12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 125 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 T LATENEWS The Markets. Spot Cotton ... ...... 19'4c Cotton seed per 100 tbs. __ $2.15 Fair And Cooler. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and slightly cooler to night. Saturday fair. Negro Shoots Wife Today Will Gilliard, Shelby negro, shot his wife two times in the left side about one o’clock this afternoon while the two were talking near the Blanton sta bles on Trade street. Immediately after firing tl^e two shots into the body of his wife, Lela, the negro ran at full speed to the coun ty jail, five blocks away, where he ran into the kitchen and asked to be locked up quick. After he was placed in a cell, Deputy Mike Austell took the gun. which was still hot, from. Gilliard and little by little began to get details of the shooting. Something was said, officers reported, about another man hanging about his wife. Meantime the wounded wo man was rushed to the Shelby hospital, where late reports stated that she was in serious condition. Surgeons at the time were in the operating room trying to locate the two bullets, both of which entered the left side of the body near the arm-pit, one bullet going through her arm before going into her body. Reports from those near the scene of the shooting have it that Gilliard who only recently got off the gang for threaten ing his wife, met her in the alley near the stable and was walking along talking to her, when the woman screamed out “No! I’ll not have you back.” “Well , I said I’d kill you, and here goes,,” a passerby stat ed that Gilliard yelled as he began to pump the contents of his blue-steel .38 into her body. — CLAIMS WIFE WAS INSULTED IN SHOW Charged Man Next To Her In Kings Mountain Theatre With Annoying. County Judge Jonn Mull heard a right unusual case during his coun ty court grind in Kings Mountain yesterday. Charges preferred in the ease, by a Bessemer City man, was that a young Kings Mountain man annoy ed and insulted his wife in a Kings Mountain theatre Tuesday night. Complaint was that the man sitting next to the married woman kept rubbing against her and touching her body. The defendant denied that any such thing was done and on the stand declared that the theatre was crowded and that it was impossible to move without touching persons on adjoining seats with his elbows. He denied that he touched the woman with his hands. The evidence it was said present ed in court against the defendant did not seem to be so strong as was the charges in the warrant and the defendant was freed by the court. Shelby Is Church Going Place, Says A York Newspaper The following from the Yorkville Enquirer should be of interest here, especially to those of the Baptist denomination: “Over in the adjoining county of Cleveland at Shelby, where the folks believe in doing things on a big scale, the Baptists $re now engag ed in building an addition or an nex to their handsome church edi fice whereby it will be possible to comfortably seat 1,000 people at church and another 1.000 at Sun day school ever Sunday. It must be admitted that is a large for any one church or Sunday school or both in a town the size of Shelby. Why, it is to be seriously doubted if there were 1,000 people attendant upon all the church services in Yorkvilel last Sunday morning.'* RUTHERFORDTON MAYOR HURT IN AUTO CRASH Rutherfordton, Oct. 18.—Mayor M. L. Justice is confined to his room with injuries received in an auto when he was enroute to Union S. C. and the driver ran into a small ditch at an approach to a bridge and threw the mayor against the top of the car. He also fell against the back seat and injured hie back. BRONZE TABLET TO HONOR SOLDIERS: UNVEIL NOV. 11TH Herons From Cleveland Who Died In World War To Be Com memorated In Bronze. A beautiful bronze tablet near three feet wide and four feet high has been ordered by The Star Pub lishing company to be paid for yvith funds which The Star raised a few years ago to commemorate the sol diers who served ai the World War and the 31 who made the Supreme Sacrifice. This tablet will be placed either in the court house or on a wall at the East or West entrance and be unveiled here Armistice Day, November 11th with appropriate ceremony. The ladles who are mem bers of the various women’s clubs are planning the first, observance the county has ever had of the sign ing of the armistice ten years ago and various features will be provid ed on the program. A dinner will be served to the ex-service men who went from Cleveland county. They number between 400 and 500 and