The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

1922 ICTION SERVICE Tho 1922 fiction service will consist of a com plete novel written by the best known authors every two weeks To get the ten comics that appear dally in The Bee it would require the purchasing ofat least three Metropolitan papers Associated Press service OUNDED EBRUARY 1899 NO 6070 DANVILLE VA MONDAY ATERNOON JANUA RY 30 1922 THE DANVILLE REGISTER Associated Press David Lawrence Dispatches Bring ing Lp ather and Mutt Jeff Sunday cornls Section Ciiy delivery 55c a month Jess 5 per cent st months In advance Less 10 per cent 12 months in advance Ly man 50c a month $L25 3 months $500 1 year PRICE: TWO CENTS KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE TOLL 1 08 Southern Passenger Station Destroyed By ire More Bodies Are Believed Pinned Under Heavy Roof PARTIAL LIST armers eel Building Evidently Burning Long Before Dis THE DEAD Effect Of Snow covery IsMade Is Total Loss to Be Still Alive Burned Plains' Will Choose New Pope Thursday Trolley Service Is Reestablished it stood have been Caves in Mar Little no riinnins by and mother pe ed He he Knew mjiihiui iujuker dt daughter had gone to the theatre and following bore the floral de ll was Crash Also Mrs A heat 'inciting the expected to arrange tor tin Student and John I finet evening Iouise Wil fined tor Co the a irom the to have the bad a forme who li i are TO no the Engineer Charley Baker Resumes Run After Mishap began tolad tthin xt confusion the trans his tele fi) it was not realized Danville man Sum pencil to workmen At 12:30 yesterday the fire out There was when he heard of the crash he rush found ms sons POAIS LAUGHTER SCREAMS in II Jones tzgerald Dibrell Green Hili No i rang and department turn the Chains for pneumatic and solidn All sizes Wilson Meade Mo 27BandR3t Muon Thurston Hobart Ltithen Luther 1 Posey Oslin Herman Oslin Gorney McDaniel li son Jr V' Cubbins Linkn played it in Bit Hlsblanda todav ign Giant Dynamiting ish In Smith River Mrs nd Mrs A 'Haney an nounce the approaching marriage o' their daughter Miss Isabelle Clifford Raney to William Clycl White the wedding to take place in the early spring and wit one his Danville The snow he said today were average man The brought the strange i the men seated on Phone Patterson your drug wants Delivery anywhere in city Phone 99G 28RD2t Itd ME Jan 30 Preparations were begun today for the convening Thursday of the solemn conclave at which cardinals of the Romdn Cath olic church will choose a pope io sue 18 IRE' CALLS DURING MONTH funeral Col and apartment for Danville Man Killed in Mrs Annie Pena Buried This Morning or the first time since Thursday night regular street car service was re established on Sunday evening at 5:30 at which time the North Danville route had been re opened and tire Holbrook avenue depot line had been cleared of snow which pre vented the operation of car's" This re establishment of service came only after 36 hours of great phy sical effort on the part of the street I car force assisted by army Press) 3 0 Wa" from under The familv was formerly from Selma Ala where the interment be made No further arrangements for funeral have been eomplsted Jeifries was connected with a real estate com pany and his sister made her debut in society two years ago Colored Gamblers Are ined in Court (jne well down Danville man a young woman who received education here were victims in catastrophe at Washington when () Wedding License Issued Chains for pneumatic and solid tires All sizes Wilson Meade Mo tor CO 37Bandlt3t Cape Cod Street ear sei vice Injured Girl Rapidly Recovers The farmers around Danville feeling the effect': of the snow them the heavy covering is by means a disaster as it is good for earth and gives promise of good crops All farm work is suspended and the people in farmhouses are i are wood i WASHINGTON Jan With a total of 107 dead and 103 injured removed from the ruins of the Knickerbocker Theater early today rescuers were still struggling with the heavy wreckage left when the snow laden roof of the struc ture Saturday night during the showing of a fea ture comedy Brigadier General Bandholtz who is in charge said it might be another 24 hours before the work would be com pleted It is believed however that the section remaining to be explored would yield few additions to the awful list of dead and injured A party of rescuers was still straggling to release from the wreckage now being overturned one man believed to be still alive although imprisoned for 36 hours The death of Miss Mary orsyth of Washington brought the death list from the Knickerbocker Theater dis aster to 108 AH the dead and injured are being removed frem the Christian Science church which served as a clear ing houe for victims Little hope is held for the recovery