North Carolina Newspapers

t LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound_17c Cotton Seed, per bu. ........ 40',ic l Fair And Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair and colder tonight preceded by ran on north* east coast. Probably light frost in west portion tonight. Tuesday fair and colder. Physician Is Killed. Mystery still shrouds the fatal •hooting In Charlotte Saturday Bight of Dr. L. V. Cloninger, promin ent Statesville physician, by Frank Reid, 20-year-old Statesville youth. The physician died at a hospital, where he was taken from the room ing house in which he was shot, a few hours after the shooting with out making a coherent statement. The Reid boy refuses to explain why he shot his friend with whom he was staying. Grigg Elected Teachers* Head In The District Cleveland Superintendent Heads Educational Association. Meets Again In Charlotte. Charlotte, Nov. 4.—J. Horace Grigg, superintendent of the Cleve land county schools and former principal of the Shelby high school, was elected chairman of the Pied mont district of the North Caro lina Educational association at it3 meeting Friday night in Charlotte. Frank Webster, Paw Creek super intendent, was named vice-chair man; and Miss Mary Gulledge, of Albemarle, secretary. R. W. Carver, Hickory superintendent, was nam ed representative to the state as sociation. Selection of Charlotte as the place for the spring meeting and election of officers for the next year, along with an address by Dr. D. M. Dan iel, damson college professor and humorist, featured the final ses sion of the seventh annual meeting of the teachers of the district. The meeting got under way Fri day morning with more than 2,000 teachers in attendance. At the first general meeting of the day the auditorium of the Central high school building proved entirely too small to accommodate the visitors. It was estimated that 1,000 were unable to find seats, and the class looms in which the departmental meetings were held were filled to capacity in many instances. Group Conferences. Main work was done by the teachers at group conferences lie id Friday afternoon. Simultaneous dis cussion of particular problems of these groups was carried on in fif teen departmental meetings. Pre siding officers at the session were: H. C. Miller, of Mooresville, at city superintendents; Claude F. Gaddy, county superintendents; O. L. Kiser, of Asheville, mathematics teachers; Miss Daisy Cuthbertson, of Char lotte, special class teachers; Miss Anna L. McCorkle, rural supervisor of Union county, county supervi sors; Miss Sarah Warren, of Gas tonia, home economics teachers; Miss Frances Field, of Hickory, pri mary teachers; Muss Neta Bell Scarboro, of Gastonia, modern lan guage teachers; J. Loy Sox, of Star town, high school principals and teachers; Miss Ursula Blankenship, elementary principals; L. M. Cald well, of Hickory, science teachers; Charles Hamilton, of Gastonia, so cial science teachers; Miss Elle P. Grier, of Charlotte, Latin teachers; Miss Selma C. Webb, of Shelby, ele mentary principals; Miss Netina L. Strobach. dramatic art; Miss Anne Thorpe Reynolds, English teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie McMurry and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McMurray, of High Point spent Sunday here. Unsatisfactory Charge Customers are those Who allow bills to lapse— accounts are fully payable by the 10th of each month. are those Who pay only a portion of their bills, compelling mer chants to carry balances from month to month. axe those Who purchase articles which they do not fully intend to keep and which they later attempt to return for credit—often in a damaged •condition, are those Who make unlust claims and demand unreasonable allowances. Be Careful of Your Credit, So Desirable An Asset To Build Up; So Easily Broken Down. Ax Trial On Today; Others Up Louis Ellis Goes On Trial In Meeks Assault. Grover Case To Come Up. The Grover assault case, in which four young white men are charged with fatally assaulting a negro there a couple years back, and the Boyce Meeks ax slugging case are expected to be the feature cases of the superior court docket this afternoon and tomorrow. Both case were scheduled to come up today but the court until noon had devoted itself to hearing a whiskey trial and the cases center ing about the store breaking of the Ingram-Ltles company. The Grover case has been on the docket for many courts, and about the sheriff’s office today there was some doubt about the trial being completed at this term. Ax Slugging. The Meeks case, It will be recall ed, is the affair several months ago in which Boyce Meeks, a colored man, was found in his shack near the Southern railway slugged In the head with an ax, the bloody ax being found on a bed in the shack. In the preliminary hearing Louis Ellis, colored, and Stough Green, a white youth, who had been in the Meeks house on the night before drinking an alcoholic substitute, were tried, but the grand jury at the present term did not return a true bill against Green and as a result Ellis is the lone defendant in the ease. Many other cases remain upon the docket and the criminal court will not likely be completed before