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Evening star., 1936-10-04

the presidential election still with OF
doubtful having block Of electoral
the basis of latest dispatches from corps Of political observers
L Throughout the country.
While most Of the states are reported as showing
electoral votes hang
aS ON November No aa erls.'' g. 'l
From several States reports during past
sufficiently conclusive to
reflect fareaching the probable line electoral votes
came yesterday candidates
reports that the national camp preparing
with the in Mnn 1a as % TIM % % year Of
support while winning major State
than Mnneoas cleo
turned into october stretch develop
thick widely scattered political backgrounds dur
1t too early for
the national election especially in the doubtful
coveted At electoral votes still looked
upon on ns nn the oD 5
Republicans making Justice William Bleakley their nominee
the Roosevelt City wechese
the metropolis
the state for M also will await with
Of Gov Al Smith in which he came co out aa G for . aanan Tine
will out whohearted for the national ticket on N0vem
Smith Speaks Thursday in Philadelphia.
Following Smith slated to speak
this Philadelphia which like New York City an
Pennsyvsnis
ground they gained in the State and
SIS eo y votes e Their Strength is mainly the vicinity Pittsburgh
The Republicans Philadelphia
G. O. P column The effect
the New Deal his 1928 supporters in Pennyvan
may prove important factor in the State this year.
Out break the close of the
dispute which
Political dispatches
sector had indicated
from the New Deal
Registration
in parts of oregon the week Reports continue
to California unofncal registration fe
Washington still appears close
Iowa important agricultural II electoral
signs Of returning fold according latest dispatches
In Idaho close Landon reported
Republican, whose reelection
by wide margin ground during
leader OF the
also is reported running well ahead for re-eecaon
Illinois and Ohio with 2 are among the main
hattie fronts The two vigorous campaigns
Ohio this week the also
Indiana another
registration figures indicating the intense
interest the the Middle West
The battle Republican Senator Norris
for reelection continues hshgh Of the
Nebraska Running with the
Des, leaders opposed former Representative Robert G.
simmons Republican by Carpenter Democrat With
showing dropping out the
may result in a close fnsn
Small States Not Being Overlooked.
Montana and the Dakotas have
overlooked
in the parties II the presidential election
would assume aooeo
10 Democratic
victories
indicate Republican campaign
activity than usual In Arkansas and in Florida
In west virginia Republicans are eenterng their campaign
Evening star., 1936-10-04
POLITICAL MORATORIUM
IN PROGRESS IN MAINE
State, Traditionally Republican,
Has No Expectation Of Going
Otherwise This Year.
BY SAM e. CONNER,
Special Correspondent Of The Star.


AUGUSTA, Me, October 8. -
Names moratorium on politics has
been in operation a week, 10 days
later than usual AS a rule il starts
two days after the September elec-
tion and continues until the presi-
Dental election in November.
With single xception-l912-the
State has been Republican in its
choice for President in every election
since the organization of the party.
It has come to be accepted that it
will elect Republican electors. so the
Democrats make no effort to win and
the Republicans have no necessity Of
so doing. This being the condition,
with few exceptions, all the CAM
paigning done in the State after the
September election is in newspaper
editorials and reports Of campaigning
elsewhere.
Evening star., 1936-10-04
INDIANA EXPECTS
NEW VOTE RECORD
Registrations of Voters Are
10000 Higher Than
in 1894.
BY WILLIAM L. TOMS,
Special Correspondent OF The Star.

