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8 PAGES TODAY * —!I—1--— VOL. XXXV. No. 153 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1929. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mall, pet yoar (In } / LA TE NEWS i THE MARKET. Cotton, strict mid__16*,isc Cotton Seed, per bu, .......... 36c Fair Weather. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperatme. Population Gain. The population of the Untied States increased more than 14 mil lion people in the 10-year period ending July 1, 1928, and is now 119, 306,000, according to a report made hy the national bureau of economic research. Football Star Cats His Nzch In Local Jail Max Connor, Once Gridiron Hero, Held For Forgery, Inflict!. Slight Wound. Max Connor, a few years hack considered one of the best football backs In the state while playing at Shelby high, inflicted a slight wound on his neck with a razor blade In the county jail Saturday afternoon where he is being held until superior court to face a charge of forgery. Officers are net positive whether the act was a definite attempt at suicide or a measure employed to win sympathy and get his bond signed so that he might be released The latter conclusion is reached by some because the former grid star did not use the safety razor on the front of his throat, but, instead, slashed the rear on his neck and did not inflict a very severe cut. Prisoners Call Aid. Other prisoners in the Jail, It is said, witnessed the act, or saw the blood soon thereafter and notified Mrs. Allen, wife of the sheriff, who in turn sent fer her husband, who removed all razor blades and dan gerous articles of any type from where they could be secured by Con nor. Asked why he cut himself young Connor replied by saying “I Just want to get out of here.” The halfback, whose name a few years ago was cne of the best known in scholastic circles in North Caro lina, was arrested Friday on a war rant charging him with forging the namfi. oT Herbert Blanton to a $10 check which was cashed by A. B C DePriest Friday afternoon Police Chief Poston brought him up town In an effort to find some one to sign bis bond but failed to do so. In county court Saturday morning Judge Kennedy bound him over on the charge to superior court under a betid of $500, and again an effort to secure bond failed. While In school he was a hero among the pupils and popular throughout the town and section, but since leaving school he gained the reputation of being somewhat erratic in financial affairs, this, of ficers say, making it hard for nim to secure bond when arrested Fri day. Negro Caught With Forged Check Here Several Other Checks In Pocket When Nabbed By Tellers . At First National. Otis Harbison, a negro trying to pass as James Hood, was placed in jail here Saturday afternoon charg ed with forgery after a couple of tellers at the First National bank had caught him and turned him over to officers. Friday, it is alleged, that Harbi son visited the bank, posing as James Hood, who had money in the bank, and had a $4 check cashed. Saturday he came back with a $3 check and was immediately pounc ed upon j>y the bank tellers. When searched after being ar rested other checks were found up on his person, one for $4.50, and said to be a forgery, signed by Mike Borders, Other checks were filled out but had not been signed. To Subscribers Changing Address At this season 01 the year many subscribers to The Star are changing their mall address. In order to get your paper Changed, It Is necessary rot only to give your name, but both the postol flce or route to which your paper has been going and the address to which you wish it changed. Without this, information it is impossible to readily find your name among the thousands of names on our mailing list. Subscribers who are served in Shelby and suburbs by The Star’s 17 wrier roys. wll pl'e.se noti fy us at Telephone I’o. XI of any change in address hr failure on the part of the carrier boy to properly deliver the paper. Departing Year One Of Steady Progress Here No. 6 Road Heads To Abandon Chain Gang Work On July First 'cad Commissioners Feel That Gang Too Expensive For Sin gle Township To Carry. After July 1, of the new year, Cleveland county may not have a chain gang to which prisoners and convicts may be sent, and the problem of what to do With county criminals promises to be one of the hardest propositions for county officials to face in 1930. • On July 1, it was definitely learn ed today from the No. 6 township road commissioners, the operation of the chain gang, which has bern used to work prisoners of the en tire county, will be abandoned by the township. Planned Earlier. It became known seme weeks ago that the No. 3 commissioners—Mike L. Borders, Marvin Blanton and Tom Cornwell—had decided that the chain gang operation was too expensive fer a single township and that they would abandon operation. At that time the road commission ers were intent upon abolishing the No. 6 gang on January 1, but after conferences with A. E. Cline, coun ty business manager, the road com missioners realized that no arrange ment for taking care of the prison ers which would be let out by the gang before the next county budget is made up at the end of the coun ty fiscal year on July 1. Mr. Cline explained to them that such an emergency had not been anticipated in preparing this year’s budget and that the county