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Published 10 PAGES TODAY Monday, VVudneaduv , and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year an advance* 92150 f. r t «*• nav trnne («>. l MA/I 7. 1929. LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton Seed, per bu. _67' Cotton, per lb.___ 19c Fair And Colder. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Question Mark Still t’p. At an early hour last night the Question Mark, army refueling mon oplane, was still in the air after be ing up for five and one-half days, or 132 hours, thus doubling ail pre vious records for sustained flight by a heavier-than-air craft. A photo of the remarkable plane is shown on this page. imlfiLES OPED BE FEB. IB AH New Furniture And Furnishings Are Bought And Being Deliv ered For Opening. Feburary 15 has been set tenta tively as the opening date for the Hotel Charles, erected on the ite of the Central hotel burned a year ago next month. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Brabble and Mr. Spurgeon Huitt have returned to Shelby from Charlotte and are busy making preparations for the opening. Mr. Brabble says all of the fur niture and furnishings have been bought and some of the things have arrived. As fast as the. work men get the rooms ready, they will be fitted up. Circassian walnut furniture will adorn the 66 bed rooms, while the dining room furniture will have the same finish. Mr. Brabble says he has 76 beds and the most comfort able box springs and mattresses that are afforded by the American market. The curtains and draperies in the lobby will be in rose and old gold, while green and red curtains and drapers will adorn the dining room. The lobby chairs will be in leather and tapestry. The main dining room will set 88 people while there will be a private dining room with a seating capac ity of 60. These can be thrown to gether to give a combined seating capacity of 200 to care for banquets and other large gatherings. Handsome silver and china ware have been purchased aftd Mr. Brab ble says when the hotel is finished it will be second to none in North Carolina. There are other hotels that are larger, but the Hotel Charles which is fire proof will have beautiful furniture and all the comforts and conveniences that the traveling public could expect. Shelby Takes Cage Game Here Friday Two Games This Week On Tap. High Defeat Hickory Grove Five. The Shelby High basketball quint has two games scheduled for this week, both away from home. The first game is Tuesday night in Gas tonia and the second Friday night at Cliffside. The latter team holds one victory over Shelby already. Playing in the ‘‘tin can" here Friday night the high won their second game of the sea'ion by a 17 15 score from the husky Hickory Grovers, South Carolina quint. The game as indicated by the score was close and exciting at all times, but Coaches Morris and Falls declare their cagers are not in condition as yet following the holidays. To date the coaches seem none to well pleased with the cage outfit, not that the boys on the varsity five are below calibre, but with the ex ception of Gold, football star, most of them are short in stature and find it hard to work a successful passing game against an elongated quint. A Riegels Shot. During the game there was a "Riegels” goal, so to speak, when one of the Shelby performers toss two points through the Hickory Grove basket. VILLAGE SHOEMAKER TO VISIT FRIEND COOUDGE Northampton, Mass., Jan. 6.— James Lucey, 73 year old shoemak er, sliped out of town quietly today to begin his journey to Washing ton Where he will fulfill his long delayed promise to "drop in on his friend, President Coolidge. L-ueey is the friend to whose sage advice the persident attributed his occu pancy of the White House. When “Doc” Came. How long has Dr. J. S Dori on, fair secretary and former Kiwanis president been living ing Shelby. You’ll find the answer to gether with many ether items ■ of refreshing interest in the ’ , Five and Ten Years Ago col- ' umn of The Star todav This is one of the most interesting features of the paper Read it [ every issue. Wants Farmers To Climb To 75,000 Bale Mark While He Is In Raleigh. Governor-elect O. Max Gardner, leaving his home town and county j this week for Raleigh where he will remain as governor for four ; years, today expressed one final I ambitioun for his county, the real ization of which he hopes to see while he is away. And, somewhat typical to his en tire career, that ambition is for the farmers of his county. , "My big ambition for my coun ty before my four-year term is up is to see Cleveland county farmers producing 75,000 bales of cotton an nually”, he declared. "Can Be Done” "They can do^it, too”, declared the big fellow who has been an important factor in bring the coun ty up to a 50,000-bale county. “I know they can, If they will use pure bred seed, and a well bal anced fertilizer—meaning around 700 pounds to the acre with 200 pounds nitrate of soda. Colin Ed wards has proven it to me that our farmers can reach that mar-fe He made 175 bales this year cn 140 acres. For Dairy Cows "Anothei thing I would like to see hapen in my home county while I am gone,” he continued, "is to see that every scrub bull in the county is destroyed, and every farmer owning at least two or three good milk cows, "Cleveland county has made a re markable progress in agriculture, but the end should not be yet,” World's Greatest Promoter, Once Gold Miner, Hies After Operation. Miami Beach, ' Fla., Jan. 6.