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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR MADRID GOVERNMENT READY FOR FLIGHT GUNS FROM REBEL WARSHIPS SILENCE I GOVERNMENT FORT Defense of Irun-San Sebas tian Area Apparently Weakening from In surgent Blows U. S. AMBASSADOR IS IN FRENCH QUARTER Bowers Denies He Left Cut ter Cayuga After Dispute With Navy Officers; Rebel Junta’s Offices Reiterates Government Forceps Are Using Gas (By The Associated Press) Six-inch shells from the re bel cruiser Almirante Cevera silenced the guns of the govern ment fortress of Guadelupe, defending the Irun-San Sebas tian sector of Spain’s Bay of Biscay today. The fierce duel of big guns, ending . apparent insurgent advantage, coincided with uncensored dispatches fn :n Madrid which stated govern in're leaders, fearing the fall of the capit’d, were reported to be holding tin c air liners in readiness for flight. At Hendaye Beach, France, Ameri can Ambassador Claude G. Bowers set up a temporary embassy in a hotel after completing an evacua tion of Spanish cities on the Bay of Biscay. He added his personal denial to that of the Washington State De partment concerning reports he had been ordered ashore from the cutter Cayuga, following a dispute with navy officers. From their supreme headquarters at Burgos, meanwhile, members of the rebel junta announced they would inform foreign governments and the International Red Cross that Spanish government forces were using poison gas. Urges That County Keep Liquor Fund I>llll y Dlxiuiti'h narena. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Ity .1. C. IttSIvERVII.L Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Regardless of what changes the coming General As sent ly may make with regard to the i;ale of liquor in North Carolina, the n venue from liquor should be left in the counties, according to Represen-* talive Thomas E. Cooper, of Wilming ton, New Hanover county, who was here conferring with State officials Monday. Cooper, who was a member of the 1935 General Assembly and who in lped rnaterialy in getting the New Hanover and Pasquotank county li •pmr laws enacted, under which 17 counties and two town ships now have lev I liquor stores, indicated he would fight to the last ditch to keep the li quor in the counties when he returns to the House in the 1937 General As sembly. “I am not much concerned with what the coming General Assembly doc with regard to the liquor que> tion, .so long as it leaves the rev * nue from sale of liquor in county li quor stores in the counties,” Cooper 'Continued on Page Three.) Aged Killer Os Son Dies Before Trial Winston-Salem, Aug. 18. —(AP) — .John Henry Houser, aged killer of hi.; son-in-law some years ago, died here today. The oldest man to he convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the State of North Carolina, Houser rest 'd comfortably in a hospital in Win ton Salem awaiting death from na tural causes rather than being elec trocuted by the Slate. Convicted and sentenced to death, the Supreme Court of the State sent his case hack to the superior court for another trial, hut before it could he heard he had to be taken to a local hospital for treatment. That was four years ago—and he remained in the in stitution with the charge of murder hanging over him, and the courts awaiting an opportunity to re-try his case. To the last, it is said, he did not re gret bis act. UntiU'rsmt tlmly Diauntdi ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Ten Percent Rise In Food Prices Forecast For Immediate Future Washington, Aug. 18. —(AP)— Experts “guessed” today that it won’t he long before the house wife lays out from sll to sl2 for the same basket of food she now buys for a $lO hill. Government and private experts, ad mitting that exact estimates are im possible, nevertheless forecast upward revision of the family grocery budget. They explained that when the scorching sun shrivelled crops in re cent months the dollar’s food purchas ing power went into a dive. It already has affected milk, butter and eggs in «ome places, and eventually will reach mea‘ts, they said. The experts said their ‘‘best guesses” were based upon what hap pened after the drought two years start Trial for ASHEVILLE NEGRO Martin Moore Faces Capital Charges Tomorrow In Clevenger Death Asheville, Aug. 18.—-(AP) —Martin Moore, young Negro, will go on trial for his life tomorrow charged with the hotel room murder of Helen Clevenger, 18-year-old co-ed, a month ago. The Negro, former hallboy at the fashionable Battery Park hotel, where the blonde young honor student was vacationing, was indicted yesterday on a first degree murder count, and a few hours later at his arraignment pleaded not guilty. Court attaches were busy today with last-minute preparations for the trial. A special venire was summoned for jury service. Subpoenas were also being served on a number of wit nesses. Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles, who will head the prosecution, said the State would use 30-odd witnesses. The de fense had not disclosed any plans. Moore was arraigned only on a murder charge, although the grana jury indicted him also for first de gree burglary. Bout of Braddock With Schmelling Is Off for This Year New York, Aug. 18.—(AP)—Joe Gould, manager of heavyweight champion James J. Braddock an nounced today the scheduled title bout between Braddock and Max Schmeling Is “definitely off.” Gould said Braddock will enter a New York hospital Thursday to have an operation performed on his left hand. “The fight is off for this year,” Gould said. “I can’t let Jim fight with a bad hand. At least five doctors advised us that it would be unwise for him to do any box ing for at least three months.” Spanish Revolt Is Over for Them ~ Hi llf iPIF Hands raised in token of surrender, a party of loyalist prisoners are shown being marched to the rebel prison camp at Pueblo De Utera. The governments of Europe are watching the progress of the Spanish revolution with anxious eyes as daily occurrences threaten to embroil their countries in war. (Central Press) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1936 ago. Consumer purchasing power, which was on the upgrade after the 1934 drought, and has been reporetd in creasing since, also plays an impor tan part in food prices, they said. An intricate check upon average food costs is kept by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the prices from 1923 to 1925 placed at 100. The bureau reported the food cost rose from an index of about 73 at the start of the 1934 drought to a peak of 82 in 1935, or about 12 percent. The last retail food index in July was 84. Thus, increases in food costs because of the present drought may go much higher than the peak which came after the arid period of 1934, it was said. Tobacco Stronger On Border Marts Florence, S. C., Aug. 18.—(AP) — Stronger prices prevailed on the b order belt tobacco markets yes terday. Sales included: Darlington, 100,000 pounds at an average price of $25; Fairmont, 333,548 pounds at $23.38; MuLliiis, 354,254 pounds at $24.22; Lake City, 350,000 pounds, $22.50; Lumherton, 550,000 pounds, $25; Tabor City, 37, 802 pounds, $23.28. NEGRO SUfliT James Gray, 26, Tells Chi cago Authorities He Is Wholly Innocent Chicago, Aug. ia.—(aF) —-James Gray, 26, Negro gambler, sought for questioning in connection with the hotel room slaying of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell last Sun day, surrendered today to the police. Gray walked into police head quarters and said he had read in the newspapers that he was be ing sought. He told police he knew nothing of the slaying, but identified a bundle of laundry held at the station as his property. Police Sergeant Peter Bernac chi said Gray told him he was robbed of a notebook, a laundry check and a small amount of cash while sleeping in Grant park, not far from the slaying scene about a week ago. Chicago, Aug. 18. — (AP) —Detectives investigating the slaying of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell today swung into a widespread search for James Gray, 31-year-old Negro gambler. Assistant Prosecutor Morris Meyers said Gray had a police# record as a “peeping Tom,” and ordered police squads to comb the South Side Negro Continued on Page Five.) LARGER VOGATIONAL FUND IS AVAILABLE State Can Get Nearly Half Million Dollars More by Matching It LEGISLATURE HAS SAY People Are Demanding More Teach ing of Subjects That Will Equip Children for Mak ing Practical Living Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Pt j c. baskervill Raleigh, Aug. 18.—With people in every section of the State clamoring for more vocational education in the high schools and with the Federal government making available more and more funds to help vocational education, there is every reason to believe that greater emphasis is go ing to be placed on teaching children how to do things than merely about things in North Carolina, if the forth coming General Assembly will only make the appropriations needed to match these Federal funds, according to Director T. E. Browne, of the di vision of vocational education of the State Department of Public Instruc tion. Director Browne has just return ed from a conference on vocational education in Washington, where the operation of the new George-Dean law was explained to State superinten dents and vocational education direc tors. Funds Are Available. The new George-Dean law, enacted by the last Congress, sets up a fund of $14,200,W0 a year for an indefinite period, tp be distributed among the various states to help them increase their vocational education facilities. Os this fund, North Carolina is en titled to $496,851 a year, in addition to its present grant of $192,903 a year under the Smith-Hughes