North Carolina Newspapers

______________ _ * BRISBANE THIS WEEK Choses Vnes Furs, Conscience-Prooi J Caterpillars and Weeds Wise Generosity An able Frenchman, long since dead, wrote about choses vues ? "things seen." There arc still many things to see and hear, although there is nobody to write about them as that old Frenchman wrote. At the- head ot the London Times' "personal column," some one pays to print this impressive extract from the Psalms: ''Seek the Lord, and His strength. seek His face everrhore. Remember his marvelous works that He hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth." You spend a moment wondering' j what kind of English man or worn- j an, strong in faith, decided to put j thai text before statesmen that to- j day seek the "face" of Hitler, Mus- i soiini, Stalin, but forget the greater ! power of the Creator of those gentle- j men. i After that, you read in the same Times this advertisement: Furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clean conscience ?full particulars from Maj. C. Van Der Byl, Wappenham, Towcester." This being an ingenious and doubtless quite sincere appeal to the ten- = der-hrarted Englishwoman who does ? not like to think that the fur around I her neck once belonged to an animal that suffered for days and perhaps B weeks tortured in a trap. J Possibly the best, way to "obtain furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clear conscience" is to bp and wear some of the innumerable iurs, from rugged bears to silky chinchilla made from the skins of rabbit# that are nourished in little hutches in the suburbs of L<os An- h geles, and fed with "rabbit hay," ten-1 n der young alfalfa, grown on the Mo-! a jave desert, a good deal of it on a1 ii ranch owned and operated by this It writer. n When you buy furs, no matter what T kind, with a rabbit skin foundation, you may be sure that the animal suf- tl fered very little, if at all, and when v you buy that fur you also buy hone3t a American alfalfa, which is a vege- -A tarian product. o if, F. C. Cobb wrote from the Boy Scout reservation ar. Alitor*, N. J., n -**Wwla8t four week-ends have been fi spent by our scouts collecting tent F caterpillar egg clusters from wild U cherry and apple trees along the high- n ways of Monmouth and Ocean counties. Many thousands of egg clus- ii ters, each containing on the average si of 250 eggs, have been destroyed." i v No better work could be done I b by scouts and other boys. It is far l better exercise than perfunctory j bikes." often exhausting for smaller j p boys. ; ti The fathers of the boys, also in ! d need of exercise, can be useful mow- | tl ing weeds along highways, excellent 1 cl work for the lungs and for reducing I the waist. j !i Edward S. Harkness, generous i young New York financier, gave to I * Lawrenceville School for Boys a sum I that wall make possible important new building, plus rebuilding and a more extensive system of small-group instruction, with more teachers. \A Mr. Harkness, who doe3 not like publicity, refused to make public j the amount of his gift to Lawrence j ville, hut he gave $7,000,000 to Exeter academy, $13,000,000 each to Yale and c, Harvard, to finance their housing sys- jj tems. That gives some idea of the Vi size of his gifts. rl el Some Americans will agree that it is a good thing to have men of 2, unusual ability accumulate wealth p and use it thus generously and wise- 41 ly ri Old-fashioned Americans would rather encourage such gifts and a praise the givers than inculcate the fj notion that anybody with brains o enough to accumulate wealth in this gj country of opportunity is probably a c thief and ought to be in jail. i, Mussolini knows how a dictator I can keep his hold on the people. He | ^ establishes 2,000 government camps where halt a million poor children f, enjoy free vacations at sea and moun- g tain resorts. For nine years Mussolini has carried on this work. In Europe, English, French German, Italian or Czechoslovakian will p believe anything you say about American crime, and that is hardly sur- w prising. The heading "Chicago Politician w Dies Under Hail ot Racketeers' Bullets" surprises nobody. There might ]. be mild surprise if the heading read, p "Chicago Politician Does NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers' Bullets." g n County supervisors and local super. c visors for checking fanners' compliance in the soil-improvement pro- y gram have been selected