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Iitoitauib 8 PAGES TODAY SHELBY, N, C._MONDAY, SEPT. 14. 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Eriday Afternoons. r vtar, (tn miomi *••** (in Mfinmi Late News THE MARKET Cotton, per ib.... 6c Cotton Seetl, per hundred ... 40c Fair Tuesday. Today'* North Carolina Weather Report: Generali; fhlr tonight and Tuesday. Some Speed. Calahot, England. Sept. 14.—Flight Lieutenant G. H. Stainforth selja new world's speed record of 3Wi£ miles an hour In a seaplane over m three kilometer course here yester day. Great Britain also won per manent possession of the Schneider cup when Flight Lieutenant J. N. Booth man flew another seaplane 271 miles at an average speed of 340.08 miles an hour over a 21-mile course. While Lieutenant Stalnforth’s speed remained to be checked and certi fied by the International Aeronau tical federation, It officially was an nounced that he had beaten by more than 28 miles an hour the previous world’s speed record of 357.7 miles an hour, act by Squadron leader A. H. Orlebar In 1929. Show For Fair This Month Is A Real Thriller It Same Bis Outfit That Played Great Canadian Exhibition At Toronto. Visitors to the Cleveland county fair this year will have a rare treat when they visit the midway and see and find out for themselves the wonderful collection of high class shows and thrilling rides that wfll be brought here by the Model Show's of America. . Gone are all *%he old time catch penny exhibits and fake shows— instead a veritable w'orld’s fair will be brought to our very doors, and it will be the same identical show that this year for the fourth con secutive time furnished the amuse ments at the great Canandian Na tional exhibition at Toronto. Something to suit the tastes of all lovers of clean and wholesome amusement will be found, includ ing the troupe of Royal Russian Midgets; the Van Droysen Sisters, tallest women on earth; mammoth wild west rodeo, rodeo and stam pede. with bucking steers, bronchos and buffalo; Royal Hawaiian en tertainers; “Alpine,"' Florida’s prize rat beauty, who weighs 732 pounds; Coney Island side show, filled with human oddities gathered from all parts of the world; Georgia min strels; congress of gigantio pythons from India; monkey circus and hippodrome; acrobats and jugglers: "Believe it or Not”—the latest sen ational mystery; “Jazzer," known as the big laugh feast of the mid way; many fun houses, etc., etc., The big thrill is provided in the "Wall of Death," where Mile. Reed races her big automobile up and around the perpendicular track at 60 miles an hour. The new $100,000 "Waltzcr" and many other rides will be found oh the huge midway. Merchants Giving . Prizes To School Track Meet Champs Renewed interest has been mani fested in the high school trad: meet on opening fair day since it has been announced that the mer chants of Shelby have donated val uable prizes for the different evepts. Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary Cleveland County Pair association has offered a silver loving cup to ihe school earning the greatest number of points. The merchants are giving the individual prizes which are listed below: Cleveland Hardware Co,, woof sport sweater; Shelby Hardware, flashlight; Farmers and Planters Hardware, good pocket knife; Char les 6t;ore, two shirts and two neck ties; Efirds Dept, store, hat; A. V. Wray and Six Sons, eight pair jocks; Cohen Brothers, 1 pair Friendly Five shoe; J. C. Penney Co., 1 pair J. C. Penney Co. shoes; Montgomery Ward Co., lifetime gold pencil; Campbell's, razor and shaving outfit; Stephenson Drug Co., Ansco box camera; Paul Webb, gold safety razor with blades; Cleveland Drug Co., shaving cream and powder; Suttle’s, fountain pen; Kendall Medicine Co., two Gillette razors (gold plated); T. W. Ham ick, fountain pen; Shelby Printing Co., fountain pen; Coca Cola Bot tling Co., ten bill folders. Faith Healer Will Appear In Shelby Rev. A. G. Garr of the Garr tab ernacle, Charlotte, will be at the Sisk tabernacle in Eastside Friday night of this week at 7:30. He is a faith healer who has aroused con siderable interest in his work. Move Business. The Beck and Pratt dry cleaning establishment has moved from its former location on South Washing ton street to the room in the Hoey building, on East Warren, formerly occupied by the Green Lantern tea room. y use Cotton For oney At Fair Here 12 Pounds Of Seed | Cotton Admission Fair OfficiaiTwill Take Cot ton For Admission Late This Month. The South’s largest county i fair is going to give the farm ers of North Carolina’s larg est cotton county “a break” when the Cleveland County Fair opens Tuesday, Sept. 29. i Dr. J. S. Dorton, fair secretary, | announced today that seed cotton I would be accepted from farmers at j the fair gates for admission instead ■of mbney.