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VOL. XXXV, No. 119 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1928. 16 PAGES TODAY Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year (In advance) 32-50 Carrier, per year (In advance) $3.01 ' LATE NEWS Yannee.r Leading: Tn Second At the end of the second Inning in fTorld Series fra»ne the YarsM wen litding the St. l.oiils C-rdhl»Ki I-I. Hew York’s runs ctm? w,>*n H*ith ws« walked with on R id hlr ho«e ran twin, Lou Gthrtr, walloped one over the fence I* «• lioner. /“ingrars is hurling for I It*w York Grover Alexander | for rrt. Louis. Rain Likely. Tatar's Narth Carolina Weather ttaport: Partly cloudy and probably in wcsf-«m and north por tion* tonight. Saturday not much chance In temperature. Past Serrire.. The Star, a tri-weekly notvspa per, toccy scores another notable "beat'’ due to the remarkable srrv loe of the International New* pno los. In this issita i* a photo of Bane Both scoring the first run in yes terday's World Serial gam* at Now Tork; also a big photo of the crowd seeing the first game. The photos were rushed here by telephoto, air mail and special delivery. It Is the second “beat” scored by '^he Star, even over daily newspa pers in this section, as The Star presented first actual photos on the Porto Rican and Florida storms. TEHBS EW KIWIS DID delightful Musical Program By Talented Artists Rendered At Annual Social Affair. With their wives at home to be entertained later to a ladies night program, the members of the Ki wanis club last night had as their guests the 78 teachers of the public schools of Shelby. The entertain ment of the teachers is an annual affair with the Kiwanis club and is k red letter event in the Kiwanis year. The program last night was largely musical with some of Shel by’s best talent in voice and instru ment, together with Mr. Will Neal, Charlotte banker whose clear, strong voice is always heard with great de light. Mr. Forrest Eskridge, chairman of the reception committee was in charge of affairs. Words of wel come were spoken by President J. 8. Dorton and Kiwanian D. Z. New ton. Prof. Horace Easom with Mrs. H. S. Plaster piano accompanist sang a number of delightful selec tions, while Mr. Neal charmed the audience with his splendid voice and the ‘‘Plaster’’ orchestra com posed of Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Plaster, W. T. Sinclair, and W. S. Bucha nan gave a number of instrumen tal numbers. Souvenirs in the form of small taxes of candy were given by the tephenson Drug Co., matches by Hord and Ransom and a beautiful basket of rases was awarded Miss Brown, a teacher from Mississippi for making the most words out of the name of the donor. ‘‘Wakefield.’’ She made 39 words in two minutes. Favors were also given the artists of the evening. A number of Kiwanians will go next Wednesday to Winston-Salem to attend the Carolinas district con vention. On Friday night of next week the Rotary club of Shelby will entertain the Kiwanians. statusIfITwis UNDER DISCUSSION Officer Has Not Been Sent As Yet For War Yet Prisoner. Puz zles Officials. The status of Frank Lewis, w^ar vet, chain gang convict, and now an inmate of the insane department of the State prison, is still a matter of debate here. Late information is that Mr. R. L. Ryburn, county attorney, has taken up the matter with officials at the prison, and an officer will not likely be sent for Lewis until a reply to the Ryburn letter has i been received. May Stay In Jail. What to do with Lewis if he is brought back constitutes the main worry for county officials. It is al most an impossibility for convict camp supervisors to work him, it is said; and if returned Lewis may serve the remainder of his term in Jail. The case is crating considerable discussion as there are many to cling to the opinion that Lewis was not guilty of the charge on which | he was convicted. I __ [ Shelby Fans Attend Football Contests A number of Shelby fans are to day witnessing the Shelby-Waynes 'ville game at Waynesville and the Gaffney High-Boiling Springs col lege game at Gaffney. In the tv.o contests the two Cleveland county teams are con ceded an even break for a victory. Blanton Small Crowd Attends First Anti Smith Gathering' Here. Ben nett Speaks. Joe E. Blanton, former No. 6 road commissioner and supervi sor of the chain gang. Is the chairman of the anti-Smith movement in Cleveland county, being named to that post at the first meeting of anti-Smiths hrld at Eastside school last