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WEATHER: Virginia and North air Tonight and Wednesday Not Much Change in Temperature Probably tight rost in Extreme West Portions Tonight tt In Trading Area CODA DANVILLE VA TUESDAY ATERNOON APRIL 23 1935 (HOME EDITION) PRICE THREE CENTS GIANTPLANE RUSH SUPPLIES TO QUAKE AREAS CASE OUTLINED scarcity of WATER CAUSES Thousands Die in ormosa Quake CITY LISTED AS LIRTING NEW PROBLEM BE GIVEN AT WITH TVA TRIAL BARED of the of the prison hi he cross Increased Sum court this 27 (4h ALAMEDA Calif April Negro Men on Relief mesa principal Industry sugar had be st ra wberry With Gun wind t3 a his Paul: Saint children his home eve and trees given to WKfX PLACE Crew ate din IVILL 1200 feet which ob frora the Montieel flowers the col the the the by Ed words what know Our who He State work relief officials today took steps to supply eastern North Caro lina growers with laborers in harvest ing the crop after reports had leached Log ROM HAWAII NEARING US Child Killed by Truck Is Buried Vanishes Just Before Wedding Condition of Treasury Mrs Kite Quarles aged 65 a sister of Mrs Edna Ramos died at Memorial Hospital at 530 this morning after an illness of ten days which brought with it a heart involvement She had lived in Danville lor the past seven years making her home at the Burton Hotel from which she was recently removed to the hospital She was a native of Michigan Be sides Mrs Ramos she leaves a son Sherwin Howard of Atlanta and a brother Sheldon Borbour of Peters burg The remains are being forwarded to Richmond for interment there on Thursday DES MOINES Moines police hunted a plckpcket who strayed In to a strange environment Ballinger of Des Moines re ported his pocket was picked while he was attending Easter services in church He lost a wallet containing $16 spring with and The to he gun sniil he was iiwakeiieil by of the shotgun which he loaded after seeing two (Copyright 19(5 by The API NANKING China April China fell In line with world wide arma ment activities today by ordering that all her male high school and college students undergo at least one year of intensive military training The move designed as part of a program to construct a modern and efficient military machine was or dered by General Chiang Kai Shek generalissimo of the Chinese nation alist government armies At the end of ten years General Chiang expects Kls program to make China a military power of the first magnitude capable of "talking back" to the other powers of the world if she should feel so Inclined i word put mute And folks her the Everybody Reads DANVILLE PAPERS Sun Her ncum es her was the fire and Week End Will See 300 Dele gates from Mid Atlantic States for un and Business 18 inches limit Ills lied with the gun In Ids ands He was asleep and I shook bint to awaken him He did not know what hid lbiiiened" Relatives said the boy mice walked Several hundred yards one night while asleep to the home of his grandmother and there crawled in bed lianleii said that eelng ttte prowlers le the shotgun nightly but "I would unload it tn the morning Ilr Welch justlie of the peace held an inquest but the ver dict was withheld The Hunt coun ty grand Jury a expected to re eehe testimony of both the loy and his father pril tl ot of navy up to be disturb disquietinc Refuse to Work in Strawberry ield for ear of Losing Places on Rolls Tongues of Stricken Inhabit ants of Japanese Island Parched as Tremors Leave Reservoirs and Pipe Lines Shattered Hazard of Spreading Disease Grows ood Also Being Rushed To Scene by Relief orces of Columbia West Carolina South Car as Virginia Among be men distincuUh planting exrrc a programme in was followed by the campus where put In the ground The Nearly 3000 are reported dead and many more thousand injured in most destructive earthquake of modern times which struck the Taichu and Shinchiku Provinces of the Japanese owned island of ormosa A majority of the victims were caught under debris of their sun dried brick rubble houses Police reported 17000 houses demolished Map shows island of ormosa in relation to Japan and close up shows district where ouake did terrible damage OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13822 (associated press leased wises) ready to outline the case for the ears of the Jury late yesterday but Paul aojourned court morning Twenty three of the 34 persons in dicted among them Commonwealth's Attorney Charles Carter Lee