Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - January 30, 1932, Bluefield, West Virginia VIRGINIA Fair and continued cold Sunday and VIRGINIA Fair and colder Sunday Monday fair and continued Volume I AM thit the States did net call attention of Japan to treaty at the commencement of the Gilbert Murray of I Sunday Five Centa Good Morning China To Make Formal War Declaration HERB comes the train At the sound of the whistle as the engineer blows for the sta tion the truck pushers and port up and down the yell They put em phasis on the word and one must hear to fully appreciate the Around the head the train comes into and the crowd rushes out of the waiting room to watch her come The porters push their mall and baggage trucks to the points they expect the cars to and then the train In with a sort t of the wheels grind and the air brakes whistle as the train Baggage men tumble trucks and suitcases on the and mall agents dump their sacks and pouches from the The ruddy faced engineer dismounts and with can oils as pass up and down the line of cars tapping the wheels with their hammers to see if they Men with buckets of greasy waste or pack hot while others board the cars and put Ice and fresh water in the This was the way In the days gone and It has not neen departed from for the same bustle takes place when a train IT was a habit as it is for passengers to take up bags and parcels and crowd to the doors of the coaches as soon as the train men announce the Bala all out for At least that way H for it was train callers did elocution lessons in that But all this on the occasion we have In mind was not the big The scrambling off were scanned by town marshal and depot The coming of the trains always attracted a Here was a del of Important citizens re turning from the state and were being met at the depot by their fellow citizens who were curious to know the result of the And there was a sick man shuffling from the train after a visit to a distant and fol lowed by a woman who had been on a shopping trip to another Then a flock of colored children led by their waiting for daddy to come home from the coal Bar he and out he comes with a big telescope and a heavy and In jiffy they about him and grab him and go off laughing and happy in expectations having to do with the contents of the Various and sundry drummers some with swagger and and some with a cheroot in the corner of their And on this day one down on the platform wear ing a high silk hat above a yellow striped sack The other travel ling men said that his silk hat was the last took oft at night and the first thing lie put on in the He was of the old And so they are all out for for there comes the brakeman leading a lit tle boy who has a shipping tag tied to his coat on which their tions are SUCH a little so timid so afraid of the darkin which he that the brakeman seemed to be a step or two and in a gentle way had to pull liim Under one arm the little blind boy carried a bundle wrapped in course brown paper which ho clung to as If it contained And here he stranger In a strange to be claimed like one of the pieces of baggage that were piled on the A man and a woman be yond middle who had been their old horse to prevent it running away when the train rolled saw the little fellow and ran to He was their widowed daughters little boy who had been shipped to them when the daugh ter Grandmother folded the pitiful little piece of humanity in her arms and held him as the tears ran down her wrinkled In a choking voice she Thank God for the gift of this But the little boy was not the only blind one at that depot that for the curious crowd gazed and only a few saw that there was such a light in that womans face that the spirit of the blind boy could In it he found a The old woman removed the tag and tenderly folded and placed it in the bosom of her They put the boy between them on the wagon seat and drove out the River HE was one of the children that ought not to have been classi fied as hopelessly although he was hot able to When he was bom the doctor The child Is and that was the end of fiat of medical au But the grandmother was a reader of everything that came within reach and phe conceived the idea that it was possible to do something for the It was a hard and bitter strife with poverty to wring out the means to have him treated but the old couple stinted and saved and finally the operation was and result ed In restoring the boys That was a great day when he gazed into grandmas looked upon the hills and the the rivers and the and saw the sunshine and shadow and the countless glories that flooded the crystal gates that had been Thee is no other event in human experience that can compare with this no no no Pleasure that mind can conceive and that rises loftier heights than Is contained In the blind but now I what a beautiful world it was w to the little fellow Only the most vivid Imagination can pic ture the change In all Ife the