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.. ^ 8 PAGES TODAY _ VOL. XXXVIII, No 6 SHELBY, N. C. \VEDNESL)‘Y, JAN. 13. 1932 Published Monday, Wednseday and Friday Afternoons. By Mall, per yaai. tin advance) - «.*•, Carrier. per year. (In advancai t3 or Late News THE MARKET Cotton, spots __..... tfy and up Cotton seed, per ton ....._$12.00 Cooler Thursday, Today'* North Carolina Weather Report: Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Somewhat cooler tpnight In west and central portions. Cooler Thursday. Bank Robbed. Magnolia. Jan. 13.—Three un masked white nen robbed the Bank of Magdolia of $14,000 yesterday and escaped after slugging the assistant cashier into unconsciousness and locking him in a vault. Alton (lay lor, the assistant cashier was alone when tw'o of the men entered the bank. While the third waited in a small coupe, the two hit Gaylor over the head, scooped up the cur renry In sight and fled. Smith On Council For Scouts Again. In This District Two Hundred And Fifty Men Hear Dr. Sikes Address Piedmont Scout Leaders. Gastonia. Jan. 13.—Judge Bis marck Capps of Gastonia last night was elected president of the Pied mont Council of the Boy Scouts of America at the annual meeting here, succeeding J. W. Atkins who has filled that position for the last four years. Judge Capps is a member of the Gaston county bar, a United States commissioner and a prominent lay man of the Lutheran church in North Carolina. Mr. Atkins was elected vice pres ident, Warren Y. Gardner was re elected treasurer and Rev. G. R. Gillespie was re-elected commis sioner. County vice presidents were elected as follows: Gaston, C. C ■Dawson of Cramerton; Polk, F. P Bacon of Tryon; Lincoln, Harry Page of Lincolnton; Cleveland, B. L. Smith of Shelby: Iredell, Rev. J. L. Thornburg of Statesville; Catawba Brooks M. Todd of Hickory: Hurke, G. Max Long of Morgahton; Cald well, Dr. R. W. Petrie of Lenoir. Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Clemson college, delivered the an nual address, which was heard by two hundred and fifty men from every section of the 11 counties com pt*ih$ #be picdmbHb area. '-'-tM Shelby Delegation. Among those attending the Gas tonia meeting from Shelby and Cleveland county were: A. "W. Be noy. Rev. L. L. Jessup, H. B. Miller. B. L. Smith, R. W. Shoffner, Dr. T. B. Mitchell. J. Harvey White. R. E. Ledbetter. Sam Smith, R. T. L» G. nd, Capt. Frank Jenkins, J. S McKnight, T. J. Babington Gaither Queen, A. Canipe, E. L. Dillingham, J, L. Dennis, E. C. Aderholt, and J A. Propst. Shelby Eagle scouts present were Dick LeGrand and Mai Spangler, Jr. Little Hope To Find Death Car Officers Have No Clue To Work On In Locating Hit-Run Driver. The identity of the automobile driver whose car hit and fatally in jured Robert Lee Walker, Union, fj C., man. between Kings Mountain f and Grover last Saturday night may be added to the other unsolved mysteries of county criminal his tory. Walker's body was found lying in a side-ditch on the Kings Moun tain-Grover highway about five miles below Kings Mountain. He died in the hospital here an hour or so later from a fractured skull and other injuries. His identity could not be learned until Sunday morn ing. Officers have made a thorough check of the fatality since, but have not unearthed a single clue that sheds any light upon who might have been the driven of the car which struck the hitch-hiker. The driver, who in all probability did not stop, has had ample time, it ‘s pointed out, to remove any trace of an accident that might have shown on his car; and any attempt to lo cate him would be like hunting a needle in a haystack. Boiling Springs To Start Second Team Registration Tomorrow. Class Work At College On Friday. "Boiling Springs, Jan. 12.—Boiling Springs college will begin the sec ond .' emester’s work the last of this week. Registration day is Thursday ' and regular class work will begin - Friday Practically all the students registered during the first semester are expected* to return and several new applications already have been " •'•Hived. County Farmers Swing To Third Of Their Cotton Hoping For Higher Price In Spring Buyers Say Price May Be Slightly Higher Then. Do Not Want Big Crop. Cleveland county farmers still Have around 20,000 bales of their 1931 cotton crop stored about their farms or in warehouses as they await a better price. Something better than six or seven cents per pound may not come along by ipring but those who have weathered it so far without selling all their cotton are, for the most part, able to hold on another month or two. Meantime they