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THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY, N.
C.
MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
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LATENEWS
Cloudy And Showers.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Partly cloudy, and possibly
showers in extreme west portion
tonight and Tuesday.
Badges And Ballots.
Polltieal fervor In this section
has reached the badge and ballot
stage. During the past week local
Democratic leaders received a
batch of Smith-Robinson badges
and posters, which gave out in a
short time, they say. During last
werk and this scores of local people
have been sending in their votes to
an Atlanta paper conducting a
presidential straw ballot.
Treasury Deficit.
Dispatches today state that Di
rector l.ord, of the budget depart
ment of the Cnited States treasury,
estimates that there will be a defi
cit of $94,279,346 in the treasury for
this fiscal year. The blame for this
deficit is placed upon the increas
ed expenditures of the various gov
ernment bureaus.
Discretion Urged
In Trash Removal
By Mayor Dorsey
Much Trash And Garbage Could
Be Burned And Save City
Money, Stated
The removal of trash and garbage
in the city has become one of Shel
by's major problems, according to
Mayor W N. Dorsey, who states
that many citizens could help the
administration and save money It
they would cooperate with the street
department In the removal of
trash and garbage.
According to me mayor muen
of the trash and garbage piled in
to the containers for city trucks to
remove to the garbage dump could
be burned or made away with on
the premises thus saving the city
money, which is to save the citi
zens. Three trucks now operate
daily removing trash, it is said, and
it costs approximately $2 50 per
load to remove trash That the
city is willing to do all that it
can in keeping the premises clean
is stressed by Mayor Dorsey, but
he believes that if citizens co
operate the cost of trash removal
could be reduced Some households
have several loads of trash to re
move each week while adjoining
households have very little although
the premises seem to be Just as
clean, it is said Cooperation could
be shown, says the street depart
wment, by the burning of papers on
the premises and the disposal of
other trash without calling for the
street trucks.
Learn Trash Days
Added expense could be prevent
ed. was stated, if the residents of
every street would learn just what
day of the week the street depart
ment collects trash on that street.
‘There is a tendency," Mayor
Dorsey stated, "for nearly all to
want their trash removed on Fri
day and Saturday This is impos
sible," he added, "because it takes
an entire week for the trucks to
get around the city and all cannot
be served on one or two days. Oft
en," he said, "some housewife calls
the street department and states
that she wants her trash removed
Saturday morning. We inform her
that the trucks worked her street
Thursday, or some other day, but
she answers that her trash was not
assembled then and wants a truck
back. That means $2.50 for one
load from that home. If those who
live on each street would always
have their garbage and trash ready
for removal on the day that street
is worked much expense and worry
could be saved. We are doing all
that w'e can. to keep Shelby clean,
but if we darted about here and
there as the calls come in we
would need twice the force we have
now and it is costing something
like $30 per day now to remove the
trasn I Deneve that it the citizens
would think it over they would I
gladly cooperate with us in holding
down the expense and also in keep
ing their premises clean. We work
the residential sections once eacn
week and the business section every
day, including Sunday. Mast peo
ple perhaps do not realize it but
there are approximately 50 or more
families in Shelby than there were
one year ago. This adds to the
work and cost, but if all the citi
zens get acquainted with our sys
tem and trash day for their street
we could keep the expense down
and also keep the city clean."
It was also stated that some re
quests are for the trash department
to clean out from under the
houses, clean up woodsheds, and
suchlike. It is explained that the
street department does not neces
sarily require that the trash be
put in containers, but it is required
that it be placed in a pile It
would be far too expensive to the
entire city for the street force to
clean up the premises in order to
get the trash they haul away, of
ficials say.
Ex-Service Men
Go To Charlotte
A number of Shelby and Cleve
land county ex-service men are at
tending the North Carolina Ameri
can Legion convention in Charlotte
today. t-'
Among those known to have gone
down this morning were Dr. Tom
Gold. Mike H. Austell, H. C. Long,
and Buck Archer,
DEATH UNDER GAD
12-Year-Old Kings Mountain
Hoy Cashed In Unavoid
able Accident
Sunday.
