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Member cj THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS ASKS INDUSTRY ''INCREASE WORK Made To Business To Step Up Employ-1 ment So That Relief Fund Will be Sufficient CONGRESS ASKED FOR MORE MONEYj Billion And Half Dollars Seen As Enough For 1937 I By The Associate! Press Washington, March 19--President Roosevelt yesterday appealed directly to business to increase 'employment, declaring that upon it rested the responsibility as to whether the new $1,500.000,000 relief fund he asked of congress would be adequate. In a special message asking that "a lump sum deposit of a billion and a half be placed to the -credit of WPA for the 1937 fiscal year-a request that stirred protest and brought promise of a major' battle in congress--the chief executive placed special emphasis upon a call to industry to "organize a common effort 1 to provide more jobs. "Only if industry fails to reduce substantially the number of those now out of work will another appropriation and further plans and ByTT1 i tc 1 policies be necessarj'," he said. Even as his message the senate and house, signals were hoisted that a fight would be made to earmark the new fund for specific purposes. Byrns Sees Battle BECKLEY.

WEST VIRGINIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 19. 1J36. Register To Accept Contributions for The Flood Victims Al! the Ohio river cities of West Virginia arc in for a tough lime until the flood stage now assailing them passes down the river.

As always, the poor people of the Wheeling area and of Parkersburg, Point Pleasant, and Huntinglon, will be the ireatest sufferers. It has been suggested that many readers of The Register may wish to make some contribution to help them. To sucli as desire to contribute to a fund, iro would say that The Register will be glad to act as a receiving agency and to send such funds as are raised to relief committees that will doubtless be formed in cacti of the stricken cities. All contributions will be acknowledged through these columns and statements of their dispositions will also be published. PRINCETON HIGH LOSES SUPREME COURT HEARING Mercer County Circuit Court Injunction On Eligibility Of Players Upset At Charleston j'COUPLE STUDENTS I 1 RULED OFF TEAM COUNCIL RULES AGAINST GERMAN RHINE INVASION Signers of Locarno Agree- ment Condemn Hitler's As Treaty, Existence Of Athletic 1 Association Was 1 Threatened By The Associated Press Charleston, March 19--The supreme court today overruled the Mercer county circuit court order preventing the stale board of athletic appeals from declaring two Princeton High school players ineligible to play in the state basketball tournament.

The tribunal set aside the ban imposed by Judge Howell M. Tanner at Princeton, upon appeal of the board which declared the order threatened the "very existence of the state high school athletic association." Under protection of the lower RENICK BURIAL THIS AFTERNOON Funeral services were to be conducted this afternoon for Clarence C. Reiiick, 52, former cashier of the First National bank of Mr. Hope, who died of a heart ailment at his home at Ramsey, Fay- etlc county, Tuesday. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Effie Harrah Renick, and the following children: Edsel sntl Aiden Renick, both of Ramsey, Myron Renick, of Athens, and Mrs. Cada Parish, Bell. THREE PERSONS ARE SENTENCED IN LOCAL COURT Permelia And Trump Ad' mit Theft Of Chickens; Abe Blankenship Guilty Of Stealing: Auto court order, Princeton had Criminal court jurors were excused until tomorrow morning when Judge H. M. Kilgore announced the court's docket for today had been cleared up.

Three sentences were imposed by the jurist after the jurors left. John Permelia and Sic! Trump, both of flie vicinity of Lester, were each sentenced a a a day a- ic said LonJ on, March 10--The coun- read I i oi Lea lle Nations con; however limned the German government ii a fiehf undei Heichsfuchrei- Hitler as a Speaker Bynis was one who foresaw a battle over earmarking. Senator Clark (D-Mo.) asserted he was "tired of signing blank checks. Senator McNary minority leader, said no appropriation should be made "without a Fbill of particulars." Representative Snell, of New the Republican leader, term- 'ed the request "a grab at the treasury, before te demoralization of the (Continued On Page 3) Many Present Al Cooking School Over Hundred Brave Snow And Cold To Attend Event treaty breaker today. The vote of the asembled powers was unanimous.

iAun.eLun iney The league members decided or the second semester that Germany had violated both Versailles and Locarno treaties when she moved troops into Rhineland which had been ordered demobilized at the end of the world war. The condemnation came a few hours after Joachim Von Ribhen event to be held at Buckhannon. The two students, Harold Herring and E. J. Lambert, declared they would "suffer irreparable injury" if not permitted to play.