are optimistic enough to hope that by early spring they may get from eight to 10 cents per pound. Usual ly. they reason, cotton creeps up ward about that time. But), at that, the wise ones believe, there is a trick in it. Tile powers that be. whoever they may be, usually push the price up somewhat in tfte spring and the psychology of it causes many farmers to go ahead and shoot the works on cotton for the new year with the illusion that the price will keep climbing. The Datfger. enemy cotton buyers admit, some of them reluctantly, that the price may be better along about March or April. But they’re hoping—not with an ill will, for the farmer— that it will not be too high. If it is high, they reason, another big crop will be planted, and, as one buver puts it. "that will just be too bad." Recent mention In The Star of the fact that quite a number of old sized bills ate in circulation, in cluding some of the old-fashioned S20 gold certificates, brought out the information that these hoarded bills were brought out because cot ton had not been sold. One farmer who paid his taxes with the old-style $20 gold certifi cates. said: *‘I haven’t sold a pound of cotton, and do oot mean to un tans Jfiwifte.'T’iistiS ’whJt i "brought’ out these old bills. I have Held row cotton this long and since I ieave 7 intend to hold it until planting time.'’ Sell In Spring. Buyers here estimate that the portion of the crop still unsold ranges anywhere from 20 to 40 per cent. The average estimate, how ever is one-third. This third of the crop. |hey point out, will in all probability go on the market in the spring. This view Is based upon the contention that the average farmer has done pretty well, due to existing conditions, to hang on to his cotton this long, and that those who have done so, or the ma jority of them, will be forced to sell in the spring in order to finance the new crop. The George Magness prediction of 10-cent cotton has caused some in terest over the county, because of George’s reputation as a price pro phet. yet the average Cleveland cotton grower would be nretty well pleased to get eight or nine cents along in March, or before planting time. But even ten cents per pound in the spring will not trick the aver age farmer, many of them say, in to putting too much acreage in cot ton in 1932. CORRECTION IN NASH S ADVERTISEMENT MONDAY The Star regrets a typographical error made In the first item ol Nash’s advertisement in last Mon day’s issue. The item read “New Dresses* 1-2 Price.” It should have read “Winter Dresses 1-2 Price " Officials Fear Race Riots in Killing $ ifc „ * * # * Honolulu Seethes With Excitement as Society Matron and Naval Officer Are Charged with Murder of Native. Lieut Thomas K Masste rv. Has <S«w«vuxg PoRSRscuii AX-e>su2x O <Jokie.s Joseph Kahahavai . Thaju/i Hnj«i* V Here are the principals and other important figures in the slaying cat* that has Honolulu In a state «t intense excitement. Lieut. Thomas H. 'lassie. U. S. N* his mother-in-lau, Mrs. Granville Forteseue, of Washington and New York, and Aloert O. Jones, an enlisted man. are under arrest charged frith the kill ing of Joseph Kahahawai. The latter, a native, was out ou bail awaiting a second trial for assaulting Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of the young officer and daughter of Mr*. Forteseue. The jury disagreed at the first trial despite Mrs. Massie s positive identification of Kahahawai and four others aroused of partici pating in the crime. Major Forteseue, husband of the accused society matron, is ill in New York, but is preparing to go to her assistance as soon as possible. Rear fdmiral Fate* Stirling. Jr* naval com mandant at Honolulu, took steps to prevent further rioting between sailors and natives as a result > f the assault', and tt ha.. been officially announced that all shore leave during the visit of the Pacific rie<-(! next month has been cancelled. Road Sentences For 'j Several Defendants I Lawyers Banquet Here In Informal Style Last Night Cleveland Attorneys Enjoy Annual Get-Together. Over Score Attend. The annual banquet ot the Cleve land County Bar association was held last night at the Hotel Char les. Passing up the forte of the leg al fraternity, the barristers had not a single formal speech or invited speaker and the after-dinner per iod. with Solicitor W S. Beam as toastmaster, was filled with a series of short talks by members of the bar. ‘ Twenty-two practising attorneys of Shelby, Kings Mountain and other sections of the county attend ed. In addition to these, others pres ent were John F. Schenck. sr., ol