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WXATHER: Virginia ant North aondy Probably Bain Tonight and Tuesday Not Mneh Change In Temperature tt In Trading Area DANVILLE VA MONDAY ATERNOON EBRUARY 17 1936 (HOME EDITION) PRICE: THREE CENTS TVA DECISION AVORS GOVERNMENT HINT BREAK IN BRUNO CASE order state DOOR HANDLE LATE NEWS SPEARS MAN BULLETINS USINGKNIE ights for Baby City to Start War on All I) of Motor Accidents lived to discuss to lie for he floor of from a a point tour on three btewat a toda by Was home of to a Both been in eloc the day previous will and will state' state once very that who reg As I eb 17 bill was planned sugar and a remained in store Ker nels were purse The WRITER: ALBI QI RQl'E were ktll a freight ather 96 Expects Another Heir During May Mattle of Burlington Mrs forwarded organizations Six Killed in Elections in Which Leftists Score Victories Government Takes Precau tionary Measures in ace of Rumors That of Might Be Instituted Cabinet Called Into Session woman had ripped up her home for fuel Hatfield is 16 miles road But farmfolk bent the spirit of pioneers to the emergency as reports of privation hunger and need for medical aid reached the outsde Men with three tennis of horses burrowed through the heavy snow drifts yes terday to send a doctor to Charles Willet critically ill on hl nearby farm Ben Gitcly's 30 head of cattie of cold and hunger George Belden said hr would lose 100 head unless Nona was in eight OKLAHOMA CITY eb (J) Zoo keeper Leo Blondin went down io san Antonio Tea for two ostrliiie He cuiue back with unut and this story about un ostrich that hid Its head: wasn't any Mnl tn tM truck "One of them managed to UM her head through a small hula in the fluor I heard a twitter whirl! mounted to tt squawk "By the time I got arnnmt to IM hat of Ilia truck there Ml only unoi rich "Jesus never never held meeting He preached and oh how He preach ed but when He turned to the build ing of His church He did it by in dividual contact" said Dr: A Earl Kernahan of Washington in an ad dress yesterday afternoon at Mount Vernon Methodist church when the visitation evangelism effort to be conducted in Danville for the next ten days under his direction was of flclallv launched Dr Kernahan spoke before a crowd that almost filled the church audi torium of people from the fifteen churches that will participate In the effort speaking first primarily to those who will take part In the visi tation work during the last four days: of the effort and then to the work ers who will take part In the religious survey of the city beginning today Dr Kernahan spoke about a dozen times yesterday in various churches and Sunday schools Dr Kernahan who has been in the ministry for a good many years re lated his own axpcricncesrfrst a an Dr Gordon Mordoff (top) of Chicago holds the three year old boy who he claims Is his son A Chicago court is deciding ease of Miss Margaret Mann (bottom) who alleges that the boy is hers and that she left the child with the doctor In answer to an advertise ment that he and his wife now dead would board an infant WASHINGTON abridged neutrality Democratic leaders with a minimum of debate APPROVE PROBE RENS1ON PLANS eb 17 (AT A resolution for a congressional in vestigation of the Townsend and other old age pension movements was approved today by the House Rules committee advocate of mass evangelism and then his gradual realization that if people were to be won to Christianity in large numbers it must be done large ly by church members themselves rather than by the ministry "1 have always felt" said he "that the first essential of a call to the ministry should be the ability to win people to Christ and that has been the supreme passion of my life "I had not been preaching long before I began to realize there were a great many people could never be reached by the ular program of the church looked about I observed only one plan being used by the church at that time that of mass evangelism and I threw myself with a great deal of enthusiasm Into this method of work It was my custom to carry on several such meetings a year at least one in my own church and othcra tn churches of brother minis ter "I non rame to the conclusion (I'leae turn to page 2 Ch George Bendall Arrives at Lex ington for Surren der of Charles Smithey SCRAMBLE TO BI POWER SHARES NEW Y)RK leh 1 Hall Street stock ticker hummed with transactions of electric power shares at advancing prices today as soon as word reached the financial center that Chief Justice Hughes was reading the TVA decision Gains In the power shares ranged from 25 cents to S2 and blocks of 1000 to nearly 30000 shares changed hands in the stock exchange and the curb of in after the state called witnesses in an effort to show the defendant was familiar with firearms The ering eity council tonight for the purpose of organizing the sale of PWA bonds setting the amount to be issued and the date of taking the bids Usually the finance committee at tends to the detail but In view of the ize of the Issue and 'he Identi fication of the got eminent with the whole hydroelectric project the coun cil will order their sale and make the award The exccptatlon Is that the blds