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THE BEE DANVILLE VA WEDNESDAY MAY 20 1931 THRLx Beginning today and continuing all the a special selling of rl 'jm 168 Pairs taken from our regular Values to $1150 or the first time in the history of Danville Matrix Shoes are offered at this low we have just 168 pairs of these shoes consisting of short lots broken sizes etc that have been taken from our regular stocks and reduced for quick clearance included are black brown and some light kids patent leathers and other materials scraps oxfords and plain pumps All sizes are in the but not in all styles Shopping employed EXTORT 1 0 Burning Plane night Mr theme was Utica for" very finger tips are un Operi Tournament HMM 190 A Confident View school business DOOMED MEN Every Banking Trust and Investment Service con DANVILLE VIRGINIA it REE ACIAL! West at iK a LADY LINDSAY BEAUTY ind Body of 4 AIDS are nationally knotorr German Explorer 93 miles frOn COME IN AND GET A It before the every men by testifying that she her neck which clear struggle when he ex the morning following hear bpl on which Biggs was being more exploded ship was on the subject The subject of was 'the proper between a board its officers to When the Holy Spirit in our hearts He sweeps UP) by a per A passengers a thousand late ester Come in1 and let her tell you the proper creams to use in order to get the results of the business future of Danville and all this section is reflected in every service Moorefield aged 68 years his home near Kentuck Tues noon following an illness of weeks He was a prosperous UNDER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Baptist church Petersburg Is special music at each ser give you a complexion Mrs uller who faces two years in the state penitentiary for forgery was back In her cell today after a brief trip to Memorial hos pital where she was taken after con suming most of a bottle containing a nerve sedative She has quite re covered It was said Mrs uller Is suspected of being a drug addict and the city jailor said today that her ration of morphine had been reduced the jail physician sending her a bromide to pacify her nerves Miss Marie Morgan who Is also said to be addicted to the use of drugs took a dose of the medicine and had turned her back on Mrs uller During tnls brief moment she emptied the contents of the bot tle into a cup and swallowed most of It soon becoming seriously ill She was ordered to the hospital for em ergency treatment and soon recover ed REIDSVILLE GIRL IS DEEPLY IMPRESSED MONTGOMERY Ala May (AP) William Crittenden 16 died here yesterday of poison she took because of Jealousy and then sought to overcome marriage vows her death bed A week ago she quarreled with her sweetheart William Crittenden and swallowed a deadly potion He rushed to her bedside and they were married She strived to overcome ef fects of the poison and doctors did all possible to save her life but from the first they said she naa omy slight chance of recovering LONDON May Ameri can debutantes and matrons who are here to be presented at court are no less" Interesting to British ers than are the crowds who sur round them In the hall while they wait In automobiles to enter the gates of Buckingham Palace to them Miss Virginia Penn of Reids ville and New York aid of the royal recreation were Just terribly excited and everything was so magnificent and regal Mrs Dawes (wife of the American am bassador) was simply splendid In a lovely gown anti we were so hap py when Mrs Benjamin Thaw re cognized us from the diplomatic circle Of course It was the event of our lives During the ceremony we hardly looked at anyone but the king and queen and It all made a deep Impression vve'H al ways taken attraction of to cover 800 under dlrec Over 400 Women Are Presented At Buckingham convention He will conduct mid week prayer service at Baptist church this evening Personals Little Mary' Lee Carter of Main street was reported recovering today at Memorial Hospital where she underwent a tonsil operation TOWN TOPICS BERLIN May 20 UPj Reports to the Wolff Bureau today said a relief expedition in Greenland had found the body of a Professor Alfred Vieg tner German explorer his camp at Els'mltte Eskimos had found expedition arrived and wrapped It In furs the report said Death from heart disease Increased 85 per cent In Idaho In com pared to 1931 ed his home and claimed they found stationary similar to that the letters were composed then arrested The youth was formerly at redericksburg but has been resid ing with his parents here for several weeks after losing his Job Murder Trial of Daniels Begins Anderson Guilty A discussion of your banking needs with our officers might prove very help ful right now during this business re adjustment period ASSESSORS INVADE WILDS 1 DULUTH Minn May (Pl Autos row boats and ca noes are providing transportation for two St Louis county assessors on their annual trip into the wilderness of 84 unorganized Minnesota counties to gather personal property valua tions Today and all the week Lady Lindsay person will ree analysis of the and a REE ACIAL Dr Shelburne Returns Dr James Shelburne has re turned from Birmingham Ala where he attended the Southern Baptist the irst Al HANY May Utica pilot and his two rode a flaming airplane feet to earth near here day landed upside down