~' Offer Made. i "Twelve pounds of seed cotton i grpwn by the man, woman or child j who presents It will be taken as full j admission into the fairgrounds,” the I secretary stated. £ The novel plan was adopted, fair ! officials explained, in order to in culcate thrift in the young people, and to add to the attendance at the fair with the belief that the parju < CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX,) Mission Convert Spoke On Sunday And Again Tonight John Tyler, Heralded As Miracle Of Grace To Speak At Court House Tonight. John Tyler, heralded as the great living miracle of grace, told of the stqry of his conversion at the First Baptist church here Sunday even ing. An audience of representative citizens that nearly filled the large auditorium, greeted him and listen ed attentively for fifty minutes to his gripping story. Mr. Tyler, a native of Virginia and descendant of a famous Vir ginia family, lived a life of sin and degradation around the old Hoff man Bouse ir» New York for many Years, gambling and drinking and associating with some of the worst characters of that time. He told of his conversion at the Jerry Mc Aulay mission and since that time he has been giving his life to the service of God, preaching in 6,000 churches in this and-'foreign coun tries. Since his conversion he has met and knows personally many of the leading authors, diplomats and leaders in civic and religious life of the world. , xiio ouuicoo unique. Alter leading the 116th psalm, Mr. Tyler told his audience'of the origin of the famous McAulay mission. The tertimony of his conversion and work since that time is without parallel in the annals of Mission work. Mr. Tyler possesses a won derful voice and uses the best of English. No ope can possible lis ten to him without believing that the old time religion has not lost its power. At the conclusion of his address he asked for those who wished to be prayed for to stand, and the whole audience arose. Mr. Tyler has made a strong impres sion on the people who have heard him. He will speak to the American Legion this evening at the court house taking as his subject “Five Times Around the World as a Ho bo". He hopes to remain over in Shelby for another Sunday. His talk will be different from that bn Sunday, or that he has ever given in the city. Honest Woman Comes To Pay For “Hankies” In Cleveland county there is a woman whose honesty Is not to be questioned. She proved it Saturday. Last Christmas she visited the Rose store In Shelby and made some purchases. By mistake two handkerchiefs were placed in her package. She did not realise it until she reached home. Saturday she was back in Shelby for the first time since and she visited the store and paid the manager 2b cents fer the handkerchiefs. Plenty Of Names On Pay Vouchers Of City Teachers Salary Checks Will Look Like Col lection of Autographs When Eight of 9 Officials Signed Vouchers for city teachers this year will look, like a collection of autographs. Each check will have six official signatures before it reaches the teacher or other em ploye of the charter scho*>l district, and then when the teacher adds en dorsement before getting the cash that will make seven. Soma five carbon copies of this voucher will be resposing in the files of various city and county officials. ■ Hitherto a couple signatures of officials of the charter district have been sufficient to get the teachers, superintendents, princi pals and janitors. Here is what will happen, accord ing to formal instructions, dubbed "greetings,” which have been gent to county and city superintendents by Dr. A. T. Allen, state superin tendent of public instruction: City superintendent prepares five copies, causes original to be signed, pulls one copy for his files, and for wards the original and three copies] to the county superintendent. The county superintendent causes' the original to be signed, pulls one copy for files, and forwards the original and two copies to the countv accountant. The county accountant counter signs the original, pulls a copy Cor himself and hands to the treasurer the-original one copy. The