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Weather Report Partly cloudy tonight; Sunday generally fair except unsettled near the coast. FINAL 1 lllfiL Today's NEWS Today! VOL. 208. DAILY SINCE 1911 LAUREL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1935. MEMBER A.

E. N. P. A. LaureJ Oallj Argiu Jonet Count; I'unet Laurel Chronicle--Dally Leader--Morning C'aJI HANGS STONE COUNTY NEGRO PLEADS GUILTY UNDER FEDERAL LINDBERGH KIDNAPING LAW AND SENTENCE PASSED IMMEDIATELY Young Wife Tries to Enter Guilty Plea With Her Husband but Judge Insists She Study It.

TACOMA, June Mrs. Margaret Waley's Insistence (hat she be permitted to plead guilty to the bergh law" kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser, Federal Judge F. E. Cushman today once more refused to accent her plea and directed the entry of a formal guilty" pica. He immediately appointed John F.

Dore, former Seattle mayor, as her trial attorney. Judge Cushman (lien set nest Monday for fixing the trial date. BY LELAND A Associated Press Staff Writer (Copyright 1935 by Associated Press) TACOMA. June the aid of her self-confident husband. 19-year-old Margaret Thulin Waley faced a choice today between a fight, for possible freedom or again pleading guilty to complicity in the $200,000 kidnaping of little George Weyerhaeuser.

Her answer will be given In federal court today. Key Brothers Nearly Three Weeks in Air MERIDIAN. June 22--The flying Keys, Fred and Al, drew nearer a new world's endurance record as their plane droned monotonously on early today. The brothers passed their 422nd hour in the air at 2:32 a. a i i at the world record a of 553 hours set in 1030 bv John and Ken- She thought it over through lone- 3t Chicago.

The Keys ly hours last night and early today a on 4 a nope to in the fortress-like county jail at stay lp i 4 New Orleans Strike Continues With Men Seeking Six-Day Week Instead of Five. (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, June P. Skelly, city commissioner of pub- lie property, 8:30 a m. today that the garbage collector? of New Orleans who went on strike yesterday and left the city streets Uttered with rubbish had agreed tr go back to work today pending a settlement of their differences Monday before a meeting of the commission council. The announcement was made while a group of some i among the 300 workers affected by the walkout were arguing that they would not go back to their jobs until they were guaranteed a six-day week Instead of the five-day week under which they have been working.

Will Get Their Pay Last night the federal relief administration made a federal protect out of the garbage workers group and other city employes who nrc responsible to the administration of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, and jgreed to pay the workers i sal- irlcs. But no announcement was made. to whether the city policemen und firemen would be paid, leading to murmurs from those quarters. The police force and the fire fight- Ing forces have been taken over by the Huey Long state administration under legislative acts reorganizing their boards.

This legislation was passed during long's attempt to seize the reigns of the city government from his arch political enemy. Mayor Walmsley. JTant Six-Day Week NEW ORLEANS, June the bulk of their wages by (he ERA. Clympla while her 24-year-old ex- convict husband. Harmon, began serving a 45-year sentence in nearby McNeil Island federal penitentiary.

Parted for Life. It was the first of a may he a lifetime of nights apar'. They had been held in separate cells, but under the same roofs, ever since their arrest June and 3 In Salt Lake City where Margaret's spending spree with ransom money led to their capture. She faced all the a i i a a ters of court procedure today, with all strange faces around her and no grinning, sneering self-confident husband nearby In signal her what (o fay and wh.it not to say. Waley was immediately sentenced laken to prison a he pleaded under the Lindbergh i a law yesterday.

He also received a two-year concurrent sentence for plotting the abduction i the itive i i a Bainard. a i a i i a Mail-in. Rejects i Pica. Margaret pleaded i too. yesterday, but Judge E.

