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VOL, XXXV11. No. 130
SHELBY. N. (j.
FRIDAY, OCT. 30. 1931 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Aft»>
moons.
ny Mail, per year, (in advance) — M.js
Carrier, per year, (In advance) 1)00
Late News
THE MARKET
( olton, spots 6'a to
Cotton seed, por ton . $12.00
i Ten ton lots $13.501
Cloudy And Cooler.
Todav’s North Carolina Weathei
Report: Partly elondy tonight ann
Saturday. Slightly cooler tonight.
less Holds On.
V. a'hington. Oct. 30.—Senator
I ess of Ohio yesterday agreed Is
keep a job he has beoi trying to
get rid of—being chairman of the
Republican national committee—
■ntil after the party convention
next year. He gave this word to Re
publican leaders who have been
canvassing the party situation pre
liminary to the meeting of the na
tional committee here in December
to select the convention city.
Admits Many Crimes
Greensboro. Oct. 30.—Asburv Re
pns, alias Will Moore, negro who
was convicted here last night of the
firgree murder of Vera Leonard. 9.
and sentenced to electrocution Jan
uary 8, was reported to have con
fessed to two murders in Guilford
county and four slayings in North
ampton county. The crimes report -
ed to have been confessed by the
negro include the murders of Mrs.
Jim Gilbreath, whose death occur
red in the burned ruins of her
home in the Goshen church section
of Guilford county, several years
ago, and of Mrs. Robbie Stephen
son. elderly Sumner township rec
lose, seven years ago. Mrs. Stephen
son had been beaten to death ami
her body was found in a state of
suspension attached to a rafter in
her home.
Superior Court
Here On Monday
Moore To Preside
Vo Outstanding Cases Booked For
Criminal Docket First Week.
Many Civil Cases.
The fall term of superior
court will convene In Shelby
Monday morning, November 8,
with Judge Walter K. Moore
presiding.
The term is for two weeks with
criminal cases to be heard during
the first week and civil matter";
during the' second.
Sees Him Again.
An oddity of the flrs% week will
come when Ralph Foust, young
criminal, faces Judge Moore for the
second time. Last summer Foust
was tried by Judge Moore and givefl
10 to 20 years in the state prison
tor stealing an automobile from the
Ford agency here and breaking in
, a store. Late in September the
youth escaped from the prison farm,
came back here, and. it is alleged
by officers, broke in the same gar
age. Failing to get a car started
there he entered the Chevrolet gar
age, stole a new car, officers say,
and drove it to Gaffney where he
was captured. He has not been re
turned to the state prison and in
all likelihood will be tried again
before Judge Moore, who has the
reputation of being hard on thieves
Judge Moore's idea that larceny ts
a pretty low down crime has any
number of defendants shaking in
their shoes. When he presided here
before he refused to be moved by
sob stories and appeals by attor
neys. and. to use a street term,
"popped it to" the majority of the
convicted defendants.
Coming Back.
Some few were given another
Chance with suspended sentences
and a chance to make good, but
Judge Moore reminded these that
he was coming back this fall and
that it would be just too bad if they
had hobbled from the straight and
narrow path. Now he is coining
back, and the docket shows that
one or two luckless defendants will
face him once more.
Other than the FOust, case the re
are no outstanding trials on the
criminal docket. There is charge oi
rape against two young negro men,
and another charge involving the
receiving and disposal of stolen cig
arettes.
Although there is a heavy calen
dar of civil cases there are no is
sues of major interest. One suit
scheduled for disposal is that of the
Consolidated Textile Corporation
(the Ella mill) against Lem Patter
son, former employe of the mill.
Patterson has already been tried
and convicted on a criminal charge
in connection with the same inci
dent.
Thirty Youngsters
Undergo Operation
Thirty Cleveland county school
children had their tonsils removed
this week at the Shelby hospital
tonsil clinic. The hospital clinic
was conducted to complete the
work started here two weeks ago by
a state board of health clinic. The
operations were performed by Dr
Tom Gold, who also did the operat
ing fer the state clinic. All the
youngsters recovered nicely after
th* operations
k
Plan Armistice Day
Program For Shelby
Proceeds Of Big Legion Entertainment, At
Fair Grounds, To Go To Charity. Will
Have Dog, Horse, Mule, Bicycle And Fliv
ver Races. Other Sports, Perhaps Football.
