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Monroe Boy Makes Bolt Of Thunder Monroe—William Rudge, Monroe ooy, has been assigned by the Gen eral Electric company to carry out an experiment looking to protec tion of wires from lightning. Mr. Rudge is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rudge, has been with the General Electric company for a year and has been assigned by his department head, K B. Mc Eachron, to this exclusive field of electrical experimentation. According to letters received here from Mr. Rudge. he says, that his work is nothing less than making a hug© bolt of lightning. The purpose is to find out, how to protect elec tric light systems from thunder bolts. The experiments are being carried on In the Berkshire Moun tains of Massachusetts. A thunder bolt is made and caused to hit a transmission wire, so that the re sult may be studied. Mr. Rudge says they have a port able apparatus, and from this "a low hum, that rapidly grows loud er—a flash of Intense blue between two shining brass spheres—a quick sharp report, as though a whip has (been popped, and then back from | the mountain sides, the rolling !echoes bound and rebound, until | they slowly die away." THIS DAINTY BOTTLE OF EXQUISITE MW PERFUME //oa WJ WITH A PACKAGE OP // THREE FLOWERS FACE POWDER Three Flowers Perfume breathes the fresh fragrance of living flowers—the perfume of youth and springtime ¥ ATWATER KENT ELECTRO-DYNAMIC RADIO MODEL S3. A. C. set with built-in Electro - Dyo»mic speaker. Uses. 7 A C. tubes (two power tubes) and 1 rictifyma tube. $117 Without tabes HERE IT IS—the new set with the tone as real as life, as thrilling as the song of a nightingale. It’s an At water Kent Electro-Dynamic in com pact, all-in-one form—and it gives you what you’d expect from Atwater Kent. Real tone, flexible volume, utter de pendability, beauty and low price. When you select it here we add expert installation and easy payments—and you have a perfect radio. CONVENIENT TERMS Shelby Hardware Co. Showing.The Most Complete Line Of Radios Under One Make In Shelby. Let I s Show You Through. PHONE 330. SHELBY, N. C. Good Boat Expected Here On Saturday Night In Trooper Clayton-Miles 10-Round Clash Fans Here Anxious To See If K. O, Foster Can Keep Dynamlt in* Opponents. The main bout of the Legion box ling program at tire Thompson J building here Saturday night be tween Trooper Clayton, of Ashe ville, and Rufus Miles, "the Fraying Pug" of Charlotte, promises to be [the fastest-moving, most scientific boxing bout yet staged here by Pro moter Arthur Sides, Both boys are light and fast on their feet, and both have the repu tation of not being hesitant about getting In and mixing things. Joe Is Boxing. In the semi-finals Big Joe Sin gleton. the local pride who made such a good showing against Ralph Hood, will take on Kid Crosby, another hard hitter of the Hood type, and again the semi-final will give the main bout a run for the big Interest of the evening. Watching “Dynamite.” All things considered, though. Shelby and Cleveland county box ing fans have their major interest centered in the K. O. Foster-Billy Davis bout. In Foster’s first fight here he swung one of his long, loose jointed rights to his opponent’s chin and sent him down for a count, whereupon the fans back of the ring dubbed Foster "Dynamite Dunn" after Joe Jenks’ noted fighter of the cartoon page. Then In the second program here Foster came back and repeated the "Dy namite Dunn” stunt, putting his man to sleep, and well to sleep, in the second round. Whereupon Fos ter became^She dope toast at the Thompson building ringside. He has a hard rushuig youngster to face here Saturday night and the fans are waiting, just like the comic page readers are waiting to see what "Dynamite” does to the mysterious Mike. How They Line l'p. The main bout, to outline the program, is the Clayton-MUes af _• -.... RAMBLIN’ RIFTS MILES “The Praying Png” In the Main Bout here Saturday Night. fair for JO rounds. Singleton and Crosby to go the eight rounds in the semi-final. Johny Fisher, of Lowell, and Watt Lay, of Belmont, meet In ono pre liminary. Boots Hall and the dimi nutive Stump Braswell, who has appeared here before, mix It in another. Jerome Spangler, ft county leather-pusher, takes on "Babe" Carr, the Cleveland Cloth village battler, and Billy Davis, of Char lotte, will furnish the other side of K. O. Foster’s exhibition. Terry Roberts, the Jack Dempsey of these parts, will be the referee. All of which indicates a good evening being put on by the Legion and Matchmaker Sides. Big Increase Of Negro Farmers In County From 1910 To 1925 The number of negro farm oper ators in Cleveland county increas ed 42.1 per cent from 1910 to 