10 PAGES TODAY »».-.—— . LATE NEWS THU MARKET. Cotton, per lb. ._......... 12‘,ic Cotton Seed, per bn. . —-36c Saturday Fair. Today s North Carolina Weather Report: Mostly fair, tonight, and Saturday. Not much change in tem perature. Dolores Weds Again. | Los Angeles, July 31.—Delores Del Rio, film actress announced today she will be married neat Wednes day to Cedric Gibbons, film studio art director. The place of the cere mony has not been selected but the actress said the wedding would be “very quiet.” High School Officials In Meeting Here *■ School Heads Of Two Counties I Hlfhsmith. Combs, Hathcock Tilk To Rutherford, Cleveland Men. A two*county assembly o£ high school superintendents and princi pals was held here this week with three officials from the State De partment of Education in attend ance High school officials of Cleve land and Rutherford counties were delegates to the meeting. The three State department offic ials were Dr. J. H. Highs.nith, high school supervisor; A. C. Combs, as sistant supervisor, and J. L. Hath cock, of the department of finance. Dr. Hlghsmlth discussed with the school heads the organization work and daily schedules in the schools. Mr. Combs spoke on equipment, such as libraries and laboratories, while Mr. Hathcock explained the new report and register system for budget work and accounting Combs Inspects. After the meeting Mr. Combs re mained in the county for two days for the purpose of inspecting Cleve land’s standard high schools. Mr. Francis Finds Burnt Crops West; Home From Okla. Hasn’t Seen Any Rain for Three Weeks—Wouldn’t Give Cleve land for Any Section "I wouldn’t give Cleveland coun ty for any section of Vie country I have seen,” related J. B. Francis, West Marion street, Shelby, who rt» tumed yesterday from a three weeks trip to Oklahoma. He and his children, making a party of five, went to see his father J. R. Francis in Oklahoma City, Okla., and while away they visited many *• states. It has been extremely dry In Ok lahoma and Arkansas. In all the states I traversed, I did not see any cotton that equals that' in Cleveland. The drought has been so long and severe, the crops are literally burnt up. Most of the cot ton is about 6 to 8 inches high and com is hopeless. I haven't seen any rain in the three weeks I have been away. Beyond Memphis, I saw a small area of good looking cotton, but othir than that, Cleve land county farmers are blessed in comparison,” said Mr. Francis. In Oklahoma City, given up to have the richest oil fields in the West, all storage space is filled and the oil wells are operated only one day a week. This gives, lots of un employment. The oil wells are in checkerboard arrangement and as thick as trees in a grove, skid Mr. Francis. The party of five traveling in a car used $31.63 worth of gas and oil and traveled 3,710 miles. Cleveland Native Dies In Iredell Statesville, July 30.—Mrs. Sarah E. Crawford, 79, widow of J. E. Crawford, died last night at her home here after a few day** illness. The funeral and interment will take place Thursday morning 10:30 o’clock at Olive Baptist clrirch in Catawba county. Mrs. Crawford, a native of Cleveland county, was daughter of W. W. and Louise Bridges. She was married t" J. E. Crawford in Catawba equity in 1889. « She is survived by one daughter, Mre. H. Collins, of State Vville, and three sons. T. J. Crawford ird Solen Crawford, ef Statesville, and Claude Crawford, of Newport, R. I. She leaves four-toothers and i>ur sis ters, A. N. Bridges. George Bridges, Mrs. T. N. Brpwn, of Statesville, Rev D. P. Bridges, Newland, Rev. O. Bridges, of Millport, Mini., Mrs. John Stewart, of Gaston’a, Mrs. Henry Blaylock, of Cary, and Mrs. William Aberncthy, Hildeo/am Driver Bound To High Court In Death Case Drove Car Which Struck Girl No Bond Fixed In Hearing; For Ne-' pro Whose Car Kiljrd Propat Girl. After a hearing in county court this morning Thomas Daniels, young colored man, whose automobile struck and fatally injured little renew* Propst, of the Belwood section, on Monday, was sent back to jail to await the ftext term of Superior court. No bond was fixed by Judge Ken nedy as at this time the young ne gro did not appear to be able to raise a sufficient bond. The little Propst girl, It will be re membered, was fatally injured while returning home from her first day of school at Belwood. She was six years of age and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Propst. She