, Paragon Dept.- store, Chas L. fckridge, E. H. Griffin, Bus station; The Star. Webb theatre J. C. Penney Co., Quinn Drug Company. Paragon Furniture company, T. W. Ebeltoft, Kelly Clothing company, McNeely company, Lineberger and Hoey, Ry burr. and Hoey, Bclmcnt Mfg. com pany. These first have all contributed a minimum of $5.00 . Noe: Other firms will ba canvass ed during the week. Marriages Now On Upgrade Here As Christmas Nears Thrrt* Couples Get License in Short Period Saturday. More Ex pected Turkey Day. Along about the time one hears the tinkle of the bells on Santa's reindeers the ring of wedding bells nearer heme his heard. “If there is a' season of the year When as many cf Our Cleveland county couples get married at home «s in South Carolina, it is in the holiday season,” according to Reg ister of Deeds A. F. Newton. “I is sued license for three couples in just a few hours Saturday and several nave already spoken to me about hitching papers for Thanksgiving’ he added.. The three couples securing li cense Saturday were: John F. Del hng. Cleveland and Mary Lou Bpeagle. Catawba; Mtley Stroupe, Lincoln and Ida Wright, pleveland; Marvin Cook and Mary Moore, both oi Cleveland county. So far license for 12 couples have ken issued this month. School Play Was Above Ordinary The 3-act farce presented by the dramatic department of the Shelby High school Friday night was any thing eise than a farce when the *crd is used in the sense of a flop. Shelby is a rather critical town *'hcn it goes to appraise a stage t,fcrt. particularly an amateur Production, yet one hears from all Mrs that the play? "The Whole To« n s Talking,” Friday night was Kie of the best given by the school •tudents in several years. Much credit for the performance ■ht’st go to Miss Ora Upshaw, new dramatic director at the school, and •he manner with which she elimi flattd the stage faults of young bhateurs was the basis for the suc Cess of the evening. The play was Mitten by John Emerson and Anita and the principal characters *«p Milan Bridges, Mary Reeves f^ney, Dorothy King, John Line *rR<i\ Margaret Post, Prof. W. S. •hchanan, Billy McKnight, Peggy fnis. Virginia Jenkins, Elizabeth heGrand, Alice Sanders, W. D. «ckcy. Virginia Hunt and Martha pridge. Cotton Moves Up; Christmas Drive On COTTON MARKET UP 1 GIB REPORT FIGURE Market Up Around 50 Points After Ginning of 10,899.182 Bales Reported. Figure Expected The cotton market moved up 50 points today following the gin n’ng report giving 10,899,182 bales. Shortly after nocn today in view of the ginning figures lo cal cotton wasiquoted at 19 3-lc. The ginning figure given today ‘ ii nearly a million bales ahead of the 9,925,795 bales of the same date last year due to the early crop season. Local cotton men were not far off in preliminary estimates of the ginning report—estimates here ranging from 10,750.000 to 10,900,000 bales. Kings Mountain Citizen Dies in South Carolina of Injuries. Driver Unknown Spartanburg. — Without rallying from the comatose state in which he has lingered for nearly a week, John McAlister. 44. of Kings Moun tain, victim of a hit-and-run auto driver, died at the General hospital here Friday. McAllister was injured last week I at an early hour while en route from Greenville to his home. He sus tained a fractured skull, broken leg and multiple bruises. According to members of the fam ily, who were with him at the time, the car in which they were making the trip, ran cut of gasoline at Con I verse and McAlister went to a near | by filling station to get a supply of fuel. Returning, he wa* walking along the side of the road when a [passing machine struck him, the driver speeding on without stopping to render aid to the injured man. [McAlister was accompanied by his Wife and little daughter. Another passing autoist stopped to render them aid and the injured man was brought to the hospital in an am bulance. County officers were sent] \ immediately to the scene and made j 'an investigation but they have not 'been able to establish the identity of the driver of the car. Women Hurt When Two Autos Collide Two automobiles were well night ! demolished and two Shelby women ! injured, in a crash between a Nash j and a Dodge on Gidney street here 1 early this morning. One of the cars, the Nash, driven by Mrs. J. Reid Misenheimer, cash tier at Webb theatre, turned com pletely bottom up. The Dodge was driven by Mrs. Clyde Mauney. Both I women were painfully but not seri i ously hurt. It was said the cost of the repair of the two cars will run to a figure between six and seven hundred dol lars. According to the version of the af fair told to The Star, Mrs. Misen jheimer was driving west on Gidney [street, and Mrs. Mauney was driv ing couth on Washinngton. Mrs.. Mauney’s car hit the Misenheimer car amidships, as Mrs. Misenheimer was crossing Washington street ahead of the advancing Dodge. So great was the impact that the Nash was catapulted across the street to the curb, which served to trip the big car on its sidewise jour ney, so that it turned completely bottom up. Reports were circulated through the city that both women had been severely injured but this was not true. Aside from shock and a few bruises it was declared each had escaped innjury. Charlotte.