A big celebration for the benefit of charity will be held
at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds the afternoon of Nov
ember 11, members of the Warren F. Hoyle post of the
i American Legion decided at a meeting Wednesday night.
A program which should be oi in- ,
terest to ail people o£ the county
j and this section ol the state lias
been arranged. There will be the
| dog races, running horse races,
• mules will perform to decide which
| is the slowest, boys will ride bicy
j cles and ancient Fords will chase ;
1 each other around the half mile j
1 track.
Sporting; Events.
Other sporting events will Include !
boxing, with a battle royal as the
1 grand finale. A possibility of a foot,
I ball game is being discussed and
I definite decision as to this wiQ be j
f made later.
There will be a band, possibly the
High School band and from the
! first event, begining at 2 o'clock.
There will be plenty of action j
j throughout the afternoon.
To Help Unemployed.
Members of the Legion post real-;
iae demands unusually fgtavy will
be made this winter my unemploy-:
ed people and they are of the opin-;
ion a considerable amount of xnon-'
ey can be raised by the celebration, i
At same time they believe people j
need more recreation and fun dur-!
ing this depressed year than under j
normal condition.?. Arrangements j
are being made whereby all expense
; incurred in staging the affairs will
be taken care of privately and ev
ery cent, taken in at the gate will
be applied direct to charity. There
will be no deductions for overhead
or other such things.
Grounds Free.
Officials of the Fair association
are turning the fair grounds over
to the legion free, various Shelby
and Cleveland county residents are
; donating prizes and it is expected
the Southern Public Utilities com
pany will donate the electricity
needed to pul! the fox and rabbit
around the track.
Cash prizes will be given to win
ners of all events. Other events may
be arranged but the following pro
gram has already been taken care
of. If there are any changes the
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Teachers Of County
In Charlotte Today!
! City School* Closed At Noon For
District Session. Several To ,
Preside.
A majority of the teachers in thej
Shelby schools and Quite a number!
of principals and teachers in the >
high schools of the county left
early this afternoon for Char
j lotte to attend a district teachers
i meeting there.
The city schools here closed at
the noon hour so that all teachers
might be permitted to attend the
sessions there, which got underwav
at 2:30 and will continue through
Saturday. A number of Shelbv
teachers are officers in the district
organization and will preside over
their departments during the two
day session, » j
Two Cotton Gins
Burn; Heavy Loss;
Convicts Assist
One Horn* Near Lawndale and An
other Near Belwood. Convicts
Save Cotton.
Two cotton gins of the county
burned '"this week, entailing a fire
loss estimated to be $18,000 with no
insurance. Both gtns are a com
plete ices and cannot be recondi
tioned to resume operation this
season.
A gin owned by Laurel Hoyle and
Mills Cornwell near Lawndale was
completely destroyed Tuesday even
ing shortly after dark. The gin was
being operated at the time fire
caught on the roof of the seed
house. It was thought that the
blaze was extinguished, but it fol
lowed a small string or rope which
was stretched from the seed house
to the gin. When the flame reached
the gin it caught in the lint and
rapidly spread over the building.
About 14 bales of cotton on the
yard at that time were saved, but
a number of bales were destroyed,
together with the seed house con
taining about ten tons of seed. It Is
understood that no Insurance was
carried by Messrs. Hoyle and Corn
well on the outfit.
Convicts Lend Help,
At noon yesterday, the gin owned
and operated by Colin Edwards and
Summey Peeler at Belwood was de
stroyed by fire, supposed to have
originated from the engine room.
The blaze quickly spread over the
building and cotton In process of
ginning, as well as the gin house
and engine room were destroyed,
but all of the cotton on the yard
was saved. Fortunately, at. the time
the blaze was discovered, a force
of convicts was passing the load on
a truck and their help was volun
teered to save the cotton on the
yard. With a favorable wind and
the help of the convicts and oth
er men at the gin, practically no
cotton was burned except that in
process of being ginned. It is un
derstood that no insurance was
carried on this gin. The seed house
was not damaged by fire.
