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7mmrm* i tim? futtv ta"fyitpfivtyfivt . r cloudy- occasional mist and rain ? I B 1""^ ? ? J m I B w ? ^ I B ll . I HI . I ^1 I ? Jl . I ^ I erly winds and partly overcast) over i:ably colder Monday; Tues- B 1 | | J B J / % j ? J B B [ ^ 1 W I J I ? J I ^ ? J 1 A I ^ ? north with rain in morning over south cloudy. probably rain. 1998 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 portion Monday. in. i*ubiuhed Ever, !,?>? K.cc,^Sunday b, TI* wu^n-ont I'ubikhing Co. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Marphy Quits As Mediator But -v v .v Continues Efforts tor Labor Department Relief Question JV? * ; i r- Mavo Asked fur K?*!irf A??! But Ques lion i- (.onsidered Detroit- J.'-i- 10.?(U.R)?The -.eminent renewed its attempts v bring peace in the General Motors strike tonight as Frank limvhy announced he role as mediator. '"jun:e> F IV"-. v. federal depart ment . : :r: conciliator, who had ? return to Washington t, a i to remain in De trc;t ami seek a basis on which '00 corporation and automobile workers on the strike af fcctrr.u 100.000 men. N r.... . '.-s increased their ,- President Roosevelt Mi poMotrai charge of negotia ting Straggle StrJc.r> and General Motors r.v:i for what they be rr.M : bo a long struggle. Mr:o. ? announced at a press c ? 'no would return to 1..::.:: . morrow. LV'.v. ... had packed his bags . to take a night tram tor Washington. Today, ..- trad luncheon with Murphy. .ma the governor per suaded irir.i to remain and try once mere to get Homer Martin. | president of the United Automo-1 bile Works, and William S. Knud- | sen. executive vice-president of j General Motors, to sit down at | the -am conference table. Murplry said he knew of no move by either party to the strike j to br.ro,' Mr. Roosevelt into the ' 1 mediation picture. Relief Question The governor revealed that the 1 Question of relief for strikers al tContinucd on Page Six) ??? Seamen (n? l o \\ ashing I on For Protest Kxpei t 2.'MM) to Make I rip In Protect of (iopeland Safely Law New York. Jan. 10.?'U.R? Sea- ? a. a's strike i: acquarters tonight pour "approximate-1 /? -'-OO" >eamen into Washington ', . : \.v:. tomorrow to protest Cope land uf^-at-sea act. Strike leaders said 500 men led by Chairman Pat Whelan of the :;b marine council would B-:*:more b fore 9 a. m. to rn ?: for Washington. ? more seamen are ex Plnladelphia. 200 Hook. Pa., and 300; ?" 'in 3 ? headquarters assert 800 are rallying in New ?cording to strike com mittee figures. T. Bait-more detachment will ; in Washington until the . "beginning Wednes stnke committee said, n will confer with Super- j of Police Ernest W. in Washington "to mini i'c interference and ar i for a mass parade and dem on >trut ion." ?' k- rs plan to "picket" the de I'ai'ment of commerce building nnc invade both houses of con Continued on page eighth ((widen Hon Breaks Heq in Hall From Tree at Home o!i. Jan. 10.? O. B. Rey ?h\. 14-year-old son of Mr. M: O B. Reynolds, of near ff n d a broken leg short noon today when he fell " a tree in the yard of his P < 'n:s' home. of the accident were un rius afternoon. The boy ted by Dr. Zach Owens of :zabeth City and was reported " :? sting comfortably tonight. ? is no form of nerve dis at may not be caused or '?'rd by Eye strain. For a ? h Eye examination see ?' D. HATHAWAY. tadv.) New Chief FRANK J. WILSON, former act ing chief of the United States sec ret service, who has been appoint ed chief. He succeeds William H. Moran. Recklessness Nearly Cause Of Fatalities Speeding (loupe A 1 m o s I Stuck 1 Little Girls On Sidewalks Seven persons had narrow es cape from possible death or ser ious injury yesterday afternoon when a car driven by a reckless i young man ran amok at the corn er of Cypress Street and Pennsyl vania Avenue. The car. a coupe occupied by three young men. headed north on Pennsylvania Avenue, swung west into Cypress Street at a very rapid rate of speed. The car cut too sharply, struck the curbing and one or two tires bursted. Out ! of control, the coupe then took to | the sidewalk on the south side of j Cypress and careened wildly in the direction of four little girls who were walking on the side walk arm in arm. Fortunately for all concerned, an old tree stood between the car and the four little girls, and the coupe was stopped abruptly when it struck the tree, the upper part of which was snapped off by the force of the impact. Two of the individuals in the t car did a disappearing act a min ute or so after the crash. The j third, the driver, who had sus- | tained a broken nose, remained j with the car until a wreckingj truck came and took it away. No one