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THE BEE DANVILLE VA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28 1932 SIX for the the them only as last mountain road camp AECTS ONLY SOUTH ARICA of prospective Hall Openin means not only 1 these towns he dls 1 sti the letter from rate proportional repre ti lts sev had trouble until the which opens fixed Her The show at fl mob the Bryan clear that a substantial por newspaper reports were prison authorities they the others furnishing he contributed $8 for assures the con the deficit and legislation ap of forcing the call a special 1 i test took vigil used to rivaling the new car the mining district form Callfornla gold dlscov and the later develop Yukon fields the three discoveries of the last express for the i during brother cai ha bo a de and Illinois to produce mediately and Robert Graham of At Herbert Hedges of Galveston Doss and Davey Doss of Dam Va Sam Soltz of Brooklyn and read de SOUTH ARICA IS GOLD STANDARDNOW DC he erf ho PITTS GIVEN BIGEDGEIN the city should be part In politics ex es tl per flve it had visited his farm there as he relatives here he Intended doing riday Two More Defendants In Al leged Prison Smuggling Conspiracy Set Hearing NEWPORT NEWS Va Dec rances Lassiter admitted slayer of her father Alexander Lassiter will be given a hearing before Judge John W1 Massey of Juvenile court on Jan uary 8 the scheduled hearing yesterday a continuance was granted at the re quest of Attorney Herbert Smith and Charles Ber keley defense counsel both of whom asked more time to interview wit nesses Miss Lassiter la free under $8000 bond furnished by her uncle waiter South of Morrison tbe on The regular mid week prayer meet ing will be held tonight at the irst Baptist church Dr Shelburne the pastor will discuss "What the Old Year Has Brought to Chi first they Vlr Obto week ofthls year was per cent under the 1931 from emergency rates Al remote from distance and between the a a a Railway Offer mony of tr th ni steady improve In practice this mls I put the dead man and one of In my pocket with the continuously since 1929 and the carriers as a whole have to meet their fixed charges commission granted effective No tin trt spi ha' tn eve be I me 1 het hoi the wll of of I said Mc Compared to net railway op inconfc the total emergency was equivalent to 20 per te motor and chief of ex the oft Re was In for and 48 against NAME SUBSTITUTE JUDG'fi The City Council will It was learn ed today take no action on the re quest of the Police Commission for money to defray the expenses of four additional city policemen for the an nexed territory The sum needed is $4800 for their salaries the add! al men being needed to provlt a patrol system In the territory where service will have to be rendered aft er Janua 1st The expectation Is that the Coun cil will retain the police cars because of a realization that motocycles can not be relied upon entirely to provide police sei vie? in the new area The suggestion had been made that the police cars be reduced from four to two so as to afford an economy Both of these matters are expected to be dealt with at the January meeting Explanations for the disintegra tion are numerous Some geologists advance the theory that water has seeped Into deeply burled lime de posits and generated steam the pressure increasing until It has hurst the rock to find an escape Another theory is that cool deposits have Ignited and gas pressure is forcing the mountain open! Another action on the old Hay ward ault is associated by others with the Carbon Mountain move ment and this supposed change deep In the earth is connected with the quake felt In the western part the United States a few days ago Carbon Mountain heavy with pine ami plnon trees Inert through the centuries has crushed its green coverlet beneat avalanches of rock The scrub oak and sagebrush flat below presents a rock strewn view now with boulders ranging In size fro ma foot In diameter in the size of a bungalow The avalanches have formed benches and these have iformed a slope to the once straight sides of the moving moun tain on the beauty This was Confederate pension payments aggregate $80000 IIOJIAN' PAYS IM they mistrusted me I them was 286 the igure In Big Kidnap Case 23 Years Ago Dies Nice Cabinet Electric Radio $35oo' If sold Immediately Rhone 1732 28br3 TOWN TOPICS Sc or Jy aE S'l he continued the and Jumbo's SHAWSVILLE Va Dec State Officer Graham of Shawsville was asked today to look out for three convicts who escaped from the camp at work on federal Route 221 on Bent mountain last night Names were given as Howard Slye Mac Dorman and Leo Wyatt all white Strayed rom 122 Chestnut street Shepherd Collie dog white face an swers name "Carlo" name: Briggs "Edgewater" Norfolk Va on collar also license and vac cination tags Reward Notify II Register and Bee of fice 28br2 RADORD Va Dec Its proposal to Issue $150000 in munici pal bonds for the construction of a hydro electric plant on Little River approved at the polls the city coun cil was prepared today to go forward with plans for the project The bonds will be offered in the open market with the expectation that the Reconstruction inance Cor poration will be a bidder At the election yesterday 430 quali fied voters were for the proposal and 61 opposed it The freehold vote was 332 was burled after the clothes had been burned 1 Authorities at Hagerstown and Un iontown Pa between which the let ter indicated the burial took place were asked to seek the body an effort was being made to trace the letter mailed from Chicago and Larkin Glazebrook Jr Investi gator of the Virginia State division of motor vehicles came here to assist local officers Reports from Columbus said the automobile bearing North Carolina license 232 826 which was said to have been Issued to McColn was left at the garage there yesterday The discrepancy between this time and the writing of the letter In Chicago Sunday was not Immediately explain able The writer of the letter said he met his three companions In Jacksonville la and they agreed to travel north ward together the car while gasoline He Identified the one he said killed the motorist and "Slim" He said the body was buried "four or five off the main highway between Hagerstown and Uniontown Tire letter indicated the writer was fairly well educated although there were some errors in capitalization and spelling officers said It said that while the quartet was placing the dead man In their au tomobile another motorist stopped to Hulre If anyone was hurt but went on when Informed the man was only the worse for drink It said $33 was taken from the man's pockets In the car when located In Col umbus were found a glove bill fold and eye glasses all bearing stains re sembling blood police there report ed McColn 60 years old was one of Henderson's best known men A former state senator he was a promi nent member of the bar and of the state budget advisory commission He left home six days ago to visit his farm In Virginia He was traced to the farm near Dewitt and to Richmond where he purchased gaso line and Inquired the route to Lynch burg and armville Va Starting In the direction of appeared The receipt of cago by Justice Stacy was the clue but authmltles here said expected the Investigation In glnla Maryland Pennsylvania others 1m Wall Street Points Out That Action Will Not Affect Other Nations CAPE TOWN Union of South Afri ca Dec 28 inance Minister Havenga declared In an Interview this morning: "We are virtually off the gold Banks win have to on a new basis" he said Commercial banks were dealing in exchange dur ing the morning at last Saturday's rates' but transactions were limited to £60 sterling The reserve bank however was predared to do business In amounts up to £100 sterling The government organ die Vader land said todays "The union has been forced off the gold standard We are in the same position as Great Britain was in September 1931" 5 A dispatch from Pretoria South Africa said yesterday Premier Hert zog's cabinet decided to retain the gold standard and to stop the export of gold from the union An official statement said there had been ab normally large purchases on the ex change and withdrawals of gold for hoarding In a later dispatch last night the South African government was quot ed as denying any reported Intention of going off the gold standard and as using all means to combat Influ ences which might lead to such a development Schools in New Territory Will Not Be Adopted ran: go's huge really tlem" Brook Atkinson The Times "Although the opening bill is dull it is likely that Roxy will develop an ornate type of music hall dlviMtn better sul''l to h1s tremendous pa DURANGO Colo Dec Carbon Mountain three miles south of Durango may yet become a mole hill A migratory urge developed dur ing the last fortnight continued early today with much rumbling splitting and shifting and an ac companiment of hissing gas or steam The mountain thus kept on disin tegrating and movhig Into the wide Animas valley At one point near the crest of the mountain rim rock has split and dropped 150 feet In estimable tons of rock appear to be teetering and ready to crash While geologists and spectators from the surrounding San Juan basin watched today the faulting action continued Avalanches In creased and It appeared slides were beginning In the Ridge basin on the western face of the mountain hitherto untouched by the action As a result of the movement the peak rising 200 to 300 feet above the valley in a sheer wall is grad ually lowering Itself and forming a slope to the top effacing the per pendicular side NEWPORT NEWS Va Dec UP) Sterling Jarrett? 