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8 PAGES TODAY ggLl—Jiu ,1L. 1 "iJ1 By mall, per year (in adva=at)__$t£« By carrier, per year (in advance} $3.Ct late News »1ie 70th congress convened today i Washington with several clashes Bins «»P in the senate over the at of one or two senators. Con ,man Bulwinkle, representative Pthis district, has been in Wash 0i, for several days. •he cost of an automobile license . thP new model Ford wUl be the e as for the old, according to an ouncement from the state bu ll in reply to numerous queries jived about the price. Thf i*0 county hoards, commls ners and educational heads, are ding their usual monthly mcet , here today with very little of Jit importance being transacted l the morning. ! First Death Sentence of Winter. Negro KUied Hoke County World War Hero. (By international News Service.) Slate Prison, Raleigh,—December month of Christmas, will be irrcd by an electrocution in North clina. the first of the winter. Hector Graham, giant Hoke coun I negro, is scheduled to be the 90th ctim of the state’s electric chair. He is under sentence to die on De nber 9 for the murder of Captain aul Graham, Hoke county world Fare hero. Denied a new trial by the State prime court, and refused a scc nd reprieve by Governor McLean week, the negro received the Inews that he must die with bitter s. Pardon Commissioner Edwin dges broke the news to the doom I black in his cell along death row. “Theie's no chance for a nigger.’’ Sraham said bitterly. “If it’d been a bite man they wouldn't have done thing to him. If it’d been a white |nan killed a nigger—” Graham at his trial pleaded ea |tr*me provocation. Graham will be one of the largest Ivictlms to be claimed by the electric I chair in North Carolina. He tips the I Kales at around 200 pounds. Mrs. Turner Age 77 Passes At Lawndale Was Victim of Pneumonia. Funeral Sunday at Kistlen Meth odist Church. Mrs. Mary Jane Turner.' aged 77, passed away at her home in Lawn dale Saturday morning December 3. Mrs Turner was seised with pneu monia several weeks ago. but on ac count of her advanced age, she was net able to withstand the malady. 1 Mary Jane Willis was born Jan uary 12th 1850. She had been a mem ter cf the Methodist church since childhood and had lived a devoted Christian life. At the age of 44 years she was married to A. C. Turner. They have always made their home to Lawndale and she was cherished by hundreds of friends throughout the county. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at Kistlers Methodist Pro testant church, of which her hus band was a member. Rev. J. D. Mor hs conducting the funeral services. fUrial was in Lucas cemetery, an old family plot near the church. The deceased was survived by her husband and one sister, Mrs. Mar tha Jarrett of Shelby. Beautiful flor al tributes reflected the love of her esteemed friends. MOVE to reorganize mountain klan launched Asheville. — Approximately 35 *tstern North Carolina men attend ** a meeting held at Klansmcn’s hall recently in an effort to reor ganize Asheville Kna No. 151.. Amos C. Duncan, imperial repre sentative of the realm of North Car and Klansman M. S. Belser, of | we state office, were present. No •tails as to the success of the re •Kanization program were made public. 8NYOER-GRAY APPEAL TO Bt HEARD WEEK OF DEC. 26 A.’bany, N. Y.—Hearing of a joint *PP« l for executive clemency for Huth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, eonvicted of the murder of Mrs. wyder’s husband, Albert, will take Place probably some time during «ie «eek of December 26, Governor ®nuth announced today. Sh v Christmas Sea h Tuberculosis Charity Pleas Increase As Rough Weather Strikes Here Many Homes Without Fuel and Nu merous Children Shiver for Lack of Clothing. Two days of steady rain and an increasing cold brought many rings of the telephone in the office of the county welfare worker—“Papa’s gone, mama’s sick, and we haven’t any coal.” That’ the type of plea J. B. Smith hears as he tries to ans wer the calls of unfortunate Shelby people. During the day you will find brok en women climbing the steps to the welfare officer asking for “Just a little help until the old man gets straightened up a bit. The children haven’t any shoes and it’s getting cold. The baby is threatened wi,th pneumonia now.” How would you feel if those re quests were directed to you and funds on hand were not equal to lending aid to every appeal? Did you know that there were such condi tions here in Shelby—the trading center o£ a six million dollar cotton county? Counting on Fund. Welfare Officer Smith is counting heavily on The Star’s Christmas