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19 STATES STAGE IS SET FOR BREW IN MANY CITIES, Six Other States Have Also Set Specific Later Dates for Legalizing Beverage Virginians With Taste for Beer Look to Border States to Satisfy Thirst olinians Preparing for Legalization First of Next Month Regulations Vary in Different Places. (By The Associated Press.) A large part of the country goes off the near beer standard at 12:01 local time, tomorrow. In 19 states and the District of Columbia sale of beer containing 3.2 cent alconol by weight (4 per Gent volume) becomes legal at par by that time. Brewers in some of those states plan to deliver soon 86 it becomes legal. Others, ruling out parties at midnight, say beer Jubilee will not be delivered much before breakfast time.
The 19 states in which beer becomes legal at 12:01 a. m. are AriCalifornia, Colorado, Delaware, zona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. Six other states have set specific later dates for the twist of the beer spigots. They are Louisiana, April 13; Vermont, May North Carolina, May Wyoming, May 18; West Virginia, June and North Dakota, July 1.
Still others have proposals pending to legalize beer. The regulations vary as to where and how beer can be sold. The price is expected to vary also in different places of sale. One price quoted frequently in New York was $1.60 wholesale for a case of 24 bottles. VIRGINIANS TURN TO BORDER STATES FOR BEER RICHMOND April with a tast for beer measured the mileage to the borders of the Old Dominion today and considered trips to neighboring states as a means of quenching their thirst.
Under the state's stringent dry laws beverage of more than one halt of one per cent content 15 prohibited and a special alcoholic, session of the General Assembly before its regular meeting In 1934 to (Please turn to page 6, col, 1.) PLATFORM OF GEORGE PEERY IS ANNOUNCED Aspirant Favors Prohibition Repeal, Abolition of Fee System, Opposes Tax Raise RICHMOND, April George platform C. on Peery which today he announced seeks the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia, advocating repeal of the eighteenth amendment, abolition of the fee system and continuation of a balanced budget without increase of taxes. One the much-discussed question of public utility regulation he urged a fair valuation of properties, which he termed "the one prime essential in determining reasonable rates," as fast as funds are available. Retiring today as a member of the state corporation commission, he advocated that the body be vested with power to alter temporarily public utility rates and schedules to protect business, the interests of the people or public utilities when the commission deems an emergency to exist. The view of Mr.
Peery on the above and other issues expected to draw attention in the campaign were set forth in a 2,000 word platform. Today's Queer Story ST. PAUL, April St. Paul father and son, sentenced for 11q- uor law violations, will take turns in Jail. Because another son, 12 years old would have been left alone if the father and elder brother had been sent to Jail together, the father, Anthony Schaffer, will serve his 100 day sentence first.
George, 29, will begin serving his 30 days sentence when the father is released. Social DANVILLE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1933 (HOME EDITION) PRICE: THREE CENTS TO HAVE BEER TOMORROW ROOSEVELT HEARS AKRON SURVIVORS GOLD HOARDERS WARNED ANEW THREE MEN ROOSEVELT Crashed on Akron Search PROGRESS IS WHO ESCAPED TELL STORIES Lower Power Rates Asked RICHMOND, April A convention of officials of 28 Virginia communities in session here today requested the state corporation commission to make "an Immediate reduction of at least 10 per cent in the rates now charged by all gas and electric utility corporations, to be followed by such further reductions as early as possible as the present investigation now being conducted by 1 the state corporation commission warrants." The meeting today was held under the auspices of the League of Virginia Municipalities. Danrille was among the various towns represented. Harrison To Head Garden Movement Accepts Chairmanship of Committee to Direct Their Operation Direction and administration of the Danville relief garden project, which has been under consideration for several days by the local welfare agencles, will be at the hands of Mortimer Harrison, it was announced last night. He has consented to be drafted for the task of heading up the relief garden activities through which many men now unemployed will be able to contribute to their own support through the raising of needed food crops.
Seed for five hundred gardens has been secured and is awaiting proper distribution. Mr. Harrison at first felt that he could not give the necessary time from his business, but later he reconsidered feeling that he could not refuse service in a movement which has 8 vital relationship with unemployment and the relief of distress. HeH plans to surround himself with an active committee and will immedlately visit some nearby city where the garden project 16 being carried out as a relief measure. The committee of which he will be head will check up on the relief garden activity and will see that once the projects are launched, are properly kept up.
