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VOL. XXXVII, No. 5 I 8 PAGES I TODAY »-.—.. J r.y it. oar feat, do adrancal . «.t,(i Carrier jytt rear, (in arivajoce) ;_ f&ut LA TE NEW: THE MARKET Cotton, per lb._9 to 9*ic Cotton Seed, per bu. .28!2e . Cloudy, Rain. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy with rain this aft ernoon and probably In cast por tion tonight. Colder In extreme west portion and on the coast tonight. Colder. Tuesday. Fight Road Bill. Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, good roads advocate of Charlotte, and others this week began a Tight upon Gov ernor Gardner’s recommendation for a change in the present ^tate high way system. The change would re ult from the proposal to have the stale take over county highways with the aim of property tax re duction. McStvain Would Draw Tax From Insurance Firms State Could Get Good Revenue i—__i' j Drafting: Bill To Put 10 Percent Tax On Gross Income Of Companies. Senator Peyton Me Swain when he returned to Raleigh after the week-end at home here was determined to see that insur ance companies operating in this State do their part to pay North Carolina’s governmental freight Charges. • Wliile at home Mr. McSwa'n din fted an outline for a bill he will introduce in which he will ask that 10 percent of the gross Tricorne of all insurance companies in North Carolina be raxed 10 percent, The bill as briefed down will re quire all insm-ancc companies in he State, domestic and foreign, to ■lie authentic reports with the St Me government twice each year. One report will be required to show the gross premiums paid in by policy holders. The other will be required ’ o show the gross claims paid out o policy-holders, the proposal ba ng to place a 10 percent tax cn the ross difference between the prem iums taken in and the claims made out. Gross figures as a basis for the rate of taxation are used rathe • • than net figures so that insurance ; ncomes may be taxed before alleg ed high-salaried officials are paid their annuel stipends. In assembling his draft for in I consider original to a certain ex tent, will give the State of North Carolina an annual revenue of be tween five and six million dollars. Mr McSwain said. 1 nassembling his draft for in troduction in the State Senate he refers to figures cited in a rec?rt magazine article on the insurance racket. The writer of the article -dates that the head of one major insurance firm receives a salary only $25,000 less per year than the combined salaries of the President . of the United Stag's and all mem bers of his Cabinet Convict Men For Stea’ing Chickens Hour Men Were Caught In Shelby With Chickens Stolen In Rutherford. Rutherfordton, Jan. 12.—Four young white men, Will and Lee aisle, John McGinnis and Crawford Whither, all living near Rutherford ton, were in the recoYder’s court here charged with theft of chickens. They were arrested in Shelby. Local officers went to Shelby and brought them here to face trial. Two well known farmers, Sylvanus Hollins and J. C. Robinson, living near Carolecn, identified their fowls. Judge Fred McBrayer of the coun ty recorder's court sent the Sisk brothers and McGinnis to the coun ty chain gang for six months each, while Whitner will likely be return ed to the state prison at Raleigh from which he was recently paroled under good behaviour. Checker Battle At York On January 22 Cleveland And Rutherford Players To Take On York’s Best Players, Ten of the best checker players In Cleveland and Rutherford coun ties will on January 22 play a ma.cl' with a York. South Carolina, check er team at York. Later a return match will be played in Shelby. Grover Rollins, one of Cleveland’-, checker wizards, says he does not know definitely who will play on the Cleveland team. He expects, however, that Rev. A. G. Melton, of Bolling Springs: B J. ilord, of ,» Shelby: Rev. J. W Lynch, of Caro leen; Mr. Nanney, of Chtfside, and others wi’l ~c eir-"?: those partic. pating in th* match. » Driver Of Death Car Walks From Florda To Make Full Confession His Car Struck Fallston Farmer And Killed Him Placed Under Bond j Of $1,000 Conscience Troubled Hint So That j He Had To Come Back. Tells Straight Story. The knowledge that his auto mobile had killed a man, al though not intentionally, wa< too murh for Everett Lyles, young Gastonia man, and he walked and hitch-hiked bark to this county from Florida to confess that he was the driver of the automobile which