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VOL. 12 PAGES TODAY XXXVI. No. 64 SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESD’Y, MAY 28. 1030 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday .... By mail, per year On advance) $2.50 A l ter noons. Carrier, per year (1 nadvance) $3.00 — LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb._..... Cotton Seed, per bu. ..... Fair and Cooler, Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler Thursday, and in north portion tonight. Dies at Funeral. Durham, May 27.—Arthur Goss, brother of J. C. Goss, who was shot and killed by his son, Norman Goss, at bis home here Sunday night, dropped dead In the midst of the funeral services here late today and within a few minutes the son be came ill and was placed under a physician’s care. His condition was pronounced serious. As a result of the second death, which came as the cortege was preparing to leave the house for the cemetery, today’s rites were postponed and a double funeral will be held tomorrow. Whiskey Prices Drop, Drinkers Fear “JakeLeg” Defendant Says Whiskey Can Be Purchased For 75 Cents Per Pint. Whiskey, such as it may be, is plentiful and cheap about Shelby— as plentiful and as cheap as it has ever been since the old days. Anyway that's what a defendant in county court informed Recorder Horace Kennedy recently. Facing the court on a charge of having a half gallon of com in hir possession, the defendant informed that the entire gallon cost only $3.50, and that it could be readily purchased in short pints about Shelby for seventy-five cents per pint. Costs After All. The drop in price somewhat sur prised the court, despite the prevail ing business depression which is de creasing the value of many tilings, but the court made that particular half gallon a costly one for the de fendant by running the price up, with a fine, to $43.50. Decrease In Drinking Despite the reported drop in price of bootleg whiskey the county court officials say that there has been a decrease in drinking hereabouts of recent weeks. Their opinion is based upon the fact that Monday morning sessions have less week-end drunks up for trial than is customary. This change, with cheap whiskey re; sit ed to be procurable, is accredited to the growing fear of “Jake paralysis." Blind Man In Court Again Over Whiskey Jess Green, Under Suspended Sen tence, Gets Six Months More. Appeals Jess Green, blind white man who lives in the so-called “Chinatown " i section near Eastside, was in court again this week on a whiskey charge the fourth time he has been up on rum counts according to ci:y officers. This time Green, who has a suspended sentence of thiee months from Superior court, was given a six months Jail sentence in county court He appealed along with Carl McSwain who was given a six months sentence on the same count. Last Saturday night, according to the evidence, Police Chief Poston and Policeman Stamey ar.d Sparks made a visit to the Green home Just as a gallon of whiskey was being divided into pints, 16 pint bottles being near. McSwain and a couple of others were with Green. ~ % Drunken Driver Who Killed Kelly Moore Draws 5 Years In Pen l 1 Walter Branch who was charged In the court of Rutherford county with operating a car while under the influence of liquor and being responsible for the death of Kelly Moore of Cliffside some months ago, was given not more than five years in the state penitentiary at Raleigh, and not less than three years. It will be remembered that Mr. Moore who had been connect ed with the Cliffside mills for many years was killed early one morning as the car driven by Branch while intoxicated plunged headlong into the Moore car. Sheriff Hardin of Rutherford county went to Raleigh Monday with twelve prisoners to serve a total of sixty years. Ticket* Ready For Absentee Voting Those who are qualified to vote by being properly registered in Cleve land county and reside elsewhere or will be away on primary day June Tth, may secure tickets for absentee rotlng from John P. Mu!!, chair man of the county board of elec tions. Judge Mull has received a supply of all tickets to be voted ex cept three of the townships. Nos. 6, 7. and 8 which will be In his hands i in a few days it *—. Simmons Campaign Head Here \ Says Bailey To Carry County, But Not By Any Big Majority May Win Two To One, Thinks Bailey Leaders Hope For Even Greater Majority for Raleigh Man in June. "It looks now as if Mr. Bailey will lead Senator Simmons about two to one in Cleveland county in the primary, but