Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - August 18, 1936, Gastonia, North Carolina THE WEATHER North Generally fair except unsettled en Wednesday partly possibly South Generally fair Wednesday partly VOL. NO. 198. THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF TEMPERATURE Low Last p. m. Low 91 August rainfall to short of August of 5.07 NEA SERVICE GASTONIA N. TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 1936. ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SINGLE COPIES TOWN TALK PEOPLE AND EVENTS VISITOR HERE Mr. N. D. of the N. D. Clapp Manufacturing of was a visitor in Gastonia IL CLUB TO MEET The 4-H a club of older girls of the will meet in the office of Miss Virginia county home demonstration Wednesday morning at 9 FIRE DAMAGES CAR Slight damage was done when an automobile belonging to Walker tor Company caught fire about 6 o'clock Monday afternoon on East Airline the fire department reported SCHMELING AND BRADDOCK BOUT IS CALLED OFF Champion Will Not Fight This Year On Account Of Bad Finger DEFINITELY OFF CLUB The Gastonia Civitan Club will meet Wednesday at at the Country It will be an with an Interesting officers said in urging all members to MR. SMYRE The condition of Fred L. Smyre continues to show gradual and steady it was stated today from the office of the Smyre Manufacturing ALL FOR JUST A MONTH IN POLICEMAN BETTER City Policeman J. Ed who was shot by Hugh Lowell Friday night on Main was reported by Garrison General Hospital attendants as resting well and improving nicely TO LEAVE HOSPITAL The condition of John Gazelle who underwent an operation for appendicitis a week ago at the Garrison General Is He will be re- moved to his home near Dallas CONCERT TONIGHT At the Woman's Club house on West Second avenue this evening at 6 o'clock the Singing Class of ford Orphanage will presents its annual concert There trill be no edmission and the lic is cordially This of musicians tours the State each year and presents a splendid musical The class comes to as un- der the the Masonic bodies of the The committee In charge of this event is composed of Dr. C. H. Ed S. A. S. F. M. J. C. Roberts and XL C. Max Won't Fight Shar NEW Aug. manager of Heavyweight Champion James J. an- today the scheduled title bout between Braddock and Max is Gould said Braddock will enter the New York hospital Thursday to have an operation performed on lik left hand by Dr. Irvin fight is off for this Gould can't let Jim fight with a bad At least five tors advised us that it would be un- wise lor him to do any boxing for at least three Gould and Braddock were uled to appear this afternoon before the New York State Athletic Com- mission to request a postponement of Braddock's title defense against the German conqueror of Joe Louis nest Regardless Of don't care what the commis slon said fight is off as far as we are Joe manager of said whole thing is news to 115." are going down to the com- mission meeting to find out wha it's all said far as we know the fight Is only yesterday I completed arrange ments for Schmeling to train a N. Earlier today Promoter Mike Jacobs said that he would be in matching Schmeling against the winner o bout between Louis am Jack in the event fight is off. MRS. SLEAR IS NOW AT HOME stand for nothing of th roared Joe Ing earned a crack at the title he knocked out Louis two month We're going to fight Braddoc for the substitute fo Bone Gould said is sufferin from a bone enlargement of th little finger of the left a com mon occurence among fighter Mrs. John K. wife of John K. secretary to A. L. who two broken ribs in an automobile dent near Boons was reported as resting comfortably at her home here Mrs. Blear was brought to Gastonia but Mrs. S. S. mother of Mrs. who suffered a broken wrist in the remained in SUSPECT GIVES Aug. 18. 26, negro sought for questioning in tion with the room slaying of Mrs. Mary Louise last surrendered today to the EXTRA DUPONT DIVIDEND Aug. of E. I. duPont tie Nemours today declared an extra dividend of 70 cents on the common stock in addition to the regular quarterly disbursement of 90 On June 15 a similar extra- dividend was The dividends arc both payable Sept. 15 to stock of record Aug. 26. Braddock aggravated during two the injur preliminary RECORD NUMBER FARMERS TO SIGN FOR PLAN More In vation Program Than In Voided AAA Despite the opposition of New Deal completion of is being It i lanned to provide accommodations for 1000 families at monthly rentals which will include free UgW eat and Even shrubbery already has been planted outside these nearly ready FLIERS DIE AME And Mechanic ed While Taking Part In Event IN MICHIGAN training at Loch N. Y where he trained before the championship from Baer Braddock has not worked at his camp for about two The bout was tentatively set for Sept. 20. there was a likelihood that it was to have been advanced to Sept. 22 