The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

PAIR, COOLER. slightly cooler north: portion tonight, Wednesday, fair. CXXVIII- NO. 58. Debt Settlement The French have given the United States the most encouragement yet in regard to payment of the war debt.

While the latest communicaon did not say Paris would pay the obligations in full, it did announce that France "is prepared to seek, as soon as circumstances perinit, settlement of its debt on a basis "acceptable to both countries." The latest note from Paris was not inspired from any plank in the Republican party, which the party is committed to a collection of the debts. The motive is quite different. France, anticipating another war soon, is anxious to get her credit standings with America in excellent 'shape. But another complication enters into this vexing question. In event France and other nations agree to pay Uncle in full, how could the, Uncle Sam afford to accept and yet retain his tariff policies to which the Republicans are definitely committed? The 'only way the debtors.

can pay is in the manner in which they received. That is, in goods. If exports from these debtor nations pour into this country, what would become of the American workmen, as well as American industry? Instead of 10,000,000 out of work, there might be 20,000,000. What is imperative is for the creditor and the debtor nations to talk things over in a sane and sensible manner, omitting all politics, prejudice and vote-getting phrases, and come to some understanding whereby neither the debtors, Uncle Sam, as the creditor, would be ruined in the settlement. Hull Sees The Error Something of the low ebb in which international codes and morals have lapsed is sensed by Secretary Cordell.

Hull. In an address before Brown University graduates Monday, the Secretary of State deplored the low standards of international morality caused by the World War and its aftermath. The world's problems, he pointed out, will not be solved until the spirit underlying national policies undergoes a new birth--unless individuals within nations. themselves to a new birth. "In the final analysis," he continued, "no nation is better than the individuals who compose it." Thus Tennessee's member in the cabinet of President Roosevelt, without preaching, placed his finger.

on the troubles of the world. It is man's own folly, and the indictment cannot be passed on to governments, or to dictators. The trouble goes back to the individual people who make up the nations. Marching men, broken treaties, scrapped pacts, towering armaments, thinly veiled hostilities, all make for confusion and unrest. And the low estate of the morals the people, themselves, nake, possible the low estate of the world as it is today.

New Money, New Things With bonus bonds to the tune of approximately $300,000 being paid to nearly 700 veterans in Clarksville Tand Montgomery county this week, business should receive an additiona! boost. Some veterans will receive, or have received bonds for more than $1,500. Perhaps the average will be around $450. New automobiles, new furniture, electric refrigerators, down payMents on homes, new clothes, more life insurance, and on old debts should help boost business. In some instances the veterans not financially pressed, will leave their bonds in banks to draw interest.

To the "majority of the veterans, however, it means new money, new buying, new things. Prompt Trial Needed Tennesseans regret the postponement of the trial of the defendants charged with evading Tennessee's gasoline tax law. The longer the trial is delayed, the more skeptical the taxpayers will become that men can defraud the state and escape justice. This tends to break downing confidence in the state anti creates an unwholesome attitude. The postponement was made over the protest of District Attorney General J.

Carlton Loser. The state was ready in both cases. We trust a speedy trial in which justice will be done, will be had soon. Pungent Clauses Quoting from Abraham Lincoln. he visited the birthplace of LinPresident Roosevelt skilfully wered his critics who are charging that he would be a dictator.

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master." The President has dropped several pungent expressions recently that may be popular coined phrases the coming campaign. Among these are: "We have restored Democracy in Government: we must now restore Democracy in opportunity," "Men do not fight for boardiny "houses; they will fight for homes." A news dispatch says Postmaster General Farley breakfasted on out of season strawberries and cream recently as he traveled through the northwest. Senator Dickinson should make an investigation. Why should Farley eat strawberries and cream, when, according to Dickinson, thousands of Iowans are eating canned dog food to keep their souls, and bodies together? Clarksville ASSOCIATED PRESS CLARKSVILLE, LANDON, KNOX CLASP HANDS, PLAN FOR RACE Two Meet at Kansas Capitol for a Pow Wow 'REAL PARTNERSHIP' Governor May Open Campaign in West Middlesex, Pa. TOPEKA, JUNE 16.

