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French Police Hot On Trail Os Assassin Gang
HERS BELIEVED
DIVIDED INTO TWO
GANGS IN TRANCE
s»i«petU Being Shadowed in
Several Barts of Country
After Tuesday’s
Crime
pnY KING OFF FOR
YUGOSLAV DUTIES
fVtrr II Accompanied By
His Widowed Mother;
Queen and Train Heavily
Guarded As It Roars
Across Europe; French
Dignitaries in the Party
Paris. *Oct. 12 i AP) French police
Relieved today they have unearthr
tin- nails of two more members of
th- hand of terrorists responsible for
tin Marseilles assassinations.
One led to the region of Lille and
the other to Bellcgarde, on the Swiss
frontier.
The secret set vice worked tireless
ly in a nationwide hunt as Peter 11.
bin king of Yugoslavia, and his wid
ened mother, Queen Marie, sped to
ne rd Belgrade. Their special express
train was heavily guarded as it roar
ed through Europe. No one was al
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FIVE WORKERS HURT
AS WALL COLLAPSES
Oiurlotte. Oct. 12. (An—Five
workmen were injured, two seri
ously. today when rafters and a
part of tire brick wall fell on
them at the Church of God,
which is under construction in
North Charlotte.
No Further
Inflation is
Now Likely
No Changes in \ alue
ot Dollar Contem
plated, Senator
Lewis Declares
Washington, Oct. 12 (AP) —Senator
L“-,vi«, of Illinois, chairman of the
Democratic senatorial campaign com
inittee, sadi in a statement today no
(iiaiig* in the value of the dollar or
othet inflatory moves were being con
’♦•mplated by the administration.
Frankly disturbed by widespread
inflationary talk resulting from yes
t*u day's White House conference,
Lewi -aid Senator Bulkley, Demo
nut, Ohio, had been misunderstood if
h* left the impression President
Hoosevelt favors a further devalua
tion of the dollar.
Bulkley told newspapermen as he
'"ft the White House yesterday after
"onference with the chief executive,
that further devaluation of the dol
l;" was not ‘‘an impossibility.”
f can assure the public nothing of
n "'h kind is under contemplation.”
Lewis said in a statement telephone
*o The Asociated Press today.
“Daddy” Browning Passes
At Scarsdale, N. Y., Home
York. Oct 12. (fP) —Edward
'''* 3 t Daddy" Browning, wealthy
■‘‘al estate operator, and husband ot
'lie former Frances "Peaches” Hee-
J ia “' died today at Scarsdale, N Y.,
'n' secretary announced.
Atl«;i a cerebral hemorrhage last
JUh,; Browning was confined to the
A’i'F'ital for joint diseases in New
York City.
, several weeks his condition was
‘"'"al. He was discharged from the
Citnl the middle of September and
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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GIVEN FOR RETURN
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ture of the Croatian terrorist who
assassinated King Alexander, For
eign Minister Barthou and four
others in the streets of Marseilles.
Kaleman was trampled to death by
the mob.
LABOR OBJECTS ID
S. CLAY WILLIAMS
San Francisco Convention
Thinks He Ought Not To
Be on NRA
FOE TO L ABOR UNION
Man Mho Doesn’t Even Believe In
Unions Oii?hl Not To Be Put
In Place To Work With
Them, Is Claim
San Francisco. Oct. 12 (AP)—A re
solution criticizing the appointment
of S. Clay Williams as an official of
the NRA. and suggesting that Presi
dent Roosveelt made an investigation
of Williams’ “hostile attitude” toward
labor, was adopted unanimously by
the American Federation of Laboi
convention here today.
In recommending concurrence with
the resolution the committee report
declared:
“It is improper to appoint an in
dividual to the RA whose public rec
ord shows him opposed to trade un
ions and to collective bargaining as
set forth in Section 7A and B of the
NRA.”
"It is difficult, if not impossible,
for trade unions to cooperate with
an individual who denies their right
to organize.”
The recommendation of the resolu
tions committee was adopted by the
convention without a dissenting vote
tnd without a word of discussion.
taken to the home of a friend in
Burch Hall Drive, Scarsdale.
Browning, who was 63 years old,
was reported to have written of him
self;
"He is a favorite in the social
wiorld”.
Such a view of him was likewise
held by the Cornel, N. Y., Supreme
Court justice who presided in the
sensational separation trial which
made the words “Daddy” and
“Peaches” appear like labels on news
stands the country over.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Family Waits Instructions
From Kidnapers of Mrs.
Stoll As to Next
Move
ALL REQUIREMENTS
ARE COMPLIED WITH
Kidnapers May Act Freely
Without Fear or Hind
rance, Husband of Society
Woman Says In State
ment; Suspect Being Held
In West Virginia
Louisville, Ky„ Oct. 12. (>p> T’-
ransom for Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll
has been paid and the fami*y Is await
ing instructions, was the onnounce
ment today from Berry V Stoll, hus
band of the young society matron,
who was snatched from thetr fashion,
able cfbud| f .ry home near here late
Wednesday.