—Rev. A. L. Stanford, former pastor of Tryon street Meth odist church here, underwent an op eration for appendicitis in Charlotte sanatorium at 6 o'clock Saturday ev ening. He was described Saturday night as having stood the operation well. He entered the hospital Friday. Rev. Mr. Stanford was appointed to the pastorate of Broad Street Methodist church, Statesville, at the recent annual meeting of the W\st ern North Carolina Methodist con jference. SCHOOL CHILDREN WANT LONG TERM SCHOOLS ImMM Inn mm Above is the pictured likeness of the booth exhibited by the schools of Cleveland coun ty at the county fair this fall. This booth in addition to receiving much favorable comment from both within and without the county won second prize sweepstakes and also one .first prize sweepstakes for the most unique and appropriate manner of exhibiting the name of the booth. This booth was prepared by the pupils and teachers from the rural schools of the county and from Shelby and Kings Mountain. • Title. CLASS FOOTBALL Youngsters Play for Class Basketball Starts With Highs Soon. The opening game of the class football season to decide the class title of Shelby High will be staged Tuesday afternoon about 3:45 when the elevens representing the eighth and ninth grades will face each oth er. Coach Morris will have charge of the inter-class games and foot ball fans as well as the school chil dren should receive quite a bit ox entertainment out of the playing of next year's varsity prospects. Coaches Morris and Falls will of ficially open the basketball season next Monday, it is said, with a day cr two of practice likely in the “tin can” before then. Basketball pros pects seem the best in years and with Coach Falls, who put out a winning quint at Lattimore, to as sist Morris the Shelby Highs are going to make their first real bid for a basketball title. Kiwanis Club To Name New Leaders Annual Election at Next Meeting on December 1. No Meeting On This Week. At the next meeting of the Shelby Kiwanis club officers for the new year will be elected, it is announced by the secretary. No meeting of the Qlub will be held this week as the meeting, if held would fall on Thanksgiving day. The meeting of the annual election I will be held on Thursday night, De cember 1. Two men have been nom inated for each of the outstanding offices. The nominees are as follows: President—Dr. E. B. Lattimore and Dr. J. S. Dorton; vice president—R. T. LeGrand and Max Washburn; treasurer—Rush Hamrick and Dr. A Pitt Beam; district trustee—Paul Webb and J. F. Ledford. Mr. George Blanton is now presi dent of the club. Woman’s Club Will Sell Stamps Here The Shelby Woman's club, through Mrs. F. R. Morgan, presi dent, announces that the club will have charge of the Red Cross stamp sale for aid in tubercular work. Funds for this work are needed now more than ever and the citizens of Shelby are urged to buy as many stamps as possible. No “high-pow ered” street sales by children will be used, it is said, but the stamps will be placed on sale in several public places where the public may contribute as desired. The drive starts Thanksgiving and continues until Christmas day. Fifty per cent of the stamp money remains here for local work, it is reminded. Girl Charged With Killing Father Writes Poetry In North Carolina Jail Wentworth.—Loneliness is preying heavily upon youthful Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin in the county jail here where the comely bride of a fetv months is'awaiting trial for the grue some axe-murder of her 50-year old father. Smith T. Petty. rinding her dreary existence be tween four drab walls in vivid com trast to the days less than a year ago when she was a bell of Reids ville the diminutive prisoner has turned to writing poetry. ■ Possessed of a desire to give vent to her emotions through poetical ex pression—a trait wlifrlr'her friends say manifested itself even in her schooldays—the allege dpatricidc re cently has found time to turn out reams of poetry, some of which has been published in a county news paper. No Visitors. No one is allowed to visit the ac cused murderess save close relatives and members of her array of coun sel. and she spends several hours each day with her Muse, according to jail officials. She reads a few magazines and books, they said, left by visitors. . Mrs. Gatlin is faced with several months more of jail life until Jan uary when trial is scheduled to be called in Rockingham Superior court here. The trial, which will bring to gether some of the best of North Carolina’s legal talent, is expected to last for a w-eek or more. Much of the ume o: me trial prob ably will be taken up with the testi mony of Rev Thomas