North Carolina Newspapers

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2. 1921 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons. 10 PAGES TODAY By Mntl, per >&ar. itn advAxico — 12.H Late News THE MARKET (olton, *pots —6c and op Cotton *ced, ton ... jjj.Oe Cloudy Thursday. Today's North Carolina Meathsr Report: Partly cloudy tonight. In creasing cloudiness Thursday. Not •Witch change in temperature. ■ . i fi, O. P. Met Mrangle. " ashington. Dee. 2.— Prohibition Involved House Republicans in another Intense disuutr yesterday, based on a proposal that rules of procedure be modified to permit a vote on the wet-dry issue at the coming session of congress. Meet ing in party conference for the see-1 ond successive day. the G. O. P. members debated the question at length and then decided to put it to a vote today. Independent members u ho will hold the balance of pou - er this winter are insistent in their j demands for amendments of the: r iles that will enable a substantial minority to bring legislation to a v,,te bv submitting a petition. What The Brawl In China Is All About, And Why Issues Of Threatening Conflict Given I ifthtinjr Started When Japanese Petty Officer Was Killed In Manchuria. “What is it all about?” the average American citizen asks, j as he reads the news headlines I about the row between Japan and China in Manchuria, a brawl that threatens to bring ! in Russia and perhaps start another world-wide conflict. From both Japan and China have tome explanations of the cause of the trouble, blit these contradicting explanations are confusing. At least they have confused the aver age newspaper reader in America! who gets the major part of his Knowledge from the headlines. He knows the two countries are at log gerheads and that there have been ! battles in Manchuria, and that the' league of nations has mode some requests of Japan and that Japan lias shown an inclination to thumb a n06e at the butting-in of the lon gue. Other than that the average nian's knowledge of the trouble is vague. Desire Manchuria? Does Japan desire Manchuria as ' CONTINUED ON PAGE KIKE i Program Given For “Achievement” Day; llume Demonstration Clubs Of j Courtly Hold Annual Meeting ! Here Thursday. Officials of the home aen)011stra ion clubs of Cleveland county arc i expecting a large attendance of! members at the annual achieve-1 ment day program of the clubs to; be held at the South Shelby school! tomorrow, Thursday, beginning at I 10:30 In the morning. Mrs. Boyd Harrelson and her committee have arranged an inter esting program for the day. Mrs. B. F. Putnam. president of the county federation, will preside. Gift Ideas. “We hope," Mrs. Irma Wallace home agent, says, "that every mem ber vs ill bring with them some I Christmas gift or Christmas idea that may be passed on to some ether member. We have allowed no .special place on the program for this., but we shall have a place to I.:splay them, and any one may look them over during the lunch hour, or after the meeting has adjourn ed." The program follows: America the Beautiful,” all mem bers; devotional. Rev. L. L. Jessup; < elcome. Miss Selma Webb; re sponse, Mrs. C. C. Stanley; greet ings from Rutherford county, Miss Laura Howard; greetings from; Gaston county, Miss Annie C. Broughton; response, Mrs. Irma P. Wallace; makings of home, Mrs. Pudisill. president Gaston county fed.: song period. Mrs Huff Hamrick ui charge; lunch, 12:30; song. Mrs. Grady Lovelace; message from Mrs. Gordon Reid, state vice president; business session, Mrs. B. F. Put nam, presiding; home play by E) Bethel club, Mrs. Boyd Harrelson ' director; delivery of prizes, federa tion president; Blessed Be the Tie That Binds, all members; club col lections, all members. Kiwanis To Vote On Officers For 1932 Members of the Kiwams club will vote on Thursday night of this week in their weekly meeting on new officers for the coming year Because of the lateness of the election, both the primary and the general election will be held Thurs day night. Paul Webb is the retir ing president. Blapk ballots have been mailed In the Kiwanis mem hprh Presbyterian Men In Annual Meeting Here Churchmen Of Five Counties Attend Dr. Shepperson Of Greenville I'rge More Activity In Church By Men. One hundred and seventy-five "Mcn-of-the-Church” from the Kings Mountain Presbytery enjoyed a delicious turkey dinner last nigh* in the educational building of the First Baptist church in annua! meeting to hear Dr. Flournoy Shep person. pastor of the Second Pres byterian