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12 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail per yew t**» Carrier, per year Uni VOL. XXXV, No. 131 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 6, 1929. LA TE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound ..._..... 17c Cotton Seed, per bu.___ 45c Fair And Wanner. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and slightly warmer tonight. Thursday increasing cloudi ness. Wanner in west portion. Ambrose Cline Buried. Tuesday t _. Prominent And Substantial Citizen ■v Passes After Lone Illness. Was 74 Years Of Age. r Mr. Ambrose H. Cline was buried Tuesday afternoon at Elizabeth, Baptist church, the funeral services being conducted by Revs. Zeno Wall, H. E. Waldrop, John W. 3ut tle and Q. P. Abernethg. Mr. Cline died at 3:05 o'clock Monday after noon at his home on N. Morgan street where he had been confined to the bed for a year or longer. Mr. Cline was one of the county’s most substantial citizens. He was a farmer and livestock dealer and his thrift, enterprise and fine business Judgment crowned his life with suc cess. In all of his dealings he was honest and those who came in con tact with him, loved him for his magnanimous spirit. He was devoted to his family and shared during his lifetime much of his competence with his children. Mr. Cline was married to Miss Hester Hamrick who survives with four sons, Gus Cline of Gastonia, Zeb, Otho and Raymond, all prom inent farmers of this county and Mrs. Mike Borders of Shelby. Also surviving are one brother, Ves Cline, of Fallston, three sisters, Mrs. J. Frank Hendrick, Mrs. J. Z. Falls and Mrs. Tom Stamey. Deceased was nearing his 74th birthday. For a number of years his health has been bad and he could not get out to mingle with his friends. The funeral was largely at tended at Elizabeth church yester day, Stolen Car Found Abandoned By Road Thieves Leave M. S. Green Auto Beyond Hopper’s Park. Gas StlU In Car. A Ford coupe belonging to Mr. M S. Green, Cleveland Bank & Trust Company employ*, and stolen about 10 o’clock Monday night was found between 10 and 11 o’clock Tuesday morning parked on the roadside a couple miles north of Shelby beyond Hopper’s park. Green had left the car parked or the Marion street side of the bank and was at Suttle’s drug store. Returning he found the car gone and notified officers. Tuesday morn ing tTMr. Cornwell came to Shelby and while in a barbership heard talk about the stolen car. He then re called seeing a Ford coupe by the side of the road as he came to town and notified Green, who, upon go ing to the car, found that it be longed to him. There was still quite a quantity of gas in the car and there was nothing wrong with it to Indicate why it had been abandon ed. Ideal Station Will Be Enlarged, Stated i - The Ideal Service Station, of Which J. Reid Mlsenheimer is the owner, is enlarging its quarters at Its location at the comer of La fayette and Sumter streets. Work Is now being pushed on the im provements, which it is expected will be completed within a week. Not only will this popular service station be enlarged, but the new ad dition will be a distinct beautifica tion. The enlargement plan calls for an extension of the same stucco finished addition after the same pattern and coloring as the origin al building. A Prominent Vferchant Asked a Pertinent question The president of a great de partment store asked: “Do Yon Spend Before You Earn?” This, after all, is the keynote of credit—keeping' monthly expenditures within limit of incomes. Anticipate your needs by sensible purchases, but don't over-buy. Look ahead. Calcul ate your income. Plan ways and means to meet your ob ligations when they come due. Pay Your Bills by the Tenth A BILL PAID ’ IS THE BEST ntOSPERITY INSURANCE Democratic Candidate Wins In Virginia Election Boyd Law Gets Four Years For Killing Another Negro; Case Of Alleged Rape Nol Prossed i_ Nerro Who Shot Married Man Who Came In On Him And Girl Pleads Guilty Manslaughter. Boyd Law, young negro, who shot and killed Bob Hatchord, a married negro over his girl about a month ego on the Dick Spangler place In the Double Shoals section, was sentenced to tour years in the state prison In superior court here yes terday by Judge W. F. Harding. Law through his attorney, Capt. Peyton McSwain, pled guilty to manslaughter and the plea was ac cepted by the state. Evidence was introduced to show that Law lived ct the home of his girl's father on the Spangler place and that Ratchord, a married man, came there on the night of the killing, was