m* VOL. XXXVI, No. 96 8 PAGES . TODAY . SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUG. 11. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Aiternoona. . 1 ----'ffWBBBBHWW By mau, per year On advance) *3.50 Carrier, per year (1 nadvance) $300 THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. __..._W~c, Cotton Seed, per bo. *-3#c j Slightly Cooler, North Carolina fahr, slightly cool er on coast tonight. Tuesday part ly cloudy. Dies At Lake Lure An automobile -mechanic named Punk of Asheville, died suddenly at Chimney Rock Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock while watching the boat races on Lake Lure, It Is thought he died from sunstroke. Several thousand people visited Lake Lure for the races in which eight or ten boats took part. , « Off On Vacation. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First aptist Church, left today for the mountains to spend a three week's vacation with his family who are there for the summer. He will be at Marshall, Weaverville and Ridge crest. Keeler Writes Of Golf Star J Remarkable Play Of "Snook” Webb Gets Attention Of Famous Writer "Snook” (Fred) Webb, Shelby's 15-year-old southpaw golf star, has established such a remarkable rec ord this summer that his unusual play has caught the eye of O. B. Keeler, of Atlanta, America's best known gdff writer, personal friend and advisor of Bobby Jones. In an article Saturday in The At lanta Journal, Keeler says that the Shelby boy may be the golfer to show the world that a left-hander can play golf just as well as a right hander. The Keeler comment follows: "While we are on the subject of young southerners Who are showing promise in golf, let us not overlook Snook Webb, of Shelby, N. C. Snook, whose baptism name is Fred, is 15 years old, and he now holds the scoring record on three Carolina golf courses. A week ago, Snook and his slightly older brother, Pete, who Is in his seventeenth year, were playing over the tough Spartanburg course with Hobart Lyle, former Cleveland Springs professional. The course reeord was 75. Pete turned in a card of 70, but that record was simultaneously busted by Snook, with a 65. "Three weeks before that, Snook Webb had broken his brother’s rec ord of 32 on the nine-hole course at Cleveland Springs, the younger Webb doing a 31. And a bit later, the kid set a record of 7 at the Tryon Country club, playing in a tournament there. "This same Snook Webb, it will be remembered went to the semi finals of the last southern amateur championship, where he was defeat ed In a good match with Emmett Spicer. It is said there is not a golfer of any prominence in the Carolinas that one or both of the Webb boys have not licked in the last couple of years, and in that same periqd they have between them captured four titles. "The only disquieting information I have of Snooky is that he is a southpaw. However, that will add interest to the observation of his future doings. I always have felt that there was no good reason why a golfer who stood on the wrong side of the ball might not do well and maybe Snook is destined to demonstrate It.” Local Men Buy In Rutherford Store C. C. Blanton and Forrest Eskridge Buy Old Commercial Bank Bnilding Rutherfordton, Aug. 9.—What ij probably the most valuable proper ty in Rutherfordton was sold here Friday at noon under mortgage. It was the old Commercial Dank build ing. now occupied by the Rexall drug store on the corner of Main and Second streets, and the build ing occupied by the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, which ad joins it. Forrest Eskridge and C. C. Blanton, of Shelby, bid in the prop erty for $27,500. The bid will remain open for 10 days and is subject to a raise during that time. There is a total mortgage of $24,663 against the property. All , taxes and costs added to that will nearly equal the amount of the bid, The original cost of the buildings ?nd lot more than 20 years ago was around $20,000. First Open Boll Of Cotton In Now The first open cotton boll of the seascn in Cleveland county was brought into The Stai of fice Saturday morning by Mr. f>. F. Beam. Other boils may have opened earlier but this is the first reported at The Star. County Debt Reduced $73,750 In One I'-ear Statement Published Today This Done In Face of 73c County Tax Rate. Debt Itemized in Statement There has been a total re duction in the indebtedness of ' Cleveland county and the var ions districts of $73,750 since a year ago, according: to an offi cial statement issued by the county commissioners and pub lished in today’s