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She letorlanb 8 PAGES TODAY SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. AUG. 4. 1930 Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. .._......... 12fic Cotton Seed, per bo. __——---36c Fair And Warmer. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. Slightly wanner tonight in extreme west portion. Drink Kills Boy. Lumberton, Aug. 4.—Arthur Lee Hodge, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hodge of the Lovett road section, near Lumberton, died in a Lumberton hospital early Sun day from the effects of something he drank Saturday believed to have been home brew. The lad’s father is under arrest pending, the. out come of a coroner’s inquest started yesterday and scheduled to be com pleted today. House Struck By Lightning Bolt Plays Pranks About Gardner Home At Double Springs. No One Hurt. The family of W. Hoyle Gardner, in the Double Springs community, narrowly escaped death Monday night about 9:30 when a terrific stroke of lightning struck . their home. That the stroke, which rip ped aioose floor and celling near their beds, did not kill any of them nor set the house afire after scorch ing wood in the kitchen and filling the house with smoke was consider ed a miracle by many who visited the scene. The lightning which was followed bv a deafening clash of thunder awoke them and Mr. Gardner upon f finding his boys, who were in the next room, alive rushed about the smoke filled rooms to possibly extin guish any fire that would be in his control. His boys, Clyde and W. H., who accompanied him found the ' house in utter confusion and that the lightning had played havoc in practically every room. They sat up the rest of the night awaiting a possible outbreak of flames and there was no desire to sleep after such a shock as they had been sub jected. As best as those who were scien tifically minded could diagnose the scene the lightning first hit an oak tree about fifty feet from the house ripping off about ten feet of the trunk It then jumped to a telephone wir*..dc*trecing ft completely leav ing no trace of it anywhere on the premises to a pole 300 feet from the house. It then entered the kitchen burned the curtains from *he win dows, and scorched the celling about two yards square, flung linoleum to the ceiling where it struck, knock ed the back off of the cabinet, and knocked out 24 panes of g’ass in cluding a large door glass and the door frame was loosed. In the next room where the boys were it knock ed down three square yards of ceil ing but luckily > not over the bed, from there it went to the front room where it also knocked down „ ceiling and pried out dozjn of nails about one inch from the ceiling like a powerful magnet might do. It then went upstairs and piayed over the metal tops of canned fruit breaking several jars. Then it de molished a wooden bed and knbek ed the doors off a wardrobe from there it jumped to an attic room and completely ripped the wall boards from the room and burned sheeting stored there and broke completely into two by four joists. It then ripped off shingles that it took two bales to replace, going from there to the ground on lightning rods. Although the house was damaged to the extent of about two hundred dollars the family was extremely thankful that no lives were lost and that the house was miraculously saved from being consumed by flames. Mr. James Edwards Was Buried Sunday 81-Iear-Old Man Passes At Home Of Son In Beaver Darn Section. Mr. Janies Edwards, well known eitisen of the county, died Saturday at the home of his son, Mr. Flay Edwards, in the Beaver Dam section. He was more than 81 years of age. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Sandy Run church with Rev. Zack Harrill in charge. A large crowd at tended. Surviving are the widow and two children—Mr. Flay Edwards. and Mrs. Louis Drewry, of Chrislde. Many DcseandanU. Mr. Edwards was the head of a large family. Other survivors in clude 19 grandchildren. 42 great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren. 