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She OUNDED KEBRUARY 1899 NO 8718 DANVILLE VA THURSDAY ATERNOON NOVEMBER 19 1925 (HOME EDITION) INVESTIGATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH NAVAL OICER I ASSu I HI PRESS LEASED Will It ail to Read Much By Roth Daily In The Bee PRICE: TWO CENTS New Daily eature by Arthur Brisbane Tillie The Toiler i LIEUT GREEN MURDERED IT IS BELIEVED Large Amount of Money He Carried Is Missing Clothing round Near Body He Met Death Within Half Hour Af ter Leaving Dance (By The Associated Pre) SAN DIEGO Calif Nov Mystery surrounding the death of Lieut Nathan Green engineering officer of the destroyer Moody wan deepened today with the conclusion of a naval court of Inquiry that he had been murdered The decis ion was reached following the flnd ind of the hat and coat near where the body was dis covered last Sunday The sleeves of the coat were turned inside out officers said and the garment contained no money It is known that Lieut Green son of Grafton Green a supreme court justice of Tennessee had a oon siderabde sum on his pe: son Sat urday night and from the body only about $40 had been recovered Lieut Greens movements Sat urday night and early Sunday morning have been traced definite ly up to 2 a when a dance at the hotel Del Coronado ended His watch stopped at 3:40 and by giving 10 minutes for the watch to run after the body presumably entered the water there remains about an hour and a half whlcn holds the secret of the naval of death The body bore no maras or vio lence and slight abrasions on the forehead and under the chin were determined by the Inquest to have been caused after death probably the body's dragging on the floor of the bay CHBOlEN UNRESTR1QED TARI RIGHTS Powers At Conference Unanimously Accede To Demands or Treaty (By The Assnrlntwt Prsss) PEKING Nov 19 The powers represented at the Chinese customs conference loday unanimously and uncond tlonally acceded to Chinese demand for the enactment of a treaty vlng China unrestrict ed tariff gilts beginning January 1929 China agrees to abolish the Li kin or special tax Imposed upon good in inland transit on the same date The action of the conference was taken at a jo meeting the first and second committees which adopted a sub comm ttee resolu tion reading as follows: The delegates of the power as sembled this conference resolv ed to adopt the following propos ed article relating to tariff auton omy with a view to incorporating It together with other matters to be hereafter agreed upon In a treaty is to be signed by this conference The contract'ng powers other than Ch'na hereby recognize ght to enjoy tariff auto nomy they agree to remove the tariff restriction which are con tained In the exiting treaties and coneat to go through with the na tional tariff law on January 1 1929 government of the republic of China declares that the kin shall be abolished simultaneously w'th enforcement of the tariff law and further declares that ab olition of the Likin shall be effec tively carried out by the first day of the first month of the eighteenth year of the republic (January 1 1929) Air Mail or lorida Towns Is Decided On (By The Aaeoclated Pre' WASHIHNGTON Nov 19 Air mail service will be establishedth three pr nc'pal cit ies Jacksonville Tampa and Mia mi by April 1 next w'th exten sion to Atlanta not later than June 1 has been decided upon by Post master General New" The postmaster general today vlted bids for the of a contract air mall route between the four clt'es The bids will be opened here January 18 It Is expected operation of the service will expdite mater'ally important ma'l between the lorida elt es and the pr'nelpal northern financial nnd industrial centers through close train connecfons at Atlanta The schedule determined upon by the air inafl service offlc'als calls for departure of planes from Mia mi at 7 A Tampa at 9:40 A 'KT 1 1 I fl Xf HL 11 tU 41 and arrival at Atlanta at 3 The southbound plans will leave Atlanta at 7 A Jacksonv Te at 19:25 A Tampa at 12:30 and arrive at Miami at 3 An av'rnge flying speed of ap proximately n'nety les an hour over the 600 mile route is stipulat ed LEARN THAI SUICIDE DO AKE Slayer Did Not End His Life As Indicated By Clothes and Note (By The Associated Press) CHICAGO Nov Mart Durkin police slayer who hat eluded every effort to capture him since November 11 was reported today to have left Chicago after coming here a week ago from New York a stolen automobile with Mrs Harriet Galow his cous He waved a farewell as he left to hs mother to whom a suicide note purporting to be from him wat found last week th bullet torn and bloody clothing on the Michi gan Boulevard bridge The Tribune today said thai searchers have admitted that Dur kin escaped by tra to New York after elud ng a polce trap October 29 and kiling a detective ser geant Policemen armed with