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News
pjE STAR’S REVIEW
tol plans have been made for
Highway -« celebration at Lake
tomorrow which will be at
y bv several Cleveland county
ins. ...
probe of conditions at the
*4 chain gam? camp tends to
.that reports to the grand
'of the spread of veneral dis
' nkely originated from one
ponded' prisoner.
roro Green, Casar high school
Lai last year, was acquitted
„nl.y of an assault on C. K
•sev Information about a
1 book said to have been
m in the Casar school is given
inther news article.
citizen of the county was drown
esterday—full details in a news
r today.
, (:a,os will be taken up in
t this week, it is thought,
of the most touching scenes
,e history of the local court
t is related in today’s news.
i»rcf, Young, Angel Co. Move—
Carolina Fruit To Occupy
Quarters—Cold Stor
age Outfit
Another, business change was
mouncwl this week when the
tote;'Young, Angel Company
»ved its wholesale fruit and pro
itt stock from the Carl Thomp
* new building on West Warren
reet to Spartanburg, S. C., and
* Carolina Fruit and Produce
anpanv secured a lease on the
art of the Thompson Building
Kited by Pierce, Young, Angel
hmpanv. Mr. Thompson is build
* a sold storage plant for the
larolina Fruit and Produce Com
any for the storage of lettuce,
dap. apples, oranges and other
wits, produce and vegetables,
bis storage outfit being located
Were it will have three eompart.
toits 12X40 feet.
ims week the Pierce, loung,
lartl Company moved its stock
Spartanburg where it is com
tMd with the company's place of
Mines* there. H. B. Rainville
•d E. H. Haynes, two popular
ties man who travelled this terri
»f.v for this house have moved to
partanhurg, where they will con
•one with the company. W. A.
rtgorv who has been the com
•nv’s book-keeper will take a
Wition as hook-keeper with the
orolina Fruit and Produce Com
» with pleasure that the
MV sh,% friends of Mr. Mack
nikins former manager of the
""•Noting, Angel Company,
^ that he will continue to re
'n ■ helby, He has purchased
in « brokerage firm
, h has headquarters :n Gas
" *'onp, Young Angel, Com
fiporiP^ here throe years ago.
r ' "s,hg the Shelby branch,
company maintains seven
c s. orated at the following
KrJm ii A;,h,‘v,lle’ Spartanburg,
fe" llle’ Q»*enwood, Union, Co
""bla and Orangeburg.
T" Change Sept.
L.Wsrs- M,>ses George. M. L.
!j'and J' J- Owens, the enter
(£* 7^” °f the Carolina
Unirpan i >rf’,luc° Company has
Sw of tv, tl'' °n tbc vac»ted por
S Lhf> ^mpson Building and
move SoPt. ]st into lar(fer
eekj Z By tb;it time the new
*ion ' H(r" Plant will be in oper
*iH |v. ,f 1 e Carolina Company
felorn Ti T ^ort'tied than ever
, i ho business is already
nr ]‘ ,P 7mpanv receiving more
f£JVof frfiKht tha" »*y otn
fcrurc flrm' but when the new
«fVu.t, ""i °ccupicd- tbe range
»rreaii an< produce carried wi'l
__ -v extended and broadened.
fnson Child To
Be Buried Today
Hr?"n’any frien<is of Mr. aril
(WWith !?C0 . Morrison sympu
k* W(1(., h .n! m thp Joss of their
Jr, » no °ld Ron Charlie Avery,
Ir r of its erand-father
‘»Th(.,hiH°7,SOn of South Shel
Sr at r ' .'!10ed Thursday morn
< i , ! 0 c'*oc*c after an illness
Nka|"ti,i>r <iays- All that
Hbea. cou,d d® was brought
kt all to hilVe t.Vle v°unSt life.
tin av8jj Mrs. Morrison
Ware m "n, av»>1- Mrs. Morrisor
*W«re, "I'**0 was MU. Rut!
" aftPIniC:ment_wi11 *ake olac
k. X ‘Merment will take nlac
HC °°n at 3:30 o’clock i,
K, coZ2Zmet'ry„
•vice- „ . t uners
K of I ufctod *>y Rov. T. F
pt ;'hurch J8fayette street Melhi
I Union Community Man 35 Years
Of Arc (Jets In Deep Water
And Sinks From View.
i Frank McEntire, 35 years old,
was drowned Wednesday about
noon while in seining with a party
of companions in big Broad River
two miles above the Dravo dam.
