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THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1931. News Review of Current Events the World Over Revolutionary Movement Threatens Machado’s Regime in Cuba—German Reich Saved by Defeat of Radicals. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Pres. Machado G erardo mach- a(R», president of Cuba, • not Ions? ago scoffed at tlie danger of retblution in his tight little island. But the threat has materi alized*. In a way to make, -him sit 'up and • take .*notice. Rebels in • wrioife regions stagetf outbreaks that alarmed "■ the govern- aiid martial law was declared In the.effort to stave off civil war. Maeliadp and his cabinet ministers conferred, with military and civil advisers, and the martial re sources of the republic were hastily ■ mobilized. Troops were sent to tlie troubled areas and an dffort was made to impfovlse a navy by commandeering private yachts and arming them with ^fighteen pound guns.. Meanwhile the authorities were gathering up all the known and sus pected rebels they could catch and putting them in jail. ^Hundreds were arrested and charged with treason. Former Pre.sident Menocal and Colonel. Mendieta were credited with the lead ership of the revolt.’ and especial ef forts were made to get them, but at this writing they are stUl at large. The mosr active of the rebels were in the province of Pinar del, Rio, and ft was reported to President Machado ■ that they, with Gen. Balder ao Acosta, mayor of Slariano, as leader, were pre paring an'invasion of Hava’ia province. Indeed, there were several sanguinary skirmishes only a few miles from the capital, which was isolated by the cutting of communications. Col. Julio Sanguily, chief of the .. army flying corps, ordered every avail- ■'j.able plane to keep on constant patrol ; along the north coast, especially In pinar del Rio, and for several miles out at sea, in search of both Cuban aud foreign organized filibustering em- —-piiduiona. Several craft that ntteiiipted to escape the navy patrol ships were bombed by the flyers. Late reports said Menocal, Mendieta and others were on a yacht making their way to Chaparra, Oriente prov ince, where Menocal has a large num ber of followers. He wag at one time manager of the Chaparra sugar mill, the largest in the world. F or the time being, at least, the German republic is safe, for the latest attempt to wreck it has failed. This was the move to dissolve the Prussian diet through a plebiscite, which, if it had succgeded. would have imperilled the Reich, nie sclieme was devised by the Hitlerites or National ists, and that other set of radicals, the Communists, joined with them, al though their ultimate aims are utter ly diverse. But even with the aid of the National Socialists the combination fell some 3,500,000 votes short of ac complishing Its purpose. The French goverment was almost as pleased by the result of the Ger man plebiscite as was that in Berlin, for it meant that the growing accord between the two nations would not be broken, and it was said In Paris that the proposed visit of Premier Laval to Berlin was now a certainty. I NTERNATIONAL experts charged with the task of dovetailing the Hoover moratorium plan and the Young plan announced in London that they had reached a complete agree ment, which was signed at the treas ury office. Their communique said: “Complete agreement was reached, as regards the detailed measures' re quired to give effect to President Hoover’s proposal in case of payments by Germany under the Hague agree ment of January 20, 1930. “Recommendation of the experts in regard to suspension of these pay ments have been approved by the gov ernments of Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, New Zealand, Portugal, Rumania and South Africa. “Agreement also was reached in re gard to detailed measures for suspen sion of Interallied war debts to the United Kingdom, France and Italy of payments under agreement with Czechoslovakia. “Agreement also was reached on the principle that payments due by Hun gary under the Paris agreement of April 23. 1930, and payments by Bul garia under the Hague agreement of January 20, 1930. should be suspended during the year ending June 30. 1932. “But in this case certain adjust ments must be made, as complete sus pension of these payments might re sult in suspension of certain classes of . payments to individuals. Accord ingly, the committee agreed In prin ciple that all payments to funds ’A’ and ‘B’ under the agreement signed at Paris on April 20, 1930, should be continued during the Hoover year. “Negotiations are continuing In re gard to adjustments required In the case of Bulgaria.” P L-ENTERS of the. fourteen cotton states of the South are asked by the farm board to plow under one- third of their crop immediately, in or der to enhance the price of the other two-thirds. The board sent telegrams to tlie governofs of the states urging that this course be adopted. In re turn, said the board, the cotton stabili zation corporation will agree t6 hold off the market its 1,300,000 bales until July 31, 1932, and will