LATE NEWS
Shelby Market,
Cotton ..._____..._ 18:',c
Cotton Seed, bu. ____... bl'^c
Rain For Tonight.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Increasing cloudiness fol
lowed by rain late tonight and
Tuesday. Slightly cooler tonight in
I northeast portion.
Kills Three.
J. W. Hinkle, textile mill book
keeper, on Saturday night killed
two of his rhildren and himself in
the woods a few miles from High
Point. The bodies were found by a
searching party early Sunday
morning. All three were shot by a
.38 ealibre pistol. The father and
the two children—Virgil, Id year
old boy, and Elirabeth, seven-year
old girl, left the home for a walk
late Saturday afternoon while the
mother was preparing supper.
Cotton Ginning
In County 17,134
Bales To Oct. 18th
Cleveland county ginned 17.134
bales of cotton up to October 18 of
this year, compared with 21,907
bales up to the same date a year
ago, according to figures compiled
from the gins of the county by
Miles H. Ware, special agent for the
census department of the U. S. gov
ernment. This is somewhat lower
than last year and causes the read
ers of The Star to vary their guess
es somewhat on the amount of the
entire crop. The crop is later and
• may catch up with a year ago with
a good season for harvest, but the
wet weather seriously cut the crop,
others contend.
GUESSES POUR IN
AT LAST HINT
Guessing Time Is Over—Winner
will Receive 55 When Total
Crop Is Known.
Guesses poured in at The Star
office Saturday on the cotton crop
Cleveland county will make this
year and the most accurate guesscr
will receive $5 from The Star when
the total ginnings are finally an
nounced. The guessing ctosecTSat
urday October 27. on the very day
when the Census department an
nounced that up to October 18 there
had been ginned in the county 17,
> 134 bales as compared with 21.907
bales tip to the same date a year
ago. No more guesses wall be taken
as the late guessers would have the
advantage of knowing the periodi
cal gin reports.
Some of the late guesses are F.
M. Ledbetter 43.500; L. R. Gordon
43,977; Alma Gordon 48.910; Mr
Lee R. Gordon 45.00; J. J. Powell
' 41,495; C. W. Anthony 46.720;
Clara Mae Gordon 47.875; B. P. Bar
rett 42,550; G. G Davis 47,932:
Janie Davis 49,200; Mrs. Annie War
lick 26,789; Lowell McSwain 44- J
976; Thelma Jolley 47.552; J. A
Lovelace 46,389; Miss Mary Camp
35.363; Miss Anna Camp 30,240;
' Mrs. J. A. Lovelace 49,000; J. A
Wilson 47.674; Mrs, D C. Elliott
39,999; David Elliott 41.880; Mrs.
Guy Roberts 49.557; J. D. Boyles
41,500; R. L. Armour 44.372; Mrs
R. L. Armour 45,988: Veva Armour
46,233; Robert Earle Armour 47,977;
Inez Armour 48,989; Isabel Armour
45,154; Mrs. J. F. Harris 44 806; Tom
Canipe 39.999; B. J. Grigs 28,999;
Mrs. B. J. prigg 43,763; Mrs. Susan
Canipe 41,459.
Express Package
Not Stolen—Lost
$100 Package Found On Street
After Search Was Started
For Thief.
} The express package, valued at
$100. which was thought to have
been stolen from a Southeastern
| Express delivery truck here Satur
day morning, was not stolen but
P merely lost and has been recovered
| The truck was out on its delivery
rounds about 10:30 with the pack
age, which was for the Southern
1 Bell telephone company, on the
truck. Somewhere up town the
driver missed the package and it
was presumed that it had been
i stolen from the truck while the
driver was carrying another pack
i age into a store. Later in the day,
[ however, the package was found on
; the street where it had fallen from
f the truck.
The package contained the long
; distance call record of nearby ex
changes, it was stated today
Mrs. Champion At
Funeral Of Father
t Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Champion
E have returned from a hurried visit
■Ito Mrs. Champion's old heme at
* Wagner, S. C„ where the couple at
||ifinded the funeral of Mrs. Cham
||®ion's father. Mr. J. M. Fox. Mr.
