VOL. XXXV, No. 137 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 1928. THE CLEVELAND STAR 12 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year lin advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year ~ States Bapt'st Will Meet In Shelby For 1929 Session Dr. Wall And Baptist Leaders Land Slate Convention For Next Year. Tile North Carolina Baptist con i volition will meet in Shelby in 1929, ' it was decided at Wednesday's ses sion of the convention held at High ; Point this year. Fifteen years ago the State Bap tists met in Shelbv and next year after an absence of 16 years the ccnventH5h will return to the center of the Baptist stronghold in Western North Carolina. Or. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church here; Rev. John W. Suttle, moderator of the Kings Mountaain association, and other Baptist pastors ami leading laymen of the section journeyed to the High Point convention with the announced Intention of bringing the convention here next year, and on the floor of the convention they found their invitation accepted. The big new plant of the First Baptist church here will be com pleted by that time, and since Shel by as well as Cleveland county has a large number of Baptists, being one of the strongest, if hot the strongest Baptist counties in the South, the convention ht-re next year should be a marked success. Perllmvnary plans and arrange ments for the entertainment of the convention will be started at an early date. On Committees. At the session ot the convention yesterday Rev. John W. Suttle, of Dr. Zeno Wall. First Baptist pastor, had his Invitation for the North Carolina Baptist convention to meet here next year accepted at the High Point session this week. Shelby, was named one of the vice presidents under the new president, Rev. J. Clyde Turner. Dr. Zeno Wall was placed on the order of business committee; O. Max Gard ner on the centennial convention committee, and Mr. H. B. Eascm on the pastors' conference arrange ment. Some Comedy Seen In Campaign Just Over The Demoeratic Payroll, And Sen ator Norris And The Rrpnblieans. Washington. -Xn politics, too, ft is sometimes hard to determine where patho^ le&vfg Qft and com edy begins. Partly, of course, be cause what is gay, high comedy for some of the boys and girls is often stark, dark tragedy for the rest. While the antics of Dr. Hubert Work, early convinced some of us that the prize for the funniest | costume must go to the Hoover i organization, it has to be admitted that Jake Ra&kob and ids boys finally made the decision a hard one for the judges. The crowd in the General Motors building may not have seen anything very funny about it. but one is think ing of the finance question. In tlic first place, when some of | the Fat Boys, led by Uncle Jake ■ and Pierre du Pont, leaped into ! the Smith camp it was taken for j granted that the party, for the I first time since the good old Pro I tozolc Age, would have some money I for operating expenses. Chairman Jake beamingly admitted as much, publicly. The inevitable happened. The t long-starved boys cut in the statea | began to make prodigious demands: i in some instances they talked so fast and presuasively that large wads were shipped into the mest rock ribbed Republican states. Meanwhile the rank and file of Democracy was so convinced that du Pont., Raskob, Bill Kenney and n few more were eager to pay all the bills that it went out and spent its contribution money for gewgaws and gumdrops. Not quite too late, Colonel Leham rushed I to the microphone to explain that | this was all a mistake; the party i needed donations as never before i And for the next week money be j gan to come in. J The Chairman Jake announced, . again publicly, that the response had been very generous—and the money stopped. The result was that im mediately before Smith’s grand fi nale speeches, at Brooklyn and Madison Square Garden, it was necessary first for Treasurer Ger eftf atftj then Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson to chill the radio audiences with frantic appeals for help to meet the deficit. This may have had no bad effect, but it certainly was awkward. There’s rare humor in the story Of how the G. O. ?. roped and tied Senator George Norris. As a Re publican leader explained to your correspondent early in October: “We got George tied ;o he can't move hand or foot. We nominated his campaign manager and close life long friend for attorney general in Nebraska and now he just can’t come out against Hoover. Haw : haw-haw!” The boss Republicans, for all their sad experience with him, simp ly didn’t know George. As soon as he had finished his campaign for other progressive senators. Repub lican and Democratic, George came smack out for Smith. Standpat Republicans can't understand it yet. Hobces Get Thirty [ Days On Rock Pile The two white hoboes caught sleeping in box cars here last night by city patrolmen were sentenced to 30 days each on the chain gang in pountv court this morning. One defendant gave his name ns Henry Smith and the Other Williams Wat ers. Smith officers testified had an open razor beside him when found in the box car. Compromise l)og Case. In the 'possum dog case m which two Lincoln county men were charg ed witli taking two 'possum dogs be longing to Willis AlcMuny the case was compromised by the plaintiff and the defendants. j CoolfJgs Gwen Law Degree By Washington.