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Utvelanb 12 PAGES TODAY XXX VI, SHELBY. WEDNJBSD’Y SEPT. 24, 1930 Published Monday, Weflnesday and Friday Afternoons. t'T M»U, ptr y«»r. (la *4«»nc«> _ (MS _ M.(^| - _ t The Big Cleveland County Fair, “Carolinas Greatest’ , Opens Here Tuesdav LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, Shelby Spot_ 10c Colton Seed, per bu._30c Cloudy Thursday. Today’* North Carolina Weather Report: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Medman's Daughter. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—It was regard ed as certain yesterday that Gover nor Gardner will call the special election to determine Major Sled mau’s successor for Tuesday, Nov ember 4, the date of the general election at which the voters will determine between Frank W. Han cock, Jr., of Oxford, Democrat, and John V. Reynolds, of Wentworth, Republican, for the full two year term beginning March 4, 1931. It is expected that the committee will meet again next week and nominate either Mr. Hancock or Mrs. Kath erine Palmer, Major Stcdman’s daughter, who has handled his af fairs for several years. Mr. Han cock is understood to take the posi tion that the nomination of Mrs. Palmer would he eminently satis factory to him but that the question fs one for the party and not for him and that any recommendations or activity on his part would be Inap propriate. Party Leaders To Gather Here Democratic Executive Committee Foe County To Meet Here On Saturday. ai Important meeting of the Democratic executive committee of Cleveland county has been called by Mr. Oliver Anthony, party chair man, for Saturday afternoon at the court house. Hie meeting of the executive committee, made up of leading Dem ocrats from every precinct in the county, will be held immediately aft er the address of Major A. L. Bul winkle, which is set for 2:30 o'clock. The meeting will be very brief, it is said, but it is of major import ance and every member of the committee is urged to be present. Th« following men compose the exeCttWhfe committee: - Joe McCraw, Gaffney route 2; E. B. Lovelace, Moores boro, route 2; Cecil C. Goode. Boiling Springs; M. D. Moore, Shelby, route 3; W. H. Patterson, Patterson Springs: S. H. Austell. Earl; T. W. Hardin, Grover; M. C. Whitworth, Waco; J. L. Smith, Shelby No. 1; J. F. Roberts, Shelby No. 2; E. A. Wellmon, Shelby No. 3; J. F. Harris, Shelby No. 4; J. B Thomasson, East Kings Mountain; E. _W. Blakeley, West Kings Moun tain; Gath Lattimore, Lattimore route 1; J. B. Lattimore, Lattimore; R W. McBrayer, Moorcsboro; J. C. Elliott, Lawndale, route 1; Dr: W. T. Grigg, Lawndale; Henderson Cham pion, South Shelby; Alonzo M Hamrick, Shelby route 3; John Peeler, Shelby, route 6; J. M. Car penter, Belwood route 1; O. C. Downs, Casar, G. H. Edmonds. Fall ston; R. A. White, Lawndale RFD. Highs In Charlotte. The Shelby high football eleven today was easing up on tough scrim mage for the game with the strong Charlotte team in Charlotte Friday afternoon. Taken as a whole the squad is in good physical condition for the game and the local coaches hope to give the Queen City grid ders a hard contest. , Mansonic Notice. Cleveland lodge No. 202 A. F. and A M. will meet in regular commun ication Friday night at 7:30. Mem bers, are urged to attend, visiting brethren are cordially invited. Star Delivery At Kings Mtn. The Star is now delivered by carrier, house-to-house in Kings Mountain on the after noons. of publication, days— Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Kings Mountain sub scribers can secure The Star M the carrier delivery rate of 25c per month. Order the pa per from the Kings Mountain carrier boy or Irorn E. R. Gamble in charge of The Star's news and circulation bureau at that place. His telephone is No, 307. Mr. Gamble is now in charge of news service from King* Mountain and vicinity and Kings Mountain people ' arc asked to give him any notice for publication. He will sup ply the leading news items from that community to Tilt Star. Already 40 new subscriber? have been added by reason ol Ibis additional service. Jonas Speaks Here; Defends Hoover Rule Charges Democratic Crookedness Absentee Ballot Law Misused. Makes Attack On Star. Patton Speaks. Congressman Chas. A. Jonas, of Lincolnton, made hit first speech of the 1930 campaign in Shelby last night, speaking to an enthusiastic audience in the South Shelby school building. The Jonas speech.' a typical old time political address, featured a defense of “Hoover prosperity,” an attack on the misuse of absentee ballots by Democrats, a