at first refused entrance a^d later came on in. An argument de veloped and Law seized a shotgun, shooting Ratchford in the body to kill him instantly. Law’s defense was that the slain man had a gun in his possession but none of the witnesses testified to seeing the gun before the shooting although It was said to have been seen later. Attorney Pat McBrayer aided Solicitor Spurling in the prosecu tion. Assault Case Ends. The case against Hubert Lambert charging him ■with having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old Kings Mountain girl, both parties being v/hite, was nol pressed upon motion of Solicitor Spurling as the girl afid her mother, who preferred the charge, failed to appear before the grand Jury. The alleged assault was said to have taken place near Kings Moun tain last August. First reports weke that the girl had been forcibly as saulted. Later Lambert was given a preliminary hearing in county court and evidence was Introduced to show that the girl had gotten off from work at a Kings Mountain mill and had gone with him willingly to the spcrt where the alleged attack took place, no report of the alleged assault being made until the girl's mother learned that she had not been working that afternoon. The girl then testified that the man had not accomplished his aim but that be had picked her up and laid her upon the ground. After hearing this evidence indicating that the charge was not as serious as ori ginally drawn up Recorder Horace Kennedy reduced Lambert's bond to $380 and the case was carried over to the nol prc» action of the pres ent court. Man Just Escapes As His Home Burns Home Of John McDowell, Colored, Burned Last Night In Freed man Section. A fire which last night destroyed his home in the Freedman residen tial section very near cost John McDowell, colored, his life. McDow ell was asleep and the fire was not observed until it covered the build ing, and stifled by smoke McDowell barely managed to feel his way from the house before his room flared up. Just how the blaze originated Is not known. The fire was not seen and the alarm was not turned iu until the house was well covered Li flames, but it is believed that the blase started on the interior. Seven Prisoners For State Prison From Local Court Their Sentences In Raleigh Total 20 Years. Store Breakers Get Terms. At the end of the superior court grind for the day here yesterday seven prisoners had been sentenced during the term to the state prison with the likelihood that one or two others may yet draw prison terms. The sentences of the seven total 20 years, and oddly enough the heaviest sentence of five years was meted out for store breaking and robbery while two killers drew only four years each. Who They Are. Two of the seven prisoners headed for the state penitentiary are white men—Kid HornBuckle, the boxer, who goes down for four years for manslaughter, and Bate Hamrick who drew two years for meat steal ing. The five negroes are Odell Eskridge, who drew a five year term for breaking and entering lo cal stores; Ed Poole and Johnny Hogue, who drew two years each CY! the same robbery Eskridge was connected with; J. P. Moore, who drew a year for another breaking and entering; and Boyd Law, who was yesterday convicted of man slaughter and sentenced to four years In prison. Eskridge, tried Monday, was con victed of entering and robbing num erous Shelby business houses, in cluding the Ingram-Llles store, Quinn’s drug store and Pender's grocery. Poole and Hogue were side kicks with Eskridge acting In tna role of leader. Officers will have quite a day’s work In moving prisoners once the court Is ended as Zula Lattimore, a crazy woman, is in Jail to be taken to the Goldsboro asylum. Carpenter Starts Hosiery Mill Here Mr. R. E. Carpenter and associates will begin the operation of a small hosiery mill on S. DeKalb street about the first of the year. Machin ery has been purchased and will be installed shortly. It is understood that the new plant will manufacture about 100 dozen pairs of hose daily and employ about 15 people to be gin with. From this small begin ning, it is hoped to build a larger plant. Men’s, ladles’ and children s hose will be manufactured. More Property To Be Advertised For Sale Mayor S. A. McMurry stated to day that more property .will be ad vertised for sale next week unless the street and sidewalk assessments which are due are not paid, ^he city, he says, is badly in need of money with which to meet bonds and other indebtedness and real es tate on which street and sidewalk assessments are due, will be