-Governor Alf M. Landon and Col. Frank Knox clasped hands today with an "avowed determination to let the truth be known about the vital issues of campaign" and to lead the Republican party to victory in November. Meeting for the first time as Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees, the two men stood on the Kansas capitol steps and chatted preparatory to making plans of strategy with the party high command. A.

cheering crowd of several hundred had brought Knox and Republican leaders to the capitol with bands playing and flags waving. "I expect to spend a couple of days here," said Knox, "and then go back to Chicago. What I do then depends on the boss here." "This is going to be a real partnership," Landon put in. Knox said he would like to go to New Hampshire, but his plans were in the hands of the national committee. A plan for Gov.

Landon to open his presidential campaign with an address at his birthplace, West Middlesex, had the tentative approval of the Republican strategists. A NEW CLUE IN MURDER SOUGHT "Thin Man" Suspected in Slaying of Inventor EAST ORANGE, N. JUNE 16- (P)-Detectives, tracking the shadowy. "thin man" of the perplexing D. McFarland Moore slaying, went to Brooklyn today on a freshly developed lead.

Detective Joseph Coccoza of. the county: prosecutor's staff said the Brooklyn clue resulted from further questioning of Beatrice Moore, the slain engineer's 25-yearold daughter with whom he lived. It was Miss Moore who first gave police information that a courteous, soft-spoken "thin man" had called her father Sunday night, 9 hours before the one time inventor associate of Thomas Edison was found slain on his lawn. Detectives meanwhile started their examination of the slain man's private papers in hope of finding definite information as to identity of the "thin man" whom they believed may be able to shed much light on the mystery. FUTURE EXCHANGES BROUGHT UNDER STRICTER CONTROL WASHINGTON.

JUNE cotton and other commodity future exchanges were brought under more rigid government regulations today as President Roosevelt signed the Jones- commodity exchange bill. The act is aimed at curbing speculation in grains, cotton, rice, mill feeds, potatoes and butter and eggs, through the placing of tradlimits on contract markets. It outlaws trading in intermediates and so-called wash sales. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS By Alley 'PUBLICANS GOT DE MOS' MONEY EN DE DIMMERCRATS, GOT DE MOS' VOTES, BUT NARY ONE UV 'EM DON' 'PEAR) TO BE 6-16 (Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Leaf- Chronicle TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936. SIX PAGES Gets First Bonus Bonds Here Bonus bonds totalling $757 were Kleeman, left, by Postmaster J.

Ray Monday morning when the manager Bottling plants, called at the postoffice. to be awarded his bonus bonds from Some 350 were distributed to local day and scores of others were mailed Mr. Kleeman, grinning broadly over would not cash them for the present cated he might let them mature and interest. THREE IN RACE FOR BYRNS' JOB Cheek, Loser and Taylor Of Nashville Are Candidates NASHVILLE, JUNE 16 -(P)-The Fifth District race for the Democratic nomination to succeed Joseph Byrns in Congress has settled down to a three-way contest. The candidates are Will T.

business man; J. Carlton Loser. district attorney -general and Brown Taylor, lawyer, all of Nashville. Nineteen were qualified originally. In withdrawing from: the race, Mayor W.

D. Hudson of Clarksville said it is "impossible" for resident of any of the six rural counties in the district to be nominated without the support of the political machines of Nashville. Tennessee's six Democratic and: two Republican representatives in Congress are in the race for renomination. Sam D. McReynolds of the third district.

Herron Pearson cf Seventh and Walter Chandler of the Ninth. all Democrats, are unopposed. B. Carroll Reece, Republican of the First, is without opposition. E.

W. Carmack, Murfreesboro paper publisher, announced he would decide this. week whether he would enter the Democratic primary against Senator Nathan L. who is a candidate for renomination for a six-year term. John R.

