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_ r? onr TI TF Hatty IN DEPENDENT 1 ^A?;,, , nnmW and Friday. 1 JL JL J_j L/iiDUl XI 1 XJ llj J. J-jl 1 3-J J-Jl 1 JL ?g TutTSrC I 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT. A WEEKLY ESTABI.ISHE D BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 mostly overcast Thursday. . ggTvTia. ^ ELIZABETH CITX, N. C? 'THURSDAY^OCTOBER 29, 1936. "?? a SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS j Roosevelt andLandon Qet Both Cheers floos in New York City Roosevelt N- *? Very Much At Home pjne? With .Mother Look- i?? i'HMtrr Srrur it\ of Homes ami X;w i. :- t'.'' Tired J bur .upp'- Hr> >;.ii nt Roosevelt i ^ co:r::uvu tonight that the sidewalks o:' N York would give ? 'Z ... riu! 47 electoral : . . ;.e when the balots are counted next Tuesday. ' 7;v C: : Ex . . based his iupes cr. ?. r.:ht:>iu.sm of the ?iar. v.-pcur:::: that greeted as ;???: ' V.::v d and spoke ? Metropolitan area a v.::u; program that opened a: Bay nr. X. J., this menus? and did not end until rnglifal when ho drove up be !uad a motorcycle escort to his j :c*r. n.v>c ::: Eve 65th street. ; Ha visit was the preiude to a second campaign swing to New York that w.\. hFriday and I end Sat . .. . a major address m Madison Square Gar den He round to mix phil- j esopny - rr.ir. u* with pure ly pout: :: ?>. to extend ras reetn.r- : throngs that turned out to welcome him and to pledge a continuation of ad Enstravr. ; ?? >kmg to a greater security of homes and jobs The President's path crossed r.? tiia: o: Gov rnor Alf M. H n opponent. The latter, also campaigning for the New York *. ??. drove down 42nc street as Mr. Roosevelt at the head o: ar. nr.;- yng motor anky Park Avenue ar.c :r. He was :r.-ni :?rritory as ! 1-e invaded t.ua industrial 1 section and parry leaders assured " . ' ' v ?: Boroughs vouid ?lve him d majority in ex cess of a null ?. r,s. far more n^cev-ar;. : Republi can ups-a:-\ A: Governor Mu.ci he was rt'fz?y r'!Cs:.c- Major-General 1 : tding for an ad. c.?cs .r r?jr"Pi ? ? ? \*s ....n fin uifn pyprn^t; I I ? versa-" racing of t.Ue j I Gum G ?? Inland and I i::z ~r:the harbor I boomed 21-gun Presidential i i?-:y j.- :.u-:.ed on the I tery Murraj Hiil With him were I Gov K't"3- H. Lehman. his 1 , tar .at. and his , I military ar.d ul a.it"-.. j Dines With Mother I The Statu' - t Liberty address I vasanoc-p litical one. Speaking I a iativ.v of the massive I that' even I a time- troubled and uncer ? tarn a, . stdl hold to the faith that a bi tter civilization I than any ive known is in I sore for Ar. :.'d and by our ex I anplt for the world." I From Bf-nioe , I hand he return ? to M,-.:. . - ??an where among I 'Continued on Page Six* I Veatlier Statistics I October 28. 1936 I TEMPERATURE I Average for October 63.40 I Highest today _ _ 63.00 I Lowe f f.a;. .. 39.00 I Avera-_r today .. 51.00 I Lie. . todav Minus 2.40 Average for the year 60.60 ? 3arom:ter 30.04 I FREcipi'fAiK^M In Inchest I Avr-ra-.-f : ? October 2.60 ? Amourr _ 0.00 I Total amount ?his month 5.28 ? Total amount since Jan. 1 50.92 ? Exer-ss f?r the vear 3.42 I ..."? ''rage for rim year 47.50 I r:rw* direction- Northeast. ? Character : Osv Partly cloudy. I V/ H SANDERS. I Hit TIDES I High Low I a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m I Tbursd tv. Oct. 29 1 Itil't 6:04 6:26 12:35 I Hatteras 0:44 6:06 12:15 I Friday. Oct. 30 I " ,o . 17 0 3b 1 ^ I t!a**ciu h;.y,' r, is l:0t TODAY'S LOCAL 1 CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Fedcra- I tion. 9:30 Boy Scouts collect cloth ing for needy. 10:00 Missionary Union Biackwell Memorial. P. M. 730 Cub pack Scouts; Red Men: W. O. W.: Eastern Star: Prayer Service Pente costal Holiness. Library Hours: 10-12. 2-6. Landonaf Road To I Red Ruin i Says Secretary Ickes In His New York Speech New York. Oct. 28 ?(U.R)?Sec- 1 retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes charged tonight that "the road to 1 which Gov. Alf M. Landon beck-1 ons is the one to communism with | a detour via fascism." President Roosevelt is following "the middle road mapped by the founders of tne republic." the sec- 1 retary added in a speech prepared for delivery at Carnegie Hall here j tonight under auspices of the Na- | tional Progressive league. ? America is at the crossroads," Ickes said, with the voters facing a choice between holding to the middle road or following "to ruin the road along which another re- | actionary administration would, undoubtedly lead us." "Communism and fascism are' children of the same parent," he continued, "sired by despair?the < despair of those suffering