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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR LIQUOR BODY TOLD CRIME NO BREMER IN ‘WET COUNTIES No More Drunkenness Where Liquor Is Now Be ing Sold Than In So- Called Dry Area DRYS, HOWEVER, ASK BAN UPON WHISKY Highway Chiefs Cite Great est Rate of License Revo cations in Large “Dry” Counties; Burgess, Poteat and Beam Appear for Pro hibition Cause Raleigh, Aug. 27. —(AP)—Law en forcement, correctional and psycho pathic experts presented statistics to the State Liquor Commission today, showing there apparently was no more drunkenness or crime in the State’s "wet” counties than in those in which the sale of spirits is pro hibited. The commission, in session for pub lic hearings here, heard evidence from officers of the United Dry For ces. however, that “liquor drinking helps fill the insane asylums, the or phanages, the penitentiary and the electric chair.” Dr. J. W. Ashby, superintendent of State Hospital here, told the commis sion that “I cannot find that the re cent change in the mode of handling liquor in some of the counties has increased our applications for the ad mission of alcoholic patients.” R. Eugene Brown, director of the division of charitable and correction al institutions, presented statistics showing there was virtually no dif ference in the amount of drunken ness in the wet and dry counties. Arthur Faulk, director of the high way safety division, presented figures (Continued on Page Three.) Fliers Make Test Hop North Before Soaring Atlantic Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 27.—(AP) —Dick Merrill and Harry Rich man took off in their monoplane “Lady of Peace” from Floyd Ben nett airport at 8:26 a. m., east ern standard time, today on a non stop test flight to Newfoundland. Richman said he hoped the ac tual flight to London could be started Friday afternoon and that, if todayfs test proved satisfac tory, all he and Merrill awaited was word of passable weather over the Atlantic. Will Claim Clevenger Case Fund Charlotte, Aug. 27.—(AP)—Former Police Chief Walter B. Orr, of Char lotte, claimed today a SI,OOO reward offered for the arrest and conviction of Helen Clevenger’s slayer. Observing that Martin Moore, giant Negro hallboy had been quoted by State Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill at Raleigh as confessing the July 16 billing at the fashionable Battery Park hotel at Asheville, Orr said: ‘ I knew he would talk in Raleigh.” Terming the work of two New York detectives on the case “negligible,” Orr said they arrived at Asheville after he already had obtained infor mation which led to Moore’s arrest. “Sheriff Brown promised me tho reward when I went there,” Orr said, “but I don’t think I deserve all of it. f solved the case, but I would want to split with Tom Brown and Love Gudger, the two deputies who helped me all the time I was there.” Moore was convicted of first degree murder in connection with the killing and sentenced to die in the lethal gas chamber October 2. Many Coast Towns Seeking State Gasoline Terminals Southport, Jacksonville, Sw ansboro Join Wilmington, Morehead alnd Fayetteville as Bidding for Equip ment Not Yet Even Established at All I)nliy DiMpntcfc Ilnrena. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Pr J C. BASXBRVILL Raleigh, Aug. 27.—Before hearings begin, candidacies for selection as a port terminal for State-distributed gasoline are announced. Morehead City, Wilmington and Fayetteville are the first to indicate, their wishes. Southport, Jacksonville, Wwansboro, and New Bern probably will be brought in. Some of these cities are pretty far from the deep waters, but they might get the ad vantage of freight rates which always lintftFrsmi tlatht Uispatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Roosevelt Reaches West For Conference On Plan To Avoid Drought Losses President Set Against Re moval of Population to Other Parts of the United States TRANSFORMATION IS RELIED ON TO HELP Wallace Trying To Sell Roosevelt on Crop Insur ance, Ever-Normal-Gran ary Idea and Intensive Soil Conservation Program; Shift Held Necessary Aboard Roosevelt Train, En Route to Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 27. —(AP) — President Roosevelt came to drought damaged North Dakota today for con ferences with drought State officials which he hoped would point the way to the shift in the Northwest’s econo my he feels is necessary to bulwark this region against future calamities of nature. In denying at the start of the cur rent dry spell that his administra tion would seek to depopulate areas hardest hit by recurring droughts, the President