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VOL. XXXV, No. 109 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 1928. 8 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.0f CAMP I! CLOSE FOR BAPTISTS IS GLOWING SUCCESS Enlistment And Enlargement Cam paign Results In Doubling S. S. Attendance. Fully 1.000 Baptists gathered here yesterday at the First Baptist church in a climax meeting of the enlargement and enlistment cam paign promoted by the Sunday school department of the Baptist Mission board and the Kings Moun tain associational organization headed by G. G. Page of Kings Mountain. Mr. Horace Easom says there are more Baptists in Cleve land county than any other like area in the world and this was the greatest gathering of Eamist workers ever held, Messrs. G. G. Page,. Perry Morgan and Jasper N. Barnett pronounce the enlarge ment and enlistment campaign as a great success as is shown by the fact that the Sunday school at tendance in 36 of the 41 churches of the Kings Mountain association co-operating in the campaign, shotted an increase in attendance [from 3.000 to approximately 7,700. Attendance Doubles. With a gain in attendance of over one. hundred percent, the workers expressed themselves ps highly, gratified with the results of I .the campaign. T he purpose of th° campaign was to take a census of ; the churches cf the Kings Moun i tain association, determine tu ■ Sunday school possibilities and train teachers and workers in be' - ter methods of teaching. A number of Sunday schools attained the standard rank during the am paign. About forty leaders from various parts of the south were here en gaged in the campaign, helping the Sunday schools of the association. The campaign was under the dirrc Won of Mr. Perry Morgan, state Sunday school secretary. Jasper N. Barnett of the Baptist Sunday school board of Nashville. Tenn., j and G. G, Page, chairman of the Kings Mountain Baptist Sunday I school association. During the eight days the cam paign was under way, there was an average of 1,500 people in daily training. At the climax meeting Sunday afternoon, there was a short musi cal program, followed by reports from the various churches; recog nition of pastors and superintend ents of the various churches and Sunday schools, closing with an in spiritional address by Jasper N. Barnett. This movement is thought to be the beginning of a revival meeting throughou the county, long looked for by the pastors. 100 Per Cent At Cleveland Cloth Cleveland Star Goes Into Every Home On The Hill Every Other Day Now. By an arrangement with the offi cials of Cleveland Cloth mill and the employees of that splendid in dustry, The Star is now delivered into the home of each employee, every other afternoon. Mr. E. T. Switzer realizing the importance of having his employees interested in the affairs of the town and coun ty and informed on the local news, the mill treasury has paid a part on a year's subscription while the em ployees have paid a part, thus plac ing The Star in every home. This plan of community welfare is adopted in order to enlist the in terest of the textile workers in the schools, roads, civic affairs, social and business life of the community. Cleveland Cloth mill workers are all experts, this being a weave mill that works silk and rayon into fine dress goods and novelties. They are among the highest paid textile workers in the south and in assem bling this fine organization, many of them were brought in from other sections of the two Carolinas. They are disposed to identify themselves with the affairs of the community and enlist their efforts for the wel fare of the county, so in order to deepen this interest, they will keep closely in touch with local news through The Star. When the proposition was sub mitted to the household heads that they and the office split on the subscription cost, 118 subscribers were added in a single day. WEIDEMEYERS ORCHESTRA HERE ON WEDNESDAY Shelby's annual farewell dance will be held tn Wednesday evening, September 12, at Cleveland Springs hotel. A large crowd is expected from out of town as this is Weids meyers last appearance in the Carolinas this year. “Mr. Elder” to Sue for Divorce Tired of Ruth's solo high flying, Lyle Womack, husband of the beautiful Miss Elder, is going to file suit for divorce, he an nounces. At Balboa, Canal Zone, where he is employed by the government, the pretty flier’s husband lets it become known he will charge ‘‘cruelty-”’in his action. Photo above shoe, s i .vie and'Ruth upon occasion of her triumphant return to United States; below, the aviatrix in her flying helmet. {International Illustrated Xetvs) “Mr. Elder" Will Seek Divorce From Ruth; No Fight Made Girl Who Tried To Hop Atlantic Will Not Fight Womack's Attempt. Balboa. Canal Zone—Lyle Wo mack hopes to obtain an