Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 1

THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN "DEDICATED TO THE UPBUILDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" I CITY I EDITION THE WE AT HUH ASHKVI1.I.E AND VIII.MII; Wednwnay rlouily. occasional rain. Ife pace for lull weather report ESTABLISHED 1870 ASHEVILLE. N. C.

WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 16. 1938 14 PAGES Trains Trapped By Record Blizzard I JAP BOMBERS SECRECY VEIL ASHEVILLE SHOWS SHARP DECREASE IN RELIEF COSTS A ustria Is Forced To Capitulate To Hitler 's Demands IS DRAWN OVER HOT PROGRAM Nazi Leader Is Placed In Command Of Police And Gendarmes U.S. Report Fails To Give Usual Account Of Building Progress 13 YEAR POLICY BROKEN BY MOVE Purpose Not Explained; (Q Discussion Continues On Naval Plans Whlnctnn Bureau of Thf Ashrvlllf fititrn WASHIN ville AfiTON. b.

l.V Aslie- ai one 01 the ten rllie in the (tilted Slate which owed a decreae of relief expenditure in January In comparison with December. Thl informal ion wan re en led in the hearing nn (he emergency relief hill of which the hiie appropriation, cnnim litre reported today. While Diirham was increasing relief expend it lire Ii7 per cent. harlntie 7 per cent and tireenf-honi 5 per cent. Al.eille lmued a decrease of II per cent.

Thai was the largest decrease of any reported to the committee Willi Hie except Ion nf Ylckhiirg. Mis. Durham' increase was one of the largest. The average tor 3)0 urban cities ua an increase of 13 per cent oer Decern her. During December persons were employe hy the WP.

In North Carolina a compared with 18.f; in September and 'i'ZMtd last June. FOR HEED'S POST II mmmittcc i UlUiiiiiuin.C Ante A ah nir Nominee ROBERT JACKSOTJ GIVEN APPROVAL Here's one of eight Southern Pacific railway passenger trains which were trapped between Dunsmutr and Klamath Phils. by a record-breaking blizzard. The storm raged in that section for 18 days The snow-covered train Is shown Just after rescuers dug It out of aet'p lrilts. WASHINGTON, Feb.

15. OPi The United States navv damned 11a of secrecy upon its warship buliilng prepress tonight reversing a publicity policy of is years standing Whether the purpose was to eep certain data from foreign powers was not stated. explained merely that the new policy was "in the interest of public welfare." Periodically. In the past, the navy had made public percentage flames showing how muc.i progress had n-en made with the hull and machinery of ships under construction. Delays in construction were shown.

The monthly report issued toiay and dealing with three-score men of war now being built, omitted tne.e details Observers ndprst irt the omission was part of general tiht- enir.c ud on information. The possibility has been diseased that the United StatC5 may Join other powers in building battleships larger than the present treaty limit of tons. (Japan has to comply vith a rerjuest from the United State. and Great Britain that she disclose wT-th-er she is building ships larper than 35.000 tons.) I nr- Today's navy report listed 61 ships and two auxiliaries under con Price Stabilization Plan Is Studied By Roosevelt v. over ChrnRcivw, unloadinc tons of WASHINGTON.

Feb J5 -The on 1M nit and hlt. ncnunation of Robert Jackson, a Hnf, tn(1 Amencan Southern Baptist leading administration critic of big here. Pour Chine-se were prartires, to he solieit-r- nnrd bv shrapnel. SEX ATE TO VOTE TODAY OX LYXCH BILL 'GAG' RULE ASHINGTOS. I eh.

