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WEATHEB: Virginia and Morin Carolina Bain Tonight and Thursday Cooler Thursday and Thursday Night ee CLASSIIED SECTION In Trading Area Of The Register Bee PRICE: THREE CENTS HOME EDITION 500 REPORTED KILLED IN HURRICANE LEAGUE MEETS TO AVERT WAR 352 Imperiled on Storm Battered Dixie US COMPANY SCHOOL BIDS to the (AMP WAR RIEDMAN of the Ohio rescue la YOUNG WIE AND LOVER Roaoke 9 months and $1000 sentences from of a mile In 13 18 Is largely struct bettered his own 276816 miles an after racing to the north for sen at the wheel re on his leg when a large piece of the broken win port was smashed across in the Paul presiding and losing no attacking an accumulation of which probably will keep the here for more than a week hur wlth made STILLHELD TOBEHIGH its regular will arrive bids which the Everybody Beads DANVILLE PAPERS Queer Story STORM NOW RAGING ON LA COAST VETERANSIS WIPED OUT $200 INE IS LEVIEDUPON Nicholson the twentieth by the Jury has ixen tree While a hurricane pounds her against Cary's ort Reef 40 miles south of Miami la vessels stand ready to rescue 235 passengers and 117 crew aboard the imperiled Morgan Line Dixie (aboie) The vessel was bound from New Orleans to New York when overtak en by tropical storms Several rom Virginia Among Storm Victims WAYNESBURG Pa Sept bats here smoke cigarettes said Erahel Taylor He tie flipped away a cigar jtte while fishing one Bight re cently No sooner had it left hla hand than a hat swooped down selaed the lighted clgarst in its mOutk circled around tor several mlBBteg and dropped It into tba mrt Dixie Is now directly off cur The sea is still breaking her Gatun and Limon (ther res CEDAR KEY la Sept 4 CP) At least 50 people evacuated Ce dar Key this morning In the face of the approaching tropical dis turbance Some 300 people had gathered in the school house at 7 o'clock and other substantial buildings were neing thrown open public Cedar Key is composed of old and flimsy wooden urcs ih need of repair Benny Van Benny Van Eugene Van Ness Matecumbe Katherine Van Ness Matecumbe Joseph Crusoe camp No 1 Dr Main camp No 1 Jesse Gleaton Gulfport Vergil Pegg Gulfport Marybell Tyre Tavernier Injured Howell ranklin Va Gaines Kansas City Nepsba Minneapolis Joseph Nepsha Minneapolis Harry Baker Washington rank Higgins Youngstown Dr Lassiter Alexander camp No 1 Emcst McCanley Youngstown Irwin Sutton Lanisng Mich Joe echeau Providence I Willard Parker Long Island Miami in again" Thursday It was far into the night before the officials of the American Auto mobile Association sent word riedly to the Intrepid driver many apologies that they had a mistake The announcement brought Campbell the declaration he was "de lighted" but that the news was rather in the form of an anticlimax He altered previous plani to try again tomorrow and ordered the 2600 horsepower Bluebird prepared for shipment He will embark at New York September 12 with "the bld lady" as he calls his racer on board the same ship the MaJfic tl Roten Tavernier Missing Ness Matecumbe Ness Jr Matecumbe Bob Murray Selling Stock in Morris Plan Type of Institution Spreads Destruction Up West Side of State Veterans Camps Wiped Out CANCELS OIL CONCESSIONS GENEVA Sept An tlicny British cabinet min ister assured the League ot Na tions council today that there can be no question of any po litical or economic conflit be tween Great Britain and Italy The British minister stated such conflict was Impossible be cause Italy had promised to re spect Great interests la Ethiopia Great Britain is sure these interests will be re spected in the killed in bus accident near Myers A Tyre Tavernier Harry Roten Tavernier Mrs Betty (By The Associated Press) The announcement of the with drawal of the Standard Vacuum Com pany from the Ethiopian oil conces sion was greeted with feelings rang ing from relief that a dangerous sit uation had been eased to the belief of Italy that had been no change" as the League of Nations council members gathered to discuss Italo Ethiopian Impasse The British press saw some relief to the league outlook in the new de velopment and rench officials ex pressed their pleasure and said the move clears the atmosphere The move was regarded by Italian Officials' as not having changed the situation at all since Italy had refus ed to recognize the validity at the concession Meanwhile a surprise meeting of Representatives ot Great Britain rance and Italy was called prior to the scheduled council meeting to ex amine the Italo Ethiopian situation from a league standpoint British cabinet ministers were hur rying to London to be ready tor swift action if it is warranted by develop ments in Geneva The English press and officialdom were frankly pessi mistic regarding a peaceful solution to the Italo Ethiopian