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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR WORST BATTLE OF WAR RAGIRG IN SPAIN NEGRO IS INDICTED FOR BRUTAL KILLING OF CLEVENGER GIRL Solicitor Nettles Starts Pro secution of Martin Moore In Clevenger Tragedy BUT FEW~wTtNESSES CALLED IN BY JURY Negro’s Signed Confession, Prof. Clevenger and House Physician Are Offered To Obtain Formal Indict ment of Prisoner in Co- Ed’s Killing Asheville, Aug. 17 (AP) —A Buncombe county grand jury indicted Martin Moore today (.11 murder and first degree burglary counts for the death of Helen Clevenger. Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles announced the arraignment of the Negro, former hallboy, who Sheriff Laurence E. I’.niwn said confessed to slaying the New York University co-ed, would be hold this afternoon. Nettles said severn witnesses were called in the grand jury investigation. Both indictments charged capital offenses. Asheville, Aug. 17 (AP) —Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles presented bills of in dictment to the Buncombe county grand jury today charging Mai tin Moore with murder and first degree burglary in the death of Helen Clev enger. The two indictments, both capital offenses, were received by Foreman Oscar Brown, who immediately went into session with the jury. At the same time Sheriff Laurence E. Brown announced that he planned (Continued on Page Three.) Townsend’s Arrest Asked By Witness Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 17.—(AP) — Ben Sacharew, attorney for Rev. A1 lied J. Wright, former director in the Townsend old age pension organiza tion, asked Commonpleas Judge George W. Kerr today to order t'he arrest of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the pension plan, and Gil mour Young, national secretary, for 1 i il ii re to appear at a deposition hear ing here. Dr. Townsend and Young were scheduled to testify at the hearing in connection with Wright’s receivership suit against the Townsend organiza tion. "I want a citation issued for Dr. Francis E. Townsend, and I ask your honor to see that Dr. Townsend be not encouraged to make mockery of the courts of justice,” Sacharew said. He then asked for the arrest of Young Attorney Charles H. Hubbell re cejevnd a telegram from Gilmour Young stating that Dr. Townsend would he unable to appear, due to illtu . s. Hubbell was asked to appear in court and request a continuance of the hearing. Dr. Townsend was reported to be in a Chicago hotel suffering from over exertion and fatigue. Proposal For Permanent Democratic Headquarters Aimed At Party Harmony One Purpose Is To Check S wing to Liberals and Curb Their Influence in Next Legislature; McDonald No “Has-Been,” Many Leaders Feel Dally Dispatch Bareaa, lu The Sir Walter Hotel, Ily J. C. BASH Ell V >3ah Raleigh, Aug. 17. —The surprise pro posal made in the meeting of the State Democratic Executive Commit tee here last Friday night that the committee maintain a permanent headquarters with a permanent, full time, paid secretary instead of relying on a purely temporary and voluntary organization every two or four years, went completly over the heads of many members of the committee, it is generally agreed here today. For what State Senator Carl L. Bailey really had in mind when he made the motion for the appointment of a com mittee to study the advisability of set Hettitersrm -Qettly tUspafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. LOWER TAXES NEXT YEAR? Representative Doughton Senator Harrison Striking back at Republican criticism of New Deal spending, Prest* dent Roosevelt and congressional leaders announced that no new taxes would be asked at the next session to meet federal expendi tures and that some existing levies may be reduced or eliminated. This announcement came following a conference the president held with Secreaery of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and the heads of the two congressional tax committees-Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, left, chairman of the house ways and means committee, and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, right, chairman of the senate finance committee. - Central Pnss National Income In 1936 To Be About 60 Billions Business Outlay Will Be Balanced for First Time Since 1929 If Fig ure Reached 20 BILLIONS GAIN FROM LOW OF 1932 Last Year’s National Income 53 Billions; 1936 Income Will Balance Outlay, Com pared With Outlay of Nearly Nine Billion Over Income in 1932 Washington, Aug. 17.—(AP) — Com merce Department officials today forecast a 1936 national income close to $60,000,000,000, balancing business outlay for the first time since 1939. The department’s estimates, contin gent upon a maintenance of present trends, were based upon readings of various business barometers for the first seven months of the year, as compared with similar figures for 1935. After dropping steadily from the $81,034,'000,000 peak produced in 1923, the national income hit a low of $39,- 545,000,000 in 1932. Since then it has pointed upward. Last year’s income was reported at $52,959,000,000. Officials said they expected that in come produced and income paid out would approximately balance. Since 1929, income paid out has exceeded income produced. This excess was on ly $628,000,000 last year, compared with the $8,818,000,000 figure for 1932. ting up permanent headquarters with a full time secretary and with power to employ such a secretary, was to set up machinery in the very near fu ture intended to checkmate or offset the organization of Liberal Democrats now being formed over the entire State by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald. It is generally conceded that the liberal Democrats are being organized by Dr. McDonald and John Paul Leon ard in the hope of bringing the anti sales taxers and the pro-McDonaldites together into one compact organiza tion to replace the North Carolina Fair Tax Association, of which Leon (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1936 Tenant Farmers To Aid In Probe Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 17.