lebelanD 8 PAGES I TODAY SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUG. 5, 1929. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons ®y manper year on advance) $uo ^ * Carrier, per year (In advance) $8.00 LATE NEWS The Markets. Colton, per pound Coton Seed, per bu. Governor Coming:. Governor O. Max Gaardner who has been spending his vacation at Roaring Gap is expected to arrive in Shelby this afternoon or tomorrow to spend awhile with his family and friends before returning to Raleigh to resume his official duties. Club People Attend State Short Courses The 4H club girls and boys at tending the State Short coarse from Cleveland last week, were. Nolle Stamey and Emma Jane Kendrick from Fallston, Vera Arwood. from Polkville, Mary Hamrick and An nie Catherine Greene, from Bailing Springs, Kathleen Boggs and Rose mary Peeler from Belwood, Sra Randall from Broad River. Estehe Baber, Evelyn Dixon, and Holland Dixon from Bethlehem. Charles Wilson, and Hulah Washburn from Lattimore drove the bus, and both declare they are going to be full fledged members next year, so that they will be sure to have a chance to attend the meeting then. Class in agriculture, home eco nomics, and recreation were con ducted during the morning and early part of the afternoon, later, sight-seeing trips, and vesper song and stunt services for the evening. Friday evening was camp-fire night the 800 plus club members assem bled as usual for the song and vesper services on the campus whete bleachers had been provided for their accommodation, and aft A these services the roll was called by counties, and the long column two deep marched by the officers who gave a candle to each. The column marched around the campus to form a ring around the pile that had been prepared for the cunp 19c 40 ii After the installation of offirers. Director Schaub lighted the camp fire. then the officers lighted their candles from this central fire ani spread the lights to the candles cf the other members. This circle of over 800 candles made a most im pressive sight, and was n fitting time to close the meeting with the dob p’edge which explains the symbol of the four H's. I pledge: My head to clearer thinking. My herrt to greater Loyalty, My hands to larger service. My health to better living For my club, my community, and my country. Miss Martha Creighton, district agent from the Piedmont district, and Mr. L. R. Harrill. state club leader had charge of this Short course, and are to be congratulated upon their great success. Mr. Ha: rilJ, we remember with pleasure, is a Cleveland county boy. The previous week Cleveland county was represented at the farmers and farm women's week and short course by the following who report a most pleasurable ar.d profitable time. Mrs. James Ware and Mrs. Wright Harmon. from Patterson Grove. Mrs. Butler Dix on from Bethlehem. Mrs. Smith Gallimore, and Mrs. Floyd Hern don from El-Bethel, Miss Randall from Beulah, Mrs. Onnie Smith and Miss Lyda Poston from Lattimore, Mrs. A. C. Beam from Waco, Mr.-,. Charlie Whisnant and Miss Lucy Lattimore from Polkville, Mrs. Yo del, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kendrick from Fallston. Mr Thomas Palmer from Polkvilla drove the bus. The program for this week was printed in all of the farm papers, and flhese represtnta'iycs declare it was much better than it was represented to be. IRMA P. WALLACE. Home Demonstration ^gt. Four Schools Opening Today With Thr Four Opening Today. Fourteen High Schools Of The County Are Open. Today marks the zero hour for the kids in the rural parts of Cleve land county. Which is to say, the school bells are ringing in their youthful ears. Twelve of the fourteen eight months’ schools are now open for the current session, according, to County Superintendent of Schools Horace Grigg. Four opened this morning; eight were already ope - ating. The two exceptions are the Dover Mill school, and the Park Grace school, at Kings mountain These will open later. It will be good news to friends cf the eight months' term to know that this current term will find between seven and eight hundred more pupils in the eight months’ schools than last year. Mr. Grigg told The Star that thl1 current term finds fully seventy five per cent of the rural school children in the county attending t’. e eight months' schools. In two years this percentage figure has risen from 48 per cent to 75 per cent. Three schools are this year oper ating on the eight months' term for the first time. namely. Boiling Springs, Patterson Springs and Earl. According to the County Super intendent's estimates, some 5.50f; white pupils will this year attend the fight months' schools; with 2, 200 enrolled in the six months’ schools. These latter will open about No vember first. Near