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10 PAGES TODAY r * VOL. XXXV, No. 45 THE CLEVELAND STAB SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, A1THL 15. 1920 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Bi .day .Uteriiooiw Hy mall, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (inadvance) $3.00 LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, spot ...... ~0c Cotton Seed, per bu. —--55’iC Showers Tonight. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Mostly cloudy with showers tonight, and possibly in extreme west portion Tuesday morning. Somewhat cooler tonight. Slowly rising temperature in the interior Tuesday. judge bans pictures OF KING'S TRIAl, Chester, S. C.—Judge J. Henry Johnson of Allendale, who has been In Chester for the past two weeks presiding at the April term of the court of common pleas in answer ing some questions put to him re garding to Rate King case, said that under no circumstances would he permit any photographs to be taken in the court room at York while the case was in progress. Judge Johnson is very much op posed to great newspaper publicity and sensationalism at the trials, in fact, as those that know him best know that he is opposed to the glaring light of publicity at any case at which he presides. While no pictures will be taken in the court room, Judge Johnson stated that he had nothing to do with what the photographers did on the ex terior of the court room. Many Failures Last Month In City Schools 91 Make Honor Roll While 132 Fall. More Failures In High School. Due to a loss of interest in school work caused by not knowing whether they would receive credit for & full year's school work as a result of the tangled up condition of the city schools, many Shelby school children last month failed in their work. According to the scholastic re port for the seventh month, just issued from the office of Supt. I. C. Griffin, these was 132 failures in the city school system while just 91 pupils attained the honor roll. Eighty-nine of the failures were in the high school department. The monthly attendance report and the honor roll for the seventh month follow: School Enrolled Av. Att. Jefferson 402 318 LaFayette 382 223 Washington 211 172 Marion 328 280 S. Shelby 523 i 420 Graham 283 - 221 High School 501 397 Col. School 518 443 3148 2480 The honor roll list. Jefferson School. Fifth grade—Ruth Newton. Eve lyn Teele, Loetta Bragg, Annie Day berry, Katie Lou Ensley. Seventh grade—Bernice Miller, Loula Belle Huskey, Holland Grif fin, Harland Pruett. Washington School. Fourth grade—Earle Hamrick Richard Jones, Annabeth Jones, Marjorie Lutz. Edith Mull, Jean nette Post, Catherine Wellman. Fifth grade—Margaret Hamrick. Alphonaine Harris, Mary Wells, Louise Ramsaur. Sixth grade—Viva Armour, Ellen Ford. Louise Jones, Helen Jean Jordan, Catherine McMurry, Mil licent Brackett, Jack Hulick. Seventh grade—Colbert Mc Knight,, Ed Post, jr., Clyde Weaver, Margaret Ford, Majorie Spangler, Cornelia Sparks, Lucille Whisnant. LaFayette School. Fourth grade—Mary Davis. Mary Evelyn Gardner, Stella Ledford. Clyde Grigg. Graham School. Fourth grade—N. C. Blanton. James Carson. Dwight Wilson, Roy McSwain, Mary L. Bettis. Sarah Dorsey, Ruby Morgan, Helen Car rick. Fifth grade—Elizabeth Dodd, (Continued on page ten.) Do You Want Gu* To Lose Gussie? What will happen to the team of "Gus and Gussie” if Gussie married the rich young: showman and leaves Gus flat? Will it mean the end of tlieir vaudeville act and of The Star comic strip? If you want to do some thing about it and have a suggestion to make, suppose you write Jack I,ait, the young Chinese cartoonist who draws “Gus and Gussie,” and give him a tip about straighten ing out Gussic's lovp affairs. He may take your tip and publish your letter, if you tell him that you tead "Gus and Gussie” every other day In The Star. His address: Jack Lait, care of King Fea ture Syndicate, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City. Jury Gives True Bill King Case Lawyers To Ask Change In j Venue This Afternoon. King In York. HI LLKTIN. TO CHESTER JAIL. York, S. C., 3:30 p. m., Ap ril 15.