12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI. No. 32 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, By mall, per year (In advance) 12-80 Carrier, per year <1 nadvance) $3.00 SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 1900, LATE NEWS THr MARKET. Cotton, per lb... 14«.«c Cotton Seed, per bn.__4014c Rain Saturday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report; Rain tonight and Saturday. Colder tonight and in south por tion Saturday. Offer Carolinians. 8enator Overman, representing his associates in Senate and Con gress, yesterday appeared before President Hoover In Washington and urged him to appoint either Chief Justice W. P. Stacey, of the North Carolina supreme court, or Circuit Judge John Parker, of Chat - lotte, to the United States supreme court bench to succeed the late As sociate Judge Sanford. Try To Halt King's Appeal For New Trial Effort On Saturday To Stop Appeal Hoey And Falls Do Not Believe Chance For Life Will Be Denied Rafe King. Will Bale King, well known Shelby naan, be denied an ap peal for a new trial from his death chair sentence because of a technical error resulting from a physical Impossibility? Such a move will be made by So llcitor Hines, of Lancaster, before Judge J. K. Henry at Chester to morrow, Saturday, but Attorneys Clyde R. Hoey and B. T. Falls, of Shelby, along with King’s lawyers In ^ South Carolma do not believe that | Judge Henry will deny this chance of life to King on such a flimsy I technical error. Anyway King’s lawyers are pre-1 pared to battle the movement when * it is presented to Judge Henry at Chester tomorrow. Appeal Not Printed. The reason Solicitor Himes will argue that King’s appeal for a new trial should be dismissed is that the appeal was not printed and docket ed within 30 days as the South Car olina law requires. Hines prosecuted the Shelby man last July when he was convicted in court at Chester on the charge of killing his wife and sentenced to the death chair. King's attorneys filed notice of an appeal to the South Carolina Supreme ccurt. • ** According to the South Carolina law the appeal evidence must be printed and docketed within 30 days after counsel on both sides agree up on the evidence to be presented in the appeal document. This agree ment was reached and the volumi nous document turned over to Scuth Carolina printers. Due to the fact tnat tiie appeal document will con tain about 1,000 pages of manu script when completed the printers have not been able to complete the printing and have the appeal dock eted within the required 30 days. Cnrear*. nable. "It was a physical impossibility for the printers to get the vast doc ument printed within that time,' Clyde R. Hoey, one of King’s Shelby lawyers said today in commenting upon the attempt to halt the ap peal, “and we cannot see how the South Carolina court can take away a man’s final chance, his appeal to the highest court, because of a phys leal impossibility which was no fault of his or of his counsel. "Sure, we are going to strongly resist Solicitor Hines motion to dis miss the appeal. Col. Thos. F. Mc Dcw, of York, and Hemphill and Glenn, of Chester, attorneys asso ciated with Mr. Falls and myse.i will appear in the Chester court to morrow when Mr. Hines presents his dismissal motion and will fight the movement. If it were some fault upon our part that caused the dock eting of the appeal to be delayed it would bfe another matter,” Mr. Hoey continued, “but as it is we can see no fair and logical reason to dismiss the appeal of our client and we nil, resist it.” Set Convention Date For County Saturday The Republican executive com mittee of Cleveland county will meet at the court house here to morrow, Saturday, afternoon for the purpose of fixing the dates for the Republican precinct meetings and the Republican county convention. The meeting Is called by H. Clay Cox, county Republican chairman No Rotary Meeting. No luncheon meeting of the Shelby Rotary club was held today as the ladies night program Tues day night supplanted the regular luncheon meeting. Marlon School Sponsor Picture The Marlon school will sponsot "Sunnyslde Up” at the Carolina theatre Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at children's hour, which if given every Saturday morning Every child is urged to come. tS. T. Falls To Seek Judgeship Of 16th District In Primary Tn June; Long A Party Leader Announces For Judge Superior Court „wdge B. T. Falls (above) today an nounces his candidacy for the su perior court judgeship of the 16th judicial district. Judge Falls is me of this sections best known barris ters and one of Cleveland county’s leading citizens. (Star Photo) Mother OfR. T. LeGrand Buried Also Mother of Mrs. Hugh Miller, Formerly of Shelby, Now Of Raleigh. Funeral services for Mrs. Minna T. LeGrand, age 73 who died at her heme in Charlotte Tuesday after an illness of four months, were held Wednesday St her home on North Poplar street at 10 o’clock. Mrs. Le Grcnd was the mother of Mr. R. T. LeGrand, secretary-treasurer of the Shelby Cotton mill and Mrs. Hugh Miller, formerly of Shelby, new liv ing in Raleigh. A second daughter. Mrs. T. Person Caldwell also sur vives and lives in Charlotte. Attending the funeral from Shel by were Mr. and Mrs. LeGrand and children, Messrs. C. C. Blanton, Chas. L. Eskridge. H. N. McDiarmid, A. C. Miller, Robert Miller and An drew Miller. Mrs LeGrand was the daughter of Captain Torrence, a vet eran of the Civil war and she was a member cf one of the oldest and most respected families in this sec tion. Besides her son and two daughters the following grandchildren survive: Minna, Jean, Isaac, Sam and Kate Caldwell of Charlotte; Minna, Eu gene, Bill, Lillian, and Elizabeth Le Grand and Hugh Miller, jr., of Shei by; and Eugene and Emily Miller of Raleigh. Young Baseball Star Reports Next Week Cline Owens Lee, captain of Shelby’s 1929 state championship high school team, will leave next week to report to the Columbus Georgia, team of the Southeastern league to which he belongs. Young Lee joined the Columbus team last spring after the high school season and made a remarkable record in his first season of professional base ball. There is some likelihood, it is learned, that he may be sold to a club in a higher class before the Southeastern season gets going good this year. Shelby