'Cafe Is Leased. Squire Sylvanus Gardner will con tinue to operate the Union bus sta tion here, it was announced today, and only the cafe section of the station has been leased to fir. Earl < Heavy) Lybrand. Suit Is Filed For Alienation | OfWife’sLooe Caddell Asks For $10,000 Damage First Suit of Kind In County, Wife Attempted Suicide in June Cleveland county’s first dam age suit charging the alienation of a wife’s affections was filed here last week when George R. Caddell asked $10,000 ^damages of Arthur H. Sides for alienat ing the love of Mrs. Ruth Avis Caddell, his wife. The complaint is now recorded in the office of the clerk of Superior court and the suit may be heard at the next term of court. Sides is- a well known employe of the Cleveland cloth mill. Cad dell was formerly employed there and his wife operated the cloth mill boarding house. In June Mrs. Cad dell attempted suicide by swallow ing an arsenic form of poison, but recovered after treatment for sev eral days at the Shelby jhospital. She is now in Danville, her former home, it is said. The complaint alleges that the de fendant alienated the affections of Mrs. Caddell from her husband and thus broke up the plaintiff’s home. The complaint covers several pages and sets forth many allegations, In cluding the statement that Mrs. Caddell is permanently mained as the result of her suicide attempt. Attorney A1 R. Bennett is the coun sel for Caddell. Sides is represented by Attorneys Peyton McSwain and Speight Beam, and. although they have not as yet filed an answer to the complaint, they say they believe their client Is not guilty of the charges placed against him. They urge that friends of Sides wait until his angle of the case is heard in court. Hoey To Speak At Junior Celebration At Mt. HoUf Ang»9 Many Prominent Speakers to Fea ture Junior Order Celebration Plans for a mammoth celebration of Junior Order Day, August 9th, by the local chapter of the fraterni ty were made public this afternoon by the program committee. The principal speaker for the occasion will be the Hon. Clyde Hoey, mem ber of the order from Shelby. Oth er notables are the Hon. Chas. A. Jonas, congressman of Lincolnton; Solicitor John G. Carpenter, Major A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia and E. C. Hamilton, district councilor of Monroe. The celebration, to be held on the grounds of the city schools, will be gin at 11 o’clock and calls for the participation of members of the or der from all of the lodges in the district. Music will be furnished by two bands, the Mount Holly High School Band and the Kendall Mills Band. At noon a basket dinner will be served on the school grounds, to be followed by a baseball game between the American and Kendall mills teams. After the game six boxing bouts will be staged, including a battle royal between five chocolate colored huskies. Participating In the celebration will be members of the lodges of the fraternity from Charlotte, Monroe, Albemarle, Lowell, Gastonia, Bel mont, Cherryville, McAdenville, Shelby, Lowesville, Concord, Kan napolis, Cornelius and Chadwick Hoskins. Born, Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Chastain, of E. Marion street, an 11-pound son. Mr. Chastain is advertising manager of the Caro lina theater here. One Fair Flyer to Another HI WHIIIIIIIIIIIlii i I i I I in H Amelia Earhart, only woman to < fly the Atlantic, says good luck to Mrs. Marti e Bowman (seated iw plane), of Hempstead, L. I., before leaving for New York. Miss Paxtygrt is to compete in the Woman's Air Derby on 11m* West Coast while Mia. Bow man is scheduled to participate in the Washington to Chicago Air Derby starting August 22. * V 4 (Interaction** Nimwll Kings Mountain Woman Killed In Mysterious Wreck Near York, S. C. Case Of Attorney Is Adjusted Here Williams Arranges Check In Case Which Involves Arrest. Failure to keep track of Ills bank account, caused the arrest here ■Sunday of Attorney who was placed under bond of $1, 000 until this morning. Attorney Williams, it Is (understood, acting in the capacity of, an attorney, had col lected an account of $360 lor D. C. Crowder of No. 8 township and Crowder was notified by Williams that he had the money for him. On Friday Williams gave a check to Crowder for the amount but the bank turned the checs tiown be cause of insufficient fund:. Crowder looked for Williams Saturday and failing to find him becau e he was out of town, a warrant was sworn out. This morning Williams prompt ly made good the claim and Crow der was satisfied. Mr. Crowder now states that he may have acted too hastily in the matter and is sorry that he caused Mr. Williams this embarrassment. Times Hard, People Good; 3 Arrested Smaller Number Prisoners In Jail Than In Months, Sheriff Say'S Here is something that comes very near being a