— Geerge L. (Tex) Rickard, New York sports promoter, died today. He succumbed in a hospital here at 8:37 o'clock this morning to complications which set in alter an operation for the removal of his appendix New Year’s night. Mrs. Rickard. Jack Dempsey. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Field of New York, Dr. E. H. Adkins and two nurses were at the bedside when the mak er of champions passed. Rickard. accompanied by his wife and Child, came to Miami Beach recently as head of the Madison Square Garden corpora tion to superintendent the opening of a greyhound race track and to arrange for a heavyweight match between Young Stribling and Jack Sharkey. Stricken Tuesday. He was stricken Tuesday at his home, but was not removed to a hospital until that night when phy sicians diagnosed his illness as cute appendicitis. An operation was performed shortly ' after he was taken to the hospital and physi cians pronounced it successful. Rickard Called Greatest. New York, Jen. 6.—The death of George L. (Tex) Rickard in Miatrii Beach today removed from boxing a figure more powerful than cham pions, a character unique and with out a rival in the field of promo tion, and the most important single figure in the lifting of the sport from the "ham and egg” class into the field of big business. Eoasting little or no experience in sport promotion, nrobably with out ever having lifted his own hands to a position of offense or i defense, Rickard revolutionized the staging of boxing bouts. Forced in to boxing by "home town” pride in ! 1906, he staged a lightweight championship match between Bat tling Nelson and Joe Cans at Goldfield, Nevada, and ran a stake of $30,000 saved from gold mining days in Alaska mto a personal for tune of several million dollars. Sports World Mourning. New York. Jan. 6. A genuine wave of sadness and regret from friend and fee alike swept over the New York sports world today at the world today at,;,the news of the death at Miami Beach. Fla., of Tex Rickard, greatest figure in the his tory of sports promotion. Boxers, managers, rival promo ters. officials end co-wn.-kers in the Ga -dsn ;oined in expressions of tribute ti a mm 'enexcl’s re?p°'t j ed for Ms excentional ability an NEW ERA Here is a close-up made during the epic endurance flight of the Question Mark, the Army’s wonder plane. In the front cockpit, his hack to the camera, may be discerned Major Carl Spatz (inset), the commander, as he leans forward to give directions to his pilots. Shelby Beats New York City! In Having Increase “Flu ” Cases New York with Its millions may have it on the old home town of Shelby in many respects—perhaps all respects save one, and that one is that in "having the flu” Shelby surpasses New York records. One day last week New York pa pers headlined the fact that with 240 new cases of influenza reported there in one day a record for the city had been set. So much for New York. On December 14 the city schools of Shelby shut shop for the holidays because 183 new cases of influenza developed among pu pils overnight and physicians of the city say that around 100 other cases came down in the same period. At that among school children alone Shelby had only 57 new cases less in one day than New York. If that hj anything to brag about? ‘ Party Must Discard Influence Of AlSmith, One Leader Says Washington.—The future success Of the Democratic party, tar th£ opinion of Representative Box, of Texas, the new minority whip in ! the house, depends upon ridding the organization of those forces which nominated Governor Smith and controlled his campaign. Other wise, he sees a disintegration of the party beyond salvation. Box, who recently was selected Democratic whip for the remainder of the present congress succeeding the late Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, expressed this view in a letter, made public, to Franklin D4 Roosevelt, new governor of New York and political and personal friend of Smith. Roosevelt had congratulated Box on his re-elec tion and suggested the party must have a constructive program and continue to maintain a strong na tional organization. Replying, the Texas declared the situation which culminated in the nomination of Smith and Hoover and the election of the latter was a “calamitous mistake.” “If the situation and forces which nominated Governor Smith controlled the campaign continue to dominate the party,” he declar ed, “Texas and the entire south will cease to be Democratic, the eest will r.ot be controlled, the west will be permanently estranged, and the party will break up, some of its voters, going to the Republican party, others remaMng with the1 Organization and others becoming independents.” Mull Will Leave She^jy On Tuesday Representative Journeyed Down With Gardner Just Ten /Tears Ago. Repre/entative-elect Od us M. Mull will leave Shelby for Raleigh tomorrow morning, he told The Star today. Mr. Mull has repres ented the county in the legislature before and being a close friend of Governor-elect