Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - January 22, 1932, Bluefield, West Virginia WEST VIRGINIA Rain and colder Saturday Sunday mostly cloudy and colder probably light rain In north changing to tnow VIRGINIA Cloudy and somewhat colder probably occasional rain In In Saturday rain Saturday night and possibly Sunday followed by clearing and colder JAPANS latest against China are a challenge not only to but to the minister at Volume Saturday Pages Five FIRST JURY TRIM RESULTS IN Donald Darr McDowell Convicted In Federal Court ON THE eve his departure for the Geneva disarmament confer Charles Dawes left was relieved of the chairmanship of the American delegation and appointed president of the Emergency Recon struction the fund designed to expand credit for American business and stimulate economic At tho same President Hoover announced that Eugene Meyer governor of the federal reserve would be chairman of the board of the new SIXTYEIGHT DEFENDANTS ENTER PLEAS OF GUILT Local Man Arrested On Charge Sentenced To Atlanta For Violation Of Probation Confessed Forest Firebug Draws Prison Term After hearing pleas of guilty from more than 250 Judge 0eorge yesterday pre sided over the first Jury trial at the present term of the United States court for the southern district of West Donald Darr of McDowell was charged In an indict ment with the sale of He entered a plea of not and asked trial by The jury re turned a verdict of and Parks was sentenced to 8 months in the Fayette county Seventytwo defendants came be fore Judge at yesterdays session of the and all but four enter plea of guilty to the charge in the Jail and prison sentences meted out at Fri days session aggregated 70 5 months and 5 Fines assessed amounted to Five cases were judgment was deferred in 11 other cases 14 cases were trans Sam of Blue who was arrested last week on a charge of possession and trans portation of five gallons of tensive ou which officers declared was found year in a laundry truck in which Wil liams was was arraigned yes Although counsel for Wil liams attempted to have his client by a the court informed Williams counsel that he could be arraigned at some later date on the but for the present Williams would be handled by the court for a probation sentence given Tilm sometime He was een to two years in Docket Near End Late yesterday it became evident that the court had disposed of a greater majority of the cases on the criminal It Is expected that some of the who have asked for trial by will change their plea before Judge loaves There are a num ber of cases In which the court has deferred judgment until a later day of the and many of these will be disposed of before court Some have been allowed to go until the last day of the present term which will be In Iva of Po charged with start ing a fire in a federal forest near Thornwood in the hope someone would hire him to put it con fessed to the charge at Friday morn ings session of the court and was sentenced to two years in Arbogast said he had been out of end decided it was plausible he might expect employment by starting a Instead of develop ing a the fire he started result ed In arrest and deten tion for federal Henry James and John Martin were sentenced for the robbery of the postoffice at Mount Fayette It woe shown that James had entered the postoffice on two and was captured the second He was sentenced to three years in Atlanta on each of the sentences to run Martin was charged with in the second rob He was sentenced fifteen months in Wiles and Charles both of Mercer were charged with the robbery of railroad boxcars near Wiles entered a plea or not On his plea of Judge McClintic deferred sentence In Parkers It was shown in court that Dar win had en gaged in the sale of liquor on a big scale in Cabell and Wayne He pleaded his second and was sentenced to four yeans in The cases of Ernest and Frank who were charged with distributing to customers of were transferred to Hunting Considerable humor attended the arraignment of Ray and Nathaniel Negroes of Fayette Even the court smiled as the youths told how they were apprehended at a still in an abandoned It seems the boys were wandering about the mine when they suddenly came upon the The operators of the hearing the boys approach and evidently thinking they were of The Watkins boys started examining the still and while thus officers actually ar Testimony of others bore out the truth of the youths It appeared that the officers had re a knew the still was in operation and suspected certain white Both boys were freed of the charges and the court to shun in the Following are the prohibition cases disposed of Friday Les ter eigh teen months in Enoch Greenbrier court took time to consider Fred Thomp Raleigh county armed two years and eix months in Atlanta John Raleigh county armed at still and second four years in Atlanta Charles