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VOL. XXXV, No. 26
THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929,
Published Monday, W«dnesday, and Friday Afternoons cLrTer^’pT/yew (ISadvanS S.oo
LATE NEWS
The Markets.
Cotton, Shelby _ _______ 19!ic
Cotton Seed, bu.__ 70!4c
Fair Saturday.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Cloudy tonight. Saturday
fair with slowly rising temperature
in west portion.
Nerve Of “Lindberghs.”
Although he was slightly injured
and his fiancee shaken up by an
airplane landing mishap Wednes
day, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and
Miss Anne Morrow made three
short flights yesterday at Mexico
City, piloting his own plane al
though one arm was in a sling.
Curious People
Still *Gawking’
Rate King House
People Of Sharon Divided On
Question Of Charging Me
Guckin License Fee.
Sharon. S. C. Feb. 28.—Sharon
people who just like people every
where divide on questions of relig
ion, groceries, politics and what not,
are now divided on the question of
whether or not the town council
should seek to charge C. E. Mc
Guckin, a license for showing the
King mystery house to the curious
who come from far and near to see
It.
Sharon people, some of them at
least, say they like not the idea of
people coming to see the house
where Faye King died. Instead of
going there an Sundays they argue
they should attend Woodlawn
church across the street, or Sharon
A. R. P. church or Sharon Metho
dist church. The idea of charging
McGuckin a license say the city
fathers and some of the people, is
to make it so high as to be prohi
bitive and in that way the curious
will be stopped from coming on the
premises.
Others say that McGuckin, a
bright fellow seeing a chance to
make a few dollars out of the curi
ous and having no other work for
the time, rented the house and that
keep him engaged all the while at
people jealous of his business acu
men want to take part of the prof
its away from him.
Idea Appalling.
But to some people at Sharon the
Idea of any person or persons cash
ing in on the King house is simply
appalling. Then too, the newspa
per publicity that a good town is
getting in connection with the King
case is simply abhorrent to the sen
sitive minds of some of the citi
zenry. On the other hand the more
level-headed and unbiased are not
inclined to “bawl out” the newspa
pers, taking the position that pretty
nearly every thing they learn, they
leirn from the newspapers.
There are those who take the do
sltion as Sheriff Quinn takes, that
it is well to have the King house
protected against possible incen
diaries or careless blaze and that
the owner of the property should
be protected from the depredations
of souvenir hunters.
Members of the town council deny
the suggestions of others that they
want the town to profit from the
visitors to the King house who can't
be stopped from coming to town by
any law so far devised by man. All
they want to do is to try to stop
their coming. Not for a moment of
course would they begrudge Resi
dent McGuckin of the few quarters
the public pays him. Of course the
fathers admit that if Mr. McGuckin
should pay a dollar license or $200
license or any other license they
should fix, why then the town's
exchequer would be profiting just
that much in cold cash.
Not Liable For License.
But McGuckin’s attorneys, whom
he has consulted about the matter,
declare that he is not liable for a
single penny license. Neither is he
liable, they contend, for a single
penny of state tax even though his
receipts should amount to as much
as did the receipts from the Shar
key-Stribling prize fight in Miami
last night. Their contention is that
he is showing nothing; that he has
neither added to nor taken any
thing from the King house; that
he paid the owner the rent; that
the property is now his so far as
the law is concerned and that is
all there is to that.
Smyrnios ’ c Sum
To His Aged Parents
Remainder Of George’s Estate Goes
To Man Who Barked
Him.
With the exception of $500 which
he willed to his aged parents at
Ge°rgestetoi, Sparta, Greece, the es
tate of the late George Smyrnios,
popular Greek citizen of Shelby at
the time of his death, was left to
Mr. Enos L. Beam, who was
George’s financial backer in his
■oda rendezvous and other adven
tures as well as a close personal
friend.
The will was probated (he
court hare yesterday.
