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Evening star., 1936-08-24
WRGINIAN BELIEVED
DEAD IN HOME FIRE
Unidentified Torso Discovered in
Ruins Of Dwelling Near
Fincastle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FINCASTLE, Va, August a.
Dewey Foster, about 40, until lately .
blacksmith connected with the high
way department, is believed to have
been burned to death in q fire that
destroyed his dwelling near here about
4:3o am. yesterday. An unidentifiable
torso was found in the embers.
Officers inquiring into the tragedy
learned that Foster was in the busi-
ness section of Fincastle as late as
midnight Saturday night. It was sup
posed he went home. About 4:30 his
wife and four children left the Foster
home, an elder son being away in q
c. c. c. camp. The wife and chill
dren went to a hill nearby and stayed
for time and then went to the house
Of q neighbor.
A few minutes later the house was
seen to be in flames. Nothing was
saved. On the assumption that Fos-
ter had set fire to the house and
fled, officers began a search for him
as the fire ragged, and it was not
until the embers cooled sufficiently
for a search that the remains be-
lieved to be those of Foster were
found.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
SHIFTED
BY OLSON DEATH
Farner.L Party to
Study Changes in No.
vember Ticket.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
st. PAUL August 24.-Party lead
ers surveyed the shifting Minnesota
political scene today to gauge the
effect Of the death of Gov. Floyd B.
Olson upon the Fall elections.
A military escort was marshalled
to bring the body Of the Farmer
Labor leader from Rochester where
he died Of cancer Saturday night to
st. Paul for State funeral Wednes-
day as these developments took shape:
The Farmer-Laborite Lieutenant
Governor. Hjalmar Petersen, came
here to be sworn in as Governor.
The Farmer.Labor partys State
Central Committee planned to meet
soon after Olson's final rites to discuss
Its program and make necessary
changes In the November ticket.
The members did not indicate their
stand on Okon's recent statement,
urging all liberals" to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt for reelection.
The names of three men-Repre-
sentative Ernest Lundeen. State At
torney General Harry Peterson and
John p. Devaney, chief justice Of the
State Supreme Court-were mentioned
in party circle speculation on the
drafting Of . candidate to take Olson 8
place as the Farmer-Laborite entry
In the United States Senate race.
An indication Of Q contest came in
the announcement Of former Repre-
sentative Francis H. Shoemaker that
he would seek the post.
The Senate seat now Is held by
Elmer A. Benson. -Laborite
named by Olson to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Republican
Thomas D. Schall. Benson Is his
party's nominee for Governor.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
|BLANTON MESSAGE.
| UNSOLvED PUZZLE.
Check up Reveals TeIe.
phone Used in Texans
Fake Endorsement.

The mystery of who sent telegram
in the name of Democratic National
Chairman James A. Farley indorslng
Representative Blanton for the Demo-
cratic congressional nomination in
the seventeenth district Of Texas
seems destined to remain unsolved,
but the Democratic National Com
mittee Is convinced It was somebody
who was put up to 1t" and who has
no connection with Farley.
Published In Paper.
The message was published Satur-
day morning In q newspaper In Blan-
toms home town, Abilene, and was
received by the editor Of the paper
by Western Union from Washington.
Bearing Farley's signature. 1t said
Blanton should be returned"
BY telephone from New York. Far
ley told The Star Saturday he had
neither sent nor authorized such q
message. Also. he said, he did not
believe anybody connected with his
ONCE here or in New York would
have the "audacity" to send such in
dorsement in view Of his established
policy Of taking no part in primary
fights.
Later. representative Of the
Democratic National Committee here
checked with the Western Union and
was told the message had been tele-
phoned in by Q man claiming to be
Farley's secretary in Washington.
The sender did not give his own name
or telephone number, however, and
directed that the message be charged
to Farley's account.
No Farley Connection.
I'VE are convinced it was nobody
connected with Farley's ofice,"
committee spokesman said this morn
ing, but it was somebody smart
enough to know he had an account
and to do the business by telephone.
Somebody undoubtedly was put up to
it as . means Of giving Blanton .
lift"
It had not been determined this
morning whether any further investi-
cation would be pressed. Blanton was
defeated in spite Of the repudiated
support.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONGKKONG, August 24.-Five
demands, including war against Ja-
pan, were laid down today by leaders
of the Kwangsi Province rebellion
as preface to their surrender to au-
thority Of the Marking (centraD
government.
Generalissimo Chang KAi-shek,
Marking. overlord Of China, was re-
ported unlikely to accept the offer
as he called q military conference
of all Southern China commanders.
The i've demands were:
China must declare war against
Japan.
The famous Nineteenth Route Army
must be reorganized and its officers
reinstated.
Gen. Ii Chung-jen, first command
er of the Kwangsi forces, and Gen.
Pal Chung-hsi, second in command,
must be left in control Of all Kwangsi
forces.
Kwangsi troops must not be trans
ferred except to meet external ag-
gression.
Ii Chai-sum, formerly Gen. Chiang's
chief lieutenant, and Chen Ming-shu,
leader in the abortive Fukien inde-
pendence movement Of 1884, must
be pardoned.
The Kwangsi Independence drive
has made no headway for several
weeks, and Gen. Chang has been
dickering with KwangN odiciab from
his Canton headquarters.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
Bank Women to Hold Picnic.

