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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
DIES ON TRAIN HERE
Norfolk (va.) Society Matron Is
Victim of Heart Disease,

Mrs. Stella Hirschler, socially
prominent in Norfolk. Va, and San
Francisco, died of heart disease on
a New York Central train as it
came into Indianapolis today.
She was en- route from Norfolk
to San Francisco. Mrs. Hirschler,
"a, had been i'll six years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
PRIMARY TEACHER DEAD
Mary James Clark Had Taught at
School for Deaf.

Mary James Clark, 90, for 10
years primary teacher at the Indi-
ana School for the Deaf, died today
at the home of her father, R. G.
Clark, Lancaster, KY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
RAIN TONIGHT, WARMER
TOMORROW, is FORECAST
Crops Aided by .32 of An Inch of
Showers, Report.

OHUWCIS, 1NCPUIIs
Predicting showers for tonight,
the Weather Bureau today said a
northeast wind then should clear
up unsettled atmospheric conditions
and make tomorrow fair and some
what warmer.
The 80 of an inch of rain which
fell here over the weekend has had
beneficial effect on crops in this
section, the bureau said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
MIRACLE IS ONLY
THREAT T0LAND0N::
ECCLES STIRS TALK
Coalition by Rivals, Which
Seems Unlikely, Held
Sole Obstacle.
HOOVER ENMITY DENIED
Borah and Knox Combine
Against Kansan Also
Deemed Remote.

Smoking Out the Candi-
dates" the first of a series
of articles on possible Re-
publican nominees, starts
today on Page One, Section
Two.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
TRADING ON MARKET
is QUIET, PRICES FIRM
Steel Shares Lead Early Advance
With Gains Above Point.

By United Press
NEW YORK, May 25.-Extremely
quiet trading continued to prevail
on the stock market today with
prices firm.
Steel shares led an early advance
with gains ranging to more than
a point but they later eased from
their highs Motor shares were dull.
Railroad and utility issues were
OIIiet
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
Low COST HOUSING
PROJECT APPROVED

Congressional action was complete
last week on bill to permit the
government, in effect, to pay taxes
on its low-cost housing projects and
to rent them at subsidy" rates.
The senate agreed to legislation
permitting the subsidy rentals so
that low-cost housing units could be
made available to families with low
income. Comptroller Gen. J. r. Nc
Carl had ruled that under the law
the government had to charge rent
ais sufficient to repay the costs of
the projects.
The new languange says PWA
may fix rates Gin order to make such
project available to those families
in the community who are unable
to pay enough rent to induce pri-
vate enterprise to supply adequate,
safe, and sanitary housing, notwith-
standing that the rental rates fixed
may not provide for repayment in
full of the funds expended in con-
nection with the project"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
INSANE PATIENTS ESCAPE
FROM MINNESOTA HOSPITAL

Police were notified Sunday night
that Is inmates of the state hospital
for the insane at st. Peter, Mimi,
had escaped.
The inmates were reported to be
led by Lawrence Devol, former
member of the Karpis- Barker gang
who had been in the institution sew
er al weeks.
They overpowered guards, rushed
the gates and seized automobiles in
the city to make their getaway.
After rushing through the main
entrance of the institution the men,
all criminal insane, scattered through
st. Peter.
Devol was transferred to the in
stitution recently from the state
penitentiary at Saltwater, where he
was serving a life term for his part
in the holdup and robbery of the
Third Northwestern National bank
in Minneapolis, Dec. 16, 1882.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
Storm Sweeps Over
Kansas and Okla.

Twisters, floods, lightning, hail and
torrential rains left nine persons
dead in Oklahoma and Kansas Sat-
urday and caused widespread prop
erty damage and suffering.
Tornadoes that roared into isolat-
ed Oklahoma communities killed
five persons and one man was
drowned. Lightning bolts felled the
other three.
Twelve patients in a Waurika hos
pital missed injury when a tornado
ripped the roof from the building,
then dropped it back, broken.
Another twister struck at nearby
Hastings, killing a farmers wife,
overturning three business buildings
and wrecking homes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
Say New Farm Program
Is Best Ever Devised