night. The first formal gathering of Smith foes in this county gathered at the call of George M. Vaughn, who shortly after the opening of the meeting Introduced the speaker, Mr. O. K. Dennett, of Asheville. The crowd attending the meeting did not assume the proportions ex pected by many, not over ilO at tending by actual count and from general appearances not many vot ing precincts in the county were represented. Several people present were loyal Democrats who listened in to hear how the organization Crowd Not Large. wouia work. No Religious Fight. Other than the Bennett speech there were no talks. The speaker first, of all declared that he was a Democrat, and not a Republican, but could not support Smith. He in formed his hearers that the anti Smith "movement in North Carolina was based upon Smith’s prohibition and imigration views and these were depicted. Smith's religion, the speaker declared, was not being fought. Support Democrats. Indication was that the state movement against Smith would, however, support state and local Democratic tickets, “We are fighting no one but Smith, and it is a matter for you to decide about the state and your local tickets,” Bennett declared. Continuing the speaker outlined the working plan of the anti-Smith movement and perfected a local or ganization. Mr. Blanton, as stated above, was made chairman with the following as members of the committee: George M. Vaughn, H. H. Steven son, L. L. Wortman and Fred Sen ter. Mo Worry Over County Ticket, Say The Leaders Is So Sure To Go Democratic That County Race Is Little Talked. That the county Democratic ticket will carry in Cleveland coun ty is so certain that it isn't even being talked by the voters, declare county leaders here. “No one has any idea that any of the Democrats on the county ticket will be defeated in the November election,” stated a local leader to day. “A Democratic victory is so much of a certainty that one can not get up a conversation on the subject.” Leaders discussed the subject slightly when one county Demo crat declared that more interest should be shown in the county race, particularly the talker said witn Mr, Mull, legislative candidate, and Mr. Gardner both away from home. The answer given him was that Republicans are not showing any campaign spirit except for one of fice and that follows a custom of making a fight for one office in order to hold the party together in the county. Judge B. T. Falls, county chairman sees nothing whatsoever to worry about with a native of the county as candidate for governor. With no campaigning at all, he says, the county would return a big major ity for the other candidates. How ever, the weekly array of speakers faring forth into the county are making a plea not only for the na tional ticket, but also for the state and county ticket, he said. Cinderella Store Opens Saturday The Cinderella Bootery, a new shoe shop of the first class, located in the newly built Blanton block, next door to A. V. Wray's, is open ing its doors to the public tomor row, according to a full page an nouncement in today’s issue of The Star. Cinderella shops are well known to people of western Carolina. This new Shelby enterprise is under the management of the Gastonia store Well located, and with the prospect of being well managed, the new shop ,s a worthwhile addition to Shelby as an ever '»'>rfe«ing trading centre. Ruth Scores 1st Series Run Babe Ruth scored the first run of the opening World Series game at New York Thursday. lie scored in the first inning on Lou Gehrig’s double. He is shown in photo crossing the plate. The Yankees \V on, 4 to 1. Photo by International Newsreel. IN KILLED ON M ROAD WORK Dynamite Cache Explodes Near Lincolnton. Father Dies, Son Hurt. Lincolnton, Oct. 4.—J. O. Mc Whorter, of Liberty, S. C., received injuries from which he died en route to the hospital, and his son, Jack McWhorter, was injured, though not seriously, and D. B. Thornburg escaped uninjured when 65 sticks of dynamite exploded within less than ten feet from where they were working near nere this morning. Repair Work. The three men were engaged in repairing a jack hammer on a work bench at the blacksmith shop of the road construction camp of P. R. Huffstetler, grading contractor, on state highway 206. near the cor porate limits of Lincolnton. The cause for the exploding of the dynamite is not known. The three men noticed smoke coming from a tool box which contained the dynamite, and Thornburg knowing ot the presence of the