Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - May 21, 1933, Beckley, West Virginia Member of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS VOLUME 261 WEST VIRGINIA SUNDAY MORNING MAV 21 FIVE CENTS Beer Brings Millions Treasuries To Roosevelt Strives To Keep Upward Swing Of Business Moving Throughout Nation National And State Greatly Aid ed By 3.2 Beverage Made Legal in 33 States TAXES HELP TO REDUCE DEFICITS I President's Views For Development Of Valley Outlined to New Heard of Board South Carolina Levies Heaviest Tax On Sale Of Drink The Associated Chicago May of 33 state treasuries jingled today with an additional four and one half million dollars collected in taxes since beer was legalized April 7 This included complete figures for only three stales Seventeen states made incomplete returns Seven others gave no figures on the income from beer taxes The 15 states do not yet permit sale of beer The federal government j ed in beer es shorter working hours and By The A World Arms Meet Hopes Are Rising Gold Star Mothers Sail Again Washington May 20 ing almost all the levers that di- rect national life President j Roosevelt is busily preparing lo I use them in a determination to keep the country on a steady but j Movements Toward In persistent swing from i Peace Fol the depression Administration of the non- government partnership with agriculture banking currency railroads and industry is ing the president who is rounding himself with hardy erans to carry out the ion for war on the emergency Congressional leaders today sured Mr Roosevelt of early proval of his final measures to extend supervision over railroads and industry Under the direction of Hugh S lowed by Prediction o New Defaults on Bv The Associated Hopes of the world for disarm were refreshed Saturday but with the movements lowan international peace came lions of war debt defaults Quarters close to the Frencl government were reported considering default of the nation's installment of due to the United Slates June lo Johnson coordinator the practically certain to bring trade industries for higher during the 23 days of April that the brew was sold legally The collected by the stales was in addition and brought the total beer taxes to To this figure must be added millions levied by ties and municipalities in license fees on distributors and retailers The federal taxes of 95 a rel netted licenses and wine 8824 Beer is sold legally in 33 states and the District of Columbia Under the laws of Maine it be- legal June 30 and in aska on August 10 Seven states Nevada Washington Maryland Colorado Wyoming and Minnesota have not levied state taxes on beer control of surplus production is taking shape rapidly It is ex- immediate action in this direction will be possible when congress acts on the legislation The president outlined today his views fnr development of the Tennessee valley and the re- of the Muscle Shoals Ala power and nitrate plant to Dr Arthur Morgan designated head of the government board lo carry il out New jobs at the earliest dale is the main of stration Improvement of com- prices is a related tive To catch the swing it is the Roos The sources pre dieted other nations would dt likewise Roosevelt and that would issue a stale ment attempting to prevent a adverse effect on the economic conference President Roosevelt had no comment upon the Paris dis- patches but he was understood to be insistent on some sort of ment A step toward international In Arizona the state tax does not I lion to speed into action the currency stabilization as another move toward world prosperity was reported under way when the president conferred with 0 W M Sprague financial advisor u the Rank of England in ington At the world conference in present upward i delegates from many i i I Huns were jubilant over Mr universal go into effect until June 14 The heaviest tax on beer levied in South Carolina where in addition lo the federal tax the slaje a barrel r 5 cents a ballon On 12 ounce lles the lax is two cents North Carolina fixed a tax rate of a barrel Florida of or six cents a gallon Except for the six states ing no lax Kentucky with ten a barrel had the lowest rate The averages ale excise rate was between and a barrel While beer has been legalized in Vermont and New Hampshire it has not yet been put on sale and the only revenue collected was license fees in Vermont is the only slate lo a sales lax on beer In the Continued on page two TAX PROGRAM Means Sought To Assure Revenue For Public Works By The ted Press Washington May lax program designed to assure cient revenue lo back the public program of the administration's industrial control is lo be in executive session day by the house ways and means committee which today ed hearings on the gigantic sure Although Democratic house leaders decided to put the oil control into the industrial measure as an ment Chairman of the ways and means said that the first thing on wie program to determine how could be raised annually for the interest and sinking fund requirements of the bond issue Hearings on the Marland to