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The Washington times., 1936-08-01
6 MOVIE STARS
FACE QUIZ IN
AST0R SUIT
Court to Rule Monday
On AdmissibiIity
OF Evidence

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l U.N.S0.
The lid soon may be yanked off
the "after dark" lives Of some out
standin~ Hollywood film stars, 1t
was learned today.
At least six men, whose love-
making has quickened the hearts
of millions Of women in the worlds
motion picture theaterS, were re-
ported in a condition bordering on
panic as a result Of Mary Astor's
determined fight for custody Of
her small daughter.
May Have to Testify
The stars will be subpoenaed to
testify about how we'll they knew
the authenticated actress if the
court permits evidence about the
conduct of Miss Astor or her di-
vorced husband, DR.. Frankiyn
Thorpe, prior to April IL, 1885,
when the decree was signed.
That much was announced by
Attorney Joseph Anderson, Of
counsel for DR.. Thorpe, who is
waging a determined fight to re-
tain custody of four.year-old Mari
lyn Thorpe, awarded him at the
time he obtained the uncontested
divorce.
Superior Judge Goodwin J.
Knight has announced he will rule
on the issue Monday morning
when the trial is to be resumed,
Charges immortality
DR.. Thorpe, fashionable Holly.
wood surgeon, charges Miss AStor
with immoral" conduct before he
divorced her, which explains, he
says, why she did not contest the
action.
To bolster the contention, DR..
Thorpe filed an affidavit quoting
excerpts from a diary he said Miss
Astor had written.
The Hollywood celebrities said
to have marched through the
pages of the diary insisted today
that while they are entirely limo
cent of "after hours" lovemaking
with Miss AStor, the morals
clause in their contracts may be
invoked against them by pro.
ducers if they take the stand.
"VoTE AMERTCANn
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Fingerprints Sought
In Suspects Arrest

STRATFORD, Conn, August 1
U.N.S0.-While word was awaited
from Washington concerning a
check Of fingerprints, Harry w.
MarSten, 64, of South Bend, Ind,
was held without bond today after
police found small arsenal in his
automobile. Arrested on suspicion
by a Trumbull constable, he told
police he was a supervisor of
faculty in a music school and was
selling musical instruments in the
East. He went about armed, he
said, because three years ago he
was held up by two highwayrnen in
Texas. One was the notorious
Clyde Barrow, who later was killed
by G-men, Marsten told police.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Convicted Kidndper
Ends Life in Prison

ST. PAUL. Aug. I. G.N.S)a
Jack PETER and the law were all
even today.
Peifer, erstwhile night club
owner and convicted fingerman in
the 100000 William Hamm, jr.,
kidnapping, traded his life for a
30-year Jail term. He committed
suicide by chewing poisoned gum
in his cell shortly after hearing
the long sentence imposed by Fed
eral Judge NJ M Joyce yesterday
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Mdjorcd Under Fire;
Foreigners Depart

BARCELONA, Aug. / G.N.SO.
Majorca, Balearic Island "dis-
covered" by artists and writer's as
haven of rest and peace, was de-
serted by foreigners today shortly
before loyal government bombing
planes opened a concerted attack
on the island paradise" The last
foreigners deserted the island
during the night, many Americans
getting out just before the first
bombardment yesterday.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
G-MEN ARREST
FARM YOUTH
IN NEBRASKA
Letter Asking SIS, 900
Leads to Charge Of
Extortion Plot

NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Aug. l
UN.S0-Under close guard by
Federal officers, a frightened
country boy who has seldom been
away from his fathers farm, faced
arraignment today on a charge Of
trying to extort $25,O0O from the
parents of Shirley Temple.
The lad is Sterling Powell, Is,
who lives with his family on
their farm q mile or so outside
Grant, Neb.
Omen under orders from J,
Edgar Hoover, director Of the Jus
tice Departments Bureau Of In
vestigation, seized young Powell at
his home late yesterday and
whisked him off to Jail here.
He was charged with the extor'
ton plot and placed in a cell.
Investigators maintained silence
about the case and refused re-
quests to interview the prisoner.
He is to be arraigned this morn
ing before United States Commits
sioner A. S. Streitz.
Father Bewildered
Carl Powell, the boys father,
said he was frankly bewildered by
the arrest of his son. He con-
feSSed:
Actually, 1 don't know what
It Is all about"
He said he was given only about
five minutes to talk to Sterling
before he was taken away and
that there had been little chance
for explanations. He added:
"AbOut the only thing he told
me was that he had gone to q
picture show in Grant one night
and got the idea of writing .
letter to this little girls folks
for some money. He said he
came home and wrote it that
night.
almost as soon as he'd
mailed it, he said he realized 1T
was o crazy thing to do and
wished he had the letter back,
but it was too late and then he
forgot all about it"
The father said he had kept the
news from the boys mother.
Youth An Athlete
Powell, an athletic youngster, is
o sophomore at the Grant High
School. Besides engaging in ath-
leticS he plays a violin in the
school orchestra.
His arrest eliminated a two
and-a-half!month investigation by
Federal agents after the child
screen stars father received q
scrawled note demanding he drop
a package containing $4,000
from an airplane over Grant,
Neb.
Hoover announced the envelope
had been destroyed at the studio
where it was received with Shir-
ley's fan mail. It was finally
traced through the paper to a
chain store with q branch in
Grant, and after tedious work
the G-men pounced on Sterling
as the writer.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Auto Crash Injuries
Kill Bethesda Youth

