The Daily News Leader from Staunton, Virginia • 1

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No. 309 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATION! STAUNTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1932 uomasa leader jest, not DAILT NEWS EST. 1813 PRICE TWO CENTS FIRE DESTROYS CHICAGO GRANARY STRESS VALUE SALES. PX GREEK COURT EFUSES TO EXTRADITION OF FARM MEASURE DISCUSSION -SQIAL FOR TALKS ON MR DEBT, BONUS UNITED STATES RIOT WITH A 1 iUIOMHUII IS UNLIKELY No Action Along This line Ex pected at Present Session; Roosevelt "Horrified" by Reports He Had Endorsed Manufacturers' Sales Tax. Washington, Dec.

27. (rV The sales tax, recommended by President Hooevr and again thrust forward in congress during the past few days, was virtually dismissed today as a poeslbtUty at tne present session. Tht was clearly Indicated after President-elect Roosevelt at Al bany was represented as being ,7, W. Carter and Sheriff W. S.

Woolf joined in criticising ths re-that he had endorsed the general Rh.H A Damage estimated at more than $500,000 was caused whtn firs Isstroytd a Chicago grain tltvator containing 1,000,000 bushels of whtat. 3ns man died and sevsral wars Injured In tht conflagration. Flremtn are shewn fighting the fiarnta (Associated Press Photo) SANCTION IHSULL TO Authorities Resent Report of "Lynching" W'arrenton, Dec. 27. JP) Fa- mitor vwint law enforcement of ficers tonight denied there had been a lynching within the county during 1932, as reported by tne isauonai Aeeociaiion ior we Advancement of Colored People.

Commonwealth's Attorney C. Vhmnon Warrenton nwrro. OTldIlC4 poilUed to Luiclde in the Thompson ease. mt. uaner saw urn uom coroner's jury and the grand Jury had returned suicide verdicts, and added that the rope from wnien the negro was found hanging was known to have been in nis pos- Tlon pry.

Thompson had been hunted for Kv.ral week. oa charge of m4mna11v aMackinff a woman aft' er first assaulting her husband. The commonwealth charged that 4. itll Thompson carried wman him to a point some distance from the house and at the foot of nearby mountain. Thirty-six hours later blood-from Staunton were put on the trail, while police and cit- ixena' poseea eeourea ens neign- borhood.

A $500 reward was of fered for Thompson capture. Finally, the negro was found hanging from a tree. shuriff Wooir eaJti mere nao been no lynching In Faquler county within hie memory 1 Award Road and Bridge Contracts Ths state hihway commission yesterday awarded road and bridge construction cowtracts a vnlii of 1200.000. Seven projects were repreeented, Including a bridge over creek, on Route 19, In Nelson county, at a point .2 of a mile from Feber. Robert B.

Payne, Fredericksburg, was awaraeo tne contract on a figure of $5,224.60. The bid. were opened by the department on Dec. 2. Others follow: Brides over Aqula orcrt In Stafford county at a point 6.5 miles from Wldewater; Kooeri a.

Payne, Fredericksburg, $6,393. Soil roadway 3 rollea. Route 28, Green county, from Huckers-vllle to the intersection of Route 71; Roades Walters, Culpeper, $24,480.73. Grading and draining of 6 8 miles of Route 118, in Smyth county, from a point 1.4 miles north of Sugar urove vo a pumv miles south of Sugar Grovej R. H.

Boiling. Norton, $60,240.89. Soil roadway of 8.3 miles, Route 57, in Pittsylvania county, from a point $.2 miles east of Routs 14. to the Intersection of route: Karnes Construction company, Chatham. $24,291.81.

Grading and draining oi miles. Route 113, in Smyth and Grayson counties, from a point 3.8 miles south of Sugar Grove to a point 1 mile south of Trout-dale: R. H. Boiling. Norton.

Macadam roadway of 1.2 miles. Route 10, Roanoke county, from a point 2.6 miles west of Salem west: J. R. Vaughan Roanoke, $16,863.60. Rivers in South Go on a Rampage (By The Aserlated Press), The South kept iu sys cocked on river charts last night a.

tour state, reported high water and threat, of induatlon in scattered spots from Georgia to Arkanaas. Heavy rainfall for several days is responsible for ths situation, the Mississippi valley, where overflows are as inevitable aa taxea, watched IU bayous and rivers fill to their brinks and gush over unprotected A handtu of streams In tbe iiwiapM were running wild, but damage was slight. $250,000 1TATE IS iti ru 1 mnth, Ute of approximately awrsni'Hf nie. arr-. tv i eo.O00 was left to the Univer- sity of Virginia oy tae nut ut, Wltltr jt Seward, of Brunswick i CUuDlI.

