Bee, The (Newspaper) - December 7, 1937, Danville, Virginia AT A GLANCE Fair and Continued COW Tonight Wednesday Wanner 1 Everybody Reads The In Trading Area FOUNDED FEBRUARY 1899 NO ASSOCIATED DANVILLE VA TUESDAY DECEMBER 7 1937 Buy and Sell Through Classified Section Of The Late News HOME EDITION PRICE THREE CENTS Man Freezes to Death Dec T Zeaman 25 employed by the Motor Boat 14th and Water streets Washington was frozen to death early today oh a sinking motor boat in the Potomac river about 20 miles from here His compan ion William Barnes 31 salesman for the same company is in Mary Washington Hospital here suffer ing severely from cold and expo sure Finland to Pay WASHINGTON Dec Finland notified the United States today it would meet promptly its war debt Installment due December 15 The Baltic republic Is the only one of 13 war debtors which has not defaulted on Its wartime ga vn due from the 13 ors this month total Two Killed in Wreck LOSES MELLON TAX FIGHT Late Financier Cleared Of Tax Fraud Charges Federal Board of Appeals Re duces Governments Claim Against Meltons Estate From Over 3 Million tq Holds He Did Not File False and lent Returns Decision Agrees With Grand Jury Refusing to Indict Him In 1934 WASHINGTON Dec United states Board of Tax Appeals I cleared the late Andrew W Mellon toj day of income tax charges and j reduced a government tax claim ARCADIA Dec j against from to about The engineer and fireman of a j i Seaboard Air Line freight train Agreeing with a Pittsburgh grand j were killed when the loco jury which in 1934 refused to indict motive crashed into the rear of the former secretary of the treasury another freight train nca here for tax fraud the board asserted Mel It Ion did not file a false and Wilson Slated for Post lent return with intention to evade WASHINGTON Dec was reported today in diplomatic circles that B ant secretary of state soon will be ricking Heads Send Two to Hospital to Undergo Diagnoses CHICAGO Dec human were listed at the Hines hospital today for diagnoses Charles tv Hester 43yearold Oklahoman was the first to seek a cure at the hospital for a tick ing in the head Yesterday Mrs Josephine Kan man ns of Chicago sought aid for the same affliction Hester said his head began tick toy after a shell exploded near him during the World war Mrs Kail maims a widow with four children told physicians a ticking audible to persons several feet away began in her head last March while she was using a telephone FALL OF NANKING IS NEAR o Japanese Storm Walls Chiang Flees In Plane FARM PLAN SLIPPING The opinion said Mellon conducted various stock transactions in 1931 to reduce his taxes But it held the appointed ambassador to Germany i dealings were legal and in accordance j with a supreme court decision which said there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones i Immediately acclaiming the ruling as j a victory Mellons attorney Donald to replace Dodd who is expected to resign Stage Holdup XEW rOKK Dec j D Shepard commented robbers two of them armed staged j We deeply regret that Mr Mellon a daring holdup today in the heart i dm not live to read the repudiation of of the Grand Central district in j that charge fraud which the de Will Press Prosecution Claims New Angle to Shoot OPPONENTS VICTOR IN FIRST TEST House Foes Planning Further Modifications of FDR Control Program WASHINGTON Dec of compulsory crop control victorious in their first House test proposed today further modifications which some administration leaders said would wreck the farm program The House voted tentatively 85 to 76 to eliminate from the farm bin a section imposing marketing quotas for wheat whenever surpluses might lower prices Hep Coffee who sug gested the change said he would at tempt the same procedure when the compulsory corn control section is discussed Rep meberg offered an other amendment on action was deferred to modify the control j provisions for cotton Administration will try to overturn the wheat decision and any Dog Muzzles Itself in Iron ing Affray on South Main Street Commonwealths Attorney George other changes when a final vote is perhaps Thursday on the en tire Weve just begun to said Chairman Jones of the ag Manhattan and escaped cision rendered today has The Pittsburgh banker and indus 4 trial magnate died last summer at PRs Jato Bone Unaffected the age of sz WASHINGTON Dec he tax board overruled major gov said today j claims for additional taxes j E Bendall stated today that he had j Durine discussion of Cof examination of xray photographs Mellons 193 income but granted j decided to go forward with the fees wheat amendment Jones declar had disclosed no bone late financier an offsetting cution of Charles Fields indicted that without the marketing KOV Btt this meant it would be deduction lor a gift of five priceless j The state official was uncertain unconstitutional He describ auy to scrape the Jawbone to help a few ago whether the state Jed confiscatory the penalty tax of the healing Find Missing Miner Dec ff Lawrence Lee 28 mine boob government not long before Ms death j In 1931 he gave the paintings