VOL. XXXV, No. 112 THE CLEVELAND STAR
10 PAGES
TODAY
SHELBY,
N. C. MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1928.
Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
By mail, per year (In advance) $3.
Cariier, per year (In advance) $3
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LATENEWS
DEATHS IN FLORIDA
FROM STORM THERE
Press dispatches today
from Jacksonville, Florida,
state that the tropical hurri
cane which killed hundreds in
Porto Rico ntruck the Palm
Beach section of Florida late
last night and early this
morning with the result that
an undetermined number are
dead and much property de
stroyed.
Miami, it was stated, was
untouched by the hurricane,
which swept across towards
the Gulf of Mexico.
Just what the toll of the
hurricane will be in the Palm
Beach section cannot he de
termined as yet rs all wire?
ire down and there is no me
thod of communication other
than radio.
A radio operator picked up
a report from an amateur
broadcaster at Palm Beach
early today stating that there
was “an undetermined num
ber of dead" there. Other
messages indicated that the
worst damage was suffered
at Palm Beach. West Palm
Beach, and at Titusville.
However, by all reports the
storm wrs not near so ser
ious as the last Miami hurri
cane.
Rain On Tuesday.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Report: Cloudy in southeast por
tion tonight. Rain and cooler Tues
day,
HUNTING LICENSE
GO 01 IE 10W
May Be Purchased At Three Points
In The County. Will
Enforce Laws.
Hunting license , state and coun
ty. may be purchased at three points
in the county now according to
County Game Warden Mike II.
Austell. The turn points will be
here, .at Lawndale and Kings
Mountain, Mr. Austell will have
charge of the sale here, while license
at Lawndale may be secured from
T R. Caldwell an i at Kings Moun
tain from Chas. G Dillihg.
The game laws in the county will
be strictly enforced thi3 year War
den Austell states. In addition to
the activity of the wardens and
deputy sheriff or other officers of
the law who detects any one hunt
ing out of season or going over
the bag limit will receive $5 lor the
arrest if the violator is convicted.
There Will be issued two types
of licenses, namely state and comi
ty; the state license costs $3.25
and is obtainable from any license
distribution point and permits the
holder thereof to hunt in any coun
ty of the state. The county license,
the cost of which is $1.25, makes a
man eligible to hunt only in the
county for which the license is
made out.
In this vicinity the following is
the schedule of hunting season;
Squirrel—Opens September 15;
closes January 15; bag limit 10
per day.
Dove —. Opens September 16;
closes December $1; bag limit 25
per day.
Deers—Opens October 1; closes
January 15; ba£ limit 2 per day,
4 per season.
Bear—Opens October 1; closes
January 15.
Raccoon — Opens October 1;
closes January 31.
Opossum — Opens October 1;
closes January 31.
Rabbit — Opens November 1;
November Jl;
closes March 1.
Woodcock—Opens
closes December 31.
Mink—Opens November 1; closes
February 15. «jv, >r
Skunk—Opens November /U'{loses
February 15. V’ f * fy
Otter—Opens November « closes
February 15. 3
Muskrat—Opens December 1;
closes March 31.
Quail—Opens December 1; closes
March 1; bag limit 10 per day.
Wild turkey—Opens December
1; closes March 1, bag limit 2 per
day, 5 lor season.
Ruffed Grouse—Opens Decem
ber 1; closes March 1.
Ringnecked Pheasants — Opens
December 1; closes March 1.
Deputy Shephard
Gets A Big Still
Deputy Charlie Shephard Sunday
captured a 100,-galTon copper dis
tillery in No. 4 township. A quanti
ty of beer was found and destroyed
but the still was not in operation
at the time of the ea Jure.
The big still, which was brought
to the still dump heap at the court
house here, is considered one of the
largest copper plants captured in
the county in several months.
1
OF HOEY 111 0.5.
National Committe,- Ptirrhases 200,
OOO Printed Copies For
General Broadcast.