! For six hours his body was un
| recovered and when located with
i heavy hooks, was buried in the
mud in the river’s bottom. Elbert
Champion dived to the bottom and
pulled his body to the surface of
the water about 6 o’clock Thurs
day afternoon.
McEntire. with a party of
friends, Ace, Grayson and Grover
Champion and a young man by the
name of Wood were seining
when McEntire stepped in a hole
| over his head. Grover Champion
saw him sink and made a grab to
! pull him up, but the body seemed
to have been caught by an under
| current and sank out of sight. A
| search followed up and down the
river, but it was six hours before
his body was recovered, after be
ing located on the bottom by means
of steel hooks within 30 feet of
the place where he sank.
Mr. McEntire is the son of the
late Botts McEntire and is a young
farmer living on his own planta
tion near Cobb Horn in the Union
: oemmunity. His mother Mrs. Mar
garet McEntire and six brothers
survive together with his wife and
three children. Funeral is being
conducted this afternoon at 3
o'clock at Union Baptist church.
Dave Makes Cotton
With “Boss” Away
Max Gardner's Colored Tenant
Beat With Cotton Blooms
Wants to Have 1st Open.
Dave Turner, the Georgia col
iored man, who farms for Max
Gardner out on “the Guv’nor’s’’
Morperacre farm wants to be sure
his farming record is upheld
while Mr. Gardner is away in Eu
rope.
For several years Dave had the
first cotton blooms in this section
and praise he received from the
prominent lawyer-farmer was a
regular salve to his joy. One of
Mr. Gardner’s last bits of advice to
Dave before sailing to Europe was
“Dave be sure and get the first
bloom in the countv this year and
tell The Star.”
But Dave got beat to it by a day
by several farmers and its been
rankling in his heart. Yet Dave
does not want to fall down on the
job while his boss is away and yes
terday he came strolling in with a
cotton boll almost fully developed.
“See if enny uv ’em can beat dat,”
he queried. “You just watch Old
Dave. He’s gonna have open cot
ton by the fust or secon’ week o’
next month. Dey aint gwine beat me
at everything while Guv’nor Gard
ner’s gone over de water.”
“Fact is, boss, Ah’ll hev sever'l
bales of dat cotton picked out a
time he gits back early in Septem
buh.”
So, it’s plain to see, Dave does
not want the public to think he’s
falling down on the job because
the boss is “gone over de water.”
Burned In Face
With Caustic Soda
Thomas Forney of Lawndale,
young son of Mr. C. D. Forney,
member of the County Board of
Education, was badly burned in the
face and eyes with caustic soda
last Monday evening. The acci
dent occurred when another em
ployee in the dyeing department at
Lawndale accidently spilled some
caustic soda on young Forney. The
young man was taken to the Char
lotte Eye, Ear and Throat hospital
for treatment. Mr. Forney grad
uated last spring from Piedmont
High school winning the highest
honors in scholarship in his class.
His many friends hope for his
speedy recocery.
SEABOARD BUS SERVICE
Rutherfordton, July 28.—Effec
tive August 1, the Seaboard rail
road will operate busses to Blow
ing Rock from here via Marion,
Ashford, Atlamon^, Linville and
Boone.
They will make connection here
with passenger trains No. 19, will
arrives at 1 p. m. and No. 20
which leaves here at 4:10 p. m.
This will give direct rail service
to a section which has not had it
heretofore.
The Star Carries Names Of
611 Cleveland County Folks
In A Single Issue Of Paper
t In Wednesday’s Issue of The Star there appear
ed the names of 611 Cleveland county folks—high
I and low, rich and poor, old and youngs black and
white — folks in all walks and stations of
life. That’s why The Star is a household paper. It
caters to the people it serves, not only in Shelby but
from Ben’s Knob to Ellis’ Ferry, or Ward’s Gap to
Kester’s Siding. Our 28 correspondents in every
^ nook and comer of the dear county, help The Star’s
local staff keep you posted on the big news of the
county as well as the quiet comings and goings of
folks in all walks of life.
The mention of the names of 611 Cleveland
; county people in a single issue of The Star is near
the average number that appear each issue, so if
you want to know what your friends are doing day
by day, read The Star. Three thousand, eight hun
dred and twenty-five (3825) subscribe for it and no
less than 15,000 people vad it each issue. Our aim
has been, not so much to make it a piece of “prosper
| ity,” but an “institution” serving a great county and
( a great people. You get a cross section of the life
; of Cleveland in each issue—an every-other-day his
tory of “folks” for less than the cost of a postage
; stamp per issue.