car windows he feasted hungry eyes on the forests and their burden of boats and smaller streams turning power and sweeping on aa If they were la Turn to Page LOCAL COLLEGE COMBINE Engineering Course Offered At Is Available At Bluefield College FULL CLASS TO BE INSTALLED HERE days sail from the cen ter of action in the interna tional crisis in the Rear Admiral Montgomery Meigs Tay of the Asiatic awaits word from From the 000ton treaty cruiser his to the smallest of his auxiliary Taylor has kept everything in readiness for almost Instant He is one of the oldest and most ex of Americas active naval and a product of he has served In the commissioned ranks for forty Head Of Local College Has Been Working On Plan For More Than Year Instructor From Blacksburg Institution To Be Stationed Here Bluefield college and Virginia Polytechnic Institute have entered into a cooperative where bv two full years of all the engi neering now offered at will be available at the It was announced yester day bv Taylor presi dent of the local educational insti The board of trustees meeting in Bluefield Friday approved the The course will not be started un til the opening of the new school year next The work will he under the supervision of a Vir ginia Polytechnic Institute who will be located In Bluefield as dean of the engineering department of Bluefield His selection will he made bv Stinson and Dean Earl of Blacksburg and under the cooperative agreement he will be a member of hoth Blue field college and In making this important an yesterday Stinson said that had a similar agreement with Mechanics Institute at and the Norfolk division of William and Mary col The cooperative agreement with these institutions has proven verv and it Is the be lief of Stinson that this is one of the most forward steps Bluefield college has taken in recent of Stinson has been working on project for more than a The local college president seems to possess a clear insight as tothe needs of Bluefield college and since becoming president has promoted a number of projects which have proven verv beneficial to the school and have been attributing factors to the gradual of the The commercial course inaugurated more than a year ugo has proven very and filled a great More than seventy students are en rolled inthis it was Schools Stinson pointed out must offer what the students and meet the de mands of students if they intend to It is for this reason that Blue field college and have en tered this cooperative the college president The geographic location of Blue field college in the heart of a great mining and railroad sec tion finds many prospective students In this territory inclined toward en Stinson The co operative agreement with will make it possible for most any boy to obtain an engineering edu cation at a very small Board ins students will be able to take the course at the rate of a and resident students for about Expense Inauguration of the full engineering course at Bluefield col lege will he installed without any heavy and only a slight change In the study Stin son said at economics are taught in the junior and the practical work is given in the fresh man and sophomore Inasmuch as Bluefield college already has an established course in students who enroll here for the en course will be taught eco nomics in their freshman and sopho more and there shop work or practical work can he taken up dur ing their and senior Stinson said that If this feature was not entirely he was of the opinion that some arrangements could be made with the Norfolk and or some of the shops m whereby students would be to carry on their prac of the military which is under a Vir ginia law at Stinson said it was only compulsory during the freshman and sophomore and optional with students during their Junior and senior Local students upon completion of their two years work at and entering as a junior would not necessarily have to take military training unless he desired to do Neither will it be com for students to enroll at p I for their last two years Dr The credits re here would be just the same as those given at and would be recognized by any school that accepts the credits of the Blacks that Virginia Polytechnic Institute will benefit from the plan in many Their biggest problem now Is taking care of the first They would not only be relieved of much congestion among the freshmen and sophomores but would make avail able more room for advanced stu Further by placing the two years work in reach of most any boy the school will no doubt add many additional three and fouryear students than it would If the first two years work was not available as it will be next year at Bluefield col t norA With further reference to the cost of the two years of the course at Stinson said if a bov could not obtain an engi Turn To Page BLIZZARD DELAYS SEARCH FDR LOST Five Men And Three Women Aboard Missing Century Pacific Plane POLICE Mosby Is Shot And Clubbed To Death