issue of The Star. Economy Program This reduction in the county in debtedness in the face of a 73c county tax rate and the loss of revenue from uncollected taxes of $17,353, has brought praise to the members of the county board of commissioners. The financial state ment is a most gratifying one and the envy of tax payers in other counties where economy and ap proved business methods have not been practised as they have been practised in Cleveland. The prin ciples of economy have been car ried out in the administration of county affairs and the results have been most gratifying to the tax payers. Loss in Uncollected Taxes Today's official statement pub lished in accordance with the Coun ty Finance Act of 1927 shows many interesting figures which the tax payers are no doubt glad to get. For instance, the total indebtedness of the county, road and school dis tricts at the ending of the fiscal year June 3th, 1929 was $1,110,400. One year later, or at the end of the fiscal year June 30th, 1930, this in debtedness had been reduced to $1, 036,650, or $73,750 less than the previous year. This was accom plished in the face of a tax rate cut and a loss because of uncollect ed taxes (insolvents, errors and re leases and land sales) amounting to $17,353. The statement as publish ed today is MHjuirei! In slib w $ CSift parison for three years of unfcollect ed taxes and the stringency of the times is indicated by this increase in uncollected taxes over 1929 and 1928. Nearly $10,000 revenue was missed this year over last year be cause of uncollectible taxes for various causes. The official statement is interest ing to every taxpayer in Cleveland for the further reason that it shows an itemized indebtedness of the township road districts and the special school taxing districts, to gether with the road and school tax district rates last year as compared with this year and the amount of money these rates are estimated to raise in money. Revenue surpluses for road funds and deficits and sur pluses are also shown by the official statement published in today’s Star. Cline Speaker At Officials Meeting Mr, A.-.E. Cline, chairmen, of the Cleveland county commissioners, will go this week to Wrightsville Beach to attend the annual meet ing of North Carolina county com-" missioners, which meets there on Tuesday. The Cleveland man is on the program for the response to the address of welcome. Mr. Cline Is vice president of the stat-‘ associa tion of commissioners and is also a member of the state advisory board. Mrs. Houser, 99 Years Old, Has 215 At Her Birthday Mrs. Elizabeth Houser. Cleve land county's oldest woman, celebrated her 99th birthday Saturday at the home of her grand-son, Herbert Borders near the county home just east of Shelby. She was able to enjoy the presence of 215 friends and relatives who called for the us ual reunion and birthday din ner. An abundance of good things to eat, was served. Mrs. Houser’s general condi tion is exceptionally good fr| one of her age. She has defec tive sight and hearing, but ex pects to be able to attend the Beam reunion to be held Thurs day of this week. ur, -fccno nan, pasior in me First Baptist church, made an appropriate talk at the anni versary celebration Saturday. Mrs- Houser has six living children, 39 grand children, 94 great grand children and 12 great, great grand children, who were nearly all present. One sister, Mrs. William Put nam, also attended the party. County Borrows $40,000On Note Registered Bull is Purchased for the County Home—All Members Present I —— Aside from letting contracts for the erection of new buildings in lieu of those destroyed by Jire at the County home during the Spring, the cou*ty comjiissioners in a called 'meeting held Saturday, decided to borrow $40,000 for the purpose of paying appropriations made for necessary expenses for the current fiical year In anticipation Of the collection of the taxes and other Revenue. A negotiable note will be issued therefore and notice of the sale of such note will be published in an early issue of The Star. The following bills were ordered paid, including $400 for a registered bull to be kept at the county home. J. Lester Green, milk for poor, $1.00. R. W. Shoffnet. purchasing a bull for county home, $400.00. R. S. Thornburg, bridge lumber, $17.50. J. D. Allen, post for county home. and flooring bridge, $77.50. j —s Mrs. Oliver Dies; Taken To Georgia _ t! Mrs. Roxie I. Oliver, 1 years of age and wife of D. P. Oliver who works at the Cleveland Cloth Mill and live in the village, died Satur day afternoon