The Bank Women's Club Of Wash
ington will hold . picnic tomorrow
in Rock Greek Park. Miss Mildred
Woodcock u In charge Of arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1936-08-24

Farmers Of Germany expect large
crops this year.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
COLORED MAID HELD
IN THEFT OF BROOCH
So, 500 Piece Of Jewelry Recovered
in Arrest-Suspect Taken in
Chalice Loss,

Suspected in the theft Of q $500
brooch and $40 In cash from her for
mer employer. Ethyl Lucas. %. colored,
domestic. was held at the Women's
Bureau today.
She was arrested yesterday In her
room in the TOO block Of Corcoran
street by Detective Sergts. Joseph w.
Shimon and Harry Britton, and the
jewelry, of diamonds and pearls was
recovered.
The brooch belongs to Mrs. Ben
jamin Schwartz. 1915 r street, who
missed it when she awoke Friday
Police also believed they had solved
the Easter theft sof . s2,500 golden
chalice from st. Aloysius' Church,
with the arrest in Baltimore Of .
man now held for investigation.
Meanwhile, authorities sought three
young men who bought ice cream
Saturday night with . 81 raised to
SO. The salesman told police the
license number Of the car.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
G. U. Notes Severe Quake.

Georgetown University today re-
ported recording severe earthquake
yesterday. It began at 4:3l:33 pm,
Eastern standard time, reached maxi
mum intensity at 4:52 and ended at
8 pm. The distance was estimated at
$500 miles. It was probably in the
Southeast Pacific, the university said.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
vicinity Of Formoss

shocks in the vicinity Of Formoss
Saturday night! - ti# 81
The tren.ors lasted 80 minutes.
The Reuters bulletin listed the num-
Der Of homes destroyed ut $50 and
the number damaged ut approximately
200.
Evening star., 1936-08-24
Wins Wrestling Bout With Fish

Wins Wrestling Bout With Fish
ST. PAUL R).-A authority for his
story Of wrestling q fish, successfully,
1s-year-old Jimmy Finehout offered
his father, Municipal Judge John
w. Finehout.
They said northern pike took Mrs.
Finehout's lure and broke the line.
Jimmy jumped out Of the boat. took
q half nelson CO the pike and wrestled
it into submission.
The fish weighed 20 pounds IL
OlnceS
Evening star., 1936-08-24
F0RM0SA SHAKEN
l3 Reported Killed in Tremors
Lasting 80 Minutes.

LONDON, August "a N.-A Reu-
ters dispatch from Toxic yesterday
morning reported at least 13 persons
killed and several hundred homes
damaged or destroyed by earthquake
Evening star., 1936-08-24
5 DEMANDS BASIS
ORCH|NA PEACE
KWangsi Leaders Insist on
War on Japan Before
Surrendering.