Noble B. Embrey, jr., 16-year'
old resident of Bethesda, Md.
died today in Georgetown Hos
pital as result of injuries suffered
last night in an automobile acci.
dent.
The accident was said by police
to h ave occurred at Potomac,
Md. The youth was brought to
WASHINGTON and found to have
incurred injuries internally and
on the head.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Cavalry Students
Will Show Parents

Youths attending the cavalry
course of the Citizens Military
Training Corps at Fort Myer will
display their skill before their
fathers and mothers at parents
day" to be staged next Tuesday.
At $50 a. m. the students,
drawn from Pennsylvania, Mary
land and the District, will apear
in a mounted review before Col
j. M. Wainwright, post com,
mander, and the guests. A dis
mounted review at 2 p. m. will be
featured by the presentation of
awards for excellence in athletics,
citizenship and other subjects.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Chinese Troops War
In Kwangsi Province

NANKING, Aug. l QN.SO.
Severe fighting broke out today
between Kwangtung and Kwangsi
Province troops, according to Of
ficial dispatches received here, in
dicating new crisis in the South
China situation.
The fighting was along the
border between the two provinces,
which recently split over the ques-
ton Of supporting the Nanking
central government.
-"VOTE AMERICAN"-
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
France Frees Four
British AirpIanes

BORDEAUX, France, Aug. 1
UN.SO-Four British Fokker air.
planes intercepted here early this
week en- route to Lisbon were re-
leased by the French government
today, but only to return to Lon
don.
The big craft, passenger planes
but presumably capable of being
converted into bombers, were sus-
pected of being intended for
Spanish insurgents.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01

AMERICAN.
The Washington times., 1936-08-01

'YOTE AMERICAN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
OFFICIALS SPEAK
AT MASONIC MEET
State Leaders at District
Meeting; Proctor Is AL
so Speaker

State officials and other leaders in
the order of this section were pre-
sent for the annual nineteenth dis
trict meeting of Masons held here at
afternoon and night sessions in the
local Masonic hall Tuesday. DR..
Hodge A. Newell, of Henderson, dis
trict deputy grand master, was in
charge.
j. Giles Hudson, of Salisbury,
grand master of the North Carolina
Grand Lodge, spoke at the night SEES
sion at o'clock. John H. Ander-
son, of Raleigh, past grand master
and now State grand secretary, spoke
at the afternoon session, which gO
under way at 4 p. m. Speaking als'
at the night session was Rev G.. K
Proctor, superintendent of the Mason
ic Orphanage at Oxford. At $50 p.
m. barbecue supper was served a
the hall to all visitors and guests a
the meeting. The attendance was
estimated at around co.
Rev. Mr.. Proctor told of the worl
of the orphanage, and called atten
ton to the fact that last year II per
cent of the children in the institution
were the orphans of Masons Now a
percent are the children of Masons
This came about partially by reason
of the orphanages of the State receiv
ing for the most part children which
had no particular claim on them be
cause parents were members of
particular church or fraternal order
All lodges of the district were rep
resented at the meeting here, thes
being units at Henderson, Epson
Norlina, Warrenton, Littleton, Louis
burg, Franklinton and Dabney.
The Henderson lodge was host t
the out-of-town visitors at the barbe
cue supper, served by Red" Taylor
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
ATTENDANCE FOR
FAIRGROUNDS Up
Average Daily Last Week
Given as Ill; Enroll
ment 344 Four Schools