he certainly will not beat the senator three and four to one," is the volun tary opinion of Mr. J. Cullen Mull, Cleveland county manager of the Simmons campaign for re-nomination. Mr. Mull’s statement was made after being Informed that some Bailey leaders in the county had Offered the view that Bailey would carry the county by anywhere from three to one to five to one. Hopeful In State. Although it now appears to Mr. Mull that this county will in all probability be a Bailey county, he still is hopeful, and believes, that Senator Simmons will carry the state and be nominated again. Much water may go -over the wheel, and with considerable effect, between the present time and primary day, and there may be some vote chang ing in this county, in Ills opinion. Mr. D. W. Royster, Bailey's county manager, is of the opinion that his candidate will carry the county by a three to one vote. Other Bailey supporters, some of them well vers ed in county politics, believe the Bailey lead will be even larger. How ever, many observant citizens who hark to both sides are of the opin ion that the estimate of the Sim mons manager will not be far from wrong. Hurting Simmons. a sirumons supporter, wno never takes an active hand in politics other than expressing his opinion and casting his vote, is of the opin ion that Senator Simmons’ candi dacy In this county has lost strength in recent weeks, rather than gain ed power, because of Republican ef forts in his behalf. The view taken is that quite a number of Demo crats who were inclined to the Simmons side arc in a fair way of becoming disgusted with the activ ity of Republican leaders and work ers in boosting the Simmons cause. Because they do not favor an al liance with members of the oppos ing party, particularly such an ac tive alliance, quite a number of prospective Simmons voters may remain away from the polls Satur day week, he believes, or reverse themselves and vote for Bailey. Although the primary is less than two weeks ahead the anticipated interest in the Simmons-Bailey con test appears no nearer at hand than it was two weeks ago, and it does not seem likely now that enough Interest will be aroused to bring out more than 6,000 Democratic voters, if that many. Shelby Boy Graduates At Davidson College A Shelby boy, Mr. Louis C. Rob erts, will be a member of the grad uating class at Davidson college next week. Mr. Roberts is the son of Capt. and Mrs. J. Ijjfank Roberts, and has received numerous honors during his four years at Davidson. Jack Byers Is Injured Yesterday When Gas Tank Explodes at Inn Explosion At Lone Star Inn Blows Out Windows, Doors, Shakes Walls. Jack Byers, well known serv ice station and barbecue stand proprietor, was painfully Injur ed about 5 o’clock yesterday aft ernoon when the gas tank of his eating room steam table ex ploded at the Lone Star Inn and service station he operates Just east of the city limits on the Cleveland Springs road. John Stamey, one of the inn employes, was also burned about the face and head. They were changing tanks on the steam table, it Is under stood, when the tank exploded. The doors and windows were closed and such was the force of the explosion that the win dow panes were shattered, the screens blown for many yards, and one door torn from the hinges. The walls of the new station and inn were also bulged out by the Impact. At the hospital it was stated that Byers was able to return to his home after being given treatment there. His injuries although painful were not con sidered serious. The city fire trucks were call ed to the inn. Officer* Nab Cars Speeding To Blaze Start Enforcing Regulation About Following And Racing Eire Truck. Several motorists who yesterday speeded their cars behind the city fire trucks in answering the alarm from the Lone Star Inn were nab bed by city officers in the first ac tual move to enforce the regulation concerning the following of fire trucks to a blaze. Some of the cars followed in be hind the truck closer than the one block regulation, thus slowing up volunteer firemen in cars behind, while other violated the opeed laws in rushing madly out Marion street and the Cleveland Springs road through the residential section. The motorists whose number were secur ed were not only picked up for in terfering with the fire-lighters but also because they endangered the lives of children and other pedes trians along the route travelled. Hereafter, it is said, the regulation will be strictly enforced against one and all. Auto tag Prices Cut In Half On July 1 It was learned in Shelby today that state automobile license plates will be reduced to half price on July 1 and there will be an addi tional drop to one-fourth the ori ginal price on October 1. The tags will remain at full price up through June 30, it was an nounced. Dr. John White Raps Clearing Of Cannon ’s Gambling Charges Dropping Of Gambling Charges Against Cannon Is Felt By All Evangelical Christianity. Savannah Ga., May 26.