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    THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 67.
CAPONE IN COURT
IN LEGAL BATTLE
TO GAIN LIBERTY
Notorious Underworld l ord Now
Serving Sentence in
Penitentiary Fights For
dnm
OPENS LONG FIGHT
BEFORE UNDERWOOD
Federal Judge l akes Case Under
Advisement When Attorneys
Seek Freedom on Grounds
limitation.
Atlanta, Nov. 16. (A 3 )—Federal
Ju-dge E. Marvin Underwood today
took under advisement, the motion
government counsel to dismiss A1 Ca
pone’s writ fo, habeas corpus to
tain his release from the Atlanta fed
era! penitentiary. taking the
Judge Underwood in
tion under advisement gave
for both sides a week in which to file
briefs setting forth their contentions.
Throughout the morning and into
the afternoon counsel for the Chicago
gangster and tjie federal government
argued technical points in Capone's
efforts to gain freedom on the claim
that he is illegally imprisoned under
the statute of limitations.
Assistant District Attorney Lindsay
said the question of the statute of lim¬
itations involved in the Capone case
was one for appeal and not habeas
corpus action.
Lindsay contended that regardless
of the statute of limitations the gov¬
ernment could bring to trial any per¬
son on a charge of wilful violation
of the income tax laws even if the vio¬
lation occurred 10 years ago, prosecute
him and obtain a conviction.
The assistant district attorney said,
however, that it was not necessary in
the Capone case to go back ten years
and that the government could have
placed the violation as late as the day
before his indictment.
Assistant U. S. District Attorney
O. A. Youngquist, in attacking the
Capone petition said it “practically
pleads itself out of court and it gives
the government no opportunity to re¬
ply to allegations concerning the
statute of limitations.’
Youngquist contended that Capone
resided in Florida much of the time
before the indictments were returned
and that any time spent outside the
federal district in which his residence
was established could not apply to the
period of time covered by the statute.
Youngquist called the court’s atten¬
tion to the case of William Randolph
Pi barton, cited by Capone counsel, in
which it was ruled that the statute
of limitations had run and the
victim, could not stand. Youngquist
said that in the Scharton case a “plea
at.bar” was made immediately on
victim,, which he said, was the proper
procedure
“This was not done in the Capone
case,” the assistant attorney-general
said. “The only move made by
pone’s lawyers immediately after
conviction was a motion to dismiss on
the grounds that the statute had run.
Capone’s attorneys call this a plea at
bar, but it is not.”
Wiliam E. Yeahy, member of Ca¬
pone counsel, took dfverging views
from those of Youngquist. He said
the time Capone spent in Florida and
also in Philadelphia did apply to the
period covered in the staute.
ATLANTA GROCER
SLAIN IN FIGHT
WITH 3 BANDITS
Atlanta, Nov. 16. (TP)—-I. Yagol,
grocery store proprietor, was shot to
death here last night in a gun battle
with three bandits.
Police said they found a pistol by
Yagol’s side from which one cartridge
’
Hyman and Nathan Y„ol. Kmory
University students and sons of the
s am man, wore in an apartment over
the st..re when the shooting occurred
^Vagoi ‘ was dead when they reached
-said the bandits stole $75,
PEACH INDUSTRY
SEEKING LOANS
Atlanta, Nov. 16. UP)— A. D. Jcnes,
director of the state bureau of mar
ket . and C. C. Adams, who nas been
elected to succeed Eugene Talmadge
r commissioner of agriculture, left
today for Macon to file with the Agri
cultural Credit Corporation branch i
request for a loan of around otic mil
lion dollars to rehabilitate the peach
industry in Georgia.
The application has the formal ap
proval of Talmadge, who will retire as
commissioner of agriculture to be -mr.e
governor in January.
Officials have conferred with peach
growers for some time and they ad
vise now i- the time to lay ou ; and
f spare the 1933 cron and that
f - ■ are financially unable to go ahead,
The government Ipan is intended
remedy th - difficulty.
Jone- said that unless the loan is
made the 1933 crop will be of no bene
fit to the state.
Trances Perkins, New York state in
dustrial_ t i commissioner, eonnect.on w.th has been the labor men
“ )n « ,n
l.ortloho .. in . the cab.net of President.
e * ect R«<>se\elt.
