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VOL. XXXVII, No. 13 • » SHLLBi. N. V. FRIDAY. JAN. 30, 1931 Published -r "" 8 PAGES TODAY rtj Hail o«> *•«» i in Miumi carrmi or* ,m no advanmi ik.6i> LA TE NEWC THE MARKET Cotton, per »b. ...._9H to 1014c Cotton Seed, per bu. _ 31 Sit Fair And Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Saturday Warmer tonight. Colder in extreme west Saturday afternoon. Generally colder Saturday night. Sanders Speaks. Attorney Wade Sanders, known throughout this section as Gaston’s Will Rogers, was the principal speaker at the Shelby Rotary club today in a program arranged by Ro tarian Charlie Coble. Mr. Sanders' talk was a humorous discourse on hard times, which he declared are not so hard after all . Lawyers Here Perfect App eal Lattimore Case ‘torneys Preparing Case For Su preme Court. Will Be Heard Last Of April. Clyde R. Hoey and E. T. Falls, at torneys for Josh J. Lattimore, who appealed his case to the supreme court early this month when he was sentenced to five years in the state’ penitentiary, are preparing to per fect the appeal. The court steuor grapher is transcribing the evidence as given in the superior court from which the attorneys, Messrs. Hoev, and Falls, will make up the case on I appeal. Mr. Lattiiriore, it will be recalled was convicted on a charge of false entry while secretary-treasurer of the Cleveland Bank and Trust Co. True bills of Indictment were ro U:rned against him last June by l he grand jury for embezzlement < but he was tried at the January term of superior court on the charge oi false entry and convicted. Tor- I mediately upon the pronouncement | of the sentence by -fudge Clement, attorneys for the defense gave no tice of appeal and the judge gave ihirty days for the defense attorneys to perfect the appeal. The thlrcv days will expire about February 10th after which the prosecution will have thirty days in which to file answer. It is learned from attorneys that appeal cases from this judicial dis trict will be heard by the supreme court the latter part of April at which time the T-?*Hmore case on appeal will receive the attention of the higher court determine whether or not the defendant will receive a new trial. Gypsy Fheces Negress Of $210 \ Had Just Taken Money Out Of Bank. Theft Took Place Wednesday Eve. This, by way of introduction,. Is lust as good an advertise ment for banks as it is a news item. Not long since a ihrifty colored | weman, who Jives in Freedmon,: Shelby's colored residential section, i beard a rumor than the banks might fall. Without second thought, j Investigation into her bank, which,! incidentally, hasn’t failed yet and likely never will, she drew out her money—a sum considerably in ex cess of $300. Wednesday evening, just about dusk, a gypsy fortune teller called at the colored woman’s house hi Freedmon. The gypsy rattled on arid en about this and that, desiring to tell a fortune. While she was in the room a garage employe brought h.ome the automobile of the colored woman which had been repaired The colored woman reached in her bureau drawer where she took from her roll enough to pay the bill. She walked to the door, paid the me chanic and returned to the room About that time the gypsy decided she would be moving along. She hadn't told any fortunes, but she had stolen one. Shortly after the fortune-teller left, the colored woman looked in the drawer. The t310 was gone If she ever gets to gether that much money again she’ll likely leave it in the bank. Scout Honor Court Meets Monday Night The regular monthly meeting of the Shelby district court of honor of the Piedmont council of the Boy Scouts of America will be held at the Cleveland county court house on Monday night, February 2, at 7:30 , o'clock. Troops at Shelby, Bel wood,1 Mooresboro, Lattlmore, Earl, Lawn dale and Polkville are expecting to participate in this meeting and to appear for advancement and other! awards. Joe Whisnant. judge of the scout court of honor, urges the attendance of all scoutmasters In company with their troops and a ks that all court of honor members and members of local troop and district committees! will be present. McSvain Backs Bill, Edwards Cpp:s:s Plan Differ On School Support Plan One Sees Tax Reduction, Other Wants To Know Where Money Will Come From. Raleigh, Jan. 30.