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letoelftnd 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 75 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1929 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mat!, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (to advance) 13.00 LATE NEWS < The Markets. Cotton, per pound ...._18c Coton Seed, per bu._40! Cloudy Tuesday. « Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunder showers in west portion. Not much change in temperature. Their Last Week. City employes of Shelby whose positions were filled by others by ^ the new administration are today ■entering upon their last week in the employ of the city, having been given a month's notice. Not more than three or four changes will re sult in the city force, it is under stood, * < __ Solicitor Ready For King Case Prosecution Counsel Confers; Rec ords In Case Available To Defense. Chester.—There was a lengthy conference In Chester Friday ait 'rnoon of some of the counsel for the state in the case of Rafe King )f Sharon and Shelby, who is charg ed with the m**-der of his wife, Faye Wilson King. The case is to be tried here July 1. ^ Those attending the conference were Solicitor Harry Hines of Lan caster; Col. Arthur L. Gaston for mer Senator David Hamilton, Da vid A. Gaston and Angus H. Mac Aulay, all of Chester. After the con »< Terence some of the attorneys stated lhat they had spent considerable ime in going over together some of ihe phases of the case and that they and their associates would be ready when the case comes up for trial. The state's attorneys stated that the records will be sent to Chester in ample time for the trial and wete accessible to the attorneys of the defendant at York at anytime. The affidavits and all new records, the attorneys, are now filed in the of fice of the clerk of court of Chester 1 county. Hamrick Winner For Eastside; Baseball Games On Saturday Charlotte Firemen Defeat Cleveland Cloth. Dover-Ora Club Wins Game. ' Shelby's four textile mill baseball clubs had an even break in games played here Saturday, two of the teams winning while two lost. At Eastside Sherrill Hamrick, Shelby high star, hurled the East sidera to a 3 to 2 victory over the strong Boiling Springs team with York behind the bat. In another game Casey Morris' Dover-Ora mill club defeated the South Shelby team 17 to 2 with Connor, Dover-Ora hurler, as the outstanding star of the victory. At the city park the fast Cleve land Cloth, mill aggregation, with several Shelby High and college stars in the line-up, lost a nip-and luck struggle to the heavy-hitting team of Firemen from the Char lotte city league. All four Shelby teams are now * playing one game per week and a move may be made soon to organ ize them into a city textile league. Lee Runs Up Hits In Seven Contests — Cline Owens Lee, the Shelby High star who Jumped to class B proles- i sional baseball, is hot after a rec ord in hitting. At the end of Satur day’s game he had played seven t games of league ball and so far has not left the park after a single game without securing a hit for the day. In the seven games he has secured 12 hits, nearly two per game, out of 27 trips to the plate for a batting average of .444, which still leads the league. Playing with Columbus Thursday against Jacksonville he se cured two hits out of three times up, stole one base and featured in two double plays, but he also made his third error since breaking in. Friday he secured one hit out of five trips, while on Saturday he bamgeJ out two safeties in four tries, stole one base, started a double play, scored one run and drove in anoth i er of Columbus’ 3-2 victories over Jacksonville. GASTONIA STRIKER IN CLEVELAND COURT Phillip Weaver, said to be one of the striking employees of the Loray textile mill at Gastonia, was in county court here Saturday charg ed with drunkenness at Kings Mountain. He was fined $10 and the costs i Green Boy Drowns In Swimming Boiling Springs Youth In Capsized Boat, I’nable To Swim. Fu neral Today. The swimming season in 'this sec tion took its first life Sunday after noon about 5 o'clock when Ezell Green, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Green of Boiling Springs was drowned in Sunshine Lake near Ellenboro. Green, with two other compan ions, went to the lake for a swim. Green got in a small boat w'tn Paul Green of Boiling Springs for a ride. The boat capsized, throwing the boys into water about 15 fert deep. E*cll could r.ot swim and went down. Paul escaped. Only some boys were at the lake at the time and they sent fqr help. APer diving several times they rescued the body. The deceased was an active mem ber of Boiling Springs Baptist church. He leaves his parents, five sisters and five brothers. Th% fu neral services were held at the Boiling Springs Baptist Ghurch this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Gray-Haired Woman Back In Court For Liquor Charge