North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXV. No. 141 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY 10 PAGES TODAY NOV. 26, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday. and Friday Afternoons By man, per year «in advance) ___ J ^ ftiLtiiiuuiis Carrier, per year (in advance) $3 00 LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton. Shelby _ 19*ic Cotton Seed, per bu. .64'4c Fair And Wanner. Today’s North Carolina Weather report: Fair and not quite so cold tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. I.ight, and possibly heavy frost on the coast tonight. Cold Wave Here. Shelby and section last night and this morning shivvered under the coldest snap of the year. A driving wind late yesterday afternoon and early last night sent the mercury downward and early this morning, around 6 o’clock, the mercury in the Ebeltoft thermometer stood at 34, which Is unusually cold for Shelby. Wanderer, Who Frightened Mrs. Spangler And Battled Hus band, Sentenced. A heavy-set young fellow, appar ently of foreign descent, -jiving his name as Charles Smith and his home as Detroit, was sentenced to 60 days on the county roads here this morning by Judge John Mull for an attempted intrusion Satur day in the home of Mr. Clarence Spangler. Llneberger street. Just before Mr. Spangler came home for lunch Satttrday, Smith, according to Mrs. Spangler, w ho was alone at home, opened the screen door and came In on the back porch. She locked the kitchen door and thus kept him out of the house. About the time Smith started to leave Spangler drove up and when informed what had happened he caught the Intruder. In the edge of his yard. Smith put up a desperate battle to free himself from Mr. Spangler and several times they were down upon the ground, but Mr. Spangler together with passers by clung onto him until Assistant Chief Roach and Policeman *Cook, uhn hart been called hv Mrs Snail gler, arrived. Later at the county jail officers say they found two skeleton keys In Smith's clothing. Giving his age as 17, Smith said that he merely en tered the back porch to ask for something to eat, but his appear ance there frightened Mrs. Spangler and due to the battle he put up to get away from Mr. Spangler it was thought likely that he might have gone on into the house had the door j not been locked. Louisville, Nov. 23.—The Rev. E. Y. Mullins, internationally known Baptist leader, died at his home here at noon oday following a stroke of paralysis on the morning or November 10. He was nearly 69 years old and for the last 29 years had been president of the South ern Baptist Theological seminary’ here. Mr. Sam Marks Still Enjoying Election Older residents of Shelby remem ber Mr. Sam Marks who lived here up until twenty-five years ago. Now he is out in Stephesiville, Montana and in renewing his subscription to The Star says: "I am still laugh ing over the election. We are de lighted.” Mr. Marks is a Republi can, by the way, and when he liv ed in Shelby his family composed the famous "Marks band” which played at social functions and dances. PLEASURE FLIGHT ENOS IN DEATH FOR 3 TOLTHS Seemonk, Mass., Nov. 25.—Three young men were killed today when their airplane plunged to the ground from an altitude of 800 feet. The victims were William Lang, 24. Stanley d’ Ambra. 20. and Francis Clancy, 18, all of Providence, R. I. 23 SHOPPING DAYS Until Santa Toylands are being open ed in Shelby, stores are fill ing up with holiday goods —Already packages are be ing wrapped in holly decor ated paper. It’s not so long any more. Do your shopping early— and in Shelby. If you’ll read the adver tisements o f Christmas goods in The Star you’ll lo cate your bargains in Shel by easily. Toll Of August Building Crash Reaches Seven 1 Shelby Postoffice May Be First Class | After Present Year Fell Barfly Shy Of Mark Last Year With Gains All This Year. | _ When 1929 rolls around Shel by may have a first-class post office judging by the steady gain in postal receipts at the lo cal office this year. X.a«t year the Shelby office, ac cording to Postmaster J. H. Quinn, fell short of the first-class mark, which requires $40,000 in yearly postal receipts, by cnly $2,800. With only a month and one-half to be recorded on the postal lists this year, it is stated that postal receipts this year have gained over the receipts of last year with the exception of one month, Septem ber. in which the receipts were slightly below those of September, 1927. However, in every quarter this year there has been a gain ever last year. In many months the gains over the same month of the previous year were termed substantial gains by Postmaster Quinn. Should Go Over. If business during the remaining portion of the year is anything like normal, which is to ray if it compares with the Mine period last year, it seems rather likely that the $40,000 total will be reached. Prominent Woman Of South Shel by Died Before Physician Reaches Her. South Shelby was shocked Sun day at the sudden death of Mrs. Mary Taylor Harris, one of Its most