DEEP SOUTH HIT
Y SEVERE COLO
Winter’s Most Powerful Visita
tation Sweeps Into Sections
Bringing Near Record Tem¬
peratures.
New Orleans, Nov. 16. Winter’s
most severe visitation swept into the
deep south today, bringing near-rec¬
ord temperatures and a cold wave of
widespread proportions that drove
eastward from Texas in a blast of
stinging winds, sleet and snow.
With thermometers tumbling gen¬
erally, the weather bureau here pre¬
dicted still lower levels for tonight,
with sub-freezing temperatures in
the coastal states.
Twenty degree weather hit sec¬
tions of Texas last night and a sleet
and snowstorm swept into northwest
Arkansas, causing two deaths when
an automobile and bus collided in
blinding snow near Eureka Springs.
Mrs. I). J. West, 55, wife of the pres¬
ident of the First National Bank at
Berryville, and W. L. Sneed, 45, Ber
ryville business man, lost their lives
in the accident. Fort Smith reported
20 degrees during the night with
sleet and snow in several sections of
the state.
South of the Arkansas line,
Shreveport, ■ - La., reported - a drop • of
48 de , *?' eeS l lnce . yesterday , afternoon
w,th . the thermometer at 24 this
mo rning. , Ice and killing host was
111 North Louisiana,
Tn New Orleans, there was a 20
d ®«™ e 47 ’ Mem P his re P ort '
Vicksburg, , Miss., 30. Little
25, Nashville, Tenn., 29.
1 anla8 , , thermometer, , standing at
52 at 7 a. m., dropped a couple hours
later to 45, with a 20 degree level,
lowest of lhe wi,lter ’ indicated for to ‘
morrow morning. .
POLICE CHIEF’S SON
ATTEMPTS END E!EE
T. O. STURDIVANT, JR., SHOOTS
HIMSELF THROUGH BRLAST
IN EFFORT TO SUICIDE
Atlanta, Nov. 16. UP) —-T. O. Stur¬
divant, Jr., 18, only son of the Atlan¬
ta police chief, today shot himself in
his right breast with a .25-caliber
automatic. Just before lapsing into
" J ■ l »* »“ 1
j chief ■ huntj Sturdivant and U was -ft Valdosta in south by
( «
^ f Atlanta after being noti
of his son - s condition . The hoy’s
SedSy'^^ould 0 ^:
no reason for her son’s act.
She said her son came to her this
morning and kissed her before he left
and seemed to be wiping away tears
a * went out the door. He was a
student at Tech High School in Allan
ta - Tvvo "°V K Yf hich 1° had written
we,e found in his pocket. Jne was
; addressed friends all the
to “my over
world” and expressed his pleasure in
having known them and his hope “to
meet them up yonder when the roll
called.”
The second letter was addressed to
: Chief and Mrs. Sturdivant. Neither
gave any reason for the shooting nor
would the boy explain it to the mern
hers of his family at his bedside in
the hospital,
Young Sturdivant was found by a
passerby shortly before noon today
lying in the doorway of a vacant
store on Wall street, just off Peach
A second cartridge was found
jammed in the breach of the gun
from which the first shot was fired,
Sturdivant was dressed in his Tech
j High School uniform.
BRUNSWICK. GA.. WEDNESDAY. NOV. 16, 1932.
ON JOB IBIS
President-Fleet Hard at Work
in Mansion at Albany Arrang¬
ing Matters For His Suc¬
cessor
HF STILL SUFFERS
WITH SLIGHT COLD
Summons His Secretaries After
Breakfast in Bed and Starts
Tedious Task of Shaping
Affairs.
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 16. (A 5 )—Pres¬
ident-Elect Roosevelt, virtually recov¬
ered from an attack of influenza, roll¬
ed up his sleeves and went to work
today on his job as governor of New
York.
Although he was described as feed¬
ing “fine,” he remained in his bedroom
in the southwestern corner of the ex¬
ecutive mansion. He summoned his
secretaries, after he had breakfasted
in bed, and proceeded to dictate let
and, for the first time, attacked
the problem of shaping a state bud¬
get for his successor at Albany.
Desiring to take advantage of at
least one more day of rest, Mr. Roose¬
velt planned to see no one during the
day, except his director of the state
budget, Mark Graves.
