Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 6

SIX '1HB LANDMARK STATESVILLE TUESDAY DECEMBER 22 1931 Railways i 1 1 It Hoover plan their captors today ports' final report would contain a kidnapers mo I letter dosed the words drinking is slow poison? warned himself and he and his wife ulous husband TOKYO PLANS DRIVE IN MH Phone 20 20 ON ALL JEWELRY Best forget it takes of TV California Quail CUT RATE loan for physi occur i i Day and Night uneral and Ambulance Service I marks in reparations imposed by the Young plan inasmuch as the net re ceipts were 833000000 marks Ki as Si AGAIN WARNS JAPAN President Jcrman and Mr Crow issued a statement attributing the closing to failure of farmers and oth ers to be able tomeet seasonal pay ments because of low crop prices Youth Is Indicted on Murder Charge Mr i Sec our attractive display of Wrist Watches Watch Bracelets ancy Beads Ear Bobs Dia mond Pins Rings etc all LESS 25 SAVES YOU MONEY ON YOUR1 GIT NEEDS! Wall street was made from a cow path Now its where the lamhs gam bol The Thomas Pickcrill Ser vice Pffl POINTS TO PROSPERITY Taking It Easy you know that the stuff you Stationery Hath Salts Captured in 88 Doc 18 Brown when the 34 Secretary Treasurer of Republican Executive Committee Charged With Soliciting unds rom ederal Of ficeholders Gavin Goes To Wash ington Greensboro Dec" Self foreman of the grand jury today re vealed it has an indictment before it charging oster secretary treasurer of the North Carolina Re publican executive committee with violating the federal statutes in re spect to solicitation of funds from federal officeholders Judge Johnson Hayes instructed the grand jury to make a decision up High Point' Dec Supuersti tion meant nothing to an unknown unemployed hero who picked out a second hand hearse in the yard of the High Point Junk and Metal Company Wednesday night for sleeping Quar ters JTe seen to leave the back doors of this vehicle here early this morning by Abcrman proprietor The visitor g' civ'd none the worse for his berth Mr Aberman raid Candy to satisfy her! WOMAN HELM DY HER KIDNAPERS Basel Dec 18 The Young plan Man Uses Hearse or Bed or Night BUNCH UNERAL HOME uneral Director and Ambulance Service Open Day and Night Phone 284 Banks Hold A Lot Of German Short Term Credit Washington Dec A member of Morgan and Company said to day there had been a cumbersome amount of German short term credit in this country but that it did not en danger American banks He was Thomas Lamont testifying before the senate finance committee He said probably ninety per gent of American banks engaged in the pro cess Conklin and Waterman ountain Pens The Gift' ideal! Lifetime Guarantee noking Backward on the Depres Headline Show us how to do it Dallas New Era Nicholson uneral Home Wake ittest waswhere the body should be laid to res? The wife and 'brother both bad graves prepared for the body In the meantime will was fd ed for probate and Clerk Tilley nad to have the body buried before he could appoint an executor He decided the family burial ground was the logical place LiMilj XIV piuiccuuU vu ulaw pout the ancient tool chest and a roll of leather and carve out a pair after C' his favorite model tation ot being practically bullet The widow and Mrs Wood the proprietor of the house where Diamond died were held as material i witnesses IfiCK DIAMOND IS MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT Washington A new expression of concern over the Man churian situation in friendly but positive terms has been conveyed to Japan by the American government Ambassador orbes in Tokyo on in struction of Secretary Stimson has been expressing to the Japanese for eign office American solicitude that obligations under the Nine power and Kellogg Briand treaties be respected No formal statement was delivered to the foreign office by ambassa dor hut the American attitude was reduced to expression orally Withdraw Their A ound Guilty of Cruelty to Child Washington Dec 18 The fath er and stepmother of 12 year old ith Riley yesterday heard a black rob ed judge pronounce them guilty ol cruelty to their child The verdict was announced by Jus tice Letts in District of Co lumbia Supreme court after the fa ther Henry Riley admitted his children had become to him Sentence will be imposed some time next week The maximum penalty is two years in the penitentiary Boy Confesses $300 Jewelry Robbery at Hickory Hickory Dec 18 Watches and Jewelry valued at between $300 and $350 was stolen from the Mor rison jewelry store on Ninth avenue about two Thursday morning Police are holding Richard Madiron