#ox'» funeral was held Friday.
VOL. XXXV, No. 129 THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY, N. C.
8 PAGES
TODAY
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MONDAY, OCT. 29, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons
By mail, per year (in advance) $2.
Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.
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HOOVER SUPPORT
ASKED OF 1T!3
HERE 8Y SPEAKER
Says Election Of Smith Would Be
Greatest Calamity—Wants To
Make A Saloon Party.
"I want to urge you men and
women to support Mr. Herbert Hoo
ver. that great executive approved
by President Woodrow Wilson,” de
clared Congressman Nathan Newby
of California, a native of North
Carolina who is delivering a series
of anti-Smith speeches in North
Carolina. He was speaking Satur
day and there was hand-clapping
all over the court room when he
made the statement. The court
room was about two-thirds filled.
Some of them were Republicans,
, however, and others were known to
be strong Smith supporters, but the
bulk were anti-Smith voters.
The crowd was rather large con
sidering the fact that other places
were drawing on the people. Cole
Blease was speaking at Gastonia,
a big wedding was under way and
| the big Saturday night shopping
| was going on. but many turned
aside long enough to hear Mr. New
! by.
Mr. Newby devoted most of his
attack of Governor Smith because
of his stand on prohibition and
charged that he was a member of
Tammany which had been a traitor
to Cox and navis, the last two presi
dential candidates, yet "Cox and
Davis arc kissing the hand that
smote them,"
"The election of Alfred Smith to
the presidency would be the great
est calamity that could befall
America,” declared Congressman
Newby. "Our friends of the Dem
ocratic fold are urging us to sup
port him because of party loyalty,
but I tell you as a Democrat that
there are times when party loyalty
should be tossed to the winds and
we should vote our convictions and
for principles. That time has come."
"In all of the legislative career
of Afred Smith, he has voted against
every moral issue and in the inter
est of the liquor people. He sent
Borman E. Mack down to the Hous
ton convention to try to get a wet
plank written in the platform.
They wouldn't believe that Mack
was speaking for Smith, but when
Mr. Smith was asked about, it, he
wired back that he did want a
wet plank. They refused to give
it to him and yet he was nominated.
Just as soon as the nomination was
over and lie felt that he had it.
lie; repudiated the dry plank and
every since has done the best he
can to make the Democratic party
the saloon party.”
t "A man who would repudiate his
party is not worthy of the honor
j that has been accorded him as
standard bearer of his party. Smith
has let it be known that he is a
wet candidate and practised a piece
of Tammany strategy by taking a
wet stand in .the hope of capturing
the, vote of the North and hoping
that the South would stay in the
Democratic fold as it has always
done.
Hits Mr. Raskob.
"Tlie courtesy of selecting a na
tional chairman is accorded the
party leader arid whom did he
select? Mr. Raskob. an out-stand
ing. big-business Republican, a
member of the most exclusive Re
publican club in America, dominated
by that Republican leader, Mr. Vare.
1 And I might tell you that he hoped
j to. get Vare's support, but.. Vare
! wouldn't come over. Democratic
j leaders are when they ask us to
support the Democratic ticket out
of party loyalty when their leader,
Mr. Smith himself has picked as his
chairman Mr. Raskob, a big busi
ness Republican who has never
voted the Democratic ticket in his
life. .
Congressman Newby charged that
Smith and Raskob hate entered a
conspiracy to deliver the Democratic
party into the hands of a branch of
the Republican party.
Club Women Begin
Rehearsing Play
For Show Nov. 9
“Mile A Minute" To Be Shown Here
By Shelby Woman’s Club.
Director Here.
One hundred Shelby people will
begin tonight rehearsing the big
play to be given here on Friday
night. November 9, by the Shelby
Woman’s club.
Miss Luciie Smith, of the Mar
tha Mason Producing company, has
arrived in the city to direct the re
hearsals of the play “A Mile a Min
ute."
