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BRISTOL HERALD COURIER. BRISTOL, VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE. THURSDAY MORNING, 'AUGUST 8, 1935. OUT OUR WAY By William. NOW, DON'T YOU GO GALLOPIN' THAT HORSE NO AN' GITTIN' WON'T HIM ALL SWEATED 5 A T.

M. REG. U. S. PAT.

OFF. FOR ONCE J.R. WILLIAMS 1935 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. OBEDIENCE, 8-8 FUNERALS FUNERAL RITES TODAY FOR MRS. L.

B. BRAKE Funeral services will be held from the residence, 327 Grace avenue, Nashville, at 2 p. m. today for Mrs. L.

B. Brake, mother of A. R. Brake of the H. P.

King of Bristol. Mrs. Brake died suddenly at 3 p. m. Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

T. A. Smalling of Chicago, whom she was visiting. Mr. Brake, who left Bristol Sunday to attend a convention display advertising men at St.

Louis, was notified of his mother's when his train reached Nashville, yesterday. is survived by three daughters, Mrs. T. A. Smalling of Chicago, Mrs.

Lee Russell and Miss Elizabeth Brake, both of Nashville, and two sons, A. R. of Bristol and Scott Brake Chicago. Her husband Brake, died five years ago. Mrs.

Brake had visited her son and daughter-in-law in Bristol on several occasions and was well known to many persons here. JOHN W. COX Special To The Herald Courier JOHNSON Aug. 7. John W.

Cox, 51-year-old resident of Fall Branch, his home there yesterday afternoon. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Lee Hunt of Jonesboro, and Miss Marie Cox of Fall Branch; three sons, Paul Cox of Kingsport, and Ernest and Mack Cox of Fall Branch. Two sisters, Mrs. John Shepherd of Tynee, and Mrs.

McCurry of Fall Branch, and four brothers, Charles B. of Cerio Bardo, Noah Cox of Detroit, and Sam and Wilford Cox of Fall Branch. S. B. DEAN GATE CITY, Aug.

Last rites for S. B. Dean, 72, will be conducted from New Bethel church, Snowflake, Thursday at o'clock instead of at 10 o'clock as originally announced. Rev. C.

H. Gibson and Rev. Hall, Baptist minister of Nickelsville, will be in charge. Mr. Dean died at Kingsport late Tuesday evening.

He was a retired farmer of Scott county. Surviving are his wife, one son, one daughter, two brothers, and one sister. MRS. CELIA E. TOON Mrs.

Celia E. Toon, 65, died at her home four miles east of Abingdon at 3:30 a. m. Tuesday. She was the wife of the late John R.

Toon. Surviving are nine children, Miss Cordelia Toon, Miss Rachel Toon, Mrs. Robert Orefud of Boston, Mrs. Jim Martin of East W. Mrs.

Jim Roberts of Abingdon, Albert Toon of Columbus, Ohio, Smith Toon of Abingdon, and Mrs. Quincey Osborne of Cincinnati; one brother, W. F. Anderson of Bristol, and two sisters, Mrs. H.

H. Campbell of Chilhowie and Mrs. J. H. Dinkins of Evergreen, Va.

Funeral services will be held at Mountain View church near Abingdon, at 2:30 p. m. today. Interment will be in the Mountain View cemetery nearby. Grandchildren of the deceased will serve as flower bearers and nephews a as pallbearers.

Oysters are rich in iron and copper and provide a valuable aid in preventing anemia. at 2 a. m. yesterday, an hour after they allegedly held up J. W.

Wininger on Liberty and robbed him of $30 in cash. Officers said they recovered the money and that Wininger identified the pocketbook which they found on the person of one of the man as his own. Wininger said the negroes grabbed him as he was walking and relieved him of the money. They were not armed, he said. THE G'S MEN'S SHOP WHAT'S LEFT SALE A clean sweep of everything that's left from summer stocks ridiculously low-priced to make this a complete clean-up.