—'The Sa vannah Morning Kews publishes a sermon by Dr. John E. White, pres ident of the Georgia Baptist con vention in which Dr. White crlticis - ed the disposal of charges of stock speculation brought against Bishop James Cannon, jr., at the recent con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In the prepared sermon which Dr. White delivered at the,First baptist church here he said in part: ‘‘This is not a matter for Metho dists only—it upsets us all. It is a wound keenly felt by all Evangel ical Christianity. It is ^specially a heavy blow to the cause of pronibl tion for which Baptists and Metho dists in the south stand together in close sympathy. “It is true that the enemies of prohibition made much of the gambling incident and rejoiced that the bishop had put such a club in their hands. This is no reason for Christians to make nothing of it and to sho\v no distress when the conference fiuts the club In the hands of their enemies. Two Sides To Case "There should have been some way for a great church conference to indicate its support of Bishop Cannon’s prohibition activities and, at the same time, to repudiate his gambling activities. The conference passed resolutions condemning all sorts of gambling, but it whitewash ed the gambler. It pronounced against a public evil in the abstract, but condoned it in the concrete. "I am devoted to the Methodists,” continued Dr. White. "The great Methodists of history are my patron saints. It would be impossible to dis credit or embarrass ths Methodist church which stands arms linked with the Baptists under the vast burden of the masses of the com mon people of the southern states. The general conference at Dallas, however, has not helped the Meth odist cause nor the cause of Christ by its refusing to assert its con science and its courage in the case of Bishop Cannon. “Many great and good things are doubtless being done by the confer ence, but it will go down in history as the general conference of the southern Methodist church which whitewasbe.d a gambling bishop. > »— -A-. Prominent Dry Leader Supports D. W. Morrow i Mrs. Lewis 5?. Thompson,' of Red Bank, N. J., one of the most prom I inent dry leaders in New Jersey, announced her intention of sup porting Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow’s candidacy for the Re publican nomination for the U. S. Senate. She will do this despite his advocacy of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the return of liquor control to the States. (TUtnuttoml SAmwQ, Mrs. Eskridge Passes, Age 75 Widow of Late A. W. Eskridge Suc cumbs At Home of Her Son Chas. L. Eskridge. One of Shelby’s noblest women died Monday afternoon at 3:15 o’clock when Mrs. Sara Hamrick Eskridge, widow of A. Webb Esk ridge passed quietly at the home of her son, Chas L. Eskridge, on West Marlon street where she had been in declining health for several years. Mrs. Eskridge celebrated her 75th birthday about ten days ago. The funeral was conducted from the residence at 4:30 o’clock Tues day afternoon by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, or which she was a long and ralui ful member and interment was in Sunset cemetery beside her hus band and only daughter, Effie, who died in girlhood. A large crowd at tended the funeral services and the quartet composed of Miss Amos Willis, Mrs. Ben Suttle, Horace Easom and Rush Hamrick. with Mrs. H. S. Plaster, piano accom panist sang her favorite old hymns, “Old Rugged Cross," "Face to Face,” "Beautiful Aisle,” and "Sometime We’ll Understand.” Beautiful Flowers. A floral offering, the like of which in quantity, beauty and freshness covered not only her grave, but the entire Eskridge square at file cemetery. Mrs. Eskridge lived a beautiful and useful life. She was a saintly mother, a faithful wife, neighbor and friend, whose three score years and fifteen were radiant with cheer and hope and faith. In her younger years of home-making, her life was given to the rearing of five fine sons and as the years moved on and her devoted companion passed, she maintained her keen interest in the welfare of her fam ily and friends. During her