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I 8 PAGES I TODAY WEDNESD’Y, FEB. G, 1929. Published Monday, Wednesday . and Friday Afternoons By man, per year <m advance) IUO % Harrinr nur vaar Hn adoaiMat MM LA TE NEWS The Markets. Cotton. Shelby _____ 19H( Cotton Seed. bu.___ lO^c More Rain, Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy with rain tonight, and possibly on roast Thursday morning. Slightly colder iiv central and west portions Thursday, Takes Wellmon Store. Mr. Basil Goode who, until the •ollapse of the McKnlght building last August, was in the retail groc ery business in that establishment, has taken over the Paul Wellmon retail grocery store, and will hence forth be the proprietor of the business. Mr. Goode took charge today. He has, he announces, laid In a new supply of goods, and will give one hundred per cent atten tion to rehabilitating this well known commercial enterprise. Daniels Heps Gardner Stand About Budget Editorial Backhand Slap At Mc Lean Draws Rapping From Governor Gardner. Raleigh, Feb. 5.—The latest rec ommendations of Governor O. Max Gardner with regard to the budget have drawn fire from Josephus Daniels and The News and Ob server. In an editorial entitled "Hig gledy-Piggledy” in Tpe News and Observer Sunday, February 3, Mr. Daniels again takes up his cudgels against the budget bureau, long the pet peeve of the former secre tory of the navy, and vigorously opposes the recommendations of Governor Gardner that the high way commission and the depart ment of agriculture be included un der the budget act. Friends of Governor Gardner are interpreting the editorial as a sort of backhand slap at former Gov ernor A. W. McLean, who was the father of the executive budget in North Carolina, and as a thinly veiled threat to Governor Gardner not to attempt to strengthen the budget act or broaden its applica tion. And Governor Gardner has intimated that he was not at all pleased with the editorial and its caustic criticism of his-recommen dations* and also that he has no intention of permitting himself to be dictated to, editorially or other wise. Exception is also taken by Gov ernor Gardner to the statement contained in the editorial that the employes of the budget bureau are t he only employes to the state that do not come under the Juris diction of the salary and wage commission, and in another por tion of the same editorial that the employes of the highway and agricultural departments are not under the salary and wage body. Statement Incorrect. "These statements are incorrect, for the employes of all these de partments are under the salary and wage commission, and their salaries have all been approved by it”, Governor Gardner said today, when asked concerning this point Objection was made in the edi torial to having the department of agriculture included under the budget, apparently on the assump tion that Henry Burke, an ac countant in the budget bureau, is the director of the budget, and (Continued on page five.) Kiwanians To Have Program on Churches Dr. H. G. Hardin Of Gastonia Methodist Church To Be Principal Speaker, "The Relationship of the Kiwanis club to the Churches of the Com munity” is the subject of the pro gram of the Kiwanis club meeting to be held Thursday night at Cleve land Springs hotel. Dr. H. G. Har din, pastor of Main street Methodist church, Gastonia, will be the prin cipal speaker and Horrce Easom will lead in some old time gospel singing. On last Thursday night Tim Crews, governor of the Carclinas district was up from Spartanburg and gave a very inspiring talk on the objectives of Kiwanis for the coming year. Rodger Allen, presi dent of the Spf rtanburg club ren dered a number of beautiful vocal selections to the delight of the mem bers present. Scout Meetings Postponed. The meeting of men interested in the Boy Scout movement which was celled for tonight in the court i »ouse after prayer meeting services. Has been postponed until nert Mon day night, on account of the weath er, according to an anouncement made today by ft M- Schiele, scout executive and Lee B. Weathers, vice president for Cleveland county.. Those who received noti'*es to at tend this meeting will please be present at the court bouse next Mondap evening. i Solicitor Fee May Not Be Decreased In County After All Mull In Letter To Cline Suggests That Defendants Pay All Fees. The proposed legislative bijl. to place the solicitor of the Cleveland county recorder's court on a salary basis or decrease his fees from the present $3 50 per conviction basis is still being lootballed about be tween