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WEATHRR: Cloudy and Miich Colder Tonight Wednesday Generally air and Colder Of the Register Bee DANVILLE VA TUESDAY ATERNOON EBRUARY 9 1937 (HOME EDITION) General Motors SUPPLY ROAD TO MADRID IS CUT Heads Agree To COURT COMPROMISE IS URGED Mirrors of the Soul LEA ROM AMENDMENT Women And Children Return To Cairo In LOOD ZONE SUGGESTED Spite Of Warning IS ARRIVING BY MANY be b' SPRAY MAN IS the main artery of sup SUSPECTED AS up Baptists Of Lloyd Rorer Arrested at Mar ii Trial Begins aid Rep Guyer iPittsy Ivania Association to Be of i 5) X) IN PLANT failed ISHER IRM a turn to page 6 column I) a i a a 51 00 utb or Bl I UK AMI EGGS sell a half a million posi 300 of froin Invasion Of Rebel orces body I he of the State Baptist the also that VOCAL COLOR offl II high any (I'lcase (uru lu iga li column the lot the di crgence of tn the statrmrni Madrid front came the the Madrid Valencia cut a few miles south came to searching take tiles con store recognition as the for employes tn 20 1 00 5 00 100 rushed to find hus sweethenrts in the) of iriiituy throe tceks Barron veteran government observer said the Ohio would up the 1 employ of the since 19(4 Trotzky a poltlcsl rotug here over the protests of ninny Communis ts who charged he wm i foe of soviet Uus others until the Ohio reaches a stage set by the mayor at 55 rled busl averaging past Completed lart ASSAILANT IS SENTENCED TO LIE lowers Bloom As Season Gets Jump on Winter Avctett on it a PRICE: THREE CENTS gj at work morn ession the latter presented by banners of red before the snul Commui to keep suburban host and counsel is preparing strenuously tor a new Napoleon Riddick 39 mahogany colored ne on the com Brouglit here by i Danville officers i ho hastened to Martinsville on hear 0UNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13384 (Abbociatibd press leased wires) lire lluiul" mid gm more realiMii llimi 1 lii limited In the midst oi the play aetors nml mnlieuee "err lnrileil by an a pit'll lougli time golug (hroih the mail in lhe atu builAinf negro whs ar with the inuidvi messm The 'or executive committee August return has from Democrats srtingeit Mr ascist sym pa the sunhght for the months of SO the arcli conypiriitor denied repeatedly with the eonspirirt Ins alleged plan to restore Traffic Check Shows Good Use Of Underpass 0 Laughing Girls and Victorious Insurgent Soldiers Dance In Gay Abandon Through Sacked City Entry of ascists Appears As Signal for Joyous estival Verdict Holds Those In Charge Inefficient as Cause of Sinking AKMOMi It the perxiii am iiimleil that piukaje of fien skunk akin will rail mt Ilia pMtiiffke I'osuuu'lrr Ciiarle Kaiser Wilt be glad to rellliqnlkh it definitely mild Kui er that pick age Is not going through the malls Detective Chief Declares lie Had Work ing in Auto Body I'actory most serious Mrmonal church for its 148th annual UlJlch AiU lvt for two class than forty church are em Young Negro Convicted in Princess Anne of Assault On Woman for In flic si ilpt Offlilah In I rd they (lid not know the bird pos Jc red such a "ilolcnt vocabulary" 1 County Meet Here Tomorrow iry lit th io (rd Attended By About 300 People Capture of Malaga and Seizure Of Madrid Valencia Road Give Impetus to Insurgent Movement Severing of Highway Cuts Off Artery of Supplies to Madrid and Stops Direct Communica tion Between Capital and War Time Seat of Socialist Government ason will carry the market ahead of Wilson No special effort is being made to encourage the growc a sporting etent at re the 33 year old Mrs Marvl hoUMwifei' turn to page 6 column and heatin' Tobacco from the flood zone is ginning to reach Danville rehandling much of it in extremely bad con dition it was learned today Danville redriers have been placed at the dis posal of factories undated would answer force with lorcr It (loiutuunlrti at tempted to prevent the one tinc Rus sian war commissar from anpeiiiing publicly or lecturing at the Univei slty" To the local Communist party's warning It would use "organized force'' If necessary to keep lioni speaking Mexico the student ullsweied "We have not yet invited Trotzky to lecture although we are con Ider Ing It It 'e do the ('muniniints will Clyde Baptist is to and he o'clock schedul NOROLK Va eb Wl Davts defense leday to press trial for Louis tear old small gro convicted of attempted criminal assault on Mis Willard White after forcing his way into her home st Puugo