North Carolina Newspapers

LA TE NEWS Tllfc MARKET ►•Cotton, »er lb. ft'sc to S' U Cotton Seed.per bu. 341ae Rain, Sleet, Snow! Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Rain probabiv m’xed with | sleet or snow and colder In west and north portions tonight Tuesday probably snow and colder. Boat Disaster. Miami Beach, Fla.. Dec. 14.—He roic rescues accounted tonight for J03 of 105 persons who went to view llte sea bottoms todav in the F.ureka If, which burned and sank following and explosion off Bug l.ight, 15 miles south of here. Three were known dead, thetr bodies recovered by res cue boats which snatched the sur vivors from almost certain death In j waters where they plunged to es-a-e 1 the flames. Twenty n;ne others were ’ unaccounted for and believed drown- j ed. Vessels continued to ply the '■ ocean surrounding the wreck and j hope was held that many of the 1 missing might be picked up from the waves. Officers Find Cache Of Loot Note From Prisoner To Wife Gives tine To Pcnnry’s Stolen Goods. A note from an alleged storc br,: ul:cr, who is a prisoner In the county jail here, to his hand some and styll h!y dressed wife was intercepted by officers here Friday and resulted in the re covery Saturday of some more of the lot taken from the J. C. Penney store in the big robbery some weeks ago. The goods were found in the home of Marion Absher, between Kings Mountain and Bessemer City, and Absher was brought to Jail here. In county court today he was bound over to superior court under a bond of $500 on the charge of receiving stolen goods. Absher is the father of -the young girl to whom the note was written. . The recovered lot included hats, , : hoes, sweaters, trousers, under clothing, and gloves. Friday the girl, said to be the wife of Ernest Stewart, of Asheville, one of the four men held in jail charg ed, with the robbery, visited the jail, Deputy Ed Dixon noticed that Stewart slipped a note to her. As she started to leave the officer took her tp the room of Mr*. Alien, Wife • of 'the sheriff. where she was parched and the note found. The note, It was said, urged her to have i lie goods taken from the Absher home as the officers might find them. The girl did not get a chance to read the note before officers se cured it and not knowing what the message was she did not warn her relatives. On the following day, Sat " Irrday, Deputy Dixon and Police Chief McBride Poston visited the Absher home and found a quantity of the Penney goods hid in a trunk there. * They brought Absher and the • goods back to Shelby. Christmas Lights To Be On Tonight - I Stores With Holiday Goods To Re- 1 main Open At Night .Until Christmas. The Christmas cedar tree p’ant- j <d on the West side of the court (juare near the monument has been draped with electric lights of vary ing colors for the holidays and a ‘.ring of lights surround the entire square as last year. The lights add a touch of the holiday spirit to the easoa ’and will be turned on for the first/time tonight if the electrical department of the city has time to finish the work. * j Stores with holiday goods will re /main open at nights until Christ * mas for the benefit of Christ mas shoppers. Holiday trading grows ;>i volume day by day. Saturday was a peak day of the year with all merchants when one of the largest •rowds of the season was here from far and near to do holiday shopping arigflr Heads Duke Grads Of Section Prof. J. Horace Grig*. county uperintendeut of schools, Is the new president of the Duke university alumni association of Cleveland county. He was elected at the an nual banquet at Hotel Charles Fri dav night to succeed Attorney Char. A. Burrus. , Other officers named were At torney J. B. Davis, of Kings Moun tain, vice pre'ident, and Miss Isobel Hoey, of She’by. secretary and treas urer. Miss Hoey was also named as the local repre entative on the gen eral alumni council. Twenty graduates and former students of Duke and old Trinity, all from Cleveland county, attend ed the banquet, The chief speaker was Dr. Clement Vol’mer, of the German department of the Cni j *er~!tv. Pr XVU-n-r m~'** an un usually int'.rc'tln'r t”*'- in outt’n'ng ft the ambition and possibilities of the I great university. County Autos In Two Fatal Gaston Wrecks Shelby Negro Held Over Death Bellboy And White Man of Burling ton Held At Hit-And-Run Drivers. Will Watson, negro bellhop at the Victor hotel here , and a white man giving his name as R. L. Langley, of Burlington, are to be given a hearing in Gastonia today as occupants of the car which struck and fatally Injured Mack