1 1 fMWI jtiuto 4 I a Governor Is Asked to I AND SCOPE OF 4-H CLUB WORK Coiner Reports Plan to Organise 4-4 Club at VJP.L; Gives Rotary Club Interesting Statistics; "Honor Boys Are Gnests; 'Gift 'of Roses. 'v; "Four-H Club organiiatlons have proved so valuable to farm boys and girls that at V. P. I. they art planning to organiase 4-H clubi," Carl Coiner, an Augusta county 4-H alumnus, told the Staunton Rotary elub yesterday.

Highest honor 4-H elub boys for the rears 1923 to 1132 were guests yesterday of the Rotary club, which helps support this activity in Augusta. The boys told many Interesting; things about their club experiences and what they art doing now. One boy related how a 4-H project netted one member enough money, with the aid of a scholarship he had won. to go to colleger another told how the clubs are Inspiring boys and girls to better efforts in school, on the farm, and In community life, and the chairman for the day, Rotar-ian J. C.

Coiner, county agricultural agent, said that the clubs are really developing leaden for farm life. Saw Acute Need "Back in 12S," be stated, "we saw tht acute need tor leadership in agricultural communities. Realising the difficulties of training 'old dogs' in nsw tricks, we looked to the young people, and the 4-H elub movement was start ed." Tht four h's, he explained. are the head, the hand, the heart, and tht home, and the clubs seek to train their members in each of these departments of life, inspiring them not only to their best individual efforts, but si so to lead others, and to a love of the farm. Each year.

Coiner said, is chostn from the 4-H clubs of the county the outstanding member as the honor member for the year the highest award of the clubs. The boys honored since 1923, txcept two. were guests at the luncheon yesterday, sad each introduced himself and spoke briefly. The list includes: 1923 Hiram Airey, Center-ville, now a student at University of Virginia. 13 14 Boyd Glick, of Center-ville, now teaching at Bridge-water.

1924 Marshall Alexander, now an employee of the U. 6. poatofflce, Roanoke, and unable to be present. 1927 ira Miller, of Mt. Solon, now in charge of a chicken plant near Philadelphia; unable to be present.

U29 Jack N. Jackson, Staunton, 3rd year student, V. P. I. 1930 Roger Coiner, Flshers-ville, 2nd year student, S.

M. A. 1930 Lewis Harper, fsrming at Stuarts Draft. 1931 Harry Hamilton, 1st year student, V. P.

I. 1931 Carl Coiner, 1st year student, V. P. I. Christmas greetings from th Rotary club of.

Kensington, England, were read to the Staunton club yesterday, and announcement was made of a conference of the presidents Of Rotary clubs in this area here on Jan. 11 or 11, with District Gov. I. R. Johnson, of Roanoke, presiding.

Tht Rotsrisn and ladles serving their luncheon yesterday were presented with beautiful roses, the gift of John Fallon, florist member of the club. Guests were Rotarlant J. W. Vaughan, Cartersville. an J.

N. Jackson, Staunton. 0 Radford Voters Approved a Bond Issue for Plant Radford, Dec. 27. Freehold and qualified voters of Radford at the polls today approved the city council's proposal to issue municipal bonds to the amount of 1 160,000 for the construction of a hydroelectric plant on Little river.

The vote was: Qualified voters, for 430, against II; freehold voters, for 332, against 43, Preparations for construction of the plant are expected to begin immediately. Tie bonds will be offered on the open market and the reconstruction Una art corporation is expected to be a bidder. It was said. 1 i The plant will be erected at tht confluence of LHtle and New rivers, at practically the same site of a former municipal plant, destroyed several years ago by a flood, Chimney Blaze at Store is the Cause of Scare House Musters Quorum; Senate Meets for Five Minutes and Quits Until Friday; Several Probes Asked. Washington, Dec.

17. (JP) The call of duty, and perhapa the threat that a aergeant-at-arms would go after absentee, sent 243 house members to the floor today for a combination of argument and action. On the other hand, the senate only went through the formality of meeting, and quit within Ave minutes until Friday. For a time it looked as if Speaker Garner would be forced to make good on hla assertion that he would direct the aergeant-at-arms to round up enough member! to do business, provided a quorum 215 was not present. Motion by Depriest The quorum count came early through a vote on a motion by the only negro representative, Depriest (R.

to add for Howard university, negro school, to the 143,000,000 interior department appropriation bill. Vacant seats were prominent when the clerk began to call the roll but members trooped in from cloakrooms and offices. Along with the quorum count, Depriest' motion wai approved. The interior department Mil was passed soon afterwards and went to the senate. The agriculture department approbation measure was takekn up next but it was used as a spring board for speeches on the farmers' plight, war debts, the bonus army eviction, interest rates, the econslruction corporation and other things until quitting time.

