VOL, XXXVI, No. 115
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14 PAGES
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SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1030 Published Monday, Wednesday anti Friday Afternoons.
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LA TE NEWS
THE MARKET.
Cotton, per lb. ...... 9|-c to tO’icj
Cotton Seed, per bu. 36c,
Wanner Thursday.
"Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Fair and not so cold tonight
except on north coast. Thursday
{tartly ctaady with slowly rising i
temperature.
„«*.s Is Seated.
Washington. Dee. 2.—James .1. ;
Davis stepped in!~ the middle of tin
first big senate fracas today and :
emerged a few minutes later era- i
powered to take the much-disputed
seat of the junior senator from
Pennsylvania.
The senate rejected a resolution
by Senator Nye of North Dakota
demanding the oath of office be
withheld, and Davis, whose resigna
tion as secretary of labor was ac
cepted by President Hoover, wa
rworn in at once.
More than half of the democratic j
ballots were cast in favor of the
former cabinet member, to give him
a two-to-one vote. The count wasV
38 to 27.
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Juveniles Open
Miniature Crime
Wave In Shelby
Nejarro Youths Held
Up White Boy
Youngster Cut Watch I.nose From
Strap. Juvenile Court Has Big
Session.
One of Charlotte's juvenile
crime waves struck Shelby this
week, the county juvenile court
having almost a full day of it
yesterday handling young thiev
es. ,\ . |
The flock of thefts charged to
young negroes broke loose with a
flurry this week, due, officers be
lieve, to the cold weather snapping;
down on many colored families
which are out of work and means;
of support.
Youthful Bandits.
The nearest approach to a typi
cal city stick-up came when J. B. |
Blanton, McBrayer street youth, was
halted by two young negro boys,
both under 12, who escaped with his
watch after using a knife to cut the
v. itch from its strap. The young
negroes, A, V. Allen and Ralph
Thomas, were taken before Juvenile
Judge A. M. Hamrick and Welfare
Officer J. B. f.r-'th, where the casts
were paid, a ■spended sentence
placed over thern**nd a lecture giv
en,
Stealing Coal.
Monday night Police Chief Pos
ton and Deputy Bob Kendrick pick
ed up five negro girls and a little
negro boy as they were stealing coal
from a coal car on the tracks at the
Seaboard station. The youngsters
had loaded, or were loading, four
sacks when the officers made their
rounds. They were taxed with the
costs and given suspended sentences
when hailed Into the court for min
ors.
On the same day several other
young defendants were in court
charged with stealing cotton.
The problem of juvenile offenders
is one that is giving officers trouble.
All those tried yesterday were too
young for severe punishment, and
for the most part were forced to
minor thefts by necessity resulting
from business conditions.
Duke Alumni Will
Meet Here Dec. 12
Old Grads of Big Institution To
Stage Banquet At Hotel
Charles.
The annual banquet of alumni of
Duke university and of old Trinity
college in Cleveland county will be
held Friday evening, Dec. 12. at the
Hotel Charles, it was anounced to
day.
A prominent speaker connected
with the university will attend and
an Interesting program is being ar
ranged to celebrate the sixth an
niversary of the school as Duke uni
versity.
The Committee in charge of the
gathering is composed of the fol
lowing: J. H. Grlgg, chairman; 13
L. Smith,* of Shelby; Chas. Dilling
and J. R. Davis, of Kings Mountain.
BIRTHDAV DINNER SUNDAY
FOR AUNT PACTIE GREEN
There will be a birthday dinner
Sunday, Dec. 7th for Mrs. Fac'.ic
Green, “Aunt Pactie” as she is bet
ter known. She lives in the Pleasant'
Ridge community and everybody is
Invited. She will be eighty years
old.
Mode Remains Same.
Everett Mode, young farmer, ser
iously injured in a fall froih a wag
on Tuesday of last week, was said
to be about the same at the hospi
tal today. Young Mode, who lived
In the Union section, had his blad
der and intestines punctured when
he fell upon a corn st|lk.