fully 350 of them are expected here. 31 Names. The bronze tablet is a beautiful and permanent memorial not only to those from Cleveland county who served in the World War but to the 31 mem who made the Supreme Sacrifice, either in camp or on the battle field. The table will have a large American eagle in relief w-ith the years 1917 when the United States went to war and 1919 when the evacuation order was issued and the troops left Germany. The names of the deceased soldiers will stand out an the bronze tablet, together with a sentence from Woodrow Wil son spoken in 1918 honoring the men who served their country so faithfully in its most trying days. Type of Marker Debated. Just what type of memorial would be erected was debated for two years. The Star raised over $300 from small contributors in its ap peals through the paper. Sugges tions came thick and fast when the war was fresh on the hearts of tile people and some wanted to build an athletic stadium, some suggested a handsome arch at the cemetery entrance, others the lighting of the concrete bridge between Shelby and Cleveland Springs, some a granite shaft with a doughboy statue on the court square, to commemorate the “boys,” but each suggestion requir ed more money than was available and no other source was found from which to get funds. Finally The Star decided to use the funds on hand and erect a bronez tablet in or on the Court House and a beau tiful tablet has been selected, the bronze to be of U. S. Government specifications, the letters to be high ly polished and the background rip ple effect. A delivery from the factory has been guaranteed in time for the Armistice Day unveiling. Cotton Estimates In Star's Contest Play About 45,000 Average Of Estimates Range From 42,000 To 46,000 Bales. Other Guesses. If all the estimates made on the Cleveland county cotton cron could be totalled and divided by the num ber of estimate it fs likely that the average estimate would be close to 45,000 bales. Ninety percent of the estimates in so far are between 42, 000 and 46,000 bales. Ends October 31. All estimates must be in The Star office by October 31, a week and one-half yet. At the final gin ning report The Star will give $5 to the estimate nearest the ginning total. Recent estimates are: Evans Ed dins, 43,327; Mrs. Clyde Kee, 42,798; Cicero Grigg, 39,300; Mrs. Bryan Gardner, 45,050; Max Daves, 44, 275; Vernle Daves, 41,278; F. C. Sweezy. 47,538; T. A. Champion, 45,151; R. B. Watterson; Durham Moore, 44,175. Democrats At Casar For A1 The political philosophy that Democrats remain more loyal to their party in sections where the Republican vote is strong is borne out this year by the Casar community, ac cording to J. L. Walker. Mr. Walker says that every one of the several score Dem ocrats at Casar, a strong Re publican center, will vote for Gov. Alfred Smith with one exception and he vows that he will not vote for the Re publican candidate. i Hoch! Viva! Salud! Hoo-ray! Hey! Hey! Vociferous welcome in New York’s own best style—ticker tape, sirens, parade, police, City Hail—was accorded bluff, old Dr. Hugo Ecker.er, commander o£ the Graf Zeppelin, and iiis companion* on gallant air exploit. Photo shows Eckener (arrow), Germany’s iron chan cellor of the air, riding, a la Lindbergh atop the tonneau of his automobile, up the glory trail men call lower Broadway. Campaigns Not What They “Used To Be” Bryan Travelled Thousands Of Miles. Radio Has Changed Things. Washington—Presidential cam paigns never again will be what they used to be. William Jennings Bryan traveled 18.000 miles in the campaign of 1896 and spoke as cften as he could persuade the engineer to stop. But it won't happen again. For several reasons. First. • of course, the radio has changed everything. Today the candidate can reach millions, from one end of the country to the other. If campaign speeches decide elec tions, then radio and the newspa pers will provide that decisive fac tor rather than personal stump speeches of the candidates regard ed from the standpoint of their ef fect within earshot. Again, political parties have come to realize that it is impor tant to keep their candidate in good health. The horrible possi bility that a candidate might col lapse or even die during a campaign, leaving his party in an unprecedent edly unfortunate position, has oft ten been brought heme to them. Another reason Bryan's record is not likely to be beaten is that he was only 36 years old, and possessed of powerful physique. Hoover and Smith are no cripples, but each is 18 years older than Bryan. It prob ably will be a long time before we