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N d Stcta Library - - "... ^ Raleigh N C _ COi.;r> s.C,r?rUy cloudy and warmer Satur- I H I I A ll t I IXl T^TT l\TT^lj1l\TrP MARITIME FORECAST o,^. J iii_j inU]l,_r rjI\ I JrU\l I --~?^^? L 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEE KLY ESTABLISHED RV vv n c ?*?*-L 1 J- strong northwest and north winds, " ^ ^oia?l.i&HED BY w. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 IQ^fi weather fair Saturday. \l)l. I. NO. 1-57 Published Krrry Day Kxcept Sunday l.y Tl... - LI..'" ? ???? - ELIZABETH CITY. N. C- SATURDAY. FEBKUARY ?. - . ... * ?" SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS I Soldiers I VskedFor I In Sirike I . iff Has Orders to I Arrest Twelve Hun I dred Men I Officials I 1|.;\ *:invii;l<*r and Giye I Hail y-y S|M'fial Deputies M;r. He i *?*?! If Gover I nt?r Deuit> Guardsmen. I F Feb. 5?(U.R1?Sher I : Tho:v.a> W Wolcott was under orders tonight to arrest some 1. I v , ; ; including Homer I ,r . national president of a a . mobile Workers of America. 14 other labor leaders. I :: .-.rikers occupying I :-.vj F'ui: General Motors' plants. To enforce a writ of attachment I . . j ;;uay by Circuit Judge Paul I v. C-acclu. ./.urging the unionists I t::!: c.T.tctnpt cf court in ignor I motion, tire Sheriff I Frank Murphy at I ? place at his disposal I j.;;.1 Nu.: Guardsmen as I telvciuphed the governor. I ?.?..!< m conference as a con ciliarcr between General Motors u ox ? itives and lead ?.:< ?: the U. A \V. A . including bu: lure today had receiv r.: :eply. Waits Reply A'.'.a reply. Sheriff Wol conferred with Col Joseph H. Lewis. commandant of the Na tional Guard detachment. A number of courses were open to the governor, among them that he could ignore the telegram al - ther. This was considered un likely. since if the sheriff proceed ed to swear in deputies and evict the strikers, bloodshed was almost certain. The governor's position .'.as been that all strike proceed (Continued on Page Tliree) 1 -O til Dcacn c-auie Nearly Rank \\ illi TheDotlo Dare Tame I infer ihe Slate Shirk Law February 1; Much Stock Is Sold I M.urc ?. Feb. ?}.- -The horjes and I *:.a- have roamed the I county for years ? . r.r bet-:', a common sight I .. as a hazard and a nuisance to motorists on the beach high way. are almost as extinct today a? tlx code. Most of the horses have been captured ar.ci domesticated by ?? t'tr. r. ar.d Coast Guardsmen aim* the coast, and many have old to outsiders for S35 each. ?? ' o: the cattle, which were 1'- r.r.d no: very tasty due to r.c. ;:e and scarcity of their ply. were sold to Norfolk o ? . ar.d chopped up into cheap hamburger. I'ndcr a law passed by the 1935 General Assembly. Dare County brouj:lit under the provisions State-wide stock law, from it had long been exempt, ; owners of beach cattle and ? - - given until February Eo pen their livestock or .? : ?mr.ce few of them wished to '? animals and thus take ; the responsibility ?' ciii'.r and caring for them. 1 th.e owners disposed of livestock prior to this week. ?' s- "s.t.c unlawful for them i lov the cattle and horses to ??<*::: at large. "ill some cattle left - nity of Duck and Kitty but most of them have been . i ted locally or sold Mate Xortnal Budget (d\d By Committee ha ? ..h Feb. 5.?'U P?The bud '? i Carolina Normal ? for Colored located at Eliz **n City was aproved today by v -'lb-appropriations com BUt'f of the legislature. e bimnium of 1937-38, ? ??i .'i'f approved a budget ? with expenditures over ?d of 1938-39 of $27,466. u ? ' ' .mates were as originally " ' (i the appropriations '? committee is con i'etn by item. ??? ? ? A Prepared for Extreme Measures j ?tttvv . . . ^SSSSmSSSSSmSSm. .-jBfc ?? r: . : : :< sggsggjfey| GRIMNESS of the strike situation in Flint. Mich, was indicated when National Guardsmen set up machine guns at commanding points in the city. H:re the soldiers, muffled against a biting wind, pre- ' : pare cne o* the guns near Fisher Body plant No 2. Strikers, defying a court order to vacate the plant, said they had no delusions about "the sacrifices which this decision will entail." Guardsmen num- . berer about 3.500. BennieNorinaii Cried an* Cried Says Mother i J Vi ide\> Di<i Have the Price of a Movie Ticket and Her 13-Year-Old) Son Lost $200 Jack-pot Thereby. * "Bennie cried nearly all day to-! day." Thus spoke Mrs. Bernice: Norman. W. P. A. nurse, at her home. 300 N. Dyer St., last night, j 1 Bennie. 13 years old, is one of , her three children. The name of Bennie Norman, ? 