dynamite ran, the other two following, but failed to get out of danger zone be fore the explosion occurred. Shop Wrecked. The shop was in the open, under some trees, and several boxes of tools, horse shoes, work benches and forge were blown in to small bits and scattered around the coun tryside, and parties in the vicinity state that steel rained all about the territory. The dead man was fireman for the steam shovel used in grading the highway, and his son was an assistant. His remains were sent to Liberty for burial. Talk Of Another New Store Coming In recent days there has been some discussion in business Shelby of a rumor w'hich has it that another new store, a branch of the Sears. Roebuck company, may come to Shelby. So far as The Star could learn to day no one in Shelby seems to know anything definite about the rumor and it is not known where it originated. Some weeks back a similar rumor was heard about the city. Tax Delinquents In Hands Of Printers City Clerk Fred Culbreth turned over this morning the names of those who are delinquent in paying city taxes for the year 1927 but the list is rather long and could not be set and proof-read for errors in time to appear in today’s paper. The list will be set tonight and ap pear in Monday’s paper, setting November 5 as the time for the sale of property on which city taxes are not paid. Religion Big Issue Gov. McLean States Says Tar Heels Not Intolerant But Rather Lack Understanding Of Case. Raleigh.—Something of a sen sation has been caused here , by the frank declaration of Governor A. W. McLean in his first polit’cal address of the campaign at Bladen boro that the religious issue rather than prohibition is the major reas on for opposition to Governor Al fred! E. Smith, at least in North Carolina. And those who heard .the governor’s speech or who read it it are frank in their praise of the ; way in which he approached and j handled a most delicate, if not the most delicate angle of the presens campaign. ; “Got ernor McLean made a clear ; cut, common sense appeal to the in stinct for fair play, and made a profound impression,” said one who heard the speech last night. “He did not make any direct appeal for tolerance on the part of Protestants : toward the Catholic church, but showed rather the tolerance on the part*of Catholics in the United States, and especially in North Carolina, toward Protestants, and their loyalty to the state and na ! tional governments. He then left it to the good sense of his hearers to draw their own conclusions.” It was made clear by Governor McLean from the start, however,' that he was not defending Catholic- j ism, declaring that he was a Protestant by “birth and convic- j tion” and adding that he would j “fight if necessary to maintain my right to remain a Protestant.” "I would keenly resent any at tempt to proscribe my religious be-1 liefs or to bar me from public serv ice because I am a Presbyterian,” the governor declared. “And you j Baptists, Methodist, Presbyterians j and members of other Protestant ' denominations who hear me wouid do the Same thing.” Strike Telling Blow. Another telling blow for the na tional Democratic ticket was struck by Governor McLean observers here feel, when in taking up Governor Smith, he said: “I do not fear Governor Smith’s (Continued on page 11.) Recital Tonight At B. S. Junior College Misses Goggans And Weedy To Have Charge With Other Tal ent—Public Invited. Friday evening, October 5, at 8 o'clock; there will be a music re cital given by the faculty of the department of music of Boiling Springs junior college in the audi torium of Memorial building. Miss Katherine Goggans is direc tor of music and Miss Lorene Woody is head of the voice department. Miss Woody was a member of the facility of Boiling Springs during the past year, and her voice has captivated many audiences. Miss Goggans comes to Boiling Springs this year from Forest City where she was director of music at the First Baptist church and piano teacher in the high school. She has studied under some of the finest masters both in this country and abroad, among these, Isadore Phil lip. of the Paris conservatory of music. Both of these are talented artists and their program promises to be quite a treat for music lovers. The people of the community and of nearby cities are looking forward to this event with much pleasure. The public is cordially invited. Says North Carolina And South Will Vote For Smith In Election Swing Through Five States Leads To Belief That Democrats Will Be Victors. (H. E. C. Bryant in Charlotte Ob server.) Washington.