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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Aged Killer
OF Son Dies
Before Trial

Winston-Salem, Aug. 18.-(AP)-
John Henry Houser, aged killer of
his son-in-law some years ago, died
here today.
The oldest man to be convicted of
murder and sentenced to die in the
State Of North Carolina, Houser rest
ed comfortably in a hospital in Win
ston-Salem awaiting death from ma
tural causes rather than being cleo
trocutcd by the State.
Convicted and sentenced to death,
the Supreme Court of the State sent
his case back to the superior court
for another trial. but before it could
be heard he had to be taken to local
hospital for treatment. That was four
years ago-and he remained in the in
stitution with the charge of murder
hanging over him, and the courts
awaiting an opportunity to retry his
case.
To the last it is said, he did not re-
greet his act. III
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Rebels Firmly Entrenched
in Mountains Await
Only ReinforcJments
For Attack
REBEL WARSHIPS IN
NORTH POUND COAST
Shells Finding Marks In
Irun and San Sebastian
Sectors; Government Ex-
poets No Early Victory In
Spanish Civil War; Gas
Bombs Being Used

(By The Associated Press)
Heads of the beleagured
Madrid government were re-
ported in uncensored advices
reaching Gibraltar today to
have three air liners in readi-
ness for flight-in the event
the capital falls.
The advices said rebels firmly en-
trenched in the Guadarama noun
tains north of Madrid had only TO
await reinforcements from other sides
of the capital before launching an at
tack which was deemed likely of sue
cess.
In any event it became apparent
the government expected no quick
victory. Today the Madrid authorities
urged women of the nation to make
ammunition and winter clothing and
called for volunteers to form new
"battalion of red lions"
Up in the north of Spain, two big
rebel warships resumed fierce gun
duel with government land batteries
defending the vIrun-San Sebastian sec
tor. It appeared the naval shells were
finding their marks.
The first charge that either side
was using gas came from rebel head
quarters at Burgos, which commended
the government air force had been
dropping gas bombs. A Madrid official
was quoted in Paris dispatch as
acknowledging tear gas bombs had
been utilized in "defensive' fighting.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
REPAIRS TO ROADS
COMPLETE BY FALL
Approximately 900 Miles
Will Be Repaired from
Winters Damage
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOte>,
Nv 4 q RASk ERVIIK.

Raleigh, Aug. 1S.-The repairing
and resurfacing of approximately 900
miles of highways, including most of
those which were badly damaged by
last winters cold weather and freezes
will be completed this fall, Chairman
Capus M. Waynick, of the State High
way and Public Works Commission,
said today Already some 500 miles
have been completed and work is now
progressing as rapidly as possible on
the projects which have not yet been
finished. When the entire 900 miles
have been completed, the cost will be
about $3,5OO,OOO, Waynick said.
Because so much of this work is
being done in short stretches of from
a few hundred feet to a few hundred
yards, it is difficult for the public to
realize that by fall the total repair
and resurfacing work will amount to
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Three Huge Tax Checks
Aggregating 100000
In July Boost Cen
eral Fund Total
STATEMENT ISSUED
BY THE GOVERNOR
Shows General Fund With
SIS, 500, SOB and Highway
Fund $1O,8O8,96 With
Special Funds Amounting
to $2,343,O28 at End Of
Month Just Closed