—An honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred up | on President Coolidge last Wednes ! clay by Catholic University of | America, when he attended the in I auguraticn of Monsignor James H, Ryan as the new rector of the in stitution. The degree was conferred upon the chief executive by Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, counselor of the highest Catholic prelates in America. Cardinals O'Connell ol Boston, Dougherty of Philadelphia, and Hayes of New York, and Monsignor Ftunasoni-Bictidi. apostolic delegate to the United Stales. wearing the full regalia of their position- greet ed Mr, and Mrs. Coolidge at the tniveisify hall and accompanied **• ffn in 1 ’ ■ o • - t n ! p'"*f form where the ccremoniei took place. • Numerous members of the cabi net a.ncl cf the diplomatic corps, in addition to a large number of bish ops and university professors, also were in attendance on the platform. The end of the large hall was d-aped with American flaps on a background of yellow and white stripes, the papal colors. Cardinal O'Connell delivered a speech .of greeting to President Coolidge preceding the (uessmta ucn ci' the degree, declaring lira'. Catholic education had Men been miiiinderioid, that tip 'student of a Catholic edy:: tion had often been; quire ideas srbse:jive oi American! institutions or inimical to public •dor I Chief Richards To Enter Hospital. Will Use Plain Clothes Men. Shelby's police force has been strengthened to combat the recent crime wave which has been hover ing over the city. Yesterday two new. members were added to the police force, as plain clothes men. The two new officers are Ed W. Dixon, former deputy sheriff and superior court otficer for TO years; and C. H. Simpson, of east Shelby, who po liced in the army lor eight years. Policeman Dixon started upon his duties yesterday at noon and his hours on duty each day will be from noon until midnight. Policeman Simpson started on his beat yester day evening at 7 o'clock and his regular hours will be from 7 in the evening until 7 in the morning. Richards To Hospital. When the two new officers were added to the force and Chief A. L. Richards was seen in civilian clothes a report originated that Chief Richards had left the force. This, however, was denied by Mayor W. N. Dorsey in an interview with The Star. “Chief Richards, the mayor said, “is going to enter a hospital, likely at Asheville or Baltimore, for treatment for the kidney trouble which has been bothering him. He may be away a week or two, but neither of the new officers are taking his place.’’ Dixon Is Temporary. It is not likely that Mr. Dixon, who is of the Belwood section of the -county but plans to move his family here in two or three weeks, wiy remain permanently on the city police force, as it is generally understood that next spring he will likely be appointed by the new sheriff, Irvin Allen, as a deputy to work out oftShelby. This was partly confirmed yesterday by Mr. Dixcn, who is to remain with the city force until about April. While Chief Richards is under going treatment Mayor Dorsey states that Fire Chief Roach, who is assistant polico chief, will have supervision over the police force from headquarters. “We’re going to stop this robbery business one way or the other,” the mayor added. “If the present force, with the new men on; does not do it, then Mr. Culbreth, city clerk. Mr. Gordon, the electrical head, and myself will turn into policemen and aid them at night.” Simpson, the other new officer, came to the city force with good recommendations. Mayor Dorsey stated, being highly recommended by Messrs. R. T. LeGrand and John McClurd. of the Shelby Mills, where he has been employed, and by other citizens. The four other policemen on the force Will continue their usual beats and hours, it was said. Local Youth Hears From Isolated Man In Eskimo Regions Last January, Lloyd Mauney young Shelby man, noticed an ap peal in a newspaper from a white man in the Far North who wanted to correspond with some one. At that time young Mauney wrote him. and just a few weeks back the re ply came from D. M. Alpine, the man he had writen, at Fort Nor man, Alpine stated that Jvfauney's letter reached him in the iirst boat to come up in July to Fort Nor man, N. W. T. The man in the icy wastes of the extreme north, stated that his real contact with the outside world came through a radio, he having the first one beyond the McKenzie pass, add ing that he was purchasing a new nine tube set. Oil had been recently discovered there but was of little value as no railway connections could be made to haul it away. Dur ing the early summer, he wiote, the “flu" struck that country and the Indians and Eskimos died by the hundreds. Alpine served in the Royal Can adian Mounted end so liked the o t'Mt he remained aft er his time with the Canadian po~ ... . r was up. I’rrsbyterian Church. The circles of the Woman's aux iliary will meet as follows: Circle No. 1 will meet with Mrs D. B. Kuilck N. Morgan street, Monday at 3:30. Circle No. 2 will, unit w tit Mrs H. E. Kendall. N. LaFayette hi , Monday at 3:30 o'clock. Circle No. 3 w ill meet with Mbs Wm. McCord, W Marion street Monday at 3:30 o'clock, y Mary’s Latest Here .