mountain and Piedmont areas
and by retaining worn-out
land, he continued, the program
will reverse the soil-ravaging
processes that have been going
on for years. This will help safe
guard the future of agriculture
and the Nation.
The program will encourage
balanced farming so as to avoid
the overproduction of certain
crops to the neglect of others. It
will also encourage the farmers
to produce at home, as much as
possible, the things needed on
the farm.
By stimulating the production
of forage and feed crops, the
program will give an empetus to
dairying and the production of
beef cattle, the dean pointed out.
The State needs more dairy
and beef cattle, he emphasized.
An increase in timber produc-
ton and land reclamation
through reforestation will also
follow. This year forestation of
fields which have been in cult
walton will probably count as a
soil-building practice for which
payments will be made.
The dean also announced that
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace has appointed state
committee of representative
farmers to help determine GER
tain policies of the new program.
Among the matters to come
before the committee are: the
rate of payment for various soil
building practices, which prac-
tees will be considered soil
building, and the rate of pay
ment for reducing the acreage of
soil-building crops other than
cotton, tobacco, and peanuts.
He said too, that work sheets
which farmers will need in con-
nection with the program will
soon be in the hands of every
county agent for general distri-
button.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
Popular Tennessee Speaker of
House Dies Suddenly
Thursday

The House of Representatives
Thursday morning, by voice vote,
elected Representative William B.
Bankhead of Alabama speaker to
succeed Joseph w. Byrns of Tonnes
see, who had died that morning
shortly after midnight.
Shortly after sorrowing House
members were called to order by
the clerk, South Trimble, the Demo-
cratic DOR leader was elevated to the
speakership, by speedy adoption of
resolution offered by Representa-
tive O'Connor, New York Democrat,
chairman of the rules committee.
The procedure consumed less than
five minutes.
Members of the House had stood
with bowed heads as Clerk Trimble
: told them it was his sad and pain
full duty to announce the sudden
and unexpected death" of "the be-
loved Speaker Joseph w. Byrns."
Bankhead, after his election, walk
ed down the aisle to the speakers
desk and took the oath of office, adj
ministered by Representative Sa-
bath, Illinois Democrat, dean of the
House. The chamber was crowded
and the galleries filled.
The capital, grief-tricken by
Byrns' sudden death at 1915 Thurs
day morning, paid its last respects
to him in state funeral Friday at
noon, after which the remains, ac-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11

Agricultural authorities say
the new soil-improvement pro-
gram is the best plan ever un-
dertaken for the all-round de-
velopment of North Carolina
farming.
If farmers cooperate whole
heartedly with the program, said
Dean I. o. Schaub, of State Col
lege, it will elevate agriculture
in this State to higher plane
than ever before.
The new program embodies
many of the fundamental princi-
pies advocated by the extension
service for years, he said, but it
is much more comprehensive
and far-reaching than anything
that has gon before.
The nature of the new pro-
gram makes it applicable to eve
ry farm in the State, said the
dean in urging all farmers to
take part in it so they can share
in its benefits.
The program will give the
farmers direct financial aid in
the form of payments for limit
ing their production of soil-de-
pleting crops and for carrying
out various soil-building and
conserving practices.
From Is to 20 million dollars
will be available for distribution
this year in soil-conservation
grants to North Carolina farm
ers.
Indirectly, it will aid them
financially by preventing the
production of price-runing sur
pluses, by increasing the effici-
ency of farming, and by stimu-
lating the live-at-home move
ment.
The soil-building practices, if
followed generally, will greatly
increase fertility of the soil
within the next few years, the
dean pointed out, and this will
make possible a more economic
and efficient production of crops.
BY checking erosion in the
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
Representative Bankhead Elected
Speaker to Succeed Joseph Byrns

companied by President Roosevelt,
congressional delegations and others
began the journey to Tennessee for
the burial. Death was caused by a
heart attack suffered late Wednes-
day afternoon, followed by cere-
bral hemorrhage late that night.
Byrns was Sc years of age.
Bankhead, the new speaker, is
81 years of age and has been mem
Der of Congress since 1917, having
been elected from the western hill
district" of Albania in 1916.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
1874 BAR ROOMS AT CAPITAL

The Southern Baptists believe that
the liquor situation is "far worse,
more debasing, and more alarming
than at any time during the old
days of the saloon" In a report at
their national Convention at ST..
Louis, recently, they cited 1874 H.
censed liquor places in Washington,
D. c., compared to 267 in the year
before Prohibition, and said ''iquor
has almost a free hand, and is vir-
tually in control of the Who'll COM
munity." -Exchange
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11

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Before using your Nervine I was very
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
3l9a lI9s9 Nights!

