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Girl's Slayer Says He
Will Talk Soon
llaleigh, Auk. 24?While plans went
forward for an appeal from his death
sentence, Martin Moore, six-foot-three
ncKro youth, indicated today lie would
soon "tell sometiiinK important" about
Helen ClevonKor's murder.
Tiie 22-year-old former hotel hallhoy,
removed to a ceil on "death's
row" in the state penitentiary here
after his conviction of killing the
blonde New York University student,
did not say what the "something important"
was.
In the presence of Warden H. II.
lloneycutt, Moore talked with reporters
in his little white washed Cell?
Just a few paces froip the concrete
Kas chamber where he is under sentence
to die October 2,
i, "Ho you still maintain you didn't
kill Miss Cievenger?" he wus asked.
"I didn't do it," he mumbled.
."Then who did ?" I
"Well, It wasn't me. That's all 1
know."
At Abbeville, where Moore was
trb'd and convicted, tin- Itev. M. L.
Breeding, president of tile local chapter
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Uolored Persons said
tlie association would raise funds to
finance an uppoul.
Breeding said u meeting of the
Ashevlile chapter was hold yesterday
and that It wus voted unanimously to
raise money for Moore's defense.
Notice of an appeal was filed by
Moore's lawyer, Sanford W. Iirown.
He has 45 days in which to perfect
the appeal to the supreme court.
A few mlnuteB after Moore was convicted
ho was brought 275 miles to
the state penitentiary here in aherlff
Laurence E. Brown's armored limousine.
In a confession, accepted as evidence
at the trial, Moore told how he
sneaked to Miss Clevenger's room in
the fashionable Battery Park Hotel
the night of July 15 to loot it und shot
her when she screamed.
Moore said he was tortured Into
making the confession.
"They licked it out of me," he said.
"They beat me with a hose and
punched me In the stomach. That's
why I signed it; because they licked
it out of me,"
Moore. In his cell here, said he
knew nothing of the efforts of the
Association for the Advancement of
colored people to raise funds for an
appeal for him.
"I never heard of It," he said.
Warden H. H. Hunefycutt quotod
Moore as saying soon after his arrival
at the "big house:"
"I'm not guilty, but 1 reckon I may
iis well say I'm guilty, because I'm
going to die."
TYPICAL AMERICAN CITY HAS
$32 PER CAPITA TAX YEARLY
Chicago, Aug. 17.?In the "typical
American city," Professor William F.
Ogburn said today, the women outnumber
the men, the per capital tax
is $32 a year and one In every ten
families takes in roomers.
There were some of tho data compiled
by the University of Chicago
sociologist in an article published today
in the Journal, "Public Management."
He produced bis picture of the typical
city by making a composite of
statistics, including federal census figures,
from 33 cities with populations
between 25,000 and 100,000 throughout
the United States.
For every thousand persons ordinarily
employed there are 3.9 physicians,
4 2 lawyers. 3.1 preachers and
23.8 teachers. In the south he found
more lawyers, doctors and preachers
and fewer teachers.
For every 100 women, his survey
showod, there are only 97 men. Six
out of every ten persons more than
15 years old are married. The average
family In "average town" consists
of throe or four persons. Including
boarders and relatives.
The average routing family paid $28
a month. Miss
Katie Adelle Brode, 35 years
old, near Dorchester, died from a rattlesnake
bite 15 hours after being bitten.
One of the family noticed blood
on her ankle, and then the snake was
tound colled near the doorsteps down
which she walked Just previously. She
waa hurried to a hospital, but treatment
was useless.
The body of an unidentified white
man. aged about 38 years, with a 7$
pound iron bar tied to It In several
places, was pulled out of Hlttle river,
near McCormlck, by four fishermen.
The drowned man was redhoaded and
had his bight band amputated. He
had been shot four times in the head
and twice In the abdomen.
Two men arrested at Jacksonville,
Fla., for speeding, were sehteimed to
pay fines of $10 each, and tdstt for
ona hour in a badly wrecked cat la
which four persons were recently
Princess Nina Mdlvani was married
tkftl wash at Bridged, Wales, to Denis
Dajdf. son of the late Sir Arthwr
Costs Boyle.
