THE ROANOKE TIMES. ROANOKE, VIRGINIA: FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933. BUSINESS HOUSES TO CLOSE MONDAY Opening of Beer Gardens and Holiday Trips Will Provide Gaieties Monday, Labor Day, will be generally observed by Roanoke business firms AS 'with holiday, and practically every store the exception of news stands, cigar possibly drug stores, are the storectednto hen closed throughout announced yesterday by T. Lemon, secretary of the Retail Merchants Association. With the advent of legalized beer at that "beer midnight gardens," Sunday, it several is expected, will be opened in the city and county, will draw large gatherings of Roanokers, while other crowds are expected to spend the week-end and holiday at the seashore and other resorts.
All grocery stores and meat marwill be closed on Monday, An agreement having been reached, it was said, between independent merchants and chain organizations to remain closed through the day, Mickor -Mack, Kroger and A. and Reliable Service and other have agreed on a full day's grocers holiday. The City Market will be closed also. No Mail Delivers. The general delivery and stamp windows at the postoffice will be open from 9:30 to 10:30 a.
but no mall will be delivered. Viscose workers will celebrate Labor Day getting married will have to get their license either today or morrow, since all offices in the municIpal building will be closed. Viscose workers will ceebrate Labor Day by laboring, however, since the plant will operate as usual Monday, Numerous excursions and outings are being planned by Roanokers. The Dokkies are going to Petersburg for a ceremonial, leaving by train Monday morning; the Shriners will go to Galax for a ceremonial--going by bus and auto; and the colored folks are planning a bathing beauty contest at Springwood Park. Norfolk and Western Railway will offer one-cent-a-mile rates, the sale starting tomorrow and continuing through the holiday, with return trips limited to September 9, In Salem and Vinton banks and stores will also be closed, and court activities will be suspended.
FINES DURING JULY TOTAL $13,118.60 Fines totaling $13.118.60 were imposed on city and State violators 1n police court during July, but only $30 of the State fines was paid, while collections on city charges totaled $2,574.20, it was shown in the monthreport of the police department. Police arrested 938 persons, and 367 were dismissed and 571 were convicted or held for the grand jury. Traffic violations led the list for arrests on city charges, 239 being arrested or summoned, while only 87 were convicted. Articles valued at $5,244.44 were reported to the detective bureau as lost or stolen during the month, of which goods valued at 83,278.90, or 62.5 per cent, were recovered. The loot included 15 automobiles, all of which were recovered.
WHEEL ROLLERS WILL MEET HERE SATURDAY Wheel rollers from the Roanoke Shops, champions of the Norfolk and Western system, will meet championship team of the Pennsylvania system in a competitive match at the Roanoke auditorium at 8:15 Saturday evening. In a similar match here last year, the Roanoke team defeated the Pennsylvania rollers. Judges, in allowing points in the competition, take into consideration the ability of each individual member of the team to handie quickly and efficiently the 800- pound car wheels. Spiritual, classical and comical songs will be included in the musical program to be presented by the Imperial Quartette and the Southland Singers, of Roanoke. The Blue Ridge Band, also of Roanoke, will take part in the program, QUIVERING NERVES When you are just on edge when you can't stand the children's noise when everything you do is a burden: when you are irritable and blue try Lydia E.
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Get a bottle from your druggist today. E. lamia VEGETABLE COMPOUND CITY ITEMS Building Permits, Building permits issued yesterday by the city building inspector were as follows: P. P. Andrews, duplex brick residence, Sherwood road, Raleigh Court, $5,500, C.
Francis co*cke, interior alterations to residence, Orchard Hill, $400. J. T. Kennedy, repairs to residence, Cambridge avenue, Virginia Heights, $85. Held for Grand Jury.
Three men, churged with breaking into a Garden City grocery store Tuesday night and stealing meal, flour, meat, candy, cigarettes, sugar and other groceries were held for the Roanoke county grand jury at A hearing in Salem yesterday morning. They were arrested Wednesday. They were E. Stauffer, 26; Huston H. Stanley, 24, and Preston Gray, 24.