E. Cushman refused (o accept the pica a her attorney, Stephen J. O'Brien, asked leniency on the ground she had known nothing of the kidnaping til a the littlcscion of the a thy lumber and logging fiynasty had been stolen. Judge Cushman asked her If she could read English. When she said "yes" in a colorless but clear voice, a clerk handed her copy of the indictment and Judge Cushman a 1 monlshcd her to take it lo jail with her.

read it. and come back today and decide whether or not she was Local officials today took to see a roads leading to the airport were in good condition to care for a large crowd of visitors expected Sunday to view the filers. Warnings were sent out for planer, from other sections to krep at. a safe distance from (he fliers who messaged to the ground crew a several ships have come too close to them for safety. MD ARKANSAS guilty or not.

as charged. Administrator Alliston Says Program Will Gel Under Way Next Week ateral Highways. A Fatality Added to Toll of High Water and Damage Mounts to Still Higher I'lgure. 'By PINE BLUFF, Arkansas river opened up its levee a Fnrrclly Lake, in Ibe extreme southeast corner of fcrson county today, scndinc flood water toward Arkansas farm lands. The fissure occurred on Hie opposite side of the river from Pine Bluff and sever.il miles be- here.

TAX-THE-RICH LEGISLATION IS DIMMED NOW DY PROGRESSIVE BL0G IN SENATE AND KINGFISH Long Takes Floor to Seek Action on Roosevelt's Proposal; Liberals Ask Congress Stay on Job. 'By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 22. Si'nale Democratic leaders said today it was entirely up to President Roosevelt wnciTier Congress would slay session put (hrouch his new wealth program. They added he probably would i i a his position when he rrhjrns from New England next week.

WASHINGTON, 22. -In (o Fresl- denl Roosevelt rc-d to the Senale today. Senator Lonff La) offered the chief executive "every atom of support and strength" if he would push redistribution of wealth. The Louisiana senator said. (Kit if the president would now push a distribution of wealth program it could be put through Congress in a week and "my elimination from politics would be the immediate and sure result." a nsas- exas Fexarkana is Storm Fathe Found Drarl in Line Near Swept by and Baby Field.

WASHINGTON. June a text from the French Revolution. Senator Long La.) jumped today Into a rresh fight to force immediate (ax-the-rich legislation whether or not. President Roosevelt desires action in that direction at this session. "No enemies to w-as the topic Long chose for a speech from the Senate floor today on Presl- i Roosevelt's message calling for taxes lo break up great fortunes and cut down large incomes.

Long i said phrase was used by and Robespierre, leaders in the French Revolution, and meant they would go as far left as anyone. Though the Louisiana senator has expressed skepticism as to how far the president a a would go in "decentralizing wealth" he explained a the i of his address today meant a "as far as President Roosevelt goes lo thr left I'll go i him." He added a i one of his purposes in seeking the Senate floor w-as to contrast president's "promises" i his "performances." Others Want Action. Only a few hours before. 22 Sen- Kennedy Widow Has Conference With Governor (By Associated Press) JACKSON. June What took place at a private conference yesterday between Governor Sennett Conner and Mrs.

Bessie Barry Kennedy, former wife of Dr. John Preston Kennedy. Greenwood surgeon, for whose death Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean faces a life sentence, remained undisclosed today. Mrs.

Kennedy spent two hours with the chief executive, conferring on the case. Governor Conner has indicated he will announce his decision on the Dean pardon application before the expiration date of a 30-day suspension he recently granted the woman- physician. The suspension expires July 8. HOLT IS GIVEN A A A June 22 --Relief a i i w-cnt. forward as debris was being cleared away today a liberals led by Senator LnFol- lowing a tornado which dipped down Wjs.) had joined in a i a movement to "keep Congress here all summer if necessary" to gel action on (he president's tax- the-nch program at.

this session. Though there was still confusion over Arkansas-Texas line Icavint: four dead and 25 persons I Property damage "'as estimated at, $250.000 in storm which swept as to whether President Roosevelt would prefer action now or in a over an area two miles wide and 30 later year, his message obviously had miles lour; in Bowie countv. Texas. I fired "the advocates of higher levies five miles west of here in the Red i a lo renewed efforts. LITTLE ROCK.

i new Lick i and struck a small LaFollctle disclosed that. 14 Demo- victim was added (o Arkansas' part ol Miller county on the A a six Republicans, the Farmer- of flood today as l.nnn acres of i nnsis side. land went under a In Conwoy Vom Persons Kllkd. county following the break of Ypczn vear old nitf Ellis levee while four a a i i and wo vcar okl S0 n. 2o injured were romiicfl ui a 1 a ncsro nado which hit (he Arkansas-Texas state line.

