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iILNDERSON JATKWAY TO CENTRAL ) POI TV \ TWENTYFIRST YEAR EXTORTION PLOT ON EDSEL FORD FRUSTRATED Government Sleuths Sure They j Will Get Mrs. Stoll’s Kidnaper 150,000 IN RANSOM PAID Os FAMILY IS ALSO BEING HUNTED Kidnaper’s Wife Is Bring Meld As One Who Picked Up The Ran som Money SUL WAS CAPTURED WITH THE VICTIM I Family of Mrs. Stoll Friend ly Toward Her. However,' for Her Protection of Mrs. Stoll; Minister and His Wife Were Not Arrested By Officers \ T,oiiisvlll o. Ky. t Oct. 17 <AP) The relent less forces of the Department of Justice spread a net today for Thos. II Robinson. Jr.. 27-year-old Tennes sv.in. accused of the kidnaping of Mis. Alice Speed Stoll. The wealthy young society matron j w.is brought home last night after a harrowing six days of captivity for a | $50,000 ransom. i’obinson. former inmate of lunatic .-isylums, is named by Federal agents a the man who entered the Stoll I home last Wednesday, slugged Mrs. | Stoll with an iron spike and carried | her off to an Indianapolis apartment. ; where she remained until yesterday afternoon. The Federal operatives are confi dent they will get their man. He is hf’ifved to have fled the Louisville area in an automobile bearing Illi nois license plates and a Chicago tag. Investigators also are looking for the $50,000 ransom fund paid *by Mrs. Stoll’s husband. Berry V. Stoll, oil company executive, for her release. The investigators are holding Rob inson’s wife, who they said picked up the $50,000 ransom package from her father-in-law— the intermediary, in Nashville. Mrs. Robinson was rap tured as she accompanied Mrs. Stoll from Indianapolis to Louisville. yes terdav in company with the Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, and hi« wife, who is a cousin of Berry V. Stoll. Ceorge Stoll said today he had (Continued on Page Eight) Lay Charge On Wife Os K idnapMati Louisville. Ky., Oct. 17. (/p)—As the government bent all Its es »•; today to find Thomas H. Rob " Jr., named as the mad kid of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, H:oim(I Nathan, epartment of Justice it . ■ -tigator. announced that charges of conspiracy to violate the Lindbergh probably would be pressed against Mi- Robinson. Revision whether Robinson would b"c a penalty of death or life im pii'unment rests upon the outcome ’’l • conference to be held later (by U. It riot Attorney Thomas J. Spark •■’"l Commonwealth’s Attorney Em ni.tt O’Neal. ’"• can give him death. ’’ O’Neal 5' 11 ' 1 referring to Kentucky’s kidnap w Under the Lindbergh law the (Continued on Page Eight) Harry Pierpont, ‘Brains; Os Dillinger Gang, Pays First of Nomadic Band of Robbers and Killers To Re ceive by Legal Process Full Wages of Crime; Carries His “Inside Story” of Crime Into Death ' Mlumbus, Ohio, Oct. 17. (/P) —Harry f’ierpont, fair-haired “brains’’ of the <l! s °l v 'd illinger mob, was electro «’utt*cl at Ohio penitentiary early to r| ‘ ,v . tin first of the nomadic gang - of ' '’her and kille*-* to receive by legal I'l'U’css the full ’’ages of crime. 'Vu cily. unuiced and with the ghost 1 '■> smile on his lips, the 32-year-old 1 ul » t sat down to death In the gaunt wooden chair within the high stock :,’h; of a prison guarded in unpre '“"••nt.ed fashion so fearful was War . ■ T.L : HENC Satin Btsuateh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PREB3. TOBACCO GROWERS FAVOR LONG TIME CONTROL “Brains” Is Electrocuted ► ij^P i % Lg B >|m| ■ -■Bk . VAAVVWVVv, y v ... I|||| Harry Piarpont 5-YEAR CROP PLAN BEING CONSIDERED BY WEED GROWERS AAA Chiefs Attend Meeting In Raleigh On Future Control Os Tobacco Yield FLEXIBLE SYSTEM IS FLOYD PROGRAM Visitors To Capital Report Farmers Back Home Are So Well Pleased With High Prices They Are Ready To Sign Again; Only Non- Signers Growl Daily Dispatch Tlnn'no, In the Sir Welter Hotel, II y .1. C. Bnskervllle. Raleigh. Oct. 17. —Flue-cured tobac co growers and officials of the Agri cultural Adjustment Administration are gathered at State College today to discuss the prospects of a five year program for controlling tobacc production. J. B. Hutson, chief of the AAA to bacco section, and James E. Thigpen, assistant chief both of Washington, were* present to ascertain the attitude of the growers toward a long-term program- Dean I. O. Schatib, of State College, presided over the meeting and E. Y. Floyd, director of the to bortco program in North Cr tok patt in the discussion. The main points to consider in such a program, Floyd brought out, are the need for flexible control of pro duction to meet the varying demands of the market and regulation of mar keting to maintain prices on a fair level. It was brought out that tobacco has risen from an average of around 11 cents early in the 1933 marketing season to around 30 cents today. Weed sales bringing 70 cents