Doors Of Shelby’s New Hotel Charles Open Today
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Slash Police Salaries
$250 Monthly
Cut Is Made
Shuffle In Police And Fire Depart
ment Slashes Expenses
There.
Beginning this morning, March 1,
the police and fire departments of
Shelby, are operating at a cost of
$250 less than they operated last
month, it is announced by Mayor
W. N. Dorsey.
Of this expense slash $155 Is sal
ary cuts in the police department,
and the remainder, $95, is a salary
slash In the fire department.
Details Of Slash.
When E. B. Roach resigned as
fire chief some weeks back he was
drawing $120 per month. Upon his
resignation Ted Gordon, superin
tendent of the electric department,
was made fire chief in addition to
his other duties with only a $25
raise in salary per month for han
dling both Jobs. Thus a saving of
$95.
Cops Wages Cat.
Prior to today the salaries of the
police department were as follows:
Chief Richards . _$175
Patrolman Poston _ _.... $125
Patrolman Cook . .. $125
Patrolman Stamey . ..._$110
Patrolman Sparks_$110
Patrolman Dixon . _$110
Patrolman Putnam _ _$100
A total monthly—$855.
With the resignation of Chief
Richards and the promotion of
Patrolman Poston to acting chief
the police department salaries
monthly beginnig today are:
Acting Chief Poston_$150
5 Patrolmen, each _ $110
A monthly total of $700.
In announcing the slash in the
expense of the two departments
Mayor Dorsey stated “And I believe
that within a week citizens will
agree that we are getting better
service for $700 per month than we
did for $855. Prom what I hear
such is already thought about the
fire department.”
Schools To Compete
Webb Medal Tonight
The following schools will have
entrants in the Selma C. Webb re
citation contest tonight at the
Central high school building at 7:30
o’clock:
Lattimore, Shelby, Bel wood, Fall
ston. Boiling Springs, Piedmont,
Kings Mountain, Mooresboro.
A delightful musical program will
be rendered by Lattimore, Shelby
and Boiling Springs schools and
also the high school band.
The essays have been returned
and the winners will be announced
tonight.
Fifteen LoAds Of
Trash Moved Each
Day During Year
The report of Mr. Sylvanus Gard
ner, head of the trash department
for the city, just filed in the city
hall shows that from March 1,
1928, until March 1, 1929, 5,427 loads
of trash and seventy broken down
and abandoned automobile were
removed from the streets, residen
tial and business sections of Shelby.
This is an average of about 15
loads of trash daily, including Sun
day, for the entire year.
SAFE CRACKERS AND
HORNBUCKLE MISSING
Local officers as yet have no in
formation whatsoever as to the
whereabouts of "Kid” Hornbuckle,
wanted here for fatally injuring
George Scruggs, nor has there been
any new developments in the dou
ble safe-blowing here last Friday
night that would tend to give a
clue as to the robbers.
Southern Tournament.
The annual Southern conference
basketball tournament started in
Atlanta, Ga„ this afternoon. The
games tonight will be broadcast
tonight by radio station WSB. The
university meets Mississippi tonight
at 8 o'clock Atlanta time.
A Bad Rabbit Foot.
Belleair, Fla.—A rabbit s foot has
poisoned Hugh Halsell of Dallas who
has been National senior golf cham
pion. He found a dead rabbit on
the links. When he was severing a
foot the bone cut his left hand. ;
Boiling Springs
Student’s Brother,
3 Children Drown
Frances McWhoher's Brother And
And Hb Children Die In
Georgia Florida.
Mbs Frances McWhorter, a stu
dent at Boiling Springs Junior col
lege, thb county, was notified by
telegraph yesterday that her broth
er, prominent attorney of Lincoln
ton, Georgia, and hb three chil
dren were drowned Wednesday or
Wednesday night In a flooded
stream near Lincolnton, which was
caused by heavy rains.
