HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
N. C. TOBACCO CROP
HAS SHOWN MARKED
PROGRESS LATELY
“Excellent Yields” of Corn
Also Indicated for Many
Counties, Report
Declares
OUTLOOK NOW BEST
OF ENTIRE SEASON
450 Million Pounds of To
bacco Promised, Compar
ed With 577 Million Pounds
Last Year; July 1 Estimate
Was Half Corn Crop As
Optimistic
P.ileigh, Aug:. 11—(AP) —North Car
olina's tobacco crop “has improved
amazingly” and “excellent yields” of
corn are now indicated for many
counties, the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service said today in its Au
gust summary.
The winter wheat yield was 800,000
bushel? less than last year.
"Cm.' conditions in North Caro
lina nr.’ now indicative of better yield
than at any time thi» year,” the report
said. ‘ General tains have at last cov
et'd the Mate. \Vhile stands are often
pci ;■ and growth late, the outcome
m n not be so bad o* vepting in a few
counties and limbed Realities."
The State’s tobacco outlook is for
470, fits. i>oo pounds. with condition
August 1 at 66 per cent, and a yield of
743 pounds per acre forecast. L#ast
year the State produced 57,435000
pounds. The report noted that “just
what the weight and quality will be is
pi ahlematical. ”
In many counties where a forecast
of half a crop of corn on July 1
“yould have been optimistic,” the
service said, “excellent yields are now
indicated.”
From a condition of 75 percent of
a normal crop and an acreage yield
of 17.5 bushels, a crop of 42,490,000
bushels is indicated, compared with
47,082,000 bushels last year.
Corn production averaged 38,415,000
bushels yearly between 1928 and 1932,
and the tobacco average was 469,135,-
000 pounds.
ICKES AND HOPKINS
ARE AGAIN AT ODDS
Administration Sides With
Latter in His “Leaf-Rak
ing” Program
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Aug. 11. —Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes, in his
capacity a.s public works administra
tor, and Works Progress Administra
tor Harry L. Hopkins are at logger
heads again.
“Again” isn’t quite the right word
to use. They never have been other
wise than at loggerheads, but they are
involved in a fresh major engage
ment.
The Treasury Department, at Presi
dent Roosevelt’s request, is trying to
arbitrate it. It is a safe bet that it
cannot be compromised. PWA and
WPA sound a good deal alike as
initials, but they are poles apart
translated into terms of Ickes and
Hopkins respectively. A compromise
ini per cent one wav or the other.
tiieir joint sum
Ickes and Hopkins jointly have sl,-
127,000,000 to spend on relief work.
But it was left to the administra
tion to determine how much Ickes
■ hotdd have and how much Hopkins
should have.
Now, Tckes’ and Hopkins’ relief
philosophies differ.
Ickes holds that public works, even
foi relief purposes, ought to be per
manent. in character, not boondoggl
ing uneconomic—wasted “made work”
a the Socialists say.
Hopkins’ reasoning is that perma
nent construction calls for large e.v
penditureg for the material that goes
into it. Boondoggling, he argues, pays
more immediate wages.
ARGUMENT FOR ICKES
Personally I am pro-Ickes.
The materials he requires for his
permanent projects have to be pro
duced, too. That makes employment
for collateral workmanships. And, in
the end, there’s something to show
for it. There is not much to show for
leaf-raking.
Still as Hopkins asserts, his kind
of relief may be more “immediate.”
Anyway, the administration, sym
pathizing largely with Hopkins, let
Ickes have only $300,000,000 out of the
$1,425,000,000.
ICKES BLOCKED
I ekes went to work with it.
He soon ran into this difficulty:
Every cent that he spends in wages
must go to workers who were on the
relief rolls.
Now, Ickes’ projects call for many
highly skilled laborers, and compara
tively too few of them are on the re
lief rolls to meet with his require
ments. He can get common labor, but
not skilled labor. Consequently his
projects are held up.
