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S Death To
I Officers!
I Who Fail
I fiebels Shoot Officers
I \\ hose Men Run
? Away
I Nazi Insignia
I s,rrin.:M- Moors In At
I;<riv: Mi Italian Tank.
l rr? 1- Captured
IV 1.1STKK ZIFFREN
I til'. -L.ii'f Correspondent
? y. Dec. 22.?(U.R)
I ho allow their
I being execut
I - under orders
I co Franco, loy
I horities claimed
1 junta said
I ?vo and another
I led before firing
I n men and shot
I >f defeats suffered
I and Siguenza sec
I
I . scribed as the
I . . thus far" around
I :: progress early to
I . .i major offensive
I ncircling insurgent
I l'i rman volunteers
I swastika on their
I -aid to have been
K ... be; legionnaires
I swept upon the
? idilla del Monte.
? it defenders retreated
I around which bit
I has raged for 10 days.
:e .aanized their columns and
cia counter attack, surround
.:. *i\ enemy tanks.
Italian crew of one tank
. aptured. it was claimed.
I sera .j the south, loyai
I men engaged in bloody
t fighting with the enemy
I C r.tir.ued on page eight)
\\ o in a n \\ ho
>iiol Airplane
Pilot Arrested
Is Pieked I p In Knsland
\\ here She (Crashed Aft
er Hiidit Over Knsli-h
t.iiamiel In Stolen Plane.
I Chichester. Eng.. Dec. 21.?(U.P
nch police tonight asked Soot
ed Yard to arrest Madame Irene
hmeder-Caphellut. who alleged
hot pilot Pierre L'Allemant as
' y flew in the clouds above
v then fled in his piane a
the English channel,
fuel supply exhausted and
nut any idea where she was.
'2-year-oid woman crashed
oeach at Selsey. near here,
r.ch authorities demanded
. of Madame Schmeder
? Hut to face charges of as
? :.d battery, despite refus
e wounded L'Allemant to
trges again her. Chiches
? held her under techni
in a farmhouse near the
of her crack-up.
"oman. a small brunette
to an industrialist 28
:? ?:;ior. was beiieved to
L'Allemant in a fit of
o when she learned he
:y another women next
wounded pilot was recov
::t the hospital of the Fran
Monks at Versailles,
He staggiered from the
which he managed to land
Versailles after . being shot
. Kiame Schmeder-Cap
away in it.
Ipp
There'll Be Gold In the Kentucky Hills
IruS aerial view shows the new Unitcu States depository at Fort
' Kr.tr:. Ky.. where Uncle Sam will store about $6,000,000,000 in gold.
or more than half the gold holdings of the government. The under
; grov.nl vault has every protective device known to modern science.
Machine-gun turrets may be seen at corners of the two-story build
ing over the vauit.
I Treasury Applies Brakes
Lest Prosperity Take A
Spill In Rounditig Corner
I
Takes No Chances of Credit
Boom and Run-away
Stock .Market
By SANDOE S. KLEIN*
United Press Sta?T Correspondent
Washington. Dec. 21. ?(U.R)?
I Facing the dangers of a $24,000.
I 000.000 credit boom and a subse
quent run-a-vvay stock market, the |
federal government tonight moved ;
! tc apply brakes to one vehicle of I
| peril?excess reserves of federal i
| reserve banks.
Secretary of the Treasury Hen- -1
| ry Morgenthau. Jr.. after a con
sultation with President Roosevelt.
1 announced that gold coming into j
I this country from abroad and
newly mined domestic gold pur- j
! chased by the government would
be set aside as inactive.
A new fund will be created to
purchase this gold. The fund will
be financed by the sale of treas
ury notes each week.
Under the old arrangement for
(Continued on Page Eight)
Elks Oice Children
Party Xmas Morn
Between 400 and 450 bags con
! taining fruit, nuts, a horn and oc
casionally a toy. will be distribut
1 ed this year by the local organi
zation of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks to that same
number of needy children in front
of the organization home at eleven
o'clock on Christmas morning, it
was announced lest night by the
committee in charge of the work.
This year's series of gifts will
continue a Christmas observance
held in the same manner by the j
club for several years past in an j
endeavor to provide some measure i
of joy and comfort to certain chil
dren whose parents are unable to
afford the expense of luxuries
during the holiday season.
The official in charge of the
distribution had not been selected
last night.
