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2fh* (fletudawb tar 10 PAGES TODAY VOL, XXXV, No. 142 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, DEC. 2, 1929 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail, pet year <tn*dvanev Carrier, per year fin advance* PIP LATENEWS THE MARKET. Cotton Seed, per bu. ......... 39c Cotton, per lb._......... i6Vir. More Cold Weather. ..Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Rain in east and snow flur ries in west portion today and to night. Colder tonight. Tuesday part ly cloudy and cooler. 10 Die In Train Wreck. Ten people, Are white and five Mack, were killed and two score in jured about noon yesterday at On ley, Virginia, when an excursion train, from Norfolk to New Turk, Jumped the track. Eight coaches of the Pennsylvania railway train leaped the track in the disastrous •rash. ' 7 Coal Miners Killed. Seven coal miners were killed In an explosion in a mine early Sun day morning near West Frankfort, Illinois. Late yesterday six bodies had been brought to the surface and searching parties still sought the other body. Mull Not To Give Up State Chairmanship New Advisor To Governor Sees No Conflict In Two Positions, He Declares. Raleigh.—Odus M. Mull, appoint cd as executive counsel by Governor Gardner to succeed Judge N. A. Townsend, resigned, intends to re tain his post as chairman of the State Democratic committee, it was learned here Saturday. Mr. Mull, a prominent Shelby lawyer, life-long friend and close political associate of the Governor, Will succeed to the post of execu tive counsel Dec. 15, when Judge Townsend's resignation becomes ef fective. He has been in Raleigh for the past few days conferring with the governor and Judge Townsend as to his new duties. Judge Townsend resigned, as he announced he would do when ne took over the position, to return to his law practice. No Conflict Seen. A Raleigh newspaper this morn ing declared it likely that he would retain his chairmanship of the Dem ooratic committee. Mr. Mull has confirmed the report, adding that he sees no conflict likely with his duties as executive counsel. The Raleigh newspaper also said that it was believed Mr. Mull's re tention would preclude his accept ance of the post of commissioner of revenue, should that position he offered him in the event A. J. Max well is appointed, to the Interstate Commerce Commission. It is now considered likely, however, that Mr. Mull would be a candidate for that position, even though he were fi*»e to accept It. New Auto Plates ♦ On Sale Dec. 16 Will Require Front And Rear Plat es. Fifteen Days In Which To Buy. The new 1930 North Carolina au tomobile license plates will not be placed on sale until December 16. although heretofore they have gone on sale December 1, It was an nounced at the office of the Caro lina Motor club at the Eskridge garage here. Instructions have been issued by the state department of revenue to the various branches of the Caro lina Motor club through which the tags are sold, not to place them on sale until that date, it was explain ed, and the motor club officials in the hope of preventing a frenzied period of buying during the final few days of the year are asking the people to keep in mind that there are only 15 days during whirh to purchase the plates. This year, It was also explained, there will be two plates, front an:l rear. The revenue department, said motor club officials, has mads the change from one plate to two 1:; die hope that it will make easier tli» task of checking up on those who attempt to avoid payment of the tax. The plates were made this year at the state prison and 40 branches of the Carolina Motor club will is sue them. Choir Director At Central Church Has Been In Choir Abroad Mr. Date Kalter. now choir direc tor at the Central Methodist church was a year or so back a member of one of America’s most widely known choirs and has appeared with that choir abroad. