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10 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, Bv mall, per year (til advance) *3.50 Carrier, per year (In advance) *8.00 LATENEWS | THE MARKET. Cotton, strict mid.164c Cotton Seed, per bu..36c Warmer And Cloudy. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Possibly rain Tues day In extreme west portion. Fire On Dad, Mother. At St. Louis, Missouri early yes terday Allan Schumm, 17-year-old university student, shot and killed his father and wounded his mother, the shooting coming after he asked them it they believed in God and had ordered them to pray. His mother said he had been reading quite a bit of late and acting queer iy. Farmer Dies On House Top Joe Brooks Has Sudden Atta«k While Covering Roof Of His Dwelling. While covering the roof or ms home on the George Me Swain farm in the Beaver Dam section, Mr. Joe Ranson Brcoks had a sudden attack last Wednesday from which he died. His body rolled against a pile of shingles and he was dead before he could be taken down. Mr. Brooks was 50 years, thr’e months and nine days old and liv ed last year with Mr. Charlie Cal lahan. He had Just moved to his new' home and was repairing t.ie roof. He was an industrious ur.d highly esteemed citizen. The fu neral was conducted Thursday by Revs. D. F. Putnam and Rush Pad gett and interment was in the ceme tery at Beaver Dam. Surviving are his wife who be fore their marriage in 1903 was Miss Oma Pope and the following children: Mrs. V. C. Brackett, Lizzie, Stella, Pauline, Beula, Freddie Brooks. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters: B. T. Brooks of Charlotte, S. C. Brcoks of Latti more, Mrs. B. A. Humphries of Lat timore, Miss Phobey Brooks of Bal timore, Mrs. Hoyle Yarborough of Shelby and Mrs. C. O. Doty of Kan napolis. Local Grocer Has A $70 Turkey To Sell Big Turkey Flys Through Mate Glass Window At 3. N. Del linger Store. If it hasn’t been sold since Fri day afternoon, J. N. Dellinger, lo cal grocer, has a $70 turkey for .sale. The Thanksgiving fowl properly weighed and priced will probably bring no more than $3, but if Mr. Dellinger gets expenses without profit from the sale he must have between $70 and $75 for the fowl. Friday afternoon there came a call for a turkey and the stare's de livery boy placed this particular turkey on the scales to weight it. He forgot to tie the legs and the turkey on the scales to weigh it. destrious of revealing her weight in public, took off with the scales counter as a runway and flew right through the big plate glass In front. Although the big glass shattered the turkey flew all the way across tins street and back to hit again the window of the Gardner electric firm, the last crash causing no damage. The plate glass front will cost around $70, it is said. Therefore the bill. No. 8 Cage Quint To Play High* Wed. Night, Game Here Dillingham Has Outfit Seeking County Title. Locals In C’her ryville Friday. The strong basketball quint of the No. 8 township high school will play the Shelby highs In a game here Wednesday night in the tin can. On Friday night both Shelby teams, boys and girls, will go to Cherryville for a doubleheader. The No. 8, or Polkville, team Is considered one of the strongest basketball aggregations in the coun ty. The team, which last year lost the title to Shelby by only one point, is coached by E. L. Dilling ham, agricultural teacher, and he believes his outfit has a good chance to carry through to the title. So far the No. 8 quint has defeat ed both Piedmont and Hollis. To night they play Latttmore at Lat tlmore, and then, after the She’by game, take on Ellenboro at Lat titnore. Baptist Centennial Leaders Here Eighth Dr. Chas. E. Madry and Rev. Her man T. Stevens, officials of the state Baptist convention will be in Shelby Wednesday January 8 at the First Baptist church at 10 o’clock where they wish to meet all of the pastors, deacons and centennial committeemen of the Kings Moun tan association. f Every Farmer In S Acre Contest In County Made Bale Or More To Acre; Announce Prizzs Soon Twenty-Four Final Reports Now In And Being Figured. $680 In Prizes. Every one of the 24 Cleve land county farmers filing fi nal reports in the five-acres cotton contest made a bale or more of cotton the acre, it was announced today by R. W. j Shoffner, farm agent. Some he adds made two bales and moic to the acre. Mr. Shoffner and A. E. Cline, head of the county agricultural board, are as yet figuring up every angle of the reports and the winners of the $680 ptfr.e money will not be announced