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10 PAGES TODAY >—_ - Hr Mill, per inr, un XniMI _ KM <:*rri*r. o»r mr. its Uikhmi mm mm Late News Showers Likely. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy, probably showers tonight and Saturday. Not quite so •ool in extreme southwest tonight. Confess Crime. Tpsilanti, Mich., Aug. 14.—Two white men and a negro, confessed last night to the torch murders of two high school girls and their boy companions near hero Tuesday. Within three hours after their ad missions of guilt, the trio had been rushed to Ann ArbOr, arraigned, and sentenced to life imprisonment for what police described as one of the most brutal killings In the history of Michigan. There is no capital punishment in Michigan. Tbe extra ordinary procedure was determined ■pon as a precaution against possi ble mob violence. The slayers, David Thomas Blackstone. negro, Fred Smith and Frank Oliver, said they shot the young people to death to cover up traces of a robbery. Shelby-Marion Highway To Be Of A Good Type Will Be Hard—Surfaced And Per haps Designated As Roune No. 190. Th* new Shelby-Marion high way. which la to he surveyed Immediately so that construction work may start will be of a first-class type, according to a statement issued at Marion by W\ W. Neal, Highway commis sioner. The new route, he said, is to be approximately 10 miles shorter than the present connection between the two county seats. It will also be - constructed as a better grade of road as it is planned to hard surface the entire route Commissioner Neal also said that the connecting link, may be desig nated at Highway 190. No estimate on the cost and the time required for completing the road will be available until the sur vey has been finished Mr. Neal said. Negro Woman Dies After Getting Hit By Auto This Mom ‘Wallis In Front Of Car En Route To Shelby: Tragedy Seemed Tina voidable. 'leanette Watts, 50-odd years of age, colored woman of Belmont, was fatally injured just west of Ellen- i boro around 9:30 this morning when she was hit tay an automobile driv en by yqting J. P. Smith, of Colum- j r‘ bus, Georgia, and occupied by Smith | and Henry Lee Weathers, son of Mr. and Mrs Lee B. Weathers of Shelby. According to witnesses the driver of the Smith car was exonerated of blame as it was said that the ne gTess ran from behind another car in front of the approaching auto mobile. The Smith car was travel ing about 30 or 35 miles per hour. Young Smith and Weathers had spent the night, with relatives at Forest City and were en route to Shelby. Several autos filled with colored people were going from Bel mont to Hendersonville on a picnic. The ear in which the woman was riding stopped on the right side of the highway going west. The woman, It, ia said, got out and walked around from behind the car in front of the Smith car, the driver of which did noe see her until she stepped into (he road with idea of crossing to en ter woods on the either side. She was hit by the left fender of the Smith car, which was headed east. She was picked up and started to the hospital but died before reach ing Forest City. Young Smith, who Is on a visit to Shelby, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Smith and a cousin of young Weathers. Son Of Mr. and Mr*. Ray Hopper Passer Child I* Victim Of Intestinal Trou ble. Burled Here On Wednesday. Aaron Hopper, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hopper, died Tuesday morning at 6:15 o'clock at the home of his parents on East Graham street with an intestinal trouble. An operation was resorted to a few weeks ago, but it was found that the little one could not be re lieved of Its trouble. He was a bright and promising little fellow and the parents have the sympathy of their many friends. He is survived by his parents and one elder son, Charier, Mrs. Hopper before marriage was Miss Margaret Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J, E. Webb. Funeral services were con ducted by Dr. Zeno Wall at the home Wednesday afternoon and In terment was in Sunset cemetery. Maxwell Gains 1932 Candidate Popularity As ' - People Considering Him Prospect Dftfnw Of Mfasuir Prolfctinj Tax Parm Draws Favor Over State. Raleigh, Aug. 14 —Whether or not Commissioner of Revenue A J Max well becomes a candidate for the Democratic nomination for gover nor, there is no doubt but that many people are considering him as a strong potential candidate and that much if not, more attention is be ing’ paid* to what he has to sav about public matters than if he