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VOL. XXXV, No. 109
SHELBY. N. C.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1929.
Published Monday, Wndnesday, and Friday Afternoons
By mall, per year (In advance) $2.fi0
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LATE NEWS
The Markets.
Cotton (Spot) ... _ lR'»r
Cotton Seed, per bu.. iO^jr
Showers Saturday.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Showers tonight and Sat
urday. Cooler Saturday afternoon
and Saturday night in west.
Merchants’ Secretary.
At a meeting of the Merchants
Association, held Tuesday, Miss
Ossie. McRary was elected secretary
of the organUation, to succeed Paul
Wootton, resigned. Miss McRary,
who has been the office head of the
Association since its organization,
assumed her new duties at once.
The Association made definite the
proposal for a general closing of
the business houses in Shelby the
afternoon of the first day of the
Fair. It is understood the Fair di
rectors backed up the Merchants
Association in the endeavor to put
this general closing across.
Wm. R. Putnam
Age 94 Passes
Second Oldest Veteran Of The
County Will Be Buried At
New Prospect Friday.
William Rosewell Putnam, per
haps the second oldest Confederate
veteran in the county, died Thurs
day morning at 8:30 o'clock at hs
home near Zoar church following an
illness of 25 days with paralysis.
Mr. Putnam was a very vigorous
man and was able to be up and
going, despite his advanced age, un
til he was stricken three weeks ago
He was 94 years and five months
old.
The funeral will be preached Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock at the
home of Rev. Rush Padgett, after
which interment will be at New
Bethel Baptist church where he
joined about 45 years ago Mr. Put
nam was a cheerful disposition,
possessed a clear mind and a keen
wit. and was a hard-working, healthy
man all his life. After the war he
lived for a few years in Alabama,
later moving to Watauga county.
Most of his life, however, was spent
in Cleveland where he was born, a
few years at Waco and 25 years a'
his present home.
Mr. Putnam served through the
full four years of the war in the
47th regiment in the company of
Capt. Ben Dixon. He was married
to Miss Anna Beam, a daughter of
Joshua Beam May 28, 1856 and
surviving is his wife, four children
Cameron Putnam and Mrs Hattie
Whisnant of Shelby, Mrs. Florence
Stroup of Mecklenburg county, Mrs
Minnie Coltharp of Maxton. Also
surviving are 13 grand children and
one great-great-grand child.
Blalock Explains
Farm Relief Act
Manager Of Cotton Growers Says
Uncle Sam Will Not Play
Santa Claus.
"Uncle Sam will not play Santa
Claus to the farmers,” declared U.
B. Blalock, manager of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers associa
tion when he spoke last night Be
fore the Kiwanis club when Jack
Palmer had charge of the program
Mr. Blalock declared that, while the
government has appropriated a half
million dollars for the systematic
marketing of crops, every cent that
is loaned will be backed by first
class collateral but with the co-op
eration of the farmers and the
business men, the act should work
out to the help of agriculture just
as the railroad aet put the rail
roads back on their financial feet.
Mr. Blalock pointed out the sev
eral features of the bill which is
designed to regulate supply and r.r
mand, take unproductive land out
of agriculture and perhaps re-for
est such lands, stabalize prices, en
courage the organization of farm
ers. co-operative gins and ware
houses and the like. Help will be
extended only through organize 1
bodies and to get this help the
farmers must organize and when
such help is extended the rate of
Interest will not exceed four per
cent.
May Secure Strike
Jury From Cleveland
The following from the Charlotte
Observer will be of Interest in this
county:
“It looks like now that they'll
have to bring in a jury from Cleve
land or Lincoln county to try the
murder case here,” said Robert O.
Craig, city councilman of Gastonia,
who has been an interested spec
tator at the trial in the Mecklen
burg county court house It will be
hard to select another jury in this
county.”
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Abernetiiy
and their son have leased most of
the John M. Black residence on S.
Washington street and will move
their household effects here the
Ttrst of October. Mr. Aberncthy and
son have just opened a new jewelry
Wore here.
