8 PAGES TODAY B/ Mill Nr year, (in advance) — M.oO Cnrncr. ncr year,. (in advance? im Late News THE MARKET * otton, Spot __6c u, < otton Seed, ton __ $8.(h> Cloudy Tuesday Today’* North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight and Tues day with scattered thundershowers tonight and tomorrow. Favors Change Washington, May 9.—Out of two years of study with the famed M ickersham commission and a sub sequent 16 months of personal ob senation, George W. Wickersham feels "more strongly than ever” that a nation-1 referendum on prohibi tion is needed. The 7j-year-old for mer chairman of President Hoover’s commission yesterday dropped the silence that enshrouded him during his arduous and often troubled work of the commission. Look For Heavy Vote In Primary In N. C., June 4 Many Local Candidate To Bring Out Voters. Khringhms Leads. Political News. (Star News Bureau.) Raleigh, May 9.—Although for weeks past there has been a belief that the people of North Carolina are not interested in politics and that condition was deplored, it is ■ate to say now that the campaign has reached a fair degree of heat and that a larger vote will be cast in the June 4 primary than In any previous primary. Tills is due. in part, to the numerous local candi dates, who will see that the vote is < ut, even though the quieter part of the citizenship may not be “all het up’’ over the two major and other contests. For Governor. But the race for Governor is warm aig up considerably and will show' more heat in the less than four weeks it has to run. Unless all signs fail .there is in reality a definite trend toward the candidacy of J. C. B. Ehringhaus, due largely to th6 or ganization work being done in the 100 counties, but also to the strong campaign Mr. Ehringhaus is mak ing. and his tmtspoken and convinc ing platform appeal. Unless this trend shows up in the ballots many leading and astute politicians have missed their guess. The Ehringhaus cause certainly has been helped by announced support of four former prospective candidates for governor, especially that of Angus D. Mac" Lean and General Albert L. Cox. However A. J. Maxwell is causing considerable comment on his plan for operation of school busses by the State Highway Department. TTSe statement is often made now as the reflection of general belief, that the second primary, and all think there will be one. may be between Ehring haus and Maxwell despite the ad mitted belief that R. T. Fountain was leading up to the last few weeks. Reynolds Strong. The Senatorial race will not be . huiited aside and continues with increasing interest. Thomas C. Bowie came to Raleigh Friday night hi his swing around the State trying to unseat Senator Cameron Morri on. He will get some votes, but so .will Frank D. Grist and the other Dolitically unknown candidate, Ar thur Simmons. But the main bout is apparently between Senator Mor rison and Robert R. Reynolds who is putting up a game fight on his prohibition law modification ap peal. Many politicians profess to see danger for Senator Morrison in the Reynolds campaign. It seems certain that if there is a second primary, which many others doubt it will be between the Senator and “Our Bob.’’ Much of the fear, however, may be ’torn of tlm desire to have Senator Morrison “loosen up” and spread the linances which he has asserted he v ill not do. certainly to the extent of being inquired into by Mr. Nye or other congressional investigators. However he has heeded the call to the extent that he is now making ids third visit to the State, spending this entire week making speeches in i he east. Large Cotton Export .To Other Countries New Orleans. May 3.—Exports of American cotton this season will be the largest with one exception dur ing the past 18 years. H. G. Safford, vice-president In charge of sales for the American Cotton Cooperative association, announced here. Banks And B. And L’* Close Tuesday All local banks and building and lean associations will be closed cn Tuesday, May 10, manorial day in North Carolina. Stmer and other business houses «!J« be open as tts-j Couple Denies Offer For Baby Resembling Lindbergh’s In City Oratory Winner Charles Beam (abovei of Polkvillf, was the winner of the district ora tory contest of the Young lar Heel Farmers held recently in Char lotte. He won over representatives of ’0 other schools and goes to Ra leigh in June to compete for st ite honors. His