16 PAGES TODAY By mail, per year On advance) $2.60 Carrier, per year (In advance) $3.00 VOL. XXXV. No. 112 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEl’T. 20, l'.rj'L Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons The Big Cleveland County Fair, “Carolinas Greatest” Opens Here Tuesday LATE NEWS * 'l'he Markets. Cotton (Spot) .. . 18',r Cotton Seed, per bu. . I5< A Little Warmer. Today's North Carolina Wrathri Report: Fair tonight am! ralcrdav. Not quite so roH in «est and mi tral portions. Rutherford Jury In Marion Strike Trial Now Going Rutherford Lawyers Added In Case As Jury Comes From That County. Marion. Sept. 20—The riotiiu and rebellion trial in the Mu. .0.. strike case got underway ye terd.r. with a jury picked from Rutherford county and with a couple of Ruth erford lawyers appearing in i: case after the jury was picked from, their rounty. A jury of 12 men was picked from the venire of 75 from Rutherloid shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday. The jury selection was V. r Davis, mayor of Forest City: C ? Huntley, farmer; D. F Benchboard merchant; C. C. Butler, farmer; W R. Curtis, farmer. John Grech farmer; J, P, Spakes. farmer: w A. Bailey, farmer; J. L Hamrick lumber dealer; R B Tapp, school teacher; J. T Bland, merchant and j. H, Carpenter, turnitu: - dealer. With the jury coming from 00 rounty the prosecution was reen forced by the addition of C. O Rid ings, Forest City attorney, w.bilt the defense added Tom Moss to : roster of barristers to defend Al bert L. Hoffman organizer for the textile union Sheriff Adkin of McDowell w.t, the first witness to testify; Kings Mtn. Bank Lays Plans For Bigger Building Sole Surviving Bank In Kings Mountain Finds Need For More Spate. Kings Mountain, Sept 19 Plans arc under way by the First Na tional bank of Kings Mountain for the enlargement, of its quarters iii the bank building on the square. The bank, at present, occupies only half of the building, the other half being used by Wright’s barber shop and Southers Jewelry store. These firms are to move out and the space they now occupy is to be converted into one large room and used by the bank. The First National bank is the only bank in Kings Mountain sine? , the failure of the Commercial Bank and Trust company earlier in the ' year. The present quarters is con sidered inadequate for the business i that is transacted there now. Officers of the bank are D. M Baker, president: R. L Maunr vice president, and Wiley H Mc Ginnis cashier The Home Building.and Loan as- 1 sociation is also housed in the same building. Two New Furniture Stores Coming Here Sterchl Brothers And Hesters Sec ured Leases For Furniture Stores Here. Shelby is to have two more fur niture stores, Sterchi Bros., of Nashville, Tenn.. one of the largest furniture stores In the south, clos ed a ten year lease yesterday with , the Blanton estate for the store room formerly occupied by the Stephenson Drug company which succeeded the H E Kendall drur store which operated there for many years. Sterchi Bros, w ill open for business about October 1. Kester Bros., of Hickory, hate closed a lease on the Mrs. Hester McBrayer two store rooms on N ! LaFayette street, the store building formerly occupied by Ingram and ' Liles Co. These two stoic rooms a::’ being remodelled inside and out. with an entirely new store from and the rooms will be stocked lo an opening the early part of Ocio ber. It is understood the Kestcrs are interested in a number of store in large Carolina cities. Mr. Curtis Weathers who is teach- I mg in Long Island. N. Y , and at - [ tending Columbia university span1 yesterday with friends in Shelbv Mr. Weathers is a former member of the Shelby school faculty. SPORT NEWS Items regarding football i prospects, and also the city title game here Salut'd.n will be found on PAGE EIGHT OI This Paper. Final Rush On For Biggest Cleveland Fair Staged So Far shows \ntl li.irr Horses Begin Ar riving Toniot row Wurkmrn Active Ov( r Big Track. Out on lliglni.iv •;(). just a mile or two cast of Slu-lhv, Hu las! minute rush is oil tocl.n in preparing; the "iG-aere (leve lancl Countv tail tract for what promises to lie one of the great est farm events ever put over in the south other than by an entire state. All this week contractors, car penters. plumbers, painters, elec tricians and laborers have been swarming about thr big tract erecting new buildings. new stands, levelling athletic fields and additional midway ground painting the big grandstand, erecting light lines. and pre paring iii every manner pos sible for the eity of 25.MII0 to 50. 