Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year On advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, Shelby ..........- J8^ic Cotton, lneh staple__10c Shelby, seed per bu. ...__61%c Faliston, seed per bu._...... 64MiC Cloudy Thursday. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Fair and warmer tonight. Thursday Increasing cloudiness and warmer. Many Missing In Sea. Two nights after 328 passengers and crew abandoned the Vestris steamer, sinking off the Virginia capes, 20fi persons had been rescued, but 122 were still missing. I HI-Y CLUB ID E. E. Scott Likens Boys To Postage Stamp, Success Comes To Those Who Stick. At the annual banquet of the Hi Y club at the Central high school last night to which the members of the local Hi-Y club and a num ber of leading citizens interested in Hi-Y work were present. Elmer E. Scott president of the Rotary club talked on ‘‘sti.Cktuitiveness." Boys who would make a success in this world must learn the lesson of a postage stamp which Is humble and small, but carries a message to its destination because it sticks to its purpose and object. A bountiful dinner was served by the home economics club of the high school and with Editor Lee B. Weathers presiding, a number of Hi-Y club ; members spoke on the work of the ; organization during the past year It was a very gratifying report made by Charles Caveny, the club’s secretary. Grady Frances reported on "sum mer activities.” Mr. Frances is a former Hi-Y secretary and graduate of high school who was active in the club's work last year. Robert Gidney, president spoke on the present ideals and plans of the club. V. C. Mason. Jr., a member of the school faculty who takes a deep interest in the work spoke on the adult teacher's part and ;ead an interesting article by Elbert Hub bard on "Who Knows?” Mr. Scott's subject was Boy's Work a Challenge to the Men.” C. A. Witherspoon, field secretary of the H.-Y work spoke on the outreach of the work in North Carolina and Thad C. Ford thanked the boys for their in vitation to the dinner and assured them of the support and co-opera tion of the men of the city. Rotarians To Have Seniors At Meeting The boys of Shelby and the fel lows who were boys in years gone by are going to get a little better aequaitned with each other. At the last meeting of the Shel by Rotary club the members de cided that hereafter one boy from the senior class of the Central high school would be picked each month to attend the Rotary luncheons as the guest of the club. Auction Sale For . Grover Announced The Nolans are advertising another autumn auction. This time the B. F. Turner estate, of Grover, is going on the block. The sale will occur Friday morning. The tract is a huge one which, according to the advertisement ■will be sold in two units, both with splendid residences. Rush and Rush will do the speiling, and the Nolans are the selling agents. To Attend Baptist Convention Session Among the Shelby and Cleveland county people who left today for High Point to attend the state Bap tist convention were: Mrs. Zeno Wall, Mr. and Mrs. Mai Spangler, Mr. and Mrs. Rush Hamrick, and Messrs. John P. Mull, Alger Ham rick. Charlie Hamrick, and Sam Blanton. New Employees At Stephenson’s Store Messrs. Hugh Hoyle and Horton Kendall, the latter formerly em ployed at Casey’s place, have ac cepted positions with Stephenson drug store succeeding Messrs. Hack Mims, who Is now with the Charles store, and Durant Hazard. Boiling Springs To Play Its Last Game The Boiling Springs Junior col lege football eleven will play their last game of the reason next Sat urday November 17 on the home field when they meet the strong Belmont Abbey eleven. A good game Is looked forward to. MASONIC MEETING Cleveland lodge 201, A. P. & A. M. will meet in called comtnunication Triday night fer work in the first degree. Local Masons are urged to Bandit Gang Thought Working In Section Nearby Cities And Towns Exper iencing Robbery Wave Same As Shelby. The opiiri^flJJT.Shelby police cir cles is that the recent robbery wave in Shelby is not confined to Shelby but covers the entire section and is carried on by an organized gang. Officers here state that nearby towns and cities have been experi encing a series of robberies similar to that holding sway in Shelby now. Stores have been broken into and robbed in Gastonia. Charlotte, For est City, Kings Mountain and other points, and there have been hold ups in Charlotte and elsewhere, all of which leads to the conclusion that the operations more than like ly are carried cn by a roving