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Should Use Care in
Purchase of Seed;
Although the amount of Kosen and
other rye Heed sold In the aouth It-?t
fall hh Abruzzi wan much less than
five yeai'H ago, farmers there .need to
be unuMually careful this fall ti> get
Abruzzi when they ask for it, for supplies
of Abruzzi apparently are much
smaller titan last year, reports the U.
H. Department of Agriculture
In Alabama especially, misbranding
of ryW seod in iuterataLe commerce
lias been reduced through cooperationof
state officials with the federal division
of seed investigations.
Approximately 28 per cent .of the
samples Of "Abruz&l" rye, planted In
Alabama in the fall of 1930 to determine
whether or not the seed was
truthfully labeled, proved to be of the
Kosen variety, in 1933 no such ca.,es
were found, and In 1934 and 1935
there were few.
Kosen rye is winter-hardy hut not
as deslruble for the south as Abruzzi
and other varieties of tliut type. Kosen
is referred to in some places as
"creeping rye." It grows fiut to tlie
ground until spring. Abruzzi grows
upright in the winter, making good
pasture ami more growth for green
manure.
Cooperation of many of the seedsI
men is indicated in the fact that a
number of shipments made into the
soutli in the fall of 1935 were labeled
Kosen rye, making It possible for the
buyer to get Kosen rye if he wishes.
The quantity of Kosen shipped into
Alubuma in 1935 probably was no
greater than in 1930, but In 1930 it
was sold as Abruzzi. in 1935 it was
correctly labeled.
Because of the seed of the different
rye varieties is so similar In appearance,
careful farmers when possible,
buy Abruzzi seed from a territory
where Abruzzi Is commonly grown,
and refuse seed not completely labeled.
It is generally acknowledged that
when seed is offered at abnormally
low prices it is well to make carelul
inquiry and keep records showing the
representations made by~tfce seller.
When seed is suspected of being
misbrandod, it should be called to the
attention of the state Beed official,
who may, if the shipment appears to
have violated the federal seed act,
report the case to the division of seed
investigations, of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D.
C.
KNOW ANY BIGGER?
Drought sufferers may take heart
from this message of Lorraine Wardlaw
of Kogers, Ark. It may solve some
of their problems, especially if they
happen to be potato raisers.
Many people complain oT the
droughts now and wonder how to get
their potatoes to grow, she writes, but
my grandad had a scheme which always
produced a crop no matter what
the weather might be. A long lime
ago when Dad was Just knee-high,
the country had one of the greatest
droughts in history. The spring had
started out with Just the right amount
of rain and everybody scurried around
getting their potatoes in the ground.
They were coming along fine when
suddenly the rains stopped. The
earth began to dry out and little by
little plantB in the fields and gardens
began to turn yellow and then
brown. Everybody's except grandad's
that is.
The Hpi 1 In his garden was continually
wet, and everything was
growing bigger than It had ever been
before. People stopped and stared,
wondering how It had happened. But
Just a few weeks before they had all
been laughing at grandad's mistake in
planting his onions and potatoes in
the same row. However, they soon
learned to laugh out of the other side
of their mouth for it was the onions
that did the trick. Being so close
they kept the eyes of those potatoes
running so fast that the water completely
covered the garden.?Pathflndor.
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Three Meals Not Enough
Two Yale physiologists have discovered
that eating three meals a day
is merely a habit. Their tests spem.
to show we would be more efficient
if we were to eat four, five or even
six meals a day, as our appetites dictated.
Dr. Howard Haggard and Leon
A. Qreenburg advanced this theory
after experimenting upon 213 persons,
young and old, who were employes in
a Connecticut factory making tennis
shoes. For years there had been a
falling off in production in late morning
and late afternoon, always attributed
to fatigue. The two Yale experimenters
declared lack of food was
the basic cause and began feeding one
group an extra meal in mid-morning.