and trained in a number of counties over the ic State. v wai An VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 6. j Love Lives Revealed iimi urn mmm im 11 The court battle of beautiful, red-hea her divorced husband. Dr. Franklyr four-year-old daughter Marilyn, rev the love lives of the two which had I the divorce v IITES AT SEATTLE \ -OR MADCAP SOLON | Congressman Zioncheck, Who j Plunged to Death From Head- J quarters Is Eulogized. A public funeral and a 17-gun sa-! ite marked the final rites for Repesentative Marion Zioncheck in Settle Tuesday, the congressman havlg died at the feet of his bride folding a five-story plunge from his ewly opened campaign headquarters, he death was listed as suicide. About 2,000 persons crowded into ie small auditorium where the serines were held. They occupied all vailabie 3eats and standing room, .nother 500 stood outside. Hundreds f others passed Zioncheck's bier bc>re the services started. In a setting of flowers given by Uim-roua of the city's labor unions, fiends and the family, the Rev.; 'red W. Shorter of the Church of ie People preached the funeral scrum. ''Marion Zioncheck was a casualty 1 a war greater in magnitude and ignificance than the World war. eterans of which found in him their est friend," Mr. Shorter said. Repeats List Words "His very last words revealed the assion of his young life. 'I have ried,' he said, 'to improve the conition of an unfair economic system lat holds no promise?even a decent Itance to survive, let alone live.' "He was a sensitive man who took fe seriously. He took it so seriusly, indeed that it crushed him." 10BINS0N, BORAH MAINTAIN LEADS Lrkansas Senator Ahead Three-1 to-One In Early Returns; Idahoan Far In Lead. Senator Joe T. Robinson, Demoratic majority leader, had estabshed a better than three to one adantage over two opponents in first iturns from the Democratic primary lection held yesterday (Tuesday). Tabulations in 69 precincts out of 102 at 9 p. m., central time, gave lobinson 3,971; J. Rosser Venable 53 and Cleveland Holland 741. The iturns were from 20 counties. Senator Robinson's quiet race gainst two opponents and a heated ve-man gubernatorial campaign ased on personalities were high pots of the primary in which the lectorate marked a long ballot rangig from Senator to constable. Borah (lets First Box First unofficial returns from one ox in the Idaho primary of Tuesay gave Senator Borah more than ve to one lead. The vote stood, orah, 96; Defenbach 17. RECORDER'S COURT Following arc the judgments of the :ecorder's court in session Tuesday: j Dock Main, Jr., assault with deadly j eapcn. dismissed. Joe Wheeler, carrying concealed 'eapon, $25 and the costs. Joe Wheeler, violation prohibition iws, 90 days sentence, suspended on ayment of the cost. Midas Wheeler, public drunkenness, 0 days sentence, suspended on paylent of $15 and the cost: Joe Wheelr, costs. J. C. Billings, Midas Wheeler. Joe ITteeler, affray, dismissed. Arthur TnnArs Hrivlnv orhilo Infnr. :ated, $50 and the .cost. License reokcd for 90 days AUU, I Independent Weekly Nejw BOONE. WATAUGA COU^'T in Battle For CM ^ | ' .ded Mary Aastor, film star, against 1 Thorpe, for the custody of their \ P91 Pfl /In m t? irinir :"~V 1 ?? vbomiuuiij> at;auL?. been held by agreement at the time .'as granted. HIGHWAY TODST j BEING USED UP I Waynick Says Few Roads Will Re Built When Present Funds Have Been Exhausted. Capus M Waynick, chairman of the state highway and public works commission, produced figures Tuesday indicating few roads wolud be built in North Carolina after present funds on hand are exhausted. The highway department now has $10,369,214 to spend on new roads and grade crossing elimination projects. A.t the start of the next fiscal year, however, Waynick said, there probably will be less than $6,000,000 to be spent. ' i<rom now on, as far as I know, we will receive only $2,9-10,000 a year from the Federal government?our share of the $125,000,000 regular Fed. eral aid fund/* ilt; said. We will be required to match those funds with an equal state appropriation. That will give us less than $6,000,000 a year to spend on new construction, or an average of $60,000 a county." A total of $150,000,000 to $200,000.000 would 5e needed to meet the "urgent demand" for roads from various counties, Waynick added. In addition to the fund3 for use on new roads, the State appropriates 510,000,000 a year for maintenance j and $2,000,000 for "betterment" of, highways. Referring to a recommendation made recently by State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson that $25,000,000 in low interest highway bonds be issued to finance more new roads, Waynick said: "I don't want to be put in the position of advocating it, but the money could certainly be used." President's Visit To State Brief One Congressman Doughton is in receipt of a telegram from Stephen Early, Assistant Secretary to the President, in which it is stated that the President's stop in Charlotte for the Green Pastures rally September 10. will be for only an hour and a half, and the text of the message follows: "The President plans to arrive in Charlotte September tenth about' four-thirty o'clock in the afternoon. He must leave Charlotte about six o'clock. In all announcements please stress that the meeting will be nonpartisan. Public release of these plans by you is authorized." FARM OUTLOOK BRIGHT Frank Parker, Federal-State Agricultural statistician, said today "the agricultural outlook in North Carolina is optimistic now." Crops in all parts of the State are steadily improving" and though some are late in some places stands are poor because of the June drought Parker said he expected a generally good year for the State from an agricultural standpoint. W. M. U. ANNUAL MEETING The Woman's Missionary Union of the Three Forks Asociation will hold its annual meeting with Cove Creek Society on August 21st, 1936, beginning at 10 a. m? and continuing throughout the day. launch will be served by the local society All are cordially invited and every member is urged to attend. The bulk of the Montgomery coun-j ty peach crop has gone to market. The peaches were good and growers were well pleased with their returns. A DE spaper?Established in th? Y. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSE NEGRO SLAYER OF CLEVENGER GIRL CONFESSES CRIME Kail Boy At Fashiouabie Hostelry Admits Killing Helen Clevengcr As He Searched Room for Money?Other Suspects Are Released. The mysterious hotel room murder of Helen Clevenger, L?ong Island va cat onist, which occurred at a fashionable Ashevilie hotel, was definitely solved Sunday with the arrest and confession of Martin More, 22. a negro hall boy Moore, after hours of grilling, made a signed statement that he crept into the girl's room at the fashionable Battery Park hotel the night of July 15. bent upon robbery, and brutally slew her when she cried mif un.I V?rv IkA^omA The negro youth said he did not expect to find the New York university student in her room, 3ince the door was unlocked, "but when I got in there she screamed, and that's why I shot her." "She screamed some more," he j added, "and started to run out. I , struck her with the gun When she I fell on the floor I 3truck her several J times more to 3top her screaming, as I was scared and did not want to be caught." Moore denied he made any attempt j to ravish the girl. The question of whether the girl was assaulted was never definitely determined. At first the undertaker, the coroner and a physician said she was, but later three physicians who examined the body 5 wore unable to decide. The last of the suspects was released this afternoon after Moore J made his confession. He was Daniel . H. Gaddy. 26-year-old hotel night j watchman, who had been detained for questioning almost since the crime. Previously, Sheriff Brown, the chief j investigator of the murder, had re- < garded Gaddy as the "key to the j whole mystery" and said that "when < Gaudy gets ready to talk we'll break ] Mi'.s case wide open." Today he re- 3 leased the night watchman and said > he was "completely exonerated." The pajania-clad body of the 18- . year-old student was found in her t second-floor room at 8 a. m., July 16, ? by her uncle, Prof. W. L. Clevenger, < of North Carolina State college, with i whom she was traveling. 1 A bullet hail pierced her heart 2 and lodged in her back and her face had been mutilated by a severe bat- 1 tering with some heavy instrument. Her legs were thrown under her body, 1 and officers said the position indicat.-! ! ed she was on her knees pleading for] 1 her life when she was slain. fAlIWEH MAV W1 UMmr V y liiili iitx & JL GET MODEL FARM REA Considers Setting Up Electrically-Equipped and Operated Exhibit. Lenoir, Aug. 11.