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10 PAGES TODAY *- - - — * SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESD’Y, AUG. 20. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year <ln advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. ._......... IV,it Colton Seed, per bn. . .....——otic CLOUDY THURSDAY f Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Possibly showers Thurs day in extreme west. Not much change in temperature. BESSEMER STRIKE Greensboro News Gastonia. Aug. 2”.—That the vast majority of textile executives in Gaston and adjoining counties do not sanction the action of Goldberg brothers, owners and operators of the American mills. Nos. 1 and 2 at Bessemer City, where all the op eratives walked out Monday in pro test against a heavy wage cut, in making a drastic reduction in wages, was ascertained here by the correspondent of the Daily News. More than a score of executives from half a dozen counties and representing one and a quarter mil lion spindles, were unanimous in saying that they opposed the action of the American mills management in cutting wages at this time. Heads of several large groups of mills as well as the executives of numerous Individual plants, condemned in un measured terms this action. Shelby Clubs In Series For County Pennant Eastside Team And Ella To Meet. Little World Series Gets Underway ; For Flap in County League j Shelby's little world series will; open here Saturday when the East-; stde-Ora and Ella mill clubs open their three-game engagement to de cide the pennant winner of the. Cleveland County Amateur League, j The strong Ella club won thej last half honors in their victory last, Saturday over the Eastside- Oras,! and the first half honors were won by Eastsider without a defeat. Much Speculation The two Shelby clubs have been the strongest teams In the league ah year, Boiling Springs and Lawn dale malting up the other teams in the circuit, which is headed by Lefty Robinson. In the first half the Eastside ag gregation appeared to be in a class by itself behind the hurling of Sherill Hamrick, and the Ella team was runner-up in that half. In the second half the Ella team exhibited, additional strength and won honors by taking several straight games; from Eastside. the runner-up club in the last half. Now that the two teams are to clash in a three-game series, one each Saturday, fans are pretty well divided in their support on the series outfits. “Lefty”! Smith is now the chief of the East-! side-Ora mound staff, while Put nam, who has two victories over Eastside in the second half, is the hurling ace for Ella. Both clubs are made up for the most part of local boys and both have been playing fast baseball all year. Sat urday’s game will likely draw a big crowd, and the season's record for both teams assures a nip-and-tuck tussle between the two Shelby teams In the little world series right in Shelby's backyard. i Col. Ludlow, Father: Mrs. McBrayer, Dead; (Noted Engineer Dies at Winston Salem. Funeral There Today Funeral services for Col, J. L. “Ludlow, father of Mrs. Louise Mc Brayer, wife of Dr. Reuben Mc Brayer, former Shelby physician, were held teday at Winston-Salem. Col. Ludlow died Monday after a lingering illness .with diabetes. Colonel Ludlow achieved inter national fame as an engineer, con sulting civil, sanitary, contracting and hydraulic. He was president of the board of trade from 1910 to 1918 and during this time the! city of Winston-Salem developed from a country town to a city. During the World war he was connected with the cantonment di vision of the U. S. army as super vising engineer*in the construction of Camp Green at Charlotte. Sub sequently he served as supervising sanitary engineer of the U. S. Ship ping board with direct supervision over the health and sanitary condi tions of the 30 shipyards on the South Atlantic and Gulf seaboard and their environs. He served on the staff of the North Carolina national guard as chief of engineers with the rank of colonel during the administra tion at Governors Olenit and Kitchin. He aided in the design and , establishment of Camp Glenn j at Morcheari City Shelby’s Growth Since 1920 Leads All N. C. Cities Attorney Loses Right Foot In Shot With Gun Byron Williams Is In Hospital Here Gun Accidentally Dischargee'. 11“ Says, In Garage Tuesday Morning. Byron E. Williams, young Shelby attorney and secretary of the Republican executive com mittee for Cleveland county, is in the Shelby hospital minus his right foot as the result of a shooting accident early Tuesday morning. Mr. Williams, who lives in thel Pendleton apartments, South La-1 Fayette street, was out In the apa:f ment garage at the rear of the building between ^ and 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Relatives and neighbors heard a gun fire and rushing to the garage- they found the attorney with his right foot badly mangled by the shot. James Grice, a neighbor, placed him in an automobile and rushed him to the Shelby hospital. hoot amputated. At the hospital it wTU found tna. the load from the