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fEhe ^letJdaub PAGES TODAY VOL. XXX VI, No. 51 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930. Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. StSS’JS''yEZVtlSiS! So! LA IE NEWS THF MARKET. Cotton, per lb. ......- 16c Cotton Seed, per bo. ...—.. 43 Wc Cloudy Tuesday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy .and slightly cooler in central and northeast portions tonight. Tuesday cloudy, possibly showers, and cooler. North Carolina Lead*. Washington, April 28.—North Car V' Una continues to hold second place in collections of federal taxes. The total for the first nine months of the present fiscal year amounts to $208,898,820, as compared with $184, > 976,543 for the same period in the previous year. The increase was due entirely to collection of tobacco taxes, as income taxes dropped from $14,935,680 to $12,965,871, a de crease of two million dollars. One Injured In Crash Sunday Gastonia Man In Hospital Here After Truck Turned Over At Sandy Run. H. L. Price, young white man of Gastonia, is in the Shelby hospital suffering with severe lacerations and bruises as the result of a truck . in which he was an occupant turn ing over yesterday afternoon at Sandy Run on highway 20 just this side of Mooresboro. Ptfpe and another man, who ran awa; before passing autolsts could stop to give assistance, were riding together in the Ford truck which left the road and plunged over the embankment. Motorists who stop ped placed the injured man in another car and rushed him to the hospital there. At the time Price • was unconscious and it was feared that he might be fatally injured. He regained consciousness, however, a short time after reaching the hos pital, and today it was stated that he was recovering rapidly. His in juries were described at the hos pital as consisting of ‘'lacerations of the scalp and bruises all over the body, but no fracture." The identity of the other man has not been learned, and Price does not clearly recall Just how the truck managed to leave the road and turn over. The injured man, it is understood, is .employed as a service man by the Kelvinator agency at Gastonia. Devenney Parker, A Brave Veteran, Buried On Sunday ‘Would Hi Ve Been 93 Years Of Age In July. Buried At Union Church. Devenny Parker, one of the old est Confederate veterans of the county, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bun Camp, at Greer, S. C. and was buried Sunday afternoon at Union Baptist church, the services being conducted by Rev. D. G. Washburn. Mr. Parker would have been 93 years of age in .July. He was a brave veteran of the Confederate war and lost an arm ir the conflict The story Is told that a man threatened to give Mr. Parker a licking, but seeing the missing arm said, “If it were not for your miss ing arm, I would whip you.” Mr. Parker quickly retorted, “It is not my missing arm that keeps you off. but the good arm I have left.” His wife preceded him to the grave about 25 years ago. Surviv ing are the following children: W. 6. Parker, of Greer, S. C.; Mrs. C. G. Ballenger, of Greenville, S. C.; Dock and Plato Parker, of Robbins ville; John Parker, of Laurens, S C.; Joe Parker of Amarillo, Texas, Mr. O. P. Green, R-5, Shelby, Mrs Bun Camp^f Greer. Carolina Old Grads Stage Banquet Here * John Schenck, Sr., Named President Of County University Alumni. Approximately a score of former University of North Carolina stu dents attended the Cleveland coun 'ty alumni banquet held at Hotel Charles here Friday night with At torney D. Z. Newton, the retiring •president, presiding. Mr. John F. Schenck, sr., of Lawndale, was elected president of the county alumni to succeed Mr. Newton, and Mr. Syd Chappell, act ing secretary, wap elected secretary t<* succeed Mr. Nelson Callahan. There are more than one hun dred university men in this county and tt was decided to make the [ banquet an annual affair. Mr. J. M. (Spike) Saunders, gen i eral alumni secretary from Chapel Hill, was the chief speaker at the I banquet. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dilling and Mrs. Annie Dilling, of Kings Mountain, were visitors In Shelby Sunday afternoon. Shelby Schools In May Parade To Depict Work Pageant Parade On Here Thursday Mammoth Parade In City At May Day Affair To Be Stated By Students. More than 2,000 Shelby school children will participate in a mam moth May Day pageant parade to be staged in the city on Thursday afternoon, May 1, beginning at 2:30 o’clock. The pageant parade has been so organized that all depart ments of the school activities will be represented in pageant form in the parade. May the first is being observed as national health day in most of the schools of the country. Realizing the supreme importance of health, the Shelby schools are featuring this great principle, together with an attempt to show you just what they are doing for the children in the schools. Every type of activity from the primary grades through the high school will be presented in this par ade. Just what the children are doing five days out of the week— from early morning until after noon? What is being done to make them better citizens? What are they learning that will make them more capable of meeting life's problems? What contact are they making with