12 PACES TODAY . —■ .. —1 ■■ini ■■■■■■■■■! ibi Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons vw *joc LA TE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton Seed, per bn. „_..... 39c Cotton, per lb._i6Vic Fair And Cold. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and continued cold to night. Thursday fair with slowly rising temperature. Gaston Kicks On BilL At the meeting of Gaston coun ty commissioners in Gastonia *his week there was criticism of the bill sent to Gaston by Mecklenburg in connection with the Aderholt trial moved to Charlotte from Gastonia. One Item criticised was the feeding of the jurors at the Selwyn hotel when Mecklenburg does not keep her own jurors there on ordinary cases. Civic Clubs To Have Big Meets Here This Week Rotary To Have Ladles Night, And Kiwanis To Nominate New Of ficers. Good Programs, Two of the Shelby civic clubs will put on very interostlnc programs this week- with the Kiwanis club nominating 1930 officers at its meet ing Thursday night and the Rotary club staging Its semi-annual "Ladies Night” banquet. The Kiwanis club, it is announc ed by Secretary Chas. A. Burrus, will meet at the Wayside restaurant on East Warren street at 7:30 in the evening. The business meeting will be devoted to the nominating of two lists of officers for 1930 while the election of officers for the year will be held at the meeting next week. » Judge To Speak. In addition to the business pro gram Judge T. L. Johnson, of Lum berton, who is holding a special term of court here, will be the -'hlef speaker for the regular fellowship program in charge of Kiwanian Will C. Harris. Steckel Entertains. The Rotary “Ladies Night” on Friday evening at 7:30 will oe he'd in the main dining room of the Ho tel Charles. The program enter tainment will be directed by -Tof. Edwin M. Steckel, director of music in the city schools of Gastonia and a musician well known to radio fans of this section. Cleveland Has 22 Girls At N. C. W. Twelve Are From Shelby, Three . From Kings Mountain And Casar. Lawndale Has Two. Greensboro, Dec. 4.—Twenty-two representatives or Cleveland county are on the roll at North Carolina college this year, according to rec ords in the office of Miss Laura Colt, college secretary. Shelby" is the residence of 12 students, Kinsrs Mountain of three, Casar of three, Lawndale of two, Fallston of one student and Lattimore of one. Shelby residents at the college are Misses Sarah Best, Mary Frances Carpenter, Louise Cottle, Burton Bryce Gettys, Dorothy King, Char lie Mae Laughridge, Elizabeth Mor rison, Lily Louise Morrison, Sadie Mull, Evangeline Peeler, Lalage Shull and Helen Whltener. The other students and their home residences are given in the following: Kings Mountain: Misses Dorothy Kiser, Maude Lorena Will iams and Mitchell Ellen Williams; Casar: Miss Doshia Richards, Dar las Wortman and Lounette Wort man; Lawndale: Misses Eloise Griea * and Mildred Boyles; Fallston: Miss < Elva Baker; Lattimore: Miss Mart Elizabeth Willis. santa will Fill the majority of his Christmas packs for this sec tion In shelby stores. —Shelby merchants have al ready opened their Toy.ands and Gift Paradises. In each Issue of The Star, in the “ads” they’re telling about them. Bead now and buy, for there's only 18 more days for Christmas shopping Each Cleveland County Citizen Should Be Worth $942 Judging By Total Tax Valuation Figures Total Property Valuation This Vear Shows $200,000 Gain Over 1928. Gains Since 1926. If the wealth of Cleveland county, as it Is valued on the tax books, were evenly propor tioned between all citizens, each and every citizen would ne worth $942 according to the 1929 tax books. At the completion of compil ing tax figures for the county tax collecting now going on it was found that the total prop erty valuation for 1929 was $38, 613,894 and this sum divided among an estimated poulation of 41,000 people would give each one approximately $942. $ain Is Shown. The total valuation for 1929 shows a gain of $210,829 over the property valuation in the county in -928. which was $38,403,065. The 1928 valuation showed a gain of $336,751 over 1927, and the 1927 gain over 1926 was $816,952, a total gain of $1,364,532 since 1926. Personal Property Off. As has been customary for years the personal property valuation in the county this year is less than would ordinarily be estimated. The figures for 1929 show $6,511,000 list ed as personal property, or some thing like one-sixth of the total valuation whereas experts usually consider personal property as rating about one-fourth of total wealth. The total property valuation rf more than 38 and one-half millions includes stocks as well as reel es tate. Earl Organizes Boy Scout Troop Davis Is Scoutmaster With Kills As Assistant. Pick Cotton lror Uniforms. Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts of Amer ica, at Earl has just completed its organization and application for charter has been made to the Na tional Council of the Boy Scouts of America through the Piedmont Council under whose jurisdiction this section is allocated. Mr. J. W. Davis principal of the Earl school, is serving as cout master of the troop and Mr. Jesno C. \Ellis is serving as the assistant scoutmaster. The troop is being fostered by a community committee composed of A. A. Battis, Roy Lav ender and Bob Turner. Seventeen boys for the charter membership of the troop and in clude the following: Jospeh Austell, Jack Borders, Wilbur Davis, Chas Ellis, Hazel Jones. Sam E. Randa'l, Wilson Randall, Morris Runyan, Jackson Sepaugh. Wra. Sepaugh, Ben Turner. Clarence Turner, Wm. Turner, C. O. Lavender, Raford Davis, Fred Nichols and Howard Bettis. Members of the troop have been at work during the past few months picking cotton to earn funds for the purchase of scout uniforms and other scout equipment! OYSTER AND CHICKEN St'PPER AT LaFAYETTE ST. CHI RCH An oyster and chicken supper will be held at the LaFayette Street Methodist church Saturday after noon and evening, hours 5 until s This supper Is sponsored by know what he was talking about. Plans His Trap. Near Waco, In the eastern sec tion of Cleveland county, there was a citizen who had been mi dug motor oil from his car shed, ft was his custom to buy five gallons of oil at a time for his car, but the oil kept disappearing faster than his car burned it. He had several suspicions, and then one day re cently a brilliant Idea came to h‘s mind. He had just been to Shelby and purchased five gallons of oil When he came home, as the story Is told, one of the persons lw sus pected of knowing where Ills oil was going, was there. He placed the oil in the car shed as if he had never noticed any disappearing. The suspect remarked to him that somebody might find It easy to steal the oil. "Oh, no,” the man replied. ‘I'm not worrying about that.” But after the visitor departed tho man became active. He journeyed to the car shed, secured the five gallon can of oil, poured the oil into another can, and then prac tical filled the oil can with Karo syrup, over which he poured a small amount of the oil for deceptive pur poses. In The Sugary Trap. Then all the stock being fed, the chores being done, and dark swo p ing down over the cotton fields, the (Continued on page twelve.) Baptist Men Meet In Banquet Tonight On last Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock, twenty-three lay niemt :rs of the First Baptist church met and agreed to get in touch with three hundred men in the church membership and invite all to a fel lowship banquet, to be held in the young peoples' department assem bly room oi the church, this even ing at 7 o'clock. 1 The latest reports from the com [ mittee show that this will be a ec ord breaking meeting of men. Per haps the largest number of lay members of the First Baptist church who have ever sat down together to dine at one time will be present this evening. The meeting will be one of fel lowship. k review of the work dur ing the year will be given and some of the committees will make recom mendations for the coming year This will be done in order that all the men In the membership will, know Just what the church is doing and see how the various lines A ac tivities are progressing. Every man in the membership is invited. At Elliabeth Church. There will be preaching at, Eliza beth church Saturday morning at il o'clock, it is announced. Woman Dies In N. C. Prison As She Gives Birth To Twin Girls Raleigh.—Mrs. Ida Dills, sewing five to seven years in state’s prison for manslaughter, died in the oris on hospital Sunday afternoon after having given birth to twins, one of whom died a short time before Its mother. The other baby lived and was doing fine, prison officials said Allen Dills, husband of the dead woman is also serving a sentence i.»r manslaughter in the prison. Dills drew a 17 to 20-year sentence and his wife, who was convicted along with him, got the shorter tenn of five to seven years. They were sen tenced in Macon county superior er of the dead woman, was notified court in April, 1929. Mrs. Hattie Sliope of Otto, moth er of the dead woman, was notified of her daughter's death and prison officials said they expected her mi claim the body and living aiiid. The case of the child, however, may be Investigated by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, state commissioner oi yjb lic welfare, in order to learn if the family of the dead woman is able to give the Infant proper care and supply its needs. Vance Oiils of Franklin, father-in-law of the vOm an was also notified. Mrs. Dills’ husband was stationed at Caledonia prison farm at the time of his wife’s death, Warden H. H. Honeycutt said, and Captain N. E. Hanes, in charge at Caledonia, was instructed to allow Dills to come to Raleigh this afternoon un der guard to see his dead wife and child and also the living baby. Both of the babies were gins Sunday was the first time in sev eral years that a woman prisoner had given birth to a child while at state’s prison, Mr. Honeycutt said. Byrd's Ex-Aide “Suicide”—Found Alive in Oinuliu Dramatically revealed as alive and well long after he had been reported a suicide, Richard G. Brophy, former executive of the Byrd Expe dition, is speeding from Omaha to New York to straighten out his affairs and start all over. He has been working on the editorial staff of a Nebraska newspaper for some time. Pal Of Byrd, Thought Dead, Located Now Working On Newspaper. Believed A Suicide, Is Recognized By Photo. Omaha.