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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy and slightly warmer to- night and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 44 degrees; gentle variable winds. Temperatures—Highest. 68 pm yesterday; lowest, 37, at 7 day. " Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages11,12&13 82,719. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. he bemn ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. Threatened HELEN JACOBS REPORTS RE- CEIPT OF OBSCENE LETTERS. RULING BY MGARL BLOCKS JOHNSON'S BOYCOTTONFORDS N. R. A. Chief’s Second At- tempt to Halt Award Held Judicial Question. TECHNICAL VIOLATION OF CODE “IMMATERIAL” Decision Made Following Sharp Letter to Controller General by R. P. Sabine. . The second attempt by Gen. Hugh Johnson. N. R. A. chieftain. to keep Henry Ford from doing bustness with | the Government today was blocked by Controller General McCarl. In = decision to the Department of Agriculture, to which Johnson had set up the contention that award of & con- HELEN JACOBS. BOSTON, November 29 (#).—Helen tract to the Northwest Motors Co. of Bethesda, Md., for Civilian Conservation Corps trucks might run afoul of the retail motor code because the bid of this Ford agent probably was under the minimum set by the code, McCarl held that this question “is for judicial de- termination and not for consideration by the purchasing or contracting office in the awarding of a contract.” The decision also brought out that Johnson admits Ford is complying with | Jacobs, national tennis champlon, today reported to Federal authorities she had received several threatening and ob- scene letters, and appealed to authori- ties for help. Miss Jacobs, a resident of Berkeley, | Calif., who has been the guest of Miss | Alona Friend of Marblehead and Brook- line, since her default victory over Mrs. | Helen Wills Moody, reported the receipt | of the letters to the Department of Jus- tice office here. Francis J. W. Ford, United States at- | | 2 3 | torney, asked Miss Jacobs to bring in the automobile manufacturers’ code | /Ry, immediately to be examined “save in respect of certain technical pby postal inspectors assigned to running particluars which are considered im- down the writer. Dealer Protests. | The proposed contract, g its origmalJ status, called for purchase of 1,600 trucks, 700 of which are now to be! bought by the War Department under | bids opened yesterday. The shift of this buying arrangement to the War Department, as the result of the tie-up in the Department of Agriculture, which has had Ford's eligibility for Government contracts under discussion with McCarl for sev- eral weeks, yesterday provoked a direct protest to McCarl by R. P. Sabine, head of Northwest Motors. ‘When his bid was higher than that of Chevrolet, Sabine asked McCarl to pro- | hibit any awards under the War De- partment offering. He contended that | the new arrangement was illegal. | Today's decision was an aftermath to that rendered by the controller general three weeks ago, when he said that an, affirmative compliance by Ford with Lhe‘ code would not be a prerequisite to award of a contract to Sabine as Ford's agent. If the contract was accepted, Thowever, McCarl said, the code would have to be complied with. | Questions Figures. | Johnson then questioned the right of | Sabine to submit a figure below the list rice. i x In presenting the matter the Secre- tary of Agriculture wrote the controller general as follows: “Under date of November 10, you ad- vised me that until it is established that one subject to a duly approved | code of fair competition has violated 1ts provisions, it is to be assumed that | the provisicns of the code will be duly | cbserved. Comformably with your de- cision, the matter was submitted to the administrator of the National Recovery Administration for advice as to whether the Ford Motor Co., had violated any provisicns of the code of fair competi- tion for the automobile manufacturing industry. i “I am now in receipt of a letter from the administrator, dated November 15. | in which the department is advised that | to the extent of the administration’s in- | formation, the Ford Motor Co. has, save in respect of certain technical particu- lars which are considered immaterial, | complied satisfactorily with the code of | fair competition for the automobile manufacturing industry. Price Question Raised. | “To that extent, the department would | Appear (0 be authoriaed, under your gt~ | cision, to award the bid to the North- West Motor Co. of Bethesda. Md. ex- J55¢ for the fact that the administrator | Pow raises the further question as to the probable violation of the Northwesy Motor Co. of Article IV B, sections 1 end 2 of the motor retail code, for the | reason that the bid of the Northwest Motor Co. is probably below the min- imum set by the motor vehicle retail code. “In view of the question now raised, I have to request that you advise me ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1. e v AL SMITH MAY RUN AGAIN, DECLARES FISH | Representative Sees Candidacy if Roosevelt “Continues Trend Toward Inflation.” By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 29.