The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 1

i-, i sr a I SB mm FINAL EbrnoN THE WEATHER: Probably" occasional rain tonight and Thursday Warmer in rl' It 'i 1 .4 Leading Nempaptrbf Western South Carolina GREENWOOD. S. C. WEDNED ABovVtATEv rVCSB VUTAXVIISS 1934. ST SENATORS 29, MAY iimBtOillHlK MM IK 7 Two Federal AgentsSMifa By Gangsters Near Chicago lTh POST SEEKS NEW a -i in I I 4 iUMsvMM'wH.

4 Wuey Pest, shews ebeve dlsibhag laU the estkpit sf als ahiB -Wfawle Mae," assaasi te seek a MjtH feet ea a fBgat at BsrUcavO. Oaia. Im ais stnWfphers sU fit, Pest, asied reamd-tae wsrid flier. Iseas msre like a deep sea elver Hold Up West Virginia's 29 year eld senator-elect. Bash D.

ILoli, faees a probable chafJenfe over the. eenaUtntionaUly of his whether or -sot he waits antil be reaches the eeswUtstUnal ace of' If befeee taking kls seat. Senate republican say that la Two ether slmuar eases elections were declared void. They also eon tend thai the ease ef Henry Clay, who took his seat at IS. dees net set a yvseeatnt be eaaae the aaestlsa of his are was not raised or )ml avsaw Boh Carolina; Bonli I 2 iJ tcvTrM or IwJ W7S.

FACE CHALLENGE J. Masked Bandits Release Captives After, Being Driven To' Nearby Town MOBILE, Nov 18. -W-Kidnaped on a downtown residential street by two masked bandits three society girls were forced to drive their captives to a spot near Jackson, before being released here today. The bandits ordered the girls from the auto as they approached a toll bridge near Jackson and then turned off a side road and drove away. Victims are: Miss Virginia Whiting, niece of T.

R. Dealer, president of the First National bank here. Lorraine Walsh and Janet' Powers. All are prominent In Mobile society circles. Mlas Powers was driving the au tomobile which belonged i to Miss Walsh when the two, men Jumped on the running board and coverd the mwlth guns.

Threatening to kill them "unless you drive where we tell you." the men entered and directed 'the girls to take them to Jackson. i Latest Wire Flashes i BONUS COMPROMISE WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 WV-8en-ator Harrison of the senate finance oommlttee today made the flat prediction that if the advocates of the bonus, would sgree to a compromise to press the service certificates for only needy service men it would have good chance of His talk appeared to leave no doubt that the administration would approve such a compromise. CAROLINA, ALLOTMENTS WASHINGTON. sdmlnlstrstlon today made Dublle the December allotment to North Carolina ss I1AM.I33 and to South Carolina as Is shewn shove ss passed befere the statae ef Clay et-tee oapHi probably beping that precedent wfll A AERNpON, NOV.

28, Officers Search Home Of Jack Durand ir 'For Escaped Bandits The killers who fought a running fight federal agents as they fled, along the, highway escaped in the automobile of the federal officer. They had left their own machine and sent a hail of bullets at the federal agents when the two stepped from their car and advanced toward them with pistols drawn. The hunt lor Nelson focussed today In the exchialve area fronting on Lake Michigan. sVsrth of Highland Park. Led by four department of Justice agents a squad of officers at dawn swooped down on.

the home of Jack Durand. foster son of socially prominent Scott Djrand. The officers searched the house from attte to cellar and extended tbe.mant to the bamtnd woodsb ut foyad no trace of the outlaws. From there hey went to the Scott Durand home, where they searched the estate. However they did not search the sMrs.

Durand said, federal men told her the government had Information the men were In the neigh borhood of the Durand-iarm. Two squsda from the Chicago bu- peauef the department of. Justice said they, ware running down clues but without result. Policeman Weeps After Killing Friend During Rtim Amuck KANSAS CITY. Nov.

28 (P Myron KtMlke) Fanning, year old motorcycle policeman wjjo ran amuck Monday night and shot and killed Orant Schroder, 34, a friend and, feUow sobbed 'with remorse In his cell today. made a mess 'of my life," Fanning said. "Schroder was my friend. It's. all so terrible." Fanning drinking heavily after, going off duty Monday afternoon, fellow officers said.

They attributed his action to worry over rumors that bullets from Farming's gun might have been responsible for the death ot one or more of the five victims In the union station slaylngs of June 17. 1933. there. TShnlng, who- talked rationally, yesterday, said the last thing he recalled was taking some drinks. Oo-ug to the union station, he taxi drivers, station employes and fellow officers there.

