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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR FEAR SIXTEEN MEN LOST WITH SINKING OF LAKE STEAMSHIP Seven of Crew of Motor Ship Finally Rescued in Rough Waters of Lake Michigan VESSEL ITsT^AND THEN SINKS FAST Lighthouse Keeper Puts To Sea With Assistants On Seeing Tragedy Four Miles Out From Land Off Chi cago’s South Side in Early Morning Dawn Chicago, July 29.—CAP)—Sixteeu men wore feared drowned early today when the motor-powered ship “Ma t, rial Service” capsized in the rough waters of Lake Michigan, four miles' off Chicago’s South Side. Seven members of the crew were rescued but Captain C. D. Brown and 15 others were listed as missing by the coast guard. Firstmate John M. Johnson, one of the seven who were saved after they had clung for more than half an hour to pieces of wreckage, gave the first account of the tragedy. He said the vessel, loaded with sand, listed suddenly as it nosed thro ugh a heavy sea sometime between 2 and 3 m * eastern standard time. It lurched to an even keel. Johnson related, and then sank swiftly. A. E. Pierce, keeper of the Calumet harbor lighthouse station, saw the j “Material Service” go down. He noti fied the coast guard and put out in a small boat with his assistants. They picked up two of the sur vivors. A South Chicago coast guard craft rescued three others. A Benham Tow ing Company boat lifted the remain ing two from the lake. Other coast guard boats were rush ed out to the scene to comb the waters for Captain Brown and the 15 missing members of his crew. NO COHON FABRIC LAID ON ROADS YET But Work Should Start In Few Days, According to Highway Engineer Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Kotei, Rv J. r. U \ SKK.RVIL!/ Raleigh, July 29.—None of the cot ton fabric has yet been put down on any of the “cotton roads” which are in process of being built, but the work of putting down this fabric should he started within the next few days, Louis W. Payne, assistant chief en- 1 gineer of the State Highway and Pub- | lie Works Commission, said today. I Several hundred thousand yards of this fabric has been received and sev eral of the experimental roads are al ready under construction on which it will be used but work has not ad vanced far enough for the actual lay ing of the fabric, Payne said. The fabric cannot be put down on a r oad until what we call the prime j Continued on Page Two.) SCREENBEAUTY IS BATTLING FOR BABY Sordid Side of Mary Astor’s Married Life Aired in Court Trial Co Angeles, Cal., July 29. —(AP) — broken wide open by questions about >'■ morality and the story of a bath rf> m brawl, the battle of red-haired Mary Astor, screen beauty, to regain r 'i 'ody of her baby girl raged fur io'isiy today. io i s attempting to break the court older giving her divorced husband, io- Franklin Thorpe, guardianship of ffon-year-old Marilyn Thorpe. To prevent certain portions of the evidence going into the record, oppos ing lawyers met in an eleventh-hour conference last night. I hoped to protect Mary,” Dr. Tlvjee said before the night session f >; “I’m sorry for what’s going to come out.” The result was that the first hour’s ‘•stimony left a packed audience, studded with motion picture people, goggle-eyed and gasping. Hr. Thorpe was the first witness. Within five minutes he retorted sharply to questions of why he had allowed Marilyn to remain with Miss Astor after the divorce, “Because I thought and hoped she would be a good influence on her mother. In her complaint Miss Astor charg ed she was coerced into giving Dr. Thorpe an uncontested divorce when he threatened to “scandalize” her pub licly. His answer was that she was guilty of “gross immoral conduct.” Iflntitersmt UatUi Hfspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA “Angel” of Revolt? m HHL •:«**•■ ,4flsayf3 Juan March Is this man the “angel" of the Fascist army revolt in Spain ? He Is Juan March, said to be the world’s wealthiest Spaniard. When he fled Spain in 1933 after escap ing from the prison at Alcala Da Hanares he was said to be worth $30,000,000. Leftist leaders' re putedly have indicated they sus pect March of financing the revolt* —Central Press Steel Hikes Its Dividend Extensively Observers Wonder if This Is One Answer To Ne w Federal Taxing Program New York. July 29 (AP) —A boost from 5« cents to $1 in the quarterly dividend on preferred stork of the United States Steel Corporation, in the wake of mounting, earnings focused renew ed attention in financial circles today on corporate fiscal poli cies under the Federal revenue act passed in the last session of Congress. For the first time in five years “t ig s'eel” in the three months ended June 30 showed earnings on its com mon stock with profits equivalent to 75 cents a share after allowing for the full $1.7«5 due on the senior stock. But directors late yesterday voted to pay only $1 on the preferred stock and to credit $9,259,612 to the sur plus account to offset some of the heavy depression drain on reserves. The withholding of the major part of earnings for reserves raised the question in some quarters whether the steel corporation, with profits de finitely on the uptrend, would elect to rebuild its shrunken surplus de spite graduated Federal levies upon undivided profits. A possibility that United States Steel directors would consider pay ments to shareholders in the light of the new profits levy later in the year was seen by observers in a footnote to the st;* ement explaining that no provision had been made for the tax Hurricane May Hit Florida West Coast Fla., July 29.