The board ruled they were ineligible because they played in a pre-sen- son game against Elkins December 28 while not enrolled at the Princeton school. They enrolled In arguments before the tribunal meeting informally in ihe conference room, Ajax T. Smith, of Bluefield, declared: "Fraud is not necessary to be in the action of the hoard at a secret meeting not called by the president, C. W. Jackson, of aa sun 01 trop, special ambassador of Hit- Bluefield, because the court has ler, had stood before memb'ers jurisdiction in cases where that ''the Over one hundred women of Beckley and vicinity braved the Revere weather, the wet and slip- 's' pery streets and roads, to attend the Kelvinator cooking school at -the Lyric theatre this morning.

Tomorrow the last session will he held between the hours of Jmd 11:30 p. m. Doors will open at 9. Mrs. Whitney L.

Garrett, home economist in charge, announced today that she had planned an especially good program for the last day of the school. A large number new recipes will be distributed and demonstrated, giving women who missed the first two days of the school an opportunity to get as much benefit as possible from the last and single session. Wild Life Meet Session (ailed 4 fleeting To Be Held In Charleston On April llth A West Virginia Wild Life Federation is expected to be formed on April 10 in Charleston when bourse of action iii- the Rhineland had been justified by France's military-assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Immediately after the vote was taken, Von Ribbentrop declared: "This resolution will not he maintained in the judgment of history. If the honorable members had had more time to consider nay statement this morning, the vote would have been different." His declaration brought heated response from Pierre Elienne Flandin, the foreign France, who declared any time Germany wishes, France was willing to submit the dispute over the Locarno pact and the Rhineland to the world court of justice at the Hague.

Greene Sen) To Duty In Fleet Beckley Man In Marine Force Transferred From Quantico jurisdiction to act. There is nothing within the by-laws governing 'practice games' such as Princeton played against Elkins. Jackson has no right to step aside in the case as he ddi. There is nothing in the constitution to show the students were violating laws by playing. "Discretionary power of the board does not give it the right to punish after the games, since eligibility lists must be exchanged by teams in advance." By The Associated Press Price 5 cents- Flood Death Toll Mounts Along With Property Damage In State Elk River Floods Area In Capital they pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the theft of 18 chickens from Mrs.

Susie Richardson near Lester several months ago. Judge Kilgore decreed that Trump's sentence run consecutively with a 5-year stretch given him at the January term of court on a breaking and entering charge. After the imposilion of the first sen- fence, Tjump was allowed to return to his home pending the outcome of an appeal, but was put back in jail several days later on the chicken-stealing charge. Abe Blankenship, who pleaded guilty last week to the theft of Dr. F.

J. Moore's car on March 7, was sentenced to a year and a day for his offense. Blankenship said he i-atta wjiere pro- he drove iho are violators of the laws physician's car after of-a'soc'Iety." hold that the board has no Yesterday afternoon, at' ttieccn- clusion of the trial of Nellie Mitchell, young colored woman who was accused of grand larceny in the theft of a traveling bag and a sweater Mrs. Fannie Scott, of North Kanawha street, a jury found the defendant guilty of petty lorceny. Her attorney, S.

Verne Scott, made the usual motion that the verdict be set aside. Charlie Butler, accused of breaking and entering was jailed when he appeared in court for his trial sans attorney. Judge Kilgore appointed K. A. Locke the man's attorney and set the trial for March The rampaging Elk river, tributary of the Kaniwha, which II Joins at Charleston lowland secllons of Charleston, forcing dozens of families lo f.ec.

