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LATE NEWT |
Fair And Warmer.
Today’s North Carolina Weather j
Report: Fair and cooler tonight.)
Fair Tuesday with stowly rising j
temperature.
Try Bankers.
Asheville, April 27.—Three former
officials of the defunct Central
Bank and Trust company here wil!
be the vanguard of 2" of Western
North Carolina's and Tennessee’*
most prominent business men who,
face trial at the six weeks special
eourt whicli, opened today to un
ravel alleged crimes In connection j
with the closing of hanks and con
sequent loss of public funds. The
tirsl case to be tried, Solicitor Zeb
V. Nettles said, will be a charge of
false report against Wallace B,
Davis, president. Dr, J. A. Sinclair,
and C. N. Brown, directors.
Cotton Market
New York, April 27.—Last night's
w eather map shows 1.20 rain at Lit
tle Rock, .06 at Palestine, .30 at
Shreveport, .03 at San Antonio, ,18
at Raleigh. Forecast fair except east
Texas showers on west coast. Lon-!
ton cable says Manchester reports!
very poor week in textiles. Trades 1
• re generally bearish on cotton out- i
look. India placing small orders, j
China inactive. Argentine fair buy-I
er stop. Light business in Worth j
street Saturday. Hunter company
ray their sales show increase for
week". Look for easy market.
CLEVENBURG.
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To Try Woman
AndYoungMan
In Rutherford
I
Hearing Begins On
May 11
Woman and Former Employee Face
Charges In Connection With
Fatal Shooting of Lynch.
Rutherford ton, April 27.—Mrs. I
John M. Lynch and John Paul j
Searcy w ill go on trial in superior
.court here May 11 on charges grow
ing out of the fatal .shooting of the
' Oman’s husband at his home on
January 25.
Searcy, a former employee at the
Lynch farm, arid Mrs. Lynch were
arrested following the slaying' and
given a hearing in county court
here, at which they were bound
er to the higher court,
following the killing, which cre
ated a sensation in this section, Mrs.
Lynch toid officers her husband
• as called to the door on the night
yf January 25 after he had gone to
'j“d and that an unknown person
■ ho said, “John Lynch, if you don’t
treat vour wife better. I’ll kill you,”
red several shots, killing the man
r 'most instantly.
Officers after careful investigation
brought the former employee and
Mrs. Lynch to trial in connection
v ith the case.
The trial of two former officials
of the defunct Chimney Rock Trust,
company will also be held. J, M.
Flack, president, and L. C. Cobb
cashier of the institution, will face
charges of receiving deposits know
ing the bank was insolvent.
Judge Hoyle Sink, of Lexington,
will preside.
Try Fliers, Girls
Here; Pay Costs,
May Get Married
Two Couples Arrested At Kings
Mountain Sunday By Police
There.
Two young aviators, said to be
rrom Washington, and two girls,
supposedly of Gaston county, were
tried in recorder's court here this
morning on fornication and adultery
charges, preferred by Kings Moun
tain police.
The aviators, who gave their nam
es as David Steel and Solomon Mar
in, were taxed with the costs when
i was stated that the couples plan
ned to get married at York, South
Carolina.
The two aviators cracked up their
plane in a crash at Kings Moun
tain several days ago and had been
wing at a boarding house there,
where the two girls were olso sTd
to be staying, while their plane was
being repaired at Charlotte.
Nine Consecutive
Rainy Saturdays
Shelby merchants, who consider
Saturday the best trade, day of the
>*■ week, have about reached the con
clusion that Old Man Depression
has formed an alliance with the
weatherman to advance his nefor
iotis schemes.
When it rained a portion st the
day Saturday it was the ninth *’on
* secutive rainy Saturday in this sec
tion.
To Appoint Solicitor
Some Time This Week
Five Attorneys Said To Be Seeking Newton
Job. Others Interested. Judge Not To
Recommend Appointment.
The new solicitor of Cleveland county recorder’s court
to fill the office left vacant by the death of J. C. Newton
will likely be appointed early this week by the county com
missioners. I —— ~
When the appointment is made,
however, there will be no reeommen
elation made by the county judge,
Maurice Weathers.
