Lattimore Only Team
With Perfect Rating
This Far In Season
Fallston Topples
Grover Girls From
Pinnacle
Ratings Given For First Of The
Year: Boiling Spring*
On Bottom.
Lattimore high boys basketball
team is the only quint in the coun
ty which has survived the ravages
of the season's contests thus far,
being able to maintain its perfect
rating.
Fallston girls ruined Grover’s
chances of keeping its 1000 percent
by defeating them Thursday night
by the close score of 22-31 in one
of the hardest fought games of the
season.
No. 3 defeated Oasar, Belwood
swamped Mooresboro. Waco sub
merged Boiling Springs, Lattimore
divided with PolkvUle and Piedmont
did not play.
These shake-ups left the follow
ing standings on which the teams
in the league will begin playing at
the first of the year:
Boys’ Standing
Name W. L. Pet.
Lattimore ..— 5 0 1000
Fallston . ..- 4 1 *00
No. 3 . 5 2 7X4
Polkville -. 4 3 871
Grover . .. 4 3 571
Casar _ ...._..._ 3 3 500
Belwood . .. 3 3 500
Waco. 3 3 500
Mooresboro u __ 1 4 200
Piedmont --- 3 4 417
Bolling Springs .. 0 * 000
Girl*’ Standing
Name
W L Pet.
Waco . _- 5
Grover . ____ S
Fallston .....- 3
Casar - -.- 4
No. 3 ..4
Belwood . _ 3
Piedmotn - - 2
Mooresboro --2
Polkville .2
Lattimore . -;-0
Bolling Springs . - •
1
1
2
2
S
3
4
2
5
0
0
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nr
800
731
543
300
417
400
2*5
000
000
Incomplete reports from the
Casar-No. 3 games Friday night In
dicate that the No. 3 lads and
lassies triumphed, although scores
were not listed.
Fans said both games were play
ed too roughly to give basketball
credit to either team.
Also, there was some controversy
as to the correct and final acmes
In the Grover-Fallston game and
It was Intimated that the game
might be played over or at least a
protest filed before the Schoolmas
ters club.
WACO OVERWHELMS
BOILING SPRINGS
Waco basketball scoring soared to
top heights Friday night In two
games against Boiling Springs to
indulge In a scoring spree that com
pletely submerged the boys and
girls from the Junior college town.
Scores for the boys was 42-6 while
the girls piled up a S7-3 lead with
G. Beam’s scoring attack clicking
like a machine to roll in 37 points.
Beattie for the boys was high
with 14 points and Beam next with
10. Barrett, Cline and Bridges led
in defense and floor work until
Coach Lewis used all his 15 men as
substitutes.
Other girls who helped the Waco
machine hum were Harrelson, Hard,
Yarboro, M. Beam, Cline and Beat
tie.
Waco Is laying for Lattimore in
the first post holiday encounter.
Two Liquor Raids
Made By Officers
A scatered pile of chicken feath
ers and some fresh dirt was all
that kept Marion Martin of the
Mooresboro section from having an
adequate supply of boose tor
Christmas.
Deputies M. A. Jolley, W. C.
Powell, Hester Harrill, and L. I.
Scruggs were making their rounds
over the week-end and took six one
half gallon fruit jars full of the
".spirits" which the colored man had
buried next to the house. The cache
was well covered with the feath
ers, but he had failed to throw the
iresh dirt in the crek and was
toiled in by the officers.
Ecb Kendrick also got about two
and a half gallons from a negro
'jiving on the Wesson place in the
Paterson Springs vicinity.
What might have been the best
story of the week-end was when
Pressley Brown of near Flay, In
Lincoln county came through Shel
by with a prospective bride. Both
were on their way to Gaffney to
be married when officer* placed
Brown under arrest and charged
him with drunken driving.
Penny Column
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house, breakfast room and bath,
and all modern conveniences, in
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Lattimore Wins
From Cliffside
Lattimore high school took two in
a row Friday night when boys and
girls teams from that school were
at their best to defeat Cliffside high
in a pair of fast and smoothly
played games at Lattimore.
With Towery leading with 12
points, the boys forged ahead for a
31-14 win. D. Blanton was out
standing at guard while Fisher was
best for the loaers with 10 scores.
Louise Blanton was back in
form to shoot 13 points to enable
the Lattimore lassies to take their
second win of the season by a 22-21
noee out. Irvin got eight, while
Scruggs for Cliffside tied Blanton
for high honors with 13 points.
Hiere were plenty of fouls In either
game, and the girls game was a nip
and tuck affair all the way.
Mooresboro Meets
Grover Wednesday
MCX>RESBORO, Dec. 34.—Shay
Wall will match hie Mooresboro net
tossing Wildcats against the pow
erful and undefeated Orover All
Stan for the second time here in
the local tin bastille Wednesday
afternoon.