Again Mrs. Dunn Once Ordered Out Of Shelby Is Now Ordered To Leave County. Elizabeth Dunn, whose hair has turned gray with the passing of a long chain of years, just seems un able to let liquor alone, and as a result of her persistent method of continuing to meddle with bootleg she is going to have to change lirr residence again. This time, by order of Recorder Horace Kennedy, she is to move out of Cleveland county, or take a 12 month sentence in the county jail. The last court order she heard, sev eral months back, was to move cut of Shelby or serve a jail sentence. She moved to Kings Mountain, but apparently she carried with her the ability to locate a pint or so when and if needed. Last w’eek Kings Mountain of ficers raided her home in Kings Mountain and found five pints of bootleg. Saturday she was brought here for another visit to the coun ty court. Just how many times she has been in the court room no one recalls. A year or two back she was first hailed into court on a liquor charge. She seemed to have an honest face, told a straight story, was accom panied by two young daughters, adopted or otherwise, promised to reform, and was given a chance to do so by the court, because the court was of the opinion that she should remain out of jail to take care of her young daughters. Then came another day and another trip to the court room. Another liquor charge. This time the court decided to send her to jail for a stay. The young girls wanted to go along. Of ficials were a bit puzzled as to the procedure. There was no place to send the girls, no county funds nr-r no method of supporting them while the aged mother languished in a jail cell, and after a time she was freed. No lengthy period passed before she was back in coutt again. The court found itself stump ed. and decided perhaps the gray haired woman and her dependents might do better elsewhere. Mrs. Dunn moved to Kings Mountain and the local officials breathed easier. Then last week the Kings Mountain officers unearthed the five pints in her home and the same old problem was back up before the court. This time, as was stated above, the order was to get out of the county and get away, or take the twelve months even if it brought discomfort to the young girls. Mrs. Dunn says she’ll “git." Roy Self Working For Palace Barbers Roy Self. Duke university stu dent, and a member of Shelby high’s championship baseball team several years back, has been employed for summer by the McWhorter brothers at the Palace barbershop, it is an nounced. Mr. Ambrose McWhorter, one of the proprietors, who was recently operated upon for appendicitis, is recovering nicely and will be back on the job within the week. William Webb arrived Saturday from a ten days visit to friends in Darlington, S. C, N. C. POSTMASTERS SHOWN IN SHELBY LOOKING PRETTY-The photo above shows the 150 North Carolina postmasters and postmistresses who recently fathered In Shelby for their stale convention, taken in front of the Central High school building where the sessions were held. (Star Photo I The photo was r Ellis Studio.) “Miracle Man” Role Hard For Hoover To Fill Baseball Fever Hits Shelby Along With Hot July Weather Bankers Challenge Hard-Hitting Lawyers. Other Games. Rotary And Kiwanis To Play. Barn Of McBrayer Burns Along With Mules, Horse, Cows About midnight Saturday the barn of Mr. D. B. McBrayer, well known farmer of the Moor esboro section, was destroyed by fire along with six mules, a horse, a pony, two cows, farm ing tools, wheat and 15 loads of hay. Just what started the disas trous fire has not been deter-> mined. The loss is partially cov ered by insurance, it is said. Prof. Taylor Will Move From Lattimore _ Becomes Farm Agent. Great Factor In Agricultural Advance Of Lattimore Section. Prof. V. C. Taylor, who has been one of the leaders in Cleveland county's agricultural progress of re cent years due to his fine training of young farmers as agricultural instructor at the Lattimore high school, will move next week to Mt Airy in Surry oounty where he be comes the farm agent. Prof. Taylor at Lattimore has mixed class room instruction on proper agricultural methods with actual dirt farming experience among his boys with marked success and today there are few farming sections in the south more outstanding than the Latii more community. Last year farm ers of that section, including one school boy, were among the leading bale-to-the-acre cotton farmers in the south. Last Friday night a big open-air barbecue picnic was held by the agricultural boys of the section honoring Prof. Taylor just before his departure. SNAKE’S RATTLING QUIETS FRETFUL ALABAMA BABY Tuscambia, Ala—Loft to his own devices when fretful Saturday, Baby John Lawrence, 1-year-old, found a rattle. It was attached to a live rattlesnake. The sudden cessation of the child’s crying recalled his mother, Mrs. -John Lawrence, to the room. She found Baby John clutching the rat tler in one hand, and had