In a field and crawled out of the wreckage Just before the gasoline tank They were unhurt but the destroyed McManus had left Roosevelt field in the plane and Geo Kaplan and Harry Jones both were his passengers Ap proaching the Albany airport thest pilot saw flames along the fuselage Sideslipping to make the flames i with the wind" McManus landed onfi the field LONDON May Six Amer ican debutantes and three matrons will be among the group presented to King George and Queen Mary to night In the second court of the sea son at Bugklngham Palace More than 400 women Including 10 American debutantes and Mrs Ralph Booth wife of the Ameri can minister to Denmark figured In the first presentation last night The brilliant ceremony proceeded without a flaw in the blue and gold ballroom and the only disappointment was the absence of the Prince of Wales who was guest at an artists' dinner Their majesties will receive the honored ones In exactly the same manner tonight as In the first court There will be the same display of costly gowns and Jewels by the wo men and the uniformed officers of all the state's services will appear in the same dazzling decorations and orders After making their obeisances be fore the gilded thrones the guests will pass to the banquet hall to par take of supper and to discuss their Impressions of what Is probably the greatest occasion In the lives of the socially inclined The following will be introduced by Mrs Charles Dawes wife of the American ambassador Miss Audrey Barret Miss Maureen Smith Miss Mildred Hockstader and Miss Helen A McCann of New York Miss Elizabeth Howry' of Washing ton Miss Katherine Hilles of Wilmington Del Mrs Clarence Dill of Seattle Wash Mrs Alfred Dono van of Rockland Mass and Mrs Andrew Long of Hickory Presented last night were Mrs Ralph Booth of Detroit wife of the American envoy to Den mark Miss Barbara Hutton Miss Louise Behn and Miss Virginia Penn nrmuuu Miss Miss Miss Vir Mlss NEW YORK May The United States Golf Association today announced that 1127 entries had been received for the 1931 open championship This is fifty less than last year These golfers will compete In qualifying rounds at 20 sectional courses the number of places to beallotted each district to be an nounced later The championship proper will be played at the Inverness Club Toledo Ohio July 2 to 4 1 OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY BALTIMORE May 20 The fiftieth anniversary of the founding in this country of a branch of the sister of Bon Secours is being obosrv ed this week at the Baltimore con vent and yesterday Bishop Michael Keyes of Savannah Ga was the celebrant of the solemn pentlflcal mass The prisoner was barely able to un derstand his testimony or that of i and the naR and also is IrOlXCe owupnu leaned forward straining to grasp itivity of the labor I a I VW KMI I 1 a a i i ie Sk sv i 1 i nsu she wilted Into the corner of sen tatlve of the labor defense SALE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the terms of a certain deed of trust dated April 12 1928 from Grace Roberts and Rob erts her husband recorded In Clerk's Office of Circuit Court of Pittsylvania County Virginia In Deed Book 200 at page 564 default having been made in the payment of the debt secured therein and at the request of the beneficiary therein the undersigned will offer for sale at public auction on the premises on Saturday May 30 1931 At 3 O'clock All those certain lots of land with all improvements thereon and appur tenances thereunto belonging situate on College Avenue near Schoolfield Pittsylvania County at the corner of Sixth Street and fronting 75 feet on the Southern side of College Avenue and running back between parallel lines a distance of 315 feet to Chat ham Street and being designated as Lots Nos 11 and 12 In Block 1 on may of property of Dfm River Power and Manufacturing Company record ed In said Clerk's Office In Deed Book 132 at page 462 and being the same property conveyed to Roberts and Grace Roberts by deed from Uklns dated May 30 1919 record ed In Deed Book 100 at page 422 TERMS SALE CASH WYATT HARRISON TOWNES 2UB2023252729 Trustees Before Meeting Of School Body RICHMOND Va May William John Cooper United States commissioner of education and Dr Todd members of the board of education St Louis spoke today at the morning session of the annual convention here of the national as sociation of public officials Mr Cooper spoke 'a house Dr address working relationship of education and gether with practical results as ex emplified by the school recreational program In St Robb ventilating engineer of Peoria Ill another speaker had the subject 'Janitorial work as a pastor in Va May Leonard Holloway 24 and William Orrick 22 both of Spotsyl vania county were killed yesterday afternoon In a head on collision of their motorcycle with a bus on the redericksburg Warrenton highway The collision is said to have occur red when Holloway driving the mo torcycle attempted to pass an auto mobile on a curve In tne highway I Holloway was killed instantly Orrock I was thrown Into the air and received head injuries In striking the radiator ol a car He died a few minutes after being admitted to a hospital I William Able of redericksburg I driver of the bus was hurled through 1 the windshield but was not ser ously hurt Holloway and Orrock were employ ed by