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10 PAGES TODAY 1930. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday AHornoons.”^1' “ £ £52 22 LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound-- lfic Cotton Seed, per bu..* 31'*c Cloudy Saturday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight. Partly rlondy Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Taft Improves. Personal physicians of William Howard Taft, former president who resigned as chief justice recently because of ill health, stated last night in Washington that their dis tinguished patient’s condition was better than it had been any time since he returned to Washington from Asheville. County Funds In Rutherford Safe, Is Said School Money And Public’* O. K. Chimney Itock Bank Closes, Makes Six In All. Bank Examiners At Work. Forest City, Feb. 6— State bank examiners arrived in Rutlierfordton Tuesday evening, and Wednesday morning began a check of the Rutn erfordton County Bank and Trust company’s books. The officials oi that institution have made no offi cial statement, ether than that the condition of the bank would proo ably permit them to pay the obliga tions of the institution 100 rents on the dollar at an early date. The funds of the Rutherford county board of education and the funds of Rutherford county, de posited in the Rutherford Coumy Bank and Trust company and the Farmers bank, are safe, according to county officials. Practically all of the county funds were on deposit in these two institutions, but were cov ered by heavy surety bonds. No county funds will be lost, accord ing to Clyde Erwin, as the surety companies will be responsible for the amounts on deposit. W. L. Hicks, cashier cf the Caro leen branch of the Farmers bank, stated Wednesday morning that the (Continued on page ten.) Isaak Walton Group Headed A. P. Beam League Organized Here Last Night To Report Game And Fish Of Section. An Isaak Walton League, with aim of protecting and conserving fish and game of the section, was organized at the court house here last night following an address by Lt. Col. C. Seymour Bullock, q|fi cial representative. Dr. A. Pitt Beam was named tem porary president of the club with H. C. Long, county game warden, as temporary secretary. The fol lowing were charter members: A. Pitt Beam, Stough Wray, H. C. Long, Byron E. Williams, J. F. Jenkins, Henry T. Stevens, Tom Abemethy, S. P. Smith, Willis Mc Murry, C. L. Eskridge, R. L. Low man, O. Turner, J. R. Robinson, J. D. Lineberger, Carl Thompson, Clint Welborn, Dean Duncan, Wil liam Andrews, L. C. Bost, D. S. Abemethy. idajor aims of the local club will be rearing and stocking of fish and game, creating game refuge, im proving cover and food and giving general protection to wild life; en forcing conservation laws and pro tecting private property, and en couraging a genera 1 appreciation of America's outdoor resources. The Isaak Walton group hopes to take in other sportsmen and hunt ers who are interested in protecting and Increasing game. Those al ready in the league say that the membership price of the organiza tion of sportsmen, and increasing game. Those already in the league say that the outdoor magazine furnished by the league is within itself worth the membership price of the organization of sportsmen. IF IT IS TO BE FOUND A Want Ad In The Star will torn the trick. Star want ads rent rooms and homes, sell discarded fur niture, find lost articles, sell real estate, locate jobs, and find employes. WHATEVER IT IS, A STAR WANT AD WILL HELP YOU. Try One— Telephone No. 11 or 4-J. . 1 Presbyterians Of 5 Counties , In Session Here Two New Ministers Enter Presbytery Thirty-Eight Churches Represented In Called Meeting Held Here Thursday. Approximately 75 people, minis • ters, laymen and women of the Presbyterian church attended a call ed session of the Khigs Mountain Presbytery held at the Shelby Meth odist church yesterday morning and afternoon. The presbytery includes thirty eight churches in five counties in this section and 20 of the 22 min | isters in the presbytery were among those attending the meeting. Rev. J. K. Hall, of Belmont, moderator of the presbytery, presided at both sessions. Cine of the chief purposes of the i special meeting was to study and lay i plans for advancement of the great f causes of the church, and the aXt • ernoon was given over entirely to ! this item. At the morning business I session, however, several important items of business were disposed of. McEiroy In Presbytery. ! One cf these was: the reception of j two new ministers by the presby tery. Rev. D. McGeachy was receiv ed from the Wilmington Presbytery | and will be installed as pastor at j Tryon and Columbus early in March. The other minister received was ! Rev. I. S. McEiroy, jr., a sen of Dr. I I. S. McEiroy of Kings Mountain. Rev. Mr. McEiroy. whose wile is the | niece of Wocdrow Wilson, comes to I the Rutherfordton