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I WEATHER AT A GLANCE: Showers Tonight and Friday: Warmer Friday These Bee. Danville, Thursday SENDS SI SIFT LABOR CONFERENCE ABANDONED BY LEADERS Negotiations Looking to End Of CIO-AFL Dispute Appear to Be at End CLUES IN PEACE Afternoon, June 15, 1939 JAPS STRONG TOT'S I and Sell Through Classified Section Of The Register-Bee 41st Year FOUNDED FEBRUARY, 1899. Associated Press Leased Wires NO. 15,117. Late BRITAIN Late News Admits Poisoning Wife News PHILADELPHIA, June Sobbing wildly, a new prisoner in Philadelphia's vast insurance-murder case testified today he was influence of witchcraft "evil eve" to under, thine feed his wife poisoned spaghetti.

The husband, Dominck F. Cassetti, 48-year-old clothing factory presser, was held without ball for court on a charge of murdering his 37-year-old wife Jennie. Seek to Drop Trains RICHMOND, June -The Southern Railway asked the Corporation Commission at hearing today for authority to discontinue two passenger trains operating between Richmond and Danville and change the schedule of a third. The trains the company asked be discontinued are No. which leaves Danville at 7 a.

m. and arrives in Richmond at 11:15 a. and No. 9 leaving Richmond at 6:10 p. m.

and arriving in Danville at 10:40 p. m. Killed By Train LYNCHBURG. June (A'-A freight train struck and instantly killed Paul Poole Probst. 35 year old former newspaperman, 94 he sat on a rail the Amberst county the Southsuard, ern Railway's high bridge near here early this morning.

Probst's body, partly decapitated with the right arm severed, was tound outstretched on the crosstires, with the feet hanging over the elige of the bridge, Justice E. M. Wright of Madison Heights said death was accidental. Hired to Kill 3 Men PRESTONSBURG, June 15. -(-Authorities delved today into a former federal prison inmate's bizarre story of being employed to kill three held warrants for the arrest of two men whom he aecased of hiring him.

County Judge Edward P. Hill said that on the basis of affidavits signed by Robert Ison, 32, of Gate City, he had issued warrants charging W. L. Stumbo, a former county judge, and A. C.

Carter, former mayor of this eastern Kentucky mountain town, with conspiring "to kill Henry Porter and H. C. Royal Pair Say Farewell HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 15. -P- -King George and Queen Elizabeth today bade farewell by radio to Canada and the United States, which the departing monarch termed large part of the earth where there is no possibility of war between neighbors." Weidmann Denied Pardon VERSAILLES. France, June -President Albert Lebrun today denied the pardon appeal of Eugene Weidmann, convicted slayer of six persons, including Jeon de Koven, Brooklyn, N.

dancer, but granted clemency to its accomplice, Roger Million. Speed Is Urged WASHINGTON. June President Roosevelt was urged by his relief advisers today to try to speed up congressional action on the $1.316,000.000 relief appropriation under consideration in the House. Germany Eases Tension GENEVA, June Karl Burekhardt, League of Nations high commissioner for Danzig, was reported in league circles today to have decided to return to his post at once as a result of German assurance that no serious tension over the free city could be expected before September. Plane Crashes PITTSBURGH, June, small cabin plane bound from Richmond, to Detroit, overshot Bettis Field here today and rolled 100 feet down an embankment.

Passengers, Joseph Marrs and C. A. Beazley, both of Richmond, climbed unhurt from the wreckage. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, June -Butter: 1.187,346, unsettled: creamery 93 score 24 1-4; 92, 23 3-4; 91, 23 1-2; 90, 23; 89, 22 3-4; 88. 22; 90 centralized carlots, 23 1-4 a 1-2.

Eggs: 28.745, steady, prices unchanged. TODAY'S QUEER STORY SCOTTSBLUFF. Neb. June (P) John Steinbrecker, who speaks German fluently, spied barred rock chickens in another person's pen and gave them a "German dinner call." They came a running, she told County Judge C. 0.

Lyda, while the other chickens minded their own business. John Florez, owner of the pen, told the judge he did not speak German, but did speak a little Spanish. The judge bound him over to district court under $300 bond on charges of chicken theft. Everybody Reads The Register- -Bee In Trading Area Home Edition Price: Three Cents NOTE Troops Posted At Concession Are Withdrawn Tense Episode in Japan's Blockade Ended as British To Address Club And Japanese Soldiers Marching Away After Facing Each Other for Some Time Across BarricadesEngland Demands Immediate Steps By Japan to Stop Incidents. TIENTSIN, June -A tense episode in Japan's blockade of Tientsin foreign areas in which British troops with machine-guns and Japanese troops with tanks faced each other across barricades for several hours was ended tonight when both forces marched away.

