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THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. . - 10 PAGES TODAY MONDAY NOV. 19, 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 LATENEWS I ' fC\'; The Markets. Cotton, Shelby_ I8:Hc Shelby, seed per bu._ 81!jc Fallston, seed per bu.___6l!ic Cold Snap Ahead. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy with rain this aft ernoon and probably In east por tion early tonight. Much colder to night. Tuesday fair and colder. Hoover Is OfT. Palo Alto, Calif., Nov. 18.—Her bert Hoover left here on his spe cial train early this evening for San Pedro where he will embark on the battleship Maryland tomorrow for bis good-will trip to I.atin America. Before the train bearing the presi dent-elect had moved away from •he Palo Alto station, four men bearing signs “Down With Ameri can Imperialism” were reported to have been arrested by local police. SETTLE IB SUITS IN GiLKEY WRECK Kendrick Fstate And Weaver Es tate Get $10,000 Each By Consent. Another chapter to the worst rail road wreck in the history of Ruth erford county, which occurred July 2. 1927. near Gilkey, was closed in the superior court at Rutherford ton last week when two damage suits against the Southern railway were settled, says The Sun. "These two actions were brought by Mike L. Borders, administrator of M. M. Kendrick, deceased, and by the representatives of the late Lynch Weaver, of Therma City, and each estate was awarded $10,000 by consent judgments. How They Were Killed. "The late M. M. Kendrick, engi neer of the Southern railway local freight No. 68 running from Rock Hill to Marion, going north at one twenty-nine p. m. Saturday, July 2, 1927. was killed instantly. Lynch Weaver, the brakeman. died shortly afterwards in the Rutherford hos pital, Mr. Weaver suffered terribly from being scalded with live steam all over his body. The freight train stopped at Gilkey to allow a south bound freight train to pass, and to take on a carload of cross ties. All of the train crew jumped on the engine cab except Penninger. the flagman, of Shelby, who boarded the caboose in the rear. The train started off at once and when it reached the long bridge over Cath ey's Creek, a high rate of speed had been attained, and when the ca boose was several hundred feet across trestle, the engine took a leap in the air and fell over to the right side. The string of cars came hurt ling along, and many of them were telescoped. The cross ties on the two flat cars were hurled in every direction. The nose of the engine was buried in the mud, and the rails were torn up for several hundred yards and twisted into fantastic shapes: the cross ties being uproot ed as if by the hands of giants. The dead bodies of A. T. Eaker, of Mar ion, the conductor, and Kendrick, the engineer, were taken fiom the steaming engine by gallant rescuers who also extricated the mortally injured young men, Ward and Weaver. The colored fireman, who was instantly killed, was caught in the ashpit of the engine and it took many hours to pry him loose.” Beam And Wood To Represent County In The State Senate Rutherford And Henderson Coun ties Furnish State Senators For District This Year. Senators Amos R. Beam of Ruth erford county and W. F. Wood of Henderson, both Democrats will represent this senatorial district in the general assembly of North Carolina. At a meeting of the var ious county election boards at Ruth erfordton a few days ago, Beam and Wood were declared winners over D. F. Morrow and A. M. Mc Whirter, Republicans who were op posing Beam and Wood in this, the 27th senatorial district. This district is composed of the counties of Cleveland, Rutherford, Henderson. Polk and McDowell counties with two state senators representing the five counties. Cleveland, therefore, has a state senator only every other term or one every four years. The canvassers found that the j candidates had the following total votes in the five counties. W. F. Kood iD) _...21,086 Amos R. Beam tD) ....21,098 W. F. Wood <D) --....-.21,086 A. M. McWhirter (R> _18,537 BIRTHDAY DINNER AT HOME OF A. T. CONNOR There will be a birthday dinner atthe home of A. F. Conner on Sunday, Nov. 25th, celebrating Mr. Conner's 85th birthday anniver sary. The public is cordially invited to Attend with well filled baskets. I 9 ANOTHER IS COT “Dutch” Whisnant, All-State Pitch er With Shelby High, Shot In Leg. Horace (Dutch) Whisnant, for mer star hurler with Sheiby high and now a player in semi-pro ball, is in the Shelby hospital suffering with a bullet wound in the right leg as the result of a row late Sat urday night at Lawndale. P. A. McEntire and W. J Little john are under $500 and $50 bonds respectively as the result of the shooting. Since McEntire's bond is the largest the shooting charge di rect is presumably against him. However exact details of the shoot ing which took place during an al leged row at the Lawndale power house are not known and probably will not come out until the hear ing. The wound, which is in the knee, is not thought to be so very serious although Whisnant lost consider able blood while being removed to the hospital here. Cutting At Fallston. Horace Davis, who lives near the county line in the Rockdale section, is under bond for a hearing in court here for cutting his brother, Aaron Davis, in a squabble of some kind in