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Cotton, per lb.-- WAc
Cotton Seed, per bu. _ —-—36c
CLOUDY TUESDAY
Today * North Carolina Weather
Report: Generally fair and con
tinued warm tonight. Tuesday,
partly cloudy, probably local thund
ershowers and not so warm luesday
afternoon in west and north central
portions. „
*,143 DEAD
Rome, July 27.—Relief work in the
Italian provinces devastated by last
Wednesday’s earthquake was going
forward smoothly todays while there
were no indications that the toll of
t,143 dead and 4,551 injured would
be greatly Increased.
Dorsey Might
Be Candidate
For City Mayor
- Same Platform
Would Stand
Former Mayor Does Not Say About
Prospective Race. Talks
• Prospects
Ex-Mayor W. N- Dorsey may be a
candidate for mayor of Shelby again
—and he may not.
Recently, since other political
races are over, a rumor started
about the city that the former may
or was considering the race again.
Saturday when stopped on the
street and queried pointblank as to
his intentions, Mr. Dorsey would
! make no definite statement, al
though he was not reticent about
discussing the mayoralty. He would
not say that he would run, or would
not run.
‘■Haven't even been debating the
matter," he said. ■'"Ml**®
"I may be dead and forgotten be
fore the election next May. How
ever, I am very much alive now,
and enjoying good health, and from
the physical standpoint I feel able
to stand the knocks and criticism I
endured for the two years I was
mayor. It is too early to say defi
nitely yet, but if the people of Shel
by coin* me to talk to me as they
are doing, I may decide to be in the
race.
••If I do, my platform will be very
' mufch as it was before—I will work
no relative by blood or marriage; I
will have no pets and will serve all
~—/the people alike. I will pay noth
ing or promise nothing: to get the
job. The water and light rates,
taxes and laws will be set by the
aldermen just as was flefne when I
served before, then if the rates,
rules and laws are not carried out,1
I will take the blame. The aider
men say what is to be done, the
mayor is supposed to see that it is
done. If I decide to run I will have
more to say.”
One Fisk Feeds 25
At Birthday Dinner
13-round Carp Provides Enough
Fish for Big Party
Here
This is a fish story—th^ story of
one fish so large that is served as
the main course for a birthday din
ner attended by 25 people. What’s
more it is related about and Dy
reputable men.
Last week Messrs, L. Z. Huffman,
Tommy Costner, Clarence Cook, E.
L. Propst and Nathan Hoyle went
fishing up in Burke county. Rath
er, they went fishing and turtle
hunting. ' Grabbing as it was in
stead of gigging. After four big
turtles and one two and one-half
pound had been caught, Mr. Huff
man kept feeling about under
drift wood hoping to make another
ratch. He felt something that
seemed as big as a muskrat. Fin
ally he got his hands upon it, call
ed his companions, and the quintet
pulled out the catch—a carp 27
inches long and weighing 13 pounds.
Additional witnesses who saw the
big fish were Forrest Bowling, the
barber, and Will Potter, of Belwood.
The Waltons returned home and
the fish and turtles were Served at
Mr. Cook’s birthday dinner. Twen
ty-five people enjoyed the meal,
and, to top it off—the story, not
the meal—there was a quantity of
fish left. ,yi>
Mats Were Burned Up
In Star Office Today
Cardboards bearing illustrations
which were to appear in today’s
Star were burned over the furnace
this morning. These cardboards are
• ailed ’’mats'' ip newspaper parlance
and are used in casting for printing.
Substitute mats were secured for
A. V. Wray and Six Sons and for
the J. C. Penney Co. advertisement
and an effort was made to secure a
duplicate mat for the Webb theater
which is offering a feature “Under
the Texas Moon” today and tomor
row. All efforts to secure a dupli
cate for the Webb picture however,
were in vain, but the show goes on
just the same.
Shaw Presides
At Court Here
Suits Up Today
Suit In Automobile
Death Coming
Hearing: Suits 'Against Town Of
Kings Mountain Today. Court
All Week.
The civil calendar of the July
term of Superior court was tak
en up here this morning with
Judge T. J. Shaw, of Greens
boro, presiding. The opening suit
was that of Phifer vs. the Town
of Kings Mountain.
