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SHELBY. N. C. 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No. 75 MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1930 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ny mall, per year On advance) $3.90 Carrier, per year (1 nadvanoe) $8.00 1 LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb._......... 15c Cotton Seed, per bn. __...36c Fair And Warm Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. * AGAIN VETS BILL Washington, June 83.—President floorer Yesterday announced un equivocal opposition to the veterans * relief measure to be voted upon to morrow by the senate and already approved by the house. In a letter lo Senator Watson, of Indiana, the Republican leader, made public at the White house, the president quot ed Secretary Mellon as stating the , measure "implies positive Increase cf taxation at the next session of congress.” Mr. Hoover said the government already had incurred a probable deficit next year due to i relief of unemployment through the public building program. YoangFarmers Of Lattimore Given Honors Herbert Grigg. Wyan Washburn Honored At Meet Of Young Farmers. Raleigh, June 23.—Two young farmers of the Lattimore section of Cleveland county were honored cy the annual conference of Young Tar Heel Farmers which came to a close in Raleigh Saturday. The boys receiving the Carolina Farmer keys were: Wyan Wash burn, Lattimore high school, Cleve land county; Herbert Grigg, Latti inore high school, Cleveland coun ty; Aldrow Blackwood, Sumner high school, Guilford county; Woodrow Sutton, Rosewood high school, Wayne county; Koy L. Dawkins, Rockingham high school,' Richmond county; Rufus Flpps, Tabor high chool, Columbus county; Charlie Thomas, Troy high school, Mont gomery county; Norman W. Corri ' her, Rowan county farm life school, Rowan county; Hugh Doak Barden, Amim high school, Robeson county end Ford Brindle, Boonville high chool, Yadkin county. According to Roy H. Thomas, rate supervisor of agricultural edu cation, this l^a? been the most suc * ( cssful Young Tar Heel farmer con ference held during the life of the erganization. Officers Elected. The officers elected for the year 1980-1931 are: Charlie Thomas, Troy High School, Montgomery county, l resident; Hugh Doak Barden, Or um High School, Robeson county, vice president; Thurman Griffin, Gold Sand high school, Franklin county, secretary; Julian Shaw, Aurelian Springs high school. Hall ax county, treasurer: Herbert Grigg, Lattimore high school, Cleve land county, reported, and the ex ecutive committee was composed of Wyan Washburn, Lattimore high school. Cleveland county: Jesse Wester, Edward Best high school, Franklin county, and Rufus Fipps, Tabor high school, Columbus coun ty. Mr. J. K. Coggin was re-elected tate adviser. Bury Mrs. Tessneer Today, Died Sunday Well Known Woman Of Rehobeth Section Passes After Extend ed Illness. Mrs. Pink Tesneer, who before marriage was Miss May Daybcrry, r'ied Early Sunday morning after an illness of several months. She was 42 years of age. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at Sandy Plains church with Rev. D. G. Washburn conducting the services. Mrs. Tessneer had been a member of that church for 25 years. ) she was a devoted Christian, a fine woman, and- will be missed in le Rehobeth section where she lived. Surviving are husband, five chil dren, and three grand children. The children are May, Lola. Virgil, Iver and Miles. A sister, Mrs. Betty Gamble, also survives. County Democrats In Precinct Meet* Various Sections Name Committees, Delegates To County Meet. The Democrats of Cleveland county held their precinct meetings %turday, named their precinct committees and their delegates to the county convention to be held here the coming Saturday afternoon in the court house. Harmony aparently continues to prevail In the Democracy and the precinct meetings were quiet affairs. Oliver Anthony, chairman of the party In the county, hopes to have Clyde R. Hoey or some other well !:nown speaker for the county con vention here Saturday, which. It is hoped, will be attended by delegates from every precinct in the county. Pellagra On Increase Over Cleveland, Said Alarming Gain In Cases Reported Importance Of Good Food And Plenty Of Milk Pointed Oat By Doctors. A marked, if not an alarming, increase In pellagra