the Fallstan section Saturday afternoon. The injured man, it is understood, was cut about the face. The charges also include drunken ness. SPECIAL TE1 ON COURT OPENS HERE A special term of superior court, for the purpose of clearing up the congested civil calendar, convened here this morning when Judge Cam eron McRae, of Asheville, presiding. The calendar for the most part is made up of minor1 suits and liti gations, and none of the building crash suits will come up now as they were not filed long enough before the term. Mrs. J. A. Wray Is Dead In Lincoln j . __ The many Cleveland county friends and relatives of Mrs. J. A. Wray will regret to learn of her death at Henry, Lincoln county Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Wray married Dr. Jim Wray, a brother of the late John 8. Wray. Before marriage she was Miss Mar garet Goforth and her father was one of the pioneer settlers of this country. She was buried at her old home at Kings Mountain Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Wray is survived by two sons, Linton Wray and A. B. Wray of Henry and four step sons, J. Q. Wray of York, W. B. Wray of Burnsville, R. T. Wray, of Charlotte, and D. L. Wray of Eustis, Fla. and one step daughter, Mrs. John K. Wells of Hudson street, Shelby. Cleveland Girl Declared Daintiest Miss Roberta Royster At Meredith College, Plays One Of Leading Roles. At the annual “stunt night” per formance at Meredith college, Miss Roberta Royster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ves Royster of the Fall ston community played one of the leading parts in the stunts by the junior class entitled "Hello Mars.” In the cast she appeared as Caro lyn, daughter of the governor of North Carolina. This stunt won for the junior class the silver loving cup which is presented anually to the class giving ,he best stunt. Miss Royster has been voted the daintiest girl in the college and her picture will apepar-as such in the feature section of “Oak Leaves,’ the Meredith college annual. Comic Page Review In Local Talent Show The Zander-Gump wedding which is to be given Friday night at 8:15 at the high school auditorium is sponsored by the Lucy Hoyle circle of the Central M. E. church. The entire caste is of local talent rep resenting the comic page charac ters. A small admission charge will be made. DAINTY TEN POUND DAUGHTER ANNOUNCED Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Phil lips on Nov. 9. a dainty ten pound daughter. Mother and babe are re porting to be getting along nicely. | “Beyond the Hoping, the Dreading” Appalling tragedy of the S. S. Vestris was brought home vividly with arrival at Clifton, S. I., of Coast Guard cutter Shaw with bodies of thirteen victims, among them a baby. The photo shows canvas-shrouded victims on cut ter’s deck just before bodies were removed to undertaking establishments. (International Newsreel) John Early, Famous Leper, To Come Back Home; Cured Now _ I Washington, Nov. 18—The Unit ed States public health service to day announced John Early, 54-year old North Carolina mountaineer, whose many escapes from leper colonies caused consternation among health officials, had “recovered from leprosy. "In scientific parlance his leprosy is arrested,” said a statement issued by the health service. The announcement hailed Early’s case as "another triumph in modern medicine,” and credited the moun taineer’s "eccentricities’’ with having contributed much to the passage of the law placing lepers under care of the public health service and to awakening public interest in the leprosy problem in this country. Early, who once resisted with a rifle efforts to confine him in the national leper home at Carville, La., where he recovered, will return this month to his home in the mountains near Tryon, N. C., free from the disease but carrying its scars. Microscopic tests of his blood and Education Investment Is Paying High Dividends Chapel Hill, Nov. 17—“One has only to sweep his eye over the world to find abundant support of theory that education as a social in vestment Is paying big dividends,” Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, declar ed here this morning in an address at the opening of the second day’s sessions of the Southern Conference on Education being sponsored by the University of North Carolina. “The nations that have been un willing to spend on education are the vicitms of ignorance, supersti tion, destitution, and of all the wretchedness that comes in their train,” Dr. Coffmaji asserted. Result Of Much Spending. “America,” he said, “has achieved her station, not by a withholding, but by a generous spending. And she has done it by refusing to close the gates of educational opportun ity. “If one will take five American states that have provided most lib erally for education, and compare them with the five states that have provided most parsimoniously for education, he will find that the average earnings of the families in the former are almost twice those individual in the savings banks is nearly ten times greater per indi vidual in the former than in the latter, that the number of books in the libraries and the number of magazines and newspapers subscrib ed to is vastly greater in the former, and that the living conditions by and large are much superior in ttte former.” , Need Quality In Teachers, of the Ithaca, N. Y., schools, and of the Ithaca, N. Y., schools, asd president of the department of Su perintendence of the National Edu cationad association, the other speaker if the morning session, de clared “quality of teaching to be the hub of the whole matter of edu cation.” “If any college,” he said, ‘could assemble a faculty of really reat teachers, it would lack nothing, or they ' would draw irresistably.” Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University, who presided over the morning ses sion, deplored what he described as nation-wide epidemic of higher edu cation for everybody with its crowd ed schools and countless thousands of trained graduates should be ac companied by an equally nation wide and appalling epidermic of law lessness and murder and highway jobbery.” Cotton Market (By John F. Clark & Co.) Spot cotton quoted in Shelby to day 18:,tC. New York futures at noon: December 19.62; January 1951 Saturday’s close: December 19.59; January 19.49. New York, Nov. 19.—Forecast western belt fair and colder. East ern belt rain. Considerable rain over belt Sunday. Moderate business in Worth St. Some houses reported sales for week 1 in excess of production, others small sales. Manchester cables says outlook was more encouraging last week, steadiness of cotton prices gave market firm tone. Demand from India continues. Charlotte special says removal of crop uncertainty creates confidence in present values. Look for steady market with fun damentals growing stronger as sea son advances. JNO. F. CLARK & CO. Book Club Sponsors Jannings Picture The Contemporary Book club is sponsoring the photoplay, ’ The Pa triot,” starring Emil Jannings today and tomorrow at the Princess, thea tre. A home-mixed fertilizer analyz ing 9-5-4 has helped to produce 11 bales of cotton on ten acres, re ports J. O. Campbell of Cleveland county. Mr. Campbell says that he has six or seven more bales on the field still to be picked. [ tissues show tha t the disease has ! been “arrested" and it was an nounced “there is scant danger of a relapse, however, as since 1921 only one recovered leper discharged from the Carville institution by the public health service has suffered a recurrence of the disease.” Early's recovery was brought about by the injection of Chaulmoogra oil. Up until a year ago these injections caused excruciating pain to the pa tient for several hours, but a new method of administration by mix ing a harmless anesthetic with each dose was developed and Early, along with the other patients at Carville, welcomed the improved method. Early shocked the national capi tal in 1923 when he registered at a downtown hotel following an es cape from Carville. Again in 1927, he hid himself at his North Caro lina home and resisted efforts to capture him until he surrendered May 4, 1927, to the federal authori ties, and returned to the leper home, where he subsequently submitted to treatment. Smith Got Three Votes For Every Bolter—DePriest — Former Shelby Man Tells New York Club That Smith Added To Party. New York, Nov. 17.—Smith lost 1.000,000 Democrats and gain ed .1,500,000 Republicans in the election for the presidency, in the opinion of Hudson De Priest, veteran newspaperman, who was the guest-speaker at the 12:15 club of South BrookIyn**at the Prospect Park braheh Y. M. C. A., 357 Ninth street. Although the electoral college vote made it appear that the Democratic party had suffered an overwhelming defeat, Mr. Dc Priest pointed out that a change of ten percent of the vote would have made them the winners. Largest Shopping Crowds Ever Here In Recent Weeks Shelby Growing In Popularity As ] Trading Center, Merchants Say. The two Saturdays just passed witnessed the influx into Shelby of the largest shopping crowds in the history of the town, according to observant merchants, several of whom differ among themselves as to which Saturday saw the largest crowd in town. However, on the week-end just passed and the one before that business streets here were jammed with people in such a manner as to resemble a Christmas shopping rush. With so much shopping now local business men anticipate the greatest shopping season ever in the weeks just ahead. Revival Begins Today At Second Baptist A revival meeting begins tonight at the Second Baptist church ac cording to an announcement made by the pastor. Rev. Rush Fadgett. Rev. J. B. Jones, president of Boil ing Springs college will do the preaching and service will be held each evening beginning at 7:15 o'clock. Mr. Horace Easom, assist ant pastor and music director of the First Baptist church Will have charge of the music which will be a feature at each Service. D. H. Cline Takes G. M. C. Truck Here D. H. Cline has secured the agency in this territory of the Gen eral Motor Trucks which have never before been sold here. These trucks are equipped with the new Buick high powered six cylinder engines and are made with a capacity of from one and a half to four tons, offering, therefore, a truck for every purse and purpose. These trucks are on display this week at Mr. Cline's salesrooms on West Warren street. Regular Masonic Meeting On Friday Cleveland lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M. will meet in regular com munication Friday night at 7:30 p. m. Members are urged <o attend. Visiting masons welcomed. Mosquitoes are more likely to bite persons with fair