until today week as Agent Shoff ner Ls spending this week at tending a conference In Raleigh. Give Six Prises. The $680 offered by Shelby merchants, manufacturers and business men for the best pro duction records shown on the five-acre plots will be distribut ed among the six leaders of the 24. The winners will be figured by several methods, such as to tal production, cost per acre, quality of cotton, and so on. After the winners are an announccd a banquet may je held it is said for ail partici pants. Lattimore Boy With Head Cotton Growers Adams Youth Again Ranks High. Lattimore Farmers Have Good Record. Cotton farmers in the Lattimore section of Cleveland comity were again given high recognition by the chamber of commerce at Charlotce in the annual banquet given last Friday night to bale-to-the-acie farmers. Young Aston Adams, of the Lat timore section, who last year was among the quartet of boys making unusual production records. The Lattimore agricultural de l partment of the high school again cooperated, in the contest and it was shown that 45 fanners of that section grew 450 bales on 380 acres. Record Attendance At Sunday School Of Central Church Over 360 Attend Hoey Bible Class Which Leads Charlotte Class In Attendance. All past attendance records were broken yesterday morning at the Central Methodist Sunday school with 670 people present. Just a lew weeks back the record of 640 was set to be eclipsed yesterday. Aiding considerably in setting up a new record was the record at tendance of 316 people at the riot-y Bible class. For several weeks the Hoey class has been In a friendly attendance contest with the First Methodist class at Charlotte and so far the local class has outnumbered the Charlotte class every Sunday. Sundays’ attendance committee was composed of D. E. and John Honey cutt, Will King and Carlos Origg, of the local Coca Cola plant, whiio next Sunday Carl Thompson, class president and William Linebcrgcr, for Sunday school .superintendent, will attempt to break the 316 rec ord. Autos Without New Tags To Be Pulled By Patrol This Week Hundreds Hereabouts Have Not Purchased New License Plates As Yet, Records Show. Hundreds of automobile owners in and about Shelby will take the chance this week of being arrested for not having new state automobilo license plates, according to an an nouncement by officials of the high way patroL Capt. Chas. £>. Farmer, head of the patrol.'states that beginning today auto owners who do not have new tags and have no good ex planation for not having them wjII be arrested and he states that every ! highway patrolman will be ordered during the week to give especial at tention to violators. Many Short Here. Up until today the local license plate bureau at the Eskridge garage had sold a total of 5,617 tags, 300 of which are for trucks, according to Charles L. Eskridge, Jr., manager of the bureau. This number Is something hks 3,000 or more license plates shy of the total sold last year and the year before by the local bureau Since last year, however, a branch bureau has been opened at Ruther fordton and many of the tags for merly sold here are now sola there, but regardless of the sale at Rutherfordton it is estimated here that hundreds of auto owners in this area have not as yet purchas ed new tags. negarcung arrests 10 oe made this | week Capt. Farmer, of the highway ' patrol, says: “If an owner can show that lie has made application for his license, or any good cause why he has not yet obtained his new license, he will of course oe permitted to go. But if the failure to have the new li cense is due only to neglect, then the owner will be arrested.'’ Cafe Proprietor In Hospital Here With Infected Shoulder Scordaa Does Not Know How He Hart Finger Which Started The Infection. George Bcordas, proprietor of the Central cafe, became a patient yes terday at the Shelby hospital suf fering from an infected hand, arm and shoulder. The infection originated from a slight injury to one finger, 8cm - das not recalling Just how he in jured the finger. Today he was said to be getting along as well as could be expected. Mrs. J. T. Burris Dies In Anderson A telephone message here Satur day night to Mrs. A. P. Weatheis brought the news of the death or Mrs. John T. Burris in Anderson. S. C. Mrs. Burris was a sister of the late Miss Belle Frommc who for many years was a prominent milli ner in Shelby. During her life time Mrs. Burris visited in Shelby on many occasions and is pleasantly remembeerd by many of the older people. She was 66 years of age Mid was buried Sunday in Anderson. Surviving is one son, Ollie Burris. Her husband was a leading hard ware dealer and manufacturer of the Burris Metal shingle. Rate King Still Claims He Is Innocent; Hopes For Acquittal Refuses To See Newspaperman Who Learns That He Eats Well Sleeps Well, Not Worried. <R. L. Young in Charlotte News.) Columbia, S. C.