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8 PAGES TODAY By malLperyMr (Inadvance) $340 Carrier, ner year (in advance) 13.00 ’1.1>, 10U:>, Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons LA TE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, per pound Coton Seed, per bu. ,r- - - Showers Tuesday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Local thundershowers in west and north central portions Tuesday and possible in extreme west portion tonight. Little change In temperature. Farmers Fire Mutual Names New Officials Borders Again President. Losses For The Year Total A meeting of the officers and directors of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance association, which Insures a major portion of the ru ral buildings In Cleveland county, was held Saturday at the office oi W*. R. Newton, secretary-treasurer, in the court house here. The report of the secretary re vealed that the total losses and ex pense of the year was $7,454.59, and the rate for the coming year was get 25 cents. There were 17 fire losses totalling $194.85 and four losses totalling $19485, and four lightning losses totalling $166.67. Officers Named. •file following officers were elect ed for the coming year: E. C. Bor ders, president; A. T. Mull, vice president; W. R. Newton, secretary treasurer; Joe E. Blanton, agent; O. M. Mull, attorney. The directors by township follow: No. 1—J. A. McCraw; No. 2—W. C. Hamrick; No. 3—S. H. Austell; No. 4— J. Bun Patterson; No. 5—M. P. Harrelson; No. 6—Max Wilson: No. 7—j. G. Lattimore; No. 8—Andrew J. Elliott; No. 8—P. L. Peeler; No. 18-A. T. Mull; No. 11—George W. Peeler. Transcript In King Trial Prepared Now Record Of Trial Contains 699 Type written Pages With Total , Of 209,700 Words. Chester, S. C.—Miles Wood, of Chester, court stenographer of the sixth Judicial circuit has completed the laborious undertaking of tran scribing his voluminous stenogra phic notes of the famous Rafe King trial, which was in progress at the Chester county court house from July 1 through the morning of July 10. Mr. Wood proved an excellent forecaster of the number of pages • it would take to hold the testimony, etc. He predicted just before wad ing into the data, that it would take 700 pages of paper 8 1-2 by 13 inches, averaging 300 words to the page to hold the transcribed notes. » He missed it by only one page, there being 699 pages. The 699 pages embraced approximately 209,700 words. He used 11 stenographers' aver age size note books, wrote on botn sides of the sheets and there w::c 1,300 of these double-sided pages. King's attorneys will use the fore going transcribed testimony to per fect their appeal to the South Carolina supreme court for a new trial for the defendant, who was sentenced to the electric chair by a Chester county jury on the charge of slaying his wife, Faye Wilson King. The defendant is now in the state penitentiary. New Furniture Firm Opens Wednesday Boyette-Elmore Business Located At Former Nix & Lattimore Stand. The Boyette-Elmore Furniture Company, Shelby's new furniture , establishment, is today announcing their opening, slated for next Wed nesday, The Boyette-Elmore Company is located in the former stand of Nix and Lattimore, on North LaFayette street, the store having been thor * oughly done over and prepared for modern displays. The two partners come to Shelby from Wilmington, where Mr. C. W. Boyette was with the Wilmington Furniture Company for eight years, and Mr. W. S. Elmore was head of the Bradstreet organization After deciding upon Shelby for their future operations, they visited the furniture shows, and bought ex * tensively of the latest and best in the modern lines to supply what is expected to be an unprecedented demand for furniture here this au tumn and winter. Mr. Miller Harris, of Shelby, will be employed by the new' company. Masonic Meeting. ' A called communication of Cleve t land Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. will be held Friday night of this week for work in the third degree, the CQffimumca^lon opening at 7:30. Estimate Down On Cotton Crop In Report Today Reduced Estimate May Mean Much Prosperity To Farmers Of Cleveland. Prosperity for Cleveland county was promised today when the census department of the tT. S. department of agri-, culture, placed the estimate of the 1929 cotton crop at 14,895, 000 bales, thereby reducing the government estimate of a month ago by approximately 700,00(1 bales. The estimate was much lower than cotton authorities had expect ed and as a consequence, December futures which closed Saturday at 19.27 opened at 19.80 when trading was resumed 15 minutes after the report was issued at 11 o'clock. At noon, however, December was sell ing about fifty points or a half cent a pound higher than the Sat urday close and many were fredly predicting that the twenty cent level would soon be seen'on the big board. One month ago the govern ment's crop estimate was 15,514,00(1 bales. Today