al ready were an out and out candi date. Because of the attention being given to the possibility of his candi* dacy and the apparent growth in many sections of sentiment In favor of his candidacy, it would not sur prise many observers here if Max well does become a candidate. Some ! predict that he will make formal announcement of his candidacy, within the next 3 days though some i seriously doubt if he will actually j run j There are two definite indications, that Maxwell will become a candi- \ date for governor, according to ob- i servers here. One is the forceful manner in which he has taken is sue wdth Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain, the only announced can didate for governor so far, in Foun tain’s campaign to 'return local government to the people’’ The sec ond is the fact that The New and Observer has at last reluctantly ad mitted that some sentiment exists in the state in favor of Maxwell and for the past two days has been tak ing issue editorially with Mr. Max well in his contention that the local government aet gives the citizens of the counties, cities and towns more voice in their local governments than they have ever hib before, in spite of the claim made by Foun tain that the local government act takes away from the people the right to participate in local govern ment and further centralizes gov ernmental control in Raleigh. In an Interview today, however. Lieuten ant Governor Fountain denies he has assailed or criticized the local government act or any other act j passed by the 1931 general assembly. The local government act, accord ing to Mr. Maxwell, now restores the right of the people to have aj say-so in the issuance of bonds and incurring of indebtedness, since it t requires that all bond issues must j be advertised in advance, that the I sale must be approved by the local j government commission and that if i the commission refuses to approve j the proposed issue that it must be, submitted to a vote of the people be-1 fore any action can be taken Mr. and Mrs. B C. Houser spent yesterday afternoon In Rutherford ton. N. C. Pastor Reunites Girl, Stolen By Gypsies 33 Years Ago, Family Cherryvilte Evangelist Finally! Brought Girl and Her Rela tives Together. Lynchburg, Va„ Aug. 13 — For 33 years "Annie Morgan" went through life without knowing who she was, with the details of her kidnaping as a child faded by time, and with her experiences as a Gypsies’ captive a chapter she never wanted to re member. But today she discovered she was Miss Mary Rebecca Hubler and at Pottsville, Pa., her brother and sis ters eagerly prepared for the home coming of their long lo6t sister who vanished when a child of five never to be seen again. As she engaged an automobile to take her back to the home she could no longer remember and the family she had forgotten, Miss Hubler wept and tried in vain to dig out of the recesses of her mind some fragmen tary details of “life before the kid naping." One day back in 1898 as she play ed on a country road she saw a group of men and women in gay red and yellow garb approaching in a wagon. They stopped. and when they started again the child was in the wagon with them, a captive. When night came, and she failed to return to her home a searching party thrashed through the nearby moun tains in the belief she had wander ed there. The hunt, went on for days, and finally was abandoned. Neigh bors were convinced that Mary had perished in some out-of-the-way spot in the hills. Meanwhile, the Gypsy tnbe had wandered far with their prisoner They called her Annie Morgan,” and she bore that name until today. Then, after seven years in captiv ity, she escaped one night in Famlin, Va. For 13 years she lived there with a family that befriended her and then came here yi 1916 to become a housekeeper for a Lynchburg couple. Recently a Methodst evangelist, Rev. M. R. Haryey, and his wife be came interested in "Annie Morgan.” They listened to what she could re member or her kidnaping and start ed searching for her kin. While in Birmingham, Ala., they wrote to the postmaster of Philadel phia asking his aid. A story was published last week in Philadelphia papers and was read by two of Miss Hubler's relatives, who communi cated with the Rev. Harvey at his home in Cherryville, N. C, The evan gelist and his wife came here to work on the case. They discovered that some of her six brothers and sisters were dead, that her father died three and a half years ago and that her mother died about two years ago But in PottsvIMe they located