Ail live near Garden City. The value of the stolen articles had not been determined. BARBERS FORM UNIT OF JOURNEYMEN'S UNION Twenty-six Roanoke barbers met at the Ponce de Leon hotel last night and organized a local unit of the Journeymen Barber's International Union of America. N. A.
Caudill was elected president of the local and Lawrence G. Stineback, vice- Other officers chosen were: V. O. Woodford, secretary and treasurer, C. R.
Lazenby, recording secretar; W. V. Gebhardt, guide, and J. H. Webb, sergeant-atarms.
Plans were discussed for committee meetings to be held in various sections of the city in order contact other barbers with 8 view to city-wide representation in the union, it was said. It was agreed to hold the chartering open until the next meeting night, Tuesday, September 12, at 8 p. SO that other barbers desiring to join the union may do so. The journeymen's union, it was said. is affiliated with the Roanoke Central Labor Union and the American Federation of Labor.
W. A. DYER ENTERS RACE FOR POSTMASTERSHIP The number of avowed candidates for the postmastership was increased yesterday to 10 with the Announcement of W. A. Dyer that he had entered the race.
In addition to the avowed aspirants, four others have obtained application forms and one of them has been returned, blank. Whether or not will the race before the expiraenter tion date, which is at the close of business on September 5, is not known. Mr. Dyer, of Dickenson county, has been a resident of Roanoke county since 1918, and now resides at Cave Spring, where he is engaged in farming and other business activities, Mr. Dyer formerly was an official of the Roanoke County Farm Bureau, was president of the Roanoke County Council Parent-Teacher assoclation, and for three years was secretary of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, TWO HURT IN ACCIDENT EXPECTED TO RECOVER E.
Bennett Wood, 22, of 918 Franklin Road, S. suffered 8 a compound fracture of the leg and Miss Hilda Franklin, 22, of 605 Carter Road, Raleigh Court, received a severe cut on leg and minor lacerations of the face, when their car failed to negotiate "dead man's curve" on the Hanging Rock road and ran over an embankment and turned over about 12:30 yesterday morning. Miss Franklin's condition was regarded last night as good, while Wood's condition was considered more serious, but both are expected to recover, Shenandoah hospital atendants said. Wood, the driver, was said to have failed to see the curve because of a hard rain, and drove from the highL way over an embankment, The car was badly damaged. Merchants Take Inventories To Find Taxes Due Merchants and grocers yesterday were concerned with inventories of their stocks to determine the amount of processing tax returns to be made to the government under the new federal regulations.
Grocers were required to file returne ou the amount of foodstuffs made chiefly or entirely of wheat, while retailers and cotton goods wholesalers were to file returns on the quantity of stocks processed from cotton. This tax applies only on goods purchased prior to August 1, because manufacturers have paid the tax during the past 30 days. Returns may be made in installments, it was said by Alvah Smith, deputy internal revenue collector here In the future, the manufacturer will pay the tax on all articles processed from wheat, on which a tax ml2st be paid, and on goods processed chiefly or entirely from cotton. The tax of 4 1-2 cents per pound on cotton expected to be absorbed by the consumer, Students from 10 States attended summer school at Brenau Colege, Gainesville, Ga, this veal. OUR PRICES ARE STILL DOWN! -BIT ONLY AS LONG AS PRESENT STOCK LASTS If You Need New or Second Hand Furniture, Investigate Our Prices Before You Buy! WE ARE EQUIPPED TO RENDER FIRST CLASS MOVING AND STORAGE SERVICE.
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'The semi-monthly meeting schedule became effective for three months on June 1. The session this afternoon is expected to be an important one. Among the matters to be considered probably will be that of licensing beer brewers, wholesalers and retailers, in Roanoke, in accordance with the provisions of the beer not placed on the books by the general assembly at the special session still in progress. Printing Not Finished. City authorities yesterday still were awaiting receipt of a copy of the act.
P. Hill Tucker, city clerk and auditor, had expected to receive one yesterday but it was learned that printing was not completed in time for so quick a distribution. Mr. Tucker was confident that 8 copy and information concerning it should arrive this morning. Mayor S.