1925, according to statistics compiled by the University News Letter, and in 1925 negro farm operators in the county totalled 982. Sixty-five Increase. Between 1910 and 1925 thirty-five counties in the state lost negro farmers, while sixty-five gained, the net gain being 15,310, as has been stated. The thirty-five counties ex periencing decreases are eighteen’ mountain counties, seven tidewater counties and ten others in the western half of the state. These thirty-five counties had a loss of 2,061 negro farmers. The sixty-five counties in which negro farms in creased had an Increase of 17,871 j negro farmers. The sixty-five coun ities experiencing increases almost without exception grow either cot ton or tobacco, or both crops. Few are familiar with the degree to which North Carolina farms are operated by negroes, or the rapidity with which our negro farmers have increased within recent years. In 1925 there were 80,966 farms In the state operated by negroes. While we rank fifth in negro farmers, there Is really only one state, Mis sissippi, that has a much larger number than North Carolina. We are close behind Georgia, Alabama. South Carolina and Texas, and if the 1910-1925 trend has continued we are ahead of all the states ex cept Mississippi. The 1930 census win tell. North Carolina First. During the 1910-25 period North Carolina, with a net gain of 15.310 farms operated by negroes, had the largest increase of negro farmers of any atata Al Smith In Row About Naming New Tammany Political Head New York. March 19.—The pro6 pecff of a contest between Alfred E. Smith and Mayor Walker in the naming of a new Tammany chief added lively Interest to the return of the former governor to the city today. The resignation of George W. Olvany, which was submitted to the executive committee last week and comes up for final action next Friday has put Tammany to the necessity of choosing a new leader on the eve of a municipal election. Mayor Walker yesterday, after in terviewing a dozen district leaders, announced he had no candidate for Olvany’s successor. His activity, however, was inter preted by Democratic newspapers as being inspired at least in part by a desire to "get the jump” on the choice of a new leader. The New York Times said it had learned that Mayor Walker wished to see a leader chosen who was friendly to him. This was inter preted, the paper said, as indicating that the mayor did not wish to see the choice of a leader dictated by former Governor Smith or his friends. The World said that Mayor Walk er's abandonment of his previously announced "hands off” policy in the choice of Olvany's successor as among other things “in order to ‘get the Jump’ in the leadership fight on former Governor Smith,” who is to arrive in the city today, possible to set in motion an anti Walker program. The district leaders are said to be agreed upon only one thing in the choice of a new chief and that is that he should be named from among themselves. No candidate among them has emerged with any thing like impressive support. Definite refusal to assume the Actors Not Required To Obey Slavishly Los Angeles.—A superior court ruling upholding the right of, Jetts Goudal, motion picture actress, to Indulge In temperamental outbursts at the expense of the film producing handed down here by Judge Leon company which employed her, was Yankwlch. Miss Goudal sued Pathe Studies, Inc., for $90,000 claiming that amount due her for services. The decision, which held that as an “artist” Miss Goudal was not sub ject to the same rules of obedience as a menial, awarded her $31,000. The suit resulted from the dis charge of Miss Goudal, then under contract to the Cecil B. DeMille productions which later was absorb ed by Pathe, In September. 1927. because "temperamental outbursts constituted a breach of contract by herself.” Motion picture circles today pre dicted that the decision would place an entirely new light on the rela tionship of players with their em ploying producers. It was said that it might result In the upset of the whole contract system and the development of an entirely new type of working agreement between movie employer and “artistic” em ploye. The court held that Miss Gou dal’s value was not “In her ability to obey slavishly—for the humblest extra can do that—but In her abil ity to Inject the force of her per sonality, experience and Intelligence into the acting.” mantle of the retiring Olvany by surrogate James Foley yesterday re moved the only candidate upon whom there has been anything like agreement among all factions in the wigwam. At The Theatres "Cheating Cheaters,” a Carl Laemmle presentation, starring at less a popular favorite than Betty Compson, Is the feature picture at