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■ 10 PAGES TODAY , -... - VOL. XXXVI, No. 58 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, MAY 14, 1950 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By inaU, per year Un advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (1 nadvance) $3.00 LATE NEWS Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Showers this afternoon fol lowed by generally fair weather and cooler tonight. Thursday fair. Llndy Record Stands. Curtis Field, N. Y. May 13.—Col. Roscoe Turner, with a lion cub as his mascot, landed his express mod el Lockheed plane here at 8:40 p. m today falling by more than an hour In his attempt to set a new record for a one-stop trans-continental flight. The record Turner sought to bet ter was that of 14 hours, 23 minutes end 27 seconds established recently by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh. Turner’s estimated time was 15 hours and 40 minutes. THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. _ Cotton Seed, per bu. Fair And Cooler. Poppy Day In Shelby May 24' Mayor McMurry Urges A11 Citizens To Wear Poppy and To Help Disabled Vets. Saturday, May 24, was set aside as Poppy day in Shelby under a proclamation issued today by Mayor S. A. McMurry. Mayor McMurry appealed to all citizens of the city to wear a poppy Saturday in honor of the World war dead and by purchasing a poppy to contribute to the welfare of the disabled vet erans. The proclamation follows: "I, S. A. McMurry, mayor of the city of Shelby, mindful of the heroic sacrifice made by the gallant young men who gave their lives in defense of our country and its ideals of free dom and democracy in the World war, and of the great debt of grat itude which we owe to those who returned from that conflict broken in body, do hereby proclaim Satur day, May 24, Poppy day. “I further call on the patriotic citizens of Shelby, which poured out such a full measure of its man hood and wealth in the critical days of 1917 and 1918, to recall the spirit of those times; to help the disabled veterans, their families and the families of the fallen by buying American Legion auxiliary poppies which will be sold on our streets on that day by the women of that organization; and to wear these flowers which so fittingly symbolize the sacrifice of those uttftl and who gave their all.” Shelby Rotarians At District Meet Boone Aiken, of Florence, S. C., Is District Governor. Good Program. Hie two-day session of the 58th district Rotary club convention at Hendewonville on Monday and Tuesday was attended by a delega tion from the Shelby Rotary club. J. Boone Aiken, of Florence, S. C., was named district governor to succeed Ernest L. Withers, of Way nesville. Among the speakers on the program was Dan W. O’Hara, international director of Oklahoma City. Attending from Shelby were Mr. Carl S. Thompson, president of the Shelby club, and Mrs. Thompson; Mr. Dewitt Quinn, president-elect; Rev. L. B. Hayes, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Gold and Mr. and Mrs. Rush Thompson. Gun Battle Negro May Recover Now George Neely, negro, who was severely shot in the gun battle Mon day night week ago with police of ficers at Kings Mountain, continues to show improvement at the Shel by hospital, and stands an even better chance of recovering now than he has yet, it was said today. Neely was shot through the body and his Intestines punctured by a bullet from the gun of Policeman Hicks, who was shot after the negro had shot off the right hand of Po lice Chief Greel Ware. A guard is being kept over Nedy at the hospital to prevent an es cape. Making Ice Cream From Hail Stones In No. I Township Down in No. 1 township where one of the worst hail sorms in the history of this section fell last Thnrsday, The Star’s cor respondent reports this week that eltisens are still making lee cream from the hail stones. The hail struck a section of No 1 township and the Ash worth of Cherokee county. Hall was from three to four feet deep in drifts at dark Thursday night according to persons visiting the scene. Wet Campaigns Draw Criticism Of Judge Webb Vote Of Magazine Is Condemned. Federal Judge Says Dry I,aw "Is One Of Best Enforced Laws In The State." Asheville.