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Finale of Capital Feud In Disinheriting Will Beatrice Hehoerjom U/HoLCAN i wnrinHHEr Hrs Karv F HF>JD??«5roN’ Jarca $ Shika Th« dramatic disinheritance of Mn. Baatnce Henderson Wholaan reputed granddaughter of wealth, Mr. Mar, F. Hendar.on, .ociety’ loader and widow of Senator John B. Hendar.on of Missouri, who ra rentl, died at an advanced age in Bar Harbor, Maine, marked finia to « ^ud ‘h“* Spring when an effort w«. made b, “rf- Wholaan to restrain Mra. Henderaon from donating a palatial residence In Wa.hington, 0. C.. to the United State, a. a home for it. V«te President.. In sharp contrast to the cutting off of Mr.. Wholaan who was adopted b, Mrs. Henderson as the daughter of bar son. John “• Henderson, Jr., the Japanese confidential secretary of "the Grand Dame of Washington." Jesse S. Shima, wa. bequeathed $200,000 of an estate valued at between $5,000,000 end $6,000,000. Mrs. Wholean may contest the will and fight for a share of the huge fortune. Phillips Case Baffles Probe Of High Court 'CONTINUED FROM PACMt ONE l he said. Between the driveway along which he was riming and the the road where the car -stood if a ; high hedge. Solicitor Spurting noted that at only one point could an automobile or people be seen from; the driveway. To be seen from this I spot the, automobile would have tnj be parked, it la believed. 15 or 301 yards up the road from the spot' where the gun was found and where it was first testified that the car was standing. The youngster walk ed back to the hedge opening and pointed across the road to where he said the car was standing This was some distance up the road, to wards Kings Mountain, from where; Solicitor Spurling's ettr was parked | just beside the spot where the- gun; was found. Along the driveway 1 from the hedge to the house It was impossible to see the outline, if that, of the solicitor's car parked where the gun was found. If the car was far enough up the road for the little fellow to sec it from the driveway, as he was confident he did, the solicitor was puzzled as to how the gun' could have been' thrown so far back down the road, over a bank and into some briars. Another Puzlc. Still another phase of ihe matter that seemed to puzzle the solicitor was how the bullet got into the side of the car door to the left of the steering wheel and Just above Phil lip's head. The bullet passed through the head, it Is said, on an even Hne—or pust about as high above the ear on the side it en tered as It was on the side where it emerged. How then, the solicitor | wondered, could the bullet have! plunged upward a couple feet un- j lee Phillips was leaning considerably j to the right and shot at an angle? i Nothing Definite. But nowhere could the high court i prosecutor find any definite eiu which would indicate anything but] suicide. "I am not entirely satisfied In my own mind,” he said today, "that Tom shot himself” (Solicitor Spurltng was a friend of the dead man as both lived in Lenoir). “But as care fully as I investigated the affair I could not find a single thing that would justify my presenting a bill to the grand Jury. There are mys terious phases,’’ he continued, “to he shooting but the fact that it isn't *o clear does not necessarily involve anyone to the extent that justifies me in making a presentment and Penny Column WANTED TO BUY USED Of fice desk and other office furniture, must be cheap. R J. McCarley, Royster building, Shelby. lt-29p HELP WAN T E D- MAN TOR sales work in Shelby. House to house canvass. Past seller. Big profit. No capital required Write X Box 340 giving name, address phone number. it-29p bringing on a trial that would (wove expensive to the county and then might tail to clear up the tragedy anymore than it is now," Grand Jury Through, It was realized yesterday after noon that Solicitor Spurling did not intend to make any presentment in the Phillips case before the pres ent grand Jury, Late in the after noon the grand Jury, headed by W. K. Crook, of Kings Mountain, reported to Judge Walter Moore that it had completed its work. Before discharging the Jury Judge Moore asked Solicitor Spurling, "Is there any further work you have for the grand Jury Mr. Solicitor?" Solicitor Spurling hesitated for a second and the court room was silent as it awaited his reply. "No sir." he said, "1 have no other work for the Jury." Not Over Vet. Talking to The Star tills