Lawndale; Superior Court Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling, of Iienoir; Clerk of Court A. M. Hamrick and Deputy Clerk Chas. Woodson. Judge P. A. McElroy, who was not feeling well, did not attend. Officers of the association were not elected at this meeting, but will be named at a later date. Clyde R. Hoey is at present heq.d of the association North Carolina Can Take Time About Making State’s Presidential Choice Roosevelt, Bako And Others Have Their Backers Itl North Carolina. Raleigh, 3u\' 13—Some North Carolina Democrats fdvor Franklin D. Roosevpl*, others Newton D. Baker, and other presidential pos sibilities less widely mentioned an' not without their Tar Heel admir ers. but there will be no early test of strength In this state such as the law makers of North Dakota provided in requiring candidates to file in a preferential primary by January 22. North Carolina used to have a statute calling for a presidential primary but it lapsed into disuse through the failure of more than one candidate to file and in 1327, with the A1 Smith problem 'cad; 'ahead.- the legislature passed an act which in two sentences repeal-: ed the presidential primary act as' set forth in section 2019 of the con solidated statutes. The state conventions of rh® two parties will bring forth national tickets but these will not come off until straws have been cast in the winds by primaries in orhfi states. Interest in the primary in this state v.hich will be held on June 4 will be centered largely upon the Democratic gubernatorial standard bearer—a subject of wide discussion during the summer and fall and even now despite the ascendency of -conorelc topics for the moment. Tlje state Democratic eommitte is i 'pooled to meet in March, se lect, the time and place for the state convention, an event which Rale\gh lias in view, while it rush es its new memorial auditorium to completion. As the national con vention meets June 27 there is a iinsit to the time in which the state convention, at which delegates to the nominating convention will be chcKn and instructed c not in trttctfd, may be held •Vs this state gets two of the ad ditional S4 delegates of the new ap portionment'plan. its delegation will co to the Chicago convention, at which Democrats all over the coun try are expected to nominate a presidential candidate, with great .r strend1' then when its representa tives went to Houston four years ago divided between Smith and Cor dell pull. Mc*dy -Orion Of Superior Court Will Not Clear t'p Docket This W eek. The winter term of Superior court entered IU third day’s rrind here today with Judge P. A. M(Kirov presiding, but it is not likely that the criminal J docket can be cleared during the week, according to Solicitor Spurgeon Spurting. After preliminaries Monday the; court settled to a steady grind and a number of defendants were con victed and sentenced during the two •days of actual hearing of cases soj far. Wright Case Coming. The charges against Paul Wilkin son, young white man of South Car olina, which have been continued for more than a year are formally book ed for trial Thursday. The charges against Wilkinson center about the fatal injury by an automobile around two years ago of Tom j Wright aged Mooresboro citizen. 1 It Is not definite now that the i killing charge-' against Willis Os- i borne. Double Shoals colored boy, will be taken up. “If we try both the killing cases, we will have to con tinue a number of cases to the next1 term,” Solicitor Spurting said, “and; it is our aim to dispose of as many! cases as poasible. Just what we try and how much depends, of course, upon how many submissions there are.” Robbers Sentenced. i nree men tried on charges con nected withkthe roboery of the Tillman service station at Fallston :.ome time ago were given road sen tences. Judge McElroy is letting it be known that he has no mAe use for thieves than.. Judge Walter Moore. Frank Abee and Harvey Setzer. who plead guilty to receiving stolen goods, were given six months each. Winfred Lawrence was given nine months. Morris Williamson, the colored tenant farmer, who shot Hatcher Glover /and his father because they had taken over and were worklne his crop last year, was ordered to pay the actual costs as taxed against the county. He. was given until the next term of court to meet the bill. For Bootlegging. Will Watson, colored bellboy, was j given 12 months on a charge of sell i Ing whiskey. It was (lie same sen i tenee that he appealed from the ! county recorder’s court. Emory Maddox, colored, was giv j en 12 months on the roads on a ; charge of simple