8 PAGES TODAY --L... - i ***~—■~————p——> By mall, per year (In advance) $2J0 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 VOL. XXXV, No. LATE NEWS l'he Markets. Cotton, per pound __l!tc Coton Seed, per bu._10'2 Fair And Cooler. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight, slightly cool er in west and north portions Tues day. Partly cloudy and cooler in northeast portion. Winston Adams Dead. Wilis ton I>. Adams, of Charlotte, widely known in textile circles throughout America, was found dead in bed Sunday morning in his room at Pamlico Inn, Oracoke, on the North Carolina roast. Good Football Team Expected AtB. S. Coliege Rackley. Former Wake Forest Star. Getting Baptist Bo.vs Lined I'p. fn just a few more weeks football will replace baseball upon the daily menu of sport fans, and out Boiling Springs way the alumni and boost ers of the new junior college are of the opinion that the Cleveland county college is going on tnc sport map this year. The optimism of the old grads and also the alumni who later be came alumni of Wake Forest cen ters about the coming to the Bao tist school of Blainey Rackley, All State quarterback at Wake Forest and a couple of years back the idol of Baptist football followers all over the state. Rackley packed his bags and came to Boiling Springs and She'.b” last week, and he will be here until school starts, on September 2, lin ing up the Baptist boys of the sec tion for the football squad which he hopes will put the junior col lege in the limelight this fall. Boil ing Springs alumni believe in Rack ley and are aiding him in every possible manner to get the boys he wants in school. That Rackley will have plenty of good gridiron material seems as sured. Some of it will be green and it will take time to build up a winning football machine, but Racu ley is going at the task in earnest week after next when he calls his first practice session He's seen enough of such boys as Howard Moore, Buck Coble, Clevp Cline, and McEntire to know that he will have some material as good as the larger colleges, and he hopes before the college opens its doors to have such new students in school as Vir gil McSwain, the former Lattimire and Shelby high flash: "Tubbv'' Harrili, and several stars from tie Forest City school, including Big Dick McKeithan I Good Schedule. Coach Racklev has already sche duled five or six good games ami is working after others, several of which it is hoped will be played in Shelby. The new Boiling Spring? coach and Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary of the 'Cleveland county fair, held a conference here Saturday about Boiling Springs meeting some good eleven at the fair grounds during fair week. It is a surety that a good game fair week will draw out scores of local fans and will assemble a big gathering of Boiling Springs sup porters. Rackley hopes to have Rutherford college furnish the op position for him if Secretary Dor ton gets a football field in shape at the fair grounds in time for the struggle. Casey Morris Will Study Game Again ~asey Morris, athletic director of the Shelby high school, leaves today for Chapel Hill to attend a coach ing school prior to starting football practice when school opens here this fall. Coach Morris hasn't thought over the future situation much, but !v: •knows that some of his greatest athletes will be missing % when oc calls the first practice early in Sep tember. However high school back frs about Shelby, remembering the kid baseball team which Morris sent to a state title this spring, aren’t worrying much. The Shelby high eleven this fall may not be a world beater, but a Morris team Is never a fluke, and no fan in a small town can hope for his team to comer every title in existence. Blanton Boy May Recover, Said Now Hudson Blanton. 15-year-old youth who was mysteriously injur ed in the Dover Mill Friday week ago. was reported to be some bette: at the Shelby hospital today and chances for his recovery are bright er. Young Blanton, who was found on the floor of the mill with his skull fractured above the eye. has been In a semi-conscious condition for the 10 days since, but today was said to be clearing up in his head and able to recognize his relative ind others. Has Head Mashed In A Hold-Up Suspect White Youths In Brutal Slugging Of Negro Sunday Morning. Police and county officers are. today attempting to unravel-the mysterious happenings . centering around the brutal slugging and robbery of Boyce Meeks. Shelby ne j gro. during the early hours of Sun day morning Meeks is in the Shelby hospital in serious condition as the result of a bad fracture on the rear of his head and so far he lias not been