10 PAGES TODAY “S I VOL. XXXV, No. 50 Tin; CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, Al’UIL 20. 10-9. Published Monday, Wednesdayt and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year (in advance) $2.50 Currier, per year (in advance) $3.00 LATE NEWS Ihc Markets, Cotton. spot ... Cotton Seed, per bu. Fair Saturday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report; Fair tonight and Saturday, Slightly cooler tonight. Washington, April 26.—The new farm relief bill having the support of the Hoover administration was passed yesterday just ten days aft er the eomening of the speeial ses sion of rongress, which was railed primarily to provide means for al leviating agricultural ills. Pass Farm Bill. Title Game Of Baseball Today Locals Are Playing CliffsiUc In Fight For Third State Title. The Shelby high baseball team Is today playing Cliffside here in the first game of a state champion ship series which it is hoped will bring the third state title to Shelby. Fallston, the only other Cleveland county team, in the state race, is playing Lincolnon at Lincolnton. The winner of today's Shelby-Cliff side game will play Henrietta-Caro leen game will play the winner of the Fallston-Lincolnton game Fri day, May 3, and if Shelby remains in the race the game will be played here. Chances Bright. The chances for Casey Morris’ outfit to win the North Carolina title for the third time are the brightest in several years unless a hoodoo, which has been trailing the team for a week holds on. Gastonia, King! Mountain, Forest City and Hickory, considered Shelby's most dangerous rivals in the west did not enter the state race and for that reason the road to the western title seems smoother, although with only one game eliminating a team an upset may put Shelby out of the race before the group title is decid ed. However, the material here this year on paper seems better than any team assembled since Morris won the state crown about four years ago. Without doubt the in field is one of the fastest combina tions seen in North Carolina high school ball since Glenn Cline Lee, Max Connor, Brevard Hennessa and Hugh Arrowood flashed about the championship Shelby infield. But the weakness this year seems to be in the department considered the (Continued on page ten.) Presbyterian Women Shelby Will Attend Auxiliary Meeting Kings Mountain Group In Session At Rutherfordton Tuesday, Wednesday. Delegates from the Shelby Pres byterian church will attend the Kings Mountain presbyterial auxiliary to be held at the First Presbyterian church in Rutherfordton on Tuesday and Wednesday April 30 and May I. The program begins Tuesday morning and continues until Wed nesday noon. Reports will be at the Tuesday afternoon session by Mrs. R. T. LeGramd, of Shelby, secretary of assembly home mission for tahe presbytery and By Mrs. C. B. Alex ander, Presbyterial secretary of S. P. & C. home mission. Several prominent speakers and ministers will be on the four programs. Shelby Men Serving As Deputies About Gastonia Strike Area Former Police Chief Richards Is One Of Special Officers At Gastonia. At least two Shelby men. it was learned otiay. are serving as special deputies about the textile strike section in Gaston county. They are former Police Chief A. L. Richards and Mr. Carr Cline, formerly a clerk at the local postoffice. Chief Richards on duty in Gas tonia covered a beat for 24 hours straight when he first was assigned to duty, while Cline, it is under stood, was sent to Bessemer City on patrol duty when the strike be gan there. Col. Bullock Talks Before Rotary Club Col. Seymour Bullock, of Indiana, a lecturer and orator of nation wide note, was the principal speak er at the Shelby Rotary luncheon at the Hotel Charles at noon today. Col. Bullock made a brilliant, force ful talk on American Ideals and the working status of the American constitution. The program was in charge of Rotarian John Dover, and the ma jority of the officials, overseers, and foremen of the textile plants in Shelbv were present as guests of fhe club. Thirteen Hundred Sign Petition To Keep Shelby Schools Open For Full Nine Months Term This Year School* Will Run Full Year Now It Seems Assured. Will Vote Bonds. The Shelby city schools will op erate the full school year of nine months this year unless another monkey wrench is tossed into the school machinery. This was assured yesterday when it was learned that 1.370 citizens of this school district had signed peti tions pledging themselves to vote for a special bond issue, in an elec tion at an early date, to cover an indebtedness of the schools, and at the same time petitioning the board of aldermen to make a loan of $4. 