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Queer Story DEN VSR Colo Aug I aublan tram operator never bad been robbed and it was tit prta' clple of the thing he explained that caused him to act As a would be robber wreated 5 money changer containing St front him Eaublan grappled with IM A 'thug retrieved hie eaah from man' pocket and a final cheek dlM luaed came ant a little tank ahead The rubber had mnm ehanf In tola pocket WIATBEB ORECAST: Virginia and North Cloudy probably with'ahoweda tonight and Wednesday not much change in temperature a Of The Register Bee In Trading Area PRICE: THREE CENTS HOME EDITION DANVILLE VA TUESDAY ATERNOON AUGUST 27 1935 RUSSIA REJECTS AMERICAN PROTEST BOARD ABANDONS PENSION PLANS WAYS TO GET DR ASSERTS At Last Rites for Will Rogers HE'LL SIGN DUE TONIGHT ABC MONEY RESOLUTION HELD UNTIL commissioner ISSUE ENDS the source of city pow Krestlnsky settle European controver to unfavor li 'iieihati an com bar commanding Slayers of Man and Wife life since their con were slain at their to the tax 25 contains regarded as was rush week as keep for American new gone 7:45 o'clock at which time class leaders and secretaries departments will be read a sharp depar Amcrican policy new bright markets in A' Aiken this the bond ordinance and which he had teacher prob by the board for a teacher were fol at which from the years of and sea Rep Knut? to his feet the the new the: this speech by Dut convcn young in Mil delivery of window will to noon windows is now reported to have chang posltion Seven votes however constitute the two thirds nec for adoption in the was be County air Ruled Out as Two New Polio Cases Develop Man Held for Killing Negro fell from a doorway after the suffered a fractured skull injuries in the fall to the Death Claims Renn Drum in Hospital Colored Barber Is Killed When His Car Upsets Polio Scare Is Over Here Ban On Groups Off announced preceding day will be one mail and the be open from school 3rd at of WASHINGTON Aug The new eocial security board was report ed in authoritative quarters today to have given up its plans to grant aid to states this year for old age pension and other parts of the social security program This word preceded a White House conference at which President Roose velt and congressional leaders arrang ed to canvass how the board could be financed until January Loss of the deficiency bill before the filibuster by Senator Long (D La) last night left it without funds Arthur Altmeyer the only member of the board in Washington today also was to see the President Attorney General Cummngs was studying whether it would be legal to use some of the 4000000000 relief fund temporarily to fill gaps left by failure of the appropriation If it is fund relief funds are not available the board may start work with labor and commerce department funds with employes going on the payrolls of those departments the on sixteen News was received her: today the death in a Washington hospi tal of Renn Drum for many year a well known North Carolina newspaper man and at one time a member of the staff of The Bee He was editor of the Cleveland (N C) Star for several years and at the beginning of the Roosevelt administration went to Washington and was appointed to the bureau of domestic and foreign com merce Mr Drum had been critically 111 for some time his death taking plac at 5:30 o'clock yesterday evening His remains are being sent to Shel by where funeral services are being held this afternoon He is survived by his wife PETERSBURG Va Aug George A Bolling fireman in a local trunk factory will be given a hear ing riday on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Thomas Edwards negro truck drlv er for the same company Bolling is charged with atricklng Edwards at the plant last week the negro dying in a hospital yesterday of injuries received when he three feet blow He and back pavement Tlie mercury dropped last night to 59 degrees after reaching a maximum of 92 degrees yesterday At noon to day the reading was 87 degrees William Kelly second vice presi dent of United Textile Workers will speak in Ballou Park next Sunday at 2:30 The Workers Council of Lee Street church will meet tonight at the church at reports by of various street in front of Park Hotel where he and two others had parked a light sedan bearing Washington license plates One of the men fled as officers ap proached but the other was taken into custody He gave his name as Millard Acklen Neither of the men held would make any statement Mahan is the only person' still sought for the 200000 kidnaping of the 9 year old heir to the northwest lumber fortune Harmon Waley former convict is serving a 45 year sentence after pleading guilty and his wife' Mar garet 19 was convicted by a Tacoma jury and sentenced to serve 21 years In connection with the abduction or several weeks after the kidnap ing Mahan was sought by federal agents hear Butte Mont where he had Abandoned a motor car contain ing some of the ransom money He fled after a policeman started to kin expressed fear however policy woud amount to no TOPICS TOWN be within for this is to be push so delayed in WASHINGTON Aug Pres ident Roosevelt called Senate and House leaders nto