—The Omaha Bee-News, in a copyrighted story tills week says Richard Gale Brophy. former ly seSond in command of Command er Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic; ex pedition, who disappeared in Npw York last August after leaving a suicide note, has been found in Omaha. The former business manager for the famous Arctic explorer has been working as a copy reader for the Omaha Morning Bee under the name of C. Manning Mitchell, the paper says, and adds: "Identity of Brophy was revealed by a startling coincidence almost at the instant that the news -.as flashed of Byrd's flight over the South Pole. "Brophy severed connection-, with the Byrcf expedition in New Zeal and last March, and returned u> New York. Then he disappeared leaving the following note; "I am going to Coney Island. I am going to walk into the waves (Continued on page twelve.) Civil Court Moves Along With Actions Very Few I,arge Cases Tried Vet. Damage Suits, Ejectment Claims And Such. The special term or civil court here this week,., with Judge T. L. Johnson, of Lumberton, pr-vding has not as yet disposed of any major civil actions and for the most part has been devoted to near ing of minor damage suits, claims and other civil litigation. Practically one whole day was de voted to the suit of A. C. Canipe vs. M. P. Coley while the jury did not return its verdict until up In the morning of the second day. In this action Canipe desired reimburse ment to the extent of $1,700 from Coley, alleging that the defendant had sold him a house which was mortgaged before the sale. Tlit jury award gave Canipe $850, oj one-half of the damages sought. Fred Wagner Grows Weaker, Said Today A report from the Shelby hos pital shortly after 1 o’clock his afternoon stated that Mr. Fred Wagner, who has been in a critical condition since an ap pendicitis operation a week ago, appeared to be gradually grow ing weaker. For the last day or so anil to day he has been delirious at in tervals, and it is felt that his chances of recovery ar»- di minishing. Webb Tosses A Monkey Wrench In Bench Race Veteran Jurist May Not Retire As Others Plan Race For IHstrlol Judgeship. Holding court over at Win ston-Salem this week and. with cold wrathrr here, feeling rhir pier than he has In months. Judge James I<- Webb tossed a monkey wrench Into the poli tical machinery of this section which may send any number of political castles tumbling Just a* their foundations were being laid. And the veteran Jurist, known and loved here In his home Wwu as "Ju | Lenoir county widow just Delon ' committing suicide. She wrote an- ' j sealed her hopelessness with her j life:. . "I can't stay here in this world ; and keep my little children from starring. I have nobody to look to j for anything. I hope my children i can be cared for in an orphanage, j "I'd rather go and be with Sam." j (Sam was her husband.) "I started to write this letter six ; months ago, but was interrupted. Tonight I must finish it. And, oh God, it’s hard to write. Don't think less of me for doing this. I feel that! it will be better than to go on rmi i lose my mind. I haven’t been to bed 1 and it is now 5 o'clock.’* There are many no doubt in her county who would have given aid it they had known of her. - extremity;. Some neighbors will say “O, If we had known.” And now it is too late ! It is a reflection upon our civiliza tion that conditions could exist ihat (Continued on page twelve.) FUND GROUP MEETS The committee which this year will investigate appeals and distribute The Star’s Christmas Stocking Fund among the poor of Shelby rill meet Thursday afternoon at I o'clock In the office of J. B. Smith, county welfare officer, at the court house. Preliminary plans will be cone over for raising and handling the necessary fund Those urged to attend as I members of the committee are the presidents or representa tives of the three civic clubs —Kiwanls, Lions, and Rotary; the hrad or a representative of the Woman’s club and ■\ux iliary organizations; the mln I inters of the uptown and 5 South and West Shelby churches, and CapL U. L. smith, superintendent of schools. Club heads unable to attend the conference snould see that their clubs are rep resented. Simmons Will Be Fought By Labor, Textile Organizer Says High Point.