12 PA GES
TODAY
VOL. XXXVI, No. 116
SHELBY. N. C.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1930
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ~
The Big Cleveland County Fair, “Carolinas Greatest”, Opens Here Tuesday
LATE NEWS
THE MARKET. *,*
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Cotton, spot .9’jc
■Cotton Seed, per bu. --30c
Saturday Fair.
Today’* North Carolina Weather
ft*port: Showers and slightly cooler
tonight. Saturday fair and cooler.
Stedman Rites.
rayettevUle, Sept. 25.—The soil of
the state he loved tonight held all
that was mortal of Charles Manly
Stedman, who served North Caro
lina, the South and the nation as
soldier and aa stateman. Taps and
the roar of guns sounded and men
whom North Carolina and the
United States have given high of
fice gathered close to pay final tri
bute aa the body of the 89-year-old
congressman, last veteran of the
War Between the States to serve In
either house, was lowered into its
Cross Creek cemetery grave.
Explains ‘Long1
Welcome Speech
14 Years Ago
Kirkpatrick Tell* Of
HU Talk
■< _____
f Charlotte Mayor Talked Only Five
Minutes In Welcoming Wood
row Wilson.
utter a silence of fourteen
- tears the man who has been
raised for making the "Ion*eel
welcome speech ever made In
, North Carolina” breaks that sil
ence to explain that the speech
was not lengthy. The man re
ferred to is Col. T. L. Kirkpat
rick. mayor of Charlotte at the
time President Woodrow Wilson
made an address there and was
welcomed by Mr. Kirkpatrick.
The explanation came when Clar
ence Kuester, Charlotte, chairman
of the Kings Mountain celebration
committee admonished the central
committee of 100 prominent men
and ladies from the five counties
sponsoring the sesqui centennial
celebration that no speaker will be
allowed to go over his alloted time.
When Mr. Kuester emphasized the
limit of time to all speakers on the
program, a ripple of laughter went
over the audience as Col. Kirkpat
rick sat an the front row and eyes
Entered on him as * result of the
criticism he got 14 years ago when
he welcomed President Wilson to
Charlotte.
"Nb speaker in the Carolina* has
"ever consumed more than five min
( utes when the president of the
United States was present.” snap
ped Col. Kirkpatrick, as he arose
on « point of person privilege.
In private conversation. Col.
Kirkpatrick who has stood criticism
without defense for having made an
address of welcome longer than the
president's address said. "I was
mayor of Charlotte at the time of
President Wilson's coming. I was
host on that occasion. Milling
thousands of people^ were eager to
hear the president as we were on
the eve of war. All programs on
which the president appears must
be approved by the president’s per
sonal representative, just as the pro
gram at the Kings Mountain battle
ground program has been approved
in every detail as to text and time.
As host on that great occasion I had
a speech of five minutes duration,
spoke that long and no longer, for
I knew that the schedule must be
roilowea to tne letter. uovernor
Locke Craig was to introduce the
president and the troops were to
be reviewed just before the chiei
executive spoke. We were a few
minutes ahead of our program and
Governor Locke Craig, sitting di
rectly behind me, pulled my coat
T sleeve to get my attention. When I
urtwd around he said I would have
j. to consume the few minutes extra
time we had, but I declined and
(Continued on fade twelve.)
Son Gives Blood For
His Mother’s Life
1J-Tear-Old Forest City Youth
Makes Sacrifice. Mother
Better.
itutherfordton, Sept. 26.—An out
standing example of mother lo?e
was shown at the Rutherford hos
pital Wednesday, when Marvin
Harris, age 17, only, son of Mrs.
Olile Harris, of Forest City, gave a
quart of hitf own blood to save his
mother's life. Mrs. Harris has-been
a patient several days at the Ruth
erford hospital and may have to
undergo a serious operation soon,
but hospital physicians stated that
she must have a transfusion of
blood before the operation. Five
young 6talwart men were called in
Tuesday and their blood was tested
and it was found that the blood of
the son of Mrs. Harris “matched”
the best of any. Late reports are
that the transfusion was a success
and Mrs. Harris is already showing
pl improvement,
President Hoover To Review
3,300 Troops At Kings Mtn;
Then Speak At Battleground
Roads And Grounds
Are Ready
Celebration Committee Meet* it
Grover and Gives Final Touch
To Program.
