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JK Circulation Today 6702 Net-Paid A. B. C. VOLUME XIL--NO. 239 EXPONENT OF THE WKST VIRGINIA SMOKEUtSS COAL REGION WEATHER Generally fair and colder except snow flurries 'in Friday, Saturday cloudy and continued cold.

BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1937 Audit Bureau Of Circulation Price 5 Centi-- A 156 A Month NEW BUILDINGS ARE PLANNED ON KANAWHA MDRPHY URGES FINISH FIGHT ON BARGAINING Governor Calls Chrysler And Union Leaders After Workers Leave Plants Governor Bristles At "Revolution" Talk Newspapers Firm Invites Visitors Of Round Table Defends Action In Seeking Peaceful End To Motor Strikes Teachers of the New River Valley Round Table are eorially invited to visit the new plan' of the Beckley Newspaper Corporation today, either this morning or this afternoon. Many teachers in the three counties have already inspected the plant in company with their classes, but any that have not already visited the building are invited to do so today. Teachers of journalism will be especially interested in the modern equipment, including a new and modern engraving plant, which is now being in-' stalled. SLOW CHANGES IN HIGH COURT ARE ADVOCATED Suggest Appointment Of Not More Than One New Justice Each Year Plane Crash Kills Persons Thirteen GRAY IS GIVEN TEN YEAR TERM FOR BAD CHECK LANCING, March 25 -(AP)--Moving swiftly after thousands of. sit-down strikers paraded from Chrysler automobile plants in Detroit, Governor Frank Murphy called leaders of the corporation and its striking workers together again tonight seeking settlement of their dispute.

Terms of last night's truce which ended on 18-day sit-down in the Chrysler factories pledged both sides, Mnrphy said, to "see the collective bargaining controversy through to a finish." The United Automobile Workers of America, claiming 59,000 members in Chrysler plants, called the strike March 8 after Chrysler executives refused their demand for exclusive bargaining rights. Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the corporation's board, and John L. Lewis, whose Committee lor Industrial Organization is sup- Mrting the U. A.

W. A. strike, came to Lansing yesterday at invitation. Two conferences produced the truce ending the sit-down phase of the strike; then they adjourned- to await evacuation of the plants. Homer Martin, -umonfpTesident, and other over ice- covered highways to carry the truce to strikers for approval.

Weary from lack of -rest and hoarse from successive speeches in each of the eight striker-held factories; they completed their rounds soon- after 12:30 o'clock this afternoon, and the sit-doxvners emerged from the plants to stage a parade in a snow State police took pver control of Chrysler plant gates and entrances, and "the union announced it would establish picket lines to ensure that no attempt to resume operations pending the negotiations here would be made. Governor Murphy, declaring references to "revolution" in Michigan were "utter sheer nonsense," said today: "We are not going to be in a TO DISCUSS PLANS Roosevelt Plan Would Name Six Immediately More Witnesses Condemn Judicial Reform In Hearings All Locals Asked To Send Delegates To Meeting Here On Sunday Plan Big Parade (Continued Qa Pagre Seven) BALDWIN, FREE, TO PRESS HUNT Final plans for the annual John Lewis Day celebration of the United Mine Workers of America will be made at a meeting of committees from all local union in the New River, Winding Gulf and Greenbrier coal fields, to be held here Sunday afternoon, it was announced last night. The committee in charge of the celebration is anxious to have every mine local represented at the Sunday meeting, which will be held at 2 o'clock" Sunday afternoon in "the Central Labor hall over Watkins store, so that arrangements can: "be -made to transport; all miners' and their families to Beckley. Tentative plans call for an all- day meeting starting with a gigantic parade at 9 o'clock and continuing throughout the day with speeches and contests for which prizes will be offered. Present committees in charge of the celebration include; Publicity, Ed Berman, Beckley; John Getchen, P.

L. Elmore, Mt. Hope nad Luigi Gugliotta, Beckley; Speakers, Len Kish, Glen Morgan; Clint Howard, Beckley and Hoyle Poore Raleigh; Arrangements; A. W. Russell, Beckley; Larkin Philpott, Winding Gulf and Porter McNichols, Cranberry; Entertainment; William Daniel, Skelton; Lacy Wood, Lillybrook and John Howard, Price Hill.

General chairman of the celebration is E. D. Hods on, while John Carter is vice chairman and Herbert Maynard is a member. Musical and other entertainment groups wishing to appear on the Lewis Day program are asked to contact Mr. Hodson or some member of his committee.