from intolerable economic and social conditions." By moving swiftly to correct' such conditions in 1933 when the | American people were "ripe for j rebellion," President Roosevelt | "saved our traditional American j system." the new deal spokesman i asserted. tro coin ti-ip nolicies which Gov ernor Landon "apparently favors" ( promise nothing but a return to j 1932 conditions which if briefly j perpetuated would pave the way "for violent economic changes, which no sensible American wants to see." Before sounding his warning that Republican policies "threaten I the loss of the boon of democ racy." Ickes lashed out at the G. O. P. candidate's record to "tear away a few pre-Halloween false faces." He referred to Governor Landon during the course of his speech as j "this politically pliant candidate." a "political Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." "political spoilsman." "sun I flower of reaction." "will-o'-the wisp from Kansas." He charged that when "the presidential bee began to buzz in I his ears." views that Governor Landon "had held as matters of principle for many years went overboard overnight." "We know," Ickes concluded, "that Candidate Landon's pro posed reactionary retracement can lead but to communism or fascism. . . . President Roosevelt has been able to avert this danger by his wise and temperate rule during the last tnree and a half years. We know that he will mark out a future route for us along the road I surveyed by the founding fathers and charted by them in the Con stitution and Bill of Rights." MOLLISON TO HOP ACROSS ATLAISTIC Harbor Grace, Nfld., Oct. 28. ?fU.R)?James Mollison?flying in a dinner jacket and hurrying to to keep a dinner date in London ?landed his green monplane at ? 3:25 p .m. today and immediately began refueling for a flight across ' the north Atlantic. ' He left Floyd Bennett airport, outside New York City, at 8:44 a. m. today on the first part of a ? flight that will carry hjm to ?' fcouth Africa. Kansan Brings Prai rie Atmosphere to 1 42nd Street Meets A1 Smith Ac ruses President Roose- i veil of Stirring Up Class Hatred New voi::. u;. zz? (U.R)?Alf M. Landon came from the prairie state of Kansas tonight to the mad acclaim of New York's 42nd street and a triumphant hour in his campaign for the presidency. Standing in an open automo bile, the Republican presidential nominee rode at a crawling pace through the heart of Manhattan at dusk, as he opened his two-day campaign to put the President's home state into the Republican column on election day. He arrived, officially, to see New York's Alfred E. Smith, to meet with insurgent Democracy's John W. Davis, to map final plans with the state's Republican leaders and to deliver at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night the final summation of his battle to drive out the new deal. But actually he marked his ar rival by bringing the flavor of the Kansas prairies to Fifth avenue and to Broadway: by waving his battered old campaign hat at tens of thousands who clogged the streets and cheered?and a few who booed?as he crossed the city through which President Roose velt had driven an hour earlier. He stood, bareheaded, in an open automobile on the drive across Broadway, up Fifth avenue, along 42nd street from Pennsyl vania station to the old, red-brown Murray Hill hotel. Roars of Cheers Ticker tape drifted in mad de signs from the towering buildings into the shadowy canyon of the streets through which the proces sion passed. The white lights of the motion picture cameras beat against him. (Continued on Page Six) Japanese Menace Is Growing Threatens Our Gen eral Economic and Social Standards Asserts Murchison Little Brown People Have Taken Our Onee Profit able Export Markets New York, Oct. 28.?(U.R)?Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, president of the powerful Cotton Textile In stitute, told its annual meeting today that Japan was a "potential menace to our general social and economic standards." "The threat of expanding Japa nese competition . . . more effec tively than any other influence, has taken from us our once prof itable export markets in Latin America and the Far East," Mur chison said. "More recently it has taken from us over half of our export business to the Philippines. "It is now probing aggressively for entrance into the home mar ket and at a time when the indus try has voluntarily diminished its competitive effectiveness by the substantial maintenance of the code standards of wages and hours. "Japanese competition, there fore, not only constitutes a threat to our prosperity, it is also a po