adver tised for sale in next Wednesday’s issue of The Star. A few days of grace are given in which to pay aftd avoid this embarrassment. County Judge Collects Record Amount Here During October Drunks Lead In Paying Record Amount Of $3,208 In Fines. Recorder Horace Kennedy ground out enough work in his county court here last month to pay his salary for more than one year and a halt. Tipplers, drunks and drunken drivers, his court blotter shows led In paying a record amount of court fines and costs Into the county treasury. The sum collected and turned over to County Treasurer Mary E. Yarborough by the county court machinery for the mon.h of October was $3,208.30, more than has ever been collected by the county court In any one previous month. No exceeding ly large fines helped to build up this new total, but the amount was taken in from something over 200 cases disposed of. The largest number of convictions during the month, as stated above, were against drunks, while bad check writers and fighters rivalled each other closely for second honors. During the month, however, the court blotter reveals, a de . cline in worthless check cases as compared with previous months. Boyer Was Lawyer In Early Life OR. H. K. BO TER Veteran Minister Practised Law Five lean. Leaves Shelby Pas torate Today, Dr. Hugh K. Boyer, one of the outstanding ministers in the West ern Carolina Methodist church, who leaves Shelby today to become pas tor of the First church at Morgan ton, was a lawyer before becoming a minister. For five years the minister now considered one' of the leaders of his church practised law before be ing Impressed with the knowledge that he should preach. In the many y ears since he has held some of the outstanding appointments in his church. Before coming to Shelby to serve four years here he had been pastor of the Tryon Street ciyirch at Charlotte, twice presiding eldtr of the Charlotte district, four years presiding elder of the Winston Salem district, and had also served as pastor of churches at ^ft. Airy. Greensboro and Statesville. He was elected delegate to the general con ference four times and for 16 years of missions of the Methodist church, of missions of th Methodist church. Dr. Boyer, who made scores of friends in Shelby, was born in Alle ghany county and received his early education at the Sparta Collegiate institute. Later he graduated from the Folk law school and practised' ac Sparta for five years. Before he studied law he had the Impression that he should preach and after five years he joined the Western N. C. conference and took the four-year course in theology required by the church. He also took summer courses and lectures in the divinity senool at Harvard university and in other institutions. He was for some years superintendent of public instruction In his home county, and also chair man of the Democratic executive committee. LaFayette Street Pastors Change Rev. T. B. Johnson moved today to Winston-Saiem where he takes up his work and Rev. W. R. Jenk ins from Rural Hall, Forsyth coun ty, moved to Shelby to continue the work of Mr. Johnson. This change was ordered by the Western North Carolina conference In session at High Point. Mr. Johnson has been pastor of LaFayette street Metho dist church for three years and has made many friends among all de nominations, who regret to see him Jtaye. Pendleton Secures Frigidaire Agency From Arey Brothers W. A. Pendleton, head of the Pen dleton Music store in Shelby, issued a statement to The Star Tuesday, in which the fact was set forth that he had just purchased outright the Frigidaire agency, of General Mot ors. Mr. Pendleton bought the agency from the Arey Refrigerating company. The purcliase included the com plete equipment of the agency, which the music dealer asserted will be continued for the time being at the same location on South Wash ington street. “Pendleton’s will continue the sales and service of Frigidaires from the old address,’’ it was asserted, “and we propose to push the sale of this popular General Motors pro duct in proportion to its worth.'" No Kiwanis Meeting Here Thursday Night Many Shelhy Kiwanians Going To District Convention In GrcenvtUe. There will be no meeting of the Shelby Kiwanls club Thursday night of this week according to an announcement today by Chas. A. Burrus, club secretary. The meeting has been called oft because or the Carolina* district convention of Kiwanls at Green ville, S. C.. beginning today and continuing through Friday. Quito a number of local Klwanians. it Is said, will attend the district meet ing. — Says Wheeler Killed Woman Ella Way Wiggins Shot By Loray Mill Man, Witness Testifies Before Judge McElroy. Gastonia, Nov. 6.