etodai VOL. XXXVI, No. 47 SHELBY. N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 18th. 1930 16 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance) (3.50 Carrier, per year (1 nadvance) $3.00 LA TE NEWS , THF MARKET. ,'otton, per lb. .......__ 16c .otton Seed, per bn._.... 43Vic Fair Saturday. todays North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy preceded by light rain on the coast this afternoon or surly tonight. Not quite so cool to night. Saturday fair and slightly warmer except on south coast. Duncan Chairman. Charlotte, April 18.—James S. Duncan, Greensboro lawyer, was sleeted chairman of the Republican ate executive committee in the losing minutes yesterday of the 1930 convention at the Charlotte armory-auditorium, described by farty leaden as the greatest con rdntion ever held by North Carolina Republicans. Presbyterians Decide Against Merger Proposal Presbytery Against Union Plan Now Sentiment Of Kings Mountain Pres bytery, However, Is For Union. Approve Missions. The Presbyterians of this section holding their presbytery meeting at Dyncan’s Creek church in Ruther ford county Tuesday and Wednes day voted against the union of the Southern Presbyterian church with tho United Presbyterian church. This vote, according to Rev. H. N. McDlannid, Presbyterian pastor of Shelby who attended the presbytery does not mean that the Presbyter ians of the section are in reality against the union. The negative vote he expiates, was cast because the United Presbyterian church itself ha§ not as yet voted for the merger and the officials of the Kings Moun tain presbytery considered that they should not endorse the union until the United church approves It, The impression held by Rev. Mr. Mc Oiarmld is that the people of the Kings Mountain presbytery are for the union to sentiment but are anx ious to go about it in the proper way. Other Business. Rev. W. B. McGinning, of Mt. Hotly, served as moderator of the session and win hold that office un til the next meeting. Accompany ing Rev. Mr. MfcDiarmid to the presbytery were Messrs. & U. Ar rowood and Is A. Gettys. The home mission work of the presbytery was approved by the meeting Rev, Mr. -McDiarmld Is chairman of this work and Mr. L. P. Holland is the treasurer and the headquarters of the work Is main tained here. There are 22 home mission churches and 100 pastors in the presbytery with an annual budget of 16,000. In another vote the presbytery voted unanimously for the merger of Chicora college with Queens col lege at Charlotte. It determined to push the minis ters’ annuity fund and appointed a committee of 10 laymen and five ministers to discuss the matter with every church in the presbytery. Rev. I. H. McElroy, Jr., pastor of the Rutherfordton Presbyterian church was appointed chairman of thfe foreign mission committee. The presbytery decided to meet with Ol ney church, near Gastonia, nerft fali for the next convention. Mr. Joe Overmyer, who has been choir director at the First Presby terian church at Gastonia for some time, was accepted by the presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. Rev. Mr. Currie to . Preach Casar High School Sermon Commencement Exercises Begin on April 25th. Graduation Exer cises May 5th. Commencement exercises at the Casar high school of which Prof. H. M. Loy Is principal will begin April 25th and continue through May 5tti, according to Invitations just issued Rev. W. M. Currie of Belmont wiil preach the commencement sermon on Monday May 4. The following is ’the program: Friday, April 25th, 8:00 p. m.—Ex ercises by primary and intermedi ate grades. Tuesday, April 29th, 8:00 p. m.— High school debate. Grammar grade recitation and declamation contests. Friday, May 2nd, 8:00 p. m. Read ing and declamation contests by high school. \ Saturday, May 3rd, 8:00 p. m.— Commencement play ‘‘The Dust of the Earth.” Sunday, May 4th, 3:00 p. m — Baccalaurate sermon by Rev. W. M. Currie, Belmont Monday, May Bth, 8:00 p. m.