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tSsSI The Daily Independent 5hpa lowed b> rain. ? 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 1 B^r^TT!* >,uMlth<0 ET'ty **' XT *mbi*h,u, co- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1936 1 out. N. C. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS; 11F. OfL. Sets Goal Qj $3,623 A Year for Family Income IP - T ?proposes An Average ' I Hourly Wage of I 72 Cents ?Average Now 58c Huefcr Wages Neees-: to Raise People's | Buvin- Po*'?r and Fore ?tail \rolher Bad De- L I jirespioii | V.'jj: ir-Ston. Nov. 29.?(U.R)? j [ini^try must raise workers' I toward a | living" to avoid ? Idepression, the American liberation of Labor asserted to- |< night in its monthly survey of j toiness. ? Continued business gains in ! November and the highly favor- 1 able outlook now reported for j 1937 point to a continuing increase ? a our national income," survey i sain S . . increase challenges j : industrial policies to >ee that the wealth produced :n: efforts of American c.L n ::: quitably distributed a;: " m it added. "If this achieved, business expan ? mi within a few years a:::, depression follow." 7 : ?: .r. ion's strong demand ckers be given a larger sea: turning business pros epru: coincided with a commerce department report that sales by r.c 'i's and wholesalers showed large gains c r October a year ago and ruins over September. T o sales of 542 manu :. . ceased more than 17 .cma October over the wic. :u un. i" 1935. according to . in. . department survey. | mi.:? >aies of 1146 reporting! v. .; c> nuned about 15 per T manufacturers' sales :c. an four per cent from C ;ed on Page Eight) Cobb's Faint Fight Echoed Here Recetly "hell That Landed In 1862 Is Heart! From 75 Years Later :ng like a record in de ion fuses was hung up . when a projectile, fired > ? of 75 years ago. went jang that sent employes o'. E.. . -h City Iron Works <fe s pany scrambling for sheit?:. T ie projectile, found at the site - new Coppersmith mill on nt evidently was fired :<tl ship of war m the 3<-- : Cobb's Point in Febru- j u - Found some time ago ? . boy and sola for junk. :mally found its way to :car.dry of the Water street iron works, where it to be smelted down. When ( oeess began, things hap- ; if tly. though no one was j ttle material damage1 done. ? projectile, which was split ; blast, had a number ? ? - d features. Shaped like ? six inches in diam rcussion fuse in the point to explode a burst in the nase of the shell | contact. Although evidently ; to be fired from a ; ;.t. / cannon the body of was so fashioned that of the explosion behind moment of discharge >.'ulated to give it a ?n as it left the gun. nvmg the effect of a shell rifled cannon. If . 1"% and Japan Sif/n Treaties of Mutual Admiration ,/ "r N'ov. 29. ?(ll.R)?Italy and ... Men a treaty tomorrow J lor Rome's recognition ><kuo as an mdependent : return for Tokyo's ac -nunt of King Victor | ' ' as Emperor of Ethiopia, nation V-ill place its ??? .: / _.,,0 a ..ppro'-ai on the ' a the fVier. V i c t i m s 01 Double Taxation Overlapping Levies by State and Fed-, eral Governments More Kinds Taxes Citizen Gives Federal Gov ernment 82 for Every SI Collected by State Washington. Nov. 29.?(U.R)? American citizens pay aaaea tribute to the federal government cn two-thirds of the taxes col lected by the states, the treasury department reported tonight in a study of double taxation covering seven years. In 1935 the taxpayer gave the federal government more than $2 for every $1 he turned over to the state in six major fields of taxa- | tion. The study showed. 1. Wide overlapping of levies by 1 state and federal governments. I 2. A great increase in the kinds. of taxes imposed by states. Total i collections in 1935 amounted to j $1,654,800,000 in eight categories representing two-thirds of the to- j tal of state imposed taxes, com pared with SI.262.800.000 in 1930, a gain of 31 per cent. 3. Concentration of state col- I lections in a mere handful of j states. Treasury experts have been at work for a year and a half com piling the data under the direct ion of Secretary Henry Mongan thau, Jr.. Presumably the report will form the basis on which leg islative recommendations will be made if the administration decid es to act on President Roosevelt's plans, announced