one of her brothers. Samuel Hubler. and arrangements for the reunion were I made Imprisoned By Mistake BvTRICK^ O'&rjekt r Francis’ f Crco/lcy Mrs Hedfu O’ftRiEM'An^ Daughter. Eu-een. Picked out of the spectators in a court where he had gone to aee the trial of a former school chum and charged with holding up a drug store Patrick O’Brien, of New York, was sentenced to twenty rears In prison despite the protests of his mother that he was til in bed with pleurisy when the crime was committed. Now Gerald #eed. former crime-partner of the notorious "Two-Gun" Crawley, who is awaiting execution for the murder of a policeman, has confessed that he and t rawler committed the crime for which O’Brien was sentenced. O’Brien hears a striking resemblance to the killer and. with his mother, is plead ing for a reopening of his rase on the grounds that he Is the innocent victim of his taken identity. One Thousand Attend Annual Reunion Of Beam Descendants Mercury Drops 30 Degrees In Less Than Week If yoo are our of thrtr people who do not appreciate the weather of this week, particu larly after a six weeks seine of sisxHng weather, perhaps you have not realized that the mercury dropped 30 decrees in two days. 1-ast Sunday the mercury at Ebeitoft's crept around 92. Monday night and Tuesday it rained and Tuesday’s reading was jnst 62. The cool weather has prevailed nearly ail week. Early this morning the mer rury in the Ebeltoft thermo meter stood at 66, hut had climbed to 26 before noon. Wanner weather is in prospect for tonight. A crowd Animated to number l.ooo attended tbs annua! Beam reunion held Thursday at New prospect church, four miles northwest of Shelby, near the spot where the progenitors of the Beam clan lived Solicitor and Governor Speak. Hon. John Carpenter of Gastonia solicitor in that district was the principal speaker and he was fol lowed in the afternoon by Governor O. Max Gardner who is kin to the Beam family. Governor Gardn»r was there a year ago and being at . home on vacation this year, he visit ed the scene of the clan gathering I for the purpose of renewing friend ships and shaking hands with km dred and friends. He was induced to speak after the nooii meal and devoted his thoughts to economic matters and expressed the idea t.tia' out of the fires of depression and despair will come nobler men and women. Mr. Carpenter took his audience from laughter to flights or oratory, paying tribute to the youth of to day and the friendships that bind (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN . Costner Improving At Hospital Here Injured When Struck By Automo bile In County Saturday Night. Karl Co6tner. young white man in jured in an auto accident in the Beams Mill section Saturday night, was said to be showing some im provement at the Shelby hospital »5day. Young Costner was helping push I an automobile when a car driven by [Deputy Prank Walker came along land hit him as Walker was blinded, [it is said, by the lights of a car i approaching from the opposit e di | rection Ted Gordon To Open An Electrical Shop ; Former City Electrician Opens Shop In Hoey Building Monday. Mr. Ted Gordon, for several years city electrician, will on Monday open an electrieal supply and con tracting shop in the Hoey building on East Warren street, to the rear of the post office. He will be in the portion of the building occupied by Robert Hord and the Mauneys. Mr. Gordon Says he will do genenl contracting work and deal In all j kinds of electrical supplies The I firm will he known as the. Gordon Electrical Could am. Negro Prisoner Denies Suicide Stunt In Ohio Heard Broadcast On \ Radio For Him Admit* Robbing Store Here. S*T> Another Stole New Ante From Garage. Mark Washburn, colored, brought back to Shelby Wednesday night from Cincinnati to face store rob bery and auto larceny charges, pas sed through an eventful period since he left the city after the robbery on the night of June 1*. During that time he was believed to have downed himself in the river at Cincinnati, and when he was being sought just before he was arrested in the Ohio city he chanced to hear a description of himself broadcast over radio. Admits Gain, While being brought back here by Police Chief McBride Poston, Fire man Joseph Carrol and William Andrews he admitted robbing the Wright-Baker department store, but declared that another negro, now being saught. atole the new automo bile on the same night from the D. H Cline garage. He waa so drunk, he said, that he did not Vememberj whether he robbed slot pool table* m a