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Head of Searching Party Relates Graphic Story or Associated Press Bandits Hold Up Mooresville Bank Public Enemy to Meet Trial or Evading ed eral Income Taxes ish and urges that remember sanctuary to invade Tells How Body Of Nelson ound Wallace Calls On Cotton Crowers To Reduce Another ive Per Cent Lord Ashley Is Granted Divorce Bandits Release Girls Unharmed WASHINGTON Nov 28 Secretary Wallace indicating con cern over the? dwindling consunro Policy Adopted With Ger Many Escape With Loot of $5 000 After Taking Car rom armer Dutch Schultz Gives Self Up BLEASE GIVES CLIENTS A TURKEY DINNER COLUMBIA Nov 28 (AP) English and his wife Geneva English at least will have a turkey dinner to morrow Cole Blease termer gover nor and United States Senator said tonight he had ordered a turkey dinner fruit and a num ber of books sent to the couple on Thanksgiving Day "I am trying to make it as pleasant as I can for said CltARLGTTESVITTE Vu Nov An Investigating commit tee of the American Association of University Professors has reported here than when Converse College nt Spartanburg discharged Dr Peter A Carmichael last spring the college violated the principles of academic freedom Dr Cnrmlchaei the report says was "admittedly discharged slmulv and solely beennse the trustees felt that bls continued teaching at Con verse disturbed the religious ortho doxy of some of his students" The doctor professor of philosophy and wveholofjy nt the South Carolina ghTs institution was quoted ns having said during lecture "God Declares Converse College Violated reedom Principles Of CW1 in if nJH l14gU Ul Proposal to Pay Veterans In Need Claims In a li Baby ace Nelson Dies rom Shots END TO CONLICT Additional benefit payments ag gregating $7500000 were promised to farmers already undei con GRAYDOX SPECIAL JUDGE COLUMBIA Nov 28 Upon recommendatlim of acting Chief Justice John Stabler of the State Supreme Court Governor Blackwood today appointed Graydon of Columbia as special judge to hold a term of General Sessions court In Charleston be ginning December 3 The late Judge Townsend was origin ally assigned to hold the term TO CUT RELIE ROLLS Hope to Stop the ull Cash Bonus Payment Rush In Congress New York City id 1 likely to vote a 2 per cent sales tax to raise $40000000 for relief Governor elect Olin Johnston tippears favorable to the the state providing relief funds to match those of the government but thus far there has been no suggestion as how the money would be provided Dump Body on Street CHICAGO Nov 28 The bodv of an unidentified man was tossed in front of a office tonight and police rushed to the scene in efforts to determine if the slain man might have been the gangster comnanion of George iBabv ace) Nelson The bodv was dumped from a speedintr automobile witnesses said It landed In front of the office of Dr Mitchell Corbett Des Plaines Avenue Police sent a squad to the office Police said while thev had no in formation to indicate the slain man mav have been connected with Nel son the manner In which the body was disoosed of led them to believe the victim was either a gangster or a eanc victim By The Associated Press Business came to a virtual standstill in the Carolinas to day al the teatea observed Thanksgiving Day A number of major football games attracted thousands of fans while huntsmen took to the woods and fields In search of game State federal county and municipal offices to a large extent closed for the day and in most instances business houses closed as well Special Thanksgiving services were scheduled in many com munities Heading the davs sports pro gram were football games every major team in the two states participating The day marked the official close of the 1934 gridiron season rpll South Carolina will 1 join with the rest of the nation today in observing Thanksgiving Providence and The New Deal are foremost in the minds of the people and with these two thoughts uppermost a most cheerful holiday is anticipated Harrison Believes Plan Will Meet With Appro val of Mr Roosevelt President Begins Broad Program Building Homes Presses Housing or the Little ellow Who Get Private Credit (Copyright 1934 Associated Press' LONDON Nov London be decked in all its finery for the marriage tomorrow of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina cock ed apprehensive eyes at the weath er mans forecast that fog might mar the decade's most brilliant social event With the capital In its most fes tive mood and dress since London ers danced in the ureete at the signing of thq Armistice weather officials who furnished Bucking ham Palace periodic reports throughout the day preoictcd cal fog early but onlv rmst during the greater part of the