charge that the Democratic party is wet, and an attack on The Star. Three Speakers. There were three speakers on the program, H. Clay Cox, Republican chairman for the county; Prank Patton, assistant district attorney and candidate for solicitor of Su perior court; and Mr. Jonas. Mr. Cox devoted his remarks to an attack upon the Democratic county government, calling upon the Republicans to vote for Dr. Lackey for legislature so that four county offices might be abolished. The offices referred to were the game warden, welfare officer,, tex supervisor, and county manager.. Mr. Patton ridiculed Democratic speakers for declaring that Hoover had “fossilized.” ' stigmatized ” and ■ paralyzed.” the Republican party, and business. "They haven't much to talk about.” he said, "for M; Raskob has liquorized and whiskey teed the Democratic party.” •* Shows Affidavit. . Much of the opening part of Mr Jonas' address was devoted to re marks about how votes are voted and counted by the Democrats. "If the people ol this district do not want we to represent them, it suits me. But if they do want me to return to Washington and the absentee ballot law is so misused as to keep me from going, then I’m going to stir up things. If they at tempt?*such tactics with me I will do this State greater service than I could possibly do in Congress, for I mean to keep investigating and but ting in until I send somebody to the penitentiary." He then declared that in the last primary here absentee ballots had been misused. In hie pocket, he de clared. he had an affidavit made bj Mr. Fleming, superintendent of the Eastside Sunday school, declaring that an absentee vote had been cast in his name in the primary without his knowledge. The ballot had been j signed with the seal of a notary j public, a Shelby lawyer, and when Mr. Fleming approached the box to vote he was told that a vote had already been cast in his name "If you people want to vote for tactics like that go ahead and voce the Democratic ticket. That's your business, but they better not try! such measures on Charlie Jonas. "This paper you have here (refer- i ring to The Start has had much to say about me and about "Hoover prosperity.’ Why doesn't it have something to say about this poor man who wanted to vote and did not vote because some crook used his ballot? I wish some of you would tell the editor of this paper about this affidavit I have, and dare him iCONTlNUEn ON TAOE NINE ) i __—_— -— .. Morrison Will Open Campaign Thursday Night Former Governor Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte, will open the Democratic cam paign in Cleveland county at the court house in Shelby Thursday night at 7:30. Mr. Morrison, one of ihf state's best known and most popular campaign speakers, . will be introduced by Capt. Peyton MeSwain. candidate for the state senate, and a large crowd is expected to hear him. The second Democratic ad dress will be made at the court house Saturday after noon at 2:30 by Major A. I* Bulwinkle, candidate for con gress. Congressman C. A. Jonas and Mr. Frank Patton speak tonight at Kings Mountain in the Republican campaign. Taps, Gun Salute Eor Meeting Gets Interest Of County Tribute Honoring JjVorld War Dead At Ex-Service Rally Here Mondav^Night. The fact that the World war vet erans of Cleveland and six adjoin ing counties will pay tribute to their pals who died in France at the ex service meeting in (Shelby Monday night is attracting much interest in this section. The program include* * parade about the court square led by Lhe American Legion life and drum corps of Gastonia. The parade will halt on the west side of the court house, before the memorial tablet, raised by funds contributed in a campaign conducted by The Cleve land Star, where a bugler from Company K will sound taps and a squad from the same company will fire a military salute to the fallen heroes. The public installation of new Legion officers and talks by Con gressman McSwgin. of South Caro lina. -end Majaf Bulwinkle. of Gas tonia, will be features of the main meeting later. Lindy Will Not Attend Big Fete At Battleground Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has declined the invitation to attend the King:* Mountain celebration October 7 at which President Hoover will be the honor guest and principal ^speaker." “Regret previous engage ment prevents being with you on October 7 but extend to committee and citizenship congratulations on the occa sion,” he wired Col. T. I,. Kirkpatrick, chairman of the invitation committee. 