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VOL. XXXVII, No. 7 SHELBY. N. U. FRIDAY, JAN, lb, 1931 8 PAGiLi TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, rt, >l»u i»i >*«r nn tduneci uLtu ,!»rri»» or, .car iln advance. «um> LA TE NEWS THE MARKET Cotton, per lb. ____. 9 to !)sic Cotton, Herd, per hu.___ "Oc Wartnei Weather. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and warmer ton' 'it. Saturday Increasing cloudiness and warmer. Another Robbery. The W. I’ Fulton Company store at Kings Mountain was robbed last night, according to a message from t. R. Gamble, Star correspondent About $100 worth of goods. Includ ing shoes, overalls, underwear, and hosiery, were tal.rn. Entrance was made by prizing open the rear door. Creamery Hre Paid Oat Near $48,000In ’30 Almost One Dollar Per Citizen Of County Paid For Butter.Fat. In 1630 the Shelby Creamery lacked only,?, little paying to farm ers of Cleveland county for butter fat a suni equivalent to one dollar for every man. woman and child in' the county. A preliminary check-up of the year's business, announced today bv Mr. Wm. I ineberger, creamery head, shows that during the year a total of S47.287.84 was paid out ’lor butter-fat. Price Is Low. "That's a pretty good amount of cash for the dairy farmers of the county,’’ he ?aid, "but it is the lea . year's business we have had yet. The same conditions that have ef fected the price of cotton seem to have lowered everything else. The price received for butter, and sub sequently the price paid for buWer iat, is the lowest it has- been In years. There is less demand for but ter, too, than in a long time, .but he are hopeful for. it pick-up this year.” N^ro Platen ^i'H Shovel While Asleep Is Improved Cco1' At Calif "e Attacked Negro Alan Because Of Al’rged At tack On Girl. J. Y. Green, colored man of cho Boiling Springs section, who was seriously wounded when a neg o wcmaii attacked him with a fire shovel last week! was said to be ’re proving at the Shelby hospital to day. The woman. Gertrude Jeffrie; cook at the Boiling Springs college, hammered Green over the head with a four-pound fire shovel while he was in bed asleep, officers say She went Green’s home one night, but falling to find him there she returned about 4 o’clock in the morning. She stepped Into the house, it Is said, picked up the fire shovel, walked into; Green’s room and struck him while he was still asleep. She then journeyed to the home of Deputy Gus Jolley, told the officer of the attack and Sur rendered. Attack On Girl? The woman, officers say, accus ed Green of an attempted attack on a young girl re’ative. She is being held In jail until It is definitely de termined whether or not Green will recover. Newton .cpea!:‘r Postal Council Meet Ow 100 Postal Workers A'teii'l Gathering Of County Postal Workers. More than ICO Cleveland county postal workers attended the quar terly meeting of the Cleveland County Service Council held Wed nesday night at the Green Lantern Tea room. The council is composed of all who are In ahy way emplo" ed in postal work, postmasters, car riers, clerks, ard others. Attorney D. 7. Newton was the principal sneaker of the evening. He centered his remarks about the privileges of citizenship. The day by day activities of the memhers of -t-Se council were more Important, he said, than they seemed on the ~ur face in that postal porkers bring the naticn"l government and its functions closer to the people than nnv others. Dr. J. R. Osborne, Shelby’s in imitable recitei and humorist, was • also on the program and was high ly enjoyed by the gathering. Postal representatives from Un coin and Gaston counties were guests at the banquet. Baptist Pastors Meet. The Baptist Pastors Conference will meet next Monday January 19th at First Baptist church, at 2:30 o’clock. Officers for the year will be elected at this meeting and a full , attendance is desired, it is announc ed by Rev. P F. Putnam, chair man. Postponement Of R,valuation Work Isfavored Ccirm*5s‘oners Here As':ed For H Eastern Counties And Buncombe Oppose Ate2‘nre. Comm'ttees Endorse It. 'ftf |M)5:tp-'in''',eTit of the quadrennial revaluation of real estate, -ought by Cleveland eoitntv off'.-ials, seems li'e’v how to be a ’'-roved by the Genera! Assembly, The Neal hill, in which counties [favoring the postponement joined, I came up before the joint commit tees of the house and senate in Ra • lelyh yesterday and was reported favorably. Opposition. however, has developed in both bodies of the as , embly and the matter may be iou"hi but- tn -the floors of the house and senate. Desired Here, A week or; so before legislature ■.convened 'th- .