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I 12 PAGES I TODAY VOL. XXX VI, No. 11 SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY. JAN. 24. 1900. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. P mall. Carrier. per year (in advance) *2.50 Dl»’ Vfiar (in flHvancfc) 49 Of! LI TE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound-....... 16c Cotton Seed, per bu.-37**c Wanner Saturday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Saturday. Wanner Saturday and In extreme west portion tonight. To Help Byrd. The American government yes terday began to arrange every pos sible method of rendering assist ance to Rear dmiral Byrd and his Antarctic exploration party to pre vent their underrre big a winter of bitter privation. Due to the locking in of winter ice packs it is feared the famous Virginian and his party will be Isolated with a short food supply and all of them. may. not live through the winter. Norwegian shippers were asked to do what they mi";ht to send the par.y re lief while England was asked to keep a vessel ready to send the South Pole explorers aid should they call for assistance. Schenck Re-Elected Head Of Golf Club Go'fers Of Sheby T lk Cf Buyln Course From Cleveland Springs Company. At a meeting of the members of ths Clevelqp*' Springs Golf club held last night in the directors room at the First Na'ional ban': the 1929 officers were re-elected by acclrmation. They are John F. Schenck, sr., president; J. Frank Jenkins and Jack Palmer, vice presidents; Charles Eskridge, secre tary. The meeting discussed several items of interest to the club, mem bership fees, operating expenses and such, but the central discussion was the future of the club. Stock holders of the Cleveland County Club, which owns the golf club house, and also members of the company purchasing the Cleveland ‘Springs hotel property were pres ent. The golf course proper is own ed by the hotel company, or the nine men who purchased the prop erty at auction last Saturday, and both Country Club and hotel prop erty owners suggested that the Country Club and golf club pur chase the land on which the course is now located, thus combining the two and holding the entire golf fa cilities together thus removing the rec.eatlon center from any con . nectlon with the commercial propo si^Qjps which may be taken up by the hotel property owners. No definite plan of carrying out the proposal was reached, but when the hotel property bid is confirmed directors of the golf club and of the Country Club will confer with the owners of the hotel property regarding the purchase of the course •those of the hotel property pur chasers present declaring that the sale price would be reasonable and that they as members of the two other clubs would purchase stock in the combined purchase of the golf course. The membership dues in the golf club will remain as they were and an early drive will be staged for new members. Free Fertilizer Tips For Farmers Star Has 100 Copies Of Agronomy Information For Cleveland County Farmers. Fanners in Cleveland county may secure free of charge a bulletin which has just been issued by the extension department of agriculture at Raleigh which shows the analysis of fertilisers recommended -or im portant crops in this district. This information was prepared by thjsec * experts in the state department, Messrs. C. B. Williams, H. B. Mann and A. S. Cline and not only gives the kind of fertilizer best suited to various crops but the number of acres of land and the various types of soil in Region No. 5. The Star has secured 100 copies « of this valuable bulletin and will distribute them to farmers without cost if they will call at the office They will not be mailed out but distributed in person as long as they last. Hog Weighing 651 Pounds Is Killed By R. B. Watterson Over on Kings Mountain, Route 2, is a Cleveland county farmer who , lives at home and In the months ahead will live in plenty. This farm er, Mr. R. B. Watterson, recently killed a 27-months-old hog that, after being quartered, weighed 651 pounds. Mr. Watterson was in Shel by today exhibiting a good photo of his prize pig and until he is shown better he will be of the opinion that he has the record of the seas on hereabouts. Merchants Banquet Members of the Merchants as ’ sociation will banquet tonight at the Hotel Charles at 7 o’clock. Matters of business will be discussed after luncheon. Quality Stores Will Op*n Jan. 31 In Section ”ine Shelby Merchant*. Wl'l Open Under New Cooperative Plan Selling Groceries. The Quality Service Stores bi Rutherford and Cleveland counties will open for business January 31 and February 1, according to an an nouncement made by the president, W. c. Ellis, manager of the W. C. Ellis company, cf Spindale. A meeting of the finance commit tee of the group was held Wednes day night, at which time plans tor the opening were discussed. Another meeting will be heard next Tue? day evening at the courthouse, in Rutherfordton, which will be attend ed by all the members of the Q. S. S. group