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1922 ICTION SERVICE OUNDED EBliAUKY 1899 NO 6071 DANVILLE VA TUESDAY ATERNOON JANUARY 31 1922 PIQUE TWO CENTS Push Probe Principals In Of inal Check Shows 95 Kill ed in Theatre Catastro fice ticn 'g 4 Lovick Schoolfield uneral rom Train i in Nearly 26 Million Ramos Charge it seems as though no Local Tobacco Market Will Closes the David Cox Drowned the In 12 Inches Water Negro Held On 3 Robbery Charge Explosion Mine Seek New Site Two Million Dollar ire At Superior rom Home Interest Keen 4 In New Pope tion tip that 20 effect house Disobedience Day house bockrr th I ami El Yes wa 4 to a it tent' to tent waiting on the in the bying snow at night ami in the bitter cobl the new building has been Mrs Scruggs Sanitarium discomfort and sufferers have and an ttncorri Garnett de service to their homo or 30 I I allow: arriving in Wash where they were tile roads Mr man chairman AVirnbieh vice chairman I' Conway Oren Spencer James Th JI Maihall (By The Associated Press MEMPHIS Jan 31 Informal con ferences of missionary leaders of the Methodist Episcopal church South are in progress here preliminary to a formal meeting tonight of bishops presiding elders and other represent atives to take stock of the Centenary Missionary Campaign (Dy The Associated Press) o' IAUA Neb Jan than one thousand striking members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and But eher Workmen "of North America voted today to call oft the strike in the Petersburg hospital at from Chamber of Commerce Dies Rl One Year Is raid to be the highest pt nt in rifle marksmanship ever made nrrti fniti oil Stales was credited to Sarah ise Hoefer a student in the 'military department of the Pottsville High School who yesterday registeted 199 bull eyes out of a possible 200 This is the only military depart ment conducted by the United Staten War Di purimert in any public school in hs retgton about an equal from the same at another rer th mailin' I ami qr I would gladly do it Taj ticed1' ig'd 1 th great storm has deeply de all ot ns and le i 1111 tng about the rotohtng fates" While it thawed yesterday and to day the thermometer dropped to fourteen degrees during the night making highly dangerous sections of sidewalk where the melting mow froze Travi who lias the removal of garbage in charge said today that it is virtually Impossible for h'im to reach many the streets and that his work was cut out in keeping res taurants and hotels clour of gar bage He states that as soon as the streets are passable lie will resume operations PoihkIs Before Season Police Offi Clark and Dec and about half Maryland Visitors Lose All Their Baggage The recent severe was keenly felt by the fourteen tubercu lar patients Thi oughout ling chairman amily Wants to Give Young Girl a Home The Associated ilNGTON Tan Diehard Betts a negro wits arrest ed early this afternoon at his home on Newton street after a group of officers had searched it and found there fifteen gallons of earn liquor in thirty 'half gallon Mason jars Betts was locked up on the charge of violating the Mapp Ac cers Cook tectives 1 Campbell Iewis made th? raid at By The Associated Press) SUPERIOR Wis Jan 31 A spec tacular lire at the ore dock wai brought unde control today after a loss estimated at two million dollars The' Salvation Army has an inquiry from family for a girl ten or eleven years of age to slay in a good home in Danville one interested are re quested to apply to Envoy Eastwood Salvation Army Hall on North 'Main street or phone 1)82 i By The Associated Press) ROME Jan 31 Interest ia the choiceof a successor to Pope Bene dict is increasing as the time draws near for the assembling of the savred conclave which is set for Thursday President Harding Joins in Souow Throughout Land at Hilltop the great cold the fortitude chairman Penn vice chairman Jordan 1 A hulghum Bryant Spring Carden Va Williams Hl Boatwright Publicity Committee II A Jr chairman Trundle Weather Prevents Work On Temple fBv The Associated Press) PLYMOUTH Eng Jan 31 Cov ered from stem to stern with ice and snow the Ameriian liner Krooiflnnd arrived from New York today after a voyage i 'By The Associated Press) Jan 31 Londe napers discuss with considerable anx iety th beginning of "civil disobedi ence" day in India under plans laid down by Gadhi non coopeia tlonist leader Conway Jr 1 folia nd' MH 11 I'Ul UM liv 1 llliV 4J sistants Miss S'ophie Ycatts Miss An nie Marston and Mrs Wilkinson The patients us will be recalled have been