Evening Progress, The (Newspaper) - March 7, 1919, Petersburg, Virginia i March Virginia partly cloudy to night and Saturday not much change in temperature THE EVENING PROGRESS tf A PAGES TODAY ESTABLISHED 1888 Vol AXA No PETERSBURG VA FRIDAY FANNING MARCH 7 1919 Full PROSPERITY LOOMS COUNTRY TWO CENT SCALE j By The Press PAKIS Thursday i Marie of Rumania today that in spite of the plight of lior country and the sufferings of the people in the war there is no danger of Bolshevism here if supplies of food can be secured Speaking of conditions in Rumania dur ing the war the Queen said suffered even worse than did Belgium She had England and France by her side and behind them stood America while we had only Russia to depend upon When the Russians came to assist us all they did was to eat our i food They wore never of real aid Ger jman plotters saw to that I have no fear of Bolshevism in if food is provided immo By Associated Press WASHINGTON March General Burleson Rumania today declared that increasing postal revenues one of It is very difficult to distribute most accurate barometers of present business conditions j food in my country because of the forecast a period of pronounced industrial prosperity wholesale destruction of railways and j I concur in the opinion of the executive head of one of the greatest corporations of the world who prophesies large business prosperity ahead Mr Burleson said Admitted ly the revenue of the postal service is one of the most ac curate barometers of present business conditions because the postal revenue comes from every community in the United States During November there was a pronounced decline in postal revenues due to the nationwide prevalence of influenza GUESTS OF HONOR AT MEETING OF ROTARY CLUB The Rotary Club will enter tain General Omar Bundy commanding general of Camp Lee on Thursday evening at the regular meeting of the club In addition to General Bundy there will be present as guests of the club Rotarian Governor Governor West moreland Davis Col LeRoy Hodges Senators Martin and Swanson Congressman Watson Secretary of the Treasury Car ter Glass Mayor Gilliam and others This is perhaps the most im portant gathering the club has ever held in its history The visitors and guests represent the most prominent men in mil state and business circles of the nation At this meeting of the club a resolution to amend Article 6 Section 1 of the bylaws of the club will be introduced the purpose of which will be to in crease the initiation fee from to By Associated Press NEW YORK March re spouse to a questionnaire to mem bers of Congress 01 senators rep resenting M states and 239 repre a majority of the war time Campaigns have authorized the Zionist organization of America to publish their endorse ments of their movement to estab lish a National Jewish homeland in Palestine as approved by President Wilson it was announced here to day by the Zionist organization in practically every case the statement says referring to the favorable replies the answer closed MAKE NO ARRESTS IN HOFFMAN CASE GOODE UNLESS EVIDENCE CAN BE BROUGHT FORTH theft of locomotives cars r i T i The imperative need is to Unveil Monument produces revolutions Next Sunday morning the Hunger produces revolutions and Bolshevism The Bolsheviki are They will not stand before an organized foree We do not fear them and they have failed in their efforts to ruin Rumania I have gone about in perfect safety in my war work Queen Marie expressed deep Rod Cross and the signing of the armistice Revenues in December work done bv thc American showed a returning movement toward normal conditions while during January and February the revenues greatly ex for those months the average annual increase dur ing the last thirty years son Bible class of the Second Pres church unveil a life size picture of the founder the late John Rice Patterson and the close personal friend of every mem ber who was privileged to unite with According to a of Common wealths Attorney of Dinwiddie with an assurance that tho writer no arrests will bo made in the Hoffman murder case unless further developments are brought to light The mystery surrounding the mur der of the remains as dark Seven Persons in Local Jail tons was discovered last Be Sent to State Pen afternoon on the farm of will be glad to vote in favor of a resolution giving Americas en to thc movement In addition to the four youths convicted at todays session of the Hustings Court and sentenced about three miles from the city The only point established in the myV negro i s lo by jury that the man was murdered by unknown turps Simultaneous Missions in Bap tist Churches On the third Sunday in March the Baptist churches of Petersburg will be Charge Against Young White Men is Dismissed In Police Court this morning Justice Pleasants dismissed the charge against gin a simultaneous evangelistic camjS T Connelly and Sam Ende two white nf meli charged with passing counterfeit in which everal evangelists ol wide reputation vrill participate The preacher at the First vrill be Kev Dr John Jeter Hurt of Wilming ton N C At the Second church Rev Dr Carter Ashton Jenkins will assist Mr Moore Dr Jenkins is the live wire pastor of church Richmond The Queen called attention to the i Captain Patterson was a man deep v A in French war cross with a palm which she wears I was given that cross by the French eials said I was a good soldier I prize it more highly than any decoration I have Queen Marie whose beauty enhances tho charm of her forceful personality received callers today in a room rilled with gifts of flowers from representa tives of the entente nations ing twice before but the federal author took no action in the ease aud the State having no power to hold the men on the charges against them they were dismissed by Justice Pleasants The other case on this mornings j win Mooers infielder