10 PAGES TODAY SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY SEPT. 11. 1929 Published Monday, Wednesday . and Friday Afternoons By man. pet year (in advance) mo __ Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, per pound___l'Jo Coton Seed, per bu. .......... 40!* Fair And Cooler. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight. Marion Strike Ends. At a meting held there last night textile workers of two Marion cot ton mills voted to end their strike and go back to work upon terms of an agreement reached by mill offi cials and the strikers. For a period the miH will operate 55 hours per week with the same wage scale per hour as now exists. Sudden Climax Of Trial Was Let-Down, Hoey Gives Lawyers Who Worked For Two Weeks “A Washed-out” Feeling, He Says. "To work strenuously for two weeks and then to have all your efforts and work wiped out unex pectedly with no beneficial results from any angle is quite a let-down,” declared Attorney Clyde R. Hoey, one of the state counse.l. yesterday in discussing the disruption of the Aderholt murder hearing due to the development of insanity by one of the Jurors, J. G. Campbell, a Charlotte news dealer. "Day after day all of us connect ed with the hearing had worked hard to line up our witnesses, get their, evidence properly worked to gether, and the state had already introduced evidence by more than a score of witnesses and was pretty well along with the case when the blow-up came. And that work, quite a task in itself, does not include the nerve-wracking days spent trying to pick a jury from 600 Mecklenburg citizens. "And now'," he said, “we've got to start all over again." An outside Jury . In further discussion of the case local citizens questioning Mr. Hoey brought up the query as to where the next jury will come from. “Since you’ve exhausted 600 Mecklenburg citizens already m picking the jury which cannot be used for the next hearing, and since the people there have read about and know more about the case than ever before, it is going to be very hard to get another jury, is it not?” queried a bystander, who continued with another question: “Is it not likely that at the next hearing a special venire w'ili be drawn from some other county, perhaps Cleve land?" “That is a matter Judge Barn hill will decide,” Mr. Hoey replied. “It might be that a Jury could be picked more easily from another county.” State Not Hurt. Another question asked the Shelby attorney was “Will it not hurt the state’s case to start all over again now that a big portion of your evi dence has been presented in open court and the defense knows what it is?" “Not so much in my opinion,” was the reply. “You see the defense was given the privilege of examin ing our witnesses before the presen tation of evidence. They know very little more about our case now than they did before we started placing witnesses on the stand.” Revelation that the juror who became insane and disrupted the trial might be mentally weak did not come out, Mr. Hoey said, until afUf he had been passed by the state. Then, he added, it was im possible for the state to excuse him as a juror. None of his foolish an swers to questions by lawyers came, Mr. Hoey said, until he was ques tioned by the defense counsel who passed him, Ormond To Hurl In Game Saturday Against Cloth Mill Esatside Team Hopes To Even Up City Series. Harrtll To Play. ’'Snag'* Ormond. Bally league hurler once well known hereabouts In Blue Ridge league days. will pitch for Eastslde in Saturday's game here with the Cleveland Cloth mill club as Eastslde struggles to even up the city title series with the cloth mill. Tommy Harrill, Piedmont league player, will play first for the East siders, while "Red” Ormond, Inter national leaguer, and George Rein hart. old major leaguer, will also oe in the lineup. The cloth mill will send about the same aggregation ou* with Lee, southeastern leaguer, In the infield with other high school stars. The game starts at 3:30. Men Of Presbyterian Church To Hold Meet The men of the Shelby Presby terian church will hold their regu larly monthly meeting Friday night >f this week, at 7:30. at the rburri). 