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it 77ie Weather- A MORN INC NEWS TELEPHONE 5351 ALL DEPARTMENTS TODAY Fair Tomorrow Rain WILMINCTON. DELAWARE. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1933 EIGHTEEN PACES VOL.

104 NO. 95 NEGRO LYNCHED, BODY BURNED IN MARYLAND; 8 POLICE HURT AS MOB OF 1000 STORMS JAIL VICTIM BADLY BEATEN Banker at Senate Hearing SENATE REDUCES! JOB LIST; NAMES DEMOCRATIC VOTE DENIES GOVERNOR PLEDGE ON RELIEF BEFORE MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, HANG HIM ONLY REPUBLICANS Nude Body Dragged Through Main Streets Of House Reappoints At RITCHIE GOVERNOR taches Who Served in House Rejects Resolution To Support His Policies And Confine Bills To Public Works Regular Session Princess Anne; Rope Cut Into Small Pieces And Distributed As Souvenirs; Hanging Occurs Next Door To Home Of Judge ORDERS OFFICIALS ss.Tw-.rair-y- 1 isirK. a Sim onto Reaffirmed as YNCHING EL President Pro Tern, Robinson Returned as Speaker By a Staff Correspondent) DOVER, Oct. 18 The Senate and Executive Favors State Financing Otvn Programs Without NRA Aid To Speed Project Says He's 'Shocked Be Screaming, Cursing Batters Down Jail Door After Troopers Fail In Attempt To Disperse It With Tear Gas; White Man, Held As Accessory, Rushed To Baltimore House were organized this afternoon for the special session called by yond Expression by This Horrible Crime' Governor C. Douglass Buck, the Senate dismissing all the Democratic attaches who served at the regular Highspots of Message The public works program cannot be financed by the State treasury.

"So far as the treasury is concerned the merry-gd-round days are said the Governor. "We re facing the inevitablehigher taxes." The Governor opposed "needless projects Just because there is an opportunity to borrow an enormous sum of money." He urged financing of the works program through the sale of State bonds asserting he doubted if the State would get as quick relief if it took recourse to NRA financing. The chief executive believes the restriction on iederal loans detracts from their practicability as for some of the projects suggested in the State. His approval of any legislation is dependent upon such act being directly related to the emergency for which the special session was called. "This," the Governor's message said, "I would like to have clearly understood." He asserted that the business of the special session should not require much time asking its completion "within ten days' time and sooner if possible." session last Winter and appointing Blames Judge, and State's Associated Presa Photo.

Attorney for Victim Being F11 text GTmr Back (Bj Stall Correspondent) DOVER, Oct. 18 Less than half an hour after they had listened to Governor C. Douglass Buck, in his rnes-n the snecial session of the Immense earnings by Albert H. Wiggin when he was chairman of the In Princess Anne Chase National Bank of New York and his retirement with a $100,000 an nual pension were written on the Public Record of the Senate stock market ANNAPOLIS, Oct 18 (AP) investigation in Washington. Mr.

Wiggin (left) is shown shaking hands Issuing a statement following the with Senator Townsend when he arrived to give his testimony. all Republicans to the offices it was decided to nil, reducing the number of employes by more than one half, and the House renaming all the attaches who had served last Winter with exceptions of two who are unable to serve because of federal positions which they are now holding. Senator W. A. Simonton was reaffirmed as President Pro Tem in the Senate and Speaker J.

Thomas Robinson was reaffirmed as the presiding officer In the House. One of the big surprises of the day was the election of Donald R. Morton as chief clerk of the Senate. death of George Armwood at tne General Assembly, make an earnest appeal for their co-operation and speedy consideration of the business n-vnfh t.hp session was called and hands of a mob in Princess Anne after being dragged from the jail SEA CAPTAIN PAID UNIT rA A there, Governor Albert C. Ritchie late tonight said "I am shocked beyond PRINCESS ANNE, Oct.

