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me letodauii ■> 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No. 4 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1930 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ca^r. XSSSX 'Em ! LATE NEWS the market. Cotton, per pound- 16c Cotton Seed, per bu.-33c Rain And Colder. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight and Thurs day. Rain Thursday and in west portion tonight. Cooler Thursday in Interior. Much colder Thursday night. Republican Governor? Gilliam Grissom, revenue collec tor, may be the Republican candi date for governor in 1932 against the Democratic candidate picked from five prospects now in the field, according to Raleigh dis patches. Popular Greek Dies Of Blood Poisoning Here George Scordas Funeral This Aft ernoon At Central Metho dist Chnrch. George Scordas, native born Greek but lor 14 years a naturalized » American citizen and proprietor of the Central cafe here, died ahou 6:15 Tuesday morning the Shelby hospital, death resulting from blood poisoning which followed a small injury to one finger caused by a , splinter. George, who was a veteran of the -American Legion, was at the time of his death the most popular foreign - bom resident of Shelby, ranking with George Smymloe, who cited about a year or so ago, as one of the two most widely known foreign v ers ever to live in this section. Funeral Today. Funeral services are being con ducted this afternoon at 3:30 at the Central Methodist church with Rev. L. B. Hayes, pastor of the church of which George was a member, and a Greek Orthodox present, of Roan oke, Va., conducting the services Interment will follow in Sunset cemetery here. Scordas, who had been a resident of Shelby for five years and of this county for 20 years, coming here from Virginia, is survived by his , wife and .one son and one daughter in the native land of Greece; his father, Chris Scordas, of Roanoke, who arrived yesterday; his brother in-law Clarence Sypsas and a broth er Tom Scordas, of Roanoke, x-th of whom were here for the funeral. • K. (Dad) Cavas, proprietor of the Shelby cafe, is an uncle. Among ether relatives here for the funeral are Angel Kochonis, a cousin, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Helen Anaglnos, an aunt, also of Charlotte. The deceased was bom 38 years ago in Marathla, Greece. Tuesday of last week he ran h splinter, it is understood, under the nail of one finger. He paid very lit tle attention to the slight injury until Saturday when his arm and shoulder began to trouble him. Be coming worse he became a patient at the Shelby hospital Sunday. * Monday evening a drain was made is is said, by surgeons with the nope of halting the spreading poison, bu; by 2 o'clock Tuesday moil ing George rapidly grew worse and was unconscious by 3, dying shortly aft er 6. Eight Couples From Section Married Last Week, Gaffney ,v The following couples from tills section secured marriage license lrom Probate Judge Lake W. Stroup at Gaffney last Week: Vick Hoyle, of Lawndale, and Mary Lizzie Mode, of Conneliy Springs: Harlan E. Wilson and Rutn Dellinger, of Shelby; David Mclver, of Gaffney, and Susie Woodfin, of Lawndale; George Greer and Mo v zelle Seism, of Shelby; Harrison R. Wood and Maude Lail, of Moores 1x>ro; Farrell L. Dalton and Selma Humphries, of Lattimore; Clyde Eiggerstaff and Blanche Lovelace, of Bostic; John Taney and Mollie McCurry, of Bostic. Cop Gets Man Walking Down Street With Rum , Joe Wiggins, local white man, ap * parently believes that the best way to get by with anything is walk out in the open and not show guilt. But yesterday afternoon it failed to work for once. Joe strolled out of an alley onto South Washington street in the business section, carrying a larger paper sack in his hand. Policeman Paul Stamey was standing nearoy “What you got there?’’ the of ficer asked. Wheth# or not Joe replied is not / (recorded, but when the officer look ed to see he found a half gallon fruit jar packed to the lid with liquid “cawn.” and as a result J"t is to appear before Judge Horhce Kennedy in county court. Cleve Cline Is Killed In Accident Tuesday; Funeral Held Today Star Baseball And Football Flayer Killed While Tak’ng Shell From Gun. Cleve Cline, 22-year-old ath lete known to athletic f o'lowers of Western Carolina as “Rube,” was accidentally killed about 1:30 yesterday afternoon while out hunting with his cousin, Cline Owens Lee, on the old Gardner place between Beams Mill and Lawndale. The tragic death of the young athlete, who was a member of Shelby high’s baseball champions several years back and lr.ter starred in baseball and football at Blue Ridge and Boiling Springs coUege, was a shock to this entire section as he was one of the most popular young men in the county. Burial At New Bethel. Funeral services were held at New Bethel church this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. How It Happened. Young Cline was out hunting with his cousin and was preparing to return home when the accident oc curred. Details as related by Lee, the only eye-witness follow: A shell had hung up in Lee’s pump gun. Just as they reached the car pre paratory to returning home, Lee handed the gun to Cline asking him to hold it while he placed a dog in the car and adding that he would then shoot the shell out. Just as Lee placed the dog in tlfe car he turned to see Cleve with the butt of the gun on the ground forc ing he shell to eject. Just as the shell came out as the barrel was shoved down Lee says he told Cleve not to push it any more, but he had hardly spoken until the barrel flew back in place, he says, slipping from Cleve’s hands as it did so and the gun fire&,ilw entire load tak ing effect in yfhmfe dfnda Body just below the heart. Spoke Three words. The force of the shot blew him backwards and down. Lee rushed to him to place him in the car and when he stooped over Cleve told him in gasps that “It's killed me.” Lee picked his fatally wounded pal up and reached the side of the car with him. Just as they reached the car he says that Cleve extended his right hand to help himself in. then fell back limp. He was dead. Lee called a nearby colored man and they placed the body in the car to carry it home. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cline, well known citizens of Lawndale, and one sister, Mrs. John Elmore. The deceased was a nephew of the wife of Police Chief McBride Poston and was widely known in Shelby, having attended high school and starred in athletics here. Last summer he played baseball with the Alexander team in the Rutherford textile league and with the Cleveland Cloth mill team in the Cleveland county league. About mid-summer he left Shel by to have a try-out with the Co lumbus team in the Southeastern league, where his cousin, with him when he was killed, was starring at second base. Due to business trou bles in the club he returned, but had planned to go back to Colum bus this spring with Lee. Goode Leaves Store. Mr. C. C. Goode, up until today, the assistant manager of Mont gomery Wards, is leaving the cor poration to return to his hon^ state of West Virginia. He plans to go into the hosiery business at Charleston. Mr. Goode has been In Shelby since November fifteenth, coming here from Greenville. Driver Of Death Auto Surrenders Man Hunt For One Driving Car In Crash In Which Cliff side Man Was Killed. In a telephone conversation with The Star at noon today Police Chief Chas. R. Price, of Forest City, stated that Walter Branch sought as the driver of the auto in the crash which killed Kelly Moore, Cllffside contractor, Monday morning, came into the Rutherfordton jail about daylight this morning and surrendered. He was cut about the face and had several teeth knocked out in the crash. Forest City. Jan. 7.—A blood soaked coat, but not its owner, was in possession of Rutherford county officers and some 250 citizens, part of whom today continued a 24-hour hunt for Walter Branch, alleged murderer. Branch, Henrietta man, fled yes terday morning when a car he was driving collided with another in which were G. Kelly Moore, promi nent Cllffside contractor, and Lex Harrill. When Moore died two hours and a half later in the Rutherford hospital, warrant charging Branch with murder was Issued and the man hunt began. At an early hour this morning searcher* believed that Branch, de spite serious Injuries he received in the accident, had escaped the cor don thrown about him "last night in the swamp section along the Broad river, between Henrietta and Cliff side. ■ .. ,.JO*eCA*Branch Chief Charles Price, of Forest City, with two other officers, sight ed the hunted man late yesterday afternoon, and fired several shots at him, none of which took effect. Branch eluded them after a two hour chase, during which he threw off his blood-stained coat. Posses formed from all over (Continued on page eight) St ere hi Manager Off To Knoxville Meet Mr. Floyd