The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

WEATHER AT GTAXCE: Wfr Slightly Warmer Tonight: Wednesday Cloudy: Shlwera Everybody Reads a Price: Three Cents Danville Vaf Tuesday Afternoon March 22 1938 Home Edition MORGAN REJECTS NEW DEMAND latly Refuses OREIGN POLICY IGHT SEEN Demand Of In TV A Dispute CLAIMS JAPS WHIPPED ar Reaching Senate Debate Name Mentioned TABLET WILL Is Taking orm BE PLACED IN POWER PLANT North China March of the plate and the Exemption Nlove Defeated of the celebra celebra UNDER WAY of boys on five successes new member of the A pn recent days in attacks hlong the next of the sup (Turn to page 6 Story No 3) they Batson head of a (Turn to page 6 Story So 1) Church Goes Nazi tour i Here Tomorrow Enroute To Georgia 1 1 rf I I I stated that he THE WEATHER today that of Atnerl Companies cam kept the line over which the special will pass halt an the train Is due all shift are under orders to take There is a watchman at is now being being: McDevitt and Com brick and the with sand tn the the and state Bui hi met the Into the its priv Gre hat ot Japanese tn been Isolated Late News time Next week the sluice gate which was left at the bottom of the dam Pennsylvania went on strike tricar) (Tear) 2 OICERS INDICTED ON BRIBERY CHARGES the most bring the lussociaUon going to be brat John campaign" 50 paid Discussion of Naval Expansion Indicates Warm Battle Over Neutrality and National De fense Questions Borah and Laollette Lead Opposition To Naval Measure Passed Yesterday By the House Mrs Dollfuss And Two Sons In Switzerland LARGE UNITS INVADERS ARE TRAPPED HYDRO ELECTRIC ederal Enrercetiy Of Public Project No BRUNNEN Switzerland March 22 (JP Mra Engelbert Dollfiiaa widow of the Austrian chancellor who was as sassinated in 1934 and her two sons arrived today from Italy She said she was planning to place the boys in school and probably would remain In Switzerland indefinitely President Roosevelt Expected To Be Asleep When He Passes Through Hardy 47 at late Sunday which led to James Dudley Allan Epea attorney of Blackstone is auioug those who have been ment lowed for appointment by Gov ernor Price to the Judgeship of the ourth Judicial Circuit to succeed the late Judge Edwin 'ox Epes born In Nottoway aiunty Jauhary 31 1879 was graduated from Wash ington and ee tnlversity with an LI: degree in 1901 He practiced law In Newport News from 1902 until 1905 when he returned to Hlack stone where he has continued Ills practice for more than 30 years (A Photo) Insurgents Advance HEN'DAYE rance at the Span ish rontier March 22 (4) The Spanish insiirgents today reported that they hnd driven Government troop from five barricaded trench lines at Vftldealgorfo In fierce hand to haud conflict ANNUAL CAMPAIGN IS Will Be Thrown Open to Visi ton Who Will Be Escorted On Tour of Projects Guerrilla Marches the Red Army general related at his headquarter here tn central Hopeh far behind Japanese lines have isolated large forces of Japanese battling toward the Yellow river on the cenlral China front Their communications cut trans port trains wiped out many of their small railway station garrison anni hilated and their only food supply in some cases reaching them by air plane Many Japanese troops are in a precarious position Yu said AlllUllg XUgUHgULR UA bUC BiVUnbiwu of the Japanese as pictured by Yu were these: An army of 0000 southern Shansi has from Its supply bases Red Guerrillas scored they are not tampered with by anyone He remains until the president had rolled by safely Such orders and preparatory precautions are said to be I invariably the rule as will be the case i I earls' tomorrow not only here but all i along the Hue HUTTER ANT) GGS: CHICAGO March Hutter 822663 steady creamery firsts (88 80 score) 27 27 1 2 seconds (84 87 1 2) 23 26 other prices unchanged Eggs 25271 firmer: storage packed firsts 10 1 2 othor prices unchanged (Turn to page fi Story No Japs Seek Oil Pact TOK to March 22 eminent somjecs said Mexico's expropriation enn and HrNtlh 4)11 was being tiwllet by Japanese an llmrilles for the possibilities it holds for an oil Import agreement with Mexico Temperature Reading by The Bee Radial Thermometer 'Administration