As news dispatches express it, he
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Blind Hiker
I ' ■ , m ssi*
Russell Darbo
Disappointed at his failure to ob«
tain an audition for an amateur
radio program, blind Russell Dar
bo, 27-year-old University of Cali
fornia law student, who hitch
hiked from Berkeley, Cal., to New
York City in 33 days, starts his
return trip. Darbo’s sole compan
ion is his shepherd dog, Mia.
Often Darbo walked 30 miles a
day, with Mia never faltering
despite blistered paws.
—Central Press
STATE PATROL TO
6E COMING ISSUE
Control of Highway Police
Will Be Fought Out Be
fore Legislature
MIGHT BE NEW UNIT
But Both Revenue Department,
Which Now Controls It, and
Highway Department, As
Before, Want It
i. n i. y Jlmiiiiti'h IlHreON,
(n The Sir Walter Hotel,
ivr .) BASaBHVIU
Raleigh, Aug. 11 ‘Patrol, patrol,
whose gonna get the patrol?” is ex
pected to be one of several interest
ing games the 1937 General Assem
bly will be called on to play before
the session ends. For while the
State Highway Patrol is now a unit
of the State Department of Revenue,
it was formerly a unit of the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion and it is no secret that the high
way department still thinks the pa
trol should be under its direction in
stead of the revenue department.
There is still another group, how
ever, which is becoming more and
more of the opinion that the high
way patrol should not be under eith
er the highway or revenue depart
ment, but that it should be an en
tirety separate and distinct law en
forcement agency under the direc-
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Schools Os State To Teach
Harmful Effect Os Alcohol
Ilnlly I)lN|Hiteh RnrCna.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Rr J. C. BAKKERVILI-
Raleigh, Aug. 11.—The report of the
State Elementary Textbook Commis
sion, including the work which it has
been doing in attempting to find a
suitable textbook on the harmful ef
fect of alcohol and narcotics on the
human body, was submitted today to
State Superintendent Clyde A. Erwin,
who in turn will transmit the report
and recommendations of the commis
sion to the State Board of Education,
including its recommendations for the
adoption of the text dealing with al
cohol and narcotics.
Due to the fact there very few text
books were available concerning the
ill effects of alcohol and narcotics,
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY; AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11, 1936
5 CROP OF CORN
SPEEDSUP RELIEF
Thirty More Counties Add
ed in Seven States To
Emergency Lists for
Country
920 COUNTIES IN 22
STATES TO GET AID
Roosevelt May Use His
Powers To Cut Tariff on
Corn To Make Supplies
Available Here; Wheat Is
Much Below Needs and
Tobacco Is 78 Percent
Washington, Aug. 11. — (AP) —A gov
ernment estimate that the 1936 corn
crop will te the smallest in 55 years
served as a guide today to Federal
relief moves in the drought area.
The yield of 1,439,135,000 bushels,
estimated by the crop reporting board
yesterday, is the lowest since 1881.
Secretary Wallace and other admin
istration officials who had anxiously
awaited the forecast immediately pro
ceeded anew with relief plans.
Drought relief officials added 30
more counties in seven states to the
emergency list, which now includes
920 counties in 22 states. Relief ef
forts are concentrated in these coun-
There was some speculation as to
whether President Roosevelt might
use his powers under the tariff act
to reduce the 25 cents per bushel
tariff on corn imports or eliminate it
on specific purchases for drought
needs.
A smaller decline in the production
of all wheat was also forecast in the
report. Production this year was
pSaced at 6312,745,000 bushel;?, com
pared to the July 1 estimate of 638,-
399,000 bushels and the five-year av
erage of 863,564,000 bushels.
Comparing estimated production of
“important” crops this year with per
centage of the five-year average pro
duction from 1928 to 1932, the crop
board rated tobacco production at 78
percent.
ASTOR DIARY MAY
BE READ IN COURT
Efforts To Bare Secret Life of Act
ress in Custody Suit Have
Hitherto Failed
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 11.—
(AP) Judge Goodwin Knight
sharply criticized opposing attor
neys in the sensational Mary As
tor-Dr. Franklin Thorpe martial
dispute today, and ordered an ad
journment until 2 p. m. to ex
pedite the court hearing.
