Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1930, Page 3

MASHEDENLINGY COLORED PRISONER Victim Was Held on Charge of Assaulting Two Small White Girls. By the Associated Press. TARBORO, N. C., August 19. Negro assaulting body riddied by bullets. After gaining admittance to the jail on a ruse, the mob carried the Negro to his home, approximately 100 yards | across the line in Wilson County and 15 miles from here. There they strung him to a tree and fired scores of bul- lets into his body. Deputy R. O. Watson, who lives with his family a¢ the jail, had retired when he heard a voice callin” him early today Believing it to be an officer with a pris oner, he went to the door and called. “Have you got & man for me?” Somx one in the mob answered affirmativ and Watson unbolted the door. As he did 5o he saw the crowd of masked men and made an effort to throw the bolt. The men rushed through, forced him into his office and took all the keys from a peg on the wall Going down the jail corridor, the deputy related, the men unlocked cell after cell until they found Moore. The Negro, apparently realized his fate, went to_his death without a word. Moore was given a preliminary hear- ing yesterday afternoon on a rge of assaulting Ethel Morgan, 5, and Lucile daughters of an Edge- farmer. He waived examination and was ordered held for trial without bond. Sheriffl W. E. Barden of Edgecombe County ordered the Negro placed in the county jail pending his trial at the Beptember term of Superior Court Notified as soon as the men drove off, the sheriff went in search of the lynchers. He reached the Negro's home after the mob had dispersed and found the body. Watson said that none of the men #n the mob had been recognized. This was the first lynching in North ©arolina since 1921. PLANNING TO AMEND “4TH OFFENDER LAW” New York Crime Commission Would Modify Penalties Prescribed in Existing Felony Regulations. the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., August 19.—The Btate Crime Commisison is planning to ask modification of the fourth offender law, with }.}oss}ble extension of parole privileges from first to second, third and fourth offenders, Senator Caleb H. Baumes, chairman of the commisison, said here yesterday. Only first offend- ers can be pardoned under present law. The Crime Commission fathered the fourth offender law making mandatory a life sentence on conviction of four felonies. Senator Baumes explained the fourth offender modification plan was built around Gov. Roosevelt’s pulicy of com- muting sentences, rather than giving of pardons. In this way the State main- tains watch over the future of released persons. He indicated the plan likely would be to continue life sentences for fourth offenders, but with the Parole Board having nower to free the convict on completion of the term to which the prisoner would have been sentenced for the crime if he had not been a fourth offender. Senator Baumes said the commission ‘would support plans to giv: employment, to every prisoner of the State and would advocate erection of a new institution for the care of mental defectives who fall foul of the law. DURAN:I' T0 C.ONSTRUCT NEW “BANTAM” AUTO Manufacturer Contracts to Build 100,000 Mathis Cars for French Concern. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mic other “bantam” automobile of foregin origin soon is to make its appearance in the American market. William C. Du- rant, noted automotive financier, an- nounced today that Durant Motors, Inc,, has contracted to manufacture 100,000 of the Mathis cars now built in the E. E. C. Mathis factory in Strasbourg, France. Coincidentally Durant announced a reorganization of personnel of Durant Motors, Inc., that brings him again into the active presidency of the company With him will be Raiph A. Vail, Detrof as vice president; Hal W. Alger, Chi cago as treasurer and H. F. Hebermann, New York, as secretary. The directorate will include E. E. C. Mathis of Paris; Roy D. Kerby, Toronto; Norman de Veux of Oakland, Calif.; T. S. Johnson of New York, and Edward Verlinden of Detroit. ‘The new midget car, nounced, will be manufactured tempo- rarily in Lansing and Oakland, Calif. | Later a separate plant probably will be built for American Mathis, Inc., which was granted a Delaware charter on August 11. T. 8. Choir Sings in Berlin. 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New York City. Rochester hiladelohia. Columbus, ~Oh. Asheville s enywhere in Vermont or New amps! Long-distance moving our spe- eialty. Smith’s Transfer & Storage Co, aais ou 8k Nosth 336 August 19.