A Good Credit Is A Great Asset-Keep Your Credit Good For Future Use-This Is Pay-Up Week For Everybody 8 PAGES TODAY VUi, - A XVI. No. 136 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 12. 1930 Published Monday, Wednesday ami Friday .yrei-nouns. Hy Mall, wot year, no Carrier,, pev year. On advanee* LA TE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb...10c to lie Cotton Seed, per bu. .......... 30c Continued Rain. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Oecasional rain tonight and Thursday. Little change in tem perature. Observe Armistice Day. New York, Nov. 12.—The anni versary of the Armistice struck 12 yesterday and one hundred million Americans observed it with a solemn ■ imultaneous silence. They paused, these Americans, wherever they weie at 11 o’clock yesterday morning and hared their heads In memory of the moment when cannon sent, their la roar of horror echoing across a shrapnel-ravaged France. The sound Ing of taps, the halting of business the bombing of salutes were among the tributes America paid. Methodists Get Their Ministers Sent Back Here Fitzgerald Leaves Belwood Church Haves, Jenkins, For’is Return To Shelby. Stanford Remains At Statesville Church. Very few changes in the Methodist ministers of this sec tion were made by the Western North Carolina con'erence at Greensboro this week, the con ference chan-in? only a few pastors who had not served four years at one ehwvh. The one chenge noted in the county is the sending of Rev. E. E, Snow to the Belwood to replace Rev. J. W. Fitzgerald who was'sent ' o the Memorial suburban church at_ Salisbury. Rev. L. B. Hayes, was returned to Central Methodist church. Rev. W R. Jr nkins to LaFf yeite Street church, and Rev. R. L. Forth 3 to the She’by circuit. The district presiding elder is Rev. R. M. Courtney. Rev. A. L b'anford, former Shel by pastor,'remains at Broad Streei -hurch in Statesville and Dr. Hugh K Boyer, another former Shelby ’CONTINUED ON -AGE filOHI < Come To Lay Floral Offering On Tomb Of Judge J. L. Webb Mrs. Jas. L. Webb and her daugh ters, Mrs. O. Max Gardner and Mrs Madge Webb Riley arrived in Shelby yesterday from Raleigh to visit theh home which has been closed for the winter and mainly to place a floral ■'tiering on the grave of Judge Jas. L Webb in Sunset cemetery. Today •.roula have been the judge's 77th biithday. He was born in Ruther ford county, Nov. 12 1853 and died in Shelby Oct. 1st. Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Riley have closed their hand some colonial home on S. Washing ton street and are spending the vinter at the mansion in Raleigh. Mr. Covington St-lt Semi Conscious Here Mr Joe Covington, well kno'.r fsrruer of the Un on community is 0t ;il in a semi-conscious condition at the Shelby hospital where he is being treated from an injury he re ceived; Friday evening when he ,vras stiuck by a cotton truck at Cairn Call. He has a fractured skull and has been in a very serious condition since the injury. ^ Some Of Today’s Leading Bargains Star pages today announce many interesting bargains fot housewives, husbands and families. Retail prices- are down. Now is the time to buy and save on the merchandise that will be needed later on. Here is a short list of items taken from the advertisements of today's advertising mer chants: Women's shoes $1.98—$2.87 Men's Suits cleaned and press ed - ----— 50c 11.95 women’s silk hosiery —1.00 Horse and Mule Collars .. 98c Electric Light Bulbs_17c Children's Coats __ $1.87 Men's Heavy Colton Sweaters —98c Work Shirts ..SI.. 59c Theatre Admission ..... 10c These are outstanding val ues, and there arc manv more to be found in the ad vertising columns of this pa per. Turn the pages and see for yourself. ——- —— ----- - Armistice Day Observed Very Calmly In City I Big Contrast To Day 12 Years Ago Cfty Went Wild In 1918. Barbecue Last Night For Vets. Flags On Streets. November II, 1930, in Shelby was as different from November II, 1918, as day is from night, Twelve years ago yesterday Shelby staged her wildest, most enthusiastic, and greatest cele i bration. Yestreday the city was enveloped in the peaceful quiet I ude of a lazy Sunday afternoon. f- A barbecue for veterans of three wars held la t night, the unfurlin'' of flags along Shelby streets, and the closing of banks, and many business houses were the only out side indications that the anniver sary of peace was being observed Yet Shelby remembered. The calm and silence of the day, the little groups gathered here and there re calling 1918, and the many famil’ dinners over the county, at which the “boys of T8” were special guests all grouped together let it be