The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

I Everybody Reads i i DANVILLE PAPERS 1 In Trading Area OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 13072 Virginia mid 5 Carolina: L'aln on the CoaU and Hain or miow hi the Inlh'ior Late tonight and Tuesday ASSOCIATO PRESS gCZ ASSOCIATED PRESS DANVILLE VA MONDAY ATERNOON JANUARY 30 1933 Buy and Sell Thru CLASSIIED SECTION of THE BEE I i (HOME EDITION) PRICE: THREE CENTS DEENSE IGHT DELAYS BUCK TRIAL I f' i 1 IIIIMMI JUDGE DENIESHITLER NAMED GERMAN CHANCELLOR fa? IMPORTANT LEGISLATION UP Jurors Weigh Church Scandal AND SWORN IN 'X ambition all he to A Storm member paying for the I Queer their la only In his were exchanging resulted Counts heart and death the fsa tha road that the highway General resigned form when franc This AL ADIER IS ORMING RENCH GOVT the are At this Jrri and but vlo al sald BEER BILL IS APPROVEDBY SENATE BODY COTTON MM1S CUT SALARIES 10T015PC Notice Posted Today An nounce Reductions Ef fective ebruary 6th County Supervisors Ask ed to Consider Recom mendations to High way Commission furnished for the by Hall's orchestra features Measure Providing 305 Brew Sent to Up per Branch With tolling of the courthouse bell into action opposing legal which probably will be engag slde Danville when it was seen that the car would soon be out of gas and that without reeources they could go no farther Grissom said his fath er began to loudly Wmoan their plight and to talk wildly He was placed in jail In a highly nervous and excited condition This morning Mr Grissom seem ed to accept his plight more calmly It was clear that his condition had been brought about only by over wrought nerves and lack ot sleep and worry Justice Carter as Good Sa maritan took the case under mlvse ment and soon had tho two metft headed back for their home in Clin ton South Carolina well fed and with a tank full of gasoline It the gas gives out on tho way back there will be enough money left to buy a sufficient quantity to complete the Journey Justice Carter solved the case with the assistance and coIla Quarrel ollows Due! Of Joc ular Remarks Resulting in Slaying of Alan By Brother in Law A son who stopped In Danville early Sunday morning with a father al most distracted from hunger and lack of employment found Good Samari tans here who gave him help and convinced him that bls case was not as desperate as it seemed When the case of William Grissom aged 45 was called in pollc ccourt this morning Justice Carter found that there was no charge against the man but that he had been lodged In jail about lour o'clock Sunday morning by his son Thomas Grissom who told the desk sergeant at police headquarters that ho was afraid his father was lusing his mind and that ho wanted him placed in Jail for safekeeping Grissom said he and his father left Clinton 8 with enough mon ey they thought to buy gas to carry them where inent Thirteen unlucky gamblers arrest ed In a raid on a houso in tho new ly acquired residence district ot Almagro had their cases continued until tomorrow In police court this morning but gambler's luck was poor Tatum Edward Camp bell and Davo Early also residents of Almugro whose cases were tried got off with light fines of $250 but as tho wife ot one of the mon said "It ain't tho fine I minds your hon or Its dem costs" The costs brought tho actual fine ot each man "up to $1750 Justice Carter' after consultation with Assistant Commonwealth's torney Rutledge Clementdecided morning that it Was possible to pose a minimum Uno of $250 costs in minor gambling cases with tho heavy costs 'In these coses jutteo will be hsrd on "skin" and "flvc and teii'' pnkcr playcit in Al ft was Indicated that the defense will seek to repudiate a purported confession by Buck So far nothing has developed except a legal spar ring match between opposing coun sel with the defense emphasizing particularly an allegation of Intimi dation British ambassador Is WASHINGTON Jan 15 Brushing aside proposals for furth er hearings the Senate inance com mittee sent the Collier Blaine 305 per cent beer and wine bill speed ing back to the Senate today with a favorable report The Volstead modification bill was approved 12 to 5 within little more than an hour of consideration in executive session Chairman Smoot said he "would submit the committee's report today which will put the bill before the Senate ready for action as soon as the parliamentary situation permits No changes were made In the bill as approved a week ago by the Senate Judiciary committee The committee turned down Chalr proposal for hearings agreed to confine its considera te the revenue featuies cZ He Is still III the dog A senutor in lined Tidings man and tlon bill Smoot said the vote to report bill favorably was oa its re cern: tures only which provide for a tax of $5 a barrel Secretary Mills appeared before the committee in executive session and estimated tills tax would raise from $125000000 to $150000000 Notices were posted In the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills