Bluefield Daily Telegraph from Bluefield, West Virginia • Page 10

PAGE TEN BLUEFTEU) TF.T FHRAPH. Bluefield, W. Va. Wednesday Morning, March 13, 1935. AGED CIVIL JETEWN PASSES Samuel H.

Young, 105 Years Dies In Soldiers' Home 5 At Richmond; Funeral Services In Princeton Samuel H. Young, Confederate reteran, who had lived to enjoy score and five yenrs of life, tiled Monday morning at the Old Soldier Home, Richmond, Va. Mr. Young, believed to have been the oldest living resident of southern West Virginia, was born July 4, 1829, and would have been 10(5 years old had he lived until this coining May. He Was the father of S.

H. and J. H. Young and Mrs. 0.

h. Fletcher of Princeton. The funeral will be held at the First Methodist church, Princeton, Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock followed by burial In the cemetery on the farm of his son, J. H. Young, on the Princeton-Athens road.

The services will be conducted by the Jfev. Paul P. Martin, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Z. F.

Mayberry, of Lerona, and the Hev. A. B. Moore, of Athens. The deceased Is survived by eight dons: J.

W. Young. Hock, 3i G. Young, of Grumpier; S. H.

Young, of Princeton; J. 0. Young, of Chatteroy; Charles Young, of Winding Qulf; J. H. Young, of Princeton; ISverette and Rufus Young, of Peoples, Ohio; six daughters, Mrs.

H. B. Obryan, of Hlnton; Mrs. It. 0.

Clayton of Norfolk, Mrs, Kelley Cole and Mrs. Frank Royal, of Pem- nerton, W. Mrs. 0. Fletcher, Princeton; Mrs.

Hazel Greys, Washington, D. and Mrs. W. F. Pennington, of Matoaka; seventy grandchildren and a number of g'randchlldren.

At the age of 33 years, he enlisted In the Confederate army at the beginning of the Civil war, and served throughout tho conflict, lie was a member of the famous Echols Brigade. He was born in Franklin county, Virginia, but spent most of his life in southern West Virginia. He had been married four times. His only brother, Jesse Young, west when a young man, and was among tho pioneers in Oklahoma. Ho was captured and held prisoner by Indians during the Civil war, and died in Texas several years ago.

Mr. Young for tho past several years had made his homo among his children, but went to Richmond last holiday season, to be with his soldier friends. Reunions of his family have beau held annually since his 95th birthday, the last one, on July 4, 1934, being at Pine Grove, near Beckley, attended by several hundred persons. He great enjoyed theso occasions and took an active part In the program. He retained his faculties to a remarkable degree, and on his last visit to Welch seemed as spry and active as a much younger man.

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This picture Is coming to the Colonial theater and Is sponsored by Parent-Teachers associa; tlon. IN AND WIFE DIE Death Claims Stephen Murray And His Wife, Aged Couple Of Horsepen Section Of Tazewell County Mrs. H. G. Steele and Mrs.

W. S. Penn were advised by airmail last evening of tho death of their sister in-law, Mrs. Oren C. (Iraybeal, Which occurred Saturday at her homo in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Graybeal. a native of Green brier county, went to California, i number of years ago. He is a broth er of the later Walter Graybeal, Pocahontas. MRS.

VIRGINIA PEIRCE PASSES AT TAZEWELL Mrs. Virginia Pelrce, 6S, wifo of Dr. Isaac Police, well known physician and mother of Mrs. Landon Reynolds, Augusta street, this city, died at 11:30 yesterday morning at her home on Main street, Tazewell, following an Illness of several years. Mrs.

Reynolds hud been at the bedsldo of her mother for several days. Funeral services will ho held at the Tazewol! Presbyterian church Thursday morning nt 10:30, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. W. W. Arrowood.