-Cleveland county com missioners riuiested Representative Henry B Edwards to ask for a post ponement of the revaluation work and ur”ed that he join with repre sentatives of other counties in. ask ing that the carrying on or post ponement of the revaluation be letf with the discretion of the comm s sioneis of the counties of the State.; Tn announcing that the Cleveland commissioners would like to havr the revaluation carried over until M34. Conur ion Chairman A. E Cline slated that the revaluation work would cost almost *10,000 in this county, and considering condi tions now, he added that the com "t''s;an=rs r>c’ c eouid .not she thit the work would be worth the ex pense at this time. Other counties of the State felt the same way about It and the re presentatives of these counties co operated in advancing the Heal bill This bill would postpone the job until April 1. Supporters of the postponement bill contend that counties whir! are In good financial condition and have a low fax rate, such as Cleve - land, are united in postponing' the revaluation. Numerous Eastern Carolina counties, Buncombe coun ty in the west and others desire the revaluation now because, it is said, of their financial condition. The Greer.'.boro News’ Raleigh correspondent in Raleigh has this to say today of the opposition to the Neal bill: “Quite a fcnnidable opposition to a postponement of revaluation for a period too long lor the ch-ived assessment figures to show them selves in this year’s tax figures, de veloped with the Buncombe delega | tion leading the list and Hal bit Ward, of Beaufort, and several oth 1 ers close behind "A grouped by Jo^n Folgev, |- which was finally joined by all save i Mr. Ward, 3 greed that a postpone | ment of revaluation for a few [months pending determination of (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT I Story-Te!ling Club Fcr Yeung Children A junior Shakespeare short story telling club for Shelby children will be organised by Miss Mary Siittle Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Woman’s club room. Children fr~m the third to the eighth grades will be eligible to join the c’ub iwhich will give them elementary ln jstrucricn In dramatic arts and ex ; pression. Father, 91, Swears in “Alfalfa Bill" William H. Murphy, the famous < “Alfalfa Bill" of the Middle - West, supporting his 91-year-old father, U. D. T. Murray, as the latter administered the oath of office at his son's' maugura ■ tion as Governor of Oklahoma. AlfaKa Bill i# hailed as a true friend of the poor. He starta his term m a penniless condition after campaigning with a $37 campaign fund and credit at tha grocer’s. Price Cutting *! War On Here Shaves And Shoe Soles Be come Cheaper Due To Hard Times. The price of shaves and shoe soles are getting back to pre war levels in Shelby due to a price-cutting war inaugurated this week by two shoe shops and one barber shop. The first slash In service commo dities in Shelby came in the early fall when the dry cleaners began. cutting prices. Later the dry clears- j evs adjusted their differences and; adopted a standard pressing and Cleaning price, but the new prices were considerably under the old; prices. The next reduction came this I week when one local barber shop | dropped the price of hair cuts 10 cents and the price of shaves five | cents. | Then a shoe shop began shaving off the prices of half soles, full soles, 'rubber heels and other shop work Another shoe shop comes back to day. in an advertisement, and makes another slight slash or two. The biggest discussion that has resulted from the price war came up in a group of men who began figuring how much the price cut -' ting would save In a year's time for a man who has two suits cleaned j and pressed each week', six shaves per week, a hair cut every 10 days, and two pairs of shoes half-soled and rubber-heeled twice each year. Cnod Cheer, This, For Out-Of-State Teachers In County Legislature Turns Bark On Pro posal To Bar Teachers From Other States. School teachers of Shelby and Cleveland county who cainc from | other states to be instructors in the schools here need not pre pare to lose their jobs just now. j In the general assembly at Ra ':i^h this week. Representative Cof : Te?d, of Rutherford county, intro duced a bill that would prohibit the | employment of any one not a citizen | if North Carolina as a public'school (teacher. | The bill met a quick fate when it j was given an unfavorable renort by rthe education committees in the [house and senate. \ Officers Conti me To Unearth i Alleged Stolen Goods At House In Boili.