12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 146 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1929 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By man, per year (in advance) $3.50 Carrier, per year (In advance) Kx.0 LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton Seed, per bn. ... 42c Cotton, per pound__ 16*»c Rain For Thursday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Clcpdy with rain In north and weat portions tonight or Thurs day. Not much change In teropera turc. Dr. lackey Home. Dr. F. H. Lackey, of Falls ton, wbc Buffered a severe stroke of paralysis sene weeks back, has been showing gradual improvement, and today was removed to his home at Fall stan from the hospital here where he had been a patient since suffer ing the stroke. No Flying For Mabel On 13th Niece Of Noted Buffalo Bill, Au Aviatrix, Is Shy Of Thlrtee.is And Black Cats. Buffalo Bill, the famous frontiers man, may never have looked at the calendar, If he ever had one, when he started out on his horse to hunt buffaloes or Indians, but his niece, Mabel, attractive blonde aviatrix who will fly several airplanes nere this week, is very particular about the date when she goes to ride in her air buggy ant^ takes passengers along Yesterday Miss Cody, the niece of the Wyoming pioneer and show man, came to The Star printing plant to have some circulars print ed to advertise the planes she will have in Kings Mountain over the week-end to take up passengers. -Hold That 13.” ‘‘Put th dates down as Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,” she said. “All right,” replied the printer, “let’s see what days of the month, that will be.” And he looked at the calendar, and so did Mabel, who exclaimed: “Just leave that Friday part ofl and say the planes will be tnerc Saturday and Sunday, and maybe Monday. Nothing doing for Mabel on the 13th.” Then the girl who became an aviatrix when the wild west became too tame for one with Cody blood In her veins explained that not long since a black cat crossed In front of her plane while she was taking off and that day she made only $13 and a few cents out of taking up pas sengers. There are only a couple of Fri days falling on the 13th In the course of the year, and the avia trix prefers to miss just that much business, because, true to the old West, she’s a bit superstitious. Cleveland Youth* Honored At College Bolling Springs Boy Is Atlanta Editor: Earl Boy Wins With Paper. Two Cleveland county boys, one from Bolling Springs and the other from Earl, have recently won honors at their respective colleges. At the Atlanta Southern Dental college A. H. Cash, of Boiling Springs, has been named associate editor of the Asodecoan, college an nual Mr. JT. H. Nichols of Earl, who is a senior at N. C. State college in electrical engineering, presented a paper at the third annual student! branch convention of the fourth district of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and won tnird place. This convention was held at Charlottesville, Va., during the Thankgiving holidays. A student from University of South Carolina taking first place and one from the University of Florida taking second place, Nichols of N. C. State third place. The subject of his paper was "The Riverbend Steam Station.” The Riverbend Steam station Is the new steam plant just completed by the Duke Power Co. and It Is lo cated near Mount Holly. His paper gave a complete discussion of the latest method of generating elec-1 tricity by steam. it Ca*i’t Be! But it i,__ Just ^ more Shopping Day, Befo~ Chri.tma, Cleveland Now Within 12,500 Bales Of 60,000-Bale Crop; 47,496 Bales Ginned To Dec. 1 Ginning To December 1 In County Passes All Records. To Pass Last Year. If farmers and cotton observ ers hereabouts are not overly enthusiastic, and they seldom are, Cleveland county will make or very near make 60,000 bales of cotton this year. To December 1, practically two weeks ago, this county had ginned 47,406 bales of cotton, according to the figures issued to The Star today by Miles U. Ware ginning agent. This is two thousand bales more than the county has ever ginned to the same date, and the majority of observers say that there is more . cotton in