Raleigh, Aug. 18.-(AP)-Three
tax checks tOtalling more than
$4,OOO,OOO received by the State
during the last month helped swell
the cash balance of North Caro-
lina's general fund from $6OO,78r.-
IL on July 1 to $5,5O9, 5O3.17 on
July 81.
The combined monthly treasurers
and auditors statemen treleased to-
day by Governor Ehringhaus shows
the total cash in the treasury as of
July 81 was $23,441, 52141.
A total of $6,341, 3O9.79 in general
fund receipts for the month was re-
ported against expenditures of 81 ,4S2,-
59379.
The highway fund, which had a bal
ance of $9795, 4O8.O3 On July 1, show
ed receipts of $2,613,556.83 during the
month and expenditures of $1,60O,00O
for balance of $1O,808, 96486 on July
81.
Various special funds which had a
total balance of $7,025,673.36 at the
first of last month showed receipts
of $500, 43563 and disbursements of
$5,O83, O8023 for a balance of $2,343,-
O2876 on July 81.
The three large checks received
during July were more than $2,000,COO
from the estate of z. Smith Reynolds,
of Winston-Salem, more than 81 ,0OU,-
600 from the estate of Bowman Gray,
of Winston-Salem, and a franchise
payment of approximately $1,OOO,OOO
from a power company.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Urges That
CountyKeep
Liquor Fund
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel
Nv Il a. RASI[ ERVTT.E,

Raleigh Aug. 18.-Regardless of
what changes the coming General As
semtly may make with regard to the
sale of liquor in North Carolina, the
revenue from liquor should be left in
the counties, according to Represen-
tative Thomas e. Cooper, of Whining
ton, New Hanover county, who was
here comforting with State officials
Monday. Cooper who was a member
Of the 1885 General Assembly and who
helped materially in getting the New
Hanover and Pasquotank county Ii
qlor laws enacted, under which IL
counties and two town ships now have
legal liquor stores, indicated he would
fight TO the last ditch to keep the Ii
quor in the counties when he returns
to the House in the 1887 General AS
sembly
Il am not much concerned with
what the coming General Assembly
does with regard to the liquor ques'
ton, 50 long as it leaves the rev
enue from sale of liquor in county IL
quOr stores in the counties" Cooper
Continued on Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
EUROPEAN WAR IS
BELIEVED LIKELY
Uncle Sans Neutrality Act
Doesn't Cover Civil
Wars Abroad
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, Aug 18.-Was it Mark
Twain, or some other philosopher,
who once referred to the inmate GUS
sedness of inaninnate things?
Anyway, there is no doubt as to
their "cussedness,' or to the "cussed-
ness" of events beyond human con-
troll. What's been occurring in Spain,
in the face of Uncle Sans determin-
alton to keep out of future foreign
wars, aptly demonstrates this latter
class Of "cussedness," from this coun-
try's standpoint.
Throughout most of the last session
of Congress Senate committee
wrestled with the problem of main
tanning American neutrality in over
seas conflicts forevermore.
The committee considered, as it be-
lieved, every possibility (and there
were plenty of them) of another
struggle in lands and waters beyond
our shores.
BUT-CIVIL WAR?
1t was agreed that the United States
should remain aloof from any such
clash in parts of the world ether than
our own.
A law was passed, declaring us on
the sidelines in all rumpuses hence
forward between alien powers. Be
tween alien powers! Get that? Two
alien powers, or more than two, must
be at war before the law requires the
United States to keep out of the
fracaS.
It didn't occur to any one that a
war might break out involving fewer
powers than two.
NO POWER
Well, before the ink was fairly dry
on the new law, civil war had broken
out in Spain.
The law does not fit one power
alone.
Regardless of the statute, Ameri
can arms and munitions purveyor!
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Defense of Irun-San Sebas-
tian Area Apparently
Weakening from In
surgent Blows
u. S. AMBASSADOR is
IN FRENCH QUARTER
Bowers Denies He Left Cut
ter Cayuga After Dispute
With Navy Officers; Rebel
Junta's Offices Reiterates
Government Forces Are
Using Gas
nv The Associated PresS)