midway in his ? first term, for an attack on the problem of double taxation. Eight Kinds of Levies The survey covered the years 1930 to 1936 inclusive, but figures I for this year were incomplete in several categories. The eight kinds of levies studies were: Estate and inheritance taxe. Individual income taxes. Corporation income taxes. Oasoiine taxes. Motor vehicle registrations and licenses. v General sales taxes. Liquor excise taxes, licenses, and liquor store profits. Tobacco excise taxes and licenses. In six of these eight fields ? Continued on Page Eight) Money To Be Made This Way Good Pay Every Saturday Night, Plus the Extra Awards for All Who: Work In The Daily In-1 dependent's Campaign. Lest. $800.00 right here in Albe marle region. Not all by one person, perhaps, but if you are one of those who has considered entering the big "Weekly Payroll" of The Daily Independent and have not yet gotten started, you may find later that this golden opportunity has passed. And that will mean ac tually losing your start of the ad ditional earnings and prize money which this interesting and popular I drive is making possible, j Get in now. Everywhere folks are talking j about it. It has captured the in terest of people in all walks of life. The least or the greatest may win the main awards but all; will profit. It may honestly be ! said that everyone has an equal J chance, and that in many cases the winners will be those who now least expect to receive them. Not Too Late It is not too late to enter and win the main awards?the Chev rolet and Plymouth?if you get started at once. Perhaps you did not get all the details of the first announcement. (Continued from Page One) Canada Gets Wheat Award Once More At Grain Show Grain and Hay Show Division of the International Livestock Show, Takes the Spotlight Away From Live Exhibits; Montanan Gets Corn Crown By PHIL NEYVSOM United Press Staff Correspondent International Amphitheatre, Chicago. Nov. 29.?tU.R)?1T a 11, blue-eyed Herman Trelle. of Wemby, Alta.. four-time winner of the coveted wheat king award at the International Grain and Hay show, won it again today and returned the crown to Canada for the 16th time in 18 years. It was one of the three most sought-after awards in the grain and hay show. Trelle now has won two of those this year. He was named oats king last night. It was the third time he had won the oats award and it barred him from competition for the next three years. L. E. Peterson. Victor. Mont won the reserve championship a ward. The corn king will be nam ed tomorrow or Tuesday. The grain and hay show, an off shoot of the International Live stock show, took the spotlight completely away from the 14.000 horse, cattle and sheep entries to day. The livestock will go into show rings tomorrow and owners today spent their time giving the final twists to the coiffeurs of al leady shining entries. A horse show occupied the huge ; ring this afternoon and evening. Trelle, a "scientific farmer," , won Ills crown today with a sam ple of reward wheat originated by the Canadian Department of Agi . culture. He previously had won j in 1926. 1930. 1931 and 1932. A team from the Kansas Agri cultural College at Manhattan won the collegiate stock judging contest with a score of 4,563 out of a possible 5.000. Nebraska, scoring 3,926, won the collegiate crops judging contest, with Oklahoma and Iowa second and third. North Carolina was fourth. M. Mahan, Oklahoma, won individual high score with 1.343, followed by D. Smith. F. a. Svo boda and W. Henderson, all of Nebraska. Other winners included: Champion sample of cow peas, Bonnie Ray. Sparta, Tenn., re serve champion, Bonnie Ray. WIFE SHOOTS PRINCE Mexico City, Nov. 29.?(U.R)? Princess Consetta Leone today shot and killed her husband, the Georgian prince. Capt. Vladimir Nigeradzc, as result cf domestic i trouble. Rebels Repulse Sortie j Madrid's DefendGain Ground In Counter-Attack 4 Russia Claims! The Greatest Of Air Forces Her Planes Number 7.000 While Germany's Are Somewhat Fewer Moscow, Nov. 29.?