able to remember who slugged him with a wood ax and robbed him of something like $100 Meantime Deputy Sheriff Ed Dixon and Police Chief Poston are working upon the theory that white youths have had something to do with the brutal robbery. and at least one young white man. whps ! name is withheld for the present, is j in custody awaiting developments. Gory With Blood. About 9 o'clock yesterday morning a negro passcr-bv stopped at the little shack Meeks lives in near the cotton warehouse along tiie South I ern railway tracks. When he open ed the door a gory spectacle greet ed him. Meeks was lying uncon I scious upon the floor in v large I pool of blood, some of which had j trickled across the room and out of | the door. The back of his head was crushed In and upon the bed nearby was an ax. which had been used to strike the blow, the back of the heavy ax. which is now in the po lice department. being splotched with blood The badly injured negro was rushed to the hospital and for a time it was not thought that he could survive the injury. Today, however, he has partly regained consciousness and can talk some, but does not remember who hit him or what happened just before he was felled. Pockotbook Empty. j His pocketbook. whum «as said 'o have contained aroi)nd $100 prior to the robbery, was found empty >n the pool of blood by his side. Hit From Rear. It is surmised that the thief slipped up on Meeks from the rear and swung the ax as the fracture is on the back side of the hetflJ. At the time the negro, ivho is of a husky build, was fulled dressed ex cept that his shoes were off, and one presumption is that he was pre paring to retire when some one nit him from behind. Drinking of a drug alcohol ha i been going on in the shack during the night, and officers have been informed that both white and col ored men had been there at inter vals during the night and early morning. Injured Captain Of Champ Team Is Home From Columbus, Ga. Cline Owens Lee, captain and star of the Shelby High sch6oI state champions last spring, returned last week from Columbus. Georgia, where he has been playing second base for the Columbus team in the Southeastern league. Young Lee. who was making a fine record in his first pro baseball, was severely injured two weeks back when spiked in a collision at sec ond base. He came home after being able to leave the hospital as his in jured foot will not permit hint to play any more this season. Next spring he will return to the Colum bus team and is expected to be one of the mainstays of the young out fit Manager Bill White is building up. Shelby Has Changed Considerably In 22 Years Visitor Says “This place doesn’t look like what they called Shelby 22 years ago," de clared Mr. C. R Callahan, of Macon. Georgia. Saturday as lie looked out upon th" streets congested with Saturday traffic. Blamed if it isn't a regular little city now.’’ Mr. Callahan, a native of the Lattimore section, has been living elsewhere for 22 years and is now in he lumber business at Macon He and his family have been here vis iting the Callahans and Humphries f the Latimotre and Boiling Spring? sections. They will return to Geoe ie. by way of Raleigh and Wake Forest. “Only one tiling I'm ashamed of when I coino back.'1 Mr. Callahan said in leaving. ‘ That's the way my home state voted last November '’ Girl Slain by Brutal Fiend Dop thy A’in& (left,), of Minneapolis, who was kidnaped, rav ished and then strangled to death, ller body, tied up in burlap bags, was found in the gutter near her home and police have arrested and held for further questioning Albert Mollenhauer, a shoe dealer, in whose cellar was discovered the slain girl’s clothing. Another suspect is held in Milwaukee, Wis. 1 he crime in many respects is similar to the Hickman-Barker case. (International Newsreel) No High School Graduates Why Education Pay* In Prison; Governor Says Governor Gardner, always in terested in boys because he re tains the spirit of youth him self, has picked up a bit of in formation down at the State prison in Raleigh which should be of interest to parents in Shelby and over North Carolina. That is. if parents wish to keep their sons from going to the State penitentiary. There are 100 boys in the North Carolina State prison, most of them for stealing auto mobiles, and for breaking and entering, and for minor thefts. Governor Gardner became in terested in those boys. Why were they there? What contributed to their downfall, and could there be any one thing which had something to do with bringing all of them there to the gray prison interior where men’s hair Takes A Healthy Child To Be Bright In School Work Recently a Shelby physician in