— graduating exercises and literary address. Presentation of diplomas Graduates this year are: Fred 1 Hull, Clem E. Hunt, Mae Susan Ramsey, Gertrude Elizabeth Morris, Ruby Lee Carpenter, Nettie Lee Ramsey, Verlie Mae Queen. Bertha Mildred Fortenberry, Vassie Lucile sett, Complete Census Count Of Shelby This Week; 9,000 Estimated County Farmer Has Record For Living At Home Farmer Harmon Has A Real Record R. S. Harmon Purchases Only Dol lars Worth of Meat In 59 l'ears On Farm. Over on Kings ^fountain route two there is a farmer who knows quite a bit about living-at home for he has done just that during the 59 years he has been farming. What’s more he has started his boys along the same path, and their records in pro ducing their own food and feed are enough to cause Governor Gardner, who inaugurated the iive-at-home campaign to point to his home county with pride. Here Are The Records. This farmer is It. W. Harmon. In a letter to The Star be says that “I am 81 years old and have been farming for 59 years. I have never bought a bushel of corn, or a pound of flour. Ip fact I have never purchased any food or feed of any kind except one dollar’s worth of meat. I have had corn and roughness to sell every year, but I do not raise very much cotton.” Living near Mr. Harmon are his two sons, and neither on/ of them, the father informs, nas ever purchased any corn or flour. Those are marks for any 1 tire-at-home farmer to shoot at. Mote Coming. Information concerning other Ure-at-home farmers in Cleve land county Ire coming in. The next issue of The Star will tell of a fanner who has been pro ducing Mt Bga.ltftS and -food for 38 years. Cloth Mill Outfit Will Play Saturday Fast Independent Team To Open Season With Shelby High Outfit. The strong independent baseball team representing the Cleveland Cloth mill will open its 1030 base ball season In a game at the city park here tomorrow, Saturday, wit'., the Shelby Highs. In making their debut for the year the cloth mill diamond artists state that all proceeds will go to the school team. Homer Smith, widely known southpaw, will likely hurl for the independent team, which is said to be stronger than it was last year. Bapt’st Collegians Win Two Victories Defeat Mars HIU And Wake Forest Fresh. Two Homers Are Hit. The Boiling Springs college base ball team won* its sixth straight game yesterday by defeating the Wake Forest fresh team 18 to 15. On the previous day the Rackle ites defeated Mars Hill college. To day they are playing Weaver col lege. Boiling Springs made five runs in the first inning yesterday, featured by home runs by Haynes and Wat ers followed in the third inning with another home run. Each team used three pitchers. -: N. J. Realtor Kills Wife in Jealous Rage In Eat Orange, N. J., there is home that once sheltered a happy family, branded as a home of death oecause jealousy entered H. Frank 0. Crawford (above), wealthy broker, strangled his pretty wife, Louise, while he cursed another wwn be suspected in hie jealous mge. He then called the peKee to when he confessed his crime. Gaffney Bank Hold-Up Fails “Lefty” Sarratt Shot By Clerks In Bank Yesterday. Nervy Attempt. » Gaffney, S. C., April 18.—An ef fort at bank robbery here yesterday resulted in “Lefty” Earl Sarratt, 30, landing in the county jail with the loss of half of the index finger of his left hand, which was pierced Jtwice. by bullets. “Lefty’s” shouted order of “hands up,” delivered in the Merchants and Planters National bank after he had been persuaded to leave the defunct American State bank, was greeted by a volley of pistol shots. His own .32 calibre “owl's head'* was fired once, but whether at the ceiling or at one of the clerks is un certain. . Garrison Watts, assistant cashier; Judson Smith, teller, and | Lionel Poole, an assistant, kept up the fire, until Sarratt crouched on the floor with his gunhand bleeding from wounds. The bankers fired an even dozen shots. For a minute or two bullets were zipping through the windows into the street, but no one was hit. After being disarmed, with his gun still containing four shells, Sarratt was taken to a physician to have his band dressed before being placed in jail. Sarratt first visited the American State bank after making arrange ments with Ansel Coyle, taxi oper ator, to wait for him with a car near the bank. Major Henry C. Moore, liquidating agent, and his (Continued on page fourteen) Dr. Combs Preaches At Central Tonight Dr. A. B. Combs, pastor of Myers Park Methodist church in Charlotte addressed the Rotary club at the Hotel Charles today, using for his topic a subject appropriate to Good Friday. He will preach this evening at 7:30 o’clock at Central Method ist church, filling the pulpit for Dr. L. B. Hayes who is conducting a revival meeting at his church. Automobiles Being Listed Higher This, Year By Wary Tax Listers Raleigh.