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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.? <UP)The south
ern and northern Rebel armies in
Spain prepared today to march
cn foadrid over five of the seven
highways radiating from the capi
tal. Whether the two remaining
highways?to Valencia and Mur
cia?first would be cut, remained
a military secret.
Dispatches from Cacers Sunday
said Gen. Francisco Franco, Rebel
Generalissimo, and his general
staff, took off from there in a
powerful plane for an unknown
destination. It was assumed he
left to take personal command
of the long-waited "big rush" to
capture Madrid.
Insurgants for days have been
reinforcing their line on the Mad
rid side of Toledo in preparation
for the high command's order to
advance. Simultaneously. Rebel
columns on the northwestern and
Guadalajara fronts resumed of
fensives, jeopardizing the capital
from that direction.
Already reports arc circulating
in Toledo. Burgos. Seville and
Rebel centers that the Madrid
government is transferring much
of its aviation to Valencia, where
it is rumored, the Socialist-Com
munist capital vill be established
once the final drive on Madrid
starts.
This drive is certain to get un
der way in the next few days..
Possession of five highways
leading to Madrid has enabled
the Rebels to bring up. in motor
ized caravans, ammunition, heavy
artillery, tanks and troop rein
forcements. These five highways,
forming a half-moon about Mad
rid. are: Burgos to Madrid. Valla
dolid to Madrid. Talavera to Mad
rid. Toledo to Madrid and Bar
celona to Madrid, which latter
road has been cut between Gua
darrama and Zaragosa.
The Rebels have received from
Africa heavy reinforcements of
Arab troops- -6.000 to 8,000 ?and
a score or more additional war
planes. Their operations against
Malaga on the southeastern coast
and Bilbao on the Basque Coast
are moving soccessfully. It seems
that Franco's hope of entering
Madrid in triumph on Oct. 12.
National holiday, may be realized.
DL'BINSK Y SCORES
HAMILTON
New York. Oct. 4.?(U.R)? Da
vid Dubinsky, president of the
International Garment Workers
union, tonight accused John D.
M. Hamilton of "fascist sympa
thies while his Republican presi
dential candidate. Gov. Alf M.
Landon, condemned the spread
ing of dictatorial government."
Dubinsky replied to Hamilton's
charges that he was a commun
ist and should be removed as a
Democratic elector in New York
state because of contributions to
the Spanish civil war.
Four Killed When Airplanes
Collide At Jamaica, N. Y.-Fiflh
Probably Is Fatally Injured
New York. Oct. 4.?(U.R)?'Three
men were killed and a fourth in
jured critically when two airplanes
collided over Jamaica Sea airport
in South Jamaica today.
The dead:
Max Stern. 33. Far Rockaway,
pilot of one of the planes.
David Cook. 28, Jamaica.
William Frank. 20. Jamaica.
Fred N. Davis 22. tivuu instruc
tor of the second plane, was so
seriously injured he was not ex- '
pected to live.
Everette Starkins, gasoline sta- !
tion operator, saw the accident.
He said Davis and Prank, a stu
I dent flier, had just taken og when j
the Stern ship wheeled for a land- I
ing.
Both planes crashed, a mass of :
wreckage _ _ _
Out Pitches Carl
j MCNTE PEARSON". Yankee hinder who lead the American League this
season, was r, ported lost to the Rupperlmen for the series due to a pulled
muscle that he received in the closing game cf the American L.ague, re
covered enough to srt the Giants down with seven lovely h.ts and two
runs. The Yankees got Pearson from the Cleveland Indians in an early
season trade for Johnny Allen.
G r a y e P o 1 i t i c a I
Disorders In .Both
London And Paris
I Fascist Black Shirts
Raise Hell In
London
London. Oct. 4. <U.F!> 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. ? <U.R> ? 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