24 filling station operator was found critically wound ed early today near the Greenbriar avenue boulevard waterfront A mlk man found Jarrett stagger ing along the road In a semt con sclqus condition and took him to a hospital where examination revealed a bullet believed to be from a 32 callbre revolver had entered his body just above the heart Later bls car was found near Warwick arms Just outside the city limits and blood on the machine Indicated that Jarrett had been In It at the time or after he was shot City police and Elizabeth City coun ty authorities are Investigating case TOO LATE OR CLASSIICATION Statistics Show Easterners Excel in Kicking Tro jans Have Weak nesses ter 1m svs the two ana uumoos bloody gloves behind the back seat of I the Then the letter party using both machines drove to Columbus where Jumbo put the dead man's machine In storage After this the four climbed Into the other sedan and went to Chicago the letter con tinues: I don't know where they carried me except it was to a room In a large building in a room used as an office They locked me In the roomuntil 4 o'clock I never saw either of I them again About four o'clock an old man came In ami said he was sorry for me but If I would sign a paper and keep my trap closed would be ok "He then read me a long paper saying I had accidentally killed the man all by myself that I had hid the body and gone to Columbus where I happened to meet four men giving the strange names that they brought me here as an accomodation to me and that they didn't know a ny thing within a I paper Is 1 Vs 1 1 flsi i "Alter irst Night of New York's Rockefeller City Music Auditorium eatured by Gorgeous Setting OICIALS NOT ADVISED RICHMOND Va Dec UP) State penitentiary authorities this had not been Apprised of the re ported escape of three prisoners from a Bent night When to the scribed the sawing of leg chains and then sawing out of the camp build ing as "unusual" They added that the report of the escape may be received later today since "Superintendent Higginbotham In charge of Camp 24 usually is very prompt about such 0 ANOTHER ESCAPE RAPPAHANOCK Va Miller Morgan white the December term of on a second offense Man Woman Arraigned On Drug Charges ab ut the few miles of the city This nil a lie but was scared so 1 signed before an officer I signed the paper the old man gave me $20 and told me to go home and stay there and keep my trap closed" NEW YORK Dec Mar garet Hancock and Harold rank alias Harold Phillips' were arraigned yesterday on charges of conspiracy to smuggle narcotics messages money and various commodities Into the federal penitentiary at Atlanta They are among a long list of de fendants named In a Georgia Indict ment which authorities said includes several employes of the prison Among those Indicted are Miss Icklls lanta Claire ascus John Tappas of Wheeling Va The Indictment charges the nar cotics and other articles were taken Into the penitentiary In small pack ages with the connivance of attaches Miss Hancock was said by Anthony Mayorello assistant attor ney to' be the sweetheart of Enrique Miro Puerto policy racketeer of Harlem who was sent to Atlantalor two years last April on an Income tax charge She Is alleged to have ent money to him Miss Hancock was arrested several days ago but her apprehension was not made known lest the publicity prevent the arrest of rank Both were held for a hearing on removal proceedings Jan 3 rank under $5000 ball and Miss Hancock under $2500 SAVED LEO CHAINS ROANOKE Va Dec By long distance telephone through a tedious relay it was learned at Roan oke that the escape was affected early this morning by sawing free from leg chains and then sawing a hole In the building In which the convicts were sheltered Superintend ent Higginbotham broadcast a warn ing to officers In this section to watch for the men all of whom are said to have been held on robbery charges Slyde was said to have been sent up from Newport News Dorman from Harrisonburg and Wyatt from Calloway in ranklin county 0 Oil Plant Is Again Robbed of uel Police have stopped counting the number of times that the Alleghany Oil Company has been but the record will probably run as high as fifteen times during this year Last night the plant was visiting again the locks on the gasoline pump was cut on ana nrty gallons of high gas stolen The same occurrence place last Wednesday night A has been' kept over the place for weeks at a time but the thief always strikes when no one Is on guard OPINION COMPLETED WASHINGTON Dec At torney