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TODAY
VOL. XXXV, No. 113
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT.
1029
Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
By mall, per year (In advance) $3.60
Carrier, per year (In advance) $3.00
The Big Cleveland County Fair,
“Carolinas Greatest”, Opens Tomorrow
LATE NEWS
The Markets.
Cotton ('pot) .. .. 18'4C
Cotton Seed, prr bu._...._45c
Clcud.v Weather.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Cloudy tonight and Tues
day. Probably showers tonight and
on (hr roast Tuesday, tittle change
in temperature.
Grave Of Soldier
Of Revolution Is
Found In Mountains
Jr.inps Cook. Giant Soldied, Buried
<>n Hill At Bens
* Knob.
The unmarked grave of a Rian:
Cleveland county soldier who fought
at. Kings Mountain with Col. Isaac
Shelby and Col. Benjamin Cleve
land was located last week by Mr
J. Cullen Mull while he was search
ing for unmarked graves of Con
federate soldiers.
The grave, the history of which
has been kept by descendants of
the soldier, is located on a hill near
Bens Knob in the mountain section
northwest of Shelby. There shortly
after the fight, for freedom was
buried James Cook, who was seven
feet tail and one of the largest
men. according to tradition in the
Revolutionary army. Very few peo
ple lived in this enure section at,
the time, but the soldier told his
wife shortly before his death that,
he wanted to be buried on the hill
near their pioneer home. His wife,
descendants of Cook say. intended
to disregard his wishes and have
his buried out in some settlement,
ivrobably in Catawba county. How
ever. a heavy snow fell cun the night
of the giant soldier's death and it
was impossible to remove him.
With the aid of the only two neigh
bors within more than a score of
miles the widow buried him at the
spot requested.
As the years passed other mem
bers of pioneer families were bur
ied near Cook's grave. and after
many other years had passed a
church was established there. This
church is now known as Olivers
Grove and the cemetery centers
about the mound where Cook was
buried. Practically all of the Cooks
in this and adjoining counties are
descendants, it is said, of the seven
foot soldier.
Urge Gardner
To Have Special
Assembly Meet
IVani laws Passed To Handle Com
munists. Governor Remains
Silent.
Raleigh.—Beyond admitting that
he receives quite a deal of counsel
to call the general assembly ir.*o
session. Governor Gardner would
not go as expressing himself on the
merits of such an assembly.
Governor Gardner was so well
pleased with the first legislature
and has himself figured so often in
these extraordinary sessions that as
a practical statesman he does not
warm to them. He presided over one
of them during the Bickett admin
istration and as member of one or
the other bodies he has seen the
boys foregather. Rarely in times ol
excitement do these deliberative
departments hold to their original
purposes and Governor Gardner
would be happy to hold his gains
of January-March. 1929
The advice which his excellencv
received is abundant. The callers
would have his legislature pass
some drastic laws which would
purge the state of the fire eating
aliens who are now on North Caro
lina soil. Many of these legislative
(Continued on page eight.)
Former Shelby Boy
Likes Hawaiian Isle
In remitting for a year’s subscrip
tion to keep The Star shining in
far off Hawaiian Island. Major
Bussey B. Lattimore says: I am en
joying my tour over here. It is a de
lightful place with a wonderful cli
mate. about 70 degrees the year
round, with beautiful vegetation and
gorgeous natural scenery on all
sides. Truly the Paradise of the
Pacific.
“The population is about 80 per
cent foreign parentage, mostly Jap
anese and Chinese and this adds
to making the shops, restaurant;,
etc. interesting. You can buy almost
anything here you can in the Ci
rnt, but of course at a higher price,
due principally to the import, duty.
1 It certainly makes it tough on a.iy
officer stationed here for their
wives just can't resist the temop
tion to purchase the attractive
merchandise and the old salat y
check suffers accordingly, but it's
great and I like it.
Thousands Ready For Fair Opening On Tuesday
Flogging Probe
Fails To Bring
Out Any Clues
Tcsnrair May Comp Back To Conn
ty To Help Jdrntifv Three
Who Kidnaped Him.
The investigation into the kid
naping and flogging at Kings
! Mountain last week of Cleo Tes
nealr. union labor organizer, is just
where it was when it started—no
where. The tnree men wno kid
naped and flogged Tesneair. accord
ing to his story, will perhaps never
be known if they are able to con
tinue covering up their night's
work as well as they have so far.
