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10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV. No. 22 Til K CLKVKLANI) STAR S1IKLBY. N. C. WKDNESD’Y, FEB. 20. 1929. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons Z™"'£rT£ SaSS g£ LA TE NEWS The Markets. Colton Shelby _ „____19!ic Cotton Seed. bu. _ 'Jttl^c Cloudy And Rain. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy and probably rain tonight and Thursday. Slightly colder tonight. Colder Thursday. Young Prodigy Program. A unique entertainment is an nounced for Saturday afternoon at four o'clock in court square. A six year-bid violinist, Master ltaskill Hendrick, son of Mr. ai d Mrs. George Hendrick, will give a recital. He will play, it is announced, on the court house steps. The child is said to be a musical prodigy. Gardner Will Not Name Pal To Higher Job Raleigh Talk Is That Governor Mill Not Show Home-Town Favoriti* m. Politicians close t o Governor Gardner, here in his home town, do not believe that he will appoint Representative Odus M. Mull, also of Shelby, commissioner of revenue, if R. A. Doughten. p - •« ni holder of the position, gets his rumored promotion. But they contend that he might pull a modern Diogenes, take a high-powered searchlight and look a lot further, only to do worse. . The first belief is based on the well kneWn fact that Governor Gardner is not only avoiding favor itism, but even tire appearance of favoritism. Right now the executive is bless ed with almost complete harmony on the part of his Legislature. Ap parently his indorsement ot any measure is a near guarantee that the measure will pass tire assemble. The administration, all the way round, is running like a well tiled machine. And Gardner is net going to take any chance of sifting sand into the bearings by actually, or seemingly, allowing personal.friend ships to influence his actions. "I do not intend to appoint any Shelby men to office," he is report (Continued on page nine.) County Couples At S. C. Marriage Mart Tlie following couples from this section secured marriage licenses last week at Gaffney, South Caro lina: Robert Bridges and Lalage Green, both of Boiling Springs; Abram Daves, of Mooresboro, and Moddie Ramsey, cf Lattimore; Ernon Bridg es and Vernie Dycus. both_pf Ellen boro: Clarence Sanders and Ocie Wilkie, both of Shelby; Lessie Hum phries, of Boiling Springs, and Paul ine Addington, Shclbv. City To Sell Bonds In Sum Of $100,000 Sealed bids will be received at the city hall at noon, March 5th on $100,000 city bonds authorised last year when the city began its pre gram of sewer extension and elec tric light and power plant itnprove ments. Of this amount $70,000 worth are sewer bonds to pay for the septic tank and line extensions and $110,000 for improvement, of the pleetrie light plant. T'm bonds will bear not exceeding five per cent interest. Maturity date fer the sew er bonds are at stated periods up to 1968, while the electric light bonds mature along year after year until 1956. Girl In Rum Car Terms He-self As Sheriff’s Daughter Gets Plastered With Fine Anyhow. Dees Not Want Folks To Know. Thelma Harper, a rather attract ive girl of about 20 years, arrested In a bcoze car on Highway 20 last night by Deputies J. L. Dixon and M. A. Jolley, will trke a jail sen tence here instead of paying the court fine rather th~n let her peo ple in Tennessee know of her plight, it being said that the young girl declared last ni'Tht that she was the daughter of a Tennessee sher iff. The girl was in a car with Vard Willirmson, who was charged with driving while intoxicated. About three pints of whiskey were found in the car together with some whis key said to be hid on the girl's per son. Williamson had been in court on similar charges before and was sentenced to three months on the roads with his car ordered sold The fjf girl was fined $25 and the costs. Following court, it is said she in formed officials that she cruld not rrise the money her elf and would rather take a jail seot-»n~e ft'-'n in form her people, of the trouble she -vas in. Richards Will Quit As Chief ; Rumor Has It | No Formal Resignation Held. I n ; dcrstood To Have Another Position. Poliee Chief A. I . Richards, head of the Shelby police department, will likely resign his position at the end of this month, or soon there-. I alter., to accept a position else where, according to general rumors on the street today, i Chief Richards was out of town i on business both yesterday and to day and could not be reached by j The Star to v’nfv or deny the fu 1 mor. However, those in close touch j with the police head state that they j have heard that he was planning ' to resign to accept another ppsi i tinn Nothing Forma!. At the City tin!! Mayor VV. N Dorsey, when queried, stated that ; Chief Richards so far lias filed no I formal resignation, although the Mayor seemed to have heard the rumor that, he might do so Since no formal resignation ha ; ■ been filed it was understood at the City Hall that no application, are . being considered until more devel ops than a rumor. Chief Richards came to Shelby j from Morganton when Mayor Dor ! sey took office and succeeded Mr. B O. Hamrick as police chief, hav ing held the office since