—5&1&“5&3— " New York, AL ceasy (Rt he beilevea Alfred E. Smith again will become a candidate for President if President Roosevelt “continues his trend toward inflation. Here for an address, Representative Fish told newspaper men he “strongly regretted” the statements of Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin, militant priest who attacked Smith for his op- position of the President’s monetary policies. He declared himself strongly in oppo- sition to Russian recognition, and stated he believed the main result of the recognition of Russia by the United States “will be to strengthen the pres- tige of the Communists in Russia and elsewhere, and promote class and civil war_throughout the world.” “And those wars,” he said, “are more terrible than wars between nations.” Representative Fish said he consid- ered it “problematical” whether the next Congress will favor inflation, “The members of Congress from the | South and West originally were strong inflationists,” he said. “They told their people back home that inflation would permit them to pay their debts, and they scld the people so powerfully.on that idea that now the people demand their Representatives give them infla- tion. Had Congress met last July I am aimost certain that it would have gone for inflation.” TONEN HEH HARK | Roosevelt’s Conference With [ Eugene Black Holds Center of Monetary Stage. By the Associated Press. The Government's gold price was shoved to a new high today, making a 17-cent increase in quotations within | two days. The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion price was $33.93 an ounce, com- pared with $33.85 yesterday and Mon- day’s price of $33.76, which had re- mained unchanged for a week. London's market for bar gold was $32.72 on the basis of sterling, opening | at $5.21%2 to the pound. Warm Springs, Ga., held chief attention in the monetary situation as President Roosevelt and Gov. Eugene Black of the Federal Reserve Board | conferred. Acting Secretary Morgenthau said the Treasury will announce its December 15 financing plans about the middle of | next week. Maturities at that time amount to $727,000,000, and it is considered pos- sible that part of the new issues will be offered in exchange for called bonds of the fourth Liberty Loan. Silent on Pegging Dollar. ‘Morgenthau, who leaves town tonight | for the week end, said no gold price will be set tomorrow as the Treasury will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Asked to comment on reports of an administration plan to peg the dollar temporarily at between $5.25 and $5.35 with the English pound, he shook his head in the negative, “Does that mean no such plan is be- ing considered?” he was asked. ®-rTat means I have no comment,” " don’ wrie Chese newspaper stories, but I am always interested in what they sas Bt you nix the gola price” a re- | porter commented. | Morgenthau laughed, but declined again to discuss the report. | Treasury chieftains meanwhile viewed the administration money program through the perspective of Government financing needs. and the immediate out- look was a continuation of gold buying and routine cash borrowings. No difficulty was foreseen by Mor- genthau and his aides in refunding the December 15 maturities, despite a softening of the bond market coinci- dent with the newest Reconstruction Finance Corporation gold price. Far _from being discouraged, they (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) CZECHS OFFER U. S. $150,000 AS TOKEN State Department Is Reported Seeking Larger Payment on Debts. By the Associated Press. Czechoslovakia offered the United States $150,000 today as a token pay- ment on $1,680,812 due December 15. Ferdinand Veverka, ~Minister of Czechoslovakia, made the proposal to- day to Acting Secretary of State Phillips. Phillips was reported to have suggested a larger sum and no agree- ‘ment was reached. Czechoslovakia paid _$180,000 last June on a total of $1,500,000 due at that time. Italy has made an offer of $1,000,000 on its December 15 installment of $2,133,905. There have also been negotiations between State Department officials and representatives of Latvia, Finland and other debtors owing small sums which will fall due in mid-December. s S Mass Flight Progresses. ZINDER, French West Africa, Novem- ber 29 (#).