Shelby people who heard Clyde
Hoey's opening campaign address
here in the interest of the Demo
cratic party likely listened in upon
a speech that will have, by the end
of this campaign, attained a wider
distribution than any other speech
made in the United States in years.
This week the national Democra
tic committee .hiough George Mc
Namee, Smith ore-campaign mana
ger. is having printed 200.000
pamphlet copies of the speech
which will be distributed in all sec
tions of the country.
Many Printed Now.
Thousands of the pamphlets with
the Hoey speech have already been
printed and scattered over the
south. In this state the North Caro
lina committee has printed and dis
tributed 83.000 copies. These figures
do not include copies of the speech
printed and distributed by county
and district Democratic chairman
in this and other southern states.
Such has been the wide distri
bution of the speech so far. evert
before the national committee
makes a natton-v, ,de distribution of
it. that requests are coming in
from numerous southern states for
Hccy lo speak there in person.
Shelby and Cleveland county peo
ple making recent trips into Vir
ginia, South Carolina and Georgia
say that they find the Shelby man
almost as' well known in those
states as in his home. Newspapers
throughout the south have pub
lished the speech ir lull, and num
erous copies of Texas and Alabama
papers containing the speech have
been mailed hare.
The fact that the national com
mittee ir, preparing near a quar
ter million copi-s indicates that it
. it. considered one of the outstand
ing, if not the ouotanding pica vet
made for the Democratic candidate
for president.
Id county court Saturday Minnie
Me Swain, a white woman, was given
a 30-day jail sentence on the charge
of disorderly conduct.
The woman lives, it is said, on
North Morgan street in a fashion
able residential section of the city
and residents of the section, it is
said, reported a disturbance at her
house in the early hours before
dawn Saturday.
Two Men Receive
Four-Month Terms
Robert Hannon and Clarence Phil
beck, white men, were given four
months terms in county court tills,
morning by Judge John P. Mull on
the charge of receiving and possess
ing whiskey. The two men were ar
rested by Deputy GUs Jolley in the
Boiling Springs station and had
three gallons, recording to the
charge.
Appeals from S10.
Burton Emery charged with re
ceiving and possession was fined
$10 and the costs and appealed to
superior court, r mery was said to
have been at the house near Lawn
dale where officers made a raid
some days back anti Bob Moses was
eshot in the leg while trying to get
away, according to officers.
No Trace Of Stolen
Rings So Far, Said
Negro Girl Taken Back To Kings
Mountain Docs Not Locate
$3,000 Diamonds.
The diamonds rings of Mrs. O. O.
Falls, of Kings Mountain, which
were stolen last week, are still miss
ing. The rings, valued at $3,000.
were taken from a dresser in Mrs.
Falls room and shortly thereafter
her young negro maid was brought
here and jailed.
During the 'attei part of last
week the girl was taken back to
Kings Mountain with the hope that
! she w'ould reveal the hiding place
of the rings, out failing to do so
she was returned to the county
jail.
Children Free.
All school children will be admit
ted free at the first day of the
Cleveland county fair here next
week—Tuesday, Sept. 25. A coupon
in an inside page of The Star to
day will serve as a ticket.
City Laid Waste by Hurricane
Beautiful San Juan, P< Rico, is a city of
sadness following troi hurricane which
killed scores, injured hi;:-,reds and rendered
thousands homeless. Map shows progress of
storm which twisted out of Caribbean near
Virgin Islands and headed over Porto Rico
toward Florida. Left, street scene in San Juan;
center, panorama of city; bottom left, Presby
terian Hospital, almost "demolished by tornado,
and, right, famous Casa Blanco, once the
home of Ponce de Leon.
Oa?«rn*tioo»i XewsreelT
Gardner Trains His
Guns On Mr. Hoover
Democratic Candidate For Gover
nor Explodes Hoover Bunk
At Gastonia.
Gastonia.—O Max Gardner, of
Shelby, Democratic candidate for
the governorship of North Carolina,
scored a triumph of landslide pro
portions when he addressed the
citizens of Gaston county here Fri
day night, discussing exhaustively
state and national issue in the
present political campaign.
