HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
HITLER DOUBLES SIZE OF GERMLH ARMY
GLASS TO VOTE FOR
ROOSEVELT, BUT MAY
NOT SPEAK FOR HIM
Never Had Any Other Idea
Than To Vote for Pres
ident, Aged Virginia
Senator Says
HAS LENGTHY TALK
CURING FORENOON
Tells Friends Roosevelt Did
Not Ask Him To Take
Stump; President Has Busy
Day of Conferences Before
Lea v i ini g Tonight on
Drought Inspection
Washington, Aug. 25.—(AP) —After
a conference with the President, Sen
ator Carter Glass, of Virginia, said
today he would vote for Mr. Roose
velt next November, but was unde
cided whether he would speak in the
campaign.
Glass, who has differed with the
chief executive in some New Deal po
licies, particularly spending, told a
group of supporters that his doctors
had advised him not to speak. But he
added that they similarly cautioned
him in 1932, when he made a. radio
speech for the Roosevelt-Garner
ticket.
The 78-year-old Democratic chair
man of the appropriations committee,
and one-time Treasury secretary, said:
“If you want to know whether I’m
going to vote for the re-election of
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LEE GRAVELY QUITS
LIQUOR COMMISSION
Pressure of Private Business at This
Time of Year Given as Rea
son for Move
Rocky Mount, Aug. 25. —(AP)—Say-
ing that his ousiness duties made it
impossible for him to serve, State
Senator L. L. Gravely today tendered
to Governor Ehringhaus his resigna
tion from the commission to study the
liquor situation in North Carolina.
“It seems to me that in order to
make recommendations to the Gen
eral Assembly it will be necessary for
the commission to study conditions in
the 17 so-called “wet” counties and
in the other counties of the State;
also to make a study of conditions as
they exist in other states having dif
ferent types of state control,” Grave
ly said in his letter of resignation.
“This is going to take a good deal
of time and I do not feel that at this
time of year I can afford to assume
any more duties than I now have.”
Asks Press
To Remove
Court Evil
Boston, Mass., Aug. 25 (AP) —Thos.
Thatcher, former solicitor general of
the United States, called upon the
press of the nation today to support
the American Bar Association in rid
ding the courts of the publicity evil.
Referring to the Hauptmann mur
der trial as “the most shocking ex
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Liquor Hearings To Get
Center Os Stage Shortly
Much More Interest In That Than Lower Gasoline
Prices or Road Refunds to Counties; Hard Fight
In Next Legislature Likely Over Liquor
Dull T Dtopntch RHeai,
In TKe Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. V. BASKERV'U
Raleigh, Aug. 25 —Evidently be
cause there is so much more drama
in it than in highway loans or in
gasoline prices, vastly more interest
centers in the three hearings this
week on liquor control than on the
refund of the advancements or on a
Statewide reduction of gasoline prices.
Governor Ehringhaus some weeks
ago named three commissions to make
State surveys. One is to inquire into
the wisdom of port terminals for the
distribution of gasoline. Prices, uni
formly high in North Carolina, can
not be justified, Governor Ehring
haus has intimated in former hear
ings that gave no remedy to the
State. Dealers in this State say
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Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard
Detained at Passau, Germany, on
charges of attempting to smuggle
currency into Germany from
Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Georgette
Ross Howard, above, prominent
lecturer of Washington, D. C., will
be aided by the U. S. consul in
Munich,’ Charles M. Hathaway.
The U. S. consul has proceeded to
Passau to investigate the charges.
CAMPAIGN NEARING
DANGEROUS SIAGE
Emotions Being Aroused
That May Hurl U. S. on
Brink of War
Washington” sees it
Roosevelt’s Chautauqua Speech Clear
Statement of World Situation
* From Viewpoint of the
United States
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
The majority of campaign and con
vention speeches may seem just like
so much guff prior to the end of the
presidential campaign. The reason is
clear —the magnitude of reality is
overshadowing all the make-believe is
sues. A terrible conflagration has be
gun in Europe—and who is safe?
And especially who is safe with in
flamatory statements being made in
the United States also?
The civil war in Spain is not pure
ly an internal issue.‘lt is the march
of fascism toward western Europe.
