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8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 105 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year (in advance) $2.5(1 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.0f Thousands Mourn At Funerals Of Six Victims LATENEWS Showers Likely. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Occasional showers tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Mouzon To Visit City Methodist Hlshop, Who Fights Al Smith. To Preach Here Sunday. Rev. Dr. Hugh K. Boyer, pas tor of Central Methodist church here, announced this afternoon that Bishop Edwin Mouzon, of the Southern Methodist church, will preach at Central church Sunday morning. Bishop Mouzon, it will be recall ed, has been one of the leaders in his church in the fight against the ''candidacy of Gov. Al Smith, Demo cratic nominee for president. Since nothing more is known of Bishop , Mouzon’s visit than is contained in the announcement it is not known what his topic will be. Bishop Mouzon, it is understood, was extended an invitation last • • winter to visit Shelby. Sentence Man For Stealing Near Disaster Judge Mull Gives Looter At Build ing Collapse Six Months Term. Raymon McSwain, young white man from the lower section of the county, was given a six months chain gang sentence in county court today by Judge John P Mull on the charge of looting, or attempt ing to loot one of the demolished cars of a victim of the building collapse Tuesday, McSwain was arrested Tuesday night while scores of workmen were still excavating in the ruins. It was said that he took tools from the car of Zeb Blanton, one of the dead. Information today was to the ef fect that McSwain may be off men tally and Judge Mull stated that he would likely have him examined. NEW TEACHERS NAMED for Coming session Two New Teachers Announced By City School Board. Lincoln ton Girl One. The city board of education has accepted the resignation of Miss Clara Babb, teacher in the fourth grade of the LaFayettc school, re cently married. Miss Rase Cham berlain. T incolnton, has been elect ed to fil ithe vacancy. Miss Cham berlain is a graduate of Hollins col lege and has had tw’o years of successful experience. To fill the vacancy in the South Shelby school, Mr. S. M. Eddleman, China Grove, has been elected by t/ie board Mr. Eddleman holds an M. A. degree from the University of North Carolina and has had two years of successful experience in high school teaching. Mr. Eddleman will also initiate some work ih vo cational education in this school. MEET GUS! /s able a waiter as ever poured soup into a diner’s lap »r pointed the pie northeast by iorth and the coffee-cup handle inward. Gus moves slower than a tortoise on crutches ex cept when a tip is in view; then he does jumping; tricks that would put to shame a fly escaping a swatter offensive. Gus. a true soup-spilling, muf fin-crushing, steak-fingering type of tray-juggler, with his sweetie, the winsome Gussie, are the stars in GUS and GUSSIE a new comic strip by Jack Lait, renowned author, playwright and editor. This strip will run every day beginning MbNDAY IN THE STAR BIBLE CUSS OF BBEY IS UNHURT BY IL SUPPORT Attendance Increased Instead Ol Decreased. No Politics Talked There. Since Clyde R. Iloey, presi dential elector-at. large, began his campaign for the Democra tic nominee, Gov. AI Smith, the wagging tongue of Dame Ru mor has circulated reports that the attendance at the big Hoey Bible class, at Central Methodist church, has decreas ed. This report is entirely with out foundation as local people know, and although the rumor has circulated to other cities the actual figures that have been published contradict it. In a recent letter addressed to the Hickory Record. Geo C. War lick, of that city, stated that hav ing heard the rumor he came to Shelby to investigate for himself and found it untrue. The rumor Mr. Warlick heard was that the “class of 600 has been reduced to 60.” Which incidentally shows the lack of veracity among the cam paign whisperers. The Hoey class has never totalled 600. and in many years the attendance has never been as low as 60. More Attend Now. Mr. Warlick wrote that he had attended the class about 15 months before and that something over 120 men were present. When he at tended the class last Sunday he found that 147 were present. Secretary's Figures. Oliver Anthony, class secretary, informed Mr. Warlick that the at tendance average for several weeks has varied from 140 to 170. and that the class has recently made additions to its membership. Class Raises Money. Mr. Warlick while here heard furthermore a challenge to the class to raise $11,000 to cover a debt on the church, and he heard the Bible class accept it ‘with an en thusiasm that left little doubt in my mind of the successful conclu sion of the matter.'' That afternoon the members of the class canvassed the town while the type of people who start such unfounded rumors as the decreasing membership re port were sitting somewhere talk ing politics. No