—The “Black Squadron,” 28 FEDERAL WORKERS URGED BY CHIEFS TOADCHEST RNE Dern, Morgenthau and 0’Ma- honey Ask Units to Bear Their Share of Burden. CITY’S NEEDY FACE DIRE OUTLOOK OVER HOLIDAY 6,000 Grim Volunteers Fight Va- liantly to Wipe Out Deficit of Almost §750,000. A last-minute appeal for a generous response by Federal employes in the final IAgES Of Whe GommunIEy Gneak campaign for $1,945,000 was issued to- day by heads of the War, Treasury and Post Omce Departments. Secretary of War Dern, Acting Sec- retary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Assistant Postmaster General O'Ma- honey sent special letters to their de- partments, urging active support of the employes in the drive, which ends tonight. The letters pointed out the Govern- mental unit has subscribed but a small percentage of its quota, and asked that Federal workers assume their proper share of the burden for relief of the city’s needy. Copies of the letters were sent to Campaign Chairman Frank J. Hogan. Dern Urges Help. Secretary Dern called attention of War Department employes to the fact no payments on Chest pledges are re- quired before January 1, and the workers have the entire year in which to complete their payments. “I desire,” Secretary Dern said, “the chiefs of bureaus and services bring to the attention of their entire personnel, | the condition which confronts the Chest, with the hope that many wno have not yet made their pledges may | do so immediately and that perhaps | some who have made pledges may feel | able to increase them.” While thousands of families were making preparations for their annual | Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, a pathe- | tic host of underprivileged men, women | and children awaited anxiously the out- come of the campaign—their sole hope of happiness in 1934. Fully cognizant of the grave plight confornting the city's crippled, infirm and hungry citizens unless $1945,000 is raised beiore conclusion of the drive tonight, an army of 6,000 - volunteers fought valiantly today to wipe out a deficit of nearly $750,000. Although they realized the task was | an almost impossible one, the indomi- | table campaigners, urged on by Cam- paign Chairman Hogan and his tire- less staff, refused to admit defeat. ‘They hoped that by some miracle | today they would be able to send the mercy fund “over the top” when final returns are reported at a closing rally | tonight in the Washington Auditorium. The last count of pledges, late yes- terday, placed the total at $1,204,634.73. The climacteric returns—determining | success or failure of this year's drive— will be reported by leaders of the four divisions at tonight's meeting, which . will begin at 7 o'clock with an informal “box supper” for the faithful workers. Preceding the meeting there will be a half-hour concert by the Marine Band. with vocal numbers by the George Washington Unviersity and telephone company quartets. A radio program dedicated to the Community Chest and its 60 member agencies was broadcast last night over Station WJSV, with Kate Smith, Wash- ington's own songbird, acting as mistress of ceremonies and the principal talk being made by Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Bishop of Washington. The program was arranged by Miss Smith as a personal tribute to the Chest of her home city, and she brought to the program not only her own stage show but other radio stars as well. Bishop Freeman Pleads. Bishop Freeman, lntroducg:do 19!11 l‘m; bold Noyes, president of the Chest. made an eloquent_ last-minute Dlea to Washington not to let the Chest fail this year. “I have a greater concern for the ople of Washington who have not g:eded this appeal than I have for the institutions that are looking to the Chest for help and which suffer if they do not get it the bishop said “I stand here tonight speaking for 60 organizations, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, and furnishing aid to people of all races and creeds, and I solemnly abjure you to support this work, be- cause even if the Chest should reach 75 or 80 per cent of its goal, the work of every beneficial organization sup- ported by it will be impaired “We are not giving enough considera- tion to human values, and the biggest question in the United States today is how are we going to deal with these depreciated human values? Unless you preserve these human values, all your (Continued on Page 6, Column 1. SR A EX-DANCER RELEASED IN HUSBAND'S DEATH Grand Jury Fails to Indict Widow of Sheldon Clark, Jr., Shot to Death. By the Associated Press. WOODBURY, N. J., November 29.