Solicitor Spujling, of Lenoir, aft
er a day spent about Kings Moun
tain soon found that there was not
a single clue upon which to begin
a search for the kidnapers. Sheriff
Irvin M. Allen, who spent the day
with the solicitor and has been at
work on his own hook since delving
into the matter. cannot get his
hands upon any lead. he sa\s.
which has the remotest connection
with the ear which slipped up be
fore the Tesneair home and spirit
ed him away in his night clothes
for a good switching across the line
in South Carolina. Judge N. A.
Townsend. representing Governor
Gardner, also visited Kings Moun
tain only to learn that Kings
Mountain people seemed to know
nothing more about the affair
than had been in the newspapers,
while very few people knew- just
where Tesneair iived.
A union leader told Sheriff Allen,
when the latter was In Charlotte
to see Tesneair one night last week,
that he would bring Tesneair to this
county this week to see if he could
aid in the probe and if possible to
locate the trio which took him to
ride.
W. A. Dover Dies
Suddenly At Grover
•
Funeral At Baptist Church There
Yesterday Afternoon. Good
Citizen.
William A Dover, age 62, dropped
■ dead at his home in Grover Fri
j day evening at 7:30 o'clock Mr.
j Dover seemed to be in his usual
. good health and had just finished a
j hearty supper when he died.
Funeral services were conducted
at the First Baptist church in Gro
ver Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Rev. W. R. Furcron pastor of the
church officiating Burial was in
the cemetery at Grover. The bur
ial services were in charge of the
Masons. State Line lodge of Gro
ver officiating.
Surviving are three children, all
of whom live in Charlotte. Curtis
Dover, Darwin Dover and Mrs.
Louie Ellis.
Mr. Dover was born and reared
and spent his entire life in the
same community. He was a splen
did citizen, one held in the very
highest esteem by all with whom he
came in contact.
Masonic Notice.
Cleveland lodge No, 202 A F and
A, M. will meet in regular com
munication Friday night at 7:30 p.
m. Visiting brethren cordially wel
comed.
Flogging Victim With His Family
Cleo Tesneair. who was kidnaped and flogged by a trio of unknown men last week at Kings Mountain, I s
shown above with his wife and 10-year-old son, Howard. The p^oto was made in a room of the Hotel Char
lotte where the union organizer was taken by union leaders after he said he caught a ride on a truck ill South
Carolina and rode to Charlotte following the flogging given him there by the three men. ,
Says Radicals Want Gunmen To
Ramp Off’ Hoey And Carpenter
i Special Term Of
Court Is Delayed
Here To December
Raleigh.—The special term of two
weeks civil court set for Cleveland
county October 14, Judge G. B.
Cowper to preside, has been defer-'
red untiV,December 2, with Judge
T. L. Johnson to preside. The
change of date was made at the
request of attorneys with cases
schedule for trial at the term who
will .not be in the state on the Oc
tober date.
Firemen Idle For 10
Weeks, Are Looking
For Action Any Time
James Cook. Giant Soldier. Buried
Be Broken B.v Firing
Of Stoves.
Shelby city firemen, who haven 1
had any action within the citv
limits for 10 weeks, are anticipat
ing some work this week as stoves,
healers and furnaces are fired up
because of the early cold snap
However alarms expected during
the three cool days just past failed
to materialie and the firefighters
may have another idle week.
Ten weeks without a single blaze
in the city limits is a record since
Shelby has maintained a fire de
partment. It has been more than a
month since the trucks have been
out at all, the last call being to a
blaze just beyond the city limits.
The last fire in the corporate limits
was early in July.
Lincoln Lawyer Boosted To
Succeed Judge James L. Webb
Lincolnton.—The Democratic ex
j rcutive committee of Lincoln coun
i ty, meeting in regular session here
j last Saturday went, on record as
i favoring' the nomination and elec
1 tion of Hon. A. L. Quickel, of the
Lincolnton bar, as a successor to
the Hon. Jas. L. Webb, who has
signified that he will not run for
re-election to the bench of the
superior court of North Carolina
next, election, and furthermore they
entered upon their minute books
resolutions endorsing Mr Quickel to!
thtt voters of the 16th judicial dis- i
tric^ of North Carolina.
Toi those who know Mr. Quickel,
it is.'no wonder that the above
mentiined action was taken by the
count.executive committee as Mr.
Quicka. without a doubt is one of
the bc|t prepared men in the dia
i 1
\
triet for this important office He
is a scholar when it comes to ques
tions of law and his wisdom has
been much sought after and his de
cisions have stood without a chal
lenge.
