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ff FORTY-EIGHT YEARS DJ THS PUBLIC SERVICE Oldest Virginia Dally West ol the Blue Ridge THE WEATHER Generally fair today and Thurs- "day, slightly warme today. 49th YEAR. No. 178 DA 11, freWS EST. 1IM LEADER EST.

1901 STAUNTON, Va, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1938 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PHESS AUDIT bUiU.AU CiHGUULUQSU PRICE TWO CENTS ft li MM One Was Killed in This Bus Accident IMPORTANT ARCHEST OVER BLACK'S EIGHTY RUFFLES BAR BOMBINGS RESULT 111 TERRORISM JOBLESS HAH LEAPS FROM HOTELLEDGE Jumps to Death from 17th Floor of -New York Hotel Despite Fleas; Bad Clang to Narrow Ledge for More than 10 Hourt; Scream Rise from Thousand! Below. ASSOCIATIONS SEREtffFY Stepmother Held .4 I i i 1 1 While this bua was descending Vienna Hill, near Hackettstown, N. its driver, Alfred E. Daniel, of Elmira, N. swerved to avoid an oncoming car.

The bus veered against bridge abutment The crash opened the emergency door and hurled Morse Sirens, Brooklyn, N. passenger, to his death. The bus toppled over after sliding 100 yards. Five passengers were treated for injuries. Neutral Embassies Make Their Evacuation Plans By WILLIAM 8.

WHITE New York, July In a flare-lit scene of hysterical horror, John Ward, twenty-six and unemployed, leaped to death tonight from a seventeenth floor hotel ledge to which he had clung. Intermittently threatening to Jump, for more than ten hours. His body landed on Fifty-fifth street near Fifth avenue amid scattered screams rising from among the thousands who for hours had stood morbidly bemused. Many women fainted and ambulances screamed Into the area to take them away. The last of a half-dozen expedients to bring Ward down safely was all but completed when, calmly and with no single outcry, he casually stepped from the ledge.

The police nearly 1,000 of whom had been brought Into the fashionable mldtown area to aid In the rescue and In pushing back the curious had hauled up from the atreet a stout net of the sort used In loading cargo. They had Intended to grasp one end at the sixteenth floor, another at the eighteenth, and thus to enmesh Ward as a butterfly la netted. Waa Creeping Upward 'just as the net crept silently upward past the sixteenth floor, Ward came at last to his decision. He stood with the right foot half extending from the ledge. He poised a moment, then thrust his left foot forward, clear of the ledge, and plummeted downward.

First the body dropped head-on; then it began to spin craslly around and end over end, until with a high smash it struck a mar-quee. Below the whole area was alight with photographic flares and noise broke from the crowd, first in a long moan and then in a series of sharp, Individual screams. Ward's last words were heard by Dr. O. C.

Presner. a city health department physician, who had talked with him frequently during the day. j--. Hinged on Promise "He said if we could promise him that life was worth living, he would come in," the doctor said, "He said many people close to him were against him. He said (Continued on Page Col.

3) i Are Attending Wildlife Part of Conference Japanese Forces Push Up Yangtze River from Lee Refuses to Withdraw Resolution Asking Supreme Court for Information on Black's Eligibility. Cleveland. July 26. Controversies over a resolution on the "eligibility" of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Is Black and a critical report of the special committee on administrative law ruffled the serenity of the American Bar asso ciation tonight as committees labored to perfect the machinery of Justice. Dean Edward T.

Lee. of John Marshall Law school, Chicago, re fused to withdraw his resolution asking the U. S. supreme court for information on Justice Black's eli gibility to serve despite the efforts of two Alabamans one a "personal mend" of Black to intervene. "1 am a personal friend of Hugo L.

Black, and I want to take the floor against this," said Circuit Judge Richard D. Evans, of Birmingham, at a meeting of the resolutions committee. Evans said the supreme court had once refused to rule on Black's eligibility and there was no reason for the association to press the matter. Marvin Woodall, past president of the Birmingham Bar association, said the resolution was "impertinent." Lee said he thought "the bar as sociation owes it to the people to have this question cleared up." Afterward in the hotel corridor outside the committee room an unidentified delegate shouted at Lee and Woodall: "You have Insulted Dean Lee." "We didn't insult the dean." Ev ans answered. "Your friend the dean Insulted Justice Black." The resolution, which will not reach the floor before Thursday, questions Black's right to serve be cause of a constitutional provision that "no senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the U.