4 Ie announced by Mr J. B. Jones. Hornbuckle, Boxer, Wanted On Killing Charge Is Caught Arrest Made At Alabama City. Ala bama. Killed George Scruggs In February. A ,J. (Kid) Hornbuckle, a boxer ! once well known throughout tins section of the Carolinas, after evad ing the law for near seven months was arrested this week in Ala bama and will be returned here to face a charge of killing George Scruggs, an employe of the Cleve land Cloth mill. Hornbuckle was arrested Monday In Alabama City, Alabama, accord ing to a telegram received by Sher iff Irvin M. Allen, and Deputy Ed Dixon will likely leave Shelby today to bring Hornbuckle back here for trial. No Requisition. Alabama officials informed the sheriff's office here that Horn buckle declared that he would re turn willingly and requistion pap ers would not be needed. ' On Sunday, February 17, of this year. Hornbuckle is charged with having struck Scruggs, 28-year-old textile worker, over the head with a stick of cordwood, the slugging tak ing place in the section near the railroad crossing at Eastsidc. Scruggs, well known and popular in the textile village, died two days later, on Tuesday, in the Shelby hospital, where he had been in a semi-conscious condition since be ing struck. Hornbuckle made a rap id getaway and although officers spread a dragnet throughout tho section he managed to evade them, nothing having been heard from him until the message came from Alabama City. Reward Offered. It is presumed that the reward cards issued by local officers re sulted in the capture of the young prize-fighter. Shortly after Scruggs died the rewards offered totalled $250. The county offered $25, the city of Shelby $25, and the state of North Carolina $100, while relatives of the slain man offered $150. Cleveland Couples In Gaffney Weddings Six Cleveland county couples se cured marriage license last week in Gaffney, 8. C. The couples were listed by the Gaffney Ledger as fol lows: Bertis Westmoreland and Vergie Ola Norman, both of Grover: James L. Wehunt, of Shelby, and Frankie Mae Royster, of Kings Mountain; Worth Davis and Idell Shaw, both of Shelby; 'John Taylors and Ethel Mae Alley, both of Shelby; Max Denton and Inez Martin, both of Lawndale; Alvin Queen and Lula Turner, both of Fallston. Off Gang 2 Days, Arrested Again Kings Mountain—John Kirck, having to do with inebriating bev erages. served out his time with the rockbreakers, and was released. That was Thursday. He had toiled a two month. Saturday, along with his son, Howard. Kirk was back in a quandary. Officers raided their home on the York Road and found a. gallon and a pint of nose-paint They gave $300 bond to answer “present" to Recorder Kennedy Thursday Carroll, Former Local Boy, Dead Son Of Mr. Will Carroll Dies Sud denly In Atlanta, tia. Born And Reared Here. News has been received here of the sudden death of Mr. C. Armond Carroll, prominent Atlanta adver tising man and widely know as an author and poet, who passed away suddenly at 3:30 o'clock Sunday aft ernoon at his home, 300 The Prado. He was 42 years of age. Mr. Carroll was born in Shelby and was the son of Will and Ger trude Carroll. He left, here many years ago and has lived most of the time in Atlanta, where in addition to his advertising and literary acti vities, he was widely knowm in musical circles, as is his widow. Mrs. Annie Carroll. He was the author of a number of short stories and several volumnes of poetry. In 1916 when the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death was com memorated, Mr. Carroll wrote and directed a pageant on Shakespeare, his wife and work. The pageant was produced in Grant Park, Atlanta, and was witnessed by thousands of people. Mr. Carroll had been ill only a few days and not until a few hours before his death did his condition become alarming. So confident was he of the mild nature of his attack that he arose as usual Sunday morning, but in the afternoon his condition gradually grew worse and he died a few hours late. His body was buried in Americus, Ga. His father. W. L. Carroll and uncle, Henry Carroll live in Shelby. Curios And Freaks Wanted For Display During County Fair Freak Shrubs, Fruits And Vege tables To Form A Fair Booth. Those odd-shaped potatoes, ears of corn, and other freak vegetables the farmers of Cleveland county have about their farms may win prizes at the approaching county fair if entered In the curio ,and freak department. This department, it is explained by Carvus Hamrick, director, is. open for freak shrubs, fruits and vegetables. So far Mr. Hamrick has not been informed of any great number of entries, but he is hoping that the farmers of Cleveland will assemble their freaks for this booth. Among the oddities entered so far is a small shrub coiled much like a snake, the shrub being entered by Miss Elizabeth Wallace; Mrs. Packard Builds An Apartment House Mrs. W. L Packard has removed the old Tom Tucker house from her lot on N. Morgan street, which lot she bought a few years ago from Mr. Tucker, and is having erected o three section brick apartment house with all conveniences. This lot Is located in front of her home. One large apartment will be on the ground floor and two small apart ments on the second floor State Patrolman Is