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I THE BEE DANVILLE VA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 2 SIX MARTINSVILLE DAILY NEWS Telephone Number 51M New Bnrean Chief Tassel Bldg Martinsville Va Nov 1937 (Coniinurrt from para one) Packer at 6:37 thia (Continued from page one) ha been on the speeches commander red both report of the group chairmen transacted be Rou of at to slow up the com and be last will direct the administrative to study needs of marketing of superior and for and the to acquire over Mrs candl broad market continued to be active with a brisk demand for all Little Conference the past week was returned been the I Newton Benjamin delegates comeback to be home street Kuy Wednesday o'clock at Hooker on NO was that at was the Average 82792 2380 2365 2712 2911 fa rm 8387 the im oppositlon in the local only one office opposing Townes The sub committee of the Greater Danville committee which has been working for some time In the prepara tion of data on Danville's recreation al needs will on Thursday morning at ten o'clock make a tour of all of recreational facilities On Thursday night at 7:45 o'clock the subcommittee will meet at the Chamber of Commerce to hear from a group of tfftccn men and women who arc close to the recreation system of the city and from them some Ideas Howard officers afternoon still neat The of the re fund Mis Kate Barrow told a temper ance atony Songs kntersperaed Wte program A refreshment course wa served by Miss Barrow by Judge Haden for vlo the Injunction those facing penitentiary tn connection with the dls the plant last July arc Ray by Highland county suspended sentences if they accept Jail sentences on con charges other former employes of the Literary Club Meets Mrs fi Burch will entertain the members of th Literary Club Wednes day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at "The Breeze" $108000 Man He Stole Love Plans will be made for the Christ mas business A full attendance is desired Legion Meeting Held The monthly meeting of the Loyal Tmperanr Legion was held on Mon day afternoon at th Broad Street Christian church with tn attendance eighteen member Mias Mary Turn president presid ed over the bustneag period welcoming several new members Mia Nancy Bdwarde led the devo tional program Temperance articles were rd by king and his American wife arrive la the United States Lady Lindsay said today she did not know exactly when 'the duke and duchess traveling In a private un official capacity will reach the capital but they are expected to come direct ly here from New York November 11 after crossing on the Bremen The Lindsays themselves returned yesterday from a stay In England Wilson Is Named Red Cross Head The annual election of officers for the Henry County Red Cross was held on Monday evening at which time rank Wilson was re elected as chair man of the organization for the eusji Ing year our vice chairmen were named as follows: 1st Miss Elizabeth Tyree 2nd Bassett 3rd Saville 4th Miss Bessie Tuggle Secretary Miss Lydia Bryant Treasurer Bernard Craig The members voted to hold a special meeting on Monday November 8 tohear a report on the flood relief at Bas sett The annual Red Cross Roll call will begin on Armistice day and continue for one week the chairmen of the drive have been previously named The mem bers of the Business and Professional Women's Club are In charge of the lo cal drive the Ion to lieutenant RICHMOND Va Nov (IP) Robert Harper secretary of the Citizens Road League In commenting on the tax chart released by the state comptroller said the League wished to emphasize that no money for highway purposes came from the state's general fund The tax chart showed the state Virginian Asks Washington Charges Wife's Local Officer Is Assaulted in Seeking Arrest Lloyd Eanes local police officer chased a car driven by Perry Buckner of Willard late Monday eve ning down Church street and when he stopped the car Perry Buckner and Buckner resisteci arrest grabbed the cap and badge and made their getaway Officer Eanes shot at the tires of the car and state police officer chased the car and arrested the pair Perry Buckner is being held In the local Jail on charges of driving a car while under the influence of ardent spirits Buckner is being held on charges of assault and resisting an officer The affray occurred near the ayette street and Church street fill ing station the Newman car hit car in the center ofThe Booth car was the bank and then Booth was pin that in SENTENCE PICKETS TO TERMS IN JAIL received