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SHELBY. N. C. 12 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. l”r TW- “■ *<***»«■> — **•*« ._ ' Carrier, per j«ar. (la tdranee)_*S sn FRIDAY. OCT. 10. 1930 ! LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Colton, per pound ... 9!4* Cotton Seed, per bu. ....-- 27c Fair Saturday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Another Flight. Harbor Grace, N. F., Oct. 9.— Another transatlantic flight was under way tonight. Two men who have never made the voyage were winging their way to England In the tried and true Columbia, which flew the ocean three years ago. Capt. Errol Boyd, first Canadian to enlist In the Royal Flying corps in the World war, and Harry P. Con nor, former lieutenant in the Unit ed States navy, took off for London at 11:20 a. m. E. Sj. T. Fifty min utes later the Colombia in which Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine flew from New York to Germany In 1927, flashed over St. Johns and was on her eastward course to added fame. Coroner Blames Shelby Man For Woman ’s Death Says Dr. Hicks' Car Hit Woman. Witness Says Car Stopped, Moved On. Charlotte, Oct. 10.—A coroner's jury Wednesday blamed Dr. R. C. Hicks, of Shelby, for the death a few nights ago, of Essie Thompson, negro woman, on West Trade street. After the sister of the dead wom an had testified, along with four others, the jury decided that Essie Thompson was struck by a car driv en by Dr. Hicks. The Shelby dentist was taken into custody within an hour after the woman was hit. A charge of man slaughter was placed against him at police headquarters. He was re leased the following day on bond of $3,000. Three calls to the police sta tion in the meantime gave the li cense number of Dr. Hicks’ car. The case was called in the city record er’s court Wednesday morning, but Dr. Hicks did not appear. A confu sion had arisen since the coroner’s inquest, it was said. R. D. Mayhew and R. P. Davis, who are employed at a filling sta tion on the corner where the death occurred, testified they saw the car roll over the woman. The driver got out, they said, and started back to the prostrate woman, then got back in his car, turned about, and drove out North Cedar street. They fol lowed and got the number, they said. Policemen Finlayson and Knight testified as to apprehending Dr. Hicks on North Tryon street and taking him to the police station, where the charge was docketed. County Schools Resume On 27th Take Up Work After Closing To Aid tn Picking Cotton Crop. • The majority of the long term {schools in rural Cleveland county will resume their school work about Monday, October 27, after having been closed around six weeks to aid in picking the cotton crop. The board of education and dis trict committeemen have practically decided on that date, according to Supt. J. B. Grigg, provided the wea ther remains good until that time. Should there be considerable wet weather during ti e next fortnight which would delay the picking the schools might not epen for another week. Most of them have already "been closed for a month, and in an other two weeks the cotton picking tush should be about over. Due to the fact lhat the rural schools are now closed the board of education had one of its quietest monthly sessions here this week. Casar Man, Age 70 Passes Suddenly Mr. Willie Buff Succumbs To Stroke of Paralysis. Buried At Olive Grove. (Special to The Star.'* Casar, Oct. 9.—Mr. Willie Buff of Casar route 1, died suddenly Wed nesday morning when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, His funeral was conducted Thursday at 10 a. m. at the Olive Orove Baptist church. Mr. Buff was about seventy- years «f age and has lived all his life in upper Cleveland. He is survived by his. wife, who was Miss Kate Bum gardner, and the following children: Mrs. Robert Short. Mrs. John Wal ter, Mrs. Alec Sigman, Mrs. Bruce Seism, Mrs. Will Gales and Messrs. John and Peter Buff, and one sis ter, Mrs. Rob Buff of Georgia. He was preceded to the grave by three sisters and one brother, all of them died, as be. within- a few hours aft er a stroke of paralysis. Suttle Heads Baptists Again; Adjourn Today Patterson Springs Host To Meet Elected Moderator of Kin&s Moun tain Association. J. V. Devrn ney Is Made Clerk. Rev. John W. Suttle. one Of the most popular pastors in the Baptist I denomination in Cleveland county, was