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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN "DEDICATED TO THE UPBUILDING Of WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" THE WEATHER' 4SHEVILLE AND VICINITY: Thursday partly cloudy. Popular Patterns Are ritlzen patterns popular? Weaterit North Carolina women ordered during January! see titda'e offering. ESTABLISHED 1868 12 PAGES ASHEVILLE. N. THURSDAY MORNING.

FEBRUARY1 26. 1931 CITY BOIY IF Legislative Advisory Body Approves Plans For City Schools Sets Record fl i i a nr COUNTY GOURTil Declares He Was Innocent POLICE ARREST CITV TO PAY FINAL HONOR BEFORE BIER uunivu ui SNAKE IN BATHTUB CAUSES NEGRO TO CLIMB BOOKCASE IS UPHELD By OE IN 10 MEMBERS TO 0 TRIBUNAL AUTO OF DEATH SATURDAY BE SELECTED CHICAGO, Feb. 25 Wv "Go to 3724 Cottsge Grove Avenue." the police radio droned, "there's a snake in a house." The squad car roared forth to buttle, the detectives' minds filled with Imace of boa constrictors and rattlers. Revolvers in hand, they entered the apartment. "Where's that snake?" "Thas him.

boss, all cuhled up In de bathtub," sobbed a negro, perched atop a bookcase. The law advanced One detective ventured to peer over the side of the tub. Sure enough, something was curled about the side of the tub. Just as he was readv to shoot, another cried: "It's only the ring around the tub." "Bad liquor," was the verdict of the police. Appointive Body Will Have Full Charge Of Operations Alleged Slayer Is Held In Raleigh; Body Of Woman Is Found SUSPECT DENIES GUILT AT CAPITAL Officers Claim Corpse Was Hauled About In Frazer's Car Decision Handed Down In K'aleigh Passes On lTl2H Statute TWO IiOWEK COURT VIEWS SUSTAINED Eight Other Rulings Arc Rendered; Bond Case Opinion Given 30ARD TO ELECT SUPERINTENDENT School Head Would Have Power To Extend Studies Taught if" TELLS OF PLEAS TO RESCUE Approval of a bill designed to veat In th city achool board, complete control and management of the buildings and equipment of the city achool system was given by the legislative advisory council yesterday afternoon.

The bill, which repeals section 10. chapter 205. Private Laws of the general assembly, 1929. would create a board of five members who would be known as the Ashevllle local tax school district. These five committeemen will be named In thi bill for wrlod of two vears starting from the day of April 1931.

Their sue-essora shall be chosen by the governing board of the City of Ashevllle each and every two years thereafter. Custody Of Building Dorothy Hester, above. Is the new feminine outside loop record holder of the world. She recently achlevel five loops over Glendale, airport, breaking the former record by two loops. Hanker Says He Warned Caldwell Against Col.

Luke Lea Former Mayor Ended His Life Yesterday With Bullet IN PUBLIC LIFE FOR MANY YEAR? Friends Believe Suicide Was Planned For Several Days "I hnvc given my life for mjf city. 1 did whnt 1 thought wm right." Saturday between 10 and 2 o'clock, while his body lies in atate in the rotunda of the city, hall where he aerved the city a ila chief executive, Aahevilla will pay tribute to former Mayor Gallatin Roberta, who) wrote the above linet a fewf minutea before he ended hiaj life yeaterday afternoon. Members of the Buncombe, county bar aaaociation and present city officials last night announced that a guard of honor seeciecf from fhe city police and fire department will be placed around the bier while friends file past and pay a final tribute to the man who served the city as its mayor for even years, Ualn hla mot on tha thIM floor or In Igl building on Puclt bquara, afternoon about 1 oolook Mr. Roberta entenKt a small lavatary on tha fourth floor of tha btilldinf, placed a calibre revolver, whloh oontelned only one cart ndxe, to hla riahl temple, and aent bullet oraahlng through hla brain, Invaitlgatlon jr(erdr flrnoon revealed that Mr. Roberta, who vas ftl years old, had clnaert up a number nf hualnuM arTalra during III paat weak and belief waa eipreeaert by hla frlenda that the former mayor had planned for several dava to take Former Mayor Oallatln Roberta who ended his life with a bullet from a revolver yesterday afternoon, left Idlers In whlrh he declared that he had done no wrong.