Miss McWhorter, according to in
formation, left for her home im
mediately after receiving the mes
sage, and as telephones lines are
out of order between Shelby and
Boiling Springs it was not possible
for The Star to get full details to
day, although it is not likely that
many details were given in the
Western Union message to her.
Newspaper Story.
The morning newspapers today,
however, had a dispatch from At
lanta, which read as follows:
Atlanta, Feb. 28.—Near Lincoln
ton, Ga., the flood waters today
gave up the bodies of six persons
who were drowned when they drovfe
into the surging waters of Cherokee
creek after failing to note that a
highway bridge had been washed
away. Fred A. McWhorter, promin
ent attorney and a state representa
tive-elect and his three small chil
dren were taken from the stream
thb morning, along with the bodies
of Ben F. Foreman, of Allendale,
S. C., and James Elbert Barrett, 37,
of Beselia, Ga., all of whom drove
their cars into the flood.
Baseball Practice
Starts Soon Here
Merrb Win Have Hlrh Candidates
Out Working For Team
Soon.
With the calendar turned to
March and baseball in the air
Coach Casey Morris plans to start
baseball practice at the Shelby
high school soon. The practice ses
sions may open next week with the
county basketball tournament thb
week closing the cage season.
Although one or two players who
were counted upon as strong units
in thb year's team have left school,
the outlook b not so pessimistic at
Shelby high with quite a number
of last year’s veterans to build the
team an und, and among the young
fellows coining up the Shelby coach
thinks he has several good pros
pects.
He will likely be assbted in hb
training of the baseball squad by
Mr. Hatley, member of the school
faculty and former university star,
and by Tilden Falls, assistant f^ot
ba'.l and baseball coach. >
Holding Youth For
Federal Court On
Car Larceny Count
Hubert Williams, 22-year-old
Greensboro boy, arrested recently
at Kings Mountain on the charge
of stealing a Birmingham, Ala
bama, automobile, will be held in
jail here for federal court, which
convenes March 18, according to
Sheriff H. A. Logan.
The youth was arrested at Kings
Mountain some days back and
readily admitted, it is said, that he
stole the car in Birmingham so
that he might visit his mother who
was ill in Greensboro.
Bus Knocked Out
By Colored Driver
Weight and size does not assure
victory always—and especially is it
no iron-clad rule when a colored
man decides his "kyar” can butt
with any of them.
Wednesday night about 9:30 Ran
dall Terell, colored farm hand,
found his Buick touring car and
one of the big Ashevillo-Charlotte
buses locking horns on highway 20
just west of Shelby. Both the car
and bus were badly damaged but
neither driver nor the passenger in
the bus were injured. Terell, ar
rested by Acting Police Chief Mc
Bride Poston, will be given a hear
ing Tuesday on the charge of driv
ing; while under ttuj influence of
Intoxicants.
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Marriages On
Increase Here,
Still Off Some
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Local Marrying Magistrate Gets
More Work From The
Coroner’s Job.
A few more Cleveland county
couples secured their marriage li
cense at home during February
than in several months preceding.
Which Is to say that all of seven
couples secured license at the
court house here In February.
In January only four couples se
cured license in the county due to
the fact that about three out of
every four couples marrying in this
county go to South Carolina for the
ceremony.
Just a few years back, before the
marriage restrictions were slapped
on, in this state, the couples secur
ing marriage license here averaged
from 10 to 15 each month. Now
adays seven couples in a month is
near a record, while approximately
seven Cleveland couples wed each
fortnight at Gaffney.
Truth Telling.
Anyway, there was an odd angle
the February marriages. Four of
the seven couples married during
the month secured their license on
February 23rd, which you recall
was the day following George
Washington's birthday. An indica
tion of some kind, presumably, that
there was some George Washing
ton truth telling on the night of
the first president's birth anniver
sary.
Business Dudd.
With less and lass county couples
getting married at home each
month. Squire T. Cling Eskridge,
Shelby's “marrying magistrate,” is
of the opinion that he no longer
earns the matrimonial title. In
fact, Squira Eskridge, who is also
county coroner, admits that in the
last year or so he is called out to
an Inquest almost as often as he
is to perform a wedding ceremony.