elected moderator of the Kings Mountain Baptist association yes terday at the annual meeting held at Patterson Springs. Mr. Suttle has served the association as moderator for 17 years and is noted for the promptness with which he dis patches business. Two full days are given to the consideration of busi ness concerning the 42 Baptist churches belonging to this associa tion so the schedule "must be kept up with. Devrnncy Made Clerk. Rev. J. V. Devenney was made clerk succeeding G. C. Page who is away doing Sunday school work. Fletcher Hord of Kings Mountain was elected vice moderator and George Blanton, treasurer. A great throng of people, estimat ed to be larger than that which attended the association a year ago at Boiling Springs, gathered at the Patterson Springs church of which Dr. Davis is pastor. A table fully 100 feet long had been erected in the grove for the bountiful spread of good things to eat and there was an abundance for all. _ t I Dr. Madry Here. Dr. Chas. E. Madry presented the co-operative program, outlining conditions in regard to the centen nial campaign and the distress which confront the state mission board. He made an appeal to save the state mission work and an nounced that if the pledges are not paid, the board may be forced to curtail state mission work in order to liquidate the indebtedness of the schools. The annual sermon was preached by Rgv. Hartsell of Kings Moun tain who traced the history of the American people, coming to this country for religious freedom. He condemned worldliness in no uncer tain terms and declared that ‘‘other countries may be sending mission aries to America” in a few more generations unless the people turn to God. Archie McMillian presented the cause of the Baptist orphanage at Thomasville, now known as the Mills home, while John P. Mull spoke on Baptist literature and Rev. D. F. Putnam on the Baptist hos pital at Winston-Salem. Wallace Grove church applied for membership in the association, but since Mulls Chapel was established nearby and there is some division in the section, the matter was held over for further consideration at today's session. HAD HIfTpOCKETS PICKED AT KINGS MOUNTAIN FETE Mr. W. Y. Weathers, of Shelby was the victim of pickpockets while attending the welcome celebration at Kings Mountain this week for Mr. Hoover. Something like $9 was taken from his pockets, he says, presumably while the president was riding by and while Mr. Weathers was engrossed with getting a better view of Mr. Hoover. County Cotton Ahead Of 1929 15,000 Bales The Cleveland county cotton crop was 15,000 bales ahead of the 1929 erop according to gin ning figures for the county an nounced today by Miles II. Ware, ginning agent. To ‘"0et»hc*s<thc "first this year 17,219 bales had been ginned in the county as compared with 2,157 to the same date Iasi year. Predictions of two weeks ago that the total crop would not go over 45,000 hales are bring alter er, and now many observers are expecting a crop of around 50, 000 bales. Colonial Webb Home Closed The doors to one of the finest old Colonial mansions on state ly South Washington street; one of Shelby’s oldest and most ex clusive residential avenues, were closed today and the house va cated for the first time in many years. The residence referred to is tnat known as the Judge Webb home where for years prior to his death Judge James L. Webb and his fam ily lived, the home being one of the central points iri the activities of Shelby society. > Today the house was closed for the winter, after which it may be re opened, as Mrs. Webb, and her daughter. Mrs. Madge Riley, moved to Raleigh to spend the winter with Gov. and Mrs. Gardner. For years, too. the residence has been the home of the Gardner family and the child ren of the governor have been rear ed there. Such is the sentiment in the entire family for the old home that last year the Gardners and their children, some of whom were away in school, preferred to spend the Yuletide holidays in the old fam ily home rather than in the execu tive mansion in Raleigh. Such a prominent role has the big house, almost hid from the street by evergreens, shrubbery, and trees, played in the life of Shelby that it' closing, even temporarily, will be o! town-wide regret. Gets (^Months For Robbery, Holdup At Battle Celebration In county court held yesterday at Kings Mountain Judge Horace Kennedy sentenced Edgar