Shelby and Raleigh. There are some indications now that no change whatsoever may be made in the plan of renumeration f6r the cou*t solicitor, due, perhaps, to a bit of political maneuvering. Mull’s Suggestion. The Star has received a copy of a letter written this week to A. E. Cline, county b ?iness mrnager, by Representative Odus M. Mull, in which Mr. M .11 suggests to Mr. Cline that the foe might remain at the present rate but that a proviso be inserted in the law relieving the county, which is indirectly the tax payers, from the liability of having to pay the solicitor's fees out of the treasury when there is a convic tion and the defendant gets a road term instead of paying the costs. According to the present system of the county court if a defendant is convicted and sentenced to jail or the chain gang the law reads that the solicitor’s fees must be paid by the county. If the solicitor Is not placed upon a salary basis Mr. Mull suggests that the fees remain at $3.50 but that the law be so altered as to give the solicitor his conviction fees only when the defendant is fined and pay the fine and costs, or is taxed with the costs and pay the costs, thus making it so that the county taxpayers will pay no part of the solicitor’s salary by making it necessary for the court to finance its own operation. This change to the law, It Is pointed out, would remove the liability of the county treasury be ing responsible for the fees when the costs were not paid by the de fendant, but some of the citizens supporting the movement to place th$ solicitor on a salary basis say that they favored the change with the view of lowering court costs and that a defendant to court tax ed with the costs would have just as large a court costs bill to pay by the change suggested by Mr. Mull as heretofore. The Mull Letter. Mr. Mull’s letter to Mr. Cline fol lows: “I have your letter in which you advise that you have agreed upon a compromise of the solicitors salary bill by which the fee now paid of $3.50 per case Is to be reduced to $2JS0 per case. I presume that you are interested in saving the coun ty expense and with that In view call to your attention that chapter 435, public local laws, 1821, section 4, provides as follows: “Fees for County Solicitor $3.50. Said fee to be taxed against the defendant and when collected shall be paid to the county solicitor provided however that in all cases where the defend ant Is convicted or pleads guilty and is sentenced to be confined In jail or to work on the public roads, or for any other reason the de fendant fails or being unable to pay the costs, then the county shall pay the county solicitor his full fee of $3.50 in said case.” “If you have definitely decided not to place the solicitor on a sal ary basis it seems to me that It would be better to leave the fee at T3.50 when it is paid by the de fendant but change the proviso so that In such cases as the county loses the costs that no fee shall be charged against the county so that the county tax-payers will not have to pay any part of the salary of county solicitor. Write me at once relative to this.” isanaying adoui. Among the supporters of the proposed bill to place the solicitor on a salary basis or lower his fees there is a fear that the entire pro* posal may be bandied • about until the session of legislature is over. The controversy first arose when Representative Mull received a bill from the commissioners proposing a change in the law whereby the solicitor would be placed on a fixed salary. Soon after the proposed change was made public opposition developed to the bill among law yers of the town, and a hearing was asked before a legislative com mittee In the meantime private citizens filled several petitions with names and forwarded them to Raleigh •Hiring Representative Mull to pass the bill and see that the people were represented properly at the hearing. But insofar as is known the] committee hearing failed to ma Groundhog Gets Terribly “Sore’' Sir Groundhog, the weath er predicting marmot, most have become terribly peeved last Saturday when he peep ed oat of his hole and saw his shadow. Tuesday morning Shelby and surrounding section awoke to find the ground blanketed In one of the heav iest snows in years, the snowfall starting early in the night Monday and continu ing. Tuesday and Tuesday evening sleet fell, then more snow, then rain, most of which froze. Today and last night the rain continued with the result that Shelby is e« perienctng some of the worst weather in a long time. Such is the groundhog— mebbe. terialize, the next move known to the public being a suggestion from the county board, after a confer ence with local lawyers, to Mr. Mull that instead of placing the solicitor on a salary basis a com promise agreement made by them was to reduce the fees for the sol icitor from $3.50 to $2.50. Nothing more was heard of either proposed bill and general presumption was that the bill low ering the fees would supplant the bill placing the solicitor on a sal ary basis. That is, such was the presumption until Mr. Mull’s sug gestion by letter was received yes terday. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Cline said that he had not received his copy of the Mull letter yet and nat urally would wait until he read and considered If before expressing his opinion about the suggestion. As It is, citizens of the county con siderably Interested in the pro posed change, or changes, are awaiting new developments. ^ Will Operate Two Pool Halls Here Long And Robinson To Maintain Old Stand And New Hotel ' Parlor. In stead of moving their cigar store and billiard parlor from Its present location, corner Sumter and South LaFayette streets, to the new Hotel Charles building, Messrs. H. O. Long and J. R. Robinson an nounce that they will operate a billiard parlor at both locations.'* The new billiard room will be opened in the Hotel Charles build ing about the first of March, they state, and the old stand will re main open also. The management of their billiard hall by the two former athletes has been considerably praised in Shelby since the round-up by O. O. Goben, the "undercover man,” who corralled several so-called bootleg gers. Goben, it is said, seemed to have the prevalent idea that most of a town’s bootlegging activities are carried on about a pool room, and he spent his first several days and nights about the Cleveland Cigar store, operated by Long and Robinson. After a couple of fruit less days there he began to cir culate in other sections ol the town to round-up his victims, the opera tors of the store declared. A lunch stand will not be operat ed in the new billiard parlor in the hotel building as was previously announced, Mr. Robinson states. Honors For Natives Of Cleveland County Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll Heads Academy Of Medicine. Har relson Talked. One Cleveland county native has been honored recently in Raleigh, in the person of Dr. Della Dixon Carroll, daughter of the late Rev. Tom Dixon, saintly pioneer min ister of this section, and another county native may be honored in Col. JL W. Harrelson, who came from the Lawndale section. Dr. Carroll, the first woman to be honored, was recently elected president of the Raleigh Academy of medicine. , Col Harrelson, now connected with State college and regarded, says the News & Observer, as the most likely successor to Wade H. Phillips as director of the state de partment of conservation and de-, velopment. ' J Local People Rank High In Paying Taxes Only Three Counties In State Ad vertise Less Property For Unpaid Taxes. In addition to having one of th lowest county-wtde tax rates in th state with an unusually low C06t o, tax collection, Cleveland countj citizens are ranked by the Uni versity News Letter as among the best tax-paying citizens In the state. In fact, in 1928 only three coun ties in North Carolina’s one hun dred advertised less property for sale due to unpaid taxes than did Cleveland county. Below One Percent. Taxes advertised during the yeai in the county totalled only $5,282 or Just ninety-eight, one-hundredth' of one per cent of the total tas levy in the county. The four counties In the state advertising less than one per cen were Northampton. Camden, Cho wan, and Cleveland. In Burke 6.49 per cent of the ta: levy is advertised; in Lincoln 6.2 per cent; in Mecklenburg 7.60 pe cent; In Catawba 12.54 per oen and in Rutherford 12.57 per cent. Although only four counties ac’ vertised less than one per cent o the total tax levy there were 3 counties which advertised mor: than ten per cent of their ta: levies, while five counties adver tised in excess of 25 per cent of the total tax levies. Mayor Wants Lady To Be More Specific Mayor Dorsey receives many let ters, soms commending him for his efforts to enforce law and others offering criticism of one nature and another. Some of these letters are unsigned. One letter In particular, signed "A Friend Indeed “ and received a few days ago suggests that the po lice department be set to work to correct a certain evil which the lady contends exists. Mayor Dor sey says the lady writes a most In telligent