band Arrest One Here. Monday afternoon Policeman Rufus Sparks arrested Troy Camp bell. employed at a local bakery, for Gastonia officers who, it is said connect him in some way, perhaps as a look-out, with the recent rob bery of a jewelry store there. Due to the big haul of clothing made in the store robberies here last Friday night and the town daring the night and made away ! with the loot in an automobile. Carnivals visiting towns of the section during the summer and with the fairs of the fall season are thought to have turned the atten tion of the robber band to the sec tion. Officers are working upon one or two clues in connection with the Friday night robberies here, but as yet nothing definite has been re vealed. Man Disclaims Neat Five-Gallon Plant Found In His Barn Said He Took It In Out Of Rain And Had Not Used Still. Some time back Deputy Gus Jol ley found a neat, little five-gallon copper still in the barn of Alex Swink, of the Mooresboro section, but in county court yesterday Swink told Judge John Mull that he had not used the mail order booze plant. According to Swink's story, he found the still in the woods nearby and carried it to the barn to keep the rain from corroding it. Evidence was that Swink’s wife let the offi cer know about the still’s location when he was at the home on busi ness. The defendant was given a six months suspended sentence and fined $50 and the costs. How E-l-e-v-e-n Figures In Big War The Armistice was signed ten years ago in the eleventh month, on the eleventh day and went into ef fect at eleven o'clock on that day. Many soldiers marked their Bibles in the eleventh book, eleventh chap ter, eleventh verse according to Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church here in his Sunday morning service. This verse reads: “Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my stat utes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend thy kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant.” Many took that to mean that Germany had disobey and her king dom, at least a part of it was rent and given to France Bride Wants To Eat First Thing Gaffney.—“And now where Is a good place to eat,” asked a newly married woman Sun day just as Probate Judge Lake W. Stroup informed a couple that they were “man and wife.” Judge Stroup recommended a well-known cafe and the woman took a still dazed looking husband by the arm and hurried out of the court house. City Is Winner In Trial Before Judge Webb Here Superior Court Jurist Upholds Ap peal As To Validity City Laws. Insofar as the validity of the city ordinances are concerned the city of Shelby was the winner in an appeal case heard before Judge James L. Webb. The appeals "had to do with the cases of the City vs. D. A. Beam and William Crowder in regard to the sanitary laws about handling cattle in the city, and that of the City vs. T M. Gladden regarding plumbing regulations. The cases tried in county court were appealed by Capt. Peyton Mc Swain, attorney for the .defendants, and Judge Webb upheld the city ordinances in suspending judgment upon payment of the costs Judge B. T. Falls represented the city in the hearing. Couples In Section Marrying In S. C. Several Couples From This County Get Hitched At Gaffney Bureau. Gaffney.—Records of marriages at the court house were broken for the fall season when Judge Lake W. Stroup performed 15 wedings last Saturday, Three other couples were married Sunday.«„4 The following white men and wo men obtained licenses during tho last week: Jack Smith, 24. Gaffney, route 8, and Viola Mullins, 19, Gaffney, route 8. Ernest Nance, 20, Blacksburg, and Lotie Ross, 18, Blacksburg. Daniel Edwards, 21, Shelby, and Daisy Wilson, 18, Shelby. James McKnight, 21, Shelby, and Hester Coleman, 19, Shelby. James R. Millwood, 59, Gaffney, and Belle McSwain. 36, Gaffney. Fletcher Ensley, 21, Spindale, and Nettie Sue Robertson, 21, Ruther fordton. Arthur Fite, 41. Kings Mountain and Gailey Pintuff, 22, Kings Moun tain, Henry Sherbert, 21, Spartanburg, and Genevt Kirby, 18, Spartanburg. Robert Howard Allen, 22, Shelby, and Reo Nicholson, 19, Shelby. Lewis Jolly, 25, Shelby, and Lula Mae Scruggs, 21, Bolling Springs. Willie Thrift, 21. Gaffney, route 9, and Ruby Inez Ruppe, 19. Gaff ney, route 1. Robert Vernon Spencer, 28, Gas tonia, and Mabel Williams. 26, Gas tonia. When we write the truth it isn't so necessary to keep a carbon copy. Simmons And Other Bolters Not Likely To Be Punished Washington —Signs of retaliating against members of the senate who bolted party lines in the Hoover Smith battle are failing to take shape—unlike the situation four years ago when four Republicans w’ere ejected from their party coun cils for supporting the late Robert M. La Follette. Each party this year has a pair such recalcitrants. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, and Blaine, of Wiscon sin, left the Republican ranks dur ing the campaign to advocate the election of Governor Smith. The veteran Senators Simtnons, of North Carolina, ranking minority member on the senate finance com mittee, and Senator Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, denounced the Demo cratic presidential nominee. If either party is contemplating acti.n a. -hst its senators who de fine to s; r-ort the national ticket first of the members to return to the capital from the campaign. In fact, few members desire r,o discuss it. However, Senator Norris, who holds one of the "big five” comniit mittee chairmanships of the sen ate—the judiciary committee—in dicated today he had heard rumors of revenge against him, but added j he knew of no definite steps. I Four years ago, with a substan tial majority in the senate, the ! Republican decided hot to invite senators Frazier and Ladd, of North Dakota; Brookhart, of Iowa, and La Follette, of Wisconsin, into their conferences. The first three had j supported Senator La Follette In the 1924 presidential campaign. Two ! years ago the two survivors of this group, Frazier and Brookhart, were once more taken into "the fold. By coincidence, both senators this year advocated the election. of Herbert I Anti-Saloon League, Methodist Board, Kluckers And Others Aided. (Special to The Star.) Washington, Nov. 14.—No one ever knows* how much is spent to elect the candidates in a presidential campaign, but there is reason to pose that the 1928 bill has been higher than $15,000,000. Difficult as it is to obtain accu rate data for comparison, there is little question that this year’s cam paign costs set a record. In the first place, the Demo crats had a large wad, which is most unusual for them. New re quirements for expenditure and expansion of the old ones was an other'reason. Lastly and very im portant certain powerful organ izations which ordinarily keep out of national elections poured money into this one. The two national committees have spent somewhere around $10, 000,000 of the suggested $15,0000, 000. Such organizations as the Anti-Saloon League, Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals and the Ku Klux Klan made a great and costly ef fort. The sum total of their pol itical expenditures eeftinot now be told. It must further be remembered that the national committee is only the one big collecting unit. There are many smaller ones. Money given to and used by the state and local organizations in stead of to the national committee is not included in the national committee budgets. All sorts of so called volunteer organizations raise and handle their cwn money. In effect, some of them are so many holding companies for the cash. It is regarded as common knowl edge that a great deal of secret contribution and expenditure goes on, ordinarily and for the most part in doubtful states and the largest centers of population. How is all the money used? Let's confine ourselves to the of ficial budget money of the na tional committees, because that's much easier to trace. It is too early to learn the respec tive financial apportionments of the national committees for 1928, but they run pretty well along the lines of previous expenditures by whatever party had money to spend and the only important change is in the amount spent for radio. The Democrats told this writer their radiojaill would reach $650, 000. The "Republicans owned up to $350,000. The Democrats say the Republican bill must have been far above $350,000. Political Preachers Would Be Ousted By Laymen, Says Report Small Starts Movement Seeking Scalps Of Pulpit Politicians. (H. E. C. Bryant, in Observer.) Washington.