the estimate was plac ed at 14.895,000 bales. The average of all private estimates and those of the 58 members of the cotton ex change were in excess of the govern ment estimate by 140,000 bales, so quite a surprise was sprung. Of course all private and exchange es timates were reduced from a month ago, but when the government re duced its estimate by 700,000 bales, the price took a jump of 73 points above Saturday's December close. The ginnings were given to Sep tember 1 at 1,590.000 bales the con dition of the crop at 55 4 per cent and the per acreage yield at 152 pounds. Milk Truck Leaps Fill; Close Call For Those On Truck Negro Bo.v Has Left Arm Broken, Driver Is Cut. Pole Helps. Ordinarily a light pole does more damage than good in an automobile wreck, but early Friday evening when a truck owned by the Shelby Milk plant plunged off the highway embankment on the Cleveland Springs road it was another story. The truck driven by Shufor l Green, with a couple of boys aboard, skidded to the side of the street, just on this side of the Dr. Osborne residence, and started to plunge off the embankment to the stream many feet below. But the car in its first leap from the street level struck a city light pole, broke the pole in two and remained hanging upside down on the side of the fill. Had the truck plunged all the way to the bottom it would have been a miracle had anyone aboard It es caped alive. As it was a negro youth, Adolphus Mumfre. . received a sev ere fracture of the 19ft arm just above the wrist, and the driver Shuford Green, was cut about the face and head. Baby Killed, Mother Hurt, Father Is Held On Drinking Charge Avondale Mill Worker Held After His Car Turns Over Killing Babe. Ruthcrdfordton, Sept. 8—A three month-old child was killed in an automobile wreck near here thfc afternoon. Johnny Jones, mill worker of Avondale, was riding along Highway No. 20 with his wife and two chil dren when his car left the pave-, ment and overturned, pinning the infant under the car, critically In juring Mr. JonSs and doing no se rious harm to Jones or the other child, who is about three years old. Jones was arrested and is now out on bond charged with reckless driv ing and driving while under the influence of liquor. Mrs. Jones is in a hospital here. The infant was rushed to a local hospital immed iately after the wreck but died in less than an hour. Father Gets A Son For Birthday Gift Herbert Whisnant was 28 years of age, or thereabouts, last Friday, and as is customary he received a birthday present, but on this occa sion it was not £. customary gift— for him. The following anouncement tells of his presents- Born, Friday, to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Whisnant, at the Shelby hospital, a son Mrs. Whisnant before marriage was Miss Mary Roberts, , . * * 4 . . ft HERE’S JOHN AND HIS FAMILY John Coolidge and his future wife and “In-laws” are shown above. Mrs. Trumbull, the mother-in-law to be, Is first on the left; then the son of the former president; Mbs Florence Trumbull, the bride-to-be, and her father Governor Trumbull, of Massachusetts. The wedding has been announced for September 23. Best Scholar From : Shelby Hi Chooses N.C.C.For Women Miss Dorothy King won the Cleveland county trophy cup at the Shelby high school last year for the best scholastic record, has chosen North Carolina college for Women in which to pursue her studies. Miss King's record as a scholar won for her deserved applause and the beautiful trophy cup, also the dis tinction of being valedictorian of her class which numbered over one hundred students. Miss King is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will King and leaves Wednesday for Greensboro where she enters as a freshman. t Schools Close For Fair Here AH County Schools To Be Closed One Day. Cotton Picking Closing. All the rural schools of Cleveland county will be closed for the • en tire day Tuesday, September 24, which is educational day at the Cleveland County Fair. However, some of the schools will be closed already for cotton picking. In that connection it is stated by J. B. Smith, probation officer for the county, that the schools of the county will close in ample time for the school children to assist in cot ton picking and that children will not be excused before that date for cotton picking. Following their regular custom the rural schools, which opens early, for that purpose, will close in about two or three weeks for a period during which several hun dred children will go into the fields to aid in getting the big cotton crop out. Just when this closing period will start will be determined, of course, by crop conditions, but it will likely come about Septem ber 25 to 30. Mrs. Ramseur Nurse For Metropolitan Mrs. Tom Ramseuf, N. Morgan street, has accepted a position as community nurse for Metropolitan Life “Insurance Co. working under the office of L. R. Cornevin, local agent. Mrs. Ramseur entered upon her duties last week