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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR EUROPEAN NEUTRAL PACT MORE HOPEFUL Legality Os Confession By Negro In Clevenger Killing May Be Big Issue At Trial IK CLAIMS AS BASIS OF PROTEST 10 BE LAID DOWN Mistreatment of Negro, Pro mise of Leniency and Non-Arrest Are To Be Charged ATTORNEY ASKS TO RETIRE FROM CASE J. Scroop Styles, Named by Court as One of Two De fense Lawyers, Required by Judge Phillips To Con tinue; Selection of Jury Proceeds Rapidly j; » ' Asheville, Aug. 19 (AP) —A jury to try Martin Moore for the death of Helen Clevenger was completed today just be fore the Buncombe County Su perior Court recessed for lunch. Its selection followed rapidly after J. Scroop Styles, court-appointed coun sel for the 22-year-old Negro former hallbcy at the Battery Park hotel, announced the defense would con test the legality of a confession ob tained by Sheriff Laurence Brown when the Negro was arrested after a 24-day investigation. Asheville, Aug. 19.—'(AP) —Legality of Martin Moore’s alleged confession to the slaying of Helen Clevenger loomed as the principal issue today as selection of a jury to hear the case (Continued on Page Four.) 2 Aviators Ready For London Hop Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 19. —(AP) — Two men of different ways of life — the skyways and Broadway—worked on an airplane at Floyd Bennett field today preparing it for a round-trip to London. i They are Dick Merrill, veteran of 2.500,000 miles of air mail flying, and Harry Richman, theatre and night club songster. The plane is Ridhmaruls $100,((L0 monoplane. • They flew from Albuquerque, N. M., (Continued on Page Three.) UNEMPLOYMENT FOR STATE UP IN JULY More Jobless Despite Apparently Bet ter Business Conditions Shown by Reports Raleigh, Aug. 19.—(AP) —Despite better apparent business conditions, unemployment in North Carolina last month increased while ja|b placements decreased, a report of the State Em ployment Service, made public today, revealed. Although the 9,480 new applicants who registered with the service were ♦>.7 percent fewer than the total dur ing June, 9,404 renewals brought total applications to 18,884, an increase of 9.7 percent. Job placements in June totalled 9,- 491, a decrease of 27 percent from the preceding month. Daughter Os Reynolds To Get Fortune Winston-Salem, Aug. 19. —(AP) Reynolds Babcock, eldest daughter of the late R. J. Reynolds, has come in to her inheritance of $30,000,000, it was revealed here today. Mrs. Babcocx was 28 years old on August 8, and, under the terms of her „ (Continued on Page Three.) limitrrsmt Daily Dtsuitfrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIi£SUE perry memorial LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Flyer to Films Laverne W. Browne Frequent meetings with B. F. Shulberg, Hollywood producer, on air trips have won for Laverne W. Browne, above, Kansas City airplane pilot, a seven-year con tract in the movies at SIB,OOO a year. Shulberg proposed the screen trial after Decoming ac quainted with Browne on air jour neys. Browne is married and is an excellent pilot, according to his fellow workers. Central Press 60 Counties Might Claim Road Funds Few Acting So Far, However, Have Complied With The Rules, Bailey Says Dully Ohpntrb Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 19. —A much larger number of counties are preparing to file claims with the county road debt adjustment commission than had been expected to do so, judging from the large number of inquiries which are being received, Chairman Carl L. Bailey, of Plymouth, indicated today. If claims are filed by all the counties which have made inquiry concerning the procedure to be followed, it would not be surprising if between 60 and 70 counties file claims for between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, it was in dicated. During the 1935 General As sembly, 44 counties filed claims for the refunding of some $8,000,000 for roads which they had built and later turned over to the State. The formal claims of all the coun ties which think they are entitled to refunds or which want the State to take over the balance due on any bond issues for roads later turned, over to the State, must submit these (Continued on Page Three.) Tobacco Is Still High Forßorder (By The Associated Press) Border belt offerings on the Caro lina tobacco markets continued light yesterday, with tbe price average around $24 per hundred pounds. Sales included: Fairmont, 266,200 pounds at an average of $23.56 per hundredweight. Whiteville, 182,740 pounds, $24.42. Mullins, S. C., 300,000 pounds $24.11. Dillon, S. C., average $24.41. Tabor City, average 25.50. Lake City, S. C., 350,000 pounds sold. Loris, S. C., 60,000 pounds at $23.50. Lumberton, 425,000, pounds, $24.00. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 19, 1936 WALLACE ASSERTS DROUGHT WILL NOT PROOUCESCARCITY Did Not in 1934 and Will Not in 1936, Secretary Says at Great Lakes Show REAL SCARCITY WAS IN 1932, HE CLAIMS Was Then That Surpluses Were Greatest and Bread Lines Longest; Every Year Since Then Buying Power Has Been on Rise and Bus iness Gaining Aug.; 19.