F. “Thunder - b Jit" Pardue, minister-evangelist and star prosecuting witness who play id a stellar role in the investigation which led to the alleged m rder c,:,’ arrest . Confession Revealed. The erstwhile divine instigated the mures: investigation when he divulg ed to authorities a confession which he claimed Mrs. Gatlin confided to him in a religious exaltation after she attended a revival that Rev. Pardue was conducting at Reids ville. The minister told the authorities that the 20-yeai'-old bride confessed she nad killed her father a year be fore with an axe as he was eating [his breakfast, and had then conceal ed his body. Petty, a cotton mill [foreman, had been missing for a Tittle over a year, but no foul play 'had been suspected in connection with his disappearance. Acting on the information furn ished them by the evangelist, author ities began an investigation which ended in the finding of Petty’s axe hacked body buried in a shallow grave in the basement of the Petty home. Mrs. Gatlin was arrested and charged with the horrible crime on the day the gruesome find was made She denied making the confession to the minister. Mr. W. E. Patterson of Kings Mountain was a Shelby visitor Sun day. CHE BOYS III JAIL FOB TIFT Two Young Boys Nabbed Here vfath Stolen Kings Mountain Automobile. Apparently when they swing off the cradle these days they hop an automobile fender and keep going. Occasionally they happen to steal the auto to hold the pace. Sunday night near midnight Po licemen McBride Poston and Oil Grigg noticed two youths trying to read a highway sign at a Shelby street corner. The boys appeared rather young to be out with a car at such an hour of the night and the officers asked them where they were from. "Gastonia,” they said, but the auto tag read Kings Moun tain. A little more questioning brought out the information that they “found” the car, whereupon the of ficers took the cue and took charge of the car and the boys. A telephone conversation with Gastonia reveal ed that the car. a Ford coupe, had been stolen there and that it was the property of a man by the name of Whitesides, who lives at Kings Moun tain, but works in a Gastonia bakery When the information came in the boys told the officers “Well, we don't feel hurt. It isn't our first time to see a Jail.” Before being returned to Gastonia today they gave their names as Woodrow Griffith, aged 16 and Haddon Gunter, aged 11—and the record goes that they are about the youngest auto bandits ever cap tured here. One said his home was in Ducktown, Tenn., and the other gave his home as another Tennessee town. SCHOOL CHILDREN WILLJID NEEDY To Patrons of the Shelby Schools. On Wednesday ‘November 23, the children of the public schools will be given an opportunity to make their annual Thanksgiving offering for the benefit of the destitute and needy families of the community. The offerings should he made eith er in cash or in fruits of the earth. The cash will b? used by the teach ers to provide books and necessary material for class room use, and the fruits of the earth will be distributed by the schools among the needy fam ilies of our community. All who know of any familly in need of food are requested to phone or send in such names to the school. This appeal is especially directed to the local physicians, ministers and others interested in charity work. I PADGETT ESCAPES AND RETURNS TO CHARLOTTE JAIL i Sensational Getaway Has , Ending When Romeo Comes in. Says He Wants Trial Charlotte. Nov. 19.—A sensational drama at the Mecklenburg county orison, with six prisoners making j thetr escape in the early hours of ! Friday night, came to a startling climax when Romeo Padgett, aged 23, held on charges growing out of the shooting and gravely wounding Rural Policeman Henry Moseley, surrender early Saturday morning. Feared For Life Immediately after being placed in the cell room from which he salm ly walked fourteen hours previous ly. Padgett told a newspaper man that "I would have come back last night but I was afraid the officers would shoot me on sight.” H. L. Strickland, attorney for this prisoner, went to a house on the Concord road, just at the city limits, soon after 9 a. m. Satur day in response to a mysterious tele phone message. Mr. Strickland was told to get his automobile and come Immediately to a designated point on that road. Padgett was doing the talking but refused to tell his at torney his name. Some fear of possible physical injury being inflicted upon one or both of them as they were riding through town on the way to prison caused Mr. Strickland to stop his automobile at the intersection of Tryon and Fifth streets and re quest Sergeant Gardner, of the Charlotte police department to vide with them to the county jail. This was done by Sergeant Gardner. “I want to face trial and tell my story of the whole thing," said Romeo Padgett a few minutes after he was placed i» Mecklenburg ! county jail here Saturday morning. ( “I decided before