Attendance increased at the four
playground centers in the city last
week, it was reported officially today
though it was still only about one
third of the enrolment. The daily av-
GRACE for the past week was given as
Ill, compared with an enrolment of
344
Starting today, Miss Alice Harrison
assumed charge of the classes at
South Henderson, succeeding Miss
Mary Robertson, who gave up the
work.
South Henderson continues to have
the best enrolment and attendance,
while West End has the lowest en-
rollment but Central school the low
est attendance. Registration and at
tendance was shown to be as follows
South Henderson, 112 and 40; North
Henderson, 80 and 80; Central, u and
IS, and West End school, 70 and %.
-Four visitors at South Henderson
were reported, together with two at
North Henderson and ten at West
End.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
UNDERPASS P|L|NGS
OF RAILROAD HERE
First Signs of Start of Work
Seen; Railroad Scales
To Be Moved

First signs of the beginning of work
in the construction of the underpass
connecting Church and Charles streets
under the Seaboard Air Line railroad
tracks and across Garnett and Will
liam streets had appeared today with
the unloading of a large number of
heavy piling timbers by railroad con-
struction crews. These are on the Will
liam street side of the railroad
There has been much expressed OPP
position to the underpass, which has
been approved by the State Highway
g. Public Works Commission, and the
contractor is expected to be told to
start work as soon as formal approval
of the bids is received from the Fed
aral Bureau of Roads in Washington.
The cost of the entire project, in
GLIDING indemnity to property own
ers, which will be paid by the city
is es' mated at around $150O00.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
MOON WILL CLOSE
FOR ALTERATIONS
Entire Theatre To Be
Changed Including Name;
Will Be Very Modern

The Moon Theatre will close it's
doors Saturday night, and in it's place
after alterations to the bare walls,
will be the state" according to an
announcement made today.
The new theatre will absolutely be
the last word in a modern theatre.
For comfort, there will be new cush-
ion chairs, roomy and soft, cooling
system second to none and for the
winter, the theatre will be heated
just right.
For quality, the perfect sound sys-
tenn, western Electric; for beauty,
new scenery, Grapes, and the very
latest lighting inside and out.
The new State Theatre, when open
ed will offer all of the above COM
fort, quality and beauty plus the best
service and satisfaction to it's pat
rOnS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
WILT DAMAGING TO
GROWING TOBACCO
Costs Growers in North Car
Dina ST, 100000 An
nually, Is Claim

College Station, Raleigh, Aug. s.
Granville wilt, a disease that costs
North Carolina tobacco growers an
average of $1,000,000 a year, has
reached alarming proportions" this
season.
According to reports coming to DR..
Luther Shaw, extension plant patho-
logist at State College, the wilt has
done and is doing serious damage
over many sections of the State
The worst damage has been report
ed from Pitt, Jones, Onslow, Fender,
Craven, Columbus, and other eastern
counties.
The disease first attacks the plant
leaves. which droop and wilt. Then
they wrinkle, turn yellow, and die.
To identify the wilt from other to-
hacco diseases, Shaw said, growers
cut the stalks and press the ends with
their fingers If the stalks give off a
dirty, yellowish ooze, the disease is
pretty sure to be Granville wilt.
He also stated that this disease us
ually kills a high percentage of the
plants in the infested areas, while
diseases kill plants here and there al
random.
There is little that can be done tc
help diseased plants this season, he
added, but growers can be careful not
to spread it from infested to clear
areas.
1t may be spread on the feet of per.
sons or animals or on the wheels OF
wagons or other parts of farm i'm
Dlomhntc Watar wa Oh ipo from o., in,
Tested field will carry the disease, he
added.
Research workers are seeking
methods to control the disease. Al
present, they say the best known way
over period of years, is to plant to
bacco in scattered fields, not too close
together, and to grow it in rotation
with disease resistant crops.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
TEAGUE IN CHARGE
OF ROTARY PROGRAM
Sketches of Members bv
Rev. r. E. Brown Prove
Novel and Entertaining

J. r. league was in charge of tba
program at the regular weekly meet
ing of the Rotary Club last evening
at the First Presbyterian church and
presented Rev. r. E. Brown. pastor
of the First M. E. church, who offer
ed a most novel and entertaining fas-
ture of the evening.
MI Brown presented each member
a Monograph sketch of a club men,
Der with some feature of that men,
Der missing from the sketch, that to
be supplied by the party possessing
the sketch. This was most enter.
tanning and tested the artistic abiI-
ity of the membership.
T. B. Rose, Jr president Of the club
reported on the president-secretary as
sembly at Atlantic Beach recently
and appointed DR.. j. H Wheeler a.
sergeant at arms, a new office of the
club.
The meeting was we'll attended by
the membership.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
GUARDSMEN RETURN
FROM ENCAMPMENT
Men Arrive in Early Morn
ing from Camp Jackson
After Two Weeks