topic was “Cotton Pro duction in North Carolina—How To Make It Profitable.' Will Repay Loans Government Man Mcfci*. First Trip Here 1'n Check tp On Farm ers Who Seemed Loans Edward L. QulTlaa government field inspector, who* territory in this state comprises Cleveland Burke and Caldwell counties for the Crop Production Loan office of the Washington region announce while in Shelby Saturday that'- nf, more applications for 1932 crop loans will be sonsidered from this section inasmuch as the time for applying for these loans expired .he last of April. Plenty of time, he says, was gh'en farmers tr make application for crop loans; in fact, the time for fil ing applications was fixed at a lat er date this year than heretofore. Accompanying this information from Washington is the further au nouncement that loan checks cover ing second installments are now' be ing mailed to all termers whose loans were approved, but only to those farmers who nave mailed to the Crop Production Loan office their report cards as to what dis position they made at the proceeds of the first crop cioduction loan ohecks received by thun. In this connection if will'be In teresting to learn that a large number of farmers have not mail ed their report cards to the loan office, wh’ch indicates that many of them for various teasons do rot need the second installment of the loan made to them Possibly, in many instances this is on account of the requirement to reduce their ootton, tobacco and ri.anut acreage :o sixty-five percent tf the acreage last year. A corps of field inspectors is e-n CONTINTTED ON PAGE EIGHT.) i Visitors Here To See “Double” j First Said That font ord Man And Woman Offered $50,000 For Camp Hat?. Bobby ,*eau Camp blond, adopt ed son of Mr. and firs, Vick Camp of Shelby, was the center of con siderable excitement in this section late Sunday afternacn and nijjht due to hit striking it.semblance to the kidnapped Charles A. Lind bergh, jr. It was not until today, following a quiet investigation by officers, that Information was received in dicating that there was not attempt to “buy" the bay or recure it as a means of getting holo of some ci the ransom money. Visit Baby Yesterday afternoon a man am* a woman stopped at che city hall and asked Officer B. O. Hamrick how to get iO the Camp home. They then visited the home and accord ing to the foster parents of the baby, evinced considerable interest on the youngster, commenting upon his likeness to the k.anapped baov In the conversation, according t< the Camps, the visitors mentioned something about the $106,000 ir. Concord, their home, which had been left there by Gaston Mean1; The latter ts now under arrost in Washington on the charge of &e jcepting $106 000 from Mrs. Ed* in | McLean on the promise to get '.'rip I baby bark from li.e kidnapers. | Later, the Camps -a'.a one of ‘l e visitors asked the question: "You wouldn't take $50,060 lor the boy would you’” When tne Camps -lid they would not, something was said, they stated, about putting 'he ■CONTINUED ON PAGE EtGSI > Vets Dinner On Three Crosses Of Honor To Be Pre sented To Descendants Of Confederate Veterans. All Confederate veterans, ta?U wives and widows ire invited to the annual dinner to be served here Tuesday by the Unhed Daughters of the Confederacy The number grows smaller year alter year, bat the Daughters are determined to honor the heroic mer and women of the sixties as long as any sur vive. A dinner will be served in 'ho young peoples department of the First Baptist church and all visiter are expected to be pirsent at lOi.'fl o’clock. Dr Zeno Will wilK preside and make a short talk to the vet erans an 1 their wires Miss Caroocl Lever will give a hur orous readl-’st and a quartet comoosed of Messrs Easom, Spangler. Hill and Hamrick will sing several appiopriate num bers. Rev. H. N. McDiarmid will of fer the invocation. Three beautiful crosses of honor will be presented to Mrs. Frank L Hoyle. Pau’ Aberne'liy and Tom Aberncthdescendants of Confed erate veterans, by Mrs. Rush Stroup president of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The graves of Cor federates in Sunset cemetery were decorated with flowers Sunday afternoon when they met at the Confederate monu ment on the eonr' square anu| marched in the bodjrto the ceme-j terv. Tuesday Cleveland Among Leaders In Faying Taxes; Second In Paying Poll Tax County Has Paid $42 000 Of $57,000 Ad