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Kalter was a member of he re nowned Dayton Westminster choir and while with that organization at toured Europe, appearing In several programs given by the choir on that continent. Building Crash Death Suits Settled For $13,000 Two Youths Yo-Yo Five Hours In Contest Before Stur Ends Endurance Match In Draw Colbert McKnight And “Bed” Locat Winners. Evans Logan Fan ciest Yo-Yoer. Shelby as yet, despite The Star's contest Saturday afternoon and evening, does not have an undisput ed champion of .the yo-yo art, for at the end of five long hours of yo yoing with one hand without sit ting down two youths, Colbert Tic Knight and Morris (Red) Lucas, were still going strong in their en durance match when the paper de cided to end the long-drawn out contest rather than to further tdx the nervous system of the two boys who had dangled their yo-yo* in the air for five hours and were still anxious to pass midnight eo that they might say they had yo yoed from November to December. At three minutes past seven o'clock, five hours and one mmutc after the contest got underway, the match was ended and both boys presented with first prize money. As it was both boys had eclipsed other North Carolina yo-yo contest . ec ords by approximately one nour and seemed determined to keep go ing until one or the other fell down utterly exhausted. Many Enter. More than a score of boys and one girl entered the endurance match and as a half dozen youths had their toys still shooting up and down after two hours the telephones in The Star office kept jingling as interested fathers and mothers be gan calling to see who bad won. In addition to the hundreds of tele phone calls, between two and three hundred people visited the editorial (Continued on page ten.) Rutherford’s Oldest WomanPasse* Away Mrs. Susan Melton Lett Four ChU dred And One Hundred Grandchildren. Rutherfordton.—Mrs. Susan Mel ton, Ruthertord county’s oldest woman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. P. Campbell, near Hollis, Friday and was burled at First Broad Baptist church. Had she lived until January 11, 1930 she would have been 97 years old. Che had been a devoted member of the Baptist church for 79 years and had been In declining health for .he past five years. She was a widow the last 36 years of her life and was the mother of 12 children, five of whom are living, as follows: W. J. Melton, age 77, Buffalo, 8. C.; George Melton, age 76, Schoofield, Va.; Mrs. Robt. P. Campbell, 67, Hollis; Mrs. Eliza Bridges, 62, Greenville, 8. C„ and Mrs. Etta Mc Farland, 56, Hollis. She leaves 100 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She attributed her longevity to plenty of exercises, regular habits of eating and . leep ing and temperance in all things. She well remembered the Me dean War, being born in 1833 and three other wars that this country has been engaged in. Twenty-five presi dents of the U. S. were inaugurated during her life time. Hollis To Stage Big Fiddlers Convention Saturday night, December 7, the Hollis school will put on what promises to be the biggest fiddlers’ convention ever held in this sect'on of the state. Cash prizes totalling 352.50 will go to the winners, and all lovers of good string music hi Cleveland and Rutherford counttes are urged to attend. Local Marriages Less Than In 1928 Marriages This Year 29 Less Than Last. First Year Of Mew Law. Doe to the state's new mar riage regulations and also to the fact that more and better roads are being built between North and Sooth Carolina, where mar riages knots are more easily tied, marriages in Cleveland county this year fell Just 29 shy of the total last year. The business year of the marriage record books ends on December 1, and to December I, this year, 109 couples had been married in the county as com pared with 138 couples married to the same date last year. Of the 109, 88 were white and 13 were colored. Of the 138 In 1928, 121 were white and 1 were colored, thus maintaining abont the same ratio. The biggest month of tne present year by the records was December of 1928 with 25 cou ples securing license. November, the month ending last Saturday, was next with 12 licenses, and March, April, June and Octo ber ranked nest with 10 licenses being issued in each of the months. The smallest business of the year with Register A F. Newton was during September when only three couples, two white and one black, secured li cense. County Couples Wed • During Thanksgiving First Man Married In New Gaffney Court House Was Cleveland County Colored Man. Two of the three couples married in Gaffney, South Carolina, Thanks giving day were from this county. They were Russel Webb and \asbtl Borders, of Shelby; and Roosevelt Chambers, of Earl, and Josephine Smith, of Blacksburg. The first couple to be married in the new Cherokee county court house on last Wednesday was Alfred Petty, 