the fields of the coun ty now than ever before at De cember II. Big Gain Shown. To December 1, last year, the county had ginned 45,343 bales, * or 2,153 bales less than to the same date this year. L'p to Nov ember 14, this year, 40,624 halfs had been ginned in the county, or, in other words, 6,872 bales were ginned in the two weeks period between November 14 and December 1. If a similar amount is ginned between December 1 and the end of this week, when the next report will be assem bled, the county will have pass ed the 53,000 bale mark of last year. Two more ginning reports will be issued, one December 14 and the other on January 15, then the final in Mrach. If in that time the county gins 12,500 bales the 60,000 total predicted by many at the beginning of the year will have been reached. Due to the freezing weather at the first of the month very lltCe cotton was picked, but this week Scores m bales have been taken from the fields to the gins. Cleveland Couples Married In Gaffney 60-Year-Old Colored Parson Among County Couples Hitched In South Carolina. The Yuleitde rush is oh over Cleveland counfo tor the Gaffney holiday ties that hind. The following Cleveland couples were issued marriage license in tat South Carolina town last week; Floyd McGinnis, of Forest City, and Esther Jolly, of Mooresboro, route 1; Garrison Blanton and Mattie Lee Greene, of Boiling Springs; Clay ton Garner and Hattie Galloway, of Shelby, route 6; Kalph Rochester, of Lincolnton, and Florence Powell, of Shelby; George Cabiness and Mary Ruth Walker, of Shelby; Grady McCraw and Inez Jackson, of Shelby; Lupis Allen and Ruth Queen, of Shelby; Colon Goode and Dollie Canlpe, of Shelby; Dan Fos ter and Lucy Dellinger, of Kings Mountain; Dave Rippy and Mamie MclntyTe, of Earl. A negro wedding of interest in Gaffney, according to The Gaff ney Ledger,” was that of the Rev. Ambrose E. Hopper, 60-year-old preacher of Shelby, and Addio Jolly of Gaffney, route 1.” T. G. Howell Enters Rutherford Hospital Mr. T. G. Howell, local transfer man, left yesterday for Rutherford ton to undergo a serious operation. Mr. Howell has been suffering from his affliction for some time and his friends here will wish that the op eration be successful. Decrease In Yield For Cotton Shown -' Still Above I«h Year's Crop But Lower Than Last Month Estimate. Washington.—An estimated oro duction of 14,919,000 bales Of cotton of 500 pounds gross weight was shown by the department of agri culture report on the basis of De cember 1 indications, compared with a forecast of 15,009,000 bales made a month ago, and 14,478,000 oales produced last year. The indicated yield of lint cotton pier acre is placed at 155.3 pounds pier acre, compared with 152 9 pounds last year. Abandonment of acreage sinco July was shown at 3:3 pier cent of the acreage planted, leaving 43,331, 000 acres lor harvest. Yield By States. Production by states was estimat ed as follows: * Virginia, 46,000. North Carolina, 735,000. South Carolina, 845,000 Georgia, 1,345.000. Florida, 29,000 Missouri, 113.000. Tennessee, 515,000. Alabama, 1,335,000. Mississippi, 1,915,000 Louisiana, 810,000. Texas, 3,950,000. Oklahoma, 1,200,000 . Arkansas, 1,490,000 New Mexico, #4,000 Arizona, 158,000. California, 242,000, Others, 7,000. Lower California, 80,000 Ginn in gx Total Higher. Washington.—The census bureau reported that 12,8874171 running bales of cotton had been ginned from the crop of 1920 prior to De cember 1 compare* jgJU* JIMO,154 bales oa^ecamber Hast year. Round bales were counted as half bales by the census bureau, num bered 473,079 compared with 518, 974 last year. Ginnings by states were Alabama, 1,200,092. Arizona, 103,147. Arkansas, 14151,765 California, 1784)10 Florida, 29,675. Georgia, 1,176,382. Louisiana, 781,335. Mississippi, 1,692,572 Missouri, 161,553. New Mexico, 64,916. North Carolina, 599,352. Oklahoma, 960,035. South Carolina, 702,568 Tennessee, 395,907. Texas, 3,515,877, Virginia, 35,717. All other states, 5568 Kiwanis To Elect Officers Thursday Night At Meeting Shelby’s Oldest Civic Club To Name President, Directors And Other Officers. At the meeting of the Kiwanis club Thursday night. Shelby’s oldest civic club for business men will elect officers for the new year. The election roster calls for a new president, vice-presidents, dis trict trustee, and a board of direc tors. At last weeks meeting of the club two lists of men were nom inated for all the offices as is cus tomary in the club methods of holding an election. Dr. E. B. Lattimore is now tire president of the club and Attorney Chas. A. Burrus is secretary. Opponent To Simmons Will Announce Soon, Says Bailey If Simmons Is Renominated Uc publican Will Beat Him. Thinks Raleigh Man. Raleigh.