(U.R)?Deputy , Commander Khripan of the soviet air corps told the All-Union Con gress today that Russia had more fighting planes than any country in the world. Russia, he said, had 7.000 planes compared with "between 6,000 and 7.000 for Germany." Both coun tries. he said, had 2.000 "front line" ships. "But our aviation," he declared, "is the most powerful in the world, considering their number and fighting spirit." Khripan's announcement came as a surprise to foreign military observers here, who had estimated the soviet air force at around 4,000 planes. German figures, the air com mander said, show that Japan has 2,500 planes, the United States | 2,700 and France 2,200. "At the present time," lie said, "Germany, Italy and Japan want to have more planes than anyone else, and there ensues a mad armament race. "Now there is a total of be tween 11,000 and 12,000 planes in capitalist countries and in the next two years the number may be expected to reach 17,000 or 18,000. "We are not afraid of the aerial armaments of capitalistic coun tries. We have forged our own powerful air fleet. In quantity, quality and spirit it is the most powerful in the world." Weather Statistics , November 28 anu 29, 1936 TEMPERATURE Sun. Sat. Average for Nov 53.20 53.20 Highest 60.00 48.00 Lowest 33.00 20.00 Average 46.50 34.00 Excess *6.70 *19.20 Average for year...60.60 60.60 Barometer 30.10 30.30 "Minus. PRECIPITATION (In Inches) Average for Nov 2.60 2.60 Amount today 0.00 0.00 Total this month... 3.04 3.04 Total since Jan. 1..53.97 53.97 Average for year 47.50 47.50 Excess since Jan. 1. 6.47 6.47 Wind Direction West S.W. Character of Day Clear Clear W. H. SANDERS. TIDES Sunday, Nov. 29 High Low a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Oregon Inlet 7:33 7:54 1:06 2:00 C. Hatteras 7:13 7:34 0:46 1:40 Monday, Nov. 30 High Low a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Oregon Inlet 3:24 8 48 1:58 2:49' C. Hattsrai 5.04 5.25 1:35 2.23' Loyalists Use An Armored Train In Attack of Sui cidal Bravery By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent With the Nationalist Armies, Casa De Campo. Nov. 29?(U.R)? Blue-jacketed militiamen of Mad rid's Loyalist defenders swept a cross muddy fields north of Mad rid in great waves today in two suicidal attacks on the extreme flank positions of the Nationalists. Bearded Moroccan regulars and foreign legionnaires, crouching be hind machine guns in shallow trenches, held their ground and mowed down the counter-attack ing Reds by the scores. At the same time General Fran <Continued on Page Eight) France Flans To Give Aid To Neighbors W ill Aid Both England and Belgium In Case of Aggression Paris. Nov. 29.?(U.R)?Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos will warn "potential European trouble-mak ers" this week that any aggression against England or Belgium will bring an immediate mobilization of France's entire fighting strength. Delbos. adopting the policy of | British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden in laying down a "preventive warning." will mak" his an nouncement in the chamber of deputies Friday during a debate on foreign policy. Premier Leon Blum paved the way for the declaration when he ! told 25.000 supporters of his popu lar front government at the Velo drome D'Hiver Saturday night that "France possesses the most powerful military force in west ern Europe." France's promise to go to Brit ain's aid in event of war will be extended to include Belgium, de spite King Leopold's recent decla ration that Belgium has returned to her traditional policy of neu trality. Guns Boom Salute To Roosevelt 200 Miles Off Argentine Coast 1936 Will Be Recorded AsViS The Worst Year For Traffic Aires at 2 p. m. Fatalities In The United States And What a Day! * I 1 CLASSIFIED AD RECOVERS A LOST POCKETBOOK Mrs. Mary Fruc, R. F. D. 3, Elizabeth City, came to town one day last week and lost her pocketbook, containing: $6 and some cents in cash and a small gold watch which she valued highly. One insertion of a small clas sified ad in The Daily Inde pendent recovered the watch. William Mann, a youth living on Parsonage street extended, found the purse, saw the little ad in this newspaper, and brought the lost property to the office of this newspaper to be returned to the owner. "I coulda kept it," said the finder: "I needed the mcney, too: but it wasn't m'ne and I'd never f^It right about it if I had spent it." Spencers Are Reconciled, ' TisReported Reported That Differences Have Been Adjusted and Suits to Be Withdrawn Young love lias won out over parental opposition and legal dif ficulties, according to information reaching this newspaper last night. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Spen cer, Sr.. this newspaper is inform ed. have amicably settled their differences with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Spencer, Jr. Mr. Spencer, Sr., according to our information, has agreed to withdraw his suit to have the marriage of his son annulled, and in reciprocation Mrs. Spencer, Jr., has agreed to withdraw her war rant charging Mr. Spencer, Sr.. with assault upon his son, her husband. While neither the suit nor the warrant has actually been with drawn, it is this newspaper's in formation that withdrawal of both is expected to take place in the next day or two. Carroll Spencer, who was 16 yesterday, and Lina Elizabeth Bright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bright of Glade Street, who was 16 in August, were secretly married at South Mills on July 25, last. When they announced 'Continued on Page Eight) More Pedestrians Walk * Inlo Trouble, and Chil dren Grow More Care less. Boosting Figures to a New High Level. Chicago, Nov. 29.?(U.R)?When all the crushed and mangled , bodies have been counted, 1936 will be recorded as the nation's j worst year for traffic fatalities, , the National Safety Council pre- , dieted tonight. The council, forecasting an all time high of 37,500 motoi accident , deaths, 500 more than in 1935, blamed the increase on pedes trians. "More persons are walking into trouble this year than last, ac cording to figures for nine months," said R. L. Forney, who graphs the council's statistics. "Fatal pedestrian accidents jumped about 2 per cent for this period while other types of motor vehicle accidents dropped about 1 per cent." The trend to pedestrian deaths reverses the tendency of recent years, he said. From 1927 to 1935 pedestrian deaths increased only 29 per cent while other traffic ac cident fatalities advanced 57 per cent. Children Grow More Careless White children grow more care less. the council figures indicated, old folks cross streets more warily. Forney found the "most unfavor able" trend in accident deaths >. among children between 5 and 14 years of age, 10 per cent above the 1935 level, while there was a 6 per cent drop in the "50 years or more" classification. The council statisticians found two "favorable aspects" in the mounting death toll, one of them 1 indicating that the end of the de pression may not be an unmixed blessing. They found, first, that the an nual increase will be much less than has occurred in other years and secondly that the gasoline consumption rate has increased over that of 1935 much faster than the death rate. October Worst Month "From 1934 to 1935," Forney said, "fatalities advanced a total of 900 and the 1934 total was nearly 5.000 larger than of 1933." While this year's consumption of gasoline is 10 per cent higher than 1935, he explained, the death rate per 10,000,000 gallons of gas (Continued on Page Eight) City Is In Cala Attire and Thousands Flock to See First President of the United States to Touch Their Shores. Aboard Argentine Cruiser Almi ante Brown at Sea. Nov. 29.?(U.R) Twenty-one gun salutes from 11 Argentine warships welcomed President Roosevelt to Argentina .oday, when an escort fleet sighted the U. S. S. Indianapolis off the Uruguayan coast. Prelude to a gala welcome awaiting the President when ht reaches Buenos Aires at 2 p. in. tomorrow, the Argentine fleet sa luted Mr. Roosevelt off Cape Po lonio. 200 miles at sea. The Indianapolis, with Mr. Roosevelt standing at attention on the bridge, returned the salute. Four thousand Argentine sea men, clad in spotless white, lined the decks of the Almirante Brown and 10 other Argentine fighting ships during the ceremony. A late afternoon sun shone as the contact was made. In formation came the Almi rante Brown, torpedo boats Men doza, La Rioja, Cervantes and Garay, the 25,000-ton flagship dreadnaught Moreno and its sister ship, Rivadavia, and destroyers Cordoba, Catamarca, Jujuy and La Plata. Rear Admiral Leon Scasso, com mander of the escort squadron, stood at the bridge of the Moreno apd gave the order for the 21-gun salvo.'""' ' ? After returning the salute, the Indianapolis hoisted the Argentine flag in a gesture of friendship. Buenos Aires, Nov. 29.?