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v'tVL. 8 PAGES TODAY SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY. (H I . 1;5. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Br M*11, **"• ._.. __ ____ C*rrltr. per year, On *d?ante>_. SH.tHt LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound Cotton Seed, per bushel „ O'jc .. j0< Occasional ’Show ers. Today's North Carolina Heather Report: Occasional showers tonight and Tuesday. Not quite so cool in ‘ extreme west tonight. State Fair Opens. Raleigh. Oct. IX—The greatest of the great state fair—bigger than ever despite depression—was for mally opened by Governor Gardner at noon today. East year all prev ious fair week attendance records were broken when the turnstile check showed over 100,000 paid ad mission. .Made optimistic_hy the large increase in the number of ex hibits. Fair Manager T. B. Smith is predicting an ever larger attend ance this week. Man Killed By Train At Kings Mtn. Saturday RomU H. Morrow May Have Fell Asleep Oil Tracks. Out That Night. Kings Mountain* Oct. 13.—Romia . H. Morrow, 56-year-old white man, was found dead on the tracks or the Southern railroad near the Dill mg mills in Kings Mountain Satur day morning about 5 o'clock by em ployes of the night shift of the mill. A coroner's jury in charge of Cor oner T; C. Eskridge rendered a ver dict that the man came to his . death by being struck by a train. It was thought that he sat down on the end of a cross tie and fell asleep. His? head was crushed, one arm was broken and he was, bruis ed in other places. According to members of Iris fam ily, Morrow left home about two o'clock Saturday morning. He was a widower and had no home of his own but lived with his children. It was stated by his daughter that he w had been here only a week, haying come lo her home to attend the celebration. He is survived by five children, -Fonsa. Mike and Darrell Morrow, all of Forest City; Verdine Morrow of Rutherfordton, snd Mrs. Clara Mavhue of Kings Mountain; four brothers and one sister. To Bury Mrs. Mattie Rippy Here Today '■'Jfer-p’n-Law of Mrs. R. H. Wilson die* In Rutherfordton. For merly Lived Here. />al services for Mrs. Mattie arc being held this afternoon ''o’clock from the residence of , tt Sister-in-law, Mrs. R. H. Wil son on West Warren street, serv ices being conducted by Rev. L. L. Jessup, pastor of the Second Bap tist church- Mrs. Rippy died Satur day morning in Rutherfordton after an illness of two years. For 15 or 20 wears she lived in Shelby, having a home in West Shelby. About a year ago' she moved to Rutherfordton. Mrs. Rippy was 51 years of age and is survived by her husband and 1 one daughter, Mrs. A. W. Hefner. 10 O’Clock MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY Is The Last Minute To Turn In Your Advertising Copy. It takes lime to prepare good advertising. The mails don't wait if we are late. We are under contract to oar subscribers to deliver each issue of The Star on schedule time. To do that we are com pelled to make all the outgoing mails on schedule time. That’s hard-to do when copy comes in late. Wo are asking advertisers !o co-operate with us as far as is convenient by turning in their copy as early as possi ble before each Issue of The Star. Wl*n we receive advertis ing copy the day before pub lication and before the “dead line" hour on press days, we are allowed ample time to prepare your ray outs and to set up your advertising most attractively and effectively. Wo can assure you better service and better advertising. Grover Minister’s Daughter And Married Man Disappear; Believe Girl Was Kidnapped » _____ Miss Furcron Leaves College In S. C. Willie Wilson Sold ( Hon. ( ashed Cheek. But.owed Car Here Friday. Officers in several Southern states were today on the look out for Miss Esther Furcron,v 17-year-old daughter of Rev. W. E. Fureron. Baptist minister of Grover, this county, and Willie Wilson, 35-year-old married farmer of the Betnlehejn section, who, relatives of the girl believe, kidnapped her at Anderson col lege. in South Carolina, la*t Friday afternoon. It is known that the young girl, te first-year student at the college, left the campus there Friday after noon with Wilson and neither has been seen since. Relatives of the girl and college authorities consider it a kidnapping in that the girl left in her school clothes, with shoe sleeves, and without a coat or hat. Permission was given her to ride up town, it is said, with Wilson, who told college authorities he was a friend of the fanv.