4, Democrats To Recapture Solons j In Ninth And Tenth, Mull Says Party Chairman Believes Bulwinkle And Weaver Will Win. Raleigh, Sept. 24.—Back at state ! headquarters after a personal sur jvey of political conditions in the j ninth and tenth congressional dis tricts, state Democratic Chairman O. M. Mull was most optimistic in discussing his party's chance of re covering the two lost seats in con gress during the November 4 elec tion. Though Mr. Mull said as much of one district as the other, it was evi dent that he thinks that ex-Con gressman Zeb Weaver, Democratic candidate in the tenth, has less to worry about than does ex-Congress raan A. L. Bulwinkle. who the Dem ocrats have nominated to oppose Congressman Charles Jonas in the I ninth. Friends of Mr. Bulwinkle have a l<jt of work to do but Mr. : Mull is cheered by the fact that they i are doing it. The ninth being his own district, the state chairman would be especially disappointed to lose it again. There have been rumors of great. Republican progress in the fifth, which Congressman Stedman car ried by ' the skin of his teeth” two years ago and state Democratic headquarters has its collective ear close to the ground. The rumors are discounted but not ignored and Frank Hancock. Democratic nominee for the post Congressman Stedman is not seeking again, will have a good deal of help from Mr. Mull's men. Yesterday Mr. Mull made merry over the claims of Congressman Pritchard. Republican nominee for the United States senate, that he would carry the state by 70,000. The chairman refused to predict the ma jority he expects for Josiah W. Bai ley, the Democratic nominee. but ion,oon is the generally accepted goal of the ambitious party leaders County Ranks Ninth In Autos In This State Only Eight Others Lead Cleveland Guilford Leads thr Stair in V»m hrr of Cars. Cleveland Had 7,400 July 1. f Cleveland county was the, ninth county in North Carolina In thr number of licensed auio moblle£ having' 7,400 autos and 725 cars, according to figures secured by The Star from the state department of revenue, motor vehicle bureau. This makes a total of 8,125 autos and trucks in Cleveland county. The eight counties which exceed ed Cleveland are counties with a much, larger population, such as Buncombe . __..15.400 Guilford . ...___24,500 Durham . .. 9,100 Forsyth. 18,220 Gaston . ....._9,875 Mecklenburg __*22,375 Rowan . ............ 8,450 Wake. 14,525 Clay county in the extreme west ern part of North Carolina has the smallest number or licensed cars in North Carolina with 100 autos and 45 trucks. Rutherford county. Cleveland’s neighbor to the west has 4,460. Burke county to the north 3,125; Lincoln county to the east, 2,925. In the state as a whole there were 366,145 licensed automobiles and 51,242 trucks, making a grand total of 417,387 trucks and automo biles to which should be added, 1,119 motorcycles. Webb Sends 30 Men To Prison Criminal Docket Federal Court Ends Today. Civil Litigation Taken Up. When the session of Federal court here drew near the end of the crim inal docket today Judge E. Yates Webb had sentenced 30 defendants to Jail or prison terms, the sentenc es ranging from one month to two years. The district court wound up its criminal cases today and will to morrow begin working on civil mat ters. Lawndale Case. This afternoon a hotly contested case being heard was that of the U. S. vs. Bud Neal, the defendant being charged with breaking in the post office at Lawndale recently. Judge B. T. Falls, defending Neal contends that it is a case of mistaken iden tity. The longest terms Imposed by Judge Webb were two years each for two boys sent to the Washington training school, a 15 months sen tence for one man at Atlanta, and one-year sentences for four men sent to Chillicothe, Ohio. The 23 others received sentences in various county jails in this United States court district ranging from one month to nine months. Fines Total *830. At noon today the fines imposed had reached a total of $850. The major portion of the cases deal with violation of the prohibi tion law, although a few dealt with | mailing obscene literature, and oth er violations of Federal law. Forest Clyde Mauney Dies In The Hospital Succumbed, Following: An Operation For Appendicitis. Bury At Union Today. Forest Clyde Maundy, in years of age last June .died in the Shelby hospital Tuesday morning at 6:15 o'clock, following an operation for appendicitis. He had been 111 since last Thursday. Mr. Mauney lived near Kings .Mountain and was the son of Marcus Mauney and Mary Grigg Mauney of Gaston county. Interment is taking place this aft ernoon at 2 o’clock at