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VOL. XXXV, No. 135 12 PAGES TODAY SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1920 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year (in advance) fXM _ Carrter, per year (In advance) >3.00 LATENEWS THE MARKET. ' Cotton, per pound__ 17c | Cotton Seed, per bu. __45c Rain And Colder. 1 Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Rain tonight and Saturday. ' Colder Saturday and in west and north portions tonight. Name Leaders For Kings Mt. Program 1930 Moll. Of Shelby, And Two Kings Mountain Men On Committee To Arrange Celebration. . York, S. C. Nov. 15.—A steering committee of fifteen, delegated the power to nominate a central com mittee to be appointed by the gov I emors of North and South Carolina ; to have full charge of the sesqui ! centennial celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain to be held Octo j ber 7, next year, was named at a j meeting here Wednesday night to ' promote the enterprise. The general committee will make all plans for the celebration. A hundred and fifty persons from York and Cherokee counties in ; South Carolina and Cleveland, Gas ton and Mecklenburg in North Carolina were present. Mrs. R. M. Bratton, regent of Kings Mountain Chapter, Daugh ters of the American Revolution. York, called the meeting to order and stated its purpose. Members of the steering commit tee named: South Carolina—York county, Mrs. R. M. Bratton, Dr. J. B. John json and V. Q. Hambright; Chero i kee county. Dr. W. C. Hamrick, ! Lieutenant Governor Thomas IBothwell Butler and J. F. Ilam bright. , North Carolina — Mecklenburg county, C. O. Kuester, Dr. John R. Irwin, Mrs. Ralph Van La.iding ham; Cleveland county, Wylie H. McGinnis, W. K. Mauney. O. M. Mull; Gaston county. A. L. Bul winkle. Mrs. W. D. Anderson, Mrs. A. G. Myers. j Clarence O. Kuester, business manager of the Charlotte Cham ber of Commerce, was named chair man of the committee which will ; meet in Charlotte in a few days. ; Bring Dead Baby In Car Here To Secure , A Casket For Body i Pedestrians Shocked To See Dead Negro Child Carried In Rear Seat Of Car. A story of a rather gruesome -n f'cident which took place on one of j Shelby’s business streets Tuesday ‘morning was being related nere to 'day. ; During the morning two auto j mobile loads of negroes, three men and one woman, pulled u > to tha curb, stopped, and inquired where i they might buy a casket for i dead ehild. Being given the desired in j formation one of the men purchas ed a casket, the seller no doubt ithinking it would be taken to his | home where the body likely was. .and walked back to one of the two 'cars. It was then that passers-by | were shocked at what they saw. | Reaching one of the cars, a coach, 'the man placed the casket at one ‘side of the back seat, reached over ‘to the other side, picked up the [body of a dead negro baby, placed it jin the casket and drove off. Where they came from, where they went., or how the baby died is ^not known since it was only a cus tomary event to those witnessing it until they saw that the dead child was being carried along in the tar. (Betty Mabry Die# In Hospital Here Small Daughter Of Mr. And Mis Claud Mabry Dies Of Heart Trouble. Funeral Saturday. Little Betty Mabry, six and one ■tialf year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claud J. Mabry, of Suttle street, died just before midnight last night in the Shelby nospital, death resulting from heart trouble. The little girl, very popular among •her playmates, had suffered with heart trouble for a couple of years Last Wednesday she was tarried to the hospital for a blood transfusion and since that time had gradually grown worse until her death last night. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 10:3d tomorrow morning with Rev. L. B Hnyes, Central Methodist, pastor, officiat ing. Interment will he in Sunset cemetery. Wife Of Colored Minister Is Dead The Star yesterday received a telegram from Rev. J. E. Harbison, colored preacher well known here, stating that his wife. Marv. died at • Seminole. Oklahoma. Wednesday afternoou at l o'clock. Back To Books For 8;000 Next Monday Six Months Schools Open For Year. Others Back After Cotton Picking. Between eight and nine thousand Cleveland county school children will trek back to their books Mon day of next week, about five thou sand of them going for the first time since last year, while between three and four thousand will be re suming school work after spending from four to six weeks in the white cotton fields of the county in help ing to pick the county’s laigest cot ton crop. Teachers To Gather. With practically every school in the county resuming work Monday County Superintendent J. H. Grigg has called a county-wide