in the neighborhood knew the names of any of the oc- j cupants of the coupe, and the pol ice had no report on the accident j at all. The coupe bore Virginia license plates. Alex Sutherland's Funeral In Hampton The body of Alex T. Sutherland will be taken to Hampton this | morning for burial in the ceme- ! tery of the National Soldiers j home. D. Walter Harris and Frank B. Harris, his former employes, as well as a number of business as- j sociates and friends plan to at- I tend the rites. Temperature Far Over Normal For First Ten Days Is 10.97 Decrees Above Normal; Frogs Are De ceived Into Sinking; The first 10 days of January this year were 11.32 degrees warm er than the first 10 days of Jan uary. 1936. and were perhaps the warmest like period i:i the city's history, according to the temper ature records of W. H. Sanders, local weather reporter. The average temperature for the first 10 days of January. 1936, was 44.05 degrees, against an average temperature of 55.37 degrees for the first 10 days of this month. The average temperature for the month of January in this city is 44.40. The average for the first 10 days of this month is 10.97 degrees above normal. Last year, six of the first 10 days in January were below nor (Continued on Page Eight) Strapping's A Personality Gift, Says Gypsy Rose Lee Secret of Success Is Bared by Mistress of Depres sion-born Art Chicago. Jan. 10.?(U.R)?Gipsy Rose Lee, who can neither sing I nor dance but has made a career of taking off her clothes, said to night that "timing" had made her what she is today, just as it help Babe Ruth make home runs. "Strip teasers are not born, they are made by hard practice," the galmorous gypsy shouted in a voice trained to reach the last row in the gallery. t "Proper timing is what makes the act. You have to make each move on a carefully planned schedule. There are fast strippers and slow strippers. I belong to the slow stripping school. I think slow tempo suits my personality." Personality and timing, gypsy believes brought her from incon scpicuous vaudeville billing to box office success. "Strip teasers really cheat the public," she explained in a voice never lower than a scream. "I can't sing or dance and the 'Continued on Page Eight) German Move On Morocco Fart Of Deep-Laid Flan; French Mass African Army Part of Move to Get Colonies Restored to the Nazis To Be Bought Off Political and Military Fu rore Is Calculated to Get Action Berlin, Jan. 10.?(U.R)? German activities in Morocco are design ed to create a situation which will enable the Nazis to bargain suc cessfully for a territorial foothold in Africa, diplomats told the Unit ed Press tonight. Chancellor Adolf Hitler's tactics, it was said, are part of his pri mary program to obtain sources of raw materials and markets for German goods. Hitler believes that, by starting a political and military uproar on the borders of French controlled Moroccan territory he can induce Paris and London to buy him off with agreements that will give him a nucleus for German African colonies. A survey of diplomatic opinion showed that representatives of the powers here unanimously believe that the Nazis will not now risk armed conflict with either France or Britain. If London and Paris will grant Germany limited spheres for development in Afri ca, Hitler will agree to cooperate with them in bringing the Span ish civil war to an end. Hitler put forth diplomatic feel ers in London and Paris before Christmas, it was explained, and now is backing them up with ac tion. He is detei mined that Ger many shall have, colonies and that the "fable of colonial guilt," like j other World war left-overs which have preyed upon the German j mind since 1919, shall be wiped out by some concrete settlement. For the present the Nazis arc using the Spanish situation to get (Continued on Page Eight) Shift of Personnel In the Coast Guard The retirement on January 1 of Chief Boatswain's Mate Henry G. i Doxey of Little Island station has caused a considerable shifting of j personnel in the district, accord- i ing to an announcement made by Seventh District Coast Guard headquarters here. The transfers ; are as follows: Peter T. Henly from Currituck Beach station to Little Island. Jesse T. Gard from Creeds Hill I to Currituck Beach. William L. Scarborough from j Hatteras Inlet to Creeds Hill. Theodore M. Melson. a Dare county man now serving in the j Eight District will go to Hatteras j Inlet. All men are chief boatswain's i mates in charge of the stations to which they are assigned. It was also announced that Surfman Richard Scarborough i has been transferred from Oak Island to Oregon Inlet. Colonial Troops In a "Timely" Demon stration Emphasizes Note Report German Soldiers and Sailors Landing In Spanish Africa Meknes, French Morocco, Jan. 10.?