Another group was fed an extra meal
in mid-afternoon. The third group
was fed both in the morning and afternoon.
A fourth group received no
extra meal. At the end of ten weeks,
the group getting two extra meals
daily made 111 pairs of shoes an hour.
The group getting one extra ideal averaged
133 pain an hour and thine on
the old mtef eoheduie averaged only
lit pairs tkoirty. ^ 1^X3
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Tobacco Used as Remedy
- ^ for Cholera in France
During the cholera epidemic In
France In 1831 the use of tobacco wan |
miii<J to Induce Immunity. To ward
off IIIi)c*mh while the great plague of
1(KIT> was In progress In London everyone
was urged to smoke. Small children
Were compelled to take tobacco.
At Eton classes were Instructed to
pause and light up at frequent Inter*
vain, wrltaa Charles Suiutuy in the
Chicago Tribune.
Who first brought the plant to Km
rope Is not established, nor Is It cortain
who smoked the first pipeful.
Jenn TNlcor, whose name remnlne today
In nicotine, sent tobacco seeds to
France about 1560. Within five years
Sir John Hawkins returned to Kngland
with tobacco. Most of Kurope
and parts of Africa and Asia had the
weed by the opening of the Seventeenth
century. Snuff was preferred
In Fiance for many years. The "drinking
of tobacco," as stooklng was
termed In Kngland, become common
and later fashionable through the example
of Sir Walter Haleigh.
Kvery schoolboy knows the legend
of the drenching of Sir Walter Raleigh
by Ids valet. This faithful fellow,
for the llrst time seeing smoke
Issuing from the mouth and nostrils
of Ida master, believed him to be afire
and promptly emptied a bowl of water,
alo, or beer over Sir Walter. The
beverage changes a? do the characters
In the anecdote. Slightly vurled versions
are given for Itlchard Tarleton
and others. Another Sir Walter Raleigh
yarn Involves a ? wager with
Queen Elizabeth. He bet that he cuuld
weigh tobacco smoke. First he weighed
a pipeful of tobucco,- then smoked It
and subtracted the weight of the ashes.
Black Art Man Known at
"Dukun" to East Indians
That almost good American word,
"hoodoo," Is of African origin. From
It "voodoo" was evolved, and the voodoolsm
of Africa and the West Indies
Is closely related to the "black magic"
of the East Indies and Malaya. At
least, the prime object of both is to
"put a hoodoo" on an enemy or a rival
In love, writes a Batavla, Java, correspondent
In the Chicago Tribune.
In Java and other East Indies the
practitioner of the black art Is known
us a dukun. A Dukun, man or woman,
Is believed by natives to combine all
the eerie and weird powers of a
witch, sorcerer, demonologlst, and voodoo
priest. The superstitious natives
do not doubt that a dugun has the
ability to summon the devil and evil
spirits to do his bidding.
When the death of an enemy or
any person against whom a grudge Is
held is desired, the aid of a dukun
Is sought. After payment of a fee,
dependent upon the wealth and position
of the client, the dukun makes
n small Image of the victim In clay.
Then, with prayers and Incuntntions,
much ceremony and hocus-pocus, he
pierces the Image In the region of
the heart or stomach with a needle
or sharp Instrument, buries the clay
Image In some carefully chosen spot,
and within a week or a month the
object of his professional activities
dies of some affliction of the organ
presumed 10 be pierced.
Ancient A I C
An Item In the church accounts for
Pyrford, Surrey, reads: "1790, paid
for 66 dozen sparrows, 16s. 6d." The
church registers began In 1666, and the
churchwardens' account)} contain some
curious entries, Including the following
: "1792, pare shoes for Mary Falkner,
4?. 0d.; 1798, fetching and carrying
Woking Church larder, 4s.; 1813,
one hedgehog, 4d.; 1815, paid for a
polecat, Is.; 1818, a round frock of
Lank ford T. Roase for 2 duzn of sparrows,
old ones, Is. 6d; 1823, warrant
to apprehend David Woodham, 4s.; a
prayer book for the Clark, 5s.; 1796,
for a letter conserntng the hair powder
list, 6d."?Ttt-Blts Magazine.