fund. If there is ever a season of the year when he would like to lend a hand to all worthy calls it is the Christmas season, the time of the year when others are glad as *hey gather in family circles, banquet and live life at its best. Last year the Christmas charity fund sent many a package of clothing to unfortun ate children, numerous tons of coal to empty coal bins, and food sup plies galore to pantry that had been empty for weeks. Such was the fund that it lasted almost through the winter months and took care of the urgent appeals for several weeks. This year it is up to you again. The disagreeably snap last week added great suffering to those al ready pinched with poverty. Slowly the Christmas fund is growing, but Christmas day is approaching more rapidly than the fund grows. Why not do without a trinket for your self and place the money in the i fund where it will keep some tot ; from having pneumonia and alye.. [ many more the first real meal in ; weeks? You'd enjoy it more than the I trinkets. Atta Boy! Yesterday the fund was increas jed by a dollar—by several dollars ' for that matter, but this was a oar 'ticular dollar. Know how boys begin saving their money weeks before Christmas so 4hat they might buy fireworks, can dies, balloons, and other favorite playthings? To a boy who is “sav ing up for Christmas” a dollar means considerable. Yesterday one of these boys parted with his dollar. He may have to do without a few trinkets and he may not get to shoot ia single firecracker, but when he jeame in and parted with the dollar and the pleasure it meant to him I there was no regret written on his boyish face, but a smile instead. He had an inkling as to what his dollar would do and was glad to give it a chance. A year or so ago this boy was a Star carrier—and he still works for his money as he did that dollar—and while delivering his pa pers up one street and down another he saw many children he pitied. A newspaper boy has to make his rounds regardless of weather, and on snowy evenings no doubt he saw boys of his own age plunging about in the snow with shoes which had holes in the soles, with coats thread ' bare and elbows sticking out. No telling what all that former news boys remembered. He had very little to say except "Here’s a dollar for that fund. Don’t tell ’em my name. Just put it down ’contributor’ or something like that,” and out he went. That youngster will have a Dig ger Christmas than if he had anoth er dollar to spend. Perhaps he will work a little harder and a little long er now and save another extra dol lar to take its place. Hope he does. By the way, there are scores of people about Shelby who have al most as many dollars, and maybe 3e, as that big-hearted boy has s on his head. Wonder if they too realize there are streets in Shel by where there is no shrubbery on the yard, no regular mowing of the lawns, no winter’s supply of coal in the basement. Ask one of the doc tors—one of those fellows who ply about at all hours of the night and in all kinds of weather and often get nothing for it except a grateful look from weak eyes that again see a ray of hope. They’ll tell you that a Christmas fund properly distri buted would mean much to Shelby. Many times they leave a prescrip tion in a home and urge that tne medicine be purchased and used, and a great many times the pre scription is never filled because there is no money to pay the bill. In your shopping rush don’t :or get that there are those who would be glad to have that which you pass by. Stick your bit of filling in San ta’s stocking today. SANTA’S STOCKING Contributors to date are: G. C. Smith ....$1.00 Albert Suttle.._..$1.00 J. C. Hyder ...—$1.50 Snowflake Laundry .$5.00 A friend ....'♦1.00 Edwin Ford . .$1.00 Albert Suttle.$1.00 A contributof..*_,$1.00 A bit o’ help. $1.00 R. T. LeGrand ..$10.00 Cleveland Star.....$10.00 Miss Myrtle Norman..$1.00 T. C. Hitchcock .. $5.00 From a lady ..._ $1.00 J. D. Lineberger..