Boosting | Sale Of Light Bulbs In Shelby Patrolmen Restores Sight To Many One-Eyed Autos. Woman Driver Dodges Hold-Up. Service stations in and about Shelby have sold more light bulbs, particularly for the little red light In the rear of an automobile, in the last month or so than during the entire two years preceding. And the filling station operators are thanking the new state highway patrol for the boost in business. For the first week or two after a patrolman began to work this sec tion the light bulb business picked up for the filling stations west of Shelby on highway 20. The patrol man stationed himself near the Broad river bridge each night and herded all one-eyed cars and cars without a tail light into the near est servic: station, where he re mained-. with the driver until the nroper light bulbs were installed Of recent niglita the patrolman ha.> j changed his motorcycle beat to the Cleveland Springs road, east of Shelby near the city limits, and service stations along Shelby’s fav orite evening drive are doing a rushing business In light bulbs. Woman Senses Hold-Up. Monday night a score or more of cars were huddled into the service stations there at one time by the patrolman assisted by a deputy sheriff. Some were nabbed for driv ing In the center or the wrong side of the road, but most of the autos were stopped because Of defective lights. One of the episodes of the night came when a woman, driving a car without a tail light, saw the flash of the officers flashlight and immediately imagined that some one was attempting a hold-up She stepped on the gas and rolled rap idly away, but was soon overtaken by the patro’man. who informed ! that it was a perfectly legal hrvd- ! up party to which she was being ■ invited. I Eject Families From Kings Mt. Textile Homes Cora Mill (Widal* Take Out Eject ment Paper* Against Agitator In Mill House. Kings Mountain police offi cer* this afternoon are planning to eject three families from mill residence* of the Cora mill there, and in their task the officer* may meet with some opposition, according to reports received here. The head of at least one of the three families has been connected it Is said, with activities of the tex tile union organization at Kings Mountain, and no member of any of the families is at present employ ed in the Cora mill, the officials having taken out ejectment papers before a magistrate some time back to have their houses vacated so j that they might be occupied by reg ular employes of the mill. All three families, however, it is understood, have in time past been employed by the mill. One Give* Trouble. One of the three family heads, a man by the name of Cleo Tessner, has already given some trouble, being a defendant in Recorder Hor ace Kennedy's court at Kings Mountain last week charged with trespass on mill property. Tessner, who is said to have mov ed to Kings Mountain from Balti more, was for a time employed by the mill, but later quit work or was discharged. Before leaving the em ploy of the mill he was said to have posted placards about the mill fContinued on page nine.) Weddinpr Pate Cot Governor and Mrs. John H. Irumbull of Connecticut have announced the wedding date for the marriage of their daughter, Florence, to John Coolidge, as September 23. The ceremony will be performed at the Congregational Church, in Plainville, Connecticut, and the Rev. Kenneth Welles of Albany, N. Y., will officiate. (International Newaraal) Anti-Red Mob Takes Man Out, Flogs Him Cherokee Asks To Join Road Asks State Fop South Carolina To Meet Ntpy Highway 18 Fran Shelby. Gaffney.—A" resolution wras adopted at a special meeting of the Cherokee county commis sioners Saturday afternoon ask ing the state highway depart ment to surrey the route for a highway to collect with a new road being built by North Caro lina from Shelby south to the state Unc. A copy of the reso lution will be forwarded to the department by E. L. Gossett, clerk of the board. Several weeks ago the Chero kee county authorities agreed to construct a top-soil road to join the Cleveland county route, pro viding the Stacy ferry bridge was made the crossing point over Broad river. It was under stood that the state highway department would handle the engineering work connected with the project, — Penney’* Ready For Their Fashion Show Lively preparations are h*ing made for the J. C. Penney fashion revue to be held at the Princess theatre tomorrow night. E E. Scott, Penney head, is authority for the statement that there will be twen ty living models on the stage, with a hundred garments to be display ed. While the major part of the program will be given over'to styles for women, as is the custom, there will also be displays of men’s and children's wear. The event Is slat ed for eight-thirty. Coker Men Visit Cleveland County Messrs. D. R. Hopkins and J. L. Bass, representatives of the Coker farms at Hartsville, S. C. were vis itors in Shelby this week. The two Coker representatives spent some time here inspecting the cotton fields in the county which were planted with the experimental seed ffom the well-known Coker farms. Both men expressed surprise at Cleveland county’s glowing prospects of surpassing its own cotton pro duction record. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. G. Dilling and Mr. end Mrs P F. Dilling ol Kin?.; Mount?in, were Shelby visi tors Tuesday. Demonstration And Parade Staged In Gastonia, Bessemer City And Charlotte. Charlotte, Sept. 10—One man kid naped and flogged, two others kid naped and a quantity of commun istic literature destroyed was the net result of a parade of Gastonians starting out as a patriotic demon stration and winding up in.raids on National Textile Workers union headquarters in Gastonia and Bes semer City and the International Labor Defense. The kidnaped men were dumped beside a country road 50 miles from the place where they were seized and only made their way back to Charlotte nine hours later. Their appearance in a police station at Concord today and return to Char lotee this morning from the first definite word that any person had been attacked by the crowd. To day there was no “official" record in any of the places visited by the mob that there had been any dis orders. Police blotters in Charlotte. Gas tonia and Bessemer City failed to show any record of there having been any trouble. The only informa tion came from ex-witnesses who saw the mob, although in Charlotte, police and deputy sheriffs doubled the guard about the county Jail where 13 men accused of the mur der of O. F. AderhoTT. chief of po lice of Gastonia, are held. Parade Tarns Into Mob. After Judge Campbell, a Juror, had suddenly become insane caus ing a halt Ih the trial of 16 Gas tonia textile strikers and strike leaders on charges of murdef', it was reported In Gastonia that a communistic meeting would be held on a vacant lot in South Gastonia As a counter movement a parade was formed with the avowed in tention of breaking up the meeting at which Sophie Melvin, Amy Schechter and Vera Buch, New York communists, and defendants in the murder case were reported intending to speak. The meeting failed to materialize. Then the parade turned into a mob and started for the Old Boyce home in Gastonia where the communists and union have their headquarters Arriving there, members of the crowd entered the house and de stroyed a quantity of literature. Some of the men, none of whom was recognized, were reported to have wanted to burn the house but saner men prevented this. They then went to Bessemer City and ransacked the union headquarters there, tearing up literature. Prom Bessemer City the proces sion started for Charlotte, some of i them saying they intended to “get” | Tom P. Jimison. rhief attorney for ! men and women "'•'•r-rd of the ^ Arl'nimh murder. ’’"■-v came to 1 iContinued on p^e rune.) Gets Road Term For Assault On 2 Women Here Drunk White Man Convicted Of Grabbing Two Young Women On Busy Street. In county court here late Monday Judge Horace Kennedy sent Alonso Bartley, 23-year old driver of a Bolling Springs milk truck, to the chain gang for four months after Bartley was |ound guilty of assault, or snatching at two well known young Shelby women on South LaFayette street In the Prin cess theatre section early Sat urday evening. Bartley denied that he wus in that section at the time but was Identified by one of the young women and also by a group of men who ran him down after the alleged assaults. Was Drinking. According to the evidence, Bart ley, who was considerably under the Influence of whiskey, met one of the young women, accompanied by her mother, on the street. Accord ing to the young woman he brush ed against her and clutched her body with his hands. Practically the same thing, it was testified, took plaoe a few minutes later when he passed close to the other young married woman and laid hands upon her body. In neither instance. It is said, did he say anything or add further insult to the uncalled for use of his hands. Gets Near Thrashing. Both young women were consid erably frightened and wrought-up by his actions and one of them Im mediately located her husbands brother and told him what happen ed. The brother-in-law accompani ed by other men on the busv street immediately gave chase to the man, cornering him near the Southern station, where the enrag-' ed group was about prepared to give him a good thrashing