A strong British note to Japanese authorities insisted on "immediate steps" to end the stopping and searching of British subjects by Japanese soldiers blockading the British and French concessions. opposing troops, patrolling opposite sides of the barricaded concessions boundary, were separated by only a few feet until the British suddenly withdrew and the Japanese then quickly removed their forces. The posting of the troops followed reports of residents that they were having increasing difficulty entering the concession and were meeting with open hostility on the park of Japanese gendarmes at the barriers. The Britons requested arrangements to convoy them into the concession. British who used race course road said guards at the barrier there made several of them strip to waist for search.

Some said they stood for a long time in line behind the barrier and when they reached the head of line they were told to return to the end of the quarter-mile-long queue and start again. It was reported that Chinese-language placards were posted in the Chinese village near the race course, instructing natives to have no dealing with the British who were "responsible for the present Ten Chinese employes of an American concern, William Hunt tried to swim the Hal river to the company's wharf on the British side but (Turn to page 44, Story No, 4) Minor Hudson, prominent young attorney of Washington, D. C. will be the principal speaker at the charter presentation dinner of the local Junior Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Danville tonight. He is also a director of the national organization.

COACH DOBSON BETTER WASHINGTON. June (P Emergency hospital physicians today described the condition of Coach Frank M. Dobson, of Maryland University, as "somewhat improved." Dobson--who came to Maryland four years ago after coaching at Richmond University--Is 111. with a bronchial infection. He is the father of Jack Dobson, end on the Army's football team last year.

OPEN JOINT MEETINGS MOUNTAIN LAKE, June -SIX scientific societies opened Joint meetings today at the Mountain Lake biological station, which has become a nationally known center for summer study in botany and zoology since its establishment by the University of Virginia ten years ago. Stage For Farmers' Day Set; All Details Completed But Weather Outlook Uncertain Programme Begins Tomorrow At 9:30 With Parade Which Will Include Local and Visiting Drum Corps- -Attendance of Both Governors Is Confirmed--Premiums Offered In All Contests While the weather man was being viewed with both suspicion and concern As showers fell on the eve of the elaborately planned Farmers' Day tomorrow, promoters of the show prayed for fair weather and clung to their rabbits feet. The success of the day was patently dependent on dry and smiling skies and the Washington weather bureau predicte1 cloudy weather and showers for Danville's big event. The con mittee however worked on arranging a hundred and one last minute details of a programme which will beg.n at 9:30 o'clock in the morning and which will run through midafternoon The Danville Retail Merchants' Association and the Danville Tobacco Association jointly sponsoring the event, are spending $5.000 to make a happy day for tobacco growers in the Danville trade area And the preparatory labors represent weeks of patient work. The festivities will be centred on Ballou Park before which the opening parade scheduled for 9:30 is expected to terminate.

From that time on there will be something doing all the time ranging from addresses by two governors to the quest of the greasy pig with miniature vaudeville, drum corps concerts. athletic contests in all of which prizes will be offered. To R. D. Brown fell one of the most Important duties of the day.

He 18 11 charge of the Brunswick Stew Battalion -the committee whose duty it 18 to see that the items of the menu arr ready to be served at eleven o'clock and that everybody is served. This admittedly is one of the biggest jobs of the day but Mr. Brown said that evel7thing was ready and that at the lower edge of the park all was in readiness for the feast. Governor James H. Price and Governor Clyde Hoey of North Carolina are to speak shortly after eleven o'clock from a stand reared under the trees in the natural amphitheatre in the (Turn to page 4A, Story No.

1) MURDER Autopsy Shows Abducted Child Was Suffocated Nominated By Acclamation John W. Carter (left) and State Democrats of the Thirteenth State tinsville. Nomination is the equivalent is preponderantly Democratic. Senator R. C.

Vaden chosen by the Senatorial district yesterday at Marto election in a district which 13th State Senatorial District Reacts Favorably To Nomination Of Senator Vaden And J. W. Carter (Special to The Bee) MARTINSVILLE, June State Senator Robert C. Vaden of Pittsylvania county was renominated and John W. Carter nominated for the upper chamber of the Virginia General Assembly in a Democratic convention held here yesterday afternoon.

