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SHELBY, N. C. 8 PAGES TODAY >— .^ VOL. XXXVU, No. 84 WEDN’DAY. JULY 15. 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Hf Malt Mr mu, (la ilnaMl _ *X.M. carrier, orr rear, (la adranaal _ •!«> * Late News Showers Thursday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report. Partly cloudy tonight and | Thursday. Cloudy with showers tn j threat portion. , . g.,~ j Situation Bad fcondon. July 15.—The effects of j the German crisis were apparent' ! jesterday throughout Europe. In ! London, British banks refused Ger •man currency. The stock market ‘closed weak. In .Stockholm, banks •nd hotels refused to accept Ger I man currency and it was feared i thousands of tourists would be stranded without funds, as the j ' banks would not cash German check. In yienna, the Mercurbank, which was controlled by the sus pended Darmstaedter und National [Bank of Berlin, closed Its doors. - .The Boerse suspended trading in I Hungarian stocks for three days. i*n Budapest all Hungarian banks iwere closed suddenly, after a min isterial conference, for three days. j - j \Tu>o Men Under Bond In Auto Larceny Coant ; Foust And t Painter, Brought Back From Texas, Given Preliml J nary Hearing, Ralph Faust and Harley Painter, js-oung white men brought back from .Texas recently by -Sheriff Allen and Chief Poston will likely remain- in jail until Superior court opens here ■week after next. In a preliminary hearing given them in county court this week \ 'Recorder Maurice Weathers bound .both over to Superior court under bonds totalling $2,000 each- It isn't likely that either will be able to make bond. j iney were placed under a »1,000 bond each In connection with the Mealing of a new automobile from a he Eskridge garage and taking it jto Houston. Texas, and under ‘another SI’OOO bond each on the c harge of breaking and entering the Cohen department store'on the'same '.night the car was stolen. Make Confession? Officers say that the two men practically admitted stealing the car and robbing the store. ft is also said by officers that Faust made some admissions tliat may prove damaging in connection with the robbery of the Charlie 'Reinhardt store and another store. Painter was not connected with1 these robberies in the admissions. Both men, one little more than » boy. have criminal' records. When a pair of shoes worn by one was taken to the Cohen store jto be identified, one of the two prisoners is said to have asked offi 'cers if the proprietor claimed the shoes Being answered in the af firmative, the prisoner replied, •■That's not so; I traded his shoes off.’’ This break gave officers their opening to bring forth the necessary’ confession, they say. County Jail Has Insanity “Cure” •Two Insane Men Regain Mind While Prisoners In Jail Here. The Cleveland county jail is de veloping a reputation as a sana torium for mental cases. Within less than three months time two men placed in jail as mental de fectives or lunatics have been later (released after recovering their .normal mind -when placed in jail to await ad mittance papers to the State hos pital. One was so upset mentally that he had every bar in his cell named and a name tor everything in the cell. Admittance papers to the hospital were hard to secure and after several weeks of confine ment both men regained their mind, were examined and released. Sheriff Allen, discussing the v ’‘cures,” says that neither was given any special treatment, being kept in their cells and given the same food as given to other prisoners. Offhand some might presume that the two men were temporarily de ranged because of drinking but neither was an habitual drinker. Fiddlers Convention At Belwood School Mac Crow, well known fiddler will stage a fiddlers convention at Bel wood high school, Friday night July 17th, under the auspices of the Belwood Boy Scout troop No. 1. Twc hours of good music and entertain ment for young and old , will be provided with cash prizes for the best string band, best banjo player best vtolm player and best guitai player. Mack Crow, the banjo King Till do his stuff which is itself a worthy of attention. The perform ance begins at 8 o'clock. Jeffress Will j Speak For Big ClubMeetHere Highway Chairman To Vi.it Shelby Three Shelby Clubs, King* Mountain Club, County Club In Joint Meet. One of the most representa tive gatherings of leading