Cabell one year and day in Atlanta Joe Fayette eight months in Nicholas county jail Lalng Raleigh two yeara in Elwood Parker Raleigh two years Turn To Two CONGRESS T TO Senate Asks Study 6Hour Day For Other Workers HOUSE RESUMES WORK ON APPROPRIATION MEASURE Committee Hears Complaints Against Additional Levies On Tobacco Suggestion That Tax Be Placed On Each Check Issued Is Criticised RUSSIA FIVEYEAR PLAN Lifting Of Workers Standard Of Living Pledged By Soviet Program Calls For Boost In Machinery Output Lifting ot the soviet workers stan dard of living to new heights pledged by the state today in an ex tensive outline of the second five ear Reports drawn by Premier and head of the state planning say a rise in living stan dards than under the first fiveyear plan must be The popula tion must be supplied with the prin cipal articles of consumption from two to three times the present sched The realization of these tasks woe said to depend on technical re construction of transporta tion and It will be necessary to increase the output of under the second fiveyear plan by at least three and a half It will be necessary to reach by 1937 a pro duction of kilowatt hours of electric energy against in Two hundred and fifty million tons of coal must be produced by the end of the plan against in 1932 the output of oil must be raised 2 12 to 3 times over the present and the production of iron must jump to at least Railway transportation must be completely the reports and from to kilometers of new road must bs Larger and more powerful rolling stock must be introduced and the lines must be Further developments in the pro duction of nonferrous air light and food Industries were Agriculture must be completely reorganized along Social ist lines so that machines and trac tors will be available on all collec tive Since these problems are in separably connected with the mas tery of it was it will be necessary to create a new technical intelligentsia from among the workers and peasants and the cultural level of all toilers must be LARGE INDUSTRIES OPPOSE railroad and LIVE Rock Of Ages And Nearer My God To Thee To Keep Places In Hymn Books 0 Methodist Churches of Ages and Nearer My God to Thee will live on in the hymnal of the Methodist A commission today combed ago exaggeration from the hymn book but when the music and words o the oldtime favorites rolled fron piano and human they passed There was none to deny the power of their The commission represents tht Methodist the and the Methodist Epis copal The is being revised while other slons consider a proposal to the three The baritone voice of Jame of Boston university was lifted again and again in a par lor of the Hotel while cler leal and lay commissioners listened Houghton had a piano Rock of ages cleft for sane the Not present wag willing tc say Rock of Ages should go intc the lover of my let mo tc Thy bosom Never an objection raised to th old But other old timers did not pass They the commissioners say the least known and favored of tb hymns They Include Church Trl Come With am Perfect And Houghton sang some About 200 of them wer welcomed to the They Inspection as fitting company for th In approximately 200 hymn were The old hymnal co Tho new will have commerce coi Automobile And Tobacco Men feasibility of Voice Opposition To Sales Levy Expenditures Is Urged Before Committee 22 registered vigorous opposition to day to the tax with the general policy termed wholly unwarranted by a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United The In a report de manding drastic reductions in ex to help balance the objected strenuously to ap plying the proposed Increased rates retroactively to the incomes of In and corporations for Unforeseen taxes for which no advance provision can be re most burdensome and difficult o the committee This s doubly true of last o retroactive taxes of any kind lould be Notwithstanding ie nature of the we be eve other ways should and can e found to meet Hostility toward a suggested 5 per ent tax on was before President Hoover to ay by spokesmen for the motor while a representative of the Industry opposed before the ouse ways and means committee ny increase In cigarette Leaders of the automobile trade dded to their comment tonight at press the ales tax would be an obstacle in the vay of The automobile business is in a air way to come commented toy of the Hudson corn spokesman for un ess arbitrarily forced to raise rices by something over which we lave no Alfred president of Gen eral added we are very much encouraged over the ut explained an excise levy would e a blow offsetting the accomplish ments of the The opposition of the automobile world to a sales tax was expressed o President Hoover by seven of its who described the proposed percent sales tax as discriminatory and a brake upon Their views will be elaborated upon tomorrow by George vice