(U.R)?France today staged a mighty military display to dem onstrate her unswerving determi nation to keep Germany from gaining a foothold in Morocco. More than 10,000 shock troops of French colonial regiments, up on whom defense of France's rights in Morocco depends, were marched past Resident General Auguste Nogues in a cloud of dust, lending imposing support to the note outlining France's position which the resident general had just deliverer to the Spanish high commissioner at Tetuan demand ing to know the truth about re ports that Teuton troops have landed in Spanish Morocco. The march-past was described officially as "a timely" but not a deliberate demonstration coincid ing with the delivery of the French note at Tetuan. The demonstration was planned a week ago in honor of Minister of War Edouard Daladier, who had intended to be in Meknes to day to inspect Moroccan defenses. When the minister's arrival was delayed the resident general de cided to hold the demonstration anyhow "to display the modern equipment and the fit condition of the French colonial troops." Simultaneously the march-past served to introduce the soldiers to their new second in command, Gen. Jules Victor Francois, who ( will assume command provision ally next week. Nogues goes to Paris, on Friday, to confer with the government about the Moroc can situation and to study mili (Continued On Page Eight) Hoover Urges Child Labor Ratification 11 Has Been Approved by States Representing BO Per Ct. of Population San Francisco, Jan. 10.?(U.R)? Former President Herbert Hoover tonight declared himself to be un reservedly in favor of immediate adoption of a child labor amend ment to the constitution. In .a statement to the press at Palo Alto Mr. Hoover said: "The president is right. The child labor constitutional amend should be passed now. It has al ready been ratified by states cov ering a majority of the country's population. "While some of us have advo cated this amendment from the beginning. I can say this to those who believe it should be done by the states rather than the feder al government. "You have, through the years, brought a fine accomplishment, for states comprising' over 80 per cent of the population now have some sort of regulatory laws: and thereby child labor outside of agriculture has diminished by seventy per cent in the 20 years between the census of 1910 and 1930. "But surely, the 30 years in which such state laws have been strongly urged should be enough opportunity for recalcitrant areas (Continued on Page Eight) High Hatters To Play for the Local Birthday Ball Alfred Guy's High Hatters, of Norfolk, will furnish the music for the President's Birthday ball to be held at the Virginia Dare hotel on Monday night, February 1, it was announced last night by W. C. Morse, Jr., general chair man of this year's local Birthday BaJl committee. Chairman Morse will appoint his various committees this week and will get things started in earn est to the end that this year's Birthday Ball might be the big gest and best yet jn Dliiabeth City. New Tactics In Siege of Madrid Ifobcl Forces Will Close Around the City Until Time for a Second | Assault Arrives } With Rebels on the Casa de Campo, Madrid, Jan. 10.?(U.R) Fierce-fighting Moors and Fas cist regulars tonight launched a new offensive against Madrid and formed a semi-circle of guns around the capital. The new attack was the cli max of seven days of uninter rupted bloody fighting. The present armed arc, which last week was about 60 degrees, now extends to 120 degrees, giving the insurgents about 167 square miles more territory in this sec tor. The new offensive had every appearance of being the final drive for possession of the capi tal. The rebel command has changed its tactics from the battering ram type of fighting. The maneuver will be in the form of a "nut-cracker" opera tion in which the insurgents will strive for daily occupation of new objectives until the time is ripe for a second smash against the capital itself. I British Have Five Nation I Control Plan I Want Joint Action to Pre vent Further Outside Aid In Spain London, Jan. 10.?