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10 PAGES ! TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday and Kriday Afternoons *“"• "" ’*"• “n ———_,_ _ ’ ‘•'••n, o*f rear, (in ad, anoei Late News Fair Saturday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair tonight and Saturday. 1.1 ve At Home: Raleigh. June 19.—The ‘Itve-at fcome” idea does not mean “every fanner for himself, but it also means North Carolina farm products for the North Carolina city men and the North Carolina city market for North Carolina farm products” Gov ernor Gardner declared In a radio address last night. Thieves Steal New Auto, Loot Store In Shelby Big Raid Made In City Last Night Cline Chevrolet Company And Wrlght-Baker Store Entered, Robbed. Loot including: a new automo bile, a quantity of wearing ap parel and some money was taken in four robberies staged In ' Shelby some time last night. City officers believe the same gang staged all four robberies. A new Chevrolet coach was taken from the garage of D. Huss Cline on East Warren street, a quantity of clothing from the Wright-Baker department store on North LaFay ette street, and money from True love's colored cafe on Trade alley and the colored barbershop and pool room on N. Washington street, to the rear of the Webb theatre. Enter By Windows. Entrance in the Cline garage was made by breaking a window on the side and then unlocking the rear door of the building. The new coach, fully equipped, was taken from the testing rack and out the rear door. The car is maroon colored and has nickel-plated tire covers. The motor number of the car, according to Chief McBride Poston was 2728741. Entrance in the Wright-Baker store was also made by entering a rear window just above the bars on the lower portion of the window. A check-up of the apparel taken from the store covered three men’s suits, 10 women’s dresses, one slicker, a woman's coat, three women’s hats and other clothing:. Small sums of money were taken from nickel-slot pool tables in the Truelove cafe and the colored bar bershop. Police Chief Poston and his offi cers were pretty confident today that they had a good clue as to the identity of the thieves but no names were made public until the officers have an opportunity of ascertaining their whereabouts. The new auto, it is understood was driven about the city for some time after being taken from the garage. Cemetery Addition Not Agree Upon Yet Price Has Been Agreed Upon But Quantity And Location Not Settled. It was learned from the city al dermen Tuesday night In meeting assembled, that the acreage and lo cation of the addition to Sunset j cemetery which the city will buy to enlarge the burying ground, have not been agreed upon. A committee from the board was appointed to buy additional land for the enlarge ment of Sunset cemetery some months ago and this committee agreed to buy land owned by Avery W. McMurry adjoining the present cemetery at a price of $500 per acre. Mr. McMurry owns all the land available for expansion, some of which lies more suitable for plot ting than other contiguous land. Members of the board stated Tues day night that only suitable and usable land would be accepted and that In the development, cemetery plots of carrying prices will be pro vided, together with free plots for those unable to buy cemetery lots. Mrs. Donie Wright Dies In Asheville Former Resident of Shelby And Daughter of Late Sheriff Dob Suttle. Mrs. Donie Wright, age 78, widow of Ed Wright, died in Asheville Wednesday night at 7 o’clock and was buried there Thursday after noon. Attending the funeral from Shelby were Mayor and Mrs. A. W. hfcMurry, Misses Kate Webb and Elizabeth McBrayer, Mrs. Paul Webb and Forrest Eskridge, all relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Wright’s hus band was drowned on a Sunday school picnic about 35 years ago. Surviving are three children, Wallace and Ed Wright ,of Ashe ville, and one daughter. Mrs. Roy Marshall of California. Two sisters, Misses Emma and Frances Suttle and one brother, Joe Suttle, all of >»heville, also survive. * Less Unemployment In Shelby Than In Average N. C. City Only 154 Out Of Work Here Thomasville Only City Showing I/ess Unemployed. County Fig ures Given. | There were only 154 unemployed | people in Shelby and just 329 in Cleveland county when the 1930 census figures released to The Star this week by the census bureau. Only one of the 16 cities In North Carolina having a population oi 10.000 people had a smaller number of unemployed in 1930 than did Shelby. That city was Thomasville, not quite as large as Shelby which had 25 less unemployed. County Rank Good. The county ranking in unemploy ment was also low as compared to other counties of similar size. ; No county in the State having over 40.000 population—Cleveland has 51,000—had less unemployed people than Cleveland, according to the census figures. 