had Just alighted from the school bus when hit by the auto. With her skull fractured and her legs ‘broken she was rushed to the hospi.al Were where she died a few hours later. Two Witnesses. ■ Only two witnesses testified at the hearing here tills morning. They were the negro and a white man. Mr. Cook, who saw the tragic crash. Cook said that the school bus had parked on the right side of the road going north and that the car driven by the colored man was coming south. Just before the colored man’s car reached the bus the little girl, he said, went around the rear of the bus in front of the approacning car. The car. he added, did not appear to be going over 30 miles per hour. The colored man said he saw the child coming into the road just be fore he reached her. but that he thought, she would step oat of the way. Instead, he said, she seemed to be paralyzed with frignf and did not move.. He slaped on his brakes, stopped as rapidly as he could, he said, and did a4 in his power to avoid hitting hen The otheV children who had alighted from the bus had gone to the right, he said, and he did not expect the little girl to go the/other way. One of the chief reasons where the driver is held more 01 less lo blame is that he did not come to a full stop, as required by the State law, which says that automobiles must stop when approaching a school bus loading or unloading children. Cops Start Tagging Tagless Autos Today _ j Time Limit Is Up in Which to Se cure New City Tag, Mayor Says Shelby cops are playing tag to day—with tagless city automobiles. The new city auto license plates should have been placed on all Shelby cars at the end of May. City officials, however, granted a two months perfc>5 of grace. The two months were up yesterday and Shelby motorists who do not have new tags on their cars today should park in back alleys' and make a trip to the city hall before motoring too much in public. Only 741 city tags have been sold so far. That? means, police head quarters informs, that hundreds of Shelby autos are still without tags. Dining Aboard the R-100 J The rather spacious dining salon aboard the R-100, where the passengers of the giant of Brit Cleveland Farmers, Farm Women Enjoying Big Week In Raleigh Sister Of Shelby Woman Is Killed Miss Toney, Sister Of Mrs. Andrew I-ewis, One Of Two Kilted In S. C. Miss Daisy Bell Posey, oi WUliam ston, S. C., a sister of Mrs. Andrew LeWra orSheTBy, was 6he ftf two per#* pie killed in an automobile crash last Monday night near William ston. Miss Posey, another girl and two men had been out riding when their car turned over, ploughed into a field, killing Pruett and Miss Posey and injuring Dalton Hall and Miss Zella Austin. Miss Posey is survived by her parents, her sister here, and seven other brothers and sisters. To Plan Bulwinkle Campaign Aug. 6th Members Of the Ninth District congressional committee will meet at Hickory on Wednesday, August 6, with Major A. L. Bulwinkle, Dem ocratic nominee, for the purpose of planning his campaign this fall. At torney W. Speight Beam, of Shel by, is the committee member from this county and plans to attend the gathering. The Shelby man is con fident that Major Bulwinkle will be returned to Congress this fall. Ella Mill Scouts on ( Return From Bridgewater Scout Troop No. 7 of the Ella Mill village has returned from an outing of a week spent tit Bridgewater. The youngsters report a most happy and enjoyable outing. Rutherford Cuts Off Agents To Reduce Tax Rate Only One Cent Tax Rate towered Slightly by Move. Action Causes Stir There. (Prom Rutherford County News.) The county commissioners Monday eliminated the home %nd farm dem onstration agents effective not later than October 1, 1930. Monday was the last day to go over the county budget for the next .'fecal year, though it will be about two weeks yet before the tax rate for this coun ty will be definitely known for this year. The two offices cost Ruther ford county $3,110 a year. It. takes a "lopping off’ of; $3-500 to reduce the county's tax rate one cent on each $100 worth oi taxable property. In other words, the tax rate last year was $1.39 on each $100 worth of taxable property and if the county had abolished this work last year the rate would have been $1.38 and a fraction of a cent. The county pays Mr. F K. Patton, farm agent $133.33 per month, which includes expenses and Miss Laura Howard, home agent, $125 per months including expenses. Both of