Highs Battle Forest
City Here Friday
Team Which Defeated Locals Twice This
Year Comes Here To Decide Champion
ship Of Group.
The Shelby Highs and Forest City, both former baseball
champions of the State, will clash in Shelby Friday for the
group championship in the 1931 title race. All Indications
are that it will be the highlight game of the season and a
record crowd is anticipated. . --*
The Forest City club lias already
defeated Shelby twice this year, er
rors contributing' much to t he For
est City victories.
In recent games the Shelby club
has been shifted about by Coach
Morris and is apparently stronger on
the defense now than It has brers
this year. As a result local fans are
hopeful of seeing the tables turned
Friday.
Much Interim.
At Forest City baseball lever ts
running high. The Rutherford boys
have lost only one game this year
and hundreds of Forest City fans
will accompany the team here for
the Important game Friday.
General opinion is that the team
which wins will represent the west
at Chapel Hill for the state title.
In all-around play the two clubs
seem about on par. There Is little
to choose between the pitching and
hitting, but in previous games Shel
by players managed to kick several
balls at inopportune times. With
the defense strengthened by the
shifts and with the Morrlsmen clout
inf the horsehtde as they have, for
several games It should be a great
struggle. The Forest City coach and
members of the club saw Shelby's
one-sided win over Bessemer City
here last Friday and the manner in
which Mayhew and his teammates
hammered the ball could hot have
been very encouraging.
Peters May Pilch.
Opinion is that ‘Big” Pet u>. the
loose-armed South Shelby right
hander, will hurl the critical game
tor Shelby. With warm weather pre
vailing the big tosser should be in
top form by Friday. He Was slow
getting started this season, but seems
to have hit his stride In recent
games, and there are few high
school hurlers here abouts with
cooler heads and who can field their
positions better. Carter, the young
ster who never worked behind the
plate prior to this year, has improv
ed rapidly and is now a crack catch
er with a nifty throwing arm. For
two weeks he has been hitting con
sistently and has given additional
strength to the offense. The Infield
combination of McSwain, Devine,
Mayhew and Barrett is speed", and
there Is good fielding ability ns well
as dependable hitting in th • Har
rill-Philbeck-Wilson outfield. In
Johnny Corbett, Morris has a util
ity player who can break in the
game at any moment, and in every
pinch this year he has banged run.
across the plate.
As a mound reserve the Shelby
coach has two tested hur1*rs in
Whisnant and Duncan, with Shep
ard, a southpaw, as the fourth man.
Blacksburg Woman
On School Board
Mr#. Sam Lattimore Awarded Place
As Trustee By Referee
There.
Gaffney. S. C., April 27.—Mrs.
Sam C. Lattimore, of Blacksburg,
has been declared the winner of an
election for school trustee held at
Blacksburg May 13, last year, In a
report filed In the cleric of court’s
office here by J. C. Fort, special
referee.
In the election, according to the
records, Lyman Martin, Mrs. Lattl
more's only opponent, received 2S
votes to 28 for Mrs. Lattlmore. A
few weeks afterwards, Rev. B. L.
Hoke. Cherokee county superintend
ent of education, declared the elec
tion, null and voil, and appointed
B. 8. Bonebrake to fill the position.
Investigation showed, according to
the referee's report, that some of the
votes cast for Martin were illegal.
The referee pointed out that the
county superintendent had no au
thority In law for his action, and
that since Mrs. Lattlmore secured
a majority of the legal votes cast
she should be declared elected.
Legion Juniors Get
Game And Lose One
Shelby's American Legion junior
baseball team won one game last
week and lost out
playing at Cliffside Thursday the
local youngsters l06t 12 to 9, then
defeated Forest City Saturday 9 to
4.
All Shelby boys under 17 \ oar,, ol
age who would like to try out for
the team are requested to repot * at
the Shelby mill ball park each Mon
day. Wednesday and Friday after
noon
Nevada Is consistent, anyway
Having enabled people to marry
early and often it legalised all
forms ot gambling —New Yor;;
Telegram.
Competition
Keen In Golf
Tourney Here
Webb And Rippy Tied At End (i:i
Holes. Good Play tn Other
Matches.
Competition has been keen in nil
illghts of the annual Cleveland
Springs golf which started list week
and continued through this week.
In the special flight match of 72
holes between “Snook'' Webb and
Claude Brown Hippy the two young
golfers were tied at the end of 63
holes and are playing off the match
today.