—Horace Wheel er, Loray mill worker, fired a sin gle pistol shot point blank Into a ditched truck-load of union sympa thizers and killed Ella May Wig gins, the 13th and final witness at yesterday's hearing before Judge Pender A. McElroy swore with a positiveness that the defense could not shake in a rigorous cross-ex amination. “Did you see anyone else?” asked Solicitor John G. Carpenter after this witness, E. L. Case, textile worker of Mount Holly, had testi fied that he had seen three of the defendants, W. M, Borders, Jack Carver and Lowry Davis, at the scene of the killing. “I saw the man Horace Wheeler,” the witness shot hack. “What did Wheeler do?" the so licitor interrogated. “When I saw him first he was coming around the front end of the truck.” replied Case, “while I was standing in the truck, after the crash. Just about the time we got straightened up, he came up on the left hand, side and fired one shot into the truck.” “What happened to her when he fired?” the solicitor asked a mo ment later, after he had questioned the witness as to the reason he was positive of the identification of Wheeler. “She hollered, 'Lord, he’s shot me now,’ and turned loose and fell backwards.” Legion Membership Drive Is On Here Commander Urges Members Help Secure New Ones. Vet erans Should Belong. The membership campaign of the Warren Hoyle post of the American Legion got underway here this week, according to Post Commander Tom Abemethy. The commander urged all Legionnaires to make the strengthening of the organization here a personal and Individual ob ligation. He asked particularly that membership renewals be turned In at once and that an effort be made to enroll all other eligible veterans. “The American Legion has before it a program of activities which should interest every veteran of the World war,” tho commander said. “The program directly concerns every man and woman who saw service and it is worthy of their support,. Many privileges and bene fits have come to the ex-service men through the efforts of the Leg ion and many more are yet to come. The World war veteran who has not become a member of the Leg ton should show his appreciation of what the Legion has done for him oy subscribing to Legion principles and lending his support through his membership..” Seven Couples From County Wed In S. C. Seven couples from Cleveland county and surrounding section were married in Gaffney, South Carolina, last week, according to The Gaffney Ledger, They were: Tom Fullerton, of Kings Mountain, and Sara Luclle Love, of Kings Creek; Carl Turner, of Lawndale route 1, and Madeline Towery, of Double Shoals; Robert Dover, of Grover, and Ruth Har mon, of Kings Mountain, route 2, Palmer^ Fexton and Bright Davis, both of Shelby; Harry Hopper and Bonnie Glenn, both of Shelby route 2; John Whisonant and Ruby Wal lace, both of Lawndale; Alton KUn sey and Noveile Moore, both of Gro ver. Youth Killed Here When His Playmate Snaps ‘Unloaded’Gan Fatal Assault Case Ends In Suspended Judgments In Court Defendants ray Costs In Grover Affair And $800 To Dead Man’s Relatives. The Grover assault ease, in which a colored man by the name of Long was fatally injured a couple of years ago, was ended in superior court here yesterday when the de fendants, four young white men, pled guilty of assault with deadly weapon and Judgment was suspend ed upon payment of the costs and a sum of money to the mother of the dead negro. The defendants were Ernest Hicks Jack Westmoreland, M. Fortune and Hoyle Allen. Outside of the open court, it is understood, that Attorney Pat McBrayer, pri vate prosecution counsel, made an agreement whereby the defendants were to pay the mother of the dead negro a sum or $800. In view of this Attorney McBrayer recom mended that Judgment be suspend ed and Solicitor Spurllng concurred in the recommendation when the case came up for trial. The negro died in the hospital here a few days after it was said he was struck In the head with a stick in the hands of one of the young men during an affray. Beal Freed Under Bond At Charlotte Leader Of Communist Strike Mak ers Gives Bond. Will Continue Bis Work, Says. Charlotte, Nov. 5.