cases is re ported throughout 'Cleveland county by the physicians of the county., Shelby ami county physicians state that many new cases have developed, or come to their at tention this spring. The eases, it is said, are not confined to any one section, but seem gen erally scattered in Shelby and in the rural sections of the county. Preventive Diet Much can he done to prevent the dreaded disease by the eat ing; of good food and the drink ing of plenty of milk, physi cians state. In years gone by pellagra baffled medical science for a time, but now cases when detected in time ca nbe check ed and often cured. This, too, depends upon the diet. All citi zens who have not been tak ing proper nourishment, or have indications of pellagra are nrged to consult their family physl sians, determine their status, and begin following a correct diet as outlined by them. “Above all,” physicians say, “drink milk—plenty of it.” Cuts Self In Jail Here On Rum Count White Man Uses Broken Mirror In Apparent Attempt At Suicide. George Edwards, white man, ap parently attempted suicide in the county Jail here early Saturday morning, but failed to succeed In the attempt. • Shortly after midnight Edward* was jailed by two city policemen on a liquor charge. Just when he cut himself is not known, but Saturday morning he was found in weakened condition due to the Joss of con-., siderable blood from self-inflicted cuts on the arm. Several Places. In cutting; himself Edwards had used a piece of broken mirror. His arm was slashed in several places from the wrist up. After His condi tion was discovered he was taken to the county physician, the wounds sewed up, and he will recover.. Some weeks ago he was arrested, officers say, on a non-support charge and sent to Eastern Caro lina, but returned after several days to Shelby. Leek Humphries Buried Saturday Well Known Lily Mill Man Died Thursday. Was 38 Tears Of Age. Mr. Leek Humphries, popular citizen of the Lily mill village, died Thursday after a three weeks' Ill ness with heart trouble. Funeral services were held Satur day at 2 o’clock at Beaver Dam church. He Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Janie Humphries, and one son. Surviving also are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Humphries. Doll, Which Aided Woman In Chicken Stealing, Is In Jail Vernie Butler, Convicted In Chicken Gang, Used Doll As Ruse. A doll, a baby doll, one of the type good little girls have left for them on Christmas by Santa Claus is in the county jail here because It > was one of the chief assets of a ; chicken-stealing gang which has tcF months, it is said, been working Cleveland. Rutherford and neigh boring counties. The doll is not serving a sen tence, but the doll's owner, Vemie Butler, white woman, is. Just nine ty days. For weeks and weeks chicken roosts of this and adjoining coun ties have been raided. Little by lit tle officers closed down on the al leged thieves. Week before last they apprehended Bob Towery, a man of parts, and connected him with some of the chicken stealing. A bit of sleuthing brought out the information that a woman had been traveling about with Towery on his alleged raids—a woman arid a “ba by.” And that had helped them get by. The woman sitting in the car with what appeared to be a baby always threw suspicion away from the car In which she and Towery were said to make their trips. Then the officers located the woman, Vemle Butler, at Forest City, brought her here for a hearing. She drew ninety days. And the "baby,” the store doll, which had helpped them get by for weeks, is in the jail house with her. The first instance known where chicken sand baby dolls travelled together in such company Another Passenger For Their Plane The Undberghs, Charles and Anna.; were riding alone when this photo was snapped Jast a few days back, but hereafter there will be another passenger when the famous “We" couple takes off. The new passenger, the lone eaglet, was born yesterday on the birthday of his mother. He is said to resemble his famous fath er. « t Young Shelby Golfer Loses In! Semi-Finals But Gets The Glory j Fred Webb In First Big Tourney Given Wide Praise For Bril liant Golf. Fred Webb, Shelby’s 15-year-old golf sensation, came home from his first major golf tournament, the Southern amateaur. played at Greensboro, Friday night after be ing defeated