Valorem Levy $6,500 In Poll Tax I aid. (Star News Bureau) Raleigh, May 9 —Ceveland coun ty, with a land vacation of $33 - 500,014, which woulJ produce a maximum without costs, of $5,770 from the 15-cent tax had sent to the state treasury $42,700 up to May l. This county had aiuo sept in $b 500 of the poll raxec collected to May 1,' me second largest amount In the -tate, exctcoed only by Guilford. North Carolina's *00 counties h-xl D3id into the state treasury $2 642 - 335.81 of the expected $4,250,000 from the 15-cent ad ■> alorem tax or. property foi 1931, and 90 of these counties had paid $13..850.50 of toe expected $250,000 from Tk>U taxes up to May 1, Tretunuu John Sled man said today. The ad valorem tux is on the basis of a total property valuation in the state of $2,914,464,650, which would produce $4,461,690 from trie 15-cent tax, but shite officials do not hope to realize even the $1 - 250,000 estimate, anti it will be n»xt fall before the fu'J amount is re ceived, unless some action is ta*ei. to requir; the counties which have postponed sales of doinquent prop erty for taxes, to hold the sales as the law directs. Ten of the counties had made i; returns on poll tax-cs at the end o. April, but some of trtm have for warded installments lunce then. Col lections the past m ha>’e earned the receipts by the state treasury above the $150,000 mrrk. leaving an estimated $100,000 >t«, to be rece> • ed from poll taxes. Mecklenburg county sent In a pajment of $r0. :f*00 on poll tax collections Friday j Never A Miss I I toward Hamrick Is • sure-fire siu I dent when It comes to attendance. This spring he was graduated from ! No. 3 Consolidated school at the ;i|fe of 18 years. He lias never miss ed a day in school in It* years, which hi a record thought to be without equal in Cleveland county, Edward is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John ! Ilamriek o' Patterson Springs. Tax Payers Want To Cut Salaries, Abolish Offices I 1'ould Further Cut .'aiariex And Abolish five County Office*. Morrfy Spiaks. i About- loti people ga !wred in the court house Satunla' afternoon in response to a can lot « mass meet ing issued by J. Z Falls to or aider ways and mean > of reducing the expenses of gowinment. J. D. Morris of fvlleton, candi : date for county comm lasioner was ! elected chairman end made the ! principal speech, outlining his economy platform a Jch calls l» ^abolishing five coiui.v offices—try} ■of county auditor <?- manager. farm demonstrator, horft> demonstratm. i county welfare of it .e and county | game warden. Mr. Morris declared these to be offices which could lx | dispensed with to Ur- saving of tax money and he was iiuu tily in fa> ar !of abolishing these oftif&i entire's. He would further ,too‘Ce salaries ol county of'icers. | Ernest Gardner, candidate for the I house of iepresentaMve~ was elec :1 [secretary and when called op for a speech, declared that he was read? and will'ng to cooperate with t#..* taxpayer in accomplishing ai*y eccnomv measure which the citizen drought wise and i h ■ • if elected h would try to repre.^’n the will of the malority in all economy meas ures. 'Squire Falls who tVlt-d the nice htg declared that -he time hrd come when real men me needed for public office, men vho know the conditions of the times and are will ing to devote themselves to econ omy in government - national, state ana county. A resolution was coopted readme as follows: “Be it resolved that ail unnecessaty offices ix abolished it; both state and countv and that the salaries if our public officeholde be reduced in prone1 tion to •he! amount o-’ the salary drawn.’1 Mr, Gardner, the sec—taty, says a:J who Voted on this resolution vouc1 for it and there was no vote agains : it" John P. Mull to Speak At Sandy Plains Ch. Rc»'. J. L. Jenkins IViil Preach And Singer,. Will Offer Memorial Program Sandy Plains Baptist church at: Hew House will nold its arinuai j memorial service next Saturday | May 14 beginning at 10:30 o’cIock j All members of the church and! friends of the churcn and those having loved ones united there, are! asked to come Thursday, May 12, to clean off the ceme'ery and tm grounds. If it is raining Thursc.ey come Fri lay. The following is the program for tire meni-iia) services: 10:30 -ong and praise service: 11 address by J. P MUJ of Shelbv, 11:30 sermon by Rev .1 L. Jeiik'nS, president of Boiling Springs college. Mr. J,. C