interlocu tory decree of divorce in December from Ruth Elder, who “chose a ca reer rather than be a housewife." j Her failure to kiss him upon her | return to New York after almost | flying across the Atlantic is cited in 1 his petition for divorce as a cause of much embarrassment. He charges that at that time she said to him in an undertone: "Don’t be a fool." Charges Cruelty. Cruelty is charged in the petition and Womack understands his suit j will not be contested. Although an interlocutory decree may be ob tained in December under the laws a full divorce can not be granted before next June. Womack's petition says his j weight has been reduced, efficiency j for work lessened, and health and . reason endangered. He charges that his wife's trans-Atlantic flight I attempt caused him many sleepless I nights. In a statement after the j petition was filed he said: Still Loves Her. “I would be delighted if she would return to me. But I begged her many times and she always refits- | ed. Nothing would have delighted j me more than to love her dearly j but now I see there is nothing else | to be done than that which I am doing. | “Ruth chose a career rather than be a housewife, and I have no other course.” Ruth Not To Figh* Hollywood, Cal.—Ruth Elder will not contest the divorce action filed against her in Balboa by Lyle Wo mack. “It he wants a divorce there must be a good reason,” she said iri an- ; nouncing she would not oppose his move. Miss Elder in answer to Wo mack’s charge of neglect of her home asserted he had provided no home. Bhe expressed surprise that her husband had not informed her pyvious to taking action against her Mr. Green With Hamrick Cc. Mr Ray Green has accepted a position in the watch repair de partment of the T. W Hamrick Co Mr. Green is a native of this coun ty who has spent four years at tne Waltham watch factory. County Officers Gel Fine Plant In Full Blast Near Slice’s Shoals. Some of the bootleg liquor man- j factored in Cleveland county Is made at modern distilleries, judging by a raid made Friday night by county officers. Get One Man. A short distance below Slice's Shoals dam Friday night Deputy Sheriffs Bob Kendrick, Burcn Ded mon, Harvey Ilarrelson. and John Hold located and captured a 60 gallon steam distillery while it was in full blast. Two men were at the plaint when the officers located it. one was captured and the other made his getaway. The captured man was Will Biggerstaff, white, Said to be of Burke county. The . plant, officers say, was; one of the most up-to-date they have captured in many months. About 300 gallons of beer was de stroyed along with the gallon or so of liquor that was about completed in the run that was being made when the officers arrived. Knocked Unconscious From Blow Of Fist Marvin Dedmon Knocked Oat By Woodrow Anthony In Fight At Buffalo. In recorder s court today Wood row Anthony young white man of the Buffalo section, as fined $10 and the costs for a blow he dealt Marvin Dedmon last Friday even ing According to the evidence Ded ffion had been doing something to an orphan boy who lived with An thony, his relative. Words followed between the two men and both struck blows. When Anthony hit Dedmon, it Was said; the latter toppled over backward and his head struck the ground with a thud. Such was the force of the blow or striking the ground that Dedmon was unconscious for hours. Anthony contended that his blow with his fist was not sufficient to have caus ed unconsciousness but that Dea mon slipped just as he hit him and that the force of hitting the ground caused Dedmcn to lose touch with what was going on for some time. School Children And Gfrdtm-tzps Ceded in g F or $50 Prizes. MftU Letters. Letter', in The Stars ‘Gardner for Governor Contest” continue to ! come in. Among the latest batch of I letter?, advocating that every Cleve land county voter should vote for O. Max Gardner for governor is one from George Smvmos local busi ness man who was born in a foreign land but has become a naturalized and highly respected citizen of this I country and this county, | Other letters come from school students, college students and grown-ups. For the best letter as to why every voter should vote for the country's first candidate- for gover nor The Star offers $25 cash, $5 for ! the second best letter and four $5 prizes for the four best letters writ ten by school children of the county. All letters must be in by Saturday, September 22. A Typical Letter. Typical of the letters coming in is | the following one by A. A. Powell, ! of Lawndale, Route 3, who is now I in school at Wake Forest. Vote For Gardner. "Seine of the reasons why I think every voter in Cleveland county should vote for Max Gardner for the next governor of North Grio lina are as follows: . “First, Max Gardner is a man who is* welt; qualified for