—(AP) —The Southern Tenant Farmers Union announced today its willing ness to cooperate with Governor Futrell of Arkansas in a suggested southwide conference on the share cropper problem. J. R. Butler, of White county, Arkansas, farm laborer, president of the union, accepted the proposal through H. L. Mitchell, union sec- i retary. Butler said the union would co- | operate, regardless of its belief that “Futrell used every means at his command in an effort to break the recent strike of share-croppers.” The governor last week invited other southern chief executives to a conference at Hot Springs, Ar kansas, to discuss the situation. Dr.Coughlin, Improved,on Way Home Pr i es ,t Collapsed During Address To National Union Meet In Cleveland Cleveland, Aug. 17 (AP) —Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, feeling much better after a night of rest, left by train today for his home in Detroit. The priest’s address to his National Union for Social Justice was halted yesterday when he was overcome by illness during his denunciation the Roosevelt administration. A policeman on guard outside his hotel room, Father Coughlin slept comfortably after he was stricken by what Dr. George P. O’Malley, Cleve land physician, described as exhaust tion and a nervous disorder, super induced by planning and carrying out of the first convention of his (Continued on Page Six.) GOLDSBORO HEARS TOBACCO DIRECTOR Goldsboro, Aug. 17. (AP) Dr. Charles E. Gage, chief of the tobacco section of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, will come here tomorrow to address two meetings of persons interested in a government grading service to be offered on the Goldsboro tobacco market this fall. 11 KNOWN DEAD IN ONE MISSING Many More Believed To Have Lost Lives as Ty phoon Swept Inland Over Week-End THREE SHIPS SEND URGENT SOS CALLS Two of Them Go Aground, With Crews Saved, But Third Is Not Heard From Since; 100 Workmen Re ported Buried Alive In Landslide from Typhoon Manila, P. 1., Aug. 17.— (AP) — At least eleven persons were killed by a typhoon which today left homeless natives of northern Luzen island threatened with famine. Pleas for government aid said many more were believed to have been killed as the storm-swept in from the Pacific Saturday. The storm destroyed practically all native houses and 90 percent of the crops in the Bagayan river valley. As the storm struck and then pass ed on toward the China coast, three ships caught, in its grip sent distress calls. One vessel ha s not been heard from since. The United States Coast and Geodedic Survey ship Fathemer lay on a rock reef. The vessel’s Filipina crew and American officers came off safely and were in tents on the shore, navy advices said. The fate of the unlisted vessel driven ashore on the north Luzon coast was unknown. Nothing had been heard of the ship since its last dis tress call Saturday. (From Hong Kong came word that the British steamer, Sunning, carry ing 40 passengers was aground and water-logged in Junk Bay, off the China coast. One hundred workmen were reported to have been buried alive in a landslide which resulted from the typhoon.) AISStP .County Roads Would Be Im proved If New Bond Is sue Were Given Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Br J. O. BASKRRVILI Raleigh, Aug. 17. —Better mainten ance of all county roads and the sur face treatment of more miles of these secondary roads would result if the next General Assembly should decide to issue some $25,000,000 in new high way bonds for the purpose of mod ernizing and rebuilding old and worn out highways on the main State high way system, State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson pointed out today. He in dicated that since he made the sug gestion for a new bond issue for road construction a week or so ago, he had received hundreds of letters, most of them approving the suggestion, but maintaining that there was more need for work on the county highways than, on the State roads. Referred to County Roads. “It was of these county roads I was thinking more than of the State high ways when I made this suggestion for a new highway bond issue of about $25,000,000 to be used in reconstruct ing old and worn out main highways,” Johnson said. “For as conditions now are, the State Highway Commission is forced to use such a large portion of its revenue in maintaining the State highway system that not enough is left to provide proper main tenance for the county roads. Indica tions are that an increasing amount of maintenance funds is going to have to be used in patching up weak links in the State highway system and that less and less will be available for use on the county roads, especially on the old stretches of highway that were built for light traffic and which are {Continued on Page Three.) OUR WITHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, local thunder showers in east and central por tions this afternoon or tonight, probably ending on coast Tuesday morning; slightly cooler in north portion. “Work for Peace!” F. D. R. Urges / ~ President Roosevelt at Chautauqua, N. Y. President Roosevelt is pictured making his striking plea for neu trality and peace at Chautauqua, N. Y. He urged that Americans resist the “fool’s gold” that might violate neutrality and draw the United States into European conflicts. • 7 . ' i —Central Press Roosevelt Plans His Drought Trip Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 17.