$5 Add your name to the next list. “For inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of one of these, yon have done it unto me.) Complete No. 18 To Cleveland Line Morganton—No. 1$, the road between Morganton and Shelby, is now hard-surfaced from Mor ganton to the Cleveland county line, the work Just recently com pleted. The construction is wa ter-bound macadam, gravel and tar, and though it leads, for the most part, through a mountain ous section, a very good grade was obtained. The section of road between Morganton and the State hospital was opened last week. WESe THEATRE iN TRADE LAST WEEK Claude Webb Sells Show House to Brother J. E. Webb. New Owner In First of the Year . Formal announcement was rnAde | Saturday to The Star by Claude Webb, of the sale of the Webb «e. of whici^JieJs the prqprie hls brother. X E. Webb. The deal was the result of nego tiations extending over two or three weeks. Th* new owner will take charge the first of the year, at the expira tion of the lease on the building held by Claude Webb. The latter will re tire. temporarily at least, from ac tive participation in the theatre business in Shelby. He made it known that he quits ' the business, which he has found lucrative, with reluctance. He has been proprietor of the theatre for a period of about three years. He and his brother, the new own er, opened the theatre as a partner ship. following the purchase by J. E. Webb of the Methodist church property, which was remodeled for the cinema. The joint ownership continued for six months, when J. E. Webb retired, and subsequently opened a theatre in Kings Moun tain. This he operated a year, .eas ing his holdings this fall and return ing to Shelby. The new proprietor has stated in formally his Intention of remodeling the building and enlarging the seat ing capacity. Whether it is his in tention to do this at once, could not be learned. Both men afe well-known business figures in Shelby. Each has been successful in numbers of enterprises. During the three years of his pro prietorship of The Webb, Mr. Webb has made of it one of the most pop ular and attractive show houses in the western part of the state, bring ihg the business up to high earning power. CLAIMS HE CAN SEE THROUGH THE BODY A French Doctor, Andre Tours, claims to have discovered a means of making the human body trans parent, so that all the organs can be seen working as if through glass. He claims that his discovery will; revolutionize surgery and medicine. Tremendous interest has ocen aroused throughout France, and Dr. Tours has been invited 10 go to the United States. He' has determined, however, to give the medical men of his owq country the first data about his discovery and afterwards to make it public to the world. Shelby Boys Make All-State Eleven On another page of today’s paper is a news dispatch from Chapel Hill stating that two Shelby High foot ball players were named on the of ficial All-State high school eleven picked by Luther Byrd. The two Shelby stars are Laymon Beam and Joe Singleton. “Milky’’ Gold, anoth er Shelby player, is named on the second team, giving Shelby three in all and ranking with any school in the state, v In Hero’s Honor Madame Nunges.nr, bvr of *h«j famous war ace who lost hit -life last spring in an attempt to fly from I’aris to New York. Is shown here with a check for 13”. 345 francs. It is port of her share in the American fund raised for the families of Nungesser and tis companion, Coll CAR HITS TRAIN Train Gets Bumped for a Change And Lattimore Youth is in Hospital With Hurts. The order of things was some what reversed here Saturday night when an automobile took . a smash at a locomotive on the West Warren street railroad crossing just out of the Shelby business section. As usual, though, no matter which is the aggressor, the automobile came out second best. As the result of the crash Alfred Waters, 18-year-old Lattimore youth, is in the Shelby hospital suf fering with lacerations about the forehead and eyes and Bfuises about the chest and thigh. Two other boys, Cosby and Joi\ps, also of the Latti more community, were riding with Waters but receiving only bruises in the collision did not go to the hos pital for treatment. Rain Was Referee. According to reports of the inci dent the touring car was moving along West Warrcnt just as the ‘up Southern” was leaving the station around 8 o'clock. Due perhaps to the driving rain and wind the driver ap parently did not see that the train was about and bis car struck the locomotiv^amidship, as it is usually said when things are reversed and the locomotive hits the car. A hosiptal report today stated that Waters apparently had suffered no very serious injuries and that his condition was not regarded as criti cal. Shelby Girls Win Fine Cage Contest The basket ball season at the high school got off to a propitious start here Friday night, when the girl’s team, opposing the sextet from Bessemer City, pat over what was described as the best game of their caree. The contest was staged in the "tin .can” and despite the rainy night drew a crowd. The locals came up from behind to win by a score of 32 to 21. At the close of the first half the Shelby girls were in the hole to the tune of ten to three. As play in the sec ond half progressed they strength ened, and before