000 to complete the final month of the present school term. The assurance that 1,370 people will vote for the bond issue to cov er a debt already contracted makes it reasonably certain that the elec tion will carry, while it is the hope and belief of citizens that city of ficials will, at the request of so many citizens, advance the sum needed to complete the present term with the money advanced be ing classed as a town liability ac cording to the petitions. Plan Commencement. With this assurance plans are already underway for the com mencement program in June and school work Is being continued upon the basis of a nine month sched ule. Strike Assistant Given A Hearing In County Court Kings Mountain Man Who Left Wife To Aid Strikers Is Tried. Gaston county's textile strike boomeranged over into the Cleveland county recorder’s court today when Lonnie In man, young Kings Mountain man. was tried on charges of beating a beard bill and not supporting his wife. The evidence revealed that the textile strikes at Gastonia and Bessemer City were behind Inman's family troubles. Groceries Elsewhere. When the strike began, Inman said, he journeyed to Gastonia joined the Beal-Pershir.g union and at first was employed In tak ing out groceries to families of strikers, his own wife, meantime, being back at her Kings Mountain home without groceries. Later he said he moved to Bessemer City to aid in enrolling new members for the triking union. But about that time his wife put the law on his trail on non-support charges and his work with the union came to an end. "I stuck to the union all right, but they didn’t stick to me extra good," he said and I am through with the whole business. I've quit." Judge Horace Kennedy gave In man 90-davs sentence suspended upon the condition that he remain in Kings Mountain, go to work and provide groceries for his own wife ’ instead of delivering groceries to wives of strikers elsewhere. Inman said he would live up to the provi sions set lorth. ICE CREAM SL’PFER AT ELLA SATURDAY EVENING There will be an ice cream sup per on the lawn at the Ella mill. Saturday afternoon March 27, be ginning at 5:30. Benefit cf the La Fayette Street M. E. church. Builders Class. Three Citizens In Bid For School Board Ford, Faughridge And Cox An nounce For City .School Board. Shelby more than likely will have a city school board ne\t year after all. Three citiicns, urged by friends to announce for the heard, let It be known today that they would be candidates, with one of the three filing his announcement In The Star to day. The candidate announc ing Is Mr. H. Clay Cox, of Ward three, while Mr. Thad Ford will be candidate for member-at large and Mr. Roger Faughridge will be the candidate from Ward One. These announce ments leave two vacancies on the board of five members, the wards without candidates for Shelby Owners Of Trucks Forced To Purchase S. C. Tags New Law There Requires Out-Of State Trucks To Buy South Carolina License. Owners of transfer trucks and other motor trucks in Shelby and Cleveland county are very much interested in a hearing to be held before Magistrate Floyd L. Baker on April 30, in which a Charlotte firm is charged with violating a new South Carolina law which re quires out-of-state trucks and com mercial vehicles operating in South Carolina to display S. C. license. Several Shelby truck owners and drivers, The Star learned today, have already been warned and have purchased South Carolina truck li cense. Locally it is argued by truck drivers and owners that the law is unfair and perhaps will not hold w-ater In cases where just on or two trips are made into South Caro lina for truck loads or to deposit truck loads. Owners of transfer trucks and other trucks making regular trips into South Carolina should be made to display South Carolina license due to a regular schedule in the state, it is argued locally, but truck owners who may make occasional trips there for merchandise or to move the furni ture of some family should not be forced, they contend, to purchase South Carolina license. Some North Carolina firms, a Gaffney dispatch in today’s paper says, have already been fined for not having license and then forced to purchase license there. Another Candidate For Alderman Out Another candidate for the board of aldermen in Shelby In the approaching: city election enter the field today when Mr. IV. A. Broadway announced. Mr. Broadway, well known real estate man, lives in Ward 3. COMIC OPERETTA SATl'RDAY AT POLKVIII.E SCHOOL "Betty Lou" is the title of a comic operetta In three acts which will be rendered at the Polkville high school on Saturday night, April 27. A small admission charge frill tc made. Shelby Police Chief Changes Poker Game Into “Set-Back” Oaie afternoon this week Police Chief McBride Poston had a hunch, or perhaps his "little bird'' told him, that something was going on in a certain Shelby home, and he made a surprise call along with a couple of other officers. The other officers were sent to the rear door and Chief Poston strolled in the front door, and as a result of his visit a poker game, with bay rum being served as re freshments. was suddenly changed into n old time set-back game, ex cept. that one player had taken on so much refreshments that he want ed to keep on playing poker after the officer came in which was to the dismay of the others. Walking on from the front door Chief Poston heard talk in the kitchen. Easing on to that door he peered in and saw the host along with two other men—all white sitting on the kitchen floor playing poker, according to the officer, and with a couple of half filled bay rum bottles within reach. The host no ticed the officer and immediately, as the officer relates it. changed the game to set-back but one of the 'players, pretty well in his cups or j rather his bay, with his back to ; the door failed to see the officer. | "Look here," he said to the deal jcr. "How you dealing this game? 11 thought we were playing poker.” "Oh, we were, but we changed to | set-back." the dealer replied a bit [embarrassed like as he looked at the officer. "Well, I'd like to know when you changed; you didn't tell me any thing about it,” came back the oth er player. "We changed when he came in,” replied the host. And then they all turned to the door and looked at the smiling officer, who promptly issued calling cards to Judge Ken nedy's county court Young Aviatrix Makes New Record Elinor Smith, 17-j car-old aviatrix, 15 shown here checking over her motor before her takeofT at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in an effort to establish a new endurance flight record for women, which she accomplished when she broke the existing record of 22 hours, 3 minutes, 12 seconds. (Iniarnailonai •!