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~ V). 101 published Every l?a> Kxe^^S^Uy T..;Jcp^uK..t 1'uMLJvms Co. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1936 QtereJ ?l 1Cilr' N' SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
^ STTL.1 : JW?--ra
We Are \ Wishing You A
Sane And Happy Christmas
:?"i?: .? -:v" *'?"" "
Senators
Vgainst
Gold Plan |
lUmkin and Thomas
( nikise Inactive
Fund
Coming Conflict
!iin \rh U In For Much
1 ?ii r?* From The
Left
IIHIK F. DEGREVE
:ton. Dec. 24.?(U.R!?!
....v.ius of sharp conflicts
Roosevelt is expected
.:i controlling unwieldy
majorities in Congress
rouiuht when Rep. John
D . Miss., warned of the
? : the administration's
Id policy.
vasurv's plan to set aside
inactive" fund all future
.ises of gold from aboard
.at mined at home in order
??.all dangers of a S20.0o4i
a00 credit boom, carries ac
:n_ to Rankin. "grave danger
: mother depression."
He warned that unless the pro- |
a: :> dropped a congressional
ap is inevitable. Sen. Elmer
. mas. D.. Okla.. congressional
.ey expert, who approved the
: usury plan when it was pro
d. revised his opinion after
rather sutdy. He has joined j
i.km in ur ging the government'
proveed cautiously.
Thomas and Rankin see in the
Id policy an attempt by the"
ernment to meet growing
"icism of skyrocketing prices by
ntracting credit and removing
?? ney from circulation. They
?ke the position that prices have
yet reached a level sufficienly
? Continued on Page Three!
Chris I mas Is
Observed In
B e I hi eh em
':!t! Spirit of the .Alan of
J'eaee Seems lo Have
Forsaken the Town
"wlehem. Friday. Dec. 25.?
The star of Bethelehem that
wise men to the cradle of
::fant Christ shone early to
. a scene which mocked his
ings of "Peace on Earth,
Will Toward Men."
. rs in steel helmets stalk- !
row. rutted streets to keep
and Jews from killing each
Bells rang out at midnight ;
the believers to prayer in
Catherine's church. Carols
ung.
tension existed everywhere
1 ntinued on Page Three)
W rather Statistics
December 24, 1936
T 'KKATIRE:
. ' rage for December ..44.70
; lest today 53.00
west today 23.00
?V crage today 38.00
?/?ess today minus 6.70 1
V rage for the year 60.60
?'UK 1 CITATION < In inches)
rage for December 3.90 j
Val amount today ? 0.00
'?htl amt this month.. 7.03
?1 amt since Jan. 1 ..61.00
rage for the year __.47.50
?"? for the year 13.50
? 1 ?/: Direction?South
."??tor of L)ay?Clear.
W H. SANDERS
TIDES
I ridav, December 25
High Low
a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.
hii'-t 4:36 4:53 11:07 11.02 |
ia:. 4:16 4:33 10:47 10:42 !
"silurday, December 26
High Low
a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.1
:? ,5 3 53 13:02 H:53 !
-?To j. 15 0.53 11:42 11:53
Unseated
i;
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FRBSIDENT ..iIGUEL fvi.iRIANO
GOMEZ, ousted from the presi
dency of the Cuban Republic fol
lowing the impeachment. Pro-:
ccedings against burn w. re or ova1;:
following his veto cf a rru r. ure
whereby a nine-cent tax on ?
sugar would be used to support j
army controlled schools.
Federieo Bru
Is President
Of Cuba Now"i
Regular (Vromom of in
stallation ()lwr\r(l lit:I
IV?|?I?' SiM'in Vnatiiclic
Havana. Cuba. Dec. 24.?'U.P
Federico Laredo Bru. 61 year uM
vice president under Pi oiclcnt .Mi
guel Mariano Gomez. today v. a.
sworn in to .succeed the latter a.,
chief executive. Cuba's fourth
within 13 months.