with the Rich docket was that of John Papas a Greek mond Va League club last year to Richmond Signs With New York By The Associated Press RICHMOND Va March in the weekly study of the Scrip to terms in the state penitentiary there are three persons in the local jail awaiting to be sent to the state prison in Richmond All of these were convicted at this term of the court Nathaniel Saddler a white man convicted of bigamy has been sen by the court to serve a sen tence of three years He pleaded guilty to the charge of having two y spiritual wonderfully in and has left a lasting upon the hearts and lives of those who weekly gathered with him said om A specia has bcon ar ranged for the occasion consisting of favorite hymns and Scripture read ings of the deceased reading of reso lutions adopted by church session and class quartette selection and ad dress by Rev J A McClure The picture will be unveiled by Miss Belle Friend Bragg grand daughter of Captain Patterson Friends of Captain Patterson and of the class are invited to attend On account of previous engagements he charged with violating the State day signed a contract to play with will not be able to appear in Petersburg tion laws He was arrested last night I the New York American League club i until the fifth Sunday in March when hoi with six pints of whiskey in his pos Joe Kelly scout of the Yankees I will begin lii campaign anil continue j session I came here to sign Mooers whose ser until the second Sunday in April j vices were also sought by the Boston The preacher at West End mil be Victims of Raider j Evangelist Dew of Carolina Mr i i Brought Back to preach daily at an afternoon service in the First church The preacher at Monumental church will be Camp Pastor Judge J J Gentry and at the Grove Avenue church Rev T Hall of East Radford will be the evan Following the work of Billy Sunday which affected Petersburg deeply the simultaneous mission promises to be a great success United States Bolsheviki Say Artists Must Work for Government Strike in Cuba Brings Indus tries to a Standstill Bv The Associated PresO WASHINGTON March gen eral strike in Cuba has spread accord ing to advices to tho state department today until transportation in fully half of the is tied up Practically all industries are reported at a standstill By The Associated Press By The Associated Press BOSTON March liner Vedic STOCKHOLM March returned 2300 soldiers to their home Bolsheviki government of Russia is shores today most of them members of j preparing a law decreeing that all j the heavy artillery i professionals and artists must work i As fellow passenger came 22 men in for the government according to civilian clothing They were former i Petrograd advices Even authors will i prisoners at German camps where they be mobilized it is said and their wen taken in 1917 from tho famous Works be taken over as national raider Moewe had captured and Property sunk their vessel the steamer These men said they were rej quired to work 12 hour daily while in prison on scanty fond allowances and added that but for food received through the Red Cross they must have broken down MEETING MEMBERS CHAM BER OF COMMERCE TONIGHT There will be a meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Petersburg this evening at oclock Supper will be served promptly at the hour named and mem bers are expected to be on time No cards of admission to the will be necessary parties It was believed yesterday fol lowing the inquest that a new light had been thrown upon the case and that ar rests would probably be made shortly but this belief was dispelled today when Commonwealths Attorney stated that no further in the matter had secured and that unless some new developments wme to light no ar rests would bo made Immediately after of the one living in this city His s afternoon Mr Goodo left the city without making a and no names could wives first wife resides in Richmond Berneda Hall and Ruth Hill the convicted in the Hustings Court on the charge of shoplifting and each sentenced to one year in thc penitentiary will also accompany a prison official when he makes his return trip to Richmond G H Hopkins the white man con of passing forged checks on local merchants and whose punish ment was fixed at three years in pris j on has not yet been sentenced by the court An argument in his case for a new trial will be made by his Attorneys on the 13th of this month i and he will not be sentenced until this argument is heard It is believed that if thc motion for a new trial is overruled he will not be tried on the other charges against him but will be taken to Rich mond to begin his threeyear sen terce be mentioned in connection with the murder it was believed by who heard hu testimony at the inquest that RICANS GET MONEY R CARY AMBLER JR DIES SUD DENLY AT CHAT HAM VA News ha been received in this city Will Conduct Services at St Pauls Church St Pauls Nelson of Camp Lee will conduct services Sunday morning and even arrests would be made shortly and the mystery surrounding Hie finding of thc dead body of Hoffman clearer away At the coroners hearing in flip under taking establishment of J T Morriss in this city yesterday afternoon one of the witnesses that tho home of Hoffman had not been pleasant and after intimating that there was jealousy between the dead man and another over Mrs Hoffman made the statement that Huffman was jeal of his on account of MC Kenney a neighbor of tho Hoffmans who was also a witness at the inquest Will Renew Efforts It is believed thai the not satisfied with evidence brought to light at the inquest yesterday ami will make even effort possible fo fh j murderer of Hoffman and clear up the mystery After being brought into the caso by J If Clark a near 1 he Hoff who mad thc statement to the jury that Hoffman was of his on Io A J a neighbor of the doff mans testified before the jury young