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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04

tics too long has been synonymous
with skullduggery. It's up to the
new crop of politicians to see that
politics regains its lost dignity"
The Mayor said in the interview
that he would not seek a second
term as mayor, as he prefers jul
dicial to administrative work. He
indicated that President Roosevelt is
considering him for appointment to
the Federal Bench and that he
probably would accept such an
offer.
He declined to comment on ma
tional politics, in the interview, and
explain d, President Roosevelt
needs no defense from me. I'm Ger
tain he will be reelected, and 1
know be will carry Indiana easily"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
HAMMOND MAN ADMITS
RELIEF ORDER FORGERY
Four Other Defendants Deny Com
plicity in Misappropriation.

plicity in Misappropriation.
BIZ United Press
CROWN POINT, Ind, Feb. A.
Frank Kroncke, 81, Hammond
pleaded guilty before Judge William
j. Murray in Criminal Court yes
terday to charges of misapproprlat-
ing funds from the Office of North
Township Trustee John Mehan.
-Four other defendants, Adm S.
NordyRe, Nick Sharry and Stanley
Kolando, Hammond grocers, and
Ray j. Homrick, pleaded not guilty
Kroncke, a former government
register clerk in Mr.. Mehan's relief
headquarters, admitted forging sew
eral relief grocery order claims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
LOCAL ARTISTS JUDGE
Turkey Run to Exhibit 200 Photos
in First Amateur Show.
Times Special

Times Special
MARSHALL, Ind, Feb 4-Hillary
Bailey and Herman A. Scherrer,
indianapolis, are to be judges in
the first annual Turkey Run anna
teur Photographic contest here Sun
day. w. G. West, Chicago, will
also act as judge and Richard
Henry Little, Chicago columnist
and sponsor of the contest, will be
present. More than 200 pictures
are to be exhibited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
KERN BELIEVES
IN MERIT PLAN
FOR CITY JOBS
Mayor, Visiting in Florida,
Says He Won't Seek
reelection.

Il believe the merit system of ap-
pointment and reward for police
and fire departments is workable
anywhere. In our case it has taken
graft and corruption out of the two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04

departments and
raised the stand
ard Of personnel"
T h is statement
was made recent
ly by Mayor Kern
in an interview
with a M / a m !
newspaper. Mayor
Kern rested there
last week, return
ing to Indianapo-
lis today.
Saying that new
blood is needed TO
take the rotten
ness" out of poll
tics the Mayor de-
clared that "n0li-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
Deficiency BiIf Goes to Senate

DW WWVttU Tto5
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The
House sent the deficiency appro-
priation bill, carrying funds for the
Social Security Board and other
agencies, to conference with the
Senate today. Minor differences
must be adjusted.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Thirty More Counties Add
ed In Seven States To
Emergency Lists for
Country
92O COUNTIES IN ~
STATES TO GET AID
Roosevelt May Use His
Powers To Cut Tariff on
Corn To Make Supplies
Available Here; Wheat Is
Much Below Needs and
Tobacco Is 70 Percent

Washington, Aug. 11.-(AP-A gov
eminent estimate that the 1886 corn
crop will be the smallest in IS years
served as a guide today to Federal
relief moves in the drought area.
The yield of 1,439, $4,000 bushels,
estimated by the crop reporting board
yesterday, is the lowest since 1881
Secretary Wallace. and other admin
istration officials who had anxiously
awaited the forecast Immediately pro-
cecded anew with relief plans.
Drought relief officials added 80
more counties in seven states to the
emergency list, which now includes
92O counties in % states Relief eff
forts are concentrated in these coun-
There was some speculation as to
whether President Roosevelt might
use his powers under the tariff act
to reduce the 25 cents per bushel
tariff on corn imports or eliminate it
on specific purchases for drought
needs.
A smaller decline in the production
of all wheat was also forecast in the
report. Production this year was
placed at 622,745,OOO bushels, COM
pared TO the July 1 estimate of 638,-
$4,000 bushels and the five-year av-
erage of 1853, 1854, 900 bushels.
Comparing estimated production of
important" crops this year with per-
centage of the five-year average pro-
duction from 1928 to 1892 the crop
board rated tobacco production at u
percent.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Americans
Are armed
To Get Out
S t a t e Department
Again Appeals To
Nationals In Span
ish Danger Zone