Hits Interest Rate Representative LaGuardia (R. N.Y.), said high interest rates were one cause of the country's difficulties. He introduced a resolution to have the government use Us power to cut the rate to three percent. There were several proposals for Investigations. Representative Black N.Y.), denounced the bonus army eviction by government troops and said, congress should go Into it thoroughly.

Representative Garber (R-, said there should be an inquiry into loans made by the reconstruction corporation, commenting the charge bad been made that the corporation favored the larger banks. Representative Howard introduced a resolution for such an inquiry. Meanwhile, house leaders were thinking balancing a budget that has been out of line for three years. Speaker Garner reiterated that he would make collections equal expenditures even If the much discussed sales tax had to be passed to do it. 0 Some Doctors Have the "Flu" There was a continued spread yesterday of the wave of lnnuensa that has been prevalent in the community, and, while no figures were available as to the exact number of cases, it appeared that few families had escaped.

A new development yesterday was the reported illness of several physicians, who finally took to their beds after being overtaxed for several days by the combination of illness and the heavy pressure of professional duties attendant on the outbreak. Similar conditions are said to prevail In the county where at least one doctor is said to be down after seeing bis duties mount dally during the last fortnight because of the Increasing number of eases among his patients. To date, the encouraging facts have been that the disease this year appears to be in a mild form, yielding readily enough in most inatances to good care, and that there is practically no pneumonia thus far. NEGRO BOYS CONVICTED OF WOUNDING MOTORMAX Danville. Dec.

OP) Two negro youths, aged fifteen and seventeen, were convicted today of wounding a street car motor-man In a hold-up attempt a month ago. Both pleaded guilty. DRAWING UP OF WILL IS DESCRIBED Lawyer for Late Mia Wendel Tells of Signing of Document, After Its Maker Had Discussed Various Provisions; Asked Size of Estate. New York, Dec. 27.

(JP)A picture of the scene as the late Ella Wendel, aged recluee, drew up her will disposing of an estate valued at many millions, was sketched today by one of her lawyers at a hearing preliminary to the trial of a contest over the will The witness, George Flint Warren was questioned by both Samuel Untermeyer, attorney for four relatives whose right to con-teat the will baa been established, and Emory Buckner, attorney for the estate. Representatives of the Individuals, and the religious and charitable organisations named as beneficiaries were present as spectators. Visited Her Warren told how on July 20, 1923, he and Mary Moore, secretary, to Charles G. Koss, Miss Wsndei's personal attorney, went to the Wendel home at irvlugton. Miss Wendel greeted them with "the usual courtesies" and ordered a glass of milk served to Miss Moore.

(Continued On Page Two) Finds Depositions Brought to Athens from Chicago Do Not Support Embezzlement Charges Against Former Utilities Magnate. Athens, Dec. 27. (JP) Samuel Insull ate dinner with friends tonight, a free man after a Greek onurt harl rafiiMri tn aanction his extradition to the United States to answer Cook county. 111., charges of mismanagement of the funds of his utilities companies.

Tne court, alter navrnx preemp-torily cut short the presentation of the defense case, found that depositions brought to Athena from Chicago fiia not support ins charges against the former utilities operator, and let him go tree. Extraordinary Scenes There were extraordinary aeenes among the large crowd which had gathered for the verdict and ahouts of "long live Greek Justice!" echoed through the building, from which Insull emerged something of a hero. "I owe thanks to Greek justice for the sympathy expressed," the Chicagosn said. The charges against Mr. Insull In Chicago are grand larceny and emberalement.

They Involve payments of $86,000 and $104,000 which, according to a deposition made by Oliver MeCormick, treasurer of the utilities compan ies, were made to oroxers ior Martln Insull. a brother Th nrneecution contenaea theee payments constituted em-besalement. The court held they wx.r. nrriiniL-v huslness transac tions, that they were loans made for, the purpose or saving me price of stock, tn which the companies were greatly interested. No Fraudulent Intention Mr.