meeting of teachers to be held here tomorrow, Saturday, at w'hich time plans will be made for teaching the three “R’s” during the entire senool year in addition to electing officers for the organization of county teachers. On Monday all the six months schools In the county will open aft er having the opening delayed two weeks because of the latness cf the cotton picking season. At the same time 12 of the 14 eight months schools in the county will resume their school work after a recess’ of from four to six weeks to aid the parents of school children in get ting out their big cotton crop. Last year there were 10,238 chil dren in the rural schools of the county and with only two of the long term schools not resuming work Monday it is estimated that between eight and nine thousand youngsters will next week assemble their books and return to the school room. Of this number a little over 2.,000 will be colored children. Some Delay Opening. One or two of the long-term, schools, which closed down several weeks back for cotton picking, will not go back to wprk Monday be cause the crop lacks quite a bit of being picked in their section. Two of the long term schools are run ning this week. Grover resuming work week before last and Casar this week. This year more children enrolled in the long term schools of the county than ever before and wheth er or not the six months schools ■will be shy in enrollment as a re sult cannot be told until a check up Is made on attendance figures at the end of the first school week. During the recess granted for children to aid in cotton picking it is estimatetd that the children alone have picked around IS,000 bales of cotton. Name Local Ministers On State Committees Three Shelby ministers were nam ed to important committees at the closing session of the Baptist State convention. Mr. Horace B. Easom was named on the publicity com mittee, Dr. Zeno Wall on the inter racial commission and Rev. John W. Suttle on the general convention board. W. M. IT. MEETING Division No. 3 of the W. M. U. of the Kings Mountain assocl uion will meet with Grover chinch, Sun day afternoon. November 17 at 2:30 o’clock. This division is composed of the following churches: New Hope, Patterson Springs, Pleasant Hill and Grover. Store Teeth Stray Off From Owner Shower Bath Patron Leave* Teeth At Loeal Barbershop. Want To Locate Him. FOUND—Perfectly good set of store teeth. Owner may have same by Identifying and paying for this ad. The above “want ad" came very near appearing in The Star today signed by a local barbershop. Yes terday morning the shine boy of a Shelby tonsorial and bobbing par lor came to The Star and wanted to know what it would cost to adver tise for a man who came to the barbershop and left his store teeth. He failed to return after securing his information, and presumably the owner realized about noon that he had laid his teeth on a shelf while taking a shower at the barber shop. School Leaders Talk To Clubs Andrews Speaks To Kiwanis And Carver To Rotary In Edu cational Program, Shelby civic clubs this week stag ed their most interesting meetings in months with the three clubs hav ing school leaders as guest speakers in observation of educational week, At the Rotary club today, with Mr, John R. Dover in charge of the program, Supt. R. W. Carver, of the Hickory schools, was the speaker with the city school board, city superintendent, and the high school orchestra as special guests. Mem bers of the school board present with Supt. Ben Smith were Dr. Tom Gold, H. Clay Cox, Thad C. Ford, L. P. Holland and Roger Laugh ridge. Prof. W. T. Sinclair was in charge of the orchestra. Practically the same guests along with Mayor S. A. McMurry were in attendance at the Kiwanis meeting last night at which Supt. T. Wingate Andrews, of High Point, was the speaker. Rev L. B. Hayes, new Central Methodist pastor, was a special guest of Ro tary today. As Much As Possible. Supt. Andrews talk before Ki (Continued on page eleven.) Motor Club Official Spending Time Here Mr. A. H. Haynes, district sales manager of the Carolina Motor club, was in town all of this week, soliciting membership* and re-or genizing the sales force in Cleve land county. Mr. Haynes will be in Shelby each week from now on for three or four days each week, and will make his headquarters at the Chas, L. Eskridge Motor Co., which is the official AAA representative in this town. Connected with Mr. Haynes in this work will be Mr. Asa H. Hamrick of 309 S. LaFayette street, Shelby. The Service Garage with Mr. B. F Spangler, has been appointed as an official garage and service sta tion, and all club members should call an Mr. Spangler for any emer gency road service they might need from time to time. The club has over 200 members in Cleveland