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***¥¥*★Germany Poises Troops Along Polish FrontierSidwaUiA Oil JoweltnwnSTILL HOPE FOR PEACEFOLGRfBY A. HITLERBY T. II WINGATEGovernment I readersIn United States Lav% jPlans For Action In Case Conflict Starts.Drama In The Courtroom: A fewminutes after Spunk Johnsonh-ard himself sentenced to from ‘-•ven tu 12 years in state prisonTuesday afternoon for the killing»f Rube Wilson, well-known Cabarrus county man and former eball tar, '» woman walked ever to where he sat. patted him gently on the shoulder and comfortingly advised:“Go on up there. Spunk, and tryto in,ike something out of yourself when you get out. We believeyou ha\e the right stuff in you. Wt want you to show it.”The w nan was the daughter of Rube Wilson, the man Johnson had just been convicted of killing with a shotgun blast Face of the young man lighted up with a hope that had just been buried by the intonation from the bench, 12 years in state's prison. He swallowed h.ird, He tried to smile. Then his chin came up and he breathed deeply as if he had just receivednew strength from an unexpected sourceThose unselfish words from a woman whose heart was so big. so Hied with the true spirit of Christianity. that she harbored no re-sentment whatever toward the man who had killed her father shlt;uld sustain Spunk Johnson through the long, hard years of his prison sentence and make him a better man down inside when he yet- out If they dont then SpunkJohnson isn’t the man weiMiaHMlMiiiiMHh Iirvtopped upji j ti ii i n s tBERLIN ivtheir pressurePoland and HunGerm a n y * s f o reign m i n i s t e r h e lt;i d ed toward Moscow for conclusion of it nonaggression pact vvith Hussia German troop- were massed along the entire Polish frontier, ready flt;r emergency but belief prevailed in Germany circles that Hitler would have his will on demands on Poland without disturbing Europe's plt; ace*Arriving at Berlin, Forei IV1 ister Von Rifcbentrop held lastWhat Fravc#* Nervs*«lrIn Europe TuesdayStarted Out The Hard Way:Spunk Johnsons case lacking the sensationalism of other trials, brought more real emotion and fine feeling into Cabarrus county superior courtroom than has there in many a year.Countryfolk who knewloved Rube Wilson and who atthe same time understood Spunk Johnson and sympathized with him and his difficulties crowded the courtroom. They knew that Johnson had been born behind the eight ball and during most of his life had been kept there one way or another. They recognized that his rash act was m re than anything else the result of circumstance, a chain of regrettable circumstances that placed by blame on no one person by placing it on society inThe finger of guilt pointed more n.lt; nacii in the direction of Spunk Johnson's parents than in any other direction. For he wasSSjSHr-.;born out of wedlock And as ifth«*t wasn’t enough, death claimedboth his parents-such as theywere*- before he was seven Ac-r j u a i n t a n c es kidded h i m—u nme re i -fully at times—and just such kid-minut*off incon ft n Hitlersbef« mn e wrn fj enroute to Moscow to sign t1I agreement.H e w a $ d x1 e i1 \ M * * s c *) w w. 111 tfaf of experts about naan lt;4 a, movernight I stop jday afterEast Prussia, i While idmitt;ng thenWmn.1 details to be settled in the nego-j said that Ribbentrop would be back j nations, German political circle? Friday with the pact formally i signed.Germans meanwhile expressI view that Hitler was in a position I to bring a decisive turn on Nazi | demands for return of the Free j City and territorial concessions j from PolandI ♦ »* .w. .» * h • r * ! \ v ( it!*-dirg. plus a liquor-informed mind, drove him into the rage that resulted m the mistaken killing of RubeWilson, his friend.The trial, the time Johnson spent in jail brooding over his fate, the years he will spend In state prison- all are new links in thechain of circumstance that is pull-in Spunk Johnson toward ruin. The moral support given by that« IIlu Mil bv lire I ruck. .5! IlmiWORK SLATEDTO BE STARTEDIMMEDIATELY• punk JohnsoxI‘leadsGuiltyL. S. Bradshaw I L Sides And AIIm *marlt Plumbing CompanySuccessful Bidders.To 2nd DegreeTrue Murder Bill Returned Against Fred Shinn In Murder Of Brill Pharr.Iul %it’titfi001*i 111 m 11 \Duke .ndov1. 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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Wed, Aug 23, 1939
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