President Hoover will review
<54 unit* of troops embodying
3,500 soldier* from the two Car
olina* from a reviewing stand at „
Kings Mountain immediately
upon his arrival there at '
o’clock Tuesday October 7th. be
fore he motors to the battle
ground where he will deliver an
address, according to arrange
ments made Wednesday even
ing at Grover.
The last meeting of the centra!
celebration committee was held at
the Shiloh Presbyterian church pt
noon Wednesday and over 100 mem
bers of the committee were present,
representative leading men and wo
men of the five ccunties of Cleve
land, Gaston and Mecklenburg in
North Carolina and Cherokee and
York counties in South Carolina.
Thousands Are Coming.
It was an enthusiastic body of
men and women who have labored
faithfully for a year, planning the
greatest celebration ever held in
this section. Just how many will at
tend, it is impossible to estimate.
Clarence Keuster of Charlotte, pres
ident of the Battleground Celebra
tion committee stated that he had
received applications for 25,000 seats
on the reviewing stand at Kings
Mountain and 50,000 seats where the
President speaks on the battl®
ground. However, only the distin-j
guished guests will be provided for j
and one ticket each to members of
the celebration committee.
Roads and Grounds Ready.
Water will be supplied for drink
ing purposes at the battlefield from
sterilized barrels, the road on the
North Carolina side has been pared
while the sand clay road on the
South Carolina line for a distance
of seven miles was being treated
yesterday with chloride of calcium
to keep down the dust. Dr. J. 3.
Dorton of the American Legion was
present to look after parking of cars
cCONTiNUED ON PAGE TWELVE )
Lincolnton Citizen
Takes His Own Life
J. P. La wing. Prominent Grocery -
man. Commits Suicide By
Shooting Self.
hincolnton, Sept. 25.—J. P. Law
ing, prominent groceryman of this
city, committed suicide at his home
this morning at 7 o'clock when he
fired a pistol bfillet into his brain
causing instant death. No cause can
be found for the act except bad
health which has been his lot for
the past several months.
Deceased is survived by his wife
and five children: Miss Essie,
Messrs. Pruett, Sulley, Fred and
Charles, all of this city, and five
brothers and three sisters in this
section of the state.
Funeral services will be conducted
Friday morning at 10 o'clock from
the First Baptist church, of which
he was a member, by Rev. W. B.
McClure, assisted by Rev. E E. Har
din.
Mr. Lawing was the owner and
proprietor of the L.-L. Grocery store
and was born and reared in this
' county.
County Cotton
2,000 Bales Up
On Last Year
The Cleveland county cotton
crop is maturing far earlier this
year than last.
tip to Sept. 16, this year, 2,>
450 bales had been ginned in the
county as compared with only
231 bales to Sept. 16, last year,
according to the government
ginning figures given out by
Miles H. Ware, special agent,
today.
With the crop over 2,000 bales
ahead of. last year 10 days ago farm
ers and ginners estimated today
that between 10 and 15 thousand
bales have been ginned since, as it
is believed that for more than a
week; more than a thousand bales
have been hauled to the gins of the
county each day.
More Optimism.
Just a week and one-half ago
farmers were inclined to believe the
total crop would go beyond the 45,
OOO-bale mark due to the dry weath
er damage, but the hot weather and
moisture from recent rains is caus
ing more bolls to open and there is
a more optimistic spirit evident in
the talk of farmers about their cot
ton.
Recover Stolen
Auto; Attempts
Made On Others
Chevrolet Car Located In Georgia.
Locked Switch Saves Three
Others.
Local officers are still attempting
to combat the continuation of a
wave of automobile thefts which
has swept over (he Shelby section
recenlty.
