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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Mid-Summer Panorama Has Vista Os Booming Business In Fall-Christmas Seasons WALL SI. SEEKING CLEAR APPRAISALS OF COMMONTHS How Long Present Rapid Pace Will Be Sustained By Business Is Speculated On EXPANSION ALMOST UNBROKEN SO FAR Some Fear Mass Purchasing Power Will Be Cut By Drought and Rise in Food Prices; Steel Operations Outstanding, With Car loadings at Peak New York, Aug- 3.—(AP) —A mid summer panorama of broad business revival unfolded today as Wall Street sought to appraise the autumn out look. Busy steel mills, record electric pow er output, well sustained automobile production, a high level of retail trade, peak freight movements for the year, and demand for new equipment by railroads were sketched into the July picture. Business analysts accepted the lat est statistical data as evidence that trade and industry under morpentum of almost unbroken expansion, had held their stride instead of slowing for the hot months as usual. How long the pace would hold was a matter of conjecture. Some author ities have painted the autumn and Christmas outlook in bright colors, taking the mid-summer record as an indication of a. powerful underlying recovery sweep. Others contend that crop losses from drought and a rise in food prices eventually would hit mass purchasing power. Business figures added to the rec ord in the last week depicted a su.b- Continued on Page Two.) GIRL, 17, WEEPS AT KILLING OF MOTHER Bayonne, N. J., Lassie Wants To Go to Funeral of Parent She and Lover Killed Bayonne, N. J., Aug. 31. —(AP) — Seventeen-year-old Gladys iMacKnight wept bitterly today, her attorneys said because she could not leave her cell to attend the funeral of her mother, whom she is accused of slaying. R. Lewis Kennedy, the attorney, de scribed the girl, who Police Chief Cornelius J. O’Neill said confessed she hacked her mother to death while her sweetheart, Donald Wightman, 18, cried “Hit her again,” as distraught and sleepless. Police described her as ‘‘cold and steele-uerved.” Gldays said she was “awfully sorry for mother, and father, too,” Ken nedy declared after a three-hour jail conference with the young girl. Says Legion Communistic Print F aked Pamphlets Called on Workmen To Kill “Aggressors of the Common People” Detroit, Mich., Aug. 3. —(AP) — Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan S. MeCrea said today he had evidence that the Black Legion, which fought communism, printed and represented as communistic in origin pamphlets which called upon workmen to “kill the aggressors of the common peo ple.” The prosecutor said the printing plot was disclosed by statements of Andrew W. Fosdick and further state ments by William H. Guthrie, Black legion printer. Fosdick’s statement was voluntary. He is a printer, not a Legion member. Fosdick and Guthrie said Leslie J. Black, former judge’s clerk, now held on charges of conspiracy to kill Ar thur Kingsley, Highland Park pub lisher, ordered the cards and litera ture printed. Some “fake” communistic pamph lets were scattered at a high school meeting. Fosdick, who knew Black as a member of the “night riders,” said he printed 500 pamphlets. 3LicniUn*smt DatUt tltsmtfrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. Now— Ready for Hot Campaign! i -v President Franklin D. Roosevelt Striking new closeup of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taken at the end of his vacation, shows him in “perfect” condition, for his campaign. —Central Press Georgia Leaf Is Ready For Season Start Higher Prices Ex pected As Auctions Begin in Lower Belt Tomorrow Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 3.—(AP)—Geor gia’s golden leaf tobacco goes to the auctions tomorrow. Hugo warehouses, their space in creased in a number of cities and towns, today began to receive the crop expected to he of better grade than last year’s, although the leaf is light er in weight. Higher prices, too, are expected. The improved quality and drought curtail ment in North and South Carolina are the main factors. Last year more than 71,000,000 pounds of the leaf was sold at Geor gia’s auctions. Those familiar with crop conditions this season have pre dicted the poundage would run about the same or larger. The 1935 crop brought farmers more than $13,250,000 at an average price of $18.91 cents per pound. PLAYWRIGHT NAMED IN ASTOR CHARGES George Kaufmann Subpoenaed To Tell his Relations with Pretty Screen Actress Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 3 (AP) — Mystery enveloping the name “George Kaufmann” in the Mary Astor child custody case was lifted today by a subpoena calling the playwright of tht name to tell of his acquaintance with the screen beauty. Also in prospect with resumption of the sensational court hearing was the introduction of a diary the act ress is said to have filled with inti mate secrets. Miss Astor herself was assigned another interlude in the witness chair to he questioned by attorneys for her divorced husband, Dr. Frank Thorpe, from whom she seeks full custody of their four-year-old daught er, Maryln. She has testified he was rough and inept father. As the time for resumption of the hearing neared, executives at the ac tress’ studio said they were trying to get an agreement to save a $50,000 delay in production of a movie. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1936 Clevenger May Bring Hotel Suit ‘Dally OlNiiatt'h flaremi. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Ry J. ItASKI.HVII.I. Raleigh, Aug. 3. Prof W. .L. Clevenger, of the State College fa culty here and uncle of Helen Cleven ger who was brutally murdered the night of July 16 in her room in the Battery Park hotel in Asheville, is seriously considering bringing a large damage suit against the Battery Park hotel and its management, both in connection with the murder of his niece and for the manner in which he was treated by the hotel manage ment after he had discovered the body of the young woman, it was learned here today. It is no secret in State College cir cles that both Prof. W. L. Clevenger and his brother, Prof. C. B. Clevenger, feel that one of the principal reasons the slayer of Helen has not yet been (Continued on Pag x’hree.) Immediate Needs and Loing- Time Reclamation Both Being Studied By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 3. —Back from the middle northwest drouth area (the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming), Re settlement Director Rexford G. Tug well says his present task i s largely stop-gap in its character. President Roosevelt’s permanent committee on the economic readjust ment of population was created to deal with the question as a long-time proposition. Tugwell’s experience of today will, as he expresses it, go into the perma nent committee'te “pot.” His imme diate concern, however, is with con ditions of the present—with the relief of agriculture and the maintenance of the livestock industry in areas where the farmer’s case already is hopeless, where the cattleman’s grass may be too far gone to re-seed itself next season, where folk not only are ruined momentarily but don’t know (Continued on Page Three.) Loyalists Gather For Still Another Push Against Rebels in Mountain Passes PLAN FOR ATTACKS ON THREE FRONTS Government Warships Bom bard Spanish Moroccan City; Rebel Advance Guards Reported Occupy ing Two Towns on Road to Madrid from the North (By The Associated Press.) Assaults on three fronts —north, central, south—opened today, with both government and rebel leaders throwing fresh troops into the civil war. Loyalists gathered strength for still another push against rebels in the Guadarrama mountain circle above Madrid. Rebel insurgents turned anew a gainst shell-torn San Sebastian on the Bay of Biscay. General Emilio Mola ordered the campaign, with the reinforcement of an estimated 10,000 soldiers. Loyal warships bombarded Ceuta, in Spanish Morocco, and other Spanish concentrations along the coast. French government circles learned their plea for strict, neutrality in the Spanish conflict was welcome in Lon don but less welcome in Rome. Observers said General Mola sought to clear a northern outlet to the sea before turning to Madrid, which he said last week would, be captured Continued on Page Two.) SAY ST. LOUIS MAN CONFESSES SLAYING Night Chief Says John Hamilton Admits Killing Wife and Gris som in Self-Defense St. Louis, 111., Aug. 3.—(AP)—Lieu tenant Sam Strautz, night chief of police, announced today John Hamil ton had made oral admission he shot and killed hisr wife, Mrs. Wilma Woods Hamilton, and Thomas Gris som Sunday. Strautz said Hamilton told of the killing after hours of questioning. The police officer also quoted Hamil ton as saying he had thrown his pis tol and one taken from Grissom into a lake south of the city. A search was begun for the weapons. c Hamilton is a constable and a can didate for the St. Clair county board of review. In his pral statement, Strautz re ported Hamilton said he fired at Gris som in self-defense and did not in tend to kill his wife. Americans Will Remain At Capital Most of Those Still in Madrid To Stay There To Protect Their Business Madrid, Aug. 3. —(AP)—lmmediate evacuation of all Americans desiring to leave Madrid in order to take ad vantage of the one railroad line open to Valencia, seacoast town, was sug gested by Amercan Embassy officials tonight. The announcement was made at a meeting of the officials and the 74 Americans still housed in the em bassy building. Most of them, however, said they preferred to remain here and take care of their business affairs. Three British ships lay off Val elcia ready to take foreigners aboard. They will proceed to Marseilles to morrow. (Secretary Hull of the American State Department warned today that conditions in Spain might make it im possible for United States government ships to provide refuge for this coun try’s nationals later.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, slightly warmer in extreme southwest portion to night; Tuesday partly cloudy, be coming unsettled. Hopes For Labor Peace Fadd As Lewis And Eleven Others Fail To Attend Their Trial This Was a Church in Seville All that remains of one of Seville’s many beautiful church edifices. This church was burned by Communists of the Government forces in retalia tion against rebels. (Central Press) SSL Many Think Present In structive Courses Great ly Inadequate FEW GO TO COLLEGE Whole High School Training Appa rently in That Direction; Practical Subjects for Life Work Desired Dally DiN|>iiteh Bureau, In The Sip Walter Hotel, Rv J. O. OASKKnVIM, Raleigh, Aug. 3.—The 1937 General Assembly will probably devote con siderable attention to the subject taught in the curricula of the public schools as well as to the financial sup port of the schools, according to rum blings already being heard from over the State. The greater part of the •time of every General Assembly is now spent in Peeking new revenue with which to provide the appropria tions for the financial support of the schools, which now amounts to more than $20,000,000 a year. Reports now indicate that the school forces will ask an increase of not less than $5,- 000,000 a year in this appropriation during the 1937 legislative session, (Continued on Page Three.) Coughlin Again Hits Roosevelt New Bedford, ;Mlass., Aug. 3. —(AP) —Rev. Charles E, Coughlin returning to Detroit today after addressing three outdoor rallies in New England said he was prepared to be “instru mental in taking a communist from the chair once occupied by Washing ton.” “As I was instrumental in remov ing Herbert Hoover from the White House, so I will he instrumental in taking a communist from the chair once occupied by Washington,” he told a gathering sponsored by the Nation al Union for Social Justice here last night. “Herbert Hoover,” he declared,” “with his rugged individualism was more dangerous than Stalin with his communism.” Roosevelt, he asserted, started with a platform and acceptance speech which promised to make this wo paradise, which he could have done had he kept his promise.” “We can’t endorse either Mr. Lan don or Mr. Roosevelt,” he said, “be cause one wants to go back to the gold standard and the other to the dole standard and there is not much choice between the two.