—Federal Judge E. Yates Webb of Shelby, in his charge to the grand jury at ihe opening of United States dis trict court here, condemned the increasing agitation for rrpeal of the 18th amendment and as cribed the success of the ‘wet cause” in the Literary Digest's straw vote on prohibition to the failure of the poll to reach the women of the rural communi ties. Judge Webb declared the lux ury and comforts now enjoyed by the people of the United States are the fruits of prohi bition and insisted the return of the saloons would make auto mobile travel unsafe, under mine the schools and destroy the homes. Asserting the prohibition law "is one of the best enforced laws in the state,” Judge Webb declared that North Carolina would always be dry regardless of action taken by other states in the union. He said the wom en would not permit the return of the saloons because they had suffered most when this stats and nation were wet. Mother Of Mr. Yates, Penney Mgr. Passes Mrs. Elisabeth Yates Henry Died Suddenly. Taken To Char lotte Today.. - S Mrs. Elizabeth Yates Henry mother of Mr. Dale Yates, popular manager of the local J. C. Penney company store, died rather sud denly Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, following ’ ll; "Brief illhes3. She had been feeling as well as us ual until after the noon lunch when she was taken 111 and is supposed to have suffered a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Henry was born in Illinois and since the death of her husband who was a prominent physician in Illinois and Nebraska, she had been living with her three children. Re cently she had been with her son who came back to Shelby two months ago from Dublin, Ga. and they lived on Hudston street at the time of her death. Mrs. Henry was 67 years of age and is survived by her one son of Shelby and two daughters, Mrs. Vada Berberet and Mrs. Carl Farmhals, of Los Angeles, California. Funeral services were held here this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Palmer Funeral home by friends of the Christian Science faith of which she was a follower and her remains will be taken to Charlotte for en tombment in the mausoleum of Oakland cemetery. Deceased ,haa made many friends during her brief stay in Shelby and a number ac companied the remains to Char lotte. The Penney company store is closed this afternoon. Car Goes Over On East Warren Street Buddy Ledford Receives Only Slight Injuries As Three Cars Take Curve. Buddy Ledford sustained slight injuries about the head and face shortly after noon today, when the Essex coach he was driving was side swiped and forced over the em bankment on the south side of east Marion street. The accident occur red near the residence of Dr. J. R Osborne. Reports say that Mr. Ledford was on his way to lunch when a car came breezing by and cut in short to avoid hitting another car ap proaching on the opposite side of the street. The end of the bumper is said to have locked in Ledford s front bumper, forcing the Essex off the street and causing it to over turn as it reached the edge of the embankment. Mount Zion Memorial To Be Held May 18th Memorial services will be held at Mount Zion church on Sunday May 18th. Sunday school at 10:13; preach ing at 11 by the pastor Rev. Odes Cook: decoration of graves at 12. dinner at 12 30; Glenard Davis will speak at 2 o’clock and Ona Cook will preach at 2:30. Both of these youngmen are ministerial students and should be heard by a large crowd. I Western Champions For Fourth Time The Shelby high baseball team of 1930, pictured above, will on Frida? play Hamlet at Chapel Hill for the North Carolina class B baseball championship. Playing here Monday the young team above won the west ern championship for the fourth time. The other years were 1924, 192S, and 1929—Shelby winning the title on all three occasions. Reading from left to right, front row, the boys are: Dayberry, p; Wilson, rf; Rlppy. cf; Hendrick, 3b: Philbeck, If. Middle row. left to right: Smith, rf; Mayhew, »s; Harrelson, lb; Farris, catcher and captain; McSwain, 2b; Newton,If; Hamrick, p; Moore, p. Rear row, left to right: Casey Morris, coach; Williams, utility infielder; Surratt, p; Putnam, utility; Thurman Moore, utility; Charles Swltser. manager. (Star photo by Ellis.) Shelby Highs To Play Friday Fo r 4th State Title; Western Champs I Defeat Mt. Airy Here Monday. Morrismrn Win Fourth W. N. C. Title In Close Struggle- Fine Pitching. Friday afternoon the Shelby highs play the Hamlet hjghs at Chapel Hill for the State base ball championship in Class B. This is Shelby’s fonrth game in Chapel Hill