IF YOU are nervous today, you probably
will not sleep well tonight. IF you don't
sleep well tonight, you will probably be
nervous tomorrow.
Don't allow yourself to become nervous.
Take DR.. Miles Nervine. It will relax your
tense nerves and let you get good nights
sleep.
Irritability, Restlessness, Sleeplessness, often
lead to Nervous Headache, Nervous Indi-
gestion, observation-disclosures to nervous
breakdown and organic trouble.
Some of the people, whose letters are printed
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Three years I could not bear TO 70
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commended Dr. Miles Nervine. enjoy myself thor
oughly and sleep night Miss Juliette Currer.
New Market. N. 81.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11
ASHE COUNTY BOY SENIOR
AT LEES McRAE COLLEGE

BANNER ELK, N. C.-Among the
siXty-six students who will be grad
uated from Lees-McRae College on
June first is Byron Stuart of Ash
land, N. c.
Mr.. Stuart has been outstanding in
sports, having been captain of the
basketball team, and winning a
place on the all-State juior college
team. He is also a member of the
tennis team.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-11

The one denomination that does
not believe in Sunday School does
very zealously believe in religious
training according to the Bible as
taught in Deuteronomy, chapter s,
verse;.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Births And
Deaths Oft
For State
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOte

Raleigh, July 18-June deaths fell
from 1858 to 1920 for the sixth
month of 1885 and 1886, but the births
dropped IN the same period from 6,828
to $40, the death rate falling two
tenths of one per cent and the birth
rate dropping one and nine tenths
per cent.
Always the papers account it news
when something happens to muitlpa-
rous motherhood in North Carolina.
There were 488 fewer babies born in
June, 1886, than in June, 1885. The
infant mortality rate fell from 83.2
to 62.5 over the same route, but the
maternal mortality rate rose from
So to IA per cent. The infant
deaths in June last were 1868; for
the preceding June 5G8.
The greatest killer was pneumonia,
which took 208 lives, 81 more than in
June 1885. Influenza rose from 20 to
43, but whooping cough came down
from 48 to g. Cancer dropped even
20, from the 166 in June, 1885. Suicide
stood off at % each and homicides
went from q to 80.
A4PrimaN automobiles accidents"
which stood at 76 in June a year ago
moved up to 83. Preventable acct
dents as a whole increased from 128
to al. There are no epidemic kill
ers reported. There were six deaths
from measles June 1885 but none in
June 1886 Smallpox and undulant
fever were without fatalities in June
of either year. Pulmonary tubercu-
losis went from 1853 to 158. Cerebro-
spinal meningitis which killed one
a year ago, took six in the June re-
ports.
Pellagara, an ineradicable disease
it seems, fell from Al to 38, but is
considered high mortality still for a
sickness which has been diagnosed
| over such a Long period.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Glass Makes
Fiery Attack
On New Deal
Governments Nose
Is In All Sorts of
Business I cd a Y,
Senator Declares

Ashland, Va, July 18.-(AP)-In a
fiery speech, bristling with pointed
phrases, Carter Glass, Virginia's 78-
year-old Democratic senator, brought
the Patrick Henry bi-centennial cele-
bration here to a climax last night
with a declaration that were Henry
living today he would never sanction
any legislation that might reason
ably be thought to he in contraven-
ton of the Constitution"
Speaking extemporaneously and
leaping into his subject with vigor
which caught his hearers by surprise
the veteran legislator, who has often
opposed legislation sanctioned by the
New Deal" described the present adj
ministration as a government of pri-
vilege and discrimination"
Speaking at gathering on the
campus of Randolph-Macon college
here, Senator Glass said the present
government is such a government as
Henry denounced in Virginia's House
of Burgesses.
Henry, he said, held it to be elm
proper to take money of taxpayers
of Virginia and appropriate it to pay
off mortgages that had been made by
thriftless and unwise individuals"
THAT is just what we are doing in
this country today" Glass said
whether it be due to the mismanage-
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Action Relates to Any AS
pirant for President or
Vice-President On
Tickets
HARMONY is AGAIN
RESTORED AT MEET
Peace Among Warning
Leaders Apparently Secure
at Least Until Convention
Ends Sunday; Speakers
Will Not Be Censured By
Townsend or His Board