Neither of the candidates had any opposition, the result had been clearly indicated through the action of the democracies of the component counties and cities and there was no rift in the party's lute during the evening. Encomiums were heaped upon the candidates in nominating and seconding speeches and the nomination was by acclamation followed by brief expressions of appreciation by the candidates who pledged themselves to the whole district 8.8 fairly know how. represent, State Senator William A. Garrett of Ridgeway, was singled out for touching recognition in the form of a resolution presented by Kennon Whittle of Martinsville in which 8 tribute was paid to him for his courageous service for nearly forty years past and for his fidelity to the Democratic ideal. Senator Garrett who had dropped from the race was on hand yesterday evening quick to extend the hand of friendship and congratulation to the two nominees.

The reaction today was good throughout the thirteenth district with a feeling that Messrs. Carter and Vaden will be effective advocates of sound and progressive legislation. Stress was laid on the growing etfectiveness of Senator Vaden who has passed through the trial years as legislator and the brilliant inteilect of Mr. Carter long recognized in the inner councils of the Virginia democracy. Frank P.

Burton of Stuart, WAS made chairman the meeting yesterday and C. P. Kearfott of Martinsville was made secretary. Rutledge Clement of Danville nominated Senator Vaden and W. G.

Vansant of Chatham Hugh T. Williams of Danville, made seconding speeches. Mr. Carter was nominated by Grasty Crews and rapidly seconded by N. E.

Clement of Chatham; William L. Joyce of Patrick: Kennon Whittle of Martinsville and J. C. Blair of Pittsylvania. A committee composed of H.

Williams, Kennon Whittle and Rutledge Clement escorted the nominees into the courtroom and they then embarked on their informal speeches of acceptance. Both were accorded an ovation on appearance and Senator Vaden, on being recognized. recounted some of his past legislative services in expressing his sincere appreciation of the honor conferred on him. Mr. Vaden said that he would continue to keep schools and roads well up in his platform, He pledged himself to give 3 general representation as fairly as he knew how, admitted he had made mistakes but insisted that they of the mind and not of the heart.

He spoke in terms of high appreciation of Senator Garrett who, he said. had given him comfort and aid many times while he was passing through his first session "when I was green and did not know much about Senator Vaden said that he was happy to be associated with Mr. Carter saying that he was well fitted to don the legislative harness. He pledged his active co-operation to Mr. Carter.

Mr. Carter, in accepting the nomination, expressed his appreciation to the voters of the district in instruct- (Turn to page 4A, Story No. 3) J. I. Overby Succumbs At County Seat One of Oldest Active Business Men in Pittsylvania Dies Suddenly (Special to The Bee) CHATHAM, June Irvin Overbey, one of Pittsylvania county's oldest citizens succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 79, shortly before 10 o'clock this morning.

One of the leading merchants in the county, Mr. Overbey recently celebrated his fiftieth year in the hardware business in Chatham and Gretna. Born October 25, 1859, the son of Jachomeas and Cabell Irvin Overbey, he was a native of Prince Edward county. On April 17 last, he celebrated his golden wedding anniversary to Miss Patty Moore, who survives him. Mr.

Overbey suffered 8 heart attack while sitting store here this morning. He succumbed while on his way home in a Jefferson ambulance, accompanied by his physicians Dr. H. H. Hammon and Dr.

C. D. Bennett. The father of Sheriff Archer Overbey he is also survived by Miss Edith Overbey of Chatham, Mrs. R.

L. Webster and Mrs. John Westbrook. of Arlington. Dr.

Ernest Overbey, Rann Overbey, all William of Chatham, a Overbey and and Dr. Landon Jesse Overbey of Norfolk, also 16 grand children. He had been an active member of the Chatham Methodist church for a number of years. Funeral services will be conducted from the home on South Main street here tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, with interment following in Chatham cemetery. Medford Lacy, Farmington Golf Pro, Is Killed CHARLOTTESVILLE.

June 15. Medford Lacy, 17, of this city, assistant pro at the Farmington Country Club, was fatally injured in an automobile accident night about 8:30 o'clock three miles south of here ca Route 29, Lacy, it was reported, was riding in the back of a car belonging to Harry Critzer, 17, of North Garden. One other person was in the back with hun and four others were in the fron.t. A tire is said to have blown out, causing the car to swerve off the road. The vehicle crashed into a telephone pole, knocking it down, then hit a tree and rolled down a 25-foot embankment.