urge the cot ton co-operatives financed by the board to do likewise. C'DWARD A. O’NEAL, president of IL the American Farm Bureau fed eration, announced at a meeting of state farm bm'oau leaders in'Milwau- kee that the federation “must renew Its demand for an equalization fee” .and 'that the present marketing act, was inadequate to cope with agricul ture’s “most acute problem—control of its surplus crops.” Tlie announce ment was said-to be unexpected by the farm board • officials and the ad ministration in'Washington. “The federation has always stood, for the principle of the equalization fee, as expressed In the old McNary- Haugen bill, which provides that each unit of a commodity produced shall bear Its fair share of the cost of dis posal of surplus.” O'Neal said. “Desiring-to see the marketing act fully tried out, the organization fqr two years has not insisted upon en actment of the 'fee principle. It now appears all too plain that the present act does'Dot adequately provide for. the needed surplus control.” n ROBABI-Y , to his .,1| quite a vigorous S ■ ' . « though small boom has developed for PVm Melvin A’. Traylor, Chicago banker, as the Democratic nominee for the Pre^dency in 19.31. It was started in .Malone and Hills boro, 'Tex-as, where •ii.r. ^Craylftr formerly M. A. Traylor ijvei,haod where he is most popular. Then,, a few days later, Daniel Upthegrove, president of the St. Louis Southwestern railroad, announced that he would support the banker for the nomination, and that a committee was being formed to far ther Traylor's candidacy. It is not likely that .Mr. Traylor takes the mat ter seriously except as a compliment, but those who know him and his abili ties feei that the Democratic party might go further and fare worse. He is president of the First National bank of Chicago and has been prominent in national and International financial affairs. R epresentative william e. Hull of Illinois is another of the members of congress who has been studying things abroad, and he has just been heard from. The special object of Mr. Hull’s investigation has been the Bratt system of liquor con trol in force In Sweden, and his con clusion is that Sweden has solved the problem with which this and other countries are struggling. In a word, he finds the Bratt system works well. “Very careful to be sure I was get ting the correct information.” Mr. Hull writes, “I can truthfully say that I haven’t seen a single drunken per son in Sweden since I have been here. The restaurants are ail well patron ized, the drinking Is light and the drunkenness is nil. The system is well organized and a success.” ^ Hebert of Rhode Island, chairman the senate committee 0 n unemployment, spent the week end at the Rapidan camp and then gave out, appar ently as President Hoover’s spokesman, an attack on the Ideas of a government dole and federal unem- ployment Insurance. Senator He asserted that the Hebert latter would inevitably lead to the dole as It operate.s In England, Mr. Hebert based his conclusions upon a study of the dole abroad made during a trip from which he recently re turned. He visited most of the coun tries of western Europe for the spe cial purpose of Investigating unem ployment insurance, and he predicts now that there will be little clamor in congress for the establishment of such a system. He said of the dole; “The main difficulty with the dole system, as it operates throughout Eu rope, with the possible exception of Italy, is that It Is Intertwined with politics.” O RGANIZED labor in certain parts of this country is not doing much to help solve the question of unem ployment. Quite the reverse. Take the Hoover dam, for instance. The workers on that big project made wage demands that construction com pany holding the contract considered extortionate, so 125 men quit work. The superintendent immediately shut down operations and about 1,000 men were thrown out of svork. The com pany. he said was six months ahead of schedule and could afford to refuse ■M.M concessions that would cost- $2,000 dally or $3,000,000 during the seven years allowed for. completion of the dam. Living conditions for the work ers on this deserf Job are adjpittedly rigorous. ' ' ■ In Chiqago thousands of men and women were tb?owa out of employ ment when more than one hundred small movie theaters closed rather than submit longer to the demand of the motion picture operators’ union that;, two operators .be employed at each bouse. The managers said this was unnecessary and that they could not afford.If. Extensive highway construction op erations in Illinois are delayed and may • not get under why before next spring, because labo* organizations objected to the rulings of a state board as to the “prevailing, wage” in vari ous districts, which must be "paid for the. work according- to tjie law au thorizing ft. ■ These are only a few icst!inces«of the many that might be .citedil It ’would seem to the' ordinary clfizen that organized labor raifeht well'strain a point or two in such a ^line of stress. The executive council of the Amer ican Federation of Labor adopted a declaration to the effect