Class Politics. Campaign issues and politics are not talked before his Bible class by Mr. Hoey, who confines himself to the Sunday school lessons and ex planation of the inspiration and appeal found there. Neither do members of the class turn to poli tics while attending. Near the conclusion of his arti cle Mr. Warlick wrote: “All other thoughts aside, it was inspirational to meet with such a large group of men, hear them sing and then lis ten to an inspiring talk such as I heard Mr. Hoey give Sunday." National Committee Call For Mr. Hoey Wants Him To Speak In Other States—Has Engagements For —) All Of Next Week. A call has come from the Na tional Democratic headquarters in New York asking Mr. Hoey, presi dential elector at large in North Carolina, asking him to make a number of speeches in other states in behalf of the national ticket. Mr. Hoey would be used in West Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland in the event he accepts the invita tion to make speeches in other states, but as yet he has not decid ed that he should give him time outside of North Carolina in view of the fact that he has so many calls for his time in this state. Next week he has engagements that call for a speech a day from Monday until Saturday. Monday night he speaks at Bur lington, Tuesday at Durham, Wed nesday at Lexington, Thursday at High Point, Friday at a big Demo cratic rally and picnic at Clinton dowm in Sampson county. Cafe To Remain In Old Location George Scordas, proprietor of the Central Cafe, which was in the room adjoining the First National bank in the building collapse of Tuesday, stated today that as soon as the building is repaired and re modelled he would open again in the same stand. Scordas estimated his damage from $800 up. He was of the opin ion that it might be a month be fore he could reopen there. Youth and Age—Both Beautiful _______-40* wtT" Beautiful youth and beautiful old ego are symbolized In this picture of Mildred Davis Lloyd, beautiful wife of Harold Lloyd, the tdm come dian, admiring a 50-year-old orchid plant. Note the huge size of the blossoms. Orchid plants are said to live virtually .forever, it gr.eu ■proper care. j Max Gardner Begins | Campaign Monday, j To Speak At Boone First Speech Of Democratic Can didate On Labor Day During Noon The first Shelby man to ever be nominated for Governor of North Carolina by either poli tical party will leave his home town Monday to open his cam paign. Which is to say that O. Max Gardner, Democratic gub ernatoral nominee, will go to Boone Monday, September 3, for his first speech. Mr. Gardner will speak at the Boone court house at one o'clock in the afternoon, when the term of court, being held there by Judge B. T. Finley, recesses for the noon hour. As Monday is Labor Day a great crowd is expected to hear the Shelby man in addition to the citi zens in Boone for the court term. Awaited With Interest The Gardner speech, which will be the first public utterance since the Houston convention, of the titu lar head of the Democratic party in North Carolina is awaited with intense interest in all sections of the state. As the leader of his party what Mr. Gardner says Monday will be of vast importance to the Demo cratic party in the state. 'Another Ex-Service Man Is Insane Here Carry Walter Howell To Morganton. Frank Lewis In Raleigh Asylum The second ex-service man to be | declared insane in this section in recent weeks was carried to the State hospital at Morganton yester day. He was Walter Howell, who lived on the B. Cabaniss place in No. 7 township. Deputy Bob Ken drick accompanied Howell to the institution. Howell, who has a wife and three children, was disabled overseas and lor some time, it was said, his mind , has not been so good, growing w'orse of recent days. Lewis Is Gone Frank Lewis, the Princess Pat | veteran declared insane when brought back to the chain gang here after his capture following an escape, was taken to the criminal ! insane department of the State pris on at Raleigh last Sunday by Clyde Poston. chain gang official, and Deputy Bob Kendrick. Lewis, it will be remembered, tried to stab himself shortly after he was declar ed insane last week. Injured In Disaster To Recover, Thought Miss Callahan Had Good Night. Mauney Has Leg Broken, One Mashed. The five more seriously injured people in the building collapse here Tuesday will likely recover. This was the information given at the Shelby hospital today, although due to the fact that not all have re covered fro mthe shock the state ment was not made definite. “They are all getting along as well as anyone could expect consid ering the natures of their injur ies,” was the statement made by Dr. J. W. Harbison, head surgeon, and Dr. Sam Schenck, of the sur gical staff. Turn To Better. Miss Marguerite Callahan, young girl bank clerk and perhaps the most seriously injured of all, “had a good night,” in the parlance of the sick room, and was resting bet ter again today. So far as been de termined as yet her injuries are confined to a fractured pelvis