the finer and more worthwhile things of life? This parade will answer many questions that are foremost in the minds of Shelby’s citizens. The music department, compris ing instrumental and vocal solos and ensembles, has done an ad mirable piece of work. It has reach ed everj child in the school sys tem, directly or indirectly. Aside from the actual participation In the various musical organizations, the children have been taught music appreciation and have the rare privilege of hearing some excellent programs. The musical groups - band, orchestras, and choruses will be represented Jb*s t Life in ' picted, not only by the poet, but by the painter, and the boys and girls have learned to love beautiful pic tures—whether it be a portrayal of1 the simple, courageous or religious life. This phase of school work will also be illustrated by Washington school pupils, who will present liv CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Big Crowd Attends Joe Baber Funeral The main auditorium of the Cen tral Methodist church was filled Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock for the funeral services of Mr. Joe Baber, popular Shelby travelling salesman, who was fatally injured in an automobile collision near Gas tonia on Thursday. Rev. L. B. Hayes conducted the services, and interment was at Sunset cemetery. Farm Booklets At County Agent Office Several shelves have been arrang ed in the office of R. W. Shoffner, county farm agent, In the court house to hold 175 different types of booklets on the various phases of agriculture and farm work. These booklets contain much advice and information of value and may be secured by farmers and farm wives for the asking until they are ex hausted. Shelby Band Wins State Championship The youngster* pictured above have brought another state title to SheB»y. Last week at Greensboro they won, for the second time, the class B band championship for North Carolina high schools. The band, di rected by Prof. W. T. Sinclair, is pictured as it appeared when it won the same honor in 1929. (Star photo by Ellis.) Governor Proud Of Progress And Financial Stability Of County These Farmers Raise Their “Hog And Hominy”; TheirCattleKnow Little About Western Hay, Feed To Make Bale On One Row Cotton Cleveland county farmers, : and the leading; cotton-to the-acre farmers in the Soath, are seeking new laurels. One of them is hopeful of producing a bale of cotton this year on one row. A bale to-the-rew farmer so to speak. This fanner is R. 8. Bums, of Shelby Route Four, and Saturday he planted a row 6, 050 yards lohg, and It required one hour and a quarter to do the planting “I’m expecting to make a bale on that row,” he says. Cabaniss Pasture Attracts Interest Two-Acre Pasture Has Been Worth Thousand Dollars, County Farmer Says. A two-acre pasture, owned by Mr M. G. Cabaniss, northwest of Shel by on highway 182 has In recent month^ attracted more interest perhaps than any pasture tract In the county. The pasture was seeded with a pasture mixture three ypars ago, fol lowing corn, and Mr. Cabaniss says the worth of the two acrfes to him has been more than $1,000. The mixture used included blue grass, lespedeza, orchard grass, herd grass and white clover. Shelby And Beltvood Battle In Title Clash Here On Tuesday Belwood Boys Sin; Out Win Over Blackburn. Coming To Shelby To Win. Some Cleveland county baseball team other than Shelby may make a rush for the state baseball cham pionship this year. Playing Friday at Blackburn the Belwood high school nine, trained by Coaches Autry and Devine, eli minated the hefty Blackburn team from the title race, and as a result Shelby and Belwood will meet in Shelby Tuesday afternoon for the second game in the championship series. Some Hitters. Blackburn was one of the strong est teams Shelby’s state champions played last year and dopesters were of the opinion that Blackburn might eliminate Belwood. The Belwood boys, however, staged a regular slugfest Friday, drove out 21 hits and scored 18 runs while Blackburn was scoring only eight runs. And the hitting was at the expense of the Blackburn hurler who last year very near put Shelby out of the state race. “What’s more we’re coming down to Shelby Tuesday to see If we can not do the same thing for Shelby’s crack pitchers,” say the Belwood boys! Incidentally, the Belwood outfit has a pitcher worthy of note. Wil lis doing the hurling for them Fri day, and scheduled to pitch against Shelby Tuesday, struck out just 15 Blackburn hitters. And so fans may anticipate a real baseball game here Tuesday with the outcome likely to go either way. The Belwood line-up will be W. Devine, ss; Carpenter, c; B. Devine, lb; Dayberry, 3b; D. Peeler, 2b; Cook, cf; Propst, If; S. Peeler, rf; Willis, pitcher. Coach Morris in all probability will send the same Shelby line-up into the game which defeated Gas tonia here Friday for Shelby’s i twelfth victory of the season. Here are some more of those honor roll llve-at-home fanners of which Cleveland county boaa|k: Alonzo M. Hamrick, of the Sharon community, began housekeeping In 1881. He began at the beginning making it a practise to raise his own "hog and hominy.” He has never bought any corn or hay for his stock and very little to eat for the table. In his 49 years as a fanner he has seldom missed