a pound ar: (Continued on Pago Three) den Preston E. Thomas of the zero hour possibility the law would be frustrated. With him ir.to death Plerpont car ried the “inside story” of his break in September, 1933, from the Michi gan City, Ind., State Prison. From the ten felons that walked to bloodless liberty on that occasion, John Dillinger, himself an ex-convict from that institution, and Pierpont (Continued on Page Jwe) ONLY DAILY [FLUE-CURED GROUP j UNANIMOUS BEHIND NEW 3 YEAR PLAN Vote For Continuation Os Present Two-Year Pro gram Through Com ing 1935 Season ASK HIGHER TAXES UPON NON-SIGNERS Resolutions Thank AAA To bacco Section, Especially Hutson, Also Kerr and Smith jand County Agents For Their Work In Lifting Prices of the Weed Raleigh, Oct. 17. (/P) Some 500 rep resentative tobacco growers from states producing flue-cured tobacco today voted unanimously at a meet ing here to ask the Federal Agricul tural Adjustment Administration to continue a weed control program through 1938. The delegates, most of them from North Carolina, voted also to ask con tinuation of the present two-year con trol program through to its expiration ..in 1935, but asked, that the AAA take steps to increase the tax now levied against non-signers of reduction con tracts from 25 per cent to 33 1-3 per cent next year. A committee of five members draft ed a resolution, at the direction of the (Continued on Page Six) Two Men, Woman Given Sentences In Kidnap Cases Wilson, Oct. 17. (/p)—Two men and a. woman wanted in the recent kid napping of W.. J. Morrisette, Federal revenue agent aide in Corrituck coun ty. surrendered here today, pleaded guilty and were given sentences rang ing from five years under probation down to a $1 fine. The three were Roy Coppelsmith. Sykes Forbes and Margaret Parker. Coppersmith was sentenced by Judge Isaac M. Meekins to five years under probation Forbes to two years under probation and the woman fined SI.OO. Morrisette was taken from his home at 4 a. m., the morning of August o, eaten and held captive two and a half hours by six men and a woman, and then released. He said he was abducted because the band believed lie informed agents of « still they were alleged to have been operating. One Drowns When Plane Nears Liner Fox Movietone Had Sent Craft Out To Get Assassination Pictures First New York. Oct. 17. (TP) —One man was drowYied and four were rescued today [when a (seaplane dispatched to -the liner Washington 600 miles at sea capsized as it attempted to make fas o he ship. The plane was sent out from Floyd Bennett field by the Fox Movietone Company from the Washing ton lilms of the assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia. Captain George Fried, command Jr of the Washington slid hero of many (Continued on Page Three) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy; slightly warmer in extreme west portion tonight; Thursday cloudy, followed by rain in the mountains in late after noon or at night. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF Nutfoj CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1934 /\s Hauptmann Fought Jersey Extradition ■j. ts ’"HBSBBBHHBBHBH HHSHfIEB 1 B 1 Mm L « if f i HI 1 WO&m. \ jm mk ■ Folev'US ■ Hauptmann ■ I WiUntT gBWI * - -, r w M J SgfjV Kg| Fawcett Wmm U Fn,!!i¥ C r 8 H Hauptmann pictured with his lawyer, James M. Fawcett, for first time, as he face* Judg* I ?i! er ir ? ®V° nx County Court, New York City, and seeks to prevent extradition to New Jtiaey to lace Lindbergh kidnaping and murder charges, as sought by David Wilentz, attorney-general of New Jersey. Extradition was approved by Samuel Foley, district attorney of Bronx. (Central Preue) Emergency Expenditures Os Government Are Over Billion In 3 1-2 Months Catholics After Ambassador B—Jpg - * w JOSEPHUS DANIELS MQLMEKfNG RECALLOFDANIELS Charge He Approved Mexi can Plans To Drop Reli gion From Schools Washington, Oct. 19 (AP) —Letters demanding retirement of Josephus Daniels as ambassador to Mexico are being received at the State Depart ment from Catholic organizations. A speech Daniels made last July to a group of American teachers and students visiting Mexico City started the controversy. Catholic organiza tions in the United States have inter preted the speech as approving “plans of the Mexican government to elimi nate religion from the schools and in stitute ‘socialist’ instruction.” e Daniels, on the other hand, ex plained to the State Department that the speech was simply a declaration of his faith in universal education, and did not “even remotely” touch on the character of education in Mexico. $1,015,443,339 of $1,828,- 396,679 Since July 1 Is For The Recovery Program FERA EXPENDITURES EACH 440 MILLIONS Highways Take 152 Millions of Total; Far in Excess of Roosevelt’s Estimates Last January for This Entire Fiscal Year, Figures Re veal i $i Washington, Oct. 17. (TP) The gov ernment’s emergency expenditures Were reported today to have passed the billion dollar mark for the three and a half months of the fiscal year up to October 15. The total expenditures were $1,828.