Washington Aug. 11-(AP)-A new
appeal to Americans to leave the dan
ger zone of the Spanish. revolution
was dispatched today by William
Phillips, acting under secretary Of
state. .,r-.
In message to the American En-
bassy at Madrid, which State De-
partment officials said applied also to
all other strife-torn cities in Spain
where Americans are located, Phillips
said:
"I cannot urge too strongly that all
American citizens who can. possibly
do so take advantage Of present fa-
cilities to go to places of safety"
Celebrating on the message at his
press conference, Phillips said it was
sent on because of reports indicating
an increasingly serious situation at
Madrid and the possibility that pre-
sent facilities for reaching Valencia
on the coast by train from the capital
must be disrupted.
More than 100 American citizens
have refused thus far to leave Madrid
because of business or family reasons.
The same attitude has been adopted
by number of others in other Span
ish cities.
The commander of the American
heavy cruiser Quincy advised the de-
partment that 10 more American ma
tionals were evacuated from Palma
in the Valerie islands yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Townsendism Is Issue in
Both Arkansas and Idaho
Where Balloting
Is Held
JOE ROBINSON HAS
FIGHT in ARKANSAS
Democratic Senate Leader
Has Two Opponents; SEN
ater Borah Is Opposed for
denomination ON Republi-
can Ticket i'm Native State
of Idaho

Washington, Aug. 11.-(AP)-Presi-
Dental politics went into temporary
eclipse today as State primaries, in
which two prominent senators, sought
denomination, attracted attention.
Town sendism was an issue in Ar
kansas, as citizens there voted their
choice from United States senator
down to constable. Joseph t. Robin
son, Democratic leader of the Senate,
seeking a fifth term, was opposed by
Cleveland Holland, lawyer, who bears
the endorsement of the State Town
send convention, and ]. Rosser Vena-
BILE, Little Rock attorney, who criticiz-
ed Robinson's legislative record.
The $200-a-month old age pension
plan also featured the primary CAM
paign in Idaho where Senator Will
liam e. Borah, fought for the Repub-
lican nomination for a sixth conse-
cutive term. His opponent was Byron
Defenbach, former State treasurer,
who is supported by Townsendites.
President Roosevelt and Governor
Landon prepared for coming speeches.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Sheriff Thinks Negro In
tended an Assault While
Solicitor Discards
Sex Motive
SHERIFF DECLARES
HIS WORK is DONE
From Now On 1t Is Up To
Solicitor and Grand Jury;
Nettles To Submit Bill of
Indictment to Grand Jury
Monday; Trial Is Set For
Coming Week

Asheville, Aug. -(AP)-Authori-
ties differed today over the motive in
the Helen Clevenger murder case,
while preparations went forward for
the trial of Martin Moore, Negro hall
bow charged with killing the 18-year-
old college girl
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown, the
chief investigator of the murder, said
he was convinced the prisoner went
to the girls room in the Battery Park
hotel to ravish her, but killed her
when she screamed as soon as he en-
tered.
The sheriff added, however, he did
not believe an assault was actually
attempted. Physicians carly in the
case could not agree on this phase.
Disputing the sheriff's theory, So
licitor Zeb V. Nettles, who will pro-
secute the case, said "the sex angle
is out altogether.'
He asserted he believed Moore en-
tered the room solely to loot it and
shot the girl in a moment of panic
when he was frightened by her cutlery.
That was the story the Negro re-
lated in a confession which Sheriff
Broom and other officers announced
he made "a days after the girl, bull
let in her breast. was found sprawled
on the floor of her room.
Sheriff Brown said he was through
(Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
SaUimg On
Textbooks
SGrumted
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
w Il O. RASE< VIII