during the year on roads and received 2714 per cent of It income from motor 've hicle fuel and license taxcsl The difference was provided Har per pointed out by federal aid grants 'urgent warships off Valencia and the sinking of the British merchant man Jean Weems three days ago by an Insurgent bombing plane as she carried a food cargo from Marseille toward Barcelona apparently marked inauguration of a more stringent blockade It seemed inevitable that this would further involve British and rench shipping British oreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced the opening of con versations between Britain and rance on means of strengthening provisions of the Nyon' anti piracy agreement against aircraft attacks on shipping Eden did this yesterday in a re sounding speech on British policy in the House of Commons on the eve of his departure to Brussels for the con ference on the Chinese Japanese war That announcement with the dis patching of the battle cruiser Hood to Barcelona to investigate the attack on the Jean Weems caused observers to wonder if Britain would carry this strong new front into the Spanish non intervention sub committee meeting this afternoon Eden left to the Earl of Plymouth chairman of the full non intervention committee the task of loosening the deadlock over the British formula for withdrawal of foreign troops from Spain' Pair Convicted of Violating In junction in Covington Strike Sweeping victory was claimed by tha opposing for State Senator Les ter Clee pastor of a Newark Preshy terlan church who won the Republican primary battle and United St tea Sen ator A Harry Moore Democrat twice elected governor Clee loured the state with the charge that Moore va the puppet of the most "ruthless and political ma chine since the Tweed ring was shat tered tn New York Democratic vic tory Clee said would complete control by Mavor rank Hague of Jersey City I stale Democratic leader and retard for years "got ernmrnt by the people" 1 Citing a 25 year record of aid to the unfortunate Moore told citizens of all 1 21 counties: "You are my people I could not be anything but yor repre i Complicating the problem of prog I nnsticators were the new deal labor taxes and other Issues James Mur ray Independent sought Democratic I votes on the ground Moore opposed 1 President Roosevelt Moore Mid he usually supported Roosevelt The Ptste ederation of Labor backed Moore but Clee expected votes of the Committee for Industrial Organization I British Envoy Will Entertain Duke Duchess WASHINGTON Nov Sir Ronald Lindsay hl BrltUnlC personal ambassador to tha United States will be the first resentatlve of Britain' royal family to entertain Edward England's abdi cated monarch The British ambassador and Lady Lindsay announced today that tha Duke and Duchess of Windsor will i Auxiliary Meets I Th member of thWomin'i Aux Town opics NUMBER 3 LIGHT VOTE BEING CAST IN VIRGINIA (Continued from pare one) Benny rey Ex Baseball Pitcher Dead WASHINGTON Nov John Barber Daingerfield member of a Virginia family has filed suit charg ing Pendleton Turner Washington socialite with alienation of Mrs Daingerfield's affections Daingerfield asked 108000 dam ages He accused Mrs Daingerfield to bar him from had given her filed suit tor a September 29 Daingerfield said in his petition he and Mrs Daingerfield lived hap pily and contentedly until early in 1926 when Turner began "an improper OTHER MARKETS Official poundages and reported yesterday included: Pounds Danville 1388938 Rocky Mount 63000 Brookneal 59384 Clarksville 72246 Petersburg 170304 Launch Movement To Give Japan BRUSSELS Belgium Nov A movement wa under way today to give Japan another chance to partici pate in the Brussels conference on th Chinese Japanese conflict Several delegation Indicated they favor sending another invitation to Tokyo after the conference atari? to morrow (Japan rejected the original invita tion on the ground that the confer ence was inspired by the League of Nation which already had condemned Japanese military action in China) 77ie idea behind renewing the In vitation was that a frank free ex change of views looking toward resto ration of peace in the Orient could be had only with Japanese participation NUMBER 1 TODAY'S RESULTS MAY PROVIDE '40 CAMPAIGN TREND Claim Italy Planning To JoinAlliance I nr sun commiiin is uniipuru Martin Jr chairman Mrs Death Brings Out New List Of Aspirants New Names Written on Nor folk Ballot ollowing Demise of Candidate Pranksters Are Put to Work SARASOTA la Nov ha tan Converting Works near