said the whole economy of this region must be changed, but with present populations kept where they are to carry on under the transfor mation. Secretary Wallace, accompanying the President, agreed with him in at least one respect—that much of the land turned into crop damaging dust in recent weeks would be better adapt Continued on Page Five.) Five in Family In Pennsylvania Die When Home Burns Ilomesdale, I’a., Aug. 27. —(AP) —Flames roared through a frame dwelling today, killing five mem bers of a family and injuring two Fire Chief Ray Smith, of Homes dale, said George Griffin, 64, his wife, Irene, 46, and their children, Donald, 10; Mildred, 7, and Marion 12, burned to death. Jean, 8, and Fay, 2, other daugh ters were partially overcome by smoke, Smith said, and taken to a hospital. have been accorded theoretically to seaport towns. Times without num ber it has been observed that despite the splendid harbor at Southport, the I gasoline rates are just as high there as in interior North Carolina. The State, after many unsuccess ful efforts to get gasoline prices com | parable with Virginia’s, has set hear ings at which time testimony will be offered to show the feasibility of gas oline port terminals for the State. Thei Continued on Page Five.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE FLEE BEFORE SPAIN’S REBELS Scene in La Calzada, Spain, as Spanish refugees unload belongings Spanish residents, in the path of the Fascist rebels advancing on Madrid, flee for their lives. In this HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY rfAFTERNOO N, AUGUST 27,1936 | dramatic photo refugees are seen arriving at La I Calzada. Where will their next stop be? —Central Pres* Pipe-Smoking King j . , t'A - W I W‘ . ‘ •'/’>*• ■ j t. • *.. p : .j X:-1 ! ■’ ‘ : l&ij&g-j- • • •'. : King Edward VIII This unconventional pose of King Edward VIII of Great Britain was obtained as the monarch vaca tioned on the Bay of Martinac, Yugoslavia. — Centra* Vre.KF IN LOCAL SIICS It Was Negligible in Missis sippi and South Caro lina Primaries Dally DUpatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Bt J. V. BASK EIIVILiI- Raleigh, Aug. 27. —Race politics worked out badly for senatorial can didates in South Carolina and Mis sissippi, and North Carolinians are wondering if there will not be a si milar result in Georgia. Many papers of the State joined in commendation of Dr. J. E. Shepard, president of North Caroina College for Negroes in Durham, who recent ly protested in a dignified letter to Governor Eugene Talmadge, against the raising of the race issue in that state. The Constitution of Atlanta printed the letter and in a column* editorial commended it. The paper also rebuked Governor Talmadge. Dr. Shepard’s letter was printed in part by nearly all the State dailies, some of which declared that there was no justification in the Talmadge attack on the race. One of the candidates for the seat in the United States Senate attacked Senator Byrnes in his South Caro lina campaign, and the Palmetto peo ple gave the incumbent an amazing majority. The same ruse was attempt ed in Mississippi against Senator Pat (Continued on Page Three.) AS YET UNSETTLED Friends Want Him as May or of Winston-Salem and Agitate It WOULD RAISE THE PAY McDonald’s Friends First Tried To Get Professorship for Him and That Failed, and Then Talked Newspaper Dally Dispatch Ritrem, In The Sir Walter Hote», By J. C. BA SKERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 27 —'More speculation on the future of Dr. Ralph W. Mc- Donald was started here a day or two ago when discussion of a change in the charter of Winston-Salem was coupled with the suggestion that un der such an amendment Dr. McDon ald might be made whole-time mayor. Two things, it was pointed out, would have to be done: The charter of twin municipalities would have to provided for the full-time job and a delegation in the legislature would have to do it. There are four Forsyth members of the general assembly. Three of them are in the House and one in the senate. Three are known to have slight hostility to Dr. Mc- Donald. The mayor of Winston-Salem now draws $2,000 a year, it is said. That does not quite pay the mayor a living, but old timers in that city do not wish the office to be a paying work. Friends of Dr. McDonald, however, do. They have tried to get him a college professorship and once it ap peared that he might have a chance with some of his earnest supporter members of the Wake Forest board of trustees. There was an effort ear- Continued on Page Five.) 5 Are Dead In Wrecking Huge Truck Darlington, Md., Aug. 27.