A Chevrolet automobile stolen
from in front of the L, E. Koon
residence on the Cleveland Springs
road Saturday night, has been lo
cated, Police Chief Poston said yes
terday, in Winder, Ga.
A number or attempts have been
made to steal other automobiles
here of recent nights- Wednesday
night thieves were prevented from
stealing three Shelby cars due to
locked switches and garages. And
on the previous night two other at
tempts were made. The five auto
mobiles belonging to Messrs. Ben
Suttle, A. P. Weathers. H. E. Rich
bourg, Evans McBrayer, and X. G
Watson.
“Every automobile owner should
be sure that his or her car is lock
ed even if left Only for .a few min
utes,'* Police Chief Poston advised.
“It is the surest and best method of
putting an end to car ^stealing.”
GET SHELBY-CHARLOTTE
CONTEST BY QUARTERS
The outcome of the Shelby high
Charlotte football game in Char
lotte'this afternoon will be received
by quarters at the Suttle drug store
[and also at Stephenson drug store.
To Borrow Shelby Officers, Others
For Police Patrol At Celebration
Will Need Big Forte To Handle
Throngs At Kings Mountain
Fete.
York, S, c„ Sept. 26.—At a meet
ing of the police committee, charg
ed with law enforcement at the
Kings Mountain battleground ccle
hration, held in Rock Hill and at
tended by Chief J. Frank Faulkner
of Yorkville; Dr. Johnson and W.
P, Goodman of Rock Hill, it was
decided- to obtain trained police
officers for duty . on the battle
ground during all of October 7. Ef
forts are now underway to "borrow"
these officers from Charlotte, Gas
tonia, Gaffney, Spartanburg. Shelby
and other surrounding towns,
in addition to the police officers
bn duty there, fifty members of the
3outh Carolina national guard will
aid with handling traffic during the
day, guardsmen to be under
command of Captain Cork of Rock
Hill and Captain Lyle of Fort Mill
and both captains will receive orders
from Chief Faulkner.
A request was made that the state
highway department furnish 20
motorcycle highway patrolmen for
duty during the day and while the
department said it would not be
possible to send that many to York
county on October 7. promise was
made that from 6 to’ 10 of these of
ficers will be assigned to duty in this
locality during the celebration.
Within a few days Dr. Johnson
will, submit a request to the York
county commissioners that they pro
vide a fund of not less than $200
with which to feed Uie national
guardsmen, the outside police offi
cers, and such highway patrolmen
as may be sent here, and it is gen
erally'believed that this request will
be granted. provided sutiicient
funds are available,
Sir Hubert Sees Himself
Sir Hubert Wilkins, famous '
Antarctic explorer, inspects the
bust of himself made by Antonio
Salemme, New York sculptor, aa
the latter looks on. The explor
er is now making plaits for a
submarine dash under the iee
and across the geographical
North Pole.
(lataraaUeaal N«*rH|)
Fair Grounds Teeming
With Activity Today
{Scores Of Worker* Arranging Exhibits And
Booths. Show* Arrive Saturday. *.
For the seventh consecutive year a bustling little city
has sprung up almost overnight a couple miles east of Shel
by, where the big Cleveland, County Fair tract is *teeming
today with the final rush of preparations prior to the open
ing Tuesday of Carolina’s biggest and best county fair and
agricultural exposition.
Today scores of people, men and
women, are workine in the big ex
hibit ha,!ls, , putting the finishing
touches' to the exhibits of business
and manufacturing firms. In the
adjoining building teachers and
children are laboring over the fin
est array of school booths yet en
tered, and citizens of several sec
tions of the county are preparing
the big community booths which
have taken honbrs at the state fair
as well as at home.
In other words, practically all ex
hibits and booths will be ready for
the crowds by Saturday midnight
with the exception of the farm ex
hibits and booths containing perish
able products.
Many of the cattle entries are al
ready arriving.
Horses Here,
Approximately 30 of the lin race
horses, which will race each after
noon of the fair, have already ar
rived and the others will \ome in
over the week-end to limber up
Monday for the opening race Tues
day afternoon of the Carolina* rac
ing season.