because of the Jewish holidays during the former Death Of Old Man Hauser Cheats N. C. Electric Chair Aug. An army pilot and his mechanic were killed today when a new suit plane from Selfridge crashed near Otsego while taking part in the western Michigan war Reports received office Field said the plane was by 2nd Lieut. William W. 25, air corps and that his mechanic was Private Francis of home was in Los Calif. The a was one of eighteen participating in the war The plane caught fire in Mrs. W. D. who lives the scene of the and the fliers made an attempt to leap with their plane was one of six ing fairly low overhead as we rushed out to watch she we saw a puff of smoke behind one of At first we did not realize it was on the smoke became so heavy we Knew it must be see it break out of the formation and It was HONOR VIRGINIA DARE'S MEMORY Aug. gathered here today from far and near for ceremonies at Fort Raleigh in observance of the 349th anniversary of the birth of Virginia first child born in America of English The program included an ad- dress by Dr. Frank P. president of the University of North the traditional Baptismal a picnic and a pageant by the Roanoke Island drama The baptismal service with tle Annie Laurie Kcc ating Virginia was set for 11 a. m. The Rev. R. R. Episcopal was to orf the morning program and the by a cast of mately 150, was to be presented at 5 p. m. on a stage erected the stockade of the tone GOOD PROGRAM Fewer Signers Reported In Cotton Belt Aug. Despite heavy reductions in some particularly in the cotton agricultural adjustment ad- ministration officials expressed be- lief today more farmers would in the new agricultural conservation program than in the Supreme Court invalidated farm While still too early for definite figures on the number to pate in the new AAA of- said for the ration totaled as ed with AAA contracts in AFTER THREAT Kentucky Woman's Life In Danger For Negro POISON INCIDENT Accuses Lawyer As Real Prosecutor In Ann Hewitt's Case RICHMAN MAKES READY FOR HOP T Aged Winston Man Who Slew Son-In-Law In Ar- gument Over Dies In Once Sentenced To Young Marines Give Up Trek Over Asia Aug. A diet of watermelon and rice cake ivas loo much or too little for four youthful American marines held in barracks today an ei attempt to trek almost miles across The plan evade d for hoisting a RttI flag at the V. s. embassy by fleeing across China was revealed in rine circles although officials conducting an Investigation re- fused lo discuss of the in- After Ihe flagpole K was the four decided low China's wall 250 across almost Impassable tains to and then another miles across lo Vladivostok where they hoped lo catch a Apparently they were blithely unaware of dangers of and bandit attack In their But afler four days of the meager watermelon and returned to barracks Aug. Henry aged killer of his son-in-law some years died here The oldest man to be convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the State of North Hauser rested comfortably in a hospital in ing death from natural causes rather than from having electricity shot through his Convicted and sentenced to the Supreme Court of the State sent his case back to the Superior Court for another but before it could be heard had to be taken a local Hospital for That was four years he remained in the with the charge of murder hanging over him and the courts awaiting his an opportunity to retry lived with his son-in-law In Davie May 23, the question of plowing some land came up between him and his son by Fred An ment with the old man telling his relative that land was too wet to The law disagreed according to the old man's advanced on him in a threatening The white white bearded eld who could hardly warned Styers to stay Styers continued to advance sM Hauser backed Info the back door of KANSAS Aug. Harry actor ami Dick ed at the municipal airport here at n. m. a. E. S. from in specially built 000 N. Aug. IS New York actor and took off from Albuquerque airport in his 000 specially constructed transport plane at 5 a. a. E. K. today for New base of his contemplated round trip to With Dick his radio operator and companion on Ihc proposed Riehman headed for Kansas where he planned to step He said he hoped lo arrive in York by o'clock this door between him and shot his daughter's the load going through the screen door be- fore entering only meant to shoot at his feet and scare the old man just didn't get the gun low But to Defense Attorney Shifts At- tack To Sterilized SAN A defense attorney shifted at- ack from Ann Cooper Hewitt to her personal lawyer ng him as real prosecutor in the against two doctors of the young Russell P. Miss Hewitt's at- drew an attack from I. M. defense with his testimony yesterday In support of her claim she was tricked into the surgery to deprive her of her In- defending Drs. E Tillman find Samuel G. Boyd against mayhem case