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY We've culled our stocks and taken from it this "remnant" lot of Young Men's and Students' Regular Weight Suits Price lots, broken sizes, mostly $20 and $25 offered for your choice at 2 regularly, summer shades but weights for year round wear. Take a chance, look them over you'll find sensational value! What's Left in Summer Suits Price No Palm Beach What's Left in What's Left in Summer Pants Straw Hats Wash pants and flannels, entire stock. Entire stock including Panamas $1.75 pants $1.19 $2.95 pants $1.98 $1.95 pants $1.39 $4.50 pants $2.98 $2.50 pants $1.69 $5.00 pants $3.49 $1.65 straws 83c $2.95 straws $1.48 $1.95 straws 986 $4.00 straws $2.00 $7 and $7.50 pants $4.98 2.50 straws $1.25 $5.00 straws $2.50 What's Left in Polo Shirts What's Left in Sport Belts 79c shirts 49c $1. shirts 69c 50c belts 35c $1.00 belts 65c $1.50 shirts 98c $1.50 belts 95c What's Left in What's Left in Summer Robes Bathing Suits Price Price Cool, washable cottons. Entire stock including shorts.

What's Left in What's Left in Wash Ties Summer Caps 25c Ties 2 for 25c Entire stock, 35c Ties 2 for 35c 50c to $1. were 35c What's Left in Boys' Wear 80 Boys' Suits 65c to 79c Sport that were Shirts and Blouses $6.95 to $19.95 Price What's left from two and remaining Sport Coats lots. big clean-up disposal 39c What's Left in What's Left in Summer Pants Bathing Suits Shorts, knickers, golfs Price and longies in wash fabrics. Wash Price pants $1.95 pants $1.59 51.50 pants $1.19 $2.50 pants $1.98 pants $2.25 pants $1.89 Boy's Sport Belts $1.75 pants $1.39 $2.95 pants $2.39 25c belts 15c 50c belts 35c Search Waged by Airplanes and Poses For Youth Lost While Scaling Mountain (Continued from Page One) but couldn't get an answer," young Henderson said. "I could see him down at the bottom of the peak." Is Unable to Locate Scene When Henderson returned with searching parties he was unable to locate the cliff where the accident occurred.

He was near hysteria. Nearly 100 searchers joined the hunt this morning and late in the afternoon called Gov. Ed C. Johnson, asking for an airplane. The governor sent Maj.

Virgil Stone, commander of the 12th observation squadron, Colorado national guard. Stone landed Knight's Ranch, once owned by the late Harry Knight, backer of Col. Lindbergh on his famous flight to Paris. The ranch is about 10 miles from the base of the peak. Major Stone picked up an observer and circled the peak until night without finding a trace of the boy.

The boy's, parents, took off Memphis here for from the hunt. New Deal's Defeat In Rhode Island Stirs Washington (Continued from Page One) fitted voted "for" the adminis- tration. The Democratic national committee was silent. So were Republican headquarters here. counsel But John Hamilton, general of the Republican national comsaid in Chicago he intermittee, the elections as a "repudipreted the of President ation of Roosevelt." New England's GOP Celebrates Victory R.

Aug. 7. PROVIDENCE, (AP) the England victory of Republicans Chas. tonight Risk hailed (R) in Rhode Island's F. first U.

S. representative district as a foretaste of 1936; Democrats interpreted it to be "another sign of recovery." Col. Frank Knox, Manchester, N. and Chicago newspaper publisher, who has been mentioned as Republican possibility president, called the defeat for of Antonio Prince, Rhode Island's state treasurer and Democratic representative nominee, "a foretaste of the 1936 election." On the other hand, Governor Theodore F. Green (D) after ascribing Prince's defeat in part to "wilful misrepresentation on the part of the opposition termed the electorate's, verdict analagous to the decision of a patient who, having called in a physician to save him from critical illness, discharges him with returning strength of the cost of continued treatment.

"It is from one point another sign of recovery," he declared. In Boston, however, another Democrat and a former governor of Massachusetts, Joseph B. Ely, saw it differently: "To a large percentage of the voters these policies (new deal) now loom up in all their strange aspects," he declared. "The voters are beginning to see that these policies are not American as we understand the American government. They savor of Stalin, instead of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln." Roosevelt Spokesman Urges Revision of House Tax Bill (Continued from Page One) an excess profits tax range of 5 to 25 per cent and by failing to provide for taxing income, from inter -corporate dividends.