the pres ence of mind to grasp the snake, throw it against the door, and kill it with a chair. The baby was unharmed A young man's fancy may turn to thoughts of love in the springtime. No one has ever disputed it, but it might also be said that even an old man’s fancy turns to thoughts cf baseball when the mercury climbs up near ninety and even a turnip will perspire. Ample proof has already been of fered in Shelby in the recent base ball game, or track meet, between the lawyers and the doctors—and now nearly every profession and class in Shelby is out challenging the victorious lawyers for a ball game. The first game, according to re ports on the streets, may be be tween the lawyers and the bankers, provided the lawyers accept a chal lenge hurled at them. The lawyers can get the best of nearly every other profession in existence, but they’re just like any other men when they try to get their name on the dotted line for another 30 days or so. Of course, the undertakers have the ups on ’em, too, but it should be a good game when the bankers and the lawyers meet on the diamond and it may be this week. Then the fire department is about to throw a challenge at the lawyers as is the Key club personcl; the barbers, and several other profes sions. Kiwanis-Rotarv Game. Meantime one game is on the books for sure. The Rotary club has challenged the Kiwanians of Shelby for a game, and the Kiwan ians have replied: ‘‘You’re on.” It was first hoped to have the game played on Thursday, July 4, when all the stores will be dosed so that the gate receipts might be turned oyer to aid in the entertainment of the Spanish-American war veterans, but it is learned that Bob Rogers and his colored bambinos have al ready secured the park for the Fourth, so the game will likely ne played on the Friday after the Fourth or on some date before that time. Large Cockle Bur* Omen Of Something? Are full grown cockleburs in the spring of the year an omen of any thing? For the past several weeks, farmers have been reporting full grown cockleburs, but the largest The Star has been this year and in the cocklebur season of any year for that matter, were found by Mr. Mitchell Walker of the Buffalo section. Mr. J. W. Hartgrove spent Mon day in Cherryville. New Highway Patrol Will Parade Here On Tuesday Entire Force In Cam And On Motorcycles To Pass Through Shelby. Shelby and Cleveland county peo ple will get a peep at North Caro lina's new highway patrol in all its glory and class here Tuesday after noon. The patrol left Raleigh early this morning, will travel up highway 10 to Asheville where they will put on a drill Tuesday morning, and on Tuesday afternoon the patrol will leave Asheville for the return trip by Chimney Rock, Rutherfordton, Shelby and on to Charlotte. The motorcade wil be made up of Capt. Charles D. Farmer, patrol superintendent, and his nine lieu tenants in their cars, with the 26 patrolmen riding in formation on their motorcycles, People Discover He. Ha* Weaknesses The Same As Other Folks. HI* (J. A Livingstone In News And Observer.) Washington. — Elected as the “Miracle Man," President Hoover is now facing the period of disillusion ment, or as some of the political observers describe it, the end of hu honeymoon. The populace is dis covering his human weaknesses and the realization that after all he Is human with the frailties of a hu man being is painful. The president is mitigating the ef fects of a fall from his pedestal as gradually building up a coterie of newspaper culogizers, who will con tinue to picture him as something of a superman. This worked so well during the late campaign that he was bound to try it again after he became president. I The twice a week press confer ences started out with much tooting of horns, and they developed real , news. Then came the congress witn I its resulting disillusionment, and the press conferences have become pro forma affairs, for the most part, while impressions of many sorts ■filter out from the White House j through chosen mediums. I Up Against Realities. Recently there leaked out the news that the house tariff bill was so bad that if the senate didn’t im prove it the president might veto it. There was nothing to indicate that the president had ever said such a thing to any human being, and there was no presidential respon sibility connected with it in the re motest degree. The president was under no obligation one way or the other. \ However successful such methods of publicity have succeeded in the past, the president cannot rely upon them now. He is up against great realities now. The first test will come when the tariff bill gets to the president, if it ever does, for there is now no rea son for supposing that the senate will improve the house bill. The Democratic-progressive Republican coalition may prevent the passage of any sort of tariff bill, but Old Guard senators like Smoot will try to work out a combination that will put through a worse