Where They Go.
Meantime, down in Gaffney, S.
C., where Squire Eskridge's neigh
bor marrying magistrate, Probate
Judge Lake Stroup lives, the mar
riage business is on the upgrade.
In recent years, according to a fea
ture story this week. Judge Stroup
has married 3,785 couples—and of
that number, Cleveland county peo
ple contend, at least 1,000 must
have been from this county.
March 4 Weather
Unknown Quantity
Weather Man .Refuses To Fore
cast Wbat Inauguration Day
Will Bring Forth.
Washington.—IJ the thousands
who expect to see Herbert Hoover
inaugurated president of the United
States wish to know what the
weather is going to be will have
only the family almanac to depend
upon, the weather bureau refused
to forecast or broadcast on the sub
ject.
When the day comes for the
regular forecast for March 4 the
weather bureau expects to make it,
but not before.
Officials said the bureau over a
period of ten years had been 89
per cent correct but that the pub
lic would forget that record in case
of a mistake on March 4. No such
chance is going to be taken be
cause March weather is proverbial
ly fickle.
Even though it rains, sleets and
snows, Mr. Hoover and his party
will be comfortable while reviewing
the parade.
Rains Not Worrying
Farmers Here Much
Some However Think Late Spring
May Slow Them lip In Their
Farm Work.
Generally speaking Cleveland
county farmers have not been wor
ried to a great extent by the con
tinued rains of recent weeks. It is
pointed out that the annual spring
plowing has often been postponed
later than it seems as if it will be
this spring, but, of course, a con
tinued season of rainy weather
might prove damaging.
Some farmers, however, are of
the opinion that the continued
rains of January and February
have already hurt in that the
ground would not get dry after one
rain unfil another fell thus pre
venting any work at all.
View Of Shelby’s New Hotel Charles
Drive Against Disreputable Women In
Shelby Meeting With Good Results Now
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Basketball Race
Narrows To Four
Quints In County
Shelby, Lattimore, Polkvllle And
Grover Tonight. Title
Saturday.
Tomorrow, Saturday night, two
Cleveland county high school bas
ketball quints will meet la the tin
can gymnasium here to clash tor
the county title and the Rotary
championship trophy given annual
ly by the Shelby Rotary club.
As the county tournament stands
now one of four teams will be the
new title holder. The four quints
are: Lattimore, Polkvllle, Shelby,
and Grover.
Rig Games Tonight.
The last double-headers of the
three-day tournament are on to
night in the tin can. Shelby and
Lattimore, considered the strongest
quints in the tourney, face each
other in the first game tonight at
7:45. Immediately following the
Shelby-Lattlmore game Polkvllle
and Grover will face each other.
Then Saturday night the winner of
the Latrimore-Shelby game will
meet the winner of the Polkvllle
Grover game.
In the first games of the tour
nament Wednesday night 8helby
eliminated Fallston, and Lattimore
eliminated Casar. Thursday night
the Polkvllle quint, showing the
class of the tournament, eliminated
Bel wood, and the Grover five eli
minated the Piedmont team.
Polkvllle Strong.
Early in the tournament the title
was considered between Lattimore
and Shelby, but due to the draw
ing for playing schedules It Is such
that Lattimore and Shelby will play
each other tonight in the semi
finals, meaning that only one of the
two teams picked by the dopesters
can possibly go into the finals.
Meantime the surprising play of
the Polkvllle outfit, the dark horse
flash of the tournament, has the
fans guessing.
Wears His Insignia.
Acting Police Chief McBride
Poston tpday donned his insignia
as chief and took active charge of
the city police 'force. Chief Poston
has been on the local force for
many years and is a highly respect
ed officer.
Girl Wears Monocle.