Presbyterian church from Memphis, Tennessee, ! Presbytery. Following the morning session a basket lunch was served the dele gates by the ladies of the local church and other churches in the section. The meeting Thursday afternoon was in two sessions, the members of j the Woman's Presbyterial meeting in one group, and the ministers and laymen in another^ Rev. HV N. McDiarmid, pastor of J the host church, considers it one of the best attended call sessions of the presbytery in seme time, with much interest shown in advancing the general work of the churches represented. Highs Play Maiden Here Ton'ght; Lose To Kings Mountain Good Game Expected. “Red” Brown Stars In Defeat Last Night. A good basketball game is booked for the tin can here tcnight when ' the Shelby highs play the fast Maiden high school quint. Maiden has a good record for the season and expects to give the lo cals a hot contest, and perhaps a licking. Playing at Kings Mountain last night the locals lost to the Chris tenbury quint by a 34 to 23 score. The Shelby five was at the shor. end of the score throughout, but "Red" Brown, big Shelby forward, was the individual star of both teams. Brown shot 17 of his teams 23 points to lead both teams in scoring. J. Mauney, Kings Moun tain center, was second with ‘16 points. * Miss Abernethy Sa7‘d To Be Better Today Miss Mary Abernethy, of Shelby and Asheville, a daughter of Mr. W. A. Abernethy, was taken to the Shelby hospital Thursday morning after becoming quite ill Wednesday night. It was said today, however, that she appeared better after hav ing rested well last night. Judicial Leaders of United Slates UOHKT JAY r JOHN RUTLEDGE, -"— OWVEW ELCSVORTH --lt’-——~ «JOHN MARSKAW 1 ROGER TANEY, SALMON P CHASE \CH MORRISON^ RVAITC^al /imt KV •TJM/ER/ ! V E. D N WHiTE. CHARLES E HUGHE? 0/I1XIAM ! H TAFT The United States Supreme Court, since its establishment in 1789, has had only ten Chief Justices. Their names and the duration of their services are: John Jay, six years; John Rut ledge, less' than a year; Oliver Ellsworth, four years: John Marshall, thirty-four years; Roger B. Taney, twenty-eight years; Salmon P. Chase, nine years: Morrison R. Waite, fourteen years; M. W Fuller, twenty-two years; K, D. White, eleven years, and William Howard Taft, nine years. Most of the Chief Justices died in office. On the resignation of Chief Justice Taft, the j nomination of Charles Evans Hughes waa an- ' nounced by .President Hoover. <lnt*rn«ttonal Nnr*r**J) I Rutkerfotd Bank Crash His No Effect Gn Local Banks No Cleveland Bank ini? Or In dividual Connection With Closed Rutherford Banks. “Not a dollar has been with drawn from any Cleveland county banks because of fear for their safety,” said Cfoas. C. Blanton, president of the First National Bank this morning. “Our people in Cleveland county arc justified in their confidence in all Cleveland county banks for their position is as strong as any banks in North Carolina. Bight here in Shelby, the three banks have well over a million and a half dollars in cash and government bonds and not a single bank ow’kv for borrowed money or has any paper re-discounted. Unfortunate There. "It was unfortunate that the hanks in Rutherford county failed, hut those who know the situation, know that thetr failure was due primarily to the collapse of the Lake Lure development. It has been nown for a year or two that the anl:s were in hard straits because of the Lake Lure project, for man/ of the wealthier men of Ruther ford were connected with Lake Lure and with the tivo parent banks that failed at Forest City and Ruther ford ton. No Connection Here. “Fortunately, there is not a man in Cleveland county connected with the Lake Lure project and not over one man in Cleveland county was an officer or director in cither of the six banks that failed. ' Furthermore,” said Mr Blan ton, “net a single bank in Cleve land count}' was connected with either one of the Rutherford banks, (Continued on page ten.) Bulwinkle “Feeling Oat” County On His Candidacy For Congress Gastonia Ex-Service Man Still Con siders Seeking Of Democratic Nomination. Major A. U. Bulwinkle, Gastonia ex-service man and former con gressman, is as yet a prospective candidate for the Democratic con gressional nomination in the June primary. This was definitely revealed here this week as friends of the former congressman, who has always car ried Cleveland county by a larce majority both in primaries and elec tions, felt about to see how present i sentiment is regarding Major Bui-: winkle. These friends did not say j that Mr. Bulwinkle would be in the! race, but, rather, seemed to be test ing out the sentiment among voters to see if it justified the Gaston man's getting in the race. So far only two candidates have announced for the Democratic pri mary, They are Tom Jimison, Char lotte lawyer and former minister; and Hamilton Jones, another Cliar lctfe attorney. Mr. Jimison has