Insull had no fraudulent intention, the court decided, and he committed no offense. Ths tribunal held that none of the charge triads against him bad been backed up by the deposition presented in court, and that there waa no JustlBcatlon for extradi- tl0nThe former multl-milllonahe utilities oerator waa defended by Arthur Pae, a London lawyer. rrv jni.ini'i nreek counsel was headed by Crlstos Ladas, one of the most eminent auornr? Athens. Mr Insull was debonair ami talkative when he walked into the hearing room. He complied with the formality of establishing his identity, asserted that he hart no profession, and agreed that the proceedings be public.

The ease for extradition waa presented by Public Alganakoks. Shortly after the nubile attorney began to speak. Ladas Interrupted him. protesting against the taking of moving pictures. The court acceded to his demand that the photographers be forbidden.

M. Riganakoa explained to the court that Samuel Insull was chairman and his brother Martin (against whom extradition proceedings are pending in Canada) was president of the Mississippi Valley and the Middle-West Utilities eompany. Pressed for Payment Martin Insull owed dabts i brokers and was being pressed for payment, the attorney continued, and the brothers agreed to make the payment with money belonging to ths companies. The attorney charged that this payment waa carried out by ehecks in a manner designed to cover em-bexslement. The defense countered with a statement: that the transaction was entirely orderly in the light of the companies by-laws.

The treasurer, ths defense attorney aeserted, was responsible for tbe property of the companies, and he should be indicted first if any offense existed. tr.ri Mr. Insull life from the time he served as secre Edison, tha inven tary to nomata tary to Thomas Edison, me ra-tor. and praised his ability and -v lor rA navment to the r---- th rh.raeterTh.vaym brokers, hs declared, was msd to avoid a "eatastropnic" aaie oi the companies. 0 PRICE JAILED Charged with drunkennea and disorder, Ed Price waa arrested last evening by Officer F.

L. Long and H. H. Engleman and put in jail. Tl 1 ardon era ers from a thirty-day Jail sentence, with the payment of the $100 fine and costs Imposed upon him.

The supreme court has refused him a writ of error. Judge John M. Hart who pawed the sentence upon Powers, joined the petitioners, ae did Delegate Burks, of Bedford. Pew-era has been represented by Dels-gate Scott, of Roanoke, The- tabloid, called "Roaiioks Life," haa ceed pubiftaUtea. STRING TO IT Cincinnati, Dec 27.

"There's a riot at McMillan and Woodburn avenue," a man shouted over the telephone to police headquarters today. With sirens screaming, three squad cars rushed to the scene. They found more than fifty persons watching a 'kitten push a spool of thread across, the sidewalk. Gibbs Worshipful Master of Masons Staunton's Blue lodge Masons last night held the annual election of officers as an Incident of their observance of St. John's Day.

Following the election, a banquet was served. The Rev. J. Lewis Glbbi was elected worshipful master, other new officers being as follows: Murray Wright, senior warden; Junior warden. MaJ.

RoyW.Won-son; treasurer, C. Wallace Wiseman; senior deacon, R. L. Souders; Junior deacon, Lyle O. Weller.

Appointments announced were the Rev. W. 8. Thomas as chaplain, and J. A.

Wehn as tiler. The ev. Boyd V. Switier D.D., was the principal speaker at the banquet. r- Committee Is Called to Speed House Beer Bill Washington, Dec.

27. A call for a meeting of the senate Judiciary committee tomorrow to hasten action on the house 3.2 percent beer bill was issued today by Chairman Norrls a members of a sub-committee pored over law books, ia, a study of the constitutional Questions involved. Norrls expressed hope that his second effort to obtain a quorum of the committee would be successful, so formal consideration of the Mil could be expedited. Absence of a majority of the group blocked action yesterday. Leaders said the beer WU could be taken up in the senate immediately after the Christmas recess, Jan.

3, If it was ready by that time, but the chances of this were considered slim by member of the committee. If Norrls fails to secure a quorum of the Judiciary group tomorrow, he "will call a special meeting for early next week so that no more time than necessary will be lost. Even without action by the full committee, however, a sub-committee headed by Senator Blain Wis.) is studying the constitutional questions involved in the beer legislation In order to save time. Blaine has indicated favors redrafting the Collier bill passed by the house so that the one-half of one percent limitation In th VnWmri law will be revealed. whatever the supreme court de cides about tne constitutionality of 3.1 percent beer.

Leading opponents of the beer hin iMArtMl todav that there Is no organised movement to pre vent a senate vote on near at tms session. Senate leaders have expressed confidence the question will come to a vert unless a fili buster develops. Rescue Workers Are Forced out by Gas Pockets Moweaqua, 111.. Dec. 27.

