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j " N C State Library j Raleigh N C domp ' "Thi: WEATHER THTTT? A TT \ f"\TT\TT 1 l\TT^T?l\jnP MARITIME FORECAST 1 i~1 Vi JJAllil llMJJjjJ JljIMJHilM 1 25 2??STSb.'SS- 1 ri early morning Thursday, Fri- V early morning followed by clearing on ri>ing temperature in interior. 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 Thursday. rub.bh?a E.enr DM ELIZABETH=OTY^n^f^HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS j[) Million Possible plurality For F. D. R. J ml The New Deal The Democrats (iain Twenty Seats In The House four in the Senate coi*. Irwni I n('er ] \\al;iUf^?* lw Organize | Kiul'iiiig Minority N Ycrk. Nov. 4. -<U.R>?'The "...party, struck by the landslide in four vi'Vv ituw.ciI out from under to ?u1q promised to serve the militant minority." rj-beanr, Gov. A!f : Katies, apparently j -treated president- j in recent years and | have carried only . , ., Maine. but tiie men turol the G. O. P. for | years, lifted their j ; boxes toward . Oak. Mich., today i Father Charles E. ; c- . : ut ure held for . .. n for social just reply was: : of the Rc .t ? r:eal question. ad ( .11 particular. ? c. t- r-d-ltaired John D M ??:. n chairman of the p. .:. National Committee. "t'r.drr ou: form of povcrn - seal. " a militant and -a vital ser ? nation. The :. the co D mocrats and ; I ' ' common | i ? :. fail in that I ? ! 1 t'e doubt en of a tabulation of ir of the na that the G <> P the minority ; It apparently : i.'i of the 531 " - Gov. Lan None of the candidates? 1 Socialist: Earl ?: or William : ? ?:: ed a State, hi Villinn Plurality *' pomlar vote cave: ? 22.195.045 I >I -P13 inct s unreport Mr. Roosevelt v of 10.000.000 '. :/ion retained control of ' ' iii' cl to have a _'0 seats in the many congress were undecid ? : available re r. xt House probably .. v. ,iv: '40. Republicans ". Farmer-La >ntests undecid : nd pointed to : -up in the Senate: 74 11 2 'Shipstcad : Minnesota' 1 1 I^iFollette of ?:.'.ied on page eight) Nealher Mutinies November 4, 1936 '"!? November 53.20 83.00 60.00 ? . > v _ _ 71.50 f'?v the day 18.30 the year ... 60.60 30.18 ? ION 'In Inches* A ' for November 2.60 Ati " r.' :?Klay 0.00 ?mount this month 0.00 mint this year._ 50.92 it tin year 47.50 ?> Jan. 1 3.42 ' Southwest. ? : Oav Partly cloudy. W II SANDERS. THE TIDES l'tursday. Nov. 5 r a.m. p.m. a m. p.m. ; : 0 19 6.06 6.58 - !i " ' 1159 5.46 6.38 f liida.v, Nov. 6 . 1 ? 103 1 28 7.14 7 56 *! 43 1.08 6.54 7.36 DRINK A ROOSEVELT COCKTAIL AND SEE A LANDSLIDE Geneva, Nov. 4.?(U.R>?Carlo I Beltramo. Italian proprietor of the League of Nations bar, fa- I mous for his invention of the I . "Haile Selassie" highball, touay eoncocted a "Roosevelt cock tail" to celebrate the U. S. President's victory. It is com- I posed of 48 "alcoholic states," as follows: "Ten states of white Dutch j curacao, 10 of English gin, eight 1 of grapefruit juice, 18 of French vermouth, one Angostura and one of absinthe. The absinthe j should be "gently dropped atop the cocktail.'" Bc!tra*no also adopted a slo- 1 gan for the drink: "Drink a Roosevelt cocktail and watch a landslide." - I' I\ ealignmenl Of Partisans Is Next Move Republican Progressives anil Democratic Liberals vs. New Kiiglautl anil Southern Conservatives. New York, Nov. 4.?(U.R)?The avalanche of votes which carried President Roosevelt into a second term tonight was jarring the tra ditional American political struc ture to its foundations. A movement toward party re- < alignment plainly evident in the United States since 1912 probably ; will make more progress" in "the ; [next four years than In the 24 preceding. The immediate question aroused by the extraordmary vote of con- , fidenee tendered the new deal and notably confronting big business is whether the President in his second term will continue what he has called his "left of center" , policies or move to more radical ground. But the strictly political conse quences most likely to flow from the 1936 election involve the fu I ture party allegiance of the con I servatives Democratic leaders who walked out on the new deal and ! those others who hesitated to bolt but refused more than reluctant support to Mr. Roosevelt's re-elec | tion campaign. The Republican party has been reduced to a small and impotent minority in Congress. Pennsyl j vania broke G. O. P. moorings which had been secure and scarcc l ly strained since the Civil war. The usually Republican Great Lakes states were in the Roosevelt [ parade. The West was for him. Realignment rossioic For at leats two years in the house of representatives, for four years in the White House, and for