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SHELBY, N. C. 16 PAGES I TODAY THE CLEVELAND STAR WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 28, 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons riLTeallperyear '<n advance) $2.M J J iuiuiw Carrier, per year Un advance) $3.00 LA TE NEWS The Markets, fchclbjr Cotton _ A Wet Thanksgiving. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight and Thursday. Showers Thursday, and probably in west portion tonight. Slightly warmer tonight Prince Pushes Home. I.alo news dispatches state that the Prince of Wales, who has been hunting in the African jungles, has started a 5,000-mile dash home to l.ondon to be at the bedside of his father. King George, who is grave ly ill with pneumonia. He has als ready made the first lap of the journey, and will catch a spe cial train to the East African coast, Where Britain's fastest cruiser waits to dash him on to England. Vt first the heir apparent of the British throne was not summoned home but when King George took a turn for the worse he was advis ed that it would be best for him to return immediately. Eleven Couples Secure License Here Since Middle Of Month. Dan Cupid is a deadly young shot along in the holiday season of the year. Eleven couples have secured mar riage license at the court house here since the middle of Novem ber. The names recorded on the li cense Ixjok follow: Hugh Neal and Margaret G. Oabaniss, both of this county; i Hobert Hipps ; and Zulm Smith, j this county; Ivey Crawley Burke j county and One Glascoe; tin conn- i tv; Fred Hasting and Wilma | Paters, this county: Luther R. Poston and Dora Ledbetter, this county; W. F. Arledge, Gaston j county. and Jennie Spake, thy County; Marvin Grigg and Ethel' MeSwain, this county: Clyde S. Thornburg. Gaston county, and Wilma Griffin. Union county; For est H Walker and Helen Lackey, this county: Wilbur R Lutz and Lula Vay Elmore, this county: R. F. Hasty. Mecklenburg county, and Sara Roberts Kings Moun tain. Twelve Families Would Adopt Four Homeless Children Welfare Officer May Place Father- | less Youngsters Saturday In Shelby. — __ It isn't such a cold-hearted world i after all. and for that reason for j little tots in this county, who need i a home, will likely have one by the j time Santa Claus starts out cn his ; many, many calls next month. Early this week J. B. Smith, rounty welfare officer, let it be known that there was a mother in j the county who had four healthy, and intelligent children s he could j not care for and wanted adopted. Within a three-day period the wel fare officer hd 12 well-to-do Cleve land county families inquiring for the youngsters who wanted a home by Christmas. Saturday Mr. Smith will decide just which homes the j four youngsters will go to. after I which the* proper adoption papers will be prepared. Shelby People Meet Gov. Alfred Smith Returning from r. visit with Mr \ rnd Mrs. H. Dixon Smith at Colum- j bus. Ga.. Monday. Mr. Julius j Smith. Mrs. Otto Long and Mrs. ; A. P. Weathers of Shelly had the j pleasure of seeing and meeting Gov. A1 Smith at Stone Mountain, just out of Atlanta, Ga. Gov Smith had been down in Mississippi on a vacation trip to Mr. Raskob and they returned by Warm Springs where Governor-elect Franklin D Roosevelt has a winter home. They stopped ri'ith Mr. Roosevelt and came on to Atlanta where they were guests of Major Cohen 6‘f the Atlanta Journal. The Shelby party shook hands with Gov. Smith and brought home his autograph. He was found to be intensely human courteous and sincere, but his face showed the marks of a strenuous campaign. County Raises \Taters, Governors, Anything A recent issue of the Southern Ruralist, widely circulated farm pa per. carries a photo of the Cleve land county booth, which won the first prize at the recent North Car olina fair. A short story published with the photo stated that a fair visitor passing the booth stopped long enough to admire and re mark: “My Goodness, they rt e everything from taters to governors up in that county '' Hoey Opposes Move To Have Coun ty Take Hospital Over. 300 More Patients. Three hundred mere patients will have been admitted to the Shelby hospital by the rod of this year than last year, announced Miss Ella McNichois, superintendent, at a meeting last night in the Wo man's club of represent it:ves of the city and county gov ernments, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, various branches and de partments of the Woman’s club, trustees of the hospital and others. The purpose of the meeting was to inform those present and the pub lic generally with the needs of the institution and devise way, and means whereby the local organiza tions may meet them. .Apply For Duke Gift, Application