after the noon recess announcing a reduction in salaries and wages ranging from ten to fifteen per cent effective eb ruary The statement signed by Robert West president and treasurer ex plained to the employees of the mills that low prices for goods in the tex tile market and the small margin of profit made further measures of re trenchment Imperative It was ex plained that there has also been some curtailment of market demand In the past few weeks Salaries and wages at the mills are based upon a complicated scale but It was explained that the fifteen per cent" reduction would apply largely In the higher brackets of salaries and wages The reduction is a continuation ot the policy of the mill management to keep employment at the highest pos sible level This policy has enabled the mill management to keep 4500 workers continuously employed throughout the winter months de spite economic conditions In the tex tile industry which have been unfav orable despite a demand which has occasionally been unusually stimu lated guest of flic president Mrs Temple Shelton passed away early today at her home at Whittles Depot following an Illness of six weeks She was 84 years of age and Is survived by three children White Shelton John and Mrs Geo Shelton She was born and raised In the Whittles Depot section having resided there practically her entire life The funeral will bo held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from the Whittles Depot Methodist Church and Interment will be In the church ceme tery WASHINGTON Jan The Democratic leadership today moved for House passage of three Import ant legislative proposals designed to reform bankruptcy laws increase federal revenue and expand credit by Invoking the drastic procedure of suspension of rules While there some opposition to all three measures chieftains of both parties believed the necessary two thlrds majority would be found to send each to the Senate The bankruptcy measure support ed in some particulars by the ad ministration has been In the pro cess of formulation by the Demo cratic dominated House Judiciary committee for two years Radical In Its terms in comparison to existing legislation it was drawn so that individual creditors aiM cor porations rilay get a financial breath ing spell until the return of better times It may go even farther and relieve them entirely of a larger por tion of the indebtedness through a scaling down process It is expected to relieve several hard pressed rail roads The Collier bill to re enact for one year the one cent a gallon federal tax on gasoline was backed by both Democratic end Repuzllcan leaders The present law expires on July 1 and the new bill is counted on by treasury officials to bring $137000 000 in revenue during the succeeding twelve months Advocated by the administration and unopposed by the Democrats the proposal to extend for another year the provisions of the Glass Steagall bill to broaden the base of paper tur nto page 6 col 4) distributed ns follows' fine 1 costs for certifying rec ord' trial Ro' commonw 1 1 h' at torney's fee city confs auto foe i grand Jury report Is awaited in Muncie Ind on cltarges Involving the Rev Lemuel Conway 55 shown above with his wife and five children Miss Helen Huffman below left accused the pastor of mak ing Improper advances to her during an auto ride The pastor dented the accusation The grand Jury also heard william Aurand right be low choir leader in Rev Conway's church The pastor according to witnesses created a furor by striking Aurand during church services Nabbed on ire Arms Charg ed by Police Who Were Urged to Lock Them Up to Prevent Killings NEW YORK Jan It was a little hard to figure today whether the police did Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bltz a favor by locking them up on a charge ot homicide Saturday night some anonymous person called a police station saying that if authorities wanted to pre vent a "coupla guys" from getting "bumped off" they should lose no time in getting to the Red Devil re staurant The police lost no time At a table in the restaurapt sat the two "square shooting guys from the un derworld" who rose from obscurity to headlines when they were commis sioned to try to get the Lindbergh baby back They were playing Penny Ante and Bltz was bemoaning the loss of $180 Somewhat puzzled the police decided to search them They found a pistol on each and charged them with latlng the antl flrcarms laws though Spitale showed what he was a perfectly good permit A Plymouth sedan driven by Clar ence Harvey colored ot Danville "andalso occupied by another man whose name was not secured was practically demolished yesterday during a cpl llslon with a large moving van snld to have been from Greensboro Al though the passenger cat" was report ed to have been damaged beyond re pair the two occupants psenped with only minor cuts and bruises Tho accident occurred on the Halifax road The larger machine Is reported to have failed to stop but an investiga tion resulted tn