He wrote that he knew those who had sought to destroy him and that he forgave them. An attack upon the constitutionality of the statute under which the general county court of Buncombe waa created in 929 was lost In the North Carolina supreme court yesterday. The supreme court amiuunced an opinion which It affirm lodgment of two lower co.ir.s In overruling a dfniurrer challenging Jurisdiction of he court. As a result, possibility that the cour will be dissolved, was const: 1 red When the suit nf II. H.

Kills against Fred A. Perley. et al. for collection of SH.444 rill on notes, wa called for trial late In November, counsel for J. D.

Kcklea, one of the defendants. filed a demurrer in whlrh Jurisdiction of the court to try the case was questioned. KxpeclHiitly Awaited Judge Clny Wesver, in county court overruled the demurrer. It was appealed to superior court, where It waa again overruled by Judge J. M.

Oglcaby. The ise was immtl)atfiy fsken to the aiipreme court with the expressed hope of securing a ruling he tore adjournment of he General Assembly, In order that If the court was held the legla-1st uie would he In a position to remedy the situation without the two-year delay In prospect It the case waa decided too Nile. It was argued at the January term and a derision haa been awaited expectantly for the past two weeks. IsHie (if I'owrr Challenge of the court wsa based Letter To People Urges End Of Strife In Gity RALEIGH, Feb. 2S.

(.41 Aocused of slaying Mra. Phoebe Stader In Railway, N. driving about the country with her body in his automobile and finally throwing It nude into a woods near Bowling Green, William M. Prazer, 31, was arrested here today. Stoutly denying he killed the woman, he was In Jail here tonight awaiting the arrival of Prosecutor Abe J.

David, of New Jersey, who was on his way to question him. David was expected here tomorrow. Meanwhile, police at David request refused to permit questioning of Fra7.er. They were Informed a formal charge of murder had been lodged against him. Two detectives who were advised Prazer was using the alias, H.

G. arrested him when he called at a postofflce general delivery window for mall In that name. The accusations against Frazer form a lurid and ghoulish story. Both he and Mrs. Stader.

a 33-year-old former hair dresser, lived in Rahway. February 17, she left her home to go shopping In Kingston, N. Y. Her husband. Philip Stader, told police she never returned.

Frazer, his wife said, left home on February 18. A lew davs later, Ira Janaen, a cousin of Frazer, told New Jersey authorities that Kramer brought Mrs, Stader's body to his home, kept it there over night and disappeared with his car and the body next day. saying he was going to Raleigh. Janaen said he took money to Frazer at a Raleigh hotel and aaked him what he did with the body, "None of your business," he quoted Frazer as replying. "You know too damn much already." While New Jersey officers were making a search for Frazer on the strength of Jansen's story, a nude body was found near Bowling Oreen.

Va. The body was brusled. but there was no apparent cause of death. All efforts to Identify It led to (Please Turn To Page Two) Former Mayor Declares His "Soul Wounded Unto Death" LAST-HOUR FIGHT FOR LIVES OF FIVE NEGROES IS BEGUN Police Battle Robbers In New Orleans But Latter Escape "Mv soul Is senaltlva and It Is wounded unto death," wrote former Mayor Oallatln Hnherli In a letter NASHVILLE. Feb.

2fl. rypV The atory of two conscience stricken Junior officials pleading with their chief to save the great banking house of Caldwell and Company and fts Bnnlc ot 7nneaae was tofrt today from the witness stand of the Investigating Ug.slntors by J. D. Carter 38-yenr-old former vice -president of the two Institutions. The witness, an $18,000 a year man, typical young executive type, bared his heart to the committee probing the loss of Btate money In bank lailuies.