rais ing all the necessary food for the family and feed for the stock on his farm. He has bought a few "messes” of meat and bought his flour within the last few years. The livestock on the farm of W. S. Davis of the Double Springs community never knew how west ern hay or grain tasted until a year or two ago. Mr. Davis thought his feed was running low because of a drought and bought a small quam tlty of hay. He has geen farming for 37 years and outside of this small quantity of hay bought one season when he later found that he really had enough for his stock, has Mr. Davis ever bought any food for the table and feed for his livestock. Even the chickens are home-fed. Two years ago he ceased raising wheat, but has taken it up again under the governor's live-at-home preachments. Fate Wellmon of the St. Peters community up on highway No. 18 Between Fallston and Toluca has more than enough com for Ris own use. In fact he usualy markets quite a bit. He sells more feed stuff than any other man in that section. His table is always well supplied with home grown foods and his stock does not know the taste of foreign grown hay or grain. Nephew Of Shelby Woman Gets Killed Reidsville Boy Falls To Make Curve On Motorcycle and Crashes Into Car. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Griffin were in Reidsvllle last week where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Grif fin’s nephew who was killed in a Aotorcycle accident. A dispatch from Reidsville tells about the accident as follows: "Earl Chaney, 17-year-old son of Mr: and Mrs. Jack W. Chaney, was killed when he failed to negotiate the sharp curve at Soyars filling station on his motorcycle. He drove the machine into a parked car and the impact threw him cutting a deep gash on his head and face and breaking a collar bone. Death was almost instantaneous. "The wreck victim was an em ploye of the Klotz Silk Manufac turing company, and had plans made to go to high school next year and finish. He is survived by his father, Reidsville police officer; his mother, three brothers and three sisters.” Shelby Banks Get Praise In N. C. Predicts Twenty Thousand People For Shelby In Ten Years. $7,000,000 Bank Resources, * Governor O. Max Gardner spent Saturday night In Shelby on his way to Asheville where he has .call ed a conference beginning today of the governors of the seven south eastern states for the purpose Of discussing the problems of com mon concern to this area. On Solid Basis. While here, the governor spoke in glowing terms of the agricultural prospects of Cleveland county. He said that the soil was in the best condition he had ever seen it and that the planning and planting of food and feed crops was on the largest and most intelligent scale he had ever seen. He was very proud of the acceptance by his home county in such wholehearted man ner of his live-at-home program. He was likewise gratified with the census of Shelby. The country will now realize what we have known for years, that is, that Shelby is one of the soundest, most conservative and best balanced cities in the south. Skid he, “I predict that within ten years Shelby will have a population of more than twenty thousand.” Banks a Credit to Community. Then the governor referred to Cleveland county banks. He said the people of this territory should never cease to be grateful to Char lie Blanton and his associates. "I was told in -Raleigh this week by one of the most successful business men of the state, that we had in the First National and the Union Trust company, a banking group that would do credit to the Rtrgest city in the state. "It makes me feel mighty safe for my home people to know that our banks are absolutely sound, well managed, honestly directed and that neither of the First National nor any branch of the Union Trust company has a cent borrowed today and have combined resources of nearly seven million dollars. My confidence in Cleveland county and its institutions is greater today than at any time in my life. Fine Citizenship. “We can never appreciate what a great county we have until we in ventory the assets of our citizen ship and the character of our banking institutions. But after all, the foundation of Cleveland coun ty is the honesty, industry, intelli gence and cooperation of our peo ple.” Prominent Citizen Moves To Shelby Mr. Gaither Higgins, for 23 years ru^al letter carrier on Belwood Ri ite 1, has moved to Shelby and is occupying with his family the old Captain J. L. Hoyle house on West Marion street which Mr. Higgins owns. Mr Higgins was one of the leading citizens of the Belwood com munity and Shelby welcomes him. He retired from the government ser vice last May. Shelby Band In First Place At State Contests Win* First Honor* Second Time Shelby High Musicians Win Honor* In Four Other Contest* Held At Greensboro. The Shelby high school band, di rected by Prof. W. T. Sinclair, Is again the champion high school band In North Carolina In class B. In the state-wide music contests held at Greensboro Thursday and Friday the local band for the sec ond consecutive year carried off first honors. Other Honors. Additional honors won by the youthful Shelby musicians were Trombone contest—Ed Smith, Shelby, first. Mixed chorus—Shelby third. Flute contest—Pegram Holland, Shelby, third. Trumpet