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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. <J. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - EK1DAY SUBSCRIPTION PKICE my llii; per rw:________*a.oo By Carrier, per year ___.._...._n ut THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. USB a WEATHERS ________President end aoiioi a ERNEST HOEY _Secretary and foreman RKNN DRUM -,-r-.. News taitoi U E. OAU>-_----- Advertising Mstisgei Entered as second class matter January l, 1005. at tne posinttice st Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Oongrtes. March a. iH/v We wish to call your attention to the tact that it is and nas oeen our custom to charge five cents per Line tor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice nar been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESDAY. AUG. 5, 1931 TWINKLES And not a chirp as yet from old-fashioned mothers about Mrs. Lindbergh gallivanting off to the Orient and leaving the one year-old Eaglet at home with a nurse. Georgia, the home State of Bobby Jones the peer of sportsmen, springs a spasm when a legislator intjmates that he will introduce a bill to make Abraham Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday in that State. Think of it: the "War Between the States" ended two-thirds of a century' ago and a bust of Jefferson Davis is now in an honored place in Washington! “ALVIN" EDISON FAME, EVEN FAME of the type attained by Thomas A. Edison, is fleeting. The sage of Menlo park, the out standing inv entor of his age, became seriously ill last week. It was apparently the A-l spot news story of the week. Still living, the Edison name is one already connected with legends and history. Two decades ago school children marvelled that the man they read so much about was yet alfve; school children always associate those famous characters of history with a bygone day. But to return to the original thought: Last week the press wires flashed out the story of Edison’s serious illness. It was the lead story for the Sunday papers. In one newspaper, a newspaper prominent in its field here abouts, the headline read "Thomas Alvin Edison 111." The body of the story, we thought, as we read on, would get it right, but no—there it was again in the ten-point lead para graph, "Thomas Alvin Edison." It was an AP dispatch and in the other papers it was recorded "Thomas Alva Edison" as it should be. We wonder—did some young fellow or a telegraph desk get the idea that the usually efficient AP had slipped and that there couldn’t be such a name as "Alva?" Maybe it would be best, if the news agencies will concur, to let Edison be known in history as "Thomas A." "NOT A FOOTBALL STAR” SEVERAL M EEKS AGO The Star published an item about a negro, one well known in Shelby, being killed by Gas ton county officers during a raid upon a liquor plant. It was explained that one of the officers stumbled and his gun went off just as the negro raised up from behind a clump of burhes. At that time we were inclined to marvel at the un usual happening. It seemed passing strange, one of the freakish events of the day, that the load from the accident ally discharged gun managed to seek out and strike the negro in his hiding place. At the time, however, we were in the midst of the vacation season, a topsy-turvy, haphazard per iod about a newspaper offiee, and we overlooked the oppor tunity to comment upon the oddity. The eagle eye of The Greensboro News did not, however, overlook the incident. Soon after the killing of the negro a prominent; football star was accidentally shot by a Charlotte police officer and a con troversy about the shooting raged across all Tarheelia. Tues day’s Greensboro News reminds that the negro slain by Gas ton officers was not a football star. The full comment of the Greensboro editor is reproduced on this page today. Per haps you will be interested in this outside observation, and perhaps not. A PUZZLING SILENCE! REMEMBER THE PRITCHARD protest of the election of Josiah W. Bailey as United States Senator? What has happened? Why is nothing being done? Or.! is it possible that no definite action was intended at the out set? It was months and months ago—about six months, as we Recall it—that George Pritchard, defeated Republican candidate, filed a contest of the Bailey election. Federal judges were then asked to order Federal court marshals to assemble all ballot boxes. Later the Federal jurists struck out the order when it became apparent that State govern mental machinery would assemble and impound the boxes. It was four or five months ago that registrars of Cleveland county precincts, and presumably the same thing happened in other counties, began bringing in their ballot boxes to the office of the clerk of Superior court. Politicians throughout the state were in a hullabaloo about it. Dispatches were coming regularly out of Washington