Neal, Knoxville lawyer already has announced against Bachman. COMPROMISE PLAN MAY BREAK TAX DEADLOCK Virtual Agreement ported Reached on Relief Measure END IN SIGHT Presidnet May Hold Conference on Levy Proposal WASHINGTON, JUNE 16-(P)- Senate sources put forward today a new compromise plan to break the tax deadlock. Virtual agreement was reached on the other major issue holding congress in session--relief. The proposal advanced by Senators seeking to reconcile differences with the House over the measure found no immediate favor with spokesmen for the other chamber. Advocates said it pay a flat 15 per cent corporate income and a graduated tax on undistributed earnings and allow $2,000 exemption on the latter.

There was talk of a conference with President Roosevelt as the tax conferees, holding the keys to the end of the session, continued deadlocked. A conference committee seeking to adjust House and Senate differences on the deficiency appropriations bill carrying $1,425,000,000 for relief neared the end of its labors. Another major controversy moved toward the house floor. The Walsh-Healey bill, which would require government contractors to comply with certain labor regulations, was approved by the rules committee. The proposed price fixing substitute for invalidated Guffey coal control law was up for immediate consideration in the House.

Secretary Ickes announced cancellation of a $40,086 contract with Jones and Laughlin steel company of Pittsburgh because, he said, it had been "found guilty by the national labor relations board of unfair labor, practices." Secretary Morgenthau said iN come tax collections during the first 15 days of June showed. fan increase of slightly more than 18 per cent. over the comparable period last year. CONVICTS GET BONUS BONDS Elated Prisoners Receive Certificates At State Prison Today. NASHVILLE, JUNE Seventy -two elated convicts in the state penitentiary their work or cells today long enongh to be identified as World War veterans and receive about $45,000 in bonus bonds.

"They were as happy as if the governor had just pardoned said Chaplain Pickens Johnson, who supervised the work. He explained that postal authorities, relied on prison officials the men, ranging from petit offenders to life termers. "Most of them signed the bonds," the chaplain said, "and asked that the money be put on deposit as nest eggs to be used when they are released." Others, he added, planned to use the money to fight for their freedom. Some ordered the money sent to, their families while a few placed it with the prison treasurer to buy luxuries. delivered to William King, right, early of the Coca-Cola He was the first the local postoffice.

veterans during the out today. his -bonds, said he at least. He indidraw the 3 per cent FIVE WARSHIPS AT SHANGHAI Four Nations Send boats to Protect Nationals SHANGHAI, JUNE 16-(AP)-Gun boats of four nations brought a feeling of security today in the troubled south China situation. Five warships- one United States, two British, one Chinese and one Japanese--waited hi the harbor here for developments in the Canton government's efforts to stimulate united Chinese action against alleged Japanese invaders. Military leaders said quick action of the Nanking government in pouring a large force into Hunan province has given Generalissimo Chiang virtual control of the territory.

The national government' were reported consolidating posi-' tions in Hunan as a precautionary measure. FLAMES DESTROY VACANT HOUSE A vacant three-room frame house on Dortch street, belonging to George Dunn, was partially destroyed by fire at 11 o'clock Monday night. Firemen estimated the damage at $100. How the building became ignited was a mystery. It had a wooden shingle roof.

Neighbors who were attracted by the fire light, turned in the alarm. Mrs. Brummett, Accused Of Slaying Husband, Retains Nerve As Trial Starts The trial of Mrs. Carmor Vick Bruminett, 29-year-old mother of two children, charged with the slaying of her husband. Clarence Brummett, of District 11, on May 2, was well under way this afternoon.

However the case was not expected to reach the jury today. Six witnesses, two of whom told of viewing the body of Brummett at his home early on the morning of May 2, and all of whom testified that Mrs. Brummett had told them her husband had committed suicide, were put on by the state this morning. Cross examination of the last one did not begin until court reconvened after luncheon 'recess at 1:30 o'clock. During all proceedings of the trial thus far, the small woman who confessed to Attorney General Matt G.

Lyle and Sheriff W. E. Beaumont two days after the alleged crime, that she had shot her husband toj death, after having testified before a coroner's jury that he took his own life, continued to maintain that' self -control or "iron nerve" which General Lyle, previously described as the most unusual he, had ever seen in a woman. She sat beside her attorney, W. R.