-* me last pr.otograpu or Mary Pick ford saying "It” with (lower:.:. The latter, however, are merely incidental. Mary and her husband. Douglas Fairbanks, were recent luncheon guests of Presi dent Coolidge. DORSEY PUSHING LI OBSERVANCE! Declares That Traffic Laws Must Be Obeyed. Officers Ready At Night. __ Mayor W. N. Dorsey this week j cleared tip his desk of other mat- j tors in the city hall and for the j time being turned his attention to law enforcement in the city. Right now, he says, his attention will be given first of all to strict law enforcement in the city and the as surance that the citizens may have police protection when they want it. The first move to assure that a policeman may be had at any point when needed was the placing of an extension telephone, from police headquarters, to the room of Fire Chief Roach, who is also assistant police chief. "This means,” the mayor stated, l “that if some citizen needs an offi- j cer during the night and there is no patrolman in the office, Chief Roach can hear tire call upstairs and will respond. A call for police | protection at any hour of the day or night will get immediate action.’ | Nine Officers Now. There are nine officers now in the city force, and with the force strengthened the mayor states that violations will be more closely ob served. The officers are the chief, assistant chief, six patrolmen, and a special officer in South Shelby, “With this force we should han dle everything that comes up, and 1 have given the men detailed in structions to close down on viola tions of the traffic light regulations. A good many people here of late have been driving right by the red lights. That must be stopped, be cause it is dangerous. Every officer has been instructed to be on the watch for such hereafter. Likewise pedestrians walking across the street should always be sure to see that the “Go” sign is not on their side when they start across. They should wait until the traffic their way is stopped and then go across. i mean to see that the motorists obey their part of the regulation and if pedestrians will take care of their end, we will eliminate the accident danger,” Mr. Dorsey declared. “Many people, among them young girl drivers, seem to think the traf fic light is something to be played with. It is not. With the two new officers were put on yetserday I in formed them that no favoritism was j to be shftwn in nabbing, those who I drive by the “Stop" signal. They may get some ol my close mends or relatives, but that traffic light must be obeyed. There are times when I must get somewhere in a hurry that I drive by or park, for a minute or two. where there is sup posed to be no parking, tut I in formed them I would continue to do so, ns I was not going to be like the judge who fines himself $10 for be ing a few minutes late at court and then has the fine stricken iff later ir the day." Not only, will the patrolmen give closer attention to the traffic sig nals, but city motorists are warned that they "must come up to the re (p'.irnncnts of the law hs tt head lights, horns, and brakes, in the statement by the mayor. Double parking, especially when the driver leaves the car, should not he done. I Motorists will not hr pulled for aouble parking a few minutes if ; they remain in the tar. it was said. Get Two Hoboes. Tlie first visible results of the mayor's direction of the police dc | part.ment came last night when the i nigh; patrolmen captured two ho- j boes in freight cats on the South ern tracks. This Case came indi rectly no doubt as a result of the 1 mayor's orders to patrol oack al leys and freight yards as wet! as the main streets. PM 10 VOTE DECEMBER 17. OB Special Election Called For Tax In crease To Maintaian Shelby Schools. On Monday, December 17, the citizens of the Shelby school district will decide by their ballots whether or hot the Shelby school will be removed from the accredited list of high schools. Which is to say, that on December 17, a special election has been call ed by the county commissioners at which time the voters will decide the issue of raising the tax levy on the $100 valuation * ■> a maximum of 40 cents instead of the maximum of 30 cents now prevailing, which will not maintain the schools, ac cording to the school board. Petition Signed. The election was called by the commissioners after the required number of citizens, 25, signed a petition urging the election. In reality far more than 25 citizens signed the petition after it was an nounced through The Star that the city schools were facing a crisis. In the list of signers were some of the most prominent citizens of the town and community. The cause for the school crisis is credited to the fact that In recent years enrollment has steadily in creased in the city schools, thus in creasing expenses, while the prop erty valuation of the city, from which the taxes come, has not kept up with the expense increase.