Payne, McAdenville negro, betwr-n Gast-nia and McAden ville Friday afternoon. The white man and negro, with the latter driving, were arrested at Kings Mountain by Chief Greel Ware a short time after the fatal ity in Gaston. The car, a roadster, it is said, struck the negro on the Wilkinson boulevard and kept going after hitting n;m. Gaston officers broadcast an ap peal to nearby towns and cities to be; on the lookout for the roadster, and, several roadsters resembling the one >. described were halted in Shelby be fore the negro and white man were I ight at Kings Mountain. Both men were drinking, accord ing to Shelby officers, who went to Gastonia to investigate. Papers found on the white man Indicated that his name might be Ward in stead of Langley, Police Chief Pos ton said, but he was registered at the hotel here as Langley. He and the negro were returned to Shelby from Charlotte when their car Is said to have killed the Me Aden Ville negro. Officers at Gastonia said at first that Langley was driving the car at the time Payne was struck and kill ed. but it was later found that the negro was driving, they said, and a signed confession was secured from him. The negro was said to have told officers that Langley told him to ‘‘keep going'1 after the car had hit Payne. Payne, an employe of the Green Dragon Inn, formerly Spill man’s, was on his way to work when killed, it was said. A preliminary hearing in the mat ter is scheduled to be held some time Monday, attorneys for Lang ley said. No bond has been set for the pair. Sidney E. Bridges Buried On Sunday Well Known Farmer of Patterson Grove Section Died On Saturday. Funeral services for Mr. Sidney Ervin Bridges, well known and high ly respected farmer of the Patter son Grove section, were held Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Patterson Grove church. Rev. G. P. Abernethy had charge of the serv ices. Mr, Bridges died Saturday after noon at 2 p'clock. death resulting from pneumonia. His widow and eight children, who range in age from one to 18 years, survive. The deceased. 44 years of age at the time of his death, had been a member of the Patterson Grove church since he was 12 years old, and was an Industrious citizen ad mired and well thought of in his community. His father-in-law, Mr. Tom Falls, died about two months ago. Tav Assessors. The 33 or more tax assessors who will aid Tax Supervisor R. L Weathers in making the property revaluation in Cleveland county have been named, and the list will be published in Wednesday's Star. Earl Car In Crash There Sunday Belmont Man Killed When Car Collides With Auto Of S. B. Hubbard. Gastonia, Dec. 15.—Robert Willis, 26, of North Belmont, was killed al most instantly about 3 o’clock. Sun day afternoon when a car driven by him collided with a second automo bile driven by S. B. Hubbard, of Earl, on the Wilkinson boulevard just east of the Ga tonta city limits. No full details of the accident could be learned, but sheriff’s officers thought the cars sides wiped when one attempted to pass the other. The Willis car was going east while the other car was coming to ward Gastonia. Joe Ferr.ter, jr., of Belmont, who was in the car with Willis, suffered minor injuries. Hubbard and his companion, T. L. Moss, were riot hurt so far as could be learned. Dies In Ambulance, Willis, whose body was badly man pled, was not dead when pulled liom the wreckage of his Ford roadster, which was completely demolished. He died in an ambulance, however. This was the second fatal acci dent on the Boulevard within twen ty-four hours. Miss Ruui Burcn of Belmont, was instantly killed about 5 o’clock Fri day night when her car was over turned after having been sideswip ed by a hit-and-run motorist about three miles east of Gastonia on the Wilkinson boulevard. Deputy Jerry Runyan, of Earl, nid today that Mr, Hubbard, who Is a merchant at the lower Cleveland town, was slightly bruised In the collision, but Mr. Moss was not In jured. County Club Wants Cotton Yield Cut R. tV. Wilson of Falls ton Is New Presldent. Several Speak At Monthly Meeting. A twenty-ftve per cent reduction in the acreage of cotton and a cor responding increase in food and feed crops was recommended by the Cleveland county club Friday night as the best means of bringing back prosperity. The county club was meeting at the Green Lantern Tea Room when the subject of economic conditions was discussed by J, B Smith, Lester Herndon, O. C. Dixon and W. E White, Mr. Dixon thinks the reduction in cotton acreage will take care of itself for the reason' that many farmers cannot buy fer