12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 126 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By" man. per year an advance) $3.M __Carrier, per year an advance) MW S1IELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, OCT. 2;’> 1029. LATE NEWS TIIE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. ........_... l'V4c Cdtton Seed, per bu._... 49' i Heavy Frost Likely. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and slightly colder in central and east portions tonight with light to heavy frost in inter ior. Thursday fair.. Trys Atlantic Hop. ..Unannounced and without ad-1 ranee publicity Urban F. Hitemm, jr., Montana cattleman and aviator, yesterday hopped off in a small air plane from Harbor Grace, New foundland, set upon flying across the Atlantic to London. No one other than his wife knew that Dite man was to make the daring at tempt until a note he left in New- ! foundland was found. W. JTWolf Dies; Buried Tuesday Merchant And Farmer And Candi date For County Office Is Buried At Beulah. (Special to The Star.) One of the largest crowds seen at Beulah church, Cherryville circuit, for a long time attended the funeral of W. I. Wolfe Tuesday afternoon, October 22. The floral tribute was abundant and beautiful. Friends came from Cherryville, Charlotte, Blacksburg and othci places to attend the last sad rite It was said of lrim he was friend to all he ever knew. Although great ly afflicted, he was almost a regu lar attendant on all the services of the church. He was always cheerfui, kind, natient, and sympathetic. But best of all however was his fine Christian spirit and experience. For years he had been noted for his, piety and genuine faith in his Lord. In his going, the church has lost her local preacher and one of its most faithful members, the choir its leader, the adult class its teach er. the community one of its most valued citizens, and the home a lov ing father and husband. He was happily married to Mi's Mary Wesson, December 2, 189o. To this union was bom one son, Wi; liam Lee Surviving are his wife, son, son’s wife and one grandchild. Ad die Louise, also the following broth, ers and sisters, G. F. Wolfe, L. M Wolfe, Mrs. Mary Blanton, Mrs. Kl len Grigg, Mrs. Jane Jenkins and Miss Era Wolfe. J. B. Wolfe and S. R. Wolfe preceded him to the gra\ e. He was bom October 15, 1872 and was the son of Cathy and Phoeoe Wolfe. His funeral was conducted by h!s pastor. Rev. Paul W. Townsend as sisted by Rev. J. E. B. Houser a for mer pastor, and Dr. Garrison of Kings Mountain. The music was di rected by J. B. McGill, I. B. Go forth, Miss Pearl Fulton, Mrs. A. H. Patterson, Mrs. Kenneth Crook, all of Kings Mountain. The pall bearers were the nephews. The flower girls were the nieces. The flower cars were furnished' by friends ard neighbors. Masons To Discuss Real Estate Matters Dr. Zeno Wall To Address Cleve land Lodg^On Friday Night Of This Week. Dr. Zeno Wall will address Cleve land lodge of Masons at the Ma sonic hall Friday night of this week. Aside from the address by Dr. Wall an important business ses sion will be held when the lodge members will be asked to discuss an important real estate matter, in volving some real estate belonging to the local Masons. It is urged that every member be present The meet ing will begin at 7:30 o'clock. 93 PER CENT Perfect Coverage. There are 142 homes repre sented in the organization at the Cleveland Cloth Mill. THE STAR GOES INTO 132 OF THESE HOMES. OR 93 PER CENT OF THEM, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY JUST MADE. Not a one of the 200 weekly newspapers in North Carolina, has a greater cir f dilation than The Star. Only 18 of the 38 large city dailies have more cir culation and these 18 news papers are located in 1 2 cities much larger than Shelby. Farm Appraiser Predicts Record Crop In County Sam I.atiimorc Says Cotton Crop Will Go Near 65,000-Bale Mark. “It is without doubt the big gest cotton crop in the history of Cleveland county.” was the. declaration made here yesterday about the county totton crop by a man who has been appraising farm lands and farm crops for a farm loan bank for several years and who prior to that time was one of the county's leading farmers, and. therefore, should be ranked as an expert prophet. The speaker was Sam C. Lattt more, farm