59-year-old, one-armed negro of Mooresboro, Cleveland county, and Annie Kings, of Gaffney route 9. The only other Cleveland couple married there last week was Blaine Whisonant and Aldem Lemmons, of Boiling Springs. Johnson Presiding For Special Term Civil Term Of Superior Court Be gins Long Grind Here This Morning. With Judge T. L. Johnson, of Lumberton, presiding the special term of superior court to dispose of civil matters opened here this morning to do what it may during the term to alleviate the congested calendar. There are enough actions on the civil court books, it is said, to keep the court grinding for several weeas, but it is not certain whether the term will last more than one week The court this morning was de voted to several minor suits, while quite a number of divorce cases are to be taken up later. Deputy Gus Jolley is acting as court officer. Man Thought Burned To Death Returns Home After 30 Years Johnson City, Tenn.—Death hav ing removed a threat against his life, Ale Artrip was home again this week, thirty years, he said aft er he fled the nearby Cumberland mountains of Virginia upon freeing himself from a pile of burning logs assembled for his funeral pyre Recalling his flight the iged mountaineers said Hunt Hail, who is said to have confessed the slay ing or Artrip on his death oed, struck him with an axe, robbed him and then left him unconscious in the fire. But he revived in time to escape the flames, according to liis story, and left the county not to return as long as Hall lived. That was in the late nineties. Several years later a human e*ele ton was found and identified as that of Artrip. Twenty years after he had fled Hall made his confess* Ion and died. Artrip did not hear of Hall’s passing until ten years late: meantime making his hoige In Ken* tucky and West Virginia The gray-haired and long forgot ten man returned to his home on Thanksgiving day saying news of Hall's death had just reached him, Christmas Fund List Starts In Star Wednesday Wednesday’s issue of t’hn Star will publish the find list of contributors to The S*ar's Christmas Stocking Fund to give necessities of life to the poor and unfortunate of Shel by on Christmas ere. Thereafter contributions will be published each day until the fund closes, provided new contributions come in between issues. Will your name be in the first list of givers Wednes day? By giving early you may cause others to contribute. Politics Warms Up Very Slowly In This County Uric Number Of Candidates In Last Primary May Hare Taken Prp Out Of Others. The dozen or so candidates who sought the Democratic nomination for sheriff In the last primary to gether with the several candidates for other offices must have damp ened the ardor of office-seekers In this county. Anyway, despite the fact that some of the political cir cle are talking politics prospective candidates axe not showing much Interest, Of course the usual Cleveland county fondness for political tus sles may be more in evidence once the holidays are over, but as It Is those who enjoy getting the situa tion warmed up are meeting with little success. Talk Judgeships. Quite a bit of talk la going the .noumia about, twu Judgeships, the superior eoartrberth from VRK& Judge James L. Webb will retire next year, and the county court judgeship which will be given up, it Is rumored, by Recorder Horace Kennedy at the end of his term. In the general speculation it is taken for granted that Attorney B. T Palls, former county judge, legisla tor and the author of the Palls Aus tralian ballot, will place his name before the voters of the district as the nominee to succeed Judge Webb, but so far Mr. Falls has not com mitted himself. In the talk, too, one hears the name of former County Judge John P. Mull mentioned as a prospect for both the superior court judgeship and the recordershlp which he has held heretofore. Neither Is he going on record jo far In advance. It is quite likely, x so it seems, that two or three attor neys may get In the battle for the county judgeship, but for the pres ent It seems as if the likely candi dates are holding back to see if Judge Kennedy will not run again as has been rumored. 