enter ed pleas of not guilty four admit ted gutlt and seven persons and a corporation pleaded contend ere'' a plea that will bring them before the court after the other eases have been decided Eltons of William Hodsea Griffith to get a separate trial failed with Judge Paul ruling that (Please turn to page 5 column I) employed people are working under the auspices of the ERA and are de veloping ways and means of people using their leisure time While in years past Danville's recre ation programme has applied largely to children out of school providing them with organized play centres which kept the tnaway irom sidewalk dangers the programme this year is much larger and is undertaking to meet the needs of adults playground activities will not be organized until the school ses sion is over In the meantime ath letics for adults handcraft clashes and community singing activities1 are be ing organized Claims Bonus Would Bring Higher Taxes Cl WASHINGTON April Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate tinanrr committee today that any of the bonus plans now pending would require additional expenditure mid therefore would call for additional taxes The tall cabinet officer sur rounded by a scnil eiri le of sen ators warned that a material decline In the market price of government securities" would re sult from any large expenditure out side the budget questioned by ineinlier of the roiniinttee Morgenthau said If the bonus passed the treasury was prepared to recommend a federal Inherltnnre tax that would raise from to(miooiwo a year ((ejecting compromise piupos als the American Legion today demanded full cash payment of the veterans bonus Pattisall daughter been in past two irvived by her hus Mrs Verna Bar privileges of the Dan A dance will be in the American Legion ball from nine until midnight Sunday at 3:30 a public meeting will be held at the city auditorium where Mayor Wooding will welcome the visitors in the name of the city and Wellman com mander of Post No 10 will voice the welcome in the name of that or ganization Reponses will be made by Dr John grand chef de re of the state of Virginia John Crow ley chef de chcmln de fer and by Sam Heller a past station masier of the organization The three past commanders of live American Henry Stevens Louis Johnson and Ed Hayes will then be heard In short addresses on subjects close to the legion and the orty and Eight ollowing the mass meeting there be a get together meeting in the Legion club room and shortly after (Please turn fo page 5 column 4 Buy and Sell Thro CLASSIIED SECTION The Register Bee An admonition that building an American treaty strength "must ing to us and equally to other was sounded to day by the House appropriations committee in laying before the chamber one of the largest peace time naval appropriation bills in history The committee cho tlii lan guage to explain it action in re ducing by almost S150OOvm) budg et estimates of requirements far the beginning of new ship con struction WASHINGTON April The position of the treasury on April 20 was: Receipts 845654867 expen ditures $2526091323 balance $2 0S44876S178 Customs receipts for a ket official disappeared yes terday three hour before he istn marry pretty Volande Cltar et Hr Cecil McLaughlin his physician said he was probably the victim of amnesia cau ed overwork in preparation for abence on his honeymoon Howell had with bun when disappeared lii unused marriage license and about SlOO Just with drawn from his bank for tn Bermuda honeymoon desire not to return ahead oil Rsietgh that "relief workers have as Cmintv iSon Wounds Self state rebel small num IIHLM I'altf April bet any Sunday could Bt as popular nt cburcli is if you made 'em fashion too The audience Is so busy looking at each other that the I preacher Jui a well leeitr Gung Din lie will do anything If youut in some way turn It into a show They say children In kin dergarten mut play in order to get to leirn ll bat do you mean children? Cross zlcs learned grown folks than school teaclicrs arithmetic the women thee gnt at a bridge table splemliil English eornr from at ending the modes My geography me from an aeroplane window Ira sir there I 120 million in theAmerican kindergarten But he consulted associates first and changed his mind Vice President Garner advised against a reply on the ground thnt Long could be hand led better if let alone Whether or not thia agrees with the future strategy of Secretary