advocating the employment- of a full-time health nurse t-o work among the school children of Cleve land county, declared that "your boy and girl may be fading in school, and his or her failure like ly is not because they are not bright, but because they are not healthy. Such is often the case. The fol lowing letter from a parent of a Cleveland county school child is actual proof of the statement, and moreover it illustrates admirable cooperation between parent and teacher. The following is a copy of a let ter received by a teacher in Falls ton school. Such communications | and expressions as these would keep j teachers at the highest point of mental efficiency, and inspire them far more than an addition to the pay check. The confidence and ap preciation of parents can be count ed safely as a fifty per cent addi tion to a teachers efficiency. The leUdf follows. Dear M - _ ---: We had our child at the childrens’ clinic at Black Mountain this week and the doctors found so much the matter with him that th_>y advised us to keep him out of school until he has made considerable gains. I am soiry —inexpressibly sorry—that we lost last year and the year before and that we did not get at the bottom of the trouble last spring so v e could have made better use of vacation time in building him up I wish to thank you for the na tience and gentleness with which you have dealt with him. That, you put up with the poor, spoiled. ner vous. mischievous, fun-loving lad all those months without using the switch certainly bespeaks your pro fessional fitness and innate fine ness. Come to see us. With all good wishes to you and yours. I am. Sincerely, Mrs.__ Fallston P. T. A. Meets. There will be a call meeting ot the P. T. A. Tuesday evening, Aug ust 20. at 7:30 p. m All people of this community are urged to be prrescnt as there is importan* business to be transacted. grays and their souLs shrink np? In his curiosity the governor prepared a questionnaire and it filled out by all the boys in prison. They didn’t know it was the governor’s questionnaire but they all answered. The governor found out most everything about them. Some were Baptists, some Methodists, others members of still other churches, while some belonged to no church at ail. But that wasn’t the important thing Governor Gardner learn ed as he studied the answers to the questions about their per sonal lives. That bit of information, which Governor Gardner considered most important of all, was that NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE 100 YOUTHS WAS A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. The moral should be plain. i Inter-Club Meeting Of Kiwanians Here On Next Thursday Forest City And Ruthcrfordton Clubs Meet Here. Plrnie Next. An inter-club Kiwanjs meet ing will be held at Cleveland Springs Thursday night of this week with the Shelby club act ing as host to the clubs of For est City and Rutherfordton. A good attendance of Kiwanians of the two neighboring coun ties is anticipated. Next week the Shelby club will have a picnic supper at Pineview lake, about 6 to 6:30 o'rloek. with Mrs. Irma P. Wal lace and her rounty club wom en serving the picnic feed. Shelby Merchants Back From Markets Shelby merchants are returning I from the northern markets, bring ing word of extensive buying far the fall trade, with the outlook for good times ahead. Amongst those already back are Joe E. Nash, manager of the Para gon. and J. C. McNeely. Both of these came in yesterday. Ft. E. Campbell, of Campbell's department store, is expected back early this week. Meantime yester day A. V. and George Wray left far the big circuit to be gone ton days or more. Planning To Offer Property For Sale For Unpaid Taxes Mayor McMurry says ‘‘wc ire forced to meet out obligations” and in order to get the money witn which to do so, "we are planning our list for the advertisement of city taxes which have not bee.i paid for the year 1928 and prior thereto, and also planning to ad vertise all property on which are due old street and sidewalk assess ments, This list is in process of preparation now,” says Mr. Mc i Murry. Officers Nab 3 In Robberies Colored Youth* Rounded l'p After j Saturday Night Theft,*. Admit Others. Local officers Sunday put a crimp into the robbery wave which lias been .sweeping over Shelby a: intervals for several weeks by ..Jail ing three negro youths who were directly connected with a couple of robberies and are believed to have been connected with others in re rent weeks. Early Sunday morning the Quinn drug store and Penders, both on South Washington street, wire en tered and robbed from the rear. Around eight dollars was taken from the drug store