church of Greenville, S C.. address them on personal evan gelism. Representative men were here from Presbyterian .churches in the five counties of Polk, Rutherford, Cleveland. Gaston and Lincoln which compose the Kings Mountain Presbytery. Rev. H. N. McDiarmld. pastor, of the Shelby Presbyterian church, is chairman of the work among the men in the Synod 6* North Carolina and Rev. T C. Tate, of Gastonia, is chairman in the Kings Mountain Presbytery. V. was a most interesting and profit able meeting with the spirit of fel lowship and brotherhood much in evidence. Need For Men Workers. Dr. Shepperson read the story cu the Gideonites where every mat: was at his post of duty and made an appeal that the men of the church be in their places , for the ongoing and upbuilding of the kingdom. He cited the fact that the women and young people of the church are organized and working but the men were not marshalled into service until the movement was inaugurated among the men about seven vears ago. Answering the oft heard criticism that the church holds too many meetings. Dr. Shep person said, “We don't hold enough. We ought to have more to call men away from the work-a-day, week day affairs and enlist them in Kingdom work. God's work should ndt be second to anything, said he Speaking of personal evangelism Dr. Shepperson gave his experience with a census in Greenville to de termine the possibilities of the churches and reported that 35 lay workers won 83 new members in a single campaign. The personal. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TONE > Pump House Burned At Ora Last Night Small Building And Motor Destroy ed By Fire At Textile Plant The pump house, a small wooden building, and the pump and motor it the Ora textile mill, Just west ol! Shelby, were destroyed by fire about 3:15 last night. One of the city fire trucks responded to the alarm, but was unable to save the small struc ture. A small amount of oil in the] building was also destroyed. The ] origin of the blaze was not definite- | ly known, but one presumption was that a belt on the motor had been slipping. Thirteen Jailed Here Tuesday; 2 Girls In Group iOfficers Make lip For YYeek-Knd l.ull. Wild I'arly On Highway. The customary week-end merry making in Shelby and over the | county appears to have been delay ed two days Over the week-end ■only four people were placed in the | county jail, an unusually low num ; ber for a week-end. but yesterday city and county officers arrested and jailed 13 people, some or whom gave bond later. The majority of the arrests were for drinking and stealing Four of the 13, two of whom were I white women, were brought in from No. 10 township, where officers say they were staging a rather wild party on the highway. The quartet, two men and two women. were charged with over imbiding. or pub lic drunkenness. The arrests were made by Deputies Plato Ledford and Tom Sweezy, Officers Get After Sellers; Nab Still Several Bellhops In Toils Of Law. Capture Still In No. 3. County and city officers during the last 10 days have been working on the liquor traffic in this section at the manufacturing and selling ends. Late last week deputies got their second distillery of the week tn No, 3 township. The second capture was a 50-gallon steang plant, and 150 gallons of beer near the South Car olii^a line. Officers in the raid were Deputies Ben Cooper, Bob Ken drick. Jerry Runyan and Bun.van Jones. This week city police a nested three bellhops on whiskey charges and a fourth made his getaway. In three instances the colorr-d beahops were charged with selling whiie the fourth was charged with having brandy in his home. Sheriff Captures 3 Rabbits In Well Sheriff Irvin Allen, who Is as en thusiastic about ' fox and rabbit hunting as his chief deputy,, Ed Dixon, is about ’possum hunting, has a new hunting story to tell Monday afternoon Mapes Spencer, Shelby mechanic, came uptown /with the report that a fox and a rabbit were in a well just south of high way 20 near the city limits west of town. The sheriff and others ac companied him to the well to make the rescue, believing that the fox had chased the rabbit tg what ap peared to be a hole and* jumped in after it But instead of a fox the rescue party found three rabbits, all alive, at the bottom of the 40 foot well. Baggett, McSwain, Brummitt Contest Promises To Be Very Warm Affair Attorney General In Between Shel by Man And Baggett On Sales Tax. (Tom Bost in Greensboro News* Raleigh, Dec. 2.