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VOL. XXXVII, No. 4 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY* JAN'. 9, 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday ■■ Afternoons. - 1 8 PAGILS TODAY Hj Mmi t»e» ?Par. (in td»*ncet *£.fH> < arrter orr ve»r M» Advance* (3.AO I LA TE NEW: THE MARKET __ 1 Cotton, per lb. ...»_...... 9 to 9Sr j * ' Cotton Seed, per bn. ...-- 38St' ; Fair And Warmer. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report; Fair tonight and Saturday, j Slightly warmer in central and ean | portions Saturday. In Legislature. Raleigh, Jan. 9.—A salary cut oi 10 per cent on all state employes and a 550,000 appropriation for se curing the right of way for the In land waterway from the Cape Ee.tr river to the South Carolina line were the rr-' l‘~ ~ General Assembly of North Carolina as the seccml day ot its session end ed yesterday. Mrs. McGcwan Buried Today; Was Ola Ford Sweet Spirited Woman Succumbs After Long Illness. Husband And 2 Children Survive. Mrs. E. O. McGowan, who before marriage was Miss Ola Ford, died Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at her home on the eastern edge of Shelby after an illness of nine months, during which time she un derwent several operations for an intestinal trouble. Ill For Nine Months. The news of Mrs. McGowan's death was no surprise to her host, of friends for she had been in a serious condition for some time, and critical for a week before the end came. However, her passing was a source of great sorrow for she was a most sweet spirited woman. She was born in the Palm Tree com munity near Lawndale and spent all of her life In Cleveland county, ex cept 13 years at Elm City where she and Mr. McGowan , were married. They have been back in Shelby for a number of years where Mr. Mc Gowan is connected with O. E Ford Co. Mrs. McGowan was 44 years ot age and was educated at Shelby high school and Davenport college, Lenoir. She taught in the Shelby schools and in Central Methodist church Sunday school where she was loved and admired for her beautiful traits of character. Nine months ago she became sick and was in and out of the Shelby hospital several times. She had re markable vita’ity and withstood the suffering and despair with untold fortitude which amazed the attend ing physicians and friends. She was grateful for every attention and courtesy shown her and deeply re gretted she was unable to serve others as she was accustomed to do while she had her health. Daughter of Late O. E. ford. In 19X2 she was married to Mr. McGowan of Elm City who survives with two bright and attractive chil dren. Maggie Murray, a student at Davenport college, Lenoir, and Nancy McGowan, a student in the seventh grade of the Shelby public schools. One brother Thad C. Ford and one sister, Ellen Ford and her step-mother, Mrs. O. E. Ford also survive. Her father, before death, was one of the oldest merchants in points of mercantile experience in the county and served for many years on the county board of commission ers. Funeral services were conducted this morning at 10:30 o’clock from Central Methodist church by her pastor, Rev. L. B. Hayes, assisted by Revs. Zeno Wall and H. N. McDiar mld. A large crowd gathered to pay a tribute of respect to her noble life and the chancel was filled with scores of beautiful floral designs. In terment wan in Sunset cemetery. Active pall bearers were B. L. Smith. Rush Thompson, Roy Sisk. J. W. Harbison, C. C. Cob’e and W. R. Porter. Honorary pall bearers were Dr. Tom Gold, Earl Honeycutt, Will Lineberger, R. L. Hendrick, Geo. Hoyle, R. T. LeGrand and Dr. E. A, Houser. Out-of-town relatives of the fam ily here for the funeral were T. L. McGowan, of Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Hedgpeth, of Elm City; Mrs. E. O. McGowan, sr., of Elm City; Mrs. Walter Slappery, of Washington, D. C.; Miss May Wil son, of Greensboro; Mrs. Hazel Beacham. of Raleigh; J. Milton Crocker, of Cherryville. Hold Five Youths For Soda Pop Haul City police on Wednesday and Thursday arrested five white youths on the charge of breaking in and robbing the barbecue stand just off the court square on South Washington street. Four boys were placed in Jail and the fifth gave bond. The chief theft, officers say, con sisted of soda pop taken from the Ice bottle, the attempted sale of which led to the arrests. Tree For Horses. Augusta—George R. Sousa. Au gusta’s humane officer, invited fifty horses to a Christmas tree party and li’n-tr -v giving each horce a bag filled with oats. Free Four Young Men In Death Of Deputy Hugh Brittain, Three Other* Get Non-Suit In M urder Charge