St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 15, 1929

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Including Woman and | Child, Burned to Death " Near Thorold, Ont., on Pleasure Trip. — AS THE NEAREST GAS COGS THAT LZ SAW. a FOUR DIE IN AIR COLLISION IN CHICAGO —— Two Fatally Hurt at Berke- ley, Cal.—St. Paul Flyer Makes Unsuccessful Par- achute Jump. gy the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Six rsona, one woman, one child and four men were burned to death shortly after 6 o’clock tonight after a2 monoplane belonging to Skyway, # itd. of Toronto, crashed in a field between Merriton and Thor- oid, Ont. The plane caught fire after crash, THE DEAD: Frank M, Bradfield, nt. James McDonald, St. Catharines, nt. in Bond, St. Catharines, Bond's 9-year-old son, Allan. a the oa ae Toronto, TALK UnTiL I Ger it! © ' Mrs. Walter Bennett, Hamilton, Mir * Louis Bennett, Heights. The bodies were removed to St. Catharines, Ont. » ‘The plane had taken off an hour 7 > fore the accident from a new air- Siort in St. Catharines, where a lwo-day celebration was ip prog- tess. A special rate was offered jw Bradfield to passengers who ished to go up for a short flight, nd five in the crowd accepted. | Bradfield, an experienced flyer, bes a war pilot and an air engi- er, and had to his credit more n 2500 hours in air. St. Catharines ur Killed in Air Collision at Chicago. y the Associated Press. ' CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Two air- planes collided at an altitude of suv feet here tonight, killing four. persons. The dead included both pilots and a passenger in each plane. They were dead before rescuers reached the wreckage. THE DEAD: ‘Pilot Walter Meyers, licensed iyer, Mrs. Benjamin Bird, his pas- @ *nger and sister of the owner of ALL READY FOR RE RENEARSAL! “kT YOu OPSTAIRS NG DRESSED? “7 yr: - Sea tees j Continued on Page 2, Column 8. ® bis plane. _ Pilot Charles Krone, an _ unli- tensed pilot, q @6©William Johnson, Deerfield, IIl., ils passenger, _ As the planes neared each other, Meyers, upparently sensing the danger endeavored to maneuver ® *vay from the other plane. He #® ‘red to side-slip past Krone’s ship ® vt was unsuccessful. | Krone, who was seen by wit- @ ses to be working franticaly to prevent the-collision, almost had his ship clear, but the wing dipped j Sightly just when it appeared the Pilots would be successful in their efforts to prevent an accident. The tip of the lower wing of rone's plane brusned the top wing per Mever’s ship. Locked wing to Pw: two ships began to turn | *er siowly like a beautifully exe- tuted “tailing leaf’ of the stunt They straightened out and ® ‘cr (he slightest instant leveled off, then dropped hke a plummet. Krone’s machin was a biplane Powered with a wartime motor. Meyers was piloting a late model owned by Albert E. Lour, a Chi- Caro business man. Accounts of the accident dif- fered. but some witnesses said that Krone ‘ plane was laboring to at- % ‘'Utude and was handicapped iz. the .* Pronounced wiggle in its age or several months, at- i$ Mite ae . ‘ : “Ss at an airport near the Ree, s Said, Krone’s plane had been ae "4 shed on a nearby farm. rey Krone wen over it and .* #djustments which permitted —— get it off the ground. E Nor ap was returning from Fite Brook to his home port at empster road wMen the accident Sccurredg. Bor, “4 Two Lose Lives in Plane That Nires Berkeley, Cal., Home. BY the Associated Press. ee RAND. Cal. Sept. 14.—Two " ' Were killed late today when ® airplane in which they were 2 fell into a tail spin, took fire the air, and crashed into the LEAGUE APPROVES ROOT WORLD- COURT PROTOCOL Renews Invitation to U.S. to Send Represen- tative to Hague—Defeats Effort to Alter Qualifications of Judges. By ALBIN E. JOHNSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York World, Copyricht. 192Y. by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos. (The New York Wori a Post-Dispatch.) GENEVA, Sept. 14.