u. Z.
Raleigh, Aug. 11-AlmOSt all of the
publishers of adopted textbooks used
in Nortl. Carolina have at last agreed
to change their contracts and omit
the 10 per cent handling and freight
charge which formerly was contained
in them, with the result that the State
will now save nearly hundred thous-
and dollars a year, State Superintend-
ent Clyde A. Erwin said today. This
saving will be more than enough to
pay the entire cost of maintaining the
State rental textbook system and to
pay the freight and other transported
ton charges On all books purchased
by the textbook commission, Super
intendent Erwin said. Two or three
publishers, including one large pub
lisning company which holds a big
book contract have been holding out
against this agreement for more than
a year, despite the fact that none Of
the adopted books are now handled
through a depository.
Before the State rental system was
started, most of the textbooks in the
State were distributed through the
State School Book Depository, owned
by Alfred Williams and Company here
and the publishers paid the depository
approximately 10 per cent for hand
ling the books and distributing them
to the various retail dealers who in
turn sold the books to the school chill
dren. These retail dealers in turn got
a profit of 10 per cent On the books
Sold But when the 1885 legislature set
up the rental textbook commission
and started to distbute the books di-
rect to the schools, there was no lon
ger any need for a school boow de-
pository or for the addition of 10 per
cent to the wholesale price. But BE-
cause this provision was still in the
contracts with most of the publishers,
many of them insisted they should
still be allowed this additional sum.
A good many later on agreed, how
ever, to omit this charge. But Hough-
ton-Miffin Co., and a few others OPP
posed it until just a day or two ago.
The saving last year was about $780,
600 on some 100000 worth of books
and should amount to at least $50, 600
this year or even more if more books
are purchased, Superintendent Erwin
said. This amount formerly went to
the Alfred Williams school book de-
pository here.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Excellent Yields" of Corn
Also Indicated for Many
Counties, Report
Declares
OUTLOOK NOW BEST
OF ENTIRE SEASON
$50 Million Pounds of To-
bacco Promised, Compar-
ed With SIT Million Pounds
Last Year; July l Estimate
Was Half Corn Crop AS
Optimistic

Raleigh. Aug. 11-(AP)-North Car
oinas tobacco crop has improved
amazingly" and excellent yields of
corn are now indicated for many
counties. the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service said today in it's Au-
gust summary.
The winter wheat yield was 100000
bushels less than last year.
"Croo conditions in North Caro-
lima are now indicative of better yield
than at any time this year." the report
said General rains have at last COW
cred the state. While stands are often
poor and growth late, the outcome
may not be so bad ~ "epting in a few
counties and ljrliieh Il calities."
The States tobacco outlook is for
4505tS000 pounds, with condition
August l at Sc per cent, and yield Of
743 pounds per acre forecast. Last
year the State produced 57,435,0O0
pounds The report noted that "just
what the weight and quality will be is
problematical.
In many counties where a forecast
of half a crop of corn on July 1
you'd have been optimistic" the
service said, excellent yields are now
indicated.
From a condition of rs percent of
a normal crop and an acreage yield
of 17.5 bushels, a crop of 42,49O,000
bushels is indicated, compared with
AZ O82,000 bushels last year.
Corn production averaged 38,415,000
bushels yearly between 1928 and 1882,
and the tobacco average was 469 1885,
600 pounds.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
|CKES AND HOPKINS
ARE AGAIN Al ODDS
Administration Sides With
Latter in His "Leaf-Rak-
ing" Program
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, Aug. 11-Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes, in his
capacity As public works administra-
tor, and Works Progress Administra-
tor Harry l.. Hopkins are at logger
heads again.
Again" isn't quite the right word
to use. They never have been other
wise than at loggerheads, but they are
involved in a fresh major engage
ment.
The Treasury Department, at Presi-
dent Roosevelts request, is trying co
arbitrate it. 1t is a safe bet that it
cannot be compromised. PWA and
WPA sound a good deal alike as
initials, but they are poles apart
translated into terms of Ickes and
Hopkins respectively. A compromise
100 per cent one way or the other.
THEIR JOINT SUM -.
lckes and Hopkins jointly have ST.
42500O,0OO to spend on relief work
But it was left to the administra-
should have and how much Hopkins
should have.
Now, Ickes' and Hopkins relief
PHILOSOPHERS differ.
Ickes holds that public works, even
for relief purposes, ought to be per-
manent in character, not boOndoggl-
ing ACKNOWLEDGEMENT made WOrk"
as the Socialists say.
Hopkins reasoning is that perma-
nent construction calls for large eA-
penditures for the material that goes
into it. Boondoggling he argues, pays
more immediate wages.
ARGUMENT FOR ICKES
Personally 1 am pro-Ickes.
The materials he requires for his
permanent projects have to be pro-
duccd, too That makes employment
for collateral workmanship. And, in
the END, there's something to show
for it. There is not much to show for
leaf-raking.
Still. as Hopkins asserts, his kind
Of relief may be more Immediate"
Anyway, the administration, SYM
pathizing largely with Hopkins, let
Ickes have only $3OO,OOO,OO0 out of the
S1,425, 100000.
ICKES BLOCKED
Ickes went to work with it.
He soon ran into this difficulty:
Every cent that he spends in wages
must go to workers who were on the
relief rolls.
Now, Ickes' projects call for many
highly skilled laborers, and compare
lively too few of them are on the re-
lief rolls to meet with his require
ments He can get common labor, but
not skilled labor Consequently his
projects are held up.
AS news dispatches express it, he
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
MCDONALD LAUDS
ROOSEVELT WORK
Tells Labor Meeting North
Carolina Needs Presi-
dents New Deal