county. Morrison Opposes Simmons Bat Will Not Finance His Rival Former Governor Reiterates Oppo sition To Senator But Not Shouldering Burden. Although former Governor Cam eron Morrison, ih a statement to State newspapers yesterday express ed the opinion that the renomina tion of Senator Simmons would be “most unwise and make for discord and disruption as no other nomi nation could” and announced posi tively that he would not support the senior senator in the torthcor: ing Democratic primary “if any ■ good candidate runs against him ” he declared that he is not going to be “shouldered with the burden, f’ nancial or otherwise, of anybody’s candidacy against him.” The statement, the former Gov ernor declared, was given out to supplement a statement madr by him in Raleigh several days ago in which he discussed the prooable candidacy of Senator Simmons to iuccccd himself. If follows in full. “The recent statement made in Raleigh about Senator Simmons ex pressed my real feeling and judg ment, as far as it went, but I must ask the press for space for this addenda in order that the people who care for my position may clearly understand it. “It is this: “Notwithstanding my judgment is clear and decided <hat Senator Sim mons’ renomination by the Demo cratic primary to succeed himself in the senate will be most unwise and make for discord and disrup tion fis no other nomination could, nevertheless, I am not going to be shouldered with the burden, finan cial or otherwise, of anybody’s candidacy against him. “I am not trying to get anybody to run against Senator Simmons and do not expect to, although 1 am not going to vote for him ,n the primary if any good candidate runs against him; but if he is nominated I shall support him in the general election.’’ 4 Officers Shoot County Man In Chase City, Va. Will Robinson, of Cas»r See'ion, Shot While Resisting Arrest, Message Here States. Will Robinson, of the Casar section, who left this rounty several weeks back and lias been sought by local officers, was seriously, if not mortally, wounded last night In Chase City, Virginia, when shot uy of ficers there, according to a tele phone message to Sheriff Irvin M. Allen here last'night from the police chief at Chase City. The Virginia officer told Sheriff Allen that Robinson, who had oecr. caught by them once and had es caped, was shot while officers there were attempting to arrest him again. He was shot In the shoulder with a shotgun and Sheriff Allen was asked to inform relatives here that he was in a very serious con dition. Several Charges. Local officers say that they wanted Robinson on liquor charge:; here as well as for leaving his wif* and going off with another woman, w ho it is said was with him in Vir ginia. Before leaving this countv, it is said that he had shot at officers attempting to arrest him. A week ago Chase City officers captured Robinson and were hold ing him on liquor and white slav ery charges. At that time they no tified the sheriff's office here of his arrest, but before papers could be sent for him he escaped. The shoot ing occurred last night when the Virginia officers located him again and attempted to arrest him. W. T. McSwain Dies, Funeral Yesterday Well Known Shelby And Chimney Rock Man Dies Of Pneumonia. After Short Illness. Mr. W. T. McSwain, better known to hundreds of friends in Cleveland and Rutherford counties as • Boss" McSwain, died in the Shelby hospi tal Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, death resulting from pneumonia. Funeral services were held yes terday afternoon at Boiling Springs and were conducted by Rev. Mr, Sargent, Baptist minister of Cnoi ney Rock. Mr. McSwain had b"en living at Chimney Rock for three years and had just moved back here five weeks ago and was selling in surance making his home on Clegg street. He had been complaning with a bad cold for some time but was only confined to bed for .-bout a week before his death. The deceased, who was a member of the Baptist church at Chimney Rock and also a member of the Junior Order and the Moos’, was popular and well-liked by all who knew him. He is survived tv his wife, his mother and the folloMnj sisters: Florence and Pearl Mc Swain, Mrs. Cliff Beason and Mrs. Grady McSwain. Boy’s Leg Broken Under City Truck Graham Boy And Little Harrill Girl Both Hurt In An Ac cident Yesterday. The four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. J. R. Graham, of Oak stree*-, is in the Shelby hospital suffering with a broken leg and the four year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Claud Harrill is at her home with minor injuries as the result of botn being run over by one of the city trucks yesterday. Information given The Star to day had it that the children were swinging or hanging to the rear of