Gomez was voted out of office
by the senate which, sustained a
bill of impeachment passed by the
chamber of representatives charg
ed him with "coercion" and with
"impeding the fiee function of leg
islative power." The ouster was
dictated by Co). Fukcncio Batis
ta. army chief of staff, because of
Gomez' veto of the nine-cent a bar
sugar tax bill. Batista sponsored
the bill to obtain revenue for the
army's rural school program.
Chief Justice Juan Federico Ed
elinann of the supreme court, ac
companied by other black-gowncd
(Continued on Page Three)
In a u sp ie i ous
Fall Hunting
Closes Today
a/
Aim! For The Lawless The
Season For Hunting W il?l
f owI is Just Heiriimiiiir
Thanks to the kindly benev
olence of Uncle Sam. represented
by stricter game laws, migratory
wildfowl in the Albemarle sec
tion have come thru another
shooting season without any con
siderable decrease in their num
ber. But the ducks and geese
needn't count themselves too
lucky, for with the closing of tne
open season at four o'clock this
afternoon their troubles will just
begin.
The 1936 open season on migra
tory wildfowl, tho not a dis
astrous one from the sportsman's
viewpoint, has not been an auspi
cious season at all. There have
been plenty of ducks and geese
in the sounds and bays and rivers
of this section?more than have
been in a number of years?but
getting a shot at them has been
the problem.
For one thing, the season was
too short and also too cariy to
provide many days of good liunt
iCoutuiutd on Pa0fc Tin je>
President
Christmas Message
.
Trarltiims oi Sermon On
The Mount Adequate
Today
Washington, Dec. 24.?(U.R>?
The nation's first family freely
shared its Christmas joy today
with proud and lowly citizens a- ;
like in a series of celebrations cli
maxed when President Roosevelt
lighted the community tree and
called on men and nation to seek
peace in the spirit of the sermon
on the mount.
Tomorrow the Roosevelts will
enjoy a private, family Christmas
?all except Franklin. Jr.. ill in a
Boston hospital, and Mr. and Mrs. j
John Bocitiger in Seattle?but to- j
day they participated, like ordin
ary folk, in the excitement and
bustle of a town preparing for the
year's greatest religious holiday.
It was at the traditional tree
lighiing eercmcny in Lafayette
Park across from the pillared i
beaut:' of the White House, that
Mr. Roosevelt spoke his Christ
mas message to the nation.
He recalled Dickens" glorious j
old story about old Scrooge and !
Tinv Tim and how the spirit of
h crippled little boy softened the
heart of the old man until he be
came "as good a friend, as good a
master and as good a man as the
uood old city knew, or any other
good old city, town or borough in
the good old world."
"The teaching of the sermon on
the mount." Mr. Roosevelt added,
"is as adequate to the needs of
men antt of nations today as
when it was first proclaimed a
mon: the hills above the sea of
Galilee, in such measure as its j
spirit is accepted men and nat- i
? Continued on Page Three)
G<hvar<l (Jets
M a 11 v Gifts
J
It Christmas
former Kins; I'asses His
Firs! Christmas in Kxile
At Fnzesfehl Castle
Py RICHARD 1). MacMILLAX
Un od Pit -s Staff Correspondent
Er./.t\sfc!d. Austria. Dec. 24?(U.R)
Former King Edward exchanged
Christmas greetings by telephone
with Mrs. Wa'.lis Warfield Simp
son tonight and then romped with
23 children around a yule tree in
the great hall of Enzesfeld castle.
Edward came from the tele
phone. his face wreathed in smiles.
I to join the Christmas Eve cele
I bration staged by the Baron Eu
gene Dc Rothschild for the chil
: urcn of his household employes.
The Baroness served tea to the
iContinued on Page Three)
Winners of Prizes
For Decorations
Are Announced
Winners of the prizes given by
the Elizabeth City Garden Club
-for the best Christmas decorations
j in the city announced last night.
Dr. I. Pearing's home was chos
en as first in night decorations,
while the home of Postmaster W.
T. Culpepper won second prize.
Mrs. Harold Overman won first
! prize for day decoration, while
; Mrs. W. C. Dawson won second.