—The days when almost any sort of automobile could be list ed at around $200 are definitely over in North Carolina, according to Charles M. Johnson, executive sec retary of the county government ad visory commission. For years personal property, tan gible and intangible, has been shrifiking and Mr. Johnson lias been leading a drive to get more of it on the tax books, instructing list tak ers that it is their duty to assess personal property and not merely to take the word of the taxpayer as to its value. Automobiles constitute just one l^em on a long list about which tax payers are quizzed. But it is a con spicuous item, because values can easily be checked and automobiles have in the past been listed at ridic ulously low values. The way they are doing it this year at the city auditorium here Is just a sample of what is being done all over the state. “Have you an automobile?” asks one of the, officials. “What Is the make and the mod el?”’ he adds. In the meantime, Roy Honeycutt, veteran list taker is busily thumb ing a book containing approved "trade in” values for all makes and types of automobiles. “Two hundred dollars” may be the reply, according to the old custom. “Hold on there,” Interrupts Mr. Honeycutt.” This book says It is worth $300, what has happened to It?” Sometimes an argument - starts, but usually the taxpayer revises his figures upward, as soon as he is as sured that others are being treated the same way* Health Sleuth Makes Complete Inspection Here Hotels, Cafes, And Jail Visited Floyd Even Inspects Mattresses In Furniture Stores. Glees Hotel Rating. When John E. Floyd,%iief sani tary Inspector for the state board of health came to Shelby early this week and hailed a dozen barbers Into court for violating certain min or regulations of the new barber board sanitation rules . it was thought that he had completed his work. But he had not. Every hotel, cafe, furniture store, the Jail and the convict camp, can testify to that. Inspector Floyd gave Shelby a thorough once-over, and in leaving yesterday was inclined to compli ment the town on its cleanliness, al though in several Instances he pass ed out a warning that some addi tional cleaning should be done ere he comes back to town. Hotel Rating. His inspection of local hotels and eating houses gave the following rating: > Hotel Charles, 93; Piedmont cafe, 91 1-2; Isaac Shelby, 91; Central cafe, 86; Wayside restaurant, 85 1-3; Thomas cafe, 85; Shelby cafe, 84 1-3; Victor, 78; Southern, 70; Carolina cafe, 84.12; City cafe, 70; Arcade 54 1-2. Practically all of the cafes and hotels, the chief inspector said in making his report, lost several points on their rating because grades have not been officially announced on their milk supplies yet, but are ex pected to be announced at an early date, thus praising all ratings gen erally. fcoeala cafes, the Inspector said. Show remarkable improvement over the last Inspection. At that time It will be remembered several of the cafe proprietors were hailed into court. * County JaO Clean. The inspeotion of the county jail resulted in a report of “in good con dition,” while a similar statement was made regarding the county convict camp and the treatment of prisoners. These reports on *he county institutions were particular ly pleasing in that the inspection was made by the board of health’s chief Inspector and who is very thorough in his work. Until Mr. Floyd made a round of the local furniture stores here the general public likely never knew that North Carolina was enforcing a sanitary bedding law. This law requires that every mattress sold In North Carolina carry the label of the state board of health show ing by whom the mattress was manufactured and what It is made of. The inspection covers parti cularly renovated and second-hand mattresses as the law requires a certain form of sterilization wh*re it is known that the last user of the mattress was diseased in any man ner. Shelby Lawyer To Appear For Woman In Death Affair Me Swain To Represent Mrs. John Benton Held Over Death Of Husband. When Mrs. John Benton, young white woman of Morgftmton, appears in county court there Tuesday in | connection with the shooting of her husband early this week she will be represented by Capt Peyton Mc Swain, Shelby attorney. Benton was found