assault on a fe male. The affair happened some weeks ago when Maddox was charg ed with making improper remarks to a young white girl at a spring in the Beaver Dam section. Ed Richards who was charged | with an assault on his brother | Plato, was ordered to pay the castsj | and maintain the peace for a per- i , iojj of two year.. Leap Year Just A Flop Here For Dan Cupid Work Crap Year insofar as Dan , CiifMd’s successful i-.ritvUles in r - tteWtilitf SUBHlWP ed has bern almost a total flop so far. With almost half of the first month of the girls pro posing years gone only one Cleveland county couple has secured marriage license In Shelby. This license was se cured by Arthur Canipe. of Cleveland, and Eunic Haynes of Rutherford county. "Even Leap Y’ear Isn’t going to boost the sale of marriage license in this State so long as they ran purchase them cheaper and easier just a few miles over in South Carolina," says Register of Deeds Andy F. Newton, who doesn't like to see so many blank pages in marriage record. Postal Service Hears Johnson Service And Courtesy Are Stressed In Quarterly Meeting of Postal Council. Service and courtesy in the pos tal department were stressed before the Cleveland County Postal Serv ice council members at their quar terly meeting held last night in the Woman’s club room where thev were served a sumptuous dinner by division one of the Woman's club. The principal speaker was W. C. Johnson, a rural letter carrier of Vale who had for his subject serv ice to patrons, service to superiors and service to the Supreme Master of the universe. The toastmaster was Postmaster J H. Quinn and about eighty guests were present Music was furnished by the HolH field stringed orchestra and fun and merriments were enjected into the meeting by Walter Hartgrove. Tal madge Gardner and Walter Lee. Courtesy from the standpoint of the window man at' the postoffles: was stressed by Fred Baber, from the standpoint of the city carrier by P. E. McSwain and from the standpoint of the rural carrier by Charles Carson. Special guests of the club were; Dr. and Mrs. E. K McLarty. W. A Broadway, road maintenance sup erintendent and Lee B Weathers. The next meeting will be held in April in Kings Mountain Camp Call Lwlgr. A regular communication of 'CaruD Call lodge, 534 A . F and A. M . will be held Friday evening. January 15, beginning at 7:30, it is announced; by Grady Mauney, master There will be work in the Master Mason’* degree and all members are ^e qnosted to be present. Visiting Mi- i on.-- will b» welcomed Lattimore Man Cotton Growing Champ Of ’31 Aston Adams Winner In Piedmont ClrrtlHid farmer Produced ,V«90 Pounds I.tiH On Five Acre*. Hullierford Man Third. Charlotte. Jan. 13.—Winners in tlie annual cotton and corn grow ing contest,' in the south piedmont j district of the state were announc-] ed here yesterday by J M. Osteen | of Troy, district supervisor of vo cational agriculture In the schools j of about 20 counties, who was In the city arranging for the annual cotton growers' luncheon January 20. i In the cotton growing contest for] ariuli. attendants of the vocational night classes, Eaton Adams of Lat-1 ttmore, Cleveland county, was de- j elared the winner of first prize by j having grown SABO pounds of lint cotton on five acres of ground, orj 1 098 pound* or about two bales! per acre The cost tor producing this cotton averaged three and a j half rents per pound. Mi Adams! will be entered lh the state-wide j contest to compete for the state j championship. • W. Allen Second Winner of second place was J W Allen of .Stanfield Stanly county, produced 4.930 pounds of lint on five acres, or 98« pounds per acre W L Hunt of Forest City. RuUicr ford county, came third with a rec ord of 4,001 pounds on five acres, averaging 980 pounds per acre. The winning cotton growers nnd all other balc-per-acre cotton grow ers of the Charlotte district will at- { tend the annual luncheon at the j Chamber of Commerce January 20,! Mr. Osteen sold yesterday. Dr A. T. Allen, state superinten dent of public instruction: Dr J. A. Dickey, economist with the depart ment of agriculture in Washing ton; T, E. Brown, state director of vocational education: P B. Blalock of Raleigh, president of the North Carolina Co-operative Cotton Grow ers association; J. M. Gray of Rn Jogii, atgim rwnager of the Chi), can Nitrate educational bureau; J. M Osteen of Troy, district super-1 coNTnnnoo tar faok ns — Bind Three Over In Waco Death Matter Two Bridges And Boyd Barrett Co der 92,000 Bond Each For High Court. Curl and Everett Bridges and Boyd Barrett, three alleged mem