letter and seems to know what she is talking about, but the clue Is not sufficient and be pro poses that if she will give her name to him, together with sufficient in formation to set the wheels of jus tice to work on the case, the mat ter will be promptly attended to and that the lady’s name will be withheld even from the police de partment. The information she gives will be treated in the strictest confidence and the evil will be ferreted out, but the clue which she was fur nished is insufficient, he says. Two Half Sister And Half Brother Survive The Star was misinformed aa to the survivors of Mrs. Amanda Mc Brayer Logan, widow of R B. Mc Brayer who was burled here Sun day from the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. N. Dorsey, when It stated in Monday’s Issue that she wrs the last of the John R Logan .family. She leaves one half brother, Sheriff Hugh Logan and two half sisters, Mrs. J. A, Ellis and Mrs. Jim Irvin. The Star regrets that Its Informa tion was incorrect in this particular. Hords Donate Books For Boiling Springs Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hord and daughters, of Waco, yesterday con tributed 25 books to the Boiling Springs library through The Star. Day by day more books continue to come in as a result of the drive and it is hoped to have the required quota of 2,000 by the end of the spring term. Marriage Record At S. S. “Gretna Green” Couples from this section securing marriage license in Gaffney, S. C., last week were: Charles Wright and Myrtle Mill wood, both of Shelby; Jesse Powell and Birdie Stacey, both of Hen erietta; Chivious Lovelace and Mat tie Ramsey, both of Kings foun tain. Notice To Taxpayers In City Of Shelby In an advertisement in today’s Star the City of Shelby warns local taxpayers that these who have street and sidewalk assessments due and past due must pay the city wit ^ in a short time or th-»ir proper ty will be legally advertised, Photo Of Late Mrs. Rafe King Mysterious Mid so-called baffling elements In the death of Mrs. Ring, pictured above, at Sharon, S. C., a week ago Friday, considered a suicide at the time, caused South Carolina officials to arrest her husband. Mach Building On Oser Shelby In Two Months Permits For $66,000 Worth Of Building In December And Janwary. _ Despite the ordinary slack In building during the winter months permits were Issued by E. A. Ruda sill, building Inspector, for $66,240 worth of building In December and January. A total of 25 permits for con struction and remodelling was is sued, there being very few large buildings, tne permits for the most part being for residences and al tering of buildings already up. Among the larger building for which permits were granted for the two months were the $25,000 brick garage being erected on East War ren street by Attorney D, Z. New ton, a warehouse being erected on South Morgan by the Southern Cotton oil firm, a big warehouse on Seaboard avenue by the O. E. Ford company, and the remodeling of the handsome George Blanton resi dence on West Marion street. Residences Going Up. Among the residential permits were the following: E. E. Scott brick residence. East Marion street; Carl Thompson, frame dwelling, Thompson street; W. R. Newton, jr„ frame dwelling, Graham street; Alex Bell, frame dwelling, Pinkney street; Paul Bridges, frame dwel Will Complete College Drive Among Baptist Baptists Set Aside Last Week In March To Collect Boiling Springs Pledges. At a meeting Monday of this week of the pastors and workers of | the King Mountain Baptist assoc iation and a committee from Boil ing Springs, the last week in March from the fourth to the fifth Sunday, was set aside for a cam paign In the Kings Mountain as sociation to collect the pledges al ready made and to get new pledges for the Junior college. Many of the pledges remain nnpaid and the goal set was never reached, so the fourth week in March will have a two fold 'purpose—that of collecting unpaid pledges and securing new ones. The pastors and workers re-or ganised and elected Rev. D. P. Putnam as president and H. E, Waldrop as secretary. The time of meeting has been changed from 1:30 p. m. to 2 o'clock on Monday after the first Sunday in each month. ___ ling;, Highway 18; N. B. Gladden, two frame dwellings, Hudson street; Joe Cook Washburn, composition dwellings, Mint street; J. D. Pos ton, frame dwelling; Carl Thomp son, frame dwelling, corner War ren street. Carnes, Church Embezzler, Gets 5 To 7-Year Sentence Pleads Guilty Of Embezzling Charge. “Off Light” De clares Judge. Atlanta, Oa„ Feb. 6.