Centering About Death Of Deputy Sanford Pruett Killed By Brit tain Car. Judge Say* Officer* Have No Right To Block Road. The Brittain-Pruett ease, centering about the killing last July of Deputy Sheriff Sanford Pruett, when the officer and others stopped the Hugh Brittain automobile, came to a sud den end in court here this morning as Judge Clements non suited the murur charges against young Brittain and his three companions. -——- , The three men charged with mur der along with the Casar postmast er's son were Ivey and Joe Wort man and Dob Hunt. Judge Clements in non-suiting the charges declared that evidence :ntroduced by the State did not convince him that Brittain and the others knew they were being held up by offices, and that, furthermore, when Brittain backed his car over Deputy Pruett, while making a get away, he did not have a criminal intent in running over and fatally njuring the officer. Four Witnesses. T>-e cB-e was taken up late yes terday afternoon and had brought! scores of people from the Casar j section where the defendants live and where the dead deputy lived, > The State introduced four wit- j nesses Plato Ledford, and Frank Walker. Prohibition Officer J. C. Abernethy and Lawrence Canipe. When the State concluded its testimony this morning defense counsel. Attorney D. Z. Newton, of i Shelby, and Attorneys Sam Etvln land L. C, Huffman, of Morganton. ; moved for a non-suit, or dismissal I of the charges. Makes Talk. In granting the motion of the dc | fense, Judge Clement expressed sev eral opinions about law enforce ment. ‘‘An officer enforcing the law must,” he said, "abide by the law Officers have no right to block a public highway or road. If I had been driving that night and found my path blocked it is likely that I Would have attempted to get away In this day of so many holdups Maybe I would have tried to turn I my car around instead of going in I to reverse. But not knowing who | and why I vrts being held up it is t also likely that I would have run over anything in front of me not too big to be run over.” From the evidence, the judge de clared. there Was nothing definite , to show that young Brittain knew CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN.» ( Mrs. Ledford, Age 28; 3uried At Oak Grove j Wife of J. D. Ledford of Oak Grove j Community Buried This ‘ Afternoon. Mrs. Millicent Ledford, 28 year old! wife of J. D. Ledford died at her j home in the Oak Grove community ; Thursday morning at 4:30 o’clock t after an illness of only a few days. !Mrs. Ledford before marriage was •■Miss Millicent Rocs, daughter of James Ross and is survived by her husband, one daughter, five years l old and a two months old infant. Also surviving are five brothers, Maurice, Hershal, Sherman, Clyde and L. J. Ross and one sister. Miss Blanche Ross. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon by Rev. C. J. Black I and interment was in the cemetery ; at Oak Grove church, where she was j a faithful member. -------- No Decision Yet In King Appeal When and where the Rate King second trial will be held his attorneys here, B. T. Falls and Clyde K. Hoey. did not know today. On Tuesday the motion for a change of venae from Ches ter was argued there by King’s attorneys and the South Car olina judge took the matter under consideration and an nounced that his decision would be made public in a few days. It was believed at Chester that if the second trial was changed it would go back to York. If the mo tion for a change Is denied, it will not come up until the next Chester court term. Bui at noon today attorneys here had not been Informed what the judge had decided. Poultrymen Will Meet Saturday All County Poultrymen Invited To Important Meeting At Court House. A meeting of the Cleveland coun ty poultry association will be held in the jury room of the court house here Saturday afternoon at two o’clock, it 1s announced by Mr. George Wolfe, president. All poul trymen are urged to attend. Among those scheduled to take part in the program, discussing var ious phases of poultry work, will be the association president, B. Aus tell, district poultry leader, a poul try expert from Raleigh and others, Methods of making poultry return a worthwhile Income in 1931 wtU be taken up. Mrs. Dora Runyans Dies Of Paralysis Wife of Mr. Joe Runyans Will Be Buried Saturday Morning: In Sunset Cemetery. Mrs. Dora Runyans, wife of Mr. Joe Runyans died at her home on S. LaFayette street Thursday morn ing at 3:15 o'clock following her third stroke of paralysis. She had been sick a year, having suffered her first stroke of paralysis about a ear ago. Mrs. Runyans was the daughter of P. C. Wood and was the second wife of Mr. Runyans. She was 54 ••ears of age and a kind hearted Christian character who will be greatly missed in the community. Funeral services will be held Sat urday morning at 11 o'clock from the residence, conducted by Rev. Mr. Jenkins, pastor of LaFayette Street Methodist church and Inter ment will be in Sunset cemetery. Rutherford Widzw And Her Two Daughters, Believed Lost In Snow, Located In Dallas Home Widow Lavender And Two Children Once Believed To Have Died In Snow. I Gastonia, Jan. 8.