morning Solicitor Spurling said he would look into the Phillips death some more and that if anything new should come up in the future it is still possible that a presentment may be made to the next, grand Jury. Judge Moore Giving Heavy Sentences To Thieves Before Him (CONTINUED PROM HAUK. ONE.» ed o( shooting: another colored man who was with “his girl," was given a sentence of three to five years in State prison. Ben Stubbs was given a two-year road sentence on a forgery convic tion. Cecil Williams, young white man. was given a sentence of two years for forgery. There were eight counts against him, all the checks being passed on Shelby business houses recently. Boots Wilson, colored, was given a two-year road term for shooting his wife. The charge was assault with a deadly weapon. Woman Is Freed. The grand jury failed to return a true bill against Ruth Bratcher, negress of the Kings Mountain sec tion. who was charged with killing her husband. She stabbed him to death with an ice pick in self de fense. Marvin Ford was found guilty of secret assault but sentence has not been passed. Williamson Guilty. Moris Williamson, young negro charged with shooting Hatcher Glover, white and his father some time ago over an argument about a crop was found guilty but sen tence has not been passed. Both men were sprinkled with shot but neither seriously Injured. The charge against Williamson’s wife. Tishia, who was charged with urging her husband to do the shooting, was nol prossed. Nol Pros Abduct ion. The abduction charge against Til den Street, erstwhile Holiness prea cher, charged with going away with another man's wife, was nol prosstd with leave. The case of Dr. T. O. Grigg charged with an assault with a deadly weapon upon R. O. Currie was remanded to recorder's eourl for trial. County G. O. P. Heads In A Tangle (CONTINUED FROM PAO* ONEl chairman waa declared vacant on the grounds that Chairman Cox no longer lived In the county. Dr. Lackey was then elected chairman Camnltz resigned as secretary and Postmaster C. A. Brittain was elect ed secretary. J. R. Price was named j committeeman to succeed Brittain, J. B. Horn to succeed Spurgeon Wal ker, who It Is said has moved out of No. 7 township, and R. A. Lackey was named committeeman to succeed Dr. Lackey the new chairman. This, then, according to the eight com mitteemen who took part in thr meeting and other leaders of the old faction is the regular official organisation of the party. In effect, Mr. Cox is quoted by The Charlotte News as saying It is all tommyrot. He is still chairman, he contends, because he Is merely making a temporary home at Mar-: Hill, and the meeting at which he was ousted as chairman and a new leader elected, he argues, was not by the regulations as Camnltz, con sidered as secretary, was not execu tive secretary. His basis of argu ment Is that Camnltz was merely temporary campaign manager in Hu last campaign In which role hr took over the secretarial duties of Byron Williams, former secretary, j Months ago, It Is further contended,; Deputy Marshal F. B. Hamrick, who has headquarters at Charlotte but lives at Boiling Springs in this county, became executive secretary. For that reason it Is contended that Mr. Camnltz had no authority to call the meeting and therefore the action of the meeting cannot be official. tnrv tuvr u. The faction which now appeaw, to be in power merely smiles at the argument. The meeting, they say, was regularly called and was attend ed by enough regularly elected com mitteemen to make the meeting's actions legal and binding. So, tak ing that viewpoint, they are sitting easy waiting for the Cox faction to make a move. The group that elected Dr. Lackey chairman con tains it is known some of the veteran Republican leaders of the county such as the Lackeys, Brittain, De Priest and others. Deputy Marshal Hamrick, however, is considered an ally of Cox due to their association and consequeny friendship in work ing together at campaign time. Likewise, it is said that Mr. Cost ner, No. 6 Republican committee man, is opposed to the new set-up. Hands Off. So tar as is known Postmaster J. H. Quinn, of Shelby long a leader in party ranks, is playing hands off. He did not attend the meeting last Friday night, it is understood, Where Cox was ousted, either legally or illegally, and Dr. Lackey named to the position. Whether his absence means that he favors Cox as chair man or merely remained away