4,361 Working The figures show that in 1930 4,- j 361 of the 10,789 people in Shelby: were gainfully employed. Of the 154 unemployed 131 were persons looking for work and un able to get work. Of this number 103 were males and 28 females. Twenty-three of the unemployed total were voluntarily Idle or sick, 17 in this class being males and six females. In The County. Of the 329 unemployed in the county 233 were males and 96 fe males. Two hundred and forty-two of these were unable to find work and 87 were voluntarily idle or sick. Of these unable to find work 180 w’ere males and 62 females. Of the voluntarily idle 53 were males and 34 females. The percentage of employed in Cleveland county was considerably above that average for the entire State. Rutherford county with a popula tion of 40,452 had 14,281 gainful Workers workers, or nearly 6,000 less than the 20.044 in Cleveland. Burke with a population of 29.410 had 9.248 gainful workers and 613 unemployed while Cleveland had only 329 unemployed. Of the 78,c** people in Gaston. 31,392 were gain fully employed and 3,352 were un empoved. Spake Elected Group Superintendent At the monthly Sunday school meeting of the Kings Mountain Sunday school association which met at Pleasant Ridge last Sunday, June 14, Mr. A. P. Spake of Shelby was appointed group superintend ent of group 8. He succeeds Z. M. Preeman who has moved away. Mr. Spake is well posted on Sun day school work. He was the first i man to teach the Sunday school manual in this association and taught the class at Elizabeth. He once held Sunday school conven tions on fifth Sundays. HAS KNEE CAP FRACTURE IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Willie Bullington, 24 year old white man of Kings Mountain was brought to the Shelby hospital Wednesday evening in an ambul ance, suffering with a fractured knee cap as a result of an automo bile accident. I uMiss Universe*' Presenting “Mis* Universe” in the beautiful face and figure of Netta Duchateau, who was Miss Belgium in the twelfth international pa geant of pulchritude at Galveston, Texas. She defeated Anne Lee Patterson, of Ludlow, Ky., chosen as Miss United States, and seven other European beauty queens, to be crowned Miss Universe. She’s 17 and has long, dark hair. Legion Elects Post Officers, State Delegates New post officers and dele gates to the state convention were elected Wednesday night by members of the Warren Hoyle American Legion post of Shelby. Capt. Peyton McSwain was elect ed post commander to succeed So licitor W. S. Beam. ~ m Henry A. Mills and Robert D. Crowder were elected vice comman ders. Tom Abernethy was elected ad jutant, Basil Goode, finance officer, M. R. Weathers, service officer, W. S. Beam, guardianship officer, A. W. Archer, sergeant-at-arms, Grif fin P. Smith, chaplain, Chas. J. Woodson, historian, B. M. Jarrett, athletic officer, T. C. Stamey, child welfare officer, H. R. Royster, Amer icanism officer, McBride Poston, employment officer, E. B. Jarrett, membership officer, and E. A. Hou ser, publicity officer. Delegates, The following were named dele gates to the Morehead City con vention, beginning July 26: Robert D. Crowder, chairman; Tom Aber nethy, O. W. Powell, Basil Goode, Hemy A. Mills, Chas. H. Williams, and A. W. Archer. Alternates named were S. M. Poston, Arthur H. Sides, and R. E. Sparks. Friends of Mr. John K. Wells will be glad to know that he is recover ing nicely after a sudden attack of illness yesterday. To Increase Highway Patrolmen In State; Shelby To Have One Officer Will Increase Force From 37 To 60, Chairman Jeffrcss Informs. Charlotte, June 18.