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Today Queer Story MIRRA Ky July Everywhere Ju me Mn'lerv goes this lint went her a hreere mire to blow Sundem whoHt home is In Oran Mo come to hit summer school classes at Murray Statq Teachsfs college carrying a small electric fan tai planar ot otesaloa wtM Everybody Reads DANVILLE PAPERS In Trading Area WEATHER ORECAST: Virginia and Carolina: Generally air Tonight and Tu esday Except Probably Local Thundershowers Late Tuesday Afternoon r'f Buy and Sell Thru CLASSIIED SECTION 'Sa' The Register Bee OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13569 DANVILLE VA MONDAY ATERNOON JULT 2 1934s (ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE) (HOME EDITION) JOHNSON DRATS REPLY TO REPORT REPORT GOVERNMENT INANCES is preparing NAZI CRITIC Office Will Be Moved ESTIMATES I A 6 happened while a is BOY KILLED IN HILL CITY OC WM 4 into custody Ella May Davis Louise Terry of New York and Charles Cllnto Daniel also col hls body died from gave the a broken bu the the between Mirces another a PWA municl he hU put tn the Mrs ware case ISSUE WIDE OPEN AGAIN of his uncle Harry South Ridge and be made in Green Those who wish to vote by mall in the local option election of July 17 will have until the evening of July 11th so to do City Registrar Booth ruled thia morning Since many people go away in July it is expected that there will be a heavy mailed vote have already voted before away Several going violence Precautions were taken but there were no signa of disorder Those killed were Dr Stanley 6oin era 31: Sheriff Charles 0 Miller 33 (whom neighbors had called when the shooting started): Mr and Mrs Lloyd Hayes age 38 and 31 respective ly Roy Hickey one of the guest? at the party was wounded Prosecutor John Stewart saldtfour warrants would be asked each charge Ing Wood with murder Discovery of a colored woman i secreted under the bed in the resl (dence of Anthony on Jefferson street on Saturday evening led the I police today to believe they had cap i tured two jewel thieves I rom them they recovered rings and Watches valued at little short of 2000 some of the stolen possibly I I from Danville homes Members of the Anthony house hold went out Saturday leaving their son asleep upstairs He awakened and I heard somebody moving stealthily about the next room so he quietly got out ot bed secured his revolver and began a tour of Inspection Un derneath the bed In one room he found a colored woman concealed He trained the gun on her and call ed the police Lieutenant Price and I Bowles and Detectices Talley and Lewis reached the scene quickly and took alias later ored Police enquiry revealed that they had a handsome car and hlle exam ining the bullt ln trunk the detectives eame upon twelve diamond rings I thirteen pawntickets showing that (Please turn to page 2 CoL 6) our persons Injured late Saturday night In an automobile accident near Shady Grove were reported today as improving at Memorial hospital The worst hurt is Miss Katherine Davis of Shady Grove who may have Internal hurts and who was badly gashed about the face and head The other three likewise were cut by flying glass and were hastened to the hospital Miss Davis was in a car driven by William Daniel of Pelham They were moving along the Shady Grove road at about nine o'clock when a car occupied by Mr and Mrs Melvin Evans of Pelham emerged from a side road There was a heavy im pact and the human damage was done in a few seconds All of ther injured were' brought to Memorial Hospital Man Hunted Three Years ound By Pursuer On Mere Chance At Side of His Parked Automobile Papen Is Victimized for Bold Stand Against Nazi Policies Congratulates Hitler for Saving People from Serious Dang Orrell Thomas Meets His Three Alleged Wives At Grand Seance In Sanctum of Chief of Police section of the country and with the means they had accumulated they acquired a filling station and garage on the new South Boston road Cook tn the meantime had settled down at Martinsville never complete ly giving up the hope of crowing the trail of his wife Yesterday he came to Danville to bring a relative to Schoolfield or some reason he parked his car down town When he went to get into hla car who should he see standing non chalantly by it but the man he had sought for three years of Henry James Beach' Cook did not wait for the law He ylze'd the man end held him firm ly and sent 'his mrother ln lsw for a policeman Officer Claud Brown was on duty and went hastily to the spot where the two men were standing and Beach was arrested on Cook's complaint They all went over to the ponce station where the story then unfolded County authorities arrested Beech at the garage and both released