First Flight.
Only two players have advanced
beyond their first match in the first
flight. These are Harry Umst ni and
Charlie Keel. In his first match
Keel defeated Ben Ely Hendrik
three and one and in a • eetmd
match defeated .Spurgeon -Hewitt
one tip. Umated defeated H O. Long
one up bj his first match anti the .
defeated Alt' Eskridge eight a.id
seven. In other matches played n
far in the first flight E y. Webb
defeated Hugh Plaster two up Renn
Drug defeated L. B. Hayes four up
and in their first matches, before
losing later. Alf Eskridge defeated
Gena Schenck three up and Spui
geon Hewitt defeated J. F. Jenkir.;;
one up. Two first flight amtehts
have not been played yet.
In the second flight John 'Schenck.
sr., defeated John Schenck, ,1r..
three up, Roger Lauglnidge defeat
ed O. M. Mull one up. and. Forrest
Brackett defeated Charle- Fem-y
four up. One match has not hceii
played in this flight.
No matches have been p!,v e J in
|ribs may be broken.
Highs Trample
Bessemer City
In Title Game
Visiting Team Gives tp in Seventh
With 18-0 Score. Mav hew
Homers.
The Shelby lush baseball team
seemingly never settles down t-»
real determined action until the.
championship series starts.
Flaying the first, game of.the
championship here Friday afternoon,
the Morrismen staged a regular field
day. defeating Bessemer City 10 to 0
in seven innings of play. that
time the score was so lop-sided that
the Bessemer team tossed In the
sponge and conceded the -.ieuuy to
Shelby.
Hitting Hard.
All members of the local club were :
hitting hard and often. Base hit
rained all over the park and Shelby
scored six runs in the fourth ir.ttiir
and another half dozen in the sixth.
1 addition to hitting hard, th Mor
rismen played great defensue ball
and gave Peters fine support to en
able him to pitch a shutout.
Ken Mavhew, slugging shortstop
pounded a drive over the centcrfh ld
palings to register nis fifth home
run of the year. He also socked r,ut
a double and was n constant threat
at bat. Wilson, Barrett and other
were also hitting stars.
Shift Infield.
Coach Casey Morris shifted .us de
fense considerably for the cham
pionship series and seems to have
improved the general play Of the
team. Hubert Wilson was sent to
' t ight field from first base. Shorty
McSwatn, veteran Infieldet, \vu
1 transferred from second to firs', aiid
Divine was shifted from ’ hird to
second with Purp Barrett ,oh"- to
, third from rigfttfieid.
White Leghorn Hen
Lays 5 Ounce Egg
From the .size of the egg produc
ed, a number of the white leghorn
hens In the flock of 500 belonging
to Webb Hunt in the Mount Sinai
section, near Broad river school
house, must have combined their
i efforts to produce an egg ot record
size. Mr. Hunt found a wliite leg
ihorn egg in his barnyard widen
weighs five ounces. Over a quarter
fof a pound for a white leghorn egg
t i." some slee foi Leghorn
From Cell to President
i
Front a prison <
part of the .-p'
appeared whil*
revolt Jasrt V>
aside the Foui
«unri
o » tdao* power at l;re •dent of Spain has been
i . of lion Nieeto '/lamora. shown as he j
‘it® ' l ial tfadrid for his part in the Spanish
■ i f f-.e inoaari’histfc wave which- swept
■ot ■.y.-. ; . the liepubiiean leader freedom
Belwood Graduates 24 Students;
List Of Medal Winners-Family Of
5 Attend Under Great Handicaps
• Special to The Star.'
Behv.ood, April 27. Last Tuesday
e\:M diploma were deliver;--:!
to as; many seniors on tin* stain: of
Be l wood school uuditOrium. ihl
marked the closing of another good
year of the school's history. At ihi
meeting Prof. Carver. Supt. of Hick-"
ory city schools, spoke to more than
800 people on the subject, 'failure]
or Success." The sv>i ■'1:r~ made
plain to his audience .that' the
greatest succcs in life- i not meas
ured In silver and gold Thai per
son who give- to the world halo,
weil-propar.d, honest citizens, who
have the dcu.ininu' ion tv stand up
for tire right in the face of great,
opposition has after all made a
greater success than the whiner of
much maerial property. Mr. Car
ver also suded Unit the only reason
we think tnc training of our youth
Is cowing so much, we are forced to
pay for it. "If 1, were like drinks so
wfe could buy it as a luxury. wo
would not feel it iuih a burden, VVc
would wail: and buy a glass of Eng
ish. a cone of Math, a barth of
science, pay for l. and go on our'
way feeling refreshed." mid the:
speaker.
