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1"'^ ?? ?? ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937 ^ .t *, ^ ,t KiMlwth Cit,. N. c. ?
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$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
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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.?<U.R)?
jrovcrnment and Red Cross offi
ials worked together tonight to
eed. clothe, shelter and protect
he health of 350.000 persons driv
:n from their homes by floods
rom Wheeling, W. Va., to Mcmp
lis. Tenn.
Rain continued falling over
argc areas of the flood region,
idding to the crisis. Weather re
torts bore ominous forecasts of
till more rain. Sub-freezing tcm
leature spreads cold, influenza
ind pneumonia among homeless
efugces and health officials said
he menace from germs is the
xeatest of any flood in U. S. his
ory.
Chairman Cary T. Grayson of
? Continued on Page Eight)
vuneral Services
For J. //. LeRoy
Sr., Held Here
Funeral services for J. H. Leltoy.
>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.?<U.R)? j
Willielm of Hohcnzollern, former
Kaiser of Germany and once the
most powerful military ruler in
the world, will spend his 78th
birthday in seclusion Thursday?
watched by Nazi agents and op
pressed by fear that repeated at
tacks of influenza will result in
cancer of the throat.
A United Press correspondent
who spent the week-end at the
ex-Kaiser's retreat here found a
stooped, white-haired old man
who has isolated himself from
nearly all human contacts be
cause of a fear of "microbes."
It also was learned that Dicta
tor Adolf Hitler's Nazi govern
ment is assuming increasing con
trol of the former Kaiser's affairs
and have replaced many of the
members of his staff with Nazi
agents of proved loyalty.
When the "Empress" Hermine,
the ex-Kaiser's consort, returned
to Doorn recently from Berlin all
her luggage and personal belong
ings were searched carefully by
Nazi secret police.
The replacer ent cf members of
Wilhelm's sttif by Nazis follow
ed.
Hermine previously had been I
"well received" in Berlin and had (
talked with high Nazi officials.
The ex-Kaiser's fear of cancer.
? Continued on Page Eight)
I
Will Form a New
Japanese Cabinet
Tokyo. Monday. Jan. 25.?(U.R)
Gen. Issei Ugaki. former minister .
of war and governor-general of I
Korea .today was ordered by Em- j
peror Hirohito to form a cabinet
to replace that of premier Koki I
Hirota which resigned Saturday, j
Indications were that Ugaki i
would not be successful.
Senior generals of the army met j
early this morning, immediately j
after Ugaki had left the palace, j
and indicated they were not in 1
sympathy with his selection.
?I
Confessed
KARL RADEK. internationally-1
known Communist publicist, who,!
with 16 other prominent men, was
ordered tried before a military
court in Moscow on charges of
treason. He is linked with alleged
political plotting of Leon Trotsky,
now in exile in Mexico.
Radek Aclmils |
C o 11 s j) i r a c y
With Trotsky
Russian Court Is Crowded |
With Officials and
Diplomats
Moscow, Jan. 24.?(U.R)? Karl j
Radek. internationally known So
viet publicist, today admitted be
fore a Russian military tribunal
that he was the leader of a group I
of Bolsheviks who conspired with
Leon Trotzky to overthrow Joseph
Stalin.
The wizened, pipe-smoking writ
er, often known as the "duck of I
the revolution" gave his damning
testimony without once losing the I
salty irony and bitting sarcasm j
for which he is famous. His tes
timony was in striking contrast to
the prosaic but equally damaging
recital given the court yesterday
by George Piatokov. another of
the 17 alleged conspirators.
Radek made one slight effort
to save himself from death, which,
resignedly, he indicated he knew!
was almost inevitable. While tes- |
tifying that he led the anti-Stalin j
group and was the contact man
for Trotzky, now exiled in Mexi
co, he insisted stoutly that he nev
er accepted the alleged final in
structions of the former Soviet
war commissar to overthrow Stalin
with the aid of Germany and!