loan appraiser in the two Carolinas and one of Cleve land’s leading cotton farmers. “If it had not been for the dam aging rains late in September and early in October, no telling how much cotton the county would have made. These rains, however, hurt coming at the season .they did with the bolls just cracked,” he added, but rains from now until the end of the season will not hurt as much. G5.000 Bales? “As it is I believe the county will make over 60,000 bales, and if I had to set an exact estimate I would come nearer saying 65,000 bales than 60,000 bales. "There are more acres in cotton this year than last and there arc more bolls to the stalk. I’ll not miss 500 bales very far out on my place,” he concluded Galloway Child Dies In Virginia Two Months Old Child Of Mr. And Mrs. Archie Galloway, For merly Of Shelby. Archie H. Galloway, junior, two months and twenty days old, child of Mr. and Mrs. Archie H. Ga’.’.o way died Tuesday morning In Mar tinsville, Va., at the home of its parents, after a weeks illness. Nev s of the death of the child is a source of great sorrow to the many friends of Mr. and Mrs.-Galloway who are well known in Shelby. Mr. Galloway was advertising manager for Gilmers department store at this place for a number of years and married a daughter of Mrs. Dan L. Jarrett. He is now ad vertising manager of the Henry County Bulletin. The funeral was conducted this morning at 10:30 o'clock in Mar tinsville, Va., and interment was at that place. M. G .Mann To Talk Here On Marketing Mr. M. G. Mann, one of the offi cials of the North Carolina Cotton Growers association will speak at the court house Thursday of this week at 11 o’clock and at Polkville school house on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, according to an an nouncement made by Mr. C. C. Horn, special agent. Mr. Mann's subject should be very interesting to the farmers in view of the fact that the federal farm board is now functioning and has made available millions of dol lars for the cotton growers of North Carolina. Gardner And Labor Troubles In State Get Page In Literary Digest Views On Labor Situation In North Carolina Are Subject Of Much Praise. Raleigh.—Whole page treatment in the Literary Digest of Governor Gardner's recent, New York Times interview on textile conditions in North Carolina gives to the North Carolina executive a piece of pub licity won by no Tar Heel governor in many a year and hardly gained by any executive outside such worjd figures as Alfred E. Smith. 'The issue of Octobc.- 19 carried a page display in which many /sii torial excerpts were taken from 'he press of the country. In the middle of the layout was a cartoon rep resenting North Carolina1!, great roads, its big scnools. modern fac tories and other material manifes tations. But riding a mule right up to an automobile on these roads was a bewhiskered bolshevtst, who hoists his gun and represent ti e medialvealis inof industry which ro I nicdialvealism of industry which r.*- 1 | own sphere. There is no effort to | identify Governor Gardner with such bourbonism. The comments are almost univer sally complimentary. The Digest does not of course carry them all. but a clipping bureau has sent to Governor Gardner more than 100 editorials taken from papers which have carried something on Gover nor Gardner's views. His excellency of course is pleased to know that an industrial situation which h3s worried him more than all things else has helped to put before the nation his views on conditions h°re. Some of the writers who have been down here from the north have put the governor Irrevocably on 'hr side of vested rights and even res*, ed wrongs, but the papers which have been carrying his Interview accept the statement as the delivery of a statesman. But all of them agree that the governor has sn>d something and said the something that ought to have been said. His excellency is getting the com- j pensaticns which were denied hi -. during the more serious momen's cl ' the warfare. j An Outstanding Boy Scout Troop. —Photo Courtesy Gastonia GazcU» Cotton Farmers To Get Aid \ From The Federal Farm Board, r Admitting Belief Price Too Low, * Federal Board Makes Hundred Million Dollars Available. Washington, Oct. 23.