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I gateway TO CENTRAL • CAROLINA | "Twentieth year VANDYKE CASE DEFENDANTS GIVENUFE Kelly And Wife Get Life Terms For Kidnaping Makes Total Six On Maximum Time In Urschel Case Sentence Passed by Judge! Vaught Few Minutes Aft- i er Jury Verdict Is Given Court kelly TO DO TIME IN ATLANTA PRISON Wife Will Be Sent to Wo man’s Penitentiary In West Virginia; Neither Make Any Comment as Sentence Is Pronounced; New Trial Is Refused Oklahoma City. Oct. 12—(AP> G<crge (Machine Gun) Kelly and his wife. Kathryn. w-re sentenced to life today a f*-w minutes after a Federal jury had convicted th-.'tn unifi 'he "Lindbergh law,” of kidnapinc Charles F. Urschel. Okla homa City oil millionaire. Tht m.’ximum sentences were pro nounced by Judg*- Edgar S. Vaught, 15 da; 3 a'ter the capture of the Kellys Et Memph s Tenn. and only three days after thev went on trial. Thus, six or the nine persons con victed o the $200.0<)0 kidnaping con jplracy have been ordered to prison for the rest of their lives. Also under life sentence are Harvey Bailey, the jail breaker: Albert Bates. Kelly’s aid's in the actual kidnaping; and Mr and Mrs. Ft. G. Shannon opera te cf tile Paradise, Texas, “kidnap i farm wher* Urschel wa« impriosn ed. Mr? Shannon is Kathryn Kelly’s mother Federal agents have perfected plans '■o tak*- kelly by plane to the Atlan to FidnU penitentiary. His r.fe is to serve her sentence at the- woman's Federal penitentiary in West Virginia. The juiy's verdict was reach last ni;h! after deliberation of only one hour Under th“ court's instruction, it was sealed and not return ed until court opened this morning. Th- Kt'uys received the verdict and ‘CnntiMied cn Page Four.l Farley To Talk Nov. 3 At Raleigh -Mammoth Meeting tor Big Liquor Meeting to be Plan ned by Murphy Washington Oct. 12.—<AP>—Post ni .i.*e r Fsriey sa.i<l today he would malt' a rapid swing through the Car -0 • nas and Pennsylvania th« week 'nd before they vote on prohibition repeal, and will follow this with a National address for the six states voting n"xt November 7. He will speak at Raleigh, N. C., at neon November 3, at Columbia, S. . that night, and in Philadelphia the following night, the Sunday before the elections, e sal( T Ht plans a national address covering all the voting states, and es pecially <o r Utah, where reports have ,M' n rec “ived of strong efforts to keep o state in the dry column. . T ar,ty however, reiterated his be that ‘ / don’t think any state will vote dry » -sides the Pennsyl ai ia and Utah, both Kentucky and •• ” "di also v<S.te on prohibition '' • mhfr 7 Thirty-three states have °; prl Tot repeal and only three more , au !ipr " ■''•ary to strike th*- eighteenth m '' ,rnf nt from the Constitution. mammoth meeting to be HfcU) IN RALEIGH NOV. 8 Raleigh Oct. 12— (AP)—Walter “ Liphy, State director in North Car t in Hi* campaign for the United . sot Repeal .today said plane 11 to be made immediately for a oinnnnoi.h meeting here November 3 t.,’ master General James A. f 11 ' Wl “ urge North Carolinians to lle,i I,,tK for i' P^ l of prohibl ... _. t ~ 4,0. m wm i« i ' ‘ HENDERSON. N O. Mttxutt&zm Bmlit Hmmtfi-fi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. To lavestigate Nazis JjH mhi Representative Samuel Dickstein, of New York, chairman of the Com mittee on Immigration of the House of Representatives, who is planning an investigation of Nazi activities in the United States. He declared scores of organizers are entering the country under the guise of ser vants and consular attaches to ■Dread propaganda in America. • Central Prt>tta) STRIKE AGREEMENT ! REJECTED BY STEEL National Labor Board’s Pro posal Refused by Head of Company WANTS WORKERS BACK Nothing To Consider Until They Re turn, E. T. Wei*r Says; Says Men Struck Without Pro test or Any Notice Washington, uci. lz.— (AP) —- The National Labor Board disclosed today that E, T. Weir, h>ad of the Na tional Steel Company had rejected the board’s proposal for settlment of the strike of workers at the company’s (plants at Wiqrton and Clarksburg, W. Va., and Steubenville, Ohio. The board has asked both sides to call off the strike, strikers be taken back without discrimination, and that all matters in dispute be submitted to the board for decision. A committee representing the strik ers agreed to the proposal, the board said, but Weir replied: “The strike leaders started the strike w ; ihout having made any de mands upon the company, or without any notice to us. and we cannot com sider any reference or arbitration un til the men return t to work. “The mills are operating now near ly 5,000 men being at work, all re gular employees. We will take back all former