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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR CLEVENGER SLAYER FACES TRIAL MONDAY ROOSEVELT TELLS LABOR REACTIONS TO BEJBUT SHORT Return to Old Ways Won’t Last, As History Shows Men Will Demand “Rights” CHIDES COURT FOR SLAPPING NEW DEAL “Was Not Wage Earners Who Jeered When Those Laws Were Declared In valid,” President Says; Tells Labor Its Support Is Priceless Contribution Washington, Aug. 10.—'AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt told labor’s non-par tisan league today he was confident future history would show, as it had in the past, that “a return to reac tionary practices is ever short-lived.” In a letter which George L. Berry, president of the league, read at the league's first national convention, Mr. Roosevelt said: "During the past three years we have endeavored to correct through legislation certain of the evils in our teonomie system. We have sought to put a s*op to certain economic prac tices which did not promote the gen eral welfare. "Some of the laws which were en acted were declared invalid. “It is a notable fact that it was not the wage earners who jeered when those laws were declared invalid. "I greet you in the faith that fu ture history will show, as past history has so repeatedly and so effectively shown, that a return to reactionary practices is ever short-lived. "Having tasted the benefits of li beration, men and women do not for long forego these benefits. "I have implicit faith that we shall find our way to progress through law. Your support is a priceless contribu tion toward continued faith in that outcome.” Forest Fires Being Fought In Dry Areas (By The Associated Press) Relief workers, aided by National Guard equipment were pressed into the fight against spreading flames in northern Minnesota’s tinder dry for est today, while weary fire-fighters patrolled smouldering timber lines in six other states. Ten National Guard trucks and 800 'VDA workers joined fire-fighters in Minnesota, where the uncontrolled flames threatened devastation |to several small communities. f ires in northern Wisconsin and on the upper Michigan peninsula were ’ernporarily checked, but thousands of men kept a constant patrol along the chaired timber front. tobacco compact IS BEING DRAFTED Greenville, N. C., Aug. 10.—(AP) — The office of E. F. Arnold, executive "cretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, was drafting today a tobacco compacts to be submitted to farm bu •chus in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. VACATIONISTSHIKE DRUNKENMG armer Says, However, F ewer Drunks in Counties With Liquor Stores Raleigh, Aug. 10. —(AP) —Captain Charles D. Farmer, of the highway patrol, reported today arrests of drunken drivers in July numbered 370, a gain of about 20 percent over the 304 in June, and attributed the in crease to habits of vacationists. “We always have an increase in drunken driving arrests at this time of year, largely due to celebrating “va cationists,” Farmer said. “However, it is interesting to note there were fewer drunken driving arrests in the eastern control district, where sale of. liquor is legalized, than in the other districts.” Patrolmen arrested 2,754 persons in July, compared with 2,401 in June. Untiimuni tlatly Bispitfrlt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. A Barricade in the Defense of Madrid xW* • ••>•••*.. .* _ _ •■••• g-. : x- ' Loyal troops are shown firing on advancing Fascist rebels in a small town near Madrid. They have barri caded the streets with bedding. Government reports claim that the Fascists have been driven back and that the capital city is now safe from invasion. (Central Press) Capture Os 13Rebel Towns Claimed By Madrid Sources Insurgents Mass In Far North of Spain for Fresh Drive upon San Sebastian GOVERNMENT SEES QUICK END OF WAR Death of Retired British Naval Officer Feared May Endanger General Euro pean Accord Seeking Non- Intervention in Spain; Killed by Rebel Shell (By The Associated Press) Capture of the towns and province of Santander on the Bay of Biscay was announced by the Spanish rebel radio sta tion today as word filtered through that other far north ern communities faced a short age of both food and water. Targets of bitter Fascist attacks by both air and rifle fire as the rebels fought for access to the northern sea board, which would assure them more guns and ammunition, the northern loyalist-held communities of San Se bastian, Rentaria and Irun were re ported to he fighting doggedly for their