and visits all sick policyholders of this company. Mr. Cornevin says a number of nurses are being stationed at nearbv towns where the number of policy holders will warrant. Thinks Memorial Tablet Should Mark Site Of First Court Here Lawyer Urges Memorial Tablet For Old Weathers Place And Muster Ground. Attorney C. B. (Pat) McBrayer, of Shelby, has a task which he wishes the County Historical as sociation would take up, and that is the suitable marking of the site where Cleveland county’s first court was held. He believes that the county bar association and other organizations of Shelby and the count* will glad ly endorse the movement to pre serve early records of the county. The county’s first session of court was held at the Sqi^ire BUiy Wrath ers place, near the line of No. 6 and No. 8 townships, and very close to Zion church. The same spot was used as a muster ground during the Civil war as it is near the center of the county and was the most pop ulated section in the early days. “My idea is,” says Attorney Mc Brayer, ‘‘that a large native stone, or rock, should be placed at the site with a bronje memorial tablet im bedded into the rock. It will not be so many years before most of those who remember where the first court was held will be gone, and such a memorial tablet will prove very in teresting <o oncoming generations. The cost of erecting one as I have 6Ujjre&teg_vgi^npt be pj% wifth.”, Attempt To Show Men Were Beaten En Route To Shelby Jail After Alderholt Murder Sheriff Allen Tells What Defendants Told Tim. They Claim Talk Forced. Charlotte, Sept. 6 — Over the pro test of defense attorneys Judge M. V. Barnhill this afternoon admit ted into the testimony alleged con fessions of two of the defendants in the trial of the 16 strikers and strike leaders charged with murder of Police Chief O. F. Aderholt, of Gastonia. The admission of the confessions came only after a spirited controv ersy during which the Jury was ex cluded from the court room. Judge Rules Against Defense. The unusual procedure came Just after Sheriff I. M. Allen, of Cleve land county, took the witness stand. At the opening questions from pros ecution attorneys, defense attor neys objected. His testimony was not material, they argued, since the confessions he was about to de scribe had been given under threat and promises. Judge Barnhill halted the ques tioning long enough to have the. jurors escorted from the room and then had the sheriff continue. Then, in order to combat the testimony of the sheriff, the three defendants were brought to the witness stand. They were followed by Sheriff Eli P. Lineberger, of Gaston county, whose testimony was calculated to disprove statements by the defend ants. McLaughlin took the stand and stated he was taken to city jail im mediately after being arrested, that he was badly beaten and told that he had “better tell” and that it would be “light on him if he told." He said that most of this beating was done by Charles Ferguson, an other wounded officer and the only member of the police party who has not yet testified. He stated that Adam Hord and others took him m Shelby, with George Carter in an other car, and that on the way Hord stopped at the river, took him out of the car, beating him again and telling him that some of the de fendants had been mobbed and that he might be. Admitted Firing Second Shot. Sheriff Allen testified McLaugh lin and George Carter had been brought to the Shelby jail some hours after the shooting “for safe keeping” and that they had made voluntary statements to him. He quoted McLaughin as saying he had fired the second shot and then ran away. Carter was quoted (Continued on page eight.) Juror Goes Crazy During Strike Trial Adcrholt Case Ended In Ex citing Mistrial At Char lotte Today. Charlotte,. Sept. 9.—T h e Aderholt murder trial blew up here today and must start all over again due to the fact that one of the jurors, J. G. Campbell, suddenly became hysterical thus splitting up the jury and bringing about a mistrial. The date for the reopening of the trial was set Monday, September 3ft. Carried Out. Campbell, a newspaper agent, sud denly flared into a hysterical con dition termed in the court room as insanity and screeching at the top of his voice, it required four men to carry him from the jury box and out of the room. The sudden flare-up bringing the trial to an end completely astound ed the court spectators and officials, who now face the undesirable task of beginning all over again in the trial which has already taken sev eral weeks to get started. Mrs. Blanton Dies Of Blood Poison Falls ton Lady Picks Small Rump On Jaw With Pin And Dies Shortly Afterward. Blood poison developed from pick ing a small bump on her face with a pin and Mrs. John J. Blanton of Fallston died a few. days Jater in the Shelby hospital. The pimple on the face was a small, harmless looking affair, but Mrs. Blanton pricked It with a pin and when it began hurt ing she consulted her