under bond alter the had been investigated ate played a strange trick yester day on Gene Cook of Martinsville when he accidentally found the man he had been hunting for more than three years As1 result of this unusual encount er Henry James Beach and Mrs Mamie Sexton Cook Beach were ar rested charged with bigamy and were placed under bond to appear before Mayor Brown of Martinsville on July 9 to answer that charge The story told to the police by Cook like fiction Cook said that his wife left him In Spartanburg taking with her the little daughter they had adopted Cook gave his life over to trailing his Wife and the man he suspected of having gone away with her Dur Ing three years he caught the trail here and there sometimes in Ar kansas again in Texas once la lorida and through the Atlantic states But the trail always grew cold and he missed the quarry In the meantime Beach and the woman he is alleged to have 'married also the adopted baby cams to thia Vote by Mail Deadline Set or July 11th Old Post Office to House ed eral Job Connecting orce The ederal Re employment Bu reau which has been located on the second floor of the city hall may move this week Into the old postof fice John Weber manager of the reau said that he had received necessary authorization to use building by the Washington authori ties and that he might be able to make the transfer this week The bureau needs more room' and will have it In the new quarters for the office formerly used by the post master the assistant postmaster and the space reserved for the money or der division will be utilized It will be the first time the old building has been used since the postoffice moved up the street Mr Weber reported an Improve provement In the local carpenter slt uation today carpenters have come from the county to take jobs on bridge but others have refused" he said County Woman Detained at Lexington in Connection With atality 0 Mrs Ora Lee Smith charged as a hit and run in the corporation court here in connection with injuries sus tained last January by Police Officer Newell is being held at Lexington Va as a material witness to the dramatic killing of a' seven year old child near Buena Vista last Thursday It was learned today 8 8 Hill of Chatham Is also held in connection with the killing of the child he being alleged to have been at the wheel of the car when the accident occurred The child Jess Calvin McCullough was struck and almost Instantly kill ed opposite her home while Hill is alleged to have been overtaking an other car' The other car driven by a tele phone official stopped and carried the child into her home but it was found that she was already dead Hill and Mrs Smith were later ex amined by the Buena Vista author ities and later were taken to Lexing ton jail It is expected that her trial here during the term ot court opening today will have to be deferred explaining "Now I can get my di vorce" Then came the former Miss Dolly Burgess of Spray and the three children she says Thomas fathered She wore a pink dress and had re latives And finally there was the petite Naomi Cobbler of Danville alleged Wife Number Three a slip of a girl pretty and not over seventeen sum mers She wore one of those new multicolor wool sweater creations and a white skirt and white shoes Her mama was with her The wives were all formally intro duced andno social errors were of re cord They talked sympathetically and eyed each other with those pene trating and appraising looks which a woman can the kind that takes everything in at one glance They discussed the weather and all that sort of thing and Chief Martin with a merry laugh added bonhomis to the gathering he said "This IS' a family gathering it?" (Please tun to page 0 Col J) By WILLIAM BEALE Jr WASHINGTON July In the fiscal year just beginning the government can spend nearly ten billion dollars and still remain with in President Roosevelt's estimates of the cost ot whipping the depression It spent a peacetime record of $710505008495 In the 1934 fiscal year which closed Saturday night piled up an operating deficit of $3 93949603543 and pushed the public debt to an all time high of $27053 14148 Even these huge sums were far be low Mr Roosevelt's forecast of 10 569008967 of outlays In the old year and a debt Increase of 7309068311 as compared with the actual boost pt $4 514 468 95433 Administration officials reasserted that funds budgeted for the old and hew years together which were not spent In the last 13 months will be spent in the next if necessary for relief and recovery This would mean: Pushing the public debt upward to31834000000 Rolling up another deficit prob ably nearer 5000000000 than 4 000000000 The size would depend on how much the