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* . .. 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 113 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. YVEDNESD’Y, SEPT. 19. 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) $2.5(1 Canier, per year (in advance) $3/ LATENEWS Fair Tomorrow. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy with rain this aft ernoon. and probably in north por tion tonight. Cooler In east portion tonight. Thursday fair with slowly rising temperature in the Interior. Damage Light. No great amount of damage was suffered in this section as the re sult of the rain and wind storm Tuesday and Tuesday night, which followed the unsettled weather conditions made so by the Florida hurricane. Streams were flooded and a near record rainfall establish ed for 24 hours, but the damage, so far as can be learned, was con fined to battered cotton and eorn with several trees being blown down In various sections of the county. (FIRST ACTUAL PHOTO OF THE DISASTROUS HURRICANE DAMAGE IN PORTO RICO MAY BE FOUND ON PAGE 8 OF THE STAR TODAY.) Wax Enthusiastic In Sunport Of Democratic Ticket. Will Organise CEy. If political She.try is to be judged by the young men of the city who are showing typical enthusiasm .of youth in the political campaign then Shelby will support the entire Dem ocratic ticket this fall with con siderable whoopee and pep. At a meeting held in the court house Monday night an enthusias tim and representative gathering of the young men of the city form ed an organization to be one of the clubs in the county’s Young Democratic Voters club being or ganized by Attorney A1 Bennett. Jesse Washburn, one of Shelby's popular younger men. was selected to head the club with Max Wash burn as secretary and at the meet ing 100 young men were enrolled to give the club p start. Yester day and today these present at •» Monday night’s meeting were adding scores of other names to the club rolls and issuing cards to the new members. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Bennett and also Judge B. T. Falls, county Democratic chairman. Work By Precincts. The city was divided into fogtr precincu and eommiuces formed volunteered to go over the registra tion books and that every Dem.-, ocratic voter gets -out November 6 and that those not registered get cn the books before election today. May Hear Koey. At the meeting it was stated that Clyde R. Hoey had consented to ad dress a rally of the young voters Of Shelby and Cleveland county at an early date, probably next Monday night. This announcement gave added pep to the y< ung voters. ff CommiUM Members. Vice chairmen and precinct com mittee members named by the young men at the meeting were: Precinct No. J.~Renn Drum, vice chairman: Max Hamrick, W. A. j Newton, Everett Houser, E. T. Swit- ; zer, R. M. Laughridge, Red New man, Otto Long. Jean Schenck, Clarence Leonard, Paul G. Aber- | , rtethy, Loy Huffman, W. S. Beam. Louis Hamrick, B. N. Wakefield, Chas. Alexander^ George Spurling, Boyce Dellinger, Earl Frances. Precinct No. 2—Wythe Royster, vice chairman; William Andrews, Chas. Woodson, Mike Austell. Wil liam Osborne, Fred Logan, Clyde Short, C. C. McBrayer, Wade Hoey, Frank Hoey, Ben Gold, Dewitt Quinn, Tom Gold, R. T. LeGrandh. Tom H. Abernethy. jr. * Precinct No. 3.—Claude Connor, vice chairman; J P. Austell, Char lie Austell, Zeno Huffman, Peyton Mc8wain, W. A. Abernethy, Pink Sytler. Precinct No. 4 —-Dick Hennessa, vice chairman; Chas. Roberts, Chas. Hoey. Henry Massey, Roscoe Luta, Fred Wagner, Henry Edwards, Bob ’ ert Hord, Ben Hendrick. Ben Sut tle. Brevard Lattimore, George i Moore, Durham Moore, Paul Webb, Jr. J. S. Dorton, Connelly Eskridge, Marion Eaker, Stough Wary, Horace Grigg. George V/ary, Victor Wray, T. W. Hamrick, jr. Democrats between the age of 21 and 40 years who wish to join the club should get in touch with some committee member from their pre cinct. Tapestry Mill Is Not To Locate i “Certain conditic ns prevented us from locating in North Carolina," t says a letter to The Star from the Primrose Tapestry company of Philadelphia, which was negotiating for the Olive Hoisery Mill property In South Shelby. A deal w-as pend ing a few weeks ago whereby the Primrose Tapestry company was trying to acquire this building and property with a view of moving its tapestry plant nere, but the officers have decided to locate In Georgia instead of North Carolina. Just why Shelby failed io lrr.d this new Industry is not s'atrd in t’.;» letter to The Star from Mr. John New ton. one of the officials of t:;e company ^Philadelphia. Hundreds Dead In Fl< Noted Daughter Of County Coming To Speak On Saturday Dr. Della Dixon Carroll To Make Political Speech. Daughter Of Rev. lorn Dixon. Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll, of Raleigh, one of Cleveland coun ty’s most brilliant daughters and one of the first feminine physicians in the state, will re turn to Shelby, her old home tov n Saturday afternoon to make a political speech to the v.omrn of her home county. Her coming brings back memories of a bygone dav a day when the inherent eloquence and brilliance of a family of Dixons swayed Cleveland county from the pulpit and from the political platform. At Court House. Hr. Carroll will speak at the county court house at 3 in the aft ernoon, and although her talk on the political events of the day will j be more especially for the women j of Shelby and the county men are also urged to attend. The speaker, the first Cleveland county woman to receive a doctor's ! degree, is a daughter of the late Rev. Tom Dixon, pioneer Baptist minister of this section', and a sis-; ter of Tom Dixon, the famous au- ' thor and playwright, and of the , late Rev. Amzt Clarence Dixon, ! internationally known minister, and of the late Tran'.: Dixon, bril liant lecturer and reformer. State Chairman Odus M. Mull on ' a recent visit here declared that ! "there will not be a better speech made in the state this year than i the one Shelby and Cleveland ! county will hear when Dr. Carroll Comes. Every woman in the county should hear it " CcIIege Head Will i alk To Teahers Of Shelby Tonight Presbyterian Church To Entertain For Teachers In City Sehr ols. At 7:30 tonight at the First Presbyterian church the Presbyter ians of the city wjU be hosts t«> the Presbyterian teachers in the City schools and their friends. Dr. W. H. Fraser, president of Queens college, Charlotte, will be the speaker. and although the meeting is for teachers the public of Shelby is invited to hear Dr. Fraser, one of the state's most en tertaining teachers. Mrs. C. R. Hoey accompanied Mr. Hoey to Waynesville yesterday, where he spoke. ‘ Falling Sign And Glass Send Many Out Of Buildings People Uptown Have Not Forgotten Building Crash. Thought It Another. Yesterday morning in the busi ness section about Casey’s place, at the Union Trust corner in uptown Shelby, someone lemarked: •'Well, it was about this time three weeks ago that the buildings tum bled down for our biggest disaster.’’ And so it was. About that time the windstorm, striking this section as the result of the West Indian hurricane, renew ed its fury and the county fair sign, swinging over the court square corner, was torn down and as the falling sign came down the glass bulb of a street ljght crashed down with it to the pavement. The crash of the glass on the pavement had hardly resounded along that section of the street until the people in several places of business in the section began hurrying for the street. Any unexpected noise gives Shel by the shivvers these days. Game TVard?n (lamp Down On Hunters Without License. Season On. Squirrels come higher these days than in the old days—days before the North Carolina game laws were enforced. This week two Cleveland county young men shot a squirrel and when they finished paying up the bill the squirrel came to $10.10 , that price not including the cost of the shells and the trip out and back. The two hunters were arrested under the game lows not because they shot the squirrel, because the squirrel season is now on, but be cause they did ^hoii shooting with out proper license and when locat ed they were not hunting upon their own land. The move is the first made in support of the announcement that the game laws will really be enforc ed this year by G,.me Warden Mike Austell and assistants. Rumors That Shelby Fights Allen Untrue