208 Bell St.. was called for the j S200 jack-pot at the Alkrama Theatre Thursday night. The on- ! !y Bennie Norman in the city di rectory is Benjamin Norman, de ceased. whose widow Bernice Nor- i man is listed. Many disappointed movie fans I 1 found access to city directories j ; yesterday and word went around that a dead man s name had been drawn from the drum on the Al- i krama Theatre stage, exposing i the theatre management to much I adverse criticism. This newspaper sent a reporter to 208 Bell St. No such person as , Norman lived at that address, but i it was learned that a family of j that name had lived there prior; to August. Mrs. Bernice Norman < was finally located at 300 N. Dyer j St. "No it wasn't my husband's name that was drawn: it was my son's, Bennie. He's 13-years old. : He has cried nearly all day long. I since he heard that his name was caled for that $200 last night." Mrs. Norman, a buxom, smiling woman who is holding her little family together with a W. P. A. (Continued on Page Three) Flood Warfare Is fust Skirmish Voir t ? 4 Wind, Sandboils and Seepage Are Still Handicaps Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 5.?(U.R>? Winds, sandboils and seepage \ hampered the determmed fight of i U. S. Army engineers tonight to j hold the main line Mississippi ri- i ver levees from floodwaters which 1 already have caused more than! 400 deaths and maac 1.600.000; homeless. Winds were lapping layers of water against levee tops from j Cairo. 111., to the most acute dan- : ger sector? Mellwood. Ark. Sand boils and seepage worried water ! fighters at Cairo, near New Ma drid. Mo., near Dundee. Missouri and in the Mellwood area. Meanwhile, the Red Cross man ned a rescue flotilla or more than ! 1.000 craft, nearly a score of air- j planes and scores of trucks and { other conveyances in watchful waiting for possible evacuation of danger zones as the Mississippi crest rolled slowly towards Car- : uthersville. Mo. The Red Cross emphasized its I "readiness for any eventuality" with the following statement: "Our rescue and maintenance facilities are scattered up and down the river at strategic points. The Memphis emergency head quarters is kept informed hourly of the condition of every stretch of levee and road in the area and I so extensive is its communication j system that almost anyone in trouble in the area can be reach (Continued on Page Three) Syracuse. N. Y.. Feb. 5.?(U.R>? | The docile bossy, despite her leg- i endary reputation for dimwitted- j ness, probably would replace the i cat as a family pet if cows were j the size of cats. Dr. L. Pearl Gard- | ner, of the graduate school of cdu- ! cation at Cornell University, said today in a discussion of "brains in ' the barnyard." As the result of testy given farm animals, the professor ranked cows the most intelligent. Horses are next, then sheep and pigs." I have my suspicion's about dogs, cat and 1 goat but must wait to confirm , them," Miss Gardenr said. 1 "It is a shame that so able an i animal as the cow should everfi have received such a host of dis- : respectful attributes", she said. 1 "If cows were the size of cats and i: cats the size of cows, there would probably be rtrillions of pet cows : kept in homes instead of cats." In testing the intelligence of; animals since 1931'Miys Gardner! (Continued on Page Three) 1 , 1 N Says Cows Are Intellectual 1 Professor Says They Have More Sense Than Horses v J j Heirs Battle Over Four Chickens And Old Horse i 4 I \ Explanation Yesterday, for the first time since its founding, The Daily Independent missed its regular morning delivery to Manteo and points beyond. The reason was that John ! Gibson, who drives the delivery car that serves Camden, Cur rituck and Dare, was forced in to a ditch near Currituck Court House by an approaching auto mobile that was skidding far over on Gibson's side of the road. Gibson managed to get most of the Currituck papers delivered by hailing down var ious passing motorists while waiting for a wrecking truck to come to his rescue, but none of the Dare papers could be de livered yesterday morning. They had to be sent thru the mails. High tides, storms and other adversities never prevented the mail from going thru until yes terday. We are sorry and trust that our readers who missed reading The Daily Independent yesterday morning will forgive ! us. {Forty Dollars In Cash Also! Involved, But That'll Go To Feed the Horse Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 5.?