Japan who were to have slices of j
(Continued on Page Eight)
Halstead Says We
Must Act To Stop
Rural Revolution
Rural Road Bill Would Al
lay Discontent In Coun
try Districts
Chairman Capus M. Waynick of
the state highway commission was
not exaggerating things when he
said in a speech before Raleigh
Kiwanians last week that there
was something very like a revolu
tion growing in rural districts, ac
cording to State Senator W. I.
Halstead. who was at his office
Saturday.
What Mr. Halstead cannot un
derstand is why Mr. Waynick, in
the same speech, expressed him
self as being opposed to the sena
tor's bill, which- would have the
state issue $25,000,000 in bonds to
pay for the improvement of coun
try roads throughout the state.
Nothing would do more to re
lieve the seething discontent
which is now manifesting itself in
rural districts, according to the
senator, who says that to allay
such feeling would be cheap at the
$25,000,000 price. Issuance of that
amount in bonds would not neces
sitate the raising of taxes, but
would merely mean the extension
of the maturities of the last of
? Continued on Page Eight)
i
State Is Asked To Raise
$11, 000,000More Reven ue
The Assembly Makes Quick
W ork of Buo Bill. Slows
Up On Child Labor
Raleigh. Jan. 25.?(U.R)? The
knotty problem of budget-balan
cing loomed in gigantic propor
tions before the North Carolina
general assembly today as the
senators and representatives re
turned to Raleigh for the fourth
week of the 1937 session.
House and senate were sched
uled to meet at 8 p. m. tonight af
ter openly defying leaders of the
six-day week movement by taking
Saturday afternoon and all day
Monday off.
One fact emblazoned itself vi
vidly in the legislator's minds as
the most important development
of the third week of the session?
that if increased appropriations
asked by the various departments
and institutions are granted, an
additional SI 1.000.000 in revenue
must be raised for the next bien
nium.
Want IVforc Money
Hearings before the joint meet
ings of the house and senate ap
propriations committees during
the week brought out additional
requests for more money. Week
long. the committee members lis
tened to representatives of the
groups outline their needs, which
in many cases were revealed to be
most pressing.
When the hearings were over,
(Continued on Paee KiehtJ
' m
City Beset by Two Terrors
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A GRAPHIC picture of how Midwest rivers have overflowed their channels as a result of continued j i
torrential rains. This view shows freight yards i t Cincinnati, with the Ohio river already inundat
ing some of the tracks and bridges. In the midst of the flood fire swept a section of the city.
I r
(
Seventh District
Sends More
Boats and Men
/ |
More men and boats from j
the Seventh District left yester
day afternoon to reinforce Coast
Guardsmen already giving as
sistance in the flood districts of
the Mid-West, it was announced
by Commander J. A. I'rice of j
district headquarters here.
Seven boats with crews of
three men each were dispatched
from the Creeds Hill, Hatteras |
Inlet, Portsmouth, Bogue Inlet,
Fort Macon, Cape Fear and Oak
Island stations to Wilmington !
where, under the command of j
Boatswain W. H. Barnett of Oak
Island, they will entrain for
Memphis, headquarters of relief
operations in the southern flood
area.
In addition two boats and j
crews are under orders to pro
ceed from Pea Island and Cape
Henry stations to Norfolk, where
they will receive final orders as
to their movements.
Local Red Cross
Is Raising $200
For Flood Area
C li a i r 111 a 11 Polls Acts
Quickly After Learning
Quota Local Chapter
Seventh District Coast Guard
headquarters here having already
helped out to the extent of rush
ing six of the district's life boats
and 25 of its men to the flood area,
Elizabeth City yesterday, thru its
Red Cross chapter, set about the
job of providing further help for
I the flood-stricken Middle West.
In response to a telegram from
Rear Admr. Cary T. Grayson,
chairman of the American Red
Cross, the Elizabeth City Chapter
of the Red Cro?s set about raising
its quota of $200 in a nation-wide
campaign for $2,000,000 for relief
work among 270 000 persons driv
<Continued on Page Three) ,
f TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
A. M.
8:30 Mens Christian Federa
tion.