not visited Shelby, but Mr. Jones has. and indications are that Jones has a temporary organization already functioning here. Just what information the, Bul winkle investigators carried back is not known, but considerable inter est is already being shown here nr the approaching congressional ccn- j test. Small Pendleton Boy Seriously Injured When Struck By Auto Otis Pendleton, jr., four and one half year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Pendleton, is in the Shelby hospital with a broken left thigh bone and a fractured skull as the result of being struck, by automo bile Wednesday afternoon. Unavoidable, Said. The youngster was hit while crossing or on the edge ol the highway In front of the Pendleton home on the Cleveland Springs road. The automobile which struck him was driven by a Mr. Johnson, of Gastonia. General reports have it that it was an unavoidable ac cident. Anyway, the father of the injured boy said today that from what he could learn about it that it appeared as if it could not have been helped. At the hospital today it was said that the youngster last night came out of a semi-conscious stupor and appeared to be better this morn ing. Many Appeals For Help Before Board In Regular Meeting Unemployment Increases Cliarity Problems. Six Enter County Home. The county commissioners in tlietr regular monthly meeting this week had more appeals tor help from Charity cases, unemployed, and sick families than ever before, it was stated today by A, E. Cline, com mission chairman. The applicants, making their ap peals through the county welfare department, came from no one class of people, it was said, but were generally scattered among several classes where odd jobs are usually depended upon for a livelihood. A number of the appeals, however, came from families wherein the wage earners are ill and unable to work. Others declared, it was said, that they could get no work. As a result of the numerous ap peals for Ifelp six people were taken to the county home for the aged and infirm this week, while others were helped through disposition of welfare funds. Thompsons Boosting Class Attendance Last Sunday near 300 people at tended the Hoey Bible class at Cen tral Methodist church as a result of an attendance campaign staged by the D. A. Beam family. This Sun day the attendance campaign is in charge of the Thompson family with Hush Thompson as the group lead er, • The Thompsons, as did the Beams, are getting out a letter to each member of the big class, and the j letter urges “When you wake up j Sunday morning, instead of turning! over, get up, get out and attend! Sunday school.” Federal Officers Arrest Man Here On Obscene Charge Charged With Advertising Oscene Literature Through Gov rncnt Mail. R E. Bridges, white, of the Mooresboro •section. was placed un der a Si.600 bond bere this week by United States Commissioner John P. Mull after he waived a preliminary hearing on a charge, preferred by Federal authorities, of mailing advertising of obscene literature through the United States mails. Bridges was brough before Com missioner Mull here by Deputy Marshal F. B. Hamrick, of Bolling Springs, after postal inspectors had investigated reports made to them. It Is understood that third-class advertising letters mailed at the Shelby pos toff ice last fail resulted in an investigation, the letters con taining, it is alleged, slips adver tising where certain literature might be secured, in Mexico and perhaps other points, on sex mat ters. The case will likely be disposed of at the next term of Federal court here. Bridges gave the re quired $1,000 bond. Shelby Represented At Charlotte Meet Approximately Score Of Local Merchants Attend Meeting Held There. Approximately a score of Shelby merchants and business men, it is understood, attended the anti chain store meeting in Charlotte Wednesday night. The meeting was addressed by Chas. G. McCall, attorney-general of Alabama, and was attended by a big crowd. McCall's speech and the program was broadcasted over the Charlotte station WBT. Men Freed As Girl Declines To Tell Story Kings Mountain Case Hits The Rocks Fourteen-Yrar-Old Girl lU'fnsrs To Testify* Vgalnst Two Mm t'hiirRed. Two Kings Mountain Whitt* mm, one srld to bo married. who were charged with carrying a I4-year-o!d Kings Mountain girl away from her home and having intimate relations with her, walked from the court room as free men at Kings Moun tain yesterdry when the young girl "efused to give any evidence against them. The hearing, or what was to have been a heftring, was held before County Recorder Horace Kennedy. The recorder before opening the case sent all spectators from the court room due to the ege of the girl who was booked as chief wit ness for the prosecution % l.ied First Time. The case blew up, however, when the girl took the stand and was asked to tell her story of her ex perience with the two men. Tins she refused to