skins than those of dark complexion. Gold And Bridges Pulled A Game From The Fire In Closing Minutes. Capt. Milky Gold. Shelby high fullback, and Guy Bridges, veteran half, Friday afternoon inscribed their names in the role of gridiron immortals as far as Shelby is con cerned by pulling the most specta cular play ever seen here to defeat Forest City 7 to 6 in the last three minutes of the game. The game—a game in which it should be said in fairness that the best eleven lost—incidentally will go down in the records as one of the most thrilling of all Shelby’s gruelling football tilts. Which is to say that, in the years to come the Bridges and Gold pass in the For est City game will be talked along with the detour Asheville made via Shelby to Chapel Hill and never arrived, and the Charlotte game which Fred'Beam. Caldwell and Furches pulled out of the fire. Merriwell. The winning play of the game ex celled any fiction ever produced by Frank Merriwell in his dramatic victories. Outplayed and rushed to death all afternoon long, the final quar ter, and the final minutes of the final quarter, found Shelby with the short end of a 6-0 score. With three minutes to go it was Shelby's ball cn her own 20-yard line, third down and about 15 to go. Shelby fans were already filing c-ut the gates as the big Shelby fullback dropped back to make his antici pated punt. But standing on his own 10-yard line he did not kick. For a second or two he eluded tacklers and then heaved the pigskin far down the field. Weaving in and out of the Forest City backfield was Bridges, the halfback, and just as he passed the Forest City safety nian on the 50-yard line he looked back and the ball settled in his arms. From that point on the crip pled Bridges stepped off 50 yards for a touchdown. The soora was tied. Bridges dropped back to kick for the extra point. He even went so far as to brush off a place on the ground where he intended to start his kick. The ball came back from center, the Forest City eleven rushed Bridges to break up the at tempt for point only to have Bridges toss the ball over their heads to the waiting arms of Gold across the line. Tliat was the game 7-6. Of course. Lady Luck played an important part in the completion of the 40-yard pass and the 50-yard run, but the dramatics were there and the crowd was in an uproar. Nothing else could have saved the game. Only a superhuman shot in desperation could have turned the trick; Bridges and Gold turned it to the celight of hundreds of shriek ing Shelby fans. Forest City Good. It was the only time during the day, however, that Shelby looked like a winning team. Those who go by the final results may say that the best team won. It didn’t. A desperate play carried to completion, one of those things seen only a few times in a lifetime, turned a victor ious team back in defeat and made winner of an outfit which was out played from whistle to whistle. It was a typical Forest City-Shel by game-rough, hard-fought, and interesting at all stages. The Ruth erford outfit started off with a heavy drive at the beginning of the game and kept driving. Without doubt it was the . best charging and most powerful backfield to oppose Shelby this year. There was no Funderburk m it such as Charlotte has but there were four backs any of whom could smash a line as can no Charlotte back. Play after play the ripping Forest City backs tore through the Shelby line. Casey Morris1 forward wall was weakened by the absence of Ralph Gardner, plucky center out with an injured shoulder, and Zeno Wall, the brilliant little quar ter, was in bed with the flu. Tin bulwark of the Shelby defense was missing and the pilot of the offense was also absent. Which isn t in the nature of an alibi as it is likely that Forest City would have ripped on through with all the regulars in, but with Wall out the Shelby of fense was some two or three touch ■ downs shy; the fleet backfield with the little field general gone just couldn't get going and flashed only one bit of form—that the Gold Bridges pass for a touchdown and victory. Several of the Shelby boys were singing their swan song both in the line and the backfield, but up in the line it fell to the jot of Gene Black, not a full fledged regular, to be the youngster who could stop the hard hitting Forest City back* when the remainder of the line couldn’t. Old Fight May Bob Up Again In Race Senator Simmons Goes with Hoover Henry P. Fletcher (above), American ambassador to Italy, who has been designated to represent the State Department on U. S. S. Maryland, the bat tleship which will carry Herb ert Hoover, president-elect, on a ‘‘good will” tour of Spanish America. UnternatJunal Newsraal) HlfS DIXON WILL ' BE CHIEF DEPUTY Sheriff-Elect Confirms Statement Made By This Paper About It. Ed W. Dixon, deputy and court officer for years and now a member of tlie Shelby police force, will be the chief deputy under Sheriff-elect Irvin M. Allen when the latter takes office in April. In a telephone message to The Star today Mr. Allen, now Kings Mountain police chief, confirmed the statement made by Friday’s Star in which it was said that Mr. Dixon would likely be chief deputy under Allen. Since it is several months yet until the new sheriff takes ofice his successor as police chief at Kings Mountain has not been nam ed. Dalton Improving At Hospital Here