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h c state 1/itrary 1 raleigh k xj Welconm^ Visitors And Pigeon Fanciers ^ LEATHER Tur F| A IT V T iVTkF I >l?l\J"n'C1TVFT MARITIME FORECAST . v tlv cloudy, misty with pos- I I I |1 I W /-% 11.1 li\|lflJ| Pi ll I Pi 1 I Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Fre^ tq v i-;ioiwl light rains: Friday JL JL JL JLJ 1 J ? 1 I I J I JL_L 1 I / I J I 1 JLS JLJJ. 1 JL stron8 winds- mostly northeast; rain showers. Thursday. 1908 combined with the independent, a weekly established by w. o. saunders in 1908 ^936 >s ''ub^1 Ev'? Co. elizabeth city, n. c., 'i'lli llsna^^ecfkmheh 10, 1!).'{() kjltered u city' * c" single copy 5 centa Madrid Is I (] iv c 1 e d: j>\ Forts ! ? Entrench While Fog and Cold Delay Assault Street Barricades (>nl\ lnierinitt?*iil Shcllfire Herald- Kxprrtcd Kebel General Attack B> LtSTFR ZIFFREX ?; a: Pr - Staff Correspondent | Mads'..I Dec. 9-?CU.RX?Loyalists 3 a a ring around Mad r . ? 3. .;st the anticipated ? Bu Attack ' 'oy General Francis co Franco's Rebels. a- en:y > : toot-head barricades were titroar. up and machine gun nests planted. The fortifications ! extended iron: University City on I] :: : the Toledo bridge, in 1 the Tarus Valley, on the south. , Or. - rmittent shell fire was heard around the city. Authori- | ties believed the sudden severe , cola and poor visibility was pre- , rcBt:r.a the enemy attack. While soldiers, swathed in muf- ?' .nd -c aters, built barricades a public subscription was started to buy Christmas eve dinner for i the men in the trenches. Ir. :r. > north Basque militiamen I fn. .r. Bilbao and Santander fought! ir. the snow-capped Cantabrian j mountains in a thrust against the Rebel base at Burgos. The insurgents retaliated with attacks on Sobrehaya but were re pulsed. Seven Loyalist planes engaged ir. an air battle with six Rebel pursuit planes over Vittoria. Three o: ?. Rebel crafts were shot down it was reported, and a Loyalist ! trimotor bomber was forced to 1 land at Yurre after being hit by Rebel machine gun fire near Vil lareaL London. Dec. 3.?(U.R>?Joachim von Rtbbcntrop. German ambas 'Continued on Page Three) \. \. Bankers I ook Big Loss To Save Taxes Sick of I*n2tiiii? Money In Nan Swrriiijjrn Hail Enterprises :ngton. Dec. 9?'U.R)?Pow ....? York bankers headed by J P. M :?an & Co.. sold control ? 1 i V.n Sweringen rail-indus . ty at a sacrifice of mil of dollars in 1935 to lower; ? " \:.x payments and because " .sick of putting money "?'o it." the senate railway in -.?? n committee was told to CmC*. ?imi.sion came from Wil Conuiued on Page Three) leather Statistics December 9, 1936 TEMPERATURE .ge for December _-44.70 Hi"i:est today 53.00 ?>t today 37.00 Average today 45.00 ?ss today Plus 00.30 A. rase for the year 60.60 _.30.32 HxC IPIT AT ION -In Inches) rage for Dec. 3.90 A.'ii'.i.nr today Trace : I umt. this month 2.29 To'ai amt. since Jan. 1st 56.26 ?V.f ranc for the year 47.50 Excess for the year 8.76 ' Direction Northeast 0[ day Cloudy W. H. SANDERS TIDES Thursday, December 10 High Low f a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. o:07 5:15 11:16 11:15 4:47 4:55 10:56 10:55 triday, December 11 High Low a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. c, I"'' 5.46 5.52 12.00 11.57 * Hat. 5.26 5.32 11.40 11.37 XM> FKNI>KR WORK, Wrecking service! Work guaranteed uioih v refunded. Caro- ' Company. Phone 337 j A.tuue. I ?i* jj Club President J. E. JUSTICE, above, of Villa Park. N. J., is president of the i United Hungarian Pigeon Club, which will open its 1935 show and meet at the Virginia Dare Hotel j here this morning. Mr. Justice j will present the trophies to the ! winners in the show at the ban- j auet tomorrow night. I Argentine-U.S. Get Together In Conference Two Nations Compose Dif ferences Oil Details of Pact Against ar Buenos Aires. Dec. 9.?v'U.R)? The first difficult problem con-1 fronting the inter-American peace conference was solved tonight j when the United States and Ar gentina were reported to have a greed in prinicple on the scope of the proposed pact against war. The Argentine delegation, head- j ed by foreign minister Carlos | Saavedra Lamas, has opposed iso- j lation from Europe or the League ; of Nations while the United States ' has been inclined to favor rc- j j striction of a peace agreement to | the American continent. This di | vergence of views was feared like- j I ly to impair