12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI. No. 35 SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mall, per year (In advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year <1 nadvance) $3.00 LATE NEWS THF MARKET. Cotton, per lb._._14V«c Cotton Seed, per bn. --40 He Rain and Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Rain tonight and Satur day. Colder Saturday and In west and north portions tonight. Four Dio in Fire. Knoxville, Tenn, Mar. 21.—-A family of three Was burned to death, another man was killed and eight persons were Injured in a fire which swept a section of Knox ville’s principal district early yes terday. Four buildings were destroy ed and several others partially burn ed, with property damage estimated by W. P. Chandler, director of pub lic safety, at $250,000 or more. -1 All Convicted Men To Prison In U. S. Court Thirty-Two Sent To Jail And Prison | In Federal Court. Not A Fine. » An unusual feature of the crimi nal docket of Federal court here this week was that every convicted defendant was sent to prison or jail and not a single fine was Imposed. Ordinarily Judge E. Y. Webb col lects thousands of dollars in fines at each term of the United States dis trict court, but at the criminal ses sion here this week the major por tion of the defendants were found guilty of manufacturing or selling whiskey and prison sentences were imposed instead of the fines usually dealt out to defendants arrested for having whiskey in their possession. One man was fined $100 but accept ed the alternative of 30 days in jail. Many T* Prison. 4 Thirty men and two women were given penitentiary or jail sentences in the criminal session of court which ended Wednesday afternoon. More than one-third of the 32 were sent to the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta or to the Federal reforma tory in Ohio. Only one Cleveland ccunty man was among those sent to prison or JalL President’s Namesake. A namesake of a great general and president, a 51-year-old man, was among those sentenced to pris on at the closing criminal session Wednesday. He was Ulysses S, Grant Chapman, and he drew a 13 months Stay at Atlanta for selling whiskey. JL Others sentenced Wednesday were Paul McG&lliard, four months in the Burke county jail; L. Mcody, four months In the Burke jail; Marion Ogles, two months in the Burke jail; and Van Horn, eight months in the Burke jail. Obscene Charge Over. O. Godfrey arrested at Waco some weeks back on a narcotic charge was given a three months jail sentence. The case against a young white man of the Mooresbaro section by the name-of Bridges, in which he was charged with mailing obscene mat ter through the mails, was carried over until the next term of court as Bridges' attorney was out of town when the case was called. vn vivu ivuiiicrs. The time of the court Thursday and today was occupied with civil lttlgatlcns, several of the suits be* ing of such an Important natu.-e that distinguished attorneys from Richmond, Charlotte, Norfolk, Ashe ville and other cities were in at tendance. Hollis School To Have Big Orators Dr. Little, 1. W. Bailey And Clyde Hoey To Be Commencement Speakers. The hundreds of Rutherford and Cleveland people who attend each year the commencement exercises of the Hollis high school, Just across the Cleveland line in Rutherford, are this year assured a program of oratory never excelled in a school commencement in this section. The speakers include Dr. Luther Little, prominent Baptist minister of Charlotte; Josiah W. Bailey, Democratic candidate for the Unit ed States Senatorial nomination; Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby orator; and Clarence' Kuester, live-wire secre tary of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Little, pastor of the Charlotte First Baptist church and wldeiy known by radio fans, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at the school « on Sunday, April 37. Mr. Kurstei will Introduce him. On Friday, May 9, the annual address will be made by Mr. Bailey, who will be introdue ed by Mr. Hoey. At Sharon Church. The Alexander quartet will star at Sharon church Sunday afternoon at 3:30, it is announced by the pas tor, Rav. R. L. Forbis. After the song service there will be preaching by the pastor followed by other numbers by the well known quar tet. Cleveland Makes Cotton Crop Of 64,287 Bales Crop Is 10,000 Bales Ahead Of The 1928Record Final Report Made Public