—A star of hope on which Rafe King, convicted stay er of his wife, the pretty Faye Wil son King, believes he can make out the letters "innocence” brightens his somber cell In South Carolina’s grey-stened prison. The condemned man hopes that this star will settle over the state supreme court, that the members of that august tribunal will see tha light through the maze of. legal en tanglements and grant him a nev, trial. And in the meantime King keep3 his own counsel and excludes the outside world front the longing * i his heart. But to his cellmstes prison guards he maintains his con tention that he is an innocent man. Had Letter From Richards. In an effort to receive the state ment of these convictions from King's own lips. The News cor-e spondent, armed with a letter of authority from Governor Richard;-, visited the prison and sought an audience with the condemned man, across whose face the shadows of the death house often fall as he gazes out the window of his prison cell. J. Olin Sanders, captain of the prison guard, told the correspond ent for The News that King had consistently refused to see anyone outside the members of his own family and the array of his own attorneys. Even though the gover nor had granted the correspondent permission to interview the con demned prisoner, the prison auttorl t Continued on page mi > Seeks $180,000 for Ardent Love Making Dolores Salazar, Spanish dancer, whose J180.000 breach of promise: suit against 51-year-old Ferdinand Pinney Earie, well-known artist, has been answered with a denial that the latter ever proposed mar riage. Further eioeption is taken to the dancer’s alleged declaration that Earle won he- by a course of “ardent lovn-making and pas sionate letter-writing,’’ and that ho finally abandoned her in Paris. Uatvr&aiUnal Newnl) One Family Making Money On Farm, No Cotton Crop Banker Says Man And Wife Have Not Missed A Month Putting Savings In Bank. One Cleveland county farmer, who says that It is the only thing for a farmer to do in making his own hay and feedstuff, contends, after reading considerably about the live at-home program, that along some lines it is not profitable. "I can grow pot ton and come to Shelby and purchase my pork for less than I can raise my own hoi: .” he says. ‘‘And I can grow cotton and Come to Shelby and purchase flour and wheat cheaper than I can grow my own wheat and have it milled" In contrast to this view,- William Lineberger, president of the Cleve land Bank. & Trust company, head of the Shelby creamery and a great WQy'booster, points out ah upper Cleveland county family which is making and savihg money without growing a stalk of cotton. “A year or two ago," Mr. Lico berger says "this young man and his wife came to the. He had not been in good health for some time and they had decided not to put out a cotton crop. From that day until this they have not missed a month putting money on a savings account at the bank. It's not a big sum each month, but it counts up and a bad cotton year, a visitation from the boll weevil, or anything like that will not hurt them. They have their cash Income monthly from truck fanning, their chickens, their cows, and their hogs. Living Too Fast. Continuing his conversation in a broader scope, Mr. Lineberger ex pressed the view that tco much money is being spent for thmgs which could be passed up. "Do you mean by that that In stallment buying, making the orig inal purchase easy, is helping the people of this section to spend all they make as fast as they make It?” he was asked. ‘‘No, not exactly," he answered. (Continued on page ten.) Mrs. Fagan Dies At Eastside Village Wife Of H. M. Fagan Is Taken To Spartanburg County For Interment. The remains of Mrs. Minnie Lee Fagan who died Sunday in ti:e Eastside Mill village were taken to day to Spartanburg county, S. C. for interment. Mrs. Fagan had been ill for four months and passed away at the age of 42 years. She is survived by the following children, Frank, Myrtle, Vashti, H. M., jr., Annie and Rett a. all of Shelby, Also surviving are three brothers, C E*. Dunagin of Asheville, A. U. and J L. Dunagan of Spartanburg, S. C, Mrs. Fagan was a good woman and well liked by her host of friends. She was a member of the Eastside Baptist church and