Shelby Boys flay.
Several former Shelby stars ate
expected to see action this after
noon when the fresh football elev
ens of Wake Forest and Duke play.
This week's issue of the Duke uni
versity newspaper says that the
Duke frosh have a job cut out for
them in stopping Capt. Zeno Wall,
Shelby boy and 135-pouna quarter
of the Baby Deacons. Gold. Moore
and other former players here are
expected to perform for the Wake
Wanted—Potatoes and Molasses;
Accepted Only as a Part Payment
..... ^a W'H accept 100 bushels ol’ potatoes and
gallons of molasses at 60c per bushel as part pay
ment on a year’s subscription to The Star.
This produce, when collected, will be given free to
the Charity Committee by The Star for free distribu
tion this winter. '
Subscribers wishing to avail themselves of this
barter, must at the time the produce is delivered pav
in cash the balance of the year’s subscription. In other
words, the subscription price is $2.50 per year by mail
Pay $1.90 in cash and deliver at The Star office a bush
el of potatoes or a bucket of molasses which we. accept
at 60c, making the $2.50 for which we give you a re
ceipt for a year’s subscription.
One gallon or one bushel will be accepted on a
one year subscription. The cash and the produce must
be paid at The Star office at the time and not to any
agent in the field. We prefer that you furnish the po
tatoes in a sack. Less than a year’s subscription will
not be accepted on the barter basis. When the 100
bushels and 100 gallons have been received, this offer
will be withdrawn.
Remember, the produce thus received will be do
nated free of charge to the Charity Committee for
needy cases, investigated and adjudged to be worthy.
Europe Beckons
: Lupe Vele*, interesting Latin-type
if Hollywood’* film favorites. Is
' shown as she accorded New York
' one last smile before sailing on the
lie de France for a pleasure trip In
i Europe. Lupe, who arrived at New
| York on the same train with John
! Gilbert recently and who saw the
movie lover off to foreign lands,
may find their paths will rroos.
Lucky John!
Mrs. May Thacker
Declares Harding
Story Was ‘Hoax’
County Native Admits Btory Of
Harding Poisoning Not Based
On Fact.
j (The following revelation about
the book on "The Strange Death
of President Harding" will be of In
terest here because the writer, Mrs.
May Dixon Thacker, Is a native of
this section, being a daughter of the
late Rev. Tom Dixon and a sister
of Thomas Dixon, the playwright)
1 Norfolk, Va„ Oct. 30.—Mrs. May
Dixon Thacker, author of "The
Strange Death of President Hord
ing," repudiated it unasked in an
article in Liberty Magazine, pub
lished yesterday, because she was
convinced she had been duped, she
told the United Press in an inter
■ view here.
She said she "ghosted'’ the book.
| published under the signature of
! Gatson B. Means from information
| he personally provided, and not un
j til recently had she discovered
I Means had admitted to a senate
committee that the ixiison rumor it,
connection with the president.;
death had been "all a frame-up.”
She learned, she said, that Means
signed an affidavit in 1925 attesting
to' the falsity of the story that
President Harding had been poison
■ ed The information had come to
jher less than three month ago,
"The fact that President Harding
j was poisoned—that simply originat
ed In Gasoil Means' imagination."
Mrs. Thacker said. "I explained in
the article that I feared I had been
duped. One thing after anothei
convinced me. There was nothing
else for me to do but repudiate it
"It is not easy to refute some
thing one has done in the spirit of
righteous exaltation. It was hot
pleasing to me to tell the story as
I did. I had never seen nor heard
of the affidavit until three months
ago," said said.
Postmaster Asks Help
In P. O. Enlargement
Postmaster J. H. Quinn appearee,
last night before the Kiwanis club
and asked tliat patrons of the of
fice and this civic club write letter'
to the supervising architect! treas
ury department, Washington, D. C
insisting that niore money be al
lotted to the Shelby postoffice t>
provide ample quarters for the of
fice and a federal court room. A’,
ready there has been an appropria- ]
tion of $85,000 to enlarge the pres- j
ent building, but the building in-!
spector says 50 additional feet of |
land will be necessary, wliich wi :
take $27,500 of the money approp-:
riated. This will not leave a suffi- j
cient amount to provide the en
largement of working quarters for •
the postoffice and tiie federal court!
room.