And, because before that terror, an
other terror of the other extreme
arises, due to the Fascist-instigated
civil war, flames and courAer-flames
have burst forth toward all the re-
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North Carolina could reduce prices
to the level of Virginia’s and even to
those in the District of Columbia.
Some Virginia cities meet those prices.
The establishment of a terminal on
the coast with the advantages of
water freight rates would help,
many people think. The Morrison
administration proposed a general
development of port terminals based
upon a bond issue of $10,000,000. That
was defeated at the polls in the gen
eral election of 1924.
Port terminals to bring down gaso
line prices would reach everybody’s
interest, but there is mighty little
concern about that commission. It
starts soon its work. And so does
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY ‘AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1936
EAST OF THE WEEK
Road Refunds, Liquor, Gas
oline Terminals and
Spending of Road
Surplus Crowd In
MEET
TO ARGUE PROGRAM
Nearly 75 Counties Petition
for Highway Refunds Esti
mated Around $50,000,-
000; Deadline for Filing Is
Tonight Midnight; Liquor
Hearings Begin
Raleigh, Aug. 25.—(AP)—Vital pro
blems of state, some of which have
been hanging fire since the 1935 Gen
eral Assembly adjourned, will be dis
cussed by four of North Carolina’s
more important commissioners sche
duled to be in session here during the
latter part of the week.
The State Highway and Public
Works Commission will meet here
Thursday to prepare its formal re
quest to Governor Ehringhaus for the
allocation of $2,800,000 from the high
way fund surplus. The money would
be used as part of the $10,000,000 pro
gram designed to improve secondary
roads during 1936-37.
At the same time, the liquor com
mission, authorized by the 1935 legis
lature, and appointed by the gover
nor July 18, will meet here to inves
tigate liquor control laws in 17 “wet”
counties. The commission, of which
Victor Bryant, of Durham, i s chair
man, also is scheduled to meet in
Wilson Friday and in Wilmington
Saturday.
Petitions from perhaps as many as
75 counties asking that hte State re
fund an estimated total of $50,000,000
will be discussed by the commission
investigating county highway debts,
which will be in session here Friday.
Carl L. Bailey, of Washington coun
ty, chairman of the investigating body
said today he had received claims
totalling $24,796,852.89 from 36 coun
ties. The deadline for filing the peti
tions is midnight.
Also to meet here Friday is the re
cently appointed commission to study
the advisability of the establishment
of a State-owned gasoline terminals.
Tobacco In
Georgia Has
Top Money
Atlanta, Ga„ Aug. 25.—(AP) — The
first three weeks sales on the Geor
gia tobacco market brought farmers
$17,585,270.27, the greatest sum i n the
history of the industry in this State.
Garland Bagley, statistician of the
State Department of Agriculture, said
sales totalled 81,586,758 pounds, or an
average of $21.55 per hundred pounds.
Some of the markets are still in op
eration, but the auction season will
end throughout the .belt within a few
days.
Bagley’s figures represent sales for
the season through last Friday.
LONGTIME ON
MOORE IS LIKELY
Association for Colored Peo
ple Ready To Do Battle.
For Prisoner
Dally Dispatch Rarcaa.
(n The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Aug. 25. —Disputed testi
mony regarding the alleged confes
sion Sunday at State’s Prison by Mar
tin Moore, convicted murderer of
Helen Clevenger, banishes the offi
cial hope that the case itself is ended.
The presence in this State of many
members of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, guarantees on such a case as this
a protracted debate. The N. A. A. C.
P. has been in numerous other North
Carolina litigations, civil and criminal.
The point to he made in the Moore
case is that the prisoner was not
given time for a good defense and
that on the jury which tried him
there were no negroes. There were
none on the grand* jury which indict
ed him.
These would be the federal ques
tions involved and while they cannot
be regarded serious, in the opinion
of good lawyers, they will delay the
execution of the prisoner several
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Look to Anti. Red Bloc in Central Europe
A proposed meeting between Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria, Hitler of Germany, and Admiral
Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, scheduled for September, may result in an anti-Red bloc of nations in
Central Europe, observers point out. Horthy, who inspired the conference, is said to be a strong foe of
communism and if the tri-partite anti-communist front becomes a fact it is reported that efforts will be
made to persuade Premier Mussolini of Italy to disinterest himself in the countries of the Danube in return
for Spanish territory. Man shows the nations with, left, Adolph Hitler and Nicholas Horthy, and right,
above. Kurt Schuschnigg. (Central Press)
16 Leaders Os Soviet Plot
Executed By Firing Squads
(Mioscow, Aug. 25 (AP) —Death be
fore firing squads ended today the
careers of 16 confessed conspirators,
many of them once high in the
ranks of bolshevik leadership.