He related his struggles between duty to hta boss and duty to the public, his family and hlrv.f If during the yea: preceding the uurstlng of ln.it:tutlons last Nov: in her that carried other banks dovn In abyss. Brads Ills Letters ''In his anguish." he said, he plended with Rogers Caldwell, president nf the Institutions, to save the sliding banking houses. His testimony In part, was given by the reading of inter-olflce Irttera which he had written the bank president, He read letters written by E. A. Goodloe.

cashier of the Bank of Tennessee, and sent to Caldwell, himself and K. J. HrUzbeig, another vice-president of Caldwell and company and the Bank of Tennessee, in whlrh the cashier was quoted as addressed to tha "People of Ashevllle" upon the question of tin nomtuu- a short time before hta death yaatr day, I know exactly who tha man are who were trying to destroy me, The board, under provisions of the set, are vested with the authority to purchase. Improve, and have custody of all school buildings and ti ipmen of the city school ays -lem. Authority to employ the city school superintendent, the employing of teachers for the system, and the control of the school budget la also placed In the hands of the board.

In 1029, upon ratification and subsequent election on the city extension bill, the city school board deeded to the county board of education, for technical reasons, all properties of the city school system valued at approximately $6,000,000. The school properties will remain In the name of the county Funds for the support and maintenance of the six months school term In the Ashevllle local dta-trlct shall be apportioned and allocated In the same way and manner that funds are now raised for other local tax school districts. The bill will be sent to Buncombe County anions at Raleigh for Introduction In the assembly. It la being sponsored by the advisory council of the Young Men's Council. Text of the bill fellows: Section One That section 10, Chapter 206, Private Laws of the General Assembly of 1929.

entitled "An Act to extend the corporate limits of the City of Ashevllle," be and It la hereby re-enacted and declared to be in full force and effect as modified In this Act. Section Two That the Ashevllle Local Tax Rrhool District, as set out in section nut now, forgive them, he continued, Till lotier, with two there, waa found on hla dek In his laegal build ing offices a few minutes after his mmaiirr of a statute vesting county commissioners wil authority to crean a court and to delegate Its powers. The principal point of controversy was the delegation nf powers. Counsel for the demurring defendant claimed that the genera county court had usurped powers delegated aolely to the auerlor court Continuation of general county not only In Buncombe but In other counties of the state, was at stake, for If the supreme court had reversed the decisions of the lower courts In this case, abolition of all the General court nn uroundt COLUMBIA, Feb. 3ft.

Chief Justice Eugene fl. Blraaa nf tha Stale Supreme court tonight called a meeting of the entire court to be held tomorrow at 3 p. to act on an application for a writ of habeas roiptis and a stay of (h sentence nf live of nx urgHHs condemned to die Friday a'. Jawii The petition waa presented to Jit. ce Hlt ve at his home In Newberry by A King, a Columbia attorney representing II Olbhcs and Jnslah Morse, prominent Columbians.

Bleaae refused In pasa nn the petition Individually, wishing the entire court to pasa on It. hiKly was discovered In a lavatory on the floor alMtve, Near the tellers wets t'vo clippings from the Congiesslonsl Iferord of recent date containing I nla life. He had apparently been put prayers delivered by the House chap of unconstitutionality wsa In proa- IS peri. ting ma nnanrial and personal sf-felra In shape for the Ht. Illrd Inalanlly Death waa probably InaUntanemu.

former county raroner Dr. E. R. Mnr-rla aald. lhe body waa found about 3-111 o'clock by B.

Wnraham. blind attorney, and an elevator operator. Wnrahain had heard the report or ths gun and started an In-veetigatlon whlrh led to tha finding of the body. The bullet entered the right tm-pi' of the former city offlrlal, went lain at ine oening or the aeealon. The second letter waa addreaeed to Oenrge Pennell.

city corporation rotinael, whom Mayor nolwrta had twice appointed city attorney. The flrat appointment coming when Mr. Pennell waa a young member of the bar. The third letter waa to Mra. I'oherta.

l-eller To People The teal of the letter the people of Ashevllle follows: To the People nf Ashevllle: Chapter 90S of the Private laws llB29 be and remain as a local tax My anul aenaitlvr, and It haa known and designated as the I been wnonded unto oeath. 1 innei1' taW rm Ymoeririrrt It. eiectty who the men are who wets'" 'n door of the lavatory. Al- Inetriimentel In trying In deatroy me, REPOBTJHRBUP Senate Roads Committee Adopts Three Major Amendments ou now. i torglve them.