shotguns searched the train but a man now bel eved to be Durkin pretended he was asleep and was not disturbed the newspaper said He lived for a week in a New YoA hotel under the name o' McMillan walked about tne streets vis ted theatres and went to Mrs Galow's home even though It was watched by federal agents He drove a stolen automobile from New York to Ch cago though his left arm was useless from his wounds Arriving here ho ar ranged w'ith Mrs Galow to plant the suicide nofe and cloth ng on the bridge and cal ed on Dr Da vid Otnens who extracted the slugs and bullet from his wounds Negro Robbed Of His Tobacco At Road Side Grover oster a negro who lives on the Virginia side of the line near Cunningham was victimized early this morning when his to bacco was stolen by another negro under unusual circumstances os ter was bringing his tobacco to Danville and was about three miles out of the city when he had an accident in which one of the whees of his machine was broken A passerby volunteered to notify a Danville garage so that a new wheel could be sent him in order to bring his tobacco to the city While oster was waiting by the roadside during the early hours of the morning a negro approached with an empty truck stopped to enquire of the trouble and then volunteered to transfer the load of tobacco to his truck In order that he could get it to market for sale They had transferred nearly four hundred pounds of leaf when the stranger suggested driving his truck a little nearer the broken down machine Instead of doing this he gave the truck all the speed he could and was out of reach be fore oster could reach him The truck made off not long before a relief car with a spare wheel hove into view oster did not secure the number of the truck and could not even Identify the stranger since he never got a good look at him SMALL BOAT PICKED UP AT SEA BY SHIP (By The Associated Press) NEWPORT NEWS Nov 19 Devoid of life and rolling hclpcss ly in the long Atlantic swells the catboat our Bells which left New York September 2 7 with two men aboard was picked up at about fve weeks ago by the steamer Middlesex now reported in Bos ton The fate of the two men who were trying to reach Bermuda in the 15 foot cockle shell is un known They were Leon Crltzay 26 and Leon Prozorov said to be graduates of the Russian naval academy The our Bells was well provi sioned when picked up by the Mid dlesex Indicating that she had been deserted for some time as the two men only took provisions for two weeks They had expected to make the tr a run of 770 miles in twelve days Seamen aboard the Middlesex re ported when here that the catboat showed few signs of rough hand ling by the elements In add tlon to food there was found aboard a camera cloth ng nautical In struments The Middlesex hoisted the our Bells on deck and brought it to this port PRISON CA MP CHARGES UND ALSE IN POLITICS I KM 5 Mrs Jacob Baur uncago mil lionaire is expected to be a cand date for Congress next spring against Congressman red A Brit ten of Illino She has not an nounced her candidacy but friends insist she will make the race She has been active Republican pol itics for years IRE SWEPT HULL SHIP LIES BEACHED Burned Liner Stands As Monument to Heroism Of Crew By rhe AsHOlated Preu) LEWES Del Nov 19 The fire swept hull of the Clyde Liner Len ape lay beached here today a tw sted smouldering monument to the heroism of its crew wh ch won a thirty mile race from the sea with flames plying across depks and the hold an inferno All but one of its 253 passengers and 110 members of the crew were landed safely after the Lenape had been grounded in twenty feet of water Eleven passengers were in jured none seriously in gett ng in to the lifeboats Some of the pas sengers and crew returned to New York whence the vessel sailed were taken by spec al tra to Jacksonville la to which port the craft was bound Robert Leverton of WilHman sett was drowned In a leap as the vessel grounded behind the Dela ware breakwater or the sixty year old victim it was the end of a voyage upon which he had em barked hop ng for rest and a peaceful old age in lorida where he had made some profitable real estate investments Capta Dever eaux and seven other officers re mained here pend ng an investiga tion of the fire The wrecked hull of the Lenape represents a loss of $3000000 In the fire 49 motor cars all the bag gage and most of the valuables of the passengers were lost A few of the passengers criticized the conduct of the crew as the burning ship fought her way shoreward and as the survivors were being taken off but the great major ty had nothing but praise Captain Devereaux stood on the bridge until the crew had left in ally he jumped into the water from the bridge and he was ek ed up by a lifeboat nearby ft 1 Law Enforcement To Be Discussed At Mass Meeting A public mass meeting will be held in the Sunday