-g Springs Community i Three Men And Two Women Al ready Jailed. Much Loot Be lieved To Be There. Deputies Gus Jolly and Henry McKinney this morning found what they considered additional stolen goods at the house at Boiling Springs where Hobart McKinney lived until last week when he was jailed In Rutherford county along with two white men and women who had been living there with them. Officers went to the home last week to search for some stolen meat. While there they found goods which, it is alleged, were stolen from a Caroleen store. McKinney. George Brady, William H. Valentine and two women were brought to Shelby and later transferred to Rutherford ! county for trial. Not His Wife. One of the women was said to be the wife of Valentine The other woman said she was married to Brady, but Brady denied the rela tionship. All were between 35 and r,0 years of age. This morning a man who oper ates a mill in the Henrietta section had Deputies Jolley and McKinney make another search of the place. They found, it is said, some meal and oil the Rutherford man at lieved to have been taken from hb mill. Some automobile tools also be lieved to have been stolen were found during the search. As a re sult of the several finds officers plan additional investigation of tue premises, believing that a quantity of, things stolen in the two counties may be secreted there A Birth. Mr, and Mrs. Bynum E. Weathers announce the birth of a baby laughter, born Thursday, January 15th, at their tee street residence Shelby Growth, 1920-1930, Tops All N. C. Cities, Census Survey Fiy University News Letter Shows Officers Looking For Action Soon Crime runs in waves, and for that reason the Shelby police and Sheriff Alien's force of deputies are looking for something to break. This week has been the quietest for the officers since last summer. Hardly a week has passed since early fall without one or more store robberies and other thefts. "It's quiet for a time and then everything breaks loose at once,” ihe officers say. "Not a thin? has happened so far this week, but when it is quiet like that we know some thing is coming.*’ Lucas Burgzss Burial Saturday Well Known South Shelby Citizen Died Thursday After Long Illness. Mr. Lucas. Burgess, 62 years of age, died Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock at his home in South Shelby, death resulting from heart trouble. Mr. Burgess, one of the section's best known and most popular citi zens. had been ill since Thanksgiv ing. Funeral services will be conducted at Zoar church, where he had been a member for years, Saturday aft ernoon at 2 o'clock. Ministers who win take part are Rev, J. W. Sut tle. Rev. W, A. Elam, and Rev. L. L, Jessup. Tire widow and five children sur vive as follows: Mrs. T. E. Dixon, Mrs. D. L. Grant, and Messrs. Claude, John and Grady. Burgess. The latter is located in Mexico with the Standard Oil. company and vts | ited home last week. The following sisters also survive: Mrs. Julius Wright. Mrs. John Wright and Mrs. Ida Hamrick. Two lia't brothers, Messrs. June and Robert Humphries also survive along with seven grand - children. Mill Store Robbed At Kings Mountain Cigarettes And Silk Hosiery Taken By Thieves At Bonnie Store. 'Special to The Star ) Kings Mountain, Jan. 16.—The latest robbery heye continues to in dicate that store bandits in this section have molls in their gang who are fond of silk hosiery and cigarettes. Cigarettes and hosiery were all that was taken when thieves robbed the Bonnie mill store here Wednes day night. Entrance was made by removing a cracked glass from a window. Officers as yet have no definite clues with which to apprehend the thieves. The loss was not great; ac cording to Mr. J. E. Aderholt, store manager. Forbls Services. Preaching services will be held at the El Bethel church next Sun day morning at 11 o’clock, and at Pine Grove church at 3:00 o'clock *n the afternoon. Rev. R. L. Forbls pastor, urger that- every member attend these ser vices. City Gets Additional Advertising By Review of Population In crease Figure*. Shelby, the city that led all North Carolina cities and towns in pop ulation increase from 1920 to 1930, Is receiving additional publicity be cause of a census review made in a recent issue of the University