Teacher Added j
In City School,
More Enrolling
Moss, Of Forest City. Teaches And
C'oarhes. Talks To
Teachers.
Among ihe items of interest de
veloping during the first week of the
year for the Shelby city schools was
the announcement today by Supt
B L Smith that Mr. P. E. Moss, of
Forest City, has been added to the
school faculty.
Mr. Moss will be a teacher in the
junior high school in South Shelby
and will also assist Casev Morris,
athletic director. in coaching the
athletic teams. He is a graduate of
Duke university, was captain of the
basketball team there and a mem
ber of the football team. For several
years he has been ccach at the
Candler high school in Buncombe
county.
New Students In
Enrollment, in the school system
has picked up during the week in
practically all of the schools The
opening enrollment at the high
school of 382 has already moved up
to 432. One of the problems facing
Supt Smith already is an over
crowded condition at the Marion
school, where there are more chil
dren. particularly in the seventh
grade, than can be properly handled.
It is the hope of the superintendent,
with the consent of parents con
cerned. to shift a number of the
Marion students to South Shelby,
Washington, and Jefferson schools,
where conditions are not so con
gested.
Miss Ollie Dobson, former super
visor of the Lakeland. Fla . schools,
was the speaker before the teach
ers meeting Thursday.
Supt. Smith and Principal W. E
Abcrnethy and perhaps others will
go to Charlotte tomorrow to attend
a district meeting of superintendents
and principals.
Officers Arrive
Here With Fighter
Wanted In Killing
Hornbuckle Was Known In Alabama
As Jack Edwards. Was Boxing
Therr.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Dixon and
City Policeman Paul Stamey ar
rived in Shelby just before noon to
day bringing with them A. J. (Kid)
Hornbuckle. who was arrested at
Alabama City. Ala., for Shelby of
ficers on the charge of killing
George Scruggs, textile worker, here
last February.
Hornbuckle was apprehended at
Alabama City, but was in jail at
Gadsden, the county seat, where the
Shelby officers took charge of him.
He waived extradition and requisi
tion papers were not necessary.
Boxing There.
The pugilist was appearing in
boxing programs there regularly.
Deputy Dixon learned, under file
name of "Jack Edwards," and he
also had taken out life insurance
policies under that name.
On the trip back he talked very
little to the officers about the dif
ficulty and his hitting Scruggs,
known to him as ‘ Peanuts” over
the head with a stick of cord wood
He did not. however, deny that he
inflicted the blow whicli proved fa
tal.
Alabama officers will get the
$250 reward offered for his capture
minus the expense of the two offic
ers who made the trip after him.
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Mother Dies Two
Days After Her Son
Mrs. Gertrude Carroll, formerly
of Shelby, died in Atlanta, Gj..
Tuesday, two days after the sudden
death of her son, C. Armond Car
roll on Sunday. She died without
knowing of her son’s death, accord
ing to the Atlanta Journal. Mrs.
Carroll was critically ill. at the
time her son died and knowledge
of her son's death was withheld
from her. Mrs. Carroll was the
wife of Mr. Will Carroll of Shelby
and a daughter of Dr. Nelson at
one time pastor of the First Bap
tist church of Shelby. Her remain -
were buried at Americas. Ga.
Cleveland Man Grows
First Lincoln Bale
J S. Turner, former citizen cf
Cleveland county, now living on
route 4 Lincolnton, was the first to
produce a bale of cotton in that
county this year This bale was
ginned Tuesday of this week and
was sold to Lineberger Brothers,
cotton buyers, for twenty cents per j
pound The bale weighed 470
pounds.
Gastonia Mistrial Causes Carolina Riots
Mistrial, caused by Juror J. G. Campbell
(right) going insane, caused spasmodic riots
throughout the cotton mill section of North
Carolina. Tom Jimson (inset), one of the de
fense lawyers, was threatened with lynching
by a mob at Charlotte, N. C., and three Com
munist labor leaders were kidnaped and beaten
by local citizens. Three of the strikers on trial
are pictured above (left to right), Vera Buch,
Sophia Melvin and Amy Schlechter.