Burial will follow at the now cemetery in Tazewell. Mrs. Pelrce had been a member of the Presbyterian, church for many years and was widely known throughout this section. Besides her husband and one daughter she is survived by two sons, William and Eugene Pelrce, druggists of Evarts, Ky. FUNERAL SERVICES AT RAVEN TODAY FOR THOMAS WHITE ITS NOBODY'S BUSINESS HOW MUCH ONE MAKES" Some say some say "No" to the question ot Government's publication of Incomes.

Congress debating change in law. It la our business to protect you against the blows of fale with Modern Insurance. It Is your business to protect your business and your family with SOUND INSURANCE U- 8U6d through a local agent who you and serves your beat In- ttreetf. PEARSON INSURANCE SERVICE HQ LAW COMMERCE BLOC PH0HE BlUEFlElD.tf.M Funeral services will be hold at tho Primitive Baptist church, Raven, at 10 o'clock this morning for Thomas White, of Doran, father of J. E.

White, Mrs. J. N. Baldwin and Mrs. D.

J. Baldwin, all of Bluefield, who died at 10:40 Monday at his home following an lingering illness from complications. Following the services at the church interment will be made In a private cemotory at Doran. Besides his threo children In Bluefield he is survived by his widow and seven other children: Leo White, of Ada; Mr. H.

J. Lewis, of Princeton road; Taylor White, of Grundy, M. G. White, of Pocahontas; Mrs. Oscar Cline, of Red Ash, Arch and Roy Whito, of Doran, MINES RECORD HEAVY LOADING YESTERDAY Mines In tho Norfolk and Western fields loaded 2,903 cars yesterday, the best day's loading record sinco March 28, 1931, wlion 3,003 cars were loaded.

The record last March was one the best In a long period of time. Deliveries yesterday were not In keeping with the loading but railroad officials are looking forward to a big movement to the east and weet today. The loading was rather heavy all last week. HI UNDERTAKING Bluefield a Stephen Murray, 80. and his wife, Martha Daniels Murray, of the Horsepen section of Tazewell county, died yesterday, only a brief threo hours separating the passing of this well-known couple.

Mr. Murray died at 2 6'clock and Mrs. Murray succumbed at 5 o'clock. Hoth had been In declining health for sometime and on Monday Mrs. Murray suffered a stroke of appoplexy.

Mr. Murray's death is thought to have been probably hastened by anxiety over the condition of his wife. Mr. Murray had been a prominent farmer of the Horsepen section for many years and Mrs. Murray was born and reared in that nelghbohood.

Joint funeral and burial services for the aged couple will be hold at the Horsepen church today and in- tsrment will follow In the church yard cemetery, They are survived by three children, who are Jim Brown, of Lex. and Will R. Murray and Luther Murray, both of Horsepen Cove. Mrs. Murray before.marriage was Miss Martha Daniels.

She was a sister of Dr. S. A. DanlelH and an aunt of Mrs. A.

J. Bartlett, C. D. Brewster, Mrs. G.

Blchert and Miss Hazel Daniels, all of welch. Mrs. Murray Is also survived by two sisters, Mrs, Nan McClure and Mrs. Bell Billups, both of Newhall LOCAL MAN SUFFERS INJURIES IN CRASH OF TWO AUTOMOBILES Henry E. Warned, of Bluefield, district manager of the Investors Syndicate, and two other persons sustained Injuries Sunday afternoon in an automobile accident at Gauley Bridge.

Mr. Harned was an route to Charleston on a business trip when hie car skidded into another machine occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brooker, of Montgomery. The brakes on Harned's car are said to have failed.

Harned suffered bruises to his hands and legs. Mr. and Mrs Brooker were more severely cut and Mrs. Brooker was taken to the hos pltal at Montgomery. KID GAUD, NOTED AT (Continued from Page One) BAN ON UTILITY EUFFEY COAL BILL (Continued from Page One) eliminate the initial payment of the tax which the bill would levy for non-compllanco.

