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16 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 131 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 1928. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons THE CLEVELAND STAR By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 LATE NEWS Smith To Win Lawrence Says Surprise Announce ment Goes Out Over Marke ts Wires To ~ _ -v day. “A! Smith will he the win ner Tuesday,” was the sur prising prediction sent over Wall Street market wires to all sections of the country to day. i The prediction was that of David Lawrence, veteran po litical writer and Washington newspaperman, who makes his announcement after a tour of the entire country. Lawrence is considered one of the wisest political prognosticators i n America. At 12:16 here today the Outz & Slack, correspondents T,f Fenner & Heane cotton of fice wire received the Wall street flash, which read: *‘Da\id Lawrence today giv es Smith the Election.” Afternoon and morning newspapers wi'l carry detai's of Lawrence’s astounding pre diction. Shelby Market. Cotton ....... ....... IH'jc Cotton Seed, bu. .... ..__ 61'jc Rain Tonight. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Occasional rain tonight and Saturday. Slightly warmer in west .nortion tonight. Colder in west por tion Satin-day afternoon. Colder Saturday night. Hoey On Saturday; Gardner Takes Air Noted Local Orator To Address ’’ Cleveland Women Saturday Afternoon. Gardner. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey will speak to the women voters of Cleveland county at 3 o'clock Saturday after noon at the county court house here and from advance indications a large crowd of women will attend. Other voters, of course, may hear Mr. Hoey at this time but the best seats on the main floor of the court house will be allotted to the wo men. Many Shelby and Cleveland coun ty people last night “tuned in” on WBT. Charlotte radio station, to hear O. Max Gardner, Shelby's can 'IHdate for governor, deliver a Dem ocratic address there. Rousing cheers greeted the Shelby man at all points in his address At the outset, lie left- it to his hearers as to what he should speak about, “Some say ” stated Mr. Gardner, *T should devote my speech to state issues, while there are indications that others would rather hear about national matters. It's up to you people—I'll give you what you want — say!" Then there rolled out from the big city auditorium hundreds ot cries: "Give us A1 Smith and na tional issues .... "We want to hear 'you talk about A), Max.” And they did. Burglar Attempts Entrance; Fired At Near Dr. Gold Home Tries To Get In Back Door At Dr. Ben Gold’s. Makes His Getaway. 1 A man thought to be a burglar attempted to make an entrance in 0 the Dr. Ben Gold residence, South Washington street, by way >f the back door Wednesday night kbout, 12 o'clock. Mrs. Gold heard a noise at the loor. which was locked, for several hinutes before telling Dr Gold. The latter securing his gun made its way to the door just in time to ee the form of a man fleeting round the yard fence. He took 1 couple of shots at the fleeing fig ire but apparently missed. Episcopal Services Tuesday Services will be held at the Epis opal church here next Sunday aft rnoon at 4 o'clock, it is announced. Rev. Mr. S. R. Guignard, of Lin- | olntoc, will officiate at the services, j Nab Young Robber In Daring Jewelry Store Raid Officer Cook Gets * Bandit With Loot May Be “Shadow” 19-Year-Old Ernest Doster Caught Breaking Alexander Jewelry Window. Policeman C. L. Cook, whose own 10-year-old son was acci dentally shot during the recent burglary scare in Shelby, last night captured single-handed Ernest Doster, 19 - year - old youth, just after the latter had broken the plate-glass window cf the George A'exander jewel ry, in the main business sec tion and hail started aw'ay with S570 worth of jewelry. Incidentally, according to guard ed information about the office of Police Chief A. L. Richards, Cook in jailing Doster last night may have captured the house burglar, dubbrd "The Shadow,” who has been entering numer ous Shelby homes at night re cently and has had a goodly part of the town in terror. Knows Business. That Doster seems to know his bic :n ss in the burglary game apparently is a generally accept ed fact, then police officers have other clues upon whirh they are working. First, of all, it is said, that the daring youth had just re turned to Shelbv from Phila delphia and points east a short time before the intruder was found in the W. H. Hudson resi i dence, which was the first j known move in the burglary I w-ave. Took Some Nerve. The attempted robbery of the jewelry store last night was one of the most daring ever made in Shelby. Doster walked up to the plate-glass window about 11 o'clock at night, while numer ous people were still on the. streets. Just across the court square, in front