—Attorney Gen eral DCnnis G. Brummitt, who announced a month ago that he will not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the gov ernorship contest next year, admit ted this week that he had been as tounded by the number of persons who have told him personahv and written him that they would have supported him. “You would have carried HO counties,' Judge Walter D. Siler assured him. as they review'd the remarks of the past four weeks. Judge Siler was one of those state characters who could not have es caped embarrassment in this con test. He has teen assistant attor ney general and has participated in [juite a number oi legal contests for the state. He also occupies an of fice in the revenue department over which Allen J. Maxwell is oner. The judge would have supported Mr. Brummitt, of course. But there was that funny mix-up. Mr. Brummitt does not regret making the announcement of his purpose to quit the governorship race. The reasons lor withdrawing were never given, but they were ] purely personal. .Generally a dec laration of candidacy is attended by big boosts which are magnified. This time Mr. Brummitt has the prestige of a look-back. He would not have made the race no matter how great the support that was peldged to him. But he gets a big' kick from the friends who had not committed themselves to him He had net counted on their support Mr. Brummitt is not making an nouncement in a formal way, but to all and sundry he is unequivocal in his statement as to his attorney generalship. He has a pair of op ponents in the 1931 state senate. Senator Peyton McSwain of Cleve land county, and Senator John R. Baggett, of Harnett, are announced. Mr. Brummitt must make the race against both. They represent the extremes in taxation. Senator McSwain voted against Senator Baggett on all the sales tax proposals. Mr. Brummitt probably will find himself between these extremes in the 1932 earn- i paign. Senator Baggett says the people are disappointed in Mr. Brummitt, but Mr. Brummitt is go ing to try them again in spite of all that Mr Baggett has beep hearing and saying Mays Edison itishop Edmund F. Gibbons, of tbr Albany. N. Y., Catholic diocese, who declared in a lecture in St. Rose college that “Edison, because of his lark of failh in (tod. was one of the greatest detriments in the world.” The bishop concluded his tirade by declaring that “Anyone who makes a god of Edison cannot be a Chris tian." Mrs. ‘Jos ’ Hord Buried At Zion Agrd Woman and Ik-loved Through Out County Succumbs To Brief Illness Here Mi>.. Josephine Hord. better known as “Aunt Jos," was buried this morning at olet Zion, six miles north of Shelby in the community where she was bom 85 years ago the. 7th of August, the daughter of the late Albert and Mary Weath ers. Near her birthplace still stands the home of her grandgather, Billy Weathers, where! the first court was held in the county after it was cut from the sides of Lincoln and Rutherford. Mrs. Hord passed peacefully Tuesday morning at 1:20 o’clock after an ilines., of four days at her home on N. LaFayette street where she lived with her daughter-in-law, Mrs, W. N. Dorsey, It was known by friends and relatives that she could not survive an abdominel trouble and she seemed to realize it as she lay on her death bed. for before she sank into unconscious ness. she seemed to see and talk with departed loved ones and lmd messages of cheer and hope for the living. Bright Spirit Mrs. Hord was a bright spirited soul and took delight in visiting the sick and administering unto them even in her advanced years. Shu had a strong mentality, a sympa thetic heart and a willingness to work and do for others. With the weight of years heavy on .her shoulders, she still maintained a love, an interest and a congeniality with young people. Her years were ripe with experiences of a varied kind and everybody loved her bright, cheerful companionship. Per haps no woman in the county her age, had as many friends among old and young. Whenever there was trouble in a home. “Aunt Jos' made it a practice to go with her sym pathy and love and if need be, ad minister unto the sick with her own nanas ana warm heart. She was manned to A. Sabe Hord July 19. 1866. Her husband devel oped rheumatism from exposures in building a grain mill near the site of the present Eagle Roller mill. For years he was an invalid in a rolling chair. On August 4. 