The Raleigh Register from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 1

Member of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS iVOLUME 55-NO. 107. BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1035. Price 5 cents-- JJ? DUTCH SCHULTZ IS NEAR DEATH, GUARDS KILLED Police In Frenzied Search For Hoodlum Blamed For Death Of Former New York Beer Baron WAN HUNTED IS STERN OR STEIN 'Also. Wanted For Slaying Of Brooklyn Gangster By The Associated Press New York, Oct.

24 While 'Arthur (Dutch Schulfz) Flegcn- heimer lay dilerious and "very low" in a Newark hospital, victim of a gunman's fire that blotted out two of his henchmen, police spread a frenzied search today lor a-hoodlum they described as another Vincent Coll, a mad ruthless killer. Police guards patrolled the bospital corridors to prevent any attempt of. the former beer baron's Enemies to "finish" him. The man hunted was Albert Stern, 21, alias Stein, also wanted tor questioning about the hatchet killing yesterday' of "Pretty Amberg, Brooklyn gang- Eter, and the slaying of a more than a year Earl Snavely, director of the Newark hospital, said the Condition of Schultz was so critic- hl that another blood transfusion was necessary immediately. A hospital bulletin said he -was "very low." The two bodyguards, Otto Ber- tnan, 48, and Leo Frank, 40, died Curing the night.

Beckle To Receive Large Federal Grant A list of five P. W. A. projects for the City of Beckley-either approved or pending- totaling $147,170, was announced today by City Recorder- Treasurer John T. Hollandsworth.

A street repair project for $15,839 already has been -approved, Hollandsworth said, and added that work would probably be started, soon. Other projects, all pending final decision of Washington P. W. A. officials, were announced as follows: Street repairs to 44 secondary streets and complete surfacing and grading of six streets, $84,024.

Additions and remodeling at the city hall, $19,447. Sewer project, $13,360. Lateral -sewers and a septic tank, $14,500. MUSSOLINI ASKS FOR REPLY FROM LARGER POWERS Demands Protectorate Over Ethiopia as Peace Terms, Npt Well Received at Paris, London HO PUBLIC DM OF SCOTT FIELD YET SANCTIONED JAPANESE CHILDREN IN BUDDHIST FETE ITALIANS READY FOR NEXT DRIVE Armies Plan Double Attack Upon The Town Of Harar Board Of Trustees Refuses To Approve General Use Of Airport Until It Is Completed McCausland Case Near Conclusion Ask- For Acquittal And First De-, gree Verdict By Th6 Assoclaled Press' Spencer, Oct. 24-- Defense counsel demanded acquittal of Sam H.

McCausland, 54-year-old son of a Confederate general, today, while the state asked for a death sentence on the murder charge. McCausland, claiming self defense in the slaying of Howard Chester West, a World war hero, sat with members of his family while his attorney, F. G. Mus' No public use of Scott Field, the Beckley-Mt. Hope municipal airport now in the making, will be by the.

board of in charge of it until liie field is completed to the extent of a surface binder on. its shale- payed runways and a hangar with service facilities. This decision was reached at a meeting of the. board, composed of T. H.

Snyder, W. Tissue; E. Howard, of Ml. and Charles Hodel, of Beckley, held at i the Mountainair hotel yesterday afternoon. The meeting was held and that action taken on the basis of a statement by J.

E. Larew, engineer in charge of construction for the state relief administration, that the last appropriation of funds would-soon be exhausted and that then all work must necessarily stop, perhaps within the next month. The board took the position that under the leases by which it is to administer the operation'of tne airport, it i not to assume active control until construction work has been completed. Under the shift of unemployment relief expenditures from FEHA to WPA, and due to the fact that the (By Associated Press) The diplomatic front: Mussolini pressed Paris and London for an answer on his peace terms with the demand for a protectorate over Ethiopia." Premier Laval, of France, transmitted the terms to London, but in neither London nor Paris was there much optimism over acceptance of the terms at the time Italian officials expressed a desire for delay in enforcement. of the League of Nations boycott pending the outcome of parleys.