And, according to rumors, the
Orover All-Stars an going to be
faced with a difficult problem. Wall
is rapidly whipping his troops into
a “tough nut," which will be hard
to crack, it is expected.
The Orover boys have a habit of
looping them from the center of
the court which will make them
shine with the brilliant luster in
many of the tin barns throughout
these parts.
Spartanburg Mill
Executive Passes
SPARTANBURG, 8. O., Dec. 33.
—Victor M. Montgomery, 73, a lead
ing textile executive died here to
day following an illness of two
yean.
Although forced by his Illness to
relinquish active supervision of
I mills with which he was connected,
Mr. Montgomery at the time of his
death was president of the Paoolet
Manufacturing company, treasurer
of Whitney Manufacturing com
pany and a director of Spartan
mills, Dayton mills and the Gaines
ville (Oa.) mills.
State Bureau Head
Makes Safety Plea
(Continued Prom Page One)
anoe. Our general traffic laws were
passed mainly from seven to 10
years ago without anticipation of
the modern vehicles or the condi
tions now existing.
“The records of the Motor Ve
hicle bureau at the close of 1934
will show that more motor vehicles
have been registered this year than
in any year since the beginning of
registration save 1929. We have ap
proximately 475,000 motor convey
ances operating upon our highways.
“Our records for the same period
definitely will show that more per
sons have been killed by accidents
resulting from motor vehicles than
In any year since their use began.
“For the first 11 months of 1934,
the 869 deaths were six more than
the 863 for the 12 months of 1933,
and 115 of the deaths this year
were in November, the largest total
for any single month in the history
of the state," Harris declared.
“In addition to these fatal acci
dents, we have had thousands of
non-fatal accidents resulting in in
juries to persons and causing un
told suffering and property loss.
“We foresaw the record-breaking
number of fatalities and when the
Motor Vehicle bureau presented its
estimate on funds needed for the
next biennium, sufficient money
was asked to employ at least 100
highway patrolmen, or nearly dou
ble our present force.
“My only hope is that the legis
lature will see fit to provide funds
sufficient to give us at least one
patrolman for every county in the
state with additional ones for our
more populous sections."
Santa Is Delayed
In Parity Payments
Evidence that Santa Claus In the
form of the Federal government
was stalled somewhere down the
line Is revealed in the announce
ment from county agent R. W
Shoffner that the parity payments
will not be here until after Christ
was is over.
Checks for the hundred thousand
or so that Cleveland farmers will
receive were mailed several days
ago, but have to go through the
Raleigh offices, and will likely be
here for the new year
Princess Xenia Again
Princttt Xenia Romanoff
When she left South America,
Princess Xenia Romanoff still was
Mrs. William B. Leeds, divorced
wife of the tin plate heir. While
she was on the high seas, however,
court permission for her to drop
that name became effective, and
so when she arrived in New York
City, above, she resumed her
maiden name of Princese Xenia.
Gastonia Having
Robbery Series
GASTONIA, Dec. 34—Gastonia's
wave of petty robberies continued
Saturday night with three success
ful thefts and one attempted rob
bery, resulting in the loss of val
uable goods and the shooting of
ona man.
Lack Lytton of Raoto, said by
county officers to have been re
leased from the federal peniten
tiary in Atlanta just a week ago
after serving a year for a postof
flce robbery, was shot In the leg and
hip as he attempted to flee after al
legedly having been caught in the
aot df robbing the Lowell post-of
fice in the early morning hours to
day.
Sam Gillespie, negro night watch
man at Lowell, was said to have
surprised Lytton in the act of at
tempting to rob the Lowell poet
office, Gillespie collared Lytton and
was taking him to the home of a
Lowell resident whom he intended
to ask to bring the prisoner to the
Gaston county jail in Oastonia, re
ports, aatd, when Lytton broke
away and started to nm. Gillespie
fired on the fleeing man, two shots
taking effect end bringing him
down.
George Morgan Win*
In Carrier Contest
George Morgan scored the high
est points and won first prize in
The Stars subscription contest
among its 34 carrier boys who de
liver the paper to the homes of sub
scribers on the afternoon of publi
cation. Prizes were awarded for the
largest number of subscribers ob
tained during the contest and for
promptness in delivery, with no
complaints.
Others who won prizes are Earl
Hicks, Howard Whittington, of
Kings Mountain, Richard Baker of
Kings Mountain, Chas. Abernethy,
John Slpe, E. P. Riviere, Jr., Dewey
Welch, Edwin Ford and Will Arey.
The first four won cash prizes,
while the next six won a year's
subscription to the American Boy
Magazine.