- An electricallyequipped and operated model farm, similar to the one recently established in Virginia by the Rural Eiec trififtatinn administration as an av hibit, may be established in Cald- j . well county if present plans work j out. County Agent O. R. Carrithers 1 revealed on his return after a twoday conference with Federal RE V of- , ficials in Washington. The farm, if established, will be modeled after the farm recently opened to the public near the nation's capitol, and which is the only , one of its kind in the nation. The Caldwell county REA project has been regarded as a model for the Carolinas, and Federal authorities are anxious to establish such a farm 1 in this county to acquaint the people i of this section with the benefits of j rural electrification The status of ?c model form proj- 1 ect remains indefinite pending the 1 approval of the county rural electri- 1 fication project by Federal authori- ' ties. However, local leaders of the movement are jubilant over the prospects for success of the county 1 project which has been aided by 1 the activity of Congressman Robert i L. Doughton. Formal approval of the project is expected at the REA meeting here August 17. at which time Chester Lake of Washington, project supervisor of the REA and Congressman Doughton will be present and speak on the county REA project. In the meantime, a committee will be "selected to work out plani for the model farm and the completion of the REA project, and which will make the final selection of the farm to be electrically modernized. MOC : Year Eighteen Eighty-i 'AY, AUGUST 13, 1936 Jacqueline's Uad is S2 William Matheus, 82 years old, of Gradyville. Pa., might well claim a record of some kind as he holds his new one month old daughter, Jacqueline, in his arms. Mrs Matheus is 40 and the mother of seven children, the oldest of which is 18 years. DROUGHT STRUCK COUNTY HEAVILY department Of Agriculture In eludes County In Revised List Of Drought Regions. In revising the list of drought itricken counties in the Carolina* Monday, the Department of Agricul ,ure listed Watauga as one of the 2? counties in North Carolina in which he effect of the searing breath oi he dry weather had been severe!} :elt. The North Carolina counties 'ollow: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe 3urke. Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee -lay, Cleveland. Gaston. Graham Saywood, Henderson, Jackson. Lin Join; McDowell; Macon, Madison Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Polk, PvUthcr fordi Swain. Transylvania. Union Watauga and Yancey. Though a few counties in tin southeast were placed in the drough territory during the past week, thi 1 rought committee reports that con litions in that region have beei measurably improved during the pas few weeks hy rather general and sub itantial rains. Although as a general rule deslg nated drought territory coincide: with territory seriously deficient ii rainfall, the correlation is not com piete Official drought territory i; baaed cn the need of a considerabinumber of farmers in a county fo emergency drought assistance rathe than on the country's weather recor< alone. The designation of emergent; drought counties serves as a guid for all governmental agencies whici are providing aid to farmers in th drought-stricken areas. The applica tion of reduced freight rates, th granting of livestock, feed and trans portation loans of the Resettlemen administration, and the work relie projects of the Works Progress Ad ministration, the soil conservatioi service and the biological survey ar< based upon these designations. Marshals Named For Green Pastures Rail] A group of marshals from eacl county of the state is being name, preparatory to the Green Pasture rally in Charlotte September 10, a which time President Roosevelt wi be the principal speaker to a thron; of something like 100,000 people gathered from .seven states. The marshals, who are being name by Chief Marshal Hugh Mitchell o Statesville, with the cooperation o the various county Democratic chair men, include the following Watau gana: Cleve Gross, Hardin Browr John E. Combs, Charles G. Hodges Charles Zimmerman, Wade E. Browr Dr. Deaton, Sam F. Horton, Edwan Mast, Rob Rivers, Donald J. Boyder Dr. B. B. Dougherty, Chapel Wilsor Austin South, Dr. C. L. Rhyne. Plans are being made to open up town headquarters in Charlotte fo the rally within the next few days and from this headquarters the ac tual business of preparing for th rally will be handled. BLACKBURN IMPROVES Earl Blackburn, who received seri ous injuries when cut by a knife, al legedly in the hands of a brother-ir law. Dean Adams, is reported a showing considerable improvemen Reports from a North Wilkesbor hospital, where the local man is patient, would indicate that hi chances for an early and complet recovery are very good. RAT $1.50 PER YEAR R?