Fain, eyeing keenly, each witness testifying for the prosecur tion, showing no emotion whatever. Not a flicker of an eyelid was noted as she stood for arraignment by General Lyle. As he completed TENNESSEE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. ESTABLISHED IN 1808 FIVE CENTS A COPY HAS SEX APPEAL CLARK GABLE HOLLYWOOD, JUNE 16-(AP) Clark Gable is not handsome, in the opinion of Illustrator James MontFlagg, but he is with sex appeal. Thus Flagg explained why he left Gable off his of the six handsomest film actors, Gary Cooper, Brent, Ronald Coleman, Robert Taylor, Cary Grant a and Frances X.

Shields. NEGRO HELD ON ASSAULT COUNT George Poindexter Accus- ed of Striking Emma Meriwether Said to have struck Emma Meriwether, Negress, at 3 o'clock this morning, with a chopping ax which it is alleged. he had borrowed for that purpose a few minutes before from the mother of 'the victim, George Poindexter, Negro, was being held i in the county jail today on 1 charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. His preliminary trial is set before W. B.

Corlew, justice of the peace, at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The extent of the Meriwether woman's injuries was said by her physician to be painful, but not serious unless complications develop, She has a two and a half inch gash in the front part of her head, extending to the bone but her skull is not belleved to have been fractured. The woman told 'the doctor that she prevented a direct blow with the ax by warding it off with her arms. That probably saved her life, it was said. Complete details of the affray were lacking today.

Sheriff W. E. Beaumont who arrested Poindexter shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. said he did not have time to ques-1 tion him about the affair. Poindexter was partially drunk at the time, the officer The woman's screams were said to have aroused the neighborhood for several blocks around her home on Smith's alley where the attack occurred.

W. M. Pugh, local attorney, who lives within a block of the place, said when he was awakened during the early morning hours, he dressed to investigate. Scores of people were frightened by the screams, he said, including a sick child. The attorney declared he would voluntarily prosecute Poindexter Wednesday.

Police found the woman bleeding profusely. Poindexter had escaped. they said. The victim was conveyed by officers to the doctor where her injury was treated. Officers were today investigating a "tip" that stolen meat was i involved in the dispute between Poindexter and the woman.

CHILD DROWNS IN FISH POOL Two-Year-Old Tot Falls Into Water While Picking Flowers. JACKSON, JUNE 16 -(A') -A flower -girded fish pool became a death trap for 2-year-old Moneeca Sharpe. The child was missing for half an hour Monday afternoon. A search disclosed her body beneath two feet of, water in the little pool the home of her aunt, Mrs. Leon Moyer.

Relatives said they believed the child had tried to pick flowers beside the pool. WARREN RECEIVES LITERARY AWARD ON TOBACCO NOVEL Robert Penn Warren, of Baton Rouge, formerly of Guthrie. and a graduate of Clarksville high school, was joint winner of the $1.000 literary fellowship award of the Houghton-Miffin Publishing Company. Miss Clelie Huggins of Brooklyn, N. was the other winner.

Warren's novel was captioned "Prime Leaf." a tale of the Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco feud of 1905. Mr. Warren formerly was a member of the English department faculty of Vanderbilt. He is now member of the Louisiana State university English faculty and is editor of the Southern Review. Purge Drive Against Black Legion Is On DETROIT, JUNE 16 -(P)- A drive to purge public.

payrolls of today in communities including members of the Black, Legion started Highland Park, where an official described the- situation as "the most serious in the city's history." Three firemen and two policemen were suspended there. Two firemen, accused with ten other men in the Black Legion conspiracy to murder Arthur L. Kingsley, Highland Park editor, had been suspended previously. In Pontiac every officer and employe of the city and county governments will be required to appear before the grand jury and swear he is not a member of the night riders' organization. Dayton: Dean, Black Legion's "trigger man" in the slaying of Charles A.

Poole, testified Monday that he was ordered to kill Kingsley and that he was to have been given an alibi, by Walter Pierce, Pontiac police sergeant, who is one of the defendants in the alleged plot against the editor. KIWANIANS TAKE BALL CHALLENGE To Play Softball-Hear Agent Short Tell of Work After accepting a challenge from the Civitan club to play a team from that organization on the softball diamond Saturday night, the Clarksville Kiwanians heard County Agent H. W. Short give a lengthy and interesting explanation of "what goes on -in the busiest office in town," as announced by L. V.