In the next to the last championship round, but he brought with him more praise than any other participant in the biggest of Southern tournaments. After qualifying the Shelby boy defeated three veteran golf stars, known all over the South, fought his way to the semi-finals anet was only one match away from the cov eted championship when he Was forced to bow to the brilliant shott ing-o* "Emmett Spicer, former cham pion of Memphis. His first victim was Alan Smith, JKJde, of Asheville golfdom, and so il^p- left-hander, the youngest rer in the tournament, in that match that it caused the major por tion of the gallery to follow him until- he was eliminated. On the next day he defeated Ch as teen Hai’r 'ff' was the play of the rut or Mempnis, rated as one or tne fOUr favorites to win. Then on Fri day morning he took another Mem phis golfer, Tom White, for an easy win, ending the match on the fif teenth holes, being five hgles ahead at the time. It was considered the sparkling play of the tournament. Had the Shelby; boy saved a little bit of his morning brilliance for the afternoon round he might have won. Game Come-Back. As it was the youngster drew round after round of applause from the gallery in his match play with Spicer by his game come-back and determined spirit which would not give up even after Spicer won the first four holes in a row. He kept shooting brilliant golf and at the end of the seventh hole was just one hole behind with one to play. His chance to tife the match went glimmering, however, when Spicer dropped a shot to the pin for a sure birdie on the eighteenth. The stroke score for the round was 72 for Spicer and 74 for Webb. Had Webb been playing either Stokes or Blair, the two other play ers left in the tournament, he would likely have won, for Blair and Stokes shot a 78 each, four more strokes than Webb. Some Great Play. Dillon Graham, Associated Press Sport writer, had the following to say of the Spicer-Webb match, a great tribute to the Shelby boy: “The seasoned Spicer shot beau tiful golf this afternoon but was hard pressed to defeat the game kid sharpshooter, Fred Webb, of Shel by, two up in a scrap that reached tb* final hole before it was decided. Spicer breezed through his quarter final encounter this morning with in Moore, of Atlanta, in easy ifu. waagag, t att&x “Webb won Ms way to.the next to last rouiid with a great five and Webb Boy. Attend Another Tourney CONTINUED ON I»AQB SEVEN, t Fred And Pete Leave Fat Flay In -'7' Junior Gakotfnas Tourney. Shelby's 'widely known golfing brothers, Pete end Fred, are'par ticipatlrig In another golf tourna ment, ai)d wherever the Webbs play Shelby golf fans direct their atten tion. This time Fred .the youngster v/ho was the sensation of the Sou thern amateur tournament last week Is defending his Junior Carolinas golfing crown at the annual meet in Greensboro, while Pete, who has held the same title himself, will play with his brother In the pro-amateur qualifying round. They were accom panied to Greensboro today by Claude Brown Rippy, Shelby High baseball player, who is no dub at the game of golf himself. The tour nament continues through Thurs day. Mrs. Hester Jones To Be Buried Today Aged Woman Died Saturday South east Of Shelby. Ill For 3 Years. Funeral services for Mrs. Hester Jones, wife of Mr. C. P. Jones, were held this afternoon at Grassy Pond church in South Carolina. Mrs. Jones died Saturday, at the age of 70 years, after an illness of three years. She was a member of Zoar church .for years, a noble woman, and highly respected by all who knew her. Surviving are the husband, five children, 25 grand children, and 12 great grand children. The children are Messrs. E. W. Jones, Fred Jones, Victor Jones, Efford Jones, and Mrs. Alta Jones, of Gastonia. Mrs. Jones lived just southeast of Shel by. Revival Announced Is Put Off In W. Shelby It was announced in a recent is sue of The Star that the morning service at the West Shelby Meth odist Protestant church on the 29th would open a series of revival serv ices to be held there. It Is learned today that this revival has been in definiately postponed. Judge Webb Get* Robbed In Room Asheville. June 23.