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m VOL. XXXVIII, No. .138 SIIELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 16. 1932 (Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons) 10 PAGES TODAY Hr Mali. pal real, (lo admuc*. »a na Carriar opr rear (In a<t ranee ti.l' Combined Red Cross RoD Call And Charity Campaign In Shelby November 21-23. Do Your Bit! Late Hews rut MARKET Colton Spot b.usib_... .. 6 l-4< Cotton seed, ton ..._*.. $Ki j Much Colder I T>'«i North Carolina Weather Report: Rain and colder tonight. Much colder in extreme west por tion. Thursday fair and much cold er throughout state. F. l). R. Better KxMUlivc Mansion, \lbany, V \ Nov. Iti.—.Still in bfri at the e\ wuthf mansion. Franklin It. Roose velt late yesterday held his first press r on fere nr c sinre last Thurs day. telling newspapermen he had been suffering from \‘» elight at tack of the flu.” The presidrnt-elert was in good spirits and appeared to have nearly recovered from the ill ness with which he had been eon fined to the executive mansion fin five days. Sitt/»>g propped up in bed clad in pa.ial.ts, a white sweater and an old f irule dressing gown Mr. Roosevelt greeted the corres pondents with a grin. “I have had a slight attack of the flu," he related "and 1 ached all over! Even to the (on of my head, but I feel all right now.'although a little weak." Kid Horn buckle Paroled; Served For Three Years Killed Geo. Scruggs In Feb. 1929 Pur.ilc Recommended B\ Solicitor; And Others. Was A Boxer. A J. (Kicii HornbusUe convicted; of manslaughter in .iperior court in 1929. has been par#'eel by Gov ernor Gardner upon recommends -; (ion of Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling and others. In February, .1929. the records' how that Hornbuckle. a 20-year-1 old boxer with quite a reputation ini the fight ring. fatally wounded George Scruggs, a textile worker, in i i,n encounter at the railroad crass- j ing at Eastside. Scruggs, according | to testimony, was struck on the: head with a stick of cordw'ood and died two days later in the Shelby j hospital. Hornbuckle made his get-j away at the time, but was captured; some months later in Alabama j where he was. going under the name, | it was said, of Jack Edwards. Tried 3 t ears Ago He was returned here and tried ; in superior court before Judge W.j F Harding. He pled guilty to man-! ‘daughter and was sentenced, tin! Nov. 1. 1929, to four to six years in the state prison. Governor Gardner's public, an nouncement of the parole follows: "A. J. Hornbuckle was convicted kt the October term, 1929. superior court of Cleveland county of man slaughter and. sentenced to serve not less than four years nor more than six years in the state prison. *T now have before me a letter front the trial solicitor, Hon. L. S. Spurling. who writes as follows: •! am. therefore, writing you in his behalf at this time for the follow ing reasons: the evidence disclosed that he was a young man;of good reputation before this trouble arose and the facts also disclosed that he struck his antagonist with a stick which he picked up there at the scene of the difficulty and manifest - CONTINUED ON PAGE .TEN ■ Listless Cotton Market Quoted January three Feints Lower. Hold ing Movement Strong In Caroltnas. At 2 o'clock today New York cot ton was quoted Dec. 6.30. Jan. 6.35 as compared with a close yesterday of Dee. 6.28, Jan. 6.33. Clcvcnberg's letter says: Forecast (jjst—rain and colder central and west mostly fair and colder Jour • nal Commerce Houston reports holding movement In Texas undis-1 turbed by heavier crop. Export out look shows improvement, basis holds firm. Memphis reports .sales very light but sentiment more cheerful. Little Rock, says demand moderate, still picking in the lowlands. Char lotte reports better inquiry, hold | ing movement in Carolina? still strong. Worth St. doth market! marking time, sales light. price.- j steady-! Favor long -side of market j on reactions. New Jewelry Firm Opens In Shelby I toy s Credit Jewelers, of Gaston pRVr opened n branch store in the TVoolworih building over Nash's in aftUlhr The new store featuring • arious lines cf modern jewelry and watch and jewelry repair service will be managed by James White side? of Gastonia. New County Officers Go In Monday, Dec. S Recorder Change On First Of Year Treasurer. Commissioners And V count ant lake Offfce in Tv« Weeks. F ive new Cleveland county onic-( ers will so into office two weeks i from now. or on Monday. December j 5, and one old officer, who was re- , elected, will take the oath again at j the same time. On the first Monday in December Joe E. Blanton. J L. Herndon and J. D. Morris w ill be sworn in to suc ceed A. F,. Cline; R, L Weathers and George R Lattimore as county com-j missionrrs. On the .