present cash bal ance of 258122240 is reduced and whether any of the dollar profit on gold devaluation is used for current expenses Borrowings in excess of last again depending on use of the cash balance and whether revenues equal the estimated $3974 665479 These figures were indicated by the own estimate that ex cluding debt retirement the govern ment would spend (16529804667 in the 1934 and 1935 fiscal years which end on June 30 1935 Since these estimates votes in the last congress (535000000 for drought relief have Increased the two year maximum to 17500000000 Most of fiscal year purposes counted on Although Peacetime Record of Expenditures Is Reported It Is Behind orecast Arrest ot Colored Woman Hiding Under Bed Brings Revelation rom Broken Neck In Dive At Pool Resort speeches (nd it amounts to the same tiling in the end Well they finally got that wedding over with There TWO HELD AS GEM THIEVES RINGS OUND Cloudburst Near Callands Danville Has Over Inch More than an inch of rain fell In Danville on Sunday evening and night as result of two heavy down pours during the afternoon Two storm clouds converged over the city and after doing so cross currents of wind swept the whole cloud bank over the city to give it a second drenching which revived flowers truck and crops The heavy rain greatly reduced the temperature which while not exces sive was marked by high A remarkably vivid rainbow was noted after the storm Unconformed reported were current in Danville today that the iron bridge at Lanier's Bridge between here and Callands was swept away by a cloud burst which visited that section dur ing the evening iloroed creeks to awollen torrents The bridge is un derstood to have been nearly fifty feet long A high wind accompanied the (ported cloudburst unroofing barns and making it Impossible for motor ists to proceed They pulled over to the side of the road and waited until visibility was safe i Houston Little Shot by Man Who ired to right Men He Claimed Were Boisterous LYNCHBURG Va July A pistol that was fired to "frighten a drunk" took the toll of a human life In airview Heights last night Held on a murder charge today Oscar Shel ton 24 2128 Campbell avenue ad mitted he fired the shot that killed Houston Little 18 of Schoolfield He said he merely wanted to make Lit tle and the companion Roy Hicks ot this city stop their cursing and loud talking in front of his home so he could rest The accident curred about 10:30 o'clock Shelton said after he fired ejected the empty shells from pistol went Into the house and two more cartridge in the weapon He returned to the porch and called a neighbor William Pick asking him to go with him downtown to get a warrant for Little and Hicks Pick came out of the house with a lamp the rays from which outlined the body of a man lying on the side of the street It was Little who had been wounded in the back Recalled physicians and was ordering an am bulance wheff' he was advised that Little had died Shelton then sur rendered himself to three patrolmen Little's father Richard Little was said to live at Schoolfield uneral services for Tony Nlar hakos will be conducted here to morrow afternoon at four from the home Sakellaris 215 interment will Hill cemetery His mother Mrs Pota Nlarhakos is expected to arrive here tonight at 11 o'clock from Uniontown Pa ac companied by her brother Magistrate itts following an inquest at Schoolfield early this afternoon rendered a verdict that young Nlarhakos died from a broken neck An autopsy performed on the vic tim this morning showed that Tony's neck was broken The autopsy was performed by Dr Bailey and Dr Langston Antonio Nlarhakos aged 19 known to hundreds here as Tony the Greek a promising middleweight was taken from deep water in Luna Lake last night at about seven uncon scious and Dr Langston who laser examined opinion that he neck The tragedy large crowd ot bathers were enjoying the evening swimming Tony was at the bathing establish ment with a partyof friends and was seen'td'5wn ur rounding the lake His friends did not see him come up at once and thought he was making a long under water swim Then it became appar ent that he had not come to the sur face and Garland Hudgins who had witnessed the dive signalled frantical ly to Johnny Walker one of the life guards Hudgins dived and combed the bot tom' at the point where Tony had last been seen Before the horrified bathers Walker who had also plunged in came to the surface bearing the limp body of the handsome Greek who was hemorrhaging from the mouth and nose He had been un der the water less than 2 minutes Hastily moved to the emergency treat ment room calls were sent for Dr Sager Dr Langston and for the Swicegood pulmotor All of these