U. S. Treasury Conscience Fund
The United States treasury conscience
fund was opened with a contribution
of $5 in 1811. Money received
for this fund Is not carried on
the books of the Treasury department
as such, but Is listed as miscellaneous
receipts. The amounts sent In rang#
from 2 cents from a person who failed
to put a jtamp on a letter when mailed,
to several thousand dollars from persons
who smuggled goods Into the
United Stutea without paying Import
duty. No special use Is made of the
money. It simply goes Into the general
funds of the department
Largest Tr?i iu Canada
Tho Dauglas fir attains the largest
size of any tree In Canada, and, with
the exception of the redwood of California,
Is the largest tree on the North
American continent. It has reached
a height of 380 feet, and three 15 feet
in diameter have been found, a single
Douglas flr has scaled as much as GO.000
feet board measure. Specimens
more than TOO years old have beet^
found, but comparatively few are found
1 more than 400 years of age.
Sk ' 1
invented Revolving Millttone
The ltomaua developed no power engines
but produced several notable Inventlons
Including the quem or revolving
millstone which wrought a revolution
In the art of milling. They were
famous far their engineering and construct!otf
werka, and their brtdgee,
reads, HNdvcto and harbor works
wese s?isc considering that, they
" wertced ea eajaftsm trial ailuiw
vllh e*lf the erode#* instrumental
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Big Lloyd'* Bell Toll*
When Ve**el Goe* Down
In London there In u big Lulldlog
called Lloyd's,'which In the headquarters
of the men whose hUHlness Is the '
Insurance of ships.
Naturally the loss of a ship con'
cerns those men, hiuI whenever there
Is m wreck a bjg hell Is rung and then
the announcement or the ship's loss Is
mails, notes a writer In Pearson's
London Weekly,
This bell lunie from a vessel called
the Lutlne, which Itself was. wrecked.
Originally the Lutlne was captured
from the French and became an Engllsh
war vessel, - flhe was lost off the
coast of Holland w hen carrying bullion
and money.
Luter some of the riches were re*
covered by u salvage company together
with the ship's bell und rudder. The
hell has ever since beep used for the
purpose mentioned, while the rudder
was made into a chair nnd table, which
are also Installed at Lloyd's.
You may wonder why the place is
culled Lloyd's. It Is because years
ago there was a coffee house not fur
away from the site of the present
building, where merchants and others
Interested In shipping used to meet.
This coffee house was kept by n man
named JOdward Lloyd.
In time Lloyd's customers formed a
.corporation concerned chiefly with marine
Insurance, It was known as
Lloyd's Corporation. Presently the
corporation established offices of Its
own, but the name of Lloyd was retained
because of Ids association with
the eurly days of the corporation.
Gardener's Cards Led to
Use of Term Etiquette
If you-will consult an old French
dictionary, you will be surprised to
And that the definition of etiquette
Is 'a label, small ticket, or placard,"
Instead of the definition given by Webster
as "the observance of the proprieties
required by a good breeding; conventional
decorum; ceremony," The
latter definition came to supplant the
original one In an Interesting way,
states a writer in the Washington Star.
An old Scotch gardener, who was
laying out the grounds at Versailles
for King Louis XVI of France, was
much annoyed because the courtiers
so frequently walked over his newly
laid flower plots. Remonstrance was
of little use, so finally he appealed
to fhe king himself.
The king advised him to place labels
nnd placards here and there Indicating
where people might walk and where
they might not. Moreover, he hacked
tip the suggestion by Issuing a formal
order that pedestrians stay at all times
"within the etiquettes."
Needless to say, the order was carefully
observed, and the phrase, becoming
a byword, soon came to mean
"keeping within the proprieties" in
every sense.
