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Fair And VV armor.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Generally fair and con
tinurd warm tonight and Tuesday.
Hot? Lgh!
New Vork, June 29.—Intense heat
continued Sunday to hold the na*
tion in its devitalizing grip. For the
sixth consecutive day thermometers
registered record June marks and
scant hope was held for immediate
relief from the temperatures which
brought death to upwards of 150,
serious damage tp crops and con
siderable loss of livestock. The 100
degree mark evidenced great suffer
ing in widespread sections of the
country. The weather bureau fore
east remained “continued warm” for
most of the parched Central Valley
States, which were hardest hit by
the torrid wave. Temporary relief
eame to some sections In the North
ern States—the Dakotas and Minne
sota—in drizzles of rain, but no gen
eral showers alleviated the blister
ing heat. Yesterday millions through
out the country sought surcease at
(beaches, parks, resorts and on the
motor highways. Many deaths from
drownings In lakes and rivers, oth
-* ers from automobile accidents, add
ed to the mounting number of the
sun's victims.
Officers Nab
Eight Gallons
InSundoyRaid
Indict Falls, Of Kings Mountain.
Mho Was Acquitted Here Last
Friday.
t In county court here last Frida'’
Craig Fails, Kings Mountain service
station operator, was acquitted of a
liquor charge in connection with a
half gallon or so of whiskey -offices
allege they found about his place A
jury heard the evidence ana said
not guilty. Today Deputy Farvey
Harrelson walked in with eight gal
lons of whiskey and Falls was plac
ed under bond for another jury trial
Friday of this week.
The officer found the 16 half-gal
f Ion fruit jars, filled with whiskey,
in a ditch, he said, a short distance
from the Falls home.
Old Offender.
—
Jack Williams, who perhaps holds
the record as the champion repeater i
as a defendant in county court, was j
back on trial this morning and the]
, . six-months suspended sentence he
thanked Judge Maurice Weathers
for last week was put into effect.
Saturday Chief McBride Poston and
Deputy Buren Dedmon chased Wil
liams who, they said, kept throwing
down pints of liquor as he ran. The
bottles were broken and Williams
said they were empty. Last week
when Williams was up on a charge
of drinking bay rum he asked for
another chance and thanked the
judge when he imposed a suspend
ed sentence. This,morning the re
corder informed him that there w'as
nothing else to do except give the
defendant the sentence for which he
thanked the court last week.
Light Docket.
The docket this morning was un
usually light for a Monday morning
session .practically * all of the half
dozen or so cases being minor liquor
charges.
Only six people were jailed Sat
urday and Sunday, according to
Sheriff Irvin M. Allen.
Canipe Shows
Improvement
Mui Wounded Friday By Accidental
Discharge Of Officer’s Gun Is
Better.
Walter Canjpe. white man of
Cliffside and Charlotte, who was ac
cidentally shot in the leg here Fri
day afterhoon while watching the
unloading from an officer’s car of a
liquor catch, was reported to. be
showing some improvement at the
Shelby hospital today.
“The improvement,” it was said,
“is naturally slow due to the nature
of the wound, but his condition now
is as good as could be expected un
der the circumstances. No complica
tion has developed as yet.”
No Amputation.
A rumor about the city yesterday
had it that the wounded leg, the
right one. had been amputated. This
rumor was without basis of fact aud
there is no likelihood of an amputa
tion unless serious complications de
velop.
Canipe was standing at the side
of Deputy Bob Kendrick’s touring
car watching officers remove nine
gallons of whiskey. In some manner
a sawed-off shotgun in the front
floorboard of the officers <ar was
jqlted and one barrel discharged
Hie load of shot tore through the
cat door and entered Canipe's leg
bktwen the thigh and knee.
I An X-ray of the wound, made at
ft hospital, revealed that the bone
the leg was cracked where struck
the load of shot
Negro Arrested
In Shooting; To
j Get Preliminary
Officer Slips Him
Away From 200
Williamson. Who Shot Glovers, Ar
rested Saturday Near
Hildebrand.
Morris Williamson, young ne
gro man, will be given a prelim
inary hearing in rounty court
here Tuesday in connection with
the shooting last Thursday aft
ernoon of Hatcher Glover, whltr,
and his father, Martin Glover.