Edward Snaughnesey assistant postmaster general who with wiie and cnilarea were injure in tne crash Eldridge Known Here As Hattie Elsom I The Human to Scale Burton This Afternoon tanks which providentially were inDanville just in time to be of niiijur service to the community These tanks dragging road machines re moved the' hard packed show from be assistance of plows it was possible to tween the tracks and with the farther restore something like normal condi tions Holland president of the company' who devoted Ills time to the street car situation from the time the snow storm blockaded the community said this morning that the loss to the street car would bo several thousand dollars Not only was there a com plete lack of revenue during the time of suspensioni but there were addi tional expenses in connection with clearing the tracks Mr Hollandstated today that the thanks of the street car company and also of the citizens were due to Captain Ashby Raine who commands the tank outfit in Danville and also to the men of his command who at an early stage of the tie up proffered the services of the company and its equipment free ot charge to the street car company Captain Baine sustained a severe in jury yesterday He was driving one' of "the tanks up North Main street hill when one ol the iron doors slam med to and caught one of his fingers so mutilating it that he may have to have it removed Mr Holland in a statement today said that in behalf of the car com pany he thanked the public for its in dulgence during the unavoidable delay In It was explained today that th task in front of tho street car company on riday morning was no small one The number of automobiles and motor trucks which were abroad during the storm packed the snow tight down in the ear tracks making it more difficult to remove Danville began the task of (Continued on Page 5) fire toss this month promises to be the heaviest within a similar period in a lie history of the Danville department A study of the tire alarm record shows that since January 1 eighteen Calls have been a ns wired rom Sunday a we ago until yesterday ight runs had been made The monetary loss is probably more than $200 (hili taking into con skleration the three large tires and a number of smaller ones affecting resi Life Insurance "Bur from Bass Engineer Charles Baker' a well known railroad man ontJie(Southcrn who in November 1920 was terribly injured in an engine explosion has again taken his cab and is making nis runs Mr Baker who lives at Spen cer was on the day of the ac cident in the cab of tho engine draw ing No 5 when soon after it lel't Spencer the boiler burst Tho engi neer received the full force of the jet of live steam in the face and was ter 'ribly injured He was treated in hospital for weeks nd it was feared for some time that he could not sur vive He has howdver made a win ning fight and after a long convales ence he' is now running between Spencer ami Monroe Va to the home of Alex Green 829 Val ley street where a slight blaze was put out This street is behind Gay street and the firemen had great diffi culty in driving their engines through the snowy streets A wedding license has been issued by the Clerk of the corporation courtto Lindsey Wharton Cook of School field and Maudja Cook Cas wdl ZDA Dan of a Me re wagon front wagon Jeffries was crushed about the chest and is thought lie died instantly His sister 'however was alive when she was found but died five hours later at the emergency hospital Both Jeffries and his were identified by their father who went to the went when he heard what had hap a if new his son and JJV casket Tne four members cross one standing uther at the tii certain signs in accordance withhe riual were made alter wnieh the four figures disappeared and the committal ceremony was completed It was the first time pince the revival of the order that a funeral has been attended by members The service at the of Mr and Mrs A itee parents of the de as in vey Hayes Parham Ashworth Ackers When the graveside in cemetery vas reached by the Masonsvho hau cnarge of the service tout nooded and wnlte clad members of the though as sol aml the over Hie grave then formed a at the head an and two ul me no spoken word At about the 'Patronize Patterson We pre as near you as telephone 996 281tB2t Talley John A (1 Crafton erguson Norton Ckiuite Mc Dodson Hurd McCormick liar Luther 1 Brown Samuel Turner Posey A'eriion and NV the the root the Knickerbocker theatre caved in last Saturday night William Loviek Schoolfield sou of Mrs Schoolfield was one whose dead body was removed from the de bris Mrs A Eldridge whose name appears with her husband as among the dead will be remembered in Danville as Miss Hattie Elsom'She received her education in this city at the Randolph Macon Institute and had many