France, Ilalv j
' J
And England In
An Agreement
All Their Differences to Be
Patched l p and Nobody
Loses But Ethiopia
By RALPH FORTE
United Press Stall' Correspondent
Rome. Dec. 21.?<U.R>? Italy and !
Great Britain tonight reached the
1 "fin?.! and decisive" stage of ne- j
gotiations for an agreement dc- 1
signed to preserve peace in the |
Mediterranean.
The negotiations, spurred by |
alarming incidents in the Mediter
ranean as result of the Spanish j
! civil war. are expected to be com- i
pleted within tf -lew days, the J
I United Press learned authorita- I
j lively.
The way was paved for swift!
| culmination of the agreement j
when Britain and France extended
de facto recognition of Premier j
(Continued on Page Eight)
- -
Japan Also Prepares
For Naval Building
London. Tuesday. Dec. 22.?(U.R>
Japan, whose demands for com
mon partity shattered hopes of
the 1936 London Naval Conference
will build 38 new warships next
year, the new "Jane's Fighting
Ships" revealed today.
The authoritative reference
book, predicting a naval construc
tion race when the old London
and Washington treaties expire on
Dec. 31. said the volume of con
struction underway by world pow
ers is the greatest since 1921.
It's Open Season For The
Great At Gridiron Session
* I
iVch Dealer and Grain! Old
Parly Are K wasted
Impartially
Washington. Dec. 21.?(U.R)?
: Four men who battled for the
presidency this year sat at the
same table for the first, and prob
I ably for the last time, tonight as
| the Gridiron Club roasted the
| great and near-great over a fire of
|| good-natured sarcasm in its semi
j annual dinner. No one escaped
|i the searing touches of irony. Rex_
11 ford G. Tugwell. ex-brain truster,
appeared at the Union League
j club in red flaming underwear.
Herbert Hoover, dapper in full I
evening dress but sans trousers, i
i stood with a group of mourning ;
Republicans before an Ozark :
t mountain shack.
Newly elected Democratic con
< Continued on Page Five>
Agriculture Dept.
To Take Over RAI
Washington, Dec. 21.?(U.R)?
Machinery for establishing the
New Deal's permanent relief pro
gram for impoverished farm fam
ilies was set in motion todav.
Under the plan the resettlement
administration will be transferred
to the department of agriculture
by an executive order which Pre
sident Roosevelt is expected to is
sue about Jan. 1.
As a permanent part of the gov- !
ernment set-up, RA probably will |
abandon its controversial subur- :
ban housing activities and conccn- !
tratc on a four-fold program to
effect a "New Deai" for needy
farmers, involving rehabilitation
loans, resettlement projects, emer
gency direct relief grants and debt
adjustment aid
No Small
ChangeIn
This Deal
Chang Demands Tens
of Millions For
Gen. Chiang
Is About To Get It
American ? Educate (1 Wife
of Generalissimo Super
vises the Negotiations
Shanghai. Tuesday. Dec. 22. ?
(U.R)? Meiiing Soong. "most beau
teous woman in China," was re
ported today 10 have dipped deep
into the nation's greatest family
fortune to obtain part of the mon
ey demanded by Marshal Chang
Hsuen-Liang for the ransom of
her kidnaped husband? General
issimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
The former Wellesley college
girl, who changed from society
debutante to one of the most pow
erful political figures in Cathay
when she married the divorced
Generalissimo, made him a Chris
tian. and became his most trusted
adviser, planned to fly today to
the ancient walled city of Sian
Fu. There she personally will su
pervise final negotiations for the
freedom of the man who long has
ruled more than 200.000.000 Chi
nese.
Friends of Madame Chiang and
her brother. T. V. Soong, former
minister of finance, were confident
that final ransom terms have been
agreed upon following a series of
conferences here and in Sian-Fu.
So great was the ransom de
manded by the marshal, it was
understood, that the Soong family
was forced to draw on its private
fortune to augment amounts rais
ed by the Nanking government.
It was assumed the amount
would run into "tens of millions of
dollars." That all China realizes
the ransom will be one of the
greatest in world history was in
dicated by the action of munici-V
palitics and civic bodies in start
ing collections for the fund.
The city gu/eminent of Hang-;
"Continued on Page Eight)
Cuban President
Vetoes Tax Bill;
Congress To Act
Impcarhiiicnt Is Expected
With Puppet V ice Pres
ident at the Helm
Havana, Cuba. Dec. 21.?(U.R) ?