housed in army tents ever since the sanitorium was removed from its old site The accumulation of snow bn some of these tents threat ened to eave them in While the pa tients had plenty of bed covering and each one had an 11 Move in the tent there was much discomfort Travis and a force of city workmen went to the camp scene and removed the snow from the tents and dug out Iiaths between them and the small shack where meals are served to the ambulatory cic es The ground has been fairly well cleared The greatest discomfort was exper ienced by the four nurses echo had to go from patients and day tVhflo nearly completed it will probably now be 'March 1st before it is occupied There is still some painting to be done and some uoors to be laid The con tract called for completion of the structure by January 12th but lhetc have been delays and there is no pen alty clause on the contract It had been hoped until a short time ago that ebruary 1st would see the pa tients housed lut a further delay is now in prospect Committee? are working on the equipment question Charlie Abraham Itnloigh Carrie Bennett Surrav county James White and Alice Grace Blalock Danville Adam Miller All ictnarle county and Modena Blackmon Danville Charlie Keck and Carrie Iee Perrow Danville WEDDING LICENSES 1SUE1) Wedding licenses have been issued to the following by the clerk of the Corporation court: 1 Connie and Nora Dean Greens Life Insurance "Buy from 30B2Rlf Mrs II Riley of Easton Mil her daughter Mrs Cora Riley and granddaughter Betty Riley are vis iting Mr and Mrs 1 Watson on College Avenue They started from butvn on riday Ington Saturday held storm bound unable to catch a tram either back into Virginia They arrived here on Monday only to find upon arrival that their luggage which had pre ceded them was destroyed with a loss of about $400 in the station fire Schwab Is Heard On Tariff Issue (By 'flic Associated Press) PINTIVIULTl ky Jan 31 i 'om miners were illc wo injured seri ously and two are missing as the re sult of explosion in uie Layman coal hilue according to reports re ceive 1 here Now that the Chamber of Com merce presidency has been settled and the committees appointed no further time wil Ibe lost in launch ing the drive to raise $15000 to wipe off the debt from Danville Military Institute a prerequisite to th taking over of the college by the Presbyter ian Sqn6d of Virginia It'itr gerald is chairman of the drive la committee of the Chamber of Com merce witn representatives Young Business Club' the Re tail Merchants' Association the Ki wanian and Rotarian has been appointed Work will bo started within the next few I' avs in raising the money The synod has already given assurances that it will increase the school and maki one of their most imporant scholastic: centres CHICAGO Jan 31 Many a man has gotten himself into trouble be cause he was crazy about red hair but Miss Della Callery is under observa tion today here to decide whether she is crazy because she is proud of gray hair Miss Callery who is a young woman under 3b was brought into Judge Samuel Trudels court over an altercation with a neighbor who had taunted hfr with her gray lock "I am proud of my gray hair" Miss Callery told the judge Judge Trude whose own locks are gray decide that when a young woman was inor dinately proud of white tresses It merited investigation Rural ree Delivery RouteJ Are Being Carried Again in Postof i Double orce At I Work Clearing Snow The Bee's 1922 fiction service will consist of a com plete novel written by the best known authors every two weeks To get Hie 1en comics that appear dally In The Bee it would require the purch xsing of at hast three Metropolitan papers Associated Press service pounds average $2913 amount paid out 2 2 8 (13 2 7120 Decrease in January 27 7 3 7 7 pounds verage $1093: decrease in amount paid out Probably Dispose of ive or Six Additional Million The Chamber of Commerce yester 'day took swift action relative to Hie rebuilding of the Southern Railway station indicating a desire to carry out the wishes of the community gen erally that the new building be plac ed at some spot more convenient to the traveling public When the di rectors met yesterday the secietai was Instructed to send telegrams to President airfa Harrison of the road and to Superintendent A Shelton of the Northern Division epressing re grets at the fire and tendering the good offices of the local organization Today letters are going forward to both Messrs Harrison and Shelton taking up further the question