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( *tvniER Tlir 11 \ TT V * \TI^ I7"PT7l\TT^t1l\Trir maki"me forecast - 1 JrlxLi UAlijl liMJUil JLJJJJjJ 1 colder Tuesday. Monday 1908 COMBINED WITH TKJ INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 __ pPl \(). 102 Pubiw^i KW, i*> ft-u^njont iMbiua.i.11{ c?. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C? MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936 stored ?t ^ cuy. x. c. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS 77T xt ? INazi \\ arships in Biscay ICriiisintf Off Bilbao \\ here i.ies Cap i 11 red !ship iiui'iv s Answer I r.i?!< c . i Kiisluud Wail a iv :>h \ ?> Notes On \ oimiteers :v co-Spanish Fron U ? Six German .1 off the Biscay * Berlin's anger - cure by Spanish merchantman, Pa i merchant vessel . 3iibao. The Ger thus far have made to enter the port. : resentatives here he P.dos carried 1.500 ? -rials and food for The materials, he said, held telephones in ter General Francisco :.uncd of the presence ' . man ships off the Bis contending the Ger ::: veto practicing espionage > the fleet of Finn of foreign shipping d for Bilbao. Santander and G cjue officials charged that :uiy a German destroyer ap i off Bilbao and saw a Rus ip enter. Half an hour la : one of Franco's warships ar ci and began to shell the port. Await Answer Paris. Dec. 27.?(UP1? French Br: :sh officials tonight eag awaited word from Germany. !' >ia. Italy and Portugal as to ".aether those countries would ?> necessarv laws to prevent :r nationals from going as antecrs" to fight in Spain. Foreign office officials, trying Git to make Fiance's position 1 c.r. vigorously denied reports ? France had offered to hand >.uk the Cameroons or any of Germany's former colonies if the (Continued on Page Eight) Rebels Enler Madrid Then Sulfer Defeat ' i unter-allaek 1>> Loyal i-ts Recovers Lost (Ground For the Defenders drid. Dec. 27.?(U.P)? Rebel J ntercd Madrid today after ? his battle, in which hun : of men were slaughtered. ere thrown back by hurried rubiii/ed loyalists. fascists stormed across the ?mares river, on the western :?>. behind a deafening ar burrage. The loyalist defen >tnumbered and unprepar rebels occupied the north C ?ntinued on Page Three) W rather Statistics December 27, 1936 II \ij?| KATl'RE: age for December.. 44.70 ' t today 73.00 '(.vest today 38.00 erage today 55.50: s today plus 10.80 1 rage for the year 60.60 Sun. Sat. i "meter 30.46 30:50 i ? Kl! IPJTATION (In inches) ?? rage for December __ 3.90 mount today 0.00 tl amt. this month. _ 7.03 ? il amt. since Jan 1st 61.00 age for the year 47.50 since Jan. 1st 13.50 j Direction._ South West . ;,Ur of Day?Clear W. H. SANDERS TIDES Monday December 28 High Low a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. mi.i 7:21 7:41 0:52 1:42 7:01 7:21 0:32 1:22 Tuesday December, 29 High Low a.m. p.m. a m. p.m.1 1 8:10 3:22 1:45 2:29 | 7.50 8:1? 1.25 2:03/ Townsend In the Toils I DR. FRANCIS E. TOWN3END. old-age pension plan founder, is fingerprinted in the United States marshal's oflice in Los Angeles, alter surrendering to an indictment for contempt of Ccngress. Dr. Townsend walked cut of a committee hearing last spring. He posted a bend of SI.000. More Murdered Than Killed In Battle In Spanish War Correspondent Fstiinates That for livery Soldier Who l)ie> hi Battle. Three Persons. Men. W omen and Children. Died Before Firing Squads By LESTER Z1FFREX i Purisv Dec. 27.?(U.R>?For every | soldier killed in battle in Spain's civil war three persons?men. wo-! men and children?have been murdered behind the lines. Some have been lined up a- ; gainst walls and shot down by , firing squads for no apparent rea- | son. Others have been tortured. Day and night, in Madrid. Val encia. Barcelona and presumably in the Rebel-controlled areas, the click of rifle fire is heard as ex ecutions take place. I saw thousands of photographs I in Madrid's police headquarters showing the bodies of these vic tims?whose only crime was be ing suspected of having sym- j pat hies for the enemy?and I es timate that between 10.000 and 15.000 have been shot down in the j capital alone. In Catalonia, where communists are in control. 