Berlin.—Frau Eva Fuerstner,
adopted daughter of Count Frank
emberg and heiress to a fortune
made in music publishing, is start
ling society by her monocle. It is
framed with a solid circle of dia
monds. The cord varies in color
to match her gown.
Odd Person Dies.
Cosham, England.—Mrs Jane Re
becca Whail, who wore seven wed
ding rings around her neck with
her latchkey, is dead at 81. Her
seventh marriage was six years ago.:
Threat Against Landlords Cleans
Oat At Least A Dozen In
One Week.
The drive to rid Shelby of dis
reputable women, which began last
week with cooperative publicity
through The 8tar, has already met
with gratifying results, it was an
nounced at the city hall today by
Mayor Dorsey.
The estimate today was that at
least one dozen women and girls of
suspicious character had left the
city within one week, and the drive
has only begun, officers declare.
Newspaper nnouncement was
made that according to law land
lords and owners of rental homes
could be prosecuted for housing or
renting to women known to be of a
questionable character. Immediate
ly after the drive began landlords
in whose homes are apartments such
people were living were notified by
officers that unless the landlords
cleaned house, the law would.
Yesterday morning and today of
ficers made a tour of the homes, or
houses notified, and the report was
that several of the houses were
vacated, while in others the own
ers had ftlosecj their doors on room
ers who had been staying there. In
one instance a family moved on the
eve of the day notified, while in
another case the roomers were ask
ed out that night.
"We’ve Just started,” the mayor
said. "Officials of the law and the
law books say we are right. Under
the old plan of Jailing women con
victed of immoral conduct that fail
ed to get them out of town where
they could not injure the health
and morals of our youth. But if
they cannot get homes or rooms to
live in, they cannot stay, and we
plan to take the person or persons
letting out homes or rooms to such
people into the court room.”
Sheriff Urges
Taxpayers To
Pay ’28 Taxes
Has Already Collected More Than
$350,000 Of County
Taxes.
A warning was issued today by
Sheriff Hugh Logan that all coun
ty taxes for 1928 should.be paid
before the end of this month, March,
when the veteran sheriff leaves of
fice.
“To date we have collected ap
proximately $351,000 in 1928 taxes.
The collectable taxes of Cleveland
county run around $540,000. In oth
er words something like $200,000 in
taxes remain to be paid.
“I hope every taxpayer in the
county who has not paid will get
busy and get in to see me this
month," he concluded.
A month from today the new sher
iff Irvin M. Allen, nov^ police chief
at Kings Mountain, will take office.
As yet Sheriff Logan has not an
nounced what he will do other than
take it easy fox a time and look
after hir farming interests.
Colored Killer Of
Shelby Paroled By
Governor Gardner
Plato Bonner, Who Shot Sam
Haney Hera Nine Yean
Back, Paroled.
Oovemor Max Gardner on Wed
nesday paroled the first prisoner
from his county since he has been
in office.
The parole went to Plato Bonner,
colored, who shot and fatally
wounded Sam Honey, also colored,
in Shelby nine years ago. Benner
was sentenced at the March term
of superior court here in 1920 for
murder in the second degree and
his minimum sentence wik 15 years
and ten months with a maximum
of 20 years in the state prison.
Officers here recall that Bonner
shot Haney near the Ideal ice
plant location one night and that
Haney ran after being shot and his
body was not found until the next
day when it was located near a
small stream of .water in the edge
of town.
Whole Time License
Bureau Open Today
Opening today at the Eskridge
garage is a whole time state, auto
license bureau where auto owners
can secure license service Immed
iately. Heretofore the bureau has
been opfn only for a few weeks
during new license periods, but at
the request of many people In this
territory, the state department of
revenue has seen fit to establish
the bureau for year round accom
modati. n of the public.
Rud&till Donates
Books To College
The Star's campaign for books
for the library of the Boiling
Springs junior college continues to
meet with steady results. The lat
est contribution was nlne^ volumes
by Mr. E. A. Rudasill, city building
Inspector.