—The state senate last night passed the McLean school bill committing the general assembly to state support of the six month's con stitutional term, thus enacting the measure into law as it had been previously passed by the house. The vote was 33 to 17. Cleveland county’s two rep resentatives in Raleigh differ slightly in their attitude to the bill which would provide that the state support the six months Schools. Senator Peyton McSwatn fa for the bill because he believe that it will reduce taxes, but he will be op posed to a special sales tax to pro vide the money with which to en able the state to operate the schools Representative Henry Edwards vot ed against the measure, not because he opposes state supported schools but because he would rather knov where the state will get the money with which to operate them if not from a sales tax coupled with land taxes. In other words both oppose a general sales tax idea, Senator Mc Swain supporting the school bill with the hope that another source of taxation might provide necessary funds, whi'e Representative Ed ward# opposed it until he fa shown that it will not necesritate a safes tax levy. McSwaln's Stand. Senator McSwaln’s view follows: “I am glad to. have the opportun ity of supporting and voting for this measure for two reasons. First, I belisve that it is the solemn duty of the state tinder the constitution to furnish every child in the state regardless of where it liyes with, a six months free school. Second, I know? that for a long time real es tate has been bearing more than its share of the burden of taxation. 1 know that if this bill is put into force and effect, it will reduce (he (COtfTlNT7F'> ON ■>»()» PTOUTT I School Youth Of Lattimore Passes Horace Edward Harrill. 7 Year Old Child Dies Of Pneu monia. Lattimore community was sad dened this morning over the death of Horace Edward Harrill, seven and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs.. Horace E. Harrill. He passed away this morning at 6 o’clock aft er an illness of two weeks with pneumonia and appendicitis. The! youth was in the second grade at 1 school and a fine looking, bright! faced student in the public school there. The youth was the onlv child of. Mr. and Mrs. Harrill., Hn fathter j holds a position on the section crew. of the Southern railway. Fuseral services take place Satur-j day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the ( Lattimore Bantist church, services in-charge of Rev. W. C. Lynch, the' pastor, assisted by Rev. D. G. Washburn. ! Princes on Good-Will Tour The two globe-trotting sons of the King and Queen of England pictured on board the Oropesa, with the captain of the ship, just before their embarkation from Santander on their transatlantic Ttour. The royal party will visit Bermu’da on their way to South America. Left to right, Prince George (center), captain of the Oropesa (in uniform) and the popular heir to the British throne, the Prince of Walt*, King Case Likely To Be Held In March Instead Of February; Love Powder Man Not Asked In February Court At Lancaster For One Week Only And Jail Cases Must Be Tried. Spe cial Term May Be Held. York, S. C., Jan. 150.—Whether the Rafe King murder ease will he tried at the term of court in Lancaster begin ning February'23 or at a special term ‘that may he held about March 16, is a matter yet to be determined, Solicitor W, Gist Finley said here yesterday. This question will be considered at a conference of the state’s attorneys soon to be held. The difficulty in the way of try ing the King case in Lancaster at the term beginning February 23 is that court there will last only a week, an insufficient length of time to dispose Of the King case and Lan caster county cases awaiting trial. Twenty-four prisoners are in the Lancaster Jail and it will require at least several days to try their cases, while the King trial alone will re quire a week or longer. Point To Conditions. The term of court at Lancaster cannot be prolonged because court is scheduled to be held at Chester the following week, nor can it be advanced a week because of court at Winnsboro. "Professor” Branderine, Charlotte man of love powder fame and ama teur detective, has not been employ ed by either the prosecution or the i defense to investigate the Rafe King murder case, contrary to a news story carried by Charlotte newspaper today quoting the ‘'pro fessor.” A most emphatic "no,” was the answer given by both Solicitor W. Gist Finley and Thomas F. Me-! Dow, chief counsel for King, when! asked today If Branderine had been i employed. ! Governor Gardner Keeps Strict \ Schedule To Retain Health While In Office; Exercises Every Day Arises At 7 In Morning And Works Twelve Hours Each Day. Raleigh, Jan. 30.—Gov. O; Max Gardner, now in his third year of his four year term as governor, is insisting that not even the pressing problems being presented by the 1931 general assembly interfere with his regular program for "keep ing fit." Asked "how do you manage to physically stand up so well under the heavy strain of being governor, especially at a time like this when the legislature is in session,” the governor laughingly replied "by liv ing right.” Then, probably in much the same manner in which he would have de scribed how he kept in condition to play football back in the days when he captained teams of Carolina and N. C. State (the only man to ever captain both), the governor told of his “way of living.” Up at seven every morning, a drink of three glasses of hot water and a light breakfast starts off his sday. At 7:45 the work starts and at 11:30 a recess is taken for lunch. "Then,” the governor said,' “I go to my room and go to sleep one | hour—getting real rest, and 1 allow nothing to keep me from this.” About 3:30 Its back to work and keep at it until 5:15. Works In Gymnasium. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days, the governor goes to the Y. M. C. A. and "works out’’ for an hour. He spends most of the time playing volleyball, the members of the group are mainly young busi ness men of Raleigh and state em ployes. Every night the governor devotes to conference and study, he said, “1 put In about 12 hours each day In some form Of public service,” the governor continued, "and therefore I never have time to visit friends ■>nd neighbors.” Turned back to the problems of CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT} I To Try Negro For Rape On Saturday Hegro Woman Bound Over For As saulting Man Because Of Alleg ed Attack. In county court tills morning Gertrude Jeffetes, colored cook at Boiling- Springs college, was bound over to superior court oil a charge cf secret assault with intent to kill. The person assaulted was J. Y. Green, negro, who will lie given a hearing here Saturday on the charge oi attempted rape on the U-year old daughter of the Jeffries woman On the night of January 7 the Jeffries woman, according to the evidence, entered the home whore Green was sleeping and attacked him witli a fire shovel while he was in bed asleep. Green was seriously injured by the blows on his head and was in the hospital here for several weeks After the assault the woman surrendered to Deputy Ous Jolley and told him what she uad done, stating that she attacked Green because he had attempted to rape her daughter. In trying the woiwni this morn ing enough evidence came out to cause a warrant to be issued for Green on the assault efiarge. The Jeffries girl told what the negro man did to her. and the underwear she had been wearing at that time —Jan. 2, several days before her mother assaulted Green with a fire shovel—was exhibited ir court. Opening Up A New Road East Of City Hoad Will Join Highway 20 And Old Kings Mountain Koad Just East Of Shelby. The No. 6 township chain gang force is now engaged in grading a new road which will join highway 20 and the old Kings Mourftain road east of Shelby. The new road leaves highway 20 just east of the Cleveland Springs golf club house and cuts south to the old Kings Mountain road, en tering it at the Lawrence Lackey farm. About half of the grading, which started at highway 20, is complete, and one of the two bridges has been erected The length of the road will be about a mile and one quarter, it Is said. ' Fla In County Among Children BatNotSerioas Cases Of Roseola Reported Influems (’uses Nothing Uke Big Kpidcmic During War. Need Quarantine. Although there are a number 11/ ease* of influenza In Cleve land rimnh there U no epi demic which even closely ap proaches the severe epidemic of World war days, county physi cians say. Due to reports of Influenza epi demics In other sections of this and adjoining states there were rumors tills week of an increasing number of cases in this county. Information given Tile Star has it that there | art; few, if any, more eases of in jfleunza, or grippe, in the county ithun in the average winter. | "There are quite a number of I cpnes," Dr. D. F. Moore, couuty phy i sic tali said, "but the majority of I them are among children instead of ! adults, and as a wliole there are no I severe cases except those develop ! ing into pneumonia. There is quite j a hit ol pneumonia in the county.” Oerman Measles. | Cases of Oerman measles, of • roseola, are scattered over the coun | ty, there being several cases in; Shelby, the county physician said. j The same quarantine applies to •roseola as applies to other measles, and the county physician urges that parents and school teachers be alert to see that such * cases are properly quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease. “If there Is any indication of roseola," he said, "the family physician should be called In, and If it is roseola, the children should be kept from school until well.” ! Veterans Here j Turn On Mellon i Pass Resolution Asking Immediate Payment Service Certificates. Talks Made. Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, came In for some rather heated criticism at a mass meeting of Cleveland county World war vet erans held last night at the court house here. The meeting, attended by more than 150 ex-service men, centered about the fight of the American Legion to have cash payment of service certificates made to veterans now. j Mellon, depicted as the would-be jbocs behind the scenes of the Unit |ed States, was criticised because of his opposition to the payment now ot the service bonus. In talks made at the meeting Dr. J. S. Dorton and Attorney Pat McBrayer recalled that this same individual raised a similar "deficit” howl in 1924, fear ing "a raid” on the treasury. Des pite this fear it was recalled that the United States, refusing to pay her own soldiers, loaned money to | foreign countries and these coun I tries used the money to pay a bonus to their soldiers. Mellon’s deficit | howl in 1924 proved to be a false alarm, the speakers said, and could j be wrong about