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8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No. 48 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By man, per year On advance) fay Carrier, per year <1 nadvance) $3X4 LA TE NEWS THF MARKET. Cotton, per lb. __— 16c Cotton Seed, per bn. ........ 43*»c Fair Tuesday. Today’s North Carolina Weathei Report: Mostly cloudy and probably showers in northeast and cooler In west tonight. Tuesday generally fair and cooler. Charlotte Hotel Fire. A spectacular blaze in the Clay ton hotel at Charlotte early Iasi night caused thousands of dollars damage and endangered the lives of three score guests. The blaze start ed in the basement and'spread so rapidly that several thrilling res cues became necessary to save all the guests, one woman being car ried from a smoke-filled room on the third floor by the assistant fire ;hlef. Lindberghs In Record Flight Across America Fly From Coast To Coast In Record Time of 14 Hoars, Beats Hawks. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., April 21 Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh last night completed their experimental one stop high alti tude flight across the continent. They landed here at 11:11 p. m eastern standard time, beating Cap tain Frank M. Hawks’ best time for nonstop west-east flight. The famous flyer and his wife lopped three hours, 16 minutes and six seconds off the record of 17 hours, 38 minutes, 56 seconds set by Capt. Hawks last June 29. The total elapsed time of the flight was 14 hours, 22 minutes, 50 seconds. Motors of the plane were heard off the field at about 11:08, the plane seeming to come down from a high altitude. Colonel Lindbergh circled the field twice, then turned and land ed into the wind. A squadron of motorcycle police surrounded the plane as it taxied up, to protect it against any rush by the crowds. After staying a short while at the far end of the field, the colonel turned and taxied up toward the hangars. The crowd was well-behaved as the colonel and his wife stepped from the plane. Lindbergh posed for photographers and answered questions of reporters. Lands at UtlEBTfC M. The official landing time, as an nounced by Walter D. Ward, offi cial timer of the National Aeronau tic association, was 11:11:52 p. m„ and the official elapsed flying time was 14 hours, 23 minutes, 17 sec onds. The elapsed flying time does not take into account the 22 min utes and five second consumed in refuelling operations at Wichita, Kans., for the only’stop. Belwood Finals Begin Tuesday Dr. Rankin And CoL Kirkpatrick To Be Principal Speakers At Closing. Belwood school will have its final evening for this year, Tuesday Ap ril 29. Five more programs yet to be rendered as entertainment. Tuesday, April 22, at 8 o’clock, grades one, two and three will render an oper etta in which over 150 children will have a part. Also the 4th and 5th grades will present two very short plays. Friday evening, April 25, at 8 o'clock, Miss Spangler and the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades will render a junior high school operetta “Polished Pebbles." Over 100 pupils will have part in this ex ercise. Sunday, April 27, at 3 p. m. Dr. J. D. Rankin, dean of A. s. T. c„ Boone, will preach the annual ser mon. Dr. Rankin has many friends in this section. Monday, April 28, at 8 p. m. the senior class will present their grad uation play. Tuesday April 29 at 8 p. m. sen iors will receive diplomas, medals will be awarded, attendance certi ficates will be presented. The speak er on this occasion will be Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick of Charlotte. Hon. Jno. G. Carpenter will present the speaker. Lions Minstrel On Here Tuesday Night Local Talent Blackface Show To Appear At Central High School. The final appearance of the Shel by Lions club’s blackface minstrel will be at the Central high school auditorium here Tuesday night, be ginning at 8 o’clock. The minstrel, an unusually clever blackface affair, has played to sev eral other audiences this spring and has received much praise. Last Fri day night the minstrel was present ed before a large and appreciative audience at the South Shelbv school. Boy Scouts In Big Field Day Contests Here Lattimore Carries Off Honors Of Event Shelby Troop Ranks Second In Field Day Events For Scouts of This County. The annual field day contests for Boy Scouts of Cleveland county were held in Shelby Friday after noon with approximately one hun dred Boy Scouts attending as par ticipants or spectators. The gathering was one of the largest Boy Scout meetings ever held here in which the scouts were restricted to this county. First place in the field day affair was won by trorp No. 1 of Lattimore with troop No. 3 of Shelby coming second. Five points were given for each first place in the contests, three points for second place, and one point for third place. The judges were Chas. A. Hoey, Dr. Tom Brice Mitchell and Tilden Falls, How They Won. Lattimore, troop one, won firs' place with 18 points. Shelby, troop three, was second with 16 points. Shelby, troop five, was third with eight points. Belwood, troop one, was