of re locating the station in order that the facilities may be better than they areU at present If necessary a strong com mittee will be sent to Washington to see Mr Harrison to point out what are conceived to be the objections to rebuilding the station on its present site The principal objection to the Asatlon being rebuilt on its old site is Lh" distance which the travelling (public have to go to reach trains af ter once buying tickets This is pa: ticularly arduous for women travel ling alone and carrying suitcases and grips The Southern is now issuing tickets at the temporary ticket office built in the Subway which is considered by many as more convenient than the ticket office in the old station in 'that the traveller has only a flight of steps to mount after securing th tickat to I reach the train Craze for Gray Hair Sends Woman to Jail Deeds of bargain nd sale teiorded in the clerk's trice of the Corpora tion court convey frmn try Mari: ami other to (1 II McCall Mt fe nq Holbrook Ave cons'de: atin $5211? Lewis from Jnk son teet on Cole street com idera lion $1058 Postmaster rank Lumpkin whd recently recovered from illness re ported today that tho postal service was being gradually restored to a normal basis after the confusion which has prevailed due to the heavy snow The rural free delivery routes run ning out of Danville are being carried again after a suspension since riday when 4t was impossible for the men negotiate tne country roads terday one of the delivervmen compelled to lead his horse over half of his route In North Carolina he I hate pcrivn eJ the sarmx in founding shock and theAsame inex pressible sorrow which barcotre tj ali of Washington and which wllt be felt throughput the land': If 1 knew aught to say to jol'ts en the sorrow of hundred who are so suddenly bereaved if I e'luld sry a win'll to er ferlng terrib orrest Jones and Walter Bradley arrested several days ago in eonnec tion with tlm theft from VV" Barber itlariner of over $300 were given a hearing in the police court this morn ing AH of the evidence was against Jones and he was held for the grand jury and Bradley was dismissed Jones denied taking the monev from pocket ns charged but saya is he lound 'it on the ground after hav ing yen the faniler drop it Bradley test Hied tliat lie saw Jones reach his hand into Bartier pocket and take the money The robbery occurred sev oral days ago near 'Piedmont ware fore her Answering the call she found it on me from Ove's irage Wavne No one resnouded her re peated requests for pb' ise" although the line remained open At length she heard through ihc ana ii'z innw hint wns wrong' she called the M'nyn police station' (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON Jan No tariff bill will build a foundation for pros perity unless it provides for an Amer ican valuation Charles Schwab declared in a letter read before the National Association of Manufacture Tariff Convention here DUBLIN (la Jan An extra ordinai appeal for new trial was de nied Marshall Bass a white farmer under death sentence in the Laurens superior court here today Bass shot and killed his wife who Held a baby in her arms on a highway near Dub lin last year The baby was also wounded" Attorneys for the defend ant announced this atternoon they would take the ease to the smite su M'ASJIBCTON lent Harding issued lite today on the WASHINGTON Jan 31 our ef the five members of tin' family of Os tar Kanston 'of 3847 North Win 1 Takes Quick Action Rel ative to New To xAsk Company to Build on More Convenient Loca irfcrease in 11001 744 lbs decrease in average $580: 'decrease amount paid put $45595923 1 Get ifteen Gallons Of 133 Injured 62 Remain in Hospital With Dozen in Critical Condi divorced child oft the train Robbins withdrew Chicago judge Qr lo ng a vice president of Armour shows George Wright chairman Conway Jr Jams Catlin Jr Holland laiuoit tarringion Membership Committee Gravely chairman: Sei vice chairman rank Talbott James Catlin Jr TV Jordan A A Booth A Crowell Hnry K6edijr (By The Associated Press) AVAatuNGTON Jan 31 An eartu suake of the greatest intensity prob ably 2000 miles south of Washington was registered at the Georgetown i esmographical observatory today The tremors became so pronounced ii to throw the registering needles oft the scale The quake Was pronounced "enormous" by officials Methodist Leaders Meet In Memphis William Boatwright prrid en of the Chamber of Commerce an nounces tli following committee ap pointments foe the current year i Work