the Webb today. It Is a melodra matic crook play, of which a su preme example was offered at the Webb last night, In the German produced UFA. This oddly entitled "Cheating Cheaters” deals with lust, fear and love; a thr/Vig drama. Thursday brings "The Cat and The Canary” presented by an especially able cast including Ger trude Astor. Laura LaPlante, Ar hur Edmund Carew, Creighton 'lale, and Tully Marshall. It la a thrilling mystery picture—one of die best films of Its kind, from one of the best stories of Its kind, ever written. “The Air Circus,” described as a Fox de luxe special—meaning a special of specials—a thoroughly modern flapper—airplane drama, comes to the Princess for a two day bill, Wednesday and Thurs day. The cast Is as peppy as the action, Including Sue Carol, mod em damsel extraordinary, Arthur Lake, Louise Dresser and David Rollins. Says the press sheet: See young America learning to fly— soaring to the clouds, plunging to he earth. See the breathless dou )le parachute Jump. See the rashes of planes, the miraculous escapes. It's nil in the speed-pteture of love and aviation—The Air Cir cus. Cotton Market (By John F. Clark and Co.) At noon today cotton was quoted on the New York exchange: March 21.10. October 20.45. Yes terday's close: March 20.89, October 20.22. New York. March 20 —Spot sales 7,000. Middling 1092 against 1095 yesterday. Moderate to light busi ness Worth street. prices firm. Memphis cotton review in Journal of Commerce says cotton sales smaller but better than same week in 1928. Merchants ease up on buy ing as commitments are filled for Lime being, foretgn mills also less igresslve while domestic spinners continue to operate at a record rate. Farm work made little pro gress and is considerably behind the average for this date. CLEVENBURO. Curiosity In Tree Is Found In Stokes Seems To Be A Cross Between The Cedar And Weep ing Willow. Danbury.—A curiosity that has attracted a good deal of attention here, and which was accidentally discovered by a resident here, is a cedar tree, which in many respects resembles the so called “weeping willow." The tree, a young one. was located growing on a vacant field In town In a clump of old field cedars, and is claimed to be a rare variety. Limbs on the tree grow out a few feet, ahd are covered with fine streamers which hang from the limbs to a length of two to three feet very similar to the streamers on bhe weeping willow. It Is claimed that there Is only one other tree of this variety in this section of the state, and it is located somewhere in Forsyth county. The fact that the tree is a cedar makes it so much more a curiosity extraordinary. No explanation as to now it came to be located here has been offered. However it has been suggested that possibly it Is an offspring from the old field cedars which are so com mon In this section of the state. W. O. W. Meeting. W. O. W. meeting Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. Every member is re quested to be present. We are mak ing arrangements for the conven tion that will meet here In April. It’s a comfort to believe In evolu tion and assume that man Isn’t finished yet.—Fountain Inn Tri bune. A war in China usually appears to be a rough solution of the un employment problem.—Washington Star. Penny Column FOR SALE: POLICE DOG puppies. O. A. Pendleton, phone 272. 2t 20c FOR RENT Modern Bungalow on N. Washington St. D. A. Beam & Sons, Phone 130. 2t-20c STRAYED: BLACK HORSE mule, weighs about nine hundred pounds. Notify Doggett Bros, Shel by, N. C. It 20p AN EXTRA FINE lot of Red Baby Chix on hand. Suttle Hatch ery, Shelby. lt-20c cnic SPUING mooes Appear Glorious Colors AND ARE SPECIALLY PRICED FROM $7.95 TO $27.95 IT IS difficult to speak of the new Frocks of spring without beginning with thetr gay Slid, brilliant colors Gorgeous blues, fluttering greens, yellows in all sorts of tints, lovely pas tel shades, not to mention the all important prints. Slender silhouettes attain fullness by • means of flares, circular cuts and.pleats. SIZES FOR WOMEN AND MISSES AND EXTRA LARGE SIZES. Wright-Baker Co. 107 N. LaFAYETTE ST. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Three More Days Only OF THE BIG SALE AT INGRAM-LILES Huge Selling Event Absolutely Closes Saturday Night, j But You Still Have An Opportunity To Cash In On The Big Values. LADIES’ DRESSES AND COATS Sharply reduced. New spring styles in these gar ments offered at prices in keeping with the sweeping reductions. ' MEN’S AND BOYS’ m CLOTHING Suits, Shoes, Shirts, Necfe wear, Hats— EVERYTHING for men and boys cut to the bone. A BARGAIN IN EVERY ITEM IN THE STORE. REMEMBER: Thursday, Opposite First Baptist Church.
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