Figures Show Whispering: C'ai.ipa'gn Would Dam age County Ticket. Facts Show It Up. The whispering campaign which has been used with effect in the national election has stopped now to include Cleveland county candi dates. One of the latest rumors, which is being scattered in several sec tions of the county. has it that Shelby Democrats are out to beat Irvin Allen. Democratic nominee for sheriff. The tumor apparently would try to line up several sections of the county agutost several oth er sections with the hope apparent ly of aiding the Republican ticket. That Shelby or any other section of the county has it in for Allen, or any cf the Democratic candi dates is an untruth according to Democratic leaders. The rumor first originated piesumably when it was aired about that the faction which supported Frank L. Hoyle for sheriff against Allen in the pri mary would not support the nom nee. This rumor was nailed when it was announced by the county chairman that every entrant in the Democratic primary was going to support the nominees. Figures Tell It. In the run-off primary between Allen and Hoyle, Shelby gave Allen by far a larger proportion ol its votes than Kings Mountain gave Hoy’.e. In Kings Mountain a total of 1,455 voies were cast—Allen re ceived 1.359 and Hoyle only S(i In .other words Hoyle receiver* one-eighteenth of the Kings Moun tain vote. Meantime in No, 6 town shop, covering else six precincts in and about Shelby, a total of 2,863 votes were cast—Allen received 1, 039 and Hoyle m his home town section received only 1.820. In oth er words Allen rireived more than one-third cf the vote in Hoyle’s home town while Hoyle was receiv ing just one-eighteenth of the vote in Allen's home town. These figures show that Shelby drew no sectional lines in the Dem ocratic primary ana it is contended by Democratic leaders that it no such lines were diawn between two Democrats it is certain they can candidate, candidate. Is A Trick. Several Democratic leaders say that the report appears to be a Republican rumor to injure the en tire Democratic ticket by getting Democrats in several sections oi the county at odds witi. each other. One defeated randidate in the Democratic primary upon hearing the report dcdai*d: “Certainly w'e are all going „o support the nomi nees of our Democratic ticket, county, state and Ration. Some of us. perhaps, didn’t get the nominee we wanted for some of the offices but we’d be poor Democrats if u-e got peeved about that. For instance, there v. m nine others in the race lor sheriff with me. We ell couldn’t get the nomin.'tion. but I’m certain all o: us are going to back the nominee is ho beat us and every other no^wr-0 - of our party.’’ McSwain Has Three Speeches Scheduled Presidential Elector Will Speak In Charlotte. Eastside Speech Postponed. The address of Capt. McSwain, Democratic presidential elector for this district, at the Eastside school house last night was postponed due to the wind and rain storm. Capt. McSwain, as presidential elector, already has three other ad dresses billed in the congressional district. Friday night of this week he speaks at the court house in Charlotte to the Democratic Wo men's voters clubs of Charlotte and Mecklenburg. Next Tuesday night he speaks in Lincoln and Thursday night of next week in Catawba county. Letters I Boost For Gardner Contest Letters Continue To Come In. Only Three More Days Open. With only three days to go un | til the contest Closes letters continue j to come to The Star telling why . every Cleveland county voter, men and women, should vote for O. Max Gardner, the county’s first candi date for governor. The contest closes Saturday after noon at 4 o'clock, and at that time the letters will be turned over to the judges who will decide which let ters gets the big prize of $25. The next letter will get a prize of $5 and the four school children writing the best letters telling why the county should support Gardner with every vote will get $5 each. Among those sending in letters this week were Mayma Lee Jones, of No. 8 consolidated school; V. A. Gardner, Shelby route 6; William E. Ford, Mooresboro and Herbert Price, Lattimore loutel. Fitted By Training. The letter written by V. A. Gard-* ner, well known farmer and former teacher, follows: 1. —Because this is the first time this generation ever had the chance of honoring one of our citizens to such a place of distinction and service and will probably be the last one till most of this generation passes. 