With a hundred Shelby people
appearing in the play the show
should be one of the best home-tal
ent exhibitions presented here in
years.
Three Unstudied Photos of Governor Smith
No political leader of recent years has possessed Governor Al
fred E. Smith’s knack of being intensely human despite the
cares of political office. These three photos show him in his
unstudied moments: At left, the nominee responding happily
to cheers of the crowd on his Southern tour; center, a golf links
snapshot, and, right, in the happiest role of all, that of being
the'sort of grandad that a young feller wants around. The
drawing, is an artist’s conception of the governor’s humble start
in life as a newsboy in lower Kcw York.
Boyer And Johnson Come Back To Churches
Thieves Get Two Autos Here During
Wedding Ceremony On Saturday Night
First National
Moves Into Five
Million Resources
The First National bank has
climbed over the big hill. An
announcement from the bank,
appearing in an advertise
ment in The Star today,
places the resources of the
institution at "Over Five
Million Dollars."
According to a statement
from the cashier, Mr. Forrest
Eskridge, the five million dol
lar mark was reached and
past during October.
As bank resources are taken
to be an accurate index of
the prosperity of a city, au
thorities point to this growth
as evidence that Shelby is on
its way.
Mrs. J. W. Cabaniss
Dies At Chesnee
Former Cleveland County Woman
Passes Away Tuesday
Morning.
From Gaffney Ledger:
Mrs. Elizabeth Cabaniss, 77, wife
of J. W. Cabaniss, of Chesnee, route
2, died at her home Tuesday mom
ning at 8:30.
Mrs. Cabaniss was born in Cleve
land county. N. C., October 18. 1850
She was the daughter of Henry
Powell and Jane Costner Powell.
For 45 years Mrs. Cabaniss has been
a resident of Chesnee.
She is survived by her husband
and the following children; Mrs.
Susan Potter. Chesnee, route 2;
Mrs. C. O. Bishop, Chesnee, route
2; D. P. Cabaniss, Union; R. L. and
H. B. Cabaniss, of Lockhart.
Brothers and sisters who survive
are: William Powell. Cowpens; Mirs.
Mag McEnttre of Lawndale, N. C.;
Mrs. Georgia Green, of Lattimore.
N. C., and Mrs. Sam Blanton, of
Gaffney, route 9.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 2. o'clock at the
Piedmont church. The Rev. C. M.
Griffin, Chesnee, was the officiating
minister, and Z. Blackwell was the
funeral director.
K. M. Dover Car And Henry Ed
wards’ Car Stolen. Edwards
Car Found.
"The Shadow," Shelby's elusive
house burglar, had one put over on
him Saturday night—or. perhaps,
“The Shadow" staged it himself.
Anyway, thieves made away with
two cars here Saturday night while
the Fox-Dover wedding was under
way at Central Methodist church.
Owners of the two autos were in
the church at the time attending
the ceremony, one of the city’s out- !
standing social functions of the
year.
One car, a Ford roadster, was the
property of R. M. Dover, jr., and
the other, an Essex coupe, belong
ed ot Attorney Henry B, Edwards.
Later in the night Saturday the
Edwards car was found abandoned
by the roadside on highway 20 west
of Shelby in the Mooresboro sec- ;
tion. As yet no report or c.'ue has
been found of the Dover car. Td
day reward cards were issued by
local officers in spreading a drag
net for the thief throughout the
section.
The Dover auto was the third to
be stolen here within a week's
time.
Fire Drives Sick
Woman From Home
Her Son, Called Homo From New
York Sitting: At Her Bedside
In Early Morning.
Fire drove Mrs. F. A. Ferree of
South Shelby from her sick bed
at 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning
when the roof was found to be
abla.se. Mrs. Ferree was desperate
ly ill and her son had been called
by wire from New York. He was
sitting by her bedside when a
cracking noise was heard. Inves
tigation found that a blaze was
eating at the roof which caught
from the chimney. An alarm
brought the fire department and
the blaze was extinguished without
much damage. Mrs, Feme was
taken to a neighbor’s home. The
excitement of the fire somewhat
unnerved her.
