Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1936, Page 4

PARLEY ONFLOD Maps Control Plans With Relief and Army Officials on Return. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. His face deeply tanned, President Roosevelt returned to Washington early today after an absence of ex- actly one month, and lost no time in tackling the problems confronting him, the most important for the moment being a preliminary program under the $320,000,000 flood-control act. To assist him the President called & meeting at the White House of his special Flood Control Committee, headed by Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers, and composed chiefly of Army En- giheers and Federal relief officials. He discussed with this group surveys for flood-control projects for the New England and Central Eastern States, as well as a program of Federal and State co-operation in a long-term flood-prevention program. -Besides the chief of Army Engineers, | others who attended the President’s flood conference were Frederic A. Delano and Abel Wolman of the Na- tfonal Resources Board, Aubrey Wil- lams and Col. F. C. Harrington of the Works Progress Administration, Robert Fechner, director of the Civil- jan Conservation Corps, and Court- Igndt B. Manifold of the Soil Con- servation Board. To Leave Thursday. “*The only news forthcoming after the one-hour conference was that he would leave Washington early Thurs- day and that his first stop would be | Johnstown, Pa., which suffered se- verely during the March floods. Gen. Markham and others of the Flood €ommittee will accompany him. The President's special train, which frought him from Hyde Park, N. Y., where he spent the last week at his ancestral home on the Hudson River, 4rrived at Union Station at 8:30 am. | Becretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, whose country estate at Fishkill is gnly & few miles from the Roosevelt Hyde Park home, accompanied him back to Washington. -When the President reached the White House he found a huge accu- fiulation of papers awaiting his at- tention. He also conferred with Secretary of the Navy Swanson and Admiral William Stendley, chief of maval operations and acting Secre- tary of the Navy during Secretary Swanson's long illness; Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau, who was a luncheon guest; Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, director of the Procurement Division, Treas- ury Department, and D. W. Bell, act- g director of the Budget Bureau. | Rudolph Hecht of New Orleans, | former president of the American | Bankers' Association, who has just roturned from Europe, had a brief hat with the President. 1 Tour to Take Three Days. ! The President’s inspection tour of | 7 ansylvania and Western New York | 1 take about three days. He will n return to his Hyde Park home, ere he will remain until he starts his inspection of the devastated :vea in the so-called “dust pool” in | ©ie West. On this trip he will con- r with Gov. Landon, his Republi- -n opponent, and other State and deral representatives. To Have Little Time Here. Indications are the President will :t on his inspection of the drought ras about August 25 or 26, and ten- tive plans will keep him away from 2hington until about September 11. nal plans after that are somewhat lefinite now, but there is reason to ieve the President then will engage | campaigning. t this time he has only one defi- e campaign speaking date, which il take him to Charlotte, N. C., on ptember 10. Says Trip Non-Political. : The President has made it very plain *hat references to any political aspects of his flood and drought inspection frips are particularly displeasing to him. He has emphatically insisted | {hat these tours should be considered as non-political. « However, the fact the President will fonfer with a number of State Gov- ernors, as well as other State efficials, &n these tours has given rise to polit- feal speculation. In addition, the announcement of a conference with @ov. Landon is naturally attracting aitention. s During the past week at his Hyde Park home, Mr. Roosevelt rested, motored around the country visiting did friends and neighbors, and held nferences with political aides and overnment officials. He also disposed a certain amount of pressing Gov- nment business. « Yesterday, before clearing his desk fireparatory to returning to the White House, the President attended services &t St. James’ Episcopal Church in Hyde ark. During the afternoon there was something of a family reunion at the home following the return of Mrs. john Boettiger, only daughter of the esident and Mrs. Roosevelt, and her Busband. Also present were Franklin, .. and John Roosevelt, the younger the four Roosevelt sons, who were embers of the President’s crew dur- g the sail along the Canadian and $ew England shores, = As he stepped aboard his train at flyde Park, the President told home- awn friends he would be back late turday night. Besides Secretary and frs. Morgenthau, Delano, the Presi- nt's uncle, who also has a home at yde Park, was on the train. Delano I8 chairman of the National Resources Board. . —_— KENTUCKY POLICE CHIEF SLAIN IN FRONT OF JAIL harge of Buckshot Fired From Across Street Kills Man- chester Official. &y the Assoctated Press. £ MANCHESTER, Ky., August 10.