I city having come from Danville I year' ago to make his home tn I city He is survived by his wife several children uneral services will be held Wednesday from hl former home near Danville his remains were tak en to the McKee uneral home To Entertani Mrs Barbour and Mrs Mal colm MacBryde Jr have issued Invitations to a bridge party held Thursday afternoon at the of Mrs MacBryde on Church honoring Miss Lyoie Hopkins kcndall who marriage will be solemniz ed this week T' Marshall ha I from Suffolk where she hu guest of relatives i Xrc Whitnr whn I spending several weeks In Lenoir hag returned to ner nome Church street Mrs Willie Green I a patient at Schackelford hospital A ord who I patient at Jefferson hospital in Roanoke 1 proving Miss Elizabeth Tyree ig attending a regional meeting of the Red Cron Roll rail workers being held in Lynchburg today spent 3455 per cent of all revenues Twenty high school students here received during the 1936 37 fiscal 'will remember this year's Hallowe'en IM Whitener Jr president prestd Ing I A I was heard and other routine busi 1 ness GOP Clergyman Oppes Moore InN Voting Turner of Inducing to leave him and the home here he Mrs Daingerfield limited divorce on least for a couple of weeks Myor A Smith hart them before him yesterday for belting pass ing automobiles with oranges and sandbag Hallowe'en night Captures Still Officers Rodgers Roach and members ABCwere successful on Monday in capturing a 450 gallon the Shumate school house fleers found nine boxes of 300 gallon capacity and 400 gallons of mash arrests were made as the still Just beginning to be run In Local Voters Go to the Polls Local citizens were going to polls today to vote in the el determine the governor governor and attorney general for the state of Virginia and to elect a commissioner of revenue a city treas urer city sergeant' and Justices of the peace There election Barker present Approximately 1400 eligible for voting today expected that due to tests there wilt be a of votes cast The polls opened morning and will close at 5:10 I Woman's Club to Meet The members of the Woman' Club will be entertained Wednesday after noon by Mrs Hodges at her home on tailing avenue Despondent Because Arm Had Gone Bad ormer Major Leaguer Ends Life JACKSON Mich Nov Benny rey former major league pitcher whose throwing arm failed him last Spring was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning late yesterday afternoon He was 31 Dr Jason Meads coroner said it was a suicide reys body was found in his automobile the windows closed and the exhaust connected with the Interior of the rar by piping Relatives said he was fearful that arm never would be good enough again for a big league baseball as signment and that he had spent sev eral despondent months since his re lease by the Cincinnati Reds After making last Spring's train i ing trip with the Reds he was ordered Ito report to the Nashville club in the Southern Association but he express ed dislike for a minor league post and soon returned to his home In Jackson In 1929 he had won 18 games for Nashville rey's best year tn the major was 1936 when he won 10 for Cincinnati He started with Toledo in the Ameri can Association In 1924 The St Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox also controlled his services for brief periods Committee Is Gathering Data On Recreation candidate against the Essex County Ecaublican organization Massachusetts watched a "come atiempt bj foimer Governor a iacs Ml Curley who was running IK mayor of Boston in a non parti san c'ection against five rivals The C'lly Republican in the rare was Mal colm Nichols also a former mayor Three special longressional elec to fill vacancies in the House were bring held in New York and Cre in' Virginia Interest centered on the New York City race by Re publican' Bruce Barton advertising rirruii'c against Stanley Osser man Democrat and George American Labor Party Another New York contest ti'ttcd widespread attention battle for Manhattan district attorney between Tammany's Harold Hastings and Special Rackets Prosecutor 7 nomas Dewey Virginia's gubernatorial contest sicuird little interest men within tl stair Ob'crvers predicted James H' Price D' moriei would defeat Terril Royall Republican Voting Climaxes Heated Campaign In New York City averages Daingerfield The husband charged 1 Washington Cape May Kes I wick Va lorida and in "various other Turner carried on a secret correspondence with Mrs Daingerfield "cajoled and flattered her" and had various clandestine automobile rides