The sub-committee also voted for the retention of tho president districts under the NRA coal code instead of the realignment of districts as embodied In the bill. Other changes approved by the mib-committee Included: Setting the membership of district hoards at from three to fifteen, with. a requirement that all producing fields or groups be represented. A provision for judicial review of all orders of the national coal commission. Authorization for the commission to Issue cease and desist orders against offending members.

A provision prohibiting any governmental department or agency from purchasing coal not -produced by operators adhearlng to the act, MISSISSIrWWOB LYNCHES SUSPECTED KILLER OF ROAD MAN Slayden, March 12, Alternately singing and praying even as the rope was tightened about his throat, Ab Young, Negro tenant farmer suspected of slaying a highway- employe, was lynched today in a school yard three miles east of here. A mob of approxlmetely fifty men hanged the Negro from a tall oak tree a couple of hours after he was seized at Rossvllle, just across the Mississippi line. Young waB wanted in the killing of Hardy MacKle, 45-year-old highway worker. "You'd better sing a hymn," one of the group told the Negro as a rope was placed about his neck. He endeavored to sing.

"You'd better pray," he was told. The Negro prayed. Tho lone was fastened about his neck. The other end tied to the tree. He was pushed atop a small coach automobile.

One of his captors drove tho car away, leaving the Negro's body dangling In the air. COUGH! LIT (Continued From Page One) following the first by tho general, In Which he described the former NRA head as that "late, lamented, pampered ex-crown prince." Ho was up and down all day In the senate, taking about the pending work-relief bill, but said nothing about the Johnson assault. Choose Any Commercial Keivinator Equipment for Your Needs. NO DOWN PAYMENT Purchase On The KELVIN AT OR METER PLAN JONES CORNETT ELECTRIC CO. Keivinator Distributor WELCH, WVVA.

J.J PHONEJ 66 IF INTERESTED IN KELVINATOR COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT OR KELVIN ATOR AGENCY MAIL COUPON TO JONES-CORNETT ELECTRIC CO, Welch, W. VV 7 (Continued From Page One) that he would propose an Investigation by the federal trade commission of the Representative of New York, the Republican leader, lambasted the message as itself "purely a piece of propaganda." Other Republicans in the house also assailed the message. The twelve point program sent to the capif.ol by Mr. Roosevelt was drawn up by the president's power policy ot members of various federal power and utility regulatory followed in most respects the lines of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. Tho bill Includes electric and gas companies in lie definition of utilities but does not include telephone or telegraph companies.

The hill gives the following definition of a public utility company: "Public utility company means an electric utility companv and or a gas utility company." The house interstate commerce committee headed by the co-author of the bill Rayburn, Texas, already has taken evidence In hearings In support of the measure and is preparing to hear opponents. STATES TWO-YEAR (Continued from Page One) principal difference between the new budget and the budget of tho past blennium. "The state spent $3,000,000 in the past year for relief," he said, "but it did not do so the first year of the blennium. Also, it did not have to provide that extra $2,000,000 for the schools. Except for those two items, the budget would be as small or smaller than the previous one." RELIEFlLltr TWQTEST VOTES (Continued from Page One) in New York city.

The Marylander also called for a reduction in the sum to $1,880,000,000. Arising to defend the bill, Senator Robinson ot Arkansas, the Demo- cratl celador, said the bill provided $300,000,000 for white collar workers in the cities. As the debate waxed hotter in a day of many developments, Senator Connally, Democrat ot Texas, contended the persons to whom Tydings and Copeland referred would be taken care of by tho direct relief appropriation. such. He was to give a demonstra tlon of margin dealing, dealing from the bottom ot the deck and a method of stacking the cards.

Clippings in his scrap hook revealed the career of Kid Canfteld. whose real name was George Ronner, as Bensational as he described it. Ha started as a poker player with his assumed name then a shell game man with circuses and later an expert at three-card monte. He traveled the country ovor looking for big games, often engaged the most notorious gamblers and claims to have bested them all. When a boy of ho left his home in Chicago and started his career.

