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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY — EK1DAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mali, per year___ gxou By Carrier, per year —- . -- *a.ou THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. liKlt a WEATHERS - „ —,, President and joitoi & ERNES'! HOEY - - -.-, ■ - Secretary and Poraman RENN DRUM ..._... News Editor U & DA1L ----Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1906, at the postotnce at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March S. 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It ts and nas oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nas been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, JULY 8, 1931 _____ More sunshine after the week-end rains and watch the Crops hop up. V HEN E TWINKLER hears of a hitch-hiker holding: up the motorist who gives him a lift we are inclined to advise all motorists to do a bit of thumbing of their own— thumbing of a type small boys use to throw “a name" on each other when angry—when a thumber steps to the side of the highway and signals for a ride. THERE APPEARS to be general approval over the county of the appointing of W. A. Broadway as road head for the highway work in Cleveland county under the new road system. Mr. Broadway is not only experienced in road con struction work and maintenance, but he knows local people, local conditions, and local links of highway and their respec tive importance better than would an outsider. A NOTE OR THE RECORD IT IS CHEERING to note the careful manner in which North Carolina motored about for the Fourth. In Shelby there was not a single hospital case resulting from automobile mis haps on the holiday and over the entire State there were comparatively few automobile fatalities, particularly so when we recall that just a year or so ago the highway toll in the State was approximately two lives per day. On the Fourth the highways were lined with streams of automobiles moving in each direction. That the day passed with only a minimum number of accidents is ample evidence that the average mo torist realizes the vast importance of careful driving. Perhaps, after travelling along for several years at a speed-maddened pace, we are finally coming back to the horse-sense reasoning of that old adage about it being better to be safe than be sorry. ENCOURAGING SIGNS JUDGE RUFE CLARK, the Greensboro News editorial writer who packs plenty of “gumption” in his comment on all topics, takes The Star to ride every time we point out that business must be good because postal receipts are hold ing up and increasing. Postal receipts do not offer an up failing barometer of business conditions, he says, and Judge Rufe should know for he spent several years post mastering. There may be times, as he contends, when a gain in postal receipt? does not mean a business pick-up, but nevertheless it is cheering to us to nojte that in Shelby and other North Carolina cities and towns postal receipts are running ahead of those of 1930 and of other preceding years. A gain has been shown at the Shelby post office for every month of this year over corresponding months of the previous year. Business cannot be so bad under those con ditions; something is bound to be going on. Maybe if the majority of us would give more time to observing figures which show a gain in this and that instead of sitting down and giving the blues a chance to thrive, business would show renewed life. THE PROPER MOVE CLEVELAND COUNTY citizens seem to be unanimous in commending County Recorder Maurice Weathers for his order in the county court as to the filling out of the bills of costs. These citizens express no desire, in one form or another, of encouraging lax enforcement of the law; instead, they think it only proper—and why should they not?