the last quarter broke, were in the lead. It was a game that kept the spectators on their toes, and kept the “tin can” in an uproar of whoops and cheers. Next Friday night the locals travel to Forest City with Coach Tollison to take one of the strongest teams in Western Carolina. The follow ing Shelby girls participated in the Friday night fracas: Sarah Rich burg, Elsie Oidney, Evelyn Beattie, Myrtle Richards, Louise Botts, Blanche Eaker. Junie Sparks, Dor othy Ellis, Ruth Waldrop, Helen James. Aged Woman Doing “Fairly* Well ” Said Mrs. Laura Prince, 79-year-old South Carolina woman, whose hip was broken in an auto collision near Shelby a week ago this evening, was reported as doing “fairly well” at the Shelby hospital today. Mrs. Prince with other relatives and riding with a son from Hender sonville was en route to the so-called “faith healer" in Lincoln county when the crash took place on Brushy Creek bridge. MOVEMENT STARTS TO MAKE GORTON 10. FAIR MANAGER Count]' Fair Manager Considered Best Equipped Mato In State For State Fair Secretary A North Carolina man for a North i Carolina job is the slogan of friends here a ho are boosting Dr. J. Sib ley Dorton for the position of sec retary and general manager of the next State Fair at Releigh. The movement became known here over the {reek-end when it was learned that the new board of directors of the $tate Fair would meet soon and name a secretary. Dr. Dorton has been secretary and manager of the Cleveland County ,F|ir, one of the south’s leading fa|rs. since its organization and in tbjp Piedmont and Western Carolinas is, considered one of the best fair organizers and managers in the two si gtes. j Starting with a subscribed stock of $17,000 Dorton has taken In ai ound $50,000 at the fair gates since tt e fair was first opened. At pres ei t Cleveland county has the best ei uipped fair grounds and build ii gs in the state, including one of tl it favorite half mile race tracks in ti e two states. Each year attractions at the fair h re proved superior to any ever saown at county fairs In the section and attendance records have each year smashed by thousands the average attendance record of coun ty fairs. Kown as the “spark plug" of what showmen call the "best fair in the South” Dorton is one of the most capable and hardest work ers ever seen In this section and those who know his enviable record with the county fair are sure he would put the State fair back on its feet and also on the map. Basketball Quint Working Hard Now Coaches Have Four Teams Strug gling With Each Other (or Lead Honors. Game Friday Shelby High school will like ly nave the best basketball quint in its history this year. Casey Morris in addition to a wealth of material has Tilden Falls directing the training of the boys and Coach Falls is an experienced cage in structor and was very successful at Lattimore. Competition for the varsity quint has reached a heat never attained in any other sport here. The two coaches have four full teams with numerous substitutes and each day all four quints scrimmage with each other. At present, it is said, there is very little difference between the two first teams and not much more between the two others. As it is no one on the first quint is sure of a berth and with every player on three other teams fighting desper ately to land a place on the varsity a great first-string quintet should result. In McSwain, Gold, Beam and Wall the Shelby coaches have four of the speediest and best floor per formers in western high schools with a number of other likely stars. The first game, it is understood, is billed for Friday night in the “tin can” with Caroleen. furnishing the opposition. A good crowd of fans wvll be on hand to see the debut of the new quint, which is being talk ed so much. Contagious Disease ' Light Over Country Contagious disease is far from rampant in Cleveland county now, according to Dr. D. P. Moore, county health officer. So far as can be learned no small pox has been reported to the county physician in some time. There are some cases of diphtheria and a scattered run of light scarlet fever cases,, it is said. An epidemic of colds and influenza attacks following the recent cold spell is likely, physicians say. M. M.B'lELDS HAS SEVERE STROKE Out of a clear sky this morning, Mr. M. M. O'Shields, one of Shelby's most popular residents, was stricken with paralysis. So sudden was the attack that his family was rendered prostrate by the physician's verdict. The malady attacked Mr. O’Shields on the right side. His con dition was described as very serious. In good health up to this morn ing, he attended church