WASHINGTON, March 25-(AP)--A movement to change the supreme court gradually and piecemeal, instead of the swift alteration provided in the Roosevelt court bill, provided, developed today within the senate judiciary committee. Senator Hatch (D-NM) came out in favor of an amendment to the bill, restricting the proposed appointments 'of new supreme court justices to one a year. Under the Roosevelt program six justices could be appointed immediately if the. six incumbents over 70 years of age did not retire forthwith. Hatch previously had not expressed his opinion on the bill, and therefore had come to be looked upon as of the "key men" in the present struggle.

He had been struck by the arguments of Dean Young B. Smith of the Columbia University Law an- opponent' of the bill, who appeared before the judiciary committee today and advised against a of large proportions in the makeup of the supreme, Another', Transcontinental Airways Plane Plunges To Earth Near Pittsburgh; Crew Of Three And Ten Passengers Dead When Found Cause Of Disas ter Is Not Known By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH, March 25--A giant Transcontinental Airways skyliner crashed nose first tonight about 10 miles south of Pittsburgh, killing its crew of three and ten passengers. Robert McWilliams, a Washington, taxicab operator said he saw the liner about 6:45 p. cruising slowly, headed -toward the Pittsburgh airport, its engines laboring. "The pilot kept dropping gradually toward the end of a narrow valley.

He seemed to try to make a turn. Suddenly the front of the ship just dropped straight down 100 yards from me. There was a loud noise, then NUMBERS GAME RULING IS DUE Judge Kilgore To Act Today On Petition To Return Cash Police Seized Gould Wickey; general of the council of church boards of education, opposed the president's proposal on the ground thai through it "an erithronged adiciai- ism could enact laws of educational slavery--and religious intolerance." One of Dean Smith's suggestions was that prompt action on a constitutional amendment, replacing Urges Former Captaifi Search For Mother's Murderer TEEL FUNERAL SET FOR PROSPERITY (Continued On Page Seven) LEGION HONORS FIRST "Charter Party'' Planned Tonight For Survivors Of First Post Jurisdiction Argued Judge Kilgore in criminal last evening said he would rule today on a petition of Brown W. Payne, attorney for William Clay colored, the return of- $250 in cash and "numbers" game paraphernalia, which seized by city police when Clayborn was arrested in an automobile on January 12. Claybora and Landon Price were tried in city court for running a lottery and fined $50 and costs.

The case was appealed-to the criminal court When the appeal was called for a hearing several days ago the case was dismissed when the ruled that under the present city charter Police Judge Millard French was not authorized to issue a search warrant, had no jurisdiction a lottery case. Immediately after the court's ruling Payne asked that the confiscated property be restored to the owner. At that time a new warrant was issued by Judge French as an exofficio justice of the peace which gave him jurisdiction in the silence. "There was no fire. When I got there all the passengers seemed jammed into th front of the ship.

The back part wasn't damaged. "We began pulling out the bodies. We listened to the hearts but- none was beating." The tragedy occurred in a small valley in upper St. Clair township, on the fringe of Mt. Lebanon and eight miles from downtown Pittsburgh.

Less than a year ago eleven persons died in a. mountain tap crash 40 miles to the southeast and last September 5th ten were killed in a sightseeing plane.about ten miles away. Visibility was good at the time of the crash, although a few hours earlier a heavy smog (smoke and fog) enveloped most of the Pittsburgh area. Captain. piloting flight No.

6 '-fromF Pittsburgh eastward to Newark, he, too, saw the crash. He said fll-fated ship appeared to be flying satisfactorily when he first sighted it Then he reported a wing dipped and the huge ship nosed down. in a steep glide and crashed heavily. Abney Miner Convicted In Criminal Court; Oscar Hatcher Pleads Guilty Only Ten Minutes Needed By Jurors Prisoner Admits Terms In Prison But Tries 'To Go Straight" Floyd Gaston Gray, 28-year old coal miner of Abney was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary by Judge Kilgore in criminal court yesterday afternoon following his conviction on an indictment charging him with issuing and attempting to pass a worthless check. A guilty plea to a charge of grand larceny resulted in a two-year term for Oscar Hatcher.

Several other cases were disposed of during the session of the court which was not concluded until after six o'clock last evening. Shortly after court convened a jury was empaneled to try Robert Burton, 22-year old Negro answering to an indictment charging him with "maiming Mrs. Wilma Coins, also colored. Widely Travelled Burton, recalled to the witness stand after the noon recess for cross-examination by Prosecuting Attorney W. A.