struck, and killed farmer Dixon, a farmer, just above Fallston on the night after Christmas. Lyles reached Kings Mountain • Saturday and surrendered to ofi'ic- i ers there. He was given a hearing ! ncoun- j ty court this morning and such was the impression made by his straight forward confession that his bond was set a.t $1,000 until the next term of Suoerior court when he will be tried for manslaughter. Several others had been tried and acquitted in the hit-and-run trag edy. Officers here knew the name of the owner of the ear but had j been unable to locate Lyles after they secured this information. Could Not Sleep. Lyles took the stand in county court this morning and "came clean-’ with it all, telling of hitting the other car and admitting owncr-j ship of the nine gallons of whiskey j found near his abandoned car. Two other men. P.- C. Gunner, of Bes semer City, and Sam Gunner, of Gnstonia, were with him in the death car ne said. D. C. Gunner was arrested Saturday afternoon at Bessemer City by Deputy Ed Dixon. Lyles’ stoTy, which checked with details known by officers was as follows: Some time before Christ mas he had engaged nine gallons of whiks*w in the South Mountain section and had sent two suitcases for it to be packed in. On Decem ber 26 he carried the two Gunneis in his automobile to Marion so that they might look for work ifli the mills there. Being unable to find work they started on the retu-n i trip with him. Coming through the South Mountains they stopped tc take off the chains on the car arid while that was being done the nine •allons of whiskey was placed in ‘he car. The Gunners d‘d not know, Lyles said, that the whiskey was in the car until after the fatal crash Fuggy Night. “I was driving towards Shekiy, just above Fallston, and was mak ing about 30 miles an hour,” Lyles | -raid. “Suddenly, just about 12 feet ! in front of me. I saw a flashlight or lantern moving. I did what I could to stop, but there was little 1 could do. Then I crashed into an automobile narked on the side of the road. Lord knows I did not ’-now' that I hit a man. My car bounced back from the impact. J hesitated about a second, then thought of the whiskey in the cm and frightened as I was I though: it would be best for me to go on I pulled around the car I had struck and moved on. My lights had been knocked upward by the crash ,ntl 1 did not see a man on the ground as 1 moved off. Down below Fallstor. a mile or two my car became hot and I stopped. It was then I toll (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. > Telling It With a Medal The Nicaraguan Government < took this means of telling Charles V. Frith of Its apprecia tion of his services while a staff sergeant aviator with the U, S. Marine Corps during the San dino revolution. Frith is hold > ing the medal presented to him, while Mrs, Frith looks admir ingly on. The decoration was presented “in recognition of the exceptional services rendered : the Republic.” Gardner Message Rated One Of j State’s Greatest; Urges Cut In Official Salaries, And Tax Cut \ Is Against Bond Issue, Wants Re valuation Postponed, Favors State Roads. Raleigh, Jan. 12.—Revolutionary changes and economies which will! affect the lives and tax bills of1 every citizen in North Carolina were1 advocated Friday by Governor O. Max Gardner, in his biennial mes sage to the general assembly. Among the outstanding recom- ■! mendations, suggested officially for the first time today were: 1. A 10 per cent cut in salaries of i all state, county, city and other public employes. 2. An eight months school term, for all students. If it can be provid ed at less expense than the present effort. 3. Consolidation of counties, com pulsory in some instances. 4. No bond issues for perman ent improvements at this session. 5. A constitutional convention in 1933. 