give the tary of interior control over oil production will have to wait un- til Tuesday Doughton said Indications are thai new revenue program will be based on a schedule submitted by Lewis W Douglas director of the get to the committee calling for increased income taxes ing corporate dividends to the taxes and either an increase in gasoline tax or a modified or luxury excise tax said that with the of minor posed public works program which is aimed at employment ot thousands on national im- A director to put this program into speedy operation will be put to work immediately in anticipation of authorization George administrator of the agriculture control is closely studying commodity ready to act for ment in his field When as and if It may pla policy of and the manner with which his program was greeted especially by many A few spokesmen however were fearful France's men said his nation and her lies were wailing for Germany lo put her assurances for ament as by Chancellor Hiller inlo practical effect Switzerland asked United Slates to say just what it would do in case of a war is the Roosevell gan on the use oj un- precedented powers over al life which congress has or will grant to tim This same appears lo extend also lo the president's drive in the international field for economic improvement With a definite objective there for currency stabilization and re- duction of tariff walls Mr Roosevelt is carefully feeling his way and acting quickly and con fidenlly when occasion demands There is ever indication he is a stabilization of the in- exchanges at the liest dale The day saw new hopes hy president for extension of al aid to the struggling oil on page two A answer least was ne i given to Switzerland by Gold star mothers from 29 states were represented in the first con- tingent which sailed from New York to visit the graves of their sons on the wartime battlefields of France Associated Press Photo FIVE DETROIT MEN DROWNED Storm on Lake Overturns Sail Boat With Six Aboard By The Associated Press May tossed aters of Lake St Clair tonight lives of five Detroit nen while a sixth William C liller clung to the bottom of heir overturned sail boat for ve hours until rescued Miller told police at the St lair shores station that H ison and Ernest Erh were with im in a which capsized everal miles offshore in a hard with a heavy running small motorboat in which were eorge Swanker Robert Currey nd Tack Owen came nd Harrison and Owen he said DEATH TAKES Well Known Shoe Repair Man Succumbs To Heart Ailment Midway whose shoe repair shops have appeared on first one corner and then er about Reckley for the past 20 years died yesterday morning in local hospital of heart dis- ease after a protracted illness which did not however take him away from his shop until week ago today He was 70 years of age and a native of Hungary which he left 40 years igo to come to the United States His body is in Rose il Home awaiting word from the ew relatives he has in this ry a sister in Pennsylvania and ler son The sister is Mrs Mary Harriman Is POWER FRANCHISE IN Found IS SOUGHT Long Search Indicted Founder of York Bank Makes tile Effort To Take His Own Life in Hotel LEAVES SEVERAL SUICIDE NOTES Accused Man Had From Nursing Home Friday WIDENSALL BACK IN WYOMING Ey The Press Piticvillo Ya May William of the tost of six prisoners who from Wyoming county two weeks 330 was returned today after his capture in ley K was third break Miia December He is im- 1 year's sentence in the officers said Conway To Seek chise From Council To Supply Electric rent Throughout City Two Hurt In Accident At Price Hill New York May W indicted founder of n j Fifth avenue hank bearing his name who penned a sheaf of cide notes and then disappeared from a nursing home 24 hours before stabbed himself over the j heart in an obscure Long Island inn where he was found today Lads Are Struck by Auto- The man described being in n mental in- lie knife wound while lice waited outside his room for him lo change his dollies cers said they found him on the floor bleeding from wound Price Mill was forced At a Mineola hospital where he j day afternoon Price Hill lo mobile Brought to pital In Bus Both fully Bruised And Cut When Dixon ot was taken in n fire department ambulance his said io be not serious One of the who ed is stretcher bearers He didn't seem to know about he in a daze Used New went lo the Old Inn nl lule erday nml registered under name of A T Thomas ville Inspector Harold of the county him however bv the initials J choose between driving his auto- mobile into the rear end of a machine which halted suddenly in front ot him and from road his car struck and injured two boys when he ed the latter course He was unable to pass to the left of the front car because a third automobile was coming to ward the two and he could not sec the boys also walking toward two cars because of the TO BE MADE IN JUNE Electricity To Be ated By Steam ers Say chine in front of him They were j struck knocked down The hoys Donald Gross U and 14 both of Price were taken first to the AV H in and in