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Dec. 20.?(UPJ?j id's major powers e.-.r program of arms . :: next week the United j I adept a policy of I moves of other na :> only after "the other ays down a new keel or harbor. it was indicat I y will apply not only j ,:p construction but v. n of overage vessels and ...:e:i of Pacific Islands. : which was "frozen" ..o- and a half ago. ir.es of this policy now are nen: after weeks of official . n throughout the world . race as soon as the :. and London treaties 31. The nations of the in fact, have "jumped the in some respects and have I timated $10,000,000. I year arming for war. I latest move toward the I up of a sea power was :ated from Paris, where the :: :uh government gave notice ;? will not scrap any vessel fleet under the naval treat Only last Friday Great Britain Continued on Page Three) Constitutional < iovernmentAt Stake In Cuba peel Ke>i<:iiatioii or Ini peaeliineut of President Within Next 2 I Hours ISv LAWRENCE S. HAAS li:i!i-d Press Staff Correspondent Havana, Dec. 20.?'UP1?Presi ? Miguel Mariano Gomez, *h;?e supporters admit there arc enough votes in the nation al < hamber of representatives to impeach him. is moving his family's belongings from the palace, it was learned tonight. H .vana. Dec. 20.?(U.R)? Resig or impeachment of Presi ;? 1 Mariano Gomez with ? ..urs was forecast tonight. ?' is crowds marched through t.s shouting against the executive and bearing slo ? ntinued on Page Five) leather Statistics Sun. Sat. TI 'il'I KATCRE fe for Dec. ..44.70 44.70 63.00 60.00 ' ? 42.00 38.00 52.50 49.00 - plus 7.80 4.50 lor the yr.-60.60 60.60 ..29.85 30.14 i*n imitation (in inches) v'!a?e for Dec. _. 3.90 3.90 ? ii' today ... 72 1.07 '"a amt. this mo.. 7.03 6.31 amt. since Jan. 1 61.00 60.28 lor the yr. .13.50 12.78 i Direction W. S. E. a'tcr of Day .Clear Cloudy W. H. SANDERS TIDES Monday, December 21 High Low a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. - 12.39 6.51 7.09 ,I"' 12.19 6.31 6.49 Tuesday, December 22 High Low I a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m I 1 ' - 1 20 1 39 7.59 8 06 I --- - 1.99 1.13 7.33 7.46 Booster I v:>:v. - That Travis T. Turner, shown above, lives a double life is a fact known to but few of his fellow I townsmen. For over 10 months in : the year he may be found daily at , the Main street store of the Saw- | yer company, with which firm he I has been connected for the past four years. The rest of the time he func- ' tions in the role of Elizabeth City's Empire Salesman and Ambassador of Good Will along the coast. Twice yearly, in early spring and fall, he packs his grip and sam- i pies and. starting in at Cape Hen- I ry. visits fcyery Coast Guard sta tion and coastal community in the seventh district, down to the i South Carolina line. Travelling by any means that offer, automobile, bus. cart. boat, ana once by air plane. the trip requires from three to four weeks, with stop-overs j wherever night may find him. While he acts as representative ! of the local haberdashery firm and of the Royal Uniform com pany, his activities arc no less oc cupied in "selling" Elizabeth City than in taking orders for uni forms. equipment and furnishings. On the trip down the coast and back along the coastal highway, he publishes the virtues of his home town. An old friend, in quest of I some service in merchandise or medical attention or what-not. ' j learns where he can get it? in Elizabeth City. A casually-met tourists learns the best routing to his destination? with stop-over at Elizabeth City. But to Mr. Turner himself the semi-annual tours have more than a mere commercial signifi : cance. "It's just a question of meeting old friends again." he says. Born in Perquimans county and 'Continued on Page Three! Strike Imminent In Steel Ancl A n I omobi 1 e 111 <1 uslries ? + .? Michigan's Black Legion Head Dies Of Pneumonia Cumberland, Md., Dec. 20.?(U.R) i ?Isaac < Peg-Leg> White, reputed I ; leader of Michigan's Black Le- ! gion, died at Memorial hospital I 1 today of pneumonia. White, sought by Michigan au- > thorities for seven months on j charges of conspiracy to commit i murder, arson and criminal syn- j dicalism. was captured Monday night as he lay on a sick bed at j Oldtown. 15 miles south of here. His 25 year old widow and their j four year old son are going to I arrange to have the body sent j there for burial. The 50 year old White, said to j have been a brigadier-general of | the Black Legion when it was first I organized, was indicted along with 22 fellow members several months ! ago. He was captured without a j struggle Monday by officers led by j John A. Moritz, chief investigator | of the Michigan attorney-general's office. CONDITION ALFRED SAWYER REPORTED TO BE CRITICAL Alfred L. Sawyer, prominent farmer and landowner of Belcross. was reported late last night as be ing in a highly critical condition, with death expected at any j minute. Fight for Recognition of Unions May Rrin?; a Grave Crisis By ARTHUR F. DEGREVE United Press Staff Coresopndent Washington, Dec. 20.?