All unemployed men on relief projects will be required to cultivate gardens as will all persons receiving relief from the city and who have able-bodied persons within the household. Where land is not available spare acres will be placed at their disposal, R. I. HAS WEAKER BREW PROVIDENCE, R. April Rhode Islanders will have three per cent.
beer tomorrow -beer legislation 3 State laws already permit per cent, beverage. WANTS GOLD TURNED BACK With Billion Dollars Still Held, President Gives Owners Until May 1 to Return It WASHINGTON, April have about $1,000,000,000 in hoarders, and gold certificates. President Roosevelt wants this turned back to the banks by May 1 or the government will take action. His executive order which placed the national gold supply under a license system to carry out legitimate trade needs, directs those holding more than $100 in gold or gold certificates to give it up promptly. It they don't, they face a penalty of $10,000 fine or ten years in prison or both.
At the treasury it was said that proclaimed there a had been no demand a National Bank a holiday was for gold, but the amount still tucked away by hoarders was unduly large. On Mr. Roosevelt's behalf it was said that the chief purpose of his action was to restore to the nation's reserves all the gold that remains hidden. The president's order authorizes the secretary of the treasury to issue licenses for obtaining for industrial requirements, exportation for trade and other legitimate needs. The unlicensed gold must come in before May 1.
Secretary Woodin said in a statement last night: "The president's order requiring the turning in of hoarded gold, and at the same time providing that gold shall be available for all proper purposes, 15 an expected step in the process of regularizing our monetary position and furnishing adequate banking and currency facilities for all customary needs." "Gold held in private hoards," he said, "serves no useful purpose under present circ*mstances. When added to the stock of the federal reserve bank it serves as a basis for currency and credit." The federal reserve board last Friday announced the country's monetary gold stock on March 29 amounted to $4,272, decrease of $116,000,000 8.8 compared to the amount a year ago. But in the three weeks since the national bank holiday the stock of gold had increased $28,000,0000. The board also announced the federal reserve banks on March 29 held gold reserves of $3,441,996,000, an Increase of approximately 000 in the week and of $633,000,000 since March 8. In the first week of March the banks lost $209,000,000 in gold.
TREASURY RECEIPTS WASHINGTON, April Treasury receipts for April 4, were expenditures 103.27; balance $465,921,367.85. Custome duties for 4 days of April were $2,351,102.34. Shadow That Stays Put After Object Moves Away May Take Danville Youth to World Fair Danville is expected to be sented at the Chicago World Fair which opens in June and lasts for several months. This fact became known today when it was learned that Sam B. Ricketts, 21-year-old youth of North Main street extension had received and accepted a proffer from the International Oddities, to exhibit his device for keeping a shadow in place after the object has been moved away.
A way to "catch" and hold the shadow of any person or object on a screen even after the person or object has been moved aside was perfected after about a year's experimental work on a principle, the secret of which Mr. Ricketts declines to divulge. It was submitted in the ley Belleve-It-or-Not contest of some months and at once atracted the attention of the author of strange things and doings. The telegram received yesterday by Mr. Ricketts from the International 0 Oddities, which 18 placing strange and weird exhibits in the World Fair informed him that of two thousand applications he was being considered one of the sixty originals of the Ripley cartoons to be a part of his marvellous exhibit at the 'exposition.
Mr. Ricketts was made what he considers an attractive offer including a flat weekly salary during the duration of fair, hits round trip transportation and room and board expenses while attending the fair in connection with his strange exhibition. He wired an acceptance yesterday of the proposition but was REPORTED IN POWER PLAN U.S.NA Tragedy piled on tragedy when the Navy's non-rigid airship J-3 crashed into the sea off Beach Haven, N. while scouring the waters in search of victims of the U.S. S.
Akron disaster. Of the and men of the blimp's crew, five were saved. Lieut. Commandeers David E. Cummins, who was in command, was lost, as was Pasquale Bettio, a and mechanic.
in lower Top photo photo shows survivor the is wreckage shown of the J-3 half submerged, a arriving at the sick bay of Lakehurst Naval Air Station. LATE NEWS BULLETINS UNEMPLOYED OTTAWA, April demonstrators en route to the state ed back towards their homes today them were from Chicago. DEMONSTRATORS REPULSED hundred unemployment relief capitol at Springfield were turnby a barrage of tear gas. Most of HITLER SAYS U. S.
