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West Friday and probably Saturday, iomewhat warmer Friday. Virginia: Generally fair Friday and Saturday except probably local In southwest portion; somewhat warmer Friday. ET away and itay it least six months ana preferably for a your ton or, daughter who hat Just been Henry H. Crane, Scfanton, in advice to parents. Volume XLI.

No. 179. Bluefield, W. Friday Morning, July 28, Price, Five Cento GRUNDJPTS Attorneys, Arbiters, Labor Bosses, Plain Hoodlums Named In Blanket Bill TRADE CURB THROUGH TERRORISM IS CHARGED UGH S. JOHNSON, left, administrator of NRA; Marvin Mclntyre, member of the presidential secretariat, and a secretary reading some of the'flood of messages to the president, pledging support of the shorter hours-higher wage code proposed for Industry, which poured In after Mr.

Robeevelt's appeal to the nation. One of the first messages was from a woman in Great Neck, L. who told the president she had raised her maid's wages 10 percent. Aaron Shapiro, New York At. torney And Dr.

Benjamin Squires, Labor Mediator, Included; Al Capone And Henchman Named Chicago, July 27. (IP) Reputable attorneys and industrial arbiters, labor union bosses, plain hoodlums and Al Capone himself were named alike in a blanket indictment today, charging twenty-four men with bombing, acid throwing, and restraint of legitimate trade through terrorism. Eminent among defendants were: Aaron Saplro, New York attorney a pioneer organizer of the cooperative marketing movement in the United States, named because he was counsel for nearly a year of the Chicago Laundry Owners association. He quit June 2. Dr.

Benjamin M. Squires, University of Chicago lecturer on economics, federal labor mediator, wno was appointed head of the Master Cleaners and Dyers institute of Chicago presumably for the announced purpose of eradicating the gangster element in that industry and end a war of price cutting, bombing aad acid hurling. Included On List Oscar Nelson, Republl-; can leader of the city council, attor- ney for the Dye House Drivers I union. "Scarface Al" Capone, who might still be the czar of Chicago's outlaw labor rackets, ruling by gun, had the government not put him in prison for eleven years on an income tax evasion conviction. Murray Humphreys, help Capono as public enemy No.

1, business boss of the syndicate, a fugitive now from federal indictments charging that he, like Capone," dodged the government's tax bill. The state struck swiftly, surprisingly. During a three months' investigation, two prosecutors had presented 588 witnesses before successive Cook county grand juries. One 'witnesses-was Dr. Squires, who, at Reading, today where he is engaged in arbitration of a hosiery workers' strike, expressed astonishment that a jury could have indicted him after his own testimony without signing a wavier of immunity.

Deputies Dispatched State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney dispatched deputies to round up the defendants as soon as the indictment which had been suppressed since Friday, was made public. He said he would ask the government to lend Capone, now in prison at Atlanta, to be tried with the rest, so that an Illinois prison cell could be reserved for him when his term in federal penitentiary was over. New York police, were asked to arrest Sapiro. He was released on $1,500 ball.

Squires communicated with the state's, attorney by telephone asking leave to surrender with aa attorney when he was able to provide the $10,000 bond fixed for each de(Turn To Page Eight) FOXlSTiTUCTS PREPURES CODES Producers Of Appalachian Region To Give Draft To Johnson Today CALLS FOR 40-HOUR WEEK AND OPEN SHOP Agreements Will Be Filed To Await A Hearing 1 Tentatively Set For August Question Of North-South Wage Differentials To Be Decided garded as hoax. Message Of Faith In Ultimate Results Dispels Pessimism; Adjourns Subject To Committee Call SOLDIER TO FUSIOJHICKET Major General John F. O'Ryan Chosen To Lead Assault On Tammany Hall In Autumn Race For Mayor Tax Commissioner Fox Sees Authority To Lay Levies To Take Care Of Indebtedness At Time Act Passed Charleston, W. July 27. All levying bodies in the state were advised today by Fred L.