^y. The two were acquainted as the girl, it wras said today, had visited at the home .of Wilson’s father-in-law on whose farm Wilson lived. Made Preparations. A check-up in this county by ol iicers reveals that Wilson had ap parently made complete prepara tions for a trip. Friday morning he loaded up three bales of .eelton, half of which belonged to his .father-in-law. Cur tis Dickson, of the Bethlehem sec tion, and half belonging to him. The cotton was taken to Grover and sold, and the mules and wagon were left there Wilson then caught a ride to Kings Mountain, it is said, had his bill at the Plonk brothers store to talled up, and then purchased a new suit, shoes and other clothing. A check of eighty some dollars, said to be worthless was given the store on his account and for the new' cloth ing Wilson then came to Shelby by bus. or otherwise, visited the hom of J W. Hensly in the Cleveland cloth mill village and borrowed Hensly's Dodge automobile. Hensly. who is not related to Wilson but who had known him for some years, said that Wilson told him, that he had started with his family to a reunion and that his car had broken down. He wanted Hensly's car, he said, to take his family on to the reunion. Hensly hasn't seen Wilson or the automobile since, and neither has anyone in the Grover section with the exception of the Furcron girl and the officials at Anderson col lege. Headed South? Officers at Montgomery. Alabama and at St, Petersburg, Florida, were notified and asked to watch for the couple, some information picked up here indicating that Wilson might have headed that direction. Wilson, it was said at Grover to day. came to this county about three years ago and marred Mr. Dickson’s daughter. They have lived since that ' time on the Dickson farm, and have two children. In bygone years, re ports have it, Wiiion had lived in (CONTINUED ON -AGE EIGHT ! Baptists Meet ! At Zion Next; j Morals Better Association Asks For Enforcement Of Liquor Laws. Finds Im provement In 50 Years. Zion church, six miles north of Shelby was voted as the meeting place for the next annual meeting of the Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation which will be held Thurs day and Friday after the first Sunday in October, 1931. This was decided Friday on the closing day of the associational meeting with the Patterson Springs church where the entertainment was supreme and a resolution was adopted unani mously, thanking the people of the community for their hospitality. Temperance Makes Progress Temperance was found to ha\e made progress in this country when the question of “temperance of public morals’ was up for discus sion and the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain was fresh on the minds of the delegates. Almost within sight of the Patterson Springs church on the previous Tuesday, some sixty thousand people had gathered and there were only six arrests, all for minor drunks. This brought a Comparison with the centennial celebration fifty years ago which some twenty men in the audience said they had attended. Then, a log pen was built in which to corral the drunks and drinking was so free fifty years ago that the pen was nearly filled. Many voices declared that temperance has made progress, yet the association went CONTINUED ON PAGE eight.) Mrs. Fred Blanton Dies At Age 28 And Is Buried Sunday Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Meek W. Erwin Dice After Protracted nines*. Mrs. Mabel Blanton, wife of Fred Blanton' died at her home in South Shelby Friday night at midnight, following an illness of three years, one year of which time she speni. in a sanitorium in an effort to re gain her lost health. Mrs. Blanton was a lovely Christian character and a member for 15 years of the La Fayette street Methodist church where the funeral took place Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock. Services were conducted by her pastor. Rev. Mr. Jenkins. Mrs. Blanton .was 28 years. of age, and is survived by her husband and two children, Frances, age 12 and Margaret age 9. Also surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Meek W. Erwin and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Earl Frances, Ray, Elbert. Emma, James, Jean, Ed and Betty Erwin. Interment was in Sunset .ceme tery under a mound of beautiful flowers. : Nye Inquiry In North Carolina Proves No Worry To Party Head Inquiry Will Aid Democrats Instead Of Hurting,' Party Head Thinks. Raleigh.