warrant against 'llm'' lielms eg ths drlVei magro who can't resist the Saturday night urge to risk some of the week's wages The police have given warn Ing that they are determined to stamp out gambling and will make regular Saturday night round ups until it Is ended The ncavy costs in gambling cases wcro imposed by drastic anti gam bling statutes passed by the General Assembly in the clghteen elghtles and aimed particularly curd sharps and professional gamblers who haunted the corner saloons The costs In a minimum fine of $'250 for gambling arc 0 Southwest Continues In Throes of Wintry With Valleys Suffering rom lood Conditions SAN RANCISCO Jan (ZP) Caught in a sudden and terrific bliz zard more than 2000 persons were snowbound In the Ban Bernardino mountains ot southern California to day as winter storme'd the Pacific coast for the seventeenth consecutive day In the lowlands of Long Beach Calif 50 families waited for flood waters to leave the homes from which they were rescued by life boats yes erday Nearby Los Angeks expected more rain after experiencing the greatest precipitation' in 17 years 841 Inches since January 1 Reno Nevada was "wlthoit power for the third day as a result of broken lines in high Sierra Ne vada mountains which darkened the city Saturday night Snowfall broke all records for Yose mite National park with a season's total of 148 inches since settled to much less In ths north gales end high wa ter were reported subsiding along the Oregon coast while storm condi tions prevailed in Washington Every available snow plow In 'south ern California was turned to the res cue of the hundreds marooned along the rim of the world drive in the San Bernardino mountains after they watched the Lake Arrowhead winter sports carnival yesterday Approximately 500 automobiles had started the trip down from the moun tains when caught in the fury of the storm Automobiles were aban doned and motorists walked back to Lake Arrowhead Cabins ordinarily 'closed to the public during the win ter were opened and checkup today disclosed occupant of ail stranded machines were accounted for at the lake The state highway department re PlTTSBfRGII him Motor man George olio loves to found pair of liuiiil (iiffs In the wasliriimii of the car barn lei there by patrolman who milks a bout nearby Stirpri el when cut" failed Io leave (he linen on lime an official went to lineal Igiite ami toiinil flic jnotoiiuan red faroil and Ming gllng iinltiillng the late llomllnl Orjly I'ucmiska couldn't get the bracelets off Police were cnlh il: The "pris oner" ilbeinff'd and wit limit lur tjirr iichiv he sprinted for his rati PARIS Jan Resolute and energetic Edouard Daladler got of! to a good start today In the difficult task ot building a cabinet likely to draw rance out ot the financial slough of despond The veteran minister who regain ed leadership ot the radical Socialist party after the downfall ot Edouard Herrlot has already sounded out Joseph Paul Boncour whose govern ment was overthrown Saturday Camille Chautempa whose short liv ed cabinet two years ago Included Daladler Anatole de Monzte another ministerial colleague and other left bloc associates Daladler who has long aspired to the premiership was requested by President Albert Lebrun yesteraay attempt to form a new cabinet and began his task immediately Resum ing the nogtiatlons today he was seeing Socialists In the course of the morning Socialist bolts from the left bloc caused the Paul Boncour and Herrlot ministries' downfalls In the past month and a half As the situation required a quick answer It was doubtful that the So cialists would accept portfolios un der Daladler He was determined to form a cabinet tonight or Tuesday at the latest He has already offered Leon Blum leader of the Socialists a cabinet post If the Socialists refuse to Join he may turn to the moderates In that event rancois Pletrl minister In several cabinets may be offered the post of finance of chief importance now because of a mount ing deficit and pending action on the attempt to balance the budget It was finance minister Henry Cheron's plan for a five per cent in crease in Income and general taxes that caused the defeat ot the Paul Boncour government Georges Bon net who succeeded Daladler as minister of public works under Paul Boncour when Daladler became war minister was also considered for the finance ministry Meanwhile police were taking pre cautions against renewed demonstra tions proposed today by thousands of taxpayers A mass meeting was scheduled to protest against an in crease in taxes Demonstrations were held Sunday tn Lyons Nice and Qulmper similar to those held here Saturday Police battled with the crowds in Lyons and Nice and re publican guards charged the Paris meeting at which many were arrest ed Reports that Daladler was seeking almost dictatorial powers through the right of decree os was granted er Premier Raymond Poincare hts government stabilized the had the Socialists worried' militated against the possibility of them giving