Ickes public works administrator and Har ry Hopkins relief chief it was said authoritatively today to be the policy of Senate at least for the present There was no sign today that Ickes and Hopkins were changing there stand on the subject of federal funds for Louisiana The relief admlnia tratlon has put a man of it own chocwing in charge of relief money In the Delta state and Ickes threatens to withhold PWA funds if Long's state government Insists on controlling th expenditures erted hey would rather lief khan work In the fields Mrs Thoma O'Berry administrator said only a ber of the men who refused work at Wilmington were on rebel She added that "those on relief arc often afraid to take temporary Jobs tor fear of losing their place on rc The colored woman hit and run driver on boro road near Stacy nieht was identified beyond question yesterday at the Reidsville mor i tuary where her remains nad been 40 and 8 Promenade This Week WILL ROGER) directly into a 30 1 the si longest ime on the! During the mostiney the wind had first remove him to the hospital but is reported to have refused to go so he was taken to Jail Instead 'In the Jail he was visited by City Health Officer vx Garnett could find no traces of poison was however found with a bottle containing potassium In the police court this morning he was charged with intoxication and was fined $5 and costs BEV LUI A I made Easter shows Major A letcher stat" com missioncr of labor said 48 men left Raleigh late yesterday for the berry area Georce assistant director of national re employment North Carolina telephoned letcher yester day that 69 of 75 workers taken from Wilmington to a strawberry patch had refused to accept work letcher said the growers offered Iran spot Mt ton to the fields food and lodging to those desiring work He added that a picker can earn from $150 to $2 dally" besides board CHICAGO April 1 The dnmbell rang I iank home lat night II iiiisii'l surprising to Stnpleion for lie was expecting hl old friend Ldwiird Ek (5 to ciill "I inni! In'' stapleton culled door Is unlocked" lien no one entered Mipiclon went to the loor to lincstlgale was there all light hiit be was dead apparently of heart disease GRErNVllLE Tex April (8') strange account of an eight ycar otd boy seizing a shotgun vvime walking In hfs sleep and killing hU 3'1 ear old mot her was related by tin" boy's father Darden till ing station operator to Investigat ing oltlccrs yesterday don't remember anything that sobbed little Jackie Glenn Darden who yesterday played "desperado" with his chum using a wooden Darden disc barge had kept prowlers near the houc recentlv "I Jumped from bed" he related "Jackie Glenn was standing about Oscar Austin aged 24 son Coun ty Officer Austin was imp: ov ine at Community hospital toaay aft er being brought there early yes'erday afternoon with a bullet wound in the chest His condition is not seriois and his recovery is anticipated by Dr Julian Robinson who him Little could be learned about the details of the shooting The young father was asleep at his home near Brosvllle when his son removed his service revolver from its holster and gomg to his room lay down on the bed A moment later a shut rang out and Austin was found wounded In the chest The bullet however in stead of making a direct wound took a diagonal course and emeiged be hind the shoulder without causing grave damage The shooting victim was bi ought to the hospital In Swicegood's ambu lance and given immediate treatment (Spring Planting Day is unservea At Stratford Today Stratford College today observed Arbor Day adding to the foliage of the rear campus by planting shrubs lege The opened 1 chapel ceremony on plants were the girl students The ceremony 1 was a public affair and was attended I by alumnae and friends of the In stitution Road Victim Is Identified By Relatives Killed Near Stacy ound to Be Delia Simpson Victim ined in Court or Intoxication olic" were called yesterday ning to CoVece avenue on receiving word that Emmett Eason aged 31 had swallowed some poison Impulse of the officers was Boy 8 Walking in Sleep Kills Mother With Gun that the waste an area of at square miles in some 250000 persons More than three hundred mem bers of the war bom organization'Quaraute Homines el Hull Che are expected here for three days during the coming week end to participate In the Mid Atlantic Pro menade of the organization The Den River Voiture will host to the delegates who