— The Gloucester County grand jury, which investigated the killing of Shel- don A. Clark, jr., wealthy Paulsboro resident, failed to indict his widow, Mrs. Audrey Smith Clark, former Broadway dancer, who was charged with llly‘m( Authorities said Mrs. Clark would be released immediately. She is in a ‘Woodbury hospital, from a severe blow on th , recovering e head which she sald was inflicted by her husband with a billiard cue just before he was shot to death. The widow, who was known to the stage as Audrey Adaire, told authorities that she did not know what happened after she was struck. Twelve witnesses were heard by the | President and is regarded as a personal = 7; /GEELER) ’& ,08%% 5 ", ol o) P 5 3 e M “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,798 kokkok UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. '8, N SHADE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT! CHOATE APPOINTED LIQUOR CONTROLLER | New York Attorney, Old Friend of President, Named to Advisory Board. By the Associated Press. ‘WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 29. | —President Roosevelt today appointed | Joseph H. Choate, jr., New York attor- | ney, as administrator of the Pederal | liquor-control code. The President also named a govern- mental advisory board for the liquor | dictator. ‘This board includes W. A Carver of | the Department of Justice, Edward G. Lowry of the Treasury, W. L. Thorpe of the Department of Commerce and Harris Willingham of the Department of Agriculture. Personal Appointment. Mr. Choate is an old friend of the | lvfiolnue. e will govern the liquor industry from the time of repeal of prohibition next week until Congress sets up a| permanent method of control. The administration position in_this regard was said today at the Little ‘White House to be: 1, Full permission for the States to establish own methods | of sale; 2, The sale of good liquor at reasonable prices, and 3, Elimination -of bootlegging. No decision has been reached on liquor taxes and the administration is | considering a joint collection of liquor revenues by the Federal and State governments. Under this plan, the occupational ax on liquor, such as licenses by res- | taurants and the like, would go to the | State and be collected by the State, with the Federal Government collecting a volume tax to be divided between the | national and State units. This_proposition. however. has been decided upon and is further study. LIQUOR TARIFF WEAPON. not | receiving Exporting Nations Must Buy Ameri- can Products. By the Assoclated Press. The Government was revealed today to be negotiating with liquor-exporting Countries on the basis of “you buy OUE P . and well allow yours entry here in proportion.” Secret discussions been under way_for some tims, 1 ame apparent in testimeny by Moredecal Ezekiel economic advisor to Secretary Wallace— on the proposed code for the importing end of the liquor business. Questioned by newspaper men, how- | ever, he declined to name the countries. He said the pacts would undoubtedly bring ‘about an improved outlet for agricultural and industrial products. It is a move to bring about a lowering of trade barriers against American products. Ezekiel's disclosure followed a state- ment by Edward G. Lowry, jr., of the Treasury that the Government planned to use repeal as a means to improve United States exports market by limit- mg volume and origin of foreign dis- tilled spirits and wines. Herbert Feis, economic adviser of the State Department. was questioned by Lowry as to whether importation of 20,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits and 15,000,000 gallons of wines—estimated by the Treasury as the quantity likely to come in the first year after repeal— would be a big item to the producing countries. It would be substantial, he said, and that the best way for the United States to obtain trade advantages is through reciprocal trade agreements pacts along that line. e SEETRTRSEzRAERARE! have t bec: The S prague cArticles Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, who the certain monetary and recovery policies of the administration, today writes the first of a series of 10 articlés in which he presents a critical analy- f the recovery program. Dr. Sprague’s articles are published by The Star as an important point of view of the problems of recovery. They should be of inte alike to those who do and who do not share his opinions. Fre) land nch military mu‘wu mass flight over today from Ouagadougou and Niamey The next planned stop will be at FLamy. Sheldon, He Sheldon Clark of Barrington, Il vice president of the Sinclajr il Co. THE FIRST ARTICLE AP- PEARS TODAY ON PAGE 3. BULLETIN Col. Wade H. Cooper, president of the United States Savings Bank, to- day lost his fight to force the Treas- ury to reopen the bank, in accord with his plan, Justice Jennings Bai- ley in District Supreme Court hand- ing down a decree upholding the position taken by the Treasury De- partment. Justice Bailey took into consid- eration not only the evidence sub- mitted at the recent trial, but also a previous hearing, which had been brought by Col. Cooper to prevent the entry of the savings bank into the proposed Hamilton Bank. ROOSEVELT BACKER ELECTED T0 HOUSE Contest, Defeating Former Gov. Howard M. Gore. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. National Democratic leaders in Wash- Andrew Edmiston, jr., in the third West Virginia congressional district, to fill a vacancy in the House caused by the death of Lynn 8. Horner, as a vindica- tion of the Roosevelt policies. and a clear indication that the people are supporting the President. The returns from three-fourths of the precincts in the district show Ed- miston is leading his Republican op- ponent by more than 5,000 votes. For- mer Gov. Howard M. Gore, a Secretary of Agriculture in the Coolidge cabinet, was the Republican candidate. Gore has conceded the election of the Demo- crat. The West Virginia election is the first real congressional contest since Presi- dent Roosevelt took office and since his recovery program has been developed. This district has been clése between the | Republicans and Democrats for_years, | cratic. For that reason it was believed | to provide a real test of sentiment on the part of the voters in yesterday’s election. More particularly was it so construed Decause (e DEMOCTalic can® didate, Edmiston, appealed to the peo- ple to send him to Congress as a_mark Of their confidence in President Roose- velt. He said, in effect, that a vote o} Gore was a vote against Roosevelt. Apparently there has been no swing of the political pendulum in the third | ‘West Virginia district away from Roosc- velt and k to the Republicans— | so far. Defeat of Edmiston would have (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) “Mountain of Gold” Is Reported Found In Colorado Field Discoverers Claim Fabu- lously Rich Vein Runs Through Hill. By the Assoclated Press, DURANGO, Colo., November 20.— Discovery of what they described as a “mountain of gold” was claimed today by three Durango men, who said sur- veys of engineers indicated the fabu- T tends completely through a mountain. The trio—E. C. Metz, O. E. Bates and Myron Bates —recently discovered a gold vein on the Hall City group of five claims, about 3 miles due west of the Starr-Gilmore Red Arrow Mine. “The vein is over four feet wide at of the location m:&n,pel and i m sald of the richest 1 TS some found in the La Plata be found at the junc- -south vein with the ington today hailed the election of Col. | 700 SEE YOUTH LYNCHED INATTACK Troops and Police Routed as Mob Takes Life of Girl’s Assailant. | By the Acsoctated Press. | ST. JOSEPH, Mo. November 29.— " Lynch law has settled the case of Lloyd | Warner, confessed attacker of two | women. | The 19-year-old colored youth died |in flames at the end of a rope last | night before the eyes of a mob of 7,000, | which battered its way through Na- tional Guardsmen and peace officers to seize him in the Buchanan County Jail. Warner was hanged to an elm tree near the courthouse. drenched with Edmiston Wins West Virginia | sasoline and set afire. Women and| children watched him die. Some were friends of the white girl of 21, who, officers said, Warner assaulted in an alleyway here Sunday nighe. throats, drowned out the last attempt of the muscular young Negro to speak. Terror-stricken and stripped to the waist, he was pulled from a third-floor |cell by four young members of the | mob, beaten, kicked and cursed. Sherift Forced to Quit. 'm & fighting Dutchman,” said Sheriff Otto Theisen, 60, “but there are too many Irishmen here for me.” Tear-gas fumes, remnant of the de- fense of 40 city and county officers and | the hastily mobilized members of the 25th Tank Company, Missouri National | Guard, floated on the stairway down which the Negro was dragged to death. | | MOB SUSPECTS START FOR PRINCESS ANNE IN CUSTODY OF JAIL HEAD Four Are Returned for Habeas Corpus Hearing Which Will Reveal Arrest Evidence. GRAVE OF LYNCHING VICTIM REPORTED RAVAGED BY CROWD Ritchie Defends Use of Troops Which Led to Rioling in Salis})ury as Uu]y Legal Course in CllS(_‘. By the Associated Press. IMORE, November 29.—Warden Harry C. Martin of the Bal- timore City Jail and the four prisoners arrested by the State troops in Somerset County yesterday. this morning left for Princess Anne, where a habaes corpus hearing, brought in an effort to release the men, will be held this afternoon. Warden Martin, who went unarmed, and a chauffeur were in the car with the four prisoners. A guard followed in another automobile, “I figure I'm safer that way,” was the warden’s explanation of why he did not carry a gun. _ The witnesses who identified the four men—members of the State police force, who were beaten back by the mob which lynched a Negro at Princess Anne last month—did not go to the hearing. Instead announced Secretary of State David C. Winebrenner, 3rd, affidavits signed by the witnesses were prepared to be delivered to the court. Lane Remains Away From Scene. _ Attorney General William Preston Lane, jr., who gathered the evidence against the alleged lynchers and who was with the troops when they were stormed by a mob that wanted to free the prisoners yesterday, did not go to the hearing. A s The four prisoners, for whose release the habeas corpus proceedings were started, were Willam H. Thompson, a Princess Anne druggist; Irving S. Ad- kins, special officer at