8. which shall have been created, or the emolument whereof shall have been Increased, dur ing such time." ARGENBRIGHT FOUND GUILTY OF. MURDER Buena Vista. July 26 P) Clarence Argenbright twenty-five, a silk mill worker, was found guil ty tonight by a Jury in the cir cuit court here of the first degree murder of his wife. Alma, last May 3.

Judge Joseph A. Glas gow sentenced him to Hie Imprisonment, in accordance with the verdist. 0 REWARDS OFFERED IN DEATH OF McDANIEL Boydton, July 26. (Pl Rewards for the apprehension and conviction of persons responsible for the death of 6tovall McDanlel, Union Level farmer, were increased to $700 today when Commonwealth's Attorney C. Bedlnger made public an offer of $250 posted by the state of Virginia- This reward holds good for ninety days from July 2.

Newly Occupied Kmkiang loward Hankow, Chinese Provisional Capital; Chinese Expected to Make Their Next Stand at Tienkiachen, 105 Miles Below Hankow. Shanghai, July 27 (Wednesday). (AP) Japanese forces pushed up the Yangtze river today from newly captured Kiukiang toward Hankow, Chinese provisional capital, which neutral embassies were reported preparing to evacuate. y- Gunboats steaming up the thirty-mile stretch to Tienkiachen, where Chinese were expected to make their next stand 105 miles below Hankow, 1 11 RIYAL PLANES REACH HORTA Horta, Azores, July 28. OTV-Two transatlantic air rivals, the German catapult seaplane Nordmeer and the British pick-a-back seaplane Mer cury, landed here this afternoon after uneventful survey flights from North America.

Two hours and ten minutes ahead of the Mercury, the German plane arrived from Port Washington, N. at one-twenty p. Greenwich mean time, (eight-twenty a. m. EjS.T.) The Mercury covered the approximately 1,500 miles from Bot-wood, Newfoundland, in seven hours and thirty-eight minutes.

0 Legion Post to Elect Officers on August 11th Election of officers for 1S38-39 will be a principal matter of business to be disposed of when Clemmer-Mc-Guffin post No. 13, of the American Legion holds its next meeting at the Legion home on Aug. 11, beginning at eight-thirty p. m. This is the last meeting before the Charlottesville convention, for which 100 per cent attendance is being sought, Commander W.

C. Lee states. 0 DATE CHANGED Because of the Farmers picnic, the congregation of Bethlehem TJ. B. church, near Swoope, has changed its annual lawn party to Thursday, Aug.

25. They promise a delicious supper of ham. chicken, beef, and all that goes with them at a nominal price. 0 CAN PRACTICE HERE C. A.

Paxton, of Charlottesville, was granted leave yesterday to nrar.tlce law in the corporation court here. He is a regular licensed attorney in his home city. GAINS ARE ANNOUNCED Spanish Government Announces Captor ef Ten Villa res, Strategic Hills, and 3,000 PrisAn-cr In Smashing Thrnst Aew Ebre River on Catalan Front Hendaye, France, (at the Span ish Frontier), July Spanish government tonight an nounced that its forces had cap tured ten villages, seven strategy hills, and 3,000 prisoners in a smashing thrust across the Eoro river on the Catalan front northeastern Spain. These victories came witnin twenty-four hours the government forces launched their Catalan offensive, it was an nounced. A government communique luted the captured villages as Montes An Asco, Venta de Composlnes, Ccr- bera, Rlbarroja.

Flix, Fatarena. ise-nisanet, Mirabet, Pinell, and Mora de Ebro. Insurgent garrison forces these village either fled, were captured, or "liquidated, the communique said, "as the victories advance continued." Government troops alv occupied the Junction of the Madia-Frag road and the Fawn road, and cut the road from Gandesa to Asco. These point are south and west Of the Ebro. The Catakmians were reported tonight to be menacing Gandesa, and to have trapped a large iorce of insurgents on the Ebro river delta.