General completed today and will forward immediately tn the Ireasury department nn opin ion cn whether coni imported from Canada Germany and Great Britain should taxed CARD THANKS To our friendu we wish to our thanks and apprecla t'on kindness and sympathy given tlie Illness and death of my I Signed: MR AND MRS CONNER I Mb Little Chance Of Such Bill Getting Thru (Continued rom Page One) and adopt a resolution for repeal of special session after March 4 If all this could be done Senator Harrison of Mississippi said yester day could get along without an extra session until late However reports have been frequent that President Hoover would veto the Democratic beer and farm relief leg islation and In this connection Sen ator Robinson Democratic leader of the Senate said In a statement last night that the Republican adminis tration was engaging "In a policy of partisan political obstruction to pre vent the enactment of patently with the Idea Incoming president to session' Referring to reports vetoes of beer farm relief and other legislation Robinson said: "This of course delay during which a deprivation of additional revenuesstant mounting of thereby makes the task of balancing the budget Increasingly difficult but It subjects the country to the great expense Involved In bringing Congress to Washington and holding It here for an Indeflcnlte period" He also asserted "On vital domestic questions the balancing of the bud get means of additional revenue gen uine governmental economy and farm the administration Is as barren of Ideas as It has been during the last four years" The House Ways and Means com mittee will begin on January an ex haustive study of federal financing with Secretary Mills of the treasury appearing before It to give his views Blth Mills and Mr Hoover have rec ommended a sales tax to balance the budget Senate Democratic eaders however have expressed doubt that such a levy could be passed in that branch and they have decided to make no efforts to attach financial legislation to the Collier beer bill as a rider 0 ment In his punts week he has been getting off some kicks well over 60 yards with plenty of elevation for the ends to get down the field Coach Howard Jones proposed an other hard dummy scrimmage for to day's workout Another Is on tap for Thursday and will be the Ian tough drill before the game WINCHESTER Va Dec 28 (P) Specialists of federal and state agri cultural departments and prominent growers of other stntes wll address the 35th annual conference of Maryland State Horticultural society January 3 to 5 to which fruit grow ers of Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania have been Invited On the first two days the confer ence will meet at College Park and on the third day In Baltimore Subjects to be considered are drought Injury foreign and domes tic markets orchard costs transpor tation financing storage and spray ing methods Among the prominent guests of the convention will be rank arns worth Waterville Ohio Sam ras er of th Internationa Apple Asso ciation Rochester Meredith Reed Vincennes Ind Baron Roberts Aittuiun in and Harvc De Grace Md RICHMOND Va Dec (Pl Governor Pollard today named Judge rank Sutton Jr of Richmond to sit for Judge 'Vernon Bpratley a case in which the state the towns of Hampton and Phoebus and the county of Elizabeth City are com plainants against Newport News and the Newport News Water Works com mission case will be heard In daw and Equity Court part two here Decem ber 30 NEW YORK Dec though South Africa Is North America both In In terms of commerce two Wall Street bankers show a live ly Interest In the struggle of the South African union to preserve the gold standard South Africa Is the largest gold producing country About one half the world's output comes from a sin gle reef of rock In the Interior about 1000 miles north of the Cape of Good Hope and about half as far Inland from the east coast This rock the wftwatersrand reef has been producing gold since 1886 In 1932 it is estimated that about $240000000 of gold will be produced In the transvaal region of South Africa Other leading producing countries and their estimated produc tion ar3 Canada $63000000: United States $52000000 Russian $33000 000 Australia and New Zealand 119 000000 and Mexico $12000000 The discovery of the rich South African gold ed with the erles of 1849 merit of the outstanding century In less than a half century of ex istence the Rand mines have pro duced something over $5000000000 of gold Suspension of ihe gold standard or an embargo on exports from couth Africa Wall street bankers plained would not mean that Rand gold supply woul dbe cut from the rest of the world strictlons on gold exports it explained would apply only to dlvlduals