Daladler their support position on the debts question was believed sufficiently vague to enable him to bridge the gap between default and resump tion of payments He voted for Pre mier Ill fated resolution which demanded that the payment be made but In party coun cils lie expressed reservations (Please turn to page 6 col 5) of New asserted he 0 Socialist Party Chieftain Heads New Berlin Gov ernment With Von Pa pen Given Post as Vice Chancellor and Prus sian Commissar Op position from Ranks of Organized Labor Is Re garded as Certain BERLIN Jan Adolf Hit ler picturesque leader of the Ger man fascists was made chancellor of Germany today succeeding Kurt von Schleicher who last week But in granting him the of his political lifetime President von Hindenburg surrounded him with a cabinet ot conservatives ranz von Papon the former chancellor and confidant of the president is vice chancellor Konstantin von Neurath remains foreign minister Alfred Hu genberg the nationalist leader has an Important cabinet post Hitler placed his best men William rick and Hermann Goering in the cabinet rick as minister of the In terior and Goering as minister with out portfolio The new chancellor who 43 took the appointment stride "Well we shall see" was said to the correspondents as he re turned to his hotel from te presi dent's office "now let's eat" He had been up all night and until five o'clock this morning working out a detailed program to submit to the president whom he was scheduled to see early With his new associates he went over to the executive offices Otto Meissner the president's sec retary met him They talked for a little while Meissner assured him that the president in his talks with (Please turn to page 6' col 6) Veteran Minister Making Progress in Building Up Cabinet WASHINGTON Jan Quick House passage of the heralded bill revising bankruptcy laws to help debtors was assured when Speaker Garner said he wanted It acted on today and the Republican Snell would support It The Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee Under suspension of the rules a two thlrds majority vote to obtain passage is required ILL (Special to The Bee) SANTA MONICA Calif Jan 30 he mlghiy popular man guest of tin Neiiate 1 lint 's on deck wnltlr to go tn hat The poor rench nrnbassador you can't" help hut feel kinder eorry for him house the other day introduced bHl where the government couldn't ap propriate more nmney than was coming In that Is if yon have any money you could not dole out any well the Senate lik ed to inoiiimd him Tliry called lie itlri IrviHim Mc iellgloiiK in human and taking the List vestsjv of power from a politician that the right to appropriate vour man ev which you don have WILL measure bears the name of JAPS AWAIT REPORT 0 TOKYO Jan 30 (A1) oreign Minister Yasyua I'chldit ivas au thoritatively reported today to have sent notice to the League of Na tions that Japan's decision on whether to withdraw from the league will depend on the character of the proposed report on the Manchurian Issue Almagro Gamblers ined $250 But Costs Run It Up To $1750 Under Card Sharp Law of Approximately half a million pounds of tobacco was on the local market today Tho quality of the of ferings appeared about the some with no change In prices apparent irst sales tomorrow will be at Union Hollands Hughes and Plant ers while second sales will be at Ban ner Producers Piedmont and Acrees ive Minute Talks to Succeed More Extended Addresses at Annua! Dinner Meeting Son Has ather Excited Over Destitute Plight Jailed But Good Samaritans Come to Rescue Milan Dies rom Pneumonia At Stokesland WR Milam died shortly after 'noon yesterday at his residence at Stokesland after an Illness of five weeks from Influenza which wa com plicated at the end by pneumonia Mr Milam is survived by iris wife two daughters Mrs Mabel Jones and Mrs Blackwell both of Wash ington and one son Milam Jr of lorida He is also survived by two grandchildren Miss June Jones of Washington and Woodrow Atkinson of Stokesland tfnd the following sisters and brothers: Mrs Nannie Arnold of Shady Grove Mrs Emma Hayes ot Danville Mrs Berta Moore of Parks Springs Mrs Bett Allen and Mrs Mag Williams of Norfolk and Milam of Rich mond uneral services will be held from Stokesland Methodist Church thisafternoon at 2:30 and will be conducted by the pastor Reverend Mr White Get your set of HT HO black ebony puzzle blocks and enjoy the fun nt the II1 HO puzzles appear ing dally in The Bee A new puz zle every day un for nil J1I I1O PUZZLE BLOCKS AT THE BEE 19c One Gross HI HO Puzzle Blocks Have Been Sold to HI HO ans! to Richmond or Washington they hoped to find employ Minor rrnnlrs that had to be on their n'llomobiir exhausted I boration of the Community Welfare tun is and several mile out 1 Association ported it hoped to have open by noon today but stalled automobiles on the many of them under huge drifts slowed the work of clearing the road Authorities said unless the highway was re opened Immediately there was a possibility of a food