existence. Madrid heard that great concentra tions of insurgent troops were stack ing arms and taking inventory just to the south of the beleaguered towns in preparation for an assault intend ed to wipe out every vestige of leftist military control in the far north. (By The Associated Press.) Capture of 13 Spanish communities dominated by rebels was announced by Madrid’s loyalist troops today as insurgents massed in the far north for an offensive against San Sebastian and Irun. The government predicted a quick end to the civil war, now in its 23rd day. The death of a British subject, meanwhile, was looked upon in dip lomatic circles as holding potentiali ties which might endanger a general European accord sponsored by France for non-intervention in Spain. Captain Rupert Saville, retired Bri- Continued on Page Five.) LINCOLN STEFFENS DIES IN THE WEST Crusading Editor of So-Called “Muck raking” Era of American Journalism Years Ago. Carmel, Cal., Aug. 10.—(AP)—Lin coln Steffens, crusading leader in the so-called “muckraking” era of Amer ican journalism, is dead. The 70-year-old writer, lecturer and one-time newspaper and magazine eefitor, succumbed to a heart ailment at his Carmel home, caressing with his last feeble strength the hand of his divorced wife, Ella Winter, radical author. Educated in California and univer sities of Europe, Steffens, a native of San Francisco, entered the newspap er field in New York, and in 1902 be came managing editor of McClure’s Magazine. In this position and later as associate editor of the American and Everybody’s Magazines, he en couraged the school of journalism to which President Theodore Roosevelt applied the term of “muckraking.” HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10, 1936 Emergency Crops To Be Permitted Washington, Aug. 10.—(AP) The Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration announced today that farmers in nine southern states in the AAA southern division, could plant emergency feed and forage crops without reducing benefit pay ments due them under the soil con servation program. Similar changes in the east-cen tral region, which includes North Carolina, had previously been an nounced. Social Act Board Will Open Office Two Headquarters for State as Tax Col lections Start Next January 1 Dully Dlnpnti'h Bnre«sw. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Pjr J C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 10.—The two offices to be opened in the State soon by the National Security Board will have plenty of work to do between now and January 1, when the old age benefits section of the social security act be come effective without any coopera tive State law, Commissioner of La bor A. L. Fletcher pointed out today. For these two offices will have the big task of listing every employe and , every employer in the State between now and January 1, in order that the government may start the collection of the one percent assessment or tax on all payrolls and on the ages of all employes. Scramble for Offices. One of these offices will probably be located in Raleigh and the other pro bably in Salisbury, although Char lotte is known to be making a very strong effort to get the second office, Commissioner Fletcher said. The first thing these offices will probably do will be to make up lists of all employ ers in the State, with the number of employees of each, the period of time each has been employed and the total wages received to date. All of this data is required before the effective date of the old age benefits section of the law on January 1, although no benefits will be paid until January 1, 1942. But beginning January 1, 1937, every employe and every employer must start making their payments of one per cent per year on the wages and salaries received and on total pay rolls in order to build up the benefits or insurance fund, Fletcher pointed out. Compulsory Insurance. The old age benefits plan is in reality nothing more than compulsory annuity insurance which becomes ef fective at age 65 and which will pay from sl6 to a maximum of SBS a month, depending upon the total earn Continued on Page Two.) APPROVAL GIVEN Popular Reaction, So Far as Guaged Now, Is State Could Well Afford New Debts WOULD REQUIRE NO ADDITIONAL TAXES Present Levies for Gasoline and. Licenses Could Not Be Cut, However; School Forces, Expected To Op pose Project, Are Inclined To Be Favorable Daily Dispatch Bnrena, In The Sir Walter Hotel. llt J. O. RASKF.RVILI. Raleigh, Aug. 10. —The suggestion made by