The judges gave honorable
j mention to Duard Jones' unique
j illumination of the Three Wise |
Men, but could not give it a prize |
because it was so high. In fact,
I a good many decorations that
might have merited serious con
1 sideration by the judges were rul
ed out because they were either
too high or too low.
The committee of ladies which
judged the day decorations was
i composed of Mrs. Harold Fore
man. Mrs. Noah Burfoot and Miss
Elizabeth Hathaway.
The committc of men which
I iudged the night decorations was
J composed of the Rev. G. F. Hill.
: Kubtrt Kramer and Jolru FrLby. [
1
' ~ ~\
Pope Speaks
To A
Turbulent World
V /
By UNITED PRESS
Half the world celebrates
Christmas?Season of "Peace
on earth good will toward men"
Amidst war and rumors of war.
Europe and the Orient stood
on the brink of war oblivious of
the words of a tired old man,
who, from his sick bed in Vati
can City, Broadcast to all peo
ples Thursday an appeal for
peace, tolerance and a cessa
tion of that violent nationalism
which may be heading the world
toward another great conflict.
Bombs fell on the Cathedrals
of Madrid even as the sick man
?his voice at times choked with
emotion?pleaded for a peace
which many of his hearers fear
they may never know.
The Holy Father's broadcast
was heard by hundreds of mil
lion??The Woman Catholic
church, of which he is the head,
has more than 331,500,000 com
municants?but the same news
papers which blazoned his peace
message flanked it with dis- |
patches voicing fear of a general
European war as result of the
seeds of hate sown by Spain's
civil conflict and the action of
a one-time drug addict, Marshal
Chang Hsueh-Liang, in kidnap
ing the military dictator of
mope than 300,000.000 Chinese.
Gencralisimo Chiang Kai
Shek.
Tall Story Editor
Is Honored fcjy His
Former Home-folk
?
Bridge \\ ill Be Named for
Kdilor Who Made Home
Ton 11 Famous
Winsted. Conn.. Dec. 24.?<U.R>?
Posthumous recognition came to
night to Lewis Timothy Stone,
editor of the Winsted Evening
Citizen, who made the name of
Winsted synonymous with fake
animal and nature stories.
Robert Mahr. chairman of the
bridge committee, announced that
a new bridge under construction
on the boulevard in the western
part of the town would be named
after the man who hoaxed the
country with such stories as the
cat that whistled "Yankee Doodle"
because of a harelip.
"Stone." said Mahr, "put Win
sted on the map."
Stone?born 1875, died March
13. 1933?was one of the nation's
most famous country correspond
I ents. He achieved his first suc
cessful fake in 1895 because he
needed SI 50. He telegraphed
Boston and New York papers that
for that sum he would "cover"
the wild man running about town
stark naked chasing city officials.
Out-of-town reporters poured in
to Winsted looking for the naked
man. and hotel and tavern keep
ers profited.
Subsequently Stone hoaxed the
country on such stories as the
hen that laid a red, white and
blue egg on the Fourth of July;
the cow that was so modest it re
fused to permit a man to milk it
| and had to be milked by a wo
man; the bullfrog with maternal
instinct that sat on hens' eggs;
the hen that laid an egg on its
'Continued on Page Three)
No Pomp and Parade to Spanish War
THERE is no romance in warfare on the Spanish fronts, as winter sets in and cold, damp winds
blow out of leaden skies. This picture, received recently in the United States, shows Rebel infantry
men wearing heavy clothing as they gather behind a barbed wire entanglement near Villaverde. War
with wet clothing and chill blankets has little brilliance.
Crisis In Spanish
Chaos Is Imminent
? . T
Fascist Nations Must
Either Advance
or Hetreat
Germany and Italy
Franco's Call for Greater
Military Aid Expected
to Precipitate Decision
By FREDERICK KL'H
I United Press Staff Correspondent I
London, Dec. 24.?(U.R)?Ger
many and Italy tonight reached
j the crossroads where they must
decide either to plunge deeper in
to the Spanish situation or with
; draw with loss of prestige.