Unfortunate Girl Goes
Home Free Following
Plea By Her Attorney
A plea at the heart string of the^
court here yesterday afternoon ;
brought tears to the eyes of a >
crowd that packed and jammed the j
court room and sent home free an 1
unfortunate young girl with the 1
book of life closed behind her on a
| misstep that was filled with
pathos and tragedy.
Odessa Wilson, 18-year-old girl,
charged with concealing the birth
Kin
for my n »
In Superior court Thursday
morning the sentence of Doug Ray,'
colored, for store breaking, was
changed from five years in the
State Prison to three years.
It developed that Speight Beam,
attorney for Ray, was not in court
Wednesday when the negro was
tried and sentenced and he was
given sin opportunity to make a
plea for his client.
C. S. Young Buys
Whisnant Farm
Nearly 100 Acre Track And lies
Partly Within Corporate
Limits Of Town
C. S. Young, manager of the
| Blanton Grocery Co. on yesterday
purchased the W. C. Whisnant i
.farm of approximately 100 acres
at a consideration of about $18,000,
the deal being made through W. C.:
Harris, realtor. This is decidedly
one of the prettiest farms around
Shelby, near the new Ward school,
building with city water and sewer
on the place. Mr. Young owns
nine acres where he now lives on
West Marion street and 117 acres
near the Whisnant farm which he ,
yesterday purchased. He expects
to farm the plantation for awhile
and within a few years start a
Inice suburban development.
—
Jordon And Judges
Address Kiw&nians
Mr. W. E. Jordon, of the Jordon
Chevrolet Co. and Judges Michael i
Schenck and J. L. Webb addressed
the Kiwdnis club last night at I
their regular weekly meeting at
Cleveland Springs. Judge Schenck
is holding court here and was in
troduced by Judge Webb who
swore him in as Superior court
judge. Judge Schenck stressed the
importance of public support of
the courts and urged all not to
shirk jury service in order that the
best men might serve and the
courts function to the highest de
gree. Mr. Jordon as chairman of.
the Inter-clubs relations commit- J
tee spoke of the work of his com
mittee and the influence the civic
clubs have exercised on encourag
ing fellowship, co-operation and j
friendship among its members.
Mrs. James Jennings of Knox
ville who is spending the summer
in the mountains, spent Wednesday I
here with Mrs. Wr. H. Jennings.
of her child, is today back at her
McDowell county home for a
fresh start at life. She returned
with a broken father—a father
whose shoulders shook yesterday
with suppressed emotion as Judge
Schenck mingled mercy and con
sideration in giving the man’s
first-born a chance to live down
a deed that originated with anoth
er.
The scene was perhaps one of
the most touching ever staged in
the county court house.
Some weeks back a dead infant
was found in an outhouse of a tex
tile mill village at Kings Moun
tain. Investigation revealed that
the dead child was that of an 18
year-old girl who had never known
wedlock. The brief evidence plac
ed on the stand here yesterday was
that the girl had been misled by
some man and that she kept her
condition secret from her father
and mother. When the child came
she hardly knew what happened
and dragged herself back to the
house. Doctors could not testify
that the child had been born alive.
The reputation of the young
girl was proved good except for
the incident. Her father .declared
her to be one of the best and most
obedient of seven children, always
helping to support the other broth
ers and sister. Her downfall came
through the wiles of some man
who took advantage of her ignor
ance and innocence.
a piea oi guuty to concealment
of birth was entered and no jury
was used. Attorney Clyde R. Hoey
stated to the court that he ap
peared for the father and his
daughter as a citizen and not as a
paid attorney.
“The father hasn’t the money to
pay for a lawyer, and what I say is
for the sake of mercy asked by a
citizen, and I say it without pay
and without any hope of receiving
pay,” he told the court.
Many In Tears
Then followed in a five-minute
period one of the most touching
appeals ever heard in the court
room. Hardened men wiped tears
from their eves, others let them
trickle on down their cheeks. A
silence, that brought winging
through the open windows sounds
of busy traffic from the streets
below, fell on the court room. A
father shook as with ague as he
folded his unfortunate daughter in
his arms.
“I just wish I had the man.”
came the voice of the judge out of
the silence, and he gave to the
father his daughter to take home,
with a period of six months left
open for the father to pay the
costs as he might.
The father and daughter through
their tears thanked the attorney
who offered his plea free for
humanity, and new tears bubbled
afresh over the court room as the
father worked his way to the
bench to thank the judge. who
brokenly remarked “Oh! That’s all
right.”