conference today to study means to finance tin social se curity and other programs left strand ed through defeat of the deficiency bill last night Invited in (at 3:30 m) were Senators Robinson (D Ark) and Byrnes (D C) Speaker Byrns Chairman Buchanan of the House ap propriations committee as well as Sec retary Morgenthau or the treasury and Comptroller General McCarL Authoritative report were that the president exercised over the loss the Important legislation thorugh the last minute filibuster of Senator Long (D La) was contemplatng three radio speeches starting tomorrow in which the defeat of the legislation and the result would be discussed Although there were conflicting eu pressions as to what handicaps failure of the bill might impose upon euch new agencies as the social security i commission labor relations board and' railroad pension agency capltol con (Please turn to page 3 Cot Waukee What the nation did not know was that the entire portion of Duffey's speech referring to Mr Hoover was prepared inside the White House Cer tain phrases used by Duffey were supposed to have been written by the President himself and edited by Her bert Hoover's old political nemesis the publicity strategist Charles Michelson bodies found In a well on Mie premises Jackson was arrested in redericksburg where he voluntarily surrendered to police at the same time asserting his innocence Shell was arrested in Haverstraw They told conflicting stories each admitting participation in robbery of the Colemans and blaming the killing on the Other They were con victed in May and sentenced to die June 21 in the electric chair Governor Peery granted a stay of execution until July 28 when Norrell asked time to p'repar a petition tor a new trial this failed he obtained another stay' until August 3o to prepare an appeal The tall term Of the supreme court begins September 10 at Staunton (Special To The Bee) RO( KY MOUNT Va Aug Heavy protests filed this afternoon lth the county health hoard rela tive to the sweeping terms of the han on public gatherings lowed by another meeting it whs decided to exempt order all persons over 21 age Here are some of the thousands who filed past the bier of Will Rogers at orest Lawn Memorial park Glendale Cal The body of the famous comedian and radio star was later laid to rest in a crypt at air Lawn cemetery Buy and Sell Thro CLASSIIED SECTION Everybody Beads DANVILLE PAPERS gs better and was average prices Tarboro were at a hundred RALEIGH Aug Poor quality was blamed by buyers today for low prices which the grow first offerings brought on the new bright belt tobacco markets while expresions of dissatisfaction were heard In some quarters Extraordinarily heavy receipts on Expects Big Yield of Good Quality Leaf Throughout Old Dominion RICHMOND Va Aug Governor Peery today announced a reprieve until September 27 for John Shell and Joe Jackson negroes sen tenced to be electrocuted riday for the murders" of Mr and Mrs John Coleman in Spotsylvania' coun ty Tlie reprieve was granted tn order that the Supreme Court might have time to consider a petitiorf for a writ of error filed with the court late Saturday by A Norrell attorney for the negroes It la the third stay of execution granted to the negroes In their fight for vlctlon The Colemans farm home last April 2 jnd their Va Aug board met this drastic action to of infantile pa Moscow Government Replies Rejection of Pro test and Warning Against Alleged Violation of Pledges Made at Time of Recogni Denies Assuming Any Obligations Regarding In ternationale or That There Have Been Any Violation of Pledge By JOHN LLOYD (Associated Press oreign Staff) MOSCOW Aug The Soviet government today replied with a re jection to the United States's note pro testing against activities of the sev enth congress of the third Communist In: emationale Ambassador William Bullitt of the United States received a note from Under Commissar which read: "Your note of August Bo facts which could be violation on the part of the Sovet government of tts obligations "On the other hand it Is undoubt edly nothing new for the government of the United States that the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics cannot assume and has never asumed any obligations as regards the Communist Internation ale" Krestinsky summed up by saying: "I cannot accept your protest and am compelled to reject it" Verbal protests by the British Ital ian and Latvian governments against statements by speakers in the recentevetith congress of the third Inter nationale were "rejected immediately" by the Soviet government This announcement was made today as officials and newspapers remained Silent regarding the formal united note of protest on the same count The American protest was delivered Sunday The other three governments made their protests prior to that of tlie United States (Please turn to page 3 Col 7) London Worried By Reports Mussolini Plans Counter Re view1 in Mediterranean Rome Also Astir Over Pros pects of Increased British Activity Natives Continue Trek rom Ethiopian Capi tal OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13930 (AssociAttD press leased wires) of those invited at the White Koiner Sees Good Tobacco Prices in Va