meals and meetings with Mrs were Emmett 'Magee well known Dan ville tobacco man suffered a p'alnr fully lacerated hand 'last night while his automobile was being' backed ouj frofn his garage at his home on West (Main street i between the bumper of the car and the 'gate NOROLK Va Nov Ths sudden death yesterday of City Ser geant Charles rancis unopposed candidate for re election brought to day a scramble for ths office and gave unexpected interest to the gen eral election in Norfolk ive candidates whose name are being written on ths ballots at the polls have offered for the office of city sergeant One of them Bernard King who was Mr rancis' chief deputy meanwhile is iervlng out the unexpired term of this former chief having been appointed to that office yesterday by Judge Spindle Jr of Corporation Court Another of the candidates Lee Lawler fought successfully against Mr rancis for the Democratic nomi nation for city sergeant in the Au gust primary as the standard bearer of the Citizens Democratic League Ralston secretary and treas urer of the Retail Merchants Associa tion who was an unsuccessful candi date against Mr rancis when the latter was nominated first In 1929 Is a candidate now Alex Bell in surance man American Legion leader and member of the City Democratic Executive Committee Is another can didate While Carey Velllnes ad vertising man who ran for the House rv i i vw a August Is the fifth entry Siccawei Catholic mission center on the southwestern outskirts of the rench concession rench authori ties prepared defense positions cir cling the mission and set up anti aircraft guns A Japanese naval officer described as closed a Soochow creek Incident which yesterday produced an Ameri can protest and a Japanese apology The officer said Japanese blue jack ets sent back to the American pro tected zone a junk seized on the In ternational settlement side of the stream The Japanese bombardment was de signed to pulverize Chinese defenses extending west from the International settlement south of Soochow creek Despite Chinese assertions to the contrary foreign observers reported that Japanese on the southern'bank of the stream had expanded their front for approximately a mile on each side of Rubicon Village: St John's University campus a wooded tongue formed by a north ward loop of the creek was turned into a no man's land Japanese shells from the north and Chinese shells from the south passed each other over the area All American faculty members pre viously had" evacuated the crowded section surrounding the University grounds At Siccawei mission 120 foreign priest of ten nationalities including ten Americans and a number of rench nuns carried on Siccawei ob servatory and mission activities and cared for 8000 refugees i The American priests st the mis sion were John Lipman John O'arrell Ralph Deward Gerald Pope and Dante Clifford all of San ran cisco Albert and Wilfred Les age of Los Angeles Richard Meacher of Portland Ore James Kearney of Spokane Wash and rancis leau Yakima Wash Skating Rink Is Added Attraction At Luna Gardens 0 Danville is to have an Indoor roller skating rink effective next Saturday Vidal who operates Luna Lake during the Summer and who recently opened the old Dan City Silk mill on North Main street as Luna Gardens has secured two trained assistants who will operate the skating rink which is to be equipped with fibre roller ball bearing skates Grot will have charge of this feature which will be open every afternoon night COVINGTON NOV (AT Glenn Perkins and Russell Shiflett war in Jail today to serve sentences of eight and one months respectively on contempt of court conviction for violation of picketing injunction durlg the recent strike at the Indu I be dinner guests at the embassy Nov trial Rayon Corporation here ember 12 the day after the former a I ii? They were lodged tn the Aliecnany county Jail after surrendering to Sheriff A Caldwell Perkins accepted the Jail sentence for contempt In lieu of a four year penitentiary sentence imposed by a Highland County Jury In Alleghany circuit court on a charge of assault and battery while a member of a mob Shiflett was not involved in the charge of assault and battery while a member of a mob Judge Benjamin Hsden of the Al leghany court offered Perkins and others by Highland county Juries would tempt Ten local rayon plant have been held in contempt latlon of Among sentences order at Beatty three years and Charlie Mun dy two year PENSION LEADER DEAD ROCHESTER Nc NOV Arrangements were being made today for the funeral of