Today. Big 1929 Crop Few Hundred Bales Shy Of 65,000 Mark. Cleveland county cotton farmers in 1929 broke their cotton production record of 1928 by producing 64,287 bales of cotton, it was an nounced today by Miles H. Ware in the final ginning re port of the last cotton year. This is 10,366 bales more than the 53,921 bales which was the county’s record crop in 1928. With 64,287 bales ginned during the season cotton men say that at least 72,000 bales were produced in the county but not all of it picked and ginned due to the inclement weather which retarded pick ing and caused a great amount of cotton to rot. In breaking last year’s pro duction record Cleveland coun ty leads the State in cotton production by several thous and bales. Gin Report for Nation Washington.—The 1939 cotton crop of the United States was plac ed at l*£*f£8A running bales ex* elusive OI UllWrS yeBWnWjr uy TTH? census bureau in its final ginning report of the season. That compares with 14,296,549 running bales In the 1928 crop and 12,783,112 running bales In the 1927 crop. In equivalent 500-pound bales the crop was 14,821,499 bales compared with 14,477,874 in 1928 and 12,956, 043 in 1927. Round bales, counted as half bales, Included were 572,092 com pared with 674,506 in the 1928 crop. Amerlcan-Egyptlan cotton includ ed was 28,771 running bales, com pared with 28,313 In the 1928 crop. Cotton remaining to be ginned. Included In the total, was 33,347 bales, compared with 71,869 In the 1928 crop. - • - The average gross weight of bales for the crop was 509.5 pounds, com pared with 506.3 pounds for the 1928 crop. I needed In the total crop were 861170 bales ginned prior to Aug ust 1 which was counted In the sup ply for the 1928-29 season, com pared with 88,761 bales of the 1928 crop so counted and 162,283 bales of the 1927 crop. Ginnings for 1929 in North Caro*, llna were given as 766,787 running bales, or 746,962 500-pound bales. County Republicans In Meets Saturday Republicans of Cleveland county will hold their precinct meeting to morrow, Saturday, afternoon at which time they will name their del egates to the county convention to be held in Shelby a week later, Sat urday afternoon March 29 Other wor, of the re?i !C‘ gather ings will be to name recinct execu tive committees. Paul Webb Out Of Senate Race He States Today Business Will Not Permit Race. Panl Webb, Only Candidate In Race For State Senate, With draws Today. Although an announced candidate for the state senate in this district for Just two weeks, Paul Webb withdrew this morning, telling the public through the columns of The Star that he would not run. Mr Webb is the only announced can didate for this office. He says that after giving careful consideration to the matter of entering politics, he has decided not to run and states that he will not under any circum stances permit his name to be of fered. “I find that I have too many bus iness matters demanding Tny atten tion to give my time to a cam paign. I could not make a cam paign of the district embracing five counties. T^is would cause too great a neglect Of my drug store and other interests which require at tention every day and I do not want to have my mind diverted by politics,” said Mr. Webb. “I appreciate the offer of sup port by my many friends, who have come to me day after day pledging their votes. But I find that I can not make the sacrifice for reasons too numerous to mention and I hereby withdraw from the race in order that the track might be clear ed long enough before the primary for other candidates to be consid ered,” declared Mr. Webb. Miss Goodwin Only Nurse Graduate Stuittif Nunes ui Nerslnr School Staff Of Physicians Are Kiwants G nests. Miss Gladys Goodwin is the 18th graduate of the School of Nursing of the Shelby hospital and she re ceived her diploma last night at the Kiwanis club which had for its guests the staff of physicians who teach in the school and the student nurses numbering twenty one. Her diploma was presented by Clyde R Hoey, chairman of the board of trustees who paid a tribute to all nurses and students who undertake a long course of study and particu larly to Miss Goodwin for "her fine character and her loyalty to duty in the ^pk room.” Miss Ella Mc Nichols Resented Miss Goodwin with the hospital insignia. Music was furnished by the Mc Knight-Best orchestra and tTO girls glee club from the city high school, directed by Horace Easom. Wm. Lineberger, president of the club and