or firms and would not af feet the government exports through the Soutn Afrlclan Reservebank Thus South leaving the gold standard would affect' chiefly South Africa The bulk of the popu latlon there is dependent upon agri culture and has been hard hit by the fall in prices of farm prodifcts Agitation for a reduced value of the currency has been urged a means to lift the prices of farm products and cut the burden of debts The mines would al'c benefit from the reduc tion In value of the currency since that would' cut the gold value of wages and production costs Premier Herzog has staunchly opposed de preciation of the currency saying the only lasting benefit would be to the mines at the expense of the rest of the country Specialists To Address Meeting Of ruit Growers The annexation of additional rltory by Danville will have no mediate effect upon the school tern for under a provision of court's annexation decree the schools In the acquired territory Lady Astor school on North Danville extension and Almagro will continue to be operated by the county until the end of the present school year ending In June 1933 It was found Inadvisable to make the exchange of authority In the middle of a school year this meaning that quotas of state Income for school purposes will be turned Into the county treasury Even next year the court's decree provides parents in the annexed ter ritory will have the option of send ing their children to the nearest county school or to the city school according to their wishes Council Passes By Action on 4 More Policemen to s' the spectacle that lei (Roxy) offered There were many comments gorgeousness and spectacular of the music hall itself noted too by al Icrltlcs but there was only lukewarm enthusiasm In some criticisms of the performance The Roxy uhos (whose garb had been a close secret) paraded to the stage to make their debut clad In quiet uniforms of black with sliver buttons and white piping Roxy long a devotee of the spectacular iiress his ushers in clothes an admiral's The gteut auditorium with en cured celling arches telescoping into one another to give a feeling of Intimacy to the audience of 6200 and Its marvels ot lighting brought endless exclamations Tomorrow night a motion picture theatre another unit In the $250 000000 Rockefeller centre opens Last night's performance heralded i by bugles was late in starting Be ginning at nine it continued until alter midnight a procession of spec tacle a negro choir of 110 voices bal lets stage pictures and the comedy relief ol prominent stage stars the list included DeV'olt Hopper Weber and ields Hoy Bolger Dr Rockwell "sisters of the Skillet" and others Tliers was an orchestra ol 100 Even the mechanical equipment of rw music temple was called up to show off the first number of bill being called the "Symphony the Curtains" introducing special curtain whUh requires 13 tors to operate and variety of forms Percy Hammond old Trlbune wrote: travtgant and cumbersome but has occasional moments o' beauty and alacrity" Gilbert Gabriel in The Ameri bonie or the bIa onl Hull fin vnn and Incredble house Ihflf Is the hero of this fit it presenta S1 had on little more than a coat and the policeman wax afraid she might fnndp III by exposure A charge ff Intoxication was preferred 'attalntt er and a fine of $5 imposed this morn ling 3 Prisoners Escape rom State Camp 0 Men Saw Leg Chain Then Saw Hole in Building to Make Getaway Lassiter Hearing Put Off Until January 5 SHARON Pa Dec Wil liam Whltla 31 whose kidnaping In Sharon 23 years ago astounded the nation died today of pneumonia Whltla then a boy of eight known affectionately as was ab ducted by James Boyle and his wife Helen on the pretense that his fath er was 111 They also gave him candy to occupy his attention while they made their get away The child was taken by horse and buggy to Cleveland where he was released after his family paid $10000 ransom to representatives of the kid napers Boyle was given a life sentence He died In prison Mrs Boyle was sen tenced to 25 years and was pardoned nearly seven years ago Man Is ound Badly Wounded Irvine Warburton unifying many long runbacks Tire Representatives urther Testi in Support of Appeal 0 WASHINGTON Dec Tes timony to support their plea that In creased freight rates be continued after next March 31 was placed be fore the Interstate commerce com mission today by railroad represmta tlves Dr Julius Parmalee director of the bureau of railway economics the first witness told the commission that traffic and revenues have de clined that failed The last January 4 surcharges on present rates specifying that they be dis continued March 31 1933 The reve nue thus derived was ordered pooled for the benefit of roads