Vp To Them.
The law provides that In c'se c
a vacancy the recorder should re
commend an appointee to the com
mission board and approve the ap
pointment when it is made. Judge
Weathers iniormed The Star today
that he would make no recommen
dation but would readily approve the
appointment made by the commis
sioners.
“All I intend to do Is to turn all
applications over to the board and
let them make their own decision.”
he said.
Five Apply.
Information is that five attorneys
have filed applications for. the office
while several Others are said to he
interested. The five who are said to
be applicants are W. S. Beam. P.
Cleveland Gardner, Bynum Weath
ers. C. B. McBrayer and Horace
Kennedy, Attorney Joe Whtsnant
has been mentioned but lias not, it
is understood, filed a definite ap
plication as yet.
Just what day the commissioner! s
will meet is not definitely known,
but the general understand-ng is
that the called session will be h»!d
during the week, possibly before
Friday.
Three South Shelby
Stores Are Entered
Three South Shelby stores were
burglarized last week. Groceries
were stolen from the stores of Craig
Lewis and J. H. Queen early in the
week, while the C. H. Reinhardt
stores was entered on Saturday
night and $30 worth of groceries,
overalls and canned goods were
missed when the store was opened
this morning.
Lattimore Sells Out
Sinclair Interest
Andrew Lattimore sold his inter
est in the Sinclair Refining com
pany’s distributing agency here tills
morning to his partner Hope Brison.
Mr. Lattimore bought an interest
with Mr. Brison about a year ago.
This company has the distribution
of Sinclair petroleum products in
this territory. *”T.
Shelby School |
Band Gets First
Honors In Meetj
Young: Musician*! Win Class B Cup
For Third Time In Greens
boro Contest.
The class B trophy cup for
North Carolina high school
bands is now in the permanent
possession of the Shelby high
school, the local band winning
the cup for the third time in
the state-wide contests at
Greensboro last Friday.
In the solo contest Virgil Cox,
representing Shelby in the unchang
ed voice contest, took a rating of
two to tie for second honors, and
the Shelby high brass quartet and
Herman Best in a trombone solo
also took second honors in their
events. John McClurd won second
place in the baritone solo.
With the Shelby band winning
first place for three times there Is
a movement on foot, according to
Mr. O. B. Lewis, musical director,
to have the championship band en
ter the national contest at- Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
Tliiuk Of Tulsa.
Members of the band are Eliza
beth Thompson, Virgil Cox, Torrey
Tyner, Ed Post, jr., Dick LeGrand.j
Colbert McKuight. Bill Loy, John!
McClurd, B. R. Dellinger. Chat
Roberts, Ray Hoffman, Dwight
Hoyle, Rufus Weathers, Riley Mc
Cord, Julia Cox, Sara Thompson,
John McBrayer, Matilda Jenks,
Everett Toms, Pegram Holland, Wil
liam Ingram, Elizabeth Blanton,
Herman Best, Louis Earl, Carlos
Young, Edwin Gibson, Mildred
Laughridge. John Mull, Jr., Earl
Hamrick, jr., Hill Hudson, jr., Wood
row Wall, Lamar Young, Jack Bab
er. Will Arev, Jr., Herbert Elam,
Malcolm Wallace, Jack Palmer, Jr.,
Rush Hamrick, jr., Clifford Hughes,
Julian Morehead, James Morehead,
Tom Cottle, Mary Virginia Lefler,
Boyce Hawkins, Harlan Bridges,
Arson Smith, John Corbett.
Mr. Shy Blanton of Marion spent
the week-end with Mr. Hackett
Blanton, jr.
