8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No, 87 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mali. per year On advance) 3X50 Carrier, per year U nadvance) <3.00 LATE NEWS 1 THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. Cotton Seed, per bu. - 36c FAIR AND WARM Today’s North Carolina Weather Report; Fair and continued warm anight and Tuesday. ANOTHER HEAT WAVE Saturday and Sunday saw new, heat records established throughout the country but locally the ther moroenter did not register as high over the last week-end as It did Sat urday week ago. The highest tem perature recorded Sunday was 112 degrees at Columbus, Ohio. One Killed As Car Hits Local Truck In Rowan Bridges Freed Of Any Blame Shelby Cotton Truck Hit By Car, Former Davidson Athlete Killed. Frank D. Brown, ol Davidson and Salisbury, former Davidson college athlete, was killed Friday night when the automobile in which he was riding collided head-on with a Morrison Transfer truck, driven by J, Dewey Bridges, of Sheloy. while the truck was parked on the side of the highway at Salisbury. Bridges was hauling a load of cotton and had pulled to the side of the road at a filling station. Brown and Rufus Reid, also of Davidson, were in a car which started to pass another car and then hit the Shel by truck. Brown’s chest vas crushed and he died en route to the hospi tal, while Reid was cut about the face and head. Held Blameless. The Shelby man was detained at the scene until an inquest was held and he was declared to be blame less for the tragic accident Bridges and other officials of the local transfer attended Brown's fu neral held Sunday at Davidson. Brown, known in college at “Dea con”, was 29 years of age and is survived by his wife, one child, and: his parents. Kentucky Blonde And Boy Pal Taken Back Home Saturday Bowling Green Police Chief Comes After Couple Who Took Auto There Phyllis Jackson, the blonde girl of Kentucky, and her Tar Heel boy friend, T. F. Spell, who spent Thursday and Friday nights in the Cleveland county Jail were returned Saturday to Bowling Green, Ky., where it is alleged they stole the automobile In which they were ar rested here Thursday afternoon. The couple was taken back hy the Bowling Green police chief and an other Kentucky man who came for them. Before leaving the Kentucky girl, who has the reputation there as being a fast-stepper, combed out her golden curls, left off her hose, and otherwise dolled up for the re turn trip, appearing to be not a bit downcast over going back home in the custody of the officer. Her boy friend. Spell, did not seem to be so enthused over the trip. Spell's home, he told local officers, is in Eastern Carolina, and he had not been in Kentucky but a week or two when he and the girl drove away last. Sunday In the U-Drive-It car, according to the Kentucky officer. Boys Sentenced While riding around the country Spell and the girl picked up a cou ple of young brothers, Herman and Marvin Glenn, at Atlanta. While coming to Shelby they broke in a filling station, they said, near Ashe ville. When arrested here the young Glenn boys had two guns concealed In the car, and in county court Sat urday they were sentenced to 60 days each on the No. 6 chain gang. Sticks Knife In Our Spud-Tomato Story University Professor Says Toma toes Do Not Grow On Po tato Vine Prof. F. A. Wolfe, of Duke uni versity has harpooned Shelby’s freak , spud story, and other similar stories. Tomatoes do not grow on potato vines, he says. A Raleigh dispatch quotes him as follows: There is no such thing, said Prof. Wolfe after examining a plant srown on the farm of Joe Daniel in Granville county. The things that look like tomatoes are nothing but Irish potato seed, he explained. To make sure his statement that Irish potatoes have seed. Professor Wolf cited the fact that Burbank in developing the Burbank potato pro duced the new variety by planting potato seed instead of tubers as cus tomary. The development of seed by the Irish potato plant, however, is a very rare occurrence, Professor Wolf said. Work Out Plan To Keep Chain Gang Operating No. 6 Working 25 Convicts County Commissioners Tryin To Take Care Of Others. 