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10 PAGES TODAY By Mau. per year, on a4vapee> - *3 »•< Late News THE MARKET Cotton, spots .. 6c and tip Cotton seed, per ton ... $12.0(1 RAIN AND COLDER Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy with rain this after noon and in east section tonight. Colder in west and central portions tonight. Thursday fair and colder. PARK TACLESS CARS Today is the last day to operate an automobile in North Carolina without 1932 license tags, according to orders sent out to highway pa trolmen by Patrol Cupt. Chas. I>. Farmer. Ills orders say that all oars with old tags must be parked St the curb and left there until new tags are purchased and put on. At •le Shelby bureau, on North Wash ington street, only a little over 3,000 *ew tags have been sold, according to Chas. R. Eskridge, bureau mana ger. Shelby Schools Remain Within State’s Budget Were Three Percent. Under l.imit As School Reopened On Moi'Jay. The Shelby public schools system is running .within the State budget limit, it was announced this week by Supt. B, L. Smith. When the city schools reopened on January 4 after the holidays 64.2 percent of the time under state operation had been passed but only 63.9 percept of State funds available for the six months per iod had been expended. This indi cates that the local schools will be able to keep within the reduced allotment made for the six months by the agencies of the last legisla ture. The reduction of school, fluids In the State was hailed Jpy many at the time as being such a stiff cut that the schools would not be able to operate under the limitation. The fact that the Shelby system has done so—although by a scant mar gin of three percent—speaks well for the economy program of the city schools, particularly as the en trenchment has not effected school work to any noticeable extent, ex cept that a musical instructor and a few other extra curricula activi ties were not included in the ne cessary work. Bar Association Banquet Tuesday ludge M( Elroy And Solicitor Spur ling To Be Guests Of Lawyers. The annual banquet of the Cleveland County Bar Association will be held next Tuesday evening, January 12, at the Hotel Charles, it was announced today by County Solicitor W. S, Beam, who is chair man of the program committee. Clyde It. Hoey is the president of he association. Judge P. A. McElroy and Spur ;eon Spurling, who will be here for the term of Superior court next week, will be special guests of the ■ounty barristers. Attorneys from Kings Mountain will attend to gether with what lawyers from out of the county who may be here lor court week. No formal program, as in bygone years, has been, outlined. Do First January Days Foretell How Weather Will Be? So, First Four Months Of 1932 Will See Good Weather Here. How many people believe that' the weather during the first 12 days of January foretells the weather for the 12 months of the year? It Is an old standby with the sage-brush weather prophets and many put dependence in it, but just how many is a debatable question. Say there’s something to it. then let’s see what type of weather the Shelby section will have through June: The first four days of the > new year were good-weather days, un usually good for the season of the vear. If there’s anything to the weather legend, then the months of January, February, March and April will TSc clear for the most part with no great amount of bitter winter weather. But it was cold and cloudy on the fifth day, Tuesday, and that foretells a cold, dreary May. And today, the sixth day, was rainy and generally rough, and that would herald a rainy June and a late spring. It all depends upon the stock one takes in the moss-eaten theory. Anyway, that’s the chart on that nne basis-. Changes Residence. Mr, Hal Whisnant and family, who have boon living on West Marion street, have moved to e residence on North Washington street, opposite the nurses ham. Aldermen Halt Double Parking Cars, Skating Street Skating Rulted Out In City Youngsters Slay Skate On Sidewalk Out Of Fire Limits During Day Honrs. Shelby aldermen, in their regular board session last night, turned thumbs down on street skating, which has already eost one youth his life here during the holidays, and gave the po lice department strict orders to enforce the double-parking regu lation in the business section. These two items were the main features of the board session other than the handling of the custom ary routine business. No. S. P. U. Move Tlie big decision for the city fathers to make early this year— the answer to the offer of the S. P. U. for the city light plant—was ndt approached except in an in formal manner. “We have not reached a definite decision about it; and think we should give it more consideration and study before doing so,” Mayor S. A. McMurry said today in discus sing the S. P. U. offer of a million and one hundred thousand dollar,t for the municipal 'plant. Stop Skating The new skating regulation, which tlie police have been ordered to en force without a let-up, says that hereafter children may not skate on the streets anywhere in the city at any time. Those who