8 PAGES TODAY vOL. XXXIV, No. 155 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, DEC. 28, 1927. Published Monday, We tnesdav, and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)-»2£(.t By carrier .per year (in advance) $3.03 Late News Two-thirty o'clock: Col. Chas. A. I indberfh hts jest arrive ! at Gau uraali, fcl» next cbectlv; frem Me' ico City, according to an announce ment received over the cot on at c Lintly hopp-i olf from Mexico C ly It! T.orninj at dawn. CU. Charles A. Lindbergh was bill ed to hop off early today from Mex ico City in hi* plane, the Spirit of bt. l.ou's, Jot Guatemala City and other Central American capl ais, it tcing an air jaunt of near 3,000 Wi'liam Edward.. Hickman will p)pok of their interest in com. > j development and de- lar td*d t ..of the three means of com non.cation—good roads, telephones tod rural mail service. the mail a. vice had kept abreast of the times and contributed its share tc the de velopment of the county. Mr. Cox always a Invial talker and amiable citizen urged the postal men to "know! your line” relating a number of side-splitting jokes to em phasise his point' V’.. Quinn Is U> continue as postmaster for anofher four years and Gorge Dover, spoak uig for the clerks and carriers, ex pressed a pleasure over t’da fact. Mr Edwards Asks Quest ,^11 On Cotton D. D. ®d#u I. a lamer whose le'ter to The Star » postmarked El lenboro, evideutly thinks Cleveland bounty is getting credit lor making cotton which she did not grow. Cot ten yields are taken from the sins and he wants to know how many bales Cleveland county ginned that acre grown in Rutherford. Burke, Catawba, Lincolnton and Gaston counties. This is a question which n» one is able to answer. While seme col on grown in adjoining counties is ihnned in Cleveland, many Clev eland, county bales are taken to gins in other counties and the govern ment takes it that one offsets the Other. Not an apciuenc over the week end. and it Christmas—was the re port today from the Shelby hospital. It was the first Christmas hi a Scod many years that several ac cident victims were not taken to the iiuxpital for treatment. There were several auto crashes about the city ond county during the holidays, but 1 me. so far as can be learned, re buked in serious injury. A negro man * as hurt in acqllision at the DeKalb and Warren street corner Saturday 'ught, but today it was impossible to o certain the extent of his injuries 156 People Visited By Charity Fund’s Santa More Than 100 Poor Children Hare Stockings Fried Due To Shelby's Generosity More than 109 Shelby children had it proven to them over the week end that there is a Santa Clans. Of course hundreds more in Shelby had a visit from the old fellow, but this (roup like ly would have had very little re minder of the season if Shelby had not been generous hearted, i County Welfare Officer J. B. Smith i announced yesterday that out of The ■ Star’s Christmas Charity fund 103 ! children in unfortunate families I useful gifts, 83 of these were white i and 13 colored In addition to these 53 grown-ups received gifts from the fund, 40 of the grown-ups were i white and 13 colored.. These gift* ranged from a Christ - i mu* L*ig co; ‘ainir.g needed articles to "" in fuel, clothes or shoes. uis list does not include several score who received Christmas bask ' t s with eats and candies from the i fund and from individual givers. A total oi $395.21 was spent from the fund to make it really Christmas for the poor Santa Goes Calling Saturday afternoon and evening : th“ Santa of the charity fund went calling. In this heme he left shoes arid clothing for the youngsters. *ood iu another, and medicine in still an i other. One little fellow who didn’t expect much from Santa got a new pair of shoes and other clothing and his mother received a sum of money ■ to he spent for medicine and food. A ’itile girl who just hoped for a dolly and entertained little chance of getting one burst out in tears when the biggest doll given to the fund was handed h*r The mother cf the little girl was given ar order on a local store which would assure *hat every child could be properly clothed 1 for the winter months. An aged ne gro man mumbled his thanks as he was given enough food and fuel to tide him over the rodgh spell. Never befere, he told his visitors in brok • en sentences, had he been so remem bered at Christmas. "It's a putty good • 1 "world atter all. sah.” he told them. Bo it was. The Christinas cheer of a helping hand in distress spread ' over the entire town. So far as is known no deserving and needy fam i ilies were overlooked. Twenty-six white families and eight colored fam ilies were cared for in all. Every type cf needed gift was *iven. while in some instances the children were tendered a few little p.aythings that to them embodied the Cliristmas' spjnt. Sunday morning raw little girls, some of whom had never had a real dollie before, prancing about show 1 ing their newfound treasure to ev i ery friend: several families who had i not enjoyed a full meal in months sat down to a warm breakfast in houses in which a cheerful fire was blazing again. Happy, go-lucky boys