their salaries are supplemented by the state and federal governments. Their salaries are paid until the first of June and $1,075 was put in the budget to continue tneii work about four months longer. Jones Comments. Mr. J. P. Jones, member of the board of county commissioners in discussing the matter to the News Wednesday morning stated: “We are anxious to do what tne people want. We have had complaints about the work of both agents, < mainly on account of not. visiting every farm in tlie county). Some want it. con tinued and some do not. It will have to be definitely determined within the next two weeks. Personally, I think they are both doing good work and I dislike to see their work cease. We have had many requests tq “cut down” but cutting out both of their jobs will not reduce the tax rate enougti to tell, less than l cent in the levy on each SICK) worth of tax able property.” 1)1111 i»h dirigibles ere being served daring the present voyage te Csnsd*. County’* Delegation to Farm Con vention Will Return Home . Saturday The score or more Cleveland coun ty farmers and farm women in Ra leigh to attend the annual Farm ers’ convention week are throughly enjoying themselves and are receiv ing helpful instructions ix\ agricul *ykhms.W]X accdpding.t-* R. W. Shoffner. county farm agent, who returned from Raleigh last night. Yesterday the gathering of farm ers and farm women was addressed by President Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina. Each day the delegates have been hear ing addresses, attending demonstra tions, and otherwise enjoying them selves while they learn things. H. G. Ashcraft, of Charlotte, was named president of the North Car olina Farmers and Farm Women's convention at a meeting Wednesday night, and Mrs. N. B. Steadman, of Halifax, was named head of the State federation of home demon stration clubs. Among the Cleveland county women in Ra'/igh t>S Mrs. J. p. McDaniel, Miss Dessie McSwain, Mrs. O. A. Rhea, Mrs. Hunter Ware, Mrs. Homer Phagan, of the Kings Mountain section; Mrs. Tom Kend rick, Miss Maude Kendrick and Mrs Julia Elliott, of the Faliston ^section; Mrs. Mamie Whistnant, Polkville; Mrs. Rufus Bingham, Lawndale and i Mrs. Mollie Putnam of Boiling Springs. Among the men attending are Rufus Bingham, Lawndale: R. W. Wilson, L B. Wilson, Faliston; Wayne ''./are, B. P. Dixon, Kings Mountain; Andrew Elliott, Polkville, and B. Austell, Earl. Next week Mrs. Irma Wallace and I a delegation of Cleveland county 4-H club boys and girls will go to Raleigh for a week’s stay. Chicks Can’t Sweat, And Die From Heat They Die When Atmosphere Gets Hotter Than Their Body Temperature. Washington.—The high .tempera tures of the past few days have kill ed many chickens and turkeys in nearby Maryland, including 91 prize hens in the egg-laying contest of the University of Maryland. The hot weather also (f used a sharp drop in the egg production in the contest. Chickens have no swpa‘, ulands, it was explained at the University of Maryland, and when the atmosphere gets hotter than their body temper ature of 105 degrees they hequeni ly die. During the past week the mercury went to 108 degrees in the contest plant. Deaths and prostrations oc curred so rapidly among the hens that the attendants were kept busy keeping the records straight and re viving those birds that would re spond to treatment. Only two of the 91 birds lost were leaders in the con test, it was reported. All the hens are housed in well ventilated pens w'ith runways. Cut Force Of Deputies Here, Allen Informs Several Officer* Are Cut Off Maintaining Big Force Expensive By Insurance Plan. Economy Move* Cat __ I j There are four less deputy sheriffs in Cleveland county to day than there were yesterday, and by the end of the month the force will be decreased by eight to ten, H was announced today by Sheriff Irvin M. Al len. There are two reasons for cutting the force of officers, ac cording to the sheriff. One is that the workman's compensa tion act requires the county to keep all officers insured and this is quite a bit of expense with a large force. Another is that Sheriff Allen does,not be lieve there Is enough crime go ing on in the county to require a large force, and the rut is bring made as a matter of economy. Deputies do not draw regu- ' lar salaries and their only pay Is from fees in cases on convic tion. From that 'standpoint a large force, was no expense to the colmty, but the insurance requiremetot added a cost that is partly eliminated by a rut in the force. Rutherford’* Fair Grounds Are Sold *30.394.30 li Berived From Auction Sales in Rutherford County Forest City, July 31.