(By Inc Associated FreSS)
SiX-inch shells from the re-
bel cruiser Almirante Cevera
sienced the guns of the govern
ment fortress of Guadalupe,
defending the Irun-San Sebas-
tan sector of SPANS Bay OF
Biscay today.
The fierce duel of big guns, ending
IN am apparent insurgent advantage,
conceded with uncensored dispatches
from Madrid which stated govern
ment leaders, fearing the fall of the
capital, were reported to be holding
three air liners in readiness for
flight.
AT Hendaye Beach, France, Ameri-
can Ambassador Claude G. Bowers
set up a temporary embassy in a
hotel after completing an evacua-
ton of Spanish cities on the Bay of
Biscay.
He added his personal denial to
that of the Washington State De-
partment concerning reports he had
been ordered ashore from the cutter
Cayuga, following a dispute with
navy officers.
From their supreme headquarters
at Burgos, meanwhile, members of
the rebel junta announced they would
inform foreign governments and the
International Red Cross that Spanish
government forces were using poison
gas.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
War Scare
Keeps FDR
At Offices
President Fears To
Venture Far From
Washington In Eu-
ropean Crisis

Hyde Park, N. ", Aug. 49,
(AP)-Critical conditions i'm war
torn Spain and Europe were dis
closed authoritatively today to
have prompted President RoOse-
welt to put check on any plans
that would call for his being far
from Washington for any extend
ed period.
This fact became known only
five days after MIR. Roosevelt, in
an address at Chautquaua, N. Y,
asserted he was more gravely con-
cerned over international ten
denotes than domestic problems.
During a press conference to-
day, however, the President said
he had no new reports on the
Spanish civil war, other than dup
LEGATION of information in the
press.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Ten Percent Rise In
Food Prices Forecast
For Immediate Future

Washington, Aug. 18.-(AP)-
Experts guessed today that it
won't he long before the house
wife lays out from $11 to $12 for
the same basket of food she now
buys for a $40 bill.
Government and private experts, ad-
hitting that exact estimates are i'm
possible, nevertheless forecast upward
revision of the family grocery budget.
They explained that when the
scorching sun shrivelled crops in re-
cent months the dollars food purchas-
ing power went into a dive. 1t already
has affected milk, butter and eggs IN
some places, and eventually will reach
meats, they said
The experts said their "best
guesses' were based upon what hap
pened after the drought two years
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Bout of Braddock
With Schmelling Is
Off for This Year

New York, Aug. 18.-(AP)-JOe
Gould, manager of heavyweight
champion James J. BraddOck an
nOunced today the scheduled title
bout between BraddOck and Max
SchmeIing is definitely Off"
Gould said BraddOck will enter
a New York hospital Thursday to
have an operation performed on
his left hand.
"The fight is off for this year"
Gould said. 81 can't let Jim fight
with a bad hand. At least five
doctors advised us that it would
be unwise for him to do any box
ing for at least three months"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Tobacco In
Georgia Is
Still High

Atlanta. Ga, Aug. 18.-(AP)-Sec-
ond weeks sales of tobacco on the Is
south Georgia markets amounted to
81, 339, $50 pounds for a total of $780,
O1368 for an average of $23.17 per
hundred pounds, the State Depart
ment of Agriculture reported today.
Sales for the first week were 25,-
31819 pounds for total of $685.
89643 for an average of $23.11 per
hundred.
Triton, leading volume market last
year, led again on poundage sold last
week, with a total of 3,782,582 pounds.
The report showed Waycrosse had the
top price average last week-26.34
cents a pound.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18

ago.
Consumer purchasing power, which
was on the upgrade after the 1884
drought, and has been reported in
creasing since, also plays an impor-
tan part in food prices, they said.
An intricate check upon average
food costs is kept by the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics, with the prices from
1923 to 1925 placed at 100. The bureau
reported the food cost rose from an
index of about 70 at the start of the
1884 drought to a peak of 80 in 1885,
or about IL percent.
The last retail food index in July
was a. Thus, increases in food costs
because of the present drought may
go much higher than the peak which
came after the arid period of 1884, it
was said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
ARMY PILOT WITH
MECHANIC PERISH