the Sylvania Industrial cor poration here i City Council To Refund Bonds Issued In 1921 LADY LINDSAY In Person AMERICAN NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY mother of two of the condemned ne groes Roddy said In Chattanooga last night that Chamlee was an interlop er" and the interest of tho labor de fense was merely to use the case for communistic propaganda The labor defense charges that the conviction for attack is a frame and that the negr'es are guilty of nothing more than a ride aboard a freight train According to the state's version the negroes board ed a train upon which the girls and some white yoths were threw off the youths except one whom they knocked unconscious) and then attacked the girls The labor defense contends there was not at track and that the only girl to testi fy against the negroes is unworthyto be believed The labor defense further says that published reports of the trial were Incorrect In saying that a negroe's implicated one another in any attack The National Association for the advancement of colored people also has been making an investigation of i Anni icirY flip UP Lilt vast cuiu ciaeur 13 Police were on the lookout today for Smith Owens a white man who was sentenced at the last term of the corporation "court to serve twelve months in Jail on an appeal from the 'domestic relations court He walked away from the chain gang at noon yesterday while It was at work at the city rock qurary The chain gang guard after ordering him to halt fired at him four times with a repeating shot gun but whether or matter oi doubt The guard thought that he DaU LIXc A Ufe 1 Carolina Truck irm Is Required To Pay License The ayetteville Transit company of uqua Springs was required last night to pay the necessary li censes for operations In Virginia when it was found that Law rence and Edmunds In charge of the truck were engaged In hauling tobacco from Danville to Winston Salem In ten ton cargoes and on large sized trucks The truck was halted here yesterday and en quiry revealed that while the truck was licensed for operations in North Carolina the Virginia law which re quires that license be also paid In Virginia had not been met Charges pending against the truckmen were dismissed upon the payment of the proper license amounting to $28550 The Danville Klwanls Club will be well represented at South Bos ton' tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock when an Inter club meeting will be held at the High School Building Clubs to be represented at the meet ing will include Lynchburg Martins ville Bassett and Danville Two Killed When Motorcycle Hits Big Bus Head On Arrested As Sender of Letters Threatening' Banukers with Death CULPEPER Va May A preliminary hearing will be held Sat urday for Wallace Biggs 20 charg ed with an attempt to extort $25000 from the president of each of the two banks here Authorities charge that Biggs a former clerk In a grocery store ad mitted that he alone was Involved in the alleged attempt at extortion Two letters almost identical were receiv ed by the bankers on May 14 de manding money and threatening death If the demand were not com plied with The letters printed in red ink read: "You will have $25000 In cash ready for us on Wednesday May 20 1931 or wish you had see Because If you then look out There will be a man In to see you He does not know what Is In the pack age Don't tell him Mark It Mr IT We will get it off of him If you value your life you will have the money ready and you will keep your mouth John Covington president of the Culpeper National Bank and Willis president of Second National Bank ordered employes to be armed and notified authorities Later Biggs entered the Culpeper National Bank and handed Mr Covington a letter printed In red Ink like the others This note was addressed to Biggs and ordered 'him to get the package for Mr IT on penalty of being "taken on a if he disobeyed Biggs was questioned and then al lowed to 'leave Later officers search every word her seat looking fragile and ill 1 Poison atal to Bride HAVANA May The mem bership of the Nationalist Union 500 000 strong was charged today with complicity in a conspiracy to over throw the government of President Gerardo Machado by armed force This is Independence day ari'd the sixth anniversary of Senor Machado's election The Judicial and secret police filed a deposition with: the court of in struction fourth section alleging that members of the union students and employes of six opposition pub lications were plotting a revolution No arrests were made President Machado transmitted a message to congress In which he said that and threatened to again suspend constitutional guarantees'ln the provinces If neces sary to avoid very disagreeable sit nation inc ivbuuAAwvM tees he said had resulted in action "prejudicial to the maintenance oi He later issued an 'independence day statement to the people which said In part: 1 "I have in my possession positive proof that we are living In a pe riod of seditious propaganda subver sive plans and of attempts to deceive a power which though foreign is friendly because it placed In Its code In order to make our republic live forfever a declaration of our right to sovereignty and self Escapes Chain Gang Is ired On our Tinies (Special to The Bee) CHATHAM Va May George Daniels a negro accused of the