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VOL. XXXV, No. 81
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons peryeRr <‘na<Jvance) $2.50
’ ' J J n‘reillu«“3 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00
Late News
Ma.r Ha in Saturday.
Today'H Ninth Carolina weather
rrixirl: Generally fair tonight and
Saturday except for local thumlrr
ihowryv Saturday afternoon in ex
treme southwest portion. Gentle to
moderate northwest winds.
New Air Record.
A new record for an airplane flight
was established yesterday when the
Italian flyers, Captain Ferrarln and
Major Delprete. landed their big sea
plane on the Branlliaii coast. 4.613
miles from their starting point In
Home Italy. The new distance record
eclipses the flight of Chamberlin
and Levine across the Atlantic.
LICENSE REFUSED
TO POOL ROOM HERE
Romm ICaker's Pool Room for Col
ored Hold to bo a Nuisance
By the City.
Because Romeo Bakers pool room
operated for the colored people in
Shelby's Harlem, the Hamrick build
ing. is held to be a "public nuisance'
by the city officials, license has been
refused Mr. Baker to operate the
place Tor the fiscal year The mat
ter of granting a license to this pool
room has been under discussion by
the city council on several occasions
according to Mayor Dorsey and ho
stated this morning that the coun
cil members authorized him to re
fuse to grant license to operate
Eaker. it is understood, tendered
a check for $200, being $30 license
on each of hys four tab.les but the
check was refused Whether he will
take any steps to force the city coun
cil to grant him license by trying to
establish that his place is not a
"public nuisance" could not be
learned this morning.
SCU SPANGLER,
FARMER IS DEAD
" Prominent Farmer Of Double
Shoals Community Dios Of
Heart Trouble.
Mr. Schencte Spangler. prominent
mad well-to-do farmer of the Dou
ble Shoals community was found
dead in bed at 5 o’clock Thursday
morning shortly after he had ex
pired from heart trouble with whlcn
lie had been suffering for som■*
time His condition, however, had
shown great improvement and Mr
Spangler had been about his usual
duties on.the day before.
Mr. Spangler was one of the. most
outstanding men of his community,
a deacon of the Double Shoals
Baptist church for many years, a
thrifty, enterprising farmer, a kind
friend and neighbor with a host of
friends who regert to learn of his
passing.
Deceased was 68 years of age. He
was twice married, the first time to
a Miss Crow. His second marriago
was to Miss Maggie Lankford who
. survives, together with the follow
ing children: Will, Charles. Mrs.
Lilly Carpenter. Mrs. Luna Gold.
Mrs, Lucy Elliott, Mrs Docia Gray
son, Mrs. Fernia Falls, Misses Min
nie and Fiance Spangler. George.
Oliver and Hatcher. Also surviving
are two brothers. J T. Spangler of
Shelby, and A. D Spangler of
Double Shoals.
Funeral services are being con
ducted Friday afternoon by Re
Mr. Harrill and interment will be
in the cemetery at Double Shoals
church.
Dr. Wilsdn Attends
Funeral Of Brother
. Dr. H. D. Wilson yesterday at
tended the funeral of his brother.
Mr. Joe Wilson who died Wednes
day July 4th at his home at Ellen
boro at the age of 78 years. Mr. Wil
son was a native of Rutherfoirt
county and a highly esteemed citi
zen. He is survived byjhs wife and
a number of children, together with
five brothers. He was buried Thurs
day afternoon at New Bethel
Baptist church. Ellenboro where he
held his membership.
Boys Play In Woods,
Get 30 Days Each
City officers this week found Joe
Dean and James Gordon, two young
white boys, taking it easy in a strip
of woods near the city. The boys
were hailed before County Judge
Mull Thursday and charged with
vagrancy. Neither one took the
stand and it was testified that they
did not have jobs and were merely
hanging about town.
When the court recessed it was
decided that they would hang abom
town for 30 more days—out on Jthe
chain gang force.
^iNegro Breaks Leg
At Work On Hotel
Lee McDowell, colored, Is in the
Shelby hospital suffering with a
compound fracture of the right leg
as the result of an injury sustained
Thursday while at work, it is said,
with the construction forces at the
old Central hotel building.