tlmt there must be. no reduction of wages. M ISS* MARY AN- derson, head of the women’s bureau of the Department of Labor. Is a woman of Ide'as and the ability to express them,* Hav ing returned from R —c" Europe, she gives out '*'*^*^1 an address urging a modern era for cooks and maids, a higher status for domestic mary service in keeping Anderson modem indus- .trialisra. Her program Includes the establishment of training schools to fit the worker to-the position through the federal employment service, and an employees life Independent of the employer's household. She thinks mod ern apartment living means not the eventual extinction of the worker in the home but added advantages for her. Miss Anderson also points oi^ that apartment living must necessarily give opportunity for much part-time work. P RESIDENT HOOVER’S fifty- seventh birthday camef on August 10, but he entirely disregarded the anniversary. Returning from the Rapidan camp, he spent the remain der of the day in work as usual, and though Mrs, Hoover had hurried back from Akron, there were no guests for dinner. C OL. LUKE LEA, Nashville pub lisher, his son, Luke Lea, Jr, and four others were indicted by the grand jury in Nashville on charges of con spiracy in connection with the affairs of the defunct Liberty Bank and Trust company. S HARPLY criticizing “third degree’ methods in police force adminis tration, which it found to be wide spread in both cities and rural com munities, the Wickersham commission reported to President Hoover that “it remains beyond doulit that the prac tice is shocking in its character and extent, vioiative of American tradi tions and institutions, and not tc tolerated.” Citing many Instances of police brutality and unfair tactics by officers, the commission declared fnat the trend toward "lawlessness in law en forcement" has resulted In “a deplor able prostration of the processes of justice,” and urged that congress en act a code of federal criminal pro cedure which might serve as a model for the states. D elegates from nearly all na tions were present when the press congress of the world opened in Mexico City. Men and women from North and South America, Europe and the Orient were welcomed at a recep tion given by Senator Don Lamberto Hernandez, head of the federal dis trict. The Inaugural meeting was rected by Frank L. Martin, acting dean of the school of journalisra of the University of Missouri, and the guests were addressed by Dr. Don Jose Manuel Puig Casaurano. secre tary of public education. The news paper men of Mexico then gave the delegates a theater party, and next afternoon they were received at Cha- puitepec castle by President Ortiz Ru bio. On Wednesday there was an ex cursion to the archaeological excava tions at San Juan Teotlhuacan, and on Friday, the closing day of the gress, a great fiesta was held In the stadium. Of course between these festive af fairs the delegates transacted consider able business, much of It through their committees, and at the three general sessions some serious and thoughtful addresses were delivered. P .4BKER CRAMER, the aviator who was mapping out a northern air mail route to Europe, got as f: as Lerwick ir the Shetland islands safely on his way to Copenhagen then ran into trouble that. It is feared at this wri’-irg, resulte.i in his death, Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were held up at Point Barrow for three days by adverse weather conditions, and they took off for Nome. Howi dense fogs compelled them to come down on the north coast of the ward peninsula, about 75 miles from Nome, which Is on the south coast that peninsula. When the fog lifted they went on to Safety bay, near Nome. (S, 1931. Western Newspaoer Union.] M. A. TRAYLOR l\.: Melvifi a; Traylbr, C.iicago banker, ^fiiig urged Jor tliO Democratic I’rbsideiitia! nomiffatioii in 1031 by several Texas cities and also by Dan iel Upthegrove, president of the St, i.ouis Southwestern railroad. POLICE BRUTALITY IS SEVERELY CONDEMNED Wicker^am Board Scores the Third Degree. Washington.—A tale of systematized police. brutality sprea-diiig over half the nation—a ten-year record of il legal law enforcegient iiy barbarous ’third degree” methods--was unfolded by the Wickersham doramlsslou. Asserting its duty was to lay the “naked, ugly facts” before the public, the commission crammed Into a sin gle weighty volume on “Lawless ness in Li^w Enforcement” more than ;flve score'provod instances of extort ed confessions. It urged upon President Hoover new legislation, or a constl^lional amend ment if necessary,. to abolish “con duct so violative of the’ fundamental principles of coiistitutioriul liberty.” It cited the LeopolU-Loeb case, In wliich an innocent school-teacher was beaten into confts|ii)n, having fo cused attention upon tlfte “third de- - •-..e'’ , .It turned to the-S.;oa.v. O’* Oldo as slftwing the iiiifavosrSWe reaction i prosecutor who struck the uni versity professor on the'jaw to obtain a confession. One case, however, the commission refused to discuss, asserting flatly a review of ti)e Mooney-Billings case had been decided against because