The Daily independent I1 ' ? 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 .south poition Monday. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1936. Knt*.r?i * cuy. N. C. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS ? i ^^^i^??1^^^^^^^? y^i'ied Negro Smoked Qui \nd Killed After tj\e Hours Of Terror Lrrioult'd N e jr r o Lids Oiiiffrs At I |!;i? till" ?"> Hours Ij.HKX V.O(M)KI) ol Polin- W ;i!or> of I UiniNor W.i- l I |t, |>ir l ;i-l Niirlit I. . expect I: dead I riff F m ? County I - Iiyrd. H. M. I a Wind I . Craig and five I I i 'IIa'I1!4. I ?? wounds I 28-yearlold i ' mother I" ? -'ici blazed ? > car witii a possession. ? horn his way . ual. The >' from . x'. to the ? filled ? .1 ; ?? !.???. from of adjoining :: F. M. C: :ef of Small Sta p ??. re called in j Wii'mms C;\v. and were places about B' .i : of the :: ,1 tiie windows l;|N- sl\l! ! N 1)11.1) n; M'U \i I I KNOON il aired k Sunday af ? ?f : ? i daugh l iiifhtic Of 'MhjlOO 111 the ir.sl Six Months u uncertain-I ? 000.000 in ; n-i country 1 than for year, the ?it reported nts for the U. S. Chamber Of Commerce To Make War On Consumers Cooperatives In America Directors Apprehen sive of Spread of Movement 1800 OF 'EM NOW Frar They Will Wipe Out TV-iisamls of Small Merchants Washington. Oct. 4.?(U.R>?First rumblings of a threatened trade war in America were heard to night when a committee of the United States Chamber of Com merce demanded that govern mental agencies abolish preferen tial treatment in tax exemptions, financing and other aid to con sumers' co-operatives and treat all business alike. President Harper Sibley made the report public tonight without comment and gave no indication of the attitude the board will take toward the proposal in shaping its legislative program for the com ing session of Congress. Nevertheless, the United Press learned that the directors are ap prehensive over the spread of the movement through whichk con sumers band together and effect economies through co-operative purchases and sales of various commodities. Johnston's report was discussed at considerable length before it was made public. The anxiety of some directors is said to have been heightened j by the fact that President Roose- : vclt has been studying the opera- j tions of co-operatives in Scandi- j navian countries where the move- | ment is more advanced. Recently j he appointed a committee to make a study. Rumors that the new deal, if returned to power in November, contemplates further encouragement to the co-opera tives have been current in the nation's capital for many months but never have been confirmed. Moving in the face of this sit uation. the chamber named ai committee to study the problem, j Tonight it declared: "It is improper for governmcn- ; tal agencies to extend preferen tial treatment, by means of tax exemption, financing, or other aid. to consumers' co-operatives since such enterprises are but another form of competitive force seeking to win the support and j ? Continued 011 page eight) yAMES MAKE ISEWS /\ POLICE COVKT Names of prominent citizens of Elizabeth City are coming to figure with regularity on the police blot ter over the weekends, not through tluer own delinquency but because of that of their colord namesakes. A week ago yesterday, the blotter ' carried the announcement that Larry Skinner had been arrested for drunkenness. It was not City Clerk Skinner, but one of the dark er hue who bore the same name. Yesterday the name of John Wes ley Foreman appeared on the blot ter on the same charge, but in this case also it was a Negro namesake instead of the Main slreec lumber manufacturer. Police are beginning to wonder j who the next will be. 4Big Push' on Madrid Is Begun Rebels Reinforced With Arab i Troops and More Planes Lisbon Oct. 4.? An tutly- j | tempered mob fouuht more thai. 5.000 police today scckinp to break I up a scheduled parade and xneet I ins ot Sir Oswald Muselcy's Fasc I ist "blac k shirt;;." Fifty-three persons were arrest- ' ed. Scores were injured. An unprecedented attempt to erect a street barricade, scuffles v.'itli police and numerous clashes with the Fascists marked an aft ernoon of disotder. the like ol i Continued on p.v-tc ci:;ht > More Than 1,400 Ar rests Are Made In Paris Rioting Paris. Oct. 4. ? ? Twenty thousand police and mobile guards prevented a dash between Right ists and Communists today, but only after numerous skirmishes in 1 which more than 1.400 persons were arrested. The near riot was precipitated by 25.000 members of Col. Fran cois ile la Rocquc's French Social party, the former disbanded Fasc ist Croix do Feu, when they at tempted to break up a meeting of iContinued on page eight) Am! So .Air. IIcpIhtI Peolo Has ]No Apologies To Make Bv W. O. S\l Mll liS I have learned a lew things out of nearly thirty years experience m the publi^iing business. One ol these tilings I have learned is. that one of the most uninterest ing things in the world to news paper readers generally is a quar rel between newspapers. And the reader is right. Certainly, a daily newspaper should not burden its columns with personal contro versy. But I would he a sucker if I did not take cognizance of the follow ing from an editorial in "our favorite afternoon newspaper." is sue of Saturday, Oet. 3rd, 1936. I quote: But isn't it remarkable that an editor who lias no mercilessly and relentlessly punished his enemies as has W. O. Saunders is so thinskinncd when he imagines he is being persecuted himself? And isn't it more re markable still that he should exhibit the same