1 Supporter defended the belabored Hnti-hiiihinc bill today in final hurst of oratory preliminary In mie tomorrow nn a dehaie-llmllatlon moiitm, senalnr Lewis arcued that the hill did not liuade stale' rights as enalor Borah Iilaho. and other had contended. li'lie hill prmide flne and Imprisonment fur peace officer Mho full to make diligent efforts ttt preenl htithlnc. t'onntles It) ulih nchlng tN'i'iireil nunld he itahle fur the unmet to go In the lctlm relatives.) Iuls nld the hill nnit he rniivldered a being "a prureed-Ine nn behalf nf I he people The ern ment pun er, he said, in legislate fur the public welfare. In a forceful speech Senator Mliitnn Did) luld I lie senate that the rtuHrlne "dual wiv-ereisiil" nf the stale and federal gmerntnent dne nol apply In the fourteenth.

amendmeiit guar.in teeing the rlgUts of ln-dliidiials. MEW BOJIHO TO RELIEF North Carolina Senator Introduces Resolution In Upper House WASHINGTON. Fb. 15 Bilev (D. NCI.

introduced a Joint resolution today for a "nonpartisan administration" of relief fund bv a new federal board of five members. The board would take over all relief activities except those of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration. It i would elect its own administrator, to be paid $12,000 a year. i The preamble to Bailey's resolution declared there is a "grave danger" tnat relief funds may be used fori i political purposes. The senator would meae 11 a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of M0 or a year im- prionment.

or both, to solicit th- votes of persons receiving relief or toj usm any relief office for political pur- P0- I Tlie resolution also called for an investigation, state by state, of paat relief expenditures. I Care of "normally unemployable" persons would be left to the states' and their subdivisions. Relief pro-, jects would be designed to avoid com- petition with private enterprises Wages nnd hour would be fixed with view to ending federal relief rapidly as possible. I To l.m-iil Goterninentfl The rcolutnvi declared unemploy- I I DEATH American Mission Struck Hy Missiles Despite Flag On Roof MAJOR BATTLE IS SEEN DEVELOPING Tokyo Seeks To Adjust Latest Clash With U. S.

Marines By JACK BE LI) FN (Cf.prlRht. by Lulled Press) WITH CHINKSE ARMY. AT CHENGCHOW. Feb. 15.

UP) Japan gray-winged bombing planes spread death and terror over the Yel. low river valley today, alter bombing at least one American mission during a savage drive to smash resistance in north China. Chinese rushed reinforcements up the Hankow railroad, pouring men and munitions into this key point in a dc.perate effort to plug the new Japanese advance which has switched wt ward to a direct drive on Hankow Great Rattle Approaching It was increasingly evident that one of the pieat battles of the wuld 0P fouPnt mone the scattered villages and heavily populated town "Fniu nonan coun trvfide, I arived here with the Chinese troop? from the south just a the bin Japan se bombing squadron roarea The bombed the mission hrrp times, but no foreigners were hurt I vns in the station of the China bureau when the raid started but ced from the office to a near- by mud-hut I Bomb were screaming from the kie5 all around and the ky was with smoke, apparentlv from in th railroad var'd-t The plnnes came in four flights. and the raid lasted more than an hour. I made my way to the mission where two American doctors and one British doctor were treating the wounded The vard was littered wirh broken glass and the walls of the mis.

slon peppered with shrapnel splinters. 1 1 lag mcr nuimnic Dr. E- Ayres. of Atlanta. said he was standing outMde the building.

w-trhin" the air raiders when one of lthheinbomSers "d.ved the Sullo? tng There was a 40-foot American flan nainted on the roof of the mis- sion hospital, with the letters S. A. painted over it. Flag also flew from a flagpole in the yard. "When the planes enme overhead, we decided to go in." Dr.

Ayres said "At that a bemb fell and glass flew all over the patients in the hospital. Three wete wounded mere. "We immediately carried them to safety." Report. received at the Chinese liuinni nr.iMuoiiuj uric wu eraliisimo Chiang Kai-shek had dis patched 20 000 additional Chinese nn (h. Hankou rail- road Other Chinese reports said central government waa organizing "ten new armies totalling 500.000 Soviet trainen men.

rc '-'no. otl" mrr); Including many women was in training in Kwang- ngniers. (Plense Turn To Page Two) lYlfJ AjV.l)V tiUMt4 iWHUM TO PAY TRIBUTE TO DEAD M'lXTYRE GALUPOLIS. Feb 15 rri ll.lntii n. Iphhnrt irrl mpl, unpretentious burial, but hu hJmt OI commerce laid plan, for one of it.