that time, and having proved quite popular in tlte city. Municipal Gas | Plant Talked, j No Action Yet Would I.ike To Know How Many Would L'se Gas. However, Before Plant Is Built. The city fathers last night gave consideration to a municipally own ed gas plant. No steps were taken ill view of the fact that prelimin ary investigation has not been made, but at the next meeting to be held the first Tuesday night in March. they will tell Engineer Bishop of Charlotte whether they want him to make a survey of the town in order to get information on which they can determine whether it would be a wise step or not. Survey Proposed. Engineer Bishop proposed last | night to make a survey of Shelby, j a survey that would be compre- ; hensive in that it would show the ! freight rates, bank resources, mim i ber of homes, business and indus | trial plants, locate available sights ; for a plant, determine as near as I possible the number of people w ho I would buy gas for heating pur I poses and then furnish an estimate j on the cost of a plant and make a schedule of gas rates which would have to prevail in order to make it self-supporting. The only obligation which the city would have to Mr. Bishop would be to employ him in the event the city decided to build. Mr. Bishop would charge the custom ary five per cent on cost for de tailed plans and specifications. Independent corporations have sought a gas franchise from the city for a year or more, but each time they have been turned down. The city lathers are unanimous in their opinion that if Shelby does have a gas plant, it would be muni cipally owned and operated just as the present w ater and light plants are controlled. The officials are giving consid eration first to the survey and will determine two weeks hence wheth er they w ill have it done or not. Morris Sells Store And Fountain Here Casev Morris, high school coach i , who has been the owner and opera- ! tor of "Casey's Place" in the Union j bank building, has sold his mer- j chandise to II. D. Jolley of Ashe- i ville who has taken charge and j w ill ope-ate the place as the Shel- j by Cigar company, wholesale and | retail. Mr. Jolley says he will make j of it an up-to-date cigar store and ! cater both to the wholesale as well j as the retail trade. The fountain ! will be continued. Mr. Jolley has been ‘ connected | with the BaYbee-Clark company, wholesale cigar dealers ol Asheville; and is well known in Shelby where! he has often come in the capacity j of a traveling salesman He will! move hie family here shortly. A new plate glass show front is j being put in the store room which he occupies 1 Actress-Esauty Fights for Life ■MtMaMMPMs ' itwcwVww... . — -- , ...... Alma Rubens, whose lirautv raptured (he world, lies fighting for life a shadow of her former se'f due to the drag habit. Revelations as to the etent Co which the drug habit had been earried by Alma Rubens and her desperate battle to hold life and reason have shocked the film col ony. (International Newsreel.) Dortcn Has Doubled Assets Of County Fair, Report Says Seventeen Thousand Dollars Which Started Fair Five Years Back Has' Grown Into Twice That Much Value In Buildings, Equipment And Cash. The Cleveland County Fair association, which was worth Just $17, 374 89 in 1924 when it was organized and that much stock subscribed, is now worth $34,953.29. according to the report made to stockholders here this week by ,J. S. Dorton, secretary. In other words, the fair in five years under the managership of Secretary Dorlon and President A. E. Cline has doubled in value, the mrst of which hrs been turned back into the fair grounds and buildings with the result that the Cleveland County Fair association now owns one of the best ahd most modcrnly ec;uipped exposition tracts in tlur south. To Continue. The fair, so to speak, started off with nearly nothing, arid while the average county fair was losing moil j ey and going out of business the fair here was making a profit each year with the profits going back in to buildings and attractions which last year culminated in one of the largest farm gatherings in the South. Every year of the five years shews a profit on the proper side of the ledger. The least profit of any yen: came in 1920 when the net profit; ran less than $1,000, for the only | time. Auditor's Report. The auditor's report of the fair i condition, made by J W. Hendrix | certified accountant, shows that the: original prid in stock was $17,374 - j 89. The buildings, rate track, water ' and. lighting systems, fixtures, etc., | now owned by the fair association ! total $'13.i5f9.C2 and every bit of this is paid for with the association ow ing no man or firm a cent of mon ey. $0,450.44 is subtracted from the rbeve total for amortization during the 20-year period the fair has the tract of land leased, leaving prop erty assets of S34.230.18. Added to! these assets, all paid for, is $723.21 j cash in the bank, or a total of $34, 958,39 Yearly Net Profits. The net profits of the live fairs] by years follow : 1924 .. . . $3,277.17 1925 .... $3.744.H 1223 ........ ___._ $. 