—that the law itself is entitled to more respect when it meets the requirements of the law. What could the average fair-minded person think of a system of justice that meted out punish ment for some violation of the law and inflicting that pun ishment violated the law itself? The bill of costs in county court should be exactly what the law says it should be. and that is what the recorder said when when he issued his order that the law be interpreted and items of costs be included kccordingly. If the costs are not enough the law should be changed, but until that time the law should be followed. There is no other just procedure. If a revisal of the costs and fees work a hardship upon officers of the law, then other methods should be taken of giving officers suitable renumera tion for their labor. FROM MAGELLAN TO POST AND GATTY. WHAT OF THE FUTURE? «THE PROGRESS of the modem world is so amazing that truth becomes stranger than fiction. Sixty years ago the imaginative Jules Verne had a ficti tious character, Phileas Fogg travel around the world in 80 days. Readers of thc%olorful story were astounded that any one could even imagine such a wild impossibility. It was more than 350 years before the day of the fictitious Fogg— in 1520—that Fernando Magellan startled his day and time by circling the globe in a little more than 1,000 days. Now the 1,083-day trip of Magellan has been cut down to a little more than one week, not quite nine days, by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. When Post and Gatty landed in New York after whipping their airplane completely around the globe in a little more than four days flying time a new and remarkable record was established. 1 he people of Magellan’s day would not have believed that anyone would ever go around the globe in«600 days, half of Magellan’s time, yet in 1880 George Francis made the trip in 6< days. The world gasped. The people of Francis’ time would have scoffed at any prediction of a quicker trip, but just 33 years later John Henry Mears changed from trains to boats and from boats to trains and travelled around the world in 35 days. Would anyone of that day have believed that in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin W'ould span the world in 20 days? But imagine going back through those different periods and predicting that in 1931 two American aviators would be back home in a little more than one week after starting around the world. " hat, then, of the future? It does not seem any more absurd and impossible to predict now that in a few' years men will fly around the world, covering the 16,000 miles, in 48 hours without once stopping than it would have several decades back to predict the Post-Gatty flight. Ten years from now’ as we look back upon today, do you not think we will consider Post and Gatty as “slow movers’”/ Following is a history of the globq circling industry from the three years of Magellan to the eight days of Post and I • Fernando Magellan, 1,083 days, 1519-'22—Seville, Ten eriffe, Pernambuco, La Plata Estuary, Port St. Julian, Strait of Magellan, Pacific Guam, Philippines, Borneo, Moluccsa, In dian Ocean, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Verde Islands, Seville. Magellan was killed in Philippines. Only one of his five boats returned. Sir Francis Drake, 1,052 days, 1577-’80—Plymouth, west coast Morocco, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de la Paris, Port St. Julian, Strait of Magellan, Mocha Island, along coast of Chile and Peru and North America to 48 degrees north altitude, Moduccas, Celebes, Java, Cape of Good Hope, Guinea, Terceira, Plymouth. Thomas Cavendish 781 days, 1686-’88—Plymouth, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands, Cape Frio, Brazil, Patagonia Strait of Magellan, Ladrones, Philippines, Moluccas, Java, Cape of Good Hope Plymouth. Phileas Fogg (Jules Verne’s fictitious character). Nelly Bly was commissioned to beat that record and started a whole series of similar trips, 80 days, 1872—London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi by rail and boat, boat to Bom bay, rail to Calcutta, boat to Hongkong, Yokohoma, San Francisco; rail to Sacramento, Reno, Denver, Omaha, Chi cago, New York; boat to Queenstown; boat and train to London. Nelle Bly, 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, 1889—By boat and rail: New York, London, Amiens, Brindisi. Boat, Brindisi, Suez, Red Sea, Strait of San Francisco. Rail to New York. George Francis, train, 67 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes, 1880—(Similar to Nellie Bly’s) New York to New' York. Charles Fitzmorris, 60 days, 13 hours and 29 minutes, 1901—(Similar to Nellie Bly’s). Chicago to Chicago. J. Willis Sayre, 54 days, 9 hours, 42 miutes, 1903— Seattle to Seattle. Col. Bumlay-Campbell, 40 days, 19 hours, SO minutes, 1907—First to abandon water route via Suez and use trans Siberian railway. John Henry Mears, 