|AL ELECTRIC PROGRAM MAY BE Hi) IN WATAUGA ; Congressman Doughton ConI corns Self Over Prospect Of Watauga County Being Included In Government Electrification Plan. I j According to information coming j to the local newspaper from Con5 gressman Doughton Wednesday morn I ing. the ninth district representative i is' particularly anxious for Watauga j county to be included in the far reaching benefits proposed the J Federal government's Rural ElectriJ fication Administration. I Vt.e U k j -JJLI . wu-jglliuil auiLKS, Uiat fie, IH j company with high officials of the j REA, will be in Lenoir next Monday , and that a meeting wilt be held at j the courthouse there, at which time I a full explanation will be forthcom\ Lng concerning rural electrification Mr. Doughton is extremely anxious j that a large number of interested Wataugans attend this meeting, and proposes to hold a similar gathering in Boone, at which time, if interest warrants, definite action can be taken i which would permit Watauga county to participate in the program Mr. Doughton states that he ls ' deeply concerned over the possibilities \ of rural advancement as contained in j this division of the administration's j development program, and stresses i the importance of some local interest being shown at this time. It is repeated that those interested in securing the benefits of electric current in . the outlying regions of Watauga , county, should be present at the Le. noir meeting next Monday, otherwise ; Mr. Doughton will be obviously handil capped in his efforts to promote this : much-needed enterprise. Complete r cooperation, he states, is of vital imj portance. , nrrr urn Arnimif ULlAILdUF FATAL CRASH ARE GIVEN I Washington Dispatch Tells Of i Acciuetit Six Which Watauga Man Lost His Life. Ephrata. Wash., July 30.?Hector D Vinson, 22. Oreston, Wash., was instantly killed and Richard Dyer, 24, O Mak, Wash., was so badly burned that little hope was held for his recovery, as the result of a inotoreyciehay wagon crash at Rimrock in the Grand Coulee shortly after noon today Both were employed on the Grand Coulee dam. Floyd Hanson, a Grant County deputy sheriff at the daju site, who come 1 along with State Patrolman Bill Kelr loSS 3ust after the crash, said that the ^ motorcycle Vinson and Dyer were riding struck the front end of the hay wagon, a riven; oy sail) ixeacc, Kime rock, as it started across the high11 way from an intersecting road. He e said that the front wheels and gear were knocked from under the hay rig e and that the team ran away. Wreckage Catches Fire \ Both young men were thrown in 1 the road, alongside the hay wagon. which caught fire from the motora cycle exhaust. Vinson suffered many e broken bones and was instantly killed, said Hanson, who with Kellogg, pulled the youths away from the flaming wreckage. Dyer was knocked unconscious and ^ his feet and lower legs were so badly cooked before the officers arrived that doctors at the Mason City hospital, where he was taken, held out * no hope for his recovery. ' Neace, said the officers, was thrown from his rig into the ditch, landing ? on his head, and received some bad face and head cuts but did not require hospitalization. Among the injuries that caused Vinson's death, the officers said, was a penetrating gash f in the chest. Funeral services for Vinson will be held in the Christian church at Cresl' ton Saturday at 2 p. m., the Rev. '' Mr. Mitchell officiating. l* (Note: Richard Dyer, one of the ^ boys mentioned in this account is the ' son of Cicero Dyer of Valle Crucis ' He has been working in Washington for the past two years. Five hours " after the accident occurred, Richard r died at the hospital mentioned. Fu'? neral services and burial were conducted in Washington.) e (The above clipping was sent Mr Dyer and the name of the paper was not included; however it is a Washington edition.) " MANY WEEK-END ARRESTS L s The police department reports tire t. arrest over the week-end of 18 pero sons, and the county Jail was crowded a it is said. Practically all of the prisis oners were charged with public e drunkenness, and no serious disorders j were reported.