biggest civic observance, to honor him Th. columnist's body will arrive hrr' tomorrow from New lork hfr fliffi MoniiMv A rnimhnr of commerce delegation will meet 1 I i five fewer than a month Since last- month's report the cruiser Brooklyn and other have been completed iela Ua- Didlcaled The januuy teport had indicated that the of 15 (iestrivi'rs the airciart carriers Enter-jrise ar.d urn-id be delayed The navy now has buildinc. todays repoit showed, two 35.oo0-ton the North Carolina ana Washington, two aircraft carriers, the hMlU milcur link NEW CABINET LIST GIVEN PRESIDENT Chancellor Schuschnigff Follows Advice Of Mussolini VIENNA. Wednesday, Feb. 16.

t'TTP) Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany, backing up an ultimatum with strong military forces along Austria's north ern frontier, early today forced Chancellor Kurt Schuchntgg to place ftv Austrian Nazis or Nazi-sympathlzera in his cabinet. Schuschmgg. long a bitter foe of penetrniion into Austria wners the Nazi party has been outlawed since June. 1933. announced his capitulation and submitted his new cnbl-net lt.st to President Wilhelm Miklaa after Hitler's three-day ultimatum expired at midnight.

In accordance with Der Fuenrer' foremost demand, he appointed Dr. Arthur Von Seyss-Inquart. a leader of th uU.i;L f.UiU'.w.n ta major cabinet posts of minister ot interior and public security. By this one stroke. Hitler gained Nazi domination over the Austrian police and enabled the Nazis to regain a measure of their forfeited power and further suppress the activities of Austrian monarchists who want to plare Archduke Otto on the thront.

The reconstructed cabinet, as an nounced officially, also contains pro-Nazis, although i.ot in all instance! actual party adherents, in the cabtnes posts of labor, industry. Justice and forestry. "Hitler has conquered said ft prominent political leader of the Fatherland Front that has been Austria's only legal political organization for four years. German Troops Reported on Bolder SchuschniKg. no went secretly across the German frontier to B---ich-tesgaden last Saturday and conferred with Hitler on a "reconciliation of Austria and Germany under their July 11, 1936.

pact of friendship, was said to have objected to naming Ir. Seyss-Inquart as minister of int-mor. The Fatherland Front, of which Schuschmgg Ls the chief, objected bitterly to such a complete capitulation to Hitler. Thia wavering on Austria's part reportedly led to the massing of Ger man army divisions along the Bavarian frontier. Schuschmgg held a 20-mlnute telephone convention with Premier Ben ito Mussolini of Italy, who is said to tin afivumri him w.ti-r.

-modified" demands, altered aorr.e- Vnat during the- laat 24 hour. Italy 1 allied. In separata pacts to both Germany and Austria. it also reported that Premier Mua- soiini aa concentrating Uoops on Brenner pa.ss along Austria's aoutiura frontier but this was dented in Roane, The new cabinet took it oath 01 of flee during the early hours of tocay. while mot Austrian radio broad casta mere discontinued shortly alter midnight were unaware, of hat nact transpired.

Oilier II Nazi leaning itinera receiving caoinei posts ana coiusidered to have definite pro -Nazi sympathies are; Prof. M. V. Adamovic, new min'ate of justice; Dr. Rudolf Neumayer.

re- ppointeo minisur of finance, Frana Mats hnigg, new minister of foreitrVi mund Glaise-Homenau, a minister without portfolio who was appointed, this pro-Nazi spokesman in the cabinet following tho July, 1936 agreement. The new cabinet waa called into session immediately by Schuschnit; who proptjtwo: an amnesty decree ov ering all political crimes and rein stating pension cancelled becaue of illegal Nazi activities. Thoae freed mill be on "parole' until the end of 1942. It was understood, however, that -iPleae Turn To Pace Two) HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS PAT TRlFL'M MOSt PONS LBf SlS SUSAW Pis Five Yeah gone HE TALKIN'OJT havin' Hg Pitcher N-feAH6 AIM' WIMMEN U.S. Experts Will Submit Study Of Situation On Thursday WASHINGTON.