impasse Italy however was confident of victory in the council session regard ing the British position as weakened by the Rlckett oil deal and that as a result it probably would abandon efforts to impose sanctions in the event of an East African war In Ethiopia patriotic women arm ed with spears daggers and rifles de manded the right to take active part in fighting In the event of a war with Italy (Copyright 1935 By aui Mallon) WASHINGTON Sept 4 Old hand? at the propaganda game here believe they have noted excellent marks of their trade hidden in some of the news from Europe lately The Brazen Ethiopian effort to involve the Unit ed States by oil concessions did not particularly draw their admiration It was too obvious to be good What caught their fancy was the adroitly magnifying and insinuating reactions prepared for American eyes in the capitals of Europe or instance one of the best known American Journalists abroad wrote the other day about great profits" which will ense wuhat ever nationals are involved in the deal" meaning of course the Unit ed States Another yarn from the Ethiopian capital culled it sixty million dol lar deal" meaning (hat the promot ers were going to spend that pre posterous amount of money in search of Ethiopian oil That kind of lure for American fish (say the propagandist) (Continued editorial page) I Withdrawal rom Ethiopian Grant By American Cor poration Definitely Removes America rom Ethiopian Dispute I a and rance Reported to a Gained Common ooting Also More Optimistic Jones Henry six months atally Wounds Pair After inding Them Embraced In Car Parked in Lane CLEVELAND Tenn Sept While saying he was Lum Rogers 28 year old hosiery mill work er declared today he fatally shot his young wife and a divorced man Mon day night when he them in each other's arms" in a parked auto mobile The two victims Mrs Etta Priest Rogers 26 and Malcolm McNabb 25 an upholsterer who was divorced re cently died of pistol wounds Tues day morning in a hospital here "I'm sorry I had to shoot" Rogers said in relating that he fired when he discovered the pair in a coupe parked in a country lane Immediately after the shootings Rogers posted 12000 bond on charges of felonious assault with Intent to kill and Sheriff O'J Lawson said filing of graver charges was being de ferred pending consultations with families of the two victims Before he died McNabb teas quoted by Sheriff Lawson as telling him not to arrest Rogers I was with Etta" Cooper Callaway four OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13937 tueocu ab press leased wires) DANVILLE VA WEDNESDAY ATERNOON SEPTEMBER 4 1938 Guilty Plea Concludes Action Under Bankruptcy Law In Court Rescuers Bring Out Word Desolation in Wake of Tropical Gale (By The Aociaied Press) ear that the toll of In hurricane levelled lorida Keys would mount to 500 was felt today as word ol greater damage came from the storm Jashe lower peninsula Reports by radio to the Red Cross In Miami from a searching party headed by Jack Combs Miami under taker said it was estimated between 400 and 500 persons lost their lives tn the storm stricken keys A coast guard plane flying over the area of destruction radioed to the Jacksonville divisional headquarters that a second war veterans camp had been "completely demolished" The plane also sent word that an 11 car train sent into the keys Mon day to bring veterans from three work relief camps to safety had been wrecked only the engine remaining on the tracks After dealing death and destruc tion to the unprotected keys the tropical storm crossed the extreme southern part of the lorida pen insula and last night lashed at the central west coast as it swept north ward up the Gulf of Mexico not far from Shore Today the storm center was ap proaching Cedar Key an island city of about 1 200 persons connected with the mainland by only one causeway Meteorologists warned that "heavy gales are expected over all of north lorida today cast of Carrabelle with hurricane velocity winds near the center of the storm" The Jacksonville weather bureau (Please turn to page 7 col 2) People lee Cedar Key as Storm Nears PREPARING TO TRANSER PASSENGERS The organization of a new bank for Danville is in progress it was learned today Stock is being sold by Robert Murray formerly identified with the banking business in Danville in what will be named the Virginia Sav ings and Loan Corporation with the prospect ot a charter being applied for next week The minimum capital will be $30 000 and as soon as thia stock is subscribed steps will be taken to organize and to open up the bank ing house which is to be operated along the lines of a Morris Plan Bank Maximum capitalization pro posed in the venture Is 1100000 It is understood that the Poquoson Tribe of Red Men is largely Interested in the venture and