—A million and a hail dollars, recently voted by the Am erican Federation of Labor at its convention in Toronto, Canada, rood will be available to fight labor's bat - ties in North Carolina, according tc labor leaders here. Following a con ference with Alfred Hoffman, or ganizer for the United Textile Workers of America and chief fig ure in the Marion trial, the local tycoons announced that labor will begin serious operation In the near future and that Its operations will center in the middle part of the state. With the million and a hart dol lar appropriation In hand, accord ing to the local leaders, they will apply themselves to a twofold cask. One is to organize labor In the state. The other is to defeat S*ma [ tor F. M. Simmons if he otters him r ; self lor election next year. They quote Hollman as stating ; that Simmons is not a friend to u | bor and must be kept out of the j United States senate. A large part of tin American Federation appr >p»ia 1 ticsi will be used for the election of | men favorable to labor, it is de ; dared. Every candidate for the state legislature next year will be asked by labor leaders to express his views in regard to the various measures which labor hopes to get on the statute books in North Carolina. If necessary candidates will be put in the race by labor, irrespective of political faith, it is Indicated. While in this city recently Mr. Hoffman is quoted as saying that Senator Lee S. Overman is an ene my of labor, but it is thought that (Continued oft jjase tweije.t i a * School Budget Endorsed Here By Ruling Board The S-36H.2fl4.8fl Expense «t Operat ing AH County Schools For Six Months, Approved. One of the main features of the two county board session here this week was the approval of the Nov ember, or six months school budget by the county board of education- 1 This budget, as submitted by -T. H. Orlgg, county superintendent, * calls for the expenditure Of £M0, 304.86 to operate all Cleveland coun ty schools for the six months peri od. This not only Includes the schools which operate for only six months of the year but covers the operating expense of the eipht months schools for six months and the salaries of teachers and a per capita expense tendered the city schools of Shelby and Kings Moun tain for six months of the school year. ' Of this total amount sm.lWJi come* from sources other than tax ation, being derived from the state equalisation fund, fines and for feitures from county court, 'rom dog tax and money from district* applied on state loans. This memos that of the total expense cttlxehs pay by taxation only $189 095.55 to operate all the schools of the ooun ty for six months, In which *ppr?oc lmately 15,000 children are being educated. The majority of the school board session was devoted to routine work. No Bridge Requests. The county commissioners had a very quiet session with only cus tomary bills and monthly problems to take up. An unusual feature' of the session, according to the min utes of the meeting, was that for the first time in longer than the commissioners remember not a sin gle request was made for a new bridge in the county or bridge re pairs. Ordinarily, year in and out, , one of the major problems of coun ty commissioner* fc-the lmlldinu and upkeep of bridges la-all Sections of' the cotinty. Soldier Wed» Girl Hurt Gaffney Crash Cherryvllle Girl Marries Army Matt At Hospital in Gaffney After Auto Crash. Gaffney—Reviving from a period of unconsciousness following at) automobile wreck on Cherokee ave nue here Sunday afternoon, Mlstt Lillie Mae Grigg, of Cberryville, was married to Sergeant Stanley Wolose of Fort Bragg, while lying In bed at the City hospital hara Sunday night. The ceremony was performed by Probate Judge (lake W. Stroup in the presence of the hospital nurses, and Jim McSwakt. of the First National Bank, who happened to be visiting at the In stitution. The groom sat on the bed by the side of the bride during the ceremony. - ^ • 1 The bride and goam were able M leave the hospital Monday and left for Cherryvllle to visit the bride's relatives. Sergeant Woloee and his fiance were accompanied by Henry Heath, of Fort Bragg, and Miss Pearl Qrigg, slater of Mias Mae, when the automobile in which they were rid ing crashed Into a tree on Cherokee avenue about 9 o’clock Sunday aft ernoon. Miss Mae Grigg was knock ed unconscious and the others were l badly jarred and shaken up. Melvin Peeler Plays Last Game Saturday Durham, Dec. 4.—Melvin Peeler, former two-letter star at Shelby High, will be playing his last foot ball game In Duke university tog si Saturday when Duke battles the strong Carolina eleven In tha sea son's finale in the handsome new stadium at Durham. During his three years the former Shelby boy has been one of tnv most consistent and hardest light ing ends on the squad ana has n& ‘ • tiripated in practically every Duke game during the three years - pearing with him for the last