will be ordered for the last of this month providing sufficient time tor the city to advertise them In financial Journals Several enquiries have al ready been received In connection with the issue 11513000 More interest will be shown locally In the flotation of the bonds than any other Issue of recent years If even a small premium is offered it will mean a handsome sum for the general fund The belief prevail that the sound financial position of the city will at tract some good offers If a premium is not offered then the bonds may be offered to the government which guarantees the city against any loss in their sale Other matters which might come tip at a meeting held tonight would be a recommendation on 'the request for 93500 to finance a survey of the Danville school system Queer Story ALEXANDER PANTAGES Ol ND DEAD LOS ANGIIES eb (AT Alexander Pantage wealthy theater owner horseman and veteran of the Klondike gold days was found dead In bed at his home here today HIRAM MAXIM INVENTOR DIE LA JI A Colo eb 17 Hiram Perm Maxim of Hartford Internationally known inventor and mechanical engineer died in Mennonite hospital here today of a throat infection Everybody Reads DANVILLE PAPERS NEUTRALITY BILL TAKEN I Consideration of the begun by the Senate today shortly before to shove the measure through the House OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 14078 'associated press ueabed wir) Supreme Tribunal Ruling Is Major Victory or Ad ministration Holds TVA Can Dispose Of Sur plus Power Manufactured At Wilson Dam Opinion Declares ederal Disposition Of Power Question or Congress To Answer And Not Courts SLAYER GETS 99 YEARS eb 11 (AT Modesto Trujillo confessed slayer of Carl Taylor magazine writer pleaded guilty to second de gree murder today and was sentenced by Judge red Wilson to from 99 to 100 years in the state penitentiary ALARM AS EARS GROW REPORTED BY LEIBOWITZ Thomas Saul Engaged in ight Meets Death Pur suing Victim Buy and Sell Thru CLASSIIED SECTION Of The Register Bee BOTH SIDES REST IX KID CAXX CASE MINNEAPOLIS eb 17 Both side reMed today in the trial lsadore (Kidd Cann) Blumenfeld charged with first degree murder the machine gun slaying of Walter Liggett newspaper publisher DEATH ERDICT OR NEGROES SET ASIDE WASHINGTON eb 17 47 Death 'enteiiie Imposed Mississippi negroes upon their conviction of laving Raymond white plainer in Kemper county MD ippi were set aside the supreme court brom Blood Poison uneral services for James Saun ders who died Sunday morning at 9:15 o'clock will be conducted Tues day afternoon at four from East Thomas Street Tabernacle by Rev Barber Mr Saunders had been sick In his home for the past two weeks death being attributed to blood olson He Is survived by his wife Mrs Ella Saunders three daughter Miss Mattie Saunders Mrs Mattie Shelton and Miss Bettie Saunders all of Danville He is also survived by the following sisters and brothers: Mr Mabie Simpson Mrs Alice Hat cher Saunders Saunders of New Brunswick RlIA TO WIIHDRAW CONSlLAflS TOKYO eb 17 A Japinee foreign office 'poke man aid tonight that Information from Hunting indicated Rllia soon would wifhriraw all her consulates except the consulate general at Narbin from Manchoukuo Personal Evangelism Defended by Dr Kernahan Opening irst Campaign Along New Lines Thomas Grady Satfl of Schoolfield was fatally injured late last night near Sethff store when while pur suing Martin King who police say he had already cut three times he crash ed into the side of a moving automo bile Th? sharp spear like handle on the door of the car which was driven by Douglas Ross penetrated Saul's abdo men and virtually ripped him open causing his death at Memorial hos pital this morning King slashed about the face the neck shoulder and the arm was also conveyed to the same hospital He appeared to be doing well today Ross surrendering to the School field authorities immediately after the sickening affair w'as quickly ex onerated by eyewitnesses The fact that Saul's body struck the side of the car showed that he had run into the car rather than the car running into him Dr A Wiseman who treated both of ths injured men last night performed his duties as coroner this morning and was checking the stories of witnesses all of which indicated that when King has recovered suf ficiently there will be a court hear ing I King had gone into a restaurant close to the side of the Greensboro road and when he did so Saul ia re I ported to have made an abusive re mark which caused King to strike him with his fist Saul is then said to have drawn a knife and to have wielded it effec lively King unarmed but already freely bleeding sought escape from further injury by fleeing from the scene and he dashed out of the door He saw the advancing car Just In time to stop short but Saul racing after him could not stop his momen tum and overshooting his victim crashed side of the car where the sharp door handle speared him and Inflicted a ghastly would before being torn from its socket Witnesses were horrified at the ap pearance of King badly slashed and his pursuer whom fate haa dealt with so mercilessly They were hastened to the hospital where Dr Wiseman quickly saw that irreparable damage