000 people-which will spring up overnight and continue through a week's gavetv. There isn't any doubt in mv irtind now but what it will be b" hit our biggest' fair." says Secretary Doi'ton as he directs a swarnt of activ ity "And what 1 mean by that is that thousands more will attend Mu,-, year than have ever attended and were going to give them a bigger treat than they've had." Attractions Arriving. Several of the fair attractions have already arrived, these includ ing Madam Bedinni and her stunt horses which will be one of the fea tures of the new free -nets. Race horses by the dozen will, begin com ing in tomorrow. Sunday and Mon day, while the big Rubin and Cherry •shows who already have advance agents here,Will lie in Saturday night Monday morning exhibitors will begin filling the big exhibit halls with their displays. And dur ing, the day Monday one of the new exhibit entries will start filing' in as scores of beef and dairy cattle from the mountains to the west be gin to arrive. These cattle are com ing from Caldwell. Burke, Avery, Yancey and Mitchell counties. In fact, everything is set for the city of 25.000 to spring up over the week-end. Hundreds wlio haven’t Seen the big lair tract since last year will hardly recognize it this year with its new .structure.- and j arrangement. A Big Dog Show. One of the biggest side events this year, officials say. will be tli >• dog show. From entries piling in it I is estimated that three or four hun dred dogs of all types and classes and coming from three states will be entered. The No. <1 township chain gang, working under Supt. Clyde Boston, has been, busy alt this week putting the finishing touches on the race track and preparing the new foot ball field in Hie infields ot the nme track. By Next week the new ath letic field will be complete and ready tor the big college game on the closing day. Saturday, between Lenoir Rhine and Presbyterian college of South Carolina. . In outlining the final preparation plans Dr. Dorton has issued a call for all workers with the tair to nice; at the bis grandstand Satin - day mcirnlng at 10 o'clock At tins meeting the workers will be organ ized for the big week just ahead.. The Fashion show. Much interest is being shown bv the women of Shelby and Cleveland county in the big cotton fashion parade which is to feature the fair program on Friday morning at 9:30.in front of the grandstand. Trader Who “Swaps” Most At Fair Here To Get Texas Saddle llnrsc Traders Who Hoik To Fair Trading Ground To Mage < ontrst. \ new blue ribbon is lo be passed out at the big Cleveland county fair next week. It will go to the best horse trader who attends the fair and does his trading on the "horse swap ping" ground set aside for the traders by Secretary Horton. Mr. \V Pink King, veteran Shelby trader, has been placed in charge of this event by fair officials. and he unnnuni es that "I'm going to give a Texas saddle to the man who swaps the most." •There's going to be action on that spot." Mr. King savs "From reports I get there will be horse traders in hero from nearly everywhere and they'll have strings of swaps from plugs up to classy saddle horses. Of course, the more trading there is the more kick we’ll all get out of it. That's why I'm giving the saddle to the cham pion swapper." Extra Patrolmen To Work Here For Fair Lieutenant Ami Two ratrnlmen May llrl|> Handle Thousand* Attending Fair. North Carolina's new highway patrol is going to do its part to pre vent any serious auto accidents here next week when thousands of people from a dozen counties will pack into their cars each day for trips to and from the Cleveland county fair grounds According to reports received by officers here another motorcycle patrolmen will be sent here to assist the patrolman already in this sec tion to watch motor traffic in the congested area. It is likely.'too, it is said, that the patrol lieutenant for this district will be here with '.he two officers. Cotton Is Opening Fast; Buyer Still Sees 60,000 Bales Rainy \nd Cool Weather Has Hampered Opening Some. Much Being I’icked. Cotton is opening rapidly all over C'.fVfland county and quite a bit has been picked this week and last, according to farmers in Shel by on business late this week It is opening fast.