J S. Dorton, chairman of the pro gram committee, presided af.d Dr. John Harbison, speaking for the staff of physicians, threw a chal lenge to the Kiwanis club to find a way to match the Duke fund of $25, 000 for hospital enlargement. Favors were awarded to the grad uate, to Misses McNichols and Bev erly and to the student nurses and alter the program there was a square dance at the nurses’ home. Shelby Surgeons At Famous Mayo Clinic Dr. Sam Schenck, of the surgical staff of the Shelby hospital, and Dr. Tom Gold, local eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, are attending a surgical clinic at the Mayo hos pital at Rochester. They will be away several weeks. Very Modem Salesman Calls On His Shelby Trade In Airplane The red-winced airplane peo ple of this section saw circling over Shelby Wednesday after noon cJkrie^ and was piloted by, the first travelling sales man who ever called upon his tra£c here In an airplane. Hp was Joe B. Johnston, dis trict representative of an Ohio paper and board company, and his call was ngran the Bosk bakery. After landing his order, Mr. Johnston carried Mr. Bost and Messrs. Clyde and Ed McCnrry, of the Bost firm, for an air bag gy ride, and landed them safely. The trip here was made from Charlotte and the flying sales man was accompanied by Lee Hilton, Charlotte baker, the trip being made In 25 minutes. Mr. Johnston has been traveling by air for some time and is known as the South’s only salesman who travels in the modern man ner. He wires ahead for his a ppc intment, flies the propeller of his ship and is talking with his customer a few minutes aft er his appointment wire comes in. So far the flying salesman has piloted his ship 90,000 miles in calling np his trade and in that travel he has spent only S5 for repain on his plane. Beauty Blooms at Capital Show Another of the many signs of Spring. These prize amaryllis blooms are being admired by Mrs. Mary Bramford, who is con sidered one of the prettiest workers in the Department of Agricul ture. Over | 1,200 of the I Sowers were * exhibited. <rnt«rnatlon*l | NtWBTMt) Wet And Dry Issue May Remain In Controversy For Many Years Youthful Driver Of Death Car Is Freed Jadfe Kennedy Finds N» Beuen To Hold Ham bright In Jack ' son Death. Preliminary hearing in county Recorder’s court yesterday at KtngJ Mountain, Fred Hambright, charg ed with manslaughter in connection with the death of Harvey Jackson, was dismissed for lack of evidence. Judge Horace Kennedy .ruled thkV no direct evidence waft presented to prove that Hambright was drinking at the time of the accident as was charged in the warrant. Jackson was instantly Killed on the afternoon of March 2 when the the car which was being driven Dy Hambright with Jackson and anoth ei passenger, turned over on the old Bhelby-York road four miles from Kings Mountain. In the evidence at the hearing it was brought out that Jackson grabbed the steering wheel, causing Hambright to lose control of the car. The charges against Hambright were preferred by Eph liam Jackson, father of the dead man. Yount Sees “Hot” Contest Ahead In Judgeship Battle Entry of Falls, Shelby Man, Assures Close Contest, Hickory Entrant Thinks. Hickory, Mar, 21.—“I expected At torney Falls to become a candidate for judge of this district all the time,” declared Marshall Yount, lo cal attorney who also is a candidate for the Judgeship. “From the way things are look ing now, It looks as if there will be quite a contested campaign for the judgeship," stated Yount. “My pros pects are continuing to look good." With the announcement of the candidacy of B. T. Falls, Shelby lawyer, to succeed Judge Webb who will not run for reelectlon, the judgeship race has four candidates from three of the five counties in this district. Wilson Warlick. was the first to announce his candidacy for the position and for some time every thing was quiet. Then Attorney Yount threw in his hat and things brightened up a bit. With the com ing of A. L. Qulckel, Lincolnton lawyer, several days ago political followers began to show interest and now that Falls has entered the race It is not known what the re action will be . Falls Is known to be a strong politician and has heavy support in Cleveland county. Both Catawba candidates feel that they also have many supporters in that county ar well as In the other counties. All probable candidates mention ed when Judge Webb made it pub lie that he would not run again have not