I, had got a block from this jail last night that I did not w;ant to escape, but I was afraid that I would Be shot on sight if I should show myself to the officers,” added the yourhfui, prisoner. Padgett was interviewed by a, newspaper man while thirteen other prisoners in the cell room crowded around him and listened to the con versation being carried on through the bars. H. L. Strickland, attorney for the youth, who is held on charges growing out of a gun bat tle September 26 between officers and alleged bootleggers at a house on Commonwealth avenue, when Padgett and Rural Policeman Henry Mosely were shot and gravely wounded The prisoner, formerly a soda jerker here who attained a wide acquaintance largely as a re sult of his jovial disposition, talked freely of his part in the sensational incidents of early Friday evening at ] the county Jail, when he and five other prisoners went through a hole J cut in the iron lattice work over a second-story window. Saw the Hole "X walked around the corridor and noticed the hole through the bars,” said Padgett. “I decided I d make my getaway. I returned to my ceil, and got the coat I was wearing when I was shot. I went back to the window, slid through the hole and jumped to the ground about fifteen feet below. “None of the prisoners here had anything to do with my escape, and I want you to put it in the paper that I did not lead this jail break. I was surprised to find the hole in the bars, and I did not think about anything then but get ting away. Then, right after I got out, I began wishing it was differ ent. I did not see any of my peo ple while I was out. I Just laid low.” Two Autos Catch On Fire Saturday Truck Ablaze Before Daylight at Convict Camp. Ford Catches on Fire The city fire department experien ced a bit of activity Saturday morning due to two automobile fires. The first cal: came about day break from the convict camp west of the city, where a big road truck was on fire the blaze starting when vapors from the gas tank were ignit ed by a lantern, it is said. Gaso line was being put in the truck from the camp tank. The truck was not so badly damaged. The other blaze occurred later in the morning when a Ford blazed up in the business section, but was ex tinguished with very little damage. Riding Jn Ruth Elder Style In Europe, She Says Miss Laura Burton Miller Lost in Fog While in Plane. Makes a Forced Landing. Charlotte—Miss Laura Burton Miller, of Charlotte and Shelby, has shared some of the thrills of Kuth Elder, although on a small er scale, according to a message received Friday by friends here Miss Miller, who is spending sev eral months in Europe, wrote from London, saying: “I flew over here last week, was lost in a fog and made a forced landing it was quite thrilling. 1 came to England alone, but have met with delightful people who have been wonderful to me." Miss Miller has been in Paris, with her cousin. Miss Douglass, who is studying art there.. Miss Miller is a prominent member of the Charlotte Writers club, and her stories and verses have ap peared in leading magaiines. Civic Boosters Help Put Worthy School Program Over. Will Have New Divisions. The Kiwanis Club has again agreed to sponsor a night school for Shelby. The club has appropriated enough money to pay the salaries of the teachers for. six weeks. It is hop ed that sufficient money will be se cured from the Red Cross Roll Call to carry on the school for another six weeks. The State Department of Education through the Division of Vocational Education, has agreed to co-operate and thus make it possi ble t,o extend the night school through a. period of eighteen weeks. It is hoped by night school officials that the Rotary and other clubs will help in the movement. On account of the fact that the holidays are so near, those interest ed in the night school think it best to wait until the holidays are over to begin the school. Last year one hundred and twenty-five were en rolled in the night school. The pros pects now are very bright for a larg er enrollment. Classes in Home Eco nomics and in Elementary Subjects will be offered. Major Bulwinkle Leaves On Tuesday Gastcnla.—Major A. L. Bulwinkle, representative in congress from the ninth congressional district, will leave early next Tuesday morning ftr Washington to be present at the opening of the next session of con gress. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Bulwinkle and their two chil dren, Miss_ Prances and Master Lewis Bulwinkle. They will motor through. Congressman Bulwinkle's secretary Mr. L. B. Carpenter, will leave for Washington on Wednesday, and Miss Virginia Huss, his stenograph er, will go to Washington later in the week. Home Is Destroyed By Blaze Sunday The home of Pole Curtis, in the Zoar section, was completely de stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock according to reports on the street here this morning. The Curtis family was away from home at the time of the fire and nothing was saved. it was said. There was said to be about $1,000 in surance on the dwelling. SAYS MORE ILLITERACY IN NORTH THAN SOUTH New York.