to the j A W Mellon educational and charit able trust would be in a position to press the jls The deduction was more than offset I keeper lost in the Briar Hill am ho government ings since found at the bottom of the Turn to Story No 4 inasmuch as Miss well leading state witness was mar ried to Fields which prevents the above an Rep Wadsworth N assert ed that the farm air shaft of an adjoining mine into which he had wandered In the darkness State Mine Inspector Leonard Forester said Lee was pretty fnj gert out and had been put im mediately to bed at Ills home Ik Bomb Madrid MADRID Dec heavy half hour bombardment by Insur gent warplanes Inflicted heavy cas state from calling her to testify against her husband Yesterday however Minter came if enacted the United Mrs Swicegood Will Be Buried On Wednesday spells Hitlerism for j States j The Senate meanwhile was voting f even more slowly on dozens of amend here and held a conference with Mr helped frame the Bendall and recited evidence which I granary measure prs Mr Bendall believes in conjunction f dieted a final vote late this week but j with the other evidence of j critics insisted that it may not be j eyewitnesses warrants the elimination i reached until nest week if then of Mrs Fields from the evidential o 1 picture Turn to Story Xo 2 j The commonwealths attorney I claims to have discovered a new angle j to the case as result of the conference i with Minter He was not FRIED IS NOT CAPTIVE SAY HIS FAMILY Business Official Still Miss ing Reports of Ransom Note Persist Invaders Trying to Climb Mas sive Battlements With Seal ing of Ap Doomed City Clos Chinese Start Final Stand But It Seems Destined To Pound With Bombs SHANGHAI Dec columns of Japanese troops assailed Nankings historic walls tonight Japanese officers who announced j the attack said a spearhead of the In WHITE PLAINS N Y Dec i vaders was attempting to climb the listed Arthur Pried office massive battlements with scal ing maneuver handed manager for a sand and stone com down through the middle ages pany as a missing person today j but reports of a i kidnaping and a ransom note 1 disappearance Gates of the apparently doomed city closed Chinese had start ed a final stand which seemed destin gd to fail j Japanese asserted that their main Saturday forces had not yet reached the city night was disclosed Yesterday He at f they were progressing satisfactorily and according to sched tended a movie with members of his family visited his mother and then The spokesman aid not gay bow disappeared His car was i soon he expected the fall of the one side a roadhouse two alter his of nationalist wife had notified police Generalissimo Chiang Chief of Police William Miller said Chinas leader had left Nanking Chi Apparently while chasing a rabbit a German shepherd do jammed its head into a iron pipe so that Oklahoma City firemen labored two hours before they could liberate the beast Above is depict ed the moment of rescue after and wedge had been brought w Threefold Program To Rid Nation Of Unemployment And Poverty s Offered By Du Pont V Year Plan to Create Three Million Jobs Through Planned Investment of 25 Billion Doli lars by Private Industry Need Government Cooperation So far as our investigation is coni nese disclosed He and Ma said to have departed by airplane for capital of the interior pro vines of Kiangsi The gov 4WQ Meager foreign dispatches trickling through from Nanking confirmed Japanese reports that Nippons war planes had pounded the with T j i in 3iairid today Directors Wife Suei cumbs Following Re cent Operation shells fell In the center of the city The Insurgents bombed a num ber of east coast centers attacked Reiis town of about 000 population 10 miles from the Funeral services for Mrs Maggie Mediterranean coast i Staley Swicegood aged 32 wile of Dewey w Swicegood long prominent Youth Rescued m municipal and civic affairs will be X Y aed her 446 West Trapped on a Erie Main street at tomor ueach for M hours a 16yearold row afternoon amateur photographer was wU conducted by the ert today by a hook and ladder company The boy Richard Smith and his companion Early Meyers 15 down a 40foot cliff to tiie beach on a cable yesterday Both boys were seeking pictures elaborate on It today Fields version it is reported is thae Minter shot himself Steamer Sinking WOMANS MURDER TRIAL HEARS END Accused Slayer of SoninLaw May Know Her Fate Before Night Cigarettes Are Stolen From Modern Food Store Modem Pood Store No I at corner of Cabell and Berryman j was broken into and robbed last night I thieves getting away with cigar j ettes and two large hams NEW YORK Dec twoj a definite plan to create 2 Stabilisation of fair laboring through planned investment conditions over a definite Homicide Indictment Naming of by private industry j 3 Immediate stabilisation of the was proposed today by Lam mot du legal rules under which business Pont president of the JB J du Pout must operate subject only to de in an address public demand for amend the National Association of convention j He said the actual rate of taxes or Bu bringing about of the actual