Feb 15. (UP) President Roosevelt feels that the nation's price structure still is too low. but he said today that prices of individual commodities such as copper should not increase too rapidly or too much. He said at his press conference that he still hold. the same posit if toward prices that adopted and enunciated in 1933.

Today he mentioned only copper as an example of his feeling that some commodity prices should not rle too sharply and he said it should not boom to 19 cents a pound. The president said a corps of government experts will submit a detailed price study to him on Thursday and that he probably will corn- mPnt thereon at his inrrPO" nls Friday press pens met with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. earlier today for a lengthy discussion of commodity prices. Ur Of Cunferee The confer es included Dr. Isador Lubin.

head of the bureau of sta-t if tics of the labor department; W. L- Crum. Harvard university) economist; Dr. Jacob Viner. of Chi- cago university, a special economic advisor to the treasury; George C.

Haas, head of the treasury a research and statistics division; assistant secretary of treaMiry Wayne C. Taylor, and Herbert E. Gaston, i-pe- ctal aide to Morgenthau. The p.efidcnt's price statement came 24 hours after Morgenthau had announced a monetary policy mat may expand credit facilities by iHW.UUU.UUO during 1H3H. The Inno- vation provides that in the future tne treasury win uepoMt to its own account in federal reserve banks alii nuartrrlv pun-hnscs of old up to tiofl.000.000.

Under the gold nerlli- 7tion prrrnm Initiated In Decem- her. 1036. all sold purchased hy the treasury which as not used In sublimation waa Isolated Senator Majority Leader Barkley. vll anutanc. In stlmuiatini: recovery fi.ud Kullilins Murilert Another recovery propcal.

the also diirifKM tht ZTJ" nai.ti 01 iana to enable construe- h. Diutv 01 emn.oviniT ecei ronnem. Under common prored re. he ties for unjust enrichment from con-' demotion orders. He cite cam- 1 i CHINESE CHURCH VOTES FOR PLAN OF UNIFICATION NMIII I L.

Vrtt. IS. The Mpthmlct I a I Cliurrh. South, reported tudai a mmplele inle nf it an nun I conference fiivnrerl unlflmtmn wllh the tun other eiltodlt brain he a ratio nf to one. The tuial wile a Mi.lft In The final inle rereled Inil.iy trtun hlna win-re the conference gae a itnanhimu ote of tinly one of the church rnnferences the North Mtlslppl, failed to give a majority to the propositi.

The Dual fctep In the illiift-rallun nme will be taken at lllrmlngham In April when the general conference will meet. A Iwn-ihlrd majority neceMiry there. Mob Riots, Fires Jail In Mexico TUT-1 ANA. Mexico. Feb 15 1 JPi A frenned mob of 8O0 men and wom-n demolished a jail, fired a feneral building.

threatened lailrrs with hanging and exchanged bullets with tndnv in futile attemnt to lynch the man who ravished and kilhd an eight-vear-old girl, 1 oon hot f.rrrf tween the rioters and wildiers of a reinforced garrison. Six periwin were wounded and aix others injured by trampling. General Manuel Contreras, commander of th military 7n here, rri'd otit repeatedly to the mob tnat 'Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" He ferred to a young snidier. questioned with several other men fter the body of Oiga Comacho. 8 found yesterday General Con-treraa aaid the man confessed.

Police headquarters and the temporary jail rere all but demolished hy the mob. and th federal buildirm was extensively damaged. used battering ram, then injH fr.ha;i. mm m. buildings Galine waa poured onto floors and splshhed on walls.