Medal \\ nmcr.v
Medals were, also delivered a*
lids time. The following wine til.
medal whiners for the year. The
two Herff-Jonex medal-. for tfte
best all-around boy and girl tor tin
year,won by Delmar Propst and
Elsie' Lon Burns. In order to win
these medals a pupil must have a
good attitude toward his studies, a
good construe,ne attitude towur!
the school and school .propen
must take part in athletics and be
n good sport in all games and a,
ull times. Music medal, given by
Miss Spangler won by Murial fid
wards. Male Ledl'ord was given a
$2a0 gold piece for second best in
music. Tile Hoev medal for m vu,
Improvement tn debate was won bv
O. Z. Falls. This medal was pre
•cuted by Dr. F. D, Edwards The
Gardner debater medal for im
provement was won by atough
Peeler. Bel wood Collar 'company
presents this medil. The principal's
medal for best declaimin' was won
by Sum Sain. Tire recitation medal
given by XV.' K. Porter, went to Ei
vena Ivester. The H. u. Stanley
scholarship medal for girls was won
by Male Willis. Mrs. H O. Stnmey
gives this medal. C F. Falls won the
scholarship for boys, Sheriff E w.
Dixon gives this medal.
Good Family Iteeonl.
In athletics this year live boys
won letters, uhd five won slurs!
Although German measles ha.
their sway anil tew esc«p< d the pest
75 pupils -attended every dgy. One
family in the district lie cries hon-1
orable mention for their faithful at
tendance. Mr. Claude Willi- hi
never let his children miss a day
during the tive years the school ha
been ih session Many handicaps,
have befallen them. Just before,
school closed last October. the
mother of the family was taken
seriously ill, was taken to the Shel
by hospital for treatment. School'
closed Friday evening. Tha^ night \
Mrs. Willis passed to her reward.
The children were late sometime1
but always were here. During the;
early spring days, an afflicted
brother developed a case of kidney j
colic and later pneumonia. One Sat-1
urday night he died The children;
attended the funeral Monday morn-;
ihg amt came to school in'the aft-'
ernoon. I
Attendance is no problem. A tew
have been excused for various rea-'
»0ns but most of the people ate
anxious to have their children at
tend regularly.
Good music was furnished by the |
American Legion band of Morgan
ton.
Monday evening the senior class
presented their own production, a
play, A Peep into the Future,” to
an overflowing auditorium The:
class made a very beautiful picture,!
and according to the order the aud
ience was well entertained.
Sermon On "Service.”
i Sunday afternoon, April 19,
3:.'JU Dr. E. B. Jenkins delivered a
good .sermon to another full house
Dr. Jenkins' subject was "Service.”
i lie speaker s howed how the Mas
ter went through the world, let his
own life be worn out hi service Cor
other- He also drew a very beauti
ful word painting of the grain 01
wheat, how it would offer itself to
be .ground to bits in order that the
people of the world might have
bread But the beauty of the white
flour was shown as ample pay for
the suffering of the grind. “So it is
with the human life.”
Friday.evening. April 17, the jun
ior high school drew "Rings in tire
Sawdust' lor about 400 people.
Wednesday evening, April la, Miss
Spangler and her music pupils en
tertained about 300 people with a
music recital,
Tuesday evening. April 14. 4ul)
people listened to and watched over
100 children present “The Palace of
Carelessness,"
April to the grammar grades pre
sented "Sonny of Sumiyside," to
about 4jo
Now the Boy Scouts, how they
made these programs a success and
pleasant for the great crowds. One
evening while in the midst yf a pro
gram Dr. Edwards was call'd. The
skillful work of the scouts made it
possible for him to easily get. his
ear from the many parked on the
ground. As principal of the school
f leel that I would be lost without
their help not only at cornmence
■■ .nr. but all during the year.
People in the Belwood school dls
• * ict are and have at all times been
xval to their,school and teachers.
W never have any trouble in get
a cr.'wd for any occasion that
we spi t.,.or. No one appreciates this
more than the principal and teach
ers of the school. The order at these
gatherings is always very good.