Luther Davis, 12-year-old
Kings Mountain hoy, ran
laughing down a hank into
Highway 205 near the Park
Yarn mills, there, late Sun
day afternoon to he crushed
to death under the wheels of
a passing automobile as his
horror-struck playmates look
ed on.
According to information given
j The Star at Kings Mountain today
the fatal accident was unavoidable.
The car which struck the youth was
driven by Lindsay Templeton.
Gastonia lumberman, whose wife
was with him in the car.
No Eye Witnesses.
There were no eye-witnesses to
the fatality except the occupants of
the car and the playmates of the
boy. They say that the youth dash
ed down the bank, from a fill on
one side of the new highway right
into the path of the car and was
struck before the car could be stop
ped His head was badly crushed, it
was stated at the undertaking par
lor where his remains were han
dled. Mr. Templeton, driver of the
car, was not held after officers
heard how the accident occurred,
although he was informed that he
might be needed for an investiga
tion later.
Parents Away.
The parents of the ooy. Mr. and
Mrs. J W. Davis, were away in
South Carolina, where they were
spending the day with friends
when they were notified of the
tragedy. They returned home last
night and funeral services for their
son will be held at 10 o’clock Tues
day.
Tournament for Beginners Thursday
At Cleveland Springs.
All Invited.
The second annual dub tourna
ment will be held at the Cleveland
Springs golf course Thursday of
this week, it is announced by Mr,
McCombs. Cleveland Springs pro
fessional.
Will Play Free.
The tournament is open to every
person in and about Shelby who
has never played golf before, and
the play for the day will be free to
those entering. Furthermore two
or more prizes will be offered, the
grand prize going to the beginner
who goes around the course in the
least number of strokes, while the
‘‘booby" prize will be awarded the
beginner who takes the largest
number of strokes to make the
course.
A year ago a similar tournament
was held and proved to be one of
the most entertaining events ever
staged on the local course.
Comes On Holiday.
As the tournament comes on the j
last half-holiday of the summer
here a big crowd is expected to par- {
ticipate in the event and another!
big crowd will likely look on to!
see the antics of the embryo golf
stars.
All that is required for entrance
in the tourney is registration at the
golf house Thursday with the in
formation that the entrant has
never played before. Clubs and other
needed accessories will be furnish
ed by members of the club.
College In Shelby
Mr. J. Gordon Wootton of Jersey
City, New Jersey, who has been vis
iting his brqther, Mr. Paul Wootton
here for a week or ten days has
been so favorably impressed with
Shelby as a logical location for a
business college, he has decided to
open one here the early part of the
new year. Several locations are in
mind, but he has not decided just
where the school will be located.
Mr. Wootton has had 15 years ex
perience as a teacher of commer
cial courses and is now connected
with the city schools at Jersey City.
He desires to open a school of his
own and comes highly recommend
ed. He will offer courses such as
bookkeeping, banking, accounting,
penmanship, commercial law, com
mercial geography, commercial
arithmetic, English, secretaryship,
salesmanship, advertising and man
agement A competent staff of in
structors will be emoloved
Business
When Smith Accepted Nomination
Governor Alfred E. Smith Is shown in the large picture delivering his speech accepting the Democratic
nomination for president in the assembly chamber- of the New York state house at Albany. Rain pre
vented holding the exercises on the steps of the cupitot, as was planned. Inset is Senator Key l’ittman
of Montana, who formally notified Governor Smith. At the extreme tower left is Governor Albert C.
Ritchie of Marvioo-i ___
Politicians Good To Women j
During Campaign, Then Forget
Appeal Always To Fair Sex When Voters Are
Needed; But Pew Get Jobs. Rumored That
Smith Or Hoover May Appoint Woman Toi
i Cabinet
. _ j
! By RODNEY DI TCHER
(NEA Service Writer)
Washington, Aug. 27.—Up to election time the politi- j
I Gians feel that nothing is too good for the women. After I
| that, it seems to be different.