1901 he died, leaving her with one son Cletus T. Hord who was just growing into manhood. Her son died about 11 years ago, leaving her daughter-in-law, now Mrs. W. N Dorsey and five grandchildren: Eu gene, Robert, Julian, Kathleen anc. Mabel Frances Hord. Also surviving are three brothers ; W. Yan Weathers and A. P ’ Weathers of Shelby and D. Suffimi Weathers of San Antonio, Texa , and many nieces and nephews as Mrs. Hord was a member of a large family. Funeral services were conduct'd this morning at Old Zion by Dr Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Bap tist church of which she was e member, assisted by Rev. D. G Washburn. Interment was in the cemetery there beside her husband and one of the largest floral offer ings ever seen at Zion covered the cemetery plot. The large new brick church was overflowing with friends and relatives. FIDDLERS MEETING AT WACO IS POSTPONED | Because of conflicts with other attractions in the county ,the fid dlers convention scheduled for Waco Friday Right, of this week, has been posflxmeC until Dec. 11. All musi cians are asked to take notice 1 Court Cases In County Decrease In November Near Half Of Charges Prohibition Cases Of UK Case* Handled By Recorder 5.1 Are From Some Type €>» l>ry Law Violation. The grind in the Cleveland county recorder's court last month was not as heavy as It has been every month for the last six months. l During November a total of UK cases were tried betpre Recorder Maurice Weathers, according to the records ol Charlie Woodson, deputy clerk. This Is from 60 to 75 rases 'below the averse for 1931 The decrease is attributed to the influence of the second visit here of Judge Walter Moore, who preside ed over the local Superior court the Lfiret of November. Judge Moore generally made it harder on those [Who appealed from the county court and he also made the law ap pear a little more far-reaching than has any Superior court judge who has presided here In recent years. But other officers attribute the light docket In November to the customary lull that always preced es the holiday merry-making. As usual, the majority of the 118 defendants were up for violating the prohibition law in some aspect. Of the 118 cases 55 were dry law ;cases, Assaults of one *type or an other ranked next with a total of 17. Worthless cheeks, yo-yo checks or rubber checks, as they are call ed, were not as much In evidence In Shelby during the month as they have been. Only five worthless check cases were disposed of. In the list for month was one murder and two highway ro'oberie3. The court maintained Its record In convicting a major percentage ST all defendants, close to 160 of the 118 tried being convicted. Brick Work Now Started At New New Convict Structure Will Not Likely Be Completed Before First Of March. M&sons this week began laying brick on the new state prison camp east of Shelby and north of the county fairgrounds. It was stated today that in all probability the fire-proof camp would not be completed in less than 90 days. Officials, however, hope to move the state convicts into the new structure, from the old No. 6, township convict (wrap, about the I first of March. Approximately 10 or 12 masons! and a dozen or so carpenters and laborers arc employed in the con struction work. The work is being done by the day and not by con tract except for tlVi lighting, plumbing, roofing and other de tails. Local masons and laborers are being employed. and It was said that there wrere twice as many applicants this week as jobs. At present there are 51 prisoners, 29 white and 22 colored, in the state camp here, according to Clyde Poston, supervisor. On Thanksgiv ing day -last week the state gave the convicts a big dinner of barbecued pork and chicken pie, and the pri soners were also given a day’s holi day from their work. Prison Have Big Dinner. Winter Hours Are Reading Hours Twenty-one new subscrip tions were added to The Star's list since Monday. When win ter comes with its long: even ings, people provide reading as well as for the comfort* from cold weather. Most of these subscription < were added by our 21 Star carrier boys who deliver The Star at the door in Shelby and suburbs, as well as at Lawndale and Kings Moun tain on the afternoons ol publication day. These newsboys are in a contest now to win some val uable prises. One may pass your door on his regular de livery round. Pay the news boy 25c and get a month’s subscription to The Star. A dozen issues for a quarter and delivered at your door for winter evening reading. Congressional Brethren _ H»r the first time In many years there are two brothers serving in (he marble halts of Congee*#. They are William