Cleve land county citizens held In years is scheduled for the Hotel Charles dining room in Shelby Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting, which Is to be at tended by members of the Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions clubs of Shelby, the Civitan club of Kings Mountain and the County club, is to be ad dressed by Mr. ,E. B. Jeffress, of Greensboro, chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commission. Plan Big Event. Those sponsoring the Joint meet ing stated today that they expected (the banquet tomorrow evening to be one of the most worthwhile meet ings held here in many months. The three Shelby clubs and the Kings Mountain clubs have already accepted the invitation to attend the joint dinner and a similar ac ceptance is anticipated from the County drib, which is made up of representative citizens from every township in the county. v On Highways. Mr. Jeffreys, who is also manager of The Greensboro News, is ex pected to make a general talk on the plans of the new highway sys tem now that the State has taken over all county roads and incorpo rated them in the State system. Full working details of the new system are not complete as. yet, but Mr. Jeffress' views Awill be of much interest to Cleveland citizens at tending the meeting Other Guests A number of other guests, all con nected with the highway system, have been invited and will likely attend. They are: W. W. Neal, of Marion, highway commissioner; Mr. Walker, of Asheville, Division E. engineer; J. A. Poteat, of Marion,' district engineer; and W. A. Broad way, of Shelby, head of the Cleve land county roads. Expect 150. The joint gathering of the several civic clubs in the city and county is expected to bring out. about 150 people tf *.-***£ Man Shot In Leg Improves Slowly Nature Of Wound Such That Im provement In Condition Is Slow. Walter Canipe, young white man who Was shot in the lfeg several weeks ago when a shotgun in the car of Deputy Bob Kendrick was accidentally discharged, is still a patient in the Shelby hospital. It was stated here today that he isj making some improvement, but due] to the nature of the wound the improvement is a slow process. The sawed-off shotgun was lying on the floor of the car when in some manner it was discharged, the load of shot tearing through the car door and hitting Canipe, who was standing by the car, in the leg. The limb was cracked just above the knee. Young Sam Ervin Is Talked For Lieutenant Governor For 1932 Able Young Lawyer of Neighboring County Of Burke Has Good Backing. Several years ago when Sam Er vin, of Morganton, was a candidate for Superior court solicitor and was defeated by Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling only after a close “run off race,” the people of this section prophesied that “there is a young man who will be heard from.” For several months inside circles have been saying that the Burke lawyer would be an ideal candidate for congress from this district in the next campaign. Now it.is said that he may be a candidate for lieutenant governor. Here’s what J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh corres pondent, says about it: “An additional candidate for lieu tenant governor and for commis sioner of labor will soon get into the ring, according to the latest reports reaching here Friends of Sam Ervin of Morganton, Burke county, say he will undoubtedly become a candidate for lieutenant governor, while reports from Charlotte are that Claude L. Albea, now a mem ber of the Charlotte city council and president of the Central Labor union of Charlotte, also a vice-presi dent of the State Federation of Labor, will become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for commissioner of labor. “If these candidates materialize, as they are expected to, the con tests for these offices should prove almost as interesting as the con tests for the gubernatorial nomina tion. Heretofore it has generally been conceded that A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, speaker of the house in 1929 and spoken of as a probable candidate for governor in 1937, would be the successful candidate for lieutenant governor in the 1932 primary, even if D. F. Giles, better known as “Fatty” Giles of Marion and Mrs. E. L McKee of S.vlva de cided to get into the contest. Few have been found here or anywhere else who believe either Giles or Mrs