Man Is Bitten By Dead Shark DELRAY BEACH la Aug 27 UP) Bitten by a dead fish County Commissioner Byrd today nursed a lacerated finger A 400 pound shark was captur ed by the friends on a Sunday deep fishing cruise Ashore Byrd Dried wide shark's jaws for a photographer The shutter clicked so did the shark's teeth with one of fingers caught as the commis sioner failed to pull his hand free when the Jaw slipped The county fair which was to have opened on September 2nd has been cancelled for the time oeing but ranklin said that it would be held after the ban laid down to day on public gatherings has teen lilted Practically every form of public gathering for adults and chllaicn was prohibited by the joint action of the two health boards today Not only was the county fair Included in the order but Sunday schools the atres and swimming pools The only exception was that adults may at placcs of public worship many cities where bans have laid on the gathering of cbll thc ranklin county edict MIS The new dealers did not consider it wise for the President to answer the ex president directly That would have attracted too much attention for them They thought Duffy's use of the White House ma terial would draw sufficient national attention to itBut Duffy is not widely known outside his bwn baili wick Tire tone of the return fire fell somewhat flat Only one eastern newspaper used the remarks on page one What Duffy said for the President amounted to a charge that Mr Hoo ver had advocated far greater exten sion of presidential power ton years ago than Mr Roosevelt is advocating today Another attack on Mr Hoover read to the young Democrats by Gov ernor Earle of Pennsylvania also is aupposed to have been based on data supplied by new deal headquarters here However the President may not have figured in that directly If the new deal high command had only known that Duf fy recently concealed his supposed ly heroic rescue of a four year old girl the commanders might have chosen a better publicity man Duffy was returning from a sail on a lake near his Wisconsin home about two weeks ago when the child fell Into the water nearby Several other persons were around He called to them" to fish the girl out When no one budged he hopped in him? elf and saved her He qdnionlshed (Continued on Editoil Page) ROCKY Mount The county seat morning and took meet the menace ralysis following the discovery yes terday of two well defined cases of policmyelitis two small boys aged 7 and 3 years being affected A third case at Endicott was discovered last HELENA Mont Aug A man answering the description of William Mahan fugitive George Wey erhaeuser kidnaper whose finger tips appeared tv have been burned by acid was arrested by local officers today The arrested man denied he was Mahan and gave his name as Les Mc Gowan Highway Patrolman Walter Beck and Policeman Gier Christiansen re ported the description tallied closely with that of Mahan includ ing height weight and scars on arms and fingers Jtohan was described by Tacoma Wash police and Justice department agents last spring as about 40 years 'old and heavy set Christiansen said the man identi fying himself as McGowan reported hr was in the Montana penitentiary at Polson Mont for burglary in 1927 Mahan was in the penitentiary in 1927 1 Tlie nian was picked up on Maliylquestion him the opening of the auction season yesterday precluded the early com pilation of official averages but es timates placed the central price level at from 18 to 19 a hundred pounds This was about six dollars under the first day's average in 1934 The low quality of this first tobacco was generally attributed able weather While tobacco on the belt embracing the 15 eastern North Carolina brought un der 20 cents prices on the South Carolina or border belt which open ed several weeks ago continued strong with the average at around25 Offerings on the new bright belt were the largest in years Wilson the largest bright leaf market in the world reported 1750000 pounds on Its floors: Greenvile approximately 2000000 pounds and Kinston 1500 000 Bennett Hooks sales supervisor at Kinston described the break there as shoddiest I have ever seen" Kin ston sales totaled around 1000000 pounds at price sestimated to average between 18 and 20 cents The bulk of the tobaco was described as water damaged Price compilations made on some of the smaller markets showed Tar boro sold 176852 pounds at an aver age of $1905 and Ahoskie 250000 pounds at 1950 Defers Ceremonies to Meet Convenience of Several Sen ators to Be on Hand WASHINGTON Aug Pres ident Roosevelt announced today he would sign the unprecedented neu trality resolution but deferred the ceremcny for the event to meet the convenience of senators The signing had been arranged for noon However some were unable to be House at that time The new course ture from traditional in that it is mandatory upon the president oremost of the devices intended to keep this country out of wars over foreign controversies is a mandatory embargo until next ebruary 29 on shipments of arms to belligerents In addition the legislation sets up a muntlons board to control licens ing of arms exports It authorizes the president to pro claim that Americans