in Cleveland and Rutherford, and final plans made for putting the movement In oper ation in the county. The local unit of the Quality Service Stores group embraces Cleveland and Rutherford counties, and has a membership of over 30 stores in the two counties. Officers cf the local group are: President, W. Clyde Ellis, Spindale; vice president, Oscar Palmer, Shel by; secretary treasurer, R. B. Keeter, Rutherfordton; Charles Rice, Shel by, and J. W. Sanders, Forest City. Nine In Shelby. Nine Shelby grocery stores will be among these operating under the Quality Service plan. They are C H. Reinhart grocery, two grocery stores of the Keeter brothers, Baber grocery, D. T. Mauney grocery, Crowder Brothers, Jackson cash grocery, Champion’s grocery, and the Chas. Bulce grocery. Workmen employed by the Quality Service officials are this week painting the fronts of the nine lo cal stores to ccnform with the gen eral color scheme and the stores will cooperate with each other in selling prices and specials to be ad vertised. The members of the Quality Ser vice Stores group will purchase in bulk a number of standard advertis ed brands of groceries and feature hem each week as specials. Through the centralized purchasing plan cer tain other groceries will also be pur chased in bulk and sold at whole saler's price. Burke Man Given Road Term Here In Liquor Trial Was Found With 10 Gallons Of Whiskey In Wrecked Car. Two Others Cleared. In county court todry L. L. Stanl ey, of Burke county, was sentenced to 12 months on the roads by Judge Horace Kennedy on the charge of transporting a big cargo of whiskey into this county last week. Two other Burke men, Marvin Lail and Sanford Burns, were acquitted, and Stamey rppealed his sentence. Last week Deputy Plato Ledford captured an auto, said to be the property of Burns, containing 21 half gallon fruit Jars of whiskey. According to the officer, Stamey, found with the car, which was wrecked in a creek in upper Cleve land, was so Intoxicated that he could not get away, but two others, alleged to be Lail and Burns, did escape. Samey denied that it was his whiskey but neither of the trio took the stand in court today. The Burns car was confiscate!’ and will be sold. On College Honor Roll. R. S. Gidney, of Shelby, was one of the 271 University of North Carolina students making the hon or roll for the Fall quarter, accord ing to an announcement from Chapel Hill. To attain this distinc tion a student must average 90 or above on all studies. _ _ Jersey Slayer Gets 23-Year Term Mrs. Gladys May Parks, convicted of murder in 1 second degrr and man slaughter in the death of her two ward Dorothy ana Timothy Rog ers, was sentenced to twenty-five years on the murder count and ten years for manslaugh ter, in Camden N.J. (Inter nation*’ Nawireel) Shelby Used 21 Million Galhns More Water In 1929 Than In 1928 Increased Water Consumption Indicates City’s Growth. 192 Million Gallons Used Last Year. If an Increased consumption of water indicates the general Crown of a city, then Shehy spread out considerably in 1929. In 1929, according to fl-nires issued today by Mr. R. V. Toms, city water superintendent, Shel by consumed 21 million gallons more water than in 1929. The total water consumption in Shelby In 1C29 was 192,914 030 gallons, whl'e in 1928 the con sumption was 171,179,000 gal lons. More water*, 17,541,000 gallons, was used In July than In any other month of the year. April water ccn*;ump'ioii -ankcd sec ond, and August ranked third. Less water was consumed in February than in any other month. In 1928 the month with the highest ccn ump#on of wa ter was August with 16,735,000 ga'I-ns. • In other words, on the basis of 12,030 popu.'.Von, if every person in Shelby consumed, or bathed away, his and tier por tion of the year’s water con sumption, then he or she used 16,076 gallons of water in 1529. Boy Scout Officials Called To Meet 27th A meeting; of officials of the Shelby Boy Scouts and others inter ested in scouting has been called by Capt. B. L. Smith, vice president of the Piedmont Council for Monday, evening, January 27. It will be held in the Charles hotel club dining room at 7:30 o’clock. All those who are willing to lend a hand in this important work in behalf of our boyhood shculd be present. Lions Club Starts Circulating Books Beginning next week the Lions club of Shelby starts into circula tion, two sixty volume libraries, among the elementary schools of Cleveland county. These libraries have been put up in susbtantial book case and will be carried from one elementary school to another, remaining at each school for two weeks for use by the pupils. The literature has been carefully selected and will meet a need among the elementary rural schools, most of which do not have a library. Big Gain In Cotton Ginning Over Last Year Shown By Late Report Total Of 14,187,779 Hanning Bales Ginned Prior To January 16, Report Shows. Washington.