Members of Company c, Hender-
sons National Guard infantry unit
returned by train early today from
Camp Jackson, Columbia, s. c., where
they have been encamped for their
annual two weeks training since July
%.
Officers said all the men were in
the best of health during the stay.
The company carried to camp three
officers and SO enlisted men. one less
than the full peace-time strength, one
man having been excused because of
pressing business requirements.
Extensive wartime mancuvers of
the soldiers were carried out during
the stay at camp Other infantry units
of North Carolina were also at the
camp, together with those from Ten
nessee, the two states making up the
Thirtieth Division.
Company c was in command of
Captain c. B. Sturgess, First Lieuten-
ant G.. MI. O'Neil and Second Lieuten-
ant Durward Williams. Also at the
camp from Henderson were Major j.
c. Cooper and Captain T. s. Kittrell,
the latter a special instructor.
Returning on the same train with
the Henderson unit were the infantry
outfits from Warrenton and Oxford.
They reached Henderson by special
train from Columbia at about 5
o'clock this morning, and Immediately
detrained and marched to the armory,
where they were dismissed
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
Drunken Driving
On the Increase
Continued from Page One.)

July SAT drivers licenses were revok-
ed, most of them for drunken driV-
ing.
1--WE feel sure, however, that this
increase in the number of convictions
for drunken driving means that the
officers are enforcing the law better
and the courts handing out more con-
victionS, rather than any very great
increase in the amount of drinking
on on the part of drivers" Hocutt
said. ut is true, of course, that this
is vacation time and there is always
an increase in the amount of drink
ing done them. with a corresponding
increase in the number of arrests and
convictions for drunken driving. But
we are confident that large part of
the increase is due to better law en-
forcement by the police and the
courts"
Prohibition and the bad liquor sold
in so-called "dry'' counties are to
blame for some of the increase in
drunken driving, Captain Farmer
maintains.
"On the whole, liquor is easier to
buy in the dry" counties where pro-
hibition is supposed to prevail, than
in the counties that have liquor
stores" Farmer said. "Most of this
liquor is sold in Joints outside of
towns and sold at night. This causes
more drunken driving"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
THREE REALTY DEEDS
PLACED ON RECORDS

Three realty deeds were placed on
the record books of the Vance Reg
istry yesterday.
Melvin Fain and wife and Lucy
Durham and husband to Melville Fain
for 81 to correct the spelling of a
name in previous deed.
A. A. Bum, commissioner, sold to
Mary l.. Bum for $500 a lot on the
ltrell road.
In deed made March 81, 1884 and
filed yesterday, J. W. Beck sold to
Mrs. May Beck Sadler, Mrs. Lillian
Beck Delaney, Mrs. Clara Beck
Marshal, Miss Annie Lee Beck and
Miss Florence Beck for 500 and val
liable considerations several lots on
BeckencrOft
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
Reports On
TObaccOAre
Good News
Community Encollr-
aged To Look For
High Az G + a &c s
During the Season

General satisfaction was felt here
today over the trend of prices at the
opening of the selling season on the
Georgia tobacco market, which got
underway way Tuesday. Reports of
higher prices led to the expectation
and encouragement that averages
here would be well above last years
figure. The Middle Belt starts sales
on Tuesday, September p, some six
weeks and moro away, and follow the
start of the season in the South Car
DINA and North Carolina border belt
markets on Thursday of next week,
August 10, and then the Eastern
North Carolina belt on Tuesday, Sep
TENDER /.
Figures available indicated that the
Georgia average for the first few days
of the season would be 25 cents and
possible as high as 80 cents. Prices
ranged all the way from five cents
for trashy leaf up to SO cents and
better for the choice types. Much of
the weed offered was of the poorer
grades as is usual, but some markets
reported a considerable volume of
fair quality leaf. The highest single
sale reported was $1.45 per pound, but
advices did not say what market had
such a remarkable sale as that.
First word of the price trends in
Georgia gave the signal here for
speeding up preparations for the start
of the season. Not only tobacco grow
ers buE business people, many pf
whom arc largely dependent upon
crop returns for good or poor bust
ness, saw visions of a prosperous fall
season. Observers who have had oc-
casion to acquaint themselves with
the crop in many sections say that the
Middle Belt quality is about the best
they have seen. Favorable weather
conditions have brought out the lag
ging crop since the drOughty condi
tions OF the spring were ended by
rains, which have come in about the
right proportion for the tobacco croI
in the past six weeks or two months
Curing is well advanced in this
county, but is by no means even hall
over Growers say they are turning
out good quality, leaf, and one large
farmer-tusiness man said today he be-
lieved this years prices would be close
to the high levels of 1884, if not ever
better than that.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
Rebel Victories Claimed In
South With New Attack
Continued from Page One.)