traveling tn ships of warring nations do so at their own risk to forbid American ships to carry arms to any clllgerent or any neutral port for reshipment to a nation at war and to elan submarines out of ports The neutrality resolution ed through congress last Senator Robinson the administra tion leader shouted a warning to the word that America will pot go to war to Critics that the more than a "new year's Is case of war In the midst of congressional agi tation over the measure Senator Pope (D ldaho) voiced belief In an (Please turn to page 3 Col 8) One Delivery To Be Made on Labor Day Labor Day although an official holiday and which falls next Mon day will find certain postoffice services available to the Danville public Postmaster Swanson today that since the Is a Sunday there morning delivery 9 a Stamp parcel post windows and all other forms of postofftce service will how ever be suspended ranklin Co Lays Down Heavy Ban Are Granted New Reprieve Governor Postpones Execution Of Two Negroes Doomed or Of Spotsylvania Couple RICHMOND Va Aug The state office said today the distribution of ABC money to Pe tersbure and Danville and Dinwiddle I and Pittsylvania counties probably will be held up until these localities reach an agreement on population questions growing out of annexations Both Danville and Petersburg are claiming a larger share of the liquor revenues asking credit for population taken into their corporate limits since the 1930 census Basing their distributions on 1930 census figures the state had alloted710643 to Dinwiddle county 11 18329 to Petersburg 871008 to Dan ville and 2335164 to Pittsylvania Co Dissatfied Petersburg claimed that since the 1930 census it had gained by annexation 1512 persons from Din widdle county and was entitled to approximately 600 additional while Danville claiming 5135 persons by an nexation since 1930 asked 2000 more Efforts are being made by munici palities and "counties toreach an agreement officials said pointing to correspondent forwarded to the comp office but no decision has been reached yet: Meanwhile the checks are being withheld The distribution of the" ABC board net profits in excess of 1675000 has been on a ratio of two thirds to the localities and one third to the state Police Warn Against Many Petty Thefts 0 Police last night issued their warn ing to merchants and to citizens to be on their guard against thieves The past three weeks has resulted in a steady chronicle of petty thefts some of them due to the carelessness of property owners The police warning is directed es pecially to merchants to see that the doors to their premises back and front are locked and that rear win dow protection is effective Many of the thefts complained of recently have been due to car owa leaving parcels and other ma terials in locked cars Sometimes the car doors are locked but the side windows are forgotten and pilferers who make car robbing a systematic racket have no difficulty in purloin ing the objects left in them Bogus $20 Bill Costs Treasury Head That Sum WASHINGTON Aug GP) Sec retary Morgenthau is 20 as the result of his recent fling at passing a counterfeit bill Quite innocently he paid for provi sions at ishkill with a spurious note which was promptly returned marked As a joke Morgenthau sent the bill to a clerk in the treasury requesting change which was made Hs disclosed his prank returned the change to the clerk and took his loss Herman Lea aged 26 a negro ber employed on Craighead street was killed last night when his car turned over on the Greensboro road on Dead Man's Curve not far beyond the Southern Railway un derpass Ulysses Smith and Marie Wade also colored were painfully ih jured in the wreck and were brought to Providence Hospital where their Injuries were dressed after which both were taken home Lea was found to have an extended skull frac ture and died two hours after the ac cident Last fatality ended a pend ing court proceeding against Lea He was arrested yesterday on a charge of assaulting Dorsey Hatchett and Ed Strange and was bonded in the sum of 50 for his appearance in court this morning Tlie case was disposed of by enter ing on the records "no Me Call You Sweetheart The House Sings 0 WASHINGTON Aug Hap py cheering members of the House close up their congrcsisonal shop to the strains of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" in "honor of the people of the country and congress" Crowded galleries laughing and ap? plaudlng joined in the singing When the last note was ended son (R Minn) jumped and yelled: a swell tribute payers" RICHMOND Va Aug iJV George Koiner head of the state department of agriculture said today he expected a good yield of good qual ity tobacco with every expectation that the weed would bring a good price Commenting on the discouraging re ports from North Carolina where to bacco sold for an average of about 18 to (19 per hundred pounds at the opening of auction sales in the bright belt yesterday as compared with 25 last year Koiner said the quality of the leaf probably was responsible He pointed to unfavorable growing conditions in that state with resultant poor quality leaf Growing conditions have been ideal it! the Old Dominion he added