insinuating that thous ands of absentee ballots, perhaps some of them illegal, would be found in those boxes. But for three or four months not a word has been heard about the contested election. Over in the court house here an alert janitor finds it necessary now and then to brush the cobwebs from the stack of ballot boxes. Not a word from anywhere. The boxes have been assembled and not a thing ts being done about it. It was a task that took quite a little time and entailed some expense. Is it likely that nothing is to be done? Or do you sup nose the Republicans are merely playing shut-mouth until mother campaign at which time they will attempt to revive a would-be scandal? We’re just wondering. It seems as if everyone has for gotten all about the contest THE PLATFORM OF MR. BOWIE A CAREFUL PERUSAL of the campaign platform of Judge Tam C. Bowie, in his announcement as a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate, sounds, as The Charlotte News says, more like Mr. Bowie is declaring for “county commissioner or mayor of West Jef ferson" than for the Senate. Which is to say that Mr. Bowie's declarations i*nd ambitions in regard to tax reform, economies, etc., are more of a local and State nature than of national import. But, in all fairness to the West Jefferson man, might we ask what candidate ever sticks to issues spe cifically within the scope and domain of the office he seeks? Is it not a characteristic trait of the political game to play to local and sectional prejudices regardless of the connection those prejudices may have with the pffice in question? The sales tax issue and the MacLean measure have no more cause to be paramounted in a campaign for the United States Senate than did the injection of the religious issue in the 1928 campaign, but what an important role that religious issue played in the 1928 results. Mr. Bowie’s appeal to the MacLean faction, bringing up constant reminders of Senator Morrison’s opposition to cither a sales tax or a luxury tax, may not prove as disastrous to Senator Morrison as did the religious issue for Alfred Emmanuel Smith, but, neverthe less, it is in that appeal, in no manner connected with the duties of a United States Senator, that Mr. Bowie sees his beat chance to get votes. And that, we might remind, is the ultimate goal of the office-seeker. Mr. Bowie, we suspect, knows just as well as anyone else that there is no avenue in the United States Senate whereby he can bring about the local reforms he speaks of, but being an astute veteran cam paigner he does realize the potential worth of talking about such issues. The Star regrets to see the local tax issue hurtled into the senatorial campaign just as much as does The Charlotte News. We regret, too that Mr. Bowie has already advanced the issue, but we reiterate that in doing so he has infroduced nothing new and unusual into North Carolina senatorial pro cedure. All in all, it' is a peculiar senatorial campaign we seem to be confronted with, particularly when we look over the issues advanced. Mr. Bowie will make his bid on the more or leas local issued advanced; Mr. Grist is running, so he says, to see if it is possible for a poor man to win high of fice; Mr. Reynolds—“Our Bob,” y’know, is advocating that something be done about prohibition, that something being something other than the type of enforcement now existing, if existing; and Senator Morrison, so far as we know now, is running just because he desires to return to Washington. ItV“ WhoYou~Are,rThat Counts When You Get Shot fGreensboro New.>) VI* the Cleveland 8tar there comes the Information that John Kirk, negro, was shot to death by Oaston county officers during * re cent raid on a whiskey still Here Is the explanation given in the Shelby paper as to how the shoot ing occured: Rural Officer Oscar Sams, his son. Wesley, and C. E. Threkeld. a deputy sheriff, located the still in the west ern section or Oaston county. When they came In sight of It. they said, no one was at the still. Just then. Sams said, two shots were fired front that direction and they began to run toward the stilt. Threkeld, he said, Stumbled and hU gun discharged, shooting the negro who, the officers said, raised up at that Instant from behind a clump of bushes. The officers obviously have a well fortified and doubly buttressed planation. Not only did the dej’Sty who did the shooting commit ihe customary raider's stumble, but his victim, with billions of bushes in the world and infinite space in which to protrude, made the fatal mistake of rising at the very in stant when the officer’s gun dis charged and from behind the veiv bush which was directly in the path of the speeding bullet. The explan ation Is unpeachable. And if it weren't, what of it? The vic tim wasn't a football star; he wasn't even a white mail truck driver, merely a negro whom authorities subsequently announced was "a no torious character,” a discovery which naturally had to come later as they could not possibly have seen him in the bushes from which he rose so unexpectedly. The affair is mentioned largely for in formative purposes. With its meagre headlines and its lack of follow-up, it may have been entire ly overlooked by a reading public which saw stories of a somewhat similar nature from Wilmington and Charlotte, although with more Im portant principals of course, staring out at them from the front page day after day. Perhaps it isn t get ting shot but who you are which counts after all. Beams Mill Dots Of Personal Items Sandar School On Picnic To Batile (Tounds—Watermelon Feast; Personals. 