As long as there are votes to be
corraled, their sex. with its 25 or 30
million possible ballots, is the equal
of the male in every respect.
This will be the third presiden
tial election in which the ladies
have been permitted to function.
Meanwhile, they have been put on
a more or less equal footing on both
the Republican and Democratic na
tional committees with one woman
member for every man member,
given vice chairmanships and had
special jobs created for them to en
courage them to round up their sis
ters under the party standard.
The candidates never neglect to
make soulful appeals to American
womanhood and the party plat
forms continue to felicitate all con
cerned on the fact that the sexes
now have equal rights. Many
earnest gals go out and work their
heads off in every state for one
slate of candidates or the other.
Isn't it wonderful the way women
are playing a bigger and bigger part
in national affairs?
But after the votes are counted
and all the male politicians prepare
to line up for places, the ladies
generally are taken for a sleigh ride
and dumped into a deep snowbank.
If a single one happens to get a
finger into the gravy boat it be
comes a national sensation and
everybody beats the drum in cele
bration of this new recognition of
the way American women are forg
ing ahead and taking their places
beside the men.
Your correspondent can think of
just about three women in the gov
ernment service occupying reftlly
large and important jobs. They are:
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one of
several assistant attorney generals;
Civil Service Commissioner Jessie
Dell and Chairman Bessie Parker
Bruggeman of the United States
Emloyes' Compensation commis -
sion. Except for these women and i
perhaps a few’ holding minor posi- I
tions the plums Oi the national
patronage orchard appear to be re
garded as forbidden fruit for their
sex.
One hears vague rumors that
Smith or Hoover would appoint the
first woman cabinet member, but
they’re quite unsubstantiated. Aft
er looking over the roster of the
executive departments as now con
stituted. one almost wonders how
the government gets along with so
few women.
The president's three secretaries
and his executive clerk are all men.
Owing to the tradition of feminine
taet and diplomacy one might ex
pect to find a few women in state
department jobs, but of about 50
such jobs considered important
enough to list in the congressional
directory one finds only two women
to be among 20 or more assistants
to the solicitor.
So many women these days lran
I die the family budget that there
ought to be a few in the treasury
department, but there aren't. Clerks
and stenographers, of course, but
we're not thinking of those. Of 115
administrative or executive jobs
listed for the treasury and its num
erous subsidiary bureaus—internal
revenue, customs. budget, public
health and so on—we find that
Mrs. Brownie Kerr is chief clerk of
the budget bureau and that Mary
M. O'Reilly is assistant director of
the bureau of the mint.
Mrs, L. B. Pierce and daughter.
Miss Virginia, leave this week for
Young Harris, Ga.. where Mrs.
Pierce will teach school.
Simmons Kept Resignation
Ready For Committee, Report
Raleigh.—The News and Obser
ver says that Senator F. M, Sim
mons had authorized friends to
present his resignation as United
States senator to the state Demo
cratic executive committee if a
resolution asking it had been pass
ed, but that in that event he would
immediately have filed notice of his
candidacy to succeed himself and
taken his case before voters of the
state.
In doing this, the newspaper
says “Senator Simmons took cogniz
ance of a suggestion in one of the
state papers that a movement was
under way to ask him to resign
his seat in view of thp fact that he
had said he could not support the
nominee of the Democratic party
for president.
"He authorized close friends to
attend the meeting with a view to
offering his resignation if such
should be demanded, but upon the
condition that he would immed
iately announce his candidacy for
the position."
The newspaper story says that
“while these friends of Senator
Simmons let it be known that he
would welcome a referendum, if
such were desired by the state
Democratic committee, they made
it plain that he does not expect to
take notice of irresponsible de
mands that, he fellow such a course.'
BOOZE 01 NETS
21 PINTS LIQUOR
Deputies Uncover Rum Cache Near
Beaver Dam Filling Station
On Saturday.