—The federal farm board announced this week it would lend to cotton co-operatives sums sufficient to bring the tots! amount borrowed from all sources by such associations to 16 cents per pound on graded and classed cot ton, and disclosed simultaneously that It is preparing to take similar action on wheat under a plan to bo. revealed later. The statement, which came as ? surprise and was received with gi at. ification by cotton state senators on Capitol Hill, was prefaced with the declaration that the board ‘Ihelif.ato the present prevailing prices for cot ton are too low.” Large Sum Available. Nearly $100,000,000 is available from the board's revolving fund for the cotton financing, and the b?a:a said it would ask congress for mom if it becomes necessary. Under the board’s plan, the basis for grading will be middling 7-8 inch staple. The loan per pound at the ten designated Southern spot markets will be approximately as follows: Norfolk, 16.54 cents; Au gusta 16.35 cents: Savannah, 16.28 cents; Montgomery, 15.64 cents; New Orleans, 16.59 cents; Memphis, 15.39 cents; Little Rock, 15.41 cents; Dallas, 15.34 cents; Houston, 16.1'J cents; Galveston, 16.39 cents. The plan under which the board expects to lend money to wheat co operatives probably will not be an nounced until after formation of the National Grain Corporation, which is expected to be completed late this week at a meeting in Chicago. Sev eral members of the board will at tend the meeting. The general man. agement of the corporation wili have to meet the approval of the j board. Chairman Legge has said, in view of the fact the board intends to lend the organization a large sum of money. Explaining its opinion that cur rent cotton prices are too low, the (Continued on page eleven.) Bolling Springs To Play College Game ' Here November 2 Racklcv Trying To Gel High Point I Reserves Here Saturday Week. Also Wingate. Shelby and Cleveland county gridiron fans may get a taste of 'junior college football Saturday week and on the following Satur day, provided plans now started by Coach^Blainey Rackley, of Boiling Springs college, work out. Rackley’s junior Baptists have a "gSflTf ‘SWiWliled for Saturday‘'tt'frfc November 2. with the reserve eleven of High Point college. The setting of the game has not as yet been decided and after conferring with Boiling Springs and Wake Forest alumni here the Baptist coach is attempting to have the game plav ed in Shelby. His chances of bring ing the game here are very bright now. Another One. On the following Saturday Boe ing Springs is booked to play Win gate college there, but there is some hope that the game may be switch ed to Shelby so that Boiling Springs students and the Boiling Springs (Continued on page eleven.) Rutherford Fair On Despite Bad Weather Fireworks Program On Tonight, Kaccs On Friday, and Football Saturday. Rutherfordton, Oct, 22.—Despite the heavy rain Monday and Mon day night, the ninth annual Ruth erford county fair got under way Tuesday. The attendance was large, considering the weather and mud. Saturday, the last day, until noon will be school day, when all pupils from Rutherford and adjoining counties will be admitted free. Cen tral high school and Cliffside will play football at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. r The big midway started in full blast tonight. The fire works exhibi tion will be given Wednesday bight and mule and horse races will ijf run Thursday. Automobile race* with six leading racing drivers - pf the country will be the principal part of Friday's program. Mooresboro Creamery To Enlarge Its Plant Increased Business Makes Improve ment Necessary. Patrons Number 1,000. Owing to increased busine.,., Mooresboro Creamery, is erecting a larger and more up-to-date build ing, which will be ol solid brick with the latest equipment. The creamery room will be 40 by 60 leet, w hile the commercial room will .10 by 60 feet. If will have installed mechanical refrigeration. possibly the Bryan system. This creamery is the oldest in the state, having been in business for 20 years. There me around 1,000 patrons sending m cream. The products are sold m both the Carolines. J. U. Roll:;'; is manager, also secretary and treas urer. E. B. Hamrick is president, Z R. Walker, vice president Bel wood Troop Is Composed Of Rural Boys, Yet A Leader . . —■— . The Boys Scouts of America is one of the first national