when polict officers, who had been called, ar rived. When taken Into custody Bartley denied that he was the man who laid his hands upon the young woman on the busy uptown street and said that he had been to Boil ing Springs and back about time the alleged assaults took place. He ad mitted, however, that he had been drinking wine. Officers say that after an Investigation they found that his story, about returning to Bolling Springs and coming back to Shelby, failed to check up. Both young women together with relatives appeared In court to testify against the defendant. In addition to a two months sen tence for each of the assault charges he was fined $10 and the costs for being drunk. W. Butler Phifer Buried On Tuesday Prominent Cleveland Citiirn Passes Away At Home Monday Morning. Kings Mountain.—Funeral serv ices for W. Butler Phifer, 79. who died at his home two miles west of Kings Mountain Monday morning were conducted at the Elbethel Methodist church three miles west of here Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. R. L. Forbes, pastor of Elbethel church, conducted the services assisted by Rev. J R Church, pastor of the Central Methodist church here. BurlBl was in the Elbethel cemetery Mr Phifer was one of the most highly respected citizens of Cleve land county,shaving spent lus en tire life on the farm where he died. County Club Women To Have Fine Booths For Fair Display I Ten Separate Booths To Be Prepar ed By Farm Wives Of Cleve land County. “The feminine portion of the Cleveland county fair this month ts going to be by far the best we have yet prepared.” declares Mrs. Irma P. Wallace, county home agent. Club women of the county will have at least 10 community booths depicting the art and handiwork of women to balance the agricultural booths to be displayed by the farm ers of the several communities. The most suitable booth of the display by the farm women will be taken to the state fair, according to Mrs. Wallace, along with the agricultural booth which will be entered there from \his county. “Much interest, more than ever before, is being taken in the fair this year by the ri-monstratjon rlith nv*r • tbr rr ronnly.*’ lir i home agent stalea. ‘ and the bootha J this year will be the best prepared and arranged we’ve ever had. Our idea is that visitors to the fair will readily reach the conclusion that the farm wives of Cleveland coun ty are just about as expert and clever with their end of the work as are their husbands who have earn ed the reputation of being the best farmers in the state.” Watermelon Cut At Pine View Today There will be a watermelon cut for the county fair workers and the members of the county board of agriculture at Pineview lake this afternoon at 6:30 o'clock, given by the ow'ner of the lake, Elbridge Weathers. This v ill be a general get: together merliii; of fair worker anti nffieiaK w brn final piano will be made for iht lair. j Local Banks Start Service Charge On Overdrafts, Notes Merchants To Close First Day Of Fair Upon the request of the directors of the Cleveland county fair as sociation, the merchants association members have decided to close their stores and places of business on the afternoon of the first day of the fair, Tuesday. September 24. This will be school day at the fair \5hen all school children and teach ers will be admitted free. The stores will remain open during the morn ing of that day and close In the afternoon. Hunting Days Near At Hand In This Area Squirrel Season Opens Nest Week. 'Possum Season In October. Licenses Ready. Cleveland county nimrods, who have been pacing about restlessly and oiling their guns as they await ed the open hunting season, have only a few more days to go now that tinge of fall crispness may be felt in the atmosphere. The squlrrej season opens next week, and a month from that date the grinning o'possum may be sought In his lair. Selling' License. With the squirrel season openl lg on September 15 and holding through January l, and the other hunting seasons just around the corner, Mike H. Austell and the Cleveland Hardware in Shelby, Todd R. Caldwell at Lawndale, and Charles G. Dilllng at Kings Moun tain. The fee for county hunting li cense is $1.25, while the fee for state hunting license is $3.25. The fee for a state combination hunt ing and fishing license is $4.50. The hunting license fee for non-residents of the state Is $15.25. Other hunting season of Interest to local hunters in addition to the squirrel season are: O'possum, Oct. 15—Feb. 15. Rabbit and quail, Nov. 20—Feb. 15. Warden Austell is in Concord to day to confer with Col. J. W. Har relson and £has. H. England, state game warden, about game regula tions and the sale