The big Rubin and Cherry shows.
America’s greatest canvas-covered
amusement group, will arri^jp in
Shelby Saturday night. The state
live game exhibit, one of the fair s
best features will also arrive Satur
day night.
The several nurseries competing
for prizes are today and tomorrow
setting out their shrubs, plants and
flowers which will this year give
the fair grounds of color never
there before.
Now new refreshment stands are
being erected along the midway, but
all the old stands are this week be
ing re-painted, re-arranged and re
modelled.
The Opening Day.
A record crowd of school children
is expected on Tuesday, opening day,
when they will be admitted free.
Tickets already distributed indicate
that at least 35,000 school children
will attend. and Drv Dorton says
that "if a single youngster dose not
have the time of his or her life. I'll
certainly be disappointed, for I do
not believe that v^'ve ever had a
bigger, cleaner and better program
of amusement and entertainment.
Admission prices will be the same
as ever—fifty and 25 cents during
the five days, twenty-five cents for
all during the five nights, twenty
five cents for automobiles, thirty
five cents for the grandstand, the
fifty cents for reserved seats.
RINGS MOUNTAIN RESIDENCE
BURNED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
'Star News Bureau Special.’
Kings Mountain, Sept, 25.—The
four room residence of Lem Castles,
a negro, located on the old Kings
Mountain battleground road three
miles from here, was completley de
stroyed by fire „ Wednesday night
about 8:30 o'clock. The Castles fam
ily were attending preaching at a
nearby church at the time of the
fire, no one being left at home. It
was not known how the fire ori
ginated. None of the household
Bulwinkle Here
Saturday, Speaks
At Court House
Major A. I* Bulwinkle.
Democratic candidate for con
gress, will speak in the court
house at Shelby Saturday aft
ernoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr
Bui winkle la this year con
ducting hi* most spirited cam
paign and U being greeted by
laraw crowds everywhere. Par
tly leaders here extend an es
pecial invltalton for ladles to
attend.
A meeting of the Democra
tic executive committee has
been called for a brief session
jnst after the Bulwinkle ad
dress.
Confederate Vet
Died Thursday
Jacob A. Black. Aged 8*. Buried To
day. Ottixen Of
Waco.
Funeral services lor Jacob A
Black, 89-year-old resident of Waco.
Cleveland county, who died at his
home Thursday morning after an
illness extending over several years,
was held today at the Waco Baptist
church, of which he was a member.
Burial will be made in the family
cemetery in Gaston county.
Mr. Black, a Confederate veteran,
was a well known fanner. He was
born and reared In Gaston county,
a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel Black. Surviving, In addition to
his widow, are the following *ons
and daughters: A. W , D. C., and S
C, Black, Waco: J. A. Black, Jr.,
Hickory: H. G. Black, Charlotte;
lijrs. John F. Moss, Mrs, James A
Whitworth and Miss Bessie Black,
all of Waco. Twenty-two grandchil
dren and five great grandchildren
also .survive.
Kings Mountain To
Decorate For Event
Start Dressing Up Streets And
Buildings For Battleground
Fete.
(By E. R. GAMBLE.)
. Kings Mountain, Sept. 26.—Work
of decorating the town of Kings
Mountain for the sesqui-centennial
celebration October 7th, was started
here this week. Store buildings are
being dressed up in colors and flags.
Work of decorating the streets will
be started at once and Is to be com
pleted by Friday, October 3. Every
important strget in the town is to
fee decorated from one end of it- to
the other. Decorations will be placed
as far out as the Cora, Phoenix and
Dilling mills and almost to the city
limits on all other important streets
It is hoped that every home in the
town will be dresed up in the na
tional colors.
Mothers Whose
Sons Gave All
To Parade Here
Will Have Cars In
Vet’s Parade
Every Gold Star Mother In Cleve
land And Adjoining Counties
Invited Here.