He contended that without taxing the income from dividends received by one corporation from another there would be a "powerful temptation for large corporations further to complicate their capital structures by organizing a series of operating subsidiaries, each one of which would be able to take advantage of the lower rates in the "corporation income tax early brackets." War Fever Growing Among Ethiopians (Continued from Page One) a Japanese military mission had started from Kobe for Ethiopia. American and other foreign residents of the capital hailed with relief reports 3,000 gas masks have already arrived and 25,000 others are en route. The city is defenseless against bombs but because of its 7,000 foot altitude and the distance from Italian bases it was considered doubtful Italian planes would be able to reach the with heavy destructive bombs. TWO NEGROES ACCUSED ROBBING PEDESTRIAN Edward Waller and Enos Huntley, colored, of Bristol, were bound over to the grand jury of Sullivan county circuit court under bond of $2,500 each when given hearing before 'Squire W. S.

Baumgardner yesterday. The two negroes, were arrested conditions need not be endured. Make your skin clearer and smoother with soothing GARY CHAIRMAN OF CHAMBER TAX UNIT Former Legislator Named To Succeed Tucker; Survey of System Proposed RICHMOND, Aug. 7. (AP) -J.

Vaughan Gary of Richmond, authority on taxation and a former member of the General Assembly, will head the State Chamber of Commerce's new committee on taxation and government, chamber officials announced today. Dr. Robert H. Tucker of Lexington, dean of Washington and Lee University, who headed the old committee from the time it was set up early in 1924, will continue active service as a member of the reorganized group. Dr, Raymond B.

Pinchbeck, dean of the University of Richmond, will act as research advisor to the new committee and will have active charge studies under the immediate direction of Mr. Gary. Other members include Robert P. Beaman of Norfolk, president of the National Bank of Commerce there; Mark Ethridge of Richmond, publisher of the Times-Dispatch; C. O'Conor Goolrick of Fredericksburg, attorney and former member of the State Senate; C.

G. Holland of Danville, president of the Danville Chamber of Commerce and a civic leader, and Charles P. MaGill of Pulaski, owner and operator of Claremont Farm and president of the Pulaski County National Farm Loan Association. Under the "next steps" objectives of the all-Virginia program of the state chamber, the committee will begin an immediate reconsideration of the entire tax system of Virginia, state and local; will analyze and evaluate the actual potential revenue sources in relation to revenue needs; launch a survey of business license taxation and review sales tax experience in relation to a balanced tax system, and investigate tax delinquency and appraise tax administration efficiency. Georgia's Tobacco Storages Clogged (Continued from Page One) state had reported extraordinar- sales.

Tifton said all previous records for' poundage and money paid out on the there had been broken, market, was true of many of the other markets. Bulging Warehouses In South Carolina FLORENCE, S. Aug. 7. (AP)-Bulging warehouses tonight awaited the start of tobacco auction sales in the border belt tomorrow while a spirit of carnival held sway in the 16 market towns.

By modern truck and ancient wagon big and little lots of tobacco moved from farms to markets in steady streams today, filling warehouses for the first sales of the new marketing season. Tonight many growers were camped with their wagons in vacant lots and on open spaces near the market towns. Tobacco is the "money crop" of the Pee Dee section and the start of sales stimulates all business. "What do you reckon it'll bring?" was the question on every tongue. The general expectation was for an opening day's average close to 20 cents a pound in view of prices prevailing on Georgia markets which opened last week.

The average for the border belt last year was $21.60 a hundred, but usually the cheaper grades are sales in the majority for opening and the average later in the season when the percentage of finer grades increases is higher. RAINSTORM HALTS TAZEWELL FAIR EVENTS Special To The Herald Courier TAZEWELL, Aug. heavy rainstorm which visited this section shortly after noon today brought disappointment to crowd gathered at. the Tazewell county fairgrounds to view a scheduled program which would have included the first of the races, in which 50 horses have been entered. Harness races booked for today were called off, but the threequarter-mile dash by the runners for a $100 purse was run on they Vindex muddy course.

owned by C. W. Byers of Harrisonburg and ridden by Jockey Snider came in first. The Black Widow, owned by Charles M. Gillespie of Tazewell and ridden by Bill Ball was second, and Charley J.

owned by Byers and ridden by C. W. Byers, was third. Buddy Flight, owned by Ben Ball of Abingdon and handled by Elmer Ball, and W. A.