- ; !96,679. Os these the outgo for emergency purposes was $1,015,443,339 in spite of re-payment of $125,000,000 by the Reconstruction Corporation, and $10,000,000 by the Federal De tContinued on Page Six) BOWIEIRIGTO FORM NEW“BLOC" Ashe Standpatter of Two Years Ago Seeking To Commit Members Daily Dispatch fiareaa. In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Bugkerville, Raleigh, Oct. C. Bowie, from the mountains of Ashe county, is reported to be busy writing letters and making personal visits to other prospective members of the 1935 Gen eral Assembly with a view to getting them to pledge their support to the program he expects to advocate in the forthcoming session. It is not known yet just what this program will be, but if it is anything like the program he advocated during the 1933 assembly, it will probably include a further reduction in the appropria tion for public schools, additional cuts in the allotments to the State univer (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Extortion Threat Is Sent Him .il-v •?P**fcp(.!.!!' l Wbio \ m EDSEL FORD HIGHWAY PATROL’S DUTIES RESTRICTED Governor Refuses To Allow Police To Become Booze- Chasers Daily Dispute* Kwrenu, In tk« Air «Valter Hotel, By J, C, Uaskerville, Raleigh, Oct. 17 —The State High way Patrol is not to be converted into a booze-chasing patrol, but will con (Continued on Page Six) Roosevelt May Compromise With Industry If He Wins Some Concessions Sensed In Order To Put Over Relief Finance Program; Labor Willing Only If It Shares In Profits; President Turning to Right By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, Oct. 17. President Rooseveljt’s appeal for a truce be tween capital and labor is attributed in such Washington circles as those of the National Association of Manu facturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce as directed more essentially to them than to the workers. N That is to say, captains of industry seem to draw the conclusion that the 8 1 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY YOUTH, 20, ADMITS WRITING A LETTER DEMANDING 15,000 Threatened Life of Motor Magnate Unless He Paid Money by Speci fied Time FALLS INTO TRAPS PREPARED FOR HIM Others Held at First Releas ed When They Prove Their Innocelnce; House Where Money Was To Have Been Placed Was Kept Under Surveillance Detroit, Mich., Oct. 17 (AP) —Unit- ed States Department of Justice agents revealed today that they had frustrated an extortion plot against Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, with the arrest of a 20-year-old youth they said had .con fessed writing a letter demanding $5,- 000 under threat of death. The youth held is Edward I.ickwala, who evaded a trap five days ago by failing to pick up a. dummy package placed by Federal agents at the place designated in the letter, only to be arrested last night. The note, mailed to Ford on Oc tober 8, said: “You are on the spot, and if you want to live it. will cost you $5,000.” It gave detailed instructions vfor placing a candy box containing the money in $5 and $lO bills on a porch of the house at 3341 Medbury avenue in Detroit’s northeast section. William Larsen, head of the Depart ment of Justice Bureau here, said s dummy package was placed on the designated porch at the time stated in the letter at 11 p. m., October 12, but that it was picked up by Mrs. Claude Langerville, occupant of the lower flat in the building. She was detained, but quickly established her (Continued on Pago Six) To Request Bigger Plan Os Housing Roosevelt’s Scheme To Fit In With His New Public Works Program Washington, Oct. 17. (/P) —President oosevelt said today that his recom mendations to the next Congress would include plans for a big increase in housing projects in connection with relief workj Asked at his press coference if the housing program would fit In with the new public works program, the President replied it undoubted would. At. the same time, Mr. Roosevelt said there was no Inconsistency in. moving industrial unemployed to small farms, with the Farm Admin istration plan of limiting production, because, under the first arrangement, the administration was trying to save human lives. While House is proposing to them to make all essential concessions that they are demanding if they wilt undertake to solve the unemployment problem. Labor, as they see it, is being urged simultaneoeusly to be patient while the executive mansion is engaged in negotiating, on this Ibasis, with in dustrial leadership. It is an interpretation which the (Coutiuued on Page Three) Jj||
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