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\ Gradual
Lowering
Of Relief
1 imitated by Presi
(KrJ' Request for
Appropriation
L;-. This Year
(!\iiij?!?v<> Miist Co-oper-|
j > Kt ? ;? Krlicf ifh
i ::?a Forecast
Vl. T :n. 11. ?(U.R)? !
today sharp
employers fori
atk-week 20 per
.sth of NRA and
a>lced v S790.000.000 to j
fir. :: a<r the next five |
T:v :v;:r-e1 appropriation
>>>t of relief dur- !
:ns die year which
i to S2.215.000.000
a ilf of what it
' ??e previous 12
m volt has asked
. :: 1 853.000.000 for
:: 19J8 to care for the '
is..'. ;:e and idle.
V j-upi'raiiuii
w;. r this amount will be!
jU;;to meet all needs. the j
-tu-.. mphasized again to
?nd ipon the cooper- j
? < v"tt nd to the gov
. ;n reducing the size of
- Mr. Roosevelt reiter- I
ri tr. .. letter to Chairman
B" nan. D.. Tex., of the
utiat.cns committee,
cia " *::o government would
: men. women and chil- i
cirer. of America who "are desti
It. no fault of their I
OTO."
T'.t " r. ncy toward a longer
week :?;> had ah extremely im
portan: effect on reemployment." h
Mr. Roosevelt wrote. "Hours of I,
work tr. manufacturing industries, (
as shown by the bureau of labor! |
statistics index, averaged 33.3 (
i'.oui - week 'n September. 1934.
The : reased by 20 ,
per cent, to more than 40 hours j<
per week in October 1936. h
AVi... ant nz n. -t industries ,
'Continued on Page Eight)
Police Find!
^cgro \\ oman ?
Badl\ Scalded 1
?
Nearer |)a?h('(l a i
Pan of iioiiin^ \\ atcr
< >n Her a V\ eek Vi?o
T' discovery in a house on
? ? street yesterday of a
i lored ?.voman terribly scalded
> < - tin face ana upper part of
j V. led "o the arrest of Ber
ni Spr '.man Bel!, Poplar street
Is charged with hav- ?
i a pan of boiling water
trired woman's face.
/ible came to light when
" Police Chief Meads, in
>f an investigation of
? ? i"h had come into cir
1 ;r.d Maronica Harri
r home, swathed and
ilid in great pain from
? received last Tues-1
day. nearly a week before. It is I
re likely that the woman
lose the sight of one eye.
to her story Bernice
. called her to her home :
after first offering her a
of v i us key. which she re- , ]
T. tioned her about her
'tons with John Spellman . j.
of Bernice Boll. Maronica <
she told her that her :
was old enough to look out ,
va affairs and charges (
she was about to leave i
>'?m. Bernice took up a pan
water, as if to use it
Continued on Page Eight)
W eathcr Statistics
?January 11, 1937
I f MI'I KATI KE
v. go for January ?44.40
Hi.'host today 72.00 |
.owost today 43.00 ,
Average today 57.50 ?
K-tress today plus 11.10
Average for the year 60.60
30.43
Cil'iTXTION (In inches) :
A- eraue for January 3.60
Amount today 0.03
?1 amt. this month 1.44
o amt. since Jan. 1st 1.44
ue for the year 47.50
1 ? u ection-?North East
' r of Day?Cloudy
W. H. & ANDERS i'
Hertford's New Amusement Palace
HERE is the first photo of the new State Theatre in Hertford, made
for this newspaper by Frisby's Studio, on the occasion cf the formal
opening last Friday.
Claim Heavy
?/
Losses At Madrid
; ?j
Say Week-long Drive to
the Northwest (lost
4,000 Dead
Madrid. Tuesday. Jan. 12.?(U P1
Mcarly 1.000 Germans were killed
a-hen Gen. Francisco Franco's reb
?1 legions were repulsed at subur
oan Aravaca. loyalist officials
:laimed today. 7
The week-long siege cf*tne rut
ted northwest sector, where in
surgents swept down the Escorial
highway in great waves, was said
to have cost Franco more than
1.000 casualties.
During the height of the fight
ing around Aravaca. about six j
niles to the northwest, the rebels
illegedly used tear-gas bombs and !
lung squadrons of new airplanes ;
nto the decisive battle.