of inability to examine witnesses. In addition to its assault upon the “tliird degree” the report condemned as too prevalent cases, of conscious “unfairness in prosecutions” by dis trict attorneys and judges. It dealt with nearly 150 instances of trials following so closely upon arrests as to leave the accused no thne for defense; denial of counsel to defendants and actual misconduct by court and prosecutor. The hulk of the report, written by Prof. Zecimriah Cliafee, Jr., of Harvard and Walter 11. Poliak and Carl S. Stern of the New York bar asserted that despite the secrecy and denials of police brutality instances of the “third degree” had been found in “considerably over half the states.” RECORD WINTER WHEAT CROP IS ANTICIPATED Three Wets Winners in Ohio’s Primaries Cleveland.—The Democratic nomi nation for congressman from the Twentieth Ohio district was won by Municipal Judge Martin L. Sweeney In a special pidmary to lill the vacancy created by the death of Representative Charles A. Mooney. D. Haydn Parry. Republican, will oppose Sweeney in November. Sweeney is an opponent of prohibition. In Ohio’s only other congressional primary, in the First (Cincinnati) dis trict, nominees for successor to the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth were chosen without opposition. John B. Hollister was unopposed as Repub lican nominee, while State Senator David Lorbach had no opposition on the Democratic ticket. Both are ad vocates of prohibition repeal. Retail Stores Keeping Employees, Report Says Washington.—Employment in the country’s department stores has dropped only 6 per cent since 1929 and managers have agreed to keep their employees through the remain der of the summer, the President’s emergency employment committee re ported. -Many stores which bad cut their staffs took many of their eraplo.v- eP9 back for the Easter rush and have kept them ever since. They have been enabled to do this by part time work and other emergency measures. Hoover Work* on Birthday Washington.—President Hoover cel ebrated his fifty-seventh birthday by disregarding it. He did permit him self a more leisurely start from his Rapidan camp, but the rest of the day was the routine of work, conferences, and callers, with not even a table full of guests for dinner. Government Report Shows Yield Biggest Ever. Chicago.—A crop calamity in the spring wheat belt this year is over shadowed by the production of an enonnous crop of winter wheat, the biggest yield of the latter grain ever raised. These are the features of the August report by the United States Department of Agriculture. Production of winter wheat is esti mated at 775,000,000 bushels and of spring wheat at 118,000,000 bushels, a total wheat crop of 894.000,000 bushels, which compares with the indication of S69.000.000 bushels a month ago and 803,00,000 bushels last year. . The average for 5 years is 822,000,000 Inishels. The report shows a decline of nearly 200,000,000 bushels in corn prospects during the month of July, owing to hot and dry weather, altliough the present indication of 2,775,000,000 bushels is a little better than the 5- year average and 081,000,000 bushels in excess of the crop last year. Oats, rye and barley all show de creased prospects as compared with last year’s yields, but the total Indi cation for the five leading grain crops is 5,096,000,000 bushels against 4,698.000,000 bushels In 1930. In its report, the department of agriculture estimates so-called bread wheat of spring variety at 9.'),000,000 bushels compared wicli 124,000,000 bushels a month ago and 194,000,000 bushels last year. Five year average was 207,000,000 bushels. Condition of the crop at 39.5 per cent, shows a loss of nearly 14 points for the month. Yield per acre is given as 7.1 bushels compared with 9.2 bushels a month ago, 11.9 oushels last year and 10- year average of 12.9 bushels. The indicated crop of durum wheat, • the macaroni type, is 23,000,000 bushels against 32,000,000 bushels a month ago and 57.000,000 bushels last year. The condition of 40.1 per cent is a loss of 17.8 points for the month. Yield per acre Is placed at 6.5 bushels com pared with 9.1 bushels a month ago and 12.0 bushels last year. Per acre yield Is so low that, at prevailing prices, it Is doubtful that the esti mated crop will ever be harvested. The corn crop is -still above an average, as acreage is large and rlie c'rfffl 1T&d jt—’Vor.dcvfiil stalt. • mft and hot wimther in July lowered the promise materially. The estimate now is 2,775,000,000 bushels, compared with 2,968,000,000 bushels a month ago. 2,- 994,000,000 oushels last year and five- year average of 2,701,00t).0)0 bushels. Condition is given as 7C..3 per cent. Oats are estimated at 1,170.000,000 bushels, a loss of 130.000,000 bushels for the month .and 188,000,000 bushels less than raised last year. The rye crop is placed at 36,200,000 bushels against 38,300,000 bushels a month ago and 48,100,000 bushels last year. Barley is estimated at 221,000.- 000 bushels against 207,000,000 bushels a month ago and 300,000,000 bushels last year. ' Lindberghs Land in Nome Nome.