Attorney In Race Today Shelby I-awyer lias Remarkable Re cord as Barrister, Teacher And Churchman. Judge B. T. Falls, a leading Cleveland county attorney for more than a score of years, to day announced his candidacy in the Deniocratic primary In June for the nomination as Superior court judge to succeed Judge James L. Webb, who will retire at the end of the year. The announcement of the Shelby barrister as a candidate for 'he judgeship of the 16th judicial dfe trict makes a total of four Derao I -ratio candidates seeking the office, he three already announced are /ilson Warlick of Newton, Mar jail Yount of Hickory; and A. L. ulckel, of Lincolnton, all well jown attorneys. Has Toured District. Urged by friends in this and oth cpunties of the district Mr. Falls as been considering the race for jome time. But it was not until 'o day that he definitely decided to en ter the race, his decision coming after a visit to Burke, Caldwell, Ca tawba and Lincoln, the other coun ties in the judicial district. Assured of strong support by his home county, Mr. Falls received favorable assurances from his friends in the other counties. Party Leader Here. Long a Democratic leader in this county, the Shelby man is also wide ly known over the district and the entire state, becoming a state-wide figure in 1925 and again in 1927 when he fathered and led the fignt in the state legislature for an Aus tralian ballot bill and cleaner elec tions. He is at present chairman of the Democratic party in Cleveland county, an office he has held before, and in years gone by has occupied several important offices and roles in party affairs as well as playing an important part in general coun ty, civic, church, and educational movements. Fitted For Judgeship. Judge Falls, as he is known in this county, is not only fitted for the judgeship because of his long experi ence as a barrister, but among his other assets are his nine years as county judge in Cleveland and his special study of sociology and econ omic problems along with his legal activities. A devout dry. he is one of the county’s leading churchmen, being superintendent of the First Baptist Sunday school here, one of the largest and best organized Sunday schools in North Carolina; and !n years gone by he has been a leading* worker and official in the Kings Mountain Baptist association. The career of the lbcal barrister has been an exceptional one. In 1903 (CONTINUED ON PAUE ELEVEN l Only One Case In County Court Today With no semblance of even a miniature crime wave in this sec tion in several weeks the county recprder’s court docket is getting lighter each day. Today Recorder Horace Kennedy had only one case tried before him, the defendant be ing charged with imbibing too much white lightning. Masonic fleeting. Masons of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. P. f a/rricnlturc will not Sponsor a cotton-growing contest In the contest In the county this year but will stare four corn contests instead, it was decided at a merlins of the board held Wed nesday night in the court house here. The meeting: of the farm board, which Is made up of three farmers from each of the li townships In the county, was well attended, and It was unanimously decided to sup port. a com contest Instead of a cotton contest with the idea of boosting the Uve-at-home move ment. The Four Contests. The four contests, with a prise to be announced later for each cou I test, will be as follows: a five-acre | plot contest, a three-acre contest, a two-acre contest, and a one acre contest. In the one-acre contest j the prizes will go to the farmer who | produces the most on one acre, re ! gard less of the cost oi production. | In the other contests, the two, three | and five-acre contests, the winner I will be judged by both the produc I tion and the cost of production. One ! farmer cannot enter but one of the I four contests, It was ruled. Regulations Given. The regulations of the contest j state that monthly reports on the i plots In the contest must be taade | beglnning-on May 1 and continuing j through July. To enter a fanner must have his contest plot measur ed. not guessed at, by April 15 and I his contest application filed with County Agent Shoffner. No con . test Ants will be considered who do not follow the regulations set down by the farm board. Application blanks may be secured from the farm agent or from any of the 3,1 members of the farm board, and farmers are urged not to overlook (CONTINUED ON PAGE ELEVEN.) Colli* Padgett Is Dead Near Lattimore * Rutherfordton.—8. Collla Padgett, 81, died at bis home near Cliffside Tuesday and was burled the day following at High Shoals Baptist church. He leaves three daughters, Mesdames G. D. McGinnis, Lincoln ton; T. D. Hawkins, Greenville, S. C., and J. L. Proctor, Moores boro, R. 1. The deceased was a loyal church member for 65 years and was one of the county’s best known and most highly respected citizens. Local Contractor to Build Belmont Church J. H. Brackett, Shelby contractor, has received a contract to build a Baptist church at Belmont and will start work next week. The building will be of brick and of the type of the new edifice at Poplar Springs, The cost of the building and equip* ment will be about <20,000. Band Concert Sunday Court Square Here An open air band concert is plan* ned by W. T. Sinclair, director of music in the city high school, the concert to be held Sunday after noon at 2:30 o'clock on the court square if the weather permits. H the weather is unfavorable, the concert will be postponed. The band has 53 pieces and will play concert music. Bostic Man Loses Coin. Rutherfordton.—W. L. Long, weU ? known merchant and citizen of near 1 Bostic, started here Tuesday with 1 $2,100 in currency but found the money gone upon arrival. He is un- 1 certain as to whether he lost the | large bill fold in which he carried f the money or whether a pickpocket relieved him of his financial burden. J Shelby Bowlers Win. In a match played here Wednes* -j day night the Shelby duckpin bowl* 1 ers defeated the Cherryvllle bowling | team In a three-game contest, Shel- s by winning two and Cherryvllle one. | Poston was high scorer for the Shel by bowlers. • Couple Gets License. Marriage license was issued nJ'e Wednesday to Durham Camp, 30, and Helen Wright, 16. Both ere residents of Cleveland county.