Wilbert Willoughby. 21. lost his footing on piers beneath I he Mis- worker, and Cynthia Perkins, nnrd woman, were killed in 111" slorm. Scant hop" was for recovery of Mrs Ella Bonner. 41.

Mrs. of SO persons looked on. He was seen wn in rcrl wllc11 ncr llom makim: a desperate HI. i 1S rtemolislien in me Red Lick souri Pacific bridge at Baring Cross near here last while a crowd on 'By Associated Press-' JACKSON. June his return here today from Washington.

Mississippi's works progress administrator, Dr. Wayne Alliston. announced a the state's works- relief program will gel- underway next week with "full speed ahead." Administrator Alliston named the six district- agents who will work inder him in Hie six state subdivisions, and asserted a he expected to be able lo announce Ills entire administrative personnel late today. The district agents lows: are- as fol- Hattiesburg District--John Lumpkin of Lumberton. Jackson District--J.

C. Davis of striking garbage collectors of cartilage, r-Orleans today decided to continue! 'Tupelo' District--Mr. their walkout nnd hold out for Tupelo. Elklns of Eix day week. The workers, saying they had been put on a five-day week several i years ago nnd that they had been forced to collect seven days debris during the five days, decided to bring the situation to an issue, at a meeting at 5 a.

m. today to decide their stand. Van Hogan, spokesman for the I total between 35.000 nnd 40.000, nnd workers, delivered an ultimatum to "they will be taken from the relief Commissioner of Public Property J. rolls'" Greenwood District--E. V.

Calo of Webb. Meridian District--T. J. Bolster of Meridian. Brookhaven District Appointment offered Roland Wall of Brookhaven, but awaits acceptance.

Administrator Alliston said Mississippi's allotment of jobs would Patrick Skelly that the workers wculd not go back to work unless they were Riven a six day week. The workers were paid from between 550.000 to $55,000 this morn- Ing by ERA officials and most of them had remained at Incinerators nil night. POSTPONE ROAD MEET (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Junc A rally delta citizens at Clarksdale In the Interests of delta highway construction which had been set for next Wednesday has been postpon- A new date will be announced later. The postponement was made be- Alliston said he was "ready to start grinding" nnd that, by Monday the federal works program in Mississippi would be- underway. "First projects will be on lateral roads-- farm to market roads.

These projects are ready to go now," he said. No Politics Involved Dr. Alliston said that, he had been given complete a i to "hire and fire," nnd "you can say for me that there positively will be no political considerations involved, nnd patronage will not be a factor in putting men to work." "I want to make It distinctly understood that my organization will have no hand whatsoever in politics, and I will not employ any person cause of members of the state high-1 who Is now candidate for any way commission who were expected' office, or who expects to be candi- to attend the rally will be In Wash- 1 ington conferring with on that date. federal date next year. Furthermore, 111 see to It a anybody employed In this (Continued on Page Seven) flood swollen Ar' nr-ns Ivfnre undcrlow nulled him below face abandoned rf foils -MVW of I no In save I Ellis More a a rier.cn ne- groes amonc those The bodies of Freeze and his son Tvrrc i i a i 150 y.irr^ (ropi i i wrecked homo ill tin 1 sain" i Mrs.

