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12 PAGES TODAY »-.. .. SllELBY, N. C. WKDNHSD’Y. .Jl'lA 17,11)2!) Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons Hv mall, pei year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year un advance) $3.00 LA TE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, per pound _ 1!)r to ton Seed, per bu. ___ Showers In Offing. *'orth Carolina weather, mostly eloudy tonight and Thursday, prob ably showers in extreme southwest portion tonight and in the. west and eentral portions Thursday. Slightly warmer tonight in thr in terior and north portion. Deplores Crime. Speaking before the "House of Governors’’ the chief executive of North Carolina. O. Max Gardner was heard at New I.ondon, Conn, yesterday in an able and interest ing address. Governor Gardner de plored erime among the youth of America today and took the posi tion that the prevalence of erime among the youth of the nation is due to a disintegration of home and family life and to the policy of Ameriean reformers in seeking to secure passage of prohibitory legis lation before winning over public opinion. Following the conclusion of his address, the North Carolina gover nor made an inspection of the sub marine base at New London and was then entertained at a buffet supper. Farm Week To Attract Many From Section rians have been made by the Home Demonstration Agent, Mrs Irma P. Wallace with the coopera tion of the board of education for representatives of this county to a' tend the farm and home week at Raleigh beginning July 22. These plans were made primarily for the home demonstration club women, but if any farm man or woman is interested in attending the meet ings of this week they may see or write Mrs. Wallace and they will be taken on the same terms as the club members, if there is still room. Mrs. Wallace declares there is no greater source of inspiration than that furnished by those directly re sponsible for the oetterment of home and farm life, meeting and mingling with others who arc pur suing the same line of work, and knowing that the farmers are go ing forward in a program of better living. A week spent in Raleigh with these leaders of the state, and cf this and other counties will prove a valuable vacation, asserts the local home agent. Cleveland county people are urg ed to remember that the date for the opening is July 22. Many Patients Are In Hospital Here rha following is a list of patients undergoing treatment at present in the Shelby hospital, statements ob tained yesterday being to the effect that in a majority of cases all pa tients are showing improvements: J. M Walker, Lattimore; Mrs. T. C. Stockton, Lattimore: Master Oeland Humphries, Shelby; J. A. Gillespie, Shelby; John Philbeck Shelby; Mrs. B. F. Bird, Grover; Miss Ethel Hamrick. Blacksburg; Babv Ruby Ashley, Lattimore; Mrs. T. P. Gold. Lattimore; Mastei Charlie Clayton Moses. Belwood; Mrs. Lou McAbce, Boiling Springs Master Ben Goforth, jr., Kings Mountain, Thos. Heiner, Shelby, Mrs. Beulah Saunders, Shelby; Mrs. Will Leigh. Patterson Springs; Louise Wcllmon. Shelby, R-5; Rein Tillman. Failston; A. C. Wray, Lawndale: Mrs. C. M. Walkei, Shelby; Mrs. W. H. Hudson and baby daughter, Shelby; Mrs. Ivo Bridges and baby son, Lawndale Colored Patients. Mary Terrell. Shelby R-4; Emma Chambers. Hickory Grove. S. C . Eloise Brooks, Lattimore; Georgia Hollins, Lawndale R-2: Helen Johnson, Shelby R-8; Lottie Lips comb, Shelby R-l City Council In Routine Meeting With all members of the body in attendance, Shelby city council held a lengthy session at the city hall last night, the principal topic dis cussed during the evening being that of city finances and the city budget. Mr. McGowan of Charlotte, rep resenting the Duke Power company, appeared before council and mad? request that, the license privilege tax paid here by the Duke interes;-; be reduced from the sum of $2(D per annum to lion but no action was taken. Council decided to impose a li cense privilege tax of $50 per an num upo nthose firms manufactur ing meat food products, such as •'hot dogs” and offering same for sale on the local market. Aside, from financial discussions. there was little of note transacted at thi meeting., May Move Gastonia Murder Trial Here On Change Of Venue Chief Defense Counsel Says Fair Trial In Gaston County Of Defendants Charged With Slaying Chief Aderholt Would Be Impossible. There is a strong probability, according to court officials and others in position to know, that the trial of the (>8 or more defendants charged with the murder of Chief of Police A. K. Aderholt in Gastonia, may be transferred from Gaston county to Cleveland county, in which event the case would be tried in Shelby. Nothing official will be known concern ing the place of the trial until after a motion is made for a change ot venue. To Begin July 29. Governor Gardner has ordered a special term of court to convene in Gastonia on Monday, July 29, wi‘n Judge Hoyle Sink presiding, to hear the case but a statement was issued yesterday by Dr. John R Neal, nationally known attorney of Tennessee and chief counsel for the defense, to the effect that the first move made in the matter will be a JUDGE HOYLE SINK. motion for a change of venue on the gTound that the defendant? cannot receive