last years, she had every comfort and attention from loving hands in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eskridge. Mrs. Eskridge is survived by five sons, Lector and Guy Eskridge, of New York City, Chas. L. and Her man Eskridge, of Shelby, and Lad son Eskridge of Newberry. S. C. All .of the children and their families were here for the funeral yesterday except Lector Eskridge who is sick in New York and was advised not to leave by his physician. One sister, Mrs. S. A. Washburn, also survives. Two sisters, Mrs. Ed ley Lattimore, Miss Amanda Ham rick and one brother, George Ham rick of Lattimore preceded her to the grave. Serving as pallbearers were S. A. McMurry, Z. J. Thompson, George Blanton, W. H. Hudson, R. T. Le Grand and Lee B. Weathers. Acorn Stores Close Out Their Business The Acorn Stores, a departmental chain of stores, is closing out busi ness, according to nn announcement made this week in the Gastonia Ga zette. Recently the stock of the (Acorn Store of Shelby was moved to Gastonia and consolidated with the Acom stock there. This system re cently went into the hand of re ceiver and it Is understood that it is upon the orders of the receiver that the close out sale is announced for Gastonia. Instruct Judges, Registrars Here Thurs., June 5 Australian Ballot Booths Ready Between Tight And Tell Thousand Voters Registered For Demor rratic Primary. Between eight and ten thous and voters are registered In Cleveland county for the Demo cratic • primary on Saturday, June 7, but it is not likely that more than 6,500 votes. If that many, will be cast on primary day, according to Judge John P. Mull, county election board bead, who has railed a meeting of all precinct registrars and Judges for Thursday, June 5. Just what the county registration is cannot be determined as no new registration was required in the county this year. Only cne pre cinct, Delight, had a new registra tion. However, judging by the 1928 vote of more than 7,500 it is esti mated that at least 8,000 Democratic voters are eligible to participate In next week's voting. Instruct Official At the gathering of registrars and judges here Thursday week Chair man Mull will Instruct the primary officials In the operation of the new Australian ballot method which is to be used over the entire county for the first time. Booths Ready. Officials in some of the county precincts are of the opinion that It is up to them to provide the Austral ian ballot boxes required by law’, but these booths are provided by the county and are already in Shelby for distribution. At the meeting Thursday week ballots to be used on June 7, along with the required booths will be turned over to the election officials. There are 121 booths for the en tire county. Two Cafes Closed In New Pool Room Dad Cavas Closes Shelby And Cen tral Cafes. Pool Room Delng Installed Shelby this week has two less cafes and eating houses operating than were being operated last week. K. (Dad) Cavas, well known local Cieek, and the execution of the es tate of the late George Soo-das this week and last closed the doors of the Shelby cafe, which was orerat ed by Cavas, and the Central cale which had been operated by Scordas prior to his death. The Shelby cafe was located cn South LaFayette street and a pool room, It is understood, will be locat ed there now. The Central cafe was operated on East Warren street. Cavas, who has not been in the best of health for some time and therefore felt that he could not op erate the cafes longer, will remain in Shelby, however, he says. District Masonic Meeting Is Planned Grand Master E. W. Tlmberlake And Grand Secretary Anderson Coming Here. Masons of the 37th district are looking forward with a great deal cf pleasure to the coming visit of gTand master E. W. Tlmberlake and grand secretary John H. Anderson on Saturday evening June 14th. A district meeting will be held at that time In the hall of Cleveland Lodge No. 202 Shelby, N. C., and every Master Mason In Cleveland county is urged to make arrangements t a be present. All Master Masons are cordially invited. Watch for further announcements. Promoted To First Lieutenant Co. K Mr. H. C. Long, for seven years second lieutenant of Company K, Shelby unit of the National guard, has received his commission as first lieutenant. His promotion places him second in command of Company K, succeeding Mike Austell, former first lieutenant, who became a cap tain when he became equipment auditor of the State militia. Graham Street To Have Finals Thursray Graham street school of which