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8 PAGES j TODAY j i, . ..• ■ J Uj stilL per fnr, (la tifucu - IU Carrier, par rear, (la aPrantm ... tat* LATE NEW: | THE MARKET Cotton, per ib.___9H to 10'U' Cotton Seed, per bu. _ 33c Cloudy, Rain. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Mostly eloudy tonight and, Tuesday. Probably light rain in west ( and north central portions. No j change in temperature. - I Mayflower Burns. Philadelphia, .Tan. 25.—The for- j mer presidential yacht Mayflower, upon whose decks have walked many woTld figures in her day, lies ] fire-scarred and sunk in more than twenty feet of water at the Phila delphia navy yard. The once proud1 ship, whose career includes that of millionaire's pleasure yacht, gun boat. flagship patrol boat and presi- ! dential yacht, was swept by fire | last night. Tons of water were pour -1 <*d into the shin until she settled on the river bottom at her dock. Her stern W'as submerged, her bow but a few feet above high tide. The presi dential suite and officers’ quarters, where the flames raged, were ruin ed, as were other quarters in the stern of the famous old yacht. Whether it will be worth while to reconstruct her interior for further useful service remains for naval ex perts to determine after the vessel is raised. Officers Find More Loot In Home OfN:gro Have Series Of store - Breaking Charges Against White Men, Women And Negroes. The Unearthing of more stolen goods last week and a partial con fession from Hobart McKinney will result in McKinney, two other white men, two white women, and two negroes being charged with a series of store robberies in Cleveland and Rutherford counties. Officers say they believe this gang, or mem bers thereof, to. have been connect - ed with eight other robbries. four in this county and four in Rutherford At Boiling Springs. McKinney, the other two men, George Brady and W. H. Valentine along with the two young wliite women have been in jail in Ruther - ford county for some time. The two white women claimed to be the wives of Brady and Valentine, hut One of the men denied that he was married to either of the two. They were arrested by Deputies Gus Jolley and Henry McKinney when alleged stolen goods were found on the Mc Kinney place. The others at that time were living with McKinney hi the Boiling Springs section of this county. Later officers continued to find more stolen goods scattered abou the McKinney place. Friday of las weeks two negro men, who lived nearby, were arrested and jailed. One of the two, Homer Gentry, is in jail here and the other. T. B. Hugh es is in jail in Rutherford county Saturday while continuing them search about the home of one of the negroes Deputies McKinney and Jolley found some inner tubes and some flour which are believed to have been stolen. Trial Here. The three white men and te.v> women have already been given a preliminary hearing on three char » es in Rutherford county and bound over to superior court. Since all oi the goods, alleged to be stolen, were found in this county there Is' a probability, officers say, that all the charges will be moved to Cleveland county for trial as they could riot be tried In Rutherford for alleged store robberies in this county. "■( Over the week-end it was learned that a Whippet automobile found at the McKinny home and claimed by Valentine, one of the three white men In jail, had been reported stolen at Andrews. Contributions Come For Red Cross Aid Total of $26 Given Here To Aid Suffering In Drought Areas. Voluntary contributions totalling $26 have been left at The Star of fice to be turned over to the na tional Red Cross for the alleviating of suffering In 21 drought Strieker states of the union. In many sec tions, according to the Red Cross appeal, the need for help is verj urgent. Contributions to date, a majoritj of them from employes of the Shel by past office arid other posta: workers, follow: G. A. Elam $1.00, W. H. Babei $1.00, R. G. Laughridge $1.00, Geo Dover $1.00, G. V. Hawkins $3.00, C M. Carson $1.00, Chas. H. Wells $1.00, T. E. Greene $1.00, J. H. Quini $2 50, J. W. Hartgrove $1.00, J. A Weaver $1.00, W. O. R. Putnan $1.00, T. H. Abernethy, jr. $1.00, T W. Baber 50c, J. T. Goodwin $1.00 C. J. Stockton $1.00. G. C. Self $1.00 N. E. Burgess $3.00, Contribute $3.09. Total $26.00. Second Trial For King May Open February 23 Lancaster Will Be Trial Site Judge Bonham Grants Change Of j Venue Asked By Shelby Man's Lawyer>. York, S. C„ Jail. 26— Rafe Km:? will face his second trial for life at the criminal term of court at Lancaster. S. C., beginning February 2k or at a special term