—The state highway commission announces Its purpose to increase the personnel of the state highway patrol from 37 to 60 men and to localize the organiza tion by assigning at least one man to practically every town in the state Of more than 5,000 population. The number of patrol districts will be reduced from nine to five to correspond in number and location to the five highway divisions re cently established. An officer, to hold the rank either of lieutenant or captain, will be in charge of each patrol district. He will have a sort of roving job with the duty of cov ering regularly his entire district and supervising the patrolmen work ing from home bases in the district. “Charlotte, as well as the other larger cities of the state, will be the permanent home base of at least two patrolmen who will regularly cover the hghways leading out from the city,” Highway Chairman E. B. Jeffress stated. “And we %re going to assign the men so that each town in the state of more than 5,000 per sons will be the home base of at least one man. Under this plan, there will be an officer regularly stationed at Concord. Gastonia, Shelby, and Salisbury and other cities and towns of the Piedmont and western area. Each man will be assigned to cover a certain mileage of the highways leading out from the^ in which he is stationed.” The increase in personnel will be effected, Mr. Jeffress said, without any material increase in the budget. The commission will save enough In reduced travelling expenses to meet most of the additional salaries. Un der the previous plan, he explained, patrolmen have been transferred from district to district, at stated ln 4CONTINUED ON PAOK IEN ; < Mrs. Hoyle To \ Reach America On Ship Today Shelby Gold Star Mother Returning: , From Trip To Grave Of Son. Mrs. Frank L. Hoyle. Shelby Gold Star mother who has been on a trip to the grave of her son in France,; Is expected to land in New York to day and may reach home Sunday, relatives here have been Informed. Mrs. Hoyle left Shelby May 17. a month ago Wednesday, and sailed from New York on the President Harding on May 20. She arrived at Cherbourg on May 28 and spent ap proximately two weeks In France, visiting cemeteries and battlefields before sailing for home on June 11 oh the Roosevelt, tlad Fine Trip. Letters back home describe her trip as "wonderful." Every minute of the trip was thoroughly enjoyed and the mothers In Mrs. Hoyle's party, more than one hundred, were treated with every courtesy. While in France her headquarters were at the historic French clty.S olssons. It was from that place Mrs. Hoyle made her tripes out to the Alsne Mame cemetery, where her son Warren Hoyle, for whom the Shelby Legion post was named, is burled. The Gold Star mothers were also es corted to numerous battlefields and scenic spots in France. She had no trouble at all in locat ing the grave of her son and while there placed upon it a wreath given by the American and French gov ernments. She also had her photo graph made standing by the marker over the grave of the boy she gave to her country. The cemetery was described In her letters back home as being the most beautiful she had ever seen. The location was said to be Ideal and the big plot kept up and well cared for. The work of beautifying the cemetery, where hundreds of American boys sleep, is still being carried on. In one of her letters she stated that she might visit the grave of Frank Hayes, an other Shelby boy buried in France and a pal of her son, but as the Hayes grave was quite a distance from her son’s it is not known whether she was able to do so. Het letters contained many other interesting descriptions of the bat tlefields. historic French towns and scenic sights and other events of importance in her trip. Mrs. Hoyle was not a bit seasick on the trip over and thoroughly en joyed her sea voyage. Mr. Miller, Waco Man Dies; A Brother Here Lewis H. Miller Passes At Age 78. Buried At Old Capemlum. Lewis H. Miller, prominent citi zen of Waco, was buried last Fri day at Old Capernium burying ground, the funeral services being conducted by his pastor Rev. John W. Suttle. Mr. Miller died Thursday afternoon of last week, nearing his 78th birthday in July. He was born and reared in the Waco community and joined the church at Old Caper nium, later becoming a charter member of Waco Baptist church. He had been in declining health for four or five years and critically ill for three weeks before the end came. Mr. Miller was a quiet, un assuming man, but a loyal friend and faithful church member. Deceased was twice married, to Sara Kendrick 57 years ago and to Sallie Kendrick 39 years ago. Two children were born to each union, three of whom survive, James Mill er, of Florida, Stough Miller and Mrs. Myrtle Rayburn, of Waco. Three brothers also survive, Tom, John and Ezra Miller. Mr. Tom Miller, a brother who lives in Shel by with his daughter, Mrs. Fred Morton in Belvedere is critically ill. Shelby Singers At Westminster School Ithaca, N. Y., June 18.