In Pool Room Officers On Trail Of Two Mills Brothers SEVERAL HUNDRED SCORE PILOTS STAGE HUNT IN TIMES of either or they will tell you in Shanghai that Richard Stew art Hooker by any a real The commander of the United States armed forces In this region is large and has an imposing record behind him as a fighting A native of grandson of a former sena he is his Thirtytwo of those years have been spent as an cer in the marine chief of police of Ma and deputy state prohibition was clubbed and shot to death in Johnsons pool room at Ma shortly before 12 oclock last night by Ab and Jim of according advices from this The Mills brothers fled the scene shortly after the killing and had not been apprehended at an early hour this Otis accompanied by state po lice and several left for Matoaka about 1 having been summoned by Walter prosecuting attorney of Mercer Information given Prosecuting At torney Burton by witnesses Indicat ed that the attack upon the Matoaka police chief came very unexpected and without the slightest Jim Burton was was under the influence of Mosby entered the pool room just about midnight and approached the Mills brothers and took hold of Jim Mills Ab who was standing behind the officer is al to have struck him over the head with a cue The officer was floored by the When he attempted to arise the Mills brothers are said to have delivered several more blows with cue break ing several of them in the Ab Mills Is said to have seized one of the officers guns which fell Turn To Page Four Liner Unreported Since Late Believed Down In Rugged Tehachapi Moun tains Officials Ask Aid From Army Flying Forces blizzard broke over the rugged Te mountains late halt ing a search for five men and three passengers and crew of a missing air Several hundred men and score airplane who flirted with death throughout the day as pushed the search for the were thrown into wild confusion when two women motorists brought an unverified report that the ship had been The liner has been unreported since late Immediate check with all search Ing parties and officials failed to find support for the womens Then as night darkened the storm all searching operations were brought to a temporary halt by snow swept down on the mountains by a high Airplanes were flown back to their bases quickly and ground par ties scurried for A number of those on foot reached Lebec in the They were and declared that even had the pilot of the ship landed he and his passengers could not possibly survive the rigors of the Drifts were piling up rapidly on the highways and little used moun tain roads and the cold was Officials of the Air operators of the for warded a request to Washington for permission to bring United Estates army planes at March near into the With thig added the officials hoped to canvass an area square miles in Besides the those aboard the ship when it dis appeared while en route here from 85 miles by airplane to the were Frank chief deputy sheriff of Los Angeles coun ty Spencer retired con tractor of Long living at Marie of Bakersfield of San Diego Nita of and Smith and both of San Fran ASIATIC FLEET IS HELD IN READINESS Authorized Go Into Action If Citizens In Shang hai Endangered Government Seat Moved To Interior Settlement Shelled ORDERS TO PREPARE TO LIFT ANCHORS FLASHED American Forces In Battle Zone Warned Use Every Pre caution Avoid Armed Con Great Britain And Join In Protest Jap Troops Crush Authority Military Rules Supreme In Shanghai WASHINGTON AUTHORIZES WARSHIP REINFORCEMENT Slows Rising Tide Of Flood Waters In All Sections Of State Highway And Railway Traffic Delayed Death Of State Lawmaker Occurs In Hospital At Cum If For Past Two Years 30 for two State Senator Ben of for many years a prominent figure in tho Democratic party of West Vir died in a hospital here He entered the hospital on Jan uary 25 for an operation for gall He rallied from the operation but suffered a heart attack which caused his Funeral services will be held at his home in Frank lin on Monday A colorful figure In several ses sions of the West Virginia legisla Senator Hiner appeared on the floor of the state senate at Charles ten only upon a few occasions dur ing the 1931 In declining he spent most of the time in his hotel room and for a period was a patient in a Charleston Senator Hiner was the author of an amendment to the state constitu tion which abolished the split ses sions of the legislation under which a 15day session was held for In of legislation and fol lowed by another 45day session after a recess for study of the pro posed Under Senator introduced in the legislature returned to its continuous session of 60 days in Senator Hiner figured ly In unsuccessful adoption of the new state tho special session of In 1930 called for that purpose by Governor Ho was a member of the joint legislative committee which recommended enactment of the code after reviewing the work Turn To Page FLEET WILL SAIL TODAY FOR WAR GAMES