of license. Student Home From Long Travel Course Mr. Joe M. Wright, originally from the Earl section of this coun ty, has recently returned from a four months travel and study trip through the south, southwest and middle west. While gone he saw the principal cities in and traveled through the following states: South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama, Miss issippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Missouri. Illinois, Indiana, Ken tucky, Virginia, Tennessee and the District of Columbia. During his stav in Texas he spent a month in the University of Texas law school. After spending a few days here with friends and rela tives, he will go to Chapel Hill where he will continue his studies in the University of North Caro lina. Twenty-Five Cent Fee For Checks No-Good And Home Fee Daily Over Due Note*. Two service fees will be instituted here by the three local banks, the First National. Cleveland Bank and Trust company and the Union Trust company, it was decided this week by the bank officials. The pur pose is to check two growing evila that are not only costly to the banks but very annoying. Those service charges are in line with what other banks are doing in North Caroling to facilitate the economical and business-like handling' of account*. Fee For Unpaid Cheeks. Beginning next Monday, Sept. 16th. all three banks will charge each depositor 25c for each check that is deposited without sufficient funds to cover. While the service charge is against the depositor for whom the bank handled the worth less check, the depositor will have recourse on charging this fee back to the person who gave it. The prac tice of giving checks when there ore not sufficient funds In the bank to cover, is one of the greatest evils with which bankers have to deal. It is too much trouble when a cus tomer comes up with a deposit of a handful of checks, to investigate each account on which these checks are given and determine whether they are good or not, so all checks are taken as good, tf drawn on local banks and the fact that many do not have funds to cover, is not dis covered until these checks are posted. Each bank rtncu from a dozen to a hundred checks without sufficient funds to cover each day and ex pense and time are wasted in deducting such checks from de positor's account and returning. Therefore when checks are thus found to be on accounts without funds to cover, the banks will in augurate the practice of charging such depositors 39c for each check that is not good. Bank officials sa7 they reluctantly decided on this course, but are driven to it in or der to check the evil and save tinw J and expense. Overdue Note Fee. The other service charge to bt | inaugurated October 1 will be a tint - or 28c per day for over-due notes. Borrowers are notified from tea days to two weeks in advance of the || date notes are due and too often ; these borrowers overlook payment or renewal at the appointed time. || Hence the charge o/ 39 cents will ' be made for each *day a note lg over-due and notices will be sent each day that this charge is mads. The purpose of this charge, the bankers say, is to bring about a; saving to the bank in postage, labor and sationery in sending repeated ; notices and for the further pufposs of encouraging promptness on the part or customers in financial mat- v| ters. As an additional reason the J bankers say the bank examiners I come in unexpectedly and protest ! when notes are found overdue. Star Force Enjoys General Birthday Tbrff Employes Have Birthday On Same Day. Tuesday. Fourth Of Foree. Almost one-fourth of 'the Star’s ^ working force celebrated a birthday yesterday, and thereto The Star must undoubtedly hold a record with three of 13 employes celebrat ing their birth anniversary on the same day. Tuesday E. Fink Riviere, man ager of the job printing department celebrated his 46th birthday, whik on the same day his son. Richard Riviere, assistant to tbt job. shop, celebrated his 20th birth anniver sary, and to the downstairs news shop Charlie Keel, lino operate, was celebrating bis 24th birthday. In fact, Star employes seem in cltoed to have joint birthday? as two of the eight other employes Buck Hardin and Renn Drum, havs the same birthday, both also being twins. Blalock To Explain Farm Relief Measure _ . Each Klwanian is asked to invi some farmer as his guest Thui night at the regular weekly ing when U. B. Blalock, manager of the North Carolina ton Growers association will the farm relief bill. Mr. an authority on the farm mi ing bill and has a message worthwhile to farmers and who wish lo take advantage ' tern .as provided by the menu of

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