The building budget is now being
made up by the committee for ac
tion as soon as congress convene;
in December and letters and tele
grams are going out from patrons
asking tiie committee to provide the
additional money necessary to buy
the lot and build the addition
Judge Webb who is hi Baltimore.
Md, cot business has been asked to
stop over in Washington and ap
pear personally before the commit
tee.
Cleveland Tops
N. C. In Cotton;
May Equal 1930
Ahead Of Robeson,
Behind Last Year
Some Believe County Will Bus* «!,
<MHi Bales Made Here l ast
Year.
After remaining behind Robeson
tor more than a month of the gin
ning season this year. Cleveland
•fount y is again leading the state in
Cotton production.
With 3J.933 bale sginned to Octo
ber 18 this county was 6,739 bales
ahead of the 31,194 bales ginned In
Robeson county. In regaining the
lead, however, Cleveland Is still 3,
357 bales behind the crop ginned to
the same date last year.
How They Stand.
There is little change in the or
der of the larger cotton counties
Their ginning to October 18 this
i year and last follow;
C ounty 1931 1930
Cleveland _ 37,933 41,290
[Robeson „ ___ 31,194 29,800
Johnston . .. 25,204' 24,582
Sampson . 24,506 18,545
Harnett ............ 23,054 21,059
As the crop in this county Is al
ways later than the crop In the
eastern counties It is likely that
Cleveland will retain the lead until
the end of the ginning season.
Much To Gin.
Up to October 18, Cleveland was
only 23,000 bales behind the total
ginning of 61,651 bales of last year,
and quite a quantity of cotton, per
haps near 20,000 bales, has been gin
ned In the two-weeks period since
that date,
A number of people are of the
opiulou that the county will make
more cotton this year than last.
Cashier Forrest Eskridge, of the
First National and Union Trust
banks, is one of these, "There, is
plenty of cotton yet to be picked
and ginned,” he said yesterday, “and
I’ve never seen cotton turn out bet
ter, Evers what was considered a
W ftaiwf is turning 4n a good pro
4uctlon."
Less acreage was given to the
! crop this year than last but the con
tinued hot and dry weather late in
the season brought every boll open
and the per-acre production this
year has made up for the decrease
in acreage In total amount of cot
ton
Those Helped Must
Give In Return
Mrs. Sprinkle Of Unemployment
And Relief C ouncil Speaks
To Kiwanis.
■'Those who get relief this win
ter, must give something in return.
Otherwise we will encourage a lot
of chronic dependarfts." said Mr*
Mary Camp Sprinkle, of High
Point, speaking last night before
the Kiwanis club. Mrs. Sprinkle is
out in the interest of the state un
employment and relief council, or
ganizing the forces such as the
churches, fraternal orders, civic
clubs, etc., in such a way that there
might be no overlapping of efforts
Mrs. Sprinkle was engaged In this
work last year and found distress 1 >
the mountain counties as a result
of the drought, but this year, con
ditions are very different because
the people have heeded the gover
nor's live-at-home program and
have made sufficient to eat. Gov
ernor Gardner will go down In his
tory for his live-at-home program
He Is being quoted and his idea
copied throughout the land,"
“A community is measured as a
cross section, not by the worse or
by the best people and this is a
time when all who have anything to
share with the needy should be gen
erous and helpful. I find a social
consciousness never before evident
in the state as I go about. The peo
ple are responsive to the calls," sa‘d
Mrs. Sprinkle.
Tribute to Miss Wliiteuer
The speaker paid tribute to Miss
Louise Whitener, a pupil in Miss
Selma Webb’s school in South
Shelby who recently delivered an
address before a mass meeting of
teachers In the interest of the Jun
ior Red Cross. Her listeners were
amazed at her message and Mrs.
Sprinkle suggested that she be in
vited before the civic clubs of the
city.
Rash Hamrick gave a report ot
the Carolhias district convention at
Pinehurst. Out ot the 17 decease i
members during the past year, two
were' from the Shelby club j. chnl
Newton and Chas. L. Eskridge. The
next convention will be held a year
hence in Columbia, S C.