4NDlANAfOLlS, lno., OcLODer g.
II registration figures mean anything
the forthcoming election in Indiana
bids fair to produce heavier total
vote than the record turnout in 1882,
when the State went Overwhelmingly
for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Election officials in Marion County,
where the capital city Is situated, re-
port 96 per cent Of all ergibles have
qualified to vote this year under the
voters registration law. While the
Indiana registration law Is by no
means cumbersome in operation, the
fact remains that the act of register
ing requires as much time and care
as does voting, so the safe assumption
is that nearly all who registered in
tend to vote on November 3.
Registrations Up 10000.
The number OF registered voters
this year, incidentally, is more than
10000 higher than in 1884, when the
off-year election was held to elect a
United States Senator and State
ticket. The off-year election decline
in 1884 was regarded as somewhat
heavier than normal, although the
campaigners had both the New Deal
and the exploits of John Dillinger, the
bandit, as issues.
This year the State issue is as
nearly 100 per cent civic as an issue
could be. For several weeks the Re-
publican and Democratic candidates
have held themselves almost exclu-
sively to the taxation problem and
have reached the stage where almost
anything else that might be injected
into the campaign could be little more
than collateral.
Raymond S. Springer, the Repub-
lican nominee for Governor, continues
to insist that a program of rigid
economy and elimination of graft in
importation of out-State beer will
make possible the elimination of the
gross income tax. His opponent, M
Clifford Townsend, the present lieu
tenant governor, is arguing that elm
ination Of the gross income would
MAKE necessary the closing OF hun
dreds of rural schools in the poorer
counties of Southern Indiana.
Springer Has Upper Hand.
Townsend and his fellow party
spokesmen attempted some time ago
to create the impression that numerous
services Of the State government would
have 10 be abandoned if the Springer
tax program were placed in opera
ton. The Democrats found to their
dismay that the public cared little
Just where the AK might fall.
Springer still has the upper hand,
even if Townsend should run counter
to the desires of Governor McNutt
that the present tax structure be re-
tanned, for the simple reason that no
tax always is more popular than even
o limited tax.
Evening star., 1936-10-04
Political Pulse Of the Nation
BY ]. A. O,LEARY.

the presidential election still with
substantial block Of electoral votes
dispatches from Of political observers
Il
Evening star., 1936-10-04

administration and contend they are
Maryland still classify that as one
Of the doubtful states
regarded Tor Roose-
their strength
the August primary
decidedly Republican Rhode Island
lively campaign during the nna month
will results local elections 12o
EmAu what trend they reject
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
HOLD NEGRO
KILLING Wife
Coroner Allows no Bond
as Case Goes to Su-
perior Court

A coroner's jury yesterday af-
ternoOn held that Razie Flack
Green, cOlOred, came to her death
as result of a gunshot wound at
the hands of her husband, Robert
Green, 28-year-old negro, on Mon
day night at the home of Nancy
Flack, and Coroner J. F. Brooks
ordered Green held for the Octo-
Der term of superior court with
out bond.
The jury returned its finding
after Nancy Flack, Sheriff NJ. n.
Orr, Policeman Seth Edmundson,
and Annie Kirby, sister of the de-
ceased, had testified substantially
to the effect that Green went to
his mother-in-law's house on Whit
ted street about 9 o'clock Monday
night and shot his wife with a
load of buckShot from a 12-guage
shotgun which he had taken from
the home of his brother, Joe
Green, on the Haywood road,
earlier in the day.
Green was arrested at his
brothers house about an hour af-
ter the Staying and the shotgun
was fOunde in a hedge near his
mOthar-in-law' house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
l3l Army Nurses
Attack Infantile
Paralysis Wave
29S Cases Reported in Tri.
State Area in Deep
South

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 20.
(UP).-An army of l31 nurses,
financed by the Works Progress
Administration, last night received
final instructions before launching
a counter-attack on a virulent cpl
demic of infantile paralysis in the
deep south.
With 298 cases reported and
the epidemic still spreading, the
nurses were to be sent into cpl
demic zones to begin a program
of "after care" Without skilled
care. most of the victims of the
dread disease might be crippled
for life.
While DR.. Charles Armstrong,
skilled epidemiologist of the U. s.
Public Health Service, led an i'm
munization program, a new fatal
;ty was registered in Tennessee
yesterday, bringing the epidemic's
death toll to 10:
Five new cases were reported
in Alabama yesterday, bringing
the total there to 221. Missis.
sippi's total went to II with one
new case. Tennessee reproted 30
cases with six deaths as compared
to 10 deaths in Alabama. Three
cases have been reported in Vir-
GINA, one in Louisiana.
DR.. J. P. Leake, paralysis ex-
pert of the U. s. Public Health
Service, last night issued final in
structions before first of the
nurses were sent into the epidemic
zone.
When the full group is COM
pleted, at least one nurse will be
stationed in each county where
the disease has been reported to
instruct relatives of stricken per-
sons in proper "after care"
Physicians fighting the dread
disease believed the epidemic was
nearing it's peak. Effects of the
new Armstrong immunizing spray,
administered throughout the in
fected districts for two weeks, are
expected to be felt within the next
ten days. -
The fact no person who has re-
ceived the treatment has contract
ed the disease was viewed by ply
sicians as most encouraging.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
MISS CLEVENGER'S ROOM WAS
CLEARED OF CLUESBYKILLER,
EVIDENCE WOULD INDICATE
Her Door in Hotel Was
Locked From Inside at
$40 A. M. Thursday
BY E. DAYTON MOORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