44 On Now Cleveland county, or, rather No. 6 township, still has a chain gang, but the problem of doing something with 20 extra convicts is still a troublesome matter for the county commis sioners. Several months ago the No. 6 township highway commissioners, who have tfcaintained the local chain gang, declared that they would abandon the convict force project on July 1, but as yet the gang is still operating. The decision to abandon the gang created quite a problem for county officials. Heretofore No. 6 had operated the gang and worked all convicts given road terms in the county. With No. 60 giving up the force the commissioners hardly knew which way to turn. Other counties are working all the con victs, their own convicts, they can afford to work. It would be a great cost, with little good resulting, to keep all prisoners in jail. The com missioners debated this scheme and that, but for weeks failed to find a satisfactory solution. Proposal Made It was then that the No. 6 high way commissioners made their pro posal, terms of which were that the No. 6 road body would continue to work 25 convicts regularly, but that the country would have to devise some other method of working con victs numbering more than 25. At present there are 44 convicts at the No. 6 prison camp, approxi mately 20 more than the No. 6 group offered to work. What to do with the others is the problem now. Work On Bridge • Discussing the matter Saturday, A. E. Cline, chairman of the coun ty commissioners, stated that last week the commissioners had work ed about a half dozen convicts at the county home cleaning up for the proposed new buildings there. He stated further that this week he planned to work a number <-t the convicts on the bridges of the county. At present that seejns to be about the only work upon which to use the surplus road prisoners. There is considerable bridge work in the county during the course of the yea'r, and this week it was plan ned to send out a number of the convicts under an efficient foreman for bridge repair work. The Superior court in session this week will likely add a dozen or so prisoners to the force. That means the county must look about for ad ditional work to hold down the cost of taking care of prisoners. The No. 6 commissioners in pro posing to maintain a chain gang of 25 convicts declared that they had learned by experience that due to a limited amount of work in the town ship it was not to their advantage and economy to try to maintain a larger force. Miss Roberta Royster has return ed from an extended visit to points in the eastern Carolina and Virgi nia. While away ,Miss Royster re ceived many social courtisies. and attended a house party at Virginia Beach. Just Another Tree-Sitter TwelYe-yemr-old Billy McDon ald, of Camden, N. J., as he appeared after busily sitting in a tree for 26 hours without in terruption. Billy reads Western thriller*, eats and sleeps Ms time away—much more fun than aettinr a job or helping around the housed (iBtarnattaaal NawaraM) j Farm Crops In Good Shape After Rains Lions Install Club Officers Hayes To Be Speaker Tuesday Night. Dover New Head Of Club At a meeting to be held Tuesday night at 7:15 at the Wayside res taurant the new officers of the lo cal Lions club will be installed. Mr. Charles Dover is the newly elected president who will head the club for the year. An interesting anniversary pro gram, with Rev. L. B. Hayes as the speaker, has been arranged and the club anticipates one of its best meetings. Company K Returns From Summer Camp Company K, the Cleveland county unit of the State militia, returned Sunday morning ove^the Seaboard from the annual two weeks en campment and training period at Camp Glenn, MOrehead City. Capt. Peyton McSwain and First Liet. H. C. Long were pleased with the company’s showing in camp and say that members of the company made creditable records in all con tests ih addition to their drill. Sergt. Fred Noblitt was second in the entire regiment on the rifle range. Logan Carr won the light weight'boxing championship of the regiment and Jerome Spangler won the bantamweight bout. Rotary Club Plans Move To Aid Enlarging Of Shelby’s Hospital Institution Can Be Helped If No Politics Played, Members Say Members of the Shelby Rotary club believe that the proffered Duke foundation gift of $25,000 to the Shelby hospital can be matched and the hospital greatly aided, and thereby made more beneficial to the entire section, provided the various organizations of the city and county get behind the move ment and keep it out of politics. "If they keep politics out of it and some of us do not straddle the fence for fear of making someone mad and hurting our chances for a political