tential menace to our general so cial and economic standards." Murchison said there was no single pathway toward a solution 'Continued on Page Six) Avalon Mill! Is Invited To Leave E. City dot Kobinson Declares Ac ceptance Is Not Being Contemplated The management of the Avalon Hosiery Mill in this city has re ceived several inviations to remove elsewhere during the six months it has been beset by labor troubles, it was revealed yesterday by C. O. Robinson, president of the Eliza beth City Hosiery Company. A letter typical of half a dozen or so letters received from various Southern cities is the following letter received this week from the Upper Monogahela Valley Asso ciation, of Fairmon, West Vir ginia: Avalon Hosiery Mill General Manager Avalon Hosiery Mill Elizabeth City, N. C. Dear Sir: We notice from an industrial bulletin where your plant is closed due to labor difficulties and the thought occurs to us that you might wish to change locations and come to a section of tl e country where you would not be handicapped in this con nection. If you arc interested in remov ing your plant to West Virginia we should be pleased to submit some of the many reasons why we believe you could successfuly operate in this territory. Very Truly Yours, i F. Leslie Body, Manager. i According to Mr. Robinson. , many full-fashioned hosiery mills have beer, dismantled and moved to new locations in the past few years because of labor troubles. - Particularly has this been true with respect to Northern mills re moving to the South. At present, the Berkshire Knitting Mills, largest full fashion hosiery mill in the world, is gradually dis mantling its plant at Reading. Pa., due to labor troubles. J Last Spring, when the labor trouble at the Avalon Mill was most serious, Mr. Robinson did I contemplate removing to Eden ton or some other place in North Carolina but decided to stay here and fight it out with the union agitators who were fomenting trouble and discontent among lo cal hosiery workers. There is very little likelhood that the Avalon Mill will ever re move from Elizabeth City, Mr. Robinson said. Forehand Denied Habeas Corpus Writ In Dare Co. Manteo, Oct. 28.?A writ of habeas corpus sought for Jesse Oscar Forehand, Chowan county World war veteran, who recently escaped from a veterans' home at Augusta. Ga.. and returned to his native county, was denied today by Judge J. Paul Frizzclle in Dare superior court. Judge Frizzelle's ruling meant, in effect, that the veterdn must return to the institution from i which lie escaped. W. D. Pruden, Edenton attorney, represented the veteran. Housewife In Durham Wins Sweepstakes Durham, Oct. 28.?(U.R)?The $150,000 she won in the Irish hos pital sweepstakes today was really a surprise to Mrs. Percy Hooker. 36-year-old Durham housewife, who held one of the nine winning tickets in the United States. She didn't know the race was being run today. "I am delighted," was her com ment when informed by the United Press that Dan Bulger, the horse on which she held a ticket, had come in first. With a towel wrapped around her head to ward off dust while she did housework, Mrs. Hooker, tall, angular wife of a furniture store collector, took the news of her good fortune comparatively calmly. "It was an act of God," she said. "It came at an opportune time, too." Her husband recently returned to work after being unemployed since July 1. "No, we have no desire to travel," she said as she stood in (Continual on r>a?e eight-, Supplies From Russia LOYALIST crowds on the deck in Earcclcna, Spain, greet the Ziryan in, first Soviet ship to arrive there with supplies for Communist sup pesters. The Soviet Government recently announced it felt free to aid Loyalists against the Fascist Rebels. Barcelona is the new capital city of Loyalist Spain, since President Azana left Madrid. Social Security Board Resents Fraudulent Use OfltsName On G. 0.P.Posters Conflicting Interpre tations of Social Security Act Labor Defends It Kcpiililiouns Attempt To Prejudice Workers Against It Washington, Oct. 28?