News Letter. The university periodical publishes a table of cen. us figures showing the growth of the twenty-one cities in tin* state with a population greater than 10.000, The following comment on popu lation increases tn the state was j made by S. H. Hobbs, Jr., one of the j editors of the News letter: There are twenty-one citiea In! North Carolina with more than ten thousand inhabitants each. Nine teen of these increased in population during the last decade, while two' decreased. The largest percent growth } was made by Shelby which almost exact! ytrebled its slse. Three other; cities, Greensboro, High Point and Durham, more than doubled their' official population during the de cade. Thirteen of these larger cities acre' west of the Pall line, while eight— mainly the smaller ones—are locat ed lu the eastern half of the state. The two cities that lost population are in the tidewater area, while the three showing the .smallest, Increase are also located well down toward the coast. These twenty-one cities have 592,814 inhabitants or 54.5 per cent of ail the corporate dwellers In North Carolina. From Five To Ten Thousand, There are thirty incorporated places with from five to ten thous and Inhabitants. Fourteen of these are in the western part of the state, j with three east of the Pall line.! These larger towns experienced a rather marked gain in population. Two mqre than doubled their popu lation, while eight gained more than fifty percent. Morganton led this ■ Troii)) with an increase of 109.3 per- ! cent, while Washington is last with j a gain of 11.4 percent. These seven- ! teen large towns contain nearly 114 j thousand inhabitants. From 2,500 To 5.000. There ar ethirty incorporated towns from twenty-five hundred to five thousand inhabitants, about evenly distributed between the east and the west. Spindale with more than 3,000 inhabitants was not incorporated ten years ago. Two others in this group more than dou bled their population. Most of the loans of this group experienced from fair to large gains in popula tion Only eight grew less rapidly than the state as a whole. One, a tidewater town, la;t population. These thirty towns contain more than 103 thousand inhabitants. The United States census classi fies as urban those places above twenty-five hundred inhabitants. There are sixty-eight such places In North Carolina. These sixty-eight census-size places have a combined population of 809,846. Almost three fourts of the so-called urban pop ulation live in the twenty-one cities with more than ten thousand in habitants. The remaining one fourth live in the other forty-seven census-size towns. From 1,000 To 2,500 There are ninety-one incorporated places ranging in size from one thousand up to twenty-five hun dred. The census bureau classes the inhabitants of these places are rural, but actually they live by about the! came means as the inhabitants of the larger places. These ninety-one sub-census-size towns contain near C9NTINGSD ON PAGE EIGHT,) Jonas To Get Federal Court Berth, Is Belief Harkins Resigns As Prosecutor BWrlfl Congrrsnman May Huvn New Job When Service F.nd« In March. Washington, D. C„ Jan. 10.— After March Congressman Chas A Jonas, of Lincnlnton, .nay become District Attorney Jonis. This is the prevail ing belief in. Washington since 1 he announcement yesterday, by the de- j partment of justice, that Thoma ; j i J. Harkins, of Asheville, had resign ed as district attorney for the west ern North Carolina area. I Mr. Harkins began his services under the department of justice. In 1921, as assistant under the late i Prank A. idnney. wild, in 1#26. wr.. j legislated out of office with the cn - ; atlon of the middle district. ! Mr. HarkLn, thereupon was ap i pointed district attorney by Federal Judge E, V, Webb and bits served : in that capacity since tHat time. Position Pays $5,600. Tlie office of district, attorney pays $5,600, and there is an expense tl lowance. There are two assistants and three clerks. The otfice is gen erally much sought after, mainly lor the reason that it does not re quire all the time of the prosecut ing attorney in looking after the government’s work. The occupant of the office Is thus enabled to live a* home and promote his private practice, with the official salary to supplement his income. For some days It has been assum ed that Repi esentative Jonas will succeed Sir.' Harkins, although, as congressman and national commit teeman, the ninth district, member has made no effort to preempt the field. The matter has not. as yet been taken up with the white house, or the attorney general, but Mr Duncan, the Republican state chair man, has expressed himself as fav oring the appoinment of Mr. Jonas, and a similar attitude has been tak en by Representative Oe,orge Pritch ard, Mr. Jonas' colleague. In fact. party leaders generally have assum ed that the road would be cleared for Mr, Jonas. Rutherford Plant To Run Full Time 250 More To Be Employed In Ruth erford As Result Of Rayon Order. Ruthetfordton. Jan. Id.