tilizer with which to plant a normal crop next year. A. E. Cline, county auditor, re viewed briefly the charity situation, expressing his belief that the good people of Cleveland county will not permit any suffering by the Unem ployed during the winter. Lee B. Weathers, editor of The Star, supplying as principal speaker in the absence of Rev. L. B. Hayes who was called to Charlotte for a j conference with the bishops, eon fined his remarks to the welfare work as now organized and told his audience about the world-wide sys tem of news gathering and the printing and publication of newspa pers. R W. W’ilson of Falls ton vcas elected president to succeed Lawton Blanton, O. C. Dixon was elected vice president and W. E. White, sec retary-treasurer. Fox Hounds, Bird Dogs Of This Section Gain Nation-Wide Fame By Recent Articles In Magazines Moore Dog Winner of National Fu turity. Tom Dixon Writes Of Carroll Dogs. This section of North Carolina, Rutherford and Cleveland counties, long famous for fine dogs, last week received nation-wide publicity as the home of champion fox hounds and bird dogs due to two magazine ar ticles. One article, the detailed story of the National Foxhunters Associa tion's field 'rials recently in Ken tucky, appeared in The Chase, na tionally circula’ed hunting Journal, end the other, a'story on bird dogs hy Tcm Dixon. native Shrlbyite and *- im"s a"*uor. was published in The New York Herald-Tribune magazine. The dogs of the Golden Valley Kennels at Forest City, owned by the Moore family and others, were not only pictured and praised in the magazine story but were also given much praise in the editorial col umns of The Chase. In his article in the New York paper, Tom Dixon declared that the bird dogs he had secured In *his section from Henry and Will Carroll and Ernest Spang ler were so smart that they could understand nearly every spoken or der in the human voice. Moores Present. The main story of the national field trials carried a picture of Dan ger’s Fancy, the Forest City fox hound, which won first place in the Tenth Chase Futurity the highest honor that a foxhound can win. icontinued on page eight,i Three Of Four Children Here , Are Defective Examination Made of School Pupils Officials Of School I'rgrs Treat ment For Defects Shown By Nurse. Three out of every four chil dren in the elementary grades of the city schools of Shelby have some physical handicap. That is tlie report filed by Miss Cora Beam, state board of health Nurse, after completing a physi cal examination of ail children. Of the 1,952 examined 1,429 were found defective. Some of the de fects are minor; others are quite serious, and tire health department urges that steps be taken at once to correct the defects. A complete itemized classification of the defects found follows: Nutrition 221, posture 13, hearing 2, vision 248, teeth 744, throats 1,105, orthopedic 9, skin 10, other 43; total 2,396. In connection with the report, school officials have Issued the fol lowing statement: "It is hoped that | everyone will cooperate in remedy-! lng the situation. A correction of these impairments will result In Im proved school work, assure future economic efficiency, and obviate a great deal of suffering and anxiety. "It will be noted that 1,429 chil dren have 2.395 defects. Obviously most of those who are physically handicapped have more than one thing wrong with them. "The local Red Cross, «!vfo clubs and social service committees of every sort should find in this a challenge and an opportunity. The race moves forward on the feet of healthy, instructed children. While a great many of these cases are in homes where the parents are will ing and able to have the corrections made, many others are In homes that will need convincing of the Importance of treatment and sttll others will need aid in doing what is necessary to safeguard health.’* A. C. Miller Under Serious Operation; Condition Is Bad Retired Manufacturer, Prominent Churchman ami Financier In Serious Condition. Relatives of Mr. Andrew C. Miller, who b seriously ill in the Shelby hospital, stated at 1:30 this afternoon that his condi tion appeared to be considerably better. A. C. Miller, sr., retired manufac turer, prominent churchman and financier, is in serious condition at the Shelby hospital where he un derwent an operation at 3 o’clock ; Saturday morning. He had been i sick for two weeks at his home ] when it developed he had ail in- j testinal trouble which required an immediate operation. Despite his! age of 82 years, he has withstood the operation better than expected1 