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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR L^Ss^ T llL R Y4 c E t y’ F ROOSEVELT CONFERS ON FARM SITUATION OVER SOUTH DAKOTA Sees Governors and Sena tors in Four-Hour Stay All Pierre, State’s Capital City TO SPEND WEEK-END AT RAPID CITY, S. D. Sunday Night President Will Head for Salt Lake City To Attend Funeral of Late Secretary of War Dern; Greeted by Large | Audiences Aboard Roosevelt Train, En Route Pierre, S. D., Aug. 29. —(AP) — president Roosevelt headed for South Dakota’s capital today for another drought conference after a series of rear platform talks in which he spoke of planning for the future by spending and acting in the immediate present. At Aberdeen and Huron last night the dhief executive expounded the planning theory and upheld the em ergency practice of “spending money to save money’’ in the long run. The President’s special, greeted by large crowds all along the route from North Dakota, was due in Pierre this morning. Conferences with Governors Berry, of South Dakota, and Miller, of Wyoming, and the senators from those states, were arranged for the chief executive during his four-hour >tay at Pierre. Then the special was to go to Rapid City, S. D., for the week-end. Sunday night the President will start for Salt Lake City to at tend the funerql of Secretary of War Continued on Page Two.) WOUNDS IN TRIANGLE AFFAIR PROVE FATAL Hopewell Man Dies After Being Shot By Girl; Both Men Married and With Families 1 ■" s Hopewell, Va., Aug. 29 (AP) Wounded in a quarrel arising from "dates” had by an 18-year-old girl with two married men, Howard W. Watkins, 35-year-old mill employee, died in a hospital here today. Commonwealth’s Attorney John Goodman said Watkins was shot once in the leg and once in the stomach by his sister-in-law, Kathleen Phelps, 18. The prosecutor had ordered he* charged with felonious shooting and said he would place murder charges against her in event of Watkins’ death. Goodman quoted her as saying she shot Watkins, who has a wife and child, when he tried to choke her in a fit of jealous rage over friendship with John Scrubbs, who also is mar ried and has three children. Washington Pays Tribute To Sec . Dern Washington, Aug. 29 (AP) —With guns firing salutes from all army posts in the area, the capital paid final honors today to George Henry Dern, secretary of war. Top ranking officials of military and civil branches of the government were to accompany the body of the cabinet officer back to his horns state, Utah, after services here. Funeral plans called for the trans fer of the body from Walter Reed hospital, where Secretary Dern died Thursday, to Mount Pleasant Congre gational church, with cabinet officials and General Malin Craig, chief of staff, acting as pallbearers. After services at 4 p. m., eastern standard time ,the cortege was to proceed to the Union Station. Intense Greed Os Counties Will Nullify Road Claims 79 Counties Asking $60,000,000 Refund From State for Roads Built and In Some Cases Worn Out and Re built by State; Modest Requests May Have Won Dally Dlnpatch Karen*, la The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKBRVI.U Raleigh, Aug. 29. —The county road debts commission which met here Friday to map out its plan of proce dure in the consideration of some $60,000,000 in claims from 79 counties, heard no oral arguments in support of any of these claims but spent its entire time in determining its pro cedure. The commission will meet in Asheville September 23 and 24 and possibly the 25th, to hear oral argu ments in support of the claims of 24 western counties. It will meet again in Raleigh October 7, 8 and 9 ajid on Hmtitersnit Daily Dtapafrij Canal Governor Colonel Clarence S. Ridley (above), U. S. Engineer Corps, former mili tary aide to President Woodrow Wilson and a veteran of Cuban and Philippine campaigns, has been ap pointed Governor of the Panama jCanal Zone to succeed Colonel Julian L. Schley. (Central Press) COLUMBUS COUNTY INQUiRYRECESSES, Grand .Jury To Resume Probe of Floggings Around Whiteville Whiteville, Aug. 29. —(AP)—After hearing a score of witnesses yester day, the Columbus county grand jury recessed its investigation of night rider floggings until Monday. The current grand jury took up the investigation late yesterday where an earlier grand jury left off in June after hearing testimony that the vic tims were beaten and warned to leave the community by a hooded, white robed band. It was learned the grand jury ex amined two of the alleged victims, Mrs. Bertha Fowler and her daugh ter, Inez, before taking its recess. A few hours earlier the mother and daughter had been arrested on char ges of prostitution. Woman Flogged In Arkansas Tenants’ . War .Starts Suits Jonesboro, Ark., Aug. 29.