Mauney, white, to six months on the gang on the charge of assaulting and rob bing James S. Collins, of Charlotte, also white, on the afternoon of the big celebration at Kings -Mountain. Collins story was that Mauney called him down to the brick kiln to give him a drink, and then slug ged him over the head with a piece of iron and robbed him of between $12 and $15. He followed Mauney. he said, to Charlotte where he had officers there arrest him. Mauney told several different stories as to the location of his homf, it is said. Visit Of Hoover Aided Cause Of Jonas Is View OfG. O.P. Leaders Republican Congressman Given Psychological Advantage By Visit. Charlotte, Oct. 10 — Since the de parture of President Hoover from the Southern station here Tuesday night Republican leaders in this section have been discussing tha political influence that may have been left in his wake and the ef fect, if any, that his presence here may have on the fall election. They generally agree that the vis it and the speech of the president constituted a boost for the Repub lican party m this section in the attention that its highest represen tative received and in the more kindly feeling that persons would have toward the chief executive as a result of having seen and heard him. Most of all they feel that it con stituted a real help to Congressman Charles A. Jonas, Republican can didate for re-election to congress from the ninth district, who accom panied the president In his jour neyings over the district Tuesday and rode with him on his special train to Charlotte that night to in i deduce him to the crowd that was gathered there. A psychological advantage was calculated to come from his having been seen in the president's pres ence all day and an actual advan tage was said to exist in his being able to introduce numerous persons to Mr. Hoover and to navigate him into a lot of hand-shaking and other contacts, train stops for in stance. Dispatches from Washington, fol lowing the return there of the pres ident, hinted at a kindly feeling that the present administration has for Mr. Jonas and of a desire to see him sent back to the capitol as a representative for another term. "The administration is solicitious about his fate,” one dispatch said. A paragraph from this dispatch follows: “The ninth district of North Car olina, embracing territory contigu ous to Kings Mountain, is the scene of a hip and tuck race between the Republican incumbent, Representa tive C. A. Jonas, and former Rep resentative A. L. Bulwinkle, Demo cratic veteran, who succumbed to the Hoover landslide 4n 1928. Mr Jonas is Republican national com mitteeman from North Carolina, and tiie administration is ^solicitous about his fate.-’ Shaw Presides Over Term Of Court On 27th Jurors Drawn For Court Session Is Stale's Veteran Judge Sir.ee Webb Death. Will Retire This Year. Judge Thomas J. Shaw. ot Greensboro, who will preside Over the term of superior court which convenes hero Monday, October 27. is the dean of North Carolina su perior court jurists since the death of Judge J. L. Webb. Both Judge Webb and Judge Shaw were to have retired at the end of the year. Judge Webb heid his last term of court here during the summer, and It may be that the term here this month will be the final one for Judge Shaw before he retires at the end of the year. Jurors Drawn. At the meeting of the county commissioners this week the follow ing jurors were drawn for the term: First Week. E. T. Jones. L. J. Blanton. James Moore, S. J. McCluney, J. M. Pon der. J. A Davis, O. F. Scapaugh, Carl W. Davidson, W. D. Baker, W. T. Weir, J. E. Llpford, J. L. Crock er, J. M. Williams, Joe Kendrick, J. Clyde Carpenter, J. F Roberts, J William Osborne. H A. Harris, C C. Hamrick, C. T. Warren, J. Boyce Dellinger, J. Q. Earls, C. C. Dalton. T. A. Bridges, S C. Cra,wley. Pink Lovelace, C. S. Withrow, Leroy Ives - ter, Guy Peeler, Josh prowder. J. Cletus Royster, Vance Royster. Hoyle Costner, R. A. Bingham, Floyd Willis, Grady McNcely. Second Week. Rush McCraw, W. A. Lattimore. James Allen, T. C. Bennett, Harry tails, Marcus C. Beam, C. L. Del nger, A. B, C. DePrlest. G. B. Ken drick, J. H. Whitworth. W. H. Gard ner. W. D. HarriJI, B. P. Jenkins. C. V. Short. Brantley Dellinger. Mar vin E. Elliott, Thomas C. Props!. W. J. Self. Bulwinkle Speaks i- At Kings Mountain Candidate For Congress Appears At Cora Mill Saturday Night, (Star New* Bureau.1 Kings Mountain, Oct. 10.