Union Bap tist church, the funeral services be ing conducted by Revs. D. G. Wash burn and D. F. Putnam. Surviving are the following brothers and sis ters,- Ora. Alice, Yates. Melvin. J. D. Ethel. Maggie, Daisy. Vivian. JJoah-.l Georgia. Bertie and Bailey Mauney., Major Stedman Died Tuesday* Major Strtlman (above), last vet eran of the Clvtl war to be a rep resentative in congress. died yester day. His funeral will be rondncled tomorrow at Fayetteville. Confederate Vet Veteran N. C. Congressman Rode With Confederacy's Lee And Jackson. Washington,' Sept. 24 —Represen tative Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina, the only Civil war veteran in congress, died yesterday in his ninetieth year. The Confederate veteran, who at tained the Tank of major for his campaigning under lee and Jackson, had been in Mount Alto hospital since September 0 when he suffered an apoplectic stroke. Wnfi Vtim *t the end was his daughter, Mrs. Katherine Palmer, of Greensboro. Mrs. Stedman died ten years ago. „ In recent years the public had suspended activities on January 29, Major Stedman's birthday, to feli citate the man who became the old est member with the death of 'Uncle" Joe Cannon in 1924. At the last, such occasion, he let a colleague. Representative DougU lon. another North Carolina Demo crat, announce that he would not seek re-election "Major Stedman feels, and those nearest and dearest to him feel, that he is entitled to a milch needed rest.” Doughton said. bteaman was born at Putsboro ml 1841-, and had served ten consecu tive terms in the" house from the fifth congressional district He find; entered congress on March 4. 1911. Major Stedman, often referred to by Washington newspaper corres pondents as truly one of the few re maining Gentlemen of the Old South" in national politics, celebrat ed his 89th birthday last Janu#7. Major Stedman served as a mem ber of congress from the fifth dis trict of North Carolina for ten consecutive terms, entering the low er house of the nationa1 legislative body in March, 1911. Funeral Thursday. Charles M. Stedman will be bur ied in his boyhood home of Fayette ville, beside his mother and father, Thursday morning. The funeral services will be held from the First Presbyterian church at 10:20 a. m. Thursday. The remains will leave Washington Wednesday night and will arrive in Fayetteville at eight o'clock the next morning. Roberts Funeral Largely Attended Wall, Suttle, Waldrop Conduct Service* At Home On Tuesday. Large crowds attended the funer al services ' Tuesday afternoon of Mr. Will M. Roberts, popular SheL by contractor, at the Roberts resid ence on the Cleveland Springs road. Mr. Roberts died sudden from an unexpected heart attack Sunday evening. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, of which the de ceased was a member, conducted the service at the home and was assist ed by Rev. John W. Suttle and Rev. H. E! Waldrop. Interment was at Sunset cemetery and there was a large floral tribute. Honorary pallbearers were Frank Hoyle, Tom Eskridge, J. C. McNeely, Gus Evans. Active pallbearers were toy Thompson, Arthur Hbpper. Bob Crowder. Greer Gold. Ralph Hoey. McBride fasten. Ransom Evans and M. J. Dover. Former Banker, Gaffney, Shoots Self On Tuesday Accounts All Right At The Bank R. S, Lipscomb, Aged "70. In Serious ' Condition From Gun Wound. Gaffney, 8. C, Sept 23. - With n pistol bullet, wound under the heart, said to have been self-inflicted at 8 o'clock this morning, R. S. Lip scomb, 70, former banker and prom inent Gaffney business man. was re ported to be "holding his own." late today. His condition is considered extremely serious. Hi* nerves shateied by a length ening period of ill health, which re sulted in his re iignation about, a month ago as cannier of the Mer chant* and Planters National bank after 35 years service in that ca pacity, Mr, Lipscomb was shot'•in bed a* members of his family were preparing for the day’s routine,. R H. Chapman of Greenville, a son in-law, who had Just arrived at the Lipscomb home on a call while sn route to Winston-Salem, said a note found by the wounded man's bed as sumed full respons'bility and assign ed til health as the cause of the act Physicians, who were hastily sum moned, at first pronounced Mr. Lip scomb’s condition as hopeless but encouraging signs were noted dur lug the day. Mr. Lipscomb is secretary and treasurer of the r copies Builiir.g and Loan association, a position he has held since the organisation of the association some 30 years ago. and is manager of the Cherokee Farms company, owners of about I. 