the payment of the | bonus hurting the treasury now. | "Some of you," It was said, “may have let up when that cry was rals | ed In 1924, but all of us, we hope, i know better now.” send Resolution. A resolution drawn up and read by Prof. Horace Grlgg, urging im mediate payment of the bonus, was adopted by the mass meeting. It was signed by 129 members of the Warren Hoyle post of the American Legion and by 158 county ex-service men not now affiliated with the le gion, and the resolution will be sent to every North Carolina con gressman and senator. All Cleveland county ex-service men were urged to affiliate with the legion post this week in order to lend strength to the movement. Dillingham Speaks At Kiwanis Meeting E L. Dillingham, teacher of -p-i culture in No. 8 Township consoli dated school was the principal speaker at the Kiwarns club’s week ly luncheon at the Hotel Charles last night. Mr. Dillingham had many sound reasons for the present d piession and frequently bro"-'if applause for his county-side philos ophy and humor. He has very Utte faith in the effect of acreage red'ic tion but says some .method of con ■ trol should be worked out so that the law's of supply and «>?»•*»«/» - not artificial control will govern, Celebrate Indian Liberty The release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison In India coincided with the first anniversary of the fljrht for Indian independence. Indiana in Philadelphia eele* brateif at Independence Hall, where they are shown, adorn in* the Liberty Bell with a praiv land. Dr, Ham-da T. Muaumdar, Gandhi’s representative in the United States, is shown at rgh*„ Frank Page, Highway Experts, Support Gardner Highway Plan Which Would Cut County Taxes Should Have State System Instead Of Nine Districts, Page Says, As Governor Hurls Challenge To Critics. Raleigh, Jan. 30.—Throwing a bombshell at critics of his proposal to reorganize the North Carolina state highway commission into one unit on a state-wide basis, Governor Gardner yesterday made public letters from Frank Page, former chairman of the highway commission for 10 years, and Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States bu reau of public roads for 15 years, backing him. in answer to tne statements of John Sprunt Hill Durham, fourth district highway commissioner, be fore the Joint roads committees of house and senate Tuesday, that Mr. MacDonald and Mr Page had never approved “pork-barrel' and! “mys terious methods" of handling high way funds, Governor Gardner re leased letters received from these two authorities, both of which ex press the need and desirability of the Gardner proposal at this stage of the state’s highway program. “If approval of my program from those personally and professionally equipped to give round advice based on accurate knowledge and personal experience Is of value in checking tile alann of those critics who fear we may adopt a half-naked pro gram or a pork-barrel basis of building highways, I today offer as competent evidence the testimony I of Hon. Prank Page and Thomas H. MacDonald,” said the/ governor. After stating Mr. MacDonald’s position and reviewing Mr. Page’s achievement in North Carolina, Governor Gardner said of the lat ter. His ability, his judgment, bis integrity and his personal modesty are accepted and admired by North Carolina. He did a magnificent job for this state during the years when I CONTINUED ON "Are EUttn ! Shelby Girl On Vassar Faculty Mrs. RoyVeach, Daughter of Judgr E. V, Webb In Brenan Hall Of Fame. Mrs. Boy Veach, net* Elizabeth Webb, daughter of Judge E. Y. Webb, of Shelby, is a member of the faculty of the famous Vasar college at Poughkeepsie, New York: Her picture hangs in the Hall of Fame at Brenau college, Gainesville, Ga„ where she was graduated, as being the only Southern woman to be of fered a professorship In Vassar, The honor came to her uirollcited and her many friends are proud of the record she Is making. Mrs. Veach is teaching medieval and American his j lory ih this outstanding Institution which Is largely a past graduate school with over 2 000 girl students. Mrs. Veach's husband Is teaching at Princeton university where Wood row Wilson was president before he became president of the nation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dllling. Mrs. Annie During and Mrs. Joe Grimes of Kings Mountain were Shelby vis itors yesterdffy. Carolina Farmers Urged To Cut Acreage One-Fourth And Grow Food And Feed Crops This Tear Raleigh, Jan. 30,—Cotton farmers in North Carolina are urged to cut their acreage from 20 to 25 percent this year, In the January report on "North Carolina Farm Business," published by the department of Ag ricultural Economics at N. C. State college. Tobacco fanners are urged to do three things during 1931: first, reduce tobacco acreage heavily; sec ond, grow more food and feed crops; and third, join the cooperative as sociation at once. The report does not hold out any material hope of any increase in the price of cotton during 1931, predict ing that cotton prices will remain at