Mr. Quickel passed the state bar
at the February term in 1897, after
finishing the University of North
Carolina in June 1895. From 1914
1919 he served as clerk to the judi
ciary committee in Washington and
he has also represented his county
in the state legislature. He is at
present chairman of the board of!
elections in Lincoln county and one i
of the best known members of the
Lincolnton bar. When the bridge
ease, which has Just been settled,
first came up, Mr. Quickel was im
mediately sought by the town and
employed as one of their' counsel
in the case.
Former Prisoner Writes That Fund
Is Brin* Raised To Get
-^— Gunmen.
Charlotte. Sept. 23— An alleged
plan for blowing things up in Char
lotte and Gastonia and “raising j
money for gunmen to bump off"
Solicitor John G. Carpenter and
former Congressman A. L. Bui
winkle. of Gastonia, and Clyde R.
Hoev; Shelby, all members of the
prosecution counsel in the trial of
img of Chief O. F. Aderholt, was
16 leaders and strikers, for the kill
made public here Saturday.
Edwin Bridges, former pardon
commissioner of North Carolina,
made public a letter he had receiv
ed from a prisoner who had been
pardoned. The man, whose name
was not revealed, said he had heard
the plan in New York ‘the other
evening.”
The letter had been turned over
by Mr. Bridges to Judge J. Hoyle
Sink. The letter follows:
“I thought I would drop you a
few lines to let you hear from me. j
I'm making out fine and dandy j
considering everything. I was in j
New York city last Friday night and
the police arrested 40 radicals on
the comer of Eighth avenue and
34th street. The working men in
New York are up in arms about
things around Charlotte and Gas
tonia. I heard several say on the
corner of Thirty-fourth street at
the New Yorker hotel about blowing
things up around Charlotte and
Gastonia.
“They were raising money for
gunmen to bump off Mi-. John Car
penter, and Bulwinkle and Hon.
Clyde Hoey,. All the bums and
dagos and Macaroni eaters praise
Judge V. Barnhill. I heard these
radicals talking about sending Tony
Grondone down to North Carolina
and blow up things, I’m afraid to
tell these monkeys I’m from North
Carolina. I had to whip five in
New York the other evening. Please
warn these men.’’
The man who wrote the letter
Mr. Bridges said, had served 12
years in the state prison at Raleigh
and during his administration as
pardon commissioner received a pa
rtjle.
Shelby Youth Off To
Study For The Stage
Milan ' Bridges, a Shelby youth,
left today for New York where he
enters the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. Young Bridges, it Is
understood will study for the stage.
He Is quite talented both in debat
ing and histrionic arts and during
his course in high school displays!
his unusual talent in a most com
mendable way.
Hoey Unperturbed
By Report That A
Gunman Seeks Him
Shelby Lawyer Not Likely To Drop
Prosecution Role In Ader
holt Trial.
Former Congressman Clyde R.
Hoey has not moved his law
offices to another location and
is still occupying his residence
on West Marion street despite
the fact that he has been warn
ed that radical Reds hope to
raise a fund to employ a gun- -
man to "bump him off.’’
Likewise Mr. Hoey says that
unless discharged by the state
that he will continue as a mem
ber of the prosecution counsel
in the case where the state is
trying 13 strike idWers and
Communists for the murder of
Police Chief Aderholt. of Gas
tonia. He revealed this after
being asked If he had seen
newspaper reports telling of a
warning letter written by a for
mer prisoner in this state say
ing that New York radicals
were laying plans to get Mr.
Hoey, Solicitor Carpenter and
Major A. L. Bulwinklr.
W’hether or not he took very
much stork in the likelihood of
the acts warned of being car
ried out he did not say.
Minister Here Says
Non-Belief Ought Not
Disqualify A Witness
Colbert McKnight. eighth grader
at the Shelby high school and a
■son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Mr
Knight. is the champion of the
latest fad in Shelby—Yo-Yoing.
Reports from the Central school
have it that young McKnight kept
a Yo-Yo going for one hour and 15
minutes without a stop, an estimat
ed 3.000 ups and downs for the toy
Hundreds of school children here
have purchased the new toy and all
play hours in the several city
schools are filled with Yo-Yoers in
their endurance contests.
Boyer Praises Work
Of The Boy Scouts
One Of Greatest Organization III
Country For Development
Of Boy.
‘Next to the church I know of
no organization which is doing
more to develop the whole boy than
the Boy Scout organization," de
clared Dr. H. K. Boyer during the
morning service at Central Meth
odist church yesterday.