6. State maintenances of county roads' by a reorganized highway commission without regard to coun ty or district lines, and a six cent gasoline tax. 7. Postpone revaluation of land for taxes until, 1933. Indorses Brookings Report In addition the governor recom mends in strong terms many proj ects which it was already known that he favored. He indorsed the Brookings report as a basis for the reorganization of the state govern ment, and recommended a short ballot for the non-constitutional of ficers. Stricter control of local govern ments, which spend 75 cents of every dollar paid in taxes, was urg ed. in order to insure that savings made by the state would actually result in lower taxes. In this con nection he said, "although 72 coun ties showed some reduction, their 5 property levies in 1929, the average l county did not reflect anything like | the full amount received from the CONTINUED ON PAG* EIGHT 1 Scout Leaders Of Section To Hear Davidson President At Council Session Here Tonight Representatives of Boys’ Organisa tion From 10 Counties To Attend. Business men who direct the activities of 1,600 Boy Scouts, the youngsters who do a good turn daily, will gather in Shelby tonight for the annual meeting of the Piedmont Boy Scout coun cil. The meeting opens at 7 o'clock with a banquet at the Hotel Char les, and the principal speaker at tha annual meeting wall be Dr. Waiter Lingle, president of David i :on college. ! The Piedmont council, one of the largest and most efficient Boy Scout organizations In America, embraces six counties with an extension serv ice In five other cpunties. Business men interested in scout activities, scoutmasters, troop committeemen, and others from the following coun ties are expected to attend: Gas ton, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford, Polk, Iredell, Catawba. Burke, Cald well, McDowell and Alexander. The meeting will include reports of organization activities in 1830, among these reports being that of i summer camp activities at Lake La nier, the summer camp; plans for 031 scout work, and the election of council officer* % Wife Die* As Husband’s Body Is Being Buried i While Solomon Siam. ^ es, age 71, was being buried Sunday afternoon j his wife who had been seriously ill from influ enza and uremic poison died. Mr. and Mr*. Starnes moved to Cleveland coun ty last November from Union county and were living with their son. S. W7. Starnes, on the farm of Carme Elam, Jr., in No. 9 township. The hus band died Friday from a stroke of paralysis and his wife died Sunday while his body was being taken to WalkersviHe in Union county for inter ment. Her remains will be carried to Union on Tuesday. .—..——... j Mr. Walter Cline I Buried On Friday | Citizen of Eastside Village Die* Suddenly of Heart Trouble At i Walter Cline, well known citizen of the Eastside Mill VliSige. died last Thursday very suddenly of heart trouble and was buried Friday at Bethlehem Methodist church in Northbrook township, Lincoln coun |iy, where he was born and reared. Mr. Cline was 47 years of age and is survived by his wife Palestine Cline, two daughters. Mrs. G. C. Keever, of Shelby, Mrs. E. T. Keen er, of Charlotte, and one son, Vance CUne, of Shelby. Mr. Cline was a member of the 1 Eastside Baptist church. The funer al services Friday were conducted by Rev. H. E. Waldrop assisted by Rev. G. P. Abernethy. Bailey’s Funeral At Sandy Plains Burial services for Mr. J. E Bailey, who died recently at his home at Spindale, were held at Sandy Plains church. The deceas ed, who was well known in this sec tion, was ill only a day or so with pneumonia and complications. Surviving are the widow and the following children: Robert and Paul of near Ellenboro; Rome, Ed, Carl, Furman and Emmett, of Spindale, and George of Avondale. Surviving also are three brothers and three sisters: Charlie, Ed and Joe Bailey.' Mrs. Wesley Jones, Mrs. Lucy, Ham rick, and Miss Orrie Bailey. Mr. Bailer joined the Mt. Version ehurch at the age of 14 and lived a Christian life “Live-A t-Home ” Drive To Open In County Soon Meeting In Shelby January 22 Farm Extension Workers To Speak At Mass Meeting Of CitiMQs Here. North Carolina^ second great j ‘ltve-at-home’* campaign will he j brought to Cleveland county on January 22, when a team of exten- j don workers will hold a meeting with farmers, bankers and mer-' 'hunts at the county seat for the ! purpose of urging the people of the county to be self-supporting and to outline to them the necessity In these times of stress of growing not only a year-round ration for the farm family, but also for livestock. The speaker? in Cleveland coun ty will be E. W. Gaither and Miss Ruth Current “Farm to Make a Living In 1931" is the slogan of the 1931 campaign, which is being conducted on a lam v scale than ever before attempted by j Dean I. O. Schaub, head of the ex- j tension service at N. C. State col- j lege, uean scnaub is being assisted i 3y C. A Sheffield, assistant dlree \or and numerous specialists In ali incs of farming and livestock en ‘er prises. As a result of last year's “Live-at home” campaign $19,000,000 