unable to meet interest charges The railroads asked that the In creases be continued but without the requirement for pooling revenues Dr Parmelee said that It the de cline In total operating revenue of class 1 carriers continues at the pres ent rate the total for 1932 will be less than 50 per cent of the 1029 in come He fixed the net 1929 operat ing Income at $1251698000 equival ent to a 481 per cent return on prop erty investment The return for the first ten months of this year was es timated at L15 per cent The carriers as a whole Dr Mar meles said failed to earn charges the net deficit amounting to $169000000 duflng the first nine months of 1932 with the total for the year likely to reach $200000000 The number of roads operating loss were placed at 122 reight traffic for 1931 mated by the witness at cent under the average of year period 1925 to 192D7' and tratfl for the first 49 placed at 219 same period of "The receipts reported by the class 1 steam roads of the United States as a whole first ten months of 1932" Dr Parmelee said 26 per cent of the aggre gate gross freight revenue cf the car riers efatlng revenue cent "It is tlon of the net railway operating In come1 earned in 1932 was ntrlbuted by the emergency levenue and that the net operating Income would have been greatly reduced had not' these emergency revenues been recol'vcd" CONTINUE GOLD SHIPMENTS 1 PARIS Dec Gold shlp merits to America are continuing as the dollar remains at the Gold Point Today It closed at francs The liner Bremen 1s scheduled take over $9000000 In gold when I sails tomorrow Miss Sarah Roberts of Washington is the guest of Mlsn EUnlc Pritchett clash with at the adens Rose Bowl Jan 2 give Pitt a gtxrf edge in the punting department of the game With Bob Hogan the loading toe ar tist Coach Jock Sutherlands squad has averaged 38 yards on kicks In Its 10 gamrs nf the regular season Southern California with Homer Griffith the standout averaged S55 yards Particularly In the Notre Dams game the quick kick was effec tive keeping the Ramblers In their ewn territory a good share of the contest One of the features ol Trojan kicking game has been the Ability of the forwards to cover the receiver In the nine games played opponents have averaged 21 yards on returns of punts Coach Howard Jones' safety men Asneclallv Irvine Warburton have made a habit of boots with sparkling average Is 7 fl yards Dec VP) convicted at circuit court prohibition charge and being held here awaiting transportation to the penitentiary to serve a twelve months sentence es caped from the Jail here last night by sawing the bars to his cell and breaking a hole In the brick wall Sheriff Newblll was notified early this morning and started an effort to apprehend the fugitive who pre viously served time In Henrico coun ty following conviction on a charge of Illegal distilling REWlEA 1 0 CONTINUE REIGHT RATE NEW YORK Dec 28 The perlatlves market hit a new high to day as Rockefeller music hall threw Its doors open to the general public after a "first night" that last ed the early morning On the world's largest stage In the largest temple of amusement of its kind the most magnificent opening night audience assembled In a long time saw 500 entertainers perform John Rockefeller Jr Alfred Smith Miss Anne Morgan Will Hays and hundreds of others whose names read like "Who's Who" came Rotha RICHMOND Va Dec I McCall razier Virginia vehicle commissioner state police today said his men are lending every possible effort in run ning down clues In the case ofR McColn prominent attorney Commissioner razier who has been asked by Governor Pollard to leave no olue without full Investiga tion said that his men today were busy seeking witnesses to an accident near Petersburg repoitel to have preceded murder Meanwhile Richmond authorities have been Informed that McColn who had left home to visit a farm In Virginia telephoned A Sitton a nephew residing here Police the telephone call Indicated that Coin arrived In Richmond They said it was possible that McColn started back to North Carolina when the accident described in an anony mous letter to the chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court occurred A and Sitton nephews ofMcCain left there today for Hagers town Md to participate In the search for the body or traces of the clothing of the'r uncle Just before leaving thty said that If the clothes had been burned as the anonymous letter indicated It was possible that a Masonic Shrine pin he is known to have worn would be found In the ashes and that this would establish satisfactory Identification Two members of the Richmond de tective force were sent to DeWitt Va today to find out whether zMcColn had visited his farm there as he told last