UDietUttuucKi ovnirtsir
Ax Victim Out Of Hospital,
Will Hold Hearing Saturday
Will Try While Youth Anri Negro
About Slugging Of Negro In His
Shark.
Boyce Meeks, the negro who was
slugged on the back of the head
with an ax a month or more bar ;
while in his shack near the South
ern railway tracks, left the She!.
hospital yesterday, and tomorr>\
morning the slugging affair will be
aired in county court.
The two defendants to be tried
are Stough Green, white youth, and
Louis Ellis, a negro. These twi. j
Meeks says, were at his shack on
the night that r.e was slugged and
almost fatally wounded. He does
not. however, iccall very much \
about what happened on the night,
before he was foun’d on the follow
ing morning lying in a pool of j
blood on the floor of his shack
with the rear of his head badly j
crushed and a gory ax upon the [
bed. All, it is said, were drinking;
rubbing alcohol.
Attorneys-B. T Falls and Peyton:
McSwain hawe been employed id1
represent the two defendants when
the hearing comes before Record- j
Horace Kennedy tomorrow morning I
at 10 o'clock.
Man Just Off Gang
Acquitted Of Charge
John Kirk Acquitted By Recorder
When Son Admit* Owner
ship Of Booze.
John Kirk, Kings Mountain man
who just completed a term on the
chains gang a week ago yesterday,
was acquitted yesterday in re
corder's court at Kings Mountain on
a liquor charge upon which he was
arrested two days after completing
his last sentence.
Kirk leaving the gang yesterday
week ago was arrested last Satur
day along with his son,, Howard,
after a gallon of whiskey was
found at their home, and yesterday
he was back in court only a week
after leaving the rockpile. In the
courtroom, however, the son ad
mitted ownership of the whiskey
and the father denied any connec
tion with it. Recorder Kennedy fin
ed the son $100 and freed the fa
ther.
Miss Charlie Mae Laughridro
leaves Tuesday to enter N. C. C. W.
at Greensboro.
Heads Baptist
S. School Again
.Judge B. T Falls was re-elected
Sunday by the.First. Baptist church
as superintendent of the First |
Baptist, church Sunday school, the
largest Sunday school in this sec
tion. He will begin his third con
secutive year October 1 On Armis
tice day the State Baptist conven
tion meets here and this Sunday
school will be able to report an en
rollment of 1.200 with an average
attendance of 700
To get some idea of the growth
of the Sunday school, it is recalled
that Judge Falls was superintend
ent in November 1913 when the
state Baptist convention met wi,h
this church and at that time the
enrollment, was 450 and the aver
age attendance 200.
Thieves Steal Tire
At Rear Of Police
Station, City Hall
A wave of "spare tire" stealing
is so sweeping Shelby that even
city officials are not spared
One night this week the spare tire
on the rear of City Electrician Ted
Gordon's auto was stolen while the
car was parked at the rear of the
city hall and police station.
Washington Police May
Identify Mystery Man Here
Congressman Jonas Says Photo Ot
Mystery Man Was Made In
Washington.
The police department of Wash- j
ington may prove successful in un
ravelling the identity of Shelby s j
"mystery man,” who was buried in !
potter’s field here some weeks back
after his sudden death in South
Shelby.
That is the opinion of Congrev;
man Chas. A. Jonas, of Lincolnton. f
who writes to The Star* that, he has
seen the photo and storv of the
mystery man" and is satisfied the
clothes he wore were purchased in
Washington and that the phono
graph of the man, known here as
“Fred Andrews,” was made before
Grant's monument in Washington.
The letter also carried the sugges
tion from Congressman Jonas that
the photo and other information be
turned over to the detective bureau
of the District of Columbia,
Issue Warrants In
Gaston Mob Affair,
Officers Included
Three Gastonia Policemen And Mill
Mon Named In Bench
Warrants.
Charlotte. Sept. 13—Fourteen
men, accused of taking part In the
activities of the anti-communist
m<Jb, which Monday night, raided
National Textile Workers Union
headquarters in Gastonia and Bes
semer City and kidnaped N. T. W.