2. —Because this county is noted far and wide for its able men; men of great service, men capable of great responsibu.ty 3. —Because he .s preminently fit ted for the position by birth, by training, by enviroi ment. He knows more about state issues, more about state problems and how to solve them than anyone else in North Carolina. This reason auove is sufficient and should impel every voter to cast his ballot foi him be he Dem ocrat or Republican 4. —Because of his service in the past to his county and state, much of which was sacrificial. 5. —Because of loyalty to his party. Through many a campaign he spoke in different parts of the state till he was literally exhaustedi hop ing to get nothing out of it, except the success of his party which thing he loved with his whole soul. 6. —-Because he lifted agriculture, in his county, oy precept and ex ample till our (aiming has put Cleveland county on the map. 7. —Because he made a sacrificial run cne time for this same office. 8. —Because his heart is right as well as his head. Being a great churchman he is one of the lead ers cf a great denomination. 0.—Every Republican in Cleve land county should vote for our own "Max.” Firs:, because he would not lose his vote. Secondly, he has the best excuse now to come over into the party that does big things, righteous things and he would never be chided foi it for it would be above criticism, you know. 10.—Because the state with all its many, many issues and problems will be absolutely safe in his hands. 11— Because of many personal favors to the citizens of Cleveland county, many of which were a pure sacrifice on his part. He never turn ed a deaf ear to the cry of the un fortunate, 12.—Because a supreme time, a supreme need and a supreme men have met. The supreme opportunity is handd o the voter:; cf Cleveland county. Mr. and Mrs. John Hearns. Miss Bryts Thompson end Mr Clifton Erooks of Charlotte sptnt Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Honeycutt. orida Storm; Big Rain Grim Sweep of Tornado Map shows sweep of storm from Virgin Islands to Florida, the death toll of which may reach 1,000. Best information is to effect that 700,000 persons are homeless, while property damage may reach a quarter of a billion dollars Below, photo of a street in San Juan (P. R.) following 1906 hurrican* l Baptists To Gather• King:; Mountain Association Meets This Year Witn Beaver Dam Church, Oct. 8 and 9. The Kings Mountain Baptist as \ sociation meets this year with I Eeaver Dam Baptist church, a tew j ! miles west of Shelby on highway | No. 20. The dates are October 8 and ? | 9. Rev. D. F. Putnam is the pastor i of the church ena says elaborate ' j plans are being made by the people ! ! of the community. Rev. J. L. Jenkins 1 1 of Boiling. Springs will preach the introductory sermon while the de liberations of this body of Baptists representing over 10,000 members j in the association will be presided : over by Rev. John W. Suttle. Delegates have been assigned to the following homes: Church Host Bethlehem—R. vv. McCurry. Boiling Springs— E. D. Humphries ! Buffalo—I. F. Moore. j Casar—C. F. Poteet. Carpenters Grove—J. L. Blanton. Double Springs—Schumon, Berry McSwain. Double Shoals—R. C. Doggett. Dover—Mrs. J. \V. McGinnis. Elizabeth—Hatcher Poteet. Eastside—Ralph Hamrick Fallston—E. C. and J. B. Brooks. Flint Hill—Dan Brooks. Grover—Sam Jones. Kings Mountain 1st—Clyde Mc Swain. Mrs. F. A MeMurry. Kings Mountain 2nd—W H, Hum phries. Lattimore—A. P Callahan. Lawndale—J. W Wilson. Macedonia—J. E. Wallace. —Mt. Sinai—A. B. Humphries. New flethel—E. H Bowen. New Hope—J. L Karrill. New Prospect—B. B. McSwain. Normans Grove—Mrs. Forest Corn well. North Brook—Joe Brooks. Oak Grove—David R. McSwain. j Patterson Grove—C. P. Wright. Patterson Springs—Virgil Wea- j ver. Poplar Springs—Furman Mc Ginnis. Pleasant Hill—S. N. Bowen. Pleasant Ridge—R. E Padgett. Pleasant Grove—J. E. Humphries. 