Brewer, program committee chairman, referring to the agricultural headquarters here. With his eyes," Billy Dunlop, divitan, "gauntlet bearer," announced plans for the intercivic club tournament and with a bit of sarcasm thrown in, added: "I hope you will accept." Quickly there came a motion from Lloyd Eastering, "that we take dem -on and 'beat 'em." In a voice from the rear followed a rapid-fire second, and the motion went over unanimously. L. N. Byers asked who would do the playing, and -Prof.

W. B. Nicholson entered a motion that Easterling be appointed promptly, captain of the team, with authority to select the players. The motion carried unanimously except for. one vote shouted by the victim.

Mr. Dunlop explained that the games were planned for the purpose of raising $200. with which to buy uniforms and additional instruments for the Clarksville high school band, and were being endorsed by Adolf Hach, member of the school board. He said a similar challenge would be extended to the Rotarians Wednesday. The Civitan club will take care of all arrangements and members of the band will sell tickets to the games.

A special admission rate of fifty cents to see all the games to be held, will be made. Although denying that his office was the busiest in the city, Mr. Short briefly covered the work which is being carried on through the agricultural headquarters here, showing that few places were kept busier. He told of the extensive work being done by the 4-H clubs; of the rally day sponsored by the merchants, and of the fair which is to be staged in the fall. Since coming here as agent, Mr.

Short said he had made many plans, some of which had already been carried out. He said membership in the boys' and girls' clubs had been increased over a hundred and that a livestock program had been started. The thing which has kept his office busiest, Mr. Short said, was filling out of worksheets under the soil conservation program, and the completing of 500 or more old contracts under the AAA. The speaker also covered at length the plans for the 4-H club camp to be held at Columbia July 6 to 11, and said fifty boys were expected to attend from Montgomery county this year.

Thirty went last year, he said. Mr. Short also told of 250 -acres of strawberries being planted the county this year, and said that crops he had inspected were doing good. The extensive duties of the ricultural agent were covered at length by the speaker who said one of his department's main objects was to urge farmers to improve their soil. He said he was more pleased with the new conservation program than with the old AAA; and that he thought it would result in greater benefits to the farmers.

NOTED BRITISH AUTHOR IS DEAD BEACONSFIELD, ENGLAND. JUNE -The versatile literary career Gilbert Keith Chesterton was closed Monday. as he WAS generally known, died Sunday after an illness in his home near London. He was 62. VIRGINIANS TOLD 1932 PLATFORM NOT VIOLATED Congressman Woodrum Says Only One Plank Not Carried Out RIDICULES LEAGUE Describes Talk of Dictator Is Like "Ghost Stories" NORFOLK, JUNE 16 -(P)- Congressman Clifton A.

Woodrum told Virginia Democrats today that "the thing which terrifies the Liberty League and that has caused the Republican party to undergo a rebirth is the fact that we have lived up to the essential and fundamental ingredients of our platform of 1932." "Ghost stories conjured up to frighten little children," he said of Republican talk of a New Deal dietator. "Fortunately," he said in his keynote address to the state convention. "the American people are not easily duped. The real liberties of the American people that is if you mean the liberties of all of the people, were never quite so safe as now." The plank in the 1932 Democratic national platform calling for a 25 per cent reduction in governmental expenditures was held up as the only one which had not been or was not being carried out by the party. TRAFFIC TOLL DECLINE NOTED Record Marred by Two Drownings over the Weekend NASHVILLE, JUNE 15- (P)- Tennessee was credited with sharp decline in traffic fatalities this weekend, but the record was marred by two drownings in the eastern section or the state and drowning of a Knox county deputy sheriff in North Carolina lake.

gaiety of a Sunday School picnic near Knoxville ended suddenly when Horace. Cannupp, 19, became exhausted while swimming in Holston river Sunday and his companions' efforts at rescue failetd. Fourteen-year-old Ruby Wilson was being taught to swim in Norris lake when she became frightened in deep water and disappeared below the surface. Near Robinsville, N. Deputy Sheriff Arthur Thompson, 26, of Knox county, was drowned when a motorboat overturned in Lake Santulah.