Dr. McMillan Says Nation Has Lost the Fear of God Harrisonburg, July 26. (JP) Or. Homer McMillan of Atlanta, executive secretary of home missions for the Southern Presbyterian church, pointed to America's millions of non-church members in telling the Virginia synodlcal training school today, "as a nation, we have lost the fear of God." Seventy millions in a population of 134 millions are not enrolled to any Christian denomination, he said. Twenty-seven millions of flf millions under twenty-flva years of age.

hsve no religious affiliations. "Neglect of God's book and desecration cf his day," led to "consequent desertion of God's house," he told the training school at Mas-sanetta Springs. The school is be ing held under the sponsorship or the Women auxiliary of the synod of Virginia. Registration to date was 180. Dr.

McMillan said that this country's non-church member population and its crime record were matters calling for increased home mission effort 0 FAIRGROUND FENCE TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN FEW DATS Construction work on the ncv fence at the fairgrounds is proceeding rapidly. City Manager W. L. Hall said last oight, and the structure should be completed within a day or so. The fence, which runs along the outfield at the ball grounds, will be about 600 feet long and eight feet in height.

It la being ereced as a Joint proposition by the city and the baseball club, with the former fumtehlng the labor and the latter providing the materials. The city manager expressed the opinion that the fence would be an aid not only to the baseball organisation, but to the fair association as well in its efforts to control attendance at various affairs. UTILIZING SLUDGE TV LIME MANUFACTURE Utilizing the sludge from the du Pont plant in Waynesboro as one of its raw products, the Staunton Lime corporation is now making prepara tions to produce what Is believed to be a superior type of lime for orchard tsts and farmers, it was learn ed last night The company, it is said, will take the sludge and mix it with a quan tity of quick lime. The mixture will then be dried, crushed, and screened, and then made available commercially. The corporation it now constructing its drying plant opposite the sludge pile and it is said the works will be in operation by Auy.

15. 0 HOLD SPECIAL SERVICES AT SPRING HILL CHURCH Spring Hill Presbyterian church will be the scene cf a series cf special services beginning at seven-forty-five p. m. next Sunday, it was announced last night. The Rev.

W. W. Eprouse. of this city, will deliver the messages throughout the series. A cordial invitation to attend is being extended to the public.

RECEIVED MEDALS Among local National Guard fl eers honored during their two-weeks' encampment at Virginia Beach, were Major H. F. White. Capt R. Canada, and Sgt W.

Taller, it was learned last night. The trio is connected with the Headquarters Medical detachmert and each of them was the recipient of the ten-year-service medal. They were also complimented on the ex cellent showing made In the fcrijide review last Friday, British Troops Start Extensive Raldi Prevent Guerilla Bands Fear en Racial Conflict In Holy Land. By JAMES A. MILLS Haifa, Palestine, July 26 (JPi British troops started extensive mid todnv to orevent formation of Guerrilla bands which authori ties feared might broaden tne racial conflict between the Holy Land's Arabs and Jews.

The troops made numerous mrtt raid in the village -dotted Mils following the death of sixty-five persons and injury of 107 when a time bomb exploded yesterday in a Haifa market place. The bombing appeared to have loosened a new avalanche of terrorism. Bomb Discovered A great loss of life was averted today when a time bomb set for nine a. m. in the crowded Arab vegetable market of Jerusalem was discovered Just fifteen min-(Contlnued on Page 3, Col.

2) Workers Invited to Take Work at. Vaughan Factory Galax, July 26 The Vaughan Furniture company extended a further invitation today to workers to take Jobs at the company's plant here as a strike at the factory neared the end of its second week. Taylor O. Vaughan, a Republican state senator and president of the company, said the concern was still ready to accept men and that he had received numerous applications by mall, telephone, and telegraph. Meanwhile, M.