do, declaring that they had not wronged her. She was hen confronted with the informa tion that she had told her father r bout the affair, and. also, her law yer Just 10 or 15 minutes before court opened. Her answer was that •she had lied to them In telling of her experience with the defendants, but was swearing on the stand and was felling the truth. Before the case had proceeded to that stage the charge lied been nol prossed against one of the defend ants as his alleged experience with the girl took place in Gaston coun ty and, therefore, was beyond the Jurisdiction of the Cleveland court. In refusing to testify against the other defendant she declared that she loved him, and had related a false story in her previous state ments as to what they had done to her. Faced by her refusal to testify, the court dismissed the charge against the other defendant. An attempt will be made, Judge Kennedy said yesterday alter re turning from Kings Mountain, will to have the girl entered at Samar cand, or so he understood before leaving there. Indecent Exposure Sends Man To Jail While Man Arrested Here To Un dergo Mental Examination. Gets Sentence. in county court this morning Rastus Sisk, a white man of South Shelby, was given a hearing on the charge of Indecent exposure of his body in the section where he lives. He was given a 30-day sentence by Recorder Horace Kennedy, who ordered, however, that Sisk be ex amined by the county physician to determine if he is entirely right mentally, there being indications of an irregular mind. Several women, it is said, report ed to their husbands that Sisk had made Indecent exposures of him self before them, while other men testified that they had seen such. Sisk was jailed last night after re ports of his actions were given of ficers. Birth Announced. The following birth announce ment from Lynchburg, Va., was -e ceived this week in Shelby : Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hammond announce the birth, on February 5, of a son, Philip Edwards, jr. Mrs. Hammond prior to her marriage was Miss Margaret Edmunds, of Halifax, Virginia, and a former teacher in the Shelby city schools. Hoover May Attend Kings Mountain Event Hold Buys Ranson Interest In Firm Vom g Shrlby IlgsInniH Man Will Now Operate Buslncvs Here By llimself. it, whs announced today that the business firm heretofore known as Hurd and ltunson would hereafter be Robert C Herd, the latter hav ing purchased the Interests of Mr. L. H. Hanson in the firm. The firm has been in business, hern for two years handling Gen eral Electric Refrigerators and Hot Point ranges. The two agencies will be maintained by Mr. Herd at his place on South Washington street Just below the Masonic temple. 1 English Author On Visit Here Proves A “Folksy’’ Fellow Hugh Walpole Charm*. His Caller*. By Pleasant Conversational Assets. Shelby this week was honored by | :i visit frcm Hugh Walpole, noted I English novelist, student and critic of literature, who was the guest (V his friend Forrest, Eskridge, cashier of the First National bank. Until his visit here Mr. Walpole was more or less an imaginary per sonage to local folks—tut interna tional figure in the realm of litera ture far removed, by distance and fame, frcm local circles. But visited by literary admirers and friends oi Mr. Eskridge, while he was a guest In the Eskldge home, he proved himself what the South would term, in more modern Southern slang, “a regular fellow.” folksy, and u pleas ant—even more than that, a viry Interesting—conversationist. To use another loquallsm, he made himself at home with all callers and admir ers and chatted freely and enter tainingly with them without a trace of the hauteur and coldness one would ordinarily expect in a famous writer coming from a people gener ally known for their coldness. Mr. Walpole Is on a lecture tour cf America and found It convenient to drop by Shelby for a short visit with his banker friend and literary admirer, whom he met several years ago. Mr. Eskridge yesterday accom panied his guest, to Asheville for a visit there, Mr, Walpole planning to return to England in March, after his series of lectures In this coun try, to be present at the first »■* hearsals of his first play scon to be produced In London. Col. Bullock Talks To Kiwanis Club Col. Seymour Bullock of Indiana was the principal speaker here last night to the Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting at the Hotel Charles Col. Bullock is a very eloquent speaker and has been heard here before when he delivered a pa triotic address following the Gas tonia strike. He emphasized the im portance of conservation of trees, soil, birds and fish, declaring “we raise too much cotton and neglect other profitable crops. An acre of locust trees set out as sprouts will grow in 16 years where they are worth more than 16 years of con secutive cotton planting. Presbyterian Men Will Meet Tonight A meeting of the men of the Presbyterian church will be held this evening at the church at 7:30 o’clock. All men of the church are urged to be present as the an nual election of officers will be held. Gardner Not “Taking Sides” In Simmons - Bailey Contest Favoring Of One Candidate Would Be “Im proper.” Meets Simmons. Washington, Feb, 7.