Bridget and his special singers air invited to be present and sing. T,until will be served in the grnr after tke :*rvices a id all are asked to bring baskets with lunch Mr Bloomfield Kerdall who is a student at the University of Nor-.h Carolina, spent Mover's day h°r' with his mother. Mr: B H Kend PI on m Washington v ret. Dr. Frazier Will Speak At Finals For City Nurses Exercises On 17th; Sermon On 15th Prrsident Of Qurtm-Chirorn Col tixr Coming. Tight \'ursf» To Graduate. The graduation exercises <>f the 193L’ class at the Shelby Hospital School oi Nursing will be held Tuesday evening. May 17 at 8 □'dork In the Central high school auditorium The address or the commence ment night will he made by Dr. W. K. Fraser, president of Queens-Chf fcora college, Charlotte. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. Zeno Wall ct the First napttst church on Sunday evening. May 15. at 8 o'clock Graduating Class. Eight nurses will graduate this fTar, four of them being Cleveland county girls. Tire list of graduates follows Pauline Buff, Casar: Daisy Kl. Beam. Ellenboro; Meredith M. Beam. Shelby; Clay tie M. Berk, fWadesboro; l.alali Davis Latttmore; Roe Nichols, Marion; Elisabeth Cleonc Liles, Shelby; and Daisy V. Hamrick. Cliffside Thieves Crack f Safe In Shelby 1 j Thieve,- last nigh) broke into u i office of the Coca Cola plant on (West Warren street here, cracked the office -safe and ?o* away w‘tf j around $50 in cash I About the same tune someone thought io be a member of the safe cracking nart.v. attempted to ent ti the home of Jay Gatiney, near <: e plant. Mrs. Gaffnev heard somebody at the window and awakened her husband. He secur • his shotgun and shot lour times a! the man a - the latte** rfth acres?; the garden ant .’reaped It b thought that this jnan had been ■stand*n« watch lot the safe-crackers i had ' part im ps led in the safe uttery and de cided after that joh was cornple. d to enter the Gaffhi home. The j Gaffneys did not hr dr the noise when the safe was < > ucked. The sale-cracking according t ; officers, was appai -ifly a *‘nltrO'’ i job and well handbo Entrance was made into the office In breaking a ; glass and reaching into unlock th< door. officers, was a ppm •- ni ly a rough job but well handled Entrance was door. La**r today Cxf Poston ana Fireman Carroll 'mind a sled;*' hammer, ex, chise s. etc., used for bursting the safe an* lock. Try Answering These Can you answer .4 of these t<«.-•< questions? Turn to prge 7 for t.if* answers. 1. Wiure is Leopc.oville? 2. Whal are cygnets'. 3. Wlvat is rennet? 4. Where did th < Hattie of Jti - lend occur" 5. Nam1 the most anions Kansas woman temperance i> former? 6. Can Chinese freely enter *he U. S. as immigrants? 7. Wheie is the c’.v of Fez? 8. Who was governor of New Je' -ey prior to his election as pr^s'* dent of m<( U. S.? 9. Who wrote 'S'range Intar lude"? 10. What fighter knocked Jack Dempsey cut of the ring? 11. What is the highest mountain m Japan ? 12. Where will the Olympic game.' tie held this year" 13. What does the Greek w.rd Theotes ' mean? 14. Wli’t color is ihe raven? 15. Where are the 'Great Smokies.' mountains? 16. Where is the natbor of Apia? 17. With what subject does the Glass-Steagall bill deal? 18. What is the height of the Washington monument? 19 What is the term of office of U. S. senators? 20. Who wrote a scries of novels about ‘ Graustark?” To Attend Baptist Convention In Fla. A number of Ban* 1st minister, some with their wjiesr,5 will leive tomorrow for St. Petersburg. F'i. to atteno the 36'j'hem Baotist ’'invention Those going from this ’■ounty are: Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Elam. Rev and Mrs H E. Wald:op Rev. J. u Jenkins. Rev L. L. Jej sup. The convention will run ;• r several dsvs. 1 In Lindbergh Ransom Case? Gaston B. Means (left) former investigator for the U. S. Department of Justice, who was arrested in Washington charged with “larceny after trust. The- arrest, it is reported, followed the placing of $100,000 in Means care by Mrs. Kdward B. McLean (right) wife of the publisher. This money, it is said, was to be used as payment of ransom for the return of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. Shelby Highs Lose Title Contest To Mt. Airy, 8-2; Dean Is Star Intruder Goes In Room Here, Escapes j Man Knt*rs Koom Of Mrs. II. E. j Kifhhnurg. Klees With Keys Auto. I A Hue! 01 intruder filtered