have another 36-year-old candidate. The most cogent reason of all for the curtailment of speaking programs for the candidates again gets us back to the radio. It ex plains why Governor Smith has not been making a far more ar duous campaign ana accepting the many requests he has had for ad ditional speeches, A candidate has only so many good speeches in his system—so many different speeches, that is. There are only certain issues on which he dares to touch at all. But over the radio he can’t make the same speech twice. If he does, S most of his audience is likely to I exclaim that they've heard that one before and turn the dial. That, your correspondent judged from a few nights of listening in, was the main tour in Smith's wake. It is now being explained that, for the reason outlined Smith i' simply can’t afford to accept more! invitations for speeches than he considers vitally nsees,tary. Espe dally if he is to save his supreme effort for the last week or two be fore election^ day. He is confining himself to about 20 speeches for the campaign. In cluding his acceptance speech, he has now made eight, talking on farm relief, religious bigotry, Repub lican corruption, water power, pro hibition, state issues in N ’ og by mega phone as they Lash in. Democratic Women Organize In Support Of Ticket In Com ing Election. A club of Democratic women vot ers has been formed at Casar, it is announced by Mrs. R. L. Rybum, county chairman, with Mrs. J. T. Buff as head of the club and as representative on the county execu tive committee of women. Members of the club are: Mrs. C. A. Wortman, Mrs. J. T. Buff, Miss Ellis McNeilly, Mrs. A. A War lick, Mrs. A. A. Horton, Mrs. H, T. Hoyle, Mrs. John Ramsey, Mrs. Es sie Parker, Mrs. Rena Bradshaw, Mrs. Andy Hoyle, Mrs. Frank Wal ker. Miss Mae Elmore, Miss Lona Downs, Miss Minnie Downs, Mrs. Lem Mode, Mrs. Odus Elmore, Mrs. Andy Elmore, Mrs. Gurry Elmore, Mrs. Rasco Cook, Mrs. D. F Cook, Mesdames Walker, Scott Queen, Lawson Walker, Mrs. Vivian Elmore, Mrs. Minnie Mace, Mrs. Moody Hoyle, Mrs. Robert Downs, Mrs. Denny Downs, Mrs. Chaster Downs, Mrs. Fred Mull. Mrs. John Newton, Mrs. C. F. Ramsey, Mrs. J. F. Eaker. Mrs. David Wortman, Miss Zula Wort njan, Mrs. Cleveland Buff, Mrs. Bill Buff, Mr. Amos Wortman, Mrs. Cleveland Cook, Mrs. Marvin Buff, Mrs. Lee Carpenter, Mrs. Dew ey Carpenter. Mrs. Otis Carpenter, Mrs. Clyde Carpenter, Mrs. A. C. Brackett, Mrs. Minnie Walker, Mrs. Charlie Downs, Mrs. D. D Cook. Miss Irlee Walker, Mrs. W. M. Bumgardner, Mrs. Sanford Pruett, Mrs. McClure Pruett, Mrs. A. L. Wortman, Miss Ella Hoyle, Mrs. Vernia New-ton. WILSON WAS FOR LPT WI AID BEER, CLAIM I0W Sent Wet Plank To San Francisco Convention, Tumulty Reveals. Philadelphia, Oct. 19.—President Wilson wrote a light wines and beer plank for the platform of the Demo crats in their national convention at San Francisco in 1920, according to his confidant and secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, in a talk to a Demo cratic gathering at the Ritz-Carl ton hotel. “A few days before the conven tion,” said Mr. Tumulty, “President Wilson delivered to a trusted friend a copy of a proposed ‘wet’ plank and asked him to submit it to the committee on resolutions of the San Francisco convention,” The tenta tive draft of the plank was as fol lows : “We recognize that the American saloon is opposed to all social, mor al and economic order, and we pledge ourselves to its absolute eli mination by the passage of such laws as will finally and effectively exterminate it. But we favor the repeal of the Volstead act and the substitution for it of a law per mitting the manufacture of light wines and beer.” “Evidently the trusted friend who had this in charge felt the ‘dry’ atmosphere of the convention was unfavorable and so the president's plank, prepared by himself, was not even given a hearing before the committee of resolutions. “Time and again when we discuss ed the Volstead act. President Wil son would say: ‘The wrong way of doing the right thing. You cannot regulate the morals and habits of a real cosmopolitan people by placing unreasonable restrictions upon their liberty and freedom. All such at tempts can only end in failure and disappointment. In the last an alysis, in these matters that seek to regulate personal habits and cus toms, public opinion is the great regulator.