They had been convicted a little
over 24 hours before the death sen
tences were carried out secretly.
A terse statement announced the
executions after the central executive
Elections In
Three States
Are Awaited
New Deal Stalwarts
Involved in Two
States; Townsend
Plan In Third
(By The Associated Press.)
Primaries in three states today com
manded national attention.
In Mississippi the veteran Senator
Pat Harrison, after a campaign in
which he stood on his record as a
New Deal supporter, contested with
former Governor Sennett Conner for
the Democratic Senatorial nomination
Conner was aided by Senator Bilbo,
colleague but foe of the senior sena
tor. The party will also nominate
seven representatives, one unopposed.
In South Carolina there is a clear-
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CITY-COUNTY HEADS
PLAN CONFERENCES
Series of District Gatherings Next
Week Backed By Institute
of Government
Chapel' Hill, Aug. 25.—'(AP)—City
and county officials of North Caro
lina will hold a series of district con
ferences under auspices of the In
stitute of Government next week.
An announcement here said one of
the meetings would be held at Tar
boro Monday.
011ß VfeATHEP MAN
.FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight; Wednes
day partly cloudy, becoming un
settled ; possibly showers in ex
treme north portion.
committee of the Soviet Union de
clined an appeal for mercy.
All had confessed their participa
tion in the plot to which the exiled
Leon TrotzK>, former minister of war
and one-time revolutionary zealot,
was linked as a leader.
The communique announcing the
fulfillment • of sentence stated in
part:
STATE EMPLOYEES
MAY GEI OLD PAY
Raleigh Hears Clyde Hoey
To Recommend Deferred
Payments
Dully Dlspatck Bareai,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Pt .1 C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Aug. 25. —'State workers
have been hearing recently that Dem
ocratic Nominee Clyde R. Hoey, will
when he shall have prepared his in
augural message to the General As
sembly, recommend the return by the
State of an approximate $400,000
taken from them April, May and June
of 1933.
Mr. Hoey has made no public com
mitment to that effect, and his two
opponents did. His Republican anta
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Gov . Landon
Angling For
N. Y. Votes'
Ripley, N. Y., Aug. 25.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Alf. M. Landon moved deeper
into New York today for conferences
on presidential campaign strategy,
after declaring that widespread use
of the machinery of the Federal gov
ernment “to maintain the present ad
ministration in power’’ created a pro
paganda danger.
The Republican nominee, who in a
speech at Chautauqua, last night call
ed for freedom of education, press
and radio, turned toward Buffalo to
discuss with party leaders plans to
win New York’s 47 electoral votes.
Governo" Landon prefaced his
speech in the Chautauqua amphi
theatre with the statement:
“In Kansas we .believe that our
schools —public, parochial and private
—must be kept free of all control by
the Federal government.
“In Kansas we insist no teacher
should be required to take any oath
not required of all other citizens. In
Kansas we believe in academic free
dom and practice it.
“There must not be censorship of
what is spoken or written, and equally
important, there must be no control
of the source of news.”
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
' EXCEPT SUNDAY.
“The sentence in regard to all has
been carried out.”
The Soviet officials did not state
where or how the executions were
performed, a customary procedure.
Included among those whd died
were Leon Kameneff and Gregory
Zinovieff, once member with Dictator
Josef Stalin of the triumvirate at
the head of the Soviet Union.
Family Os
Moore Not
To Appeal
Asheville, Aug. 25. —(AP) —'Members
of the family of Martin Moore, Negro,
convicted slayer of Helen Clevenger,
New York University student said to
day they would not appeal the case,
but local members of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, said they would carry
it to the Supreme Court.
Tom Moore, brother of the prison
er, said the family considered an ap
peal “a hopeless cause," and would
not continue it.