shortage Commerce Body Meets This Evening Counsel or One of ive Meh Charged With Killing Constable Sheppard Charges He Has Been De nied Access to Defendant and That Court Clerk a State Witness Drew Jury List Alleges News paper Stories Inflamed Public Against Accused Courthouse Guarded as Trials Get Under Way (By Staff Correspondent) STUART Va Jan A scries of allegations called by the defense against llu eonnnonwealtli delayed the trial of Ora! Duck in the Patrick county circuit court this morning Wil liam Mitchell leading counsel for the defense juipeared be fore Judge Clement in chambers and charged that lie had been denied access to Buck while Ji prisoner in the Stuart jail and had not therefore been able to prepare a delense He also charged that the jury had been drawn by the clerk of the court who is himself a witness for the eomm'mwecH lie moved therefore to (piash the venire and he also asked a change in venue claiming that Hie public mml han been intiamcd against the accused through newspaper publicity Mitchell fib'd with the court a number of newspaper ar ticles including the Danville papers and held that these were enough to warrant a removal of the trial All of these motions overruled by Judge Clement who told Mitchell that lie should have made his complaint earlier instead of waiting until the last minute Judge Clement however gave the defefise until 2 to list the names of witnesses needed by the de fense and a final opportunity to confer with their client lve mlnute talks will succeed more extended addrerses that usually made at annual meetings of the Chamber of Commerce when the membership assembles at the Hotel Burton at slxt thlrty o'clock this eve ning Robert West president of the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills Holland chairman of the traffic committee of the Chamber and Kemper superintendent of the Danville Military Institute will be among the speakers The meeting will be presided over by Dlbrell whose annual report with that of the secretary will be printed and distributed among mem bers of the Chamber at the meeting Like the annual banquet last year the dinner at the Burton tonight 1 being served members on the "Dutch treat plan each his own ticket Music will be banquet tonight and other entertainment have been planned Whittles Depot Woman Succumbs (Special to The Bee) CHATHAM Va Jan Twenty Six petitions oral and written were presented to the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania county meeting here this morning to consider Its rec ommendations to the State Highway commission for the improvement" of county highways now a party of the state system A large number of citizens representing various com munities were on hand to press their case The board took the petitions under advisement and will consider them before making its recommenda tions for necessary work that must be done in the near future A meeting of representative citizens from the communities of the county has been called to meet at the court house at Chatham at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon for the purpose of forming committees to administer the $77000 fund recently borrowed from the Reconstruction inance Cor poration The fund will be used for providing work fot the unemploy ed 500000 Pounds Leaf Here Today CGI 111 HOLNE GUARHEB Safeguarded by the entire force of county constabulary 22 men the epeclal term of the Patrick county circuit court called for the purpose of trying five men Jointly Indicted for the killing of County Ofhcer Bunyan Sheppard and the wounding of Joe rancis the town sergeant of Gtuart was convened shortly before ten o'clock this morning with JudgeTurner Clement of Chatham presid ing The called forces cd for a week In meting Justice for the double shooting as well as a Jarge representation of the country side whose interest is claimed by the fact that the state is calling for the death of each the accused The men on trial arc Samuel Waller and William WaUer both of Tennessee ana saia oe engageu a irauic turn to page il column 3) 26 TH MAIM PRESENTED 0 NEW CABINET IS SELECTED MOTIONS OR VENUE CHANGE I GRUNDY Va Jan A duel of Jokes ended fatally at Big Rock yesterday when Dorce Counts 31 shot and fatally wounded his brother in law Rufus Mullins 41 According to Information gathered by officers the two Jokes and a quarrel shot Mullins in the was Instantaneous Mullins is survived by hts widow and five children two of them being in school at Staunton Counts is married and has four children Tlie body will be removed to Dwale in Dickenson county today for fu! neral and burial tn the family ceme tery tomorrow Car Demolished In Crash With Big Moving Van 2000 Persons Snowbound In California Mountains Spitale and Bitz Lodged In Jail THREE MR BURES DUE OR ACTION Attention Centers on Pro posals to Reform Bank rupt Laws Increase Revenue and Ex pand Credit Jokes Lead Killing At Grundy MI '58 A AMS '( 'T 'I 1 A i 'A i A JEr i SSHBDSMHBKlreSHnKMKMHk I i wk 'B I I lit? Jr I 1 4 i JMHB Siory I its.