Princess Anne: Willilam S. McQuay, Pocomoke City chain store operator, and William P. Hearn, Shad Point trucker. Judge Robert R. Duer expects to hold Princess Anne Quiet Threatened Anew By Return of Prisoners “String him up,” shouted from many | BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Staff Corresponcent of The Star. GEORGETOWN, Del, November 29. | —It still was a major crime to be a newspaper man on the Eastern Shore of Maryland today. Reporters and photographers, driven out of Salisbury and surrounding com= munities yesterday, moved quietly over little traveled back roads in their efforts to gather news without coming into contact With members of the mob which made veritable refugees of every one of them during the hectic hours following the evacuation of Salisbury by the Maryland National Guardsmen. Most of the press representatives ex- perienced considerable difficulty in get- ting out of the “war zone,” -and many still were in hiding there today—afraid to be seen lest they be beaten or other- wise abused. Quiet Is Threatened. On the whole, however, conditions were considerably better today than vesterday. How long they would re- main that way was problematical in view of the fact the two of the four prisoners in the Armwood lynching were scheduled to be taken from Balti- | more to Princess Anne, seat of Somer- set County. for arraignment before Magistrate Robert Duer this afternoon. Magistrate Edgar A. Jones said he ex- pected a “large crowd” to converge on Princess Anne as soon as word of the arraignment got around. Asked 1f he considered it safe for| | | He was hanged and burned about a | block from the jail after impatient | DEWSPaper men to enter the fown, lously rich Red Arrow gold vein ex-| ! members of the throng decided against a plan to lynch him at the scene of the assault, a_mile away. The girl victim of the attack, way- laid on her way home from a motion | picture theater, was reported near hys- |teria. Battered and bruised by her assailant, she was found in the alley tied with her own stockings. Officers said she was the second and more recently it has been Demo- | Weman Warner had attacked. He was | accused of assaulting & Negro girl six n;mnths ago, but there was no prosecu- tion First Attack Fails. | Machines were called into play for outside the armory In which the four both the offense and defense in the jail warfare. started soon after dusk wi the hurling of stones and a vain at- | tempt to break in the front door with a | §-inch pipe as a battering ram. Officers scattered the crowd with tear gas. Gov. Guy B. Park ordered out the tank company. The mob obtained a truck and moved it around to the grilled back door. A (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PRESIDENT STUDIES Chief Executive and Ickes Esti- mate Needs Prior to Request to Congress. By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 29. —President Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes have agreed upon allotment of all except $150,000,000 of the $3,300,000 public works fund and are now estimat- ing on the size of new public works ap- propriation from Congress. The final allotment of funds includes money for the Chicago sewage dis- posal, but the exact figure was not made public here. NEW P. W. A. FUNDS| Jones said: “It might be all right, if you don't ! have any Baltimore license plates on| your automobile.” \ Your correspondent and his photog- rapher, Gus Chinn, were preparing to make an attempt to get into Princess | Anne by way of Salisbury after having | been chased for miles over narrow, | muddy country roads throughout most | of_yesterday and last night. | . We reached Salisbury at precisely the | same moment as the soldiers were re- leasing their first barrage of tear gas in an eflort to disperse the crowd of approximately persons gathered | suspects were held under military guard. | Shooting Threatened. | _ Just as the prisoners were starting for | Baitimore in busses loaded with heavily | | armed guardsmen, Chinn and I decided | the Salisbury climate was becoming | more and more unhealthy with every passing_minute, particularly after a group of about 15 irate men had threat- ened to shoot the photographer if he didn't “get out of town right away.” We headed for an airport about 8 miles out of Salisbury, where I dic- tated a story while Chinn made ar- rangements to have photographs taken to Washington for use in yesterday's Star. While I was still on the tele-| phone, a cameraman representing a, Philadelphia newspaper came in out of | breath and anxious to get as far as| San Francisco if possible. | After Chinn and I left Salisbury, the | Philadelphian told us, other news-| paper men made a dash for the| Wicomico Hotel, where they planned to dictate their stories and arrange for delivery of pictures. A large crowd followed them, however, and officials of | the hotel had to secret them in rooms on the fourth floor. For hours the crowd stood outside the hotel, shouting jibes and threats, and. after a while, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) New Reichstag Convoked, BERLIN, November 29 (#).