bers of the drinking party said to have been participated in by Max Burro tt, Waco boy. prior to his death were given a preliminary hear mg in county court here Monday night. AH three were bound to Su perior court under bonds of $2,000 each. No formal charge had been en tered on the warrant yesterday, the original charges involving the drink ing and possession of whiskey Post mortem examinations of young Bar rett's body failed to reveal any in juries that might have been receiv ed in a fight. Witnesses testified, however, that they heard noise? in dicating that there was a brawl. The affair took place a week ago yesterday afternoon and young Barrett died in the hospital here a week ago this morning of lung con gestion. No Testimony. The three defendants did not off er any testimony in the preliminary as the court indicated they would likely be bound over anyway Postal Receipts Here In 1931 Largest Yet Sale Of Car Tags Still Lags Here; Arrests On Friday Total Sale «f 1932 U.ensr Plate* In Shrlhy Far Behind That Of 1931. The .sate of new State automobile j license plates at the Shelby lice ns*'! bureau continues to run behind that of last year. Apparently a number of motor ear owners have decided to leave their cars stored for the time being at least, while others are delaying purchase of new tags as long as possible. Up until today, it was reported bv tire Hopper brothers, who are oper ating the tag bureau at the Caro lina Motor Inn. a total of 3.840 tags had been sold. Of that number 3 470 were for automobiles and 370 for trucks. The total sale of 1931 tags ran over 8,000 at the local bu reau. Beginning Friday, Raleigh dis patches say. State patrolmen will begin arresting drivers of cars that are operated with old tags. In some sections the patrolmen are already Stopping motorists with old tags and making them store their cars until they secure new tags. Mrs. Weathers Is Buried Here Today Mrs. Mag fir Wealhrrs, Succumbs At Agr 81 At Home Of Her Davfh ter. Mr*. BoIJingrr. Mrs. Maggie J. Weathers, widow of H. A Weather*, died at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mm. L. O- BoUlnge: on We»t Warren street and her fu neral was conducted from the Boll inger residence this afternoon at 3> o’clock by her pa$tt>r, Or Zeno W*dl, pastor of the rimt Baptist church, assisted by Revs. John w. Buttle and D. P. Putnam. Mrs. Weathers before marriage was Mias Maggie Webb. She was bom July 12th, 1850 and at the time of her death was 81 years and six months old. Two years ago she re ceived a slight stroke of paralysis from which she never fully recov ered. Her husband. H A. Weathers, to whom she was married Nov. 25th, 1872, preceded her to the grave forty one years ago. Mrs. Weathers was a kindly soul, a gentle and sweet spirited woman, loved by her host of friends. Surviving are four children. Frank Sam and Julius Weathers and one daughter. Mrs. Bollinger. Interment will follow In Sunset Cemetery. Shelby Lutheran Minister Gets Call lafhoir. Jan. 13.—Rev. N D Yount, of Shelby and Bessemer City, has been extended a call by the con gregations of churches in the Phila delphia Pastorate of the Lutheran church, which has its headquarters at Granite Falls, according to E Carr Cline, president of the council Methodist Circles. The Betty Lineberger and the Fannie Thompson circles of Centra! Methodist church will serve an oyster supper Friday evening at the church from 6 to 8:30 o’clock for the purpose of raising money for tt>e parsonage. Same Convention City Chosen By Both Political Parties Only Twice Before Scute Librarian Find* Stories Of Convention In Baltimore, in 1852, At.'J In Chicago 1884. Washington Jan. 13.—Only twice before have the dominant political parties chosen the same convention city and each time it has been a Democratic year. The capital’s ready referenoe for political conventions oyer a span of 48 years chuckled today as he re called that the last of these was held in Chicago, where both Dem ocrats and Republicans will go in June, and tariff was quite a prob lem then as now Jim Preston is senate librarian now, but since before the beginning of the century he has been making press arrangements for the politi cal powwows. Turning to his desk the capi tol, he dug out the I#er-Oceans report on July 5. 1884 preceding the Democratic convention “The press seats will be reached by a low tunnel under the plat form.'’ It said. "Through here the distinguished .