Trie Th xped WiTfAiRri tYie Mie-i automobiles, firing pistols and rifles Martial law was declared last ine. three Americana and a woman crouched ln terror. They were es (Plfase Turn To Pace Two) won the approval of a senate Judiciary subcommittee today. The committee acted, however, only after consTvatively disposed members -Austin (R.Vt 1 end King LMih had cros.s-c xammrd Jackson at length about his views on the American form of government, and the relationship of government to business. In the end.

botli King and Austin rcisfrd thdr bv voting lvorable report. Pve Kans. 1 iD. Kv Dietrnch Ill 1, rah (R. Idjhoi and Norris tlnd Neb.

1 voted lor on Senator Pi'twn Nev.i was absent did not vote timn American superior to sny other, that he did not propose to "de- troy anything and thnt husinc-w must he policed by stnet enforce- ment of the anti-mist l.iwv "I would rather have our syste.n at It worst than any European form of government at its best," Jackson said in response to one of King's quesMons. Constant lgilance Needed He added, nowever. that the machinery of checks and baUrces needs "constant vigilance to keen it moving smoothly. He mentioned. particularly, delay" between the formulation of policies by empress and the approval of the ensuing aws by the supreme court He opposed, he said, government rrmtrnl nf hiuitu or cnntrnl of nrirr.

but contended that such was the alternative to permitting free appli- cation of the anil-monopoly sta.ues Before Jackson, now assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division, can assume his new office, the nomination must be re- 1 ne re- ferred to the Judiciary committee and rereiv ih unnrn I of the ti a whole. As solicitor-generaj. his ities 'would be to argue government case beiore the supreme court. Austin's questioning, based upon Jackson's speeches and the activities of the anti-trust division, extended over so many day of one to two-hour sessions that Senator Norris accused the Vermont senator today of conducting a filibuster against "the nomma-. tton Autln Accused nf Filibustering i "Why don't we ascertain whether there is a filibuster going on over in the senate (referring to the filibuster against the bill, and If: her.

1,. we can r.in thia filibust-r at I on me, i 1 wen t.n-v a nvinv that nn in the senate, too. said Norris. "If anyone la neing hurt by it. Aunm.

"he need not atav here 'aid "That would be said Noirts. "of those who have no regard for their duty Prior to that, Austin's questioning had drawn from Jackson these asrer- tions: That "it doesn't make any difference whether fin families or lfiO families control industry. I'm against that kind of concentration." That "abuses by which men make fPlease Turn To Page Two, Girl Slayers 1 i the ncw Mmn 1 Wiwever. considered even more pro-one third of the "pen of admin- nounwt tnlR directlon Dr. Ed- SUIT ENDANGERS FISCAL Files Separate Answer To Petition For New Leicester School A court order forcing Buncombe county to finance construction of a new school building at Leicester I would result in a complete collapse nf the county's financial program.

i Grady Reacan alleged yesterday in his separate answer to mandamu pro- ceedinc instituted against the coun- 1 ty commissioners and board of edu- I cation several weeks ago by Leicester cltiens. The chairman of the county board in" leree would bring about a defau of ligations recently refunded and of commissioners set forth that such revrnu. neceiwary iur current operations. hearing Scheduled Tomorrow A hearing nn the mandamus action is scheduled to be held in superior court here tomorrow. Rcagnn contended In his answer that he has never been advised in his "official capacity." of a need of a school building end equipment in the Leicester district He contends, however, that he at tempted to be of assistance to the superintendent of public instruction last year seeking funds for a school building at Leicester, 'provided th people would vote their approval of a bond issue and aaree to the payment of interest and principal through ad valorem tax on property lying within the area, boundary lines of which have never been established to this defendant 1 knowlfdcc In their petition for writ of man- mmus tne croup b-k, tntu the prnpo.pcl ww hutldins fi.

nnnced hy a county-wide ad vnlorem tax. rather than by a district levy. Mill Hied Jiiniiart 22 The aim wa instituted In auperlor rourt here January 23 followlnj a venr-olrt rontroversv which resulted ln rondemnatinn of the present I.e. I icester school building and Its partial abandonment. Preliminary rlana for the building aa.K stf riit1 anf in.

tor ontlav of approximately 75 000 The m.ndamu. suit waa brought 'against the board of county com- missioned, the board of education and their individual member. Re- gan la the only defendant to flla an answer TO fiat e. Mears, Korwr-m. it nurnmv Sneison.