and has rallied at times, recognized and talked to members of his fam ily,-but it is thought that he can not recover. He is a man of won derful vitality, however, and in spite of an abdominal operation at his advanced age, he is getting along as well as could be expected. His son Hugh Miller who is In charge of the division for the deaf under the department of labor and printing at Raleigh, arrived Satur day with Mrs. Miller and his two : children Emily and Gene to be at his bedside. Another son Robert C. Miller who has been in Tampa, Fla. arrived Sunday. The third son, An drew C. Miller is an evangelist for I the deaf and lives in Shelby, mak ing all children and grandchildren I at his bedside. Home Of Lovelace Destroyed By Fire | Ellenboro, Dec. 15.—Two destruc ! tive fire occurred at Caroleen Thurs day. The r>rlck home of Prof. A. C. Lovelace, former Shelby High school principal, was discovered to be on fire early Thursday morning, about 8:30. At the time the fire was dis covered noth Prof. Lovelace and his wife were away from home. The crowd gathered quickly, but the flames had spread rapidly and the home was soon burned. There was no fire protection. The fire is be lieved to have caught from defective light wiring from the overhead ceil ing. A part of the furniture was sav ed. Also the house of T R. Holland, employee of the Henrietta mills company, was burned at an early hour Thursday morning, about 1:30 The fire is thought to have been, caused from a defective chimney. Overman’s Successor Former Governor Cameron Morrison (above) was on Saturday appointed United States Senator to succeed the late t«ee S. Overman. The appointment was made by Gov. Gardner shortly after the Overman funeral riles. Mr. Morri son is known'as “the good roads governor" and has been one of the State’s leading figures for years. Pension Checks j Are Now Ready Number Of Pensioner* Gradually Decreases, But Over $13,000 la Distributed. The list of pensioners from the CiviLWar is gradually growing leas and less, bbt over IlS.bOO lias been received by Clerk of the Court A. M. Hamrick for distribution this week to 127 on the pension roll. This is the semi-annual payment and com es just before Christmas, bringing Christmas cheer to the aged ones. Thirty nine Confederate soldiers receive $182.30 each, 7i class B wid ows receive $50, 15 class A widows re ceive $150 and two colored laborers receive $100 each. This makes a total of over $13,000 for the December dis tribution, which Is considerably less than the June dibursement because a number of pensioners have died within the past six months and their names removed from the pension j list Pensioners may receive their checks any time by calling at the office of Clerk of the Court A. M ; Hamrick. McNinch Voted For Chas. Jonas Opposition To Anti-Smith leader In Commission Seems To Gain Strength. Washington. Deo. 18—Frank Mc Ninch’s Anti-Smith activities in 1928 looed today os possibly an effectual barrier to his confirmation as a member of the Federa' Power com mission. Outspoken opposition to tne cnar lotte, N. O., man. who led the Anti Smith campaign in that State came from one member of the Senate In terstate Commerce Committee after it had Inquired into his qualifica tions for the post to which President Hoover appointed him The member definitely taking a stand against his confirmation was Senator Hawes, Democrat, Missouri. Hawes based his opposition to Mc Ninch on the fact that he did no; vote for the Democratic congres sional nominee this year and oppos ed the Democratic Presidential nom inee in 1023. President Hoover nom inated the North Carolinian as one of the two Democratic members of the Bi-Paiiisam Commission of five. McNlneh testified before the com mittee that he voted for Charles A. Jonas, Republican, unsuccessful can didate this fall for -e-election a Representative to congress from the Ninth North Carolina District. From he nominee the committee also heard tome of the details of his work as generalissimo of the Anti smith forces in North Carolina in 1928. McNinch said the donations to hi* committee for that campaign totalled $30 906. He denied any of the mdney had •one from 'power’* sources, and as serted he could account for ail of it except $6,000: Pastors Urged To Aid Charity Suggested That Pastor* Have Con gregations Assemble Clothing And Food. Ministers of tills section particu larly thosejivho ate nfatorant rural churches, can do much to aid In tak ing care of the needy during the winter by appeals to their congrc- j gallons. it was suggested here over the week-end. "The idea advanced was that the ministers ask their congregations to give such food as potatoes, fruits and canned goods as well as cloth-j Ing, and that at Christmas time the church officials, or some committee, take charge of the distribution among needy homes m the immed iate section of the church. A Christmas gift list at every church to aid the section about the church would do much. It was explained, to alleviate the big task the general charity committee has in attempt ing to care for all the charity ap peals in the county. Dorton To Attend State Fair Meet Raleigh. Dec. 15.