—After a tour of five southern states, Alabama, Georgia. South Carolina, North Carolina, I returned here convinced, from what active, aggressive working Demo crats told me, that the south is go ing to vote for Smith and Robinson by an overwhelming majority. If the election were held today, the Democrats there would win, and every day from now until the elec tion they will gain. Alabama and Georgia are in ex cellent shape. South Carolina nas ; never been excited. North Carolina I is still badly mixed, but it is swing ing to the Houston ticket for the usual plurality. Virginia is rapidly improving. In North Carolina, the Democrats are going to lose a large number of business men, many of whom have been Republicans at heart for years because they believe in the protec tive tariff and are dead opposed to government ownership or control of public utilities and other enterprises private business can handle. There is real hostility to the Smith water power policy, but the religious end prohibition issue is being eliminat ed. The letter of Representative A. L. Bulwinkle to Governor Smith, pledging his support, but announc ing that he would opose any bills to change the prohibition laws states ’the case for a great many workers. Throat Bothers Max, Calls Off Speech Tonight Raleigh.—'O. Max Gardner, the Democratic nominee for governor, Thursday night an nounced he had cancelled his engagement to speak in Kin ston Friday night on account of the condition of his throat. assocIMIets WITH BEAVER 01 Rev. J. L. Jenkins to Preach An nual Sermon—Young: People To Have A Part. Delegates and churches are plan ning for the 78th annual session of the Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation which meets Tuesday and Wednesday of next week with the Beaver Dam church of which Rev. D. P. Putnam is pastor on highway 20 west of Shelby. Great prepara tions are being made by the people of that neighborhood to entertain the delegates and visitors. In the association there are over forty churches with a total membering of approximately nine thousand. On Tuesday morning of the first day the Biblical Recorder will be presented by Rev. I. D. Harrill, woman's work by Mrs. John Wa caster, orphanage by Rev. D. G. Washburn, followed by the sermon by Rev. J. L. Jenkins of Boiling Springs. On the afternoon of Tues day B. T. Falls will represent the co-operative program and church finance, Rev. Rush Padgett state missions, Rev. G. P. Abernethy home missions, Dr. Zeno Wall, for eign missions. A special B. Y. P. U. program will be rendered Tuesday night. F. E. Greene will make a report, Mrs. L H. Ledford a short talk on B. Y. P. U. and social life, a sermon by Rev. H. E. Waldrop. A. L. Dalton has a talk on the work and special music will be furnished by Miss Zona Hord and students from Boil ing Springs college. On the second day, Wednesday, Rev. W. E. Lowe reports on Sunday schools, Rev. C. J. Black on Chris tian education. Boiling Springs junior college will be taken up at 10:45 on this day. D. F. Hord speaks in the afternoon on the Bap tist hospital, B. P. Jenkins on old ministers relief, W. N. Cook on tem perance and public morals, J. Hoyle Love on obituaries. Big Committee Lined Up There To Support Entire Democratic Ticket. Cline Head. At a meeting held Wednesday night young Democratic voters of Faliston formed a working commit tee with James L. Cline as chair man. The committee made up of en thusiastic Democrats, working to support the Democratic ticket, is as follows: Latham Wilson, E. W. Dixon, R. F. Stamey, C. R. Dixon, C. A. Wright Lee Wilson, W. A. Wright, G. S. Royster, Coleman Elliott, Ed Ham rick, Vertice Williams, J. C. Roy ster, C. R. , Wright, Vance Royster, E. D. Cline, W. L. Lcdbeter, Charlie Clay, Roland Sparks, Fred Hoyle, H. M. Gantt, S. M. Green. Homer Beam, T. M. Sweezy, Yates Williams. Sloan Elliott, John Till man, Talmadge Lee, Hall Tillman, Everett Spurling, Herman Beam, Will Porter, Summey Peeler,, W. C. Edwards. The following are honorary mem bers: Tom Stamey. W. A. Gantt, and Floyd Williams Pastors And Workers Conference Monday The pastors and workers confer ence of the Kings Mountain asso ciation will hold the regular month ly meeting next Monday 1:30 p. m. in the office of Dr. Zeno Wall over the Nix and Lattimore store. It is earnestly desired that a full at tendance can be had at this meet ing. Rev. J. L. Jenkins will begin a series 6f “Devotional