The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

We OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 8709 (HOME EDITION) DANVILLE VA MONDAY ATERNOON AUGUST 16 1926 PRICE: TWO CENTS KITCHENER PROVE HOAX IS OUND EMPTY ASKS DIVORCE ESTRADA COUP I WHEN OPENED APPLE POOL In The Cornerstone Is John John of of the the a pulp capture was of of National Register for orest Entrance To Report Relieve Congestion need Salary Raise it gave himself last gusta county bc LATE NEWS BULLETINS expected re 1 were left on yard of the come Con acted was a super board allow sums than to go to Crystal Lake Is asked to furnish a opln ratca agrl AuguM Bee for ere the S' i be necessary there was no from have last tn the World War with distinction Derham was well of! financially and 1 were ntob rite hits ad the the coins ami The Bee Hughe 30th 1920 dippings at the time of John Hughes In stamps containing an Memorial the John (Hughes Me Orders received from Washington announce the promotion of Second Lieutenant Marvin Walton to be irst Lieutenant of the 29th Trank Com Lieutenant al lied behind an automo dragged 12 miles to the his alleged crime it was hung to a tree and The sheriff Richard Washburn Child former ambassador to Italy has sued Mrs Child (above) tor divorce They were married in 1910 HENDERSONVILLE Aug 16 (INS) The second victim of light ning In Henderson county within a week had been claimed here today David Anderson 33 North Wilkesboro was killed and the three sons of Joe Brcstwood of Lenoir were injured The Injured hoys are: Raymond JIrestwood 13 Albert Brestwood 11 Clarence Brestwood 8 William Reuther 52 of Louis ville Ky was also killed by light ning near here last week the details of those plans in course of preparation 100 Danville automobiles the latest statement Bank of Dan t'opi of the irst Annual of the Hughes Memorial school 1 Extract from will of the late John Edward Hughes: "1 hat they came to be created under the laws of the State of Virginia a corporal ion Io ho properly mimed for the purpose of es tablishing organizing and maintaining an orphanage for the white children of the of Virginia and North Carolina wherein said children may be properly cared for educated and trained in useful trades ami life Large Attendance Expected At Ceremony Two Miles rom Danville Band and Glee Club To Give Program Masons Gather At Temple At 3:30 salaries of Copy of account of th llo plt al Copy of the the 13th and a The corner stone of Hughes Memorial school a great philanthropy made possible by the late John Hughes will be laid by the Grand Lodge of Virginia Masons at 4:39 o'clock this afternoon Attending will be Rev Lacy Jr president of Union Theological Seminary of Richmond who will make the address also the Girls Glee club and the Boys Band of the Richmond Masonic Home giving an additional touch of Masonry to the exercises of the day The cornerstone Is to bo laid In the front wall of the Administration Building which has been developed to the first floor In It will be placed a copper sealed box containing a number of documents which will be of high interest to posterity State PRIZE IGHT TOSITONED NEW YORK Aug lf (Al) The Coney Island boxing show sched uled for tonight with Johnny Dundee and McGraw matched In the feature lilt has been postponed Indefinitely Bad weather forced cancel lation tonight and the departure of Dundee tn a few days for San ran cisco where is slated Io meet Tod Morgan for the junior lightweight title on September 7 has upset plans to fix a new date The number of trees In DanvllU which have shown signs of withering this Summer has led to enquiries be ing addressed to the United States Department of Agriculture to here to make an Investigation gressman Joseph Whitehead when requested to do so and Post master Collie today received a I letter Informing him that Gra vatt associate pathologist In the Bureau of Plant Industry will be sent here within the next weeks to make enquiry and to suggest curative methods Hundreds of shade trees are reported to be withering and turn ing brown Some have held that the unusual heat Is reponsible for this others suspecting some form of blight which should be diagnosed tierce heat of a county farmers 1 Enrloue Estrada who only the modest title of civil engineer was known to the federal agents as General Estrada one of the leaders of the De I eral years 1 retary of i mander of 1VY I I1EV1IE Ya Aug Authorities today seeking leaders of a masked which 'tormed the YYyt lie comity jail early yesterday and lynched Haynioml Blr a negro charged with an attack on a young white girl The negro was shot to death In his cell and the body later tak en to the scene of the alleged crime anil bung to a tree The mob got Into the Jail by a ruse