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tar 12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No. 43 SHELBY. N. C, WEDNESDAY. AVR. 9. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons ,jer y**r advance!mao J 1 y CaiTier. per year (I nadvance) *3.00 LA TE NEWS THr MARKET. Cotton, per !b._... It Vic Cotton Seed, per bu._.. 43 He Frost Tonight? Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and continued cold to • night with light frost in interior. Thursday fair with rising tempera tare. A Woman Senator? Chicago, April 8.—Ruth Ilanna McCormick, aspiring to become the first woman elected to the United States senate, stepped forward to a generous lead over Senator Charles S. Deneen tonight In the early re turns from today’s state-wide pri mary election. Republican voters gave the daughter of Hary Hanna a three to two preference for the senatorial nomination as the tabu lation of the heavy voting began, and Mrs. McCormick mantained he: advantage as returns from down state precincts flowed in. Hollis Seniors To Wear County' Made Garments Girl Graduates Will Wear Home- I made Dresses In Banquet Here This Eve, The girls who will graduate at the Hollis high school, just across the Cleveland line In Rutherford coun ty, this spring have planned to sup port Governor* Gardner’s live-at home campaign in a new way— throughout their commncement program they will be dressed in ma terials manufactured in their heme I county of Rutherford. Their graduation frocks are be ing made of heavy, white flat crepe which is manufr ctured at Spindale. The dresses they will wear at their class day exercises will be made of fine cotton gin?ham in rainbow * colors as manufactured by the Stonecutter mills. Ta Banquet Here. Their gradurting dresses, which are said to be very chic, will also be worn at the annual senior class banquet to be given them by Prin cipal J. J. Tarlton at the Hotel Charles, In Shelby, this evening, and to a theatre party given after wards by Mr. and Mrs. Grady Withrow of Hollis. Supt. Clyde A. Erwin, of the Rutherford schools, will be the hen- i or guest speaker at the banquet this evening. More Talk Of Baseball Here Forest Clty-Alcrander Wa-t Semi pro Lo-'p Started In - See lion. Hearing that there is some talk of summer baseball in Shelby fans about Forest City and Alexander are interested, it Is reported here, in forming a four or six club semi pro basebrll league in this section, j Fans there state that a team re- I presenting Forest Clty-Alexander will be ready to go in such a league at any time, adding that a Ru‘h erfordton-Spindale can like'y be secured also for the circuit. New ton, it is unders‘ood, Is anxious for semi-pro ball this summer, and this it would seem that with Shelby in there would be very little trouble in organizing such a loop f~r one or two games per week. , Hickory, Statesville and Gastoria are sure to have summer teams and a num ber of fans here and at Forert City are of the opinion that a six-club affair could be arranged. Local supporters interest'd in the movement point out that Shelby could build a pretty good amateur and semi-pro outfit among home boys. Among those mentioned as prospects for the team are Tommy Harrill, former Virginia league player who will spend the summer here; Casey Morris, the two Frrris boys, Homer Smith, Harrelson, Hamrick, Bridges, and a number of • others who will be at heme when the scHbol season Is over. Get Mother-In-Law On Tresspass Charge Domestic Triangle Affair In Conn ty Court Again. Suspended Term. A family affair centering about • the interest of a mother in her daughter and her daughter’s hus band was in county court again yes terday for the second time. The defendant was Mrs., Katie West who was charged with tres pass by her son-in-law, Thad Mo Swain. According to McSwain he had ordered his mother-in-law not to get on his premises again oe cause, he alleged, she interfered in his family affairs and caused dis sention between him and his wife. The defendant was convicted and given a suspended sentence of 30 days by Judge Horace Kennedy conditipned upon her remaining awsjr from her son-in-law’s home. Rapid Progress On Highway To Join 18 In S. C. We.* Moving Fast on Connecting Link Soath Carolina Authorities Started At N. C. Line In Cherokee County. Gaffney, April 9.