Every Cleveland county boy
who marched away to the World
war will not be in the bl* par- •
ade of ex-service men in Shelby
Monday nifht. for some 3ft of
them never atain saw their
home eounty and came home
only to be burled in their na
tive soil. But every Cleveland
county boy wbo did go away to
war will be represented, it is
hoped, In the parade. And they
will be represented by their
mothers,
I
Just behind the stirring: tunes of
: the Gastonia fife and drum corps
| Monday night will be several auto
mobiles carrying the gold star moth
'era of Cleveland and adjoining coun
t tie*. .
All Invited.
Yesterday the women or the
| American Legion auxiliary in Shel
by asked that ever gold star mother
in this section of the state come to
Shelby Monday evening for the
parade and exercises. Mothers who
gave their boys to the call of {.he
flag and never received them back
are asked to assemble at the Ma
sonic temple st 7 o'clock Monday
evening. Automobiles will be on
hand to carry them In the parade
about the court square. Participat
ing in the parade will be the fife
and drum corps, the e*-service men
with their overseas caps, members of
the Legion auxiliary and others.
It is not only a parade of Cleve
land county veterans but of all vet
erans in six adjoining counties.
The big event of the evening for
the gold star mothers will be the
brief program which comes between
the parade and the legion rally in
the court house. It is then that a
bugler will sound taps before the
memorial tablet to the boys who
gave their all and a military salute
will be fired by company K.
Several short addresses and the
public installation of legion officers
will follow In the court house. •
Officials of the local legion post
and of the legion uaxiliary say that
ex-service men and auxiliary mem
bers of nearby counties have* ac
cepted invitations to attend and will
bring large delegations for this sec
tion's biggest get-together of World
war soldiers.
Thieve* Break Into
McKnight’s Again
Gets Shirts, Cigarettes. One Cut On
Glass. Arrowciod Belts
Taken.
Thieves last night broke Into the
McKnight wholesale grocery house
for the second or third time In re
oent weeks. This time shirts and
cigarettes were stolen.
Blood stains about the broken
window glass indicated that the
thief, or one of the thieves, had cut
a hand in breaking the glass to en
ter\he building.
Another robbery reported last
night was that of two or three belts
from the Arrowood lumber plant.
Shelby Gridders Place Football
Above ‘Dates’ By Shingling Hair
Can’t Devote Too Much Time To
Girls And In Football Games,
They Say.
Too many dates with the girls
and football victories do not mix
well according to more than a score
of closely-cropped boys at the Shel
by high school.
Last week a famous football
coach was quoted throughout the
country as saying that "Football
and necking parties will'not work to
gether.” In other words, that foot
ball players cannot have dates every
night and play their best football
the next day.
But a group of ambitious young
sters "out for the team" at Shelby
high, beat the noted coach to his
decision. '
They decided for themselves that
they were going to 'rush the line
during the football season instead
of rushing their girl friends. And
to help them stick to their resolu
tion they deeded to so aoine things
that wouldn't be popular with the
girls. A half dozen veterans on the
football squad visited the tonsorial
parlors and. had their hair closely
clipped. Next day they passed out
word to the rookies on the squad
that all heads must be clipped
by the following day—-or else. Next
day a few of the grid candidates le
ported for practice with their hair
still long and pliable for the grease
that gives that well groomed, sleek
appearance. An exciting, session took
place in the vicinity of the club
house and when it was over, due to
the manipulation of a pair of shears,
those who had their hair still on,
had it notched here and there so
{.hat it looked worse than a shiny,
clipped head. There wasn't any
thing to do then but finish the clip
ping Job. And when the Cleveland
boys yankggff their headgears in
the game ®h Charlotte today, the
Charlotte fans will see a group of
‘shaved heads” determined to look
better as football players for a'lew
months than as Romeos.
Morrison Tells About
Republican Failures
Competing For
Solon’s Seat
CHAS. A. JONAS
A. L. BUL WINKLE
Congressman Chas. A. Jonas (above)
and Major A. L. Bui winkle, (below)
are waging a stirring campaign for
the office of ninth district congress'
man. Mr. Jonas spoke in South
Shelby Tuesday night and Mr. Bul
winkle will speak in the Shelby
court house Saturday afternoon at
2:30.