•ante day Mrs. J. i Clint Newton will tak" the office pi , treasurer, succeeding Mrs. Mary E Yarbrough, who has served' effic iently and capably for a number of j years. New Accountant. The new county accountant will j be named and start upon Ills duties on the same date, ordinarily this office is not filled on the first of | December, but A. E. Cline, who was.i not.a candidate to succeed himself, announced some time ago that he would resign effective December 1.1 This means that the new account ant appointed bv the new board of! commissioners will take office tire; same time as tlie board so that the | entire new system may start tunc-j tiomng together^afythe Outset. Andy . Newton, Tighter of deeds. | who was elected to succeed himself, j will again be sworn in that office on j December 5. Others In January. Two other new officers will go in the first of January. They will be Joseph M. Wright, succeeding Pat' McBrayer as judge of county re corder’s court, and C. C. Horn, suc ceeding Bynum E. Weathers, as so licitor of recorder s court. Raymond Cline. sheriff-elect will not take office until the first of April. This has oeen a custom in Cleveland for a. number of years as it .permits the retiring sheriff to complete his tax collecting for the; previous year and make a settle ment with the county so that the incoming sheriff may start off with a clean sheet No great number of changes are in prospect so far, but there is con siderable interest on the part of citizens as to who will be the new accountant appointed by the com-! missioners, and also the named by the new sheriff. deputies Hayes Again Made A Presiding Elder _ I Returns To Waynesvillr District, i Stanford To Salisbury Church. Shelby Methodists once they ; learned that Dr. E. K McLarty had i been returned. to Central church became interested In the location of former Shelby pastors. A perusal of t ic Methodist eon - j ference appointments shows that | Rev. L. B. Hayes. Central pastor j just prior to Dr. McLarty. was re : turned to the Waynesvtlle district as presiding elder. Dr. A. L. Stan ford. another former Central pas | tor, is pastor of the First church at j Salisbury. SPORT NEWS AND OTHER i CITY NEWS ON PAGE TEN. i Red Cross Roll On Next Week I hi- Will Take flare Of Charily Drive In Shelby. Money Remains Here. The annual Red Crus* roll call will take place in Shelby from Mon day. Nov. 21st through Wednesday, Nov, 23rd, announced Henry B Edwards, Red Cross chairman for the county. Mr. Edwards was busy today perfecting an organization i for a systematic canvass and an- I noniiced that the annua! roll call would take place of a drive for re - j lief funds as all but fifty cents from j ■ach membership w ill be kept at j home lor local use. Through the Red Cross, thous ands of dollars in relief has come directly to this community in the nature of flour and cotton cloth j This relief work, however, needs to j be supplemented with local funds and ali that is realized from the* roll call during tile first three days! of next week will be used ideally j except the small amount which goes ; to national headquarters. With the assurance, that there will be no. relief fund drive here tiiis winter, leaders in the Red Cross roll call are expecting to raise the largest amount ever secured here. To Probe Killing Of Boaftic Nurse Lucy llarding Said To Have Been \eeidenlally Shot While With Fiance. Gastonia. Nov. 16 A coroners jury next Monday night will hold an inquest into the oeath of Mis.1 Lucy Harding. 22. of Bostic, a stu dent nurse, fatally wounded when a bullet fired from a .22 rifle in the hands of her Manor pierced her breast, The fiance. BUI Cox. brother of Molly Cox, veteran Piedmont league baseball player, told officers the gun. was accidentally: discharged as he was reloading iV He and Miss Harding had gone to ills home near here to visit'Cox's mother, he told officers, and left the house to have target practice with the rifle. Cox, Who is about 3a was so shaken, officers said, that lie could hardly give a coherent story. After his sweetheart was shot, Cox rush • Pd her to a hospital here but she died within a few minutes. Miss Harding's sister, a nurse, said the girl and Cox were to have been married next January after she completed her training course She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs’ P. A. Harding, of Bostic. Cox is a farmer. No charges have, been brought against him. School Student Of Mooresboro Burned , 'Special to The.. Star.i Mooresboro. Nov. ia.