—If State Democratic Chairman Qdus M. Mull is at all worried over the coming to Ra leigh of the senatorial election funds committee to see what it can ! find out concerning alleged Irregu lar tiractices in the Democratic pri mary of June 7th, last, he certainly is not showing; it. In fact, from the smiles constantly wreathing his ro tund features, Chairman- Mull is apparently looking forward to the arrival of the committee, which Monday will hold sessions in the federal court room here, in an ef fort to learn what it can concern ing the use of money in the Bailey Simmons campaign for the Demo cratic nomination, in which J. W. Bailey was victorious over the aged F. M, Simmons of New Bern, for 30 years a senator from North Caro lina. “We are not in the least alarmed over the coming of this committee; in fact, we will welcome it, for we are confident that the hearings It will hold here will merely serve to substantiate the falsity of the ru j mors alleging in regular practices in the June primary,' said Chairman Mull. “There is nothing new about the charges made, for the Republi cans have never been able to prove them. We know that there were no irregularities practiced either by Mr. Bailey or Senator Simmons, and we feel sure this investigation will establish this fact.” There have been rumors that large sums of money were sent in to the state to help Mr. Bailey’s campaign, some of it coming from the Association Against the Eigh teenth Amendment, some from the Bank of Italy, in California, and from the California Winegrowers association, but one has yet been able to prove these charges and many believe that the senate com mittee will find that these charges [are merely charges, and nothing more. Many Democratic leaders leel that this coming of the investigation committee will be of material bene fit to the Democratic campaign in the state, since it has undoubtedly been instigated by the Republicans, with'a view to stirring up dissention In the Democratic ranks, while it will have the opposite effect and serve to get put n larger Democra tic vote than ever. •’Inventor” Greets Mrs. Edison Fifteen-year-old Johnny SulH- . ■Van, of Washington, T>. C., greets Mrs, Thomas A. Edison, wife of the inventor, at the Sev enteenth Annual CongreeB of the National Recreation Aasocla V tton it .Atlantic City, N. S. i Young: Sullivan won th- trip to ! Atlantic City with his airplatn* model which set a world’s out door record in the. competition at Washington. t Imttr iCWul Democratic Party Workers In County To Stage Big Dinner Will Form Active Organization Here Friday Night. 200 Expected. More than 300 Democrat.', m<*n and women, coming from all sec tions of Cleveland county, are ex pected here Friday night, the licit, to attend a big dinneT and organi zation meeting to be held in th<* Gardner building at 7 o’clock, Those expected td attend are ill members of the county executive committee and of all precinct com mittees, the aim of the gathering being that,of forming a working or ganization to advance tire inters* ' of the party in the approach in? election and during the years ahead. County headquarters a err toriav sending out invitai.ons to all pat! officials in all precincts, but if some of the invitation cards should riot be, delivered Chairman Oliver An thony desires to have all committee members present. There will be no formal talks and the meet mg will be devoted to com*’ panionship and organization woii: yet several party headers, including Clyde R. Hoey; O. M. Mull and oth ers, will attend and may make short talks. Ail county candidates will at - tend. it is understood, and the gath ering is planned as the most com prehensive meeting of i>arty workers ever held in the county. To Plan Rally. One of the pUnw-to be discussed will UP that of settles together a largfe gajNlWflTg fo? the'Blg ebunTy-' wide rally In the court house next Friday night, the 20th, at which several short talks will precede the main address by J. C. B. Ehringhaus. No Democratic addresses will be booked in the county this week as major interest is to be centered about Monday's meeting. State Will Vote 46 Officers In November Election; Does Not Include County Officers; A List Blaze At Cashiono Home Extinguished i —— A blaze which originated in a pile of kindling in” the basement of the i Ted Cashion residence in the Cleve land Springs Estat-s