—(AP) —President Roosevelt began per fecting details of his forth-coming drought belt trip today, besides dip ping into a mass of administration business accumulated during a three-day tour of eastern flood areas. He was considering, too, a jour ney down the Mississippi river. Hannibal, Mo., has asked him to appear at a celebration. Several other cities along the stream have invited him to visit them, but his assistants said there would be no decision for three or four days. 3 Negroes In Chicago Death Held Chicago, Aug. 17 (AP) ; —Three Ne groes, two women and a youth, were taken into custody today for ques tioning in connection with the killing of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell, who was found beaten to death in a hotel room on the near South Side yester day. The crime was the fourth hotel room slaying of women here in re cent months. Those held were Myrtle Hynes, 55; A. L. Martin, 30; and Claude P. Davis, 18. The two women were seized after (Continued on Page Three.) HIGHLY Eng Increased G. O. P. Activity Requires Democrat Chief of Experince Dally DlapntcA Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. RASKGRVILI. Raleigh, Aug. 17. —The election of J. Wallace Winborne of Marion as chairman of the State DeiApcratic Executive Committee is being almost universally approved here as a wise move, especially since it is believed that the Republican State organiza tion is preparing to conduct a more vigorous campaign and spend more money than it hag in years. Because of this fact, it is more essetnal than ever to have a Democratic State (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Labor Going Into Politics As Real Unit By 1940 New Align ment of Parties In U. S. Appears To Be Certain By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 17—Labor mani festly is going into politics in the United States. In fact, part of it is in politics now. The A. F. of L., under William Green’s presidency, stays out, but La bor’s Non-Partisan League, led (by John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, George L. Berry of the Printing Pressmen, and Sidney Hill man, of the Clothing Workers, is openly political. The league calls itself non-parti san, but it has declared for Roosevelt —if that’s non-partisan. Maybe it is, however. It declared for Roosevelt only; not for his party. In 1940 prospects are that the sit uation will be different.. By that time, if the league thrives, it indeed will be partisan. That is to say, it will be a party. Major Berry of the pressmen said so plainly at the or ganization’s recent gathering in Washington, when he forecast “a po litical realignment” before election day four years hence. BROADER THAN LABOR A labor party? LaJbor will be the nub of its, cer (Continued on Page Six.) Belated Heat Wave Brings New Deaths In Midwest Region Chicago, Aug. 17. (AP) Heat plagued many sections of the nation from the western plains to the At lantic seaboard today. A wave of abnormally high temper atures, reaching a Sunday peak at 113, engulfed Kansas, Nebraska, Ok lahoma and Missouri. Forecasters warned the hot area would spread over the northern half of the mid-west and reach into the upper Great Lakes region. Fair and cooler weather was indi O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GOVERNMENT QUICK IN REPRISAL AFTER ATTACOY REBELS Meantime, Rebel General Prepares United Attack From North and South On Madrid FUNERAL PYRES OF VICTIMS LIGHT SKY Attackers Continue Execu tions of Defeated Defend ers of City Near Portuguese Border; Conflicting Claims Continue To Be Made By Both Sides Madrid, Aug. 17 (AP) One of the bloodiest battles of Spain’s month-old civil war, was being fought late today in the ancient western province of Estremaudra with 20,000 government troops and militia men trying to break a irebel blockade along the Portuguese border. The government reported fierce fighting with bayonets, with no quar ter shown on either side. Reports that rebels, in taking Bad ajoz, had executed 1,500 government adherents, spured the government forces into a mericiless drive ‘‘to com pletely exterminate” the rebels in the west authorities said. (By The Associated Press.) Government soldiers answered rebel warship shells thrown against Irun and San Sebastian today with swift death for hostages before firing squads, reports reaching the Franco- Spanish frontier stated. About 1,200 hostages were held in Irun and 700 at San Sebastian. The number of dead was not known. Government forces prepared to meet anticipated rebel attacks by land aid air in addition to bombardments from the sea, all along the coastal strip on the Bay of Biscay near the French (Continued on Page Four.) MOIMAINPEOPLE ARE FOR HIGHWAY Making Sacrifices To Sell Their Lands for New Parkway There Dnlty Dli|i»tPh RatM«, In The Sir Walter Hote., I!t J. C IIASKF.ItVIM. Raleigh, Aug. 17.—The hundreds of farmers and mountain land owners whose lands are being traversed by the Blue Ridge Parkway, many of whom are iving up virtually all their land to the parkway, are showing a fine spirit of cooperation with the State and Federal governments, Chair man Capus M. Waynick of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion said today after a trip along the parkway, in which he talked with many of these mountain farmers and landowners. A good many of these farmers do not know as yet how much they are going to be paid for the land being taken over by the government, but are not complaining. “One of the main reasons I made this trip along the parkway was to talk to these farmers and landowners to get their reaction and attitude to wards the entire parkway develop ment,” Waynick said. “I had been, afraid that many of them were re senting the building of the parkway Continued on Page Five.) cated for most of the eastern districts in the wake of scattered showers, forecast for the southern part of the Ohio valley and the Appalachians and Middle Atlantic coast. Missouri and Kansas reported two new heat deaths and Oklahoma re corded one yesterday. Massachusetts counted four drown ings, Connecticut two and New York, Rhode Island and Maine one each as thousands of easterners sought relief from the heat at the beaches.
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