record for mod ern Shelby: Only three persons were arrested in the city over the week-end and today there are only 10 prisoners in the county jail. Three arrests over a week-end is the smallest number he recalls in a long time, according to Sheriff Irvin Allea And just a few weeks ago the jail was crowded and the sheriff was about ready to hang out a “standing room only” sign. Court last week and the week be fore pretty well Cleaned the jail of prisoners, and due to the facf that few arrests have been made in the last two weeks the jail population is at a low ebb. Southern Farmers Are “Cash Crop Crazy”;Section’s Worst Trouble More Foodstuffs Instead of Cash Crops Urged By Carl Taylor Chapel Hill—"Farm troubles In the South are due mostly to the fact that the South is 'cash crop crazy,”’ said Carl C. Taylor, dean of the North Carolina State college grad uate school, in his address before the Public Welfare Institute here. He presented statistics to show that the families which had the smallest cash income were also the ones which raised no foodstuffs and which usually became dependent on their landlords for the actual ne cessities ol life. “There is no reason,” he declar ed, “why the farm cannot absorb the surplus population of . the cities if the proper agricultural program is pursued. But such a, program must be organized as a community project and not be left up to the in dividual farmer. The welfare work er, the farm agent, the home der,| onstratfon agent, the churches, the civic clubs,—all these must get to gether and organize the commun ity. The farmer must be encour aged to plant a garden, to raise stock, and in short, to live at home.” Mr. Taylor spoke in high praise of Governor Gardners live-at-home campaign. Two Women Picked lip Strange Man, One living Say*. Whiskey Is Fonnd. (Special to The Star t Kings Mountain, August 4.—One Kings Mountain woman is dead and another was injured in a somewhat mysterious automobile fatality near York, S. C., on Saturday. Mrs Myrtle Fox, 23,. ..JftPgi Mountain, was exonerated by d York county coroner’s jury Sunday of blame in connection with the death of Mrs. Minnie Nettie Mar tin, 38, also of Kings Mountain, who was killed in an automobile wreck near there Saturday. Mrs. Martin suffered a broken neck and her body was severely crushed when caught between the automobile and an embankment, Man Asks For Ride. Mrs. Fox, in a voluntary state ment to the inquest jury, said that she and Mrs. Martin left Kings Mountain in an automobile belong ing to John McDaniel of Kings Mountain. On the outskirts of York, she- said, they picked up a strange man who asked to be ailcwed to ride. When the trio reached a tree-lin ed section of the road she said, the man made “an improper proposal.” She refused, she said, and the stranger struck her in the right eye, Mrs. Martin, becoming excited, grabbed the wheel, she said, and the automobile crashed into the em bankment. Says She Was Dazed Mrs. Pox was arrested by York county officers several mi’es from the wreck, after Mrs. Martin's bro ken body had been discovered. She told the coroner’s jury that she was in a dazed condition and had wan dered away from the scene without knowing her companion nad been killed. No trace was' found of Inc strange man Mrs. Fox said they had picked up. York county officers testified they removed a bottle of whiskey from the dead woman’s clothing. Mrs. Fox returned to her home here Sunday. The body of Mrs. Mar tin was taken to Gaffney S. C„ for burial. Plans Skating Trip To Coast; Now After Some Local Backing | Shelby Boy To Roller Skate To Wil mington Next Week. Mer | chants Help. Another Shelby boy is planning on a new type of record. Next week, or perhaps late this week, CJyde Weaver, Shelby youth, hopes to set a record time for skat ing from Shelby to the Atlantic coast at Wilmington. Several local stores, including hardwares, are offering the young ster skates and other prizes for the trip, and he is now desiripus of ad ditional backing from fseal mer chants so that he may make ■ ex penses for the long skate. Coart Docket Not Cleared By Recent Session Court Cases Mount Higher Here July Term fail* to Clear |!p Crim inal Docket or Civil Soil Calendar Several local lawyers and perhaps some of the other court officials be came Somewhat tired on July ses sions of Superior court here. due. no doubt, to the extreme heat which prevailed during the term which ended last week. But