known that the county had not forgotten although there was no outward show. Many Shelby and Cleveland county people motored to Forest Cjty and Spartanburg for big cele brations there, or to the Legion air show’ in Charlotte. Others spent the day quietly by the home fire sides. i isiu. lu ininioir-—. It was a different Shelby 12 years ago when a faithful telephone op erator started calling numbers Jn the overhanging dusk of early morning to let Shelby and Cleveland I county parents know that tjie war was over and those living of 600 boys the county sent away would be coming home soon. A Wild Parade. i By daylight the town was filling tup with excited, jubilant throngs. Mothers weeping with joy, fathers with tears of happiness swelling up in their eyes/ brothers and sisters eager, wild, to participate in the celebration. By 8:30 a great parade formed about the city, whistles shrieked, belts tolled, guns boomed, old and young ye^ed together. School turned out for the day. Youngsters maddened with joy joined in the reckless melee. The parade moved east; to Kings Moun tain and back again. All day the parade and tumult reigned. Late into the night it continued until1 one by one the weary celebrants wended their way home, too tired to celebrate more, too wrought up, ! CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT ! American Lesrion Auxiliary To Meet Mrs. Tom Gold, chairman of the American Legion \uxiliary chapter Le e announces a meeting of the chapter for Friday afternoon at 3:30 at the womans club room. All members who ha\ o not paid their dues for 1931 are ‘.rged to come to the meeting* prepared to pay up. WOODMAN DANCK SATURDAY NIGHT AT WOODMAN HALL Ti.ere V.111 be % round and square tarce at the WoxLnen of the World hall Saturday night. Music ■a U! start at 8 o'clock. Hawks Sets New Record -j When Captain Frank M. Hawks, < famous American speed flier, set his Texaco No. 13 plane down at the General Machado Airport, in Havana, he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd as shown above on his record breaking flight. On his return ► journey to New York, he set » new record of 8 hours and 46 minutes, and brought pictures of his take-off for International News Photos and Hears'. Metro Tone, through arrangement with Harry Bruno of the Texaco Company. ’ 11«U w »r**l) Three Hundred Veterans Of 3 Wars Enjoy Legion Barbecue Served By Legion Auxiliary Pay-Up Campaign Meets Results In Cleveland County Thousands of dollars have oven paid so far this week on old >.■ re counts, according to bank clearanc-’ figures. This is the result of the pay-up campaign which has run for several days and will continue tlirough Monday night of next week Credit merchants and firms have been gratified witn the response to the pay-up campaign. Thousands of accounts have been settled in full, while equally as many have been paid in part and arrangements mud with the creditors to carry balances for awhile. Firms doing a credit business are thus enabled to meet pressing obligation* they have and thus maintain a good credit for the coming year. Most of the credi. firms have been mailing mid-montn statements with enclosures calling attention to the pay-up campaign and these firms which are putting individual ef’.ort if: to the drive are reaping results The response has been gratifying indeed and it is fait that credit will be much easier and business condi tions greatly improved after Mon day night When the pay-up cam paign closes. Coltrane Declares Schools Not Burdensome As They Justify Cost As Modern Basis Civilization Head of North Carolina Education Association Spoke Here Monday Night. — Many citizens have an erroneous1 idea about the cost of public school.: and at the same time do not take into consideration that the public school is the most important factor in maintenance of civilization, was the opinion expressed in Shelby Monday night by Supt.-E. J. Col trane, president of the North Caro lina educational association. Mr. Coltrane spoke here before the Parent-Teachers association as a part of the program of the ob servance in the city schools of American Education Week. Daily programs are being held in the schools, parents are visiting and be ing urged to visit the schools, and | .CONTtNt'Ep ON PACE' ElOHT i ( Mrs. Jno. Schenck, Jr. P T A Council Head At a general meeting of the six pan nt-teachers associations of Shel by, held last night in the high school building. Mis. John Schenck, jr., was elected president of the City Council which heads up the six or ganizations. Mrs. Harry Hudson was elected vice president . Mrs. Hugh Mauney secretary. Mrs. R T Le Giand treasurer and Miss Selma