J. D. Dalton, young man of the St. Paul section, who was injured in the auto-wagon crash election night in which Glen Dellinger was killed, is on the road to recovery now at the Shelby hospital. He was in serious condition for days after the crash. Mr. Will Gladden Is Seriously 111 Reports from the bedside of Mr. Will Gladden of Patterson Springs are very discouraging. He is in ser ious condition and little hope is held out for his recovery. For the past year he has been in declining health, but able to look after his cotton gin at Patterson Spiings un til a week or ten days ago. Dr. Royster Better But Still At Home Dr. S. S. Royster who has been sick for the past two weeks and confined to his home on S. Wash ington street is improving gradual ly, .his many friends will be: pleas ed ,to learn. He is not leaving his home, however, until he is more completely recovered. He is suffer ing with sciatica. McNEELY BACK FROM TRIP TO NEW YORK Bringing word that Now York is “humming" with business, that everyone is relieved after the elec tion. with the economic outlook apparently brighter than it lias been in recent years, J: C. McNeely returned Saturday from a buying trip to New York, He said he bought more heavily than ever before at this season, in anticipation of the largest late fair and early winter Kusmess in Shelby's history. Democratic Split In 1936 Could Mean Republican Senator. Antis Meet. (Bost in Greensboro News.) Raleigh, Nov. 18,—Friday night's conference of Democrats in which none of the regulars participated is yet unexplained, and the guesses range all the way from further fu sion with the Republicans to an agreement of the insurgents to come back if the regulars will be have themselves properly. The men who got credit for par ticipating in this meeting were Senator F. M. Simmons, Frank Hampton, Frank McNineh, J, Allen Taylor and Thomas D. Warren. It any others went into the caucus nobody has been given the names. The most harmless conjecture was that these leaders m the anti-Smith cause came to Raleigh io discuss legislative affairs. Every November a new champion of the old time convention arises and among the first bills oll'ered is the biennial prosposal to repeal the state-wide primary. Ever since the Smith campaign get going in North Carolina it has been alleged that the presidential primary was re pealed in the interest of the late It has been observed that the most Democratic candidate for president, energetic advocates of Smith have had most to say against the party primary. It is well known that Sen ator Simmons Is very strongly op posed to repealing the primary. Messrs. McNinch and Hampton are quite as vsell committed to this method of nomination. Indeed, the bitter-enders against Smith always have said that if Smith had run in the North Carolina primary and re ceived the beating that would have been given him by the Democrats, voters would have felt far more kindly toward him after the Hou ston convention met. No Chance To Oppose Smith. The virtue of party loyalty was lost to a great many voters who de clare that they had no opportunity to vote against Smith and there fore having participated in no pri mary with Smith as an issue, there was no element of bad sportsman ship when they refused to vote for him. Is But the conferees here r naay night gave out no statement Com ing cn the heels cf the post elec tion statement of Senator Simmons, that there should be a re-organiza tion of the Democratic party, quite naturally many old liners assumed that this as the first step in that enterprise and that Senator Sim mons, Messrs. MeNmch and Hamp ton are going to put the party back where it was before its shameless apostassy to Smith. This view car ries no joy. The smitten Smithites are yet too sore to return to the leadership of Senator Simmons. They may have to come to it, but they are not ready to go so far ten days after the election. So there is a large hope that these gentlemen are not undertaking so pretentious a revival as this. Getting Ready for Simmons. The most probable guess Is that visitors to Raleigh were setting the Simmons house in order. While there is yet an abounding bitter ness toward him, t is by no means certain that there is wise politics in making a fight on him. There prob ably can be found some Democrat who can beat him today in a state wide primary, but there is none who can be elected if the old Smith fight is renewed. The result would be a Republican United States sen ator in 1930 and probably a Repub lican governor in 1932. Bowling Alley Is New Amusement Here is a new enterprise, a new amusement centre for Shelby. The S1'-'1'" -’owling Alley, located in the new building on west Warren street, ne:;t door to the Central cafe, open ed its doors to the public today. It should prove popular in the city. There are three alleys; everything is brand new, and very attractive. It is counted upon to bring into the Shelby midst a new indoor pas time. Bowling is popular in urban centres, and it believed this city has grown to the status where there are people enough here to bring a big patronage to the place. Messrs. L. S. Cook, who once con ducted the Palace Barber Shop: It. E. Elrod, and A. G. Boyle are the proprietors. The two former, it is announced, will be in active charge of the enterprise.
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