0 -- If ox Hunters Have Friends Jo “Feed” Brushy Creek Club Has Couple Hundred Present For Friday Night Barbecue. A couple hundred Cleveland coun ty people were Friday guests at one ot the most enjoyable occasions staged In this county in months when the Brushy Creek Fox Hunt ers Club entertained at a big oar becue at the Bate Blanton place above Shelby. Visitors from Shelby and all sec tions of the county, men and wom en, were guests of the hunting clvb, and such was the giant repast re paired that there were 16 quarters of mutton left over In addition tr barbecued pork and chicken. Wagner’s Condition Is Critical Today At the Shelby hospital today it was stated that the condition of Mr. Fred Wagner, local contractor, who underwent an appendicitis op eration there last week, • was -.till considered critical today. He be came worse after complications and Dr. Scruggs, of Rutherfordton. and others were wrought in for consul tation yesterday with the nospital staff. Two of his sisters and X.Irs. Wagner’s father are here. They ere Mrs. Martin Pulcher, of De'roit, Michigan; Mrs. William Lanier, of Atlanta, and Mr. C. C. Graham, of Unadilla, Georgia. County To Make Almost Seventy Thousand Bales Stainey Says Only About 60,000 Will Be Harvested Because Of Bad Weather. f ’Bass Sut He's prediction that Cleveland county would this year make 70,000 bales of cotton Is the best estimate I have heard.” is the opinion expressed by Mr. Tom stamey, leading merchant and cit izen of Fallston. It Is Mr. Stanley's belief that at least 70,000 bales of cotton bava been produced In the county this [ year, but he does not think the I total ginning will ruu over 60,000 bales because all of the cotton was not picked due to bad weatehr. Some cotton, he says, was turned because of continued rains wnich kept the pickers out of the fields, while other cotton was so badly damaged by the weather that farmers did not consider It wwth the picking cost. Had the weatner been suitable throughout the sea son he says there Is no doubt but what the final ginning report would have reached near the 70,000 hale mark imported Pickers. In connection with the big cotton crop Mr. Charlie 8. Young, whole sale grocer who also la a good cot ton farmer, says that he believes that at least 2,000 colored people must have been brought to this county In the last couple of weeks to aid in the cotton picking. The cold snap Friday night and Satur day was a hardship to many of the Imported pickers who failed to bring along blankets and are sleeping In barns and outhouses while here. Fortunately, however, the major tty of the pickers brought along ample clothing and blankets. The Impor tation of the pickers Is the biggest movement of labor to this ccninty since it became a cotton leader. In TflMiy instances the women nave been employed over the county as cooks while their husbands and children are in the cotton fields. Scouts Of District In Court Of Honor Scoot Leaders And Scoots Of Shelby District To Attend. McDiar mid In Charge. The Court of Honor for the Shel by district of the Piedmont conned of the Boy Scouts of America, which includes the various Shelby troops and troops of Belwood, Falls.on, Lattlmore, Earl and Grover, will be held In the court room of tlie Cleve land county court house on Mon day night, December 2 %t 7:30 o'clock. Rev. H. N. McDiarmld, judge of the court, will preside and will be assisted by various citizens of Shel by. All Shelby scout leaders and scout troops are beng urged to attend the meeting. Following the regular court of honor, a short meeting of ;hc Shelby scout committee and the scoutmasters of the district will be held. R. M. Schiele, scout exo.’ullve of the Piedmont councill. will he present to assist in the work o' the court of honor and to advise with the committee and the scoutmas ters. * First Baptist Men Will Enjoy Banquet The men of the First Baptist church here will enjoy a fellowship banquet Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in the young peoples depart ment of the assembly room at the First Baptist church. Even man in the church membership is invited to attend this chicken dinner. QUILT SALE, OYSTER SUPPER The people of the Flint Hill com munity will hold a quilt sale and an oyster supper at the Flint Hill church on Friday evening, begin ning at 6 o’clock. The public is or dially invited, the proceeds to go to the church. Or. Lackey Same. At the hospital today it was said that the condition of Dr. F. H, Lackey, paralyzed more than a week ago at his Fallstou home, re mains about the same. Parent-Teachers Meeting. The Washington street school Parent-Teachers association will meet tonight at 7:30 at the senool All