Thornhill told the jury a story of his having visited every state in the union. The colored defendant said he had not. worked for a year and usually spent his evenings a picture garden; BoughtBy Croft Three Business Houses, Totalling $275,000, Will Be Constructed On Lot; Property Is Purchased For $75,000 Montgomery Ward Coming Through a business transaction that will be closed today or Monday, a Beckley landmark for nearly century, the D. Howe Johnston estate, will become property of the Croft Syndicate of Charleston for 000, while simultaneously a half-acre plot of it will be sold to the Appalachian Electric Power company as the loca- tion of a proposed building. Cl The property, upon which the late Senator John McCreery built one of the city's most elaborate years ago, covers an area'of acres.

On the remaining property the Charleston firni'S will erect two other buildings--one a $50,000 already leased for 20 years by the Montgomery TWarMPi company, and a garage and automobile sales buildiiigS costing $25,000. Plans are being made for the tion also of 35 homes, most of which will front on Fayette The Johnston home -will vocated by April 13 and about 100 feet further from Kanawha street where it entirely remodeled for into apartments, Colonel Robert C. Charleston directed the both the entire estate and the property sold to the palachian company. Work Starts stated by a source that the house LLOYD GEORGE ASKS DEFIANCE Commons Row On Policy Of Italians In Spain, Claim World Peace Is Endangered case. Payne argued at ihe hearing HUNTINGTON, Mar.

25--(AP) --Charles Baldwin, 41-year-old former army captain, rested today In the 27-room family mansion after a jury last night acquitted him of a charge he killed bis Vv-ealthy mother last October 17. Jubilant cheering greeted the verdict returned by the panel after deliberations of an hour and 50 minutes. Baldwin, after shaking hands with the jurors, said: "The search for person who killed my mother will go on. It has never ceased and it will never cease as long as hope remains. "Until there is an arerst and a that is the way it will be." The acquittal climaxed a nine- day trial and left Baldwin free to go home for the first time in five months.

He was arrested a week after, a housekeeper found the body of Mrs. Juliette Buffington Enslow, daughter of Huntirigton's first mayor. Baldwin was a son of the 63- year-old widow by a former marriage. When the erestwhile defendant returned to the big Third Avenue home today, he found aH the furniture removed except that -n his own room. He declined invitations friends to stay with them.

During the long trial, witnesses testified Baldwin was registered with the federal government as a narcotic addict. He told the jury he took narcotics to ease pain in 1he stump of a leg amputated nine years ago after an accident, Stone Mason Dies Home Following Heart Attack At Funeral services will be conducted today at 2:30 o'clock at the Prosperity Christian Church for Quince Teel, 57, prominent stone mason, contractor, of Sprague who died- suddenly at his home on Thursday from a heart attack. Born near his home on April 1, 1880, he was the son of the late Jesse and Elizabeth Teel and was well-known in the vicinity, being owner and operator of the Teel Plant Farm at Sprague. Seven children survive with his widow, Mrs. Laura The sons 'and daughters are Mr.ldon, Lowell, and Dale Teel; Misses Helen, Martha, Gurthel, and Sue Teel all at home.

Brothers and sisters living are Luther Teel, Beckley; Eidridge Teel, Logan, Elbert Teel, Leewood, W. Mrs. P- P. Trail, Hampton, Mrs, Ollie Aker, Beckley, Mrs. B.

J. Vanderpool, Bradley, Mrs. E. Dillon and Mrs, L. E.

Walker, both of Beckley. HOSEY RITES SET Funeral services for William Kosey, 77, of Terry, who died Thursday, March 25, at six o'clock in the morning, at his home, were conducted yesterday by Father Francis at the Scarbro Catholic Church. Burial was made in the Catholic cemetary at Scarbro. Hosey, born in Ireland, March 23, 1860, is survived by two sons, Henry, of Nancycoke, Pa and N. E.

Hosey, of Plymouth, Pa Surviving charter members of Raleigh County Post No. 32, American Legion, have been issued special invitations to attend the Post meeting in the Memorial building tonight at eight o'clock. A special program has been arranged for the entertainment of the old members who participated in the organization of the local Legion unit, when Hal M. Scott, was elected post commander and J. H.

McGinnis, adjutant It was learned yesterday that the membership roll for the first year carried 418 exsoldiers 5 names. In 1930 the enrollment was 783, and at present 250 members are enrolled A partial list of the charter members includes: D. D. Ashwortfa, E. Ray Bailey, Dr.

M. Banks, Carlyn A. Bibb, T. H. Clay, H.

A. Conway, Wilbur Cox, O. C. Daniel, Willard Fleming, Roy Wray, C. W.

Hogg, Dr. D. B. Jarrell, J. H.

McGinnis, W. H. McGinnis, Dr. W. C.

Hogg, Dr. D. B. Jarrell, J. H.