U. Organizer Ben Wells and two
companions, flogging Wells, were
arrested in Gastonia last night, on
bench warrants issued in Charlotte
late yesterday by Judge Thomas J.
Shaw. Solicitor John G. Carpenter
told The Observer by telephone.
The men are charged with con
spiracy to kidnap, kidnaping, as
sault with intent to kill, imprison
ment and false arrest, in the war
rants which were issued as an out
growth of the sweeping investiga
tion announced by Judge Shaw and
Solicitor Carpenter at noon Wednes
day into actions of the mob which
spread into both Mecklenburg and
Cabarrus counties.
Those arrested, and fhetr occu
pations as given by Solicitor Car
penter were:
Will Pickering, Lorav mill work
er.
Tom Carver, Loray null worker.
Dewey Carver, Loray mill worker
Smiley Lewis, Loray mill workr
John Holly, occupation not learn
ed
J. D. Moorhead, said to be super
intendent of Manville-Jenckes mill.
Horace Lane. Myers mill worke".
T. A Gilbert. Gastonia city po
liceman
A J. Roach. Gaston city police
man.
C. Holly, night superintendent at
Manville-Jenckes mill.
Oscar Goodman, machinist at
Myers mill
Dr Lee Johnson. Manville-Jenc'r
cs mill physician
C. M. Ferguson, Gaston city po
liceman.
Carl Holloway, Loray mill worker.
Bonds for the accused men were
placed at $1,000 each, and the hear
ing is scheduled to take place be
; fore Judge Shaw in Mecklenburg
' superior court here this moraing.
Arey Company Takes
Over Radio Agency
The Arey Refrigerating Companv
made the formal announcement
Thursday that they have taken the
agency for the RCA Radio in this
! territory, and w ill prosecute busi
: ness for this organization vigorous
ly.
Mr Will Arey. speaking, for the
company said he is expecting a big
shipment of RCA's within a lew
da ys.
Thus is one of the best known of
; the modern makes of Radio, and ts
; already well and favorably known
in this territory.
Masonic Notice.
Cleveland lodge No. 202 A F. and
A M. will meet in called commun
ication tonight (Friday) for work in
Master Mason degree Lodge opens
promptly at 7:30. Visiting brethren
cordialy invited.
Plato Durham
Will Conduct
Revival Here
Prominent Son of County To
Come To Crntral Church
In October.
Pr Tlato Twicy Durham, a mem
ber of the faculty of Flmorj- unlver- j
sity and one of the most prommen'
native sons of Cleveland county. |
will come to Shelby next month to J
preach for the evangelistic service
at the Central Methodist church
These services, according to Dr
Hugh K Boyer. Central pastor, will
begin on Sunday. October 13. and
continue through Sunday. October
20.
Natlonallv Known.
Dr Durham, who was born i.i
Shelby and who is a member of one
of the outstanding families in the
history of this county, made the
principal address at the unveiling
of the Stone Mountain memorial, .it i
Atlanta, several years ago. and by !
the address added to his national i
reputation as an orator He is con- j
sidered one of the leading ftgur-s j
in the Southern Methodist church j
and Is perhaps the outstanding '
orator in the South today
Dr. Boyer and Dr. Durham are 1
close personal friends and the Cen- !
tral pastor is elated over Dr Pur- |
hams acceptance of the invitation :
to return to Shelby.
Cleaning Plant \
Is Robbed Here
Service Dry Cleaning Firm Has
Man; Ladle* Winter Coats
Stolen.
The Service Dry Cleaning plan;..
operated on West. Graham street
by Worth Branton, was thoroughly
cleaned Wednesday night by thieves
who entered the building and marie
away with several hundred dollars
worth of clothing in the plant tor
cleaning.