18 (AP) A Negro accused of attacking an aged white farm woman was dragged from the Somerset county jail tonight by a mob of more than a thousand men, women and children and was lynched. He was hanged to an oak tree just outside the town after the mob had stripped him of his clothing, attached a rope around his neck, and pulled him behind an automobile through the main streets of the town. As the mob made its slow progress toward ths scene of the hanging, various members leaped at the Negro, screaming and cursing, and repeatedly knocked him down. He apparently was dead when the crowd finally reached the oak tree. Body Burned in Public Square Later, the body was cut down and was taken to the public square where it was burned.

The rope was cut into small pieces and distributed among members of the mob as souvenirs. The Negro, George Armwood, was accused of attacking Mrs. Mary Denston, an 81-year-old woman, as she returned expression at this horrible lynching. also for the exclusion of all business except that pertaining to relief measures for Delaware, the Democratic majority members cf the House this afternoon voted down a resolution which would have pledged their sup- tv rvivernor and would have "I am wiring Judge Duer (Associate ANDING 9600 FOR Judge Robert F. Duer at Princess Anne) and Stated Attorney Robins At the last regular session he was secretary to President Pro Tem Si (John B.

Robins of Somerset coun- tv the Governor continued, "tnal monton. He succeeds William P. I look to them to take immediate ac Short who was chief clerk last Win LJIXI put them on record as refusing to consider any legislation foreign to the purposes for which the Governor had convened them in special session. Van Sclver, intro- Ri 4000 CASES 0 ter. Short is a Republican and his tion to set In motion the necessary legal machinery for the apprehension LOST $120,000,000 IN STOCKCOLLAPSE Wiggin Says Securities Corporation Did Business Law Denied Bank dismissal by the Republican majority members of the Senate caused much surprise.

Short evidently knew of those who were responsioie ior or solution nledsing "fullest who narticiDated in the lynching. UUVtu MAfiAn Yit comnietlon oi nothing about the plan to oust him He said he naa instrucLea rgucc to her home Monday after spending the night with her 11 Exposes Workings of Gi U. S. SEEN for he was here prepared to resume public works program for the State oi onH tji governmental agen- daughter. his duties.

Other Senate Attaches ih. nnsslble date. 11 gantic Chester Ring He was brought to Princess Anne early today from Balti The other Senate attaches elected are; Mrs. Joseph Wicglesworth, read HIGH SALARIES OF After Pleading Guilty Ine clerk: Lawrence B. Knapp, as more where he was taken Monday night for safe keeping.

Oouxity-jiitiioritiea. informed the Governor yesterday there would be no trouble and reiterated this belief this afternoon in the face of rumors that a mob would attempt to seize the cies uic v. i further provided that the House members express their hearty approval of statements made by the Gov ernor In his message to the Legislature. caU-lng -upon members to Ignore any leg, than that relating dl- sistant secretary and assistant read Says He Should Have Receiv Commissioner Charles Gaither, cl Baltimore, to send several of his detectives "to the scene at once to render all the assistance they could. Members of the State police force are already to Princess.

Ann-wid whatever possible assistance the State can give In this whole matter will be promptly and vigorously rendered." Biames Judge and Prosecutor "The responsibility for the Negro, Armwood, being In Princess Anne tonight," he asserted, "rests upon Judge Duer and State's Attorney Robins." Reviewing the events preceding the lynching. Governor Ritchie said Capt. Xsegro. LEADERS BUSINESS ed $12,000 but 'Policy Admits Urging Wage Slashes For Labor Whiie Own Pay Was Raised to $250,000 Eight Policemen Injured lectly to the emergency for which the call was issued, and asking them ing clerk; Francis Mclntiri, Hartley Thornton and "rederick C. Thomett.

sergeants at arms; Joseph Gibbs. telephone operator; John Roe. floor messenger; Ebe H. Chandler, clerical assistant; Irving C. Spanish, cloak In breaking into the jail, the mob to make a quicK tusposai sary measures with a substantial cur.