—Mrs. Janie Lavender and her two daugh ters,, 17 and 11 years of age re spectfully, who were thought to ' have been lost in snow drifts or to have met with foul play after | they set out on a walking trip from Rutlierfordton to Bostic | on December 16, were located J late this afternoon at the home of C. C. Wooten in Dallas, near here. A third daughter who remained, , at home In an Isolated Rutherford1 ■section approached welfare officers i 'here yesterday appcaMntj for help! jin her futile efforts to locate her! missing mother and two sisters, from whom she had heard nothing since they left. A rumor was heard here this aft ernoon that the woman and her daughters were in Dallas, but for several hours all efforts to locate them were unavailing. It was final ly learned that Eula, oldest of the daughters, had been in High Shoals early this week, where she was em ployed as a housekeeper by Jacob Taylor. She ■ left High Shoals on Tuesday, it was said, saying that she would join her mother In Dal las. Further investigation in Dallas finally resulted in locating the 80 year old widow and her two daugh ter at the Wooten home. It was not learned what they planned to do or whether they intended to re turn to Hutherfordton. Clement Sends Three More To Gang For Theft Stamey Thieve* Get Five Year* Men Who Robbed Polkvllle Store Found Guilty. Brothers Go tip. When superior rourt conven ed here this week half of the prisoners in the Jail were there on store breaking charges, or for receiving stolen goods. H seems now that when court ends near half of the chain gang force will be made up of store robbers sent there for long terms by Judge J. H. Clements. Late Wednesday afternoon Judge j Clements sentenced Henry Stamey. ! of Valdese, to three years on the j roads. Nelson Stamey for a year and ! Sid Rector for a year on charges developing from the recent robbery of the Stamey store at Polkvllle. The presiding judge had already sent three men up for a total of eight years In connection with the robbery of the Penney and Lily Mill stores. In the Polkvllle robbery Henry Stamey plead guilty. A Jury found ; Nelson Stamey and Sid Rector, father-tn-law of one of the Stanleys, ! guilty of receiving stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen. Some of the goods were found in : the home of Rector and one of the j Stameys. The latter was the hus- j band of Rector’s 16-year-old daugh- ! ; ter who was used a* a witness by I ithe defense. School Children Much Clothin* Contributed Through Campaign In City Schools. Hundreds of garments were fur- I nished to the clothing division of the welfare department this -Week as a result of a campaign waged by Supt. B. X. Smith through the school children of the city. The ap t>eal was issued to every child to bring what out-grown and cast-off clothing could be spared in order to clothe the needy of the oounty and the response was the mast gratify ing and generous yet had. A truck was sent to alldf the city schools to gather up the articles of wear which the children brought from their homes. Thin additional supply gives a splendid stock at the clothing division, and ih order to distribute there articles of wear as rapidly as possible it has been agreed that school principals of the county may issue orders to families in their localities for clothing. If the needed articles are on hand the clothing depot will fill all orders written by the school principals. Ministers will also bear in mind that orders issued by them will be filled. The welfare workers cannot in vestigate in all sections of the county, hence it has been agreed ; that ministers and school principals I may make Investigations and issue \ orders. have been given out from the clothing depot. ^eveland Native Receives Promotion Give To To date over 2,500 articles of wear Charlie Turner Promoted In Traffic Department of Piedmont And Northern Railway. C. D. Turner, for the past eigh i teen months connected with the I traffic department of the Piedmont | and Northern railway company, 'serving as commercial agent at An derson, S. C., has been promoted to