entered the race and it t thought that Falls will complete the candidate announcements. However, Caldwell and Burke counties yet have plenty of time to put forth a candidate. This possibility is re garded as remote, though, by local politicians. W HI Likely Last as Long as Law Re main* on Books. May Be Forever. Washington—'The wet and dry hearings befora the house Judiciary committee have demonstrated noth ing so much as the fact that this is sue will remain bitterly controver sial as long as prohibition stays on the books—which may be forever. The wet lines may have stiffen ed, but there has been no visible weakness on the part of the drya. whose power ip congress is not yet seriously challenged What satisfac tion the wets may get. from the more recent history of prohibition must be found in the lack of adequate en forcement, the dissatisfaction of many drys and most neutrals over the resent conditions and the fact that when given their first good chance to resent their case to the country they resented it admirably. Wets Are Encouraged. They have had almost nothing to lose, anyway, except their tempe.s and convictions. What they seem to have gained lately is a greater feel ing of solidarity or unanimity and Increasing feeling that wet senti ment In the country Is becoming both stronger and more articulate. Of course, the hearings don’t bear out any claims of increased strength neither side exhibited any converts worth mentioning. From the wet standpoint its significant phases appear to De a greater entnusiasm, evidence that quite a few big busi ness men and financiers were op posed to prohibition and an unex pected agreement among many wit nesses that the eighteenth amend ment should be repealed outright. The drys, however, trotted out Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Thomas Edison as their prize exhibits. And they brought on a large troupe of representative wo men whose appearance must have reminded the wets again that the majority of American women un doubtedly are on the dry side. Fur thermore, the drys were able to rest serenely in the knowledge that con gress is overwhelmingly theirs and that as long as they have even a ma jority in that body they will hold the whip hand. Not even the most enthusiastic wet supposes that the dry majority will be wiped out with in the next two or three elections. But even It the wet and dry hear ings meant nothing else, this fight has taken on aspects of the eternal and there is no prospect that either rigid enforcement or wet or dry losses will diminish it as a national issue. In fact, there are develop ments current and in prospect which can only add fuel to the fire. Everyone Interested In the issue is looking forward to the November elections. Apparently there will be is many wet candidates as ever 'n states and congressional districts where a wet is considered to have a chance, and if some of them are el ected to replace dry incumbents he politicians will take very seriously the claim of real gains in wet sen timent. The wets stand to lose hard ly any seats. They may pick up a few. Election of wets is the only wav wet sentiment can express Itself ef fectively and if the wet and dry ra tios in house and senate remain the same in the next congress the wet side will be where it has been for th last ten years and may even be gin to suffer from chronic disap pointment. Blanton Not To Serve As Agent In Bank Matter Shelby Man Decline* Liquidation Announced At Forrst City That' Shelby Banker Declines Post, Another Named, Charles C. Blanton resident of the First National Bank here and of the Union Trust .«m pany banks operating In Cleve land and Rutherford counties, will not act as liquidating agent for the si* banks which closed In Rutherford county. This, according to the Forest City Courier, whs announced there this week. After the Rutherford and Forest City banks closed, and the Union Trust company opened banking of fices in the two towns, stockholders of the defunct Institutions, It Is un derstood, asked Mr. Blanton to act as agent tn the liquidation. Another agent, however, has been secured, the Forest City paper said, and he will be an Eastern Carolina man. Bank Examiners Report. Anent the report of the examiners who have been checking up the in stitutions, the Courier says: “It Is also understood that the pencil copy of the bank examiners Is still in the hands of the firm mak ing the typewritten copies and not ready as yet to be filed, but will be in a short time.’