a lair and impartial trial in Gaston county. Under North Carolina law, if Judge Sink should grant the motion for such change, the shift would have to be made to some county adjacent to CJaston county. The scene of the al leged crime is bounded on the south by South Carolina and this therefore leaves only three possible counties to which the case could be moved. either Mecklenburg, Lin coln or Cleveland. It is not believ ed that Charlotte and Mecklenburg county would be considered an)’ more satisfactory than Gaston as u scene for the trial, since the people Of that section have been almost as intimately concerned with the tex tile strike and all its ramifications is are the people of Gaston, and therefore the jurist, should he order i change of venue, would probably select either Lincoln county or wleveland county. Accommodation Here. Owing to the fact that the j Cleveland county court house is t much more commodious than is the me at Lincolnton, and the add' ional fact that this city is far be' er equipped with hotels and estab ishments for taking care of the hundreds of visitors sure to be at ractert by the trial, the opinion emails that Cevcland county will irobably be selected >f the trial is “Direct Route’1 Contract Given To Road Firms Earl Delegation Says Thrlr Attor ney Will Present An Appeal Today. me wonn uarouna mgnway com mission. in session at Raleigli yes terday awarded a contract for the building of the highway from this city to the South Carolina line “by the direct route" and this is takpn by many to mean that the appeal of the Earl and Patterson Springs section relative to having the high way proceed by their communities will be overruled by the commission since it is difficult to understand why the contract would be award ed and appeals then heard. Lee J. Smith of Asheville was given the contract to build 1:>A miles of dirt road on highway No. 18 betm-een Shelby and the state line, his bid being $39,382.30 while contract for structures on the same highway was let to Hobbs-Peabody Construction company for $29,656. A delegation of Earl people spending today in Shelby said that they are represented 'n Raleigh be fore the commission by J Clint Newton, Shelby attorney, and Mr. Newton had advised them by tel i phone that a hearing on the ap peal from the decision of (he dis trict highway commissioners would be heard in Raleigh today, but the general impression appears to prevail that this appeal will .- vail little, since the contract for the “direct route" has already been awarded. Cleveland Crops Are Finest Ever County Agent Alvin Hardin says he cannot remember the time when crop prospects in Cleveland county have been brighter than they are at present and this opinion appears to be shared by a good many farm ers of the county who say that they are expecting bumper yields for this year. Reports from over the county indicate that cotton an.1 corn are both in fine shape for til's season of the year. moved away from Gaston county. S< vcral weeks, probably a moil'll will be required for the trial of ell the defendants if they are indicted separately and it is understood that this will be sought by the attor neys for some of the defendants. Should a change of venue be granted, the case could not begin cn July 29 as at present scheduled, since about three weeks would b* required to order another special term of court and give official no tice to the veniremen summoned. Only One Polling Place In Election On Issuing Bonds Kern interest on the part of the general public attaches to the ap proaching school bond election, to be held here July 30, and it was explained this morning by the chairman- of the Cleveland county board of elections. Bynum E Weathers, that, there appears to have arisen some, mistinderlanding in regard to Mir number of polling places for the election in question.* He points out that the bill passed in the legislature provided thei only one voting place be held and that the court house in Cleveland county be designated, there being provision made for only one place to vote in the court house. No precincts whatever have been dis continued. although rumors have been in circulation to the effee that the South Shelby box has been abolished. All city schools aie embraced in one district, and a special featuer of this election is the fact that the same will be conduct ed under the new Australian ballot law. Booths arc being constructed for the purpose of providing secret preparation of ballots, according !>> the rew law Tn brief, this is a special school election, called in accordance with a special bill introduced and pass ed in the legislature providing for the will of the majority with refer ence to issuing school bonds of Shelby special charter school dis trict No. 33 in the sum of $58,000 for the purpose of paying off tip deficits or indebtedness existing against said district as of January 1. 