Diplomatis said the Spanish
| rebels have told Premier Mussi
I lini and Reichsfuehrer Hitler that
they urgently need more aid.
All Europe was tense tonight.
French and British newspaper
voiced the fear of "grace deve
lopments." Thousands, in the
midst of Yuletide merriment,
realized Europe was approaching
a crisis.
General Wilhelm Faupel. secret
German Emissary to the Spanish |
rebels, has been in Berlin this
week urging Hitler to dispatch a
big expeditionary force, well arm
ed, to Spain to tilt the scales!
against the loyalists.
Diplomats says his arguments
have impressed Hitler, particular- j
ly since Italy reportedly is ready I
to come to terms with Britain on j
Mediterranean policy and relax
its aid to the Spanish rebels. This
would mean that Germany would
be isolated as the sole great
power helping Franco.
Germany military leaders re
portedly are divided in opinion.
Some believe that General Her
mann Goering's policy of "guns
rather than butter" is driving the
I 'Continued on Page Three)
Hotel Guests find
J Employes at Parly
j Guests of the Virginia Dare
! hotel, permanent and transient,
and employes of the hotel corpor
ation, white and colored, were |
guests of the management at a
Christmas entertainment held in )
the lobby of the hotel last night, i
The singing of Christmas carols
and spirituals by the colored em
ployes was a feature of the enter
tainment. Gifts were distributed
to all during the evening.
About 35 guests and 35 employes
were present. j
.J
Christmas Evel
In Madrid
Air Haiders Strike as Pov
erty Stricken War Worn
People Celebrate the I
Dan 11 of Christianity
By IRVING PFLAUM
j United Press Staff Correspondent i
I Madrid, Dec. 24.?(U.R)?Fascist
{pianes stared a Christmas Eve
j raid on Madrid tonight, shower
j ing bombs on citizens as they went
to shell-torn churches to sing the
"Misa Del Gallo" in praise of
Christ's birth.
Many were reported to have
been killed and wounded in the
surprise appearance of the Rebel
bombers over the city, breaking a
lull of several days.
Rebel artillery in the frozen
Guadrrama hills joined in the
Christmas Eve bombardment,
pouring huge shells into the cen
ter of the capital. Between 10 and
20 persons, including women and
children, were killed.
The slaughter from land and
skies spread panic through the
city that was one of the oldest
citadels of Christianity.
It was the saddest Noche De
Navidad?Christmas Eve ? that
| Madrid has known.
Families gathered in the remn
ants of their homes to sing the
Christmas hymn of Villancicos
and look forward to a pitiful din
'Continued on Page Five)
j The Christmas Morning Egg Nog
While liquor in any form is tabu in the homes of many
readers of this newspaper, there are those to whom Christmas
would not be Christmas without the cheering bowl of egg nog
on Christmas morning The Dailv Independent offers this recipe.
If one is going to make egg nog, one might as well make it
right.
I pint 100 proof Apple Jack or straight bourbon or rye
whisky. (No blends.)
1 to 2 ounces Jamaica rum.
1 doz. strictly fresh eggs.
Va cup of sugar.
1 at. of thin cream
Nutmeg.
Beat yolks and whites of eggs, separately, beating the sugar
with the yolks. Whites should be beaten until stiff and the
yolks until smooth and creamy.
Add the Apple Jack or whisky to the beaten yolks slowly,
mixing briskly.
Add rum and cream.
Fold the beaten whites into the above mixture and serve in
tall glasses with a sprinkle of nutmeg to top off the treat.
Makes about six pints.
Trying To Buy
Germany Oi l
France and Great Brilian
Offer Economic Salva
tion in Exchange for
Withdrawal of Troops
By RALPH IIEINEN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Paris. Dec. 24.?(U.R)?France
and Great Britain tonight pitted
their gold against Germany's mil
itary aid to the Spanish Rebels in
one of the most sensational diplo
matic poker games Europe has
seen since pre-war days.
