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8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXVI, No, 168 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 8. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. "T M“1' p" l,B _—i « -I, I,, m fa, |, i .- n— .. . ... . -- . _- —____ Carrier, per year, (in advance) $3.0# 1 LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton (new) - Cotton Seed, per bu. ..33c j Fair And Cooler. Today’s North Carolina Weather j Report: Generally fair and some- i what cooler tonight and Tuesday, j Love Tragedy. Greensboro, Sept. 7.—A shocking crime of passion occurred at t o’clock this afternoon in the home) of N. 1. Phillips in the Cone mill j village when L. Jackson Sams. 23. mill operative, shot his sweetheart Bernice McCaskill, 15. through the left temple and himself through the right temple. Sams died almost in stantly, while the girl died two hours later. Thomas Leaves Insurance Coin To Four Banks Late Banker's Insurance Of $180,000 To Aid County Banks. Forest City. Sept. 8—J. H. Thomas, late official of the Farmers Bank and Trust C'o., of this city, who died at his home here last week, left a m large sum of money to the banks of Rutherford and Cleveland counties in the form of insur ance policies. The Farmers Bank was carrying an insurance policy on the life of Mr. Thomas for $60,000. In addition to this, Mr. Thomas assigned a pol icy of $50,000 payable to ths bank, a policy payable to the Rutherford County Bank and Trust Co., at r Rutherfordton, for $30,000, a policy * of $10,000 payable to the Chimney Rock Bank and Trust Co., at Chim ney Rock, and a policy for $10,000 payable to the Mooresboro Bank, at Mooresboro. Cleveland county. These fould institutions will collect a total of $180,000. Others Seek Methods Here Cleveland County Government Said To Be An Example For Others To Follow. Cleveland county's model system nt accounting has resutled in many inquiries being made by other sec tions which seek information on our system with a view of instituting ihe same methods there. With an experienced and successful business wan, Mr. A. E. Cline, chairman of f ihe board of county commissioner, serving in the dual capacity of _ county accountant and auditor and with a modern system of budgeting the various accounts and controll ing them, Cleveland county has been able to save considerable money in its operation, with the result that there has been a reduction in the county tax rate for two years in succession. Mr. Cline received an inquiry last week from Yake, Oklahoma, seek ing information on Cleveland coun ty's system and recently there was a delegation from Union county looking into our accounting system with a view of installing our plan* In that county. An address was deliv Vred by Mr. Cline last week before a civic club in Charlotte on the sub . icct, Mecklenburg county being in terested in making its county gov ernment more efficient. Mr. Cline says that any county in North Car olina can operate under the same general law, but many counties hes itate to abandon the old and anti quated system. Cleveland has no special legislation, but is operating under the general county , govern ment law which is available to each end every county in North Caro lina. Mr. Cline has been active in the state organization that studies county government and was recent ly elected president of the* North Carolina association of county commissioners. i i i. i - i i in.. ii —mi i. ,m No Longer Kiss Bible In County Court Oath Here Attendants at county re corder’s court here recently hare noticed that an bid custom is no longer followed by the county tribunal. For many years witnesses in being sworn before taking the stand were required to kiss the Bible after taking the oath. Some time ago Record er Horace Kennedy, in order to save time and as a matter of sanitation, changed the procedure to that of having the witnesses to raise their right hand instead "Those who are kotng t* He when they get on the stand will come just as neai lying after kissing the Bible a; If they hadn’t kissed it,’ Judge Kennedy says. One Boy Killed As Train Hits Auto At Grover Negro Family on Way To Church Five Hurt As Crash Almost Wipes Out An Entire Family. One negro youth is dead and five others are injured as the the result of# an automobiic train crash at Grover Sunday morning which came close to wiping out the entire family of Ben Crawford, highly respected colored citizen of the Grover section. The dead boy is Albert