—Rafe King, of Shelby, was arraigned at 3:15 this afternoon in the court room here and the hill of indict ment charging him with the murder of his wife was read to him, after whcih he plead ed “not guilty” in a calm and collected voice. A minute lat er the attorneys for King in formed the court that they would file a notice for a change of venue. The argu ment as to the change will be gin at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Judge Johnson an nounced. About the same time it be came known that attorneys for King had requested that Judge Johnson issue an or der that their client be com mitted to jail in the Chester county jail, 23 miles south of here, instead of the York jail, and Judge Johnson is expected to issue the order this afternoon. The attorneys have no fear of serious trou ble if King were jailed here but think that there will be less emotional excitement if King is not placed in jail here. (Special To The Star.) County Court House, York, S. C., April 15.—At 1:15 this afternoon the York county grand jury returned in State court here a true murder bill against Rafe King, of Shelby and Sharon, charging him with the murder of his wife last January at their Sharon, S. C„ home. The King indictment along with other indictments was, turned over to the grand jury at 10:45 this morning. Court Recesses. Immediately after the bill indict ment was read, after the finding of a true bill, the court recessed until this afternoon. Just as quick as the court convenes again this after noon King's lawyers, Thos. F. Mc Dow, Clyde R. Hoey and B. T. Falls, have made it known that they will ask the court for a change in venue. Legal Fight On. In the meantime Solicitor J. Lyles Glenn has indicated that he would attempt to arraign King this aft ernoon, and it is already known that King's lawyers will fight this move as they contend that a de cision as to change of venue should be argued and decided before the arraignment, as they point out that there will be no need of arraign ment at the York court if the change in venue is granted by Judge J. Henry Johnson. The ar raignment procedure is for the de fendant to be placed in the pri soner's box and the bill ol indict ment read to him, after which he pleads guilty or not guilty. If the plea is not guilty a date, not ear lier than three days after the ar raignment, is set for the trial. General supposition among news papermen present is that the attor neys for King wil argue either this afternoon or tomorrow morning for the change in venue, which will be strenuously opposed by the state. How It Reads. The bill as returned by the grand jury reads, in part. as fallows: “That Rafc King with his hands and arms, cords, wires, ropes and belt placed upon, about or aroun^l the neck and throat of her, the said Faye Wilson King, did choke, suf focate and strangle, of which chok ing, suffocating, and strangling she did die then and there on the 25th day of January, 1929.“ Seven Witnesses. Seven witnesses appeared belorc the grand jury while it debated the charges. King, the defendant, is in York along with two of his brother:-,, but he had not aptioired in the court room prior to the noon recess', r* mainhig in the office of his attor neys or in the automobile he came to York in. Three sisters and a brother of the late Mrs. King were in the court loom t his mot nihg. f p . 1 Woman Killing Severely Condemned Joseph De King was beaten about the head, bis wife, Lillian, shot dead, and a dry agent wounded by their son in a raid on their home at Aurora, 111, Dry agents claim that the De Kings, above, resisted their entry and they were obliged to use force to gain entry. Prohibition Commissioner J. M, Doran, when 1 notified at Washington, said that ‘‘strongarm methods and the use of firearms in prohibition enforcement are strictly pro- ! | hibited in Federal service.” (ioi«rn&l!onal Ntwsriii) ' . .