employees if they report to work promptly.” The board said it was deliberating on what action it would now take in the case, , j g r g » Martial Law for Sullivan County Set Up by Troops Sullivan, Ind. Oct. 12 (AP)- Indi. ■aina National Guardsmen established virtual martial law in Sullivan coun ty today. After thre explosions had shaken this city early this morning. Briga dier General D. Fray Deprez co-hfex red with iHooal officials and then is sued regulation® for ony ask semblv except on expressed permia elon from the military authorities. The regulations also directed the closing of an business houses, the atres, restaurants and other public places «it « a. xn., and established r 10 p. m. curfew, of‘or wh’nh all rex 1 sorw end vehicle# mluet be off tins* streets and. highways Ithroughoat th" (Country■ '«| r ; ■. -i .i.^-L..aL.i».UL.» ONLY DAILY Gct/.ge (Machine Gun) Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, shown above as i ’photographed in the Federal court | room in Oklahoma City, when they pleaded not guilty, were sentenced ; today to life impiisonment for the j $200,000 kidnaping of Charles F. I Germans Warned To Stop Assaults On Foreigners Labor Is Against Inflation Moves Washington, Oct, 12.—(AP)— Opposition to any “unrestrained and unregulated inflation of the currency’’ was formally voiced to day l>y the American Federation of Labor convention. The nearly 600 ! delegates, representing upwards of 3,000.000 workers, approved unaiii* mou'-ly « committee report warning, against currency action, that would “place additional unbearable bur dens” upen workers, a contending that unrestrained and direct cur rency inflation would do that. GOVERNORSETTLED TYRRELL BUS SUIT He Became State’s Attorney When Brummitt Was Already Too Busy Dally Dispatch Biirwis, In Ike Sir Walter Hotel.. HV -I I’. MA SKEItVII»I*« Raleigh, Oct. 12.—While the prin cipal factor in the withdrawal of the Tyrrell county mandamus action to compel the state to buy buses to tran 6 port its children to school was that, if pressed, might have compelled the State to supply transportation fa cilities for 100,000 or more Negro school children, it was not learned to day that Governor J. C. B. 9hrlng hau>> was personally responsible for the dropping of the action by those who had instituted it and that he personally acted as hte attorney for the school commission when Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt was too busy with other matters to handle the case. The attorney general agreed to appear for the school commission later on. however, but could not appear for it at the time the mandamus, was to have 1 ten beard. When the school commission first heard of the Tyrrell county action, by which the county sought to compel the school commission to purchase the school buses needed to transport its school children to school, the com mission at once dispatched a cora (Contlnued ou Page Five.) TWO WHITES FREED, 4 NEGROES GUILTY Charlotte, Or*. 12—(AP)— The jury' in the trial of six men for murder of S. H. Williams, lottery operator, returned a verdict today convicting the four Negro defen dants of second degree murder, and acquitting the two white men. newspaper published ] HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12, 1933. Kidnapers Get Life Sentences Oho— ' '''(fir ,' >■ IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH Urschel, millionaire Oklahoma City oil man. Sentence was pronounced a short time after the jury returned its verdict after deliberating only about an hour.- Defense Attorney James Mathers is pictured at the right as he whispered into Kelly’s ear. United States, Spain and Britain Advise Berlin “Serious Conse quences” Likely MR. DODDIPRESENTS AMERICAN PROTEST Deep Concern Felt At U. S. Embassy Over Recurrence l of Nazi Molestations of Am2:ican Citizens; Doing Best To Stop It, Foreign Office Says Berlin, Oct. 12. —(AP) —Four powers have served notice on the German government that assaults on their cit izens must cease, or the most serious j consequences concerning t.ho relation of their countries with the Reich may result. William E. Dodd, American am bassador, this morning received the latest instructions of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, while the Spanish and British Embassies and the Dutch Legation were similarly advised to make representations. Meanwhile, deep concern was mani fested at the American Embassy over the recurrence of Nazi molestations of Americans. ’ ’ A foreign office spokesman com menting on information that Hull had demanded ihe prompt apprehension of the offenders,..declared that there had been no needless delay, and added, “We are doing all possible to hasten the prosecution of