Bell, grandson of Crawford. Crawford's wife, his widowed daughter and two of her children are in the Spartanburg county hospital with j injuries, two of the children being in serious condition. Going to Church. Crawford, aged 56. and his fam ily were en route to the colored church at Grover when tragedy swooped down the tracks upon them. They were travelling in an old Ford from the Crawford home, three-quarters of a mile above Gro ver, to church about 10:30 in the morning. The highway runs parallel with the railroad track. Not hearing No. 39 coasting down the track, Crawford turned his car to the left, up a slight grade, to cross at the old Mass crossing. No one saw or heard the train until the car was on the crossing, and then someone shouted, “Lordy, the train’s right on us.” Crawford remembers noth ing more of what . happened until after.the crash. All those in the car,] with the exception of the boy who] died, were thrown clear. He was pulled from the wreckage of the car and rushed to the Spartanburg hos pital where he died at 5 o’clock yes terday afternoon. Crawford was less injured than any of the others, suffering only a wrenched hip. Two of his daughters children. Senora Bell, 10 years of age, and Marvin Bell, aged six, are in a critical condition. The girls has a broken leg and head injuries and the boy has a fractured skull and cuts about the head. Lizzie, Crawford's wife, who is 54, suffered a broken leg. and their daughter Viola Bell, 33, lost several teeth and was considerably lacerated. T. B. Butler Make* Bond, Fraud Charge Union, S. C. Sept,— A warrant charging Lieutenant Governor T. B. Butler with intending to defraud in connection with a reported shortage of over $29,000 in his ac counts as receiver of the defunct Bank of Blacksburg was served on him at the home of his son-in-law here late today. He deposited $5,000 bond for appearance in court in No vember. Creditors Swear Out Warrant. Gaffney, S. C. Lieutenant Gover nor T. B. Butler was charged with breach of trust with fraudulent in tent in a warrant served on him this afternoon after an audit disclosed an apparent shortage of $29,080.82 in his accounts as receiver of the Bank of Blacksburg. The warrant was sworn out by two creditors of the defunct bank, J. L. Goodson and B. 3. Bonebrake, both of Blacksburg, a town about 8 miles from here. Hogue Allison, con stable for Magistrate Moorehead. left here about 4 o'clock to serve the warrant on the lieutenant governor, who is ill at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. F. H. Garner in Union. Columbia Again to Span Atlantic The Bellanca monoplane, "Col- " umbia,” in which Captain Errol Boyd, (inset) of Toronto, will ► soon take off for Europe. It • | i* the same plane in which ' Charles Levine and Clarence ► Chamberlin flew from New York to Germany. tloternatloaal N*<r*i*«l) Government Estimate On Cotton 14.340.000 Is Surarise Here Estimate Larger Than Expected By Local Cotton. Men and By New York Brokers, Cotton declined 40 points when the government's estimate on the 1930 cotton crop was issued at 11 o'clock today, giving the number of bales at 14.340,000. Because of tne dry weather over the entire belt, it was felt by local farmers, ginners and buyers that the estimate would be lowered from that of a month ago. It was lower bv 22,000 bales, but this was not enough to stimu late the price. At noon today New York was quoting October for southern de livery at 10.80; December 10.98 as compared with Saturday’s close Oct. 11.30, December 11.49. All Private Guesses" Low. In the office of Clark and Co., there was a crowd of interested farmers and others waiting the re lease of the estimate just before noon. Twenty five of them made guesses and all were too low. Not a one guessed as much as the gov ernment's estimate. Their opinion as to the crop was somewhat tn line with private estimates made by I bureaus who study the situation and by brokers and cotton estimat es. The average of 12 private reoorts was 14,008,000, compared with an average of 14,170,000 last month when the government report gave it 14.362.000, The yield per acre is given at 153.2 pound, the ginning:, as of Sept. 1st, 1.878,233 bales and the condition 53.2. Showers South. Clevenburg s morning cdtlon let ter says: ' Raleigh had 1.26 Savannah 182 rain over Sunday. Scattered showers other sections eastern belt, forecast Texas and Oklahoma part cloudy, Arkansas (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT i Believe Otto Wood Living