Curvature of the Earth
Some of the arguments In favor of
the earth's rotundity are as follows,
according to a writer In the Detroit
News: 1. In eclipses of the moon,
the edge of the earth's shadow on the
moon Is circular. 2. All other heavenly
bodies, In whatever position they are
seen, appear to be circular. 3. An observer
watching a ship disappear at
sea. first loses sight of the hull, then
of the masts. 4. The visible horizon
at sea Is circular and a telescope does
not enlarge the horizon, as It would
If the earth had a flat surface. 5.
Experiments such as the "Bedford Level
experiment" of 1870 have actually
measured the earth's curvature. 6.
The sun and stars viewed at the same
time from different stations on the"
etfW^havfcdlfferent altitudes; as their
^rays are practically parallel, this must
be due to the earth's curvature. 7.
The fact that ships have sailed around
the earth and airplanes have flown
around It
Machine Gunner
Hiram Stevens Maxim wag horn In
Sangersvllle, Maine, In 1840. He hecame
the inventor of the machine gun
which caused him (to quote LlddellHarfs
"A History of the World war")
to have his name "more deeply en-1
graved on the real history of the
World war than that of any other
man." But neither this nor smokeless
powder was his most noteworthy invention.
He was having a dinner-table
conversation with guests when he
suddenly got the Idea for the automatic
regulator for "dynamo-electric
machines" which was to make possible
the widespread distribution of
electric light and power.
sad Jetsam
This well-known expression Flotsam
and Jetsam Is really an English law
term. Flotsam means goods lost by
shipwreck and floating on the sea
Jetsam means gooda which have been
cast overboard or "jettisoned," which
1s sometimes necessary |n order to
lighten the ship In a storm, and which
may sink, but may, of course, be cast
up on the shore by the sea. Goods
cast overboard and which float are
"flotsam." and In general "flotsam" also
refers to any floating wreckage.
L Pro,M?.*d Statu, of Liberty
Edouard de Laboulaye. a French
Writer upon American history and Ufa
EwTJIi th? erectlon of tht Statu*
ancI^T^L ? com mem a rat* th* alML
countrt?? during th*
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THE DARDANELLES
Turkish Government Wants To Again
Fortify Famous Waterway
While battleships are concentrated
in the Mediterranean and dispatches
from European capitals tell of troop
movements and large-scale maneuvers,
Turkey asks the League of Nations
for permission to arm the Dardanelles
which were demilitarized 16
years ago.
"The strait of the Dardanelles is the
southern gateway to 220 miles of waterway
linking the Aegean and the
Mack seas, dividing Turkey, and sepa!
rating Europe from Asia," sayB a bulletin
from the Washington, D. C.,
headquarters of the National Geographic
Society.
At the other end of the waterway
is the Bosporus, a strait commanded
by Istanbul (Constantinople). Between
these two narrow water lanes
is the Sea of Marmara. Fortification
of the sea and the straits was so effective
that Istanbul, for centuries a
favored plum among belligerents of
both Europe and Asia, was taken only
three times.
Control of the straits has often
meant control of the tides of European
culture and politics. The fall
of Istanbul in 1463 allowed Turkish
I caliphs to flood medieval Europe with
Byzantine ideas. A^fter the Allies opened
the straits in 1918, following a
spectacular failure in 1916, western
ways poured into the land of the fez
and the home of the harem to the
accompaniment of Jazz, portable victrolas,
and a shower of straw hats.
Since 1923, a straits commission under
the League of Nations has been
in charge.
From the castles of Dardanus, at j
the southwest entrance, the name Dar-,
danelles came to be applied to the'
42 miles of briny icewater swirling
down from the Black sea, into the
Aegean. Only five miles at its greatest
breadth, it narrows to 1,400 yards
of wind-twisted eddies, and offers a
challenging spot for swimming from f
Europe to Asia. Here, where it is
j somewhat less than a mile between
continents, the storied lover Leander I
swam across to keep his nightly tryst'
with the Asiatic priestess Hero. Lord
Byron plunged into the same swirling
waters, swimming the channel in an '
hour and ten minutes. Over a dozen
college lads in recent years have proved
that the Leander legend Is possible.