colored cafe and barbershop on the same night. Broaght Woman Along His paramour. Grace Payne, was I brought back from Cincinnati with I him As Is often the case with | criminals, his •moU” and her rela tives proved his undoing. Get Cloth In* The woman had about ejght of the dresses stolen from the Wright Baker store, and en rout* back the j officers stopped at Washburns [ mother s home In Asheville and se cured four other of the stolen silk, i dresses The other goads taken from the local store, the haul being valued around $300. were pawned j end disposed of, officers say. Arretted Twice. f Washburn was arrested twice in ; Cincinnati The first time he was picked up for loitering, but was re leased if he would leave town He 1 refused to leave and a sister of the Pa.vne woman, who lived there, noti fied Cincinnati police that he was | still in the city. Mark says he was standing near an automobile which had a radio in lit and was listening to the radio j when it began to broadcast a des cription of him from police head | quarters. The description fitted him and. frightened, he started to run. j He realised that would not do and : slowed down to a waik when a po j liceman who had heard the broad | past, picked him up and carried him to headquarters, It was then that he admitted the robbery here, it is said, and officers here were notified. Salcido Note? Sunday before his arrest a note thought to have been written by 1 Washburn was found on the C. A O railroad bridge there saying that he drowned himself leaving his love to "Grade." whom he termed his wife although he was married in Shelby. Washburn denied that he wrote the note, saying that some other did it. The note, however, caused officers there to drag the river for his body. All of his trouble at Cincinnati and his return here (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.) Many Old Folks At Houser Event Register Kept Of All Men And Women Oeer 10 Years Of Age. The recent 100 birthday eeiebra 1 tion of Mrs. Elisabeth Houser held at Elizabeth church was attended by a large number of elderly people. Hp until 11 o'clock a register was kept of all those in attendance orer 10 years of age. Those registering j up to that time were: Mrs. Susan Toms and Mrs. M C. Putnam, half sisters of the centen arian; Miss Hattie Elliott. Mrs. M. E. Francis, Mrs. E. C. White. Mrs. Columbus Tucker. Mrs. J. H. An thony. Mr. C. P. Jones, Mr. V. C. Beam, Mrs. W. Camp, Mrs. 8. A. Stewart, Mrs. W. O. Spake, Mrs. A. E. Camp, Mr. John Hord, Mrs. R. ;S. Moore, Mrs. S. F. Roberts, Mr. j I B. Allen, Mr. B. B. Melton. Mr. Prank Wilson, Mrs. M. L. Rudasill, Mr. Hugh Borders, Mr. W. G. Spake, Mr.*. Mary Jane Carpenter, Mrs. A. H. Cline, Mrs. Ollie Hopper, Mrs. L. C. Gardner, Mr. J. E. Mints, Mr. O C. Sarratt, Mr. J. T Alexander, Mr. J. H Anthony, Mr. J. H. Quinn, Mr. L. W. McSwain, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Borders, Mrs. Mary Houser, Mr : and Mrs. E. C. Husk, Mf. M. E Proctor, Mrs. John Hord, Mr. H M Ledford, Mrs. M E Martin, and Mrs. Macioe Trout. Cleveland Farmers Scoff A tFarm Board Plan; Gardner Is Critical South Not Friendly To Suggestion Of Farm Board About Cotton Crop T. Plow Under Third Of fr*» Meete Varied Reaction In death. Atlanta. Oa. Aug. 14.—With var ied reaction, the South yesterday considered proposals one by the federal farm board and the other by Governor Theo. O. Bilbo, of Mis sissippi—that a third of its 1*3 i cot ton crop be discarded to curb the falling market The farm board's suggestion that every third row of the current crop of cotton be plowed under was term ed and "economic waste ’ by Oov nor Bilbo, who had previously sug gested that every third row merely be left unpicked "It will cost the farmers a mil lion dollars In time and labor to plow up this portion of the crop, ‘ the Mississippi governor said He added the plowing would hinder picking the remainder of the crop by throwing stalk* against, the standing rows Eugene Talmadgc commissioner of agriculture In Georgia, character ised the farm board's suggestion as “ao much nonsense" He said he did not believe "the farm board has one third of the cotton on hand they claim to be holding. Congress ought to name a special committee to in vestigate the board and find out whether they have this cotton on hand” Tenneaaee's commissioner of agri culture, J. W. Pitts, said "tt would be a good thing if farmer* would co operate Commissioner of Agriculture W : A. Oraham, of North Carolina par ried question about the farm board suggestion with "l just don't know