And with a feeling of relieve!
gladness, as if being removed
from a dungeon of dismal tragedy,
the court moved back to its grind
carrying along, nevertheless, the
memory that mercy moves hand in
hand with justice.
F
Y
Number Of Cleveland County Peo
ple Plan To Attend Event
At Lake Lure On
Saturday
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the day
for the big highway celebration at
Lake Lure, an event staged by
Rutherford county to celebrate the
opening of the last paved link
on Highway 20 from the sea to the
mountains.
Quite a number of people from
this county expected to attend the
celebration it is said.
Dispatch from Lake Lure has the
following about the event:
"The final plans for the great
celebration to be held Saturday, to
mark the end of the last unpaved
part of the splendid highway from
the sea to the mountains. Route
Twenty, are practically complete.
All arrangements for the program
were turned over to the Rutherford
County Club, of which Chas. H.
Hayes is president, and the regular
program committee of the organi
zation, of which N. C. Harris is
chairman and the other two mem
bers are Clyde A. Erwin and Dr.
Charles F. Gold, has been aug
mented by the addition of F. I.
Barber and Dr. L. B. Morse. The
undoubted success of the program,
which will give joy to the many
thousands who will attend the
celebration, will be due to the la
borious work the Rutherford Coun
ty Club committee and its presi
dent have done.
Noted Spea*ers Talk
"Several noted speakers have
promised to be present if their en
gagements will permit and many
national known men are expected.
There will be no lack of fine ora
tory. The exact hours of the
speeches is not yet definitely de
cided but the public will have no
difficulty to learn all about the
times when they arrive at Lake
Lure. It is confidently expected
that many thousands will come
early and spend the entire day for
the program is one which is calcu
lated to please every one.
Aquatic Sports
“The aquatic sports will be a
special feature.”
Charlotte.—Charlotte may have '
an entrant in the race for congress '
next year, it develops with an-1
nouncement that Mayor F. Marion
Redd is being seriously considered
as a probable candidate. The may- j
or's name has been considered in I
labor circles and also by a num- j
ber of local political leaders it was
learned Mayor Redd has made no
statement as to his intentions.
Major A. C. Bulwinkle, of Gas
tonia, who has represented the
ninth district for several years,
also plans to enter the race for re-,
election, it was believed. Solicitor |
John G. Carpenter also has been j
mentioned as a likely candidate ;
for the Deemocratic nomination.
Picnic For Alumni
Of Boiling Springs
In College Drive
“The Boiling Springs school shall
not fail,” seems to be the motto
of the alumni of that well known
institution in their drive to es
tablish a junior college.
Numerous meetings are being
held by alumni to work up inter
est in advancing the school to a
junior college grade. The latest
announcement is that alumni will
hold a big basket picnir at Cleve
land Springs on Thursday, August
18, from 4 until 7 in the evening.
All former students and alumni
are urgeed to attend and take bask
ets.
An afternoon of fellowship with j
the talk centering about the old
school is planned.
MRS. C. J. FLACK DIES
AT HOME IN RUTHERFORD
Rutherfordton, July 28.—Mrs. C.
J. Flack, 79 wife of one of Ruth
erford county’s best known citi
zens and Confederate veterans, died
suddenly at her home near Union
mills yesterday.
She has been ill three years and
has suffered three strokes of pa
ralysis.
Funeral services were held at
Round Hill Baptist church this
morning and interment was in the
! cemetery there.
Probe By Solicitor Shows
One Convict Told Jurors
Of Bad Venereal Status
Men On Gang Afflicted With Veneral Dis
eases Tell Spurling They Were Diseased
When Sentenced. Disgruntled Prisoner
Thought Responsible For Story To Grand
Jury.
"Every convict on the No. •)
gang who has a venerai disease
told me yesterday that he was dis
eased before going on the gang,”
Solicitor Spurgeon Spurting stated
to a member of The Star staff to
day following a probe of Convict
conditions recommended by the re
port of the grand jury early in the
week.
“1 did find one man that said he
had a disease that he did not have
when he got on the force, but phy
sicians tell me that what he has
is not contagious and was not con
tracted on the gang through any
lack of sanitation; the solicitor
added.
In official circles it is thought
likely that this one prisoner must
have talked to the grand jury,
making statements that brought
about the report concerning venera!
diseases contracted on the gang.
The recent findings are not in
the light of reflecting on the grand
jury report as it is generally
thought the jurors were privileged
to recommend an investigation of
reports they heard, while the in
vestigation recommended tends to j
show that the reports likely origi
nated with a disgruntled prisioner.