Some of the material about the
construction job, it is understood,
fell upon his leg.
ASK FOR SCHOOL
BUILDINGS. WANT
. NO RAISE IN TAX
School Hoard \nrt < ..
I
fare r<*ialiar rrohlrm^M m»
Have No ( hildrrn
xne uieveiana county
board and the county ranuni .slon
crs face one ofc the most peculia.
problems now ever to trouble of 11
clals of the county.
At the meeting of the county
boards this month numerous citi
zens appeared before' the board
protesting against a raise in school
tax, and on the same day otiier
citizens appealed petitioning for
seven new school buildings. Tlie re
sult is that the county heads are
facing right much of a problem:
New buildings already erected and
seven more asked, and gt tire samp
time a protest against a slight tax
increase to take care of the build
ings already erected and teachers
already employed
Naturally the school board refus
ed each one of the seven petitions
for a new school Three of the new
schools were asked by colored peo
ple and four by white districts, but
already handicapped by lack oi
funds in -operating schools of the
county as they are, the school
board *a« compelled, to refuse th 1
petitions in view of the fact that a
protest was made at the same meet
ing against school expenses.
Basic Of Protest.
From one source it is learned that
a big percentage of those protest
ing against an increase in school
tax suitable to carry on the schools
as they are now nave no un.d.-t-vi in
school. Some of the protesting ones,
it is said, have no children, while
others have finished educating
their children in the county schools.
As it is county school heads and
the commissioners are more than
perplexed. According to their state
ment they have never erected a
school building or hired a teacher
without such being demanded by
the taxpayers of the particular dis
trict. With a protest against the
school budget, which is necessary to
meet actual expenses, the govern
mental heads of the county are at
loss to know what to do.
During this week one of the
major conversational topic about
the county has been the school
budget Da.\ by day new sidelights
of the i“gular monthly meeting of
the two boards are heard
Nothin); For Athletics.
One of the protests made against
tne budget-was that tax money is
spent for athletic coaches and
equipment -Tins viewpoint wa>
readily dismissed, it is understood,
when it was explained that not a
cent of county tax money goes to
pay an athletic coach and that not
a cent is spent for footballs, base
balls or any athletic equipment,
and furthermore that county tax
money is not even spent for keep
ing athletic grounds in condition
That it is impossible to hold the
school budget of the new year to
the minimum of preceding years
when various districts keep askin;
for new schools and equipment, is
readily admitted by members of the
board. Schools and equipment can
not be built and purchased without
money, and additional teachers, to
take care of increasing, enrollment
cannot be hired without salaries.
Just what will be the outcome of
the school problem in the county
remains to be seen. At present
Cleveland county schools rank far
below the .state average and the
cost of instruction per pupil is far
cheaper than in the average coun
ty of the state. Still, according to
the county boards, citizens ask reg
ularly for new buildings and at the
same time other citizens protest
against increased school cost to
take care of the demands made.
"It's quite a fix to be in," say
member of the two boards. “Just
what we are to do? We would ap
preciate it if some one could tell u,s
how to build the building asked and
at the same time do it without ask
ing any money for the expendi
tures.”
Negroes Strike Car
And Find It Costly
In recorder’s court Thursday
Willie Bird and Nelson Parks,
Lawndale negroes. were charged
with driving their car into a truck
belonging to the Cleveland Mill and
Power company, and Willie and
Nelson were drinking at the time,
according to the evidence.
The judgment of the court was
that Willie pay a fine of $50 and
the costs and half of the damage
to the car and that Nelson pay a
$10 fine, the costs. and half the
damage. Nelson paid his, but Willie
has not ak yet raised the necessary
money and may spend about three
months with the No. 6 road forces.
iNew Orleans Expresses Gratitude
Pennies saved by 4C.6S0 grateful New Orleans school children
went into the making of this silver pjaijii* presented to President
I Ooolidge recently to.express .the gratitude of New Orleans for flood
j control. Oswald Keuyer. honor student of the Peters Higfi -Scliool of
: Commerce of New Orleans, is shown presenting the plaque to tha :
: president.