The statement, given by *,n attor
ney representing the stoll family r
conference with newspaper men.
said:
“We Slav..- icajfcfully ([followed 'in
structions. met. all ransom require
ments and are waiting fulfillment r
promises. The parties may act free
ly without fear or hindrance.
“Berry V. Stoll”.
SUSPECT IS BEING HELD
BY CHARLESTON POLICE
Charleston, W. Va„ (/p)— Chief of
Police John Britton said today Wal
ter Childress, of Charleston, has been
i f ken into custody for questioning
ei out the k dnaping) in Louisville,
Ky. of Mrs. Alice Stoll.
He said there has no charge
made against him.
Britton said, “We just brought him
in and are going to question him”.
He added he knows nothing about
Childress.
“We have some information", was
'the chief's only reply to questions
why Childress was taken into custody.
Jeffress Better
And Speaks First
Time in Illness
Greensboro. Oct. 12. UP) —Edwin B.
Jeffress. chairman of the. State High
way Commission ,was able to speak
today for the first time since he suf
fered a. stroke at his home here Aug
ust 26.
In reply to a question from his
nurse about how the orange juice he
was drinking tasted this morning, Mr.
Jeffress replied:
“Fine”.
He was brought from Richmond,
Va, where he underwent an operation
on the brain, to a local hospital Wed
nesday, and his condition since he re
turned here has ben satisfactory.
Push Hunt
For Noted
Gang Head
“Pretty Boy” Floyd
Is Reported Seen In
Vicinity of Mexico,
Missouri
Fulton, Mo., Oct. 12 (AP) —The
trail of three men, one believed to
be Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy”
Floyd, outlaw, was lost at King
dom City, at the intersection of
highway Nos. 40 and 54 by Aud
rian county officers today.
Kingdom City is about 12 miles
south of the cornfield where the out
law and two companions were report
ed surrounded.
Officers of the Missouri State High
way Patrol, county and city police
rushed into the area. Roads were
blocked.
Floyd, who this week first was de
finitely linked with the slaying of
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Accompanied by his grandmother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania,
11-year-old King Peter 11, of Jugoslavia, leaves the Ritz Hotel in London
enroute to France, to join his bereaved mother. Twenty hours earlier,
as Peter studied-st his English school, an assassin was slaying his royal
father in Marseilles.
(Transmitted by radio to Central Press)
Lad Strangled To)
Death In Jersey
Body of Seven-Year-Old Schoolboy Crammed Into Old
Truck in Shack; Two Men Frequently Seen There
Are Sought by Jersey City-Bayonne Police
Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 12 fAP)—A
blue overalled seven-year-old gram
mar school boy, John Feeney, Jr.,
was found today strangled to death
and crammed into an old trunk in a
small ramshackle squatter's shack
near the abandoned bed of the Morris
canal.
The rope with which the little boy
had been strangled had apparently
been picked up in the dumps sur
rounding the shack. It was lighter
Three Dead, More
May Die In Wreck
lowa City, lowa, Oct. 12.
Three persons were killed, at least
six were critically injured and an
undetermined number suffered
less serious injuries today when a
Chicago-bound R<lek Island (pas
senger train No. 14 was derailed
six miles east of here and was
sides wiped by westbound passenger
train No. 23.
Ail of the dead and injured wfere
riding on Train No. 14, railroad
officials said.
The body of a dead woman was
badly mutilated and workers re
quired more than an hour to re
move it. from the wreckage.
NOERA ACCIDENTS
SHOWN FDR VANCE
Five Months Record For
Whole State Reveals
Only 101 Mishaps
Dully Dispatch Aorean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C, Maskerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 12.—Although Alleg
hany county reported only one acci
dent in the! ERA work program from
the period from April 1 to August 30,
the county had the greatest frequency
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than ordinary sash cords, and had
been twisted tightly about the boy’s
neck several times. A physician plac
ed the time of death at approximate
ly 9 p. m. last night.
The rope which strangled the boy
was still tight about his neck, but no
other evidence of violence was imme
ditely apparent. The bod was re
moved in the trunk to a morgue,
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SWEDEN PROSPERS
ON HER MUNITIONS
Not Satisfactory Form Os
Good Times, But Produc
ing Them Anyhow
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press, Staff Writer)
Washington, Oct. 12.—A Swedish
newspaper man, representative in the
United tSates of several Scandinavian
dallies, tells me he hears from his
father, still in the “old country”, that
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Two Dead, 15 Hurt
As Big Explosion
Rocks Warehouse
Chicago, Oct. 12. (AP)—Two
men were killed and 15 sevrely
injured in a terrific explosion
which rocked the 14 s»*.ry brick
warehouse of the Central Cold
Storage Company on the near
North side.