fatally shot In his yard last Tuesday morning. At first he was thought a suicide and his wife stated that he had threat ened suicide. A note he left charged W. M. Adams, Hickory meat sales-' man, with breaking up his home. There were some contradictions in the suicide theory of the young man and Burke officers arrested Mrs. Benton and Adams. George Alexander In Repair Business Now Mr. George Alexander, former Shelby Jeweler, is now in business for himself as watch and clock re pairer in the shop opened a few weeks ago by L. C. Davis in the Webb building next door to Steph enson’s drug store. Mr. Alexander now owns the shop, is operating it under his name as he welcomes old custotoers and friends to his new place of business. King’s Appeal Up In S. C. On May 12 Shelby Attorneys Now Working On Their Brief. FUlng 81 Exceptions. The appeal of Rate King, Shelby man, given a death sen tence In South Carolina on the charge of slaying his wife, will be heard by the South Carolina Supreme court on Monday, May IX, it was stated here today by Attorney Clyde R. Hoey, who is one of King’s two Shelby law yers. The other is Judge B. T. Falls. Mr. Hoey is at present working or the brief the defense will present in asking that King be given a new trial. Eighty-one exceptions, or points of law and alleged errors made In the trial judge’s charge to the jury, will be listed in the brief, he says. Filed By April 26. The defense brief must be filed with the Supreme court by Satur day, April 26. From that time on until May 12 the State attorneys w*'l arrange their answers to the excep tions. The record of the case, containing all the testimony and the judge's charge, has been printed and Is now ready for the hearing. This record consists of 946 pages and cost $900 to be printed. Large Crowd At B. And L. Meet "No State Association Has Ever Lost A Cent By Embezzlement” Says La Roque. “Not a single stockholder ih all the building and loan associations in North Carolina has aver lost a cent by reason of embezzlement of funds on the part of officers'* said Mr. LaRoque, state deputy building end loan commissioner of Raleigh as he spoke at Forest City yesterday at a district meeting comprising the CWntti&TiJr "'Cleveland, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Catawba, Burke and Rutherford. Supervise Building. About 75 delegates were present the largest number of delegates from any one town attending from Shel by where there are four live associa tions. It was revealed that the build ing and loan associations in North Carolina have resources of ninety six million dollars and that the re sources of the associations of the United states amount to the enor mous sum of eight billion dollars. In all the business done by the North Carolina building and loan associa tions, they have been forced to o^n less than a half million dollars worth of property. One of the principal addresses was by Capt. J. F. Roberts of Shel by who stresses supervision of con struction of homes that are flnanc ed by Building and loan associations in order to guarantee to home own ers the best of material and work manship. Other points stressed at the meeting held in the city hall at Forest City were re-financing, re sponsibility of directors, anticipated payments and cancellations. A delightful meal was served the delegates at the Blanton cafe. Fallston Man Drops Dead At Age 70 Was One of Three Bachelor Broth ers. Burled Thursday At 4 O’clock. Tom Justice, one of three bache lor brothers and age about seven ty years, dropped dead Wednesday evening at his home on the R. A. Bingham farm at Fallston, follow ing a stroke of apoplexy, it is thought. Mr. Bingham had just walked into the house from the yard, when he fell dead. He was sin gle and is survived by two bache lor brothers Twitty and Dock Jus tice. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at Pleasant Grove Bap tist church and Interment was in the cemetery at that place. Boy Of 14 In Need Of A Home and Work Is there a farmer in Cleveland county who could employ a healthy. 