day" Buckingham Palace however had no idea of letting the wfeath er whatever It be with the precise schedule and the gor geous pagentry of the wedding of King George's fourth son and his Continued On Page ive MOORESVILLE Nov 28 our bandits today held up the irst National Bank of Moores ville robbed it of upwards of $5 000 and escaped after a flight into South Carolina during which they wrecked their automobile and tcok another from a farmer Tonight three men were taken into custody at York for questioning but the farmer whose automobile the bandits command ered near there and members of Ills family were unable to identify them The men arrested in a York cafe were booked bv police as Mark Johnson Ben Johnson and Charlie Miller all of Charlotte Of ficers said employes of the Moores ville bank would attempt to iden tify the men tomorrow The ouartet descended on the bank here shortly after 11 o'clock this morning and in seven minutes were away with their loot While Mooresville officers pursued them and officers from the direction taken from rushed to guard roads the bandit car slipped awnv over little used roads and was next reported In South Carolina TRY a WANT ADV In The Morning News! You Reach 20000 Readers! i Hunting season birds will open today hundreds of sportsmen will go out to try their luck Dan McCarthy of the Came Association i all sportsmen about the game and be careful not its precincts ALBANY Nov Dutch Schultz once a New York beer racket leader surrendered to the federal government today while its agents pushed an inten sive search to bring him to trial on an income tax evasion charge The neatly "dressed utile 'hood lum walked into the office of Un ited States Commissioner Lester Hubbard admitted he was Ar thur lenheimer Alias Dutch Schultz fugitive since last Janu ary Schultz is accused in one in stance of side stepping a payment of $22366 on an income of $130 234 In 1929 "My only regret is that Schultz will not be carried here in a wood enbox" was the comment on New York police commissioner Lewis Valentine on Schults' surrender Schultz has been trying to ne: gotiate a comprpmise for severe weeks seeking to avoid trial on the income tax evasion charge a procedure that cost Scarface A) Continued On Pace ive the wea may prevent the Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS Calif Nov 28 Thanksgiving Day In ihc 'lav of Its founders they were willing to give thanks for mighty little (or mighty Hi lle was all they expected) Bui now neither government or na ture ran give enough but what think It's too tittle Those old boys In the fall of the year If they rould gather in few pumpkins potatoes and some eom for the win ter they was In a thanking mood But If wp can't gather In a new Buick a new radio a tuxedo and some government relief Why we feel like the world I again in Vnurs WILL ccrn uvvi uiu uwhiujuim lion of cotton today invited pro tract In the program announced ducers to reduce an additional five today Otherwise the plan follows per cent in 1935 after the program in effect this year them to make the maximum alas' 'The course that has been adont the program in effect this year rd" Wallace said tnc greatest possibilities from the standpoint of the oroduccr's In terest It should result in a con tinued ample supply of American cotton that can lie purchased by foreign and domestic consumers at prices which judged ty past standards are not Secretary Wallace reiterated that he was "impartial" so far as the Bankhead act was 'concerned A vote of southern cotton growers scheduled for mld Dccember is to determine whether the compulsory control cd More tlmcnt grown act OICE CLOSED TODAY The business office of the Morn ing News will be closed today in accordance with the usual holiday office hours Direct and rank Contact Regarding Armament Sought in uture Dealings LONDON Nov 28 A new British policy In dealing with Ger many one of direct and frank contact Regarding armament ana other has been inaugu rated on Britatas initiative Sir John Simon told the House of Com mons tonight The foreign secretary revea ed that in accord with the new policy the speech of Baldwin to dav in which he urged Germany to abandon her Isolation and sec Continued On Page Six) measure will be continu um! more however sen ainong AAA officials has for continuance of the MEDITATIONS By Alley if there a God" Other charges brought against him by the trustees at the time of bls discharge Included a statement that he and his wife did not care to attend church and that they did not enjoy listening to radio ser mons In Its examination of the case the committee composed of Pro fessor Wolf of the Univer sal of North Carolina and Pro fessor Newman I White of Duke University said it had made a full