Whitener age 11 for the theft According to Chief Eugene Lentz the boy confessed to having taken the trousers with the keys to the store from Mr Morrison after he had gone to "bed at the same house whore the boy lived Whitener was said to haye used the keys to enter the store and then took a number of watches and jewelry and went out the back door He hid the hag with the loot near the Crouch lumber yard in east ory police said The back door was found open by Morrison broth er of the owner of the establishment when he came down to the place business yesterday morning Clock Sets Candle Sticks Powdcr and Perfume Sets Candy says CIGARETTES Camels Chesterfields Lucky Strikes Old Golds At Special Sale Prices! 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Held or Changing Money Order Spartanburg Dec 18 Sa rah Teanier 16 year old Chinese girl was held in jail here after she had attempted to cash a money order post office authorities said was raised from 25 cents to $80025 Money cr ders are not issued for amounts above $100 and this fact with other irreg ularities led to her arrest The girl said induced her to present the order and that the or der was originally issued to a rela tive Cutex Sets Toilet Water Desk Sets Pocketbooks Compacts all colors Danville Merchant Ready for Robbers COTTON SPINNING SHOWS SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT Washington Dec 18 The cotton spinning industry was reported by the census bureau today to have been operated during November at 8586 capacity on a single shift basis com pared with 8501 per cent in October this year and 801 per cent in Novem ber last year Spinning spindles in place Novem ber 30 totaled 323664 44 of which 2486068 1 were active at some time during the month compared with 32 430508 and 2518B112 in October this year Active spindle hours and the aver age per spindle in place for Novem ber in North Carolina was 1355459 250 and 219 in South Carolina 1 723135469 and 302 was YnvfiHfinrl wlinn found a strange bird roosting with his chickens during the early morning and so he captured the fowl Burleigh associate biologist of the Appalachian orest experi ment station sajrl it was a male Cal ifornia quail lie said the birds do not migrate and was afc a loss io ex plain its presence hero TDA Vf1irt(Y nlnn committee of experts decided today by unanimous vote that the German Largest Bank Closes Doors Raleigh Dec 18 Commer cial National bank largest independ ent financial institution in Raleigh failed to open its dooijs Thursday morning after directors had voted to close it pending a meeting of stock holders The September statement of the bank showed deposits of $42861942 capital stock of $600000 surplus and reserve of $136163 and bills payable of $295000 The officers are Jerman president Crow and A vice presidents and The jury retired and continued its questioning of numerous postmasters and other federal officeholders sub poenaed to aprear before it District Attorney Gavin who launched the inquiry into the state Republican executive IL nnrtit rn ct Inf IIieLIlUUft VX lAlBHIg I'M vy ivAv Greensboro last night for Washington without Leaders of Both Parties In House Promise ast Action On Business Reconstruction Program Washington Dec 18 President Hoover today sought and to an extent obtained from leaders o( both parties in fhe house an assurance of fast ac tion on its business reconstruction program Gathered with him at breakfast the legislators told the President his mo ratorium proposal and the $100000 000 ederal Land Bank capital in crease bill are almost sure to pass the house before the Christmas holidays the Chinchow situation has become fo acute the Japanese residents of Shanhaikwan decided to evacuate he city and retire to Tientsin The new military campaign the war office spokesman said will be a drive against bandits in the area of the southern Manchurian railway the territory just north of Chinchow where tho Japanese drive against that place was halted last month At the time the announcement was made the reports of fighting were received and also reports that ban dits are unusually active around Changshun and lleislintun and other points Woodward Jeweler Phnre 53 Argument Of Motion To Quash Post poned Raleigh Dec 16 Argument of a motion to quash Buncombe county in dictments returned against John Mit chell and three members of the state corporation commission set for this afternoon in Wake county Superior court was postponed until tomorrow The four were indicted on charges of having allowed banks to remain open knowing they were insolvent McLean Cited for Contempt