were able to chase out of door and play again without having their bodies and feet freezing in a few minutes, because they had new shoes and coats. It was a great Christmas for those who received—in fact., Welfare Offi cer Smith believes the unfortunate who come under his work never en joyed a better one in recent years. Quite a bit of the fund remains- -not so much, frankly—to spread the aid out over the winter months ahead. Waco Man Pinned Under Tree Limb i Big Tree Splits and Knocks Two I nccnscious, One Being Pin ned for Time Clyde Carpenter, young man of I the Waco section, had a rather nar j row escape from death last Sunday when he was pinned in a small | stream of water by a falling limb, i which knocked him and his brother J unconscious. Carpenter ana ms brother. John, were out in the woods Christmas day watching for some squirrels to jump from a large poplar tree that had been set on fire Saturday. The tree, which was an extra large one, meas uring 17 feet around the base, split in two sections about half way up. While the brothers w'ere standing below one of the sections split off and falling pinned the twTo men in the small stream of water. Both were unconscious for a time and then John came to and found that he was not fastened. The younger brother ran to Waco, about a mile away, secured aid and came back to extricate his brother, whose leg was pinned in the water with the limb It was stated Tuesday that no bones were broken in Carpenter's leg but that it was swollen and black from the weight of the tree. Had he been alone it is likely that it would have been fatal. Jail Net Crowded Frem Yuletide Joy She i f Hugh Login stated t» c’ay hil he hid on y j o t 1 v<: pii oners In the countv ja 1 this Christmas then in quite a num ler if years. Fe>err. 1 drunks , end other > were j.’iled over th: holidiy week-end, bat the nutnler n.-v | cr approached rc.o.J j I nj priiedr. One Hundred University Boys, Seme Iona;, Some Old, Have Get Together Meeting Gathered around a spacious ban- ! qutt table one hundred alumni and friends of the University of North Carolina enjoyed a big evening at the Cleveland Springs hotel last Fri day evening. December 23. At the appointed hour the large i number present entered the dining room with its beautiful decorations and took their places at the table. Hen O. Max Gardner aqted as toast ma ter for the occasion Alter a delicious repast Mr. Gard ner introduced the main speaker of the evening, R. B. House, executive secretary of the University. Mr. House recounted for the guests , present, many new side lights of tiie I university. He gave a brief descrip I ticn of the history of the school and I then told what the university was 1 doing to meet the needs of the state today. He pointed out in his speech that the older people as a whole have a wroqg conception of the young people of today. He de clared that they were as sincere end as thorough in their search for an education toaay as were the boys i of a generation or two ago. He stress fed the point that although the stu dents taken as a whole may not seem to be studying for the worth - 1 while »n life, the tndhrMus! ■ student was, and the 1 “•dividual tit j the university was the person the j school was most interested in He ! asked that the state have faith in the university and that at the pres ent rate of progress the university would fulfill the hopes and justify that faith. When Mr House finished his speech the toastmaster called upon i Joe Wright, a student now at the university, to give some facts con cerning student life at the school. Mr. Wright in a few brief remarks told of the life at Chapel Hill and th • activities that the students took part in. Judge E. Y. Webb was the next speaker on the program. Judge Webb reminisced on the athletics at the university. He pointed out how athletics was a vital part of the school curriculum, but at that, he said, that the university should not let athletics carry them away from the main purpose of college. When the talks were concluded Mr. Gardner dismissed the guests who later took part in a dance giver, by the Cleveland County club. The Carolina Bucaneers furnished mu sic for the banquet and later for the dance. CHRISTMAS FUND HKD BIG TO! Late last Friday and on Christ mas eve day The Star received quite a number of contributions to the charity fund that were not acknowl edged in Friday's paper. The fund | total with the final contributions I passed the $500 mark in cash, not including several hundred doiiars worth of merchandise. The contribu tions not acknow ledged were as fol lows : Previously acknowledged-$502.90 B. A. Lefler _.._...$2.50 J. H. Davis.-.$1.00 Margaret Louise Bolling-$1.00 R. M. Laughridge —- — -.$2.00 Sherill Bible class _-$5.00 Belwood children ... *-—15 Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Jarrett-$2.00 T. W. Tucker ..~$100 J. C. Whisnant .,_-.-$1 00 A salesman ..—$1.00 D. C. Webb ... .._. — --$2.00 A friend ... .... $100 Former Cleveland man ... ..-.$2.00 Total ... __ ....—$524.55 PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. F P. Patton spent Christmas in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. W. L.