Gardner is expect ed to take a leading part in the legislative action and will likely re ceive several important committee . appointments. In Another Day. j The trip down to Raleigh this week by Messrs. Gardner and Mull is not their first one together. Many times have they Journeyed ! down together in an unofficial cap acity. but this is their second trip in an official capacity.. The files of The Cleveland Star of 10 years ago i this week show that in the first week of 1919 Lieutenant-Governor O. Max .Gardner and Representa tive Odus M. Mull were enroute to Raleigh along with Senator-elect D. Z. Newton. Firemen Here Kept On Move Four Calls, One A False Alarm, On Sunday. Blaze At Local Theatre. Shelby firemen had anything else but one of those snoozy, com fortable week-ends about the stove in the city fire department. From Saturday evening until 8 o’clock Sunday evening they answered five calls, which called for quite a bit of action in the biting wind of the cold snap. A film at' the Lyric theatre Sat urday evening early caught on fire and before the flame could be ex tinguished the film was burned and the movie machines of the show badly damaged, the Beams e?t’mating their damage around n :00. No one was injured in get ing free" the building fire trucks answered an alarm from the Turner house on Chestnut St , occupied by Mrs. Roberts, where fire from the grate burned a hole in the floor. Three or four hours later a false alarm from the Carl Thompson lumberyard, caused by the setting off of a sprinkler alarm, brought out the trucks again. Shortly after six Sunday after noon the firemen were called to the Billy Putnam home west of Shelby where a spark from an open fire shot cut cn a rug and destroy ed a suite of furniture in the en suing b^aze. Just after returning from the Putnam home the firemen were called the J. G. Dudley resid ence, at Cleve'end Spr.ngs, where the Dudley ante” >ile was ablaze 0II SATURDAY Was Said To Hare Hern Reatlny Roy's Mother When Youngster Shot. Turner Murphy, middle - aged Kings Mountain mr.n, died at his home there Saturday afternorn about 5 o'clock as the result of a bullet wound received Christmas t’av, when, according to reports, he was shot by his step-son, W. H. Murphy, who has been in the coun ty Inti here since. Kings Mountain officers in Shelby todav stated that they would tak" rp the matter cf a hearing with the solicitor diiring the day. Shot For Mather. Officer Oreel Ware declared that i ccording to information given him t ie youth, who is 17 years of pge, 1 >.d fired at his step-father after be < om'ttit angered because the step lather was abusing his (the boy's» l lother. The boy's story, the officer srud. was that his step-father came home drunk Christmas day and began abusing his mother, whereupon the youth picked up his little .52 rifle, centered it • on his step-father's breast and fired. The bullet. It was said, took effect In the exact center ol the breast but Turned lived for If) days after being shot. The youth was Jailed here on the day following the Christmas tragedy n his home. Fred Dover Slated For Trial This Week, .lodge Oglesby Preside*. What promises to be a rather ln terestinfHerm of superior court con v?ned here this morning wiUi Judge John Oglesby, of Concord, presiding. Two murders are booked for hear ing a* the term. One is that of Hen Mr'i *Hie, aged colored man. charged with fatally cutting nis daughter, Martha Megginion, some w:eks buck in the lower aectlon cf the county. T11 other Is that of W. H. Murphy, Kings Mountain youth, charged with slaying his step-father. Turner Mur phy who died Saturday from a bul let wound. This morning in gohvr over the docket the court marked the Fred Dover case, which has been on the book fer some time, for sria' at this t^m- Dover, it will be remember ed, was charged with an assault, on a prisoner while he. as a city po liceman, was taking the negro to the county Jail. Immediately after the charge was preferred he left the city police force. Follow The Oalb Judge Oglesby, whose jury charg es have attracted state-wade atten tion for their direct advice, literally “pluir talked” to he grend jury here his merning. ‘ There's a citizen on this jury from nearly every community, * or section of Cleveland couty. and If ycu men will merely live up to the oatn you take a? jurors the result will 1ae, within a limited time, a great decrease in law-breaking. The living up to the. grand jury oath by Jurors is one cf the best if not the the best crime solution possible," he declared. Dtputy Jerry Runyans Is acting nis usual role as court officer with Et,-uty Gus Jolley as the officer in charge of the grand jury. Mr. N. Fulton McGill, of Kings Mountain, is foreman of the grand jury. Lackey Garage Is ' Entered, Car Stolen Lackey’s Buick garage which was moved last week into the Gardner building on 8. LaPayette street was entered Saturday night and an Oakland lour door sedan belong ing to Mrs. R. M. Miller, of Ashe ville was stolen. The thief broke a glass in a door and entered at a late hour at night. The Oakland had been stored there for the night by Mrs. Miller who came for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Shull. Up until today no trace had been found of the missing car. FALLSTON