—Cherokee county's road forces made rapid progress last week in building the connecting link from the new highway leading south from Shelby to Gaffney. The work was started at the North Carolina line, and Is being brought towards the Buffalo community. Supervisor E. J. Clary yesterday es timated six weeks will be required for the completion of the Job. One steel bridge 93 feet long is to be erected oves Wylie’s creek. The new road is being graded 3' feet wide, Mr. Clary said, being the same width as on the north Caro ina side. The North Carolina authorities finished the road from Shelby tc the line a few weeks ago. Sister Or Geo. W. Peeler, Dead Mrs. Katie Hayes of Randleman, Native of tipper Cleveland Passes. Mrs. Katie Hayes, age 75 years and sister of ex-county commission er, Geo. W. Peeler, of Shelby, and P. L. Peeler of Behvood, died April Crd at her heme at Randelman, this state. Before marriage she was Miss Katie Peeler, a native of unper Cleveland and she has many friends and relatives who will learn regret fully of her death. Before marriage she attended old Rutherford col lege. Funeral services were held Satur day at her home church at Randel man where she held, her member - ship since fier marriage. Surviving are her husband, four sons and two daughters, Frank and Cary Kayes, of 'Greensboro, James, a salesman of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Eula Collins, wife'of Rev. Treda Collins of the First Baptist church, Durham Mrs. Rouss Stelle of Burlington, three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Linel'erry ot Jamestown, Mrs. Franklin Mull of Catawba county and Mrs. J. D. Hull of Charlotte. Mrs. Hayes lived a fine Christian life and was a beautiful character of the old Soutli, much admired by her host of friends. : v Meningit’s Warning Sounded Over State Disease Is Spreading, One Death In This County. Cases Fejv Here. So far as conld be learned here today there are not more than two or three cases of spinal meningitis in Cleveland county, if that many. One child, how ever died of the affliction in the upper section of the county last week. Raleigh, April 8.—Spread of cere bro spinal meningitis over the state and the development of 57 cases against 14 in the same period last year, caused the state board o health through its secretary. Dr. Charles O. Laughinghouse, today tr address letters to all the county boards to direct their efforts toward checking the disease. Tractor Tahes Role Of Mule And Kicf's A Man’s Teeth Out Colored Employe Gets Faced Caved In With Mechanical Mule’s Kick. The tractor to a certain extent has supplanted the mule as a beat' of burden and a Shelby colored man is willing to testify anywhere and any day that the new mechanics’ mule has a kick equal to the Mis souri mule of the old days. Yesterday Tom Wells, colored em ploye of the city of Shelby street department, started to crank the tractor used in street work. In days gone by Tom has had experience with a mule and a mule’s kicking But apparently he did not thin' that the mule’s successor packed much of a wallop. As he cranked the crank kic’.ied backward and Tom wound up against a wall of a near by building with one tooth gone another one broken off, and hi mouth smashed and cut up Jr it might have been had a real Mis souri mule set one of his rear hoofs in Tom’s face. Fast Travel of Seventy Years Ago In this modern ago of airplane*, fast express trains and automobiles, we can scarcely picture the first pony express which left St. Joseph, Mo., and set out for the then far away Carson Valley in the State of Nevada. After eight and one half days of travel, the hardy pioneers arrived in C&rson Valley, with the first pony express of the United States, on April 12, 1860. Above is pictured the first “express” with its guard as it rumbled into the Carson Valley seventy years ago; (lower) the outline of country between the two States wh'ch was covered in eight and one half days by the pioneer vehicle. (I*Urnat1«sal Nwintl) Simmons' Hand Seen In Raskob Quiz To Help Republicans Defend Chairman; Called A 'SecondBolt’ Effort Launched For Charity Here Committee Will Select Board Oi —. ISnaamor. Clubs Asked To Pool Gifts. At a meeting of representatives of various civic clubs held last night In The Star building, a movement was laundhed for the organization here of an Associated Charities and Mrs. John W. Harbison of the Woman’s club, Miss Elizabeth Ebel toft and Mayor S. A. McMurry were appointed to select a board of gov ernors and escertain as near as pos sible what amount of charity funds would be available if all organiza tions would pool their contributions through an Associated Charities so that there might be no overlapping. It is expected to have some one tn charge who will make a thorough investigation of each case before alms are distributed. An effort will be made to get the city, county and all organized bodies to pool their contributions through this charity organization and later it is expected that a public health nurse for the county will be added in conjunction with state depart ment of health. Shelby Company Gets Praise Of Inspector "Company K Is one of the best militia companies in North Caro lina," Capt. Page, of the regu’ar army, informed Capt. Peyton Mc Swain, of the local militia unit, fol lowing the regular army inspection of the company this week. With Capt. Page for the inspec tion was Major J. C. Dempsey of the state militia and both officers com plimented the local company men and drill, very highly. The inspection of the compan’’ equipment will be made by Copt Mike Austell, who was raised to a captain’s commission after leaving Shelby to become a member of the finance department of the state militia. Says Senator Facing Defeat Stirs Kaskob Row to Obscnre Primary Issue. <R. P. Mitchell in Charlotte Ob server.) Washington, April 9.