any pact's effective- I I ness and the reported agreement I I between the two delegations was I hailed by other countries repre- j | scntcd here. The United Press was informed 1 that a result of lengthy confer- j ences yesterday and today be tween Saavedra Lamas, secretary j cf state Cordell Hull, chairman of the United States delegation, as- ; sistant U. S. secretary of state Sumner Welles and other confer- I ence leaders, the following agree- i ment was reached on the out- ! standing points of the new peace ! plan: 1. The American nations would : 'Continued on page five) Hungarian Pigeon Fanciers Holding Annual Show Here I Show Opens at 1 I'. M. Today; More Than TOO Entries Entries in Ail The eyes of Hungarian pigccn fanciers of the United States cen ter today upon Elizabeth City as the sixth annual meet r.nd show of the United Hungarian Pigeon club, held in conjunction with the Carolina-Virginia Hungarian Pigeon club, gets under way. The pigeons, on display in coops in the main dining room of the Virginia Dare hotel, may be in- ! spected by the public after one oc'.ock this afternoon. Close to 300 hundred birds had arrived up to last night, and this ( morning's arrivals are expected to swell the total number of entries to between 400 and 450. Thirty odd fanciers have birds entered in the show. The pigeon show, third such show held here and the city's first major show, will continue j through Saturday. The judging will begin this af ternoon. with J. R. Dick of ; Greensboro. N. C., as judge. } Awards will be presented by J. E., Justice, of Villa Park. N. J., pres ident of the United Hungarian Pigeon club, at a banquet at the Virginia Dare tomorrow night. The Hungarian pigeon, exalted i ruler of pigeondom, comes in eight colors: yellow, red, dun. silver. ' blue, white bar. black and check. Officers of the United Hungar ian Pigeon club are: J. E. Justice, Villa Park. N. J., president; L. P. Heinemann. Belleville. 111., first vice-president; M. B. Krebs, Mer cersburg. Pa., second vice-presi dent: H. C. Weber. Hagerstown, Md.. secretary-treasurer, and E. F. Brown. Cincinnati, O., publicity director. Officers of the Carolina-Vir ginia Hungarian Pigeon club are: J. H. Newsom. president; C. H. MacDonald. first vice-president; M. B. Brothers. Jr.. second vice- j president, and J. H. Webster, sec- : retary-treasurer. "Hunk" Anderson To Attend Alumni Dinner Tonight One of the most cussed and dis- j cussed men in North Carolina this! fall. Heartley 'Hunk* Anderson, j North Carolina State College foot ball coach, will be one of the j speakers at the State College Alumni Dinner at the Virginia i Dare hotel tonight at seven o'clock ! it was announced yesterday by Graham Bell, who is in charge of, arrangements for the affair. Besides Coach Anderson, there ! also will be on hand Acting Alum ni Secretary Fred Dixon, and Col.! J. W. Harrellson, president of the j college. Mr. Bell urges all State alum ni in this section who have not, I already done so to get in touch j with him at once regarding reser- ; vations for the dinner. Local State alumni attempt to j hold a dinner each year, and to night's affair is the 1936 annual dinner. Post Office Department To Crack Down On ''' Clu Hold Exchange of Pornogrupbic Pictures and Letters On Large Scale Has Inspired Many Unsolved Sex Murders; Received by Childreiji Cy JOHN R. BEAL United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 9.?(U.R)?The post office department tonight an nounced a nationwide drive against correspondence clubs sending obscene matter through j the mails, revealing that at least 10,000 persons belong to such groups and regularly send each other pornographic pictures and letters. With a room full of files bulg- I ing with letters, drawings, and photographs gathered during a year's inquiry, the postal inspec tion service decided on a national campaign after Gayle R. Cleve land of Pcnsacola, Fla., drew a 15 year federal penitentiary sentence for sending obscene matter through the mails. Postal inspectors said the im morality disseminated by these clubs, which number perverts among their membership, proba bly is responsible for many of the unsolved sex murders of the na tion. They added that among those rounded up are persons who have , sent advertisements of pornogra- ' phic material to boys and girls of school age. They described how one mother tearfully brought in a letter mailed to hef