for the State cham pionship, having won the State crown three times already, and it is the first time on record that one school has been in the 'in al game on four occasions. The Morris outfit won the privi lege of playing the Eastern Carolina winner and their own Western Car olina crown for the fourth time by defeating Mt. Airy here Monday afternoon 5 to 3 in a close struggle witnessed by near 2,000 fans. In The East. Hamlet and Morehead City play ed in Hamlet Monday afternoon to settle the Eastern championship, but at the end of thirteen hectic innings the score was tied 1-1. The game was played again yesterday at Mc Coll, South Carolina. Hamlet won by a score of 9 to 5. Harkrader Excellent. Due to their ability to measure up to championship form at crucial moments the local team managed to nose out Mt. Airy Monday, but in losing the Mt. Airy aggregation ex hibited one of the best high school hurlers ever seen here, and a dan gerous murderer's row of left-hand sluggers who kept Sherrill Hamrick and his supporting cast in hot wa ter from beginning to end. This Mt» Airy hurler, Harkrader by nam;\ whipped up a fast ball hard for anv hitter to see, and he had a big breaking out-drop similar to the one Dutch Whisnant used with such success for Shelby in bygone years. Harkrader s first inning, in which (CONTINUED ON PACE EIGHT.* Theatre Tickets To High Boys For Title If the Shelby High baseball team wins the city's fourth State champ ionship at Chapel Hill Saturday, each member of the team will be given a theatre ticket good for one week at the Carolina theatre, ac cording to Manager L. C. Sipe. Throughout the season Manager Sipe has been giving each Shelby player a free pass for one show for each victory. Now that the final game is here with a state champion ship at stake, Mr. Sipe, a sports en thusiast, is offering a week's en tertainment free to the boys ns an incentive to send them on to vic tory. Play-By-Play Score Of Game On Friday; A play-by-play account of t)i> Shelby-Hamlet- game in Chapel H’ll Friday afternoon will likely be se cured by Stephenson's drug store for the benefit of Shelby and coun ty fans who are unable to attend the game, it was announced today. Eskridge Burned At Baseball Park Burning Off Field For Title Game When Gasoline Caught Him. Close Call. Alfred Eskridge, Shelby, high senior and athlete, was painfully" burned and Jiad a narrow escape from serious burns Monday after noon while he was aiding in burn ing off the city baseball park with gasoline just prior to the western championship game with Mt. Airy At the Shelby hospital. when young Eskridge was taken, it was stated today that he was Improv ing. His burns, about the face, neck and arms—up to the elbows—were described as painful but not consid ered serious. It was not likely, It was said, that he would be scarred about the face and neck as the burns are much of a blister type. Kept Cool Head. Only his coolness and his Boy Scout training saved the youth lrom severe burns. The baseball park was soggy from the continued rains and several of the larger boys had been assisting in burning off por tions of the field with gasoline. Aft er the gasoline, poured upon the ground, had been set afire, young Eskridge picked up one of the cans and started to pour more gasoline. Although he was some distance from the burning gasoline, the flame jumped to him and he was enveloped in a blaze In s flash. Cooly realizing his dangerous pre dicament, and recalling his scout training—he is now a scout instruc tor at the Lake Lanier summer camp—he fell to the wet ground and began to roll over, thus extin guishing the blaze before it could gain further headway on his cloth ing. Morris Mentioned For Gastonia Postj "Red” Whisnant, Athletic Director! There, leaving. No Offer Made Yet. Mr. M. D. (Redi Whisnant and Mrs. Whisnant, for three years in charge of physical education at the Gastonia high school, will leave Gastonia next year to head the ath- j letic department at the Hoosacl school for boys In Hoosac, N. Y. j Since the announcement was made! at Gastonia there have been reports that Casey Morris, Shelby high di rector of physical education, may be among those considered for the Gas tonia post. The Shelby coach, it is said here,1 has not been approached and knows nothing about the Gastonia open- ! ing other than Whisnant is leaving.' However, fans of Gastonia, home' town of Morris, are reported to