the follow ing week, according vO W. G. Fin ley, state solicitor, who announced that the state will press for an early trial. Judge M. L. Bonham, of Ander son, S C., Saturday granted the mo tion of the defense tor a change of venue and decreed that the second hearing of the former Shelby man, once convicted for the murder of his wife. Faye Wilson King, will be held at Lancaster. Alter the announcement of Judge Bonham's decision. Solicitor FinJ-y declared that the next term of criminal court at Lancaster is sche duled to begin February ?3 and that the now famous case will doubtless be reopened at that time. In the event that urgent cases on the reg ular docket require the full time of the term, the state will ask for a : special term immediately to follow | the, regular term, the solicitor skid, j No objection from the defense :o | the hearing of the case at the reg | titer Lancaster term is anticipated . Solicitor Finley said but any move for postponement will be resisted by | the State, he added. The next reg ular term following the February ter mis not until June and Solicitor Finley said he and associate prose cution counsel would vigorously ob ject to postponement at the Febru ary term. Judge Bonham in granting the defense motion for a change of ve nue from Chester, where the first trial was held in July, 1929, declar ed that his decision was made “in the interest of justice.'' King was convicted of the first degree murder charge and sentenc ed to be electrocuted but the sen tence was automatically stayed when defease appealed to the state su preme court, which last October granted a new trial. The second hearing was schedul ed for the criminal term beginning January 5 at Chester but at that time the defense moved before Judge Bonham for a change oi venue, requesting that the case be sent back to York county,, where it had been remanded to Chester in April 1929. At that time the state resisted the motion to change and held that King can be given a fair and im partial trial in Chester county. While Judge Bonham granted the defense motion for a change of venue, lie denied its request that Urn case be sent back to York coun y Judge Bonham Is scheduled to pre j side at the Lancaster court. I King was charged with the mur der of his school teacher wife, after a coroner’s jury had been unable to determine how she met her death Tills was in February, 1929, a few days after the body of Faye Wilson King was found in an outhouse at the King cottage on the outskirts of Sharon, a village near York. K*ng said that his wife had threatened suicide and this was his reason for her death. This theory was whir the defense offered at the trial. But the state contended that she had been choked and strangled to dea h. and that her death did not occur where the body was found. 61,651 Bales Ginned Here Cotton Crop Only 2,636 Hales Behind Record Of 1929. Ginning figures covering all cotton ginned up to January 16 was that 61,651 bales of the 1930 crop had been ginned In this county. This is only 2,636 bales less than the total of the 1929 crop of 64,287 bales. The ginning figures were issued Saturday by Miles H. Ware, gai ning- agent for the county. Some Chance Yet. There is a slight chance that the 1930 crop will yet climb to the 1929 figures. To January 16, 1930 only 59,982 bales had been ginned, or 1, 669 bales less than to the same date this year. In other words, 4,285 bales were ginned in the county aft er January 16 last year, and only 2,636 more bales after January 16 this year would send the total to the record. The next and final ginning report will be issued In March. Colored Woman Dies In Car Enroute Here Ethel Crenshaw Tells Her Husband She Is Going To Die And Does It. Ethel Crenshaw, 19 year old col ored woman riding to Shelby from Blacksburg early Sunday morning; leaned her head over the shoulder; of her husband and said "I am go- j ing to die" and she did. Her bus- I | band, Robert Crenshaw and his three brothers were riding in the; car with her and reported tire affair i to Chief Poston who In turn notl-j fled county coroner, Roscoe Lutz. Upon Investigation Mr. Lutz found that death occurred in South Caro lina. so no Inquest was field. Evid ence tended to show, however, that there was no foul play and that death was due to natural causes. Robert Crenshaw, husband, says his wife had been sick at Kershaw. 