(U.R)? Labor's big guns roared a warning tonight that strikes will be called in two of the nation's blue chip industries?automobile and steel? unless their officials recognize trade unions and bargain with workers collectively. Stepping up his -100,000 per month drive to organize the mass production industries along "one big-union" lines, John L. Lewis, steely-eyed head of the "rebel" C. I. O.. struck swiftly tonight on two fronts. The thrusts may de cide the outcome of the gravest labor crisis to confront the nation in years. In Pittsburgh. Philip Murray. Lewis' chief aide, told 250 repre sentatives of steel company un ions, that a strike would be called in the $5,000,000,000 industry if it continues its "dog-in-the-manger" attitude" toward organized labor. The company union agents promptly joined the Lewis forces. In Detroit, the United Automo bile Workers? a C. I. O. union? I inaugurated a furious drive to or ganize auto workers with a mass [ meeting attended by 2.000 strikers. The immediate objective of the auto workers is unionization of (Continued on page five) IEruption QuakeShatter San Salvador 4? _ I Cities of Interior Are Leveled and Dead Buried In Ruins San Salvador, Dec. 20.?CUR)? More than 200 persons were killed and 400 injured in earthquakes, accompanied by volcanic erupt ions. which devasted large areas of the interior today, according to official estimates tonight. Center of the earth tremors was around the city of San Vicente. With communications down, full extent of the damage could not be estimated. Injured survivors were brought to San Salvador by Red Cross workers dispatched by the govern ment. New quakes occurred in San Vincente tonight, crumbling walls which had cracked in the first violent movements. The quakes aroused long-dor mant volcanoes. The entire de partment of San Vicente lies with in the area of old volcanic moun tains. First and most violent of the quakes occurred in mid-morning just as a crowd of several thou sand in San Vicente was partici pating in a religious procession. The panic of the populace caused many injures. Only a few houses were left standing in San Vicente?until today a town of 26,000 population ?dispatched said. Earth shocks were continuing, indicating that every structure in the town might be leveled. The church procession, headed by the image of Saint Vincent? the town's patron saint?was con <Continued on page five* Albemarle H. & L. Paying a Dividend Christmas holiday funds in Eliz abeth City will be given an addi tional boost today when the Albe marle Building & Loan association mails checks amounting to ap proximately $5,000 to holders of full paid stock. The dividend is payable on January I. but the association is sending out checks in advance of Christmas for the convenience of their stockholders. Bur fool Plans jAdditions To C ourt House Is Feeling Out Sentiment; Would Give Court Clerk and Register of Deeds More Room. Plans for additions to the Pas quotank County court house, with | the end in view of relieving the present congestion in the build- I ing. are being promulgated by Noah Burfoot. new chairman of j ' the board of county commission- ! ers. in an effort to determine or j I sound out public opinion on the | j proposal. Mr. Burfoot's plan, which he has been contemplating for some time, would call for two ells added to the present building, one extending i east and the other extending west, j This is the only practical plan for | ! adding to the court house build- j ing, since further elongation or heightening would be impractica- j ! ble. There is a definite need for ad I ditional space in the court house i building, it is pointed out. Espe cially is this so with respect to the I offce of the Yegster of deeds and j the clerk of superor court. Both | these offices , in which are kept myriad county records, are cramp | ed for filing space and also for | working space. Then too, there is need for a ! room for meetings of the board | of commissioners, which now ? Continued on Page Three) High Hatters Will Play for Christmas Dance at the Hotel Alfred Guy and his HiRh Hat ! ters will provide the music for | the Christmas dance in the Vir ginia Dare Hotel ballroom Christ - I mas night, it was announced yes | terday by Ray S. Jones, manager ; of the Virginia Dare. The High Hatters are well known here, having played for several dances at the local coun S try club in recent years. They arc i rated as Norfolk's best dance