the Masonic Temple is virtually at a standstill as result of the low temperatures and the suc cessive frosts All that has bien done during the past few days has been to bring in building material Com paratively few men are at work sui it wil Ibe impossible to begin pour ing concrete on the top stones until the weather breaks Holland chairman A Patton vice chairman Meade A Carrington Jr Hugh Keeling Booth Babllc Welfare anil Health Cojiimit Thomas chairman A Ken vice ehairman AV Garnett Dr II AV DuBos Bledsoe Ralph Linville A Taylor Merchants Committee I Kauf man chairman Richards vice chairman Thompson Mose Roman rank Mcall Allen Herman THE DANVILLE REGISTER Associated Pmss David Lawrence Dlaputchea Bring ing Up ather and Mutt Jeff Sunday eomls section City delivery 55c a month less 5 per cent six months In advance Less 10 per cent 12 months in advance by mall 50c a month $125 3 months $500 1 year shown great plaining spirit Dr It dared today that splendid had been rendered during the emer gency by the superintendent Miss Beisie Davenport and her three a3 Th case against Burgess Ramos cbsucttU ith BMHiiIng ovraMaryi Lee smalt daughter ofe a ndM 1 Iee was dismiss) in the court this morning after it was shown that the driver was not at fauit fo the accident which 'occurred days ago in front of Rison Park school Outide of the litile girl there were no witnesses 'She "testi fied that she was wholly bls ran directly in front of oncoming automobile Mail is Getting Back to Normal Merchant 33 Is Murdered On Way Home hl ie Rio city bcian the burial of its dead authorities pushed investigations of the theater disaster final check by the police showed the de ith toll from the crash to be ninety five of one hundred and thirty three injured Wity two remained in hospitals 'with a dozen reported to be in a critical condition 'Reductions in the total death list resulted from the teilatl' elimlnalon of 'eight panics for which thw police were unable to find any address one erroneously re ported dead and one' duplication: Boatwright Names His Committee in the Knii kerboek' theatre crush Kanston who came her' lecently fu: some temporary work for the Bureau of 'Valuation' of the Interstate Con merce Commission went last night to the playhouse with his wife his two daughters' Helen and Anylq seven and his 'son Grant" elevenniy the boy escaped Meat Gutters Quit Strike Is Dismissed Girl Takes Blame Hilltop olk Brave the Storm THIJjADETPHT 4 Jan 3'i Ouicl: action of Mrs Anna Bell a telephone operator at AVayne prevented a mur? Her ear'y this morning Shortly after midniuht she sow a Indications poinLto the DanVillo to bai co man et turning 32 or 33 million pounds of tobacco oefoie the close the present season The statistical report for January and for the whole season issued today by Crews wooding resident of the Danville Toliaec Assuciaron already shows total eale of "twenty live and tnreo jUurier million pounds The report follows: Sales for January 5079550pounds: overage $1820: amount pud out $32457037 promt court GIRL MARKSMAN MAKES I'JI) OUT or 200 Bl ILSEAIS KINSTON CJan 30 When a small roadster turned turtle on a rnrd near OnnondsviHe last pignt Udvirt nd 2d auto MiinDlV Rta tinn ntnploye was drowned in 12 inches 6f waler and Louis Whitener ug clerk' was injured fox and Whitener were en route Kinston The machine landed in ditch with both men beneath Whitener to help himself heard a gurgglmg sound" where i a Kiy help wt recover our in Chicago amily Among Dead PETERSSBURG Va Jan 30 I Seid St Matthews street merchant died 5:30 o'clock yesterday niornin a gunshot yound inflicted by a negro who attacked him about 12 Saturday night and at 8:10 Tock last night' the alleged inur lerer "Rossie'" Patterson was arrested by tlie police near his home at street and Chandler's alley Mr Seld with his wife was goini: from his store to his home in Until jug street when on a dark Stretch nf Hie street Mrs Seld sav Ttum part ly hidden behind a tree At the num time they were comma il'd to halt and before tim merchant could thiow up his hands the fatal shot was hryu taking effect in his stomach Mr Sold who lu' Tbuut $150 O1J his perscia an I was armed ntely pulled his gnn and fired five shots hhh Sei (1 's neizhorhouii to the tv a I Drive Will Start In ew Days Kroonland Has A Stormy Trip T' Jackson colored was this morning belli iqr the grand jury on charges of larceny fron the South ern Railway company Jackson was arrested several days ago after large quantities of cigarettes smoking to bacco