office, the hospital could be Improved as it should be." a member of the civic club stated at a recent meeting when the hospital topic bobbed up for the second time. Some months ago the Duke fund made a gift of $25,000 to the local hospital provided the county would match the gift. So far nothing def inite has resulted although numer ous citizens have urged that the gift be matched. At a recent meet ing of the Rotary club and also of the Kiwanis club the subject was discussed. The work of the local hospital has been growing for sev eral years and now officials find it difficult, because of space and con veniences, to handle enough pay cases to provide a surplus necessary for taking care of the charity cases of the public institution. Those who see how beneficial an enlarg ed hospital plant, with maternity and contagious disease wards, would be are strongly urging that some thing be done. The raising in some manner of a sum to match the Duke gift, which will not be given unless an equal amount is put up, would give the county a hospital on par with any in the State and one that would mean much to the entire section. The Rotary club anxious to get things going plans to appeal to all civic and county organizations to cooperate in the movement. Late Corn Doing Fine, Cotton Fruiting Best In Yean, Shoffner Says Despite the recent drought, which for a time seriously threatened dis aster for the farmers of Cleveland county, the crops in the county are now in good condition, and a bit better than the usual agrarian de scription, “fair to middlin',“ accord ing tb R. W. Shoffner, county farm agent. The extended dry spell did quite a bit of damage to early corn and other crops, delayed preparations for hay crops, and would soon have been hurting the cotton crop, the farm agent says, but rains of last week came along just in time. As it is now much of the early com will be in good condition, and the late com crop is described as “doing fine”. "The fruiting of the cotton crop is the best I’ve seen in years, Con sidering the size of the stalks", Mr. Shoffner declared. “Everywhere al most you see full squares, and if good weather conditions prevail we will have another big cotton crop and creditable food and feed crops.” Late Hay Crops Although the dry, hard ground, made so by the drought, made plow ing impossible for the hay crops, the county agent says that a num ber of beneficial hay crops may yet be put in the ground. The rains were worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars, the agent believes, and the late hay crops he advocates are soy beans, millet and sudan grass. In an article in today’s Star he tells about these crops and farmers will find the information valuable and interesting. L Mrs. Black Passes Saturday, Age 76 Widow of Frank Black—Buried Sunday at Mount Moriah Church Mrs. Eliza Hunt Black, age 76, died Saturday morning at 5 o'clock at her home in the Pleasant Ridge section near Boiling Springs and was buried Sunday at Mount Mo riah Methodist Protestant church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. Mr. Ridge. Mrs. Black is survived by four sons and one daughter. She was twice married, her second husband being Frank Black who preceded her to the grave a number of years ago. Agricultural Board May Attend Meeting Nest week:, July 28*Aug. 1. is Farmers' Week in Raleigh, and a number of Cleveland county farm ers will likely go to Raleigh during the week. A meeting of the county board of agriculture was held Sat urday in the office of the county agent and a number of the members expressed themselves as planning to attend. Others may decide to go and any member of the board who decides to go before Saturday should get in touch with the agent. .Mr. Shoffner. Will Hoey Be Candidate For Overman Seat? i Shelby Man Not Talking Race Mentioned Every Day Now As Toi sible Candidate. But Say* Nothin* About It “Will Clyde Ho*? be a can didate for the Overman berth in the United Staten Senate in 1932?’’ That’* the question nearly every outsider visiting in Shelby recently has asked, par ticularly visitors interested In in political matters. And Shelby, Hoey's home town, cannot answer, being as nonplussed about It as is the visitor himself. For, although the entire State has been talking the senatorial race in the west in 1932 for two weeks, Mr. Hoey doesn't seem to have heard a word about it. Overman To Run ) Some days ago ^he veteran Sec tor from Salisbury announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself. The political dopesters Im mediately began predicting and forecasting. Hie number of pros pective opponents ranged all the way from two to ten. In every list Hoey’s name has been mentioned, as was those of former Governor Cameron Morrison, Our Bob Reyn iCONTINTTKD ON FAOE BIX I To Aid Hungry And Sick Here Hralth Nurse Will Be Used For Month Or So To Survey Situ ation—$500 Available A concerted action has been taken to help the sick and hungry of Shel by and vicinity for the neat month or two and thus relieve a situation growing out of the period of unem ployment. The Klwanis club launched the move ten days ago and considered doing away with three of the four luncheons it has each month and contributing the saving I to a charity fund. No action has been taken on suspending the luncheons of the club as yet, but the club has voted *100 from its treas ury, the Masonic lodge will aid to the amount of *50 per month and the city will employ a health nurse for a month or two to assist county welfare officer J. B. Smith in mak ing a survey to determine Just how many cases of pellagra there are In the community. It Is thought the Red Cross funds, raised locally, will be used and with contributions from other sources, between *500 and *600 is already available. Pood and medicines will be dis tributed only to those in dire need and a thorough investigation will be made of each and every case be fore any help is given. An effort will be made to distribute through the one organization, the County Welfare Department, which will have a health nurse and a treas urer to assist, in order that there might be no overlaping and dupli cation. It is estimated that there are on ly 100 cases of pellagra in Shelby and vicinity and men who made in vestigations think that a recent es timate of 1,000 cases in the county is excessive. Churches, civic clubs and social organizations are expect ed to co-operate in the relief of the situation which is thought to be only temporary. Mrs. Belle Elliott Buried On Sunday Wife Of David Elliott Passed At Home of Her Daughter, Mrs. Martin, In Greenville. Mrs. Bell&JElliott, wife of David Elliott. died Saturday at Green ville, S. C. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Martin with I whom she and her husband had been making their home since De cember of last year. Mrs. Elliott for many years manufactured an herb medicine which was well known in this territory. She and her family lived in the Zoar church community just south of Shelby and she was a faithful member of that church body. When her health and that of her husband failed, they moved to Greenville to live with their daughter. She was about 74 years of age and the body was brought here for interment at the Zoar cemetery Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock, the services oeing con ducted by Rev. John W. Suttle. Be side Mrs; Martin, one other daugh ter, Miss Creola Elliott, survives. Spend $2,863 To Hunt Here The ntmrod* of Cleveland county spent >2,863.75 to hunt during the hunting season of 1929-30, according to figures made public by the Department of Conservation. Only 24 counties In the Stale span) more for hunting license during the season, the figures show. Guilford led (he way with $7,849.50. and Forsyth was second with $7,754.25. Alleghany spent the smallest amount for hunting privileges—$420.50. In this county 1,530 county hunting licenses were sold, and 432 State licenses. Alleged Wheat Thief Arrested With Car Grain North Brook Man Caught Here Crair Smith Charjed With Steal in* Best * Wheat Sell In Shelby Craig Smith, 21-year-old man of the North Brook section of Lincoln county, started to mill In Shelby some time Friday night, but when he reached here Saturday he was taken to jail Instead. „ Early Saturday morning Deputies John Hord and Burcn Dedmon not iced an automobile parked In a su spicious manner In a side-road just east of Shelby on the Ltncolnton highway. They Investigated and In the car they found Smith and al most 15 bushels of wheat. Smith's actions were also suspicious and the officers Immediately surmised that the wheat had been stolen and that Smith was waiting until daylight to sell the grain at the Eagle Roller Mills here. After being brought to Jail Smith talked, and in a short time L. B. Best, also of the North Brook sec tion, said to be the owner of the wheat, was In Shelby. Smith was wet from