-’ one farmer said, "and much more would have been open by now had it not been for the rainy spell which was fol lowed bv the cool weather of Wed nesday night and Thursday." To Break Record. .John D. Campbell, cotton buyer for Lowery brothers of Colutnb’-t, S C.. who keeps in close touch with the county crop, stated ye. terday that he would stick to his early estimate of 60.00Q bales tins year in the county. Nothing has happened to the crop so far to in jure it to any extent he says and it will be the biggest ever produced in he county. Miss Yerkes, Champion Racer To Perform During Fair Here belongs To Airs. YV. Reynolds, Of Will-ton. 100 Horses To Kilter. The horse which holds the world's record for the half mile will be in the free-for-all races and the 11 trots at the Cleve land counts fair four days nest week. The horse is "Miss Yerkcs" and is owned by Mrs. Will Reynolds, of Winston-Salem. Mrs. Reynolds will ion e live other last horses in the j local race,; which open Hit* Caro-, l:irias trottln-; season. By flip manner in which entrants ' ire be ny made it u now. estimated I .hat dose to 100 horses will be seen j in action during the four days of racing. Many Noted Racers. Other well known race horse Owners who will have entrants here include: Seven horses from the stables of E. T. Cannon, of Concord; seven from the W. E Miller stable at Bridgeton. N J ; two owned by Jim Penny, of Greensboro; four from the Newbrook stables at New ark. N. J.; two by H. C. Scott, of Concord; two by L. A Hodge, of Cincinnati, and six by Joe Cannon, uf Concur. Practically all of the race horses will be in by Monday morning ready for training whirls about the fast half-iuilc track. i Gas Firm Asks For Franchise On Plant Here City Officials Arc f.ursls Of Ki Hauls When (-as Vice Presi dent Speaks, N H Gellert. vice president and general manage, of the. Atlantic Gas company of Philadelphia, and C M Sturkey. one of the officials , for North Carolina, spoke before the Kiwanis club at. Cleveland Springs last night when they sought I a franchise for a gas plant in Shel by Mayor McMurrv and members 1 of the board of aldermen were guests with Earl Hamrick in charge , of the program No concrete proposition was made by the Atlantic company but Mr Sturkey had appeared before the city fathers a few weeks ago and sought a franchise with the prom ise that lus company would build and maintain a plant costing sev eral hundred thousand dollars The Atlantic Gas Co owns and operates plants in a number of other Nort 1 Carolina cities. Mr Gellert. who is one of thr outstanding gas engineers in the country, urged that the reliability of his company be investigated and stated that Shelby should no longer delay a gas plant for many manu facturing plants and home seeker, are looking for cities with such a public utility. He pointed out ad vantages of a privately owned plant over a municipal plant, saying the business was highly technical, and that its erection and operation and 1 that, the merchandising of gas ap pliances should be in the hands of specialists and trained men whose practical experience assured suc ! cess. Mountain Institute Appeal. The cause of the South Mountain Institute, a mountain school for homeless boys and girls was pre cepted by Miss Haggard, a member of the faculty who tofd of the »Uyg gle through which the school is going and of the work it is doing in that remote section of Rutherford county. After Miss Haggard men tioned that the only touch the school had with the outside world was its radio which was out of commission. Mr. Gellert of Phila delphia authorized her to have the radio fixed and send him the bill. Miss Haggard invited her listen ers to visit the institution at any time. Active At 94 Years She Accredits Age To Lack Of Worry Aunt Myra Phillips Enjoys 94th Birthday Event. Threading A Needle. Just a short time back "Aunt” Myra Phillips, aged 94. who lives with her grandsons. John and Prank Hicks, near Shelby, broke down and cried a little. Her grief was that for the first time in her 94 years she was unable to see well enough to thread her