Republican Record.
“I am not going to abuse the Re
publican party for hs record in
North Carolina. There are many
good people in this state who are
ashamed of the record of their
party, and I am too. So there is no
necessity to go into a matter that
is not susceptible cl debate.
“The Republicans of North Caro
lina are more to be pitied than
censured, more to be helped than
despised. I am going to make them
a good, fair and just governor, and
I in myofiicial capacity tell the world
; that a North Carolina Republican is
just as good as any other Republi
j can. And I can say that and pay
I them no special Canute,
i “I have never said anything as
hard about them as they have said
j about each other. I have resented
I what President Taft said gbout
j them in 1910 when he boldly de
j dared that he could nor find a Re
| publican lawyer in North Carolina
i fit to oe judge. I think he was
j wrong, for 1 knew then and know
now many able lh pub.ican lawyers
who are making good judges.
However, president raft would
' have nothing to ao with them, and
insulted then- support by appoint
i i.r.g Judge Connor. an able, upright,
and life-long' Democrat, as federal
judge for the eastern district of
North Carolina. I thin:; it was rude
of President Taft ta speak disre
spectfully about the Republican
! leaders of North Carolina, many of
(whom are still Udders.
“president Taft said, and I quote
his language:
"As long as the Republican party
in the southern states represents
little save a factional chase for fed
eral offices we now e::i rc. the pres
ent condition of the south to con
j tinue.
| “Of course, President Taft meant
i to say the south would continue
Democratic, and white ho was
wrong about the Republican law
yers,, he was absolutely right on
that point. I think I ran safely as
sure Judge Taft that this factional
chase is still on in North Carolina
i and there is not a Republican can
didate for state or district- office
1 who has the faintest hope of Wang
elected. They ara dominated by but
one passion, and obsessed with but
5
one desire end that is the hope of
appointment to some position in
the heavenly haven of Hoover.
If Hoover should be elected, I
hope my Republican friends will be
successful, but they must not get
too confident. Hoover is an audaci
ously uncertain man. He used to be
a Democrat—at least he thought he
was before he get mixed up with
Harding. Dougherty, and Fall. When
he abandoned Wilson he came in
intimate contact with this group
and fell as did the angels.
“They had no tiouble in weaning
him away from Wilson. He turned
his back on his maker and joined
the political scribes, pharisees and
saducees and silently stood by with
out protest as they drove the nails
of hatred and .he shafts of venom
into the shattered and frail body
of Woodrow Wilson, the best friend
Hoover ever had, unless it is his
more recent friends, Vare, Mellon
and Mary Booze. Wilson lifted
Hoover from .he obscurity of an
oriental engineer to the prestige of
political prominence in the nation.
“I am very much afraid my Re
publican friends will be disapoint
ed and disillusioned if Hoover,
should get by the election on his
platform of wiggie and wabble. He
might be another Taft. He went
back on Wilson. Is it unfair to sur
mise that he ought do the same
thing with these North Carolina
Republican candidates?
“Just ten years ago these same
Republican leaders in North Caro
lina were abusing Wilson in the
bitterest terms for having a man
like Hoover in the sugar service,
and generally denouncing the
Democratic party for the autocratic,
domineering and unfair tactics of
I cover as food administrator. If
Hoover should be elected, T am ter
ribly afraid he would remember the
mean things said about him by the
Republican leade's and I hate to
think that these state Republican
are to suffer defeat in North Caro
lina and then have to face another
Mr. Taft when they prostrate their
ambitions at the feet of Mr. Hoover.
This Is Final Week Of Gardner
Contest-Get Letters In Now
This Is the'final week of the
Star's ' Max Gardner Letter Con
test" and all these who expect to
to enter should be be sure that their
letters are in The Star office by
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Sep
tember 22.
Attain it should be noted that Th°
( Star is giv ing $25 to the writer of the
letter which tells best why every
voter in his home county should
vote for O. Max Gardner for gov
ernor. A prise of $5 will go to the
rsccnd best letter, and the four best
letters written ly school children
will bring to the writers $5 each.