fav-1 or htm due to his remarkable rec-: ord with athletic teams here, ac-j cording to Shelby men who have been in Gastonia recently. Whis- j nant was football captain at Caro-I lina after Morris was captain of! football and baseball. Special Train For “The Hill” Friday For Championship A special train will be ran over the Soathern railway Fri day for the atatr. high school chamimUp baseball came which will be played between Shelby, the western champions, and Hamlet, the eastern cham pions, announces Vernon Proc tor, local ticket agent. The train will leave Shelby at 6 a. m. and arrive at Chapel Hill in time for the game that arternoon. returning to Shelby late that night. The round trip fare is $5.00. A. T* Ellis Dies Near Patterson Seventy-Six Year Old Farmer Suc cumbs After Short Illness. Buried Wednesday. A. T. Ellis, well known farmer liv ing between Patterson Springs and Earl died Monday night at 10 o’clock following a brief illness. He had been in declining health for some time but was seriously ill for only a day. Mr. Ellis was 76 years of age and highly esteemed in I113 com munity. His wife preceded him to the grave about twenty years ago. Sur viving are the folowing children, Buren and Frank Ellis, Mrs. Lilly White. Misses Lora and Vick Ellis. His remains were buried at Patter son Springs Baptist church Wednes day morning, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. Dr. Davis of Boiling Springs. Miss Estabrook Here For Club Gathering Miss Estabrook, state specialist in house furnishing, will be in Sheloy epain on May 23rd. All club lead ers are urged to look forward to this date, and let nothing prevent their attendance. The program will be harmonizing furniture, re-upholstering, refinlsh ing, or other types of renovating This will depend upon what will be found to do in some club woman’s home, All club members who have anv of these types of w'ork that they would like to have done are asked to let Mrs. Wallace know. She will be very glad to come to your home and see which one can be of most advantage for this demonstration The place and exact time of this meeting will be announced later, and will depend upon the work found to do. . Grover Census For 1930 Shows 435 Now Grover has 435 people, according to the 1930 census just announced by the enumerator Mrs. W. E. Furcron of that place. The population of Grover ten years ago was 295, thus showing a gain of 139 or 47 percent. Lattimere Has Winning Essay On Home Living Take* Two First Honor Prize* Patterson Springs Student Wins Elementary Essay Prise. Other Winners. First, honors in the live-at-home contests in the rural schools of Cleveland county were won by the Lattimore school, according to tee list of prize-winners made public today by Mr, J. H Grigs, county school head. The first prize for the best high school essay was won by Allen Wil son, of the lattimore school, while the second grade of the Lattimore school won the first prize In the booklet contest. Raymond Lowery, of Patterson Springs, won first honors in the elementary essay contest. In the colored schools of the county the first prize in the poster contest was won by the Washing ton school. The booklet contest was won by the Compact school, an i the essay prize by Mattie Moon, of the Ellis Chapel school. | The cash prizes to be awarded in the contest were contributed to the live-at-home movement in ihe schools by the Kiwanis, Rotary and Ltons club of Shelby, Morgan School Is Winner In Spelling LaFayett* School Comm Second In Contest For Weathers Medal. 17 Perfect. Tn the city-wide spelling contest held today among the elementary schools, the Morgan school took first place and is the winner of the Lee B. Weathers spelling medal. The Morgan team had a scare of 98 2-3. LaFayette was second with a score of 98 2-5. Washington and Graham schools tied for third place wRh score* at 97 T4t. "Marton achool scored 97 1-3, and Jefferson school 96 1-3. The average score for all participants was Slightly better than 97 1-2. Fifty words from the McCall speeler were given to the partici pants and 17 of the 35 students In the contest made perfect grades. Alumni Banquet At. Boiling Springs Two Hundred Expected At Annual Banquet Saturday. Mrs. Ham rick. To Preside. Two hundred are expected to at tend the annual alumni banquet to be held Saturday night of this week et Boiling Springs Junior college. Mrs. Ladd Hamrick will be toast mistress and