McKee have much chance to win CONTINUED ON PACU KIOUT-k Shelby Boy On “Ironsides” US. Frigate Constitution At the top Is the photo of the Frigate Constitution, ‘’Old Ironside*,” now on a tour along the ^Atlantic roast! A Cleveland county boy, Odell Gardner, te a member of, the Marine detachment on the tour. It la In teresting to compare “Old Ironsides'* as a fighting rraft with her mod ern sister, the l*. S. S. Memphis, pictured below. The Memphis boasts 90,000 horsepower, giving’ her a speed of .33.7 knots against the Consti tution's 600 (estimated) horsepowerand_ 13.5 knots. The Coratitation was launched In 1797 at a cost of' $302,719; the Memphis’ launched in 1924 cost 2$ million. OldKyzerMap Of This County Lists Post Offices And Names Not Familiar In County Today Yoder, Injured In Collision, Improves Shelby Pharmacist Had t Leg Broken In Wreck Sunday Night. The condition of Mr Sleen Yoder, Shelby pharmacist, Injured in an auto collision early Sunday night, was said to be somewhat improved today at the Shelby hospital. The car driven by Mr. Yoder collided with another automobile near Cherryville Sunday night. In the crash Mr. Yoder had his leg broken at the ankle and received bruises and lacerations over the body Home Demonstration Clubs Meet On 21st A joint meeting of the Earl and Broad river home demonstration clubs will be held at the home of Mrs. J. A. Harrill on Tuesday, July 21. The date of the meeting was changed and all members of the clubs are urged to note the change. Map Made In 1886 Give* Good Out line Of Cleveland Of Other Days. One of^the Kyzer maps of Cleve land county, made In 1886, recently sought by The Star and Attorney P.' Cleveland Gardner for historical | purposes, has been located in tKfe possession of Mr. Prank L, Hoyle. It was the property of his father, the late Capt. Hoyle, and whose home Mr. Kyzer lived while map ping the upper county section. The old map Is a very interesting document as it lists post offices and family names not familiar to Cleve land county of the present day. The location of the home of every land owner in the county is shown along with all post offices. In Shelby only two points are listed, the depot and the old vineyard. Names Of Other Days. Among the post offices listed which are no longer known by those names are the following: In No. 5 township: Perry, Fancy, and Buffa lo Paper Mills; in No. 3 township. Swangs, and Durbro; in No. 1 town ship: Erwinsville, Byarsville, and Waverly; in No. 7 township: Autro; in No. 2 township: Nicholsonville; in No. 11 township: Holly Bush, Point, and Lark. Memory, Stice’s Shoals, Camp Call, and Cleveland Mills are also shown on the map. t Family Names. Family names listed on the map which are not so familiar today included the Arndell family in No. 3. the Braddie and Milham families in No, 5. the Brlndle family in No. 11, the Chrytz family at Waco, and the Chesser family at Mooresboro. Mrs. Thompson Not So Well In Texas Reports received from the bed side of Mrs, W. H. Thompson of Shelby who is suffering with a frac tured hip in a hospital at Paris, Texas, are not so encouraging. Mis. Thompson it will be remembered suffered a fall at the home of her son, Dr. C. A. Thompson, in Hugo, Okla., about two weeks ago while en route ' to Bellington, Washington from Shelby. The fracture received' from the fall is not so bad, but com plications which followed make her condition very serious. SPORT NEWS ON PAGE TWO. ( Sister Seeking Mrs. Rate King Insurance Coin Mrs. Regan In Court To Get $5,000 Shelby Man Was Made Beneficiary In Will Of HI* Late ' Wife. Charlotte, July 15—Growing out of the sensational trial and subse quent conviction of Rafe King for the murder of his wife, Faye Wil son King, two years ago, suit was filed with the clerk of Mecklenburg superior court this week by Blanche W. Regan a sister of Mrs. King and administratrix of the estate of the deceased, against the Inter-Southern Insurance company for the payment of the $5,000 Insurance policy for which King is alleged to have mur dered his wife at Sharon, York county, S. C., January 25, 1929. The papers filed by Hamilton and O as ton, attorneys for the plantlff, claim that on August 15, 1928, the Inter-Southern Insurance company issued and delivered to Faye Wilson King a life insurance policy to the amount of $5,000. Husband Beneficiary. The contract was delivered to Mrs. King In