The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

Site OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 8672 DANVILLE VA RIDAY ATERNOON JULY 9 1926 PRICE: TWO CENTS (HOME EDITION) IRST WRECK AND VIOLENCE SUBWAY STRIKE OCCUR 1 Associated Press International News Leased Wires WEATHER ORECAST Virginia: Generally fair and continued warm tonight Saturday showers Caro: air tonight and Saturday IRST BODIES TAKEN ROM 51 DERAILED BUT 0 NONE INJURED SHOOTS WIE 2 OTHERS LIE OR DEATH 2 BANDITS KILL COP CANDIDATE Shows $96338 Surplus 5138500 IS SHIP BOARD from cus: reporter or guilt of the Americans Not to Take Part in Demonstrations to tear the the This Afternoon 7 and the A MEA that In view of in his innocence arrived with a announcing the condemned man such open frank tlie the ap the late afternoon yesterday was the present heat wave exhausting humid $12700000 1800000 3978047 9633887 It will oc Al Mount Deficit of Surplus of Surplus of Surplus of fall life i begun Warm'll rgu meats afternoon kept the court interested 4 Speed is In evidence at the new hotel where it has been decided to work three shifts from now in or der that good headway may be made in the preparation of the foundations The concrete pouring tower is al ready up committee to prosecute the cabinet of the former Premier according to an Olso dispatch Central News Berge cabinet is accused of Nearly Doubles igure of Last Year and Is Larg est Surplus City Has Ever Had Spend vour vacation at Crystal 1 ake 8rb2 Dwelling No IfT College Ave at auction 5 today 9rb District Deputy Hall last night installed officers of Capitola Bethesda and Dan River lodges Independent prder of Odd ellows at Capitola hall where 150 members of the fra ternity met and enjoyed an inspiring meeting Addresses were made for the good of the order and a social evening enjoyed Dancing Park Spring Sat July 10 1926 9:12 Virginia' Syncopa te rs Airs Harriet Manton tsutteh has been endorsed by the New York Socialist party asjts candidate for the United States' Senate this fall Thi? State Socialist1 convention Is expected to place her formally In nomination soon Workmen today are' pouring con crete on the first or ground floor of the new city hall marking another forward stage of the structure After this has been done the work will pro gtess more quickly it is said GRIM TASK REMOVING DEAD Two Newspapermen Arc Beaten One By Detec five and Strike Investi gator Another Attack ed By Thugs While Tel ephoning Story Power Employes Threaten To Strike women lying floor Maringo Detective Ed ne'ir the scene Ninety one degrees was the high mark the mercury in Danville yesterday this being the maximum reading during Many thought hottest of the because of the ity The Sunday school excursion of the Second Baptist church which was to have taken place Thurs day July 2nd has been post poned until the following day ri day The train will leave early in the morning for Thomasvjlle NC and promises to be well patronized Pistol ight ollows At tempted Hold Up By Well Dressed Men City Auditor Moss has finished the task of making up the city's financial statement for the last fiscal year and the contract for its print ing has been let to the Waddlll Print ing Company Members of the council and a few citizens have learned with consider able gratification that the fis cal report shows a current surplus of $9633887 the largest the city has ever had it Is believed and nearly twice as large as the surplus of the previous year The showing Is all the more astonishing In view of the fact that in 1921 the city had a recorded deficit of $127000 which has been gradually eliminated and a surplus set up despite the Increasing demands on current revenue and the normal expansion of the city's force The surplus of nearly $100000 this year is seen at er carrying forward ap propriations aggregating $500000 which Includes the $100000 derived from the sale of the old municipal building It is expected that the council will order the publication of a summary of the balance sheet In order that the people may have a clear Insight Into expenses made during the past year The feat Is considered an unusual one in view of expenses contingent to the largest works now being carried out and which in part were begun during the last fiscal year The following tabulation shows the upward trend of city finance: 1921 1924 1925 1926 Capital outlays from current reve nues during the past fiscal year In cluded ire station Police motors ire alarms ire engine Traffic signals Garbage truck Sewers (repayment) Sidewalks New street Rock crusher Water department Gas department Electric department a total of 2 4 6 said CHICAGO July (AID The state wants to convict Mrirtin Durkin of the murder of Edwin Shanahan federal agent tali the minds of the people oil the question of who killed Assistant Attorney McSwiggin and Eugene McGarry defense counsel charged today In his final pion The ease is expected to reio the jury late today The Council will the school Joan of $(2000 it was learned today The city attor ney has rendered an opinion to Hie effect that such wouhl not be in' the sense of an endorsement and would meet legal formality required under new law In other words the proval to be given will not tie hands of the city council or be a guarantee that 1 he council will be responsible for the repay ment The irst National Bank is understood to have secured a ruling however to the effect that the approval would be an endorse ment Inlerborough charged with as re PARIS July s( Americans who fought in the rench army have withdrawn from participation In the proposed demonstration Sunday by 40000 rench war veterans against the Washington debt settlement The Association of American Vol unteers has come to the conclusion that posters distributed throughout rance with the heading "Washing ton Calvary of Victors" constitute an Insult to Americans who fought for rance Ambassador Herrick had protested against the parade plans as an insult to America and Jean Durand minister of the interior for bade It KANSAS CITY July Per sons In southern states may witness a partial eclipse of sun todav with the aid of smoked glasses pro vided clouds do not interfere The eclipse the second and last for the year also will be visible on the Pacific coast and bn a line drawn from Montana to Georgia cur late In the Afternoon Wilson Cal one third of will be covered eclipse will last from 3:25 to 5 20 Pacific standard time A part of the eclipse will be visi ble north of a line from near Charles ton 5 to St Joseph Mo and on to Melena Mont $47500 2216 3111 9600 3000 1700 15000 3461 18000 1500 17000 13000 12000 guided th" along the tracks to an exit The third rail up for twenty feet and of concrete wall were" Dr a So pre and obey take dent James The power house division of the Interbo rough workers and strike loaders that the men on other shifts would hold meetings during the day The vot of confidence to Walsh was given after he hud explained the night shift the negotiations that had led to the walkout of the mb tormen and switchmen In telling of a conference witli President Hedley of the intorborough fttvi ft vv'l no PfiPf VV 1 declared he had been 4 rotv i nvti hr st i rv rT At i 1 0 ASHEVILLE July County officials at Tryon after a 24 hour investigation today had ceased their search for a mysterious youth known only as "Jimmy" ac cused by Sonner Jr son of a wealthy Saluda merchant of shooting Sonncr'si companion Miss Jean Braswell 17 to death and wounding Sonner on a lonely road side Sonner who is near death In hos pital at Tryon told the officers that the youth known to him only as had accompanied Soniier and Miss Braswell on an automobile ride When Sonner announced that Cottages' for rent furnished Rodg ers Crystal Lake Park 8rb2 i aril grease come into contact with rail passengers improv masks with their hrnd as they walked through Weber will he awarded the contract for the building of the North Danville junior high school bids for which were opened by the School Board yesterday evening our of the nine Board members could not be present yesterday so the actual award of the contract was deferred as a courtesy to them until they can be present Weberls figure will provide North Danville three units of a junior high school to be reared on the site of the old Orphanage or geographically about midway between Bellevue and Stonewall Jackson grades schools The School Board will meet next Tuesday night to let the contract and Mr Weber is ready down the present vacant building and to proceed with the new one The cost of the school was some what higher than anticipated but the three unit provision can lie built at greater economy by group ing them than by doing the job piece meal The School Board is borrowing money for this work and expects to call a bond issue perhaps next year to retire the bonds At the present moment the unqualified endorsement Of the (Continued on Page Three) President of Bureau Ad dresses Tennessee ederation SCRANTON Pa July 9 (INS) Returning to his former home here today Sam of Phila delphia quarreled with his wife over money matters ami standing within a few feet of the casket that contained the body of 1 relative shot Mrs Maringo While the terrified mourners looked on Maringo turned his re volver on his two sistera in law Carrie Nedeela and Anna Spasi wounding then) severely With the three prosprate on the ran into the street ward Kelly' living of the shooting heard the shots and ran to the Maringo house 'opening fire on Maringo the detec tive brought him down with a bul let in the leg The three victims were taken to a local hospital where it was said they probably will die Action Taken On Basis of New Evidence May Yet Be Pardoned NASHVILLE Tenn July (API greatest need today is a new agricultural policy Sam Thompson president of the American farm bureau federation said here in an address before the Tennessee farm bureau federation here United States had no well defined recognized national policy