about that " He suggested it might be not fair to states that, have al ready reduced acreage. Very Little Decline In Livestock In Cleveland County Since 1928 Cownty SU MH MiIn in 19)1. Mg. I**t Deersose Wm In Hog* There wm practically as much livestock in Cleveland county in | 1930 as in 1039. according to statis tic* issued by the Farm Forecaster ; An interesting fact contained inj the figures is that there were only a down leas horses in the county in 1030, despite the advance of the motor age. than in 193*. The biggest decline was shown in the number of hogs In 193* there were *,114 hog* in the county, but in 1990 only 4.3*0. Wales, Milk Cattle. There were 631* mules in the county, m reported by assessors in 193*. and only 40 less, or 5.374 in 1930 Milk cows show a gain In 1920 there were 6,400 cow* in the county; In 1930 there ware 9,873. Cattle other than milk reported in 193* totalled 1,910. and in 1930, 1.412. Not a sheep raising oounty in any sense of the word the number of sheep in the county fell off more than half in the two-year period. In 193* the county reported 06 sheep, in 19*0 only 31 Masonic Meeting. There will be a called commun ication of Cleveland lodge 303 A. T. and A. M. tonight at 7:30 for work in the first degree Miss Lit Kerr left yesterday to spend a few days in Oaffney as guest of Miss Jesele Kerr snd Mrs C. H. Robbins State License Taxes Imposed On Wholesalers And Retailers Ocaw *•>•» Tut ScMih. Worth* lew Accounts Charged Off Are Deductible. Cleveland county merchants, both wholesale and retail, will be inter ested in the following schedule and information pertaining to license tax, imposed by the last general as sembly, which law makes it neces sary to keep records of sales, begin ning with June 1, 1931. This letter is from the office of A. J. Maxwell, state department of revenue: Section 164 of the revenue act im poses a tax In addition to any other tax imposed in said act, upon whole sale and retail merchants for the privilege of opening, establishing, operating, and maintaining any store, mercantile establishment, or place of business for the purpose of selling goods, wares or merchandise at wholesale or retail. The law requires that every mer chant shall keep an accurate record of sales beginning June 1st, includ ing both cash and time sales. If business is part wholesale and part retail, separate record of wholesale and retail sales should be made. The word merchant is defined as any individual, firm or corporation, domestic or foreign, selling goods, wares or merchandise at wholesale or retail, except those actually en gaged in gardening and farming and selling garden and farm produce, raised by them In this state, nor sales of fertilizer It U the purpose of the section to impose a tax upon the sales of ar ticles that are bought and sold, and does not apply to the producing, manufacturing, muting, blending or processing articles of commerce, or to the sale of such articles by the producer, manufacturer, mixer, blender, or processor Oross sales shall be reckoned at the price at which such sales were made, whether for cash or on time, and if on time, the price charged on the books for such sale without any allowance for cash discounts and shall be reported as sales with reference to the time of delivery to the purchaser. Accounts found to be worthless and actually charged off for Income tax purposes may at cor responding periods be deducted from gross sales, in so far as they repres ent sales made after June 1st, 1931, and to be added to gross sales if afterwards collected. Wholesale merchants: The tax im posed by this section shall be at the following rates for each six months: when the total gross wholesale of such merchant *or the preceding six months at each place where such business has been carried on. has been: Not more than $60,000 *12.501 More than $50,000 and not more than $125,000 *25,00 More than *125,000 and not more tCONTUrUXO ON PAO* TXS i j No Jury Trials For County Court At Session Today Recorder's Court Docket Hix Been Mgtit All Week. Kennedy Is Prosecuting. This wm "jury trial" day in coun ty court but none of the defendant desired a hearing before twelve men "good and true" and the only eases disposed of were handled by Judge Maurice Weathers The county court docket ha* been light all week, not a single case of major importance coming up. Attorney Horace Kennedy, former Judge, is acting as prosecutor this week while Solicitor W a Beam Is In Cincinnati, Miller Gamble Of Shelby Passes Away Miller Oamble, 38 year old