—.(AI*) — The Weather Bureau said at 11:30 a. rn. today a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida’s lower west coast “now apparently has attained hurricane intensity” over a small area. Miami, Fla., July 29. —(AP) —* The tropical storm which cut across south Florida during the night without se rious damage showed signs today of recurving toward the Florida west coast and of increasing to hurricane intensity. Storm warnings were up from Fort Pierce on the Atlantic side around the tip of the peninsula to a point just LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNON, JULY 29, 1936 Blanton Defeated g • ■B llllilP ; , JH jjj Thomas Blanton Representative Thomas Blanton, most vociferous member of con gress, goes down to defeat in the Democratic primary in Texas. His successful opponent is Clyde L. Garrett of Eastland, Tex, Blan ton had served to consecutivs terms. —Central Press HOEY WANTS SHORT ASSEMBLY SESSION BUT WONT GEE II Would Unify Party and In crease His Prestige As Its Leader, His Friends Think GETTING MONEY IS OBSTACLE, HOWEVER To Carry Out Hoey’s Cam paign Promises Will Re quire Some $12,000,000 More Annually; Attempt To Repeal Sales Tax Also Expected This Winter Daily Dispatch Rureait. In The Sir Walter Hotel, lly J. C. IIA SKKIt VI 1.1. Raleigh, July 29. —Governor-nomi- nate Clyde R. Hoey is understood to be very anxious to have a short ses sion of the 1937 General Assembly. But whether he attains his wish is regarded as being very uncertain, since most observers of recent legis latures are convinced that the days of short sessions are just about gone forever. When all the General Assm bly had to do was adopt an appro priations and a revenue bill calling for expenditures of only $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year for the operation of the State departments and insti tuions, it was entirely possible for it to do all this within 60 days with the greatest of ease. But since the State has taken over the complete main tenance of the public schools, as it did in 1933, the legislature is now faced with the job of providing be tween $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 a year for the public schools alone and with providing revenue for a State general fund budget of befwcen $30,- 000,000 and $40,000,000 a year. Reasons for Hoey’s Desire. There are several reasons why Mr. Hoey is understood to be very anxious to have a short session of the General Assembly this winter, it is agreed. One is understood to be the convic tion that a short session would tend to unite the various factions in the party and tend to convince the public generally that all the pre-campaign rifts have been healed and that all is unity and harmony again. There is no doubt that if Mr. Hoey should be able to command a good working ma jority in both houses and hence be Continued on Page Two.) south of Carabelle on the northwest gulf coast. The Weather Bureau said strong winds might reach hurricane force. The storm center passed into the Gulf of .Mexico about 20 miles south of Everglades, far down on the Florida west coast, early today. Its passage brought an unusually high tide, which flooded streets in Ever glades. The Miami resort area took precau tions against high winds, but found the precautions wasted. The winds, reaching a maximum velocity of some 60 miles an hour — never hurricane force —.blew inland far south of the heavily populated areas. Spanish Government Moves' To Purge Its Own Ranks In Crushing Fascist Uprising ALL SUSPECTS ARE DEPRIVED OF JOBS IN LEFTIST RANKS Authorities Order Confisca tion of All Catholic Schools, Colleges, Universities GOVERNMENT SAYS REVOLT COLLAPSED But Reports From Other (Sources, Including Rebel lion’s Leaders, Conflict With That View; Loyalists Admit They Have Fight on Their Hands (By The Associated Press.) The seacoast city of San Sebastian trembled under renewed cannonading today and a Spanish government sub marine was reported sunk by a rebel seaplane as fresh drives for control in Spain’s civil war were launched by Fascists and loyalists. To speed in crushing the revolt, now in its twelfth day, the government initiated a purge of its enemies from within. State departments and the army were swept of any one suspected of friendliness to the