BIBLE SCHOOL Axton Methodist church is conducting a successful Vacation Bible School, through the cooperation of other churches of the community. The classes opened Monday with an enrollment of 59. GARRETT RESOLUTION it resolved by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Senatorial District of the State of Virginia in conventioin assembled that we go on record as expressing our deep appreciation of record and service rendered the district and Commonwealth of Virginia by Senator W. A. Garrett of Ridgeway.

"Senator Garrett's record of nearly forty years in the upper branch of the General Assembly has been outstanding and marked by sound ability, devotion to duty and splendid courage. His loyalty and fidelity to the interests Democratic party has been unsurpassed. This convention gives its assurance that in retiring from the Senate of Virginia he carries with him the admiration, esteem and affection of the people of this district as well as the people generally throughout the state who have come to know him during his public office." Firms Promoting Southern Industry Seeking to promote southern industrial and agricultural progress, the local Sears. Roebuck Co. store joined with sister firms throughout the south today in celebrating a "Dixie Progress Sale." Large amounts of cotton goods from the local mills are among the southern products being featured at the sale which continues through next week.

TODAY'S SAFETY SLOGAN RICHMOND, June The State Police safety slogan today: "Drive to stay alive." Flint Peaceful Following Dispersal Of Milling Mass By Police; Strike Settled State Troopers in Dramatic Early Morning Appearance Scatter Threatening Crowd -Clear Streets In Swift Action With Riotous Situation In Making FLINT. June 15. -(P)-Peace prevailed in Flint today following a dramatic early morning appearance of Michigan State Police to disperse a milling mass of men still agitated over the brief and now settled General tors strike. Followers of Homer Martin in the United Auto Workers Union (AFL). which called the strike, returned to work at 7.

a. joining members of the UAW-CIO who refused to recognize the strike and never left their jobs. Martin claimed settlement agreement with General Motors. As the day shifts began at the many General Motors plants here pickets were absent for the first time in a week and the tension was lessened. Flint police and Genesee county deputies were present but the state ers, who put in a swift and psychologically effective appearance at 2 a m.

were out of sight. The state police, 100 strong, cleared Autopsy Indicates Abducted Infant, Whose Body Was Found in River, Did Not Die By Drowning Believe Baby Suffocated With Blanket Before Removal From Crib -Several Suspects Questioned But No Definite Clues Are Found. WASHINGTON, June (AP)-Labor peace negotiations appeared to be at an end today after John L. Lewis, CIO president, declared further dealings with AFI. representatives impossible.

Calling AFL leadership "reacwere. tionary" working to crystallize anti-new deal sentiment." Lewis told reporters that CIO executives were agreed "they should go forward with renewed His sudden pronouncement brought no immediate comment from administration officials, who had been watching the negotiations ever since President Roosevelt had urgently requested their inauguration last winter. It brought a quick response. however, from AFL President William Green, who characterized Lewis' re marks as "intemperate." "The leader of the CIO has again blocked labor peace," Green said. statement followed 8 long session with the CIO executive board yesterday.

The board, he said, accepted without recommendations the report on the CIO-AFL peace negotiations last March and expressed unanimous view that peace WAS secondary consideration" to CIO's prime objective of enrolling unorganized workers into industrial unions. Of the rival federations, he said the board's opinion was: "That the AFL is still under the control of a small group firmly enand reactionary in their attrenched titude on public questions and who tolerant of many evil conditions are existing inside the AFL." the negotiations, he The report on was placed before the board explained, show "how impossible it was" to to negotiate peace. Green's reply was that the federation had done its utmost "to effect reasonable peace in the interests of a labor and the country." "Now Mr. Lewis says peace 1s impossible," Green said. reasons he gives publicly are too ridiculous to merit serious consideration and are offered merely to mislead the public.

"The real reason is that he does not want peace because peace would automatically end his autocratic control of a minority group in organized labor. The public can now judge by the intemperate character of Mr. Lewis' statement the sort of a man he is and why he is responsible for the failure to reach peace." Lewis' blast against the AFL WAS his first public statement on labor union since early in April, when he asked the AFL conferees for an indefinite postponement of the negotiations during discussion of a new coal mining contract. TAKE WOODEN NICKELS HELENA. Mont -Wooden nickels, quarters and dimes are money in Helena now.

Merchants give them in change; customers can buy anything with them. It is a feature of Helena's Diamond Jubilee this summer and after the celebration days end the wooden money will be redeemed at full face value by the Jubilee committee. HURRY IT'S TOMORROW! FARMERS DAY IN DANVILLE FRIDAY, JUNE 16 FREE MEAL! GAMES! AWARDS! We Welcome You! CLYDE, June -Evidence indicated today the cold-blooded killer of 10-weekold Haldon Fink "deliberately and immediately" suffocated the baby, whose body was found floating in a creek seven miles away 12 hours after being snatched from his cradle. Sheriff H. L.