Freeze levee near Morrillo'i, the A a a daup.hlers. Alviria. and IS. her ami river poured over dyke, last Ossielrnn. 7.

were Shortly a standing in Comvay county. being admitted lo the hospital. Mrs. Water was reported rushing ovr Frecre gave i to a bnby girl. the Homestead a i company 'TOO Scared To A oo frightened lo run.

levee on the east side of Fourchc by E. L. Hobby, plainer of Wrights- ville. McCrmnoy was wh( tornado struck at the airport cast The extension service reported I a nf cro hP i a a wrecked approximately 1.500 head of livestock drowned ns a result of I he flood. i i a assigned 2-i watchmen to guard dykes In (he southeast levee district i the crest Is past.

More Roads Closed. The hitrhwav a reported homes were destroyed and 12n others dosed I damaged. Five planes were damaged as six other relief workers, all white, fled lo safety. The Perkins woman was killed when her home was destroyed at New Boston. Tex.

a i a W. E. Bann of a Cross committee, estimated twenty three additional highways bv swollen Rock streams: to Pine i a i the a i Extensive property i i closed i flamase was done Texnrknna near Woodson; Highway 17. closed I tl10 high pale struck trees and between Augusta and Tupelo and Highway 14. closed between Newport nnd Hnrrisburg.

A survey made by government engineers nnd levee board officials showed levees in the Arkansas area i of the Vicksburg district from Cum- mings prison farm to Arkansas City strong enough to take care of six eight more feet of water. Boy is Killed by Heavy Truck in New Orleans homes. FLAPPER FANNY (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS. June Ossmnn. 8.

suffered fatal injuries yesterday when he suddenly broke nway from his mother. Mrs. Eddie Ossmnn. of New Orleans, and ran into the path of truck nnd n. street car.

Thr boy dodged the street car but was hit by the truck which was driven, according to police. By Joseph Vlllar. -15. Ossman riled shortly after the accident at Charily Hospital from you're bitten bj the vaca- Injuries described ns crushed chest tiou biu you get llch to go and pierced lungs. oJaccs.

Loboritc Shipstead of Minnesota nnd he himself had signed a round robin which read: 'AVe believe a the tax program presented by the president to the Congress should be disposed of before i session adjourns. We are willing to stay in session i action Is taken upon i vitally i a question." the House a similar campaign was in prospect. Representative Schneider Wis.) said he would circulate a petition similar to LaFollelte's if a were riade lo ad.iourn Congress before action is a i i To Walt. Several Democratic leaders still expressed Ibe belief that Piesidem Rooseveli would be willing to have the greater part of his program go over i the ncxl session. However, the word was passed on Capitol Hill a i the president wanted action this session on his proposal for a constitutional amendment to abolish tax exemptions on issues of government bonds.

Meanwhile Representative Snell of New York, Republican leader, charged that the president's tax message was a "political move" to "steal the thunder of Huey Long and Bob LaFollette." In the tax-the-rlch fight. Long was moving independently of the liberal bloc. He did not sign the LaFollette petition, declaring he had "oilier ways" of campaigning for this cause. Before seeking the Senate floor, Long said: "I'm going to talk about the president's promises to me and to the people: and then talk about his performances. "No enemies to the left, no sir.

D'you understand? That's what Danton and Robespierre said. They meant they would take any man's left course so long as it stayed to the As far as President Roosevelt goes to the left I'll go with him." Generally Fair but Showers at Middle of Week Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Central and East GuU states: generally fair at opening of week: partly cloudy, occasional showers middle or later part of week: seasonal temperatures. Southern plalas and West Gulf states: Partly cloudy to cloudy, probably showers about the middle of the week. Moderately warm. Youngest Senator, West Virginian Just Thirty, Wins After Over Five Months of Waiting.

'By Associated Press WASHINGTON. June a Into the Senate a i as one of its own. bespectacled Rush D. Holt of West Virginia made plain today that when friends and foes of "rugged individualism" line up for battles he will be with the foes. "I haven't much use for the Ihe- ory of rugged individualism." said the 30-year-old "West i i i a who won his fight for a Senate seat late yesterday after a notable constitu- i a debate.