rank McWad 61 one time leader In the Townsend old age revolving pension movement I who died at his homo here yester day McWade was once a strong support er of Dr: rancis Townsend found er of the movement and later a co worker with the Rev Clinton Wundcr (ormer Rochester minister in promote Ing the plan Claims General und Not Used or Va Roads Claude Carter prominent resi dent of Red House near 'Brookneal died suddenly from a heart attack early yesterday afternoon He was 1 a widely known farmer and merchant being in bls store at the time he i wag stricken' i Mr Carter was the son of the late Carter an Mlttl A Carter Jie was half brother of Carter of Danville and Gilbert Carter of Pitt sylvania county i Surviving also are his widow and two son Carter Jr of Red House and Graves Carter i of Winston Salem also one daughter Peggy Carter and two half sisters Mrs Townes Danville and Beverly Eppes of Panama Ha was 58 years of nd was active in civic and political affairs of his community The funeral will be held Wednes day afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mount Pleasant Church Interment will made in Highland Burial Park Mrs Lucy Law Dies at Hospital rom Pneumonia NUMBER 2 REBEL BLOCKADE SPAIN STIRS RESH ANXIETY (J (Uontlnned from page one) her As a result he alleged affections for him destroyed TO LOSE OICES RICHMOND Va Nov (AT Political ate Of CIO at Stake In Detroit Vote DETROIT Nov A public aroused to a predicted record shat tering vote wrote on ballots today the fate of a I drive aimed at political control of a major metroplis Som time tonight after closing of the municipal election polls at 8pm (EST) a decision will be Indi cated whetner John Lewis' ad herents shall sit as mayor and in the city council of Detroit Despite a weatherman's forecast of rain election officials stuck to re peated predictions that the vote would hit a total between 400000 and 450000 anywhere from 150000 to 200000 above the record Voters passing judgment on a vi brant struggle between the Commit tee 'tor Industrial Organization and from labor Itself and ether ranks chose between Patrick OBrien I sponsored Clerk Richard Reading mayor Almost since the Inception of campaign weeks ago the dominant question had been whether the I here again fighting with at 'least large portion of its local American derauon of Labor rfvals should ascend to virtually complete power in ci'y governmental machinery Election of its mayor candidate O'JM'n and of it five aspirants to oily council seats would provide fc: such control Nine men were to be named to the council The election theoretically non partisan Victory for O'Brien who has open ly asked fot New Deal Democratic pi TVlUfi tuort would be a surprise how I U1IVC ever tn view of the approximately TA 30 COO vote edge given Reading in the JjRUOrSCO JtSy ormr Mayor John Smith A Gl(y Ministers ef suonorted who ran third in the prmanes swung his support to isding Observers agreed that much would depend on the extent of Smith Jnilu nc NEW YORK Nov 2 (A New Yc'k's heated battle for the mayor'' ctiair war left for settlement today in'the hands of Gotham's voting mil lions Mayor LaGuardia run in on a Republican usion Labor ticket against Jeremiah Mahoney th regular Democratic candidate wound up a bitterly fought campaign with each predicting vic tors Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas lrr LnGuaidl man and a Re publican' opposing Harold ircs Tammany candidate for district attorney of New York County also under silenced guns A majority of New York newspapers yirjieted for both LaGuardia and Dw ev 'by substantial pluralities The following a record mu nicipal registration of 2483387 war carried on under the eyes of thou sands of police Commissioner of elice Lewis Valentine ssld that appifeations for 2075 warrants had been made charging Illegal registra tion' With th polls opening at 6 a (ES TJ to close Jutt 12 hours later a total of between 2000000 and 2 232000 persons were expected to vote LaGuardia had campaigned mainly en his record oi ie Mahoney had blasted away time end again on his central theme that the mayor was a "Red Both dls 'icaided custom to continue 'through last night Instead of stop pmz over the week end Mahoney had the support of Post matter General James A arley Gov ernor Herbert Lehman and Senators Royal Copeland and Reb el! Wagner Labor rallied under the LaGuardia flag with wings of the Socialist and'Communist parties throwing their support to him Dewey had charged that racketeers 5 had run rife through the city under Tammany