* Mrs. Lee Dies; Bury Saturday ■** ■ - ■ ■ rT jMPfBP.ijnii* ; - "+*• " ■»'jfljfcRmo Mother «f T>r. L. V. Le* or I*tti more and Mrs. J. R. Green of Bolling Springs. Mrs. Pamella Ann Lee died this morning at 2 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Green with whom she had been making her home. Mrs. Lee's death was ex pected for she was 84 years of age and hid been In declining health for some time. Her husband, T. G. Lee, died at Bolling Springs 14 months ago. Mrs. Lee was one of the oldest women of that community and a saintly character, greatly beloved by her host of friends. She was a devout Christian and a member of the Bolling Springs Baptist church. The funeral takes place at Boll ing Springs Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, services to be conducted by Rev. J. L. Jenkins. Interment will be at the Baptist church ceme tery at that place. Baseball Season To Open This Afternoon Illghs Play Cherryville Here. Three Games Next Week. One To be Here. The local baseball season opens this afternoon with the Cherryville high furnishing the opposition for Shelby highs, 1929 State champions. Three contests are already book ed for the highs next week. On Tucs day they play Lowell at Lowell, and Gastonia at Gastonia on Friday. Saturday the second game of the season in the city park here will be between the Casey Morris team and the Bolling Springs collegians. Grover Youth Shoots Self To Get A Thrill Dick Sheppard, Aged 26, Shoots Self Four Times In Breast. Leaves Note to “Dear World” Telling of Desired Thrill and Failure In Life. Dick Sheppard, 26-year-old Grover youth,, all of his life had wanted to do something1 thrilling and yesterday he ful» : filled that life-long desire by shooting himself to death, ap parently considering that the supreme thrill. -.. • I No Paralysis Caused By Drinking “Jake” Has Developed Here Local Jamaica Ginger Drimters Changed Bever»*m Several Years Back . "Jake paralysis." which has been sweeping over Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and Geor gia, has not shown np in this section yet, officers say. The paralysis epidemic in the states mentioned abovo has been attributed to Jamaica ginger drink ing by physicians, who say that practically all of the hundreds of the victims of partial paralysis had been getting their alcoholic kick out of the ginger known to the ne groes of the south as "Jake." "A few years back," says one Shelby officer, “I guess we would have had as many paralysis cases as those town In Kentucky and Tennessee, but In the last three or four years Jake drinking has been on the decline in this section. Per haps it is because the guzzlers here abouts have changd beverages and are drinking canned heat, rubbing and radiator alcohol, and other sub stitutes, or it may be for the rea son that the laW stopped several sources of Jake a few years ago anyway only a small percentage of the drunks arrested here in recent years were tanked up on Jake, Five years ago the majority of them ar rested were Jake drinkers. And now that the word Is spread abroad that Jake drinking has been causing all this paralysis It would be a difficult task to revive the popularity of the erstwhile favorite kicking fluid here abouts." News dispatches yesterday stated that hundreds of cases of ginger made by Kentucky firms had been seized since chemists had decided that a below standard Jamaica gin ger was causing the wide epidemic of partial paralysis. J. Clint Newton Is Taken to Specialist J. Clint Newton, prominent young attorney and teacher of the young men’s Bible class at the First Bap tist church, was taken this morning to Charlotte where he will undergo treatment at the hands of a special ist from Johns Hopkins hospital who treated Mr Newton a number it years ago when he was a patient at this Baltimore institution and is fa miliar with his peculiar kidney trouble which is said to be without parallel in America. His condition is serious and does not show improve ment. Girls Glee Club. The program at the Shelby Ro tary club luncheon today was fur nished by the girls glee club of Cen tral high school directed by Mr. Horace Easom in the absence of Prof. Sinclair. This Section Loses Chance For Big Government Narcotic Farm Will Be Located In Kentucky Near Lexington. South Mountain Site Offered. The federal government’s big nar cotic farm will not be established in the South Mountain section of