ASHEVILLE, July 20. (UP)-
l.. D. Roddey, 26-year-old negro
bell boy at the exclusive hotel
where pretty Helen Clevenger
was slain, was released late Tues
day by Sheriff Laurence Brown.
, Thus only one person-Danlel
Gaddy, hotel night watchman-
remained in custody of the seven
persons who were held and ques-
toned about the 13-day-old muir
der mystery. The investigation
seemed headed for the "quite
drawn out" stage which the sher-
Tiff said the efforts to solve the
case had taken.
Brown freed Roddey only after
an Asheville attorney had confer
red with him regarding the posi-
bility of bringing habeas corpus
proceedings. Roddey, the sheriff
said, gave no information peril
nent to solution of the mystery.
Hope of breaking the case now
appeared to rest with Gaddy who
the sheriff said could help ma
terially if he would "tell story
that l can believe"
During the afternoon, Brown
questioned M. G. Richardson of
Charlotte, who occupied a nearby
room to that in which the 49,
year-old New York university CO.
ed was slain. The officer had hop
ed to gather new bits of evidence
which might be pieced together.
However, the sheriff said he OBJ
tanned no information of value
from Richardson.
Meanwhile it was learned that
the sheriff bad located two other
hotel guests who had heard the
killer mutter a callous "shut up"
when the girl apparently pleaded
for her life.
An Asheville man who was Wis
iting in the hotel the night of the
murder told the sheriff he heard
a noise like a bottle breaking,
three piercing screams and a pite-
Gus "please" in a feminine voice.
The cries stopped abruptly after
Continued on page six)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
south BAKES
IN HEAT WAVE
From CaroIinas to the Gulf
Temperatures Zoom to
100 and Over
By UNITED PRESS

clustering heat held the deep
south in its grip Tuesday night,
bringing new damage to crops al
ready heavily damaged by drouth
and acute suffering among metro
politan jewellers.
From the Carolinas to the Gulf
of Mexico temperatures zoomed
up and above the 1O0-degree
mark.
Despite disturbances in the gulf
and a tropical storm bearing down
on the Florida east coast, no I'M
mediate relief was in sight as heat
records of many years toppled.
The heat was concentrated es-
pecially in the Carolinas. A 81
year-old record was smashed at
Wilmington, N. c., when the tenn
perature reached 101.7. The all
time record at Wilmington is 1O3,
set July ~, 1879.
The mercury climbed to GA at
Raleigh and a 100-degree reading
at Charlotte made Tuesday the
hottest July 28th on record there.
At Columbia, S. c., a terrific
heat wave was in its second day
and most state points expected
readings of 100 or above to con-
tinue for most of the week.
The mercury climbed to 90 at
Atlanta and at WaycroSS in SOuth-
east Georgia, a new seasonal rec
ord was established when the bulb
registered 101.
Sweltering heat again visited
the Louisiana coastal region after
two days of cooling rains and af-
ter a gulf storm blew itself out
harmlessly yesterday. At New Or
leans, the mercury reached 81 de-
grees and a similar maximum,
with partly cloudy weather, was
due today.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
TAMPA WOMAN
WAS WOUNDED
IN SPAIN; SAFE

WASHINGTON, July 20. (UP)
The state department today iden-
tilted the American-woman wound
ed in street fighting at Guada-
rama, north of Madrid, Spain, as
Mrs, Fernando Gallardo, daughter
of Col. D. B. Mckay, publisher of
the Tampa (Fla.) Times.
Mrs. Gallardo is now safe in the
American embassy.
Meantime, Eric Wendell, who is
in charge of the Madrid embassy,
has notified the state department
that arrangements have been
made to take foreigners out of
the capital on special train, es-
eorted by an armed guard,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
ILLINOIS COUPLE =
ARE ON VISIT HERE

Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Matter, Of
Freeport, ILL.,, arrived yesterday
on a visit to his brother, w. I.
Matter, and family.
This is the first visit Of the for
mer to this section but his broth
er is now enjoying his fourth sea-
son. ~. a-.s:@,y.,
Mr., Matter left q temperature
Of 102 degrees and is enthusiastic
about the low temperature here
last night and the comforts of
sound sleep, -. ;r-Is .--. i
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29

ASHEVILLE, July 29.-The
hope that the Acknowledgements
sOnville airport, located at Fetch
er, could be opened in October
was expressed yesterday by ". T.
Breese, WPA administrator, after
an inspection of the work gong
on at the airport.
Grading on the two runwayS'
the first to be $500 feet long
and the second to be $500 feet
long, is progressing rapidly, MI
Breese said. At present approx
mately 100 men are working Oh
the grading project.
Work has not been started OH
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
Jack Denny, AT
Henderson, Finds
It's Wrong Town Vi !
Will Be Here for Dance
Thursday Night; Free
Dance Last Night

"Lost," the famous hit tune,
apparently is the theme. song of
Jack Denny and his orchestra,
scheduled to play for a dance at
the city gymnasium last night.
At 5 p. m. yesterday G. E. Liv-
ingston, dance promoter, who was
sponsoring the orchestra's appear
ance here, received frantic telc-
phone call from Mr.. Alexander,
Of NJ. C. A., New York.
Denny, orchestra and inStru-
ments were in Henderson, N. c.,
instead of Hendersonville.
1t seems that Denny drove into
H der son yesterday after
noon. where's the dance to be-"
he asked.
"There amt no dance here,
mister" said a native.
"Where's Mr.. C. E. Living
ston?" asked Denny.
mister, there amt no such
person." replied the native.
Beginning to feel quite falnJ,
Denny rushed back to the bus and
consulted his contract. Henderson
VILE, it said. Thoroughly alarm
ed, he consulted a road map.
Some three hundred miles away
lay HendersonVILLEi
Mr.. Denny made a number Of
telephone calls. The first was to
New York, the second to Raleigh,
the third to. Richmond, and the
fourth to Norfolk. In all places
he sought transport planes, but
all he could find available were
three small ships-three small
ships for 16 men and their instru-
ments.
The outcome of the matter was
that Denny agreed to come to
Hendersonville and play on Thurs
day night. Not to disappoint the
crowd last night, Mr.. Livingston
secured the Highland Lake camp
band, and the dance went on as
scheduled - but without any
charge.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
W. |. Clevenger
Saws Delay Long
In Murder Action
Girls Uncle Says 1t Was
II Hours Before Police
Notified

RALEIGH. July 29.-(UP).-
w. L. Clevenger, uncle of pretty
Helen Clevenger, who was mur-
dered in fashionable Battery Park
hotel at Asheville 13 days ago,
returned last night to his duties
at North Carolina State college
here and said he deplored the in
activity of the hotel employees in
helping solve the Staying.
81 think hotel officials should
have made a more thorough inves-
tigation of the screams that were
reported coming from the direc-
ton of my niece's room about l
a. m. the morning she was found
dead" said the professor, who
was detained by Sheriff Laurence
f. Brown for questioning.
81 can't understand why hotel
officials were so inactive. They
never did appear to be so terribly
concerned. They didn't hurry mat
tiers at all. 1t was hours bnfore
police were notified. I was forced
to stay in my room. l couldn't
leave the hotel"
He said he believed the murder
was an "inside job"
"Find where the 18th passkey
came from and the murder will
be solved" Clevenger said. 81
think Daniel Gaddy, the night
Waterman, knows a lot more than
he has told"
"There are a lot of things IN
this case that need clearing up.
"Who was the man seen run
ming into the managers office
shortly after 1 a. m. the morning
of the murder?"
"Who was the man Pittman, the
bank examiner, saw standing IN
the door of the room next to my
niece's? .
"What happened to the gun?
And what was used to strike her
in the face?
"These are questions that must
be answered if this thing is
solved"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
TWO-CITY AIRPORT WILL BE
OPENED ATFLETCHER DURING
OCTOBER, NOW ANTICIPATED