Cleveland, July IS (AP)-The Town
send national convention adopted a
resolution today declaring that the
old age pension organization shall
not at any time during this campaign
endorse any presidential or vice pres
dential candidate.
This was the answer of the Town
send convention to the oft-asked
question of which way the Town
send family" would throw it's vote in
November. There weVe some few
delegates who said they wanted to
endorse specific presidential candi-
dates.
The obviously were much in the
minority, however, as there were only
a few scattered "Noes" as the resolu-
ton was adopted.
A 5000 monthly pension for the
aged was uppermost in the hearts
and minds of the delegates. Political
ramifications of the convention,
for the most part, failed to stir their
interest.
The second Townsend national con-
vention swung into it's fourth day
with peace among its warning lead
ers seemingly secure until at least
after adjournment Sunday.
A threat by DR.. F. E. Townsend, the
movements founder, that he would
not sit with the board of directors
until the custer of Conner Smith, Of
Oklahoma, a board member and ma
tional vice-president, drew the fol-
lowing statement from the board
early today: ,~s~-,- r
mo action will be taken by DR..
Townsend or the national board to
censure any of the speakers that have
appeared.
The elderly pension chief then is
sued a statement, which read:
"In view of the stress of other bus
mess of the convention, no further &C
ton will be taken regarding Mr.. Co
mer Smith remaining upon the board
of directors until after the conven-
ton ="
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
JUDGESH|P AWAITS
COMMITTEE ACTION
Governor Wants Oglesby
Successor To Be Pleas
ing To Voters
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOte


Raleigh, July Ex-Governor Ehring-
haus has asked the fifteenth judicial
district committee to meet and pro-
pose names from which may be made
the successor to the late Judge John
M. Oglesby.
The committee members from Alex
landep, Iredell, Rowan, Cabarrus,
Randolph and Montgomery counties
a reto meet. They probably will sug-
gest a first, second and even third
choice. The recent primary makes
impossible a direct vote on this ques-
ton. The committee choice could be
the governors and there would be no
opposition except in the general cleo
ton. The executive committee will
have to do the nominating.
J. H. Burke, of Alexander, Van
Buren, Jurney, of the Industrial Com
mission in Raleigh, is the Iredell sug-
gestion; Hayden Clement, Prltchard
S. Carlton, Charles L. Coggin, Charles
Price, and Stable Linn are the Ro-
wanites most mentioned; the Luther
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
MICHIGAN WOMAN is
DEMOCRAT SPEAKER

Greensboro July 18 (AP)-Mrs.
Thomas F. McAllister of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, national committeewoman
of the Michigan Young Democrats, IN
an address today at the convention OF
North Carolina Young Democrats,
said "for the first time in our his
tory it is recognized by our party
government has an obligation to the
youth of the country, and to our aged,
to the laborer to the consumer and
to the children"
Delivering the main address of the
occasion, the Grand Rapids woman
declared that the Democratic party re
cognizes the obligations of the gov
eminent to abolish "the misery of the
sweat shop, to clear away the slums
of the great cities and to relieve the
farm wife of her enslaving toll and
drudgery"
Clyde r. Hoey, of Shelby, Demo
Ratic guIbernatorial nominee, who
had been scheduled to speak at the
morning session, was made the prin-
cipal speaker at the luncheon session
when Senator J.. w. Bailey could not
attend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Drought Yet
UnbrOken In
Large Areas
Scattered r ain s
Along Fringes OF
Belt Have Only
Temporary Effect