BACKGROUND
Marking government OF China
under administration of Gen.
Chang Kdi-shek met challenge to
authority in South China several
months ago in independence mope-
meDt centering around leaders at
Canton. Southern Chinese military
chiefs demanded Nankino declare
Udr on Japan in resistance to
islanders penetration from north.
Most of Canton leaders ceased
insurgent activity, but KiDanosi
continued increment for independ-
ence.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Court Will
Not Delay
SEC Probe
District Justice Re-
fuses StOCkhOlder' S
Plea To Avoid His
Examination

Washington, July 27.-(AP)-Jus-
tice Oscar Luhring, of the District
of Columbia Federal Court, refused
today to issue a temporary order for
bidding the Securities and Exchange
Commission to investigate investment
trusts.
The courts action came after the
commission had recessed public hear
ings in it's investment inquiry pend
ing outcome of legal efforts to block
them
The order refused py the district
court was asked by Frederick T.
Fisher, a stakeholder III the Equity
Corporation, an investment trust.
He sought to prevent the commits
sion from subpoening him as as wit
ness in the investigation and from ex-
aiming the papers of the corporation.
Justice Luhring set a hearing for
August 5, at which attorneys for
Fisher will ask a temporary injunc-
ton to hold up the investigation.
David Schenker, attorney for the
Securities Commission, attacked Fish
er's request for a restraining order
as a subterfuge and trick to delay
the hearing.
He said the investigation would pro-
coed on schedule.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Acting Secretary of Com
merce Tells Asheville Con-
vention That Would
Force Peace
BUSINESS SESSIONS
GOTTEN UNDER WAY
Daniels Presides Over Joint
Meeting With Auxiliary;
Committee c h a i r m e n
N a m e d for Meeting;
Speaker Is from South
Carolina Rainbow Division

Asheville, July 27.-(AP)-J. Mon
roe Johnson, acting secretary of COM
merce, urged building up an Amer
lean merchant marine as part Of a
policy of preparedness in an address
today to the State convention of the
American Legion.
Peace and preparedness are Just
naturally logical partners declared
Johnson, a South Carolina veteran of
the Rainbow division.
Proper preparedness would be our
way of saying to the whole world that
not only do we want peace but we
are determined to have it,
The Legion and Auxiliary settled
down to business today. Josephus
Daniels, Jr, of Raleigh, State COM
mander. called the convention to or
der in the first session, in which the
Auxiliary participated
Representative Graham A. Barden.
Of New Bern, was named chairman of
the resolutions committee. June H.
Rose, of Greenville, vice-commander,
was appointed chairman of the COM
mittee on time and place, and James
NJ. Caldwell, State adjutant of Ra-
leigh, chairman of the credentials
committee.
Other committee chairmen: DiStin-
guished guests, General Manus Nc
Closkly, Fort Bragg; rules, Basil
Boyd, Charlotte.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
DEAN TELLS ABOUT
OTHER SHOOT|NGS
Black Legion Depredations
In Detroit Area Are Fur
Their Related

Detroit, Mich, July 81 (AP)-De-
triot and suburban police scrutin-
lied their records of unsolved crimes
in which Negroes were victims today
after Dayton Dean, confessed Black
Legion "executioner" had told of a
second unprovoked attack by black
legionnaires on Negro.
In his latest statement, Dean said
Harvey Davis, Black Legion Col
onel" ordered him and Charles Rouse
to drive around and find Negro
any one so long as he's black" and
then fired a shot into the back of the
first Negro they saw.
Scores police said the victim was
Edward Armour, 49, factory work
err, who was shot at the door of his
home in the suburb in February,
1885
Armour, who was in the hospital
for months, will view Dean, Davis
and Rouse today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
WANTS SCHOOLS TO
GIVE AUTO COURSE
State Highway Chief Says
Learning to Drive Ur-
gent AS Books
Daily DbSDntcb RureRW.
IN The Sir Waller Hotel.
Nv 4 G. RAS< ERVVI.I

Raleigh, July 27.-All of the high
schools in North Carolina should have
required courses of instruction in au-
tomobile and truck driving and make
these courses necessary for gradua-
ton, Director Arthur Fulk, of the di-
vision Of highway safety of the De
partment Of Revenue, said today. He
pointed out that in the State of In
diana 20 hours of instruction in au-
tomobile or truck driving is required
in every high school as a prerequisite
to graduation and that the successful
completion of this course entities the
high school graduates to a State driv-
er's licenses.
Important as Books.
"Since there is now an automobile
in almost every family, and since
every boy and girl in the State starts
driving car as soon as they are Is
years old, if not before, it seems to
me that it is just as important to
teach these boys and girls how to
drive automobiles, likewise the fun
damental rules of safe and proper
driving. as it Is to teach them alge-
IRA, chemistry, history, French or
Latin. The average high school stu
dent spends a great deal more time
driving the family automobile than
he or she spends studying any of the
other high school subjects. So why
not teach them how to do properly
something they are going to do any
way"
A good many people think that any
one can learn to drive an automobile
merely by taking one out on the road
or street and stepping Oh the gas,
Fulk said. But the accident records
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Clevenger Is
NOtInVOlved.
Friends Say
Raleigh Refuses to
Believe His Exem-
plary Life Has Un-
derworld Angle
Daily Dispatch RureNM.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