the funeral services were conducted by her pas tor, Rev. H. E. Waldrop. BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR MEETS TONIGHT The boy scout court ot honor meets tonhht at 7:30 o’clock in the curt house. Believes Civic Clubs Ought To Get More Action Three Shelby Clubs Spend >500 Monthly For Mrnls And Dues, Need More Industry. The three civic clubs of Shelby— Klwanls, Rotary, and the Lions— spend approximately $500 each month for meals and dues yet fast year the three clubs, all centering about community building, did not bring to Shelby a single new Indus try, says a Shelby man and a club member who urges that during 1030 the three clubs work together in building and boosting Shelby. "That total of $6,000. Just for meals and dues, would hnvc pur chased a fine location for some manufacturing plant which might have been brought to Shelby.-’ the club member said. "I am offering ijo criticism of our clubs,-* he con tinued. “I have been a member of one for years and in years gone by we have done much to advertise and build Shelby, but last year, for some reason or another. It seems, that we accomplished little more than eating with each other. In the period front 1020 to 1928 Shelby spread out faster than any town In the State. We kept the town on the map and kept the State and out side interests talking 8he.lby, Co operation of club members in push ing their town was largely respons ible. Why should we let up? We're still proud of Shelby and want to sec it grow. “During 1928 we did not have la bor troubles such as proved Injur ious to other sections, we had no financial disasters, we had a fa better agricultural year than the average section, and right now, from all reports, this section is as pros perous, if not more so, than any section in the State. It’s a great time to do some boosting. I’m not advancing the idea that our clubs should come to an end; I’m merely saying tfutt we all should get to gether ajad get some action ,in the new yea1\ We have no Chamber of Commerce here. Our boosting and building activity must conic through our clubs. Our club programs and luncheons are well worthwhile for the fellowship and friendliness they create among our business and pro fessional men. but we should not stop at that. The three civic clubs could form a council of representa tive from each club which In turn could unite on several worthwhile alms for the new year, such as stressing the fact that Cleveland county can live at home, and by working together to bring a new payroll or two to Shelby In 1930. Why not?" he concluded. And his constructive criticism Is passed along for what it is worth. Mr. And Mrs. Green Married 51 Years If Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Green who live on Lattimore route l live until Feb. 2 they will have been married 51 years and In all that time there has been no whisper of a divor-e. Mr. Green was married to Nancy Georgiana Powell and their wedded life has been very blissful. They have nine grown children and after raising these to maturity they arc now devoting their attention to raising chickens. Out of their pen of fine Rhode Island hens Mr. Green found the other day a huge egg. about three times the size of an ordinary hen egg. It Is one of the largest Tire Star has ever seen and has been left here for exhibi tion. Alexander Jewelry Makes Assignment The George Alexander Jewelry store this morning made a voluntary assignment, with Attorney J. R. Davis of Kings Mountain as assig nee. The assignment was voluntary and for the benefit of creditors. It is understood that the assets equal the liabilities. The store closed its doors this morning until some dis position is made with the stock Local Singers To Broadcast Tuesday The local quartet from the first Baptist church choir will broadcast over radio station WBT on Tues day evening of this week from 7:30 to 8 o’clock and the many friends who enjoy hearing these local vocal ists are invited to tune In. The quartet is composed of Messrs. Hor ace Easom, T. W. Lattimore, Mai Spangler and Rush Hamrick. They will sing favorite old hymns. Both Dr, and Mrs. Plaster will appear on the program, the former giving :v;o vio'in selection and the latter at \.i piano. Dry Storm Rocks Capitol The prohibition rtornj that is rocking Washington as it has not boon rockod hi the whole ten years of volsteadism nhow no signs of •bating. Senator Borah refused to sahmit any of his evidence tc Attamey-GeneVal M.tcheil concerning the inefficiency of a score of district attorneys. Mrs. Mabel Wifiebrandt is understood to hav* joined forces with Borah to the extent of furnishing him with much of the "evidence” which he has (Inter nation*! Newer toll Higher-Ups Drinking Is Prohibition Puzzle Senators And Congressmen Not Drinking As Much Now. Says Hoover Dry Personally. Washington.