P. Selfert said consideration will be given to a conference of councilmen immediately upon receipt of the copy but that it might be decided to convene council earlier than usual instead if it was deemed sarv. The office of commissioner of revenue also was without special information in regard to the beer legalizact, yesterday, Numerous inquiries have been made at the office by prospective dealers in the brew which becomes legal on Labor Day, with a view to applying for a license to operate. The act provides that municipalities may impose a maximum license fee upon dealers. Several other matters also are scheduled to come before council for consideration at today's session, among which probably will be the question of determination of policy in regard to the municipal airport.
ONE PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY FILED Liabilities of $516.50 and assets of 890 were, scheduled in a bankruptcy petition filed in United States district court yesterday by David Ballard Huff. man, of 618 Center avenue, N. who sought an extension of time to meet his debts, 88 provided under section 74 of the bankruptcy act. 85 amended. The petitioner set forth that he was insolvent and unable to meet his obligations as they mature, and expressed the desire to effect a composition or extension in order to pay them.
Huftinan listed $40 as secured claims and $475.50 88 unsecured. He acknowledged the following as local unsecured creditors: J. W. McClaugherty and Company, 8250: Mrs. J.
W. McClaugherty, 810; R. D. Clatterbaugh, $30; Lewis-Gale hospital, $50: F. E.
Hamlin, Dr. W. O. Porter, $15: Dr. K.
D. Graves, Dr. G. W. Hooker, 86; John Marce, Dr.
A. Stone, 82: Dr. A. Cannaday, C. C.
Blankenship Furniture company. $50; Raye Lawson, $18; W. Wildman, $27; and Dr. B. C.
Moomaw. $2.50. Charles Robert Hooper. of 105 Mountain View Terrace, Virginia Heights, scheduled liabilities of $597.76 and 88- sets of $107 in a voluntary petition bankruptcy. Unsecured debits totaled $447.26.
He acknowledged the following as local unsecured creditors: Chick and Calhoun, Jamison and Company, 8124; 0. B. Caldwell, Hunter Coal Company, 812; Atlantic Refining company, Reed's Cleaners and Dyers, 811.75; GlennMinnich company, $25; Oak Hall, Garst Brothers Dairy, Henry Street Pharmacy, Roanoke Gas Light company, and Appalachian Electric Power company, $1.38. TO MOVE PROHIBITION OFFICE SUPPLIES TODAY Equipment and office supplies belonging to the former bureau of prohibition will be moved today from the local office, which is being closed, and will be removed to Washington, it was announced yesterday. Among the equipment, which will be sent by truck, is 8 large safe, filing cabinets and supplies.
Mrs. Mary Hunter, who was retained as clerk-stenographer when the local prohibition entorcement staff was dropped from service on August 9, has been instructed to report to Washington, her new post of duty, on Tuesday morning. She will leave Roanoke Monday night, STRICKLER SPEAKS AT MELROSE TONIGHT John Strickler, Republican nominee for the House of Delegates who opened his campaign last week with a spirited attack on the present form of the Roanoke city government and what he termed control of votes by office holders in the Democratic regime because of "antiquated" election laws, will use the principal speaker at a Republican political rally at 7:30 tonight in Melrose Park. Mr. Strickler said last night he Intends to disctiss further his proposed changes to the city charter, tax relief.
schools "and other issues of the campaign." Members of the Republican city committee, and party nominee for local offices are expected to attend the rally, WAS said. Girls May Have To Wait For Organ At Goodwill Mission After all, the class of 60 girls who attend Sunday school at the Goodwill Industry and Gospel Mission every Sunday afternoon, may have to do without the soothing sound of an organ at their next meeting. Early this week it was expected that arrangements could be made to have the pipe organ donated by Elmore D. Heins removed from its place of storage at a local theatre and installed at the mission in time for class period this Sunday. But last night, S.
Thomas, mission director, said he had not been able to round up all members of his finance committee which mtist pass OIl the problem. One of them was known to be out of the city. However, Mr. Thomas optimistic. "I think I'll have everything ready by Monday at any rate," he said.
So the class has 8 while yet to Anticipate what it will be like to have real organ music to accompany their singing. A pants-making firm at Corinth. has received its biggest orders: for pair of pants 72 inches waist measure and 31 inches long. Special Committee of Women Launches Consumer Program Stores Return 584 More Signed Cards With Other Reports Expected Today-Retail Merchants' Association Adds Part- Time Employ -Lumber Dealers To Discuss Code Today. As additional consumer cards poured into the local N.