despite the fact that the July term was not long Since started here again In order 'to help keep the court dock etts cleared up, there are a hundred and perhaps more cases already on the criminal docket- or the civil cal endar which could not be disposed of during the term. The week's criminal court, pre sided over by Judge J. L. Webb, and the week of civil actions, presided over by Judge T. J. Shaw, disposed of the more urgent cases, but as yet ther* are numerous criminal cases on th* docket which have been con ttnuW for some time, and likewise a number of civil matters which arc carried over to another term. For some years the court docket and calendar have been growing to such-,an extent that the regular number of courts can hardly keep pace. When the term of court con vened here last month It faced the heaviest ever, and the civil calen dar was equally as large. Judge Webb managed to hear all (he jail cases and more important criminal matters, but in a week's time was unable to go through the mass of other cases on the docket. It was the same thing in the civil court. The urgent actions were disposed of, but the time limit of one week was too short for the court to clear up the entire calendar. So it seems that despite toe cus tomary July heat, the July term must continue to be a regular event of the year, if the courts hope to keep anywhere near up with the cpw^wogk piling up jn toe' county. Charlie Ross Bach In North" Carolina Mystery Man Located By Star Sev eral Years Ago In Charlotte On Visit. Charlie Ross, who claims to be Philadelphia’s long lost Charlie, but who was known as Julius Dellinger when he lived at Denver in Lincoln county, is back in North Carolina cn a ylsit. It was several years ago readers will recall, the The Star published the first story about the Denver man who claimed to be Ross and! advanced what appeared to be rath er convincing proof that he was the wealthy boy kidnapped in Philadel phia many, many years ago. The story attracted nation-wide interest as the Ross case has been one of America’s most discussed mysteries. Ross, or Dellinger, later visited Mr. Frank Gaffney in Shelby. .Mr. Gaff ney was one of those who support ed the Ross story In that he recall ed the boy staying in Gaffney when MrrT3affney was a young nan there. Dellinger made a trip to Philadel phia to see Walter Ross, a brother of the boy kidnapped at German town, near there, on July I. 1874. but Walter Ross refused to believe that the Denver man was his long lost missing brother. Since then Dellin ger, who now goes all the time by the name Of Ross, has been travel ing about the country quite a bit. At present he is visiting In Char lotte and may eome here Mrs. Wallace Takes Youths To Capital — i Cleveland Boys And Girts In 4-H Clubs On Trip To Raleigh. _ Mrs. Irma Wallace, Cleveland county demonstration agent left this morning for Raleigh whexe she will be in charge of a group of 4-H club boys and girls from this county at the short course offered there. Quite a number of county" farm boys and girls are making the trip, which, it is believed, will prove very beneficial as well as entertaining. Moore Agency Men Attend Convention The descendants of the late Jessie Hord family, a pioneer settlers of Cleveland county will hold their re union at his old home place four miles east of Shelby Monday Aug. 11. Friends and relatives* are In vited to spend the day together. A picnic dinner .will be spread at noon. Trophy Cup Awarded The Star . Th-e above trophy cup awarded The Cleveland Star, of Shelby, as the best news paper outside the daily field in North Carolina, measures 28 inches high. It is an award made by Walter H. Savory, of Brooklyn. New York, through the North Carolina Press as sociation. Points considered in nam of typography, make-up and of tyograhy. make-up and general news contents. The Star is the only every-other day newspaper in North Caro lina, and has a circulation larger than any of the 160 weekly newspapers in the state and a circulation larger than 20 of the 25 daily news papers in North Carolina. It ranks in circulation 15th among 200 newspapers in the state. Hicks Funeral This Afternoon Mr. W, M. Ilirk* I>i£rf Sunday. Funeral Services At Sandy Run Chui“A, Funeral services for Mr. W. M. Hicks, who died Sunday, were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at Sandy Run aptist church, at Mooresboro. The services were conducLcd by