—Gov. O. >Iav Gardner of North Caro lina yesterday issued a pro nouncement long awaited by the state in placing himself squarely on record as taking no sides whatever regarding can didates In the forthcoming Democratic primary in North Carolina. Beseiged with inquiries for weeks to announce bis position . in the fight between Senator F. M. Simmons and Joslah William Bailey Tor the senatorial nom * illation. Governor Gardner fi nally capitulated to the renew ed requests made upon him to day by correspondents for North Carolina newspapers. “In 1928 the Dfemocratis party gave me the nomination for governor without opposition. My present position carries with it the titular leadership of the Democratic party in North Car olina. It would be highly im- j proper, according to my eon (Contlnued on page ten.) j Will Attend Event On October 7 Tolls Delegation" From Two Caro* Unas That He Hopes To Be At Celebration. Washington, Feb. 7.—President 1 Hoover will attend the Kings Mountain battle celebration on Oc tober 7 and act. as principal speaker, unless "national matters of vital Im portance” intervene. The chief executive gave this as surance yesterday in a 20-mlnute audience with delegations from both North and South Carolina, and which numbered many notables and representative citizens of both states. The call on the. president, in his 1 private executive offices was made at, neon sharp to precede another momentous event at, 2:30 o'clock In the office of Secretary of Interior ‘ Hay Lyman Wilbur. There, (he North Carolina dele gation, headed by Gov. O. Max Gardner and a delegation from* Tennessee, headed by Gov. Henry H. Horton, formally tendered to Secretary Wilbur on behalf of the federal government deeds to lands In the two states aggregating more than 150,000 acres as the first gift in what, ultimately, will constitute . Great Smoky Mountain National park. The declaration of President Hoo ver, however, came as the high light of what be regarded as Caro lina day here. ' Glad To Come.** *‘I a mvery impressed with your kind invitation,” declared the pres ident. “The event, the Battle of Kings Mountain, is one that appeals to us all. I would be delighted to go and to do what l can. Unless mat ters of. vital Importance come up, I would be delighted to come. Furth er, If nothing intervenes that dis turbs public interest. I will be glad to come.” • >1 Governor Gardner, who had been a central figure In the activi ties cf the day, during the brief talk in which he Joined In an invi tation to the president to attend (Continued on page ten.) “Billboard Blight” la Topic Of Mrs. Lawton Lecture On Roadside Beauty Made Here Under Auspices Of Lo cal -Woman’s Club. — Speaking to a gathering In the Woman’s club rooms here last night Mrs. W. T. Lawton, of the National | Council for the Protection of Road I side beauty, declared that the “Bill board Blight” is marring the scene ry along North Carolina’s beautiful highways, urging her hearers to make a fight upon highway adver- , Using of such a nature. Mrs. Law ton, whose work in North Carolina and Texas is under the direction of the Federation of Woman’s clubs, spoke here under the auspices of the Shelby Wom ans club. She pointed out how highways could be made more at tractive with shrubbery, grass, etc., but particularly deplored the ten dency In this state to mar the land scape along the highways with un sightly advertising. Illustrated slides were shown In depicting the bad ef fects of billboards on the roadside scenery, while others revealed beautiful scenes not marred by boards and signs. Eaker Cut In Fight Along County Line Clarence Eaker, white man of the Kings Mountain-Grover section | was able to leave the Shelby hos pital yesterday after having been treated there for several days for cuts about the face received in a fight near the North and South Carolina line and the Gaston Clcveland line. A fight between Eaker and a man by the. name of Heavner start ed, it is said, on the Gaston coun ty side along the Kings Mountain York road. It was resumed on the Cleveland side where Eaker was severely cut about the head and face, but Heavner was indicted and placed under bond by Gaston of ficers, it is said, as the fight is al leged to have started in that coun ty. Colored People To Hold Mass Meeting There will be a mass meeting of crlorrd people at the S. P. club hall Sunday afternoon for the pur pore of appointing a committee to look after cleaning off the graveyard and. locating another cemetery for 'he use of colored people, according to John Byers.
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