„ Sutherland spent the early part of the holidays visiting friends and relatives in Athens. Monroe and Bogard. Oh. Mr. E. G. Gaffney, of Davidson, this state, son of Mr J. F. Gaffney, of Warren street spent the Christ mas holidays with his parents here. Slain A kidnaper stole twelve-year-old Marian Parker (.above) ol I-os An geles, and after* receiving fl500 •ransom for her safe return deliv ered to her father the girl's muti lated body,” The crime has stirred the west more than any other niur jerkin recent years. cf Late Will R. Hoey S»c^' cutnbs on Christmas Morning. Two Danghers Sunn e On Christmas mo: rung while jcy pervaded ’’ie homes of the city, one home was made sad by a visit from the Death Angel which came and bore away the spirit of Mrs Aman da Price Hoey wife of the late vViil ft. Hoey, prominent Mason and busi ness man For several weeks Mrs. Hocv had been lingering in a serious condition with her daughters at her bedside, Mrs. Paul Chappe! and Miss Tensalora Hoey. the latter very sick herself, but doing more than her strength would permit to give her mother the best of attention in her last days. Mrs. Hoey was the daughter of Ezekiel Price of Cleveland county. She was in her sixties, a quiet home loving, home-making woman, living a sacrificial life for her family and its sacred altar. She was a devout Christian, a member of the Shelby Presbyterian church where the fu neral services were conducted Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock by her pastor. Rev. H. N. MeDiarmid. as sisted by Dr. Zeno Wall. Interment was in Sunset cemetery, beside her beloved husband who passed away May 12 of this year. At her request, members of the local Masonic lodge served as pall bearers. Mrs. Hoey is the last ct the Price family. Sur\ iving are two daughters. Miss Tensalora Hoey of Shelby, and Mrs. Paul Chappel of Yancey coun ty. One son. Price Hoey, after serv ing in the World war died here about six years ago. A beautiful tribute of flowers and a large crowd of friends, attested the high esteem in which Mrs. Hoey was held. ELIZABETH TIIE SECOND SMASHES INTO A POLE Shortly after neon today. Eliza beth II. the new Ford unde dem onstration here by th? Eskridge garage, came to grief out West Mar ion street near the residence of Cnarlie Roberts when it left the road at a high rate of speed, dsd ed into a te’egraph pole, broke the pcie and upset in a cotton pat h. Th car body was complsteJy w eric ed and it is miraculous that either of the three occupants. Hainan Eskridge. Shorty Long and Yatrs McBrayer escaped with their lues. Eskridge was at the whee1 giving a item mstration of speed when the brakes were applied too quickly and tlie car leit the road, str.king a telephone pole which upset the as*’ I ' iabeth. 'I he occupants were rustl ed to the hospital but found to hate only flesh wounds and brunet. The now wind shield, althcuyu troken into thousands of pieces, remained intact without shatterin', which no doubt saved the men from serious cuts. J SPIRITS IN CITY Coed ('liter Siml* 33 Ca.es Before Recorder Tuesday. More li lied Today 1 he holiday spirit along with holi day spirits gave Recorder John P. Mull quite a bit ol work when the county court QP’ned '>*"a»n Tuesday ollow .rig a vacation of two days. Twenty-five cises were on the docket Tuesday iiiounag and w.w court held sway in a solid grind un •til 2:30 in the afternoon and will attempt to clean up the remainder of the cases today Christmas booze along with some fireworks dcve’op ing from the shooting of firecrackers Christmas eve night contributed the major portion of the docket. Firrc-arker Rattle The fireworks program oi Christ mas eve night followed in the wake erf Mayor Dorsey s announcement that the ordinance against shooting firecrackers on the street would be enforced. Early in t^ie evening fire ctackers began to poplin the business section and officers were kept on the alert Later in the night when if is said officers interfered quite a number of youths gathered about tie city hall and police station, toss ing several firecrackers, it is said, uhder the feet of officers and into the hallway at the police station. The episode attracted quite a crowd and created some commotion A wa ter hose, it is said, was turned on the crowd. Several of the boys in ih pa y were told to appear in court day, but all did not shot- up Two were tried for shooting firecrackers, one being taxed with the casts an J the other was fined $10 and the costs, because the court thought that he deliverately threw a fire cracker at an officer Owing to the stir over the Fatur day night affair extra precautions will be made to enforce the fire cracker ban on the coming Saturday night. New Year's eve. it is under stood. About the town this week there has been considerable discuss ion and difference of opinion about the firecracker enforcement and the stfr Saturday night Pleads Own Case Among the features of the court Tuesday was the pleading of his own case by a defmdan* Cincinnati with Remus clearing himself of a murder pharge by acting as his own lawyer has not a thin* on Shelby. When Cliff Cai pen ter was called Tuesday on