Gangs' Precluded This PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 overpowered a detail of 25 State police who had been sent to Princess roor. attendant; tne Kev. u. jm.

jones, By DON J. KIRKXEY (Associated Press Staff Writer) Mr vpti sci er said the resolution Changing his plea to guilty, a sea chaplain; Julian C. Walker, attor tv, Governor the fullest co captain testified today at the trial of WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (AP) Anne to Guard Armwood. Eight policemen were injured, suffering cuts and bruises on their heads from bricks and stones hurled at them by members of the mob.

ney; Margaret o. Tomiinson ana 76 co-defendants on liquor conspir Nancy Webb, stenographers. through the highways of high finance, Edward McK. Johnson, head of the State police, "would, out of abundant precaution, remove the Negro to Bal In most Instances these Republi operation of the House in the plans for the relief program for the State. Representative Bees said he thought the resolution premature.

Be acy charges that he received $9,600 from a New York smuggling ring for The hanging occurred next to the can displace Democrats who held bringing whiskey ashore twice on his 2000 Companies Asked To Furnish Data on Pay Of Their Executives Move Follows Demands of Some Congressmen for Redistribution of Wealth timore except lor the fact mat Ferdinand PecoTa, council, today traced for the Senate banking committee a trail of millions piled up in home of Judge Robert F. Duer, who had attempted to dissuade the crowd oil tanker. Attorney Robins would not permit it. continually leaping on the Negro, even after he fell to the ground and was unable to rise. One boy, apparently about 18 years oi age, slashed the Negro's ear almost off with a knife-Under the oak tree, despite the presence of women and children, all the Negro's clothes were torn from his body and he hung there for some minutes nude.

After they had taken the Negro to the public square and burned him, the mob members disbanded White Man Rushed To Baltimore In the meantime, John Richardson, a white man who was under arrest charged with being an accessory after the f3ct in the assault on the farm woman, was taken from the jail by officers and was started for Baltimore. (Continued On Page Eight) At $3 a case he should have receiv said he tnougni, xne iui.i"-jority members were willing to co- the Governor in the re- He said the State police head advised these offices last Winter. Several other positions which had been filled at the regular session, mostly by Democrats, were abolished. stock issues by the Chase Securities early tonight when it first formed at the JaiL him to communicate with the prose rrrm. but he thought they ed $12,000.

but the witness. Captain D. D. Higbee, of Haddon Heights. N.

said the "policy of all bootlegging cutor and Judge Duer. wait, before adoption of a res "1 telephoned State's Attorney The Democratic Senators had planned to present a slate of their own, but before their resolution nam The crowd, apparently Incensed at the judge's remarks, first went to the judge's home but moved to the neighboring house when they were (Continued On Page Eight) gangs" precluded this. olution of this kind until it had been mVmh was best for tne 'Masters of merchant vessels that UCLIUU An in the premises. ing tneir canaiaater could De pre MAYOR. COALITION MEET, unable to find a tree sufficiently nnrpKentative Pryor, Democrat, ran liquor and there were a good many of them at different times were already being paid far less than pared the Senate had adopted the Republican slate.

The Democratic large. SILENT ON RATE PROBE riirt not think there was any The march to the final scene of slate was headed by William P. Short, the actual amount," he explained. By J. R.

BRACKETT (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Oct. -8 (AP Act'cr to limit high salaries of big business leaders was privately forecast in official circles today after the thin" to be gained by adopting the resolution at this time. The vote on Corporation and then set aside to meet losses. Albert H. Wiggin, former head of the Chase National Bank, conceded the securities unit was crcat- to engage In a business denied the bank by law.

To the closely-following commltee members, Pecora then presented a table to show that the -Hies corporation had taken $120,000,000, or 7 7per cent of it3 cap" z.1 and earnings, for reserves for losses and revaluation downward of its holdings. Pecora Becomes Impatient Time after time the committee counsel grew impatient with the re Promise to Admit Press to Session of Bethany Beach, the Republican the hanging was wild in extreme. The mob members seemed crazed. Higbee, former skipper of the Pas Set For Next Week chief clerk last Winter whom the saic Sun. which is owned by the Sun Republicans ouster1 today, as chief Coalition members of City Council Oil Company, had heard his first mate and his chief engineer tell of clerk.