'The negro, who ran after pain
fully shooting the two white men on
| the Thede Lutz farm above Shelby
; and then escaped a dragnet put out
by officers, was arrested near Htl
debfand Saturday afternoon oy
Deputy Tom Sweezv. He was
brought here and placed in jail.
Surrounding In Woods.
Deputy Sweezy on the trail of the
negro learned that he had gone to
his uncle's home in the Hildebrand
section. When the officer arriveo
there the fugitive ran and hid in a
nearby patch of woods. A crowd of
men. estimated at around 200, help
ed the officer surround the wood;
and within a short time the negro
was found.
Pearing that the crowd might
make some display because the ne
gro -was warded for shooting two
white men, Deputy Sweezy slipped
him into an automobile and rushed
him to jail hpre before the crowd
hardly realized that the negro was
gone,
Williamson's wife, who is alleged
to have urged him on with the
shooting, had already been arrest-!
ed and placed under bond. It is
likely that she will be given a hear
ing also tomorrow.
Glovers Better.
The elder Glover was able to J
leave the hospital here the same;
afternoon of the shooting, but j
Hatcher Glover, whose back was
riddled with shot, was not able to
return to his home until yesterday. :
He will be able. It is said, to attehd
the hearing tomorrow.
The negro became enraged at j
the two white men. It is said, be-;
cause they had been hired to work!
the crop which it is alleged he was \
not working. He siezed a shotgun)
and approached the Glovers white1
they were at work in a field. His
wife, the Glovers say, told him to i
go ahead and shoot them. The ne- |
gro first opened up on the elder
Glover, hitting him in the left
shoulder and back but failing to in
flict a serious Injury. Hatcher Glo
ver then started running and as he
tells it the negro cut in ahead of
him and shot again, the load of :
shot catching Glover in the back
the shoulders, the neck and the;
rear of his head. At first it was
thought that he might be seriously,:
if not fatally wounded. As the shot
were removed, however. It was
found that no portion of the load
had punctured a vital spot.
Negro Refuses To
Tell Who Cut Him
Jim Eskridge, colored, who lives
on the Charlie Cornwell place, is in
the Shelby hospital suffering with
severe cuts on his right arm and
from the loss of blood. Eskridge was,
found on a street in a colored sec
tion of Shelby Saturday night and j
was bleeding profusely when taken
to the hospital. He told officers he
did not know who cut him and re
fused to tell vry much about It.
His condition was described today
as not being serious but he is still
very weak from the loss of blood.
Hooters for “Round-In-Ten” Fliers
p" the ™H|on« that are breathlessly following the progress of Wuev
^e rf'davs W.h° are .^tempting to fly aro'unS the world in
nere Ahov. m hnt,T?r.ly ,nl8"sled ^an the foun presented
* , Mrs- Har?ld G»*W. w,fe of the flier, with her three
twod t „A MVe ye!lr?l indsay three, and Ronald, who is near”
ikeiy fafifr ,are Mr„ an'l Mrf\W,ley senior, who are confident that
U,< "Winnie Me."
Raleigh Hearing Much Political
Talk These Days; Several Races
Discussed; Other Capital Events
Shelby’* Note To
Be Sold July 2nd
Raleigh, June 29.—Revenue
anticipation notes of the city
of Shelby amounting to S20.
000 have been advertised for
sale by Director Charles M.
Johnson, of local government.
Raleigh, bids on which are to
be received until 10 o'clock on
the morning of July 2 at the
office of the local government
commission.
The notes will be dated
July 1 and will mature Jan
uary 1, 1932.
County Gardens
Dry, Need Rain
Continued Drought May Do Heavy
Damage To Gardens, Corn
Crop.
The drought which has prevailed
in this section for a week or so has
not reached serious proportions as
yet and the major field crops are
not suffering to any extent Out gar
dens are in' dire need of rain.
From all sections of Cleveland
county came reports that gardens
and truck patches are suffering
from a lack of rain. Some gardens, it
is reported, are near ruined while
others will come through itt Is be
lieved if there are showers within
the week.
No Assurance.