Clark the son of i 17 Chirk had j young man father denied any ill feel ings between tho dead man and his son Mrs Hoffman wife of thc murdered man told the members of the coroners jury of her homelife with her husband said there was not any trouble be tween her husband and herself She also lold of her for Hoffman when ha failed to return homo Saturday and Sunday and declared that Mr and Mrs had donn everything possible to comfort her in hrr distress R A Chippell of Carson a county officer told of finding tracks of persons leading to where thc body was found also of finding automobile tracks up a road near where Hoffmans body wai found Smith Found Body Tunius Smith who found the body of Hoffman late Monday a field on his farm told the jury how he came across thc body aul he avoided go ing near it at first He also told of hearing his dogs bark Saturday night 0 and JO oclock and of hear ing the single report of a gun He de clared he did not investigate the shoot ing and could not swear that the report was from a gun or a passing automobile The inquest adjourned late yesterday afternoon and the verdict was That Herman Hoffman come to his death on or about the first day of March 1919 from a gunshot wound in thc back inflicted at the hands of a party or parties un known to the jury The jury was composed of Messrs E Chappell H P Tatem II Poole T H S M Irwin and C I all of Dimviddie county MR ENNIS WILL RETURN TO HOME The this morning carries the following regarding the disappearance of A W Ennis a vet eran of the Soldiers Home in Rich mond Police are conducting a search to ascertain the whereabouts of A W Ennis seventyfive years old an in mate of the Soldiers Home The vet eran was being treated in the home hospital and disappeared Wednesday night He originally was from Pe I and Hoffman had better in the district and as a final walk Hoffman was said to will receive from the of parentage An alleged the lark Mr Ennis came to Petersburg yes thaf and called at the home of his niece Mrs Robert G Bass He will returned from Franco and had j return to the home today The old made the that lie had killed i soldier is feeble and his mind wan By Associated Press Thursday March G ity All indebtedness contracted by masters receipts in full showing all misunderstanding between Americans within the occupied ter debts cleared up under this plan and Hoffman ovn of the of the death in Chatham Va of R j ing Chaplain Nelson is a V P alumnus and was rector of Christs Cary Ambler Jr His sudden death followed a short illness of influenza Burial will take place at Hume Fauquier county tomorrow Mr Ambler who was about 35 years of age leaves a widow who was miss Sadie Buckius of this city ing topic win oe a discussion He is a member of one of the best Judge Ben Lindsays article in last known families of Virginia being a months Cosmopolitan The Dough descendant of Chief Justice Marshall Ley 3 Charged with breaking into the tional Dry Goods Store on the ni the value of ders at times In this state of mind he came to this city Berlin will the be requisitioned from j with the maintenance of the army thus relieving Americans The Americans have SERVICE FOR ARMY OF OCCUPATION IN BRITISH LOWER HOUSE five t i i in the B usen headquarters Courr morninff Two of the ne WM Knox and Louis Hill the occupied been for some time in favor of put pleaded guilty and each was senj tory from taking the chances of the immediate payment plan to four years in the state pen from the German govern in practice but before it could be i ment When the Americans event inaugurated it necessary to gain Charles Harris and James Hicks start homeward not one consent of the allied commis were tried by a jury and convicted of nig will be owing to civilians who sions housebreaking their punishment claims for services rendered The ground taken by ire ng fixed at 5 years in the statt or for billets in hotels or houses or i cans is that it will bemore worthy i prison Early Jones the other mem claims of any other kind in of them to pay as go rather of the gang of alleged burglars i with the upkeep of the than leave debts in the hands of i was acquitted by the jury the court j United States troops so far as the civilians who might or might not in i instructing the jury that the evidence i army records are concerned Be the course of time he able to co was not strong enough to warrant 11 fore the departure of the forces the Jeer from the more or stable j conviction All four of the men i commanders of the various units treasury in Berlin Therefore the i were sentenced by the court j confer with the Burgomasters Americans the collecting National Dry Goods Store Of the respective villages and cities i from the German American Doughboys Are Loaded With Foreign Decorations By The Associated Press PARIS Thursday March eign medals to the number of 9383 had been awarded to members of the American expeditionary force up to February according to a tion made by the Stars and Stripes Of this number 8006 were French war crosses 61 medals of the Legion re by young Clark by saying j or Honor 124 the military medal anj 98 the Honneur des Epidemics The British decorations totalled 513 including 154 military crosses and 251 military medals Belgium deco rated 571 members of the force and Italy five ins family and but that there had been some over the ploughing up of the garden Mr Clark tie shoot ing of i firearm night at tin Clark thai h had done so or fun to frighten marliy nn mobile Mr McKenney to his statement the to have been made by young Clark hi By The Associated Press LONDON March Captain F E Guest introduced a in the House of Commons which proposes compulsory service for the British army Df occupation This army according to tho would be composed of 900000 men and the enlistment period would ex pire on April 30 1920 Alexander eating this Xo one would be so Shaw laborite moved the