a similar position with headquar ters in Atlanta, with offices at 704 Healey building, the change to be come effective 15th instant. Mr. Turner will have charge of traffic in Georgia. Alabama and Tennes see, succeeding W. E. Atkinson, for merly of Anderson, who for the nast several years has represented the Piedmont and Northern with offices in Atlanta. Mr. Atkinson has been promoted to general east ern agent and will be located in New York City, with offices at 320 Broad way. These promotions, not only in the estimate of the business and indus trial interests of Anderson but over the Piedmont and Northern’s ter ritory generally, are well merited and the P. and N. railway company as well as Messrs. Atkinson and Turner are to be congratulated. Mr. Turner is a native of Cleve 'and county, the son of Mrs. EH Tur iner in the Sharon community. Grill Cop in Beauty Murder In a ipraveyard at Potomac . Hills, a secluded village, lies the body of Beulah Limerick (inset), whose mysterious death is push ing police at Washington, D. C, Above are pictured male relative* of the murdered girl, covering themselves as they leave their home*. Patrolman Robert P, Langdon (above, known a*: the millionaire eop) in held in con nection with the murder. Present General Assembly Almost Bar Association Meet; Methodists In Majority; Many War Vets Youth Succumbs To Attack Of Heart Marion Burnett With Sister* of Cleveland County Die* In Greenwood, S. C. (Special to The 8tar.> Marion F. Burnett, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Lee Bur nett. died at their home In the Callison section of Greenwood, S. C., Friday night at 2:45 ©‘clock after an Illness of several weeks from heart trouble. Marlon wa., a bright popular boy and his death has caused a great sorrow among his many friends. Besides his parents he is surviv ed by four sisters, Mrs. Guy Latti more of Bostick, Miss Ella Lee Bur nett, of Waco. Miss Louise Burnett of Shelby and Miss Myrtle Burnett of Callison and one brother William Burnett of Bostick. The funeral services were con ducted at Bold Springs church by Rev. G. W Gurley and the Rev: E. A. Wilkes, .j Dr. Lingle To Speak Here Monday Night Davidson College President To Be Principle Speaker At Pied mont Scout Meeting:. Announcement is made by the headquarters of the Piedmont coun cil of the Boy Scouts of America that Dr. Walter L. Lingle, president of Davidson college, will deliver the address at the annual convention oi tlie council which will be held at the Hotel Charles. Shelby, on Mon day night, January 12th. Several hundred leaders, scout masters, troop committeemen, and members of the Piedmont council of the Boy Scouts of America from the counties of Gaston, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford. Polk, Iredell, Catawba, Burke, McDowell and Caldwell are expected to be In at tendance. Te meeting will start with a banquet at seven o’clock. The Piedmont council is recogniz ed as one of the most efficient scout organizations in the South, having the largest membership in the Caro llnas. The headquarters are main tained at Gastonia and a summer training camp is operated at Lake Lanier near Tryon. Reports of the accomplishments of the council will be made and plans for the year 1931 will be adopted. Likewise officers will be elected. J. W Atkins of Gastonia is presi dent of the organization, Harry Page of Lincolnton, B. L. Smith of Shelby, F. P, Bacon of Tryon, D. P. Stowe, of Belmont, A. F. Harlow of Statesville and Eugene DeF. Heald, Hickory are vice presidents. War ren Y. Gardner is treasurer. Rev. G. R. Gillespie of Gastonia is scout commissioner and R. M. Schiele is the scout executive. Big Drought Fund. Washington.—Secretary Hyde has announced that congress would be asked to appropriate the full of $43,000,000 authorized for drought -elief at the same time making it dear that no food loans would be made from the fund. !H> of 170 Arc kawyers. Dunnagan Gives ' Low Down" On Assembly Members. <M. W. l>rVNA<i\N. Mtar •%>*•<, Bureau.V i Raleigh, Jan. 9.