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TRADt^
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HORN
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Nit MONO* P'CTuKfc AN&
f>jcaqj^«y«I^iyer
GROWN old and tired of adven
turing, Alfred Aloyslus Horn, who
had traded on the rivers of Af
rica before Livingstone and
Stanley, finds refuge In a flop
house at Johannesburg in the
Transvaal and earns his living
by making and peddling wire
kitchen utensils. One day he call
ed at the home of Ethelreda
Lewis, famous South African
novelist, and she induced him tc
write the story of his early life
The famous book "T’rader Horn,’
a best-seller all over the world,
was the result of hts writing and
her editing. In his story, which
is appearing serially in this pa
per for twenty-one issues Trader
* Horn tells of adventures with
savage be as is and wild cannibal
j tribes.
i The quaint spelling of Trader
1 Horn and his habit of rambling
j away from his story to tell of
i interesting details of his former
life add to the charm of the
narrative.
I The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic
' ture, “Trader Horn,’’ filmed in
. Africa, is based on the story oi
| lu$ adventures with Nina T. the
1 White Goddess of the Isorga.
“When I say I was born in Scot
land, Ma’am, it’s not to say I’m a
(Scotchman myself. They're a poor
lot, taken all in all. Lancashire’s) al
ways been good enough for one of
the old Fist-and-Spear. My name's
Horn. Aloysius Horn of the Fist
and-Spear.’’
Educated at St. Edward's college,
Liverpool, where I met as young
companions Julian Venesuela of
Venesuela, South America, Little
Peru, son of the Peruvian president,
Etienne Vangoche of Bogota, two
nabobs from the cream of the Negro
Republic Haiti in the West Indies,
other sons of the most prominent
people in Brazil, likewise the Count
of Zeres in Spain (where the most
oui’ best-sherry wine comes from),
we were, I think, without a doubt,
the most cosmopolitan group of
youngsters ever gathered together
for commercial education.
I was only eleven years of age
when I entered the school, some of
my schoolmates of the same age,
but I believe the old idea in mix
ing the young Britisher with his
brothers of every clime was to
make him cosmopolitan and natur
ally we soon learned each other’s
language.
I was not long in the cottage
when I could speak English, Por
tuguese and French and I also
picked up their characteristics
whic hare diametrically opposite to
those of the slow young Anglo
Saxon. We were taught French,
Latin, Greek, in fact, had a regu
'CONTIKTTtD ON PAOF SIX
Spain Hails Fall of Monarchy
Scenes of jubilation throughout Spain marked the
fall of the monarchical rule of the House of Bourbon
and the departure of Alfonso XIII to exile. Picture
/i'liows a carload of celebrants in a street of
Madrid, rreetinsr the new Republic. (Upper right)
ex-Qneen Victoria of Spain with her son, Don Con- I
zales, taking • last look at her former kingdom as
her train crossed the French frontier (Lower)
Alfonso XIII. the dethroned king, as he appeared
on lus arrival In Franca to join his family.
Legislature May Be Hopelessly
Deadlocded; MacLean Cannot
Head Movement That He Started
Nineteen Jailed
Saturday, Sunday
County and city officers placed a
total of 19 people in the county jail
here over the week-end. The peak
day was Sunday with 16 arrests.
Among the 19 were several women
First Chapter
Or Trader Horn
In Today’s Star
Twenty One Chapter Serial Relates ■
True and Amazing Story of
African Adventure.
Read the first chapter of “Trader]
Horn" which begins in today's Star
A chapter will appear in each issu
for 21 issues, seven weeks. The story
was originally published :n hcok
form and thousands of copies were
sold. Some of the best book reviews
declare it to be the best book of the
past year, for it created a sensation
in literary circles.
It is a true story of adventure in
South Africa, written by Trader
Horn himself. Trader Horn is now
74 years of age and the book relates
his experiences in Africa as an ivory
trader with the black natives. There
he encountered savage beasts.
Friendships were established with
some of the natives and hostilities
with other tribes.
One of the high lights of Lhe sh»ry
is his meeting with Nina T-, a beau
tiful white girl, daughter of a mis
sionary, who had been abducted by
natives as a baby and reared as one
of their own. In the interior o’.
Africa, W'here a white man was un
known, she became regarded a- a
supernatural being and as such in
herited an influence over the nativ
es that made her absolute ruler.
Trader Horn Is a real adventurer.