has been made by Clyde R. Hoey to the Duke foun dation for a gift of $50,000 to en large the institution and the trus tees of the Duke hospital fund will meet some time in January at which time they will pass on the amount to be given, if any, Mr Hoey thought it would be unwise to ask the county to take over the hospital and make it a county rather than a township in stitution, for the people of the county are opposed to any increase in taxes. Drs. karbison, Royster. Schenck, Mrs. J. F. Schenck and County Commissionei R. L, Weath ers expressed the feeling that many ol the leading citizens of the county would like for the county to take over and enlarge the hospi tal, thus making it a county in stitution, but nothing definite was dene or wilt be done until the Duke foundation acts on the application for building funds. Wards Inadequate. The most urgent need at the hospital is to enlarge it. With 300 more patients admitted this year than last, the wards and private rooms are over-run. Even now the charity patients cannot be ac commodated in wards and occupy private rooms. The cost of dressing patients who are not, admitted but call at the first aid room is enor mous. Even in the nurses home, the housing facilities are Inadequate. Pupil nurses are sleeping tour in a room which is too many to permit them to concentrate on their studies. Other Needs Outlined. In addition to more rooms for nurses and patients. Miss Me* Nichols outlined other needs, such as as paved streets in the hospital ground to relieve the dust in sum mer and the mud in winter, a Cov ered walk-way leading from the hospital building to the nurses home. There is no way to isolate con tagious cases or to separate medi cal from surgical cases and obste trical ward is badly needed so tile children will not bother the other patients. S§,000 Chanty Work, Last year the hospital did $8,000 worth of charity work. declared Mr. Hoey, one of the trustees. Of this amount the county paid $3,000. the Duke foundation $2,500. while the remainder was paid by indivi duals and the township. Short talks were made by Drs. Gold. Harbison. Schenek and Roy ster, Messrs. Hoey, Mull. Weathers, Washburn. John F. Schenck, Led ford and others, some expressing the wish that men who are char itably inclined might remember the institution in their wills, others that the county - would be glad to build a unit, duplicating the number of rooms provided by No. 6 township, and others that indivi duals might help to enlarge the. in stitution to take care ci future needs. The hospital is one of the finest institutions of its kind in This part of the state. It is not only serving the county, but does not decline cases from adjoining counties and the surgeons and nurses have built a wide reputation for successful, careful and considerate work. In th° meantime, the hospital's needs will be on the minds of those interested and it >s hoped to work out some plan of enlargement in January The township feels proud of the institution and does not consider it a burden which they wish to shift to other shoulders, but on the other hand wants its usefulness extended with all town ships doing their part, for with an increase of admitted patients of 300 a year, the institution will be totally inadequate within one or two years. Messrs. R. J. McCarley, George Blanton. Bill McCord and Renn Drum will attend the Clcmson Furman game >u Greenville. S. C loiuorro' Still Smiling!—Still Flying! Safe and sound though the whole country was excited b> rumors that he had been killed in an airplane crash »n Mexico, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in San Antonio, Tex., from a hunting expedition below the Rio Grande, He was to hop off almost immediately for New York. Photo shews the smile which Lindy turns~on folks-w’ho think he should give up flying. ! Santa Claus Writes Letter To f Cleveland County Children; He Wants Them To Write To Him - I Their Messages To Old Saint Nick Will Be Delivered Through The Star. The following letter from the lovable, bewhiskered old gentle man, who calls on all children late in December of every year, and ad dressed to the children of Cleve land county has been turned over to The Cleveland Star for delivery to the youngsters of this county, it reads: "Dear Children, barge and Small, Little Brother and All: "In less than 30 days—had you thought, about it?—I will crawl into my airplane, the "Spirit of Christmas,” for which I traded my reindeers, and start on my rounds seeing, or leaving something for all the good little boys and girls in Cleveland county and elsewhere over the world. "Always I must stop and leave I something for thousands and thousands of children and this , year there are more kiddies wait- ' ing for me than ever before. For that reason, youngsters, it is hard for me to guess what all of you want, and I am asking you through The Star to write me and tell me what you want me to bring you Christmas. Perhaps I cannot bring everything you ask, the load might be too heavy, but I’ll do my best. 