bruises and minor injuries. Clyde Mauney, young bank clerk, has his left leg broken about the ankle, and his right leg pretty bad ly mashed in addition to other -As juries. He was pinned under the building near Miss Calhjhan. Clarence Mull, assistant First National cashier, did not have such a comfortable night, but was rest ing better today. The three are the only white in jured remaining in the hospital. The other two injured still in the hospital are Lowery Jennings and J. C. Thomas, both colored. Jen nings suffered a fractured pelvis, and it was learned yesterday that his back is painfully, burned. He was an employee of the tailor shop and w'as buried somewhere near the steam boiler. Thomas, the other colored man. has a broken arm, a bruised chest and other injuries. Several of those already dis charged from the hospital are re turning daily to have their wounds dressed CITIES WIDE TO STRICKEN SHELBY _, Former Virginia Governor Sends Sympathy Charlotte Citizens Wire Mayor. From all sections of this state and from adjoining states Shel by has received wires of sym pathy in the city’s dark hour of tragedy and death following the building collapse here Tues day in which six were killed Many of the wires come to the stricken families, others come to individuals in the city from friends and relatives elsewhere, while still others are addressed to the entire city and the stricken. Trinkie sends his. Last week former Governor E. Lee Trinkie, of Virginia, passed through Shelby with a Virginia tour and halted for a time on the court square where he addressed the crowd that gathered. Yesterday with that same court square a van tage ground to look upon scenes of death there came a wire from Gov. Trinkie, to M. P. Coley, head of Trinkle's insurance agency here. “We are all grieved over the dis aster in your city,” the wire read. From Charlotte. The following letter was received by Mayor W. N. Dorsey from Mr. C. A. Williams, president of the Charlotte chamber of commerce: “As president of the Charlotte Chamber of commerce I want to ex press for the citizens of Charlotte their deep sympathy to the citi zens of Shelby in the terrible catastrophe that befell your com munity. The citizens of Charlotte feel very close to the citizens of Shelby and they want to sympa thize wuth your community in this terrible disaster that befell your fair city.” Added to the wires and letters expressions of sympathy on the editorial pages of various newspa pers of the state, some of which are published elsewhere in this pa per. ON FIVE STREETS The sidewalks along five streets in the business section of Shelby are blockaded for construction and salvage work. Yesterday a blockade wall was thrown about the scene of the big building collapse of Tuesday. Mean time the Stout Construction com pany, employed by O. Max Gardner, owner of one of the collapsed build ings, began the work of salvage and repair on the part of the Gard ner building that was occupied by the First National bank, the Cen tral Cafe and Gilmer’s furniture department. First of all the work men began to erect braces on the swinging ceiling of the bank portion which had toppled almost to the floor on one side. This was deem j ed necessary to the safety of work ers in cleaning up the debris be fore plans and construction work starts on rebuilding the Gardner portion of the block. Mr. Gardner stated yesterday afternoon that the destroyed portion of his building would be rebuilt but that the style and plans could not be de termined until the wreckage was completely carried away. Just across the street there is a blockade on both the Warren and LaFayette streets sides where work men are engaged in building the new' hotel and business houses. Farther south on LaFayette the street is blockaded again where con struction workers are erecting and renovating one of the Royster build ings for a new store. On North LaFayette street is another block ade where the big addition to the First Baptist church is being made, while on Warren street, just op posite the court square is another blockade as workmen remodel the Paragon building for the Charles stores. OFFICERS CAPTURE SIX BATTLEGROUND STILL^ Blacksburg—Kings Mountain bat tleground was the scene, this week of another kind of war—war on il licit liquor stills. When the smoke of battle cleared away, Rural Offi cer O. C. Adams, of Blacksburg, as sisted by Chas. Byers, Blacksburg; Deputy Sheriff Sheppard, of Grover, and the York county officers, had taken six stills, 425 gallons of beer, and 1 gallon of liquor. No arrests were made, but officer Adams says that he has them "hiding out.” * * * * * * ****** * * * * * * High And Low Grieve Together; Coroner Is Investigating Today Jury At Work On Probe Into Disaster Now Coroner Eskridge, Solicitor Gardner And Six Men Head Probe. At 11 o'clock this morning a coroner's jury, working under Coroner T. C. Eskridge and County Solicitor P. Cleveland Gardner, opened an investiga tion here for the purpose of in quiring into the disastrous building collapse of Tuesday