leaders heat off today the flist move In the Senate to exempt a tprclflc federal agency from the exfre tithe reorganization bill Irian protcstaintlsiii unlike tin clinrch In Germany has made its peace with tilts Nazi regime Dr Kmrer president or the Aus trian Evangelina! Supreme Church Council today became the first cliurcli official tf any state to swear an noth of loyally to Adolf Hitler administered Isa Oswald Mt ngliln minister of cd mat Ion In the Vienna government President' Roosevelt who will leave I Washington tonight for a ten day visit 1st Warm Springs Ga will pass through Danville early tomorrow but his train will not stop? It was learned today i The railway order preceding a presi dential special and containing In structions for the usual precautions was In the hands ot railroad men to day The president Is expected to pass through here between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning but will be sleeping at that early hour The president's trip will see the usual extraordinary precautions taken along Hie route It was learned today that these include steps to forestall any possibility of accident by deliber ate means or by unforeseen mishap All along presidential hour be I ore Ing engines to a siding every switch crossing frogs ami bridge along the route He takes his past half an hour before the president's train is due at that point and inaky a minute Inspection to determine the aateueaa of the switches etc and to aaa that this been years with Chinese Red Army Command' er Says oe Nearer Defeat Than at Any Time Sheriff and Deputy Post Bond Also Accused of Giving Notice Before Raids at cause ot by John College head of The broad athletic Commonwealth's Attorney George Bendall this morning concluded an enquiry into the facts urroundlng the death of Calvin Community hospital nlght a circumstance the arest of his son Hardy 27 who was Jailed on a charge of murder Mr Hernial! said that the charge of murder against Hardy would be quashed In the light of the conclu sions reached by City Coroner A Wiseman who holds definitely that Calvin Hardy did not die from vio lence attributed to his son but to myocarditis superinduced by other causes The commonwealth's attorney who checked witnesses today and confer red with domestic relations court of ficers said however that he would proceed against Hardy on two war rants one alleging a felonious as sault on his father and another charging felonious assault on his sls stcr Mrs Grace Hranscomb who Is said to have been hit by an iron pipa during a family row during which father and son had a tussle Coroner Wiseman said this morn ing that be was even more certain to day that the older Hardy did not die from any blow inflicted on him by his son tor he rechccked his evidence yesterday "1 found" said the aimiwr "that Mr Hardy had not only been drinking whiskey whether of bonded or bootleg type I am not sure but that he took nt least six powders which are popularly sold as a head ache remedy within an hour and a half which undoubtedly caused acute dilation of the heart and produced The hearing will be held riday morning in the domestic relations court GOING TO GAINESVILLE WASHINGTON March 22 President Roosevelt will leave by spe cial tram tonight for a ten day visit to Warm Springs Ga I On the way he will stop at Gaines I ville Ga tomorrow morning for a brief address at the dedication of Roosevelt Square Thia Is a section which the federal government helped rebuild after a tornado nearly destroy ed the town in 1938 Taking along a small staff to help him carry on official business Mr Roosevelt will arrive at Warm Springs where be helped found a colony for Infantile paralysis sufferers about 5 iu tomorrow (Eastern Standard Time) During bls slay at the Springs the president is expected to make tjg au tomobile trip to nearby ort Behulug commander Cheng tsao be lieves (lie Japanese army is nearer defeat than at any time since the Oriental war began a little more lliau eight months Norlli Carolina: Pirtljr ilimly to night and dne ilay foliowetl by xlmnera In west and central por Hons Wednesday lightly warmop In northwest and extreme west por lions tonight Reilly Asks reedom KIVEKHEAd