—The government today convoked the new Reichstag for December 12, exactly one month after the national parliamentary election. FURTHER MOVE IN LYNCHING CASEi BY STATE BELIEVED BLOCKED By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 29.— Following a telephone conversation be- tween Gov. Ritchie and Judge Robert Duer, it was announced at the execu- tive mansion here at noon that Attor- ney General William Preston Lane, jr., would not go to Princess Anne, where habeas corpus pi are to be held this afternoon concerning the four men arrested as lynch suspects by the National Guard . State’s Attorney Robins of Somerset County will be advised by telegraph to the hearing. Judge Duer is said to have told the Governor that the citizens of Princess Anne were aroused and that a contin- uance of the habeas corpus hearing would not be granted. In announcing the decision not to send Lane to Princess Anne, adminis- tration spokesmen said the State has ex- hausted the constitutional rights at its | disposal. Robins was told, however, that further witnesses and evidence | other than that already placed at his disposal can be produced if desired, it was said. A formal statement explaining the de- cision more fully is to be issued by Gov. Ritchie later this afternoon. the habeas corpus hearings at 3 o'clock in the Somerset County Court House at Princess Anne, according to reports from there. The other two judges of the circuit—Chief Judge John R. Pat- tison of Cambridge and Associate Judge Joseph L. Bailey of Salisbury—will sit with him. State's Attorney John B. Robins de- clined to say whether or not he would be_lghreu?v“ e plan for returning the pris calls for no show of force. Gen. Miltan A. Reckord, who commanded the troops that made the arrests yesterday, said today ll_}lt no orders had been issued the National Guard and that no orders were contemplated. He discussed the Question with the warden and other offi- cers before making the statement. Both Towns Are Quiet. Reports from Salisbury and Princess Anne were to the effect that both towns were very quiet. However, residents of the two communities continued to ex- press their bitter opposition to the course chosen by Gov. Ritchie and At- torney General Lane, Gen. Reckord revealed today that one of his prisoners, Thompson, w. - : s o his friend. “He was commander of the American Legion Post at Princess Anne when I was commander of the Depart- ment of Maryland,” said Reckord, Thompscn maintains that he is inno= cent and was in Salisbury when the Jaal;lnfk was made on the Princess Anne The guardsm them soaking the mob, end: en, bruised and many of wet from the battle with ed their day’s work with the order to disband and return home, After the withdrawal of the troops, the newspaper men were driven from Salis- bury by the threats of the mob. Reports came out of Princess Anne that the grave of George Armwood, colored, who was lynched last month, had been “tampered with” by a crowd late last night. Steve Hopkins, super= intendent of the Somerset Co Alms House, on whose grounds u{’kz colored man’was buried said the grave was covered with fresh dirt, Ritchie Defends Action. Citing the laws of the State to defend 1l action for sending the troops after lynch suspects, Gov. Ritchie from his sick bed in Annapolis said the county authorities had failed to arrest the men named to them and it was his duty to act. “The general law,” he asserted, “au- thorizes the Governor to call upon the commander of the National Guard if his assistance is needed to ‘enforce the law’ and under such circumstances the commanding officer has the power of a sheriff. It was under this provision that I acted.” His action, meanwhile, drew the fire of members of the State Legislature, meeting in a special session. Confer- ences were held at the State House and plans were discussed by Eastern Shore representatives for the release of the prisoners. The protests were not gen- eral, as many declared the Governor's action was the only course left. State Police Beaten. Armwood was accused of attacking an aged white woman, and the second night after his arrest a mob beat off a detail of defending State police, broke down the door of the Somerset County (Continued on Page ) NEW HAVEN TRAINS CRASH Score of Commuters Reported In- jured in Massachusetts Accident. QUINCY, Mass.,, November 29 (#).— A score of persons were reported injured today as two New Haven Railroad trains carrying commuters collided near the Atlantic Station, An engine and several cars were derailed as the locomotive of one train crashed into the rear car of a standing train. Guide for Readers Amusements . Comics Features Finance .. Lost and Found . Radio Serial Story Society Sports 1