20.000 persons are estimated to have been executed. I have no idea of the numbers filled in insurgent territory, but the slaughter in Zaragoza and Se ville must have been wholesale fcr these cities were strongholds of the anarchists and commun ists before the fascists seized them. Rightists friends of mine were i killed in Madrid and I am certain I my leftist friends, caught in rebel ] territory, suffered the same fate. 1 A Madrid militia commander. | whom I had known for several r years, offered to take me to a I "bumping off party" and show me . how it was done. He was amazed when I told him j I wasn't interested: that I was I sickened by the killing I had wit nessed already. "You don't understand." lie I said. "We've got to do it. because they would do the same with us j if they caught us." He explained that his "techni- : que" was to take his victims to a J lonely road outside Madrid, or to j the ruins around University City i "Continued on Page Eight) | A verage Englishman,Unlike Edward, Likes Blond Portrait of t li <? Average Briton. Destroys Some Preeoiireive?l ideas London. Dec. 27.?UJ.R)?Former King Edward may have "fallen for" a brunette but a blond has 30 per cent better chance cf find ing a husband in England, a year end survey revealed tonight. Official statistics of the board of trade, shop and cinemas-and "of-the-record" confidences of wives shattered the illusions of Americans that the male Briton is a tall, lean individual with a whisky-and-soda and a derby hat. Here's the composite English man: He's 30 years old. been married three years, likes "mousetrap" cheese instead of gorgcnzola. is slightly less than five feet eight inches in height, wears blue socks, drinks beer, wears a soft gray hat and rarely goes to church. He likes his movie stars exotic, like Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo. but he becomes mad as blazes if his wife appears in a conspicious outfit. He's changing his ideas about a lot of things, but Sunday din ner at home never changes. It still is a joint cf roast beef, baked potatoes and brussels sprouts with a dessert made of apples. He may not go to church but has no use for atheists and shies at the word agnostic. 'Continued on Page Eight) Elks Investigate | New Problem of Split-Personality Someone Pulls a Fast One Hut Fails to Foiled the Ten Spot S. A. Twiford. exalted ruler of the local Elk s lodge, and brother Elks, are awaiting a letter from Lynchburg. Va? which may solve a problem in split-personality which confronted them over the holidays. It v/as noon Saturday when Mr. Twiford received the following tel egram from W. O. Bell of the | Lynchburg lodge. "Will you guarantee advance ten dollars your member J. B. Pinner waiving identification membership card lost." Immediately upon reading the telegram, Mr. Twiford rushed around to his club. But, Mr. Pin ner beat him to it. There he was taking life nonchalantly, sitting in a lounge chair with his legs cross ed. r "Why." said Sammy. "I was j just going to send you ten dol- : lars." "Rather late for Christmas j presents," said Joe. With Joe and the telegram both J (Continued on Page Eight) 4 To ] lefine N e u t r a 1 Posi lion Vandenberg Wants a Course Charted In Advance For "Insulation" Present Neutrality Art Ex pires May I ami Many Have New Plans Washington. Dec. 27?(U.R)?Sen. Arthur Vr.ndenberg. R., Mich., to night assailed legislation which would place vast neutrality pow ers in the hands of President Roosevelt and called for immedi ate congressional enactment of a "mind-our-own-busincss" code to keep America out of war. He said in a statement to the press that he did not intend his observation as a "reflection 011 the president." However, lie said, ex ercise of discretion after a war has started inevitably invites "an un neutral interpretation by any bel ligerent which is curtailed or of fended by the decision." Furthermore, the Michigan sen ator declav&l a president is not himself a free agent among his own people. As proof of this con tention lie cited the case of Wood row Wilson who "discovered this to his own sorrow when once a large and profitable war trade had started to enrich large numbers of our own people." The Safest ' The safest neutrality, if insula tion be the aim, will be a specific mind-our-own-business' code es tablished in advance of any neces sity for its use." Vandenberg said. Vandenberg is one of the most forceful members of the senate opposition party. He is a member of the foreign affairs committee and served on the Nye munitions investigating committee which I sponsored neutrality* legislation in 1 the last congress. His observation j (Continued on Page Thr:e) Nanking Parades In Celebration of Chiang's Release Generalissimo Is Safe ai Home ami .Marshal's Fair I Is Bcinp: Drbatnl Nanking. Doc. 27.?