the night of December 19 and bis punishment fixed by a jury in Princess Aune county circuit court last night of life Imprisonment In the event the new trial motion to be argued before Judge Whits at a date to be set later is denied Mr Davis announced he will appeal the case to the supreme court In two major instances Mr Davis charges the court erred ui the conducl of the case irst he contends a' change of venue should have been granted be cause feeling had been so strong avainst the defendant that a lynching was narrowly averted soon after Rid dick's arrest when Sheriff Guy Sal monels hiding negro on floor boards of his car spirited him away to ths Norfolk jail A few hours after the negro had been taken to Norfolk he charges a large party of men travel ling in about 20 cars jail in dead of night Riddick The defense charges court erred in allowing any part of 'Riddick's alleged eonfcwilou to Scr giant Benton Of the Norfolk police department to go to the Jury His northern armies against Madrid his southern troope against Valencia WASHING I'ON eb 9 i'll Sam Jl Brady supei mt ndent of the eiton Nritlonnl Deiectlie Agency al DETROIT eb General Motors Corporation consented today to continue discussions to end the widespread automotive strike after in dicating it saw no use in further con leienees The almost complete silence that lias marked six days of conversations between representatives of the cor pcration and striking union members vas broken last night with the 1s autince of a formal statement by the automobile company of its position Until then Gov rank Murphy who called the parties together at the be hest of President Roosevelt had marie the only public comments upon the inceodings General Motors' fir statement was followed a few hours later by one from John Iewls dhiHtoi general of the stiike Queer Story Congressmen Deluged With Protests Against Presi dent's Sweeping Plan The faces of this root her and her child victims of the flood area mir ror their affliction They are among the flood stricken refugees which crowd Memphis Tenn awaiting a chance to return to their water soaked homes SEEK KME INCREASE RICHMOND Va eb Coun I tor the Virginia Pilots Association which seeks a general pilotage rate increase of 7 per cent will appear before the corporation commission on March 3 to resume the presentation of evidence begun yesterday A Jury Culnpo eJ of tn rt mtu and artlsiis middle age was By II VKIS EOI 17 MAI AG A eb 9 Laughing Malagan girls and victorious ascist soldiers danced gay abardon today through the sacked and burned dis tricts of this Mediterranean city while armed "clean squads police brought order alter of terror The city's 400 ooo Buttercups are blooming In many a Danville garden snapdragons will be tn bloom next week Hollyhocks are coming out of the earth and Jonquils and narcissi are well ahead of the sea son Buds oh trees are touched with fresh green and herbaceous borders all are putting out signs of growth In some gardens petunias have been blooming an the winter most of them with diminutive flowers The reason for this is the protracted wet weather and the recent elevated temperatures The condition is gen eral in the south In the tobacco Helds of this section tobacco seed which fell from the pods before being cut has geiminnted and the odd cir cumstance of a winter wild tobacco Is teen At Mullins conies the re are about indicating WASHINGTON eb Scores xif compromise proposals for ierle ai court reorganization bobbed up today in discussions among cotigressm' deluged with telegrams from lhe "folks back home" on the president's sw eeping recommendations Constitutional imfnamrnis to curb the Supreme Court's power to declare I nr to limit prominent in Camden and president of nt the repoit Christian Education on Thursday trnoon alter which there will be number of committee reports includ ing resolutions Noinnuitioii for offi cers will also be In order before ad journment at about four o'clock Negro Accused of Kill ing Mary Case NEW YORK eb The was ready todry to call the firs 40 wltnee exM''t'd 0 testlf' deadlock the Ul! of Major Gru at least tieero for the iminkr of Ions was rlcc trlficd announcement Ing threatened today between Lean Trotzky's Communist enemies and his university friends as the Russian exile nervously prepared to tell a Ne York audience his version of tnc leeent anti Soviet con (piracy trial in Mos cow Mexican students defied 1st organizations striving Trotsky