many years to come in the senate the Republican party will be on the outside looking in at ( conferences where national policy is shaped. But division within Democratic ranks is more prob able than possible, and the pros pect is that from this moment on ward there will be friction among the vast popular and official fol lowing which marked its crosses Tuesday under the sign of the new deal. Through the post-war years of Republican ascendancy there de veloped in Congress the so-called progressive or insurgent Repub lican bloc which proved, frequent ly. more aggressive and able in | checking the policies of Presidents Harding. Coolidge and Hoover | than was the official Democratic j opposition. Led by Senators I George W. Norris. William E. J Borah. Hiram W. Johnson, Rob ert M. LaFollette and others from the middle and far west, the in surgents became, in fact, members of the official opposition. In the i great showdown of 1932 most of them either bolted Mr. Hoover's re-election candidacy or refused te utter a word in his behalf. Whither the Conservatives? A conservative Democratic bloc is developing in Congress today, led by such statesmen as Senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd. of Virginia: Senator Royal S. Copeland. New York; Senator Da 'Continued on Page Six) A United People Is New Aim No Thought In KooseveltV Mind of Punishing His Political Kncmics Hyde Park. N. Y., Nov. 4.?(U.R) President Roosevelt, knee-deep in the telegraphic felicitations of a nation, tonight hailed the mes sages as "additional assurance that we are going forward to gether." In a formal statement, the only tine he has issued since the elec tion, the chief executive conveyed lis gratitude to the country for Its support and asked that his few remarks be regarded as an ac knowledgment to the thousands who wired their greetings to the summer White House. He said: "I find myself nearly buried by an avalanche of thou sands of letters and telegrams It is heartening to have this assur ance that we are going forward together. I would like to thank each of you individually for your confidence and pledges of loyal support. Will each of you accept this as my acknowledgment and my thanks for your message?" Close friends represented the President as feeling that the bal loting indicated the voting was on the basis of principle instead of party and opened the way to four years of economic leadership. They echoed that which Mr. Hoosevclt stressed in his Madison Square Garden speech that no American need have any fear for I the future and that the latter had no intention of cracking down on any individual or corporation "on the level with the people." Moreover, it was explained, there was no thought in Mr. Roosevelt's mind of reprisal or oppression and he is sincerely hopeful attacks would be forgot ten and that there would be a united people working with him in the job of making- the country a richer, freer, happier country than it ever had been. In conclusion, it was pointed out that the President regarded his re-elcction as a triumph less for him than for the people and that their action defined a course for the nation that will not only clear away depression distress but make much misery impossible in future days. Mr. Roosevelt also spent some time in lootcing over a batch of mail received by special pouch from Washington and in clearing his desk preparatory to departure tomorrow night for the capital. When he reaches there it was expected he would give first at tention to the maritime strike sit uation and hear reports of at tempts to adjust the difficulties that already have tied up hun dreds of American ships. After a week or so in Washing ton. conditions permitting, Mr. Roosevelt hopes to leave for the South on a two weeks' holiday. He plans to fish in West Indian waters. Claylon Moore QuitsBenchTo Practice Law Governor Lhringhuiis Ap points A. I). Folger to I Succeed Him Raleigh, Nov. 4.?(U.R)?Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus tonight ap pointed A. D. "Lon" Folger, of Dobson, as special judge of the North Carolina superior court bench to replace Judge Clayton Moore, Williamston, who resigned today. In tendering his resignation. Judge Moore gave as the only rea son that "I might return to the practice of law at an early date." Folger, a national Democratic committeeman, was campaign manager for Lieut. Gov. A. H. Graham in last summer's primary gubernatorial election campaign. First Of A New Covey FIRST of the 13 bombers, largest in the world, built for the United States Army by the Boeing Com pany of Seattle, Wash. This deadliest air weapon has a 105-foot wing spread and is 70 feet long. Mai. Bond Dies In Hampton Major John G'. Bond Died Last Night In Dixie Hospital Edenton, Nov. 5?Major John C. Bond, one of Edenton's oldest and most prominent citizens died last night at midnight in the Dixie Hospital, Hampton, Va., where he was taken about three weeks ago for an operation. He was 85 years of age and was re garded as the patriarch of Eden ton. Edenton, Nov. 5.