The house is owned by Carl
Hughes and the slight damage to
the roof is covered by insurance.
Shelby Highs Will Not Ploy
In State Title Grid Contests
Several Regulars Behind With
Studies Are Not Eligible.
Other Games.
The Shelby high football eleven
for the first time in many years will j
not eaiter the state high football
series for the North Carolina cham
pionship. it was announced at
noon here today by Casey Morris,
athletic director of the city schools.
The Morris decision followed the
announcement that several of the
regular players oa the varsity ele-.
von would not be eligible for the
series due to the tact that they
were behind in their studies.
Cherryville Friday.
However, Coach Morris will con
tinue to play the season out with
other elevens not in or eliminated
from the state race. On Friday aft
ernoon the strong Cherryvile ele
ven comes here for a game, and the
Shelby coach says that he intends
to give the blue-clad outfit enough
work this week to enable them to
get out and win a game after two
consecutive defeats.
Returns To Shelby ,
DR. HUGH K. BOYER
Shelby Jurist Is Quietly Married To
Mrs. James B. Taylor On
Sunday Morning.
A wedding of much Interest;
throughout the state and the south
was solemnized Sunday monuhg. at
10 o'clock at Tarboro when Judge
E. Yates Webb, prominent Fed ra!
jurist was married at Tarboro to
Mrs. James B. Taylor at 'the home
of the bride's, parents, Mr. .arid Mrs.
John R. Pender at Tarboro. Rev,
T. L. Harnesberger, pastor of the
Howard Memorial Presbyterian
church of Tarboro officiated.
Owing to a recent death in tile
family of the bride, only members
of the two families witnessed, the
ceremony. Out-of-town guests in
cluded Judge James L. Webb, a
brother of the groom and Mrs. O.
Max Gardner, his niece, both of
Shelby.
Mrs we do a memur. ui <t
prominent Eastern Carolina family
and widow ot the late James B
Taylor of Asheville. She is a t harm
ing woman and will be a great ad
dition to the-social and rclnjou,-. lire
of the community.
Judge Webb served in oonm
for 16 years and has been nidge o;
the federal court in Wes;.Caro
lina for the past eight or nine
years. Ho attained national dis
tinction in congress Ly his author
j ship o£ the Webb-Kenyon bill which
| was the forerunner of the Volstead
act.
Judge and Mrs. Webb will live in
Shelby upon their return from a
honeymoon trip.
COUPLE MARRIED AT
COUNTY COURT HOUSE
James Granger and Cora Belle
Clark were married at the county
court house here Saturday after
! noon. S'wire T. C Eskridge per*
1. formed the ceremony.
^itzgerald And
Forbis Returned;
Needham Is Moved
Duly One Change In Methodist j
Churches Of Cleveland. Ap
pointments Given.
Or. Hugh K. Boyer was re
turned today by the Methodist
conference, meeting in Char
lotte, to the pastorate of the
Central church here, and Rev.
T. B. Johnson, veteran minister,
was returned to la Fayette
street church.
In the appointments read out in
the conference today only one
church in this immediate section
had a change of pastors. This was
the moving of. Rev. S. M. Needham
from the Poikvilie charge, to the
First, Methodist church at Albe
marle. Rev. GW. Williams is the
now pastor at Poikvilie.
Rev. R. L. Forbis was returned to
the Shelby circuit and Rev. J. W.
Fitzgerald to Belwood.
An announcement, of interest in
the reading of appointments was
the transfer of Dr. Ashley Chappell
from Asheville to Central church at
Monroe,
'I ho Appointments.
The Shelby district appointments
follow:
W. A. Newell, presiding elder.
Belmont, Main, J. M. Barber.
Belmont, Park, J. C. Groce.
Eelwood, J. W. Fitzgerald,
Bessemer City, ,J. P Hornouckle.