'Special to The Star.) Beam's Mill, Aug. 4.—The Sunday school enjoyed a picnic at Kings Mtn. Battleground Saturday; About 50 people went and all reported a nice time. Misses Eudora and laiue Hoyle entertained about 60 of their friend.. Thursday night with a watermelon feast. Numerous games were played after which the guests were served watermelon. All present reported a nice time. Miss Vivian McSwain, of Patter son Springs, spent a few days Iasi week with Mr. and Mrs. Richard McSwain. Mr. and Mrs Shuford Hoyle and daughters, Florence and Evelyn, of Rutherfordton, and Miss Elizabeth Bridges spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hoyle and family. Misses Evelyn and Beatrice Hen drick and Messrs. Mills Cornwell and Sherril Hamrick spent last week at the beach. Miss Magei and Messrs Clark and Everette Hoyle, of Chase City, Va spent the week-end with friends and relatives here. Miss Irene Costner spent Sun day with Miss Charline Hendrick Mr Alvin Chapman, of Charlotte is spending this week with Mr. John Wright and family. Mrs. John Wright is spending this week with her mother, Mrs. Chapman in Charlotte. Miss Pajvy Hamrick spent the week-end with Miss Lillian Irene Costner. Mrs. Paul Bridges, of Cleveland Springs, spent Monday with Mrs W. C. Bridges. Miss A V. Costner spent Sun day with Miss Ophelia Handrlck Mr. Ivey Crawley and family oi Morganton. Mr. ar.d Mrs. Alton Peeler of Greensboro, Mr. and Mrs John Phifer and son, of Shelby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs W. H. Glascoe Mr Boyd Hendrick of Lenoii spent awhile .—-nday night with Mr and Mrs. Paul Bridges of neai Cleveland Springs. Mr. Defay Costner is spendins awhile with his parents, Mr anc Mrs. Plato Costner. Mr. and Mrs, Rufus Grigg of neai Waco are spending a few days with their daughter Mrs. John Wrighi and Mr. Wright. Mr. and Mrs Doyle Hendrick an: Mr and Mrs. Ray Wilson of Falls ton spent Sunday with their parent! Mr. and Mrs. Chesney Hendrick. Mr. Bennett Wright is spendin£ this week with hsi grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Amoa Wright of Boil ing Springs. Mias Opal Ledford is visiting rel atives in Forest City this week. Mrs. W H. Norman spent th' latter part of last week with Mr and Mrs Earnest Wright of Falls ton Mr Ferman Sellars, of Falls ton spent Monday night with Mr Newell Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grigg, of Polk vllle. spent Sunday Vtth Mr. am Mrs, Clem Hendrick *« The Laundry. 'Bridget, do you know anythin) concerning my wife's whereabouts’ "Yes. sir. I put them ip th< wash.- - — To Clean Off Grave Of l3avid McSwain The friends and relatives of David MeSwain who came here from Scot land are requested to meet at the McSwain old grave yard near Mount Sinai church on August the 12th for the purpose of cleaning off the grave yard and other works. Please bring matocks, shovels, and axes. Please don't let one or two do all of this work. David McSwain uj the father and grandfather of every McSwain in America. As he was the only McSwain to cross the water all who can't come please send some one in your place. And don't forget the day. X want some one to give this out at Mount Sinai, Mount Pleasant, New Hope, Boiling Springs Pleasant Ridge, Flint Ridge, Poplar Springs, Sharon, Beaver Dam, and Trinity. S. C. Jones, Shelby, N. C. BETTER EQUIPMENT BETTER TRAINED MECHANICS MEANS BETTER FORD SERVICE Wp have the best equipped shop in the Carolina?. Washing, Greasing, Changing Oil. No bogus parts used. Genuine Ford Parts Only. ROGERS MOTORS SHELBY, N. C. __ - BETTER FORD SERVICE - Manage Your Home With A Check Book Modern housewives now use their bank and its services more than ever. Especially is this true with checking accounts for managing home expenses. They have found that paying by . check is the only RIGHT way to make pa\ nients. and that it is also the thrifty way. START AN ACCOUNT NOW FOR YOUR HOME Union Trust Co. “IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH” Escaped girl B ares Harem Horrors 1RPS1M A. or, in Amerioen, Rom, was sixteen— in the first blush of womanhood — when wild Kurdish tribeamen awooped down upon her home. 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