—(AP)—'Secre tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said, in an address prepared for de livery at the Great Lakes Exposition today, “drought did not bring scarcity into the average American home in 1934, nor will it in 1936.” “The record shows,” he continued, “that the real period of scarcity was in 1932. It was then when the sur pluses were greatest, that the bread lines were longest. It was then that the farmers were losing their farms, that industry was prostrate and fear and hunger were rampant. It was when farmers were burning corn In fCoTitJnned on Paeo Throe). HOLD GREENVILLE MAN FOR SLAYING Jailed In Connection With Training School Girl’s Death By Al leged Operation Greenville, N. C., Aug. 19. —(AP) —A man Police Chief George Clark booked as Don Evans, of Greenville, was in jail here today in connection with the death Sat urday night of Miss Huntley Belk, 20, Monroe, N. C., college student of what Chief Clark said was an illegal operation. The chief said Evans denied an operation was performed and con tended the girl died from self-ad ministered medicine. The officer indicated other ar rests would be made. Police Chief E. F. Armfield, of Monroe, said Miss Belk, a summer school student at East Carolina Teachers College here, was a daughter of Robert Belk, promi nent Monroe merchant. M ToKIDATES Valentine v May Oppose Barnhill forjudge; Foun tain for Congress Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In The Sir Walter Hvtci, Rt j. o_ BASKERVILI- Raleigh, Aug. 19.—Three men who were active supporters of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald in the recent campaigns for the Democratic nomination for governor are now regarded as poten tial, if not active, candidates for of fice two years hence, according to reports reaching here. One of these three is Itimous T. Valentine, of Nashville, Nash county, who was assistant campaign mana ger for Dr. McDonald, now regarded as an active candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for superior court (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHERMAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; possibly showers in extreme north portion. ACTRESSES RETRACT CHARGE AGAINST WPA OFFICIALS Edith Rubin, Attorney Murray Lewin and Jean Parker Although three Boston actresses have retracted their charges that they had lost their WPA jobs because they refused to “entertain ‘federal men’ at a drinking party”, Aubrey Williams, deputy WPA administrator, said a board of inquiry would de termine whether there had been any discrimina- 19 Power Companies Ask Halt Os TVA Activities Freed by Spaniards II f Hk '' v wßS[t i J. Owen Ambler of San Antonio, Tex., who was among 38 members of the staff of a British mining company held as hostages by the Spanish government forces at Huel va, Spain. He was released after intercession by the United States government. (Central Press) Mask Ousted For Ignoring Brain Trust Regional Director in Raleigh Put Effici ency Ahead of Tug well Politics Dally Dispatch Bateau, In The Sir Walter Hote.. By J. C. BA BKERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 19.—Homer H. B. Mask, until last Saturday regional di rector of Resettlement for region four with headquarters here, was sum marily fired by Director Rexford G. Tugwell last week for no other rea son than that he placed efficiency above politics, believed that the func tion of Resettlement was to help needy farmers and farm families rather than the playing of office poli tics within the organization and the retention of inefficient employes, and that he did not kowtow and salaam, enough to Tugwell’s coterie of theo retical economists and baby “brain trusters” in Washington, according to those who know something of the background of Mask’s dismissal. Now that the smoke is beginning to clear away, observers are able to pfiece things together in an effort to ex (Continued on Page Three.) tion in the recent dismissal of the three women. The women retracted their charges, Williams said, at a hearing in Boston. Above, two of the act resses, Edith Rubin, left, and Jean Parker, right, are seen in Boston with their attorney, Murray Lewin, who denied any retraction. —Central Press Would Stop Every Move By Government Power Cor poration Pending Out come of Suit MOTION FILED WITH KNOXVILLE COURTS Making of Power Contracts With Cities, Building Transmission Lines and Extension of Rural Electri fication Plans Would Be Enjoined Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 19.—(AP) — A group of 19 private power com panies which recently challeneged the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority act asked Federal district court today to halt all power activities of the TVA pending a set tlement of the suit. The request was made in a motion filed in connection with the consti tutionality suit. The motion seeks to tie up every phase of the TVA’s power program. The Authority would he stopped from making power contracts with cities, from building transmission lines, car rying out rural electrification plans, and otherwise doing anything that might be construed as designed to fur ther its power projects. The court did not fix a date for a hearing on the injunction plea imme diately. BaKSs Taken as Indication of Ad ministration Worry Over Defections By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 19. —Os course the Roosevelt campaign management’s story is that it is not the least bit worried by the hostility of such old fashioned Democrats as those who met recently in Detroit to denounce the New Deal as the antithesis of Jeffersonianism. Nevertheless there are hints that the White House considers the dis gruntled element’s influence strong enough to be worth a little counter acting. One of these hints is to be seen in President Roosevelt’s so-called “social visit,” toward the middle cf August, at Assistant Secretary of State Sum ner Welles’ Maryland estate, near Washington. If that visit wasn’t poli tical rather than social there is noth ing in inside information. SECRET CONFERENCE In the first place, the