the truck when it turned a corner on Oak street, both going under the truck from the swerve. The GraHam boy's left leg was broken just above the knee but he is said to be getting along as well as could be expected. The little Harrill gir! was painfully but not seriously huit about the head. Taxi-Drivers Winners In Duck Pin Match In a duck pin match last night at the Lawrence Cook bowling all?v the taxi-driver team won from thr. team of barbers by 77 pins in a three game match. The barbers’ team was made up of Eaker, Bate right, Boyles, Harris and Cook, while the following taxi men ap peared for their team: McSwain, A. Lewisc, L. Lewis, B. Lewis, and Fer ree. A. Lewis was the high scorer for the taxi-drivers with 303. while Harris with 289 led for the barbers The best game score, 109. W&s turn ed in by B Lewis. Bare* Scar* in Suit Against Hotel •n *■- ‘ - - Scarred and crippled' by boiling water when ahe sought cooling shower, Juanita Ilansen, actress, charged in her suit for $250,000 against a New York hotel. . InUrn»tion»l Ntwirw* Lattimore Boy A Farm Leader, Off To Big Meet Youthful President Of 'Young Tar j Heel Farmers Represents N. C. At Kansas City. A Cleveland county boy will be one of the two young men represent ing young North Carolina farmers at a national meeting to he held over the week-end in Kansas City, Missouri. The youth is Walter Davis, agri cultural student at Lattimore and president of the State organization of young Tar Heel Farmers In St. Louft. along‘with Wad® Turner, of Lilllngton. he Will attend the Na tional Congress of Future Farmers of America, made up from represen tatives from all States in the union attending the session for 10 days. Roy H. Thomas. State supervisor of agricultural education, will accom pany the boys on the trip, accord ing to Prof. P. M. Coley, agricul tural teacher at Lattimore. Davis is the son of Mr. J. E. Davis and was promoted to Carolina Farmer at the State meeting and also elected as a delegate to Kansas City. He is one of the outstanding students at Lat timore and takes part in extra cur ricular activities. The young Tar Heel farmer or ganization is made up of boys in vocational agriculture in the high school. Any boy taking agriculture is eligible for membership in the local chapter and may be promoted to Carolina Farmer by meeting cer tain requirements in agriculture activities. The purposes for which this or ganization is formed is as follows 1. To promote vocational agricul ture in the high schools of North Carolina. 2. To promote thrift among the students of vocational agriculture. 3. To encourage cooperative buy ing and selling and afford a med ium through which this activity may be carried on. 4. To establish the confident** and respect of the farm boy m himself and his work. 5. To promote scholarship. 6. To promote rural leadership. 7. To create and nurture a love for country life, 8. To provide recreational and educational entertainment for stu dents iii vocational agriculture through State agricultural contests, summer encampments, summer tours, father and son banquets, and the like. 9. To promote community im provement projects. 10. To promote a better school and community spirit. 11. To create more interest in the application of intelligence and busi ness principles in farming. Radio Band To Play In Shelby Saturday The Blue Ridge Serenaders. WWNC broadcasters, with all-string broadcasters, with all-string band of band of seven pieces will give a high class entertainment Saturday night November 16 at the South Sheley school. It is the best string bard that has ever broadcasted over WWNC. Asheville. Come out ror some high class amusement and trip support the school. Admission IE and :5c. Shelby Pastors Named Officers In Baptist Convention Closing Quarter Million Dollar Campaign For Wake Forest Gets Approval Of N. C. Baptists In Convention Here Two County Stores Robbed Wed. Night Maoney Store At Ora Mill And Lovelace Store At Mooresbnro Entered By Thieve*. Two Cleveland coonty store* were entered and robbed hv thieve* some time Wednesday night. One wa* thr store of I*. M. Mauney, at the Ora mill village, and the other waa the Von Lovelace atore at Mooresboro. The thieves failed to make a very big haul at either plate, as they apparently shied at tak ing any goods whereby th-y might he caught and only a small amount of change had been left In the safe and cash register at both stores. Mr. Mauney had not even locked his safe and could miss nothin? more than some small change. Father Of Shelby Man Dies In S. C. Capt. Brison. Father Of Hope Brison Drops Dead At Clover. Funeral Yesterday. Mr Hope Brison and family. Mr and Mrs. Ted Cashion and Mr. end Mrs. Joe Turner were in Clover, S. C., yesterday afternoon fo at tend the funeral at 3.30 