8. C., but had gotten better and wanted to come to Shelby to her former home. They spent the night at Blacksburg and were coming on the road Sunday morning when she expired suddenly. Mrs. C. G. Grigs; Is Buried At Union Victim Of Tuberculosis. Daughter Of George Pryor And Age 44 Years. Mrs. Novella Pryor Grigg. wife of C. G. Grigg of the Union commun ity north of Shelby, dfed Friday evening at 7 o’clock of tuberculosis from which she had been a long sufferer. She was the daughter of Mr. Geo. Pryor of the Union com munity and was 44 years of age. Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon at 2 o’clock and in terment was in the cemetery M Union church. Services were con ducted by Rev. D. G, Washburn. Surviving are her husband and a number of children. Well Known Rutherford Citizens To Be Tried In Bank Trials On There Feb. 2; May Get New Jury Cases Arise From Failure Of Banks. May Ask Jury From This County. Rutherfordton, Jan. 26.—Judge Hoyle H. Sink of Lexington will convene the criminal term of Ruth erford superior court here Monday, ' February 2. This court takes the place of the regular civil term in February and has been called to try eight defendants in connection with the bank failures in this coun ty last February. Some of the county’s best known citizens are defendants in these trials. They are J. L. Taylor, presi dent of the defunct Rutherford County Bank and Trust company; . W. B. Walker, now of Hickory, cash i ler; T. F. Oates, former cashier of . the Commercial bank: K. S. Tan , | ner, prominent manufacturer and bank director here and at Forest ■ City; S. E. Elmore, textile manu facturer and former bank director; 4. B. B. Doggett of Forest City, forme c vice president and chairman of the board of directors of the defunct Farmers Bank and Trust company; L. C. Cobb of Monroe, former cash ier of the Chimney Rock Trust Co., and J. M. Flack, director of the de funct Chimney Rock Trust company. All the defendants will face she general charge of receiving depos its when the banks were insolvent while Mr. Taylor and Mr. Walker will face two additional charges, Mr. Tanner an additional charge of re ceiving deposits when the bank was insolvent (in two cases), while Mr. Flack and Mr. Cobb face an addi tional charge in connection with the Chimney Rock Trust company. There is a strong possibility that attorneys for the defendants will ask for a special venire to be sum moned from an adjoining county. Jurors have been drawn and much interest is being shown by the pub lic iu the trials. Pleading for Relief Fund A big array of national person ages joined in the broadcast to urge raising of 510,000,000 for Red Cross relief work, Mrs. Au gust Belmont (left), society leader; Alfred E. Smith, former ■ Governor of New York, and Fried# Hempel, opera star, are shown at the microphone. Other speakers on this program were Mary Pickford, PresiSent Hoover and ex-Preaident Coolidge. Eastern Carolina Gets Plums In General Assembly; Smaller Counties Have More Strength 6 Counties With No More Copula tion Than Cleveland Have . More Representatives. Raleigh, Jan, 23.—"The eastern! pan ui the state, with its leisure! and gentlemanly class of citizens j who make politics a profession, has; always been able to out-maneuver the western section, where the peo ple are at work and only looking after their own affairs.” said a prominent “central section” state official today. “That is why sis small and sparse ly settled eastern counties have no more population, but six times as large a representation as Cleveland county, lor Instance. Moreover, th y will find some way to avoid con solidating any of these small coun ties and loosing a representative.: and they may be able to defeat the'! redistricting plan for state senators and representatives, which should ! follow the 1930 census and which would move at least two in each house westward." said this official, j ■ That, also, , is me main reason that a big majority of the commit tee chairmanships in both houses have gone to eastern men and that few western men are found at the heads of important committees, their chairmanships they do have being of. minor and generally unim portant committees,” he said. A check-up of the 1831 commit-. tee chairmanships shows that In the I house, 45 of the western and pied- ! mont counties, having about 60 per cent of the state's population, and i about 60 percent of its voting Dem ocrats and nearly 75 per cent of its taxable values, have only 17 out of the 53 committee chairmanships, CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.) Famous Movie Lion Coming To Shelby Leo, the lion that every movie fan knows, will pay a visit to Shel by Saturday and will put on a meat-eating exhibition in front of the Webb theatre at 3:15. Leo is the lion whose head is seen and whose roar is heard at the begin ning of every Metro-Goldw>n-May er film. The king