Wednesday, if then, but very few cases of exceptional interest remain to be tried. Among those not yet disposed of is the charge preferred rgainst a man for having carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years of age. No court was held Saturday and only a few minor cases were disposed of Friday afternoon after sentence was passed in the Hombuckle case, One Divorce. Among other actions of Friday was the granting of a divorce to Corrie Whisnant from J. M. Whis r>ant upon the grounds of five year separation. Mr. West Dies At Cloth Mill Manager Of Preparation Room Is Victim Of Acute Indigestion. Age 59 Years. W. W. West. manager of the preparation room at the Cleveland Cloth mill and one of the most val uable men in the organization, highly esteem by his fellow workers and all who knew him, died sud c’enly last night of acute indigestion at his home on Oakland Drive. Mr. West was sick only 15 minutes. He was 59 years of age and moved to Shelby five years ago from Lowell. His original home was at Hope Mills, near Fayetteville where his body will be taken Wednesday for interment. Mr. West had not missed but a half day’s work in his five years connection with the Cleveland Cloth mill. He is survived by his wife and one son, Marvin, of Hope Mills, one brother, two sisters, a half brother and 4hree half sisters. Mr. West was a member of the Methodist church at Rock Hill where he lived at one time. He was well known not only in the village but in Shelby as well and highly esteemed by all. The Red Slicker Bandit Josephine Bobscher, eighteen andpretty, of Chicago, know™ as the “Red) Slicker Bandit,*kas mb appeaned’wcourt on a charge-of first degree/ robbery. f ■ * international Newrwl Cotton Farmers Of South Are Promised Aid By Board Member This Fellow Gives Cotton Pickers A Record D^y’s Work Colored Man Picks 500 Pounds In Less^Than 10 Hours. Beat That Once Before. James Williams, a colored man who jrorks for Henry Caba niss, has established a cotton - picking record which should rate him as the county’s cham pion picker until other records are advanced. James, according to his em ployers, picked 500 pounds a week ago today in nine hours and 20 minutes. Five years ago the same col ored man, while working for Coy McSwain, is credited with having picked 606 pounds in 10 hours. Dapper Pugilist To N. C. Prison Thursday Officers Plan To Leave With State Convicts That Day. Three So Far. About Friday of this week "Kid” Hornbuckle, the curly-haired boy prizefighter convicted of man slaughter in superior court here last week, will swap his name for a number at the North Carolina state prison in Raleigh. Officers detailed by Sheriff Irvin Allen plan to leave for Raleigh with prisoners sentenced to the penitentiary about Thursday as it is thought the criminal docket of tne present court will be ended by that time. So far only three defendants have received prison sentences, but one or two more may yet be sen tenced there by Judge Harding. Those sentenced to the state prison in addition to Hornbuckle, who is to serve a four year term, are Bate Hamrick, white man, sentenced to two years for meat stealing, and J. P. Moore, colored, who received a one-year term for breaking and en tering and larceny. County Schools Not To Open Until November 18, Board Rules Board Of Education Defers Opening So That Children May Aid In Cotton Picking. Two more- record cotton picking weeks seem to be in store for Cleveland county as the county board of education in a meeting to day decided to defer the opening of all the six months school:. un'.il Monday, November 18. The six months schools of the county, attended by a couple thous and children, were originally sched uled to open their year’s work to day, but due to the fact that the big county cotton crop was unus ually late the county board of edu cation today changed the date and decided that the short term schools would not open until Mon day, November 18, so that children might help their parents get the cotton out for two additional weeks. Practically all of the eight months schools, which closed down to per mit students to aid in picking, will not open until next Monday, while some few of the long term schools will remain closed until November 18, or for two weeks yet. By this time the peak of the cotton picking season will have been passed. The Grover school, located in the lower section of the county where the ci op was earlier than in other sec tions, will ojQen today week_ I Federal Fann Hoard Man At Spartanburg Urges Orderly Marketing Of Crop. Spartanburg.