All its leaders ivere masked Home of Christianson Entered and Burglar ized During Satur day Night The home of Harry Christianson College Avenue extension was broken Into and robbed sometime during Saturday night or Sunday morning The thief oy thieves took $21 In cur rency and a valuable Waltham watch and made his escape without awaken ing any member of the household Entrance apparently was gained through a screen door on the back porch The marauder had to go through two rooms one dimly light ed before entering Mr bedroom Instead of "tracing his tracks and escape through the door the robber unhooked a screen window In the bedroom and made his get away In that manner The money and watch were taken from the trouser pockets of Mr Christianson The trousers were lying across his bed at the time None of the seven mem bers of the household were awaken ed by the marauder passing through the different rooms The robbery was reported to the police who are Investi gating The case number of the watch was 2516 while the number of the work was 2564225 being made for red legro who is charged his wife WEATHER ORECAST a Virginia: air tonight Tuesday local thun dershowers Carolina: air except local thundershowers in extreme west tonight The Roanoke Boosters are to Islt Danville on August 24th renewing the old tics established two years ago when the organization spent the af ternoon here The visitors are to be given a short but Interesting round of entertainment on thel: arrival In Danville Ing now deplored the ii regret that rAILb KtStLb PUT IN MIL Search is Rucker a i with cruelly rancos Rucker yest rd ay all was received oy tl'' police from the sister of the egress and it was investigated mi found out that the woman had received a bad wound on her head Police have been un Lightning Bolt Slays Henderson County armer Generous showers fell through out this district on Sunday evening breaking the onerous heat and bringing the first relief elevated temperatures which prevailed for the He mltted that he was a general In Mexican army and booked at county jail with that title staff was General Aurelio Sepulveda a and other members of his staff cap tured at the same time had that brought the total to more $1500 General Estrada's chief of Danville Girls Volunteer Aid To Welfare Body Bold Robbery Is Reported Money And Watch Taken RICHMOND Va Aug Virginia railroad presidents organizations and shippers will be asked to gather here some time in October looking to reduction in freight rates Gov Harry Byrd said chief executive has ae call such a meeting In ROANOKE Va Aug 16 (AP) Quiet prevails here this morning I following the lynching of a negro I in the Wythe county jail at an hour Sunday by a mob of I about lift masked men although I there is a great amount of talk re grirdlng the affair Authorities are making an investigation which may lead to arrests Raymond Bird aged 31 the mob assault Wythe disorder In the drawing room Mrs Smith first met Derham at Herne Bay where she was then lit Ing Smith was residing In Lou don but occasionally visited his wife The friendship of Derham and Mrs 'f Smith is said to have ripened when he began giving her lessons In auto mobile driving Several weeks ago Mrs Smith took up her residence In the Stell Marls villa and Smith joined her there at the beginning of last week The Smiths and Derham spent? riday evening at supper at a hotel and later returned to the villa where Mrs Smith and Derham played cards The tragedy has created great ex citement In the vicinity Smith was born in Toronto Canada In 1889 and came into a fortune when his grandfather Hugh Ryan died He ca meto England when nine years old and was educated at Eton and Cam bridge where Derham also was a student He was always popular so dally and spent his money freely Some time ako he was In financial difficulties but finally a trust com pany In Toronto arranged for a money settlement to give him a reg ular Income After he left the uni versity Smith joined the regular army but later gave up his commit PREPARATIONS! OR AIR ARE BEING HARE Associated Press Leased Wires International News I stretch of orest Hills for parking purposes thus relieving West Main street to a large extent The old cattle barn which was torn down some months ago has been re built near the agricultural building thus throwing all of the exhibition halls close together Mr Watkins reported today that lie has awarded the fireworks contract to the International ireworks corpora tion 19 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK JERMIV ITTV Aug 16 (INS) Nineteen min were Injured three Critically when a New York train entering the Jersey City terminal of the Eric Railroad sideswiped another train today Passengers were thrown from I heir