was ac tually added to the value of the] food and feed crops in the state, j This year Governor Gardner ha called upon the farm counties of the I date to increase the value of food and feed crops by $40,000,000 as a long step toward averting economic cysaster. Five teams of extension workers are taking part in the campaign and they started their tours of duty from the far eastern counties on January 6. covering five counties each day. It is the most ambitious campaign of its kind that has ever been attempted in North Carolina. Each extension team is composed of j at least two speakers and those at tending the meetings are being given an elaborate picture of tee 1931 situation, said to be a critical farm period in the history of the state, and what is to be done if the j serious problems are to be success- ■ fully met. The speakers at the meetings are! armed with facts on needed produc tion, shortage where It exists, and a wealth of other- information for presentation to the people of the! counties. All this data has been j carefully worked out in detail as it applies to the individual counties, says Dean Schaub, and a guesswo"* has been eliminated in arriving at needs are being given attention, but tire information is brought down to tho family and livestock units and j the amount of food and feed that they will find necessary for con CONTINUED ON PAG* EIGHT. I Federal Officer* Pay Call To City Locate Booze While Searching For Cigarettes Believed To Be Stolen, A federal officer and two Sea-; board detectives swooped down up on Shelby Friday and created quite a stir in the city. They brought with them a negro, who they alleged was a confessed store-breaker. They came here, they said, because the negro said he had been selling stolen cigarettes to where Hatchel lives the three offlc ing the house on East Marion street where Hatcher lives the three offic ers and Police Chief Poston located 10 cartons of cigarettes, two pints of bottled-inoond whiskey and some corn whiskey. Miss Lillian Rudaaifl, at the house at the time, was plac ed under bond until the ownership of the whiskey can be determined. Hatchel was away and is still at large, a Federal warrant. It Is said, being Issued for him In connection with the cigarette charges. While the officers were at the house ‘'Fat” Green drove up in HatcheTs car and was arrested when It was found that he had a half pint of whiskey He was fined $10 In county court and the car forfeited. Finds Snow In Thi* State Deepest In U. S. Grady Lovelace, returning from Indiana where he attended a meet ing of salesmen from every state In the Union says the snow which fe’l in December was deeper in North Carolina than in any other state in the Union. The snow in this vicin ity was about 14 inches deep and in canvassing -.he salesmen from the other 47 states In the Union he found that ik- other state had a rnow to (•qvis* otir« in depth. Newton Slashes Own Pay Check County Register Of Deeds ■ To Return 10 Percent Of 1931 Salary. Htrt'i ©nr for the bookv Register of Deed* And; F. Newton, of Cleveland count)'. j announced today that hr would voluntarily return 10 per cent of hi* 1931 salary to the county treasury. Mr. Newton will do this he say* because of two reasons— first, because of existing hard tiroes and the general desire for economy, and, second, be cause It Is line with the pol icy of Gov. Gardner In telling legislature that all public of ficials should have their sal aries reduced 10 percent thl« year. Each month Mr. Newton in tends to return 10 percent of hi* pay check to the county. Grand Jury Wants Overcrowded Chain Gang Helped Somes More Avenues of Work Needed To j Employ Growing Number Of Convicts. i Something should be done about overcrowded conditions on the No. 8 township chain gang, the Cleve land county grand jury stated in It* report to superior court last week. Just what should be done was not stated In detail, but there should be “more avenues of work opened up for the growing number of con vict*," the jury said. There are more convicts on the gang now than ever before and Supt. Clyde Poston is doing the best he can, the jury re port said, but does not have enough activity to take care of all prison ers. All county Institutions—the coun ty home, court house and jail—were found to be In good oondltion and properly operated. Three Men, Two \ Women Arrested On ! Charge Of Robbery Jailed Here For Rutherford Officers. Alleged Robbery Was At Caroleen. Three