— j Major A. Lee Bulwinkle. Demo cratic candidate for congress, will be the chief speaker at a Democratic gathering to be held at the Cora mill here Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock. Other features to be provided for the evening entertainment will in clude music by a band and a battle royal boxing match. Kings Mountain Democrats hope to make the meeting one of the most enthusiastic held here during the campaign. x Should it be. raining Saturday evening at the scheduled hour the speaking and meeting wilt be held at the East. End school. Garrison And Rogers Kiwanis Speakers Dr. D. A. Garrison of Gastonia and Carrol P. Rogers, lieutenant governor of Kiwanis zone No. 1 were the speakers last night at the weekly Kiwanis luncheon at the Hotel Charles. Dr. Garrison was high in his praise of No. 6 town-1 ship for providing one of the finest hospitals in this section. He appeal ed for American to build against communism and bolshevism. Kl wanian Rogers urged attendance upon the district Kiwanis meeting in Raleigh next month. Dr. T B; Mitchell was in charge of the pro gram. Seaboard Curtails Passenger Train West Of Shelby Beginning October 20, the one and only Sraboarij passenger train operating between Monroe and Rutherfordton will be cur tailed west of Shelby. This train coming from Charlotte and now operating to Rutherfordton will slop in Shelby at noon and make its return' about 5 p. m. The stations between Shelby and Rutherfordton will be served by a mixed train which consumes nearly six hours time between Shelby and Rutherfordton as this freight will do considerable shifting at the stations along the line and serve the Seaboard's branch line to Henrietta and iroleen. A postal inspector, Mr. tlonryeutt was here yester day to arrange the mail 'service from Shelby west. i ; —-.- —. A New Chance For Life The South Carolina Supreme court this week gave Rafc King, well known Shelby man pictured above, a new chance at life by ruling that he should have a new trial. The second hear ing will be held at Chester,' S.*C.‘ about’January 12. Negro Fair Will Ran For Five Days Here, Beginning Oct. 21st Sixth Negro Fair Will Be Featured With Farm Exhibit*. Midway Rare* and Firework*. Cleveland county's sixth annual negro fair will begin at the fair ground on Tuesday. Oct. 21, accord ing to an announcement made today by N. J. Pass, president and A. W. Poster, secretary-treasurer. The fair will run for five days and the of cers are confident they will have the hest shows this institution has offered here. Some of the features are horse racing that will take place each aft ernoon beginning at 2 o'clock, a midway composed of seven or eight shows, five rides and thirty-five concessions, thrilling free acts be fore the grandstand between the race heats in the afternoon and each evening Fireworks will be a night attraction on each of the five days, beginning at 7 45. Many Exhibits. While entertainment has been provided, the fair officials have not overlooked the importance of a va riety of exhibits in horticulture, ag riculture. crafts, livestock, cattle and swine, sheep and goats, poultry, home economics, pantry supplies, household arts, antiques and plants A football game between Lincoln academy and the high school from Hickory will be a feature on the Friday program. The game will be gin about 3 o’clock and racing on this day will start at 1 o’clock in stead of 2 o'clock. Big crowds are expected, not only from Cleveland, but from adjoining counties and an excursion of auto mobiles will visit the fair one day from Asheville, Fair officials are N. J. Pass, presi dent; W. J. Ezell, vice president; A. W. Foster, secretary-treasurer; C. M. Montgomery, 6 S. Phemester, W, DeGree, James Camp, Hugh Harshaw, E. S. Beam, D. H. Kearsr.' Sherwood Enloe, A Herd, P B Falls and W. E. Hicks, directors. > Highs Taking Two Elevens To Contest Couches Casey Morris and Tilden Palls with around 20 football play ers, or approximately two elevens, left this morning for Henderson ville where the Shelby highs will play their fourth game of-the sea son To date the locals have won from Kings Mountain and lost to Chartottr and Fnrert city. Only Call Fire Department To Report A Fire Citizen* of Shelby should never call Telephone No. lot except to report a fire. This request is made by city offic ials and firemen berause num erous calls