of Court Treasury Deficit Is Beyond Billion Mark Washington Dec 18 Another rise in the growing deficit today sit congressional leaders figuring anew on the tax increase nrocram I The treasury reported its deficit HOOVER ASSURED COOPERATION Gilham lowers Ordered Held or Death cf Paul Matkins Age 7 Years Accident Is Claimed' Smithfield Dec 18 The grand jury upon a presentment made by Solicitor Clawson Williams return ed a true bill in the case against Gil ham lowers here in Superior court yesterday A capias was immediately issued for lowers to appear in court and answer to a charge of murder in the first degree lowers is charged with the mur der of Paul Watkins seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Watkins prominent Micro citizens eve ning December 4 Young lowers was at the Watkins home and was discussing the gun and shooting with Paul Katkins The small boy said shoot and the older boy thinking the gun was unloaded playfully pointed the gun at him The gun went off the load striking the child in the head The boy lived only a few minutes The mother witnessed the whole occurrence and attaches no blame to young lowers who is said to be prostrated over the affair Young lowers was frequently at theWatkins residence and is said to have been particularly fond of Paul Paul Watkins was a first grade student in the Micro school It has been said that the state will for a verdict of murder in the first degree which will be based upon the fact that lowers declared he was going to shoot Watkins then se cured a gun and shot him lowers has been under a clans care since the tragic rence wuih'VI wiiwv uiii i i Miujj 1 lj iiJilIliyt (X 11 jye1 cold Nashville Southern Lumber had more of the first two neeci jc3b or inc itiRVf usKog i Extensive Military Campaign An nounced Against Alleged Bandits in Manchuria Tokyo Dec Plans for a new and extensive military campaign 'against alleged bandits in Manchuria Noted British Economist Declares the Nations Must Combine To Banish the ear Complex Copyright 1931 By Associated Press London Dec 18 The world is standing on the threshold of the greatest prosperity it has ever ex if only the necessary steps are taken Sir George Paishnotec British economist and member of the British official mission to the United States in 1914 said today in an ex clusive interview with the Associated Press Three of the chief recommenda tions made by the economist arc: 1 ederal and state temporary bank guarantee acts 2 An international conference at which every nation would be ready to make contributions to world recovery 3 Revision of the reparations pay ments to insure eventual repayment of German commercial debt which he estimates at $2250000000 It is impossible he said to revive trade immediately to a marked degree and to banish the fear complex now besetting the nations District Attorney Is Seeking Motive or Murder of Gangster in Holding Miss Roberts or Questioning Albany Dec Albany po lice have requested Boston authorities to hold Marion Roberts for questioning in connection with the in vestigation of the murder of her gangster sweetheart Jack Diamond rom Miss Roberts the district at torney hopes to obtain information of his activities out of which may de velop a lead as to the reason for the murder There have bgen many known rea sons in the past why hoodlums would want to remove Diamond but none within the past few months One reason advanced was that rival beer runners and racket promoters may have feared that Diamond freed of state accusation by two Troy juries would reassemble his hoodlums re new hi activities and revive terror istic regime he set up in the Catskill EASTMAN KODAKS AND ILMS WB ARE Always open WTNICHOLSON SON heroine for Service PHONE 700135 RONT ST i 39 YEARS CONTINUOUS Danville Va Dee Bryant local storekeeper was more than prepared Thursday night when while walking from his stere to catch a street car he was beset by two bandits who called on him to raise his hands or weeks he had made it a practice to carry a revolver in his hand as he trod a lonely stretch at nigne usually Witn his store re ceipts in his pocket He put up his hands but nreu live times as he did so The two bandits fled paused sent two shots aiter him and then fled again Bryant had about $12 in his pocket and notified the police after the shooting episode AND SAVE AT YOUR HOME OWNED DRUG STORE We Deliver! DRUGS PHONE WE DELIVER Washington Pubisher Sends His Wife a Christmas Box Containing Notice of Divorce Action Washington Dec 18 Edward Melman publisher of the Washing ton Post was cited for contempt of court today for