Fox, state tax commissioner, that they "seem" to have authority under the enabling act putting 'the levy limitation amendment into effect to lay levies to take care of indebtedness existing at the time the amendment was adopted. The tax commissioner at the same time advised the levying bodies In exercising that authority to consider "the inability of taxpayers to bear any burden of taxes that can possibly be avoided." Fox likewise said the authority may be tested in the courts upon a contention "that levying bodies do not have the power under the constitution to lay special levies for debt purposes" and that his opinion was subject to the decision of the court should the act be questioned. Fox said that "the only justification for the imposition of a special levy Is the necessity of taking care of legally contracted obligations, to the end that our people may. not be charged with repudiation of any su obligation." Before any levies above those authorized under the constitution are approved, Fox said, levying bodies would be required to show that current expenses have been reduced "to the aboslute minimum" and if the general levies authorlzd under the constitution are sufficient to take care of current expenses and indebtedness "then no special levy can be laid." "In. determining whether or not a special levy will be approved every estimate will be closely schutlnizec to the end that there be no improper or unnecessary expenditure by loca Quoting a section of the enabling act setting out the procedure for laying levies.

Fox said If that section (Turn to Two) London, July 27 (IP) world economic conference adjourned for an indefinite period today as a message from President Rooeevelt full of faith in its ultimate results dispelled pessimism. "Results are not always measured terms of formal agreements," the American president said in a com- rcuncation which pledged his country's continued efforts for world recovery. "They can come equally from a free presentation of each, nation's difficulties and each nation's methods to meet its Individual needs." After receiving this note-of confidence and hope. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the conference- chairman, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull terminated the eix week's of efforts to defeat hard times by international' action on a high note of idealism. They joined in a fervid plea that the efforts to remedy world ailments be carried on tirelessly in a spirit ot good will and mutual understanding.

MacDonald insisted the dispersion of delegates was not a final adjournment but a recess in which work would be carried on in preparation for resumption of the plenary assembly. The session was closed after five hours of speQchmaking, the chairman recalling that the question of reconvening was left in the hands of a small executive committee. Secretary Hull some other members of the American delegation left London for- Southampton to board the steamship President Harding. The most tangible result of the conference was an agreement between the United States and other silver holding and producing countries designed to improve the silver market. Negotiations for a wheat restriction accord was adjourned today until August 21.

SILK WORKERS CALL GENERAL WALKOUT Baston, July 27. A general strike in the silk industry was ordered by the executive committee of the American Federation of Silk Workers tonight. Union officials said 70,000 workers affiiliated with the United Textile Workers of America would be affected. Russell W. Wood, of Easton, president of the American Federation of Silk Workers, asserted the strike, had been called for the day before a New York.

July 27 Major General John F. O'Ryan, colorful commander of the twenty-seventh division which helped break the Hindenberg line, was chosen today to lead a bipartisan assault on Tammany hall's efforts to elect a mayor in the autumn. A group of fusion, leaders, composed of Republican and Independent Democrats, offered the 57-year- old general a mayorality nomination after Samuel Seabury had withdrawn from their council. They said he wduld accept. Seabury, who conducted a legislative investigation into the city government last year, charged the fusion party was influence.

His attack brought the reply: "Every man in the conference has been fighting Tammany hall for years and has been active in every campaign against Tammany control of New York City for twenty-five years. "The conference unanimously offered to Judge Seabury the nomination for mayor, which he declined." Former Assemblyman Lengdon Post was chosen to run for president of the borough of Manhattan, and former Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia for president of the board of aldermen. LeGuardia has been seeking support for the mayoralty nomination. One of the fusion's principal campaign agruments will be demand for municipal economy.

The state legislature is in session now to help the city find new sources of revenue to replenish relief funds. the number of walked out in WHEAT RT CLOSESJTUMIT Soaring Grains, Optimistic Railway Earnings Reports Cheer Markets; Steel Issues Lead Stocks public hearing on the adoption of the silk industry's code. The hearing date has been set tentatively for August 2. Wood said the strike was called in protest against the adoption of any textile code now being considered or in force. COMISSIONER SHIRLEY DECLINES ADVISORY POST Richmond, July .27 on legal advice State Highway Commissioner Henry G.