He had gone fishing with two companions, who clung to the boat until help arrived. The only recorded traffic death was that of Miss Evelyn McDonald, a nurse, who died in a Chattanooga hospital Sunday of injuries suffered Friday night in an automobile accident DR. J. H. STOKES DIES IN HOUSTON Was, Last of Saddle Bag Physicians of His Section.

reading the long first degree murder indictment, Mrs. Brummett answered, "not guilty." The jury box was filled at 10:30 o'clock, with only one man being called from the crowd by Sheriff Beaumont. Eleven were accepted out of the twelve regular jurors and the special panel of twenty-five summoned for the case. The jury includes Allen Senseney, Bird Hogue, Barney Biter, Grafton Dickcon. Will Black.

W. O. Evans, H. B. O'Neal, E.

H. Evans, Lurton Morrow, J. F. Frech, and M. F.

Sawyer. The first witness called was Minnie Denkins, Negress, who said she resides fifty yards from where the Brummetts lived at the time of the homicide. Minnie told of a conversation with Mrs. Brummett about a week before the farmer was found dead. in which she said the defendant told her Brummett had been threatening to kill himself." 'This witness was followed by her husband.

William Denkins, who said Mrs. Brummett called to him early the morning of May 2. telling him she believed "Clarence has killed himself." and asking him to come "over here." He said he did not comply, instead notified another neighbor, Roy Sanders. The Denkins' twelve-year-old. twin grandsons, Curley and Hurley Majors, also told of Mrs.

Brummett announcing that her husband had killed himself. George. Pardue and Robert Gill, the first to see the body of the dead man about 4:35 o'clock in the morning, described the location the body on the bed. Each told how of the .38 calibre pistol was found lying in the crook of right arm with the bed covers drawn over the weapon. Mr.

Pardue also testified that the body had stiffened when an examination was made on a second trip to the house about 6 o'clock after officers were notified. He said the blood had also coagulated. They described the wound as being located near the, right temple where the bullet apparently entered, and behind the left ear where it came out. Denkins, his wife, Mr. Pardue and Mr.

Gill, all testified. they did not! know of trouble having existed Brummett and his wife prior to the shooting. They had been married about six weeks, the witnesses said. John D. Sadler, is assisting General Lvls in the prosecution.

Grant Convicted Found guilty of assault and battery with a knife upon his stepsister, Jim Grant, Negro, was sentenced late Monday afternoon by the court. to serve eleven months and twenty-nine days in the county workhouse, and was fined $100 land costs. ERIN, JUNE 16 -(Spl.) Dr. J. H.

Stokes, prominent physician, died at his home in the Yellow Creek community Sunday afternoon, after a prolonged illness. Dr. Stokes was born and reared in Dickson county, near Cumberland Furnace. He spent his -boyhood days working on his father's farm, and clerking in a store. He graduated in medicine from the Vanderbilt University in 1881 at the age of twenty one, and located on Yellow Creek, where he practiced his profession for fifty-five The passing of Dr.

Stokes is the last of the old horse-back, saddle pocket practicioner of Houston county. Dr. Stokes married Miss Inez Dickson, in 1889, who died in 1890. He then married Miss Emma Pollard, who died in 1926. He.

is survived by three daughters, Mrs. R. S. Kennemer, of Whigham, Mrs. Paul Hinson, with whom he lived, and Mrs.

Ray Peebles of Paris, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted from the home at 10 a. today, by the Rev. Woodward Adams, of the Brentwood Methodist Episcopal church. Interment was in the lard cemetery on Wells Creek.

Dr. Stokes was the son of William and Mrs. Martha Hickerson Stokes. PRINCETON CONFERS DEGREES ON 570 PRINCETON, N. JUNE 16- (P) -President Harold Willis Dodd of Princeton University conferred 570 degrees today at the University's 189th annual commencmeent exercises, Dean Luther P.

Eisenhart presented candidates for honorary degrees. They included Doctor of Law James Hampton Kirkland, chancellor of Vanderbilt University..