band. Mr. Jones said he is not yet certain whether the New Year's I dance is to be held on New Year's Eve or on New Year's night. He says he is having difficulty in ob taining music for a dance on New Year's eve and may be compelled to have the dance on New Year's night. Plenty of 102-Foot Piles To lie llad, Says A Local Lumberman Just why the state highway commission should have trouble in obtaining 102-foot piling for the new Albemarle sound bridge is somewhat of a mystery to LeRoy S. Nixon, representative of Nich ols Brothers. Inc., of Norfolk, pil ing contractors. The size is not unusual, according to Mr. Nixon, who says that some time ago sev eral hundred feet of piling, incas ing from 95 to 115 feet were de livered on a job at Alexandria. As for 102-foot piles, plenty are to be had, he says. TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:20 Mens Christian Federation 10:00 County Commissioners SUNDAY CALENDAR P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club will not meet ! 7:00 Boys Booster Club address by N. E. Aydlett at Jr. Or- [ dcr Hall 7:30 Pocahontas; Kiwanis Jr. Glee Club Library hours: 10-12. 2-b > An Alpine Tragedy | WRECK cf a German plane which spun into a crash in the French Alps, carrying seven persons to death. Propaganda pamphlets for Spanish rebels were found in the wreckage. German Capt.-Lieut, von Winterfeld was a victim. Nail. Fisheries Convenlion To Discuss Shad Shad Conservation To Be .Major Issue of Com ing Convention North Carolina shad fishermen, alarmed at the decline in shad catches in the past few 3*cars, will i be pleased to learn that the pro j blem of shad conservation and the I restoration of the shad population is to be a major issue of the Nat ional Fisheries Convention, to be held in Atlantic City next Febru ! ary. The story is told in the follow | ins release, which has been au | thorized by the Eastern Fisheries | Association. Inc., of New York City: Shocked by the alarm.ng de crease in the quantity of shad reaching the spawning grounds, commercial fishermen are de i manding that a "Save-the-Shad" I movement to be given the right of j way at the coming National Fish j erics Convention to be held in At (Continued on Page Three) ?.?. Air Visitor Says Arrow On Tank Few Points Off Lt. Floyd W ood of U. S. Air Corps Got Lost hy Following Arrow The large black arrow painted ! on the top of Elizabeth City's I municipal water tank and intend | ed to point the way to the munici j pal landing field on the Weeks ville road is several degrees off, ! according to Lieutenant Floyd B. i Wood, of the United States Air Corps, who got lost when he used the arrow as a direction-pointer Friday afternoon. Lt. Wood said the arrow points down the Pasquotank river in stead of in the direction of tne | landing field. Using the arrow as | a guide and not consulting his (map, the lieutenant went four miles past the airport and had to j turn back and pick up the air | port, getting his bearings by the J old abandoned race track on the Wecksville road, which was listed | on his map which he consulted af- j ter realizing that the arrow was | off several degrees. He flew down here from Boston i Friday afternoon to spend the i week-end with his sister and bro- I ther-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Smith, of 401 East Church street. He made the trip in four hours flying time?five hours of actual time ? making brief stops at Mitchell Field, Long Island, and Langley Field, Va. He left here yesterday on his return flight. Lt. Wood is stationed at present at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His flight here was largely in the nature of a train ing flight. He was flying a Doug-1 las observation ship. ! Moscow Stirred By Burn ingOfR Ship By Spaniards A Serious Develop ment of Spanish Civil War i Overt Act of War Russian Press Is Iiulisnunl Over "Incredible Crim inal Provocation" Moscow, Dec. 20.?(U.R)? Soviet , authorities charged tonight that I I the Spanish rebels burned a Rus-! I sian ship, the Komsomol, on De | cember 14 and added menacingly | that "this is one of the most ser I ious developments of the Spanish i I war." < According to earlier dispatches j from London, the Komosomol was j seen in flames off the Algerian coast by a Belgian merchant ves sel. A Spanish rebel warship was standing near by the burning ship. The government spokesman said no news had been received about the fate of the crew of 25. (Continued on Page Three) Loyalists Try To Break Ring That Closes In Major Offensive to North and Last of Madrid to Prevent Eneirclenient By LESTKR ZIFFREN United Press Staff Corespondent Madrid, Dec. 20.?