— ief of Police Harve Dezarg, 45, was ot to death in front of the city jail € 11 pm. last night. * Dezarn, who had been chief of po- e about one month, was felled by Buck shot from a shot gua fired from across the street near a pool room on Main street. & The officer had visited the jail to vestigate a disturbance among the ‘Prisoners. He was shot as he left the 3 door. No arrest had been made [ morning. i -’Manchester's Main street in recent iyears was the sccue of several spec- ‘Mlcular assassinations. 3 £c-rn 1s survived by his widow and E children. i FEucrQYnien 122 years old. | climbed on the bannister, Colored Employe of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936. ROUSEVEH HUI_DS Text of Slaying Confession Asheville Hotel Claims He Shot and Struck Clevenger Girl After She Martin Moore, colored hall boy in the Battery Park Hotel at Asheville, N. C., shown in his cell after confessing and re- enacting the killing of 18-year-: University co-ed. Ey the Assoctated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, August 10.— The text of the confession by Martin Moore, colored employe of the Bat- tery Park Hotel, in the slaying of 19- year-old Helen Clevenger, as an- nounced by the sheriff, follows: My name is Martin Moore. I am I live at 84! Hill street. I am employed as a hall man at the Battery Park Hotel. I finished my work at 5 p.m. on July 15, 1936, and left for home. I sneaked back into the hotel the same night through a back door, about 9 pm. and I hid downstairs in my locker. About 12:45 am. on July 16, I went up the back stairway to the second floor and went to room 224. I opened the door. The room was not locked. When I entered the room the girl was on the bed. I walked in. She screamed. Then I shot her. Blows Halt Further Screams. She still kept screaming and I hit her with the gun, in the face, three or four times until she stopped screaming. When I shot she jumped up and started to run out. I then hit her with the gun. She fell on the floor, almost near the bath room. When she fell I don't know what position she fell. It was dark. The bed light was lit when I went in. She kept screaming and I hit her a couple of times when she was Iying |on the floor. I unscrewed the shade and the bulb from the socket and placed it some- where and came out. As I was about to leave the room some man, standing in the doorway, said: “What was the scream?” And I said to the man- “It's what I was wondering.” Makes Escape. I then closed the door and went | down the front steps to the mezzanine floor and down the mezzanine to the ball room. I passed through a heavy door and screen door, reached the porch, stepped down half way and jumped. Then I ran to my right on a street west of the hotel to Montford street and started walking on Hill street. I hung arcund on Hill street until time to go back to work. I saw no one around Hill street. I went back to work at 4 am. I still had the gun on me when I went back to work. I worked until 10 minutes to 5. then went home and went to sleep. I brought the gun back home with me this time and put it under the toilet beam. That is the same place I Screamed. old Helen Clevenger, New York —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto, where Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown, with other officers, and Banks Taylor | found it after I had told them where I had hid it. I carried you all to it. I saw this girl when she came in | and I then saw her come out of her room and went around the corner to her right. Tried Other Rooms. I don't know where she went to. When I sneaked back into the hotel | through the back door I had the same | .32 automatic that you have, down | | front of my trousers, at 12:45 am., | July 16, and went to the second floor | to sneak into the rooms to look for money. I tried the doors on rooms 218 and 219. They would not open. The next.| | room I tried was room 224. I be- | | lieved the young girl was in bed. I | tried the door, it opened. was not | | locked. I did not steal anything from | this girl's room I got scared. I figured she was not in the room. My reason was that I { found the door unlocked, but when I !got in she was there and she| , screamed. That's why I shot her. She screamed some more and | started to run out. It was then I| struck her with the gun. When she | | fell on the floor I struck her several | times to stop her screaming, as I| was scared and did got want to be | caught. Questioned on Light. (At this point he was questioned by Sheriff Brown. “When did you un- screw the shade and the bulb?”) The prisoner continued: Then I shot her and knocked her down once. I then unscrewed the light and took the whole thing off. When I entered the room she said, “What do you want?” I told her I opened the door. I| did not know she was in there. I| looked at her and she said, “I am | going to scream.” I told her not to. | Girl Threatens to Call Help. | So she screamed once. I closed | the door. She