He had cut cards for high stakes with Al Capone, Jack Diamond and ArnoM Rothsteln. he declared, and offers tho marked cards with which steln lost In one setting, as evidence, Operated Crooked Games Many gambling houses he has operated, and all of them crooked, he said, for all gamblers make money being crooked. Canfleld says that no gambler Is honest, or he would not gamble for a living. Kid Canfield won thousands, spent them in fast living, his scrap book reveals. He would risk fifty thousand dollars at the turn of ft card, because, as he declared, ho knew what that card would be.

The only chance Kid Canfield took, as he says, was when he would win the pot and try to leave the room. His stories of gambling dens and the gun play, and the other make fine naratives; gripping, intense and full of adventure. Ho became notorious and police have his finger prints on record In every big city. Small-timo gamblers avoided him and the only games left in the big cities were with his own kind sharps. Then the Kid took 'the road and played one-night stands, hoping to catch the local hoys or tho traveling salesmen.

He had to movo fast to keep out of tho clutches of the police Gambled With llrothcr About ten or fifteen years ago, (his clfpplngs conflict) he is said to have won several thousand dollars from a man in San Francisco In a poker game, The man rose from the table, took a gun from his pocket and shot himself. A picture In this man's belongings identified him as the younger brother of Kid Canfield. Filled with remorse Canfield reformed and determined to spend the rest of his life exposing the crooked ways he had taken In his youth. He started his vaudeville tour and has continued since. His belongings contain letters from reform societies, and organized movements to surpress vice.

He has the endorsement of police chiefs who believe that by education only, young men will be taught that they caonot win. He had appeared In theaters throughout the country and was known as a good attraction, to theatrical folks. During the last week he had shown in theaters in this vicinity. On Sunday the Dally Telegraph carried a press notice of his bookings, telling something of his career and his claims. To prove that he was no fake.

Kid Canfield put on a demonstration in the newspaper office on Saturday. He showed the shell game the three-card monte, and fooled 'em all. He then delt from the margin, a feat that requires years of practice, and no one present, even though they were standing over him, could detect the trick. Then he dealt a game of poker, after allowing one ot the reporters to shuttle the cards, and of course, the first man drew four tens, the next four jacks and on up the scale with the Kid hlmBelf holding four aces. "A card player has no chance with me" Kid Canfield told the reporters.

IVe Get "Shake Eyes" With dice, ho couldd throw any combination he desired, and usfn? the same dice the reporters Were best at tossing "snake Kid Canfleld with his long tapered fingers, resembling a piano player's, could manipulate a deck of cards so fast that the eye was unable to follow his movement. He showed his tricks of gambling and then said. "If I'm good boys, write me up." He got the write up. George Washington Bonner, reformed, using his right name, has a wife and son living in Plttsfleld. Mass.

He was horn in 'Chicago May 26 1S77. He has membership cards, showing that he is in good standing in the Hillside lodge No. 8D4 A. F. A.

Wondhaven, N. and Brooklyn B. P. O. E.

No. 22. His family were notified by the authorities last night. FLEES TO LITTLE ITALIAN (Continued From Page One) OF SERVICE TRADES (Continued from Page One) mcitely 3,000,000 employees In this group who are operating under low wage conditions." 'Ho we have a combination of all the tough problems," he testified, pointing out that it was difficult In many cases to raise wage levels without trade practices and price agreements. Ho agreed It was "going pretty far" to Include hotels, barber shops and restaurants under codes.