K. O'Sullivan, field representative of the nationaL labor relations board, said upon his return to Baltimore from a conference here, that he would recommend Issuance of a complaint against Vaughan. O'Sullivan said the employees' union charged the company with failure to bargain in good faith. Directors of the company yesterday voted to liquidate the concern after an advertisement for workers resulted In only one man reporting for a Job. Senator Vauchan.

in commenting on the action of the directors, said a conference with a labor relations board representative had "confirmed an opinion I already had that there is no place for me in business that employs men." Strikers continued to picket the plant today. Approximately 260 employees struck in protest against a fifteen percent reduction in wages. Mr. Vaughan said today he did not tell the strikers yesterday morning he would not hold another conference. It was explained he aDDeared before the strikers after only one man had responded said that this was his last state ment to the men.

VITAL HATTER HULL DECLARES Secretary. Hull said many of the trade barriers of foreign countries were set up in direct retaliation to the Hawley-Smoot act "The loss of foreign markets for American cotton would mean for the South economic prostration with its attendant periods of pain ful adjustment to new conditions. all of which would have Incalculable and disastrous effects on the country as a whole." In view of the peed for equit able agreements to aid American farmers, Secretary Hull said the 1S34 trade agreements act "laid the groundwork for mutually prof' itable trade agreements with for eign nations." Under the new- policy, trade agreements, have been completed with seventeen countries, including Canada, seven European countries and nine countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Secretary Hull said the agree' ments already in effect covered about forty percent of the foreign (Continued oa rage 2, CcL 4) Francis Loth, Waynesboro, vice-president of the Virginia Wildlife federation, and Justus H. i Cline, Stuarts Draft, national director, are among the prominent wildlife conservationists attending the wildlife section of the Institute of Rural Affairs at Blacks-burg.

These county conservationists are among a group who have been ft Eleanor Whaley, 12, (above) is one of four step-children who related stories of alleged beatings and tortures inflicted upon them by their stepmother, Mrs. Alice Whaley, of Elizabeth, N. J. Mrs, Whaley, held by ponce, denied the "Cinderella" charges. UNOFFICIAL MEDIATOR IS APPOINTED Great Britain Stepa Into Explosive Ctechoslovak German Quarrel, Assuring World European War Is Farther Away; Chamberlain Spurns Policy of Peace at Any Price.

By J. C. STARK London, July 26. CH Great Britain stepped into the explosive Czechoslovak-German quarrel today by appointing -an unofficial mediator and assured the world that a European war was farther away. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain put the main hope of dispelling Europe's war clouds in the British mediator's success at solving the Czechoslovak problem and announced that Viscount Runcl- man, former member of the cab- (Continued on Page 2, Col.

2) ent are not eligible for sush credit Such a policy, the board believes. will aid young men to establish themselves in farming rather than to leave rural communities. Dr. J. L.

Maxton, agricultural economist at Virginia Tech, presented a paper dealing with government loans to minors. The executive committee endorsed the holding in the fall of a school for employees of cooperative associations. All groups interested in cooperative activities are to be invited to participate in the short course. In welcoming the conference board this morning, Dr. John R.

Hutcheson, director of the extension division, declared that farmers must stick together to solve their mutual problems. Electa President Mrs. Malcolmn Fincastle, was elected president of the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs. Other officers elected Include: Mrs. Egbert Thompson, Prince William county, vice president; Mrs.

P. L. Guynn, Norfolk county. Eastern district president; and Mrs. J.

J. RlegaL Campbell county, Central district president. Terms of the secretary, treasurer, and Northern and Southwestern district presidents do not expire until next year. A garden party was held from four-thirty to six o'clock this evening in the Garden theatre in honor of the newly elected officers. Goals set by the federation of Home Demonstration Clubs Include: expansion cf home demonstration forces; library extension; Increased appropriation for schools, public health; penal reform: safer and better highways; minimum wages for women, and retirement lot extension workers.

Invited to be honor guest of the Blacksburg Game association Thursday afternoon at a barbecue and shooting match at Redwood tavern nearby. The festivities will follow upon the conclusion of the wildlife sec tion of the institutes program. which begins at two p. m. with a presentation of the national park wildlife program, by C.

Fres- nail, of the national park service, Police on Watch for Armed Trio Bound for W. Va. Visions of bank robbers and other desperadoes were conjured up last night when local police were advised to be on the lookout for three young men, heavily armed with an assortment of machine guns and pistols, who were possibly headed this way. Information concerning the trio came from Waynesboro. Police there stated the men were traveling in a black sedan, of undetermined make, and that the machine had either purple or blue license plates.