—Fred Erwin Beal, one of the seven National Textile Union Workers and mem bers who was convicted In Meck lenburg Superior Court on charge of killing Chief of Police O. F. Aderholt, of Gastonia, was released from the county Jail yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock. « Bond of $5,000 was produced by Thaddeus Adams, attorney for Beal, this having been secured from the Gaston county clerk of court Mon day afternoon when Frank Flow ers, another attorney for the* de fense, put up a justified bond and secured $5,250, which had been In the hands of the clerk as bond. Beal made a talk Immediately alter his address, going to a place In front of the Law Building. About 100 working people heard him, many of them having come from the Homestead plant of the Leakvtlle Woolen Mills, where a strike started yesterday. Beal declared that hts conviction would In no way deter him from further efforts to organize textile mill workers. Beal Is under sentence of 17 to 20 years In State prison. Appeal to the Supreme Court will be per fected. Big Frost Earlier Than It Was In 1928 The heavy, killing frost which was on the ground In this section this morning came earlier than it did last year, according to T. W. Ebeltoft, the bookstore proprietor who keeps a dally record of the weather. The first heavy frost last year came, he says, on Armistice day, November 11. Kiflc Bullrt Ploughs Through Body Of Henry Bright, 14-Year-Old Ora Mill Boy. Tlie “unloaded" gun claimed another victim here yesterday when Henry Bright, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bright, of the Ora mill village, died in the Shelby hospital. Young Bright and a group of pals were playing in the room of a home In the Dover village, adjoining the Ora village, when 15-year-old Hudson Blanton picked up a .23 automatic rifle, which he thought to be unload ed. pointed it in front of him and pulled the trigger, instead of a snap as the plunger struck an empty chamber the boys heard the bang of the gun and the Blight boy fell to the floor mortally wounded. The youngster was rushed to the Shelby hospital where it was found that the bullet had entered Just be low the right armpit and had tom its way across the body to the left side. Little hope was held out for the youth and about 3:30 yesterday afternoon he died. Other Boy Once Hurt. It was the second mishap to sweep down upon the Blanton youth, who fired the unintentional shot, this year. Early in August the Blanton boy while at * work at a sweeper In the Dover mill was mys teriously injured when struck in some manner and his skull fractur ed. He was found unconscious on the floor of the mill and rushed to the Shelby hospital where he lay for weeks at the point of death be fore recovering. Funeral plans have not been completed by the relatives of the dead boy, but It la likely, according to information from the Ora mlu today, that funeral services will be held Thursday oc Friday. Goode It Assistant Manager Store Here Paul Wootton With Montgomery Ward At Charlotte. Goode With Shelby Store. Mr. C. C. Goode arrived in Shelby Monday evening and Immediately assumed the position of assistant manager of Montgomery Ward and company. Mr. Goode comes from the Montgomery Ward store at Green ville, this state. In connection with this transfer, the information was volunteered at the local store that Paul Wool ton formerly head of the Wootton Ladles Shoppe here, is now with Montgomery Ward In the Charlotte branch. Mr. Woottton, Manager Person stated, assumed his new duties two weeks ago. Mr. Person also stated that Mr. N. D. Francis, until lately with thf local organization, has been trans ferred as assistant manager to the Winston-Salem store. Meeting Of Teachers Deferred One Week The county-wide meeting of school teachers scheduled to have been held here Saturday of this week has been deferred a week and will not be held until Saturday, Nov. 16, it was announced today by Prof. J. H. Grigg, county supertn tendednt of education. The change was made because the county board last week moved the opening date of the six months schools back a week, or until November 18. “Houdini” Hoskins Prefers To Work On Gangln Warm Weather Negro Youth Escapes Gang But Is Caught Just Alter Taking Off His Shackles. The chain gang isn’t "a gravy train,” as the colored folks express it, in the summer time, but it is a lot more pleasant to "make little uns out. o’ big uns,” when it lias to be done, in the summer time than it is during the winter. That's how Howard Hoskins, di minutive negro whose ability to worm out of most any place of Cbnfinement causes him to be known as a Houdini, feels about it-. A little over a week ago Howard completed a term on the No. 6 convict force only to be taken be fore Judge Harding yesterday a week ago to be sentenced to another sly months for breaking in the Swofford grocery