—A consider able stir was created in political cir cles here Monday in the cfrculatWn of reports that Senator Fumifold M. Simmons and his North Carolina forces had “bolted” the democratic party In Inspiring Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Indiana republican, to crusade for the custer of John J. Raskob as chairman of the Demo cratic national committee. On Capitol Hill the word was passed along that certain Democrats feel very keenly over the report, and talk of reprisal by certain members! ot the party against Senator Sim-\ mons was recorded by the Wash-: irigton Post in an article appearing Tuesday morning. The article In the Poet follows in part: “The battle for national commit tee chairmen’s scalps increased in Its intensity and broke across party! lines yesterday as it became very apparent that the Simmons’ forces' of North Carolina had joined with (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE.> Mr* McGowan Show* Little Improvement The condition of Mrs. E. O. Mc Gowan, nee Ola Ford, who has been critically 111 at the Shelby hospital for several days shows a little tm-| provement. She had a more com fortable night last night and physi cians and friends are more hopeful. Mrs. McGowan had an operation for adhesions In the intestines on Sunday. Hoey to Address Men Class At Gaffney Clyde R. Hoey, teacher of the Men’s Bible Class at the Central Methodist ohurch at this place, has accepted an invitation to address the Mens Bible Class of the First Baptist church at Gaffney on next I Sunday morning. Open Tom Thumb Golf With Match On Saturday Night Mayor McMurry and Webb Brothers To Perform Under Electric Lights On Coarse. A golf match under electric lights with cash prizes and Mayor 8, A. McMurry as one of the opening per formers will be a sport novelty stag ed in Bhelby Saturday night Mr. George P. Betterly, proprie tor of Shelby's new Tom Thum golf course, announces today that the miniature course, the latest enter tainment in the sport world, will be formally opened Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock with a couple fast matches and other entertainment and the entire performance free to the public. ' The Tom Thumb course, an Inter esting golf lay-out, is located on North LaFayette street between the Courtvlew hotel and Campbell's store and has been open for play several days, but as yet has not been formally opened . Saturday night's opening, too, will be one of the first times golf has ever been played at night In Shelby. The game is played with a putter and one ball and the traps and hazards about the course, including water holes, will provide plenty of enter tainment for those who watch the opening tournament. Mayor To Play. The Saturday night performance beginning at 7:30 o’clock, will be started with an opening round played by Mayor McMurry and Mr. Charles L. Eskridge, one of the founders and chief supporters of the Cleveland Springs golf club. This match will be followed by a match In which $20 In cash prizes Is offered. The Webb brothers, Pete and Fred, two of the state's best known golfers, will be paired on teams against each other. Charlie Keel will play with Pete Webb and Earl Hamrick with Fred (Snook) Webb. Since Hamrick and Keel are classed as amateurs they will not be permitted to share In the prize money which will be divided as fol lows: The team with the best low .ball score will get a $10 cash prize which will go to the Webb brother [on that team, while the second "prize of $10 will go to the Webb [brother making the lowest lndlvl jdual score. “Jake” Paralysis Cases Spreading In Gaston County; Doctors There Investigate Malady Victims Of New Malady Appear Before Gaston Medical Society; More Afflicted. Gastonia. — Gaston county physicians were given an oppor tunity to make first-hano ex aminations of six victims of “Jake” paralysis Monday aft ernoon when a half dozen Gas ton county men, afflicted with the unusual drink malady, were brought into a meet'ng of the Gaston County Medical society i in monthly session. Four of the “Jake" victims were from High Shoals, near here, where two new cases were reported, running the total for the vi’lage of 500 to 18 cases. The other two were from West Gastanla. AU of these sufferers were affected in the same man ner, the poisonous “Jamaica ginger extract” having paralys ed the peroneal nerves which control the feet. Physicians said this caused the “foot drop” from which all the victims in this county arc suffering. AU were forced to walk with sticks, being unable to stand op at all without this aid. All the victims reported a nomlness In the hands and some have wrist-drop. Speech of some was affected iy slight paralysis of the tongue. None of these cases are improving. Electrical treatments have been tried' as have massage and strychnine. One man in High Shoals who dr-nk on’y 10 drops of the extract was said to be in bed, unable to move his feet or arms, - . Blanton Seeks Nomination For County Sheriff South Shelby Business Man In Race Announces Today and