school audi toruin of the Ma street Method ist church Monday November 30 at 7:30 in support of consti tutional government and law en forcement This is a part of the nat'on campa'gn is being conducted by the lying Squadron The speaker will be Col Alfred Moudy Waterloo Ind soldier educator lecturer and for twenty years a teacher and superinten dent of public schools nominee for governor of Ind ana in 1916 Lieu tenant Colonel 150th ield Artil lery Army has an honorable record for service on Mexican border and through the World War This meeting is to bo held in co operation with the churches A and kindr or ganizations Middleton dianapolis Ind ana advance man for the lying Squadron ounda tion was in Danv lie and complet ed arrangements for the meeting LOURNOY HAS ON PEACE IN HAllOAME Tulane Halfback Has Re cord Equaling Scar borough and Thurman (By The Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS Nov 19 lournoy of Tulane who has kick ed his way to glory everlasting in southern football this season seems to have won the right to quite properly ask two other great southern football players to move over and make room for him the hall of fame for punt ers Records ind cate that every decade a sensational booter comes out of the south In 1905 Scar borough of Sewanee showed the way in 1915 Thurman of Virgin a had no equal and in 1925 lournoy can swap kicks with any In the business Punts on a football field seem longer when estimated with the naked eye that when the relent less tape Is applied And dusting off records the dim football past may fa 1 to discount the enthus iasm of exc ting moments but there seems to be little to choose between the performances of these three heroes of the strong foot Certain it is that each of the trio many times sent the ball 60 and even 70 TORN TOPICS The South Piedmont Medical As sociation met on Tuesday for Its all session at Lynchburg and vot ed to meet next April in Danv lie Thirty five members attended the sess on at the Baptist hos pital and heard a number of pro fessional papers read A banquet was served at College Park Inn Members of the association are found In Pittsylvania CampbellAppomatox Bedford Halifax and Mecklenburg counties Wagoner farmer of Brown Summit reported to the police shortly after two this morning that his ord tour ing car parked opposite warehouse had been stolen He could give only a vague description of his car having left home with out the license card showing thr state license and the motor num ber Until this is communicated to the police little can be done to wards finding it Paul Parton and Willis Robin son two youths were detained by the police last night charged with entering the Big Bill bottling works on the corner of ranklin and Monument streets and secur ing several bottles of soda water Their actions were observed by John Beard and Morris Blank ne groes who took the two boys to Police Officer George Price on Craghead street One of them pulled away and ran but was sur rendered by his father today Their oase will be dealt with in the juve nile court SUCCESSUL DEBUT HK 1HL ft ts a "'A Broadway is sing ng Its praise for the beauty and accomplishment of Doris Bleach who recently made her debut on the Amer can stage Miss Bleach is one of the most beautiful and talented English ac tresses yards on its way with an occasion al reference to 75 yard successes when a friendly wind or hard field was present to lend a hand The three aces were as unlike as three players are likely to be eked from different decades and vastly fferent schools of football Scarborough was a quarterback and far from a giant stature carrying much of his weight in his fret Thurman was big all over and played guard lournoy is tall and rangy and plays halfback lournoy's average this year un official and certainly not guar anteed to the foot nor inch has been placed at 48 yards He had a kick of 75 yards against Louisi ana Polytechn and the North western game Chicago he kick ed times for an average of 5 4 yards Against he av eraged 60 yards and In the Se wanee game kicked nine times for a 45 yard average KiUedWhffi Plane Crashes (By The Aeeorlated Preus) ARONA Italy Nov 19 A new hydro airplane the 55 in which Premier Mussolini and his daugh ter Edda flew over Ixike Mag giore a fortnight ago crashed here today because of motor troubble Major Nino Bojer was killed and five other persons injured STUDBro HARVARD UT OUT THEATRE Expulsion of ootball Players and Charges Arouses Ire of Coach (By The Associated Press) BOSTON Nov 19 Harvard to day was agog over the expulsion from the lobby of the Tremont Theatre of 30 members of its var sity football squad three days be fore the annual battle with Yale Head Coach Robert isher who termed the incident the dirt iest lowest he ever knew will conduct a rigid investigation to determine who charged the squad with being as they entered the theatre