Rev. M. L. Breeding, Negro presi
dent of the Asheville chapter of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, said the or
ganization was going forward with
plans to raise funds with which to
finance the appeal.
Moore was convicted of slaying the
18-year-old student in her room at the
Battery Park hotel. His death date
was set for October 2, but prison of
ficials said he probably would not die
.before Christmas if an appeal were
perfected.
ICKES 7 * FOSTER SON
GIVEN ACQUITTAL
•
Secretary Charges Drunken Driving
Case in Massachusetts Had
Political Angle
Wonburn, Mass., Aug. 25 (AP)
Judge Arthur E. Eno, of Lowell, to
day acquitted Robert H. Ickes, 22, fos
ter son of Secretary of Interior Har
old Ickes, of driving while under the
influence of liquor.
Young Ickes, employed on a Pub
lic Works Administration project,
pleaded innocent to the charge and
declared he had one bottle of beer
several hours prior to his arrest the
night of August 10.
Two policemen, including Sergeant
Harrold, who arrested Ickes, testified
he showed no signs of being intoxi
cated after his car bumped another
machine in parking. Harrold said
only after questioning Ickes about his
license and registration did he smell
his breath and believed he might have
been drinking.
Ickes’ arrest brought from his fos
ter father the charge that his foster
son was the victim of unfair publi
city, inspired by “unfair political rea
sons.”
Harrold, however, denied the sec
retary’s declaration.
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France a'nd Britain Study
ing Proposal To Lessen
Cruelties Done on
Both Sides
ATMOSPHERE MADE
MORE BREATHLESS
Two Years Compulsory Ser
vice Decreed by Nazi Chief
Claimed To Be Directed at
“Aggressive Soviet Rus
sian Militarism” on Eastern
Frontier
(By The Associated Press.)
Diplomatic proposals designed to
check brutality of Spain's fierce civil
war were authoritatively reported to
day to be the subject of communica
tions between France and Great Bri
tain.
The foreign affairs committee of
the British cabinet was believed to
have taken the proposals under con
sideration.
Since the war started in Spain there
have been frequent reports of the mis
treatment of civilians and prisoners
by both the Socialist government and
the Fascist rebels.
The civil fires burned on in Spaim
toward their ultimate Fascist or So
ciolist embers in a European atmos
phere made suddenly more breathless
by Nazi-decreed expansion of the
German army.
Not connected directly with the
civil war, Adolf Hitler’s doubling of
the universal military term in the
Reich served, nevertheless, to throw
the whole international conflict ber*
tween right and left into sharp re
lief.
His decree of two years compulsory
service under arms was aimed direct
ly at what the Nazis called “aggres
sive Soviet Russian militarism.”
Madrid dispatches told of a new
purge of the capital’s Fascists, includ
ing the execution of four rebel officers
Loyalists and rebels broadcast con
flicting claims of victory in Guad&r
rama mountain fighting just north of
Madrid.
The rebels repeated their aerial
bombardment of Irun. There was little
damage.
Employment.
Now Highest
Since 1930
Washington, Aug. 35 (AP) —A slight
increase in industrial employment
between June and July, described as
being contrary to the usual mid
summer decline, was reported today
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The gain of approximately 2,000
workers was caused, the bureau
said, entirely by a pick-up in employ
ment in 52 of 90 manufacturing in
dustries surveyed.
The bureau said a comparison with
July, 1935, ( showed nearly 11,000,000
more workers were employed last
month than in July, 1935, and the
payrolls were $42,000,000 a week
greater.
The bureau said the gain of nine
tenths percent in factory employment
continued an upswing that had been
in evidence since January and carried
the employment index to the highest
point since October, 1930.
Dual Killing
Near Capital
Is Reported
Estranged Husband
Kills Wife’s Com
panion and Then
Takes Own Life
Fredericksburg, Va., Aug. 25 (AP)
—A double killing, which authorities
said they were told was a murder
and a suicide, terminated a wild auto
mobile ride early today in which a
woman participated as an unwilling
third party passenger.
The two dead are Gilmer L. Sny
der, 26, of Washington, and Clifford
Thomas, 28, also of Washington.
Justice B. Wyatt Walker, and
Commonwealth’s Attorney Joseph A.
Billingsley, of King George county,
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