—A movement to oust preacher-Politician" has been start ed among Methodist laymen of North Carolina. Former Representative John H. Small, a graduate of old Trinity col lege, now Duke university, was very much wrought up over the activities of Bishop James E. Cannon, jr„ of Virginia, and Bishop Edwin Mou zon, of North Carolina, during the recent campaign. A report that Mr. Small had started a movement to request Mr. Mouzon to leave the state reached here today. But, when asked about it, Mr, Small declared it was untrue. He has urged lay men to call a meeting and pass upon the question of preacher-politicians. Letters Sent Out. • "No, that report is incorrect," said he, "But I have written letters to North Carolina Methodists, who have the future of their church at heart, asking them for expressions of opinion on the activity of their ministers. “I think this an opportune time for intelligent laymen in the state to meet and express their views on the political activities of our preach ers. “I am receiving some answers to my communications but not enough to show the attitude of the laymen. "Members of churches—in fact, all Americans—should be interested in the problem now confronting us and express themselves.” Mr. Small said he had written Charles W. Til lett, among others. The fellow who warts to begin at the tod should become a well drill 1 Answers Love Call Beautiful Ruby Keeler (Mrs. A1 Jolson), who tossed a Ziegfeld con tract when her mammy-singing husband wired her to come to him. She quit the show in Pittsburgh and was en route to Hollywood be fore friends learned she had taken French leave. (IIN) Inebriated Woman Abandoned By Man As Officers Arrive South Carolina Couple Sets Woods Afire In No. 1 Township. Fined. If her adventurous escort had not been too careless with his smokin'* while they were on a lark, a neat, fairly good-looking Gaffney, South Carolina, woman might have spent last night—a part of it, anyway—at her home in Gaffney, but as it was she spent the night in the county jail here. Last night a resident of No. 1 township noticed a small blaze in the woods near his home. When he and a neighbor investigated they ran upon the woman, who was tried here today, and her male compan ion. Both, according to the No. 1 citizens, were pretty well in their cups, except that the woman was so far in that she was lac-coming sick. When the No. 1 men peeped in upon the escapade the man was hunting his spectacles which had been lost. However, the intruders on the love affair were noticed and the man jumped in his car and aban doned his feminine friend, who was alone when a couple of deputies arrived upon the scene. In court here today before Squire T. C. Eskridge, the woman, who gave her name as Flossie Galloway, of the Hamrick mill village, Gaff ney, was fined> $10 and the costs. She would not disclose the name of her missing companion on the ill fated lark, although she did tell the court that she had a husband and two children. The fine was impos ed for drunkenness, no other charge being filed. Auto Prices Going Down, Noted Here Something is happening in the I automobile world. Just what, is not revealed, but judging from events, noted even here in Shelby, there [seems to be some undercurrent de noting changing conditions, j Last week The Star carried an advertisement announcing a cut on iwo cars of two hundred and one hundred and fifty dollars respec tively. Today a brief announcement appears, forerunner of a campaign, telling of a second first rate car be ing cut one hundred and fifty dol lars. For the most part the news col umns of the big r.ncres are silent on this trend of '.tents,' But it seems likely this news will net long BIS POLL BIB BONE ON COUNT! Experts Tell Why Cleveland County Voted For Hoover, Which It Did Not Do. me poiitcai experts are not en tirely immune from errors. Since North Carolina voted for Herbert Hoover the Raleigh writers, in their wisdom, have" been explaining why. This week in a general summar ized explanation one Raleigh bu reau writer explained that the big industrial counties of the state— Mecklenburg, Cabarrus. Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Durham, Cleve land and New Hanover—gave Hoo ver large majorities not because of religious prejudice or prohibition is sues, but because they form an in dustrial section which placed econo mics first. Laugh No. 1. Cleveland county did not vote for Herbert Hoover be cause the figures show that Gov. Smith carried the county. That's the best reason the county itself can give. Laugh No. Two comes in the fol lowing paragraph quoted from the political experts: “Take the case of Cleveland county, the home of O. Max Gard ner and Clyde Hoey, which went for Hoover by 176 votes,” said another commentator. “You can't tell me that Cleveland county voted for Hoover because of its religious in tolerance for Smith, or because it feared Smith would abolish pro hibition. The reason the majority of people in Cleveland county voted for Hoover was because of the in dustrial and economic factors in volved. For Gardner and Hoey had dispelled all fears and all opposition t6 Smith on all except economic grounds. The people were