(U.R)? An excited, flag-draped city to (Continued on Page Eight) As lor Daddy-in-law Gives The Low-down On High Life Francis French, Who Once Drove a Taxi, Defies His Friends On Social Register and Will Soon Publish the Story of His Life By HARRY FERGUSON . United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Nov. 29. ? (U.R) ? Francis O. French, father-in-law of John Jacob Astor III, cousin of William H. Vanderbilt, nephew of Lady Chelesmore. and one-time taxi driver, defied friends and rel atives in the social register tonight and decided to publish the story of his life. Bluebloods in Park Avenue. Newport and Boston trembled in their patent leather boots, be cause French said he would rip the lid off, spare no one and rattle [ skeletons in everybody's closet. [ The first installment of his story will appear in the December issue of Town and Country. In the first paragraph he takes a shot at young Astor, who married his daughter, Ellen Tuck French. French reveals that Astor spent "several hours trying to persuade me not to write about my life." "If you write this book, you may be sure of one thing: the parlor maids will buy it, but the chauf feurs won't," French quotes Astor as having told him. The most startling thing French says in the opening installment is that there i* a former butler, who saved enough money to buy an ; estate, living at Newport. French ] docs not divulge the man's name, but writes: "Jack < Aston had driven over 1 from 'Chetwode' to my modest ! apartment on Mount Vernon street in Newport to try to per- I suade me against writing my au- I tobiography. I got into the car with him and drove along Ocean i drive, past the houses where I had I gone to innumerable dinners. ' dances and weddings. Some of 1 them are owned by men and I women with whom I played as a child. But the new snobs who : live in them seem to ape as closely as possible the traditions of the 1 former owners. i "Old Newport residents today laugh about the man who was for- I merly a butler in one of the households. His savings, shrewdly invested and even more shrewdly realized in cash, made him rich enough to buy his own Newport estate. I am told that he now entertains after the manner of his former employers. Quite as snob bish as they, he refuses to receive any but the butlers, chauffeurs (Continued from pzse fr.e) J ? President Has No 3rd Term Idea In Mind FDR Ik Looking Forward to Return to Private Life In 1941 New York, Nov, 29. ? (U.PJ ? President Roosevelt is looking for ward with keen anticipation to private life and he has no inten tion of seeking a third term, George Creel will say in the next issue of Collier's. "More than any other chief executive, perhaps," the article reads, "he has loved the presiden tial years, his bold spirit rejoicing in the challenge of great prob lems, but the hour of his retire ment will be shadowed by no re gret. Only recently, in conversa tion with an Intimate, he said, On January 21, 1941, when a new President takes over, I will be in Hyde Park having the time of my life.'" Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's New York speech in which the President said he hoped in his second administration that the forces of "selfishness and lust for power" would "meet their mas ter," Creel writes: "The President fails to see how even partisan prejudice can twist his words into an assertion of in dividual mastery, a threat of dic tatorship. Any honest reading must show conclusively that what he meant was that mastery of anti-social forces, such as con tinue to be intractable and irre concilable, by the hosts of an aroused democracy." A Temporary White House FRONT view of the American embassy in Buenos Aires, where President Roosevelt will stay during his visit to the Pan-Amercan Peace Conference Dec. 1. Selection cl the embassy was in keeping with the , President's request for simplicity, although the Argentine Government placed one of the city's most luxurious residential palaces at his disposal. Representatives of 27 western hemisphere nations were I expected. 25 m iSl oiKta TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A.M. 8:30?Men's Christian Federa tion. P.M. 1:00?Rotary club. 7:30?Pocahontas: Kiwanis Jr. Glee club. Library hours: 10-12, 2-6. ... ?? . ?? -*??? I i l
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