- -Born March 26, 1851 in an old homestead on the little town Commons not far from the waterfront here, Major John C. Bond, referred to in this community as its grand old pat riarch, has seen this place grow from- something like a village in to the second largest, town in the whole Albemarle. He was the son of Henry A. Bond and Margaret Manning Bond, also Edenton na tives, and through marriage and intermarriage and other relation ships was one with the Woods, the Badhjtms. the Prudens, the Dixons and other of the first and piesent day Edentonian families of importance. Never previously ill the Major was a citizen to occasion wonder ment. Erect and vigorous in body and with a kefn mtntdlity that al ways brought back a flood of re collections when any past Eden ton subject was mentioned, the spry old veteran walked the streets attended to business almost to the last with the energy and ability of one fifty years his junior. Last year he jumped a bus and spent a two weeks vacation alone tour ing northern resorts and visiting relatives He was a living fount ol information on all Albemarle events, was proud of the section's historical past but invariably waved it aside with "it's all un derground, boy", and was more concerned with the industrial future of the town of his nativity. As a child he remembered the War Between the States with all (Continued on Page Six) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federa tion. P. M. 7:30 Cub pack scouts. Rebec cas; Red Men; W. O. W. 7:45 Choir practices. Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6. Many Yachts Stopping Here On Way South! Many More Yachts Here This Week Than Any Time In the Past The Eiizabctli City shipyard piers on Riverside looked like a very important yacht basin yes terday when there were 17 pleas ure craft tied up there at one time, the greatest number ever here simultaneously. Some of the boats win winter here, but most of them are just shopping over on their way south. New arrivals yesterday included the Estclle, of Englewood, N. J.; the We're Here, of Ossining. N. Y.. and the Sea Dream IV. of New York city. A. R. Osborne and wife are on the We're Here. Capt. Chas. Coon, retired tug captain, who during 35 years of tugboating in New York harbor piloted many of the great ocean liners to their docks, is on the Estelle. These two boats, traveling south together, probably will leave here today. They have (Continued on Page Six) The Daily Independent Covers Its First Election Reached More People, More Quickly, Vi illi More Complete Returns Than Any Rival Newspapers The Daily Independent issued no extras, chartered no airplanes and went to no extraordinary ex pense in getting election returns to its readers, yet it reached more people, more quickly, with more returns than did any other news paper yesterday morning. This was the only newspaper to carry election returns to Rodan the, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras yesterday and was the first to reach all points in Curri tuck County, Camden County, Mantco, Wanchese, Stumpy Point, Manns Harbor, Weeksville, Win fall, Hertford, Edenton, Windsor and Williamston and had post midnight elections returns on the breakfast tables of subscribers at such scattered points as Moyock, Weeksville Manteo, South Mills and Plymouth. And before noon yesterday The Daily Independent, carrying the story of the election of Roosevelt, Hoey and other Demcncratic nominees was in the hands of 4,000 subscribers from Moyock, to Hattcras to Gum Neck. And this splendid service was acomplished without any heroic measures being taken. Except for a few kind friends who assisted in making tabulations in our office and a few others who kindly phoned in returns to us from re mote precincts, we used only our regular force and our regular means of compilation and distri bution in getting the election re turns to our readers. We do wish to publicly thank Raymond Denton and Wilfred Hopkins for their assistance in tabulating the returns, Anderson Radio & Electric Co.. for their generous loan of an amplifying system and the kind friends in Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank and Gates Counties who phoned in returns to us. The Daily