A loyalist communique tcday !
said loyalist troops, advancing un
3er cover of a low-hanging mist,
had opened a new offensive
rgainst Las Rozas. Mahadahonda
md Villa Neuva del Pardillo.
Several strategic points and
large quantities of war materials |
'Continued on page eight?
(lorn mil tees
Birthday Bail
A n n o u n e
Vt. (? Morse, Jr., General
(.hairninn, Names (!om
mittees to Help Him
A complete list ox tne commit- |
tecs for Elizabeth City's 1937 |
President's Birthday Bail was an
nounced yesterday afternoon by
W. C. Morse, Jr., general chair- i
man.
The general committee is com
posed of Mr. Morse, chairman, N. j
Elton Aydlett, W. C. Dawson, A.
H. Outlaw. Robert Page, Howard j
Graul, Buxton White. Keith i
Saunders, Jesse Mercer. Frank W. j
Selig, Jerome B. Flora. Mrs. J. W. ?
Cox. Mrs. W. W. Stinemates. Miss
Margaret Fearing and G. C. 1
Meads, secretary-treasurer.
The committee on decorations !
and arrangements is composed of j
Mrs. G. C. Meads, chairman, and ,
Mrs. N. E. Aydlett, Mrs. J. T. j
Coppersmith, Mrs. Ray Jones.
'Continued on Page Eight)
Industrial Bank's
Directors for 1937
Are Elected Here
Directors for the Industrial
Bank of Elizabeth City for the
year 1937 were elected last night
at a stockholders meeting at the
bank.
The following men were elected I
as directors for the coming year: I
Miles Clark. M. G. Morrisette. I
Frank W. Selig. S. W. Twiford. C.
E. Thompson. C. B Morrisette and
U. VV. Ward.
i
r ? -n
Some Aspects
of the
Spanish War
V. /
By UNITED PRESS
Chancellor Adolf Hitler eased j
the tension of Europe's war |
fears Monday when he assured j
the French Ambassador in Ber- j
lin that Germany has no designs
on Spanish Morocco.
More grave complications ap
peared in other continental cap
itals however:
London?Soviet Russia asked j
England to support drastic in
ternational naval action against
the Spanish insurgents on the J
high seas.
Geneva?Diplomats heard [
that .3.000 Japanese volunteers
were en route to Spain, mobiliz
ed as part of an anti-Bolshevik J
crusade.
London ? Suspicions spread j
that Hitler might be seeking a I
foothold in Morocco as a means j
of enlarging the German Em-'
I pirc.
Gibraltar?Ten German sub
marines were reported in the I
Rebels port of t'euta, Spanish
Morocco. Another report said 10
German military experts arrived
j from Naples and were taken in
to Spain by insurgent officials.
Madrid?Loyalists claimed to |
have smashed the Rebels' "Big j
i Push'' on the capital and to
have forced the enemy to re
treat into the Guadarrama
mountains.
Paris?Officials said neither
France nor Germany would con
sides ceding any territories to
German.
School at Sunbury
Is Declared Unsafe '
Sunbury, Jan. 11.? State au- '
thorities have condemned the
Sunbury school building as un
safe for further occupancy, so
there will be no school during the
present week. The school furni
ture will be moved to adjacent
buildings and rooms. The teach
erage wiil be vacated by the facul
ty members and used as class
rooms. A delegation of school of
ficials left Monday for Raleigh to
confer with state authorities about
the building. It is not known at
this time whether the building will
be repaired or rebuilt.
Landis Leaves SEC to
Head Harvard School
Boston. Jan. 11.?(U.R)?The
board of overseers of Harvard
University late today officially
confirmed the appointment of
James M. Landis. 37-year-old di
rector of the Securities and Ex
change Commission and member
of President Roosevelt's original
"brain trust", as dean of Harvard
Law school, effective Sept. 1.
Landis will succeed Dean
Emeritus Roscoe Pound, who re- \
signed last September,
Fix Time
For Shad
F i s li i n g
Divide Sounds Into
North and South
Zones
| Different Seasons
Gill ?Vets Fob. 5 and Pound
Nets Fob. 15 to May 1
for North Zone
Raleigh, Jan. 11.?<U.R)? Shad
| fishermen operating in North Car
| olina waters north of Long Shoal
j may begin their work with gil'.
i nets on February 5, with pound
j nets on February 15 for a season
I extending until May 1, it was an
; nounced today by the board of
I conservation and development fol
| lowing its adoption of the recom
mendation of a special committee
composed of J. L. Home, of
Rocky Mount, J. L. McNair of
Laurinburg and E. S. Askew of
Windsor.