act and In which it is now participating, Browne explained. This new amount of $496,- 851 a year will not become available until July 1, 1937, but will continue indefinitely after that time. Another advantage of t,hi s new law is that from 1937 until 1943 the states will have to match this fund only 50 cents on the dollar instead of dollar for dol lar, so that 4t will only be necessary for the General Assembly to approp riate -249,425 for the State to get the entire $496,851 and have a total of $746,276 available for the teaching of more vocational subjects in the State, such as agriculture, domestic science, woodworking, handicrafts, automobile mechanics and so forth, that will en able boys and girls who do not want to go to college or who cannot go to college to earn good livings. “With the Federal aid now avail able for vocational education in North Carolina, we can have a total of sl,- 132,982 to use in expanding our work Continued on Page Five.) OUR WLATHEP MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight, except unsettled on coast; Wednesday partly cloudy, possibly showers in mountains. State Has Cash Balance Os $23,441,521 July 31 Treasury Report Shows Three Huge Tax Checks Aggregating $4,000,000 In July Boost Gen eral Fund Total STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE GOVERNOR Shows General Fund With $5,509,503 and Highway Fund $10,808,964, With Special Funds Amounting to $2,343,028 at End of Month Just Closed Raleigh, Aug. 18.—(AP) —Three tax checks totalling more than $4,000,000 received by the State during the last month helped swell the cash balance of North Caro lina’s general fund from $600,787.- 17 on July 1 to $5,509,503.17 on July 31. The combined monthly treasurer’s and auditor’s statemen treleased to day by Governor Ehringhaus shows the total cash in the treasury as of July 31 was $23,441,521.41. A total of $6,341,309.79 in general fund receipts for the month was re ported against expenditures of $1,432,- 593.79. The highway fund, which had a bal ance of $9,795,408.03 on July 1, show ed receipts of $2,613,556.83 during the month and expenditures of $1,600,000 for a balance of $10,808,964.86 on July 31. Various special funds which had a total balance of $7,025,673.36 at the first of last month showed receipts of $400,435.63 and disbursements of $5,083,080.23 for a balance of $2,343,- 028.76 on July 31. The three large checks received during July were more than $2,000,000 from the estate of Z. Smith Reynolds, of Winston-Salem, more than $1,000,- 000 from the estate of Bowman Gray, of Winston-Salem, and a franchise payment of approximately $1,000,000 from a power company. SSall Approximately 900 Miles Will Be Repaired from Winter’s Damage Dnlif Dispatch B«eaa, In The Sir Walter Hot*., By J. C. ItASKEitVILIi Raleigh, Aug. 18.—The repairing and resurfacing of approximately 900 miles of highways, including most of those which were badly damaged by last winter’s cold weather and freezes will be completed this fall, Chairman Capus M. Waynick, of the State High way and Public Works Commission, said today. Already some 500 miles have been completed and work is now progressing as rapidly as possible on the projects which have not yet been finished. When the entire 900 miles •have been completed, the cost will be about $3,500,000, Waynick said. “Because so much of this work is being done in short stretches of from a few hundred feet to a few hundred yards, it is difficult for the public to realize that by fall the total repair and resurfacing work will amount to (Continued on Page Three.) FIRINGOFMASK IS ; YET DEEP MYSTERY One Reason Believed That He Did Too Much Think ! ing For Himself Dally Dlapatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Br J. O. BASKBBVILI ’ Raleigh, Aug. 18.—An air of deep, dark mystery still surround the sud den firing of Homar H. B. Mask, un til a few days ago regional director of resettlement in this district, com piosed of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, and the appointment of George S. Mitchell, a former Virginia college professor who has been an assistant to Rexford G. Tugwell, director of resettlement in Washington, as Mask’s successor. The mouths of all those connected with the Resettlement Administration here are tightly sealed and none can be found who will .discuss the sudden shake-up in the regional organization (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Gets Air Post Mrs. Blanche Noyes Blanche Noyes, Cleveland aviatrlx who holds the distinction of being the one who took John D. Rocke feller, Sr., for his first and only airplane flight, has been appointed an air marker for the U. S. bu reau of air commerce. Mrs. Noyes has been flying since 1929. Her new duties will consist of arrang ing for the marking of roof-tops and other landmarks for the guidance of airmen. —Central Press EUROPEAN WARIS BELM LIKELY