the state of North Carolina, of which state the plain tiff was at that time a citizen, un der the terms of which her husb and, Rafe King, was made the sole beneficiary. According to the terms of the policy the defendant had agrepd to pay upon the death of the insured the $5,000, the complaint alleged. The papers further state that on January, 25, 1928, Faye Wilson King was killed in the town of Sharon in York county, S. C.. and that afterwards her husband, who was the heir to the policy, was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife. On kay 8, 1931 at Lan caster, S. C,, in which county the trial of Rafe waa moved by order of the court upon the motion of a change of venue made in behalf of King, he waa convicted in the court of general sessions nt Lancaster county of the felonious killing of his wife and was sentenced tf> life imprisonment In the South Carolina state penitentiary at Columbia i where he is now lodged. King Loses Share. By the statute laws of North Car olina or the supreme court deci sions of the state or common law. King by reason of conviction of the murder of his wife lost all rights to administer upon the estate of the deceased, the plaintiff contends. It cotmtrvzo ok page sight.) ‘Shooting Affair Aired In County Court Here Today Grigg Says He Shot Curry In De fending Self. Man Gets Su spended Term. _ ! The shooting affair Saturday night week ago in which R. O. Curry was shot in the left arm by Dr. T O. Grigg was up for formal trial in county court today. Curry said he was called to the Grigg car by Dr. Grigg and then shot in the arm as he grabbed for the gun. Dr. Grigg, taking the stand as the only defense witness, said that Curry came to the car and Jumped in upon him with his knife open. After a scuffle around in the car Grigg said he got his gun and shot. Grigg was bound over to superior court under a $500 bond. No charge was entered against Currv. Brought Back. Israel Hamrick, of the Union section, had his suspended sentence put into effect today by the county court. Some time ago he was tried for non-support of hts wife and given a suspended sentence of 10 months to take effect If he did not provide for his wife. Later he left home, it was charged, and went to South Carolina. He was brought back here this week and the sus pended sentence put into effect after it was shown that he had not complied with the order of the court. Epworth Leaguers Of The County Return Members of the Epworth Leagues of Lawndale, Fallston, St. Peters, Kadeah, and Palm Tree churches in upper Cleveland have returned from Lake Junaluska where they attended the Epworth League con ferences._ The party was accom panied by Rev. E. E. Snow pastor of the above churches. They had a most delightful stay at Junaluska, taken up with study, worship, and [.recreation. /930Figures Show Why Cleveland Farmers Are Living At Home Now Daniels Not At Political Meet Raleigh. July 15.—Persistent report* throughout the state that Josephus Daniels, Raleigh publisher would announce hit candidacy for the governor* chair in succession to Govern or Gardner when he addressed a political rally at Greenville today were disposed of last night when It was revealed Mr. Daniels would not he pres ent at the meeting. No Alternate Sentences Now State Will Not Work Prisoners Who Have Chance To Pay Out. Prisoners sentenced in Cleveland county to 60 or more days on the roads will not be worked by the state highway forces if they have the alternate of paying a fine and escaping the sentence Under such a system, says High way Chairman E. B. Jeftress. a 60 or 90-day prisoner might pay his al ternative fine a few days after being clothed by the state and would thus prove expensive. Charles Ross, attorney for the commission, said that although it was a common practice in record er’s courts to allow prisoners the al ternative of a fine or a term with the opportunity to pay the fine aft er, starting to serve the sentence, that alternative sentences were void. The supreme court has so held them. Sam Scott, director of county con victs. has been instructed not to re ceive such prisoners. School Bonds Of Shelby Are Sold; Kings Mtn. Notes Bond* SoM To Cincinnati Firm At 5 1-4 Ra.tr. Note* At 6 Percent. 'Special to The Star.' Raleigh, July 15.