—Cotton ginned prior to January 16 was announced yes terday by the census bureau as 14, 187,779 running bales, including SCO,815 round bales, counted as half bales, and 25,457 bales of American Egyptian, and excluding linters. A year ago 13,888,972 bales, in cluding 646,396 round bales, end 25,426 of American-Egyptian were Binned and two years ago ginnings were 12.501,447 bales, including 530. 120 round bales, and 20,782 of Amer-1 ican-Egypti&n. G innings by state were: Alabama, 1,296,078. Arizona, 140,443. Arkansas, 1,351,514. California. 228,189. Florida, 29,830. Georgia, 1,305,168. Louisiana, 198,144. Mississippi, 1.313,762 Missouri, 198 314. New Mexico, 84,335. North Carolina, 738,088. Iklahoma, 1,104,630. South Carolina, 805,587. Tennessee. 472 918. Texas, 3,763.840. Virginia, 45,855. All other states, 7,084. Union Trust Co. Elects Officials *!e“clnMons Adopted On Death Of Of Vice-President T. A, Stanley, Fallston, At the annual inerting of the . stockholders of the Union Trust Co., which operates banks at Shel by. Fallston, Lr.ttlmore and Lawn dale, it was reported that the sur plus had been increased to $109,000 and the profit and reserve account (to $40,000. Suitable resolutions were adopted commemorating T. A. Stamey, a vice-president who died in December. The following officers were re alected: C. C. Blanton, president; J. T. Bowmrn, John F. Schenck, Geo. 31anton, Dr. L. V. Lee and E. B. Hamrick, vice-presidents and For est Eskridge, cashier. The place of Mr. Stamey was not filled for the oresent. J. F. Roberts is manager of he insurance department. Directors are C. C. Blanton, J. T. Bowman, E. B. Hr in ick, J. H. Quinn, J. R. Dover, J. F. Schenck, sr.p L. V. Lee. C. C. Hamrick, L. S. Hamrick. C. H. Shull, J. F. Roberts, Geo. Blanton and Forrest Eskridge,; Assistant cashiers are Miss Katie May Toms of Lattimore, John Car penter of Lawndale and Herman A. Beam of Fallston. Masons Of County Attend Grand Lodge The following members of Ma sonic lodges In Cleveland county, returned yesterday from Raleigh where they attended a meeting of the Grand Lodge: Cliit Owens, J. F. Roberts, W. V. Metcalf, J. W. Fitzgerald, Lon Gantt, T. G. Lack ey, H. F. Royster, A. L Calton, M. A. Ware. WOODMEN DANCE AT HALL SATURDAY NIGHT There will be an old time square dance held at Woodmen’s tall on East Graham street Saturday night January 24. Good music and older will be had. This is benefit of the degree team of (he Woodmen of tne World for uniform. King Appeal To Reach Court In March, Believed Shrlby Man, Now In 8, C. Prison, Will Not Know About Another Chance Until Then. It will be some time In March .before Rate King, Shelby man now in the South Carolina pris on, will know whether he will !>-,■ given another chance to prove his Innocence or will be sent to the drath chair according to the sentence passed upon hlin in South Carolina circuit rourl at Chester la&t summer on the charge of slaying his wife. The following dispatch from Chester aells of the expected date, announcement being made follow ing a conference between lawyers in the case: "Belief that the appeal of Rate F. King, convicted last July ol murder of his wife, Faye Wilson King, at their home at 8haron H C„ will reach the South Carolina supreme court some time in Marr.i was expressed by attorneys Wednes day following a conference of state and defense counsel here. No definite announcement could be made however, due to Solicitor Harry Hines' absence from the hear ing. King, member of a Shelby family was sentenced to death by Judge J. K. Henry. The sentence was stayed upon notice of appeal. Defense attorneys some time ago filed with the solicitor thetr pro posed case of appeal to which Mr. Hines and his state counsel pre pared proposed amendments Wed nesday's conference was to contest these amendment, and though Mr. Hines will have to pass on the pro ceedings first, attorneys felt that the differences would be adjusted without the necessity of an appeal to Judge Henry. Cohen Bros. Lease Efird’s Old Stand WUI Open Economy Store About Ffbnary I. Have Store In Lincolnton, Cohen Bros, of Lincoln ton have securad a two year lease on the 3. C. Blanton store room form*;ly oc cupied by the Efird department store and will open about Fc.-mary l, a general store to be known as Cohen Bros. Economy store. The lease was closed yesterday and prep arations are being made to remodel the store interior and repair the roof. Cohen Bros, maintain a store at Lineolntcn and their coming to Shelby means an additional store as the Lincolnton store will be con tinued. Paul Fowler Die# Here At Age Of 22 Paul Fowler, aged 22 years died yesterday at his home hi Curtis- < town, a section on the extension of South DeKalb street. The remains were buried this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Buffalo Baptist church, the services being conducted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop. Mr. Fowler is sur vived by his widow and a fifteen months old child, also one full brother, one half brother, two half sisteF died In 1919. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tcm Fowler. Contract Let For Eastside Church Contract has been let to Lutz and Webb to build 18 rcom addition to the Eastside Baptist church of which Rev. IT. E. Waldrop Is pastor. The addition is for the educational de partment of the church. A com mittee of 30 from the membership will be appointed shortly to raise funds to pay for the addition. City Will Levy Tax Penalty After Feb. 1 A penalty of one per cent on all unpaid city taxes will be levied aft er Feb. 1, according to an ordinance recently passed bv Mayor McMurry and the*city bc^rf. Up until Feb. 1, taxes are net, but after that date one per cent penalty will be added to all unpaid taxes, whether for the year 1929 or earlier. Newton And Mull Classes In Contest Bible classes taught by J. C. New ton and John P. Mull at the (first. Baptist church are on a cohtcs whereby they will strive to win laurels in attendance. The public is invited to attend tlte class of ‘heir choice next Sunday raornlnu at Sunday school. The hour is >:30 o’clock Champion Cotton Farmers Of County Feted At Banquet Here Here’s A Reference Map Of Your County. The above map of Cleveland county Is one preparrd by the State Department of Conservation and Development and used In a publication showing the resources of North Carolina by counties. Clip It out and paste It up for future reference. Bailey Making Gains In State By “SwappingAbout”; Simmons May Cany Fight To Each County Guilford, Simmons Stronghold Some Time Bock, Now Showing Furor To Bailey. Raleigh.—Lines, in the forthcom ing campaign for the senatorial nomination between Senator F. Simmons and J. W. Bailey are re maining virtually unchanged lure with the exception that the Bailey forces are being credited with ma-, terial gains in some sections of the state as a result of political trades being made. For despite the plea, made last week by Governor O. Max Gardner to the people of the state not to let the senatorial campaign obliterate the other campaigns in the state, especially far the selec tion of nominees to the general assembly and for ether state nnd county offices, indications are that the Bailey forces are trading heav ily on these very offices. Reports received here indicate on every possible office, from members of congress on down to solicitors, county officials and members of boards of county com missioners. In other words they are going to the various prospective candidates and pledging the sup port of the Bailey organization in return for the support for Bailey from the prospective district 01 county candidates. Indications arr that the Bailey forces have materially strengthened their posi-j tion in some sections of the state as the result of these tactics. “Three weeks ago I would liave stated positively that Guilford county would go for Simmons by a big majority,” said a man here today who had just returned from spending several days In the Guil ford territory. "But within the last week or two so much trading has been done nmong the various local factions there that the entire coun ty now seems to be safe for Bailey. And I understand that similar trades are being made !n all the counties in the fifth congressional district with a view to swinging the entire district Into line back of Bailey.’* Their Is no doubt that both Mr. Ilaliley and his friends are grow ing more and more optimistic at their chances of carrying the state as a result of the encouraging re ports coming in from all sections of the state. The Bailey forces claim that they already have the active support cf virtually 90 per cent of the present Democratic county officials, of 90 per cent of the lawyers of the state and that fully 80 per cen of the chairmen of county boards of elections are pro-Bailey and antl-Slmmons. They maintain that with the cqpnty officials, the lawyers raid the majority of the local political leaders solidly for Bailey and against Simmons that they are bound to win. For they believe that in off year elections, such as this will be In June, and especially in the pri mary, that the majority of the peo ple will follow their local leadership much more closely and loyally than In national election years, since lo cal questions—state and county questions—are the dominant one ir, off years. However, the Simmons forces are not sitting idly by and per mitting the Bailey followers to go (Continued on page eleven.) County’s Oldest Citizen Is Dying Capt. Ed Dickson, C’eveland county’s oldest citizen, is said to be in a dying condition at bis home near falls ton. Capt. Dickson is one of Cleveland’s most respected citizens, an of ficer in the Confederate army and a gentleman of the old South. In March of this year Mr. Dicluon would be M years of age. Gaffney Bank Still In Business Despite Large Loss Revelation Bank’s Affairs In Good Shape De spite Loss Thrsnyh “Manipu lation Of Cheek. Drafts.” Gaffney, S. C.—Pears that the First National Bank of Gaffney might discontinue operations fol lowing disclosure by bank examiners that the institution had lost $133. 