relatives a nd here She was a cousin of Mi Swanson and Estes Loviek Schoolfield was among the first to be taken from the scene of the disaster His name was first sent out as IV Schofield and until yes terday that it was the uel Schuolfivld who with Mrs Schoolfield and the two MlSscs Srlioolfielil are in Washington tele grpahed to relatives here yesterday confirming an earjy suspicion that'Schofield'' might be ami iliac in tne numeyiaie there had been an error in mission of the name In (Continued on Page nr t'di army in of the fa mi at tit 1 tnev a (By The Associated WASHINGTON ington is digginc more' than" two feet fell weather followed Weather Bureau moving safely seaward with ter near is being to lie again Leonard Carter EmmenE Vernon Oakley Giles Garland Reynolds Beiidair Lewis eCubbins Poindexter Preston Travis John It Hud The funeral of Mrs Annie Penh who died on Saturday evening in Staunton was conducted at eleven thus moring from the home if Mrs Kaie Bass on Proa 1 street Rev 'J Callaway Robertson conducted the' service The pall bearers were: A Starl ing A Aiken Schoolfield George Temple AV Hill Eugene Withers Julian Meade George Mar tin Watson and rank Talbott The flower bearers were: NVyllie Julian Jordan iDatis Th Beerman' Withers 1 Over bey II Boisseau Willian'so: Hartley Penn SL Graveley 1 I Pritchett Booth Hunt Wiiu bish Anderson AV CousinsW Jordan Kyle Jones Dr Tl James Nelson Captain Woodins Albert Patton I Booth Dr 'M Robinson Judge Withers and Miles Puryear Manning) Jan 30 12 year onl XshtG and Mrs th Conroy Came of mksburg Va Ticket had just time enough of the Jan out of snow which riday and Saturday air the stori: which olficials said was ines of $250 and costs were im posed on Leon White Algiv Petri nlames Richardson George Hairston and William Swann all colored this morning in the court wi Charges of gambling The negroeis were arrested Sunday night by Police Officer Mayberry at the home of Swann nt Epps crossing after he had watched them for some time through a window denied the charge this morning stating that gone there for the purpose of paying a visit to Swann whom they say was sick James Link colored tvtis fined $25 for creating a disturbance Will Motley colored failing to provMe police protection at an fiiterlaimnent Jaticia English and hams colored were fined $5 for 'cre ating disturbance by hse of profane language Wesiet Smith colored: fined SSb and costs for carrying concealed wea pons and $10 fo rbelnc drunk A pis tol a razor and another dangerous knife were found on person Keagon icus'er costs for gaming imni oh' C'oiuuhoun street charge of Rev DuBose pastor church member toiiaily large and ut tne graveside there wds a large nuniut of peopli who laced th J' ine'enten: weather and by their presence gave expression to their sympathy and sense of loss The following pall bearers bore the body to the nwly madc grave: Bruce Davis Wilks Adams Blankenship 'Rosser Bradley Charles Bradley Ernest' White rank Car ter and Beverly Rudin The signs: compelled to remain in spending their time bringing in and tending the stock Warren who lives netr ville who had urgent business yesterday braved the1 dangers snow drifted road moves the rear wheels of which are larger than wheels and attaching tongue to it he harnessed two 1200 nound mules friends came to I drifts in places taller than the straining mules conveyance with it safely to town but it was a rough trip he said Reports from "the Danville and Western line are that in the moun tain country of Patrick west of Dan ville the snowfall was not quite as heavy as it was here Tram service has been uninterrupted except for a slight derailment at one point the line i mad Knout Jhe iiijjttne apy tn m1 the fwt that bvr were killed in the of Saturday lie running WEATHER ORECAST or Virginia: Partly vloiitly tonight: Tue day iin ottled: probably fojlmtc by snow in cx treiiie southwest pmtion The subscription party given by the Danville chapter of will he held op Tuesday January 3 1st at 3:30 jn at the i lub The players will please bring their own' cards and card fable covers if de sired Those giving Aindwiches will please have them at club by twe The authorities of Henry county are investigating the wholesale dyna miting of fish in Smith River some distance above Martinsville Several times recently quantities of dead fish have been seen Iloating down the stri Hin and it was at first thought that been poisoned Since then it is reported dynamite has been freely lire1 to catch fish this result ing in their wholesale destruction Efforts will bo made to punish those responsible for the offense Warehouse Damage Heavy In This Part Permission has been granted by the management of the Burton hotel1 to George Polley Human to climb that building this af ternoon at 5 Hundreds gath ered on Main