would not have the money to handle the prisoners. Realizing what a situation the abolishing of the convict force would be for the county prior to the be ginning of a r ew business year the No. 6 road commissioners agreed to maintain the gang until July 1, byt announce definitely that they Will give it up at that time. Too Much Expense. The gang as now operated to take care of prisoners sentenced in lov-al courts is proving too much of a fi nancial burden to No. 6 township, the road commissioners say. Discussing the situation one of the commissioners said "That we believe—in fact, we know—that we can get more for the amount of road money we spend now by hiring our labor. The operation of the chain gang in upkeep of roads is not profitable iinancially. Diseased Convicts. "One major reason is that a big percentage of the convicts sent to the gang are diseased and cost more than they are worth. We always have quite a number of young feL lows on the gang who aae diseased, some of them suffering with veue eal diseases, and paying their med ical bills proves very expensive With hired labor, not diseased, and not requiring complete upkeep we can get far more cut of the money we spend for roads." Leaves Big Problem. For months there has been talk of the fact that the chain gang was providing more of a liability than an asset to the township. Some mcnths back a movement was start ed with the aim of making the chaing gang a county-wide affair as prisoners from all townships go to the No. 6 gang. Whether or not (Continued on page two.) ’Cing Sends Gift To Girl Who Drew Jury For His Case Shelby Man In S. C. PrUon Re members Little Girl With Curls When Christmas Comes. Chester.—That Rate King, who was convicted at the court of gen eral sessions at Chester last July of slaying his wife, Faye Wilson King, last winter at their home at Sharon, 8, C., is fond of children, is evid enced by the beautiful necklace of exquisite beads which he sent Mar garet HatchaW, the lovely little g*rl that drew the jury for the famous trial. Recently from 1515 Gist street, Columbia,' 8. C„ where the peniten tiary is located, came a letter want ing to know the name of this beau tiful little girl, which was forward ed to him, to her Joyful surprise came this wonderful necklace of beads, which is one of the most magnificent sets of beads ever seen here of this type. Accompanying the necklace was this little note: "Dear Little Margaret, “Heee’s to my little girl, with the pretty little curls, that came to me with a sweet little smile, last July during my trial. “Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. "RAFE KING.'’ 11 County Couples Marry In Gaffney During Christmas Rush Of Cleveland Lovers To South Carolina Gfetna Green Contin ues Through Holidays. ' The Yuletlde rush of Cleveland county lovers to the Gaffney, South Carolina, Gretna Green, for dips in the sea of matrimony continues without abatement. Eleven couples from this county, as given below, secured license from Judge Lake W. Stroup, at Gaffney, since the list published In Friday’s paper: Carl Wilson and Daisy Vassey, of Lattimore; Mike Talent and John nie Moore, of Mooresboro; Marady Chambers and Sylva Hullender, of Kings Mountain; Joe C. Hamrick and Josephine Camp, of Shelby; Arthur Hamrick, of Earl, and Lucy Weaver, of Shelby Route 2; Carl Hollingsworth and Moselle Ledford, of Shelby; Eugene Spangler and Edith Beam, cf Shelby; Paul Weaver of Earl, and Canney Arrowood, of Shelby; Lee Lail and Eliza Ledford, of Mooresboro; Edward Williamson and Jessie Mae Corry, of Shelby. i . No Serious Crashes In Shelby Section « ■■■ — Although there were several fatal automobile accidents throughout North Carolina over the week-end not a single serious accident took place in this section, according to information obtainable today. A few smash-ups, including a col lision near the Southern tracks Sunday night in which no one was injured, were reported, but at the Shelby hospital today not a single accident case was reported. Rate King Writes From Prison To Thank Friends For Greetings Cheers Him Greatly, He Says, To Be Remembered By His Many Shelby Friends. Rafe King, well known Shelby man, who spent Christmas in the South Carolina state prison, where he awaits the outcome of his ap peal for a new trial from a convic tion and death sentence for the murder of his wife, was greatly cheered during .the holidays by greetings and cards sent him by Shelby friends. In a letter to Buck Hardin, of rt e E‘ar, Knfe a*':s that The Star express his sincere thanks to the many friends who did not forget him at Christmas and who sent him gifts and greetings of the season, IT am still feeling good,” he wrote. “am blessed with good health and I weigh more than I ever did in my life—but still I’m a bird in a cage. Christmas wasn’t so blue after all as we had a fine turkey dinner nere and I received many Christmas gifts. “It Is certainly gratifying and rills my heart with joy to know that I am still remembered by such a hcst of friends. I hope they all had a big Christmas, and I wish for them a joyous New Year and many more to come.” The appeal for a new trial for 'Ing has already been filed by his attorneys and may be taken up in January or early in February by the South Carolina supreme court. His attorneys here are hopeful that a new hearing will be granted i}un: Sues for Alienation of Affection Miss Antoi nette