The robbery struck the plant at
[ s bad time for the operator and a;
a prosperous period for the thieves
as a special cleaning offer was on
for rehabilitating winter coats
The loot taken included some
thing like 15 ladies winter coats,
some of the them are fur trimmed,
10 or 12 suits of men's clothing,
extra trousers, and other garments
Police officers yesterday found
four pairs of trousers, one suit and
one fur coat in a cotton patch to
the rear of the plant, according to
Police Chief Poston, but no other
clue to the robbery has been found
Entrance was made through a
window.
Poplar Springs To
Have New Church
Hope To Pay Cash For New Brick -
Building When Completed.
Contrart Let.
The congregation of the Poplar
Springs Baptist church, to the right
of Sharon, is to have a new bricK
church building
The contract for the new struc
ture was let Wednesday to Mr. J.
H. Brackett, of Shelby, and wont
will start soon. The members of the
congregation have bean staging an
active campaign for the new build
ing. which will be modern in every
detail and containing Sunday
school departments, and it is hoped
by the time the church is completed
that they may be able to pay cash
for it. The structure will cost arour.U
$12,000.
Rev. D. Frank Putnam is the Pop
; lar Springs pastor
Misses Willie Hoyle and Charlie i
| Mae Laughridgc are spending to- \
! day in Charlotte.
May Leave Here
OR. II. K. BOYER
Dr. Boyer May
Go To Another
Church In Fall
Coming ( nnfrrrnce Will End Top- I
ular Pastor-* Fourth Year
In Shelby.
Shelby may lose one of the city's
moft popular ministers- of many
years early in November should the
Western North Carolina Methodist |
conference follow its customary rul
ing in moving a pastor who has
served one charge for four years.
Which ts to sav that next month
Dr. Hugh K Bover. pastor of Cen
tral Methodist church. will have
completed lour years pastorate
here.
"Of course. I cannot te'.I what
the conference will do." Dr. Boyer
said to The Star in discussing the
likely change, "but the bishops
usually insist on a change after
four years on one charge."
The conference for Western Caro
lina opens at. High Point an Octo
ber 211, and it is then that pastors
of the Methodist church through
out this section of the state are al
lotted their chaiges for the coming
year. New pastorates are usually
taken up about November 1.
Dr. Boyer is one of the veteran
Methodists ministers of the state
and ranks among the outstanding
clergymen of hts church. A kindly,
well-learned, yet dignified and out
spoken as a man and as a minister
he has come to be. during his four
years here, one of the mo6t highly
admired and respected men m
Shelby, and the city, should the
conference follow its custom of
changing pastors after four years,
ss ill regret very much to give him
up.
Catch Another In
Robbery Of Plant
While making a search yesterday
for clurS in the robbery of the
Service Dry Cleaning plant Wednes
day night, city officers found and
arrested Emmet, Thompson, young
white man. wanted in connection
with the robbery of the Shelby Dry
Cleaning plant a couple of w'eeks
back
At, the time of his arrest.. Police
Chief Poston says. Thompson was
wearing the coat to one of the suits
missed from the plant and was
carrying the pair of trousers which
matched the coat. He did not deny
the robbery, the police chief says,
and was jailed to await trial, likely
today before Judge Horace Ken
nedy,
Mr. Lloyd Lutz leaves Monday to
enter school Rt Duke University
Pellagra Increasing In
| N. C. By Leaps And Bounds
Raleigh —In conversation with i
! Dr. Charles O H Laughinghouse, j
state health officer, he gave out the
| information that pellagra was in
| creasing in North Carolina by leaps
and bounds: that five years ago thr
! death rate per hundred thousand
was practically eight and that
today the death rate per hundred j
thousand was practically 30. He j
also stated that two years ago!
5 per cent of admissions of insane
patients in the State hospital at
Goldsboro was caused by pellagra,
i Last year 10 per cent. and that
' since July of this year, it has
been climbing until now 13 per
cent of the admissions to the
Goldsboro hosDital arc insane from
pellagra. |
A
Pellagra is not only a public
health but it is an economic prob
lem Its treatment is more red
meats, eggs, milk, tomatoes, corn
field peas and other green vege
tables; and less self-rising flour,
grits, rice, fat meat and mo
lasses.