I Press 11 Sweep Of Terrible Flood Hits River Communities RED CROSS ASKS Mrs. Roberts In THREE ro 27. Trials will be resumed tomorrow morning. The postponement will also give" the board of appeals more time to settle the disagreement with Princeton High schfiol authorities concerning the eligibility of certain players. Willard R.

son of Mrs. Stacie E. Greene, 123 5th street, Beckley, has been recently transferred to the Marine Barracks, Qnantico, for (July with the Fleet Marine Force. Greene enlisted in the U. Marine Corps November 15, 1935 at Savannah, and was transferred to the Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S.

for his initial training. He successfully complel 1 ed this training, qualifying with alt infantry weapons such as the rifle, pistol, bayonet, etc. The Fleet Marine Force it an expeditionary organization stationed on both coasts of the United States to act in conjunction i the ncct for the protection of Probes in Pennsylvania American lives and properly in Salem, March 19--The West Virginia state high school basketball tournament has been postponed one week to Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, C. A. Tesch, member of the state board of athletic appeals, today.

The postponement followed telephone conversations between President Roy McCuskey, of West Virginia Wesleyan college, under whose auspices the tournament will be held, I. E. Ewing, of Wheeling, C. W. Jackson, of Bluefield and Tesch.

President McCuskey Resident Of Mt. proposed the tournament be post- poned after Huntington, Wheeling, and Princeton school official- notified him they were either water bound or would be before Friday. Never before in 23 year; has the tournament been delayed MILLIONS Appeal For Contibiitions Is Made By President Roosevelt Because. Of Floods Throughout East Investigation Of WPA Urged Davis And Holt Ask case of an emergency in any representatives from state samei i com iry. The personnel of lend fish organizations, sports- i i Inen's dubs, Boy and Gir, Scout only iTc of marine troops chamber of commerce, ar.d! being chosen for this fluty civic clubs have been asked at- tend a meeting to be held in the chamber of the house of dele- sates at 10 o'clock m.

In a call issued today by Gov- And West Va. in a cdii issuua laaay oy tiov- fernor H. G. Kump the purpose of the meeting was said to be to pro- Washington, March 19--The Yearly the V. M.

F. joins the'' i expenditures committee fleet in maneuvers off the coast approved a resolution for i i i i vi i IHL LUilal 1u rt lUr iin of Porto Rico. During these excr- of the Works Pro- rises the marine are cither given administration after Senator Panama or San Davis, Republican, Pennsylvania, had charged Democratic officials foot- Porto Rica: Is Club Banquet Set were making a "political ball 1 out of relief. to lose its identity nor held as tinned in the a i sacrifice any part of its indeosnd- Hall. Nuys, Democrat, Indiana, seconded with a suggestion that the inquiry by participating in this' con- Robert E.

Whittcker, potentate of any organization a I ll by the Paralysis Is Fatal To Dan M. Lloyd Hope Succumbs In Huntington Dan M. Lloyd, 64, until three years ago a resident of Mt. Hope, died last night about eleven o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Kate Darling of Huntington.

For the post three years he had been ill in a hospital at Spencer and about four weeks ago suffered a stroke of paralysis, after which he was removed to the home of his sister. Mr. Lloyd was born in Scranton, on June 51, 1872. He later located at Mt. Hope and for many years conducted cleaning and pressing business there.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Effie Lloyd, and a daughter Mijs Anita Lloyd, both of Mt. Hope; a brother, Harry Lloyd, and two sisters, Mrs. Rachacl Barton and Mrs. Kate Darling, all of Huntington.

Mrs. Hunter Thomas Richmond, is a half-sister. The body will be brought to Ml. Hope tomorrow and funeral services will be held Saturday from the home by Rev. W.

W. a i Burial will be made in the Mt, I Hope cemetery under the i 1 tion of Linriamood undertakers. By The Associated Press Washington, March 19--President Roosevelt issued a proclamation today appealing for contributions of $3,000,000 to the American Red Cross for flood relief It was issued as the federal emergency flood relief committee" gathered at ihe president's desk to map steps to combat suffering, destruction of property and loss of life. Mr. Roosevelt delayed his southern fishing trip for at least 24 hours because of the flood'crisb.