county treasurer signs the original, which then becomes a check. He retains the copy in his files. The checks are tlien given to the teacher of the vendee and the obli gation of the state is thereby dis charged. But there is more to it than that, for before the voucher and copies leaves the hands of the city sup erintendent the original must be signed by the secretary of the city board or himself and by the chair man of the city board. While it is in the office of the county superin tendent it must be signed by that official and by the chairman of the county board of education. The regulations do not specify who is to carry the vouchers around to the various officials to have them signed, as each voucher must visit at least three offices here. The county accountant and county treasurer occupy the same office. Money forwarded by the state comes through the county treasur er, who is bonded, and his signa ture is called the key signature. Error Of Surveyor Put Gaffney In South Carolina And Monroe In N. C. Interesting Story 0f Dispute Along ( Boundary Line Between States. Columbia, Sept. 14.—The territory where the historic battle of Kings Mountain was fought beatmc a part j of South Carolina through a sur veyor’s error. The state through this error, or rather the rectifying of it, not only obtained the rough, rocky moun tain-side where the patriots won a decisive revolutionary war battle per the British but a large strip of additional territory as well. The area stretches approximate ly 135 miles across the northwest ern part of the state between the 35th degree of north latitude and the present Forth Carolina-Souty Carolina line. In it now are locat the towns and cities of Clovl Blacksburg, Gaffney. Campobei Landrum. Gowensville, Tigervdl Clears Head, Toxaway and otl important settlements. This large, and now valuable sec j tion of land came to South Carolina, ! in exchange for another area extend tag from Just west of Hamlet, N. C., to a point west of Waxhaw in the gradual Ironing out of the 200-year old boundary line dispute between the sister states of North Carolina and South Carolina. History Interesting. The histo^r of the boundary line Ee is interestingly told in a bul >f the historical commission of Carolina edited by A. S. Sal-' icretary of the commission, iistorical records, from which alley drew in preparing the nf may be relied upon, the it dispute caused “much mis , tmcj and confusion” amongst the subjects of England in the Caro llnas colonies and later the citizens of the two states. Only recently the old dispute iCONTINUED ON FADE FIVE.) Sheriff Urges That Merchants Take Precaution Robbery Wave Seen This Winter Rar»l Merchants Should Leave No Money In Stores at Night, Says Alien. With conditions as they are hun dreds of unemployed people roaming the country, Sheriff Irvin M. Allen anticipates a robbery wave during the winter and urges merchants to do their part by taking necessary safeguards. Until the business depression came i along, the sheriff reminds, this sec tion was troubled very little with thieves. As a result the big percent age of stores and business houses in the county are not protected against | breaking in as are stores in sections; frequently hit by robbery waves. Use Protection. It is better in the opinion of the sheriff to prevent a robbery than to j take the chance of getting the j thieves and stolen goods after a rob bery Is made. Holding this view he hopes that merchants will cooperate with him in making Cleveland cou»- i ty anything else than a "soft snap'' for wandering thieves. The averafe store in the county is not near $o burglar proof as may be believed, due to the fact that there never have been many big robberies in the county except in periods of depres sion. Likewise, sheriff says, many rural merchants have the habit of ■; leaving too much money in their s stores at night. When thieves learn that the rural merchant does pot leave money in his store at night, that the store is difficult to enter he will nine times out of ten pass up the store for an easier job. Two examples were pointed out by1 the officers: At Lattimore recently thieves had! little trouble in entering and rob-! bing a store. They cracked the glass j in the door, reached inside and turn? ■ ed the latch and were.. ...in. aaomi windows cannot assure absolute pro tection against robbery but where It es difficult to eater a place and It takes considerable time the average thief will not take the chance of