said, “You'd better get out of here or I'll call the office.” | I was standing close to her and I shot her before she could go back and I hit her with the butt. She fell on her knees. She screamed again and I hit her again. She screamed again and I hit her twice. I had on a raincoat, a black sleeveless sweater. I don't know what | shirt or trousers. I wore a brown cap. The brown cap you showed me, I wore. | I made this statement of my own free will and accord and without promise or threat of any kind what- soever. I have read the foregoing | statement and it is true. Yes, Sir! AGED BEER IN SUMMER 700! * Beer that isn't AGED cannot be mellow and wholesome. Be sure of truly aged beer all summer! Demand FREE STATE SUMMER RESERVE .... the precious brew we save till sum- mer, to you rich, assure mellow, fine beer even at the height of the In the space-saving “STEINIE” BOTTLE! THREE PRIMARIES HOLD SPOTLIGHT States to Nominate Tomor- row—Roosevelt, Landon Ignore Campaign. 8y the Associated Press. ‘The Nation found itself provided today with a full political bill of fare for this week, beginning with the conclave here of the pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League. There were other political high spots galore for the rest of the week, including State primaries, conven- tions and many speeches. The two major presidential candi- dates, however, planned little or no campaigning. After an absence of about a month, President Roosevelt came back to the Capital today for a flood conference to be followed by a tour of Pennsyl- vania and New York areas hit by Spring floods. Landon to Have Vacation. About midweek, Gov. Landon is expected to head from Topeka for his ranch in Colorado for a vacation with his family before beginning on August 20 a campaign swing that will carry him to his birthplace, West Middlesex, Pa. Col. Frank Knox, Landon’s running mate, turned today to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to compose his next major address, before the West Vir- ginia Republican State Convention August 13. Among other highs spots of the week, nominating primaries will be held on Tuesday in Arkansas, Florida and Idaho; the convention of Father Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice opens Friday in Cleveland, and John D. M. Hamilton, Republi- can national chairman, will make a radio speech at Columbus, Ohio, on Friday. Coughlin on Platform. The week end found Father Cough- lin, Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Representative William Lemke, Union party presidential candidate, active on the speaking platform. Hitting the policies of Roosevelt and Landon, Father Coughlin told an au- dience at Scranton, Pa.: “I am asking you to support men because they support the principles which you love. I know you are waiting for me to say something about the Union party. “The National Union for Social Justice is not going to support the Union party or any party. We are | going to support men who will stand shoulder to shoulder to preserve America for Americans and God. There is only one set of candidates who stand for those principles.” Here he mentioned Lemke and Thomas O'Brien, Lemke's running | mate, and said “we are supporting in- dividuals; we are not supporting parties.” | In a statement here last night Col. | P. H. Callahan, a Louisville Susiness | man long prominent in national Ca- | tholic affairs, predicted Father Coughlin “will come out in the Fall for Roosevelt.” He said the radio priest “has the natural characteristic | of the Irish, of being reckless in | statement and action, who finally get | their feet on the ground and then | react 50 as to be fair and just.” Lemke Hits Banking System. Lemke, speaking at Balsam Lake, Wis. said the Government was being “short-changed” under the present banking system, and asked why it should not “use its own money and credit with which to retire the $36,- 000,000,000 tax-exempt bonds that are now outstanding? If it would do this, it would save us more than $1,000,000,000 in interest every year.” Dr. Townsend, talking to a group of his followers at De Kalb, Ill., urged them to work for Lemke's election as “the oniy candidate who has pledged us his support.” for %« 4 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION % 4 D. C. PLAYGROUND EVENTS LISTED Active Week to Include Pet Shows and Model Yacht Regattas. Hundreds of children of the Dis- trict playgrounds will participate this week in a series of baby, doll, health and pet shows, in addition to more active programs scheduled for older groups. ‘The list of events scheduled by Miss Sibyl Baker, superviser of the Play- ground Department, again indicates this season will set a new record for activities. The programs, in addition to final contests in junior and senior play- ground tennis tournaments, include the following: For Tuesday—A vehicle show at 2 pm. at the Bancroft Playground; model boat regatta, 2 p.m., Langdon Recreation Center. For Wednesday—Doll show, 2 p.m., Mann Playground; health show, 2:30 p.m., Lafayette Playground; doll show, 2:30 p.m., Congress Heights Play- ground; health show, 3 p.m. at the wading