The solicitor made a personal
investigation of chain gang condi-1
itons, talking to the convicts pri
vately. They told him, he says, j
that they were satisfied with the
food although perhaps not so good
as some of the get in their homes.
He found also that the bedding is
washed at least once a week and
kept sanitary so far as possible.
Generally speaking the solicitor
says he found that the convicts
were satisfied with all treatment.
As a whole, he says, he found
no disgruntled air among the con
victs.
Good Medical Attention
From the probe conducted the
Solicitor Spurling believes the medi
cal attention given the convicts ta
be very efficient and satisfactory.
Convicts told him, ne stated, that
the medical attention was satis
sician attended them every time
factory and that the county phy
he was called. Reports made to
him were to the effect that the
county physician had been at the
gang camp every night for a
week.
The finding of the probe in brief
seemed to be that ill reports made
all must have arisen from the ore
disgruntled prisoner, who claims
to have been diseased after getting
on the gang, and others with
whom he has talked.
The solictor states that so far
as he can detrmine at present there
is no action necessitated following
the statement to him by convicts
that he diseased were so before
getting on the gang and that they
were satisfied with medical atten
tion.
cusir nn
FREED OF HUGE
III ISSIIILI CASE
Tom Green, Former School Head,
Acquitted Of Assault With
Weapon On Ramsey.
In Superior court yesterday Tom
Green, 27-year-old principal of the
Casar High school last year, was
acquitted by a jury of an assault
with a deadly weapon on C. F.
Ramsey, a patron of the school and
citizen of that community.
The case created much interest i&
the Casar section and scores of in
terested citizens of that commun
ity heard the case disposed of.
Birth Control Up.
More than the usual interest de
veloped in the case by the bring
ing in of testimony regard sub
jects taught in high school. The
foundation for the entire affair the
evidence tended to show was based
on the assigning of a theme sub
ject to Ramsey’s young daughter
whiph was termed “silly” by her
father. The theme, it was said,
touched upon birth control. Infor
mation regarding the subject of
the theme and the book used in
that particular study is to be found
in another news article of the court
proceeding.
The evidence in brief was that
Ramsey after his daughter had
been assigned the subject sent a
note to the principal stating that
his daughter would not write on
any such subject, and some contro
\ersy about the community arose.
The event took place some time be
fore commencement. Green had
h(tn retained as principal for an
other year, but after the contro
versy arose resigned, it is said.
Tiring or along'about school clos
ing time the principal testified that
t.e and another person were put
ting locks, or some articles on the
door, when he noticed Mr. Ramsey
in the yard ai d that he felt Mr.
Ramsey had some hard feeling to
wards him and walked out do talk
it over with him. The matter of the
r.ote written by Ramsey and other
incidents connected with the con
troversy came up and “liar” was
passed, if was said. Green contend
ed that Rann cy caught him in the
throat wdth his left, hand and reach,
cd for his h'p pocket with his right
hand, whereupon, Green says, he
struck Ramsey on the side of the
head with the hammer that he had
been using to work on the door. A
scuffle ensued for some time.
The state contended (that the use
of the hanner was assault with
deadly weapon and the defense
contended that Green used the ham
mer in self defense to get Ramsev
'loose from him and under fear of
what the hand in the pocket meant.
General Science
Book In Affair
In Casar School
In the trial here thin week of
Tom Green, Casar high school
principal, for assault considerable
interests developed around the
study in high school of birth con
trol, and whether or not such sub
jects should be taught high school
girls.
In the assault case it came out
that the principal assigned sub
jects for the students to write
themes about. The 14-year-old girl
of C. F. Ramsey, it was said, was
assigned the subject of “Birth
Control." Her father, it was said,
sent a note to the principal stat
ing that the subject was silly and
his girl would not write about it.
The state in the course of the
trial indicated that the teaching
of such a subject to young girls
by an unmarried principal was at
least ill-advised. Inquiries were
made concerning the study and
theme and the principal stated on
the stand that “ the theme I as
signed was specifically in the study
of science, the subject was Birth
Control. We had that up and dis
cussed it from the standpoint of
inheriting disease.-._The name
of the book used is Caldwell- Eik
enberry’s Elements of General
Science, Revised. It is in the
state curriculum for high schools
in this state.”