—Ruth r Young, eighth grade high school student, was painfully burned at her home near the County Line service station Saturday. The young girl was standing with her back to an open fireplace, ! when the flames caught her wear* | ing apparel. Her body was pain [ fully burned before the flames eoulu x extinguished. Why Have Expense Of Election? Let Literary Digest Name Them The Answer Is That The Straw Tolls May Go Wrong When Contests Are Close. Washington. Nov 10.—There now seems to be a logical answer to the question: What's the use of hold ing an expensive election il news papers and magazines are going to hold huge polls to determine the re sult in advance? Answer: The polls are likely to go wrong whenever the contest is close. The straw vote conducted by the Literary Digest did a splendid job in forecasting (he unprecedentedly pnonno't trend to Roosevelt its indication that Roosevelt would have 474 electoral votes to Hoover's 57, whereas the count is actually 472 to 59, was about as close as any one could wish. The poll's indication of a popular vote victory tor Roosevelt at the ratio of about three to two was al so very close to the result. The only complaint with its ac curacy is the fact that it did not forecast a correct division of the states between tire two candidates. There were also other states— New Jersey and two In New Eng land—as to which the conductors of the Digest poll expressed uncertain ty when they published the final re turns, although the straw votes were giving them to Hoover. Just why the Digest poll went haywire on Pennsylvania, giving it to Roosevelt, by 4 to 3, still remains a mystery. The influence of the Vare machine in the last days of the campaign may have partially changed the situation, but Roosevelt didn't run much better through the g'nvnmtn <vm p*r.r ten Coy McSwain Home Burned Early Today The residence of ( oj Me Swain, northwest of Shelby be yond the Ora village. was com pletely destroyed hy fire this morning about 3 o'clock. Jnst how the blare started is not known. Mr. and Mrs. McSwain awakened In time to get out of I the blazing home without in juries but they were unahtr to save any of their household ef fects. It was only about four years ago that Mr. McSwain. one of the county's best known citi zens. bad another home burned “Bill” Wray Of Burnsville Dead Native Of (lew-land And Brulli»r Of Mrs, John H. Wells Fu neral Today. Older people of Shelby who km u VV, B. "Bill;’ Wray -of Burnsville were shocked yesterday to learn ol his death from heart trouble at the Nu-Wray hotel. Burnsville, which he owned and operated for ninny years. Mr. Wray had been in declining health for sometime and received treatment hi an Asheville hospital for awhile. He died Tuesday morn ing at 10:30 at the age of 67 years Mi Wray was a native ol Cleve land county and a brother of Mrs. John K. Wells of Shelby. Many other’relatives survive in this cotin ty. Mr. Wray was a hustling fellow and a genial hast to his guests. His hotel was known far and -wide for its hospitality and bountiful table of good things to eat. He was In tensely Interested In civic affairs and was loved and honored through out Western North Carolina. Surviving are his widow and five children: Rush Tracy Wray, Ashe ville: William Wray Jr., Miss An nie Wray, and Mrs. G. L. Hensley, Burnsville: and J. O Wray, or Ari • zona. Also surviving are five brother Jim Wray of York, S. C., Rush Wray of Charlotte, Lon Wray of Catawba county. Arthur and Un ton Wray 'half brothersi of Cat awba comity and one sister, Mrs.' John K. Wells of Shelby Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Burnsville Baptist church with which be had been actively identi fied. the pastor Rev. R. E. Powell officiating with the assistance of Rev. J. L. Reynolds, pastor of the Methodist church there Many Shelby friends attended the serv ices today. Four Marriages In County This Month Four couples have secured mar riage license in Shelby this month the marriage license rush of last month dropping hack to the cus tomary gait,. The last license issued, last Saturday, went to a groom of 60 and his bride of 51. Try Answering These j Can you answer 14 of these test questions? Turn to page two for the answers. 1. who wrote “Mourning Becomes Electra?” 