some of tiie visiters will be Dr. Zeno Wall the newly elected temporary president and Prof. J. D. Huggins who will be in active charge of the institution dur ing the coming year. This Is the first banquet that sec ond year college students have at tended so this will add glamour to the occasion. A business meeting will be held at 7 3Q, followed by the banquet an hour later. Lackey Announces For Constable Here Mr Pink E. Lackey of South Shelby, who over the week-end withdrew from the race for county sheriff, today announces his can didacy for No. 6 township constable Deputy Bob Kendrick had previous ly announced for constable. Mull Improving At Hospital Mr, Carr .Mull, rmplovr of the Blur Rldir Ire Cream com pany'* plant here, who was severely injured when an am monia refrigerating' tank ex plodrd at the plant Early Mon day morning, was showing con siderable improvement at the Shelby hospital today. He was painfully blistered about the head and body bv the forre of the explosion and the escaping ammonia, and was temporarily blinded and his lungs filled with the ammonia fume*. For some time it could not be definitely determined at the hospital to what extent the ammonia had damaged hi* eyes, throat and lungs, hut to day reports had It that his eyes and lungs were rapidly clear ing up, and no strious aftermath would likely result from the ac dent. Oue to the shock, the burns and the ammonia fumes it was feared for some hours that pneumonia might develop, hut the possibility of pneumonia setting In was said to be slight today. Attact Cannon About Gambling Josephus Daniels and IS Others Charge Gambling and Unseemly Political Activity. Dallas. Texas, May 13.—A new and more powerful attack to dis robe Bishop James Cannon, Jr., or at least, t,o remove him from the chairmanship of the board of temp erance and social service was launched at the quadrennial con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church. 8outh. here today, when a series of charges against the pre late were filed by 19 prominent laymen of the church. These new indictments albge that Cannon was guilty of unseem ly conduct in his fight to defeat Gov. Alfred E. Smith in 1928 *and that he bought stocks on margin, or gambled on the Wall street ex change. They were presented to the spicopaey committee of the conference by Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy; Judge J. T. Fitzhugh of Memphis, Tenn., and former Congressman James P. Woods of Roanoke, Va. Backed By Laymen. Judge Pltzhugh would not re lease text of the charges but he admitted, however, that the allega tion, backed by powerful laymen, would relieve more consideration from the conference than those fil ed against Cannon recently by the Rev. Rembert Smith of Washing ton, Ga. Certain church leaders predicted that the new allegations would force a church trial of Bishop Can non. This trial cannot be held! how ever, unless it is recommended by the episcopacy committee. Since only ministers may sit as judges of bishops at a church trial, none of them were asked to sign the Cannon charges. Judge Fitz hugh said. Attached to the brief, into which the charges are incorporated, are photostatic copies of a New York bucket shop ledger sheets which show Bishop Cannon as a custom er. Barbershop Hours. A change in hours is announced today by the Patton and Willis bar bershops. Hereafter the shops, through the week, will open at 7 In the morning and close at 7 in the evening. The Saturday hours will be from 7 until 11. Ohio Cartoonist Pictures Gardner As Presidential Timber For 1930 Artist on Vacation Pictures Things And People He Saw Through The South. A cartoonist on the Columba.;. Ohio, Dispatch, recently made & motor trip through North Carolina and the South. When he returned he drew for the Sunday issue of his paper a full page of cartoons depict ing the major events in his trip. North Carolina shows up several times on the cartoon page, a draw ing of Governor Max Gardner hav ing with it the suggestion that ne «' good presidential timber for 1932 By the side of the Gardner drawing, a very good likeness of the gover nor appears the folljwing statement ‘‘We are strong lor Nortn Carolina from the governor of th: state on down. They spent a hundred and fifty million dollars on fine roais, finished them, and the people are using the roads while they are pay ing for them with a five-cent gas tax. These splendid roads are bring