Teague. lyne Morean. I. nans. Arthur Brmrn.

Bronkshire. A. Teaeue. Gibhs. Morcan.

L. C. Jnes. C. I.

Wet. W. Hutrh- inson. Gadfly. A Cole.

Millard (Please Turn To Page Two) OLD SOL MAKES FEEBLE RETVRN TO CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 15 'Ti me, the publicised property on csiuornia would like to claim monopoly, made a feeble return to the state today after 1ft days of wind, rain, snow and floods. Today sunshine wasn't anything to brag about, out the skies didn't drip, and that made the natives happy. Fut thermore.

the weather bureau aid Indications pointed toward fine weather; that nothing worse than "partly cloudy" skies waa anticipated. Snow had stopped In the mountain areas, except in the Tehachapi rang. There were 240 inches of snow at Donner Summit in the Sierra and the road between Colfax and Truckee waa closed. Forty men still were marooned by drift at Donner Summit. Alarm over the flood situation diminished when the Sacramento river reached its peak at 26 2 feet and levee held.

Witn no further rise in the San Joaquin river, the threat to the San Joaquin delta wa.i greatly Prospects of further flood were confined largely to Mandeville From Tahoe City came word that several hundred residents there still were snowbound and were living almost exclusively on canned food. Some fresh meat waa provided last week hen John Snider, resort care, taker, killed a horse. The 19-dav storm brought Aeventeeri feet of snow to the mountain town. 1 1 I I I ending June .10. lfViR A request that congress appropriate 2S00O0.0O0 immediately to meet increasing demands for relief came today from the house appropriations committee The committee said there had been a drastic" decreae in private em-plojment since September.

There is no indication, it added, of a business improvement sufficient to "Justify a leser President Roosevelt proponed the cruisers. 16 submarines, three destroyers, thirty-two destroyers, a seaplane tender and a destroyer tender. Meanwhile, the of fu- ture naval strength continued on I cpitoi mil. and at the white house. I American defense experts believe.

1 Piesident Roosevelt said at a press I conference, that the United States must have a navy strong enouch to protect both Atlantic and Pacific horefi- He said the experts contendrd the unura btaies could not ignore the possibility of a future attack from east and west. He cited the consensus of defense experts after a reporter Inquired whether he opposed an Increase in Japan naval ratio to the United State. He made no direct answer to the question. A suggestion that Great Britain be permitted to maintain a fleet larg- -cr than the United States went into records of a congressional today. Representative Fish N.

opposing the protected 1800.000 000 expansion of the American navy, told the house naval committee that Great Britain "In all fairness" needs a bigger navy than this country to protect her far-flung possession and trade routes. At the same time. Fish repeated his willingness to see Japan attain naval parity with this country. "I'm not afraid of the United States being attacked." the. tall New Yorker asserted.

"What I do fear is that this proposed super-navy (of the United States) will be used for attack." Faiors 6-5-5 Ratio Subjected to close cror-s -examination. Fish said he would be in favor of a naval ratio of 6-5-5 for Great Britain, the United States and Japan. He declared Japan could not invade the United States unless it had a navy more than twice the sle of thia countiys. In response to questions by Repre- sentative Church iR. III.

I. Fish said he believed the United Sta'es was prepared for and "undobutedly" has discussed "with naval and foreign ol- (Please Turn To Page Three) 8 ARE INDICTED IN TENNESSEE BOMB SLAYING EUZABFTHTOW'N. Tenn Feb. 1ft. (ifP.

The Carter county grand Jury Indicted eight men and woman today in connection with the "ven ganre deaths of three little girls last January 7 In the nearby Hampton community. The defendanta are all from Pikes- ville. Tenn. Attorneys will try to agree on a trial date tomorrow. Four men were Indicted for first-degree murder They were White Tol-lett.