of the police station, Policeman Cook was waiting in the police car for a call. He heard a crash of glass, and looking across the square noticed a youth, wear ing a light cap and a pull-over sweater, step around the door way at the Alexander jewelry. The officer, wheeled his ear around and drove to the front of the store and had pulled up to the curb before the youth noticed him. •Tie saw me just as he had his hands in the window again," the officer said, “and then he grabbed a tray of jewelry in each hand and dashed around the corner." The officer chased the fleeing matt to the Bost bakery alley where lie brought Ills gun into play and forced the youth to stop, He had, according to a list in the police headquarters, about 10 watches, five diamond rings and other jewelry, valued by Mr Alexander at near $600. Would Not Talk. When arrested Doster would not Robber Gets A Year Road Term Shortly after noon today Ernest Doster, youth who broke into the Alexander Jewelry store last night, was sentenced to 12 months on the county roads by Judge J. L. Webb in superior court. Doster plead guilty to en tering the store, but denied any connection with recent house robberies here. He declared he was put up to the jewelry robbery by a well-dressed youth whom he has known for months. The other fellow, who planned the robbery and was going to sell the diamonds, was waiting for him at the railroad, he said, when the officer caught him. In denying that he had been entering local homes he said the other fellow might have been since he always had plenty of money and bad told him that he, too, could make easy money. At first he de clared that he was drunk when he broke into the store, but later Officer Cook declar ed that he was not drinking, t’pon examination he admit ted the robbery was planned last Sunday evening. He also admitted having been on a four-week trip in Virginia and Washington, re turning here about the time the Hudson home was enter ed some time back. He con tended that he did not know the name of the other fellow and had just met him a few times at a pool room. The other fellow, he added, gave him whiskey to drink last Sunday and also last night. talk and has since refused to talk. Any inquiries about recent house robberies drew only silence from him. Search In Vain. This morning the youth's father. Jack Doster, who works in a local shoe shop, came to police head quarters to see the officers, and be fore he could return home Chief Richards and other officers left to search the Doster home, apparent ly with the idea that they might find some of the missing loot there. Nothihg, however, was found. Gets Quick TriaL Early this morning the young robber was carried before Recorder John P. Mull for a preliminary hearing, and throngs, hearing that a man thought to be the burglar terror liad been captured, filled the court room at which time photo graphs of the youth were taken. He would not talk in court and was bound over to superior court by Judge Mull under a $2,000 bond. He (Continued on page fourteen.) Gilliard Gets 26-Year Term In Prison For Killing Wife; Jury Frees Robber Suspect Negro Killer Pleads Guilty To Sec ond Degree .Murder: Grand Jury Report, Will Gilliard, giant negio, pled guilty in Superior court Wednes day to murder in the second degree in connection with the killing of his wife. Leila, and was sentenced by Judge James L. Webb to a term of 20 to 25 years in the State Prison. Two weeks ago at noon today Gilliard met his wife on an alley adjoining Trade street and after an exchange of a few words shot her twice with a .38 calibre gun. She died several hours later at the Shel by hospital. At the time Gilliard declared she had been around with another man, but in the court room Gilliard’s at torneys, C. B. McBrayer and Chas. A. Burrus, plead guilty to second degree murder, the plea. being ac cepted by the state. Suspect Freed. Gurney Robinson, arrested on a breaking and entering charge a week ago when he was suspicioned ’ to be “The Shadow,” the elusive burglar who has been entering Shelby homes at night, was freed by Superior court jury, which did '■ not find enough evidence to con vict him. After Robinson was plac ed in jail one or two residences were reported to have been entered and public opinions was that he was hot the mysterious burglar although he might have been guilty of the charge on which he was indicted. Grand Jury Report. The grand jury for the court term completed its work yesterday and made its final report to Judge Webb. This report, signed by R. C. Baker, foreman, declared that the county jail, county home, gang camp, and court house were found to be in good condition, and the upkeep of the several county institutions, par ticularly the county home, was praised. The report also contained the line “We do not recommend a a new county home at this time.” The court is likely to complete its week’s session today. There will be no civil docket next week as a special term for the disposal of civil cases has been called for later in the month. She’s A Winner Avis May Warlick, young daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Wariick, of Kings Mountain, started off win ning beauty contests early. Last week at the Imperial theatre at Kings Mountain she won first prize as the finest baby in a con test in which 62 good-looking, healthy youngsters were entered by their parents. Will Fight To Defeat Deserting Senator If He Runs Again. Tarboro, Oct. 31.