Cogno Dicesare, 18, bride o i two weeks, and wife of Albert Dicesare, of Malden, is suing her par• ents-in-law for 120.000, charg- , ing alienation 1 o f affections. The couple were wed in Hartford, Conn., after they bad eloped to be marred. The groom’s p a r ents make theit home i ■ j ,Quincy, Mass. national N«war«M»l) Cotton Crop Virtually Completed Organization For Marketing Big Cleveland Gains In Cotton Ginning Over Next County This County 12,496 Bales Ahead Of Robeson In Second Place, Johnston Third. Cleveland county, this year grow ing a record cotton crop, is 12,496 bales ahead of the second largest cotton county in the state, Robeson, and not quite 20,Q00 bales ahead of Johnston county, which is third. Cleveland and Robeson are the ojuy two counties among the five large cotton counties in North Carolina showing an increase over the 1928 crop. A complete ginning report of all counties to December 13 shows that Cleveland lacks only about 5,000 bales of having ginned as much to that date as the four adjoining counties. Catawba had to December 1 ginned 13,004 bales, Gaston 11, 389. Lincoln 17,002, and Rutherford 17,934. Mecklenburg county shows a good gain over last year with a total ginning of 20,121 bales to December JL3, while Union county, to the Piedmont area moves into sixth place with 26,778 bales to be the only Piedmont or Western county that near the top with the excep tion of Cleveland. The five leaders and jthelr gln nlngs to Dec. 13 In botl^ears fol County 1929 1928 Cleveland. 52,670 48.503 Robeson - -_- 40,174 38,030 Johnston . .......... 36,236 39,398 Harnett __ 29,681 32 462 Halifax __ 27,069 37,836 Dr. Lackey Handles Practice Of Brother Moves From CherryviUe Back To Fallston Home Since Sickness Of Dr. F. H. Lackey. Dr. W. J. Lackey, a native of the Fallston section, has moved back to Fallston from Cherryville to prac tice medicine. This change, accord ing to the Cherryville Eagle, which speaks highly of the young physi cian, was made because Dr. Lackey's brother. Dr. F. H. Lackey, recently suffered a stroke of paralysis and will be unable to keep up his prac tice there. Shelby Girl Suffers With Blood Poison Little Miss Carolyn Bowman, live yeax old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Bowman, is a patient at the children's clinic, at Charlotte, suf fering from a more or less serious case of blood poisoning. The child was removed to the hospital last Friday, her mother remaining with her, A cut finger, infected it is be lieved, by powder from firecrackers. Is believed to be the cause of the trouble. Chapter Masons. There will be a convocation of La Fayette chapter Royal Arch Masons Tuesday night, December 31. All companions are urged to attend. Proposal Made For Outright Pur chase Of Crop, Bigger Cash Advances. Washington,—Development of an airtight legal structure for the $30, 000,000 cotton corporation was the chief task of the federal farm board and ootton representatives as they go forward with the final draft of a charter and by-laws. Prank Burford, of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, counsel for the national organization committee, was direct ed to confer with Stanley Reed, general counsel of the board, on a program that would comply with provisions of the Capper-Volstead act and report to the sub-commit tee and report to the sub-eommU s&ld the board was substantially In accord on the alms of the corpora tion but that a number of highly technical questions of organization and operations were yet to be set tled. A summary of the mqjre Intricate features was outlined by Carl Wil liams, board member representing cotton. Outright Buying Proposed. Heretofore, he said, co-operatives have been authorized to pay their members only a certain per cent of the value of their crop when de livered. the remainder being paid when the commodity moved Into market channels. Now, It has been proposed that a national marketing agency be set up to buy the prod uct outright if so desired. Such procedure was'authorized by the agricultural marketing act and It now has become important to work out a program that will not conflict with state laws. Another question, he said, Is whether the national agency 1« to be a sales corporation and a stabi lization corporation In one, or whether they are to be separate en tities. Little mention has been made of a stabilization corporation. It is that body, financed entirely by the government, which would take ever whatever part of a commodity the market branch could not sell. The sales corporation, for which the government would guarantee® a capital of $30,000,000, would be fin anced by member co-operatives through purchases of stock. The agricultural marketing act pre scribed that the stabilization cor poration be kept In the background and inactive unless its assistance was necessitated by an emergency. Stock Subscription Plan. It has been proposed, Williams said, that all cotton co-operatives (Continued on page two) Arrest Negro About Robbery Of Station Caught By Officers After Selling Gun Which Was Taken From Filling Station. Police officers Saturday afternoon arrested Henry Lathers, colored, charging him with breaking in and robbing the Eads service station cn South Washington street about a month ago. The arrest followed information given officers that the negro ha; scld a gun taken from the service station to a white youth. Lathers