and fixing the blame if possi ble. The jury assembled for the coro ner by Deputy Mike Austell began their investigation shortly after 11 o'clock by inspecting the scene of the ruins, the walls still standing, and the excavation work that had been carried on. Following this the jury recessed until 2 this afternoon when they will meet again at the court house to hear the dozen or more witnesses who will be examin ed. It will likely be late in the after noon before the jury completes querying all the witneses and comes to a verdict. The Jury Personnel The investigating body is made up of the following men: T. J. Babing ton, A. V. Wray, Zemri Kistler, W. Y. Crowder, S. A. McMurry and A. P. Weathers. Witnesses Called. Witnesses called to appear before the Jury this afternoon included the following: Sherwood Brockwell, H. j C. deputy fire marshall; E. A, sill, city building inspector; Sam C. Lattimore, Claude Weathers, Joe Wesson, Basil Goode, W. C. Lutz, J. T. Webb, John S. McKnight, Ever ett Dellinger, and several of the workmen employed on the excava tion job. May Go To Court. Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling, of the superior court, when called by Mayor W. N. Dorsey today stated that it would be impossible for him j to get here today for the investiga tion, but he authorized Mayor Dor sey to call upon P. Cleveland Gard ner, county court solicitor, to act in his place and aid Coroner Eskridge in getting all the needed evidence before the jury. Scores of people assembled in town today about the court square, all apparently anxiously awaiting a decision by the investigators. District Governor Rotary In Shelby District Governor William Way, of the Rotary dubs in this district, was a special guest at the Shelby Rotary club at its luncheon today. Mr. Way was here while on a tour of the clubs in his district. Following the luncheon he addresses the club on Rotary work and prin ciples. Other guests of the club included Rotarians R. B. Babington and John Eck, of Gastonia, and Alfred P. Marshall, of Clearwater, Florida. Revival To Start At LaFayette St. Revival services will begin Sun- ■ day morning at 11 o'clock at the LaFayette Street Methodist church in South Shelby. Rev. T. B. John son pastor of the church will con duct the entire series, with the ex ception of the Sunday night serv ice when Presiding Elder Newell of the Shelby district will deliver the discourse. Messrs. Carver Blanton and Worth Micham, choir directors promise special music, along with the unusually splendid choir. This will be the last protracted meeting before the annual confer ence, which opens in Charlotte Oc tober 24. Everyone is cordially in vited to attend. Services every even ing beginning at 7:15. Tooth Extracted, Mr*. Gladden Passe* Away Mrs. Asenith Gladden, 57, died at the Mercy hospital Wednesday as the result of hemorrhage from ex tracting teeth. Mrs. Gladden was living with her son, J. P. Neal, near Antioch. She is survived by her son, J. P. Neal, and a brother G. Green of Cleve land county. Yesterday Was { Last Day For Holidays Here ( - < Yesterday, Thursday, was ( the last half-holiday of the j sumiher for local business | houses. 3 In the summer holiday ( agreement made by local < merchants and business men ( the half holiday each Thurs- j lay was to continue through j the months of July and Aug- j u*t permitting employees and j employers to a half day vaca- j tion each week, and as yes- J terday was the last Thursday ( of the month the holiday ( period comes to an end. i Bank Goes In New Location Today; A Rush Construction Workers Move Night And Day To Arrange First National Quarters Workmen speeding night and day made it possible for the First National bank to go into a new temporary location again today and open for business at 9 o’clock this morning. It was the second time in six months that the big bank had to move but in both instances the bank doors did not have to be closed but for a short time. Following the Building collapse -TuoadOm Morning-*-<»—wwwbbwh sary for the bank, in temporary quarters since the Central hotel fire, to move again. Once all the victims w'ere rescued attention was turned to finding a new location. At the time the hotel block was not complete but work upon the corner storerooms where Stephenson’s dryg store had been located and also the A. V. Wray store was within about one week of completion and the bank decided to use the remodelled room formerly occupied by Stephen son’s. Yesterday a rush force from the Stout construction company started to complete the building and pre pare it for occupancy today. All day and all night last night the scores of workmen kept up their rush. Hardly would the carpenters' hammer stop ringing in constructing desks and working quarters until the painters’ brushes began to ply over the same boards. New desks, new equipment, adding machines, and such were rushed in, and on the outside other workmen were completing the detail work of the exterior. During the night another force put down the tile of the en trance