—Thieves aren't particular about the prominence of their victims. Hidden fingers relieved Judge J. L. Webb of Shelby presid ing over Buncombe criminal court here of $17 last week. The judge said he awaken ed about S o'clock, called his chauffeur, unlocked his door and then must have dosed. At 7 o’clock his chauffeur was at the door. During the hour someone had slipped in and taken the $17. The affair was reported to the police. HWutri Takes Dose Of Arsenic Mrs. G. R. Caddell, young married woman, ittio, it is said, supervises the operation of the Cleveland Cloth mill boarding house, is in the Shelby hospital in a rather serious condition as the result of taking arensic about 10 o’clock t|iis morning. At 1:30 this afternoon hospi tal surgeons stated that she was still quite sick, but it was indi cated that she would likely re cover, although surgeons would not say so until there is more change in* her condition. Details Not Known. Details of the incident were not learned. It it understood that her husband came into the house about 10 or a little later and found her extremely sick. She vomited, it was said, before she reached the hospital, and this, no doubt, prevented the dose from being fatal within a few hours. The arsenic was in powder form, it is understood, but whether it was taken inten tionally or accldentaly was not stated. Her husband, it was said, stated at the hospital that she had been extremely nervous. Negro Use* Brick To Fracture Skull Of Another Sunday Edgar Ross, young negro man, Is in the county Jail and Lawrence Camp, 16-year-old negio boy, is in the Shelby hospital with a fractured skull as the result of a row between them yesterday afternoon in jail al ley, near the county jail. Ross, it is alleged, struck Camp In the head with a brick. At the hospi tal today it was stated tnat Camp's skull was fractured, but he appears i to be somewhat improved and Js ! conscious. Just what the brawl was about officers have not definitely ; learned. Many People Taking Typhoid Vaccination Hundreds of 8helby and Cleveland I county people have taken their first "shots” of the typhoid vaccination in recent days, according to physi cians. An example of how citizens of the county are protecting them selves against a typhoid epidemic Iwas that one physician vaccinated 360 people within two hours and a half in one of the textile mill vil lages. Lone Eaglet Is Born To Lindy, Anne On Sunday Famous Flier Calm About Son Yount lindberth. linnamrd Vet. Born On Birthday Of Mothrr. Englewood, N. J., June 23.—A son was born yesterday to Col and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh In the same house at the top of a high hill in Englewood, where Mrs. Lindbergh, the daughter of Ambassador Dwigh* W.,Morrow, first saw the light of day exactly 24 years ago. The baby, weighing almost eight pounds, arrived at about 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Lindbergh and the child were reported tn fine condition today. Colonel Lindbergh, It was said, took the event calmly whereas Ambas sador Morrow, who has Just been nominated Republican candidate for senator from New Jersey, was de scribed as Jubilant. Child of The Cenuty. The formal announcement of the birth of a boy was made late Sun day afternoon by a “friend of the family." Prom other sources it was learned that Mrs. Lindbergh had invited several intimate friends for a quiet celebration of her birthday yesterday. This party had to be put off for the birthday in advance as the “child of the century." All immediate members of the family remained In the Morrow home—in which Anne Spencer Mor row and Charles Augustus Lind bergh were married May 27, 1929— through the day. The watchers who had been posted outside of the gates for several days in anticipa tion of the event were unaware of the arrival of the stork just as thay had missed the wedding after i long siege. Congratulations Pour In Just before evening they were told the news by the army of mes senger boys who arrived loaded with flowers and congratulatory tele grama that undoubtedly had been ordered by friends and well-wishers weeks ago. There was a rush for telephones apd then the reporters returned for more details only to find for the time being, at least, none was to be forthcoming. A complete statement was promised “later" by one of Ambassador Morrow’s secretaries. Name Yet to Come. No Indication of what the Lind bergh baby will be named was giv en. It seems safe to assume, how ever, that It will be christened Dwight Morrow Lindbergh. Mrs. Lindbergh, despite her