Church Lester. Ulysses Walling and Lee Walker. They were accused of placing dynamite under the home of Harmon Gouge, 35-year-old Johnson City restaurant operator, and blowing his home to pieces. The blist killed Sonla. 9.

Luena. 7. and Roma Jean Ooug, ft. and injured Mrs. Gouge.

Sheriff J. M. Moreland said state's attorneys had signed confessions from tri vases Walling and Lee Walker that the dynamiting was an abortive attempt to kill Gouge, who la facing trial himself for the 1938 Haying of Arnold Tollett. his former buslneea partner and a brother of White Tollett. Crave Tollett.

brother of White, wi- indicted as an accessory before the fact Sheriff W. L. Walling of Bledsoe county. John Vaughn, and 'alter and Myrtle Ferguson, brother slst-r. were named as accessories iter the fact.

Crave Tollett and the four men Indicted for murder were held ln without toad, appropriation last week, saying in a the amnesty would not include the letter to SpenKer Bankhead that 40.000 persons, mostly Nazis, who available funds wre in-uilicient Tne fid from Austria to escape punisn 4J.0 0i0 000 would in addition to ment. Sl.ftOOOOOOOo appropriated last Jun The official newspaper Wiener Zel-tor the prewtit (Meal vent. Uutv iS.h Vw. Aubrey Williams acting adminitra- the cabinet chsng- meant a "con-tor of the works Proeresa Admimtra- centrat ion of positive elements" and; tion. told the committee that 1 000 that "important personalities have) 000 persons lost their Jobs last month been summoned to collaborate In the and 3,000 000 had been thrown out of new government.

work ainee September. i pe'iilate Over Xe( Step House leaders, arranging to begin There was widespread speculation consideration of the appropriation on that Austria's next step be the floor tomorrow, predicted that it adherence to the German-Italo-Jap w-ufd be approved speed! i'y. Then ff aneme part gainst Communism, mas-would go to the senate where, some much as Premier Benito Mussolini of Columhia county. New York, where night to cope with the growing one farmer was enriched by M.000 1 Tbrong. when a road was operated through I BefoT-e dawn the rioters converged hit, property which formerly faced on the Jail, awumtng the prisoner on a dirt highway.

waa there The jail door was buttered The excess condemnation Partitions were smashed In calls for the condemnation of more i another wing. 70 prisoners, lnclud- Prison Cell Prepared To Receive Fred Beal For Killing Bus Driver, the cortege at Huntington. W. Va. Everv minister in this town of 7 Arn h.

Thursday. BuMnesa schools and public offices in Gallia county will close Onlr few of Osllinoli nresent residents knew Mclntyre personally the left here 38 years ago) but all mourned him "He made Gallipolis. observed Wethefhoid, GJlipo.j Tribune editor. "His stories made people come here Everybody here regarded his an a neighbor" Get 'Life' nervous dabs of a white handkerchief. Patrolman Frank Strouse of Newark.

"Bunny's" father, who testified in her defense, bit his lips aa he checked himself from crying. His wife had gone home to await the verdict. Miss Owens' mother had also gone nome. Judge Brennan thanked the Jury, all of whom were married men. for performing what he called "never a longer, more gruelling, difficult "You have reached to your very great he said, "what ths court conceives to be a Just verdict on the facta of the Mrs.

Mary Kelly, a matron, led the gitl-defendanta quickly out a aide door of the court room. The girl's attorneys aaid they were undecided whether to appeal. Counsel for Mrs. Sohl and Miss Owena had asked for acquittal. Judge Brennan told the jury the two other verdicts were possible first degree murder, with the death penalty mandatory, and first degree marder.

with a recommendation for life imprisonment. Outlining the Uw, which defines a (Pleaae Turn To Paa Three) (Please Turn To Tsce Two) fully to the North Carolina supreme, court. Governor Hoey. who as a practicing attorney neipea prosecute, me organ- 1 a parole for Beal would have to "clear through the regulsr channels He declined to state whether the fact that Beal finally decided not to resist extradition would be consiuered when the organizer came up for parole. Both Seaweii and the governor denied, however, that any "deal" had been made which might shorten the time Beal will have to serve behind the bars.