He de clared, he was an officer of "the Confederate He lined four men up against the wall In the sta tion commissary room and told them "I'm doing this In the name of liquor," they said. Schroder was shot and klUed at the station when he encountered Fannlag. SANTA MONICA. Cat. Nov.

STI wrote little "gag" the ether day akewt "appealing te the prwrideni far a gsamntee, and I set a yea thswght Jwet te be writing. Well, get thai headlined la the papers today. Bard, president ef the Nstleaal AaseclaUen ef i Kaaefectavere, ask the the teBewlngt "BaMness arast hsve asere definite Ideas to the alrecUoa la which the government te I can Jast see Mr. Roosevelt rashlng is with a gwaraatee reading ebeat as. fellewst "Nobody gaaranteed sae say thing when I seek ever this Job.

No man gambles mere than a president ef the United States, go yea wtn pardon me If I am net able to gwaraatee easiness that It 'weal tee-. JOLVES 01 PHIflEn PRICE: FIVE CENTS Oil IIEIT MOTIONS i' esnssoaawsae Will' Be Asked To Make Secretary -vlckes Party To Suit CHIEF COUNSEL HUNT COMING Definite Date Is Fixed For Of vCase In This i Court 'County Attorney Rupert F. Deris made twe Important announcements today hi connection with the conn ts action combatting the suit of the; Duke power Company and Its subsidiary, the Southern Public Utilities company, for an ta-juncton against construction of the Busaard Roost power project. The first was that he bad been advised that Federal Judge B. H.

Wstklns had fixed Friday, December at 19 a. bl, to bear the two motions of the attorneys represent ing the county. This bearing win bo held at chambers at Anderson. The' second wss that Henry T. chief counsel of the Public Works; him over long distance telephone from Wasobc' he would be pi Ss out tt.

tba hearing and would make a tuotioa before Judge Wat- kins to make Secretary Ickes of the Intarkr. Dcpajnent and bead of the PWA, a party to the suit. In other words, Ut. Hunt will ask that Mrr 1m be a defendant along with oreenwood county. Tssterdsy Oouhty Attorney Davis and E.

Davis, secretary of the Oreenwood County Finance Board, filed the two motions with Wilbur White, clerk of Tderal Court, at Anderson yesterday, and definite Information wasxeceived! today that Judge Wat-kins had Mt next Friday as the date the bearing. The county's two motions will be for anwilaal of thoTJuk complaint on the grounds that the test suit of Dr. R. H. Park against the county, "Instituted la the original Jurisdiction of the South Carolina Supreme bad been decided against the taxpayer, that the complaint fslla to state a cause of action, and that the plaintiffs have no standing In court The other- gives notice of a motion' before Judge Wstklns for an order requiring the bill of complaint to be more definite In two para graphs affecting the financial ob- bogaUoni of county.

Attorneys la Cass In addition to lef Counsel Hunt of the other attorneys will be R. r. Davis. W. H.

Nlchol. ron. Robtnaon Robinson and D. W. Robinson.

Attorneys lor the Duke power Company, tt was said today, had been notified: of the hearing and would be present to present the side of the plalnURa Fiini iRH unni bllUMUII Lord Ashley Wins Suit With Douglas Fair- banks As Core- spondent LONDON. Nov. 21 WV-Lord ley was granted a divorce nisi from Lady Ashley court todsy. Com In the were assessed Douglas' Fairbanks. the cor The decree which gives the you; noblemad a final divorce decree ter ali months If a contrary cn Is not shown was handed down Sir Boyd Merrlroan.

The miU not innnr iiiitviiiptii JUUbLWHIIMHDIU HEAR ARGUMENTS DniCEHTED VOL. XV. 0.296. sassr kauom oatar a mis NKA Chiefs Plan Ferelble Isapest-tlon ef Cde en Drftart Indassryi Blae Eagle Ufa I IMvlaeaw team nlng field for Choice- Casei Flfltt Bcwftry 8pwrc4 by mflt FM Trade Riae; Huwfactarer Am Alarmed by Hlfher Cwto Ukr ad Materia. WASHINQTON, Nor.

38-Tbt "all quiet" aign about to be hauled down on the NRA front' Plana are being secretly completed by the Blue Eacle ruler for a direct assault on the group of defiant industries hitherto refuting to submit to codes. The proposed attack win tax the form of a forcible Imposition of a code on one of the recalcitrants. Exactly which industry la to receive the contemplated bock-shot has not yet been determined. The NRA board expect Its club vfeldmg to be met with legal resistance, and it Is scanning the field carefully to select the most adrantageous battleground. A number of Industries, chief a-mong them telephone, telegraph, insurance, tobacco, wholesale druggists, are still uncodod.