* New Registration. In calling the special election the commissioners also ordered that a new registration be made for the election. The registration books will be opened Friday, Nov. 16, and will remain open for 20 days, or until Saturday, December 8. On each Saturday during that period voters may register with the registrars at the regular polling places at the court house. According to tire city school heard in a recent announcement the addi tional tax must oe levied or the schools will have to be marked off the accredited standard list, or a less capable staff of teachers be em ployed. . Kiwanis Members Approve School Tax Officers Night Is Held With Ki wanis Club Served By The Woman’s Club. It was officers’ night at the Ki wanis club which was served a de licious dinner by the Woman’s club in their headquarters in the Masonic building last night. George Blan ton. past president was in the chair and all former and present officers were called upon for short talks. Most of them directed their remarks to the pending school tax election whereby the citizens will register and vote on an increase of ten cents in the local district rate. Each speaker gave his hearty approval of the increase which must be had or the school term will have to be cut to eight months and therely lose its accredited standing. O. M. Mull, a former president in pointing out what the club can do for community uplift and civic bet terment spoke of the need of or ganized charity through which the needy of the city can be systemati cally taken care of, especially dur ing the holidays and winter season. Jake Morrison Is Dead at 68 Years For 16 Years Yea's Fireman At Shelby Coton Mill. Burled At Mount /ion. Mr. .lake Morrison one of the most faithful employees at the Shelby Cotton Mill where he fired the boiler in the engine room for 16 years, died at his home in West Shelby last night following an ill ness of two years during which time he suffered with paralysis and Bright’s disease. Mr Morrison was well and favorably known In Shel by and was noted for his faithful ness and sobriety. He is the last of his family and his wife is the last survivor of the Spake family of Gaston county. Surviving are his wife and five sons. Phillip. San, Onslow, Lawson and Edgar. One son Noah, died at the age of ten years. Mr Morrison was 68 years of age and was a member of the Sandy Run Baptist church at Mooresboro. He is being buried this afternoon at Mount Zion church near Cherry vii’e. Also surviving are lift grand children and eight great grandchil dren Three brothers have died in l he last two years. Another Suit Filed In Building Crash; Others Coming; Said City Takes Over Eastside Lights City Power Instead Of Mill Power On There Tonight. Regular Charge. The Eastside section of Shelb.v will have a little 'white wav ' all its own tonight. This evening at dusk the juice burning in the street lights of the textile village and in the 105 homes there will come from the city power station instead of from the East side textile mill power plant as here tofore. The Eastside plant was taken over recently after a conference be tween Eastside officials dr.d offi cials of the city. Meters have been installed in the 105 homes, new poles have been set. the wiring is new and the lights have been gen erally improved. Heretofore the Eastside homes were lighted from the mill and payment for the lights was a special proposition between the mill and its employees, while the city paid the bill for the power used in the street lights. Hereafter the regular light charge will be made against the Eastside homes and the street lights will be gratis as in other sections of the town. Just how the meter charge will be paid the city by the residents of the village has not been decided They may pay directly at the city office, as do other light patrons, or the total bill for the village may be sent the Eastside mill leaving it to the mill to collect from the villag ers. NOVEMBER COUPLES SCARCE IN COUNTY November isn't a favorite marry ing month of the year, this year, in Cleveland county. Today with half of the month gone only fouf couples have secur ed marriage license from A. F. New ton, register of deeds.’ Fred Bowers Ask* Damage For Demolished Auto. Blanton Cases Likely. Another suit has been filed as an aftermath of Shelby’s disastrous building crash of August 28 The second suit to be filed is that of Fred Bowers, service station prop rietor, who asks $750 damages for his Chrysler auto which was crush ed at its parking place In front of the buildings which collapsed. The Bowers suit, filed by Attor ney Horace Kepnedy, . is directed against John 8. McKnight, building owner; "Tom Webb, and Cicero Lutz, trading as Webb & Lutz,” and the town of Shelby. The defendants named in the complaint filed with Superior Court Clerk A. M. Ham rick are the same as those named in, the $50,000 Carpenter suit with the exception of E. A. IVidasill. building inspector, who was named in the Carpenter suit, but is not named in the Bowers suit. Prepare Another. Attorney Kennedy stated to The Star yesterday that he and another attorney would likely file two more suite soon for the Zeb Blanton es tate. Among the six who were kill ed in the crash were Zeb Blanton, well known farmer, and his son, Carl Blanton. Trial Some Time Oft'. 