white men and two white women of the Boiling Springs sec tion were brought to Jail here Sun day by Deputy Gus Jolley on store robbery charges. Sunday night they were taken to Ruthcrfordton as it Is alleged the store robbed was at Caroleen. Deputy Jolley made the arrests when he went to the place where the five lived to search for stolen meat. While there he found a quan tity of goods believed to have been stolen from the Rutherford store. Among the goods were some thought to have been taken from the Char lie Daves store in this county near the Rutherford line. Insurance Men To Form Organization Insurance men of Shelby, It was learned today, are planning to form a local underwriters association. Several of those interested in the movement hope to hate the organ ization going soon and also to have ■it affiliated with the National Underwriters Association, Eastern Star Meet. The regular meeting of the local Eastern Star chapter will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30. All mem bers are urged to be present, Seven Go To Prison To Begin Sentences It’* Too Bad If The Family Auto I* Tagless Today If Ui«“ family automobile is not adorned today with the new 1931 yellow and black li cense plates, belter leave tt In the garage or the backyard. Capt. Charles D. Farmer, ol the state highway patrol has issued orders to his pa - trolmen to start making nr reats tod$v. He has also re quested local officers to co operate with hi* men tn en forcing the license tag law Noted Minister Taken By Death Dr. 1, S. McElroy Dnl Services At > Kings Mountain At 1 Today. f Special to The Btav,' Kings Mountain, Jan. 12.—Funer-1 al services /or Dr I. S, McElroy, prominent Presbyterian minister of. tht* city, were held in the F‘rst ( Presbyterian church here this aft ernoon at 2 t ’clock. Rev. H. N Me* Diarmid, of Shelby, was in charge After the services at the church , he has served for years, the body Is f to be taken to. Nashville, Tenn:> for j interment Dr. McElroy. 76 years of age, ant! one of the South’s most prominent clergymen, died at his home here Saturday afternoon at 4:45 He had: been ill for cnly an hour with 'hr heart attack that caused his death. Surviving besides his widow, Mrs. Annie Lee McElroy, are four chil dren, Mrs. Martin Crook, of Spar tanburg, Mrs. C. C. Crowell of Nashville, Tenn., Rev. J. Stuart Me Klroy, pastor of the First Presbyter ian church of Rutherfordton, and Rev. Proctor McElroy of Montclair N. J, Besides the children there are nine grandchildren. Native Of Kentucky. Rev. I, S. McElroy, D. D., wav born, educated, and licensed to preach the gospel in Kentucky. His first pastorate was at Stanford, Ky, When his health required a change of climate, he accepted a call to the church In Kings Mountain where he has been for the past seven years. j In addition to these pastorate % pr. McEiroy was called by the sy nod of Kentucky to succeed Or T. D. Witherspoon as superintendent of the evangelistic work of that state. The synod of Kentucky also called him to undertake in con nection with Central University the j establishment of the Louisville! Presbyterian Theological seminary. ; In this work he achieved a success1 that has been mast satisfactory to; all friends of Presbyterian theolog,'-j cal education. Author Of Books. Dr. McEiroy received the honor ary degree of doctor of divinity from the Centra! University of Ken tucky. He is author of a number of books and has represented the sou- j them Presbyterian church in six’ general councils of the Presbyterian Church of the World. Dr. McEi roy was married to Miss Annie Lee. daughter of Judge Frank Lee of Danville. Ky. 50 years ago. Burras Is Trustee. Attorney Chas. A. Burrus has] been named trustee for the Auer-; nethy jewelry firm which wont in to a receivership here recently, it was announced today by Attorney W. S Beam, who represents Abcr nethy. Polkville Club Women Clothe, \ Feed Four Motherless Children \ So That They May Stay In School ‘Ladies Of Community Chance Out look of Lire For Little Tots There. A story of how four motherless [•little children were enabled to re main In school comes down from Polkville as one Of the prize char ity incidents of the year. Members of the Polkville Home Demonstration club have been co operating with the school in char % work in that community, Re cently these club women adopted, lor the time being, the four moth erless youngsters and are seeing that they are properly clothed, fed. and eared for- The chib leader, Mr* 1 Tom Stamey, in checking over com- j inunlty needs first found that the I quartet of youngsters did not have sufficient clothing to attend school.j The club women tlien bargained i with the youngsters. ‘'If you will ai- ‘ tend school regula;ly, we will see j that you are comfortably clad.” the youngsters were told. They agreed. Further investigation revealed that in the home there was not sufficient bed-cover for comfort during the winter nights, and. also not the proper food for good nonrlshment. Again the chib women got busy, made and donated quilts. Two of the club members, in taking care corrrrNUgD ok y.