Becomes the Second Announced Candidate For Office. Mr. Marvin Blanton, South She. by business man, today announces hts candidacy for sheriff of Clevo land county subject to the Demo cratic primary In June. Mr. Blanton’s announcement pats two men In the field for the office of sheriff, Mr. Pink K, Lackey, of South Shelby, having already an nounced, while It Is considered cer tain that Sheriff Irvin Allen will :.eek re-election. Short Statement. In announcing Mr. Blanton makes a brief statement as follows: "I announce myseir as candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Cleveland county subject to the will cf the voters at the Dem ocratic primary In June. If elected 1 will render the best service In my ability as sheriff and will attempt to enforce the laws of the county ir keeping with the desire of citizens with Impartiality to no one. I will appreciate all the support given me In the primary and whatever my friends may be able to do for me.” Mr. Blanton has lived m Cleveland county all cf his life and Is well known to a major portion of the county’s citizenship. Bom In No. 2 township he lived on the farm until he was 21 years of age and then moved to Shelby to enter business, having been here since. At the present time he Is an official of a South Shelby building and loan as sociation and an Insurance man. Highs Win Seventh Victory Of Season Defeat Forest City In Slngfest And Game Of Many Errors. Heavy Hitting Hie Shelby highs won their sixth Straight high school game and their seventh victory out of eight starts this season by defeating For est City here yesterday It to 9 In a game that brought for a little bit of every type of baseball from the best to the worst. Two Games On. Friday the highs will go to Char lotte for a retur ngame with that team. On Saturday local fans will get the opportunity to witness another contest here with Kings Mountain furnishing the opposition. This game in which there la rivalry of years will likely draw a large crowd. Dayberry started on the mound yesterday for Shelby and Forest City scored a run off his leftside : slants In the first frame* Shelby icamo back and scortSltim*?’ jn the .same inning when Charley Harrel son slashed out hts regular triple with two on the sacks. Forest City scored another In the second on two hits and an error and then three more In the fourth on other err as and two hits after Hamrick relieved Dayberry. Shelby crawled ahead again in the fourth when Farris doubled and Johnny Hendrick trip led. Shelby scored two more In the sixth and three In the eighth on a mixture of hits and errors. In the ninth frame with the score standing 11-5 for Shelby, Forest City threw a scare Into local fans by scoring four runs on two triples, two singles ar error and some wild throwing. With the exception of Shelby’s first six runs much of the scoring resulted from loose baseball, the Shelby outfit looking like anything else than champions In their field ing as they threw wildly, misjudged line drives, and kicked rollers about Mayhew broke Into the Shelby line up for the first time this season and fielded well and although he war hitting the ball hard every time hr came to the plate the horsehidc never cleared the Forest City de fense for a hit. Necessity causing Coach Morris tc use Hamrick to complete the game naturally weakened his hurling strength for the Charlotte game Fri day. Waco Seniors To Present Play 11th The Senior class of Waco High school will give a play, "A Fortun ate Calamity” ki the high school on Tuesday night April 11 at 8 o’clock The following will take part: Mrs Merkle—Vada Wright; Alta Herkle —Madge Harrelson; Ruth Merkle - Gladys Sellers; Kate Van Tyle Nena Whitworth; Dinah Jchnslng— Lois Carter; Rastus Johnsing—La mar Cline; Joe Brown—Carlyle Smith; Albert Campbell—Forrest Wolfe; Bernard Tullhoun—Arthur Stroup, * Mooresboro, Boiling Springs Banks Closed Is Candidate For County Sheriff Marvin Blanton (above) Sooth Shelby business man, today any nonnces as a candidate for county sheriff. Enlarge Local Bonded Cotton Storage House Addition Will Provide For Addition al Storage Of 3,500 Bales Cotton. Material Is being bought for an addition to the Planters and Mer chants warehouse which will pro vide for the storage of an addition of 3300 bales of cotton, it was learn ed this morning from R. T. Le OraiBf, president of the company. Already this ware house located on the Southern tracks accommodates 7,000 bales of cotton and Is usually filled with staple belonging to mills, buyers, farmers and the cotton co operative association. The warehouse is bonded both by state and federal governments and each bale Is tagged and labelled sc that storage customers are deliver ed their identical cotton. The ok' part Is provided with a sprinkler system which protects against fire Similar protection will be provided In the addition whicn will be built alongside the present unit. The addition will be of brick and cover a space of 50x250 feet, two stories high. Max Gardner Is vice president and J. O. Propst Is treas urer and manager of the