—The final chapter of America’s second effort to get into The Hague court, so far as the League of Nations is con- cerned, was written late this after- noon when the Assembly of the League unanimously approved the Root protocol and opened the doc- ument for signatures. Within half an hour 18 delegations had signed. Action was taken without delay so far as the Root protocol concerned, but the protocol for the revision of the court’s statutes pre- cipitated a bitter last minute strug- gie. Following a week of discus- sion with the jurists’ conference and the first assembly commission over the election methods and qualifications for candidates for judgeships, the Norwegians car- ried the fight to the Assembly by introducing an amendment to the jurists’ draft. In effect, the amendment would have struck fron. the original text the statement that candidates nom- inated by national groups for The Hague bench “should possess prac- tical experience.” The opposition contended that practical experience meant that Judges should be men who had negotiated or drafted treaties, conventions, etc., the merits of which they might later be called upon to decide. Obviously this opposition was aimed against the placing upon the was bench such men as Sir Cecil Hurst and Henri Fromageot, legal ad- visers for the British and French foreign offices, respectively. Both are candidates for the bench and undoubtedly will be elected before the Assembly adjourns. The Norwegian delegation was supported by the delegates from China, Bulgaria, Ireland, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Chile and Poland. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 32 to 15. Patrick McGilligan, Foreign Min- ister for the Irish Free State, is the only signatory recently to an- nounce the acceptance of the com- pulsory. arbitration clause of the Permanent Court of Internationa! Justice. Ireland also dealt one of the first blows to the Briand sugges- tion of a European confederation of states when it announced through its representative, Prof. John O'Sullivan, that it would not participate in a two-year tariff truce proposed by the French and British delegations to the League Assembly. “Asking us to relinquish tariffs is equivalent to asking us to com- mit industrial suicide,” said O’Sul- livan. W. D. Euler of the Canadian celegation refused to commit his Government to the French and British proposals, and gave as one of his reasons the impending tariff developments in other countries. and the possibility that might have to seek elsewhere for markets for Canadian products. CLOUDY AND WARMER TODAY AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. and cooler; show- ers probable in south portion. Illinois: creasing cloudi- ness and warmer today. followed by showers by night; tomorrow : cloudy in north portion, possibly showers in south portion; cooler. Sunset 6:10. Sunrise (tomorrow) 5:43. Stage of the Mississippi, 2.8 feet, a rise of 0.3. Weather Outlook for Week. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — The weather forecast for the week be- ginning Monday, Sept. 16, follows: For the Upper ({ississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys — Mostly fair, with only brief periods of pre- cipitation; temperature mostly above seasona] normal. LAMAR, COLO., BANK HOLDUP SLAYERS MOVED SECRETLY Two Taken to Denver and One to Colorado Springs When Lynching is Feared. DENVER, Colo., Sept. 14.— Manacled and chained to officers, Howard Royston, George J. Ab- shier and Ralph Fleagle, confessed members of the Fleagle gang that held up the First National Bank of Lamar, Col., were spirited out of Lamar last night to avoid tae danger of lynching, it was learned today. ; Fleagle and Royston were brought to Denver and placed in the Federal tier of the Denver county jail here. Abshier was placed in jail at Colorado Springs. Four men were killed in jhe Lamar robbery escape, one of them a physician who treated the wounds of one member of the gang. 10 PER CENT INCREASE IN AUTO FATALITIES IN YEAR Death Rate Mounts From 22.1 to 24.3 Persons Per 100,000 Population. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Sta- tistics made public today by the Safety Committee of the American Motorists’ Association showed that there were 10 per cent more auto- mobile fatalities last year than the year before. The death rate by automobile for the year ending Aug. 10, 1929, was given at 24.3 persons per 100,- 000 population. That for the pre- ceding year was 22.1 for each 100.000. cat Sot 3 PP me ORR res Da mt > {jm 1 In- | CHICAGO EXCHANGES ‘CLASH OVER SECURITIES |Board of Trade in Open Break With Stock Exchange on Control of Trading. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGY, Sept. 14.—The Chi- | cago Board of Trade committed ithe final overt act preliminary to the opening of its fight Monday with the Chicago Stock Exchange for the securities trading of the Chicago region The last gesture was the publica- | gg eee) wee 2s 2S fit) ee a is a. ae Ms cs 0 ote 64 ee ye Saree a A aa 63 ee Se oe ee oe, i tas 63 4 DP. Wii ..ees [ge a Se SSeoey *62 as 68 12 midnight . *61 ee a ee *50 *Indicates street reading. __ Yesterday's high, 70 (2 0. m.): low, o2 (6 a. m.) Official fore- ILL THE. cast for St. Louis and vicinity: In- DESCEND! 