Grand Canyon Only a “Ditch”
inw remarkable picture, made from A high-flying U. S. Army plane
from Rockwell Held, f'allf.. makes the majestic Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River Appear to be only » ditch far. far below. Although the
canyon Is several miles deep at points, the altitude from which the
photo was made dwarfs the heroic cut made through the rocky terrain
by the turbulent Colorado. In fact, the river itself looks like only a
thread of water. Note the three At my planes to the left of canyon.
458 County Laborers
| Injured In Two Years
---
Work Of Compensation Commission
In state And County For
Two Years,
(Star News Bureau.)
Rale if h, Oct. 30.—In the two
year period from July 1. 1929, to
July 1, 1931, Cleveland county
Industries reported a total of
458 accidents, of which 294 were
medical only and Involvlnf less
than one week of time lost. The
total compensation paid the re-*
mainins compensable cases was
817.108, while (he total medical
costs In all accident cases
amounted to $7,014.
The accidents are divided into
five classes, the number of each in
! the county being as follows; fatal,
3; permanent total disability, none;
permanent partial disability, 11;
temporary total disability, 150; and
medical only. 2£f4 cases.
Many In Stile.
Nearly 2,400 years—time enough
to go back almost 500 years before
the birth of Christ—was lost in In
dustrial labor in North Carolina
during the two years, not taking In
to consideration time lost from
deaths, as a result of industrial ac
cidents, the biennial report of the
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Injured Teacher Is
Better; Girl Home
Miss Ethel Brown, school teacher,
who suffered a fractured skull last
week when the wagon she was rid
ing upon was struck by a Southern
train at the Dover mill crossing,
continues to show improvement at
the Shelby hospital. Her tittle niece,
Dorothy Teeter, 6, injured in the
same crash, left the hospital today
Tommy Tessner, fanner, who was
driving the wagon, was able to leave
the hospital several days ago
Drouth Broken
By Rain Here
Thr long drouth was broken
here lair Wednesday evening
when rain began falling anil
continued in intermittent
showers throughout the night,
depositing over an Inch ot
moisture.
The rain was the first *1
any consequence for nearlyf
two months and brought re
lief from a prolonged dry spell
that had considerably lowered
the water In streams, and had
retarded growth of fall crops.
Rain was badly needed on
fayms where fall grain need
ed sufficient moisture for
sprouting purposes.
Dust lay Inches thick over
highways and county roads
and water in the streams had
fallen alarmingly low. While
not facing a water shortage,
it had become necessary at
the Shelby water plant to darn
up Broad rtver one day each
week to force the water up to
the intake pipe in order to fill
the resevolrs.
Charity Grid Game
Being Talked Here
Shelby, answering the appeal of
the national unemployment com
mittee, may have a charity foot
ball game this fall, perhaps on
Armistice Day.
It is understood that a number
of former Shelby High players are
planning to organize an eleven and
play the present high school team,
if school officials are willing. Defi
nite announcement may be made
soon.
Hoey Started Life As Printer’s
Devil; “AP” Sketches His Career
Life of Shelby liarrister ami Ora
tor Colorful as Given
In Skcteh.
Although'It is a career the ma
jority of Cleveland county people
are already acquainted with, many
readers will be interested in the
following sketch, appearing as one
of a series by the Associated Press
of outstanding Tar Heels; of the
life of a Shelby man:
When Clyde R. Hoey left his fath
er’s farm and a country school at
the age of 12 to become a ‘printers'
devil” in a Shelby printing office,
he launched a career that carried
him rapidly to the top.
Mr. Hoey, now only 54 years old, I
is recognized as one of the ablest!
attorneys and politicians in the |
state, and behind him is a record j
of service to his state and to the:
Democratic party is well as a re
ord as a brtllant lawyer* •
A printers- devil at 13—a news-j
paper editor and publisher at 17—a ,
member of the state house of re- !
presentatives at 21—and a member
of tile state senate at 25—tells the
story ol progress he made early In
his career.
Never 1-orgot Polities.