!
j Streets Of East Side j
| Were School For Al \
j! , - - - - i
> Worked For Widowed Mother
(Editor's Note: This, the second in
a series of Presidential Campaign
Portraits written for The Star and
I NEA service by Robert TalJey, is the
second si four anr-.Gov 41
j Smith of NeW York. The third ar
ticle on Governor Smith will appear
Monday.)
Albany, N. Y.—-The fact that A1
Smith in this boyhood was a talent
i ed amateur actor, gifted with a re
I markable ability to imitate others,
probably explains much of the suc
cess that has been his.
An ability to do as others do. to
| profit and learn by their examples,
j has bridged the gap in the neglected
' education of this" former East Side
newsboy and fish market clerk who
; left school before he was 15 and who
1 now aspires to be the president of
\ the United States.
This uncanny"^ ability to adapt
r himself has enabled Governor Smith
now 55. to keep pace with his op
portunities throughout life.
If, a man had gone through New
I York city in 1873, looking for sour
ces of future greatness, he hardlv
would have bothered to stroll down
► South street.
! South street fringed the lower
; part of the East Side, flanking the
1 East river. It was lined with wharves
and piers where, in a tangle of
masts- and riggings, ships from all
over the world discharged their car
goes. There were sailors' boarding
houses, saloons flourished, lines of
washing fluttered from tenement
windows then as now. and children
played in the narrow streets.
In a four room apartment on the
fourth floor of a narrow tenement
at 174 South street, on December. 30.
1873, the only man who has ever
been governor of New York four |
times was born. His father was a
teamster, Alfred E. Smith. sr„ a
brawny yioh of a man poor in
money but rich in friends. His moth
er, Catherine Mulvehill Smith, had
recently arrived from Ireland and
had a brother in the fire depar'
ment
The stories that portray A1 Smith
as having been a dirty child of the
slums are all wrong. His mother
kept him clean and neat and in
stilled ideas of honesty and charac
ter in her son.
His parents were devout Catho
lics, so the church took him early.
At 7, he was an altar boy at St.
James’ church nearby. He held this
job until he was 14. oiten arising at
5 a. in. to reach the church in time
for early mass.
When the boy was 13 his father
died, after a long illness. Hard times
pinched, but Catherine Mulvehill
was not the kind to sit at home and
lament her fate. She went out and
got a job making umbrellas and A!
went forth to make some money in
the time-honored way of East Side
youngsters—-selling papers.
Before he was 15, increasing ne-1
| cessity forced young Smith to quit
his classes at St. James parochial
school and get a job. He was first
a "business chaser” for a trucking
company and later a combination of
fice boy and clerk in an oil com
pany's office.
In the evenings A1 found time to
take part in the amateur theatricals
staged in the church basement.
There were no movies in those days
and the plays were largely attended.
He could sing and dance or play th;
part of the deep-dyed villian equal
ly well.
In 1892, When A1 was 19 he got a
job in the Fulton fish market. He i
went to work at 4 a m . worked 12 '
hours a day and was paid $12 a week !
plus all the fish he desired to take j
home
A year later he went to work as a :
steam-fitter—and there politics
found him.
In those days, as now. Taniraany
Kali was not only a political organ-j
ization. but a social and benevolent j
organization, as well. It was a high- !
ly organized machine with nutner- 1
ous district “clubs."
The ward boss was a man who
found jobs lor the unemployed, who
extended charity to the needy, who
staged boat excursions and picnics.
Naturally( on election day he “col
lected" in the form of votes.
Tom Foley, autocratic but kindly
boss of the old Seymour club, en
rolled Al as a member. Pretty soon,
he was "one of the boys," helping to
keep things running—-and round up
the votes on election day.
Foley, keen in political wisdom,
saw a future for Al, the amateur ac
tor. Foley turned Smith’s talents of
dramatic eloquence to political
speech-making. There began Al
Smith, the politician.
When Smith married Miss Cather
ine Dunn in 1900, he was on the city
payroll as a subpona server at $75
a month. Foley had got him the job.
Tom Foley kept Ins eye on Aland
in 1903. he decided the young man
was ready.
"Al. have you got another suit of
clothes?" Foley asked .
Al shook his head and grinned.