needle. Otherwise, if you please. Aunt Myra is moderately healthy and en joying life. At least she seemed that way yesterday when her descend ants gathered at the Hicks place, near Rehobeth. to help her cele brate her 94th anniversary. Thirty five grandchildren were present in addition to numerous other des cendants. Among those from Shel by and Kings Mountain present for the occasion were Policeman Clay Hicks, of Kings Mountain, a grand son: and Dr. Zeno Wall, Dr. Ben Gold and Dr. Sam Schenck. of Shelby. Other relatives and friends came from South Carolina and other points. Worry Brings On Age. If Aunt Myra had any advice to offer during the eventful day it was ‘‘Don't worry. Worrying will age you before your time.” Her longevity was attributed to her lack of worry. “I have always tried not to worry about anything.” she said. ‘‘I've always done by best to treat everyone right so that I would have nothing to worry about.” One Of 8 Now Suing Sheriff Is Citizen Cleveland County Taylor Shytle, one .of the eig'v alleged Communist who have filed $10,000 damage suits each against Sheriff John Irvin, of Mecklenburg, is a resident of Kings Mountain. The eight were arrested in Char lotte last week on a conspiracy charge after it was said riot gius and ammunition were found in iheir possession. The charges were later dismissed and then the dam age i>uits were filed. Peacox Helps select Jur> Karl Peacox on trial for the murder of his wife in the Superior Court at White Plains, N'ew York, aids his lawyer in the selection of a iury. His remarkable self possession during: the trial is considered an indication of iron nerves, as the battle for his life pa srs on to the critical stage. International New»rr«l Returns After 25 Years, Finds 3 Of Family Dead, He Dies A Famous Grid Star To Play Here In Saturday Game In addition to sceiug ft food baseball content here ftafttpr day. in the Eastside-Cleveland cloth mill game. Shelby ath letic fans will get to see hi All-American football player | in action—this time as a baseball performer. Reports here today had it that Tom Nash, who was picked on the all-American eleven two years ago while playing end for the famous Georgia eleven, will play third base for the ( loth mill. Nash played for Asheville this year and was one of the heaviest hitters in the league, Spurling To Be Candidate Again; Hear* Judge Talk Has Heard Names Of Warliek. Falls And Mull Mentioned Often. Spurgeon Spurting, of Lenoir, a ! native of Cleveland county, will ' likely be a candidate to succeed hi in sell ns Superior court solicitor i for this district, according to con- ; versation he had with friends in Shelby yesterday while stopping here en route to Kings Mountain ' o probe the Tessner kidnaping. The information that he will he a candidate again was generally taken for granted in this section a« very little talk has been heard o: anyone opposing him. For Judgeship. Asked if he had been hearing ! much political gossip over the dis- j triet concerning candidates for the judgeship which will be vacant when Judge James L. Webb retires at the end of the year, Mr. Spurting i said t. at he hrd hea’‘d sane gos- j ip “1 hear the names of Wilson War- ! i lick, of Newton, and of B T. Falls j and John Mull, of Shelby mention* i ed right often, lie said. I am also told,'' he added, "(hat, the Lincoin county bar • has endorsed one ol their fellow members, Attorney Quickel, as a candidate. Others, of course, have been talked also, but the political levei isn't so hot a Former Governor Of South Carolina Here Hon. Thos G. McLeod, formei governor of South Carolina, was a business visitor in Shelby Wednes day. The ex-governor, now an offi cial of the Life and Casualty In surance company was in Shelby ns the guest ol W. V. Fincher. local agent, and Mr. Fincher accompan ied him about town calling upon numerous Shelby leaders. Isaiah Anderson, colored, whole" Shelby 25 .years ago and was never heard of bv home folks during th\s quarter of a century, returned c.n Tuesday of last week to look for his mother and sister. His mother had been dead 12 years At Mar ion where he visited looking for his two brothers, he found they had died. Then Anderson came on to Shelby to the home of Gus DeGree. his cousin and there on Saturday, four days after his arrival home, Anderson himself