Peace, British statesmen reaffirmed, must be concluded between II Duce and the league, not between Rome and London or Rome and Paris. The war front--Italy's two armies, northern and southern, were ready for a drive on Harar. Addis Ababa--Ethiopian capital heard reports of a great battle raging in Webbe Shibeli river sector. These were denied governor of Harar province. Point Pleasant, review- I lver Company is not in position to deed the property to some public body, as required under WPA regulations, completion of the air- ed for the jury testimony he claimed absolved McCausland.

The case was expected to be given the jury early this afternoon. Roane County Prosecutor J. M. Harper, preceded Musgrave, telling the jury the defendant should either be acquitted or sentenced to be hanged. McCausland sat face expressionless, as the assistant prosecutor, John M.

Baker, pointed his finger at him and shouted: "I ask you for a first degree murder verdict because Howard Chester West was shot down liks a dog by the defendant, Sam Mc- Causlanrl," Using the two hours given for argument, Baker l.eld aloft the blood-soaked clothing worn by West when he was found sitting in his car May 20, a bullet wound from one of McCausland's guns in his abdomen. He argued against McCausland's defense that a struggle look place on the ground before the shot was fird and told the jury: "If he had been shot on the ground and had walked to the car, some of the blood would have run down the leg of his trousers; Dairymen Name New President Martinsburg Man Elected At Meeting Held At Bluefield "Bluefleld, Oct. West Virginia Dairymen's association today elected E. N. Thatcher, of Martinsburg, president.

The convention received bids from four cities for the next meeting, but left the choice to the board of directors, delegates in Cities inviting the 1936 are Martinsburg, Point Pleasant, Kuntington, and Logan. Other officers include: C. A. Jl- viden, of Mason City, elected to the board of directors. Delegates left for Biacksburg, to inspect the Virginia Polytechnic Institute experiment station.

Final sessions will be held there. Thieves Raid Auto And Steal Canned Thieves last night raided the automobile of Mr. and Mrs. A. S.

Johnston In Iront oi their home on Beaver avenue and can-led oft a quantity of canned and preserved fruits, which had been packed in a large cardboard box. The car had been left unlocked for about a ialf hour between eight and oight- Jiirty o'clock with the jars offruit in it. The police were notified. EXPORTS MOUNT TO ITALY FROM UNITED STATES Many Materials Useful For War Sold During; Month Of September to The Aggressor Nation Faithful to the religion of their fathers, these Japanese children, garbed In picturesque natlvo costume, are as they took part in a festival celebrating arrival of two shrines from Japan at the San Jose, Buddhist temple, largest outside of Japan. About 2,000 Japanese participated.

(Associated Presi obbers Uf Beckley Man Confess At Charleston WEST VIRGINIA GETS MORE CASH AT WASHINGTON port is faced with considerable delay. The board yet hopes for its completion, however, and will endeavor, upon the return of Congressman Joe L. Smith from his trip to the Philippines, to secure a meeting of himself and Congressman Andrew Edmiston of Weston, representing Fayelte county, with the board, in an effort to bring direct pressure to bear on government spending agencies for approval of the projects still lacking. When this has been accomplished, and with their completion in sight, the board will fix a date for formal dedication of the airport. Beckley members of the board, returning from the meeting, said it was hoped to fix that date some time between the first of June and the first of August, next year.

Thompson Host Al Camp Parly Score Or More Of County Officials Enjoy Chicken Dinner Deputy Sheriff H. W. Thompson, of Egeria, was host to a score or more county and district officers at a chicken dinner served last night in the Glade Creek camp of Deputy Sheriff L. A. Green and Conservator G.

O. Mills. Attending the dinner were Sheriff C. C. Lewis, Conservator Mills, Conservator Russell Gautier, Conservator A.

E. Taylor, Deputy They of SherifT Howard George, Frank H. the board that premature use Gibson Sheriff H. E. the field, in its unfinished 'Brammer, Deputy H.

W.iThomp- tion, might result in damage trj Deputy Sheriff Tom Lewis, "TM Approves Addi' tioHai Of Eighteen Million" For Projects Within State By The Associated Press Washington; Oct. 24--Comptroller erieraTJ. H. McCarl approved today an additional allotment of $18,120,581 for W. P.