"Well," said Foley, "go home and
get this suit pressed and be at the
club tonight. You're going to run
for the assembly,"
A short time later. Smith was el
ected to the lower house oi New
York's state legislature—the assem
bly as it is called
Lugging a new paste-board suit
case and wearing a brown derby, a
loud vest and a louder tie. the new
assemblyman went to Albany. He
found the assembly a strange, con
fusing place. His first term was a
dismal failure.
Having accomplished nothing,
Smith was discouraged and wanted
to quit. But Foley, knowing that at
least two or three terms are neces
sary before a man gets his bearings
made him go back in 1905.
Smithes education as a legislator,
one might say, began with his sec
ond term. Taking Foley s word that
success was in store, he pitched into
the job to learn everything he could
He dissected dry-as-dust bills, punn
ed himself forward in committees.
Smith succeeded so well in 1407
he was named to the committee to
study and revise the charter of New
York city. What he learned there
made him an authority on the rela
tion between state and municipal
government.
In 1911, Smith was named to the
ways and means committee aiitd
quickly won a reputation tor him
self by becoming an authority on
pending legislation. There he got his
first taste of finances and soon no
budget was too complicated for him
to assimilate.
After the Triangle Shirtwaist Co.,
fire in New York in which 145 girls
died. Smith was given the task of
getting through the assembly a pro
gram of remedial factory legislation
That was his first appearance as
a chahipion of the people against
(Continued on page eight)
Gaffnev Man. Who Hit Mayhew's
Car Sunday, Gets Two Years
On Road in Rutherford.
Rutherfordton, July 5.—Five men
In a car, each intoxicated. Spread
terror from Chimney Rock to For
est City Sunday afternoon, wrecked
three cars and put two in the hos-’
pital, according to A A. Price, of
the Forest City police toree says the
Rutherford News. The five men,
Paul Hampton and A. Byers, of
Gaffney. S. C., Wilbur Smith of
Forest City and two other men
who were en route from Chimnev
Rock. They struck the car of W. B.
Wells, of Spindale. above Ruther
fordton. damaging it. Wilbur Smith
and another occupant of the car ran
away while the third was injured to
4*£Ti an extent that he was remov
ed to the Rutherford hospital, offi
cers state. His wounds were dressed
and.lie was token to-the jail Mon
day morning.' Wilbur Smith was
taken into custody by officers Mon
day morning. The one who ran away
with him has as yet not been ap
prehended.
After hitting Mr. Wells' car the
remaining occupants of the auto.
Hampton and Byers are reported
to have proceeded to Rutherfordton
for some gas. Here an argument
ensued between them as to who
should drive. Hampton it is said,
cut Byers over ihe heart with a
knife and left him at the station
where he was taken to the hospital
and later carried to the county jail.
After the cutting Hampton proceed
ed toward Forest City. The station
operator phoned the Forest City of
ficials to be on the watch for him.
Hit Mavbew Car.
The second wreck occurred when
a sedan driven by Talmadge Mav
hew of Shelby, was hit by Hamp
tons car on east Main street. For
est City. The impact knocked the
sedan against a truck that was run
ning in front of it, damaging it to
a considerable extent. The truck
was not damaged. Hamptons car
was aiso badly damaged. Mr. Price
arrived on the scene immediate>v
after the wreck and placed Hamp
ton in jail to await a hearing Tues
day before the recorder.
Paul Hampton was tried before
Recorder John P. Bean Tuesday and
given two years on the county roads
at nard labor. His companion, A.
Byers was given one year on the
county roads and .fined $100.
Quiet Celebration
Of ‘Fourth’ Here;
Day Safe^And Sane
No Deaths Or Accidents Reported
In And About .Shelby. Many
See Fair Ground Races.
Wednesday the Fourth was a
quiet day, generally speaking, in
and about Shelby.
Several thousand people motored
out to the county fair grounds for
the automobile races afid the st'oe.%
car parade and the big crowd, ac
cording to all reports. fcad "a big
afternoon.’' Other thata^:hc races
there was no particular entertain
ment in the vicinity. Scores jour
neyed to nearby bathing beaches,
the larger number going to Lake
Imre and Pine View lake. And in
sofar as could be learned there was
nbt a single Fourth fatality and no
serious accidents.