o'clock of Mr. Brlsons father. The Shelby mans rather. Cep:. W. I. Brison, a prominent clUtrn of Clover, was found dead at his home In Clover at noon Wednesday. He haji walked to town earlier in the day and returned home about 11 o'clock. None of the family was there at the time of his passing and it is thought that he dropped dead from heart failure. He was 70 years of age, and is survived by seven children, Messrs. J. Ed and Lee Brison. of Gastonia; R. Hope Brison, with whom he lived at Clover; Rob ert Brison, of Clover; Mrs. Ike Campbell, of Clover. and Mrs. Walker Peay, of Chester. His wife died a few months ago. Mrs. Moore’s Mother Died This Morning Mrs. J. M. Hamrick To Be Buried At High Shoals Church On Saturday Afternoon. The many friends of Mrs. Durham Moore will regret to hear that her mother, Mrs. J. M. Hamrick, died at 1 o'clock this morning at her home in Henrietta. Mrs. Hamrick, who before marriage was Miss Parthena Hopper was bom and reared in the Sharon section and has many friends in the county and section. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at High Shoals church near Cllffiide. Mrs. Hamrick, who was 67 years of age, is survived by eight children. Her husband died some time ago. Will Hold Centennial Convention At Raleigh. Aid For Church College Given. By a standing vote the Baptist Mate convention Wednesday after noon approved reports of its com mittee to permit Wake Forest col lege to carry forward its building fund campaign Tor $250,000 and pledged itself to complete the cen tennial campaign for Christian education. The denomination called upon its membership to go ahead with “new ggal" in collecting pledges - The week beginning November 2i was designated as ‘ Loyalty Week” for attention to the centennial fund. The convention observes its cen tennial celebration at Raleigh next November and the annual sermon will be preached by Dr. J. R Jester, Winston-Salem, with Dr. C H. Dur ham. Lumberton. named as alter nate. Wednesday evening the theme was missions, especially home and lor eign. and the main addresses of the dcning were made by Dr. J. E, Lawrence, newly elected secretary of the southern Baptist home mis sion board, and Edwin McNeill Po tcal, Jr., Raleigh, Just back from 12 years In China. The spiritual force of the messages, and the inspira tion of the hour were powerful. Christian education and business occupied the afternoon session, with U. Y. P. U. being presented by .Tec letary James A. Ivey. For the eou catlcnal report M. A. Huggins, st.c (Continued on page eleven.) Juniors To Present Earl School A Flag Local Council To Put on Cernnonj There Presenting Bible And Flag To School. On Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Council No. 436 Jr. O. U. A. M. will present a flag and Bible to the school at Earl, It Is announced by John A. Liles, councilor. All Juniors are urged to be present and the public is cordially invited. The program calls for rponlng musical selections by the Shelby high school band followed by the song America sung by the school children. Rev. R. L. Fortls will present the Bible and Attorney J. C. Newton the flag. Rev. J. W. Davis, principal of the school, will make the speech of acceptance. The speaker of the afternoon. Rev. VV. B. Sprinkle, of Morganton. will then be Introduced and will address the gathering. There will be a meeting of Council No. 436 on next Saturday night at 7 o'clock. The matter of assessing each member 25 cents on the death of a member, thereby enabling the council to pay $100 to the tamily of the deceased, was discussed at the last meeting, and It iB desired that the members think over the proposi tion and be present on Tuesday night Nov. 14 at 7 o’clock as this matter will come up for final con sideration and vote. May Move Wake Forest Medical School To Winston Hospital Alumni Favor Joining; School With Baptist Hospital And Nurses School There. Wake Forest college medical school may be moved to Winston Salem, and coordinated with the Baptist hospital in that city. This developed from conversation and unofficial conferences of alumni here Wednesday and Thursday. Egbert L. Davis. Winston-Salem, president, of the alumni association, and on the board of the Baptist hospital, said that an opinion seems to prevail among alumni with whom the matter was discussed that the whole idea is not feasible but logical, and that developments in the near future may lead to such a move on the part of Wake For est college officials. Plans Not Definite. President Francis P. Gaines and Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin. head of the medical school, would make no i‘element concernin', the matter. If* was admitted, though, by Mr. Darts end others that the idea is not new, that it has Men mentioned quietiy