Judge Knight ordered the at
torneys to go hack to their of
fices and prepare a case limited to
the issues now before the court.
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 11.—(AP)
The diary to which Mary Astor en
trusted the secrets of her film colony
life focused attention today, at her
celebrity-studded child custody suit.
Away to unlock the legal door to
its contents was sought at a trial
which already has introduced in evi
dence such prominent names as John
Barrymore, the actor; George S.
Kaufman, the playwright, and Ben
nett Cerf, former husband of actress
Sylvia Sidney.
John Anderson, counsel for Miss As
tor’s ex-husband, Dr. Franklin Thorpe
said he would make strenuous efforts
to' introduce the journal as evidence
Miss Astor is not a fit parent for her
four-year-old daughter Marlyln. M'iss
Astor brought suit to break the order
granting the physician sole custody.
Anderson earlier tried to introduce
a portion of the actress’ diary, and
Roland Rich Woolley, Miss Astor’s
attorney; protested vehemently.
The new move was disclosed by An
derson after his questions drew spirit
ed denials from the witness that she
carried on boudoir affairs with a
number of men whose names he
brought up like rabbits from a hat.
most of the books submitted were in
manuscript form. As a result, the com
mission has recommended the adop
tion of only one book, written espe
cially for use in North Carolina by a
member of the faculty of the Chapel
Hill unit of the University of North
Carolina. It is expected that the book
will be adopted without any opposi
tion and that it will be printed and
distributed in time so that it can be
used in every school this year. Its use
will be mandatory in the sixth grade
of every school in the State, Super
intendent Erwin said this afternoon.
The 1935 General Assembly passed
a special law directing that a text
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Georgia Averages
25.27 c Last Week
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 11.—(AP)—
Garland Bagley, statistician of the
State Department of Agriculture,
announced today! that first week’s
sales on the Georgia tobacco mar
ket totalled 24,049,002 pounds at an
average price of 25.27 cents a
pound.
First week’s sales covering four
days brought in $6,078,044.33 to
Georgia growers.
This compared with a total
‘ poundage of 11,787,186 pounds at
an average of 22.23 cents a pound,
or a total of $2,498,533.56 for the
first week of the 1935 season, in
which (here were two selling days.
POLITICIANS wW
PRIMARY ELECTION
IN TWO OF STATES
Townsendism Is Issue in
Both Arkansas and Idaho
Where Balloting
Is Held
JOE ROBINSON HAS
FIGHT IN ARKANSAS
Democratic Senate Leader
Has Two Onponents; Sen
ator Borah Is Opposed for
Renomination on Republi
can Ticket in Native State
of Idaho
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Presi
dential politics went into temporary
eclipse today as State primaries, in
which two prominent senators, sought
renomination, attracted attention.
Townsendism was an issue in Ar
kansas. as citizens there voted their
choice from United States senator
down to constable. Joseph T. Robin
son, Democratic leader of the Senate,
seeking a fifth term, was opposed by
Cleveland Holland, lawyer, who bears
the endorsement of the State Town
send convention, and J. Rosser Vena
ble, Little'Rock' attorney, who criticiz
ed Robinson’s legislative record.
The S2OO-a-month old age pension
plan also featured the primary cam
paign in Idaho, where Senator Wil
liam E. Borah, fought for the Repub
lican nomination for a sixth conse
cutive term. His opponent was Byron
Defenbach, former State treasurer,
who is supported by Townsendites.
President Roosevelt and Governor
Landon prepared for coming speeches.
Saving On
Textbooks
Is Granted
Dally DUpan-h Bnreaa.
In The Sir Waller Hotel,
n> J. C. It A SKERVIIiL
Raleigh, Aug. 11.—Almost all of the
publishers of adopted textbooks used
in North Carolina have at last agreed
to change their contracts and omit
the 10 per cent handling and freight
charge which formerly was contained
in them, with the result that the State
will now save nearly a hundred thous
and dollars a year, State Superintend
ent Clyde A. Erwin said today. This
saving will be more than enough to
pay the entire cost of maintaining the
.State rental textbook system and to
pay the freight and other transporta
tion charges on all books purchased
by the textbook commission, Super
intendent Erwin said. Two or three
publishers, including one large pub
lishing company which holds a big
book contract have been holding out
against this agreement for more than
a year, despite the fact that none of
the adopted books are now handled
through a depository.