seats and showered with broken glass ijil I iilEVlLljEi JAIL STORMED I HUGHES MEMORIAL SCHOOL DEDICATION AT 430 TODAY ully expected nt Gretna on riday at crucial meeting when the people of this section will seek to Impress the State Highway Commission with tho necessity of completing the 39 unpav cd stretch of the Piedmont Highway rom present Indications the atten dance nt that meeting will be Im pressive and will reveal unity on the part of all people living In the Lynchburg District on the subject of this piece of road work News has been received here of the death In Raleigh of William Russell Shaw nine months' old child of Mr and Mrs Russell Show Mrs Shaw before marriage was Miss Janie Slayton The child was 111 a few days of pneumonia developing from whoop ing cough ci Mrs Agnes ulcrocl of the Com munity Welfare Association express ed her gratitude this morning for the splendid help that has been giv en her by the people of this city riday a call was made for volun teer assistance and already five have come to help her Misses Charlotte Conway Hazel Roman Elizabeth Travis Maggie Bat tin and May Book er are helping with the office work and visiting On Saturday fruit jars were asked for to give to some needy families in the county who wished to preserve some of their produce but had no Jars Today Mrs ucrod received some jars from Danville housewives Henry Watkins who has been for the last three weeks at Hot Springs Va recovering from an attack of rheumatism returned Saturday from the resort and Is busying himself this week with the Danville air He feels fully restored after his Illness and has the arrangements for the annual event well In hand The air will be gin this year on October 12th and will close onRhe night of October 15 This' week a force of young men will start advertising the air In the eight counties contiguous to Danville posting signs and giving publicity to the event The contracts have been already lot for the seven free acts which were secured in New York and with YVest's Shows which will afford the numerous diversions which go with the air Despite a somewhat dull summer the air Association Is not stinting its In vestment but foreseeing excellent crops and a more general optimistic outlook Is intent on making good on Danville's slogan 'bigger and bet ter than ever" Several changes are being made ft the air Grounds this year The de velopment of orest Hills has opened up an entirely new avenue of ap proach to the air Grounds which will greatly relieve the unusual con gestion to be found at the grounds on the West Main street sdde The old approach Is to be re served for pedestrians and those who ride to the grounds In the street cars On the orest Hills side a new turn stile and gate will be let In and mo tor rar borne air natrons will enter i num Aug i nr zupuuunr thn grounds there having tho entire prauce8 Austin Smith grandson of Mysterious Tale of Sol Body Being Bur ied In Norway Is Ex posed Author Disap ollowlng Is a list of documents of Governor Byrd expressed the ion that a reduction of freight would prove a big stimulus to culture In Virginia He said he hoped the gathering he purposes calling to gether will be able to reach some agreement for reduced rates The resolution passed by the Rock ingham county farmers pointed to the annually large earnings of railroads in Virginia during the past year and this year and urged the governor to I call a meeting In an effort to have the railroads agree to lower freight rates Railway Train Men Holding Annual Meeting leg at one o'clock to the west of Danville ami by three o'clock the first downpour leached Danville Very little thunder ani lightning was tn evidence and there was no wind Showers fell intermittently during afternoon the heaviest coming at six' o'clock when the parched earth was fairly well soaked Temperatures dropped ilfteen degrees from the high mark of 92 victim was charged with upon tho daughter of a county farmer With his head beaten to the ni gr the jail Idle and scene of There riddled with bullets of YVythe county was notified earlySunday morning of the lynching He cut down the body and took it to Rural Retreat the negro's home Bird was arrested a week ago on a warrant charging assault The victim of the attack lived with her father on a farm ten miles west of Wytheville where Birj was em ployed as a farm hand Governor Byrd telephoned Com monwealth's Attorney Houser this morning offering any state assist ance that might was advised that of outside 'il'l The governor dent expressing should have happened Shippers to Lead Grand Assault On reight Rates NEWPORT NEYVS Va Aug 1 (A ID Several hundred dele gates to the annual convention of ihn Brotherhood of Railway Train men rind Ladles Auxiliary were