a prisoner In villa of Diego Riveia benefactor In Mexico They Intimated foreman ei nmeut workeis fault" prosecuting Attorney Conran who conducted the questioning said: rom the evidence given by the wit nesses: the jury returned the only verdict that could have been reached 'Ihere will be no further Investigation Dr mto the matter' 33 1 2 Eggs sts local 21 3 4 local cccipts Everybody Reads THE REGISTER AND BEE More than three hundred Baptist from Pittsylvania county will essen ble tomorrow at Moffett Baptist session i More braced of the section will be lav delegations Rev Wallis pastor of ih? los Jof the accusations brought against linn less enuren meeting of parted and speakers are delegates ill for the most part be housed in the homes of Danville Bap Motor Corporation Leaders Consent to Continue Dis cussions to End Walkout After Indicating They See No Use in urther Confer ences Divergent Opinions Unshaken as Both Sides Re main irm Another Meet ing Is Called for Tonight Testimony In 'Tub' Murder Ls night's meeting which th governor had sa'i would brief lasted six hours were Indications that the might result In a uvation timpoiarily of the cousulta The' situation neral Motors' Andrew Dishman Jas owlkes Mrs Dail Mi and Mrs Ci Alderson Sutherlin Va ANK KEIH I I'D KITES WASHINGTON eb l4d eis of loli'ida's citrus industry eked railroad representatives today toi a Buy ond Sell Through THE CLASSIIED SECTION Borrowed Parrot Upsets Show By Outburst Of Profanity only citizen of the United to see the tnuni0ini entry iiwiv named Norton who had today In federal disuict court to a charge of contempt of the llonw His trial whs set for eb 23 The charge whs placed against the old age iK'iision organization head be i so per cent reduction In grnpetrutt ('it 1 I U' )v 1 1 I I 4 1 I 1 it I i Vinin lie tvTIAt'tt GUI 111 (I Jl'HIM' fN ii a ol zl 4 A I 2 'Arthur Cassell of Draper that the Danville seasonal rec 1 'told the police that they picked him ord by the end of up at a tilling station near the Caro (the end of the Ilina line and gave him a ride to Mar itinsville where he went to get a hair cut I rejiurted today that a yesterday Detained with him for unusual interest is ex questioning were Ruth Elaine Wii thai several well known lersham of Leaksville and James to be heard The vdTirg Work raming Expendi tures for 1937 38 The finance committee of the School Board has started already framing the budget for the year 1937 38 which is due to be adopted by April 1st and providing for the administration of the schools next year Superintendent of Schools Johnson said this morning that it has not progressed sufficiently to even in dicate what measure ot increase will be necessary to run the schools It Is learned other quarters how ever that every effort will be made to work out a budget prov idmg more adequately for teacher strength than is now the ease The budget probably will be ready for adoption at the March meeting The board will meet on Thursday in monthly session for the presenta tion ot routine reports One matter of importance to be raised will be the high school survey and realization of the necessity ot doing something to meet the over crowded conditions In the budding into which at least 100 new hoot children have come smec tile end of the first semester One suggestion made is that port able buildings should be secured to house the shop and manual training divisions releasing the rooms they now occupy for the more academic studies Mr Johnson also may have some thing to Siay regarding the platoon system in the light of a full semester's operation doors or with hun dreds of thousands of tobacco baskets passing down stream The actual amount of damaged leaf is not jet known The books of many of the plants are under water Some estimates of the volume of tobacco ruined or damaged by the flood this Including stocks in storage in plants and in the farmers' barns runs as high (leasp turn to page 6 column Pounds vs Price lAverage Splits Trade Opinion Tobacco sales here to take a tmsville Iot Puny Iden tified However Arrested as he left a Martinsville barber shop Lloyd Rorer aged 25 years of Spray was brought toi Danville yesterday evening and was I partially identified as the man seen (drilling the safe of the Reynolds Auto i Service Company on West Mam street Hast December 15 Inter last night he was taken to (Rocky where he is wanted for (blowing sates and where the police claim his finger prints tally with