2. In what countryPuma Are nas? 3. What college is ai Hanover, N. H.? 4. Who resides in Buckingham Palace? 5. Do former presidents of the U S. receive pensions from the gov ernment? 6. Which ship has carried, the largest number of passengers and when? 7. In the measurement called a ! "hand. ’ how many inches are I there? 8. When do cucumbers become pickles? 9. On what river is Leningrad? 10. When is a rubber of bridge completed? 11. What is the English transla tion of the French phrase “Repon dez S'il Vous Plait?” 12. In what book is the story of the witch of Endor? 13. What were the Norsemen sea | rovers called? 14. On what sort of tiers do acorns grow ? , 15. What do the initials 1) S O. land for? 16. What is a fiscal year? 17. What te a sarcophagus ! 18 What was the draisine? 19. Who is Lionel Barrymore? 20, What country leads in the j production of silver9 Special Session Superior Court Here On Dec. 12 Called To Clear Up Civil Matter* Gardner Arcodr* Th Hri|ur»t loi Term. Indue Mill l» To l*ro«i(lr A special two week' session of superior court wiii begin in Shelby on Monthly December 11! for the purpose of clearing up a congested civil calendar. ■This was announced today by , A E Cline, chairman of tht county commissioners, who received i. atate ntent from Governor Gardner eta' Uifi that he had called the term. Judge Frank Hill, recently up nolnted to the bench by the gover nor, will* preside, Has Krquesletl ’ flic special session of court war requested by the countv 1 commia lioners after a i x • t it ion by the coun ty bar association asked for tht court. In the petition it was point ed out that the civil calendar In the county had been congested for year.1 and that the only hope to bring the calendar up to date was through a special session. Some civil matters, due to thi' congestion, have been hanging tire for several years, thus adding expense to the county as well a# to the litigants. The fact (hat the election halted court last week broke into the civil session grind which would have dis posed of more matters at: that time Mrs. Alwran 01 Toluca Passes ■ Ud Four sons m World lUr at jam*- Time. Huried at Laurel Wilt Tuesday. .Mrs.. Ella Lee Miner;.., Alwrin. wife of John W. Alwran was burled Tuesday at Laurel Iiili church near Toluca and a mammoth crowd at tended the ftjncral service. Rev. J. r» Shelton was assisted in the con duct, of the funeral by Rev. J. M. Morgan of Concord and Ret J D Morn.- of Falls ton: Mrs. Alwran died Saturday alter a lingering illness She was born June 25th. 1867 and was 65 years, four months and r7 days old. On December 24th 1834 she was mar ried to John W. Alwran and their life was one of sweet companion ship. To this union a dozen children were born, all of whom are survlv - ing except one son and a 19-year old daughter, Mrs. Jake Mull, At the age of IS vents .she joined the church at Warlirks chape), tout after her marriage, she moved her membership to Laurel Hill church near their home. There she was a faithful member and beloved by her host of friends. She was devoted to her family and neighbors and dur ing the World war, four of her I sons were lit the service of their coun try at the same time Surviving are her husband and the following children: Marvin of Lenoir, Odus of Morganton, Har ley of Concord. Landen oi Rocky Mount. John D., of California; Oil. of Tulsa. Oklahoma. Dewey of Mor ganton: Sidney of Kannapolis; Miss Joyce Alwran of Hendersonville and Mrs. Augusta Sain of Toluca. Eigh teen grandchildren and one great grand child together with three brothers Prank and Lewis Of Hick ory’ and Robert Miller of California survive Capt. Albergotti Is Hurt When He Falls Capt McK Albergotti, jxjpuia conductor on the Southern railwa; was hurt on election day when hi foot turned on a rail and threw hln to the ground. He has since bet! confiived to hts home at Blacksburg but is improving and is up part o ' the time. Capt. Albergotti has hai i 45 years of continuous railway serv ice mid has been off duty becausi ! of sickness only twice. He has man: | friends in Shelby and along thi divisiop of the Southern Kiwanis To Meet At No. 3 Consolidated On Thursday evening at .sever o'clock the weekly meeting of tin Kiwanis club will be held at No, i consolidated school. The program ii in charge of Mrs. Toy Putnam anc the meal will be served by thr home economics club of that sec Mon Facing a Difficult Task hnro'utr to Washington to resume his duties as Chief F.ieoutive of the nation for the concluding four months in office, President Hoover