Cherryville. W. G. McFarland.
CUerryvilic circuit, P. W. Town
send;
Cramerton. o. B, Mitchell.
Crouse, Vann B. Harrison.
Dallas, C. O Kennerly.
Gastonia, East .End,. M. T. Hipps.
Franklin Avenue, A. C. Swofford.
Main Street. H. G Hardin,
Mayio, C. L McCain.
Smyre, A. W. Lynch.
Trinity. J. H Warren.
West End. J. N. ltandall.
Goodsonville, J. :W: Combs,
Kings Mountain, J. R. Church.
Lincolhton, R. S. Truesdale
Lincoln circuit, C. R. Allison.
Lowell, A. G. Loft in.
McAdenviUc, D. F. Carver.
Mt. Holly, J C. Cornett.
Polk.vnle. G. w, williams.
Rock Springs, r: F. Honeycutt.
Sli. h •• Central. H. K. Boyer.
Shelby LaFayette T, B. Johnson.
Shelby circuit, R. L. Fofbis.
Spilth Fork. W. J. Miller.
Stanley. I. L. Shaver.
Fashion Show On At
School House 30th
Herpes oi ' he football squad will
be the “sweet little sun-bonnet
babies:' in the fashion show to be
given Tuesday , evening at 8 o’clock
at the Central school building. The
smaller boys of the school will be
the graceful ballet dancers. These
youngsters will show to the ladles
of Shelby the latest styles in morn
ing dress, sport; afternoon, dinner
and evening clothes It is being
staged under the: direction or Miss
Brown, one oi the teachers the
proceeds to go for the benefit of the
fnior cl”s A mall admission
{charge w ill be made.
Blease Slashes At
Hoover Democrats;
Boosts Gov. Smith
Republican Campaigner Fills Court
House Here. Hot After
Smith.
Jake F. Newell, the fire-eating
insurgent of the North Carolina
G. O. P„ came to Shelby Saturday
afternoon and attracted to the
county court house what was con
sidered one of the largest Repubr
lican audiences in a score of years.
For years untold the gatherings
at Republican speakings here have
been small with a few scores of the
old reliables listening in, but this
year with the party holding some
hope of upsetting the state the
Republicans of Cleveland are sum
moning in every party into. That
fact together with the well-known
entertaining ability of Newell prac
tically filled the large court room.
There mhy have been anti-Smith
Democrats in the audience, but for
the most part it was made up of
straight Republican voters, many of
whom have taken little interest in
politics for years but are going to
extend their major efforts to carry
Cleveland county and the state this
fall.
It was the second big audience of
the day for the court house. Sena
tor Cole Blease having spoken to
the Democrats earlier in the day.
hater in the evening Judge Nathan
Newby orated for the anti-Smiths.
Each side had its inning Saturday.
Mr. Newell, to use a Republican
phrase. “spoke up one side and
down the other,” but he centered
his forceful argument in an attack
! on the immigration and prohibition
j orinciales of, ^.Democratic candi
date for president.
Considered one of the most en
tertaining of Republican campaign
ers in the state, Newell will speak
again Saturday night, at 7:30 at
I Kings Mountain.
Acorn Store Holds
Opening On Friday
The Acorn store, in their newly
built two story home of elaborate
proportions in South LaFayette
street, held their formal opening
Friday. The event was a great suc
cess. The management estimated
that between six and seven thousand
people marched through the aisles
of the establishment during the re
ception hours.
The opening w'as held both during
the afternoon and evening. The
larger crowd was present during the
evening, although for the first hour
during the afternoon, the store was
filled with visitors. Music was pro
vided to enliven the occasion, and
some very pleasing souvenns wcrc
distributed.
The Acord is Shelby's latest ad
dition to the long department store
list, the store featuring a large var
iety of merchandise ranging from
simple trinkets up to furniture, in
cluding ready-to-wear in all its de
. partments.
The remains of a lost civilization
are being searched for in Soviet
territory. They don't say wdio lost
the civilization, but we can guess.
—Punch.