R. committee headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a special committee under the women's division of the organization launched a program designed to assist merchants in obtaining the signatures of customers on consumer cards, and the distribution consumer stickers, Several stores, which are distributing the cards, returned 584 of them signed during the day, and another supply from the Mick -or -Mack stores within the next day or two is expected to greatly increase this number. This grocery chain has not yet returned any signed cards, but it is expected that 8 report will be made this week. On Tuesday, 903 cards were returned, bringing the total to 1,487. Sign Thursday, The number of signers reported by concerns yesterday were: Reliable Service Grocers Eskelund's 814 From postoffice 100 At N.
R. headquarters 22 Total The special committee, meetnig yesterday morning, decided the best plan would to have one employee in each store posted at the entrance to request signatures of customers, If, such a plan is not possible in all instances, members of the committee will work out with the merchants another plan to suit the individual need. The committee yesterday called on a number of merchants to obtain their cooperation in the movement to bring every consumer under the wings of the blue eagle as quickly as possible. A decided increase in activities at the office of the Retail Merchants aSsociation during the past few days has necessitated the part-time employment of Miss Vivien Davidson, it was by U. T.
Lemon, secretary. It is hoped, he added, business will increase sufficiently to justify employing her full time. Radio talks are being continued by the women's division in 8n effort to bring an N. R. A.
message to virtually every woman in the city and surrounding section. At 6:15 this evening, Mrs. R. H. Dyer, president of the County Federal of Women's Clubs, will be heard over station WDBJ, and at 11:30 o'clock Saturday morning, Mrs.
Russell Johnson, president of the' Salem Women's club, will speak. Forty signers yesterday brought the total who have signed the president's -employment agreement to 1,330. Among those joining the blue eagle followers were the restaurant departments of three ten cent stores, filling stations, repair shops, beauty parlor operators, merchants, physicians, dentists and produce, dealers, Retail lumber dealers of Roanoke will meet at 3:30 this afternoon at Hotel Patrick Henry to discuss the lumber code. Those signing agreements yesterday were: J. L.
Flora, Murray and Flora, real estate: Mrs. Betty Divers, Vanity Beau. ty Shoppe, beautician; Abe Huddleston, general repair shop; R. Rush, R. L.
Rush and Sons, real estate; H. G. Campbell and J. Peters, Campbell and municipal contractors; Otey P. Schilling, Blue Ridge Post, 484, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mrs.
Russie Richardson, Palace Lunch, restaurant: W. E. Saunders. F. W.
Woolworth Company, lunch department; F. Layman, F. W. Woolworth Company, restaurant and lunch department; Dr. Charles M.
Irvin, physician; J. B. Lower, Eades and Lower, general insurance: J. Walker Caldwell, Eubank and Caldwell, architects and engineers; Weiner, J. W.
Weiner and Company, merchants and jobbers: T. E. Fields, dentist; C. E. Nolan, The Texas Company, petroleum industry: Blanche M.
Myers, D. chiropractor; D. C. Ervin, dentist; E. E.
Emswller, and T. W. Dyer, Lakewood Service Station, petroleum products and automobile accessories; J. F. Albright, S.
H. Kress and Company, restaurant department; A. Moses, Sanitary Grocery and Meat Market, merchant; Joseph S. Vicker, dentist: W. H.
McFerran, Franklin Motor Service, and repair shop: R. Mason, physician; O. L. Cooper and Son, produce merchant; G. C.
Sutherland Dental Laboratory; M. Shelton, Roanoke Investment Corporation, insurance; John A. Lucas, John A. Lucas Filling Station, retail gas and oil; Dr. A.
Stone, physician; V. D. Dobbins, dealer, the W. T. Rawleigh Company; A.
S. Beard, tomato canner; A. Gray Cecil, dentist; A. B. Kreger, Mutual Life Insurance Company of Richmond; W.
R. Nichols, truck line operator; J. G. Cox, Cox and Volt Truck Line; R. C.
Cassell, Cassell-Sheets Company; Stanley Forbes, Boston School of Beauty Culture; W. P. Jackson, physician: W. W. S.