had been done to Saul of the men are said to have employed in the cotton mill Saul was 21 years of age and with his family at 25 Harrison ave He was employed No 4 Weave room He is survived by his toother Mrs Millard Saul two brothers and four sisters Coy Saul and Buford Saul of Schoolfield: Mrs Beulah Hol loman of Schoolfield: Mrs Eanes Mamie Walker of Pelham and Miss Laddie Saul of Schoolfield uneral arrangements had not been completed early this afternoon Three Die in Train Wreck JORDAN Minn eb Three engine crew members ed and one injured when train on the Chicago St Paul Min neapolis and Omaha railroad crash ed into the rear of a stalled freight early today The dead were Albert Holly about 55 the engineer and two other train men not immediately identified Ray Ebert suffering two broken legs was taken to a Minneapolis hospital i IWTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO eb Butter: 9348 firm creamery specials (93 score) 37 43 4 extras (92) 36 3 4 extr a firsts (90 91) 36 1 491 2 firsts (88 89) 35(935 1 2 standards (90 centralized carlots) 36 1 2 Eggs: 1331 unsettled: extra firsts cars 321 2 local 32 fresh graded firsts car 32 local 31 1 2 current receipt 31 SEATTLE Wash eb Cburle uge glancing through hl wife's dairy found the name of a strange man Then another and another When lie got through the book he had an imposing lit of 10 stranger His wife Martha said the names were fiifitiou She wanted to break her husband of Jealousy amt "num him up" He sued divorce New Counsel Hurried to See Governor After i i of Hauptmann 0 TRENTON eb Bruno Richard Hauptmann persist ing in his denial of the Lindbergh baby kidnap slaying may be re sentenced today or tomorrow to die for the crime The convicted man underwent a long period of sharp questioning last night by Samuel Leibowitz New York attorney who recently was ad ded to Hauptmanns defense staff "We are making progress" Lei bowitz said as he left the conference in Hauptmanh's death cel! in the New Jersey state prison Leibowitz refused to explain what he meant by but It was learned afterward that Hauptmann had not changed his story After the prison conference Leibow itz hurried to he South Amboy home uf Gnvernnr Harold Hollman (whose 30 day reprieve of Haupt manns iirst oeatn sentence esyireu Saturday at midnight Subsequently the governor reiter ated that he would not grant the condemned man another reprieve un less Attorney General David Wilcntz agreed one was necessary With the first reprieve expired state attorneys planned to ask Jus tice Thomas Trenchant who 1 preslded at Hauptmann lemington trial to set new execution date This would fall sometime between March 23 and April 18 Gov Hoffman himself said in a brief statement after his three and a half hour talk with Leibowitz that the lawyer had subjected Hauptmann to "perhaps the hardest questioning" he has faced so far In his statement Issued through a press aide the governor said: my first talk with Mr Leibow itz I was impressed with the fact that in his two conferences with Bruno Richard Hauptmann one last ing hour and the other two and a half hours he placed the prison er under perhaps the hardest ques tioning he has been subjected to at any time In his efforts to determine whether he was a participant in the crime" The Rev John Matthiesen Trenton pastor and Hauptmann's spiritual adviser accompanied Lelbitz into Hauptmann's death cell Leibowitz reportedly told Haupt mann his only chance to escape the chair lay in telling the truth to which the condemned man replied that he had told it "You're worse as Wilcntz" Haupt mann told Leibowitz the defense at torney said after during their latest conference the defense attorney lat er related Leibowitz said he would see Haupt mann again sometime this week Jas Saunders Died on Sunday CONVINCING Wife's Scheme to Cure Hubby's Jealousy Brings Divorce Step Council Ready to Offer Big Bloc on the Open Market city auditor today was endeav to arrange a meeting of the ormer Bellevue School Prin cipal Died Early on Sunday Mis Kate lynn a resident Danville for many years passed after several Illness at her? residence 217 8th street Southwest' Washington after entering the 76th year of her age Miss lynn taught for many year in Belleview school North Danville of which she was principal at the time of her retirement Miss Kate as she was affectionately known by many of her pupils was appointed principal succeeding Prof Wheatley Miss lynn was born: at Marshall In auquier county Va Jan 13 1861 but came to Danville as a young gtrl She was the daughter of the late William Austin and Alice Juliet Davis lynn She was pre ceded in death by her sisters Mias Buenna lynn Mrs David Blount Mrs Ragland Danville and her brothers Austin lynn Jr and lynn She is survived by many nieces and nepnews Miss lynn wm a devout Christian being a member of the Calvary Methodist church transferring her' membership to the Marvin Church South of Washington upon her arrival in Washington Rev Mr Burniss the pastor assisted by Rev Mr Owens former pastor of Marvin church will conduct the funeral services which will be held at her late Washington residence tomorrow at 8:15 and she be laid at rest with her mother father at