Myers and Coroner D. W. Philo concurred in the tion theory after an autopsy showed death was not due to drowning. "I have not what I consider one convicting clew," the sheriff said as the intensified hunt went into its second day. "We have not good suspects but fair prospects." After an autopsy last night.

Coroner Philo said: "The lugs were not water-logged. Therefore death definitely was not due to drowning. Death probably was due to suffocation from the blanket taken with the baby. Preliminary examination disclosed no trace of poison." Supporting the suffocation theory, Sheriff Myers declared: "The position of the hands when the baby was found was that of child asleep. If the child had not been suffocated immediately he would have been wakened and moved his arms and legs." Sheriff Myers ordered deputies to the creek with hooks to search for the blanket in which the baby was wrapped when stolen from the home of the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Oran Baker, A mysterious stranger" seen in this northern Ohio town of 3,100 seemed to furnish the best lead in the case. baby's mother, Mrs. Irvin Baker Finch, 22, divorced from the father, 23. had told Sheriff Myers about stranger who approached her near her home Tuesday night and inquired directions to a neighbor's.

Today a woman residing five blocks from the Baker home said she heard a car stop near her home between 9 and 11 p. m. Tuesday. (The baby was stolen between 10. and 11 p.

She said she heard a baby cry and two or more persons talking in the auto. (Turn to page 4A, Story No. 3) Beginning With St. to Ballou Park. Horse Shoe Pitching a M.

-Prizes, 1st Prize 2nd prize $3.00 (four sets. Best out of four gets first prize, second prize Barrel a. 1st prize $3.00, 2nd prize $2.00, 30 prize $1.00. Oscar lyler, Magician, performing Magic a. m1.

Baseball game-Bi-State (morning game) a. m. Sack a. -Prizes, 1st prize 2nd prize, 3d prize $1.00. square Dancing at Park a.

m. to 5:0 p. m. Drum and Bugle Concert -At ditferent intervals during day. McNally Accordion a m.

to 2:30 p. m. a. m. speaking Hoey of North a.

Governor Price of Virginia). Chewers' Marksmanship 12:30 (or immediate after speaking). Prizes, 1st prize 2nd prize 3d prize $2.00. Tobacco Auctioneering p. -Prizes, 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $2.00.

Chicken Calling Contest (Ladies) p. -Prizes, 1st Prize 2nd Prize 2.00; 3rd Prize $1.00. Hog Calling Contest p. 1st Prize 2nd prize $2.00: 3rd Prize $1.00. Cow Calling Contest p.

1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $1.00. Baseball Game (Evening Game) 2 p. m. Greasy Pig p. Prize, (Pig to Winner).

Bleycle p. 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $2.00. PROGRAM Today's INSIDE News Nazis Hint Retaliatory Action Against England 2A Abdell Loses Fight To Escape Electric Chair 2A Anti- Third Term Precedents Not Legally Binding 3A Hold Closed Inquiry Into Branding of Student Senate Round-Robin Defends Arms Embargo Move To Forestall Restrictions On Relief 18 Florida Belleved As Storm Stalls In Gulf 18 Peace In State's Rights- Flood Control Fight Near 38 Marlene Dietrich Sails After Tangle With Agents 38 Union Defiance Threatens Federal Ship Line AB Finland Only Nation To Pay On War Debt To U. S. 88 THE WEATHER the streets in the vicinity of Fisher Body Plant No.

1 and emptied the halls of both unions when it became apparen to Flint officials that a riotous situation was 112 the making. Windows In the CIO hall were smashed Wednesday and retaliation was feared. Approximately 800 men wearing CIO armbands, had assembled, singing union songs and shouting. The crowd was broken swiftly and without argument when the state police rushed to the scene in automobiles. The union halls were kept cleared of lolterers today by Flint police, Both halls presented a grim fortifled appearance.

With both unions claiming victory in the strike and picketing ended it seemed likely that further violence could be avoided although observers said there remained much bitterness between the tHe unions. Temperature Reading by The Bee Radial Thermometer VIRGINIA: Cloudy with showers Friday and in south portion tonight, slightly warmer in south portion Friday. NORTH CAROLINA: Mostly cloudy with occasional showers tonight and Friday, TEMPERATURES M. yesterday (elear) A. M.

today (clear) A. M. today 72 (rain) P. M. today 84 (einar).