The south does not take to fire
crackers on the Fourth as fire
crackers are deemed a part of the
Christmas and New Year’s enter
tainment. In the north and east
numerous deaths resulting Iron
fireworks were reported, but in the
south auto accidents, with a toll of
nine lives, and drowning, with the
same' total, drew heaviest on the
holiday crowds.
Local people at Lake Lure for the
clay report that two or three people
came very near being drowned in
the beautiful mountain lake. One
man took a plunge too soon after
eating, was seized with cramps and
pulled out just in time by a life
guard. A youngster of about 12
years also had a narrow escape
when he got into water too deep for
him.
The colored people of the section
staged a. bigger Fourth than did the
whites. The colored ball game at
the fair grounds in the morning
drew a large crowd and a colored
band and orchestra later in the
afternoon and drew a large crowd
of colored folks to “Little Harlem"
for ait evening of song and dancing.
HOOVI It’S FATHER-IN-LAW
IS BELIEVED NEAR DEATH
Sacramento, Cal.. July 5.—A spe
cial dispatch to the Bee from
Placerville, Cal., says that C. D.
Henry. father of Mrs. Herbert
Hoover, is critically ill at a sanita
rium there
How Young Grover Woman Was Slain
Still Mystery After Preliminary Hearing
! Banks Will Close
I Half Day A Week
Ail the banks of Shelby will
be closed each Thursday after
noon during the months of July
and August, it was announced
today. The financial institutions
will close at noon each Thurs
day and open again for business
on the following morning, giv
ing- their employes a half-day
holiday each week during the
summer months The first closing
day will be July 12.
i'etitions, it is understood,
have been and are being circu
lated among business houses for
a general closing each Thurs
day afternoon, but no definite
statement has been made as yet
as to the outcome or decision.
First National Passes Twenty Fifth
Anniversary—Never Missed
A Dividend.
! In mailing dividend checks to
stockholders. the First National
Bank this week announced that on
June 3 it passed its 25th anniver
sary. This week it paid its semi-an
nual dividend of"six per cent on a
capital stock of $250,000, making a
distribution of $15,000 in cash, while
the Union Trust company paid its
regular 3 per cent semi-annual di
vidend on $100,000 capital amount
ing to $3,000.
Twenty-Five Years Old.
The* First National received its
charter as a national bank June 3,
1903. when it had a flpid in capital
of $100,000. Today its statement
shows a capital of $250,00, surplus
of. $250,000, undivided profits $250.
000, reserved for taxes, interest,
etc., $80,000. Deposits are nearly
three and a half-million dollars
The dividend this week was the
fiftieth uninterrupted dividend the
bank has paid since it became the
First- National, a quarter of a cen
tury ago when it succeeded B.
Blanton and Co., bankers.
At the time of the organization
of the First National, C. C. Blan
ton was president, Geo Blanton
cashier and Major H. F, Schenck.
vice president. Forrest Eskridge and
the two Blantons have been in c«n
tinuous connection with the insti
tution for 25 years. Mr. Geo, Blan
ton has been advanced to vice
president and Forrest Eskridge to
cashier. At that time the directors
were J. D. Lineberger. O. E. Ford,
B. Blanton. A. C. Miller, H. F.
Schenck. C. C. Blanton and Qeo.
Blanton. John F. Schenck has taken
the place of his late father, while
L. A. Gettys, J. L. Webb. C. R. Hoey,
O. M. Gardner, J. F. Roberts, Paul
Webb and Forrest Eskridge have
been placed on the directorate 10
increase the number or to take the
place of J. E>, Lineberger, O. E.
Ford and B. Blanton, deceased. Lit
tle change, therefore, has been
made in the personnel of the bank
organization since its organization.
Thursday Not So Hot
After All — Ebeltoft
Shelby people sweltering under
the blazing sun of Thursday esti
mated, or many of them did, that
Thursday was the hottest day of the
ye&r.
It was not, according to Ebeltolt.
The Ebeltoft thermometer climbed
to only 96 above during the after
noon, and on two previous occa
sions this year it has reached 97
and 98 degrees, both days coming
along two weeks or more ago. How
ever, Thursday did rate as one ot
the tour hottest days of the sum
mer.
