The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 13, 1936, Image 8
IncreaM of 317*310 FamiHos In
Year Despite $4,000,000,000
Given For Country’s Needy.
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Washington, Aug. 8.—The nation’s
relief roll increased 317,310 families
■aid individuals between Marclu;: 1&35,
•nd Marchi 1936, despite^ the govern
ment’s $4,000,000,000 work-relief pro
gram, official figures showed tonight.
A totaf of 5,463,690 cases were in
need in March a year ago.^ Twelve
months later the number had jumped
to 5,681,000 even though the aditiihis-
taration was making jobs for 3,751,000
persons. .
Martin Moore To Be Tried Next
Week For Murder of Cleven-
srer Girl At AkheviUe.
Asheville, N. C., Aug. 10.—A bill
of indictment charging Martin Moore,
Negrp_bellboy At the . Battery Purk
hotel with the murder of Helen Clev
enger and also first degree burglary,
will be handed to (the Buncombe
county gra«d jury when court con
venes next^ Monday. Court officials
expect the case to come’ to trial at
this term of court. Both offenses
carry the death penalty.
\ Thoma$ A. Jones, Jr., has been ap
pointed * counsel for the defendant
who Sunday confessed~tRat he enter-
T i. '*1... K «d the room of the Staten Island co-
In March, 1935 the 5,463.690 cases I j ,5.^.,^.
represented 20,538,072 i«rsons or H ^b^ery and then fired a
«r cent^ the country s whole pop- j,ody and clubbed her
^ ‘"u "*** over the -head with the butt of his
tar^ * ye«. Tin« put the number on she screamed.' - -
relief then at 21,500,000 individual8_ii_
The development, the first definit^| Sheriff Uurence E Brown doubts
report on relief statistics since parts of the Negrw s confes-
cember, was revealed in a “report- on believed the gangling.
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Word had coifie back that one of
the boys reared in' the community,
who had mpyed, to, jt foreign state,Lpot depart from jt”?
progress of the works program” is-
fiued by the works progress adminis
tration.
WPA officialV declined to announce
—gha. -totals -needy now. ..Jlati*.
- mates made from their semi-official
figures indicated the current load is
; 15,700,000 individuals.
The biggest decrease between the
present time and last Mai^ came
from WPA Administrator Hal^w L.
Hopkins’ order to cut v^rk rollk by
400,000 persons. Total program em
ployed now is 3,262,000.
The March, 193.5, relief r<5ll was
supported almost altogether by the
federal government through the old
federal emergency relief administra
tion. ‘
A different situation existed a year
later. With the work program mak
ing federal jobs for 3,751,000 needy,
elates and localities were spending
thei-r own funds to provide for
1,930,000 cases.
WPA’s report also showed that,
while the government stopped ^lole
relief on last Decemeber, states spent
$18,00QJ)QQ of federal money for dt-
rect grants in January, February and
March of this year.
'Statistics on the work program re-
_veaied that the administration spent
$3,424,564,516 making jobs between
June 30, 1935, through June of this
year.
Hopkins was-the biggest spender.
His WPA put out $1,305,083,000 and
his FERA $929,721,000, a total of 65
per cent of all the govehiment’s relief
money.
l*he New Deal ended the 1935-1936
fiscal year with $1,243,595,367 of its
$4,000,000,000 left over. Of that
‘ amount, however, all but $62,818,000
had been obligated for work-makiag
projects.^ ' ^
Labor tabulations showed that
WPA’s payrolf trsted^ xiooiooa^^-
Bons engaged on highway, road and
street work, 375,OOO in sewing rooms,
300,000 on recreation and park de
velopments, and 150,000 on white col
lar projects.
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Negro entered the girKs ^room after
watching her for .several nights from
a back stairway passage which com
manded her window. The officer said
he did not believe the pass key played
any part in the crime, however, since
all indications were the pretty blonde
had left her door unlocked;"" '
“Moore admitted having the key,
but said he didn’t need to use it be
cause the door was unlocked,” Brown
said.
However, I’m through with'' the
I. The grand jufy and the solici-
cah have Him. He’s the murderer,
s all we wanted to know.”
Brdwn said the master key, and
others like it, found during .-the in
vestigation, had nothing to do with
the crime, in his opinion.
