10 PAGES | TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 94 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY. AUG. 7. 192? Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons carnet per year an advance) woo LATE NEWS The Marketa. Cotton, per pound__—. 19c Coton Seed, per bu. .......... 40 The Weather. North Carolina cloudy. Possibly showers tonight and Thursday. Pollard Leads. John Garland Pollard, staunch supporter of the Byrd administra tion In Virginia, and a loyal Dem ocrat In the 1928 presidential cam paign, was yesterday nominated by Virgina Democrats for governor, trebling the combined vote of his two opponents, G. W’alter Mapp, and Rose well Page. New Furniture Store To Open The Boyette-Elmore Furniture company Is the name of a new busi ness firm which will launch a store on North LaFayette street here the first week in September. W. S. Elmore and C. W. Boyette, both of Wilmington are to be the owners and they have secured a lease on the Paul Webb and O. M. Mull store room next to Webb's Drug store, formerly the Nix and j Lattimore stand. Mr. Boyette has been in the i furniture business for the past eight years, connected with the Wilming ton Furniture company, while Mr. Elmore has been manager of the Wilmington branch of the Brad street rating bureau for a number of years. They expect to carry high class furniture and do interior dec orating. Both owners of the new store have been spending a week at the Southern Furniture Exposi tion at High Point, buying for the new store. After the building is va cated, It will be extensively remod elled to make ready for the arrival of furniture. Messrs. Boyette and Elmore were in Shelby yesterday securing quarters for themselves and making arrangements for their com ing. Wray’* Store Here Entered By Thieve* A band of thieves, believed to be negroes, broke into the A. V. Wray and Six Sons’ store Monday night, and made way with about $250 worth of merchandise, and some $20 in cash. However, some of the goods were recovered. It seems as the visitors were leav ing the store, a worker in the Bost Bakery saw them and sent an alarm to the police. Put to rout by this action, the thieves dropped a good quantity of the things they had stolen. They entered the rear of the store by breaking a ventilator window, which they unlatched. Gardner To Speak At Kiwani* Here Governor O. Max Gardner who Is spending a few days at his home here before going to Raleigh to re sume his official duties, will speak Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Gover nor Gardner has been spending his vacation at Roaring Gap, west of Winston-Salem and came by Shelby for a few days to visit relatives and friends. A most interesting program is expected for this Ki wanis meeting. Group Meeting At Lattimore Aug. 9th The B. Y. P. U. group meeting of group No. 1 will be held at Lat timore Friday night August 9 at 8 o’clock. Every member of this group is urged to be present. The program is as follows: Song service. Devotional, Miss 'Verdie Walker; greetings, Ruth Bridges; response, Etha Putnam; business and awarding of banner; special music; address, Rev. W. C. Lynch; Dorcas Walker, group captain. Giant German Craft Leaves Tonight On Homeward Voyage Commander Wick* Take* Pride In Final Naval Job. Cloudy Weather Seen For Trip Back To Germany. Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 6.—If the Graf Zeppelin doesn’t get away on time tomorrow night it will he her own fault or that of the weather man! Furniture Store Building New Home Cleveland Furniture Erecting Two Story Brick Building. Three New Dwellings. Building continues unabated In Shelby. This week the Cleveland Furniture company of Which W. J. Jones is proprietor, broke ground for the erection of a two .storr brick building, 50x90 feet on the lot next to the Rex Cigar company and facing the Southern Depot. The new building will be the home of this furniture store which has been operating near the depot. J. W. Silver will supervise the con tract. Ben F. Curtis began Work this morning on the erection of two small dwellings, one a four room and one a five room, near the Cleveland Cloth Mill for Mai Spangler. A. C. Miller who recently bought a lot owned by County Commis sioner A, E. Cline on South Wash ington street is having a six room brick veneered residence erected. Patrol Handles 1,653 Violations State Highway Patrolmen of the fourth district handled 1.643 viola tions of highway laws last month, and made only 19 arrests, according to the report of Lieutenant Gat r**id O. Goodwin. There were six deaths in the nine counties comprising this district, and seven additional persons injur ed during July, the report stated. During the month patrolmen trav eled 14,125 miles, each of the three patrolmen and the lieutenant being on duty an average of a little more than 10 hours for each of the 31 days. By far the majority of the 1, 653 highway violations were imper fect lights, or cars carrying less than the regulation three lights. There were 1.339 motorists stopped for light violations, of which 1,056 lixed their lights immediately and 283 were given tickets calling for later adjustments. Forty-eight cars without licenses were stopped, and 23 overloaded trucks. There were 22 motorists with car trouble aided on the road by patrolmen and seven accidents in vestigated. Incidentally the patrolmen in this district paid for themselves last month by causing motorists using illegal or no license plates to pur chase new ones, totaling $805.75. In