"What is your recommendation?" Chairman Harrison asked. "My personal recommendation," Richberg replied, "would be that yon write Into this bill a definition of nterstatc commerce which was surely sound under the decisions of the court and under that definition It would be necessary to eliminate largo percentage ot these local Industries." As an alternative proposal, Richberg said the service trades could bo handler by "voluntary agreements with local groups." MILLEEErTDicLARES STATE BUYING PROBE SHOULD BE CONTINUED Charleston. W. March 12. (JP) Frank Mlllender (Democrat of Wayne), chairman of the senate, committee which investigated the state purchasing department, filed a minority report today asserting that testimony and exhibits In the inquiry "necessitates a more thorough and complete examination" of the department.

He recommended that the governor at his earliest convenience "have made svtch necessary changes in the rules and regulations of said partment In order to prevent in the future such irregularities and inconsistencies as have been shown to have existed prior to this Investigation." Millender said "your committee Is of the opinion that If more stringent rules and regulations were adopted by the department that the abuses complained of heretofore would not exist." The majority report said Irregularities in the department were "minor and of small consequence" and due to the newness of the department, adding "we found no attempt on the part of James A. Tierney. state purchasing agent, to commit fraud. We did find small Irregularities which the committee believes were caused by the newness of the department." AUTHOR ARRESTED Chicago, March 12. Evelyn John St.

Loe Strachey, British author here on a lecture tour, was arrested by Immigration authorities tonight after issuance of a warrant charging he entered the Urtited States "by means of false and mis-1 loading statements." capture for the first time sinco the rebellion broke out. Arrested As General Papoulas, generalissimo of Greek forces in Asia minor during the war with Turkey, was arrested In an Athens suburb, the government took steps to extradite from Bulgaria General Demetrius Kama, nos, leader of the Macedonian rebels, and eighteen other chieftains who escaped with him across the border. Already under arrest were hundreds of persons suspecled of rebel sympathies, together with 3,000 insurgent troops who surrendered during the big push that brought recapture ot the rebel strongholds of Seres. Drama and Kavalla. (A dispatch from Rome said government shells struck the Italian consulate at Kavalla, for which the Greek government apologized).

A dispatch from Ghevghelll, Yugo. slavla, yesterday said the cost of the Greek uprising was estimated at no less than 20,000,000,000 drahmaa (approximately which Is twice the amount of Greece's annual budget. It was predicted the task of liquidating this enormous liability would cripple tho country for many years to come. (Continued from Page One) banks. The Ohio's main feeders, tho Allegheny and Monongahela, were both rising rapidly.

Schools were dismissed at Weston because buses were unablo to transport children to classes. More, thou four feet of water ered the Clarkdburg-Buckhannon road near Uuckhannon. The Clarks- burg-Farkersburg road was blocked at Smlthburg by 18 Inches, and two feet of water cohered the rcutes from Clarksburg to Weston and Fair, mont at various points. ONFISKTRIP (Continued from Page One) congress may still be meeting, even though the jaunt might not begin until late summer. An interlude on the San ClegO trip may he a visit to Boulder Dam on the Colorado river.

Whether Mr. Roosevelt's intention to take the Florida journey Indicated that he felt lie wouid have tho legislative situation well in hand at the end of Hie month was a matter for speculation. Those around Mr. Roosevelt say that congrees, or no congress, Mr. Roosevelt likes to break House routine by travel and also feels It his duty to get out among the people.

Consequently, It was said, he does not make his schedule conform entirely to the fever of controversy or the calm of agreement at the hill. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A BUS SERVICE FRANCHISE Notice la hereby given (hat the undersigned litis filed with tho Board of Directors of tho City of BluefleJd an application tor a franchise to operate and conduct a bus line service In said City, on and over all the streets and alloys and public grounds of the said City, for a period of thirty years, for the transportation of passengers for hire at a faro not to exceed five cents for any trip within the City. The object, naturo and full extent of said franchise and tho terms ana conditions thereof are more particularly set out In said application and a proposed ordlnaiico attached thereto, now on file In tlio office of the City Clerk, and a copy of which can be Inspected In Iho offlco of the attorneys for tho applicant. J. E.

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