He speaks severa llanguages and has
a quaint philosophy of the wel'd
grandeur and terrifying aspect o'
the country through which ho trav
eled.
Read the first chapter today and
follow' the story through the 21
chapters. The story will grip and
thrill you as few stories do.
Young Girl Passed
Early This Morning
Funeral Services At Home Ttiislay
Afternoon. Had Heart
Trouble.
Little Miss Grace Estelle Moore,
aged 12 years, died this morning at
her home In east Shelby after an 11L
ness of 15 weeks. Death resulted
from heart, trouble.
Funeral services, conducted by
Rev. H. E. Waldrop, will be held at
the residence of her parents. Mr. ar.d
Mrs. T. O. Moore, Tuesday after
noon at 2 o’clock. Interment will be
In Sunset cemetery.
Surviving are the parents, three
brothers and three sisters.
(louse Determined in Tax Stand.
Senate Holds To Guns. Some
thing Soon.
Raleigh, Apr. 27.—The North Car
olina General Assembly is deadlock
ed, apparently hopelessly.
However, since it Is darkest before
dawn, the light may break th.ou'.'h
and the deadlock may be bioken,
but it will be the unexpected. That
is just what has been happening in
the present session, and it may again,
tn the one big problem before the
law making body.
Rays of light have come .through.
the maze several times during vhe
(Con 'j.vued on mop. etoirr.i
Rutherfordton
Bankers Need
$75,000 Cash
Officials of Defuiv-t Hanks Need
That sum To Avoid Prison
Terms.
Charlotte, April 27.—With a $75,
000 cash deposit reputedly set as
the price of freedom from prison
sentences, five former Rutherford
ton bank officials were represented
by friends here as meeting with
discouragement in their efforts to
raise the amount before the open
ing of Rutherford county superior
court May 11.
The five, K. W. Tanner, Sam
Elmore. Frank Oates, J. E. Taylor
and W. B. Walker, were convicted
at the February term of Rutherford
court of violating the state banking
laws by accepting deposits in the
Rutherford Bank and Trust com
pany when they knew the institu
tion to be insolvent.
May Avoid Terms.
After their conviction. Judge H.
Hoyle Sink, who presided over the
trial, announced he would defer
passing sentence until the May 11
term He was understood to have
laid down the proposition that if
the five would pay into court $75,000
at the forthcoming term he would
put them under suspended sentences
and thereby save them from serving
prison terms'.
The proposition was represented
as one contemplating the use of the
$75,000 payment for distribution
among depositors of the defunct
bank]
Would Aid Depositors.
Persons who have been following
developments since the February
trial expressed uncertainty yester
day as tp whether the defendants
would be able to raise that much
money. The failure of the bank and
accompanying misfortunes were said
to have wiped out, practically all of
the personal holdings of the five
defendants.
Judge Sink's proposition was said
to be based upon the feeling that
the depositors, those who lost most
heavily by the failure of the bank,
would materially benefit; arid that
this would have a more salutary
effect upon the community than to
send the defendants to prison.
Debt Is Paid
After Passing
°f j35 Years
Mr. Jake ' Baker, well known
Cleveland county farmer. Is of
the opinion that it is a pretty
honest old world after all.
Thirty-five years ago he
signed another man’s note for
around >200 and eventually
had to pay the note. The oth
er fellow moved to the far
west and as the years passed
Mr. Eaker had about reached
the conclusion that, he was
just out S200, but a hunch
j lingered that he would eventu
ally get his money. Last
< Kristinas day a greeting card
from the far west brought a
! >100 money order. After three
and a half decades a portion
of the debt had been paid. But
that is not the full story —
Last Friday Mr. Faker re
ceived a check for
Building And Loan
Men Attend Meeting
Eleven officers and directors of
the three local building and loan
associations attended the district
meeting held in Gastonia Friday
evening. This district ‘embrace.,
seven counties and the Shelby and
Cleveland county B. and L. asso
ciation had seven representatives
present, the largest number from
any association outside of Gastonia
where the meeting was held. From
this association were L. U. Arro
wood, J. S McKnight, R. L. Weath
ers, L. A. Gettys, C. 8 Young, Frank
Hoyle. Jr., and John P. Mull. From
the Cleveland B. and I.„ J. L. But
tle and M. A. Spangler, from the
Shelby B. and L., J. F. Roberts and
George Hoyle.