14-year-old boy and give him a home? Mr. J. B. Smith, county welfare officer, state? that he has Just such a boy under his custody and is looking for a home for him. The youngster now has no home, nor does he have any work to do. He is a willing worker, it is said, and is anxious to be placed. Baseball Idol Visits Son ra Walter Johnson, nationally known baseball idol, lone associated with the Washington Senators, at the bedside of his son, Walter, Jrn who Is recovering in Georgetown Hospital from two broken legs suffered when bo was hit by an automobile. flttteraattaasl Hawarat!) Would Erect Shaft To Ferguson, Redcoat Leader, At Kings Mtn. Fitting Monument Proposed To Magnanimous Enemy At King! Mountain. Gastonia.—A fitting monument to MaJ. Patrick Ferguson, leader of the British forces at the battle of Kings Mountain, “the turning point of the American Revolution,” will in all probability soon stand on the heights of Kings Mountain in York county. South Carolina, on the spot where the gallant Englishman fell facing the enemy. A movement look ing to this end was recently started, having its inception in the minds of members of the committee in charge of preparations for the aesqui centennial celebration of the battle on October T of this year, CoL T. I». Kirkpatrick, of Charlotte, a member of the committee, conceived the idea, and since first advanced, the proposal has grown rapidly in fa vor with Carolinians and patriotic citizens In other sections of the country. By whom the monument will eventually be built has not been de termined. According to a sugges tion made to the committee by Dr. Paul B. Jenkins, representative of the Wisconsin Historical society, recently paid an official visit to the battlefield. Present plans contemplate the making of such a proposal to the British government through the ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, at Washington, with the hope that the* “mother country” will take kindly to the proposal. Offers have al ready been made, however, by pa triotic Americans to provide a suit able monument In case the British government does not accept the proposal. Further Interest In the movement has Ifcen stimulated by a visit to the battlefield and its environs by Percy S. Bullen, of New York, American (Continued on page fourteen.) Charlotte Capital Buys Kelly Stores Jack Brazier, of Charlotte, was the high bidder for the stock of merchandise of the three Kelly Clothing company stores located at Shelby, Mooresville and Statesville These stores took bankruptcy early In the year and the merchandise was offered for sale, Mr. Brazier be ing high blder at $17,000. A sale has been inaugurated with Mr. Clnco In charge of the sale of the bank rupt stock in Shelby. University Alumni To Meet Here Soon Cleveland County Ha* 105 Alumni Of U. N. C. Banquet Night Of April 25. The alumni of the University of North Carolina in Cleveland coun ty will hold their annual university banquet in Shelby on Friday night. April 25, it was announced today bv Attorney D. Z. Newton and Mr. 8yd Chappell, president and secretary respectively of the organisation of this county’s old grads of the uni versity. \ Mr. Chappell says that J. Marion Saunders, alumni secretary from Chapel , Hill, will attend along with one other speaker uot yet knoivn from tlfe university. Many Alumni. A surprising feature of the an nouncement of the banquet is that there are 105 university alumni in this county. Mr. Chappell has mailed letters to all the alumni asking them to noti fy him if they will attend so that r.e may-know how many to prepare, for Quite a number have not answered, he says, and are urged to do so at once. Parents, Teachers to Sell Cakes Saturday Want a big chocolate or cocoanut, home-made cake for Easter? Or Easter eggs dyed in gay color-? That’s what the members oi Parent-Teachers association of the Graham street school will be ask ing Shelby gtnd Cleveland county people tomorrow', Saturday. Begin ning at 9 o’clock in the morning the members of the organization will stage a bazaar at the Paragon fui nlture store to sell home-made Eas ter cakes, dyed Easter eggs, and home-made jellies. The proceeds will be used to purchase equipment and supplies needed to put the Graham school on the standard list, it Is announced by Mrs. B. L, Smith. Scout Field Day. Scores of Boy Scouts will be in Shelby this afternoon for field day exercises in front of The Star of fice, beginning at 4 p.m. Mr. Julius Suttle is back at work after being sick for a few days. Yeggs Crjack Safe At Kings Mtn., Get Away With $400 In Silver Cotton Oil Company Robbed. $370 of MOO Taken Was In Silver. Thieves—from chicken steal* ers up to safe crackers—arc still plying