Butler, physician; H. E. Wescott, physician; C. W. Spangler, Colonial Barber Shop.
Assembly Session Abandons Liquor Control Proposal depend upon fees and that does not offer 8 premium for either trapping the unwary or for perjury in court. Frequent references in informal discussioas to the Cumberland Gap affair indicate that fee traps of that kind have been a considerable contributing factor both in the abolition of all special fees and in the move for abandonment of prohibition as a state policy. Tear is expressed that some unscrupu- lous officers may attempt to pile up their during the period before the new takes effect on February 15, pines Control Bills Go to Committee. Abandoning all effort to secure any sort of interim liquor coptrol plan at this session, Delegate Page consented motion of Delegate Hall that his three" liquor control bills be referred to the committee on finance, where it 1s expected that they will be given 1.0 further consideration at this session. Leaders in the move for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment have resisted any effort to establish a temporary plan of liquor control for the period between repeal of the amendment and the next legislature, feeling that no action should taken until the people of Virginia have expressed themselves at the polls.
Conferences have been in progress last night and today looking to a settlement of the school problem of a satisfactory basis. Last night Governor Pollard consulted members of his budget, commission; -Designate today Peery the views were sounded. The house appropriations and senate finance committees sat In joint session for consideration of the problem. The present budget in section directs the governor to cut 30' appropriations to fit income The governor has made cuts up to 30 per cent and asked in his message to be relieved of cutting further, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sidney B. Hall told the committees that under that cut schools in 62 counties would be unable to keep open for the eight months term provided by law.
The state now has a deficit of and any new appropriations would require imposition of new taxes, Board Summoned to Capital. Members of the state board of education have been summoned by telegraph to meet in Richmond tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock. If the state board, after full consideration, by resolution, requests the governor-designate and the governor's advisory commission on the budget, to work out 8 plan for equitable distribution of costs of public free schools as between the localities and the state, as well as a plan to insure an eight months school term for the present session. The matter will be presented to the senate and house tomorrow at noon for their approval, Whlle this relieves the special session of the financial burden of making new appropriations and levying new taxes at this time, by passing over the financial problem to the January session, it is taken as definitely committing the state on the two propositions: first, an emergency question of securing an eight months school term for this session. and second.
a question of working out a permanent division of costs between state and localities that will assure a minimum of eight months in the future. To Present Resolution. Governor Pollard will present to the state board of education when it conVenes tomorrow morning a resolution under which the board would request such committals from the governor, the -designate and the advisory commission on the budget to be approved by the special session of the legislature. Governor Pollard sent to the general assembly a brief message today dealing with the question of acquiring land in the Shenandoah Park area and bills carrying out the governor's recommendations will be introduced in both branches tomorrow. The senate returned with amendments the Scott-McMurran bill permitting any city to offer for limited perlod a.
"bargain day" on tax paymenta by omitting penalties. The amendment extending the bill to include towns was agreed to and the bill wag sent to the governor, be a relief measure for the hurricanestricken Tidewater section. During the morning Governor Pollard, in 8 message sent into both houses, opened the way for consideration of measures to relieve stormstricken oyster tongers by cutting the tax on numbering boats and tonging; it clear that title insurance companies are required to deposit securities for the protection of policy holders; permitting the highway department relocate roads, investing in the director of motor vehicles authority to accept certificates of the bank deposits, federal or state bonds securing collection of the motor fuel tax; allowing cities and towns take advantage of the national recovery act by enlarging their powers in condemnation proceedings; amending the Norfolk city charter to extend time for the sale of delinquent real estate; and to pay for land ready for acquisition in the Shenandoah park area. At the afternoon session the house acted immediately upon the governor's recommendation by passing the bill cut the oyster tonger tax from 85 to $2.50 as a measure. House Working Mood.
storm The house at its morning session passed the bill appropriating $1,000 tor cooperation with the Federal government in its employment service, and three senate bills providing for acceptance of home loan bonds by building and loan associations, domestic life insurance companies, and fiduciaries. The latter bill carried an amendment requiring the consent of the court. Returning at 4 p.1 it passed 15 rapid succession. Those passed included: Brewer house bill allowing judges to correct erroneous assessments since 1926, Senate bill increasing the tax on public utility receipts from one-tenth of one per cent to two-tenths of one per cent to finance a rate tion by the Corporation Commission. Neff house bill relieving State banks from guaranteeing county funds to the extent they are guaranteed by the Federal government.