his knees down and the man who stole Best's wheat had waded a branch while carrying it away, Best told Sheriff Allen. Smith admitted his part, officers say, but declared that another man. whom he would not name, was with him. He was taken back to Lincoln coun ty Saturday by the Lincoln Sheriff. Shelby Sends Tennis Star To Tournament The Webb boys, Pete and Snook, have already put Shelby on the map In the Carolinas golfing world, and now a crack young Shelby tennis player Is out to bring laurels to his home-town In that sport. Whltelaw (Whitey) Kendall, for mer Shelby high and Duke Univer sity student, left yesterday for Greenville, S. C, to play in the Carolinas amateur tennis tourna ment. Young Kendall, one of the flashiest net players in this section, was runner-up for the State high school championship while in school here. He is expected to make a good showing in his first big tour ney. * City Cuts Tax Rate 25c For Present Year Shelby Motorists Give Train A Race Crack Limit'd Beat* TJiem From New Vork To North Carolina By Hour Two Shelby motorists. Messrs. F.vcrctt and Dwight Houser, both connected with the Cleve land Cloth mill, gave a crack train, the famous Crescent Lim ited, a real run from New York to North Carolina last week. The Shelby men made the long trip in 18 hours, only one hour more than It takes the Crescent Limited when the train is running on good time. Webb Holding Court Session Superior Court Starts Grind Today, Expert Brittain Trial . . 8o<m The July term of superior court convened here today \\;th Judge James L. Webb presiding The morning session was devoted to the judge's charge, the good be havior docket and several minor cases. This afternoon the court is getting down to a steady grind on the many criminal cases, ^ Mr. w. c. Edwards is foreman of the grand jury and Deputy J. J. Wilkins is the officer lit charge. Deputy Jerry Runyan is acting court officer. Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling is prosecuting. As yet the grand jury has not re turned any bills, but a bill in the Hugh Brittain case, in which the young'man is charged with killing Deputy Sanford Pruett with hla au tomobile, is expected to be return ed and the case tried one day this week. Just what day the nearing will be aet it is not known, but it will not likely come up before Wednes day and perhape not until Thurs day. 9 Several other important actions on the part of the grand jury are anticipated. 15 Lattimore Farm Boys Off To Camp Go To Young Tar Heel Camp In Eastern Carolina. Head By Mr. Coley. Fifteen farmer boys from the Lat timore section left this owning for White Lake camp in Eastern Caro lina where they will spend this w'eek at the camp owned by the Young Tar Heel Farm club of the state. The boys were accompany by P. M. Coley, teacher of agricului e in the Lattimore high school and Mrs. Coley. Those in the party are: Walter Davis, Herbert Grigg, Lawrence Wright, Wilbur Cabaniss, Rush Davis, J. Z. Walker. John Crowder, Sam Brooks. Thurman Jones, W. L. Simmons, Llqwl Cabanis. Chas. Palmer, Gay lorn Covington. Max Green and John Dalton. Master Moonshiner Bares Secrets Of His Trade To Reporter In S. C. No Whiskey Maker Or Handler Ever Dies Or Retires While Rich Spartanburg, S. C., July 21—A Herald reporter and a veteran moonshiner held a confab at the county jail here. The moonshiner opened up and revealed secrets of the trade. According to the master distiller of contraband liquor, it takes ap proximately *73.50 to make 100 gal lons of good, pure corn whiskey. The whiskey, he said, made at this cost, which, by the way, is above the average could easily sell for ten dollars a gallon. Net profit, there fore, would be $927.50 Two Days For Run Proper ingredients for 100 gal lons of whiskey include 35 bushels of corn at *1.26 per bushel, three bushels of rye at *2 per bushel and three bushels of dry malt corn for *1.25 per bushel. Total cost of these commodities is *53.50. But if the moonshiner has to get extra help, two additional still operators will cost him *5 each a day. It will take two days to make the run after the mRsh has been prepared. Hence, even including extra help, according to the moonshiner, it cost only 73 1-2 cents to make a grade of whiskey that can sell for ten or twelve dollars a gallon. Best In World V ■'Course,” the master moonshiner said, “you can make good whiskey cheaper than that amount. But I can make the best in the world at that