Writs your 'eit v now end get it
in before the contest closes.
BARGAIN EVENT
TALKED FOR PI
Shelby Merchants May Stage A i
‘ Dollar Week” During Fair
Next Meek,
The merchants and business men
of Shelby may cooperate in staging
a big bargain week, or “dollar week,
next week during the big Cleveland
county fair. Anyway numerous
business men have been discussing
the proposition.
It is understood that Dr. J S.
Dorton, fair secretary, has spoken in
favor of the plan, declaring that
since thousands will be in the city
during the fair, many of them de
sirous of seeing the fair and shop
ping, that both merchants and fair
visitors could prciit by a bargain
week.
Shelby Grid Star
Goes To University
Lavmon Beam, for two years an
all-state football p’ayer at end and
at half back and one of the best
football players (ver developed at
Shelby high, left: ever the week-end
for the University of North Caro
line where he will enroll in the
freshman class and be a candidate
for the fresh football eleven.
Beam was accompanied by James
Webb Gardner, sen of O. Max
Gardner, and Vf H. Blanton, Jr.
Young Gardner, who played cen
ter two years ago for Shelby high,
will enter college there but does not
plan to play football during his
freshman year.
BOY SLASHED BY SPURS
OF MAD BOOSTER
Asheboro.—Frank Steed,'jr,.' s mall
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steed,
was badly injured when he was
spurred by a rooster at the home of
his grandfather, C. W. Steed.
The child was playing in the
yard at the time of the accident.
The rooster that spurred the bey
was a large white Leghorn. The
child was taken to the doctor who
dressed nine wounds.
| Money To Church, j
i None For Bishop i
Due To Politics j
( A letter was mailed in (
j Shelby Friday afternoon, ad- J
5 dressed to (lie First Methodist j
S church, containing a check 3
| for twenty-five dollars, signed j
# by a well known Methodist (
t church member. <
( In the lower left hand (
{ corner of the check was writ- (
J ten the following in ink:
i “This is lo be used ior the |
< pastor's salary and local ex- 5
J penses. If any part of it is 3
{ to defray the Bishop's salary, «
< or for the maintenance of the (
t North Carolina Christian Ad- (
( vocate—Return." (
I The church member said he j
was taking this means of ex- j
pressing his entire disapproval i
of the political activity of 3
Bishop Mouzon and the <
Christian Advocate. (
ORGANIZE WE
MORE VOTE CLUBS
Toting Voters Of Grover, Farl And
Waco To Support Demo
cratic Ticket,
All the young men of Shelby
are urged to assemble at. the
court house here tonight at 8
o’clock at which time a club of
young Democratic voters will
be organized for work in the
campaign.
Since the organisation of the
young Democratic men o? Double
Shoals three other clubs have been
organized in the county-one at
Grover, another at Earl, and the
third at Waco.
Enthusiasm jci the work of aid
ing the Democratic ticket has been
shown at all points, and during this
week and next it is hoped to or
ganize a half dozen other clubs in
the county.
At Grover the Democratic com
mittee is made up o? J. L. Herndon,
chairman; PL L. Ellis, assistant
chairman; C. C Wallace, R. C.
Tate, P. C Shephard, r? d Cook*
F E Wallace, B. F. Byrd, J. B.
Ellis, W. C. Beam, Charley Martin
and Manley Fulton.
At Earl, Austell Bettis is the
chairman with the following com
mittee. B. Austell, R. R. Crawford,
Paul Turner. Jerry Runyan, Robt.
G. Turner and S. S. Sansing.
At Waco Maude C. Whitworth is
the chairman and the committee
members are R B. Watterson. As
bury Harrelson, A. F. Harrelson,
John Black. Stowe Mill, Avery J.
Putnam, John W. Craft, Zeb C.
Cline, and W, N.- Harrelson.
An example of the enthusiasm be
ing shown by the young Democratic
leaders is found in a letter address
ed to Attorney Al Bennett, county
organizer of the young men, from
Todd C. Caldwell, precinct chair
man at Lawndale. It reads: “At
Lawndale we will do our darndest
to make it a big Democratic year.”