(oumalists of the land will have to crawl at the Im minent. danerj; of dcstroving then . silk hats. They will come out at daylight near the chairmans seat, and will find their tables arranged on little terraces fenced in all around so that the excited dele gates will not be able to ge„ in among them and tramp them un der their feet when the discussion on the tariff plank begins.” Delving further Into his old rec ords, Preston discovered: The first time the two major par ties picked the same convention spot they went to the Maryland in stitute, Baltimore, in 1852. The Democrats met June l, and the whig national convention began on June 15. The exposition’building, Chicago, in 1884. was scene of the Republi can national convention on June 3 and of the Democratic national con vention July 8. Franklin Pierce, Democrat, was elected over Winfield Scott. the' Whig aspirant, in 1852; and Grover Cleveland, Democrat, won over James G. Blained, Republican, in 1884. As Breston reminisced over years of acquaintance with political writ MAUitwitJOJ us Lxa ♦ Leads Other Years By $4,000 Gain Shown In Every Month And Quarter of Year While Many Other Office* Lose. The Shelby post office accord ing to an official statement to hay, I* one of the small number of post offices In the United States to show a rain In postal receipts durinf 1931. The Shelby office, the report of Postmaster J. H. Quinn shows, had a gain in receipt* of almost *5,000 over 1930 and had its best year by around *4,000. In doing a better business in 1931 than in the previous year the office automatically retained its first class ranking by the comfortable margin of *5,185. An office must do a *40,000 postal business yearly tc retain the highest ranking. 1 Receipt* Given. The total receipts for the calen dar year, from January through December, were $45,185.76. This was *4,913.08, or 12.2 percent, more than the 1930 total of *40.273.67. to the years since the Shelby office reached the first-class ranking th total receipts each year have bare ly gone above the *40,000-mark. "We arc naturally pleased ove our good gain and the consistent business conditions for the Shelby section that it show's,' Postmaster Quinn said. It is particularly plead ing when we know that a majority of the past offices had a decrease, instead of a gain, in receipts dur ing the year just closed. Only this W'eek we had a letter from the as sistant postmaster genera) telling of the decline in receipts ac most of the offices last year. His letter urg ,ed economy in operation due to the decline. In view of that it M grat ifying Co us to be able to forward him our report showing a gain and the best year's business we have had.” Consistent Gain. Throughput the year each monta and each quarter of 1931 reveals « gain over corresponding maltha and quarters In 1930. The recWpts by months for the two years follow: Month 1931 1930 January . ...... *4,385.02 *2,989.36 February . ..... 3,800.21 2,950.84 March . .. 3.737.90 3,378.27 April... 4,259.15 3,825.73 May . .. 3.306.69 S.21U9 June . ... 3,338.08 2,783.89 July - .. 3,487.64 3MIM August . ....... 3,607.87 2,992.57 September . .... 3,580.49 3,283.14 October . .. 4,540.43 4.373.46 November . _ 3,715.16 3,714.45 December__ 3.567.00 3,498.01 November, 1931, had the smallest gain over November, 1930, of any month, and the largest gain was In January. New Directors Added To Bank J. n. Llneberger And Lft B. Wnil>* rrs Take Places of Mr. Esk ridge And Mr. Getty*. i __ J. D. Llneberger and Lee li. ; Weathers wre on Tuesday elected directors, of the First National batik to take places made vacant by the deaths of Chas. L. Eskridge and i.. A. Qettys. Mr. Lineberger's father was a director of the First National for many years during his life time. It was the annual meeting of the stockholders and a large crowd was present. Short talks were made by officers analyzing the splendid statement which has just been is sued and published, while Severn stockholders commended the bank officials for the good showing madr in the face of prevailing condition! Comment was made on the func tion the First National has per formed in its half century of opera tion in the up-building of the com munity and the business sagacitv of the officials, their courtesy and conservative manner of operating the institution. The following officers were re elected: C. C. Blanton, president; John F. Schenck, vice president; George Blanton. vice president; Forrest Eskridge, cashier: R. P. Sisk and C S. Mull, assistant cash iers. In addition tp the two new direr - tors J. D Llneberger and Lee B Weathers, the following directors were re-elected: John F Scbencit Clyde R. Hoey, O. Max Gardner, J. Frank Roberts, Paul Webb C C Blanton R T Leo rand. G«nr»* Blanton and Forrest Eskridge