Independent is proud of its success in its first attempt 1 at handling election returns J Salesman Robbed And Shot In Broad Daylight by Bandit -? i J. P. Munden Held Upj On Brick Road Six Miles From Town $1,600 Cash Taken Was Shot When He Made Suspicious Move After Turning Over Money Authorities of two counties late last night were still seeking two white men who yesterday morning perpetrated a bold holdup in broad daylight on the Foreman Bundy road about six miles from here and robbed J. P. Munden. of the Weeksvillc road, of around $1,600. One man going by the name of John Wells was held on suspicion iast night but had not definitely been connected with the crime. Munden, who is salesman in this section for the Norman Packing company, of Portsmouth, Va., told the following version of the hold up yesterday afternoon: "I had finished my morning's work and was on my way to Eliza beth City on the brick road lead ing from Chapanoke to Black Head Sign Post, on the Hertford highway. In the vicinity of what is called Five Bridges, I saw a car blocking the road ahead of me. "When I slowed down and stopped my truck, two white men wearing full masks over their faces got out of the car and one of them had a ,45-caliber pistol in his hand. They ordered me to get out of the truck and walk to them. I obeyed, and when I got to them they asked me to hand over my money. "I readied into my right pants pocket and gave them the money I was carrying there. Then I started to reach into the left hand pocket, and when I did the (Continued on Page Six) Heiress To The Flagler Riches Gels A Divorce Native of Wilmington Is Granted Decree by a Florida Court Jacksonville, Fla., Nov.4.?(U.R) Mrs. IiOUise Wise Francis, million aire Flagler heiress, today was granted a final divorce from her third husband, Frederick G. Francis. A native of Wilmington. N. C., Mrs. Francis is chief heiress to the estate of the late Henry M. Flag ler under the will of her aunt, the second Mrs. Henry M. Flagler. The aunt died in 1917. Under terms of her aunt's will, Mrs. Francis comes into complete possession of the Flagler estate in 1938. including the Florida East Coast Railroad, and -extensive newspaper and hotel properties. The aggragate runs into millions. Francis, a former professional tennis and baseball player, form erly was part owner of "Life" magazine, during the period it was conducted as a humor pub lication Rebels Shelling Madrid Using Tanks, Artil lery and Bomb ing Planes i Zero Hour Arrives; ) New Spanish Government 1 Admits "Reds" To Its Cabinet , j Madrid, Nov. 4?(U.R)?A new Spanish government was form ed tonight admitting to the cab- < inet four members of the Na- ( tional Confederation oi Work- | ers (Syndicalists), In a desper ate effort to secure unity of act ion to defend the capital against Rebel armies almost at the city gates. Madrid, Nov. 4?(U.R)?Besieg ing Rebel armies began shelling Madrid at 9:20 p. m., after a ma jor offensive from the south today during which Loyalist defenders were blasted from the suburbs of Getafc and Leganes. Attacking with artillery, tanks 1 and bombing planes, the Rebels 1 apparently have decided that the "zero hour" to invade Madrid has 1 arrived. Shells began to fall in the city at 9:20 p. m., (4:20 p. m. EST). They created panic among a peo ple whose nerves are already at the breaking point after nearly a week of Rebel bombing from the air. The shelling was preceded by a drive which brought the Rebel a tackers nearly to the edge of the city. The big offensive began at dawn after heavy artillery and air bombardment lasting more than 24 hours. All night long shells and a hail of lead from rifles and machine guns rained on Loyalist positions. Government militiamen replied spiritedly. . At dawn insurgent trencn mor tars opened fire, adding to the intensity of the bombardment. Then at 8 a. m. three Rebel tri motor. bombers roared over Loy alist lines dropping high explosive "eggs" and incendiary bombs. Houses in the villages caught fire and billows of smoke masked the merciless machine gun and trench mortar fire lashing the Loyalists' 1 front lines. Late in the afternoon two Loy alist pursuit ships fought a des perate air battle with three Re bel tri-motors. bringing one down in flames. But the big bombers < had done their job. The artillery and air bombardment had clear- , ed the way for the dreaded Rebel < tanks. j Retreating Loyalists said they < counted 12 fast tanks of foreign j make, each mounting machine 1 guns fore and aft. charging over | the fields toward Getafe as they left. , With this development, the ( Spanish war reached Madrid it- ( self with the thunder of artillery audible all over the city. j Enemy planes roared overhead. Alarm sirens and anti-aircraft guns warned of death from the air. The civil population abandon ed peaceful occupations and ' trudged to the city's outskirts, 1 100,000 strong, where they labor- 1 ed on trenches and barbed wire 1 entanglements. Citizens of the capital have be- 1 come hardened to enemy air raids, < or perhaps dropping of pamph lets had convinced them no more 1 bombs will be dropped. During ? several Rebel flights over the city i today they stopped their pursuits i only occasionally to glance up to 1 see if the "birdies" were overhead. I _____ ( LANDON DUCK HUNTING 1 Topeka. Kans., Nov. 4.?