Shirley today telegraphed President Roosevelt declining appointment as a memlber of the Virginia advisory board' under the federal public works administration. The commissioner was advised that to accept 1 appointment to the board, he would have to resign his highway commission post, and said that he believed he would be of more value to the industrial recovery program in supervising the expenditure of the $7,400,000 of federal aid funds allotted to Virginia than as acting on the advisory board. Jay W. Johns, ot Ashlaiwn, and Richard Crane, of Westover, were named in Washington as members of the POSTMASTER NAMED Washington, July 27. (fP) The postofflce department today announced the appointment of Mrs.

Vance Martin as postmaster at Twin Branch. McDowell county, W. Va. Postofflce inspectors were directed to make investigations preparatory to the appointment of postmasters at Kirkwood, Slcholas county, and Zizler, Pendleton county. New York, July 27.

(fl 5 grains and a continuation of highly optimistic railway earnings reports cheered financial markets to further advances today in quiet and orderly trading. Wheat at Chicago finished up as much as 8 cents a bushel, the limit permitted in the restricted tradiag in that May wheat closed at $1.15 a bushel. Corn, rye, oats and barley were up around 3 to 6 cents a bushel and Winnipeg wheat was around 4 cents a bushel higher. Cotton rallied $1.30 to $1.50 a bale, bar silver firmed, and ofcher commodities generally were steady. Stocks, led by rejuvenated steel issues, got up $1 to $3 or more in the abbreviated session from 11 a.

m. to 2 p. and closed steady to firm. Except for a few issues, however, there was no exceptional buoyancy displayed although the volume of business was somewhat greater than yesterday. Sales totaled 2,489,170 shares and the Associated Press- Standard Statistics" average for 90 selected stocks moved up 70 cents to $84.80.

Markets apparently paid little attention to another sharp rally of the dollar in foreign exchange transactions. The British pound sterling dropped around 11 cents and European gold exchanges were almost as heavy. Rail issues advanced $1 to $2 in response: to news of increasing carrier revenues. The first 50 railroads to report for June showed net earnings of $50,787,000, compared with a net of $14,489,000 in the same month last year, or a gain of around 250 percent. The steel stocks reflected renewed hopes of increased business from the navy's shipbuilding program as well as anticipation of the Bethlehem quarterly report, which was made public after the close and showed a deficit of $3,312,846 for the second three months of this year compered with loss of $5,769,451 in the first quarter.

Washington, July 27. Interests in the nation's far- flung bituminous coal industry prepared today to lay a fourth, fifth and sixth code of fair competition Reports from on the desk of General Hugh S. have been: Johnson, industrial recovery administrator. Producers from the vast Appalachian field stretching from Cen tral Pennsylvania to Tennessee were putting their agreement in final form and planned to hand It to Johnson tomorrow. Representing well over half of the country's total annual tonnage, the code called for a basic minimum wage of $3.84 a day for underground labor, a 40-hour maximum week, and the open shop.

The Fairmont district of West Virginia would pay 24 cents, and other southern districts 40 cents less a day. Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma operators also expected to present a code for their area tomorrow. They refused to disclose its terms. C. F.

Richardson, of Sturgls, and nine other producers from the western part of that state, were at work on a separate code. They likewise refused to discuss what progress they had made. When completed, those three agreements will be filed with three already submitted, to await a hearing tentatively set for August 7. Codes In The codes already in are: (1) From Indiana operators, calling for a 32-hour week and a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour. (2) From union operators and the United Mine Workers of America, calling for a basic wage of $5 a day for underground workers.

The operators demanded a 36-hour maximum week; the (3) From Alabama operators, calling for a minimum wage of $2.40 a day for underground labor, a 40- hour week and the open shop. Other codes from scattered groups may appear before the hearing. The non-union operators, who for many years have fought attempts of the United Mine Workers to make inroads in their territory, were awaiting with interest the steel hearing, slated to start Monday. They modeled the open shop clause in their code from the clause in the steel agreement which would permit the operators to choose their workmen on merit, regardless of union affiliations. Wage Spread The other big difference to be settled at the coal hearing is the question of North-South wage differentials.

Frank Taplln, Cleveland financier, the union operators and the United Mine Workers of America say they are willing to give the South a flve precent differential but not a cent more. The northern fields have teen hit hard by southern competition in the last past decade, and they see in the recovery program a chance to remove some of the difference between mine costs in the two regions. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis, president of the mine workers, eaid that the blanket code proposed by President Roosevelt would not affect existing contracts between his organization and the operators. "Under the -agreements, wages are figured by the day and if the working hours are reduced the day's pay will remain the same," Lewis said.