brutal killing of Nannie Roberts a negress In a cabin Just off the Martinsville road went on trial today before a Jury in the Pittsylvania Circuit court The expectation was that the trial would be completed during the aft ernoon The trial had not been completed when recess was taken for luiich ear ly this afternoon Commonwealth'sAttorney Hundley stated that he Is asking the death penalty for Dan iels who Is also charged with attack ing the body of the negress atter he had killed her John Anderson was convicted by a jury yesterday of robbing Charles Bruce and was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary Robert Brockman was convicted of house breaking and was given two years by a Jury ive prohibition cases were dis posed of the defendants being found guilty penalties ranging from 30 days to 3 months being Imposed The prohibition cases included Wright sentenced to three months Boyd Shelton three months $25 fine John Robertson three months $25 fine Johnson one month $50 fine Mrs Baker three months $50 flpe and Buster XlVAaliU VlliCV invnvijo 1127 Entries In Nautical Museum Costing Millions Being Constructed NEWPORT NEWS Va May To stimulate Interest nautical lore a unique mariners' museum is constructed here at a cost of than a million dollars Reproduction of practically kind of ship that has down to sea will be an' this museum which Is acres It Is being built tlon of Archer Huntington of New York and California Workshops laboratories libraries exhibit salons and a huge lake will be comprised In the project The flsh fllled lake will provide a test basin for models of ships built at the big nearby shipyard I KILLED IN AIR CRASH GUATEMALA CITY May Carols Merlen nationally known avi ator and Salvador Lopez Padilla Mexican journalist were killed in an airplane accident yesterday at the Aurora airport REE ACIAL Caviness Revival Drawing Throng The mission at the Third Avenue Christian church is continuing under the leadership of Caviness pas tor of the irst Christian church Portsmouth Mr Caviness spoke last evening to the largest congregation of the se ries using as his text the words God Looked or A The meeting continues throughout the week with prayer services with preaching services each afternoon at 3 and again In the evening at 7:30 with song prayer services preceeding the evening hour GAMES POSTPONED AMERICAN New York at Cleve land postponed rain of New York Miss Helen Miss Margaret Duance and edlth Martin of Philadelphia Adele Jahncke of New Orleans Bertha Potter Palmer and Miss ginla Dawes of Chicago andjasmin flchuellkonf of Buffalo George had a scarlet uniform The Queen's gown was of pink chif fon with pearls and diamonds in her corsage and pearls embroidered In her train She wore a diamond tiara on her silver hair RENEW BATTLE TO SAVE EIGHT John died at day at several and influential farmer and lived in Pittsylvania county his entire life He was a member of the Kentuck Missionary Baptist church moving his membership there about a year ago from Laurel Grove church where he had been a membor for more than twenty years He Is survived by one son Moorefield of county and two daughters Mrs Chaney and Mrs Chaney of Reidsville also his wife uneral services will be conducted from the residence Wednesday at 1 by his pastor Rev Owen and Interment will be In the Laurel Grove cemetery Educators Speak Treasury receipts for May 18 were not Owens was hit Is a 1934137096 expenditures 91116 balance $18562645405 Cus toms receipts for the month to the close of business May 18 were $17 28428082 A meeting of the City Council will be held this week for the purpose of hearing introduced ordinances pro viding for the Issuance of $160000 serial bonds to meet a series of re funding bonds which fall due on July 1st The Issue originated In 1901 'and provided money for public Improvements Of recent years the city has been meeting refunding bonds when they fall due by issuing twenty five year serial bonds falling due In Install ments and facilitating the task of their retirement Under the plan proposed the new Issue of serial bonds will retire tixe bonds about to fall due at the rate of $8000 a year for twenty years Ten Egyptians Die In Crossing Crash CAIRO Muy Eight of a party of ten Egyptians were killed to day when the motor car In 'hlcli they wore being driven to market was struck by train at a grade crossing The other two were Injur ed seriously Moorefield Dies at Kentuck 70 au ACUTE INDIGESTION Night! (when drug stores are closed) Why not be safe with Bell ans on hand Now! Bell OR INDIGESTION I fUADrC DI ATIPower of Prayer UlAKUL I LUI Sermon Theme TO OVERTHROW CUBAN GOVT Nationalist Union Half Million Strong Accused of Conspiracy aboard a freight launched here today with a new trial set down for Defense of the negroes The Interdenominational Alliance a negro organization Chattanooga the home city of the youths originally retained Attorney is DAddv Thn international ov 4fcVl liviuv SV 1WUUJ to suspend court while the corrl labor defense entered the case re dors were cleared Italnlng George Chamlee of Chat When the magistrate approached tanooga and conducting demonstra the shooting scene his narration tlons In the east with Ada Wright the defendant broke down complete ly and wept bitterly Her sobs in creased as he told her to described the events leading up to her hus