—At an auc tion sale held today by Harrill and King, selling agents for John D. Biggs, liquidating agent for the Farmers Bank and Trust company, of Forest City, and the Rutherford | County Bank and Trust company of Rutherfordton, property owned by ctegyneg bgnks brought *3fc 3M.30 This money wilt be used, to gether with that derived from the sale of property of the Farmers bank last week to pay off the de positors. The Rutherford county fair grounds, property was bought by a group of eight Forest City men as an Investment. Part of the fair grounds was divided into 100-foot lots and several small farms. There was also one eight-room two-story dwelling house. All of these were sold this afternoon. This morning at Rutherfordton the Rutherford County Bank and Trust company building was sold by Harrill and King for $12,650 to the Union Trust company of Shelby which is operating a branch bank in the building. The old Commer cial bank building at Rutherfordton was sold to the First Industrial bank of that place for $7*75. There is a $6,000 mortgage on this build ing. Decrease In 1 N. C. Diseases Biggest Drop in Diphtheria, With 30 Cases Less Than Previous Week Raleigh—A decrease in contag ious diseases throughout North Car olina was noted in the weekly re port of the State Board of Health. The most notable decrease was in diphtheria. Only 182 cases of this disease were reported last week, against 222 for the previous week, and 461 for the corresponding week of 1929. Tefl cases of measles were reported, against 38 for the previous week, and none for the correspond ing week in 1929. A decrease of 22 in new cases of typhoid fever is still slightly more prevalent this year than it was last. There were 56 new cases, against 78 during the previous week, and 52 (CONTINUED ON PAQI TIN > Heavy To Operate Cafe At Bus Station Heavy (Earl) Lybrand. who in years gone by operated one of Shel by’s most popular eating places, will be back in his old business Monday when he takes over the cafe at the Union bus station here. Mr. Ly brand will continue his work as ci gar salesman with Mrs. Lybrand operating the cafe during the day and Mr. Lybrand at night. Masonic Meeting A meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A F. and A. M will be held tonight for work in the second 'iegtee. Cleveland Get* ■ Share Of Coin In the first .distribution of equalisation funds from Ra leigh this year ('Iceland's portion was S19,t>82 3« This is slightly more than the allot ment of $18,334.88 in the school year of 1939-30. The money is a portion of the 81,350,000 equalisation fund watch is used each year to aid eight months school terms. Rutherford's allotment was 917,810.32. slightly more than last year'* allotment. Suit Against City Settled Superior Court Term Ends Here Today. No Big Suits Tried The July term of Superior court adjourned here today with Judge T. J. Shaw completing the civil ca lendar about noon. Ygsterday one of the moat im portant suits on the civil calendar, the suit of G. B. Jones against the City of Shelby, was settled by com promise. Mr. Jones was asking |1,500 dam ages of the city because of alleged damage to his residential property on West Graham street. The com plaint was that the street level be ing higher than his lot the drain water flooded the lot and that on occasions water got up into the house. The terms of the settlement, it is understood, was that the city will level the lot. Attorney D. Z. Newton represented the city and Attorneys Maurice Weathers and Peyton McSwain appeared for the plaintiff. . Non-Sait Action The suit of Butler vs. Warlick, in which damages were sought for the death of a Butler child en route home from school last year, was non-suited by Judge Shaw'when the plaintiff failed to appear in court. The complaint was that the child was killed when riding from school with a son ol Mr, Chtrehce walker, the fatal injury being suffered when the child stepped or fell from the running board. No major damage suits were heard during the term and only a small number of divorce suits came up for disposal. To Ride Bike To Wilmington Monday Albert Spangler. Shelby boy. will un Monday start off on a new frangled endurance grind. He plans to ride a bicycle to Wil mington and make the trip