Investigation of the "rumors' of Dr Carmichael's unorthodoxy The committee was named by Dr A Mitchell oi the University of Vir ginia Despite the inter I ference it may have with Thanksgiving Day plans the rain that came yesterday and continued early this morning is something that everybody ought to be thankful for Just think what this rain means for the grain crops which have been so retarded by the long continued spell Today is Thanks 1 giving day The people of this city and state as well as country have much to be thankful for Doors of the churches will be open for them to proclaim their Thanksgiving WASHINGTON Nov 28 Administration forces dangled pa ment to the needv bonus compio misc lodav before full payment ad a program belieica many legislators to make new taxes virtually Inevitable Chairman Harrison Miss ot the senate finance committee fresi from a conference with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs made known the proposal to stop the full bonus rush He leftjiulc doubt that it would receive Mr Roose velt's approval proponents of the bonus would agree" he said "that those ex service men who are in nee should be given Immediate payment of their service certificates I haven't the slightest doubt we could get together and pass the leg islation" One angle of the proposal attract ed immediate attention The Pres ident ih apparently tentatively approving the nlan sees a chance of cutting the relief rolls bv some thing approaching the amount paid the veterans Harrison made clear that vet erans on relief rolls would be taken off if paid their bonus or at tenst would have their relief cut propor tionately Thus the administration would get the troublesome bonus out of thd and tn si sense pav for it out of money now going into the relief rolls The putting lorward of a com promise served to make it increas ingly clear here that the adminis tration considered the full payment advocates had gained such strength that some earlv move was neces sary to turn the rush aside Whe ther proposal will suffice depends upon still undetermined factors ull payment would cost more than $2000000000 How much the compromise would cost would de pend on how many veterans came forward as While Harrison would not go be yond saying that the compromise would lessen the likelihood of new taxes there was a steong belief in other Quarters that such a plan would necessitate new taxation since Continued On Page ive MOBILE Ala Nov 28 WT Three young girls members of prominent Mobile families tonight were safe at home laughing ovc their experience of being abducted tn the residential district and forc ed to drive two masked men 61 miles liefore being released un harmed The gills admitted on their re turn here this morning after be ing abandoned and their car dis abled near Jackson tha they "were scared to death but that the men apnarentlvonlv "wanted to get out of town Vlrwln3 old Virginia Whiting niece of president ot the irst National Bunk described the experience "Wo were sitting in front with the two men in the back and wc didn't utter a word she said the men talked it was in whispers and we could not hear what they were saving Thev did not attempt to hurt us and made no threats of any kind Thev onlv brandished guns when they leaped on the running board when we slowed down for a street intersection Janet 'Janet Powers 18) was driving and she obeyed orders Wc did not make nnv attempt to resist Thor only iietned to be to ftet out ot town' The two men lumped on the rim ting boaal of the ear in the rest ntinl district lust ht ordeil Miss Powers Miss Whiting and Miss lot ahie Walsh 16 to drive ts they told them The car was directed north on the hlehwtv leading toward Bir mingham but ns It approached the slate owued toll bridge over the Tomblubei! river near Jackson tnc men ordered the Rh1 to halt tha cur mid get out The gills said the men then rot out took the ignition key dis appeared into the woods bolder inc the road The villa fled to the toll krejrcr home where thev summoned th" narents here who returned them to their homtvi early tills morning still frlghteiicd but otherwise Uli hurl ulmer to Push State Projects Predicts avorable Recep tion of Half Billion Sub sistence Program by Congress WASHINGTON Nov 28 Predicting a gigantic 4500000000 five year subsistence homesteads program will be received faTOrably hv roncress Represeirta Ive Wcr of South Carolina said lodav ne would press for action on two projects proposed for his Stjle said options already have been obtained on lands near Orange burg and Columbia for develop ments for negro farm families but progress was being held up to see what steps congress mav take The Orangeburg protect wouiu pe piirelv for rural families while nt