addition the patrolmen recovered two stolen automobiles. Four of the arrests were made for reckless driving, one for drunken driving, ten for flagrant violation of the law requiring headlights, and four for failure to return cards showing necessary adjustments had been made to cars. Fines and costs for these cases totaled $176.20, and road sentences totaling six months were imposed. Sinclair Will Return To Teach High School Music Prof. W. T. Sinclair will return to Shelby again this year and di rect the band and orchestra music In the city schools, according to a letter received from him from New York where he is studying this summer. For awhile it was doubtful wheth er Mr. Sinclair would return, be cause of the low finances of the school board, it was decided to abandon music in the school. '#it there was such a strong demand for Mr. Sinclair’s return that pa trons of the school personally sub scribed more than half of the sal ary, the school board to supply the other half. Board Meets In Sick Room. At a meeting of the school board In the sick room of Dr. Tom Gold, at the Shelby hospital, where he is • patient. * letter from Mr. Sin* clair was read in reference to the music position here and Messrs. Cox and Laughridge, members of the board, were directed to see that the pledge of the citizens on his salary had been recorded in the minutes. Mr. Laughridge was asked to secure the aid of Messrs. Ed Post, Fields Young and W. H. Hudson for rais ing the private pledges on Mr. Sin clair's salary. The board expressed the desire to have Mr. Sinclair re turn and the confidence that his salary would be forthcoming. The board set the pay for substi tute teachers at $3 per day for ele mentary work and $3.75 per day for high school teachers. s It was decided to employ in the future no teachers holding lower training than normal school or col lege graduation or the equivalent thereof. ' This was made emphatically clear today by Lieut. Commander Zeno W. Wicks, who has charge of refuelling the giant airship. Get ting the Graf ready for the start of her round-the-world flight Is just about the last Job he will do for the navy, as he goes into civil ian life Friday to become hangar and construction superintendent for the Goodyear-Zeppelin corporation, at Akron, O., where two super dirigibles are to be built for the navy department, and he vowed all fuel and hydrogen necessary would be aboard by noon tomorrow as scheduled. Officials Give Time. Reports from officials of the Hamburg-Amcrican line in New York said their best information on the sailing of the Graf Zeppelin was that she would leave Lake hurst at 1:00 a. m. Thursday. Pre vious estimates had ranged from 10 p. m. Wednesday until midnight. Lieut, E. F. Reicheldorfer, aerolo gist at the Lakehurst naval air station, said the weather tomorrow' would be cloudy and showery with northeast winds but not of sufficient strength to prevent the dlrigible'3 departure. It developed that the officer tem porarily in charge of the refuelling operations on Monday inadver tently confused reporters concern ing the amounts of buoyant and fuel gas needed by the Graf Zep pelin. Commander Wicks said the ship actually required only 210,000 cubic feet of hydrogen <70,000 of which w'as put aboard today) in stead of 530,000, while her fuel bags needed 840,000 cubic feet of ethane as opposed to the antici pated need of 750,000 cubic feet. The fuel gas was being pumped in today, there was a good reserve on hand and he said it would all be aboard early tomorrow morning. One Arm, One Leg Man To Pitch Game A rousing ball game, of the big time variety, is on the cards for tomorrow afternoon at the ball park, time 3:30 o’clock, between the Cleveland Cloth Mill outfit, with Dick Norman (one arm and one legged genius on the mound)—vs. the Charlotte Railroad team. This latter team is now leading the Twiight League in Charlotte, and is a fast stepping bunch. The game promises to be a fast one. MRS. HUDSON PASSES IN ANTIOCH SECTION Gaffney Ledger: Blacksburg, Aug. 4—Mrs. F. A Hudson, of Aniocli district, died Sunday at 1:30 o’clock with pleu risy. She was 65 years old. Fu neral services will be held Monday at the Antioch church. Dr. H. V. Tanner, former pastor of Antioch church, who lives in Spartanburg, will have charge of services at 3 o’clock. Interment will follow in Antioch cemetery with J. L. Goodson, Blacksburg mortician, in charge. State To Refund $300,000 Taxes. Raleigh.—Approximately $300,000 inheritance tax paid the state of North Carolina will be'refunded soon to payers by the state depart ment of revenue under the provi sions of the revenue act of 1929. This refund has already been dis counted in the appropriation measures and by the budget bureau, according to Steadman Thompson, deputy commissioner of revenue. ---.- v Ex-Congressman Married Tuesday. Washington.—Hallctt S. Ward, former UnitPd States congressman from this district and a prominent member of (he Washington Bar Association. today was united in marriage to Miss Dora F. Bonner, of this city. The ceremony took place in the St. Peters Episcopal church here. Mr. Charlie Keel, lino operator of The Star, left Monday for his "home in Rockingham for a week's vacation. Miss Ruth and Ann Elmore spent Tuesday in Hickory with friends. f ..