ware house, one of the largest In this see ! tlon. Two Year Old Child Pneumonia Victim Alice Lucile Gardner, two year old daughter of Mr. and-Mrs. Pierce Gardner of the Shelby mill village died Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the home of its parents with pneumonia, after a very brief ill ness. The little body was taken to Clover, S. C. for Interment Tuesday. Key CluH Meeting Is On Here Tonight The Key club, local young men’s organization, will hold its regular monthly meeting of directors and members tonight at 7:30. In addi tion to voting upon new candidates there will be other very important business to bring up and ail mem bers are urged to attend. — Boiling Springs College Now On Accredited List-Raising Money Boiling Springs Junior college has been accepted as a standard junior j college for the year 1930-31, ac cording to a rating made by Dr. J. Henry Highsmlth and announced Monday at the monthly meeting of the pastors and teacher^ conference of the Kings Mountau; Baptist as sociation. For two years the Boiling Springs Junior college has been striving to attain this rating *hich was attain ed last year by meeting the ten re quirement points. The lack of an annual income of $5,000 outside o. student fees, nas bee r the point which has given the college trou ble In attainment, but at the con ference here Monday, Dr Highsmlth was assured that the $5,000 would bd available and the relic01 was placed on the accredited list. .. W1U Ask Aid. • The sum of $3,580 of the $5,000 has been subscribed as follows: First Baptist church, Sh?lby, #500' en dowment income $500. Bolling Springs Baptist church $400; Indi viduals of. Bolling Sp tngs 5880; W W. Washburn M00; First Baptist church of Cherry villa $100 A defi nite movement was launched Man day to conduct a campaign to obtain the remainder of $3420 and Prof. O. P. Hamrick was apruinted to solicit subscriptions for etna amount At the conference inspiring tapes were made by Horace Easom, Rev, J. J. Beach and Re?. Or. Johnson. >/ R Two County Hanking' Institutions IJnablr To Meet Constant Drain And Deride To Quit. The Farmers and Merchants hank of Mooresboro with its hranrh at Boiling- Springs fall* ed to open their doors Tuesday morning, after the directors had met at !> o'clock the night be fore and decided that the in stitution could not continue to pay out in the face of a shrink age in collections and deposits. State bank examiners took charge Tuesday and the affairs and a trustee will be named at an early date to liquidate the affairs of the institution. First County Failure. Outside of the closing of a bank in Kings Mountain a year or two ago, this bank being a branch from Oftstonla, the failure of the bank at Mooresboro and its branch at Boll ing Springs lsj the first bank fail ure Cleveland county has ever ex perienced. Confidence Shaken. From the best information obtain able. there has been a constant drain of the resources of these two banks as a result of the failtuo o* six banks In Rutherford countv In February. The confidence of deposit ors In small banks was shaken by the Rutherford collapse and as a back-wash from that affair, there has been a constant drain from the banks. There was no “run” on the institution, as runs are generally understood, but they found them selves growing weaker and weaker as deposits dropped off and borrow ers failed to pay. With this situation facing the banks, the directors met Monday night and decided not to open the following morning. State Bank Examiner Ben Rob erts took charge of the money and papers Tuesday and brought them to Shelby Tdt safekeeping In a local institution. The capital stock of the Farmers Bank and Trust company which embraced the'Mooresboro and Boll ing Springs institution was $20,500. The loan account the first of Jan uary when the last statement was published was $175,000, with time deposits of $116,000 and deposits subject to check approximately $32, 000. Total resources were given at $243,000. E. B. Hamrick, Bolling Springs merchant, was president of the bank, Y. L. Cardwell, cashier, and the following men were directors, Z. R. Walker. .A. L Jolley. R. C. Moore, A. M. Lovelace. Dr. J. W. Wood and Monroe Green. Will Redeem Checks. J. U. Rollins, manager of the Mooresboro Creamery which was perhaps the largest customer of the Mooresboro bank, asked The Star to say that all patrons who hold checks given by the creamery against the Farmers and Merchants bank will please present these checks to Mr. Rollins at once and he will Issue good checks on the First National bank of Shelby, < Lions Club Will Present Minstrel Shelby Club to GiTe Entertaining Blackface Show at Lattimore ScbooL The Shelby Lions club will pre sent a blackface minstrel Saturday night at the Lattimore high school for the benefit of the music de partment of that schooL The performance will ' Include blackface acts, songs, funny cos tumes, choruses and clever intermis - sion skits. The Shelby club has spent much time preparing their show and an enjoyable evening is assured for the Lattimore section.