Wcbt historian. Washington street schooi won first tenors for the argest number of pa> ait-teacher members in attend in't . Marion street school second ano the High school third Short, Informal Program . Presided Over by CommarAer Speight Beam, Singing. Wanning. Nearly three hundred veterans of three wars—the YVorld war. Spanish American war and Civil war—enjoyed an Armistice dav barbecue last night in the Huey building to the rear of the post* office, the delicious meal being •errctl by the Legion auxiliary. Fine Spirit Prevails. It was the largest gathering pt Legionnaires the county has ever had. Twelve years after the signing of the Armistice, they silently re called memories of that memorable and bleak October day, but noth ing In the program refreshed then silent sorrows of tire awful conflict Tire majority of those present were veterans of the World war and it was a fine looking body of • high | spirited men who now wield a won derful influence in the civic, social and religious life ot Cleveland, Singing and Ample Food. There was an abundance of good things to eat. After the plate of bar becue meat, a said, potatoes, sand wich, coffee, rolls, celery, pickles and a desert of Dixie cups and delicious homemade cakes. Rev. Zeno Wall, Rev. L, B. Hayes, Editor Lee B. Weathers and Jake Thomas made very oner, uuormai rants, comman der Speight Beam of tire American Legion was master of ceremonies anti he brushed aside all formali ties. Lead by a if orchestra directed by Flay Gardner and group sing ing by Dr. B. M. Jarrett. the men who wore the gray, the blue and the khaki joined in singing stirring war songs to which the boys march ed and fought in Belgium. France and in American war camps. As the guests arrived, the gallant ladies of the- Legion auxiliary who gave their unstinted support to the boys in war times, pinned red, white and blue ribbons on coat lapeis . and asked them to register in or der that the American Legion chapter might secui* the names of the names of the Legionnaires in ! the county. Following the barbecue, a square dance was enjoyed in the show | room of the Chevrolet building on I East Warren street. I ____ Visiting Afternoon At Marion School — On Thursday afternoon, from one thirty until three o’clock, the pupils and teachers of the Marlon street school will observe "visiting after noon." All the patrons and friends of the school are invited to visit the rooms during those hours and to lobserve the work. Hold Red Cross Roll Call Here On Oct. 19-21 May Secure Nurse For Winter i.wrrat Organization To Aid In Ch.vr i(\ Work Ilurlng BItirr Winter Month* The annual lied f'ross roll rati in Shelby and Cleveland county will be held on Wed nesday, Thursday and Fridav, Oct 19, 20, 21, It was announc ed by Attorney Henry B. Ed wards, county chairman. I In connection with the date it -vu also announced that if the roll -Hit for relief of distress is sufficiently 'supported here there, is a posslbt'ltv : that a Red press nurse can be Se cured to work in Shelby during a 1 couple ofthe wor t winter raontt chen suffering and want are at' their worst. , Fought leilaitra. Mr. Edwards hopes that the rcl! cat! will meet vrtt i a fine respon e so that a nurse can be secured to di rudfeharity relief work here. In that loslpectlpn it. Is ('■minded that tli I'xsel Red Cross gave $200 to the :$jr>t on pellagra in Cleveland couii y last summer. Pne drawback 'o charity v pri; V.cic is that the: ■ Is no organlz. o 1 ouue through w»u;h the funds can '.In: expended. A Red Cross'nurse lor ... portion of the Winter would solve i'tb.'j problem. .iinnry suvj nerr V, ospeetive members and eonui : tutors are reminded that only 5C i cents of every membership pledge t 11,g the efficiency of American ''li ter prise" Stray Bullet Strikes Youth Nine-Year-Old Boy Did Not Know What Struck Him Until After Operation Barkley Hord. nine-year-oid son of Mr. and Sirs. JLoron Hord o Shelby, was struck In the head and painfully in'ured by a stray bullet Tuesday afternoon, the youth not knowing what struck him until after the operation in which the bullet was removed. The youngster hid been playing in f he yard when he suddenly started | screaming as if in agony. His motner i and father could not determine wnat j was paining him. and his father 'rushed him to Dr. E. B. Lattimore. !Thc wound behind the left ear wa., i discovered, and af f r putting the ho> tu • eep the physician located and i removed the bullet. Although a painful injury it is not ! considered a very serious one. just where the b.diet, a .22 calibre | rille bullet, came frrm Is not known : but the youth was fortunate perhaps that it did