shotgun had tcro the foot almost, off the ankle, the bones being blown out for three inches. Such was the mangled con dition of the foot that it was.ampu tated just above the ankle. Hospital surgeons stated this morning that Williams was getting along in good shape. Very litiic blood was lost, it was also said. Mr. Williams just after the shoot - j ing declared that it was an acci-; dent and that he did not know j there was a shell in thdlgun. It w as a double barrel gun, it is said, and he had snapped one side in prepar ing to clean it when the shell in the other side discharged, the load tearing into his ankle, _ Cleveland Farmers Get Pasture Offer South Carolina Farmer Hears That Drought Is Hurting Here A generous South Carolina fann er made it plain this week that he has a big heart although he ap pears to be a bit mixed up in his geography. . This week Police cruet Mcurioe Poston received a letter from a Ca tawba, South Carolina, farmer in which, the writer declared that he had heard that the drought was so serious in this section that cattle, were suffering because of a lack of water and good pasture land. Al though mistaken about the area hit by the drought the South Carolin ian expressed his willingness to aid in any way that he might. His of fer, which he asked the police chief to make public, was that he had several hundred acres of good green pasture land in which there was plenty of water. He was w’illing. he added, to take care of any number of cattle from drought affected areas, and in return he asked only enough wire to enclose about 100 acres of the pasture land. His offer was in line with that of Governor Richards who wired Ken tucky and West Virginia officials, where the drought is very serious, offering thousands of acres of South Carolina pasture land for the graz ing of the suffering Kentucky and West Virginia herds. Gardner Wants Mob Punished |-•-■ “North Carolina expects Sher iff Barden, of Edgecombe county, to do everything in his power to find the guilty parties and bring them to justice,” Governor O. Max Gardner declared at Hen dersonville yesterday when in formed of the lynching early Tuesday of Oliver Moore, negro, who assaulted two little girls. Governor Gardner returned !o Shelby today from a short visit to [Hendersonville and Asheville so that he might keep in close touch with developments in the search for members of the mob. “I am horrified,” the Governor said. “It is a disgrace to North Car olina: a black blot on a fine record which the state had made for near ly a decade, and of which its citizens were justly proud.” The governor" said that the slate was back of Sheriff Barden in the effort to apprehend the mob mem bers, “who, pretending to wish jus tice done, have flaunted the law' of the state, and its record as a dealer in justice.” BODY OF NEGRO RIDDLED BY ANGRY EASTERN MOB Tarboro. Aug. 20. —A mob which early-Tuesday lynched Oliver Moore, 29. negro, is faced with the express ed determination of Gov. O. Max Gardner to sec that its members are prosecuted. Moore, a tenant farmer who was accused of attacking his landloru s two small daughters on July 18, was iCONTINUED ON PACiE NINE ) Gets Ninety Days For Her 2 Dresses Young White Woman Sentenced on Shoplifting Cdunt At Kings Mountain bllle Stockton, young white wom an who lives near Shelby, desired a new dress, and. apparently, desired one at any price. Anyway she is to spend 90 days in the county jail be cause of her love; for finery. In county court yesterday Judge Kennedy gave her the 90-day sen tence after sire had been found guilty of shoplifting in a Kings Mountain Store. Two dresses were stolen, according to the evidence. Her husband, Otto, who waited in an automobile outside the store, was acquitted on the charge of be ing an accomplice. Doctor, Two Others Tried Over Affray Trio Pay* Costs. Physician And Lawyer Have Some Words In county court yesterday Dr. H. R. Sherrill, G. O. and Reid Black burne. all of the Lawndale section, were taxed with the costs on a charge of- simple assault. The case developed over an altercation be tween the Blackburnes and the phy sician at Lawndale Monday. The Blackburnes on the stand said that they approached the doctor because of what they alleged to be improper talk he had to members of their family. During the hearing there was a near mix-up between Dr. Sherrill and Judge B. T. Palls, an attorney in the case, but an officer stepped between them before any blows were passed. Labor Leader Scoffs At Move To Make Gardner Vice-President Says Shelby Man Will Not Be Nominated Because Of “Marion Massacre.” Charlotte. Aug. IJO.