lobby last evening Last evening the largest mas meeting ever held in Cambridge accompanied by snake dances to the dormitories was staged by the students rom tne rany tne 1001 ball squad went directly to the the atre Joe Crosby slipped on the tiled floor and the other players bega to jest with shouts Manager Al bert Sheehan of the theatre In terfered and ordered the lobby po liceman tn eject them The gridiron men became indig nant when the officer ordered them out They say he charged thert with being half drunk They took the matter to a nearby police sta tion where Captain Cheek had Lieutenant Dobbins Inspect each man "They are sober all was the officer's verdict "but I do naythlng about It" Coach isher when told of the affair by one of the squad said: "The charge that those men had been drinking is absolutely ridicu lous and as for anyone to think that a Harvard football player would be drunk three days before the Yale game that Is absurd on the face of ft I know every man on the squad like a book I con sider the whole thing almost be neath my notice but It was the dirtiest lowest Insult I eve knew to be paid and a rigid investiga tion will be made to determine tha responsibility for the Lonnie Harrison charged with compelling Leora Melton to wed him at Schoolfield lust Saturday with the persuasion of a pistol a charge which he denies will re sist efforts to annul the wedding It was learned today The father Is quoted as saying that his boy still loves his wife and will not submit to annulment The case is to come up privately at Schoolfield tomorrow before Judge Bert Dod son of the Domestic Relations court contend that he did not resort to violence as al leged but was madly in love with the young woman that he insisted on the girl accompanying him into the parsonage to be wed by Rev Owen The state Chamber of Commerce will make available for Danville members copies of the Virginia Gazette published at Williams burg Va on July 26 1776 when the Journal contained of the Declaration of Independence Photostatic copies of the Interest ing old print have been made and are now being generally circulated The old city courthouse soon be no more Wreckers were engag ed this afternoon 00 final process and were tumbling down the lusl sections of front wall leav ng onlj the concrete vault to be torn down Andersoji and Hunter contractor: doing the work have sold practi cally all of the useable material The well grown elm trees are tn be dug up and have already been disposed of 1 Hold Nunnally or Trial In Skeleton Case (Special to The Bee) REIDSVILLE Nov 19 John Nunnally and Amy Watllng ton have been committed to Went worth jail to await action by the grand jury follow ng a verdict re turned by a jury last night which heard evidence con necting Nunnally th a skeleton found on the Stokes farm a few days ago The verdict was two fold and Identif ed the skeleton found as that of Ada Nunnally the wife that John Nun nally be held for the grand jury at the January term of the crimin al court" The woman found at his house the night police went 'there to question the negro is be ing held as amater al witness John Somersone of the witnesses ident fled the shoes and hat and said that the negress the before sho disappeared wearing such clothing Another witness viewed a piece of an apron string and said that he also saw the colored wo man that day wearing an apron of that material There was also evidence that Nunnally had bought grocer'es for Amy Wallington be fore his wife left and that there had been qquarrels over it Nun nally also testified nnd told of efforts to find his wife He dmied boingresponsble for her death Three or four of his sup ported his testimony Eugene Irvin cashier of a local bank testlf ed that Amy Watllngton the day of her 1 sappearance had sought to borrow $300 but has been able to secure $135 Argentina lier Postpones light (By TSa Annoclated Pi rum TUCUMAN Argentine Nov 1ft Guillermo Ilillcoat Argentine army aviator has decided to post pone for the prosent flight from Buenos Aires to New York plane was unable either with the old motor or the new one re cently forwarded from Buenos Aires to reach' a suff'c ent he'ght to cross the Andes He Is return ing to Buenos Aires today fflCHEIl TO TAKE MAYS 10 TESTIY Defense to Complete Evi dence Tomorrow With Exception of Defend Story (By The Aoctuted WASHINGTON Nov 19 The defense notified ihc Mitchell court mart al today that it expected to uinplete presentation of its evi dence tomorrow except for the testimony Col William Mitchell will give in his own behalf Representative rank Reid chief defense counsel indicatedhat the colonel require about two days for testmony Reed Chambers of Detroit who won numerous decorations as an aviator in rance testified atoday's session that his plane never sad been hit by an enemy ground gun although it had been thinheir range several