2 creasing cloudi- ORCHESTRA ness and warmer. COME UP AGAINS| 5 3... | - today; tomorrow | Ay mostly cloudy and warmer. Missouri: In- creasing cloudi- ness and warmer today; tomorrow mostly cloudy | tion of the list of stocks that will _be written up on the new board | When trading begins at 10 a. m | Monday on the Board of Trade Se- | curities market. The list. compris- |ing 20 issues of 14 corporations, in- | cluded the stocks of five companies | already on the Chicago Stock Ex- This announcetnient nearly 250 companies firmed the: earlier regardless of whether the stock al- ready was traded on some other market. in the rivalry of the old and new, Chicagos two great security market in Chicago. rule was altered this week by the board of governors to permit its members to retain their seats on the Board of Trade, but with the proviso that no member might buy or sell securities on the new board if it listed stocks already traded on the Stock Exchange. : That was the final word from his farm in Washington. brought a reply from the Board of | Trade president. SP. Arnot: “We do not intend to allow any organization to tell our members what they may or may not do.” he said. “Should any’ other exchange adopt a rule limiting activities of our members, officers of the board will. deem it their duty to recom- mend a rule denying the right of | its members to belong to such an | ee | organization The 73 joint members prospect of choosing which they shall trade upon and ultimate ly. perhaps. relinquish one of their memberships faced a Washington Woman in Bathtub. Specia] to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON. Sept. 14.—The body of Mrs. Virginia McPherson, 21 years old, was found in the bathroom of her apartment late to- day by her estranged husband, Robert A. McPherson Jr.. who ts held for questioning. She had been dead about two days, police say. Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, Deputy Coroner, found a pajama _ string tied tightly about the young wom- an’s throat. Her death was caused by strangulation, Rogers said. Canada | change which has a total listing of | con. | that the board would list any issue | Beyond the keen public interest | the | trading | marts, for the securities trade here, | was the interest 1n the plight of 73 | joint members of the two ex- changes. Until. now it has been the rule) of the Stock Exchange that its members might belong to no other | The | the Stock Exchange, and, uttering | it, R. Arthur Wood. its president. | departed for a month's vacation on | This# bourd | ‘WIFE SLAIN; HUSBAND HELD Pajama String Tied About Neck of | EAPUSE [9 LIKELY 10 MARE U. 8. 00 UWN SHIPBUILDING Airing of Propaganda of Private Companies Sure to Bring Renewed De- mand in Congress. NAVY CONSTRUCTION GOVERNMENT'S JOB And Law Says So but Con- tractors Have Been Get- ting More and More of the Work. By CHARLES G. ROSS Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Whatever else may result from the Senate investigation of William B. employment by American shipbuilding interests, it is certain to bring about an in- creased demand in Congress for the building of naval ex- clusively in Government yards. As already told in the Post-VDis- patch, all three of the shipbuild- | ing concerns involved in the Shear- 'e: disclosures have received build- ing contracts from the Govern- ment. The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation built the airplane car- rier Lexington, and the American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation built its sister ship, the Saratoga. Both of these corporations, as well 'as the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry -Dock Co. were awarded contracts for cruisers authorized in the 1924 program. In the early days of the country. naval construction was regarded as af Government function. Recent years, however. have seen a tend- ency on the part of the Navy De- partment to turn to private con- tractors for a large amount of con- —_ Shearer's secret vessels struction. It was this fact that! led Congress, in the act of Dec. 18, 1924 to provide that naval con- struction should take place in Gov- ernment yards when, in the opinion |of the Secretary of the Navy, this | would not involve an appreciable. | increase in cost. ee This provision did not prevent | the department, under the 1924 |}aet. from allotting five of the eight |! authorized ships to private contrac- | tors—the same three contractors | Who are now under charges of hav- ing sought. through Shearer's prop- |aganda. to break down the Geneva |eonference of 1927. The fight made in 1928 by Con- Frederick W. Dallinger Massachusetts, for con- |; gressman i ( Rep. B | Struction of naval! vessels in the , Government's own vards is being: | recalle d. In the debate on the 15- | ‘eruiser fill. then pending in the, — House, Dallinger declared: | “Tt stands to reason that where a private corporation organized for | profit bids on a ship of this kind, it has to get interest on the im-j| /mense amount of money invested | 'in its plant and overhead. | “In the case of the aearndnent’ navy vards, that is all borne inthe ‘regular appropriation bills. and if! the true facts should be obtained | from the Navy Department. they would show that every one of these} cruisers can be built in these navy yards and arsenals, where the peo- ple have hundreds of millions of dollars invested, for $3.000.000 less per vessel. But the facts are sup- pressed, because it is in the interest apparently of certain people to give these contracts to private corpora- tions, so that they can make big profits from them.” If Dallinger was correct in his estimate, $15.000.000 would have been saved to the people if the five cruisers awarded to private yards to the navy yards. influenced by the sentiment which Dallinger belped to arouse. the House adopted an amendment providing for the building of eight of the 15 new cruisers by the Gov- ernment. This amendment. known | Dallinger’s name, survived the Senate d>bate and became a part ,.of the 15-cruiser act by — SCHWAB CALLED IN SHEARER INQUIRY wie ee B. the Assuoctated ress. i WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—Amer- | ican shipbuiiders were notified to- | diy to appear next Friday before a Senate investigating committee to explain the activities of their’ pali agent at the unsuccessfu! Geneva naval limitation conference of 1927. The decision to call the ship- buiiders first was taken as indicat- ing a determination by the coim- mittee to center the inquiry on them rather than on the individual, William B. Shearer, big navy propagandist, who alleges in a suit Continued on Page 3, Column 4. _extradition to Illinois. | ly he | him _thorities and was instructed to pre- under the 1924 act had been given) i the (of the women’s solo endurance rec. | R. SHAD BENNETT BROTHER NAMED AS THIRD IN PLOT Ransom Bennett Arrested as Member of Alleged Conspiracy to Kill Illinois Bankrupt. ANOTHER LAWYER ALSO INDICTED Private Detective Alleges He Was Hired to Kill Olin King to Collect Ip- surance. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MURPHYSBORQO, IL, Sept. 14. — With the arrest of Ransom Ben- nett, brother of R. Shad Bennett, St. Louis attorney, in Benton, IIL, yesterday, the identity of the third man under indictment on charges of attempted murder and conspir- acy to murder, became known. Shad Bennett and Archer C, Britt. law office associates, are under bond in the same case. Ransom Bennett was brought here tate yesterday by § Sheriff Pritchard of Franklin County. His arrest. like thut of his brother and Britt, is thought to have re- sulted from the testimony of Charles Lowe, St. Louis private de- tective, before the Crand Jury here, that he was hired by Shad Bennett to kill Olin King, a bank- rupt meat dealer of Carbondale, Iil., in an insurance plot. According to Lowe's story, Ran- som Bennett was sent to Carbon- dale to trace King, who had moved from his former home in West Frankfort. Shad Bennett - had lent King $20,000, with life insur- ance policies for $12,000 as secur- ity, and following King’s bank- ruptcy there had been ill feeling between the meat dealer and the lawyer. Britt. who it is charged intro- dueej Lowe to Bennett, wus ar- rested at his office 810 Wain- wright building, Thursday night. Hie lives at 5084 Cabanne avenue. He deciined to comment on. the charge and said he would resist He was re- leased a short time later on a $5000 bond arranged by Shad Ben- nett, and returnable in Judge Ba- der’s Court. of Criminal Correction $500,000 Bank Swindler in Custody _ et Rd e Py any “4 « hee C. Tuesday. Shad Bennett. 6700 | | who lives at | McPherson avenue. furnished bond | | for himself when his indictment be- | came public Wednesday. had Previous: | been under bond on an) denied the charge, Lowe's story to follows: Attorney police was a8! Bennett, desirous | of collecting King’s life insurance, | hired him to kill King and gave) detailed instructions on how | to reach King's new home in Car- bondale. Lowe confided in the au- tend to carry out the scheme. Ac- cordingly, King was reported to have disappeared, with evidence of foul play, and Lowe reported rie to Bennett that he had killed King, | surrendering King’s pers as proof. Bennett paid him) 200 “on account” and promised | him $300 more when the death was! positively established. Efforts were | then made to lure Bennett into Lilinois and arrest him, but he de- parted on a trip to Florida. Learn- ing he was wanted at Murphysboro on a conspiracy to murder charge, he returned to St. Louis and gave bond, denying there was any truth in the informer’s story. GIRL KILLED WHEN SAFETY PARACHUTE FAILS TO OPEN Feet Catch in Lines as She Jumps From Plane of Elinor Smith, | Endurance Champion. Special to the Post-Dispatch | WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 14.