ror twenty yeers. I waa In public life, snd I never did diahooeat set during sll these yeers snd yet, I hsvs been shamefully charged with committing felony. Ond knnwa I did (lly The AHnclnlrd Pre) Sevenieen bandits harvested about B5.000 In four bank robberies today, at Hastings, Dayton, Ohio, New Orleans and Burlington, Wis. The robberies at Hastings and Dayton took place early In the day. Three bandit entered the Hastings bank at Ot a.

m. and bound and gagged 13 officers and employea aa they appeared. The 13 had all been taken to the basement when the time U.ck on the bank's ssfe opened at 8:45. The robbers acooped up 27.173 in gold, allver and currency and lied. Two Other Bobberies T.

holdup at Dayton came 10 mlnutee after the bank opened. Three men entered the central branch of the Union Trust Company, forced employea Into a rear room and escaped with between and 120.000. The robbers calmly removed their msaks aa hey carried the loot to an automoblln in which two companions were wai; ng. Five men robbed the Bank of Burlington, at Burt.ngicn using a machine gun. They took between 10.000 and 12.000.

At New Orleans police chased three armed and hooded bandits who. with a confederate In the car. were escaping wtth 26.000 from the St. Roch branch of the Whitney Bank and Truat Comnany. Several ahots were fired In the cmse.

One pedestrian was wounded fcv a shot, but the robbers escaped. Shxi were exchanged over a of a mile. People in the narrow streets dropped to safety from the flying bullets. LEGAL STAFF OF SENATE IN POWER CASE COMPLETED WAflHmOTOsTD. Fb.

28. fTV-The Senate legal ataff to represent It In court In the power commission controversy with President Hoover was completed today with the appointment of Alex Oroeebeck. of Michigan, to assist John W. Davis, former presidential candidate. The case will Involve the right of the Senate to reconsider the nomination of an official who has already been sworn into office.

The right of Chairman Smith of the commission to hold office Is directly Involved. roxFiBM rMiKimnon WASHINGTON. Feb. 3ft. iVPt The Senate today confirmed the nomination of K.

Marvin Underwood to be Federal Judge of the Northern District of Georgia. I no wrong during my term In office. 'Ashevllle Local Tax School District" and Its lines and boundaries hall be and remain the same as now existing according to law and more particularly described and set nut In Section 3, Chapter 16 of the Private Laws of the General Assembly passed at Its session in 1923, being the exact limits and boundaries of the City of Ashevllle prior to the extension thereof at the session of the General Assembly In 1929. Section Three That aald Ashevllle Local Tax School District ahall have a Board of Committeemen known and designated as the "Ashevllle School Board" composed of Ave members. too'ifn more tnsn a dren persons who bsd been inttmets friends of the et-mayor slewed the body while It wss lying In tha lavatory It wss nesrly 2n minutes before Identity could be estebllihed.

Chief of Police w. R. Meserr snd seversl officers srrlved on the scene of the shooting shortly sfter th body wss found. The, body wss slumped bvsr on ths floor of th Isvstory. Ths platol.

used by Mr noherta to end hla life, was found lying -(Please Turn To Page Four) Gangster Is Debonair At Contempt Hearing Is launched My hands are clean and my con-acienc ia clesr. and I want to say further that Mr. Kartlstt snd Mr Roger, sre both cleen good men, snd have done no wrong 1 have given my life for my rltv. WAV lM HKTTI.KM RALEIGH, Feb. 35.

iPt 1 he North Carolina Supreme court today held an appearance bond collectible even though It is not secured and the time limit expired. An affirmative derision was Handed down in the rasa of the Btate versus Btaley, whlrh originated In Wilkes County. Felix Staler a gned a 100 bond for Clyde Stalev. Nn security was put up. both nen signed a 9100 note.

Clvda Stale? was convUted. but passing of sentence waa (oatponrd. When the time came for n'-ema to be pasted. Clyde Bialey id disappeared. Tha State won sui; aga'nt Felix Btaley for the 9.100 nd.

Htaley, claiming tha aoL had expired, appealed. Justha Clarkson, writing the opinion, said while Hlaley had 'violated the bond, he did not rel i.e it." Of Opinions The lalt of opinion as fol lows: C- A Johnson vs. V. E. Fountain, Edgecombe, new trial.