<U.R)?Loyal ist troops opened a major offen sive to the north and east of Ma drid tonight in an effort to pre vent General Francisco Franco's rebels from surrounding the cap ital. The attack started shortly be fore midnight from the Pozuelo and Usera sectors and entire di visions of government infantry swept along the Guadarrama slopes in an effort to cut the Burgos and Saragossa highways. If the highways can be cut, ? Continued on Page Five) Saprem e Court Rules Agin Christmas Trees, Justice BrandeisDissenlingAs Usual j Mrs. Bramlcis Will Have Her Christmas Tree, the Other Old Men Notwith standing; How Washing ton's Official F a in i 1 y I M ill Observe Christmas. Washington, Dec. 20?(U.R)?The supreme court of the United States today ruled against Christ- , mas trees, Mr. Justice Louis Bran deis dissenting as he does in many j cases. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes did not participate in the decision. In an opinion rendered I by Mrs. Hughes it was said on be I half of the Hughes family, "We [ won't go into that." The new deal cabinet however, showed an overwhelming major- i ity in favor of trees. Even Attor ney General Homer S. Cummings, undismayed by the action of the supreme court before which he of ten argues and sometimes loses, insisted upon having his tree, ev en though there is not a child in j the house as an excuse for it. "If he didn't have a tree the A. G. would be worse than a child," I Mrs. Cummings explained. Every- j body in the attorney general's j house gathers around the tree Christmas morning to receive the (Continued on page five) I Center Hill Farmer Is Struck by a Hit Ami-Run Driver Edenton, Dec. 20?Hugh White, 38. of Center Hill neighborhood, is in serious condition following a hit and run accident on the Suffolk highway just outside the city limits Saturday night. White was walking along the highway to ward l*s home. It is thought he i was bumming a ride. His left arm is broken. The car passed over his chest and he has a number of cuts and bruises about the face and body. Herman Monds, first to see the injured man lying along the road, noticed a Model T. Ford leaving the scene, but was too excited to take the license number. Monds reported the accident to Corp. George Dail who brought White to Dr. J. A. Powell's office. Sheriff J. A. Bunch and Patrol man Dail made a diligent search for the car. but no arrests have | been made. Only information they i have is that the car is a Model T Ford with one front light and no rear light. White is a tenant farmer for T. C. Byrum. member of Byrum Bros. Hardware company, and has the reputation of being a fir^t claas farmer. Tenants Must Be Given Aid Government Help Re quired for Two Million Nation's Headache Lack of Initiative and Sclf Keliance, Ignorance and Malnutrition, Aggravate the Problem. Washington, Dec. 20.?(U.R)? Government aid is necessary to lift the nation's tenant farmers from stark poverty, acting reset tlement administrator, W. W. Alexander said tonight. Alexander is a member of a committee named by President Roosevelt to study the .tenancy problem and submit recommenda tions for relief legislation, expect ed to form the basis of a vigorous drive for congressional action ear ly in the new session. Most of the more than 2,000. 000 tenant farmers can be made self-sustaining only with govern ment help through a long-step by-step process involving closely supervised credit and painstaking education in far mmanagement, Alexander said in an interview. He forecast the administration farm tenancy legislative program would involve: 1. Federal loans to help impov erished tenant families buy their own farms. 2. "Character" loans at low in terest rates to those who must re main tenants and now arc forced to pay as high as 40 per cent an nual interest on borrowed money. 3. Expert guidance in farm pro blems and education to teach the ? Continued on Page Three) Chaco War Is Before Buenos Aires Meeting Both Bolivia and Paraguay Dissatisfied Willi the Peace Terms Buenos Aires, Dec. 20. ? XU.PJ? South America's greatest tlireat to peace, the Chaco dispute be tween Bolivia and Paraguay, oc cupied attention cf the Inter-Ain erican peace conference today. Its work of cementing the west ern hemisphere in an accord of peace, friendship, and the promo tion of trade virtually ended, the conference sought to bring to gether belligerents in the Chaco controversy. Neither Bolivia nor Paraguay i? content with the arbitration which has followed cessation of hostili ties in the war over a jungle. Most delegates to the confer ence agree there can be no hope of permanent peace in the Americas, until the Chaco question is set tled. Dr. La Fayette da Silva, Brazil ian minister to Paraguay, left by airplane today for Asuncion, to plead with Juan Stcfanich, Paru i Continued on Page Five> M
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