Planning to devote most of his work¬
ing time between now and Saturday
to the state budget, the president-elect
avowedly is giving “no further con¬
sideration” at the moment tq what will
transpire at his conference with the
nation’s chief executive.
There were indications today that
Mr. Roosevelt would suggest next
Tuesday or Wednesday as the date for
the meeting at which he has agreed
to talk over informally and personal¬
ly with M.r. Hoover “the entire situa¬
tion” pertaining to war debts and oth¬
er national affairs.
Propped up in bed at his first press
conference in five days, the New York
governor late yesterday revealed that
the cold with which he went to bed
last Friday developed into “a slight
attack of the flu.”
“I ached all over,” he related, “even
to the top of my head. But I feel all
right now, although a little weak.”
FOR STATE SCHOOLS
DES1MIE reduction in appro¬
priations SYSTEM EXPECT¬
ED TO CONTINUE WORK
Atlanta, Nov. 16. UP )—Despite a 14
per cent cut in state appropriations
“the prospects now are that all coun¬
ties in the state will continue their
schools in operation until the Christ¬
mas holidays and reopen as usual in
January,” says Dr. M. L. Duggan,
state superintendent of schools.
He discussed the school situation
today after conferring with his state
supervisors of schools yesterday.
“Of course, local school taxes are
coming in slowly, and none of the
schools has as much money as it or¬
dinarily does,’ ’he said. He added
that “about 80 per cent” of the state
school appropriations of $4,400,000
had been paid and that so far, re¬
ceipts from the gasoline tax fund
have held up to about normal.
In addition to the $4,400,000 by the
state appropriation (now . reduced , . 14
per cent) about $2,500,000 is paid fuel
the schools from the gasoline and
oil tax fund. The 14 per cent cut does
not apply to the latter fund. The 14
per cent cut does not apply to the
latter fund, although it may be less
than the $2,500,000 if the receipts
from this source show a slump.
The supervisors, J. O. Martin for
north Georgia; J. S. Smith for south¬
west Georgia; Paul Ellison, south¬
west Georgia, and J. 0. Dixon, state
supervisor for negro schools, were in
the superintendent’s office during a
part of his discussion of the school
situation.
Mr. Duggan paid tribute to the loy¬
alty of school teachers of Georgia for
carrying on their work despite the
stress of the depression
b JS
nodded their assent. “In some in
stances, the teachers have been teach
ing on Saturdays, in order that the
number of days in a term may not be
lessened and that the children might
be given the advantage of as many
school days as possible. These teach
ers have undertaken this extra day
of work despite a cut in their pay.’
The supervision! likewise wen
loud in their praise of the teachers
for “bearing the burden” of educat
ing the youngsters of Georgia. They
said that most schools of the state
would operate this year on about the
same basis as last year, a- regards
: length of terms.
In the 1931 term. Dr. Duggan said,
a total of $18,250,000 was paid out for
operation of public school- in Geor¬
gia. Of this amount the state fur
riished $6,154,000, the remainder
coming from local school taxes.
Dr. Duggan’- term a- superintend
ent ends in January.
To Head U. S. G. A.
Robert M. Culling, of Chicago, is
slated to succeed Herbert Ramsay of
New link as president of the United
States Coif Association for 1933.
Socially Prominent Philadelphia
Couple and Maid Attacked and
Thieves Get $0,000 in Gems
and Cash.
Philadelphia, Nov. 16. (A 3 )--Mi;, and
Mi's. G. Harrison Erazier, Jr., socially
prominent Philadelphians, and a nmid
were bound and gagged and threaten¬
ed with torture in their Chestnut Hill
home early today by two burglars
who escaped with $9,000 in jewelry
and cash.
For two and a half hours, they lay
helpless on the floor of the living
room, struggling with cloths and
ropes with which the robbers had
bound their hands and feet.
Finally Mrs. Frazier managed to
crawl to an asli tray, strike a match,
burn her own bonds and release her
husband and the maid.
With the victims unable to move,
the burglars lighted matches and
threatened to burn Mr. and Mrs.
Frazier’s feet unless they told where
their valuables were concealed.
They also threatened to burn the
maid, and finally learning the loca¬
tion of the jewelry and money, they
started a systematic clearing out of
clothing and other articles.
Frazier is the son of G. Harrison
Frazier, identified for years with the
sugar industry, and a great grandson
of George L. Harrison, founder of one
of the great family fortunes of Amer¬
ica.