prominent and respected women and wife of Mr. W. D. Harris. She was taken suddenly 111 at her home about noon and died before a phy sician could be called. Mrs. Harris was 67 years of age and the daugh ter of Hyden and Susaa Taylor of McDowell county. At the oge of 13 years she joined Coopers Oap Bap tist church and remained a con sistent Christian all her life and a devoted wife and mother, engrossed in her home affairs. Mrs. Harris wifi be buried Tues day morning at H o'clock at Cane Creek Baptist church near Chim ney Rock, the funeral services to be conducted by Rev. Rush Padgett of the Second Baptist church here. She is survived by her husband and the following children: Ernest Harris of Shelby, Walter Harris, of Manchester, Ga., Mrs. Dixie Wilson and Mr. Burgin Hamrick of Shelby. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters: Z. V. Taylor, Misses Belle and Zenevia Taylor of Chimney Rock, Mrs. Hattie Ward of Washington, D. C„ Mrs. Sallie Yarboro of Long Shoals, Lincoln county, Joe Taylor of Cltffside, George Taylor of Mill Springs, N. B. Taylor of Chimney Rock and one grandchild. Burning Feather Bed Stifles Fireman Occupants Of House No. 2*5 Away When Fire Catches Feather Bed. Carroll Sick The odor of burning feathers in a bed in house No. 26 Saturday night, at the Eastside cotton mill village, stifled firemen who went to the scene to fight the fire and entered the rooms with a chemical extin guishers. Joseph Carroll, a member of the fire department was stifled by the odor of burning feathers and is at home today sick ir bed. It seems that the occupants of house No. 26 were away when the fire popped from the fire place and caught the bedding. A roomer in the house at the time, turned in the alarm and the firemen responded quickly. The blaze was soon extin guished but the smoke which filled the room almost overcame the flre hien and Carrol is sick as a result. THIRD DEGREE WORK AT MASONIC MEET FRIDAY Work in the third degree will be put on at the meeting of Cleveland lodge 202 A. F A: A. M. Friday evening at 7:30, it is announced. Ail local Masons and visiting brethren are urged to attend. County Produces Twice Cotton It Did 10 Years Ago The fanners of Cleveland county are producing; twice as much cotton nowadays as they did 10 years ago. lip to November 14, 1917, only 16.4S0 bales, or 5,008 bales less than half the crop of 37, 989 bales ginned up to Nov. 14. this year. riles of The Cleveland Star show that in 1918, up to Nov. 14, the county had ginned 9,963 bales. County Leads N. C. In Production Of Cotton Now, Report After Battling For Lead Position For Years Tops Robeson And Johnston. L'p to November 14, at least, Cleveland county is the largest cot ton producing county in North Carolina. L'p to that time Cleveland had ginned 37,989 bales; Robeson 33,367 bales; and Johnston county, 31,710. This places the county 6,279 bales ahead of Johnston county, which usually leads other countries by several thousand bales. It appears now as if the cotton producing honors of the state lay between Cleveland and Robeson with John ston standing an outside chance of catching up with the ginning and the two other counties. Native Of Cleveland And Pastor At Hickory Accepts Call To Belton, Texas. Rev. R. C. Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist church of Hickory, tendered his resignation to the con gregation at the service Sunday morning to take up pastoral work in Belton, Texas. His resignation will take effect on the last Sunday in December and January 1 he and Mrs. Campbell will go to Belton where he will as sume the pastorate of the First Baptist church with a congregation of approximately 1,700 members. Belton is a Baptist center and has the Baptist female college which is the only Baptist woman’s college in the southwest. It has a student en rollment of between 2.000 and 2,500. Mr. Campbell has been pastor of the First church at Hickory for the past three years, coming from Scot land Neck in 1925. He has been among the most active of the mem bers of the ministeriail association and a leader in religious and civic affairs. Mr. Campbell is a native of Cleve land county and held a number of pastorates here. FORMER NORTH CAROLINIAN IS KILLED IN OHIO HOLD-UP Morganton, Nov. 25.—Dr E. L. Edwards received a message today saying that his brother, Lonnie M Edwards, was killed last night to a hold-up in Akron, O. Details were lacking. Dr. Edwards left at once for Akron where his brother was engaged in the wholesale grocery business. He will be buried to Akron. Thet Edwards family formerly lived in Allegheny county and are prom inently connected in western North Carolina. PEANUT. LODGED IN WIND PIPE, IS FATAL TO CHILD Rutherfordton, Nov. 24.