Dunni: tiie five year of the school
we have never had any troub’e
worthy of mention, nut very little
roughness has been shown in the
•"-hool work by the pupils. Please let
it be understood that in saying this
wo teachers are only expressing our
appreciation and not begging the
favors.
But very few changes will be
nude in the faculty for the coming
year unless something new shows
up.
We must not forget the good spirit
>i' athletics that our boys and girls
t’y io uphold. Tlie community
should fee and is: proud'-of such a
bench of youths.
We teachers are due much to our
good committeemen, who have been
at opr backs and on our heels at
til! times. School committeemen are
sometimes criticised wjr unjustly.
Our experience has been that they
arc always thinking of the best In
rc.st of tlietr community and try
;ng as best they can to earn the "big
■hat v they receive for service.
C. A. LEDFORD.
Two Shelby Youths
Stars Of Contest
When the State college freshman
baseball team defeated the Oak
Hidge prep school team Saturday
the stars on each team were Shelby
boys and former teammates in the
Shelby high school. Hal Farrlr
catcher, led the hitting for the
State fresh with three out of four
and Milky Gold starred for the
cadets with three out of four.
Negro Struck By
Auto And Injured
Robert Hector, colored, who works
lor Hoyt Cline, was painftullv In
jured Sunday night just above
Lawndale when he was struck nud
knocked down, it is said, by a truck
driven by some white boys. The col*
ored man was walking along the
road, reports are, when he was hit.
The truck failed to stop. Hector
said, and someone else brought him
to the hospital here. He has a bad
laceration on one arm and several
l ibs m bn y bo broken #
Legislature May
Break Deadlock
(CONTINUED FROM PAGES ONE)
week past, but before hopes got too
high, they were cut off and the
darkness Was blacker than ever
Other rays may break through, and
may end abruptly, and some day or
night, the clouds nvay clear and
order come out of the chaos that
envelops the general assembly at
the end of its 16th week and 106th
day.
The house appeals fixed in its de- i
termination to make effective the
state support of the six months
school term, and by means in large
part by the general sales tax of one
per cent on gross sales. The senate
seems just as determined, even with
a smaller majority, to have the Fol
ger-Orier plan of a *10.000,000 equal
icing fund for school aid without a
luxury or general sales tax, except
the one for one-tenth of one pat
cent, which it Included in the rev
enue bill.
The committees from the two
houses have struggled in vain for a
solution. The senate committee came
back to the senate to ask for in
structions. That body immediately
received a resolution to instruct
them to support a commodity—a
luxury—tax; The supporters of that
resolution thought they had won
over a vote, enough to tie the sen
ate and require President H. T.
Fountain to break the tie for that
tax. Biit in winning one, they lost
another, and the senate, for the
third or fourth time, voted down
1 he luxury tax, 26 to 24.
Senator Frank Dunlap, of Anson,
one of the conferees, tried to offer
an amendment, a compromise, on
which he thought all could agree.1
but Senator Rivers Johnson, confi-i
dent the commodity or luxury tax;
instruction would be carried, refus
ed to let it Ire introduced and cut
off debate by the parliamentary
weapon of “calling for the previous
question."
Tire next day the general sales tax
proposal, for the third or lourLh
time, was placed before the senate,
in the form of a resolution to in
struct the senate conference com
mute to supjrort it. Again it was lost
by tire decisive vote of 33 to j. sev
eral not voting
Senator Dunlap's amendment,
which was not offered, was a com
promise. By it. the senate commit
tee would have been instructed to
vote for the luxury tax, as art
emergency, for two years only, and
Whether or not it should be contin
ued be left to a vote of the people
in the next election. I would require
economies included in the Folgsr
school bill to be included, thus re
ducing the cost of the schools That
was what the senate Mac Dean
measure advocates turned down not
even learning of its provisions un
til later.
In the house, a resolution was in
troduced, seeking to have that body
stop and investigate, getting addi
tional facts and figures and all in
formation possible, as to what the
arious proposals would mean, in
stead of continuing hard-headecdv
and determinedly in its course of
the state complete support of the
six months term. The house refus’d
to act on it immediately, sending it
to the finance committee, thus again
resisting all efforts to modify the
provisiones of the MacLean meas
ure. “I'm broke, and I want to go
hoiae,” said Representative Halstead,
of Camden, a MacLean measure
supporter, in calling upon his fel
low-members to view the matter
sanely and sensibly.