next with seven points. Lawn dale, troop one, came fifth with four points, and Shelby, troop one, was next with one point. Fire by friction contest: Shelby troop No. 5 first; Lattimore troop No. 1 second; Shelby troop No. 2, third. Relay knot tieing contest: Latti more troop No. 1 first; Shelby troop No. 5, second; Belwood troop No. 1, third. Lasso relay contest: Lattimore No. 1, first; Shelby troop No. 3, sec ond; Belwood troop No. 1, third. First aid contest: Lattimore No. 1, first; Shelby troop No. 3, second; Belwood No. 1, third. Tent pitching contest: Shelby troop No. 3 first; Belwood troop No. 4. Mrand i Iiiwudalt troop NorT; third. Water boiling contest; Shelby troop No. 3, first: Lawndale troop No. 1, second; Belwood No. 2, third. Breaks Store Window Here Saturday Night Conley Bound Over To Superior Court For Breaking Jewelry Window. Heschel Conley, young white man who lives south of Shelby, was bound over to superior .court here today under a bond of 500 after being giv en a preliminary hearing in county court for breaking a window in the Abemethy jewelry and the Young Man’s Shop late Saturday night. According to officers young Con ley used an arm from one of the street benches near the store to smash the plate glass front near a window display of jewelry. The glass was broken shortly after mid night while no one was near that part of the street, but the shattered glass falling to to the pavement made such a noise that Conley, of ficers say, ran. He was caught a short time later by officers. Nothing was stolen from the store, j Young Farrow Girl Dies At Dover Mill Eleven Year Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Farrow, jr., Burled Today. At the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Farrow, jr., In the Dover Mill village. Miss Barbara Grace Farrow, age 11 years, died Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock, fol lowing an illness with heart trouble. She was taken seriously ill about a week or ten days ago. The young girl was very popular among her friends and her death is a great source of sorrow to many. The funeral was conducted this morning at 10 o’clock by Rev. W. A. Elam, pastor of the Dover Baptist church and interment was in Sun set cemetery. Two Fires In Shelby Over The Week-End The city fire trucks were called out twice Sunday. The first call came about 9:30 Sunday momln't to the Phocian Hamrick house on West Warren street which is occu pied by Mr. Frank Sanders, rhs blaze did quite a bit of damage to the roof. The second call was about 7:30 Sunday evening to this home of Mr. J. L. Putnam on South LaFayette street where an oil stove was ablaze. ... Love Balm Bomb Burst Nest1 Domestic bliss of William Willock, Jr., heir to the Willock steel millions, rep resents their happiness after the nation-wide furore had died down when he married his mother's chambermaid. Now trouble comes to mar their happiness in the form of a $250,000 suit by another former maid in his mother's house. (latwnattoBil Kawirttl) Aged Land Grant In This County Made 1765, Comes To Light Here Banker Blanton Falls From Horse While riding Sunday after* noon, C. C. Blanton, president of the first National bank, fell or was thrown from his spirited horse. He was bruised somewhat but was at his post of duty at the bank this morning. Mr, Blanton is an expert horseman but Oils time his mount was - spirited and' bounded from under him. Mr. Blanton did not fall for advertising pur poses like the Prince of Wales IS said to do. No Disgrace To Come From Cleveland, Says The Mayor Of Lenoir Thinks The Man And Not Geo graphy Should Decide Candidate For Judge. Lenoir—Mayor B. F. Williams Is not one to go back on his native land. He was born and reared in Cleveland county, and If there is any one In the audience who expects him to apologize they are riding for a fall. It all came about when The News Topic carried an editorial last week to the effect that B. T. Falls, also a native of Cleveland, would encoun ter a handicap in his race for judge of the sixteenth judicial district be cause his native county already claimed so many state offices. Mayor Williams pointed out that he is taking no part in this race for the judgeship, but he wants it distinctly understood that he con siders it no preclusion to public of fice to hail from Cleveland. “It’s the man, not his nativity, that counts.” declared the mayor in a final, but good-natured, thrust. A. D. Warlick Has Land Grant Transferring 300 Acres In “Nobb Creek” Section. One of the oldest land grants known to be in existence in Cleve land county is in possession of Mr. A. D. Warlick, of upper Cleveland, who has a paper showing the giant of 300 acres of land to Francis George by ‘‘George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KlngtjDefendci df the Faith, etc ” TfceTancf was granted in consideration of “rents and duties herein reserved.” Signed by William Tryon. The land in question lay on the waters of “Nobb creek waters of Broad river, including a great bot the creek. The land lay in a rectan gle and was surveyed by Hugh Beatty, surveyor. This county was a part of Mecklenburg at that time and the grant was