Before the State rental system was
started, most of the textbooks in the
State were distributed through the
State School Book Depository, owned
by Alfred Williams and Company here
and the publishers paid the depository
approximately 10 per cent for hand
ling the books and distributing them
to the various retail dealers who in
turn sold the books to the school chil
dren. These retail dealers in turn got
a profit of 10 per cent on the books
sold. But when the 1935 legislature set
up the rental textbook commission
and started to distbute the books di
rect to the schools, there was no lon
ger any need for a school boow de
pository or for the addition of 10 per
cent to the wholesale price. But be
cause this provision was still in the
contracts with most of the publishers,
many of them insisted they should
still be allowed this additional sum.
A good many later on agreed, how
ever, to omit this charge. But Hough
ton-Miffin Co., and a few others op
posed it until just a day or two ago.
The saving last year was about $60,-
000 on some $600,000 worth of books
and should amount to at least $30,000
this year or even more if more books
are purchased, Superintendent Erwin
said. This amount formerly went to
the Alfred Williams school book de
pository here.
SPANISH LOYALISTS
CHECK REBEL DRIVE
UPON CAPITAL CITY
NEGRO HELD AS COED SLAYER
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Quoted as confessing the murder of Helen Clevenger in an Asheville ho
tel room July 16, Martin Moore, Negro hall boy in the hotel, is shown in jail
at Asheville. Sheriff Laurence Brown said the Negro admitted killing the
pretty New York University coed to stop her from screaming when he at
tempted to rdb her. The pistol believed used in the slaying was found in
Moore’s possession. (Associated Press Photo).
Authorities Differ Over
Clevenger Case Motives
Sheriff Thinks Negro In
tended an Assault While
Solicictor Discards
Sex Motive
SHERIFF DECLARES
HIS WORK IS DONE
From Now On It Is Up To
Solicitor and Grand Jury;
Nettles To Submit Bill of
Indictment to Grand Jury
Monday; Trial Is Set For
Coming Week
Asheville, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Authori
ties differed today over the motive in
the Helen Clevenger murder case,
while preparations went forward for
the trial of Martin Moore, Negro hall
boy charged with killing the 18-year
old college girl.
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown, the
chief investigator of the murder, said
he was convinced the prisoner went
to the girl’s room in the Battery Park
hotel to ravish her, but killed her
when she screamed as soon as he en
tered.
The sheriff added, however, he did
not believe an assault was actually
attempted. Physicians early in the
case could not agree on this phase.
Disputing the sheriff’s theory, So
licitor Zeb V. Nettles, who will pro
secute the case, said “the sex angle
is out altogether.”
He asserted he believed Moore en
tered the room solely to loot it and
shot the girl in a moment of panic
when he was frightened by her outcry.
That was the story the Negro re
lated in a confession which Sheriff
Broom and other officers announced
he made 24 days after the girl, a bul
let in her breast, was found sprawled
on the floor of her room.
Sheriff Brown said he was “through
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Military Pomp In
Zioncheck Rites
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 11.—(AP) —
Military pomp figured today in fun
eral arrangements for Washing
ton’s playboy congressman, Repre
sentative Marion A. Zioncheck, who
plunged to death Friday from a
fifth floor office window.
The 17-gun salute at Fort Law
ton and an army bugler’s “taps”
at the graveside were included in
the afternoon funeral services. The
Washington Commonwealth Fed
eration, the political organization
advocating production for use,
planned “the biggest funeral in
Seattle” for the man whose es
capades included the leaving of
empty beer bottles on the door
step of the White House.
wioir
ROOSEVELT WORK
Tells Labor Meeting North
Carolina Needs Presi
dent’s New Deal
Winston-Salem, Aug. 11 (AP) —Ac-
claiming President Roosevelt as “the
balance wheel of America,” Dr. Ralph
McDonald told the North Carolina
Federation of Labor today that the
benefits of the New Deal should be
brought to North Carolina.