about 10 o'clock i this morning did very little damage before it was extinguished by city firemen, Mr, and Mrs. Cashion were' up town at the time and had the blaze not been discovered when i: was considerable damage might have resulted because of high winds. A it "was the residence was filled with smoke. I Postal Men Meet On Tuesday Night On Tuesday evening at Double Springs, the Cleveland county pos tal service council will hold its semi-annual meeting at Double Springs. Rev. L. L. Jessup, pastor oi the Second Baptist church will de liver the principal address. Matter.' pertaining to the betterment of the postal service will be discussed, aft er which a bountiful spread dinner will be served. Attempts To Gash A Check On County Prof. J. H. Grigg, county super intendent of education, was in Char lotte today in connection with an investigation of an attempt made by man to cash a check there Sat urday on the county school fund The check, which was not issued through the school offide, it is said, was for thirty some dollars, The check was presented there by a man who has been living in Shelby, it is understood. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillings and Mis. Annie Dilling of Kings .Moun tain were Shelby visitors Sunday. Ballot On Candidates For Senate. Congress. .ludtciary And ——-Other Offices. ' - Raleigh. Oft, 10.—The North Carolina electorate will go to the polls, November 4. to vote for can didates for 46 United States sen atorial, congressional, solicitors, state and judicial positions. Both parties have candidates in the field for the larger part of all the major offices. Republican can didates have been nominated in ad the congressional district, except the first, where Lindsay C. Warren is the Democratic nominee. The Re publican party also has men in the field for the1 majority of solicitoral, state and judicial position and a large number of local offices. Chief interest has centered in the campaign for the United States senate between Josiah W. Bailey, Democrat, and George M. Pritchard. Republican. A complete list of candidates for all other major offices in the gilt of the state's voters follows: Congressional—First district: Dem octal, Lindsay C. Warren; Repub lican, none Second dtstrict: Democrat, John rt. Kerr; Republican. E Dana Dick ens. Third; . Democratic, Charles h Abernethv: Republican. William Giles Mebane. Fourth: Democrat. Edward W Pou: Republican, John C. Mat thews. Fifth- fregular term): Democratic, » 'CONTDKJKD ON PACH F'uH't Cleveland To Get 3 More Teacher* put of the lit extra teachers to be allotted North Carolina counties by the state equalization board Cleveland county has been given three, according to Raleigh dis patches. Rutherford . will get two teachers and Lincoln one out of the same allotment. Registration In S Precincts Now Underway Voters Transferring Should Register She Hit Tjro. East Anti West Kin** Mountain, Queen* And Casar Register. A new registration of voters for the November election is now under way in five voting precincts at Cleveland ‘county. These precinct are Shelby ward two. East and West Kings Mountain, Queens and j Casar. All eligible voters in these precincts are urged by the election board to register prior to the clos ing of the books on Saturday, Octo ber 35. The registration books for the new registration opened Saturday week ago. but. so far, registration officials say, no great number of voters in these precincts have reg istered. In Other Precincts. At the same time registrars of all other county precincts are on the job each Saturday, and voters why have moved from one ward to another or from one precinct to mother since the last" election are urged not to forget to register anew in their new precinct. Especially emphasis Is laid upon! the registration of transferred vol-1 ers so that on ejection day citizen? j who have been living irv the coun tv but have moved may not be ba:- i red from voting because of not reg- j istering In their new location j Medical Society Will Hold Public | Meeting Thursday Dr. Ba'S To Talk On Cancer Con trol At Woman's Club Rooms.. The general publk is Invited to a meeting ot tlie Cleveland county medical society to be held Thursday .night, at 8 o'clock in the Woman's clyb room in the Masonic temple. * Or: H. H. Bass, ot Durham. chair man of the state cancer control committee, will be present and in addition to discussing cancer con trol will shpw picture slides of early