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Late News THE MARKET fnltnn spots fi'j In T.,r Totten seed. per Ion silnn 'Trn ton lots 513.5fti Rain Is Ijhely. To«iav s North Carolina Weather Report: Partis- cloudy tonight and Thursday. Probably showers In rasl tonight, fooler in west por ftif-ns tonight and Thursday. No Ball Tor "Soarface” Chicago. Ort IS—“Seal fare AT’ t apnnr mas giftrn a temporary ' hoire of prison yesterday, but not his freedom. The I nited Stales Cir riiit Court of Appeals granted the convicted income lay dodger a writ of Mipeisedeas. thus denying the marshal the immediate privilege of •aeorling him to the l.ravenworth penitentiary, hut it followed the lead of the trial judge in ncnying Capone bail tinder his appeal. This gave the gang rhiet the status of a temporary prisoner In the Cook County Jail with the prosprrt of re maining there several months while the higher rourts were asked to re verse his ronvietion. Defense At torney Michael Ahern inittealed this was far from satisfactory to his client. Gardner Would Let Lawmakers Have Free Rein Possibility That Term May Be Cull ed. Governor Would Be Helpless. Raleigh Oct. 28—If a special se'.-j sion of the general assembly is cal’*-! ed bv Governor O Max Gardner, no effort will be made by him lo bind it* deliberations in any way, shape' or form and it will be left free to] take up any matters it may desiie he said yesterday in the first fbr- j mal statement he has issued deal ing with the question of a special session £n this statement. Governor Gat'd ner laid all his raids on the table; and served notice on both these who are opposing a special session and those who want 1t tjiat he i in no sense afraid of the general assembly, as some have hinted, and, that he will res opt. to no attempt to pledge its members to consider nothing but cotton and tobacco acre age reduction legislation Membeis of the State Supply Merchants As sociation, of the Merchants Asso ciation and other bpdies opposed to a sales tax. have been maintaining that Governor Gardner should pledge (he members to take up nothing except acreage reduction legislation if he does call a special .r«sNTiNorn on paoe ten Father Of Mrs. E. W. Wilson Buried Today ,1 T. Lewis Die* Of Paralysis In Rutherford County. Agp 78 Vears. .! T l^ewis. aye 78. and lather of Mrs. E. W Wilson. West Graham street, died Tuesday momma at 4 o'clock at his home near Ruther fordton and was buncd this morn ing at 11 o'clock at Mountain Oreek^ Baptist church. Mr. Lewis suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago and never regained con sciousness. Mr. Lewis was a well known farmer of that county and active, in church. His wife died about five years ago SurVivitjg are the following chil dren. Mrs. E. W Wilson of Shelby; Mrs. W L. Montieth of Durham; Mrs. W O Ross of Riitherfordton; ' Messrs. F. O. Lewis and J. M. Lewis of Rutherfordton Mis. Wilson has been at her father's bedside since he wa» stricken. Three Injured In Wreck Are Better; One Returns Home Continued Improvement is bctm; shown by the three people who were seriously injured Tuesday a week ago when the wagon on which they were riding was struck by a South ern passenger train at the Dovei null crossing, just west of Sheibv tv Tommy Tessner. owner of the horses killed in the cggsh a weii as the wagon, returned to hi: home several days ago He suffered a fractured collarbone and lacera tions about the head and arfti. Miss Fthel Brown, teacher at the Hick'; school, northwest of Shelby who wa- more seriously injured than the others, is showing steady improve ment at. the Shelby hospital. Sl^e suffered a fracture at the base 01 her skull and also a broken collar bone Miss Browns little niece, \ Dorothy Teeter. 6, is rapidly recov ering from a slight fracture of th" skull and lacerations and is expect ed to be able to leave the hospital within a day or so. Miss Brown and her niece were riding into Sheibv on the wagon load of hay with Testator when the train struck the wagon at the cross ing. i VOL. XXXVI). No. 120 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESIvy, OCT. 28. 193! Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons 10 PAGES TODAY By Mail. -per year. (in advance) —•M.f.'i Cafrter. per year. (in arfvanrti n on Taxpayers Here Feel Benefit Of 1931 Tax Slash For First Time As They Begin Paying County Tax Taxes Reduced More Than Third Economy Program of Last Legisla ture Now Coming In For Proper Praise. The last session of the North Carolina General Assembly, which has been widely discussed in certain sections "russed" as well as dsieussed. is now com • ing in for a belated praise as taxpayers carry home their 1931 receipts showing the first real ly noticeable tax eut this sec tion has felt in many years. Any number of Cleveland countv taxpayers were almost dumfouocle ! here this month as they paid i.ieir 1031 taxes to find that they were .so much less than last year. The commendatory discussion of the re duction has grown to he a major topic of conversation. Not A Ilay Dream. Until now' the average taxpayer seems to have considered the talk rd-of tax cut as merely talk. The taxpayer has heard such talk before and until he actually felt the re duction, he remained a doubting Thomas. When the legislature took over county highways, and thus re moved county and district road tax, and then shifted the six months school tax, thus lowering the scho.pl levy. Governor Gardnet announced that a tax slash such as the State had never known had beep effect ed. There was at that time, how ever, no great display of elation. The. taxpayers was a bit leary until he saw the rqduft'on on his oivn tax receipt. But now the feeling has changed Among the many who have pai their county taxes here this montn ixi order to get the one. percent dis count have been quite a few who were quite positive some * mistake had been made. Taxpayers, accus tomed for many years to find the load becoming a little heavier each year at taxpaying time, could not be expected in grasp ri a minutes notice that their taxes had been ap - preciably reduced. One well known citizen, in asking for his tax bill and being infornvvt of . the amount: put it this way: ‘‘There s a mistake somewhere, 1 * {CONTINUED ON PAGE tVn i Farmer* Bringing In Charity ’Taters Use Potatoes And Molasses To Pay For Paper. Food Going To Needy. The Star’s .storage room is gradually filling up with pota toes and molasses which will go to feed the hungry of this sec tion during the winter months. At the first of t#e week The Star offered to accept one bushel of po tatoes, either sweet or Irish, as fiO cents on a year’s subscription, or a gallon of molasses, in. a bucket, for the same amount on subscription. Although only a few days have elapsed the potatoes and molasses are coming in The offer will be withdrawn when 100 bushels of potatoes and 100 gallons of molasses have been re ceived and all will be given to the : haritv committee. A bushel of potatoes or a gallon of molasses will be received from only 200 people at the time of de livery in The Star office. *1.90 bal ance on a year's subscription must be paid in cash. 37,933 Bales Cotton Ginned Here To 18th A little mure than 20, (XX hairs of cotton were ginned in Cleveland county during the first IS days of October. The gin report given to The Star Indav. bv Miles H. Ware special agent, shows that 37, 9.7.7 hales had been ginned in the county up to October IS • Between tfi and 17 thousand bales were' ginned to the first of thr month. Despite the heavy ginning during the 'first half of thr month the gin figures this year are behind those of last year. A total of 41,290 bales had heon ginned In Oct. IS. 1930 .or 3,357 ntore bales than to the same date this year. A large quantity of rottnn remains to he picked in Ihe county, however, and quite a bit of, cotton already picked has not been taken to the gin. It appears now as if the total crop will rauge between 50 and 60 thousand bale*. Rifle Plays Role In Affray Today; No One Is Killed Bailie Between Negroes At Beam's Mill Ends Without A Death. It was reponed early this morn ing that, a negro had been killed in an affray at Bqpm's Mil!, but an i Investigation by 'Sheriff-' Irvin M. Alien and Highway Patrolmen, G. jt. Allison revealed that there was , no fatality Marvin LaUimore and Alee Far rington both colored, met in a blacksmith shop there this morn ing, officers learned, and started an argument over a woman. Farring ton. it is alleged, seized a piece ol pipe and struck Lattimore over the heAd, knocking him "cold ’ for some time. When l.attimore came to it is said that he ran home, secured his rifle and came back looking for Farrington. The latter