Then followed a long devotion to
the practice practice of law, and
the establishment of himself on a
firm financial basis. Mowever, he
never forgot politics and continued
to be one of the state's leading dem
ocratle campaigners.
In 1919. however, after serving
six years as assistant 17. s. attorney
for the western North Carolina dis
trict, Mr. Hoey was elected to the
United States congress from the
ninth district in a special election
to succeed E. Yates Webb. Kls fel
low townsman, who had been
named to the federal district court
bench Mr. Hoey defeated the late
John M. Morehead, millionaire re
publican.
He retired from ^congress volun
‘arily in 1921 to resume his law
practice. But when Senator Lee S.
OONTTNUKn ON PAOK TWFI.V*'
ase»
Opposition For
Special Session
Expressed Here
Edwards Opposed To
Calling Term
Would Be Unwise To Have Legis
lature Be Wet-Nurse For
Former.
A big percentage of the rep
rwnUtlrei and senator* in
Piedmont and We*tern North
Carolina appear to be strongly
opposed to railing a special ses
sion of legislature to reduce cot
ion acreage In North Carolina
and by so doing, as one terms
It, “attempt to play wet-nurse
to North Carolina farmers.”
In the eastern section of the
State several counties have Insist
ed that Oovernor Gardner call a
social session. The Governor ta
personally opposed to a special
term and falls to see the wisdom of
It or any benefit that might result,
but It Is up to the people and not
him. he says, what should be dorie
about It. If a majority seem to de
sire It. they may have It, he says.
That statement, In a dispatch from
Raleigh, left the Impression that he
would like to know just liow the ma
jority of the average people fe»|
about It.
■AgUlIISl II,
This week a number of legislators,
after talking It over with the people
of their sections, have been writing
•Hid wiring the Governor. Reports
from the messages of many law*
makers in Piedmont and Western
Carolina indicate that the most of
them are unfavorable to “lawing”
anything upon the farmer, particu
larly when they believe the step
would be without worth.
Garibaldi’s Idea.
Joe Garibaldi. veteran business
man of Charlotte and Mecklenburg
representative in the last general
assembly, who was a business visi
tor in Shelby yesterday, is vigorously
opposing a special session. The
(food horse-sense of the average
farmer, the lack of money with
which to purchase fertiliser, neces
sary to grow a Mg crcgp, and other
conditions will do more to reduce
lOOVTIHUKD ON PAQK TWTCLVS.)
Continue Curb
Market In City
Hill Operate Only One Day Eaeh
Week During Winter. Several
Days Christmas.
When the dry weather cut short
the fall gardens, the curb market
committee met and discussed the
advisability of closing the market.
After much discussion it was de
cided to keep the Shelby market ia
operation for the purpose at dis
posing of the butter, eggs, chickens,
canned foods, and the few fall vege
tables and fruits that are still od
the market.
The committee did, however, de
cide that one day per week would
be often enough to hold the mar
ket open during the winter, except
on special occasions, such as the
Christmas holidays when the opera
tors expect to put on Christmas
specialties.
Unless special notice is published
the market will be open every Sat
urday from nine to eleven. Please
note the change in hours, which
will be an advantage to both cus
tomers and operators.
Dr. Tom Mitchell
Is Taking A Rest
Will Spend Some Time In Phila
delphia Resting And Attending
Lectures.
! Following the recent deuth of his
! father, Qr. W. F. Mitchell, Dr. Thos.
: B- Mitchell plans to leave immed
i lately for a rest of two or threa
(weeks in Philadelphia. While there
jhe plans to attend lectures in ob
stetics and gynecology at the post
! graduate school of the University
1 of Pennsylvania.
His secretary. Mrs. Ruth Andrews,
j will keep his office open several
hours each afternoon for the trans
action of routine business. During
Dr. Mitchell's absence his mother,
Mrs. W. F. Mitchell, will spend the
time with her son, B. F. Mitchell,
at Mt. Holly. She plans to return to
her home about the 15th of Novem
ber with Dr. Mitchell.
Power Off Sunday.
Electric power in the city will be
Off or Sunday afternoon from 2 to
'3:30 o'clock while some repair work
is under way at the sub-station
here.