===^' Has Cancer In Eye, Operated V B Champion was taken to a Charlotte hospital this a eek where he was operated on for cancer of the eye. The cancer developed just a few weeks ago and was first thought to be a sty. The ra dium treatment was first sought, but surgeons said that the live tissues should be cut out before the vadium treat ment was resorted to, conse quently the cancerous tissues were removed this week, and later the radium will be used Mr. Champion has been suffering Intense pain, but now that the operation is over, It ! is thouht that, he will Im prove rapidly. A cancer on th* eye Is very unusual, say the surgeons. it H ---- .. No. 8 Fox Is Caught After A Long Chase Officers Strike A Hot Trail After Two Years And Arrest Ham rick And Son. Bate Hamrick. 45 years old, and raised in No. 8, in a game of fox and hounds, like children play, took the part of the Fox Monday night when a posse from the sheriff's of fice got on his trail. And once more the posse got their man. The trail was dim and faint and two years old. In 1927, according to Information in the sheriff's of fice, Hamrick committed the in discretion of stealing some meat from a home near Fallston. The of ficers caught up with him for the act, and cgught him, but he got away. They have been hunting him ever since. Monday night they got a tip that he was at the home of his father, Sam Hamrick, who also lives in No. 8, A group of deputy sheriffs composing E. W. Dixon, Bob Ken drick, Harvey Harrelson, J. L. Dixon and John Hord went to the Hamrick home and surrounded it. Bate came out on the rim when he got a hunch he was in a trap But the deputies closed in on the quarry, pulled the fugitive to earth, hauled him to a waiting car, drove him to town and Jailed him. Later word came from Spartanburg that j Hamrick was wanted in that city on a bench warrant At the time Bate Hamrick was arrested, the officers also took into custody his 21 year old son, Johnnie, Johnnie is charged with having stolen automobiles In his possession. The sheriff’s office announces they found him with three, a Ford truck, a Ford coupe and a Chevrolet, bear ing respectively a Tennessee and Si.uth Carolina and a North Caro lina license tag. Mrs. Magness Buried At Rutherfordton Seventy Year Old Woman With Relatives In Cleveland County, Passes. Rutherfordton, Aug. 6—Mrs. Rufus L. Magness died at her home between Ellenboro and Caroleen Monday afternoon after an extend ed illness and was buried Tuesday afternoon at Oak Grove Methodist church, with Rev. W. R. Ware of Rutherfordton. Rev. M. F. Moores of Forest City and Rev. J. E. Hipp, pastor, in charge. A large crowd of friends and relatives attended. She was 70 years of age and was well known and was an active mem ber of Oak Grove church. She leaves nine children, as follows: Misses Beulah and Mattie Cliff and Tal madge Magness, all at ’.'ome: W. G. and Ernest Magness both of Forest City; Robert and Carl Magness and Mrs. Cletus Walker of Lattimore. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs C. O. Champion of Mooresboro and Mrs. R. M. Ross of Colbert, Ga , and one brother, Sidney Crowder of ■Ellenboro. The family lived in Cleveland county before moving to Rutherfordton several years ago. Beam Reunion To Be Held Aug. 15th The annual Beam reunion will be held Thursday before the third Sunday in August or August 15 at New Prospect church, according to an announcement made by the head of the clan. The Beam connection is one of the largest in this section of the state and these reunions which are annual affairs, interest several thousand people. An Inter esting program will be worked out for the all-day occasion, p I New Vice-Chairman With the resignation of Mrs. A. T. Hert, of Louisville, Kv., as vice-chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, comes the rumor, not yet con firmed, that Mrs. Worthington Scranton, above, of Scranton, Pa., National Committee woman from Pennsylvania, will succeed her. All who are interested will raefl at Zoar Tuesday morning at •:!(fc. :, August 13 and clean off the church yard. If you cant come send me h&j dollar to hire some one In y«if place. J. L. PUTNAM. Farm Agency For County Passed For The Present Cleveland county may have ft farm agent at some future time, and doubtless will, but Yor the present, in the language of the street, there is nothing stirring—not ft thing. The county commissioners met Monday and insofar as could be learned not a word was said about the appointment of an agent; the subject buried under six feet of political earth, with a tombstone over it, not a soul amongst the as semblage, even had a kind word for the corpse. The board of agriculture is sche duled to meet this afternoon; and it being understood the board is favorable to Cleveland county hav ing an agent, the skeleton may be taken out of the closet and ex amined. But even such action by the board of agriculture is by no means cer tain. The truth seems to be. that some-: thing like an overwhelmnig sentl* ment has grown up in the count!" against the appointment of it agent, other than some local man' and inasmuch as the sUM ant federal authorities will iw ratify the appointment of a man from thf county, and inasmuch as these agencies pay more than half the agent's salary, the situation hglf; thus reached the deadlock stage. Some folks, versed in the affaiK of the county, are wondering Jua» what started this turmoil—just wh*f i is back of such a crystallized sent!* ment, many believing that county should have an agent j Some say that the need lot suefc an authority is urgent. But be that as it may, the count? | commissioners seemed to taka position that the question too high a voltage to be hand with safety, and did the usual pedient thing m the circ