will co: Pennsylvania Delaware Mary land Dtrict Virginia North olina as well the gucots will ed for their service to the American Legion these including Henry Stevens Louis Johnson and Hayes past national commanders the Legion and possibly rank Bel grano present national commander who is in the South at the moment and who has been urced to attend The programme came from the printer today and It provides for business sessions as well as the lighter entertainment features A large class from the mid Atlantic states is to be initiated in Wreck which is the ordeal by pan of which is work' pare of it public It includes a tie to be staeed on the lot across the strict from the armory where the novices lli be in the first line trenches and subjected to heavy drumfire The delegates will arrive here on Saturday afternoon will register and those who wish to play golf will be accorded the ville Golf Club held room On mass Near Gale Reduces Speed of Craft on light Over Pacific To Alameda Calif in Seek ing to Complete irst Round Trip light Between Is lands and Alainland Buf feted Most of Voyage Un able to Reach Normal Cruising Speed at Any Time lies Above Clouds Danville's recreation project isgrad the month $22031373181 ually getting started under the aus Receipts for the seal year (since pices of the health department SevenjJuly Ij $304124919271 expendi tures sot lu uioov8I (including $2 81666638843 of emergency expendi tures): excess of expenditures $2 50945240810 Gold assets J8675 24678570 victim ol a the Greens late Sunday 25 miles cross wind 950 miles out 119 5 1092 miles out radioed: "We have seen no surface craft since three hours 6 a Reached half way point 1200 miles bucking 30 mile head wind 7 1301 miles out making 1X miles into a 34 mile headwind UORCI 1 1 Ma April 23 Worcester lete the rd today on file mystery vauislied bridegroom Uilfored I Howell Jobs Turned iDown by NC ucking head winds and winds the huge Tan American Clippei roar i ed ateadily buck toward Alameda to day on' 'the first aerial Caltlornia Hawall round trip ever attempted The four motored seaplane passed the hallway mark of her 2400 re turn flight at 3 a (6 a East ern Standard Time)' without once reaching her normal cruising speed of 150 miles hour Crvptic reports from her erew gave no indication of whether the com paratively slow speed was caused bv the strong yicvailinc winds or hv A schedule tentatively set for 11 a in or noon (2 or 3 Eactcrn Stand ard Time I At 3 the plane 116 mile an hour mile east countered up to that flight (ho nreviouft loi been blowing from 15 to 25 miles an hour across Hie ships path Hying 7500 leet above the Pacific i ocean and thousand feci above I the clouds the crew of six had not seen a surlatc craft since 9 o'clock last ntcht i Aboard the plane when it took off from rcarl at nt I Honolulu Time yesterday (8:59 East ern standard Time) ware more than 12000 letters The take oil was jut one minute ahead ol the time an nounced by officials of Pan Ameri can airways owners of the huce craft Head and cross winds at the start the flight apparently cut the clip per's speed but there was no reported effoit by the six man crew to push (Please turn to page 5 column 2) are reports current that tnere may be no further 'grant' money President Roosevelt is reported to have set up terms for the borrowing of money but conversations are said to be continuing on this subject be tween Secretary Ickes and the presi dent with a snarl involving the pro 1 curement division which is 'delaying I the contract letting machinery Mrs Kate Quarles Died This Morning At Mem Hospital She was found to be I son aged 45 who lived two miles from Reidsville andwho earner dur inz the night was seen wu1 ancolored woman walking aioag I road towards the quarry Delia Simpson was missing al day night and again yesterday relatives suspicious ot this stance went to the undert tablishment and portions of clothing made it clear that she the missing woman Sheriff Len Worsham reported day that he had received no informa tion pointing to the identity ol the driver of the car which struck the woman and dragged her a consider able distance A fill rz station attendant has re ported that at about the time cf the eceident a man drove up to he pump to have his car fuelled and it was noted that back and the en lens of th ed to be stained with olood The man as asked what had happened to his car and he said that a truck had backed into it Recreational