* WEATHER Carolina^: Fair tonight and Saturday. r 12 Pages Today VOL. XLII, No. 56 Member of Associated Press • SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Be M U Dfl »«»> OB BdVBBMI .. M..1J Curritr. iwr y»»r no mvinrii _ WX> Selassie Reaches His Destination;. Italy Lays Plans Begin Foundation For New Empire Rioting Reported At Ilarar; Na tions Protest Duce's Actions. By The Associated Press Emperor Haile Selassie reached his exile goal of Palestine today while the second city of his fallen Eihiopian empire was reported in flames. The British warship carried the emperor to a respectful military re-' ccption at Haifa and he rode through streets patrolled by heav ily armed troops to board a train for Jerusalem. Harrar was reported partly de-1 strayed by fire after violent out- i breaks of rioting similar to those which had raged in Addis Abaaba before the Italian occupation. Ital- j ian forces were reported to have captured Harar today. Sanctions Again At Rome reliable sources predict ed Premier Mussolini would bid for the lifting of. sanctions Saturday night along with the expected de nee of the total annexation of Ethiopia. A tempest of British anti-sanc tions feeling in London gave rise to predictions of a possible cabinet crisis for 8tanley Baldwin’s govern ment. League of Nations officials at. Geneva insisted Ethiopia still was recognized as a sovereign mem ber of the League. Great Britain was declared by responsible sources to be putting renewed pressure on Germany for the inclusion of Soviet Russia, Lat via and Esthonia, in the Reich' proposed non aggression pact. TTiest sources said that point was the most important contained in the Lo carno questionnaire which Great Britain has handed to Germany after consulting with France and Belgium. McDonald Leading In Newspaper Poll Over Entire State first complete returns from the state-wide newspaper poll released yesterday afternoon gave Clyde R. Hoey majorities in 39 counties and 33.8 percent of the 8,260 ballots al though Ralph W. McDonald polled a lead in 57 counties and nearly 49 percent of the ballots. A. H. Graham gained majorities in three counties with 15.4 percent anti John A. McRae carried his home county of Anson. Graham’s strength was in the heavy voting Of the east and upper piedmont. The division of the votes as sum marized by the special poll was as follows: McDonald . .. 4,028 Hoey. 1,789 Graham _ _ 1,274 McRae... 169 i Hits Freight Train CHARLOTTE, May 8.—ce of 11.55 at ten markets. ’gn: i^dge selling, covering and buying in new crops, together vr 1 UfUal price fixing in nears gaVl length to market. Mr. Jesse Jonos, chairman of RPC, announc !? u',al more than 500,000 bales of f '-c loan cotton has been dis J*1 ■ d of and that the entire total of POO,000 bales to be sold by CCC wc'Uid be released to farmers by ,1 I without adversely affecting! „c uiarket. We believe continued i f ! ‘ B: il Wl11 be seen in near position | •' ‘ Purchase new crop on any re cr'-"ion.—e. A. Pierce St Co. the markets Co ton, spot ........ UK to 12Wc °n seed, wagon, ton-$33.00 •on seed, car lot, ton_$36.00 Close on New York cotton for to Jan. 10.31, Mar. 10.34. Mav uus juiy a.24. ^ 10 29 ^ F.D.R. Buys Poppy to Aid Veterans Little-Miss Iris Hildebrandt (abovej ujl j^aum shpiub, xuicn., naa tne honor of selling President Roosevelt the first Buddy poppy at the White House as the Veterans of Foreign Wars started their annual drive. President Asked Opinion On Non-Crossing Of Borders MOVIE BANK NIGHT VIOLATION OF LAW RALEIGH, May 8.—OP)—Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell wrote J. B. Edwards, Aberdeen theatre man-\ ager, today that in his opinion “cash night’’ or “bank night” asj generally conducted by theatres in North Carolina “is in direct viola tion of the lottery laws of this' state.” The attorney general noted hisi department could not give official) opinions except to officers, depart-1 ments and agencies of the state but! added “I realize, however, that your inquiry is prompted by a desire to observe the laws, and, as courtesy to you, I will say the scheme sug gested * * conforms substantially to a practice which has become very prevalent in this and other states as an advertising scheme.” Raspberry Growers To Meet Tuesday A meeting of all growers or rasp berries will be held Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the office of the county agent for the discussion of this year’s prospects and markets. H. R. Niswonger. state specialist, will be here Tuesday and Wednes- j day. He will inspect the some 30 j acres of raspberries now in the | county. Agent Wilkins said today : 8M prospects for a good crop and (*p prices are in evidence. See Big Attendance At Democratic Meets Oliver Anthony, county Demo cratic chairman predicted a large attendance at the county-wide pre cinct meetings which will be held at the 26 polling places Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Officers will be elected and also representatives to the county-wide Democratic rally here Saturday, May 16. G-Men Get Campbell And Mahan Is Two Swift, Bloodless Raids WASHINGTON, May 8.