was located in a nearby cotton field, picking cotton, Lattimorp, it is charged, threw the rifle to his shoulder arid fired. The shot missed, however, and both are said to have ‘afeon to their heels, going in opposite direc tions. Two Small Blazes Bring Firemen Out Fuel Pile At Barbecue Stand Catch es. Fence And Brush • Burn. The city fire trucks were c*Ueu out twice yesterday afternoon The first call was to the Stanley barbecue stand on South Washing ton street where the Tuel pile had caught on fire. The damage was slight. The second call, an hour or so1 later, was to a brush and fence pile at Eastside. A garage wa Slightly damaged before firemen ex tinguished the blare. Missing Burke Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Man In Nevada Everett T. Mull Under Another Name There. Morganton Woman May Be Along. Morganton. Od 28 Everett 1 Mull. 60. Morganton contractor who disappeared last April alter draw ing $4,000 from a bank here, was rt vealed yesterday by his brother, John Mull, to be under a sentence of death in Las Vegas. Nev Letters and telegram from Ever j ett Mull, asking relatives to aid higr were said by the brother, proprietor of a billiard parlor- here, to have been received by the condemned man’s daughters. One letter said Mull. convicted under the name of John -Hall, u scheduled to die in the lethal gas ehamber either December 6 or 12 John Mulfretarned Frank C. Pat ton, assistant United ‘Stales district attorney here, and sard he and Pr.‘ ton would go to Las Vegas in a few | days in an attempt to aid the mail. The latest appeal came yesterda. j in the form of a telegram ' signed "May." It said Time is gelling short If you air 80ing lo do anything for John yo i must tip it now Delay is fatal.' May Coffey, young Morganton woman, disappeared about the same time Mull did and the brother said he assumed the telegram from her. The first word of Everett Mulls situation catire Saturday in a let ter to iiis daughter. Mrs. Juliu. Cuthbertson. 20. In it Everett said he was convicted June 15 of mur dering Jack O Brian but gave no details. It was the fust news from him since his disappearance. Rela tives wired Sheriff,Joe Keats, in Las Vegas for further information and he eonlirmed the letter John Mull professed to be at loss to ex- \ plain his brother's disappearance ■ e- vCONTINUBU ON PACtg ISN ! | M Accused' Woman—and Father . - - Mrs. W innie Ruth Judd kouxht for five days in thr harrowing “trunk murders,” surrendered rarly Friday night to frolice and sheriffs offirer* at lays Angeles, Cat. The Rev. Ilarvey .1 MrKinnell i right!, of Darlington, Ind., father of Mrs. Judd. ; Act Of Bankers Cheers South Cotton Farmers Plan to Finance Holding of Four Million Bales Off The Market. \thuita. flat.,, Oct. 2ft.—South ern cotton planters see as a sil ver lining to their economic clouds reports of hankers that they had exceeded pledges to co-operate with the Federal Farm hoard to hold seven jnil lion hales of the market until after next Julv. ■ i Cotton bolt bankers Monday re ported pledges to finance an aggre gate of more than 4.000.000 bales under the cotton holding program. The amount exceeded by 500 00© bales that agreed 10 at the New Or-i| tf>nferenow ."of, banaeFSitif^tB.; : Hbarft aW Atneriesrt-'edtTdH1 «d-opeT“ ative association members two weeks ago The conference stipulated the » ■ ' form board would arrange to hold approximately 3 500.000 bales off the market if Southern hankers would finance the holding of a similar annuyv. | Unofficial reports last night said 'Srxas bankers would finance the Jiblding of 2.000.000, Arkansas 400. 00(1. Tennessee 500.000. Georgia 302. 622 Louisiana 106.075,. Alabama 186 000 Mississippi 350 000. Okla homa 250 000 and Stouth Carolina 210.00(1 In Dallas. Texas Nathan Adams chairman of the bankers sponsoring the plan said his reports indicated tlje holding plan would receive more then ample support for success E F.'