Plea Of King
For Change Is
Den ted By Judge
Shelby Man Must
Remain In Prison
Appeal" of Attorneys To Get IJini
Out of Small Cell Is
Refused.
York, S. C.. Dec. 2.—Judge C.
J. Ramage in the court of
eral sessions this morning an
nounced that he had decided to
refuse the motion of attorneys
for Itafe King, charged with the
murder of his wife, Faye Wilson
King, at Sharon, January 27,
1929, who sought to have King
removed from the state peni
tentiary to the Chester county
jail.
Attorneys for King last week mad.
motion to have King transferred
from the penit antiary to Chester
jail In order that he might' be made
snore Comfortable and would be in
closer communication with his ‘at
torneys. Judge Ramage took the
motion under advisement, saying
he would announce his decision
when court.■ .reconvened today.
"I just want to state in open
court," said his honor this morning;
“that I am not going to move Rale
King from the penitentiary to Ches
ter jail. I’ll file my order in the
matter later."
Mrs. I. O. Bowen Of
Ella Village Dies
Succumbs Suddenly At Her Home.
Ruri.il At Sulphur Springs
Church Today.
The South Shelby community was
made sad yesterday over the sud
den death of Mrs. J, O. Bowen, age
41 who passed away suddenly at
2:45 o'clock. Mrs. Bowen was an ex
pectant mother and had been get
ting along nicely until yesterday.
Before marriage she was Miss
Leona Camp and joined the Meth
odist church in early girlhood. She
was a fine Christian character and
greatly beloved by her host of
friends. Her husband was night sup
erintendent at the Elia Mill divi
sion of the Consolidated Textile
Corporation.
Surviving are her husband and
eigh children, Clyde. Nina, Helen,
Thomas, J, o., jr., Ruth, Benjamin
and Robert Bowen, One grandchild,
one brother, Lawson Camp, and
three sisters, Mrs. C. H. Bowen, Mrs.
Lee Beattie and Mrs. Plato Allen
also survive. At the time of her
death she was a faithful and loyal
member of tht LaFayette street
Methodist church and her pastor.
Rev. W. R. Jenkins will conduct the
funeral services this afternoon at
3:30 o'clock and interment will be
in the cemetery at Sulphur Springs
church, four miles below Shelby
City Workmen Patch
Street Cracks, Gaps
City workmen, supervised by
Mayor McMurry and Street Super
visor Ernest Spangler, were yester
day engaged in patching with as
phalt the numerous cracks and
rough places in the uptown streets.
The patching did much to eliminate
the roughness brought on in part by
the summer heat.
Her Father Slaiu by
You Love Slaver
Lucille Ansley, attractive daugh
ter of George Afisley, who was
slain by James Willis, 21, Willis,
it i,s charged, called at the Ansley
home and demanded to see Lucille.
When the girl’s father refused his
demand he shot and killed him.
Residents of Kenton, Ohio, are
thrilled over the county's first mur
der trial in SO years,
Mr. Burgess Victim
Of Pneumonia Here
Telegraph Operator For 3. F. Clark
and Co. Dies After Brief
Illness.
Pneumonia caused the death
Tuesday of John C. Burgess. 33 year
old telegraph operator In the office
of John F. Clark and Co., cotton
and stock brokers in the Royster
building. Mr. Burgess became sick
Thanksgiving day and. took to bed
at his home on N. Washington St.
where he died at 9 .20 o'clock Thurs
day morning.
Mr. Burgees came to Shelby about
a year ago from Lancaster, 3. C.
where he was telegraph operator in
the private cotton office of Leroy
Springs. During his stay here he
made maiiy warm friends by his
manly conduct and his gentlemanly
bearing. He was a member of the
Shelby Presbyterian church where
the funeral took place this morning
at 10 o'clock, services being con
ducted by the pastor. Rev. H. N.