______ i Arrowood Has An Employe Who Carries Out His Orders Even | Though He Breaks Arm At It L. U. Arrowood. local lumber man ufacturer and dealer, has an em ployee, John Turney by name, who no doubt should be ranked as the most reliable worker m Shelby, Anyway, Mr. Arrowood considers him that lor Turney believes in carrymg out orders at all costs He proved it last Friday. Turney left the lumber plant with a load of material for the new Pleasant Hill church .southeast of Shelby. Orders from Mr. Arrowood were for Turney to leave his ma terial at Pleasant Hill and then drive through to Kings Mountain, secure a load of doors and return to Shelby. After unloading at Pleasant Hill church Turney started to crank the motor truck and broke his arm. De spite the broken arm Turney start ed the motor, climbed into the truck, drove on to Kings Mountain and secured his load of doors be fore starting for Shelby. Meantime someone in the Pleasant Hill sec tion had telephoned the Arrowood plant about the mishap and Mr. Arrowood taking another truck driver with him in his car set out to bring the injured worker in. Be tween Shelby and Kings Moun tain they met Turney oriving his loaded truck in with one arm •'Why didn't you come on m and get the arm fixed up? " the lumber dealer asked. "Oh, that would have spoiled all your plans for the day.' Turney answered Up to that time the only medical attention he had received was a home-made cloth swing for his arm and an application of turpentine secured at a farm home to prevent excessive soreness. Casar Youth Now In The U. S. Marines The roving life of a U. S Marine I is in prospect for Joseph R. Wort man, of Casar, who is now under- j going training in the drills, duties and customs of the soldiers of the1 sea at Parris island. South Caro lina. according to a recent report of enlistments at that training sta tion. Attracted by the prospect of i serving aboard a battleship, seeing j some foreign lands, or the appear- j ance of the smart military uniform i worn by the Marines, Wort man ap plied for enlistment at Charlotte several days ago and was sent to the training station at Parris Is land, South Carolina, where his in structions, as a resuit, will son be completed. Worttnan is a son of Mrs. Minerva Wortman. R-l, Casar. He enlisted for four years and during that per iod he may decide to take advan tage of the special educational ! courses ottered bv the Marine •corps. At least' he is bound to have •interesting experiences while fol lowing the fortunes of the sea sol diers. In Marketing Seriicr. Messrs. Brevard Lattiuiore and Fred Logan left Shelby today for |Eastern Carolina where they will be inspector for the U. S. Market ing buerau. Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Crowder ; spent, the week-end in Charlotte iwith Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Green. Jobless And Broke, He Finds A Million Dollars, Returns It i New York.—Charles J. Schlunsen. an adjuster employed by the Na tional Surely company. No. 4 Al bany street, tolcl the following Story to a reporter lor The World. Pyn chon and company, brokers, ot No. Ill Broadway, corroborated Mr. Schlunsen. James Duckett, twenty-two. head ed out from his home in Indianap olis. and bummed his way to New York, where he hoped to get a job on a ship sailing to foreign parts New York looked formidable, pretty cold. Wednesday night, and the Bowery Mission was no home, sweet home. So it w as a fairly cheerless young man who buttoned Ins an cient raincoat about, him, pulled his veteran felt hat down over a peaked fare and art out Thursday morn ing to see New- York and get. a tob. But lurk was lying at Broadway and Cedar street in the form of a $1,000,000 check. Mr. Schlunsen says. The check was mr.de pay able by Pynciion A- Co. to the Hun I over National Bank. A messenger ;had dropped it. Young Duckett picked it up and held it in trem bling hands, stunned by the figures he read on it. Then he decided to ' take it where the messenger was isupposed to carry it. At the Hanover National a guard was detailed to accompany him to 1 Pynchon & Co. Mr. Schlunsen was called in. and soon the boy who had spent the night at the Bow ery Mission was meeting executives, receiving congratulations, pocketing a $20 reward and setting off with i Mr. Schlunsen in quest oi a job. Down to the United Fruit t ines piers they. went. Soon Duckett was talking to John Harkins of the , United Fruit Lines about that job sailing for foreign part:. Friday 'morning at 7 o'clock young Duckett I w ill appear to complete arrange, "ten*: with the TTniteri Fiuit Line: 'The Cajamares of that line is sail ing for South America tomorrow, land if the luck Duckett discovered | yesterday is still riding the C'ala : mares may have, a, sailor from In diahupulis aboard. Likely To Use Secret Ballot In City Voting (iti tttorney Hlrn K.ileigh To see l( Australian Hallol Ap plies To Cities. Governor