News, Caught On The Wing Today The thermometer put over a mid summer joke here this morning, slipping down the tube to sixty four degrees, as contrasted with seventy four at the same hour yes terday morning. Chief of Police Poston announced this morning that the city police department did a rushing business yesterday, arresting ten drunks, in cluding one negro woman. A group of Ebeltoft fans sat in a group near the door of the book seller's store. Mr. Ebeltoft in the center, leaning back in his willow bottom chair. Business of W, G. Spake slowly sauntering past the door. Ebeltoft to Spake, sharply: "Well, come in." Spake; equally sharply: “What for?" Friend, to Paul Webb: "Hello, are you doing any good?" Paul Webb: "Man alive. I HAVE to do good." The city council will meet in reg ular session tomorrow night. Ac cording to the Mayor’s statement, there will be no special business to be considered. The usual Monday morning big parade from the county bastile to the court house, including unlucky thirteen. In addition to being un lucky, most of them were suffering from hang-overs. It was just a mod erate size court. Mr and Mrs. Odus L. Moore and children of Laurinburg, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John F. Moore and attended the funeral of Mr, J. L. Parker. Postal Receipts Show A Gain During July That, business in Shelby is on the up-grade, and sharply so, is indi cated by mounting postal receipts for July, the figures of which were made public Saturday by Post master Quinn. These figures are in contrast to those made public at the end of the quarter closing June 30, which showed a loss at the postoffice, the first of any consequence during the administration of Mr. Quinn Gain In July. The postmaster's records show that for July the receipts were $3 256.78, as compared with receipts of $2,907.71 for July a year ago, in dicating a gain for last month over July of 1928 of $349.07. These data would seem to «hov: that the ebb tide of business, which seemed to set in here in the late spring, and which reached its peak In June, has turned, and business Is now definitely and increasingly Improving. During the quarter ending June 30, when »he local postoffice showed a loss, other postoffices over the country were also running to the red side of the ledger. Mr. Quinn stated Saturday that the Post masters’ Gazette, a more or less official organ of the postoffice de partment, indicated that of the fifty largest postoffices in the United States, thirty showed a material loss during that same quarter. And of fifty in the industrial center.--, thirty-two showed a loss. New Boxes Ready Sjoon. Mr. Quinn told The Star, as an added bit of good news, that with in ten days he expects to see the new tier of postoffice boxes in stallcd. He said the contractois have been waiting for the marble trim, to Insert the tier, which he has been notified has been shipped. There will be 372 new boxes ad ded, the postmaster said, which will bring the total number avail able to practically a thousand. Graf Lands Safely on Second Ocean Voyage Everything was in shipshape condition at Lakehurst, N. J., long before the giant Graf Zeppelin showed her stub nose anywhere near the field. The ground crew, top, was assem bled and instructed. The U. S. Navy Zep, the Los Angeles, right below, was moved over in the immense hangar to make room for her larger sister ship. Commander M. R. Pierce, commandant at Lakehurst, knew almost to the minute what hour the “Queen of the Air” would arrive by following her progress on hia charts. iiruernauonii Lawndale Man Is Arrested Glenn Canipe Who Threatened To Assault Lawndale Mill Owner In Tolls Of Law. Get your man. has come to o* the slogan in the sheriffs office in Shelby. Last week Sheriff Allen and his deputies went out to catch Glenn Canipe, charged with the assault of Mr. John Schenck, sr., of Lawndale, with the slogan on their metaphor. cal banners, and it worked. Canipe led the bunch a chase up and down the state, but they landed him Friday night—caught him in a barn. or just outside the bam, where he was hiding, said barn ba ing on the farm of a Mr. Holland, who rents the Roberts place, about a mile east of the fair grounds. Canipe is now in the county bas tile, with three warrants confront* ing him, and his trial was slated for this (Monday) morning. It was last Tuesday that the trouble started. Canipe. who is 19 years old, and was reared in Lawndale, where he worked in the Schenck cotton mid. is alleged to have tried to run one Jim Ashley, also a Schenck cotton mill worker, out of the mill, with a drawn knife. Mr. Schenck, according to infor mation in the sheriff’s office, took a hand in the affair, and was in turn assaulted by Canipe. That was Tuesday. Wednesday night, so the story goes. Canipe