'Send your letters to me in care of The Cleveland Star, and re I __ OLD SANTA CLAUS WRITES KIDDIES member I'll be leaving home on Saturday morning, December 22, so you should get your letters to me before that time. “Your Old Saint Nit!?. “North Pole, Icycoldland.” Beginning next week The Star will start publishing the Santa let ters of Cleveland county children Santa Claus in getting together all of his packages, will no' have time to open and read all the letters, and since he takes The Star he wilt see your letters in the paper No letters received after Decem ber 21 will dp published. Write your letter to old Santa right now so that it may be pub lished in The Star next week; Reports from the Shelby hospi tal at noon today stated that Hor ace (Dutch) Whisnant remained in ; a serious condition with no appar ! ent change for the better. Whisnant's right leg was amput | ated last week as a final resort to save his life after he was shot ip the leg. the bullet ripping the ar teries and stopping circulation in the leg. General advice is that there is slight hope for the former high school baseball star. Grotto Ceremonial In Shelby Planned Zara Grotto of Spartanburg, S. C. will hold a ceremonial session In Shelby, Wednesday December 5. The Grotto is a shrine to which all Masons from the blue lodge up are eligible for membership, the order was organized some 40 or 50 years ago by Hamilton lodge of Hamilton, N. Y. and has grown from a very small beginning to a membership in the U. S. and Can ada of about three hundred thou sand. Zara Grotto was organized in Spartanburg only about two years ago and has a membership now of about 300, consisting of the most prominent Masons of that city and upper South Carolina. The program for the meeting here is: First, section of the degree work. 5:30 p. m ; supper, (served by the, ladies of Eastern Star), 7:30; sec Gaffney Marriages From This Section Couples from this section secur ing marriage license from Probate Judge Stroup at Gaffney last week were: Judd Lee Brown, 22, Cherryville, and Nellie Ava Heavener, 20. Kings Mountain; Odell Pruitt, 21 Kings Mountain, and Alma Tate, 18, Kings Mountain. Injured Negro Boy Improving Now, Said Vernon Davis, colored truck driver for the Piedmont Grocery, who was partly disemboweled Sat urday when his truck turned over upon him, was said to be improv ing today at the Shelby hospital. Davis was slashed across the abdo men by a portion of the running board as the truck turned turtle. REV. WALDROP BETTER: THANKSGIVING SERVICES Rev. H. E. Waldrop Is much im proved from a recent illness and will hold two services Thanksgiv ing day at Elizabeth church at 11 o'clock and at Ross Grove~-church at 7 o'clock. ond section degree work 8 "0; Grot to dance (Thompson building1, 9: 30. Some 150 to 200 members of Zara with their ladies will be in Shelby for this meeting. The following committee of mem bers of Zara will gladly give any Mason any Information concerning the meeting here John T. Honey cutt. J. Claud Weathers, J. L Gaff ney. C. E. Grigg. 0 R. Logan, E. H. Johnson, II C. Wilson, H H. Massey. Gardner Will See Game From Presidents Box Governor-elect and Mrs. O. Max Gardner received a special Invitation from Presi dent Alderman, of the Uni versity of Virginia, to sit in the president's private box at the Carolina - Virginia game Thanksgiving Day at Charlottesville, Va., with President Coolidge, Governor Harry Byrd, of Virginia, Gov ernor A. W. McLean, of North Carolina, and other notables. The next governor, who was captain of the Carolina e'even in his college days, with Mrs. Gardner leave to day for Charlottesville, and after the game will continue their trip to New York. GARDNER TO TAKE ms OFFICE UNDER | Shelby's First Governor May Be i Inaugurated On January 11, Keport Now, Raleigh.