floor. And today the First National is back on the job as ad vertised. Monthly statements will be de layed only a day or so going out to customers. Shelby has rarely ever seen such a transformation as w’as worked in the building which is today the center of the usual business run. Hardly had other workmen braced the caving walls of the old location until bank workers scrambled into the old location to remove desks and equipment there that was not damaged so much but what it could be used again. Late in the afternoon bank offi cials, several of them suffering from lacerations and bruises themselves, were on the job supervising the work after attending the two fun erals of bank employees conducted during the day. Hagley Moves To A New Place Business William Hagley, proprietor of the Shelby Tailor shop and pressing club which was demolished in the building collapse Tuesday, an nounced today that he was reopen ing his business in the rear of the Warren street building, occupied by Dr. Morrison and the Hanes’ shoe store. Hagley, who lost practically every thing he had in his shop, asks those who lost suits and garments in his shop to see him right away about the articles. __ I Mrs. D. C. Francis and daughters, Verta and Luceda, have returned from Boone, where they attended summer school for 12 weeks. They are visiting Mrs. I. J. Stillwell on Oidney street. Final Victim Buried, County Back To Living Activity Of Entire County Stilled As People Follow Funeral Processions. An hour before dusk fell yester day Shelby and Cleveland county turned their backs on the last fresh mound, only one of six, in county cemeteries and began the sad march home to face life anew today as sobs are choked back when the recollection turns to six who min gled happily with them when the week began. Today near the close of the city and county’s greatest week of sor row business goes on again, seem ingly at its once brisk pace, but it is somewhat of a silent rush with little said, and little laughter to be heard. Over 6,000 Mourn. It was estimated today that more than 6,000 people attended the half dozen funerals held Wednesday and Thursday. In addition to the tribute paid by the great throngs, undertakers de clare that never have they seen such a mountain of flowers as those which today cover six graves. There side by side lay wild flowers plucked by the poor and the chil dren and costly wreaths from the homes and hearts of the more for tunate. Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning and Thursday afternoon, men and women in all class** nt side with bowed heads as the six victims of Tuesday’s building collapse were interred. The sobs of grandfathers mingled with those of young wi dows, those of fatherless children, those of brothers and sisters with one of their number gone, and those of grief-stricken parents. Those Yesterday. Yesterday morning, under a bright morning sun that brought some cheer to a heavy-hearted community, hundreds lined West Marion street and then the hillside at Sunset cemetery In a last tri bute to Miss Ora Eskridge, execu ' tive bank clerk and one of the most beloved women of the community who met her death in the crash of the buildings. The town practical ly shut shop to attend the funeral as it did that of its other immed iate victim, young Alex Hoyle. Yesterday afternoon the sorrow ing turned to Sandy Run church, west of Shelby, where Guy Green, another of the popular young bank clerks was buried. There, following a rural custom, the casket was opened and for more than an hour sobbing relatives and friends form ed an unending line by the bier. Hoyle Funeral. The first of the funerals came Wednesday afternoon when Alex Hoyle was buried at Sunset ceme tery here with more than a thous and in attendance. During the same afternoon, Zeb Blanton and his son, Carl, respected farmers of the Sharon community, were interred at Sharon Methodist church where was gathered the greatest assem blage ever at the church. The same funeral rites were said for-father and son and they were buried in graves that ran side by side. The two had lived much that way, and they died together in the crash. Clyde Carpenter, young and pop ular farmer of the Casar commun ity, was interred on the same aft ernoon at Clover Hill church, where the people of his section, hospitable, big-hearted folks of the hill country, gathered by the hun dreds in a final tribute to him. Smith Sentiment At Legion Meeting Local ex-service men who at tended the North Carolina Amer ican Legion convention in Char lotte early in the week declare that the prevailing sentiment among the soldier boys for present was in the interest of A1 Smith. “He’s our type of fellow,’’ declar ed one of them,” and all that un founded talk about the Knights of Columbus and the religion of Smith is discounted first of all by us. Those who were overseas can tell any one that we will never forget the courtesies and kindnesses shown us by the K. of C. and the Sal vation Army. Those two led all organizations in aiding the boys over there,”