—(/?)— In two swift and bloodless raids, jus tice department agents working more than half the width of the na tion apart yesterday arrested Wil liam Mahan and Harry Campbell and wiped the list of unaprehend ed public enemies almost clean.' In San Francisco, Mahan was captured as he sat in an automo bile on a crowded parking lot and was being taken to Tacoma, Wash., for questioning about the $200,000 kidnaping of little George Weyer haeuser, lumber fortune heir, May 24, 1935. Only a few horns before, an other band of agents led by J. Ed gar Hoover captured at dawn in WASHINGTON, May 8 —(JPy— Prevention of persons Irom cross ing state borders on the theory they might become public charges raises a serious problem in the opinion ot President"'Roosevelt. He was asked in his press conference today to comment on instances where state troops were preventing people from going from one state to another be-, cause they were deemed indignant and to say whether this raised a constitutional question. Mr. Roosevelt said he knew noth ing of the constitutional aspect but such actions did raise a question as to how to deal with transients. He said a lot of people, regardless of politics, were giving thorough study to this question, which he described as an entirely new one for this country. Kidnapper Taken To Scene of Crime TACOMA, Wash., May 8.—<£•) —William Mahan came back to the scene of the George Wey erhaeuser kidnapping today with the government ready to place him on trial immediately for the $200,000 abduction of the 9-year-old lumber fortune heir. Brought here by airplane last night after his bloodless cap ture by federal agents at San Francisco, the 33-year-old ex convict was hustled off to a cell scarcely a dozen blocks from the scene of the kidnapping in May, 1935. “We are ready to go to trial today, if necessary,” said J. C. Dennis, United States district attorney. Dennis and state officials agreed Mahan would be tried on a federal indictment charging kidnapping and mail fraud un less he pleads guilty. T. A. Lee of Fallston is spending a week in New York on a buying trip for the Stamey company. Toledo the long-sought “limping pal” of Alvin Karpis—Harry Camp bell. He was whisked by airplane to St. Paul and was grilled about the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward O. Bremer in 1934. Both Mahan and Campbell were armed, but so swiftly were they pounded upon that neither could use his weapons. The two stood as top ranking public enemies after the capture of Karpis in New Orleans last Friday night, and tonight a single “lone wolf” kidnaper remained at large. He Is Thomas H. ^Robinson, jr., wanted for the abduction of Mrs. (Continued on page eleven) McDonald Made Voluntary ! lax Returns Only Three Times While In Carolina Tax Supervisor Flynt Gives His Tax Paying Record; Bowman Gray Paid Two And a Million In Taxes From ’30 to *35 WINSTON-SALEM, May 8.—Dr. JUlph McDonald, Democratic candidate for Governor, made a personal tax re turn only three times since he took up his residence here in 1928, it is revealed at the office of Vernon Flynt. tax super visor ior Forsyth county. Dr. McDonald, It will be recalled made the statement that a "certain Individual,’* (meaning the late Bow man Gray) worth millions of dol lars was evading taxes. This caused a search into the tax records of Mr. Gray and his estate. Gordon Gray, attorney of this place has just is sued a statement published in the Winston-Salem Journal, in which he says his father paid during the; years 1930 and 1935 more than two, and a half million dollars in taxes.; representing more than 62 per cent' of his income for those years. Failed To List Four Yean Tax Supervisor Flynt when ques- | tioned as to the tax paying record i of Candidate McDonald says: "Dr. McDonald is presumed to | have become a resident of Forsyth ! county in 1928 although too late to j Wm. Cadi Herndon j Killed By Truck; Funeral Thursday Grover Youth Struck While Taking Water To His Father. While on his way to carry hisi ! father a drink of water, William1 Carl Herndon, nine year old son of ■ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Herndon of near Grover was fatally injured at- 6:46 Wednesday afternoon when he was struck by a heavy road con struction truck. The child was carried Immediate-; ly to the Shelby