agencies responded swiftly while the life savers worked on the inanimate Victim TAKES STEPS TO PROTECT 0 Well Known Local Pugilist Never Comes Up from Two Doctors Lifesavers With Pul motor Work Vainly Until Cause of Death Is Was Lusty Inquest Held at Schoolfield At first it appeared as though there was the flicker of an eyelid and the Hfesavers hoped they would bring him round but that spark went as they worked The doctors found that life was extinct but the pulmotor was used However there was no symptom of drowning for the lifeguards Walk er and Durham who also work ed on the victim found no water inhls lungs Dr Langston later opined that he had struck the bottom in his dive and had broken his neck Examination of the body showed a small scar above the bridge of the nose and Walker said there was a whelp across his shoulder blades This apparently was done before going Into the water as he playfully scuffled with a party of friends Tony was a strong swimmer being an all around athlete and never de feated in his local ring contests Those who observed the tragedy said that his dive was quite normal and the depth ot the water at that point was quite ample to take care of body Impact as hundreds have dived from the same point without injury He weighed about 150 pounds The gay cries of people enjoying themselves in the cool aftermath of a thundershower were stilled as a crowd hovered about the small room where work was beldUihe the popular young pugilist who had gone to the pool with friends and relatlvaa apparently in the best of health and spirits His remains were later removed to Townes' funeral home where many people passed before the coffin Tony was but 19 years of age and a nephew of Harry Sakelarls who was devoted to him bringing him here from Uniontown Pa to go Into the restaurant business with him He leaves a father and mother living at Uniontown His prizefight ventures were all In leisure moments but the youth had been spotted as a pugilist who with proper training might be heard from In a large way ollowing the tragedy Magistrate itts was called and viewed the body and he called a in quest for this morning in his office at Schoolfield when eyewitnesses were expected to give their versions of the accident Life's most embarrassing moment came today to Orrell Edgar Thomas youthful and good looking who had it seems a yen for getting married He was in the unfortunate predica ment of meeting at one and the same time the three women he is alleged to have married his children and all the In all In the sanctum of Chief of Police Martin who played genial host to a strange family gath ering There was no ill feeling Mr Thomas looked a little hacked and shifted his glance from the multitude of wives and seemed glad enough when he was led back to jail to hear what t(he grand jury may have to eay apout his dilemma The ylves kept dropping in at the chief's office all the morning When they were' all there they made up quite substantial gathering for aom of tho brothers of the wives as well as tho mothers were on hand The first to arrive was alleged Wife Number 'Qne tpa former Ml Nina Nicely rt Clifton orge dressed nat tily tn black debonair and volubly Bridge Swept Away Report rom County Approach to Safe Margin Brings Urge by Brantly Of Power Survey City Attorney A Aiken today aid that if negotiations Danville and the PWA are ful local citizens will have opportunity to vote on Joan and grant for a new pal hydro electric power plant at The Pinnacles Mr Aiken said he expected nego tlatfons to come to a close soon" and that he felt a satisfac tory agreement would be reached which would be acceptable to the people The city attorney said engineers were now making new estimates on the cost of the project and that It is possible that It may be low ered from the original figure ot $3000000 He expressed the opin ion that the project was defeated in the last election largely because of an approaching councllmantc election and the fact that voters had to wade through snow and sleet to vote The vote wa 1683 against and 1498 for the project Danville was headed today towards another show down on the electric power situation with the Increased In the local power demand so Swift during recent weeks that Manager of Utilities Brantly on Saturday notified the Council through the fi nance committee that it cannot Jrft'ger delay contemplatlngisoms ad dltlonal source Of power Two records in power consumption were broken last week due possibly to excessive hot weather which caus ed mechanical refrigerators to step up their automatic demand for pow er to freeze Whatever the cause Mr Brantly notified the finance commit tee on Saturday evening that the present steam plant is within 