son of Mrs. Gene Gamble, died Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock at the home of his mother on East Marlon street following an illness of ten days or two weeks. His remains were carried this afternoon to the Big John Lattimore burying ground in No. 8 township, two mifes above Polk vi lie for interment. Funeral services were conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall, assisted by Mr. Horace Easom Mr. Gamble is survived by his mother, and two brothers. Bill Gam ble of Shelby and Tom Gamble of Texas and a host of relatives and friend* Not To Plow Under Third Of Crop Farmers 0/ Cleveland coun ty, North Carolina’s large?! cotton-producing county, and Governor 0. Wax Gardner, himself owner of a cotton farm in the county, fail to see the wisdom of the Federal Farm Board’s suggestion that Southern cotton farmers plow under every third row of their cotton crop with the hope oi boosting the price. In a statement Issued Wednesday the farm board offered the sugges tion which met with the approval of several Southern leaders, but dirt not get the endowment, of the ma jority. will Not Do It. General talk here yesterday In dicated that Cleveland farmers not, only disagree with the suggestion but they disagree to the extent, that thev will not cooperate by plowing under a third of the crop Governor Gardner, at his home here for a vacation, declared after giving the suggestion serious con sideration that he could not, give his approval to a plan that, would make "the Southern farmer the goaf The farm board, he said, asked the Southern farmer to do away with third of the crop he has already made without the board doing likewise with a third of the last, year cotton surplus which he now holds Tf the farmer,were to destroy third of his present crop it would tend to boost the price r,f the farm board surplus, the Gov ernor intimated. Gardner View Hi* statement., attacking the in consistency of the plan, follows: 'In the midst of our distress tt would b*> a vain and futile gesture to request the North Carolina cot ton farmers to plow up and destroy one-third of the present, not ton crop. Our present deplorable situation would be further confused by mak ing a request of this character when we have no legal means of enforce ment and no reasonable hope of Ms voluntary acceptance. “The proposition of the Federal Farm ■ Board on Its face appears to mo to be. unsound and unreasonable, in that the planters are asked to, destroy one-third of the cotton crop, already produced without the Farm Board expressing any like purpose to destroy any part of the cotton ] it holds, which would equally en-* h&nce the price of the remainder of its 3,000,000 bales In the same proportion as it would enhance tha cotton produced by the farmers tf the South in the present season. If there is to be a destruction of cot ton in order to increase the pric*. the destruction should be equitable and uniform upon all present hold ers and growers alike and not he saddled wholly upon the 2,000,000 cotton farmers of the South. "There is a surplus of 9.000,000 bales of cotton carried over from last year and now held by agencies other than farmers, and this sur plus would Immediately enhance in price If the fanner destroyed one thlrd of his crop now in the field. "If the owners of the present 9.000.000 bale surplus are to enjov the blessings that would flow from the destruction of every third row of cotton, they should likewise, and In good conscience, share In the sacrifice this destruction involves. "Anticipating overproduction of cotton, the cotton Farmers of North Carolina this year in reality did not plant the third row. Under the impulse of “Live at Home" the third row has been planted In food and feedstuffs In our state." Billroy’s Show To Appear In Shelby Big Tent Show To Make Stand I» Ctty For Week. Beginning Monday. The only appearance of Billroy'f Comedians in North Carolina this year will be staged next week In Shelby, beginning Monday, Augusf 17, under a big waterproof blue and gold tent located on the vacant lot just below Ideal Service Station, nr north Washington street, BUlroy’s are carrying this year the biggest, prettiest, and best cos tumed chorus under canvass, and the famous Palais Royale Jazz Band under the leadership of last year's favorite. Bob Fisher. Sixty-three people make up the cast. Most of them, are new faces and wilt b* seed In Shelby for the first time All new plays will be, presented this season, including several that hav > had sensational runs on Broadway'.