M. H. Randolph is principal will have recitation and declamation contests for the Carl Webb recita tion medal and the B. T. Falls dec lamation medal at 2 o'clock Thurs day afternoon .thus closing the school for the sunypei. ' t Bible in N. Y, City Schools Is Upheld by Authorities * • * « * * Corporation Counsel Fights Free-Thinker’s Suit—Clarence Darrow Will Lead „ Battle for Abolishment. ARTHURJVHlM/Y I ARTHUP <3 HAY-C* James J. wavke-r. Clarence, Darrov Mat (Jos^he less Kcading tne Mioie in tne puDiic ■ .school* of New York City is not only permissible under tne City Charter but does not violate any provision of the New York State Constitution or that of the United States, was the answer of Corporation Counsel Arthur J. W. Hilly to tho taxpayer's suit brought by Joseph Lewis, president of the Freethinkers' Society of New York, to restrain the Board of Education from al lowing tno uioie to oe taught in the public schools. Argument on the motion will be held in New York City June 9, when it is claimed that Clarence Dar row will argue the case for the Freethinkers. Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney for the society, and Major Joseph Wheless, for mer judge-advocate of the U. S. Army, with Mr. Harrow, will be arrayed against Counsel Hilly and the Walker administration. (InUrnttloul Ntwurwl) Outside Observer Sees Hot Battle For Judgeship Here Sixteenth District Contest Between Falls and Warlick. Sparl ing Race. (By T. M. Pridgen, Charlotte News Political Writer) Lenoir.—Who shaJI fall heir to the superior court judicial robes of Judge James E. Webb is the ques tion which is causing more Demo cratic political fur to fly in the five county sixteenth district than in any other territory of like size In the state. The Simmons-Bailey and the Jones-Bulwinkle scraps are de finitely secondary to this race. This county, Caldwell, and its next-door neighbor, Burke are the only counties in the district which have not advanced one or more Democratic candidates for the judge ship. Inasmuch as each candidate is on all sides admitted to be a man of fine judicial qualities and would grace the bench, a worthy successor to the revered Judge Webb, the democrats are having a whale of a time deciding what to do about it. They are embarrassed by having too many available men who would make good judges. In addition to general question of which of four available candidates (CONTINUED ON CAGE TWELVE.) Auto Thief Is Given Six Months Sentence Man Found With Weathers Car Sent To Hoads for Half Year In County Court. Da la* Mauney, young white man, was sentenced to six months on the No. 6 township chain gang'll coun ty court yesterday on an automo bile larceny charge. Mauney was charged with steal ing the Chevrolet automobile of Mr. H. A. Weathers, Lawndale star route carrier. The car was stolen from its parking place in Shelby about two months ago while Mr. Weathers was attending a movie. Last week Sheriff Allen recovered the car at Rock Hill, South Caro lina, it was in the possession of j Mauney, who declared at the time that it had been left at his house by another man. In court yesterday Mauney would not testify, and when Recorder Kennedy asked him if he would rather take a six months road term or be bound over to superior court, he readily accepted the chain gang sentence. Buyer Of Booze Not Guilty Unless Illegal Transportation Is Shown Supreme Court Rules Purchase Of Of Liquor Not Liable By Law. Washington.—The buyer of boot leg liquor was held by the supreme court this week not liable to prose cution as a violator of the prohibi tion laws if the question of illegal transportation and possession be not involved. The court declined, however, in another case, to declare whether purchasers who order knowing ille gal transportation will be involved are guilty of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. It found that the case in which the government had sought to raise that issued had been foreclosed by the pica, equiva lent to one of guilty, which had been entered when the accused was arraigned, Defeat For Government In a third case the court held manufacturers using liquor and al cohol in the preparation of non beverage products were entitled to operate until their permits were cancelled /or some violation and could not be compelled annually to renew their permits. The two cases decided on their merits were defeats for the govern ment, and all three decisions were without dissent. James E. Farrar of Boston was in dicted for purchasing liquor from a bootlegger. The federal