Allegan, Mich, Aug. 1S.-(AP)
An army pilot and his mechanic
were killed today when new pur-
suit plane from Selfridge Field,
Michigan, crashed near Otsege
while taking part in the western
Michigan war games.
Reports received at Selfridge
field said the plane was being
piIoted by Second Lieutenant Will
liam w. Harding, rs, air corps
reserve, and that his mechanic
WIS Private Francis Meier, of
DOWagiac, Mich.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
FIRING OF MASK IS
YET DEEP MYSTERY
One Reason Believed That
He Did Too Much Think
ing For Himself
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotter,

Raleigh Aug. 18-An air of deep,
dark mystery still surround the sud
den firing of Homar H. B. Mask, I'M
til few days ago regional director
of resettlement in this district, COM
posed of North Carolina, Virginia,
West Virginia and Tennessee, and the
appointment of George S. Mitchell, a
former Virginia college professor who
has been an assistant to Rexford G..
Tugwell, director of resettlement in
Washington, as Masks successor. The
mouths of all those connected with
the Resettlement Administration here
are tightly sealed and none can be
found who will discuss the sudden
shake-up in the regional organization
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
Tobacco Stronger
On Border Marts

Florence, S. c., Aug. 18.-(AP)-
Stronger prices prevailed on the
b order belt tobacco markets yes
terday.
Sales included:
Darlington, 100000 pounds at an
average price of $25; FairmOnt,
333,548 pounds at $23.38; Mullins,
354,254 pounds at $24.22; Lake City,
$4,000 pounds, $22.5O; LUmberton,
$4,000 pounds, $25; Tabor City, 81,
8O2 pounds, $23.28.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-18
NEGRO SOUGHT IN
KILLING GIVES Up
James Gray, 26, Tells Chi
cago Authorities He Is
Wholly Innocent

Chicago, Aug. Io.-(AP)-James
Gray, 26, Negro gambler, sought
for questioning in connection with
the hotel room Staying of Mrs.
Mary Louise Trammel last Sum
day, surrendered today to the
police.
Gray walked into police head
quarters and said he had read in
the newspapers that he was be-
ing sought. He told police he
knew nothing of the Staying, but
identified a bundle of laundry held
at the station as his property.
Police Sergeant Peter Bernac-
chi said Gray told him he was
robbed of a notebook, a laundry
check and small amount of
cash while sleeping i'm Grant
park, not far from the Staying
scene about a week ago.
Chicago, Aug 18.-(AP)-Detective
investigating the Staying of Mr.!
Mary Louise Trammell today swun
into a widespread search for Jane
Gray, 31-year-old Negro gambler.
Assistant Prosecutor Morris Meyer
said Gray had a police record as
Tom," and ordered polio
SQUADS to comb the South Side Negr
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Evening star., 1936-06-07
Lord Fairfax Club
PlanDance Saturday

The officers of the Lord Fairfax
Country Club have issued invitations
for a subscription dance to be held
at the club house at Mount Eagle,
near Alexandria, on Saturday, June
13, at o'clock. The beautiful lawn
surrounding the club house will be
decorated by lanterns, and the interest
being manifested by the young men,
bers of the club and others indicates
that the affair will be brilliant sue
cess. Enrollments of members are
being made daily and the club bids
fair to become most popular rem
devious for afternoon tea, dinner
parties and social entertainments.
The patronesSes include Mrs. Dud-
ley Aidrich. Mrs. Gardner L. Boothe.
I'd; Mrs. Alexander G. Bentley. Mrs.
John E. Fowler, Mrs. William A.
Graham, Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner,
Mrs. Charles r. Hooff, Mrs. j.. Miller
Kenyon, the Misses Moore. Mrs
Frances Northcross, Mrs. Frederick
D. Richardson, Mrs. C. A. S. Sim
clair and Mrs. Rixey Smith.
The Floor Committee, headed by
Mr.. Rixey Smith. is composed of Mr.
Gardner L. Boothe, I'd; Mr.. De Long
Bowman, Mr.. Dallas bort, Mr.. Irwin
Dunn, Mr.. Laird Dunlop. Mr.. Aston
S. Goff, Mr.: William Hoge, 3D.; Mr..
Gordon Peyton, Mr.. John Garland,
Pollard, jr.; Mr.. James w. Somerville
Mr.. Waverly Taylor and Baron Hans
Won Dreyhausen.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Lady Broderick
Sailing Shortly