Activities Are Being Organized was left undamaged fttneken area Hasty repairs to the shattered rail way hne leading from here to Tainn and northward enabled relief workers and physicians to speed nito the in terior with their welcome stores of water food and blankets The latest official casualty figures which it was believed would be sub ject to only minor revision gave the number of dead as 3152 and the total seriously wounded as 10406 Damage was estimated at $3000000 Aerial surveys of the quake region showed that the flimsy Tillages bt the savage head hunting mountain tribes had escaped destruction and that heavy casualties at first feared in tuesareas hadnot'occurred It also was ascertained that or CLIPPER BATTLES SEVERE HEADWINDS Richmond Hears Danville Is Bracketed with Other Vir ginia Applicants Advices from Richmond to the ef fect that Danville is one of eight Virginia cities interested in securing power from energy developed ny the Tennessee Valley Authority and that electricity would net be available in this quarter until the Norris Dam has been completed and is function 1 ing created interest here today Well informed officials and citizens! who have been following the local 1 power situation made It plan that Danville has never in an 'ffical sense made any application for power from the TVA The listing of Danville wiin Appa lachia Dungannon East Radfoiu Ga lax Crewe Abingdon and Mation is believed to have been brought about by the enquiries which were made by the power committee which in the general scope ot its ac tivity addressed enquires bx Uie TVA as well as other power producer with a view to determining If power de veloped by the Tennessee river would be available in this section The response at that time was un satisfactory for while one of the pow er lines already extends into distant southwestern tip of Virginia the losses in transmission in bringing the power to Danville would be so great as to make the rates prohibitive Whether completition of the Nor I ris Dam will alier the power Jistri I bution picture is not known at this taken time but when the water thus har nessed is actuating generative ma chinery the scope of the TVA may be widened On this however the government is not willing to be quoted at this time and in any event no promises regarding power distribution over a wider area could be made by the gov ernment until litigation instituted to test the legality has been deermined Danville is making plans to renew an application to the Public Worss Administration for money ta ueveiop Pa 1 1 i rnnnYv rwiwpr nrnipf't pt i provided the people wish to do so a favorable vie in a EVIDENCE TO Queer Story Adopt Policy of Silence Towards Tirades 0 Democratic Leaders Say Kingfish Can Best Be Han dled If Charges Bring No Replies By J) HAKOLD OLIVER WASHINGTON April Democratic leaders in (hn Senate de cided today to apply the "silent to Senator Ixmg (D Ia) who cut loose yesterday with a new assault in which he Hung such words "chinch bug" and "ignoramus" at New Deal chiefs After experiencing some difficulty and mental strain In remaining tn tliclr scats while Long voiced his threat to take Louisiana out of the tax paying Union the leaders were said to have reached the conclusion' that better results would be obtain ed by silence than by returning shot for shot Senator Robinsdu of Arkansas the Democratic lender was nil set to re ply to Long at one point yesterday He expects that once the movement is in full operation it will produce 100000 thoroughly trained reservists for China's army every year In 26 per cent of the country's col leges and high schools compulsory military training already is in effect The new order will extend the sys tem to all of China's 1440 institu tions of learning of these categories In additloxi to the provisions made for secondary schools and colleges the government's order requires that boys in elementary schools be given the equivalent of Boy Scout training "tn order to Instill military furda Eventually the program envisagea instruction in war methods tr the enure civilian population China Orders Military Training School for Boys Step Is Part of Program to Construct Modern and Efficient Army Machine suffered no serious damage most of the mills and canefields Out ouv me oamagea zone The surveys dfsclosed shocks i laid proximately 2000 habited bv Most of the inhabitants are of Chi nese extraction and engaged in agri cultural pursuits A