ap proaching motherhood, clung to her custom of accompanying her fa mous husband on his flights. Only last Thursday they flew together to Hartford from Teterboro Airport, N. J. This trip was made in tire same Lockhead Sirius low-winged mono plane In which Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh made their record breaking flight from Los Angeles to New York Easter Sunday. Colonel Lindbergh at the time declared his wife did the greater part of the work on the flight, acting as navi gator and co-pilot. To Insane Hospital. Lucile Parks, colored woman, of the Pallston section, was taken to th8 state hospital for the colored at Goldsboro today by Mr. John A. Borders. The woman, mentally de ranged, was brought to the county jail here Saturday. • Mr. Bill Love of Charlotte was a Shelby visitor today. McAdoo Would Put Simmons In White House If Possible, Says Former Candidate For President Writes A Letter To Senator Simmons (J. A. Livingston in News and Ob server.) Washington.—Twice an unsuccess ful candidate himself William Gibbs McAdoo would place Sena tor Simmons In the White House if he could hare his way. Simmons has made public a let ter front the former Secretary of the Treasury, written from his law office In Los Angeles, Calif., ex pressing his grief over the recent defeat of the North Carolinian. “I am forced to believe that this was merely a punitive expedition against you and that it was engi neered largely from the outside,” Mr. McAdoo wrote Senator Sim 1 mons. [ This apparently is in line wiih| charges made during the senatorial campaign that Raskob and other wet Democrats were waging a fight on Senator Simmons. This was promptly denied by Raskob and no tangible evidence was ever pre sented to give substance to the charge. Since the senatorial primary, Senator Heflin has reiterated the charge on the senate floor. Mr. McAdoo refers also to party regularity as a cause for Senator Simmons’ defeat and says that in the south, as well as in California, "it seems to outweigh, most of the time, all other considerations.” Mr. McAdoo’s letter, written under date of June 16. from Los Angeles. CONTINl'tCIl ON P.«OK NI (11*111 -----1-jjmggggg Little Interest Now In Second Primary Sister* Meet First Time In 53 Years Here Shelby Iasi week had a couple of visitors, two sisters, who are not much on visit ing about. Mrs. Martha Ann McDan iel, of King* Creek, 8. C. came to Shelby to viilt her daugh ter, Mrs. Will Spencer. While ■ he was here her sister Mrs. Tom Dodson, of Black Moun tain, came down to the Spen cer home. It was the firs! time the two sisters had seen each other in 53 years, since Mrs. Dodson married and left home. The two women, in their seventies, were reared in the Cherokee Kails section of South Carolina. Star Editor Sees Wisconsin Grandeur Silvery l.akr Country, Black Hawk Region Beautiful Scenery. (By LEE B. WEATHERS.) Madison, Wls., June 23.—Members of the National Editorial associa tion. of which the writer is a mem ber, on an education tour of Wis consin following the convention proper in Milwaukee, arrived in Madison, “The Four Lake City Built on an Isthmus" last Thursday flight after spending the day at the famous Wisconsin River Dells at Ktlbourn about 55 miles north of here. We were met at the railroad sta tion in Madison by members of the Madison association of commerce who took us for an auto tour of the city. Following the tour we re turned to the Loralne hotel where we were guests of Consolidated Wa ter Power and Paper company at a banquet at which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wiscon sin addresed us on a topic concern ing American newspaperdom. Mr. George Meade, president of the Con solidated Water Power and Paper company, our host, bade us wel come. Following the banquet we were entertained at an Informal dancing party in the Crystal ballroom of the Loralne hotel. Breakfast the follow ing morning was served to us at the Park hotel by the MadLon as sociation of commerce during which Mr. Paul Stark, acting president of the asociation bade us welcome and Godspeed during our continuing educational tour of the state. Transportation for the tour of Madison was furnished by 60 mem bers of the association of commerce who turned their private automo biles over to us for the evening. Madison Is the capital of Wis consin and the seat of the state uni