the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Rlch bourg. on South LaPnyette street, about 3:30 Saturday morning and then walked on into Mrs Rchbourg’s room When she made a noise he J fled and It was not known until the ! next day that he had taken some (automobile keys and same trinkets I of a dresser in the ipom, ! The front door of the home was left open so that boarder's coming in late might enter. Tn the early hours of the morning Mrs. Riiih bourg said she heard someone open the front door and prop It back, ap j patently so as not to be blocked if a j hurried getaway became necessary. | The man came on into her room then, she said, and snapped on a flashlight. When she made a noise lie hurriedly ran from the room and building Officers have so far been unable to get a trace that might Identify the intruder. Belks To Open Store At Kings Mountain Kings Mountain, May 6,—An nouncement has beep made here that Beik Brothers company of Charlotte and Gastonia will op-n a branch of their .'tore in Kings Mountain In the ne*n future. The Baker buiidinc on Railroad avenue in the main business sec tion of the town ha, been rented and Ls now- being remodeled to suit the convenience of the firm. A manager for the Kings Mountain store has not been announced. Big Parade Expected On Beer For Taxation New York, May 9.—Nearly 100,000 persons will march in Mayor James J. Walkers “beer for .axation” pa rade next Saturday, the parade com nilttee estimated. The march will last almost 12-hours beginning at 10 a m. Southpaw .Strike* Out tH Shelby Hitters To Win Wirtevn N. C’ Homes. ' Special to The Star) Mt. Airy, Mav U.~ Deau, Mt Airy's brilliant lefthander, was too much for the Shelby high baseball team here Friday and Mt. Airy won tlw Western N. C. championship m class B from live dtv lby highs by h score of 8 to 2. Tlie Casey Morris outfit put up a game ballIp for a ”oung team, but the visitors found it difficult te connect with Dean's looming speed ball and at the sump time the ! Shelby pitchers were Wild. Ctw Great Wlille Dean was sulking out 18 3helby hitters and holding the hits down t,o five, the Shelby pitchers were nicked for eight hits and also feme up eight basis on balls. Mt Airy combined the eight hits, the tight walks and three errors toj make eignt tallies. In addition to hi.-, hurling De ip j socked out two hits to aid the Mt l Airy scoring and Tedder, his catch er, banged out two more. "Whiter j Sparks, Bill Harriil, Connor. Moore} and WUl'ams secur'd one hit each! iCONTINUED ON PAUE EIGHT. j Mr. Hoey To Speak At New Prospect Memorial Services Mill Be Held On Sunday, Mav 15th. To Clean Cemetery. Mcmorla1 services will be held a New Prospect chur«-u next Sundr.y May 15. The programs will beg ip about 10:15 with a song service. At 10:45 thee will be a discussion of the Sunday school lesson by Prci. W- R. Gary follow.’.! by another brief song service. At approximate ly 11:30 Hon. Clyde R Hoey. of Shelby, will deliver vt address. At! the close of the service there will) be dinner on the ground. All thos' who hft.e friends or relatives buried at .lew Prospect are requested to meet a the church Thursday morning. May 12, for the purpose ). cleaning (.If the ceme tery. Leaders Believe North Carolina To Be For Roosevelt At June Convention Not Weakened In SUte By Garner Victory In California Last Week. Raleigh, May 9— Although none of them cared to be piloted direct ly. Democratic . leaders here last week were practical:-’ unanimous in their reaction to Tuesday's pri mary in California, in which Speai: er John N. Garner raptured the 44 delegates from that state. It had born generally anticipated here that Governc Franklin D. Roosevelt would get the detega-' . n and the result, was regarded as ma terially weakening Governor Roo e velt's chances for ib? nominal.'->:i but as oy no means eliminating those changes It was slso uni-entail? predicted that unless something else happens , the North Carolina Plate Democ.