(JP) Rescue workers searching tor the bodies fn the Moweapua mine here were forced to withdraw from the tunnels tonight because of poison gaa podketa. Because of the haiard of rescue work, the possibility loomed that the mine might becoms the tomb for fourteen coal miners still missing. Mrs. Kerr Moreheed Harris, Judge of the juvenile court, committed the younger negro to a reform school for an Indefinite) period. The other boy will receive sentence Friday.

terview witnesses. The attractive defendant was released under $5,000 bond, which was renewed by her uncle, Walter South, of Morrison. 1 Although the Juvenllt court has jurisdiction in the cats, the hearing probably will be held in the corporation courtroom behind dosed doors. Both attorneys asked that the trial tt.rt at an early hour, probably ten o'clock, to permit the taking of all teXiiaony durfs-g day, manufacturers' sales tax. This attitude on the part the next president, Speaker Gr- ner, "kills the sales tax this sen eion, anyhow." (Jcneral Opinion Kven hefora thla.

Senator Mar riaon of Mississippi, ranking Dem ocrat on tne aenate nnance com W-a ft, uu iiio ascii.cs.iVJ gtiitsiia tuui' mlttee. had expressed the opinion through hi. branch. Thi. rlew was generally held by Democrat ic leaaers.

in ootn Drancnes, nowever, msi Democrat, pushed forward their In both branches, however, th tteniDt to balance 1924'a budget aa as to avoid If at all nosalble a epecial session before next fall. Th way and means committee of the house will beeln on Jan. 1 an exhaustive study of federal fi nancing. This is the tax-raising committee and lis chairman. Collier of Mississippi, only yssterdsy said he knew of no means fo balancing the budget except the sales tax.

i However, the views of President-elect Roosevelt communicated to congress have been directed largely at reduction of expenditures, and intensive wprk along the line is in progress A study of fixed expenditures, which do not vary from year to year, and amount in all to more than a billion, was undertaken by a subcommittee of the appropriations committee at the request of Chairman Byrns. They are to see if any reduction is feasible. As Democratic congressional leaders understand it, the President-elect would 111 9 the present session to adopt a resolution for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, past a beer bill, eut expenditures to the bone, and enact a Democratic farm relief measure. If all this could be done, Senator Harrlaon said today, "we could get along without an extra session until late summer." He saw no escaps from an extra session if President Hoover should veto the beer and farm relief bills. The senator alao favored continuing the existing one-cent gasoline tax.

which he estimated meant a yearly revenue of 000,000. On the question of regular annual appropriationa, the house appropriations committee haa been more critical than usual. It has submitted to the house three bills the treasury-postofflce. Interior and agriculture departments. These carry $426,724,000 less than for ths current year and $33,637,000 less than the budget asked.

Is "Horrlfled'' Albany, N. Deo. 27. President-elect Roosevelt's advisers today said that ha was "horrified" at the suggestion that he had endoeed the proposal that a general manufacturers' sales tax be put through at the present short session of congress as a meant of balancing ths nation's budget. The suggestion was contained In news reports from Washington, not carried by Ths Associated Press, that the President-elect hf ImumI rflrect instructions to Speaker Garner, the vice-presi dent-elect, to revive tns saies is plan.

Is Silent Mr. Roosevelt himself was silent on the Washington reports and declined to indicate whether hs would use his Influence with ths Democratic" majority In the house in any way with relation to ths sale tax proposal during the present session. York Governor was "horrified" at SEIM)S COUNTY NEGRO If SHOT BE. LOW HfcAKT Wyatt Coleman, colored, forty. rJ Arrlnrtnn Nalion eouivtr.

Was admitted at five-thirty Monday to University hospital, Charlottes mity hospital, Charlottes- with a gunahot wound tn test, supposed have been ville. ths cheat received late that day. Coleman's condition makes it impossible for htm to talk to hospital attendants In anything except monosyllables, a ad no de-tals of the accident could be learned, except that he was in a room with another man and that the shot entered at extremely close range. The bullet entered beneath the heart, and can be felt below Coleman's shoulder blade, itl said, it Is presumed that the slug Is from a firearm. Owing to the state nf health of tha natient.

even the most meagre nospitai recorusj cannot be compiled. Coleman, the most meagre hospital records mnot be complied, coieman, ho is a farmer, is a well-known I I I I LOAN PLANS TO BRING UP DEBT ISSUE France a Party to Agreement of Powers to Lend Austria OOO.OOO; FVench Papers Discuss Probable "Decisive Turn" When Roosevelt Takes Office. Pans, Dec. 27. W') The war debt question for the moment has entered a diplomatic lull, but it doubtless will be raised again to morrow and Thursday when the chamber of deputiea wwl debate the iesue of French participation in a reconstruction loan to Aus tria.