—Josiah William Bailey, Raleigh attorney, says that a Dem ocrat who will oppose Senator F. M. Simmons in the primary next year will make himself known in “a few days.” Mr. Bailey, who has been promi nently mentioned in state political circles for some months as a pos sible candidate against Senator Simmons, refused to say who would t make the announcement. Walter P. Stacy, chief justice of the State Supreme Court .and Willis Brcg ; den. associate justice, hav" been [widely mentioned in political ttr cles along with Mr. Bailey as pos sible candidates. Expressing belief that the renom inatlon or Senator Simmons, who opposed Governor Alfred E. Smith in the presidential campaign last year, wculd result in the election of Isaac M. Meekins, Federal Judge and a Republican. Mr. Bailey said he was confident that Judge Meek ins would be the Republican candi date. Recently Judge Mefekins has been mentioned in Republican circles as the most promising candidate and word reached Raleigh today from High Point that Republican leaders there expressed, belief that Judge Meektm will be their candidate next vef>v„ i Named New Head Of Key Club toi-ar DR. A. PITT BEAM Pitt Beam New Head Of Key Club Board Social Club Elects New Board Of Governors. To Han* Photos Of Deceased Members. Dr. A. Pitt Beam was named chairman of the board of governors at the annual election of officers of the social club Monday night. Dr. Beam succeeds Mr. Wyeth Roy ster as head of the club. Other directors named were Dr. D. P. Moore, Clyde Short, Renn Drum and Horace Kennedy. Mr, Charles Woodson was elected secre tary to toe board, succeeding Mr. William Andrews. At the business meeting o{ the club it was decided that photo graphs of members who have died will be framed and placed in the club and that hereafter the custom will be adhered to. Bind Negro Over - In Earl Hold-Up Of Postmistress i McClinton Will Face Charge In Higher Court. Denies Attempt ed Robbery Mrs. White. In county court today Alunza McClinton, coal-black negro youth with a pronounced stutter in his voice, was bound over to superior court by Recorder Hor ace Kennedy on the charge n( holding up and attempting to rob Mrs. Kate Bettis White. Earl postmistress, last Wednes day night. The negro stuttered out a de termined denial of the hold-up. de claring that he knew nothing what soever about it and had no connec tion with it, but about his person a chain of evidence was assembled by officers, evidence enough in the opinion of the recorder to bind the negro over, although there was no evidence which would definitely fasten the crime on McClinton. Witnesses used for the prosecu tion were Mrs. Bettis, Mrs. Jones and county officers. The strongest links of evidence were that bloodhounds tracked the negro from the scene of the at tempted hold-up to a negro church and there lost the trail. Between the hold-up scene and the church the running man had fallen down. McClinton when arrested had a muddy place on one of his knees, and the bloodhounds which nad been following the other tracks seemed, it was said, to sense that he was the same man. Moreover, officers said, that McCUnton’s shoes were of the same size as the shoe-; making the tracks leaving the hold-up scene. Johnson Returns To Provision Business Announcement is made in vlie ad vertising columns today that Ern est Johnson has re-opened the Home Provision company. Or, to be ac curate, 4ha store will open 6n the twelfth. Mr. Johnson, one of the best known of the provision merchants in Shelby, will be the manager of the store, which is owned by Bert Canlpe. The location cf the stand will virtually be the same, also, but extended in volume. ' A Square Dance. There will be a square dance