Ma\ Gardner's Australian hallo! may jet II' first trial, since being enacted as a law at the North Caro lina legislature some months , back, In his home town. It all depends upon how a question now left up to City Attorney l has. A. Hurrus turns out. and that question is: Itoes the new Australian ballot law apply to town, <itv or municipal elections? Since the new laws enacted be the recent legislature have not been distributed, and since the original Australian ballot bill was altered and amended so much that those fostering it hardly recognized it when it did become a law, City Attor ney Hurrus has wirrd the sec retary of state for a copy of the Australian ballot law so that he may decide if the secret voting plan applies to city elec tions. If so Shelby voters are in for a new system of voting on May fi when they march to the polls to decide whether their next mayor will be named Ilram, McMurry, or Dorsey. The registration books for the city election were opened today by Mr. Mike II. Austell, regis trar, who may be found at the court house. The registration is required only for newcomers or those who have never here tofore voted in a city election. To register the citizen must have lived in the state one year, in the county six months, and in the city four months. Frank Hoey Buys Isaac Shelby Hotel Secures Curtis Building Recently Completed And Now Operated As Hotel. Frank Hocy has completed a deal whereby he buys from Ben Curtis, the Curtis Buildmg on Graham street opposite the Hotel Victor. This building is a two story brick structure with 17 guest rooms din ing room, kitchen and lobby and is operated now as the Isaac Shel by hotel by Geo. Johnson. It has just been completed by Mr. Curtis and opened two weeks ago as a ho tel. 'V " In the deal Mr. Hoev traded his house and lot on S. Washington street, to Mr. Curtis. It is under stood that the purchase price was $28,000. Mr. Hoey expeets to build a residence in the Cleveland Springs Estate in tlie near future, Vitaphone Here At Local Theatre The Vitaphone. much advertised' and long expected, for installation at the Webb theatre, has arrived, and will be put into operation at once, according to a statement from Claude Webb to The Star this morning. An expert is due from Atlanta tomorrow to put this latest amuse ment top notch invention into serv ice. Mr. Webb said he will probably be in position to announce the opening for next Monday Just which of the talkies he will regale his audience witn, he has not deu; mined. But he says it will be a hundred per center. Movie fans have long looked forward to the installation of this much her alded feature at the Webb, and Mr. Webb said he is gratified to state that the time will be short now before he can invite his pa trons to ‘ hear” the thrillers as well las to see them. Parents-Teacher* To Consider Trustees There will be a meeting of the high .school Parcnts-Teachers as sociation ill the high school build ing tonight at 8 and a meeting of the Graham street association I Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. the ' parents will be asked to give at ! tention to the selection of the next 1 school board. The present school bond oi the '■city has declared in a body that ■they will not accept another term to Mr: Rush Thompson who Is ■ president of. there two Parent - [Teachers association «ays it u, very necessary for the parents to at tend these two meeting.- and give consideration to the important matter of selecting capable men to I serve as school trustees for the | next two years. Strawberry Pie In County Today Mr*, flora Gantt, of l.awn dalr, gets the prize, or the pie. tor tiring tlir earliest gar dener in Cleveland county, Mr*, (iantt had strawberry pie for dinner today, the stranlierrirs coining from her garden, according to informa tion given The Star. Youth Falls In Well And Dies Near Lawndale Three-Year-Old >elf Bov Tumbles In Well. Located Bv 1M other. The three-year-old -up of M: ami Mrs, Joe Self, who farm on the Dr. W T, Grigg land at Lawn dale, was drowned Vast Friday morning when he fell in the well in the yard in the Self home The mother of the small boy had been doing some washing >n the yard and the youth was playing near her. The mother had to go in the house to see about a smaller child and returning she missed the boy