Gilmers To Close
Out One Department
Gilmers is announcing a closing
out furniture sale in this current
issue of The Star. And the an
nouncement, according to a state
ment made by the store manager,
w. G. Gabriel, means just that—
that the first intends to sell out
the furniture stocic and discontinue
the line.
Members of the corporation wish
to make it clear to their patrons
and the public that they are not
taking advantage of the recent un
fortunate partial wreck of their
building to hold a sale.
‘‘As a matter of fact,” said Mr.
Eabricl, "we are taking an eight
thousand dollar loss through the
catastrophe. We are simply going
to pocket this loss, and discontinue
the furniture line, offering our
fourteen thousand dollar stock Tor
sale,
"We are grieved and annoyed by
the trend of events, but they could
not be avoided. So we are ac
cepting the consequences."
Ever since the building collapse,
the former furniture department of
the store has been closed off, the
henceforth will remain so, this area
no longer being incorporated in the
Gilmer store.
The decision to discontinue the
furniture business was reached fol
lowing a visit to S-helby of Mr. W.
H. McCullom, vice president of the
corporation, and Mr. M. M. Short,
also of the organization.
i EASTERN STAR CALLS
IOK REHEARSAL TUESDAY
Air officers and members of the
' order of Eastern Pear, chapter No.
j UO are requested tc be present at a
j reheart-il Tuesday evening of- this
' week at 7.30 o’clock.
A
Aged Woman Breaks
Her Neck In Fall
Victim of Maniac
Hindel Wheeler, 19, and pretty^
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, afteT
witnessing slaying of her
mother by her father, was her
self attacked and slashed about
throat and face with razor. She
is in hospital and not expected
to live. Her father, Albert
Wheeler, has not been appre
hended.
Boiling Springs
Football Winner
College Eleven Wins First Grid
Encounter As College
Team.
Regardless of v/hat the coming
years may have in store the first
college football eleven put out in
Cleveland county won its first
game. Friday at Boiling Springs
the Baptist college eleven, repres
enting the junior college in its first
year, defeated the strong Kings
Mountain highs 2D to 6.
The hefty Boiling Springs line
proved hard for the Kings Moun
tain backs to penetrate and it was
not until Coach Hammett began
to use some of his reserve players
that Kings Mountain scored.
Despite the not weather, which
was more appropriate for baseball
than football, a large crowd of fans
flocked the sidelines to see the
county's debut, on the college grid.
Veteran football observers at the
contest are of the opinion that the
junior college eleven will be heard
from before the year is over in
their schedule with junior college
and prep school teams. The line,
they say, will compare favorably
with the line of any small college
but as yet the backfield talent does
not measure up, in size and exper
ience, with the forward wrall.
Mrs. Fannie Turner
Buried On Sunday
Mrs. Fannie Turner, wife of W.
H Turner of South Shelby, died
Saturday morning at 2 o’clock
following an illness of eight
months. She was fifty years of age
and moved here with her family
from Spartanburg about 18 months
ago. She was highly respected by
her host of friends who learn of her
death with deep scirow.
The remains were carried to
| Gilead church at Jonesville, S. C.
for interment Sunday. Mrs. Turner
is survived by her husband and
five children, Lloyd, Carl, Clarence,
Curtis and Lilly Mae. also four
brothers and two sisters.
Latest Discovery
To Revolutionize
Poultry Industry
New York, Sept. 17.—The New
[ York World say.; that pre-deter
j minaticn cf the sex of a chick in
j the egg and the production of an
; -all hen” hatch lias been accom
plished through X-ray treatment by
! Paul R. Hadley, world war veteran,
Ion his chicken ranch at Fanweod,
; n. j.
| The World says several scien
1 fists, in letters to Hadley, have de
clared their conviction that he has
j accomplished a si art ling innovation
with far-reaching possibilities.