(U.R) ; Eight heirs stood adamant tonight | in a bitter court battle over an es tate of $40 cash, four chickens I and a 28-year-old horse. Despite fear that the horse, a centenarian in the equine world, may end the quarrel by dying, a second surrogate court hearing | was adjourned to Mar. 22. The action was taken after the eight embattled children of the late Mrs. Sarah Lawson. all adults, gathered in the office of surro gate Joseph M. Feeley and again divided four to four over appoint ment of an administrator for her estate. Sons Francis, William. Urban I ' and Leo held for the appontment ! j of one administrator against the I | equally determined opposition of ! 1 daughters, Martha, Cecilia, Clara i ! and son, Herbert. Neither side would yield al- | though attorney Merwin More house. for the daughters, pointed (Contmued on Page Three) I c-[ A^r-x. /? | <BANK CLERK TUE SODA JE.RKE.R AT LEAST, THEY ARE OPEN ANl) ABOVE BOARD WITH IT. "Did you get around to the Pre- ? sident's birthday ball at the Vir- : ginia Dare the other night?" ask- i ed the Soda Jerker. "I didn't miss it," said the Bank Clerk. "Well, maybe you can tell me < how in heck a ball room designed to accommodate not more than 80 or 100 couples could accom modate the 200 and odd couples that were reported at that dance?" "That's easy," replied the Bank Clerk; "Not so many as half the couples were on the floor at any : one time." "And then where were the rest cf 'em?" "The rest of them were on the upper floors, going from room to room where there were drinking parties." 1 "Was it as bad as all that?" asked the Soda Jerker. "Some would say that it was i good as all that," replied the i Bank Clerk with a chuckle. "Well, it must have been a j drunken mob at that dance," suggested the Soda Jerker. "Funny thing about it," said the Bank Clerk, "I didn't see but ens person who appeared to be drunk at all, and she was a young woman who had become so aeatn ly ill from trying to drink liquor that she wasn't accustomed to, that she probably never will flirt with the stuff again. "In spite of the dozens of quarts of whisky and gin that must have been consumed in hotel rooms that night, it was. generally speaking, a well behaved party." "Times have changed," sighed the Scda Jerker. "I'll say they have changed," assented the Bank Clerk. "I can remember when the only townsmen who engaged hotel rooms for a dance were the Don Juans who went to the dance with the deliberate purpose of in viegling some women to his room clandestinely for immoral pur poses. Today this evil-minded seductionist wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance. Room doors are left wide open and everybody comes and goes. A couple who tried to pull a love frolic would be frowned upon and given to understand that such conduct is not to be tolerated. Even much liquor can not strip the average normal adult of every shred of morality and decency." Bidders Strike Is Serious Navy Ship-Building Program May Be Halted Walsh-Healey Act Steelmaslers Assert Provis ions of Law Take Profit From Contracts Copyright 1937. By United Tress Washington. Feb. 5.?(U.R)?'The so-called "bidders strike" of steel masters under the Walsh-Healey act has reached such serious pro portions that thousands of work ers in federal ship yards face im mediate loss of their jobs, it was earned tonight. A total of 52.000 workers now are employed in government ship raids throughout the nation. Their work rapidly is being curtailed and ;he U. S. Navy ship-building pro- j ^ram is threatened seriously by the inability of the government to ?et steel. Restrictions The shortage is traced to the la bor provisions of the Walsh-Hea ley act. The law demands that suc cessful bidders on government contracts fill these contracts with . materials produced under certthn | restrictions which ban child ana prison labor and impose maximum hour and minimum wage limits. Steel industrialists have not icen bidding on government con tracts. They have explained that their plants are operating to ca pacity to meet demands from pri vate operators and that they can not revise their work schedules to operate profitably under the Walsh-Healey act on government contracts. President Roosevelt has not yet been asked to intervene. Officials would not say, however, how long (Continued on Page Three) Dismal Swamp Canal Is Now a Six-Ft. Channel Navigation of the Dismal Swamp canal is at present lim ited to vessels of a draft of not more than six feet, according to a bulletin issued by the U. S. en gineer office at Norfolk. The bul- J let in follows: Until further notice the con trolling depth in the Dismal Swamp Canal is limited to 6 feet. This is owing to a ?shoal having formed in the Dismal Swamp Canal near the moutn of the feeder ditch to Lake Drummond, caused by the recent heavy rains and the necessity for releasing considerable quantities of water from Lake Drummond. In the absence of the Acting District Engineer: WILSON T. HOWE Engineer United States Engineer Office. 