a! the W. O. W. hall on West Graham street next Saturday night, Decem ber 14. proceeds going to the decree team for the purpose of buvin? them new uniforms. The public i Invited. ■ Judgeship Race On Again Now, \ Webb Explains Judfe Wi'hli Will Not Hun Again; Was ,Misunderstood As Was j - Predicted By The SUr. Prospective candidates for the su perior court bench In this district may again open their barrage o' campaign handshakes and accom panying compliments. Judge James , L. Webb will not be a candidate j again when his present term ends next December. Judge Webb made this pla.n n a statement issued at Kaleigh yester day which explained that Winston Salem dispatches saying that he would be a candidate again ,tr< se tram a misinterpretation of a state ment by htm. Tills explanation .tears out an opinion of The Star express d Monday when the paper dec' red that the veteran Jurist had appar ently been misunderstood as lie had announced some weeks back In The Star that he would retire. However, the Winston-Salem dis patch was anything but amusing to some half a dozen bairisters throughout the district who were al ready grooming themselves—or be ing groomed by their friends, as pol iticians prefer It to be expressed— for the anticipated vacancy on the bench. Now Chat Judge Webb bas explained the error all ig well again, and a political race that was al ready assuming interesting prrpov tions is set for additional develop ments. The explanatory dispatch *rora Raleigh says: “Judge James L, Webb of Shelby will not be a can didate to succeed hhnself as su perior court Judge but will con tinue to serve until present term expires, next December, if his health continues good as at pres ent. Judge Webb made this posi tive statement here while visiting liis daughter, Mrs. O. Max Gard ner, due to a misinterpretation of statements he made In Winston Salem put jveek. * «*. - * ••Judge Webb will hart served 25 years when this month ends ard 26 years when his present form ends. He expects to retire at that time but will be subject to.call as an emergency Judge when and If wanted.” Cabaniss Funeral Services Tuesday Mr. Esley Cabaniss Burled At .'aon. Ten Children And Wife Survive. Funeral services for Mr. Lsley Cabaniss, of the Lattimore section, were held Tuesday afternoon ; t 1 o’clock at Zion church with Rev. D. G. Washburn in charge of the services and assisted by Rev. John W. Suttle and Rev. D. F. Putnam. Mr. Cabaniss, who was 79 years of age. died Monday morning about 10 o’clock, death coming after au ill:less of about three years. The deceased is survived by his widow and 10 living children the eleventh child, Esley, Jr., dy'ng in France during the World War. The surviving children are: Miss Minnie, who lives «t home; Gus, Flay, Henry, Oscar. Dee, Mrs. Dudley Simmons, Mrs. Margaret Matthews, Mrs. Will Wright, and hhelt. Sur viving also are two brothers and one sister: Mrs. C. I. Blanton, and Frank and Tom Cabaniss. Mr. Cabaniss had lived in the Lattimore section or in Lattimore practically all of his life and was re garded by all who knew him as an upstanding and substantial dtl izen and neighbor. Mr. M&uney’s Sister Passes In Raleigh Mr. (J. G. Mauney has returned to Shelby after attending the fun eral Saturday afternoon in Raleigh of his sister, Mrs. S. G. Riggs. Mrs. Riggs, a native of the Maiden section, died in a hospital there early Friday morning. In her im mediate family she Is survived by i her husband and three children. Mr. Mauney was accompanied to Ray leigh by his father and mother, sister and brother-in-law, all of Maiden. Dixon’s Sister 111 At Cherryville Home Deputy Sheriff Ed Dixon left Shelby this morning for Cherry* viile to be at the bedside of l'.is sis ter, Mrs. Wehunt, after a message was received informing of her ill ness. According to Information Mrs. Wehunt war thought to be tn a very J critical state. Eight Feel Four of American Citizen ry Goes to England ——————-—-—--—. . /it* r«ru, said to be the world's tallest mats, and Mrs. Tana, on board the S. S. Pennland just before sailing for London, where the former still fill a six weeks’ circus engagement. Tarva is 8 feet 4 inches tall, weights 460 ponn wears size shoes, si~..' and says be canssot find socks anywhei that u ill fit him. Empty Stocking Fund Growing Slowly Despite Want There is more sickness, more want, more hunger, and more poverty-stricken homes in and about Shelby this year than in many years, yet The Star’s Christmas Stocking Fund, which annually takes a bit of badly needed Christmas cheer into unfortunate Shelby homes is increasing at the slowest pace since the charity fund was first started, hyThe star years bacK. Fmlwily ickn««ledt<d _<53.50' Mr. »nd Mrs. E. B. Jwrett_1.00 ! Keb Clab. 10.00 C. Joe Turner_..._2.00 “Cosh’*.....50 Boy Scoot Troop One_5.00 "A Friend” .. 