district court for Massachusetts quashed the in-' dictment, taking the position that the prohibition law did not, as the government had contended, make the purchaser equally guilty with the seller. Appealed To High Court. The government appealed directly to the supreme court, which in an opinion by Justice Sutherland, de clared the contention, that any pur chase without a permit was illegal could not be sustained. The court pointed out that the permit related to that class of persons who are au thorized to deal with intoxicating liquors for non-beverage purposes. Purchases from bootleggers, It add ed, could not under any circum stances. obtain a permit to male" such purchases. . YoungManHere Tried On Charge Of Little Girl Handling Of Girl Is Charged Youth, Found Not Mentally Com pelent. Sent To Home of Ills Mother. Itussrll Arthur. 17-year-old youth, ivho lives with a relative in the Cleveland Cloth mill rll Ute, was riven a hearing before Hot-order Horace Kennedy yes terday morning on the charge of Improper handling of a little seven-year-old white girl while she was picking strawberries east of the Eastslde village late Mon day afternoon. Examination of the youth and testimony by the relative with whom he has been living for some time revealed that Arthur is not mental ly competent, and. according to the ' relative. has "never been very bright,.’ He has been afflicted with St. Vitus dance and other nervous and mental aliments since he was a baby. It was brought out, and an examination of the youth on ths stand strengthened the testimony showing that his mind is not fully developed. Is Sent Home. Since the little girl was not narmed, other than being frighten ed, and with the agreement of the jirl's parents, Judge Kennedy ac cepted the solution of the relative »nd ordered that Arthur be sent back to the home of an uncle In Virginia where his, mother might tvatch him. Held for Officers. Evidence introduced had It that the little girl, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lane who live east of Shelby near the Seaboard tracks, tvas out along the tracks, some dis tance from the house, Monday aft ernoon picking strawberries. The father was sitting on the back porch where he could see her. He noticed Arthur, he said, walking down- the tracks, through a railroad cut near the girl. Shortly after he passed the little girl, she walked down the embankment Into the cut. and her father noticed the youth walk back that way. Just a few minutes later the little girl was heard crying and while the father brought officers to the scene, the mother of the girl and another woman held the youth. After being arrested Arthur was for a time very non-committal and Insolent, It was said, in answering the questions of Police Chief Poston, and refused to tell his name or where he lived. Aft er’ being placed In jail, he opened up and gave the desired informa tion. * According to the little girl Arthur made no Improper proposals to her, sut handled her some before she be came frightened and began to cry, thus giving an alarm. Senior Play Thursday Night (Irammar Grade Graduation To morrow. Closing Of City Schools Near. » with the closing date of the city schools nearing the next portion of the finals program comes this even* ing with the teacher training gradu ating exercises in the Central school auditorium. Thursday morning the seventh graders will participate in the grammar grade graduation exercises. The reading contest for the Dover medal will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Class Play. The annual senior class play, a three-act comedy, “Tommy's Brides," will be put on Thursday night. Character roles In the play will be taken by the following students: Clyde Wright, Helen Roberts, John Corbett,- All Elmore, James Shep ard, Rachel Wells, Ernest Beam, Marietta Hoyle and Anderson Fau del. The play is said to be unusually interesting and the admission charge will be 25 and 35 cents. The annual soph-junior debate, for the LeGrande medal, will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock, the class day exercises at 3 In the afternoon, and the graduating ex ercises, with Dr. J. Henry High smith as the speaker, Friday nigh! at 8 o'clock. HOEV IV ADDRESS TO GRADUATES AT QUEENS Two commencement addresses nere made yesterday by Hon. Clyde R, Hoey, of Shelby. The first, yes terday morning, was to the graduat ing class of Queens college. Char* otte. and last night to the graduat ing class of the Albemarle high rhooi.
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