—If Governor-elect O Max Gardner has his way, he will be inaugurated on January 11. two days after the general assembly convenes and will not come to Ra leigh before that time, he has in formed the News and Observer. Heretofore, and governors have taken office about cne week after the meeting of the general assembly, but a constitutional amendment was adoptee^ by the people in 1926 and an enforcement act was passed by the general assembly, both having in contemplation that the governor and all other state officers should take office on January 1. However, Assistant Attorney-General Frank Nash lias held that this is not a compulsory procedure and that the governor and the new officers could | hold over until their successors qual ified and that this could be after the legislature convened. The constitution has always pro vided for state officers to take of fice on January 1, but it also pro vided until the last amendment that | the election had to be officially can i vassed and determined by the gen j era! assembly, which was not au i thorized to meet until the first Wed nesday after the first Monday in January, the date for the 1329 gen eral assembly being the latest pos sible. Governor McLean led the move ment to reconcile this contradiction in the Constitution by an amend ment and Mr. Gardner stated over the telephone that Governor Mc Lean has several times expressed to him an intention ot retiring from office on January 1. However, the governor-elect stated that he in tends to ask his predecessor to hold over until January 11 and to re commend that arrangement • for his I induction with the usual formalities I and ceremonies, including .« formal inaugural address, be set or that day. To Sit With Budget Makers. Mr. Gardner stated that he will come to Raleigh this week or next week to sit informally with the governor and the advisory budget commission in the preparation ot the budget for the biennium begin ning July 1, 1929, which the law re quires to bo in the hand of the governor-elect not later than De cember 15. During his stay in Raleigh Mi. Gardner expects to complete ar rangements for fits induction into office. If he takes the oath on Jan uary 1, he will probably ce sworn in before a member of the supreme court with only a lew friends pres ent, but this simple ceremony may he followed later by the usual for mal exercises, in the city auditorium. There has been some suggestion of an act increasing pa>^ of state officers, which cannot be done dur ing their terms of office, ’f the in actions-are deferred untit filer the legislature meets, but this talk has centered mostly around a proposal to make the office of attorney general a full time office. The at torney-general now receives : salary of $4,000 a year, less than t.oat paid to any other state officer. There was considerable agitation at the time of the 1927 general assembly | for re-organizing the office and placing the head of it on a full time basks but no one appeared to push the bill through the legislature. NO KIWANIS MEETING TO BE HELD THURSDAY Because of. Thanksgiving, there will be no Kiwanis meeting at Cleveland Springs hotel Thursday evening of this week Many of the members will be out of town. Friends Interested In Having Spec ial Pullman With Cleveland Delegation In January, A movement is on foot here to have a special train of Pullman Sleeping cars leave Shelby on the evening before Max Gardner is in- i augurated governor, taking several | hundreds of his friends to Raleigh j to witness the inauguration and j attend the inaugural ball and oth | er ceremonies. A number of friends and admirers are planning to go i and prefer the train trip rather than go through the country in cars, as the Puilman would be much more contortable in the heart of winter and permit making the journey each way at night. In the event the Pullman special is pro j vided, a' minimum of 125 passengers | is necessary and arrangements must be mads in advance in order I to give the Seaboard railroad am ple time to arrange for first class cars. Gardner Party Along. This being the first time Cleve land has furnished a governor, there is considerable interest in the proposed special and friends of Governor Gardner and his family are urging him to accompany the Cleveland‘ county train to Raleigh He is inclined to the idea and in the %vent the special train is ar ranged, Governor and Mrs. Gard ner and the governor’s party will have a special car on this train. Note By Mr. Burras. Those who would like to make the trip to Raleigh for the inaugura ticn are asked to notify Mr. Char lie Burras who will take a list of the prospects and notify them later as to the cast and the schedule. The cost would be the regular railroad fare to and from Raleigh, plus the Pullman fare. The Pull man sleepers would remain in Ra leigh. at the disposal of the pass engers and thus save the price of hotel accomodations. The hotels will be greatly crowded during the inauguration but the Cleveland county friends would have ample accomodations for sleeping in the Pullman berths Mr. J. T. West, division pass enger agent of the Seaboard over which it is proposed to operate the special train, says the trip can be made from Shelby to Raleigh in about seven hours and a schedule worked out to suit the passengers. In the event the special is pro vided, banners will be put on the coaches and Blain Winslow, a Cleveland county native, who pulls the throttle on one of the Sea board's crack passenger trains, will be asked for to engineer the Cleve land inaugural special. Allege Misconduct Of A Married Man With Girl Under 16 Hinkle Shull Waives Preliminary Hearing On Serious Charge Here, Hinkle Shull.