dfc so will be subject Co a violation penalty of $5. - Children may skate on the sidewalks during the daytime but not on congested sidewalks. Whit sidewalk skating is to be done must be done on sidewalks beyond the fire limits. This means that there can be no skating any nearer the court square on the west than the Southern railroad tracks, no nearer on the east than DeKalb street, no nearer on the south than the Vic .tar hotel and GrahSfti Street, sfficT no nearer on the north than Sufti ter street! Any sidewalk skating nearer the square and the business section is subject to the same $5 penalty as street skating anywhere in the city. Even sidewalk skating is fcaboo after sundown, the regu lation reading that all skating must end when the street lights are turned on in the evening. Stop Double Parking The filing of numerous com - plaints about double parking of automobiles in the business section brought stringent action. Hereafter there must not be any double park ing anywhere along the business streets longer than five minutes, and the five-minute double parking wi’l be permitted in the business section on Saturday night only. Policemen have been ordered to tag all who double park at any other time ami all motorists who double park longer ; than five minutes on Saturday I night. The penalty is $5. Lackey Moves His Agency Sales Room The J. Lawrence Lackey Buick I automobile agency and garage has I moved from the Gardner building on South LaFayette street to the [ Doggett building, just west of Hotel Charles on West Warren street: The new location of the Lackey garage is the building where Beam and Cline formerly conducted auto agencies. Report Dog Killed Mule Near Shelby A mule belonging to Bob Wilson was killed by several dogs some time Monday night, according to reports in the city today. The mule, which was in a. pasture just east of the city, was so badly bitten and ripped up by two or three dogs, it is said that it had to be killed. i Over 18,000 People Being Kept In Institutions Over State Now Large Population In State's Penalj UiMs, Hospitals And Homes For Aged. Raleigh, .’an. 6.—More than 18, 000 persons were in the state's pen al. correctional and charitable in stitutions in December, according to figures just compiled and releas ed by R. Eugene Brown, director of .the division of institutions of the state board of charities and public j welfare. He estimates that if the present population figure. were known for these Institutions tlmt the total would b*» still larger. The prison systems lead the list ! r**ii %t tavgMt number of inmat ps. which includes the more than 4,000 short term prisoners in the state highway commission prison camps. The population of the pris on systems is distributed as fol lows: State highway commission prison camps, 4,178; state prison, farms and camps, ,841; county jails (100) estimated, 1,500: other coun ty prisons (estimated) 350; indus trial colony for women. 33. The institutions with the next large number of inmates are the three State hospitals Mr the in sane. with 5.583 patients, distribut ed as follows; State hospital at Morganton, 1,800, state hospital at ccsTrnrfD on paos uoht > l Nursery Expert Treating Trees On Court Square County Makes Move To Save Slab-; ly Beauty Of Old Trees On . Square. Shelby's "face-lifting" process, in augurated when unemployed work ers were put to work cleaning city streets and vacant lots, received another boost this week when a Davey nursery expert was employed to doctor the trees on Shelby's court square. The tree expert, one of the most experienced men in the Davey em ploye, has already worked four days on the court square trees and has several days work yet to do. .. The major portion of the work of preserving the trees, which lend more beauty to the court square than anything else, has been that of removing the dead limbs. .The removal of these limbs not only adds to the life of the trees, but eliminates the danger of limbs fall ing upon pedestrians "-during a freeze or windstorm. In addition to removing the limbs, the tree; doctor is treating decaying spots and is using several colored men to fertilize the roots of the trees. ‘‘By spring.” he says, “Shelby's court square should be more beau tiful than in years. The fertiliza tion of the trees will bring them out as they haven't been in a long time and the removal of the dead branches will also help.” The work is being generally com mended. particularly among club women who have for several years urged a movement to preserve the natural beauty of the square. It would take many years to grow the beauty that is now an integral part of the square, the women have pointed out, and the cost of treating and preserving the trees is a minor one considering their value. The clever footwork of the ex pert, Mr. Cobb, is also providing quite a bit of entertainment fsr score§ of people who gather about the square to watch him work far above in the tree tops. He does not use climbers and hops and skips about the limbs in such a manner as to cause one onlooker to remark “he'd make a monkey ashamed of himself.” In his work he uses nothing, other than his