1020, Fate Ends Polish Flight A tragic end greeted Ihe Polish flyers. Majors Leon Idzikow ski, left, and Casimir Kubala. right, in their attempted flight to New York from Paris. They tried to land their plane, “Marshal Pilsudski,” on the island of Graeiosa, Azores, but the plane crashed on the rocky shores. Idzikowski died at the controls and his companion, who jumped or fell from the plane, escaped with serious injuries. Winds of near hurricane force wore responsible for the failure of the flight. Many Cases Are Docketed For Superior Court Term Total Of i:>0 Actions Arc Slated For Trial llcrr Beginning On July 22. With approximately 130 cases on the criminal court, docket, superior court for Cleveland county will convene Were next Monday morn ing. This Is the largest number of cases to confront the court in some time, according to a statement mad-’ today by /. M. Hamrick, clerk, but it Is not anticipated that anything like this total will be tried during the term. Comparatively few o< these are new cases, many of them being continued actions while others are appeals from county court. May Exchange. Judge W. F. Harding of Charlotte is scheduled to preside over the approaching two weeks term, but there appears to exist an idea among court attaches that possibly an exchange may be effected by which Judge Harding will not com? to Shelby for this term of the court and that Judge James L, Webb'ol this city will preside instead How ever, no official announcement to that effect has been made here rs yet. One murder trial on the docket for the term may possibly be tried, although it is not very likely. M. Fortune, Ernest Hicks, Jake West moreland and Hoyle Allen stand Indicted for having killed a man at Grover a good many months ago Since that time. one of the de fendants has been in the Cleveland county jail here, but the remainder have never been apprehended Lewis McKinney, well known youth from one of the rural sec tions of the county, returned l., Shelby a few days ago front Hous ton. Texas, where he was taken into cusody, will go on trial on a charge, of seduction. He is at present at liberty on bond Minor Matters. Maurice Smawley will face trial on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. His case first resulted in a mistrial, but it *s charged that he later became in volved in a liquor scrape and lie b now back in jail on that charge. Other cases on the docket and set for trial during the approaching term are: Reuben McKinney, se duction: Ode Towery, seduction: Cliff Fulenwider. murder Many minor charges appear cr. the docket, including larceny, as sault and battery. violating the prohibition law. issuing worthless checks and the like and an effort will be made to dispose of all these. Following (he eonchuton of thr term of criminal court. the eivl section of superior court will g:‘ underway and *is expected to con tinue for about one week. To Present Play. The Cleveland Cloth mill drama tic club will give the plav ‘The Path Across the Hill,' Saturday night, July 20 at eight oVlock Pro ceeds to go to the baseball club. Teacher Training Is Arranged For School Salary Of Head Will Re raid By State. No Tuition Charge For StudrnU. Rupt. B L. Smith announce* that arrangements have been made witn the state department of education for offering the one year teacher training course in the Shelby schools during the year 1929-30 The entire salary will be paid by the state department. Credit for the course gives the person malting it a state elemen tary "A" certificate. This is equiv alent to one year's wor't in a standard college. After taking this course, it is possible to graduate from the two year normal college course in forty-eight weeks—on summer and a regular year's work. This w'il lglve the primary or gram mar grade “B" certificate The state certification department re quires throe years work in a stand ard college for this certificate. Miss Louise Oil who has had charge of a similar department In the Cary high school will probably have charge of the work in the lo cal schools. There will be no tuition charge for this course Those who are interested in tak ing this work should communicate with Supt B. L, Smith at once. Last Registering Days For Bonds registrar I.. Z. Huffman Will Be At Court House Friday And Saturday. | Tins Is the last week to register Tor the city school bond election to I be held duly 30 at which time the ' citizens in this district will vote on a bond issue of 858,000 to pay for the ninth month of school last sprint; and to pay the accumulated indebtedness of the school district. Registrar L. Z. Huffman who has been at the court house each Sat urday for the past three weeks !o register voters and has been reg istering a few during the week a* his work at the Shelby mill, will b’ at the court house two full days, Friday and Saturday of this week for the convenience of the voter,, A new registration *s required. It doesn't matter how many elections in which you have registered an 1 voted, a new registration is requT ed at this time and husbands can not register for I heir w ives, Each voter must appear m person and unless you register you cannot vote July 30. Last spring when the school was about to close at the end of eight months, approximately 1,500 citi zens signed petitions pledging themselves to vote for this bond is sue- to prolong the term and thes i signers are expected to register and vote so that the proposition wiM carry at the polls Lattimore Now Ready To Fill Post On Board County t'nmmUsionrr* May ilol.l Special Session To Transact HusintM. George F? t.attimorr recently ap pointed as one o( the Cleveland county commissioners to fill out the unexpired term of