their trade in Cleveland county. Yeggs who cracked the saM of the Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company at Kings Mountain Wednesday night got MOO, $370 of it in silver. The large amount of “hard money” was explained by col lections for sale of ice during the day. A prepared bank de posit hail not been made. The thieves, apparently ex perienced, entered the building by cutting a small hole in a win dow screen and releasing the window catch. The safe was opened by means of a crowbar. Checks, papers and nine cents— a nickel and four pennies—were left behind. Sheriff Irvin Allen says as yet he has no clues to the identity of the robbers. G. D. Hambrlght, chief owner and manager of the company, discovered the loss when he opened up at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. There was evidence that there were at least two of the yegg men, since one »hi\d apparently been left on guard. Workers Near End Of Task, Aid Is Asked Those Missed Should Report Names Population In One Ward Completed Yesterday. Others finish To day, Saturday. By tomorrow, Saturday even ing at sundown the 1930 eensus* count ol Shelby's population will have been completed, accord ins to information secured from census workers today. Taking' of the census in one ward was completed yesterday and the remaining wards will in all probab ility be counted today and tomor row. Census-taker!! working here are not permitted to give out the fig ures In their territory but these figures will be announced from the district census headquarters at an early date, it is understood. Judging, however, by the length of time tak en in the several wards It was es timated here today that Shelby's population would run a little above 8,000 people. rdrs. George Hoyle, who had ward four as her territory, has already completed her count. Mils Alleen Costner is In charge of ward one, Mrs. Helen Casstevens in ward two. and Mrs. Harry Camnltz in ward three. indications are that ward one will hav% the largest population, that ward In itself not being many mrn dreds short of the total population of the town 10 years ago. Thoae Mtued. In evdry ward Jhe census-takers have made diligent effort to count. every person, but in some tnstanccs this Was impossible. In order to get a complete count census officials to day requested The Star to urge ali persons who have not been sien by the census takers to report their names to either of the four census takers named above or to -The Star. Citieens of the county who were missed are also urged to get in touch with some of the census tak ers. This is very important in Uiat the population figures secured now must serve for 10 years. Number Empty Houses. The ( censqs-takers working in Shelby say that they are finding quite a number of empty residences, and it is gStimitted that had the census been taken 18 months ago Shelby would have had a larger population by some 500 people. Mrs. Frank Parker Found Dead In Bed Noble Woman Living lh Lincoln County Ea«t or Fallston Die* At Age 70. Thursday morning, Mrs. Frank Parker was found dead in bed at her homo east of Bgllston In the edge of Lincoln county. Mrs. Parker was In her usual good health tho day before and was up in the room about 2 o'clock before she was found dead that morning. Mrs. Parker was the daughter of the late William Hoyle, one of the most substantial men In that sec* tion. She was a fine Christian char acter and is survived by her hus band and the following children. Doris, Clarence, Ernest, and Gettys Parker and one daughter, Mrs. O. A. Biggerstaff. The funeral was held at £ o’clock today (Friday) and interment Was in the cemetery at Bethlehem ■church in Lincoln county. --L . . Music Concert Here On Monday Evening School Music Department To Give Benefit Performance At -g O’clock. A treat is in store for those to enjoy music and are in sympathy with the music department of tho Shelby public schools when this de partment, under the direction of W, T. Sinclair, will give a benefit con cert at the high school auditorium Monday evening at 8 o’clock. Tho proceed will go to help defray ex penses of the talent to Greensboro next week for the state music meet, A delightful form of entertain ment will be provided by the band, the orchestra, glee chib and by solo ists,. It will be a sort of rehearsal of numbers to be rendeerd at tho Greensboro contest,"