No Such Animal, He Says. South
Wants Negro In His
Place.
“Talk about being a Hoover
Democrat. He’s simply a liar;
there ain't no such animal,” de
clared the inimitable Senator Cole
L. Btease when he dropped down
Shelby Saturday morning enroute
to Kings Mountain and Gastonia
and was persuaded to deliver a
short speech here in the court
house.
The senator had not expected to
speak here, but when so many
wanted to hear him, he was per
suaded to talk awhile an the poli
tical issues in this campaign and
in ten minutes notice a crowd that
filled the court house was on hand.
It was a cheering, roaring crowd
as Senator Blease stabbed and jab
bed the Republicans and called on
the Democrats to remembei the
struggle in the south for White
Supremacy and help preserve it, for
he added” as sure as you live, if
Hoover is elected we will have
racial trouble in the Sout hagain.”
Hoover’s Mixture Order.
This warning came after he had
told how Secretary Hoover Iras
forced the 'white and blacks in his
department in Washington to sit
together, work together and use the
same toilets. “These white clerks
are afraid to raise airy protest for
fear they will lose their jobs, he
added, leading up to this by relating
how a negro Republican leader in
Ohio went to Washington before the
convention, asked Mr. Hoover to
take down the partitions and com
pel whites and colored to sit and
work together. That negro, said
Senator Blease told Mr. Hoover if
he didn’t obey his command the
negro delegates at Kansas City
would not vote for him as the nomi
nee. Mr. Hoover made the change
and the negro went back, to Ohio,
announced himself a candidate for
delegate and uron out over Senator
Fees. When Senator Fess made his
speech in the convention he was
forced to retire because the negro
delegate had his seat.
Would Hang smnn.
‘•Tell me A1 Smith would do any
worse than that? If he does, just
invite him down to South Carolina.
I know where there is a big tree
and the largest plow line in Ander
(Continued on page eight.)
Officers Capture
Copper Rum Plant
Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock
county officers found and destroyed
a 50-gallon copper distillery and 60
gallons of beer in the Buffalo sec
tion east of Shelby on the B. T.
Falls place. A run had been made
just a short time before the cap
ture, it appeared, and wood had
been hauled in for another run
when the officers arrived.
Those in the raid were J. ft Hord.
Harvey Harrelson and B. F. Hord
Mrs. Hoey Speaks To
Casar Woman’s Club
Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey addressed the
Democratic Woman's club at Casar
on Saturday afternoon. A large
and interested crowd was present
to hear Mrs. Hoey who delivered a
very effective speech that was re
j ceived with enthusiasm.
Home Folks Swarm By Hundreds
To Hear Silver Tongue Of Hoey
Shelby Man Thrills Packed Court House In
Plea For Smith. Leader Of State
Democracy, Falls Says.
Clyde R. Hoey this afternoon.,
brought home to Shelby the ora- ;
tory that has been swaying two
states and long after he started
speaking in the county court house
his home people were shoving and
josting outside trying to get within
the sound of his magnetic voice.
* The first big round of applause
came when Chairman B. T Falls
of the Democratic party introduc
ed Hoey to his large audience as
the “leader of the Democratic party
in North Carolina.”
“From Cherokee to Currituck his
name is a household word—here he
is: Clyde R. Hoey.”
The large crowd packed into
every available seat and inch of
space in the big court room and
gallery was easily the largest to
assemble here in year? to hear a
political speech. Women, old and
young, some with babies in their
arms, mingled with the men folks
in the big gathering.
The speaker opened his barrage,
one that has drawn overflowing
crowds in all sections of North Car
olina. at the very beginning by de
claring that he never any more
mentioned the Republican record
in North Carolina because “l am
ashamed of it.” Then he moved on
to an advocacy of North Carolina
candidates and finally made an
eloquent, moving appeal for the
man of the masses who asks the
j votes of his party to be president—
Alferd E. Smith.
(A more complete report of the
address, which was not finished
when this was written, will be pub
| lished Wednesday.)
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