protection warned that at leart 500 voters would be arrested today and said 4000 others wouldbe challenged Police Report or Month Given The desk sergeant Shumate in his monthly police report shows that there were a total of 137 cases tried In the Police Court during the month of October Of this number 84 were white and 53 were colored 124 case drew fines and costs 10 cases were dismissed and one case was continued 1 case was sent to the grand jury and In one case the fine and cost was suspended A total of 8236605 was imposed In fines and costs and of this amount 8147300 was collected In the 72 cases Thirty seven cases were sent to the city farm and two case were bonded Two acses wer suspended and one case was appealed The following 1 cases were heard: Drunk 43: drunk and disorderly 2 driving drunk 6: speeding 17 reck less driving 3 traffic violations 10 larceny 7: concealed weapon 1 tres passing 10 operating a car without a permit 3 operating a car without the proper tags 1 illegal whiskey 7 assault 13 gambling 2: destroying evi dence 1 breaking nd entering 2 i vagrancy 2 antl nolse ordinance 1 shooting In the city limits 1 resist ing arrest 1 Club to Meet I The members of the Round Dozen Club will be entertained afternoon three thirty the home of Mrs A Mulberry Road A resolution was adopted by Ministerial Association yesterday questing that the civic affairs com mittee offer their service to the Greater Danville Committee to assist i in any way possible jncet the recreational city A Sanders who Community Chest campaign In Dan ville spoke briefly requesting the I ro ooeratiori nt tlie ministers A reso KEWAr' Nov 2 Select lution was adopted endorsing the Ing a governor tor the next three years work of the Community Chest and tw Jersey votei chose today between promising the support of the minis slermman DnV1(ne I 1 Al i Irinin wic campaign Mayor bjoudl oj Hucnanan ot uwcujjuijucq mtn sv ean group who 1 I said a detour I optional and light "The discontinuance of area offices comp the newcomer to politics and 1 All student at the naval traffic was moving nver the tempo is In line with the program of re ft Democratic State senator academy re designated midship rarv span while heavy traffic was i trenchment a 1 veteran ottlc holder I menp uslni tbeetOur lines" Smlthald Dr Lewis who has been heard in lectures here on thessubject of art will speak at the regular 'Wednesday evening ptayer service at Mount Ver I non Methodist Church tomorrow eye Ring RV OCIOCK XIU BUOjecv wiii be Art" Claude Carter Dies Suddenly Near Brookneal SHIPS SIGHTED HENDAYE ranco Spanish ront ier Nov" Spanish insurgent warships were reported gathering to da yfor what was believed a mammoth blockade of the eastern Spanish coast i from Almeria to the rench frontier Three war vessels believed to be the cruisers Canarias Baleares and Velasco were sighted last night about 18 mile off Valencia seat of the Spanish republican government Their appearance caused Valencia to darken its lights for two hours An Insurgent blockade of the entire Levant coast was announced last week by' Vice Admiral rancisco Moreno ernandez when he assumed com mand of the Insurgent naval and air base at Palma Mallorca Under his command were 35 war ships war communiques reported little land action A government bulletin asserted an insurgent attack in the Guadalajara sector northeast of Madrid had been repulsed A one line Insurgent communique said is nothing of any importance on any Another Big Sale of Leaf Occupies Buyers 0 With a tobacco sale running close on a million pounds yesterday the mar kethad more than a million pounds today the election falling deliveries Some doubt exist tn Quarters If the prevalence types of tobacco will be greater from I now on than It has been owing to the large percentage of medium to mon grades produced Money flowed freely to the ers yesterday with a total of 79023 distributed for 1388938 pounds sold at an average price of 82792 per hundred pounds The today types Report on Conventoin Carter vice commander' of the Pannill Post American Legion presided over the meeting on Monday evening at the Masonic Temple In the absence of the erlck Thompson A report of the held In Lynchburg given by Charles Bradley A committee composed of 8 Turner Charles Bradlev and George A Carter were named to perfect plans tury of Christ Church met Monday i Temperance articles war road by for an Armistice Day celebration on I afternoon In ths church with Mrs I Mtsa DorU Knight Bernie Reynolds Novemner inn wa unaersvoon that the members