HOUSE GROUP WILL
PROBE ELECTIONS
Washington, Nov. 16. t/P) The
house campaign comrrfitt.ee, headed by
Representative Raeon, Arkansas
Democrat, decided today to ipvesti
gate last week’s elections in Penn¬
sylvania and Delaware.
The committee will staid its hear¬
ings tomorrow at 10 a. rn., in the
| Philadelphia federal building. Philip
r ,. ook asK istant sergeant at arms,
was Kiv< , n w subpoenas to serve in
Philad( .i ))hia lhis afternoon.
The subpoenas were for General
Edward Martin, state treasurer and
chairman of the Republican state
committee; Blakely D. McCoughan,
treasurer of the Republican state
comrpitt.ee; James W. Hazlett, Phil
adelphia Republican city committee
chairman, and .John J. McKinley, Jr.,
city committee treasurer.
The committee will sit in Philadel¬
phia tomorrow and Friday. The time
for the Delaware investigation has
not. yet been fixed.
This committee is empowered to in¬
vestigate only elections to the house
of representatives.
warned
j TO LOOK OUT FOR
j
| CARS’ RADIATORS
;
;
i Atlanta, Nov. 16, (/P)- -With an
! icy wave hearing down on Georgia
from the Canadian Rockies,
George H. Middling, federal
weather forecaster here, today
j warned their auto motorists radiators. to look out for
i
He also said housewives should
I take precautions to prevent frozen
water pipes.
Middling said a drop to 20 de¬
gree-, the lowest, point this win¬
| ter, was predicted here by morn¬
ing. The day dawned with a min
i inurn temperature of 52 degrees
arid shortly afterward the ther¬
mometer began a downward
1 . plunge, falling to 45 degree: by
9:45 a. rn.
HOOVER PLUNGES
FOREIGN DEBTS
Immediately Upon His Return to
Washington This Morning He
Calls Advisors For Confer¬
ence
RFI D AND MILLS ARI:
AMONG HIS CONFEREES
Chief Executive is Making
Preparations For Meeting
With Governor Roosevelt at
White House.
! Washington, Nov. 16. i/P) Con
fronted by the pressing war debt dif¬
ficulties, President Hoover quickly
j went, into the matter with his advis
ors on return to Washington.
For almost half an hour, the secre¬
tary of the treasury Ogden Mills
conferred with the chief exeeiilive.
He and the secretary of state, Hen¬
ry Stimson, were among the cheering
throng which welcomed the president
and Mrs. Hoover at the station in
the early morning.
Mr. Stimson had a luncheon en¬
gagement at the White House, with
opportunity to help the president on
arrangements being made for the
meeting soon to come between him
and President-elect Roosevelt.
Although official information was
lacking, the impression in informed
quarters was that this country would
insist on some sort of payments on
amounts due from the debtor nations
December 15.
How accurately Ibis represented
the administration attitude remained
purely conjectural, however, none of
the high officials familiar with the
situation being willing as yet to state
their views for publication.
Among those who called at the
White House was Senator Reed, of
Pennsylvania, a Republican leader, -
who was one of those consulted at
the time the moratorium was an¬
nounced.
Reed stayed with the chief execu¬
tive half an hour, and had no com¬
ment on their conversation on leav¬
ing.
In the senate last July, Reed reit¬
erated opposition to revision of the
debts. He said: “The people owing
ns are paying many times for arma¬
ments wind they are required to pay
us.”
Later the Pennsylvania senator vis
ited Europe, and on his return said
he felt that most of the countries
owing the United States were “bet¬
ter able to pay than we are to can
eel.”
Representative Parks (It, Ark,),
today told newspapermen llmt “any
attempt, to have this or the next con¬
gress extend the Hoover moratorium
or revise the war debts will meet in
failure.”
Gibbons Teaches
St. Paul Coppers
Many New Tricks
By I). It. MACKNESIK
Associated Press Stall Writer
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 16. UP)
Mike the phantom, teaching St. Paul
policemen tricks new to them hut old
to him, lias changed his tune.
He’s fighting kid crime today by
proxie 325 proxies, the St. Paul po¬
lice department’s personnel and
where it once was “poke him in the
jaw,” clout him in the body,” when
the phantom Mike Gibbons was in
the hey-day-of his middleweight box¬
ing career, it’ now “one-two-three,
then kick him in the shins if neces¬
sary.”