"As far as 1 can see it means that the individual has got to be rugged to exist under it." He announced also a he would be an advocate of stringent regulation. If not public ownership, of utilities. As to legislation of his own. Holt said: "I haven't anything for the present--not pension bill." Ends Long Walt. The 62-17 Senate vote which gave him his seat yesterday ended five and one half months of waiting for his 30lh birthday, i which he had remained voiceless and vote- less in (he Senate.

Vice President Garner administered the oath to the blackhalred. grinning youth immediately after the balloting. Proudly looking down from the galleries as he was led up the aisle on the arm of Senator Ncely W. Va.) were his admiring parents and his sisters and brothers. Holt is a bachelor and his attractive young sister, Jane, may be his official hostess in the capital.

Wearing a coat and light trousers. Holt had looked on while the constitutional battle--ranging around the question whether a senator must be 30 when his term begins or merely when he is sworn in--raged Into Its final stages. A resolution by Senator Hastings Del.) to declare the seat vacant was defeated. LYNCHING AT WIGGINS ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL ON LITTLE GIRL 11 Daughter of Dairy Farmer Identified Alleged Attacker and Summary Justice Comes Quickly. 'By Associated Preys'" WIGGINS, June 22--R D.

McGee, young negro of 25 years, was lynched today by a mob of some 300 white citizens of Stone county a an attack yesterday upon the 11- year-old daughter ot a Wiggins a i farmer. Alter being identified by the girl victim her attacker by means of the clothing he wore, the negro was carried by the mob to a point on a side road to Harverson's grave yard, cast of town, hanged to a big oak Tupelo is Host to Veterans of World War for Convention: Ten Ihous- and are Expected. (By Associated Press) TUPELO. June nalrcs had already started converging on Tupelo I his morning for the State American Legion Convention which begins in Tupelo tomorrow and is to last through Wednesday. Delegates to the convention "'ere to begin registering at 2 o'clock this afternoon and official? predicted the meet would surpass-in a a any state American Legion convention ever held in Mississippi.

Crawley, Kosciousko. state commander, who Is already In Tupelo, predicted an estimated crowd of some 10.WO legionnaire; and visitors. The Legion A i i a 2nd the "40 and 1 are meeting jolntlv with the Legion. Memorial day exercises will be held Sunday night and Monday morning Commander Crawley will officially open the convention session. Congressman John E.

a i scheduled to make the principal welcome address, wired from Washington a he will be unable to bo present. J. H. Ledyard. president of the Tupelo Cotton Mill, will lake his place.

Other a i veterans from a other states, as well ns from Mississippi, are to appear on the convention program. The are scheduled to hear an address from Governor Sennelt Conner Tuesday. Walter Ballard. Tupelo, general chairman of the convention, stated a eight. CCC camps will send i men here to a i i a in the gigantic parade in which bands from all over the stole.

Boy Scouts, drum and bugle corps, and floats will participate. Fireworks will be setoff at the fairgrounds a and Tuesday nights and the Battle of Chateau Thiery will be staged, in which veterans in uniforms will stage an actual battle scene. tree and his body riddled with bullets. His body was then cut down from the oak tree and was removed to the main highway where It was strung up to another tree. After the lynching, officers a a i cut down th-.

body and a coroner's inquest was held. Attacked Near Home. The a of sir! said the attack occurred axound the middle of yesterday afternoon while the girl was in the act of opening a pasture fence within 100 feet of her home to let in seme calves. He said his daughter told him tin) the negro grabbed am! be? and struck her over the head wltfc the handle of an o'd shovel, her a if she screamed he kill her. Then her a a evidently thinking sin 1 was dead, dragged her from the gate into a nearby briar patch and fled.

The girl's a said that after they had found her was unconscious for about, t.hirty minute! and she was in such a nervous condition last night, that, she not be questioned i a. physician had administered to her. Sli" was hurt about the face and neck. Fosse Makes Search. A the a a a citizens' posse formed and storied a concerted search for the nccro.