The Dardanelles, wind-swept and
swift, are called the Hellespont, because
they had the dubious honor of
drowning Helle, mythical princess of
Thessaly, when she tumbled overboard
while fleeing with her brother
on the winged ram of the Golden
Fleece.
The southeastern shore is Indented
with numerous covers which sheltered
a thousand Grecian ships launched
in the campaign against Homer's
Troy. Inland stretch the Trojan'
plains, worn down by weather and
dramatic violence to muddy flats,
flecked with scars of excavations, In
1915 Turkish forts ef the Galllpoll
peninsula on the northern shore resisted
a British fleet in what has been
called the most powerful bombardment
in history of a land position
from the sea.
The middle section of the Aegeanto-Black
sea waterway is the largest
and the least important?the Sea of
Marmara. An inland sea with less
than half the area of Lake . Erie, lta
sapphire surface is stirred with a current
so strong that tides are scarcely
noticeable. Of its several islands,
the most important IS the 50-squaremile
Marmara Island which supplied
marble and alabaster for Istanbul's
proud architecture. Hence the Greek
word for rock, marmara, named an
Island, a sea. ahd one of the world's
favorite building stones.
The third link is the Bosporus,
shortest, narrowest, most populous,
most perilous. Like an lS-tnile tube
curved into a slightly stralghted 8,
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Both Itumptd I
'John," ft father said to his backward
son, "how many letters are there
in the alphabet?" I
"I don't know, dad."
"What, you have been at school for
four years, and yet you don't know fl
how many letters there are in the alphabet!"
|
"May I ask you a question, father?"
"Yes, my boy."
"You pass by the post office every
day, don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, how many letters are there
In the post office?"
The census bureau reports that for I
July the cotton spinning Industry of
the United States, operated at 119.8
per cent of its capacity on a single I
shift basis, as compared with 73.5
during July of last year. Spinning
spindles in place July 31 totaled 28,- I
167,094, of which 23,249,572 were active
at some time during the month,
compared with 28,311,834 and 22,957,- I
322 for June this year and 30,110,078
and 22,312,384 tor July last year.
Twenty-two men, including Virgil I
F. Efflnger of Lima, Ohio, described I
as the national head of the Black
Legion, have been indicted by a grand I
jury at Detroit, Mich., on charges of
criminal syndicalism in connection
with activities of the hooded order.
The Indictment Includes two counts,
accusing Efflnger and the others, with
advocating or teaching "crime, sabotage,
violence or other forms of
terrorism as a means of accomplishing
industrial or political reform." I
Mrs. Furches Crane of Caldwell
county, North Carolina, has been arrested,
and officers are looking for
her husband In connection with the
death of a 6-months-old child in an
automobile accident. Officers found I
Jars of liquor near the point of the
wreck hidden In the weeds. The
Cranes and the mother of the baby I
were in the car at time of accident.
A "chappel" of myriad-colored glass
balls is a feature of the German peas- I
ant bridal attire.
between shores sometimes less than
a half-mile apart, it handles all the
turbulent waters of the Black sea,
which is twice as large as all the
Great Lakes, put together,
"The Bosporus has been a water
highway of history. Jason piloted his
Argonauts thru here to seek the golden
fleece. Here Darius pushed his
Persian hordes Into Europe 480 B. C. I
Here Alexander stepped into the Aft* I
he was to conquer. Through here
sailed galleys from Venice and Genoa |
on their way to Trabzond (Trebizond) , |
and Kaffa, to meet camel caravans
laden with merchandise of oriental I
splendor. When Turkish control of |
the Bosporus Impeded commercial j
connections with overland trad?
routes from the East, Columbus set
out to find a new road to the Orient. i
"Since then the straits have been I
less concerned with history and more j
with commerce. Vessels have passed I
through with Turkey's tobacco, rais- j
ins, and dried figs for the United i
States, quantities of eggs for France, j
mohair from two million mohair gots i
to be woven into cloth in the U. 8. ,
S. R. Brazil has shipped tons of coffee
for the thick, sweet beverage I
which has retained its popularity although
turbans were replaced with
the fez, the fet with the western feltu
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