During a moment of respite from
his : pai ring with pen and pencil map¬
ping out a program, Mike outlined his
ideas on the- job of physical director
of the police department to which he
has been provisionally appointed to
pare poundage from ponderous po¬
licemen.
The girth control business will be
his biggest job besides teaching box¬
ing, wrestling, disarming, running,
kicking, and other tricks.
“I will teach them aggressive
fighting,” Mike explained, referring
to the younger athletic officers.
‘/When one of the boys meets a tough
mug in ari alley he doesn’t ward, He to
box ari hour to win a decision.
wants to heat him quick.”
If fists fail, the phantom sugge •
a kick in the shins. “There is a right
way and a wrong way to kick a man,”
j he said, “the right way being to
| shoot the foot straight football.” ahead, riot up,
a; in hooting a
NAMED EVSPEt TOR
Atlanta, Ga,, Nov. 16. (A’> W. B.
i Harrison, insurance commissioner of
! Georgia yesterday appointed Hal
1 Hutchens of Dallas, Ga., state fire
I inspector to succeed J. Albert Sharp,
resigned. Hutchens for more than 10
years has been a special agent in
Georgia for the National Board of
Fire Underwriters. 'I he fire inspector
investigates case:- of at -on and sus¬
pected arson.
Named Correspondent
Hetty Hill, movie script girl, was
named by Eleanor Boardman as co¬
respondent in her divorce soil against
King Vidor, movie director.
Master of National Grange
Makes Dublin Flan to Be Pre¬
sented Congress at Short
Session.
Winston, Salem, N. Nov. 16.
(A‘l A “double header” program for
the relief of agriculture to he pre¬
sented the coining short session of
congress was outlined by Louis ,1. Ta¬
ber, master of the National Grange,
in tin address at the opening of that
organization’s annual convention to¬
day.
“Four essential steps should he dr
mandril trom t tie next, session of
congress,” Tuber suid. “They are:
"I. An amendment to Lhe federal
marketing act providing adequate
machinery to deal with the surplus
problem and to lift prices.
“2. Monetary stabilization which
shall make an ‘honest dollar’ mean
exactly that, lo debtor and creditor
alike.
“3. Gredit machinery to prevent
foreclosures, In reduce interest charg
es and to give the farmer a fighting
chance tn hold his farm and his home.
“4. Reduction of governmental
costs, local, state and national, and a
lightening of the burdens on real es
late.”
Amendments to the marketing act
suggested by the Grange bead were:
“To provide for a bi-partisan
board; to restore to lhe hoard funds
spent for wheat given to charity and
to Ghina; and one substituting for
stabilization some additional method
nl lift ing farm price:
Gontinuing his discussion of the
Grange’s legislative policies, Taber
said “distribution costs niiisl. be re¬
duced so that the fanner may receive
a larger share of wlmt the consumer
pays” and that “the Grange will con¬
tinue to advocate the export deben¬
ture or some equivalent, method as a
compliment to the protective tariff
structure.”
“We must oppose any repeal or
change in the IHth amendment that
does not make for true temperance,”
lie continued. “The return of the sa¬
loon in any form would be the na¬
tion’s greatest backward moral step.”
Taber opposed proposals for “a
general moratorium on farm debts,”
a “farm march” on Washington, and
“the proposal to relieve the unem¬
ployed by removing large numbers
from the cities to the farm."
SHORTER WORKING
WEEK NOW SOUGHT
IN TEXTILE MILLS
Spartanburg, K. Nov. 16. UP)
A shorter working week for textile
mill employes wa favored by the
hoard of directors of the Gotten Tex¬
tile Institute in a resolution adopted
at a meeting here yesterday. the
George A. Sloan, president of
institute, said after the meeting he
was honeful of the future for the tex¬
tile industry “because of the recent
fine demand for its products.” of the
Sloan announced the move
directors is going on record as favor¬
ing a shorter work-week and also as
opposed to night work fur women and
children.