There is no direct assurance that
the hot, dry spell will be broken
within the next day or so. The
weather forecast for tomorrow ' Is
"fair and continued warm." Local
weather observers, however, recall
that droughts at this season of the
year do not as a general rule ex
tend over a lengthy period of time
Old Cases Against “Reds” Finally
Nol Prossed By Gastonia Solicitor
Near 200 Two-Year-Old Indict
ments Wiped Off Books
There.
Gastonia, June 29.—Memories of
the unnerving and tragic labor dis
turbances which held Gastonia in
their grip in the spring and sum
mer of 1929 were revived in munic
ipal court last week when Solicitor
George Mason checked over and or
dered nol prossed between 150 and
200 old cases docketed against strike
leaders and local sympathizers two
years ago.
Most of the long list of cases were
for violation of the emergency anti
parade ordinance passed by the
Gastonia city council in an effort
to lessen the constant riot threat
during the communist invasion and
prior to the tragic death of the late
Chief of Police O. F. Aderholt, fa
tally shot by communist hirelings
on the night of June 7. 1929
Amy Schecter, Vera Bush, George
Carter. K. Y. Hendricks, Louis Mc
Laughlen, and many of the other
leading spirits In the attempted
strike and communist aggression
were among the defendants in the
old cases ordered stricken off the!
city docket.
The cases were left on the docket!
for the time limit of two years in
order that they might be held
against any of the defendants in
case they should return to Gastonia
during that time.
Gastonians remember the diffi
culties which were responsible for
the anti-parade ordinance, and the
disregard of the communist group
for the emergency law Wholesale j
arrests were made every afternoon!
for many days, 30 to 50 persons,
both men and women, having often
been locked in the city Jail in a!
single afternoon for participation in
parades and other demonstrations j
Maxwell May Enter Governor's Race
State Takes Over County
Convicts.
<M. R DUNNAGANi
Raleigh. June 29—Political mat
; ters are keeping step with the weath
j er and are warming up at a re
| markable rate, since it is considered
; that the primary is still almost a
j year off. Reactions from the gener
| al assembly session are begin rug to
j be felt and local heroes. favorite
! sons, are in the center of local boost
ing.
The governorship, the most impor
tant post to be filled, is again com
ing to the fore. It now seems cer
tain, although the Sphinx-like fig
ure has said nothing, that Allen J.
Maxwell, commissioner of revenue,
will be in the race, and, if so, his
entry will cause numbers of realign
ments. If he gets in it may be ex
pected that some of those potential
ly in will drop out. And it is just
about come to the point of accept
ance by local politicians that he will
be a contender in the Democratic
primary.
Also, it is barely possible that Wil
lis Smith, speaker of the house of
representatives, may enter that race
and If he does there will be more
readjustments. It is known that
■JONTlNtjeu ON »AQS BIGHT ■
Mrs. Hoyle Dies
In Chase City, Va.
Native of Upper Cleveland. Burial ]
Took Place At Knob Creek
Church Sunday.
Mrs. A. T. Hoyle was buried Sun- i
day morning at II o'clock 'at Knob:
Creek church In upper Cleveland.!
the funeral service being conducted j
by Rev. J. M. Morgan. Mrs. Hoyle!
died at her home in Chase City, Va.,'
last Friday evening at 6 o’clock andj
her body was brought Saturday!
afternoon to the home of her par- j
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Willis in’
the Knob Creek section of upper!
Cleveland.
Mrs. Hoyle was 34 years, eight |
months and fifteen days old. Shej
was married In 1919 and moved im-1
mediately with her husband to
Virginia wliere they had been liv
ing since. She was a fine Christian
woman and her death was a great
shock to her relatives and friends.
Surviving are her Husband and
four sons, Audley, Bryson, Calvin,
and J. D, Hoj’le. Also surviving are
the following brothers and sisters:
Zola. Lucy, Mrs. Entie Sweezy, Mrs.j
Beulah Ivester, Lester. Hoyle and j
Hartford Willis.