"Beal will have to become ao A-Orade prisoner before a parole can be considered." the governor said. "Just how long he will have to serve after that time remains to be seen Sea we 11 issued a statement expressing gratification at the fact that Beat bad decided to return voluntarily from Massachusetts, where he was undei a a.ooo bond. "It la Impossible to tell bow much time and expense has been saved by land than la actually needed for the I actual highways. This would have the effect of eliminating land spec- (Plesse Turn To Page Two) GRA SOX'S DEATH BRIXGS TRIBUTE FROM HUXDREDS WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.

The death of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, brought expressions of regret too ay irom hundreds of friends i throughout the country. President Poosevelt aaid Gray son "aa physician, as humanitarian and aa Red Crw executive did outstanding work in every field of endeavor." Gravson was personal physician to Mr. Roosevelt aa he had been to Wood row Wilson. also waa on the White House medical staffs under President Theodore Roosevelt and Taft.

Cabinet members, senators and others in official life were among the many callers at the residence where the 53 -year-old physician died shortly after last midnight. He had been ill three weeks of a cold and bronchial Infection which waa complicated by a longstanding anemic condition. His widow and two sons. Gordon and William, were with him. A third son, Cary.

jr who had started home from a scientific expedition to Africa when Informed of his father's Illness, was in London. Funeral services will be h'd at St. John church at 11 a. m. Thursday.

President Roosevelt wiH ftttend. RALEIGH. Feb 15 JPt North Caro- 1 Una officials waited anxiously to- night as the atate a nine-year quest for Fred Erwin labor organizer 20-year sentence for conspiracy to kill, apparently drew to a do "We're expecting him any time." said Attorney General A. A F. Sea well, head of the state's legal staff.

"He wilt he removed immediately to central prison." At the prison, Warden H. Wiiaon remained on duty to supervise personally Beat's transfer from the attorney general's office to a Jail cell. "He will be treated Just like any other prisoner," the warden said. "He'll get a bath, put on brown prison clothes and be placed In a cell." Beal and his 4awyer. a Boston dispatch said, were en route here from Massachusetts by automobile.

Arrested recently as a North Carolina fugitive in his native Lawrence. Miu, Beal unexpectedly abandoned plar.a to fight extri-duion. Beal and six other labor organizers were convicted 1929 of conspiracy of the fatal shooting nf Police Chief NfTWARK. Feb. 15.

liP-Mra Ethel Strouse 6ohI. policeman's daughter, and Genevieve Owens, her companion in a ftf io holdup during which a bus driver was slain, were convicted of first degree murder tonight by an all-male Jury which recommended mercy. The verdict, reached after three hours and 44 minutes deliberation, makes life terms mandatory for both the girls. Mrs. Sohl.

20, based her defense on an insanity plea, in that she was under the influence of marihuana during her brief crime career. Miss Owens. IS, testified during the eight-day trial that she remained In an automobile while "Bunny'' Sohl shot and robbed William Baxhorst as he stopped his bus in suburban Belleville Dec. 31. Teara came to "Bunny's eyea and she pressed a green handkerchief to her face aa Jury Foreman Zoltan ZUahy, 28, of Nutley.

replied to Common Pleas Judge Dame, J. Brennan: "Yea. We find both defendants guilty of murder in the first degree, but with the recommendation of life imprisonment at hard Ml sa Owens cried, wet her lips with her tongue, drying them quickly with O. Aderhoit of Gastonia. during the.

Seal's decision, he said "We nave Gastonia textile strike note never d-mibted that Beal would be re-AU seven fled to Russia while their turned by tile Massachusetts autttor-eaaec were being appealed uniuccesa lues ta due time.