MUSIC STORE BUYS LACKEY BU’LDING The Fallston Music store has purchased the Lackey building next door to the W. A. Gantt store and j will open Wednesday, January 9, n 1 complete line of phonographs.! rrdios. and s’ The new store «j",,l o"r ’ *■ the name of Bank Resources Here Total Over Seven Million Dollars (.ain Of Near One Million In Resources During 1928. One Over Five Million Dollars. Shelby Is now more than a seven inllllcn dollar banking town with Uiree financial institution* having resources of $7,096,628.00. at the end of the years business In 1928. ac cording to financial statements publish in The Star. Steady Gain Shown. This new total represents a gain over 1927 business of near one mil lion dollars. Total bank resources in Shelby at the end of the 1927 business were $6,193,841.21— to be exact a gain In one year of $902, 786 99. During the year one Shelby bank, the Fim National, for the first time in the history of the town surpassed the five-million resourcps mark, this figure having been reached some months ago. All three banks showed a gain in resources during the year. The First National gained $028,105.45; the Union Trust, $256,410.85; the Cleve land Bank and Trust. $8,770 59. Total resources at the close of the business year follow: First National . $5,120,572.48 Union Trust Co. $1,284,468.97 Cleveland Brnk At Trust I company . .. $681 586 75 Report Hrre Saturday Not Veri fied. Inquest Postponed Week. A report spread about Shel by streets late Saturday after nocn and evening had It that a former ritiien of this county had been arrested or ques tioned in connection with the Vanderbilt? massacre In Gas ton county recently In which flee members of the family were killed and burned. How ever, no definite information from Gastonia bears out the report in any way. Gastonia, Jan. 5.—The inquest into The death of J. W. Vanderburg his wife and three children, who were slain and their bodies burned ln^ their farm home near here eight days ago, today was postpon ed for one week due te tbd illness of C. V. Setner, a coroner’s Juror. Solicitor John G. Carpenter, prior to the callfngof the hearing, set for today, announced that it would be Impossible to proceed be cause of Mr. Setzer'a illness. When the hearing was called to order, he moved postponed until January 12. at 10 a. m. Jacob Vanderburg, only surviv ing member of the Vanderburg family, who is held osi suspicion of having slain the other five, was in the court room. He was immed iately returned to jail where he is being held without bail. Gardner Will Take “Jonah” To Capial Thing That Kept Him From Being Governor Eight Vears Back Treasured. v Don't expect Governor-elect O. Max Gardner to forget old friends In moments of triumph. Nossir, not hardly! Even be there a tinge of bitterness attached. Today as the next governor began packing up things about his office preparatory to departing for his new home in Raleigh he included in the packed articles a little framed parchment that had much to do with keeping him from being governor eight years ago instead of now. And he treasures it despite that recollection. The little frame contains a bit of paper signed by Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National Ameri can Woman Suffrage Association, tendering Mr. Gardner end hon orary membership in the associa caticn because of his noble fight for suffrage—a fight some say that kept him from being governor in 1920. At that early date the Shel by man espoused the cause of the women, but the politicians anxious to keep the women voters away from the poll did not like such a new and strange idea. Therefore, as some of the political observers saw it the Shelby candidate for governor got It in the belt for op posing the politicians who opposed the feminine vote. Of course, the women couldn’t vote then and with only the men voting their champion went down in defeat. Be that as it may the governor who goes into office this week has kept the little parchment hanging on his office wall all these years, and it will likely continue to swing near him as it has since it was pre sented him on February 16, 1920. GILDA SIIIMIES OUT OF HUSBAND'S COUNTER SUIT Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 6.—Gilda Gray, who shlmmy-shook her way to fame, may win her divorce ac tion against Oil Boag, her second husband, through default. Boag wired his attorney at Port Wash :ngton. Wis., yesterday to withdraw -ounter charges against the danc New “First Lady” Mrs. O. Max Gardner, above, this week leaves her Bhelby home lor Raleigh to preside over the execu tive mansion as Nortn Carolina's next ‘'First Lady." As Mirs Fay Lamar Webb she was one ol Shel by’s and North Carolina's most beautiful young girls, and since her marriage the attractive wile ol the governor-elect has been a so cial and civic leader of state-wide popularity. Needless to say the home town, which has known her since girlhood," expects her to be one of^ the most popular women ever to occupy the stately execu tive mansion. Gardner’s Inaugural Address Off Today Governor-Elect Completes Messrge To State Saturday. Definite „ Stand. A copy of Governor-elect O. Max Gardner’s Inaugural message, to be delivered Friday as a part of the inaugural ceremonies in Raldgh, was today