- young married man of the Dover mill village, waived preliminary hearing here this morning and was bound over to superior court on a charge of having carnal knowledge of a vir gin girl under 16 years of age. The girl named in the charge is a daughter of Tom Etters, who lives in the eastern section of tire coun ty. According to reports m Judge Muil’S office today, where the ex amination was waived the de fendant is a cousin of tiie girl's father and. the alleged intimacy between the two took place at her home on a trip last summer to Chimney Rock. One result of the misconduct as charged is that the young girl will become a mother, reports stated Compromise Sought. The charges were preferred yes terday by the girl's father and the wife of the defendant, the latter at the time seeming to desire that her husband be prosecuted. Today, however, the father of the girl ap peared before Judge Mull and Sol icitor P. Cleveland Gardner hoping to compromise the affair in some manner, perhaps*'fey lessening the charge to that of bastardy. Shull the defendant, was with him The father stated that he sought to take such a course today for the sake of Shull's wife and two chil dren, the wife, he said, relenting last night in her altitude towards her husband .County court officials were un willing and unable to accede to the request to lighten the charge whereupon preliminary hearing was waived and Shull was bound over to, court under a $600 bond Fight For Lower Tax Rate On Land Coming > Cleveland Leads South In Cctton Raised Per Acre * Figures assembled here by 1 | ) cotton men indicate that ' j 3 Cleveland county is the lead- i 3 irf, cotton producing county ! per acre in the south as well f as the largest cotton p oduc l ing county in North Caro ^ lina. There may be other coun ) ties where more bales are pro 3 duced outside of North Car olina, but not on such a small ^ | acreage, they say. Up to November 14, Cieve- ' j land had ginned 37,883 bales, ‘ and the county has only 53, 000 acres in cotton, from J which a total crop of 53,030 tales may be produced. Robe < son county}, ranking second v • in this stale. had ginned 33,- ' j l 367 ba’es up to November 14, 3 ^ but that ccunty has approx- ' j imalely 110 000 acres in cot- *I 3 ton. Johnstcn, ranking third { } with 31,710 tales, has around li ) 100,000 acres in cotton. ( J ( ■wwNrvkfw mt KliS ■111 10 JAILED BE Youths Charged With Breaking In Store An:l Stealing Auto There. I _ In county court- here yesterday three Kings Mountain youths were bound over to superior court on charges of breaking in a Kings Mountain store and stealing an automobile. They were Charlie | King. James and Crisp Medlin. King and cine of the Medlins were bound over on both counts. The charges were that Tuesday night one week ago King and one of the Medlins stole the Cadillac coupe of Ex-Sheriff Lane, father in-law of Dr. Hood, and that last Sunday night they broke into the i Plonk brothers store and stole two | suits of clothes. Each defendant was placed under a $500 bond for the ! store breaking and two of them for the alleged auto theft. The auto mobile, it was said, was recovered in Spartanburg. Auto Of Dead Bill Center Of Hearing Old Car, Belonging To Negro Man Kil'rd By Son. Causes Long Conrt Trial. Several months back Bill Martin, colored man of Mooresboro, turn ed up his toes and stopped worry ing about earthly matters when his 11-year-old son fatally shot him for beating his mother, but Bill’s old, stripped-down auto Is still causing some trouble. Tuesday County Judge Mull had nearly all of the day taken up with heating a claim and delivery case in regard to the car, and then the jury disagreed aaid the case is to be tried again. The action on the car was taken by Flay Edwards, but in the course of the trtai it was claimed that D. C. Wright, of Mooresboro, also had “papers on" the cat of the dead man. Claim and delivery procedure against the Martin cow was stren uously opposed by the wif^ of the dead negro who claimed that the cow was and had been her property, and not that of her husband. Aged Woman Hurt In Turnover Of Truck Mrs, Sam Humphries, injured Monday afternoon when according to reports a truck turned ever up on her. was reported to have re gained consciousness today after having bern unconscious most of the time since the wreck. Due to her condition, it was said, no X-ray f pictures have been made to de | finitely determine her injuries. South Shelby Heins