San 30 mighty battle force of the United States navy sails from southern California bases at midnight Sunday for a war games In the but ready to back up the Asiatic fleet In Oriental waters should the need Nine two great aircraft carriers hearing a swarm of fighting six grim fast destroyers and auxi liary ships will steam for the Hawaiian islands at the appointed Admiral Richard Leigh battle force explained that plans for the annual spring joint army and navy maneuvers had been made two years ago and had nothing to do with the situa He the battle force would go fully prepared for any We have a most com plete fleet operating which would be the fleets primary in the farfetched eventuality of inter national complications in the west ern The battle craft will carry sup plies sufficient for a years Admiral Leigh explained this was the usual practice for annual ma which must find the fleet In full battle A cold wave that struck all sections of West Virginia tonight held prom ise of slowing a rising tide of flood waters In all rivers and streams of the rapid rise followed torrential rains that fell throughout tho night and In many places low lands were flooded and highway and railway traffic was blocked or ham was The most serious threat was given by the Ohio which climbed swiftly throughout tho day fed by high waters from Its many The rate of the rise was slowed tonight and ex pressed a belief that a flood stage might not be The highest stage was reported at Point Pleasant where the Ohio climbed to feet and still was rising tonight at the rate of three tenths of a foot an Earlier in the day the rate of rise there was fourtenths of a foot an predicted that the river might rise to between 40 and feet at Point Pleasant by Parts of the business section would be flooded by a 43foot At Wheeling the Ohio reached 16 feet and still was rising with a crest of 27 six feet below flood reported ex of a crest of 45 five feet below the and the rate of rise slowed there to three tenths an Eight feet of water from the Hughes river halted travel over the northwestern turnpike at Cairo and state troopers were stationed there to unsnarl traffic At nearby points in JacKson coun high waters halted two Balti more and Ohio trains A train from Spencer to burg was delayed for 55 minutes by high waters at The Kanawha river at Charleston rose to feet and still was rising with a prediction that 21 feet would be reached by The flood stage of the Kanawha at Charleston Is 30 In the southernmost section of the the Tug river at where the stage normally is between six and eight climbed to 17 feet two feet below flood believed the Tug had reached its crest can warship reenforcements pointed toward China authorized to go into action if the riotous tumult of death at Shanghai should spread to entrap United States While orders for preparedness to lift anchor were flashed to this government and Great Britain protested emphatically against the Japanese occupation that has led to ravishment of oriental sections In the President Hoover kept even more closely In touch with the acute situ Early and late he had by his officials directly concerned with American policy but neither Sec nor Undersecretary Castle divulged his The tensity of tho situation was reflected at the where many of the legislators discussed the po Senator Borah of cau against talk of an economic boycott against such a move might easily be tho first step toward Protect Americans After conferring with Secretary Admiral William Pratt announced the orders for the Asiatic fleet to be In readiness to evacuate Americans in China or them it a crisis arises where mob rules In tho midst of Sec urged the American forces at Shanghai to exercise every and conciliation to avoid armed conflict with the Jap A renewal of assurances from Ja pan that international rights at Shanghai would be scrupulously re spected fell far view of tho havoc by bombs and fire progressively wrought at tho sea The protest In Washington and London dealt not alono with rights In the settlement but also opposed Japanese action In the whole Take Over City It was based on the contention that the Chinese had agreed to Ja pans demands and then the Japa nese had acted to take over the na tive city without The American and Japanese posi tions on the taking over of the na tive city were shown by the Amer protest to be sharply at Ambassador told Secre tary today that the dispatch of Japanese forces into the native city had been on tho basis of a pre vious arrangement with municipal authorities of the International set The American position was Turn to Pago four Forty Ships Of Asiatic Fleet Beady To Sail For War Zone American Residents In ing Are Ordered To Safety China Sends In New Troops By The Associated Press Shanghais International settle ment was reported shelled today In fighting between Japanese invaders and Chinese China had decided to make a for mal declaration of war against Ja Japanese