and candy had been found to have been stolen from box ears Snob Cox i smods wpr Inr MtRr? tlnue hHar Two hours Whitener's calls for Jackson is also held on another war wcre heard He will probably rant charging him with stealing coal i com tne company negro norm ct however Mrs residents of the street end lh' at once burried to tine nature of the wouiuV was such that little: hope was hsld op for his recovery Make Appeal for New Trial in Murder Case City May Carry Own Insurance One Negro Held Other Released Total sales for the season to eb ruary 1 pounds average $22(18 amount paid out $5 udoJ i 3 GO Total sales for corresponding iod 1921 36749437 pounds: aver age $27 SS amount paid out $10246 1651'4 Henry Agricultural Coiuinlttee Gardner chairman Tho Pinker vice chairman: H' Terry AV Purdum Jr AVarren Perry II Lewis Woman's Commit I ee Mrs John JI Schoolfield Jr chairman Airs A Carrington Mrs A Keen Mrs Bessie IV Ly rly Miss Margaret Maxon Twa Others Injured and Two Reported Missing in Coal Mine Blast ulj) ttejijla ttuPl iimmuiiiii)n 1 ncunforniitywit a pawl the finance' committee of the city council Auditor IL Moss has written a letter to Hon Joseph Anderson asking them to introduce a bill into the General' Assembly per mitting Virginia municipalities to otrry group insurance for nil city employes if they see lit to do so This involves an amendment to the city charter Col A Carrington president of the council has in correspondence with the Metropoli tan Life Insurance Company secur ing instructive daia on ihis form of insurance which would probably fig ure out in Danville to a rate of $16 $17 per $1000 No reply lugs yet been received from Delegate Ander son relative to his views on this sub ject It also was learned today that the council is unofficially giving consid eration to a plan whereby Hie city of Danville will carry Its own fire in surance as is done by many large business corporations and public ser vice TJm city auditor ami city purchasing agent have been rc "ently engaged in compiling data on lire insurance for presen tation to the council in order that it can intelligently give consideration to this project It is understood that the fire insurance premiums paid by the city amount to about $5000 Un der the new project the city would carry a reserve fund and would pay premiums on its Insurance noHe'es into this fund Pheno Ready Wit orestalls a Crime of ids route was gratified to see that the Caswell authorities had lost no time in bring out snow blows and removing some of the accumulated snow making vehicular traffic possible The quantity of mail in the post office today was the largest seen hero since Christmas Once trains were aide to get through from the north thesnowbound mail began to arrive in vast quantities or sufficient to swamp the local force AU day Sunday the force was kept on hand ready to cope with the first arrival of mail in order to get it out of the wav or over 24 hours Danville was with out any train from the north and as a result the mail was exceedingly heavy when it did Jegin to come The task of the rural free deliverymen is no small one and tedav they were loaded down with country mail mak ing it difficult even now to get over Lumnkin was hiuvinr MmeoH today with tho loss resulting in the burning of several sacks of mail in I the railway station fire On the floor of his private office were spread out several hundred half burned letters some of them with halt burned checks and tvhat looked like The postmaster said that roller th a postal regulations the em ployes of postofficos are not allowed to handle this mail further and in soon us it has been dried out it will be sent to the dead letter office and handled there it seems as though no incoming mail was burned and most of that actually destroyed was moil matter addressed to Norfolk This morning WE Thpmas gave to Mr Lumpkin a flame scorched velope containing two 'money orders il Mr Thomas lacked up the envelope in the snow on Jefferson street It is not known how it £ot there unless someone picked it up in the debris tit tlie station and on Jefferson street thought there was nothing in tho en velope and cast it aside The money orders were numbers 9 8 and 899 Both of them were re mittanccs to Scars Roebuck Philadel phia uneof them was $1046 and was being sent to the con cern by James Moore of Asheville I The other one was being re mitted by Summers ront this it is judged that possibly some north bound mail was caught in the depot fire and destroyed Southern ums tire now