Preston's Watchall, from Amsterdam, completed the field. CELEBRATION EVENTS AT PENNINGTON TODAY Special To The Herald Courier PENNINGTON GAP, Aug. countians will be entertained tomorrow with what promises to be the largest emancipation day celebration ever held here. Earl Lane has arranged a full-day colored program and R. P.

Stuart is promoting the night card. Lane has scheduled three of the fastest colored ball teams available for a doubleheader in the afternoon. The Middlesboro nine will play Jenkins in the opener and Big Stone Gap will meet the winner in the nightcap. Harry Boggs will appear with stunt planes on an aviation program which promises about all the aerial stunts known. The night boxing card will feature Roosevelt Sharp of Knoxville.

and Knockout Clayton of Boston, and a wrestling match is slated between Herbie Freeman, 244 pounds, and Bill Evans, 250 pounds. At Japanese fairs, bottles of colored sugar water take the I place of our "pop." Search Narrowing For A. G. E. Officer Sleuths Indicate (Continued from Page One) sure, sent to members of Congress from 50 small cities, all but three tatives were of paid utilities for by companies.

In the course of one of his many clashes with Hurley, Black let it be known, too, all lawyers whom the committee believes to have been retained by the utilities companies were receiving questionnaires asking for details of their activities. The name of John W. Davis, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, was added to the list today. INSULL FIRMS VOTE SAMUEL SMALL PENSION CHICAGO, Aug. 7.

(AP)Samuel Insull, once possessor of a vast fortune, became a pensioner today. Directors of the four companies he developed into one of the nation's largest utility systems voted to replace him on the annuity rolls from which he was removed 17 months ago while a fugitive in Europe, desperately striving to keep from going on trial for use of the mails to defraud. Announcement of Insull's reinstatement was made by Jamse Simpson, chairman, and George A. Ranney, vice chairman of the boards of all four corporationsthe Commonwealth Edison Company, Peoples Gas Light and co*ke company, Peoples Gas subsidiary, and Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. At the rate he formerly drew, Insull has due a lump sum of about $33,000 for the last 17 months.

NEGRO IS SENTENCED ON ATTACK CHARGE WENTWORTH, N. Aug. 7. (AP)-At a closed trial, details of which court attaches declined to reveal afterward, Charlie Richardson, 48-year old negro farm laborer. was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment upon his plea of guilty to charges of criminally attacking the 16-year old daughter of his employer, J.

R. Pruitt, of near Mayfield, and an attempt to attack her 14-year old sister, today. The attack on the older girl occurred last Wednesday night, but was not reported until Monday morning when the negro was alleged to have attempted to attack her sister. The younger girl reported the hired man's advances to her mother, who caused his arrest. Richardson was represented by counsel, and was said to have freely admitted that the charges against him were correct.

A fifteen year sentence was passed on the first charge, of attacking the girl, and 10 years was meted out on the charge of the attempted attack. Paul Johnson Leads Mississippi's Race (Continued from Page One) prought charges and counter charges with Lester Franklin, a share the wealth campaigner, claiming Long had praised his platform. STOP-WAR EFFORT STARTED LONDON, Aug. 7. (AP)--The organized workers Europe joined the American Federation of Labor in a "stop-the-war" movement tonight.

A grave warning on the ItaloEthiopian dispute was issued by the International Federation of Trade. Unions and the LaborSocialist Internationale. Expressing great anxiety over what it characterized as an alarming increase of signs of war in Ethiopia, the resolution stated: "All must share the sibility for an outbreak of war who have not done everything in their power to prevent it." A Swiss expert announces that there are more than 35 kinds of poisonous gases ready for use in the next war. $30 MOUT To LOANS On Other Your or Plans Name Only LOAN To Suit And Terms MILT BRISTOL, State 5 HO: Ho OVER THE AIR tonight KRUEGER HOUSE PARTY A gay, new program of music, laughter and song, starring Eddie and Ralph Virginia Uppercu "Sisters of the Radio's Radio's newest talent "And" the society ace comedy team. at New York's fashionable Caprice Room.

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