McDiarmid. The body was taken to
Statesville for Interment today.
Surviving are his wife and three
children: Robert, Dorothy and Lois
Burgess.
Pallbearers were C. B. Alexander,
Robert Hord, Chas. Woodson, De
witt Qulnn’. D. A. Whisnant and W.
A. McCord.
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Wray Inaugurates
Big Sacrifice Sale
A. V. Wray and 'Six Sons have
closed their store Wednesday and
Thursday, making preparations for
a big sacrifice sale which begins
Friday of this W'eek, The sale opens
at 9 a. m. Friday when the $80,00*1
stock of merchandise will be great
ly reduced in prices throughout the
store in order to reduce the stock
before Inventory. A four page adver
tisement in today’s Star gives many
of the low prices that prevail.
New Alley Opens.
New bowling alley, featuring a
new type of bowling game for this
section, has been opened in the
building adjoining the Central Cafe
on West Warren street. Mr. Cam
King, formerly of Statesville, is
managing the alley.
Shelby Negro Vet Of World War
Writes President Hoover About
A Job After Hearing Him Speak
Federal Employment Office Doing
What It Can To hand Him
Work.
Charlotte. Dec. 3.—President Hoo
ver’s recent speech at Kings Moun
tain had a great and lasting effect
on at least one person in the audi
ence there, and a somewhat belated
letter has just gone forward to con
firm the fact. In the letter, writ
ten written by a negro veteran of
the World war. the president wa?
also asked to give the author of jthe
letter a job.
After going from the White House
to the secretary of labor and then
to the assistant secretary of labor,
the missive finally arrived back here
at the state-federal employment
bureau in the Mint building, which
offices will attempt to-find the man
a job. The letter which was sept
from Shelby, follows:
“Preddent Hoover
"Dear Sir;
T am just sitting here thinken
over my condishon no money and
no job and no property and no in
come, and I have been to every man
in Shelby tryen to get work to do
and cant set a day work so-I need
help and am a man that will work
any where and I have a family to
keep up and want to makd a honesty
liven. I went to the Worlds war and
served 13 months I have a Honabile
Discharge you rember I was a faith
ful solder in the war, and done my
Best. ,
“I was raised at Kings Mtn where
you made sichy good speach. Now
Mr. Hoover your Honer if you every
Did help a Man pleas help Me. give
me a job ore help me some way for
I sure need help I "don't have food
for my famley and cant git any
work to do.
"Please sir do anser this letter I
am a good colored man.”
The letter was written with pen
cil on a cheap grade of scratch
paper. It bore the official looking
stamp of the president’s secretary,
the White House, and the secretary
and assistant secretary of labor.
John B. Pharr, superintendent in
charge of the local state-federal em
ployment bureau, has mailed tht
negro a regulation application card
for work stating what lines he is
experienced in and upon the return
of the card will attempt to place
him in some form of employment.
Building Here
Less This Year
Than Since 1920
Ten Months Total
Under $100,000
Biggest Building Shown Ry Permits j
Cost $10,000. Builders Have
Touch Tear.
There isn't any duobt but what
1030 has been an unusually
tough year for contractors,
builders, carpenters and masons
In Shelby. The building per
mits for the first ten months of
the year show the smallest
building program Shelby has
had since World War days.
Up to November 1, this year, per- j
mits issued by Mr. T. H. Abernethy, j
city building inspector, total less
than $100,000, or $81,715 to be ex-j
act.
No Big Projects
ilie ten months list shows mat
j quite a number of residences have
been erected or remodelled in the
city, but the low total for the per
iod is due to the fact that only a
fewr buildings of any size have been
constructed during the business de
pression.
The cost of the largest permit is
sued was *10.000 for a warehouse at
the Shelby Cotton Mills. The next
biggest project was the service sta
tion erected by Attorney B. T, Falls
on the comer of Marlon and Wash
ington streets for the Texaco Oil
company.