rather than lend weight to either side of the split is not known. Tlie Kings Mountain postmaster ship started the main trouble, blit it cannot be told how it will end Even the postmaster recommenda tion is in doubt. Will the man en dorsed at the meeting held by Cox several weeks ago get the commit tee's approval, or will the committee which called a meeting of its own and named a new chairman en dorse some other man for the office? It is generally believed that State Chairman J S. Duncan, of Greens boro, or National Committeeman Chas, A. Jonas, of Lincolnton, who is also district attorney, may at tempt to start the peace pipe, around. Jonas, Cox and Hamrick are close party associates. Cox was the Jonas campaign manager in 1930 when Jonas was defeated for Con gress by Major Bulwlnkle Nothing Wrong? But so far as the group apparent ly in the saddle now feels about it there is nothing to worry about and everything is all hotsy-totsy. "We have Just elected a new chairman and in the proper way and we have a, full county committee and arc in every way normally organised,'1 one member of the group said. The Democrats are getting some amusement out of the split-up and for that reason the Republican or ganisation may quiet things down soon rather than produce additional material for embarrassment. "But." declared one of the group which boosted Lackey Into the chairman ship, "we're not giving any ground We have no reason to, and it is my idea that there will be very little fighting back.” Fallston Revival To Begin Sunday A series of rerival services will be gin at Fallston M. E. church Sun day morning at 11 o'clock with preaching at that hour and 7:45 by the pastor. Rev. E. E. Snow. Begin ning Monday the pastor will be as sisted by Mrs. C. L. Stiediy of High Point. Mrs. Stiediy is a godly, con secrated woman and is one of the outstanding religious workers of the M. E. church, south. She will preach daily next week at 10:30 a. m. and 7 :45 p m. The general public is giv en a cordial invitation to all ser vices It doesn’t matter so much if you fall, so long as you pick yourself up again. Hobbles Home T Fred Lindstrom, star outfielder of the New York Giants, who injured his foot in a recent game with the rntlnes, is Known aoout to ooard * tram at Philadelphia for his home in Chicago. According to his doctors, Freddie will not be able to play again for at least six weeks, during which he will have to remain on crutches. At The Theatres During the recovery from depres sion of 1908, this country enjoyed performances from one of the best stage plays ever written The name was "Salvation Nell.” More than twenty-three years have passed and the famous old title has taken a new grip on the theatre public, for "Salvation Nell” is now a talking picture, with Ralph Graves and Sally O'Neill doing the principal character rolle. The picture opened this afternoon at the Carolina, to run through Thursday night. “White Shoulders” is a daring frank x-ray turned upon playboys and playgtrls, upon the world and its gay places; from the pent houses of New York to the slums, from the cabarets of Paris to Monte Carlo from honeymoon ocean liner3 to the blue skies of Italy and Spain. "White Shoulders” Is a picture from the popular novel by Rex Beach. A strong and true-to-type cast for the picture includes Mary Astor, Jack Holt and Ricardo Cortez. It's a two-day show at the Webb theatre, beginning today. Dick Merrill On Visit To County Of Supreme Thrill Mail Pilot, Who Took S,000-Foot Plunge Near Casar, Visits City. A sun-tanned air mall pilot, who gave this county a thrill last fall and in doing so received the supreme thrill of his exciting career, came back to Shelby yesterday for a short visit. One night last fall, a stormy night with a "low celling |nd soupy,” as aviators- say It, Dick Merrill started with his mail from Atlanta to Rich mond. After leaving Charlotte he lost his direction In a heavy fog and storm. Hours later, after flying here and there trying to break through the clouds and find a safe landing. Merrill realized his gas was running low. He could tell he was in the mountains but could not ascertain the distance to earth. As he tried to leap from the plane with his para chute, he was tossed out. For 2,000 feet he plunged downward before he coaid get hold of the string of his 'chute and he managed to open it just before striking the ground. The plane was demolished as it shot to earth, but Merrill, barely escaping death, procured a truck and brought his mail safely to Shelby. His plunge Into the fog clouds near Casar ranks as one of the big feats in air mall flying. Yesterday Merrill breezed back in to towm—in an automobile this time —for a short visit. "I came mighty near making my last hop here," he said, "but after it was over I enjoyed my first trip and I enjoy coming back. I'll be back again, too." * Large Crowd* At Scruggs Funeral Rutherfordton, July 29.