contest—John Best, Bhelby, third. Over 2,500 North Carolina boys and girls participated In the annual contests and the victories coming to the local youngsters are considered unusual due to the large number of entrants. Approximately 80 Shelby school children participated In the various contests, the majority of them go ing down by special train Thurs day morning and back Friday night. Auxiliary Names Old Officers Here Largely Attended Meeting Of Pres byterian Women Here Closed Friday. At the closing session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Kings Moun tain Presbyterial auxiliary held here Friday afternoon the old officers were re-elected with one exception. Mrs. Stowe of Belmont heads the religious education department, suc ceeding Mrs. Joe Overmyer, of Gas tonia. The principal officers re-elected were: Mrs. Volt M. Robinson, of Lowell, president; Mrs/C. iTWeis ler, of Kings Mountain, vice presi dent: Mrs. Claude Tltman, of tow ell, secretary; Mrs. Fred Rhyne, of Stanley, treasurer; Mrs. J. A. Lore, of Llncolnton, historian. The auxiliary meeting next spring will be held at the Presby terian church in Kings Mountain. Features of the final sessions Fri day were Mrs. 8. H. Askew’s talk on Bible study, the orphanage reports, Mrs. J. Frank Wilson’s talk on “Prayer Bands,” the hospital re ports, the memorial service, and the celebration of the Lord's sup per. The auxiliary meeting here was attended by the largest crowd of delegates' in the history of the presbyterial, officials stated. Riding Outfit Here R. C. Lee’s riding devices, an amusement center made up of num erous fascinating rides, will open here Wednesday of this week for a 10-day stay. The outfit appears in Shelby under the auspices of the Warren Hoyle poet of the American Legiorf. Mr. Lee has played Shelby with his rides in bygone years, and this year is located on the vacant lot to the rear of the Campbell de partment store, between the milk plant and the City Hal! and Star office. All children who visit and take in the rides will be amply pro tected and cared for safely although not accompanied by their parents, Legion officials state. Serious Fire Sweeps County Home Houses No Soda Pop Here During Church Hour City Officials Ask Drug Stores And Fountains To End Curb Service, No matter how thirsty you may get, soda pop is out of the question now in Shelby during the hours of church services. What's more chaw-ciate sodas, ice cream and other fountain drinks will not be served to auto biles parked at street curbs here after on Sunday, Last week city officials passed out the request to local drug stores and soda shops that they close during the hours of church service, and also that no curb service be rendered during any hour of the day Sunday. Loyal cooperation has been shown so far by drug stores and soda shop operators, officials say. Shelby’s Gain May Top All Shelby's population min tn 10 years may be the largest of any town or city in the United Stat es, according to advance census figures issued from Washing ton. In 1920 Shelby had a population ol 3.609. In 1930 the population was 10,867—a gain of 7,258 people, or 191 percent. Advance figures so far show Ven tura, California, to have gained 186.3 percent and leading the field before the Shelby census figures reached Washington. Gains Being Shown. Washington, April 27.—A growth of 22.5 per cent in population dur ing the last 10 years is shown by the first 90 cities of 10,000 or more in habitants for which enumerations tn the 1930 census have been announc ed. This first indication of the trend of the country's population is fur nished by a compilation made by the Associated Press from the of ficial preliminary announcements of supervisors throughout the country. The country's growth as a whole in the decade ending with 1920 was 14.9 per cent, while In the previous decade ending with 1910 it was 21.0 percent growth of the country's ur ban population, that is people Hying in places of 2,500 or more inhabi tants, showed an increase*of 25.7 per cent in the decade ending with 1920. and for the previous decade it was 34.8 per cent. Only one of the country's larger cities has reported thus far. It is Atlanta, which reported 266,557 peo ple, an increase of 35.6 per cent over 1920. Of the cities thus far reporting, the largest percentages of increase have been shown by Ventura, Calif., with 186.3 per cent; Lakeland, Fla., with 130.2 per cent, and Decatur, Gs, with 121.2 percent. Qfties show ing 50 per cent or more increase in the 10 years are mostly in the south and west. None with that large an increase has been reported yet in the east. Continuing Sale. The Kelly Clothing Company bankrupt sale is continuing lor one more week. The sale is being con ducted by the Charlotte Salvage Co., under the management of A. J. Heilman All Types Of Prohibition Polls Being Conducted In This Country Magazines and Newspaper Conduct Wet-Dry Polls. Arguments Both Ways. Washington.