and ilien noticed the bucket going down in the well She im mediately began to stream for help and when neighbors arrived and aided in getting the youth out he was already dead. It was though: that he was badly injured or kill ed in the fall, and would have1 drowned even though not instantly killed. He had had a habit, since the Self family moved to the Gngg farm, of peering m the well, his parents said, but they thought he had been broken of the dangerous curiosity. Funeral services were held Satur day. Three More New Homes Going Up Buildup Program Continues I n abated. Material Arrives For $25,000 Store. The building program continues unabated and It is estimated that no less than forty new residences have been built or are under con struction During the spring. In ad dition to the list mentioned in The Star a short time ago, *«♦«!•' J0I111 Mull is razing hi* res.dcnce on N. LaFayette street preparing for the erection of a brick veneered resi dence on the same lot. Alderman A. V Hamrick is plan ning to erect a handsome two story brick residence on West Marion street in "Lover's Lane. ' A. V. Wray is hav ing a pretty bun galow home erected on the lot ad lacent Ins home on N; Morgan street. Jack Palmer. funeral director, is making plans for the erection of a modern luneral home Material has armed for. ihe two story fire proof building by Weath ers aijd Blanton on the south side of the Masonic Temple, costing ap proximately $25,000. There will be two store rooms on the giound floor and a club room above Rapid progress is being made by 1 Ramsey and Sons on the Crawford Chevrolet motor home on East Marion street, owned by Attorney D. Z. Newton and being erected at a cost of approximately $25000. Fallston Merchant Sells 2,250 Dozen Eggs At One Time j One of the largest single sales of I eggs made by a Cleveland county 1 merchant was consummated last week when W A. Gantt of Fallston | sold 2.250 dozen to the Hewitt Pro duce Co., of Claremont. Catawba j county. This quantity, was the re sult of Mr. Gantt's trading in o! | produce for cash and merchandise since Easter. rI he eggs accumulated faster than he could secure crates, but when crates did come he pack ed the 2,250 dozen in 75 crates which were hauled away on two large trucks. This sale brought 25c per dozen The poultry industry has grown to large proportions in Cleveland county and is a b;g factor in farm ing Radio Hoar < hanged, Tb* broadcasting hour of r-.f.-jt». college over station WPTK, Raleigh, Wednesday of each week has been changed from 1:45 in the afternoon to 12:10. it is announced for the I benefit ol Cleveland farmers who [listen, ill oh the taint programs. Labor Group To Plan N. C. Textile Unions Mask Lifted Now \\\ “Colonel Darker," or, as slu really is, Mrs. Lillian V Smith, is rhe chain' ' ’ queradcr of England, even to marrying another \v o m a u. Here she (or he) is w li e n making a name in English boxing circles. She collapsed, woman-like, in court when charged with perjury. Hit By Train, Loses Money All At Once Southern Train Strike* \ulo Driven By Spencer Elliott. S70 (lone. * Friday April 12 may as well hare been Friday, the 13th as far a. Spencer Elliott. niRht operator ol the city pump station is concerned He couldn't have had any more tough luck Friday-afternoon Elliott hopped into bis Ford roadster and was driv ing away from the pump station His route lay across the Southern railway tracks and he had driven across the grossing many times be fore. but tor some reason he failed to notice the approaching Southern train, which ploughed into just as he hit th" crossing. Luckily enough Elliott escaped with serious bodily injury, being severely bruised and shaken up. but his car was prac tically demolished Having such a narrow ex ape from death Elliott no doubt breathed a sigh of relief as he scrambled out of the wreckage. But a short tune later while en route home he reach ed into his pocket to feci for his purse and the purse with $70 in money was gone. He wasn't so lucky after all. A search about the scene of the crash failed to locate the missing money, and Elliott re called that some colored men came by just after the smash raid.assist ed him m picking up parts of his wrecked car | Anyway, one way you look at. it the pump station operator is lucky. He bucked heads vrith a