A raid made at the Beaver Dam
filling station, west of Shelby on
highway 20, late Saturday after
noon netted 21 pints of corn whisky
and four eases of empty pint bot
tles. One of the two men, said to
have charge of the station, was also
nabbed by the officers. while the
other made his getaway. The man
captured is known by the name of
Laws and is said to have come here
from Charlotte. The other man is
understood to be a native, or for
mer resident of Asheville.
Across Road.
The deputies participating in the
raid, Mike Austell, Jerry Runyan,
Bob Kendrick and Harvey Harrel
son, made a search of the woods
just across the highway in front of
the filling station and it was there
that they found the score of pint
bottles hid in a brush pile. The
four cases of empty bottles and stop
pers were said to have been found
in the service station.
According to information at the
court house the station has been
raided several times before but no
whisky found.
A preliminary hearing scheduled
for Laws today in county court was
postponed until Tuesday for the
state despite the objections of de
fense counsel.
Three Guess Near
Total Run Of Car
Whippet Car, Swung Up, Ran Over
438 Miles In 48 Hours.
Hundreds Guess.
The Whippet car elevated from
the floor last week at the Stewart
Motor company ran, according to
its speedometer. 438 7-10 miles in 46
hours.
I When the car was elevated and
the motor started the firm offered
$25 in gold to the person guessing
I nearest the number of miles it
; would run in 46 hours. More than a
I thousand guesses had been filed up
i to 6 o'clock Saturday when the car
j was stopped, and about fifty per
\ cent of the total guesses were with
! in the 400-mlle mark. It Is said.
| Three people, guessing 439 miles,
or within three-tenths of the exact
figure, were declared to be the win
ners. Whether or not they will draw
for the prize, or split it was not
known when the contest closed
Saturday. The fortunate ones were
I Pierce Brown, S. DeKalb street;
1 Mrs. B. Roy Wilson, Shelby, R-l,
; and Carl Mauney, Shelby R-l.
! Among the Close guessers were Mrs.
E. E. Scott and John Jones, of Lat
\ timore, who guessed 438 miles, and
| C. A. Jones, of Lattimore, who
. guessed 439 7-10 miles, or just one
j mile more, to the fraction, than the
; car ran.
i Those spending the day with. Mr.
| and Mrs. Will Oriffin Sunday were,
l Mr. and Mrs. John Godwin and son
; of High Point, Mr. and Mrs. Seth
{ Runyans and children, Mrs. Sara
I E. McSwain of Earl and Mr. and
1
Mrs. John Roberts and daughter,
i Mrs. Don Livingston and baby of
Charlotte are visiting Mrs Russel
Laughridge
TO RENEW MINE
WORK IN COUNTY
Indiana Mining Firm To Re
open Kaolin Mine Which
May Yield 144,000
Tons.
Mining operations in the
Camp Call section will be re
sumed in a few days, accord
ing to J. M. Lofland and M.
W Gage, representatives of
the National Kaolin Company,
of Indianapolis, Indiana, who
have just arrived here and
taken charge of 81 acres of
land which the company con
trols. This land is estimated
by engineers to contain five
distinct veins that will yield
144,000 tons of kaolin used in
the manufacture of paper, til
ing, electric press porcelain,
china, etc. In addition to ka
olin, this company has a
quantity of mica on their land
holdings in this county and
will also mine this product
used in the manufacture of
wall paper, fire proof roofing
and electrical devices.
Messrs. Lefland and Gage say
their engineer Mr. Karl M, Kantz
will arrive early next month. At
present they are arranging to get
electric power to the mine and as
soon as this is done, a saw mill
will set to work cutting timber for
buildings. Machinery has been pur
chased that will prepare the kaolin
and mica for market and it is es
timated that shipments can be
made by the first of the year.
Work Near Score.
Between 18 and 24 men will be
employed at the mines.
It is understood that this mine is
known as the old Greene mni'.
bought from David Wray, together
with adjoining property bought
from Will Weathers. It has been
worked for a number of years on
different occasions, but is said to be
in new hands now and properly
financed by outside capital to car
ry through. Messrs. Lefland and
Gage are now directing their at
tention toward getting electric
power to the mine to drive the ma
chinery to be used In grinding and
refining the products.