—Miss | Helen Belle Smith, 18 years old, | of Thomas, Ok., making her first | parachute leap. was killed late to- day when she fel] 2000 feet fro.n | plane of Elinor Smith, holder | personal pa-| ord. at the Braley Flying School eid here. Officials ut the field, where »% hibition parachute jumps ‘vere be- | ing given by the traveling safety crew of the Irving Air-Chute Co.., | said the girl. a stranger, asked to | make the leap. Field attendants said Miss Wil- liams feet apparently caught in the parachute’s shroud lines, pre- venting it from opening. Tne par- achute trailed unopened behind her. In the plane with Miss Smith was Miss Jean Herrick of Wichita, who was to jump after Miss Wil- liams She was not allowed to make the attempt. Apparently afraid she would lose her nerve, the girl jumped as soon as the door was opened without lis- tening to final instructions, it was said. | mendations, ‘two of them eral ee ee ae ee ee i eee Some , Re OO” PS baer —— + e's sare in D. WAGGONER, of Telluride, Colo., with Sheriff Charles How- ell (left), who arrested him. | Cambria Casino near Newcastle, Wyo. The photograph was taken at MITCHELL SAID TO HAVE | ‘DISAPPROVED SINCLAIR PARDON Attorney-General Reported to Have ound No Evidence of Ill Health. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — The information sworn out by King. He| Washington Star will say tomior- row that the petiton of Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, and his as- sistant, H. Mason Day, for pardons, | have been by Attor- ney-General Mitchell and they must disapproved finish their sentences in the Dis- trict jail. Sinclair was not incapaciated from his duty as jail pharmacist by reason of ill health, the Star will say. In addition to this plea, Sin- clair’s petition asserted that the af- fairs of stockholders of his com- panies were likely to suffer if he was foreed tonger to remain from iactive direction, The story adds: “While United States District Attorney Leo S. Rover and District Supreme Court Justices Gordon and Siddons, to whom the petition was referred by the Department of Justice, have de- clined to comment on their recom- it is understood that were favorably in- clined toward the pardon. SHOES FROM OLD AUTO TIRES: Albania Imports Worn-out Rubber for Foutgear. By the Associated Press. TIRANA, Albania, Sept. 14.— Making new shoes from oid auto- mobile tires is a regular industry in Albania. The country imports large quantities of the worn tires from other European countries and cobbiers cut them into required lengths, fashion a toe and a tongue and iace a strip of teather around the top to bind the whole tonether The finished article has the gen- | shoes Dematid shape of the weoden seen in Northern Kurope for this type of footwear is great. | The shoes. of course, cost less than those made of leather and they wear ionger than sandals. ae ee Reason for Cuban Sobriety. HAVANA, ja.—Bobricty among Cubans. in the face of cheap and plentiful aicoholic drinks, sur- prises visitors here but is ex- plained by the Cuban sweet tooth. Demi-tasse coffee a! ~ys takes three spoonfuls of sugar and oth- er drinks are in proportion. The large consumption of sweets is said to supply the system with the re- quired alcohol. Siee4 +7 pf & WABCONER DECIDES | -TOFGHT EXTRADITION Telluride Banker's Attorney Says He Will Demand Hearing at Cheyenne. | | By the Associate?’ Press. | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 14.