The division of coastal waters
into two zones with Long Shoal
as the line of demarcation, was
adopted on recommendation of
the committee, and fishermen in
the south zone will have a season
j beginning January 20 with gill
! nets and February 1 with pound
! nets, their season ending April 15.
All waters emptying into the
sounds north of Long Shoal are
deemed to be within the north
| zone and all emptying to the south
I of the shoal are recognized as be
! ing in the south zone, according to
I the decision of the board.
I Fisheries Commissioner John
Nelson informed the board that
oysters were in strong demand and
bringing high prices, while Com
missioner Chalk submitted a plan
for increased effectiveness of
statewide distribution of game fish
from the hatcheries.
Williams Opposed
To Creating Any
New Clerkship
Representative F. Webb Wil- !
liams. of Pasquotank, back in i
Elizabeth City for the week-end,
says he is not going to introduce:
a measure sponsored by the board
of commissioners of Pasquotank,
creating a clerk of the recorder's
court in this county.
"Those records have been kept
without the expense of a clerk,"'
says Mr. Williams, "and I have an
idea that the taxpayers of my
county don't want to be burdened
with the expense of more office
holders. When I get that bill I
am going to pigeon-hole it, if it j
costs me my seat in the legisla-j
ture."
Many are expecting Represen
tative Williams to reduce the per- |
sonnel of the recorder's court, ra- j
ther than increase it. He may in
troduce a bill any day to do away j,
with the office of county prosecu- i
tor.
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
8:30 Mens Christian Federa
tion.
P. M.
3:30 Womans Christian Tem
perance Union meets in
First Baptist B a r a c a
classroom
4:00 First Baptist Intermed
iate Girls Auxiliary.
6:15 First Baptist YWA.
" 6:30 Kiwanis club.
7:30 J. O. U. A. M.; Eureka
Lodge Masons.
8:15 Pan-Hellenic Club meets
with Mrs. E. J. Bowden
Library Hours: 2-6, 7-9.
V. . I
Decision
In Favor
New Deal
Supreme Court Holds
With Government
In Silver Act
For the Third Time
The Court lias Not Ruled
Against a New Deal Meas
ure at Present Term
Washington, Jan. 11.?(U.R)?
The Supreme Court today added
another pro-new deal decision to
its growing list when it upheld
validity of retroactive 50 per cent
tax on silver profits contained in
the silver purchase act of 1934.
In its first decision day since
President Roosevelt publicly ap
pealed for "more cooperation"
from the courts, the high tribunal
voted unanimously to reject the
claim of Percy K. Hudson of New
York for receovery of $4,311 paid
in taxes under the act.
Justice Willis Vandevanter, per
haps the court's most conservative
jurist, wrote the opinion, the only
one of the day.
Indirect Effect
Taken by itself the silver decis
ion cannot be given too great im
portance, since indirectly it in
volved only about $400,000. Had
(Continued On Page Eight)
Judcje Small Wants
Co. Traffic Schools
Wilmington. Jan. 11. ? (U.R) ?
Judge Walter L. Small of Eliza
beth City today recommended a
monthly traffic school in each
county seat in North Carolina.
Judge Small made the recom
mendation in his charge to the
New Hanover county grand jury
at the opening of the January
session cf superior court.
Each motorist in the state
should be required to attend at
least one such meeting a year.
Judge Small said. He deplored the
highway accident death toll in the
state, and called attention of the
grand jury to considering possible
methods to reduce it.
Tobacco Control, Old Age
Measures Before Assembly
4
Expect Governor to Pre
sent Budget Measure at
Today's Session
Raleigh, Jan. 11.?(U.R)?Within
the space of 35 minutes last night
the North Carolina General As
sembly received two major bills,
an old age pension measure and
a crop control bill. With the
backing of three state farm or
ganizations and a bloc of farm
representatives. Representative W.
W. Eagles of Edgecomb introduc
ed a tobacco crop control bill,
which was referred to the com
mittee on agriculture.