Winston-Salem, Aug. II (AP)-Ac-
claiming President Roosevelt as "the
balance wheel of America" DR.. Ralph
Mcdonald told the North Carolina
Federation of Labor today that the
benefits of the New Deal should be
brought to North Carolina.
"While nation after nation is in
the midst of a bloody struggle be-
tween fascism and communism, the
Democratic philosophy of Roosevelt
carries the United States forward in
a new conception of balance and fair
ness in the inter-relatio of prosperity
and human rights" he said.
Declaring this State Stands as one
of the few which has not benefited
by the spirit of the New Deal, Nc
Donald enumerated that in "unem-
ployment insurance and old age pen
sion North Carolina has as yet done
absolutely nothing. In farm legisla-
ton, North Carolina lags far behind
Roosevelt. Recognition of the rights
of labor has been foremost in the
policies of Roosevelt, but North Caro-
lima has not yet caught step with the
national Democratic party in this
matter"
Echoing charges made in post-pri-
C0nfip,1o1 ~, Tix,o
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Authorities Differ Over
Clevenger Case Motives
Military Pomp In
ZlOncheCk Rites

Seattle, Wash, Aug. n-(AP)-
Military pomp figured today in fun
eral arrangements for Washing
toms playbOy congressman, Repre-
sentative Marion A. ZiOncheck, who
plunged to death Friday from a
fifth floor office window.
The 17-gun salute at Fort Law
ton and an army bugler's ''taps"
at the graveside were included in
the afternoon funeral services. The
Washington Commonwealth Fed
GRAFTON, the political organization
advocating production for use,
planned "the biggest funeral in
Seattle for the man whose es-
capades included the leaving of
empty beer bottles on the door
step of the White House.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Government Troops Crump-
lie One Rebel Line in
That Area, However,
To Capture Town
LEFTIST WARSHIPS
OPERATE IN SOUTH
Prevent Speedy Landing of
General Francois Forces
from Morocco; France Will
Invite United States Into
European Neutrality Ac-
cord on Spain
(Bv The Associated Press.)

Spanish loyalists laid down a deaf
ening barrage of shells and bullets in
the south today with single objec-
tive, which seemed at least partly
achieved-stoppage of the rebel drive
on the capital city of Madrid.
Apparently repulsed for the time be-
ing in the Guadarrama mountains, the
doorway to Madrid on the north, the
insurgents in turn concentrated a
savage attack against loyapist-held
communities on the northern sea-
boards.
Government troops crumpled one
section of the rebel lines in the north
to capture the strategic town of
Adamuz, 81 miles northeast of Cor
doba. A fresh onslaught against Cor
doba, important provincial capital,
was imminent.
Aiding the government in the south
were leftist warships which have kept
up a running fire against the troop
transports of General Francisco
Franco, generalissimo of the revolu-
ton. Only portion of the massed
thousands of Moroccan troops which
Franco wanted to land on the penin-
sula for the march on Madrid hau
been ferried across the straits Of
Gibraltar
The French government decided to
invite the United States to join Eu-
ropean nations in the proposed neu-
trality accord respecting SPANS civil
war. French diplomats were worried
on two counts: the slowness Of Ber-
Inns specific reply approving. the &C
cord, and a possibility that Spanish
fascists had violated the neutrality OF
the internationalized zone in Morocco.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Georgia Averages
25.27C Last Week

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 11.-(AP)-
Garland Bagley, statistician of the
State Department of Agriculture,
announced today that first weeks
sales on the Georgia tobacco mar
ket totalled 24,O49,OO2 pounds at an
average price of 1927 cents a
pound.
First weeks sales covering four
days brought in $6,O78,O44.33 to
Georgia growers.
This compared with a total
poimdage of 11,787, 1856 pounds at
an average of 1928 cents a pound,
or total of $2,498,533.56 for the
first week of the 1895 season, i'm
which there were two selling days.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
STATE PATROL TO
Be COMING ISSUE
Control of Highway Police
Will Be Fought Out Be-
fore Legislature
MIGHT BE NEW UNIT
But Both Revenue Department.,
Which Now Controls 1t, and
Highway Department, AS
Before, Want 1t
MIGHT BE NEW UNIT
sally Dispatch Bure1W.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
a. IL q =. GrlI NlIl.