“While nation after nation is in
the midst of a bloody struggle be
tween fascism and communism, the
Democratic philosophy of Roosevelt
carries the United States forward in
a new conception of balance and fair
ness in the inter-relatio of prosperity
and human rights,” he said.
Declaring this State “stands as one
of the few” which has not benefitted
by the spirit of the New Deal, Mc-
Donald enumerated that in “unem
ployment insurance and old age pen
sion North Carolina has as yet done
absolutely nothing. In farm legisla
tion, North Carolina lags far behind
Roosevelt. Recognition of the rights
of labor has been foremost in the
policies of Roosevelt, but North Caro
lina has not yet caught step with the
national Democratic party in this
matter.”
Echoing charges made in post-pri-
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INSURGENTS PE
ATTACKS IN NORTH
WITH MORE VIGOR
Government Troops Crump
le One Rebel Line in
That Area, However,
To Capture Town
LEFTIST WARSHIPS
OPERATE IN SOUTH
Prevent Speedy Landing of
General Franco’s Forces
from Morocco; France Will
Invite United States Into
European Neutrality Ac
cord on Spain
(By The Associated Press.)
Spanish loyalists laid down a deaf
ening barrage of shells and bullets in.
the south today with a single objec
tive, which seemed at least partly
achieved —stoppage of the rebel drive
on the capital city of Madrid.
Apparently repulsed for the time be
ing in the Guadarrama mountains, the
doorway to Madrid on the north, the
insurgents in turn concentrated a
savage attack against loya|ilist-'heHd
communities on the northern sea
boards.
Government troops crumpled one
section of the rebel lines in the north
to capture the strategic town of
Adamuz, 21 miles northeast of Cor
doba. A fresh onslaught against Cor
doba, important provincial capital,
was imminent.
Aiding the government in the south
were leftist warships which have kept
up a running fire against the troop
transports of General Francisco
Franco, generalissimo of the revolu
tion. Only a portion of the massed
thousands of Moroccan troops which
Franoo wanted to land on the penin
sula for the march on Madrid haa
been ferried across the straits of
Gibraltar.
The French government decided to
invite the United States to join Eu
ropean nations in the proposed neu
trality accord respecting Spain’s civil
war. French diplomats were worried
on two counts: the slowness of Ber
lin’s specific reply approving the ac
cord, and a possibility that Spanish
fascists had violated the neutrality of
the internationalized zone in Morocco.
FOUR POLICE SHOT
HUNTING NEGROES
Anniston, Ala., Aug. 11. —(AP) —
Race feeling ran at dangerous levels
here today after a gunbattle in which
four white policemen were shot while
searching for a Negro accused of try
ing to kidnap a white baby.
Americans
Are Warned
To Get Out
State Department
Again Appeals To
Nationals In Span
ish Danger Zone
Washington, Aug. 11. —(AP)—A new
appeal to Americans to leave the dan
ger zone of the Spanish revolution
was dispatched today by William
Phillips, acting under secretary of
state.
In a message to the American Em
bassy at Madrid, which State De
partment officials said applied also to
all other strife-torn cities in Spain
where Americans are located, Phillips
said:
“I cannot urge too strongly that all
American citizens who can possibly
do so take advantage of present
cilities to go to places of safety.”
Elaborating on the message at his
press conference, Phillips said it was
sent on because of reports indicating
an increasingly serious situation at
Madrid and the possibility that pre
sent facilities for reaching Valencia
on the coast by train from the capital
must be disrupted.
More than 100 American citizens
have refused thus far to leave Madrid
because of business or family reasons.
The same attitude has been adopted
by a number of others in other Span
ish cities.
The commander of the American
heavy cruiser Quincy advised the de
partment that 10 more American na
tionals were evacuated from Palma
in the Valeric islands yesterday.