-1J J State T-Itrcu'y Raleigh N C oOii?> The Datty Tnhfpfntifimt 1 i ?ort ions Monday: Tuesday cloudy JL. JL J S i ? Jr / \ I 8 1 fl B J_ ? ? | J I I ill / J I ^1 I f , southwest winds shifting to somewhat colder probably rain " ? ? *-*- ?u * -MS J?J _1_ J J J_ ^ ? / J J ^ I westerly over north and central por " ? ? ? 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W O SAUNDERS IV xma T? ' tl011s and owrcwt weather with occa irH -tJi/8 lyjb sional rain Monday. ? \ 111? I. NO. 12f> Publi?h?l Ewerj l??j hlcrpt Sunday by Til/ ll.deuen^ent PnLli/iS ?.? Co. pi Trt . TYl^TTI PITY ?lT f 1"'^ ?? ?? ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937 ^ .t *, ^ ,t KiMlwth Cit,. N. c. ? ^^^???i?^^??????-__*^_Swind_<.'l?M Matter MINllLb tUI Y 5 CENTS $3,000,000 Blaze Sweeps City; Cold New Threat To Homeless Ohio City Faces Grav est Crisis In Its 148 Years Emergency Holiday All Businesses Except Food and Drug Stores Are Closed Cincinnati, O., Jan. 24.?(U.R) ?A second gasoline explosion started a roaring fire tonight in the North Bend District of Cin- i cinnati's flood zone. Flood waters upset a huge | storage plant of the Gulf Refin ing Co., county police reported. The plant, located on Brower Road, caught fire almost im mediately, according to first re ports. The flames spread rapidly and six houses burned. Those living in the vicinity escaped safely. Cincinnati. Jan. 24.? (U.R) ? A raging fire that swept a four-mile area in Cincinnati's packing house and industrial district was under control tonight after causing an estimated $3,000,000 damage. But even as firemen fought the flames, the raging Ohio river, which already has driven thou sands from their homes, crept higher. It reached a height of 74.9 feet late this afternoon. Gravest Emergency The city of 750.000 faced the gravest emergency in its 148-year I history. Rain and melting snow forced the waters higher. City Manager C. A. Dykstra de clared an emergency holiday to morrow. All stores, except those selling food, drugs and other ne cessities. will be closed. All street car service was discontinued to conserve electricity because of fears service might be disrupted. The fire was believed to have started when a high-tension wire snapped and ignited gasoline i "Continued on Page Eight) Mi ss Beasleyl Is Returned To Georgia Home Conduct Funeral Services Here Before the Body Is Taken to Statesboro Funeral services for Miss Sallie Beasley were held at the Twiford funeral home Saturday night, pri or to taking the body to her for mer home at Statesboro, Georgia, yesterday morning. Interment will be made upon her arrival there today. Miss Beasley died at 9:45 o'clock Saturday morning at the Albe marle hospital, where she was taken following an illness which developed on January 11. An op eration was performed shortly af terward. but failed to bring about a turn for the better in her con dition. Coming here in 1921 to accept a position as supervisor of the primary school, she had remained in that capacity ever since, and had made an outstanding record (Continued on Page Three) Legionnaires Will Have a Look At New Quarters The Seth E. Perry Post, No. 85, American Legion, will occupy quarters in the new Community Building on Dyer Street beginning with its first meeting in February, it has been announced by J. P. i Mercer, Post Commander. Finishing touches have been put | on the interior of the building, ; which was constructed with WPA labor and funds, with some fin ! ancial assistance from the the lo cal Legion post. The new quarters of the Legion will be inspected by local Legion ? naires tonight following their last | meeting in the I. O. O. F. hall | which they have been using as a meeting place pending completion of their new quarters. Streams at Highest Crest On Record; Looking Begins Threat of Disease 'resident Appeals to "All Our People*' to Aid the Stricken By UNITED PRESS Freezing cold, disease, raging Ires and looting added to the hor ors Sunday night of 300,000 refu ees left homeless by Ohio and Mississippi valley floods. Streams from Ohio to Tenncs ee and Mississippi rose to their ugliest crests in history, crippling ?olice and Are departments and eaving rescue workers almost lelpless in the onrush of homeless amilies. The Ohio liver and its tributar cs receded slowly in western 'ennsylvania and West Virginia, iut further downstream rains hreatcned to send the flood to lew highs. The