hundred hours He declared reserve air officers hould be gtveir at least 100 dying time a year eut Le gh Wade one of the army world fliers told the court of various experiences during his 3000 flying hours in every type of plane known to any aviation per sonnel Regard ng the Leoning amphib ian machine he said It was the exper mental stage and not in bls opmion suited for Arctic service Turning to the world flight ho said ho believed the rcumstances attended the hop from Scapa low to Iceland constituted undue hazard of human life" "Why?" "I feel there is very little oppor tun'ty offered" The was asked about his rescue after he had fallen Into the water In the North Atlantic during the world flight He said he was picked up by a British ves sel ami that an American naval vessel later appeared and ed" his plane On cross examination he said the attitude of the navy during the world flight was one of "coopera tion" and that the destruction of his plane was not al though he would not call it an cident" Major Allen Gullion conducting the cross examination Insisted that the plane was destroyed by acci dent when a boom lifting it aboard ship snapped under the strain and broke Wishes To Be Responsible To The King Only (By The Aanoclated Press' ROME Nov 4 9 The fascist premier of Italy Benito Mussolini wishes to be responsible only to King Victor Emmanuel for his ac tions He desires that neither the Chamber of Deputies nor the Sen ate include in Its program and question which he has not approv ed Bills to carry oht the desires described by him as Juridical expression of the precise will of the fascist revolution were introduced yesterday in the cham ber of deputies In a speech to the chamber yes terday he said that there was a feeling throughout the world that the parliamentary system was good in the past "but today it la insuffi cient for the needs and passions of modern Boc CONDITIONS IN VA EXCELLENT BOARD REPORTS I HALIAX CO MURDER CASE Investigation Reveals No Such Condition At State Prison Camps As Charg ed Last Spring No In humane Treatment Is 3 IS SENT ON McKinney Held or the Grand Jury On the Charge of Killing Hancock (Special to The Bee) HALIAX Va Nov 19 McKinney was held this afternoon for the grand Jury of Halifax coun ty circuit court for the killing of Garter Hancock last Sunday following a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Snead of Scottsburg The grand jury meets here rfoxt Monday morning The evidence heard this morn ing followed in substance the early accounts of the tragedy which cul minated in McKinney shooting Hancock through the heart as he sat in his chair because the lie hail been passed to his sister The only point over which a discrepancy was seen was over who first re sorted to the ugly word loyd Butler one of the three eye witnesses besides McKinney was the first to take the stand He called at the McKinney home on Sunday morning at ten and spent the day there Hancock and his son Ben Hancock aged 13 arrived at about 1:30 ap parcntly'in an am able mood The range of gossip was de and in cluded the smallpox situation at Drakes Branch and methods Of marketing tobacco Butler quoted Hancock as say'ng at one time that he had 2109 pounds of tobacco to Drakes Brunch where he had disposed of it on the auc tion floors and that he expected to sol all of his tobacco In the same way notwithstanding the fact that Dalsey Hancock and others had reported him to the for so do ng This Butler testlf ed was what created the trouble Miss McKinney Butler testified denied the 'mputatlon and the He was passed McKinney 1 he said told Hancock to leave secured his gun and shot him after telling Han cock that he could not curse his sister Other unprintable langu age Is said to have been used also dur ng the passage between Han cock and the young woman But ler left the house hurriedly after the affair becoming excited over the murder Ben testified that his father called Miss McKinney "a liar" His evidence was in the main similar to that of Butler Ills father he said had gone to the farm to see McKinney about some tobacco he was storing Daisy McKinney denied that she provoked the abuse alleged to have been heaped upon her and testified that Hancock came to the house apparently under the influence of liquor and In an ugly mood The girl testified further that there had been feeling between Hancock and McKinney's son be cause of the fact that the Han cocks were charged with making liquor on their branch She stat ed that her family had not visited the Hancocks for over a year but that Hancock came to their house frequently and would always leavewithout saying a farewell and sometimes without telling anyone lie was going This was described as one of his peculiarities Deputy Sheriff John Hatcher of Scottsburg was the next wit ness He stated that he was noti fied of the killing on Sunday after noon by Benny