scale of wages or hours set today in the s new era with eventual elimination were not as important as I court for the calling of an in of poverty and unemployment ion which charges Elmore Ma ugh this threefold program j Du Pont was emphatic saying he i bry 2C year old youth and Development and popularization criticizing nobody for past dame Chiang head of Chinas air corned Fried still is a missing person jorce a nothing more x s x We have no ideas Henry pried brother of the missing man asserted it was just a question of a little family thats while Mrs Harold Dantals a sis ter said T believe its nothing but a too bombs These advices however did Daniels said Fried was on not mention the extent of casualties a little spree Saturday night None I or damage Japanese had asserted that 90 planes raided the city in most intensive bombardment of the war thus fat The raids apparently were aimed at military objectives in the citys en virons Japanese claimed their air force had at towns and cities of the lower Yangtze valley as far us Nanking deep in Anhwei province destroying airfields aircraft and mili tary equipment The Chinese boom at blocking Japanese warships from an attack on Nanking remained intact Japanese previously had reported its destruction of us believe Arthur has been Is Set For Recs Case In Two to Be Called Tomorrow Special to The Bee STOART Dec stage of new ly matron on a charge of homicide in A K Yount Lutheran Church of the Ascension of which Mrs Swicegood had been a member since its aided by the Eev J j Scherer b Luthof Mrs Luetha Clifton 43 charged eran Richmond and Rev i with the murder of her soninlaw A pastor of the Second John J McCarrigle moved toward the j 5 2 Vastly broadening the market j The padlock on the main entrance products through wisely is behind he said Let us was sawed off jinS j leave it It is no time for post j The grand 3wy named both P K Shelton desk clerk at police a rule of fair headquarters while waiting for a bus turn for au excepting While he Jon the street comer at ten oclock j plans for a j thought he heard a noise within the can put this plan into a task he described as stag store but seeing no sign of human said if a fair to the Turn to page 5 Story No 3 TO END ITS TASK TODAY What has been done or of her Slmore Bees I last October Price no i accused in a single indictment and Jude Turner Clement set a date for Expected to Sit With Commission Designing New Legislation SALEM Va Dec that it i through a threefold governI Clifton 43 chared Caused bv rats 1mejlt lede points j meats World war financing trial Wheth ed t Dec James H Price was espect o with members of the Vtr that an Baptist will be in at Port today the British steam er Court en route from Baltimore to Calcutta was sinkln slowly in the Red Sen Withhold Verdict LOGAN AV Dec Mountain View cemetery Her death culminated a desperate to spare her young life tlon and defense a grave operation performed nt rebuttal witnesses jury today in Roanoke county circuit 1 of store thieves are ln ta view of the which s w memers o the tr i this will be done was not indicated f ginia OQ Age Pension Study Coromis n J of over to 5 Story No 1 was the defense court One hour each was allotted j many groceries recently entered and robbed i Danville Community hospital on No vember 27 since which time ler con been precarious A bad re action to the operation was followed by more encouraging symptoms but The defense rested yesterday after presenting 18 witnesses most of whom testified the defendant was of good character Sheriff George Richardson two was questioned in the prosecutors office AM EGGS CHICAGO Dec 220 unsettled firsts 9091 score 3738 12 firsts 8889 3334 other prices unchanged on Saturday her weakened vitality jor his deputies and the coroner collapsed Dr H J Langston and Dr j Tied that wnen they went to Mrs Cliftons home at Dundee after the shooting Oct 9 she declared I warn ed him not comr to my home any more and he did and I shot Mrs widow of the slain man and daughter of Mrs Clif coroners jury withheld a verdict H A Wiseman the family physicians today in the fatal shooting of 36j called in Dr E Howe Miller on yearold John while Ms i day and since the three physicians sister Sirs Virginia McDonald had exhausted their medical skill in striving to tide her over the crisis She was given three blood slons Her condition reached a ton said she lived in constant fear cal phase yesterday morning whan 0f her husband whom she married i in Johnson City in 1936 Other she passed into coma ays Science Got Its Start In First Great Spurt ersons caught m the toils of a i laid down by early sett 111 Virginia Cele j to ward off the Old Blue Law Stymies Fun In This Town Men Must Tote Guns To Protect Women From Indians i for the defense would do so i measure to be submitted to the j If a severance is taken it remains for j of the general Commonwealths Frank P j Burton to say which of the two shall senator Aubrey Weaver said i v x be the commission would Mabry has already confessed shoot finish ite work on the bm York actuaries on the probable cost of a retirement system