and near two dollars from the grocery. However, as Odell Eskridge started to leave the Quinn store the driver of the early morning Rarbage truck notic ed him. it is said, and called ttie of ficers A short time later Eskrids ■ and his two alleged accomplices, Johnny Hogue and Ed Pool, were in custody. In Ingram-Liles. Some maneuvering on the pari oi officers caused Bskridge and Hogue to start, an argument and out of the argument, officers say, came the information that they knew some thing about tIre robbery of the In gram-Liles store a couple of weeks back A search of their homes then revealed several suits of clothing, hats, socks and other wearing ap parel taken from the Ingratn-Liles store. Eskridge and Hogue, It will be re membered were charged with steal ing the Packard of Mr. C. C. Blan ton some months back and one of them just completed his time on another charge on the day befov' the Ingram-Liles store was robbed. Other robberies may be connect ed with their recent movements, Police Chief Poston thinks. Mr. Neely Camp Passed On Sunday Prominent And Beloved Citlren Of Prospect Section Died Last Night. Mr Lorandus Cornelius Camp, better, known to his scores of friends and acquaintances as "Neely,” died about 11 30 last nlgnt at his home in the New Prospect section after a lingering illness. The deceased, who was held In high esteem by all who knew him and who was always for the best interest of his fellowman. was 63 years of age last July. He was a val uable member of New Prospect church. Funeral services are to be held Thesday morning at if o’clock at Pleasant Hill and will likely br conducted by Rev. D G. Washburn and Rev. I. D. Harrill. Surviving are Ills widow, who was Miss Dovie Glascow prior to marriage;and two children—Gaff ney Camp and Mrs. Laura Camp White. Mrs. Wright Dies Following A Stroke ■ Was At Work Saturday Morning When Stricken. Funeral On Sunday. Mrs. Lily Wright, well known and popular woman of the Lily Mill village, died Saturday afternoon a* 2 o'clock after suffering a stroke of paralysis while at work In the mill Rhout 10 o'clock in the morn ing. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at St. Pauls church and the new edifice would not seat the large crowd which gathered to pay final tribute to Mrs. Wright, who had lived in the Lily village for 17 years and was highly respected by the entire community. Rev. Rush Padgett con ducted the services. She was a de ! voted member qf the Methodist church and was SO years of age. The deceased was first married to .1 O. Sisk, who died about C years ago, and the following children survive trom this union: Lula Mac. Irene. Clarence, Alvin. Odell, and George. Surviving also are her last husband, W. E. Wright, two broth ers. four sisters, and four grand children. Crowder Not Improving William Crowder, Shelby meat dealer who was operated on last week at the Shelby hospital for ap pendicitis, is not doing so we'l. The stitches in his side broke ami caused him much discomfort His condition is reported to be serious, but not alarming at noon today. Candidate For : Congress Talked i Over The Section \ mine Voter* Pulling For Wilson Warlick Of Newton. Much Speculation On. Will the ninth congressional dis trict, of which Cleveland county Ik a part, remain Republican when the next election comes off and send Oh as A Jonas back to Washington, or will the district, which bolted last fall, again become Democratic and send a new Congressman up to the Capitol?. That question is frequently asked hereabouts and over the entire dis trict—-of recent, weeks when the political topic comes up. And tiie query is usually follow ed by another, which starts even more talk: Who will be the Dem ocratic candidate if the Democrats do get in earnest about redeeming their district? Over the district there is n lot of talk about drafting Clyde R Hoey, of Sheiby, former congressman, to turn the somewhat difficult task of unseating Mr, Jonas, but those ac quainted with Mr, Hpey realize tha* it will have to be a strong draft to catch him. He resigned front (Continued on page three< No Clues As Yet To Identify Man Buried On Friday Hamlet Man Asks About Missing Toe* But flue Kail*. Much Interest. "Fred W Andrews." Shelby's mys tery man who was buried Friday in potter's field, remains a puzzle to local officers. So far all efforts to find relatives of the refined elderly man who died here suddenly have failed, al though hundreds of people parsed by the morgue prior to the burtnl to see If they knew the dead man. or had ever encountered him during his lifetime. Saturday Police Chief McBriiv* Poston received a letter from Ham let. the writer stating that he once knew