With Brother’s Wife In California Star News Bureau 'At Kings Mountain In order to follow Us policy of constant expansion, The Star has opened a news bureau at Kings Mountain with Mr. E. R. Gamble in charge. In addition to furnishing news from the city* of Kings Mountain and vicinity, a carrier service is being insti tuted at Kings Mountain under the direction of Mr. Gamble and Kings Mountain subscribers may * now have The Star delivered at their door on the afternoon of publication days. Mr. Gamble will furnish The Star each day with the most important news of the day and after the paper is published. It will be dispatched on the bus and delivered by car rier there at the usual price of 25c per month. Kings Mountain people who wish this late new* service from the entire county, should leave their subscription orders with Mr. Gamble at Kings Mountain. Bulwinkle Will Be Elected Unless Democrats Get Too Confident Chairman Mull Thinks Democrats Will Reclaim Ninth, Tenth Districts. Raleigh, Sept. 8.—Around the ninth congressional district, now represented by Republican Congress "Those who are going to the Democratic drive from now un til November 4, declares State Chairman O. M. Mull. Both in the matter of speeches and organiza tion the ninth will be given full attention, he said. Within the neit two weeks Chair man Mull wily visit both the ninth and* the tenth, also lost to a Re publican congressman in 1928- How ever. he behaves that, the tenth is already virtually recaptured. The big battle, as far as congress is con cerned. will be Between former con gressman Bui winkle and Congress man Jonas. “If over-confidence does not stop us, we are going to return a 100 per cent Democratic delegation to Washington,” said Mr. Mull. *'Wc will not be satisfied with anything less.” It will be about September 15 or 20 before the big oratorical bar rages are turned loo?e, according to the campaign plans. Prom then on. he said, there will be no let-up un til the night before the voters as semble at the polls. A hundred thousand majority for Josiah W. Bailey, Democratic nominee for the United States sen ate over George M. Pritchard, who now represents the tenth in con gress but who forewent his chances at the smaller place for a shot at Senator Simmons' toga, is the goal in.the state-wide race, said the chairman. Here, too, the only stum bling block is extreme over-confid ence on the part of the Democrats who consider the election already “in the bag." "Our big job is to bring out the voters,” he said. Elusive Convict* Thought Honey mooning With Widow Of Brother. High Point, Sept. 8.-—Otto Wood, who escaped from the North Caro lina penitentiary for his fourth time several months ago, leaving in his wake puzzled officers and many columns of publicity, is now thought to be in California and is believed to be living with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Celia Wood, a High Point woman, who has been missing since the day Otto left and whose letter to her two small children sent here •is signed “Mrs, O. H, Wood.” Otto Wood often signs his name O. H. Wood, it was learned from members of the family. The last letter that came to tier two flaxen haired children, Lillian Lucile, aged six years, and Pansy aged 11 years, wrfs received here about five weeks ago from a place in California. It was sent to Mrs. W. P. Byrd, mother of Mrs. Celia Wood, who lives at 209 Vail street, High Point, and who has been car ing for her two grandchildren aban doned by their mother in what is believed to be a desire for a com panionship of the state's most fam ous ex-prisoner. I Mrs. Celia Wood, ’ who is the j widow of Robert Wood, a brother of |Otto, left High Point by bus for Raleigh on what her mother thinks was Wednesday or Thursday, the 'day before she read that Otto had CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Cotton Seed Prices Open For Season I Farmers will be interested in the following announcement as to seed prices just issued by the Southern Cotton Oil Co., of Shelby: “We beg to advise that we are paying for prime basts cotton seed as follows: "Wagon seed or gin seed $22 per ton or $1.10 per hundred, equals to 33c net per bushel Ex change meal for seed 1,400 lbr meal iper ton seed. “Car lots F. O. B. stations $25.00 per ton cash or 1,600 lbs. meal per ton seed. “At warehouses car lots $24.50 per ton cash, or 1,575 lbs. meal per ton ^d.” ; Ginners Meet On Wednesday A meeting: of all the cotton ginners of Cleveland county is scheduled to be