LOAFERS FIRED
Moscow, Nov. 16. UP)- The Soviet
government issued an order today dis¬
charging all workers who loaf one
working day a month from a addition
job without valid excuse. In
loafers are deprived of food cards and
lodging . Heretofore workers have
been allowed three absences monthly
before action was taken against them,
COUNTY SNOW HOUND
Von Wert, O., Nov. 16. UP)
j day. Van Wert Twelve county inches was of snow hound fell dur
j snow
ng the night and today buses,
trucks arid other vehicles were
down in the drifts.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TAX MED FOII
Outgoing Congress Will Have
Opportunity to Vote on Both
Measures Before They Re*
tire |
TREASURY EXPECTED
TO tilVH APPROVAL
In View of Mounting Deficit It
is Believed Department Will
Recommend Another Revenue
Source.
Washington, Nov. 16. (/!’)- The out¬
going congress apparently wfill have
another opportunity to vote on both
a manufacturers’ sales tax and beer
before it. passes into history March 4.
Congressional leaders close to the
administration have indicated they will
not be surprised if the treasury rec¬
ommends a sales levy in view of the
mounting deficit and the failure of new
taxes to producle expected revenue.
Also, a vote on modification of the
Volstead act to legalize beer for re
revenue purposes lias been predicted
by most of the lenders of both parties
in view of the wet strength displayed
in the general elections.
The present, congress rejected tho
sales lax and beer last spring and
the attitude on those issues of the.
nearly 200 “lame ducks" resulting
from the primary and general elec¬
tions sill is unknown to the party
leaders. Wei organizations contend
sufficient gains have been made in tho
present congress since adjournment,
last. July to make immediate modi¬
fication of the Volstead act possible.
Dry i’i groups hold the opposite view.
ohibitionists in congress, led by
Senator orali of Idaho, are prepared
to oppose Vigorously any attempt to
legalize beer. Uepreesntative Rainey leader,
of Illinois, Democratic floor
doubts that, sufficient wet strength has
been gained to overcome this opposi¬
tion.
Rainey said yesterday that “this is
a dry congress.” He predicted both
beer and repeal of the eighteenth
amendment would pass in the new con¬
gress with ease, adding that a special
session for that purpose should he call¬
ed early alter the inauguration of
I'resident-Elect Roosevelt.
Already surveying lax possibilities,
Chairman Collier of the house ways
and means committee that drafts tax
legislation, said the revenue bill en¬
acted last, spring “has fallen far short”
of the $1,118,500,000 yield estimated
by Secretary Mills for this fiscal year
to meet, an anticipated deficit of $1,-
24 1,0(10,000.” months
The deficit for the first four
<>r the fiscal year was placed by the
treasury around $625,000,000. Sena¬
tor Reed of Pennsylvania, administra¬
tion : pokesman, has predicted first re¬
turn:: I'rinii increased income faxes
next. March 15 “will fie surprisingly
low.”
Chairman Mead of the house post
office committee said the increased
postage rates not only will “luil to
produce the $160,000,000 estimated by
the treasury, hut have actually reduc¬
ed the value of mail to such an extent
the total return will he less than at,
the lower postage rate."
ROOSEVELT LEADS
HOOVER MORE THAN
6,500,000 VOTES
Washington, Nov. 16. (/!’)— Frank¬
lin I). Roosevelt’s plurality in the
presidential election stood today at.
6,451,302 over President Hoover’s
vote. The total vote for all candi¬
dates thus far compiled by the Asso¬
ciated Press is 37,199,946.
Figures were complete today for
only fourteen states.
Tabulation showed Roosevelt had
received 21,506,742 ballots arid Pres¬
ident Hoover 15,055,440.
Until the official count in the var¬
ious dates has been completed, lhe
standing of the various minor party
candidates cannot be computed. received
Iri the returns, thus far
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate,
has a total of 566,301 votes.
THREE MEN SLAIN
IN STRANGE CASE
Rocky Mount, Vn., Nov. 16. (A 3 )—
Three men were killed here yesterday
evening and early this morning, two
while they were keeping watch over
the body of the first victim after it had
been taken to his home.
The slayings took place in the Un¬
ion church section of Franklin county,
near Johnson’s Mill, ust across the line
from Patrick county.
The dead are: Ernest Shelton, Hen¬
ry Holly and “Dump” Adkins, all
white.
Adkins was killed during the late
afternoon and Holly and Shelton about
three q’clock in the momng.
One man was held in jail here in
connection with the case. Circum¬
stances surrounding the shooting:#
could not be learned. Officials an#
onntinuim/ thpir invpufiff&tion.