—An- | {Wanted to Stay at Corneli to Get Ph. D., but Father Said No. STARTED AT BOTTOM Progress Was Rapid and He Now Heads Standard of New Jersey. Oliver charged | two small | white girls, was taken from the Edge- combe County fail early today by 200 masked men, hanged to a tree and his| (This 15 the eleventh of a series of 18 articles on the bovhood of famous Ameri- cans and telling how they got their start in lite.) BY J. V. FITZ GERALD, 1t was nearing commencement time at | Cornell. The seniors were making their | plans as to what they would do in the vorld that seemed so far removed from he campus on the hills overlooking the le up-State city of Ithaca. Walter Teagle was included in the group that was about to go out into the “cold, | cold world,” to follow the words of an undergraduate song. He received word that his professor of chemistry would like to talk to him. Young Teagle had specialized in_chem- istry during his college course. He was what his fellow students called a “shark” in thd subject. Naturally he was a prime favorite with the head of the de- partment. He answered the summons promptly. The professor urged him to return to Cornell the following year to work for |a Ph. D. degree. But the educator of- fered him_an instructorship in chem- | istry and held out hi, hopes that his | prize pupil would eventually be promoted | to a full professorship. B | The salary of an instructor of chemis- try was $600 a year. Young Teagle was highly gratified at the offer. He saw his | way clear to work and study under the most pleasant conditions. A useful, if not a highly lucrative, career stretched before him. Ordered Home By Father. The young man wrote home to his father, & leader in the oil industry in | Cleveland, telling him the good news. The letter indicated that he would like to return to Cornell and to make teach- ing his life work perhaps. His father, in reply, ordered him to report at home as soon as possible, making no comment on the offer of a career that was evi- dently rather pleasing to his son. The elder Teagle didn't mince words as to his opinion of the proposition when his boy arrived home. He pointed out that he had been allowing Walter 181,200 a year while he was getting his education at Cornell. He added that he didA't feel inclined to make up the dif- ference between that amount and the $600 of an instructor’s pay. Moreover, the father couldn't see any real promising future ahead for his son |in a teaching career. Furthermore, he | needed the boy in his oil business. So the young man was ordered to get a new |them ss his working clothes until he knew the oil business at the bottom. Walter Teagle was born in Cleveland in 1878 and knew a thing or two about oil even before he went to Cornell. As a youngster he spent much time around his father’s refinery. He had served an apprenticeship, from time to time, at firing stills and unloading coal, for he was & powerfully built and strong lad Stood High in Class. He wasted no time in college, as is shown by the fact that he completed a ear course in three and stood high in his classes. He wrote the thesis for his degree on the subject of oil. That | was & natural enough topic for him to select, considering the business his father was in and that his maternal | grandfather, Morris B. Clark, was a partner of the senior John D. Rocke- feller in the grain business and was later interested with him in oil ven- | tures. The first job at which his father put | the recent college graduate was at fir- ing a still. The pay was 19 cents an hour. The young man earned every penny of it by the sweat of his brow. ‘Weighing over 200 pounds and standing 6 feet 3 inches, he could hold his ow with any man on the shift. He didn’t remain a laborer long. He knew too much about the industry to waste much time in such a job. He inherited his liking for the busi- ness from his father. His progress was rapid as soon as his parent convinced him that the industry offered him much more than a teaching career. But the days as & laborer must have been try- ing, for all that, to the young man who had been a leader in the student life | at Cornell, with no hard work to do be- vond studying his books and working on his experiments. Fortunately, he had the physique to stand up under h grueling task. Refining Was Problem. He realized, once he went to work, that there was more to getting oil than merely putting down a well. He knew | that it took wide knowledge to deter- mine on a likely location for finding the crude product, that refining and suit of overalls and stand ready to use [* THE EVENING STAR, TEACHING PROFESSION LOST AND OIL BUSINESS WON WHEN WALTER C. TEAGLE TOOK UP LATTER| WASHINGTON, O1L WAS THE SUBJECT OF HE THESIS FOR HIS OFFERED HIM AN INSTR UCTORSHIP) IN CHEMISTRY] DIDNT MINCE WORDS ASTo HIS OPINION OF THE PROPOSITION transportation were problems requiring | much study and wide experience. He made up it mind to know the in- dustry from the bottom up. His father's concern merged with the Republic com- pany shortly after the young man entered the business. He was made a | traveling auditor. While on this job | | he reached a country station and found | the agent gone. He hitched up the| | horses and made the deliveries until & new representative arrived After three years with the Republic he became a Standard Ofl man. He marketed the company's an outstanding leader when becoming a Cornell instructor. Next: Dr. William J. Mayo. (Copyright, 1930, Newspaper Alliance.) 