organiza tions to realize its responsibility to the boy life of rural Amerca ill the same capacity as it serves the boys cf the large ctics and towns. Scout ing among urban and farm boys is making unusual progress and in the Piedmont Council cf the Boy Scouts of America, serving the counties of Gaston. Lincoln. Polk. Cleveland and Rutherford, numerous troops have been organized for rural boys. Troop 1. Belwood. Cleveland coun ty, Is not only the outstanding troop composed entirely of rural boys but is one of the outstanding troops in Cleveland county. The troop Is organized in connec tion wjtb the Belwcod consolidated school and- is under the leadership of Mr. J. Alvin Propst, one of the teachers of this school. Since the organization of the troop more than two years ago, the troop lias been very active in participating in the various courts of honor arid the ac tivities of the council. The Belwood scout troop is fully uniformed and has attended the Piedmont Council Scout training camp at Lake Lanier for the past two years. Practically every mem ber of the troop is at least a first class Scout and many hold numer ous merit badges and are well on tlie way to the Eagle Rank. The merit badge training of the Boy Scouts of America, as a voca tional guidance program, gives the boy an Insight into the various arte, crafts and sciences. Numerous mer it badges cover the agricultural field, such as agriculture, gardjuh’.? dairying, beef production, hog and port production, poultry Keeping farm home planning, farm nvscuur irs, lust aid L. animals, farm tch ords , fiuit culture, nut culture, bee keeping, soil management, ho-se mans! p, blacksmithing and num erous other crafts as carpentry, cc nient work and leather work whte’i are beneficial to the boy on tne farm. Hoey Will Address Rainbow Division Of Veterans In S. C. O’1', i _ Accept* Invitation To Make Address f- At South Carolina ‘ Meeting. Odlumbia, S. C.—Clyde R. Ho»>;\ of Shelby, N. C„ has accepted an ir vltation toiaddress the South Ci'O Una chapter of the Rainbow divi sion of the Veterans’ essociation at a meeting here next June, accord ing to an announcement from Lane L. Bonner, secretary and treasurer of the organization. The Rainbow division will meet in connection with the convent’ m of the South Carolina chapter of the American Legion. Mr. Hoey. who rarely accents speaking engagements out of No-t i Carolina, pointed out in his letter to Mr. Bonner that he was glad to make 8n exception in this case to come to South Carolina There are 400 men in North Car olina and 1,200 in South Car ’Una eligible to membership in the Rain bow division organization. A mem bership drive will be launched some tiie.e in the future. Sam Bagwell, of Spartanburg, is president of the Rainbow division's Veterans’ association and Thornes B. Watt, of Haitsville, is vice-presi dent $20,000 In Taxes Paid During Week Cleveland county people are continuing tQ show that tliev are not slugfkrris about paying their taxes. A week ago tomorrow Sheriff Irvin Allen first received his receipt books and began to re ceive taxes, and today it was an nounced that a little over Hi. 000 in taxes had already been collected. Chas. C. Putman Is Buried Today Prominent Farmer Of Pleasant Hill Community Succumbs To Font Illness—Age 69 Mr. Chas."C. Putnam, prominent farmer of the Pleasant Hill com munity is being buried at Pleas ant Hill church this afternoon ai 2:30 o'clock, he having passed away Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock after a year's Illness with a stomach trouble. Mr, Puuiam s acaui was expected. tor he had been quite sick, but hi: passing was none the less sorrow - ful. as he was one of the staunch est'® citizens of that community, a prosperous farmei, a big hearted neighbor and friend and a fire Christian gentleman. He was 63 years of age and a member of the Baptist church since early man hood. i Deceased was married to Miss Nicey Roberts and Fannie Belle Putnam. Three brothers Clarence Jap and Will and five sisters, Mrs. Ross McSwain. Mrs. Julius Mr Mur ry, Mrs. Noah McMurry. Mrs, John Mauney, Mrs. Roy Hambright also survive. The funeral services this afternoon were conducted by Revs. I. D. Harrlll and W. E Lowe Cross-Tie In Use On S. A. L. For 41 Years Long Leaf-Fine Tie 1Maced By L. B, Yarboro Dog lip On Road