March (JT Edward Reilly onrr chief counsel for Bruno Richard Haupt man electrocuted Lindbergh baby kidnaper tmtiay asked a Suffolk county Jury to free him from the Kings county Hospital for the In sane Reilly was jcnnnnitted more than tear ago on the application ot his mother Sin Helen Reilly Sold" Baby Transferred BtlTI MORSE March A baby girl by her 21 ycafs old mother to a childless couple was placed today In the official care and riidody of her paternal grajulmother by order of Judge Edwin Dickerson Guitarist Challenges Minister to Debate On hnperxtsed By Water a and Electric Depart merits Brant ly Manager State Not to Press Murder Charge in Light of Verdict Believes Pick Axe was Passed To Prisoners By Con federate The grouting of the Point Lookout dam the laat operation prior to its delivery as a finished is ex pected to be completed by the end of this week Generally speaking the contractor has not met with trouble in what in many respects is a critical operation since it means sealing the small space between the several separate blocks of the dm poured one at a time There has been some stoppage of grouting tubes which has necessitated exploratory drilling but no more than was to be expected engineers said in a task fthls magnitude The liquid ce i ment is forced into the tubes at a I hundred pounds pressure and spreads lout between the interstices caulking Bronze Plaque to Preserve for Posterity Council and Officials The Rev John Rust In well re membered here as former pastor of Sleild Memorial fliiirch and conshlercd as one of the younger liberal members of the Virginia Coufereiivr has confessed vongregal Ion of Mount Summit breaker of Opposes Tariff Cut AxlIINTrON' Mart It Hay Bell president of I he As sociation ofC'ototn Textile Mer chant of Mew York said today any redortlqn of tariffs on cot ton goods ufiuld "oen the flood gates of I in pfort GREENVILLE March Sheriff A Whitehurst and a deputy Harris were under in dictment today charged with bribery and notifying liquor and vice houses before raids were made The Indictments were returned by the Pitt county grand jury yesterday Whitehurst and Harris in the court room at tbetim posted 250 bond each The officers denied the charges and said they would ask for an imme diate trial The witnesses whose names appeared on the indictment included A private detective agency Solicitor Clark said the case would not be tiled before next week TIRE SHIPMENTS DECLINE NEW YORK March Ship ments of pneumatic tires lat mouth declined to 2348 949 compared with 2489589 in January and 4370630 iu I ebruary 1937 the Rubber Mwuufae 1 Hirers' At ociatlon reported today Employment Gains NASimLlta Tenn March 22 The Sulutliern States Indus trial C'oiineJt reporting a 15 per cent employment gain In 14 south ern states digring ebruary a com pared to JMitiary said' this was 'evidence that the downward trend of business activity has been checketaml that perhaps the bot tom has beqn reached" By JAMES WHITE WITH THE CHINESE RED ARMY IN HOPEH PRO VINCE 5000 iners Strike SH4M0K1K Pa March (T) tlniusand anthracite miners today deniMtdlng a large share of the tonwgr cleared Into Lot uM Philadelphia an nt Reading Coal Iron Cmnpaniy Canned Soup or Supper Is Only Crime In Bridge Rev John Rustin Tells lock Admitting He Plays Scott Probes Delivery At Peiping Hankow railway wiping out small station garrisons Chinese tactics forced the Japa nese to abandon 35 miles of the Peiping Hankow railway north of the Yellow river Three transport columns wending i their way through tortuous moun tain trails to reach the Japanese be leaguered in southern Shansi were annihilated by Chines snipers and for six days the Japanese command resorted to airplane a to feed the Isolated army Thirty thousand red Chinese sol diers lay across the communication Hues of this army eastward from the Peiping Hankow railroad he said while troops of General Chiang Kai ytiek cut another railway In Shansi leaving the Japanese completely iso lated Meanwhile General Chiang's armies I crossed the Yellow river northward Sigmund raud III 11LNM Jtlart'h Sig mund rentf ear old "father of psychoanillxsls" was seriously 111 today close friends said after a