—Choristers from 73 churches, some as distant as West LaFayette, Ind., and Shel by, N. C., were arriving here today for the second annual Talbott fes “tical of the Westminster choir school. The exercises are to con tinue for three days. Saturday. 10b choral organizations comprising 4,-. 600 university. All of the visiting ! choirs are affiliated with the West-' minster school IncSwain Given Encouragement For 1932 Race Shelby Man Considers Making Run State Senator Urged by Friend* In ‘in N. C., To Speak Attorney General Office. Since reports came out of Raleigh last week stating that Senator Pey ton McSwaln, of Shelby, was being discussed as a candidate for attor ney general hi 1932 the local man has received many offers of support from friends in all sectiosn of the state. Talking to The Star today he said *‘I cannot say as yet what I may do about It, but the encouragement given me since I was first mention ed is cheering. In fairness to n>y friends over the state who are ask ing me to make the race T must say that I am giving the matter serious consideration." In Raleigh Now. The Shelby attorney Is In Raleigh for the week end in connection with a receivership of an agricultural credit company which he engineer ed for a group of Cleveland farmers, and It is likely that while there he will make an effort to ascertain how things are lining up in political cir cles. ,—r■ Attorney General Dennis G. Brum mitt will not likely be a candidate again as he is considered in the run ning for governor. With that gener ally known three prospective candi dates have been talked for the of fice. Has Two Advantages. Of the candidates discussed the Shelby man has two advantages at the staring point which the others cannot claim. He is the only pros pective candidate west of Raleigh and the Piedmont and Western sec tions of the state have hot had an attorney general in many years. Senator McSwain, to, is the only World war veteran mentioned for the office so far. With the growing strength of ex-service men in North Carolina politics this is a decided asset. Get Jail Trusty With Whiskey In Court House Here T. i F. Green Had Portion Of Pint. Told Officers Webb Gave It To Him. County and city officers stag ed an unusual roup here last night and early today when they najbbed a jail trusty with some whiskey in the basement of the court house. As a result Of the apprehension T. F. Green, formerly a barber of Grover, had his freedom as a trusty revoked and Louis (Pork Chop) Webb was arrested charged with giving the whiskey to Green. The latter was serving a 12-months sen tence for operating an automobile while under the influence of whis key and was being used as a care taker of the court square and aid to the court house janitor. Yesterday officers received a tip that there was whiskey about the court house basement. Shortly there after a pint with a drink or two taken out was found in the basement Believing it to belong to Green, Sheriff Irvin M. Allen and Chief McBride Poston secreted themselves and watched the whiskey early last night about the time Green was to quit work and return to the Jail. He did not go about the whiskey dur ing the evening, however. This morning when he was turned out at Jail, the sheriff called Deputy Ed Dixon and had him come to the court house before Green could ar rive there. Deputy Dixon was secret ed in the basement when Green, it is alleged, walked in to get the whiskey this morning. He was im mediately taken back to Jail, He later informed officers that he secured the liquor, a pint, from Webb, but said that he did not buy it as it was a gift. When brought into court Webb denied that he had given or sold the whiskey to Green, declaring he knew nothing about it. On the stand Green testified that Webb did give it to him. Webb was placed under a $500 bond until Monday morning when the case will be taken up again after officers make further investigation. Legion Teams Play. The Shelby American Legion Junior league team is playing the Gastonia Legion team in the city park here this afternoon. The Gas tonia team won the state and dis trict legion championship last year. 