—'Three batches of bonds and two of notes were sold Tuesday through the Local Government Commission in Raleigh The bonds were sold as follows: ■. Shelby school district, »26,000 lr* bonds sold to Well, Roth <fc Irving. Cincinnati, Ohio, at an interest rate of 5 1-4 per cent, with a premium of $58, malting the net rate slightly below 5 1-4 per cent. Monroe Graded school district, Union county, $30,000. sold to Mor ris Mather & Co., Chicago, at an interest rate of 5 1-4 per cent, with a premium of $225 Shiloh school district. Union coun ty, $25,000 sold to Pruden & Co., Toledo, Ohio, at an interest rat* of 6 per cent, with a premium of $1,066. The notes, in anticipation of taxes, follow. Town of Kings Mountain, $40,000 sold to Union National Bank, Char lotte, at a 6 per cent interest rate, no premium, therefore at par. Burke county, $40,000 solt to American Trust Co , Charlotte, at an Interest rate of 6 per cent and a premium of $25 Catawba Man Jailed After Girl Jumps Into River; Body Not Found ‘■Goodbye, Bud, I’m Gone,” Cries Girl As She Jumps Into Deep Water. Lenoir, July la.—Sheriff John W. Walsh Tuesday afternoon placed Emmet Cline, 27, of Star town, in jail without bond pending an inves tigation into the death of Miss Lu cille Parker, 18, who was drowned ! in Gun Powder creek dam early yes terday. Cline was Miss Parker’s com panion at the time of the accident. Efforts Tuesday to locate the body of the girl, whose home was at Con over, were unsuccesful, and late In the afternoon Sheriff Walsh an nounced that the dam will be dyna mited today. The girl is said, to have drowned in water more than 40 feet in depth “Goodbye, Bud.” In jail last night, Cline declared that he could assign no reason for the girl s act at Jump»ng over the river bridge "She and, Goodbye, Bud, I'm gone,”' the prisoner stated at the jatL He is said to have been a lover of the girl for the last three years. Cline’s story that Miss Parker and he were riding on the country road and that Miss Parker was suddenly seized with an impulse to commit suicide is to receive a thorough in vesigation, Sheriff Walsh said. Cline was assisting In the search until he was placed under arrest. Tells of Tragedy. The man held returned to Hick ory and told about the tragedy to a brother-in-law, Ouy Hawn, whose car he was driving. They immediate ly went to the home of Sheriff Barrs and reported the drowning. The Parker girl Is a daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. T. S. Parker of near Conover. but had not made her home with them for more than a year, due to a misunderstanding that had arisen over a love affair, it is reported. A warrant had been Issued here Saturday charging the girl with va grancy. Rumors that the girl had not cast herself Into the water but had merely run away w-ere discred ited bv officer*. Received Nearly Two Million Dollars Less For 1930 Products Than For 1929 Crops. Cotton Price Dropped, Corn And Wheat Acreage Was Cut. Different Now. Cleveland county farmers have a Rood reason for pro ducing more food and feed crops this year than they have, in a score of years. At the end of 1930 they had nearly two million dollars less than they had in 1929 with which to pay their bills or put in the bank. A decrease of approximately two million dollars in one year is enough to revolutionize the system of any business, even farming. ‘Our Bob’ Reynolds Thinks Of Senate; Thinks Hoey to Run tihetUIr Attorney To Announcr Plans About Race In Few Days. Asheville, July 15—Robert R Rey nolds. Asheville attorney and unsuc cessful candidate ‘against the late Lee 8, Overman for the Democra tic nomination to the United States senate said last night he would make an announcement within the next few days as to whether he would run In 1932 against Senator Cameron Morrison. “I haven't definitely decided, ’ Mr Reynolds told The Citizen. The Associated Press this morn ing said The Charlotte Observer quotes Reynolds as saying he was considering running against Senator Morrison. • in my opinion and according to what I hear,” Reynolds Is quoted, according to the Associated Press, “Senator Morrison will certainly have oposltlon for the nomination whether I enter the race or not. In fact, my information is that both Tun Bowie and Clyde Hoey will make the race. Then there is Frank Grist also.” The Observer quotes Hoey. Shelby attorney and former representative in congress as saying he "will not make any announcement in refer ence to being a^eShdtdate until probably aroun^f the first