the cases.” Trading Account Set Up To Float Brazilian Bonds Washington, Oct. 12 (AP)—(Hobart O. Haywand, member of Dillon, R«-ad‘ and Company, told Senate investigat ors otday a 6s.day trading •account, was established by bankers in. float ing $50,000,000 of Brazilian bonds in 1921. This was done*, he said to hold the price up. *• Hayward saiid creation of the trad ing account was in accordance with the usual practice i n this country'. Asked by Ferdinand Pecora, com mittee counsel, the purposes of sucth n account, he replied. “They are two fold: to protect, the price so that the public subscribing: will not ibe at any disadvantage through falling prices, and to enable the underwriters to dispose of the 1 issue.” ’ WtATHfI FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, urcb-hly occasional rain tonight and Friday; s’ightly Cold er Friday and in extreme north west portion tonight. , _, _ ■ CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. JOHNSON SEEKING NR A Administrator Talks Long Time With Wal lace and Peek, Farm Administrators ROOSEVELT~ADVISED ABOUT THE RESULT Important Step Long Her alded as Imperative To Orderly Progress Toward Recovery; Johnson Has Said There Is Distinct Movement Against NRA Washington, Oct. 12.—(AP)-—An at tempt to coordinate policies and meth odis of the administration’s two ma jor recovery agencies was made to day by Hugh S. Johnson. NRA ad ministration, in an extensive confer ence with the farm law administra tors, Secretary Wallace and George N. Peek. President Roosevelt had the oppor tunity to get a direct report of the conference from Johnson later, invit ing the NRA h ader to a luncheon con ference at the White House. Undertaking the important step long heralded as imperative to order ly progress in the recovery program, the group met in Wallace’s office with an evident intention to reconcile the points at issue as quickly as possible. On leaving. Johnson informed news paper men “We are attempting to get together cn fundamental policies,” but. refused to say whether the trio had reached any decision. In a recent public address, he assert ed “there is a distinct movement to raise farmer antogonism to NRA on the ground that anything, done for workers before farm prices are raised to their pre-war relationship to other prices is unfavorable to agriculture.” Today he said: “We have been going along prhty fast, and we have to check up to see that we are moving in the same direction.” It was reported that the discussion - -■> ** , (Continued on Page Six.) gets prison Term IN DURHAM ROBBING Durham, Oct. 12 (AP)—Worth El. lis Humphrey, of High Point, was sentenced to five years in prison to day for his paxt in the $1,064 Knit tweli Hosiery Company payroll rob bery here last May 13. Humphrey Ip leaded guilty. T. B. Hyde and E _ Sanders, also of High Pfcrimt, iaxe Serving- five and two years, respect fully after conviction, in the case. TWO FIRMS ARE TO LOSE BLUE EAGLES Washington, Oct. 12 (AP) — NRA officials today withheld an nouncement as to what steps they would take to enforce surrender of blue eagle insignia by the two establishments in New Rochelle, N. Y., charged with violating the President’s reemployment agree ment, but indications were some definite action would be taken be fore the end of the day. Louisiana Negro Is Lynched After Slaying of Girl Labadicville, La., Oct. 12. —(AP) • A'Negro arrested yesterday for ques tioning ir, connection with the slay ing of Miss Louisiana Larose, 15-yeax old white girl whose body wag found in a field was taken from the Labadie ville jail early today and lynched by a mob cf unidentified men. The Negro, whose name was not disclosed at the time of his arrest, was seized quietly by the mob and hanged from a girder of a bridge. When ear ly risers in the community saw the body at dawn and officers cut it down they found a roughly written note pinned to the clothing warning “all persons” against attacks on women of the section. The body of the Larose girl was found amid the tall sugar cane of an outlying plantation on Monday. She had been beaten and apparently had been dragged through the sharp-leaved cane for some distance, but Coroner T. B. Pugh reported that she had not been criminally; attacked. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. KELLY AND BULLOCK CONVICTED BY JURY IN SUPERIOR COURT Humphrey Fights On ftf cfcl y-* E. Humphrey The doors of the federal commission have beeii offic ,y closed to William E. Humphrey, Republican member, following the action of the commission in rec ognizing President Roosevelt’s or der removing him from the board. Humphrey, who insists he is still a member of the commission, and who plans a court fight against the ouster order, is pictured leav ing his office in Washington. MWMOING ________. Dowell and McMuilan Both Failed To Grasp Full 1 Meaning of Others Dally nispiaoli Brreai, In ihe Sir Walter Hotel. nv .» c. PASKEitvir.L. Raleigh, Oct 12. —The latest contro versy over the sales taf between Wil lard Dowell, secretary of the State Merchants Association and Harry Mc- Mullan, director of the- sales tax di vision of the State Department of Re venue, is based largely on a misun derstanding, both of them agreed to day. About a week ago Director Mc- Muilan issued a new ruling pointing out the differences between retail and wholesales and warning merchants that unless a sale was made for re sale pui'poses, it could not be classed as a wholesale transaction and h6nce was subject to the three per cent sales tax. He said thei’e had been, com plaints that many purchasers were trying to evade payment of the tax by trying to get merchants to class large quantity sales as wholesale rather than retail sales. Secretary Dowell, however, who ad mitted today he had not read the en tire statement isseud by McMuilan interpreted the statement as charging that the merchants were rylng to evade collection and payment of the sales tax by classing large quantity transactions as wholesale sales and took vigorous exception to these sup posed charges. Dowell declared that the mercliants have been cooperating with the State and have not been seek ing to evade the tax in any way and that the reason the revenue from it has net been as much as was estimat ed was because the sales tax has been (Continued on Page Six}. C PAGES | " TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Judge Parker Thinks Life Term Too Much, Put 1933 Kidnap Law Makes It Mandatory WILL ASK GOVERNOR TO CUT TIME DOWN Motions To Set Verdict Aside Overruled, as Is Also Motion for Arrest of Judg' ment; $15,000 Appeal Bond Fixed for Each Os Defendants Beaufort Kelly and Florida Bullock, Negroes, charged with kidnaping and assaulting Miss Mary Lena Vandyke. 16-year-old Vance county girl last Au gust 23, were convicted by a jury in Vance Superior Court this afternoon and **ach was sentujrmed by Judge |t. Hunt Parker to life imprisonment. 1 Judge Parker said he thought punishment in this particular case was cut of all proportion to the seriouspqfs of the. crime, but that his hands ▼flqre tied by the kidnap law enacted the 1933 General Assembly, and ’’it was the duty of the court to follow that law. However, he stated that h© would personally recommend to Gov ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus that the sentences of both boys be commoted to a shorter time more in keeping with th»* crime. , y The jury deliberated on thrf from just before one o’clock utitii shortly after three o’clock, and im mediately after it had filed in and an nounced the a ordifit, counsel Krr defendants motions to set the verdict aside on the ground the fv r ‘ weight of evidence was against ' . A motion for the arr*«* of 1 was also made by both, ds.c.ndgrt and all'were denied by the court 2 exceptions entered. Following pronouncement of tl: sentence, both defendants served no tice of appeal to the State Supreme court, and stay bond was fixed <af $15,000 each and appeal bond at s3<X* each. The defense was allowed 45 days to serve notice on the State ant the solicitor was give n an additions 30 days to answer. The jury convicted on both the kid nap and assault with a deadly wee pen counts. On the second: coutt, the judgment of the court was that each should serve two years in jail, this to run concurrently with the kid nap sentence. M. C. Pearce, counsel far Florid Bullock, suggested to the court that (Continued on Page Three.) Arrest 21 For March On Capital Khaki Shirts of Ame rica Blocked by, Raids Before Their, Parade Is Begun Philadelphia, Oct. 12.—(AP)— Load ed pistols and a number of knives and clubs were seized by police early to day in raids on three leaders of the Khaki Shirts of America while mem bers of the organization were mass ing for a march on Washington. Twenty-one prisoners were taken in the raid and police said the coup nipped in the bud a plot to storm the armory of the 111th Regiment, Pen nsylvania National Guards, and seize ammunition stored there. In the meantime, police were Starch ing for Art .T. Smith, self-styled com mander-i:i-chief of the Khaki Shirts. It was estimated several hundred members of the group had mobilized for the trip to Washington and were waiting for Smith. Tn announcing plans for the jour ney sometime ago, Smith said it was their intention to “Install" President Rcorevell as dictator of the United States. , , .... i
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