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 _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