1.V, BYRNE CHOSEN HEAD OF 40 ANG 8 Veterans’ Body Elects Offi- cers at Annual Prom and Barbecue. La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, an organization composed of members of the American Legion who | saw service overseas during the World War, elected officers for the Washing- | ton jurisdiction at its annual barbecue | and prom, which was held Saturday at | the Raccar Camp of the Potomac Boat | Club. The elections were confirmed yesterday. J. V. Byrne, the new grande chef d gare, served 16 months overseas and was_ discharged as a captain in the Sanitary Corps. He has served on the executive body of the “40 et 8" in the District of Columbia. Other officers were elected as fol- lows: Grande chef de train, Francis Miller; grande conducteur, Thomas Pranklin; grande commissaire intend- ant, F. G. Fraser; grande garde au: chevaux, J. J. Orlosky; grande garde de la porte, E. B. Lyons; grande drapeau, Edward Hal grande medicin, C. I. Griffith; grande comis voyageur, N. W. Guthrie; grande aumonier, Rev. Francis P. Hurney; cheminot national, Norman B. Land ; alternate cheminot na- tional, Warren Miller; grande cheminot, | E. T. Hitch, P. J. Kelly, C. H. Knight ‘W. Morrell, R. O'Brien and T. Walsh. | Of these officers, Fraser was re-elected | for the sixth time and Franklin for the first time. Delegates to the national promenade that is to be held in Boston, October 6 to 9, in conjunction with the Amer- ican Legion national convention, were | elected as follows: J. V. Byrne, F. G. | Fraser, N. B. Landreau, Paul J. Mc- | Gahan and J. H. Phillips. | —_— As a result of the Paris fashions, artle ficial flower factories of Dresden, Ger- ed to city mgome GULDENS | ‘Mustard & Baltimore-Houston Freight Service. BALTIMORE, Md., August 19 ().—A fortnightly freight service between Bal- timore and Houston, Tex., will be inaug- urated September 18 With the sailing from this port of the Steamer Lake The new service will be oper- ated by the Newtex Steamship Corpora- conducted freight service between Baltimore and Norfolk. Vessels on the Southbound trip will_make short calls at Norfolk, but Northbound boats will come directly to Flatonia. tion, which at one time Baltimore. products abroad and was so successful that he was promoted to more responsible po- sitions, finally being_elected president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. If the teaching profession lost a dis- tinguished member, big business gained | Walter | Teagle’s father persuaded him against | by the North American D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, WAR DECORATIONS HEARINGS PLANNED |House Committee to Form Policy for Disposing of Proposals of Awards. By the Associated Press. Faced with a shower of measures providing for the award of decorations to veterans of the World War, a House committee has decided to formulate a policy for disposing of this legisiation. Present law set a five-year period for the award of medals for World War heroism and the War Department is opposed to any extension of the time. Congressional efforts have been made to secure such extension, but Army officials feel awards should not be made after memories of witnesses begin to | dim, and the daring deeds take on pro- | portions—whether magnified or dimin- ished—which they did not possess on the fleld of battle. “The real worth of a military decora- tion lies mot in the ease of acquire- ment, but in the quality of service which merited its bestowal,” the War Department has reminded congressional sponsors of extension. “The value of the decorations which have been award- ed for World War service should be securely guarded, both as a measure of morale and as a standard for future guidance.” A board of awards and decorations composed of Army men has been at work on the individual cases brought to its attention, but friends of the vet- erans fear many may be passed up in the short time available. The pressure has led to attempt at congressional action. 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