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes, 1913 —Boat and rail, New York, London, Parris, via trans-Siber ian railway to Vladivostok; Harbin, Fusan, boat to ioko hama, Victoria, Seattle. Then to New York. U. S. planes, 175 days, 1924—First circumnavigation by air. Actual flying time, 14 days, 15 hours. Seattle, Juneau, Alaskan Peninsula, Alieutain Islands, Kurlie Island, Tokyo, Shanghai, Amony, Hongkong, Saigon, Bankok, Rangoon, Burma, Calcutta, Delhi, Karachi. Bagdad, Constantinople, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, London, Glasgow', Reyj kavik, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Labrrador, Picfou, Port land, Boston and by irregular route across country' to Seat tle. Edward S. Evans, Linton Wells. 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes, 1925—Boat New York to Cherbourg; automobile to Le Bourget airdrome, Paris. Plane to Berlin, Moscow, Omsk. Train to Clviata, Harbin. Plane to Antung, Yokohama. Boat to Victoria, Seattle. Plane to New' York. Their mileage was 4,100 by train and motor car, 6,300 by plane, 8,000 by steam er. Hears and C. B. Collyer, 24 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, 1928—Plane to New York to S. S. Olympic. Plane, Cherbourg, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Koenigsberg, Moscow, Kazan, Chiga, Pingyank, Tokio. Boat to Victoria. Plane Victoria, Spokane, Minneapolis, New York. Graf Zeppelin, 20 days, four hours, 1929—Lakehurst, Friedrischshaven, Kasumigura airport, Tokio, Los Angeles, Lakehurst. Gatty and Post, 1931—Roosevelt Field, Harbor Grace, Chester, Berlin, Moscow, Novo-Sibirsk, Irutsk, Blagove chen.sk, Edmonton, Cleveland, Roosevelt Field. All these records will probably be smashed to pieces within two years by some aircraft that will circle the 16,000 mile route in 48 hours without touching the earth from start to finish, refueling in flight. In two years we shall look back here and see. Build With Brick DELIVERIES FROM PLANT TO JOB When in need of FACE OR COMMON BRICK write us, or phone 75m, Mt. Holly, N. C. With our fleet of trucks, we csn make quick deliveries to jobs, saving freight and double handling, thereby putting brick to jobs in much better condition. FOR SERVICE AND QUALITY SEE KENDRICK BRICK & TILE CO. MOUNT HOLLY, N. C. How can old porch furpitum most easily be made tolookin vitind andean* fortafile aoain? DEVOE AUTHORIZED AGENT Paul Webb & Son NOTHING KEEPS GNAWING AWAY SO STEADILY As Interest on a mortgage. Why not take care of both INTEREST and retVction of PRINCIPAL by adopting the Equitable's Home Purchase Plan? A simple 10 year repayment arrangement on easy monthly basis. Life insurance included. WRITE FOR FREE BOOR Of Our Home Purchase Plan — CLIP AND MAIL THIS COUPON — H. S. WHITE. Special Agent. Equitable Life Assurance Society Charles Store Bldg. Shelby, N. C. Dear Sir: Please send me. without obligation, your FREE BOOK of the Equitable’s Loan Plan. Name__ Address____ Is LOVE stronger than THE LAW r IT was • pitiful sight—that morning Mary found Bob White—near her desolate mountain cabin—bis legs crushed under a rock —hurled down by a landslide. Terrified lest death should claim him — Iraptically, Mary pulled — tugged his mammoth, half-conscious body to her cabin—set his splintered legs — dressed his wounds — nursed him night and day. How she worshiped that bravery — that defiance to pain—even death— she saw in his noble eyes. Here was a man — a man worth loving. And day by day—she could see that he, too— was growing to love her. Glad, excited, insanely happy — the weeks flew by — Bob’s legs almost healed—and the day of reckoning esne. "Mary," be said. "1 lova you —I got to talk. That morning — the rook —I was hiding money"—he choked. "You see — I’m — well—you don’t want a train robber—for a husband!”