013.02 ; 1927 ___ . $3.90143; 1923 . . . $2,(3384” * Shelby Cloth Being Used Now For Airplanes Shelby products are now being used in the country's latest manufaetWjed product —airplanes—according to a statement from tire Eastside Manufacturing company, lo cal textile plant. The Eastside plant, one of the Dover chain, has been working upon an order of cloth for a Philadelphia firm to be used in covering air plane wings. Some months back when bids were being made for airplane doth the Eastside plant rushed a sam ple if its material by mail air plane from Spartanburg to New York for the bidding. I Popular George Smymios Died \ At Noon Today _ ' Naturalised Greek Operator Of ; ( andv Shop lUggest-Hearted (Ittien Of Town. •'George of the Chocolate shop"-— formally known as George Smyr* : I nios --one of Shelby's most popular j | citizens, died at noon today In the; i Shelby hospital i The death of the big-hearted, j | "candy man" followed a couple of j ! serious operation last week and ■, double pneumonia which developed ■ later. , _ Generally Loved. — ■'George of the Chocolate shop,' as he was known, was a Shelby character, perhaps the most popu lar of all Shelby characters. Six or seven years ago, perhaps farther back, he came here to operate a fruit and candy store with Moses George and others. Several years back he opened his “Chocolate Shop," a rendezvous for young and old on South LaFayettc street, and there he became a town figure. He loved little children and fetv tots ever visited his store and left with out being given something, and scores of his friends often wonder ed how he managed to make a suc cess of business as he seemed to give away more than he sold. Kind hearted, sympathetic. Jovial and Intelligent he was to a small town the mwt popular man of foreign blood the town ever knew. He at tended regularly the Hoey Bible class at Central Methodist Church. Two years or so ago he became a naturalized American citizen in | federal court here before Judge E. i Y. Webb, and at the time created several newspaper stories over his reply to the question as to who was governor of North Carolina. “X can't tell you who he is now, but I can tell you who will be the next one—O. MaxN Gardner.’ George passed the test. In his early days In America George was a wrestler of some prominence and during his athletic career he suffered a ruptur* that troubled him in later life. Last week he decided to go to the local hospital for an appendicitis opera tion and also for an operation for I his rupture while there. The dou ble operation proved too much for him and double pneumonia set In For two or three days the mast skilled surgeons and physicians in this vicinity have been cooperating vainly with hospital surgeons In the attempt to save his life. A brother, who lived in the east ern section of the country and who was making a part of the trip here by airplane, was expected to arrive this afternoon. Body To Shop. Prior to entering the hospital, George felt as if he would not re cover and left orders for his em ployees in the popular soda and candy rendezvous to keep his shop closed for one week if he did not return. He also requested that if he died that his body be brought back in front of the candy shop, where he made hundreds of friends, and be left there for at least three to five minutes. Under no cir cumstances was he to be buried elsewhere than Shelby he request ed before dying. The funeral services will likely be conducted with Masonic honors as i he became a member of the Cleve land lodge several years back. ! Funeral arrangements were not i complete at press time today but It ; is thought that the funeral will be 1 conducted here Friday. Shelby High To Play Forest City For Group Cage Honors Game In Spindale Friday Night. Locals Defeat Claremont Quint. The Shelby high and Forest City basketball quints, athletic rivals of long standing, will face each other Friday night on the Spindalc court for the basketball title of group eight and the honor of represent-! ing this district in the state cage j race. The two teams moved to the final group game last night—Shel- J by by defeating Claremont, con querors of Fallston. 19-9, and For-j r.;t City bv eliminating the strong) Cliffside quint. Expect Close Game. All the odds point to Forest City i eliminating the locals in the Spin-, dale game Friday night, the game j to start at. 8 o'clock. However, sup- j porters of the Morris-Falls quint are hoping for a surprise -and are} assured of a close, exciting game .lue to the remarkable improvement I ainde by the Shelby quint within the last week. For the first time ! this season the highs seem to have their eyes on the basket and are exhibiting their best teamwork. Twice before this season they have gone down in defeat before Forest City and the best Shelby has will be pitted against the flashy Ruth erford outfit Friday night. In defeating Claremont here last night the Shelby quint had quite an up-and-down time Bridges, star guard, and Wall, regular for ward, were out of the game at the start as was Farris, first guard sub stitute. And at the end of the first half the determined Claremont quint had the edge. But the final half saw Bridges and Wall back at thetr positions, despite the fact that they were not in the best of health, and Eskridge was shot in at center. From that period on the missing teamwork