hospital where he died about an hour after the acci dent. Jack Rush Driver The driver of the truck was Jack Rush who is employed by the E. W. Grannis Construction company of Fayetteville, contracting builders of the new Shelby-Grover road. Be ing termed an accident, no hearing was held. Death of the Herndon child was the second fatality which Jias oc curred since the road work was be gun last fall. The first was a negro youth, Willie Hopper, 16, who was killed near Earl when he fell un der the wheels of a stone truck. How It Happened I According to Rush, the driver, he was traveling empty towards Gro ver, and a loaded truck was com ing towards Shelby. A cloud of dust obscured the Herndon child and two companions, his brother, De witt Herndon and a Harrelson child who were standing on the side of the road. The two trucks passed just where the boys were and Carl was struck, and the other two were narrowly missed. • Funeral services for Carl were held Thursday afternoon at three o'clock at the Grover Baptist church with the boy’s pastor, Rev. Rush Padgett in charge. Rev. J. T. Dendy, Presbyterian pastor assisted. The child is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Herndon. Mr. Herndon is a well known farm er of Grover and is a brother of J. L. Herndon, county commissioner. There are five brothers and two sisters: E. B. Herndon, jr., Warren, John, Dewitt and Bobby, and Mar garet and Mabel. Pall bearers were J. B. Ellis, jr., Lamar Moss, Andrew Bumgardner and J. B. Royster, jr. Honorary pall bearers were members of Carl’s Sunday school class of which he was a faithful member in the junior de partment. Cletus Dover, Clayton Bumgardner, Max Rollins, Russel Owensby, Lewis Hardin, and Lamar Owensby. Flower bearers were Polly Beam, Helen Crocker, Beulah Fran ces Moss, Rommle Moss, Katherine Dover, Moselle Sha#, Lenora Byrd, Dlx Hicks, Joyce Ponder. Betty Hardin, Edna Hambright, Ethel Mae Wells. Mi** Margaret Ford Named Clas* Leader Miss Margaret Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thad C. Ford, and a ] popular member of the class of ’38 at Greensboro College, Greensboro, ' was elected secretary of the rising j junior class when the recent class elections were held. Miss Ford is a member of the Emerson Society, Spanish club and the Student Vol unteer. list taxes for that year. Ht did not lift any taxes until the fall o: 1931, when he listed for 1931 poll and personal property tax In the sum of $4. On March 15, 1933 this office j discovered that he hao not listed1 for the years 1929 1930 and 1932 and he was accordingly placed upon our tax books lor poll tax of $2 per year In 1933 and 1934, Dr. McDon ald listed his taxes regularly. In 1935 he again failed to make a re turn and he was placed upon out tux books by simply copying the, 1934 returns with a small allow ance for depreciation Taxes paid for 1933 were $338, for 1934 were $6.90, for 1935 were $6 35. “Briefly Dr. McDonald he made voluntary tax returns for Forsyth county only three times since ^be (Contlnued on page twelve.) Begin Actual Work On Lattimore And Bethware Schools . Last Half Of $150,000 PWA Build ing Program Is Launch ed. , Actual work began today on the 1 Lattimore and Beth-Ware high ■ school buildings, the two major projects in the $87,000 unit which remains on the $150,000 PWA building program for rural schools i in the county. First work on the new building at I Lawndale was begun Monday and prellminarV wont on the county gar age unit on East Warren street will be started tomorrow. The garage will cost a little more than $9,000 and will be a housing and condi tioning plant for the fleet of! school busses which carry rural school children. * Cost $60,000 The Lattimore and Beth-Ware plants are being built by J. L. Beam of CherryviUe at a combined cost of a little more than $60,000, the former to cost close to $40,000. Ten classrooms and an auditor ium will be the size of the new Lattimore building which will be located about 200 yards from the present unit which will be used for' an elementary school. A spacious playground has been secured and plans are being made to have one of the most modern landscapes in the county as setting for the build ing. The Beth-Ware building will con sist of an auditorium and four; classrooms and will also be located; a short distance from the present plant. From 250 to 300 extra men are expected to be employed in tjie projects which will get underway In full force by the first of the week. From four to five months will be required for completion. McDonald Speaks In Court House Saturday Night Dr. Ralph McDonald, one of the four candidates for governor In the Democratic primary to be held In June. Invades the home of his op ponent