army and Japanese Red Cross workers pursued their merciful ef forts a succession of slight after shocks spread new terror None of the later quakes however was of sufficient force to cause damage The possibility that floods might add to the woes of the territory created concern among officials The Tansu river is close to flood stage as a result of recent heavy tropical rains and it was believed onlv con '1 one headlicht xas bent untied fair weather would check Its adiatcr bent Tie brek jrise headl gnt also appeal RI IDSV1ILE April niral service were held Sunday forj Charlies Archie Lambeth 8 year oldi son of Mr and Mrs Lambeth who was killed Saturday when struck and run over by a truck st near Monticello The services were held home and Interment in the lo Primitive Baptist church eemtery It was reported that the child un seen by the driver tried to get onto an empty fertilizer truck driven by Elijah Russell negro when he slip ped to the ground in front of the wheels of the moving vehicle De puty Sherlfl Bcvtll made an investigation The child is survived by his parents and two sisters Misses Edith and Catherine Lambeth I (Copyright 19135 hy A P) TAIHOKU ormosa April 23 Re lief agencies experienced in dealing I with earthquake disasters rushed food water and medical supplies to day into remote sections of north I western ormosa devastated in Sun day's catastrophe The problem of supplying water to the survivors became one of primary importance asa tropical sun parched the tongues of the stricken inhabi tants and added to the hazard of the I spread of disease I Scarcely a pipeline or a reservoir in the entire Prosecution in ranklin Liquor Conspiracy Trial Gives Summary of Its Case ROANOKE Va April MV The prosecution carried into United States court today an outline evidence it hopes will bring terms to 34 persons charged with a i gigantic conspiracy to defraud the government of tax on thousands of gallons 01 Illicitly manuiactured li quor in ranklin county Grait and corruption of county of ficials were charged in the blanket indictment with the prosecution as setting that protection money had been accepted from law violators and that the sheriff had instructed deputies to make no attempt to halt the liquor traffic Sterling Hutcheson United States attorney for eastern Virginia and a special prosecutor in the case was government federal Judge John until (Bv The Aoctale1 (All Times Eastern Standaid) MONDAY April 221 8:59 Took off from Honolu lu on 2400 mile Hight to Alameda California 9:30 Climbing slowly 60 miles oil Diamond Head Hawaii 118 miles an hour into 25 miles headwind 256 miles out ol Honolulu Midnight above clouds at 7300 foot altitude 145 405 miles out 1:30 a (Tuesday April Passed quaitcr way mark 618 miles out making 137 2:00 a 698 miles out weather good visibility unlimited 3 "00 a 818 miles out a third of the way across ner 1 4 a in Persistent Mrs Pattisall Passes Away jin Baltimore 1 uneral services for Mrs Pattisall who died at the home of her daughter Mrs Louise Ca: Baltimore' last night will be held anj express fmm Moffett Memorial church to referendum? eon i waiting for Is definition of the contractual terms ducted by Rev A Carter in the uncier rhe new works relief uimims absence of the pastor (ration Rates of interest may be mo Interment will be made in Moun 1 favorable than they were but there tain View cemetery Mrshad been living with her for the past year and ha: declining health for the years She is hand PattlSS bee and Mrs Louise Carnett both of Baltimore Mrs Bendall and Pattisall both of Roanoke Pattisall of Ruth Burgess and Pattisall of ihi' citv There are also 11 grand ALAMEDA Calif April Headwinds of near gale force tore at the wings of the giant Pan American Clipper as it forced its way steadily toward Alameda 'xtay to complete the first round trip flight ever made between California and Hawaii Steadily increasing to a velocity 86 miles an hour the headwind slow ed the powerful four motored sea plane down to a speed of lers thanj AUU Ui 44W Buffeted from her takeoff by winds and headwinds the Clipper did not reach her normal cruising speed of 150 miles an hour during the first I 12 hours of the 2400 wile return trip At 6 a (9 a in Eastern Stand ard Timet the giant monoplane was Hying into a 34 mile headwine 1 477 miles out of Honolulu an altitude of 7200 feet above a solid cloud bank acurcd the sea 1 MZ? 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