returned and with Eskrtdge and Capt. Gold playing a stellar game the final count as 19 to 9 with the locals swinging the big end of the score. Edison Visited Monazite Region Many Years Back Hark when thr ninnartlr mining Industry was In Its hfj-d«y In Mils section of North Carolina Thomas A. Edison. llir famous Inventor, marir a trip to thr sort Ion to *erk a rrrtaln mineral. having heard of thr many nilnrral deposits In thr foothills and mountains of thr Stair. This was rrrallrd hrrr today dur ing a discussion of thr at tempt to revive the mono*Hr Industry. Edison visited Sit. Ilollv, Iron station and other near by points 21 years ago, search ing for cobalt, a nilnrral hr using in his storage bat irry (mention for.strrrt cars yrlor to the automohllr rra, County Makes Nearly A Bale On Every Acre Cleveland County T'armers Averagr 410 rounds Of Unt Colton To The Aere. » _____ The cotton farmers of Cleveland county, N. C., averaged tiearly a bale to the acre last year, leadin' the state In total number of bales harvested and undoubtedly in aver age yield per acre as well. The average per acre In this county was 410 pounds of lint cotton. While production of a bale to the acre by individual farmers is not uncommon in any cotton growing community, the fact that a whole county averaged nearly a small bale to the acre indicates that the farm ers are using farming methods that ; brings results. | A report has been received from one section of the county saying i that In a section where more than j 700 acres of cottcai were grown, the i farmers used from 000 to l.oot pounds of fertilizer analyzing eithei 9 per cent phosphoric acid, 5 pei cent nitrogen, and 4 per cent pot ash, or 12 per cent phosphoric acid 4 per cent nitrogen, and 4 per cent potash. Where the latter analysis was used, a top-dressing of soluble nitrogen was also used after the cotton bad been worked out the first, time. These analyses, or oth ers ranging in about the same pro portions of plant food, are very popular with farmers of Cleveland county, and their use in increasing each year. Gurley Locates To Do Plumbing Here Sanford Plumber And Heating Con tractor Established Himself here for Business. W. H. Gurley who has just com pleted the plumbing and heating in the New Charles hotel bundin'; has decided to locate in Shelby where he will do a general plumbing and heating business. Mr. Gurley comes to Shelby from Sanford. He has executed some of the larger jobs in the state, including edu cational buildings at the State col lege. Raleigh and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has not been confined to North Carolina, but has included South Carolina and Plant City, Fla. Mr. Gurley is temporarily located in the old hotel sample room to the rear of the New Charles hotel. The Blanton estate, which owns this property, will fix it up shortly for an up-to-date show room and work shop for Mr. Gurley, Mr. Gurley ts also doing the plumbing and heating in the new residences of Geo. Blanton and J D. Llnebcrger, now under construc tion. Mr. Putnam Gets Books For Library Fifty-two books for the Boiling Springs college library were recent ly collected by Mr. J. L. Putnam, a friend of the school. Those con tributing books through Mr. Put man were: Gertrude Street, four books; Ollie Mae Putnam. 10: Jes sie Humphries, one; J. R. David son, two: Mrs. Cecil Humphries, two; J. L. Putnam, 15; J. S. Bell, one; Mrs. D. B. Hughes,''seven; Mrs. S. B Hamrick, four: Mrs. Clyde Bridges, two; W. H. McSwain, four. Banks To Observe Feb. 22nd As Holiday All of the Shelby banking insti tutions will observe Friday Febru ary 22 as a holiday and will there fore be closed. This is Washing ton's birthday and is a legal holi dav throughout the country. Search Spreads For i Boxer After Victim j Dies From Wounds Sought For Killing Kin1’ HORNIll'CKI.r Industry Here Brings In Over 15Million Year Over 4 000 People Employed In Industrial Plant i Of Cleve land County. The industrial output of t lev rland county In 1927, according to figures compiled by the De partment of Conservation and Development, reached the big sum of $15,306,57.7. With the value of live county output going over fifteen million dollars on'y 13 of the 100 North Carolina countirs had a larger output value. Neighboring coun ties, which exceeded this county were figs ton with an output of *03,125,28'). Catawba with S17. 040,001, and Rutherford with Me.3M.S1J. The total output of Burke, county in 1977 was val ued at 312,035,268, and that of I.incoin was valued at $3,423, 776, 57 Plants Industry. The report showed that Clev eland county has 52 manufac turing or industrial establish ments, which added $5,892,592 to the total county output during the year. These 52 establishments, ac- i cording to the statistics, work j 1,231 people and the wages paid them during the year totalled j $3,052,000. In other words em ployees of Cleveland county manufacturing plants had an annual payroll, two years ago, , of over three million dollars. ! Cleveland has 15 more indus trial plants than Rutherford and works nearly 100 more peo ple in these plants, but the manufacturing plants of Ruth erford bring In over six million per year. i Trying To Free City Of Prostitute Women