Chicago, July 18.-(AP)-Scattered
rains along the northern fringe of the
drought-baked belt today served only
to emphasize the suns efforts else
where in the Middle West, where
scant hope for relief was in sight.
A half dozen northern Iowa cities
and others in southeastern Minnesota
that got precipitation last night bore
out meteorologists' predictions of
showers and cooler weather in the
north central states.
Heat inroads on human life were
leSsened, but the nations total of
deaths attributedable to the weather
erceeded 400.
Further relief was predicted for the
same areas and generally in the
northern plains region over the week.
end, but in sweltering Nebraska, Mis-
souri,, South Dakota, Ohio, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Illinois, most of Michigan,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota no
allevitation was sighted.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Says Chief
Slated For
KidmabCMt

st. Paul, Mimi, July 18.-(AP)-A
confessed kidnap's declaration that
former Police Chief Thomas Brown
was figured by gangsters for $685.
600 "cut" in the proceeds of the $780,
900 William Hamm kidnapping was
met with silence by the accused man
today as Safety Commissioner Gus
Barfuss announced he would follow
Browns suspension from the depart
ment with a full investigation.
81 have nothing to say" was
Browns reply to the accusation made
yesterday by Byron Bolton, govern
ment witness in the trial of John
PETER, former st. Paul night club
owner, charged with participating in
the kidnapping.
Said Barfuss:
"When the trial is concluded,
Brown will be given an opportunity
to explain. If further investigation
shows he had any association with
the kidnapers or kidnapping not pro-
per for police officer, he will be dis
charged, and all information which we
gather and which the Federal govern
ment has obtained will be used in
prosecution"
Half an hour after Bottoms witness
stand declaration, Barfuss suspended
Brown from his post as head of the
police automobile theft department
without prejudice" pending further
study.
II received $780," Bolton testified.
each of the others who took part in
the kidnapping itself got $7,288. Twen-
ty-five thousand dollars was set aside
for Tom Brown and $4,000 for
PETER"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
New Higher
Levels Made
In Business
For Seventh COnse-
cutive Week Trend
Definitely Upward

New York, July 18.-(AP)-Rising
another notch, Industrial activity to-
day registered it's seventh consecutive
thrust into higher ground for the re-
covery movement.
Measured by The Associated Press
index, activity stepped up to 931 of
the 1929-3O average, compared with
92.6 last week and TIT a year ago.
Total carloadings rose sharply to
the best level of the year, with mer-
chandise and grain shipments forcing
the index to a five-year peak.
Residential building also made a
new top. Contracts for new homes con
tinue- to be let in greater numbers
though the seasonal peak has passed
Steel operations rebounded from
last weeks drastic decline, with orders
holding up well. Automobile output
slipped less than was expected, be-
cause large retail sales have been
steadily cutting into stocks.
Electric power output rose normally
from the holiday low. Cotton manu-
featuring was down slightly.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
Car Is Struck by Passenger
Train and Hurled Into
Racine River
Near Dundee
VICTIMS ALL FROM
PENNSYLVANIA CITY
Harry Schuster, His Wife
and Three Children and
Four Others from Farrell,
Pa, Meet Instant Death;
Big Sedan Dragged IS
Feet. Hurled Into River

Dundee, Mich. July Is (AP)-Nine
persons were killed when the auto
mobile in which they were enroute to
their homes in Pennsylvania after
visit here was struck by an Arbor
railroad passenger train locomotive
and hurled into the Racine river this
morning.
The victims were identified as Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Schuster, of Far
rell Pa. and their three daughters and
four members of another Farrell fam
lily whose names were not learned at
once.
The car, a large four-door sedan,
was struck at the crossing and drag
ged about IS feet to a narrow trestle,
where it smashed into a girder and
fell into the river.
The bodies of the nine victims fell
30 feet from the bridge into the shall
low water of the stream.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-18
NINE PERSONS DEAD
IN CROSSING CRASH
AT MICHIGAN TOWN
Woman, 90, Stays
Husband, Aged IS

Newberry, S. c., July Is (AP)-
A cOroner's jury charged Mrs.
LeOla Lively, 60, with killing her
65-year-Old husband, Lawrence, at
their home in the st. Phillips COM
munity today.
Evidence at the inquest was that
the aged couple quarreled at
breakfast with Lively Shaping her
face. A few minutes later, their
son said, she went to the porch
with a pistol and fired five bull
lets into her husband. She was
lodged in Jail to await grand jury
action.