1.00 Total . ........ 373.00 | Two of the larger contributions 1 today, as will be noted above, came from organizations which will spread their Christmas cheer through T*he Star fund. The contri bution from the Shelby Boy Scout troop one Is especially commendable for at this season of the year yojng boys seldom have enough money to purchase all t{ie fireworks and playthings they want for them selves, yet these youngsters dmied themselves some of the fun they had planned for Christmas and dug down In their savings to do inetr good turn dally. And a good one it was! Other organizations and clubs which each year set aside so much far Christmas charity are urgad to give through The Star fund.* The major reason is that every case and every home to which necessity* of life will go from the Empty Stock ing Fund will be thoroughly inves tigated by a committee of leading Shelby men and women. Tills as sures that there will be no doubling up, with one home getting two lists of necessities while some other home In dire straits gets nothing, and It, also assures that due to proper Investigation and supervision none of the money will go to un worthy cases or will be wasted. The treasurer of The Star fund. Rush Hamrick, Is one of Shelby’s most highly respected citizens and all the contributions will be han dled through him and dlstrloutcd (Continued on page twelve.) Pageant To Start Christmas Program For First Baptist Hill Be Held Sunday Evening At Church. On December 22 The "White Chrlatmaa Service. The following Christmas activi ties will be heid at the First Bap tist church, beginning next Sunday evening: Sunday evening. Decem ber 15, 7:00 o’clock—Clirlstmas aag eant, "The Nativity.” Sunday morning. December 92, 10:00 o'clock—“White Christmas Service.” All members of Sunday school will bring gifts for the needy of the community. Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 11:00 o'clock—special Clirlstmas message by the pastor with a splendid musi cal program. Sunday evening, December 22,6:00 o'clock—“Carol Service,” by all of the thirteen B. Y. P. U.'s. Sunday evening, December 22, 7:00 o’clock—Cantata, “The prince of Peace,” Wooler, by the choir. Tuesday evening, December 24, 7 o'clock—Band of c harder s will meet In the young people's dcoart ment assembly room and will go out over the city to sing carols. Services will be held at several points, where gifts will be distributed. The public is Invited to all services. College Girls Coming. Social festivity will soon begin its holiday rush over Cleveland co ;ntv A news Item from N. C. C. W. at Greensboro says that the 22 Cleve land county girls In college the-e will leave for home for the Christ mas holidays on Thursday, Decem ber 19. They will return to school on Friday, January 3. Local Citizens Urged To Bay Christmas Seals By Club Here Mrs. Grover Beam, Christinas seal chairman ol the Woman's club and her committee, In asking T citizens to pur Jchase their quota rot the familial tpenny seals, are joaslng their cam 5 aign upon actual } results as meas \ ured in years of 1 life and dollars J saved. In the past 10 years in North Carolina the death rate from luber cuolosis has been lowered to the extent which means in this s*ate alone a saving of 15,000 lives rnd a money saving to the communit; of millions of dollar In U^e post ihree ycai". in Ui* North Carolina schools where health habits have been taught through the modern health cru sade, a practical health educational system, promoted by the North Carolina Tuberculosis association, regular examinations ol school chil dren has been reduced In propor tions varying from 12 to 20 per cent. In the state this figures a saving of $1,200,000 time loss meas ured' in the annual cost of senool up-keep and instruction. The Tuberculosis Christmas Seals finance the school health program for undernourished and well nour ished children. The Christmas sea! stands for education and prevention Have you bought yom *<!.