William J. Linus, of Wilmington, was to have been the nominee and Mayor Speer spent two hours in a secret session at the mayor's of the liquor running trips earlier In PEACE PACT KILLED GERMANY TO SPURN the trial. for reading clerk; Meyer Ableman, fice late yesterday studying the elec' attorney; William O. Cubbage, ser Federal Trade Commission announced it was asking 2000 companies to fumisa data on the salaries of their executives and directors. Following President Roosevelt's In trie light rate situation, but agreed to let the matter rest until another gtant at Daniel West, docu ment clerk; Henderson Davis, page; meeting next week and to make no BY GERMAN ACTION tired banker as Wiggin constantly Louise Bennett, stenographer and the announcement before that time.

the motion to defer action was favor. 11 against it. All the Democrats voted to defer while the 11 votes in opposition were all by Republi-(Continued On Page Eight) The Weather Delaware, Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair and warmer Thursday, followed by rain Thursday night or Friday; colder Friday afternoon and night. LOCAL WEATHER 8.00 a. 40 5.00 p.

60 1.G1 p. 50 Midnight 42 Maximum 60 Minimum 40 All of I turned to lawyers sitting on each sid Rev. N. E. Benson, chaplain.

Following yesterday's meeting. It oi him Delore venturing an answer Tells Jury of Arrangements He told of arrangements made for meeting the liquor craft and for landing the cargoes near his home port, Chester, where the government alleges a "protection" organization levied tribute on law violators and paid police officers to enforce its reign. Former enforcement officers have testified that they guarded the un to questions about how the bank and was announced that at next week's meeting newspapermen would be ad these, excep: Short, are Democrats. Organization of the House was effected without trouble and the same (Continued On Page Eighteen) its affiliated corporation wc2 run. CONCLUDE FRENCH mitted.

quisitive glance at movie salaries, the commission's Inquiry was described in informed circles as a prelude to more definite action. The inquiry, authorized by a Senate resolution, is Immediately concerned with gathering facts for Congress. What will be done with them Early in the hearing, Pecora de veloped that the securities corpora John C. Hazzard, president of City Council, wou'd make no comment on tion' through a subsidiary bought. sold and traded in $900,000,000 worth loading of tjie liquor from the oil DR.

L. HEISLER BALL ALL PARLEYS TILL TREATED EQUAL Hitler Urges Political Foes Back His Policy For 'Honor' of Reich Offers Opponents Ail-Around Reconciliation For United his purported difference with Mayor Speer as to how the preliminary rate survey should be conc'icted, or who of the stock of the Chase National tanker and escorted it to a "drop.1 Deputies' Commission Among those indicted as directors of the alleged organization is State Bank and other banks it acquired through mergers. He emphasized the Agrees 4-Power Treaty Senator John J. McClure. Republican law prohibited the bank from dealing should conduct it.

Mayor speer, too, held his counsel on this. Though it was not formally revealed what took place at the meet in its own stocks. leader of Delaware county. PNEUMONIA Captain Higbee said he made his Previously he had brought out that (Contmued On Page Eight) (Continued On Page Eight) will remain for Congress to decide. Redistribution Demanded There have demands from some members for a redistribution of wealth.

How far the President is Inclined to go In this direction ha- never been definitely disclosed. The same Senate resolution ordered the Federal Reserve Board to obtain salary data from all member banks in the reserve system, directed the Reconstruction Finance Cor Failure in First Test Paris Recalls Reluctance to LENGTn OF TOilAY Eun rises, 6.14 a. sets, 5.17 p. m. HIGH TIDES TODAY A.

M. P. M. Lewes 8.07 8.25 Kit' Hammock 9 37 9.55 Bombav Hook 10.27 10.45 Fort Penn 10.01 10.23 Mouth of Christiana ..1156 11.48 Wilmington 11.31 11.53 LT 1RR0W BURIA Sign 'Guarantee' With Italy, FIRST FLURRIES OF SNOW OF SEASON FALL IN CITY Front at Plebiscite Britain and Germany ing, it was reported after the meeting that the group spent the time studying a report of a survey which Mayor Speer said he had made, and comparing it with the report on an survey made by W. E.