House bill, appropriating $2,000 for the bureau of legislative drafting. Battle house bill allowing cities and towns to borrow money in accordance with the national recovery act regardless of city charter provisions. Hutcheson house bill making it unlawful for dogs to run at large in Shenandoah county from March to August, Sisson house bill, making the courthouse a part of each magisterial district in Richmond, county. Hall providing for apof town sergeant of Purcellville by the town council. Bustard bill increasing the amount of bonds which may be issued by Danville from $150,000 to $250,000.
House bill cutting the tax on oyster tongers from 85 to $2.50. House bill naming the road from Gainesville in Prince William county to the West Virginia line the John Marshall highway. House bill providing for entry into the secondary highway system of four counties which voted themselves out. Reid house bill authorizing the highway commission to use the south route of the Lee boulevard approach to the Arlington Memorial bridge. House bill allowing State banks to hold stock in the Federal deposit insurance corporation and facilitating mergers of State banks, CODE SIGNER ROLL MOUNTS GRADUALLY Norfolk, Aug.
31 (P) -NRA signers for the district embracing Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and the District of Columbia, today numbered 67,892 with 496,198 employes affected. according to J. J. Skorup, district administrator. The total number of signers received today was 728, with 3,678 employes, divided according to states into these factors: Virginia 416 employers, with 1,363 employes; Maryland 118, with 507; North Carolina 118, with 507; District of Columbia 41, with 160.
According to cities the count is: Baltimore Washington 7,012: Richmond Norfolk Roanoke Newport News 980; Portsmouth 638; Danville 501; Lynchburg 501: Petersburg 476; Bristol 296; Suffolk Charlottesville 160; Hopewell 158. FARMERS' TRADE DAY PLANNED AT BUCHANAN Buchanan. Aug. 31 (Special) -Buchanan 18 to have a farmers' trade and sale day Wednesday, September 13, according to an announcement made following A citizens meeting recently. The purpose is to provide a market for farm products in this community, to stimulate buying, selling, trading among the farmers and to bring to town on one day each month, special buyers to handle the products of farmers.
A lot is to be provided where cattle, poultry, hogs, may be sold. It is also planned to have some large buyer handle cattle, hogs, sheep and other livestock, on the grounds. J. Hugh Williams has been named manager, and T. W.
DeLong, secretarytreasurer. Farmers have been asked to send a list of the things they have for sale, exchange or wish to buy, to Mr. DeLong, at Buchanan. CAR AND TIRES STOLEN FROM RADFORD GARAGE Radford, Aug. 31 (Special) -Thieves entered the garage of the Radford Motor Company last night and stole a Buick sedan.
15 tires and 15 tubes, and a cash drawer. No clue has been found yet. The garage was entered through a rear window. MARTINSVILLE SCHOOL TERM BEGINS THURSDAY Martinsville, Aug. 31 in the Martinsville division will open next Thursday, A teachers' institute will be held Thursday at the high school building.
Registration of pupils, followed by classification and physical examinations will be held Friday when they report for enrollment. Class work will begin the following Monday. Over 2,000 pupils are expected to enroll in the city schools. Squirrels In For Tough Season At Hands of Hunters If there should be 8 sudden widespread barking of guns in the early hours in territory adjoining Roanoke today and every day for the next several months, citizens should not be seized with fright in jumping to conclusions. It will not mark a mass attack of gangsters with sputtering machine guns but instead will mean merely that the squirrel season has arrived and that hunters are trying to bag the game.
Undoubtedly there will be at least one hunter in every neck of the woods early in the morning and late in the evening for some time, if records at the office of the clerk of courts may be taken as a basis of estimate. Yesterday, for example, no less than 241 prospective hunters planked down the legal fee for a hunting license, paying a total of $633 in one day for the privilege of taking to the open today with dog and gun. One hundred and ninety-six of the applicants yesterday paid the $3 fee for a state license while 45 limited their sphere of operations to the county by putting out $1 only. Prior to yesterday many other gamesters qualified 1o go in quest of wild meat by securing their licenses. Persons interested in figuring were game bagged will offset the expense, wondering whether the value one the considering the question of markmanship, but it was conceded that the army of hunters regard the privilege of getting into the open with gun, dog, and corduroy pants, as a priceless adventure.