His statement referred to the anthracite as well as the bituminous industry. It was the opinion of coal men here that comparatively few union miners would be affected by the blanket code, if signed by the operators pending signing of their own codes, as the union scales were above the scale called for in the blanket code and few were working more than flve days a week. WIFE OF KIDNAPED MAN NEAR COLLAPSE Oklahoma City, July 27 Nervous and apparently on the verge of collapse, Mrs. Charles F. Urschel, wife of the kidnaped Oklahoma oil man, conferred today with newspapermen who agreed to withdraw from the home and make possible unobserved communication with the abductors.

Mrs. Urschel and a group of close friends and relatives said they be- lleved no effort would be made to begin negotiations as long as watchers were about constantly. Under the agreement the family spokesmen will issue formal statements periodically, giving such information as to the status of the cose as they believe will not hinder efforts to obtain Urschel's safe release. Police and federal operatives, although running down all clues have withdrawn from the home at the request of the family. No authentic report of an atlemnt by the kidnapers to get in touch wllh any of the several men named by the Urschel family as intermediaries hoe come to light, although Tulsa, police today investigated the report of a Tulsa World newsboy that four men had handed him a not asking $10,000 ransom and promised him $100 to deliver, it to Mrs.

Urschel, This however, was re- BLUE ERGLE TO illGSjmi Thousands Of Covenants Are Quickly Signed And Rushed Back To Washington JOHNSON HURRIES TO DETROIT BY AIRPLANE Verdict Of Death In Kidnaping Case Returned By Jury the home invaribly We have hoard nothing. There Is nothing new to report." Ursdiel has been missing five days. FOUR STRIKERS GET SHOT Disorders Grow And Walkouts Spread Through Penny 1- vania Fields; Pickets Shot In Legs Brownsville, July 27. (JF) Guns barked and four strikers were wounded as disorder grew and walkouts spread through the southwestern Pennsylvania coal fields today. Strike of 2,200 workers of the W.

J. Rainey company brought to S.OQ0 Administrator Will Confer With Auto Manufacturers; Department PJans Most Extensive Drive For Support Since Liberty Loan Drives Washington, July 27 "blue eagle" of the national recovery administration began to spread its wings over the land tonight signifying that employers were covenanting with President Roosevelt to raise the pay and shorten the working hours of their employes. Through the day postmen in every community carried to door after door the agreements which President Roosevelt sent to 5,000,000 or more employers. Reports reached the administration said in thousands of instances these were signed quickly and hurried back to postoifices so that business houses might be among the first to hang out the insignia of the R. proclaiming: "We do our part." Hugh Johnson, the administrator, spent the morning clearing his desk of details and then winged away on a sudden trip to Detroit in a war department plane.

There he was expected to confer with automobile manufacturers who announced an increased wage for all workers but left still in doubt the time of submission of a formal code for the industry. Behind, the administrator left his legal staff working out interpretations of President Roosevelt's blanket agreement to brush away ohstanclee which might prevent some employers from signing. VETERINARIAN FLIES TO TREAT CANINE PATIENT Haven, July 27. (fP) by long distance telephone, Dr. Irving Cashell, Washington veterinarian, completed a hurried 700- mile flight from the nation's capital tonight to treat one of his patients.

Balkaah, prize winning samoyed. S. Sidney C. Graves, distant cousin of President Roosevelt and owner of the animal, requested the veterinarian to rush by airplane to the Graves summer home. Dr.

Cashell left the Washington- Hoover airport at 6 a. changing planes at Newark, Boston and Rockland, and arrived here in an amphibian plane. Graves said Dr. Cashell would remain here until the dog was out of danger, "possibly three or four days," he added. Walter McGee, Leader Of Mary McElroy Abductors, Faces Death On Noose GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS SUPER-POL ICE FORCE Illinois Governor Calls Meet Of Police Authorities To Draw Line Of Defense Against Snatchers; Families Of Two Victims Await Word miners i move who have hailed by ILlftCE DEC IDES ON IJJICURE Decides To Go Ahead With Program Without Waiting For Agreement; Amount Allotted To Each State union leaders as a "showdown" between the United Mine Workers and the operators.