Indications were that the three
Phifer suits would take up the re
mainder of the day and some time
tomorrow. In the three suits, being
tried together, damages of $7,500.
$5,000 and $17,000 is being asked of
the town and the Margrace mill be
cause of certain sewage disposal al
leged to have been made by the
town which endangered the health
of the section, according to the
cojn plaint.
Suit Over Death.
One of the important suits to be
disposed of during the term is that
of Butler vs. Warlick. More than a
a year ago a small Butler girl was
riding home from school in an auto
mobile driven by a son of Clarence
Warlick. Before the car came to a
stop, the complaint says, the girl
either stepped from or fell from
the running board of the car to the
road. She went on home, but later
pains developed in her nead and It
was discovered, it is alleged, that
she had a fractured skull which re
sulted in her death.
The complaint asks for $10,000
damages, and Attorneys L. O. Huff
man and Peyton McSwain repre
sent the plaintiff while the de
fendant is represented by Attorneys
Clyde R. Hoey and B. T. Falls. The
Butlers and Warlicks live in No. 8
township.
Few Divorces.
There are less divorce suits on the
calendar this term than in several
years. A couple divorce suite have
already been disposed of, and indi
cations are that only one or two
more will be heard. _
It is likely, Tt was said today, that
court will be in session all week in
an attempt to clear up the civil
calendar.
Judge Shaw is the other veteran
jurist who with Judge James L.
Webb will retire at the end of the
year, and it may be that the two
retiring jurists, both popular
throughout the State, will hold
their final courts in Shelby at the
same session. Judge Webb presiding
over the criminal docket last week
and Judge Shaw over the civil cal
endar this week.
Smoke From Motor
Causes Fire Alarm
Smoke filled the Jackson Cash
Grocery store on S. LaFayette street
at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and
a fire alarm called out the de
partment. The fighters were
quickly on the job and a large
crowd gathered, but it was found
that the smoke came from a short
circuit on the motor which drives
the electric refrigerator. The elec
tric wires were cut and danger of
fire averted. No blaze had develop
ed from the motor so the damage
was confined to the motor itself.
TO CLEAN EL BETHEL
CEMETERY AUGUST 2
All who have relatives and friends
buried at El Bethel church ceme
tery are asked to meet there early
Saturday morning, August 2nd to
help clean off the grave yard. The
committee in charge is composed
of J. J. and J. T. Gamble.
In the Pathway of Disaster
From the beautiful city of
Naples to “the toe of the boot,”
the most southern tip of Italy is
the scene of death and destruc
tion as the result of the earth
quake. The death toll has been
. set it mere than 8,000 while
many thousands are hurt and 1
left homeless. Vhe rasp shows i
the principal towns in the
devastated area,
(taurvatiMM.1 Knntwt)
Around 8,000 Pupils
In School In County
Does County
Have Greater
Cotton Acreage?
It the cotton acreage in
Cleveland county larger or
smaller than the acreage of
last year which produced the
record crop?
Has the live-at-home move
ment changed the acreage in
this county? Is the com acre
age larger? The hay crop
acreage? The oat crop acre
age?
Wednesday’s Star will give
the 1930 acreage statistics on
all the major farm crops of
the county, as prepared by the
county agent for the United
States Department of Agricul
ture.
Don't miss these figures.
Cleveland Farmers
On Trip To Raleigh
Party Goes To Raleigh On School
Bus. Spend Week
There
A number of Cleveland county
fanners are In Raleigh this week for
the annual Farmers’ Week which is
held at the State capital.
One school bus load of farmers
left Shelby early this morning, and
Comity Agent Shoffner and others
left during the day.
Next week Mrs. Irma Wallace,
home demonstration agent, and a
group of 4-H club boys and girls
will make a tour to Raleigh.
Whose Money Is This? Here Is
A Problem At Shelby Postoffice
Letter Mailed Here With Money in
It Comes Back. Seek
Sender
Here is a sample of the knotty
problems which worry postal em
ployes almost every day. A return
address on the envelope would have
saved it all.
A letter mailed at Shelby, N. C.,
June 2nd.. 1930, 9:00 o'clock a. m.
was addressed to “Mrs. Willie Cart
er {?>, Box 4. Wadesburr. N. C.”
was undelivered at Wadasboro, N.