During his regime, General Hugh Johnson frequently, threatened to Impose codes, but never through with It Now his successors have definite- ly determined to make the teat The Blue Eagle legal division, headed by young BlackweO Smith, believes that it is ready for trial of strength. And with a session of Congress convening shortly, at which the future fate of the NRA Is to be determined, the board haeeeVlfd hat the time has arrived for a showdown? PresMeatlal Caaepy Roosevelt has received a letter from a Oeorgien which follows: "Dear Mr. President: "I have Just been evicted from my home, and am writing to ask if you will send me a tent to live in. I would be very proud to show my friends a tent which the PrWdent has sent me." Significant rigWM The economics behind the big business drive against the NRA and further labor legislation is tellingly disclosed In certain Uttle-publtclaed commercial figures. These statistics show that while Industry generally had a nourishing productive period last quarter.

Its profit margin had been pared considerably. In other words, while the volume of output and sales maintained an unbrokenly brisk pace and sometimes- even expanded the profit side of the ledger revealed a slimmer inflow Into the till. The picture of what occurred to graphically recorded in the following: The National City Bank of New York reported that from July to October, 1SS major corporations showed a SB per cent decrease In earnings from to T7 0006 as compared with profits for the same months in 1WI. During this period the concerns made and sold more goods than last Chrysler Corporation reported that In the first nine months of this year. It sold more automobiles than in any twelve-month (Continued On Page Three) PBOFESSI 0(6 I RT CHAPEL HILL Collier Cobb, Renowned Geologist, To Be Buried There CHAPEL HILL.

N. Nov. 3S ColUer Cobb, professor of geology and renowned for his work In geological research in various parts of the world, died here today. Dr. Cobb was 72 years For the past II months Oobb had been In 111 health following a stroke and had done little teething.

Funeral services win te bald at 4 p. m. tomorrow an4 trarlal win be In the university ebspel grounds. eft Threes Society Girls ICidnaped At Mobile ALTITUDE MAIlKl it' -I' plaae sHitade snft.ef sseei a. Between Three And Four.

Thousand Dol- lars Stolen This Morning" UOORESVILLE, N. Nov. 31 Fire bandits held up and robbed the First National Bank of MooresvUIe about 11 o'clock this morning and escaped between three and four thousand dollars. Half a dosen customers were in the bank and the bandits forced these Into a rear room with flourishing pistols and ordered the employees to lie down on the floor. They then took all the cash in sight and (led In' a green auto (Ford V-S) in the direction of Chariot te.

Police flashed calls to nearby towns and a dragnet was laid down to prevent their escape. Three bandits entered the bank by the front door, drew: pistols and walked toward the cage. They ordered C. Y. Alexander, assistant cashier, and.

Miss Mary Cornelius, bank employee, to lie on the floor and close eyes. i While two of the men stood guard a third described as a small man and the apparent leader went to the rear door and admitted two others. They then went Into the offices of the bank add forced Floyd Miller and Miss Looise Ballard to lie on the 1 The money taken was from the teller's esge. The vault was locked. Officials of the bank said It would take eome time to make a complete check and determine how much was Steal FaraMr'B Gar YORK.

8. C' nlen whose ear became stuck In a ditch held up Tom Wallace, farmer living near here and "'took his auto shortly after one o'clock. From the description given him by Wallace Sheriff C. A. Moss be lieved the bandits were the ones who hedl up the bonk' at MoorevUle this morning.

The farmer with his wife, children and Charlie of Clover stepped to offer aaslKtance (when they saw the car stuck In a ditch. The five men drew pistols and ordered him and his party from the The strangers took gasoline from their auto, put most of It in Wall ace's car and threw the rest over their auto and set It afire. Leaving Wallace. and family sanding In the rain the bandits drove toward Sharon. Wallace's car Is a black sedan (Ford V.

IIL IF BULLETS PI IN FIERCE FIGHT "Baby Face" Nelson Is Identified As One Of Escaping Killers OTHER THOUGHT TO BE HAMILTON Cowley And Hollis Are Latest Agents To Fall Before Gangsters CHICAOO. Nov. 28. PV-Rem- nants of the DUllnger gang led by Oeorgi. (Baby-face) Nelson struck back today at the government with deadly vengeance, killing two ace man hunters In a furious gun battle at suburban Barrington.

Victims of the gins' new outburst of gun fire were Samuel P. Cowley, ss. In command of local of ficers of the federal bureau of Investigation, and Herman K. Hollis, 2S. The fatal shooting yesterday resulted la an intensive man hunt In which the government Is throwing its full power.

