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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.
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m
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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.
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