'The hearing of the suits will not likely come up for many weeks yet it is understood. It is definitely known that none ot the suite aris ing from the crash will be tried at the special term of superior court for the civil calendar next week, beginning Monday, as the first suit was only filed this week and the lawr gives the defendants 30 days in which to file an answer to the complaints. This means that the suits will not come up until the next regular term of court, if then. It is understood that Judge B. T. Fallas, who was acting as city at -torney at the time of the crash due to the illness of City Attorney Chas. A. Burrus, will handle the city's portion of the defense. Missing Diamond Rings Are— Found In Home Of Dr. Falls Though To Have Been Hidden By Colored Maid. Four Rings Val ued At $3,000 Recovered The diamond ring mystery has been solved and the four beautiful diamond rings owned by Mrs. O. G. Falls of Kings Mountain and miss ing for two months, have been re covered. They were found in a box of old clothing stored in the cellar of the Dr. Falls home this week and Mrs. Falls is over-joyed. Some Two Months. The rings valued at $3,1-00 were removed from the dresser in Mrs. Falls' bedroom late one afternoon during the middle of September and as the colored maid, Mabel Robin son, was seen to have handled them, she was suspected of the theft and arrested, placed in jail here, but stoutly denied that she stole them or knew of their whereabouts. At a trial before Recorder Mull she was released under bond, pending later developments. This week the four rings which Mrs. Falls prized very highly were found in a box of old clothing when the clothes were being separated with a view cf sending a part of them to the Crossnore School, a mountain mission school operated by Mrs. Sloop near Spruce Pine. Hidden In Clothes Box. Mrs. Falls says a thorough search was made all through the home and a casual search of the box of : old clothes which was in the closet of the bedroom at the time. Several weeks ago the clothes box was re moved to the cellar and this week the garments were taken out. pieQe by piece, to make a contribution to the mountain school. In a small | box carefully concealed in the i clothes box, the rings were wrapped in paper and hidden. Mrs. Fails is convinced that the negro maid pieced them there when she remov ed them from the dressing table in tending later to take them from the home, but her arrest followed and she was never able to get back in to the home. Detectives Worked On Case. Mrs. Falls employed detectives | who remained in the Jail in the ! guise of prisoners with the maid. | They tried in vair. to pick from her where the rings were. Even Mr. Fayssoux, a noted hypmoust of Gastonia, was placed in charge of j the mystery and he worked with the I girl, but all the detectives and the hypmotist could pick from her was that she did not steal the rings, but she felt sure "they might be found in the Falls home, some where.’’ The negro maid stuck to her or iginal story that she did liot steal the rings, but when she insisted that "they might be found in the home, somewhere,” the detectives gave up the case with a feeling that they had been hidden by the maid in the home. Mrs. Falls says she does not know whether the girl will be prosecuted or not. The maid employed Attor ney Clyde R. Hoey to defend her and Mr. Hoey is to confer with her and officers today. Adv. Copy Wired With Instructions Every Detail Of How To Set An Advertisement Is Sent By Wire From Pontiac. To announce a reduction in the price of Pontiac cars and a clear ance sale on the various models, a forty-eight inch advertisement was received this morning by wire from a branch of the General Motors Corporation at Pontiac, Michigan the telegram being 500 words ir length with not only the text of tht matter to be set but instructions as to size of type, where to place peri ods, commas and paragraphs in or der that the advertisement might harmonize in appearance with sim ilar advertisements run throughout the country. The advertisement even specified the kind of border to be used, the point of type and the style of dis play. A. B. C. Motor and Tire company which maintains the agency for this car will have a clear ance sale of all models in stock at a reduction in price. Price reduc tion seems to be in order with a number of automobile manufactur ers, for other makes have conic | down in the last few days. First Baptist Nervices. Dr. Zeno Wall’s serftion topic at I 11 o’clock service Sunday of the • First Baptist church will be "Seeing j a Better Day.” At the i o’clock ! hour. "Standing on the Outside ! There w ill be special music at both | services and the public is cordially | invited,