for agriculture at the present Mr Thompson said "It has an eco nomic policy an Industrial policy and a foreign policy but no agricultural policy in step with the present board "It has had such a policy in the past that was satisfactory and work able and in harmony with the re quirements of the times but at pres ent there Is no well determined and continuous policy which Is recognized by the national or state governments on the one hand and by live farmers on the other "What factors are Involved In development of a national policy for agriculture? Who knows wnat policy of the government shall be In Its relation to agricultural In dustrial and to rural life? Who has given or Is able to give the final word as to policies affecting agricul tural credit or land economies tax ation transportation marketing farm tenantry rural education lo cal government and co opcratlon" Shooting Occurs Within ew eet of Casket Containing Body Weber To Have Contract or North Danville Structure "Nothing was the words which came from the executive meeting of' the City Council last night when Messrs Terry and Smith representing th'e Appala chian Power and Electric Com pany met the Council to further negotiate on the subject of the sale of the city power plant Generali ties wero not even indulged in to day and reading between the lines there was good reason to believe that figures have been prepared ami that a counter offer is about to be made Councilmen explain ed that the question is so intricate and that there are so many angles to the sale and so many points of view from which values can be de termined that it will still be some time before any definite con clusion can be reached rom one reliable source it was learned that the two representa tives left late last night to confer with their officials in New York and will be in a position to make an offer probably by Thursday of next week Reports and rumors are begin ning to be disseminated more wide ly though they can bo givyn only at their face value since ho dis closure has been made by any member of the Council since the negotiations were begun However members of the Council are talking with business men and ia this way there are coming into relief stories of the pending deal One of them is that the Appalachian Power Company is ready to buy the trie plant and gas works for $2 000000 while the city is holding out for $3009000 A compromise of $2500000 is now reported in subsurface channels Another re port is that the Appalachian Co if it bought the ga" ulant would probably close it down to force utilization of electric power at nites which would not make the monthly bill of the average house holder larger than the average gas and electric bill combined There would lie the initial cost of invest ment in electric stoves however which would be a big item rom what can be learned the Council has reached no conclusion ns to the wisdom of the sale and some are speaking significantly Of the public opposition though this is being registered in quarters without the knowledge of the terms During last meet ing Messrs Terry and Smith withdrew from the Council chamber and were engaged for some little time in a private con ference with Messrs Gardner rind Townes One of the Items which the city is having to deal with is the cost of lighting the city streets In the gas and light office this morning It was said that the cost of thIs Im portant feature tilone would be (Continued on Page Three) Next Thursday May See Some Clearing In Negotiations Mr $13850? and with hulk he and Miss Braswell were engaged the wounded youth declared seized a revolver from Bonner's pocket and shot the couple Deputy sheriffs declared they could find no evidence to Indicate that any third person accompanied Sonner and his fiancee on their automobile ride and that they have ceased to search for the mysterious The body of Mrs Braswell has been sent to her former home at Charlotte f'" burial Sonner has two bullet wounds through his body and a blood trans fusion will be resorted to today in an effort to save his life SONNERSlEW girl then SHOT SEL BELIE NOW CEASE SEARCH OR YOUTH Jury May Get Case ROM CHAIR BY GOVERNOR inance Sheet or Past iscal Year 6 Service Dispensed With In Corp Court The jury in the corporation court was discharged for the term yes terday and court was in session today to hear some motions offer ed There will be another session tomorrow when the Hatch er case will be disposed of and a motion made for a new trial in tin? easd of Julian retwell A jury' recently imposed the same penalty' on this defendant its was rendered In a police court hearing Haul Tarpley was fined $5 yes terday for a simple assault on otha Dodson a few nights ago Tarpley was inilieted for a malicious wounding but tile degree of the of tbe trial on a listeners WASHINGTON July (API Once more the shipping board has bluntly dismissed a president of the Emergency leet Corporation Captain Elmer Crowley succes sor of Rear Admiral Leigh Palmer has shared