<U.R)- -Two hundred thousand Chinese liold a celebration and parade tonight in honor of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's return from captivity. He had been the hostage of Mar shal Chang Hseuh-Liang. who at tempted to force him into a more agressive anti-Japanese policy. The Chinese gathered in the great airdrome. Chiang, although J invited, did not attend. Rather he j sent a message which was read to the gathering by General Ho Ying ! Chin, minister of war. Chiang told his people that their behavior in the face of the crisis over the last few weeks had de monstrated that China was an or ganized. forceful state. Mounted gendarmes and white uniformed nurses headed the two mile parade. All members of the government as well as represent- j atives of military, civil, labor, stu-1 dents, women's and jounalistic or- j ganizations took part in it, demon strating their loyalty to the lead-1 er. Meanwhile government officials were debating what discipline I should be meted out to the "Young Marshal" who shocked all j China by his sudden coup. He has j now recanted his heresy and ack- j nowledged the correctness of the i political policies followed by I Chiang. General Chen Chang and Chiang Tso-Pin, former Chinese Ambassador of Tokyo, who were taken prisoners by Chang along with the Generalissimo, returned to Nanking today. TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federa- , tion. 10:00 Ministerial association. | P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club. 3:30 W. M. S. Circles of First | Methodist Church. 4:00 Jr. G. A. First Baptist 7:30 Pocahontas: Kiwanis Jr. j Glee Club: Boys Club. 8:00 American Legion. Library Hours: 10-12. 2-6 Bodyguard j j j 1 THOMAS E. Qualters. 32. of the i Massachusetts State Police, sc- I lecteci from thousands of honor c men throughout the nation to re- I place the late Gus Gennerich as c personal bodyguard to President Roosevelt. A jiative of Charles- l town, Mass., he is a former Notre s Dame halfback, expert pistol shot, boxer and wrestler. He has a ? pleasant personality and a fine l record for strict adhertrencc to i duty. i Pasquotank's jj ABC Store In |: Record Sold Over 88,000 Worth ' of Liquor In Five Salos Days Elizabeth City and vicinity car ried its celebration of Christmas ] thru the week end. judging from i sales in the Pasquotank County ' ABC store on Saturday the day j after Christmas. i Saturday's sales in the liquor store amounted to approximately &1.500. which was about the fourth llrgest amount recorded in a sin ?c day since the store opened its doofs on July'24, 1935. The Saturday sales were the more remarkable in view of the record sales on Christmas Eve. two days before, when the store dis pensed $3,211.90 worth of alcoho lic beverages. The general belief was that the reason so much liq uor was sold here Christmas Eve was because would-be celebrants bought enough liquor that day to last over the week end. But a majority of them must have con sumed their entire stock of spirit - (Continued on Page Eight) I) <i coralions Draw Praises From Visilors (iliri^lmas Decorations (>11 Streets and Homes Are Highly Praised The beauty, variety and extent of Elizabeth City's Christmas dec orations drew high praise from visitors to the city during the hol idays. "I didn't sec anything to com pare with Elizabeth City's dedora tions while driving from Charles ton, S. C.. to this city," said W. B. I Winslow, who drove here from Charleston, on Christmas day. "I passed thru such places as Georgetown. Wilmington, New Bern. Washington. Williamston. and Edenton, and I saw nothing , along the 400-mi!e route that will ' surpass or even equal the Christ mas decorations I have seen in Elizabeth City." Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Pool, who drove here from Greenville, S. C., < during the holidays, said virtual- , (Continued On Page Eight) J I J Burglar Captured In < Act Saturday Might 1 i Charles Etheridge, local negro ] better known as Hawk Ferebee, was lodged in jail at an early hour yesterday morning after Night Officer Baum had found him in 1 the store of A. Ray Sawyer Feed i Co. Nine 100 pound sacks of sugar, j a cheese and a tin of lard were | found stacked at the rear door of 1 the establishment in a position to t be easily carted away. , i? Other than a few simple drunks, t the local police department had j? another of the quiet week-ends | Z that have been the prevailing rule t in this city for more than a 11 month. ' ( Strikers Fight In New A ork bix Fights During the Day Enliven the Waterfront Ryan and Curran Heeling of Seamen, Long shoremen ami Team sters Oeeasion New York, Dec. 27.?