welcomed to tho city this morning by Vice Mayor 11 YY' who praised the organizations and their work ami extended to the visitors Hie freedom the city Today's session will be featured with talks tonight by Representa tive Bland of the Vir ginia District ami ee presi dent of tho national organization Tlie convention will be in session three days anq during that time will visit some of the historic places on tho peninsula No out standing business is docketed for consideration according to offi cials of the organization Mr Lee and a party of eight ar rived this morning from the meet ing as did Mrs Clara Bradley nat ional president of the auxiliary and Airs Ada Marshall national vice president Representatives today from the District of Colum bia North Carolina and Tennessee The Dixie ilm Company which Is making industrial movies of Danville Is planning "Movie Day" at Crystal Lake Park on August 27th when bath ing beauties from Danville will be filmed and other acquatlc sports Tho Danville Chamber of Commerce Is co operating in this moving picture ad vertisement and Is expecting about 2 000 persons at the resort during the all day festivities JI DGE YV KOGI RS HIES TRENTON Aug 16 (AP) United States Circuit Court' Judge Henry Wade Rogers of New Haven Conn died at his summer home near acre today He was 72 years of age IN PATRICK CO ORESEEN nual encampment where he made a record which led to his promotion He is an attorney in civilian life being assistant commonwealth's attorney 0 Sledd Memorial church will hold Its annual basket picnic riday Au gust the 20th at 4 o'clock Everyone will leave from the church promptly at 4 o'clock Each family basket ATAL NEGRO SHOOTING! LYNCHBURG Aug Mary Dabey negress was locked up by the police last night on a charge of shooting Charles Claiborne a negro at her home She avers that the shoot ing was accidental but neighbors say 4 I 44 me num wub puiiiug uuu oi uuuuucu uumig a arunKeii row the station when a blinding flash Claiborne Is said to have been mar occurred In one of the cars Scores rled and that his wife and aeveral were trampled as they fought toward children living at Stuart's Draft Au exits MASONS HERE DRAPED COIN (Special to the Bee) STUART Va Aug What believed to be the first step towards the organization of a co operative as sociation composed of apple growers has been taken here with the adop tion of a standardization policy of the crop under the auspices of the United States Department of Agri culture Representatives of the or chard companies met the agent of the Department of Agriculture with County Agent Cole and 'standees were set for the coming crop No secret Is made of the fact that sooner or later an apple co operative will be formed In this section with apper ently a majority of the growers fav oring such a course ine gathering or apples has begun in a small way and shipments are I being made The Danville and West icrn Railway Company has completed pians ror uie prompt snipmenv oi tne apples to storage centres and to trunk lines The yield this year Is exceptionally heavy I Patrick growers are somewhat dis concerned over the barring of apples treated with arsenic spray In Great Britain where a growing market has been established after careful culti vation As practically all of the trees are treated with this liquid prepara tion which has been proven harm less by government experiments the action by England virtually closes that market Davis purchaser of one of the large orchards of Patrick Orchards Inc has dusted his trees this year and can ship to England unmolested The feeling here Is that Great Britain has Imposed the new regulation In order to protect apples grown in her colonies and Is con sidered evidence of the foothold which the Patrick county apples have secured In that market ifteen Hurt In Tube Panic 0 JERSEY CITY Aug (INS) ifteen persons were Injured some severely burned early today when fire believed to have resulted from a blown fuse threw passengers of a crowded Hutson and Manhattan tube train Into a panic agents also captured evidence and complete for the insurrection The most Important made yesterday afternoon when Gen eral Estrada and his staff Including Earle Parker San Diego hardware and arms dealer were captured and brought Into the city from Dulzura while the munitions trucks were captured near La Meza The cap tured arms Included 400 Springfield rifles two machine guns and 155000 rounds of ammunition and a miscel laneous assortment of small arms Later a truck protected with armor I plate half an Inch thick and weigh Ing nearly six tons was captured 'near Dulzura when the general' irmind an of the rebel forces was I pany located here I made The San Diego county jail ton recently returned from the an unprepared