sending a Christmas box to his home containing a sum mons for his estranged wife to ap pear in a Latvian court as a de fendant in divorce proceedings At torneys for his wife Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean contended the pub lisher now in Latvia had violated a court injunction forbidding him from proceeding in any way with a divorce action begun in Latvia mu giuunua ivr wiv uivurue uu Lion were given as conflict 'American war veteran and hostile McLean de 1 brother however protested mands the custody of his children land declared the family burial plot at 1 1 1 i i Attorneys for Mrs McLean said the Christmas box addressed to one of his children was delivered at the McLean home last Wednesday by a taxicab driver JACK DIAMOND'S SWEETHEART HELD Lit Us Do Your Watch Clock and Jewelry Repairing Expert Work at Reasonable Prices entitled to sport for the first time in his long busy life a pair of real store bought shoes The pair of stout shoes in which Mr Holloway is now stepping high is his Christmas gift to himself and a' life time at the cob trade has taught him to be mighty cautious in the selection of a VVHC44UH PUUU1 UAHUnUUUB Whittling out axe handles is hG "ithoiit announcing the purpose of sjjecilty of the Doughton octogenar 1S Han butPTnakine shoos has hnon nn TfiKYH PI W' grow thin he has proceeded to draw UHt I LflllU IlLli Gangster Meets Death in His Room Shortly After Leaving Party That Celebrated His Acquit tal of His Wife Held Albany Dec 18 Jack Diamond 33 year old gang ster chief was mysteriously shot to death in a rooming house here today a few minutes after he had left a party celebrating his acquittal of kidnaping Three bullets were fired unto his brain at close range and apparently as he struggled with his assailants The body was found sprawled across a bed in a room he occupied with his wife Diamond was acquitted of kidnap ing by a Troy jury last night The celebration began about midnight He left the revelry between 4 and 5 a and drove alone to the rooming house in a taxicab While no immediate motive for the murder came to light un derworld activities supplied many reasons why gangland wanted him removed The body was still warm when found and its twisted features show ed he had died in aaony He had been shot down so often during his tem pestuous career that he had the repu Little cashier loung Negro Leaves Note Confess in His Guilt but Declares His Brother is Innocent Raleigh Dec 18 Chevis Her ring young Wilmington negro was electrocuted at' the prison this morning for the murder of Newton 70 who was postmaster at Kerr in Sampson county for 24 years He was given one shock of current Before going to the death room he left a note in which he as serted again that he was guilty of murder but that his brother Ernest' who is under sentence to be execut ed January 8 was innocent OCTOGENARIAN HAS IRST STORE SHOES TlArt 10 A 1 11 io as nappy as me average little boy in his first pair of on whether it was a true bill or not trousers is Holloway octogen upon the facts presented it and not arian of Doughton who age of lobe swayed by party affiliations or 87 has persuaded himself that he is friendships 1 as an attemnt to escape I was shot by Dudley a' guard at the Polk prison farm near herc The shooting occurred about L4 10:30 o'clock A Hodges farm su perintendent said when the prisoner 8 made a dash for freedom after hav P'j ing been excused from work tern po ji'rarily y' Dr Norman prison physician said two buckshot entered body One struck him in the back of1' the neck and the other lodged in his shoulder Convict atally Wounded by Guard fcK Akers of Conway Shot At Polk Prison arm Mhen He At 7 tempts Tn Escape 10 on I is of Conway serving a sentence were announced by a spokesman for A of two years to five years for high the war office today after reports robbery died in prison were received of fighting in which hospital late yesterday from gun shot two Japanese and 14 Chinese were wounds sustained earlier in the day killed and several wounded 1' in what prison authorities described A dispatch to the Rengo News A as an attempt to escape Agency from Tientsin China said CHEVIS HERRING ISPUTTODEATH CIGARS El Moro El Toro 5c Sellers Box of 25 INDICTMENT Mrs Donnelly Nervous but Un harmed After 36 Hours in railways will be unable to meet their thy" Rendezvous Kidnapers ail non postponaJblc reparatigns payments to Collect Ransom Money Which next year I Theexpertsacceptedasub mum vujiiajiieu ine but unharmed after almost 36 hours 'Statement that it will be impossible in the rendezvous of the railways to balance