15 per cent of its margin of safety and that with the coming all when the in dustrial power demand will increase some steps should be taken at once to have the power situation analyzed with a view to expansion Mr Brantly is recommending that a firm of reputable engineers be re tained to survey the local situation and to make a report to the Council on what is the most economic thing for Danville to do This naturally reopens The Pln (Please turn to page 5 Col 4) our Hurt in Accident Are Getting Better Astor ain't nothing that will do more to add comedy relief to our reading of I atrikei wars revolutions and world uncertainty than to read about a Distracted Mother Collapses After Being Prevented rom Entering Burn ing House SAN MATEO Calif July Caught by roaring flames as they clung together at their home two grand children of William Erhart millionaire New Yorker are dead to day while their mother Iles critically 111 from grief and shock The children Henrietta Ruggles eight and John six were burned to death as the mother Mrs Henrietta Erhart Ruggles fought frantically against the restraining arms of police and firemen to join them Mrs Theresa Cassidy cook and Miss Gertrude Portway governess each of whom thought the other had rescued the children saved their Ilves by leaping from the second floor Shortly after the fire spread through the two story wooden build ing early yesterday Mrs Buggies di vorced wife of John Rathbone Rug gles of New York arrived in her au tomobile from a night club where she had gone to bring back a house guest She leaped toward the flaming door way shrieking: "My babies la there I hear she collapsed as she was pulled back Marie Dressier Remains BANTA BARBARA Calif July W) On the verge ot death three days ago Marie Dressier clung stubbornly to life today despite the seemingly fatal complications of cancer and uremic poisoning Last Thursday night the 62 year old actress sang so low that attending physicians expressed the belief she could not live until morning but an amazing vitality since then has re stored consciousness to her and she has been able to take a liberal amount ot liquid nourishment By Louis Lochner (Copyright 1934 by The AP) BERLIN July President Paul ton Hindenburg today made the Reichswehr (German army) person ally responsible for the safety of Vice Chancellor ranz von Papen threatening a state of siege If he were i victimized for his recent bold stand in criticizing some nazl policies A guard of special blackshirt sol diers was delegated to ensure Von safety The ultimate fate of the vice chan 's eellor bitter conservative critic of i Jaoma of the nazl methods had be I come a question of burning moment in Germany when his friend and a 1 patron President yon Hindenburg gave his blessingsjtojphancellor Hit 1 ler today i The president from his retreat In Neudeck where he is lying 111 tele graphed the chancellor: have saved the German peo ple from serious dangers I express to you' my deep thanks and grati tude With cordial i So far as was known to the general public Von Papen was still forbidden to leave his apartment adjoining Hlt ier's several of his close collaborators were dead Those executed in ruth less of nazl extremists and rightists opposed to the nazl re gime included Werner von Alvens leben Von close friend The vice adjutant riedrich fj vonTschlrsky wasreported tohave committed suicide Von Papan's sec retary Hubert von Bose was said to I have gone the same way I Others close to Von Papan were (aid to have been given the altema tlve of doing away with themselves I or facing the firing squad It was apparent to all that Hitler god his chief adjutant Hermann Wilhelm Goering were in the pres (Please turn to page 2 Col 2) the money In the new would go for emergency only 3237512200 for routine costs City Is Given Concession on PWA Bond Sale The city today secured a material concession from the government in relation to the selling of bonds to be Issued to finance the electric and the water improvements Under the bond ordinance agree ment sent here by the government the government was to buy the bonds Under ths concession secured today the city can sell the bonds to the gov ernment at par or to anybody else above par if it has that opportunity City Auditor Charlton strange was of the belief today that the four arid a half per cent bonds will find a ready sale above par as the bond market has improved The council will meet at eight o'clock tonight to hear the ordinances introduced so that they may begin to mature at the earliest possible mo ment SPENDING IS Tony Tlc Gree11 Des BEHIND DR "jays: SANTA MONICA Calif July Well the President leaves on his ierulse aboard what must be Jesse ft Jones boat for called