— ic. LD. Waggoner, of Telluride, Colo., | bank president whose manipula- |tions obtained bim half a million |dollars credit from six New York } banks, waived a preliminary hear- | ing at Newcastle, Wyo., late today, jand was remanded to the County | Jail at Cheyenne. Waggoner retained attorneys to represent him in an effort to re- | sist removal to New York, but made no attempt to raise the $1090,- 000 which the Government will de- mand as bail. Arrested at Cambria, Wyo., and removed to the jail at Newcastle, Waggoner had indicated to offi- cials earlier in the week that he would pot fight removal to New York. Late today, however, A. D. | Walton, United States Attorney | here. announced that he had been | informed by E. C. Raymond, attor- ney for Waggoner, that the banker would demand a hearing at Chey- enne on the removal order. Immediately after the formality | of arraignment at Newcastle today | Waggoner was taken back to the} }Courfty Jail. where he packed his) ' personal effects preparatory to de- | 'parture for Cheyenne earty to- | i night He is due to reach Chey- ‘enne at 9:15 a. m. Sunday. Under orders of Hugh L. Pat-| ton, United States Marshal. in Cheyenne, Waggoner will be taken ito Cheyenne, handcuffed Mrs. Waggoner left Newecaatie | just before the arraignment of her. husband. She had @ tong confer. | ence with Raymond. former Judge of the Seventh Judicial District of Wyoming who announced he bad been retained by Waggoner siong with 8 D. Crump of Denver. ae ee tee + — Steel Caps for Krench Police. PARIS. Sept. 14.—french police | SLAYERS MEANT 10 BAR COMMUNISTS FROM A MEETING Turned Back Party of 20 and Began to Shoot _ When Visitors’ Auto Ccl- lided With Another. VICTIM WAS MOTHER OF FOUR CHILDREN Publicity Agent for Union and His Chauffeur Ar- rested and Held Without Bail. By the Associated Press, GASTONIA, N, C., Sept. 14.—A mob of anti-Communists late today fired on a truck in which 20 mill workers were riding and instantly killed Mrs, Ella May Wiggins of Bessemer City. The mob had been watching the highway from Bes- semer City to Gastonia with the object of keeping mill workers from attending an advertised meet- ing of cCOmmunists and members of the National Textile Workers’ Un- ton. Gathering near the Loray mill of the Manville Jenckes Co. in Gasto- nia, the crowd hed turned the truck back toward Bessemer City. Sev- eral automobiles filled with men followed the truck. When the truck had reached a point near a bridge over the Southern Railway an automobile turned suddenly into the road so close that the truck driver could not avoid hit- ting it. Woman Shot to Death. Men riding in the automobile with which the truck collffied opened fire on the mill workers: The 20 occupants of the truck fied in every direction to escape the fusillade. When the smoke cleared Bray, Mrs. Wiggins, mother of four little children, lay dead in the roadway. Solicitor Carpenter and Coroner J. F. Wallace of Gaston County went to Bessemer City to investi- gate the death of Mrs. Wiggins. An autopsy was ordered and the in- quest will be held at the court. —— at Gastonia tomorrow morn- ng. . The physicians examining the body told newspaper men tonight that a single pistol bullet entered the woman's chest, causing almost instant death. George B. the truck in Lingerfelt, driver of which the strikers were riding, was ordered held fer investigation. Solicitor Carpenter said he wanted to question F. P. Morrow in connection with the shooting. The car which collided with the truck and in which the persons said to have fired 416 or 24 shots at the fleeing mill workers were riding, was said to be regis- tered in the name of Morrow. The tag had been removed from the car after the wreck, Labor Publicity Man Arrested. While this was gving on 25 Dep. uty Sherit{s armed with shotguns and pistols continued to patrol the vicinity of the Hanover cotton mili near which the meeting was sched- uled to be held. Several hours aft. er the scheduled hour for the ap- pearance of speakers who were to address the meeting, non had ar- rived, and a crowd of several hun- dred persons whe had gathered dispersed. Before the crowd dispersed, how- 3 Fe Sunday Post-Dispatch 156 Pages Teday 4 ever, Linton M: Oak of New York, - publicity director for the Iinpterna- itiona! Labor UVefense, with offices was arrested on 4 charge of carrying conceals 1 weapons. Police said they tound a pistol In tis pocket. A-est.4 with Oak was CC. M. Greer, who was acting as chauffeur for the pub- lichty man. Greer was cherged witr reckless driv? a. The two wien received 4 nearing befoie a Justice of the MTeace, bat bass was denied pen.'ing a confer- ence will Bemicitar Jonn G. Carpen- ter. - ’ John T. Huston, photographer in Charlotte, are to be equipped with steel skull caps to be worn under the regula- tion kepi in riots, as prefert‘on cent riots several police received fatal head wounds. for the Charlotte Observer and the Associated Press, reported that he had been detained for ag hour Continued on Page 2, Column 4 against stones and bottles. Im re-| py guards at the Pinckney mill WOMAN KILLED BY GASTONIA MOB THAT FIRES ON TRUCK — FULL OF TEXTILE WORKERS SiN OOO LAE ALLEN AEE yt? BS Be Res OE ite ee ih ow ° by ? 5 a a. Wis SSE a, ai ee a At) A eS Me Je es ES oan eats a r Py Re