—The move started to boost Governor Q. Max Gardner, of North Caro lina, for virc president in in.TJ, Monday had a sharp rrlorl from labor made here by Ed ward F. McGrady. chairman of the legislative committee and personal representative of Wil liam Green, president of the American ■^‘deration of l.ab :r. “Max Gardner will not be nominated for vice president of the I’nited State, as long as tty ‘.Marion massacre' is remember ed," Mr. McGrady told a labor mass meeting here He prefaced this remark with: "Politicians in North Carolina or anywhere in the United States do not rare anything for you. You have not learned to go to the polls and vote for principles. You are getting what you voted for." Mr. McGrady, in the course of his address, blamed tow wages for the business depres sion. "The basis, the very founda tion _»f—the present industrial depression,” he said, "is the lark of purchasing power of the workers to buy bark what they create because of low wages." Two Men Held In Killing 01 Colored Woman Man Says Shooting Was Accidental Says Gun Went Off While Playing Some Mysterious Elements In Death. j Alter Robbs, young negro j woman, who was rushed to «he hospital here Monday afternoon > with a bullet wound in her chest, died a few hours later, and two negro men are being held in jail while officers attempt to work out several mysterious angles surrounding the fatal shooting. The young woman was shot while in the kitchen of her home on the John Hamrick place in the Boiling Springs section about 1:30 Monday afternoon. She died about 4 o'clock in the hospifal here. , Coffee Arrested. Will Coffee, young colored •nan, who is charged with shooting the Robbs woman and admits the shoe ing but says it was accidental, wa„ brought here and placed in jail Mon day evening by Deputy Gus Jolly. Tuesday morning Deputy Toll., brought Avans Hopper, another col ored man, here and placed him in jail in connection with the shott ing. So far officers have been unaole to find any clue that would indi cate that Coffee had a motive in shooting the woman, yet there a-e several angles in the case not clew - ed up to their satisfaction. No Witnesses, There were no witnesses to the actual shooting. Coffee had been to Hopper's home, it is said, and the two came to the Robbs girl’s home together, Three other colored wom en were seated, it is safld. on the porch and the gill who was Ifitgiiy shot was in -the- -Jwtehen ironing. Coffee, the women told officers, ask ed who the person was on the in side. Being Informed that It was Alter, he walked in the house. With in two or three minutes, the women say. they heard the shot, rushed in side and met the wounded girl corn ing out. ''Will shot me." the girl de clared as she threw her arm$ ab. it one of the women, according to what they told officers. The woundc i woman was then rushed to the Shelby hospital. Coffee, officers were informed, ran i out the back door, called Hopper t,nd j they ran away together . Hopper's Gun. Hopper was brought into the af-1 fair when officers were informed that the gun belonged to him, and that he had been courting the a:rf who was killed. Coffee insofar .«■ could be learned had never hail a love affair with the girl. Coffee's story of what he says wa an accidental shooting was that he had picked up Hopper's gun at Hop per's home. Reaching the Robbs (CONTINUED Orr PAGE NINE i Swinging Traffic Lights In Shelby Advised By Highway Patrolman Lieut. Vernon Talks to Lions Club. Lion* Urge Pulmotor ’* For City Motorists passing through Shelby do not like Shelby's electric traffic signals in the main business section. They do not think that Shelby is such a hick town that it should have no traffic lights, but they com plain because the lights are on concrete posts In the center of the street Intersections instead of swing ing overhead. This was the straight-from-the shoulder tip given the mayor and city aldermen last night by Lieut. Vernon, of the State highway pa trol. in his address before the Lions club of Shelby tvith the city officials as social guest.;. Traffic Advice In making his talk Lieut. Vrrnon stated that”tie”intended'toJdo~some plain talking, not in a critical man ner but with the hope of generally improving traffic conditions. Right often he said complaints had been made by motorists passing through Shelby about Shelby’s traffic lights. These motorists, he said, are accus tomed to swinging traffic lights and some of them came very near run ning into the concrete posts upon which the signals arc mounted. It would be nn improvement, the pa trol official stated, to swing the lights. He also advisecTHhat main high way streets in thp city should be protected in arterial manner that at intersections with feeder streets there should be “stop'’ and “slow" signs in order to protect motorists going straight through as well as motorists coming in from or turning into side streets. At traffic sig nals, he said, motorists who intend to turn to the right slfoutd puTt to the right side of the street, while motorists going straight ahead or planning to turn to the left should keep in the middle of the street, thus avoiding confusion and jams. Motorists should hold out their hands when turning to the left, he continued, but should not do so when turning to the right. The stop lights on the rear of automo biles will warn the motorists behind that the car ahead Is slowing down to turn to the right The talk of the patrol officer was considered beneficial. At the meeting of the club the members went on record as urging the city to purchase a pulmotor. It is not often, club members declared, that a pulmotor is needed, but the need is urgent when it does bob up. Last week the Lions club present ed and installed a radio in the county home for (he ontcrlamincn* of the inmates there. | Female Enoch Arden Battles for Tots j Belierin* his wife deed (he + identified the body of a suicide as hers) Genrjre Parkard, who | is shown with hi* family re married, first wife Vt., and children The ether . rettirnrd to wants him back. The day hiii • Chester, and the children are Georg?, Jr., Helen, seated with ard No. 2. and Mary Mm. Pack (l»!