—“Senator Sim mons said at Raleigh the other night that he was going to run for the senate again. I hope he will. I want to live to apologize to the peo ple of the state for once helping elect him by helping to beat him if he runs again." This statement by Former Gov ernor Morrison at a rally of Edge combe county Democrats at the conclusion of an impassioned speech was the signal for a great demon stration. Demonstration. The audience did not content it self by merely applauding but jumped to its feet and stamped and shouted. When the speaker .^flnish ed many veteran Democrats came forward and patted him on the back or shook his hand. “I had thought," said the former governor with a grim smile “that there were others who had some thing to do with' the record of the Democratic party in Nortn Caro lina," but in a speech two and a half hours long at Raleigh the other night. Senator Simmons took credit for about all the great record it had wrought for North Carolina in the past 30 years. Lauds Gilliam. "There was one man in this coun ty, a man whose name is recalled with deep affection and gratitude when the services of the Democra tic party arc mentioned, the late Don Gilliam, he at least had some thing to do with it. •‘Then there was peerless Charles B. Aycock, the brilliant Kitehin. Dr Green and Ed Travis of Halifax county, Josephus Daniels. George B. McLeod and Augus McLean of Robeson county and a host of others. If memory .serves correctly they had a great and brilliant part in the record of the Democratic j party iti this state, yet Senator Sim mons in the long speech he deliver ed the other night tried to leave : the impression that lie was the whole show,1’ In previous speeches of the pres ent. campaign the former governor had mentioned the name of sena tor Simmons only a few times. He had said that surely if Zeb Vanec, Wade Hampton, John B. Gordon, Fitzhugli Lee and other noted southerners of a former day as well as prominent southerners of the present day could stand Tammany, it looked life F, M. Simmons and Frank R. McNinch ought to be able to stand it. Mr. Morrison today also flatly contradicted the anti-Stnith de claration that Governor Smith ap pointed a negro named Morton to office in New York. "Plain Lie." "That’s Just a plain lie,' said the thing. Morton was appointed by speaker. "He didn't do any such a Mayor Hylan who was Smith’s sworn political enemy and Hylan wasn’t even a Tammany man. H was a Brooklynite and an ally of Hearst. Smith had nothing to do with it whatsoever.’" Messrs. Randolph and Fred Lo gan left this afternoon for Raleigh carrying with them Will Gill-lard, colored, who will serve 20 years in the state prison for the murder of his wife4 Leila, K ! BIG EVENT HERE ARMISTICE E COX IS SPEAKER Ex-Service Men To Be Feted Sat urday, Nov. 10. Unveil Tablet. Big Dinner. Armistice Day will be ob served in Shelby on Saturday Nov. 10 for the first time since the World War closed ten years ago and the various Womans’ clubs are planning a program to which everybody is invited. Col. Albert Cox of Raleigh will be the principal speaker and deliver an address in the court house at 11 o'clock. Col. Cox is an engaging speaker and one of the best known ex-soldiers in the state. All ex-service men are invited to corns on that day. A dinner will be served them by the Womans’ club ladies in the Carl Thompsor. build ing on West Warren street and a foot-ball game is being planned for the afternoon between. Boiling Springs, Jr., college and Wingate college. To Unveil Tablet. One of the. features of the pro gram will be the unveiling of the handsome bronze tablet bought by contributions made through The' Cleveland Star two yeans ago. This beautiful, tablet will bear the names of the 31 • men from Cleveland county who died or were killed in the World War. It is a substantial memorial, truly a work of art that will be fastened on the side of the west entrance to the court house. It measures 34x36 inches, bearing a large bronze eagle, the dates , when the war began and when the army of occupation was ordered to leave German territory. Parents Are Invited. The west portico of the court house will be decorated for the oc casion and Prof. W. T. Sinclair and his high school band will furnish music. On one side of the portico, seats will be provided for the parents of the deceased