*. "There could be no more appropri ate setting than here, in the birth | place of the nation, to make a plea for the preservation of those in alienable human rights proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. There could be no timelier occasion to say a word in behalf of progress ive liberal government than the present gathering, in which are so many important citizens of this city and commonwealth who have put aside for the time being their party affiliations to promote the candi dacy of the great progressive liberal governor of New York for the presi dency. Sees Smith Misrepresented. "Although the Democratic plat form at Houston eliminated the tariff question as an issue in the campaign, so far as any sincere and fair discussion of it could be had, the opponents of Gov. Smith are attempting to revive it, and by mis representing the Democratic atti tude are seeking to alarm the busi ness world and frighten wage earn ers into support of the Republican candidate. "So keenly did Woodrow Wilson feel about this matter that, though weary and sick, with the date of the San Francisco convention approach ing, he believed it was the duty of his party to speak out frankly and courageously and avow its attitude toward the unreasonable features of the Volstead act. "I was present when, consulting with Democratic leaders, he took ad vantage of every opportunity to put before them the necessity for frank and courageous action. So deep were his convictions about this vital mat ter that it was his intention soon after the passage of the Volstead act over his veto to send a special mes sage to congress making for the re peal of that act and the passage of legislation permitting the man ufacture and sale of light vines, or at least a modification of the Vol stead act changing the alcoholic content of beer.’’ Mrs. Washburn Still Very 111 At Hospital Mrs. D. G. Washburn, wife of Rev. D. G. Washburn, a beloved Baptist minister of the county, con tinues very ill at the Shelby hospi tal. For a week or more her life has been hanging by a slender thread and grave fears have been held by attending physicians and members of the family that she could not survive much longer, but she is a woman of wonderful vitality and this morning she seemed a bit brighter. SECOND DEGREE WOR,K FOR MASONS TONIGHT Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. & A. M will meet tonight ir> the Masonic temple for work ui the second de gree. Get Drunk Now For 20 Cents, Cop Here Says Policeman McBride Poston, veteran member of the Shelby police force, doesn’t see why the drinking people want any change in the prohibition laws. .-“They can get drunk at a total cost of only 20 cents, and they couldn’t do that in the days of the old barrooms,” the officer states. His observation developed from the fact during his work recently apprehending drunks he has found that bay rum is now one of the favorite “kicks” with the colored drink ers and some of the white drinkers of Shelby. Nearly every alley, he says, has a few empty bay rum bottles scat tered along it, and one of the recent raids by city police re sulted in several bottles being found on a drunk. Two ten-cent bottles of bay rum will stand a fellow on his head, a colored boy told Pos ton. California Judge May Speak Before “Antis.’ In Shelby Marvin Ritch To Address Anti Smith Meeting At Beaver Dam Saturday. Announcement is made by anti Smith leaders here that Judge Na tham Newby, appointed to the su preme court bench in California by Woodrow Wilson, may speak at an anti-Smith meeting here Saturday night, Oct. 17. On the coming Saturday night Marvin Ritch, Charlotte attorney and former football coach, will speak at an anti-Smith meeting at the Beaver Dam school house. No Negro Votes. In the last issue of The Star in connection with a political article it was stated that efforts were be ing made, according. tp colored peo ple, here to have them organize-and vote. The Impression was gained by anti-Smith leaders that the report inferred that the antt-Smith Demo cratic group might have something to do with this report. Such was •not intended in the news item, but in fairness .the following is quoted from a letter by George W. Vaughn one of the leaders in the anti Smith organiaztion at Eastside: “The local anti-Smith Democra tic club is not making, and will not make, any attempt to ‘organize’ voters, white or colored. We expect to confine our activities to bring ing anti-Smith Democratic speak ers to the county to present our views to those voters who like to hear both sides of a question before they make a decision, and no at tempt will be made to canvass vot ers and coerce them to vote against their convictions.” (Editor's Note: In order that the item about organizing the negro vote here might be made plain, it should be recalled that the para graph in connection with the sub