street' Saturday after noon to witness the fat but wore dis appointed owing to the fact that per mission had not been granted the young dare devil to scale the walls All arrangements have now been com pleted and it is assured that the thrilling performance will take placj this afternoon After reaching the roof Bolley will do a number ot har zardous aerobatic stunts including standing on his head' onthe very edge Jle will then ascend the dome and go to the top ot the flagpole it was said this morning that Polley been refused permission to climb dame as it was considered in too a condition as the slate roofing was very loose at places On the contraiy the says he is going to the top of the flagstaff some way no matter what happens" Tracks Cleared by 5:30 Danville Is Digging Out of Bad Storm Another Roof KniekechoqXer di nivi 2 I 1 A f'll i 'V college in Ni mv pt the omy church round fnni the corner of the that VJa father had been injured Vance a reared u'tu er ot ibfe president or a caii but little is iwiu 0 11 fe re I ilriinuua have no close no jntaacw' is said that tee 'eturned' redericksbu Wi shingtmi every week end re appears to beno relatives tr erica to care for the remains of deceased Cablegrams have been to relmivez In England and tel ags to friends in William Macleod Best Book Starts Today On Page Is a Western Story Of a New Type and a Thrilling Novel or Lovers Of Swift Action Vital Men and Women and the Clamor the West Raines Great Novel Deals With the Coming Of Oil to the Cattle Country removing snow froni un Saturday evvring at the time it Mrs Vance Iqft their 1 lilh JiMVIVlUUinvi Saturday night leaving little Mary Vance in care of the maid and the cook Their failure to return was not noted until Sunday morning Still 1 he maid and cook ami dnugater knew nothing of the whereabouts of the Vances until the police who had noted their residence from papers found in Col pockets called to inform the famjly This morning little Mary Vance was told that her father and mother were slightly in jured in the Knickerbocker crash and is being prepared for the worst news tomorrow Mrs Woods wife of Congressman James Woods of Roanoke ho also resides in the Highlands went to the Vance apartment soon as she read the papers of the death of the tolbnel and his wife and took little Mary tn their apartment for dinnernd her spend the rest of Sun gay and today playing with the Woods children Two other victims claimed by death In the Knickerbocker disaster were John Jeffries 2S years of age And his sister Elizabeth Jet 24 years old of Rich imonil son and daughter of Jef Cfrles general counsel of the Souh ern Railway Company They were found side by side buried in the de bris rind It believed that they were (seated together when the crash came The Southern Railway passenger station built 30 years ago was totally destroyed by fire between five and five thirty on Sunday morning when fire apparently securing a hold in the space between the first floor roof and the high gable spread both ways with a rapidity which lit up the whole town almost before the fire alarm was rung The loss is estimated at about $40000 The railway company carries its own fire insurance through a special fund derived from its revenue By noon yesterday a tem porary ticket office had been built of rough lumber in the subway and while no tickets could be sold as the supply had been consumbed the travelling public was permitted to buy tickets on the trains without paying the excess The fire third serious fire since the begin ning of the month was fought under great difficulty The city fire engines had to forge their way through deep snow at a slower gait than under normal circumstances and while all the departments made all the haste they could some time elapsed before the West End and the Northside pump ers on which the city has to rely for pressure streams could get into action WASHINGTON Jan One hun dred and even Ines lost in the Knickerbocker tneatre latvi nignt hen rh roof weighted by more tfiafl 1 1 led patron of ttie under A hlus blanket of concrete piaster anj eteel according to unofficial but carefully checked records' Of the dead92 had befen identified at dark tonight The large majurij of the victims both killed and injur The 'irj appeared to have its in ception over the dining room which was destroyed the ticket office was burned white and colored waiting rooms the baggage room and the en tire superstructure including theov cri it tiio middlewnieh burjied like a beacon The firemen after rfjtting to work concentrated their efforts at saving the extreme north eastern wing of the building and by hard work actually prevented the ex S' press office from being damaged by fire The flames were eating their way swiftly to this structure which is connected with the mail building by a shed