A. projects in West Virginia. The money will be used by state W. P. A.

Administrator F. Witcher McCullough to carry out projects selected from a $265,381,958 panel simultaneously approved by McCarl. Details of projects approved will be made later this week. McCarl has now approved $1,762,728,630 of W. P.

A. projects compared with $2,702,918,117 endorsed by President Roosevelt. The president has allotted $1,004,072,989 to W. P. A.

With the return of Harry L. Hopkins and Secretary -Ickes to he capital with the president, Works relief officials predicted hat more than 2,000,000 jobs will JB provided, in the next three weeks. Sherman Burks And Wife Enter Plea of Guilty Today Burning Fish Led Cats To Blazing Building By Tlie Associated Press Chicago, Oct. cats outnumbered the firemen yesterday as flames attacked the Southwestern Smoked Fish company building on the west side, but the firemen won. The reek of the burning fish brought hungry cats by the score running to the scene.

Yowling and prowling, the cats darted here and there while firemen suppressed the blaze with a damage estimated at $5,000 by Ben J. Dissen, company manager. The cats didn't get any fish. what had already been done, out of proportion to the benefits to be derived. Hence its action in refusing to sanction public use, except for emergency landings.

Stock Market Opens With Steadier Tone By Tho Associated Press Wall Oct 24--The stock market opened with a fairly steady tone today. While a handful of recently active industrials were small fractions lower in initial transactions the main body of shares was higher with good overnight buying orders in utilities ihi feature. American Telephone was more than a point higher and fractional improvement was shown by American Water Works and Columbia Gas, Deputy Sheriff Jess Thompson, Game Protector O. B. Harrin, Constable Deck Holdren, Deputy Green, Constables John and Clyde McDowell, Constable S.

L. Dillon, J. Q. Stover, Mabscolt police chief, Deputy Sheriff Tracy Williams, After the dinner practically all guests were called upon to jmake short talks and all extended I a rousing vole of appreciation to the hosts and the agile skillet work of Chef Raymond Williams. SUIT IS FILED Suit in assumpsit for $1,000 was filed this morning against the i Providence Life and Accident insurance Company by Goldsmith end Thornhill, attorneys for Les- Pugh.

By Tho Associated Press Charleston, Oct. 24--Sherman Burks and his wife, Virginia, on trial charged with robbing Jonathan Brabban, of Beckley, changed their plea's, jo guilty -today fnd were sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Brabban testified his mind became a blank after taking a drink with the Burks couple, of" Charleston, April 28. Police testified they found the Beck lev man May In an apartment without clothing, and unshaved. Dr.

Rcy Hay, of South Charleston declared Brabban apparently had been drugged. The state charged the Burks him to sign 12 checks totaling $528, which they cashed. Prosecutor J. Blackburn Walts contended Brabban was "virtually kidnaped." Build Streets In Town Of Pax TRIAL HEARING END IN CRIMINAL COURT Man Charged With Slaying and His Family Were Threatened By Ovcrslcct, is Claimed MAY GET VERDICT THIS AFTERNOON WOMAN IS FINED Found guilty of a misdemeanor in refusing to send her children to school, Mrs. Rowena Hampton, it Beckley, was fined $3 and costs today by Magistrate H.

F. Hancock. Mrs. Hampton was arrested by Special City Officer Wauhop. Slinneiles Go To Morgantown Mr.

and Mrs. G. P. Stinnclte left this afternoon for Morgantown where they wll attend the semi-annual meeting of the Associated Credit Bureaus which opens there tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the morning. Stinnelfe, manager of the Credit Bureau of Beckley is secretary of the state assock- lion.

The meeting will last two days concluding Saturday in time for those in attendance to witness the home-coming celebration game between football teams of Temple and West Virginia universitiis. Mr. and Mrs. Stinnette are alur.mi of the state university. MASONS TO MEET Members of Beckley lodge number 95, A.