East Carolina Railway IXgler Edgecombe, affirmed Lummnuss Cotton Oln comnany vs. Andrew Wle, Johnston, no error. Onldtboro vs. Supply eimpany Wayne, plaintiffs appeal modiMid and affirmed, defendant appeal affirmed. Surry county va.

Guy Sparger, Surry, affirmed. B. A. Adams and wife vs. J.

A Woodle, Watauga, affirmed. Ellis vs. Perley, Runcorn', affirmed. Ella King. Mary Dora Burrhett and Io va.

rVa- sounding a warning of the danger ahead as far back as June 30, lOifl. a year and a half before the collapse. la mra i.uke La Carter was on the stand both In the morning and afternoon during whlrh he charged his superiors with permitting the two Institutions to go to destruction "by loose" and "Irreirular" business practices. He attributed part of the 1.. to Cocme.

Luke Lea, who was associated with Caldwell and Company In newspaper enterprises in Memphis and Knnx-vine. In May. 1930, he aald he urged Rogers Caldwell to sever his business connections with Colonel Iea. "The flnanrial standing of the company Is being further seriously Impaired In the minds of those outside and Inside the buslnea by Colonel Lea 'a close connection with you and the company, and the handling of some, of his obligations by the company and other concerns In which It Is Interested." he wrote. He testified that Colonel Lea railed "almost every day" at the office of Caldwell and Company to ee Rogers Caldwell and that in laat September he railed him and warned him the bank examiners would be there the next day.

Ashevllle Bank Asked to explain what he had mssnt In a letter of October 11 to Rogers about "in view of what Col. 1 aald yesterday about the bank at Ashevllle li a mere subterfuge," Carter said: "On October 10. Col. came to our of fir and wanted us to transfer 100.00ft to the Bsnk of Oaatonla, C. saying It was to be used In aome way by the Central Bank and Trust Company at Ahevtlle which needed money very badly.

"He aald 100.000 was transfered to us from the Holton-Unlon National at Knoxvllle, where he under ptooft the state had deposited but I am content I did what I I nought was right, trust the people of Ashevllle will reaae to wrangle. and all pull together 'or III torn- men eood. Why do ymi hate escn and be and and SUMMARY OF NEWS rurcAflO. reh. a.V lTi-AI Oepone bulky and awarthy, leisurely leaned bark In a rhalr In federal court today and calmly Hatened to the government'a raae Intended to ahow he waa In contempt tor failure to ppnr before grand Jury In March 10 JO.

Jaooh Oroaaman. an aaatgtant district, attornev. argued rraponr'a claim of Illness was untrue. Wtlneaaea atip-ported his contention regarding other? Don't you know that life la Just llks a fleeting shsdow, snd thst I you will soon psss to the greet he-1 I yond do not hate a aoul on thlal earth. Won't you people hlahly re-j solvs to cesae y-vur bickering snd strife? went von to do this.

I nrsr.RAi. Ilandlta harteit M.ynon ht four rn It her I ea. ffl( I nrnner enter rare aealntt iu mil RALEIGH, Feb. 25. The Senate roads committee tonight reported the Connor road bill favorably after amending several sections.

An amendment to increase the penalty for violation of restrictions placed on reba tea of gasoll ne taxes from 11,000 to 96.000 was adopted. The sections relating to use of prison labor, which precipitated a hot fight in the House committee, were adopted practically without debate. An amendment to allow counties to rets In enough men to work county farms was adopted. An amendment to make It mandatory that county commissioners reflect the road UK reduction In ad valorem tax levies waa adopted. It waa offered by Senator Gravely of Nash.

A similar amendment by his colleague. Representative Woodard was defeat fi in the House. A proviso was added that the grnaa tax levy may be Increased with approval of the proposed local government commission. Three malar amendment to the Hmia bill were adopted. The section allowing represents- -(Please Turn To Page Two) Cspone's heslth testifying the gsng- I worked herd for a Isrger snd bet- they are hereby appointed as mem hers of aald Ashevllle School Board, vbose terms of office shall begin on first Monday In April, one thou-d nine hundred and thirty-one, and they ahall hold office a such until their successor are elected or appointed and qualified as hereinafter provided.