—Speaking before a large assemblage of cotton farmers and business men here last week. Carl Williams, of Oklahoma City, Okla, publisher and ranking mem ber of the federal farm board, de clared that, body stood ready to help the cotton farmers of the southeast to get on their feet and to market their product to a better advantage than ever before. Mr. Williams spoke at the court house here. His coming was spon sored by the South Carolina Cotton Growers association and the Spart anburg chamber of commerce. Assurance Given. "The power and money of the government are behind one particu lar class,” he declared, ‘‘namely the farmer, and the federal board through its method of operation will carry through for 1dm to get the best out of his crops.” In pointing out the services 'he board wall render the farmers. Mr. Williams said the government is now lending considerably more money to co-operative farm agencies and less interest than ever before. Advance 16 Cents. Plans are being made for the board to organize tpe entire cotton belt into one organization. Co-oper ative agencies will be advanced money by the government with which they are to pay the farmers 16 cents per pound for their cotton (Continued on page twelve) Attempt To Break ! Kings Mtn. Bastile Proves Unsuccessful Youths Tried In Shelby Friday Aft er Attempted Jail Break There Thursday Night. Kings Mountain.—Another Jail break in Kings Mountain was nar rowly averted Thursday night when Officers Ware and Hicks returned to the jail to find that Walter Reed, Clyde Anthony and George Black, who were arrested earlier in the evening, had picked a hole through the outside brick wall of the jail in an effort to escape. The three you tits, who said their homes were in the country near Shelby were arrested for being drunk and disorderly and placed in the jail about 7 o’clock in Ahe eve ning. They were not placed in the cells but were given the free dem of the jail so that they might be more comfortable. The jail house in Kings Mountain, in addition to being used for that purpose, is used by the City Water and Light Department as a store loom for supplies and a place to keep their tools. The three pris oners used these tools In their ef fort to escape. Upon discovery they were placed in separate cells. They were taken to Shelby and tried before Recorder Horace Ken nedy Friday morning. They pleaded guilty to being drunk and breaking jail and asked the mercy of the court. AH three were given a fine of $5 and the costs for each of fense, Gardner May Back Hoey For Overman Seat Fairish Writer Hardly Believes Governor Will Kun Against Morrison For Senate. Governor Max Gardner may sup port his brollicr-in-law, Clyde R Hoey. of Shelby, for the United States senate in 1932, but it is not likely that he himself will seek that office thus making possible another political race between Cameron Mar risen and Gardner. When Governor Gardner an nounced recently in Guilford coun ty that he would not be a candidate for another North Carolina office, numerous political writers began of lering the romantic prognostication V'.at the state might see another Gardner-Morrison campaign, simi lar to that in 1920 when they op posed each other for the governor ship, with both seeking Senator Overman’s seat in the United States senate. .4 tit Is Not Mkely. Other Raleigh writers, close u> the governor, take no slock in such a prediction, but are inclined to be lieve that Governor Gardner may support Clyde R. Hoey for the of iice. One of these writers has the following comment to make upon the likelihood of Gardner s getting back in politics when, and If, he once gets out: “If the governor is Involved in any contest at the conclusion of his term, it is much more likely that he will enter as a supporter of his brother-in-law, Clyde R. Hoey, tnan as a candidate himself. For the past ten years, Mr. Hoey has been fre quently mentioned as a prospective senator, and, although never a can didate for office, he has been active in party councils, and a vigorous campaigner for the Democratic can didates.’* Boy Scout Drive To Be Held Tuesday Civic Clubs Will Make Canvas For $1,000 Quota For Piedmont Council. Members of the three civic cluos, (he Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions, will make a canvas Tuesday afternoon in an effort to raise $1,000 as Shelby's quota for 1929 in the Piedmont scout council. Scout work lias been carried on in Cleveland county for five years or longer and now there are over 300 Boy Scouts under training for better citizenship. Shelby's quota has been readily contributed In the past, and indica tions are that the drive will go over in a few hours time Tuesday after noon. The civic members will work in teams of two and call on an aver age of six people, so that the drive can be finished as quickly as possi ble. Canvassers will meet at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in The Star building at which time their cards will be distributed and last minute instructions given. Cotton Thieves Are Nabbed By Officers Five Arrested, Two Still Sought. Sold Cotton In Gaston County. Deputies John Hord and Bob Kendrick last week rounded up five negroes and are now seeking two others, all of whom, it is charged stole a quantity of cotton In this county and sold it in Gaston coun ty. The major portion of the stolen cotton was taken, it is said, from the fields of Mr. Jim Alien in the Ctony Point section. The officers visited the store of W. E. Farnsworth, between Cherry ville and Bessemer City, and seem ed from him a record showing that the seven negro youths had sold cotton to him on 11 occasions, ail cf the cotton totalling 885 punds and being sold in lots ranging from 30 pounds to 150 pounds. The Allen cotton was stolen from the field in sheets after it had been picked. The case against the alleged thieves will be heard in