Invaders Hold Blaze Wrecked Shanghai City In Iron Grip FLAMES DIE DOWN IN NATIVE CHAPEI SECTION The seat of government was moved for safety from Nanking to Honan about 450 miles away In western Honan The Japanese crushed the authori ty of the International administra tion of the foreign settlement In Two foreigners were re ported beaten by Japanese reserv A food and labor shortage threat ened the city as most businesses closed In strike against the Inter national which was charged by Chinese with allowing the Japanese to use it as a base for American consul Edwin urged the United States Asiatic fleet to come to the city Japanese reservists were moving toward United States marines patrol ling the international settlement Fires Die Down Fires died down In the Chape na tive section and the trolled area after causing damage estimated at more than Japanese military rule was made supremo throughout a great slice of the settlement In which the Inter national two members of which are ceased to ex the slightest semblance of au The Japanese arrested whom they pleased and those held were subject to tho decision of tire Japanese naval From the supposedly neutral ground of the settlement the Japal nese based their operations to clear out of Shanghai the Chinese troops that have abruptly halted their ad Reinforcements American warship pointed toward were author by Washington to go into action If American citizens were entrapped in tho Shanghai The United and Great Bril aln protested emphatically against the Japanese American Marines Face bag Barricades And Machine Gun Nests Food Shortage Threatens Troubled City Jap Planes Over Area Copyright by the Associated PreM 31 The international settlement reported shelled today as Japanese Invaders held a Shanghai in iron Shoving aside neutral authority in the foreign the Japa nese occupied a groat slice Its boundaries as a base for oper ations to drive the army of from the native Two foreigners were beaten by Japanese reservists when they protested against the beating of The Japanese movement within the refuge of Americana and other carried them toward the United States marines tho southern banks ol Soochow The Chinese government decided to make a formal declaration of Then it fled from Nanking to about 450 miles to establish a new seat of American Consul General Edwin Cunningham urged the States Asiatic fleet to come to city immediately in view of the many encroachments on tho Food Shortage A food shortage threatened troubled One Chinese was reported killed when eight stokes mortar apparently flred from the Chapel native fell within the for eign A Portuguese youth was wounded by shrapnel and a dozen other persons by stray Fires died down in tho Chapet and sections after causing damage estimated at more than Chinese said the Hong kew fire was started by Japanese If Japanese officers It was to drive out The American marines nese sandbag barricades and some machine gun nests on the opposite shore of Soochow two miles Inland from the There was speculation as to what would happen if the Japanese reservists came In contact with the Seventeen Japanese airplanes clr Hoover closest touch with remained m developments West Virginia Ranks First In Bituminous Coal Production For Third Time In History Pennsylvania Drops Crown As Foremost Producer Output In 31 Estimated At Tone Below Neighbor Confident Proposal Will Be Acceptable To Executives Will Be Presented At Joint Meeting This Morning For the third time in its relinquished last year Its crown as the foremost producer of bituminous coal to Its southern Estimates of the bureau of mines today placed output of soft coal in 1931 at only net just about tons below the West Virginia The only previous years in which West Virginia bested its greatest competitor were 1927 and decline In bit output in 1931 was more than tons compared with The decline In Pennsylvania bitu minous output during the year was more marked than In West Virginia The tons mined there was about tons below the 1930 As alte as Pennsylvania was producing twice as much soft coal than the neighboring state on the The turn was begin ning with 1922 when output dropped to tons and West was In the next both states In creased their Pennsylvania to and West Virginia to The rivalry between the two ap its present stage In 1926 when Pennsylvania mines turned out followed closely by West In 1927 a strike In the Pennsylvania West Virginia forged ahead for with tons as against vanias Again In 1928 West led with as against Pennsylvania regained first rank in 1929 with tons compared to West 855and continued in that standing last rear with the tonnages and The 1931 figures are tentative and may bo changed slightly by final re ports oC operators to the The others are actual production 30 program which David chairman of tho labor said he was confident will be acceptable to the rail was drawn up by members of the rail labor unions meeting here with representa