—Joseph Ray, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Broadus Dobbins of near El lenboro died at the home of his parents yesterday, five minutes aft er he swallowed a peanut which stopped up his wind pipe. Joseph was the youngest son oi a family of five beys. He was bur ied at Walls Baptist church today i with a large crowd attending. SEVERAL HUNDRED CASES OF FLU III COUNTY NOW, SAID Epidemic Has Not Claimed Any Fatalities As Yet But There Are Severe Cases. The “flu” is again rapine over Cleveland county. The epidem ic is nothing like as serious as it was 10 years ago, but it is stated y Dr. D. F Moore, coun ty physician, that there may be a couple hundred cases in one form or another in th'! county now. Practically every physician in the town and county has several cases, it is said. Some of the cases report ed are rather severe but insofar as can be learned no deaths have re sulted froni the epidemic, which is more the nature of the old time la grippe than the Spanish influ enza. Some of those, however, con | fined with cold and grippe are pret | ty sick, and physicians warn that ! all colds should be watched with treatment starting just as soon as the cold is caught. Shelby Quint To Be Built Around Three “Iron Men” County Cage Champs Star Train ing Today. Wall, Bridges And Gold Remain. The basketball hopes of the Shel by high quint, last year’s county phampions. will be centered this year about the three athletic “iron men” of the school—Milky Gold, Zeno Wall, and Guy Bridges. They are the only regulars left from the championship squad. Those three youths, however, form a good tiucelus for most any type of sport artd for the last year or so Coaches Casey Morris and Til den Fails figure that they have a pretty good squad out if the triple trio shows up for any of the sports. All three are football stars, while Bridges and Gold are also basket ball stars in addition to being var sity cage performers.. Gold last year captained the basketball team, this year the football team, and since the captain of the High five will be chosen from the iion trio there is a slight likelihood that he may be a three-team captain, some thing unique in the scholastic world. Other Material. In addition to the three- regular varsity players reporting for prac tice in the ‘‘tin can" today, the two Shelby coaches will have a num ber of strong reserves from last year together with quite a bit of new material. The reserves who played in numerous games last year are: Eskridge, Rippy, Poston, Sin gleton, Gardner and others. And among the new material is Mauney, a guard on the strong Lattimore quint last year. However, three of last year's outstanding stars and one dependable substitute are miss ing in Capt. McSwain, Laymon Beam, Floyd Cline and Ed Harris. The material with which the coaches started to work today is of such calibre that the quint a fav orite in the county race again t'-»c year for the Rotary cup and is also expected to rank high in the state race, if the coaches deckle to en ter the series. Can is Larger. Last year with tight battles be tween Shelby and the flasny Lat timore and Forest City quints en thusiasm in the cage game here j rose to a high pitch and on several occasions the "tin can” could not hold the throngs. Anticipating an other big season school officials have renovated the “tin can" and added new bleachers and seats so that the seating capacity of the building, along the sidelines, is now between four and five hundred peo ple. First Game Here. The first game, probably on De cember 12. is booked here with the always strong Cherryviile quint fur nishing the opposition. Coach Mor ris says that his quint will play sev eral games before Christmas. CITY BOND ATTORNEY A VISITOR IN CITY Mr. Chester B. Masslich, of New York, bond attorney for the city of Shelby, was a visitor here Satur day^ conferring with Mayor Dor sey,'5 Of ficials and other officials at the city hall. City Attorney C. A Burros', and Govern , -r'e-t O. Max Gardner, a personal friend. King George Fights Death Late dispatches from London today stated that there was very little change in the condition of King George, of England, who became ill last Wednesday and gradually grew worse until late yesterday when dispatches had it that he was fighting for his life with a congestion of the lung or pleurisy. Bulletins issued at the royal palace today did not create additional worry in England but they failed to allay fears already he’d by the English people. The bulletin stated that “the king spent a restless night,’* adding that the pleurisy tvas spreading, explaining meantime that it was the natural course for it to do so. It was also stated his temperature had not been above 101 as was stated in some reports. Yes terday before the king became worse the Prince of Wales, on an expedition in India, had not been summoned, but today it was not known whether or not he had been called home. It would take, by ordinary travel, 22 days fer the prince to get tyack to London. Although the bulletins from physicians to day gave very little definite information there are grave fears in England that the king may be near doath. The congestion began in a lung that has caused him trouble for some years. Outch Whisnant, Ball Star, Now Unconscious At Shelby Hospital Horace (Dutch) Whisnant, for mer Shelby high baseball star, was reported to be unconscious at the