State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson that the time has come for the State to issue some more road bonds with which to build needed links in the State highway system and rebuild worn out and obsolete roads built 12 or 15 years ago, which are no longer adequate for present day traf fic, has stirred up plenty of talk in political circles here. Some commen tators think that Johnson has stepped inter a veritable hornets’ nest in ad vocating the issuance of any more bonds, even if they can be issued and retired without in any way increas ing the State’s debt service require ments, as Johnson maintains. Most of those here who have studied Treas urer Johnson’s suggestion, however, are inclined to approve it and think that he is advocating a move which in the long run is economical and en tirely sound. Only Way To Modernize. The proposal made by State Treas urer Johnson in a speech before the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association in Asheville Saturday, was that the only way the State can re build and modernize its main high way system is by issuing some new bonds in sufficient amount to do the job properly, since it will be impos sible to get enough funds for new construction from current highway revenue to do more than patch the roads or put temporary surface treat ment on them. Johnson pointed out (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered show ers Tuesday and possibly in west portion tonight; slightly warmer in interior tonight. Her Slayer M akes Confession ; Jjß| ‘ iillj M' m mmb - ,:y ' rjjip-' Sif /w |||y" •Jfir WSSSSmBM gp|F - Helen Clevenger Manufacturing Is Placed At Highest Levels Since 1930 Washington, Aug. 10. —(AP) — With manufacturing production placed at the highest point since the spring of 1930, the Commerce Department re ported today that business activity wa£ continuing without suffering from the usual summer slackening. With the year 1923-25 taken as 100, the Department’s seasonally adjust ed index of manufacturing advanced three points in June to 104. A further rise, the department said, was indi cated for July. WOULD DIVIDE UP^ Raleigh Regarded by Some As Best Location If It Is Established Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. O. BASKERVILI Raleigh, Aug. 10—'Most of those here who are interested in having a four-year medical school established in the State, probably as a part of the University of North Carolina, think that part of the school, em bracing the final two years in medi cine, should be located in Raleigh. It has been known for some time that a determined effort will be made by alumni of the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest medical schools, which so far have offered only two-year pre-med courses, to gether with many other doctors in the State, will make a determined ef fort to get the 1937 General Assem bly to establish a four-year medical school in the State in order to pre vent the closing of the Carolina and Wlake Forest schools by the American Medical Assoication. One of the lead ers in this movement is Dr. Ben J. Lawrence, of Raleigh, who was a candidate for the House of the 1937 (Continued on Page Eight.) Two Nash County Officers Are Shot In Moonshine Hunt Rocky Mount, Aug. 10.—(AP) — Two Nash county officers feared critically wounded by shotgun fire as they emerged from a swamp hearing a huge illicit liguor plant, were enroute to a Rocky Mount hospital this afternoon, according to information from Sheriff C. J. Johnston. The men, M. A. McLinn, and Cuthrell Cooper, both constables, had been employed by the county alcoholic beverage control board as special agents to fight boot leggers in the county. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. The steel industry was described a3 “unusually active” last month, with electrical equipment, machinery and building supply industries also gain ing. Automobile production dropped off last month, but the department said that the “active market for both pas senger and commercial cars has held production to a high level, considera tion being given to the lateness of the season.” LEONARD ASSAILS STATETAX SET-UP Tells Labor Convention! Democratic Principles Are Abandoned !■■■■■ ■. >m Winston-Salem, Aug. 10.