(U.R)?The Social Security Board announced tonight that it is asking the De partment of Justice to investigate, "fraudulent" use of its name on posters in at least six states. The Board said posters have been circulated in California, Illi nois, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl vania, Virginia and other sections forecasting pay reductions for workers and purporting to be of ficial notices of the Board. "No regulations dealing with wage deductions have been pub lished by the Social Security Board," the government agency said. The Board's action coincided with an attack on the Social Se cuity law by John D. M. Hamil ton, Republican National Chair man, and a defense by six labor leaders who joined in a Demo cratic radio program, Hamilton accused President _ I (Continued on rage ?ixi WIFE KILLER IS GIVEN 20 YEARS IN DARE COURT Mantco, Oct. 28.?Abram Rob erts, local negro who in a drunken frenzy beat his wife so severely that she died, submitted to a charge of manslaughter in Dare county superior court today and was sentenced to serve 20 years at hard labor. The entire session today was taken up with hearing the evi dence in the case of Henry Jor dan, charged with arson, and it is not believed that the case will go to the jury before noon tomorrow. Jordan is alleged to have at tempted to set fire to the home of Hickey Williams on Nags Head beach. P. G. Sawyer of Elizabeth City is assisting Solicitor Herbert Lcary in the prosecution of the case, in which David Russell and W. A. Worth represent the de fendant. The work of the grand jury has been completed and their report will be filed in the morning. The criminal term is the long est to be held in this county for many years, and it is not thought that trial of the docket will be completed before Friday. Judge | J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill is presiding First Baptist Church Now 150 Years Old To Celebrate Anniversary All INext Week, Be ginning Sunday One hundred and fifty years ago. in 1786, the First Baptist | church, mother of all the Baptist I churches in Elizabeth City and Pasquotank county, was organ ized. AH next week, beginning Sunday morning. November 1. the church will celebrate its 150lh j anniversary. During the week of celebration, three former pastors of the church will deliver sermons, Dr. J. L. White, of Mian.i. Fla., preaching on Monday night and Wednesday night, the Rev. G. H. Payne, of Portsmouth. Va.. preaching on Tuesday night, and the Rev. J. C. Wicker, ol Richmond. Va., preach ing on Thursday night. On Friday night, the Rev. J. T. Riddick, of Durham, who has preached here a number of times, will have as his sermon topic "The First Baptist Church of Elizabeth City." Monday night will be Pasquo tank night, with peopif from the county especially invited. Tuesday night will be Albemarle night, YVednesday night is Eliza beth City night, Thursday night is former members' night, and Fri (Continued on Page Six) ASKS $5,000 IN DAMAGE SUIT ! ' AGAINST CITY Alleging that in tripping over an iron stake in the sidewalk of Persse street, between Church and Fearing streets, she sustained a j fracture of the wrist. Miss Fan nie Cartwright of West Church street has instituted suit for $5,000 damages against the City of Elizabeth City. In the complaint in the suit it is alleged that the stake project ed above the ground for from one to three inches, and that its pre sence there was due to the negli- | gence of the city, whether by j placing it there, suffering it to | remain or by failure to remove the obstruction. Miss Cartwright gives the time of the accident as March 13 last, and says that she suffered j permanent injury and was put to | considerable expense in the way I of medical attention Divorcee Has To Be Good Court May Annul Di vorce of Mrs. Simp son If She Slips Six Months To Go The English Don't Believe King Edward Will Marry Her London, Oct. 23?(U.R)?Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simpson and King Edward VIII will not be seen together in public so fre quently during the next six months, as has been their custom. Court circles said tonight that since the law requires that Mrs. Simpson lead an exemplary life during the period between her de gree nisi, granted at Ipswich yesterday and an absolute divorce from Ernest A. Simpson, the King will do nothing to embarrass her position. Ih ordinary; divorce cases, if anyone complains to the King's proctor, with sufficiently sub stantial evidence, he can inter vene and secure annulment of the accused person's divorce, if the evidence is proved. While conceivably the proctor could step in if "Wally" Simpson overstepped the bounds of pro priety, nobody believes he would if the King were connected with her transgressions. Neverthelss, Mrs. Simpson must be extremely circumspect during the next six months because of the glare of publicity beating on her. Evidence of the manner in which Mrs. Simpson and King Edward atJfciarently intend to conduct themselves during the next six months was given today when "Wally" remained in her palatial Cumberland Terrace home although the King had what was termed officially a "light day" at (Continued on Page Six) ii ,? 