Fascist cause. To wipe out teachings which leftists considered reactionary and inimical to their cause, the government or dered the confiscation of all remain ing Catholic schools, colleges and uni versities. As liberals marched on Fascist areas, the government claimed the re volution had collapsed. Yet Fascist commanders predicted the fall of Madrid with completion of a. military maneuver with intention to drive a wedge between the strategic and left ist-held cities of Barcelona and Mafrid. Two lighthouse officials at Gibral tar reported they witnessed the sink ing of the government submarine C-3 by a rebel plane. Leftists still dominated the Guadar rama mountains, the gateway to Miadrid. But loyalists began to admit the fight would last longer than they had anticipated when the rebellion began. Ward, S. C., Bank Robbed of SI,OOO By 4 Masked Men Ward, S. C., July 29.—(AP)— Four masked men, brandishing pistols, entered the Bank of Ward here shortly after noon today and seized cash estimated at less than SI,OOO. The bandits forced two em ployees and a customer of the hank into the vault at pistol points, ransacked the outer office and left without attempting to force the time lock of the inner vault, where most, of the institu tion’s funds were kept. Sheriffs of four surrouding counties and State highway patrol officials at Columbia were noti fied immediately and officers were guarding all roads. Stranded Americans To Leave Washington, July 29 (AP) —Strand- ed Americans, given new guarantees of protection by the rebel-threatened government of Spain, laid final plans today for their escape from inland Madrid to an American cruiser wait ing at the Alicanti seaport. Some 148 Americans, the largest group still reported on Spanish soil, planned to board trains tomorrow for their flight from the capital city, Continued on Page Two.) ~OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and cooler tonight and Thursday;,' probably occasional showers. CLEVENGER ‘FREE’ IN NIECE’S DEATH : N -~ s|[|( Declaring he is “free to go,” Prof. W. L. Clevenger (right) meets his brother, C. B. Clevenger (left) on leaving the Asheville, N. C. courthouse aft er being “detained for questioning” in the murder of his niece, Helen Clev enger. Professor Clevenger, who has returned to Raleigh, said authorities “still have the right to question me.” —(Associated Press Photo). Opposes Robinson ■ innNTifii •i; jSsbs Jn Mb M Rev. Claude C. Williams The Rev. Claude C. Williams, above, who was flogged recently in East Arkansas when he aided sharecroppers in organizing, has been nominated as the Socialist party’s candidate to oppose the re-election of Senator Joseph T, Robinson, Democratic leader in the U. S. senate. —Central Press IEMKE MODERATE MHKS CLUB Not at All Rabid for Town send Plan in Address to Correspondents By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 29. —Congressman. Wlilliam Lemke of North Dakota, speaking as the Union party’s presi dential candidate before the National Press club recently made an unex pectedly moderate talk. The Dakotan should not be assess ed as practically a. pure fanatic, like some of his associates. He may be a bit fanatical, but he is a politician, too. He recognizes the difference be tween an audience of the faithful (a mixture of faiths but brimful of sin cerity) in Cleveland and an audience of hardnboiled newspapermen in Washington. He adapted himself to Press club conditions and did it remarkably well. DESIRES -JTOWNSEND SUPPORT Os course Lemke wants the support of the Townsendites. He also wants the support of the Coughlinites, whose leader has pro nounced Townsendism as plain eco nomic foolishness. He could do this in Cleveland, where every speaker (except Norman Thomas) was cheered, whatever he said. He knew he could not be on both sides at once before the National Press club and he didn’t try. He side stepped very cleverly. The correspondents tried hard to Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Hearings On County Road Debts Near New State Commis sion To Sit in Three Districts of State Next Few Weeks Raleigh, July 29.—(AP)—The coun ty road debt adjustment commission today named J. L. Bailey, of Roper, a member of the 1935 State Senate, as its chairman and prepared to hold hearings at which e«ch county claim ing it is due any highway refunds from transactions which took plaoe a dozen or so years ago may present claims. Forty-four counties filed claims which now aggregate $8,451,160 Char les Ross, general counsel for the Highway and Public Works Commis sion, suggested that each of the 100 Continued on Page Two.) American Woman Shot In Spanish War Is Identified Washington, July 29.