is brought In the name of the of the It Is a false The real In the case is Russell P. I Golden passed an opportunity to question Miss Hewitt and cross-examination questions to fire at Tyler who represents Miss Hewitt in a damage suit against the two physicians and her Mrs. Maryon Cooper de- clared he had received no fee in the damage He said he once received for settling a dispute what he termed a gambling debt of Mrs. but insisted he was looking after Miss Hewitt's inter- est. Golden charged the damage suit was part of an by Tyler and others to extort from Mrs. Tyler testified on direct tion that Dr. Boyd first denied Miss Hewitt been sterilized but Aug. 18. Special deputies guarded the home of Mrs. Tom 23, today following receipt of a fourth note advising lo aid In getting Frank from the Todd county or have one day to of a t time of the arrest of McClain that she recognized him as the negro who dragged her from her home several weeks ago and poured poison down her She was In a critical condition for a Sheriff Omar Crouch said he was also investigating the ing of two Harvey HII and George In the yard of their home on the road late Officers said the identity of fivi men in an Automobile who fired a he negroes had not been establish ed. One of the negroes was in critical Shortly before the poison Inci officers were the worn in was encountered by negroes ii woods near her home and on two of them with a McClain is being held tor th winter term bf Todd circuit cour Officers reported that a tense 935. Except for some states in the where were made i obtain a worksheet for every arm in order to have accurate officials said the worksheets represented farmers who lo take part In the A it was the data supplied by a armer on his average plus requirements for ion in the AAA officials said no definite in- on the number of ers taking part in the program would be available until claims were The conservation program was described by one AAA official as 'a little less than the programs for and sugar growers nents will be Belief was the number participating may be considerably arger for the nation the old program dealt only with basic while the new plan Is based on and SPOON-FED FROG It's hard to make an old frog for- get new the Bureau of eries in D. has three-pound croaker from the Louisiana pictured won't eat any other And is it a Job to catch him at meal GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID MADRID WILL FALL SOON Officials Hold Airplanes cape From Rebels HARD FIGHTING Big Attack Held Up For Reinforcements Says Herman Will Be All Through If Walked Out Laughs Can't Have Who'd and practices may be applied fo almost any The total number of for the old program for the years 1933, 1934 and 1935 was NEW Aug. Floyd Caves Herman will never play an- other game of ball for the nati Heds if he has left the team in General Manager MacPhail did not know had quit over his failure to receive a bonus promised he hope lie has gone back to MacPhail if he he'll never come He just saves us about a day by MacPhail revealed the club was paying Herman a year and that a clause in Ills contract offered him a month extra he bore down and in the opinion of Manager Dressen played the kind of ball he was capable of that Herman was just about the second highest paid outfielder in the National league and he wasn't even able to make the ball con- the first I kept him Aug. Mussolini Italy's huge air das tonight and well ed said he stood ready to in Spain if French sympathies con- to be extended to the Madrid loyalist All aviators weie placed n 24-hour planes poised at airdromes take off at an no- tice and all focal points oh the Tyrrhenian coast were ordered by II Duce to be in readiness for any MADRID Aug. ol the Spanish Socialist fearing fall of the liably reported today to be holding three airliners in readiness their flight at a mountains of Madrid are firmly and have only to await reinforcements coming from other sides of the capital before opening a forceful attack There is here the then would have the their L their The crucial It is be- come within the Foreign Foes Said To Be Mixed Up In Anti- Soviet Plots Kalinin Declares Trial Will Show Internal Enemies Sold Out To Bitter Out- side E. W. Gilliam Passes In Duke Hospital E. W. a former resident of died in the Duke pital friends and tives here were informed He had been in bad health for some time and had been a patient at the hospital for a month or The from going to the minors last year immediate cause of death was became a 10-year He was a native of to admit he played good land will be buried there He is survived by one Robert 10 Six-Inch shells from the rebel cruiser Almirante Cervera silenced the guns of ress of defending the Trun San Sebastian 61 Spain's Bay of The fierce duel of big ing in an apparent with sored dispatches from Madrid Aug. dent Michael in a pre- trial discussion