—Drinking among the socially, financially and politically prominent, In the opinion of Sen ator Jones of Washington and ad ministration spokesman, presents j <me of prohibition's most bafflin'.; problems. He expressed this view in a radio addreoa delivered under the aus pices of The Washington Star, as: sorting also that he had seen "Fes fewer senators under the Influence of liquor during the last ten years" than In the preceding decade. Meanwhile, rumors gained circu lating to the effect that the ad ministration was formulating plans for preventing the diversion of In dustrial alcohol Into bootleg chan nels and that the Hoover law en forcement commission has encoun tered serious obstacles In Its efforts to Investigate this phase of the pro hibition situation. Kefme To Obey Lav. In his radio speech, Jones said that "one ol the hardest problems to meet’ was that "men In high standing, socially, financially and officially” do not obey the law. “Instead of encouraging good citi zenship,” he continued, "they breed the very poorest and most dangerous type.” ) Referring to the same problem, he said farther on in Ids address: "Grant that there is more drink ing today than heretofore among a certain class of our people. What class is it—th^ extra well-to-do. the class that should be the most scrupulous in respecting and ob serving the law. I may be wrong about It, but many cf the fathers and mothers who set their children the example of non-observance will some day greatly regret that they have not set a different example and given their children a different teaching.” Lauds President. Of President Hoover, Jones said: "He practices what be preaches.” He added that he had no knowl edge of Mr. Hoover's attitude to (Continued on page ten.) Much Trading Going On Over County Nov The first four days of the New Tear, according to Register ol Deeds A. F. Newton, has wit nessed one of the busiest trad ing periods since he has beer In office Judging by registered and filed there. Daring the four days, Ms m ords show. 117 papers—deed', mortgages, notes and claims- • masj&XMtsr. ly M to be deeds representing trades made in the county. Shelby Women Are Nabbed With Booze In S. C., Alto Man Man. Wife And Daughter Caught At York. Two Make Getaway From Officer. York, S. C.—Two white women giving their names as Maggie Wood and Ethel Wood of near Shelby end a white man who said he was 8cott Wood of near Shelby, were arrested here at 1:30 Tuesday morning by Night Policeman Charles P. Bon r.ett after a wild chase through town. In the Chevrolet touring car they were driving Officer Bennett found seventeen gallons and one quart of hootch which officers say is "Col vmbia liquor.” Two other white men in the li quor car got away from Bennett who was alone. Ethel Wood was fin ed $10 or ten days for being drunk She said she was the daughter of Scott Wood and Maggie Wood was his second wife, Scott Wood was fined $200 or sixty days In police court on charges of driving drunk and transporting. Liquor and automobile were con fiscated by the city; Maggie was turned loose and hied to Shelby to try to raise $210 to liberate her hus band, Scott and her daughter-m law, Ethel, the latter said to be about 16. Stuttering Black Confesses To Holding Up Earl Postmistress McCUnton In Jail Here Confesses Attempted Robbery To Sheriff And Mrs. White. Alonzo McClinton. a stuttering negro farm hand who has been in jail here since early December charged with attempting to hold up Mrs. Kate Bettis White, Earl post mistress, Friday afternoon con fessed to the crime with which he was charged. Mrs. White was leaving the Earl postoffice on the night of Wednes day, December 4, with about $50 of postoffice money in her hand Along a dark street a negro grabbed rhe money sack from her hand and started to run. She snatched the iwj lcose from his hand and he fled, the money being recovered. Blocd hounds were brought from Ashe ville and they followed a trail to a I men) church, later jumpin'', ■z tv i McCliutnu when suspicions point ed to him. Tried in county court McClinton pled not guilty and de nied any connection with the hold up. He was bound over, however, to .superior court by Judge Horace Kennedy. Friday Sheriff Allen was talking tc McClinton and noting that the regro had something on his mind, the sheriff btformed him