Cowley died at 1:17 this morning, 13 hours after Nelson and a companion belle red In some quarters to baJ3UUnceri lieutenant Lester Ham ilton had wounded htm and killed Hollis when the twtf officers ea tight up with them for a showdown right just inside the city limits of Bar rington late yesterday afternoon. Trolley Car Strike Settlement Sought 'After-Night Violence LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2S(V- While guards patrolled Los Angeles Railway Company train and bus lines to prevent rioting, representatives of the company and striking operators were called Into a meeting with Mayor Frank Shaw today In an effort to settle the four-day-old strike. But one obstacle remained In the path of a settlement re -employment of all strikers without prejudice Way or Shaw announced. The strike was called to obtain a orty-elght-hour week and a 10 to 15 per cent wage Increase with a scale ranging from 63 to 73 cents an hour.

Rioting broke out Monday night at Seventh and Broadway Los Angeles' busiest Intersection when a crowd gathered, seemingly by pre-arrangement, at the rush hour as thousands were homeward bound. Trolley poles were pulled from the wires and air brakes decommlMlon- ed. About twenty-five street can were stalled by the crowds before an police reserves in the city cleared the streets with tear gas charges. Twelve' men' were arrested, 'Po liceman L. A.

Peterson. whose In-JurisfSwere not serious, was the only known casualty. Yugoslavian Priest Killed As He Saves Bishop From Attack NOVISAD, Yugoslavia. Nov. OP) The Rev.

Father Toms Shtranger, a Roman Catholic priest was killed today, when he threw himself In front of two assassins who attempted to kill Bishop Marco Kolodyer. the head ef he Cetho-11a church of Yugoslavia. In the vlllafe of Btarry-Yankovata Bishop Kolodyer was unhurt. The bishop and prlent with three tons were riding In a carriage through Starry-Yankovata when the the assassins attacked. All three of the sextons were seriously wounded with knife With the murder of their King Alexander still rankling In their minds, a Crowd of peasant spectators tried to lynch the murderers, one of whom was killed In the fight The other was saved from being trampled, to death only by the in tervention of police who arrested him.

OFFICERS AGENTS OHIVE TO EfJD "BABY FACE Superiors Say Cowley Actual Leader In imination Of i Gangsters WA8HINOTON. Nov. 3S. V-Word that "Baby-face" Nelsons career must be cut short at all costs went out today as department of Justice agents were told to shoot first i At the same time It was disclosed that Samuel Cowley, one of the two government men fell before the gangsters was the actual lead er In the sensational coups that eliminated DUllnger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Kven as Cowley died In Illinois his superiors said that it was he who commanded the federal squad men who followed the trail of DUllnger and Floyd until they were cornered and killed.

The general Impression was that Melvln Purvis, young South Carolinian wae In command. i CHUKCUlLL SFCAKS LONDON. Nov. Winston Churchill, conservative pasty leer der. declared in the house of commons today that Germany already has a military air force rapidly ap proaching equality with that of Oreat Britain and the present defence forces of Oreat Britain are entirely Inadequate.

EES Five Bandits North 21 uuut PILOT DHLS OUT Mail Cargo As Plane Burns Between Atlanta And Chicago SCOTT8BORO, Ala Nov. 28 WV-An Eastern Airline pilot bound from Atlanta for Chicago with mall bailed out at 2.000 feet about eight miles north of here early today when his motor went dead. The pilot. H. U.

Chews, hurt his leg slightly In landing. The plane caught, fire and burned with the cargo. Eastern Airline Manager Hagar said Chews got off the course in a dense fog and kept flying until his fuel was exhausted. W. F.

Hunter Freed In Beaufort Case BEAUrortT. Nov. 27. 8 pec la W. F.

Hunter, superintendent for the state highway department In Beaufort and Jasper counties, was acquitted here today of charges In the desth of W. C. Wsll. of Hardeevtlle, who was killed by an automobile driven by Hunter near Hardeevllle, Msy 31, 1933. The Jury was out twenty-five minutes.

Hunter's defense was that lights of an approaching automobile had blinded him and that he did not see Wall, who was walking along the road. The accident occurred near the Hardeevllle town limit. State Senators H. K. Purdy, of Jasper, and W.

B. Harvey, of Beaufort, defended Hunter. Cow Drinks Alcohol Stays Drunk All Ray ASHLAND, 28. Alec McDoug all's cow at Sanborn drank a bucket of radiator alcohol Monday night and wss drunk all day Tuesday. Dr.

Bartholomew, Ashland veterinarian, attempted to sober her up. AS MOTOR FAILS.