.Creekmore head of the Amertcar Ktton Cooperative association a< Mr Orleans expressed gratificatior at the preliminary reports of bank ers and said he believed they woulc carry out agreements in every re spect. No Prominent Man Has Died In Death Chair In N. C. Coates Tells Lions Lay Instructor Urges Better Coop" oration In Law Enforcement. Officers Attend. The electric chair at, the .state prison in Raleigh has snuffed out the lives of many men, but. not a single man of outstanding promin ent has been electrocuted there Prof. Albert Coates, of the Unlvet sity law school, declared last night in an address ' to the Shelby 14pm club and guests. Prof. Coates, an entertaining talker, was. the chief speaker at a special law enforce ment meeting held by the lock club. * Present as guest, of the club we e Sheriff Irvin M. Allen and about a score of ills deputies. Prof. Coates remark about th death chair came during his cpm menl, upon the apparent discrim ination of justice in favoring cer tain classes. He pointed out that some defendants get the maximum punishnmnt from certain judges on a charge, and that other defendants CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN > Music Teacher Gets Number Of Students Shelby Band And Orchestra Rein; Carried On Through Private Tuition. Although getting a late start the Shelby school system u to have a band and-orchestra again this yea. and additional musical instruction Prof. O. B Lewis, music instruc tor last year, is now back in the city and has enrolled a large num ber of pupils on a private tuition basis as the school budget did no' Include a quota for music this year The manner in which Shelby par ents have enrolled their children in the desire to continue the mus,~ cal education of the students, has been very gratifying to Mr. Lewis So far lie has 25 high school stu dents enrolled for the band. 10 for string instruments in the orchestra, and 4-0 from the grammar schools for the band and orchestra. Many Shelby parents had already .pur chased instruments for their chil dren and welcomed the opportun ity to continue the instruction. I Legion Meeting In City Tonight For Charity Plan A special meeting of the Warren Hoyle Post of the American legion wiH he held In the court house here to night at 7:30 o'clock, it is in nounred hv Commander Pey ton Me,Swain. All ex-servlee men are urged to attend. The meeting will discuss plans for an Armistice day entertainment program with the proceeds going to charity. A temporary idea is to stage a big event at the fairgrounds, in November It, featuring dog and mule races, all gate re ceipts to be given to the coun ty charity committee. Great Crowd Attends A M. Lattimore Rites Appropriate Tributes Paid To Be loved Commander of Con federates. A great throng of people gather ed jesterday afternoon at Lattimore to pay tribute to "Capt." A. M. Lal tiniore. 86 year old founder of the low n bearing his name. Short but appropriate talks were made by Revs, Rush Padgett, I. D. Harrtil and Seno Wall and a choir of two dozen voices sang some of the fav orite hymns of the deceased who was a singing school teacher him self for many years. Men in all walks of life, women and children by tlie score who were pupils in Mr LatUmore's Sunday school classes, mingied together with tear-dimmed tyes as his funeral was underway. Many beautiful floral pieces and some mcidest bunches of home grown flowers attested the love and esteem in which Mr. Lattimore was held by his hast of friends A few comrades of the conflict, of the sixties, were there to see thetr com ma ndcr whase spirit puietlv Joined those of Lee and Jackson on Sun day afternoon. County Schools 6Months Term Begin Tomorrow 6 Long-Term School* Also Resume. ' All Hhnrt Term School* Open for First Time, 10.000 In School. Tomorrow, Thursday, morn* Ins approximately 10,000 white children in Cleveland rounty will he hack In the school room Over 1,000 of the pupils have been In school since Monday, hut around 7,500 will start to morrow. some for the first time this year and others after a six weeks recess during the cotton picking rush. * | Five long-term schools. which closed six weeks for the cotton har ! vest, resumed work Monday Six i other long-term schools'. which | closed a little later, reopen Thurs I day, and all the six months white schools open Thursday for the first time this year Get In Full Months. By opening tomorrow the long term schools-which are Potkville. Piedmont. Belwood Grover, Bolting Springs and Cosar will get in four | full months belore the holidays | The six month* schools, by opening at the same time, will get In two months before Christmas Tomorrow all schools in the eoun j ty will be running With the cxcep ' tion of the colored schools, which 1 opened early in the summei and | will