(U.R)? Gov. Alfred M. Landon, his back to national politics, tonight look ed forward to a week of duck ' hunting in Kansas. The Kansan whose bid for the I presidency was unsuccessful spent i the day at his statehouse offices l reading telegrams, transacting t State business, posing for photo- i graphers and saying goodbye to newspapermen who covered his i ectvntii? durjig the campaign J Shipping Strike Now A Battle Within The Unions Themselves Officials of Unions Try to Smash the Insurgents Both East and West McGrady Is at Work Ou West Coast Trying to Reach Agreement (By United Press) The nation's maritime strike oecame an intra - union fight Wednesday with officials of the international Seamen's union and :he International Longshoremen's association in Oulf and Atlantic ports moving to smash the insur gent walkout, called to support west coast unions. Strikers claimed 339 ships were tied up in all ports, affecting 50,000 seamen and longshoremen ?150 ships and 35,000 men on the west coast and 189 ships and 15,000 men on the east and Oulf coasts. As many men were out of work in industries affected by the strike. Developments: New Orleans?One hundred and fifty men were arrested under Po lice Superintendent George Reyer's order to "sweep up the ..docks." Five hundred members of the sea men's union voted to man, all af fected ships. Crews of two Ireight ers walked off. San Francisco?Five meetings were in progress in an attempt to settle the strike. Food fhortage grew and strikers considered ship owners' demands to remote per ishable goods from ships. Rumors of federal intervention increased. New York?Union officials an nounced striking seamen would be expelled unless they returned to , their shlp6. The United States lines branded the insurgent walk out a "racket" and demanded a grand jury investigation. Unions began hiring strikebreakers and first clash occurred on the water front. New York, Nov. 4.?(U.ft)?One thousand shouting sfeamen tonight voted unanimously to call a coast wide conference for Friday which would be expected to order a gen eral strike of seamen and to formulate demands for higher wages and better working condi tions. "!'? ? The men were members of the seamen's union which called the unauthorized "sit-down" strike now in progress. The movement on the east coast thus advanced from a sympathy strike for west coast seamen to become an independent attempt to overthrow union officials and call out all seamen. Charleston, S. C., Nov. 4.-?(U-B) A walkout in sympathy with strik ing west coast maritime workers today tied up a second vessel in Charleston harbor. A majority of the craw of the American-Hawaiian line's freight er, Misosurian, walked out in sympathy with the west coast strike. Previously the Sinclair Refining company's tanker, the Virginia Sinclair, was tied up here oy a similar strike. Officials of the American-Ha waiian line paid off striking work ers and were recruiting a new crew. Members of the striking Jelegation were to entrain for the Pacific coast. San Francisco, Nov. 4.?(UJJ)? Pre ?d of pre-election tension, peace moves aimed at making ppening dents in the Pacific coast maritime and San Francisco food warehouse strike blockades moved forward rapidly tonight, with Ed ward F. McOrady, assistant secre tary of labor, leading the way. Steam schooner operators, whe were unable to raise a quorum or election day, assembled to con sider McGrady's propoaal to re sume negotiations with the Mas ters, Mates and Pilots association the only union with which the coastwise steamer owners have not reached a working agreement. TRUST FUND IN STORK DERBY Toronto, Ont., Nov. 4".?(U.R>? The Ontario government prepared today to possess the entire Char les Vance Millar estate, including the $500,000 he left to Toronto's most prolific mother, in order to create a trust fund for the chil ren of mothers who spent the past 10 years attempting to produce sufficient offsp^mtJ to win the tort uup