500 acres of land near Gaffney. He is also manager and principal stock holder of the Farmers Warehouse company. C. M. Smith, president, said Mr Lipscomb's accounts with the Mer chants and Planters National bank axe In perfect condition. The for mer cashier owes*the bank a com paratively small rmount, which is amply protected by good security. Mrs. rate warren Is Buried Today After Two Team Illness, Mr*. W si ren Die* At Age 63. Burial At Zoar. Mrs. Maggie Davis Warren, wife of Fate Warren died at her home near Zoar, two miles south of Shel by Monday afternoon after an ill ness of two years. Mrs. Warren was 63 years of age and before her mar riage 49 years ago. she was Miss Maggie Davis, daughter of Ell and Narcissus Davis. Since the establish ment of this family there has been just one death, a grandchild, up un til the death of Mrs. Warren on Monday. She was a fine Christian woman and g member of Zoar church for the past ten years. The funeral is being conducted this afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. W. Suttle and interment will be in the Zo%r church cemetery. Sur viving are her husband and the fol lowing children: Mrs. Will Terry. Mrs. Monroe Rust, Mrs. W. S. Wat ers. Mrs. John Finch, Mrs. Hbbert Finch, Mrs. Dan Byers, Chivous. North, Burwell, Charlie and Evans Warren, together witn 43 grand children and three great grandchil- i dren. —' Fair Entrants Strive For $10,000In Prizes __ -_■ This And That About The Fair On Next Week In the six years of Its operation the spectacular nightly fireworks program of the Cleveland county fair has attracted such wide atten tion that the manager of the coun try's greatest, fireworks manufactur ing plant will attend the fair next week. Pair visitors next week will get. the Idea that^the big fair grounds have been to some beauty shoppe. Pour nurseries are competing for shrubbery prises and as a result they've planted beautiful shrubbtery all about the exhibit halls, grand stand and main entrance. The nur series competing for prlsses, while beautifying the state's biggest coun ty fair, are: Howard-Hickory Nur sery. the Mecklenburg Nurseries. Charlotte: the Harkey Brothers Nursery, Charlotte; the West View Nursery, Shelby. Jake Rudasill. Shelby'* clever jack of any and all trades, and Dr. Dorton, are working on what promises to be one of the' most en trancing sights of the fair program. Inside the race track there Is a lit tle half-moon lake, set off on one side by a flower-cover island. Ruda sill is arranging a series of nine or ten spray fountains from t.he lake upon which colored lights will be thrown during the night program*. Rev. John W Suttle, manager of the poultry show, says after a trip there, that Catawba county farmers will have many entries tn the poul try show. “Tn fact, that wilt be the case everywhere," h<t*ays^‘Tm sure It. will be our biggest bird show with every btt of space taken." Hunters and sportsmen of Cleve land »nd adjoining counties, the Isaak Walton fellows, are going to have a rare treat at the fair nest week. Beneath the grandstand the state department of conservation and development Is arranging one of the most. comprehensive wild jame and wild life displays ever as sembled In the state. Farm Agent R. W. Shoffner. back from Raleigh, fCONTINUED ON rACi* NINE I Change Time On Traffic Light* On City Corner* Shelby citizens no lonffpr i need to "open >r up” between the electric traffic lights in the business section in order to get to the next corner be. fore the red stop lights turns on them. City officials havr changed the timing of the lights bark to 25 second from 20 second. Under the 20-second change it was difficult to start an au tomobile as the go light came on at one corner and make the next light before the change. The 25-second change is long enough to permit traf fic to cross two corners be -' fore the red light flashes. Expert Divers Unable To Locate Body Believed To Be In Lake Lure Explore Bottom of Snug* Harbor But Fall To Solve Mystery There. Lake vLure. Sept. 23.