J ne star matting investigation to
day learned that the book on gen
eral science is used in the high
schools of the state and is a sub
ject to be taught high school pu
pils. J. H. Grigg. county superin
tendent of education, stated today
that as he viewed it the book
wherein it does-touch upon propa
gation of the race, or birth con
trol, does so from an economic
standpoint and not from a biologi
cal angle that would make the
study of the book objectionable.
He was of the opinion that the
book dealt very little with that
topic from any angle other than
general science, it being his opir.,.
ion that the economic view was
applied such as to show that the
largest families are usually the
least able to educate and give the
proner atmosphere to children,
while the families better able to
educate and advance children from
a material standpoint seldom have
large families.
About the city and county since
the case came up there has been
considerable discussion of the af
fair, or rather the teaching of the
subject in high schools to girls and
boys under 21 years of age. Sev
eral citizens have expressed them
selves that if hirth control from a
biological standpoint is taueht that
such should be stooped. However,
an educational authority is of the
opinion that the general science
books used, if taught corectly, has
nothing objectionable and touches
upon the topic no more than from
an economic standpoint.
1 CIVIL CASES 4
UNTIL MONDAY
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Criminal Docket Will Take Up
Entire Time Today, It Is
Thought. Sentences Passed.
The civil calendar of the present
term of Superior court will not be
i taken up until Monday, it was an
nounced in the court here yester.
day. By the original docket it was
planned to have several days of
civil issues this week, but such
was the congestion of the criminal
docket that it was found that the
majority of the week would be tak
jen up with criminal charges.
I The court will likely continue on
criminal cases for the major part
of the day today. There will be no
session of the court Saturday, it
is said, with the civil calendar be
ing taken up the first thing Mon
day morning.
Get 18 Months
Edgar Ross and Tom Gather
wright, small colored boys, were
yesterday afternoon sentenced to
18 months in the State prison aft
er a jury found them guilty of as
sault on a colored girl with in
tent to commit rape. The hearing
took up the major portion of the
day. Both boys were under 16,
Ross being 16 and Gatherwright
12, but the judge stated that he
knew of no other disposal to make
of them except to send them to
prison. The prosecuting witness
ws a small colored girl said to bq
14 years of age.
Stacey Moss tried on a liquor
charge was given a sentence of
not less than 10 months. Moss, it
will be remembered, was charged
with being connected with the dis
tillery found within a few yards of
the city limits some time back.
jKimiE
ill HU BICKER
OF fly. SMITH
Says Smith Is Only Democrat Who
Would Have Chance. Bowie
Bible League Counsel N,
Chariot#®.—Governor A1 Smith
of Neew York, assailed by promi
nent churchmen throughout the
United States as the tool of Uqtfor
interests, has an ardent advocate of
his ambition to become the Demo
cratic standard bearer in 1928 in
the person of Judge Tam G.
Bowie, of Jefferson, counsel for th«j
North Carolina Bible league, a re
form organisation which operates
front Charlotte according to an in
terview given by Judge Bowie.
Judge Bowie declared that he wad
in favor of Governor Smith’s can
didacy primarily “because he is the
only man in the nation who can bo
elected on a Democratic ticket, and
I, for one, am anxious to see an*
other Democratic President. No
other man we have has a ghost ofl
a chance to be elected.”
Declaring “prohibition enforce
ment could be no worse than it id
at present,” Judge Bowie asserted
his belief that Governor . Smith
could be counted on to enforce the
law at all costs. The record of tho
books regardless of his personal at
titude toward any one of them.
Confidence that Smith would ba
elected by the American people if
nominated by the Democrats wad
expressed by the Judge, who de
clared that everything at presend
points to a growing wave of senti
ment in favor of the Tammany,
man.
The argument that Smith is a
Catholic has nothing to do with th#
matter, asserted tho Judge. “What
ever a man’s religion may be had
nothing to do with his qualifica
tions as a nominee. The constitu
tion guarantees the right of any
man to hold office Irrespective of
what he thinks concerning the na
ture of God. That was the inten
tion of the founders of our gov
ernment and we have no right tfl|
depart from it in any manner.” 1
High Stars Going
Good In Baseball
From The Rutherford Sun it id
noted that three Shelby High stard
of last year are still playing prom
inent roles in the textile baseball
league in Rutherford county;
“Dutch” Whisnant. former Shel
bv hurler, rececntly turned in ai
three-hit game against the strong
Avondale team. Whisnant wad
hurling for Henrietta. Cleve Cline#
playing first base, and Cline Owen
Lee. shortstop, were batting stars
for Henrietta Cline getting a triply
and a single, and Lee a cwc hag*
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