*r»*U«n»l NiMrul) Woman Of Kings Mountain Held Myrtle fox Of King-* Mountain l aics Manslaughter C ount At York. •York. S. Cv, Aug. 10.—A warrant charging with manslaughter Mlso Myrtle Pox. 25. of Kings Mountain, N, C, compnrvh of Mrs. Nettie Martin.' also of Kings Mountain, when she was killed in an automo bile wreck near York August 2 » tenirn out here today by Mrs. Laura. Dixon of Gaffney, mother of the dyad woman Miss Pox fled after the wreck and was captured sc\ era 1 miles from the seine of the accident. She was lodg ed in jail and at the inquest ncx. .day testified that a man. a stranger tatewi In the car near York, w*is driving when the ear was wrecked. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Mrs. Martin came to her death in an automobile driven by hands unknown to the jury. Follow ing this verdict, Miss Pox was order ed by Coroner Paul McCorkle to be released. Mrs. Dixon secured legal advice here today before swearing out the warrant. Tree Sitter Passes 500>Hour Mark Here At noon today Pete O'Shield.. Shelby tree sitter, had ended his third week in his tree and had pasi ed the 500 hour mark, which is bp Jieved to be a record for this state. He had been out on his limb 504 hours at noon. "I'd like to stay up here 1.000 hours or more. maybe until Christmas," the youngster said this morning. "unless they want me to come down. Some of them are saying that I should come down now-. I'll think it over this afternoon." Native Game, Fish And Birds To Be Exhibit At Fair Here ! Added Feature to Cleveland Count'’ Fair Will Be Several Car Load* of (>ame Those who attend I he Cleveland county fair this year, when it be gins Sept. 30th will have ah op portunity of seeing the native game, fish and birds of North Caro lina in their native habitat as near as possible, says Dr. J. S Dorton. the fair secretary. Dr. Dorton has the assurance from the State Department of Con servation and Development that this exhibit will be furnished at the fair, It Is a courtesy extended by Col. J W. Harrelson. a native of Cleveland county, who is head of this state department and Mr C H, Fug land, state game warden, both of Whom have assured Dr. lion the exhibit will be here and be well worth everybody seeing. The birds, fish and game will be alive and brought here in several train cars. Large glass tanks are necessary to exhibit some of the large fish which are found in the voters on the coast jof Carolina. Besides the fish, there will be various kinds of birds and wild game which abound in the state and are rapidly growing in numbers because of the bag limits and uniform hunting seasons. Quarters for the exhibit will be provided under the grand stand at the fair grounds The exhibit is so large it will require practically all of the space under the large grand stand facing the race track. Another feature Dr. burton is very proud of this year will be the corn exhibit. Farmers are asked to exhibit 50 ears of each variety to compete for the first, second and third prizes amounting to $30. $20. and $10. This is the first time such a corn exhibit has been made and there will be keen rivalry for these cash prizes. Deranged Man Taken To Hospital Monday Robert Harrill, mentally deranged Shelby man, who was taken in cus tody Monday by county officers, was carried to the State hospital at Morganton, where he has been a patient before, by beputy Ed Dixon and Jim Hester. Harrill was barri caded In his home and had two loaded guns when officers seized him there a few hours before they entered him in the hospital Mon day afternoon. Mull Plans To Hold His Cotton i Raleigh, Aug 19 Cotton went • down to below eleven cents today and it looks, like- it is headed for I ten cents" sadly observed Executive Counsel O M. Mull, after seizing a newspaper anti avidly passing up the front page and ail intermediate pages in favor of the cotton quota tions. "Cotton at ten cents is like work ing for fifty cents a day” mourned Mr. Mull who in partnership with Governor Gardner “operates large cotton farms in Cleveland county. It Is awful, bur I think T shall hold mine or at leas' part of it. Some times it pays to hold, but usually It doesn't although I don't see how any .body can get hurt, holding cot ton that is worth only ten cents a pound.” Fourteen Gallons Of Booze Is Captured Whisker In Jars Found In Barn l,oft In itehobeth Section Deputies Ben Dixon. Lorrn Hoyle and Coren Powell this morning captured fourteen and one-half gal lons of