signed by Wil liam Tyron, lieutenant governor and commander of the colony in the year 1765 when the grant was made. One condition in the grant was that Francis Beatty should clear and cultivate three acres out of each hundred and pay an annual rental of four shillings proclamation money, for each hundred acres. In present day money, this would amount to $1.00 per hundred acres or $3 for the year in English money which was to be paid as rental, Enrolled in April 1765. The grant was enrolled, that is it was recorded at Wilmington in the office of the auditor general on the CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) TWO DAY OLD INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. CONNER DEAD The two day old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Conner at the Ora mill died at 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon and will be buried this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Poplar Springs church. Twenty-Seven Candidates For Office Now In Rutherford County Rutherfordton. — Twenty-seven candidates have announced to date for various Rutherford county of fices on the Democratic ticket. The primary is in June. The present board of county com missioners recently announced for re-election. For two of them, H. H. Tucker, chairman, and A. B. Price, of Forest City, it is their first term while the other incumbent, J. P. Jones, of near here, has served on the board in previous years. W. O. Harris, of Harris, defeated two years ago, has announced. He has served on the board longer than any man in the county, twelve years and was chairman for ten years. He was chairman two years ago when the entire old board was defeated -in the primary x by new candidates. There are seven new candidates for county commissioner, or men who have never served on the board, making a total of eleven candidates in this race. There are two merchants and sev eral farmers in the race. There are seven men running for sheriff in the Democratic primary. including the present incumbent^, W. C. Hardin. Four of these are from the same town, Forest City, another is from Rutherfordton, M. Y. Tate, while one is from near Hollis, Lee R. Gordon, a well known farmer. One man in the race has been a deputy for Sheriff Hardin several years, while another has been his opponent before in the pri mary. Three men have announced for clerk of court, the present incum bent, M. O. Dickerson, F. S. Hall, of Avondale, and Lloyd Williamson, Spindale. The latter two are young men while the former was clerk of court for twenty consecutive years, retiring about fourteen years ago and was reappointed by Judge Michael Schenck over a'year ago to fill out the unexpired term of J. Y. Yelton. three candidates are unopposed, Mrs. Minnie F. Blanton, treasurer; W. Oscar Geer, register of deeds and O. R. Coffield, of Ellenboro, who has announced for the legislature. The present board of education has an nounced and is unopposed. Irvin M. Allen In Race For Sherifi To Succeed Self Taxes Will Prevent His Campaigning Present fcNrriff Asks For Rr-rlec tion. Serving First Term Now. Sheriff Irvin M, Allen, who Is now serving his first term In office, to day announced that he would be i candidate tn the Democratic pri mary of June to succeed himself. Mr. Allen, who is widely known as an officer of the law due to the fact that he was police chief at Kings Mountain before becoming sheriff stated In announcing that he would not be able to carry on an active campaign as he considers it his duty to attend to thfe tax collecting which is a part of the work of his office. Left To Friends, *‘1 take this method of Informin'? the citizens of Cleveland county that I will be a candidate in June to suc ceed myself,” his announcement reads. "Due to the fact that this is a very important season of the year in the tax collection department of the sheriff's office I will not be able to do much active campaigning about the county. The remaining taxes must be collected and a set tlement made with the commission ers by June 1. and I consider it my duty to stay on the job and do thir work, for which I am paid, rather than to go about the county cam paigning for myself on the time of the county. For that reason I will leave my candidacy to the citizens of the county. They elected me to serve as sheriff and tax collector and if I am not able to get around and see them I want the mto know that I am doing what they expected me to do when they first voted for me. *‘In asking for re-election I make the same pledge to the people of Cleveland county that I made two years ago. and that is that I w*Jl oonduct the office of sheriff to the best of my ability with impartiality *> ao one. I leave my candidacy with the citizens of the county w my record as a law enforcement of ficer with the promise that if re elected I will render the same loyal service’’ * Two candidates, Messrs. Pink E. Lackey and Marvin Blanton, have already announced for sheriff. Scout Executives Meet Here Tuesday Representatives From Several Coun ties Coming. J. W. Atkins 1/ill Preside. The executive board of the Pied mont council of the Boy Scouts of America will