parents are urged to attend. Well-Known Track Star Shoots Friend in Drunken Craze I ! Bootleg liquor which tempo rarily de ranged hit mind mat blamed by Major Owen R. Bird, national ly known tportman and a former lead* i mg track ttar at Occidental College, Lot ‘ KngeUt, for an affray at hit home in which he thot and wounded Percival Ora 1am Walton. II Boy Trusty And Sheriff’s Son Battle Down Jail Break Here December Riderfri ~ On A Bitter Wave Saturday Morning Coldest Novem ber Weather Registered Here In Tears. Sunday Colder. December rode into S&elby W'd I section Sunday morning aboard rn Icy weve which brought the coldest weather on record in many years lor the season of the year. The cold snap, which clung on today as ar early morning rain froze almost a_> last as it fell, comes approximately 12 year* alter the bitter cold weath er ol 1917. Saturday morning this section awoke to face the coldest Novem ber morning in the memory of many with thermometers dropping as low as 15. although the better thermo meters did not get below 17 decree? above. Scores and scores of cam were frozen, waterworks and plumb ing fixtures froze and bursted and there yeas little let-up In the oltter atmosphere throughout the day. Sunday morning it was colder with official thermometers falling to 15 degrees above, and for the second day plumbers and service stations were kept busy taking care of ‘he freeze damage. Yesterday afternoon and ivening the temperature rose, but In the wee hours of the morning it aegan raining and this morning early ris ers awoke to find thp rata freezing on the trees and ground. Later in the morning the icy blanket cover ing the section began to melt as the rain continued but at noon there was still much Ice In evidence. Wreck At Mooreaboro. Early last night two cars crashed together on the highway near Mooresboro and a Forest City man had one arm broken while his wife was lacerated about the head and face. The wreck was caused, accord ing to reports here, by an intoxi cated negro driver who is said to have cut his car across the road In front of the Forest City car. HI3 last name is Logan and he was placed under a $300 bond there to aw-ut trial. The names of the Forest City people were not learned. ■Trusty Injured Bat Ha Stops Dub For Freedom And Catches One Who Escaped. Cobby Page, young white (rusty at the Cleveland county jail, played a heroic rote along with Halwood Allen, 11-year-old son or Sheriff Irvin Allen, ear ly Saturday evening when they stopped an attempted JaU break at JaU here. Both youths were considerably braised in the bat tle but at the end not a stogie prisoner had escaped. ▲long about dusk the young trusty accompanied by the two sons of the sheriff, the youngest, George only 11 years old, started upstairs to give the prisoners their evening meal, thinking that Sheriff Allen wu on the first floor. As they un locked the door to the main floor cells, two stories up, Page, the trus ty, walked in toward the cages with the 13-year-old son of the sheriff remaining at the door with the keys. Unexpectedly a prisoner, James Mayhew, held here for steal ing and also wanted In South Car olina, who had perched himself just above the door on the inside, Top ped upon the head of the small youth and crushed him to the floor The boy flung himself clear and made a dash to lock the door but was floored for the second time by a milk bottle In the hands of May hew, a 200-pounder. About this time Page, the trusty, dashed back to the door and gave chase to Mayhew who wu heading down the stairs for freedom. The second Allen boy secured the keys from where Mayhew threw them after he had knocked down the sheriff's oldest son and secured them, and then he locked the door keeping the others in. Fight In Basement. Mayhew missed the door w> Iree Jom in his dash downstairs and ran Into the basement where he was gpr nered by the lightweight trusty who hesitated not a minute in grappling with him. For several minutes Jiev battled about the basement with shovels and milk bottles. Twisting free the trusty secured a shovel and knocked the fleeing prisoner down, (Continued on page ten.) Convict Defendants In Marion Riot Trial; Chain Gang Terms Marion.