daughter in a Connecticut schoo!. Inspectors followed up the case and arrested the man responsible. The club members, officials said, wrote to each other with ut most frankness about their pri vate lives. One young man in Houston. Tex., wrote to another that his hobby was '?Experimenta tion in sex." A young woman club member wrote to a young man: "If you cannot make your pic tures snappier and your letters sexier I shall scratch you off my list." Most of the pictures circulated were of the club members them selves. Cleveland, who sometimes used the aliases "Miss Georgia Clayton" and "Miss Gayle Cleveland," op erated an organization known as "The Letter Club Different." He inserted advertisements in cheap magazines offering to put inter ested persons in touch with oth (Continued on Page Three) | Vincent Leary 1 I CAMDEN county's young repre sentative. who is seeing his first legislative service as a member of the General Assembly, now in spe cial session. IN a i i o 11 s j Move To End War Britain and France Ask Other Nations To Join Them By RALPH HEIXZEN United Press Staff Correspondent Paris, Dec. 9.?(U.R)?The foreign office tonight announced that Bri tain and France have inviteu Ger many. Italy. Russia and Portugal to join them in an attempt to end the Spanish civil war by media tion. Soviet Russia has accepted the proposal, but no answer has been received from the other nations. The fact that they have given no indication of a negative reac tion, however, is cheering. The proposal, if accepted, might end the long controversy among 1 "riglUist" and "leftist" powers, (Continued on Page Three) 111 v en lor Of Gyro Dies In P!ane Crash Fourteen killed In \\ or*! Aeeidenl of kn<;li>li A\iation London, Dec. 9.?(U.R>? Four teen people, including Juan de la Ciena. 39-year-old Spaniard, who vowed to make aviation safe when he saw his first plane crash, were burned to death today in Eng land's worst plane disaster. Two of three survivors ? were reported dying. The plane was a giant twin-en gined Douglas DC2. now used by a majority of American airlines and was owned by KLM-Dutcli Royal airlines. It crashed during a dense fog into a row of houses a mile from Croydon airdrome. Among the dead was former Prime Minister Salomon Landman of Sweden. Only survivors were Walter Schuback, German passen ger; Jon Van Bcmel, radio opera tor. who were reported dying, and Miss Bongerstam, stewardess, who was not injured seriously. There were no Americans aboard. Commander Hautzma.vcr, an Austrian and a veteran pilot, was at the controls. The plane roared down the airdrome and took off quickly climbing into fog-filled 'Continued on Page Three) Enact Repeal Bill In Bone Dry Alabama Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 9.?<U.R) The House of Representatives of Alabama, long a bulwark of pro hibition in a state "bone dry" for 21 years, tonight approved a re peal bill in a tumultous session and sent it to the state senate. Backed by the Gov. Bibb Graves' administration to provide much-needed revenue for schools, the repeal measure was approved by a 54-32 vote. With administration forces ad mittedly controlling a strong majority in the senate, it appear ed the 21-year dry regime in Ala bama was about to be broken Replace AAAByA New Plan Wallace Gives Out line of a New Program Improve On AAA For Stabilization of Farm Prices and Income Par ity with Wage-earners Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 9.?(U.R)? Outline of an agricultural pro gram apparently designed to re place the outlawed agricultural adjustment act, keystone of the new deal's farm program, was given to the American farm bur eau federation's national conven tion today by Secretary of Agri culture Henry A. Wallace. Referring to the AAA. declar ed unconstitutional by the su preme court, the secretary said: "Good as that program was, we want to see it improved upon. A better program can and will be built." He then outlined the following tentative 11-point farm program which presumably will guide en actment of new legislation for I farmers at the next session of congress. 1. Right of farmers effectively to organize in their own interest. 2. Stabilization of "fair farm prices" on a basis of "reasonable equality with non-farming in come." 3. Foreign policies to provide ex port of American farm products. 4. Regulation of farm produc tion with respect to domestic and foreign demand. 