a printer by that name and declared that, the man he knew had several toes amputated The Lutz and Jackson undertakers recalled that “Andrews" had no toes miss ing. Sunday newspapers carried fea ture stories and photographs of An drews but this wide publicity has also failed to bring any valuable in formation to officers about Andrews home or possible relatives. Textile Club Has Barbecue Saturday Governor Gardner Guest Of Mill Owners At Noonday Feed. The Textile Club of the Shelby Cotton Mills held one of Its fre quent “feeds" Saturday in the Scout hall near the mill, with the parti cular "feed" of the occasion being barbecued mutton and pork prepar ed by Mr. Will Abernethy. Governor Gardner at, the request of members of the club was present as a guest and made a short, talk following the barbecue and selec tions by a string band. Other guests in addition to club members were Mr R. T. LeGrand and mill officials President, Chas. C. Blanton, of the First National bank; John D. Camp bell. and Rcnn Drum. The club, of which Mr Marshall Kale is the president, is composed of overseers find departmental heads of the big textile plant. Hear Dr. Pruett. A number of Shelby and Cleveland county people will this week take the opportunity of hearing Dr. George V/. Truett, outstanding Bap tist minister, preache at Ridgecrest. Dr. Truett will preach morning and evening through this entire week. At Prcsbvterian Church. __ * Mr. Raymond Long, Wake Forest ministerial student who is spending the summer here, occupied the pul pit at the Presbyterian church Sun day morning in the absence ol the pastor. Rev Hector N. McDiarmid, Band Practice. Members of the Shelby high school band are urged to be at Central school Tuesday night at 7:30 for the regular band practice. Meeting Postponed. The regular Tuesday nigh; meet ing this week of the Junior Order has been postponed until Saturday night. County Has Had No Farm Agent Since Thursday; No News George Hord Hurt When Auto Turn* Turtle On Friday Charles Falls And Grover King Also Injured Near Kings Mountain. • Special to The Star > Kings Mountain. Aug. 13—George Hord, Charles Falls and Grover King, young Kings Mountain ni“n, were severely Injured Friday nigh’ when a sport roadster driven by young Hord son of Dr. J G. Hord turned over on the Shelby road about one mile west of here Young Hord's collar-bone was crushed and there Is still some fear that he may be injured internal1;’. King suffered a broken arm, nnt Fails received several paiiilul In juries Kingwar, the only one taker to the hospital Confederate Vet Passed Saturday, Buried On Sunday Mr. Isaar Mooney, Beloved Con federate Soldier and Church man, Burled Sunday. Mr Isaac Mooney, 67-year-old Confederate soldier nnd long a useful citizen of Cleveland county, died Saturday, and was burled Sunday in the family graveyard bv the side of his wife who preceded him to the grave about 10 years ago. The funeral services were con ducted by Rev. Zebulon Grieg with his grandsons acting as pallbearers and his granddaughters as flower girls.' During the Civil war Mr. Mooney was a member of company L, 34th regiment, McGowan's brigade, vol unteering with the company form ed by the late.Ham Waters. In this company he was associated with such well known veterans as Rev. A. C. Irvin, Tom D. Lattimore, Jesse and Janjes Lattimore, Ham Williams. Robert Crowder. Adam Whtsnant, George Royster, Pink Petty, Drury Price, Will Wtylte Monroe Williams and others. The two last-named veterans. White and Williams are still living His entire life except the four years of the war was spent upon the farm in the Lawndale section originally owned by his father Peter Mooney and his grandfather, Jacob Mooney. After returning from the conflict he married Miss Mary Lucinda Peeler, daughter of the late David Henry Peeler. Five of the seven children born to this union survive: Horace O. Mooney, Ottie Mooney Gold, wife of the late Dr. G. M. Gold; Vertie Mooney Lattimore. wife of Mr. J. D. Latti more: P. Marvin Mooney, and Tom B. Mooney. A son. J. Leland, died in infancy, and a daughter, Blanche Mooney Lee, died about three years ago. Surviving also are 25 grand children, 11 great grandchildren, and one great, great grand child. Church Worker. Mr. Mooney joined the Methodist Protestant church at an early age and became a steward at the be ginning of the pastorate of the late Rev. J. E. Hartsell. He attended regularly the quarterly conferences held at the various churches of the circuit, and represented the original circuit at the annual conference in Greensboro. A staunch prohibition ist, back in the eighties he voted for the cause while it was still in the minority and