Columbia a development Is Plan ned so the homesteaders mav he emploved pmt lime in a nearby fer tilizer plant Each protect would accomodate approximately 200 families tJd entail mi outlay of between J300 ono and $500000 Homer tead developments ulmer said would greatly stimulate con struction incrcnso employment rrcate a large market for building miiterials and lessen the nation's relief load Gnenklng of nation wide Plan he said: "I am whole heart Mlv In favor of such a program It would give thousands of persons naw on rellet rolls a new lease on life bv giving theni a chance to make their own ulmer said Ite was apprlxcd th st a five year $500000000 program was being considered when he cnll txl at subsistence homesteads hend ouurt rs here In regard to the South xa rv riTTVTTAV JJAIIjI AINU OUlNUrtx I EDERAL AGENTS SLAY PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 SUMTER Nov 28 Po liceman Kirvcii who shot it out with two bandits Sunday morn ing and killed one joined Ofi'CCl Scaffe earlv this mornini in shooting to death a negro who they said apparently was attempt ing to rob the armers exchange here The officers reported that the negro identified as Thomas Jordan of Ti' imtnsvllle 26 threw a brick at Kiivcn Reaching ior his pocket he warned the men not to approach closer The officers then opened lire killing the negro almost Instantly Kiiven engaged in a gun battle with two bandits who attempted to hold up the Clan mont hotel here early Sunday and killed one who was later identified as John iger a former Illinois convict The other was wounded but escaped London Bedecked Despite og or Royal Wedding Capital In Most estive Mood Since the Armis tice To ollow Schedule Although 1 th er scheduletl out door exercises at the same time the mem bers of the irst Baptist church will cary on today with the determination' to break ground for the new Sunday School building The exercises will take place rain or shine at 9 this morning Waters who has seen a half century of st ice in the Baptist church here will spade the first bit of dirt in the beginning of the construction While Douglas air banks Co Respondent Is Made to Pay the $10000 Costs LONDON Nov 28 minutes of court action in which Douglas airbanks Sr was named as co respondent sufficed today to give Lord Ashley a divorce de cree Nisi from Ladv Ashley fur mer musical comedy actress Those eight minutes were Wso sufficient to cost airbanks about $10 000 for the divorce court de cided that he had to pay the costs of the action and thev were esti mated at $2 000 Only Lord Ashtev and a man named Edwards whom he describ ed as airbanks' former private sec retary appeared in court They testified a couple of jninutes eaei and the court decided Ashley had cause for divorce Since there was no defense there iurv Sir Bovd Merriman president qf the court sigied the decree gli Ing the nobleman a final divorce In six months If contrary cause is now shown Edwards tesiificd he had been emoloved bv airbanks from Au gust 1933 to Mav 134 and that airbanks and Ladv Ashley who bi fere her man irse was Svlvla Hawkes had lived In adjoining bedrooms In a country home ci'iled limns Park" from early in Mav Continued On Page ive The following graphic ac count of the finding of George "Baby ace" Nelson's body was written for the Associated Press by Captain A Stol berg chief of the suburban Niles Center police who head ed the searching party and in stigated the hunt) By A STOLBI RG (Chief of Nile Center Police) CHICAGO Nov I heard of the gun battle between George "Babv ace" Nelson and his com panions atiri government agents Samuel Cowley and heraman Hollis and I figured it might be possible Nelson was hiding here I made up my mind we werent going to have any public enemies in Niles Center and decided to search the town to fflue sure he here and to Kill him if he was Wei! he's in on a slab now All available police were sum moned and enlisted in a hunt through the town and the woods and prairies We found the bloody bundle of clothing abandoned by Nlson this mornffif at Railroad Avenue and Continued On Page ive Work on Budget Nearly Through COLUMBIA Nov slate budget commission aa loui ned todav until next week when it expects to complete its work of diafting recommendations to the legislature for 1935 36 ap propriations work has ocen practically completed Senator Ward chairman of the senate finance con inittee said explaining that final action noon onlv a few de tails was deferred until next week meeting Members of the commis sion expressed the hope last week that the work could comoleted bv Thanksgiving Dav The commission nas not reveal ed the total its recommendations ere expected to reach but spokes men have said it would be onlv liehtlv higher than