Shelby hospital today with very lit tle change in his condition follow ing the amputation of his light leg Friday. At times, however, he is said to be rational and talks'very well. The former diamond star's limb was taken off as the result of a bul let wound received about the knee in which the arteries of the leg were severd resulting in no circula tion for the lower part of the limb. He was shot, according to informa tion known so far, near the power house at Lawndale Saturday night one week ago. He hied profusely be fore he reached the hospital early on the following Sunday morning and weakened by the loss of blood and no circulation in the leg his condition became so critical that the amputation became necessary. P. A. McEntire, who was placed ender a $500 bond just after the shooting, had his bond increased to $£,000 when it was realized that the young man, who has not been mar ried long, was in critical shape. COTTON MARKET. Spot cotton was quoted in Shelby today at 19’ic. John F. Clark and company's cotton wire was out of order today and Clevenburg's letter which usually appears, did not come. New York cotton was up, how ever, about ten points. Boy Who Hoboed His Way To New Orleans Is In Cabinet \ New Orleans.—A man who hoboed his way to New Orleans 06 years ago $o get a dollar-a-day job driv ing a mule team delivered the prin cipal speech here today at the an nual convention of the American Federation of Labor. He was James J. Davis, now sec retary of labor. “Thirty-six years ago I hap pened to be in New Orleans with a little labor matter on my mind,' tie said. “I was a youngster very much in need of a job and anxious ly hunting one." Secretary Davis explained lie had been an iron peddler in Ijirming luun but a dispute close dthe mill. "A number of u; came by way af a side-door Pullman to New Or leans where we goi jobs working an the levee, I was driving a pair Jf mules that 'ragged-' a din scrap er. Never before had l driven nules. but I had to have a job and urn's willing to try anything. One Say the hahd'e cf she :':rap.;r'.rrnr' , up and handed me a wickni cut i across one of my eyes. “The boss 5&w the blood on my face and fired me for incompetence. By all the rules of the game I had at least $20 coming to me. But did I get it? 1 did not. I got it where the handle of the scraper got me." Turning to the settlement of in dustrial disputes Secretary Davis said his eight years in office had taught him that, "iorce will never work.” ”We must arrive at Our industrial conclusions in a peaceful and har monious way." he added. "All our problems can be solved without re sort to violence if we but sit about the council table and think in terms of what is best for all concerned, the people as well as ourselves.” Aside from Secretary Davis’ spetth the convention spent prac tically fill of its time today passing resolutions without a dissenting Vote. For a few moments the dele gates stood with bowed hea.ls in tri bute to the men -s who nave died during the past year. SUITS SETTLED III EWES CASES Kings Mountain Cases Numerous On Docket. McGills Get $3,500 Sum. The special term of civil court closed here Saturday. Many cases were disposed of and the civil cal endar cleared up, but the majority of the suits were settled through compromise action. A big percent age of the cases developed in Kings Mountain. The largest suit, that of Mrs. J. T McGill arid others of Kings Mountain, for $100,000 was settled for $2,500, according to Clyde R. Hoey, one of the attorneys in the case. The suit, against the Town of Kings Mountain, was brought over a septic tank of the city, which the platntiffs charged polluted the streams on the McGill lands. The damages given in the settlement were in the nature of permanent damages with the city to leave the septic tank as is. Condemned Land Case. In another Kings Mountain case J. H. Sipe was the plaintiff against the town. In the construction of the new waterworks at Kings Moun tain 27 acres of land belonging to Sipe was condemned for the res ervoir. An appraiser gave Sipe $1, 662 for the land, but he carried the case to the court where the ap praiser's estimate was adhered to and the plaintiff paid the costs. C. B. Haney, of Kings Mountain, suing thje Phoenix Mills for dam ages because of alleged personal (in juries was given $1,000 by Com promise. Mrs. Bessie Howell's suit against the Inter-Carolinas bus line for personal injuries was seitled fqr $750. Bhe was & passenger on the line In the County, it was said, when the alleged injuries Were received. C. F. Moss suing Charlie Heffner for injuries said to have been re ceived by a truck was given $75. ■>— ees l ife S125. The suit brought against the Nor f. • v.wStern railroad for the death of Floyd Patterson, colored man of this county, at Winston Salem resulted in the plaintiff re ceiving $125. Greensboro Couple Fined For Drinking While Here In Car Well-Dressed Man And Woman Practically “Passed Out” In Auto Here. A neatly dressed and a finely clad, rather handsome young wo man. who he said was his wife, were