C.. on June 8th. As there was no
return address on the latter It was
sent to the Bureau of Dead Letters
and Dead Parcels, Washington, D.
C., where it was opened. As It con
tained currency, it was returned to
the Post Office here to be delivered
to the proper person, to take his
receipt for same, and to collect
three cents postage.
“To make the matter more diffi
cult," says Postmaster J. H. Quinn,
“the sender did not sign the letter,
but refers to addressee as his wife
and refers to (Pearl) who Is living
with her. Not certain that the sur
name Is (Carter), but resembles it.
"The writer appears to be a day
laborer. If the sender of the letter
will call at this office and produce
satisfactory identification the mon
ey will be returned to him. Other
wise, it will be returned to the Dead
Letter Office.
"Much sorrow and disappoint
ment to friends and loved ones
could be prevented apd much ex
pense to the Post Office Depart
ment saved if people would only
take time to attach their return
address to every letter they mail.
Here is an instance in which a wife,
no doubt, greatly needed the mon
ey to buy the necessaries of life and
the husband, no doubt, has decided
that his letter was rifled and the
money extracted by some postal
New No- 3 High School Hm En
rollment Ot 115. Schools
Open Today.
Several thousand more Clere
lend county school children
started back to school today,
running- the total number of
pupils now in school to a fig
ure around 8,000.
With seven eight months schools
opening today, all the long term
schools In the rural system are now
operating wit fathe exception of Lat
timore, Grover and Park grace. Lat
timore and Grover will open in an
other week, and Parkgrace, accord
ing to Supt. J. H. Grigg, will not
open until September.
The schools opening today, so
that they may close for some time
in the fall to aid the cotton picking,
are Falls ton, Waco, Bel wood, Casar,
Piedmont, Mooresboro and Dover
Mill.
In No. 3.
In the new No. 3 township dis
trict, where a central scr.ool for
school pupils is to be erected soon,
the high school enrollment last
week, the first week, was 115, with
a total enrollment in the district of
over 500. The high school pupils are
attending at Patterson Springs and
Earl until the new building is com
pleted. •*
In all the schools open already
the enrollment is unusually big. and
Supt. Grigg says that the total num
ber of pupils In school this year will
be greater than ever before. Figures
may be available during tne week.
Dr. Zeno Wall Starts
Ellenboro Meeting
An open air tabernacle has been
erected at Ellenboro where Dr.
Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap
tist church of Shelby started a re
vival meeting last night, assisting
the pastor, Rev. I. D. HarrilL He
preached last night to about 1,000
people and the attendance is ex
pected to grow as the meeting pro
gresses.
Wallace Grove To
Start Revival Soon
Rev. O. R. Flack, pastor of Wal
lace Grove Baptist church an
nounces that a revival will begin
there Sunday, August 3rd. Services
will be held at 10 a. m. and at
7;30 p. m. %ach day. The public is
cordially Invited to attend all serv
ices,
July Marriages
Giving June Race
June, the month of brides, is be
ing pushed for marriage honors by
July, according to the marriage rec
ord book in the offie of Register A.
F. Newton. Through Saturday five
Cleveland county couples had secur
ed license dunfig the month
Another Grand
Jury Requests
Clock Be Fixed
Repair Or Replace
Jury States.
All County Institutions Found In
Oood Condition By Inspects
ins Jury.
Some of these days, It seems.
%. superior court grand jury may
Walk into the court house here
and return a flock of true bills
imless the county time-piece
atop the Cleveland county court
:hou$e is fixed so that it will
'keep time acain.
In its report to Judge Webb
during the session of superior
court now on here the grand
jury was the third to say that
£mething should be done about
e town elock.
Months, several of them, ago
• grand Jury noticed that the big
clock, which overlooks Shelby’s
widely-known court squire, was
mot running. The jury recom
mended that the clock be fixed,
Expert watchmakers said at the
time that it would be cheaper to
repair It. Times were begin
ning to get hard, nothing was
done about the elock.
Along came another grand
jury for an inspection tour of
county property and institutions.