in 24 hours. Jtor a week, he has been practic ing on the highway between Char lotte and Asheville. He will ride a Hawthrone bike on his long trip. Ella Club Defeats Kings Mtn. Outfit Playing here yesterday the Ella Mill base ball club defeated the Cota team fronf Kings Mountain, 8 to 6 in a fast ball game. * intermediates plat The baseball team of the inter mediate class of the First Baptist church will play the Forest City junior team in the City park here Monday. / County Will Publish Full Expense Account Tree-Sitter Here Makes Second Day, Up For Record Now Several Thousand Proplr Visit Pjtr O'Shields in Two Days At noon today Pete O'Shlrlds. Shelby's tree-sitter who hopes to brine a record to town, had completed his second day—4R hours—and was taking it easy In his pear tree home determin ed to remain up untit fall. Since young: O'Shields climbed in to the big tree, at the rear of The Star building, between Campbell’s and Courtview, Wednesday at noon, at least 3,000 people have visited the scene of the attempt at a record, Wednesday night the alley was flli ed with cars and people and there was another traffic Jam In the al ley again last night. During the day a constant stream of people, many of them young boys and girls, keep moving to and from the tree. During the day and early hours of the -night from three to a half dozen youngsters have kept him company in his shady retreat. Only In the late hours of the night has he been alone, refusing so far all of fers from pals to spend the night with him. Gets a Mattress His first night was a bit uncom fortable due to the hardness of his plank bed. but.last night he fared better on a mattress loaned by the Kester-Groonije furniture firm. The rain and thunder storm at noon Thursday failed to drive the tree sitter out. An awning tent, con tributed by Lutk and Jaekaon, with spliced sides, held much of the rain off htai and the radio loaned him by the Pendleton store. So that the tree-sittef may have a bit of spend ing money when he comes down Dr A. Pitt Beam, local dentist, te offer* tag him a dollar each week he re mains up. and others are planning to make similar offers. ! Juctue, as previously announc ed. are being given by the Central cafe, and his smokes and drinks by Quinn’s drug store. The Campbell department store is furnishing the tree, A. V. Wray and Hlx Sons are offering a shirt and a necktie for remaining up a week, the Carolina theater is giving a week’s pass for every 2« hours up, and the Peter Pan golf course is giving t*o days free play for every day up. To Get Hair Cut At 5:30 this afternoon Frazier Patton, proprietor of the Patton barber shop, will climb the tree and give O'Shields a hair cut and shave. The tonsorial work will be carried out on the limbs of the tree. Game Here Today Attracts Interest Baseball fans of Shelby are con siderably enthused over the sched uled contest here this afternoon be tween the Spindale club and the EastsiderOra team of Shelby. Two hurling rivals In local ball will op pose each other—Sherrill Hamrick, former high school star, pitching for Spindale, and ’Lefty” Smith for the Eastside-Oras. Several well known league and semi-pro stars will appear In the two line-ups. Present Drought In United States Worst Country Ever Experienced Heavy Damage to Crops. No Gen eral Relief in Sight • Yet Washington, D. C.—-The searing drought which for weeks and months has baked large areas be tween the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians was listed today as the worst the country has ex perienced since State-widS weather records began J. B. Kincer, meteorologist of the departmftit of agriculture, de scribed tt as unparalleled in the records which reach back 40 or 50 years. Farmers who have watched their crops wither under almost unprece dented temperature records accom panying moisture deficiencies, par ticularly corn, pastures and fall truck crops, received no encourage ment. The forecast division of the weather bureau said no relief was in sight for several days more at least. “Every a National day without rain," Kincer said, ' notwilhstand 1 ing cooler' weather, necessarily will further reduce crop prospects." Wheat Escapes Winter wheat harvest, however, is nearing completion without appre ciable damage. Considerable de terioration to the late spring wheat was reported but harvesting of the early crop is well advanced. Cotton has suffered in some sec tions, The drought has