soldiers. This should be considered an invitation for them to be here in case their ad dress is not known for a personal letter to be directed to them by Mrs. Ceph Blanton, regent of the Daughters of American Revolution, which club is taking am active part in the celebration. These parents will be given seats of honor and' after a short speech of dedication, by a local speaker to be announced later, a platoon of soldiers from Company K. under the direction of Capt. Peyton McSwain will fire a volley of shots. the company's buglar will sound taps and little Miss Pearl Weathers will pull a string releasing the large American flag that covers the bronze tablet before it is viewed by the public. After the unveiling, the crowd will repair to the court house where Col. Cox will deliver his Armistice Day address. Following the address will be the dinner to all ex-service men in: the Thompson Hal! and in the mid-afternoon will be the foot ball game between Boiling Springs and Wingate. . Not. only the ex-service men, but their parents, wives, children, and the public generally are im ltcd to this unveiling and celebration. It is planned to make it a gala oc casion, and those who are interested in the celebration are asked to come with baskets of dinner and spend the day. A list of the names of the dead soldiers which appear on the bronze tablet to be unveiled will appear in Monday’s issue of The Star so readers, may notify their parents to be here for the unveiling. Toms Not Candidate For County Recorder Says His Name Was Put On Repub lican Ticket Without Knowl edge Or Consent. Herbert L. Toms found his name on the Republican county ticket as printed in Wednesday’s issue of The Star and telephoned The Star ask ing that notice be made that lie is not a candidate for county record er on the Republican ticket and that his name was placed thereon without his knowledge or consent. “When I found out that the Re publicans had placed my name on the. ticket at the convention, I told an official of the Republican ex ecutive committee that I would not be a candidate and asked that my name be left off. I nad the prom ise that it would be omitted from the ticket, but I now find it on and wish to state that I am not a can didate for this office,’’ said Mr Toms Torchlight Parade To Feature Big Gardner Rally On Monday Night Carolina’s Next Governor Shelby and Cleveland county people will stage a big celebration and torchlight parade here Monday night honoring the county’s own son, O. Max Gardner, Democratic nominee, who will close his campaign at the school auditorium here. The biggest rally in the history ol the county is planned by Gardner's proud home iolks. • Bennett Issues Call For Young Men To Head Big Parade Monday Evening Attorney A1 R. Bennett, chair man ot the young men Democratic voters ot Cleveland county, today, issued a call to the young men of; the county asking them to partici pate in the big toren light parade, and. celebration here Monday night '! tor O. Max Gardner, the county's; candidate for governor. | All members ol' the young voters { clubs together with other'young men o! the county will assemble at the postoifice corner opposite the court square where they will form their line of march The torches and flares will be stored at the Key club, to the rear of the postoffice. The . torches for the occasion were provided by close friends of the gubernatorial candidate in his home town. Youth Fatally Injured As An Insurance Man Stands Nearby Lattlftj«re Boy,.. .Injured Wednesday, Dies. Had Been Talking Of I nsura nee. Had Arthur Cooper, 19-year-plcJ Lattimore boy. ialketl a lew min utes longer, .about accident, .insur ance last Wedneday noon tt is. likely that he would have been liv ing today. As it is Keis being- bur ied this afternoon at Satiety Hun Baptist church. Young Cooper, son of Mr. and 'Mrs. Amos Cooper, . respected citi zens of the Lattimore section, was t a tally injured Wednesday just aft er, noon when he was knocked from the running board of the car on which he was riding when struck by a telephone post by the side of the road. Rushed to the hospital' here he was not thought to be fat ally injured but died about 6 o'clock in the evening. Almost In Sight. _• The. youth was injured practical ly in sight of the place, where he had just been, talking to Roy Me Brayer, Shelby insurance salesman. McBraysr came up to where the Coopers were just about noon and had. been talking to Arthur and another brother about insurance. At the noon hour Woodrow Cooper, a brother of the d id youth, start ed with the car to take some of their cotton pickers to Mooresboro. Arthur left the in-- ranee man and jumped on the running board of : the auto.. Just,, behind the Cooper car came an auto driven by a son of Broad Lattirnore. Just as the Cooper car was meeting a truck it is said the boy on the fender lean ed cut to wave si the ear c' ;nd. I