President Miguel Mariano Gomez
tonight vetoed the nine-cent sugar j
tax law? an act that probably will j
cause his impeachment? in a 2,
000 word message to the senate.
The senate and the chamber of
representatives were expected to
override the president's veto be- l
fore beginning consideration of
impeachment charges.
The president's message ex
plained his reasons for refusing i
to sign the bill, designed to raise j
$2,000,000 annually for social pro- j
jects planned by Col. Fulgencio
Batista, army chief of staff and
the power behind all Cuban gov
ernments since the overthrow of
President Gcrado Machado in Au
gust, 1933.
Gomez had been quoted before
the bill passed the chamber early
Saturday as opposing it because
he believed it "undemocratic" and
tending to create a "militarized
childhood." The latter objection
was made because Batista plan
ned to employ most of the money
to continue the army-operated ru
ral school system.
Some observers predicted the re
moval of Gomez and the estab
lishment of a virtual military die- |
tatorship under the puppet presi- j
(Continued on page eight)
Coast Guard Fliers
Rescued From Sea
Provincetown. Mass., Dec.. 21.?
(U.R)?Five Coast Guard fliers were
rescued eariy tonight after their
giant Fokker seaplane was forced
down five miles at sea near here !
on patrol duty. All escaped in- I
jury.
Those rescued by Coast Guards- j
men from the Wood End station ?
were: Pilot Theodore MacWil
liams, chief aviation machinist
mates, Callahan. Rouba and Laf
fin, and radio operator Bowditch.
Attaches at Salem base said a ;
faulty exhaust stack apparently |
caused the forced landing.
/ V
Einstein
Mourns For
Wife
V /
Princeton, N. J., Dec. 21.?(U.R)
?Prof. Albert Einstein tonight
cremated the body of the wo
man with whom he had faced
the dangers of persecution in
Nazi Germany, and then locked
himself in his modest home at
Princeton university to grieve
alcne.
Frau Einstein?she was "Elsa"
to the great mathematician ?
died early yesterday of an en
largement of the heart but, such
is Einstein's desire for privacy,
no announcement was made un
til late today.
Only through friends was it
learned that the warm mother
ly woman who did more to aid
Einstein than any other person
had succumbed.
The death of the woman who
was sweetheart, manager and
bodyguard to Einstein?she once
saved his life when a mad wo
man attempted to kill him?was
announced by the institute for
advanced study in a statement
authorized by Dr. Abraham
Flexner, director.
Death came unexpectedly to
Elsa Einstein, although she had
been ill for more than a year
and at one time her life was de
spaired of. Her husband and
daughter, Mrs. Margot Marian
off, wer j at her bedside.
Rab bit Boxes
Spoil Hun ting
Wi th Hounds
Claude Zciglcr Says ll Is
Hani To Find Kahhits
To Shoot Nowadays
Rabbit boxes have practically
ruined hunters' chances of bag
ging any rabbits with guns and
dogs in this vicinity, in the opin
ion of Claude Zeigler, one of
UMzabeth City's foremost hunting
enthusiasts.
Mr. Zeigler was out yesterday
for several hours with a pack of
seven beagles and rabbit hounds
and ran across only three rabbits
in four different places he visited.
In one of the places where he
went the dogs ordinarily should
have jumped 12 or 15 rabbits,
whereas they found only two. A
couple of dozen rabbit boxes scat
tered along the edges of the fields
and woods, with telltale traces of
fur in nearly all of them gave
mute evidence of what had hap
pened to the rabbits.
"Until just a few years ago no
one trapped rabbits except an oc
casional country boy who tried to
catch a couple of rabbits to take
to town on Saturday and sell for
a little spending money." said Mr.
Zeiler. "but now there seems to be
no limit to the rabbit-trappers.
Grown men, women, girls and
boys are setting rabbit boxes
nowadays, and it's getting so a
man with a pack of dogs and a
gun doesn't stand a show of run
ning across many rabbits. I
don't begrudge a country boy the
right to trap a few rabbits, but it
just ain't right for someone to set
a dozen or two rabbit boxes in an
area covering a few square acres."
Three Mills To Close
Down for Annual
Inventories
The Elizabeth City Hosiery Mills
[ and the Elizabeth City Cotton Mill
will close down tomorrow for the
annual inventory period, it has
j been announced by C. O. Robin
[ son, president.