their bud kidnapers Mrs Nelly Donnelly £et in 1932 even though the unctmoi wealthy founder of a Kansas Cityt onal payments which the Young garment company and George Blair 'Pn placed upon them should be her negro chauffeur were freed by turned back to them now through the noaver plan They were released from a motor This disclosure was accepted as the car near the Kansas Avenue bridge hrst official indication that the ex pun nnai remiri would contain a period of anxious waiting by her for a moratorium on vunuiuuiiHi uuj inenis rainer man cancellation An off al commuhioue said the commission had reported: irst that from 1925 to 1929 the ac not Al su when after that the board might of application for jarolc (1 Mrs Clementine Queen Awarded $11172 for Personal Damages fc York Dec 18 Mrs Clementine at past the billion dollar mark Quecn 78 of Rock Hill 8(! was 262631150 on December 15' With warded $11172 today in her suitlthe fiscal year not mj for personal damages nvainst Johni write half done the indications are Anderson of Rock Hill for a gap of more than $2000000 000 between receipts and expend i The bankers it Is revealed have turn by next July 1 jeen noKimg iuuuuuuuuu oi jrozen No wonder they have seemed' Their return marked the end of a 5 husband Paul Donnelly and his at torneys who were at a loss as to how to get in touch with the abductors foy the delivery of $75000 the ran finni Hnrnnnrlorl fLynof rlnotL 1 Blair and blindness to the woman TaLvays were able to pay 660000000 Siegfried chief of police said he was certain no money had oeen paid tne men rolice squad j' ouovwvvv ukum cars and deputy sheriff set out at! Second that the 1930 profits total once in a renewed search for the 480000000 marks a decrease of 13 kidnapers Per cent and that by December 1931 receipts had fallen by 28 per cent and tnus the company was lorccd to Omw on its reserve which included the ben efits it derived from the Hoover ratorium Appeal for Help i Wil Goldsboro Dec 18 A letter from a crippled old man who has a crippledwife was received by the Wayne county welfare office Wednesday stating that he wished to withdraw his request for aid having heard that there were so many families in the county without food or employment 1 Hobbling on two sticks the old man had visited the welfare department and asked for help Welfare Officer Edwards told him to come back and present his case before the board Mnnzlav Thn crinuled vn man loiter cioseu will I uc will not be at your office the first The old man is unable to I all right replied the bib Kimlf" And he and his wife tdous husband Im no have no means of support except a little from their children Smithfield Couple Look On As Burg lar Searches Room Smithfield Dec Mr and Mrs David Chestnut who live with Mr and Mrs Dance on Church street had a hair raising experience early Sunday morning About 3:30 they awoke to find a man at the foot of their bed Both were afraid to move and for an hour and a half they lay Quietly while the in truder moved about their room at will opening dresser drawers and searching for valuables Mr Chestnut states that the mar must have been a professional burg lar for his operations were noise less A little after 5 he made his exit through the window without making a particle of noise The police "were communicated with but no trace of the man could bo' found Mr' and Mrs Chestnut think that he Vas probably under their bed when they retired Court Clerk of Wake Acts Part In Dispute Raleigh Dec 17 Lloyd Til Icy clerk of Wake county court yesterday played the role of Solomon but in a different manner He was called upon to decide whore a man should be buried James I Gill negro died last week and his wife wanted his body to buried in the federal cemetery here since her latehusbanc was a Spanish I Moratorium Gets avorable Vote 'Washington Dec 18 moratorium on governmen ts tai debts emerged victorious hut Ll sr arnd yesterday frem its first tilt w'th its congressional judges It came from the closed doors of "fA powerful ways and m'ans corn jjj nijttee after three days of hearings nd six hours of secret edm red with an amendment to I ml Congress aeainst further le iuc 'I'on cancellation of inter govein Rental debt' all to Spend Christmas in Prison in Aew Mexico Washington Dec 18 be ru release from prison in tv! rh' istmas stocking of Albert all He will spend the holiday and probably many weeks of the new in the New Mexico state peni Wi The justice denartment eaid Jjj 'ion by the parole hoard could 'YJ Jm expected before January and tnrney General Mitchell I Ss 1 1 I i I as If Si i A St 2 1 Si.