air of perse-, cutcd innocence because lie can't print non mailable mat ter without a protest? The charge that The Daily Advance has tried to prevent any issue of Independent from going through the mails is not true. The Daily Advance did, after waiting for proof that the mat ter in question had gone through the mails, call the pos tal regulations affecting such matter to the postmaster's at tention. For that there is no apology. The so called "nonmailable" matter referred to by The Daily Advance was a lively news story publisher! in this riMvaoAD*1" nn ! dcr date of Friday, Sept. 25 un I dor the caption, j MAX INK DANIFLK WINS JACK-POT PKIZK OF $120 Readers of this newspaper will recall (he story. Little Miss Max mo Daniels, on her way from prayer meeting to the Movies, learned just before she had ar rived at the theatre that her name had been called as winner of a $120.00 jack-pot. She ran breathlessly into the theatre to claim the prize before time was up on her. Lucky girl! The Daily Independent printed the story next morning. It was one of the most interesting local news stories that this newspaper has i.winted. Now the U. S. Postal Rules and Regulations are tightly drawn against all lotteries; so tight that any publication giving even indi rect information as to the nature ana location of a lottery may be barred from the mails. The post office department never mtcnt ed this provision to penalize a legitimate newspaper that printed legitimate news. < New York news papers print the news of Irish Sweepstakes winners every so of ten.) The postal rules and regula tions were made so tight in order to prevent crooked lottery promo ' ters from getting any sort of pub licity for their schemes, thru the mails. But when "our favorite after ? noon newspaper" saw that news i item in The Daily Independent, | it busied it self to get the names i of out of town subscribers to whom 'Continued on Pa a s PighD I Mechanic Flies Here From Philadelphia In Three Hours |To Repair Stranded Plane Two Women, Florida Bound, Are Forced Down Near Here CALL FOR HELP Mechanic Made Trip From Quaker City In Very Quick Time A cabin plane in which two Philadelphia women were flying to Florida developed engine trouble near here Saturday, landed in a bean field and in about four hours was on its way again, repairs hav ing been made by a mechanic flown down here from the Quaker City in response to a telephone call from the stranded women. It was around one o'clock Sat urday afternoon when the plane's engine began to sputter and miss. The plane at that time was about five miles southeast oi Elizabeth City, headed south. The woman pi lot picked out what appeared from the air to be a good spot in which to land and then made an almost perfect landing in a field of snap beans a few hundred yards from Kirkwood's service station between Elizabeth City and Weeksville. The two women very coolly climbed out of the plane, inquired where the nearest telephone was and then caught a ride to the home of W. B. Coppersmith, from which place they put in a long distance call to an airport at Philadelphia. Over the telephone they told an airport official where they were and what trouble they had had. He promised to send a mechanic at j once. About three hours later, a plane landed near the women's plane, and a mechanic from the Philadelphia airport climbed out. In a short while he had remedied the engine trouble, and shortly after five o'clock that afternoon he roared ' ofii again in the direction of Phila delphia. and the two women took off and headed their plane south. It was an amazing example of \ science's triumphs over time and space, all executed as easily and as simply as though a motorist strand- 1 cd on the highway had called a i garage in a nearby town lor a me chanic to come out and fix his car. i TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Men's Christian Federa tion 10:00 County Commissioners P. M. " 1:00 Rotary 7:30 City Council; Kiwanis Jr. Glee Club; Troop 153 BSA at YMCA; Pocahontas 8:00 Special meeting Ameri can Legion Library hours 10-12, 2-6 Flashes LOW-DOWN ON SUPREME COURT Washington, Oct. 4.?(U.R)? A forthcoming gossip book about the supreme court was reported tonight to have intrigued court circles as the justices prepared to meet for their 1936 term. Wives of the justices are un derstood to have shown greater interest over the volume, to be published this month under the title "Nine Old Men," than the jurists themselves. PENNSY OFFICIAL DEAD Homer City, Pa., Oct. 4.?(U.R) ?George Dickie Ogden, 68, vice president in charge of traffic for the Pennsylvania railroad, died today at his home here. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, at Homer City. WILL ORGANIZE RACING Miami, Fla., Oct. 4. ?(U.R)? Plans for organization of a na tional association of race track owners and operators for "future welfare and betterment of rac ing" were announced today by Walter H. Donovan, president of the National Association of State Racing commissioners. MRS. ROOSEVELT TO THE DEFENSE Ilyde Park, Oct. 4.?