for such an emergency I was able to accommodate only about i one third of those arrested and the remainder were sent to ort Rose 'crans The leaders of the expedition were housed In the county Jail while the captured munitions BANDIT TRAIL ABANDONED LANDIK YY Aug 16 (AP) The chase of the two Union Pacific rnail bandits was given up by the posse of 56 Shoshone ami Arnphoc In (Dans today following the accidental shooting of the posse's leader Col onel Tim McCoy former YY joining adjutant general by one of the red tkins He was not seriously wounded YVARRANT OCT IN MEIIETT MURDER (LEY ELAND Aug 16 (INS) I lilted states District Attorney A Bernsteen this afternoon issued a warrant for a Canton man in connection with tlie federal probe of the slaying of Don Mellett Can ton publisher and the liquor Investigation The man's name was not disclosed as he has not yet been arrested I rank Page chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commission has authorized Lindsey Rural car Tier from Danville the privilege of driving his buggy along side the new concrete pavement which Is being built He will no longer have to use the detours which have greatly en larged his route He carries mall to all houses on the side of the road be tween Danville and Caswell court house and the privilege just accorded him Is expected to restore better de livery schedule placed in the corner stone Hughes Memorial School: I ramed picture of Hughes Copy of the will Hughes Copy of the charter Hughes Orphanage morial school) Program of the exercises at laying of the cornerstone at Hughes Memorial school Copy of the city report ending April New spa per of the death Marell 1922 Copy of the July Issue of Greater Diuv Hie Copy of the church calendar the irst Preshy ferial Cliureh Copy of the irst ville pears LONDON Aug The Brit ish home office today announced of ficially that a packing case recently delivered at Waterloo station and al leged to contain the body of Lord Kitchener 'was to contain an empty After the Investigation of the pack ing case Chief Constable Wensley and Detective Superintendent Brown went to the home office where they held a lengthy conference with officials and legal advisers The case originally was shipped by rank Power a British newspaperman who announced recently that he had found what he believed to oe the body of Lord Kitchener on the coast of Norway Power notified Premier Baldwin and said that next step was up to the government which hither to had discredited Power's story of the finding and the clearing up of the tragic mystery of the sinking of the cruiser Hampshire during the world war The coffin was opened this morning under the direction of Cor oner Ingleby Oddle i Sir Bernard Spllzbury a famous gov ernment pathologist was present High Scotland Yard officials and of ficial nhotocranhers also were nrc sent The greatest secrecy surround ed the proceedings as far as the pub lic was concerned only serving to whet the curiosity of the large crow is which surrounded the mortuary from an early hour A fresh sensation connected with the case delivered at Waterloo Station developed early this morning when police who were guarding the cas ket were summoned to search (Continued on Page Three) General Andrews To Stick to Job To ght or Laws WASHINGTON Aug (API General Andrews the prohibition chief Indicated today that he had definitely sidetracked thoughts of early retirement and would stay In office to fight for new enforcement legislation at the next session of con gress this will be the short session of he said be lleve It will give me the legislation I have After clearing up office routine which accumulated during his five weeks trip to London the general will leave Wednesday for a two weeks va cation at Lake Champlain Usual Crime Brings Short! And Hanged today The termlned to response to a resolution passed by Rocklneham able to locate Rucker who left im week mediately after he found that had boon reported Officials Play Part In Breaking Up Incip ient Uprising SAN DIEGO Cal Au (AP) Approximately 150 men mobilized for a Mexican revolution under the command ol General Estrada former Mexican secretary of war were lodged In prisons here last night and a large quantity of arms and ammunl tion seized by American authorities Agents of the United States de partment of Justice aided by city county and other federal officers cap tured what was to have been an armed party of Invading Insurrec tionists three miles from the Mexican border Information gathered by i government agents led them to the appointed redesvous at Dulzura In the Imperial valley where General Estrada and his staff were concen trating their forces preparatory to a I descent upon the towns just below the border An armored