meet at the Hotel Charles, on Tuesday night, April] 22 at 7 o'clock. Representatives of the various counties of the Piedmont council are expected to be present and re ports of the work of scouting in this area will be received. J. W. Atkins, president of the Piedmont council will preside at the meeting and Scout Executive R. M. Schiele will be present to report cer tain definite programs for the sum mer months, especially in connec tion with the Council camp at Lake Lanier. Capt. B. L. Smith, vice president of the council, R. T. LeGrand, chair man of the Shelby committee and Rev. L. B. Hayes, chairman of the church relations committee of the council are the official Shelby rep resentatives on the executive board. In addition, a number of the mem bers of the Sheby scout committee are being invited to attend the board meeting. | Sheriff Halts Move For Jail Break Here Finds Hacksaw, Key And Homemade __ Chisel In Cell Occupied By Fed eral Prisoner. A jail break scheduled to have taken place at the county jail Sun day night failed to come off due to a search of cells and prisoners made yesterday by Sheriff Irvin Allen after he had picked up certain clues that a jail break was anticipated. In the department where Federal prisoners are confined and where George Godfrey, convicted dope car rier, is imprisoned. Sheriff Allen found several homemade tools se creted. One was a hacksaw with a wood en brace, while the other was a homemade steel key for an inner corridor door. In another cell he found a chisel made from a big screw driver. The tools were clever ly hidden about the cells and Sheriff Allen is working on clues as to liov i lie tools were slipped into jail. Sheriff Asks For Re-Election Here Sheriff Irvin M. Allen (•hove) to day announces his candidacy for re-election to the office of sheriff of Cleveland county. (Star Photo.) Produced Own Com And Hay For 38 Years - I George Hord Another Live-At-Homr Farmer. Young Tenant Farmer { Start* Right. __ I The name of George Hord, of Lawndale, Is today added to The Star's list of Cleveland county farm ers who live at home and have been doing so since they started farming. A letter from the Lawndale man states that during the 38 years he has been farming he has always produced his own corn and hay with the exception of a couple of unusualy dry summers when he had to purchase a small amount of com. Makes It Back. ••In other years,” he writes, "l have always made enough corn for my own use am} had some left over to sell which has paid me hack many times for the few times I purchased corn.” Feeds Himnrlf. The general impression prevails that the tenant farmer class is one that does not live at home by pro ducing its own food and feed, but south of Shelby there is an energetic young farmer, W. L. Sutherland, who proves himself to be an excep tion. Three years ago young Suth erland came from Georgia to this county and is cultivating a part of the L. A. Beam plantation. During his three years by himself on the farm he has always produced his own corn, hay and feed, he says, and has never been forced to purchase food and feed supplies. Churches Thronged On Easter Sunday; Many Souls Won 78 Members Added To Methodist And Baptist Churches. Revival Meeting Closes. It was the greatest Easter the Shelby churches have had. Figures were not available from all denom inations, but reports indicate the largest attendance upon the Sun day school and church services that has ever been witnessed in Shelby. The weather was favorable and there was a great outpouring of people despite the fact that many local folks attended the Moravian services at Winston-Salem or vis ited friends and relatives in other cities. 78 Church Additions. Seventy-eight were added to the 1 membership of the Central Meth 1 odist and First Baptist churches j alone, where special efforts had been centered on soul-winning. A thousand people attended the First Baptist church Sunday school, a goal Dr. Zeno Wall, the pastor, and Mr. Horace Easom had been striv CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Mrs. Brown Dies At Gidney Street Home Mrs. Francis D. Brown, age 70 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Hause Saturday morning at 9:20 o'clock. Before marriage she was Miss Frances Stone of St. Paul. She was married to A. J. Brown, Sept. 26, 1878. To this union were born five children, three of whom are sur viving, Arthur W. Brown, Gaffney, S. C., Mrs. R. L. Hause, Shelby, and Robt. J. Brown, of Lancaster, S, C, She joined the church at the age of 14 years. She was a faithful Christian, a loving wife and a de voted mother. Officials For Primary Named By Board Here Time Extended In Corn Contest Here The time limit for enteritis ins the t-orn contents to be staff ed this year by the Cleveland county board of affriculture has been extended to May 1, it was announced today by R. W. Shoffner, farm arenl. The arriculturai board first set the end of the filinff limit at April 15. but last week decided to delay it two weks. Four con tests will be held—a five-acre content, a three-acre contest, a two-acre contest, and a one acre contest. Farmers may se cure application blanks