and McKinney market. Yesterday morning, a cool, frosty morning, Howard bad Just completed a week of the new term. The snap of the atmosphere made him think, as he shuffled dirt on a Suttle street job, of the many cold, dreary mornings ahead when the shackles ou his legs would feel like a chain of icicles. The outlook was not so pleasant and, when the chain gang boss was busy some i - tance off, Howard dived for irca dom, and, of course, ' headed for Freedman, the colored section ly ing to the left of Suttle street. He was soon missed and the hunt be gan. Just an hour or so later Ernest Spangler, Shelby street foreman, noticed a shade move In a colored usidence, and In two or three min (Continued on page eleven.) Bishop's Anti - Smith Candidate Swamped) Walker Wins in N.Y.; G. O. P. Loses In Ky« Democratic Governor Goes In By Landslide In Virginia Over The Fusion Candidate. Richmond, V#., Nor. 8.—John Garland Pollard, farmer professor of law at the college of William and Mary, was elected governor of Virginia yesterday in what turned out to bo a landslide for the Demo cratic party. The Democratic nominee led hla opponent, Dr. William Moseley Brown, nominee of the anti-Smith Democrats and Republicans, in every congressional district and, with less than two-thirds of the total vote tabulated, had amassed a lead of close to 50.000 votes. Pol lard's election was conceded by Brown headquarters at 10:40 Iasi night, T te overwhelming victory of thi Democratic party was a surprise to veteran politicians on both sides. The campaign preceding the elec tion was the most spirited since re construction days. Anti-Smith Dem ocrats, organised last year by Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the Methnuit Episcopal church, south, and other dry leaders, in opposition to the presidential candidacy of Alfred K. Smith, allied themselves with the Virginia Republican party in an ef fort to wrest state control from the Democratic party, which had held sway since reconstruction. Dramatic Return. Virginia is the first of the five "Hoover states’* in the erstwhile "Solid South” to hold a state elec tion since the "Solid South" was broken in the presidential cam paign last year. The return to'Dem ocratic ranks was even more dra matic than the departure last j«k. Brown was never In the lead In the tabulation. Jimmy Walker Wins. . Hew York, Nov. Ma*or James J. Walker was re-elected mayor of New York in the quadrennial muni cipal election yesterday in a great Democratic sweep. He had a lead of 394445 votes over Congressman Felorello H. La Guardla, Republlcan-Pusio candi date, in 3800 districts out of the 3.411 In the city. The Democratic landslide was In dicated In the first returns. There after every district vote count add ed to the mounting total. The vote for mayor in MOO of the 3.411 district was: J. J. Walker <D)__ 870,183 T. H. La Guardla (R> .. 375.537 Norman Thomas (Soc.) . 117435 R. E. Ebright (Sq. D) __4478 Kentucky Voting. Louis villi, Ky., Nov. 6.—Early un official returns In Kentucky's legis that the Republicans were unauc lative election indicated last night cessful In their efforts to obtain control of the legislature. Nominally Democratic districts cm the face of incomplete returns gave majorities to toe Democratic candidates. Two districts that elected Repub licans to toe 1938 session turned tc Democratic candidates this year. Charlotte Dealer* Handle Dodge Here Formal announcement was made here yesterday by Mr. C. E. En field, of Enfield & Norfleet, Char lotte distributors of the Dodge Brothers line of motor ears and trucks, that this firm will hence forth be represented in Shelby, tak ing over the former Litton Motor company ajrencv. Mr. Enfield said that for a time at least he himself will take charge of the local agency, and puds It vigorously. It bad not been known up to the time the Enfield statement was made whether or not Dodge Broth ers would be further represented in the city. But Mr, Enfield made 11 clear that this company has so manj cars and trucks already sold in thu territory that it would be unthink able to leave this company oi Dodge owners without service. Not only, the dealer declared will the local sale of the Dodge pro ducts be pushed, but he said a Jin* of superior used can will be im ported into this market from Char lotte for special sale. Sandy Plain* Church To Hear Wade Boctjk: Rev. Wade Bostic, of Shelby ami China, will preach at the Sandy . Flains church Thursday night *t » o'clock and will use "Mission*’* as . lils subject. 1 made by Rev. The announcement t, O. P, Abernethy.