The second jury requested, In
stead of recommended, that the
•Id clock be fixed or a new one
Installed.
The Jury which made Its re
port last week did not recom
mend or request. It* said: "We
find the court hetiae In good
| condition In every way, except
tjte clock, which should be re
paired or replaced with a new
■Me."
Repairing of the boiler, roof,
guttering, and a lock was recom
mended at the county jail by the
Jury, of which Mr. W, C, Ed
wards was foreman.
The No. t convict camp was
found in good shape with con
vict* being property carad for*
The county home was declared
to be in "excellent condition,"
and the inmates well cared for.
County Poultrymen
Reorganize At Meet
Held Here Saturday
George Wolfe Beads County Poul
try Association. Suttle
Named Secretary
At a meeting called by R. W.
Shoffner. county farm agent, and
held In the court house here Satur
day afternoon, the Cleveland Coun
ty Poultry Association was re-or
ganized and officers elected for the
year.
Mr. George Wolfe, who lives east
of Shelby, was named president of
the association. Mr. R. G. Turner
was elected vice president, and Rev.
John W. Suttle, veteran poultry
fancier, was named secretary and
treasurer.
Mr. C. F. Parrish, poultry exten
sion specialist, of Raleigh, attended
the meeting and talked to the
Cleveland poultrymen about the
benefits of an organization and
about the blood test for chickens.
The meeting was attended by a
good crowd of poultry farmers and
the reviving of the association is
expected to aid much in building up
and improving the poultry flocks ol
the section.
Grigg Announces
Teachers Meeting
The annual meeting of the teach
ers of the South Piedmont district
will be held October 31 and Novem
ber 1 in Charlotte, according to an
announcement by J. H. Grigg, ol
Shelby, superintendent of the Cleve
land county schools and district
chairman of the teachers.. An at
tendance of from-approximately 2,
000 of the 2,828 teachers in the dis
trict was forecast.
Charlotte will be the meeting
place of the teachers next fall for
the second consecutive year.
Thackaon Moves Up
With A Big Store
<1 Reid Thackston, former Shelby
youth and son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Thackston of the Lily Mill village,
has been promoted to the office of
assistant secretary and treasurer of
the American Department Stores in
New York. This is the position held
by H. F. Armstrong who was pro
moted to treasurer of the company.
The many friends of Mr, Thackston
will rejoice over bis deserved pro
motion with this large company.
American Savant to
Study Courtesy Abroad
Hi* latest in scientific research,
among the vast army of American;
savants who travel np and down
Europe during the Summer i» that
taken up by Miss Joan E. Wing
(above), of Glenwood-on-the-Hud
son. New York. She says she will
stay abroad until September 1,
studying courtesy conditions.
<lnt*rn«tton»l
Does Landlord
His Own Land?
Tenant Take* Landowner T* Court
For Trespass. Landlord Is
Cleared
An interesting legal controversy
developed in county court here last
week—a _ particularly interesting
query for an agricultural county.
A tenant in No. 2 township has
his landlord arrested for trespass
ing upon h(s own land, the land
rented to the tenant.
Does a landowner have the right
to go upon his own property when
it is rented for the year?
The case came up before Judge
Horace Kennedy Saturday morning
and was tried before a Jury of 12
men. Attorney Maurice Weathers,
nominee for recorder, represented
the tenant, who was the plaintiff,
and Attorney J. Clint Newton, nom
inee for solicitor, represented the
landlord. The morning hearing
ended in a mistrial, nine jurors vot
ing for conviction and three for ac
quittal.
At the afternoon hearing, before
a jury of six men, the landlord was
found not guilty of trespass. The
jury of Cleveland citizens ruling
that a landowner has the right to
go upon his own property, even
when rented, provided he goes in
good faith.
The landowners contention was
that the crop had not been plowed
from July 9 until July 21, and that
he went to do-the necessary plow
ing.
Gene Eskridge Drowns
In Lake On Saturday
Rev. C. C. Wilson
Dies At Age 76
Former Resident of Stubbs Section
and Brother of W. F. Wilson
Dies At. Cherryville
Rev. Clayton C. Wilson, age 76,
died Thursday evening at 6:15
o'clock at tfls home at Cherryville,
following a third stroke of paralysis
which he suffered three weeks ago.