H. Bankhead (left) and John If. Bankhead, both of Jasper. Alabama, who help represent their state In Washington. They were photographed on the steps of the Na-• lional Capitol, where William serve* In the House and John in Ihe! Senate. • Shelby Merchants Prepared For j Annual Yuletide Shopping Rush J Shelby stores were this week making their final prep arations to accommodate the annual rush of Shelby and Cleveland county shoppers, together with those fromnoigh boring sections, as they prepare for Santa Claus ioylauds and toy and gift depart-1 merits have already been opened up] in a number of the stores, and other business houses are decorating and preparing for paramount gift sales Cheapest In Years, There Is this cheering thing about the yearly Christmas shop ping: The Christmas gift list can be filled this year cheaper than !n more than a decade "Seven dollars," one merchant said today, '“will purchase as much and more than *10 would just n year ago, and as much as *12 or *15- would two and three vear; ago. The drop In prices is not only evident in the price tags on toys, gifts, etc., but is very much inorr evident in the serviceable gift line, ranging h orn clothing of all types to furniture and household effects. Although merchants do not ex pect the real Yule shopping rush to gather momentum until next weejr. they anticipate a big week-end trade from those who always shop early and realise that, after todcni there are only 19 days tn which to j get first choice. #-- I McKinney Gives An Employee Barbecue E. F. McKinney gave a barbecue Thanksgiving day to the tenants on his farm and to the employees in his market in Shelby, there be ing about eighty people preeen*. The barbecue was given on the Mc Kinney farm, one of the largest in the county, just north of Shelby and an abundance of barbecued meat and other good things were served. Mr. McKinney makes it a practice, after the harvest season is over each year, to give a barbecue to his tenants and their families. Six County Couples Married At Gaffney Hltelhy and County Couples Wed at South Carolina Grrtna Green Six couple* from Shelb.v and Cleveland county secured marriage license from Probate Judge Lake W. Stroup at the Gaffney, S. C , Grct-: na Green over the last week end, 1 Those securing license were. Debro Webb and Alma Pearson.’ of Bolling Springs Harris Lockhart and Mollie Tarv, of Shelby. Elmer Sheppard, of Kings Moun-' tain, and Selma Richardson. of I Bessemer City. John Boltck and Essie Towery, of Shelby .:v Melvin Powell and Annie Lou Clark, of Lawndale R-l Lemuel Wright and Novella, Wright,, of Shelby Davis Gives Up Head! Charity Committee 'By E. R. Gamble' Kings Mountain, Dec. 2. -J. R Davis, local attorney, who has been chairman of the Associated Chari ties in Kings Mountain for several years has tendered his resignation to that organization beca8.se of a lack of time to devote to it, A meeting of the citizens of the I town Is to be called In a few days to select a new chairman and to make plans to take care of the po.r and destitute In this community during the coming winter Machine May Take Place Of Negro Cotton Picker In Fields Of South Claim Perfected Invention Will Do Away With Much Hand Work In Gathering Crops, Washington, Dec. 7.—The negro cotton picker, immortalized in song and story of the old south, soon may be cleared from the snowy rows of the southland's greatest crop. A machine, practical and money saving, is ready to take his place. The labor department says it will do the work that used to take one man 77 hours in less than three hours. Four out of every five per sons formerly needed to harvest tne fibre as it burst from the bol's will have to find other work In nl.-king time. The department quoted me chanical experts of agricultural ex perts of agricultural experiment stations as authority for the state ment that practical perfection of cotton harvesting machinery has arrived. It Is the first great im provement in methods of handling cotton since Ell Whitney invented the cotton gin more than a century ago. Not only has the machine for picking arrived, but the cotton gin has been more fully jierfectect to prevent loss of quality by machine j picking. Help For Farmers The department said that the tab or saving represented by the new machine is a net gain for the cot ton farmer. "The perfect machinery," ‘ says the announcement, "is the result of an early Idea of progresshe cot ton larihers who had experimented with the gathering of fallen bolls with a horse drag at the