continued to vote for it at every opportunity. Always a Democrat he was a strong sup porter of such leaders as Zebulon Vance, Chas. B. Aycock, Grover Cleveland. William Jennings Bry an, and Woodrow Wilson. In both his public and private life Mr. Mooney upright and highly respected and his great influence in his community was symbolical of the sturdy citizens of a fast passing generation who returner, from a dire conflict and built bv I heir honesty and energy. the foundation of the present south. Young Hord Is Run Down, Leg Broken Carl David Hord. son of Loron Hord, meter reader for the city water department, has a double fracture of his leg below the knee as a result of an injury he received Saturday when he was run down by another boy riding a bicycle and falling on him, i Ilardln's Resignation Became Efa fcctlve Last Week. No Successor. Right on the eve of malting wha| observers forecast as the largest cots ton crop in history, Cleveland conns ty is today without a farm agent fog the first time in many years. Last Thursday the resignation of County Agent Alvin Hardin became effective and the former agent turn ed to his new business of developing the poultry industry In this state aud the South. Meantime Cleveland county, which hag been taught to consider Itself the example farm county of all counties roundabout, has been without a farm agent. And that isn't all, a farm agent to suc ceed Mr Harden is not in sight. The entire county agent affair, for that matter, seems enveloped in clouds of secrecy. No one seems tot know definitely what ia likely td happen. On* one side the sentiment 'or a new agent, while on tlw ’ her hand there Is opposition. Some Change Minds. Recently, reports have It. there has been some change In sentiment regarding an agent. Some folks, these reports have it, have looked about them and decided that th« county agent has accomplished much in recent years, particularly in developing the poultry game and bringing a new source of revenue In* to the count/. Others, it la saldy have about reached the decision that a political clique or so coupled with certain private business in* tcrests' have had much to do, ba* hind the curtain, with the antag onism shown recently against the farm agent plan ip the county. Meantime, of course, there ling ers a considerable amount of op position to a farm agent. The controversy, which calms and then breaks out again. It decides | to do without a farm agent. The county must keep on paying a cer tain amount of taxes farm agent or no farm agent, but if Cleveland has no agent a certain portion of tax money will go towards paying the salary of a farm agent for same other county since approximately half of a farm agent's salary ts paid by the state and federal gov ernments. But whether Cleveland county j will have a farm agent or not corns another season no one knows. Per' haps something may be known when the county commission board meets again, and perhaps1 not. About all the actual knowledge possessed now is that the county has not had a farm agent since last Thursday. Webb Brothers To Take On Charlotte • Golfers Once More* Myers Park Champ And Partners Want Chance At Youngsters On Friday. Freddy McCanless, the long driv ing: champion of the Myprs Park golf club at Charlotte, isn’t satis fied with talcing a couple of drub bings from Shelby’s kid golf team, the Webb brothers, and with his partner has issued a challenge for the Webbs to take him and his new partner on there Friday. The Charlotte Observer has the following to say about the match: "Those Webb brothers, Pete and Fred, have stirred up a veritable hornets’ nest In this town. The two sterling youthful Shelby golfers some time ago Issued a challenge to the wide, wide world for anyone who might wish to meet them in a foursome. “A couple of Charlotte teams have met them and gone down to defeat, but still another pair has bobbed up to meet their challenge. “Carl Alexander, assistant pro at Myers Park, and Freddy McCan less, club champion have invited them over for a match next Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. “The Webb boys said that they were ready “to meet anybody, any where,” so it is anticipated that the match will be staged.” Shelby Carriers To National Convention Messrs. Geo. Dover and G. V. Hawkins and their wives left early today for Savannah, Ga„ whera they will attend the national con vention of rural letter carriers, in session there Tuesday through Thursday. Other carries from this county attending include Harrdaon and Allison, of Kings Mountain; Collins, of Grover: Higgins, of Bel wood and Richards of Cssar. h

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