F. and A. will assemble in the lodge hall on Main street this evening for work in the third degree. All Master Ma- RALEIGH COUNTY GETS FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS, ROADS Allotment Of About Comes To freckley, Sophia And Highways Of Local Importance od Progress Being Made In Fayette Municipality Street building at the city of Pax, started September 26, is progressing nicely, Mayor H. E.

Woolwine, of the municipality, said this morning. Carloads of materials are constantly arriving, and 20 laborers already are at work. Woolwine said that H. F. Willfong, of Beckley, engineer in general charge of the work, had promised that 18 additional men would be put to work within the very near future.

Approximately one 'mile of streets will be constructed, Woolwine said. The rock base svill be eight inches deep, and over this a limestone coating and asphalt will be laid. The work is being done under a P. W. A.

grant of $14,345. Bluefield Radio Plant Is Granted Extension By Tho Associated Press Washington, Oct. 24 The treasury department announced signing of a warrant today which will permit W. P. A.

Administrator F. Witcher McCullough to initiate projects totaling $2,066,463. The following proposals were announced as included in the program: Logan--Improved Charles Pine and Cassick street. Federal funds, $14,555. Mason county--Lakin, repairs at industrial school; federal fundr $9,890.

Point Pleasant--Improved walk. Federal funds, $71,740. Community service program, federal funds, 55,004. Raleigh county--Beckley, construction addition to high school building, federal funds, $24,891. Place 30 miles of guard rail on the Bcckley-Whitesville road federal funds, $12,220.

Construct six-room schoo' building, federal funds, Sophia Construct water system; federal funds, $15,313. Summers--Hinton, repair city jail, federal funds $6,113. Construct dams, federal funds, $4,953. Jumping Branch, construct school building, federal Jur.ds, $22,018. Donald Carl Dickens Succumbs To Illness I3y Tho Associated Tress Washington, Oct.

24--Mounting exports of materials useful for war were reported yesterday by the government. llaly was shown in commerce department figures to have received large shares of several items in September, the latest month summarized. Coincldently, Secretary Wallace told a press conference of an "extraordinary" demand for American cotton, although he discounted the Halo-Ethiopian war as a factor, (President Roosevelt's arms embargo was issued October 5. Simultaneously, the chief excciitivo put transactions "of any charac- er" on an individual risk basis). For nine months of 1935, the ibmmerce department found shipments of several articles i tho aw-war-materiol category on the uptrend.

Exports of cotton lint- ers, useful alike for manufacturing explosives and rayon cloth, aggregated pounds agairist 1934's 85,715,000, Italy received 736,700 of 8,269,000 pounds which compared with 031,000 in'August. Iron arid steel, which can -bo v- ere- amount of 000 tons in the first nine months of 1935 tn 1034. Of September shipments of 170,486 Children are Sent To Get "The LaW Before Shooting With testimony of several witnesses that Charley Overslreet threatened to kill every member of the Dlevins family, and fired lain chnlf at tfr -gl before he was finally slain by a shotgun blast fired by Will Blevins, his father-in-law, the trial of Blevlns approached a close in Raleigh county criminal court today. Evidence was completed this morning, and the case will be given to the jury after arguments' this afternoon. The only surviving eye witnesses to tho slaying of Overstreet testified at the close of the morn- Ing's session.

Blevins himself, rangy, sandy- haired the jury that he ihot Overstreet when the younger man aimed a rifle at him near Blevlns' house. The defendant said he left his house and went down to a nearby road "to keep Charley Overstreet from killing my kids." A son, Roy Blevins, and a daughter, Agnes Blevlns, had gone to Rhodell "to get some tirtis before the killing. Tells Of Shooting Blevins he was near the road when 1 he saw Overstreet aim a rifle at i "I threv Up my shotgun an3 the first sight I got I fired," he calmly told; the jury. Overstreet sir the face, npclc'nn'd was a gain over August, Italy took 40,432 tons--nearly a fourth. Nine month copper ingot exports wore 403,000,000 pounds, some 25,000,000 over 1934.