Rev. L. L. Jessup, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Shelbv and the Junior Order of Henrietta, of which he w'fts a charter membe. assisted by local Junior Order members. Mr. Hicks, who was 71 years of age died about 7 o’clock Sunday morning from heart trouble. He was the son of the late Willis and Betty Hicks of the Mooresuoro sec tion and was W'ell known through out this section. He was a member of the Sandy Run church for two score years, moving his membership to the Second Baptist church here seven years ago. The deceased is survived by his widow, who before marriage was Miss Mary Margaret Sarratt, of Gaffney, and by nine children and 25 grandchildren. Two children pre ceded him to the grave. The sur viving children are Willis G„ of West Hickory; H. M., of Charlotte; R.F., of Cherokee R-2; T. C. and Propst and Mrs. P G Ahcrnethy, of Shelby; J. W and Arthur, alsb of Shelby. COUNTY BOARDS MEETING Both the county board of com missioners and the board of educa tion are holding their regular monthly meetings today. Hail Storm Damages Crops Over Cleveland On Same Job For 57 Year* A fellow who ha* been on the name job for only 10 or 'JO years does not know what It means to stick to the same old routine for a Ion* time. • That's the opinion of Sljr Littlejohn, colored man of about 80 years of age, And SI* ought to know, for he has been working for the Southern railroad. on the Shslby Blacksburg division, foi seven years more than a half cen tory. It has been continuous work, every day. Littlejohn lives in Blacksburg luit comes into Shelby on one of the Southern trains almost every j day. He was formerly a mem- ] her of the construction forre i , but now cares for flower gar- j dens about station sards. 1 I btate Hoovercrats’ Wanting Smith Now? Ftvr Thousand Said To Have Circu lated Petition In Interest Of Al Smith. Washington, Aug. 4.—Some of the newspapermen, connected with bu reaus of the New Yorl- papers, heard a story yesterday to the ef fect that petitions have been circu lated in North Carolina by “Hoover crata" calling upon Governor Smith to enter the race for the nomina tion for the presidency in 1932. It is asserted that the petitions have been signed by 5,000 or more of the displeased Democrats w ho, in a pre sumably misguided moment, caat a vote for Mr. Hoover and his kind of prosperity. The report, as related has it that the offices of both the Republican apd Democratic national lii sanita tions have heard of the alleged ac tivity ot th* aforesaid * Hoovercrats' and it is stated that both ere look ing Into the strange North Caro lina story. It is furthermore stated that both Republican and Democra tic leaders hope the story is without substantial foundation, the Republi cans taking the view th#t such man ifestation of hostility agamst Mr. Hoover by those who had previously supported him would damage the Republican cause in the state, while Democrats here feel thet their brethren in North Carolina would be showing poor judgment if they set in motion a Smith movement at this juncture. The newspaper boys handling this Smith story have it that 'ht infor mation comes from a reliable source Legrion Post Here To Elect Officers Warren Hoyle r0st Meet* At Court House On Tuesday Night. New officers for the War, en Hoyle Legion post of Shelby will be elect ed at a meeting to be held Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at the county court house, it was announced to day by Tom Abernethy. present commander of the post, All.members of the post are urged to attend this important meeting, which will take up other items of business. Dover Speaker For Antioch On Sunday Mr. J. R Dover, well known church layman of Shelby, was one of the principal speakers at the homecoming event of the Antioch Baptist church Sunday. Rev. W. E. Lowe, of Shelby, is pastor of the church. Man At Kinston Kills Family And Himself; Worried About Finances Despondency Over Financial Trou bles Thought Motive for Triple Slaying Kinston, Aug. 4.