of beasts, now on & world tour, will come Into Shel by in state. He will ride in a pala tial speed truck and his motor pal ace, the costliest ever made for an animal, will be accompanied by two other motor cars. Spanglers To Move i . Into Rebuilt Home Mr. M. A. Spangler and family will move tomorrow into their home in Belvedere Park, Their handsome home was practically destroyed by an early morning fire three months and three weeks ago. It has since been re-built by Mr. Roehel Hend rick, contractor and is now ready for occupancy. While their home was undergoing repairs, Mr. and Mrs. Spangler lived on West Mar ion street. Another Great i War Predicted ! Babson Sees France And Italy Ready For Conflict. New York, Jan. 28.—Another great European war, w'hich will i eventually spread a4l over Eu rope, wan predicted today by ; Roger Babsoqjp'the ninan who in 1913 predicted the World war ,in The New’ York Times. Italy and France, the Bab son prediction read, are now said to be getting ready for the conflict. France has accumulated more gold than all Europe pul together. "Business men loaded," the report read, “with cotton goods, rubber and other commo dities desire to unload their stocks." 1 ne eventual line-up ol the war ring nations, the report says, will be Italy, Germany and Russia against Prance, Jap$n and England Great economic, social and Indus-; trial ch^pges will result in Europe,j according to the report. McSwain Bill Would j Publish Salaries In Addition To Combining- Three Offices Into One, It Requires .Salaries Published. The McSwaiu bill introduced and passed the third and final reading in the state senate last weelc pro viding for the consolidation of three offices into one known as ‘County! Auditor,” also provides “That the county auditor within thirty days after the first day of January of each and every year shall publish or cause to be published in some newspaper In Cleveland county a statement showing the total amount of salary and fees paid to each of the county officers during the pre ceding calendar year. which said statement shall also show the amount allowed and paid each of said officers for clerk hire or assists ance and any other expense allow ed said officers other than office supplies,-’ Other provisions of the bill were published in last week’s Star but this l clause was overlooked. The bill consolidating three offi ces of county accountant, county supervisor of taxation and tax audi tor provides that, the holder of this position shall receive a salary’ of $3,000 per year and the county com missioners may allow the auditor whatever clerical assistance they may deem necessary to make out the tax books. Now that the bill has passed the senate it goes to the house of rep resentatives where it must past, three readings before it becomes a law. v Consolidation ! Of Offices Not Fully Approved - I Varying Opinions McSwain Bill RrprrMnltiiTt Edward* Urged To Stop Bill In House. Could Bp . Dangerous. SEE EDITORIAL. PAGE 4— "WHY SUCH A CONSOLI DATION?” ThP Senate bill, introduced by j Senator Peyton McSwain and i parsed by the State Senate Fri day to consolidate three Cleve land county offices Into oue to be known as county auditor. Is not meeting with general ap proval in Shelby and over the county. Over the week-end it was learned that a number of citizens have com municated or will communicate with Representative Henry B: Edwards asking him to do what he can to halt the proposed measure when it i gets before the House. To<» Much Power One leading cltir.cn—not an office holder—discussing the measure Sat urday stated that he opposed it "because it will five too much pow er to one man. particularly if at some time-we should be unfortunate enough to get the wrong man iu the office. We have a county govern ment now that is looked up to and patterned after by many other coun ties, and we have a tax rate that only Forsyth county can beat. Even that county has a higher tax levy for general county expense and is only less than ours for school expense. Tha angle does not come under he three offices proposed for consolida tion, but the general county expense levy, which is lower here than in any county in the State, does, and it seems foolish to me to think of a change. I fail to get the point.” j Another citizen and a leading Democrat stated, after reading the I proposal that “it sounds to me as if we had elected a Republican ticket last fall Instead of a Democratic one. That’s all they harped about, our people voted them down because they endorsed our method of govern j ment and our low tax rate, and now j we have something very similar to ! their