The mills will oe closed for two
weeks or more. There is nothing
unusual about this shut-down, it
being an annual event.
Upwards of 500 employes of the
three mills will be affected by the
shut-down.
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
A. M.
8:30 Mens Christian Federation
P. M.
6:30 Kiwanis club will NOT
meet
7:30 Jr. O. U. A. M.; Eureka
Lodge Masons; Public
Utilities Commission will
NOT meet until aext
Tuesday
Library Hours- 2-5. 7-3
Embargo
Is Upheld
By Court
Supreme Court Holds
Chaco Arms Em
bargo Is Legal
Neutrality Laws
Decision Seen As Clearing
Path for Sweeping Neu
trality Legislation
By JOHN R. BEAL
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 21. ?(U.R)?
The supreme court today upheld
constitutionality of the first new
deal arms embargo in terms that
gave congress a broad foundation
on which to enact permanent neu
trality legislation.
The court ruled 7 to 1 that neu
trality proclamations such as the
Chaco arms embargo of 1934 were
in the "vast realm" of foreign af
fairs in which the federal govern
ment is supreme. The court's lan
guage was so explicit that some
observers believed the new deal's
highly controversial reciprocal
trade treaties might be justified
by the same argument.
Justice James C. McReynolds
dissented without writing a formal
opinion? in fact without even
showing up at today's brief ses
sion, the last of the year. Justice
Harlan Fiskc Stone wat still ab
sent because of illness.
It was the first important new
deal case decided on broad con
stitutional grounds this term. Vic
tory for the administration rais
ed its "batting average" before the
court to .250. Of 12 major tests,
the new deal has lost nine and
won three. The other two were the
gold and TVA cases last term.
The test arose when a group of
New York airplane manufacturers
were indicted charged with con
(Continued On Page Eight)
Search for Body of
Capt. Finer Goes On
Swansboro, N. C., Dec. 21.?(U.R)
?Coast guardsmen today began
the fourth day of search for the
body of Capt. Finley Piner, 51, be
lieved to have drowned after fall
ing overboard in Bogue Inlet.
Piner apparently lost balance
and toppled overboard 100 yards
from the dock. His shipmates
quickly spotted him with search
lights, but the captain, an excel
lent swimmer, sank before a res
cue boat reached him. He was be
lieved to have suffcred a heart
attack in the water.
Ruins Of San Vincente May
Yield Bodies 01 1,000 Dead
*
Busy Providing Shelter and
Food for Homeless Sur
vivors of Earthquake
San Salvador. Dec. 21.?(U.R)?
Rescue crews tonight continued to
dig into the ruins of earthquake
leveled San Vincente, 302-year-old
city cast of San Salvador, where it
was believed 1,000 bodies still were
buried.
Over 100 bodies have been re
covered.
Shocks of minor intensity con
tinued throughout today but no
additional casualties werereport -
ed. The National Observatory esti
mated the center of the quake,
which destroyed San Vincente and
several surrounding towns was in
the Pacific ocean.
Government commissions and
the Red Cross adopted measures
to alleviate the suffering and
temporary shelters were establish
ed and food kitchens set up to
care for the homeless survivors.
A central aid committee to assist
the victims was organized.
The heavy loss of life in San
Vincente was attributed to the
fact that most of the houses were
of "adobe" construction, with un
cooked-brick walls built heavy
wooden beams. These were believ
ed to have killed many persons
outright and buried several others
I when the houses collapsed.
Hundreds of survivors were
brought to this city by train and |
lodged in schools and public
buildings.
President Maximilian Hernan
dez Martinez declared the govern
ment was prepared to cooperate
with the people of San Vicente in
rebuilding the city.
Winter Begins
With Warmest
Day In Weeks
And Shoppers Take Ad
vantage of Break In
the Weather
Despite the fact that yesterday
officially marked the beginning of
Winter, it was in fact the warm
est, fairest dav seen here since
before Thanksgiving. And altho it
also was the shortest day in the
year, it was the busiest day Eliz
abeth City stores have experienc
ed this year, Christmas shoppers
turning out in great numbers to
take advantage of the first pret
ty day in weeks.
Winter officially opened last
night at 7:27 o'clock, according
to Turner's Almanac. The dura
tion of daylight yesterday was
nine hours and 47 minutes.