Two New Ordinances
Passed By The City
At the regular meeting of the citv
council this week, two new ordinan
ces were enacted, one making it a
misdemeanor for any one to make
an unauthorized connection with
any water or sewer main or water
lines owned or served by the city.
The other says that all electrical
work done within two blocks of the
square, shall be of rigid conduit con
struction and shall conform in all
respects to section 503 of the Na
tional Electric code.
WILL SHOWS TIM MURPHY
POOREST OF GANGSTERS
Chicago, July 5—'“Big Tim’
Murphy, whose individuality gave
him a reputation for being a "rack
eteer delux” until he was assassin
ated last week, left only $1,100 for
an estate his will filed today dis
closed. . - -
Her Husband And His Pal, Heavener, Held
Under $2,000 Bonds Bach. Husband And
Wife Loved Before Shooting.
Baffling Angles Of Shooting Not
Cleared I'p By Evidence. Spec
ulation Here Varies.
Whether Bertha Evelyn Eip
pard, 19-year-old Grover girl,
who died in the hospital here
Monday from a gun-shot wound,
intentionally shot herself, was
shot in a scuffle, or was de
liberately shot bv her husband
or one of his pals was no dear
er here today after the pre
liminary hearing Thursday than
after the coroner’s inquest Tues
day.
Very little new evidence was in
troduced at the hearing before
County Judge Mull, after which
Judge Mull bound Ralph Lippard,
the husband, and Claude Heavener
to superior court under $2,000 bonds
each, and dismissed the murder
charge against the third man, Sam
Wallace. It developed that Wallace
had very little, if anything to do
with the actual drunken wrangle at
the Cook home—Mrs. Cook being
the mother of Mrs. Lippard—except
that he was drunk and had enter
ed the house without permission.
For being intoxicated and driving e
car while in that condition—appar
ently going for a doctor lor the in
jured woman—Wallace was fined
$75 and the costs On the trespass
charge judgment was suspended
upon payment of the costs.
Perplexing Case.
Apparently some of the details
closely connected with the fatal
shooting have never come out in
court. The result is that the gen
eral public is perplexed over the
matter—some Deheving that per
haps the girl shot»herself after a
disagreement with her husband,
while some others speculate that
she was.killed while scuffling with
some one over the gun. and still
others are prone to think that some
person other than herself fired the
fatal shot.
Do Not Take Stand.
Neither of the three defendants
took the stand. After the state in
troduced four witnesses, Clyde R.
Hoey, counsel for the laintiff,
moved for dismissal on the grounds
that with all the state's evidence
considered true and not contradict
ed neither cf.the three defendants
were shown to have ever touched a
gun. The dismissal motion was
fought by Attorneys B. T. Falls and
B. E. Williams, who assisted Soli
citor P. Cleveland Gardner in the
prosecution, and Judge Mull refus
ed to dismiss the case against Lip
pard and Heavener but did dismiss
the murder charges against Wal
lace. »'
The mother of the girl. Mrs. Cook,
was sworn as a witness by the state
but was not used.
Loving Before Shooting.
According to J. F. Cook, the gill's
stepfather: "Bertha and Ralph had
their arms locked around each
other” not long before the fatal
shooting.
The witnesses introduced by the
state were Deputy Charlie Shep
hard. Flay Hicks, Roscoe Lutz, un
dertaker; and J. F. Cook. Mr.
Shephard's testimony was similar to
that published in Wednesday’s pa
per in which details were given. He
told of being called to the Cook
home and of finding the girl wound
ed and Lippard and Heavener near
by with Wallace gone, supposedly
after a doctor. Hicks reenforced
the Shephard testimony.
Mr. Cook, one of the last to see
the quartet before the shooting and
second to appear after the shooting
j (Mrs. Cook having reached her
I daughter's side first*, did mention
several new angles in his testimony,
i His evidence was: "These three
i men came up to our house from a
j back road and were * drinking.
| Shortly after arriving Ralph and
Bertha (Lippard and his wife) went
| off towards the spring with their
;arms locked. Heavener and Wallace
: walked into the house without leave
or permission on my part. I saw
they were drinking and I went to
ward the spring to tell Ralph to get
them away. I met him and Bertha
coming back, apparently, as peace
ful as they have ever been. I told
Ralph to get the two others away
that they were drinking and that
he could come back and see Bertha
next week. He shook hands witn
me, thanked me, and said he w^ould
I went out to the barn to avoid any
trouble when Ralph tried to get
them away. Later I heard them i,
fussing and came back. Ralph and
Bertha were in the car and Ralph
slapped her and pushed her out.