—Anyone who hasn’t had a chance to vote his of her convictions on prohibition in some kind of a straw vote seems to be getting cheated. Probably never were there so many polls on a con troversial issue as in the last few months. Big polls and little polls. The organized drys are finally taking them quite seriously, espe cially the big Literary Digest poll, and are issuing carefully planned attacks designed to show that the results are not necessarily represen tative of the true sentiments of the mass of American citizens. Every body is walloping in analyses, poll figures and past comparative stat istics. Your correspondent will not be silly enough to add up all the poll ■esults, but is willing to give a brief •eview of this straw vote fad. The first one of any size was taken by the Pathfinder, a weekly magazine of large rural circulation. Its readers voted 215,000 for strict er enforcement, 58,000 for prohibi tion as is and 169.000 for various wet proposals. The Union League club of New York, conservative and Republican, voted 932 for repeal, 264 for modi fication and 109 for enforcement. The Yale Daily News queried the university’s students and found that among the 2643 who voted, 83 per cent wanted repeal and only 17 percent enforcement The Harvard Crimson then supervised a poll of more than 20,000 students in 14 leading universities, which returned 5589 for repeal, 11,006 for modifica tion, 4517 for strict enforcement and 838 for enforcement “as ip." By the time the Literary Digest had counted three million voters it had approximately 915,000 for en forcement, $50,000 for modification and 1,310,000 for repeal, or only 28 CONTINUED OK PAGE EIGHT.> J Six Buildings Burn There Saturday t oimlderiWe Damafe Done By Tin Flames Which Threatened Main Structure There. The residence occupied by colored inmates and five other outbuilding! at the Cleveland County Home foi the Aged and Infirm were destroy ed Saturday morning by a fire that for an hour or more threatened th* main structure and other more val uable outbuildings. The blaze started around 1( o'clock in the morning in tbe wood en building occupied by aged color ed people and within 30 minutes had spread to two other adjoining buildings, assuming such proportion.* that, due to a low water pressure several miles from the city, it ap peared for some time as if the en tire county institution would be burned despite valiant work on tire part of Shelby firemen who battled the roaring flames Damage Of $2,000. Mr. John T. Borders, keeper of the home, stated today that he es timated the damage at $3,000 or more. The buildings destroyed were the building for the colored, the auto mobile shed, the milk house, the smoke house, the wash house, and the tool house. Twenty cords wood, 200 cans of beans, tomatoes and fruits, and a quantity of peas, beans flour and paint were also burned. There was a small fire in tbe col ored building but opinion is that the blaze, which started on the roof of the structure, resulted from a spark which fell upon the wooden shingles. The flames spread over the roof rapidly and enveloped the building. By the time the largest city fire truck, loaded with firemen, could make a speedy dash to the institu tion the automobile shed, adjoining the colored home, was aflame. The water pressure was very weak and almost useless in attempting to curb the roaring flames as they spread from one wooden building to an other, creeping hungrily nearer the main structure, occupied by aged and helpless people. Exciting Scenes. , City firemen connected their truck pump to the hydrant and despite the low pressure managed to cast a good stream of water at intervals. Meantime civilians and firemen as sisted in carry mg fruit, meats, and other supplies from tbe smoke house as the flames spread to that struc ture. Others busied themselves with helping to get aged and q-lppled in mates from the main structure. The old people were carried or led out into the grove on the opposite side of the main building, but many of them, highly excited and fearing that their last and only home wrould go up in flames, could hardly re strain themselves and had to be watched to prevent their getting too near the flaming structures on the other side. As the smoke house, tool house and large woodpile, containing 20 cords of wood, caught afire the heat between them and the main build ing became almost unbearable, but firemen and volunteers kept a stream of water and chemicals play ing upon the main building end pre (CONTXNUKD ON PADS SIGHT. I Eclipse Of Sun May Be Seen At Best Between 3 And 4 O’clock This Afternoon. Scientists To Stody. The people of Shelby and section are seeing or will see this afternoon a partial eclipse of the sun when the moon obscures it for a short period of time. The eclipse in this section was scheduled to begin at nine minutes after 3 o’clock, and reach its great est point about 19 minutes after 3, ending 24 minutes after 4 this aft ernoon. San Francisco, April 38.—Promis ed favorable weather, astronomers along a thousand-mile front were cheered yesterday at the prospect of success in one of the most compre hensive studies of a solar eclipse ever undertaken. In a special forecast, Observer E. H. Bowie predicted generally fail weather throughout the interior of California and well into Nevada covering virtually the entire terri tory through which the outstanding astronomical expeditions will< be based for the zero hour today. There will be patches of clouds but the San Francisco weather man believes skies generally will be blue, and the scientists happy.
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