—Charles K. Bailey, 53, formerly well known in the States sporting circles, shot to death his wife, Irene, 40, his foster son, Henry Clay, 8, and then him self Saturday morning. The triple slaying occurred In an apartment a block from the Kinston city hall, on the outskirts of the city’S business district One bullet from a pistol; said to be borrowed, fired! into the heads of eaeh of the three persons, caused death, the coroner, after viewing the bodies, said. Letters left by Bailey, addressed to an undertaker, a friend and a reporter, indicated he had been planning the wiping out of his lam lly for weeks. The loss of his posi tion as clerk of the city police court some months ago, following two charges of shortage In his accounts i brought against him, and his subse quent dire financial straits, appear ?d to have been the motive. As police reconstructed the trag ?dy, the scheme of destruction clear n his mind, crept up behind his vifc while she was preparing break CGNTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Friday Night Hail Injures Farmers Grover. Waco. Patterson Grove Ser* • ions Hard Hit. Halt Crop Ruined for .Some A terrific hail and wind storm, aocompninrd by much thunder and lightning. did great dam age to the cotton and corn cropa Friday night in the Grov er, Vt'aco and Patterson Grove sections of Cleveland county In the Grover section reports have it that one-third to one-half of the cotton and corn crops were riddled and ruin by tbe hail, and a similar damage Is reported .about Waco. Several farms in the Patter son section suffered about the same damage, while oilier fanners report that the hail ruined at least half and probably more of their crops. Bis Grover Area Mr J. L Herndon stated Satur day that the hall damage covered a considerable section around Grover. Taken as a whole it was his opinion that the damage was at least one-third of the entire season crops thereabouts. It was tjso one of the worst electrical storms which ever struck that section but so far as could be learned no person or no houses were hit. Mr. A F Newton, register of deeds, says ttmt the hall ruined at least 30 bales of cotton on his fgrvn in the Patterson Grove section. Among others hard hit in that sec tion were Messrs. J R Champion. Charlie and Price Falls, Bun Pat terson, and others. In the Waco section the loss was also considerable. Mr. Yates Spur ling's crop may be taken as an Indi cation of the damage done. He says that since the destructive hail he will be glad to make 12 bales of cotton on 125 acres he has planted. Some five miles from the Pat terson Grove section and north of dtiags Mountain, lightning struck the bam of Bouce McGill, killed a horse and burned the barn. Tree-Sitter Here Remains Up; Rival Climbs Tree Today O’Shlelds Has Been Out on LimK 130 Hours. Going Strong. Weathers Storm At noon today Pete O'Shields. Shelby's 15-year-old tree-sitter, had completed 120 hours in the air, was still going strong and had not changed his declaration that he would remain up until it snowed. This morning, however, another Shelby boy climbed a tree determin ed to give Pete a run for his money and a record. The youngster is Davey Spangler, 12-year-old son cf Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spangler, of East Marion street. He la perched In a big tree in the yard of his home, but has not issued any state ment as to how long he hopes to remain up. O'Shields, however, has five days lead on young Spafigltr having been up since noon last Wednesday. With that lead he isn't worrying much, but is inclined to wonder If his rival will hang on for any length of time. Gets Drenched The Friday night storm gave the tree-sitter a little worry and a good wetting. The wind and rain beat through his tree-top tent to give him a good soaking and the light ning played rather close about, but the tree-sitter never once thought of coming down he said the next morning. The storm was so fierce, particularly so in other sections of the county, that many telephone j calls came in Saturday to inquire if the tree-sitter had been driven down. Over the week-end, Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of people, some from a distance away, visited the tree-sitter, and so far his endur ance stunt has proved to be one of •the best drawing curiosities the sec tion has had in some years, Down He Comes. ‘ At noon today Davey Spangler, Marion street youth, who started tree-sitting this morning with the hope of remaining up a* long as Peta O’Shields, climbed down from his perch and gave up in his first attempt. When noon arrived the boy’s family refused to send him up any thing. and a fellow in an endur ance contest, according to young Spangler must have his eats He ex pressed the opinion tha’ he would be glad to go up again W'l stay up if his food could be arranged.
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