arrested and jailed here about 11:30 yesterday morning by city officers for being drunk and driving a car while intoxicated. Shortly after being jailed the young woman gave a cash bond for herself and spent the night in a hotel. They gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Bunnelle, and he said his home was in Greensboro, although she stated that she was from Georgia and was en route to Asheville to visit her people. They were arrested in their new Chevro let coach in east Shelby when offi cers noticed that the car was weav ing from one side of the road to the other. Both were intoxicated. In county court today the man was fined $50 and the costs and or dered not to drive again for three months, while the woman was fin ed $10 and the costs. The latter paid her fine and left early in the day to secure the $75 necessary to get her husband out of Jail. Child Is Found Dead In Bed At Eastside Eugene Hopper, four moriflis old child of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hopper of the Eastside Mill village, was found dead in bed Sunday morning. Cause of the death is not known. The child was in its usual health Saturday and it is thought it might have taken suddenly ill during the night and could not wake its sleep ing parents. Coroner T. C. Eskridge was noti fied but upon investigater, reach ed the conclusion that death was due to natural causes and no inquest was thought necessary. A Daughter Born. Mr. and Mrs. Bynum E. Weathers announce the birth of a naby girl. Majorie Ann. on Wednesday. Nov ember 21 at the Shelby hospital. Injured Negro Dies 3 Months After Tragedy J. C. Thomas. Laborer, Dies In IlM< pital Here .Saturday. Was Paralyzed. The death toll of this section’s worst disaster, the building collapse of August 28, climbed to seven here Saturday evening when J. CJ. j. Thomas, colored laborer, died in the Shelby hospital bed he has been ftn i since the tragedy of three months | ago. Thomas on the day of the Crash, which at the time claimed fix lives and injured many others, was em ployed in the excavation work wi der the McKnight building. As the other walls tumbled down upon thp basement of the building in which he worked, the colored man was buried deep in the debris cf brick, tw’isted tin and splintered flooring. Hours later his broken body was extracted from the heap and rush ed to the hospital. For some timtj lit seemed to recover rapidly from A broken arm and other injuries, but as the weeks passed he failed to show any more improvment and ap parently the fatal injury wg* to his back and he lias been paralyzed from the waist down. He died shortly after 7 o’clock Saturday evening. His family lives on the street running south from the county jail, known as “Jail Al ley,” and according to reports he is the third member of his family to die in a short, period of time. Other victims of the crash were Miss Ora Eskridge, Messrs. Aleut Hoyle, Guy Greene. Clyde Carpen ter, Zeb Blanton and Carl Blanton, MnU, Mauney And Miss C allahan, Injured In Crash, Are Back At Work. Familiar faces beamed about the quarters of the First National bank last week as three of the bank’a clerical force, who were the worst injured in the building crash bn August 28, returned to their desks. They were Assistant Cashier Clar ence Mull, Clyde Mauney, clerk, apd Miss Marguerite Callahan. j Mr. Mauney, whose foot and leg were broken, worked early in the week but did not work during the latter part of the week. Both Mr. Mull and Miss Callahan, who were badly broken up, are employed at desk jobs where they may remain seated during the work hours. Driver Disemboweled In Truck Turn-Over Vernon Davis, Piedmont Grocery Driver, Painfully Injured Here Saturday. Vernon Davis, colored driver of the Piedmont grocery deliverer truck, is in the Shelby hospital to a serious condition from injuring sustained Saturday at ter noon early when his truck flipped over ' with him as he came down the Freed man road to the junction with Sumter street. The truck was headed down the grade, it is understood, when It flipped over and the portion of the tin fender where it joins the run ning board partially disemboweled the young colored boy. He was rush ed to the hospital, and at first It was thought- that he might be fat ally injured, but at the hospital today it was stated that he was do ing all right considering the ser ious nature of the laceration in tile abdomen. .irjgS Creative English *• | Classes In Shelby Youngsters Getting Practical Ex perience In Dramatics In Schools. Local talent plays and public ap* pearances oi home folks In SheJtty in the years to come promise Im provement due to the creative En glish work being carried on in the ! city school system here this yett.’ ■ 'Ji The creative English course, ] taught by Miss Ora Upshaw, had a daily class and the students typ ing the course are given practical experience in visiting the grammar ! grade schools where they in' tbr» instruct the children* in stage lat , ting and other practical portienfc pf i the creative English course of Study.