—(AP) —Five persons bound for their homes in Florida and Georgia after three months work in New Jersey potato fields, died in the plunge of a truck down a steep embankment near here today and 16 were injured, several critically. George D. Hart, 57, of Hastings, Fla., driver of the truck, and or ganizer of the group of itiner ant workers, died at the wheel. The other dead, three Negro men and one Negro woman, were toss ed from the rear of the truck. Only four or five of the persons escaped serious injury. They were cut and bruised. Lawrence Yel vington, also of Hastings, and owner of the truck, blamed the crash on a defective tire and a slippery road. FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered showers in north portion and near coast to night or Friday; slightly warmer on south coast tonight and copi er in north central portion Fri day. SPANISH REBELS NOW CLAIM OPEN ROAD TO MA DRID, 40 MILES OFF Secretary Os War Dem Dies At Reed Hospital After Lengthy Illness Suffered With Complica tions Following Attack of Influenza Several Years Ago ALL ARMY’S POSTS DIP THEIR FLAGS Body Will Be Taken Back to Utah for Burial; Dern Was Twice Goveiinor Os Home State Before Enter ing Roosevelt Cabinet; President Is Notified Washington, Aug. 21—(AP)—George Henry Dern, secretary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet, died in Walter Reed hospital here today from heart disease and complications resulting from past influenza attacks. He was 64 years old. He died at 10:55 a. m., eastern stan dard time. Six members of his family were with him. Word immediately was telegraph ed to President Roosevelt, who at the time was nearing Bismarck, N. D., aboard his special train on a drought inspection trip. Simultaneously orders were drafted fqr army posts everywhere to lower their flags to half staff and to fire their mourning gun every half hour after reveille tomorrow. Plans for the funeral of the secre tary of war were not immediately an nounced. It was indicated his body would be taken to Utah, where only four years ago he occupied the gov ernor’s chair. Dr. Fritz Meyer, noted German heart specialist, called here from Bos ton at the direction of President Roosevelt, was in consultation with Army doctors just before the war sec retary died. During the night, it was disclosed, Dern had been placed under an oxy gen tent, in an effort to prolong his life. Dern’s death, friends said, followed a general physical breakdown, ori ginating in a severe attack of in fluenza when he was governor of Utah five years ago, and from which he never fully recovered. Since then he has suffered from recurrent influenza attacks and severe colds which gradually weaken ed him and placed an extremely heavy strain on his heart. Dern—twice governor of Utah be fore rising to the cabinet —entered Walter Reed', the big army hospital here, on July 13 for “rest treatment and a physical check” after he be came ill during an inspection of army engineer projects on the Delaware river in Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt and high rank ing army officers were cognizant of the seriousness of Secretary Dern’s condition for nearly a year. Although no announcement was made. It was learned that immediately after Dern entered the hospital the last time that doctor’s entertained little hope for his recovery. couzMmayTose FOR BOOSTING FDR But Wealthy Michigan Re publicaini Senator Is Frank About His Views Central Press Staff Writer SENATOR JAMES COUZENS of Michigan has done the unusual again. Running for the Republican renom ination for senator, he has declared himself for President Roosevelt. His statement is, like all his state ments, forthright: “Believing as I do that the most im portant matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roose velt, I intend to support him. “The outcome of my own can didacy for the Senate is neither im portant to the nation nor to me, but I believe it is important that many loyal supporters in Michigan be ad vised in advance of the primary, September 15.” Which is exactly the way the aver age politician would not express him self. Senator Couzens, however, never leaves one in doubt as to the side of the fence he is on. It is not this statement alone that may cause Wilber M. Brucker, con- Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Dies In Washington SBgjw;*:#’:' A.. .^ : :3xmB% ; &NB2BQ ’■^ooßßhox-i'xowoJm': GEORGE H. DERN, Secretary of War Bar Groups May Oppose Child Laws Resolution at Boston Convention Against Ratif i cation Os Amendment Boston, Mass., Aug. 27.