oard's death came into the she said 'and said such disgusting things to me that I cannot repeat them I fired but did not mean to kill Her voice failed and unable to pro ceed she sank back Into her chair Most of the other women in the room were weeping with her Mrs Nixon Irdllnger continued to outline the circumstances of the shooting In thin uncertain rench under the questioning The defense Interrupted frequently lead ing to bitter argument between op posing counsel Police Surgeon Pladbleu scored what was Interpreted as a point for the defendant had marks on ly Indicated a amlned her on the shooting The prisoner TREASURY RECEIPTS 3 WASHINGTON Maq UP) ORT HAWKINS REBUILT MACON Ga May ort Hawkins first Indian trading post authorized by Congress south of the a Ohio river is being rebuilt Here deSoto demonstrated the power of his cannon to the Indians by felling a tree with two cannon balls 1 Hear Motions or New Trial or Negroes Charged with Attack ing White Girls 0 SCOTTSBORO Ala May The legal battle to save eight negro youths from electrocution for an al leged attack on two v01te girl 'ho train 'was motion for hearing Is divided of southern repre nounced several weeks agu that his organization wa determined 10 make Ithe case a Eacco Vanzttti af Takes Overdose pill DCOED DAV Nerve Medicine UULlLlLift I In City Jail 10 II I I) jJAn Mrs uller who faces two I Shoots Himself Rather Than go To Pen a Year NOROLK Va May Alle Rlportella who shot himself yester day rather than be sentenced to prison for one year on a narcotic charge was still alive today Rlportella shot himself through his right temple Just as he was being summoned to federal court to sentence passed upon him The let lodged in his brain Hospital attendants state fits dltlon Is "just about the little hope is held for his recovery Rlportella Is conscious from time to time He has expressed sorrow for his act but declared there was no other way out A jury in federal court convicted Rlportella of selling two ounces of morphine to Joseph Define on Janu ary 22nd of last year He denied the charge Man Slugged rom Behind With Pipe WINCHESTER Va May Siueeed with an iron 7)106 son whose Identity was not revealed by the injured family Lester ox 26 of Tardesty Warren county today was In a Winchester hospital suffering a fractured skull Physi cians said he had a fair chance to re cover Relatives said ox and two kins men were walking through the moun tains late when someone crept up from behind and dealt him the blow that knocked him unconsci ous Of Rev Pruden Large congregations continue to at tend Keen Street Baptist church where evangelistic services are being held each evening Rev 'Jesse Hite pastor of the church conducts a'song and prayer service each evo nlng beginning at 7:45 o'clock This is roiiowea oy a sermon uy ivev xu ward Hughes Pruden pastor of the irst There vice Last Power of Prayer" his text be ing When They Had He said In world in which we live is seeking sources of power mechanical industrial and political power Surely we who belong to the Christian church will not be slow in seeking the sort of power which Christ meant for His church to pos sess The early church In Jerusalem was characterized by great spiritual power but this was not accidental It came after the early Christians had met the conditions after they had tarried in Jerusalem clothing them selves with the power which only God can Christian church has no right to be a weak struggling sort of thing when at our told spiritual resources which we have never useq has free rein air things before Him like a flood of mighty waters Tremendous things will begin to happen in our churches when the children of the Kingdom are given much to prayer" Mr theme for tonight will be: "Seeking He will also sing a solo at the request of the congregation Everyone is invlteo to be present Beauty reed In Killing Of Mate Abroad (Continued from page one) i vias too overcome to answer her name and could only nod to questions When Magistrate Vauchler started to call the Jury she presented a pltl lui appearance as she tearfully eyed the men who will decide her fate Both the defense and the prosecu tion challenged the maximum num ber of talesmen Mrs Nlxon Nlrdllnger sank back in her seat still sobbing and seemingly uninterested In the proceedings un til the clerk of the court began read ing the charge In a loud voice She gasped audibly at his point as It realizing to the fullest degree' that she was on trial for murder When the name Mrs James Nash her mother was called as a i witness she showed her emotion in labored breathing The latter more overcome than her daughter had to helped from the courtroom i With stooped 'shoulders and ner I vous hands grasping the rail before I I her the listened to the magistrate lwiimklu a rAsiirriA nf thft CimC He made out what appeared to be WSvfr rhavftAri hftr an wacuvi mm vmui6v with indiscretions which she denied almost inaudibly' When he said she had danced and flirted arousing her husband's jealousy she summoned her strength and disclaimed the ac cusations vigorously Hundreds of people had been gath ering at the court house since six but only a score had succeed ed in squeezing Into the court room when the Judge commenced to' call the Jury panel A boisterous group in the hall unable to get in made so much noise the Judge was forced.