his fate through Identical procedure the acceptance of ft resig nation placed on file upon taking of fice' Brigadier General A Dalton Is they new head of the corporation which has been the center of a long controversy within the board and the subject of disagreement between cer tain commissioners and the White Bouse Acceptance of Crowley's resglnatlon confirmed rumors that have been circulated since he disagreed with the board over the sale of the trans Pa clflc Admiral Oriental Line of presi dent type vessels operating cut of Seattle to the Dollar Interests of San rancisco which previously had pur chased a similar line based nt that City irst nows of the action came from the summer executive offices in the Adlrondacks where President Coolidge "Is spending his vacation Dr Soper Tells Boys Things Done Better In Youth DAKE JUNADUSKA July 9 (AP) is part of God's plan that certain things can be done bet tor in youth than in any other Dr Edwin Soper dean of the school of religion of Duke University told 29 boys from six Southern States who are attending Jlie Dake Junaluska summer camp under the direction of the Method ist Episcopal church is the lieydey plnT said because youth is eminently a time of play through play one learns to i the rules of the game how to defeat the value of teamwork play rind self control 'Important decisions which to youth inclue decisions of woik lasting friendship which are decisions that determine (he inner bent of life the choice of life eom matter which 'makes or breaks everv other decision of life CAUCUS ONCE MORE ON SALE CITY PLANT Board Bluntly Dismisses Crowley Who Suc 5 ceeded Palmer NEW YORK July ti Indications thin iowor house em ployes of the Inlerboiough Rapid Transit Company would join the Btriking inotormen and switchmen under ground railroad were seen today hen sixty employes on the night shift gave a lence to (heir presi Walsh rapher In the foreground is taking down save the dapper young man in the background from the or seal his doom? The dapper young man is Martin Durkin ami the picture shows him testifying in his own defense at his murder trial In Chicago JUNIOR HIGH SAYS NATION NEEDS A NEW ARM POLICY ALL THREE VICTIMS WILL PROBABLY OIE vrmr i 'l iuij ini Lieutenant rederick oster of i Nutley was the first of the dead in the 51 to be Identified when the bodies were removed from the battered hulk today NEtV YORK July 9 The dies the gan WASHINGTON July (API High tribute to the courage of navy divers and others of the slav age crew which took tho wi poke I submarine 51 safely to dry dock jl the New York navy yard was expressed in messages exchanged by Rear Admiral Plunkett com mandlng the York naval dis trict anfi Secretary Wilbur The docking of the cratt com pleted a salvage operation reflect ing credit on all the officers and men so long engaged in the task the admiral wired to the secret ary work of the divers is no thing short of heroic and their conduct will be made the subject Of a separate report he added Partial Eclipse Of Sun Late 1 Today In South 1 0 CAR TRAIN RALEIGH July Instead of marching to the electric chair a day of dark disgrace" Alvin Mansel little Asheville negro began on this his eighteenth birth day the first hours of a life sentence in the North Carolina state prison Mansel convicted of an attack on a white woman saved from death through action by Governor McLean who commuted the sentence to a life term was visited In death row by the executive a few hours before the commutation was Issued The gov ernor wanted to assure himself of the probable innocence youth "I never saw a face an ordeal with ness as did that little negro declared James Ross Pou superintendent of the prison I've prayed all day that my life would be spared the negro told Gov ernor McLean Shotly after the executive left the prison a messenger letter to the warden commutation Mansel Is hopeful the state wide belief and the sympathy and Interest his case aroused among thousands of cit izens of Asheville It will be but a matter of time when he Is granted a full pardon "I'll be the best kind of a prisoner" he told the warden In the same prison with Mansel are a dozen or more residents of Ashe ville members of the mob tried and convicted for attempting to lynch him when the community became In flamed as a result of the attack last September Worn out by the long hours he has devoted to the Mansel case Governor McLean left early to day for the seashore While there he will review the state national Guard encamped at Camp Glenn Morehead City INDIANAPOLIS July One policeman was shot and killed one citizen probably fatally wound ed and one of two well dressed ban dits who attempted a daylight holdup at a downtown hotel was fatally wounded In a gun battle here today Entering the Beyers hotel through a rear entrance the two bandits de manded money Proprietor Bey ers pulled a revolver and began fir ing at them when they became frightened and fled to an automobile parker near the state house one of