of Soviet Russia's sensational counter revolutionary plot today charged Gregory Leon find 14 the H Is he did not regret his after hospital records were nature of the admitted she had Clevenger Murder Trial To Be Opened Tomorrow Aug. tin young will go on trial for his life charged the hotel room murder of Helen pretty 18-year-old a month took a shot gun from 1 Ths hall boy the wall standing a screen 1 fashionable Park Hotel where the blonde young honor stu dent was was indicted yesterday on a first degree murder and a few hours laterr at his pleaded innocent Court attaches were busy todas last-minute precautions for on others seized authorities had liam of and several bro a brother n law of Messrs. J. Robert for MS last but this year hasn paid him the bonus hers and He was a then Asked whether he would trade can't trade STORM CRIPPLES 2 FISHING CRAET joined with the enemies of the Soviet in a con- to overthrow the The president said the by the of con- spiring with Leon famous had lost their human planned to betray the ami in order to do so took refuge behind n band of will when the trial be- how rapidly our counter revolutionaries joined the foreign he President Kalinin's speech was made nt the Kremlin in tion with the presentation of awards to Hie long distance fliers and who recently made a 5.85E- milc flight to SAN Aug. fishing boats were crippled by a gale oil the lower California const the radio of one of them becoming silent alter two frantic SOS Mackay radio reported the En- grounded off Tosco south of had not been heard since she wirelessed at a. a. m. E. S. can't stay with it much The second the lost her rudder and both anchors in the She asked that by craft stand by but did not stud out an LIVED ELK IN. jury decided n gill found In a sealed box 111 n 50-foot dry well near here Sunday liad lived after Gastonia Truck Driver Slightly Hurt In Crash Harvey truck driver for R. and Transit Company ol who lives on Ransom slightly the oil truck he was driving over- turned near Wadesboro He received only minor cuts and was suffering mostly from of tile company said Reynolds was on the way back from Wilmington with a truck load of gasoline when the accident It was He was taken lo the Anson Sanitarium in Wadesboro and was expected to re- turn to today or Situation Abroad Keeps Roosevelt Near Capital which stated government fearing the fall of the were reported to be holding three air liners in readiness for armament was re- garded as stili a menace to rebel land being attempted over the the direction of in the face of government machine gun fire and assault by government The San Sebastian station reported a civilian on the roof of maternity hospital had been killed by a shell from the cruiser At American Ambassador G. Bowers set up a temporary em- bassy in a hotel after completing an evacuation of the Bay of He added his personal denial to that of the Washington state concerning reports he had been ordered ashore from the cutter following a with navy From their supreme ters at bers of the rebel Junta they would inform foreign ments and the International Red Cross that Spanish government forces were using poison Heads of the beleaguered Madrid government were reported in un- advices reaching Gibraltar to have three airliners iu readiness for the the capital The advices said entrenched in the Guadarrama mountains north of hart only to await from other sides of the capital on HYDE Aug. ical conditions in war torn Spain and Europe were disclosed today to have prompted President Roosevelt to put a check on any plans that would call for his being far fiom Washington for any extended This fact known only days after Mr. In KJI ad- at N. abetted he was more gravely concerned over international tendencies than Officers said examination of the i domestic body disclosed a bruise on the head During a press conference is out of- the picture because the chief executive feels he should not be too far from his ton base very long at a That thought does not to his forthcoming trip through drought states starting a week from Questioned as Lu when lie would some il the and another on an The officers meanwhile hunted two Don who lived the President said he had had no new reports on the Spanish civil other than duplication of drought lias been Ly the as entirely he had only three next They are Sept. 10th at N. at a Green Sept. at the world power conference In Washington near the was quoted aa information In the land 18th the tercentennial ing saw drive to it- in an auto- any thought of a celebration of Harvard s about 2 a. political or his it LOUIS HEAVIER THAN SHARKEY NEW Aug. Detroit's negro weight will enjoy a 2 V2 pound edge in weight over Jack former world's in their ten round the stadium Louis scaled 199 tlic Sharkey 197 Slate athletic commission Lolli ly 111. FIRE IN Aug. The general store P In lower Burke county wsi destroyed ty S at