Only ten permits were issued for
buildings costing more than $1,000.
Not only was there a big decrease
in building within the city limits,
but there has also been very little
construction work in suburban ter
ritory, the recent building and re
modelling at the county home be
ing the only project of any size
nearby.
Unless some new building program
develops this month, or is included
in the November permit report, it
is not likely that the year’s build
ing program will surpass the $100,
000 mark, and just a year or so ago
Shelby was talking of building pro
grams in the terms of several mil
lion dollars.
Neisler Mills
Serve Banquet j
Play To Be Presented Thursday And
Friday. Amateur Basketball
Team Formed.
(By E. R. GAMBLE.)
Kings Mountain. Dec. 2.—On last
Saturday evening at the Business
Men's club rooms, the Neisler Mills,
Inc. were hosts to their overseers,
office force and friends of the or- j
ganizatlon at a banquet and get- :
together meeting. C. E. Neisler, or.,
president of the Neisler • Mills pre
sided over the meeting. A number
of prominent business men of this
section were present and made ad
dresses, including Hon. Clyde R.
Hoey of Shelby, Wade Saunders, J.
Lee Robinson, and Dr. J. Sidney
Hood of Gastonia, and W. A. Bar
den of New York. This is an annua)
affair of this organization and is the
fifth of its kind.
"Aunt Lucia To Be Presented.
A play entitled "Aunt Lucia” will
be presented at the Central school
auditorium here Thursday and Fri
day evenings of this week. The play
is sponsored by the American Legr
ion auxiliary. The entire cast of 100
players will be made up entirely of
home talent.
Amateur Basketball Team.
Kings Mountain basketball faas
are to have the pleasure of witness
ing some real basketball games
again this*season. The Rambling
Basketeers, an amateur team com
posed of ex-college and former high
school stars has been organized and
are now rounding themselves into
shape to take on any amateur
team in this section of the state. A
complete schedule has not been ar
ranged yet and any team wishing a
game with this orgaiiizatoin should
write to Lawrence Lovell, Kings
Mountain, N. C. The regulars on
this years team are Buck Dilling.
William Jenkins. Roy Hord, John
Kidd and Logan Stowe.
This team is the same as last
year—except Dilling and Hord—
which had a most successful season,
halving won 18 games and lost 1
They averaged 48 points per game
to their opponents 17. At the con
clusion of the season a three game 1
series was played with Matthews1
who were claimants of the amateur!
championship in this section. The I
locals won one and lost two, the I
deciding ganu having been won by
only *>Uf. point. • }
Reds Routed At Capital
Photo shows police dispersing Heds in riot at Washington Capitol. Tear bombs and
guns are being used.—Photo by International Illustrated.
Son Of Minister
Found Injured On
Street Last Night
Kiffin Hayes f alls From Wheel To
Pavement, lias Concussion
Of Itrain.
Kiffin Ha.ves, 13-year-old son
of Rev. X. II. Hayes, pastor of
Central Methodist church, is in
the Shelby hospital with con
cussion of the brain and head
bruises as the result of a fall
from his bicycle last night.
Policeman Rufus Sparks
found the youngster unconscious
bertrath his wheel on East Mar
lon street, just beyond the MIs
ehheimer service station, short
ly after nine o’clock last night.
He was carried to the eity hall
and identified, then taken to the
hospital. ,
It was not known last night
whether he had been struck by
an automobile or had fallen, but
since the hike was not damaged
it was not thought that he had
been hit. When he regained con
sciousness he stated that he had
' fallen when his foot became en
tangled as he was coasting down
hill to his home.
Schools Will Aid
In Securing Work
Tea< hers And Pupils To Serve As
Placement Bureau in Unem
ployed Drive.
The city schools of Shelby, it was
announced today by Supt. B, L
Smith, are doing their part in re
lieving the unemployment situation
here by serving as a placement bu
reau for those out of work.