5. Soil conservation. 6. Retirement of sub-marginal land from cultivation and its "use for purpose for which it is best suited." 7. Crop insurance. 3. Storage of reserve supplies of food and fiber. 9. Security for farm tenants, and opportunity to acquire own ership of land. 10. Increased opportunity for farmers whose "standard of living is now barely on a subsistence lev el." 11. Industrial policies to encour age abundance of wage and sal ary earners for farming. Kin (j of Hoboes To Sue, Not Abdicate Washington. Dec. 9.?(U.Ri?Jeff Davis, dapper "King of the ho boes" called down the law tonight on rivals pretending to sovereign ty over the 815.000 wandciers of the world who live by mooching free meals and travel furtively on frieght trains. Davis, nattily attired as usual, visited the U. S. copyright office, looked over the letters copyright which protect the registration and membership cards of his organiza tion to make sure they were in order, and announced he would sue several rivals for infringement. Then he departed for the Cin cinnati "jungle" which he makes his headquarters, accompanied by his wife and one of his 14 assist ant secretaries. "Some of the phoneys who claim to be king of the hoboes have been stealing my copyrights," Davis explained with an wave of his cigar. "They've been using my oaths and faking mc nberships. Carolina Pupils Are Killed In Bus Crash Fayetteville, Dec. 9?CU.R)?Three high school students were kiiied and 14 injured, three seriously, when a grocery truck crashed in to the rear of a school bus at Van deg, eight miles east of here. The dead: Ernestine Johnson. 15: Mack Williams, 16. and Inez Bulla, 15. Harlen Haywood, Stanley Par ham. and Gracie Owen were brought to Fayetteville hospitals, where their conditions were re ported "serious." J. M. Gibbs, driver of the truck which struck the bus as it stop ped to unload passengers, was de tained by police. He said his "gears locked," making it impos sible to avoid the crash. FORMER PRESIDENT MAY RETURN TO CUBA Miami Beach, Fla., Dec. 9.?(U.R) Early return of Dr. Gray San Martin, exiled formen president of Cuba and Leftist leader, to his homeland to reorganize revolu tionary political factions, appear ed a strong possibility tonight. Comes the Moment to Decide THE British Empire remains on tenter-hooks of suspense, awaiting the decision of its as yet uncrowned king, as to whether or not he will renounce a throne for love. War Threats Give Impetus \ To Our Neutrality Plans Administration Leaders To Seek a Quick Passage For New Law By GARNETT D. IIORNER United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 9.?(U.R)?Im pelled by the threat of war in Eu rope, administration leaders to night planned to seek quick en actment by the new congress of a permanent neutrality law giving the president broader powers to keep this country out of foreign conflicts. Chairman Sam D. McReynolds, D., Tenn., of the house foreign af fairs committee, said he would in troduce the new legislation im mediately after congress convenes Jan. 5 and hoped for passage by Feb. 1. He already has discussed its provisions with President Roosevelt. Disturbed world conditions, Mc Reynolds said, make quick action imperative to solidify the present temporary neutrality law which expires May 1. This law empowers the president to embargo ship ment of arms to nations at war and bans loans or credits to bel ligerents. McReynolds' new bill would give the president additional authority to: 1. Restrict shipments of mater ials like oil or cotton that might be used for war purposes. 2. Forbid commercial transac tions with nations at war by Am erican citizens except at their , own risk if such commerce might tend to involve this nation. 3. Apply provisions of the act in case of a ramified civil war such as Spain's. "It is very necessary to have immediate action," McReynolds said. "It is difficult to pass a neu trality bill when other nations are engaged in war as shown by our experience last year during the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. 