—The strange circumstances involved In the mystery of Snug Harbor on Lake Lure are likely never to be solved. “ In vain the harbor was dragged with grappling hooks to locate a body believed to be m the water. Iu vain did four expert divers spend hours exploring the 15-foot depth of the lake looking for evidence of the body of some suicide or murder victim. If the coroner, as a last resort, should dynamite the harbor in an effort to raise the body, it is thought that this will be in vain, for if the body has been in the lake for any length of time the force of the explosion ucould not make it raise. The belief that there was a body' in the harbor originated when C. H Hemphill, of Forest City, while on a fishing trip pulled in some hair on his hook. It was thought to be from the body of some woman and an in vestigation was started by Coroner W, C. Hightower to locate the body. Saturday afternoon the bed of the harbor was drug with grappling hooks and Sunday afternoon four divers tried to locate the body. These men were Frank West, Charles El more. Hassell Wall, all of Henrietta, and a Mr. Liles, of Gastonia. By diving these men explored the en tire bed of the harbor but could find no body. However, if there is a body in the lake it could be under some rock ledges that are under tire wat er, according to the divers. The body could "also be covered with mud on the bottom of the lake, and especially If it had been there any length of time. . While there a-- -on4 who think that if there is twis^in the lake. CONTINUED ON PAG* SfX-> | Exhibit Winnings Total $6,500 ' Rare Horse Owners. Opening Car#* line Season Here. Compete. „ For $.1,000. In addition to the entertain ment it furnishes thousands of people to whom It is the big event of the year, the Cleveland county fair is a regular honanro to the. owners of the winning farm exhibits, livestock and poultry prize winners, and of the dally victors In the horse races. A tom of *10,000 in prize* wtlfb# awarded winners in all departments at the fair this year. Of that total *6,500 will go to th* winning farm booths, the best live stock, poultry, hogs, and the out standing agricultural and comnuir cial booths in all other lines. Th* purses for the daily horse races wllj total *3.000. Racea of Interest. The races, a big feature of ths fair which opens here Tuesday, Sept. 30. are a two-fold attraction. In addition to entertaining race fans who fill the big grandstand and pack about the track rails, the races will draw scores of horse owners as It is the opening program of the season for the Carolina Short Ship Circuit, which governs horse racing in three states. Today Secretary Dorton stated that there was a likelihood that May E. Oratton, world's champion trotter for the mile, would race during the week. Dr. Dorton ha* received a wire from the champion1* owner. C. E. Pitman, of Blooms burg. Pa., stating that he may bring her and five other hones. If the Pitman stable does arrive an effort, will be made to lower the state rec ord here. -—1 • « Among the other well known stables to have entrants In next week’s races are the Will Reynolds stable of six horses from Winston Salem. Earl Ealker, of Concord, with five; Gene Cannon of Concord with five; Henry Scott. of Doyleston, Pa., with two: Joe Frasier, Chester, with one; Carl Hatchell, of Shelby, with seven. Begins Filling tip. This week the big exhibit halls, booths and midway on the fan grounds began to take on the bustle (CONTINUED ON page NitflE I Lincolntori Man Is Buried Under Slide Harry Heavner la Crnahed To Death When Road Bank. Cavea In On Him. Uncolnton, Sept. 23.—Harry Heav ner, 24-year-old city employe, was killed almost instantly about 3 o'clock Monday, when dirt which he was helping to load on a truck cav ed in and crushed him to death. The tragedy happened on highways 27 and 206, about 100 yards east of Mob's filling station. He is survived by his wife, ' his mother, Mrs. Burgin Heavner; one brother. Prank, and two slaters. Misses Annie and Madeline, all of this city. Mr. Heavner was working with other city employes, loading dirt ! from the bank on the road when it caved in and practically buried him : in dirt. He was dug out and carried I to the hospital where he, was found to be dead. Mr. Burgin Heavner, father of de ceased. was killed at his home about three miles from here, a few years ago, when the lightning struck a pitch fork with which he was work ing. Mrs. Camnitz Speaks In Republican Drive Mrs. Howard Camnitz, wife of the secretary of the Republican party in Cleveland county, appeared with Congressman Jonas at a Republi can campaign speaking held at Dal las in Gaston county Saturday night. Mrs: Camnitz* speech, accord ing to The Gastonia Gazette, was "devoted largely to a discussion of state politics, citing the rise of taxes under the Democratic admin istration.” During the Democratic primary this spring Mrs. Camnitz spoke in Eastern Carolina in the interest of Senator Simmons. When a Raleigh paper published the information that she was the wife of a Cleve land county Republican she replied by stating that she was a native of Kentucky and a Democrat.