O. Smith, manager of Sterchl’s, left Shelby today fer Knoxville, Tennessee, headquarters of the Sterchi corporation, to at tend the annual managers meeting. Mr. Smith will be accompanied by Mr. S. C. Cauble, head of the Char lotte store, and the two will make the trip by motor over the moun tains. Mr. Smith said before leaving that he will report to headquarters that he is head of a store in one of the best towns in the Carolina*, and has had a highly encouraging busi ness for the three months the store has been established here. Star Charity Fund Close* With $671 The total amount contributed for the Empty stocking fund conduct ed by The Star before Christmas amounted to $669, but since the last acknowledgement, two contributions have come in, raising the amount of $671. Ab Poston gave $1 and J. H Davis of Grover $1 which closes the campaign. All of the money has been turned over to Rush Hamnck, treasurer, and is being disbursed tor only the necessities of life to cases that have been thoroughly investi gated and found to be deserving. Lawyers Here Bitterly Opposed To Workman *s Compensation Act Many Of Them Hope To Have Act Repea' ' »«- "" Neat Assembly Session. 4 Judging by the rumblings heard among lawyers in Shelby and re ports of discontent among barristers in other sections ot the state, thej workmans compensation act, fath ered and passed at the last legis lature by Representative Odus M. Mull, of Cla^land county, will be the center of one of the big fights of the Nqrth Carolina legislature. Quite a number of the lawyers here, who argue that the bill not only knocks members of the legal fraternity out of lees they hereto j fore received from damage suits,! but, also, keeps injured workmen from getting as much as they did by the old plan, are emphatic in their determination to carry the fight against the act to the next assembly floor. They, reports have it will question all local prospects for the legislature along that line prior to the primary, and, furthermore, will interest themselves in getting the repeal or modification measure across once it is introduced at the next legislative session. The above attitude, it should be added, is not taken by all local lawyer, since it is recalled that a member of the local bar introduced the measure and another spoke for it before a legislative committee. Witness in Mystery Death A. new woman witness who may aid the District Attorney’s OSes in its investigation of possible murder and .forgery i owing out of the death of format State Senator George Lafayette Finn, Iowa millionaire, will be questioned. She is Mrs. Pearl Crane, ■rho is alleged to have > 'important I •n formation” f in the Finn case. I (iBtwnutteo* Former Wyoming Cowboy Cook Believed To Be Lost Charhy Ross San Francisco Entertainer Believed Mystery Boy. One Thought Found Here. (The following story will be of considerable Interest locally as sev eral years back it was for a time thought that The Star had discov ered the long-lost Philadelphia boy in Julius Dellinger, of Denver, Lin coln county.) San Francisco.—Can one of Am erica’s greatest unsolved crimes now be solved? ■ Can the seal of mystery which closes tight the story of the kidnap ing of Charles Ross be broken at last? , Can a picture of a blonde six year-old boy and vafeue memories of a woman, always begging her husband to “take the boy home,” establish the identity of a child? And if they can, is It possible that Charles Ross, kidnaped a half-cen tury ago at Philadelphia, is Pay ton Klncel of San Francisco, enter tainer, and for 20 years a Wyoming round-up cook? 1 These are questions the Ross family and the world some day will be called upon to answer. Klncel makes few claims, but friends make them for him. He does not remember the actual kidnaping. He cannot remember connecting links between the life of the petted Philadelphia child and the other spent in crude cabins and Indian missions — but he does remember events that dovetail, and he pro duces a picture. The picture is of himself when he was six years old. It bears a striking resemblance to published (Continued on page six.) Gordon Lcgan Engineer Dies Southern Railway Engineer Strick en While At Work. Buried At Patterson Springs. Engineer Gordon Logan who had been to the railroad service lor thirty years, died suddenly Tues day morning at 10 o’clock Irom a heart attack while he was oiling hi< engine at the water tank at Blacks burg. Mr. Logan who was related to many people in Cleveland