Mr. Wilson joined Ross Grove Bap
tist church fifty-two years ago and
most of his life was spent on his
farm near Stubbs, four miles east
of Shelby. He was baptised by the
late Rev. A. C. Irvin, one of the
pioneer Baptist ministers of this
section and for many years he, him
self, preached. Wherever he was
known, he was held in high esteem
for his Christian character.
Mr. Wilson was born near Lime
stone ("allege, Gaffney, a C„ and
was married to Susan Weatehrs
was married to Susan Weathers,
years ago. He moved to Cherryville
two years ago. Surviving are nine
or ten children and one brother, w.
F. Wilson, West Marion street,
Shelby.
The funeral was conducted FrJ
day by Rev. H. E. Waldrop and in
terment was in the cemetery at Ross
Grove church, a large crowd of
friends and relatives being present.
Former Grid Star
At Boiling Springs
Held For Shortage
Bob Chetty Jailed at Graham. Play
ed On Baptist Junior
College Eleven,
! Burlington—!!. B. tBob) die tty,
high school football player, who
was accorded all-state honors with
the Lexington team of two years
ago, was held In Jail at Graham on
a Charge Of erhbezzlftig $8190 from
local branch of the North Carolina
Bank and Trust company.
The alleged shortage In Chetty’*
accounts as a teller at the bank was
discovered early this week and a
warrant was sworn out for him yes
terday. He Is held in default or $5,
000 bond.
Gives No Reason.
Ira H. Dabbs, who served t he war
rant, said Chetty admitted the short
age and asserted no one else was
connected with the matter. The
youth refused to disclose his rea
sons for taking the sum.
Chetty had been with the bank
since December, 1929. He Is a native
of Lexington, the son of the late
Robert P. Chetty, His mother and
several brothers and sisters live
there.
I. B. Grainger, executive vice
president of the bank, ^aid it had
already made an adjustment with
Chetty’s bonding company and was
fully protected
Chetty was star quarterback last
year for the Boiling Springs college
football team, and was well known
in Shelby.
Cemetery Cleaning
All those who have relatives bur
ied there and others interested are
asked to meet at the New Hope
church, at Earl, Thursday morning
at 8 o'clock for the purpose of clean
ing off the cemetery grounds.
“Ma ” Ferguson Leading In Race
For Texas Governor;25,000Lead
Dallas, Tex., July 27.—Unofficial
returns from 235 of the state's 253
counties, including 53 complete,
compiled by the Texas ilectioh bu
reau alter yesterday's Democratic
primary gave:
Governor: Mrs. Miriam A. Fer
guson 179,156; Ross S. Sterling 126,
480; Clint C. Small 93.439; Thomas
B. Love 60.127; Jim Young 59,179;
Earl B. Mayfield 39,688; Barry Mil
ler 38,284; C. C. Moody 3,414; Paul
Loven 2,334: Frank Putnam 2,189,
and C, E. Walker, 2,107.
Senator' Morris Sheppard (in
cumbent! 352,180; Robert L. Henry,
119,719; C. A. Mitchner 27420.
Dallas, Tex, July 27.—Taxes' first
woman governor, Mrs. Miriam A.
Ferguson, today Was back in the
running as the leading candidate for
the Democratic gubenatorlal nomi
nation after a four-year absence
from office.
Whan the Texas election bureau
made its last count of'returns from
Saturday’s initial primary at 1:30 a.
m. today, she was leading by 25,000 j
votes her heardfc opponent Ross S
Sterling, of Houston, multi-million
aire business man and publisher.
The returns embraced a- vote of
neary 300,000, more than one-third
of the total estimated vote cast in
the election. The tabulation was
from 208 of the state’s 233 counties,
nine complete.
Voting in the Republican primary
was light and sufficient returns were
not available to indicate who the G.
O. P. nominee for governor would
be.
Normally Democratic.
Until 1928, when approximately
500,000 Democrats deserted the na
tional party leadership and swung
the electoral vote to a Republican
for the first time in history, Texas
always has been overwhelmingly
Democratic
Votes compiled to date indicate
that the Hoover-Democratic bolters
have returned to the fold. Thomas
B. Love, of Dallas, who led the 1928
deserters, was fourth in the race for
the gubernatorial nomination. He
ran on an ’‘Anti-Tammany’' plat
form and pleaded for the votes of
the 1928 deserters.