remain closed for another week j °r so, and a few of the six months i schools which plan to await anoth er week or two Ttjrhfni Paid The teachers in the long-term •schools which open tomorrow com pleted two months before c'ostng to pick cotton and have received two months pay The teachers in the five other long-term schools were paid for seven weeks, one week be ing held over for teh first school ! week after re-opening Students Told How Plants Make Leather Noted Chemist Spoke To High School sAidents This Coming. Students of the Shelby high school and a number of citizens were told this morning how leather for shot';, is manufactured Dr .1 S Rogers, head chemist of the Internationa: Shoe Company's big tannery a! Morganton, was the chief speakei at the schools chapel program A past president of the America! Association of Chemists. Dr. Rogers, talk to the assembled student body proved very interesting to the stu dents and the Information was well received Along with Dr Rogers were Mr Riddle, assistant chemist and Mr Werner, superintendent of the tan nery. ' Osborne Family In Reunion On Sunday Between 7.S and 100 descendant* of Amos Osborne attended a re union at Bullocks Creek church near Lockhart S C.. on Sunday. Bullock s Creek is the second oldest Presbyterian church in South Caro lina. it is said. This was the first reunion and it is planned to hold one annually in the future. A num ber of descendants attended from this county. ^ Funeral Service For Dr. Mitchell Today Physician Dead I»r. W. F Mitchell tabovri, popular physician here lor over three de cades. died last night at hi* home on South Washington street. Fu neral services are being held this afternoon. Mrs. Barbara Beam Buried At Prospect Prominent Lady of No, 5 Township Passes At Age 7K Vears. Brother lit. Mr*. Barbara Beam, age 7ft year-] was buried Saturday at New Pros- i pect church, ihe funeral service,, being conducted bv Revs. Camp | Lowe nnd Harrelson. Mrs Beam was a prominent member ol a pio- ■ nrer family of the county and wide-; , ly coneeted in fcuwMp and fuend- j ship. Her husband preceded her to the grave some forty year# ago. I Surviving are the following chil dren Herman. John and David; Beam. Mrs. S, C. Black, Mrs. Jap I A. Tillman. Mrs. J. R Ponton. Mrs ' Tillman was unable to attend thrj funeral servlets. Three brother • also survive. £■ C. Baker who tsj critically ill in a hospital in Lin-! colnton David M Baker of King ! Mountain Billy B.ii.-r of Vale, to-1 gether with the following si&ters.j Mrs. C, C Beam, Mrs. Laura Car penter, Mrs, Peter Beam. Mrs. Mary Hoover Pall bearers were hot aiandsons. A large crowd attended the funeral Teacher* To Attend Charlotte Session City Schools Close At Noon Friday For District Educational Meet. Practically all of the teachers in the Shelby schools and a large number of the principals and teach ers in the county schools wil attend the two-day meeting of the dts-j trict educational association in j Charlotte Friday and Saturday i The Shelby schools will close at, noon to permit members of the ritr- j faculty to be present for the open ing session Friday afternoon. A number of prominent speakers i are on the program there, and lo-1 caJL teachers will preside over sev eral departmental sessions Mrs. Judd, Trunk Killer, Fights | Return To Arizona For Slaying: : Ctnnsel Plan's New Baltic As Ex tradition Paper* Reach California Governor Los Angeles, Oct. 28.—The Winnie Ruth Judd murder case shifted yes terday to a fight over extradition papers to send the confessed killer of two women back to Phoenix. Ariz., for trial Counsel for Mrs. Judd declared the papers, which were signed last week by Gov. George W. P. Hunt, of Arizona, were of faulty legal con struction, and announced the inten tion, of forcing a court review of the documents through a Wit of habeas corpus On the heels of this declaration came a statement from the Cali fornia attorney general's oftice that the papers had been presented by Sheriff James R. McFadden of Phoenix, and found complete. Back with this approval, the affixing ol the signature of Gov. James Rolph. jr., of California, was expected to be only a formality. If granted, the writ proposed by the defense will force a court here to permit arguments on the legality of the papers. The writ will super sede a similar action filed upon the surrender of Mrs