PREDICTS INCREASE IN AUTO SALES THIS FALL An increase of 30 per cent in the sale of automobiles this fall was predicted by G. W. Hargrove, of Philadelphia, sales representative for DeSoto and Plymouth cars, at a meeting of officers and employes of Willis-Elliott Motor Company, held last night at Hotel Patrick Assuring his hearers that DeSoto and Plymouth cars represent the finest purchase which it is possible to make for the money, Mr. Hargrove urged local men to get their share of the increased business. By recognizing the opportunity now and taking advantage of it, local salesmen can get their full share of the business, he added.
POLICE COURT. Mack Trout, charged with driving an automoolle while fined $100 in police court yesterday. His car was involved in accident at Jefferson street and Salem avenue and police and witnesses said he was intoxicated. He noted an appeal. Wiley Taylor, of Buchanan, was fined $100 on a similar charge.
He was arrested after police observed his strange actions at the wheel of 8 car. Pleas Harris, colored, Bow Parker, G. H. Palmer, Bessie Creed. Charles Stanley, W.
H. Linkous, G. W. Franklin and Dan Brickey were fined $10 each for alleged drunkenness. RECEIVES PROPOSALS FOR STATE PURCHASES The Roanoke chamber of commerce yesterday received from the state division of purchase and printing, a proposal for purchases for state institutions during October, November and December, Several Roanoke concerns Are eXpected to bid the required foodstuffs, materials and supplies.
A number of concerns have been given orders in the past. Persons interested in the proposed purchases may see the list of requirements at the chamber. STORES READJUST HOURS Martinsville, Aug. 31 (Special); -New business hours for several local store groups were adopted effective Monday, at a meeting of store officials here this morning. Furniture, dry goods, five and ten cent and jewelry stores will open at 8:30 a.
m. and close at 5:30 p. except on Saturday when they will at 8:30 and close at 8:30 p. m. open drive for signatures to the consumers' agreement in the NRA code, has been waged this week, under the direction of the Kiwanis, Rotary and Merchants organizations.
H. A. Ford is chairman for this district, and 1s directing the local drive. The work is expected to be completed by Saturday, A department of aeronautics will be Instituted at Louisiana State University this fall. GRAND JURY WILL CONVENE TUESDAY One Bill of Indictment for Murder Included in 41 Being Prepared Only one indictment alleging murder is included in the 41 bills now being prepared in the office of Commonwealth's Attorney R.
S. Smith for presentation to the hustings court grand jury when it convenes Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock for the September term. Those whose names are being written into the murder indictment are Charles Sloan, Thomas Sloan, Richard T. Moorman and Wellford Lunsford. The four youths are said by police to have admitted robbing a negro in South Roanoke on the night of June 26.
A shot was fired at the negro and he died a few days later of com plications arising a wound in the leg. It is alleged that the shot actually was fired by Charles Sloan. The robbery occurred late at night a block south of negro, Eugene Smith, 24, "alighted from street car at Avenham avenue and Fifth street. The two Sloans, Moorman and William Roberts, also are to be listed, it was said, in a bill charging robbery from the person by violence in connection with the theft of money and Jewelry from bridge guests in the home. of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Dyer, 302 Cornwallis avenue, South Roanoke, on the night of June 27. 112 Appeal Cases.
The 41 indictments involve 60 defendants, some of whom have two or three charges facing them. There are 112 appeal cases on the docket for the September term. Charges contained in the indictments, aside from the one charging murder, are: Malicious wounding, 13; obstructing officers and destroying evidence of prohibition violation, 13; robbery from person by violence, 5: housebreaking, criminal assault, transporting ardent spirits with firearms, and receiving stolen goods, 1. grand jury is to be composed of Henry Sloan, S. Simon, W.
W. Gwaltney, Henry Scholz, Jesse German and J. T. Crewe. With Labor Day coming on Monday, the regular day for opening court, the grand jury will not meet until Tuesday.