Studies of the Book of Genesis’’ which wlll^/be given in seven installments. Bring your Bibles and let us study togeth er this wonderful book whicn has been abused and misunderstood by so many. Who said end fighting? A new U. S. cruiser is to be named "Chicago." —Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Textile Men Warned OfG. 0, P. By Major Bulwinkle In Speech Good Crowd Hears Congressman In South Shelby Speech. Dis cusses Labor. What was considered one of the largest crowds, if not the largest, ever to hear a political speech in South Shelby gathered at the school auditorium there last night to hear Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia, make a plea for the Democratic party. Speaking in a textile center, Ma jor Bulwinkle devoted himself to a “show-up” of the Republican party in its attitude towards Southern textile interests and labor. our up rccmig. “Southern cotton mill owners should have their attention called to the denunciation and condemna tion of them in the Republican cam paign textbook, issued by the Re publican national committee,” de clared Major Bulwinkle. Major Bulwinkle charged the Re publican committee with attempting to stir up sectional feeling, as re gards operations of southern cot ton mills, and, if possible, stir up labor troubles. The speaker was introduced by County Chairman B. T. Falls. Excerps from the address follow: G. O. P. Mill Attack. “Southern cotton mill men should have their attention called to the denunciation and condemnation of them in the “Republican campaign text-book—1928—issued by the Re publican national committee.” A careful reading of this book, the book used by the Republican ora tors and speakers in the United States, will show that the Republi-; can national executive committee at tempts to not only denounce the southern cotton mill owners, for as they call it, the exploitation of child labor, but they intend also to stir up sectional feeling in regard to the operation of southern cotton mills, and if possible it seems that the Re publicans are trying to cause labor trouble by the issuance of this book. Twice in the book it is stated that there is no legislation in southern states regulating the employment of children in industries. Twice in the book it is stated that the refusal of the Democratic states in the South to prohibit or regulate child labor resulted in the introduction into in ter-state commerce of products made by child labor in southern factories which enable those pro ducts to under-sell similar products made in northern factories under higher standards of employment, which prohibited child labor. This fact, in addition to the demands of humanity in behalf of America’s childhood, impelled the Republican congress to pass a resolution propos ing an amendment to the federal Constitution to regulate or prohibit child labor. On Child Labor. “In this campaign handbook on pages No. 341 and No. 342 and on pages No. 364, 365 and 365, the Demo cratic party and the southern Dem ocratic states and the southern cot ton factories are condemned for the failure of the ratification of the pro posed amendment to the federal Constitution prohibition child labor. But this is not all. Immediately aft er the denunciation of the southern cotton factories in one place, it is stated in the next paragraph that the Republicans still are opposed to the exploitation of children. On page No. 366, after the condemna tion of southern mill owners and southern factories, a new paragraph is headed: “Mr. Hoover States His Position on Exploitation of Chil dren.’’ After this heading, it reads: “None of these failures have chang ed the justice of the demand for abolition of child labor, under con ditions which amount to exploita tion of childhoodr the impairment, of its health, the curtailment of its education, and the handicapping of its entire future.’’ Read all of the pages in this Republican campaign text-book and you will say that the Republican national executive com mittee has charged the southern factories with exploiting children, impairing the health of the chil dren, curtailing the education of the children and handicapping the en tire future of the children of the south. The statements made in this handbook are absolutely false, and in behalf of the cotton mill owners of North Carolina and especially the cotton mill owners who are my con stituents, I deny every false state ment and brand them as lies and challenge any Republican. Where soever situated, to prove the truth of the state that southern cotton mill owners are exploiting the chil dren of the South. I would not be fair to my constitutents, I would not be true to my constituents. If I did not publicly deny these lies against them and the other men of the South, In my own county I know that men like the Armstrongs, Rankins, Stowes, Rudisills, Dixons, J. H. Separk, C. E. Hutchison, A. K. Winget, A. C. Llneberger, S. M. Robinson, R. A. Ray, W. T. Love, a W. Oramer have never exploited the children of Gaston county, but have always stood for the education and welfare of the children. I know that in Cleveland, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and Catawba counties the cotton mill men, being composed of men like the Mauneys, Younts, J. A. Ab ernethy, D. E. Rhyne, Prank Love, c. W. Johnson, B. B. Gossett, and others too numerous to mention, are not guilty of exploiting the children of their respective communities and counties. Shot At Hoover. “This book with these false states ments was, as I said, issued by the Republican national executive com mittee. Charles A. Jonas of North Carolina is a member of the na tional Republican executive com mittee, his name being carried in the book. He, of course, is respon sible in part for the issuance of such deliberate falsehood as tha this book contains. The book was issued, of course, with the approval of the Republican presidential can didate, Mr. Herbert Hoover. Does he, on the one hand, praise the southern cotton mill owners, and then on the other, approve of the literature issued by his own exe cutive committee, by his own chair man whom he selected? Clearly he does. Bulwinkle Against. “When the proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution was before the house for consideration I opposed it. 1 opposed it because it would have been an unwarranted Interference in the rights of the state. I opposed it because everv child, whether working in the mils or on the farm, would have had to have a permit from the federal government permitting him to work; if the constitutional amendment had been ratified by the states and if congress had passed legislation carrying it into effect. I was told' by northern people that the reason amendment to the Constitution was necessary, the people in the South used the poor little negro children to pick cotton, thereby injuring their health. Of course nothing of this kind is said in the Republican cam paign text-book, but the southern cotton mill owners are the ones who are charged with the exploitation of the children of the South, there by causing the Impairment of the health of the children, curtailing the education of the children and handicapping the future of the chil dren. “All legislation in behalf of chil dren, this handbook says, has been enacted by the Republicans and op posed by the Democrats. The fed eral law which was declared uncon (Continued on page 11.) Shelby Scouts To Get Eagle Awards Sherrill Lineberger And Zeno Wall Will Receive High Rank. Other Awards. The regular Boy Seoul court of honor for the Shelby district of the Piedmont council of the Boy Scouts of America, will be held to the Cleveland county court house on Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. At this time numerous awards will be made to Boy Scouts to this section of Cleveland county. The outstanding awards to the form of the Eagle Badge and rsnk will be awarded to Sherrill Line berger and Zeno Wall, Jr„ of troop 2, Shelby. Other awards earned by local scouts while attending the Piedmont Boy Scout camp during! the past summer will be made. The court of honor will likewisi review scout applicants for further! advancement and scouts frock Shelby, Lattimore and Belwood art expected to appear. All applica Mans are to be turned to to Deputy Scout Commissioner Tilden B, Falls, of Shelby, no later than fcmg o’clock Monday afternoon. The membership of the couri will include members of the Shel by scout committee made up of the following men: C. D. Moore, X. O, Griffin, Tilden B. Falls, Wiilta Me Murry, C. P. Roberts, R. T. De Grande, Renn Drum, D. W. Roy ster, George Blanton, T. P. Toms, J. S. McKnlght, Rev. H. N. McDiar mid. Dr. D, F. Moore, Jack Dover, W. N. Dorsey, Rev. H. K. Boyer, L. p. Holland, Chas. Reinhardt, lid Switzer. Robt. irwin. Rev. Zeno Wall, Lee B. Weathers, 4. D. Line berger. Rush Padgett, Q. 8. An thony, O. M. Mull and others. Scout Executive R. M. Schiele of the Piedmont council will be present to serve as clerk of the court.