(U.R>? Six 1st fights between striking insur ant seamen and longshoremen jroke out on the waterfront to iay and one man was reported to )e seriously injured. The clash oc :urred during a meeting between Joseph P. Ryan, longshoremen's ^resident, and Joseph Curran, strike leader. Ryan and a dozen longshoremen rrrived at Webster Hall where he olanned to address a mass meet ng of seamen, longshoremen and members of the international bro sherhood of teamsters, chauffeurs ind truck drivers union. He was met at the door of the hall by Curran and half a dozen seamen. Ryan has led the long shoremen in opposition to the sea men's strike and recently dis charged Harry Bridges as west roast organizer. Witnesses said Ryan said to Curran: "Well, now what do you say ?.bout who's hiring strong arms?" An argument began and the fights followed. A riot call was turned in, but by the time four patrol cars and an emergency crew arrived, the men had scat tered. Inside the hall, a move to call out 8.000 members of the interna tional brotherhood in support of (Continued on Page Eight) Urges English .?> * Clerics To For gel Edward, Wallg London, Dec. 27.?(U.R)?The archbishop of Canterbury, in a broadcast tonight. to dignitaries of the church of England to cease their attacks on former king Ed ward. The primate?one of the first to criticize Edward for his ro mance with Mrs. Warfield Simp son?said it was time that Eng land and the empire stopped re ferring to the crisis on the mon arch's abdication. "In our national history the year that is going never can be forgotten, but its most recent vi vid memories had better now be kept in silence," the archbishop said. His appeal to churchmen and the people to forget Edward and Mrs. Simpson, who contemplated marriage he once called "un christian." was regarded as a pol ite rebuff to the archbishop of York. - \ f Would-be Auto Thief Comes From "Nearby | Convicted and sentenced un der the name of Franklin Wil son, of New lersey, the man who Wednesday night attempt ed to steal the car of Fred Barr, has admitted to Police Chief R. C. Madrin that his real name is Fred Crockett and that he comes originally from Wallace ton, Va., where his parents live. Crockett was sentenced to serve 18 months on the roads on the auto theft attempt and other i charges growing out of the happening immediately follow ing, principal item being his at tempt to draw a gun on Officer ! George Twiddy and being knocked cold as a result. Crockett dispatched a tele gram to his people Sunday, but j so far has received no response. | i V A New Plan To Abolish Child Labor j (TMahoiiey Pill Would All-1 tliorize States To Pan j Products Made By Boys and Girls Under J6. Washington, Dec. 27.?(U.R>? A new and direct plan for abolish ing child labor by authorizing the states to ban products manufac tured by boys and girls under 16 years of age will be submitted to the next congress, Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., disclosed to night. The provision, will be embraced in O'Mahoncy's federal incorpora tion bill which some authorities, including Sen. William E. Borah, R, Ida., favor as the vehicle for j (Continued on Page Eight) Pope Is Suffering Much From Illness Vatican City, Dec. 27.?(U.R)? Pope Pius XI murmured the pray ers of his Rosary Beads over and over tonight to try to forget, the pain of severe neuritis in his af flicted legs. His personal physician, Prof. Aminta Milani, admitted after visiting his holiness during the evening that the neuritis pains continued unabated. Although Vatican officials min j ized the seriousness of the new i complications, there was an at j mospherc of tension about the | Vatican household. Fears were ex j presspd that the pains?prevent I ing the Pontiff from obtaining sleep?might bring on a relapse. Counterfeiter Is Taken With Goods In Florida City Find 821.000 In Spurious 820 Hills On New York Mail Miami. Fla., Dec. 27.?(U.R)? I Secret Service Agents tonight claimed to have blocked "the big jest counterfeiting coup ever at tempted in Florida" as they ar rested a New Yorker and confis cated thousands of dollars in al legedly spurious money. Climaxing a six-week drive a tainst' counterfeiters. James H. Beary, secret service chief for (Continued on Page Eight) I Father Dies As Daughter Misses In a Spelling Bee New York. Dec. 27.?(U.R)? Edith Fenyes. 11. with a chance ,o win $5 as a finalist in a radio | spelling bee. today stumbled over she word "silhouette" and her mxious father. Morris Fenyes, 14-year-old printer, collapsed in lie studio audience. He died a few hours later, victim of heart ' iisease. Women Organize New Drive To Establish Their Rights A Sri Objective f<ir I'ropotcri "Woman's Charter" of Ki^lils Washington. Doc. 27.?