president of the Rockne com who will represent the motor before the house ways and means committee studying tax pro spokesman for the Tobacco Merchants warned the committee today an in crease in the federal levy upon cigarettes might result in a yield of less reVenue to the government if higher prices curtail Parker cited a decline In smoking during the lost six months and said any additional tax burden would be passed on to the If there is unabated purchasing by Parker you have added to his taxation precisely as if you had reduced the income tax brackets to Include the 000 or had Imposed a tax on coffee or food or Alfred president of Gen eral and six other auto press of business revival legisla tion over for the time congress turned to an accumula tion of The house resumed discussions of the agriculture sup ply and the senate passed a exempting building and loan associations from being declared This measure went to the The senate also adopted a reso lution calling upon the Interstate commerce commission to study tho the sixhour day for other Tho HILD FOUND AFTER 24 HOURS LOST IN WOODS move was sponsored by Chairman Couzens ot the interstate commerce Before It directed the justice department to com with the senate committee before agreeing to the settlement of the governments antitrust suit against several big radio Continue Tasks The committees generally con with tasks begun severa days Faced with the job of measure calling for Increased taxes the house ways and means com heard complaints agains proposals to make additional levle on Several representatives and Jun lus spokesman for th Tobacco Merchants pro tested on behalf of tobacco grow ers and The suggestio that a two cents tax be placed on each check was also The senate after voting down prohibition resolution yesterday was silent on the subject toda but Representative York and said the house expected vote on both resubmission of th eighteenth amendment and cation of the Volstead law at this Interprets Rules Speaker Garner agreed that might be a reasonable interpreta tion of the Support for the Interstate com merce commission recommendation for a repeal of the recapture pro visions ot the 1920 transportation act continued before the house interstate commerce Bills to prohibit or curtail short selling on the grain and cotton were assailed by Seibel Harris of the Chicago hoard of Trade practice conferences In which the federal trade commis sion participated were criticized before a senate committee but It nevertheless approved the of William Humphrey as a There was no verdict by the senate committee which Is con the nomination ot Federal Judge James of Chi cago to a court ot A senate committee deferred action on bills to amend the federal reserve and national banking NORTHERN OPERATORS TO RENEW RATE STRUGGLE nd little Buddy was found late today after being ost more than 24 hours In ad journey through a Buddy set cut yesterday to visit is grandmother In 15 lies from his home near Loundon southeast of and It was eared he had drowned in the Mohican The lying inert from ex and was found n the farm of Ed only tiree fourths of a mile from his ome by one group of the more than 00 residents of the countryside had organized a He was too weak to but doc ors said he would His footprints along the river bowed he had walked five he became lost when he to return home and wandered the thickets and underbrush f the country until he was too ex hausted to Buddy had been missing since he ind his inseparable a rown set forth The dog returned MOTHER Ml ING TIKE That Baby Diane May Be Pre vented From Living Life Of Idiocy One Chance In A Doctors Say RAIL MEN INSIST ON DEFINITE REPLY TO Union Chiefs Want Definite Answer To Every Point In Relief Program BEFORE GIVING REPLY TO WAGE SLASH PROPOSAL President Hoover Affixes Signature To Big Credit Workers Hear Daniel Bail Outline Posi tion Of Carriers Several Matters In Union Program To Be Cleared Up New mother Idiocy of 13monthsold Diane who must live a life ot unless a cerebro spastic IP The struggle southern between northern and coal operators over lake cargo freight rates is to begin all over Western Pennsylvania mine own era will appeal from the ruling of the interstate commerce commission which yesterday upheld the differential of 35 cents a Plane for continuing the districts for a more favorable differen tial will be laid at the series o conferences being arranged by the western Pennsylvania coal traffic n A mobile leaders who called at the it was announced White told President Hoover their industry considered a sales tax at this time adding We feel definitely that such a tax would put the brakes on continued volume thereby affecting adversely employment and the salee of Industries allied with our We are willing to pay our part of any general but we feel that a five percent sales tax on auto mobiles alone is discriminatory