tives of the nations carriers to negotiate wage Although details of the program wore not disclosed by the executives have previously re fused to compromise on de mand for a ten percent cut In wages for one year and it was generally believed union representatives had decided to with a few minor One of the principal union rc the expiration of the projected con to deadlock the conference demand that agree not to attempt further pay cuts at the expiration of tho con abandoned by the I am confident the rail executives will accept the program which was unanimously approved by union rep Robert son Tho program will be presented at a joint mooting of the two groups called for 11 When told of Robertsons bo HeJ that the program would bo ac to tho president tho Erie rail road said In that event the program must provide for acceptance of the ten percent The carriers are not disposed to compromise on that The unions have been ap praised of this and If Robert son Is confident of carrier con currence the unions no doubt plan acceptance of the Senator Borah cautioned against talk of an economic boycott against Ja such move might easily be tho step toward Admiral William Pratt announced that forty warships of tho Asiatic fleet would protect Ameri can Even if tho Japanese That IH our he If any ono wo are very In Nanking American residents wero ordered to ho ready to evacuate on two hours A system of flashlight signals arranged to keep United States naval vessels In tho Yangtze river Informed of develop ments Chinese casualties in the fighting in tho Chapel district of Shanghai wero placed at of whom 600 were In an official announce ment from the Nanking Chinese reinforcements were rained on Shanghai from Thousands of demonstrators cheered them as they Dispatches indicated that nil China was surging with a demand for a formal Tho defeatism of ago was In Tokyo a war office spokesman said a terrible responsibility would rest on tho council of the League of Nations if A world con wero precipitated through its Tho Paris foreign office an that two French reserve battalions wero being held in readi ness In Tonkin to protect the French concession at Paris indicated it would remain aloof from the protest of the United Slates and Great against the Japanese Prime Minister MacDouald of Great Britain returned to London from tho north of England for an Im portant conference expected to de cide the British His government was Informed of the Chinese Intention to ag acts by Japanese forces and was assured bv Japan that every thing possible would be done re storo order In Shanghai and not to endanger British lives and Four British de were Hold in Singapore for 01 Reports of Chinas impending dec of war spread alarm among statesmen gathering In Geneva for tho disarmament conference Tues Reports destruction by Chinese tho Chinese East ern railway in Manchuria were pub In but there wasno Indication that the Soviet govern turn To Page Four clod over the city In what were of described as warming up exercises and tho International set was Tighten Control The Japanese tightened their con trol over ordinarily known as the Japanese of the foreign Officials at noon said there was no intention of evacuating marine pa leaving the area In the hands of settlement Tho police functions from Soo chow creek northward were usurp ed by the Japanese reservists In civ ilian They wore brassards and were armed with bayo sword stick and even These reservists held up all within the area and some of them beat Chinese whose actions appeared suspicious to A Chinese homeward bound after parking his car within Hong was killed as ho ran frightened from the Several others suspected of sniping were slain and a number Newspapers said there was lees than a supply of meat available for tho foreign while vegetables wore most Hongkow market within the Jap which one of the largest in the wag Labor troubles were added to food At least of the lower classes were owing to tho closing down of silk and cotton banks and all kinds of in a strike against the international Chinese charged foreigners with allowing the Jap to use the settlement as base for their opera Many shops wero closed two days All those financially able laid In supplies of from clg arets to hard American marines were reported to have made additional Japanese but the American authorities said none had been seized since 14 Japanese in civilian clothes arrested last night within the For the lost 24 hours marines and men In originally engaged In fighting the Chinese la the native Chapel have penetrated Into the settlement In small They took Into their firm where many live and the wayside known as the Jap Throughout this area Japanese military rule Settlement settlement and every arm of the settle ment by a voluntarily cooperating nations dedicated to ceased to exert the slightest The Japanese arrested pleased they were subject to the decision Japanese naval authorities whose turn To Page