At the Lausanne conference last July, the powers decided to lend Austria 300,000,000 schil lings (about (48,000,000) one- third of which, or more than 14,000,000, would come from Krance. There has been ome criticism of the government for lending money to Austria when it haa Just refused to pay the December war debt interest of about 000 to the United States. In the opinion of the Radical Socialist newspaper L'Oeuvre, it is hardly logical, having refused to pay the debt, to consent to the loan Animated Debate Expected Because of this opposition animated debate is expected in the chamber. The finance committee of the chamber voted ten to five (Continued on Page Two) confused with loans provided for In the R. F.

C. enactment, said the city manager. These loans must be used for self-liquidating projects, and an Interest rats la charged. "It means simply a re quest for an advance of money and not a loan," he said. Already over thirty-seven counties and nine cities of the state have requested advances of monies tor relief work, Mr, Day asserted.

Council Considered Matter City council considered the question of requesting such an advance at its meeting laat Thurs day night. The city manager was instructed to prepare the application papers, the exact amount not then being known. The amount of the advance could only be determined after various esti mates and needs for relief had been calculated, Mr. Day stated All councilmen favored making a request for this advance of relief money. The city manager was to call the council toeether or notify the members of the amount ar rived at, when he completed the application survey.

This he did last Saturday, be said, with three councilmen. A fourth was away and the fifth could not be reach ed over the phone. Wlille the request has been for warded to Governor Pollard, Mr. Day said it was not known what the reaction of the Governor and tbe R. F.

C. officials would be towards Etaunton's application The county of Augusta baa already applied for and received some relief money, the total hav Ing been broken ep Into several allotments. mm APPLIES FOR AN R. F. C.

ADVANCE FOR RELIEF Federal road monk will be spent by the dty of Staunton for. relief during this month, January, and February, it the reconstruction finance corporation sees fit to honor the municipality request for an advance of City Manager F. Day announced yesterday. Tht sum of $10,062.00 has been estimated as seeded for local relief during the three, months, of which $2,387.60 is available from local funds. The difference is $7,664.40.

The city manager say that the December amount needed would perhapa be deducted from the total advance of $7,664.40 requested, as the month is just about gone. Provisions of the R-T. C. rules do not permit any sum to be retroactive, Mr. Day said.

Sot a Ltmn The sum requested for this city is not a loan, but is as advance of anticipated federal monies to the state road work, and 20 per cent of the sum advanced would be annually deducted from the road allocations to Virginia from tht federal government, beginning with the year 1935 and continuing until 19 40. Just bow the tats would deduct the funds allocated to Staunton Is not known, Mr Day asserts, as the legislature bad made no provision for this matter, it Is pomlble, he said, that the state might reduce the sum advanced from the per mile given this city for state highways that traverse the city streets. Tht requeet for an advance of funds tor relief work mtt aot be Continuance Is Granted in Case of the Lassiter Girl; Her Bond of $5,000 Renewed rowers, tne taitor oi KoanoKe Tabloid, Given 30-Day Sentence Richmond, Dee, 27. (Governor Pollard today had under advisement a petition for the conditional pardon of A. R.

Powers, editor of a Roanoke tabloid, who waa convicted of "criminal libel" tor publishing quotations alleged to have been made in a speech by S. Russell Hensley, criticising public officials and others. a lengtny petition came to ia Governor today, asking tha he Newport News, Dec. 17. (JP) A continuance until Jan.

6 was granted this afternoon by Judge John W. Massey, of juvenile court, in the cms of Frances Lassiter, sixteen-year-old high school girl, who is charged with slaying her father, Alexander M. Lassiter. The continuance was granted after a conference of Commonwealth's Attorney Herbert O. Smith, Defense Counsel Charles Berkeley, and Judge Massey.

Roth attorneys told tie court they wt.3ed farther time to in A chimney fire at the Hub Furniture company establUhment at 22 South Augusta street Jhrew off a great quantity of smoke, due to atmospheric conditions, yesterday afternoon and for a few minutes caused a soars in the busi-nem section. However, it was easily extinguished by the department, responding to an alarm from box 31 at four-Swa Uv clemency la pardoning Pow resident of Arrisgtoa..