Raleigh, Aug. T. --''Patrol, patrol,
whose gonna get the patrol?" is ex-
pected to be one of several interest
ing games the 1887 General Assem-
bly, will be called on to play before
the session ends. For while the
State Highway Patrol is now unit
of the State Department Of Revenue,
it was formerly a unit of the State
Highway and Public Works Commits
sion and it is no secret that the high
way department still thinks the pa
troll should be under it's direction in
stead of the revenue department.
There is still another group, how
ever, which is becoming more and
more of the opinion that the high
way patrol should not be under eth
err the highway or revenue depart
ment, but that it should be an en-
tirely separate and distinct law en-
forcement agency under the direc-
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOteI,

Raleigh, Aug. 1.-THE report of the
State Elementary Textbook Commits
sion, including the work which it has
been doing in attempting to find a
suitable textbook on the harmful eff
feet of alcohol and narcotics on the
human body, was submitted today to
State Superintendent Clyde A. Erwin,
who in turn will transmit the report
and recommendations of the commits
sion to the State Board of Education,
including it's recommendations for the
adoption of the text dealing with al
cohol and narcotics.
Due to the fact there very few text
books were available concerning the
ill effects of alcohol and narcotics,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
Schools OfState To Teach
Harmful Effect OfAlcohoI

most of the books submitted were in
manuscript form. AS result, the COM
mission has recommended the adop-
ton of only one book, written espe-
cially for use in North Carolina by a
member of the faculty of the Chapel
Hill unit of the University of North
Carolina 1t is expected that the book
will be adopted without any opposi-
ton and that it will be printed and
distributed in time so that it can be
used in every school this year. It's use
will be mandatory in the sixth grade
of every school in the State, Super
intendent Erwin said this afternoon.
The 1885 General Assembly passed
a. special law directing that a text
CONTINUED on Page Three0
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 11-(AP)-
The diary to which Mary Aston en-
trusted the secrets of her film colony
life focused attention today. at her
celebrity-studded child custody suit
A way to unlock the legal door to
it's contents was sought at a trial
which already has introduced in evil
dence such prominent names as John
Barrymore, the actor; George S.
Kaufman, the playwright, and Ben
nett Cert, former husband of actress
Sylvia Sidney.
John Anderson, counsel for Miss AS
tors ex-husband, DR.. Franklin Thorpe
said he would make strenuous efforts
to- introduce the journal as evidence
Miss Aston is not fit parent for her
four-year-old daughter Mariyln. Miss
Astor brought suit to break the order
granting the physician sole custody.
Anderson earlier tried to introduce
a portion of the actress diary, and
Roland Rich Woolley, Miss Astor's
attorney; protested vehemently.
The new move was disclosed by An
derson after his questions drew spirit
ed denials from the witness that she
carried on boudoir affairs with a
number of men whose names he
brought up like rabbits from a hat.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
FOUR POLICE SHOT
HUNTING NEGROES

Admission, Ala, Aug. 11.-(AP)-
Race feeling ran at dangerous levels
here today after gunbattle in which
four white policemen were shot while
searching for a Negro accused of try
ing to kidnap a white baby.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
ASTOR DIARY MAY
BE READ IN COURT
Efforts To Bare Secret Life of Act
ress in Custody Suit Have
Hitherto Failed

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. IL
(AP) - Judge Goodwin Knight
sharply criticized opposing attor-
neys in the sensational Mary As
tOr-Dr. Franklin Thorpe martial
dispute today, and ordered an adj
jOurnment until 2 p. m. to ex-
pedite the court hearing.
Judge Knight ordered the at
tOrneys to go back to their Of
fees and prepare a case limited to
the issues now before the court.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-11
OUR WEATHER NAN.

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, probably scat
tered showers tonight and We'd
nesday; slightly cooler in north
central and northeast portions
Wednesday,.
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