existed in some states since last December, in oth ers sinch March and in still others the dry weather began in the grow ing months of June and July. In addition to the scanty rainfall ■in July, increasing drought condi tions already prevalent over large areas, three extremely hot waves followed to intensify them. During July, temperatures of 100 degrees or i/gher were reported on four to. six days in the Middle At lantic area and from six to as many as 15 days from the northern por tions of Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, and Northern Texas over! (CONTINUED ON FACE TEN.) ' Citizens To Know Operating Cost Monthly I.l»t of Bllln to Bo l»nb. Hshcd ax in Paul. Nothin* Secret, Cline ’‘There is nothin* about the operation of the county gov ernment! which the commisslon ers and ‘other officials care for all cittien* and taxpayers to know, a fid with that in view we are planning on publishin* each month every Item of ex* penae the county has,’* Mr. 4. E. Cline, chairman of the Cleveland commissioners and county auditor, aaid today. Many people, he explained, find it difficult to get all the informs - tion they want out of the annual publication or the county expense* and audit. Desiring to keep the public posted on all ex pense the commtssf&lewyPHi to return to the old method of pre paring an extra copy of the bills ordered paid at each monthly meet ing for publication in The Star. Prior to the new business system in stalled some years ago the month ly expense list as endorsed by the commissioners was published each month Under the voucher system the method of approving the monthly bills was somewhat differ ent and for a time the monthly list was not published. Altlfcugh It may take a bit of ad ditional work to prepare a copy of this monthly session, as it touches upon finance, the commissioners be lieve it will be the best way of keeping taxpayers informed and plan to follow that hereafter. Each Item I.isted “Every person," Mr. Cline said, "can then tell Just where every cent of money is going. Each bill be approve and order paid will he list ed with the amount and the recip ient and the nature of the bill, Tt OKttl be easier iot citizen* to telt just where the money *is going then than it will be be figure It out frbm the annual statement. A list of the bills approved at the meeting Mon day will be turned over to The Star during the week We not only have no desire to keep anything secret, but think it far best for all concern ed to know just what is going on.” The only county expense . other . than the monthly bills as recorded at the meeting of the commission ers is the regular salary list of county officials and workers. Some citizens do not know the exact,sal aries of all county employes, and for that reason Mf. Cline is preparing * Ust of salaries of county employes for publication. Dorton To Handle Concession Rights . For Big Celebration Local Man Will Handle Concemidn Rights For Battle Ground Event. 1." At a meeting; of representative# of nine American Legion posts held at Gastonia this week in the new Memorial Building, Dr. J. S. Dorton. of Shelby, was appointed as offic ial representative of the Ltgion in the handling of concession rights for the Kings Mountain battle cele bration. The Legion will sell the privilege of setting, up refreshment stands and the right to sal! souve- * nlrs to the .great throng of people who will be in attendance. The money derived therefrom will be ‘ turned into the treasury cf the Cel ebration committee to help defray expenses of the great event which takes place October 7th. Dr. Dorton, by reason of his be ing secretary of the Cleveland Coun ty Fair association, is in touch with men and firms who make a practice of following up gatherings of this sort and selling refreshments and souvenirs. The concession rights, therefore, are expected to oe a fine source of revenue to the celebration committee. Dr. Dorton and Toni Ab ernethy, president of the local War ren Hoyle Post of American legion, attended the Gastonia meeting thiaf I week. At Celebration SO Years Ago, Return* Bill Hogue, well known Shelby man. was at the Kings Mountain celebration 50 years ago and he is going back in October for the big gest celebration yet staged there unless something bobs up between now and the date of the event, Fiffy years ago he attended for two days ol the three-day celebration. ,

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