those found on the iron receptacles Rorer is the same man who was ac i quitted a year ago in the federal court in the territory which Is one (here of breaking into a safe at Muse oldest Baptist bodies lu thisiville Police also want to question of the country and all oi them him at Wentworth and Gas represented by ministerial and tonla Rorer has entered a blanket denial Cincinnati told Senate invest igators today he had an in the isher body plant at Norwood Ohio until January 13 to report un union ami "radical activities Brady testified before the La ol 0 (Much of if Is Washed Out and Requires Three Trips Through Driers (laws unconstitutional justices' terms were these suggestions Most of them came who considered too i Roosevelt's proposal to add six Su preme Court justices unless members i over 70 retire Senators and representatives said most of their mail and telegrams op posed this recommendation Little opposition was expressed bowev even among Republicans to the priAi dent's suggestions for speeding lower court procedure Mr Roosevelt's program came today at a closed meeting i cf House judiciary committee compos A I 1 a a T2V to a zs rxnr tn) Ol uiwina iuuiu lutuivviv 'declined to commit themvlves in ad i vance I Otlmin Srmnrr ih Tex Said Ofthe committee would gaGi' around 'n oblong mahogany ta'oie io gr tne Hull program our study" The six Republicans mlttee were ready Kansas ranking minority mber to iisht the program as rn attempt of the chief executive to the Su Townsend Enters d1aa ru trial jl 1UI Ul IIIIIUI VIII Who I WASHINGTON i 9' (Ry The Vsaoeiatcrf Press) ascism's offensive tn Spain mired for more than three months marched across two fronts and seem I mgly took two long strides toward the domination of Spain ascists said it was the beginning of the end No sooner had a scarcely resisted seaboard army seized complete control of Malaga second seaport of the land than from the announcement road had been of Madrid That severed plies for Madrid and stopped direct communication between the besieged capital and Valencia war time seat of Socialist government Again it ad vanced the slow and difficult ascist encirclement of Madrid Capture of Malaga Is of considerable strategic importance It is of even i greater importance for moral on the troops of ascist Dictator ran co on the men who are defending th Socialist government against him on the world powers who have helped or hinderexf him ranco in his role of saving Spain from "Boshevism and anarchy" had had no important victory since he lifted the 73 day siege of the Alzazar I in the autumn He needed one He i has not been able to take Madrid through three months of trying A brand new military phase is open i ed by seizure of Malaga which lies on the Mediterranean 65 miles east of i Gibraltar With a new seaport from which to blockade and harrass his foes with an exultant powerful army ranco is expected to drive his south ern troops northeastward up the Med I iterranean shoreline against Almeria 104 miles away Cartagena Murcia and Alicante i Then he will be In position for a I twin assault: I plants Sales have started again in the Lex ington area and other markets dis rupted by the floods are trying to get going thorugh the dark belt The iHurn't Ca 25 vi ar old bv I Mrs Cam str incit'd that body was found In the watcr fliR xi 1(1 bathtub of her Jackson Heights A 1UIKI UIIU Has Now Passed Dr Howard Neal assistant nicd Am TOA 1I 1 leal examiner who performed the xu jOsrU on lhe slain woman's bodv was: rotmniitf1? to sene 1 0(1 durlif tlu' meeting 2 001 Al 1 1 45 o'clock tomorrow morning IQ0fDr Richardson of the state 1 00 1 "Saloon la'iigue will speak on the 2 00 'he relation of a Christian 2 25 It Strong drink It Is expected before 1 00 OU 1 00 opinion In the trade pounds sold in the le age price tween now and the end of the week the lower will be the average tor all that is left is scrap selling for from 12 to 15 cents a pound daily cutting into the seasonal average With sales of less than 200000 pounds here yesterday it remains for Danville pounds if the Wilson seasonal record is to be overtaken The sale today was smaller than yesterday CAIRO Ill eb Hundreds of women and children appeared: In Cairo today although Mayor Bode's edict forbidding ther to the city until all flood danger passed remained in force Olficlals estimated 1500 had remaned in their homes despite order to evacuate There was no fort to remove them but deputy iffs continued