The men were reported to Waynesboro police by Nightwatchman Lafferty, near Fairfax Hall. He stated that one of them said they would try to make West Virginia by two o'clock in the morning. While the most direct route from Waynesboro to West Virginia would bring them through Staunton, they were unreported by police at midnight. PROHIBITIONISTS TO HOLD CONVENTION IN RICHMOND JULY 29 Announcement has been received that the state convention of Prohibitionists will be held July 29 In the Y. M.

C. Orace street, Richmond- The convention Is to be called to order at eleven a. m. The address of the afternoon will be "Uncle Sam, Saloonkeeper Miss Virginia, Bartender." Every "dry" in Virginia, regardless of political affllatlon. the announcement says, is Invited to attend and hear the state liquor problem discussed.

tank for liquids we other units, the drying plant producing fertilizer that can be used in agri culture, liquid will be chlori nated and returned to the creek, and filtered through sand or rock the obtective beinar ninety per cent to ninety-five per cent purity so there will be no runner Ganger to fish life. A sand filter Is very expensive because it requires such large measurement, and a rock filter seven feet deep containing rock from one-half inch to two-inches in size is planned here. When the project was initiated for a federal grant in 1935, the cost was estimated at $244,000. but this year's revised project cost has not yet been determined, Mr. Hall stated.

New President Induct-d F. C. Hamer. who was chosen president to succeed the late James S. Clarke, was formally Inducted yesterday, being presented with the gavel the club charter, and the constitution and by-laws by Vice-President C.

K. Morrison, past president who preceded Mr. Clarke. Past President Tom Yancey of the Harrisonburg club, presented to the Staunton club a large, electrically-lighted Rotary wheel which had been loaned his club by Mr. Clarke.

"When I asked Mrs. Clarke what, to do with it she said at once: 1 know what Jimmie would want done: give it to the Staunton club. Mr. Yancey told the local Rotarians. They formally accepted the wheel, declaring it by motion a memorial to the late president orderins it suitably inscribed.

an1 instructing Secretarv Armstrong to write Mrs. (Continued oo Page 3, Col. J) GOALS FOR DEVELOPMENT SET BY BOARD AND STATE FEDERATION OF H.D. CLUBS PREFER CHANGE IN PROPOSED SITE OF SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT, EVEN AT GREATER COST 7 and a panel discussion on tne sub' shelled river banks to flatten Chinese defenses. One Japanese column struck off afe right angles to the westward push ud the Yangtze In a drive south against Nanchang, main Central China air base of the defenders.

First objective of this column was Kuling. mountain resort fourteen miles south of Kiukiang. Although Chinese troops were not in Kuling. which has been the refuge of fifty Americans and 100 other foreigners, their retreat up the mountain on which the resort is perched might draw severe fighting to the city's approaches. From Hankow came dispatches saying American, British, French, Soviet Russian, and Italian embassies were making quiet preparations to move to Chungklang, 500 air miles deeper Into China's interior, between Aug.

1 and Aug. 10. 4-inch Rainfall Swamps Richmond Richmond, July 26. P) July rains, which have pelted Virginia for more than a week, reached a peak in the state's south-central section today witn a iour-mcn downpour which swamped Rich mond and blocked tramc on state highways. The James river, swollen by pre vious rains in the western part of the state, continued to subside to day despite the heavy downrau hereto ut smaller streams of this area overflowed banks.

The Petersburg-Hopeweu-Ches- terfield county area, immediately south, of Richmond, appeared hardest hit by the unseasonal storm. Chesterfield's "dry" creeses and little streams struck across roads and washed out small bridges, slowing bus and automobile traf fic. John G. Graham, Chesterneia sanitation director, Issued a warn ing against using water from overflowed wells. FOREIGN TRADE TO THE SOUTH.