July 4th Will Be
Holiday For Bank
Saturday, July 4th, will be observ- [
ed as a holiday by the local banks.;
The stores will be open as usual on :
Saturday but will be closed oni
Monday, July 6 in observance of
Independence day. The banks would
like to observe Monday with the
merchants, but since the other banks
In the state and nation are taking
July 4th and it has been tiie custom
to close here on that day. they will!
be closed on Saturday
Ligon Boys Get
Together, One
Makes Ace Shot
Stanhope A, Ligon. non of
City Clerk L: K. Ligon, of
Shelby, joined the holp-ln-one
Hub on the Fort Mill, 8. C„
golf course last week while
playing in a reunion foursome
with his three brothers. The
shot was made on the No. 4
hole of the Catawba River
Golf Hub.
Ligon was playing with his
three brothers. Jack. Leon,
and Harris, It being the first
time they had all been to
gether in seven Tears.
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Heat Terrific
Here On Sunday;
Records Broken
Temperature Below Last Sunday,
Less Breeze, New Highs
Over Country.
Vesterday, by the thermome
ter, was not as sizzling hot in
Shelby and section as was last
Sunday, but it was even hotter
other than by the thermometer
reading as there was very little
breeze during the day to’give re
lief from the sweltering heat.
According to the Ebcltoft ther
mometer the mercury reached 98
here Saturday and again Sunday, two
degrees below the record high of 100
Sunday week ago, June 21. Both
Saturday and Sunday, however,
were extremely uncomfortable in
this section dife to the lack of
breeze and the fact that the heat
abated very little Saturday and
Sunday nights.
Shortly after daybreak today the
heat seemed unusual for the time of
day and since that time the mer
cury has climbed steadily. By mid
afternoon it may be back to the 98
of yesterday or above with little
promises of relief by rain or other
wise during the day or night.
So far as could be determined the
record heat wave for this season of
the year has not resulted in any fa
talities or undue mishaps in this
section .
Hot Spots,
Charlotte, June 29.—The Carolinas
were hot spots yesterday on the map
of a heat stricken nation. A mark
of 94.8 reached at Asheville sit 3 p
m. broke a 27-year record for June:
At Columbia, S. C., a new high of
100 8 for the year was set Anderson.
S. C., had a high of 101.
Throughout the upper half of
North Carolina, however, tempera
tures were slightly below the highs
of the past week. The high at Win
ston-Salem and at Raletgh was 93
at Durham it was 94 and Greens
boro 95.
The weather bureau at the airport
here reported a high of 98 for Char
lotte and of 100 for Spartanburg, S
C
In neither stale was there any ap
preciable rain.
Mr. Charles BanBergen will ar
me here today from the Hague
Holland, to spend a month as gues<
it the home of Mr. and Mrs. W N
Dorsey. Mr. BanBergen is a frienu
3f Miss Kathleen Herd whom 6he
net during her stay in Europe last
summer.
WantsDamages
For No. 6 Road
Built Recently
Contends That Road
Ruined Lot
Worth Silver* And Building And
Loan Find Most of Their Lot.
New Road Bed.
No. 8 township road commission
ers will next Monday hear the
claim of Worth Silvers and a local j
building and loan association for
damage to property resulting from,
It is alleged, the opening up of the
McMurry road leading off {Sidney
street and extending eastward to a
point near the C. B, Cabanisa home
on the old Kings Mountain lilgh
' way.
In the road building program of
the No. 6 commission during the last
I few months a new road was opened
I through the A. W. McMurry farm.
In entering the old Kings Moun
I tain highway the new road cuts
j through a two acre tract owned by
i Worth Slivers and fading the old
| Kings Mountain highway. A local
• building and loan association has a
! loan on a lot In this two acre tract,
which lot was split open by the new
road, leaving it Is contended, the
association without the collateral it
had. Mr. Silvers says he forbid the
construction.of the road through his
property as he already had a road
front, yet his property was entered
without the usual proceedings and
In his absence from the city for
four days. He has employed Attor
; ney Peyton McSwaln to represent
J him in a claim against No, 6 road
j commissioners for taking his lot.
I A compromise settlement may be
reached Monday at the meeting of
the commissioners, Mr, Silvers and
the building and loan officials.