died. Anderson who died four days aft er his return to lind his mother and two brothers dead, had been living in Cincinnati and other places. His brother Forrest Ander son formerly of Shelby lives in Ok lahoma where the discovery of oil on his quarter section of govern ment land, made him rieii. Forrest is here on a visit riding in a hign powered ear. One sister. Hester Lipscomb, living here survives. She was formerly Hester Guiton. An derson was buried at Shoal Creek where the funeral was preached by Rev. W. W. Price. Banks Will Close With Merchants 24 Shelby banking institutions as well as all mercantile establish ments that hold membership in the Merchants association will clo-c Tuesday afternoon, the first’ day of the fair. ICE CREAM SUPPER AT PLEASANT GROVE 21 ST There will be an ice cream sup per at Pleasant Grove church. Sat urday night. September 21. Every body is cordially invited to come. Proceeds will go for the benefit cl the church. Mr. and Mrs. Park McLean of Gastonia spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. F. B Litton. Officials Can Find No Clue To Beating Of Kings Mtn. Man Tesneair Family Sees Photos In Papers, Pleased "Here Ho Arc," Wife Of Kidnaped Man s,iiv To Solicitor, >ho» inc lllm Newspaper. Mr- Cleo Tc.-mcair; who of 111' union man who was kidnaped and bra fen Tuesday night and her 1 o year-old son Howard, seeinrd more interested yesterday morning in showing Solicitor Spurgeon Spin - i ling their pictures in the Charlotte | Observer than they did in helping I him set tire -information about the I identity of the men wlio kidnaped j ,I'esneiur When Solicitor Spurlrng slirrtif i Irwin Allen Weiner Myers, young I I rnmr lawyer, and a Star reporter visited the Tesneair home early yesterday for Solicitor Spurting to begin the investigation ordered by Governor Gardner, Mrs Tesncai. her little son, and Tesnealr’s sister were seated upon the trout step;, looking at. the Charlotte Observer, which coniainpd a photo of Te - neair in his bed in Charlotte with i his wife and little boy .seated on the edge of the bed Slum Photo. “Mrs Tesneair,'' Spurting inform* cd her. "I'm the solicitor tor the - district and I've come to see whet f can do about, locating the men who took your husband away Right bad experience tor you, wasn't it?” “Yessir " answered Mrs Tesneair. Here's our pictures ill the paper. Did you see them? And with that she reached over and took the paper from the hands of the youngstei. who was gazing at himself, and handed it to the solicitor From that time on during the hour or so that the solicitor questtned her and neighbors about, the kidnaping constant reference was made to our pictures in the ' Continued on page twelve » Tesneair, Kidnaped Union Man, Came Of I A Cleveland Family Father From This Section Anil Connected To Cleveland Tesseners. Cleo Tesneair. the textile union nian who was kidnaped from his home at Kings Mountain Tuesday night and flogged by three men. is descended from a branch of the Tessener family in the Cleveland county section, although he spells his name differently At the Tesneair home in Kings Mountain yesterday a sister cf Tcsnair. a Mrs Johnson, of Gaff - ney, told a Star writer that “dad came from up here in Cleveland county. North Carolina, somewhere. Our name is spelled a lot of ways but Cleo spells his Tesneair. Some of us spelled it other ways Born In S. Cleo, the sister informed, is not "a furriner,” neither is lie a native Of Maryland, He was born, she said, at Gaffney, in South Carolina, and had Jived at Gaffney, Spartanburg and Kings Mountain before they ; moved to Baltimore, where, Tes 1 neair's wile said, they lived only I about four months before coming 1 back to Kings Mountain. Some Pupils Demoted Instead Of j I Promoted In New Shelby System Life lias its ups and downs even in the school room. That is a bit j of psychology Shelby schoou stud- i ents are learning this year along j with their other attainment of! i knowledge Ordinarily school children move j up a grade each year, or, at least, I they are supposed to. Those who' I fail to move up a grade due to! "flunked” work usually just remain | where they are: But reports from the Shelby city schools, operating; under a new system tins year, have it that a number of students liavj been demoted a grade or two in- , stead