versity with a population of 57,815 • 1930 census.) In addition some 10, 000 students from nearly every civilized country In the world Hue in Madison the year 'round. Madison is in Dane county, said to be the tenth richest agricultural county in the United States, and the richest dairy county in Amer ica. Madison—that "loveiy gem of the first water, set in the clasp of four silvery lakes’’—to quote Ella Wheel er Wilcox—is also a mecca for the tourist, a fact which can be read «CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT i Light Vote Forecast For July 5 Knthusiatm May Pick Up. Howevef Not Equal To 1938 Run-off. With the second Democratic prt mary campaign of the year now on in Cleveland count'" Interest in politics is at a low ebb, and politi cal observers believe that on Satur day. July 5. there will not likely be more than 4,500 or 5,000 votes cast, If that many. The attempt Is being made, with very little success, to arouse the Democrats of Cleveland over two races: the contest between J. Clint Newton and Solicitor P. Cleveland Gardner for solicitor of recorder’s court, and the fight between Maj. A L. Bulwinle. of Gastonia, and Attorney Hamilton C Jones, or Charlotte, for the congressional nomination A total of 5,919 votes were cast, in the first primary on June 7 and a prediction of 5,000 votes for the second primary July 5 would be only 900 votes less than cast In the first primary. In that neither of the races has the county stirred up to any extent It does not appear as If the 5,000 mark will be reached. Different In *28. In 1928, however, it was another matter, but that year voters took their ballot-tossing seriously, very seriously. In the Urst 1928 prir mary 7.550 votes were cast, 1,631 votes more than in the first pri mary tills year. But the surprising thing in 1928 was that the second primary for sheriff, with Irvin Al len and Prank Hoyle as candidates, drew more voters, a total of 7,709, to the polls than did the first pri mary. There Is a possibility that the second primary this year Will do the same thing, but it is a dim pos sibility. a very unlikely one. In the solicitor’s race in the first primary this year 5.861 votes were cast. The vote two weeks from Sat urday. for Messrs. Gardner and Newton, will do well, it is believed, to come within 1,000 pf that mark. A total of 5,772 votes were cast in the first congressional primary, and the second primary vote in this contest will in all probability be about the same as in the Newton Gardner race, for the voters who go to the polls that day will do all the voting there is to do while there. Campaigning Now. i The four candidates are in the {midst of their campaign now. The i candidates for solicitor are moving {rapidly about the county talking to {voters. They realize that the big I task will be to get the voters out. {Since the second congressional race {became rather definite. Maj. Bul winkle had been to Shelby and in {the county. Mr. Jones is expected soon. And in reviewing the prospects of the approaching primary one angle should not be overlooked: in general conversation among voters one hears that the high men in the first race have the odds in theii favor, but there is another side t« that view. Two years ago the sec ond man In the primary for shinfl won the run-off race. Miss Froneberger Is Dead; Related Here Relatives Of Hoeys. Who Formerly Lived Here, Buried At Knoxville. Miss Fannie Froneberger, who once lived in Shelby and was a first cousin of the Hoeys, died Tuesday night in Asheville after an illness of some time. The following item concerning her death, which will be of interest to' friends and relatives here, appeared in a Knor ville newspaper: “Miss Fannie Froneberger, for merly of Knoxville, died at her home in Asheville Tuesday night. “The body was brought to Knox ville for funeral and burial. Funer al services were conducted at New Gray cemetery. Dr. Walter C. Whitaker, rector of St. Johns Epis copal church, of which Miss Frone berger formerly *^ras a member of ficiated. > “Miss Froneberger resided in Knoxville for several years. After the death of her parents, she mov ed to Asheville with,her sister. Miss Augusta Froneberger and two hrotil ers, Louis B. Froneberger and Bre vard Froneberger. who were prom inently identified with business in terests in Knoxville for years. They i now reside in Asheville.'*