tor several years and that the time seems ripe lor a definite considera tion of the proposal. As to exactly what steps are to be taken no one would say. The statement given out by Mr. Davis is that “the Wake Forest medical school is under considera tion by alumni and interested cit izens of Winston-Salem and may be joined with the Baptist hospital end training school for nurses tnere. ■This idea has gained favor rapidly with alumni who have discussed the matter. Benefits Seen. “Many universities have their medical schools at cities away irom the seat of the university, the work of Wake Forest medical school ar.d the Baptist hospital and the tr lin ing school for nurses would produce logical and mutual co-ordination It would remove much duplication (Continued on page eleven, > J Krv. John W. Buttle Re-elected Vice President, Dr. Zeno Well New, Poteet Speaks. Shelby not only entertained the State Baptist convention for the fourth time this week, hut at the concluding session of the church body Thursday morning two Shelby preachers were named In the election of four convention officers. „ Dr. J. Clyde Turner, of Greens boro. was re-elected president of the convention. Rev. John W. But tle, veteran Baptist minister of Shelby, was re-elected vice presi dent, and the other vice presidents were Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, which enter tained the convention, and Dr. J R. Jester, of Winston-Salem. Two Convention*. Next year the Baptist of North Carolina, between 1,300 and 3,000 of whom were in attendance at the convention here, will hold two con ventions. The first will be at Oreenville on March 20, 1030, at ' which time the church will cele brate the centennial of its birth, the State Baptist convention being organised there 100 years ago. No business will be transacted at this gathering as the regular business convention will be held at Raleigh later in the year. Potest Speaks. A feature of the final session Thursday, before the hundreds of pastors and delegates boarded buses and trains at noon and left town. In addition to the election of of ficers was the speech of Dr. William Louis Poteat, president emeritus of Wake Forest college. In delivering the report of the committee on pub lic morals. As an organized body of Chris tians we are committed to the Chris tian standard of morality and the Christian program of Individual and social righteousness,*’ Dr. W. L. Po tent told the convention as he own ed his address on "Public Morals.” Strife Rebuked. * "A survey of the business com munity provides little grounds for hope that greed, will ever acquire self-restraint or industry put its own house in orderhe continued. 'Recent industrial strife, stained with tragedy and (he partial allure of justice, within the bounds of this convention calls for rebuke and a fresh assertion of inescapable au thority of Christ’s law of brother hood In the world of business. Wage payers have obligations to face as well as wage earners.” Among the rights of wage payers is the right of .protection of prop erty against violence and Jnterfei erfce. Among the rights of wage earners is the right to organize just as the owners organise. Guaranteed To All. "And these rights are guaranteed to employers and employe™ alike without regard to the optnions which they hold, without partially in the administration of the law.” The committee, through the ad dress by Dr. Poteat. which brought the convention to a close shortly after noon today, anticipated that its report might be declared out side the province of a denomina tional convention. Takes Dry Stand. The convention, through that committee also, reaffirmed “its sup port of the Anti-Saloon League and all the agencies which serve the cause of prohibition” and urged that "the ministers and members of af filiated churches use their best en deavors to create and maintain an (dontinued on page eleven.) Senator Simmons Is Loser In Bank Crash Washington.—Senator Simmon*. North Carolina, veteran Democratic tariff leader, revealed Thursday that he is anxious for the senate to ad journ to No:’h Carolina to attend to private business affairs affected by the failure of a New Bern, bank. Simmons said he lost about 13,* 000 by failure of the bank, which hr added is all the money he his outside of his senate salary, though he owns some property in North Carolina. He expressed regret he had not been in North Carolina when the failure occurred. “I don’t know whether I'll ever get any of it back,” he said. It is reported that Simmons M not the only Senator anxious to re turn home for business reasons. Several others want to get back to attend to private business affair^ which, in some cases, it is under stood, have been adversely affect ed by the stock market crash and its reaction.