running on normal schedules Photos by Koetine Mrs Mary Robbins filo) a complaint 'charging kidnapping aga'nst a nurse who took her 3 year okl son George Robbins 3rd nuny from their Chicago home and started witfi him for Mrs iusband on the coast Police took the nurse and tlie Etiih After an 'appeal to the courts Mrs the 'I har'gc and the ered released A ucuu iuiiuo son or iieorge KQbuins anti co before him tu'explain alimony payments Th iionbins 3rd anaffhis moth Th body of William Dovick Schoolfield who was killed in the Knickerbocker theatre disaster Washington on Saturday night is coining south today on train No 35 which is due to reach Danville by 4:05 A message received from Samuel IL Schoolfield bj' relatives this morning stated that the train left Washington' twenty minutes late The funeral will be conducted from the railway station and the body willbe borne to Green Hill cemetery am! there interred Latham and Rev AL Oakey will conduct th servic Little further has been learned about the circumstances of Mr death except that his was th fourth body removed from he being evidently near the door at the time Hannon Schoolfield arrived in Dan ville early this morning Edwin Schoolfield of New York and Mis? Lucille Schoolfield are accompanying the body Sant Schoolfield remaining tn Washington with his mother Mrs Schoolfield who ailing at th time of the dis aster and who is eompleielyt by iot Terrific Recorded Today Mrs Jennie (L Scruggs over sev enty years of age died yesterday at her home 443 John street after an illness of a yar Mrs Scruggs was hurt In a she sustained in the backyard of her' home at time when employes of the health department were making sanitary Improvements In that She fell into a hole which had been dug and breaking her thigh became bedridden from that time gradually growing more feeble until ehe died Not long ago a suit for the recovery of SIU 000 damages "was instituted against the city in the corporation court Il was held however that Scruggs had no recourse city which was carrying out the terms of an ordinance The case was ruled out and at the meeting of the city council her attorney appear twforn the boiy and mad an np peal In behalf of the aged lady who had Incurred indebtedness in doo bills and 'nurses as well as on account of her being a helpless crip ple and a dependent The equncil heard the plea and the hn'th committee' wauilniied ti Into the hiatttT amt to mak a if it thought this advls Enquiry at the clty's oT elicited the reply that check has been thus far paid out for Lara Scruggs Mrs remains will he taken today to Glenon Vn for interment (i The Shakespeare Study Club will meet Thursday afternoon with rs I Crumpler 322 West Main Rev Callaway Robertson vill lec ture 4 act of the door of a back room of the garage ana ivuna two non ruegl One I of the conibatinfs held over his head a bloody hatchet which be a ing at his oipownt'K skull Tpo nn thrust themselves upon the Ivi fighters seunmliqs them' and them under arrest W3 OOi I ess Is being made on the Jy Mh niovul of snow from Main street by fl tL i TLJl" A forces under the city engineer Tho 1 large banks of snow In the gutters have been curled away and most of the snow on one section of Union street ha I gone today The men arc shoveling the snow into carts an I it is being dumped in Hie river The accumulation is too hard frozen to by the use of firehose arid' there would be the additional danger' of frost making the surface muiu dangerous than it Is now The city chain gang is being to femove the snow by day tlie city engineer said today and the regu lar street force 1st working ut night thus expediting the work It i ioo early yet to appraise the Cf mage to the smooth paving on Main treet which Is yet covered bynow but indications point to a heavy rejialr bill The city ngineer propo cs to keep Ifri rd at work until the business sec tion of the town has been cleared or The 'officers received a minutes previously a loud of liquor had been carried into the house an) when tlie officers arrived they declare thev Riirnrlsed Betts in the i burning the cartons So ne oi the liquor was under the house an other cache was under tlie woHl pile while other cdntajners were se meted about the house The authorities are suil to know who 'brought it there and believe that amount of liquor wagon was "deposited XX fra ta Tu i Ar i i wC uL iun ur 9 Wi gH 3d a A OH HI Ji Hl Il II OE? JTvsk Mr 4 'Via WAac IK Danville Has Sold oor Killed or So Station Cause1 Anx ety a 4 I I I I I I I I I I I I 4 i.