Uncle Sam’s Neutrality Act Doesn’t Cover Civil Wars Abroad By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 18. —Wag it Mark Twain, or some other philosopher, who once referred to the “innate cus sedness of inaninnate things”? Anyway, tnere is no doubt as to their “cussedness,” or to the “cussed ness” of events beyond human con trol. What’s been occurring in Spain, in the face of Uncle Sam’s determin ation to keep out of future foreign, wars, aptly demonstrates this latter class of “cussedness,” from this coun try’s standpoint. Throughout most of the last session, of Congress a Senate committee wrestled with the problem of main taining American neutrality in over seas conflicts forevermore. The committee considered, as it be lieved, every possibility (and there were plenty of them) of another struggle in lands and waters beyond our shores. BUT—CIVIL WAR? It was agreed that the United States should remain aloof from any such clash in parts of the world ether than our own. A law was passed, declaring us on the sidelines in all rumpuses hence forward between alien powers. Be tween alien powers! Get that? Two alien powers, or more than two, must be at war before the law requires the United States to keep out of the fracas. It didn’t occur to any one 'hat a war might break out involving fewer powers than two. NO POWER Well, before the ink was fairly dry on the new law, civil war had broken out in Spain. The law does not fit one power alone. Regardless of the statute, Ameri can arms and munitions purveyors Continued on Page Five.) ARMY PILOT WITH MECHANIC PERISH Allegan, Mich., Aug. 18.—(AP) —An army pilot and his mechanic were killed today when a new pur suit plane from Selfridge Field, Michigan, crashed near Otsege while taking part in the western Michigan war games. Reports received at Selfridge field said the plane was being piloted by Second Lieutenant Wil liam W. Harding, 25, air corps reserve, and that his mechanic Private Frances Meier, of > Dowagiac, Mich. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HE |F SFAILS Rebels Firmly Entrenched in Mountains Await Only Reinforcements For Attack REBEL WARSHIPS IN NORTH POUND COAST Shells Finding flAarks In Irun and San Sebastian Sectors; Government Ex pects No Early Victory In Spanish Civil War; Gas Bombs Being Used (By The Associated Press) Heads of the beleagured Madrid government were re ported in uncensored advices reaching Gibraltar today to have three air liners in readi ness for flight—in the event the capital falls. The advices said rebels firmly en trenched in the Guadarama moun tains north of Madrid had only to await reinforcements from other sides of the capital before launching an at tack which was deemed likely of suc cess. In any event it .became apparent the government expected no quick victory. Today the Madrid authorities urged women of the nation to make ammunition and winter clothing and called for volunteers to form a new “battalion of red lions.” Up in the north of Spain, two big rebel warships resumed a fierce gun duel with government land batteries defending the*lrun-San Sebastian sec tor. It appeared the naval shells were finding their marks. The first charge that either side was using gas came from rebel head quarters at Burgos, which contended the government air force had been dropping gas bombs. A Madrid offloif.l was quoted in a Paris dispfctch acknowledging tear gas bombs had been utilized in “defensive’’ fighting. Tobacco In Georgia Is Still High Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 18. —(AP) —Sec- ond week s sales of tobacco on the 15 south Georgia markets amounted to 31,339,556 pounds for a total of $7,264,- 013.68 for an average of $23.17 per hundred pounds, the State Depart ment of Agriculture reported today* Sales for the first week were 25,- 318,196 pounds for a total of $6,357,- 896.43 for an average of $23.11 per hundred. Tifton, leading volume market last year, led again on poundage sold last week, with a total of 3,782,582 pounds. The report showed Waycrosse had the (top jprice average laist week —-26.34 cents a jJound. War Scare Keeps FDR At Offices President Fears To Venture Far From Washington In Eu ropean Crisis Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 13. (AP) —Critical conditions in war torn Spain and Europe were dis closed authoritatively today to have prompted President Roose velt to put a check on any plans that would call for his being far from Washington for any extend ed period. This fact became known only five days after Mr. Roosevelt, in an address at Chautquaua, N. Y., asserted he was more gravely con cerned over international ten dencies than domestic problems. During a press conference to day, however, the President said he had no new reports on the Spanish civil war, other than dup lication of information in the press.
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