las' pronriatlons bill and would "take care of everything" State agencies nt 'hearings before the commission requested approxi mately $8857000 as compared wl'h as appropriations of around $60 18 000 (MO5'THAMKULTHlN6USB UH T'DAY OLE 'OMAN'S KIM DiDM' HA8 DNSE T5TAY UH DIMKJUH Roosevelt Regards Step As Very avorable to Hea vy Industries WARM SPRINGS Ga Nov 2'3 President Roosevelt Las laid down a broad principle of gov ernment home construction for the fellow with a small pocketbook who cannot get private credit This policy envisages a vast pro gram of federal building through out the nation In clearance of slums and rural housing but de tails remain to be worked out Speaking Informally in response to questions of reporting gathered about the cozv living room of tho Roosevelt cottaae here on Pine Mountain Mr Roosevelt emphasiz ed todav that the government rec ognizes its obligations to those people whose standards of living are so low that something must be done for them but whose poc ketbooks are so small that they can not obtain private capital The huge program was regardea as ending the conflict between Sec retary Ickes and housing admin istrator Moffett over the formers proposal for public slum clearance Moffett who is coming here tomor row offered no comment on the Roosevelt views In projecting the federal govern Inin ennstruetion of homes LIXJ UUivJk lie oaiUi for the low income group of the Iajen before they went country mid step as distinctly favorable to heavy industries He believes it will mean a very definite lift not only during construction but also after wards through increased consum ing demand resulting from a bet Continued On Pare ive ner cent in 1935 after ordering 25 per cent Thus a reduction of one quar ter must be made in average num ber of acres planted In cotton dur ing the 1928 1932 period The two year cotton contracts which call ed for a 40 ner cent cut In 1934 Dlaccd the 25 per cent limit ns the maximum cut which would be rcoulrcd for next venr A statement by Wallace and an accompanying review of cotton'g position gave the figures which showed that even with the plow up campaign In 1933 and the al most 15000000 acres taken out of production this yen the United States and the world still has one of the largest carry oven on record Consumption of the staple has dropped this year both at home and abroad Under the circum stances the secretary took out as many acres as he could: opened the campaign to let non cooper ators come In and invited the ex tra curtailment Riddled orm of Gangster Had Been Pitched rom Car By Companions CRIME CAREER ENDS Two ederal Men Die In Successful Attempt to Capture Killer UHIUAGOT Nov (API George "Baby ace" Nelson public enemy No 1 died today a posthumous victim of two gallant federal agents wno lost their lives in attempt to capture him The bullet riddled body at tlie crime successor of slate John Dillinger was ftund in a muddy ditch this siiemoon near suburban Niles Center Wrapped only in a blanket his diminutive form was stain ed with blood from J7 bullet wounds he suffered in vioious battle in which two ace government agents Sam uel Cowley and Herman Hollis were slain The federal men had died not knowing their aim had been true and that they had brought down the most widely nought criminal in the country the slayer of their fellow offi cer Carter Baum Im spring Authorities at first be'jeved that in yesterday's battle at Barring ton not far from Niles Center prairie where Nelson's body was discovered Nelson fell before the fire of the men he had alain But at least one affinal police commissioner Ambrose Brod of Niles Center asserted he believed Nelson had not killed the offi cers Their trigger fiwrs were tnn Quick he said and Nelson had tnl zVxtim He said he believed Nelsons un identified male companion tired the shots which killed the govern ment men The government version In com ment by Edgar Hoover chief of the division of investigation av Washington and superior of the two officers was: "Yes we got the guy (Nelson) but he killed tw0 of our men It was two lives for one" Various authorities have named John Hamilton surviving partner of the original gang Topuny Touhy of the notorious Chicago gang and Alvin Karpis one of the accused Bremer kidnapers as the gunman with Nelson in the battle of Barrington He and their woman companion supposedly the widow Nelson apparently had made gcoa their Continued On Page ive People of State To Give Thanks EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA LORENCE THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 29 1931 'SUMTER OICER WHO SHOT BANDIT KILLS NEGRO MAN Mr? South Carolina: Kain with mild temperature Thurs day riday rain and cold er ttl In Body IW Mi SyniBt 1.