county of which he was a native, had just returned on his switch engine to Blacksburg from a trip to Gaffney. He was stricken with a heart at tack at 10 o’clock and died shortly thereafter. Mr. Logan was 53 years and four months old. He was married in i905 to Miss Bessie Bowen who survl es with thee sons, John Logan of Shelby, Carl and James Logan of Blacksburg, three sisters Mrs. Bil lie Ramseur of Blacksburg, Mrs. Elizabeth Horn of Patterson Springs and Mrs. Mamie Roberts of Shelby Mr. Logan was converted when a boy and Joining Sulphur Springs Methodist church in which church he was a loyal member at the time of his death. The funeral service was conduct ed by Sulphur Springs church, Pat terson Springs, Tuesday afternoon by Rev. R. L. Forbis, pastor. A aige crowd attended the funeral, for during his life he proved himself a true friend and made a wide circle of friends. He was strong, manly to his bearing, honest, hard-working and a skilled workman, highly es teemed by his railroad associates | and officials. 1658 Pages The number of paces In the 155 issnes of The Star print ed In 1929 reached a total of 1,658, an arerage of over 10 paces per Issue. * The Star knows of no paper in North Carolina that elves as much reading matter for the subscription price of , per year by mall, $8 by car rier. 4} this price, an issue of The Star costa less than a two cent postage stamp per copy delivered at your home, or mail box. If you are not a Star sub scriber, borrowing your neigh bor's paper, don’t deprive * neighbor—have the paper come In your own name, then I hare It all for your own fam ily to read. Health Sale Seals Here Nets $202.60 ”his Sum Remains In The County For Treatment Of Tuberculosis Patients. From the sale of Red Cross Health seals, the sum of $370.14 was realized during the month of December, according to a report furnished by Mrs. Grover Beam, chairman of the Red Cross Seal Fund. Of this amount, twenty, five per cent was sent to the North Car olina Tuberculosis Association, leav ing a net of $202.60 to be used in Cleveland county lor the treatment of local cases during the present year. Mrs. Beam's financial statement is as follows: Mill Men__$45.00 Business Section___$74.99 Schools, Washington St. $27.65 South Shelby 2nd,_$13.10 Clubs . $70.28 TOTAL for year 19529 .... $270.14 25% sent to N, C. Tub. Asso. $65.54 Total ynount kept in Cleve land county .........._$202.60 (Mrs.) Grover Beam, Chmn. Red Cross Seal Fund. Fell B&bington Goes To New Orleans Job Mr. J. Fel Bablngton, Intertype salesman, has had his headquarters changed from New York to New Orleans and left Shelby yesterday to make his home in the Louisiana city. His territory for most of the nine years he has been with the firm has been North Carolina and Virginia, while his new field will be the city of New Orleans. Bury Auto Wreck Victim At Antioch Lamar McSwain, 23 years cld who was injured in South Carolina about thirty days ago, died yester day from his injuries in a Rock Hill hospital as a result of his Injuries. His body is being buried today at noon at Antioch Baptist church be low Grover. Grid Star Gets Prison Term On Forgery Charge Judge Stark Impows Long 8m> pended Sentencea. Many De fendants Fall To Appear. The outstanding case disposed of so far by the present session of superior court was that of Max Connor, former football star, who received an 18 months to two years sentence In the state prison alter pleading guilty to forging a $10 check here. There Is some indication that the well known athlete may appeal the sentence to supreme court, but no tice of appeal has not been filed as yet. Marty Are Dodging. Due. perhaps, to the reputation of Judge A. M. Stack for firmness many defendants have failed to op pear when called and In each in stance Judge Stack has set lnstan ter proceedings In motion to bring them Into court. In this connection the presiding Jurist was critical of a seeming neglect to forfeit and col lect bonds wherein defendants fall to appear here. Not For Life. The average suspended sentence meted out in the court room runs for one to two years, but Judge Stack seldom applies a suspended sentence without extending the time for five years, this entry being made on nearly every prohibition charge In which the defendant was not given a straight road or prison sentence. In one case wherein the defendant was convicted of gambling a suspended sentence or 30 days was given and will go Into effect ir the defendant ever gambles