waylaid Mr. Schenck on the road, and again drew a knife on him. According to information appertaining to the case, Mr. Schenck successfully de fended himself on both occasions. Both the mill owner and Jim Ashley issued warrants for Canipe. and he took the broad open spaces, with Deputy E. W. Dixon hot on his trail. „ Dixon trailed him to Charlotte and on to Port Bragg. some 225 miles from Shelby where, according to Dixon, Canipe tried to enlist m the United States army. However, he was turned down on physical qualilications. Dixon next picked up the trail at Fayetteville, and follow ed the fugitive back to Charlotte, where the trail was lost. Friday the sheriff’s office got a tip, or a hunch, or whatever it is the sleuths work on, that Canipe might be found on the Holland farm. Just before dark a company of officers numbering no less than six, including the sheriff himseif, Dixon. Bob Kendrick, Ted Gordon, Paul Stamey, and Rufus Sparks swooped down on the Hollands and surrounded the barn. Canipe. emul ating the example of the ha:e in the straw stack, emerged on „he run, and although it was night a od quite dark, the deputies had little trouble in gathering him in. Each of the three warrants charges Canipe with assault witi.1 a deadly weapon. Canipe Gets Six Months Glenn Canipe, of Lawndale, drew a six months road sentence in Re corder Kennedy's court here this morning, four months for assault upon John chenck, Sr., mill owner, md two months far assaulting Jim \shley, a Schenck mill employee Wins Edison Contest ■ft v wnmi i w Wilber B. Huston, of Se-' attle, Wash., won the Edi son Contest in competition with youths from every State in the Union at the Edison plant, West Orange, N. J. Upon completing the college education he will receive, ma joring in mechanical subjects, under Edison’s guidance, he will be launched upon a career sponsored by the wizard of electricity, to see if he can be developed to succeed the in ventor in carrying out some of the great work he has planned. (International Newaroel) Falls Gets $850 Damage Case Against City Of Kings Moun tain For Septic Tank Dam aged Is Ended. The curtain was rung down on the current term of superior court late Friday afternoon, with a dam age : suit from Kings Mountain oc cupying the final hours of the tri bunal. Tire case was that of A. Price Falls, who lives on a farm near Kings Mountain, versus the town of Kings Mountain. Mr Falls suii.g for damage incurred, he alleged, to his farm stock by 'the pollution of a stream running through his farm, from a city septic tank And the jury gave him $850.00 damages. According to the evidence the farmer lost sixteen cows, and other stock, through the pollution. The plaintiff was represented by S. J. Durham and the city of Kings Mountain by J R. Davis, of that city, and Clyd" R. Hoey. of Shelby., Riding in a yellow strip-down Ford, Carl Dellinger, Cade Green and 3eorge Mull left Sheiby yesterday morning for Florida and Cuba on x vacation trip. Cotton Crop Outlook Fine Mr. Mull Says Crop Is filiform And Prospects Good If Weather Is Favorable. _ Mr O M Mull, one of the than whomers of Shelby—meaning than whom there Is no higher authority on cotton production, told The Star in an Interview Saturday that, in his judgment, from the present out look Cleveland county will make the heaviest crop in the history of the bailiwick. Mr. Mull said "Cotton is more uniformly good all over the county 1 than I have ever observed it be fore. I mean by uniformly good just that; it is good everywhere, from Grover to Casar . “And that means a big crop—pro vided. of course, the weather is favorable*. "I have never seen it happen be fore, "Mr. Mull went on to say, “when the yield indicated it would be so general. Most any season cot ton in some sections of the county is good—but this year, as I have said, it is all good. “It is well boiled; the plants are vigorous, and there is little or no indication of weevil damage. “Of course,” he added, “con tinuous rains from now on would be disastrous. We need dry weather to bring the crop to perfection. But if the weather is at all favorable, the people of the county may look forward to the greatest, crop in the history of the county." Dr. Whaling Here For Sunday Sermon Dr. Thornton Whaling, professor of Theology at the Louisville Theo logical Seminary, Louisville, Ky. preached here yesterday, filling the pulpit at the Presbyterian church for Rev. H. N. McDiarmid, pas tor, who is away on vacation. Dr. Whaling is one of the most promi nent ministers in the South. He is chaplain general of trie Sons of American Revolution, having been elected in the home town of Abra ham and this position takes him all* over the country from Maine to California. He is also ex-mode.