Dr. Boyer’s tribute to scout work
came in an appeal to the fathers
ind mothers of his congregation to
3>ve the youths more encourage
ment. and personal attention in the
organization.
Federal Court
On Here Today,
Webb Presiding
United Stair* Judge Trll* Gram) •
Jury Prohibition Responsible
For Progress.
“Thr remarkable progress during
the last 25 year* of the Piedmont
and Western Carolina sections
could not have been had there not
been prohibition,'-’ declared United
States Judge E Yates Webb to the
grand Jury at the opening of the
federal court term here this morn
ing
‘Our fine brick school buildings,
our fine highways, our automobiles
and prosperity—-we would not have
them today if there were saloons
and barrooms on the street corners
in Shelby and other towns as was
the case in the old days." he added.
‘ Prohibition is not yet perfect, and
we have not fully learned the lesson
of temperance, but. we have gone
far enough to realize that it has
meant much to us. It is yet a new
law, comparatively speaking, and it
is still violated. but so are many
laws much older. The people of this
country will never vote for a re
turn to the old barroom days."
Continuing his charge Judge
Webb flayed the young sheiks who
carry flasks to the dances so that
their flapper friends might drink.
Court Officials.
District Attorney Tom J. Harkins
will prosecute the docket with As
sistant District Attorney C. E
Greene aid him. Clerk J. Y. Jordan
heads the clerical force.
Deputy Marshal Gard Hamrick,
of Bolling prings. is one the mar
shals of the term. It being his first
service here since entering office.
Quite a number of out-of-ttown
lawyers are here for the court term,
and with several hundred citizens
of nearby counties in town for court
and also for fair week Shelby was
pretty well thronged with visitors
today.
Recorder Receive*
Peculiar Message
On Tesneair Case
I County Recorder Horace Kennedy
! received a letter late last week
1 which has stumped his judicial sa
gacity, and would, the county judge
believes, worry ‘he wisdom of Solo
mon quiet a bit.
The letter came from Columbia.
Pennsylvania, and talked of some
thing about the case t>l Cleo Tes
nealr, the union organize who was
kidnaped and beaten at Kings
Mountain, but that is about nil the
judge and sevcal of his friends can
make of the strange epistle. It is
written in a perfectly legible hand
but the sentences do not make
sense. The construction very much
resembles that of a foreigner who
cannot, think of the proper English
: word to express his meaning. There
j is constant reference to “Military
Gentlemen." •'Bishops." “Manager
ial Observation." "Prelates," and
the union. Every four or five words
the writer inserts "I beg to sey” or
"state." The reader of the letter
at the end feels somewhat like he
is going crazy, or that the writer
must have been somewhat off him
self.
Lattimore To Vote
On Light Plant Sale
The citizens of Lattimore will
hold an election on Thursday of
this week to decide whether or not
they wil accept the $18,000 offered
for their municipal light plant by
the Southern Public Utilities.
Bustling City Covers
Big Fair Tract With
Last Preparations On
Show Tents, Stands, Rides, Exhibits And En
tries Spring Up All Over Fair Grounds.
Look For Great Throng Tuesday Despite
Inclement Weather Prevailing.
Tomorrow Is the day! Early Tuesday morning hundred* of achool
children In a down counties ■will start swarming to the opening day—
Educational Day-—of the sixth Cleveland county fair.
Highlight Events
During Fair Week
Tueadiq.v—-Educational day.
All school children admitted
free. Band concert on Shelby
court square Tuesday morn
ing at 10:15 by famous Saxon
band.
Friday — Cotton fashion
show before racetrack grand
stand at 9:30 o'clock In the
morning.
Saturday—at 2:30, football
game between Eenoir-Rhyne
I and Preabyterian college.
Horse races and free act*
each afternoon—Free act*
I and fireworks display each
night.
'Fair Admittance
Same On Saturday
No Additional Gate Charge On Day
Of Football Game. Charfe
At Grandstand.
The admittance charge at the
main gate of the Cleveland county
fair Saturday will be the ..me as
other days—50 cents Due to’the
fact that posters advertising the
Saturday football game say that
"admission to fair and game both Is
only *1” some may get the Idea
that, the fair admission will oe
more. The poster merely intends to
give the information that the ad
mission will be the same as other
days. 50 cents, while those who wish
to see the football game from the
grandstand or infteld sideline may
do so for an additional 50 cents, e
charge similar to the horse racing
charge. Box seats for the football
game will cost 75 cents.
Yo-Yo Big Craze
In Schools Here;
McKnight Is Champ
Cities Illustration To Show How
Such Might Aid A
Criminal.