—The first Baptist church was filled to over flowing here Monday afternoon for the funeral of Dr. F. Bobo Scruggs, which was conducted at 4:30 o’clock [with Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shelby, Dr. L. B. Hayes, pastor of Central Methodist church of Shelby and pas tor of Mrs. Scruggs, and Dr. E. B. Jenkins, pastor of the First Baptist church here, In charge. Seven phy sicians from Shelby and six from Rutherford county were honorary pallbearers, while 12 nurses from the Shelby hospital attended In uniform In a body with the superintendent, Miss McNlchols, and assistant sup erintendent, Miss B^Varly. The flo ral offering was large&nd beautiful Dr. Scruggs, 38, died In the Shelby hospital near midnight Saturday. ■ s Sports ‘Babe’ Carr Meets TomMcCarverln A Big Bout Here Program At Tompson Building In clude* Other Interesting Events. A double-header in boxing will be staged Saturday night in the Thompson Building on W Warren St. In addition there will be several preliminaries and a pie eating con test between two well known rivals who will really give a good whole some laugh. A ten round bout will be staged between Babe Carr and Tommy Mc Carver, both Shelby boys. These well known Boxers have wanted to get together for sometime; for some reason or other this is their first chance and all things being equal it will be one of the snappiest bouts ever put on in Shelby. A six round bout will wage be tween Jimmy Pearson of Lawndale, and BiH Thompson of Morganton. Jimmy has a very good record with a large number of wilts and only a few draws and not any defeats. Fo’ Instance he has won over the light weight champion of Rutherford coun ty, the well known Jack Blanton; also he put up one of the best fights of the season just a short time ago with Red Whaler of Boone and it was a draw'. His challenge Includes anyone in his class and weight, 122 lbs. Also preliminaries and pie eating contest will begin at 8 p. m. and the main bouts at 9 p. m. The Promoter is G. O. Black burn. Lawndale. The receipts of this bout go for expenses and athle tic purposes. Earl Community New* Of Interest Personals of People Coming and Going About Over the Week-end. (Special to The Star.) Earl, July 28.—Little Miss Mary Haas, returned home Saturday aft er spending some time with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Haas at Ninety-six, S . C. Mr. and Mrs. Durham Jones and children of Hollis, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. J. p. Jones. Mr. Herbert Camp, of Taylors, S. C„ is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Camp this week. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hamrick, of Lattlmore, were callers at the Bettis home Sunday. Miss Mary Turner, left Sunday for Casar, where she is a member of the school faculty. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hulsey, and son, left Saturday for Pendergrass, Ga., where they will visit relatives and friends for a couple of months. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Callahan and children of Shelby, were callers in the village Sunday afternoon. Mr. Wilbur Davis, of Wake Forest is spending this week 'with several of his boy friends here. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Surratt, and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Haas and family, and Mrs. W. G. Gra ham and sons, Winfred and Austell are spending this week in the moun tains. Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Camp, had as their guests Sunday, Mr. Ada Justice and children, and Mrs, E. Helms, of Gastonia, and Mrs. S. C. Helms and children of near Besse mer City. The latter is spending a few days this week Ellenboro Students Make 160 Mile Tour Co-operative Trip Taken Through Western Part Of North Carolina. ‘Special to The Star.) Ellenboro, July 29.