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BOILING MINIS
Have Several Big Games Booked.
May Play One Game Or
More Here
Boiling Springs operating for the
first time this fall as a junior col
lege assures Cleveland county that
its first college football eleven will
be worth some attention.
According to early reports from
the Baptist college the Boiling
Springs grid outfit will measure up
to the average junior college foot
ball class in its first year. Among
the games reported to have been
scheduled already are those with
Blue Ridge, Wingate college, Gaff
ney. and perhaps Mars Hill, while
negotiations are underway for a
game with Oak Ridge, prep school
champions.
May Play Here
There is some likelihood, it is
learned, that Boiling Springs may
play one or two of their best games
in Shelby. Such a move should
prove a financial success consider
ing the enthusiasm Shelby has for
football and the interest local fans
will have in the county collegiate
eleven.
Buck Coble, former Shelby hign
star, will be one of the additions to
the Boiling Springs line and wdth
numerous veterans back the Boil
ing Springs mentor hopes to have a
husky, fast-moving outfit.
Alligator Caught
Here, Put In Pool
An alligator about three feet
long was caught Sunday night
about 10 o'clock while it wandered
around on West Warren street on
the vacant lot across fro m Mr.
Charlie Young. Some young ladies
walking, saw the ’gator cross the
street and reported it to a bunch of
Scout boys who promptly made the
capture with a forked stick. The
’gator was placed in one of the
fountains on the square for the
children to enjoy. Just how ii
happened to be in this vicinity, is
not known. One theory is that it
dropped from the car of a tourist
returning from Florida.
Miss Virginia Hoey has returned
from Richmond, Va., wrhere she has
been visiting friends for several
weeks.
County Candidates
And Party Friendly,
No Upheaval Likely
So Spirit Of Discord In County Party, Falls
Says. Gardner To Close Campaign With
Big Rally Here. Best Governed County In
State Under Democrats, Said
Hard To Estimate
Cotton Crop Over
County, Many State
Very Few Bolls On Mome Stalks, !
Others Filled. Cotton
Did Not Fruit
At first glance it seems likely
that Cleveland county will make
50,000 or more bales of cotton
this year, farmers say, but a
close inspection of the cotton
in various sections of the coun
ty makes the record production
problematical.
“It is the hardest crop to figure
out that I have ever seen,” declared
one farmer.
In some fields, he stated, some of
the stalks have only a few bolls;
while in other fields the stalks are
well filled and a bumper crop seems
likely.
The scarcity of bolls on many
stalks is not attributed to the re
cent storms knocking bolls and
shapes off but to the fact that
some of the cotton just did not
fruit well.
That the corn crop is damaged
even worse than was thought short
ly after the heavy rains is the
consensus of opinion now.
Farmers To Tour
County Thursday
Hundred Or More County Farmers
To Visit Demonstrations In
Own County.
Thursday morning of this week,
August 30, a hundred or more
Cleveland county farmers will as
semble at the Blanton farm on
highway 20 west of Shelby at 10
o’clock in the morning for a tour of
several fertilizer demonstrations on
various farms in the county.
The tour will be in charge of
County Agent Alvin Hardin, Prof.
Taylor of the Lattimore school, and
two representatives of a nitrate uf
soda bureau, who will give informa
tion and advice to the farmers on
the tour.
The tour will cover a half dozen
or more farms in this county and
lunch will be taken at the Forrest
Crowder farm. Every farmer in the
county who can do so is urged to
make the day's tour, which is ex
pected to be highly beneficial to
those participating.
M. R. Weathers To
Practice Law Here
Maurice R. Weathers is now a
full-fledged attorney, having suc
cessfully passed the board of exam
iners at Raleigh this week after a
course of study under Prof. N. Y.
Gulley of the law department of
Wake Forest college. He will be
sworn in before a superior court
judge at an early term of court ini
this vicinity.
Mr. Weathers is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Zeb Weathers, and has
been studying law at Wake Forest
for sometime. He will open offices
in the Judge J. L. Webb building in
a few days for practice.