Judd last Friday night. Counsel did not disclose what ob jection will be made but it was an ticipated the brief description of the extradition papers of the killing of the victims. Miss Hedvig Saniuel son and Mrs. Agnes Le Roi will be at least one basis for the contest. The papers represent the time of the crime as October 16, Mrs. Judd has said it was October 17 The announcement of the defense was an about face of the position taken when counsel said extradition would not be opposed. Well Known Doctor Died Yesterday Heart Mtvt Cl»im' Physician Wh Srrved Hrr* For .10 Years Funeral services for Dr. Wl! Hum F. Mitchell, veteran and popular Shelby physician. who died just brforr H o'clock last night, are bring held this aft* rrnoon at 1:30 at Ihr residence on South Washington street, In trrmrnl will follow In Sunset cemetery. bp.. Mitohcll, who had brrn prac tising medicine here for about .15 years, had been in declining •health for some time, but continued hr work unlit recently when heave trouble forced him to his bed H breamr worse Sunday night and early Monday suffered « paralytic stroke, tittle hope being held for his recovery after that time. Native Of S. C. A native of south Carolina, being bom in Fairfield county on June 3, 1867. he was 64 years of age. Has Two Sons. His parly education wa, seemed at Banks Military school from which he entered Erskine college. From Erskme he went, to the University of South Carolina where he grad uated in 188H. He then became a student at the University of Mary land medical school and graduated there in 1R80. Hf was married on December 30, 1897. to Miss Burtcm Prlee, of a prominent Fairfield fam ily. Mrs. Mitchell survives along with two son.. Burton F. Mitchell, textile man of Mt Holly, and Or. Tom Brice Mitchell, of Shelby, who has for several years been associated with his father in the practice of medicine here. In 1899 Dr and Mrs Mitchell moved t.o Shelby and since that time he has been a practising phy sician here. When he came to Shel by h«> transferred his membership Irom the A. R. P church of South Carolina to the Presbyterian church fit jhe time ftf.bU death, and for years ihcvctofoie. he wa* an of ficer in the local church, and aci(.e, In ihr work of the church and its organizations. ropui.tr rnvjician Mr had served as a member of tp* county board of health and also a* an officer in the county medical association. His fine mentality and his cheerful disposition made him a multitude of friends who are Rtieved at his passing and durirnj the three decades he ministered to the aftlie,ted of hundreds of Cam tiles in this section who will mourn his deatu The services at the home this aft ernoon were in charge of Rev H N McDiarmid, his pastor Active pallbearers are Moser*. Frank Hoey, Harve.v White. WtUiam McCord. Wyeth Royster, R T E»> Grand. F O. Gee. John S Mr Kniglit. and J. F. Jenkins. The deacons and elders of the Presbyterian church and the. mem bers of the Cleveland county medi cal society, his fellow physicians, and the following others are hon-' orarv pallbearers; Federal Judge E. Yates Webb. Capt. J. F Robert*, and Messrs. R F Carpenter, Toro Babington. Roy McBrayer and Wav Hoey. Big Bear Barbecue Enjoyed In Shelby Auto Ocalrr Stages Unusual Tart-* For Associate* And Friends Here. Shelby > only bea'\ a husHy black brum, furnished the major portion of r big barbecue at Cleveland Springs last night as D, H. Cline, Chevrolet dealer here, entertained associates in the automobile busi ness and a group ol Shelby friends. The bear, a well known attrac tion about Shelby, was brought to the city as a young cub several years ago by E. T Switzer. It was later purchased by Roy Newman and then by Mr Cline. The shoot ing of the bear some days ago at tracted considerable attention, par ticularly among the youngsters of the city, as the wounded animal reared, pitched and cried almost like a man after being shot. Some of the beai was served about town in steak form, but the major port on was reserved lot the barbecue last night. Guests of Mr. Cline, in addition to his Shelby lriends. included Chevrolet repre sentative* from the Charlotte head quarters, dealerj/from Newton, Lin colnton. Kings Mountain. Forest City, Rutherfordton and Gastonia, and representatives of the C t T-. the O. M. A C. and the Motor Ac counting bureau from Charlotte »nd Hickory.