ing the nation to see North Carolina If the Democratic party wants some good national timber we would lllce to suggest Governor Max Gardner, of North Carolina—a powerful man physically and mentally , young, fearless, independent, and abreast of the times.” Other cartoon sketches of the state picture Winston-Salem, “Home of the Camel"; Durham, home of Fatimas and Chesterfields and tm mammoth Duke university; the Me stadium at Chapel Hill, Pinehurst end other points. A copy of the cartoon page, en titled "The Passing Show along a Gypsy Trail,” was sent Mr. J. J. McMurry by Billy Ireland, an Ohio man Mr. McMurry met in Florida Primary Voting May Be Big Jam Here This Year Australian Ballot First Time Feared That New Style Will Take I .Winer To Vote Full County Vote. Every Cleveland county voter who plans to vote in the primary of June 7 may not Ret to do so. Not because of the rultnR by the attor ney general that independents are not eligible to vote In either the Democratic or Republican box, but because the new Australian ballot method will be employed in the county for the first time In June. Political leaders and those who keep track of such things are of the opinion that it will take consider ably longer to vote fl.500 or 7,000 people by the Australian ballot plan than It. did by the old voting meth ods before the secret ballot system came In. Tried In City. The Australian system of voting was used in Shelby last year for a school election, but has never been used for any other contest in the county. Since the city voting on the school Issue was light It could not be determined Just how the system would work when used over the entire county with a big vote turning out. # Between six and seven thousand people, perhaps more, wirf partici pate In the June primary, and If a big percentage of the voters wait until the afternoon to vote, as has been the custom in Shelby and over the county, then many of them may not get to vote at all as the first come first served Idea Will be followed. From some source the estimate comes that only about 800 votes can be conveniently cast during a day's time in the new booths which are used in the Australian system. With this in view, party leaders are urg ing that all citizens get to the polls as early as possible on the morning of June 7. ‘The vote will have to be pretty evenly divided over the day. If we get 6,500 votes cast before sundown in this county," ono leader says in stating that voters should turn out early in the day for the first test of the new voting plan. Mr. Arthur Russ Buried Thursday Champion Watermelon Grower Succumbs To a Stroke of Paralysis. Mr. Arthur M. Russ died Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock a£ the Shelby hospital where he was taken Sun day, following a stroke of paralysis Saturday at his home two miles south of the Lily Mill. Mr. Russ who was 47 years of age bad been In declining health for a number of years, suffering with high blood pressure. Mr. Russ, was the champion wat ermelon grower of the county, hav ing won prizes a number of times at the county fair. He was an in dustrious and dependable citizen, held in high esteem by his host of friends. About twenty years ago be was married to Miss Georgians Warren who survives with eight children, Claude, Clarence, M. G., Everett, Plato, Ben Erwin Russ, two daughters, Margaret and Myrtle. Three brothers and two sisters also survive. Interment was at Zoar cemetery Tuesday, amid a large crowd, serv ices being conducted by Rev. W. A. Elam. Miniature Course Named “Peter Pan” Louis Hamrick Wins Prhf For Nam ing George Wray’a New Golf Course. t From the hundreds of names submitted for the new min iature golf course at the rear of the Victor hotel, the name "Peter Psi Golf Course’’ suggested oy louis M Hamrick was given first place. The three judges declared it was no easy task to select p. name Item the many clever tii.es proposed, but aft er careful weigh'nj the advantages of the names picked for considera tion, they can tf-eir votes in favor of "Peter Pan '* So the new course will be known from now on by this name. George Wray, owner and manag. r of the course, said this morning that with favorable weather the course should be completed and ready for play in a very short time now. He made no announcement of a definite date for opening. However It is expected that everything wiU be in readiness by the latter part i| this week. .