held at the county court house in Shelby on Wednesday afternoon, Sept, 8, at 2:.10 o'clock. At this meeting',’ around which considerable interest centers, the ginners are expected to discuss the request ol cotton fanners for a re duction in gin rates. Just what the meeting will result m is not known, although it is known that some gins have already cut their ginning prices somewhat below those which prevailed last year. Since the cotton crop, the han dling and disposal thereof. Is the tug event of the year economically In thus county the outcome of Wed nesday's meeting will draw consid erable attention. Kings Mountain Schools Opened Opening Enrollment Of 1,113. fac ulty Near Same. Visiting Min isters Preach. (Special to The St.ar.v Kings Mountain, Septl.—The Kings Mountain city school.-, open ed the 1030-31 session Wednesday morning with an enrollment of J, 115. There were 563 at Central school, 230 at West End and 322 at East Kings Mountain. Practically the same faculty Is here this year as last Cora Defeats Clover. In two of the best baseball games seen here this year, the Cora mill defeated the fast team of Clover In the first game of a double header Saturday aftrnoon by the score ol 6 and 5 The second 3«me resulted in a tie with the score 1 and 1 at the eighth inning. Rain broke up the game. Hartsoe fpr the Cora and Moore for Clover were in fine form and were given perfect suppoit by their teammates. Sipes, Cora mill pitcher was the star of the first game. He struck out eleven of the visitors Dr. Grier Preaches. Dr. R. C. Grier, president of Er skine college of Due West, S. "C„ ancf one of the outstanding ministers of the Associated Reformed Presbyter ian church, conducted the morning services at the Boyce Memorial A. R. P. church here Sunday morning and at Bethel church in the county Sunday afternoon. Dr. Grier sup plied the churches here Sunday for Dr. J. M. Garrison, who is ill at his home here. Sherrill At Methodist. Rev. W. I*. Sherriff of Charlotte conducted both the morning and evening services at. the 'Central Methodist church here Sunday. Rev. J R. Church the regular pastor is in Winston-Salem where he has been conducting a weeks revival service at Green street Methodist church. Spanisb-Amerirad Vets Veteran* of the Spaniih-Ameri can war who live in Cleveland county and surrounding section are urged not to forget the meeting of veteran* to be held at the court house here Tuesday night at eight o’clock. Important business matters will be taken up. Deranged Man Blocks Traffic On Highway 20 Mystery Man In County Jail Appear* To Have Been Man Of Culture, Perhaps lawyer. Escaped Lunatic? County officers are today at tempting to discover the identity oi a mysterious man they placed in Jail here yesterday afternoon after the man had disrupted traffic on hlgn way 20 just west of Shelby and had threatened several motorists with a knife. The man. who is apparently de ranged mentally, seems to have been a man of culture and refinement In the past. Clippings and articles found upon his person Indicate that tie is of English descent and was perhaps a lawyer. He refuses, how ever, to tell his name, and will not lulk in a sane manner long enough to give officers any clue as to his icteptity or home. He appears to be around 60 years of age. Patching several clues together officers are inclined to think that he ltved In Pennsylvania and perhaps escaped from an insane asylum or hospital there. Stops Auto*. Officers were first Informed of his queer actions yesterday afternoon when motorists reported that he wrs walking in the middle of high way 20, west of town in the Beaver Dam section, and refused to get out of the path of approaching auto mobiles. Many cars were forced to stop to keep from striking him, while others pulled off the pave-' ment to get by, Becoming angered at the horns of motorists who want ed by he pulled out, they say, a big knife and threatened those who came near him. Several times he spat upon cars as they pulled past him. When officers arrived he threatened them with his knife. He was carrying several boxes of light butbs when placed tn jatl and declared that he was an electrical contractor. A search of his person also revealed a large quantity of newspaper clippings and items he had Jotted down. All the items were in “In Re Barbarious Police," "in re" this and “in re” that. indicating that he must have been a lawyer or was very familiar with legal terms. majvmy or me cuppings were front Philadelphia newspapers, par