—The Stonecutter mills of Spindale, one of the largest textile plants In Ruth erford county, ha,s Just received a large order for rayon goods, which means that the plant will go to op erating on full time soon. It has been operating about one-third for several months, employing around 100 people, but it will take on about 250 more employes as soon as pos sible. City Insurance Men Form Organization At a dinner held Wednesday night insurance men of Shelby organized themselves Into an underwriters or ganization. The group will be named and permanent officers named at the next meeting. Temporary lead ers were named for the organization work and a committee appointed to arrange by-laws. It Is hoped to have all Insurance men represented In the organization. Paderewski In Spartanburg Many pruplr in this trcilon plan i<> attend the Paderewski concert to be riven In the Converge college audl- I tnrlum In Spartanburg Friday even in*. January 30. by Ignore Ian Pad erewakl. mnsic master, pianist, and statesman. Half As Many Tags Sold Now Sale Of License Plates Slims t'p. Officers Getting Tagless Autos. The business depression is showing up In (hi- sslr of auto- 1 11106111“ Herns*' plates in Shelby, I To date only only a little more than half as many lags have been purchased as were sold at the license bureau at the Exk ridge garage last year. i Through yesterday plate* for 4, 5G4 automobile; and trucks had been sold here, according to Chiut. R. Eskridge, who is In charge of the bureau. East year approximately 8,000 tugs were sold at the ' local bureau. Force Purchases. Highway patrolmen this week have been rounding up automobiles without the new tags, taking the drivers to the lin n e bureau to se cure plates, or arresting them. All motorists stopped secured plates and so far as la known no direct arrests ! have Men made for refusal to pur- ( | chase new togs. Kiwanians Discuss Year’s Activities Program Chairman Presides Over ! Meeting To Outline 1931 Plans. The weekly meeting of the Shel by Klwanis club last night was de voted to a series of talks In which club members di cussed and outlined beneficial work for the club during j 1931, Short talks were made by Horace Easom. new program chairman; and by Clyde R Iloey. Jack Palmer. Chas. L. Eskridge. Forrest Eskridge, J. Frank Jenkins, and William Line berger. Dort^n Re-^ectftd Official Of Group _—_ . i At the session of the North Car olina Association of Fairs held yes | terday In Raleigh Dr. J. S. Dorton lot Shelby, secretary of the Clevc ’and County Fair, was re-elected vice-president of the State associa | tion. | Dr. Dorton also headed a commit tee which asked Governor Gardner "nd the General Assembly to con tinue the operation of the State Fair. Gardner Frees Prison Convict Who Became Sculptor And Made Bust Of Governor And HifSon Man “Who Picked Cp Art" In Pri son, Known In Shelby, Gets A Parole. The prison sculptor who made the bust of Max Gardner, jr., which has been seen by many Shelby peo ple in the mansion at Raleigh, Is now a free man and may pursue the art which has brought him fame. Jack Landingham, who came to state's prison in June. 1928, from Buncombe county to serve an 11 year sentence for forgery and false pretense, was paroled Wednesday. Landingham was state’s prison's sculptor, and one of its most color ful inmates During his incarceration, Land ingham devoted all his spare time to his 'artwhich he said he “just picked up” to pas? off the thous ands of hours that go to make 11 years. His “work” began to attract the attention of prison attendants, ana la little storeroom in the prison j basement was given him. He fixed it >up into a “studio"—and every spare moment had found him working on some bu-t in clay. The prisoner “leaped to fame” and a wide, bit of publicity when Gover nor Gardner consented to sit for him. The bust of the governor bore : a marked resemblance to the ' state’s chief executive, and he was so pleased that he,allowed his youngest son, O. Max. jr., to