Marshall Interment be at 10 a Wednesday A concerted effort to curtail deaths and human injuries through the ope ration of automobiles In the city was launched today when the three serv ice clubs the Lions Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs Joined hands in calling a meeting of the representatives all Danville civic organizations meet on riday night plan of campaign Today letters were the heads of all local asking them to name delegates to at tend the meeting to be held at 7:45 In the Danville Hotel These are signed'by Read chairman of the provisional public safety com mittee and Eldrtd isher secretary Major rank Evans statistician for iae industrial commission of Virginia has accepted an Invitation to come here and make an address on the night of the meeting when the ground work for campaign will be laid About three months ago the Dan ville Lions Club tendered its offices to the chief of police in doing any thing possible towards lowering the accident rate in Danville and the oth er two clubs Kiwanis and Rotary readily fell Into line Since then it was felt that to make the movement more formidable the three clubs should consolidate and launch an aggressive campaign in which would be enlisted the public generally Danville has a high accident rate Numerous injuries have been record ed since the first of the year and there has been a rise in the number of cases tn which police charge driv ers have hit a victim and immedi ately left the scene The proposed campaign would not only seek to Im press on the motorists tha urgent necessity of Implicit obedience to the traffic ordinance and the development of a gicatcr sense of responsibility but it would apply also to the pedes trian whose thoughtlessness often is the causa of his own death or in jury Numerous plans are being turned over In the minds of the leaders of the drive a broad and far reaching cam paign of education a demand for the recodification of the existing traffic laws and the elimination of those pro visions which have become archaic sharper penalties in cases of proven criminal negligence In tiie court the mustering in of unofficial observers willing to report flagrant traffic law violations to the police and to appear on the witness stand agalnst'otlrnd er the employment of Boy Scout to warn pedestrian of the danger of jay walkir' the driving home of the HATIELD Mo eb Snow trapped Hatfield's 200 maroon ed townspeople doled out dwindling food supplies today while rescuera battled to open an emergency road to the town before nightfall Aided by two snow plows voluh tcera had cleared a dirt road Impas same for a month to miles from town Only 10 pounds of dozen seek of flour Charley Jones' general Coal and kerosene were exhausted WPCklt MCA niri hltiMtHD and ahaf pnivi jir wiiiu trees were chopped tor firewood One food arrived DISORDERS MAR SPANISH ELECTION NEW eh Ninety six year old George Hughes expects another heir in May Gaskill McDaniel associate ed itor of the Kinston Morning aid said Hughes confided the to him here yesterday A son was bom to Hughes' who Is in her early twenties 11 months ago He was named rank lin Roosexelt Hughes The authenticated eae of the aged father was recent lv printed tn the Journal of the American Medi cal Association PLAN CONERENCE NEW YORK eb Plans for the annual conference of the Jjtnlor Leagues of America to be held In Richmond Va in May were being made today at a Junior League na tional board meeting Three Service Clubs Take Initiative in Public Safety Campaign in View of Rise in Accident Rate Industrial Statistician to Appear at Meeting at Which Plans Will be ormulated realizaion of economic loss which may result from a moment carelessness Heads of Danville organizations to day are receiving copies of the follow ing letter: "We the representatives of the Ro tary Lions and Kiwanis clubs of Dan ville in joint assembly feeling the need of concerted action to stop the appalling loss of life limb and prop erty on our streets and highways deem it wise to invite the full cooperation of all active organizations and assem blies the state and local forces of law school authorities industrial and busi ness houses in this campaign against needless carelessness and waste "To this end we earnestly request that you appoint two delegates to meet with us at a general meeting of the committee to be held in the Dan ville Room Hotel Danville the night of riday ebruary 21 1936 at 7:45 where Major rank Evans statistician of the State Industrial Commission will address the commit tee and the general plan of the public safety campaign will be developed "It Is Important that we have the names of all representatives in ad vance Address all replies to Mr isher secretary Box 471 Danville Virginia "Yours for greater safety READ Chairman ISHER Sec "Public Safety Committee" Purse With Rings Are Stolen rom Office in Temple Mrs Roger Davis was the vic time of a thief Saturday evening who stole her pocketbook from her office in the Masonic Temple When Mr Davis sought her purse she found that it had been taken In it was small amount of money one white gold diamond ring and two other gold rings Police notified who later found the in the stairway of the temple