McGinnis, W. H. McGinnis, Dr. W. C.

Hays, K. Rubush, Hal M. Scott, Snead, T. N. Thurman, D.

E. Warden and A. W. Jenkins. The present post commander is E.

H. Shriver with Ben F. Dorsey, adjutant. yesterday that the city authorities had no right to retain the seized property for the purpose of using it as evidence in a subsequent trial, after the criminal court had ruled the search warrant on which it was taken had been issued illegally. Clayborn was re-arrested yesterday in a building on Prince street when Chief Stover served a warrant issued by Judge French.

Stover said Clay bom had some "numbers" books in his possession when he took him into custody. YOUTH INJURED II Duce Assailed MARTINSBURG, March 25 -(AP)-- Joung James William Henderson was struck and injured by an automobile while playing ball with three companions on a highway. State police said the automobile was driven by Zula- park Knode of Shepherdstown. Williams said all the bodies were badly mangled. The pilot's leg was cut off and the co-pilot had been beheaded.

He thought all had died instantaneously. J. J. McLean manager of the Allegheny county airport, said all those on the plane had died. Coroner W.

J. McGregor, of Allegheny county, personally took charge of an investigation, while at Washington the bureau of air commerce of the commerce department said there would be an official investigation." The airliner left Newark at 3:25 p. and made its regular stop shortly afterwards at Camden airport. Three persons were reported to have left the ship at Camden, a Mrs. E.

Fritz, Miss E. Fritz and Mr. H. Fritz. The ship was due in Pittsburgh at 6:25 and was about 20 minutes late at the time it crashed.

There were reports it had circled the airport awaiting orders to alight In Chicago Jack Frye, president of TWA, said the ship, its engine and radio were in perfect mechanical condition at the time it left and the flight arrived over Pittsburgh airport on schedule. Frye continued: "There was a 2 400 foot ceiling and the flight approached for landing at an estimated altitude Burton, denied "he had attacked the young woman- -with billet of wood the-night of-February 19, while she was walking toward her home in East Beckley. Oppie L. Hedrick, the Negro's, attorney, who was defending his first case in criminal court, urged the time element in his argument to the jury in an effort to prove an The jury was out of the (Continued On Page Seven) REBEL BOMBERS ARE REPULSED Loyalist Anti-Aircraft Guns Pump Scores Of Shells At Planes (Continued On Page 7) MANY REGISTER FOR SCHOOL PRESS MEET Farmer Tells Of Finding Bodies In Wrecked Plane HUNTmGTON, March. (AP) Advance registration for the annual meeting of the united high school press of West Virginia indicated today more than 700 will attend the meeting April 30 and May 1.

W. Page Pitt, director of the journalism department at-Marshall college, also said about 75 teachers have registered for sessions of the West Virginia high school journalism teachers association to be held at the same time. More than 600 attended last year's high school press convention. PITTSBURGH, March 25--(AP) --Euclid Bourguignon. 26-year- old fanner, first on the scene where a TWA airliner crashed tonight, said the huge white transport turned end over end thre- then nosed down and fell 500 feet He said the twin motors were still running.

Bourguignon saw the ship was in difficulty as he trudged homeward, leading the family cow. 'The plane came out of the west, ox-er a hill, flying very low, he said, continuing: "The plane made as though to land on a hill near my house, but there were trees in the way and it went back up in the air. "I though sure it was going to hit our house. The plane shot up in the air with the motor running, then it turned end over end three times and then nosed down and crashed. "I guess it fell about 500 feet straight down.

"I went down and started dragging out bodies. I the first one there. Louis Koesney, who lives nearby, got there soon and MADRID, March 25--(AP)-Madrid's anti-aircraft batteries pumped scores of shells into the sky late today to repulse three insurgent air raiders. Citizens watched as the planes, barely dodging burstin shells which appeared as khite puffs high in the air. sped westward and out of reach.

They had no time to drop bombs to add to the heavy toll in long hours of land and air bombardment of the besieged city earlier in the day. Big projectiles fell into the capital's business section and outlying areas during the long morning cannonading. Government of- focials said the number killed was "less than expected." Pedestrains on Central streets ducked for cover time after time as explosions shook buildings and sent showers of masonry to the sidewalks. A down-town department store was hit just after hundreds of customers left for the noon closing. Frightened girl clerks left the building but two hours later they were back.