alte and knives, except a rope. When he first mounts a tree scooting up with the speed of a squirrel, he tosses a rope about a higher branch and uses the rope to guide himself about the tree and along the limbs. When he completes the work in one tree he hop6 to the rope and slides down without taking the trouble to go down the trunk of the tree, and then scampers up the next, tosses [ his rope around a limb and goes to work with his axe, using both hands on the axe and balancing himself on his feet. What’s more, he wears glasses and smokes -e pipe while at work. Miss Fan Barnett Has An Operation Charlotte, Jan. 6—The Char lotte office of the United States district court is now in charge of W, A. Lyte, deputy clerk of Ashe ville who will hold this position until the return of Miss Pan Bar nett, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Lyte will have charge of the court records during the ta-m of civil court that starts in Charlotte January 12 at tfie~ Mecklenburg county courthouse. A report from the City hospital in Gastonia this week said that Miss Barnett was recovering favor ably and would probably be back at i her office around the first of Feb- i ruary. Gardner Begins His Final Year As Governor Term Most Difficult In Years _ * Strike*. Crashes And Depression Made Regime Tough Problem. When O. Max Gardner, Cleveland county’s first governor, left his Shelby home this week and return ed to Raleigh he embarked upoin his final year as governor. He spent the holiday season here and in New York, resting while in Shelby but attending to State busi-g ness in the metropolis. The purpose or his visit to NevJ York was to approve a cast of al statute of the late Governor Charles B. Aycock, but Governor Gardner made it a two fold trip. The governor conferred with New York bankers on the status of North Carolina's finance. And during his absence, the budget bureau of which the governor is ex officio director, sent out a memorandum to the heads of all state departments and institutions advising them they could not spend in excess of 70 per cent of their legislative appropria tions for the 1931-32 fiscal year ending June 30. Notes Doe On January 15, $2,500,000 in six months state notes fall due. This money was borrowed at a rate ol two and one-half per cent to re fund the deficit of the biennium encied June 30. 1931. In all prob ability it will be renewed, but at a greater rate of interest. In Novem ber the state had to pay six per cent for $3, 800.000 needed to carry on its work in the face of revenues not coming up to expectations. Stormy Period Now, the governor returns to the capital to embark upon his final year in office. The past three have been stormy and strewn with ob stacles. The New Year lays bare ahead. The governor hopes to keep the impending deficit for his term down to a minimum of drastic eco nomies. Reign Disturbed. Governor Gardner, beginning Ms term back in the rosy days of 1929 aspired to become known as the state’s "friendly governor.” How ever, the stock market crashed, val ues decreased, textile disturbances broke out, and at the beginning of 1931, the General Assembly stayed in session five months to legislate for the changes time had brought. There will be no more General Assemblies in Gardner’s regime un less he calls an extraordinary ses sion. It might come about that con ditions demand this. i _!_ Presbyterian Men To Hold Meeting The men of the Shelby Presby terian Qhurch will hold their Jan, meeting Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock in the dining room of the educational building. The president Mr. Harvey S. White, Is anxious to see a full attendance of the men at this first meeting of the new year as matters of special interest and importance are to be considered Three objectives are set forth in the men’s organization, worship, in struction, fellowship and service These goals are big and important enough to engage the best spiritual consideration of ''every Christian man. The Presbyterian men arc rendering splendid service in an or ganized way in the local church In the new year even greater things are expected to be. accomplished. In the fellowship period of men’f meeting tonight an oyster supper will be served by a circle of the Woman’s Auxiliary. This will be followed by the instructional pro gram and business. Scout Councilmen To Meet Friday Capt. B. L. Smith, president of the Piedmont Boy Scout council lias called a meeting of the mem bers of the council, all committee men and others to be held In The Star building, advertising room, on Friday evening of this week at 7:30. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the budget for this year and plan for the annual meeting in Gastonia next Tuesday night. MISSIONARY METHODISTS HAVE SINGING MEET — The Missionary Methodist church in West Shelby was over-crowded last Sunday at the singing conven tion. The singing was excellent, says Rev. H. C. Sisk and ell had an ex cellent time. Music was rendered by several quartets and choirs. Brothers Suicide After Killing Six Officers County Boards Transact Only ! Routine Items Bo^li Boards Have Quietest Sessions j Heid In Many Months. The regular monthly meetings ol ‘ the two Cleveland county govern j hig boards this week .were unevent ful. For the first time In several months both boards had to handle! dhly routine matters. The meeting of' the county com i missioners—A. E. Cline, G. R. La' tlmore and »R~. h. Weathers—was considered the quietest session held, in six months. Other than the usu al check of county bills and com plaints there was no additional work except the hearing of several charity pleas. The session of the county board j of education was practically the j same. No new matters came up for consideration, and the members ot the board devoted their day to go ing over the usual school prob lems that develop each month. All the county schools, elimentarv and high schools, are now baek at work after the holiday period. All the schools with two exceptions, Piedmont and Fallston, reopened last Thursday with the two others opening Monday of this week. Al though no official reports have come In, Informal reports have It that attendance in the countv schools, following the holidays, is good. * ( To Sho\y Pictures Of Wild Life In Schools Of County W. L. Moore, of the State Depart- j ment of Conservation and Develop- j ment, was in Shelby this week ar-. ranging to show free moving pic-1 tures of North Carolina game and’ wild life in the schools of Cleveland county next week. The educational pictures are interesting in exhibit ing the wild, life at the State and should prove very entertaining to school students of the country. H C. Long, county game warden, who is cooperating with Mr. Moore, says that (he pictures will be shown during the first part of the ” week in the upper sec I ion. of the country i It is hoped to reach' all tile schools! and a definite schedule may be an-j nounced Monday. '■‘v •K*ure llh,,w* P°,lcf* national guardsmen and armed civilians ar rlvtu* at the farmhouse near Springfield. Mo.. where Harry Young, outlaw and his two accomplices shot and killed six members of a sheriffs posse who sought to arrest Young for murder. To the left '« Harry Young, who with his brother. Jennings, killed Jtlmself yesterday when trapped by Houston. Tex., policemen. The slayers had fled to Texas immediately after escaping the Missouri farmhouse. Brothers Who Killed, 6 Officers Kill Selves When Trapped By Law Young Brother!, Outlaws. Knd Own] I,lves In Cabin At Houston, Texas. Houston. Tex., Jan. 6,—The Young brothers, Jennings and Harry, slay-i er« of six Springfield, Mo., officers. ‘ closed the case against themselves with their own pistols yesterday to! a cottage where they were trapped by Houston policemen. The coroner decided Harry slew Jennings and Jennings slew Harry Other investigating officers said il was a double suicide. In any event, the two desperadoes, hunted throughout the southwest since the mass-acre of the six dffie-' ers in a farm yard near Springfield, I Mo., last Saturday, took the advice of their mother. Mrs. J. 0. Young, of Springfield, to commit suicide j rather than surrender. Warn Posse. Mrs. Young’s statement was pub- j listed in morning papers here, and! may have been read by her sons. The brothers rented a room in the cottage Monday night, giving names other than their own. The householder, J. P. Thomlonson, saw a photograph of Harry in a news paper. He vacated the premises for the night but told officers what he knew. A police squad went to the cot tage; the Youngs fired once at the demand to open the door and then, as the fumes from tear gas bombs hurled by the Officers filled the ‘CONTINUE!1) ON PAOE EIOHT l ---* - ■■■ Lions Club Plans Work For New Year At the ref&lar meeting of the Shelby Lions club held last night Judge Maurice R. Weathers, club president, reviewed the work of the year just closed and outlined hoped for achievements of the club dua» ing the new year. Rev. L. L. Jessup pastor of the Second Baptist church was taken in as a new member, and several interesting piano se lections were rendered by Miss Faria Hyder. Farmer* To Meet In City Saturday \ public inrettng of Mere - laud county farmer* wilt be field at the court house boro . tomorrow, Thursday, after* noon at 2 o’clock. The pur pose of the meeting- is to or ganic a county-wide unit of the Farmers Mutual Exchange Sue* an organisation, it U believed, will help farmer* to secure the beat prices in mar keting their product* in a co operative manner. The mar keting of poultry Is already handled through the Farmers Exchange, but the plan now is to make the unit general to cover the marketing of other farm products. Community Players Give Charity Show Here During Month Dramatic Organization’s Second Production Will Go To Help Needy The second public performance, of Shelby’s already popular dra matic organization, the Community Players, will be given for the bene fit of charity early In the month of March. This was decided at a meeting of the organization held in the public forum hall of The Star last night. All proceeds above expenses of the play will be turned over to the central charity committee. The first performance of the, group, which is similar to the Little Theatre move ment in