SET PRECEDENT BERLIN, April Adolf Hitler pointed to the United States exclusion act against the yellow race as a precedent In explaining today his purpose in removing Jewish intellectuals from medical, 1 legal, artistic and scientific positions in Germany. "The Amercan people were the first to draw the practical political consequences from the inequality in the difference of races," he said. "Through immigration laws it barred undesirables from other races. Nor is America ready now to open its doors to Jews (fleeing) from Germany." NO ACTION ON WASHINGTON, April the remainder of the special session, conference today that no action He supported the move to have a naval building program. SILVER THIS SESSION the legislative program for Speaker Rainey said at his press would be taken on silver.
the publio construction bill include MACDONALD INVITED TO ROOSEVELT PARLEY WASHINGTON, April -Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Britain today was formally invited to visit President Roosevelt in Washington to talk over world problems. BRITISHER IS NON-COMMITTAL LONDON, April Minister MacDonald in the House of Commons today made something of a mystery of his suggested Easter trip to Washington. He turned queries aside with a Joke, but left the impression that he intended to go, with one of the objectives of his visit hurrying the date of the opening of a world economic conference. Gale Off Northwest Coast Claims Lives of 11 Persons Numerous Fishing Boats Wrecked During Severe Storm Off Coast of Washington HOQUIAM, April (AP) -o Wreckage of numerous small fishing boats scattered along the beach today marked the path of a sudden spring squall which took the lives of at least 11 fishermen on the treacherous Grays Harbor bar. The storm struck with savage fury late yesterday afternoon into the midst of the salmon trolling fleet as it was putting to sea.
Watchers saw seven of the little craft capsize, hurling their crews into the water. About 50 of the fleet, made up of 100 boats in all, made their way others turned back to Westport, their base. The list of the men and boats lost, reported by other fishermen and coast guardsmen, was: The Annie, with Jack and W. Sainio, brothers, aboard. The Axel, owned and operated by Axel Backland.
The Alki, carrying Pletola and Joel Salo. The Pacific, manned by Alex Forsel. The Helen, manned by Victor B. Jorsen, Wayne Wade and a third unnamed man. A boat with Nick Heikkila aboard.
A small boat, with only one unIdentified man in it. Late last' night the bodles of two men were washed ashore. Neither was immediately identitied. Bury Ashes of Author Sans Rites Council Holds Executive Meeting and Hears from R. L.
Jenkins The City Council last night held an informal meeting for the purpose of reporting to the members what progress is being made in connection with the development of a hydroelectric station at The Pinnacles. W. E. Gardner, president of the Council, said this morning that the meeting was held simply that the members might be kept posted as to what is going on in connection with the city's application for a loan of $2,500,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. F.
W. Townes, chairman of the finance committee, concurred in his description of the Informal meeting by saying that it was simply to report progress. H. L. Jenkins, of New York and Statesville, N.
who has been in Danville for several days, appeared last night before the council and made a statement. It is understood that Mr. Jenkins is Interested in some property which must be acquired by the city for the carrying out of the project, and that he is acting as the agent for others. The same land, it is further understood, he was interested in at the time 8 New Yorw concern looked deeply into the Patrick county proposition about two years ago before asking the city to sell the local utilittes. He is now here, according to (Please turn to page 5, column 2) Mrs.
Mary Thomas Dies While On Visit To Maryland The death of Mrs. Mary C. Thomas, wife of the late I. D. Thomas, was reported last night at Forest Hills in Maryland where she was on a visit.
Mrs. Thomas who was 77 years old was native of Floyd county but had lived in Danville for the past thirty years. She is survived by three sons and two daughters: J. 8. Thomas of Danville; Grover C.
Thomas, of Alabama, and Green Thomas; Mrs. R. C. Shackelford, Richmond and Mrs. Mollie Huffman, of Chanute, Kansas.