Government officers expressed LONDON, March. 25--(AP)-Failure of Great Britain to resist Italian- Ethiopia isV: endangering world peace, George charged leading a heated attack in commons: against ton-Mussolini and foreign policy, "Stand- up to Mussolini," Lloyd George shouted. "Earn for Britain. He is no fool. He.

knows with whom he is dealing. "If he had been dealing with men who spoke in the name- of Britain with the might of Britain behind them, he would not have talked like that I hope the come when we shall talk in" a straight forward, fealess manner." spokesmen, in a house tensely silent, assailed Duce for "brutal butchery" in Ethiopia and for alleged Italian intervention in Spain, denouncing what they described as wavering British policies. The attack came after disclosure of Anglo-French agreement on the necessity of preventing the landing of further volunteers--especially Italians--in warring Spain. British and French representatives discussed the possibility of using warships to halt troop transports to Spain but postponed any definite decision. They agreed the machinery of the international non-intervention committee should be tried out first and the problem of withdrawing volunteers, which they point out was separate from the neutrality committee's "already accomplished" control plan, was for future consideration.

'I'd rather have Italy's anger ing on the land, facing on -Sou tit; Kanawha at "Howe be moved by May Soon this -date work will be the construction of power; is to be divided: into' building, costing $125,000, for eratecLby- and 'bn 'the "61 by-. 200-foot lot tween and that now occupied- by modern two-story brick ibuil is to be erected. begin later in spring. Architectual plans show if a-modern, structure containing-two stories and a basement This will be occupied "by the Montgomery Ward company, which, will: open, an extensive business here The? building will be 60 120 feet. Bids are Entered' Bids have been entered.

by O. Freeman, of Beckley, and the Fisher construction Charleston for the firm of constructioiL- (Continued On Seven) FOUR DEAD IN 1LD SHOOTING Brother Slays Doctor, Servants And Then Himself BOSTON, March 25-- (AP)-Four persons died in a-hall of bullets today in what police termed a triple slaying and suicide. The victims included Dr. Charts E. Mackey, 43, prominent Bos-.

than Italy's toG Politician, who had a wide elder statesman. He taunted the radical practice before entering government for its effort to avoid ubl ic life, and Paul Costa, 21, and a break with Mussolini over the bis sister AHce 19 employes of the Police Captain Joseph McRkmort named Jeremiah Mackey, 35, the physician's brother, their slayer non-intervention crisis. SCHOOL DISASTER IS SHOWN IN NEWSREEL The gruesome record of death and destruction in America's greatest school tragedy at New Londan. is a feature of the and a suicide. Jeremiah Mackey, on leave of absence as a special officer in the metropolitan district commissiQni had been in poor mental and physical health, according to his su- current issue of the Beckley post- Captain Joseph Rooney, Herald Universal Tsewsreel which has Graham McNamee.

noted agreement with Valencia reports ra dio anouncer. as its Talking Re- that Italians fighting with insurgents on the Guadalajara front helped me. I helped take out had been withdrawn. four bodies, then I got sick and had to quit "One girl had legs at all. One man had a piece of the plane clear through his body." Bourguignon said Bethel volunteer firemen arrived then and rook up the work of removing the bodies.

He said the body of either the pilot or co-pilot was the only one thrown from the plane and that he found it about ten feet from the wreckage. "We could feel the pulse of one girl, but we could see she couldn't live," he said. porter. Four hundred twenty-six boys and birls are blown to bits by the They declared some 30.000 to terrific explosion of heating gas 40.000 Italians formed the bulk of at the New London Consolidated the insurgent army which they de- School. Feverish rescue-workers clared was routed by Gen.

Jose Miaja government troops last Friday. STORES OPEN TONIGHT All ready-to-wear stores in the city will remain open tonight as a convenience to teachers who are attending the New River Valley Round Table toda5, it was announced last night. Teachers who are occupied with sessions all day may shop in the evening for their Easter finery. hunt the mutilated bodies in the ruins of the shaiiered build A mourning community sadly he was severely burned while rescuing a woman from a fire three years ago. As McKinnon reconstructed the tragedy, Jeremiah entered his brother's office and pursued him and Costa to the basement There, Dr.

Mackey was shot four times, and Costa, whom he employed as a chauffeur, twice, Alice Costa, a rnaid in the household, heard shooting srrd fled awaits its turn at the churches for to the street, pursued Captain Methe funeral services tha form their last farewell to loved ones. MINER INJURED LOGAN, March 25-- (AP)-John Vanover, 37. motorman at the No. 1 mine of the Amherst Coal Company, was critically injured in a slate fall. Kinnon said, by Jereirsaih.

caught the girl in a nearby drug store, held her by the hair and fired two shots into her breast. After menacing a customer, who attempted to interfere, with the smoking pistol, Mackey fled to an alley where ho pressed the muzzle to his temple and again Bulled the trigger..