One ofter. victims taken to a
hospital upon arrival, and another
died at a hospital where he had
been teken with six others.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair, slightly colder in central,
and east portions tonight; fair to
morrow.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
HIGH SCHOOL
Property Is Best
That Could Be Had
School Board Says
Cost Expected To Be Trifle Under $23,-
000; Board Votes for New North Hend
erson School East of Railroad
By ultimate unanimous vote, the board of trustees
of the Henderson city schools decided at a meeting last
night to locate the new $235,000 Henderson high school
on the so-called Miller property at the corner of [North
llliam and Charles streets. At the same time the
coaid went on ,'record as definitely favoring locating the
new North Henderson school somewhere east of the rail
road rather than across the railroad, as has been pro
posed A (
andhoeyalSy
OUT FOR GOVERNOR
Actively Running Now For
Nomination in 1936, Ob
servers In Raleigh
Think
CONSERVATIVES TO
STRING WITH HOEY
Anti-Sales-Taxers and Foes
of Gardner and Ehring
haus Expected To Back
Congressman Doughton;
Latter Has Been Endorsed
By Labor
Diijly Dinpiitelt lturenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BaNkerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 12. Congressman
Robert L. CFarmer Bob) Doughton.
of Alleghany county, and former Con
gressman Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby,
Cleveland county, are already actively
running for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor in 1936, although
neither has yet announced as a can
didate, according to most observers
here. Both were visitors at Demo
cratic headquarters this week an
both are making numerous speeches
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Sensation
In Slaying
Is Likely
Washington. Oct. 12.
Washington Evening Star said today
that Federal agents investiiating the
Kansas City union station massacre
had uncovered evidence of political
and gangster combine so startling in
its implications that a Federal grand
jury investigation would be institut
ed almost, immediately.
Rex Collier said in the Star story
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Labor Troubles Are Not
Now Menace To Recovery
Babson Commends Roosevelt for Proposal of Truce Be
tween Labor and Capital; Sees Compulsory Arbitra
tion Coming In Industrial Relations Here
By ROGER W. BABSON
(Copyrigt 1934, Publisehrs Fi
nancial Bureau, nc.)
Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 12—1 have
not shared the general apprehension
over labor troubles which has been
more or less widespread during the
past few months. The speedy crum
bling of the San Francisco general
strike and the routine early settle
ment of the recent textile walkout
iffer ample reassurance that the re
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school ends an uncertainty of some
six months or more, and settles what
lias been more or less a burning issue
in the community, and lifts a load
from the school board, which has
wrestled with the matter for many
long months, and which finally has
made a decision that some said was
unsatisfactory in some measures "Co
every member of the board. They
simply had to do the best they could
with a bad situation, in which not a
single site offered was ideally adapt
able for the new school project, it was
explained. »
The Miller site includes the James
I. Miller homeplace and the large
lawn junning along Charles Street
and some distance up William; also
the old Baptist church property, now
owned by C. W. Hargrove, of Towns
ville; and portions of garden spaces
to the rear of the home of of Mrs.
Andrew Harris on North William
Street, and the S. T. Peace and W.
S. Parker estate properties running
back from Andrews avenue. The Mil
ler property Is in the price at $13,500;
the Hargrove property at $6,000, with
exceptions of some cut from that figr
ure, and the remaining $3,800 for the
rear garden properties of Mrs. Har
ris and the Peace-Parker interests..
In addition to the actual purchase
price of the property, estimates made
by W. H. Boyd, civil engineer, give
$2,761 as the price for the grading
necessary to condition the land for the
building and the athletic field.
The high school building will face
Charles street, running back north
ward, with short wings or L#’s on each
side, these so arranged as to permit
of enlargements and additions later
as such may be desirable. The build
ing will contain an auditorium with
a seating capacity of around 1,000 per
sons, and also a gymnasium, and
some 15 to 20 class rooms, in addition
to quarters for sciences, sewing, cook
ing and the like, as well as adminis
trative quarters.
Work is to begin as soon as possible,
although that will not be earlier than
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Triple Rule
With Codes
For Future'
Washington, Oct. 12. (JP) — Donald
R. Richberg, recovery agent coordinar
tor, said today, after a conference
with .President Roosevelt, that en
forcement of NRA codes in the future
would be governed by closely-knit co
operative efforts of NRA the Jus
tice Department, and the Federal
Trade Commission.
covery movement is in no real danger
fromt his source. Now that the Presi
dent has come out with a direct re
quest to management and labor alike,
asking for a period of industrial peace
I feel definitely hopeful on the labor
outliok for the winter ahead.
Compulsiry Arbitration Ooming
Tere will be strikes, of ciurse, but
they are going to prove only local
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