Ur, G. M, Gold, deceased, has taken the oath of of fice m due form of law before .Su perior Court Clerk Hamrick and it was stated here yesterday that. Mi Lattimore will be qualified to si with the County board at, the next meeting and to vote on any mat ters demanding the attention of the board The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Cleveland boa id will not occur until the first Mon day in August, which will be Aug ust 5, but It Is known that there are several mailers demanding the at tention of the commissioners an t it tx considered quite probable that some meeting may be called befo' that date The commissioners can meet, under the terms of the law at, will and as some of the matter' now pending are regarded as press ing,, it. ts thought likelv that a call may be issued within the next few days for such meeting to be held In that event. Mr. Lattimore will, of course, take hts sea! for the tirst time at a special session of the board One of the matters of general and widespread interest. to come before the commissioners for con sideration is that dealing with a proposed addition to the Shelbv | hospital and the matter of provid ! ing a county nurse and a public health director, but the comint, sioners refuse to discuss any phase of this situation, asserting that they wish to determine, to the best of their ability, the wishes of the gen eral public of the city and county | and especially of the taxpayers, be fore taking any action at all. Local People Hurt In Auto Accident Mr and Mrs. Charles Bowman of Shelby suffered painful, though no* serious injuries, in an automobile accident talcing place at Gaffr\ev S. C. last Monday afternoon and at the same time Mrs. T D. Daniel wife of the cashier of the American State bank of Gaffney and her daughter, ' Mrs Raymond Dobson, suffered cuts and bruises Mrs A E. Bowman of Kings Mountain, also an occupant of the Shelby car. was slightly injured in the mishap when two cars came together at the Intersection of Buford and Granard 6treets in Gaffney. Mrs. Bowman and Mr. and Mrs. Bowman were taken to th; City hospital In Gaffney where exam ination showed their injuries to be of a minor nature. Several children in the Bowman car were unhurt, i Coupe Taken Here Is Soon Recovered! A Ford coupe belonging to John Allen Whitworth, employed at the Charles stores here, was stolen from court square about !) o'clock last night but this morning as Shelby police officers were preparing to! launch a search for the missing car ; a report was received that it had j been found abandoned near Tol- ! uca, about 16 miles from Shelby.! The people making away with th? j machine had run out of Ras and! were forred to come to a halt.! There is no trace thus far as to thf j parties responsible for the theft. County Agent Matter Is Not Yet Decided Says Commissioner Uncertainty Prevail* That Man Will B a Chosen To Succeed Alvin Hardin. Board Hear* Sentiments From Some Farmer* Opposed To The Work. Ti'i" ((uesiion of selecting a Cleveland county farm dem onstration agent, to succeed Alvin Hardin, resigned, is being held in abeyance, according to a statement obtained vester* day from A, K. Cline, county commissioner, and there is no positive information available just at this time as to what disposition will be made of the matter, or when. Meeting Of Masons Held Here Tonight The district Masonic meeting, embracing all of Cleveland county, and to he held in the Masonic temple here tonight at X o'clock Is expreted to attract a large attendance from all sections of the county. The presence of the grand worship ful master and the grand sec retary will do much to add to the Interest and pleasure of the occasion and other high visiting officials are also ex pected to he in attendance. District Deputy (>rand Master J. F. Roberts says that a most Interesting program has been worked out and Cleveland county members of the Ma sonic fraternity who miss this mretlng will he missing a treat, according to Mr. Roberts. The session will be railed to order In Cleveland hall. Masonic temple, beginning prompt)* at X o'clock tonight. Philbeck Youth Is Not Located Although thrv have scoured every portion of Cleveland county, offi cers are unable to find a trace of Perry Phllbeck. 17 years of age. charged with shooting and serious ly wounding his father. John Phil beck. at the family home near this city Sunday morning. Officers ex press the opinion that the boy has made a get-away and has left Cleveland county, but they are con fident he will be apprehended be fore many days The elder Phllbeck. who is a pa tient. in the Shelby hospital, Is re ported on the road to recovery, al though a portion of his tongue was shot away and many wounds were made on his face and neck. At tending physicians believe that he will recover unless complications set in. The boy Is said to have become infuriated when his father refused him permission to use the family automobile and fired a shot gun at close range at his parent. HAS NEW YAMS FOR JULY FOURTH DINNER Tom Simmons was a proud col ored citizen on July 4. when he walked to the "big house" on the plantation of Mr. J. J. Palmer in the Polkville community with new grown sweet potatoes which he gathered from his "patch." July 27 Chosen As Date Of Big Athletic Event Locally