tariff bill than he house passed. They will do it through the expe dient of taking sugar as the key to the arch. Certain senators want the tariff on sugar increased. Starting with this as the beginning, they will take up the schedules one by one and write such duties as inUpested senators demand upon the condition that they support the completed biU. This will be continued until enough votes are secured to put the bill through the senate. Brought Disaster. This method of writing a tariff bill was used by Senator Aldrich with disastrous results to the Republican party in 1909. He took wool as the key to the arch. Around it was writ ten a tariff bill that President Taft threatened to veto, but that he fi nally signed. President Hoover will have to deal with this situation with courage. It will be the test of his leadership. He will also be tested cm farm re lief. He has the farm board for which he asked. If prices advanced and farm conditions improve, he will get the credit. If farm prices de cline and farm conditions grow: worse, he must take Ihc blame. It Is a fearful responsibility for one man to carry, but it is one that the president has assumed. Then, there is the tremendously big problem of law enforcement. Essentially it is a question of wheth er or not in a machine civilization an adequate system of law enforce ment can be secured. Here, again, he will be tested, as he has never been tested before. If he makes : good, great will be his success; if : he fails, great will be the fall. ! Friends Sought Money To Buy Bishop Home, He Played Market : Must Advertise ? Marriage After This Week Here New State Marriage Law Goes Into Effect Week From Today 5-Day Notice. Young swains of Cleveland county whose hearts have been going pit-pat this spring and the dainty damsels they plan to marry should get the ceremony over this week unless they want everybody to know about it in advance. Which is to say that the new North Carolina marriage law goes Into effect today week. July 1. and the law should help the month of June record a few more brides. The law which goes Into ef fect Monday states that all couples in Cleveland county, or any other county of the state, under 21 years of age, who de sire to purchase marriage license must file their application for license with Register Andy F. Newton five days prior to the time the license are issued. That is. couples under 21 years of age must do so unless they are ac companied by their parents. So, couples who want to he married and have their marriage come as a surprise rather than let the world know about it five days In advance should secure their license this week—or mo tor over to South Carolina, as most of 'em are doing anyway. To Cincinnati Game. Messrs. Charlie Woolson, Mil ton Loy and Hazelwood Creek more Jeft Shelby Saturday evening ing by auto for Cincinnati, Ohio., where they witnessed (he St. Louls Cincinnatl game Sunday. They will return Wednesday. Atla Girl! New York —The Lone Eagle ap parently will do his stuff with full encouragement from his mate. “Are you ever afraid when the Colonel is flying?” Mrs. Lindbergh was asked. And she answered quickly: “Cer tainly not.” John D. On Jury. New York—With the thermome ter in the nineties, John D. Rocke feller has been exercising one of the rights and duties of good citi zenship. He sat on a jury that heard a commercial case. Roland Hill and Fred Webb spent Mon. at Hogback Mountain golfing Washington. June 21.—About the time Bishop James Cannon, jr., was trying his luck with Kable and com pany, friends were inviting Metho dist churchmen and others to co« tnbute to a fund for a home for him. un uie i nr appeal was maue ground that he had worked hard all o< his life for the church, and devoted but little time to saving money for a rainy day. Senators Glass and Swanson and hundreds of others were asked to give to the cause. The place selected was on P. street, Washington, and it was to be donated In the form of a testimonial, the cost to be approximately $25,000 The Cannon home movement did not succeed for many peo ple considered it unwise. Asked today what became of the plan. Dr. Crawford, secretary to Bishop Can non, said he knew of it but was not one of its sponsors, and could not say what happened to It. Mason Again Head Of Epworth League Hhtlb; Man Is Again Made Head Of Methodist Organization. Stunt Night. Gastonia Gazette. Election of officers for the en suing year, discussion of plans for putting on a stunt night at tne Lake Junaluska league conference, July 1 to 5, and the enjoyment of a splendid picnic dinner, swimming and boating were the highlights of the quarterly meeting of the Gas tonia district Epworth league union at Davis Park Friday evening from 5 to 8 o'clock. About 200 leaguers from three counties were in attend ance. Prof. V. C. Mason, of the faculty of the Shelby high school, was re elected president for another year. Paul Kennedy, of Gastonia, was chosen vice