or some minutes there was anxiety over the city gas holders i' i a few yards away although it was said today that liad the express of niu fi mere would no danger Little could be saved building which appears burned for a long time before any body connected with the establish ment became aware of tire Agent Moody to seize his hat nioniy and made his exit as the roof began to fall in iremen entered the ticket office however and saved several boxes ot money and turned these over to authorised persons A bout $25 a pears to hrve been de stroyed by the fire seems to have beet lice the fire burning in the roof and eating it way through same time a traveling the restaurant eating when red hot embers through the ceiling few mii'jtes the flames and once the shingle nited the lire spread There is asim to bi fire was burning ea day evening a mysa rious order appeared from nowhere iney approached the grave a scarlet floral eruss on as May Be 24 Hours Before Complete Toll Is Learn 103 Are In Rescuers ran Depot ireswept Early Sunday With Loss ully $40000 Robed members of the Ku Klux Klan yelerday afternoon attended the funeral services of Jamjss Tem ple Rice whose tragic death on Sat urday when he fell through a sky lignt at Banner warehouse has been recorded Tne lollowing inscription was found on the card attached to the floral emblem laid on the grave: ivsibe tne Klansin(n tie Of real fraternal 'lAVe A That a fellowshipAkin to iiit above WASHINGTON Jan 29 The identified dead in the Knicker bocker theater catastrophe are: ormer Representative A Barelifeld formerly of burgh Ia Miss Helen Barchfcld daugh ter of the former representative Archie Bell formerly ot Vine land Miss Nannie Lee Lambert formerly1 ot Ashboro a John Murray The Virginia Cnauueey Brainard Wash ington correspondent ol the Brook Ijn Daily Eagle Mrs Chauncey Brainard amnion of Wyoming student of George Was dngton university SCHOOLITELD DAN VHLE VA Laverne Sproul aged 17 Chi cago' nephew of Itejn esentatiie i (Continued on Page 5) Klansmen Attend Mr uneral 1 ci i e' thnCsefne ew Gut body in' the improvised ffiospital and1 there with bio I morque at the Curislliin bcienee church rcunu rn ni me ram i land his daughter ha 'I been givefr first aid at the church then rushed to the hospital They found at 6:30 Sunday Express Of fice and Mail Is rom irkedtl range II should have no snow up observed that water freelv off this section izes that fire must have been smoul dering Under the sufficient to create When fire alarm tlie Patton street ed into the snow littered street lower 'end of town was already hr ly Illuminated The engine bucK its way through the snow as fast as it was possibly to drive A naturae pressure stream was laid and coupled up after the fireplug had been dug out Water was being thrown when tlie West End and Northside equip ment arrived and hooked up with power streams Three streams were played on the now brightly burning mass Call men came as expedi tiously as possible but it tru hard for them to make good time tramp ins and running through the snow streets some of them from points It remained for the corapara Hl tively small fire force of station me I to wrestle with the lire which quick ly enveloped the 200 foot long build ing The fire but tied itself out by about half past six leaving only the longitudinal walls standing one ot these being so badly warped by the heat that it is feared that the struc ture ca not be rebuilt unless the walls are removed entirely The loss in the baggage room was very heavy There was an unusually large accumulation of luggage due to the fact that there had been no train (Continued on Page 5 Reports reaching here from Rox boro arc that Pioneer ware house one of tho largest brick struc tures in that town caved in on Satur day as result of tho snow de molishing the building A few hours later tho Winstead warehouse gave way and was virtually demolished Several other buildings were demol ished and it is further reported that some property holders paid as high as $10 per hour for the removal ot snow from sagging roofs warehouse at Reidsville leaved in on Saturday At Martinsville came the report that while the snow over Henry county is deep there have been no cave ins Storm Moving Seaward Now ed tically Strive to Release One Man Believed jf the irJt Presbyterian of which Ur Dice was a Mary Lee 1 daughter of Mrc and feSTpr jf CI 1 ud over by aii utomoude driven by Bur gess Ramos is recovering rapid from her injures Sne was dlsmis id irom the hospital a few days ago' aid Is at present vsiting her grandmoth ii were ot this city al er in the county though rnanv came recently from otn Mr Ramos uni ve given er pU i Exploration of th rums tomorrow morning in the nuyot (Continued on Page 3 i court and trains are sai iiurmu Loviek Schoolfield Is Theatre Victim I.