•■ today ? Set Dates For Hoey And Webb School Contests Hoey Contest, On February 28, lias Regulation.* Changed. Webb Contest March 7. At a meeting of the School Mai lers club ot Cleveland county held Monday night at the Hotel Charlea the school principals and supertax tendents of the county set the dates for the annual Hoey and Webb cog* tests, the big features of the school year for high school students. The Hoey Oratorical contest will be held the last Friday night in February, which is the 38th, add the Selma Webb Recitation contest will be held on the following Friday night, March 7, the winners of the Webb Essay contest to be announc ed also at that time. Change Roles. In the Hoey contest, heretofoce an original oratorical contest wlU| the boy planning their own orations, will this year be a declamailon con test. By the old rules two boys might enter from each school but with the contest being changed from ore lions to declamations there will bte more entries. It la thought, and each school will be limited to one dte clalmer with a speaking limit oK 10 minutes. The Webb Recitation contest;will operate under the old regulations— one reciter from each school with a time limit of 10 minutes. ' In the euay contest the limit" Is 1.000 words and the subject is to tea chosen by the student and the assay must be original. Ttw three bast essays from each school may be en tered and must be in the county superintendent's office a week tor fare the recitation contest, or by February 28. the night of the Hoey contest. The School Masters decided that they would endeavor to brlug all the judges in the three contests from without the county. 1 .y^y-4* ?V ji Ellenboro Farmers To Feast On Their Potato Prodncts Sweet Fotato Growers In Section To Have A "Uve-at-Home” Banquet. Ellenboro—An unique banquet will be held at fcllenboro, Thursday evening, December 18, when tha shareholders for the KUanboro Sweet Potato Storage company will banquet themselves to a menu call ing for sweet potatoes to be served In each course of the feast. The first thought was to hold a sweet potato growers banquet serv ing nothing but sweet potatoes. However, Miss Barbara Osborne, lo cal homes economics teacher, who will serve the meal, has suggested the following to make a better menu: Chicken, chicken gravy, pan died sweet potatoes, sweet potato pudding with marshmallows, rolls, slaw, coffee and sweet potato cus tard for dessert. "• The feast is being planned as a celebratlqn to the rapid develop ment and progress made hi grow ing sweet potatoes for a cash crop in the Ellenboro community with in the past three years during which time the Ellenboro Sweet Po tato Storage Company, Inc.,- has been organised and three sweet potato curing houses with a total capacity of 15,000 bushela have been built. Tax listing reports shows that the houses have greatly increased the acreage of sweet potatoes in Colfax township over three yean ago. Arrangements are being made to have a distinguished speaker to ad dress the growers and a string hand to entertain them with music. - More than eighty individuals now have stock In the storage company and nearly 100 are expected to at tend the banquet. Father Of Shelby Woman Dies In S. C. Gaffney.—Henry E. Teague. «7j year-old retired farmer, died Pun day morning at his home at Lime* stone Mills. Pinal rites were con ducted Monday afternoon at the Providence Baptist church and in terment followed in the church* yard. Mr. Teague is survived by the following children: C. O., J. f P. K.. A. P., and R. B. Tuagw*. of route *: Mrs. W. J. Bright, of Shelby, and Mrs. Winnie Gor don, of Grover. The following hair brothers and sisters also survive: J. M. W. I., and John Pennington; Mrs. Nancv Randolph, KantjcpoJfe; Mrs. Imeile Trasue, Bessemer City; vufi Mrs Amanda Wylie, Dallas. '

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