/ "Oh, Bob!" she cried —threw ber aetf on bis chest. "Y'ou're mine — f*rtv*T. God sent you to me—or else —Ha'd have taken you—out there.” "Don’t, honey,” he pleaded. " Re member The I-aw. It's out to get me — even if I've quit the game—for good." “The Lew,” she hurled back. “I seved you — from Deeth—Death thee dc6es all Law of mas. You're mine mine! I’ll i(ht—The Law—nothing can take you — ever—EVER!" ah* screamed — WHEN — at the door— there name — a crash — another man — on his chest—the gleam of a sher iff’s star! , ., . . Here, in this terrific climax of clash ing human emotions, what could Mary do to save Bob White from The Law —from that relentless, menacing Arm which would drag him away to prison — crush her heart—and wreck forever her only hope for love and happiness? You must read for yourself this amazing trua-life story HIS OWN uV — of how a beautiful woman fought with all the madness of a tigress —used all the subtle wiles a woman knows—to hold her man whom she had claimed from the very jaws of Death and defied the mightiest Law of the land to take. Read *H1S OW» LAW and other astounding real-life stories including titles such as “‘Love's Strangest Lesson,”‘“Blind Paradise” and *“In the Eyes of My Wife’’—in August TRUE STORY MAGAZINE. Your copy —get it — read it today! Ft the True Story Hour, tune in on my of those stations every Monday uitht at 10 o 'doth. Now York Time New York GrfWEAF BoMoo.Mu*. WRKl Pro... R. 1. WJAR Vmo.Mm.VTAG Portland. Mo. WCSH Pkila.. Pa. WUT Weak, D. C. AA RC SokVdy. N. V.WGY Buffalo. N.Y. WREN Pitt.’*!!. Pm. WCAF. Cleveland, O.WT AM Detroit, Mich. WWJ Chteedo. 111. WENR St. Lottie, Mo. RSD Otvcnpoft, I*. WOC DemMoieem.lm.WHO Omaha. Nebr. WOW KanmTC.. Mo.WDAF ♦TRUE STORY HOUR is 99W br+odcast erer WRAP and NBC Red Network Every Monday night, 10o'clock New York Tune The atone* listed above and marked witk aateriaka (*) will be broadaaat, one each Moo day night. daring July, By getting yoor eopy of. TltUB STOtY for August and reading it in advance, your en tor ment of these stories, when broadcast, will be greatly increased. In Shelby and suburbs you can gel THE STAR EACH AFTERNOON of PUBLIC A riON DAY by paying the Carrier Boy who passes vour door. 25c oer month. First National Bank SHELBY, N. C. STATEMENT OF CONDITION JUNE 30TH,1931 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts_$2,868,265.83 Overdrafts _ _ 216.34 U. S. Bonds to secure Circulation_ 250,000.00 Other U. S. Bonds owned_ 51,893.43 N. C. State Bonds _ ____ 55,295.82 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank_ 22,500.00 Other Stocks and Bonds_113,201.00 Real Estate owned_ 111,740.82 Redemption Fund __ IA?00.00 Cash on hand and due from other banks_ 612,278.20 TOTAL..$4,097,891.44 LIABILITIES Capita]. $250,000.00 Surplus-- 500,000.00 Undivided Profits- 76,579.37 Accrued Interest Reserved _ __ 39,857.02 Reserved for Taxes_*_ 15,000.00 Circulation___ 250,000.00 Dividend No. 56_ 15,000.00 Notes Re-discounted with Federal Reserve Bank _ .. 269,500.00 Deposits _ ....— *.__ 2,681,955.05 TOTAL . $4,097,891.44 Our statement above reflects improving conditions in this section and our people have muclg to be thankful for from a financial status. Business along all lines seems to show' some improvement and individuals and firms are proceeding with caution and economy, which plan will utimately lead to financial independence and stability. We invite your banking business and'co-oper ation in every way. First National Bank SHELBY, N. C. Capital, Surplus and Profits Eight Hun dred and Twenty-Six Thousand Dollars. UNION TRUST CO. ■ SHELBY, N. C. | STATEMENT OF CONDITION ! JUNE 30TH,1931 , Including Branch Office* at Lattimore, i Lawndale, Fallston, Mooresboro, 1 Rutherford ton, Fore*t City and Caroleen. ___ i i RESOURCES I Loans and Discounts_ $1,144,644.42 - Overdrafts _ _ 98.45 1 N. C. State Bonds_71,619.12 } United States Bonds _ ____~ 72,100.00 1 Other Stocks and Bonds _ 1L500.00 i Banking Houses - 66,528.16 . Other Real Estate Owned_34,579.40 j Furniture and Fixtures_ 26.861.03 ' Cash on hand and due from other banks ____ 317,297.37 ! Advances on Farm Expense_ 1,028.65 ' --—. i TOTAL--- $1,746,256.60 I I ■--- i LIABILITIES Capital- $150,000.00 I Surplus _ -- 150,000.00 I Undivided Profits_ 12,989.40 | Reserves for Interest and Depreciation_ 41,172.72 j Bills Payable and Re-Discounts _ 184,033.66 Bonds Borrowed_ 28,000.00 - Deposits - .. 1,180,060.82 1 -- j TOTAL. $1,746,256.60 j | —-- | The trend of business is improved and each week ' ^and month brings a more optimistic outlook. With ! 'economy and conservation as watch words, the custom- I ers of Jhe Union Trust Company should go forward and I strive by team-work, economy, frugality and saving to ( bring about an even greater financial stability through- j out our section. We invite your banking business. UNION TRUST CO. j CAPITAL AND SURPLUS THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ]
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