a cl arge of starting an ' assault with a deadly weapon and | a number of other charges arsing i around a brawl at the Poplar ' Springs Christmas tree Friday after : noon he announced that he had no i lawyer and would handle his rwn case. Calling near a score of wit nesses the defendant cross-examined the state's witnesses, conducted his own direct examination, and gener ally gave a good exhibition of his l legal talents. He was fined $10 and j costs for getting his shot-gui out of the car after he had had some trouble with several boys, one in particular about shooting a fire cracker. He was not found guilty on any of the other charges. Big Crowd Attends One of the largest crowds ever to attend the county court i*ckcd the court room Tuesday, mrtny coming to hear the firecracker fireworks aired, while others from the Popular Springs community were on hand for the Carpenter trial, not to men tion several score witnesses and in terested parties in the 23 other cases. I _ Fruit Plentiful Except Oranges Carolina Fruit and Produce Co. Had Plenty of Everythin* But Ban anas for Holidays Fruit Mas plentiful for the holi days. except bananas. This fruit of the tropics is alu-ays one Mhich old Santa uses in the children’s stockings and a Christinas stocking seems to lack something without one. But throughout this territory there were no ripe bunches. Deal ers had plenty in ripening rooms, but were unwilling to place them on the market. This was not only true of the Carolina, Fruit and Produce Co. but of practically all of the fruit dealers in the Piedmont Caro linas. The Carolina Fruit and Produce Co. which is the largest receiver of freight In Shelby, unloading approx imately 300 cars annually, received about 15 cars of Florida oranges and ten cars of apples during the month of December. Apples and oranges, grapes, tangerines, grape fruit, cel ery, lettuce, nuts and other forms of produce Mere in abundance, but ripe bananas Mere scarce. Since getting in a nea- location ahere several cold storage compart ments are available, the Carolina company has fruits of all kinds the | whole year round. Fresh green 'beans are already on the market. Figure in S-4 Disaster Two figures In 'he S-4 dwwT ter off Cape Cod are picture here. At the top Edward Ells berp, hero of S-61 rescue operations, is betas encased Keyes, district at torney. The confession so far as made public was as follows: Somethin, k* da months ago, about the time HJwuan was tired from the bank anc p; iced under probation for forgtns checks, he first tho ight of kidnamig as a means of making money to spend for a cohege education. He took an automobile from Dr Herbert L. Mants. in Kan sas City, at the point of a gun and eventually drove it to Los Angeles. He rented the apartment November 23 and m the course of a few weeks decided upon the daughter of Parker as his victim. On December 14 he followed Ma rian and her twin sister, Marjorie, to -school, and by telling school at tendants that her father , was in jured and was calling for Mat ian, tricked them into surrendering her. He told Marian she had been kid naped. Then he bound and gauged her. The girl begged mm not to leave her tied and he removed the bonds, but displayed a pistol to keep her quiet. He then went to Pasadena and sent the first telegram to her lather, saying Marian was rale and declaring that instructions would lollow later as to how she could be restored to her lamily. That nigh( he took his little cap tive to a motion picture theater in Los Angeles and then to his apart ment, They sat under a tree lor hall an hour and she then lollow ed him to his room as he had in structed her to do. Given the choice ol sleeping on the bed or a couch, she choose the latter. They awoke at 7 o'clock that morning and Hick man penned the first letter to her father. Instructing him to obtain $1,500. in $20 bills and await lurther instructions. Marian also wrote a note which was inclosed Hickman tied Marian to a cnair and went out and mailed the let ter. He returned and prepared breakfast, but the girl did not eat, Hickman then engaged her in con versation and told he. she might write another letter to her lather.. She was in tears, but stopped cry ing when allowed to write the sec ond note. The abductor then lelt the apart ment a second time and returned with newspapers telling the '-.tory ol the kidnaping. Together they read the papers. Reads Stories of Case That afternoon Hickman took the girl for a ride of 70 miles, but re turned about dark, bringing more newspapers filled with stories of the case. The confession then told how he had telephoned Parker and | arranged for a rendezvous, but how he had faded to keep it because the' police had been allowed to take a hand. Back in the apartment Ma rian sobbed because she could not return home that night. Again she slept on the couch and awakened the next morning—the day of her death—at 7:30 o’clock. ^■ Agahi Hickman teM her to -write a note to her father. This time she was allowed to use her own words except that she was instructed to make it appear she was being treat ed badly Hickman then promised to allow her to return home if her father