of the year " v Two Firm* Move To New Locations Here Manney Auto Parts Co. And Robert C. Hord To West Warren Street. Two business firms, the Mauney Auto Parts Co. and Robt. C. Hord Refrigerator Co., heretofore located in the Chas. Hoey building on S. Washington street, moved yesterday to the Chas. Hoey building on East Warren street to the rear of the postoffice. Their moving was occasioned by the fact that the Elmore-Osborne Motor Co. has secured a lease on the Hoey building for a sales and show room for the Chrysler and Plymouth automobiles for which this firm se cured the agency a few werks ago. The building will be remodelled and a gas service tank installed. It is also understood that Mr. Dwight Houser will maintain headquarters here for the Shell Oil Co. for which he has distribution in Cleveland county The Farm Forecaster, just issued by the North Carolina Crop Report* ing Service, gives the figures for 1930 farming activities in every county in the State and contrasts the figures with those of 1929 It is far from a cheering story for Cleveland county Took Big “Flop” In 1929 the value of all farm crops in Cleveland county, termed the Slate's "example agricultural county.” was $5.3991)36. In 1930 crop values were only $3,445,980— just a decrease of $1,653,958. Cleveland farmers didn’t know the exact figures, as just reported by the Farm Forecaster, but they knew enough to realize that somethin* was wrong, for when a county has two million dollars less money, or Its equivalent, it doesn't take tabu lated figures to show that a change is needed. Brought A Change. As a result there are more acres In the country this year in wheat, and corn and hay and potatoes than in many years. Estimate* now .are that the wheat crop this year is double that of last year or any other recent year. The same goes for com, oats, other grain, and food and feed crops in general. Cotton Big Lose. ine Dig decrease came from the 1930 cotton crop. The county made over 60.000 bales, but the price re ceived for the 1930 crop was a lit tle more than half that reoelved for the 1939 cotton—or 9 cents for the 1930 cotton and 17 cents for the 1929 crop. In dollars and cents that decrease meant $1,753,797. Cleveland farmers sold their 1929 cotton for over four million dollars and their 1930 cotton for only a little more than two and one-half million. Which is to ray that 90 percent of the two-million dollars (all off in crop values In the county in 1930 resulted from the low price received for cotton. Others Fall. But that item in itself would not have been so bad had the otWRr crops, the crops necessary for liv ing at home, held up, They didn't. The corn crop, a very essential crop when the ‘'cash crop”—which is cotton hereabouts—fails, was off. In 1929 the county made 710,3<H bushels of corn; in 1930 only 649.757 bushels—a decrease of more than 60,000 bushels. In dollars and cents and in feeding that meant a loss of $123,869. Wheat Down. The wheat crop was off more than any other in proportion. In 1929 the county made 84,648 bushels of wheat and only 27.480 bushels in 1930. In dollars and cents that, meant $89,334 to the farmers of the county. This year observers say the wheat, crop should slip beyond the 1929 mark and may go to 100,000 bushels. Other Losses. The statistics show that the fol lowing other crops in 1930 fell below those of 1929: The county hay, crop was $17,103 shy of the iMfl^bay crop, and the rye crop $3,346 The only cheering part of the 1930 farm report for this county was shown In the gains made in soy beans, cowpeas, oats, peanuts, sweet and Irish potatoes The 1930 soy bean crop brought $1,334 more than the 1929 crop; the cowpeas crop of 1930 was worth *3,751 more than the crop of the previous year; the last year’s oats crop brought in *9.038 more than the 1929 crop; the Irish potatoes of 1930 were valued at *2,069 more than 1929 potatoes, and sweet po tatoes at *16,520 more; the 1930 peanuts brought in $667 more than the 1929 peanuts. Incidentally, the sweet potato crop was one of the most valuable county crops, being valued at near *100.000, or to be exact, *99,854. The 1930 crops of Cleveland wer ranked and valued as follows: Cotton, *2,514,075. Corn, *643,259. Sweet potatoes, *99,854 Oats, *80,711. Hay, *33,752. I, Potatoes, *30,262 Wheat, *27.480 Cowpeas, $7,692, Rye, *3,866. Soy Beans, *2',594 Peanuts, *2.535. Tobacco, *878.