from the farm affent or any member of the farm board In their town ship. Easter Trade Here By Merchants Best Since Fall Rush Thronr Of Easter Shoppers On The Streets Saturday. Fair Weather. It looked like prosperity had sud denly returned Saturday when thousands of Easter shoppers milled through the streets and in the stores on a pre-Easter merchandise hunt. Cars were parked in every available space and the crowd was the larg est seen on the streets since the shopping days before Christmas. Many merchants were canvassed bv The Star late Saturday night and this morning and the general re port from them is that the trade was the best since Christmas. Easter is becoming more and more or a holiday in Its observ ance. The weather was fair and warm and all stores were as busy as could be waiting on late shop pers making a change from whiter to summer in tfieir wearing apparel or buying a more elaborate dinner than usual. As late as ten o'clock at night the streets were crowded and the buying was brisk. Mr. Hamrick Takes A Blood Transfusion B. O. Hamrick, former chief of' police of Shelby, who has been un dergoing an operation and treat-' ment in a Charlotte hospital for several weeks. continues to have good and bad days. It was neces sary to give him a blood transfu sion this morning and it is hoped that his condition will start on the up-grade. Mr. Hamrick has many friends here who hope for him a speedy recovery, but his condition is rather serious and friends are not permitted to see him, Masonic Meeting. Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. and A. M. will meet in called communica tion Tuesday night 7:30 o’clock for work in the second degree. Mr. Evans Hartgrove of Charlotte spent the week-end at his home here Registrars and Judgei Picked By Board Bi* Percentage of Old Regiitrarl And Judges Named By Board Here Saturday. At a meeting of the county else* Mon board held in Shelby Saturday registrars and judges fair all voting precincts in Cleevland were up* pointed, a Democratic registrar and a Democratic judge and a Republu can judge being named for each precinct. A division of sentiment on thl Democratic sanatoria! race had n4 part in the naming of the primary officials as the majority of the old registrars and judges were appoint* ed according to the recommends* tions of the chairman of the twd parties. - >/. .jji No New Registration. The county election board is com* posed of John P. Mull, chairman; Zemri Kistler. Democrat, and B. P. Byers. Republican. Following the meeting Chairman Mull announced that there would be no nqw regis tration for the primary and elec tion this year. A number of dtleens, he said, were of the opinion that R new registration would come thl« year due to the new Australian bal lot law, but this is not the case. The registrars and judges wh« will preclde over the voting. id Cleveland county this year follow by precincts, the two Democrats be ing named first and the Republican third: Holly Springs—J. A. McOraw, registrar. Plato Allison. J. D. Ellis judges. Youngs—Sam J McCluney, regis trar. Roecoe Bridges. J. A. Robert*, judges. * Boiling Springs—W. C. Hamrick, registrar. Cecil Goode, E, D. Ham rick, judges. Sharon—M. D. Moore, registrar. J Dathis Elliott, It. A. Smith, judge*. Patterson Springs—C. F. McSwain registrar. J. H. Patterson jr„ D. G. Allen, judges Earl—S. H. Austell, registrar. Aus tell Bettis, Arthur McSwain, judge*. CONTINUED ON PAOE EIGHT, t Letters Mailed At V Depot Often Delay , Delivery, Is Stated Shelby citizens who are in the habit of mailing letters at the box at the Southern depot often cause a delay In the delivery of those let ters instead of speeding up the de livery. according to announcement today by Postmaster J. H. Quinn. Mr. Quinn has been informed by railway mall clerics that when * quantity of letters are mailed at the depot that the cleric on the south bound train does not have time to work them all up before reaching Blacksburg and therefore they miss the next train on the main line. The drop boxes at the depot, the postoffice explains, are to be used only for rush emergency letters and when firms mail letters there in bulk the entire delivery is delayed. COUNT SELF IN CENSUS - --t , J The Star, endeavoring to assist in securing a full count of the peo ple of Shelby and Cleveland county in the census, urges people who have not been seen by census takers to fill out the following MwnK send it to this paper. It is essential for the welfare of the town and county that every per son be counted. You must hurry. Send in the blank this week. The blank follows: I CERTIFY THAT MY ACTUAL PLACE OP ABODE (THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE! IS City ........-.-...... State ..... Street and No________ Name in Pull__....._____. What is your relationship to the family, household or hotel in which you are now living? ___... (Boarder, Lodger, Guest, etc.) Sex __■__„. Color or Race __________...... Age at last birthday (in complete years* ... Marital condition .............. iSmgle, married, widowed or divorced) Other members of my family are.—.......
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