Ask Information On Land Taxes NEV VAR ON GRAT VASTE IN NEV YORK Movement to Wrest City from Control of Tam many Is Launched 0 BY RAYMOND CROWLEY NEW YORK Dec Samuel Seabury's farewell denunciation of graft and waste signalled the start today of a new move to manicure the Tammany tiger Several civic organizations planned a with suggested new charter ae their battle to re make the city government from the mayor's office to the white wing's broom and wrest away much of Tam many power Presenting his final report after 28 months of prodding at the P011 tic Investigator Seabury said condi tions uncovered constituted "a real emergency requiring prompt measures for relief from the legislature of the Summing up the "cost of corrupt party government' he said the "self ish and unsocial motives of the group in 'control" recently brought "what should be financially speaking the strongest city In the world to the verge of default" It was saved by bankers' loans after the city govern ment agreed to slice $40000000 off the budget He suggested passage by the legisla ture of a new charter to replace the present voluminous one which In an annotated edition with supplements makes a three volume work weighing seven pounds Highlights among the changes he recommended were: 1 A single city council of about 25 members elected by proportional representation to replace the board of estimate the board of aidermen and the sinking fund commission 2 Election of the mayor and comp troller on a non partisan ballot un der a system of preferential voting the mayor should be required to pre pare 8n executive budget like the state's 3 Abolish borough of fices and vest their duties In a com missioner of public works appointed by the mayor consolidate city de partments into eleven Including edu cation 4 Prepare an administrative code to supplement the new charter 5 Create a commission of Inquiry to keep close watch over all city depart ments and a non partisan civil ser vice commission 6 Employee of forbidden to take cept to vote He emphasized sentatlon of minorities which would be a blow at Tammany and allied organizations Senate Body Lacks Quorum To Take Vote (Continued rom Page One) hold hearings the bill will be here Mountain alling Apart And Moving Into Valley Vote Bonds or Power Project io? ANGELES Dec 28 (l Southern California will be given of its nredlclne In the form of the quick kick when the Tro I a 1 ound scantily attired In front Ma local hotel lust stand ing in the drizzling rain a youngwoman was taken into custody by Officer Gilliland and removed to po i nriqqunner where she gave her to At fee ri 213 Grinin i ar ms i conscience 1 The letter aairi th It fl I i i uivu UJ Mnn i few minute tmd thnt th in 'Mipurlson to the livka In other placed In their eutmnnbile and takentalw' I to Hagerstown Md near where'll State Treasurer Prepares Checks for $1471 WO RICHMOND Va Dee Cheeks totaling $1471000 are being prepared by the state treasurer's of fice for payment of salaries Cdnfcd ate and retired teachers pensions in terest on bonds and highway certi ficates and Incidentals about the first Of the year John Purcell treasurer said ap proximately $425000 is due as Inter est on century bonds the gold 4s the per cent refund of the Rlddlebergcr bonds and the highway certificates I $650000 will be paid fn salaries and current incidental expenses $250 will be pair! as interest to holders of bonds representing part of the "un registered" pan of the public debt $06000 represents the quarterly pay ment from the retired teachers' fund and will Hunt Body Of Auto ound (Continued rom Page One) the grave of McColn and officials In Virginia and North Carolina were sorting clues that niht lead to ap prehension of the party named In the letter only as "Shorty" "Jumbo" and "Slim" beside the writer who said he was an Innocent party to the slaying and that the three had forced him to sign a paper "confess ing" that he struck the fatal blow After describing how the writer met the other youtlas "Slim" and "Shorty" In Jacksonville and arranged to ride with them to Washington the letter said In part: "Between Petersburg and Richmond Jumbo was driving He said are four of us and we must have gas The next man I meet thats alone I am going to brush against his car and we will make him pay us dam ages' "The next car we met was a Chrysler sedan with one lone man In It Jumbo swiped his fender Neither was hurt Both blamed the other for running Into him Our car had a bad fender that had been smashed before Jumbo claimed $15 damages "They got Into an argument Shorty ran up and hit the1 man on the head with a blackjack Tire man fell to the ground Jumbo said to hurry and put htrn Into our car which he did We drove down the road until