have been made on the fire telephone in recent weeks by people who desired lo speak with city official* or to have a personal conven tion with firemen. Such cart* automatically set off the small alarm and result in some con fusion. especially at night. People desiring to make a personal rail to firemen or others about the city hart arc requested never to use the fire alarm telephone—104. Rafe King Given New Trial By S. C. Court _ Shelby Man, Sentenced To Death, Gets An other Chance. Bond Will Not Likely Be Sought Before New Hearing. May Be Moved Back To Chester Jail. j After being confined for 15 months in the death row ! >f the South Carolina prison, right in the shadow of the 'lectric chair to which he had been sentenced, Rafe King, well known Shelby man convicted of the killing of Tiiss wife, t former Shelby school teacher, learned yesterday that he would he given a new trial and a new chance at life. King Failed To Hear ‘Best’ News Over Prison Radio Had Listened Night After Night For Court D«lalon. Missed - . It. Columbia Oct 10.—For weeks In his cell In state prison here Rate King:, convicted murderer, listened each night, at 10 o'clock as news briefs were broadcast over a local radio station. It was through this agency that he expected to learn the. result of his appeal to the supreme court He would listen to the radio eagftdy, I which was in a cell on another tier, with a loudspeaker attachment. Wednesday night for the first; time since the policy of announcing! news here was inaugurated, King's! feitow prisoner had his radio switch- J ed to another station. As a result the Shelby man did not hear until Thursday morning that the supreme court had granted him a new trial on the charge of murdering his wife, Faye Wilson King, almost 12 hours later than he would have otherwise. King said he expected “all t"ha time to get a new trial." He said he had not discussed plans for .the trial with any one and did not know when it would be held. "Fj. .. ——* Pickup In Travel By Bus Shown Here A steady increase in travel by bus lines in and out of Shelby has been shown for the last two weeks, ac cording to Squire Sylvanus Gardner, who manages the local bus termin al. There are still one or two days in each week when travel is light, but taking it as a whole travel con ditions are better now, he says, than at any period since the business de pression was first felt last fall. Miss Allen Returns To Western Union Miss Louise Allen has resumed her duties as operator at the local Western Union office after attend ing the company school for several weeks In Rome. Oa. Miss Ruth Hutchison, who had been serving rs operator for 90 days, returned thus week to her home in Florida. Messrs. J. W. Hartgrove and Charlie Carson will attend the Cherokee Indian fair and spend the w-eek-end In Georgia. Gardner’s Two-Sentence Speech Introducing Hoover Is Praised North Caroling Governor Knew the People Wanted to Hear The President. When President Hoover retires from public life and prepares to write the memoirs of his career he may say that the shortest intro ductory speech presenting him to an audience was made by the Governor of North Carolina at the Kings Mountain battleground. Governor Gardner used two brief sentences in introducing the Presi dent, and the short. yet complete introduction has been singled out •« the aftermath comment as a feature of the day. Regarding the introduction the Charlotte News save editorially: "Commend us to the two-sentence introduction speecu of Governor Max Gardner as hr, presented the President of the United States to the vast assemblage at Kings Mountain! "Nobody, of course, expected him to deliver an oration. Almost every body knows better than to do a thing like that when th^ president is on hand as the designated speak er of an occasion, but the governor was down almost before he got up He expressed in one sentence his appreciation of the honors of the day which camp his way and hie npxt imp was that of presentation, w'hercupon he very properly took his seat. 