president and Miss Clarinda Hamrick secretary-treas urer. With Miss Mary Reeves Forney as leader, the leaguers rendered several songs and yells. A team from the district was des ignated to put on a stunt one night during the annual league conference at Lake Junaluska and plans for that event were discussed. Last year the Gastonia district sent 56 dele gates to the conference, the largest number from any district in the Western North Carolina conference. Following the business meeting a sumptuous basket picnic dinner was enjoyed under the trees. Many cf the leaguers also enjoyed the swim ming and boating on the lake. Men's Bible Class Calls Challenge, Raises $1,400 Two members of the Men's Biole class of the Central Methodist church issued a sort of challenge yesterday when they proposed to duplicate any amount the entire class would subscribe to help lift church debt. The members of the class accepted the challenge and subscribed $700 in short order. The wo men whose names were with held because they asked that they tot be made publicly, gave another 1700, making a total of $1,400 raised by the Men's Bible class. Clyde R. Hoey is teacher, Oliver Anthony is president and Carl Thompson is vice president of the class. Couple Gets License. Marriage license was issued here last week to Carl C. Spurling, of Shelby, and Mary Fay Ross, of Fallston. They were married Sat urday. Election On Schools Set July 30 Shelby District To Vote On $g,001 Bond Issue. Huffman Is Registrar. Special Charter School District No. 33, or the Shelby school district, will vote upon a $58,000 bond Issue, to cover a deficit In the school treas ury, on Tuesday, July 30, according to an election call Issued by Mayor McMurry today upon the request cf the city school board. The bond Issue, It will be recall ed, was decided upon some months back as the only method to keep the city schools open for the full year last season. At that time petitions were carried about and a majority of the taxpayers In the district signed saying that they would sup port the Issue. What For. The election call, published in The Star today, states that the bond lr sue is to pay off a school deficit developing from school operation and the erection and repair of school buildings in the district, none of the issue to be used for upkeep of the schools for the oomlng year. The bond issue, It is said, will not raise the school tax above 10 oente on the <100 valuation. The $58,000 debt. It is said, is di vided as follows: $36,058.55 used in repairing and erecting school build ings during several school years Just passed. $14,317.91 lor obliga tions incurred in operating the schools, and $20,180.36 for other school obligations. New Registration. The voting booth will be in tire court house and the notice states that there must be an entirely new registration or voters. L. Z. Huff man is named as registrar and J. F. Ledford and B. E. Williams are named judges. The registration books will open on Friday. June 38. and will close on Saturday, July 27. Challenge day will be Saturday. July 27. The notice also reads that a ma jority of the qualified voters must vote for the bond Issue for it to carry. The date for the election was de termined at a meeting of the new school board held Friday afternoon. To Audit School Books Here Soon Announcement has been made by Mr. H. Clay Cox. secretary of the Shelby city school board, that an audit of the school books will be made at an early date with the auditors probably starting to work about July 1. George E. Dombhart and com pany, Charlotte accountants, have been employed to make the audit. Seventeen To One Is Potato Yield L. A. Rogers who lives on the Reuben McSwaln plantation in the Mount Sinai section had a potato patch this year where the potatoes are not satisfied with growing in the ground, but grew all over the stalk and above the ground. The stalks were short and stumpy and at prac. tically every Joint was a small Irish potato ranging in size from a mar ble to a hen egg. Of course there were green on the outside and bore sprouts, but the crop beneath the ground was none the less small. Ha planted a bushel of coblers and gathered a harvest of seventeen bushels. Mr. Rogers thinks If he had bedded the stalks, the potatoes above the ground would have grown to maturity. “Hello Girls’* Enjoy Picnic Friday Night The “hello girls” and other op eratives of the Southern Bell tele phone system in Shelby, Forest City, Rutherfordton, and Caroleen enjoy ed their big annual picnic Friday evening at Pineview lake north of Shelby with about 60 present along with a number of friends. The pro gram of amusement included a pic nic supper, swimming and boat rid ing. Bill Gets Letter. William Grigg, of Shelby, former high school star here, earned his freshman numeral at State college last year as a member of the fresh football eleven, according to a dis patch from Raleigh. Seventy-four freshmen won letters in four sports.