at 4 o'clock of heart trouble. Mrs. Oliver was born in Georgia and her remains were taken Sunday morning to Hoschton, Ga tor interment. She was a fine Christian character and loved by her host of friends. Camp Call Masons To Meet The Camp Call lodge No. 534 A. F. and A, M. meets in call commun ication Wednesday. All members are requested to be present. Storm And Hail Damage: Fallston To Cherryville Hail Does Considerable Damage to Crops Above Fallston—Cher ryville Mill Unroofed Wind, rain and hail of severe proportions visited a section above Fallston, traveled southeast through Lincoln county and reached its height at Cherryville where one side of the Gaston Manufacturing Co., a yarn mill controlled by Mr. Hey wood Hull of Shelby, had one side of the building blown in, damaging some of fcthe machinery and other wise disrupting the plant The tre mendous driving force of the wind caved in a section about 10 by 25 feet of the brick wall and stripped bare a large section of the roof. The wind hit Cherryville between 4 and 5 o’clock, blowing over many trees and doing damage to small outhouses and shrubbery. The wind is said to have been the heaviest experienced there in several years. Hail Above Fallston According to telephone reports to ----- The Star this morning from Fall-, ston, the hail damage was severest in a stretch about a half mile wide, including the farms of R. W. Wil son, R. A. and John Lackey, Frank Stamey and others. ^ It passed southeast through the “farms of C. A. Biggerstaff, Clarence Eaker and A. G. Parker and moved on through Lincoln and into Gaston county. Field crops were badly cut by the hall stones as large as a man’s thumb and the strong wind whipped about the corn and broke much of it off. Rain fell in Rutherfbrd, Burke, j Cleveland. Gaston. Lincoln and1 Mecklenburg counties and heavy winds accompanied the rain, but no damage has been reported to The Star other than in the sections above mentioned. In Charlotte there was a rain fall of .88 of an inch and the wind there was of such velocity that wire service was disrupted and some telephone and electric equip ment were put out ol commission. Unusual News Of The Day Love will find a way. An incident that took place in Shelby last week supports the old saying. A young business man from » North Carolina city not a day's drive from Shelby stepped up to a clerk at Shelby postolficc and asked where a certain young lady lived. Later he visited The Star office and secured the remaining infor mation he desired to know about the location of the young lady's home. lie was determined to find her i because he desired to marry her. And before the day was over he was a married man. He meV the Cleveland county girl while she was teaching in his home town, had never bern to Shelby be fore, but he was enough in love not to be halted by little handicaps such as not knowing the address of the bride-to-be. Rein* mayor of Shelby apparently is not as hard upon a man as being: president or governor. America has only one living ex-President and North Carolina has only two living ex-governors, yet Shelby has four living ex-mayors—Paul Webb. W. Tf. Dorsey, Pat McBrayer and A. P. Weathers. There would be more perhaps had It not been that the late Col. J. T. Gardner held the of fice for 13 terms. Mrs. Rhoda Wilson, aged lady of the Palm Tree section, is not much on traveling around. * Saturday she was in Shelby for the probation of her husband's will and it was her second trip here in 28 years. Five years ago she came to a circus. And Palm Tree is just 10 miles from Shelby. One of the biggest worries, year in and year out for Sheriff Allen and Chief Poston is keeping the knives of negro prisoners properly identi fied until the prisoners become free men again. Right often the color ed boys protest vehemently when they are given somebody else's carving instrument instead of UH one they claim w-as taken from them when placed in jail.. Does an ambulance, a fire truck, or any other emergency esnr-have the right of way when the red stop light is against them at a traffic corner? That has been a muchly debated topic in Shelby since an automobile was hit by an ambulance making a dash Friday to the fatal accident on the Cleveland Springs road. Contracts Let For County Home Plant Lutz And Webb, Roberts and Evans To Do Building There Soon. Contracts were let at .he court house here Saturday afternoon for the erection of three new buildings at the county home to replace those destroyed by the fire some months ago and to take care of the gener ally overcrowded