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. $1,000,000 Check Is Paid to State Raleigh, Aug. 3. — (AP) —The State got another revenue check for upward of $1,000,000 today, but this one was for franchise taxes of one of the State’s power com panies, which was included In bud get estimates. Last month two inheritance tax payments from estates of Winston- Salem residents, Smith Reynolds and Bowman Gray, sent revenues up more than $3,015,000 above bud get estimates. The Reynolds estate paid $2,015,000 and the Gray estate more than $1,000,000. EM wSe™ed I. C. C. Refuses Request of Railroads for Perman ent Rail Charges Washington, Aug. 3 (AP) —The In terstate Commerce, Commission to day denied a petition of Class I rail roads seeking to make permanent emergency freight charges schedul ed to expire December 31. The surcharges, which railroads es timate provide about $104,000,000 ex tra revenue annually, were schedul ed to expire July 1, hut the roads se cured an extension. In their petition the railroads ask ed authority to change the temporary rates into permanent rate schedules. The carriers contended such rates would be “just and reasonable,” that industry and traffic can hear them without harm, and that their appli cation hast not and that their appli in any material loss of traffic. Various shipping interests, led by ooal producers, protested the sur charges, contending they were im pending freight movements, burden ing interstate commerce and causing substantial traffic diversions to oth er forms of transnortation. FEWEPRISONERS ESCAPE PEN, JAILS Recaptures at Same Time Increasing, Official Sta tistics Show Dally Diaiiatoli Bnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 3.—The prison divis ion of the State Highway and Public Works Commission is continuing to maintain its record for a steady de crease in the number of escapes and Continued on Page Two.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TfTXs IGNORE MAJORITY Compromise Proposal To Delay Showdown Offer ed at Morning Meet ing of Groups GREEN REFUSES TO ELABORATE ON VIEW Wisconsin Delegate in “Regular” Organizat ion Wants Lewis Group To Confine Activities to Steel and Rubber Industries for A. F. of L. Help Washington, Aug. 3 (AF) —William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said today that hopes for settlement of the contro versy between the craft union faction of the organization and John L. Lewis were “not as bright as they were at the end of the first session of the trial of Lewis and eleven other union leaders for “insurrection and rebel lion.” Green said: “Our hopes for a settlement are not as bright as they were prior to the meeting of the executive council this morning.” He declined to elaborate. Appearing as prosecutor at the bit terest trial in the history of the fed eration, John P. Frey had charged Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and the eleven groups in the committee for industrial organi zation with “ingratitude, treason and contemputuous disregard of the prin ciple of majority rule.” Frey, president of the federation’s metal trade department, have give views after a compromise proposal to delay a showdown was made by Henry Ohl, Jr., president of the Wis consin Federation of Labor. There was no action. COMPROMISE PROPOSAL TO HALT SHOWDOWN OFFERED Washington, Aug. 3.—(AP)—A com promise proposal to delay a showdown was made to the American Federation, of Labor executive council today at the opening of its trial of John L. Lewis and eleven associates in the committee for industrial organization on charges of “insurrection and re bellion.” Although the proceedings had been scheduled to start in mid-afternoon, the council decided to hear Henry Ohl, Jr., president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor, this morning be- Continued on Page Two.) Carolina’s Olympic Man Wins Honor Harry Williamson One of Americans Bringing Points to U. S. To Lead Berlin, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Harry Wil liamson, University of North Carolina ace, won his heat in the 800-metre Olympic trials today in one minute, 53.1 seconds. Backhouse, of Australia, was third, and Edwards of Canada fourth. Another attack on the record books featured by the American sprint stars, Jesse Owens and Helen Stephens, and the German hammer thrower, Karl Hein, marked the second day of Olympic competition today as another capacity crowd packed the main sta dium. Owens, Negro flash from Ohio State University, chalked up America’s sec ond championship as he defeated Ralph Metcalf, Chicago Negro, by a yard and a half in 10.3 seconds equal ling the Olmplc record. Miss Stephens, great sprinter from Fulton, Mo., twice cracked world and Olympic figures as she qualified along with Annette Rogers, of Chicago, for the women’s 100-metre finals. All three United States half milers, John Woodruff, Chuck Hornbostel and Harry Williamson, of North Car olina, won semi-final heats in the 800- metre competition and safely qualified for the finals. America’s total points score in track and field soared to 46. Germany mov ed into second place, with 31.25, with Finland third at 31.25. „
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