Three Negros Seriously Injured
In Collision Sunday East Of City
On Highway 20; 2 Critically Hurt
New Candidate
Out For Board
Many Register:
B. M. Jurrrll Opposes J, Thump- :
son In Ward Four. 350 New
Voters.
ed the city campaign Saturday
(he city i,imp.ilc n Saturday
when Dr. B. M. Jarrett an
nounced as a candidate (or
alderman In Ward Four.
Dr. Jarrell’s announcement results |
In three contests tor the tour places |
on the city board. His opponent will
be Z. J. Thompson, present vVard
Four alderman, who had already an
nounced for re-election.
P. M. Washburn, Ward one aider
man, is opposed by J. F. Ltvford.
former alderman, and D. W Roy
ster and R, D. Crowder are the can
didates In Ward Two. Alderman
John Schenck, jr.. is unoppo.ed In
Ward Three so far.
Is l.ast Day.
No new candidates may enter the
race after today which, according to
the Australian ballot law. Is the last
day In which announcements may
be filed at the city hall.
350 Registered.
Interest picked up somewhat in
the campaign over the week-end
and approximately 350 new voters
have registered so far, according to
Prank H. Kendall, registrar Orly
newcomers to the town, those who
have come of voting age or changed
wards since the last election are re
quired to register.
Last-Mlnote Interest.
A week ago it appeared as if only
a light vote would be cast with Jess
Interest than ever before be'ng
shown in the campaign. Over tie
week-end, however, political cb
servers say they could ascertain an
awakening interest and it Is possible
that the political pot may start boil
ing in the final campaign week and
result in a fairly heavy vote being,
cast next Monday,
Colored Veterans
Plan Legion Post
A movement is on foot >n Shelby
to organize an American Legion post
among the colored ex-service men
of the "World war who live hi Cleve
land county. Colored veterans who
are interested are asked to get In
touch with Tom Abemethy at the
post office or R. D. Crowder at the
oil mill, both of whom are officers
of the Warren Hoyle past tor white
veterans.
Mr Evans Hartgrove of Char
lotte, spent the week-end at hts
home here.
North Carolina Has Less Foreign
Bom Citizens Than Any Other State
State Has Only 1,180 Foreign-Born
Citizens, Or 324 Fewer Than
In 1920.
Washington, April 27.—The cen
sus bureau issued a report on the
population of North Carolina by
color, nativity and sex. The state
maintains its record for- the fewest
aliens, the percent being 0.1. The
total in 1930 was 1,780 In 1920 it
was 2,104 or a decrease of 324 in 10
years.
An interesting fact is that negro
women outnumber the negro men
25,647. indicating that many col
ored males come North to work and
leave their wives and other wom
enfolk behind. The surplus of negro
females gives North Carolina more
women than men. There are 1,120,
270 white males and 1,114,678 white
females, or 5,592 more than enough
husbands tb go around.
The native white population of
the state in 1930 was 70 2 per cent
compared with 69.7 per cent in
1920. -’-7
Nortti Carolina has a scattering
population composed of ten Mexi
cans, 16,579 Indians, 68 Chinese, 17
Japanese. 6 Filipinos and one Ko
rean.
The report of the census bureau
for the 1930 enumeration gives the
total population of the stat^ on
April 1 (last year) as 3,170,276 com
prising 1,575,208 males, and 1,595.
068 fpmales. There were in the state
2,234,948 white persons, 918,647 ne
groes, and 18,681 of other races, the
last Including Mexicans, Indians,
Chinese, Japanese, etc. As compar
ed with the number in 1920 (1,763.
779. the white population shows an
increase of 25.3 per cent. While the
negro population (which numbered
863,407 in 1920, shows a nincrease
of 20.3 per cent.