As a truck loaded with workers, escorted by deputy sheriffs, pulled away from the Smock mine of the H. C. Prick Coke company, shots rang put and three pickets dropped, wounded in the legs. Pickets said the shots were fired from the truck but workers denied this. A piece of steel, believed to have been chapped from a cable by a bullet, pierced the hip of George Kifer, 19, while he was standing near the Frick company's Colonial No.

3 mine. Kifer was taken to Brownsville, while the other three, John Mareka, Andy Smoel and Mike Rakushin, of near Uniontown. were treated at a Uniontown hospital. Two other strikers were run down near Colonial No. 3 by an automobile which pickets said was driven by a company man.

Of the two, Joe Mazurlsk and Mike Plifollch, the former was reported in a serious condition at a Brownsville hospital. Witnesses said he was dragged 100 feet. Miss Elizabeth Wight, of Philadelphia, social worker with, the Pennsylvania Security league, said she saw several shots fired from a sedan at the lime Kifer was founded. She sent a telegram to Governor Pinchot and Stephen Rausnenbush, of the state department of labor and industry, reporting the shooting and demanding "state Order was restored by state police at scenes of both outbreaks. Three of the Colonial mines were closed to prevent clashes, while several others are working on a curtailed basis.

No disorder was reported at the Jones and Laughlin mines nor at the six Rainey mines where 2,200 miners struck in sympathy with the Frick workers after drawing two weeks' pay. BANK SOLI) Richmond, July 27. Banking Commissioner M. E. Bristow today announced the sale of the Bank of Max Meadows, Wythe county, to the First National Bank of Wytheville.

The commissioner announced also that business of the bank of Fox Hill, Elizabeth county, had been suspended for 60 days beginning yesterday at the request of the bank's board of directors. Clcnrifics Agreement. Through last night and today Donald R. Richberg, the chief counsel, and Thomas S. Hammond, the code Interpreter, sought to clarify the agreement so that all might know exactly what they were signing.

Queries have piled up since the issuance last week of the text of. the agreement and of the more than 15,000 pledges of cooperation received by President Roosevelt in the last few days many indicated they did not unf pected. Despite these doubts, however, officials forecast a response! to the appeal would provide millions of jobs before Labor day for those now walking the streets in idleness. Publicity Mutter To drive the intent ot the campaign home to every person, the publicity section of the administration was beginning to distribute 70,000,000 pieces of printed matter, each bearing the, blue eagle insignia, and more 13,000 organizations over the country were planning the most extensive campaign for public support since the Liberty loan drives of the World war. Directing this movement was Charles F.

Homer, ot Kansas City, the key man of the war appeals. While the emergency reemploy(Turn to Page Four) Washington, July' 27 Roosevelt administration decided today to go ahead with its domestic wheat program without waiting for an international gruin agreement. Simultaneously with the recess of the London wheat conference, Secretary Wallace announced the amounts that each state and county would be allotted to grow next year of the 456,198,588 bushels of wheat that has been estimated as the amount that will be needed for domestic, consumption. Wallace eaid that within ten days he would proclaim the percentage of acreage reduction that would be required of farmers in order to qualify for benefit payments of up to $136,000,000 under the voluntary domestic allotment plan. Previously, he ahd announced that Tie would require, an acreage reduction up to a maximum of 20 percent with the final figure to await the.

outcome of the London wheat conference. After that meeting recessed today until August 21, he refused to express an opinion as to the prospects of an international agreement being reached later. The allotment for each farmer will be worked out on the basis of the production his farm has averaged over the last three years. REGULATIONS AGAINST GOLD EXPORT EASED ORGnNJZEJNIT Adopt General Voluntary Code Governing Wages, Hours; Local Stores Set Tentative Opening, Closing Hours FAMOUS ENGLISH ENGINEER PILOTS CRACK U. S.