The magnitude of the disaster was emphasized by a Red Cross announcement that 150,000 victims already were dependent on it for aid. The president's proclamation said in part: "To the people of the United States: "Flood waters raging through 11 states have driven 200,000 people from their homes, with every indication that this number may be materially increased within the Johnstown Flood former Black Knight JHiiiler Seeks Informal- tion As To Wife Tommy Hobcrk, pitcher for the Beckley Black Knights, was anxiously seeking today word of the safely of hia wife, who left Beekley last Thursday to visit her mother, Mrs. S. V. Steffy, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, one of the first cities to feel the full force of the last few days' floods.

With the waters of the Cone- mmigh river reported slowly receding from the city, Roberts today expressed fear for his wife's safety. He said the house occupied by her mother stood on the river bank in one of the lowest sections of town, near two bridges reported washed away. "It those bridges went the house went too. What I'm worried about now is whether or not they were warned in time lo be able to fjet away," Roberts said. He was trying this afternoon to enlist the aid of a local amateur radio station operator in an effort to reach the practically iso-1 next 24 hours, In this grave emergency, the homeless arc turning to our great national relief agency, the American Rcci Cross, for food, I clothing, shelter and medical "To enable the Red Cross tc meet this immediate obligation and to continue to carry the burden of caring for these a men, women, and children until their homes are restored and i can return to normal living con- riifions, it is necessary that a minimum relict fund of $3,000,000 be raised as promptly as possible." latcd city.

Associated Press Writer Describes Conditions Along The Ohio B- Oliver S. Gramllnr (Copyright, 1036, by The As. soiled, Tress) oiner lawns uir W. March were marooned first onslaught of a ter rible flood which hit Pittsburgl and Western Pennsylvania in nightmare of suffering and destruction bore down upon thi; Ohio At Least 15 Dead And Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Damage Done With More To Follow PITTSBURGH AND WHEELING SUFFER Many Suffering From Exposure, Thousands Homeless (By The Associated Press) Leaving at least 15 dead and properly damage expected to rur into the millions, the swollen Ohio river neared its crest in ihe northern part of the mountain staie today and roared south. Parkersbtirg, St.

Marys, Point Pleasant, Huntington, and other cities, in the river's path battene.i liown for the worst flood sine': In the flood's wake were thousands of homeless. F. P. Powell, of the U. weather bureau at Pavkcrsburg noted the spread of flood waters and revised his figures for flood crests in towns which the Oliiu will hit late today or tomorrow.

Parkersburg, he said, should escape with a crest of 47 to 48 feel. That depth will put water into the business sections. Earlier he forecast a 52 foot stage for the city. Pt. Pleasant In Danger At Point Pleasant the river should rise to 55 feet Friday; 51 feet inundates the principal business section.

The flood, which neared the trolley wires at Wellsburg, the Grelna Green of the tri-state section, left hundreds marooned in second story buildings and TM roofs. The river there is expected to begin dropping back by 3 o'clock. Sistersville, Havenswood, Hidge- ly, Harpers Ferry, and a score of other towns throughout the state town and scores of other river communities today. There can he no accurate estimate of the damage wrought yet, for the broad Ohio still Is rising and it is impossible to communicated with nearby villages towns. In telephone conversation with on nolice at Wheeling, SO miles be- ow Pittsburgh and 35 miles above New Martinsville, 1 learned conditions there are pitiful.

There are six reported dead but no accurate check can be made. Fires throughout the stricken city than 300 families moveci from their homes at Parkersburg, 150 at Point Pleasant, Mason other places. Fraternal halls, armories, national guard camps, Hitler Pushes Election Drive No Floods Over Raleigh (ounly Apprehension Felt For River Bank Dwellers Here Fuehrer Recognizes But One Court The German People Five regular delegates will bo nrt dcUv r-ctcd to attend from Hit Rope And Beckley Eighth Graders Meet Tonight at 7:30 Ross Irlc's eighth grade team will continue its spring basketball schedule, playing Mount Hope on the Central school floor. The locals won on the floor recently 36-27. The team will lineup with Thompson and Kent at forwards; Thurman at center, Barone and him to 7h West will referee.