condition there. Lutz and Webb, local builders, wore awarded the contract for the eight-room addition to tie main building, or the keeper's home. The price was $6,500. Roberts and Evans, also local contractors. were awarded the building of a six-room house for colored Inmates and a four-room storage house. The price lor the | two was $5,869, There were quite f a number of bidders, according to county offi cials. / And Ellis Has Show Topped By a Decade Mr. E. R. Ellis, Shelby’s sprightly Confederate vet who feels young enough to mix up in another war 11 somebody starts one, believes that George Bernard Shaw, the famous English playwright, should have several more birthdays before he claims to be an active old man. Mr Ellis saw a photo of Shaw climbing a stairway two steps at a time Shaw is 74. “I can take the court house steps two at a time without holding any day in the week, and 1 am spotting Shaw 10 years," says the Conl'edearte vet who is now 84 Local Jeweler On State Committee R. M. Abernethy, local Jeweler has been placed on the publicity com mittee of the North Carolina Retail Jewelers association. The member ship of this committee is composed of legitimate jewelers in Nor r h o n a i r men-aHhntlnwft may wear neatly pressed Irons* | ers every day and the ladies of Shelby may freshen up their, j appearance with regularly cleaned gowns considerably cheaper now than they could a year ago. Shelby dry cleaning plants and pressing clubs have started a price war. Such has been the reduction in cleaning and pressing prices that In some Instances suits may be clean ed and pressed for half what they could have been last year, and the same applies to the cleaning of dresses and other feminine gar ments. One or the first moves in the: price war, which has brought every I Shelby plant in, was the opening on j a cut-rate, cash-and-carry plant ! Soon thereafter another' plant1 dropped prices to compete. And now every plant in town has slash ed prices, some on a cash-Rnd-car ry basis, others on the prevailing delivery method. Whether or not the price war Is at end yet cannot be definitely de-. termined, but it so appears now. Some of the plants have not drop ped to the lowest price set by com petition, but are advertising extra quality service as the difference. Anyway, that part of Shelby which attempts to be well-dressed has enjoyed the little price battle between the cleaners and dyers. O’Shields Near 300-tiour Mark At noon today Pete O’Shield*. Shelby's tree-altter whose stunt has attracted thousands of peo ple to his roost on the Camp bell lot, had been up exactly - 288 hours. Tonight he will have been up .200 hours, and he states that he will "Just be getting good start ed then." The Shelby boy. who appears to be • faring comfortably In his tree, is only about 200 hours from what is thought to be the tree-sitting record. Justice Clarkson To Speak Thursday At Beam Reunion Justice Heriot Clarkson of the Supreme court of North Carolina will speak Thursday, at the annual Beam reunion to be held at New Prospect church. 'Phis Is one of the largest families of the county and several hundred people are ex pected to attend Justice Clarkson is a native of Mecklenburg county and for a number of years was so licitor in this district. He is a gift ed speaker. MASONIC MEETING Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F A. M. will hold a called communication tonight at 8 o’clock for work in the first degree, Kings Mountain Woman Killed In Wreck In S. C. Had Several Names More Mystery Centers About Wom an Kilted In Traffic Wreck York, S. C.—All ot the mystery surrounding the tragic death in an automobile accident here last Sat urday afternoon of Mrs. Minnie Nettie Martin does not appear to have been cleared up as yet: in fact, some details are becoming more in volved. I1 A brother of Mrs. Martin came to Yorkville Tuesday and wanted Dr. W. C. Whitesides to sign a death certificate so that an insurance pol icy could be collected, but upon in vestigation, Dr. Whitesides ascer tained that the policy had been taken out on the life of “Mrs. Mar tha Ellen Moore," a name no one had heard of thus far in connec tion with the case, and naturally the Yorkville physician refused to sign the certificate. The Gaffney : hedger says that the name given 1 . was correct, instead of Mrs. Minnie Nettie Martin. The understanding is that the woman, before marriage, was a Miss Dixon, and it is not dif ficult to understand that she might have been married first to a Moore, and next to a Martin, but it is dif ficult to understand