Tax Listing Time 4
Nearing Its Close
Those Who Fall To List Will Be
Put On the Delinquent
Ust.
j Tax listing is nearing a close In
(Cleveland county. It was started in
I May and continued through the
rnortth of June making nearly two
i months that the listers have been
accepting returns. Listing has been
very slow, says R. L. Weathers, tax
supervisor, and many duplicate
listings and discoveries have been
made, which has required cohsider
! able time in straightening out. Sev
| eral helpers are busy in the tax
. supervisor’s office completing the
returns and working up the lists
that have come in from six of the
] eleven townships of the county.
R. L. Weathers stated today that
those who have failed to list by
July 1st will be put on the delin
quent list as is provided by law. Aft
er the listing is over, then the office
workers begins to arrange the lists
in proper order, assemble the totals
and arrive at the combined valua
tions of real and personal property
so that the tax rates can be set on
the first Monday in August.
After the rates are fixed, the tax
receipts will be made out for collec
tion of taxes in the fall.
NEW MANAGER COMES
TO WOOLWORTH STORE
J. E. Fowler has arrived here
from West Point, Ga„ to become
manager of the Woolworth store,
succeeding J. H. Tulloh who has
been manager of this local store for
several years. Mr. Tulloh has not
been notified where he will be
transferred. Mr. Fowler was accom
panied to Shelby by his wife and
they will do light housekeeping
when rooms have been secured.
To Probe Costs In
County Court After
Complaints A re Made
I.’. Benton Blalock, vice president
und general manager of the North j
< aroltna Cotton Growers Coopera-!
live association, w as last week elect-|
ed president of the American CiH-!
ton Cooperative associations. The!
American association is composed of j
II state associations. Mr. Blalock is 1
a native of Stanly county.
Mrs. Thompson Falls
And Fractures Flip
Accident At Home of Her Son In
Oklahoma. Was En Route To
Washington State.
News was received here Saturday
or the injury Mrs. W. Horace
Thompson received early Saturday
morning when she fell at the home
of her son, Dr. C. A. Thompson, In
Hugo. Okla. and sustained a frac
tured hip. Mrs. Thompson was ac
companying her son. Rush Thomp
son and his family, on a motor trip
to Bellingham, Washington, to
visit Mrs. Thompson’s daughter. The
trip was about 3.500 miles and they
expected to average 400 miles a day
for nine days. Enroute they stopped
over at Hugo, Oklahoma, to visit her
son, Dr. G. A Thompson and early
in the morning she stumbled and
fell in the house. No one knows just
how the accident happened.
Mrs. Thompson was rushed by her
sons. Rush and Dr. C. A. Thompson,
to Parks, Texas, 30 miles away,
where she entered a hospital fbr
treatment. a telephone message
last night to the children here In
Shelby says her condition is "very
bad." Her grandson Dr. Haywood
Thompson who is finishing his In
terneshlp in the Baptist hospital in
New Orleans today is leaving for
Paris to be at her bedside and ad
minister medical attention.
Mrs. Thompson's twin sister, Mrs.
Mattie Porter fell in the home of
her son In Charlotte less than ten]
days ago and was Injured in the'
back. Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Thomp
son will be eighty years old in De
cember. Mrs. Porter Is the mother
of Mrs. Chas L. Eskridge of Shelby.
Small Fire Just
After Noon Today
Shortly after noon today one of
the city fire trucks was called to a
tenant house on the Ab Jackson
place, below the Lily mill, where the
roof had caught on fire presumably
from a flue. The fire was extinguish
ed with only slight damage to the
roof.
Marriage And Divorce Both Hard Hit
By Business Depression In Country
Decrease Shown In Marriages And
Divorcers In Majority Of States.
Figures Given.
Washington, June 29.—Hard tim
es hit both the marriage and di
vorce markets last year, leaving a
trail of lean, lorn figures at the cen
sus bureau.
Of forty states on which the fig
uring is finished, 33 showed decreas
es in divorce.
Miss Alive V. Hagan, who for five
years has written the annual cen
sus bureau study on marriage and
divorce, ascribed the decreases to
the (act that getting married and:
getting divorced costs money,
“It is well-known that the mar
tiage rate responds quickly to
changes ui economic conditions, in
creasing in periods of prosperity
and decreasing after a commercial
crisis or during hard times,” she
said.