w hewn with his son, Allan, as he stopped off at S'-rra Madre, Cal., to visit the home of his son, Herbert, Jr. The Preside. > first job on reach ing Washington is to dispose of the war debts problem, Great Britain and France having sought an extension of the moratorium. He has invited President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to confer with him on the matter. College Game Will End Football For This Year In Shelby Saturday Boiling Springs Baptists Will Fa or Strung Biitmore (Ollogr eleven, Vcollege route*!, with all tin rarmarkt of "a natural" will close thr regular footbal sea son in Shelby Saturday of this week. The final game of the veRt will find two junior college elevens Boiling Springs and Biitmore, meet ing aach other - at the sjhclbv High athletic field. Have Good Records, i Both elevens have good record;. ; for the season, having defeated some | of the leading junior college elevens 'in North Carolina. Hilt more may hold a slight edge in the advance dope, but the remarkable improve ' meijt made, by Coach -Hutchins' team ; in Boiling Springs since the opening of the season leaves ample room for j the Cleveland County Baptists to ; spring a surprise victory. ! On a ground at tack Biitmore, with an unusually powerful eleven, may f have' .the advantage, but coaches and otiiriats have ii.si.cd the Boiling ! Springs aerial attack as being as good and tvs dangerous as that of any Big Five team m the State. In tact, the Hutchin, crew has made most of its scores bv the overhead I game. Last Friday Boiling Springs defeated h fast Western Carolina junior college eleven by a score of 23 to 7 in which an aerial attack, with Camnitz, a Shelby boy. behind the gun, played a big role. The game as scheduled to start at 2:45 and Shelby civic organizations | arc boosting the contests with the hope ol getting out a big crowd. Other Shelby boys in addition to j Camnitz who will likely be seen in action on the junior Baptist eleven include Johnny Hendrick. Gene Black and Ray Brown. Catches A Live Coot Mills Cline caught a live coot or his plantation a few miles north ol Shelby a lew days ago. This is thf second coot to be reported withir the last ten days. Farmer Stabbed But Continued To Work With Loss Of Blood Jtihn Goode Stablird By His Neph ew In Dispute Over l i«d Of Com Tops. 'Special To The Star t Mooresboro, Nov. 15.~John Goode veil known land owner of the Race Path section, was stabbed In the I shoulder by Warrie Goode, his neph i ew. who lives In the Trinity section, | early yesterday morning According to reports here, the young nephew went to the home of his Uncle, felling him that his mother had sent him for a load of corn tops. The uncle Informed him that he had already gotten his share of the feed-stuff, whereupon the nephew stabbed the older man In the shoulder, Inflicting a deep wound Although the wound was painful and bled freely, the wound ed farmer continued to work for sometime. Later, however, the blood began to gush forth at a steady flow and Mrs. Goode Insisted that, he see a physician. Realizing that something must be done, he consented to go to Hen rietta. but said he had a. hog en gaged for sale there and that he would slaughter it and carry it along as he went. His wife, how ever, persuaded him to go without it. When he reached the doctor's of fice he was so weak from the loss of blood that he had to be put to bed for a rest before returning home Gold And Harbison At Alabama Clinic _ Dr. Ben Gold. Shelby physician, and Dr. J. W. Harbison, Shelby hos pital surgeon, are in Birmingham, Ala., this week attending a clinic there. Dr. L. A, Crowell, of Lincoln ton. is also in Birmingham. Dr. Gold, who will return Saturday, is attending the obstetrics department of the clinic while Dr. Harbison is attending the general clinical work. Only One Amendment Approved By Tar Heel Voters; Will AM" Widows Insurance Amendment Only One To Get By. Three Are Defeated, Raleigh. Nov. 16. Insurance agents, aided by the catching it . misleading caption on the ballots, | apparently were successful in put ting over the Constitutional amend | ment appearing on the ballots as No. 3 and which is tor the purpose of | barring creditors Iran insurance as ; sets of policies made out to wife and ( children by husband during his life, i Such policies already are protected , after the husband’s death, although many voters, seeing the term i widows' on the ballots, must have ! thought that was what they were voting for. Anyway, complete returns from 43 