The funeral will be held at Forest Hills, probably tomorrow afternoon. The family requests that no flowers be sent in accordance with the last wishes of the deceased. Wit and Adventurer, Famous International Figure, Is Buried Without Funeral LOS ANGELES, April funeral, sans elegy, the ashes of Wilson Mizer were to be taken today to San Mateo county, California, for interment near the scenes of his childhood. It WAS one of the last wishes of the 56-year-old wit, playwright, raconteur and adventurer that there should be no funeral for him. Accordingly, Mrs.
Isabelle Chase Hollins, a niece of Pebble Beach, was to be the only person attending interment at Cypress Lawn cemetery. There lie the ashes of Wilson's brother, Addison, architect, who died two months ago at Palm Beach, Fla. Miner's death here Monday night of a heart ailment ended one of the most varied and bizarre careers in fact or fiction. He was best known here as a movie scenario writer, but before he came to Hollywood six years ago, he was known from the Klondike to South America, from San Francisco to Broadway. Mizner had been an insurance salesman, boxer, gold miner, medicine show actor, gambling casino operator, rubber plantation promoter, racing stable owner, fight manager, hotel operator, gallery operator, playwright, Florida real estate promoter and movie actor.
As wit and writer of "wisecracking" dialogue for the movies, Mizner'8 name was 8 by-word in Hollywood. given to elaborate pranks. Once he drove up' with Cecille Evans of the movies to dignified Alm premiere in a dilapidated small automobile and flabber-gasted the theater door man by giving him the car 86 "tip." Block Of Mill Common Stock Is Sold At $4 A sale of 752 shares of common stock in the Riverside and Dan River Cotton mills took place at noon today in the board room of the First National bank, the sale being incidental to the settlement of an 08- tate by the bank. The shares were purchased by one person whose name was not divulged at $4 por share or for $3,008. Naval Academy Places Big Order With Local Concern for Middies' Work Suits Anderson Brothers Consolidated Companies to Increase Working Force to Supply Government With 4,200 White Duck Uniforms- -Contract Is Won by Local Concern in Open CompetitionLocal Mills to Process Cloth.
The Anderson Brothers ceived a large government order States Naval Academy at that the working personnel which and women will be recruited up few days. Officials of the overall the government order this morning on being questioned. The local plant is commissioned to produce and ship to Annapolis by May 15th, if possible, 4,200 white duck uniforms. The making of them will result in the utilization of 25,000 yards of cloth. The material is already here and the patterns for the garments are being worked out.
The Danville concern won the award on the open market in competition with other national manufacturers. On Tuesday, the government notified the local office by wire that it had won the contract and the samples of the garments and specifications were received yesterday. According to J. M. Andrews, one of the directing officials of the plant the margin of profit is extremely small but it will afford an avenue of employment and will afford a means of temporary, livellhood by members of the personnel who have had to be "laid off" on account of restricted business.
The white uniforms consist of a middy blouse and white trousers. They are regulation garb for the workshop and are made a heavy A white drill," President Given Personal Accounts by Lieut. Wiley and Two Others -Probers of Disaster Have Broad Powers With Navy Seeking Full Facts Inquiry Will be Exhaustive One -Oil Discovered Bubbling to Surface at Scene of Wreck--Consider Salvage Operations. WASHINGTON, April -The three survivors of the wrecked Akron told their storles today to their commande -In-chief President velt. Shaking each by the hand, the president said: "I am thankful that you are here." Bidding the trio to sit in his office, Mr.
Roosevelt asked for their stories. Each of those saved by the German tanker Phoebus spoke in the highest terms of the German sailors who picked them up. Turning to Assistant Secretary L. Roosevelt, of the navy, who escorted the men to the White House, the president suggested that something fitting be done for the captain and crew of the tanker and added that he would write a letter to the captain himself. For twelve minutes, Lieutenant Commander Herbert V.
wiley and the two enlisted men, Richard E. Deal, and Moody E. Erwin, gave their accounts to the sympathetic president. Deal, who was also on the ill-fated Shenandoah, had a cut on the face and his hand was wrapped in bandages. Commander Wiley, who responded first to the suggestion for an ac(Please turn to page 6, column 6) KIDNAP PLOT IN RICHMOND IS REVEALED Threats Against 11-Year Boy Unless $25,000 Paid Disclosed by Parents RICHMOND, April 6 Kidnaping threats against an elevenyear -old Richmond boy unless his parents paid a $25,000 ransom were revealed here today.