denied that ne was the fellow who entered the .station and stole the gun, cigarettes and cigars, declaring that he got the gun from Will Mc Dowell. - V • Office Seekers Likely To Get Lined Up Soon Prospective ( annulate* Feeling Out Sentiment Undercover. No Announcement*. There is little. If any, political activity in evidence about Shelby ! and the county now insofar as the casual observer Is concerned: but to those accustomed to know the movements of prospective office holders, who build their basic fences silently before announcing; publicly, everything is not exactly quiet on the local front. In another week or two, unless, indications now are misleading, several office-seekers will be prtvate ly informing their close friends that they are in one race or another. Building Fences. At the present time at least four or five likely candidates are quietly moving from the office of one pol itical leader to another to deter mine ir this and that leader will support their candidacies, while friends are feeling out sentiment among the voters on the street and in the county. If these feelers arc encouraging—and prospective can didates, all of them, are generally told that they are sure winners several announcements of a semi public nature will not be delayed very long after the new calendars go on the wall. Little can be heard about pros pects for county offices other than that a prospective vacancy on the county recorder’s court bench is causing some discussion. When it first became known that Re colder Horace Kennedy would likely retire from office and return to the pri vate practice of law several succes sors were mentioned. Since, how ever, there does not seem to be an overabundance of interest In that the majority of the lawyers, eligible for the county Judgeship, are of the opinion that they can make more money practising their profession than by winning the judgeship. The salary of the recorder is only $2,000 per year, a sum which he pays back ix.to the county treasury several times each year from qpurt fines. Years back when the court was created very few cases came up each week, but with Shelby growing and the dry law bringing on more arrests the county court is' now practically a daily affair and a full time Job for anyone. If a warm race develops for the office it will be because the applicants want to use it as a stepping stone to future political ambitions, although a pol itician makes no great number of new friends when he is a judge, and not primarily because of the $2,000 salary which hardly reimburses a Judge for the increasing duties of court. i With the county’s representative In the legislature, O. M. Mull, now executive counsellor to Governor Gardner a new representative will have to be selected by tlje voters of the county; and it Is, also, Cleve land's year to elect a state senator. There is some talk of prospective candidates for these offices, neither very remunerative, but Cleveland is always slow and careful In picking her lawmakers. Anyway, several candidates are getting their behind-the-scenes fences in shape and open activity in political circles is not far distant. No Major Events In Section During 1929 Shelby Pint-less After Yule Rush And Raids Of Law Breaking lTp Of Alleged Bootleg t enter Among Severn! Taxi Men Brings Shortage. The customary Yule rush of imbibing Christmas spirits and recent activities of county and city officers gave Shelhyitcs seeking eye-opener relief from Christmas hangovers a tough week-end, according to reports trickling in from here and there about the city today. Officers say that the break ing up of bootleg activity among several taxi operators and the stopping of the hooch flow .it several sources Is responsible, while others contend that the demand for Christmas egg-nog exhausted the supply. Anyway, it Is general news about town that there were more stylish long skirts in the church par ades Sunday than there were pints. long or short, to be found within the city limit. And long skirts were not In the ma * Jority. ^-roome Fails To Show Up For His Court Trial Here HU *500 Fine Paid In Lincoln But Does Not Appear Here Today. Doyle Groorae. local taxi man, who became entangled with the law In this county and Lincoln county last .week, failed to show up In county court this morning on a charge of being drunk and disor derly and his 025 cash bond was | forfeited. Last week in Lincoln Groome was fined $500 or given the alternative of taking a 12 months sentence for drawing a gun on an officer there, the trouble following shortly after his trouble here. This fine, officers here say they have learned, was paid Friday or Saturday, and local officers who had additional war rants for v Groome say that they have not seen him since, the sup position being that he has sought more comfortable territory for a time. The additional warrants drawn up but not served charge him with operating a bawdy house and other violations of the law. At present. Police Chief McBride Poston says, that two of Groorae’s taxi cars—a Hudson and a Nash— are in the possession of the law on liquor charges to be confiscated and sold. Dr. Matthews Returns To Shelby Practice Dr. B. B. Matthews, who has been taking special courses in urology at the Minnesota medical school, has returned to Shelby and opened of fices in the Lineberger building. Dr. Matthews practised medicine here for a short time before going to Minnesota for additional study. Great Building Boom Seen For America In 1930; Hoover’s Data Washington.