—The third an nual meeting of the North Carolina lair association will be held here January 15 and 16, the second day being set aside as a day for the transaction of business between fair secretaries and representatives of carnivals, frefe acts and others hav ing business with fairs. The following committee of fair j secretary has been named to make arrangements for a banquet: J W. Robinson, of Hickory; L. D. Har grove, of Tarboro; J. W. Jump, of Wilson; W. C. Denmark, of Golds boro; Florence Smith, of Clinton; Dr. J. S. Dorton, of Shelby; Mis: Effle McGinnis of Raleigh; C. M. Hight, of Henderson, and Ellis Goldstein, of Dunn. Morrison To Senate; Hoey Declined Place Uurged By Friends To Make Bid Scores Beseech Hoe> To Accept Sena tors hip. I liable To Do So. Clyde R. Iloey op Saturday refused the his chance of a life* time when he wired Governor Gardner that he would not con sider an appointment as t’nlted States Senator to succeed the late Tee S. Overmr.n. hut In do inn so he learned that hundred* of otti/cns, coming from his home county and all sections of the State, consider hint one of the outstanding figures In the public life of North Carolina. No public statement was made by the Shelby man to explain why he wired Gov. Gardner not to appoint him, but conversation with close friends have It that his Immense law practice was one factor. Another was likely the face that his sports manship. a quality that has made him an idol of the State, would not permit him to be considered tel that the appointment would have to come from his brother-in-law. Many See Him, When the news of the Overman death reached Shelby, many citizens ] started visiting the Hoey law office urging him to make a bid for the ! appointment. They vcre informed that he did not consider it proper to discuss t iie successor so soon after Senator Overman's death. Messages from all sections of the State and visitors continued to arrive at the Hocv office. All Shelby, as well as the surrounding section, seemed to have Its heart set on seeing Hoey go -.o Washington. . Friday Mr. Hoey told close friends that he had already decided to wire Gov. Gariner that he would not consider the appointment. Pressed by scores of people to hold back his refusal for a day or so, Mr. Hoey agreed that he would not send the telegram tmUl Saturday. Early Sat trrttey tndaHflHg the tejfgfam forwarded and Mr. Hoey left to at tend the funeral, no one knowing until late In the afternoon, when Gov. Gardner announced the Mor rison appointment, that the Shelby man had quietly and unostenta tiously eliminated himself from the olcture. Saturday afternoon he was mo toring back to his home here when the news of the appointment was made at Salisbury. One newspaper man present wrote in his story of the excitement centering about the news: ‘‘But while the dramatic ap pointment was claiming all interest here fin Salisbury* the most heroic figure of tire eventful day was In his automobile returning home, seem ingly unmindful of the colorful hap penings behind him i’ald High Tributes. Many times tn the past vast aud iences have turned out in Shelby to honor Hoey, one of the most beloved men in the history of the section, and often has he been paid high tributes bv his home-people, but never before Saturday has there been such an evident expression of sentiment. The people of his home town, .high and low, kept a steady file up the steps to his office beg ging him to make a try for if. All appears were met with a smiling ex pression of appreciation, His atti tude was almost nonchalant, but it was evident to those close to him that he had never before been so touched by any expression toward him. ‘ It may be a somew hat embarrass ing situation. Clyde, but we want you to have the appointment,” one CONTINUED ON PA%B UIOHT» Just Eight Days Now In which to prepare for the season of seasons—the joyous Yuletide. Do not let the event slip up on you. Have you been window shopping by the inviting and colorful displays in Shelby