The following actions were taken in hustings court yesterday: Roanoke Auto and Implement company against J. Alls, confessed judgment for $196.80 was entered. A confessed judgment in the sum. of $32.10 was entered against Harry Semones in suit brought by GravesHumphreys Hardware company. An order dismissing the defendant's petition to reopen the case was entered by Judge Beverley Berkeley in the action of Hardy Grocery company against the Virginia Taxi Company, Inc.
Dorothy Stover against Frank Stover, decree. Mary Gray et al against Margaret H. Burrell et al, decree filing petition No. 2 of Jas, A. Bear, special commissioner, (Continued From Page One.) ed as 8 local bill for Roanoke and Portsmouth, it has been extended to cover all cities and towns in the commonwealth.
Norfolk, it is stated, offered such a bargain day on taxes last year and collected some $600,000 of past due taxes by omitting for a brief period only, penalty and interest. The Scott-Fishburn-Staples bill for increasing the tax on public service corporations from to twotenths of one per cent, the extra amount to be used by the corporation commission in valuing public utility properties, was passed by both ranches and sent to the governor. Chairman Lester H. Hooker, of the corporation commission, has given assurance that a part of the funds to be derived from this special will be used for Valuing for making purposes the properttes of the Roanoke Water Works company, Repeals Old Dry Laws. Both of Delegate Witten's bills removing ancient restrictions in certain counties of Southwest Virginia were passed by the senate and sent to the governor, One of these repeals the Harman act of 1892, and the other a subsequent act as to Tazewell, Giles, Buchanan and Dickenson counties.
It was stated that unless these ancient statutes were wiped from the slate, even the sale of beer in those counties would be illegal, for they were enacted long before state prohibition, and were intended to prevent even the holding of local option elections in the counties affected. The house roads committee this afternoon reported out a bill enlarging the power of the highway commission in relocating roads between control points, A similar bill considered at the last session was opposed by some of the interests which are now seeking its passage as essential to the location of certain roads to be built under the proposed federal highway loan. Both branches have concurred in a resolution directing committee chairmen to confer with a view of reporting all 1 pending measures and securing an adjournment by Saturday. If the school and road compromises are approved tomorrow, but little will be left for the closing day, for there has been no objection to a series of national recovery bills, or to bills regarding state banks conforming to the requirements of the federal Glass-Steagall act, or to bills seeking to create market for bonds of the federal home loan corporation, Asks Relief for Tobacco Growers. The assembly passed a joint resolution by Senator William M.
Tuck, of Halifax, calling upon the federal department of agriculture to apply the form allotment to bright tobacco farmers. Speaking for his resolution on the Senate floor, Senator Tuck said: rich tobacco companies have richer, they have done so at the expense of human misery among the tobacco farmers." Meanwhile, Delegate Langhorn Jones, of Pittsylvania, it was very probable that representatives from the bright tobacco counties would not offer an amendment to the House bill providing compulsory grading of darkfired tobacco. Among the Senate bills passed by the body were measures widening the scope of loans by counties; equalizing competition between interstate and intrastate business under NRA codes; and providing for annual assessment, and assessment equalization in Norfolk city, The Senate definitely postponed the vote on a pill which would have authorized cities and towns, to issue bonds for any purpose without submitting the bond issue to a vote of the people. Delegate John Ryland Coleman, of Nelson, spoke at length before the House denouncing what he called 8 "whitehead office holding trust" in Nelson county. Offers Relief Bill.
Mrs. Emma Lee White, delegate from Gloucester and Mathews, obtained permission from the assembly to introduce a bill cutting the license tax on fish peddlers from $50 to $25. In a speech advocating consideration of such a bill she said it was designed to RIDGEWAY MAN SOUGHT ON CHARGE OF SHOOTING STEP- FATHER Marlinsville, Aug. 31 (Special) -4 Clifton Setliff, young man of Ridgeway, Was being sought today by Henry county authorities on a warrant ing him with wounding his step-father. William Kimbell, Wednesday evening at the latter's home several miles southeast of Ridgeway, Kimball WAN treated at Ridgeway for a flesh wound across the scalp as a result of a bullet glazing his head.
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