county court Friday, the defendands being J, W. Roberts, Felix Patterson, R. L. Roberts, H. E. Webber, Ed Rob erts, M. J. Howell and Davey Rob erts. Colored Boy Struck On Head, In Hospital Charles Ford, colored youth of the Lawndale section, was orougat to the Shelby hospital about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon suffer ing from a laceration on the head received, it is said, in a fight. At the hospital today it was stated that he is getting along all right and would soon-be able to return home., t vWcds ^Well-known 'y Diplomat Mr*. Ann* Von Ahlstrand Ely, pretty thlrty-nine-yaar-old widow, waa married in the historic Plym outh Church a lew days ago to Bajabridpe' Colby. Colby is inter-' nationally known as an attorney and diplomat and waa Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet.,' N«w«r««l Achievement Meet At S. Shelby School (lub Members And County Agents Will Aid State Worker In % r Program. Miss Mary E. Thomas, state nutri tion specialist, will be the chief speaker at, the county achievement cay exercises to be held Tuesday, November 5, at the South Sheiby school. The program will begin at ele ven o’clock and continue through the day. The girl’s team will give the health demonstration that was given at the state f^ir; at luncheon the foods prepared by recipes used during the year will be on exhibit. Beulah club will give a practical demonstration in economic work. Mrs. Wallace and Mr. Shoffiier. home and county agents, will give particulars of the yard beautifica tion contest that they expect to start this fall, and continue for two years in addition to the regular ,lub work. Each lady Is expected to bring a small box lunch. All ladies interested in club work, especially members of the American home division of Woman's clubs are invited to attend this meeting. Ten points on the score card will be allotted for 100 percent attend ance from any club. Dodged Injury For Years On Grid, Has Arm Broken In Fall Shaw Sarratt, son of Mr. Cla ence Sarratt, of lower Cleveland, played football for years, once with the Shelby high western champs and later as a professional In Flor ida, without being injured only to be knocked from a wagon of hay Saturday afternoon and have his left arm broken. While hauling hay joung Sarratt was struck by a limb and thrown from the top of the load to the ground, falling upon and fracturing his arm. Dedmon Resigns As Deputy Sheriff Here Buren Dedmon, for eight or ten jears a Cleveland county deputy sheriff, resigned today as an of ft cer under Sheriff Allen. He gave no reasfln for his resignation other than that he was not resigning be cause of any friction between him and the sheriff’s office. During his many years in office in attempting to enforce the law he says that he was never forced to use a blackjack or rough methods ir. making arrests. $10,000 Fire Damage To Grover Warehouse Death Car Driver To Superior Court Boyce Cash Waives Examination In County Court. Rond Given At 91,000. In county court last week Boyce Cash. Gaffney boy who was driving the car in which Clyde Harris, Rutherford county native, was fatal ly injured week before last, waived preliminary examination and was bound over to Superior court under $1,000 bond, which was given. Cash and Harris were en route to Rutherfordton when the borrowed car in which they were riding, with Cash driving, turned over near Moorcsboro, Both were Injured, Cash only slightly, and were rushed to the hospital here, where Harris died a woek ago yesterday morning. Highway Patrolman R. S. Harris, who aided in bringing the Injured men to the hospital, swore out a warrant for Cash for reckless driv ing. and it was on this charge he waived examination and was bound over to the higher court. Members of the dead man’s fam ily have notified officers that they on not care to participate in any ' prosecution of Cash. Mr. Camp Dies At Lattimore 1!* Year Old Citizen Living With Son At Lattimore To Be Buried At Pleasant Ilili. Charles M. Camp, age 79. died this morning at 2:10 o’clock at the home u his son John Camp at Lattimore with whom he was making his home at the time. Mr. Camp will be bur ied Tuesday at Pleasant Hill church at 2:30 o'clock, the funeral services to be conducted by W. E. Lowe, as sisted by Rev. D. G. Washburn end Rev. X. D. Harrlll. Mr. Camp was a highly respected citizen, He Joined the church at the age of 18 years and held his membership at the Second Baptist church. His wife preceded him to the grave 13 rears (SCO. Mr. Camp had been in bad health for several years and took to his bed about two weeks ago. He is survived by six sons. Chiv ous. Thomas. John, Will, Charles, end Mack, two daughters Mrs. Fella Patterson and Mrs. BUI Mays, one brother Tom Camp. 58 grand chil dren and 50 great grandchildren. Three daughters have died. Negro Herb Doctor Assault* His Wife Gives Her Bad Beating; With Shoe. Canned Heat Started Trouble Boiling.' Saturday night whoopee made more lively by the kick of canned heat caused, officers say, two rows in Truelove's “Little Harlem’’ sec* t:on on North Trade alley. The more serious of two alterca tions there was the assault made by James Flowers, negro herb doctor, upon his wife, Mary. Police