—i(AP) —A special committee reported to the American Bar Association convention today a recommendation to oppose ratification of the Federal child labor amendment and promote adoption of a uniform labor law by states.” Immediately the possibility of a dis pute over the report arose. Several re solutions supporting the amendment had been placed before the convention for action. Two resolutions sought to discharge the committee—headed by James A. Simpson, of Alabama—and reject its report. The committee said “it seems hard ly to be wise” to proceed with rati fication of the amendment until the people have an opportunity to pass upon Federal employment control in general. “There has been noted in some parts of the country some rejuvenation of pressure and activity in favor of rati fication,” the report said. “Two fac tors may be primarily responsible, therefore, first, the active part being taken by the President of the United States and members of his govern ment, and, secondly, the fatuous hope on the part of some of the unem ployed of bettering their chances of getting a job by removing from em ployment any class of persons by any possible device.” Lehman Not To Dismiss Accusation Albany, N. Y.,«Aug. 27.—(AP)—Gov ernor Lehman refused today to dis missal removal charges against Dis trict Attorney William F. Geoghan, The governor was ruling on a mo tion by Geoghan’s counsel, Lloyd Paul Stryker, for dismissal based on the ground that any misconduct, if any occurred, must have taken place in Geoghan’s prior term of office in King’s county. New York City’s battle between Mayor Laguardia’s fusion forces and the Brooklyn Democratic organizat ion in 1935, was pushed to the fore by the defense in the removal hear ing. The Brooklyn prosecutor and Stryker themselves introduced the po litical background yesterday. They (Continued on Page Eight.) Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SOCIALIST LEADER DENOUNCESFRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN Charges They Have Desert ed Spain When They Should Be Among Strongest Allies REBEL CHIEFS SAY FRANCE HAS AIDED American-Made Plaine Tun ed Up on Austrian Border Reputedly To Carry Ex- King Alfonso Back to His Country To Help Fascists, Who Don’t Want Him (By The Associated Press) Spain’s Fascist rebels, check ed on the Bay of Biscay front, gained what they called “an open road to Madrid” some 40 miles north of the capital today. While the “iron chancellor” of the Socialist defenders of Madrid cried, “Spain is the Ethiopia of Europe,” General Emilio Mola’s grim columns pushed three miles closer to the capi tal, dominating the Lozoya Valley, through which flows the stream which supplies Madrid’s water. With the Socialist strong man, In daletio Prieto, bitterly denouncing France and Great Britain for not aid ing the defending government, the irtebei junta, Ironically enough, an nounced from Burgos that France had given constant succor to the Socialists and now was preparing “grave mea sures” to aid Madrid. (By The Associated Press.) Spain’s Socialist strong man, de claring his war-torn country the “Ethiopia of Europe,” burst out to day in bitter dunciation of France and Great Britain. Endicio Priesto, who as leader of the parliamentary socialist party, is the most important man behind the Madrid government, declared Spain had been deserted by the very cotjn (Continued on Page Eight.) Pope Pius Very Weak At Age 79 Vatican City, Aug. 27. —(AP) —Pre- lates disclosed tonight that Pope Pius XI has become so weakened by worry over the Spanish situation, that he scarcely is able to rise from his throne at the close of audiences. The increasing heaviness of his limbs, the prelates said, might soon make it necessary for the 79-year-old holy father to be carried from one part of the apostolic palaces to an other. The disclosure of the pope’s condi tion came after prelates had an nounced the holy father, assisted by all the cardinals now resident in Rome, would soon preside at an ex piatory ceremony in St. Peter’s for the killing of priests and the destruction of churches in Spain. Hull Refuses Entrance To Red Official Civil Liberties Union Seeks To Force the Government to Ad mit Communist Washington, Aug. 27.—(AP)—Scre tary Hull today declined to reconsid er the State Department’s action in declining to permit William Gallagher communist member of the British Parliament, to enter this country be cause of his political beliefs. Answering a protest by the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union, the sec retary said Gallagher was well known as a member of the executive com mittee of the Communist Internation ale, and that his position in the in- Continued on Page Five.)
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