NV d. q. VA SN IcRVILL
Raleigh, July 27.-There are too
many unexplained and battling angles
to the assault and murder of pretty
Helen Clevenger 18-year-old New
York University student, in Asheville
on July 16, and too many unanswered
questions concerning it to make MANY
people here or even the police, believe
that Professor w. L. Clevenger, the
girls uncle who has been detained in
the Buncombe county Jail for ques-
tioning as a suspect in the case, is
in any way involved 5in the actual
murder of the girl.
Both the police and newspaper men
have been making a quiet but inten-
sive investigation for several days on
the theory that anything can hap
PEN and that Professor Clevenger,
short roly-poly, bald headed bachelor
of 81 years, might have been a sort
of collegiate CDR Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde" If the police and newsmen
here could develop definite proof that
Prof Clevenger, though outwardly
straight-laced and almost puritanical
in his ideas and conduct on the cam
pus, had ever left any traces of a
night life that indicated a fondness
for women, and especially young girls,
they felt they might be on the road
toward developing a motive for the
murder of his niece. But it is regard
ed as decidedly in Professor eleven
gers favor that, in spite Of the most
intensive and far-reaching investiga-
ton here, not shred of actual evil
dence has been found to indicate that
he ever 'played around off the cam
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
SOCIALISTS HOPING
TO MAKE SHOWING
Believe They Can Poll More
Votes Than Combined
Lemke Groups
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Contral Press Staff Writer

49, OS~~~A
Washington, July 27--The Social
lists led by Norman Thomas as their
presidential nominee are ambitious
to make a better showing than the
miscellaneous crowd back of Con-
gresham William Lemke's candidacy
in the coming election.
Of course they are too sensible to
expect to carry state, but they do
think they may be able to pile up a
bigger popular vote than the North
Dakota Independent. While others
are asking, "Will Lemke draw more
heavily from Democratic or Republi-
can strength" (and generally predict
ing that the Democrats will feel the
drain worse), the Socialists are
querying, "How much can we draw
from Lemke?"
They are fairly hopeful.
Booed as he was at the Cleveland
gathering of Townsendites and their
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Agriculture Work
Protects Consumer
Reports Indicate:

Raleigh, July 27-(AP)-Much work
to protect consumers as we'll as pro-
ducers of agricultural products of
North Carolina won praise today from
the State Board of Agriculture.
Commissioner William A. Graham,
reporting on activities of his depart
ment for the last six months listed as
some of them:
Inspection and certification of more
than 1,25O000 packagers of fruits and
vegetables, including 898,947 packages
of Irish potatoes; 340,796 of straw
berries; 1850 of beans; $3.50 of Gu
cumbers; and 23,572 of peas.
Soybean inspection work at Wash
ington and Elizabeth City, with 34,965
bushels being certified.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Karpis And
Fitzgerald
Given Life
st. Paul Kidnap Per-
petrators Get Max
lmum Permitted bV
Minnesota Law

st. Paul, Mimi, July 27.-(AP)-
Alvin Karpis and Charles Fitzgerald,
participants in the 100000 William
Hamm, Jr., kidnapping, were sentenced
to life terms today by Federal Judge
M. M. Joyce. Both pleaded guilty
earlier,
Before sentence was imposed, Kar-
pis, asked by the court if he had any
thing to say, declared:
Jack PETER is absolutely not guilty
because l know the circumstances.
He had nothing to do with the kid
naping."
Peifer st. Paul night club eSera-
tor, charged as Finger man. in the
case, was convicted of a part in the
abduction plot by Federal court jury
Saturday.
Still awaiting sentence with him
Edmund c. Bartholmey, former Ben
senville, I'LL, postmaster, whose home
Hamm, st. Paul brewing company
head, identified as the place where he
was imprisoned four days. The abduc-
ton occurred June Is, 1888.
Karpis, it was learned from an au-
'Iol lCdCIVe SouICe, was Ieduy 10 pledQ
guilty at the same time to the $780,
600 abduction of Banker Edward c.
Bremen. He planned the second ad-
second admission, the informant said,
in the hope of escaping prosecution
on the charge of numbering Sheriff
c. r. Kelly at West Plains, Mo-, in
December, 1881.
But Sheriff Ed Threlkeld declared
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
OueenMnry
Sets Speed
In Crossing