Miss Mildred Weaver has return
ed from Hickory after a three weeks
visit to her sister. Mrs. C. S. Hord.
Cleveland county Democracy
will go into an emerge from
the coming election just as hale
and hearty as it has for 30
years, according to Judge B. T,
Falls, county chairman, in dis
counting rumors to the effect
that Republicans hope to make
big gains this year.
Chairman Falls supports his pre
diction by citing that there, is not
a better governed county in the
state, that the party in the county
emerged from a warm primary with
harmony prevailing, and that coun
ty candidates, as well as defeated
candidates in the primary, are sup
porting the ticket with no thought
of "bolting" as Republicans, hoping
to stir up something, have claimed.
Big County Rally
Futhermore, the chairman made
it known for the first time that
Cleveland county’s first governor,
O. Max Gardner, will close his
gubernatorial campaign with a
speech at a big rally to be held
here.
Has Seen Candidates
Chairman Falls when asxed about
the report that some of the de
feated candidates in the primary
were bolting the Democratic party
in this election, said:
There were ten candidates for
sheriff, and contests on in two
other county offices, besides the
board of commissioners and I have
talked with nearly every one of the
candidates and have heard from the
others indirectly and not a one of
them is thinking of bolting the
Democratic party, or opposing any
of the Democratic nominees. There
is no occasion for their doing so.
I was confident without investiga
tion that they were true Demo
crats and would gracefully abide by
the result of the primary and sup
port all nominees of the party in
accordance with the pledge in fil
ing notices of their candidacy."
No Reason For Bolt
"Indeed there is no occasion for
any Democrat in Cleveland county
to bolt the Democratic party, or
any of its candidates. There is
not a county in the state any bet
ter governed, or its affairs more ef
ficiently and economically admin
istered than the affairs of Cleve
land county. County officers are a
model of neatness and efficiency
and courtesy. The county officers
collect more in fees than their
salaries amount to and turn the
surplus into the county treasury,
and the efficiency of our board of
commissioners is attested by the
fact that its chairman is the chair
man of the governor's advisory
board for efficiency in county gov
ernment. The Democratic party of
Cleveland county has had undis
puted control of the county govern
ment for thirty years and not a dol
lar has ever been lost or a dishon
est act ever attributed to one of its
officers.”
AH For Ticket
When asked about the attitude
of the candidates for county offices
toward supporting the Democratic
nominee for president, he said, “I
1 have personally interviewed every
man on the Democratic ticket and
their reply assures me that every
one of them is loyal to the Demo
cratic party and all of its candidates
from constable to president.”
Gardner Closing
When asked as to his plans for
speakings in the county, the chair
man stated that Hon. Clyde R.
(Continued on page two.)
Wilkins Also To Fly To South
Pole, Not Rivalling Byrd, Says
Purposes Of Expedition Include
Location Of Meteorological
Station.
Omaha, Neb.—Capt. George Wil
kins, Alaska to Spitzbergen flier,
faces the task with three compan
ions of flying 2,500 miles in South
Polar regions and mapping 2,000
miles of coast line in unexplored
antarctic lands.
His expedition will not compete
with Commander Byrd’s, Captain
Wilkins said in disclosing plans for
his trip. Location of a twelfth me
teorological societies, as well as other
topographical work, will be the
principal mission of the expedition,
he said.
Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson and two
other companions as yet unnamed,
will leave New York with Cantata
Wilkins, September 22, to join a
fleet of Norweigian whalers at
Montevideo. Uruguary.
Near Byrd.
In Graham s land. 800 miles south
of Cape Horn, Wilkins' party will
establish its first base, he said. .
A new base for further explora
tion will be made at Ross sea, near
the Byrd headquarters, following
several exploratory flights from the
Graham’s land base, Wilkins ex
plained. On the 2,500 mile flight
west along the antarctic shores, the
men will come within 400 miles of
the south pole as they map 2.000
miles of coast line, Wilkins declar
ed. t
He expects to complete the trip
about January 15, and plans a re
turn to America with the Wlta
probably in March,