that Mrs. White might feel better towards Mm if he wculd tell Just what nap pened. The negro then asked to be remitted to tell Mrs. White and she was sent for. With Mrs. White present and Sheriff Allen listening in McClinton said that he was .us negro who staged the holdup hut felled to get the money. He aid that he had been tn the postoffice cn the Saturday night before and had planned the robbery for Tues day, but his nerve failed him and \ c did net stage it 'until Wednes day night Task To Conoid Influential Man Stack Says Here Inability To Get Evidence Against Important People Causes Dis respect Of Law. "It is becoming harder and harder in North Carolina,” Judge A. M. Stack, of Monroe, declared In charging the superior court grand jury here today “to convict the prominent and influential men who come into our courts. It Is no t)lg problem to convict the little fellow and the black man In our courts, but It is quite a task to get the big fellow. That is one reason why wp have so much crime and so much lark of respect for our courts. "Giving every man equal jostle* regardless of who he may be, anc letting the cltlxenship know Hm punishment for crime Is certain will do much., to halt this, increasing crime wave,” he continued. “It t not so much hard punishment that, will do it, but, instead, certain pun ishment. In England the law to re spected for trial and conviction is rapid and certain for all crimes. The same Is true to an extent In Virginia, but not so tat North Caro lina. Here we have cases continued and wires pulled and by the time the case Is tried many of the witnesses are hazy about their evidence and the pep has been taken out of the prosecution." Court Officer*. uepuuea Jerry Runyans and M. A. Jolley are acting as court ota cers and Deputy John Wilkins is he officer In charge of the grand ury. Solicitor Spurgeon Spurting is mndling the prosecution for the week’s criminal docket. Ghts. W Washburn, of Shelby, is foreman of the grand Jury, and the members of the Jury follow: Clyde Putnam, a P. Allen. J. W. Blanton. C. H. Hast ngs, W. M. Hendrick, W. C. Hao> tck, J. A. Wright. MU& p. Oreen. J. W. Horn. Kelly Dixon, F. H. Leo, Plato Costner, T. F. Sellers, Yates Spurting. John A. Wright. J. E. Khodes and David Allen. No. cases gee listed lerWat during the term, a survey of the court docket shows. One killing cast. In which Ceph Thomas, colored, is charged with killkig another color ed man in the Lawndale section last November Is expected, however to come up. Ignorance, Poverty. In his charge to the grand jury Judge Stack recalled that he had recently read wsenagartne article m which “ignoraJB&e end poverty" were cited as the major reasons for crime. The Monroe Jurist agreed to a cer tain extent, he said, with the rea sons advanced but added that there were others. -In elucidating iqxm the article he declared that she more a man dr woman is educated the less is the likelihood that he or she Will commit crime because edu cation tends to develop the better traits and to smother tha bad traits. Only once in his court career, he declared, had he even seen a college graduate brought into court (Continued on page ten.' No Continuances In Judge Stack's Court Cannot Waste Time Hearing Law yen Beg For Such, Jurist Here Says. Judge A. M. Stack, of Monrue, who is presiding over superior court here this week, has a reputation of being firm in handing out his de cisions and sentences, and with such a jurist holding court it is a habit here and elsewhere for defendants to have their cases continued if possible. But early this morning Judge Stack let it be known, rather emphatically, that there will be no dodging over until the next term unless there are “gilt-edged” rea sons for doing so. In charging the jury he declared that one court weakness is the con tinuing of cases until many of the witnesses forget the evidence and there is no pep left in the prosecu tion. "Let me say right here,” he de clared turning to the lawyer* In the',, court room, “that no cases thia term will be continued unless glU edged, legal reasons for continu ance can be shown. And add to that the fact that I am not going to waste time sitting here listening appeals from lawyers to have cases continued. I came here hold court and I am going to do It; I did not come here to continue cases over to another term, but to clear up as much of the docket as I can.” GRAHAM PARENT-TEACHERS MEET HERE ON WEDNKS0J A meeting of the Pareufc-Ti association of the Graham will meet Wednesday afternoon | 3:30 nt the school. All mem' j urged to be present.