yesterday. The news of his collapse was the more surprising to his friends be cause of his previous robust physical condition. The O'Shields family has lived in Shelby, on West Warren street, for seven or eight years, Mr. O’Shields himself being a traveling salesman. The Remuses—in the Old Days Thf trial of Georg* Remus former Cincinnati bootleg king for thu murder ot hit wife. Imogene. hoe been one of the most sensational legal battles in Ohio criminal history The Remus family Is pictured here as It was in the height of Remus prosperity Mrs. Remus has her arm about her husband Behind her le her brother Georre Brown Id from of Remus aits Ruth Remus stepdaughter who was with bei mother when abe was killed Carolina’s Week-End Toll Two Men Freeze To Death In Cold Snap. One Drowns Trying To Escape Officer. Other Autoj Victims. A severe cold snap and the usual auto accidents extract ed a toll of four lives in North Carolina over the week-end. A Durham insurance man was frozen in an icy stream, and a negro in Robeson eounty was frozen to death. An auto crash on a sleet covered road resulted in one death near Statesville, while a youth trying to escape from officers near Asheville was drownqd in the French Broad river. Drowns in Crtelt. Durham, Dec. 4—Submerged be neath the water of a little creek with only his head above the surface the body of W. J. Scott, insurance agent of this city, was found this afternoon on the lower end of South street. Some time during the early part Of lqst night while trying to make his way to the city, he stumbled into water and was frozen to death. With the discovery of the body, hidden from sight by the wa ter, the sleet and snow which cov ered him causing members of the police department to search twice before it was found. Weather Victim. Wilmington. Dec. 4.—At least one death in eastern North Carolina has been attributed to the severe cold weather last night. In Robeson county, a negro, Michael S. Carr, 45, was found dead this morning and Coroner D. W. B.iggs, after examin ing the body reported that an in quest would not be necessary as it was evident the deceased died of natural causes, giving “freezing to death" as his personal belief as to the cause. Escapes to Drown. Asheville, Dec. 4.—Hotly pursued along the Marshall-Asheville high way that follows the banks of thp French Broad river, two young men sought to elude members of the Madison county sheriff’s department by stopping their car suddenly and leaping out. One of the fugitives landed against the bank and escaped up the mountain, but the other took ! to the French Broad river, swollen by nearly a week of constant rains. His body was recovered a short time later. The man who lost his life is believed to have been J. L Davis, of Asheville, although this identifica tion has not been verified as yet, by the officers here who are helping in the case. Eighteen gallons of liquor was found in the car, said to have been a stolen machine. Austin Fatally Hurt. Statesville, Dec. 4.—In an automo bile crash occuring this afternoon about four o’clock on the Charlotte highway, two miles south of States ville, one man was almost instantly killed and two men are in the, Davis hospital here severely injured. Paul Waden, Statesville traveling sales man. was coming north in a Chrys ler roadster, and Mack Austin and his brother, Roy Austin, of States ville, were going south in a Ford j touring car. The two cars ran to gether on a curve on the hard sur faced road, which was covered with melting snow. A few minutes later H. W. Watkins a passenger on a southbound bus, picked up the three injured men and brought them oack to Statesville on first car coming this way. Roy Austin died before reaching the hospital. Paul Walden was found to have suffered concus sion of the brain, remaining in a semi-conscious state tonight and his condition regarded as grave. Mack Austin has a fractured lower Jaw and other severe Injuries. Strawberry Sale From Winter Crop Rose Hill.—For the first time in a quarter of a century straw berries are being shipped from this point In winter. For sev eral days past a few quarts havg been moved daily, but last Wednesday a whole crqte grown by Martin Carter was sold on the local market. It brought $15. The berries were all grown in open fields without any protec tion from cold. They are of ex cellent flavor and much larger than those grown in season. [IDlNlfi BEATEN, BOBBED Robbers Set Fire to Store and Mer chant Barely Escaped With His Life. Lincolnton, Dec. 4.