5 Billions in Trade Is Predicted Import and Export Trade for 1936 Is a Record By Secretary Roper ^ A Reasonable Balance Be tween Export and Im port Trade Healthy Con dition. Washington, Oct. 28. ? (U.R) ? America's foreign trade?both im ports and exports?will total near ly $5,000,000,000 this year to zoom to a new high since 1930, Secre tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper forecast tonight on the basis of world commercial data. His prediction came as reports showed that exports were 23 per cent larger in value in September than in August. It was a cus tomary seasonal gain. Imports, which usually decline slightly during the fall, were 12 per cent larger in September than in Au gust. Exports last month were valued at $219,967,000, imports at $215,525,000, while in August ex ports totaled $178,314,000 and im ports $192,376,000. Although the increased activity gave this nation a favorable trade balance of $4,442,000 for Septem ber?the first since June?statis tics showed that for the first nine months' of the year the country had an unfavorable balance of $33,146,000. Roper was not concerned about the 12 per cent increase in im on Page Six, Only Russia, Mexico 1 And France Can Save The Madrid Government \ Rebels Outnumbered, j But Have Tanks and Airplanes And Aid of Italians ! Henry T. Gorrell of U. P. [ Gives This Paper Inside Facts of Spain's Crisis Editors Note: Henry T. Gorrell, United Press Staff Correspon- a pondent who spent the past five weeks in Madrid and was captured by Nationalist forces Sunday reached the Franco Spanish frontier tonight accom- ? pained by an insurgent escort. Following is the first uncensor ed dispatch of actual conditions in Madrid, together with the comparison of fighting strength of the Nationalists and Madrid government forces. By HENRY T. GORRELL (Copyright By United Press) HendaVe, Franco-S p a n i s h Frontier, Oct. 28?(U.R) ? The Spanish Leftist government re lied tonight on unlimited aid from nations friendly to the popular frortt cause as the only means of preventing the fall of Madrid within the next few days. The "People's Army" appears to have been definitely broken. Thousands of armed and unarm ed men defending Madrid are de moralized, retreating1 constantly over the protests of their officers. Nationalist forces, although materially weaker in number, are advancing on the capital without bothering seriously about consol idating their gained positions. They realize the deadly effect of their modern bombers and pursuit ships of foreign make, their whippet tanks, ? some of which are manned by Italians, and their artillery. In Madrid the high command realizes that unless through the 1 aid of Soviet Russia, France and f Mexico it is unable to match the modernized "equipment of the in surgents, the war is lost and Madrid must fall. - i l ll? J. nave ueeu mice uaio uui ut Madrid, having been captured by the Rebels on the. Madrid-Aran juez road Sunday while attempt ing to obtain accurate informa tion regarding the insurgents' progress. I was in Madrid for five weeks and covered all sectors along the central front and talked with Lefty army commanders, with Spanish people of high and low rank and with foreign neutrals. An Unpleasant Experience My arrest was most unpleasant experience. I was nearly killed by a hail of Rebel machine gun bul lets coming at me from all sides and also from the whippet tanks which were leading the advance on Madrid. One of those tanks roared toward me at full speed, (Continued on Page Six) Public Urged To Assist In ClothingPoor The Associated Charities' drive for discarded clothing and shoes got under way yesterday with the distribution of 1,000 paper bags in the better residential sections by local Boy Scouts. The bags, 25-pound paper af fairs. bore the following printed inscription: "A request for useful discarded clothing and shoes for adults and children. Put in bag and place on porch in plain view from street. Boy Scouts will take them up on Thursday afternoon, October 29. Thank you. Associat ed Charities." The scouts will collect the bags this afternoon between three and five o'clock. A. H. Outlaw, county welfare agent and Associated Charities of ficial, says he expects to obtain quite a lot of clothing and shoes from this drive. Last year's drive was very successful. "I hope the response this year will be even greater than it was last year," said Mr. Outlaw. "Ap parently conditions are much bet- \ ter this year than last, but actual ly, the relief picture has changed ' but little." 1 iff' ?
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