'The teams are made up of boys un der 17 years of age. Comforts Retired “IT” Girl Temporarily retired from motion pictures alter a career that lasted seven years, Clara Bow, the famous “IT" girl, has forsaken the bright .! lights of Hollywood for the peaceful seclusion of a cattle ranch. She doesn’t want anything to remind her of Klieg lights, bawling directors or whirring cameras in her new environment and her titian locks have now reverted to the shade that gentlemen prefer. Miss Bow is shown j above in an affectionate pose with her fnend Re* Bell, the owner of the ranch where she is recuperating. 1 Bachelor Brothers Said To Be Best Small Grain Farmers-Beams Get Best Oat Rating By Expert Shuford And Thomas Beam Grow Four Crops In Same Land At One Time. Small Grain. Shuford Beam and Thamer Beam, bachelor brothers of No. 5 township are the leading small grain farmers In Cleveland county and Its revela tion to visit their 325 acre farm during the wheat and oat harvest season. Around the Grain Shocks. George Blanton, Dr. J. a. Doiton, A. E, Cline and the editor of The Star took an afternoon spin Wed nesday out by Waco, St. Paul, Beams Mill and back by Tom Corn well's to view the crops and more 'especially the small grain crops. It's a picture to see the golden fields of wheat and oats, the bounty of meadow hay at Zeb Cline's and the binders and cradles in operation on most every farm along the route. 8ome of the grain Is in shock wait ing for the threashers to start their rounds. On every hand there was evidence of a live-at-:home program with the finest and largest grain acreage Cleveland county has had In many years. With the gardens and orchards yielding tlietr fruits, it looks as the governor's home pro gram has had Us effect In the coun ty. The route the scouting dew took with the sprightly fair secretary at the wheel was out by the Oates, Dameron and Black farms through Waco, up by Shuford Beam's, Miles Harrelson, Baker's Cross roads, J. B. Smith's, Andrew and Bonnie El liott’s, down No. 18 to Wright's store where the car turned in through Tom Cornwell's, Forrest Lutz and back to town through the E. F. Mc Kinney plantation, one of the larg (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN * Mrs. Byers Victim Double Pneumonia Died In Shelby Hospital. Funeral This Afternoon. Bury In Cherokee. Mrs. Lucy Byers, wife of E. V. Byers of Bolling Springs died at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening In the Shelby hospital where she was a patient suffering with double pneumonia. Mrs. Byers was 36 years and eleven months old. She and her husband moved to Boiling Springs from Cherokee county five or six years ago. She was a fine Christian woman and greatly beloved in the community where she lived. Surviving are her husband, twin boys, Marvin and Marshall, and one son, Ray Byers, ten years old. Her remains were buried this afternoon at 2 o’clock at Macedonia church in Cherokee county. Rotariafts Stage Barbecue Session Rotary Ann* To Be Guest* Of Club Members At Barbecue This Eve. This is the big evening for Shel by Rotarlans and their Rotary Anns. The semi-annual "ladies night" of the club will not be so formal this time as It will be staged in open air barbecue fashion this evening at 6 o'clock at Cleveland Springs AJ1 members are expected to take their wives or sweethearts and three different meats have been bar becued for the occasion. Ehringhaus Favorite In East For Governor In 1932, Editor Declares Fountain Does Not Have Section | “Locked Up” As Supporters Claim. Raleigh, June 18.—In spite of all the handshaking and cross-roads politicking that has been done by Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain and his claims that he will carry virtually every county in eastern North Carolina in the Democratic primary next June and win the nomnation for governor, friends of the other candidates maintain that Fountain's claims are far too broad Supporters of Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, who comes from Oxford, Granville county, maintain that he already has strong support in many eastern counties and that his strength in the east will grow stronger as the campaign advances. • But the friend* and supporters of f J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus. of Elizabeth ) City, are especially aroused at *he extravagant claims made by Foun-! *» tain and his friends and maintain that Ehrtnghaus is exceedingly strong not only in the eastern coun-‘ ties but through the Piedmont and western part of the state as well and that he is going to gain in strength in all these sections as soon as the campaign get under way and Ehring haus sets before the people. Opinion in political circles here continue to maintain that Fountain, Brummitt