415 Post Office & Court House. Norfolk, Va.. February 4. 1937. May Revamp Federal Judicial Structure r ? Hoover Sees An Attempt To "Pack' Supreme Court I > New York, Feb. 5.?(U.R)? Former President Herebt Hoover tonight criticized Presi dent Roosevelt's proposals for reform of the federal judiciary system as an attempt to "pack the supreme court." "It has the implications of subordination of the court to the personal power of the execut ive," Hoover said. "Because all this reaches to the very depth of our form of government, it far transcends and questions of partisanship. "Instead of the ample alter r native of the constitution by which these proposals could be submitted to the people through constitutional amendments, it is now proposed to make changes by 'packing' the supreme court. "The Congress should delay action until the people have had ample time to formulate their views on it. In the long sweep of the Republic, a few months are not too much in which to con sider a vital change in the re peated judgments of the Ameri can people over 150 years. -N. Presidential Message Highlights V, ' Washington, Feb. 5. ?(U.R)? Highlights of President's Roose velt's message to congress on the Federal judiciary: If these measures achieve their dim we may be relieved of the ne cessity of considering any funda mental changes in the powers of the courts or the constitution of our government?changes which involve consequences so far reach ing as to cause uncertainty as to the wisdom of such a course. My desire is to strengthen the administration of justice and to make it a more effective servant of the public need. It is not difficult for the ingen ious to devise novel reasons for at tacking the validity of new legis lation or its application. . . Gov ernment by injunction lays a heavy hand upon normal processes i The judiciary, by postponing the effective date of acts of con gress ... is coming more and more to constitute a scattered, loosely organized and slowly op- ] crating third house of the nation al legislature. We have witnessed the spectacle of conflicting decisions . . . Such a welter of uncopiposed differ ences . . . has brought the law, the court and . . . the entire ad ministration of justice dangerous ly near to disrepute. An act valid in one judicial dis trict is invalid in another . . . Un , til final determination can be made by the supreme court?the law loses its most indispensable element? equality. Our legal system is fast losing another essential of justice?cer tainty . . . We find the processes of government itself brought to a complete stop from time to time by injunctions issued almost au tomatically sometimes even with out notice to the government and not infrequently in clear violation of the principle of equity . . . Life tenure of judges . . . was not intended to create a static judiciary. A constant and system atic addition of younger blood will vitalize the courts and better equip them ... in the light and needs of an ever-changing world. It is obvious ... from both rea son and experience, that some provision must be adopted which will . . . supplement the work of older judges and accelerate the work of the court. The pending proposal to extend to the justices of the supreme court the same retirement privi leges now available to other fed eral judges, has my entire appro val. Modern complexities call for a constant infusion of new blood in the courts, just as it is needed . . . in private business . . . Older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the pres ent or the future. Spend Night In Clothing Sent Stalled Car On Flood Victims BeachHighway By Red Cross Coast Guardsmen Rescue Party From Chronically Flooded Road Trapped in a stalled car on the flooded Dare beach road, a party of Mantco women, including Mrs. Alpheus Drinkwater, were forced to sit in the bitter cold from mid night to 5 o'clock yesterday morn ing before being rescued by men from the Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard Station, according to Frank Stick of Nags Head, who was in the city yesterday. Conditions along the highway are fast becoming intolerable, the road having been flooded and well night impassable no less than five times since last September, he says. The drainage ditch cut from the (Continued on Page Three) Relief Fund IVears $2,000 Goal, Potts Announces; Churches Are Liberal A total of 470 pounds of new and second-hand clothing was sent to the American Red Cross 1 yesterday by the local Red Cross Chapter for distribution to flood , sufferers in the Ohio Valley, it ] was reported last night by Dr. E. 1 H. Potts, local Red Cross chair man. "I am not calling for any more clothing for the present, at least, and I want to thank everyone who responded so readily and gener ously to this call," said Dr. Potts. The total amount ot money re ceived by the local chapter thru yesterday was $1,817.41. 