S- Temple, an engineer, on behalf of City Council. It was said the Councllmen on the one hand and the Mayor on the other, could come to no agreement as to the differences In the two reports. STATE SENATE NAMES FIRST WOMAN CLERK poration to report salaries paid by banks borrowing from it and instruct Ex-U. S. Senator's Death ed the Federal Power Commission to Flakes Are Small And Melt As They Touch learn about the compensation By MELVIN K.

WHITELEATHER (Associated Press Staff Writer) PARIS, Oct 18 (AP) The French Foreign Affairs Commission came to the conclusion today that the four- Weather Conditions General weather conditions at 8 p. m. (Eastern time) last night, reported by the United States Weather Bureau at Philadelphia: puouc utility oiiiciaj5. While no legislation has yet been Ground; Pacific Coast Towns Swelter; Mercury At 92 In Los Angeles formulated, some officials expressed By JOHN A. BOCMAV (Associated Press Staff Writer) BERLIN, Oct.

18 (AP) Chancellor Hitler proc '-aimed today that Germany will participate in no conference or agree to no convention "as long as she is not treated equally." As if to still reports abroad that the Reich may return to the disarmament conference and the league of Nations, the Chancellor in a the belief that continuous publics Recalls Famous Political Battles With Addicks Physician's Long Service in Public Life Included Both Senate and House Seats tion of salaries probably would have power western European peace pact was killed In its first test, Germany's withdrawal from the arms confer Mn. Joseph Wigglesworth Will Bead Plce. the effect of keeping them down. Commission Seeks Full Details Temp. Ram.

p. m. high Weather 48 it .04 Cloudy 7 Clear 51 61 .01 Cloudy Bills in I'pper House (Bt a Staff Correspondent) Slight flurries of snow were noticed Albany, N. Atlanta. Q.

Atlantic City. N. J. conditions caused the hot breezes of the western desert to blow toward the The commission plans not only to In different parts of the city yes DOVER, Oct. 18.

Mrs. Joseph require information about salaries Bismark. N. 41 41 Ram ocean. The Pacific normally is the Wisrzlesworth.

of 104 Lore avenue speech to his followers maintained: ence. When Premier Daladier told the Chamber of Deputies yesterday that France was ready to resume arms discussions, and challenged Germany's action, he significantly major weather factor on the coast but also all details of compensation paid in bonuses or in any other form from 1928 to 1933. It also will re Hillcrest, elected today as reading clerk in the Senate, is the first its air currents generally movmg terday afternoon, but tne naKes were small and in each case they melted as soon as they touched the ground. At the time the temperature was in the fifties. Some persons who believe the date landward to keep the seaboard mild the year around despite inland quire data on capital and assets, on woman in the history of Delaware to serve in this office.

It is understood Bonon, Mass 54 60 .01 Cloudy JtuEalo. N. 42 50 .04 Clear ChicaiO. Dl 51 56 Clear Cleveland. 48 so .28 Clear JJenrer.

Col. 64 10 Clear Detroit. Mich. 4S 54 .01 Clear Zfe-rport. Me 46 i Clear Tex.

84 Clear WarrUburf. Pa- 4 S4 .01 Clear Hatteras, N. 66 71 Clear JndtanapoMt, md 51 56 Clear (Continued On Page iw Los Angeles reported a temperature of te first snow fall indicates tne POLICE PROMISED HAT Funeral services for Dr. L. HeisTer Ball, former United States Senator from Delaware, will tj held tomorrow at 3 p.

from his late home in Faulkland. Interment will be In St, James' Cemetery. Friends may view the body tonight from 7 until 8 o'clock. Dr. Ball died yesterday at his home from pneumonia which had developed from a cold contracted a week ago.

At his bedside when death came was his wife, Mrs. Catherine J. Ball. They had no children. Dr.

