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HOrJE EDiTIOH WEATHER Probably ifcowereand MomemhaA warmer tonight and Sunday. CIRCULATION Friday, June 8 40,856 Net Paid Ovt Fart ry Bvaatag Poundad U71. I Bvanln Journal and Cvary Braiinc rBin Journal Poandad Consolidated Jan. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE, SATURDAY.

JUNE 9. 1934 20 PACES PRICE TWO CENTS ITER FEUD EVENING EVEfflG DEAD PEPTCS FENCE SUICIDE MURDER, AND NO LAW CALLS ON HER HI JACKERS BIND, GA VICTIMS; ONE ROBBER IS SHOT BITTERNESS MARKS STEEL PEACE MOVE HALF BILLION FOR DROUGHT AID IS ASKED j' I I. END NEIGHBORS' LONG WRANGLE Clarence Norton Empties Double unload into Albert Naylor, Then Kills Himself in Home Cellar with Same Weapon; Doable Tragedy Ends Work on Spite Fence Being Erected by Naylor; Hammer Fight Precedes Death Battle SON SEES FA THER MURDERED; POLICE FIND BODY OF SUICIDE Gunmen Waylay North Carolina Drivers of Loaded Truck, Blindfold Pair, Leaving Them in Second A a to; Later Abandon Stolen Truck and Escape POLICE OF TWO STATES IN HUNT MRS. NORMA BRIGHTON M1LLEN With her young husband. Murton Millen, convicted of murder and facing death in the electric chair, the courts want to know whether Norma had guilty knowledge of the crimes of Murton, his brother.

Irving, and Abraham Faber. Polk charge that Norma, daughter of a former clergyman, knew all about the criminal activities of her husband and his pals. Her caw is set for trial June 20 at Dedham, Msuss. British Lord He Once Helped to Hold Up Denver Stage Coach PENTTS GROVE, N. June 9 Special).

Murder and suicide are the cost of a fig-fit here this morning over a spite fence. The victims of the doublel tragedy. Albert Naylor and Clarence Norton, were neighbors. Noylor, aged 50 -eans. of 159 West Main street, died at 10.35 o'clock in the Salem Memorial Hospital less than two hours after he had been shot in the back by Norton, aged 48 rears, of 14? West Main street.

Fifteen minutes after Naylor was shot, police found the body of Norton in the basement of his home, where he had shot and killed himself with the same gun with which he killed Naylor. The neighbors have had disputes for some time aver a property boundary line. About 8.45 o'clock this morning Norton noticed Naylor and his son Edward, aged 27 years, building a fence along the line between the two houses. PROBE OF NAZIS ACTIVITIES IS PUSHED INN.Y. National Guard Sifting Charges Made.

Before House Committee SAY HITLERITES USED MILITIA GUNS NEW YORK. June 8 (AP. Two investigations into Nazi activities in the United States were under way here today as the special House committee moved to New York for hearings-this afternoon, and a special Fined $750,000 JENNY DOLLY Jenny, one of the internationally famous dancing Dolly Sisters, was fined $750,000 today and given a suspended sentence of three days in jail by a French court on a charge of evading payment of a luxury tax on her 51-carat diamond ring. She was badly disfigured in a serious automobile last year. irwiHv nnnvio ED mm Sav Famous Dancer Fvad- ed Tax on Her 51-Carat Diamond Rins JAIL SENTENCE i is suspended; FARIS, June 9 (AP).

Jenny Dolly, one-half of the famous dancing team of the Dolly Sisters, today was fined 50 ,000 and given a sus- pended sentence of three days in jail for evading payment of the lux- ring, which she bought in Cannes in 1926. The ring was valued at 4.500,000 francs which in thoss days was tax would The ring itself was sold an auction of Miss Dolly's jewelsrecently for onlv 1 .625,000 francs about S10O.00O. Tie dancer, who wa-s badly disfigured in an automobile accicent at Bordeaux in March, 1933, testified that her secretary, who is now dead, had been responsible for the entire transaction. The exact amount of the fine wa 11.466.2S5 francs and was based on ue rings puxenae oi Continued, on Pags Twa. TRUCK OWNERS MEET TONIGHT Charles W.

Hardesty. State director. National Emergency Councii-NRA, urges all "for hire" truck owners in the State to attend the meeting in the Century Club, Do ver, at 8 o'clock tonight, standard time. Cable News in Brief By The Associated Press VIENNA Terrorist bombings endangered lives and tied up traffic on three Austrian railway lines. LONDON Japanese sources in London predicted failure of discussions preliminary to the 1935 naval conference which are to open here shortly.