ticularly the Public Ledger, Many of these were about topics or scenes in England or India. And on the side of the English clippings he had written down notations tending to show his pride and loyalty in Eng land. On a Scotland Yard clipping he had written "England beats thr world in this as in everything else.' In a short article, written upon n paper towel, he wrote that the pa tients in “this hospital" use the most obscene language I have ever heard. This was signed "J. Gray." Another article had a similar name while still another was signed with a woman's name but. in the same handwriting. “in their attempt to clear up the mystery surrounding him officers : will get in touch with insane asy lum* and nerve sanatorlums in Phil adelphia and other sections of the country. The writing indicates that the mysterious man had been at on? time a very brilliarit person. Eastern Star Meet. A regular meeting of the Eastern Star chapter will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Important business will be transacted and all members are urged t,o be present. Negro Killed By Power Wire At Untio Today Tom Smith, young negro man of Forest City, was killed around noon today when he came in contact with a power wire carrying 2200 volts while work ing on top of a cotton ware house near the Mauney com pany store in the Union section of Cleveland county. . Smith was at work, according to information given The Star on the tin roof of the warehouse, which Is to be operated by W. E. Dye, of Forest City. About 1 o'clock some one noticed that ho could not be heard at work and made an Investi gation. They found body toppled over with his neck on the two wires which ran above the building. Just how long he had been dead when found is not known. And since no one witnessed liis death it is not known, it was said, whether he reached up and touched tire wires or fell against them He appeared to be about 30 years of age. The wires were those of “ie line which serves the PoUfyflic-Union sections, b cooperative line which purchases power from Shelby. The line is owned by the residents of the section, meters being at. end of the Shelby city limits to determine the amount of power used. Plan Home Coming At Second Baptist [ - Since 1908 Church Half Orowrf From 18 Charter Members To 60* Nou. Tentative plans are being made by the Second Baptist church at South Shelby to hold a home com ing day on October 19. In connec tion with this plans are also being made to celebrate the twenty-sec ond anniversary of the organization of the church. The church was organized on Oc tober 18. 1908 with eighteen charter members and has grqwn until today it stands as the third largest Bap tist church in Cleveland county with a membership of over 600. Six pas tors have served the church, all of whom are living. The first pastor was Rev. Jr W. Suttle. It is hoped that all of the old pastors may be able to take part in the home com ing celebration. An invitation is given to all for mer members of the church to be present at these services, definite plans of which will be announced later. Shelby To Present Scene Of Signing iMiss Suttlp To Havr Charge of Declaration Scene In Battle Pageant. Shelby is booked to present the scene of the signing of the Declara tion of Independence In the big pageant at the Kings Mountain bat tleground anniversary on October 7. Miss Mary Suttle has been named chairman of the committee which will arrange a cast and present the scene. Miss Mary Suttle will be as sisted by Miss Betty Suttle, and all Shelby people who will take part in the scene are urged to get In com munication with them. About 35 or 40 people, a big percentage of them men, will be needed for the Shelby scene and others from Shelby will be needed for other portions of the pageant which is being staged' by Miss Laura Plonk. Rutherford Fair, Four-County Exhibit, Week Before Fair Here Henderson. McDowell and Polk Counties To Participate In Event. > Forest City. Sept. 8.