the low levels which have been in effect for many months. The report does state that cotton prices have strengthened “only slightly" recent ly. The average price of cotton, as reported on the ten designated mar kets for American middling 7-8 inch, is 0.08 cents per pound. This low price is due to the economic conditions, which have caused a cur tailment ol consumption by mills There is no appreciable increase in I mill consumption, due to the large world supply of cotton outstanding, a weak demand in Europe and a falling off in the exports to most of the European countries, “During November,” the report cays “unfilled orders of standard cotton cloth decreased and stocks increased," for this reason, the only hope for the fanner is to reduce his acreage, so that a growing demand for cotton may enhance the price. Cotton production in 1930 was H,- j 243.000 bales, with a carry-over its of July 31, 1930. of 6,000,000 bales, mak-' ing a total available supply of 20,- i 543.000 bales of American cotton. I The visible world supply of Arnerl-! can cotton at the end of December. | 1930, was 7,800,000 bales as qompar- • ed to 5,800,000 bales in 1929 and 5, 700.000 bales in 1928, With a de crease in Consumption, the situation offers little hope ol any increase in price. The raising of tobacco, the report COKTINVEO OM PAGE EIGHT ) Wife Arrested In Rutherford Theory Of Affair Between Two Mrs, Lynch And 19-Year-Old Farm Hand Acquaintance Both Taken In Custody, Mr*. John M. Lynch. Ruther ford county woman, and Paul Searcy, young farmhand who once worked on the Lynch farm, will not be riven a hearing In connection with the death of the woman's husband, who was shot to death laat Sunday night, until early neat week. This In formation was riven The Star at noon today by The Ruther ford County News. Both are In the Rutherford jail bnl refuse to make public statements. Rutherfordton, Jan. 30 —Mrs. John M, Lynch Wednesday was ar rested and placed In Jail here In connection with the fatal shooting of her husband at thein home Sun day night. The arrest followed Investigation of reports connecting Mrs. Lynch with John Paul Searcy, 19-year-old farm hand who wns placed under arrest the day after the slaying. Searcy worked on the Lynch farm last summer, and has since made his home with Mrs. Lynch’s mother in Forest City, He has consistently denied any knowledge of the shooting. Lynch was killed on the doorstep ot his home late at night. Mrs, Lynch told officers he came home early Sunday night, asked for his pistol and placed it under hie pillow when he went to bed. Claim ing to have been friglftened by these actions, the woman said she lay awake for hours. lAte at night, she said, someone came fo the door, called to Lynch and said, “John Lynch, If you don’t treat your family better I ■will kill you.” The farmer arose and went to the door, she said, and was met by a hall o£ bullet# Mrs.' Lynch claim ed she ran downstairs to find him dying front the effects of four wounds. Working on the theory that eith er Mrs. Lynch or Searcy slew her 40-ycr.r-old husband to clear the path for their own love affair of ficers said there were still some details to clear up before the In quest, which is set for this after noon, Mrs Lynch, after her arreat, re fused to discuss the case, except to ask If bond could be arranged and when she would be given a hearing She is expected to secure counsel immediately, and It was considered possible that a large legal arrry employed for Searcy might handle the woman’s defense. Parole For Lover Who Served 7 Years Governor Pardons Man Sent To Priwm For Life For Going To See Sweetheart. Raleigh, Jan. 29.—A man who spent seven years of his life In Jail because he loved a girl was given his freedom yesterday by Gov. O. Max Gardner. The man Us Felix Wright and hu was sentenced to life Imprisonment for burglary in Wake county su perior court back In 1923. The parole papers read: “The facts In this case are sub stantially as follows: This prisoner was in love with the daughter of the man whose home was entered. The father of the girl forbade the prisoner seeing his daughter and upon his visit to the house he had him arrest for trespass. “Later the daughter wrote the de fendant to come to see her and he slipped to her room in the night and upon being apprehended by the father was arrested for burglary and sentenced to life imprisonment.'* The governor gave the following as his reason for paroling Wright: "All of those familiar with the facts in this case feel that the pris oner should be granted a parole and taking into consideration the facts outlined and the recommendations for clemency which have come to this office in his behalf from those under whom he has come in con tact. I feel that something should be done now and the prisoner there fore is this day paroled for the re mainder of his term.’ Pastor's Conference. Baptist pastors will meet Monday Feb. 2nd at 2 o’clock. Rev. John W. Suttle will have charge of the pro gram and all Baptirt ministers of the county are cordially invited to ittend.