<U.R)? A now drive to obtain equal rights for women throughout the world was launched tonight by a joint conference group representing the leading women's organizations in the United States. Objectives set out in a proposed "women's charter" include full political and civil rights, full op portunity for education and for employment without discrimina tion in pay because of sex, and healthful working conditions. "This charter is intended to be come the basis for common ac tion by women throughout the world." a statement said. "Wo men's organizations are expected to work together for the necessary legislation to give effect to it in their own nations and to join in submitting it to the league of na tons and the international labor organization at their 1937 ses sions." The "charter" draft declares for: <1> Full political and civil rights for women: <2> employment opportunities and safeguards against "economic exploitation": <3> new social and labor legisla i Continued on Page Eight; Roper Reports All Well But Merchant Marine-More Ships Must Be Modernized If We Are To Hold Trade National Income increased Economic Activ ity Is Seen In All Fields, Says Annual Report Washington. Dec. 27?(U.R)?The United States is threatened with loss of her ocean trade routes un less the merchan* marine is mod ernized and placed on a competi tive basis with foreign fleets. Sec retary of Commerce Daniel C. Ro per said tonight in his annual re port to the president. This was the only ominous note sounded in the report, Roper pointing out that the tide of pros perity is rising steadily and that "the marked improvement which has characterized two preceding fiscal years continued to gain throughout the year 1935?36." He said that recently enacted shipping legislation plus creation of a new federal maritime com mission may help solve the mer chant marine problem but that it is imperative the nation move quickly and in concert to regain its rapidly dwindling oceanic trade. As regards the country as a whole. Roper pointed to a sharp rise in national income as reflect ing the nation's strengthened ec onomic position. Data was not av ailable for the fiscal year, but for tiic calendar year 1935 the report estimates that national income readied $53,000 ?00.000. an in crease of almost $5,000,000,000 ov er the preceding year and $13, 400,000,000 over the 1932 low. Note Income Indications are, according to Roper, that national income will reach at least $60,000.000,000 for the calendar year 1936. Economy recovery broadened, he said, with acceleration of activity in the durable goods and con struction fields, continued rise in farm income, increase in employ ment and expansion in industrial payrolls. Increase in manufacturing vol ume was estimated at 20 per cent; (Continued on Page Three i flush D. Hoi I SaysTheyHave Col loFireHim Youthful \\ oi Virginian Hcfusrs to Krsi^u From Sriialc (loinmitlce Washington, Doc. 27.?U.R)?? Sen. Rush D. Holt, youthful West | Virginia Democrat, tonight chal lenged Democratic party eladcrs to prove that he "gave comfort if not aid" to the enemy in the elec tion campaign?the grounds on which they have cut him off from all patronage. "They've got to prove that charge," Holt told the United Press in telephone interview at his home at Weston. W. Va. Unbowed by the punishment meted out to him, Holt pledged his defiance anew by promising to fight any attempt to pass the Guffey Coal Control Bill, and said he would not resign from any of the committees on which he now | serves. "They will have to fire me; I'll I never resign," he said. "I under stand they would have to get an j order from the Senate to do that." Holt has been in the bad graces of the administration ever since he attacked administration of the ! works progress program in West Virginia. WPA administrator Har ry L. Hopkins replied with a den j ial that political favoritism was j used in state WPA appointments. 1 and made public a report indi ' eating that Holt's enmity was i due to the fact that his brother had been discharged from the WPA. Later Holt alienated organized labor by fighting against the Guf | fey bill when a new measure wa. introduced after the Supreme Court invalidated the original af "I will oppose that bill again." he said tonight. "It's a step to ward Fascism." Holt's filibuster in 1 the closing days of the last ses sion was credited with defeat of the measure. i