••!) Wailing And Praying Heard In Vanderburg Home, Tragic Night Use Circumstantial Evidence To Involve Youth In Family’s Deaths. Gastonia. April 25.—Weaving of a net of circumstantial evidence by which the state is endeavoring to send Jake Vandcrburg to the elec tric chair on charges of murdering five members of his family and burning them in their home fur nished the high light of the second day of the trial of the young giant In Gaston superior court today. Features of the day were the completion of the jury. spirited clashes by opposing counsels, de nial by police that the defendant was threatened in his cell, admis sion of his statement, "Nobody knows how it happened but me and you can't make me ten," attempts of the defense to show Vandcrburg is abnormal, gripping accounts of the burning of the home and find ing of the bodies, the story the boy told police and testimony of a next door neighbor that he heard wails in the direction of the Vandcrburg house five hours before the fire was discovered. 10 Witnesses Heard. With the selection cf the jury completed at 11 o'clock in the morn in? after 48 talesmen had been ex amined to secure the 12th juror, the state immediately launched its at tack on the 17-year-old youth, and before court adjourned for the day had placed 10 witnesses on the stand. Vanderburg appeared more Inter ested In the trial today than he did yesterday, although he did not seem to be oveily concerned in the pro ceedings end showed no trace of nervousness. A neighbor or Vanderuurg testi fied lie heard “wailing and praying" ! in the direction of the Vanderburg house several hours before the bodies were discovered in the burn ed home A. P. Baumgartner, aged farmer, declared, he heard the “unusual noises'* between 8 and 9 o'clock on the night of December 27. The charred remains of Jacob Vander burg's father, mother, brother and two sisters were found early the next morning. He did not take special notice, he said, because they often quar reled. It was nearly 1 o'clock that night when the boy came to his home and told him his family had been murdered. Mr, R. B. Bebington of Gastonia was a business visitor in Shelby to Tornado Kills 39 In South Carolina, Georgia Yesterday Four Killed At Spartanburg. 17 Dies In One Town In Georgia. Atlanta, April 25—Two tornadoes that swept south Georgia and South Carolina today and tonight, dip ping at intervals, caused a death list of 39, injured 200 or more per sons and caused property damage running veil into the thousands of dollars. Thirty of the dead were in south Georgia, where two tornadoes struck one this afternoon and the other tonight. In South Carolina, two persons were killed at Pelzer and four near Spartanburg, while near Anderson an undetermined number were injured. Of the injured, more than 150 were in a half dozen south Georgia towns and rural communities, where damage to property and crops will run heavy. Cochran, Georgia, a town of 2,000 inhabitants, was hardest hit, 17 people being killed there and more than 100, 9Q of them negroes, were injured. Storm Hits Spartanburg. Spartanburg. April 25— Four per sons were killed and three prob-1 ably injured in a tornado that struck this section this afternoon A score or more persons were less seriously injured. More than twen-! ty homes were either badly dam aged or demolished. John Eubanks, about 05. was killed near Enoree when a house he had sought shel ter in was blown down. The others killed were negroes. Is Frit llrrr. A portion of the Thursday even ing storm, vvhirh ltillrd four at Spartanburg. 43 miles south of Shelby, and injured many more, was felt in this rounty, a heavy wind, hail, and thunderstorms striking several sections of Cleve land rounty. The fast-moving tor nado rloud was visible here and for a time it seemed a* if a heavy blow would strike this Immediate section, but after a short thunderstorm the cloud hovered again in the south. Masonic Meeting. A regular ntpe'intt of Cleveland •lodge 2C2 A. F & A M. will be do’d t'">*• Ht at the Masonic temple at 8 o'clock. Griffin Will Go To U. N. C. For New Berth Superintendent Of Shelby School' For I I Year* To He I ui versify Official. Prof, I C. <• rtf fill, fur I', years superintendent of the Shelby city school system, will leave Shelby this summer tor the 1'ntrerslty of North < aro lina wherr he becomes full time executive secretary of the university summer school, he announced to The Star today. A week or two back Supt. Griffin one of North Carolina's best known and most successful educators, tendered Ills resignation to the city school board. Mr. Griffin will leave Shelby on the first of July to occupy his usual summer position as the university summer school supervisor, but docs not take up his duties as executive secretary