Tire white population included
2,208,563 natives of native parent
age, 17,597 natives of foreign or
mixed parentage, and 8.788 ioreign
born. Of the whole number of for
eign born 5.463 were naturalized.
603 had taken out their Sift papers,
and 1.780 were returned as aliens,
with reports on citizenship missing
for 942. Alien foreign-born whites
represented one-tenth of one per
cent of the population in 1930, the
same proportion as in 1920.
The population 21 years of age
and over numbered 1,542,125. or
1,542,125, or 48.6 per cent of the
total. Tire foreign-born white pop-1
ulation 21 years of age and over
amounted to 8,290, of which number'
1,549 were returned as alien. :
Skull Bone Driven
In Brain
turner Boy Has Bad Fracture. Fan*
chin Donrood Also lias Skull
Fracture.
Three negroes were brought
to the Shelby hospital Sunday
morning lit an unconscious con
dition as a result of injuries re
ceived when their car was struck
by another car as they attempt
ed to cross highway No. 2® at
the Fairground filling station,
two miles east of Shelby.
Fuschia Dogwood and George
Turner have skull fractures and are
Still unconscious, while Dora Dog
wood. uged mother of FuschU and
grand-mother of the 12 year old
Turner boy, is still delirious. The
two other occupants of the wrecked
car, John Dogwood, husband of Dora
Dogwood, and anther daughter of
theirs, escaped serious Injury
Crossing Highway.
The colored family, living In the
Stony Point section, was en route
to the Shoal Creek neighbor,nod to
ta take the 13-year-old grandson,
George Turner, to his home. Fuschia
Dogwood was driving an old model
Ford car, travelling south on the
road by Elizabeth church and the
County Home. When she got on the
highway, a car driven by C. R. Mc
Cauley, of Huntersville, and also oc
cupied by Miss Pauline Hubbard, of
Fayetteville, struck the Dogwood
car near the driver’s eat. The car
was upset and the five occupants
thrown out or pinned underneath.
Mr. McCauley and Miss Hubbard re
ceived only minor flesh wounds.
Teeth Out.
George Turner k perhaps the
worst injured hi the lot. He ha. a
depressed fracture of the skull, the
bone penetrating the brain. His
teeth are knocked out and Ids fare
cut. Fuschia Dogwood has s skull
fracture and a multiple fracture of
the lower Jaw. Dora Dogwood has
an arm fracture.
After 24 hours, the Turner boy and
| the Dogwood girl are still uncoo
I sclous and the aged woman •a*i
! tlnues delirious.
Their car was a complete wreck.
Presbyterian
Women Gather
Shelby Women On Presbyterian
Program At Kings Mountain
Tuesdav.
Approximately 20 Shelby women
will attend the sessions of the an
nual meeting of the Kings Moun
tain Presbyterial which will be held
at the Kings Mountain church
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week. The Presbyterial covers the
churches in four counties.
The regularly elected delegates
from the Shelby Presbyterian church
are Mrs. J. F. Jenkins and Mi's.
Brady Dickson.
Among the Shelby women who
will be on the program during the
two days are Mrs. C. B. Alexander,
Mrs. Harry Speck, Mrs. R. T. Le
Grand, and Mrs. Helen Beam
Mrs. Coit Robinson, of LpweB, is
president of the Presbyterial. being
reelected at the annual meeting
held here last year.
A feature of the program will be
a memorial service for the late Dr.
I. S. McElroy, for years pastor at
Kings Mountain.
Taxoayers Rush
Sheriffs Office
To Get Receipts
Scores Paid Taxes Saturday As Dead
Line Nears. Much
Out.
The office of Sheriff Irvin M.
Allen swarmed Saturday with
belated taxpayers anxious to
pay their taxes before the dead
line day at the end of the
month.
• We had a big day of it and tour
out a record number of receipts but
many of them were for small
amounts.’' the sheriff stated
Publish List.
Approximately *100,000 to county
taxes are as yet, unpaid and it was
said at the sheriffs office today
that the delinquent list tor publica
tion would be prepared after Thurs
day