enlarging the present hangar or
the building of the second hangar.
When completed the airport
will have double runways, flood
lights for night flying, and hous-
ing facilities for planes and per-
sonnet. The present WPA project
calls for the expenditure of ap-
proXimately 100000.
W. A. Wilson, with headquar-
tiers in Hendersonville, is in
charge of the construction work
and half the workers come from
Buncombe and half from Hender-
son.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
MRS. E. SMITH
LAID TO REST

Funeral services for Mrs. Eure
Smith. a, former Hendersonville
resident. were held yesterday at
Shelby, according to word receiv-
ed here.
She was a sister Of DR.. Guy e.
Dixon, Mrs. J. H. Ellison, Mrs. j.
c. Hayes. Stella, Lottie, Reid, AL
bert, Everett, and Mrs. Roy o.
Bass, all of Hendersonvlle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
ART JARRETT SAILS
To JOIN HIS WIFE

Berlin, July %. (UP).-hieah-
or Holm Jarrett, dismissed from
the American Olympic women S
swimming team because of drink
ing, yesterday revealed that her
orchestra-leader husband, Art Jar
rett, was sailing from New York
aboard the Queen Mary to JON
her. .
Meantime, the pretty swimmer
was "getting a big thrill out oil
her newspaper work and seeing
plenty of Berlin while DONG IT,
Her second story was tlled yes
terday, commenting on her WISH
with former Crown Prince FRED
erick Wilhelm. She met the Ger
man nobieman at his Office yes
terday. $50. ... .--;.s7
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
BARGE
And
SINKS
kegiian Steamer With
ID Aboard Ablaze
| Off West Coast
|LLED, 5 HURT ON
Mss. MARBLEHEAD

|rr,cO. JgIy -. (UP-
h S's sailors drowned in Lake
L Q. .,ri barge capSjzed and
o ,,, Of the barge said
= vr ~s-a aboard when it left
f.. illinois. for Chicago.
/ are known to have escaped
/ -rai. plunged to the bot
/: M lake. All the others
i,or7qd." said Captain
ne coas. -Uard.
| hge was less than a mile
h. rAsu j, sank, She had
in heavy seas for
| han an hour. the survivors
| In, ne disaster came with
i tev seconds warning.
ras on deck with Capt.
| when | felt her list heav-
John Johnson said. She
h 10 turn over. and | grab
h CAPTAINS arm Just as we
thrown into the water.
|. both sank when we hit the
| and when | came up the
Z vas missing
barge apparently struck
4 heavily. and broke up.
! o! wreckage bobbed to the
Ie with the men who were
n free.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
Elm INQUIRY IN
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
TIER GOES TO
J OF STEAMER

N FRANCISCO. July 20
The Norwegian steamer
! today sent distress signals
hundred miles off the Cali
J coast. Messages said the
manned by a crew of 80,
Endangered by a fire in the
The coastguard cutterKehOe
to her aid.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
s,IGHERTY'S TAKE
HUME FOR SUMMER

ts aoaore and Mrs. Charles j.
E. Ely, ,.5. Of Miami, are spend
e summer in HcndcrsonviIle,
nave taken the Corriher
5r. .-St OFT the Breyard road,
i Z n to DC here until some
Io.;SDi Dougherty is one
sy ,aa $ outstanding residents.
ro oSSeSu'ive secretary and vice
.o .i Of the Biscayne Raw
'ino ,'o' he Is one of the out
ror S consulting engineers in
,,jS1aC u; and for % years was
"a lamp Shipyard in Phila-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-29
GUST z MORE
ON US. TEAM

BERLIN, July 20. (UP).-The
United States Olympic team re-
ceived today another shock when
two members of the boxing squad,
Joe Church of Batavia, n. Y, and
Howell King of Detroit, officially
were ordered to return home be-
cause of training rules violations.
Suspensions of the boxers came
when officials thought they had
restored order in the American
team after repercussions arising
from the dismissal of Eleanor
Holm Jarrett.