rain, snow and lcet added to suffering of refu ses. Fires were reported at Cincln lati and Louisville, Ky. Huge Losses Damage in the entire flood area nounted to more than $13,000,000. industrial losses were counted at cast equal to that amount in clos ;d factories and thousands left vithout jobs. More than 40 were known dead md hundreds were feared missing. President Roosevelt appealed 'to all our people" to aid the na ;ion's flood refugees. The Red Tross announced a $2,000,000 drive for emergency funds. The federal jovernment threw 35.000 WPA, MYA and CCC workers into the ight against the rising streams. Rescue work was aided by thou sands of volunteers. Disease Spread Fear of spreading influenza, ? Continued on Page Eight) Sal ion Rallies J o Appeals Of llelief Heads kdmiral Grayson Is Desig nated by President to Co-ordinate Cfforts Washington, . Jan. 24.?r? who died of a heart attack on he Old Bay Line steamer State of Maryland early Saturday morn ng, were conducted from the lome on West Main Street yestcr lay afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, with he Rev. E. H. Potts, pastor of the ?""irst Baptist Church, officiating. Mr. LeRoy was 67 years old and i-as a native of Tyrrell County. A quintet composed of Mrs. J. i. Cartwright, Miss Ethel Jones, Jiss Emerald Sykes, Roland Saw rer. S. S. Burgess sang "Rock of iges" and "The Old Rugged 7ross." Active pallbearers were W. 7. Culpepper. Harry Bundy. W. W. Jtienmatcs. W E. Pappcndick. R. Garrett. S. G. Scott. Dr. J. H. Jell, and T. B Sumner, of Hcrt ? Continued on Page Eigntt labor Secretary Calls Both Sides Into Conference\ (iM and Strike Lead ers In Washington Wednesday Act of March, 191.'} I.chU Incited Advisor of the I nih il Automobile \\ others Union Washington. Jan. -4. - tU.R)? yecretary of Labor Prances Per kins tonight invoked the powers of her high office to order repre sentatives of capital and labor to i meet here Wednesday in an at- j : nipt to negotiate a settlement of the General Motors strike. Representatives of the belliger c:u forces were instructed to at ? nil the conference "without con dition or prejudice." The cabinet r.mhter acted under power grant ed by congress when the act | creating the labor department j nus passed on March 4. 1913. Tiva law specifically authorizes j the Secretary of Labor to inter vene m labor disputes when in dustrial peace is threatened. To Both Sides The conference call went out in letters to Alfred P. Sloan. Jr.. pre sident: William S. Knudsen. exe-j cir .ve vice president and Donald son Brown, finance chairman of General Motors, and to John L. ! of the C. L O.: Homer; Martin, president of the United ! Automobile Workers and Wynd- j ham Mortimer, vice president of the union. The icrr emphasized that the conference was not to settle the j strike but to find "plans and rin t. u- t: i'.mmg restorations j which had been agreed upon at j l an at b ..a; ed last Mon day. The labor department made 'Continued or. Page Eight) Marine Strike Set I lenient In East Ratified lsi\ini? Retweeu Kast ami \\ e-t (oad* Still \ fleeted New York. Jan. 24,?(U.^J?The | insurgent seamen's ' ? ? East and Gulf coasts 1 was officially ended tonight when .. n.u ? v of ports of these sec tion. and the Pacific maritime unions ratified tiie action. Termination of the strike was | aim . t? fd at a noisy session of - 'Oo ; mcn at Stuyvesant high j school. Ah but Houston. Providence, J'; : and Mobile agreed to off the strike. The action | '-.n dlv was voted at a local j ere last Thursday. T ; ">i:n stnke council on the coast ratified the action j ? grounds that "it would not Kfi"" ti.e west coast strike." 'like still continues on in Continued on Page Eight) h ';ito!ie Hirer Flood ^varly Claims Victim ''<>d waters very nearly took I unrui life in North Caro- I ?t week, according to Cap O. Gibbs of the tanker I State, who says that he and ? pulled a colored man out n waters of the Roan ? none too soon. Ti State was making its ? river when the Negro i is swamped canoe on for dear life to an ov . ti'fe-limb. scarcely more g. the current threaten - is hold at any mo ;; 1 ' ! ?nker hove to, a line n about the man's shoul and ho was hoisted aboard, h 'lnu taken in tow. put ashore near his Cashie river and was ' ? ot the action of "? ' d crew Ex-Kaiser Will Be 78 Thursday Is (!los?-ly Walclied by I Nazi Agents In II is Dutch Castle v ' Doom. Holland. Jan. 24.?