Richmond, July 26. OP Secretary of State Cordell Hull termed foreign trade today "a matter almost of life or death" to the Southern fanner and the South as a whole." In an article prepared for the August issue of a farm publication. Secretary Hull credited a substantial increase in the growth of exports during the past four years to the' trade agreements act of 1934. For years, he said, the South had been confronted by the problem of mounting trade barriers and forced to buy necessities on a protected market while gelling its goods on world markets. The former, trade policy of the United States, he said, was climaxed by the Hawley-Smoot act of 1930.

which "struck a body blow at their (the Southern farmers) foreign markets by cutting down our Imports and thus reducing the purchasing power of friends across the sea for Southern cot ton and other export products." set, "Is Wildlife Restoration Prac tical from the Farmers view point?" The shooting match is ached' uled to start at five p. m. and upper at six-thirty. Other prominent guests who will be present, according to an Associated Press dispatch, are: Carl H. Nolting, chairman of the Virginia commission of game and Inland fisheries; C.

Shaffer, director of game protection for the Pennsylvania game commission, Directors Roy C. Brown, Berkeley Williams, Richmond, Paul 13. Blandford. Beaumont, M. O.

Lewis, Salem, L. C. McNemar, Arlington, and 3. J. Beacher, Nor i folk.

Cecil T. Delabarre, president of the Virginia Wildlife federation, will present the guests. r- HAGY LEAVES HOSPITAL William Hagy, manager of the Hotel Beverley, who was seriously Injured in the automobile accident that took the life of James S. Clarke, local hotelman, left the Martha Jefferson hotel in Charlottesville Saturday, it was learned here last night Mr. Hairy had been confined to that institution for several weeks following the fatal mishap and is reported to be making rapid strides toward recovery.

Prior to returning to this city to take up his duties, it is said. Mr. Hagy will spend a week at a Char lottesville hotel for further recuper ation. -0 RELEASE ORDERED 7 Following a habeas corpus hearing in corporation court yesterday afternoon. Judge Floridus S.

Cros-bv ordered the release of Mrs. Mary Rinehart from the Western. State hospital. PRICE SPEAKS Blacksburg, July 26. W) Virginia's future depends largely upon the proper development of the rural area, since about two-thirds of the population live there.

Governor James H. Price said tonight before an audience of about 2,200 persons in Virginia Tech's auditorium. The program opened the tenth annual Institute of Rural Affairs, which will be concluded Thursday night. Blacksburg, July 26. W) Goals for development were set at meetings of both the agricultural conference board and the State Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, held today at Virginia Tech, preliminary to the opening of the tenth annual Institute of Rural Affairs tonight at which Governor Price spoke.

W. S. CampSeld, executive secretary of the State Horticultural society, scored the practice of diverting road, funds, in speeches made before both the conference board and the home demonstration federation meeting. Members of the legislature, he said, claim they are opposed to diversion of road funds, but they say that with their fingers crossed, since they apparently are not willing to write such a policy into the state constitution. Both organizations plan to continue their fight for inclusion of a "no-diversion" amendment to the constitution.

Opposes Increase The conference board adopted a resolution opposing a proposed ten percent increase in freight rates on agricultural lime. It plans to campaign In favor of getting the government to authorize loans to poya under legal age, who at pres Staunton's sewage disposal system should not be located at the old fairgrounds, Just east of the corporate limits, engineers have decided, but from a mile to a mile and a quarter farther down Lewis creek. This would Involve an additional capital expenditure of about $40,000, but would eliminate an annual pumping cost of from $2,000 to $2,500. This information was given the Rotary club yesterday in a talk on the disposal project by City Manager W. L.

Halt Mr. Hall explained the proposed system, discussing its principal features. "Some people have the Idea that the project merely involves arching Lewis creek clear through town," said Mr. Hall, "but this is not correct A trunk-line sewer will be laid through the existing tunnels of Peyto.i and Lewis creeks, and run to the disposal plant. Eliminate Annual Expense "It had been intended to locate the plant at the old fairgrounds, where the stockyards are, but engineers have found that it should not be placed so close to the corporate limits where It would require an expensive pumping plant with an annual operating cost of from $2,000 to $2,500 and Dumos have a way of getting out of fix a lot.

The engineers propose to locate it a mile or a mile and a quarter farther down the creek, where pumping will not be necessary. Mr. Hall explained that sewage would be piped to a large concrete basin, first- unit of the plant a "grist tank." where rock and othr-solids are sieved. A drying plant and a.