would co operate with local churches in the observance of this day Other routine business was held approaching realization at a when the Japanese government is fering to revive negotiations on fishing concession NUMBER 4 JAP shells ALL CLOSE TO WARSHIPS Mrs Lucy Law aged 82 died 3:30 o'clock this morning in Me morial Hospital after an illness of ten days from which pneumonia de veloped Mrs Law was a native of Pittsyl vania county and spent her early I life at She was married I to Henry Shelton Law in 1875 he dying 4o years ago She is survived by six children Law Law and John Law of Chatham Mrs Easley of Swansonvllle Mrs Jefferson Mrs Waller of Danville uneral services will be conducted two' tomorrow from Moffett Memorial Church of which she had long been a member by Rev wains and interment will i In Chatham Will Line Up With Germany And Japan in Communism ight Paper Says MOSCOW Nov The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said today that Italy was planning to join Japan and Germany in a triple al liance against Communism and clared "the agreement agres sor means a program of war" '(A foreign office spokesman in Tokyo disclosed yesterday that Japan was contemplating form of agreement with Italy to co operate against Communism Reliable sources In Tokyo Indicated Italy might join the Japanese German Anti Comintern Pact of November last year) Izvestia said that such an agree ment "could not fail to affect Soviet and Japanese intimating Russia might refuse Japanese offers to reopen negotiation for renewal Of extensive fishing concessions Ja pan holds off Siberia Izvestia recalled that relations be tween Italy and Japan were strained at the time of the Ethiopian war and argued that now "Italy considers Ja pan an ally In the fight against Eng land and other states whose domin ions are tempting the aggrersors "Japan sees in Italy a power which with Germany Is ready to attack in Europe and Africa those who are' op posing Japan In Asia" the newspaper said Izvestia disclosed that the Soviet japan fishing agreement expiring au i tomaticallv at the end of this year had never been renewed because the Japanese German agreement against Communism came while negotiations were under way Japanese Italian agreement accroaching realization at a time of the grants The highway program ive girls and fifteen boys were sen nrtHort with I to nick oranges and nrebare WR8 inua jjjn ill un 1 1 out anv annropriation from the gen (them for packing the next two Satur are expected to be developed out Hijy Thr inh enmmittw Is comnnr oral fund of the state vieaiuiy 40 ntr Smith said one windshield and a cent of state's total revenue of pair of eyelilassc were broken and Hess Mrs Harris Rev t78 823 8S812 I several suit soiled by the "barrage" Wicker and Moor 1 In Is office holder voters are and It is the local con large number posed candidate for re election ive candidates scrambled to offer for the post and their names were being written In on the ballots In Alleghany and Bath counties the vote was reported light but in the city of Clifton orge where 12 candidates were running for local offices the balloting was strong Similarly Spotsylvania Stafford and Caroline did not manifest a great deal of Interest In the election but the city of redericksburg crowded the polling places to decide a three cornered race for commissioner of revenue Voting went on at a fairly brisk rate in Dinwiddle county enlivened by the local race between Coleman Incumbent and Muse for the house of Muse who Is attempting a in Virginia politics as an Indepen dent resigned from the state senate in 1936 after his outspoken criticisms of certain phases of the New Deal RICHMOND Va Nov Vir ginians chose a new governor and oth er officials today in a tranquil conclu sion to a prosaic campaign James Price of Richmond Demo cratic nominee was conceded such an advantage over his Republican Pro hibitionist and Communist opponents that light balloting was expected de spite predictions of fair weather and exhortations of party leaders to "get out the On the ticket with him were Saxon' Holt and Abram Staples nom inees for lieutenant governor and at torney general respectively Dave Satterfield Democrat wa unopposed for' congress in the third district (Richmond) to succeed the late A Montague Voters were called on to choose members of the House of Delegates from 19 of the 83 districts while two Democrats contested the Newport News state Senate seat vacated byHolt when he sought higher office The issues have railed to excite great interest