counties as announced by R. C. Maxwell executive secretary of the State Board of Elections, show a trend so definite its to indicate that No. 3 was the only amendment that passed last Tuesday. Outdo Deputies. The vote on No. 3 was the largest of any of the four amendments sub mitted, clearly indicating efforts on the part of insurance agents to get out the vote. The other amendment drawing the largest vote in the in complete returns was No. X, which proposed to lengthen the terms of sheriffs and coroners to four years from two. which appears to have been conclusively beaten, and re sult to indicate the deputy sheriffs j proved nothing like so potent an: electioneering force as the army of insurance agents. The Constitutional change amend ment, No. 2, which was most wide iCONTTT-TWn ris FAOF TJW Kings Mountain High School Is Burned At Night Shelby Firemen Aid At Big Blaze Over WO Student* Have No Ctasv KiMifno This Week. Dsmsp Over $50,000. rite Central high school building at Kings Mountain, erected In 1900. was almost totally destroyed by * (Ire of undetermined origin shortly after midnight Monday night. The entire top floor of the three story-structure was engulfed In flames when the blaze was first dis covered about midnight, and the building was so far gone that val iant work by Kings Mountain fire men aided by Shelby and Bessemer City firemen could not save it. Th> three fire departments, however, managed to save the new auditor ium and class-room annex. The Shelby fire department was called around 12:30 Tuesday morning and the pump truck with 10 firemen was in Kings Mountain fighting the flames before 1 o'clock. No School Room. A mass meeting was held in King* Mountain yesterday to determine the future of the school and to fig ure on rebuilding plans, but as yet no temporary quarters have been secured for the high school depart ment. Between four and five hun dred high school students were quartered in the building and with their class rooms burned they had no classes yesterday or today, and will likely not be located before Monday, A. H. Patterson, Kings Mountain citizen, told The Star this morning. One report is that high school classes may be held temporarily In the annexes of the several Kings Mountain churches which are located near each other at the edge of the business section The origin of the disastrous blase is not known, but when first seen it appeared to be more in evidence in the third-floor attic, which was not. In use. Equipment Burned. The total loss is expected to run between fifty and 60 thousand dol lars. In addition to gutting the building, the fire destroyed prac tically all tile high school equip ment, Including desk.- and around 20 typewriters and other material in the commercial department, to gether with the entire high school library. The destruction of the 11* brary and general «chool equipment is a blow almost as hard as the de struction of the building. "We intend to build back just a; soon as we can, but «e are marking time until insurance adjustments can be made," Mr. Patterson told The Star today. The two buildings, the one burn ed and the new annex, were insured jointly for *67,000, Dr. Joe Osborne. Formerly Of This County Dies In S. C. Brother of Ur. 3. R. Osborne ot Shelby. Former Dentist of I.awndale Dr. Joe Osborne died Saturda> morning at, 5 o’clock at the home ol his son Carl Osborne, at Parksville S. C„ and the body was taken to hir home In Umatilla, Florida, for bu rial. Dr. Osborne is pleasantly re membered in Cleveland countv where he was, born and practised dentistry for many years. He was ol a jovial disposition and radiated cheer to all with whom he came in contact. Dr. Osborne was married to Mis> Maggie Schenck. daughter of the late Major and Mrs. H. F. Schenck, She survives with the following children John Osborne, of Umatil la, Fla., Jack Osborne of Wallace this state; Mrs. Gazzie Sprouse ot Gastonia; James Louie Osborne of Lawndale and Carl Osborne oi Parksville, S. C. One brother Dr. J. R. Osborne of Shelby and one sis ter Mrs. Pink Parker of Catawba county also survive. Dr. Osborne, age 83 years, retired from the practice of dentistry sev eral years ago and bought an orangi grove In Umatilla. Fla. There he made many warm friends and menr. bers of his family and a host of friends attended the funeral service Veteran Better Friends of E. R. Elite, 87-year-old , Confederate veteran, will be pleased to learn that he is showing im provement at the Shelby hospital after undergoing a mastoid opera Mon Mondav