Stripped of diplomatic verbiage,
talks among statesmen in Paris,
Berlin and London tonight pro
ceeded along these lines:
If Germany will pull its troops
out of Spain and let Rebel Gen
eral Francisco Franco fight his
own battle, then England and
France may help lift the third
Reich from the economic hole in
to which it is slipping.
Both foreign minister Yvon
Deibos and foreign minister An
thony Eden of Great Britain have
sent word to Chancellor Adolf
Hitler that they regard the send
ing of German troops to Spain
with the utmost seriousness. It
was this message that caused Hit
ler to abandon plans for an ex
tensive Christmas holiday.
The Quai D'Orsay tonight took
? Continued on page five)
Elton Aydlett Is
I Victim of Thief
Christmas came and went
hist niffht for the family of N.
Elton Aydlett on West Church
street when they returned home
at about S:30 o'clock and found
that a thief had entered the
house and made off with the
bulk of their Christmas presents
which were prepared for the
n\orrow.
Entering: by breaking: a back
window and releasing: the latch,
the thief picked and chosed a
mong the presents, taking: what
appealed to him. Mr. Aydlett
was the heaviest loser.
The entry followed, in every
detail of technique, that made
at tiic home of Ivan P.vshn.v a- I
cross the street from the Ayd- i
Ictt home, sfcitia! di.i ago.
ABC Does
A Record
Business
Christmas Eve Busi
ness Largest In
Store's History
Sales 13,211.90
Sold Around 3,500 Bottles
Of Spiritious
Beverages
~~ .
Breaking all previous records,
Pasquotank county's alcoholic bev
erage control store yesterday sold
$3,211.90 worth of assorted spiri
tuous beverages to thirsty holiday
ers from several counties.
It was by far the biggest day's
business done by the local liquor
store since it opened its doors on
July 24, 1935. The nearest day's
business to it was that of Christ
mas Eve a year ago, when the
store's gross business Was less
than $2,000.
This week's sales, incidentally,
with only four selling days yet
c lapsed, have been the largest of
any week in the store's history and
have almost equalled fie gross
sales of three dull week?.
Monday's sales totaled around
$850, Tuesday's sales rose to
around $935, and Wednesday's
sales soared to above $1,600. The
sales for these three days, togeth
er with yesterday's record sales,
aggregate around- *8.500..
Of course, it must be taken in
to consideration that the local li
quor store is the only such store
in this county. In fact, it is the
only such store within a radius of
50 square miles, or between South
Norfolk and Wiliiamston. It was
estimated that two-thirds or bet
ter of the customers patronizing
the local ABC store yesterday were
Irom neighboring counties.
Around 3,500 bottles of liquor,
? Continued on Page Three)
E. Cily Ready
To Celebrate
In Cay Style
Merry, Noisy Xnius In
Prospect For Elizabeth
City Today
Elizabeth City late last night
was preparing to celebrate one of
the merriest, noisiest and busiest
Christmas days in its history to
day.
The day started out majestical
ly and quietly with a midnight
mass at St. Eliz3beth's Catholic
church.
The early part of the morning
will be spent in hundreds of homes
opening and exchanging drifts.
The local Elks, following their
annual custom, will provide bags
of Christmas joy this morning for
around 400 white children of the
town.
At 2:30 p m. today, on Hunsuck
cr field, Hunsucker's All-Stars
will meet the local Cardinals in
'Continued on Page Three)
Lionel Barrymore Is
Overcome at Bedside
Of His Former Wife
r: t
Hollywood. Dec. 24.?
Lionel Barrymore. motion picture
actor, collapsed at the bedside of
Irene Fenwick, his former wife,
shortly after he watched her die
tonight.
He wjus taken to Santa Monica
sanitarium. Barrymore was sched
uled to play the part of "Scrooge*
in the film colony's annual pro
duction of Dickens' "Christme"
Carol" tonight, but his appearance
was cancelled.
Dr. F. A. Speik. who had treat
ed Miss Fenwick. said Barrymore
was alone with her wh?n he ar
rived at a hospital where she died.
Barrymore was kneeling by her
btd una sobbing. Sptik said.