any more during his life, or has any tiling to do with liquor for a period of five years. Failure of important witnesses to appear Is another thing which net tles the Monroe Jurist. In one case yesterday a witness who did not show up was fined $80 but given the remainder of the term to show why he did not appear. Alonzo McCUnton. who last week confessed to the attempted holdup of Mrs. Kata Bettis White, Earl postmistress, some weeks back, was given a six months sentence on the No. 6 chain gang on the charge of an assault upon a female. No sentences to the chain gang longer than six months were im posed as the court was Informed that the No. 0 road commissioners would abandon operation of the chain gang on July 1. Other sentences passed include the following: State vs. Harley Painter, larceny of auto belonging to Bob Grant; 18 months to three years In the state prison. State vs. Harold Burrelson, for gery; one to two years in the state prison. State vs. Zeno Black, drunk and disorderly, driving drunk; 00 days on the roads. Gets Three Years. In court today Judge Stack sen tenced Ceph Thomas, colored, to three years in prison for the killing of Clyde Harris, colored, In the Lawndale section last November. Thomas pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Slot Machine Case. A prospective test by the supreme court of the legality or slot machine operation in North Carolina failed to materialize. In a case wherein the defendant was charged with opera tion of a slot machine he was taxed with the coets, ordered to rid his place of the machine and never again to operate one. Defense coun sel at first took exception to the Judgment and gave notice of ap peal, making a supreme court de cision likely, but later, It is under stood, the costs were paid. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Crowder, and children visited Mrs. Crowder's moth er, Mrs. Sue Austell, at Charlotte Sunday. M Swain and Weathers Talked For Legislature And Senate For County Bennett Heads Lions Of City Al Ft. Bennett, attorney, is the new president of the Shelby Lions club, being elected last nlBht at the Lions luncheon at the Wayside res taurant to succeed Claude Grose Other officers elected by the Lions were: Flay Boyette, first vice presi dent; Vernon Mason, second vice president; Arthur Benoy, re-elected secretary-treasurer; C. C. Horn, lion tamer; Joe Turner, tail twister. The tvCo new directors are Claude Grose and Meredith H. Hennessa. New members becoming affiliated with the club recently are Claude Mabry, C. C. Horn, and Meredith Hennessa. Cotton Gin Bums In No. 3 Township Alien And Olenn Suffer Loss Of New Gin Erected Last FalL Loss $8,000. Allen and Glenn’s cotton gin in No. 3 township was totally destroy ed by fire Friday night about mid night, causing a loss of about $8, 000 with $5,000 Insurance. The gin was erected only last fall and was up-to-date in every particular. It had not been operated since two o'clock Friday afternoon as the gin ning season was about over. Be tween 11 and 13 o'clock the fire was discovered and neighbors repotted to fight the ftre. They saved the cotton on the yard. It Is thought the gin was set afire but as yet there have been no arrest. Births In No. One Lead The Deaths For the past eight years M. B. Earls of Gaffney, Route 6 has been registrar of births and deaths in No. 1 township, the smallest county township in the county from the standpoint of population. The num ber of deaths In these eight years has been 61 while the number of births has been 211, an increase In population of 150 caused by births exceeding the deaths. To this should be added numbers of peo ple who have moved into the com munity, however, but there is no record of this. The peak in births and deaths was reached In 1926 when there were 11 deaths and 51 births during the year. Record December Mail Enables Post Office Here To Hold Rating December Postal Receipts Here 20 Percent. Better In 1920 Than In 1928. Figures issued today by Postmas ter J. H. Quinn show that the 6U?1 by post office would not have re tained its first class ranking bad it not been for a record mail in De cember with postal receipts totalling $6,000.88, or 20 per cent more „in ever before for the same month. A letter from Mr. Quinn follows, showing that the local office re tained its first class ranking by a scant $100 margin: “I take this means of expressing to the citizens of Shelby and tre surrounding territory, served by thj? office, of