Great Crowd Attends
Funeral Today
Eight-car Old Child of Mr. and
Mr*. Cha*. L. E*krldgr toots
Ufe In Water
Eugene Webb Eskridge, eight
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chaa
L. Eskridge was drowned Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock In the
Thompson-Lineberger Lake near
Cleveland Springs, while he and his
little cousin, Elva Ann Thompson,
with whom he was spending the
day. played about the small bod;
of water In sight of the Thompson
Llnebcrger residences.
News of the missing child liras
hurriedly conveyed to her mother
Mrs. Carl Thompson by little ttva
Ann and a number of good swim
mers responded to the distress call
to dive for the little body. It was
about twenty minutes before his
body was located on the bottom of
the lake in seven feet of water and
Claude Hoke Thompson, assisted by
Dr. H. 6, Piaster, expert swimmers,
brought the body to the land.
Other divers who aided to th# res
cue were Carl Thenrfwon, J. D.
Lineberger, Stough Wray, Cbas.
Switzer., and Chas. and Allred Esk
ridge and other
Eugene was accustomed to visil
lng his Uttle cousin at this country
home, where there Is an artificial
lake. The two children wandered
to the lake and Mrs. Thompson
planned to join them alter she put
her little baby to bed, The tragedy
must have happened in the short
space of fifteen minutes. When the
children reached the shore line at
the dam, little Elva Ann put an
auto inner tube around her and
paddled toward a boat In the water,
while Eugene, who, feared water,
stood on the shore. It Is thought
the soft soil slipped from under his
feet and precipitated him into the
water. His little cousin, splashing
in the water herself, heard no sound
from Eugene. All she knew was that,
he was an the bank when last seen
a few minutes before.
After his body was located and
brought to shore, the physicians and
swimmers worked faithfully la a
vain effort to restore life. Exactly
two months ago bis grandmother,
Mrs. Webb Eskridge who loved him
with a perfect devotion, died at the
Eskridge home.
Gallant, Manly Child
Eugene was a gallant, manly child
and a favorite in the family and
neighborhood. 'Always happy, smil
ing. playful, he possessed a bearing
of chivalry and courtesy among bia
playmates as well as grown-tjpe.
His tragic passing oast a gloom over
the entire community. All day
Sunday, hundreds of friends called
to extend their sympathy to the
family. A telephone message to his
father, who was In Hot Sprirfgs, Ark.
for his health brought him by first
train. He arrived home at 8:30
o’clock Sunday afternoon. >
Funeral Today
The funeral was conducted from
the residence this morning at 10
o’clock by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of
the First Baptist church. A wealth
of floral offerings, seldom seen, sur
rounded the little white casket and
banked the room in the home where
the body lay.
Hundreds gathered at the home
for the funeral which was one of
the saddest witnessed here In a tong
time. Not an’ eye in the great
crowd was dry as the boy and girt
playmates and friends of little
“Gene” and the older friend of his
sister and brothers, dressed in spot
less white, formed a cordon of
honor with floral designs through
which his Uttle casket was carried.
A quartet composed of Mrs. Ben
Suttle, Miss Amos WUlis, Rush
Hamrick and Horace Easom who
sang at his grand-mother's funeral
two months ago, rendered softly
and beautifully “When He Cometh",
and “Some Time Well Understand”.
A beautiful violin duet by Dr. Plast
er and W. T. Sinclair with Mrs. Sin
clair piano accompanist rendered
“Some Day the SUver Cord Will
Break.” The procession walked
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. >
Randall Reunion At
Pine Grove Aug. 3rd
The annual Randall reunion will
be held at Pine Grove church, on
the first Sunday in August.
In the morning there will be spe
cial music, fallowed at 11 o’olock by
a sermon by Rev. R. L. Porbis.
In the afternoon there will be
quartets from the different
churches. All the relatives and
friends are urged to be present.
/There will be dinner on the
ground, and a cordial invitation ia
extended to everyone, to come and
bring a well tilled basket.