Hard on the heels of the crop
control bill another designed to
give aid to the aged of the state
was introduced by Representative
J. R. Williams of Columbus. The
measure is designed to administer
old age benefits and cooperate
with the government social secur
ity administration. The bill was
referred to the committee on in
surance.
By unanimous vote of both
houses former governor McNutt
of Indiana was invited to address
the assembly Thursday or Friday.
The House and Senate recessed
until 11 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing although the appropriations
committee will gather at 10:30 to
organize in preparation for re
ceiving the Governor's budget
message. Governor Hoey will not
I
(Continued on Page Five)
%
New York Police
Must Solve New
Bathtub Murder
Strikingly Similar to the
Tittcrton Murder
Last Year
New York, Jan. 11?(U.R)?The
battered body of Mrs. Mary Case,
attractive 25-year-ol,d housewife, ,
was found tonight wrapped in a
bedspread in the' water-filled 1
bathtub of her fourtl| floor apart
ment in Jackson Heights, Queens. (
Police said she apparently had j
been killed by blows Jon the head, i
The body was discovered by her '
husband Frank, 30, a general
electric employe, on his return (
from work.
The murder was striking simi- 1
lar to that of Mrs. Nancy Titter- 1
ton. who was strangled to death J
and placed in a bathtub in her
Manhattan apartment by John i
Firoenza. an upholsterer's assist- t
ant, on April 10, 1936. Fiorenza is i
schedule to die in the elctric chair 1
in Sing Sing prison a week from i
Thursday. i
Case returned home about 7
o'clock and found the body. He i
(eleDhnnerl for a Hortor.
j / -V
Beyond Ransom
lv j i
CHARLES MATTSON, 10, whose body was found in a thicket yes
terday near Everett, Wash., 15 days after he was kidnaped from his
home at Tacoma. The boy's head was crushed and indications were
that he had been killed elsewhere and his bcdy brought to the loca
tion where found.
Son of Dr. William W. Mattson, well-to-do physician, the boy was
taken from his home by a bearded man. who broke through a glass
door and left a note demanding $28,000 ransom.
EhringhausIs
Slated For A
Federal Plum
Unilcd Press Learns Thai
He Will Join Staff of
Attorney-General
Raleigh, Jan. 11. ?(U.R)? A
source usually unimpeachable told
the United Press today that for
mer Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus will
be appointed to the staff of At
torney General Homer S. Cum
mings for a special assignment to
head the government's prosecu
tion of a group of major oil com
panies under the anti-trust laws.
The United Press confidant
said announcement of the ap
pointment would be made in
Washington probably "sometime
this week."
It was understood that Ehring
haus flew'/to Washington last week
to discuss the appointment with
administration _ officials, but that
several considerations were de
laying a decision as to whether
he would accept the preferred post.
The anti-trust suits are a con
tinuation of the case involving
allfeged price fixing by large gaso
line and oil companies through
out the midwest. Indictments
charging the anti-trust law vio
lations already have been handed
down by a federal grand jury at
Madison. Wis., and the trials are I
expected to start late in the win
ter or early in the spring.
The former governor, who has
been resting at Edenton for a
few days since turning over the
generalship of the state to Gov.
Dlyde R. Hoey, is expected here
this week to open offices in the
law firm of Ehringhaus, Royall,
3osney and Smith.
Ehnnghaus has neither con
formed nor denied reports that he
vill go with the attorney gener
il's office.
Known to stand in high regard
n official Washington circled af
;er his campaign through the mid
vest in October for President
rtoosevelt. Ehringhaus has been j
mentioned for several assign
ments. it is understood.
Announcement that he would
practice law here put an end to
much speculation.
G-Men, Troopers and
Police Join In Hunt
Every Clue to Kid
naper to Be Run
Down
Tacoma, Wash.. Jan. 11.?(U.R)?
Harold Nathan, first assistant to
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the fed
eral bureau of investigation, to
night issued the following state
ment in connection with the kid
nap-murder of Charles Mattson:
"It is the established policy of
the federal bureau of investiga
tion to discuss with press no mat
(Continued on page five)
Chinese Reds
Are A Menace
To Americans
.Marshal Chan Is Said to Be j
Trying to Restrain His
Former Comrades
Shanghai. Tuesday, Jan. 12.?