proposal put on us. If that’s | what the people of the county want led. It’s peculiar that they didn't vote | for the H. Clay Cox ticket.” One citizen did not like the man ! ner the bill Is being rushed through, as he put It. “The news item stat ing that the bill for the proposed consolidation would be introduced did not appear in The Star until Friday," he said, “and on the same day, perhaps before we read about it. it had passed first reading in the Senate. Of course, what we taxpay ers and voters think about It does not matter. Well, maybe not.” Other opinions vary as to tire con jsolidation. There are those who fa | vor it, particularly so. they say. If (they can be shown U'here it, will save money. The Seining Bill. Comment upon the other Senate ' bill to permit seining and the use of trot line in catching fish in this county, has not been so general Many favor the change which would permit the use of seines and trot lines. Others do not. The one argu ment against permitting seining and use of trot lines was that it would work a handicap bn fanners and in dustrial workers who fish only oc casionally. Seining and the use of trot lines by men who fish more or less regularly, it was contended, would soon diminish the supply of mud fish in the streams of the coun State Operation Of Six Months Schools Biggest Topic Ahead Of Assembly This Week; Other Bills Near Break Between Gardner And Fountain. Want Game Laws Changed. tM. It. ItlNNAUAN. Star N>w» Bureau.) Raleigh, Jan. 26. —State operation and maintenance of the constitu tional six months school term was unquestionably the mast important proposal before the N- C. general assembly the past week and gives promise of taking leading position this week, although numbers of im portant pieces of legislation have been placed before that body. The proponents of u bill embody ing the fixing of a state poUcy of operation of the term, legislation for which is to be proposed later, over-,, whelmingiy won in the first skir mish before the Joint session of house and senate education commit- j tees, arid, unless signs fail, the bill! iwili puss both houses, although j some of the oomraltte members vot ed for it who voiced reservations. The bill was set as a special order in the senate for Tuesday Of this week. A lively skirmish is expected before the bill becomes a law. ' Those supporting the.bill, known as the Lindsey-Young measure, ar gue this is the most effective meth-* od of reducing taxes, since schools are more costly than ail other couh ty activities, If the state takes over the schools, taxes can be lowered and the burden largely remoycd, they state, referring to the constitu tion which supposedly requires state operation for six months. The only note of warning was is sued by the only school man speak ing before the committee vote, T. Wingate Andrews, High Point, for mer president of the state teacher jCOmXKPKQ ON FAQS KOHTJ. j Post Office Addition Hoped For Here Soon More Working Space On Ground Floor And Additional Story For Federal Court Room And Office* Needed. Committee Consid er* Request. Prospects are bright for Shelby to get a third story added to the post office here and an addition to the working space on the ground floor out of the 1931 public building program of three billion dollars. Must Have New Auto Tags Now — If you haven't purchased your new automobile license j plates, It may be Just too bail, "No more courtesies, no more favors, and no more ex tension of time are my orders j now," Mr. D. D, Wilkins, state automobile inspector, stated here this morning. So far, since the first of the year, highway patrolmen have j been halting cars with old numbers and taking them to license bureaus where tags were secured without arrests being made. But beginning this week violators will be picked up according to the new orders to Inspectors and patrolmen. Would Lift Six \ Million Load [ From Farmers — I State Maintenance of County ttoad System* Would Relieve Land Taxes. /By M. tt. DCNNAGAN.) Raleigh. Jan. 26.