has underwritten a bloc of stock VETS TO UNITE AMARILLO Tex Sept Confederate veterans agreed today to forget any differences that might have remained and meet with the Grand Army of the Republic tn a Joint reunion of Civil war veterans at Gettysburg Penn in 1938 Stricken Steamer Surrounded By Rescue Craft With Weather Moderating (Copyright 1935 by AP) MIAMI la Sept Life boats were swung over the sides of res cue ships today ready to be dispatched to the aid of the stranded Dixie which pound ed on rench Reef with 372 persons aboard her The tension among crews of the rescue ships reached high pitch as the climax to their long vigil approached The report that the life boats were prepared for launching came in a wire less message from Deppermaa a passanger on the Platano United ruit liner which lay closest to the stranded vessel "One boat is already swinging over the side of the Platano" said Depper man "Al! the othtTsfttps are drawing near most of them so close you can see people aboard The beam around "The cue boats) also have life boats hang ing over their sides" The squadron of assorted craft which stood by the Dixie as she lay on rench reef about 60 miles south of here was large enough to choke a good sized harbor A late arrival was the Coast Guard cutter 'Carrabassett which after a gruelling trip to the scene from Mi ami wirelessed that she was ma neuvering "for the best position pos sible preparatory to start the work of removing the passengers" of the Dixie "The Carrabassett bucked moun tainous waves and a 55 mile the message from the cutter said "Captain' John McGann with his subordinate officers spent the night on the bridge "Seas smashed the wheelhouse windows and Quartermaster Claude Simmons who was ceived a deep cut he was struck by glass from one of dows The forward (Please turn to page 7 vol 3) Board Defers Award Until1 Meeting Tomorrow Night The School Board at meeting tomorrow night a some conclusion on the were tendered yesterday for building of the new colored school on Gay street our construction contractors three plumbers and four heating equip ment firms tendered proposals but they were all said to be somewhat in excess of the sum which the School Board had allotted for the colored school The impression today how ever was that a way would be found to make an award The school is bad ly needed nd is already considerably delayed eying to the necessity of re jecting bids which were offered about two months ago They were too high and Architect Bryant Heard revised the plans downward reduced the size of the building and the quality of in terior finishings in hope that the second bids would be within range Bennett and Company of Richmond offered the lowest bid for the building of 859411 the work to be be done in 200 days Alver son of Danville was the low bidder on the plumbing but he may be disqualified because he failed to tender a certified eheck a proportionate share of the cost The American Heating and Venti lating Company of Richmond which already has the West End school con tract offered the lowest bid for this equipment or 87920 No award was made yesterday after the bids had been opened by the board which referred the blds to the committee on buildings and grounds for a report tomorrow night The bids offered New Contract A Uoyd Goode (Time 7 MIAMI la Sept (Pi The cas ualty list in the tropical disturbance which struck the lorida Keys and today swept up the west coast of the peninsula follows: Known Dead William Clark veterans camp No 1 Lenning Lllja drowned at Mara thon Ed Kettner ot Wcst Beads ort The rankltn county conspiracy litigation which for so long claimed the attention of the federal court tn Roanoke will move over into North Carolina tomorrow Retained by sixteen convicted men who were dented continuing bail at Roanoke yesterday and who were lodged in prison John Car'er will go to Charlotte tomorrow and will make application for bond for these men before ederal Circuit Judge John Parker Judge Paul denied the bonds yes terday because he said he questioned the sincerity of the proposed appeals by reason of the fact that the copy ing the record which is very volumin ous has only Just been started The court also alluded the "importuni ties for a reduction of which have reached the court and said that some of the defendants not ceased their illegal activi ties" Those for whom renewal of bond will be asked and who were ordered to Jail yesterday follow: Edgar A Beckett ot Callaway for mer state prohibition inspector sen tenced to two confinement and fined 85000 Henry Azshire ot Boot Mill deputy sheriff sentenced tc months and fined $3000 Suinuel White of Roanoke mer federal prohibition agent tenced to fifteen months and fined 12000 Leon Garland Richardson aged 24 a grocery clerk employed at the Wilkins grocery