Seel Inn Four That aald Ashevllle School Board ahall have the control and custody nf all the school buildings located In the Ashevllle local School district with power and authority to repslr the buildings, mnke additions to and iThnmpwin. acA Al apone la arraigned In hlrago on rontem.M rharge. rage tonng official tella of pleH he I made in atdweit. I Kmphivea of New York World want fo hti Mier. Pare 3 i Hmt saint's murriap ta-lail a.

Ml a. atr t-hlaf mirtu an airplane trip to i trr ciiy. knaw that it waa tmptva thfl Bahama, a boat trip to Naaaau tiv r.rr art of my Ufa during and attndfd tK Jark Rharky- trm of office waa for that which 1 Youn atniilini boslna bout. thought waa for the beai inlreai of OfflrrM On iluard hi rommunlty. Oanona a trip to court waa a I 1 ffrta in ramallng rlMMir.t.

nf nrf-vioiia vii.it. to thf arrort mat waa mad to foalar tiehl In M.t, p. rartcral buildm Mounted "policit higher telephone ratei upon you pro alteration thereof, replace or erec Ma. tit pernn are arretted at un-emitment meet. Page a AlletPtl lurch talll ha .1.

were In the atrecti Riirrnunnlitt the pi' When I want Inti of fit nearly four new buildings ir tne funds are avan- (Please Turn To Page Pour) nniiv ifin. I'll ip of l.h mvr in (ft tfrntfHrittfa tra.trr ttfttt fitUt building, federal nfhrera uod at elevator antra tuea and lined the rrtrrletftr Jttrig A Wllkr antra rtmnrr rourt room. Only a ae- Turn To Pa Two) board Air Line Railway, Warren nn error. State vs. Staley, Wilkes, affirmed, BLOOD SHIRT 18 INTRODUCED IN STUDENT'S TRIAL Rank, and I tried with A my aoul to wei aland plana.

Pac fPleaae Turn CLOSED BANK OF MURPHY TO OPEN MONDAY MORNING Coroner Enters Contest Against Bill Thompson Four Trainmen Perish As Train Drops Into Stream To The rltlren) 0M1 TJRPHY, Feb. 35. Monday waa today for the. opening of th VAIePAHAWO, Inrt lb. 3ft.

RlooclfttalnM aulomobll iiiAhKniA and mnn' tlilrl wen txhlblltfl In PorUr county court today ft vl r)iK- In thfl trim of Virgil Kirk land for th a it ark nd murrir nf hi arhnoi girl nweftltart, Arlrntt Dtavm Thn young deftMidunt InokM on with fompoHtird th ftnifaom vl dfnc waa Introduced. Four othr yoiitha, acruaod with tha ao.jrarold Klrkland, far aparaUi Pol Ire BfTRMnt Onorji Hum totd of th arreati nd IdentiDlad the atalntd cunhlona and ahtrt aa having own takan from th automobila ud by Klrkland and his frinnda laat November 20, Pritfeaaiimal Iradera etrni (heir profit Wednekdav. Page lo llntiae etpri-ta lo rereltf hnnua hilt veto today. lna I'liiene Mcver named gmtrtmr of Federal Heaene honrd, Page a I I Police arreit driver of strange dcnlh. car nf Halel(h, -Page Kod hill lten favorable report by aetmte commit lee.

-Page I tv, Mi-nilne dlra at home on Meiitrr I reek. pag a i mail found near Mitrganlon Mlth fhrHii alaahed. page Mdrinnlnit Mirpeiiter dlee of mouikS InflKted with hammer. Paje 8 I.Of'AI. Hiineomhe onhtv rourt iipheid by aiipreme tribunal.

Pae Knrmer matnr in last meaaaxe ureg end of at rife In cnminunlty. Pa-je 1 Hodr of former mevnr will He In aliiie tn city hall Hat urday. Pae 1 Plan for rlty arhooU adopted by legKlafhe adlorr biwlr. Pae 1 Sol Ire nf repudiation of bank atneft la filed ht Mclean. Page 11 F.attii.

nt Arthur T. Rankin la left in wife end children. -Page Report nn plan for reopening hank will be made tonight. rgo INDIAN TELLS OF BEING ASKED TO PROCURE MURDER BUFFAI), N. Feb.