—The Genera! Assembly of North Carolina now In session here has the ap pearance of a bar association convention since 90 of the 170 senators and representatives members of the legal profession, and four of the members have not furnished statistics, ac cording to a compilation made from the data gathered by Henry M. London, law refer ence librarian. Methodists lead In church affilia tion wtth 51 fincluding three Meth odist Protestants) while there are 31 Baptists, 24 Episcopalians, 21 Presbyterians and one Jew, the first since the days of Sol Caller? of Rutherford The University of North Carolina leads in represen-, tatives of educational institutions by a wide margin, 66 having at tended that university, Wake For est following with 24, while 38 eith er attended no college or made no report of tt. Eighty of the 170 legislators (less one lost by death) have never nod legislative experience before, mak ing this assembly probably the leader in number of new' meri in recent years. One was a represen tative in South Carolina legis lature previously. In the senate, 16 of the 50 sena tors have served In that body be fore, nine have served in the house and five others have served in bath' senate and house. Twenty members are new'. Of the 120 members of the J house (three reports missing) eight j have served in both senate and! house before, five have served In j the senate, and 44 have been In the i house before. Sixty or exactly half! have not had previous legislative ex perience. Thirty-four of the SO senators CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN ) Lattimore Guilty Of False Entry, Verdict Hard Times Do Not Slow Up Marriages More Marriage in Cleveland In 1930 Than During Previous Year. What I* a little thing like a business depression when a man and a maid are In love with each other? Nothin* at all. If the Cleveland county marriage record book Is to give the an swer. | Although times lit 1930 were { harder than lover* or anybody else | had gone through tit years, then ' were three mote marriages in 1930 than in 1929 in this county Last year 103 couples were mar ried In the county, while an even! 100 married here in 1929 Unlucky June. June brides are generally consul | cred lucky, but there was an un-j lucky number attached to June cere- i monies in Cleveland, according U> the record which shows that 13 j couples secured license that month. June, incidentally, the other months in total number of marriages. May, August and December tted for second place with an even dozen i marriages each. January and Octo ber were Just a short distance be hind with eleven cacti \’o April T ools, Dan Cupid was less active lit Ap ril than during any other month,! only two couples .securing license that month. February with four marriages and July with five wen other months when the matrimonial] Impulse was at a low ebb. Sink To Hear Rutherford Case Criminal Cases In Bank Mailers There To Be Taken I p February 2. By special request of Governor Gardner, Judge Hoyle Sink will pre side over the Rutherford county court, beginning February 2, when several criminal cases growing out of bank failures last fall will be tried, It was leaned last night. Judge Sink, who at present is on Ills vacation, has a lot of work cut out for him in the near future. Next Monday he resumes his work as special superior court Judge when he goes to Greensboro to preside over Guilford county Superior court, i He will have five weeks more of; special court work as, an emergency jurist before he takes his circuit as regular judge, to which post be was recently appointed by the governor. He has been assigned to preside over Hyde county Superior court "But anyhow,’’ Judge Sink said, in discussing this term of court, "I un- I dcrstaud the duck shooting is good down there." Train Saves Boys. Los Angeles.—-Two small boys were saved from suffocation, hav ing been trapped for hours ill a na tural tar pit in the Baldwin Hills, when the searchlight of a passing electric railway train revealed their heads and shoulders protruding from the blackness. Mull Favors 11 Congressional Districts For N. C. Instead Of Representative - At - Large Idea Executive Counsel Says Congress man at Large Would Be "Red Headed Stepchild.” Raleigh. Jan. 9.—Odus M. Mull, executive counsel to Governor Gardner and chairman of the state Democratic executive committee, said he was in lavor of creating 11 congressional districts for North Carolina instead of having a con gressman at large to take care of the additional congressman this state receives under the 1930 cen sus re-apportionment act. The question of caring for the state’s additional congressman Is one of the most controversial issues before the general assembly. Con gress has already passed the re-ap portionment. act giving this state II instead of 10 congressmen "Red-Headed Stepchild.” “Under our scheme of things there is no place, politically, geo graphically or otherwise for a con- i gressman at large—he Is Just a red headed stepchild," said Mr Mull. "We already have two senators to represent the state at large and we have arranged that equitably by the unwritten rule that one shall come from the east and one from the west." Mr. Mull added that' he is satis fied the