Tomorrow afternoon this year's varsity, which woi. state junior high championship will play the eighth grade team. Koemgsbcrg, 19--Adolf Killer, carrying his campaign for a united Germany in the Reich- nag elections 29 lo a mass meeting here last night, declared he recognized only one court in the world--that of the German people. Speaking with his accustomed lire, Dcr Fuehrer seemed more of msclf than in his pre- Munich and now that a vious addresses at Frankfort-bn-Jfain I'icitii ULIL a German delegation is in London lo take part in the League of Na- council's discussions resull- from the reoccupation of the (Continued On Page 3) ire reported almost momentarily Jilt communications are excecd- ngly had and little can be learned. IVIieellnir Inundated Almost 10,000 persons on The Island, populous Wheeling residential section in the middle of the 3hio river, are homeless, the xva- er is rushing into their homes and "ising every' minute.

I was told of thousands of oth- forced from their houses in he city proper and seeking such heller as they could find in pubic buildings and private homes. An emergency was declared. ft was estimated the total of homeless would reach Police told me the river stage was 4fl feet, 13 feet above flood st.igc and should it go five feet more--as it is expected--many houses now comparatively safe would be in a precarious situation. There are approximately persons living in the 11 West Virginia counties which front on the flooded Ohio. Villages on the Western Ohio side have thousands marc.

The isolation ot Wheeling was (Continued On Page 3) and hospitals house the refugees. Soup Kitchens Erected Welfare agencies organized soup kitchens while Adjutant General F. Guy Ash directed a survey of the entire stale to find out what and i needed for rehabilitation. Roads still were under water with railroad tracks. Two bridges in the eastern panhandle were washed out.

The Baltimore and Ohio re-routed all main line trains across the state over C. and O. tracks. Pestilence Feared Pestilence and shortages of food and water intensified terror, destitution, and misery. Uncounted thousands are homeless.

Property damage mounted into (Continued On Page 3) Power Companies Aid Mines Close Down That Power May Be Sent To Citv Raleigh county's riparian dwellers were not so apprehensive of flood danger today as reports were received that both New and Conl rivers were falling after being several feet above normal the last two days. H. Wood's store at Mc- Crccry it was sad today New River there had fallen some i feet from high mark it reach- 50 cd yesterday. Yesterday the river was eleven or twelve feet above normal in- updating the old county roadjnv A i along the river bank and coming 'Huntington, March withm two or three the boats at the women's rtorm.Wv at i Marshall college today assured 105 co-eds a means of lion if the Ohio river should flood i Marshall Campus May Be Flooded Provided Foi Transportation Of Co-Ed Students By The Press Clarksburg, March 19--Cooperating i electric power companies in their efforts to throw nil their facilities into the Pittsburgh Hood area, iiuhistn today in thr vast central West i i i a territory was reduced to a i i schedule, throwing thousands of men temporarily out of work. All the coal mines in central and northern West Virginia closed down today.

The Windom Steel company ar.d other factories closed at the request of H. Bru- bakcr, superintendent of the Mon- ongahcln West Pcnn PuBljc Service company 5)iri all nov.cr available would needed ir. i Suite William i a announced jconfcreiH'e of the American gimi. scheduled for Sr.tu:d;iy Sunday at Movg.intov.'ii, bivn called off ef flood conditions. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad tracks.

Asked if the water yesterday ap- proachcd the high water mark set the campus in 1916. Mr. lh THE WEATHER a yes- terday's high mark was only about a the 1916 record. Then the river rose between 20 and 25 feet higher than normal. Piney river, which joins the N'ew at McCrecry, was said to be only a few feet higher than usual.

Waters of Coal river, which rose Tuesday and yesterday, were said to be failing in the streams upper reaches today, Col. John Bnker While, of board of control, declared tiic pected crest of CO feet will put campus under several tcr. He added: the wai mt men' Fridiiy light rain of wa- i a i i coWc I afternoon 'We have stored food. should the power fail, and Berkley's hi all preparations for she expected ilomperafurr emergency. torrhy 40 (b- In 1033 the campus was tload- low his ed the Ohio reached a 57- night 22.

A foot stage," 'Maiick reported. COUOER..