we came to a road leading off the high way After driving out of sight we examined the man and' found him bleeding from the nose and ears He was imber never spoke and in ten minutes was dead know Shorty never intended to kill him but he was dead all right and we were all scared to death" The letter then tells how the four youths took $33 a watch and a foun tain pen from the dead man's pockets covered him with robes and drove un til Washington was sighted It said: "The three got their heads together and decided it was not safe to let me leave as we had planned Jumbo told us to drive to a lonely place near Hagerstown and camp for the night and burn and destroy all the man had on and all he had In his bag and to bury him In the woods Shorty was afraid to trust me and did not want me to know where he was burled so we did not bury him that night but burled all his clothes and other things except when he tell to the ground I got his glasses and put them In my overcoat pocket When trusted pocket book bloody gloves glasses "Jumbo seemed to make all arrangements they made plans Jumbo was to take our leave first drive fast and bury body We were to leave twenty min utes later and drive at a thlrty mlle It was understood that who ever got to Uniontown first was to drive out numebr forty and wait for the others We got there an hour first While waiting I slipped the glasses pocketbook RICHMOND Va Va Dec 28 Mt Leturs were In the liande of mav ors and members of boards o' s'i er vlaors today requestbig that they fur nish detal'erl Information concerning the taxes on Isnc! The ietura wire muled by Wil GUIh Jv wl luDUc bldlr 1 1 March workers In leglsUtiu matters who pointed out that a committee appointed by the Inst General As sembly was engaged In an effort to determine th equality of the tax burden Although many laimer have con tended that the tax on land Is ex cM xpckismen for the state tux department have countered with the assist t)On that arch tixes ar we until March "Well It President Hoover is going to veto this bill anyway why not Jnst report It to the Senate and get It over Blaine suggested "When we get enough committee members here to vote It out out It goes" Norris replied Senator Dill suggested It would save time to ascertain Mr Hoover's views In advance but no action was taken along that line Resent Listing of Negro Man as Lynching Victim WARRENTON Va Des The listing of Shadrock Thompson Warrenton negro among the names of lynching victims published by the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People was under at tack today from auquier county law enforcement officers Sheriff Woolf and Common wealth's Attorney Carter vigor ously denying that Thompson had been lynched asserted that Investi gations by the coroner and the grand Jury both resulted In suicide verdicts Woolf said that Thompson hard pressed by police and citizens who sought him for a criminal attack on a woman hanged himself rather than submit to capture The common wealth's attorney said the rope from which the negro was found hang ing was known to have been in his possession previously The report had listed Thompson among eleven victims of capital punishment siiiiu ii 1 1) it Hour HAGERSTOWN Md Dec M) Sheriff Bruce Downin of Washing ton county accompanied by one of his deputies today began a search of the area north of Hagerstown In which McColn Henderson attorney is believed to have been burled A letter received North Carolina H'lMYl KftV rl otvrre' 1 I 4 vui uyj 1U matnan buiu mill three companions had killed McColn and burled the body on the highway betw en Hagerstown and Uniontown Pa i City police here said they were not aiding In the search 0 monster festival Th ei rn von T'e'Thv disappearance of mtvuiii iiriiuvisoii auorney was believed today to have become a mur der case anti authorities in six states were seeking it solution A lettet written irom Chicago by I "a boy in distress" led to discovery of tin missing man automobile in a Columbus Ohio garage and to the belief on the part of officials that there was truth In his story of how McColn died The lett i was ndcliesscd to the "clilef Judge of North Carolina Supreme Court Raleigh and was turned over to local isrlicu by Chief justice stacy It stud the writer and three com i panlons running short of cash nearPetersburg Va last Thursday after i noon planned to hav a slight ol lisi' with another automobile and collect damages DO lig so the letter said a man in an automobile similar to that of Me a wM ntuMr 1( qUar i let (JcHiaiid tor $15 and wm strurk with a blackjack The "buy in dla ire Mid anothf nuinUr uf the party struck tlp motorut but Hint they mudt! him jjgn confession uud mat ne wae wriupg the 1 PUOG DEH Spectacular Beautv Marks.