visit of seciret Nazi police to his home last night WALTONVILLE HI March (g) A storm cliwid dropped debris in Harer pasture In the rubbish he found covers of a hook on which wa written: "Kli James Oak Ridge Dlslrhl Cape Counly Missouri" Ths book hnd been blywn from 'f James' lioma At) miles awj when Itai destroyed by tornado VIikIiiIa: all and slightly warm er lunikht Wednesday rlotidy with hower lu the Interior Wednesday afternoon or night aod on Iha coasl Wednesday night Colder President May Put Ouster Up To Congress By Nominat ing Successor Removal or Suspension Appears Cer tainty as Chairman Again Ignores Presidential Order To Show reason Why He Should Not Be Ousted for Refusal to Give Basis of Charges or Resign Cancellation of Games Unjustified Johnson Declares 1 Johnson superintendent of schools in Danville who does not usually enter the field of athletic dis cussions said this morning that regretted the action taken by Jeffci son High School Ju Roanoke tn can celling for two years the annual foot ball game between' the two teams 'T think it is most Mr said when asked if lie had any comment to offer "I feel that the' severance ot athletic relations which is what Mr Riddicks decision amounts to Is thoroughly unjustified since it flies in the face of the state and district committee of the Virgin ia Literary and Athletic Mr Johnson went on to say that it amounted virtually to contempt of court and that It could only be con strued as rebuke to the Athletic 7 1 2 1' Gnnn Townes' swfeegood Bucket te Strange Auditor and Clerk A relink Purchasing Agent A Aiken City Attorney TEMPEH 1Tl HEN 7 VI )eterili 71 2 A today today todty Queer Story A and began today under the leadership of Maitland Bustard and with nearly a hundred professional men and lay men educators and others prepared to devote tbelr time for the three days to that end A Lichty of Richmond secretary is here to aid hanaii general secretary the campaign Sixty ot the workers per last night and beard the A expounded Simpson head of Stratford and Curtis Vance Bishop Averett College program carried out during the past year was in retrospect and its Import ant role In the complex social struc ture of today wax emphasized said Mr Simpson "that our Danville boys are being made stronger by the work of the A than they would ovcrwlse be These boys are growing up Into better cit izens because of their contacts with the members of the staff and the lay men who are helping In this program The A Is creating stronger character among our boys than would otherwise develop "It is slgnlnlfant that palgn organization has practically intact for four the largest attendance tonight of any opening meeting How the contest between the two divisions finally comes out is of little importance The important thing is thirl we should bring these men and boys association tor the use of ileges" Mr Bishop coneettect t'at important thing was to men and boys into the "However" said he "it ts a whole lol of tun to Simpson's crowd In this Simpson and Bishop Head Rival Groups Out for New Members campaign to secure 500 renewals PINNACLES DEVELOPMENT Almlnlst ration Work 1151 rafice Asks Advance und KRIS MWt'h 45 eabinrt today railed tor an advance Of 5000 iMMMHWt francs (152500 000) from tire Bank of rance foi armament ptrpmres while Cliamber of Deputies debated member called tire danger swift implacable waged Germany Hardy aces Two Charges Of Assault The four prisoners who escaped from the city farm Sunday: night were still at large today Citv Engineer Scott made one investigation of the circumstances surrounding the escape and said thi morning that he was still engaged in the probe He stated that from what he could gather that some person possibly a trusty passed into the cell a pick There was no hammer stated and no cold chisel but frag ments of metal had been removed from one of the iron beds to provide a tool which undoubtedly aided the escapes digging through a twelve iinch wall' The enquiry showed the city engi neer that the picking of the hole must have been undertaken during the afternoon religious services when the raising ot voices in hymn tun drowned the noise of the four men working on the wall