-jror of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States. A native of Virginia, he was graduated at Davidson college and was the youngest student ever to enter that institution. Want Pecan Trees On Highway No. 18 A petition is being circulated among the property owners living on state highway No. 18 north whereby they agree to plant pecan trees along the highway. The pur pose of the movement is both to beautify the highway and at the same time make a beginning for meaty nuts in about seven years. Already 16 property owners have =igned the petition agreeing to plant trees on their property to the ex tent pf its frontage on the high way. k Jas. L. Parker Buried Sunday Highly Esteemed Merchant*, Suc cumb* To Lon* Hines*. Burled At Grover Cemetery. James L. Parker, one of the coun ty's finest citizens, was burled Sun day afternoon in the Grover Bap tist cemetery, following a short, sim ple funeral service here at his home on Hudson street where he died short ly after midnight Friday night. Mr. Parker was 52 years of age last October. Since last wall he had been In declining health and spent months in the local and Charlotte hospitals for an operation and treat ment for an Internal trouble for which there was no cure Mr. Parker was the son of Robert and Rachael Parker of Revolution ary war ancestry. He was born and reared in the Grover community where he Joined Paran church in early youth. For a number of years he was railway mall clerk on the Southern and lived for short per iods In several places, but most of Ills life was spent, at Grover and in Shelby where he was a merchant and known for his honesty, inte grity and loyalty. Twenty years ago he was married to Mixs Beulah Herndon, also of Revolutionary war ancestry and she survives with the following children: Lee Parker of Birmlnham, Ala . who could not at tend the funeral because of his wife’s illness; Gene Parker, alumni secretary of Clemson college. Miss Edna Parker, teacher, and Jacque line Parker. Also surviving are the following sisters. Mrs. Geo. Moss and Mrs. Jacob Sepoch of near Blacksburg. Mrs. Lloyd Wiley of Earl, Mrs. Odus Moore of Lau#.i burg, Mrs. Crewd Blackwell of Co lumbia. 8. C.. and one brother. Will Parker of Orover. Another brother, Lee Parker, died five years ago Mr. Parker was a Mason for 30 years and during his life was known as a Christian gentleman. During his illness he was a most patient and uncomplaining sufferer and his devoted family gave him every pas sible attention The funeral was conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap tist church of which he was. a mem ber at the time of death. The floral offerings were many and beautiful, testifying to his high standing a«l to his host of friends. Serving as pall bearers were Messrs C S Young, John S. McKnight, J. C. Eskridge, Forrest Eskridre, Zeb Wea thers. Rush Hamrick and P. M. Washburn. Striker Lawyer Wanted Federal Court to Try Case Attorney shows Little Knowledge Of I-aw In Asking For The Impossible. Local attorneys, men versed In the law—are speculating, not with out amusement, on the real ability of one of the outstanding defense counsel for the Gastonia strikers, one Dr. John Randolph Neal. Dr. Neal came in for national publicity during the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn., in 1925. Hailing from Dayton, he was the original counsel In the celebrated case. Inasmuch as that was true, and inasmuch as his opinions were wide ly quoted at the time, he was look ed up to as being some shakes before the bar. But it seems he pulled a bone In an interview recently, when the question of change of venue was up in the Gastonia case. He Is reputed to have told an Asheville newspa per man—he was quoted as having said, that the case might be trans ferred to the federal court. Local attorneys view that state ment as a bull. It is said that the case could not under any circum stances be transferred to the fed eral court—that the national tri bunal has no jurisdiction in murder cases only where federal officers are involved, or over cases arising at sea. In view of such an opinion, ex pressed by the believedly learned Dr. Neal, members of the bar are speculating as to how broad his knowledge is of other legal mat ters. Hord Reunion To Be Held August 10th The annual Hord reunion will be held at the Jessie Hord old home place, four miles east of Shelby, next Saturday. Aug. 10. The d:cen dents and friends are Invited to spend the day together. A picnic lunch will be spread under the oaks at noon. Please bring a cas ket. Miss Dorothy Bostick of Forest City, will arrive Tuesday for a visit to Miss Kathleen Hard. Extension Head Is Opposed To County Man For Farm Agent H. C. Moore Will Not Be Approved A* Farm Agent For Cleveland Succeeding Alvin Hardin. The County Commissioners are meeting