President seemingly preferred not to have it known that he planned to drop in oni Welles. He disappeared from the executive mansion quite suddenly, unknown to {Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Ward Secretary With Democrats Marion, Aug 19 (AP)—J. Wal lace Win borne, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, announced today the ap pointment of State Representative David Livingston Ward, of New Bern, as secretary of the commit tee. Ward succeeds Cutler Moore, of Lumberton, who resigned the po sition last spring. He will serve for two years. Hauptmann Income Tax Is Settled Stipulation Filed By His Widow With Tax Appeals Board In Washington Washington, Aug. 19. —(AP)— The government’s income tax case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, executed for the kidnap-murder of the Lind bergh baby, has been settled by the filing of a stipulation by his widow with the board of tax appeals. Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, an execu trix of her husband’s estate, admitted that Hauptmann owed additional in come taxes of $117.67 for 1932, and $1,729,59 for 1933. Hauptmann had been charged with a deficiency of $117.67 for 1932 and $5,283.27 for 1933, together with penalties and interest which aggregated $9,678.30 for two years. The stipulation was dated August 5. Hauptmann’s appeal—made before he was executed in Trenton, N. J. — contended that he derived the income from a fur business conducted by him and Isidor Fisch, now deceased, and in subsequent pleading denied that the additional income was a part of the $50,000 ransom money paid by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for the return of his son. iKSuk Man Who Surrendered In Chicago Confesses Slaying of Mrs. Trammell Aug. 19.—(AP) —Turning from Rufe Swain’s confession that he killed Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell, in vestigators questioned the Negro to day about the slaying of two other women. Captain Daniel Gilbert said Swain, 27, admitted last night he bludgeoned and choked Mrs. Trammell, 24, to death last Saturday night. Then officials took him to the crim inal courts building for interrogation about the deaths of Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, 24, night club (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY medbSs IN SPAIMOWEVER Mussolini Cools Slightly from Reported Threat of Sending Planes Into Spain DENIAL BY FRANCE OF GOVERNMENT AID Paris Socialist Regime As serts Its Neutrality in. Word and Deed; Strive Harder To Bring Italy and Ger many into Non-Interven tion Accord Quickly (By The Associated Press.) Italy, warily keeping her fleet of 1,- 500 Fascist war planes in a state of readiness, let it be known today a compromise Franco-Italian agreement on Spanish neutrality was, neverthe less, in sight. Such a compromise, Fascist offi cials indicated, might mean Italy would give up her demand that So cialist France stop expressions of public opinion at home on behalf of the Socialist Spanish government. Earlier informed Italian sources said Dictator Benito Mussolini had served notice the air fleet would wing to the aid of Spanish Fascist rebels if France fails to abstain from in tervention and “moral” support for the Spanish government. Paris officials quickly let it be knowh France would abandon her present position of neutrality if Italy undertakes to aid the rebel cause. They insisted France still was neutral in word and deed. Jubilant rebels, from their head quarters at Burgos, declared both Italy and Germany were ready to ex tend full recognition to a Fascist Spanish government on the day the rebel armies take Madrid —if they do. But French officials, despite these new and seemingly difficult obstacles, pressed negotiations to bring {both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy Into a non-intervention pact. The sharpest civil fighting appeared to be taking place in the Bay of Bis cay sector, with rebels advancing within 600 yards of Irun. GROWERS IN WAYNE LEARN OF GRADING u. S. Department of Agriculture Of ficial Addresses Goldsboro ' Business Men Also Goldsboro, Aug. 19.—(AP)— Farfn ers of Wayne and adjoining counties gathered here today for a mass meet ing to consider the advantages of gov ernment tobacco grading service of fered the Goldsboro market beginning September 1. Frank B. Wilkinson, senior market ing specialist of the United States Department of Agriculture, told 300 Goldsboro business men last night government grading of tobacco pro* vides the farmer with information aa to what he has to sell and knowledge of the value of his produce. The meeting was a preliminary to the mammoth mass meeting planned for today, to which approximately 3,- 000 farmers have been invited. 16 Russians Admit Guilt In New Plot Had Planned Over throw of Soviet Gov ernment; Trotzky Behind Conspiracy Moscow, Aug. 19.—(AP) —Sixteen accused Trotsky conspirators pleaded guilty in open court today to charges they plotted to seize power through, an organized reign of terror, in which Dictator Josef Stalin and other heads of the state would have been killed. Prosecutors at the opening of the trial charged the plot was organized by Leon Trotsky, famous boshevist exile, and that the plotters hoped for international complications which would pave the way for overthrow of the government. The German secret police also was charged with direct participation in the plot. Hardly had the session opened when Gregory Zinovieff, former high bolshevik leader, accused as one of the masters of the conspiracy rose and declared: “I am fully guilty.”
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