Christmas shoppers were not
the only persons to take advant
age of yesterday's fair weather.
Farmers hauled corn. State high
way crews scraped dirt roads,
hunters took to the fields and
woods, and WPA workers put in a
hard day's work on sidewalk pro
jects.
The hope was expressed on
hand yesterday that the fair
weather would hold until Christ
mas.
That Jos. P. Knapp
Shot Ducks Over
Ba i teclPondDen ied
Invitation
PERSONS who like to put signs
on their automobiles will probab
ly be interested in the inaugural
automobile plate displayed by Miss
Elizabeth Sanders. The design
was approved by "the Washington
Inaugural committee for the pres
ident's second term.
.
Union Starts
Drive Against
[Anto Industry
General Motors First Tar
get In Drive to Organ
ize Industry
Detroit, Dec. 21.?(U.R)?The
United Automobile Workers' un
ion started its drive tonight for
recognition by the General Mo
tors Corporation
UAWU officials, backed by the
committee for industrial organiza
tion. demanded a collective bar
gaining conference with heads of
world's greatest automobile manu
facturing organization, and
claimed enough members among
their 211.000 workers "to tie them
up." ,
With John Brophy, director of
John L. Lewis' C. I. O. at his el
(Continued on page five)
Statement of Warden
Lewark Disputed
By a Friend
FEED'S NOT BAIT
Ami 45 Ducks Seized by
Federal Wardens Were
Shot by Party of Four
and Not Three, As Al
leged.
That information given to the
pres of this city by Deputy Game
Warden St. Clair Lewark regard
ing the alleged apprehension of
Joseph P. Knapp, on Mr. Knapp's
Mackay Island estate on Friday
Dec. 4, with an alleged unlawful
bag limit of ducks shot ovqr a
baited pond, was grossly mislead
ing is the statement made by a
close, personal friend and neigh-'
bour of Mr. Knapp who was in
Elizabeth City yesterday.
Mr. Knapp himself has remain
ed silent under the barrage of
publicity that attended the incid
ent of the seizure of 45 ducks on
his place by Federal game war
dens on Friday, Dec. 5th.
Information given the press a
few days after that was that Mr.
Knapp and two of his guests were
found with 45 ducks, or 15 more
ducks than the aggregate bag lim
it for three shooters. And that Mr.
Knapp and his guests were shoot
ing over a baited pond contrary to
law.
This information was given to
the press by Warden Lewark, in
spite of the fact that ho had pre
ferred no charges against Mr.
Knapp or his guests. It is unusual
to say the least, for Federal law
enforcement officers to give out
information relating to their act
ivities, to the press, before the
(Continued on page eight)
Pope Pius To
Broadcast On
ChristmasEve
Roman Pontiff, In Spite of
Seriousness of His Ill
ness, Insists On Speak
ing In Behalf of Peace
' On Earth.
Vatican City, Dec. 21.?(U.Ri?
Pope Pius, despite his weakened
condition, decided tonight against
his doctor's advice to broadcast
a Christmas message to the
Faithfull throughout the world. It
probably will contain a plea for
peace.
The Pontiff will speak at 12:30
p. m., < 6:30 p. m. EST) on Decem
ber 24 from the Vatican radio sta
tion.
Although doctor Arminta Mil
ani tried to dissaude the Pontiff
from further taxing his waning
strength by preparing and deliv
ering the message, the Pontiff was
so intent in his desire that the
physician finally relented. Milani
and the Pope's intimates now are
(Continued on page five)
| Weather Statistics
| December 21, 1936
TEMPERATURE
Average for December _-44.70
Highest today .52.00
Lowest today ; 30.00
Average today 41.00
Excess today Minus 3.70
PRECIPITATION 'In Inches)
Average for December ..3.90
Amount today 0.00
Total amount this month 7.03
Total amt. since Jan. 1st 61.00
Average for the year 47.50
Excess for the year 13.50
Barometer 30.29
Wind Direction?North West
Character of Day?Clear
W. H. SANDERS
TIDES
Tuesday, December 22
High lew
a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.
|Ore. Inlet . 1.20 1.39 7.59 8.06
I Cape Hat. . 1.00 1.19 7.39 7.46
Wednesday, December 23
High Low
a.m. p.m. a.m. pm.
Ore. Inlet . 2.27 2.45 9.03 9 %
Cape Hat . 2.07 2.25 8.43 6.4s>
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