the lious ft (ton 1 expect that guy Hitler' re 'Would 11 to be on a boat headed I Somewhere about now Germany some sort of a custom where it they allow yon to commit suicide I in case you have been found to be Lly against tbe government Over here Ivwe just let you go on making speeches (nd it amounts to about ires at Negro Suddenly ound In His Bedroom John Martin who lives close to the intersection of Keen and Bellevue streets called the police at 3 this morning after he had shot at a negro he found in his room Awakening during the night he felt conscious of the presence of the in truder who suspecting he was about to be caught ran out of the back way Mr Martin secured his gun and fired two loads of birdshot after the negro Each time Martin shot the negro fell but he got up and man aged to escape despite prompt re sponse by police cars The Intruder has not been caught Enraged By Noise Made By unmakers He Kills our Walks to Jail His Only ear Being of Mob Violence Expresses No Remorse EAST TAWAS Mleh July (T) A Wood 63 who said the noise made by merrymakers so enraged him that hs slew four of them apd wounded a fifth was held for ar raignment today on murder charges Wood who walked to the county Jail tn nearby Tawas city after quadruple slaying early Sunday morning expressed no remorse His only fear off lour said was of mob PRICE THREE CENTS HINDENBURG ISSUES STERN THREAT German President ThreatensP mnlrbizmAni A State of Siege If Von mpiOymeni Ruby Lohr Is Arrested or Motor Thefts Man Alleged to Be Identified With Taken at Patrick 0 Roby Lohr of North Carolina charg ed with several minor motor thefts and believed to bs a member of a gang of men who have handled about 200 automobiles Is In jail at Stuart after being captured in a dwelling by eight traffic officers of trie state early riday armer state trafflce officer assigned to Danville played a part in the arrest which followed a tip from the North Carolina officers who learn ed he was in Patrick anner went to the scene and saw the missing man but knowing that he was badly wanted he returned and made arrangements to take him by night A squad of state officers fol lowing different routes met at a ren dezvous and wert to Lohr's house He was arrested before he was properly awake A large revolver hung near his bed He Is demanding extradition and will be taken to Durham for trial Ben Lowe of High Point Is said to have been the ringleader of the gang was given five years in prison at Greensboro last week and la under another suspended sen tence of eight years Lows is alleged to have confessed being mixed up the Denton bank robbery in North Carolina for which four white youths are serving time The alleged band are reported to have operated In four states and to have perfected a system for altering motorblock numerals Mrs Trial Here Is Deferred 2 Children Perish When Home Bums CITY POWER PARTING SHOT WITH DARROW 0 Third Report of Board Main tains NRA osters Monopo ly and That It Is Adjunct of Depression Instead of oe Abandonment Price ixing Is Recommended WASHINGTON jjulv 2 Hueh 8 Johnson Intends to fire the part mg snot in his feud with Clasence Darrow He put his NRA aides at work today drafting an answer to the final report of the recovery review board Darrow headed Like the previous two the third report maintained NRA fostered mo nopoly In so doing Mt Said last night the recovery unit became the foe but the adjunct of depres Despite its recommendations the board said "there seems a sinister purpose to practices more securely in the processes of the act" Abandonment of price fixing was recommended Since completion of the report Darrow has resigned Other members said they would take a recess until they received further directions from President Roosevelt In the chapter entitled "The Gov ernmental the board said Mr Roosevelt's order requiring cer tlficates of compliance for bidding on government contracts was elimi nating many small firms which 'can not without ceasing to exist comply with the requirements that mean the surrender of their vital business secrets or the end of every chance to meet the stronger position ndj greater Hitting the motion picture code again the board Said: first means toward correction would be the abrupt dismissal of the i present code authority and the choice of another that can conceive some thing ot the rights of the public and has some other impulse than the extraction of fat profits" 0 Hinesville to Celebrate ourth 0 Plans have been completed for an all day ourth of July celebration at Hinesville on Wednesday A picnic and Brunswick stew will be a feature and a number ot baseball games and horseshoe pitching contests have been arranged among other things SCHOOLIELD 4.