In Near East Fund The Junior Red Gross of the South Shelby school has decided to give their Thanksgiving offering this year to the children of the Near East. Since there are 34.000 of these children who heed food, clothing and shelter the Juniors of the South Shelby school thought they could not give this money to a more worthy cause than to the Near East relief fund. As The Star goes to press this offering amounts to $10,00. Rural Sections To Make That Is sue In Coming General Assembly. Raleigh—With lower taxes oo land as their objective, and the shifting of as much as possible of the school tax load from the coun ties to the state, a, coa.itlon be tween the extreme Democrat* irom the rural eastern counties and the Republicans from the ru ral western counties is expected to make a concerted drive to this end in the 1929 general assembly, with the representatives from the Mg industrial counties in the Piedmont putting up the principal opposi tion. But to make the tax on land property in the counties lighter to any appreciable degree, the state must assume an additional por tion of tire cost of school mainten ance that will make necessary from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000 additional revenue than at present. And un der the present laws, these addi tional millions in revenue must be obtained from taxes upon other than property, since there has been no state-wide property tax since 1921, And since the state’ll entire income for general pur poses—now about $14,000,000 I year—is derived solely* from taxes upon income, both private and cor porate, and franchise taxes of var ious sorts, chiefly upon business and industry, the business and in dustrial interests of the state are already looking somewhat nervous ly toward the approaching session of the general assembly and the threatened offensive for lower taxes sure to be made by the rep resentatives from the rural and agricultural counties. New Sources Of Income. Knowing that before they can ex pect any enlargement of any school funds by the state unless they provide a new course for the needed revenue, and that any ef fort to impose any higher taxes upon business and industry will be vigorously fought, this agricultural coalition of Democrats and Repub licans is casting about for neir things to tax. And it is generally agreed by a number who will be members of it when the general as sembly meets, that one of the first proposals made will be a tax upon luxuries—specifically. a sales tax upon cigarettes and other manu factured tobacco products, to be paid by the consumer, and not by the manuiacturer, ana a simuag tax on soft drinks and moving pic ture admissions. There is some talk also of increasing the gasoline tax cne cent, the proceeds to go to the counties for road maintenance, but there is not as much sentiment in favor of this as for the sales tax on luxuries. There will also oe a de termined effort made to restore the tax on foreign stocks. The sales tax in any form will of course meet with the most serious and determined opposition from State Merchants’ association, from the tobacco manufacturers, since it would estalish a dangerous pre cedent to which they are unalter ably opposed. from the moving picture operators—most of these in New York—and from business and interest generally. And those who advocate these taxes know this. Painless Levy. But those in favor of levying these taxes maintain that there are legitimate sources of taxation, that the tax is painless and paid by the consumer on unnecesasry luxuries, that such a tax would yield from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually— and last, and of great significance, that there are more representatives and senators from the rural agri cultural counties, and that they can out-vote the industrial coun ties if it comes to a show down. And to hear them talk, they in tend to do it. That the manufacturing and business interests oi the state h. ve already sensed that an effort at this sort of taxation might be mod*. is indicated by the fact that industry and business over the state is already getting together in order to combat this type of leg-.V islaticn. The first note of warning a downward was Bouiiueu ocyciai J. A. Parham, managing « the Charlotte Observer to hundreds of busihes manufacturers in all section the state, declaring that be was already taxed to the 'imit, that any attempt by the next eral assembly at increasing present tax burden would be e<yi alent to confiscation, and urging united effort for sion of state tax< Opposition . - - Consequently there Is that the business interests of state are already organising combat any effort that may (Continued on page six.)
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