hospital Later McCorkle I was In the Coil Valley garments Another note described warn lo the smaller craft and her son is as In climbing aboard reside in powered with an outboard lotor was over loaded and auk Miller said he clung to the eel of the sailboat for some time nlil rescued by a passing craft arly that the men were ord Motor company employes ere not immediately verified Const started arch for the bodies but poor and rough water made e difficult GETTING BUSY Organisation Plan ed Out For Month's Campaign Charleston W Ya May lor lames Hamilton Lewis of C A linois whip in tht 1 L'nted States senate He said the United Slates should refrain from entering a consultative pact with European powers should silling in judgment on conflicts and suggesting penalties Japan's reply to Mr appeal for a pact was under which nations would agree lo keep their armies at home was received at the House The Japanese ambassador thanked for the communication inspired by the desire of assuring peace of the world and over- coming the economic depression Japs Ready To Quit Advance Into China By The Associated Press Tokyo May tary authorities are ready to pended advance of their troops in north China and will await he next move of the nese dispatches from front said today The military leaders consider that their objectives south of the real wall have been virtually achieved and thai the cily of is easily within their Pu They were notified of Andrew's death and nothing definite toward of burial will he decided upon until they are heard from Born al Hungary he came to the United Slates about and during the next score ol years he worked at the shoe repair business in the Bronx and hattan 11 nd as a miner al W and Pocahontas Ya be- fore aiming lo Beekley lo gage in the business in was found on the floor the inspector entered the on Pago 2 by j hospital al Montgomery since it in- he was a lisl was injured KINKEAD IS wound DII I lis Local Man County Craves Officer McCorkle received an ugly wound on left side of his head anil hrush hums about the hody Gross suffered n severe hack of injury his left arm He was resting I comfortably nl hospital Named The hoys were placed on an At- Greyhound Lines bus ing al the lime and taken to the F L Conway Beckley business man will make application to the city of Beckley within the next 30 days for n franchise lo supply electric power lo the city and domestic consumers at a rate al 15 per cent under the rales are now it was learned here yesterday Conway represents certain in- who have made a survey of the situation in Beckley and vicinity insofar as the same re- lates to the distribution and con- sumption of electric ha said and after a careful hy experienced men these decided to enter the field of power tion in Beckley and apply lo mayor and city council for n year franchise under which to operate In such a franchise is procured he said electricity would he generated by means of a steam plant utilizing coal for fuel Our organization is at this lime negotiating for the purchase of a steam plant lo be fueled en- hy smokeless from county sufficient in power lo furnish Beckley and surrounding Conway Everyone knows that the ture of Beckley and surrounding depends almost entirely upon production and ing of coal Anything that ley or any of its citizens can do lo benefit the coal business or in- crease the consumption of coal is i direct benefit to them Recent and experiments in he generating nf electricity by vay of steam fueled by coal have shown same is Continued on page til Beckley Memorial I L yesterday j where a conveyed In Berkley Andrew attended j morning received a letter frnn East Gulf Man in tal As Officers Hunt for Jess Thompson Robert Cadle about 25 who re- sides near East Gulf a half-dozen stab wounds last night in what officers described as drunken altercation he had a neighbor Jesse Thompson Mitchell's Ridge wim was sought early today by Sheriff S L Dillon i was discovered in he Number one hollow oft lf by two colored men who observing his wounds summoned Dr E li of East Gulf to him very strictly lo his own business while bauds plied the awl and them T M Cheek department graves nle ami later lo registration officer it B Ion appointing him The name nf driver who j graves registration for precipitately slopped in ot I car was not learned j was instructed in The two were Continued on page two JOE L SMITH Two Beckley State Police Make Good Shooting Records Charleston W Mnv Stale troopers completed the last of their elimination Beckley Congressman To Erect Residence in South Keckley i rover the decoration of all according lo Mrs II of all deceased ex-service j mother of nf limn men from all American wars on I Memorial Day He was further to select is many as lie deemed necessary lo fulfillment of the task Memorial Day plans call for a service in the Memorial That he intends to proceed im- mediately with construction of a new residence for himself in cemetery in re- and family in South Beckley was j of all war dead announced yesterday by Con- however suggested L Smith on Tentative organization plans