* fie convention on Jure 16 will elec* a Roosevel* delegation to the ru tional convention ,v Chicago • i June 27. Senator Josiah W. Bailey, Gover nor O. Max Gar-loci Josephus Daniels, former Governor A. W. McLean, State Chairman O. M Mull and other Democratic leaders have beei listed for months as fav orable to Rooseve't and Senator Cameron Morrison Is understood not to be opposed to his nomination So far as can be learned theit has been no discussion as to dele gates at 'arge, but it has been cus tomary to elect elg .t with a naif vote eacn and it has been custom- , ary to elect four w°inen. However, it has been suggested that this time there might be nam'd six men ar.d two women. The delegation . will elect two members of the uat.ona! commit tee, positions now he'd by Senavc-' Morrison and Mrs. T Palmer Jei man. There has been some sugges tion that Governor Gardner will < succeed Senator tf-ilson on th * t iommitt*e. . Man Burns In Auto On Kings Mountain Road Rutherford, Gaffney Men Killed Negro Oarage Worker Of Kin** Mountain Burned To Death. Other Fatalities Odell C'araon 32 negro garage worker of Kings Mountain was burned to death In his automo bile two Miles from Kings Mountain on the i.akc Mon toula road .Sunday. Just what caused the cat to burst Into flames is not known as Carson was burned almost beyond recogni tion nofore anyone reached the flaming auto. A gas line had brok en or worked In two It was thought and the heat from the motor sent the flames sweeping over the cat It, is believed that the flames spread so rapidly that Carson did not have time to jump out bef <i a his clothing became a seething mass of fire. A youth some distance away saw the flames and rushed to the car. He reached It three or four minutes after It first biased up but the fire was burning so rapidly that it war hard to see where the occupant was on the inside. Had someone not no ticed who the driver was as he pass ed along the road a few minuter earlier it. might have been difficult, to Identify the charred bones that remained when It was possible to get In what was left of the Ford coupe Carson was a respected colored man of Kings Mountain and had been in the employ of the Cleveland Motor company there for 17 years, Coroner Roscoe Lutz of Shelby made a trip to Kings Mountain and investigated the matter, but decid ed that a formal inquest would not be necessary. Rutherford Wrecks, Rutherfordton, May {».—One per son was killed and ijuee injured near here Sunday afternoon tn three automobile accidents Harvey Parks, 26, o£ Polk county, was instantly killed when the car he was driving "track-a tear. Those injured were: William Shehan, 21. of Polk coun ty. passenger in the Parks machine, hurt about the head and shoulders. Trank Dalton aged Spindale resi dent broken leg and other Injuries. An unidentified white girl seri ously hurt. She is at Rutherford ton hospital. Parks was killed when his car left highway No. 19. one mile west Qf Rutherfordton. After traveling f<>r about 200 yards through a field tee car struck the tree. He was killed instantly. Death was due to a brok en neck. A coroner’s inquest was held this morning. Dalton was struck by a car said to have been driven by Curtis Laugh ter of Spindale. This accident was said to be unavoidable. Jimmie Miller, of Spindale, and a man by the name of Smith, of Greenville, s. c., told officers they were enrouie to Spindale from Chlm ney Rock when they picked up a white girl who was hitch-hiking. The girl was injured when the car. said to have been drived by Miller, struck a parked automobile in Ruth erfordton. She was taken to tht Rutherfordton hospital. Officers are investigating the ac cident. Gaffney Man Killed. Gaifney, S. C„ May Eugene Ha’mes, 27. of Gaffney, was killed and a woman who declined to give her name was injured when auto mobile in which they were riding turned over Sunday on the Chesnee road eight miles out irom Gaffney. The woman is in the hospital here Mother With Her 47 Descendants Winner Bouquet Ol Flower® U Given J« Mrs. J. L. Wilson At Second Baptist Chnich. Mrs. J L. Wilson o. the Belmont mill villast-c who had 47 of her ,'c scendants present at the Secotd Baptist church Sunday night way given a beautiful ootquet of flow ers at the Mother’s day program Rev. L. t Jessup, tht pastor, rur announced that a bouquet of flow ers would be given to the mother who had the large; family and Mrs. Wilson came with ten Ql her eleven children, her grandchild.en and grj.U grandchildren, number ing 47 in all. The chuTh was • ■ wtieci at the iervice which marker the close o| r renvu meeting .ccnoucted by Mr. tr'seun which residue in 46 sdftt :iotss to t? church Board Meeting Tonight There wiP be e n-reting of the ity council tonight re* give a flint pproval n* deiinq.ii.' , taxes to • • idvertiM»d .n a few .ays.

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