—Alfred Hoffman, United Textile Workers of American organ izer, and Lawrence Hogan, Del Lew is and Wes Fowler, strikers from lo cal cotton mills Saturday were con victed by a Jury in McDowell Super ior court of rioting. They were ac quitted of charges of resisting offic ers. The verdict carried a recom mendation for mercy. Hoffman was fined $1,000 and sentenced to one month in jail: and Fowler, Hogan and Lewis were each given six months on the chain gang by Judge G. V. Cowper, presiding The charges against Hoffman and the three strikers grew of efforts of strikers at the CltnchTield and Marlon Manufacturing Company Cotton mills here to prevent non* union workers moving Into the Clinch!ield mill village. The trouble occurred on August 30. Sheriff O. F. Adkins and Hirer officers testified that the furniture of a non-union worker had been moved out of the house into which he had moved when starting to work at the mill and officers had been prevented from returning it. As a result of the demonstration (Continued on page ten.) $2,000Each Foi 6 Lives, $1,000 For Other Death County’s Rlnrrst Series Of Diauft Suite Definitely Settled la Court Today. Shelby biggest series of dun* nge units, an aftermath of the town's greatest disaster, the building crash la Aagwt of 19(8 In which seven met death* t ame to an end In superior oahrt here this morning when a com promise agreed npon waa off It Hally signed hy Judge Thsmas L. Johnson, of Lnmherton, Wh«i opened a special tom of su perior court here today. > By the terms of the compromise reached three defendants In ’ the suits, which in original claims tapp ed around a quarter of a million dollars, will pay $3,000 to the $e tatc of each of the she white people killed in the crash and $1,000 to tn<; estate of the colored laborer who died weeks after from Injuries re ceived. Others Settled. The settlement of the seven suiU today ended all le*al settem width has developed so far. In the eases of the several people Injured In the tragic crash private settlements nave been made out of court or are 4n the process of being settled now, ac cording to attorneys for those con cerned. The court judgment says that three dels a Mrirnight, —am ■«**> ing whlth collapsed: Older) Luts and Tom Webb, contractors fjr ex cavation work—must pay the fol lowing claims: $2,000 to the’ estate of Mias Ora Eskridge, bang em ploye;; $3,000 to the estate of Alex Hoyle, bank employe; $3,000 ta ttle estate of Guy Green, bank em ploye: $3jOOO^to^he^Jto^«r^Eri» of Carl Blanton, son nf Zeb Blanton; $3,000 to the estate Of Clyde Carpenter, farmer of upper Cleveland; and $1,000 to the estate of J. C. Thomas, colored laborer who died after the crash from In juries.* The sums total $13,000, and the judgment also adds that the de fendants must alto pay the ' cuts in the case, which will total several thousand additional, it is under stood. City Omitted. In the majority of the claims fil ed the city of Shelby through the city building inspector was * party to the sulk but in the oocp promise judgment the citywas omitted, because, it Is said, that it could not be held legally resnprisi ble. Just how the Judgment sums and costa are to be divided among! the three defendants Is not stated in the judgment record, that portion, according to attorneys, being left to a prlvae agreement between the de fendants cited. General B«Hef. Throughout Shelby and the coun ty there is a feeling of rritef hat the cases will not be fought out In court. The disaster struck Shelby a heavy blow from which the «nt!re (Continued on page ten.) McKnight Did Not Change Property To Avoid Suit Damages Attorneys Declare Rumor |< False. Wni Hutu To Borrow To Pay Adjustment Amounts. John S. McKnight, one of the trio of main defendants In the big building crash suits settled here to day, did not deed over his property or mortgage it to keep from paying a court verdict had the suits not been adjusted. This was made plain here today by a statement issued by McKnight and his attorneys In refuting a rumor that he had done so. “Mr. McKnight did nothin* of the sort and the rumor probably origi nated from a statement by Mr. Mc Knight that he did not haw the ready cash to make a settlement of the suits and would haw to borrow money and mortgage his property to meet the settlement toms.** the attorneys said. "He made nut a sin gle move Of that type for be la no* ♦hat, manner of man, as en tire section knows, awl he faces the hardship he does in rnyfc,*r»g the settlement agreed upon without kicking. It is nothing but fair to denounce the false rumor (hat b* used such tactics.”
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