New York, July 27.-(AP) = The
Queen Mary rode into New York
harbor today with new trans-At-
lantic record.
Britain's super-liner wrested the
blue ribbon of the Atlantic from the
French liner Normandie by complet-
ing the passage from Cherbourg
breakwater to Ambrose Lightship
in four days, eight hours and 81 min
utes.
This record, given as the official
time by the Queen Mary's command
err, Sir Edgar T. Britten, clipped three
hours and five minutes from the rec
ord established last summer by the
Nromandie on her maiden voyage.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27

Removal of 1,O2O,777 diseased and
abandoned peach trees in eight
months in the war on phony peach
disease and inspection of 1,4OO other
trees in commercial orchards.
Inspection of 1864 seed samples.
Growth of the cotton warehouse sys-
tenn from 100 warehouses, with cap
acity of 525, 900 bales in 1934-35 to ia
warehouses, with capacity of $4,000
bales now.
The weights and measures division
reported it prosecuted "a violators in
the last six months and secured YER
dict of guilty in in each case.
Out of 1881 gasoline pumps inspect
ed, 1901 were condemned, it was re-
ported.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Post Office
Contract Is
Giuen' Here.

The contract Or~the extension
and remOdeling of the Henderson
post office has been awarded by
the Treasury Department to the
Cross Engineering Corporation
of New York City, and calls for
completion of the job within 24O
days from the date of receipt of
notice to proceed. This Informal
ton was contained in a telegram
received by the Daily Dispatch
late this afternoon from Congress
man Harold ID. Cooley.
1t is assumed that the 24O days
will begin after the present post
office equipment has been re-
moved from the building to the
temporary quarters, and that
will not take place until about
September 1 or shortly thereafter.
Actual remodeling and charging
of the present building will begin,
it is believed, around the middle
of September.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
CLEVELAND FARMER is
STABBED TO DEATH

Shelby, July 81 (AP)-Forrest Peel
err, %, farmer of the Belwood Section
of Cleveland county, was stabbed to
death late Sunday at the home of
John Lutz, 60, and officers arrested
Lutz several hours later and charged
him with the Staying.
Deputy Sheriff A. c. Martin, of
Lincoln county, said he apprehended
Lutz in Lincoln county. Lutz was
placed in the Cleveland county Jail
tonight
Martin said Peeler, who was calling
upon a daughter of Lutz, engaged in
an argument with the girls father
and that a fight ensued:
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-07-27
Girl Tourist Visitor From
Boston, at Hotel Same
Night, Gives De-
scription
SHERIFF is SILENT
AS TO NEXT MOVES
Girl Says She Concluded
Screaming Woman Must
Have Had Nightmare and
Her Husband Probably
Was Soothing Her Back to
Sleep in Her Room

Asheville, July 27.--(AP)-A de-
scription of the ravisher-slayer of
Helen Clevenger, 18-year-old college
girl, as man with a "soft-spoken,
cultural voice" furnished officers with
a new clue today.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Laurence E.
Brown, chief investigator of the baf
fling murder, closely guarded his next
move as he sought to track the girls
slayer, who entered the girls room in
a fashionable hotel here early in the
morning of July 16.
Guy Weaver, lawyer for Professor
w. L. Clevenger, the slain girls 50
year-old bachelor uncle,y who was re-
tanned Friday for investigation, re-
ported he was out of Jail, but neither
the sheriff nor his deputies would
confirm it.
The description of the voice of a
man in the girls room at 1 a. m. the
hour officers said the girl was slain,
was obtained from a Boston, Mass,
stenOgrapher who had a room two
doors from Miss Clevenger'S.
Detectives in Boston quoted Miss
Lydia Everson, vacationist, as say
ing she heard a sharp, piercing
scream come from the girls room,
and then a sound like a water pit
cher and glasses falling"
II went to the window" she relat-
ed, land looked across the court. !
saw that the room from which the
scream had come was dark. Then /
heard a mans voice, cultured and
soft-spoken.'
Miss Everson said she dismissed
the incident then, thinking the wo-
man had probably had nightmare
and her husband was probably sooth-
ing her back to sleep.