“Half the Negro hotel employes we
picked up had xfiose keys,” BroWh
said. , \
It was Brown wh\^ith other of
ficers and detective's from Charlotte
and New York, arresteoNMoore Sat
urday night, and who ani^nced the
Negro had confessed.
Solicit<^r Zeb V. Nettles said he
accepted' the Negro’s story that he
entered the room solely to lc|(ot it,
and shot and clubbed Miss Clevenger
to death in panic lest he be discov
ered when she screanied.
“The. sex angle is nut of the case,”
Nettles said.
The solicitor’s /statement cam®
shortly before Th9ma8 A. Jones, Jr.,
court-appointed attorney for Moore
waived preliminary hearing in coun
ty couil,..where'Judge J. P. Kitchin
ordered the Negrro held without bond
for trial in superior court on murder
and first degree burglary charges—
both capital offenses.
Nettles amid he would hand the
grand jury an indictment of Moore
when it convenes next Monday, and
That Hie liallboy“would be liTougbt to
trial at the term of court convening
that day.
The Staten Island, "NT Y., girl’s
body Was found about 8:30 a. m., July
16, by her uncle, Prof. W. L. Cleven
ger of N. C. State college at Raleigh,
with whom she was making a trip
through the state.
In the confession which Brown
made ^blic, and which was signed
by Moore yesterday before a group
of officers and newspaper men, the
Negro admitted sneaking back/into
the hotel after getting off the Aight
before the crime. He said he was
surprised to find the girl awake, and
shot her when she started screaming.
Then, the confession said, he smashed
her in the face vnth his gun when
she continued to scream,^ knocking
her down several times as she sought
to reach the door.
The Negro was quoted as saying
he fired in panic as soon as the girl
rose from her bed.
was in right serious trouble
Uncle Doc bnd Aunt MandJ were
talking about it.
Said Uncle Doc: /
“Mandy, it’s powerful hard for^me
to believe. That boy came of-good
stock and was raised right.
“You know, Mandy, in myl younger
days, I had a right smart to do with
dog^ I khow a lot about ’em. When
I l^ught a dog, I was keerful to find
out about its pa and ma. And when
I got one of much age, I was keerful
to find out how he behaved ias a pup.
“When he came of- good stock, and
behaved tolerable well as a pup, I
found I could count on him. —
“He would’ generally bark up the
statement on that matter later.”
He indicated, however, the later
.statement promised would be critical
in nature.
'“But when hia ma and pa were noj
gQdd and he lived very dong with]
them, what be would
plenty.”, •
Uncle ^ Doc and Solomoii were not
very far apart in their views.
Did not Solomon declare:' ,
“Train up a child in the way he
should go; and when he ia old, he wiU
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New York, Aug. 10.—Acting Ser
geant. Thomas Martin and Detective
John J. Quinn, Jr., the New York de
tectives who helped solve the hotel
room slaying of 19-year old Helen
Clevenger at Asheville, N. €., are the
kind of sleuths who can work three
days in a row without sleep.
Assistant Chief Inspector John A.
Lyons put it this way today:
“Both men can work 72 hours with
out taking their shoes off.”
Qainn, he said, will be promoted to
ra^k of first ip«de detective for this
a^d other work in the past six
ifMnths. Martin was one of the men
who solved the bath ftib slaying of
Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton by John
Fiorenza last spring. He is a veteran
and, in Lyons’ opinion, “has more ex
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man in the country.”
j“-“Ile-is an expert in hreaking down-
suspects,” Lyons said..“He uses psy
chology and bluffs them. He is very
suave and magnetic.”
Father Not Pleased
New York, Aug. TO. — Jeseph F.
Clevenger tonight indicated that he
was not entirely satisfied with "the
manner in which the investigation of|,
the murder of his daughter, Helen
Clevenger, in Asheville, N. C., had
been handled. t
In a formal statement he said', ’Tt
is, of course, a great satisfaction that
the Vn^e has been finally eolved and
the nvurderer of my daughter appre-
henued. , As to the- manner in
which 'the case- waa handled, however,
j^d as to the manner in which it
"“^Aras finally solved I have no comment
to make at thia,time. 1 will iaauela
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