The fact that some sixty vlMtois availed of the Sunday visiting hours also created some contusion under the cloak of which Louis Karnker and three ne gro prisoners worked hard to open the wall rom now on It will be harder for piHuiieis to escape as the insult" wall 'of the cells are to be lined with cltri lied that ts a brick much hard er than the ordinary cement will be mixed stead of lime City Engineer Scott had no positive evidence yet a to who paed in the pick to the pria uuers WASHINGTON March 22 I Presidential removal or suspension of Arthur Morgan as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority he Muie a virtual certainty today despite the veteran engineer's i linllengc of the legality of such action 'After Morgan refused yesterday to resign or retract charges of dishon rt aizainst ni co aireciors nriu (Roosevelt gave him until 2:30 1 vi zwX I a ttABMiru num two present reason" why he should not be ousted The TV A head however left last night for hl home at Yellow Springs CCC Camp to Observe Open House Week CONSTRICTED 1936 1938 This plant was built by the City of Danville Virginia with the aid Of the ederal Public Works Ad ministration The development was Initiated by the recons wrendat Ion the Citizens Power Committee HARRY WOODING MAYOR CITY COVNCIL Gardner President I yatt ice President Aarbrotigh Meade Brow BUALO March 22 A crusading concertina playing minis ter prepared today to debate a guitar ist on the merits or moral evils of swing music and Sessions" The Rev George Cooke pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church has been conducting a drive against Sunday "Jam in the city He visited several cabarets each Sunday with bls concertina and called upon the groups to stop their dancing He played the concertina and led in the singing of hymns In one of the taverns he visited Ray Hall a guitarist challenged him to a debate on "Jam and the Rev Cooke said he accepted Meanwhile Juvenile crime preven tion bureau office said they hadn't found children under 16 at the as claimed by the Rev Cooke The memory1 of all who played a major port In the development 'of The Pinnacles project Is to be per petuated by the installation of a handsome bronze plate which will he set up in the power house The character lettering on it have been approved and the plaque executed pany of Baltimore which is building the power house is having the plate made and the city will pay for it In reality there are two plaque one of these denoting the PWA as pect of the Job and measuring 12 In ches by 24 inches being set up as a caption for the much larger tablet which will measure 24 inches by 37 1 2 inches some day I'm going to glory Goodbye" There was another sharp report at 9:02 1 2 and Adkins dropped I the big expense of concrete tor all simultaneously with a companion i John Travis 25 to death 'Hie two were followed 34 minutes 1 later by Arnett A Booth 46 confess ed leader of the crime which led to lire hangings The three all from Huntington Va were executed for kidnaping Dr James 1 Sedef 78 year old dry lead er who was held captive tn a mine for 11 days last November Dr Seder! died as a result ot pneumonia days after he escaped The kidnapers had demanded (XXI ransom none of which was AU three admitted their part in the 1 abduction but Booth who had made no plea for clemency after his con viction told an BI agent a tew hours before death the name ot al Cleveland Italian he claimed actually had suggested the kidnapping and planned it who view It as a sinful pastime the Rev (Mr Kustln after telling Ills congregation the bold truth added "ami yon don't have to hide out In the bushes either There Is no harm In playing bridge per sc" The minister drove tire wallop home by saying: "Tire moral Issue comes when a woman spends nil aflernoon plio Ing bridge and then rushes home and I ecu tier luisiiaiui on cantieu WASHINGTON March 22 A The ailininistration 's Naval Expansion Bill out spoken critics indicated today will become a vehicle for far reaehing Senate debate on foreign policy neutrality and national defense Senate opponents ot the bill which tile House passed yesterday 292 to 100 are led by Senators Borah (R Ida) and