As he did so Ills brother turned the car to the right to 'pass the truck and the youth on the fender was ! struck by the telephone pole and knocked off. Surgeons at the hospital here be gan to examine him just .as soon after the accident as his- shock would, permit and the early c>..uu matiqh revealed a broken right leg, i hear the hip, and a head injury.; The X-Ray, it is said, at tha time did not reveal the concussion at the base of the brain, which per stimably brought death later m the evening. . Surviving the popular, young fel low are, his parents, and several brothers. Memorial Tablet Here For Unveiling The beautiful bronze memorial table to be unveiled here next Sat urday, bearing the names ot the 31 soldiers who died or were killed in the World War was received by ex press at The Star office this morn ing and will be placed in position at the court house early next week. It is a beautiful cast bronze tablet that will stand the wear of ages and was bought at a cost of over $300 from funds contributed through The Star two years ago. Presbyterian Men To Banquet Wives A round-about occasion is sche duled for the First Presbyterian church here tonight at T o’clock when the men of the phurch will hold their regular monthly meeting land will serve a supper for then i wives. X Great Celebration Planned For Address Of County’s First Governor Shelby and Cleveland county, which have already given sev eral noted sons to the state and nation, will on Monday night join in a mammoth cele bration honoring the first son of the county to be the Dem ocratic candidate for governor of his state. Beginning not long after sun down Monday evening the state ly Shelby court square, made famous in the novels of an other son, Tom Dixon, will wit ness the opening of the even ing's demonstration as fireworks and flares set off the demon stration honoring O. Max Gard ner in his only campaign speech in his home county. Speech At 8. Mr. Gardner will not begin speak ing in the Central school auditor ium until 8 o’clock but from the interest shown over- the county every seat will be filled long before that hour. Prior to the appearance of Mr. Gardner at the school stage a torchlight parade led by the young Democratic voters of the county and, the high school-band will form uptown and parade around the court square, then to the school. It is likely that the parade proper will be headed by an automobile in which will be the county’s favor ite son, Chairman B. T, Falls, Mrs. R. L. Ryburn, chaitman of the women voters of the cftunly and other Democratif£officiais. Another auto in the parade will tee filled with the Democratic county can didates, and still another by offi : eials of the women voters’ clubs of the county. Torchlights Ordered. Wednesday a big order was sent out by the young men’s clubs -for torchlights and flares to be used in the parade, and local sign painters are preparing banners for the event. Although the parade is sponsored by the young men of all the coun ty clubs, working through A1 Ben nett, county chairman, and Jesse Washburn. Shelby chairmen, all others who wish to take an active part in the parade are urged to do so. Every citizen of the county, re gardless* of political party. Is invited to participate in the county's tri bute to its noted son, and from the interest shown there is little doubt what the event will be one of the biggest and largest attended polit ical rallies ever held in western Carolina. j Mr. Gardner is particularly anx ! '.ous lo have the fanners and the ! farm women of the county attend. I Much of his public and private life ; has- been devoted to aiding the : farmers of his county and today ! the county’s high stand in agricul ! ture is due to his efforts more than j any other man. One thing he will ; assure them is that the interest of t the farmer will be well cared for I while he is in Raleigh. Mast of all," he said, “I want ! to thank the people of my county £or the support arid neighborliness they have shown me in the past and also for the fine vote they promise to give me Tuesday, and I would like, insofar as passible that T could talk to every Cleveland f county man and woman Monday night- when I close my campaign here at home." The candidate for governor has not spoken here during' the cam paign and the issues of the cam paign as discussed by him will be eagerly awaited by the people who are making a two-fold event of it by honoring him at the same time," All the county candidates and other party leaders will occupy the stage with Mr. Gardner. Election Returns At Star Office Election returns — county, state and national will be re ceived at The Star offlee Tuesday night by radio and , special leased Western Union telegraph wire. Ton are in vited to come and be a guest of The Star Tuesday evening. Returns will be announced through megaphone and post ed on bulletin [ward in front of The Star office.