The disease is increasing so j
rapidly that the physicians and'
the public need to have their at
tention called to it so that immed
iate steps can be taken looking to
the proper feeding of people in \
the state. We need to raise more
green vegetabls, more chickens and
more cattle. We need to consume
more red meat, mete milk and more
'sgs Every rural familv should
Have a garden.
Ejected Worker
In Shelby Jail
Wants Jimison
Tessner, Jailed On Auto Tag
Charge, Asks For Lawyer Of
Textile Workers I'nion.
In county court this morning
Clen Tessner. who was ejected
from a Kings Mountain textile
Mill house this week, was fined
$2A and the costs for operating
an automobile without a prop- f
er license tag. If the fine Is not
paid Tessner Is to take a fid
day road sentence.
Clan Twiner, alleged labor or
ganizer. jailed here Wednesday aft
ernoon by Kings Mountain officers
after Mr. D. D. Wilkins, state auto
Inspector, swore out a warrant for
his violating the state aut,o license
regulations, Is anxious to get in
touch with Tom P. Jimison, of
Charlotte, attorney for the strikers
in the Charlotte trial, so that Jim
ison and the union may help him
out of his difficulties.
On the same afternoon that ne
was jailed here on the auto tag
charge. Kings Mountain officers,
serving ejectment, papers, removed
Tessner's household belongings
from one of the Cora mill residences
In Kings Mountain, where he had
been living, and placed them in
storage uptown.
Others Move.
Tessner together with two other
families in the Cora mill village
had been living In the houses there
after they had left the employment
of the mill, and it became necessary,
according to Kings Mountain re
ports. to take out ejectment paperj
to get them out of the houses.
When Kings Mountain officers
went to serve the ejectment papers
Wednesday, after Tessner was in
Jail here, two of the families had
already moved dut. one going, it
Is said, to Gastonia, but the officers
had to move Tessner's belongings.
Officers say that Tesmer, who
came to Kings Mountain from
Maryland, worked only a short time
in the mill, but had been living in
the mill house until Wednesday. A
week ago he was taken into county
court charged with trespass after he
he had. it is said, tacked placards
about the mill urging textile work
ers to fight the “stretch-out" sys
tem He was acquitted, however,
on the trespass charge as the evi
dence did not show that he had
been specifically forbidden to ga
upon the mill premises.
Has Visitors Here.
The present charge against Tess
ner. as preferred by the auto in
spector, is that he has not purchas
ed a North Carolina license since
coming t.o the state and has been
operating his car upon a Maryland
license.
Yesterday, according to Sheriff
Allen, a couple of strangers, ap
parently not natives of the South,
visited Tessner In the county JalL
His bond was set at $200 but none
of the visitors or the union raised
the necessary amount.
Shortly after being Jailed Tess
ner told the sheriff that he want
ed to get hold of "Lawyer Jimison,
the union lawyer," and the sheriff
Informed him that he would be
glad to deliver any desired message
to the Charlotte attorney. Tessner
replied, the sheriff said, that he
wanted to have a private conversa
tion with Jimison and nothing more
was heard about the matter.
Charge Deputy With
False Arrest Here
Deputy Bob Kendrick will be
tried In county court Tuesday on a
charge of false arrest and assault
due to a warrant sworn out by
Lloyd Hopper, who lives In east
Shelby. Hopper was arrested one
night this week on a charge of be
ing drunk and slapping his wife, and
he was fined 10 on each charge ir
county court today.
The charge against the officer,
it is understood, is that he did no;
have the propter papers and that he
used force in making the arrest.
Officer Kendrick says that the
father of Hopper interfered in tin
arrest and that it became neces
sary for him to use force.
Hope To Organize
County Club Here
Mr R. E Price, editor of the
Rutherford News, was in Shelby to
day calling upon prominent business
and professional leaders feeling out
the sentiment for a county club here
similar to the one which has made
such a success in Rutherford coun
ty. The county club movement,
which makes a contest between the
leading citizens of the cities and ru
ral communities. Is spreading rapid
ly over the country, and a unit wiil
likely be established here
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