1 Ro^s Grove M. H. Hamrick. Sandy Plains—T P. Hamrick Shelby 1st—A. Ii. Padgett. Shelby 2nd—O Z Morgan. Union- -J. G. Ellis. co—Coy McSwain Wallace Grove—F. A Cabantss. Zion—C. A. McSwain. Zoar—D. J. Glasco Visitors—Mrs. J. B. Philberk. t, p Yarboro. FIRST BALE COTTON BOUGHT BY HAMRICK The first bale cf cotton ginperi in the county this year was purchased by Mr. Earl Hamrick, of the Ora Textile mill, instead of the oil mill as was erroneously reported in The Star. The bale was raised by Mr. P B Pair’d: an! ginn’d by the Hamricks at Boiling Springs. Negro Sees Race Coming Back In This State With Simmons Oiti dn Fight Against Party Nominee Welcomes Senator To -His Ranks. Wants Colored People To Support Him. --- (H. E. C. Bryant in Asheville Citizen.) Washington.—In the Populist-Re publican fusion days Edgecombe ccunty had a very clever negro In the person of W. Lee Person, who became a member of the legisla ture and held other jobs. He was very active in the Republican party. After the great white supremacy j campaign he came to Washington,' and is now employed here. Hearing that Senator Simmons had declar ed he would not support Smith he gave to a newspaper man this state- i ment: Welcomes Simmons. "I welcome," said he, "the acces-1 sion oi Senator Sinnnons to our I ranks. Conversion is better late! than never. Long years ago we were antagonists but we never struck be low the belt. Today I welcome him with open arms ro the grand old ' party of God and morality. After all of these years ci defeat and dis aster for the black man’s party in the South I can see us again com ing into our own. Not. a great many of us remain alive who can recall the days when black men sat in the chairs of state in the Southern cap itals. Those days have leng been gone, but, bless God. I can see them returning. It is said that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and now' I see the white people of the South dividing. "I wish to use the newspapers of North Carolina to urge my people to get behind Senator Simmons and support him. What is true in North Carolina may be true in other Southern states. Just let us get control of the stale machinery this time and Mr. Hoover in the White Mouse will give us such help as will wipe out all the laws in the South which keep the Mark man from moving on the same plane as the DIED OEM Safcitly Mother Passes At Home Of Her Daughter, Mrs. Sam Weathers, Age 73. This morning at 4 o’clock, Mrs. Martha F. Shuford, widow of the late William P. Shuford, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sam M. Weathers on West Graham street, following an illness of several months. Mrs. Shuford was 73 years of age and a fine Christian character, a proud and devoted mother who lived to see her children all doing well. Before marriage she was Miss Martha F. Blanton. Her husband d:ed six years ago and her body will be buried Thurs day afternoon at 1 o’clock at Sha ron Methodist church beside her lamented husband. The funeral services will be held at the Sharon ghurch by Rev. T. B. Johnson, as sisted by Rev, Beverly Wilson, a former pastor. She was a consecrat ed member of LaFayette Street Methodist church and a regular at tendant when her health would permit. Surviving are the following chil dren, F. E, Shuford, of Gaffney, C. A. Shuford of Durham, Mrs. S. M. Weathers and Mrs C. B. Blanton of Shelby, Margin Shuford, super intendent of the Junior Order or phanage at Lexington, C. R. Shu ford of Charlotte, together with one brother, J. L. Blanton and one sis ter Mrs. Jas. A. Blanton of this county. All of the children were here today to attend the funeral services Thursday. w^hite man. 1 am getting old, but before I die I would like to again see my race enjoying its just des serts. Then I will say like Simeon in the Bible: ‘Now lr.ttest thou thy servant depart in peace/ ” South Shelby Young Men Line Up vor Support Democratic Ticket Ernest Harris Heads Organisation Of Young \ nters There. Others To .loin. At a meeting Tuesday night I he young voters of South Shelby were organized into a Democratic club by Attorney A1 Bennett. county or ganizer of young voters clubs. Ernest Harris veil known South Shelby men and a Democratic elec tion ''fficial, was named chairman of the organization with the fol lowing .committee':' B E, Navey, Will Grant, Burgwyn Hamrick. Fred Turner, Cliff Gibson, L. V. Anthony, Ed Morehead. G. L Lovelace, Eddie Jones, Rex Hicham, Charles Blan ton, Meek Irvin. Ernest Carter, R. L. Newton and Chas. Bradley. Members of the club expect to add numerous new members during this week and the period prior to the election. s Here Estimated Damage Is In Millions Death Toll May Exceed 400. Palm Beaches Worst Hit. Caro linas Struck. The hurricane, which swept Porto Rico with ruin, and moved on across Florida Monday r.ight and yester day may have claimed around 400 lives in Florida when the death list is finally totalled. Late yesterday the hurricane weakening in Its fury swept up the Atlantic coast across the Carolinas and the South Atlantic states were swept with rain and wind. West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 18.— Howard W. Selby, chairman ol the Palm Beach Red Cross committee, tonight estimated that the death list from Sunday’s hurricane will reach 400 in Palm Beach county. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 18 — With a death list of 149 already re ported from the siorni stricken area of southern Florida fears were ex pressed today that it may reach 250. The list of injured, said Howard Selby, chairman of the Palm Beach Red Cross, may crow to 1,000. Property Damage. At the same time the estimates of property damage mounted. Selby was quoted as fixing it as $25,000, 000 alone in Palm Beach county and Senator Joe T. Robinson said it was being estimated at between $75, 000,000 and $100,000,000 in the af fected area. ' The Democratic vice presidential nominee made this statement on arriving in Jacksonville after a trip through the storm ravaged terri tory. From the southeast, southern ao4 immediate territory bordering Lafeg Okeechobee came reports of death, suffering and stress resulting from the West Indian hurricane which last Sunday came out of the At lantic and hurled itself on that land. Scenes of Destruction. West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 18. -A blanket of wreckage has been tossed by nature in ruthless fash ion over what only three days ago was one of the picturesque play grounds of the nation. This city and Palm Beach, across an inlet from here, are strewn from end to end with debris. The approach of either now is through a torn countryside. Over Carolina*. Charlotte, Sept. 19.—The Caro llnas last night were in the grip of ’ the hurricane that turned aside > after penetrating Florida, causing many deaths, but apparently had escaped anything worse than a wet ting and some property damage. Coming over Cnarleston, S. C, yesterday morning, the storm had passed on up the coast.- spreading inland and tearing down telegraph and telephone wires. Winds that reached a velocity of from 40 to 50 n iles an hour and whipped up heavy seas along the coast were accompanied by torren tial rains. Charleston up to last night had a rainfall of eight incaes or more; Wilmington reported 4 54 inches of rain in 20 hours and points inland reported correspond ingly heavy downpours with winds ranging from 20 tu 35 miles an hour. Isolated. From Charleston to Savannah. Ga„ the coast line was cut off f-om communication v ith the outside world, the Western Union Telegraph company office here was able to work intermittently with Charles ton and a dispatch from the As sociated Press correspondent at that place said that seme damage had been done to small boats and pie s and that trees had been uprooted. High tides with brisk winds were reported from Wilmington and New Bern on the North Carolina coast. Some damage was done by a gale early yesterday at Wrightsville Beach. The barometer at Wilming ton stood at 29.39 at 2 o'clock this afternoon and was stationary. Columbia was cut off from ccm ! munication by a stoim that was | reported to have struck between j Columbia and Newberry. Florence ■ and Charleston. S. C.. still were cut i off last night. , OLIVE GROVE TO HAVE CHILDREN’S DAV There will be a children's Day at | Olive Crove church GepL 23, be i gmnng at 10 o'clock.
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