SAN SALVADOR A new storm was reported to be headed toward Central America, lashed for two days by a tropical hurricane with heavy property damage and at least eight killed. CORBEIL, Ont With an oxygen tank in use rum is no longer given the Diorme quintuplets as a stimulant. The babies are "doing as well as can be expected." HANKOW The Rev. Howard Smith, American missionary held by bandits for ransom, sent an appeal U. S.

authorities for aid. GENEVA Harmony prevailed at the world disarmament conference with supporters greatly dieered. The Little Entente will recognize Rus- I I I ft a i i Johnson and Workers in Washington Call One Another Names INSURGENTS WANT TALK WITH F. D. R.

WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP), Leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers discussed the proposed steei labor board with Hugh S. Johnson today despite angry words flung at him last night. In a telegram to him they had said "we are through with you." The morning brought better nature, however, as NRA efforts to avert a strike were renewed. Every one of the executives here from the locals of the amalgamated composing the so-called Tank and file" group was on hand as well as the national officers.

Mike F. Tighe, president, and Edward W. Miller, vice-president. The rank and file men are those who have attempted to take into their own hands control of the steel situation and push for a strike for recognition of the union by the en tire industry. Johnson received them with James F.

Dewey, veteran Federal labor conciliator of many years' experience in industrial areas. He has been used exclusively by the government lately in trying to work out the major strike threat. Tighe. at nA headquarters, persisted in his usual silence concerning events. He refused absolutely to commit himself for or against the denunciation which the rank and file group had aimed at Johnson last night.

Earl J. For beck, leader of the rank and fliers and president of the Amalgamated's district number 1 at SEEK $300,000 FOR BUILDING AT UNIVERSITY Would Build R. O. T. C.

Structure With Expected Federal Funds THOMPSON AGAIN HEADS TRUSTEES NEWARK, June 9 (Special) That the University of Delaware has an excellent chance of secur ing about $300,000 of emergency pub lic works funds if a bill now before Congress becomes law, for the erec tion of an R. O. T. C. building on the university campus was made public in a report made by Dr.

Wal ter Hullihen, president of the in stitutiocL to the Board of Trustees the annual meeting of that body today. The bill in question was drafted by Dr. Hullihen, who is chairman of the Committe on Military Organi zataon and Policy of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, and Presi dent Crane of the University of Wyoming, a member of the Com mittee on Military Affairs of State Univeroitiefi. in conference wittt gov emment officials and members of Congress interested in the measure The bill asks Congress to allocate from the supplementary emergency public works fund of $1,322,000,000, about $25,000,000, to provide suitable buildings at colleges and? univer sities, for the instructural program of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. University of Delaware has Continued on Two.

U. OF D. TO RECEIVE FIDAC MEDAL EARLY INDIANAPOLIS, June 9 The Fidac Educational Medal which was awarded to the University of Delaware, Newark, for distinguished service in tti promotion of world relations will be formally presented to the university by Frank E. Samuel, national adjutant of the American Legion, on June 11, it was announced national head quarters of the American Legion here. The medal will be presented on the occasion of the commencement exercises of the University of Dela ware, to be held in Newark.

on Monday. Dr. Walter Hullihen, presi dent, will accept the medal on behalf of the university. The Fidac is the interallied vet erans organization which groups some eight million World War vet erans in eleven allied nations and the American Legion is ttoe only member society of Fidac in the United States. The Fidac award to the University of Delaware was of ficially made at the international congress of the Fidac in Casablanca, Morocco, last fall.

President Requests Free! Hand in Spending Money for Relief in West PROPOSES FEED LOANS TO FARMERS WASHINGTON. June 9 (AP). President Roosevelt asked Oongress today for S525.000,0f,O to finance the drought relief program the administration already has undertaken. "Large scale assistance by the Federal govemrnv'nt is necessary to protect people in the stricken regions from suffering, to mover feed to livestock, and livestock to feed, and to acquire and process surplus cattle to provide meat for relief distribution." he said in a message to Congress. Absolute freedom for the administration to spend the money as it saw fit was asked.

"We are baling wth a rapidly changing problem and it is important that the authorization should be flexible so that funds can be allotted to the several federal agencies as required," the President said. He detailed the proposed relief expenditures as follows: 1. $125,000,000 for special work program and human relief. 2. $75,000,000 for livestock purchase in addition to the funds already available under the Jones-Conn ally act.

3. $100,000,000 for shipping, processing and relief distribution of purchased cattle. 4. $100,000,000 for loans to ar- Continued on Pa Two. NEW HURRICANE roars TOWARD 14 Die as Storms Batter! Central America, Six in Plane Crash PROPERTY DAMAGE TOTALS $2,000,000 SAN SALVADOR, Salvador, June 9 (By Pan-American Airways Wireless) (AP).