10:00 Ministerial Association
P .M.
1:00 Rotary Club.
3:30 First Methodist WMS
Circles.
4:00 First Baptist Jr. Girls
Auxiliary.
7:30 Pocahontas: Kiwanis Jr.
Glee Club: W. O. W.
8:00 American Legion,
i Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6.
I
J. Henry LeRoy, Sr. ]
A Brief Sketch of One Who
Brought to Everything
He touched a High De
gree of Intelligence, An
Indefatigable Industry,
Scrupulous Attention to
Detail, and Courtesy
With Dignity.
He went up to Baltimore last
week to take some electrical treat
ments for an asthmatic condition,
from a specialist who had been
recommended by a friend. He ex
pected to remain in Baltimore for
a series of treatments and had
looked forward to the trip as a
sort of vacation
But while in Baltimore he un
der went an operation for sinus
trouble and suddenly determined
to return home. He telephoned his
family Friday to meet him in Nor
folk Saturday morning.
His wife and son. J. Henry Le
Roy, Jr., went to Norfolk early
Saturday "morning and boarded
the Old Bay Line steamer to greet
him. He was not among the dis
embarking passengers. Going to
his stateroom, Mrs. LeRoy found
him unconscious and gasping for
breath. He succumbed then and
there, without regaining con
sciousness. So died John Henry
LeRoy, Sr., who may well be rated
one of the most conspicuous lo
cal successes of his era. A tell-tale
stub in his checkbook evidenced
his payment of a fee of $100 for
the sinus operation.
His Career Began Early (
John Henry Leroy was born in c
| a modest home in Tyrrell coun- f
j ty in 1870. His father, J. P. LeRoy t
j was a carpenter and at an early e
I age Henry was a he'per to his fa- f
1
"Continued on Page Eight)
1
J. HENRY LeROY i
Hosiery Workers Plan |j
Campaign In Washington ?
J |'
Washington, Jan 24.?(U.R)? A j
drive to force enactment of the'
National Textile act will be initi
ated here tomorrow at the 26th
annual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Hosiery Work
ers, President Emil Rieve said to
night.
Defeat of the measure, Rieve
added, will precipitate a wave of
hosiery workers' strikes in the
spring. The proposal, introduced
by Rep. H. Ellenbogen, D., Pa..
J seeks to impose a "Little NRA" in
the textile industry.
"The voluntary labor code which
the hosiery manufacturers im
j posed upon themselves when NRA
was nullified is rapidly breaking
down," Rieve said. "Unless the I
! textile act is passed in Congress,
j the hosiery industry will probably
j be the scene of many bitter
I strikes in the spring."
Arrangements have been made
i to care for 150 delegates from 18
states at the convention which is
expected to last one week. The
session^ will be addressed by John
L. Lewis, head of the committee
! for industrial organization to
j which the hosiery workers belong.
Officials of the hosiery work
ers. who have been active in a
movement tn amend the federal
I
i
constitution to safeguard socia'. I 1
legislation, will seek to change the I E
union's constitution in order to 11
centralize more power in the di
recting group. At present all vital
matters of policy have to be sub
mitted to the entire membership
by referendum. I
The type of collective bargain
ing which the hosiery workers will i
carry on in the future with the j
manufacturers will be discussed, j
Union officers said the national j
labor agreement in the full-fash- S
ioned section of the industry was t
regarded as one of the most "ad- j n
vanced instruments of its kind in ii
American industry." f
The agreement, which expired c
last year, provided fcr a nationally t
uniform wage scale and for the I
! arbitration of all disputes. Al- ;
| though the contract was not for- v
| mally renewed, due to "uncertain
I conditions in the industry" the I
J pact continues in effect by mu- J
tual consent. | j
Revisions in the contract to al-1 /
j low for certain local variations on C
piece rates which enable manu- 1
facturers to obtain a virtually uni- i ?
for labor cost will be proposed to I
! the convention. The arbitration I
| feature of the agreement, it was j
said will remain.