—(AP) — Miss Willie Sue Blagden, of Memphis, Tenn. who charged that, she was flog ged June 15 in connection with the east Arkansas share croppers con troversy, filed a damage suit in Fed eral district court today charging five men with the attack. Another woman and a man filed similar suits, also alleging they had been beaten. Damages of $15,000 v/ere asked in each of the three actions, which nam ed over-lapping defendants. Miss Blagden said she was whipped with a harness strap by five men when she went to Earle, Ark., with Rev. Claude C. Williams to investi gate the reported death of a Negro share-cropper. The suit asserted that the assault made her "sick, sore, lame and bruised,” that her “nervous system was permanently disabled,” and that ; she suffered “mental and physical an- I guish and humiliation.” November 12, 13 and 14 to hear oral argument in support of the claims from the Piedmont and eastern coun ties, Chairman Carl L. Bailey an nounced following the close of the session yesterday. It is believed that the oral argument in support of the briefs and claims which have already been received from the 79 counties which are seeking refunds for roads can be completed on the dates set aside, Chairman Bailey said. Time will also be allotted to the State High way and Public Works Commission to Continued on Page Two.), ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 12 BLACK LEM MEN CO ON TRIAL ON NEXTMONDAY Face Charges of Killing Young WPA Worker In Detroit the Night of Last May 12 DAYTON DEAN WILL BE STAR WITNESS Confessed “Executioner” and 50 Other Witnesses Will Be Called To Testify of Activities of Night Rid ers; Dean Admitted He Had Killed Poole Detriot, Mich., Aug. 29. —(API- Twelve men will be tried in circuit court early next week for the killing that first unmasked the night riding activities of a hooded band of ter rorists known as the Black Legion. The state accuses the 12 defendants of taking Charles A. Poole, young WPA worker, on a “one way ride’’ the night of last May 12 because of (Jalse neighborhood gossip that he beat his wife. Chester P. O’Hara, assistant state attorney general, who will direct the prosecution, announced today that Dayton Dean, confessed “execution er” of Poole, and 50 other witnesses would he called to testify. Detriot’s homicide squad revealed the shooting of Poole as a night rid ers’ killing. Then Dean climbed on the witness stand in at the common, pleas court examination of the de fendants June 3 and told a sensation al story of the “execution.” Dean said he pumped five bullets } n Poole’s chest from a distance of eight feet, because “in the Black Le gion you have to shoot some one if your superior officer orders you to.” As a result, 79 men have been charged to date with 16 crimes, in cluding flogging, arson, kidnaping, conspiracy to murder political enemies, and plotting against the Federal government. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY, AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1936 Secretary of War? .s|f§ B '' JhH fl V HBBBr i Reports from Washington indicate Harry W. Woodring (above), As sistant Secretary of War and for mer Governor of Kansas, will be named Secretary to succeed the late George H. Dern. (Central Press) TSSS. Scathing Lecture To Rae ford Recorder on Hand ling to Help Dally Dlapatch Boteaa. In The Sir Walter Hote», Br J C BABKBKVILI. Raleigh, Aug. 29.—The reprimand ing of the judge of the recorders court in Raeford by Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker this week be cause he gave a man he had convict ed of drunken driving a permit to drive his car after only three months despite the fact the State had revok ed his license for one year, has caus ed much satisfaction in the highway safety division here, although no onei i 6 willing to comment for publica tion Officials of the division are also elated at the fact that Judge Parker sentenced this same man to 18 months on the roads for a second offense of drunken driving and gave him four months more for driving while his license was revoked. They feel that this incident will make other judge* of recorder’s courts who have been passing out very lenient sentences for drunken driving sit up and take notice, likewise drivers who have had their licenses revoked but who con tinued to drive anyway. Back in January, J. A. Williams, (Continued on Page Three.) Spanish Rebels Bomb Madrid From Air, With Little Damage Bombardment Is Fifth At tempted in Course of Week, Others Being Driven Off HEAVY CASUALTIES REPORTED IN NORTH Rebel Forces Storm Fort San Marcial, Key to City of Irun; Government Forces Admit Ammunition Is Run ning Low and Train Ma chine Guns on Enemy (By The Associated Press.) Aerial bombs-- exploded in down town Madrid today in the first suc cessful air raid on the city proper. Several persons were wounded as the bombs shattered windows, hut did little actual damage to buildings in the city. Government war planes had re pulsed an earlier rebel attempt to boom the capital. The attempted bombardment was the fifth of the week and involved two rebel planes and a squadron of government fighting ships. On the northern frontier casual ties were estimated at "thousands” as the rebel forces stormed Fort San Marcial, key to the city of Irun. Government forces, admitting their ammunition was running low after the fourth day of fighting in that sector, kept machine guns trained on the rebel positions. 43 Licenses Revoked For This County Cabarrus Leads State in Percentage Based on Depart ment’s Figures Raleigh, Aug, 29.