Two notes were left at the home of Clyde R. Dillard. The first note demanded only a small sum of money, Mrs. Dillard said, but the second asked $25,000. She said she was inclined to belleve the first note was 4 practical joke, but said that efforts were later made to kidnap the child.
She said that someone telephoned, asking for the Clyde Jr. She said she told them that the boy was at the home of his grandmother. She said the following Monday two men approached the Dillard home in an automobile which they left about a block down the street, and asked for the boy, saying his mother had sent them. The boy was not there. When the second note was left at the door, Mrs.
Di'lard said, missiles were thrown at the house to attract attention to it. undecided today whether he personally would go to Chicago or whether he would send a representative along with his device, in event he is selected as one of the select sixty from among because of business reasons. That not only Robert Ripley but the International Oddities, a8 well estimate innovation highly 1s Indicated in telegram to the 1o- the cal youth which concluded "We believe you will be one of world's celebrities after the fair." Young Ricketts has had considerable correspondence with Ripley regarding the "shadow mystery" as it 18 termed, and the fact that it rates a space at the elaborate World's Fair indicates its high estimation as an uncanny accomplishment. Before accepting the "shadow mystery" in his collection. of oddities, Ripley required that the shadow remain for at least a period of two and a half minutes.
Young Rickettes not only met this requirement but exceeded it by satisfying the cartoonist through affidavits. that he could make the shadow remain for twenty minutes. Young Ricketts, who operates sign painting shop on North Main street extension and who is a son of the late C. E. is guarding the the secret of his innovation closely.
He merely claims and proves that he "catches" and holds a shadow after the person or object has been removed. The shadow is simply cast onto a screen and stays there for periods 88 long as twenty minutes falling to follow the object when it is taken away. Consolidated Companies have reof work suits for the United Annapolis--one of such proportions has stood around sixty men to one hundred within the next Fisherman whose boats had survived the stormy waters told of having seen others of the fleet capsized and their crews tossed into the turbulent waters. Rescue work was nearly impossible, they said. The fleet had put to sea.
under favorable weather conditions but by the time the bar WAS reached the waters, which are frequently navigated by large ships with difficulty, were being churned by the sudden squall. From the Westport coast guard station the lookout saw the little craft were in difficulty, and watched several capsize. The two life saving crews immediately put out for rescue work. "The men didn't have much chance to live in those waters," the lookout said. MACHINERY IN MOTION BALTIMORE, April -Machinery was in motion today in Baltimore and most of the counties of Maryland In the issuing of licenses to permit the sale of beer after midnight.
In a few countles local laws postponed the dispensing of beer for 8 week or more while two counties must hold referenda on the question. Approximately 3,000 applications were made for temporary license in Baltimore yesterdas, As the material must be sanforized to prevent shrinkage the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills Company, will come in for part of the execution of the order in that the white drill purchased from a concern in Spartanburg, S. must be put through a special process at the Danvill mills which makes the material proof against shrinkage. Mr. Andrews said this morning that the local concern has often filled orders for the Naval Academy but this is the first of large proportions.
The company on hearing that the government was bidding for quotations on the work suits, entered into the competition which WAS successful, Mr. Andrews was not sure if the entire order could be delivered by May 15th but practically all of it will be completed. Once the master pattern has been cut it does not take long to cut out the uniforms and to run them through the sewing machines The Anderson Brothers Company has for several years been supplying the five leading tobacco manufactur. ers with uniforms and smocks required by their manufacturing force and have filled a number of other 1m- andrustatas WILL ROGERS Says: BEVERLY HILLS, April 6. -Loving aviation like 1 do, and belteving in it like I do, this loss was a terrible Jolt.
My main friend among them was Admiral Mottett. We had been to two disarmament conferences together. 1 could always go to him and get a little inside news that the conference was trying to do. He was a grand soul, Moffett was, the "propeller" of naval aviation. Now don't fly off and say, "That aviation is not safe, or not practical." There Is certain things nature can' do to you, whether it's an earthquake In Callfornia, a flood In Mississippi, a tornado in Oldo, or a drought In Arkansaw.
When nature enters Into it, don't critckse,.