Shelby's first ' indoor athletic ^tienl of any moment is to take ^ place on Saturday, July 27. accord ing to announcement made here thus morning by the Dromoter, Ar thur Sides, when Jack Cunningham the "Black Jack Dempsey,” and Sam Brown, the "Winston Wildcat" will meet here in a 10-round bout. Scheduled for the same evening will be the appearance of Roma noff, "Tarzan of the Apes" and Joe Turner in a two fal’s Out of three wTestling match. Logan "Baby” Carr and Jerome Spangler are to go six rounds in one of the preliminaries of the evening Mr. Sides had been undecided about the exact date of the area contests to be staged in Shelby un til he communicated with the fight ers who are to take part, but he made definite announcement this morning that July 27 has been chosen as the date for the affair Sponsored by the Ameri an Lr igion, indications are that the com ing event will attract one of the largest crowds ever seen tn this city at a similar affair. Shelby fight fans like to see white boys enter the ring, but they know that lor ae tual scrapping, the average while I pugilist has to take a back seat ‘when it comes to two negroes jf | braw n and certainly the two chief I figures for the coming fight 3ra brawny enough, since Cunning i ham weighs I80 pounds and. Sam Brown tips the scales at 200 pounds. That should be a fight worth going miles to see and it is probati • ' at standing room will be at a premium when the bell sounds for the scrap to begin. Mr. Sides is making elaborate preparations to take care of an enormous crowd on the n gilt in question, many fans being expected from the neighboring towns and cities as well as from She:by and1 vicinity. i Asked if he had heard the senti ment expressed by some farmers that Cleveland county might very I well get along without a county agent. Mr Cline said that such ex , prexsion of opinion had reached his 1 ears, although he was in no positioik to say that tiiis represents the will of a majority of the farmers of thd county. He has not discussed the matter with a sufficient number ot them to become persuaded that they wish to dispense with th# services of such agent. Mr Cline says that E. S. Mlllsapg of Statesville, district farm demon stration agent, for the district enia bracing Cleveland county. camtf here after Mr. Hardin tendered hit resignation. Mr. Millsaps strongly endorsed one individual from! another North Carolina county for appointment as Cleveland county agent but at that time George Lat timore, recently appointed as coun ty commissioner to succeed the latg Dr Gold, had not taken die oath of office and the other commissioner* felt that they should not take any action until a complete membership of the board could consider the matter Mr. Lattimore has since qualified, having taken the oath of office before Clerk of the Court Hamrick a* few days ago and he ig now fully qualified to sit with the | board and vote on any and all ques tions arising .Several Application*. Mr. Cline said that immediately after it had became known Mr. Hardtn had resigned the post here, seveial applications for the place were received and he expresses con fidence that it will be possible fof Cleveland county to obtain the serv ices of a competent man on short notice ir decision is reached f-q continue the work of a county agenf in this county He recognizes, how ever, that there is some opposition to having a new agent named and it is admitted as a possibility thaff no aRent may be employed by th« county after Mr. Hardin’s resigna tion becomes effective. To Qnit In August. In suomitting his resignation art county agent, which post he is said to have filled to the general satis faction of all concerned. Mr. Har din asked to be relieved of hi* duties about the middle of August and it had been hoped by those in terested in the work that it might be possible to have a new agent re port here for duty about the mid dle of July so that he could be come perfectly familiar with all the work of the place before Mr. Har din’s departure but it now appears that this will be out of the ques tion. Mr. Hardin is giving up the work in Cleveland county in order to undertake much more lucrative work with a large poultry purchas ing concern, with offices in the north and in some sections of the south, notably in North Carolina, He is credited with having done s great deal to put the poultry busi ness on a paying basis in Cleveland county. Cavalry Question Still Undecided Shelby people interested In the matter of obtaining a troop of cav alry for this city are in receipt of letters from J. Van B Metts, ad jutant general of North Carolina. In which General Metts says that, he is giving the matter his very careful consideration and expects to reach some conclusion at an earlv n air. i nerc is nuuimg iu wig com* munications received here to indi cate that. Shelby’s claim is getting any more consideration than is be. ; I ig- accorded those made by Char lotte, Winston-Salem, Marion and' |Iturphy. but on the other hand, the letters leave the impression that Shelby has about as good chance as have the other towns end cities. Gen. Metis has announced that tie troop of cavalry at Hickory wiil be disbanded and the location shifted to some other city in th« state and Shelby is very anxious to be designated.