forwarded to the As sociated Press bureau at Raleigh for rapid distribution to the papers of the state so that thay might be prepared to flash the message Fri day afternoon and Saturday morn ing to every newspaper in the state. On the many state issues the governor th be inaugurated tills week declares that he has taken a definite stand in his message. As to the school issue, now considered the most important in the state, he says “everyone will be able to un derstand my views when they hear or read the address.” Last Week Here. When Mr. Gardner bundled up the inaugural address, which he lias been working on for days, and departed from his law office Sat urday afternoon it maent that he had completed his last full week of business there for at least four years. School Reports Out In Few Days, Said ^ A complete financial statement of the income and disbursements of the Shelby school system, for this year will be .ready for publica tion within a few days, it was stated today by Mr. B. H. Kendall, chair man of the city school beard. "Mr. John Shanr.onhouse, the au ditor, is at work on the report now and he states that it will take him several days yet to have it.complete for publication,” Mr. Kendall in formed The Star. 1 It was also stated that the au ditor would show figures covering the income for the remainder of the year with an estimate, based on ether months, of how leng the "drools e-vtld operate this spring on ~ - - ~TT lifniini ! HAMRICK an im MIGHT TIKE S« SCHOOL HERE | Former Official Make* Suggestion. Tells Of Opposition To Levy. ^ In a communication to The Star cnent tlie recant city school flection end the crisis in the school system. T. W. Hamrick, former aidenhan and city official, once a candidate for mayor, makes the suggestion ; that when the money runs out this year that the school board present the figures to the city council along with an estimate of how much money It will take to complete the school year. If this estimate does not involve too much money the writer is of the opinion thst the board might see fit to do so although the emer gency budget for the year has al ready been recorded, Such has been done by the aldermen here in . the past, he informs in making the suggestion. wrong Time. , - Continuing the former alderman _ states that the election. In his opinion, was held at the wrong time—at taxpaying time. Also he outlines other views related to him as held by those opposed to the in creased tax levy. A statement Is also made that he does not believe the citisens want another election held, but would rather the schools would run until the money gives out and then close with the sug gestion above to the city board. Hamrick’s views. Mr. Hamrick's letter follows: "As the school board has asked for suggestions out of the dlllcmma they find themselves In—possibly It would not be out of place to discuss the school election and several other matters relating to what I consider the best interests of the town. “But before doing so, I wish it understood! that whatever X might say is not to be taken as a criti cism cf anything or anybody, but a general opinion formed from dis cussing the matter with quite a number ofwotets. ’ "I do not believe the people want an election or a petition Just now to continue the school longer than when the mcney gives out. "I als<F believe they prefer that, rather than have the schools con tinue and come out in debt. The people of Shelby believe In schools, and will vote for a higher tax rata • to continue them nine months when they are convinced they are getting their money s worth. Quite a few people, voted against the school tax. believing that the . rhcols could be run more‘econo mic ally. | Want The Figures. "As to whether they can or net few of ,us are in position to say, however it’s up to the superintend ent and school board to show, or prove to the voters that it can or cannot be done, by publishing an audit that the people can under stand. Our town has grown in the past few years, our schools have gone forward, and kept up with the , growth. 3 “The people have voted hundreds of thousands for new school build ings. The superintendent and school boards deserve much praise, but the people now feel that taxes (Continued on page ten.> Mr. Irvin Attends Daughter’s Funeral ______ .<#1 Mr. J. M. Irvin of the Trinity section of No. 2 township returned last week from Mooresvitle where he attended the funeral of his daughter, Mrs. Lester Coon, Mrs. Coen who was 40 years of age con tracted influenza which developed Into pneumonia. She leaves her husband end six children. Funeral and interment Was held at Weeley Chapel. Her many friends In this county wnere she was born' and reared will regret to hear of her passing. Besides her father, Mr. A. C. Ramsey, a brother-in-law also attended the funeral. Three Children Here In Need Of Ho; There are three young in Cleveland county who wo' predate very much a goo® home live in. The oldest is a boy of the second a girl of seven, while youngest girl is five yean of Last week the children turned over to J. B. Smith, officer at the court house, placement by the county ji court. The parents of the are in the cornty home, being a cripple and ■'* P'~f* fhy
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