did not pay the money de manded. He wrote another note— chiding the father for allowing the police to interfere and threatened death to Marion. Once more Marian was bound and a blindfold was added. As he left the apartment she pleaded with him to hurry back. The confession here declares Hick man then got the idea of killing Maiian. He had told the girl "too much” about himself—that he form erly was employed at the bank and that her father knew- him. He re alized if she returned alive, she would tell and he would be a mark ed man. How He Killed Her He took a dish towel and twisted it around her neck, “holding it tightly for two minutes before she became unconscious. With his pock et knife he dismembered the body. The arms and legs he wrapped in papers. He then combed the girl's hair, powdered her face and threaded wire through the eyelids in an effort to keep the eyes open. After finishing the gruesome work he wrote the final letter to Parker (giving him his "last chance" to have his daughter returned alive. That done, he went to a theater. ' When the hour for the rendez vous with Parker geared, he placed the torso in a suitcase and drove ! to the meeting place. Ascertaining there were no police near, he met I Parker, took the $1500 at the point of a gun and then dropped the body a few feet ahead of the father's automobile. Immediately be drove to a cafe and passed the first of the $30 for a dinner. He returned home and slept. The next morning the police swarm ed into his apartment, having traced a piece of toweling which had been put with the tody. Kc calmly watched them search the apartment for possible clues, and inquired if he could help them. Then he eq ually drolled out and went to a theaier. Afterward he went to Hol lywood Boulevard and took a big green automobile from its owner at pistol point. With the green automobile he headed for San Francisco. He re mained at a hotel there until the [ morning his name appeared as the 1 man wanted. Then he headed for the north, where the trail of $20 ! gold certificates finally led to his capture. Hickman declared an uncontrolla jble desire to kill had surged with i aim since childhood. On the day ■ of the killing, Marian became fret ful, he said, and he concluded that ; the time had come to put her to death. i * . cisis mi M PER CENT UP AT LOCAL OFFICE I _ ' i ! Fifty Thousand First Class Letter:. Handled in Five Day* Pre ceding Christmas Fifty thousand first class outgoing letters were handled through the Shelby post of flee in the six days from Montiay to Saturday, inclusive. It was the heaviest Christmas mail in the history of the local postoftice. The incoming mail was correspond ingly large and extra help had to be put on to handle the situation The delivery of parcels was facilitated to a great extent by the delivery to pa trons within the delivery district of all parcels that were too large to eo into boxes. This relived the conges tion at the windows and enabled the window clerks to give Quicker ser vice to others. A normal day Is foacu 2JP0 to SL OW) first class outgoing letters count ed by a meter on the cancelling ma chine. The meter on the machine registered 6,000 on Monday. 8,500 on Tuesday. 12.000 cn Wednesday, 12, 000 on Thursday, 7,000 on Friday and 4,000 on Saturday, showing that the height was reached the middle of the week with a considerable falling off as Christmas day approached. The “shop and mail early” appeal that has been made year after year has had an appreciable effect on the public and greatly facilitated the handling of mail. Instead of all mail being dumped on the two days previous to Christmas, the heavy mailing begins a week in advance and enables the clerks to give much better service. On Sunday the clerks were on duty looking for a heavy mail that would require them until noon to wprk, but all was cleared by 10 o'clock and most of the force was dismissed to spend the remainder of the day with their families. If Register Andy Newton m stages \ to sell marriage license to two more couples this week he will have at- * taint'd his ambition of seeing one couple married each day of Decem ber. Up until Tuesday afternoon 39 couples had secured marriage li cense during the month of Nove?rj— * ber. License were Issued last Friday and Saturday to the following cou ples: Samuel J. Crawford and Ethel May Alexander, both of Clove- t land county; Winslow Paul Howell, of Cleveland, and Julia Wood Rous-, of Lenoir; Dewitt Crawford Alice O. Wilson, both Amos Wortman and Ola of Cleveland; Gold Glenn Cleveland, and coin county. countr, compel, nQ has. ThtfcJe been fcnov era] Motort ing a car ti. petition. \ Just what U will not be knc »ry l. Each nevM** let comes out witl* proved car. This yea. io oe "bigger and bet* wheel brakes, larger speed, less gasoline cons *. many other features wh »d be announced until the c. '« for public inspection. It is understood that the .* Chevrolet Co., has a car loa to be unloaded this we^k and on display wnen tne> and prices are announced General Motors, makers Chevrolet for “economical portation has been selling 000 to 115,000 a month for six months or longer, new record in the sale of