to patrol highway's to prevent the return of approximately 5000 safe feet river fall at an increasing rate Ior the next few days He predicted a stige of near 57 feet by Wednesday morning The meeting tomorrow will open at ten o'clock with a worship service aft er Which Dr Garnett city Hf'rtitK Cil t'v IV Cltf XV 1 (f i Vva jjiv'iMtiit HIT i v'li iuu wiu uviiver hi 2 io! sSlon provide time 1 report bv juvu 4 00 1 nd 111 temperance end the 40 appointmeiil of 0 Students Defy Communists Seeking to Prevent Public Appearance With Threats of orce Made MEXICO CITY Vb (4t 1 sla went into seclusion awaiting the SPY PLACED TRY ANEW TO BREAK STRIKE DEADLOCK 0 4rXX 'X Or toAto toi 1 A A the Many of them lie I bands sous and insurgent army oilier lined the side walks and saluted the patridutg as cists With their cry "Arriba Espana Up tipaiu! Even the vanquished Socialist) joined tn the celebration seeking to merge their identity with the cele brating populace to avoid capture The States was a Gaiety Replaces Terror In Malaga As City Celebrates ighting Between Trotzky's riends and oes Threatens Approximately 157 vehicles are mov ing through the new underpass at Westhampton every hour according to a traffic count made by the city en gineer's office About 16 pedestrians use the safety crossing every hour the check further showed The check was made a few days ago om 7 a to 5 a ten hour stretch which showed that 1579 vehicles used the underpass during that period and 165 pedestrians At least fifty schoolchildren were noted to go through the underpass obviating the necessity of crossing the trunk line of the Southern Railway The traffic check revealed the fol lowing figures: Passenger cars 1 095 Light trucks 184 Heavy trucks 300 165 School Board Budget Is in Process Now rs to enter into the end of the a fairly weighty that the title fori season is worth i to the market than a good aver The more leaf si'ld be NEW MADRID Mo eb The investigation of the New: Madrid barge disaster was declared closed to day but there was no halt in the search for the bodies of six levee workers believed to have drowned in the spillway January 30 "As far as I am concerned the case is now Coroner A Richards said alter a Jury returned a verdict yesterday clung negli gence' of the workers and "ineffi ciency" of tlnx in charge The jury heard testimony of survivors of the tragedy and the operator of the tow boat The verdict dealt specifically with the death of I James Rutfin Wardell Mo but officials said it ap plied also to the other 23 victims whose bodies "have been recovered 'll don't see how we could have reached any other verdict" said Steel New Madrid county surveyor of Hie Jmy "Both the gov official on the Job and the were st some Three schools and four Sundav school or church organizations are represented in today's flood suffcreis' fund which continues to move for ward and which has reached a total of 759O The following add itionil donations arc acknowledged: Ikxlnett Ml Tailor Baptist 8 Cook Jeffi ison Ave Christian Cliurx Intermediate Department Mosley Mt uioual Church orest HI1 School Chickasaw Tribe No 67 airview Church 4th Grade Broswell school (Mrs Georgia Lay field CHICAGO eb 9 Butter Mrs A Name 8(32 tdeady: ciearnei sjx cias (93 Mis Chapman iM'orvi 3i 3 4w34 1 4 extra fUl 33 Mrs Arthur kCS 1 4: extra firsts i90 91) 33 ilsuiR (88 89) 31 2j 32 2 4: staiiriHld 90 West End rSehooT '(eniralized xailot sl 7965 steady extra cars 22 1 4: iresh graded fir hour for his two telephone aml loud speaker one a 40 talk in English the other a 15 min ute Russian speech tonight at 10 in (E T) There were no IndicaU'iis Com munists planned to keen Tiotzky from delivering bls long distance ad dresses but It was understood police guards posted about the Riveras' blue walled villa In suburban Coyoa cun would be reenforced as a pre caution The contents of Ills two speeches were nominal secrets but i was gen erally known the bitter enemy ot Joseph' Stalin would lash out again at hat he has called the "Moscow fniine up" Members of Ills houreliold said he considers the spce li lus great lest effort to combat the recent I and eonresslons of 17 plotters named )ln He has connivance Irlbuted to capitalism to Russia or nny "Indh nl I Ual terrui'lsiu'' He Ims vol'ni'ecred to take his case nnglllst Stalin before any (Please turn to page 6 column 5) 1 i Claim Barge Disaster Due To Negligence his Under cover nirent was operating a a member of the