stores? If you have, you have seen one of the most complete Christmas presentations Shel by merchants have yet offer ed. If you haven’t been win dow’ shopping, do it today by I looking through the “ads” in The Star. Bargains this year such as young shoppers have never known. You’ll find them listed in The Star. Read the advertisements and go shopping tomorrow. I And as you prepare for your Yuletide, remember that it will be a hard Christmas in some homes, and leave some contribution, clothes or food, at the com munity charity shop in the basement of the Weathers , Blanton building. Shelby Man Wires Gov. Gardner Gardner Yppoint* M.an Who Dc (fated Him In 1520 A* Over man's Successor. Charlotte, Ucc. 15.- North Caro lina's new senator, former Gov Cameron Morrison, will leave for Washington tomorrow to be swon in us the successor of tire late Sen ator Lee S. Overman. Mr. Morrison was appointed tc succeed Overman by Clov. O. Mas Gardner .shortly after the Overmar funeral rites in .Salisbury Suturdn. afternoon. A peculiar angle of the appointment is that the ChaiiOtL man was named to the high offic by the man whom he defeated lot Governor of North Carolina in lS*2ti Hoey Refused. In making the announcement Go' Gardner let it be known that he would have named Clyde R Hoey, of Shelby. to succeed Ur Salisbury statesman had Mr. Hoey desired the appointment, The She! - by man, however, had wired Gov Gardner early Saturday that hi would not consider the appointment The widely-known and popular ora tor of Shelby is being widely com mended over the state for the heroT dtsplay of sportsmanship in step ping aside rather than be named u office by his brother-in-law. His big law practice, it is gener ally believed, was one factor, which Influenced him to wire his refuse',. The Iloey Angle. In his dispatch to The Greens boro News about the appointment. Tom Bost had the following to say about the Boey angle: Mr. Gardner would take none of the glory from Mr. Morrison. but candidly declared that had Clyde K. Hoey been willing to accept the ap pointment it would have gone to the Shelby lawyer. 0 “If Clyde had wished to go to the senate I would have appointed him though I had to resign to do it.” Governor Gardner said. ”We a«r more man Drotnersim-mw. we arc brothers.” Governor ‘Gardner said. But Mr. Hoey would not hear to It. ”1 am not a candidate lor appoint' ment to the senate and do not wish you to consider me in connection with tiie vacancy caused by the death ot Senator Overman,” Mr Hoey wrote in a telegram. Before he left Raleigh Governor Gardner received a perfect pile of letters and telegrams urging the Hoey appointment. "Appoint Clyde Hoey, brother-in-law or no brother in-law," one of them demanded. Thf.se came from all parts of the state. But Mr, Gardner had made up his mind for Mr. Morrison befort leaving Raleigh Governor Gardner declared his be lief in the great state and party loy alty of Mr. Morrison, his splendid equipment for the service by reason of his wide knowledge of North Carolina. Governor Morrison will go to Raleigh Monday, get his com mission and from there go perhap late Monday or early Tuesday to tie national capital to be sworn in New* Is Broken. Writing in The Charlotte Observer Jake Wade toid as follows of hoy Mr. Morrison was informed of hi. appointment: The official notification wa made at the honu; of State Senator Waiter Woodson, where the gover nor, here for Senator Overman's fu neral, is spending the week-end, Mrs. Max Gardner was first to inform the appointee. She did it exuberantly. S4r. Morrison was quite overcome. But when Mrs. Gardner added: “Cam. that was a rrugnani ; mous thing for Max to do. ’ He re ‘sponded: “You people are the best sport* 1 ever knew.” As newsmen gathered around, he i became expansive in bis praise of ■ Governor Gardner for the gesture. “It took a big man to do that,” he isaid. “There never was hi the his tory of polities a better sport than Max Gardner.” Hoey Is Best Sport. But as the Morrisons and Gard CONTIKCEU 0S PA OK EIGHT.' Finds Odd Button Where Col. Graham Once Made Home A button, or buckle, apparently a souvenir or medal issued to Revolu tionary soidiers, was recently found an the l&rm where Col. William Gra ham. one of the heroes of the Battle of Kings Mountain cnce lived, by M. Mile§ Gi ten, who now owns the farm in the southwestern section ot the county. The buckle has the stamped photograph of a Revolu tionary soldier and the dates of 1776 and 1780. It was apparently coined in the latter yea*. Mr. Green also has in hig posses sion a. one cent piece of 1817,