1 "We are anxious that some leg islation pass before such a con (Continued on Page Three) :, TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR | | A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation ' 11:00 County Council H. D. C. at Y. M. C. A. P. M. I 7:30 Cub pack scouts; Red Men; W. O. W.; Choir practices Library closed for repairs A Mystery Ship With Jolly Crew Stops Over Here Schooner Round For the Went Coast (?) Spends the Night Here A Mystery Ship with a crew of jolly rovers aboard hove into the local harbor yesterday afternoon and laid at the foot of Fearing street overnight because of a threatening northeast storm. The ship was the "Zavorah", a sea-going schooner hailing from Wood Hole, Mass., which is a lit tle south of Boston. The personnel of the ship was constituted as follows: C. J. Hub bard. skipper; Paul D. Rust, Jr., first mate; Dick Co veil, second mate, and Harold Olsen and Dwight Siiepler, seamen. At 'east, that is their story. But in reality there is no rank or sta tion aooard. It Is just a jolly party I of five stags who share the work equally. < Mr. Hubbard is a writer, Mr. Shepler is an artist, i. e., a painter, i Mr. Olsen is arv interior decorator, | Mr. Rust is the scion of a family of : iumber barons, Mr. Covell is a man of leisure. Whither they are bound and (Continued on Page Three) Slale Senate Votes To Limit Action To Security Measure Raleigh, Dec. 9.?(U.R)? In an uproarious session the House of Representatives tonight named R. Gregg Cherry, the "Iron Ma jor of Gaston." to the speaker ship at the Democratic caucus on the eve of convening for the special session of the General Assembly. In the Senate, where a more sedate atmosphere prevailed, A. ! ! Hall Johnston of Buncombe was nominated pro tempore. It was the first time that the nomina tion had gone west in 20 years. While the house adjourned without motion on any special action, in the Senate a resolu tion was introduced by W. G. Clark of Tarboro, that the spe cial session discuss only the bill pertaining to Social Security for which the session was called. The resolution was adopted un- j aniipousiy by a roll-call vote. j i England In Suspense As It Waits Decision Of The King 411 Indications Are Now Pointing to Abdication Goes To Windsor ftsit May Have Been to Bid Good-bye to If is Sor rowful Family London, Thursday, Doc. 10?(U.R) Announcement this afternoon that Sing Edward has decided to abdi :ate the British throne for the ove of Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simpson was confidently expected ;oday by press, public and most members of the House of Com mons. STEPS TO ABDICATION London,- Dec? 9.?(U.P.)?In event of King Bdward's abdi cation, which was universally regarded tonight as a virtual certainty, these legal steps would be taken: 1. The King would sign and present to his ministers a not ice of his desire to abdicate. 2. The cabinet, through the Prime Minister, would com municate the King's notice to Parliament. 3. Parliament would approve the abdication and pass an act establishing the line of succes sion, or, in fact, naming the new monarch. 4. The privy council would meet and wait upon the new monarch to notify him of his ascent to the throne. 5. Parliament's action would be communiciated to the Do minion Parliaments which would ratify or reject it. Usually reliable sources of In formation told the United Press late last night that Prime Minis ter Stanley Baldwin had inform ed the" cabinet,' in an emergency session, that the King would quit the throne. Word went out to churches throughout Great Brit (Continucd on Page Three) Arranges To Begin Post O ffice Work Contractor Makes Prelimi nary Arrangements for Work On Annexes Prelimiary arrangements for thfc construction of the additions to the post office and Federal court house here v/ere made yesterday by C. C. Miller, superintendent of construction for the W. F. Mar tens company of Newport News, general contractors for the work. While here Mr. Miller arranged for water and plumbing connect ions for the company's temporary office, which will be located on the rear of the post office grounds, and engaged D. T. Singleton, local stone mason, to saw out a block of the limestone of the present build ing to assure delivery of new material of the same grade and appearance. Actual work upon the additions will begin as soon as the govern ment gives the word to proceed, according to Mr. Miller, who hopes that he will be able to make a start next week. In the mean time, the company is assembling material and equipment prepara tory to having it shipped here. The number of men to be em ployed upon the work will vary with the stage of construction, (Continued on Page Three)
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