our TWO CONFIDENCE VOTES Premier Pierre Laval had France to a policy ot refusing to forego German reparations unless there is a corresponding reduction In the debts France the chamber of deputies voted confidence in his new ministry The government majority was 38 in a vote of 303 to Immediately thereafter the premier sponsored a resolution declaring France would be faithful to a policy of interna tional collaboration and the organi of of which respect for contracts is necessary On that resolution he won a ma of The of the cabinets margin in the two was ex in part by the fact that some of the followers of Brland lined up against the govern ment and others did not participate at condition of the skull can be said tonight she was per willing to take the chance in a thousand that her child will survive an Diane IB a good little she I wouldnt be a mother if I were unwilling to take the chance that she can be made The though already grown Into an age when normal babies begin to has been unable thus far to lift or or give any sign she is alivo except an occasional wondering Physicians have been in consul tation on the case at the neuro but said today they were not yet ready to infants condition resulted from a Inck of skull sutures nt which has brought about an overlapping and ossification of the bony There is now no room for the brain to expand as t does in a normal where ho skull remains soft and flexible until about the age of Had an operation been performed at It was said It would have involved little danger and the infant might have devel oped But her Lillian woe deserted y her wanted a boy and was without an under standing of the case or funds for specialized physicians there is scarcely one chance in a thousand the a delicate severance of the rear ot the be effected without PASTOR OF CHINESE CHURCH IS AX VICTIM Frank pastor of the Chinese Evangelical Church of was found hacked to death In tho basement of his little red brick church In Chinatown The hatchet with which his skull had been crushed from behind lay near his Little could be learned ot the kill ing from the neighbors In the Chi nese two miles south of the Apparently the minister had been engrossed In writing a letter in Chinese characters at the desk of his basement The killer had struck a Chan had fallen from his Probably he had been dead two or three The church was a favorite calling place for white visitors to China Robbery may have been the mo tive for the for no money was 22 railway unions insisted today on definite answers to every point in their un employment relief program before answering the proposal for a ten percent wage All brotherhood and union men still In including 800 gen eral jammed Into tho ban quet room ot the Palmer houso and heard Deniel leader of the presidents outline the position of the IIj was vigorously applauded by the men and publicly praised by the labor David Robert But Robertson announced soon after tho session that the labor dele gates were not ready to take a Several matters in the union program must be cleared on each point before the men decided whether to accept voluntary ten percent wage reductions for one Principal Points One of the principal points was the stabilization of The union men still hoped to get further The managements com pledged to do whatever may be practicable to stabilize employ ment declining to name any figures or sot any stand ards as a The labor delegates had asked that employment bo in creased to the 193D The presidents statement in cluded the remark that they did not believe the stabilization efforts could Include stand by Union leaders have Indicated this was one thing they hoped to have changed beforo they any Although they professed hope for their proposal of a commission to study the sixhour tho labor delegates talked little of that The senate resolution calling on the interstate commerce commission to make such a study was believed to have eliminated the pressure on that The Day In Washington Or The Associated Press President Hoover signed reconstruction finance corporation Senate passed exempting building and loan associations from being declared Senate adopted resolution re questing Interstate commerce commission to study feasibility of sixhour day for railroad work Speaker Garner said fair rules Interpretation would permit two prohibition test votes this American government demand ed redress of Abyssinia for recent attack on minister Southard by policeman and mob in Addis Administrations proposed tax Ing program met opposition from business and industrial Federal Agency With Two Bil lion Dollars Worth Of Credit Formed MINIMUM OF CEREMONY MARKS SIGNING OF With Ringing Chorus Olf Ayes In Senate And Meas ure Is Sent To President Discuss Directorate With Democratic Leaders GRID ILL The Peters To Ad dress Beaver Graduates On Sunday Morning Junior High Exercises Thursday POST