Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 5

* THREE EXECUTE INTHEFTMURDER 75-Year-0ld Merchant Vic- tim Great Uncle of Two North Carolinians. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., October 4—Three young mountain men were electro- cuted at State’s prison here today for the robbery and murder of William Thomas, 75-year-old merchant and great-uncle of two of the trio. They were Robert Thomas, 23; Oris Gunter, 20, and Arthur Gosnell, 21. Self-styled “Dillinger gang” of Mad- 1son County, the three youths admitted slaying the elder Thomas last Febru- ary for $77 he had ané leaving his body in a mudhole in the Shelton section of Madison County near the Tennessee line. The merchant was & great-uncle of Robert Thomas and Gunter. Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill, who declined to recommend clemency for them, said young Thomas took the blame for the actual killing and confessed beating his great-uncle to death with an automobile tire tool. Thomas and Gunter received only the most elementary education, while Gosnell was unable to read or write his own name. . The triple electrocution was the third in the history of North Carolina and required a total of 41 minutes to | complete. Relief (Continued From First Page.) e part, the construction of the new proj- | ect. 2. Bona fide residents of the county in which the project is located, to the extent that labor technically qualified to perform the work )s available in such political subdivision and county. Union Rolls Included. Hopkins already had given permis- sion to take workmen from union rolls on contract projects and Ickes’ order said that on exclusively union projects contractors could follow this prefer- ence: 1. Union members who are regular | employes of the contractor and on re- lief. 2. Other union members on relief and, upon exhaustion of the list, to ! any other members. | If the union does not provide all 1abor needed within 48 hours, the order said, the contractor may employ other workmen from the Employment Serv- fce. On union projects also & preponder- | ance of workmen must come from the community or county. | Many Are in C. C. C. Camps. More than half of the 1,126,234 men employed were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps, State relief heads admitted. As these reports came in, Corring- ton Gill, chief of staff of the admin- | istration’s work-relief program, dis- closed that virtually all of the big fund had been allocated. He pre- dicted the drive to take 3,500,000 from | relief rolls and give them work would be at least 90 per cent accomplished by November 1. Those now enrolled in the C. C. C. number 559,640. The Works Progress | Administration was credited with | creating work for 452,739 and .other | Federal agencies the remainder. Ex- | cluding the C. C. C., work relief jobs | have jumped 132,376 since Septem- ber 19. | Gill said allotments from the works | relief fund now totaled $4,298,500,000, | leaving a balance of $266,500,000 for | President Roosevelt to use in meeting | administrative expenses and to finance | projects in scattered localities where | need arises. The remainder of the | fund has been or will be used for di- | rect relief. The present task, Giil said, was dif- | ferent from the days of the Civil ‘Works Administration, when 4,000,- 000 were put to work within 30 days. “We've paid a great deal more at- tention to the type of projects we're going to carry through,” he said. “And | through it all, we've kept in the fore- | ground that these aren’t just any ‘ 3,500,000 people we've got to put to| work, but specific John Smiths and | Bill Joneses. Try to Ration Jobs. | “To end Federal participation in relief, we had to select projects that would absorb just so many carpenters and plumbers, and white collar people besides, in each locality. Obviously, we couldn’t make it all construction because only 1,615,000 of the 3,500,- 000 were fitted to do that kind of ‘work."” Gl said relief officials were “looking ahead” to the months after next July 1 when the works relief fund is sup- posed to have been spent. “I think recovery,” he said, “will! not greatly alter the rellef situation because the unemployed not on relief probably will get jobs back first.” —_— INDUSTRIAL SELF-RULE ADVOCATED BY BURKE Government Control of Wages and Hours Peril to Cause, Says Journeyman Plumbers’ Head. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Warning that Government control of wages and hours may react against labor through impositions of low wages and labor hours, Thomas E. Burke, secretary-treasurer of the United As- sociation of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters, last night advocated self- government in industry. In a radio address, Burke charged the present administration with en- forcing measures either ‘‘oppressive or unworkable,” adding: “The salient question confronting labor is whether it is prepared to submit to the further creation of such bureaucracies or whether it will stand for its own independent action.” REYNOLDS DUE HERE Senator Expected to Wind Up Na- tion-Wide Trip Tonight. Senator Reynolds of North Carolina 1s expected to arrive here tonight, end- ing his Nation-wide motor tour. His itinerary covered over 6,000 miles in 35 days. It is not known here whether he THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Demand Potato Quotas » Drummond Ayres of Accomac, Va. (left), and Senator Bailey, Demo- crat, of North Carolina, who demanded enforcement of the potato control act during a stormy hearing yesterday at A. A. A. headquarters. —A. P. Photo. Potatoes (Continued From First Page.) to consider alternative plans for con- troling potato production. They re- fused to talk about substitutes and insisted that the administration en- force the law enacted by Congress. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who had said he would do all in his power to avoid enforcing the law, appeared unexpectedly at the meeting and proposed a referendum to see whether a potato control program is desired. Bailey Rejects Suggestion. Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina, who had criticized Secretary Wallace sharply, replied to the refer- | endum suggestion by stating it had been disapproved by Congress. Bailey said Congress considered the refer- endum plan carefully for months and then decided it should not be in- cluded in the law. Wallace stepped suddenly and un- expectedly into the auditorium, saying | he desired to explain his bombshell Greeted | remarks of Wednesday. coolly by the audience as he entered he left amidst an almost complete silence. Under attack repeatedly yesterday morning, Wallace told the farmers at the afternoon session that “my own personal attitude has nothing what- ever to do with enforcement of an act of Congress.” Budget officials, he said, now are| considering a request for funds for | enforcement of the law. The com- pulsory potato control, he said, could be made to work if the vast majority of growers wanted it, but he couldn’t visualize how bootlegging could be stopped. Wallace added that his objections had no bearing on enforcement of the law if money was available, but that | they might have a bearing on his | recommendations to Congress modification of the act. “You can't enforce laws that go against the will of the majority,” Wallace said. “Nullification” Foe Cheered. Representative Warren, Democrat, of North Carolina, one of the authors of the law, was cheered as he shouted his opposition to “nullification” by Secretary Wallace, “We are opposed to nullification in the Department of Agriculture,” he roared. “We are opposed to a sub- ordinate department of this Govern- ment telling the people that it will not attempt to enforce a law of the United States. “What kind of stuff is that—coming from a man I admire and respect?” John B. Hutson, director of the Di- vision of Potatoes, brought on a stormy 20 minutes, when, following the re- marks by Warren, he attempted to explain the strict regulations govern- ing procedure of the hearing. said the hearing was not called to dis- cuss the Warren ocntrol law. Senator Bailey attempted to ques- for tion Hutson, and Alva G. Nye, chair- | man of the meeting directed him to | address the questions to the chair. “I do not like this idea,” Bailey purred, “of a representative of a bu- reau—not a representative of the| people—telling a representative of the He | was no time to devote to arguments. “You're going to hear me today, so help me God,” Bailey said heatedly. “I'm going to argue today somewhere | to somebody that the Warren act is a mandate of the Government and it cannot be denied. “If you will not hear me there are those who will.” Some 200 potato growers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, whose Sum- mer selling strike against low prices | last session of Congress, demanded, | | thraugh their chief spokesman, B. | Drummond Ayres of Accomac, chair- man of the National Potato Program Development Committee, that all fea- tures of the control amendment be en- forced. “They want enforcement of the | whole bill, both title one making po- | helped revive the Warren bill at the | ) RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN HELD ENCOURAGING Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes Praises Success of Interdenomina- tional Meeting. 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Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of Washington Cathedral and secre- tary of the Committee on Religious Life in the Nation's Capital, today said the campaign for greater popular in- terest in worship, service and religious practices, launched at the interde- nominational mass meeting at Consti- tution Hall Wednesday night, will be carried on with increased zeal. “We are deeply grateful to the press and public,” Dr. Stokes declared. “To have nearly 4,000 people come out to a meeting in the interest of religion on a weekday evening without any emotional appeal is a matter which gives us all food for thought and is highly encouraging. “It would be hard to find three finer addresses from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish points of view than those of Dr. McCartney, Bishop Ryan and Rabbi Simon, while the spiritual note struck by Secretary of State Hull was most heartening. “We all earnestly hope that the cause of religion in Washington will profit tatoes a basic commodity, and title two with its surplus tax features” | Ayres said, despite Secretary Wallace's statement he did not want to enforce | the act, especially title two. i Under the law, each farmer would | duction. 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