—Clinton 8. Carnes, former treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mlsson Board, whose disappearance late last summer led to the discovery of an alleged shortage of nearly a million dollars in his accounts and his subsequent arrest hi Canada, pleaded guilty in superior court here yesterday to embezzlement. I His plea was to one indictment charging theft of (60,000 and he was sentenced immediately to serve not less than five nor more than seven years imprisonment. Twenty indictments in all had been return ed against him. Solicitor-General John A. Boykin* told the court that he had decided to accept the recommendation of the Baptist Home Mission Board that Carnes be permitted to plead Tuilty. He agreed to this, he said ■nly on the condition that the oth er indictments aga’nst him be at tached in the form of memoranda1 and that If he attempts to seek a .pardon before the minimum sen tence Is served, prosecution will be started on the other bills. Will Drop Others. If Carnes does not apply for a pardon before serving the mini mum term. Boykin said the other indictments would be nol prossed. Arthur G. Powell and Rev. L. R, Christie, who represented the Home Mission Board, had agreed to the plea of guilty. Powell, in address ing the court, said that Carnes had deeded everything he had to the board. This deed, he said, would take care of any further shortage that might be discovered by audit/rs. In passing sentence, Judge Virlyn B. Moore said that in his opinion Carnes was “getting off light, per haps lighter than he deserves." Whether he will be sent to the State Prison farm at Milledgeville or sentenced to a county chaingang will be decided by the State Prism) cmmiss'on Cam2s had been held in the nunty tail here in defau’t of bond since his arre't hi Winnipeg, Manitoba, last, September. Falls Sees Nothing Pointing To Foul Play In King Case No Lysol Odor About Bottle Near Her Body More Dr tailed Tmtlmony About Miji. Kate King’* Death In York Paper. une oi me mis or testimony In the Mr*. Rate King Inquest at Sharon Monday that seemed a bit mysterious is related in the York ville Enquirer’s account of the in quest—being the testimony of one witness that the empty bottle found near the body of Mrs King in the outhouse did not have the odor of lysol although physicians declared that in their autopsy the odor of lysol 4'as detected about her. The complete testimony of Rafe King on tl.e stand, as reported by James D. Grist in the Yorkviile En quirer, follows: Rafe B. King, sworn, said: That morning was sick. We did not get up until about 8 o’clock. Mr. 8. T. Ferguson's little girl called She got up, and I tried to but was sick. She prepared a cup of coffee and an egg for me I didn’t feel like eat ing it. I had eaten a can of sal mon the night before. She told me I was going to stay in bed. She gave me two capsules and one aspirin tablet between 9 and 10 o’clock. After she gave me the tablets she kissed me and said: "I won’t be here to wake you up." I told her I should take only one; but she said, "Two won’t hurt you.” She started off to Mrs. 8. T. Fer guson's for milk. I waked up around a o'clock. My bull dog was bark ing. 1 saw little Alex Bigham. He put some wood on the fire. X was suffering. Alex said he would call Dr. Burruss. It wasnt long before the doctor came. He gave me med icine in a glass and stayed with me an hour or an hour and a half. I I got up about dark when my' wife didn’t come. I thought she ought to be there. It, wasn't long before Rossie B. Ferguson came in and asked for "Miss Faye.” It was about first dark when I started searching for her. I was in my underclothes. I called for Uncle Bob Wilson, a colored man; but he didn’t answer. She had several times made threats to kill herself. She had said that she would die before she moved to the farm. She said it kill ed my mother and father and will kill us. I had fixed up the house on the farm before Christmas. We had talked about moving back to Shelby also. I had told Mr. Sam; Pratt I didn't know what to do—1 that my wife said she would die before she moved to the farm. I put on my clothes and went to Mrs. Ferguson’s first. I went through the kitchen to get my over coat. I paid no attention to any thing. I went right out the back (Continued on page eight.) Dogs Easy Found In Cleveland Now Rewards Bring In More Dogs Than Were Lost. Change From Old Days. Thanks to Cleveland Star adver tising or a change in viewpoint among the people, lost dogs are far easier to recover in Cleveland county now than in the old days. Of recent months, since the open ing of the hunting season, many lost and strayed, and occasionally stolen dogs have been recovered through “penny column ads" In The Star. This week and last week a couple of dog owners stated that their notices of reward 'n The Star, brought in more dogs than they needed, and not their own dogs at that. One man who has lost his dog was notified this week that his dog was at three different places, but neither of the three dogs proved to be that particular lost bird dog. Limestone College Blaze Frightens . Gaffney, S. C., Feb. 5.