locomotive and lived to tell about it But on the other hand he wa nt so for tunate as he lost both hi; car end his monte (Boyce Dellinger Snags First Big Fish Of The Year Catches Seven-Bound Bass In Green liiver. Twenty-One Inches Long. Boyce Dellinger, local grocery man. has the hop on the other frank Waltons of Shelby for this fishing season. In lari he seems to have the hop ’into local fishermen for scvej%i) f-r-a-oru- bringing m from a wet end fclung trip a black bass twen ty-one and one-half inches long arid weighing exactly seven pound.' —the largest bass hooked in local waters in years The catch was made with, rod (and reel in the Green river several miles west of Kutlieriorciton. i harlollr To I5c Headquarters. N'oi to Organize In Oastonia Now. Greensboro, April 14.—The ex ecutive committee of the North Carolina federation of labor, meet ing here today, definitely decided upon u roneerted movement, to or ganize textile workers of this state. An organizer, who must, be * southern man. will be appointed and headquarters selected. McGrady To Speak. As a first step in the program for organizing textile workers a mass meeting will be held at the labor union temple here tomorrow night. McGrady and McMahon will be principal speakers. Except tor a brief public gather ing this morning, meetings of the executive committee were closed to the public and to the press. At the conclusion of business, President T. A Wilson gave out a statement for publication. The United Textile Workers of American, affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor, has never completely lost touch with North Carolina textile workers, even alt er the unsuccessful strike of llil. but organizing work has always been along quiet lines, Mr. Wilson stated. Enroll Mill workers. The present drive is to be an open hard-fisted attempt to line up North Carolina mill workers with the United Textile Worker* of America, Mr. Wilson said. This move he asserted, is not prompted by inroads which have been made in this section by the National Tex tile Workers' union. held by the American Federation of labor to be an "outlaw" organization, whose members are on strike in several mills in the state at preent. It is rather because of "general unrest among textile workers and dissat isfaction with conditions.'’ Another organizer will be secur ed. This man must be a southerner and, It was decided, a Protestant. He is to be appointed by the execu tive committee of the North Caro lina Federation of Labor and his salary and expenses are to be met by the national organization. Headquarters Here. Headquarters for the state will probably be in Charlotte, Mr. Mc Mahon declared, though no deci sion lias been readied yet. Mr. McMahon declared that the United Textile Workers of America is ready to foot the bill. Expendi tures will not be extravagant but will be sufficient to meet needs of the work. No efforts will be made to organ ize workers in Gastonia, both Mr. Wilson and Mr. McMahon reiter ated. Officers In Two More Booze Raids Poller And Deputies Get Liquor In Homes Of Father And Daughter. Police Chief Poston, members of his force, end deputies out of Sher iff Allen's office Saturday made two more rum raids in Shelby, one of which entangled a man while the other raid foretold trouble for his daughter. While Chief Poston and Deputy Harvey Harrelson were finding fom gallons of whiskey in the home of Blanche Dawson in South Shelby. Deputies Ed Dixon and Bob Ken drick and Policeman Simpson were at the home of Mrs. Dawsons i lather, J. L. Taylor, a short dis tance away, where they located a trap-door in the floor and two gal j 16ns; of whiskey under the door •The Taylor home has beer, 1 searched time after tune but noth I mg was ever found," Chief Poslou [•aid, until we located the trap door,'’ ; The‘Dawson woman's husband has been in jail since federal coin’. Merchants Plan For Dollar Days Thursday and Friday of next week, April 25-26, will be Shelby's first big "Dollar Days,” at which time the lo cal business houses are plan ning lo stage a bargain festi val for their shoppers in t levrland and ad joining coun ts atrh th' '■nming issues of The Star for announcements as to the many bargains to he offered during the two big days. And do your friends a favor by telling them of Shelby's first dollar days.