A new tropical disturb- a nee roared today toward the coast of Central America, battered for the past two days by a destructive hurricane. A wireless dispatch from the weather station at Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, said a storm center had formed in the Gulf of Mexico and was moving toward the Central American east coast. The North American continent, apparently, will not encounter the storms which have lashed Central America. Communication service was badly crippled by strong winds and hea7 rains which accompanied the hurricane. Preliminary reports indicated eieht were killed in Salvador and property damage migtit reach as high as $2,000,000.

A dispatch from Mexico, D. said six persons were killed in the crash of an airplane," possibly caught by heavy winds on the edge of the hurricane, in Chiapas State. Severe damage, it was learned, was caused in Honduras by rains and wind. Transportation servic-t was cut off. San Salvador, one of Latin America's most modern capitals despite the city's age, was under martial law to prevent looting aa the government pressed relief work.

The storm abated somewhat yesterday after hundreds were made homeless in ttie cy and its vicinity. Pears were felt for inhabitants of the interior, from whom little word was received. -Crop damage was heavy. The city spent the night without light or power. SAY DUCE, HITLER TO MEET JUNE 15 ROME, June 9 (AP).

The forthcoming meeting of Premier Mussolini of Italy and Chancellor Hitler of Germany was definitely reported today to be scheduled for June 15 in Venice, II Duce, now in Riccioni on a short vacation, will return to Rome tomorrow for the world championship soccer football game between Czechoslovakia and Italy. Afterward he is expected to return to the Adriatic and the much-discussed conference which may lead to a disarmament agreement. It is known that Ambassador Van Hassel of Germany plans to leave Rome June 14. It is also known definitely that Mussolini has cancelled all his appointments for the st of the month. I I to i i board of inquiry of National Guard government's motion for a pre-officers started sifting charges made hminarv injunction to enjoin the before the Dickstem committee in comnanV from continuing ir aJ- Norton is said to have tried to stop the two from building the fence.

They refused and this led to the exchange of heated words. Norton is then said to have attack ed Edward Naylor with a hammer and hit and kicked him. Albert NJykwwent to the. aid" of his son. whereupon Norton ran to his house with the senior Naylor In pursuit.

Norton ran into the house and a minute later appeared at the basement door with a double barrel 12-gauje shot gun in his hand. Naylor turned and started to run when he saw his neighbor appear with the gun. Naylor fired both bar' rels. the contents striking Norton In the back. Witnesses of the shooting sent a hurry call for the ambulance and physicians and Naylor was taken at once to the Salem Memorial Hospital where he died at 10.35 o'clock.

Continued on Pp Eight. MY 23 SOUGHT AS TRIAL DATE IN WEIRTON SUIT Govt. Asks for Early Hearing: Court Expected to Answer Wednesday NRA BARGAINING CLAUSE ATTACKED Date for trial of the Federal gov ernments injunction suit against the Weirton Steel Company, is ex pected to be fixed at noon next Wednesday by Jude John P. Nields in TJ. S.

District Court here. leced violations of the NIRA, affecting collective bargaining. Yesterday afternoon James Lawrence Fly, special assistant to the attorney general of the United States appeared before the court and after fCznz tweary-nme inter-rosratories to answered by the defendant, moved for the fixinsc of Juijr 23 as the date of the trial wtnch mav take from two weeks to two months. Counsel for the company opposed the motion, declaring that they had previously been informed that al Continued on Page Eight. MRS.

TALLMAN WONT SEEK CONGRESS SEAT Feeling that she can be of better service to Delaware in the ranks than in public office. Mrs. Frank G. Tallman, Republican National Com- mitteewoman, who has been men tioned as a probable candidate for the Republican Congressional nomi nation in Delaware, said today that she would not seek the honor. Airs, xaliman, who returned on Thursday from Chicago, where ehe attended a meeting of the Republi can national Committee to select a new chairman, issued the following statement, when asked concerning her possible candidacy for the Re publican Congressional nomination Notwithstanding the requescs of numbers of ciitzens of Delaware, both Democrats and Republicans, that I be a candidate for Congress, it seems to me that I can be of greater service to Delaware in these critical times in the ranks rather than in public office.