306.04 due to “manipulation of checks and drafts” were allayed yesterday by a statement issued by the board of directors. The statement declar ed the bank Is fully solvent In spite of the loss and that an alliance with other banking Institutions which would place the bank In tire strongest position it has ever occupied was being considered. The bank nad 1104,236.02 In surplus and undiv ded profits cn December 31, according i to Its financial statement of that date. Examination of the affairs of the institution by bank examiners fol lowed the death of Maynard Smyth president, who was found shot to death in his garage on the morn ing of January 14. His death was pronounced accidental by a oar oner’s jury. The announcement of the loss by the directors was the first authorita tive Information given on the bank’s condition since the examiners began their audit, At the meeting of the directors, H. H. Littlejohn and W. C. Thomp son were named to fill the vacancies on board caused by the deaths cf Mr Smyth and J. A. Carroll, J. N. Llscomb was elected temporary president Saturday. i Prize# Given Nine Men; Mull Speaks On Gardner Idea •Farmer Should Here Nothin* On III* Farm That Farm Does Not Feed." Cleveland. North Carolina's champion cotton growing coun *>• last night Inaugurated Gov ernor Gardner’s live-at-home campaign In his own county by '(aging a banquet honoring the county's best cotton producers, an event staged by the Rotary and Klwanh clubs of Shelby and at which O. At. Moll, ad visor to the governor, was the chief speaker. The meeting, undoubtedly, wai the most cooperative and most rep resentative gathering the county ai u whole has ever staged, and II heard a plea urging'the county, non pointed out as an agricultural ex ample, not to lay too much empha sis on cash crops, but, first of au, to live at home. Attended by more than loo people—farmers, lawyers, physicians, manufacturers, minis ters, business men and professional experts—the banquet, held at the Hotel Charles drew leaders frem all walks of life in the county. Rubbing elbows at the same table were farm ers. who doff their hats to none la producing farm crops, and out standing professional and business men, who do not have to lcok back more than one generation to the day when they worked on Cleveland county farms. Nine Happy Men. At one of the tables were seated nine men In whose honor the oc« ! easicn was first thought of. Thsy were the nine who produced more cotton c*i five acres at less expense than any other cotton "farmers in a county that boasts of bale-to-ho acre farmers. But ere the meeting ended thoughts were turned to things other than cotton as the meeting heard of other sections where the farmer put all of his eggs In the cotton and tobacco baskets and as a result is in dire straits. Guests of the two civic clubs ith er than the nine cotton prise Win ners were the three members of the county agricultural beard from each tqjvnshlp of the county, and other farm leaders from the various pee tlons. Eager youth was represented “ °W age and experience, At the table of prlte-wlnners was young Aston Adams, of the Lattlmore sec tion, who still yearns for a heavy beard on his face but takes a pack seat for no elder in the matter of getting cotton bolls to the acre, while at another table were elderly farmers who remember the day wlwn Cleveland thought a 15,000 bate cotton crop a remarkable achievement. contentment first. The committee arranging tlje pro gram tor the evening attempted, to bring some of the outstanding agri-* culural experts from Ralejgh to furnish the oratory, but after some search the man decided upon was a native of the ccuhty and one who knows that he Is talking about when he starts talking to farraers-Odus M. Mull, Cleveland fanners have an incllnalon to sniff with when a book farmer tells them bow to prosper, but this gathering knew Odus Mull; it knew that for two years every tenant on the Mull farms had averaged a bale of cot ton to the acre, and that during that time, and for many years pre (Continued on page eleven.) Gastonia Man Was Murdered, Believed Gaston Officer* Said To Be Work ing On Clues Painting To Startling Result. Gastonia, Jan. 33.—Satisfied that W. P. Long, whose body was found beside highway No. 30 early Wednes day morning, was murdered In cold, blood and the body placed bp the read to create the impression . that he was the victim of a hit-aod-. driver. Sheriff Eli P. LinebergWi city police officers were working Jointly this afternoon on clues which they felt sure would result In at least one startling arrest by Friday night. The name of the person un der suspicion was not revealed, however. Three West Gastonia men. asso ciates cf Long, are held tn the coun ty jail now awaiting a coroner’s in quest Saturday morning. They Mr* Crip Bridges, Andy Cabe and J, N. Jenkins. All of these men deny any connection with the killing. There Is a belief that Long might have met his death as the *" of gang warfare factions. However, _, Wallace and several physicians •,_ examined Long’s body are certain he a as murdered with an awe, hatchet, nr *ome other heavy sharp ———