—The Ruth erford fair, which is being sponsor ed this year by the counties of Hen derson, Polk, McDowell and, Ruth erford, will be'held September 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27. The premium list amounts to about $2,000 and is very much the same as last year The Krause Greater Shows will be on the midway all week with clean shoVs. at least six rides, and legiti mate concession*. The Ohio "Fire works compauy will furnish -fire works each night. The fireworks this year are said to be the most brilliant ever exhibited in this sec tion. The program will be changed each night. The free acts in front of the ■ grandstand will be one of the fea-! [hires of the fair while mam local attractions will also be put on. The local attractions for the week follow: Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock with C. 3. Royster in charge: Charleston contest for whites. Charleston contest for col ored, 100-yard dash for boys over 16 years of age. 100-yard dash for boys from 12 to 15 years of age, 50 yard dash for boys under 12 and 50-yard dash for girls from 10 to 15 years of age. For these contents $26 in cash prizes arc being offered. Fiftee ndollars, $5 for first prize, and »2 50 for second prize, are being of fered for the best pony to cart on the track and beet pony under sad dle on the track Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock with J. W. Whitesides in charge: hiule running race, two heats, fire prize $20. second $15, third, $10, fourth. $5. Best buggy horse or moj^ shown to buggy on $CONTUiUXU ON PACE KiCUT.i I City Schools Open; A Gain In Enrollment High School Has Good Gain Opening Enrollment 147 Larger Than Last Tear. Several Gain*. More than 2,500 Shelby youngster.-; tossed their books over their should ers and wended their way back to the school room this morning after their summer vacation. At 1:30 this afternoon Sunt. B L Smith, after checking over th/earn enrollment: figures on opening dav. stated that therfe were 147 more children enrolled today than oh th opening day of the last school yea: The Central high school with 42: pupils. 41 more than least vear. hr. the biggest gain of any branch 0 the city system. Enrollment figures, by schools, f : this year and last, follow: School 192!) - :i0 1930-31 LaFayette. 181 2K> Marion... 325 319 Morgan . , 372 395 Graham . ....._ 245 243 Washington __ 15R 171 Jefferson . _........ 242 276 Teacher Training_ to 12 Central High _ ....... 382 423 Colored . ............. 414 4*21 Zoar (col) .......... 40 40 There was no formal program with set speeches at the opening exer cis.se in the Central auditorium this morning. Short tRlks were made by Mr. H. Clay Cox. of the city school board, by Supt. Smith and by Prin cipal Walter Abernethy. who had charge of the program. The musi cal program was in charge of Mrs A1 R Bennett, of thi high school faculty, . . Early Cotton Closes Schools There County School* Already \i ' Closed Others Close This Week. Due to an unusually early co'.i, crop the rural schools of CleveD i county are closing earlier this yer than ever before to aid in the bi cotton-picking task. Heretofore the long-term school - which open in the sununer so as to close during cotton-picking time, us ually close for several weeks about the last of September. This year however, three schools have already closed and the majority of the oth ers will close this week. Those al ready closed are Mooresboro, Dover and Fallston. Just how many will close this week is not known as yet, but Supt. J. H. Grigg is of the opinion th»t all the schools will be shut down by the end of next week Vernon Proctor Goes To Spindale City Ticket Agent of Southern To Become Station Agent At Spindale. Vernon Proctor, popular city ticket agent at the Southern depot here has been transferred to Spin dale where he will become station agent, He and his wife expect to leave Thursday of this week. The change is somewhat of a promotion because of the heavy freight at the Spindale office. Mr. Proctor is prominent in the American Legion and ' a most ac commodating railway official who has made many friends here. He will be succeeded as city ticket agent by his brother. Mr. Tracy Proctor who comes from Charles ton. S. C. where he has been In the employ of the Southern railway. Mr. Tracy Proctor has moved his family to Shelby and they will occupy the house on West Marion street vacat ed by his brother. Cloth Mill Resumes Operations Today Operations were resumed at the Cleveland Cloth mill today. It is learned that orders have been re ceived that will keep the mill in operation for three or four weeks For the past five or six weeks, the Cleveland Cloth mill as well as the other textile mills, have been oper ating on short time, often being closed for a week without a wheel turning. It was good news to the employees when it was announced that operations would, be resumed today and that orders were on hand to give steady employment for sev eral weeks. ,
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