(U.R)?Britain gravely concerned over the inter- I national aspects of the Spanish j Civil war. tonight proposed to five nations a plan to extend control j ? over Spanish ports to prevent fur- i ther dispatch of volunteers and! armament to either belligerent. The nations were: France. Italy, Russia, Germany and Portugal. The foreign office dispatched notes to Paris, Rome, Berlin. Lis bon and Moscow, saying that ex tension of the control plan 'might render a scheme more acceptable to the two parties in Spain than ; may be the present limited form." Referring to Franco - British ! representations for rigid control | of foreign supplies, tonight's note I said the British government will j (Continued on Page Eight) ???????? Funeral Services Alonzo Bell Today Funeral services for Alonzo C. Bell will be conducted from the home on East Burgess street at 3 o'clock this afternoon with the Rev. J. L. White, pastor of Black well Memorial Baptist church of ficiating. Interment will be in Hollywood cemetery. Mr. Bell, who a number of years ago served two terms as police chief of the city, died Saturday 1 morning at his home, where had been brought following an attack which he suffered while in the downtown sesction. J He was 78 years old and a na tive of Camden county, but had made his home here for about 50 years. Besides his wife, Mrs. Hat tie Whitehurst Bell, he is surviv ed by two sons, Grr?ham W. Bell of 1 this city and Allen C. Bell of Ral eigh. TODAY'S LOCAL ] CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation 11:00 Poultry class at county court house P. M. 1:00 Rotary club 3:30 First Methodist Womens Missionary Society 4:00 First Baptist Jr. Girls Aux iliary 7:30 Pocahontas; Kiwanis Jr. glee club: City Road Ch. Sarah Crawford Mission- | ary Circle I 8:00 American Legion Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6 L ?j t J Mattamuskeet Pumping Plant to Be Modern Hotel v, ? ?? / SEE what is happening to the pumping station :? at New Holland, in Hyde County. That pump ing station designed to pump a million gallons of water a day out of Lake Mattamuskeet when private capital was trying to convert that vast lake bottom into farming lands, is now to be come a hotel for tourists, fishermen and hunt ers, since the U. S. Biological Survey has taken over that interesting property for a migratory wildfowl refuge. The tall chimney of the pump ing plant is now an observation tower. The hotel, when completed and open to the public, will be owned and operated by the government, or leased to private management to be operat ed under government supervision. But the rising waters of the restored Lake have inundated thousands of acres cf farm lands in the vicinity. Staff photo. Legislators Set For First Full Week Of193 7Session JU Seventeen Bills, including 2 Administration Meas ures, Are In Hopper Raleigh, Jan. 10.?(U.R)?A gov ernor inaugurated, committees ap pointed, 17 bills introduced and the weekend at home?that's the record of the 1937 North Carolina General Assembly for the three and one half days it met in the first week of its 1037 session. When the senators and repre sentatives answer roll call at 8 p. m. Monday night to begin their first full week, they will be ready to start in earnest on the legis- ? lative program laid out for them 1 in the inaugural address of Gov- t Clyde R. Hoey. j Well started through the mill ( will be two bills at which the ad- j ministration finger was pointed? j one to reapportion the state for ] representation, and the other to . (Continued on page eignt) Ernest Jones Starts 1 Insurance Business | Ernest Jones has opened offices on the fourth floor of the Caro- j lina building for carrying on a j general insurance business. Mr. t Jones, who was formerly Ford < dealer here and prior to that was ] manager of the Virginia Dare ho- 1 tel. will handle fire, casualty, li- j ability and kindred forms of in surance, excluding life. FCX Service Will Gather Here Jan. 15 Annual Election of OfTi cers and Directors at Courthouse Meeting Patrons of the Albemarle PCX ;ervice will assemble in the court louse here Friday, January 15, at ,wo o'clock for their annual meet ng, at which time they will elect officers and directors for the com ng year and hear a report on the )ast year's activities by M. G. Mann, of Raleigh, general man ager cf the state-wide Farmers Jo-operative exchange. Vocational teachers and their students in Currituck, Camden, Perquimans. Pasquotank and! Gates counties have been invited to attend this meeting and take part in the program. The meeting is open to all far mers, farm women and farm boys and girls. Mr. Mann said, adding j that he hoped I hat each man would bring his wife along with i him. "True cooperation begins in \ the home, with all members of the I family working together toward a (Continued on Page Three) Dr. Potter Demands That Marriage Be De-Churched + ; Matrimony Not 'Holy Rile' and Women Not Prop erty, Says Humanist New York, Jan. 10?