Rutherford and Cleveland counties as had been hoped for by citizens of this section. Dispatches from Washington state that Dr. Walter L. Treadway has decided to locate the narcotic farm near Lexington Kentucky. Some months back the announce ment was made from Washington that such a farm, for narcotic ad dicts, would be established. Citizens of this section immediately inter ested themselves in the proposal and { a large acreage in tbe South Moon tain section was tendered. Concerning the selection of the Kentucky location, Dr- Treadway says: A great many bids, relative to the location of the proposed narcotic farm, were submitted to the treas ury by people In North Carolina and other southeastern states. In the state the committee could have se cured a site from nothing per acre up, but the land near Lexington— Just four miles out—will cost bet ter than $200 an acre. It is town lot stuff, and Is served, in the matter of water and lights, by a public utility corporation. The city of Lex ington, with a population of 60,000 contributed $50,000 toward the pur chase price. The committee Is to take more than a thousand acres. Just before one o'clock yesterday r fternoon Sheppard who was knows as Dick although his real name wag Hunter, walked a few steps Into the woods from the road at the edge of the town of Grover, placed a .33 cal* tbro pistol against his breast, fired four times, one bullet going all the way through his body. Re was dead when found a few min* utes later by his brother and others who were searching for him. No Love Affair. So far as could be learned the w*S known youth had no serious love af* fairs and the only reason relatives could assign for the suicide was that he had been somewhat despondent of recent weeks, and then he left a note In which he declared that be had always wanted to do something thrilling. A coroner’s Jury acting under Coroner T. O. Eskridge found it to be a clear case of suicide, although there was one puzsllng angle—it ap peared almost Impossible for a matt to hold a gun against his chest and fire four consecutive shots Into A vital portion of his body. Vied Brother's Gun. Young Sheppard, aeon of Alex Sheppard and a nephew of Deputy Sheriff Charley Sheppard, was liv ing with his brother, Basil Shep pard, northeast of Grover. The two brothers and Basil Sheppard*! brother-in-law. Major Blade, had been working together yesterday morning. At noon they came to the house and were planning other work for the afternoon. The Black youth noticed Dick Sheppard the barn writing something and teasing ly asked him If It was a letter to hlg girl. "Oh, it's nothing much,” Shep pard answered. Basil Sheppard’s wife was sway on a visit and In passing • through the house he noticed, he said, that his .32 calibre pistol was missing from the mantelpiece, He inquired about it and his brother, Dick. *old him he had It. On prevlohs occas ions, or at least once before, th* youth had threatened suicide and his brother asked him what he meant to do with the gun. "Shoot my heart out,” he is «*Vi to have replied. A short time later he started walking up the road with the ex pressed intention of going to his father’s service station. Both his brother and Black begged him to leave the gun at home; they said, telling him that some officers might lind it on him. The youth walked on away and was not seen again by them until he was founddead. Started Search. A short time after be left hit brother and Black began worrying about him and hurried to his fath er's service station where they learn ed that he had not arrived. Some one mentioned about hearing shots Just a few minutes before down the road between the Sheppard home «CONTINU*D OJf Kt«* TWJBtVE V Planning New Bank At Forest City Now Business Men There Working On Project. Believe Capital Can Be Raised. A new bank for Forest City, which has been served by a branch of Shelby's Union Trust company since the recent Rutherford bank crash ed, is being planned, it is learned here. A number of Forest City busi ness men have already held one or two meetings to discuss the project, snd they believe, It i* understood that sufficient capital can be raised to open a new financial institution. Leaders in the movement, the Rutherford Sun understands, are: “Metor Harriss, former active vice president of the defunct Fartnetw Bank and. Trust company; Balias# Horn, Grover King, June and H F Utile." i

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