truck two ten ton loads of rifles machine guns and ammunition other trucks for the I transportation of men and supplies and about 150 Mexicans made up the material and personnel of the cap tured expedition while government documentary sets of plans RICHMOND Y'a Aug 16 the trucks In the court The act of 1920 of the general as Jal1' sembly Increasing the Commonwealth's attornies in eighty counties Is constitutional and there was no conspiracy and fraud In pay ments by the board of supervisors of Bedford county to the late Hugh Ryan of Canadian rail road building fame was recovering in the Maidstone Jail today from Inju ries he received riday night a fight from which John Thomas Der ham emerged with a bullet wound which caused his death several hours later Jealousy is alleged to have been tlie cause of the trouble It is that Smith objected to the attentions paid by Derham to his wife pretty English woman who was Catherine White when Smith married her alter Ruth Wynee daughter of the late Robert Wynne once United Stares postmaster general and consul gen eral In London divorced him in 1922 Derham was the grandson of a no ted British army officer Brig Gen Tyler holder of the Victoria Cross He was married some years ago to Con suelo daughter of the Marquess end Maruesa De orre Hermosa but they were not living together When the police were summoned to Setlla Marts' villa occupied by Smith and his wife and three children Der ham was In a dying condition from hnllnt wrMind In bl nhrloinen slid Smith was badly battered about the slon and toured the world He fought face and head and streaming witn blond That a fierce struggle had taken place was Indicated by the great was well known aa tt hockey player Despite the humid August day the attendance promised to be large late this morning Many lianville people have deferred their visit to the rapidly rising miniature village on the high knoll near Design until the cornerstone laying and there an many from North t'arollna who tire showing their intere'i by theif presence this afternoon In addition there is the realization that Dr Lacy's address will be worth hearing and the selections of the band and of the Glee Club aDo worth listening to Provision has been made for heat Tile Masonic brethren lay the corner stone with their in the open sun and after this been done the assemMage will jotirn a few yards to the grateful shade trees which clustered the old farm now removed and where the address will lie heard in co pa ru 1 ve com fort Dr Lacy arrived here on Satur day night from Richmond and Is the guest of A Overbey The hildi on from the Masonic Home are arriving this morning and are to give a concert tonight In the Ridge Street Tabernacle Danville Masons will gather at the Masonic Temple at 3:30 Members of the Grand Lodge are arriving today a full representa tion being expected The titular position Is held by Worshipful Ben YY" Beach who by happy coinci donee is Grand Master of Virginia and a native of Danville thus giv ing an additional touch of local color to today's ceremony Tho Hughes Memorial School as it will be known thus substituting the name Is about 70 tier cent completed Ten or more buildings are now under construc tion some of them almost vom plr ted These form the first unit and are lining built at a cost of half a million dollars Other units will be reared as the need for them becomes apparent Moro (Continued 'on Page Three) TO LAY STONE LACY speaker MEXICAN REVOLT IS NIPPED Eternal Triangle Is Cause Of Sensational Killing In England YVHIBTABLE County Kent Eng land Aug 16 (AP) Alphonse Growers Take irst Step Towards Orderly Mar keting Policy La Huerta revolution sev ago and at one time sec war in Mexico and com the Vere Cruz district He Attorney Landron Lowry the supreme carrled $465 ln cash on his person court of appeals of Virginia rule to day In denying a writ of error to Johnson and Rucker ap pealing as citizens of the county The appeal was from a demurrer In the lower court on a petition of the two men who as citizens of the coun famous officer of the Mexican army ty declared payments of $600 semi who said he had been a resident of to Lowry as commonwealth's Los Angeles for two years attorney and payments for rent tele phone and stationery were excessive The petition asserted the salary for Commonwealth's attornies of the county was between $750 and $1000 and that the act of 1920 was uncon stitutional in that It was private and special legislation Lowry the petition charged quasi member of the board of visors as legal adviser to the and 'benefited by the illegal ances and This constitut ed the plaintiffs charged "conspiracy and fraud in law" £t'f la twmM I Is VK i A sBl! 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