Cooperating with the charity
committee, the teachers of the city
schools recently conducted an In
vestigation to determine how many
parents of school children, or other
relatives, are out of work. Likewise
the investigation did what It could
to locate people who have work
which might be given to the unem
ployed. Facts secured in the investi
gation are being recorded so that
the unemployed and those seeking
workers may use them in order to
bring the two together.
During the Thanksgiving holidays
the schools also made voluntary
contributions to the charity cam
paign,
Masons Plan Degree
Work Here Friday
Maspnic lodge members of the
town and county have an opportun
ity in store for them Friday night
of tliis week when the A1 Hoda club
or Charlotte will come to confer the
Master Mason degree on a local can •
chelate This degree team is sa:d to
be one of the best in the state: Ail
masons of the county are invited
Refreshments will he served oy the
ladies who constitute the Order of j
Eastern Star. Lo l> will open!
promptly at 7 o’clock. I
Gov. Gardner Says State Faced
By Most Serious Crisis Since
Civil War Days; Plan Of Relief
Tells tTnemptoymrni Relief Connell
That State Can Snap Out
Of H.
(Tom Boat In Greensboro News.)
Raleigh, Dee. 2.—North Caro
lina can snap out of (U distress
more quickly than any of her
sister stales. Governor Gardnrr
told his council on unemploy
ment relief today, hut at that
North Carolina must face the
( most critical situation that has
been presented since 1860, Gov
ernor Gardner said.
His excellency had the ythole or
ganization here and it went to work
oil its program. The chief executive
is not pessimistic, but when he saw
30,000 North Carolina automobiles
tall by the roadside he knew some
thing had hit North Carolina. That
loss means a tailing of $450,000 in
road revenues, he said, and more
than $1.000 000 in total revenues.
The bigness of the task intrigued
his excellency, but he left the coun
cil in no doubt as to the size of the
work before it. Trtie ginger of the
speaking was left for Governor
Gardner, but he had with him today
John B. Blandford. of Washington,
who is a member of President Hoo
cer’s committee on unemployment.
No Cause For Despair.
The governor finds no cause for
despair but sees every reason for a
corporate understanding of the
problems before the state. He has
studied the causes deeply. He has
had constant need for such study.
The state must understand that
there is an equation between ex
penditures and income and indivi
duals as well as institutions must
adjust themselves to those condi
tions, he said. For 12 years’ the
state led the nation in town, city
and state expansion and develop
meat, he sakl; but now the state
must meditate on payment..
With it oil. the governor saw day
light.. Mills are running better than
they were during thl* summer and
in the eastern part of the state the
live-at-home program of the gover
nor lms produced great supplies of
food that had been bought in former
years.
Mr. BIftndford came here to help in
getting the state organized for this
work. Tlie first item in the list of
announced purposes of such an or
ganization is making the matter of
relief a local responsibility. The
committee qomrttends the principles
of co-ordination and working
through existing organizations.
Every person here today was favor
able to that purpose There Is no
way, the members feel, to superim-,
pose this help from without. Each;
locality must lay its own situation
on its own heart.
College Champs To
Be Guests Here Of
Kiwaniarts Thursday
Moiling Springs Gridders To Hear
Program Bv Visiting College
Girls.
Coach Blainey Rackley and his
Boiling Springs college football ele
ven. junior college champions of
North Carolina, will be guests of the j
Shelby Kiwanis club at the meet-1
ing at Hotel Charles Thursduy even
ing at 7 o’clock.
The college gridders and the club
members will be entertained with a
program put on by college girls.
Miss Boyter. of Converse college and
Miss Huggins, of Coker college, will
sing, and a co-ed from Bolling
Springs will make a short talk.
Club members are expecting an
unusually interesting program.
Toyland For Them
Bolls—Talking dolls! Wagons, airplane scooters,
horns, doll carriages, trinkets of all kinds. The big
season for the youngsters ..... Gloves, handkerchiefs,
belts, ties, wrist watches—many gifts for HIM .....