ject stated that the attempt was being made from Washington. A local colored man, prominent among his race here, informed The Star that he had received letters from Washington about starting such a movement. He did not mention any organiaztion.) Baptists Holding Service At School Although the First Baptist con gregation is holding services at the Shelby high school building while the church interior is being re modelled. the attendance at both church and Sunday school is hold ing up well. Dr. Zeno Wall, the pastor will preach Sunday morning on "A Big Danger Signal” and at the evening service at 7:30 on "A Great Invitation." Sunday school at 9:30, B. Y. P. U’s at 6:30 p. m. North Carolina Chain Gangs Rival The High Schools Third As Many Turned Out Of Convict Camps As Out Of School. Raleigh.—The state graduated 13,095 seniors from high schools in 1927 and released more than a third as many, or 4,800 prisoners from convict camps, according to fig ures published in the “Public Wel fare Progress," the official publi cation of the State department of charities and public welfare. Continuing, the article says: “Few of those who complete the high school course ever get a chain gang education, although the higo school graduation is no insurance against i it. A study was made of the North [ Carolina sham gang by Professor i Jesse F. Steiner and Roy M. Brown who found that among the 1,521 pri soners studied, there were only seven prisoners, all white, who had finished high school, or had a knowledge of the Fnglish language equivalent to that of a high school graduate. “Perhaps the whole secret of the reason why those who are educated do not become members of the chain gangs, ana why so many ef forts are being made in the itate to rigidly enforce the school at tendance law, and to see that no children grow up in ignorance. Is summed up in the old Spanish proverb: “ ‘To educate is not to give a trade for making one’s livng, but to temper the soul for life.”' Hickman Is Hanged For Crime Fox Says Hr D-served Hanging If Any Man Did. (Special to Star by INS.) Edward Hickman, kidnap per slaper, died on the gal lows San Quentin prison, Cal ifornia, at one twenty-five Eastern Standard time. He was calm until the end. He read his Bible incessantly and declared before going to his death that if any man de served hanging he did. He attributed his criminal ca reer to over-education. San Quentin, Calif., Oct. 18.— William Edward Hickman will be hanged here shortly after 10 o’clock tomorrow morning for the murder of Marion Parker, Los Angeles school girl. A final effort today to have War den James B. Holohan delay the execution until Hickman could be examined mentally met with fail ure. Thomas Hickman of El Paso, Texas, father of the condemned youth, went before the warden with a lengthy affidavit signed by Dr. C. M. MacPall of the University of Virginia, which said the slayer is insane. Dr. MacFaU examined Hickman several times before, his trial in Los Angeles. Warden Holohan declined to call a board of physicians to. conduct a sanity investigation and the elder Hickman left, probably to see hie son no more until he sees him on the gallows in the morning. The condemned youth spent the day in the death cell, devoting most of his time to reading his Bible and meditating. No one is expected to visit him tonight or tomorrow but the chaplain, Rev. William A. Fleming, a Catholic priest, and the two guards who maintain a vigil over the cell. A ride in from the fair ground, where the county negro fair is un derway, on the running board of an auto proved to be a death ride last night for Roger Roberts. 18-year-old colored youth of the Boiling Springs section. The fatal crash occurred on high way 20 near the Cleveland Springs driveway about 11:45 last night. - Roberts, according to informa tion given Police Chief Richards, was riding on the running board of a car driven by Fred McDowell, also colored. Just in front of them com ing west to Shelby was a car driven by Lanton Ward. 1. R. Rogers, it was said, was driving in the oppos ite direction, going in the direction of the fair grounds. Just about the time that the Ward car was ready to meet the Byers car the Mc Dowell car, with Roberts on the run ning board, started to pass. Anyway the three cars jammed together with a crash. Roberts apparently died almost instantly, reports are. His neck, a leg, and arm and other portions of his body were broken, it is said. According to Chief Richards, Mc Dowell drove on into Shelby with out stopping. McDowell, Ward and Byers were all jailed by the police officer to | await a hearing.