—(AP)— Paul Leonard, of Statesville, head of the North Carolina Fair Tax Asso ciation, denounced North Carolina’s tax policies today in an address .be fore the annual convention of the State Federation of Labor. “When a state goes so far in the departure from the one true Demo cratic principle of fair taxation — ability to pay that it collects more than 50 percent of its revenue in con sumptive taxes, it is time to call a halt and reverse the trend,” he as serted. Leonard said the recent report of the State Department of Revenue for the fiscal year just ended showed over $10,000,000 had been collected in general sales taxes and over $19,000,- 000 in gasoline taxes, which, along with other consumptive taxes, amount ed to more than 50 percent of the total collections. George L. Googe, southern repre sentative of the A. F. of L., declared in an address to the convention the biggest thing confronting organized laibor now is re-election of President Roosevelt. He condemned the Re publican labor plank. He discussed at some length the controversy in the A. F. of L. over the question of craft unionism, denying the A. F. of L. was opposed to vertical unionism as such. WILSON NEGRO HAS ADMITTED ATTACK Wilson, Aug. 10. —(AP) —Joe Barnes, 35-year-old Negro, was held in an un disclosed jail today after his arrest for the slashing of Mrs. Charles Allen. Chief of Police John Gurley said the man had confessed to attacking her. Mlrs. Allen was improving from the cuts she received on her throat, chest, arm and hand. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SSS 4 Sheriff Brown Convinced Negro Bellhop Made No , Effort To Assault Pretty Co-Ed MAKES CONFESSION AFTER QUESTIONING Declares Robbery Was His Motive in Entering Room, and Clubbed and Shot Girl When She Screamed; Martin Moore, Confessed Slayer, Acted in Fright Asheville, Aug-. 10.—(AP)—An early trial was promised today for Marlin Moore, 22 yeaj -c id Negro hotel em ployee, who confessed, Sheriff Laur eate Brown said, he murdered Helen Clevenger, blonde young co-ed, in a moment of panic when he went to her room to rifle it and found her there. Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles said tha gangling, darkened hall boy at tha fashionable Battery Park hotel, where the New York University student was staying, would be tried at a term pf court beginning next Monday. The prisoner, arrested Saturday night and gri’led for hours before he was said by the sheriff to have con fessed he shot and clubbed the 18- year-o!d girl to death, is held in the county jail atop its skyscraper court house. The sheriff said Moore denied he at tempted to ravish the girl. Robbery, he told the sheriff, was his only mo tive, and he entered the room after trying several others, upon finding the door unlocked. When he saw the girl inside and she screamed, he said he became panicky. “When I got in the room,” he re lated in his purported confession, "she screamed and that’s why I shot her. She screamed some more and started to run out. I struck her with the gun. When she fell on the floor. I struck her several times more to stop her screaming.” j Sheriff Brown, the chief investiga tor of the murder, which he on 5e termed a “jigsaw puzzle,” said he w La convinced that the girl had hot be jn ravaged and that robbery was t|e motive. f. Toward the end of the investigation Sheriff Brown and hi s deputies were aided by Walter B. Orr, former Char lottee, N. C., police chief, and two members of a New York City homi cide squad, Sergeants Thomas J. Mar tin and John J. Quinn. MYSTERY IS SOLVED WITH ARREST OF NEGRO HALLBOY Asheville, Aug. 10—(AP)—The my sterious hotel room murder of Helen Clevenger, young vacationing co-ed, was solved yesterday, Sheriff Law rence Brown said, with the arrest and confession of Martin Moore, 22, a Ne gro hotel boy. j Moore, after hours of grilling, made a signed statement that he crept tyi to the girl’s room at the fashionable Battery Park hotel the night of 15, bent upon robbery, and brutally Continued on Page Five.) Girl Slayer Arraigned In Lower Court i Murder and First Degree Burglary Charges Laid on Confessed Killer Asheville, Aug. 10.—(AP)—Mar tin Moore, 22-year-old Negro hotel employee was arraigned on char ges of murder and first degree burglary today, waived prelim inary hearing in county court, and was ordered held for trial in su perior court for the slaying of Helen Clevenger. Conviction on either charge car ries the penalty of death in the gas chamber. The court appointed Thomas L. Johnson, Jr., to act as Moore’s at torney. No evidence was presented and Judge J. P. Kitchln issued issued his order in a brief session. Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles said “the angle is definitely out” of the case. Sheriff Laurence Brown an nounced yesterday Moore had con fessed the killing.
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