(U.R)? El eanor Roosevelt, in her syndicat ed article distributed daily by the United Feature Syndicate, tomorrow for the first time dur ing the current campaign will come to the defense of her hus band : (Continued on page eight) A Funny Guy Reports The I Miraculous Come-Back Of Pearson Of The N. Y. Giants i By HARRY FERGUSON U. P. Staff Correspondent Yankee Stadium. New York, Oct. 4.?Smelling of liniment, suf fering from shooting pains, dizzy spells and misery of the back, Monte Pearson came off his sick bed today to do some baseball slinging for the New York Yan kees. "Just go out there and pitch against Hubbcll." Manager Joe McCarthy told his sick man. After Pearson had beat the great Hubbell, held the Giants to seven hits and knocked out a dou ble and single for himself, Mc Carthy announced that he was looking for a blind man suffering from hardening of the arteries and fallen arches so he could send him out there to pitch tomorrow. It was a great day, brethren, for old Invalid Pearson. The day before the world series started he was sitting in the club house, looking like something they had brought out of the grave. His face was white and drawn, his eyes were as hollow as a radio comedian's joke and his back hurt so bad he had to lean against a trunk. "How do you feel" asked Lefty Gomez that day. "Worse than I look," Pearson replied. So McCarthy patched him to gether with adhesive tape tdav. sprinkled liiin villi loaine anu pave liiin a drink of iron tonic and sulphur and molasses. An am bulance stood by the center field gates to carry the poor guy away in case lie fell in a heap. Six doc tors occupied box seats, ready to perform a post mortem the minute ( Pearson dropped dead from fright at the sight of Bill Terry swing- J ing his big yellow bat. Ring all the bells and flash the 1 lights for the head nurses in ev ery hospital in the country, be cause Monte 'One-Foot-in-the- : Grave) Pearson pitched a bajll game today that should cheer all invalids. How good was lie? Well, it was just before the battle of Antietam that Bill Terry last struck out in a world series game. Pearson whiged hi min the first inning today, and then came back to do it again later in the day. Pearson had a brief flurry of trouble in the eighth inning. That I was because he had been out in i the open air so long and felt fun- I I ny because the hospital odors had j i got out of his nostrils. But with j two Giants on base, Monte had a I j dizzy spell and his back began to pain him, so he settled right down and forced Terry and Ott to hit weak grunders to the infield. Next year the Yankees will train I in a tuberculosis sanitarium where ! they can get drinking water filled j with bacillus fungi, streptococci and typhoid fe er germs. Yankees Beat Giants To Tune of 5-2; Fourth Game of World Series Hubbell Tagged With His First World Series Defeat SICK MAN DID IT Today Will End Series If Yanks Win the Fifth Game As Expected Yankee Stadium, New York, Oct. 4.?(U.R)-? Monte Pearson, a "sick man" pitcher, today tag ged Mighty Carl Hubbel with his first world scries defeat as the Yankees beat the Giants 5-2 in the classic's fourth game before 66,669 fans, the largest crowd that ever witnessed a series en counter. This amazing mound upset, in which the right-handed Fresno, Calif., fiinger? a man suffering from a back ailment? out-pitch ed baseball's screwball king, gave the American leaguers a com manding 3-1 lead in the series. One more victory will give the Yanks the world championship. In this mound duel between the Yanks' ace right-hander and the Giants' supposedly invincible southpaw, the slender, six-foot Pearson gave a magnificient re ply to the question: Has he re covered sufficiently from his ill ness to do world series duty? With his fast balls and sharp breaking curves, he limited the Giants to seven discreetly scat tered hits. Hubbell, who was the hero or the series' opening game at the rain-drenched Polo Grounds on Sept. 30, was found for eight hits one of which was Lou Gehrig's second home run of the series. Hubbell was removed in the sev enth for a pinch hitter. Gehrig's home run came in the third inning when the "Iron Horse" first baseman of the Yanks lashed a screamer into the right field bleachers? just to the right of the 344-foot sign. Lar ruping Iou scored Third Base man Red Rolfe ahead of him. It was the first time this season that any batsman had made a homer with a man aboard against Hubbell. After today's triumph, Pear son admitted in the dressing room that his back was not completely recovered? "Otherwise I might have been able to put more speed on the ball." Pearson came to the Yanks from Cleveland during the winter in a trade for Pitcher Johnny Allen, who did not get along with Manager McCarthy. In scoring this surprise triumph over Hubbell who is rated one of the greatest pitchers of all time, Pearson was in serious trouble only twice. He was rather fortu nate to emerge from the fourth inning with only one run? the Giants' first. Bartell opened the fourth by singling to right. Manager Bill Terry walked. Then Ott forced Terry. Bartell sprinting to third. Big Jim Ripple singled to left, scoring Bartell. Mancuso forced Ripple, and Mancuso was safe on what would have been a double play had not Frank Crosetti's high throw pulled Gehrig off the bag. Burgess Whitehead made the third out by popping to Crosetti. Those two forceouts helped Pear son a lot in this frame. The Giants collected their sec ond run in the eighth, with util ity infielder, Sam Leslie, who bat ted in place of Hubbell. getting a clean single to left. Utility Out fielder George "Kiddo" Davis ran (Continued on page eiglit) Weather Statistics October 4, 1936 TEMPERATURE Average for October 63.40 Highest today 75 Lowest today 54 Average for today 64.50 Excess for today 1.10 Barometer 1 30.lt. Average for the year 60.60 PRECIPITATION Average for October 2.60 Amount today ...0.00 Amount this month 1.57 Amount since Jan. 1st ___47.21 Average for year 47.50 Wind Direction?East Character of Day -Partly Cloudy W. H. Sanders