United Automo bile Workers now conducting a strike in isher body and other General Motors Cotporatlon plants The Pinkerton official related he had urged another spy working as nightwatchman In the Cincinnati flee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks to take contidential data that union's files "When you tell someone to secret material from Somebody's whht do you call asked Senator Thoma ID Utahi "Tlin' would be unet liical or a sharp practice Bradv answered "As a matter of fact you: were guilty as an accessory: to petty larceny weren't you? demanded Chairman Ia ollette (Pro Wis1 Bradv's answer was not audible Bradv testified plant informant was red Webber I who had beep in Pinkerton agency warehouses are taking a heavy loss inance Committee Starts Many of them were caught with to bacco on the floors the flood tide bursting open warehouse causing walls to cave in firms and corporations with or storage houses in the In section and the salvage work done at cost as a gesture of I good will Some of the tobacco is so wet that It takes three trips through the driers before it: is fit for the hogshead and when it comes through it has a wash 1 ed out appearance How much of the tobacco will be brought here Is not known Generally i speaking the Hood zxme companies will utilize facilities as near as posst to their own plants because the water soaked hogsheads weigh three I nr to list ns 1 i til car a firtn jAil LKAUilK fcjhI were tin nlght was This Danville hud a touch of con equinoctial weather heavy downpours good warm rain thunder and lightning which auordinv to the old adage time means that "winter Is broken" eon i opt rations In General Motors plants immodiat' iy It the corporation would accept the un lot's demand for bargaining agency plants Notwithstanding opinions expressed ot the opposing sides Gov Murphy that yHa mtHre lowr together iw than at any Jury Completed for Trilli time The governor announced tbev would icfcnvene at 8 (E T) to biixxi xt Ircd hammer tlirowiij incinerator chute in the hull I i of tlie apartment building led to io'r said uig the jurors Green's sked talesmen ejM eifti ally they had relatives In the had Idling against grots port that tobacco plants thirty riftys ahead of time a vciy early crop Yesterday temperatures usually elevated and last The corjioratlon aAsuied Gov Mur hot to a point of stuffiness phy "of our readiness to respond to morning an early call by him to resume feienecs If in 111 Judgment any could result therefrom" lewis revealed for the fii tits a proposal had be tinder suirration to resume 1 1 tv 1 wzvt 4 I fr z1 z4 to Zz to uivttiGK iimiuiUR a NL'UllP I tion will be taken looking to turn to tin dry regime and a demnation of the present state system Tomorow afternoon Rev Turner pastor of the irst church of Greensboro make an address on mission "ill le heard again at etgh tomorrow iilght when he is ed to speak TltuiMiay morning will 'ee the as sociation getting down to business Ted Reece of Lvnchburg wilt pre sent a report on the Baptist hospital and Hough will present the cause of the Baptist orphans Salem Women's work and state will be discussed during the Ing Dr Solon Cousins pator of the Second Baptist church of Richmond and president Asociatlon Rev A Vance Bishop I College will pre 0 grass of the tropical parks shaded by palm trees from the brilliant sun shine Young girls' dresses made a colorful spectacle as they draped hcniselve with the insurgent Sand cold and whirled ting men (t arms' Doors upvind and Inhabitants tluz rs eiutcged jitu (quickly recovered from their weeks of i the first time In I tension during the Insurgent south cialist rule (em army victorious advance and ravage of anarchist bauds wtuch a 'ctst offidts said hit the city a horrible state" The entry of the insurgent CJluaiu I yesterday seemed the sign! lor a Joy ous ten day Malaga's population staged hvge demonstrations in the city1 1 nd the suburbs to greet the army which I (xcupied the lust Important govem ment seaport on the southern coast rMlrc Ynn tlx txsrtx ItlsLii tYvLc 1 vl a 1 U'llhrtitf ezreire I 1 4 I 1 vt 4 six a VI a ax vuiuij iuivum OlOKAll VU VI I A Atcfl I Ini mint tonal Impartial lnbor board 1 ng on year nnd lehmed Mitpplnn wuon to help solve an over Socialist defenders 'Oi Inquiry 'to return anrcotime his tcstimonj production crials JJ Tne insurgent soldiery layon the ascists Take New Strides In Conquest Drive In Trading Area Hhe Parley ip I.