—Limestone college was quickly emptied of girls late yesterday afternoon when an • alarm of fire sounded. A blase on the roof brought two trucks from the city fire department, and within less than ten minutes the danger was over. A few rooms in the domltory underneath the threaten ed spot were swept by water. I Bail Rttripi Tomorrow Mom Opinion Hero la That Of Suicide. Judge B. T. Falla, Shelby attor ney, who haa been employed aa on of the counsel for Rafo King, ear see nothing to indicate foal play ft the death of Mrs. Rafe King W ! Sharon, South Carolina, Friday ' week ago. Mr. Falla spent yesterday hi Tort in conference with Mr. Thomaa F McDow, York criminal, lawyer wh< haa also been employed by King and In consultation with thei; client. Many "There is nothing In tM testl mony given at the inquest, whlcl we reviewed, that would point U foul play as I,can see." the Shelb; attorney stated in his office here today after his visit to York and his conference with King In the Mr Dow law office. There are man} rumors of this and that about the Sharon section, the attorney point ed out. but rumors and the actua testimony of the inquest are tw< altogether different matters. Hearing Thursday. "Application for ball," Mr. Fall said, "will be made Thursday morn ing before Judge R» C. Watts South Carolina chief Justice, at Laurens, 8. O. I do not think I will go down for the application hear ing and Mr. McDow will represen our interests.* * Judge Watts. Incidentally, la the man for whom the state of Soutl Carolina cast one of Its preslden tial votes In the Democratic eon ventlon at Houston. Mr. McDov King's counsel at York, Is a broth er-in-law of Judge Herlot Clark ; son of the North Carolina supreme court.and is ranked as on* o South Carolina's most able bards ten. i it was agreed fay Solicitor J. Lyle Glenn, of Chester, representing th state of South Carolina, and King's counsel, Mr, Palls said, that the ap plication for ball before Judge Watts would be made upon the written testimony taken at the In quest. In placing the date ef the hearing for Thursday Solicitor dlenp also agreed to waive notice of application far .a hearing, a move whereby be could have legally de layed the ball hearing for 10 days. Antic!pales Success. The Shelby attorney stated "I can see no reason why. Judge Watts should refuse ball after he hears the inquest testimony. And no par ticular trouble Is anticipated in raising the bend for Rate lf.lt Is granted.” Local Opinion.. The statement that bond motley could be reproduced makes it worthy of mention that in and around Shelby where King la well known . the' vast majority of the people do not believe for a moment that he killed his wife. Shelby, peo ple. although admitting- that there are certain mysterious circum stances surrounding the present general knowledge at Mrs. King’s death, take no stock whatsoever in the many rumors afloat in that section as to foul play whereby her husband Is connected. One legal, problem which might develop may prove some hindrance to securing ball. It would only be natural that the defendant would want to return'to the home of his relatives here If ball is granted, but such, some point out, would mean that he would have to man the state line moving from one state to another, and that might prove a legal barrier. “Pm Innocent” King Tells Newspapermen Probabl£ Statement About In Home Brought Up Inf Inquest. (Charlotte Observer.) York. S. C., Feb. 5.-Belief that a robber killed his wife, Mrs. Faye Wilson King, Is held by Bate King, imprisoned in York county Jail charged with.her murder. It was learned today fqom au thentic sources that King express ed that opinion yesterday to a pri vate statement to the York county coroner's jury investigating the death of the Sharon high school teacher whose body wag found to an outbuilding near her home m January 26. Before going to ti* Jury with his confidential ment. King had testified p that he believed his wife M bed suicide. , After all testimony bad been given and the Jury had retired. (Continued on page eighty | |