—(AP) —An American woman wounded last week in the revolutionary fight ing in northern Spain was identi fied today as Mrs. Fernando Gel lardo, daughter of Colonel D. B. McKay, editor of the Tampa, Fla., Times. Her identity was established by of ficials of the American embassy at Madrid, who notified the State De partment that Mrs. Gellardo had been brought to safety in the embassy there from Guadarrama, where she was wounded. The extent and nature of her wound were not revealed. So far Mrs. Gellardo is the only American known to have been injur ed in the Spanish civil strife. The plants of General iM'otors and the Ford Motor Company a.re in one of the cities affected by the civil war. New PWA Building Program Is Begun Washington, July 29. —(AP) — The Public Works Administration opened its third building program today with new emphasis on smal ler scale projects quickly built. A new style public works program was declared under way by President Roosevelt’s allotment of $22,742,034 for 352 projects in 37 states —with a man date that all must be finished in a year. Contrasting with such major struc tures as New York’s tri-borough bridge, for which $45,000,000 was al lotted several years ago, the largest project in the new program is a $4,- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY clevengSng TO BE CLEARED UP May Take Long Time But Slayer Will Be Found, Sheriff Laurence Brown Says SAYS HIS OFFICE ADVISED TOO LATE Not Notified Until About Two Hours After GiiTs Body Was Found; Says Nightwatchman, Still In Jail, Holds Key to Mystery If He Will Talk Ashevillei, July 29 (AP) —Sheriff Laurence E. Brown today renewed his prediction that the Helen Clev enger Murder mystery, now almost two weeks old, would be solved. “We are still going to solve this case,” he said. “It’s going to be a very difficult job, and it may take a long time.” The officer blamed much of the dif ficulty on the fact that his office was not notified until almost two hours after the body of the 18-year-old girl was found shot and beaten to death in her Battery Park hotel room here the morning of July 16. Brown disclosed that H. G. Rich ardson, of Charlotte ,had told him of seeing a stranger dash from the fourth floor of the hotel about 1 a. m. the time the girl is believed to have been killed on the second floor, but he said he attributed little importance to the statement. Explaining why he was inclined to minimize this information, the she riff said: “We know that at least one Intri gue connected with the Clevenger case was going on in the hotel that night.” Brown indicated efforts were being made to contact every person known to have been in the hotel. Meanwhile, one prisoner remained in the Buncombe county jail in con nection with the case. He is Daniel Gaddy, the 28-year-old night watch man at the hotel. Sheriff Brown reiterated he did not believe Gaddy had any direct connec tion with the crime, but added, “He’s holding something back. He’s the key to this whole mystery. When he talks we’ll know something.” VIOLENCE SEEN IN STEEL STRIKE WAR Northwestern Barbed Wire Com pany Plant at Sterling, 111., Scene of New.: Strife Sterling, 111., July 29.—(AP) —A bar rage of bullets and bricks capped a fresh flare of violence early today at the Northwestern Barbed Wire Com pany’s plant, scene of the first strike incidental to the drive to unionize the nation’s steel industry. Deputy sheriffs guarding the prop erty reported 25 or 30 rifle bullets had been fired from behind trees and buildings, but that all of them had passed over the plant, or spattered harmlessly against the walls. The 20 deputies threw tear gas bombs at the demonstrators until they finally withdrew. Three men were injured in earlier clashes. The outbreak occurred as spokes men for .John L. Lewis’ committee for industrial organization, spearhead of the movement to unionize steel work ers, and company representatives sought to complete peace negotiations ITALY WILLING TO NEW LOCARNO MEET Fact of Ethiopian Conquest But Not Right Must Be Accepted First, Mussolini Says Paris, July 29. —(AP) —Italy has ac cepted in principle, informed sources said today, an invitation to a five power Locarno conference. It was reported Premier Mussolini imposed two conditions on Italy’s par ticipation in the discussions to recon struct European security, including. Acceptance of the fact, but not the right, of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia. (The five Lpowers—Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium —probably will meet in September.) 835,000 court house for New York City. The average plant is $64,323. Futures of the new projects list, as explained by Secretary of the Interior Ickes, PWA chief, are: In addition to 45 percent donation, PWA will lend $2,142,000 to help com munities defray their 55 percent share of the cost. President Roosevelt has ordered that all project “be commenc ed. by October 1, 1936, reach a peak by the end of the year and be com pleted by October 1, 1937.” Relief labor will ibe used exclusively on projects approved so far. Previous ly, PWA had drawn only 40 percent of its employees from relief rolls.
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