treatment, of the disease. Cleveland County physicians hope that a large crowd will attend in, that they believe the meeting will be of general benefit to the health of the county and the advancement of the cancer light. SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY HURT IN CATCHING HIS DOG Dale Laughinghouse, stx-vear-old grandson of Capt. and Mrs. Prank Jenkins, was painfully injured yes terday afternoon at Greenville, this state, when struck by a passing au tomobile. The youngster. It is said, ran into rhe street to get his pet-dog out of the traffic and was hit by the car while saving his dog. No bones were broken but he was considerable bruised. He is the son of the former Miss Margaret Jenkins. Cotton exchanges in New York and New Orleans are closed today in observance of Columbus day. Oc tober 12th. No quotations, therefore, are available. Over1,000New Pupils In Schools Of County Diptlreria Cases On Increase In County (.'nuntv Physician I rirs Thai All Children Be Given Vaccine, There is a noticeable Increase In the number of diptheria and scarlet fever cases over Cleve land county. It was announced today by Dr. I). F. Moore, coun ty physician, who urged that all children be given the diptheria vaccine. There is no vaccine for scarlet fever, but with an increase of , dip theria in nearly every section of the county. Dr. Moore said that the only method to prevent a serious diptheria epidemic would be for all children over six months of age to be taken to their family physicians for the diptheria vaccine. This pre ventive measure should be tnkru immediately, it was said. as the cases reports dare pretty well scat tered over the county and the con tagious disease could spread rapidly. /. F. Ledbetter Buried Sunday Noble CiiUen of Shelby Succumbs To Stroke of Paralysis. Was 80 Year* of Agp. John F. Ledbetter, one of the county's noblest Citizens, died Fit* day afternoon at 1 o'clock following a second stroke of paralysis which he suffered about 9 o’clock that, morning. He died at his home in South Shelby where he had been living for twenty years, since mov ing to 8helby from the Sharon community. Mr. Ledbetter was 80 years, seven months and nine days old. He was one of the leading farmers of the Sharon community until he moved to Shelby. He was upright in hi« dealings, with * kind.' sympathetic heart and a warm devotion to his friends and neighbors. In March 1884 he was married to Mary Flack who survives, together with two children. Frank Ledbetter, of At lanta, Oa, and one daughter, Mrs. D. Watson Blanton. One sister Mrs. Non McSwain also survives. For mdhy years he was a leader in church affairs and served as a stew ard of the Lafayette Street Meth odist church. The funeral services were con ducted Sundb. by his pastor, Rev. Mr. Jenkins at 3:30 o'clock and in terment was in Sunset cemetery. Serving as pall bearers were Ben Mitchem. Joe Williams Buren Yar boro, Carl Hughes, Carver Blanton. J. O. Reinhart. The large crowd and beautiful floral offerings were a fit ting tribute to the high esteem in which he was held. Moore-Hamrick Reunion Oct. 19th There will be a Moore and Ham rick reunion the 3rd Sunday, Octo ber 19. at the home of W. F. Moore, R-2, Shelby. All friends and rela- j tives are invited to come and bring j well filled ‘baskets Grid Fans Here To Get Plenty Of Action On Coming Week-End Highs Play Lincolnton Friday, While Boiling Springs Plays Saturday. Football fans in. the Shelby sec tion are assured much activity in their favorite sport this week. Although none of the major col lege games will be played nearby, two games will be played in the I city park, here which will draw many fans, The first contest will be that of Friday between the Shelby highs and Lincolnton. The second contest comes on Saturday afternoon when the Boiling Springs college eleven makes its first appearance on the Shelby gridiron this year with the prep school team from Lees-McRae Institute furnishing the opposition to the junior Baptist bulldogs. The Lincolnton team, with sev eral veterans remaining over last year's flashy outfit which was one] of the best in the state, is doped to' bo superior to the. Shelby outfit But despite injuries, tough break.'