—Colonel and Mrs, Lindbergh landed their monoplane here after fly ing 400 miles through fog and clouds. CONGRESS AGAIN HAS FARM RELIEF PUZZLE GENERAL MENOCAL Six Killed When Big Passenger Plane Falls Cincinnati.—Six persons, five men and one woman, were killed when the Cincinnati-Atlaiita airplane of the Em- brej'-iliddle division of American Air ways crashed on the bank of the Lit tle Miami river one minute after its take-off. Those who were killed were: V. B. Baum. Memphis, W. H. Brimberry and W E, Keith, Atlanta ; W. .1. Dewald, Fort Thomas. Ky.; M, T, Odell, Cin cinnati, and Miss W. D. Hughes, Fort Thomas. A broken hub of the propeller on the right hand motor of the Ford tri- motor plane caused the tragedy, air port officials said. The plane was In charge of Odell. Hyde Views Crops Ruined by Drought Wllliston, N. D,—Secretary Hyde received at first hand information on drougist conditions in western North Dakota. Accompanied by Governor Shafer and agricxiltural and business leaders, he toured this section by au tomobile.' Stops were made at two farms de clared typical of those affected by prolonged dry weather. On a 50-mlle drive not a field fit to harvest could be found, and feed supplies for live stock were scarce. Quarantine Iowa Farms to Curb Anthrax Epidemic Modaie, Iowa.—More than a dozen farms in this vicinity are, under strlci quarantine as the result of an out break of aligna edema anthrax, known as Che most severe form of anthrax. The infectious disease so far-has at tacked horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep. Humans are subject to the malady, but no cases have been reported. Equalization and Debenture Issues Are Renewed. Iowa U. Officer Accused Davenport, Iowa.—M. J. Otto, man ager of an office at the State Univer sity of Iowa, lias been accused of em- bezzlemeut of $6,452 through cashing pay, checks of fictitious employees, it was announced by George T. Baker of Davenport, president of the state board of education. Washington.—The distress of the agricultural industry has revived old and brought new farm relief propos als to the attention of official Wash ington. Bumper crops, existing, surpluses, low prices, lack of demand and mar kets, scarcity of credit, mortgages and unpaid bills, drought and grass hoppers, have increased the farmer’s problem. With congress convening in Decem ber and a Presidential election next year, the situation grows more com plex as debate revolving around the farm board stimulates discussions on the equalization fee and the ex port debenture plans and price-freez ing propositions. The American Farm Bureau feder ation has termed present farm legis lation inadequate and reaffirmed its faith in the equalization fee. Ir con trast, the National Grange again is advocating the export debenture. Rep resentatives of both nationally known farm organizations have said adop tion of these plans will be urged In the next congress. Senator Nye (Rep., N. D.) wants the government to engage In a pro gram of price-fixing for two or three years and has recoronended a debt holiday for farmers. Somewhat the same thought is held by Representa tive Wright Patmar (Dem., Texas), who urged President Hoover to call a special session to set a minimum price on the principal agricultural commodities and crude oil. Mr. Patman believes the minimum on cotton should be 20 cents a pound; wheat, $1 a bushel; corn, $1 a bushel, and oil, $1 or more a barrel. At present the index of farm prices is at its lowest point since the agri culture department began keeping charts. Southwestern farmers were aroused when the farm board refused to withhold stabilization wheat from domestic markets and now southern cotton planters oppose sale of the board’s stabilization cotton to Ger many. Mr. Hoover is on record against the export debenture plan, but has not stated his views on the equaliza tion-fee.-''rCalvin Goolltljje* however, twice vetoed a bill containing the lat ter provision. Senate leaders are divided on the farm relief question. Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), progressive leader, favors the export debenture; Senator Watson of Indiana, the majority leader, the equalization fee, On the other hand, Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), administration follower, has advocated abolition of the farm board. Frank Evans, of Salt Lake City, former executive secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation, has been appointed to the farm board by President Floover. He fills the va cancy created by the retirement i f C. C. Teague, vice chairman and fruits and vegetables member. Army Man Die* Fort Reuo, Okla.—Maj. Henry J. Weeks, commandant of the array re mount post here, died suddenly. Planters Asked to Plow Third of Cotton Crop Washington.