Hancock He went to the McKinney home he stated but founj the house locked up He says he was forced to break tn On entering ho found the body of Hancock lying on the floor alone lie stated ho later learned that the family had locked the house up and went to the homo of a neigh bor The officer attacked the testi mony of loyd Butler and Da sy McKinney declaring that certain points their testimony contra dicted the previous stories they had told of the affair The off cer declared today that he had sqrno strong evidence to introduce when the grand jury hearing is held evidence which he held back nt the hear ng today He Intimated that It would be nothing short of sensational He says that ho has found several other wit nesses ound As Alleged Whippings Used Only As Last Resort RICHMOND Va Nov The) general condition of prison camps in Virginia is excellent a private report of the state board of public welfare made to Governor Trln kle shows Inaurugated following charges last spring to inhuman: treatment of prisoners the investi gation revealed no such conditions and found whipping used only as a last resort and then properly the report states During the present year there have been but 49 whippings among the prison forces in Virginia in vestigators found Of these the state penitentiary had two the state farm two and road camps 49 With a convict population of 2400 whippings in the state have aver aged less than six a month All of these were found to have been properly administered without any signji of cruelty and only when jus tifiable as a last resort to main tain order The report recalls that In the month of August 1907 there were 123 whippings when the prison population was only 1500 and these were for minor 1 offenses Under th0 present system whip pings are used In punishing onli the most serious offenses such attacking in attempt to kill strife ing foremen refusal to work pos Hive disobedience and fighting The Investigators found that th sergeants in the camps were c( rying out the plan of the boar and declare the present systen wise humane and Only one recommendation war made in tho report to the gover nor and had to be with recom mendation of Dr Brumfield in 1922 The state board of welfare reported that the recommendation of Dr Brumfield that small hospi tai buildings with cots at every camp and equipped with facilities for caring for sick men had not been carried out Though less than 1 pef' cent of the men were found confined to quarters because of Illness those should be separated from the other men while ill the board be lieves and the report recommend ed that Dr suggestion oe carried out Of these 45 whippings which took place In camps this year it was found that five camps have not had a single whipping eight have had ony one six had two and seven had only three and two had four the maximum within the year 11 After expressing confidence in thesergeants of the various camps and stating the belief that whip pings were being administered and then only when nec essary the report of the board of welfare explained that everything possible was done to start a man on the right track when he enter ed tho camp It was brought out that were such that most of the camp sergeants lived in or near the camps with th ek wives The report was made to Gover nor Trinkle after a private inves ilgatlon covering two months ol lowing charges in a Virginia news paper1 by Mrs 11 Taggart oi Big Stone Gap and Joseph Chit 1 wood of Roanoke which started when a report from North Caro lina told of cruelty in a whipping case in that state Major Rice Ewell superintendent of the state prison asked the governor to make an investigation The task of making a sweeping Investlga 1 tion was turned over to the state board of public welfare and the re port submitted the governor is slgnej by Commissioner Mas tin and special agent Arthur James IRUN TAKES SIANi IN KIP CASE McKinney (a still in ja 1 no bond having been asked for McKinney did not take the stand today nor worn any witnesses for tho defense heard WEATHER forecast Virginia Showers tonight slightly warmer in central mid east portions riday jwirt cloudy colder in exert pirtlon moderate to fresh southwest winds Non Carolina Showers and slightly warmer tonight riday part cloudy and colder in west showers In east por tion modcruto southwest winds (By Tho Associated Press) NEW YORK Nov Irvin Berlin song writer today followed Al Jolson black faced comedian in denying that he hail ever met Alice Beatrice Jones negro wife of Ixmnard Kip Rhinelander who 3 suing her for annulment of their marriage Kerin returning to Nw York from Boston said today that was Europe at the the wrote young Rhinelander that she had met him at a summer camp Al Jolson who was mentioned In one of the letters as staying at the same place tsok the wit ness stand White Plains Tuas day and denied that he had ever met her.