how she could have a Christian name of "Minnie Nettie,” and another Christian name of "Martha Ellen.” The woman in question was 'known to the Kings Mountain po lice department as Mrs. Martin; she was known to her companion at the time of the accident. Mrs. Gertrude Fox. as Mrs. Martin, and she reg istered at the Bhandon hotel, when she was here last February, as Mrs. Martin, yet It Is maintained In Gaffney and by those seeking to collect the insurance policy that her name was, in reality. Mrs. Martha Ellen Moore. , What final disposition will be made of the insurance claim re mains to be seen. Motorcycle And Auto Hit, Fred Smith Is Killed Young Man Killed Here Friday. Cleveland Cloth Mill Employe# Badly Mangled In Terrific Highway Crash The highway death toll was Increased by one lyre Friday afternoon when Ffed .Smith, young white man employed by the Cleveland Cloth mill, was almost Instantly hilled when his motorcycle collided head-on with an automobile driven by Herbert Miller, of Lincolnton. The terrific crash look, place on the Cleveland Springs road near the homes of Mrs. Kate North and Attorney D. Z. Newton. Smith, on hts motorcycle, was headed east along the Cleveland Springs road and Miller was driv ing towards Shelby. Reports as to how the terrific collision happened, vary somewhat. Anvwav, the mot orcycle and ear plowed into each other with such force that It. is con sidered miraculous that only one was killed. The motorcycle, It ap peared. hit the automobile on the left fender, between the headlight and running board Smith was catapulted against the left-hand front corner of the windshield and car top, the blow bursting his head, His head,was crushed on the side also and his body was slashed and mashed in the chest and stomach. Such was the force of the blow that the door and windshield of the car were driven in against the steering wheel, this making it seem miracul ous that Mr. Miller, who was driv ing. escaped with only minor in juries and bruises. Ambulance Hits Car A telephone call sent an ambu lance rushing to the wreck scene. As the ambulance crossed the court square section it struck a Ford au tomobile driven by a colored man at the stop light at the corner of North Washington and fiast Marlon streets. The car was turned over and considerably damaged, hut for tunately the driver escaped without injury. The ambulance continued to the wreck and Smith, who apparently died about that. time, was placed In it and rushed to the hospital. He was accompanied in the ambulance by his brother. Sib Smith, who was riding in an automobile Just a short distance behind the motorcycle at the time of the crash. Drs. Har bison and Schenck, of the hospital. ' made a rapid examination of the i injured man just as soon as he j reached the hospital, but. within a few minutes informed the brother 'that lie was dead, not living breathed since he reached the hos pital. Such were the nature of the 'injuries that the hospital surgeons declared that death must have been almost instantaneous. Funeral Sunday The deceased and.his brother have been working at the cloth mil! here, but their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Smith, live in Newton. The body was taken there and funeral [sendees were held at Newton Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial I was in Alexander county. No Arrest. Saturday afternoon no arrests had been made in connection with the fatal accident. Just after the crash the brother of the men killed said his brother was en route to the 4 air port at Cleveland Sp'irgs and j CONTINUED ON P.VQE THREE.) Emerson Wilson Of Palm Tree Dies Honest And Kind Citizens Of Upper Cleveland Is Buried On Friday. Emerson A. Wilson of the Palm Tree community west of Lawndale, died Thursday of last week at his home following an illness of fpur years with a heart trouble, Mr. Wil son had been bedfast for 13 weeks and his faithful, patient wile had been constantly at his bedside, look ing after his every need. Mr. Wilson was 68 years of age, a member of Palm Tree Methodist church which he joined in early life. He was known for his honesty, quietness and kindness. Mr. Wilson was twice married, Eight children survive by his first union and two by his second mar riage to Miss Rhoda Stockton. The surviving children are Mrs. Will Fortenberry. Mrs. Albert Perry; Mrs. Alfred Buragardner, Mack. Joe. Davie, Ezekiel and Bynum Wilspn. Funeral services were neid Friday by Rev, J W. Fitzgerald, assisted by Rev. Mr. Rollins and interment ! was in the family burying ground near the home. A*