Words of mine cannot express my appreciation of the confidence so many have expressed in my ability to handle the problems confronting the next Congress as Representative from Delaware "The time has come to return to that old fashioned patriotism which has made Delaware in both pace and war the first State in tne Union. Needless to say, my service to Delaware and the Republican party will continue especially since the inspiration of the meeting of the Republican National Committee in Chicago and the eieceion of such a splendid man as Henry P. Fletcher as chairman to lead us." Two nrn were rob'oM of a truole-Joad of cotton yam in Chester erly this morning, bound, blindfolded with adhesive tape-, and taken to the rp iron yard of the Worth Ste! Company, at Claymont, and beaten. One of the men waa shot through the right hand when he wrestled with one of the? rurunen, but got the; latter's revolver and shot him as fled. Gray Young, 32, truck driver, and Glenn Little, 32, helper, of Clare -mont, N.

driving for the North Carolina Transportation Company, were hi-jacked of their truck at 5 o'clock this morning on Ninth and Penn streets, in Chester, by a gang of four men in a small auto. They were forced at the point of guns to dismount from their track, were, bound, tape pasted over their eyes and gagged. Forced to lie down on the floor of the small they were carried by two of the hi-jaefcers into Del-- aware. The other two gangsters took and drove the truck north through Chester. It was later re-' covered, with load intact, On reaching Delaware, the ma-j chire of the gangsters was stopped jon Naamans Road, in the rear of the Worth Steel plant, and young Continued on ignceec A RIIV JTATC FOREST SITES FOR PUBLIC USE tafe Forester Taber and Chief Game Warden Foster Co-operate various purposes PROPOSED IN PLAN Wooded tracts that come under liie Federal designation of sub-marginal land are being located through a census Delaware by Carl Pri-odi, representative of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, in connection with the $25,000,000 Federal appropriation for this type of land that can be bought at a reasonable price.

Although the appropriation has not been allocated by States, and it is not known how much land of this kind may be desired, the process of merely locating it is being under- 4 lata, lon. Ko ed over for this purpose in the State. Under the Federal plan, the is set aside to acquire sub-marginal land at a reasonable price for State forests, public recreation grounds and game refuges. Forester Taber and Chief Game Warden Clarence Foster will co-operate in the looking over of the land, it was stated. Mr.

Pnodi is representing the Bureau of Agriculture and Economics in Washington and the work is being conducted ihrough the Division of Economics and Experimentation at the University of Delaware. Prof. M. M. Daugherty is te agricultrual research economist at the University of Delaware.

"BOO BOO" WANTS GUN MEDU, June 9 (AP). Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, reputed bootlegger, sought a permit from Sheriff Nathan Pechin to carry a gun. The Sheriff said he didnt think Hoff needed protection. In Today's Paper Amuspmenls 1 A art ion and Contract 9 CUssiBed 15-16-tt Comics S-14 Death Notice IS tditoru! Financial 13 Radio 7 SiwietT VK! 1 Sport 13-13 Women's Interest 9 Confesses which he can contemplate with satisfaction. He may be spoken of as Col.

Hugh Cecil Lowther, under which name but without the military title, he chaperoned cow in the far west. Today he is Lord Lieutenant Cumberland and Custos Rotulorum, Hereditary Admiral of the CoasU of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lord Warden of the Weat Marches; Honorary Colonel, of the First Cum berland Volunteer Artillery; Honorary Colonel of the Third Battalion of the Border Regiment; and Colonel of the Westmorland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. But todaj also, he was cowboy, top hand. "I was one of the first cowboys out west," he said. "I remember Denver when it was only a one shack town and when I first saw Cheyenne there was only one shed there.

"I was there several years and I learned the game from start to rm- Continued on Page Eighteen. GENE SARAZEN NABS NATIONAL OPEN GOLF LEAD Overhauls Cruickshank Midway Third Round as Latter Falters FORMER CHAMP ONE STROKE IN FRONT MERION CRICKET CLUB, PHILADELPHIA, June 9 (AP). Gene Sarazen, after overhauling Bobby Cruickshank today midway in the third round of tf.ie United States open golf championship, took the lead, for the first time, as he. charged down the stretcta in ttie thick of a free-for-all battle involving at least five professional stars. Sarazen tallied a third round 73 for a total of 218.

Cruickshank, losing vital strokes on each of the last three holes, finished his faltering third round in 77 for a 54-hole total of 219. Wiffy Cox, Brooklyn pro, gained three strokes on the little Scot, with a 74, and his three-round total of 220 kept him in the thick of the fight. Starting off with a 3-stroke lead over his nearest pursurer. Cruickshank, pint-sized Soot from Richmond, faltered on the outgoing nine. He reached the turn in 40, four over par to Sarazen's 37.