—In the opinion of Dr John J. Tigert, federal commission er of education there is more illiter acy in New York city than in all the mountains of the Southern states, and while there is no peril to the county from an aristocracy of learn ing there is grave danger from an aristocracy of horses. The allusion was to the recent Kentucky election. willgradeWad IQ LIAICOLmi Lincolnton—Mr. Wilkinson, of Charlotte, state highway commis sioner for this district, states that the contract will be let in December for the grading and topsoiling of that portion of the Shelby-Lincoln ton road within Lincoln county. The contract for 206 in Gaston was let [some months ago and work of grad ing is now under way. CHRISTMAS FUND FOR CITY NEEDY IS PLAN OF STAR Newspaper To Assist Welfare Offi cer and Civic Organizations in Playing Santa Claus As the major part of Cleve land county looks forward with Joy to the gay Christmas sea son due to a bumper crop of 30 eent cotton there are, scattered here and there a few homes wherein there is little cheer. . Santa seldom visits a home where misfortune has been an unwelcome caller—unless some one helps the old fellow find the way. Last year, and year before last through various organizations the more fortunate people of this sec tion helped make it a real Christ mas in the homes where sickness and misfortune had visited. This year the .oali for the Christmas Stocking fund, to be used in buying I necessities for the poor, is to be ! centralized through this newspaper, ; When the fund is complete and Christmas eve is near county wel fare officer and a committee to be selected by him from various clubs will be given the money and it will be wisely spent for worthwhile gifts j to be systematically , distributed | among the ,needy homes. Starts Gifts Now In order to start the fund square ly no private canvass has been paid. No person has been offered the op portunity of “first to give" if he, or she. would give a big sum. This Is the first appeal. This week while the more fortunate are being- thank- J ful for their prosperity how many will start contributions to the fund 3 for those who have not? The Star hopes to publish a list of early givers in the Thanksgiving edition? Will you help* us realize that hope. Contributions may be left "With VVel- | fare Officer Smith at the court ? house, or in The Star office togeth er with the name of the giver, if it is desired. They Need It Down in a business building a busy comer of uptown Shelby there is a little automobile in a display window. Saturday a little girl, of about seven years, and , a little brother, not more than five, stood and peered with hungry eyes at the coveted prize. Finally they moved on down street, the little yellow looking back over his shoulder as he walked. Would you like to fulfill the longing in that youngster’s eyes? What could give you more pleasure Christmas mom? Somebody will have to play Santa to him. Nearly a year ago his San ta died. In the eight months since the father was left at the cemetery life in that home hasn’t been so wonderful. The mother finds it hard to bring in the necessities of life. The two tots Saturday jvere shiver ing in the cold. A couple of little coats and a couple pair of kiddie shoes would be a mighty fine pres - ent for those youngsters and a great aid to a mother whose heart is breaking along with her body as she sees the little toes stickina out in the chilly air. . '■> "i Many Such In spots here and there about Shelby are many such homes— many such scenes. Uptown here one seldom sees the little tragedies of life, and some of them are not so little. In issues to come The Star with the aid or the welfare officer. Red Cross workers, and members of the Woman's club, will cite actual in cidents of want and suffering about us. The best way to give is through the fund. Individual giving and dis tribution is all right, but on occa sions there are others who think C 6 the same families you may think of. That family may be remember ed twice while Just across the street another family will get nothing— not a breath of the Christmas sea son. Before The Star’s Christinas Stocking fund is distributed the welfare officer and his committee— to be announced later—will make a canvass of the entire section and there will be no doubling up. The fund will be spread Just as far as it will go—not to buy trinkets and playthings, but clothing, shoes, food and coal. - Can you enjoy your fine gifts and trinkets knowing that within a mile or so of your home actual necessi ties of life are missing. This is an early appeal, but it is hoped this year to raise the great est fund ever. Do not wait until Christmast week to give. Start it now. FRONT ... — ...... Mr. Paxton Elliott and Miss Cath erine Carpenter spent Sunday at Lake Lure.
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