Heavener said something about 'go
get my gun’ to Bertha, and Bertha
started towards the house with
Heavener following her. I had to go
back in the house then. The last
thing I saw before the shooting was
that Bertha had entered the house,
Heavener had followed near the
porch and Ralph was between the
car and the porch with Wallace in
the car. In the scuffle, when Ralph
slapped Bertha my wife ran up and
Ralph slapped her. I picked up a
stick and started for them and my
wife stopped me. It was then that
Bertha came on to the house. The
next, ming i neard was the shot
and I ran around, thinking perhaps
they had shot my wife. I found
Bertha lying there bleeding, her
mother holding her and Heavener
standing nearby, while Ralph was
running away. Bertha called for
Ralph to come back. He did. and he
and her mother carried her into the
house. Then he came back out,
paying no attention to anybody and
he and Heavener walked off to
wards the spring. In a few minutes
tne officers earner
. What happened between the time
Mr. Cook last saw the four, one in
the house, another following and
two in the yard, and the shooting
never came out in the evidence.
Mrs. Cook did not go on the stand
except in the trespass case against
Wallace and it was never learned
from the stand what she said to her
daughter and what her daughter
said to her just after the shooting
when the mother ran to her. State
ments made by the dying girl ai,
the hospital were not brought into
the evidence. Dr. Sam Schenck, of
[the hospital staff, was in the court
room but was not called to the
stand.
Rumors Vary Greatly.
Varying rumors heard about the
crowded court room Thursday and
on the streets after the trial had it
that the mother had stated that
when she arrived she took the gun
from her daughter's hand. This
rumor, however, was not confirm
ed. Neither was the one stating
that the girl told hospital officials
that she shot herself. Another un
confirmed rcShor was that the girl
and one or two of the men were
scuffling over the gun when it went
off. With the case not being defin
itely cleared up as to the shooting
there is naturally much speculation
and somehow’ the majority of
speculative opinion seems to center
abou\ the scuffle theory. The pow
der buhns on the girl’s clothing and
under garments indicated ,fhat stt<J
was shot at very close range, prob
ably with the gun up against her
clothing, according to Sheriff Hugh
Logan.
wiomer uets Angry.
The sorrowing mother on the
stand did not give vent to wrath but.
one time, that while she was testi
fying in the Wallace trespass
charge. Asked as to which one of
the three men talked to her in the
kitchen she pointed out Heavener
and said: “That man there with
the straw hat and the mean eyes.
I haven't any use for him. Don fc
get me started now.”
Mrs. Cook appears to be around 40
years of age and her husband who
has only one eye is considerably
older. They farm in the Grover sec
tion, but live in Grover, so close to
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Gardner Will Open His Campaign For
Governor About The Middle Of September
O'. Max Gardner, democratic nom
inee for governor of North Carolina,
will open his campaign over the
state about the middle of Septem
ber. or a little earlier he announced
at his office here today.
His campaign plans call for a
short, intensive drive instead of the
old-time method of stretching out
the campaign for months.
■Modern day facilities of broad
casting information—the newspa
pers and radios—have made the old
fashioned campaign useless. Twenty
years ago." Mr. Gardner declared,
"it was necessary for campaign1
speakers to cover the state thor
oughly to reach all the voters. Now
adays with our big, modern payers1
reaching every home in every nook
and corner of the state the voters
are as well posted, on campaign is
sues as the campaigners themselves.
A speaker may be heard tonight in
Charlotte and by the next mornin,?
the people in Cherokee or Currituck
will be reading the speech, if they
did not hear it over the radio white
it was being delivered," j
Shelby’s gubernatorial candidate
also stated that his campaign tour
and details would be worked out by
the state chairman and that ho
would follow^ the plans as outlined.
That Mr. Gardner will make a ty
pical democratic campaign, ioyal to
all interests of the party is not ques
tioned,