pool, Georgetown Playground; model boat regatta, 3 p.m., Chevy Chase Playground; doll show, 3 p.m,, Van Buren Playground. For Thursday—"“Old home day,” an all-day event, Garfield Playground; doll and “tacky” show, 1 p.m., Cooke Playground; “lady-come-and-see,” 2 p.m., Bancroft Playground; doll show, 2 p.m., Wallack Playground; pet show, 3 p.m., Paul Junior High; baby show, 5 p.m., Potomac Playground. For Friday—Pet show, 10:45 am.,, Kingsman Playground; model boat re- gatta, 3 p.m. Rosedale Playground; Frank Portillo, “the children’s clown,” 3 p.m., Jefferson Junior High Playground, and baby show, 3 pm, Johnson-Powell Junior High Play- ground. BEFORE YOU ORDER FUEL AUTOMATIC GAS HEAT Cad2 District 8500 for a FREE ES'!'IMATE of the gear 'round cost of Gas Heating MORE THAN 9,000 WASHINGTON HOMES ARE HEATED ECONOMICALLY WITH GAS! WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY A Public Service Befitting the Nation’s Capital 41l TENTH STREET. N. W. freedom: | the officers of the crime. Murder Solved HELEN CLEVENGER. Clevenger (Continued From First Page.) Taylor was secretly detained and ques- tioned Thursday night. Officers said Moore showed them where he had cached his gun under | his house, although at that time he denied any knowledge of the girl’s death. He saild he had loaned the weapon to a bell boy two days betore! the crime. On the butt of the pistol—which | Moore asserted in his confession, he | used to bash the girl's face—officers said they found blood stains and a | few blond hairs. | They arrested Moore and put him and Taylor into a cell into which a | dictograph had been installed. { As the officers listened, Brown said, | Taylor told Moore that he knew he had not lent the pistol to the bell boy and that he should go ahead and tell The two | nearly had a fight, Brown sald. | After the youths had been in the| cell for about an hour, anyofficer en- | in your home . . . ® TELEPHONE DISTRICT 8500 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, one of the grandest men of all time, secured a loan from France to finance our colonial armies in their fight The fate ot nations often rests in thei: ability to borzow money in times of need. « Likewise, the future of many of us depends upon borrowed money to meet some unfore- seen expense. We will be pleased to explain our various loan plans to you—some requiring only your own signature—and all with provision for repayment in convenient monthly amounts. MORRIS PLAN BANK or WASHINGTON The Ustonk for the Jualvidical! 1408 H STREET, N. W. tered and accused Moore of Miss Clevenger’s death, informing him that his fingerprints — non-existent — had been found on the bed lamp in the girl’s room. Then Moore, Sheriff Brown said, “broke down” and confessed, thinking he was trapped. Uncle Discovered Body. The green pajama-clad body of the honor student of New York University was found in her gecond-floor room about 8 a.m., July 16, by her uncle, Prof. W. L. Clevenger of North Caro- lina State College, with- whom she was traveling. A bullet had pierced her heart and lodged in her back and her face had been mutilated by a severe battering with some heavy instrument. Her legs were thrown under her body, and officers said the position indicated the Staten Island, N. Y., girl was on her knees pleading for her life when she was slain. The pistol, the sheriff said, was a heavy .32 caliber Spanish 8-shot auto- matic, “fully loaded. The balls of the cartridges, he said, matched the one removed from the girl’s body. Time of the murder was fixed at 1 am., when several guests at the hotel heard a woman's screams over a terrific thunder storm. Several hours later Prof. Clevenger went to his niece’s room to call her to break- | fast. MRS. CLEVENGER PLEASED. Expresses Relief When Told of Hall| Boy’s Confession. NEW YORK, August 10 (#).—Mrs. | Mary Clevenger, mother of Helen' 2-HOUR Clevenger, 18-year-old coed slain in Asheville, N. C., expressed great re- lief yesterday when informed that a colored hall-boy had coufessed to the crime, “If it only is true!” She exclaimed at her Staten Island home. “Ws can’t save our girl, but other girly can be saved.” She praised authorities who worked on the case. OFFICIALS SPEED PROBE OF ESKIMO STARVATION Coast Guard Cutter and Bureau of Indian Affairs Agent Hasten to Arctic. By the Assoclated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, August 10.—A U, 8. Coast Guard cutter and a Bureau of Indian Affairs official sped for Arctio regions today to investigate reports of starving Eskimos, some of whom werq eating their sled dogs. The cutter Northland was three days out of Nome for Barrow on an emer= gency cruise ordered by the U. S. Coast Guard at Washington, D. C,, to aid in the crisis along the Arctic rim. Charles W. Bawkesworth, assistant director of the Bureau of Indian Af- fairs, was aboard the motorship North Star for Nome where he will meet the steamer Derblay from Seattle loaded with 100 tons of flour and canned goods for Eskimos. At Nome the supplies will be trans= ferred from the Derblay to the Nortb Star for the North. 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