physician. She was brought to the hospital for treatment and in five days she was dead from blood poison. She pass ed away Thursday morning at 3 o'clock at the age of 68 years. Mrs. Blanton before marriage was Mary Ledford. Her husband died suddenly about four years ago and as they were without children Mr. Amos Wright and family had been making their home with her. She was a charter member of the Fall ston Baptist church and a very faithful attendant and fine Chris tian woman. The funeral was con ducted Friday afternoon by her pastor. Rev. G. P. Abcrnethy and interment was in the cemetery at Nga Bgthgl tgjidjjjgr j No Fires Here In Two Months; Firemen Wary ’ One Call Three Weeks Ago Outside City Limits Was Last. The city of Shelby has Just passed through one of the long* est periods on rerord without a fire of any kind. At the end of last week the otty fire department had not received a call to a fire within the city limits in two months time—a record never before en tered on the fire-call register so far as can be found. Just Outside The last time the trucks have been in action was three weeks ago yesterday when an alarm came In from Charlie Upton's service sta tion. which Is Just one hundred yards or so east of the city limits on the Cleveland Springs road. The long rest, as the firemen hang to their posts about the big fire engines, however has the fire fighters somewhat on edg>\ There is an old saying, which is particularly believed in by fire fighters. that a storm always fol lows a long period of calm, and the Shelby firemen trying to be op timistic cannot help but worry now and then, during the long days of waiting for action, about what might break looae. It has been so long since a blaze that citizens accustomed Just a fejv months back to hearing it screech dally have almost forgotten the town owns a fire siren. Finds Big Weevil In County Cotton Red Spider* And Weevils Showing Up In Cotton Fields Cleveland’s big cotton crop, per haps the biggest ever, may suffer quite a bit of damage from the red spider and boll weevil before pick ing time is over as many reports are coming in of the two pests, par ticularly the spider. Mr. Clarence McEntire, who farms the Bate Blanton place near Esk ridge Grove was in Shelby today with an unusually large weevil found in his cotton. Other weevils are there, he says, but the spiders are more numerous and doing more damage. J. Ross Cannon Is Dead At Age 39 J Rom Cannon, member of a family prominent in textile manu facturing in the two Carolinas, died Sunday morning at 6 o'clock in a Charlotte hospital where he had been undergoing treatment. Mr. Cannon was 39 years of age and for a number of years was connected with the Cannon Manufacturing Co. at Concord and other textile inter ests at York. The funeral will be held at York where he made his home. Mr. Cannon married Miss Ashlyn Lowe, a niece of Mrs. Joe C. Smith of Shelby. College Grid Game For Fair Is Planned A college football game, be tween Lenoir-Rbyne and Pres byterian college, of South Caro lina, may be staged as the main afternoon feature on Saturday, September 28, the closing day of the Cleveland county fair. If negotiations being carried on today prove successful. Coach Dick Gurley, of Lenoir - Rhyne, has practically agreed to the game, and now fair of fials await the endorsement of officials of P. C., a college which puts out one of the best football teams in South Caro lina. Tempting Products Of Best Cooks To Be Shown At Fair . These folks hereabouts who are addicts of the 18-day diet have no business whatsoever going to the Cleveland county fair which opens two weeks from tomorrow, accord ing to Mrs. Irma Wallace, home demonstration agent. And that means that the exhibit department at the fair which has already drawn more comments than any other will surpass its former records—the department is that dis playing the competition between the cooks of Cleveland county in turn ing out tempting morsels. U& list of egfcriea fo£ t&p dfi-j partment, which always sends the fair visitor home hungry even after eating a half dozen hot dogs,, will include canned fruits, vegetables, preserves, jams and marmalades, jellies, pickles and relishes. juice3, canned meats, loaf bread, loaf cake, layer cake, cookies, candies, cheese, and what not. The fruit and vege table department exhibits are under the direction of Mrs. A. P. Palls and Miss Violet Goforth while Mrs. John McClurd and Mrs. George Hoyle have charge of the pantry 0M1- v i “Hitch-Hike’* Champ Miss Elizabeth Brown, Bay- I onne, N. J., stenographer, ar rived home after hitch-hiking from Texas to New Jersey. She estimates that her total journey took in some 2,000 , miles and recites many advent tures en route. # je», (fnttraationtl N«wtrt«l) ••i'jtt'l Cloth Mill One Up On Eastside Hititng Of Cline Owens Lee Wins Close Game In City Title Series. Cline Owens Lee, the Shelby high star who jumped to professional baseball last spring, wore a uniform once again