of being promoted a grade., The new system, under the super vision of Supt. B. L. Smith and Principal W. E. Abernethy, decided at the outset of the school year to determine if all students were in the grades they should be in. Past, records of all students were stud ied and intelligence tests were giv en. Presto! Some ninth graders of last year become eighth graders this year, and eighth graders of last year became seventh graders, and so on In one or two instances, re ports have it. students were shoved | back two grades. to where ttvy should be according to a study of their past achievement. Search For Those Who Kidnaped Trsneair Fail* To Develop A Single Clue. (By RENN DRl'M.i Three North Carolina offi cials, one the sheriff of Cleve land county, yesterday and last night learned that seeking the three men who kidnaped and heat t'leo Tesnealr, union or ganizer. at Kings Mountain early Wednesday morning was much like hunting for the pro verbial needle in the haystack. Al dusk yesterday Solicitor Spur geon Spurting, ol Lenoir, and Sher iff Irvin M. Allen, of Shelbv. botn ordered by Governor Gardner to probe the kidnaping in hi* horn» county, were ready to admit, they were stumped, And Tesneair and his family were not critical of the blank wall tiie officers faced, because thev agreed that they could think of not a single fact to start the officers at work upon. Judge N A. Townsend. Governor Gardner's executive counsel, wav also in the county aiding in the in vestigation. but neither could he assemble any clue of Importance with which to push the probe. No Way To Start. Officers., beginning their investi I!at ion early in t he day, found themselves facing a blind trail, or a smoothly covered procedure. Soli citor Spurling arrived in Shelby early yesterday morning and ac companied Sheriff Allen and other* to Kings Mountain to question Mrs. Tesneair and her neighbors. The questioning and investigating con tinued through the day, without success, but Sheriff Alien, not rcadv to give up. made a night of it .is well by taking Police Chief Hedrick, of Kings Mountain, and Deputy Ed Dixon with him to Charlotte last night, where he talked with Tes ncair, in his bed at. the Charlotte hotel, hoping to pick up some clue from the victim of the kidnaping. But in the early hours this morn ing he had not scented a trail that might lead to something. "We've never seen those men be fore. and we've ro idea where they came from," Tesneair and his wife both declared. "We would kno.v them if wr ever put our eyes on them again." And that failed <o give the officers a lead of any val t. Not A Suspicion. The probe likewise was balked *n learning anything about the dyna miting of the union platform in northwest Kings Mountain on tile same night of the kidnaping. Be tore returning to Lenoir Solicitor Spurling said "We haven't been able to find anything on which we could hinge even a suspicion. It ap pears as if the mob planned every thing well before they did it, and if they left anything uncovered we have failed so far to find it." Sherilf Alien. who knows nix Kings Mountain because he was police chief there for years before becoming sheriff after two days and a night of sleuthing about leached the conclusion that Tes neair's assailants must have been visitors to Kings Mountain. The sheriff is prodding about his old hometown for information was un able to find a single person, in any walk of life, vvh, had an inkling >f the inside of Wednesday morning's happenings, and he found the ma jority of them ijiinterested, eithe' way, in the textile labor disturb ances. Repeat Stories. Tesneair and his wife repeated practically the same stories to the solicitor and sheriff as have ap peared in the newspapers. Their 10 year-old son offered the only'dis crepancy. "Five men," he sa^, conic and got dad." Questioned the little fellow could remember and account for the presence of only four. Two he said came into the room and dragged his father out, one remained on the porch and another remained at the wheel of the car. Where the fifth man was (Continued on page twelve.) IT S NOBOUT BUSINESS llow Gee McGee Can Write Humorous Events. Turn to the Editorial Page of This Issue And Read The Wittiest Feature Published Gee McGee's NOBODY'S BUSINESS'

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