store on Henry street was 'arrested charged with three acts of grand larceny His trial in the police court was set for tomor row He is alleged to have stolen $50 from the grocery safe yesterday and on two occasions in August the sums of $35 and $20 Richardson was arrested after Police Detective Talley had carried out a ruse Some weeks ago Mr Wilkins reported to the detective that money was being missed from the safe that he invariably kept locked devel oped that once a week Mr Wilkins stayed away from the store and it was usually after these absences that the money was missing Yesterday Talley entered the store and hid behind some signs and lank ets at a point of vantage overlooking the store itself The detective claims to have seen Richardson go out Into the back yard where he recovered a key to the saV which was secreted there and upon his return opened the safe and extracted $50 Richardson according to tlv detective was leav ing the store by the back door when Talley swung himself down from his hiding place and caught Richardsonwith the money the key The two other charges were filed after the accused had been questioned at police headquarters Grand Jury Ends Work And Adjourns Corporation court was in recess to day until next Monday with the work of the grand jury completed in mid afternoon Indictments returned yesterday in cluded: Thomas Jordan three indictents for housebreaking James Robert Brockman three indictments charging him with the commission of third of fense petty larceny James Williams for grand larceny James Cassell grand larceny Archie Delmar Link grand larceny Elizabeth Wilson grand larceny Willie Walters malicious wounding Bill White Smith for rob bery Thomas A Johnson third of fense petty larceny: Harrison itz Mar tin for seduction: Louis Price failing to stop after an automobile accident were as follows: Bases Bid Charlotte $61393 months) Angle Co Inc Greens boro $63150 (Time 10 months) Construction Co Char lotte $61990 (Time 7 months) Bennet Inc Richmond $59411 (Time 200 days) PLUMBING arley and Luther Danville $3598 Powers Bennettsville $3567 Alverson Danville 83500 HEATING Reliance Eng Co Charlotte 89191 Am Heat Vent Co Richmond $7920 Am oundry and urn Co Bloomington Bl 88500 Rd Air Equlpt Co Inc Rich mond $8160 All of those bidding on the main and heating contracts filed alternate bids including offsets reducing the base bids in certain particulars I Rabbi Gutman Arrives to Take Up New Duties Rabbi Pulius Gutman who was re cently elected to occupy the pulpit of Beth Sholem Synagogue on Suth erlin avenue has arrived in the city accompanied by Mrs Gutman Mr and Mrs Gutman will reside on Green street Rabbi Gutman is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati and comes to the Beth Sholem con gregation warmly endorsed Services win be held in the syna gogue regularly beginning next ri day night at 8 Store Cleric Is Arrested or Larceny Hidden Detective Claims to Have Caught Richardson Red Handed Campbell Going Back Home After Exceeding 300 MPH Records Show 301 Mile Average After Mistake of Timers Indicated Lower Speed SALT LAKE CITY Utah Sept 4 (T) Sir Malcolm Campbell and his Bluebird racer were poised today for a triumphant return to England with a record finally computed correctly 3011292 miles an hour on land A ''silly mistake" the words were Sir kept the "human bul for hours in the belief he had i failed on the Bonneville Salt flats to achieve his dream The fact he had 'previous' record of hour by more than 23 miles as origi nally figured by the timers brought only a wry face and a declaration he would have to "go through it all Walter Hatcher and Roosevelt Smith both of near errum sen tenced to 15 months and fined $3000 each John and Walter Turner of Henry same as Hatcher and Smith Shively of Rocky Mount same Clifford Martin of Wirtz one year $2000 Willard Hodges Glade Hill 15 months 63000 Jack Bess Roanoke 15 months $2000 Leonard Davis Danville 9 months $1000 Earl Easter and Charles Guilllams both of each Posey $750 Tom months Wilson convicted under bond but the court refused a renewal He did not indicate an ap peal and will be held temporarily in the loyd county Jail authorities said David A Nicholson of errum was fined $500 and given a Jail sentence the latter suspended on condition that the fine be paid Claude Shively of errum was fined $1000 and giv en six months (suspended) and "Cap" Griffith drew four months Ho started serving this sentence on Jluy the Interior Ickes on account of 'the Bj'Whcn judgment was passed tragic death of his wife SURVIVORS TELL DEVASTATION DIXIE NOW SAE The semi annual session of the 1 Unlled opened tills morning at 9:30 with Judge John time cases court While the grand Jury was working the court ordered the calling of the docket determining which of the ear ned over