Clyde R. Hoey and will speak here In the court house on Saturday night, May 9th at 8 o’clock. Dr. McDonald has never spoken in Shelby before, but is working In the western part of the state this week and made an engagement for this place last Friday through Paul Christopher, labor union official. The campaign is warming up evejy day between Messrs. McDon- j aid and Hoey, one of whom seems to be destined to receive the nomina- j tion. It is not known who will intro- ! duce the speaker neither has it j been announced on what phase of | the issues in the campaign will he ; address his remarks. Mr. Hoey will speak here during the closing days of the campaign. No engagements have been made here for the coming of the other two candidates, “Sandy” Graham and J. A. McRae., , New Community House for Shelby CommunityHouseFormalOpening And Inspection Is On Saturday Formal opening to the public of the American Legion Community Building will be held Saturday aft ernoon at 4 o’clock, the public of the entire county being Invited to Inspect the building. The reception, which will be entirely Informal, will last until 8 o’clock. Members of the Legion and of the Auxiliary will act as hosts and escort visitors about the building. Trusteeskip For Byrum Hosiery Mill Extended Six More Months CCC Enrollment Begins At Once In This County An Unexpected telegram today from T. L. Qrler of the state wel fare department to local welfare officials gave notice that enrollment for CCC workers will begin imme diately and will continue until May 15. Cleveland county has been as signed a quota of 13 white and four colored members in the state quota of 400 whites and 100 colored mem bers. Enrol lees will be sent to var ious CCC camps all over the dis trict for training. Welfare, officers here said that to be eligible a person must be un married. between the ages of 17 and 29, must be a representative of a family which is on public reller, or from a family certified for WPA. The relief status will govern the eligibility. Former enrollees may re enllst, but must have had at least four months consecutive service and must present an honorable dis charge. Mrs. W. T. Bost. state welfare leader, said the quota is small, but It may be scaled upward later. The need for the new enrollment Is that many of the boys in present CCC camps are being absorbed into pri vate employment. Persons inquiring may do so either at the office of Mrs. L. H. Ledford in the court house or Mrs. T. w. Hamrick in the First Na tional bank building. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Cochran were honored with a birthday dinner on May 3. Out of town visitors were J C. Little and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Clark of Mt. Holly. They received many gifts. Twin ‘Mamma Boys’ Go On Spree, See Jail, Lose License, Pay Fine They were only a pair of “mam ma’s boys," Just turned * 21, had black hair and eyes, were tall and strong, and above all were twins, and as much alike as black-eyed neas. But they pled guilty to public drunkenness, assaulting an officer, and driv.ng drunk, and Recorders Judge Bynum E. Weathers had to sentence accordingly. The case was that , of Donald Clemmer and his twfti brother Gar nerd Clemmer, both of near Beth any. 8. C„ on the York road. Evidence produced in court this morning indicated that the two young men, who ordinarily are not dangerous, gave themselves an all night party last night, celebrating the fact that they are going to Tex 'S r. Dedication ceremonies will be held Tuesday night. At 6:30 o’clock there will be an inter-club meeting of all civic clubs, members of the Auxiliary and Legion and numerous other visitors. Beginning at 9:30 o’clock there will be a dance. For the dance a splendid radio broad casting orchestra has been secured and in addition to dancing there will be an entertainment for non dancers. Extension of six months time for operation under trusteeship of the Byrum Hosiery mill was granted here today by Federal Judge E. Y. Webb, «u the condition that trus tee, D. W. Royster pay machinery owners the sum of $400 per month during that time. Creditors of the mill and owners of the machinery were pushing suit for Immediate sale of the plant which has been operating under trustee since bankruptcy proceed ings began several months ago. Among attorneys presenting opin ions to Judge Webb were D. Z. New ton and Peyton McSwaln of Shel by and Spencer Bell of Charlotte. Judge Webb also signed a Judg ment for $30,000 against the city of Asheville in a case in which Clinton Hughes represented the city and Joseph W. Llttlo the bond holders. Lawton Blanton Enters Race For Register Deeds Prof. Lawton Blanton is endeav oring to forsake the teaching