Hosiery, jewelry, bracelets, watches, necklaces, dainty
underthings—all types of excellent, desired gifts for
HER.
Presents, gifts they will be proud of, for every
member of the family. That’s what the merchants of
Shelby have siocked their stores with for the Yuletide
shopper.
You cannot excel the bargains you will find in
Shelby now. There is no better method of getting ac- j
quainted with these holiday bargains than to Watch the
advertised columns of The Star. See what the mer- I
chants of Shelby are offering in today’s paper, look
again Friday, and join the crowds Saturday.
JUST 18 MORE DAYS TO DO YOUR SHOPPING.
Weathers Gets
Tax Supervisor
Post In County
Will Be Instructed
In Raleigh
Member of Board To Direct Bfval
nation Work Beginning In
* January.
Mr. It. L. Weather*, member
of the board of commissioner*
and former register of deeds,
wa* named this week by the
county board as tax supervisor
to direct the revaluation work !n
this county which begins early
in January.
The state law requires a quadre:, •
nial revaluation of all property for
taxes and It Is also required that at
the first board meeting In Decembr
each board shall appoint a supe
.visor for the work.
Name* Assessor*.
The matter of naming the three
assessors In each township In th:
county is left up to the supervise;
It Is expected that Mr. Weather;-,
will name his corps of assessors for
the revaluation work within the
next week or two.
Some time next week the supe;
visor will be required to go to Ra
lelgh for three days instruction by
the board of assessments. After re
turning he will call in his assessor
for* the purpose of letting then;
know the methods set forth by th
Raleigh board.
Charity Appeals.
The commissioners at their se
sion Monday afternoon encounter;■
another big delegation of peop.“
placing charity appeals.
“We heard more appeals for ai
than ever before,” Chairman A. E
Cline stated, "and these appeal
seemed to have been pretty well dis
tributed over the entire county. We
-tided a number of unfortunate fanv
.lies upon what information w»
"liven us. Other appeals were de
ferred for further investigation, ami
some were turned over to Welfar
officer Smith to be investigated.'’
Ryburn Named.
A routine appointment, which ha
come to be a matter of course, wa
the naming of Mr. R. L. Ryburn.
dean of Cleveland county barristers,
as county attorney.
Four Men Remain
In Jail; Fail To Get
Bond Required
Automobile Already Returned To
Owner. A Spartanburg
Doctor.
Jack Bollck, Fmest Parker, Ever
ett Dale and Chas. Kaylor. four men
held in connection with the recem
robbery of two Shelby stores, arc
still in jail here, being unable as
yet to raise the bond fixed by Judge
Horace Kennedy after a preliminary
hearing was waived in county court
Monday.
Parker, Dale and Bolick have
bonds of $2,000 each, while Kaylor’s
bond is $1,000.
The automobile in which Parker
Dale and Bolick were traveling when
caught last week at Lin coin ton
with some of the goods said to have
been taken from the Shelby stores,
has already been returned to Its
owner, a Spartanburg physician.
Officers as yet have no further
trace of the loot, totalling over $1,*
000, taken from the Penney store.
Mr*. John Long Die*
At Forest City, Dec. 2
Mrs. John Long, one of the best
known residence of Forest City, died
at her home there at midnight Mon
day following a decline in
health of several years. Mrs. Long is
survived by her husband, four daugh
ters Mrs. Edna Burkholder, Mrs
Hare of Pinevtlle, .Misses Kate and
Ottolee Long and Mr. Otto Long
The funeral will be held this after
noon at 2 o’clock and a number of
friends from Shelby will attend the
services.
Stunt* And Box
Supper At Casar
On Friday night, December 5th, a
short program of stunts will be giv
en at the Casar high school after
which there will be various kind?
of contests and boxes will be sold
at auction. Everybody is eordially
invited to be present.
DoVbua
i Chcistmas
Shopping
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