be ing heard and caught. There Is lit tle risk of breaking in a store where a door glass or window can be cracked and a latch turned, but there is considerable risk where glass entrances are protected. The other example pointed out was the recent safe-cracking at Casar. By some means the yeggs learned there was around $10 in the store safe, enough money to justify the risk. Safe-crackers, the sheriff thinks, will not work a section where they know that little or no money is left in store safes at night. He particu larly urges merchants who operate! stores in isolated sections or where,' few people pass by at night not to S leave mt>ney in their atores. Precautions of this type, Sheriff Allen believes, will do much to re tard winter robbery wave In the 1 county. I Another way all citizens can co operate‘in combatting robbery is to note and take down the license num ber of all suspicious automobiles seen at night. Passers-by noticed the car which hauled away the loot in the recent Lattimore robbery, but neglected to get the number. With this number officers would have had a definite clue with which to work. Thieves who staged an attempted robbery several nights ago at Earl might have ben caught later, offi cers think, had someone thought to. get the license number of the car. “In the winter ahead officers are going to have their hands full and the co-operation of merchants and : citizens will be appreciated.” said! the sheriff. Attorney Gardner To Practice Here Attorney Ernest A. Gardner hits located here for the practice of law, having opened offices in the Judge Webb building in the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. C. H. Har- j rill, dentist who has moved to Lin coln ton. Mr. Gardner is a native ofj Cleveland county, the son of Mi. and Mrs. Virgil A. Gardner of the Beams mill community. He was li censed to practice law in 1922 and was graduated at Wake Forest col- j lege in 1923. For a number of years he was insurance adjuster for the American Mutual Liability Insur- j ance Co. and the United States Casualty Co. Prior to this time he was in .the real estate business for five years. Mr. Gardner has a wide acquaintance in Cleveland county and is well versed ih law i Figures in Yacht Attack Mystery PoUce of Now York and Connecticut arc working together to solve the mystery of the melodramatic dls appearance of Benjamin P. Codings (upper left), 38-year-old wealthy mining engineer of Stamford, Conn who vanished from his yacht in the Long Island Sound. His wife (right), Mrs. Lillian Colling*, told po lice her husband had been attacked and thrown overboard by two man. Mrs. Coiling* stated she was taken from the yacht By the men and set adrift in a small boat. The yacht, ‘ Penguin," was picked np with only the couple's five-year-old daughter, Barbara (lower left) aboard. Junior College Football Ended By Depression , There will he no football at BoOlng Springs junior college, this county, this year. The Baptist institution, last year winner of the North Car olina junior college grid title will put out no eleven this j year due to the business de pression. When college opened early this month the enrollment of boys was light due, it is said, to the fact that many sre re maining at home to work. i Without enough experienced players to form a team with any reserve strength It was de sided not to play a schedule, and according to reports reaching Shelby, Coach Blaln ey Rack lev, former Wake For est star, will not attempt to build a team there. I _ Mrs. Dixon Buried j Saturday Afternoon >frs, R. B. Dixon, Native Of Bethle hem Section, Died Friday . Morning. ' Special to The star » Kings Mountain, Sept, 14—Fu se ral services for Mrs. Robert B. Dixon, 64-year-old resident of Kings Mountain who died at her home on 3old street Friday morning at 5 3'clock, were conducted at ihe Bethlehem Baptist church near here Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock Dr. C. J. Black, of Bessemer City, pastor at Bethlehem, conducted the services. Burial was in the church yard at Bethlehem. Mrs. Dixon was reared in the Bethlehem section of the county. She had been 111 for about a year. She is survived by her husband, Robert B. Dixon and the follow ing children, Grady, Ira. Kelly and Lee Dixon, all of Kings Mountain, •md Hill Dixon of Huntersville and j Mrs. W. G. Howell, Mrs. R. R. Blackburn. Mrs. Grier Sipes. Mrs j Theodore Huffstetler and Miss Lu-1 tile Dixon, all of Kings Mountain. ] Besides the children there are two! sisters, Mrs. Victoria Moore, of Patterson station and Mrs. Eliza beth Harrell of Candler, and one brother. T. L. Watterson, of Gro ver. Hamrick Child Dies In Sharon Section Bernie May, 17 months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Vady Hamrick, of the Sharon community, died at the home of its parents on Sunday mom Ing at 3 o’clock and was buried Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clock at Zoar Baptist church. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. John W. Suttle. The child underwent an op eration for a head trouble some time igo and the wound did not heal. Pneumonia developed. Maxwell Would Slash Cost Of Government lyler Will Speak In Shelby Tonight Man With Cmutul Put Will Ad dress V rtf ran* And General Public. t John Tiler, one ol the most un usual and most Interesting men wHo ever visited Shelby, will speak in the court house here tonight at t 7:30. His talk will be to the Amer ican Legion and auxiliary but the general public is invited to hear him. Mr, Tyler spoke twice yesterday at the First Baptist church and was heard by many. Five times around the world and 34 times across the ocean, Tyler is one *of the mqst travelled men liv ing. For many years he was a gam bler. hobo and drunkard. But 18 years ago he was convened at the Jerry McAuley mission in New York and in devoting his time to religious work since he lias been termed “The Miracle of Grace ” Intoxicated Driver Runs Into Officer Highway Patrolman Knocked Vrom I Motorcycle By Car. Gets Ills Man. Highway Patrolman G. L. Allison, stationed In Shelby, is building up such a reputation for nabbing •err ing motorists that one hunttd him up and ran into him yesterday. Patrolman Allison was chasing a tagless auto in Kings Mountaln'Sun day when an automobile coming the opposite direction and on the wrong side of the road crashed into the officer’s motorcycle. The patrolman was knocked off, his leg injured and the step on the motorcycle damaged. Despite his injury the officer caught and arrested the driver who was charged with operating an automo bile while intoxicated. The Injury has the popular patrol man limping today but he and his motorcycle are both back ou the job today. Boys Off On Truck To Enter Colleges Nine Cleveland and Rutherford county boys left this morning on a truck driven by Mr. Hamrick, to en-! ter Wake Forest college and the University of North Carolina. They had their trunks and baggage with them and found it cheaper to char ter a truck than travel any other way. Leaving on the truck were Wyan Washburn of Double Springs, Floyd Harrill of Ellenboro, Zon Robinson of Moores boro. Edley Mar tin of Lattimre, M, J. Padgett of Slienboro all of whom go to enter Wake Forest college: Jesse Harrill of Ellenboro and George Bates of Rutherfordton who enter the Uni versity of North Carolina riubernaloiral Candidate Advocate* Cat Instead Of Any New Tax. 'By M R„ Dunnagitii Slav New* Bureau.' Raleigh, Sept. J4.—Extensive re QucUon of governmental coat*, in State, county and city, even In na tion, ts the main, the overshadow ing, In fact, abmit the sole issue on which A. J. Maxwell would go be fore the people as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor, in a statement Issued "to the people of North Carolina*’ Sunday. Mr. Maxwell's Issues, rather than a platform, might be better describ ed as a log. with limbs extending, propptng It and related to the gen eral theme. Just as Lieutenant Gov ernor R. T. Fountain's platform might better be described as a raft, seeking to avoid shoals and rocks, moving to keep in proper depth, and tearing water-logging. Mr. Khriiig haus has the nearest to a regular platform of any yet announced. Suggestions Attorney General Brum mitt has made so far are “splinters" of the platform he may seek the of fice on. No new sources of revenue are available and those now tapped have been placed in a dangerous position (CONTINUED ON *»*0F SIX i Odus Martin Victim Of A Heart Trouble Died In Shelby Hospital And Will Be Buried Tuesday AI /.Ion Church. Ocius Martin of the &lon coin munity, 38 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Martin. died this morning at 4:45 o’clock in the Shel by hospital from a heart -trouble with which he had been suffering for sometime. For the past four weeks he had been in serious con dition and entered the hospital for treatment. Mr. Martin had been working for a contracting firm in Philadelphia and other northern cities, but re turned home a short time ago. He was highly esteemed by ail who knew him and his death is a shock to his host of friends in the Zion community. Surviving are his wife, who before marriage was Mae Mau ney and three children. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Mar tin, two brothers, Marcus and Ben nett Martin survive. The funeral will be conducted by Rev. D. G. Washburn Tuesday aft ernoon at 2 o’clock and interment will be in the cemetery at Zion church. Couple Is Married. Mr. J D McMurray and Miss Edith White, both of Cleveland county, were married Saturday at the court house here by ’Squire T. Cling Eskridge. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMurray and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie White , County Schools Close Doors To Harvest Cotton Crop Opening Fa«t In Cleveland Two Thousand Children In Cotter Field* Today. Week Earlier Than Planned. A hot sun that started cotton bolls bursting open In Cleveland county fields earlier than usual caused five large county schools to close Friday of last week so that around 2,000 students might help their parents pick the crop These long-term schools which opened in the summer so that thej mljht close now, and several six months schools closed a week earltei than had been planned. Some tim* ago the county board of education set Friday. Sept. 18, aa the cloeint day for the cotton-picking period Cotton began opening so rapidly however, that last week aticndanct was cut down at all schools as child ren remalnded home to help with;thi cotton picking. Supt. J. H. Orlgg wa/ notified of the light attendance and explained the matter to members os the board by telephone. They agreed that all schools could close Friday of last week If they deaired. It was not an order for all to close, the matter being left optional with the school. Others Operate. Six of the long-term schools will continue to operate this week but, will close Friday, thus sending sev eral thousand more youthful pick ers into the field. The long term schools closing Saturday for a period of six weeks or so were; Fallston. Waco, Latti more. Mooresboro. and No. 3. Among the short term schools closing were Zion, Sharon. Holly Springs and Dover mill. Long-term schools still operating this week were Bel wood. Casar, No 8, Piedmont, Boiling Springs, Orovet and Parkgraee. General reports Indicate that cot ton Is opening so fast that the en tire crop will be picked earlier this year than In several years. Applications Come In For Clinic Here For School Students Tonsil-Adenoid Cilnk In Shelby This Month. Sponsored Bv State Quite a number of applications tor the state conducted tonsil anc adenoid clinic for school children are being filed with Miss Cora Beam, state health nurse. The clinic will be held in th» young people’s department of tht First Baptist church of Shelbt from Tuesday, Sept. 23 through Fri day, Sept. 25. School children undo 13 years of age who have been ex amined and who are not able rr enter the city hospital will be giv en the special cost rate charge on having their tonsils and nrionnidi removed. A large number of Cleve land school children were examined last year by Miss Beam and many found to have defective tonsils and adenoids. Applications for opera tions are coming in from quite a number of t£ese. Other applications are coming in also Irom children not heretofore examined. Children who have not been examined may be examined at the clinic or by the family physician. Miss Beam urges that parents who plan to send their children to the clinic file applica tions right away so that appoint ments may be made. Unless this is done too many children may com* in on the same day. If applications are properly filed children can b* properly divided over the four day* of the clinic. Miss Beam can be reached at the office of the county superintendent or at night at her brother's home at Fallston. Exper ienced nurses and officials from th« state health department will assist Dr. Tom Gold at the clinic. | Patrolman Getting Tag Law Violator* Highway Patrolman G. L. Allison ‘stationed in Shelby, is making a thorough roundup of automobile owners in this section who are vio lating the license plate law. In • ! week's time he has already arrestee | four violators whose fines aggre gated more than *100 Motorist* whose autos do not have the re quired license or are being operated with improper license are warned to get the proper license before be ing caught.