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VOL. XXXV, No. 125 THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1928.
Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
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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.
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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<?w York
and inland waterways. There is
more for him to talk about, includ
ing the tariff, but not a great deal.
There is little doubt that, bar
ring the radio handicap, Smith
would gladly have accepted the op
portunity to make several addition
al addresses. Instead, he is forced
to content himseif with personal ap
pearances through part of the con
tested territory.
Hoover is up against a similar
handicap, but is fortunate in that
it fits in with his strategy. That
strategy has been to virtually ignore
Smith and so the fewer speeches he
makes the better.
Smith is trying tc sell himself to
the country; Hoover believes that he
has already been sold to the coun
try and that conditions can win for
him with little positive aid from
himself.
Mr. Park McLain, formerly of
Asheville, has removed to Shelby,
and has joined the sales forces of
the Litton Motor comoany Mr.
McLain has had kng experience in
the rutomobile business, and is con
sidered to be a very worthy addi
tion to the auto selling forces of the
city.
Star To Give Election Returns
By Special Wire And Radio
“To Air. and Mrs. Citizen of Cleve
land county: The Cleveland Star
invites you to be present in front of
The Star building in Shelby on
Tuesday night, November 6, at which
time The Star will entertain by giv
ing minute by minute account of the
election returns as they come in. P.
S. Bring the whole family.'"
Such is the invitation The Star
is mailing out today except that it
is written here where all may see
so that postage stamps might be
saved.
On election night The Star plans
to give the most complete election
returns service in the histo v of the
county. Telegraph wires are being j
installed in the building now and
Mr. Blackwelder, manager of the lo
cal Western Union office, will act
as operator himself. Beginning at
six o’clock The Star will begin re
ceiving the returns from all sections
of this state and of the entire coun
try. In addition to the Western
Union service a radio will be install
ed, which will also bring in the re
turns over the air. A big bulletin
board will be erected in Ircxnt of
The Star building where county re
turns will be posted after being an*'
nounced. All the reports coming in
over the wire will oe announced from
the front of the o > ’ 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.