Recently. i The durability of the long-le.tf pine was shown here recently when A. J, Brown. Seaboard railway sec tion foreman, dug up a cross-tie in reck cut, a couple of miles east ol Shelby on the Seaboard, which " as placed there 41 years ago. L. P. Yarboro, who served the Seaboard as foreman'-for 50 jeers and has been on a pension from the road for several years remembers placing the tie there and stated that he left it during his last rear of service just to see how long it would last. The old tie was present ed to the veteran railroader by Mi Brown as a souvenir, the aged in in remembering at the time he left the service the type and nature of nearly every tie and rail in his sec tion of the road. Gaffney Marriages Of Local Couples Marriage licenses were issued lest week in Gaffney, S. C, to the fol lowing couples of this section: for est Arrowood, of Rutherfordtcn. and Dora Craig, of Union Mills: Alexander Richards and Cal’, c Rudasill. both of Vale: Garland Bowen, of Grovrr. and Lula Mae Sisk, of Shelby; Campbell Pruitt, cf Lawndale, and Mattie,Hill, of for est City; Robert Prysock and Ee.-ie Brown, of Lawndale: Prefton Aler 1 ander Gladden, Shelby route 5, ana j Bertha Wright, Chejfyville rout? 1 Beal And Three Pals Get Terms Of 17 To 20 Years; Others Less ! Two Get 12-Tear Terms. Another Gets Five To Seven. No Dem on stration Seen. Charlotte, Oct. 23.—The seven labor agitators and strikers, found guilty by a Mecklenburg county jury Monday of the murder of O F. Aderholt, Gastonia chief of po lice. and also of assault on three other police officers, were sen'enc*. ed late Monday afternoon by Judge M. V. Barnhill. Four of the defendants, Fred Br i win Beal, of Lawrence, Mass., Clar ence Miljer. of New York; George Carter, of Mispah, N. J., and Jos eph Harrison, of Passaic, N. J., each were sentenced to serve not less than 17 years nor more than 20 years in the state prison at Raleigh, for conviction on the second degree murder charge. William M. McGinnis and Loris McLaughlin, both of Gastonia, each i was given sentence of not less than 12 nor more than 15 year's on '.lie murder charge. K. Y. Hendricks, cf Gastonia, was given a sentence of i from live to seven years on f,;e same count. Lesser Sentences. Lesser sentences to run concur rently with the sentences imposed for murder, were given. Beal, Miller Carter and Harrison were given 10 years each after being found guilty on the charge ol felonious asaault on T A, Gilbert McGinnis Jiid McLaughlin were sentenced to not less than five nor more than seven years on the charge of assault on Gilbert. Hendricks was given a five year sentence on this charge. Defense attorneys gave notice of appeal aiid Judge Barnhill fixed the appeal bond at $500 and fixed th? appearance bonds as follows: Beet, Miller, Carter and Harrison, $5000 bond each; McLaughlin and Mc Ginnis, $3,500 each; Hendricks, S2 000, Shelby May Hold First Class Post Office Due To A Gain In Postal Receipts Shown Recently Baby Recovers Hearing When “Grandad” Dies Scoffers may jeer at miracles and direct answer to prayei. but the Pannene family of Brooklyn, N, \ reverently exhibited their four year-old son, Michael. as havlnj , been restored to health by a .death bed miracle. The boy's eyesight is clearing, his | power of speech has returned, and his hearing has been restored the ] family avers, as the result of a prry | er by the boy's dying grandfather, | Vincent. : Ten months ago, following the death of his mother. Michael wes stricken with spinal meningitis, which cost him his sight, hearing and speech. Physicians declared the malady incurable—that he would i never be anything but. a mute enp ! pie. On September 29 the boy's I grandfather lay dying. He prayed j devoutly to the "Blessed Virgin" to I take away his own speech, sight and | hearing and restore those of hi? ; grandson Then he died Then, members of the family saw occurred the miracle. Wtthln ten minutes of his grandfather's death | the child recovered his voice. Wltn in a short time his hearing was Im proved, while his vision which had been completely blurred, showTJ marked Improvement. Since that time the boy s physical progress has baffled the doctors. 