25. ffl Llla Jlmerson, the former "Red Lllsc" of the Cayuga Indians, crested a sensation at her trial on a charge nf murder today when aha testified under crossexamlnstlon that Henri March and. sculptor, asked her In ItUtt to get Jtm Crowe, a Benera Indian, to do away with hla wife. Ctotilde Marrhand. The prosecution charzes that In March, 1930, Llla prevailed upon Nancy Bowrn.

an elderly Indian woman, to slay Mrs. Marchand. Nancy haa testified she clubbed the white woman to death because she believed her to be a witch. HOI FI HRI Kr lt TBBNT. Italy.

Feb. 35. 0P Three hotls and thirty villa were destroyed today by snow elides at and Rabbi. No one waa killed as the molding were psrta nf summer colonies at present unoccupied. to the "mothers and fathera" In thousands of Chicago homes even before the votes In yesterday's mayoral primary had been collected.

"Tens of thousands of Chlra-Roans," his letter read, "have urged me to run for the office of mayor. "I have decided to run because I believe that by running Independently with no political debts to pay, I can do a real service for Chicago particularly to the mothers by exerting every ounce of energy In my body to make Chicago a better place in which to rear our children." Dr. Bundesen the father of aix ar has written booklets on maternity besides article on health for newspapers. All three candidates have proved their mettle in metropolitan political wards. CHICAGO, Feb.

95. yp) The combat for the mayoralty of Chicago gained a new dimension today. Scarcely had Mayor William Hsle Thompson and Anton ,1. Cermak fronted each other aa Republican and Democratic rivals for the executive chair as a result of the primaries, when Dr. Herman N.

Bun-desen, Democratic Cook County coroner, announced his independent candidacy and forged a three-aided contest. Petitions placing him In nomination were filed with the election commission by the people's nonpartisan ticket. Coroner Bundesen, once member of Mayor Thompson's cabinet and a power In local Democracy, dispatched his announcement and for support MOBILE. Po. 2.1 I'r The locomMlv and one rar of the Lou la villi and Nahvilp Railroad a Pan Amerlrau Mmlled, Ivnind frotn New Orleans to Cln'Innatl.

plunKed through an open drawbridge over the Mobil?) river, 111 milea of her early tod a v. rarrylnR four trainman to their death. Sialementa of i relative and rail-load officiate Indicated Arthur Ingram, engineer, who wa kiliad In th plunK. waa lit before he a tar ted the run and that he may hava been dead frrm heart failure when the train ran through the open draw, Eighteen paaaenRera. aaleep in tha Irat Pullman of the train, narrowly ear aped death aa their ear tilled and hung precariously over the brink of the drawbridge.

All made their way aafely from the car. Healde Ingram, othera kilted were J. Nick Vaughn, bagtraneman. Kwkie Orumpton, negro fireman, and I. Whli(.

a negro porter, All the dead were from Montgomery. Whippa and Vaughn were riding tn the combination baggage and club car which pluniM into the river with the locomotive, narrowly mlaainj a paalng tug hoftt for which the hridrft had leen opened. The body of Harry Strickland, who died Monday. In Tueaon. waa known to have been In the baggage ran, en rouUi to Birmingham.

'There funeral aervlree were to have been held for him today. Paaaeniera were returned to Mobile and aent to Meridian, Miaa thence to Vim and Montgomery Ala, for transfer to another Northbound leoulavillt and Naahtille train. Bank or Murpny. according an announcement by Allert H. Blake, representative of the atat banking department, Mr.

Blake earn that more than MB. 000 available ranh will be on hand at the opening, with only 24.000 In demand He aid that the cash poaltlon will make It poaalble for the bank to pay to per cent, dividend to depositors within 30 to 00 daye. All depoaltora hav algned to permit their money to remain on depoelt for two yeara. Oftiosrs and direoiora, of the unk IH be elected a meeting of atnrkholdera Friday. MOMtNIl AI.M Nff WARHINOTOIf, D.

C. Feb 35. )Tt Homealck and destitute llcna who have been here leae than three yeara can go home at the expenae of the United Rtatee. There la a law to that fleet. Iiuie known a.nd little uaed.

but Secretary Doak called attention to It today..