same time stripping from drugplants the oalls that had not fallen. The frist drag was a section of a picket fence con structed of wooden slats bound to gether with interwoven horizontal wires. This was dragged over the cotton rows in such inaner that the wires caught the bolls, stripping them off the stems and left them lying op the wooden strips oi the. drag. "But the drag gathered so much rubbish the cotton could not be ginned. Not to be discouraged the farmer ran the stuff through his threshing machine thus cleaning out enough of the rubbish to en able the gin to separate the fibre from the remainder. “The idea was taken up by other iarmers and the experts of the ag riculture experiment stations got to work on it. First a rude sleo was constructed with a v-shaped slot, for catching the stalks and strip ping off the bolls The bolls were worked backward by the forwarc motion of the sled into a wooden box. Tlie first cotton sleds stripped i only one row at a time but were 11 soon widen to cover two. three and*! finally four or more rows i 501 Aldermen Will Seek More Data On S. P. U. Offer Will Make Trip To Other Cities. Members Of Board To (let First Hand Information Of J*. F. 1). Service. Kates Elsewhere. 1 general discussion of the Southern Public It (lilies offer for the Shelby light plant fea tured last night's regular meet ing of the city board, but no definite action was taken in the matter as official plans were made for securing more information as In s. PI rates and service. Members of the board did not ex press personal opinions about the proposed sale arid there was no in timation as to how the board mem bers will vote when a decision Is made as to whether the ofter will ire submitted to a vote of Shelby citizens. The disc uiteiou was 1 muled to a survey of rates here and elsewhere and other controversial points of the proposed sole. Some data wtu< at hand for comparing rate;* under municipal and private ownership, but the board and Mayor S. A. Mc Murry deemed it best tor members of the council to seek first-hand knowledge, As a result of that de cision ns many members o* the board ns possiWe plan to visit sev eral North Carolina cities and towns this week or next and make inquiries as to 8. P U. activities there, tt is likely. It was said today, that the mayor and a couple mem bers of the board will go io Hick ory. Taylorsville and North Wilkes boro. where city light plants were purchased and are now being oper ated by the S, P. U. Thev hope to make inquiries that will show whether the light and power rates under S. P. U. ownership are high er.or lower than under municipal operation. They plan to oak. too, whtther the service is as pleasing to citizens and consumers. A com parison of plant values will be made to determine - Insolar as possible as to whether the offer for the Shelby plant is tn proportion to that paid lor the Wilkes boro. Hickory and other plants. The light plant matter oecame a city-wide topic when the Charlotte power firm offered \ million and one hundred thousand dollars for the Shelby plant which is now be ing operated by the city at an an nual profit ranging up to $60,000. The council meeting last night sef no definite date for answering the s P. U. proposal, but delayed action until further information is secured hick Hearing DelayedAgain; Plan Settlement Civil Settlement With Dead Man's Estate Reported Being Affected, Uncolnton, Dec. 2. -The prelim - inary hearing for Cornelias Irick, charged with manslaughter in the death of Connie Baker, Lincoln county school teacher which oc curred November 11, vPas postponed again Monday for a week. It is rumored here that Irick tr affecting a civil settlement with Eaker’s estate out of court and that a satisfactory arrangement wil have been reached by December ^ date set for the hearing. Irick, a filling station oprator on the Lincolntou highway, near Shelby is out under a $3,000 bond charged with manslaughter and be ing a hit and run driver. Eaker was killed almost instantly when he was struck by Irick's car as he was attempting to snatch his nephew Billy Beam, front the path of irick’s tar. Child Found Dead In Bed Tuesday Patsy Bridges, seven week old :hild of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bridges who live near the Cleveland coup ;y fair grounds was found dead in ted Tuesday morning. The child vas put to bed as welt as usual bur s reported to have died during th* light cl cerebral hemorrhage Juris! took place at Pleasant Orn-j* Japiist church sr Beams MV!