As for divorce, Miss Hagan wrote
to officials of all counties where the
rate had fallen as much as ten per
cent asking an analysis of the cause.
A large majority of the replies,
she reported, laid the lack of di
vorces at the door of depression.
Aside' from a few flourishing
Gretna Greens, and a scattering of
divorce havens, there is little like
lihood of a rise in the rate of link
ings and partings before 1922. Miss
Hagan predicted.
Hie seven states tn which mar
riage managed to show an increase
were: Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari
zona, Nevada, Maine. Nebraska and
Virginia.
Are Excessive Now
Is Claim
Averafo Bill of Costs Runs To |18
And Upward. May Hr Cut
Down.
It was learned by The Star today
that county officials may confer
with the county attorney In regard
to the bill of costs charged in cases
tried In the Cleveland county r®«
cord s court, and probable move re
sulting from complaints made about
the alleged excessive coets.
In the frequent crltcisma Heard
recently of the court fees there ia
no Intimation of Intentional wrong
doing, but it Is contended that tha
court costs are more than they
should be due to the prevailing cus
tom of filling out the bill which, 16
Is said, does not comply with law
covering that phase of the court.
Undecided.
Just whose business It Is to sea
that the bill of costs is properly
filled out Is matter of debate. Soma
say that a ruling or interpretation
should be made by the county at
torney. while others think it is •
matter for the recorder or court
clerk to decide.
The customary method of filling
out the bill of costs was first no
ticed to be erroneous, as contended,
when a more systematic manner of
keeping recorder's court records waa
instituted a few weeks ago.
, Up to that time the clerical work
of the court was handled In a mora
or less haphazard manner, the billa
being filled out by officers and
what court official might have
time to - lend aid at that particular
moment.
Ia Too Maeh?
The average bill of coats, as fill
ed out by the old procedure, is con
siderably more than it should be,
according to contentions advanced.
In an ordinary case, in which there
are four witnesses, a bill of costa
will run around $17.90 when it
should be four or five dollars less,
according to citizens who have
made Informal Investigation. These
criticisms and contentions were
first advanced by farm owners, tex
tile officials and others who each
week or so find it necessary to
‘ pay out'' employes who have be
come entangled in minor law vio
lations. Even in small cases where
defendants are let off with the costs
it is contended that the costs are
so heavy that it takes a week's pay
of the average working man to pay
out. which in itself necessitates
masiy weeks of saving while earn
ing a livelihood at the same time.
Those who think sdtae change
should be made do not argue their
point with the idea of lessening law
mforcement, but they say where the
offense Is aggravating a fine should
oe Imposed and the bill of costs not
oe so large as to work a hardship *
OONJINUKO ON PAOr
Thirty Students From
Cleveland At Boone
Attending Summer School At Ap
palachian State Teacher*
College.
There are thirty Cleveland coun
ty students at the Appalachian
State Teachers college, Boone, ac
cording to information secured from
Prof. J. M. Downum. The school has
a total of 812 students there for the
summer session.
Those from Cleveland registered
for the summer are:
Nellie Morris, Edna Harfrill, Lef
fie Thornburg, Olive 8ingleton,
Sophia Elliott. Elizabeth Oidney,
Ruth Whlsnant, Virginia Harris,
Mary Faye Dellinger. Lucretia Hard.
Curtis Powell, Lucy Dixon, John J.
Philbeck, Minnie Blanton, Clara J.
Spur ling, Sara Potts Best, Madge
Roberta Spurling, Della Powell,
Essie Dalton, Louise Baley, Velma
Croft, Sarah Riviere, Mittie Sain,
Elsie Oidney, Lalene Grigg, Mrs.
Florence Loy. 8arah Harris, Lizzie
Mae Lee, Sarah Hoyle.
Local Banks Pay
Dividends July 1 st
— * -j
The usual semi-annual dividends
were ordered paid by the First Na- !!
tional and the Union Trust company
by the directors and checks will go
out July 1st, it was announced by
Mr. Forrest Eskridge, cashier. The
First National pays six percent on
its capital stock while the Union
Trust company pays 4 percent.