—J. M. Smith, merchant and chief of the fire de partment, was clubbed, choked and robbed and his store set afire Sat urday morning at 6 o’clock. He heard a peculiar noise ip the back of the store. As he Started to investi gate the noise, someone pounced upon him with a club knocking him to the floor and choking him. Later Mr. Smith became conscious of smoke and fumes, crawling to the front do6r on hands and knees he cried for help. The fire department extinguished ,the flames and car ried Mr. Smith to his home where medical attention was given. Mr. Smith thinks that as soon as he was clubbed, the cash drawer was robbed and as the party es caped through a rear window where bars had been- pushed off, they turned the kerosene tank over and set fire to the building. About two weeks ago the store was robbed, the thief gaining entrance to the store in the same gnanner as was done in this case, which cir cumstances lead many to believe that the same party or parties com mitted both crimes. S5TK r Twice as Mach Rain Friday os Dar in* the Entire Month of No vember. Sleet and Cold. The rain and sleet storm that struck this section Thursday night and held sway until Sun day brought the heaviest rain fall in recent months. On Friday alone more than twice at much rain fell as during the entire month of November. The rain fall Saturday also surpassed the rainfall of the entire preceding month. The total rainfall of the cold, rainy period was 5.49 Inches, accord ing to a report made today by Post master J. H. Quinn at the Federal building, where a check is kept on the rainfall for the government. Friday, including Thursday night, saw the heaviest rainfall. The rainfall Is checked here every evening at 6 o’clock and by this plan the rain of that night figures in the rainfall of the following flay. ! The first four days of December saw four times as much rain here as in November with several tubs to spare. The rainfall up until Sunday at 6 in the evening was as follows: December 1—.36 inches; December 2—2.75 inches; December 3—1.80 inches; December 4— 65 inches. That Saturday Night. The rain that started falling here Thursday continued through Thurs day night, and Friday with the tem perature dropping Saturday and by Saturday night the weather was such that the night was termed ’one of the worst ever experienced.” A driving rain, a cold wind from the north and later sleet, made It al most impossible to travel and the streets were deserted except for those who had to travel. Snow In Section. A heavy sleet covered the ground Sunday morning and snow was re ported in nearby sections, there be ing considerable snow at Kings Mountain, Blacksburg arid Spartan burg, S. C.. according to reports. ‘ During the day Sunday the tem perature eased up noticeably and the wind shifted from the north to the south. Monday started off fair, although somewhat oold, and the weather man promises fair weath er for Tuesday with very little change in the temperature. Gets One in Arm and Chest and Shoots Through Trouser Leg of Other A bit of gunplay at or near the road camp on Highway 18 in the Fallston section yesterday gave of ficers some trouble Sunday. As the result of having an active trigger finger while alleged to be under the influence of liquor, Boney Perkins, a negro man, is being held in the county Jail awaiting a hearing on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Reports here have it that Per kins "plugged" Charlie Fishback, an other negro man, in the left arm and the bullet kept going and pen etrated Fishback’s chest, the ribs halting its journey. Another negro, whose name was not learned, has a bullet hole through one of his trous er legs as the result of the same trig ger finger. At the hospital today it was stated that Fishback was not in a critical condition because the ribs halted the bullet before it entered the chest proper. Perkins was scheduled for a hearing today on the drunk charge with the shooting case to come up when more was known of Fishback's wounds. COTTON MARKET, (By Jno. F. Clark * Co) cotton was quoted at noon today on New York exchange: December 19.20; January 10.20; March 19.42; Saturday's close De cember 19.54; January 19.50; March 19.70. > New York. Dec. 5.—London cable says Manchester reports are that sit uation in cloth market is more iff hopeful with inquiry broadening, al though many bids are too low. Worth street reports cloth market closed the week with a better tone, a number of mills held quotations firmer. Moderate business Saturday. The week was featured by a number ot confidential sales, a few of them in carload proportions. Forecast fair. Look for rather nar row trading market awaiting gov ernment report Thursday.
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