'International Newsreel.' No Couples Married Here During Week Not a single couple lias secured marriage license here since Sunday, according to Register A. F. Newton The couple marrying on the-first day of the week was Fred H. Blan ton and Martha Lola Cook, botn ol Shelby. ICE CREAM Sl’PFER AT POPLAR SPRINGS SATURDAY Poplar Spi^gs. Oct. 22.—There will be an ice cream supper at Pop lar Springs church Saturday night, October 26. beginning at 7 o'clock. Proceeds to go'for buying a muslcsl instrument for the church. Every body is invited to attend with plenty of money. Come, buy all ‘he ice cream and cake. If Present Quarter Hold* Uj» Sheib Will Rrtain First Class ON fire Ranking At the end of She second quar ter of the postal year there was some dancer that Shelby at the end of 192!) might lose the first class postoffice ranking which - came to the local office because of increased postal receipts last year. But a substantial gain in the quarter ending with Sep tember indicates that the city may maintain its first-elass ranking provided the present quarter, the last of the year, measures up to or exceeds the postal receipts of the final quar ter last year. Postal receipts at the Shelby of« flee with tlie quarter endtng Seps tember 30 totalled *9,157.23. or $3l8.s 57 more than the *8,338.86 receipt of the same quarter In 1928. Thl* Is a gain of near 10 per cent over the receipts of the same quarter last year, but not hardly enough io take care of the decrease in the June quarter of this year from tfcaS of last year. - Bad June Decrease. In the June quarter the postal re* ccipts here declined more than dur* _ ins any quarter since he has been postmaster, according to Postmaster J. H. Quinn. It was not merely a bad business period locally but gen-* I erally as more than hall of the ef ; tiers tn America lost tn receipts during the same quarter. The first quarter of the year, Mr. Quinn says, about equalled the first quarter of last year, and with thet September quarter taking care ol much of the June decrease the Shelby postmaster believes that in creasing postal receipts during the final quarter of the year will make up for the remaining decrease of June quarter and keep Shelby among the first-class postoffices. Postal receipts totalling $40,000 or more art required for an office to get in the first-class ranking and Shelby barely slipped into the charmed ranking last year with re ceipts totalling $40,203. With such a bare margin it is readily seen that the local office might fall brute into the second-class rating should there be a decrease in postal re ■ ccipts. during the present quarter, but officials here are optimistic and say that so far this month the re ceipts have been gratifying. Floral Show Here On Next Tuesday Garden Club To Stage Annual Flower Exhibit In Woman's Club Room. Shelby's annual floral fair, 3ta$t« ed by the Garden club, will be held in the Woman's club rooms at th« Masonic temple next Tuesdev# October 29, both afternoon and evening. s>ome very attractive prizes navw been secured by the prize commit tee for the winning exhibits. Prizes will be given in the to'* lowing classifications: She test white chrysanthemums. six best t yellows, six best creams, six best pinks, and six best bronzes; belli | vase of six or more colors or shades, best single bloom of any color, best vase of roses of any color, best vase i,dahlias of any color, and most ar ! tistically arranged container of ary S lour or more fall flowers. Those having flowers to exhibit are asked to bring them with their own containers to the club rooms by 10 o’clock Tuesday mottling, butt those exhibiting flowers need not ( ; donate them, it is announced, un j' less they so desire. Attractive Program. A very attractive program for the show has been arranged with Hal lowe’en games, music, fortune tell ing, s^nd a cake walk with a beau-"’ tiful cake being given as a prize by the entertainment committee. Oys ters. coffee and sandwiches will be served, while there will be a II cents admission charge for th* show. Mr. Lee Doinj? Nicely At Shelby Hospital Mr. John lee, of the Polkvill t.avndale section, who lost h's left arm in a cotton gin szw Friday » week ago at Polkvlllc, was report ed to be recovering nicely today at the Shelby hospital. Mr. Lee’s arm. which -was badly torn by the -«aw, was amputated at the hospital and for ■ time his condition was serious. MORE LOCAL NEf^S WILL BE FOJb’ND <>N TAGE IL