Chief Poston and Deputy Ed Dixon called to the Truelove hotel and amuse ment center found the herb doctor’s wife writhing on a bloody oed In the establishment where she had been severely beaten, It was alleg ed, by her husband who used a shoe to deliver his blows. Her face and head, the officers stated, were bad ly bruised add she had bled pro fusely. No explanation of the as sault was known to officers except that they surmise that canned heat which Flowers had been imbibing had caused the trouble. The other scrap was between Bud Wray and Cora Eskridge, drink playing a part in this affair also according to officers. Rate King Appeal May Not Be Argued Before First Of Year Rafe Kiny, Shelby man in Uie South Carolina prison await iny an apepal from a death sentence after conviction in court on chargesconnectiny him with the death of his wife, may not know his fain until Christ mas has passed and a new year has set in. Clyde R. Hocy, one of King's lawyers, stated today that he did not think the appeal of his client would be argued before the South Carolina supreme court before lute December or early January. — “Wje have until the 15ih of this month to file our appeal." Mr. Hoey said, “and then the state has an allotted timo of 30 days in which to make answer. That means, you see, that the case will not be ready to argue before December IS. After all the papers are in the case then will take its regular place on too docket and if there are many cases ahead it could be that It will not eome up before the first of next £ ear." 4 $2 Bairs Of Cotton la Destroyed, fd Hambrlght Is Heaviest Loser. Shelby Aids Fight. A double warehouse of brick cons structlon, two stories high and be* longing to Charlie and Ed Hants bright, burned at Grover early Sunday morning causing a loss a| $10,000 with no insurance mi the contents and only $800 coverage on the building. The origin of the fire is unknown. About 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning, the flame was discovered and alt alarm given, but Grover people v-ere powerless to make any head way as the fire was rapidly spread* ing in the building and the wily fire fighting apparatus, a chemical tank, was soon exhausted. A call was sent to Shelby and a number of firemen and a truck responded, the engine increasing the water pressure from the Minette Mill* which has Its private fire fighting system. Fortunately the fire wse kept within the warehouse and did not spread to nearby buildings. 32 Bales Cotton Lost, The warehouse was to the reer of the stores and was owned by Charlie and Ed Hambrlght. A brick wall divided the building. Fire ori ginated in the side owned by Ed Hambrlght and this was a total loss, including 32 bales of cotton. 200 sacks of salt. 300 bushels of oats 50 sacks of cotton seed meal, two tons of hulls, a quantity of wheat bran and other mere handies. Mr. Ed Hambrlght had stored 1M the warehouse about 19 bales of cotton. Ross Ham bright six bales; w E. Arrowood four bales, J. A. Whisnant two bales, Bob Dover one bale. The fire wall or partition in the building confined the flame to the side owned by Ed Hambrlght and ' allant workers saved sixty bales at cotton stored In the aide owned by Charlie Hambrlght. In this side also were quantities of other merchan dise which was saved. The Bed Mens hall over the Charlie Hambrlght portion of tha building was destroyed as well as * wooden shack on the north side of the building, i Rodent Escapes Fire, Dies In A Fan Belt A large rat escaped the burningg warehouse at Or over early Sundajj1 n orning and took refuge under thg hood of an automobile of A. H. Smith of Shelby who had ddv*df down from Shelby to witness tha fire. When Smith started home, nig. engine got hot. went to skipping and knocking as he was-driving up a steep, muddy hill. Smith got out. raised the hood to Investigate the trouble and there the large rat ha<| lost his life in the fan belt, after) saving his ltfe by leaving the Dura-.’ lng warehouse. Service Stores In Meet Here About 40 Groceries In Clevelan# And Rutherford To Enter Grocery Chain. Grocers of Cleveland and Ruthe erford counties who will transfora! their stores into links in the coagH dative Quality Service Stores ehabg will hold a meeting tonight at iM Hotel Charles here at which time they will complete their contracts and make other preparations hg connection with the chain. Something like 40 grocers it* Shelby and the two counties last Thursday night agreed to become n, embers of the chain and elected officers for the Q. S. stores of the two counties. W. N. Ellis, of Spin* dale, was elected president; Oscar . Palmer, of Shelby, vice preeldent} H. B. Keeter, of Shelby, secretary* treasurer, while the directors in ad dition to the officers are J. Gai Williams of Rutherfordtcn; Charles Buice, of Shelby, and J. W. Sanders of Forest City. Local grocers in the two who will join the chain will the ownership of their stores bill the front of all stores will be chang ed to the color of the Q. S. stars! and the members of the organisa tion will cooperate in their buying end in advertising grocery specials each week, the movement supported by manufacturers to able local grocers to compete chain stores.