—Declaring the time had arrived for cotton growers to take mediate and drastic” action to save themselves from ruin, the federal farm hoard appealed to the governors of the fourteen cotton states to urge planta tion owners to plow under a third of their crop to boost prices on the re maining two-tlilrds. Pointing out that the tremendous crop which is now assured might bring disaster to the cotton states and Indirect distress to the nation general ly, the board promised to do all in its power to keep off of the market until next July the vast stores of stabili zation cotton It controls if ten of the largest cotton states adopted its rec ommendation immediately. The board rushed Its appeal by wire, calling to the attention of the gover nors that the destruction of a third of the nation's cotton crop must be under way by September 1 if rea! benefit is to result. The message was dispatched to the governors of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Califor nia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis sissippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Farmers May Get Daily Newspaper for Wheat Lawrenceville, Ill.—Lawrence county farmers now have the opportunity of paying for their daily newspaper In wheat. The Lawrenceville Daily Rec ord advertised it will pay 66 ^-3 cents a bushel for wheat applied on rural subscriptions. In other words six bush els of wheat will be exchanged for a one-year subscription to the paper. Ship Line to Employ 2,000 Kearney, N. J.—More than 2,000 men will be employed for about two years In the shipbuilding program of the Grace lines which will expend $17,- 000,000, It was Uisdosed. Banana* Too Cheap Baltimore.—Bananas were selling for 25 cents a wagon load at the piers in Baltimore and one vessel that had arrived from Central America put out to sea with 3,000 bunches to be dumped in the ocean. tr Gen. Mario Menocal, former presi dent of Cuba, is leader of a revolution- movement in that island that aims at the overthrow of President Ma chado’s regime. CONFESS MURDER OF TWO YOUNG COUPLES Three Get Life for Shocking Crime in Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich.—Three men, two of them ex-convicts, confessed to the torch murders of two young high school girls and their boy escorts oa lonely wayside road near Willis. The scene of the slaying is 30 miles southeast of Ann Arbor. The three slayers, David Thomas Blackstone, thirty-three years old, a negro; Fred Smith, twenty-three years old, ex-convicts and Frank Martin Oliver, nineteen years old, all of Ypsi- lantl, made their confessions at Ypsl- huiti. Tliey were,brought to Ann Ar- ’.and'.Wla-.ret'tird ^reakioji iilaV, in which th^y pleaded guilty, were sentenced four hours later to life im prisonment on four charges of mur der each, the penalties to run con secutively. Within a few hours they were in 'he state prison at .Tackson, to be transferred later to the branch prison al Marquette. Drinking in one of Mlchig.an's small town blind pigs was mentioned in Blackstone’s confession and the three men were all befuddled with gin when the crime was committed. The solution of the crime, declared by prosecutors to be one of the most atrocious in the history of the state, came about through the attempted dis posal of a murder gun by Smith. Bal listics, the comparatively new gun sci ence, revealed that the revolver was used in the quadruple slaying. The victims of the confessed slayers were Vivian Gold and Ann May Harri son of Cleveland, each fifteen, and Harry Lore, si.xteen, and Thomas Wheatley, seventeen, both of Ypsl- lantl. Robbery was the underlying motive of the crime, the prisoners revealed, though Smith, in his confession, said Blackstone, the negro, attacked Miss Harrison. The fact that Lore and Wheatley recognized Smith, who had been their neighbor in Ypsilanti, caused the trio to decide on death for all four young people. From the time of the confessions until late at night Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor were in a state of mob hysteria and when Judge Sample sentenced the torch killers, a yelling crowd, esti mated at 20,000 persons, surrounded the courthouse here, shouting threats of “lynch them!” Two attempts were made to seize the prisoners, one at Ypsilanti and one here, and only by the use of tear bombs were the crowds driven back. So serious did the situation here be come that one company of the Nation al Guard troops, comprising 200 men, was called out. The soldiers, armed with rifles, posted themselves at the four courthouse entrances and with difficulty kept off several rushes of the surging mob. Citizens were deputized and augmented the force of deputy sheriffs, policemen, and state highway police. 800,000 to Celebrate National Honey Week Chicago.—Honey week will be cele brated nationally November 7 to 14, ft was anounced at a meeting of the American Honey Institute In the Ste vens hotel. It is estimated 800,000 bee keepers will dispose of a crop of honey worth about $25,000,000. Child Stows Away on Steamer Milwaukee.—Locked in a first-class cabin on the steamer Nevada of the Pere Marquette line, Margie Thayer, nine, South Milwaukee, was returned here as a stowaway after a two-day trip on Lake Michigan. Two Rumanian Bank* Close Bucharest.—The Bank of Berkovisk. one of the largest In Rumania, and the Czernowitz Ostbank, a savings bank with 24 branches throughout the country, suspended.
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