and Ehringhaus are still the leading candidates in field for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor. although several others are mentioned as possible “dark horses.” Among these are A. J. Maxwell, com missioner of revenue, Willis Smith, speaker of he house in the 1931 gen eral assembly, and Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer. But none of these has definitely an nounced that he will be a candidate and few believe any of them will, with the possible exception of Max well. He is not expected to enter the «! Kiwanis Backs Proposed Road Into McDowell Surfaced Highway To Be Asked Civic Club Also Interested In Gal riant For City. Other Road Talk. An aggressive program wai launched by the Kiwanis club Iasi night whereby the surfacing o slate highway No. 190 from Shelb] through PolkviUe, Golden Vallej and terminating at Marion will ta ‘fough|, and the city adminlstratior win again be asked to let a fran i li|se to some gas company or givi their reasons for declining to do so It was a night for the appoint ments of committees after an open forum discussion of highways, ga? plant, one-afternoon-a-week clos ing during the summer months, 4tc Not Received Fair Road Deal. County Accountant A. E. Cline and Representative Henry Edwardf confined their remarks to highways both of them making the statement that Cleveland had not received It" Just share of roads built by state funds. They expressed the feeling that an aggressive program should be launched and a concerted action be taken, more especially for the Mirfarlng of highway No . 190 through PolkviUe and Oolden Val ley in Rutherford county to Mar ton. Mr. Cline stated that he had no intimation whatever, that the coun ty'commissioners would be consulted as to the county system of roads, the appointment of road officials and the maintenance of roads. He was told by the assistant to Engi neer Walker at Asheville, where the headquarters for this division "E” are maintained, that they knew very little about Cleveland In the Asheville office. Organization Set-Up. Mr. Cline outlined the new organ isation set up for roads which, will be maintain after July 1st when, the county road systems are taken over by the state. Hereafter the state will be divided into five divisions, the western part of the state being In division “E'\ There are five dis tricts in division "E", Cleveland be ing placed In a district with Burke, Rutherford, and Caldwell. The en gineer over this division will have two assistants. Cleveland county will have ten working units, these units Ignoring township lines entirely. This calls for ten working units, each of which will have outfits headed by two men to maintain the road system. Convicts will be used (CONTINUED ON PAOE TEN. > Gallimore Boy Wins In National Contest Gets $25 Prize In Flowers. Miss Bridges Gets $5 In Same Contest. Carl H. Qallimore, young son ol Harry Qallimore, who was a pupil In the fifth grade at the Washing ton school, has Just been notified By Henry Penn, president of the Society of American Florists, that he Is second North Carolina prize winner for the best puzzle book In the National Flower Appreciation contest sponsored by the above or ganization. He received a check for $25 and with the check congr atulations from President Penn which said, “May your interest in flowers, and your appreciation of their beauty, con tinue to grow with the years, bring ing you Joy and inspiration through out your life." It is understood that Washington school will receive a cash prize too, by reason of the fact that the Galli more lad was a pupil of that school. The flower project was made pos sible for the school through the kindness and courtesy of Mr. Boyce Wakefield. Margaret Ray Bridges of the high school received a $5 cash prize in the same contest. Wood Win* Prize For Naming Oil C. M. Wood, Virginia man, was the winner of the $10 prize offered by the Champion Oil company, of Shelby, for the best name for the high grade motor oil for which the company is distributor in this sec tion. The winning name was "Chamoco." Others- who submitted names rated close to the winner, and will receive a free filling of oil, were Thos. Humphries and H. F. Wilson with “Travoltne”; George Dedmon and Hines Motor company with ’Champoline”; W. J, William son with ■Cham-Fenn.-OU," and Edith Blanton with "Bestol." J. Lawrence Lackey, DeWitt Quinn and Renn Drum were the Judges. .
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