with expectations1 of a good crop In sharp contrast to the prices brought in North Carolina was the South Carolina opening price a week earligr of better than 20 with a strengthening market which sent val ues to as high as 25 Virginia is expected to harvest a good apple crop too Koiner said with Indications of a fair price KILLED IN CRASH SMITHIELD Va Aug Sydney Cox manager of Joyner Co Smithfield Va was kill ed at 7:20 a today when the" coupe he was driving crashed into a pole on the Sufiolk Snilthtield high way He was driving from Norfolk to Smlthf'ld SCOS NOTE DEALING WITH RED ACTIVITY Low Prices in New Bright Belt Blamed on Poor Types tend like been dren dudes adults as well Turner chairman of the county health board and Major Cr Hunt is chairman of the Reeky Mount board Bond Ordinance Back rom Washington Is Ready for Presentation A meeting of the City Council was called today for eight tonight to consider an ordinance providing for the 1513000 PWA bonds under the grant and loan allocation for the development of a er City Attorney morning received he had prepared forwarded to the legal division of the PWA in Washington in order to se cure its approval It came back virt ually intact with one or two minor verbal changes wiUbe made between now and the hour of the meeting The ordinance naturally would have to lie over for thirty days after being ready by the clerk of the Coun cil but the vote on it will be indi cative of the position of the mem bers of the Council on The Pinnacles project Of the nine mepibers at least sev en will be affirmative and possibly eight as one member who opposed it before ed his would cssary After the bond ordinance is read a resolution addressed to the judge of the corporation court asking for a referendum will be offered with the prospect of a test of voting strength on the issue during the third week of September (Please turn to page 3 Col 5) Open Bids New School September 3 0 Contractors Push Work on Buildinsrs as School Ses sion Nears Bids for the new colored will be opened 'on September 2:30 o'clock in the office School Board it was announced morning It is confidently expected that contractors' bids will allocation set aside school work on which ed since it has been getting under way Superintendent Johnson is Im pressing on the contractors the need of completing the existing projects as soon as possible since next Thurs day will bring the opening of the new term as now planned to within two weeks and the hope is that much of the work" incidental to school building will have been pleted by then rom present indications year's day will have come and before the new West End school is ready for occupancy though work is being pushed as fast as possible Some of the contractors admit pri vately that under normal contracting conditions that better speed could be made than is the case under the PWA stipulations The West End school is assuming its form rapidly and is already showm to be a building of imposing dimen sions and occuplng a site Practically all of the lems have been solved though it remains vet of physical training who also would be the high school coach has not yet been selected (By PAI MALLON) (Copyright 19:15 by Paul Mallon) MibiiED Washington Aug President Roosevelt shot back an answer to Mr Hoover's constitutional challenge a lew days back but the nation missed it entirely The President's reply was too subt ly masked In the name of Demo cratic Senator Duf fey It was project ed In a generally unnoticed delivered fy at the I AIL MALLON tlon 431 Democrats Danville has emerged from fantile paralysis scare Bans assembling of children under years of age have been taken down since no new case of disease has been reported in over a month Eleven cases were reported here with one death and of the eleven cases three children remain seriously crippled the others being classified as minor paralysis with the probabil ity of the victims overcomln gthe ef fects Deliveries Are Heavy On Second Day Of Market But Inferior Quality Keeps Average Down RALEIGH If Aug Sales continued heavy on the new bright belt tobacco markets today with prices about in line with the opening day Better grades were re ported a shade stranger Official figures tor the opening: day's sales were being compiled by I sales supervisors today and indicated! the average for the belt as a whole was close to 19 a hundred Goldsboro sales were 186542 pounds at an average of 1857 while at Kinston the average for 972572 pounds was 2927 Tobacconists were agreed the gen eral quality of the leaf offered yes terday was the poorest in many years' Bennett Hooks sales supervisor at Kinston said that three quarters of the receipts there were non descrlpt but that all tobacco with any color and body at all sold well The quality of today's offe: reported slightly ing reflected in Early sales at average of 2050 US NEUTRALITY ASSURED LEADERS SEEK rniiHfii vnir ON PINNACLES NEEDED UNDS Danville and County Not to Get I unds Until Population Question Is Settled Mahan Suspect in Kidnaping Of Tacoma Boy Is Arrested "Hi i Prisoner Whose inger Tips Appear Acid Burned Denies He Is ugitive In $200000 Abduction and 'J! 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