for state ReCS bUt insists she had no prior knowledge or an BELLOWS FALLS Dec f Said a physician to a soda clerk sins of their forefathers today So I cant get a milk shake hey j weighed heavily upon the shoulders j of Windham county residents A found at least 100 a smile of satisfaction and then promptly wrote himself a for one and sloped with brants Told By STEPHEN 4 RICHMOND Dec A daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward witnesses said he brat her and once i first great spurt in American science Staley of Premier West sha was broke her jaw born at Freeman West May 2 Eggs steady refrigerator esi 1904 being married to Mr Swicegood tras refrigerator standards 18 jat Welch West May 13 1921 refrigerator firsts 17 12 other prices unchanged Todays Queer Story Dec tills is n up and sdi tion attendant bandit he meant busi laughed The bandit Rim The spun on his lice nml She came to Danville with her hus band twelve years ago and had since made her home here She was in strumental in the development of the Lutheran church here and manifested a Wen interest in the church build ing Activities and the work of the organization generally During her life In she had made many friends Surviving nre her parents and the following brothers and sisters Mrs W G Gearhart Premier Mrs i Vance Spangler Welch W Mrs j W N Blanks and Miss Ethel Staley Danville Misses Fannie and Lucille Premier C 7 Staley Welch w Everett StaKy Pre mler W N W Staley Missouri and on and Albert Staley of Prc Imler w Va DEATH OF MRS SAMS Mrs Viola L Sams 26 died at Me Hospital yesterday morning Surviving are her husband W F Sams her parents Mr and Mrs C W LaPrade three children Charles Vio let Willie originated in Virginia before the col ony was organised and reached its fruition during the last days of Thomas Jefferson R prominent American scientist declared heir to day Sir Austin H Clark of the Smith Institution at Washington D told celebrants of the 100th the j Investigators yesterday scribbled j down their names as they went about j the grim task of enforcing a blue iaw banning on the Sabbath Day any I secular business or employment ex i cept works of j More might joined those against whom States Attorney Ernest F Berry said he would seek warrants iaw became medicine settlers Here and there in the county and churchgoers toted guns heeding Ber rys warning that voider the old law were required to carry guns to protect the women from the In Theatre Manager Raymond A Kin iry shut down his two theatres last night for the first Sunday since hi fight the Blue Law began s month Martinsville attorney who was named by Judge dement to de Milk shakes feud Mabry William L Joyce and J Murray Hooker will after the interests of Mrs Rec sisters Mrs Virginia HamMt Misses College of that science under the of English col of the Old Dominion was kept alive during the days of the revolution by the stimulus of Vir ginia loaders So far as American is eon the colonial period in Vir But parly an of writers cramp as the day wore on Heres how enforcement of the an cient statute worked among this some found that out whiu it ventur ed on a bleak course and neatly stymied by officers who them the Blue Enforcement or the revived memories of prohibition days hissed tee cream addicts to FIVE ARE KILLED IN BLAST AND FIRE Entire Front of Building De Probe Ex plosion Cause GLOVERSVILLE N Dec that operation of Sunda explosion and fire that partially h i COS system i e Was mCre than wh bean its 5tudics a year j Half of the cost will bs supplied 6y j the federal government and the re mainder by the state either w with the help of localities With two charges of violating the today in the Blue Law crime Blue over the head of anci four of Kiniry turned away hundreds of dis appointed theatregoers with the ex the future depends upon ttw of his appearance in court Thursday Tho current Blue Law crime wave broke out when Berry started enforce ment old statute against Kiniry managers retort was petition general enforce ment Berry took heed law Is on the books to be ginia reached its culmination and its the drug store girls can 1 buy a cone tho states attorney a childrens clothing I left a toll of dead today as sought the cause Fire Chief R A Maxson said the i explosion apparently occurred while three men were removing a fuel oil i tank from cellar All three Edward Hall j Darling and David Stewart were trap I pert in the basement and burned Ui THE WEATHER Temperature Reading By The Bee Radial Thermometer Fair and continued Wednesday increasing and warmer followed hy flurries in west por tion North stir not juile so ii west ins by snow in moun tains end in the personality aud the spir it of Thomas Jefferson mie of the versatile and certainly the most Influential of our American scientific ho declared here Is It s girls cu Wont hist 1 day came the answers the u jess I get death Miss Mildred co I know its ridiculous But Its the j proprietor of the store and the janl way I Snow to remove William R Crispin 30 aiod law the 1 he reflected Im the of burns The entire front nl the was blown into the IV V M l M M ift