state can be divided into 11 districts "without materially affect ing any of the 10 Democratic con gressmen elected last November and without putting any two of them in the same district. And I do not, think that the success of the Dem ocratic party would be endangered: in any of the 11 districts." New Shifts Proposed. Mr. Mull declined to go into dc* j tail as to the result of his tentative: plan for re-districting the state, but : it is understood that Gfeensboro,! now in the fifth district, which It by far the largest in the state,! would be the center of a new dit-; trict. Given Sentence Of 5 Years Today lury Upturned Verdict Thursday Afternoon. Appeal Taken. Bond Set At $10,000. In superior court lu re this morning Judge J. 11. Clements sentenced J. J. I.attimore, for mer secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland Bank and Trust com pany, to five years in the state state prison at Kalelglt. I.a to yesterday afternoon a jury re turned a verdict against Mr. I.attimore of "guilty of fuise entry." Tim formal sentence react "not less than ft>e nor move thou eight years " Much Interest. Titu.s ended a chapter of a court affair which has attracted major interest throughout this section tor many months. Takes Appeal. Aftw sentence was passed this motuirig Clyde R. Hoey. 'Baltimore attorney,; asked that several days be riven the defendant In which to straighten up business affairs be fore going to Raleigh The request war refused by the judge, and it was then that Mr. Ho. y and Judge 3. T. Falls, the other counsel, pate notice of appeal to supreme court. Alter the appeal had been entered the bond was set at #1,0,000 and given promptly. The-defense will have ltd day;-, in which to file their case for appeal and the state 340 days in which to file n reply. The affair first reached public notice last year when it became known that there was a shortage and some book irregularities at the Cleveland Bank. The alleged short age was made good by the bonding company and bank directors with no loss to patrons. Shortly there after the Cleveland Bank was merg ed with the Union Trust company, Chars*# Filed. l ater ft grand Jury returned bill* agatott Mr. Lattunore charging false entry and embewlement. Th« case was scheduled tor trial at th* last couit but did not come up un til this week. Meantime there ha* been wide speculation and controv ersy hereabouts over the matter. Declare# Innocence. To the last the former trust com pany official declared that he had never taken a cent of money and contended that he had in some in stances altered the books with thn hope of determining the apparent leakage. When the trial opened Wednes day afternoon the first witness was Mr. Wm. Lineberger, former presi dent of the Cleveland Bank and Trust company. Others put on the stand by the state were the ledger clerk of the American Trust com pany at Charlotte, the auditor who checked over the records here, Mr. Maynes, an investigator of the bond ing company; and Mr, Chas. C. Blanton, president of the First Na tional bank anc) Union Trust com pany. The evidence, with the exception of statements made by Mr. Latti more to the witnesses, dealt with al leged disc pancie on the bunk books. Comparisons were made to how the difference between the Cleveland bank's account on the ledger of the Charlotte bank and tlie statements of that account at the bank here. > From several witnesses it wan brought out that Mr. Lattimore had ilunteered the first information about the seeming shortage and ac count discrepancies, but on cross examination each witness giving this information, resulting from conversations with the defendant, ‘stu’d that Mi\ Lattimore had de clared he did not get a cent of money. These statements centered about a conference held in tile law office of Judge B. T. Falls and attended bv Mr. Falls, Mr. Blanton and Mr. l attimore. It was then that Mr, Lattimore related to them, it was testified, that something was wrong. He asked, the witnesses said, Mr. Linebersrer to forgive him for not telling him about it sooner. and then added, with his hand raised, that -Before God, T never got ona cent.” The testimony concerning the ledger accounts revolved about two items, one $5,000 and the other $6,625, representing currency sup posed to have beeu sent the Amer ican trust bank at Charlotte from the bank here. Ledgers of the Charlotte bank revealed, according to the testimony, that the two sums had not been received there, al though, it was alleged, they were credited here No Defease Witness. ' C The defense counsel, Messrs. Fade and Hoey, did not offer a single cowriunrn on paofs «nm.t