Given Six Months
For Stealing Oil
In county recorder's court today
Andy Brown, colored, wrs sentenced
to slit months orf the roads for
stealing motor oil from the Sinclair
firm. It is the second oil robbery of
recent, weeks in which officers have
recovered a major portion of the
oil takgj^-Brown was apprehended
after the missing oil was found in
the possession of a white man who
had purchased it from Brown.
Mr. W. B. Sparks, and daughters,
Mary Eliaabeth and Cornelia, motor
ed to Charlotte with the Shelby Hi
team, whch plays the Charlotte Hi’s
today.
Praises Bailey And
Major Bulwinkle
Former Governor Enthuse* Big
Democratic Catherine To Open
Campaign.
Cornier Governor Cameron Mor
rison, of Charlotte, formally opened
the Democratic campaign In Clevr- *
rand county by conducting an en
thusiastic old-time political revival
at the court house in Shelby las',
night,
The Bathering was the most, spir
ited political rally held here In years
and Mr. Morrison's big audlenc.’
continuously yelled and cheered nin
on as he denounced the Republican
leaders for their "utter failure to dr.
a single thing they promised" and
pled with his hearers to support the
principles or the Democratic party,
the only party, he declared, which
has the Interest of the masses and
the welfare of the South at heart.'
From all sections of the audience.
In which were many ladles, came
the yells and the whoopees, “You
tell ’em, Cam,” as the former gover
nor reached oratorical high spot's
which have caused him for many
years to be Known as one of North
Carolina's greatest campaign speax
ers.
Hoover And CharHe."
Just two years ago we Democrat
got at outs with each other and
split up. Wp have had several kinds
of Democrats since, but it Is my
humble opinion that any Democrat
Is better, and can be relied upon
more by the people, than the best of
the Republicans. It was that yeai
that Charlie Jonas travelled arour.r!
telling us how we would prosper if
we would only select him and Hoov
er. Well, we spilt up and we elect
ed Hoover and Charlie. And whv
did. we get—prosperity? You mv
call It that but to my mind starve
tlon is the beet word. How they te'l
me that Charlie, sUll sticking to tt*»
nOble experiment man, Is runnin.
around saying that Democratic ta»
es are causing us to starve. Tirr
statement is hardly worthy of rep'y.
and it shows that Jonas knows as
much about the tax situation as a
rhinoceros knows about the Ore*!i:
alphabet. North Carolina, thanks to"
Democratic rule from Zeb Vance to
Max Gardner, Is one of the two or
three • Southern' states and one of
the few states In America which doer;
not levy a State tax on property. In
some of the counties of the State
the taxes are high and in some thtv
are low. That is a matter, for the
counties, they voted their dwn taxes,
the people did, for their own wel
fare and betterment, for schon's
and hospitals and the Improvement
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Bad Neal Gets
One Year Term
Sentenced For Entering Post of fir*
At Lawndale. 40 Get
Term*.
Bud Neal, white, was sentenced
to one year rfnd a day at Chill 1
cothe, Ohio, by Judge E, Yates Webb
In federal court hew after be had
been convicted by a jufy.
The entrance into the Lawndal*
postoffice was made one night a
oouple of weeks ago. Neal’s defAse
was that men who saw hte intrud*
der in the postoffice were mistakea
in identifying him as the man.
Many Sentenced.
When the federal court completed
its docket of criminal cases yester
day a total of 40 defendants had
been sentenced to prisons, jails and
reformatories.
Little Girl And
Her Brother Want
A Home In County
An attractive little seven-year-oid
girl and her five-year-old brother
arc looking for a home in Cleveland
county. Their mother is dead
- Both Children have been reared
•in a refined home, are intelligent,
healthy,, and well mannered. If pos
sible they hope to be adopted into
the same home so that they may
spend their childhood together. But
ir such is not possible, they aw will
ing to go into separate homes where
they may find someone to’ mother
them. They have been placed tn th*
custody of J. B. Smith, countv wel
fare officer, and families interested
in adopting them should consult Mr,'
Smith.
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