rings had been stolen PASTOR ACCEPTS CALL BLACKSTONE Va eb 17 Tile Rev Parkinson of War renton has accepted a call to the pastorate of the irst Baptist church of Blackstone it was announced' here today He will move here with hl family "at once" members of the local con gregation said A (By PAI MALLON) (Copyright 1936 by Paul Mallon) Washington ab 17 political campaign may seem to some people to be hot enough al ready but apparently It is not Promises to stoke it up are cur rently being spread by expert pyro technicians on the forgotten but not gone Senate Lobby committee Chair man Black I permitting his pal toa ythat he ha secretly accumulated a storehouse full of gasoline cans (PIMM turn to EdilorlgJ Page) I Rescuers Strive To Open Road To Marooned Village Residents Dole Out Dwindling Supplies as Workers Battle to Reach Them BY JAMES DOUTHAT (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON eb (A The govern ment won a major victory in the supreme court today when the nine justices held the TVA could dispose of surplus power manufactured at Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals Chief Justice Hughes handed down the detailed ruling before a crowd of prominent lawyers and mem bers nf congress at one Only power from Wilson Dam had heen sold bv the TVA The justices held that federal disposition of power was a question for congress to answer not the courts The court upheld the right of the government to dis pose of all surplus power made at dams intended to pro mote navigation or aid national defense The Kovrrnment owned the prop Orty said Hughes nd there was I nothing tn the constitution to limit gl the government's disposition of the power The general purpose of TVA It wax decided present no "justiciable ques tion:" "The Tennessee river is navizablstream" he continued Via its present condition the river 1 not adequate for commercial navi gation" The only thing Involved in the present eaae'h esaid was validity of contract for sale of transmission Hue by the Alabama Power Company to TVaL Reading deliberately before a dis tinguished audience the chief justice dismissed at the start the contention that those suing had no right to doo because they were preferred stock holders of the Alabama Company Justice Brandeis had by implication questioned their right "A court of equity should nos shut Its door against such actions" he as serted The general purposes of the TVA he proceeded do not provide "a justlci (Ileae turn to page 8 column To Sell PWA HAS RIGHT TO SELL POWER COURT HOLDS BV ILEXtNDER 1 HL (Asstxiated Press oreign Staff) MADRID eb 17 (AT A "state of alarm" to last egnt day was declared throughout Spain today fol lowing the deaths of six persona la yesterday's general election" The state of alarm which require 1 that police authorities be constantly on the alert but does not suspend civil processes was proclaimed tn the face of rumors that a "state war" might be instituted Authorities feared that disorders might result from large Leftist galas in the election A cabinet session was called The ministers authorized the of alarm and indicated that a of war could be decreed at should necessity arise 1 President Zamoras family transferred from the Zamora to the presidential palace where there were more facilities for defense The government authorized the pubheaton and broadcasting of a manifesto by the Socialist and Left Republicans in which they claimed victory and called on their party members to maintain order and tranquility The failure of the government to giyc4 out reports on the election results led to a belief that leftists had proved stronger thap had hitherto been admitted in their campaign against the Center Righist coalition for seats in the new parliament Although six were killed tion disputes officials said passed more quietly than Spanish election days The latest semi official returns in dicated a sharp swing to the left cutting into the Rightist strength (Please turn to page 8 column S) Miss lynn Posses Away At Washington Bonds Before Month's End Commonwealth' Attorney Gevrge Bendall left here at 11:30 this morning for Lexington Cln order to argue for (he state of Virginia for' the surrender by the state of North Carolina of Charles Smithey who I alleged to have removed from Vir ginia into North Carolina furniture sold to Smithey allegedly In violation of the sales contract Smithey was arrested in Reidsville and when Officers Belton and ields went to take him into custodv they found that he had retained counsel ho challenged the legality of the extradition papers Issued by Governor Peery and honored by Gov ernor Ehringhau of North Carolina The contest led to the courts In the form of a writ of habeas corpus and it is being argued at Lexington this afternoon before Judge Rousseau Smithey claims to have the law with him and that he guiltless of violating his contract by remov ing the goods Mr Bendall will offer the contract in evidence and will seek to show that It was explicitly agreed that the merchandise could not be removed until after payment for them had been completed Requisition Is Challenged By Carolinian i orms Civic Leaders Meet riday If II SIL io Yiyafc If II 35A SL A Io 1 Yiyafc.