—(AP)—Fig ures tending to show a greater percentage of drunken driving in the 18 counties of North Carolina where the sale of spirits is per mitted than in the State as a whole were released today by the State Motor Vehicle Division. The statistics, compiled at the request of the State Liquor Com mission, are based on the revoca tion of automobile drivers’ licen ses. More than 90 percent of the revocations are for drunken driv ing. Dnlly Dispatch Bnreaa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, 1 By J. C. BASKERVIIA, t Raleigh, Aug. 29. —Cabarrus coun- £ ty leads every other county in the State for the number of drivers’ li- J censes which have been revoked for 1 drunken driving in proportion to the , population, according to figures re- j leased to day by Director Arthur Fulk. , of the highway safety division of the j Department of Revenue. McDowell i county is in second place, Lenior , conuty in third place and Guilford 1 fourth on a percentage basis, al- , though in point of number of licenses . revoked, Guilford leads all the others . with a total of 330, the figures show. The ten counties with the highest ( percentage of driving permits in pro portion to the population of the coun ties, together with the actual number of driving permits revoked up to Au gust 14, 1936, are as follows: Percent of Licenses Counties population revoked Cabarrus SO 137 McDowell 29 59 Lenior 27 100 Guilford 2ifr 350 Moore 23 65 Randolph 226 77 Mecklenburg 224 287 Nash 212 112 Rockingham 211 120 Burke 20 61 The only counties in this list of ten having the highest percentage of re vocations for drunken driving in pro portion to population in which liquor is now legally sold are Lenior and Nash, although there are legal liquor stres in two townships of Moore county, at Southern Pines and Pine hurst. All of the other counties in this list are supposedly “dry” and still un der the State prohibition law. At the present time, legal liquor stores are being operated in only 18 of the 100 counties in the State, the other 82 counties still being under the Tur lington Act, the State’s “bone dry” law enacted in 1926. Yet the percenta age of driving permit revocations for drunken driving is higher in many; of the so-called dry counties than in i many of the 18 counties where liquor - is now sold legally, the figures re i leased today by the highway safety L division show. The number of licenses revoked ir* - the various counties for drunken driv- L ing was made public several days ago ■ when the State liquor fact-finding commission held its first public hear-* . ing here, but the percentage of re (Continued on Page Three.) Rebel Generals Meet at Burgos —1 ” —— • ■ ■■ i For the first time since the start of the Spanish civil war, the General of the northern rebel army, Emilio Mola (right), makes contact with Gen. Francisco Franco, chief of the southern rebel army and commander of all the insurgent forces. They are shown at Burgos, northern head quarters, on their way to celebrate mass. *Central Press) BOWIE WON PLACE THENGAVE II UP Ashe Statesman Preferred Not To Have Legisla tive Job That Way Daily Dispatch llnre’i*. In The Sir v/nlter Motel, Br J C. BASkERVJLI/ Raleigh, Aug. 29. —Thomas Conteo Bowie of A3he county, better known to his friends and the State as a whole as “Tam,” is a happy man. The reason his friendg know Tam is hap py is because he won the nomination for the house from Ashe county from a county Democratic convention that at first appeared to be hostile, where upon Tam withd r ew in favor of an opposition candidate and then invit ed his friends to a buttermilk party at his home in Wfest Jefferson. Fotf whenever Tam is really happy and feeling his best, he invites his friends to his house, takes them down to his spring house and invites them to par take of the most choice supply of but termilk to be had in North Carolina, according to B. B. Daugherty, Presi dent of the Appalachian State Teach ers College in Boone and a close friend of Tam. Tam, who has represented Ashe coun ty in the legislature for eight terms since he first came here in 1909, has not been having such smooth sailing Ashe county the last year or two, where for years he and his faction virtually ruled the county, it is agreed by those who have been following de- ! velopments in Ashe. But Tam is noth ing if not a fighter. His grandfather fought in the Battle of the Alamo in Texas during the Mexican War and the Bowie knife is named for him. Tam has real fighting blood in his veins, as nil who have served in leg islative sessions with him well know. He is not the sort to give up with out a fight. So when the Ashe county Demo cratic convention met to nominate its candidates for the legislature and county offices—Tam has never liked the primary system—he was a can didate for the house again. And while most of the other candidates nomi nated were from the opposition fac tion, Tam again won the nomination for the general assembly and had the satisfaction of hearing his nomina tion announced by Ira Johnson, the leader of the anti-Bowie faction in Ashe county. This victory over the opposition made Tam fairly beam. Then he arose thanked the convention for the honor accorded him and withdrew in favor of a younger candidate. And when, the convention was over he invited his friends to his sp'ing house to drink buttermilk with him. This prov ed that Tam was happy. He had won ' another hard fight against big odds. fMIB MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, local thundershowers in interior this afternoon and to night and possibly near coast to night and Sunday; slightly cool er in central and northeatern portions Sunday and in northwest portion tonight. published kvert n afternoon FIVE CENTS COPY CLINTON W. TONIS, TOBACCO HEAD, DIES President of Liggett and Myers Will Be Buried Monday at Durham New York, Aug. 29. —(AP) —Clin- ton W. Toms, president of the