FOREST CITY LOSES
TO CHARLOTTE QUINT
Playing in Gastonia last night -the
Forest City basketball quint, which
eliminated Shelby from the state
title race, was defeated and eli
minated by the Charlotte highs by
a 25-22 score.
Golly! Ghosts Here.
Ardizas, France.—A farmer and
his neighbors have fled their homes
in terror because nightly they have
heard sounds resembling the gal
loping of horses, heavy bodies fall
ing down stairs and the tolling of
bells.
Mrs. S. E. Hoey spent today In
Charlotte.
Henry E Kendall of Danville, Va.
has been spending a few days here
or> busing.
Building Has
70RoomsAnd
Is Fire-Proof
Furnished And Arranged In
Manner Not Excelled In
State.
Today the New Hotel Charl
es, a thing of beauty inaide
and out and a haven of rest
and comfort for the traveling
public, opens its doors for the
first time for guests. The reg
ister was placed on the clerk’s
counter, the guests rooms
were made ready and the din
ing room served its first meal,
thus throwing open to the
public one of the finest hostel
ries in North Carolina, a fire
proof structure with 70 guest
rooms, elegantly furnished
and a dining room with a
seating capacity for 260
guests.
Shelby Proud Of It.
It Is a proud day for Shelby
which has been restricted In » Its
hotel accommodations for a year. It
la a day long looked forward to, not
only by Shelby but by the travelling
public which has suffered many In
conveniences since Shelby has been
without up-town hotel of proper
proportions and conveniences.
Owned By Blanton Estate.
The opening marks the comple
tion of the Blanton estate block of
business property, the most valu
able In Shelby, rebuilt at a cost of
perhaps $300,000 to the owners,
Messrs. C. C. and Oeorge Blanton,
Forrest Eskridge and Mra. W. J.
Roberts, all of Shelby, and Edgar
Blanton, of Asheville. The rebuild
ing has been under way for eight
months by Joe W. Stout and Co.,
Inc., with R. N. Rouse as superin
tendent of construction, A few
months ado some of the store rooms
in the block were finished and the
occupants turned in. Now the Hotel
Charles Is the last unit to be fin
ished and its opening today marks
an epoch In Shelby’s building pro
gram.
Safe, Pretty, Comfortable.
When the block was burned a
year ago, the owners debated for
sometime whether to rebuild the
hotel or not. After careful consid
eration the Blanton estate conclud
ed to provide a hotel for Shelby
largely as a matter of civic pride
and faith In Shelby's future, for a
modem fireproof hotel now Is not
regarded as a paying Investment.
No expense has been spared In
the building or the equipment to
make it one of the prettiest, most
comfortable and safest to be found
In this section of the south. There
are larger hotels, but none nicer In
all of its appointments than toe
New Charles.
Banquet later.
A banquet, dance and formal
opening for public inspection will
be held in a week or so when the
organization is functioning proper
ly. This date will be announced and
the occasion will bring many prom
inent visitors to Shelby.
An entire section of today's Star
is devoted to the opening today of
the New Hotel Charles and readers
are directed to read and preserve
pages 13 to 34 inclusive.
(Full hotel detail, pages 13-24.)
Dr. Arnette Joins
Faculty Of School
At Boiling Springs
Dr. J. M Annette of Spring Hill
has been added to the faculty of
Boiling Springs junior college as
head of the Bible department.
He began his duties Monday.
This will relieve Dr. J. B. Davis,
president, of much work.
Bolling Springs will hold Its first
intercollegiate debate Saturday
night, when it meets the Appalach
ian State normal team. Each af
I ftrmative team will debate at
home.
State Income Tax
Official Is Coming
E. O. Claywell of Morganton,
state income tax official will be In
Shelby at the court house March
4th, 5th and 6th for the purpose
of assisting any who wishes his
help in making out their Income
tax returns. Every single person
with an Income over »1.000 annual
ly and every married person with
an annual income over $2,000 is
recrulred bv law tty make a return