FLYER Engineer Of Royal Scot Guides Twentieth Century Limited From Chicago To Elkhart, Brings Train In Two Minutes Ahead Of Time Elkharl, The British Jack and the Stars and Stripes whipped through the breeze side by side today as a famous English engineer, William Gilbertson ot Carlisle, shoved the Twentieth Century Limited from Chicago into Elkhart two minutes ahead of time. Gilberteon and J. Jackson, his stoker on the Royal Scot of the London-Edinburgh run, took over the cab of the New York Central train on the first leg of their home- wart trip from the Century of Progress at Chicago. The engineer and his fireman had come to this country to display the crack British passenger at the World's fair. The 101-mile run here was made in 105 minutes, including a four- minute stop on the south side of Chicago.

Members of the Century's engine crew stood by while Gilbertson took over the throttle. "The experience," said Gilbertson as he crawled out of the cab, "was a delightful one. It provided me wllh much valuable information about your American roads." English trains, the engineer said, run more smoothly than the American expresses bacause the English type of automatic couplings prevent slack between coaches and eliminate resultant jerkiness, He said the English trains were not air cooled, but that English coaches were cleaner than American ones. We have no speedometers on our trains so have to estimate speed by the time it takes to go between two towns," Gilbertson said, "We have no automatic stokers. We have no conductors." "I have been lu railroad service 46 of my 60 years," he said.

"On my sixty-fifth birthday I shall be retired and then I shall have time to sit around and tell stories. My favorite will be how I took the Royal Scot to America's World fair In 1933 and how one day I piloted America's greatest train from Chicago to a lit. Retail grocers of Mercer county, meeting here last night at the West Virginian hotel, organized the Mercer County Association of Retail Grocers and adopted the general voluntary code governing of minimum wages and shorter working hours, proposed by General Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the national recovery act. and approved by President Roosevelt on July 20.

Sixty retail grocers of Bluefield and Mercer county were in attendance. The meeting was presided over by P. T. Saunders, of Bluefield, a vice president, of the West Virginia Retail Grocera association, and was addressed by W. B.

Toole, of Charleston, executive secretary of tho state organisation. The Mercer county association will be affiliated with the state and national associations, which have already approved the blanket code proposed by General Johnson, it was announced. Officers elected for the Mercer county association are as follows: P. Saundere, Bluefield, president; E. S.

Ballard first vice president: Charles Peck, Princeton, second vice president, and W. T. Elliott. Bluefield. treasurer.

A secretary is yet to be elected. The board of directors consists ot L. E. Poe. Bluefield; Lee Wright, Bluofleld; E.

W. Hankla, Bluefteld; C. W. Faulkner. Glenwood Park; J.

T. Taylor, Montcalm; 0. S. Boggess, Oakvale; Ray Cheatwood, Elgood; Charles Cumby, Braaiwell; Mr. Harris, Princeton, and Mr.

Pennlngton, Athens. Another meeting will be held In Bluefleld next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock and all retail grocers are invited to be present. Dues in the association was axed at six dollars annually. A committee consisting of T. Henderson, E.

W. Haukla. E. S. Ballard, R.

A. Tabor and P. J. Ashworth, was named to contact all re- Washington, July 27. slightly the stringent regulations against exporting gold from the United States, the treasury decided today that gold and gold concentrates could be sent abroad.

A while earlier, Attorney B'eneral Cummings told newspapermen that gold hoarders who refused to return their metal to tha government in response to a presidential order would be prosecuted within three weeks. In answering questions from gold producers, the treasury agreed to the relaxation but held that smelted and Imperfectly refined gold could not be shipped abroad without violating the president's embargo order. In an opinion submitted to the treasury, Attorney General Cummings defined as gold the metal which has been smelted or imperfectly refined. Gold concentrates is the result of crushing and washing gold ore. BLUEFIELD FIRMS ADD NAMES TO HONOR ROLL Washington, July 27 Roosevelt today received a telegram from Governor H.

G. Kump, of West Virginia, announcing that he had ordered all the state's department, boards, agencies and commissions to adjust thciir work to conform with the president's recovery program. Governor Kump also informed the president he had appealed to the people of Virginia to "cheerfully accept tile spirit and letter" of the plan. Another of of telegrams which continued to pour into (lie White House from Wcist Virginia placed before the president a proposal that a percentage increase in all coal mine wages be put into effeiot August 1. This proposal came from R.