pose for the prhon sculptor. The bust of the governor’s son. In plaster, is on the chief executive's desk In his study at the mansion. Landlngham kept his ■ work” of the governor, and he “evinced a great deal of pleasure showing It to pri son visitors who went to his studio.'1 The parole papers reached prison Thursday. Warden Honeycutt said, 'and Landingham, who is about 35 'years old, will be free to pursue the ("art” he "just picked up.” Much Talk Here Of Salary Slash For Public Jobs View* Vary Here On Proposal Some Agree. Others Disagree With Gardner Plan. All Want More Economy. The proposal of Governor Gard ner i hat salaries of all public of ficials be slashed 10 percent in or der to carry out his economy pro gram tor the state and to reduce taxes is widely discussed in Ids home county as It is elsewhere over the stale. ■ It is impossible to say just what is the prevailing sentiment among those who nave been discussing she matter In Cleveland county. Many agree that he Gardner plan Is the only way out. and the only practi cal method by which expenses can be lowered to meet present day business conditions. Others thin!; the slash program a bit too harsh if it includes all public workers. Still others take a, middle-ground view by declaring that the slash should be made on a scale basis. The jicale Idea. “As 1 look at It," one citizen says, "to make a general cut of 10 per cent, in the salary of all public workers is not exactly proper. Some public workers draw high salaries that can stand cutting. Others draw medium salaries, and still others are barely making enough to meet; living costs. I think the governor is right in the general Idea of reduc tion. But the salary slash should be scaled in proportion to the sal aries received. For instance, I think it should be scaled somewhat i» this manner: Reduce the salaries of those receiving *5,000 or moxa per year 15 per cent, reduce the salaries of those receiving *3,000 of more 10 percent, reduce the salaries of those receiving *2.500 up to *3, 000 by five per cent, with no reduc tion for those who do not make more than *2,500. The average publio worker who makes no more than that should tiot be cut, for he, or she, as most of them have families, are just making enough to live on. Fifty to *150 per month clerks, teachers and other public workers have enough of a task as it Is to make ends meet. But there are many public workers who can stand a cut and get along." All Favor Economy. The salary slashing proposal may meet with varying opinions, but in Shelby and over the county the Gardner economy program and tax reduction plan is meeting with gen eral approval. Citizens generally are strong for economy, in other words, but differ as to the proper proce dure. Public officials here are saying little about the matter for publica tion. Newspaper Views. The newspapers of the state, taken as a whole, seem to be lined up behind the salary-cutting plan. Discussing the matter, the Ashe ville Citizen says: "Everybody Is for tax reduction. Everybody is for economy in govern ment. But put forward a specific proposal looking in that direction and see what tjappens to it. "Governor Gardner has ably and courageously laid his plan for re ducing costs before the people. Al ready the plan Is having hard sled ding and it is likely that the golnrt will continue to lie rough. "Cm the one hand are those who see various difficulties and objec tions to the cuts which the gover nor suggests. On the other hand are those who still insist that there is plenty of new tax money to be had if only this, that or the other pet scheme of their own is adopted. "The facts are with the governor and the governor is with the tax payers.” “It gripes us,” comments The Gastonia Gazette, "to hear some of the state employes growling and beefing about the proposed salary cut recommended by Governor Gardner. "■ "Whether the proposed reduction of ten per cent In salaries should extend to all employes of political ; subdivisions, including all the coun CONTINCED ON PAGE EtGHT.I Legion Post Here Seeks Cash Bonus At the meeting this week of the Warren Hoyle post of the American Legion the members of the post went on record as favoring the gov ernment paying a cash bonus to World war veterans. The measure Is now being discussed in congress and veterans here, as elsewhere, think that because of conditions the bonus would mean much more to the ma turity ot veterans now thau In IMS,
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