—The Ellenboro agricultural students, directed by their teacher, enjoyed a one day outing last Tuesday when they took a 160 mile tour in western North Carolina at a cost of fifty cents per boy or three-tenths of a cent per mile. During the day they visited the following places: Lake Lure, Chim ney Rock, Hendersonville, Asheville, Asheville Recreation Park, Point Look Out, Andrews Geyser and Marion. They spent several hours at the Asheville Recreation Park where they studied the animals and went in bathing. Many places and things that they had heard and read about were seen by the boys. The trip especially proved to the boys that it pay^ to cooperate be cause the trip coujft not have been taken as individuals with such a low cost. A summer trip or a w eeks en campment at White Lake, is on the yearly program for vocational agri cultural students. The grouchiest person known is the man who refuses to sleep on a feather bed for* fear it wdl tickle him and make him laugh Every time a mule kicks, he slows down; a man loses around Exclusive Bailey's Beach Crashed By Eye of Long-Distance Camera * * * * * * * * * Resourcefulness of Photography Pierced Wall of Exclusiveness Surround ing Famous Resort of Social Celebrities. Intimate Snap Shots of Elite at Play Taken from Outside “Deadline.” tfesfi»£KrGoe&er s^GjsTiffanvSapokms. [Mbs Dcma^o MacRae aktd Pet. Preparing for the. Shove r,s DA1J/EV? DEACH FROM THE blTRFblDe . ffiSS DEITY XoRRl? $ Ml?* Mlftl KCWTZS Regarded as the most exclusive playground in the world, Bailey’s Beach, at Newport, R. has long been looked upon as impregnable by the society “gate-crasher,** the news reporter and cameraman. Guarded as it is by its traditional aura oi exclusiveness (not to mention armed guards), press photog raphers are kept to a deadline, where they may only make pictures of celebrities going to and from tha Entrance to the beach itself being denied, one could only surmise how these children of fortune disported themselves. But a resourceful photographer hit upon the idea of using a camera with a tele scopic lens, and, while not violating in person the treasured seclusion of the resort, now it is possible to secure pictures of the cream of society disporting itself in bathing suits, even as you and 1, frore outside the pale- Thus, thanks to the traditional slogan of the press, “get the story,** old Hoi-polloj may now see how the other half lives. And the beauty of it is that llie other half is ignorant that its goings-on are being recorded by the watchful eye of the long-distance camera, until it sees them re* * vealed in the pages of the public press. Laura Ingalls, Tiny, hut Nervy, Is Out to Be First of Sex to Fly Ocean One-Hundred-Pound Aviatrix, Who Deserted Footlights for Cockpit, and f y v Many of the Most Cherished Records for Flying, Gives Destination, “Le Bourget.” • ■ ■jm ■■■* f! ■ tlvAURA Ingalls and her. plane. WL aviatrix in the world, Laura Ing.ll., diminutive 100-pound p,!ot, he. .et . ta.U J i.brH relation tothe word little or any of it. .ynonym. For whatever thi. be A, fir.fwom^n to* # '’ll™ f ti T' re weight, .he make, op in nerve, a. her ambition t, which remind. on.f f r i^ rrLC prove.. Carefully laying her plan, in a man. h!^dU befn?. r f .?ol°"el Ch*rle* A. Lindbergh, Mi.. Ing.ll., quiet and retiring, may hop off SlUdmiU,VThrdf‘ej her(:,,»werfu! Ifckh^d Air Expre.. down in Pari, in a manner rTrb to ParT.^1 .lon^ tb^k\L,nwytJ|S° ,ntent V* LaUri on bein* the fir“ °f *>*r .ex to fly from New JaUed unonTe* H ? H k 1,,‘ boWly w",ten her destination a. Le Bourget whenever .he ha. been r«ord. for Wh y " "7, No,‘ C°nt?nt With holdir* v*riou* •«»»! «"d long distance record, for both men and women flier., Ml.. IngalU, who de.erted the .tage for the cockpit, i, pro. . ——Trmmmmmmim ■ i Pa‘ tng ** N«w \ ork for the greatest adventure of her life. Model Prison Nearing Completion A prison that will resemble a comfortable hotel , more than most of the penal institutions of the country has been partially completed at Attica, N. Y., to serve as the first unit of a new penitentiary for New York State. If one must be imprisoned the most model prison ever built will bs the mecca •f all the law-breakers who can find refuge there. The stately appearing but as yet incomplete dininj hall of the Attica Penitentiary is shown at upper left- Note the columns and beautiful windows, Th» only one of four proposed cell blocks completed is shown in lower photo. Upper right picture depicts a model cell. Pretty swell, eh?
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