SLASH NOTICE Mobile Northern railroad has posted a notice that all organ craft employed by the road will be reduced 20 percent in vice announced He stated the notice was posted on January 7 and becomes effec tive February A voluntary reduction was taken last July by a number of the roads union ODell said but the present notice will affect all KENTUCKY GUARD OFFICERS INDICTED 22 liam Jones former general of the Kentucky national and two former captains in the guard were indicted by the Franklin county grand 1ury Two true bills charging embezzle ment of guard funds were returned against Jones and one each against of Salt and Al bert of In its the grand jury said It had investigated Irregularities In some of tho departments of our state government and we find that there are most likely grave in other It suggested that the investigation be continued by tho next grand GREENBRIER GRAND JURY COMPLETES INQUIRY At the First Baptist church Sun day morning at the will deliver the ser mon to the graduates of the mid year Beaver high The public Is invited to attend the serv Tho program is to be as follows Organ Lewis Rell and War March of the Mendelssohn en trance of board of ty and graduating led by tho Jackson ology Invocation responsive read Ing Thou Almighty King prayer Sere Schubert Come Let Us Lorenz choir Tho by the pastor Lead O King Eternal benedic tion Members ot the midyear gradu ating class this yeur are Paul president Eliza beth Paulino James Randel Rich ard Marvin Charles Bertrand Glen Nelson Frank Wood row John Wil liam Fred Wil liam Fred Leo William McAllister William Thomp Ruby Virginia Hazel Virginia R Iris Ruth Evelyn Alma Ruth Mabel and Ruth Cloyd president of Bethany will de liver the address to the thirtytwo Beaver graduates at tho commence ment exercises Friday Jan uary at Beaver Medals and other awards will be presented at tho Diplomas are to bo awarded by Lawrence president of tho board of Final exercises will be held simul in the auditoriums of the respective schools Thursday evening for graduates of and Wado junior high Samuel pastor of will de Tum To Page Two new and momentous government agency came into belne tonight to bulwark American business and public con with two billion dollars worth of With a minimum of ceremony and two secretaries as his only wit President Hoover placed uls sharply sloping signa ture tho Reconstruction Fi nance corporation Almost as soon as he had signed the tho chief executive went into conference with Demo cratic congressional leaders whom ho had asked to help him complete tho roster ot the corporations di Three vacancies remained and all had to be filled with mem bers of that Harvey of Pine a public utilities wan regarded In Informed circles to night as an almost certain He carries strong endorsement of influential With a ringing chorus of both house and senate today sant the on to tho White Both chambers of within a few hours approved the report of con who had drafted the measure In Its final Act as Messenger After It had received the signa tures of Speaker Garner and Vice President tho was to the two members of the housa committee on enrolled of and of acted as men senKers In carrying it to tho White At the door of the executive man Theodore one ot the presidents Ha summoned his Lawrence and they took the to the Hoover was waiting in a small room adjoining the Lincoln study on the second Ho picked un n wrote laid the pen chose another and completed his Just Hoover had bean in consultation with Charles whom he named president of tho Dawes waited In an anteroom near the main en with secret until he had been informed Hoover had signed the Ranchers Mobilize To Battle Invading Wild Duck Horde Shotgun Barrage Echoes Throughout Desert Empire As Farmers Seek To Protect Crops Migratory Birds Attack Fields Of Grain 22 mild uprising of northern Imperial valley ranchers against hungry wild ducks flared Into on open armed rebellion today as an invading horde ot migratory birds from Salton sea sanctuaries attacked barely and vegetable fields with un stinted Charges of lack of protection for farmers were hurled at state and federal A mayor who owns extensive vegetable fields ferred to furnish shells for all the hunters and pay their fines if game wardens arrested Another rancher hired a marksman to guard his barley fields during the A shotgun which echoed throughout the desert blazed out as ranchers stalked into their fields to drive by slaugh ter If wild Wea pons of all varieties replaced Chamber of commerce officers broadcast requests for farmers to file their estimated gold to amount to nearly In less than 1 12 Field agents of the chamber they inspected more than and found alfalfa and barley clipped close to the ground by ravaging Winter peas fared the Salton sea sanctuaries annually are the haven for thousands of wild Tho sanctuaries are under the of the state and