in Shelby Saturday, wore it long enough to give the Cleveland cloth mill one up over ; Eastside In the city title series and to demonstrate that he can still play baseball with the best Shelby can produce or bring in. The game, a nip-and-tuck affair and one of the best baseball ex hibitions staged here in many moons, was for a good portion of the way a shade in Eastside‘s fav or. But in the seventh with two men on bases young Mr. Lee did tricks of the type he did last spring While he was leading the Shelby youths to a baseball crown: he smacked a sizzled between first and (Continued on page eight.) Interest Here In Lattimore Election How Town Will Vote On Sale Of Light Plant Has A Local Angle. There Is considerable interest In Shelby in the anticipated outcomfc of the election at Lattijnore late this month at which time citizens of the Cleveland town will decide whether or not they will sell their light plant to the Southern Public Utilities. It is known that the utility fifm would like to own Shelby's municipal plant although no defi nite talk has ever been passed, so far as is known. However, there is much opposition here to the pass ing of the plant out of city control although quite a few are understood to favor it. Girl Of 14 Married At Rutherfordton Rutherfordton — Dora Mae Poole, aged 14. of near Harris was mar ried last week to Otis Waddell, age 21, of Virginia, by Squire R R. Henson, at his home near Harris. The bride's father gave his written consent to the marriage. This is the youngest bridge known here in some time. 2,384 Children Marching Back To School Today Throe Hundred Eighty Two In Central High. Regular Clul, Tuesday. An army of 2,384 Shelby chil dren, six years and upwards marrhrd back to the school room today, leaving vacation* time behind and taking uf again the school work abandon* ed In the early spring. Motor buses and train* Fflda7, Saturday and Sunday brought In the score or more of outside teach* ers, and this morning at 9 o'clock the Shelby school system, the big gest enterprise of the city, began settling down for the nine motfths of work ahead. It's school time again! How Enrolled. Next to Central high sohool the Morgan school ranked ahead la opening day enrollment with 373 students. * Today's enrollment gp school* follows: , ■ Central high. MT Colored high .. K Total, high s lrool _... ,47b Washington school . ...... 1M Jefferson.. 357 Marlon........: 33* LaFayette . __ ig» Oraham___ 24T Morgan . _......... 373 Total elementary . ...... 1,914 This enrollment is being handled this year by 71 white teacher*, It colored teachers, and several spe cial teachers, according to Supt. 8, h. Smith. All the schools had good openings today with quite a program at the Central auditorium. Mr. Thad Ford represented the school board at the meeting; Mrs. Rush Thompson the Parent-Teachers association, while three up-town churches were rep resented by Rev. H. N. McDlarmid, (Continued On Page Eight) Youth Returns Here To Face Theft Charge George Painter. Bound Onr To Superior Court For Clothing Theft George Painter. 16-year-old whits boy. was bound over to superior pourt Saturday under, a <300 band in connection with the robbery week before last of the Shelby Dry Cleaning company. Painter disappeared fram his home here after the robbefy, but returned to Shelby Friday and on Friday night visited the home of Police Chief McBride Poeton to whom he admitted his part of the theft of. about <150 worth of cloth ing from the pressing club. In rob bing the plant he was accompanied, officers say. by two other youths, Thompson and Bridges. The youth, who has J>een to the reformatory and In other trouble here before, was connected with the robbery by the dry cleaning‘label on one pair of the trousers taken. He was bound over by Acting Re corded Maurice Weathers, who fill ed the county court bench Satiyrday in the absence of Judge Horace Kennedy, away for a week-end visit. Number Are Bruited In Auto Collision Two cars are badly smashed and a number of occupant* received bruises and cuts, which were not serious, however, when two cars collided Sunday afternoon five miles west of Shelby on highway No. 20. L. W. Green, Jr„ of Patter son Springs. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Hallman and Betty Hallman, of Rock Hill, and Helen Ewing, of Shelby, riding In one of the cars were given emergency treatment at the hospital and ware able to go to their homes. In the other car was riding Capt. H. E. Lackey of the U. S. navy, stationed at Norfolk, to gether with Capt. Lackey’s friend, Jomv White, of Tar boro, and aa enlisted man who was at the wheel. Over Hundred At Teachers* Meeting At Junior College More than 100 teachers, or as estimated number of 120, were In attendance here Saturday upon the first county-wtde teachers meeting of the year. The meeting was held In the Central high school audito* . rium and was devoted for the most part to organisation work and pro tesxinnal business. j