Lig gett & Myers Tobacco Company, died today at the age of 67. T)e£th resulted from heart trouble, which had aggravated a chronic bronchial condition. He died at the hotel where he made his home in New York. Toms had been president of Lig gett & Myers since January 1, 1928, when he succeeded the late Caleb C. Dula. Funeral services will be held Mon day at 11 a. m., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Buchanan, in Durham, N. C. But at Least He Writes His Owjni; G. O. P. Chiefs Want More Precision By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 29. —Gov. Alf M. Landon’s initial essay at presidential campaigning’ develops the fact that the Kansan has speech making ideas of his own. His talks are not ghost written fort him, anyway. On the contrary, it is whispered that he has advisers who think he would do better simply to read what they have prepared. He thinks other wise. The governor may .be right. Un doubtedly he has experts at his com mand who could supply him with more thrilling words than those of his personal choice, but they, would have to be ringingly enunciated to make them telling, and the governor, his closest friends say is perfectly aware that his style doesn’t ring. President Roosevelt’s style does. Can the governor be blamed for (Continued on Page Three.) Liquor Store Is Defended By Wilmington Officials Witnesses Say Conditions Are Much Improved Under New Regime; Spokesmen for Dry Forces, However, Say Conditions Worse; Commission Has Hearings Wilmington, Aug. 29. —(AP) —City and county officials appearing before the State liquor study commission at a hearing here today strongly defend ed the New Hanover liquor control act under which the county operates stores for the legal sale of liquor. Defenders of the law paraded wit nesses before the commission to de clare that conditions are much im proved since the opening of the stores a year ago. They were rebutted by spokesmen from dry forces, who asserted that conditions are worse. A brief submitted jointly by W. B. 8 PAGES TODAY SPECTACULAR GAIN AGRICULTURE SEEN Government and' Private Agencies Reveal Heavy Gains in Many Lines of Activity BRIGHT FORECASTS FOR FALL REVEALED Farming, Building, Trans portation and Industrial Production All Share Sharp Upturn Shown by Figures; Savings Depositors In creased by 300,000 Washington, Aug. 29. —(AP) —Cash gains in many fields of commerce and agriculture were recorded today by government and private agencies. The current business picture, in cluding bright forecasts, covered such activities as farming, building, trans portation and industrial production. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States called attention to in creases j&uring July and August in carloadings, industrial production, employment, use of electrical energy, construction and excise tax receipts. “All of the eveidence does not re flect solely increased spending, eitn er,” said the Chamber’s review, ad ding that during the first half of 1936, depositors in mutual savings banks increased by 300,000. Agriculture Department figures in dicated the drought had put more money into the farmers’ pockets dur ing July and stepped up the prices received fpr their products during August. While thousands of farmers were in distress because of ruined crops, the figures showed cash income from Continued on Page Two.) MIXED REPORTS ON BUSINESS REVEALED Associated Press Index of Industrial Activities Show Auto Re ductions Pull Level Down New York, Aug. 29 (AP) —The in dustrial front returned mixed reports this week, with the advances slightly outweighed by losses. The Associated Press index of in dustrial activity dipped to 95.1 from 95.7 a week ago, and compared with 73.6 in the same period last year. Curtailed output among automo bile makers was the most important adverse influence. Carloadings continued to reflect smaller grain shipments occasioned by the drought. Cotton manufacturiig eased off a bit as plants adjusted operations to actual demand. Two important in dices of business reached new peaks for the year, electric power produc tion and residential building. Cotton Mill Head Killed In Collision Laurinburg, Aug. 29 (AP) —W. M. MoLoud, 53, superintendent of two cotton mills at Cherryville, and an other at Statesville, was killed and two other persons injured in an auto mobile collision at a highway inter section near here today. Police said the injured were: Charles Bullard, Scotland County farmer, and driver of the other car, multiple bruises, shock and possibly other injuries. Mrs. Annie Black Price, of Cherry ville, reported to have been in Mc- Loud’s automobile, a broken arm and a broken thigh. After an investigation, officers said it appeared that the two cars crash ed when Bullard started to turn to the left on Highway 74 into High way 79. An inquest was called for this aft ernoon . Campbell, Wilmington city attorney, and Marsden Bellamy, New Hanover county attorney, in behalf of their boards, cited a decrease of drunken ness during the year ending June 30 by comparison with the previous years as shown in the annual report of Police Chief J. S. Lane. Addison Hewlett, chairman of the county board of commissioners, de clared that, although a lifelong dry, and a veteran advocate of prohibition, his experience convinced him that prohibition would not prohibit “until Continued on Page Two.)
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