Landlord Are Indictable For Rent Ins To Lewd YVontrn, Mayor Finds Out. An effort is being; made to rid the city of prostitute women, and landlords who rent properly to such characters will be brought into play to help drive them out. says Mayor Dorsey. The mayor says he has found out that it a viola tion of the law for a landlord to continue to rent his property to i lewd women after he has been noti fied by officers that they are of such character. Mayor Dorsey has received many complaints from citizens, mostly unsigned letters from women, ask ing that something be done to clean up the immoral spots. The police department is and has been at work, trying to get sufficient evid ence to convict and what has been done iS only a beginning of what they hope to- accomplish along this line. “As bad as I hate bar-rooms, I think the lewd women that arc here are a greater menace to the morals and health of the young people," declared Mayor Dorsey. Important Meeting Of Masons Friday The regular meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. Friday night of this week will be an Im portant one, it is announced, and every member of the ledge is urged to be present to discuss the vital business to be taken up Wound On Hoad Made By Kid llornhucklo Causes Death I Of Scruggs. I - -- j The deadliest punch in the ca ! r'',,'r "f A. J. (Kid) Hornbucklf caused (lie death here early Tues day morning of George Scruggs | 28-year-old textile worker, and of ficers yesterday and today were spreading a wide dragnet for the youthful prizefighter who slagged Scruggs on the head with a stick of cordwood here last Sunday aft ernoon. Scruggs, un employee of the Cleveland Cloth mills, died about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning in the Shelby hospital, where he had been in a Rcmt-conselous coma Rtnce he was hit, on the head about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon near the railroad crossing In cast Shelby. Tragic Proves Useless. Hornbuckle disappeared immed iately after the occurrence and has not been seen in or about Shelby since, but yesterday afternoon the local police department ran down a trace of his location orly to find that the trail was a week old. or was laid before the fatal affray. During the day a telephone call came from Lowell that Uornhuckle. the brunette, rather handsome boxer, hnd been there trying to get a place for his wife to stay. Local policemen immediately speeded to’ Lowell only to find that it was a week ago that the prize fighter had been seen there. Later report* have It that Hornbuckle's wife is in Col umbus. Georgia, and efforts will be made to locate him in that section. ■ initial »uunj> Funeral services for Scruggs were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the CUffslde Baptist church, and interment was there. The deceased is survived by his wife and two children—Selma, six years of age. and George, jr„ who IV three years old. Scruggs, was well known In the eastern textile section of the town and has many friends in that sec tion of the town and has many friends in that section of town*who were shocked by his fatal injury. Motive Not Clear. The motive of the killing has not as yet been cleared up to the sat isfaction or police officers. Wheth er or not those who witnessed the fatal encounter are reluctant about talking, or just do not know what caused the fatal blow to be struck Is not known. A report given Monday had it that Scruggs was seated when the youthful boxer swung the heavy stick of wood nero6S his head, but another report has it that Scruggs had stooped to pick up a brick or some other object whtn Horn buckle hit him. One of the many reports about the affair has it that the two men had words over the sale or refusal of a sale of a pint of whiskey, but the veracity of this and other reports will likely not be established until Hornbuckle is caught and tried, and perhaps not then. Those present at the time say that very few' words were passed and that that they did not expect such to happen. A brother in-law of Scruggs was said to have been present and he is alleged to have been able to prevent the blow have ben able to prevent the blow had he expected it, but did not think that such a thing was going to happen with no more words having been passed. Local officers declared today that the ooxer, who had just issued a challenge to ail comers In his class for a future fight here, had been in trouble before. New Ordinance On Milk Adopted Now For City Of Shelby Nothing Rtlow "B" Grade Milk May Bp Sold In City Alter 90 Days. After a period of 90 days niiUc below grade “B” cannot be legally sold within the city limits of Shel by, according to an ordinance adopt ed by the board of aldermen last night. This means that the city inspec tor will not pass up any milk fall ing below the grades of “A" and “B.” The move by the aldermen was that of adopting the recommenda tion milk standard of tho state Board of Health and by so doing local milk will be Inspected by Fed rral and State inspectors as well as Lhe city inspected Mr. McLoud, a representative of the State board, llscussed the matter with Mayor Dorsey and the aldermen at the nceting
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