M. Davis, president of the Darls-Wilson Coal company, of Morgantown. Pointing out that differences among various coal districts make it difficult to draw up a coal code speedily, Davis suggested the percentage increase as a means of increasing the purchasing power of miners without upsetting present differentials in wage scales. West Virginia senders of messages of response to President Roosevelt's appeal to the nation made public today included: Blueflled Auto Starter Shop, Bluefleld Vulcanizing company, Crowder and Freeman, Groeeclose Auto Electric Service, Harpers Garage, Short Brothers, Sarver's Garage, Service Garage, Shewey's Tire Shop. Sl'lNXERS STRIKE Providence, R.

July 27. Seeking wage increases ranging from 30 percent to 65 40- hour week and better working conditions, about 800 employes of the By The Associated Press A death verdict and determined action by state and federal governments developed Thursday as deterrents to kidnapers. A Kansas City jury decided that Walter McGee, a former convict, should die for the leadership he confessed in the kidnaping of Mary McElroy for $30,000 ransom. Attorney General Cummings at Washington said the sentence showed "how people feel about the problem." Federal authorities were making plans for a "super-police force," requested by President Roosevelt, to combat the crime. Gov.

Henry Homer of Illinois called a conference of all police authorities and prosecutors In the state to draw up a line of defense. Families of two men still held by kidnapers Charles F. Urschel. of Oklahoma City, and John J. O'Connell of Albany, N.

awaited word. New federal complaints charging Roger Touhy and three other Chicago gangsters with kidnaping William Hamm St. Paul brewer, were drawn in Milwaukee in case the arrange bond on existing warrants. In Chicago delegates attending international conventions of police and private detective associations suggested that international cooperation be enlarged to help in speedy arrests in crimes of international na- ture. George Peine.

30. son of a well-to- do Garnett, farmer, told fed- oral authorities at Claremore, that he was kidnaped in Garnett on July 19, kept captive three days while a $3,000 ransom demand was made upon his father. DEATH SENTENCE Kansas City, July 27. A smash at. the kidnaping first death delivered today by a Missouri jury which convicted Walter McGee, confessed leader in the $30,000 ransom kidnap- ing of Miss Mary McEllroy, The 25-year-old victim, daughter of City Manager H.

F. McElroy, her father and Attorney General Cummings in Washington and other officials engaged in the nation-wide crusade to stamp out kidnaping and racketeering, hailed the verdict as one that would put a check on abductions. "I hope this will help to prevent future kldnapings," said Miss who hod identified McGee from the witness atand. "This ia the first verdict in United States of death in a kidnap- ing case," County Prosecutor T. A.

J. Mastin commented. "It will be a wonderful benefit not only to Jack(Turn To Pago Eight) Federal Officers Take Part In Search For Men Who Killed Kanawha Deputy; Stolen Car Is Clue tie town in brought tail merchants of various lines tor American Spinning company, thia her in two minutes ahewl of time." (Turn to Page Two) I city, went on strike at noon today. Charleston, W. July 27.

Federal officers, acting in President Roosevelt's drive to wipe out crime, joined state, county and city police today In their search for gunmen who killed a deputy sheriff and his prisoner Tuesday night. Two men were eliminated from a dozen or more suspects and one of the gunmen were reported identified as the inquiry shifted back and forth between Charleston and Huntington. Those released are D. D. Harper and Baxter Harper, father and brother of the slain prisoner, Ralph Harper, of Huntington.

They were questioned for hours by officers seeking clues to the gunmen who attacked deputies transporting Ralph to the penitentiary. Names of the men reported to' have been identified as passengers in the gangsters' automobile were' withheld. One was said to have been 1 wounded in a running gun battle with the officers car. His reported; identification was stated to been based on a note to his heart telling of his wounds and asking foi' aid. Funeral si5rvices were held today for Roy Shamblin, the deputy who was olain.

One development which has'' brought department of Justice agents, representatives of the United' States district 'attorney and United' States marshals into action was covery that the gunmens' car wasf stolen in Harper, who was sentenced to 85J years imprisonment for acmed ton-- bery only a few hours befpre, no waif slain in an effort to liberate had lived in Staunton, tort months after from Jalll while was 1 nponf information from Staunton that 5 was returned to' Charleston, Officer indicated that information from persons with quare' there,.