the posi tion. Max Gardner without a doubt to my mind is well prepared and properly trained to lead this tContinnec! on page eight) Grover Woman Is Injured By Car i * Mrs. J, E. Sapoch Still Unconscious i JPvom Injury.When Struck By Passing Car. Mrs. J. B. Sapoch, sister of Mr. James L. Parker, N. Washington street grocery merchant, is still un conscious at the Shelby hospital to which place she was brought as a patient late Sunday afternoon when j struck by a passing automobile hi front of her. home between Blacks burg and Grover. Mrs. Sapoch had been talking to some friends in a car which stopped in front of her home and was m the act of crossing the road to her home when a Grover car driven, fcy a young man by the name of West moreland struck her. He was driv ing at a moderate rate of speed and the accident was unavoidable, ac cording to members of the family who witnessed the affair. The blow was on the head and rendered her unconscious. It .is understood this morning slie is still unconscious and that a diagnosis shows a ruptured blood vessel of the brain. Her condition is quite serious and a convulsion followed the injury. Mrs. Sapoch is about 56 years of age. Boy Steals A Ham, Eats In Jail Now j Negro Youth Broke Into Sankev Mauney’s House And Smoke- j house. Tried. Everett Cline, colored youth cfj No. 5 township, had a whole ham last Saturday evening but today he is eating from the jail house menu. Sometime Saturday the young negro, according to his confession, entered the home of Mr Sankey Mauney, lust northwest of Shelby, stole a raincoat and drop cord j then entered the smokehouse in the yard and added a ham to his fish Some hours later he sold the ham to Os car Palmer, local grocer, for *6. Gradually the law began to check up his steps and Sunday night Cline was jailed In recorder s court today he was bound over to super ior court under a bond of $500. Follow Lessing Bruno less)ng’s -'ejlltoiitl feature, ‘'Something to Think About,* start** todar on the editorial Pass of this paper f essing is considered me ot America's most brilliant writ ers and thinkers and his sub jects are generally popular No other paper in this section publishes the Lessing feature, so start reading it today in The Star And, if yon haven't already started, don’t fail to keep op with the comic, “Gus and Gussie,” and Quin Hall’s sport cartoons Morrison To Speak Here Thursday * Night-Campaign h Moving Fast 5 csaks H Tliiirsrla y Former Gov. Cameron Morrison will speak at a Demo cratic rally at the court house here Thursday night. Pardon This Issue, Please IPs A Birthday For Three ilfflUl! UCBHr! Total For Hunting License Greater In 32 Counties. Receipts Here $2,309. In the hunting season of 1927-23 hunting license receipts in : this county totalled $2,309. Thirty-two counties in the state had greater receipts and 67 counties had less. .Receipts from hunting licenses in adjoining counties were.: Catawba ! $2,529, Gaston $2,760, Rutherford ! $1,499, Lincoln $1,309, Burke $484. Forsyth county led the state with ' receipts of $8,459. Dare was the j lowest with $84. The net receipts from hunting; licenses go to the state department of Conservation and development and are used entirely in developing and conserving the game resources of the state. Forsyth county collected more, in. fees from hunting licenses than any other county, followed closely by Guilford county. More than four thousand two hundred people in Forsyth took out hunting license for the last season. Approximately , three-fourths of the licenses issued were resident county, and one fourth resident state. Other coun i ties which took in large amounts from hunting licenses were Wake, Mecklenburg, Pitt, Buncombe, Wil i son and Durham. I, -:-■ Gillespie’s Store Entered, Colored Man Held To Court . i Henry Lazarus Sold Mi«Mnj Watches To Pink King. Said He Bought Tbs*!! In county court today Henry Lazarus, colored, >as bound ov< t to superior , court under a $100 bond on the charge ot robbing S L, Gil lespie’s store in the business sec tion here Wednesday night. Lazarus denied his guilt, and stated that the watches he sold to Mr. Pink King were purchased li one a boy. Eastern Star Meet Here Tuesday Night Shelby chapter 110 O F S. meets m regular meeting Tuesday even ing, September 11 This is the lust | meeting before the district mov ing September 00 end every one is I urged to be present. If you look-over this edition of The Star and think to yourself that it’s not all it should be and that somebody around The Star of fice must think it’s their birthday— then you're right. Today is the birthday of three Star employees. Other newspapers perhaps can stack up a better record, but with one-half of The Star’s mechanical force celebrating the same birth anniversary, The Star is “from Mis souri.’’ Father And Son. To begin with today, Monday, .September TO, is the 45th birth an niversary oi Pink Riviere, well known printer and manager of The Star's job office. Likewise it is the birthday of his son, Richard Ri viere, who ’is his assistant in the job plant. Richard is 19, or was the birthday present for his dad on the iatter's 20th birthday. Celebrating with them is C. Lorenzo (.Charlie) Keel, the second, linotype operator, who has seen the snows of 23win ters w ithout the change of color in a single hair on his Titian head. Incidentally, two of the. three merry-makers today are red-head ed, and all - three wish it to be known that they’re for A1 Smith al though only two can vote. So, as we started out to say, par don this issue if there are a few flaws. A goodly portion of the shop. is celebrating. its birthday. Building Injured Remain In Hospital The five people, who were the more seriously in jured m the. buHri ing collapse here two weeks ago to morrow remain m the Shelby hos pital, but all . are said to be iiu bproving nicely Miss Marguerite Callahan considered the worst hurt, is mending nicely, it was stated today, is !s Clarence Mull, sssitt-'int cashier of the Tirst [Na tional. The others still in ♦he hospital are Clyde Matraey, bank clerk, and two colored men, J. C. Thomas and Lowery Jsriruns-s iVIr*. B?noy H.» g Ribs Broken in Accident Mrs, Dan Beney of West Sbribv, has a'ccuple of broken ribs and is j'otherwise- bruised while her hus band is also bruised as a result of their car striking a tree Sunday l while they were on a trip to vis.t relatives in South Carolina. The hoy driving the Benoy car Saw a child, start across the road and in 1 order to avoid striking it, he -Peer ed the car out of the highway and [ struck a tree. Campaign Speeches At Eight Points This Week. Good Crowds So Far. Hon. Cameron Morrison, former governor cf North Carolina, will speak in the court house here Thursday night, of this week, at 3 o’clock, it is announced by Judge E. T. Falls, county Democratic ciiD.irm2Ha. This will be the second local cam paign speech of the year and a big gathering is expected to hear Mr. Morrison. Two speakings, one at Fallston undone at Youngs pre cinct, were held last week and both were well attended, In addition to the Morrison speech here Thursday night there will be campaign speakings at seven other points in the county during tha week, it is announced, Friday night Attorney W, 3. Beam, Irvin Allen and Attorney Bynum Weathers will sneak at Earl. At Patterson Springs on Friday night the speakers will be Judge John P. Mull, Capt. J. Frank Rob erts and Sheriff H. A. Logan. Attorneys Horace Kennedy and A1 Bennett and A. E. Cline, comity commissioner, will be at Grover on Friday night for a speaking there. At Waco on Friday night the speakers will be Peyton McSwain, P. C. Gardner and J. B. Smith. Friday night at Lattimore the pro gram calls for four speakers: Henry B. Edwards, J. C. Newton, Mrs. Mary E. Yarborough, county treas urer; and Commissioner R. h. Weathers. The speakers listed for Friday night at Mooresboro are: J. H. Grigg, C. B. McBrayer, and C. C. McBrayer. At the Polkville consolidated i school house Saturday night, Sep tember 15, the speakers will include W. S. Beam, B. T. Falls, Dr. G. M. Gold, A. F. Newton and Irvin Alien. All of the speakings listed above, with the exception of the Morrison speech here, will be held in the school houses of the various places, and Chairman Falls urges women as well as man to turn Out for the rallies. One G. O. P. Reforms. At Faliston last Friday night Capt. Peyton MeSwain and Attor ney Speight Beam had a good at tendance and an enthusiastic rally at their speaking. A similar report is made of the speaking at Young’s where the two speakers, Attorneys Pat McBrayer and A1 Bennett, de clared that they had one Repub» lican convert to join the Democrats following the speeches. Enrollment Of About 2,400 Expect* ed This Afternoon, Teachers Mtfet. The Shelby city schools opened for the year today with the school children enrolling at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Shortly after 1 o’cloci today Supt. I. C. Griffin estimate# that the opening registration would be around 2,400 with the idea that it will move on back above the 3,000 mark within a few weeks. This morning at 9 o’clock the 74 teachers here met for a general conference at the Central high school. Following this meeting each school group held another session with principals until noon. At noon two ladies from each I school district of the city coope.ai ing with the wives of school board members and superintendent gave srluncheon for the teachers at the I school. Mason’s Father Dead. The 74 teachers present todjy represented the entire school facul ty with the exception of two— Prof. V. C. Mason is in Ralei ;h " here he was called by the illness of his father, who died there yes terday following Mr Mason's de parture from Shelby. The 'other teacher not reporting today wit Miss Bagwell, of the South She.by faculty, but she is expected to oe ready for duty tomorrow being re tained today on account of illness. Dr, Harbison Starts i Building New Home Dr. J. W. Harbison has let th« ; contract to Mi- Gus Branton for ihi erection of a handsome new brick bungalow home on his lot on N. Washington street facing the Shal ■ by hospital where Dr. Harbison is surgeon. The home will be modern m every detail with hot v/atet j heating system. LATE NEWS Continued Fair. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Regain Lead. With over 81,000 people looking on the New York Yankees yester , Mty defeated the Philadelphia Ath letics In a double-header and re gained the American League lead by one and one-half games. Ihe two teams do not meet today but play again tomorrow. The photos of Commie Mack and Miller Huggins, the rival managers in one of the greatest regular season baseball classics, will be found on an msid« page of this paper. r3' - Knocks Mud-Slinging. In a statment issued yesterday at Washington Chairman Work, of the Republican campaign commit tee, expressed resentment at the "whispering campaign” being Uicd against Governor Smith, the Demo cratic candidate, in the south and west. No such attacks, he declared, have been sanctioned by the Re f, publican committee. Presumably he referred to the religious issue entered and such campaign me thods as the circulating of the it. of C. oath. Makes Problem Hard. School Cost Here Below Average. 368 Teachers. Did you know that there are still 10 one-teacher schools in Cleveland county? Did you know that 14,160 pupils were enrolled in the schools of this county last year and that 368 teachers were employed? The above information together with numerous other school items of interest was given before a meet* . ing of the Shelby Rotary cluo oy Prof. J. H. Grigg. county school head. Leads And Lags. In several respects this county stands to the forefront but in other respects the county lags near the rear, according to figures given by Supt. Grigg. Despite the fact that, many peo ple think the day of the one-teach er school is over. Mr. Grigg inform ed club members that 10 such re main in this county. On the other hand, he informed, there are eight standard high schools in the county, operating eight months in the year and employing from seven to 18 teachers each. Last year there was a total of 14, 160 boys and girls in school in Cleveland county; 9,799 of these attended rural or consoli dated schools, 3,133 were in Shelby, and 1.288 in Kings Mountain. The < icounty schools employ 257 teachers, Shelby employs 79, and Kings Moun tain has 32. The per capita cost each year to Cleveland county school children is $19.19, which is to say the count/ cost ranks among the five low in the state. The county also ranss low in the cost per pupil in trans porting pupils to and from school. A total of 2,000 children are trans ported to and from school at a cost per year of $7.84 cents each. The cost In one other county in the state is over $50 per pupil per year, and only one county in this section of the state has a lower transpor tation cost than Cleveland. On the other hand Cleveland ranks 96th in the state. . School Expenditure. Last year the school expenditure in this county was $270,044.75. Or this amount over $200,000 was for teachers salaries. The school building indebtedness of Cleveland county is only $262,000. Of this indebtedness Mr. Grigg said “I can go into any county adjoining Cleveland and find for you one school building the cost of which totals as much as our entire school building indebtedness.” The Big Problem. The major problem faced by the county school system is the steady increase in enrollment, Mr. Grigg declared. High school enrollment increases around 25 per cent per year as is shown by the fact that there were only 576 seventh grade graduates in the county last year as compared with an enrollment of 1, 809, or three times as many, in the first grade. School enrollment has increased greatly in recent years while property valuation has de creased, he pointed out, and this offers the big school problem. With more aiyi more pupils knocking at * school doors each year to be edu cated and the property valuation, from which the taxes come, de creasing, the problem, he declared, grows greater. Girl Get* Sentence For Vagrancy Here Jack Hutchinson, young white girl, moved back to one of her old homes at the county jail today. Dis charged from jail only a few wee.cs back after serivng one term, she was hailed into court today by city officers on the charge of vagrancy and street-walking and was given another sentence of 30 days by Judge John Mull. <4.