Laollette Pro Wis) They were expected to decide on their strategy soon after disposal of ths government reorganization bill Laollette calling the projected 100 000000 expenditure for new ships criticized par ticularly the proposal of naval experts to develop fleets capable of defending the United states on both coasts at the same time "We seem suddenly to have dlscov ered the Atlantic he com mented "I always thought it waa an asset from a defense standpoint but now it seems that it Is a liability unieti is smy Senator Nye (R ND) said tbe'big navy" bill was warLke and would call for "the most insane program that could be pursued" Chairman Pittman (D Nev) of tha Senate oreign Relations said however there was no doubt (Turn to page 6 Story No 4) to his Vernon Methodist church In (hat Ire plays brlilge and does not who knows II Cnnliiirv to the pifHChiiicii of many other Methodist ministers aoup' Bill Presented Japan WASHINGTON March The: stale department a uimuncrd trvrtav that Amtiasador Grew had prreiuri aMan woo ii ir tut death In liirtes and dSniarex cans I cd hy the tombing of Japanese! planes of tltc American gunboat Panay and tltree American tanker on Dec 12 1937 EL LOW SPRINGS 0 March A Arthur Morgan announced today his flat refusal to meet President Roosevelt 's request Hint he give 11 any why he should not be removed a chairman of the Tennessee Valley Au thorin' no further statement to make other 1han what I told the President Mor gan said following his return lo Lis Yellow Springs home Designed By Chas Main Inc Engineers Boston Mass The Register Be In Trading Area JfliL OUNDED EBRUARY UN 4uth Year no 14731 The CCC camp on the Mount Cross road will observe "open house" week week March 31 April 5 it was an nounced today by Captain rank Morgan who is in charge camp The observance will be in tlon of the camp The observance will be in tion of the fifth anniversary ot the CCC In the united States and will be in order simultaneously throughout the nation During the specified period the camp will be thrown open to visitors including relatives of the boys friends and farmer co operators Such visitors will be escorted through the camp and buildings They will be shown the layout the works projects the educational program and exhibits of handiwork made by the display At present there are 155 bovs in the Mount Cross road camp This is below the roster of 185 in ebruary many having been granted discharges some having desired to return to schools while others had secured work Trap ails One Of Three Hanged Men Drops Twice Dazed Kidnaper Lifted Through Aperture And alls On Noose Second Time MOUNDSVIILE March 22 (J1) Arvll Adkins was gone today to the 'glory" he envisioned as he dropped the second time through the I nnlln't ti aA in Wet ViTVIlllfi's (list triple execution for kidnaping While guards adjusted straps on tli 25 year oId Huntington man's i arms and legs and a crowd of 74 men and one woman watched in the tiny witness room last night something went wrong There was a report like a pistol shot and adkins fell from behind the curtained platform through the trap door to the concrete 9 1 2 feet be low Guards quickly placed the dazed man on a stretcher and handed him back thorugh the trap blood trickling from a cut near his ear Warden Stone said a spring had broken causing the accident Seven minutes later Adkins sup ported by a guard firmly told the spectators: "I wish to see you all In heaven iBuy and Sell Through Classified Section Of The Register Bee OB JB war City ar Be I 7 INSIDE News Page Page Belgium Tightens Military Plans to Win Austrian Over Defense Lines 2 to Nazis Mapped 6 Brazil Opposes German Al Winn and Ilan ex of Irnipl to End Nazi Ban 3 ll Xlake All Star Team 6 tlrglnla rubllc Service Com While Sox Oft to Slow Start pany Io Tie Probed 3 promise llatlllng Team 7 Inquiry Delays Survivors nf Pairlcla Ryan Acquitted In Raft Disaster 3 slaying of Husband 10 Spanish Insurgents Renew Mexico Not to Proceed Drive Toward sea 3 Against Others 10 MaGIll Aska Retention of In Troops Mass on Mar IVnl In distributed Profits Tax Parltlc Maneuvers 1 Ex I'onvIcs Hotly Dumped at Six Titles In Two Slates Mam Hospital Door Had Wreck Arllsl JO.