afraid ot what might happen to industry, especially the textile industry, un der a Democratic national admin istration.. So they took no chances and voted for Hoover. For they were certain that Hoover would continue to present Republican policy of protection toward business and industry." Again it is reiterated that Hoover did not carry Cleveland county be cause of religion, Or prohibition, but because he did not get enough votes. Curiously enough, it is noted that in the big industrial counties named, Gaston, the biggest textile county of all, was not mentioned, and Gaston did go Republican, per haps because of its industrial view. Will Rogers said New York people learned a lot about geography in the recent election when they dis covered that quite a number of people lived west of the Hudson river, but it does not seem as if the election benefited the Raleigh wiz ards along that line. Gardner May Not Get In Last Game Lady Luck seems to have frown ed upon Ralph Gardner, center on the Shelby high football eleven and a son of Governor-elect and Mrs. O. Max Gardner. Young Gardner, an outstanding player on Casey Morris' eleven this year, being a senior would have played his final game in a Shelby uniform here Friday with Forest City had it not been for a bit of ill luck. In the defeat of the Kings Mountain eleven he sufiered an in jury to his shoulder which may keep him out of the game. Coach Morris is holding him out of prac tice with the hope that his shoulder may heal to the extent that he may wear the Shelby uniform in the game in which he and several of his teammates will sing their swan song. But the hope is a meagre one. If Gardner is unable to play Fri day, “Pug” Richards, scrappy little guard, or Bill Lattimore, regular tackle, may supplant him at the pivot berth. Smith In Farewell Urges Citizens To Suppo rt Mr. Hoover Sues Killers Mrs. Mary Belle Smith, wife of the Atlanta, Ga., druggist who is alleged to have been killed in a holdup staged by George Harsh and Richard Gray Gallogy, “thrill" murderers, is suing the pair for $150,000, Harsh and Gallogy are in jail avvaitinv trial. Is Last Game Of Year For Local Eleven. Close Contest Is Expected. Four or five wearers of the Shel by high gridiron togs will sing their swan song in the game here Friday afternoon with the strong Forest City eleven. The game with the Rutherford county outfit is, the final one of the season for Shelby, and the several seniors who pull off their blue jerseys after the game will never again wear local colors on the football field. In addition to being the final game of the year and the last game i for some of the boys, the contest j attracts interest in that it is the : annual battle of supremacy between ! the two adjoining counties. The ! Forest City eleven has a good rec I ord this season, and a few weeks ; back the visiting outfit was doped ; to defeat Shelby for the. first time ! in football. However, in the past j week or so Coach Casey Morris, with his cripples back in the line up. has transformed a mediocre outfit into the flashiest offense ever exhibited in Shelby. The quin tet of speed demons in the Shelby backfield, Capt. Gold, Wall, Bridges, Washburn and Eskridge, are de termined to uphold the reputation of the school in keeping the grid title of the two counties, and up in front of the "Lindbergh attack” is a determined little line centered about Wilson, and te several of his team mates, such as Ralph Gardner, Joe Singleton, Bill Lattimore and others, who will be playing their final game here. Escaped Convict In Jail Here; Caught At Kings Mountain Floyd Blackw'ell, an escaped con vict from the state prison at Ra leigh, was placed in the county jail here Monday night by Policeman Hedrick, of Kings Mountain, who captured Blackwell there. Blackwell, it is said, was* serving a long term for auto larceny in Gaston county and made his escape from the prison about two months ago. Clue To Burning Of Girl Is Found In Religious Book Chicago.—A page, from a book on religion with the phrase,, “the re finer’s fire," underscored, turned new light on the death of Miss El frieda Knaak November 2 from burns inflicted, she said, in "purl- 1 fication rights” in the Lake Bluff, 111., police station furnace room. The book, found among Knaak's private papers, spoke of the ' purifying process of pain.' “It is grander to suffer,” said the book, “because, rightly viewed, it is sure to perfect the soul It is :m ■ r b’e to know tree toy -the heights of joy—until you have : '■•WMlZ • ' pain. This is the process called “the refiner’s fire.’ The last three words were underscored. Miss Knaak was found semi-con scious ' in the police station base ment. her legs, arms and head bad ly burned. In the days before she died she persisted in her story that she alone had inflicted the burns, and a coroner’s jury last week re turned a verdict accepting the young woman’s story. Investigation by county authori ties and by the girl’s family has continued in the belief that a sec ond person had a part in the af Renews Allegiance To Democrat!* Principles. Thanks His Supporters. New York, Nov. 14 —Governor Al fred E. Smith told the country over the radio last night that the prin ciples of the Democratic party were as great in defeat as they would have been in victory, and that It was the party’s duty “to carry on and vindicate” the principles lor which it had fought. Standing before a microphone in a National Broadcasting studio, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate delivered what many had called his valedictory. Nation’s Leader. His speech, broadcast over a na tionwide hookup of sta'tions, urged united support of Herbert Hoover— although he did not mention him by name—asserting that the man selected by the people last Tuesday to lead the country was “not the president of the Republican party," but president of the United States." It would not do, said Governor Smith, to let bitterness, rancor or indignation over the result blind no to the outstanding fact that wn are Americans.” , Referring to the thousands of letters he said he had received since the election and since he had announced that he would not again be a candidate for public office, the governor said he had been\ asked “not to lose interest” in the Demo cratic party. ’ fll SofUnd Principles He said he did not regard the de feat of his party as interfering with the soundness of the principles for which it stood, and that with all the vigor he could command he would continue not only to stand for those principles but to “battle for them." He added a pledge of increasing in terest in and devotion to them. | The governor called the Demo cratic party “the great liberal party of the nation,” leading progressive thought and holding out “the only hope of return to the fundamental principles on which this country was built and as a result of whtch -tt-has grown and thrived.” To Young America. “To the young rr.en and women of the country,” he said, “the Dem ocratic party with its fine tradi tion, and its breadth of vision,' of fers the only inspiration. The Dem ocratic party would not be In posi tion four years from now to solicit the confidence and the support of the American people, if during that period it neglected to build up a constructive program and relied en tirely upon the failure of the oppo sition party. _‘That cannot be done by the,mi nority party permitting itself to, be come a party of destruction and op position for political purposes wily. We have seen too much of that in this country and in many of its civil divisions.” Constructive. “It would be regarded a construc tive achievement,” he added, "if the Democratic party at Washing ton were to formulate program adopted and offered to the congress of the nation and there defend it. A refusal on the parti of the party in power to accept it or tneir in ability to bring about party unity for the solution of these problems would then fix the responsibility and make a record upon which a successful campaign could be wag ed four years from now." The Democrats would not be act ing in good faith. Governor Smith said, if it were to adopt a policy at inaction “with a hepe of profiting solely by the mistakes or the fail ures of the opposition.” “What this country demands,” he asserted, “is constructive and not destructive criticism; a construc tive program embodying the decla rations of the Democratic party.^ New Commissioner In First Of December New Recorder Takes Office In Jan- I uary, And New Sheriff Next j April. Dr. G. M. Gold, elected county commissioner in the recent election to take the place of Mr. W. W. Washburn, resigned, will go into of fice on the first Monday of Decem ber when the commissioners meet In the other county offices where new officers are supposed to go ir during December the old officers were reelected. Attorney Horace Kennedy, elected county recorder, will succeed Judge John P. Mull on the first Monday in January, and Police Chief Irvin Allen, of Kings Mountain, will take up his duties as sheriff, succeeding Sheriff Hugh Logan, on the first of

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