'You don't ever catch Max doing the wrong thing. ’ Neat and Well Done Speaking of the same incident, ‘he Gastonia Gazette says: “Governor Richards came very near pulling a Col. Kirkpatrick stunt in his preliminary remarks. It looked as if he would never present Max Gardner, and the North Carolina governor must have sensed the same feeling, for he introduced the Pres ident in two short sentences, one of the shortest introductions ever ac corded the Chief Executive. The | crowd gave Max a big hand for this gracious gesture. It is a funny thing how some speakers will overdo a thing like that. Governor Richards was in. a fair way tc set the crowd all on edge. They did not want to hear a governor or even two governors; they came to see and hear the Pres ident of the United States and the South Carolina governor tried to give a summary oi the battle oi Kings Mountain bc.ore getting ta his job in hand, which was to pre sent. Max Gardner But our Max dr! the thing just, righ . H'1 -.poke of in'- I 1 CONTINUED ON rAOE TWELVE I ( On July 9, 1029 the Shelby man was convicted of murder at a spe cial court term held in Chester. South Carolina. Judge J. K. Henry, who presided, sentenced him to the death chair, setting September 20 »t lhe date. The trial had been moved by a change of venue from York to Chester. Soon after the passing of the death sentence King's lawyers made art appeal to the South Caro lina supreme court. The appeal had been before that body for several months before the decision was handed Wednesday evening. The Shelby man during that time had been confined to the state prison in Columbia. Trial In January. Today Clyde R. Hoey, one of King's two Shelby attorneys—the other is B T. Falls—stated that he expected the new trial would be held in Chester at the court term Which begins on January 12. Mr Hoey ex pressed the belief today that King might be sent back to the Chester jail in that he is not now a state prisoner. So far no attempt, has been made to have King released on bail, and press dispatches from York stated that Thos. F. McDow, one of the de fense counsel, had expressed the opinion that bail would not be sought for King prior to the new hearing t Shelby People Elated. The granting of a new hearing for the man yet fairly young in years, who had lived all of his life in Shelby except for a few months prior to his wife's death when he lived in South Carolina, wa*-joy fully received in Shelby. During the hearing of the case, which waa of a sensational nature, opinion was divided as to his guilt, but in King's home town the prevailing belief was that he was not guilty of the crime. Some weeks ago his counsel here expressed the firm belief that a new trial would be granted, but this was not definitely known until yester day and Ut» announcement brought joy to King's aged father and moth er, other members of his family, and many friends here. Error Of Judge. Columbia.—The South Carolina supreme court Wednesday reversed the decision in the case of Rafe F. King, sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of his wife, Faye Wilson King, and remanded It l.o the Court of General Sessions of Chester county for retrial. While various exceptions of the defense were granted by the su preme court, it dealt particularly with those concerning the charge of the presiding judge, J. K. Henry. “A reading of the entire charge and the judge's modification of re quests to charge, and his comments as to those requests, show clearly, in our opinion, that the honored circuit judge departed many, times from the usual instructions given in a homicide case. Doubtless this (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE I Jabez Hamriek, 84, Buried Today At Boiling Springs Aged And Respected Fanner; Ami iAst of His Family. Wlfa And 3 Children Survive. Mr. Jabez Hamrick, age 84, one of the county’s old and most respect ed citizens, died at 6 o'clock Thurs day evening at his home at Boiling Springs. He had been in declining health for several months and real sick for several days. Mr. Hamrcik was a thrifty, in dustrious farmer who lived a plain, outdoor life, pracfising the teach ings of Christianity in his daily life. He lived close to his friends and his church and lived an honorable up right life. He is the last of his fam ily of three brothers D. J., A. J. and Dr. T. O. Hamrick, and one sister. Mrs. Matheney, all of whom pre ceded him to the grave. ' Surviving are his wife who before marriage was Miss Alia Sarratt of Gaffney, two daughters, Mrs. Mere dith White and Mrs. Drewry Ham rick and one son Ed D. Hamrick. He was a staunch member of the Boiling Springs Baptist chirch where the funeral takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock service roc lurted by Rev. J. f. Jenkins, pas ■or.