cases can be tried at the present term The first: trial necessitating a petit jury got under way before eleven o'clock when Robert Angell of rank lin county faced a charge of violating liquor pxcise laws The case of Sam riedman was de termined today He pleaded guilty to an Indictment alleging a violation of the bankruptcy act by conspiring to conceal assets in a bankrupt stock from the trustee and was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 which was im mediately liquidated by his attorneys At the last term of court riedman Leo Cardwich and Louis Siverman were tried on the charge Jointly The jury acquitted Mr Silverman but failed to agree in the case of the other two It was indicated this morning that case will be tried District Attorney Joseph Chit wood said that he had heard nothing about the entering of a plea of guilty in that case Judge Paul declined to continue the charge against Dakota Saunders colored postmistress of Almagro charged with a shortage Clinton owler asked for a continuance until the next term owing to the fact that Harry Wooding Jr her attorney is ill in the hospital The court after hearing that the attorney had been ill for two months said that the de (Please turn to page 7 col 5) MAN SLAYS (Copyright 1935 by AP) MIAMI la Sept 'With rescuers estimating the death toll at between 400 and 500 part of the ex tent of devastation on the hurricane swept lorida Keys was learned today from survivors and from expeditions of mercy and aid All of the forces of the government were joined with the Red Cross in rush ing supplies to the areas of death and wreckage and in evacuating the debris lit tered Keys The heaviest loss of life rescuers reported was on upper and lower Matecumbe Keys and in the fishing vil lages along Plantation Key and Key Largo Two of the three govern ment camps on the Mate cimbe Keys where war vet erans arc engaged in build ing a highway down the Keys to Key est were re ported completely demol ished A rescue party out of Miami led t)y Jack Combs an undertaker as Ighed to organize identification of the dead reported between 400 and BOO persons were killed in this area Many of those who died on Mate cumbe Key were crushed in a col lapse of the Snake Creek hotel which was being used as a hospital at the camp Among these was Dr Main medical director of the camp The word of Dr death was brought to the mainland by Dr Las eer Alexander a medical examiner at the camp who escaped death In the collapse of the hotel Survivors crossed Snake Creek sep arating Matecumbe Key from Largo Key one at a time rom there these were brought to trucks The hurricane the Keys swerved Gulf of Mexico and endangered cities on the lorida west coast The full intensity of the hurricane In this area was looked for around Cedar Key a dot of land in the gulf SO miles north of St Petersburg con nected with the mainland only by a narrow causeway Many of the 1200 residents at Ce dar Key began evacuating the village when the word of the approaching hurricane reached them The school and other substantial buildings were (lense him to page 7 col 1) ranklin County Men Who Were Jailed Yesterday To ry or Bond At Charlotte Sixteen Retain Services Of Danville Attorney After Being Refused Bail Yesterday At Judge John Parker Circuit Judge To Hear Application Arthur Parker Long Island James Murray Titusville Pa Wise Cleveland William Cawthon address unknown Towles sapula Okla Stalnaker orest City McComb Lowell Mass Hamilton Kerns of Beltsville XM Jackson Hoffman of ort Payne Ala William Wlemann Louisville Ky Austin Petross of Detroit Mich Robert McPherson New Castle Pa Toulmine Atlanta Thomas Conrad Lakeland Thomas Sarell Atlanta Lctreux Washington Lloyd itchett of Terra Haute Va Harrison Waverly Va David Brewer of Knoxville Tenn A low Los Angeles Lydon (no city) Massachu setts Bill Lambert Esmeralda la Edwards Park Valley (state not given) William King 29 address unknown Thomas Giniak lacerations on scalp address unknown Harpld Langlers Chelsford Mass fractured right leg a id hand John Conway Chicago broken back Harold Sickler East Orange left shoulder fractured Harry Mattox Johnson Ctty Tenn punctured lung A James Baltimore Md 1 City Still Waits or Guarantee on Bnds By Govt City Attorney A Aiken is still awaiting the promised writtenguar antee of the federal government to buy the power bonds amounting to $1513000 at par in the event they are not taken on the open market at a premium Mr Aiken has the assurance that such a written guarantee will bo sent to the city and ascribes the delay as being due pixssibly to the complete detachment from official duties dur ing the past few days by Secretary of New Bank Is In Process of Organization I i Jl (S' hi iv iw JySs KB HL I A Mt fi If 1 I 1 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