Dr Zeno Wall, pastor of the
First Baptist church here, doubts
the wisdom of the North Carolina
law as interpreted in barring the
testimony of a witness who does not
believe in God. The local minister
expressed this opinion while dis
cussing the barring of a witness
last week in Charlotte because ne
is an atheist.
Theoretically the minister believes
the law as interpreted may be all
right, but in instances it might
serve to free a criminal.
“Suppose,” he says, ‘‘that three
men were playing golf and that
two of them entered an argumenf
with one killing the other. Now if
the third man should be an atheist
how could the evidence be secured
aRainst the killer should the law
bar the testimony of the only eye
witness?”
Big Band Concert On Square
Here Tuesday Opens The Fair
Famous Spartanburg; Band To Make
Music For Fair Week
Program.
A band that has played the
South Carolina .state fair for three
years will furnish the music for the
Cleveland county fair this week, it
was announced today by Secretary
J. S. Dorton. The band is the Saron
organization of Spartanburg.
At 10: IS tomorrow, Tuesday,!
mossing the Saxon band, directed j
by S. J. Bishop, jvill give a big con
cert on the court square belore
moving on to the fair grounds.
Among the numbers to be*»layed in
the concert are the following:
“Glorio, F ust Grand, The Squealer,
Down Among the Sugar Cane, Qual
ity Plus, El Capitan, Mazeppa, I Get
the Blues When It Rains. Trom
bone Blues.
All citizens or Shelby and the
county are invited to hear the free
concert on the square.
From Saturday morning until
noon today the 56-acre fair track
was transformed from a great, bare
strip of ground into a bustling city,
and the last minute rush continues
this afternoon Show tents are go
ing up. big motor trucks are drag
ging in move attractions, concession
stands are springing up everywhere,
exhibits and entries are piling In at
all gates. From one gate to anoth
er the big tract is a hubbub of
noise and activity as the final touch
is added for the beginning of the
big show tomorrow.
Better Weather.
Rain and cool weather Sunday
and Sunday night proved somewhat
of a handicap to the removal of the
big Rubin and Cherry show to the
fair grounds from its train, but by
noon today the cloudy skies had
cleared up somewhat and fair of
ficials were a little more hopeful
for better weather for Tuesday's
opening. All school children are to
be admitted free on opening day
and with thousands of youngsters
| attending it will likely be the big
! gest day other than Saturday.
Mountain Cattle.
One of the new departments this
year which as already attracted
more than ordinary interest is that
department devoted to the display
of beef and dairy cattle. Cattle
and sheep from Avery, Mitchell,
Madison and other mountain
counties have already arrived
for the show in the new livestock
exhibit hall.
All over the section enthusiasm
is being shown over the cotton fash
ion show sponsored by club women
which will be held Friday morning
before the racetrack grandstand
Those participating In the show
will wear dresses and garments
made of cotton material in their
move to boost the cotton lndustrv.
Amplifying System.
The thousands who attend the
biggest of county fairs this year
will be greeted with the latest of
inventions for their convenience and
entertainment. This is a gigantic
amplifying system which will cover
the entire fair ground. The broad
casting booth is in the judges stand
in front of the grandstand and am
plifiers are located in the grand
stand, in all of the exhibit halls
and all about the fair ground. There
will be detailed announcements of
each event and these announce
ments may be heard all over tha
grounds By the use of this system
all the thousands in attendance
will know Just what is going on each
minute.
The big exhibit halls, already
packed with displays, are a riot of
color. Never before say visitors to
day to the fair grounds has there
been a more colorful or a more com
plete array of exhibits, booths stand!
and entries. Everything grown or
produced on the farm la on display
there together with a fine collec-.
tion of commercial and manufac
turing products.
The dog show promises to be one
of the largest ever held in the two
Carolinas with hundreds of entries,
while there are many entries for
the poultry, ho? and livestock,
shows.
The arrival and erection of (J&a
Rubin and Cherry show has upheld
the reputation of the biggest amuse
ment show playing fairs. It seems
assured that fair visitors this week
will have one of the best amuse
| ment arrays—shows, ridoa and every
thing—ever brought to this section.
Practically the same system of
operation and program will be fol
lowed this year as iQ previous fairs.
Horse races will go,bn in the after
noon together; wtjh an unusually
good free aefc |ffogram, and with
fireworks, the best yet according to
Secretary Dogton. and free acts each
night. Music for the entire event
will be furnished by the Saxon baud
of Spartanburg which plays the
South Carolina State fair and other
big events w the South.