today, and amongst the moot and puzzling questions confronting them is the one appertaining to the appointment of a farm, oi county agent, for Cleveland County. The appointment of a successfor to Alvin Hardin, wha resigned, has reached that stage commonly called a stall. The situation in brief is this: When Hardin resigned thd County Commissioners appointed Mr. Halaus Moore, of Boil ing Springs, to take his place. But inasmuch as the state and Federal government pay more than half the expenses of this office, a veto power on the part of the state is exer cisable. Poston Funerall Largely Attended James O. ronton Buried At K.llsra beth Baptist Church Where lie Was A Member. The funeral of Mr. James O Pos Jon. whose death at age TJ was noted in last week's issue of The Star, was held at his home Jjtst east of Cleveland Springs at 3 o’clock Thursday, and Interment was at Elizabeth Baptist church where he was a lifelong member, the services being conducted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop, assisted by Revs. ,!. W. Suttle. H N McDiarmtd. J. * White and Lee McB. White, the latter two of Jacksonville. Fla. Pallbearers were Messers. Clyde, McBride, Paul and Bryan Poston, Julius Mull and Porter Cham:il >' Flower girls were close friends of the daughters and grand-daughters of the deceased. Mr. Poston was married to Miss Ellen Margaret Kerr October 1, 1884. Miss Kerr is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kerr, deceased, formerly of South Carolina. To this happy union were born eleven chil dren. six girls and five boys. The widow of the deceased and ten chil dren, six girls and four boys, sur vive him. The deceased has one brother and sister surviving hint, Mrs. J. L. White of Miami. Fla., and Mr. John T. Poston of Shelby. Surviving the deceased are his widow, Mrs. J. O. Poston and ten children, Mrs. W. F. Davis, Mrs. A. F. Champion, Mrs. Will M. Roberts, Mrs. Hoyt. Dycus, Mr. W. Garnett Poston. Mr. James Rawley Poston, Mr. Grady Poston, Mr. John D. Poston and Miss Elsie Poston of Shelby. and Mrs. W. H. Lyle of Spartanburg, S. C. There are s»x grand children surviving. Some of the out of town atten dants to the funeral were: Dr. and Mrs. J L. White, McBride While of Jacksonville. Fla., Mrs. H. Ho'j btns, Mr. Frank Kerr and Mrs. John McColIough and daughter of Gaffney, S. C.. Mr*. Lee Kerr ani Mr. and Mrs Ike Kerr of Colum bia, S. C., Mr. and Mrs. T. C Black, Misses Freelove and Jessie Black, Mrs. Tom Bradford. Mrs. Tom Goforth. Messrs. Lee and Hubert Herndon and Mr. Pinkney Herndon and family of Kings Mountain, Mr. Dave Gaston and Mrs. Alice Elliott of Blacksburg, S. c. *»iiu in mis c> ter regarding Cleveland county. I thought I made it plain to you, and I know I told Mr. Moore def initely that I would not approve nis appointment even though you rec ommended it. Theat decision stands. Please make it plain to the board that we do not insist on the ap pointment of any one Individual. We have been putting in more than half of the funds, and on that ac count we feel that we have veto power, but no greater than does (Continued on page eight.) Graf Zeppelin Lands After Ocean Flight Throne Of 100,000 People Gather To Welcome German Airship On Lone Voyage. ' Graf Zeppelin, Mlchty Ger man monarch of the air, landed on American soil Sunday, com pleting its third crossing the at lantic within a year. Last October the huge diri gible completed its first round trip from its base at Friedrich shafen, Germany, to the Navy reservations at Lakehurst, N. J. where the naval dirigible Los Angeles has its base. At 5:35 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time) Sunday afternoon a speck was sighted 14 miles away to the east by Coxswain William Bishop, lookout man for the Los Angeles and j half an hour later the huge silver bag poked its shining nose into the sunset over the field. Visits New York, Maneuvering in salute to a cheer the Zeppelin disappeared over the northern horiaon and cruised over New York City before returning to ing crowd of almost 100000 persons, the reservation, where it dropped on the field, pending its removal into the huge naval hangar which will be its home until it departs on the return journey. The landing was ac complished 95 hours and IS minut es from the time the ship left Its base 4,175 miles distant last Wed nesday night. n average speed of approximately 45 miles an hour was credited to the big ship up to the time it was first sighted, but the craft slowed down as it approached its destination and rode leisurely to New York; and It was believed that the final compu tation would reduce the early aver age. Authorities estimated the Oraf traveled 5.331 miles on its latest voyage, including the side trip to New York City, in 94 hours, mu (Continued On Sight)