Price campaigned on the record of the state and national Democratic administrations while Powell Rovall Republican nominee has charged his Democratic opponent tflth failure to make clear his stand on public matters Dr A Reynolds and Gerould Rumble were the Republican nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general opposing Holt and Staples The campaign was enlivened In Chesterfield county by arguments of groups favoring and opposing adop tion of the executive form of county government The polls opened at sunrise 6:36 a and will close at sunset 5:11 at Richmond Price speaking over a statewide radio hookup last night charged the "stock In trade of the opposition party 1 confined almost exclusively to de structlve and asserted the Democratic party had been and Donald Burke Communist i date for governor said in his cast address that Mr Price can only offer us a continuation of the 'sound fiscal of Governors Peery and Byrd we have nothing to expect from him which will be the spirit of President Roosevelt i I whose coattails Mr Price has ridden 'so Royall broadcasting at Bluefield 'said that if his Democratic opponent were elected he would face the dilem ma of a Harry Byrd or becoming a figurehead Price pledged himself to continue the present fiscal policies of the state and maintain a balanced budget but promised to "give the human budget a more prominent place In our governmental life" As objectives of his party he listed expansions of agri cultural facilities of I passage by the 1938 general assembly of a "conservative and old age pension program "attainment In time of the several splendid objectives sponsored by the state board of edu cation" and greater effort In the treatment of "tuberculosis and other dread diseases" SUES SOCIALITE OR HEART BALM Begin Swinging jEnd of Bridge I 0 I ROANOKE Nov Work of swinging the south end ofthc old William A Smith state admlnlstra brldge over the James River at Buch tor of the Virginia Works Progress anan slightly to the west upstream Administration announced today the to make way for landing of the hew Charlottesville and redericksburg i structure started this week 1 offices of the administration would Rloiint nt Buchanan ibe discontinued after Nov 15 I Howard Booth Instantly Killed In Auto Collision 0 Howard Booth of this city formerly of Danville was killed almost Instantly about 12:30 this morning when the ord coach In which he was driving collided with an Olds mobile sedan driven by New man of Martinsville and Danville The i accident occurred on the Rldgeway Martlnsvllle highway near the CCC camp when It was alleged that Newman who was en route North struck the car driven' by Booth a he was en route South It was learned from Sheriff Mitchell Davis I who together with State Police Officer Nowlin who investigated the accident that Booth was attempting to right his car when he was on shoulder of the road and the car turned directly across the road ting the Booth the right side knocked down righted itself aga: ned under the steering wheel and died almost Instantly of head tnturles He was sitting upright In the car when he was found Newman was taken to the Danville hospital for treatment to his chest which injuries he received as a result of the accident Mr Davis stated that In all prooabiuty that Newman would be faced with charges of man slaughter following hi recovery Booth was employed at the Pow this two this and Merchants to Meet The members of the Retail Mer I chants Association will hold their reg i ular monthly meeting Wednesday! evening the Henry hotel with I Personals 'Rush president presiding I Mrs Mrs Ol McLaughlin hs quali fied as th' fX'rutor of the estate of Charles McLaughlin who died re icently In Richmond hospital His 1 estate 1 valued at 85000 represented iby real estate on Grove street I Sergeant John Edwards who was injured two weeks ago when knocked I down by automobile is making more satisfactory progress at Memorial hos I pital He i stronger and appears to I have reacted fully to the shock of th' accidnet A broken collarbone and fractured wrist also are mending 1 riends here of 'Rev Henry Wad DuBose formerly pastor of the irst Preebyte'rlan church have learned of his resignation as chairman of the 1 board of trustee' of Presbyterian Col lege at Clinton 8 Calso of his reslg i nation as pastor of the irst Presbyr terian church at 8 I where he went from Danville 'Dr Du Boe has accepted a charge at Dallas Texas i to va The' official minimum' readipg last night was 35 degrees with a ipaximum of 65 degrees t'.