Representative MacLean, sponsor
of the act, is quoted as having said
that his objecct was to organise
his forces in support of the state
operation, in order that an increase
in the equalizing fund to $10,000,000.
But. it is stated, his forces are so or
ganized. due to the economic condi
tions, general depression, Rnd pres
sure from those seeking relief, that
they have gone on ahead of their
leader and that he is powerless to
stop them at the goal he set out to
reach. But for that, it ts believed,
he would call upon supporters ct
measure to accept the $10.00,000
equalizing fund.
The house and senate have other
differences which conference com
mittees have been unable to com
pose. A deadlock developed In the
bill to regulate public service busses
and trucks, operated on regular
schedules, and another arose in the
school attendance—child labor bill,
raising the miuimu mof education
from the fourth to the sixth grade
before a child is permitted has been
employed by4his session, the two
houses balking at actions of the
other.
The bill providing for a re-orpen
ization of the department of labor
and including women in industry
child welfare, statistics on Industry
and the industrial commission in its
scope, has been enacted. The act
enlarges the work, making un for
the printing and supply features
taken over by the division of pur
chase and contract,
The justice of the peace bin, near
ly a month late, has been enacted,
thus naming several hundred jus
tices whose terms expired April 1.
Many of them have performed of
ficial acts and it is probable that a
Mil will be enacted to validate the
acts of all of those appointed. The
omnibus education bill was also late
in getting through and old boards
in some Instances performed such
acts as electing a county superin
tendent just before retiring. An r.ct
will probably be passed invalidating
such actions, since they are not
legal. The omnibus Confederate per.
slon bill was enacted last week.
Reciprocity arrangements may
now be made With other states, rel
ative to licenses on cars operating
in more than one state, through
enactment of the reciprocity law
Gastonia Boy Hurt
In Wreck; His Pals
Get Fine In Court
Elmer MeFalls, young man said
to be from Gastonia, is in the £?nel
by hospital suffering with bruises
and other Injuries suffered in ar,
automobile wreck near MooresiMro,
this county, late last night, in com
fy court today his pals in the auto
mobile which was wrecked #&••; giv
en a hearing and O. L. Hope, said
to be the driver, was fined $50 and
the costs while. Ernest- 'Barker was
taxed with the Costs. Another youth
in the car was not apprehended
Their automobile, it is said, turn
ed over near Mooresboro, pinning
McFalis in the wreckage. A passing
motorist rushed him to the hospital
here. Around 2 or 3 o’clock this
morning city and county officers ar
rested Hope and Barker as they
were walking along the highway
east of the city near the fair
grounds. They were said to have
been drinking.
Against Importing
School Teachers
Editor Star:
May I have space In your paper
to express my personal opinion con
cerning the natural rights and wel
fare of public school teachers re-,
siding in this county and state, andj
. the obligation and duty which this
i county and state owes to the par
ents who have prepared and equip
ped thctr sons and daughters to
teach school at great sacrifice and
costs.
During the past year our leaders
arid public ' officials have said a
great deal about "economy” and
“live at home.” In fact we practise
neither. Cleveland county continues
to import her school teachers from
South Carolina and other communi
ties, while the sons and daughters
of our tax payers are denied and
refused employment as teachers by
our public officials. Is there any
justification whatever for this con
dition of affairs? I understand that
several colleges of North Carolina
are rated and classed among the
highest hi the country.
South Carolina has probably gone
further than any state in carrying
out the “live at home” idea, in fact
it has become a second religion and
a Sunday worship with them. Each
Sunday a certain organization
broadcasts from Spartanburg a
radio program asking their citizens
to “purchase South Carolina pro
ducts and help South Carolina;" it
is said that in constructing the
present highway system in South
Carolina that all contracts must be
let to citizens of South Carolina,
that all material must be purchased
in that state, and all labors and
employees must be of that state.
South Carolina has been so active
along this “purchase employ and
live at home” philosophy that only
recently a member of the present
legislature at Raleigh proposed a
counter resolution or act requiring
public officials of North Carolina to
employ resident teachers of North
Carolina.
In conclusion I desire to say that
we do not want to surround our
selves with a wall as did ancient
■ China. However, we should adopt a
I policy that would encourage the
parents of this county to prepare
and train their children for the
profession of teaching. Under pres
ent conditions It appears difficult
for our own boys and girls to pro
cure employment in the public
schools of Cleveland county, regard
less of their ability and qualifica
tion. "Charity begins at home.”
P CLEVELAND GARDNER.
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