During the contest 125 new sub
scribers were added to the list.
WOMAN WHO HEARD GUNS
AT GETTYSBURG SUCCUMBS
READING, Pa., Dec. 22.—Mrs.
Ellen N. Spence. 92, who heard the
guns at the battle of Gettysburg
and was a "prisoner” of the Con
federate general, Robert E. Lee,
died last night.
On his campaign into the Shen
andoah Valley in 1863. General Lee
too kpossession of a farm near,
Chambersburg, where Mrs. Spence
then a young woman, was visiting
an uncle. All the neighbors had
flad before the advancing army but
her uncle stayed with his family.
DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP GETS
*48.000 IN PHILADELPHIA
j PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 22— In a
swift, daylight invasion of a crowd
ed payroll office, a five-man ban
dit gang—in which authorities said
they saw once again the threats of
Robert Mais’ elusive trail—made off
with *48.000 holdup loot today.
MAN DIES WHEN TRAIN AND
HIS AUTOMOBILE COLLIDE
.WASHINGTON. N. C., Dec. 2L—
Clyde E. Alligood, 26. Greenville
furniture salesman was fatally in
jured near Grimesland as his auto
mobile and a Norfolk and South
ern train collided.
Four-H club members of Caldwell
county completed 176 projects in
1934 and obtained excellent results
| from their work according to re
I port books filed with the county
agent.
Sorry, Joe!—Too Bad, Mickey!
I
Mickey Cochran*
Last year, Joe Cronin’s Washington' Senators loot the
ball championship to the New York G ia nts.4*^ T hielVear.4Mickey
Cochrane’s Detroit Tigers lost the world,title:>toJ|tha|ld^alb
Cardinal*, £. Condolences were In order (when Cor hewne^JleltJJend
Cronin met at the convention of major league owners arnd manafen
in New .York City,Ni Cronin since has signed to manage, tM'ladJMlb'
For Sale
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Bicycles
WASHBURN’S SALE ON BICYCLES
Our Buyers Bought too MANY—
Priced At—
$27.95
$29.95
Complete With Balloon Tires.
The Best BUY in Shelby. Must Sell
Before January 1st.
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— PHONE 73 —
The Star is 16th in circulation of all
the newspapers in North Carolina.
It exceeds the circulation of 160
weekly newspapers and exceeds the
circulation of 20 of the 35 daily
newspapers.
Hester, Authority
On Cotton, Authority
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 22.—A
young newspaper reporter at $40 a
week stopped in on his run at the
old Union bank in 1871 to get the
rates of exchange when E. H. Sum
mers, just elected president, offer
ed him a position with the infant
organization at $2,500 a year.
The young reporter was Colonel
Henry G. Hester, 88-year-old secre
tary emritus of the New Orleans
Cotton exchange. He died here last
night after 61 years of service as the
one and only secretary of the ex
change until two years agfo when
he placed in the inactive position
because of Infirmities or old age.
Patterson Springs
S. S. Members Meet
Wednesday Night
Special Meeting Called For Pur
pose Of Distributing Gifts To
The Needy.
A called meeting of all members
of the Patterson Springs Baptist
Sunday school will be held at the
church on Wednesday night at
seven o’clock. The purpose of the
meeting Is to gather food, clothing
and other supplies for the needy
families in that district.
The food will be distributed by
the superintendent of the Sunday
school, C. F. McSwain. and a com
mittee to be appointed at the meet
ing. All members are urged to be
present, and are requested to bring
gifts.
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Part Wool
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BOYS’
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49c
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Crib Blankets
Standard size, reduced to
_87c
Pure Silk Ladies’
Full-Fashioned
HOSE
45c
70x80
Cotton Blankets
Reduced to
63c
Amazing Reductions
A STUNNING GROUP OF
SILK DRESSES
$2.77
REDUCED
TO_
LADIES' COATS
1 LOT OF 20 FUR-TRIMMED and SELF TRIMMED
REDUCED TO
MOVE
Ladies' Silk Dresses
REDUCED! LUCKY BUYS! WHILE 25 LAST
._. $4.37
1 Lot Ladies’ A *1 | Odd Lot Towels OA
Hats reduced to T’ # C 4 for
Children’s Half 1{J j Group Women’s $-J .98
Half Hose_ IOC i Dress Shoes — X
All Wool Suits
AT A BIG REDUCTION — STUDENT’S
$£0.00
While They Last. Sizes 34 to 38.
LOOK! MEN’S OXHIDE
WORK SHIRTS
REDUCED
While They Last. Sizes 144 to 19.
REDUCED! Men’s Leatherette Sheeplined
COATS
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NOW
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l Lot Boys’ (t»Q.49 ; 1 Lot Children’s QO _
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