Ralph Guldahl, Angeles pro fessional, who came within a shot of tying Johnny Goodman for the 1933 championship, staged a belated rally as a gusty wind swept the course for the final 36 holes of the tournament. Pacing the third round Guldahl shot a spectacular 70, for the sec ond even par round of the tourna- Contlnued on Pag Thr. DENY NEW TRIAL TO DR. RUTH DEAN GREENWOOD, June 9 (AP). Judge S.

F. Davis today overruled a motion for a new trial of Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean convicted of the poison slaying of Dr. John Preston Kennedy, i Dr. Dean was admitted to bond pending an appeal.

LONDON. June 9 (AP). After setting fctaid England agog by confessing that he once helped hold up a Denver stage coach, the Earl of Lonsdale went to an American rodeo today. He contemplated the cow punchers' flirtations with death through the smoke of series of long cigars and chuckled over his own life as an American cowboy back in the days when the west waa wild and wooly. At a banquet for the co punchers yesterday he revealed the great secret of his life ttoat he helped in a ptick-up of the Denver stage coach in 1S74.

Today he owns 175,000 acres of British land, is a sportsman of whom all British are proud, and is a peer of the realm. "My uf-," said the 77-year old Earl, "was like these kids and I Just can't get enough of their tricks with rcpes, horses and He sat back in his chair and told between smoke puffs of his adventurous youth in America. The Earl has much in his life PROBE DEATH OF MAN AS MYSTERY ANGLE APPEARS Carey Had Left $40 With Restaurant Proprietor Previous to Accident RECENTLY TOOK ROOM IN VICINITY Captain Elwood H. Wilson of the Detective Bureau said today ttiat al though there is no evidence at this time of foul play in the death oi William Carey, 39 years old, of 7195 Highland avenue, Merohantville, N. who was struck by a trolley car early yesterday morning at East lawn and Edge Moor avenues, i thorougti investigation is being made of every angle of the case.

Despite the fact that Carey left $40 with the proprietor of the Todd Cut Restaurant several hours before the fatality, does not lead detectives to believe that he was necessarily expecting to be attacked. It is pointed out that because of the dark ness of the neighborhood and the fact he had not been there long, he may have felt safer by leaving the money with the restaurant keeper. The problem over which the de tectives are working is the victim's presence on the tracks. It is be- Contlnued on Pag Two. SNAKES TIPPED OFF TO RAIN BY FISH LOOM I NGTON, 111., June 9 (AP).

Apparently, the snakes in central Illinois have been receiving undue credit for their powers to forecast rain. Old and wise fishermen last week observed the snakes leaving the river bottoms for higher land and announced that rains were coming; that the snakes were able to fore tell such things. Now, older and. according to their own admissions, wiser fishermen say It was the crawfish who tipped the snakes off that rains were due. "The crawfish," they said, "built high towers on their nests to escape the deluge, and the snakes saw them.

Rains have conic Washmgton. George Sylvester Yiereck." whose name has long been coupled with German activities in the United States and who claims a family relationship with Ex-Kaiser Wilheim, has been summoned by Dickstein to tI2 his committee of alleged monthly payments of 1,750 received from the publicity firm of Carl Bvoir and Associates, who have a publicity contract with German railroads. Carl a partner in the Byoir firm, testified before the committee in Washington that his firm Continued on Page Two. LITTLE AMERICA'S HEAT WAVE ENDS LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, June 3 (via Mackay Radio) (AP). A 15-day respite for the Byrd expedition from the rigors of the Antarctic winter was over today.

The, temperatures have began fallen rapidly after climbing above the aero mark at least once every day in the past two weeks. The mercury yesterday touched 36 degrees below zero. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd from his outpost on the Ross Ice Barrier advised by radio that his warmest temperature during the "heat wave" was 14 degrees above, approximately 10 degrees below the maximum recorded here. Day's Record.

Tides Standard Time Sue rose thu morning 4jj Sun seta th.it evemr.g 7 27 Sue rises tomorrow momitg 4.31 Sun seig tomorrow evening 7 28 Moon rises tomorrow morning 2.59 Length of day, 14 hours and minutes. Temperature at E. E. Buiid.ng 4 P. M.

yesterday (7 Highest yesterday 79 loest daring night 54 8 A.M. today $5 Noon today 72 Tide at Marine Term.nal iMouth of Christiana) High Low A 9 52 4 49 P. M. 10.17 5.02 High Tides Today AM P.M. Lewea 6.25 6.50 Kin's Hammock 7.55 8.20 Bombay Hook 8.45 9 lf Port Penn 8 22 8.47 Da'a compiled by V.

Coast and Oeodejic Survey. Continued on Page Sixteen. 3.