for Agency reports asserted grasp Hengo hospital where he Dr Dm ell said this Washington lo spend thai Cadle was cut in hack em Tilc new me side shoulder and across one i lo arm latter wound Smith will lie a ten tendons above wrist He ronm I thought il probable one wound flans arc now drawn i had to a kidney j for building by Alex An ambulance from Foster architect and as was summoned In re as plans are completed work move the injured man lo the Hal that each he with a small American Has and Hint in ill ability this done He plans definitely In enlist the aid of several members of the G A R in diy lo select a team for pistol al j of will the return of Superintendent P n a trip The high score f match tint of Trooper Oil Mall nf Bridge who made of a er E K of Grove iSI Paul Thomas nf Ripley K S i nf Kryser K R I fifty nf I of Ilion S r lasl nielli nf a dozen councils nf 71 Captain nf the Drder i nf Williamson Mechanics held in I ami K H of Methodist Temple with Berkley Tmper A f Junior Order United Initiates 150 One initiated and two j rk j Council in role of host I of the stale campaign were an- today hy the united re peal council which seeks In win control of repeal convention delegates In which will he ed 27 Patrick D chairman said one man and nne wom.m will be named is chairmen in of the six dis- and will he selected fnr each county some parts nf the organization already arc mentioning Ihil women's have been in four nf al district nl and Inn The issued 1 rail fnr the industrial section and public interested works lille of the measure would ci McCorkle To Attend Optometrist Meeting The annual convention of the West Virginia is being held today and tomorrow in Charleston at the Daniel Roone hotel Dr A M of Chicago director of graduate clinic tion of described as an internationally known on eye diagnosis and is lo be among the speakers Dr John D McCorkle of this lo attend the ing of the association of which iic is a member Kirkland II Memphis d in the won place in a good not be revised The whole j Hcr lion revolves he on nts in their respective never been lo 11 dentist brushed only under had not been for a sufficient length of lime at the press hour today to determine the ness of his condition JIMMY'S PLACE HAS SANDWICHES In addition to his beer and sofl drink trade Jimmy ator of Jimmy's Place on street is entering the sandwich and light lunch ness He has added lo his lisl of sandwiches n dish consisting ol Kalian which in the future will be one of his specials Those who have tried it have found the new dish very ing and it is becoming more and more popular Jimmy's place incidentally he first in Reckley to put in tap and is also more typically a garden than most other of the beverage in the city will he commenced The new j Jan Campbell To Be Smith home will be located on the corner of and Anne streets on a lot mately feel adjoining the attendance I il luu Among persons nf At Rose Garden Inn fnr the meelins Slate cilor T K Keeling of Dunhar Hours for dancing at the Rose i Stale Vice Councilor D E Inn al Glen Hedrick limns nf Clarksburg Stale Tuesday evening will be from R F of lol on which Peyton Graves re cently built his new home k 2 fc The house wi I fo ow ear y American and not from 0 o clock un U night as was erroneously an- it was learned last night designs and will he from native stone Local and will he in in so far as ble Mr Smith said The site on Neville street ad- and a number nf past slate iimanders from all parts nf the slate Every council in he district the southern counties five high men will he named nn learn with next three is alternates MAX CUT REBELS DEFEATED Bv Havana rebel group joining new office ing will be converted into ness purposes Mr Smith said but of just what nature he is not yet certain Mr Smith in announcing his plans lo build the new residence said thai it had been his intention lo build in South ever since new was effectively dispersed today next lo his Neville street in which resulted In the home The Hearing of of two rebels army of the building led announced tonight The Iho decision lo build this fled hut was pursued and I T Ian Campbell and his I of the stale wis represented will be on hand to provide the Stanley D nf opun phia a national officer also was present Tlle w lo the public i Rev Basham to Argue For Noble Experiment A temperance rally will be held in Clara province where j government forces have been suing disturbers for several days overtaken near ios Ramones this at Rev will on the subject The Curse and Deceit nf Liquor Traffic Is invited to be ent it this meeting ment of which was made by Mrs J Taylor William Champe of Minden was stabbed in the upper nien last in a the nature of which not be early He was frst taken lo the Oak Hill later to where al press lime an his condition was nl that lime good Al hospital Champe said his assailant was Thnrne WEATHER Fair Sunday and probably Monday cooler Sunday Outlook for y fair except showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again about Warmer in Ohio valley Tuesday Cooler Thursday and warmer Saturday