Ball, a native Delawarean, was 72 years old. He was a life-long Republican. Recalls Fight With Addicks "Germany is determined in the future to attend no conference, enter no league, agree to no convention, and sign nothing as long as she is not treated equally." He bid fcr the cooperation of his enemies at home today, and issued as a slogan for the Reichstag election campaign the sentence, "we simply refuse to be treated as a second class nation!" Moves to Solidify Germany He offered his opponents an all-around reconciliation in return for their support In the plebiscite November 12, announced last Saturday along with Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations and the number of snowstorms the Winter i of 92, compared with a maximum of will bring shivered at the idea of 18, 1 95 yesterday. It was 86 at Redding, and bought new coats. Others less 85 here, and 84 at Fresno.

Eureka was superstitious but just as ctiilly either a cold spot with a reading bf 54. bought new coats or brought out last years. MAN FLEES 1 5 MINUTES eraEaStl 1 AFTER MARRYING WOMAN avoided mentioning the agreement that France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy signed in July. French leaders believed that Chancellor Hitler's explosion on Saturday, when he announced the withdrawal and termed the disarmament conference a failure, definitely made the four-power concord useless. Sees Junking of Feacj Pact Its opponents added that the commission's stand was the first step toward a "first class funeral." The commission, a body of the Chamber of Deputies, took no vote in the matter, but its officers said she was the nominee of Senator Gril-fenberg.

Republican floor leader in the Senate, in whose district she is a resident. Immediately after her election this afternoon she took the oath of office and during the remainder of the afternoon functioned in her new position, reading several resolutions Introduced, apparently without "stage fright." Mrs. Wigglesworth, who Is a former school teacher, has a host of friends throughout Brandywine Hundred and is keenly interested in civic, affairs and legislative matters. She is a member of the Womens Joint Legislative Committee, representing Brandywine Hundred, and is also chairman of the Brandywine Hundred Women's Republican Committee. IF THEY KILL BANDIT Long Beach Officers Told To Shoot 'Anrone Who Draws A Gun On Yon LONG BEACH.

Calif, Oct. 18 AP) Joe McClelland, taking office today as chief of police, had this to say to h-s officers about dangerous characters: "I win buy a new hat for every officer who kills a bandit. Should any fellow draw a gun on you, kill him: it is the only language he can understand. From experience, officers, of this department know what to expect from gangsters holding the advantage, so don't let them get the advantage." Jarksonvil'. Fla 14 81 Clear Kansas City, Mo 56 61 Clear Anreles.

Calll 80 91 Clear Uottl. Ky 54 car Miami, ria (4 Pt.CIdy Kantucket. Uul 54 64 Rain Orleans. La 76 84 Clear Sew York City 50 63 T. Clear Va 60 74 Clear Oklahoma City, 66 Pt.cl'dy Thoeriix.

Arlx. .6 04 Clear Philadelphia. Pi S3 61 T. Clear Pittjburja. Pa 46 51 .0 Clear Portland.

Me 51 OO Clear Portiard. Ore 56 61 .10 Cloudy Ft Louis. Mo. 52 Clear Lake City. 68 TO Clear Pan Pranclrco, 60 86 cloudy Oa.

71 84 Clear rranton. Pa 44 54 T. Pt.CI'dy Titbi. P7a 76 64 Clear vvjsmrnren. D.

48 6 .61 Clear Winnipet, Man 40 5 Cloudy KANSAS CITY, Oct. 18 (AP). Testifying that her husband, Victor Frank, left her 15 minutes after they were married with the explanation that he had married her on a dare, Mrs. Pearl C. Frank was granted divorce here today.

She said she had not seen her hus West Coast Has Heat Wave SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18 (AP) Temperatures that made citizens mop their brows and head for shade trees, bathing beaches and beverage dispensaries prevailed throughout California today. It was the third day of a heat wave arms conference as a chance for the opinion was unanimous Senator Ball was one cf the foremost opponents of the TJ. S. Senatorial aspirations of J.

Edward Addicks and that the peace agreement could no Germans to affirm their loyalty to the longer funiticn Nazi regime. had an active part in the Repubii band since they were married at Rich- can campaigns over a period of years This move was regarded as highly (Continued On Page Two) It was recalled that th? French (Continued Oa Page Seven) i which developed when atmospheric mond. in August, 1931. (Continued On Page Eight) a.