(U.R)?Scores of Americans were
endangered in Shensi province to
day as result of increasing com
munist control of the region.
The assistant U. S. military at
tache, Capt. David D. Barrett, |
reached Loyang from Pelping and |
planned to continue to Sian-Fu. j
the provincial capital, to arrange i
for evacuation of the Americans
if necessary.
Representatives of the commun
ist generals Chu- Teh and Mao
Tse-Tung were reported to have j
reached Sian-Fu to assist in or- ;
ganization of a red provincial re
gime. It also was confirmed that |
the American communist, Miss i
Agnes Smedley, is in Sian-Fu or
(Continued on page eignt)
Mr. Bright Reported
As Holding His Own
The condition of George R. ,
Bright, veteran Elizabeth City '
merchant, was reported at a late j
hour last night as being no worse, j
Mr. Bright is suffering from an old
heart ailment complicated by a
congested lung. but. according to
a member of his family appeared
to be holding his own well. Mr.
Bright was 80 years old last Au
gust
Find Kidnaped Boy's
Body Hid In Thicket
Discovered by Youth
While Hunting*;
Murdered
Killed Elsewhere
Short Distance From Koa<l
near Kverett, 50 Miles
From Tucoma Home
Tacoma. Wash.. Jan. 11.?(U.R)
?Dr. William W. Mattson re
vealed through an intermediary,
Paul Seeva. tonight that at
tempts had been made to eolleet
S28.000 ransom after 10-ycar
old Charles Mattson had been
slain.
Seeva quoted Dr. Mattson, now
near collapse at his home, as
follows:
"The ransom was not paid, al
though I made every effort to
pay it, and put forth every en
deavor to try to follow instrue
tions. The instructions were so
elusive, however, and there was
such a confusion of notes I was
unable to pay the ransom.
"It is quite evident the boy was
killed instantly and had been
dead a considerable time.
"The kidnaper became exceed
ingly wary during the last few
days and judging from the con
dition of Charles' body he was
still trying to collect the ransom
money after Charles was dead."
Everett, Wash. Jan. 11.?CU.R)??
The nude body of Charles Matt
son. 10, kidnaped 15 days ago
from his Tacoma home, was found
in an alder thicket today.
The body, the head crushed, was
identified by Paul H. Seeva, in
termediary. after police took pho
tographs of the body and G-Mcn
raced to the scene from Tacoma.
The body was dumped into a
thicket six miles from here by the
kidnaper. Fresh footprints and
tire prints in the snow indicated
the boy was killed elsewhere and
the body brought here.
Head Crushed
The body was found by Gordon
(Continued on Page Five)
Mediation In
Strike Moves
To Washington
General .Motors Exeeiilives
Say 107.000 Will Be Out
of Work by Tomorrow
Detroit. Jan. 11.?<U.R)? Gener
al Motors executives said tonight
there would be 107 000 of their
employes out of work by Wednes
day as a result of strikes called by
the United Automobile Workers.
Strikes have crippled assembly
lines, they added, forcing them to
close down four more plants with
in the next two days.
Mediation efforts shifted to
Washington tonight, and Gov.
Frank Murphy, who tried last
week to nring rival factions to
gether. left for Lansing, state
capital. He will keep in touch with
the situation and may resume
mediation efforts late.
Homer Martin, strike leader,
and John Brophy, organizer for
John L. Lewis' committee for in
dustrial organization, left by air
plane in mid-afternoon for Wash
ington. They said their conference
(Continued on Page Eight)
Mrs. Grace Coolidgc
Receives a Pension
Washington. Jan. 11.?<U.R)?'The
senate today, four years after for
mer President Calvin Coolidge's
death, passed a resolution author
izing a $5,000 annual pension tc
his widow. Mrs. Grace Coolidgc.
The resolution, one of the short
est ever introduced in congress,
read.
"Be it enacted that the admin
istrator of veterans' affairs is au
thorized and directed to place on
the pension rolls the name oi
Grace C. Coolidgc. widow of Cal
t'in Coohdge. late president of
the United States, and to pay her
a pension of $5,000 per annum."
The former first lady is living
luietly with a friend, Mrs. Flor
ence Adams, in Northampton.
Mass.. where Mr Coolidgc estab
lished his home a few months be
Sore his death She is one ut seen
r/in;j, widows oi former presidents.