Lady Broderick, widow of Sir John
Joyce Broderick, will sail this week
from her home in Ireland for this
country to attend the wedding Of her
son. Mr. Maurice Joyce Broderick and
Miss Katharine Darling Rowland.
Lady Broderick will be accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Shiela Broder-
lex, who will be one of the bridesmaids
for Miss Rowland. The late Sir John
Broderick was commercial counselor
of the British Embassy for some years
before his death and with Lady Brod-
erick made many friends in Wash
ington. Lady Broderick and her
daughter are expected to arrive in
Washington early next week and the
wedding will take place Monday,
June %.
Miss Rowland. who Is daughter
Of Mrs. G. Edwin Rowland and the
late Mr.. Rowland, will be attended by
her sister, Miss Betty Rowland, as
maid of honor and Miss Frances
Leibel will be bridesmaid with Miss
Broderick
Mr.. Edward Broderick Of New York
will be best man for his brother, and
the ushers will include Mr.. George
Darling, Mr.. John Stetson, Mr.. Jack
Finnerty and Mr.. Raymond Solans.
The wedding will take place in the
Washington Club.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

~ EVERLY, Mass, June 6.-Ine
- marriage of Miss Dorothy Put
nam Garland, daughter Of
~ Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Paul
Garland of Newton, and Allen Pope,
jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Pope
of Washington, will take place in the
Church of the Sacred Heart in New
ton, June 80, at 1890 o'clock. The
Right Rev. Francis j. Spellman. auXi-
liary Bishop of Boston, will perform
the ceremony. After the ceremony
there is TO be reception at the Brae
Burn Country Club.
Miss Mary Perkins of Brookline will
be the maid of honor and the brides
maids will be Mrs. Lawrence E. Norem
of Chicago, Miss Mary Bradford Pierce
of Highham, Mrs. Merrill Moore Of
Boston, Mrs. Priscilla Potter of Mel
rose, Mrs. Edward P. Collins of Arling-
ton and Mrs. Henry c. Packard Of
Boston. Mr.. Thomas A. Pope will be
his brothers best man. The ushers
will be Mr.. William Arthur Semmes
Of Washington, Dr. Merrill Moore and
Mr.. William H. Sheppard of Boston,
Mr.. John De Courcy Of Newton and
Mr.. John C. Johnson, jr., of Brookline
and Mr.. Robert Kelleher of New
York City.
Miss Garland graduated from Miss
McClintock's School and Smith Col
lege and received her A. M. degree
at Radcliffe. Mr.. Pope is a graduate
Of Yale University and studied for
year in Europe as the winner Of the
Winchester travelling scholarship. He
is a cousin of Arthur Upham Pope,
president of the American Society of
Persian Art and art adviser to his
majesty, the King of Irak He Is a
nephew of Alexander Pope, the Amer
ican artist.
Donna Julia Brambilla and her
children of Rome, Italy, are at Rick
Maple Farm, the home of her mother,
Mrs. George Won L. Meyer, in the
Myopia district of Hamilton. Nine.
Barmbilla's father was former Post
master General and Secretary Of the
Navy. Later he represented the
United States as Ambassador to Italy
and later to Russia. Nine. Brambilla
is sailing from New York July % on
the Europa for a visit at the Italian
Embassy in Germany and will be there
for the Olympic games. Later she is
planning TO return to her villa in
Rome, after a motor tour of Southern
Europe.
Mr.. John Hays Hammond and his
sister, Miss Mary Elizabeth Ham
mond have returned to their Lookout
Hill home in Gloucester after a visit
with friends at White Sulphur
Springs, Va.
Count Francisco Guardabassi and
the Countess Guardabassi have re-
turned to their Summer home. the
Old Fort, in the Paine reserve at
Prides Crossing after a visit with
friends in Washington. They were
at Palm Beach for the late Winter
and early Spring season.
Mrs. Clarence Crocker of East
Orange, N. j., has been visiting Mrs.
A. A. Hoehling of Chevy Chase at
Rockhaven, her Grapevine road
cottage in Gloucester. Judge Hoehl-
ing is expected to arrive from Wash
ington for the North Shore.
Mrs. Wilmer Mechlin of Washing
ton is at Bass Rocks for the Summer
season.
Mr. and Mrs. c. F. r. Ogilby of
Washington are at Blueberry lodge,
their Summer home on Grapevine
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Falls Church Notes
Mrs. Harry A. Fellows Entertains at
Evening Bridge Party.