—Proposed construc tion of public works to the amount of $825,000,000 in 28 states of the nation during 1930—a figure expect ed to be doubled for the country at large—was reported from the White House. The total was compiled from re ports President Hoover received from governors of the states as a result of the program of public con struction he urged after conferences with business leaders. A report on Christmas business throughout the country, showing that the level this year hah been fully as high as that of last year, was received with gratification at the White House from the com merce department. It was said that the mercantile communities had ex pected a falling off in business of about 15 percent because of the break In the stock market. The reports from the governor were made in response to reddest • j sent J>y Mr. Hoover to have survey* made of public works programs which would be undertaken during the year. Some of the reports re ceived were not complete summaries of all the work to be done. The president expects to have a complete list of the public Improve ments to be made In the various states tabulated by the first of the year. Some sections of the country, it was said, suffered a falling off In Christmas business but other sec tions showed Increased buying. The sections which declined were not named, but It was regarded as nor mal that there would be low spots. The surveys are being made as a result of conferences held by Mr He over with the various bustness in terests of the country shortly after the break In stock prices In Novem ber. At that time he urged that a program of public improvement bo undertaken wherever possible to as sure a minimum of unemployment and act as a stimulant to business. Tear Without DLwten A* Marked 1928. Business Change*, And Highlights. The year 1929 which will be an other to add to those of the past at Tuesday midnight was not marked by any major event in Shelby and Cleveland county. A review oC the files of The Star for the departing year reveals a steady and sound growth In both the town and coun ty with no disasters such as visited Shelby and section during 1928. During the year the county reach ed a record cotton production and lend the state In total bales. There were numerous business changes, new structures, professional, and political changes, and on the eleventh day of the- year O. lax Gardner was Shelby's first cltiacn to be inaugurated governor of North Carolina. (Summary or rev. * A summary of the outstanding events In the county during 1939 fol lows: . t ' Jan. 3—Tom S. Elliott, beloved Confederate veteran dies. Jan. 11—0. Max Gardner inaug urated governor of North Carolina with 200 home folks present to see the county's first governor take of fice. Jan. 14—Mayor W. V. Dorsey an nounces that he will seek re-elect tion. Jan. 18—County court officials and officers round up intoxicating extract sellers. Jan. 19—Major Prank Hull. Shel by's oldest citizen, dies in Lincoln ton hospital. Jan. 28—E. B. Roach resigns as chief of the Shelby fire department and is succeeded by Ted Gordon, city electrician, , Jan. 35—Mrs. T*.y King found dead in outhouse at home near Sharon, South Carolina. Bed laved to be a suicide. Jan. 30—"Under cover" agent, em ployed by Mayor Dorsey, rounds up a doaen ‘pint peddlers" ih drjr dflve here. Feb. 5—Rafe King, husband of Mrs. Fay King, held by officials after inquest following finding of Mrs. King’s body. King’s lawyers scout foul play rumors. Feb. 21—Georgs Smyroios, popu lar naturalized Greek merchant of Shelby, dies and hundreds vhoJov ed the widely known George line streets and fill church for funeral service. Feb. 23—Hoey oratorical medal won by J. L. Hord, of Waco, Police Chief Resign*. 27—A. L. Richards, Shelby police chief resigns. Officer Mc Bride Poston named acting chief. March 1—Handsome new Hotel Charles opens doors. March 1—Sara Hambright of Kings Mountain, wins Selma Webb recitation medal, and William Baker of Piedmont wins essay medal. March 8—New Shelby directory gives city a population Of 10,683. Family name of Smith leads til I others. March 20—3. A. McMurry apct Enos Beam file as candidates fw mayor of Shelby. March 20— Cleveland county pro duced 53,834 bales of cotton la 1928-29 crop to lead state and set new production record. March 25—J. W. Harrelson, native of Cleveland, named head of depart ment of censervatlon by Governor Gardner. March 31—Clyde Beasdn killed at Cliffside cafe by George Conner. April 3—Local militia oompany ordered to Loray strike at Gastonia by Governor Gardner. April 4—J. H Grlgg again named superintendent; of the Cleveland ccunty schools April 5—Census department fig ures show six marriages for each divorce in county in 1926-27. April 9—Henry A. Mills natpad head of newly formed Shelby Mer-. chants association. April Id—Strike circulars distrib uted here as Gastonia textile labor troubles spread April 17—Blainey Rac*!y, former Wake Forest football.star, named athletic director at Boiling Springs college. April 26-1. C. Griffin, for 18 years head of the Shelby sohoota, resigns to Join the faculty ot the state, ffi : versitv. McMurry Elected May 6—S. A. McMurry elected mayor of Shitby over Mayor W. It, * Continued cat
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