Four or five men went to the negro quarter Wiggins and there found McGee in bed not asleep between ten and eleven o'clock last McGee w-as carried to the farm- 'er home for i i i a i and wai i then hidden out in the woods from i all i This morning a heavy possa i a a i took him to the girl's horns and reported that she identified the by his clothing, khaki trousers, blue shirt, black nnd white sport 'shots and a i cap. From there the mob carried the negro across town to the oast side and lynched him. Witness's said McGee admitted the attack and said: "I suppose 1 I was crazy and didn't know what I was doing." Yesterday another negro was tak- Into the woods and whipped by a group of i men for profane talk to a i woman. After tha whipping he was turned ioose. i Lutheran Church to Be Host to Mississippi Synod; Will Hold Dedi; cation Service.

LITTLE GIRL WHO RESCUED BABY FROM FIRE AT COST OF HORRIBLE BURNS BRAVE BY WARREN DUFFEE "I'd do It again. If It happened l.he same way." Two bright brown eyes gazed from a frank but saddened lltle countenance as Vivian "owart, now past her eleventh bir.th- rlay, spoke softly but firmly. After seventeen months of suffering, this jrave little girl in the Charity hospital remains cheerful, and although to her predicament, she ias courage enough to be confident that she will soon be well enough to return to her fnthcr and brothers and sister. Vivian's story Is one of undaunted courage and painful endurance. On January 30, 1934, Vivian's father and his family of seven children sat around an open fire In their home near Perklnston.

Unnoticed by the one of the smaller children lad crawled to the fireplace and almost In the live coals, before hU dangerous position attracted Vivian's attention. Saved Baby From Fire. Rushing to ths fireplace she pull- ed the Infant back, saving him from probably burning to death, but in so doing, her dress caught on fire. Terrified, she ran for help, fanning the flame until her clothing was literally burned from her body. On the first of February, she was admitted to the hospital In Laurel, the skin entirely burned from her back.

Vivian was then ten years old. Today, almost 17 months later, she Is still confined to an unable to do more than change her position at intervals. For sixteent long of painful suffering, the little patient lay on her stomach. Only recently has she been able to change for short periods and rest on her side. Those who think thr.t one night's suffering with sunburn Is tormenting could well learn a lesson from little Vivian.

Improvement Slow. Through untiring effort on the part of doctors and nurses at the hospital, her condition has Improved somewhat, but the recovery and (Continued on Page Seven) The Mississippi Syncd of tho United Lutheran church .11 is to meet with the Grace Lutheran church in their new building here next week, June 24-2S. inclusive. The Rev. E.

D. Stockman, pastor of the host church, announces tha final preparations have been rom- I pleted to take care of the large num- ber of delegates expected from every section of the state. Rev. Stockman states that tha friends of Laurel have been most kind In extending every courtesy toward making this huge success. The Rev.

John W. Mangum. president of the Synod, of Jackson. expected to take a leading part In the five-day session. Dedicate Church Laurel's newest church building, the Grace Lutheran church, located just north of Eighth street in Eighth avenue, will be dedicated to service Tuesday night.

The dedication services will be led by the Rev. Mangum with all pastors, delegates and congregation taking part The building was made possible largely through the efforts of Rev. Mangum. Rev. Stockman nnd F.

S. Senton. The latter served as tha building committee, making a real' ity out of a dream of years past. A great number of outstar.dlns leaders of the Lutheran church il expected to make the great program a success. The Rev.

E. Bryan Kclsler. S. Tm, of New Berry. S.

will be tha feature visiting speaker. His leadership has been power among tha Lutheran churches of the nation for I years and great messages are tlclpated. The Rev O. M. Morgan.

Kcme- I wood. the Rev. J. V. Addy, i Goodman.

and the Rev. Stockman are listed on the programs, taking essential parts toward making the conventions successful. The program will be in charge ot the Rev. J. L.

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