1 "It is my earnest desire that we not stop until we have raised at least $2,000.00," said Dr. Potts last night, "so if anyone still has a contribution to make, please i see me at once. We ought to raise this $2,000.00 by the first of next week." I Every church in the city has j contributed very liberally to the flood fund, and the following rur- j al churches: Corinth Baptist, Mt. Hermon Methodist, Berea Baptist, . Ramoth Gilead Baptist, Newland Methodist and Riverside Baptist, j also have contributed very liber-' ally. Yesterday the Elizabeth City High School donated $13.41 and i I the State Normal and Training Schools donated $23.75. 'I TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation 9:00 Teachers Conference at high school. P. M. 2:30 Local 119 AFHW Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6. SUNDAY CALENDAR A. M. 9:30 Church Schools 11:00 Morning Worship P. M. 6:45 Young Peoples Leagues 7:30 Evening Worship Library Closed. s ? ? ' President Asks Power To Increase Its Membership Supreme Court Would Also Place Limita tion On Power of the District Courts Washington, Feb. 5. ?(U.R)? President Roosevelt today de manded authority to increase the supreme court from nine to 15 members in a move to pump "new blood" into the entire federal ju diciary wherever judges past 70 continue to hold office. He also proposed, in a special message to congress, that federal courts be denied the right to de cide constitutional questions or issue injunctions involving the government without ample notice to federal authorities and the right of quick appeal directly to the supreme court. With his message he transmit ted a bill designed to carry out his recommendations, which, he said, were intended to "strengthen the administration of justice and to make it a more effective ser vant of the public need." It was the first time since the chaotic early days of the first New Deal that Mr. Roosevelt offi cially proposed a specific bill to congress. He acted swiftly after summoning his cabinet to a spe cial emergency session. Proposals Mr. Roosevelt proposed: 1. That he be allowed to increase the number of judges in all fed eral tribunals? up to 15 in the supreme court and up to 50 alto gether? where incumbents fail to retire or resign within six months of their 70th birthday. 2. That the supreme court have a $10,000-a-year proctor to act as administrative assistant and help the chief justice assign district :Continued on Page Three) Jim Anderson ExplainsAbout News Article Says He Issued Statements In Son's Name Upon His Return Here "The statements attributed to my son in yesterday's morning is sue of The Daily Independent were really made by me in my son's name and he would have made the same statements had he been here at the time," said J. B, Anderson, father of William J. Anderson, last night. "The statements I made were along lines identical to statements made by my son, Bill, to a repor ter for The Daily Independent just before we left here to go to Chapel Hill. When we got back here, Bill dropped me off at the house and then drove on to Nor folk on i matter of business. We had promised to call Keith Saun ders and give him a story upon our return, so I took it upon my self to give him the story, and I was sure Bill would have given him the same statements if he had been here at the time. "Not knowing that I had made these statements in his name, Bill vas naturally surprised when he (Continued on Page Three) Pope Will Broadcast To Manila Congress Vatican City, Feb. 5.?(U.R)?The Pope's condition was so satisfac tory tonight that there was little doubt he would broadcast an ad dress to the Eucharistic congress in Manila Sunday. Pucci's semi-official news ser vice said today that the pontiff's legs have improved considerably in recent days. The pain in them, the service said, will decrease but never completely disappear be cause of his deficient blood circu lation and miocardiacal condition. The Pope's improvement was announced officially today in the Vatican newspaper, Osservatorc Romano. There is no form of nerve dis order that may not be caused or aggravated by Eye strain. For a thorough Eye examination see DRb. J. L>. HATHAWAY. (adv.).