expressing to them, and all of them, our sincere thanks and hearty appreciation for the co-op eration and loyal support given this office during the last quarter In in creasing the business and In retain ing our classification as a first class office. “It will be recalled that our offioe, in line with 54 percent of the offices of the United Stated, lost heavily on the June quarter, 1929, as compar ed with same quarter in 1928. It looked at times as if we would not be able to recoup our loss and re tain our classification, but, fortun ately, we passed the goal of 1928, the total receipts were $40,201.93, (.Continued on page six.) Former Senator And Publisher Of The Star Mentioned In Politi cal Discussion*. (By KENN DRUM) The political water Is staling hereabouts to the extent that nam es are already being mentioned in the discussion of prospective politi cal races and the June primary. On the streets here and about the county two men are generally suggested as prospective candidates for the State Senate and the gen eral assembly—Capt. Peyton Mc Swaln, former State senator, being talked as a likely candidate for that office again, with Lee B. Wea thers, president and editor of The Star, entering the talk as a pros pective candidate for the legisla ture. No Announcement. i neitner oi tne two nas as yet made any definite statement aa to what they may do, but It is gener ally talked that both are, at least, considering'’ the race. Capt. McSwaln, who was district ■lector in the last general election and has represented the county In Raleigh before and also in other ca pacities, has quite a political fol lowing in the county which is be hind the suggestion of his candi dacy. Mr. Weathers, who hereto fore has devoted himself entirely to the newspaper business and has never held or sought pablic office, finds himself about to be projected into the political limelight for the first time. His name was first brought up when reports from the rural sections were to the effect that it would be for the best inter ests of the county not to select both representatives to Raleigh from the legal fraternly. Since that time he lias been approached by both farm ers and members of the local bar who have urged hla candidacy. Other than these two prospects and several likely candidates for the recordership very few names are being mentioned. Unless un foreseen developments bob up in the next few weeks It does not ap pear as if there will be any contests for county offloea other than for recorder, if Judge Kennedy vaoates. Several attorneys have been men tioned for the Judgefhip, the talk including John P. Mull, former re corder; Maurice Weathers, A1 R. Bennett and Henry Edwards. At least two of the discussed quartet are considering the race, their friends say. Firemen Halt Dangerous Niffht Blase In Business Section Curbed. Boyette-Elmore. Store Is Damaged. The lire laddies did valiant .work here Monday night when they sav ed an entire city block from loss by controlling a flame originating in the Boyette-Elmore Furniture com pany stare on N. LaFayette street. The fire was held within the build ing and was soon under oontrol, but not until a property loss of *6,900 had been sustained. When Paul Webb, Jr, returned to his car parked in front of the Paul Webb drug store about 10 o'clock, he saw smoke boiling from a vent under the roof of the two story building. The alarm was hastily turned In and the fire department reported with two engines and the hook and lader truck. Under the di rection of Chief Robinson, the fire was soon1 put under control, but the flame had eaten Its way through the ceiling of the second floor and roof. Water did damage to the fur niture on the first floor and water and fire did considerable damage to the second floor stock. The building which Is owned by Paul Webb had a loss estimated at $1,500, while Boyette and Elmore, *■ proprietors of the furniture store estimate their damage at $9,000. It Is understood that both the prop erty and merchandise owners are fully protected by insurance. The origin of the fire is un known. It was first discovered on the second floor to the rear of the building. KINGS MTN. WOMAN DIES IN MOBGANTON Miss Zula Boone who died yes terday In the Marganton state hos pital where she had been a patient for thirty years, Is being bailed this afternoon at Kings Mountain, her former home. She has a brother, George Boone, living in Kings Mountain.
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