September shipments dropped to 34,600,000 pounds from 56,800,000 in August, with Italy taking 5,680,000, or more than a sixth of the Seplembei amount. Italy and Italian Africa look 242 of September's exports of 7,081 trucks. In August, she took more than 1,000 of the 9,997 trucks exported. Nine-month truck exports in. 1935 of 73,857 compared with 1934's 70,998.

Virtually all of Italy's track purchases went to Italian Africa. September truck engine shipments advanced to 542 over August's 447. September exports of aircraft moved to 49 from August's 19, while aircraft engine shipments I dropped to 27 from 90. Italy took but one airplane and three airplane engines. arms by the slugs.

Within a few minutes the shooting, -'shortly before-0veiS-- street died, Constable S. L. Dillon arrived at the scene. Mrs. Rosa Albornos, of Rhodell, who told i th ury she' was, walking along the.road seeking'a lost calf, 'said she saw Overstreet on Page 3) Two Injured In Mine Accident Local Explosion Blamed For Burning Of Men At Francis By Washington, Oct.

24--The Federal Communications Commission yesterday granted an extension of facilities to station WHIS, operated by the Daily Telegraph Printing company of Bluefield, W. Va. The company received authority to operate a porlsHe transmitter on 1410 kilocycles for field tests during such times WHIS is not operating. This order is effective starting today and ending not later than November 22. The commission docketed Jcr hearing an application of the Ohio Valley Broadcasting company of Parkersburg to make changes in equipment and increase day ire cordially invited.

power from 100 to 250 watts. No meeting begins at 7:30. (date was assigned. Donald Carl Dickens, aged 14 months, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Quincy Dickens, of Bolt, died at their home last night at 11 o'clock. The cause of the infant's death was given as meningitis. Burial will be made tomorrow at the Bolt cemetery, with the Reverend Grant Stephens in charge. Calfce undertakers are making the arrangements. In addition to the parents, a sister, Betty Marie, aged threo, ij living.

Borrowers From Home Loan Corp. Paying Up By The Associated Press Washington, Oct-. 24--The Home Owners Loan corporation reported today one-fifth of the payments due from property owners in West Virginia were-delinqucnt on September 30. The H. O.

C. said the percentage of delinquencies for 90 days or more in West Virginia was 20.7 compared with 22 per cent for the nation. Installments due the last of September tolal $1,832,135 with $380,293 listed as in arrears. Planning Appeal For Hauplmann Rosecrans Studies Other Cases Before Supreme Court By Tho Associated 1'iefs Washington, Oct. Richard Hauptmann's counsel began plotting yesterday the course for his supreme court appeal from a death sentence.

Egbert Rosecrans, one of counsel for the convicted Lindbergh kidnaper, spent a full day in the court library, poring over past cases that he said paralleled Hauplmann's and inquiring into court procedure. Appeal, said Rosecrans, would be on substantially the same premises used in argument before the New Jersey court of error and appeals. Haupfmann's petition to the supreme court, Rosecrans said, would be presented sometime before November 15. The preparation of the petition for filing in the high court has been practically completed, Rosecrans said. is impossible at this time," Rosecrans stated, "to definitely fix (Continued On Page 3) Two coal loaders were injured at 8 o'clock this morning in the mine of the E.

C. Minter Cca! company at Frances explosion thought to have resulted from the ignition of gas. The accident occurred in the first right of the number one mine in lower. Tommy creek workings. Noble Bailey, about 35, coal loader, the more seriously of the two, was taken to the Beckley hospital in a Rose Funeral Home ambulance after receiving attention from two physicians at Frances.

At the time of his admission ha was under the influence of three- quarters of a grain of morphine administered following the accident, and could give little information to hospital authorities. He was said to have received severe burns about the face and arms and the upper part ol his body. Ben Cadle, second man injured, was but slightly burned, and did not require hospilalization. Mine officials were investigating to ascertain the cause of the explosion, which was not sufficiently damaging to halt work at the mine for the dav. THE WEATHER Fair and slightly colder in south and extreme east portions tonight.

Friday fair with slowly i i temperature in west portion. Bcckiey's high temperature yesterday was degrees, low last nighl 33, L. Mauck said..