in the most savage political-military
upheaval in Spanish history.
Inspired by military successes in
the Guadarrama mountains, the gov
eminent insisted it had inflicted a de-
cisive defeat on rebel column near
Avila.
The Red Cross estimated that those
wounded in the Spanish fighting ex-
ceeded 100000.
In Paris, the French government
proposed three-power non-intervention
pact was offered to other European
nations by suggestion of Great Bri-
tain, Italy, and Germany. France look
ed to Moscow for support in main
tanning a hands-off policy.
Madrid leftist authorities began a
dual drive against rightist sympathiz-
ers and supporters. More than 600
Fascists and monarchists were ar
rested in a citywide police roundup
The government announced numer-
Gus rebel strongholds could be cap
tured any day, but that it wished to
force surrender of the rebels with a
minimum of bloodshed. The radio
message reported to have been sent
by Burgos rebels was interpreted as
picturing the insurrectionists' plight
as desperate.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

1. What is the name of the Japanese
art of self-defense?
g. Name the southernmost of the
Windward Islands, British West
Indies.
3. Who wrote "Kenilworth?"
A. Who wrote "Kenilworth?"
S. Name the most famous legendary
English outlaw.
6. In Arthurian legend, who was Sir
Galahad?
7. Who prescribed the Gregorian cal
endar?
s. What is the name of the medieval
stringed keyboard instrument, fore
runner of the modern piano?
9. What is the hardest known sub
stance?
10. Who was David Glasgow Far
ragut?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
SHORT SESSION IN
MUNICIPAL COURT

A short session of municipal court
was held today with Mayor Irvine B.
Watkins presiding.
C. c. Ross, of Durham, who has
been convicted of drunken driving
at previous session and noted an
appeal, accepted a fine of $50 and
costs.
Cimon Peter Davis, Negro, charged
with operating an automobile in a
careless and reckless manner, was
discharged.
y Willie Edgerton, Negro, was con-
victed Of assaulting and beating his
wife. lie was fined $40 and costs
and given two years, capias and COM
mitment not to issue upon the con-
dition that he keeps the peace to-
wards his wife and of good behavior.
One License-One marriage license
was issued yesterday at the Register
of Deeds office. It went to a color
ed couple, Leo Allen of Pottsville,
Pa, and Ruby Mae Robson, of Kit
trail.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
DIRECTORS MEETING
FOR KIWANIS HAD

The regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors" of the Kiwanis
Club was held last night at Hill Top
tea room with Howard Allen as host
at a steak supper.
Regular club business was trans
acted with the following officers and
directors present, H. L. Allen, A. p.
Barnes, D. T. Dickie, j. C. Gard
ner, T. S. Register, w. r. Turner, E.
o. Falkner, C. E. Greene, M. G. Miles
and j. H. Bryan.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
NO NEW PERMITS
ISSUED FOR JULY

There were no new building permits
in Henderson in July, but many thous-
ands of dollars worth of construction
work is in progress, however. 1t was
the first time since February, 1884,
two and half years ago, that a
month had passed with no building
permits at all issued In June there
were three permits and $4,000 worth
of construction authorized, while in
July last year six permits accounted
for new building of $17,45O.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
ABC Store Sells
$1,000 Volume In
Month Just Ended

Gross business Of the Vance county
liquor store, owned and operated by
the county, amounted to $12,O965O in
July, it was announced today at the
office of the ABC board, of which T.
H. Crudup is chairman.
This was the largest month since
April, and compared with $11, 1889 O5
in June and $1O,78S.56 in May. The
only comparative figures for a year
ago were for the half month of JULY,
1885, when the store was opened on
July Is. For that period sales were
$9,297.10.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-05
JUNIORS WILL MEET
THURSDAY EVENING

Thursday evening in regular session,
it was stated today, at o'clock with
important matters to be transacted.
An important committee report will
be made at this session, and degree
work will be had.