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| DEMAND STATE ACT IN LYNCHING Officials Condemn Salisbury Mob Attack on Negro Brief comments of Baltimore, Eastern Shore and Maryland officials and others on last night's lynching at Salisbury follow: GOV. ALBERT C. RITCHIE: "An inquiry into the whole situation on the Eastern Shore is under way by my office. I shall confer with Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. today and also make inquiry into last night's lynching. I expect to have a statement outlining my position in this case and also in the Orphan Jones case prepared late today, but not for the afternoon papers." WILLIAM PRESTON LANE JR., attorney general of Maryland: "I am greatly shocked by this whole affair. I feel sure that the state's attorneys will take necessary action toward prosecuting leaders of the mob guilty of this murder." MAYOR WADE INSLEY, for three years chief executive of Salisbury: "We have greatly prided ourselves in Salisbury on the law-abiding (Turn to Page Two) BAYLESTSPEEDFLIER, KILLED IN CRASH By United Press DETROIT—Lowell Bayles, Springfield (Mass.), speed flier, crashed at an airport here today while traveling nearly 300 miles per hour and was killed. Bayles, 37, was the second largest prize winner at the last national air races at Chicago. Bayles had been here several weeks seeking to lift the world's land speed plane record from France. Early this week he apparently had made a new record, but failure of cameras to perfectly photograph his start prevented an authentic check. A recheck of records available indicated he was two miles per hour short of the time necessary to establish a new record. , . ,......,. ...,.,., -i- LYNCHING MAY HALT2JRIALS Jones and Davis Cases Slated For Next Week Ritchie to Make Thorough Inquiry Governor Ritchie, informed of the lynching and burning of the body on his return from New York early today, said he would conduct an inquiry today and take whatever action the facts in the case Warrant. "I am to confer today with Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. and I expect to make a thorough inquiry into the case," Governor Ritchie said. "I expect to have a statement prepared late today outlining my position in this lynching and also in regard to the Orphan Jones case, but not for the afternoon papers. "This is a grave problem and I want to make a thorough study before taking action of any kind in the case. I plan to make a thorough in- -,';¦ vestigation." Lane Wires Bailey Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. early today wired State's Attorney Bailey as follows: "The facilities of my office are at your disposal for any assistance that you may require in connection with the lynching of last night." Earlier in the day Lane was reached by long-distance telephone in Cumberland. He said: "State's attorneys' offices on the Eastern Shore are capable of handling the prosecution of the men guilty of this murder, and I feel sure they will act promptly in the matter." ^^ Negro in Strait-Jacket I -Handy was confined in Peninsula General Hospital from self-inflicted bullet wounds at the time he was seized by the mob. He was in a strait-jacket when six mob leaders entered and threw his prostrate form through a window to the mob of 200 waiting outside. The strait-jacket was put on thf Negro to prevent possible escap( from the hospital. The lynching fvas the first i] Maryland in 20 years, the fifteenth in the past 45 years. It was the first in Salisbury since 1898. Feeling Still High H Several hundred women are said to have watched the hanging of tvie Negro and the subsequent burning of his body, but are reported to have had no active part in the crime. Handy, who fired two bullets into his own body after wounding Elliott, did not see the men who took his life. His eyes, head an< *¦ - were swathed in bandages—t if one of "his self-infl wounds. He made no resistar during his lynching. Feeling still is rei Salisbury. It is rumci The trial of Orphan Jones, alias Yual Lee, scheduled for next Tuesday at Cambridge, and the hearing of George Davis, Negro accused of assault upon a white woman in Kent County, may be postponed as the result of the Salisbury lynching, it was reported last night. Bernard Ades, Baltimore attorney who is counsel for the Negro, declared he will demand that the trial be postponed and removed from the Eastern Shore. "But this lynching will not prevent me from going down to Cambridge next week." Ades said. Jones is charged with the murder of Green K. Davis arid his wife and two small daughters with an ax as they slept in their home near Berlin early last October. He is being held in the City Jail here for safety since the first demonstrations of mob spirit on the 'Shore. The second Negro, Davis, is ac- (Turn to Page Two) Next Week's Weather By United Press WASHINGTON—Weather outlook for next week: Middle Atlantic States: Snow or' rain at beginning of week and again about Thursday. Rising temperature Monday, colder Tuesday night or Wednesday, warmer Thursday, colder again at end of -week. »-.-,fr •NifcHm.,^-1 aJ'i ¦*. jpj.u,Ai •'JTilX. .(Twn kt Page |