not strike a more vital riOOtr. Asked For Money He Got An Uppercut Would-Be Highwayman Had Clever Way of Stopping Driver. Cost Article Left In Road. The driver of the bread truck which operates between Morganton and Shelby through Toluca on ■ highway No. 18 saw a new auto lire | in the road a few days ago. He stopped to get it. As he stepped out of the truck, a man suddenly ap . peared from the side of the rdad and threw a-pistol on him, de ! manding that, the driver give up his [money. In turn the. driver gave him ! a lick under the chin, stunning him and knocking the pistol to the ground. The would-be highwayman ran and the driver followed firing the pistol as he fled. The driver failed to hit his mark, but returned to the' truck, picked up the new tire and went on his journey with the high waymans pistol. ] Mauney Robbed 8 Times In 5 Years Hi' hastside Store is Knlerrd and Front Amt Thieves Leave At Rear. j I uterine by the front door and leaving by the rear, a thief or thieves robbed the store of •*. M Mauney of the Eftstslde mill village last night. Robbers seem to pick on Mr. Mauney. For five years he has b-r.n operating stores tn mill villages In Shelby and suburbs and this makes the eighth time his store has been robbed. Shoes, shirts,, ties, cig arettes and other articles were missed from the stork when Mr. Mauney entered the store this morning. Mr. Mauney estimated that lr«s | than J50 worth was stolen. The robbery was reported to poller who are on the look out. School Youth Missing Since Early Monday Willie Williams. .Student At Ross (Move School, Misaing Since Monday. Willie William.'-, 16 year old .son ut C IS Williams, and a student at the Roes Grove school just north of Shelby, has been missing since Mon day His father who lives two mile east of Shelby tn the Rock Cut sec tion has made a vigorous but fruit less search and this morning ap pealed to The Star to help locate the youth. He left home Monday morning as usual with his books across his shoulder.* He did not, go to school and was seen in Shelby about 9 o'clock Monday morning. Since that time nothing has been heard from him and Hie parents are becoming ' alarmed. Never before has he left | liome like- this or made any threats r of leaving. He wore a blue ,suit with a striped pair of overalls over the suit. His father describes him us weighing 100 pounds, freight 5 feet, light hair, dark blue eyes. Across his nose is a scar, the nail on the second finger of his right hand is broken back and the knuckle on the little finger of his right hand has been knocked back about an inch from its natural place. Mr. Williams will appreciate any information reported to him or to the police as> to his whereabouts. Thackson’* First Visit In 24 Years Mr. S. D. Thaekstoh of New Lon don, Conn,., visited his brother in 1 booth Shelby last Gunday. This w»s j Mr. Thackston's f'rrt visit to the South since he left his native home in Spartanburg, S C., more thgn 24 vtais ago. Mr, Th tekston visited a< for south as Jacksonville, Fla... and as a result of this visit, he thinks ne car. understand now why his brother, Mr. H. A. Thackstoit. moved to Shel by and made his t ome 20 years age for he thinks that North Carolina in the banner state of the South. Al though he was bo’.n and reared in South Carolina he said he would have to hand it, to North Caroline and especially to Cleveland county Masonic. Notice. Cleveland lodge No. 2U2 A. F. and A. M. will hold special communica tion Friday. Nov. 14. at 7 o'clock for work on the fellow-craft degree., La ail Pilot Forced To Jump Near Casar Dick Merrill, Flying Night Air Mail, Get* Lost In Storm, Leaps From Plane 5,000 Feet Up. Chute Fails To Open For 1,500 Feet. Plane A Total Wreck, Mail Saved. Dick Merrill, widely known air mail pilot, flying the night mail from Atlanta to Richmond, became lost in the. rain storm last night and was forced to jump from his Plane near Casar, this county, about .'1:.‘10 this morning when his gas ran out. The plane was-5,000 feet; up when Men ill jumped and his parachute failed to open until he had fallen 1,000 to 1,500 feet, hut the pilot escaped with only an in iured ankle. The mail was saved almost intact. Merrill Tells Of His Greatest Thrill At Casar Hurled Headlong From Plane It* < i uld Not Find C'or urn's most dependable and 1 veteran air mail pilots, sat in the Shelby post office today and despite an injured ankle, and a night without sleep—a night which had brought him Ins greatest thrills—found two things worth griming about. First, he was alive after maU'rv; hi; lust forced parachute leap which automatically makes him a member of the to mods Csterpiiia • Club, and. second, by some stt'ok0 o tuck he had not carried his masco. wit .i him when lie left Atlanta ut o'clock with the flight air mail .0/ UsrUmoml. He seemed hith-j pleased about ,!,3 mascots—a lio:. cub, a cougar and a squirrel. Often lie cafries them with him as he flies his lonely route across three States. Hut had he carried them tn.si, night he would hove had tut mascots today. Hurled from his plane, at '1:30 this morning near Casar. he did hot have time Ui get his parachute ripcord in his hahd before he l . tped, niucl^ less (CONTINUED ON 9AOF MOHT i Meets Girl Friend Of Buddy Who Died Flying Night Mail In Shelby this morning Dick Mer- ! r.'lt night mall pile:, met and break- j fasted with a former girl friend oi, his old flying pal, Syd Malloy. wr« was killed while flying the ni^ht a*r mail ! For a long time Merrill and Mat ley flying the mall together out h Atlanta, were bosom pals. Then one night Malloy's plane crashed inf' > beacon and he was killed. Some ' ears ago Malloy operated a plane at Cleveland Springs and became a ir.end of Miss Betty Suttle Merri.. had heard Malloy speak Of her. and ( tin: morning after he reuehed Shel by. following his forced jump from j his plane near Ca. ar, he telephoned her and received an invitation to nave the mornin » coffee that hi • every comportment being smashed, the lg bags of mail carried by the v mg night, mail pilot came our uscratched, only a .- light hole lx - big ripped in one of the bags. ' * . Merrill and his chute hurtled to arth near the home at W. D. and C. D. Downes. Due to the fact, that lie fell a great distance before hi.* chute opened, there was a conuon . like crack as it‘opened, and the Downes family heard it. They reach-, eel Merrill soon after he struck the ground. A search was immediately instituted lor the plane, and the wreckage was found just before daylight on the Harnp Brackett, farm, only a short distance out of Casa:. ■ \V. b. Downes and C. b. Do when brought Merrill and his mail to the Shelby postdffice early this morn ing and the mail was dispatched by train to Greensboro to catch the air mail plane there. Lost For Hours. The pilot underwent one ot the most nerve-wracking nights of his life us he battled with the fog ant! rain, trying to save himself, hw mail and his plane. He left Charlotte, he said, short ly after U o'clock last night, head ing for Greensboro. He had refuel ed at Spartanburg. After leaving Charlotte Merrill says that he tad trackuof all lights on the ground du ■ to the fog and ratm After flying for some time without reaching thi Greensboro airport, he became wor ried. It was then, he says, that he circle back, or attempted to circle back south, knowing that he should be able to see tire lights of Salis bury, Concord. or other cities in t-ht Charlotte area. For hours aftci hour he kept searching but coulc see nothing. Around 3 o’clock thi? morning he realized that he was lj a mountainous section. He knew that his gas could not last muck, longer and he climbed as high m he could before his gas ran out. Took Thr Leap. He knew that with the plane out of gas he was losing altitude anti .soon might hit a mountain or hill. He prepared to "bail out"—jump with his 'chute. As he got one foot # out of the cockpit to jump, the plane went into a spin. He crawled back in and righted the plane Again he started to Jump, but hail to right the plane out of another spin. A third time he began crawl ing Out. This time the plane in spin hurled him out. He was sent twirl ing headlong from i he falling plane before he could reach for the rip cord of his chute. Over and over ha twirled in such a dizzy manner that for minutes he could not find the cord. Finally, after what had seem ed hours to him, his fingers clutch 'd the cord and yanked. The chuu opened with a bang, and short i t thereafter Merrill struck the ground After reaching Shelby Merrill immediately communicated with a.i mail officials and reported his mai! safe, the first duty of the mail pilots. Then he had his injured ankla bandaged and communicated with friends worried about the fact than he had been missing for five hours. Get Wrecked Plane * Today; Roar Of Plane Heard Here A' noon today it was stated tlia; Spartanburg nirpoU officials would dome this afternoon to get" the wrecked air mail pinna near Casar f: q n which Pilot D.> k Merrill jump ed early this meaning after beine lost 4 1-2 hours in the storm. Many people haerd the roar of Merrill’s motor emly today as ha flea- about trying to find a place to l.tna Several hearJ it In Shelby, r.t lawndale and Fallston many nestl'd, tire plane some 30 minutes ee torc the crash. -