(U.R)?Dr. Charles Francis Potter, founder of the first humanist society, today asked that orthodox churches be stripped of its power to marry people because of their opposition to divorce and birth control. Arraigning the churches for their ideas on sex "set forth cen (Continued on Page Eight) Vernon F. Winslow Dies'at Hertford Hertford, Jan. 10. ? Vernon Franklin Winslow, aged 22, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Winslow here at 1:15 o'clock today. Besides his parents, he is survived by two sis ters, Mrs. Shelton Howell of Route Three, Hertford, Mrs. John C. Day of Zion, 111., and four broth ers, John Newby Winslow, Howard Winslow, Harry Winslow and Tra cy Winslow. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Anderson M. E. church Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. Courthouse Paint Job Calls Forth 1 Some Suggestions Just How Far To Go with , the White Paint Is a .Mat ter of Divided Opinion Now that the board of county commissioners has authorized the painting of the Pasquotank county courthouse in a color scheme suit able to its period and architecture, the question arises as to just how ' much of the edifice should be painted in white Some are for painting everything above the line of brick wall, entablature, cor nice, bell-tower and dome, others would be more sparing with the white paint, confining it to cor- 1 nice and side walls of the tower, 1 while the tower dome would be left as at present. Another idea is that the dome should be painted green to imitate the patina of weathered copper. The whole question is expected 'Continued on Page Eight) Congress May Clash WithFDR Bloc of Members from the West Will Re sist Relief Cut Drought Situation Would Confine Relief Re duction to the Indus trial Kust Washington, Jan. 10. ?(U.R)?. President Roosevelt tonight ap peared to be heading into a real clash with the fledgling 75th con gress over his decision to taper off the new deal's costly relief ac tivities. The fight will come in both houses. It will be led by a "bloc" of western senators and congress men who contend that the admin- ' istrations proposal to spend only $650,000,000 on relief between now and the end of the fiscal year on June 30 is woefully inadequate. Bloc Meets Sixteen senators and represen tatives from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and California met Saturday and or ganized the "relief bloc." They will demand an increase of $40, 000,000 a month in relief funds for the next five months. The westerners argue that thou sands of farmers fled the drought area and have settled in their states, many of them going im mediately on relief. As a result, it is said, state budgets are hopeless ly inadequate to care for the new dependents without liberal feder al assistance. Leaders With FDR Mr. Roosevelt's congressional leaders will be with him in the forthcoming struggle. The chair man of the senate and house ap propriations committees ? Sen. Carter Glass., D., Va.. and Rep. James Buchanan, D., Tex. ?arc two of the most conservative men in congress. Both Have sought to force, a gradual reduction in gov (Continucd on Page Six* Senator Lodge Wants Census Unemployed Youthful Mem bo r Fro tit Muissuoliusotts Sponsors His First Hill In U. S. Congress. Washington, Jan. 10. ?(U.R)? Henry Cabot Lodge, 34-ycar-old republican from Massachusetts, has tackled the man-sized prob lem of unemployment as his first task in the United States senate. Perhaps in answer to his de feated democratic opponent who implored voters not to send "a boy to do a man's job." Lodge intro duced his first bill toward this goal on the day after he was jfworn in to the post once filled by his famous grandfather, the arch foe of the league of nations and the world court. A clerk brought in the official printed copy of his bill as he talk ed to the United Press representa tive. Lodge beamed with obvious pride as he glanced over "S. 28: A bill to provide for taking a nation al unemployment census." The young senator professed to be vexed with the lack of publici ty his bill received compared with the way his name and picture were plastered over front pages the day congress opened because he happened to be in a capitol eleva tor which dropped two stories without hurting anybody. Lodge indicated he will revere 'Continued on Page Eight) Weather Statistics January 10, 1937 TEMPERATURE Average for January .. 44.40 Highest today 75.00 Lowest today 62.00 Average today 68.50 Average today -24.10 Average for the year .. 60.60 Barometer 30.30 PRECIPITATION 'In Inchest Average for January ...3.60 Amount today ..0.01 Total amount this month 1.42 Total amt. since Jan. 1st. 1.42 Average for the year 47.50 Wind Direction?Souih West Character of Day?Partly Cloudy W. H. SANDERS
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