the bandits receiving wounds In the back and head The dead policeman was John Buchanan 30 traffic man who joined In the chase for the second bandit who was captured by other officers During the gun fire Paul Shafer 36 citizen who assisted In the capture was probably fatally wounded a DALTON IS NEW CITIZEN SHOT ALSO DURING GUN BATTLE Not Yet Established How Many of Victims Are In I Submarine Public To Be Permitted to View Hulk Naval Board of Inquiry Reopened (API grim task of removing the bo of the crew from the hull of: as buttered submarine 51 today and was expected to com nlf All hAf nr ft nb elif fa 1 How many bodies of the 25 men unaccounted for since theship was? wd sunk last September off Block land remained in the great steel A A coffin during the nine months it lay under the sea had not been fl I ii 1 1 11 ir uttcinnin UM Hie WOTiv' of removal was started What other points of the tragedy might be revealel during the day' navy officers would not evm haz ard a guess All the water was pumped from tne ary dock in which the mans Jed undersea boat lies this morn ing Newspapermen watched as thK sinking water slowly revealed the I discolored and seaweed mantled hulk with the great gash near its conning tower whore the steel grow of the steamer City of Rome rent it open It hen the collision occurred 36 officers and riien were aboard Three were saved and eight bo dies were later recovered Some of the remaining 25 have gp been seen in the control room by' divers who inspected the ship the ocean bed preparatoiy to rms ing: it but it Is believed others nny have been washed out and lost for ever As soon as the craft vas ready to be opened today newsjiapermen and all others not directly needed for the task in hand were excluded from tlie navy yard It" was said that reporters would be allowed back tomorrow and later the yard would be thrown open to the pub lin fur ingfiir finn nf tV'i Vi ii I vvu UHV whose secrets by then will been learned Coincident with beginning of re moval of the bodies' the naval board of inquiry reopened in the administration building It was said that as each officer working on the submarine made dis covery which might explain the cause of the accident or serve to avert a recurrence he wodld re port to the board and give what testimony he could As the bodies were removed they J' were to be taken to the navy hos pltal for identification Secretary Of the Navy Wilbury was expected at the navy yard during the day The first body was removed shortly after noon and was taken i in an undertaker's wagon to the navy hospital preceded by a motor cycle policeman TRIBUTE PAID DIVERS The first wreck iind violence 'di rectly attributed to the interbnr ough subway strike: occurred early today' at the south ferry terminal of the Lexington Avenue Bi oad way local lines where a ten ear subway train operaied a noivce motorman jumped the track and crashed through a concrete wall setting afire a local train from which passengers escaped by rush ing to tlie traces and getting to the street via an emergency exit No one was injured In tlie wreck William Kelly a green motor man hired yesterday was in charge of the train and' was directly re: sponsible for the wreck it was as i serted ortunately only a 'few passen gers were on the train at the time of the wreck Ralph Voight 35 a private de 1 tec'tive and Thomas rances 45 who said he was an investigator employed by the were arrested saultlng John Weissberger porter and held tor ar later today Weissberger to a hospital suffering and lacerations John Rogan another was attacked by thugs ho escaq i ed Harold O'Hare was assaulted while telephoning his story from a public booth Ills notes were destroyed and lie was beaten According to newspapermen' an Interborough employe became on raged at the sight of the reporters and rushed at them ith several companions shouting get at Two policemen who were riding in the wrecked passengers emergency was ripped seven feet destroyed Because of the danger of suffocation from smoke caused by burning insulation a that hud the third ised gas kerchiefs the smoke tilled tunnel Red lanterns were placed along the tracks' to prevent collision while rescue work was in progress The interborough today was mobilizing a new force' of recruits to meet the threatonec 'strike of 882 powerhouse and signal work ers who will discuss strike action at a meeting today A delegation Of these employes told the strikers that they would go on strike at midnight tonight: A tie up of the power houses would affect the street railways of New York and cripple the Broadway and Queens lines of the which run to Brooklyn Would Prosecute Berge Cabinet LONDON July 9 The Norwegian parliament was urged to day by a special government Investi gating entire Berge to the The lending 25000000 kroner to the Nor wegian Commercial bank 'shortly be fore its failure In 1925 without the consent of Parliament NOW UNDER WAY 1 Bw fl ill he words th le stenog In the Mr XL1" ON MANSEL HEAD i I I iw ii.