gov hut the ducke this year attacked cultivated fields with greater Ranchers began organizing under a banner of we want our crops protected the same ee ducks are Game wardens warned the farmers against charges of vio lating treaties with Mexico and Can ada relative to migra tory One rancher who planned to cul his winter peas last week said he found ducks on his acreage one morning and not the slightest vestige ot winter 22 Tho Greenbrier county grand jury completed its investigation of gen eral conditions in the in the lynching of two Negroes here recently but deferred Its report until An Incident which developed yes in filling two vacancies on the grand jury was made a subject for inquiry by that body by Judge Summers Two special jury commissioners were named by the judge to fill the vacancies but he rejected the first two names sub mitted by the commissioners when they reported that those names had been suggested to Two other names later were submitted and ac At tho opening of court today Judge Sharp told the grand jury he did not know If there was any thing wrong with tho incident but that the grand jury should investi gate It and return Indictments if they found the evidence He cited state laws making It a misdemeanor for anyone to attempt to procure a juror to be summoned with Intent to find a biased The penalty for offense is a maximum fine of Tho lynching under investigation was that of Tom Banks and Georgo who were awaiting trial for Peter and JacK of and of near are hold on murder charges in the lynch JUDO EYES Defense Attempts Bar Ex hibits Offered By State Ac Woman Displays Lit tle Interest In Trial 22 nie Ruth Judd seemingly in court today and eyed with out apparent emotion the scarred and battered luggage in which the OFFICIAL INDICTED New A deputy clerk was indicted today after tell ing the legislative committee in city affaire that he had received about In tips from couples he married In the mu The James 62 years is head of the marriage license bureau and Tammany bodies of her two alleged victims were transported from a cottage here to Los In one of tho trunks the of Anne for whoso slaying Judd Is now was sent as Sho seemingly tho fiery argument of her attorneys in an attempt to exclude as evidence a stained suitcase in which portions of the body of vls Samuelson was taken to Los An If Judge Howard by which ho denied stubborn objection of defense counsel In in of the is carried out with respect to other physical the slender defendant likely will be forced to observe pres to the jury of photographs of the dismembered body of Miss who was her Defense Paul Herman and Joseph argued against the intro duction of the suitcase in an attempt to prevent precedent which would allow display to the Jury of other and more graphic bits of evi dence bearing upon the Schenck argued the suitcase con portions of the body of Miss and nothing else and was therefore not from the LeRoi If the prosecutor is allowed to produce such then it is in cumbent upon him to prove all ele ments of the and we Turn To Two Lenders Call Soon after Dawes left the White Senator of Arkan the Democratic was an Others summoned to Uw conference on the corporation di rectors included Speaker Garner and Senator Glass of Soon after the was signed the president Issued a statement which follows in full I have signed the reconstruction corporation It brings into being a powerful organization with adequate re able to strengthen weak nesses that may develop In our banking and railway struc in order to permit business and industry to carry on normal activi ties free from the fear of unexpected shocks and retarding Its purpose is to stop deflation In agriculture and industry and thus to increase employment by the res of men to their normal It Is not created for the aid of big industries or big Such Institutions are amply able to take care of It Is created for the support of the smaller banks and financial through rendering their resources liquid to give renewed support to industry and It should give opportunity to mobilize the gl strength ot our country lor In attaching my signature to this extremely Important I wish to pay tribute to the patriotism of the men In both houses of con gress who have given proof of their devotion to the welfare of country irrespective af Three members of the board will serve They are Secretary Governor ot the fed eral reserve and Paul federal farm loan Opposition which previously had taken advantage of the ties to force delay in the tlon corporation bills enactment disappeared today when the confer ence report embodying the was presented for There was almost a minimum of in which the sponsors of the bin explained what had In and irreconcilable op made last speeches criticizing its provisions PENNSYLVANIA Ml ACCEPT WA tho Pittsburgh Tern ration today wage Agreement by of N era of Ami ot confe wo com unions over