liquor in the barn of Tom my Green, who lives in the Reho beth section. The whiskey, the officers say. was found under some straw In the barn loft. Green was placed under a $500 bond for a hearing Friday. Avondale To Play Ella Here Friday The Avondale baseball club, a strong outfit, will play the Ella mill club, second half winners of the Cleveland County league, at the city park here Friday afternoon at 3:30. Fire At Wayside. The fire department was called out at 8:45 last night to the Way side restaurant where a small blaze had started. The damage was slight and not enough to discontinue the service of the restaurant. First Hunting Season Of Year To Open In Less Than One Month Squirrel Hunters May Get Into Action Sept. 15. Others Later. Raleigh, Aug, 20. —With the first of the North Carolina hunting sea sons less than a month off, prepa- j rations are being made by the statr conservation department to meet the influx of gunners to the woods. First consignments of license but tons and blanks have gone forward from Raleigh to all selling agencies throughout the state, and the li censes are now on sale. More than 200,000 license buttons and blanks have been ordered or arc now on hand with which to sup ply the hunters and fishermen ofj the stale tor their next season of' sport. ! First, of the seasons on game to open this fall will be that for squir rels in western NOrth Carolina, starting September 15 and extend ing to January 1. Counties in which the season for squirrel will open at that time include those west of Per son. Orange, Chatham. Moore, Richmond and Scotland. The eastern squirrel district in cludes Person, Orange, Chatham, Moore, Richmond. Scotland and others east of these. The season on Squirrels in these counties wilt-open October 15 and will extend to Jan uary 15. | County’s Gain Fourth, Census Figures Reveal Only Three Counties Lead Cleveland <>lisu» Report From Washington Show* Shrlbv First. Greens boro Second (Special To The Star! Washington. Aug. 2.—Prelim inary population figures for North Carolina cities and coun ties issued by the ccjtsus depart ment here yesterday show Shel by to have the largest percen tage of gain since 1920. That. Shelby's remarkable growth in the 10-year period was substan tially supported by the surrounding,, territory was also shown in thd re port which revealed that Cleveland county was in a tic with Buncombe county for fourth place among the 100 counties in the State in popu lation gain since 1920. Near 700 Per Cent Shelby's population gain was 198.9 per cent. Greensboro ranked second with a gain of 169 per cent. High Point was third with 156.7 per cent, and Durham was fourth with 139.5 per cent* . » In county gain Guilford countv ranked first with a gain of 67.8 per cent. Durham county was sec ond with 59.2 per cent. Mecklenburg was third with 58.6 and Buncombe and Cleveland ranked fourth^ with a gain of 52 6. Cleveland’s 1920 population was 34.272 as compared with 52,305 in 1930. Largest Cities The population figures for the largest cities and towns, showing Shelby in 18th place In size, follow: percept r^' \ 1930 Asheville 50.J67 Charlotte 82,645 Concord ... 11.821 Durham 52.026 Elizabeth City 10,030 Fayetteville 13.115 Gastonia . 17,094 Goldsboro . .. 14.971 Greensboro 53,422 High Point . 36.708 Kinston ...... 12,362 New Bern 11,922 Raleigh ....... 37.512 Rocky Mount 21,409 Salisbury 16,989 Shelby 10.789 Statesville ... 10 49] Wilmington .. 32.167 Wilson ...... 12,609 Winston-Salem 75.288 "Denotes decrease. Increase 1920 1920-30 28,504 76 46.338 78,4 9,903 19.4 21.719 139.5 8.925 12,4 8.877 47.7 12,871 32.8 11,296 32.5 19.861 169 14.302 156.7 9,771 26.5 12,198 24.418 12.742 13 884 3.609 198.9 7 895 ,%>9 33.372 10.612 48.395 *2.3 53.6 68 22.4 *3.6 18.8 55.6 Cline Speaker For Club Meet County Club To Hold Meeting A Lattimore On Thursday Night. Mr. A, E. Cline, chairman of th^ county commissioners of Cleveland county, and president of the State association of • commissioners in North Carolina, will be the princi pal speaker at the meeting of thr Cleveland County club to be held ai Lattimore Thursday night at { o’clock Prof. Lawton Blanton is presi dent of the club and Mr. J. h. Hern don. of Grover, is secretary. Talk Tax Problem. Mr. Cline, it is understood, will j discuss tax ’ problems, particularly the phase’ of North Carolina taxes touching on the hopes of eastern Carolina counties in shifting some of the tax burden to the Piedmont and west. In that the county club is made of representative citizens, farmers, business and professional men. the tax disoussion is expected to attract considerable interest. Colored Woman Stabs Another Monday Nite Alice Perry, colored, was sen tenced to three months in the county jail to be hired out yester day in recorder s court on a charge of assaulting Lily May Brooks, an- * other colored woman, with a dead ly weapon Monday evening. The Brooks woman, stabbed in the hip with a knife, was treated at the hospital but was able to return home. The stabbing took place at a home in Frog Level, a colored sec tion of town. .