From an economic viewpoint, these
’ expertk said, the Hadley discovery
would revolutionize the poultry in
dustry.
YOUNGSTER FALLS AND
CREAKS ARM AT ELBOW
David Royster, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wythe Royster is getting
&lcng nicely now fern a broken arm
he sustained last week when he fell
frem a bench. Hie arm was frac
1 lured in the elbow jckat.
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83-Y’ear-Old Woman At Cleveland
Cloth Mill Falls From Door
To Death.
Falling through the back
door of the home of her son, H.
W. Coker at the Cleveland
Cloth Mill Sunday morning,
Mrs. Mary Coker, 83 year old
woman, broke her neck and was
found dead about two hours aft
er the fall.
It is thought that Mrs. Coker,
who was enfeebled by age, got up
early and went to the back steps.
As she pushed at the screen door, it
bounded up and ctused her to lose
her balance, precipitating her to the
ground four or five feet below. Two
hours later when members of the
family arose for the morning, they
, found her lying dead qn the ground..
I The Cokers moved here about
twelve years ago from Greenville,
S. C. Mrs. Coker was a member of
a Baptist church at Greenvillei but
her remains were burled this after
noon at 1 o’clock at Rees Grove
church, two miles north of Shelby,
the funeral services being conduct
ed bv the church pastor. Rev. H. E.
Waldrop. Two years ago her hus
band died, leaving surviving two
sons, H. W. Coker of Shelby, B. «L
Coker and a step son Will Manley,
of Greenville, and two daughters of
Greenville, Mrs. Lola Long and Mrs.
Ellen Manley.
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AT FOREST CITY
Littlejohn, Of Rutherfordton, Slain
By Taylor After Argument
During CalL
Forest City, 3ept. 15.—Will Lit
tlejohn, half-breed Indian of Ruth
erfordton, was shot and instantly
killed here this morning about 9
o'clock by Hub Taylor, negro on
highway No. 20, east of Forest City.
Littlejohn had been to the home
of Taylor, who is a tenant on the
farm of Boss Randall, just outside
the limits of Forest City to see Tay
lor’s sister-in-law. He was accom
panied by three friends, Jim Mc
Entire, Buch Twitty and Will
Lynch of Polk county.
An argument a”ose and Taylor
ordered them out of his house. TTiey
left, but Littlejohn said he would
return Taylor went to the home of
a neighbor, a white man, and bor
rowed a sawed-off shot-gun, say
ing he wanted to kill a dog. Ha,was
accompanied by another negro
named Forney.
Died Instantly.
Returning they saw Littlejohn
and his friends parked in their'car
on the highway. He and Forney
went to the car and another argu
ment started.
Taylor shot Littlejohn in tha
head, killing him instantly.
Taylor then surrendered to Cbss.
R. Price, chief of police, who lock
ed him up and notified Sheriff W.
C. Hardin.
Sheriff Hardin and Chief Price
went to the scene of the shooting
and found the body of Littlejohn
lying under the steering wheel of
the car with head hanging over the
side. No inquest was held. The body
is at Hovis and Keeter, undertak
ers, Rutherfordton.
Taylor and the three friends of
Littlejohn are held in the county
jail. Forney, as yet, has not been
apprehended.
Slashes Throat,
Is Still Alive
Forest City, Sept. 17.—Jim Mode
textile worker of this place slash
ed his throat four times with a
razor in an attempt to commit sui
cide. His wounds are not considered
serious. Mode was declared inern
and and placed ir. the county j
at Rutherfordton. As soon as ar
rangements can be made he v, J
carried to Morgantcn.
Mode has a brother who ec::i
mitted suicide by hanging him.:.;
several years ago.
Miss Hardin Goes
To Maryland School
Miss Mamie Halt in left today for
for Rcistartown. Maryland, where
she takes charge of the infirmary
at a select school for gins. The
school is an Episcopal institution
and is located jj«'*t outside of Bal
timore. Miss Hardin js a registered
nurse and one of the most compet
ent in this section. She will be ia
charge of the infirmary at this in
stitution.
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