Styles, Miss Betty Styles, Mrs. Ross
johnson, Mrs. johnson, Mrs. S. r
Copper, and Mrs. Lamson of Country
Club Hills had tea at 5 o'clock. Mrs
Baldwin c. Cook and Mrs. Gorham
Freer assisted at the tea table.
Mrs. John H. Cline entertained at
a large evening bridge party Friday
evening in honor of her mother, Mrs
George ButterwSrth. The guests were
Mrs. Noble Moore, Mrs. Harry A. Eel
lows, Mrs. ]. Roy Johnston, Mrs. Louis
B. Woods, Mrs. NJ H. Haertel, Mrs
George L. Robertshaw. Mrs. j. L
Harrison, Mrs. E. P. Harrison, Mrs
Emily Mann Gillette, Mrs. Herbert
Coward, Mrs. Agnes Smith, Mrs. E. L
McNair, Mrs. Neil E. Stevens, Mrs
John Trabold. Mrs. Fefry Moran, Mrs
r. c. L. Moncure, Mrs. Samuel r
Copper, Mrs. P. H. Smythe, Mrs. j
Harold Spelman, Mrs. T. M. Talbot
Mrs. Charles Marshall, Mrs. o. B
Livingston, Mrs. Edmund Flagg, Mrs
Charles Brooks, Mrs. F. w. Jones
Mrs. Edw. B. Wilcox, Mrs. William S
Brown, Mrs. Alexander Calf, Mrs. A
T. Bowen, Mrs. Rollo Smith, Mrs
Felix T. Moore, Mrs. Merritt Pope
Mrs. Hughes Butterworth, Mrs. Ed
mund Gannt, Mrs. j. B. Gould. Mrs
Leonard P. Daniel, Mrs. Samuel Styles
Miss e. e. Barnes and Mrs. John
Bethune.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Submerged Object
Sinks Bay Sailboot
Under O,uner's Feet
Fy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD, Md, June GA
newly purchased sailboat sank under
the feet of its owners in Tangier
Sound yesterday after 1t struck some
submerged object.
The owners of the boat, Ernest D.
Easton, jr, of Maplewood, N. j., and
Henry L. Langhaar of Allentown, Pa,
were picked up by vessel nearby
and landed here. Capt. Walter Cat
lin was skipper of the rescue boat.
Recently EaSton and Langhaar pur-
chased the bug-eye Thomas E. Tay-
lor and rebuilt it for sport fishing.
They took the 56-foot craft for a
trial run early today.
In the vicinity of the Old James
Island light the boat struck some
thing under water and stove in its
hull. 1t sank almost at once.
Watermen believe it hit the founda-
ton structure of the light. which was
carried away by ice during the Win
ter. Several boats have been reported
damaged by the underwater portion
of the lighthouse recently. The boat
of Capt. Harrison D. Corbin of Cris-
field sank a few weeks ago after a
collision in the same vicinity.
Capt. Corbin Immediately started
a petition, signed by many other
watermen. asking that the remains
of the lighthouse be removed. The
petition, sent to the Department Of
Commerce, said the foundation was
o menace to navigation.