.' and three consecutive defeats the Morrismen will go through a hard training period this week, hoping to break their losing jinx in Friday’s game. Local Bovs Plav. There will be several reasons whvj Saturday's game will draw a good crowd. One is that two Shelby boys will be in the junior college line-up. At quarterback on the Rackley team will be Zeno Wall, son of the col lege president, and wiry little field general on the Shelby high eleven two years ago. At one of the half back posts will be Johnny Hendrick, last year quarterback for* the Shel by high outfit. Boney, the Golds boro flash, will be at the other half back post, with Stroud, the husky Oklahoma line smasher, at fullback Howard Moore, former Shelby sty, will play in the line. Lees-McRae has one of the beat prep school elevens in the state this ^ear, ac cording to advance not ices'and the Boiling Springs boys will have con siderable trouble in holding their own, particularly because Coach Rackley is short on reserve strength. Revival To Start At Eastside Church _t A revival meeting to run ten days will begin at the Eastside Bap tist church on Wednesday, of this week. Preaching will be held each evening beginning at 7:ia o'clock by ihe pastor, Rev. H. E. Waldrop. Gain In Enrollment Over County IWT < law of School Shown In* crease More Negroes In School. There arc 15.986 bovn and girls enrolled In Ihe sr bools of Cleveland county this year, ac cording to enrollment statistics announced from the office of the county superintendent to -day. This is ait increase of 1.338 over the total enrollment qf 14.628 in the school year of. 1928-20, The enrollment increase is shown in every class of school as th<* county schools show the greatest enrollment ever. The enrollment figures for ihe two years follow. Year of 1829-30. Rural white .. .* . 7.604 Rural colored _ 3.013 Kings Mtn Shelby ........ .. 4,514 Spec, Dials, colored . 363 Tola! lift)86 Year of 1928-39. Rural white 7,590 Rural colored ..:_... 2,648 Kings Mtn . Shelby . . 3,625 Spec. Discs, colored _...... 765 T— Total .. . . 14.628 The large increase in the special districts of Kings Mountain is due to i great extent, it is explained, to Lite consolidation of a large rural school of 600 pupils with the Kings Mountain district. Local Hospital Approved Again Meets Requirements of American j College of Surgeons and On - Approved List. According to the report of the American College of Surgeons with headquarters in Chicago, the Shel by public hospital has again been placed on the list of approved hos pitals* having met the requirements that insure safe and efficient serv ice to the patient. 'An "approved" hospital means that It meets very rigid requirements in the matter of equipment, success of operations nursing and other phases of work relating to virtually every phase of hospital work. The old-fashioned hospital was frankly a place to die in. The mod ern hospital is the best possible place to get well ’in. • This metamorphosis from an in stitution which was merely a refuge for derelicts to one which medica authorities state to be. the best equipped single ahgeney for care o) the sick was emphasized today' ir the opening session of the annua clinical congress of the American college of surgeons. In conjunction with the report of hospital pi-ogres Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director of the national surgeons' organization announced a list of 2063 hospitals in the United States and Canada which have been inspected and ap proved by the college as being properly equipped and conducted to - care for the sick. From a situation in which only 80 hospitals of these two nations were able to attain the standards established by the American College (CONTINUED v>N SAlVs EIOHT.i Shelby Youths Star In Football Games Zeno Wall Makes All Points For Boiling: Springs. Gold Is Star. Two Shelhy boys were outstand ing stars in prey school and junior college contests in North Carolina Saturday. In Boiling Springs junior college s 15 to 0 victory over Mars Hill col lege Zeno Wall, speedy quarterback, made ever point, scoring two touch downs and kicking a field goal, in the 13-0 victory of Oak Ridge over a technical decision over Upton, another former Shelby athlete, was the outstanding performer. Hal Parris. Shelby high three-team cap tain last year, played at end for the State eleven Outstanding football wins Satur day were: Georgia's 18-14 victory over Yale; Duke's 12-0 win oyer Davidson; Carolina’s 28-21 victory over Maryland made possible by Johnny Branch’s 94-yard run in the final two minutes, Carnegie Tech's 31-0 victory over Georgia Tech; Clemson’s 21-0 victory over State, nnd Notre Dame's 36-2 win over Navy.