cost.” He said the best rye whiskey .was made using equal amounts of rye and corn. Second run com, that is, whiskey that has been distilled twice, is the best grade and excels in taste and quality third tr fourth run whiskey. He also pointed out that liquor should not be kept in a chgrred keg for more than several weeks. He did not know how kegs were charged but said he supposed the staves were burned before being made into a keg. “I never knew a man who had anything to do with whiskey to re tire or die rich,” the veteran said in closing the conversation. “Some how, or another, the money gets away from them, and they gener ally end up in Jail where 1 am.” , Drop In Personal Property Value* Hair Reduce Prom $1.50 to $1.25 oa SlOfl Property Valuation— Economy Prof ram A rut of 25c In the city’s Ui rate was announced thia morn ing by Mayor S. A. McMurry. who stated that the board had decided after several weeks con sideration, had decided to brine the rate down to JIJI5 from the last year rate of *1.50. When a full meetlnr of the board Is had (Tils week, final sanction of the rate is expected to be made. Shelby's tax rate was boosted to *1.50 a year ago to raise money te meet, certain obligations. During the iiast year the Indebtedness was reduced and in making up the bud get for the fiscal year Just 1st, 193C to May 31st, 1931, the appropria tions for every department wert cut, says the Mayor and the eitj will have to "live hard" in order tc stay within its income. The econ omy program was adopted in order to lift the burden from the ta> payers as much as possible during this period of depression. Mayor McMurry says that the citlaens should realise that all requests made by them during the present year cannot be granted if the city ad heres to the budget. Personal Property Decrease The real and personal property valuation for Shelby this year is *9,799,783 which does not include corporate excess. Corporate excess is the amount the state corporation commission increases the valuation of local corporations. The total amount of property, real and per sonal. Is approximately *235,000 less than last year. The shrinkage is in personal property values. These tax values are divided ai follows: / Aceragc ...- *1,164,91; Real Estate __..... 6,366,614 Personal Property.. 2.201,93? Railroads ---...... 201,264 Banks ................_ 313,536 Real estate, it will be seen i.« nearly three times the value of per sonal property. The shlnkage ic personal property is largely explain ed to the decrease In the stocks oi raw* cotton and goods in process ol manufacture by the textile mill.* when taxes were listed In the Spring of this year. Eighty-One Attend Encampment Period For 4-H Club Work Misses Hamrick And Barber Win At Final Night Program At B. S. The encampment of 4-H clufc boys and girls of Cleveland county held last week at Boiling Spring? college and attended by 81 Cleve land county farm boys and girls was a success in every way, accord Ing to R. W. Shoffner, county far it agent, and Mrs., Irma P. Wallace home demonstration agent, wht sponsored the meeting. The en campment began Monday and end ed Thursday night. The boys and girls, housed in the junior college dormitories, spent their days in class work and dem onstrations beneficial to farm anc farm home projects. The Boiling Springs club won the prize for the best attendance, and the four groups worked for points for a prize, the Boiling Springs group, led by Miss Mary Hamrick, winning this honor at the closing Thursday night stunt program. The individual stunt prize was awarded to Miss Estelle Barber, of the Bethlehem club, for her stunt, “A Manless Wedding”. Each evening the nightly pro gram was opened with vesper ser vices. Ministers of the county con ducting the vesper services for the encampment were Rev. Mr. Jenkins, or Boiling Springs; Rev. L. B. Hayes, of Central church, Shelby; Rev. H. N. McDiarmid, of the Shel by Presbyterian church, and Dr. Zeno Wall. Shelby First Baptist pastor and president of boiling Springs college. Waldrop To Hold Buffalo Meeting A series of meetings will open at Buffalo church, near Stubbs, do the fourth Sunday, Ju^y 37, and will be conducted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop. The men of the Buffalo commun ity will meet at the church on Fri day morning, July 25, at 7 o’clock for the purpose of cleaning off the graveyard and grounds.

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