rejection of I foolish as to suggest intervention has been broken into many times within the past six months and goods valued at more than stolen i On the night of January the i store was entered and shorts over coats suitcases and other articles some element of compulsory service may j valued at carried off The po lice arrested the above named color Not for Russia ed youths charging them with the There is not the slightest truth in jobbery the the government the suggestion that thi biU be designed to rawo troops to bo sent mto Russia j Jd taking the goods while two he continued If there was no denied they the store place as Russia I would still be adro but went with the other two to re the goods ho measure because the labor party is to a continuance of conscription Winston Spencer Churchill defending ho argued that tho government in providing for an army to insure peace vaa pursuing a path toward universal service Our te the pence confer nce are fighting for complete aboli ion of conscription in Europe he aid A formal demand has been made hat Germany bo permitted to have only small voluntary army on a long serv basis but it is uncertain whether this Bussia with conscript troops Our army along the Rhine and on the approaches leading up that river numbers about j men which is no larger than the United States army there and much smaller than the forees France is main in the occupied area Andrew government loader in the House of Commons maintained that the involved no departure from pledges and evoked loud cheers by asking Is it really suggested that after fighting side by side with France for Rv The oint will b carried Qur and a half years wo are now going Head of Col lege Is Honored Associated Pros MEMPHIS Tonn March K E president of Randolph College Virginia yesterday was elected president of the Educational As Methodist Episcopal Other officers elected of thi Church South iives stand almost alone in this matter it in not at all impossible Japan and even the United States will e nations into whoso military to leave it to Franco alone Tie eluded by declaring that Premier Clom had said If we do not tako caro when the British and armies have disappeared American shall be K were J M Williams president of Gallo way College Arkansas first dent Dr W Bergin of tho Contra Texas Conference second slant of reelected The meeting education Nashville treasurer adjourned larti today Mr Henry Schulze of Just one copy of the again by the same degree K left Who wants it at The reading by vote j Before Jd no coupon lot 374 to 71 the sightsof New York City EVERYBODY KNOWS THE EVENING PROGRESS gave its thousands of readers in Petersburg residing on the streets of the city which are to be improved the only public statement concerning this vital matter which was reported and dis cussed at the council meeting last Tuesday night It was exclusive PROGRESS news THE EVENING PROGRESS does not place all its local news on one page to make it look large nor does it depend upon outside contributions from English classes to fill local columns Every page of the EVENING PRO GRESS is a news page and we publish more local news than any other paper published in Petersburg or com ing into the city from the outside We set our news in solid eight point type which gives three more inches of reading matter to every column and the column is one inch longer than other Petersburg papers Measure it up for yourself This means one more column to the page THE EVENING PROGRESS has more personal mention news than any other local paper It does not depend upon rewritten material from other papers These are some the reasons why the PROGRESS is read by twice as many people as any other paper cir or published here It is also the reason why PROGRESS publicity pulls Ask any advertiser PROGRESS ADVERTISING COSTS MORE BECAUSE IT IS WORTH MORE BONA FIDE COTTON SALES MAY BE MADE UNDER LAW NOW EXISTING TILL MAY 1 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON March objection will be made by the Bu reau of Markets to bona fide cotton sales or purchases under old style contracts for the sole purpose of liquidating actually existing long or tracts in liquidation of contracts entered into prior to Mard 4 is serious doubt from H legal standpoint As a practical mat ter we sympathize with the trade in its situation brought about by making the amendment effective short interests provided such Val of the act instead of later as dation is accomplished not later than May 1 1919 after which date all transactions must be rew style con j tracts as provided in the law ap proved March 4 Firms having such outstanding in originally contemplated In the circumstances no objec tion will ibe made to bona fide sales or purchases of old style contracts for the sole purpose of liquidation of actually existing long or short in on March 4 will be required j provided such liquidation is I to report their positions at once and accomplished not later than May 1 to make daily reports of the number on and which date all of bales sold or bought until their outstanding old style contracts are filled Gall transactions must comply with the new style contracts as fixed by the law Conferences between Charles J Brand chief of the bureau Judge Graham cotton futures attorney for tho Treasury Department and other officials have resulted in an informal opinion which was expressed today us follows The question M to whether or not there can trading in PM con sales or purchases on exchanges be style contracts In order that the Treasury De maybe constantly adviser of thc situation it will be necessary for each firm having any outstand ing interest on March 4 to report either directly or through clear ing houes to the cotton futures t torney at once its exact ta each month and to report for each day the number of bales MM tt bought in reduction of such interest until Continued on Pan