—Property own ers of North Carolina have, been jelwnoring for relief from the bur den which they are required to,bear in the form of taxation. They have formed local and state-wide organ izations for the purpose of reliev ing property of some of its load. Governor O. Max Gardner, in his proposed state highway reorganiza tion and county road maintenance plan, offers a program that will def initely afford some of the property tax reduction for which there is such a pronounced demand. In addition to the economy of op eration to be brought about by the proposed reorganization of the high way commission, Governor Gardner suggests and recommends that the state take over the maintenance of all county roads, amounting In thp aggregate to some *5,000 miles in addition to the present highway system. Figures recently Compiled show that the average property levy in the 100 counties of North Carolina for road maintenance amounts to ip 1-2 cents on each hundred dol lars of assessed valuation. The chief executive's plan would mean, trails? lated into term of property tax re duction, thRt a load amounting to approximately *6.000,000 per year would be lifted from the shoulders of landowners. The proponed plan, according to j Its proponents, goes further than CONTINUED ON P«!F EIGHT i ty so that workers in mills and oth-l er industrial plants and farmers, who cannot spare the time to go to the coast or lakes to fish, would have very little sport the one or two times a year they do have time to fish. post master j h. yuum, wno with Federal Judge E. Yates Webb has been working for the needed addi tion states that he has received an encouraging letter from the Treas ury Department which has general supervision over post office con struction. Additions Sought. "What we are hoping to get, and , what we really need." Postmaster Quinn stated, "is a broadening out of the building on the ground floor, and a third floor added for use as a Federal court room. "The business of the local office has grown so since the building was erected that we are and have been cramped for space In the mail room. If we should be fortunate enough to <ct the addition It would be added at the rear of the building, since the government regulations would not permit the lengthening on the ".ids.” A Court Room. Numerous f ederal officials are be limfl the movement, It is understood to have a third story added to the liost office building for use as a Federal court room. When the pres ent post office was erected a Feder al court was not held In Shelby. Since that time a new United States court district was formed and a Federal session Is held here several times per year. The Federal Judge for tills district. Judge E. Yates Webb, makes his headquarters here and maintains an office on the sec ond floor of the present post of fice. Tlieso quarters as they are now are not large enough for the jurist's headquarters. Since the new court district was established the Federal court has been holding forth 1» the county court house through the courtesy of the Cleveland county commissioners. Since three billion dollars are be ing turned loose soon for public bulldlilgs, construction of which would give work to many now un employed and tend to boost busi ness conditions. It is felt that now is the proper time to add the floor to be used as a Federal court room. The extra story. If erected, would also Include offices for the Judge, the clerk, the marshalls, and other Fed eral officials. Mr Quinp discused the matter with Congressman Jonas last year and was assured of the latter’s support of the Improvement here when ad ditional fluids were put aside for public improvements. Endorsed. At a recent meeting of the Cleve land county postal service council the entire membership signed a resolu tion stating that the need for addi tions to the local office was urgent and recommended that they be giv en favorable attention. The endorse ment was fprwarded to the Treas ury Department, and last week Mr. Quinn received a letter informing him that the application for addi tions here was already before the inter-departmental committee, which is allotting the building fund, and would be given consideration by them. Should this committee pass favor ably upon the requested additions here it is possible that the work might be started during the spring or summer. News dispatches from Washington state that the three million dollar fund for public and semi-public construction will be ready for distribution early in the year, and the allocation and distri bution may start in February. Air Port Here To Be Farm Field Now Aviation Gives Away Locally To The Live-Al-Home Idea. i Shelby's air port lias reverted to type and Is farm land again. When the Cleveland Springs Es tates rented Its land to Mr. Mike L. Borders recently for farming this year the airport site, located behind the golf chib house, was included In the land that Is to be broken and planted. 5 j For several years Shelby was one of the best known aviation centers in the state with commercial planes here almost full time during the summers, but in the last year or so aviation interest tuft waned and the local port has been vhdted In the last year only by an occasion passfr 5 plans. - j