pro fession and enter public office. To day he filed as a candidate for Reg ister of Deeds, opposing the incum bent Andy Newton. Mr. Blanton is now principal of the No. 3 consolidated school where he has been for five year. He re ceived his education at Piedmont and at the University of North Car olina and has taught for 28 years, all of which time has been in Cleve land schools, except one year in Cherokee county, S. C. For eight years he taught at Piedmont, six at Earl, eight at Lat tlmore and for several years in his home community of Sharon. Mr. Blanton is a native of the county and this is his first time to seek public office. as next week, and ended up early this morning In Kings Mountain, driving 60 miles per hour cn the left side of the road, and then assault' tng Kings Mountain officers who arrested them. Officers Burns and Austell testified against them. Dorald Clemmer Is alleged to have led the bodily attack, and his bro thci was driving. Donald was fined $25 and the costs and Gamerd was fined $25 and the costs on one count and on the second was fined $50 and the costs and had his drivers license removed. However, character testimony furnished by the boy’s mother and relatives finally resulted in a total fine of $115.70. “They are good boys," she said, “and wouldn’t do anything mean for anything in the world. Roosevelt Admits He Sought Advice Of Industrialists House In Debate On Relief Bill Says He Sought Views Of Captains Of Industry On Tax And Relief. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 8.—President Roosevelt’s dis closure that he had sought the advice of some captains of in dustry, shared capital interest today with the tax and relief issues. Chief legislative licks put in today were on the two measures the president is in sisting be enacted before a Congress adjourns. The house began Its second day of debate on the bill which con tains $1,425,000,000 for relief, with leaders predicting a favorable vote Monday. Senate committeemen con ducted final public hearing on the tax bill before preparing it for con sideraUon on the senate floor. Max Gordon, Broadway show producer, urged the committee to work for reduced taxes instead of an increase. Another witness. Al bert Hubschman, New York attor ney. called President Roosevelt's recommendation "timely and cour | ageous.” Still another task for senators ’.shaped up as the president said the new London naval treaty might be ! submitted to them early next week. The senate asked the resettle ment administration for a full re port of expenditures and activities. The four navy radio men who I manned the transmitting set In the American legation at Addis Ababa, keeping this government Informed , of the rioting in the Ethiopian cap | ital and helping fight off bandits, were promised an advance in rat . ing. - * • | Authoritative sources Indicated 1 AAA administrator Chester O. Davis would not return to active direction I of the soil conservation program on | his arrival from Europe late this j month. Late Bulletins Two Electrocuted RALEIGH, May S.—(AV-Gelmay Williams, 25, and Lawrence Dingle, 32, were electrocuted at State’i prison today for the robbery and murder of John Gant of Forsyth county. Postpone Operation PHILADELPHIA, May IHJV An operation to remove an Inch long cigarette lighter cap from the lung of Pauline Lane, 16, will not be performed for two weeks, Tem ple university hospital said today. Trade Slackens NEW YORK, May g.—(/Pi—A slackening in the advance of retail trade during the current week was reported today in a weekly survey by Dun and Bradstreei. “The buoyant tone of trade, was leas distinct during the week, both seasonal factors and unfavorable weather conspiring against a con tinuance of the advance,” it was stated. Zeppelin Hindenburg To Be In U. S. Soon By The Associated Press ABOARD THE ZEPPELIN HIN DENBURG, EN ROUTE TO AMER ICA, May 8.—Officers of the Hin denburg indicated today they hop ed to reach Lakehuret, New Jersey, at 7 a. m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow, completing her crossing from Priedrlchshafen in 63 1-2 1 hours. ! The excellent weather into which the Hindenburg emerged over the Grand Banks of Newfoundland aft ; er a stormy night was responsible for the prediction of the possible arrival time. Season Ticket Is Given Free A free season ticket to some woman or girl who happens to holfl the lucky "rain check” Sat urday night will be given away oy officials of the Cleveland Cloth mill ball club. Steve Woodson said today. The lea gue's season officially opens In Shelby on Saturday night.» Tickets are being sold at the Owl and S ame? soda shops, and may be purchased there in stead of having to stand in line at the gate. t