\cz eicum.i i Change Road Term# To Prison Sent To Raleigh Because of Over* crowded Chain Gang. Brit* tain Appeals. sheriff Irvin Allen headed for Italeieh over the week-end with seven prisoners to be entered In ' the state prison after Judge Clement* changed four road terms to prison sentences. Ernest Stewart, Everett Dale, and Jack Bolick. sentenced to a total of eight years In the Penney and Lily mill store robberies, and Henry and Nelson Stanley and Sid Rector, sen enced to a total of five years for the Btemey store robbery, were all sent to the state prison instead of to the chain gang as originally sentenced. The change was made by Judge Clemente after he learned of the crowded conditions of the No. 6 convict force Court Close*. The court, term closed Saturday morning. Criminal cases were ended Friday evening and Solicitor Spur geon Spurlhig returned home that night. Four Divorces. In the Saturday morning session four divorces were granted and one other divorce suit ended in a mis trial. All couple; featuring in the divorce trials were white. Gets 4 Month*. Hugh Brittain, who with three Oihera were freed of blame in con nect Lou with the fatal injury of Deputy Sanford Pruett last July, was given a sentence of four months in another case In this case young Brittain was charged with operating an automobile while under the in fluence of whiskey. His counsel ap pealed the sentence and bond was fixed at *250. Judge Clements non suited the murder charge, in con nection with the death of the offi cer, when he said there was not sufficient evidence to show that Brittain and his companions knew that the men who blocked the road wert officer.*. In non-suiting the case which attracted wide attention he also stated that there was no evidence to show that. Brittain knew the deputy wan behind his car, and, furthermore, the judge declared of ficers had no night to block a pub lic. highway. The sentence of 12 months given to Will Green on n breaking and entering charge was reduced to six months. Ladies To Start Rack-To-Cotton Movement Here Women of County Invited To Meeting: To Be Held at Wom an’* Club Room Friday. Friday afternoou at 3:30 iu the Woman's club room will be held a meeting of representatives of the various Woman's clubs of the coun ty and retail merchants, the pur pose of the meeting being to launch a back-io-cotton movement. The idea of a movement among the women of the south to encourage them to buy wealing materials made of cotton was originated by Mrs. W. D. Anderson of Gastonia, Mrs. An derson wiil be here to deliver the principal address. Mrs. John W. Harbison, president of the Woman’s club invites all women of the county who are mem bers of clubs of any kind to attend this meeting and hear the address of Mrs. Anderson and others and ace the display of merchandise made from cotton grown in the south. Merchants are also invited to at tend end lend their support to the movement which has for its pur pose tlie use of more cotton made materials instead of substitutes. Mrs. Anderson has presented the cause of cotton-made goods to the ladies of Gaston and Mecklenburg counties. There the idea was re ceived with great favor os it no doubt will be in Cleveland county, the largest cotton growing county in North Carolina. If the use of cotton made goods is put across as Mrs Anderson hopes to see it, the farmer, the merchant and the south generally will be more prosperous She hopes to see the movement grow into a nation-wide affair. Episcopal Church Service. there will be a communion serv ice at the Church of The ttedmiit” on S.' LaFstyette street on Tuesday. January 13th at 1jD:30 (lading a half hour.) Rev. J. a. Sill of Ruth erferdten, Is in charga of the serv ice. He is In town for a few days staving at the Hotel Charles
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