other cities, was unusually successful and play-lovers of the city and section are anxious to wit ness the next show. It is learned that because of the increased dramatics interest stimu lated by the Community Players the Shelby high school this year will enter the State dramatic contest at Chapel Hill. (OTHER LOCAL NEWS PAGE 8) Is Tom Dixon Being “Taken In” On Harding Story As Sister Was? Editor 'think* f amous Cleveland Native May Be Fooled By Daugherty Book. Is Harry Daugherty, attorney general in the Harding cabinet, putting a hoax story over on Tom Dixon. Cleveland county native and famous writer, as did Gaston Means on Dixon's sister. Mrs. May Dixorr Thacker? The Raleigh News and Observer seems to think so in the following editorial comment: “A year or so ago Gaston Means, desiring to print » bodk of fiction, containing stuff that reflected un justly upon President Harding,; Mrs Harding and other dead peo pie. contracted with Mrs. May Dix on Thacker to collaborate hi the book. She has talent and color in her writing. There ought to be a law against such slander of the dead, unsupported by evidence. The book had a wide sale, despite its transparent lack of verity and ab sence of evidence for any of the crimes laid at the door of the Hard ings. Last month, learning that she had been imposed upon, Mrs. Thacker repudiated the book, say ing she had been imposed upon and regretted lier connection with it. ■yiiortly a book to be called 'The Coinm'fD on fao* EK>m > 1 * Waco Boy Succumbs After Row Max Barrett, 19, Dies In Hospital Congestion Of Lung Causes Death Of Popular Young Man. A post mortem txamina verdiet, rendered here early this afternoon by Dr. L. L, Self, of Cherryville, and Dr. D. K. Moore, Cleveland coun ty physician, stated that Max Barrett, Waco youth, died as the result of "an acute pul monary edema," or congest- -• ion of the left lung. The body ,was thoroughly examined to gether with all vital organs and nothing was found wrong except the collapsed lung. The only bruise on the body was on the hip. probably caused by a fall. The lung congestion. termed by Dr. Self as a natural cause for death, resulted it was tinn ed from the fact that the young man becoming sick on whiskey, to which he was not ccustomed, was lying on his back and could not eject eject, the contents of his stomach from his mouth. Some of tbi* tomaeh content which he tried to emit ran back into his lung, it was believed, and brought on the congestion several hours later. Max Barrett, 19-ycar-olU Waco high school boy. died In the Slielb* hospital this morning at 7:30 as a tragic Climax to a drinking par tv sttd a brawl yesterday afternoon nt Wacp, ia eastern Cleveland. - The Immediate cause or hte death was said to be congestion or the lung.;, but Dr. D. F. Moore, countv j physician, who was called In when his condition became serious and who examined the body Just after the youth died, said it was some I what ditftcult to attribute the sud ' den congestion to a definite cause. Pumltaf? He did not think than an exces i sive amount of alcohol could have brought on the condition by itself neither was there any evidence of wounds and injuries, which might have been received In the brawl, serious enough to have been fatal. The sheriffs office here was tele phoned yesterday afternoon that » drunken fight was hi progress near the cotton gin at Waco and near the home of Boyd Barrett, a cousin of Max. Deputies Bob Kendrick and Ben Cooper hurried to Waco. | When they reached the scene Bovri Barrett and Everett Bridges, two said to have participated in the melee, were missing, but the offi cers found Max Barrett and Carl Bridges, the latter a brother of Everett Bridges, under the influence pf whiskey. Bridges could barely £et about, it was said, but young Barrett, who was in his cousin's house, was limp, They were brought here late in the afternoon or early In the evening and placed in the county jail. Bridges was said to have been scratched up soraewha", but not seriously hurt in any wav. As far as could be ascertained young Barrett was not injured, other than being dazed or numbed by drink of some type. Later in the night it was noted that Barrett did no CONTINUED ON PAGE t'lGHT New President Of Kiw&nis Tt> Preside The first meeting of the Kiwams club for the new year will be helo Thursday night and presided over by the newly elected president For rest Eskridge. The program will oe in charge of the program committee composed of B. L. Smith, chairman H. B. Edwards, D. Z. Newton, Hor ace Easom, and Lee B. Weathers The club’s standing committees wilt be named for the first three months at tomorrow night’s meeting Couple Celebrates 50th Anniversary S The fiftieth wedding anniversary j i of Mr. and Mrs. W. George Spake ; was celebrated on Dec. 27th. Quite a number of friends and relatives called. Three of the number were present who witnessed the marriage ceremony, Mrs. F. P. Gold, Mrs. El len Wilson, and Mr. A. P. Spake. A bountiful dinner was spread are* many useful gifts were received Out-of-town visitor# were Mr. and Mr*. David Wilson of Littleton
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