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thf, Datty Independent . B J 1 1 J ? J j % I I J 8 Ij ll/lj l I moderate shifting winds becoming east frs. warmer on coast. -L _m_J-L 1 1 erly over south portion and fair Tues. _ 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 Krrr- !>'T KT^X'tah r.;Ty ELIZABETH^lTY^j^UESDAY^MARCH 23, 1937 En>^ tlutT' c" SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS i[)isaster inquiry ?ft e p o r t s Hgffurt to Save Heat ? jjjjr Costs Brought ? Death to 426 ? from Basement ^?siijierinleiult'iO NVar (Jol ? lapx- Vtter loll ins; of ? lappiirj: (?as Main | New London. Tex.. March 22.? ? Xatur;-.: vis. piped into the ? v schoolhouse to I sue .1 ^-.i-tnenth heat in* bill. | ? caused excie-um wnich de- j ? M> building ana I ? - teachers last ? t;--;;- ;;ry board re- j r "-'e announced ? appeared be ; \?d swathed ? admitted! ? the building ? from a nearby oil ? S 5< hool head. ? ia the ? and H >ted from the wit i Board's Findings i..;r:ly afterwards. Dr. E. P. Sc.wv-. explosion expert from the : L"n;ve:s::y of Texas, announced : .wire. - findings and Col. Clar- i face E Parker lifted martial law free the school zone. E-.c.Txe presented to the board if: no culpability for the disas- ! tv a., feel that the trustees of vi.ool acted for the very best It.:., the best intentions." he ; | al. They were not aware of ' a: proper installation of gas iipmen*. was and did not know Dr Schoch > repor* said: In the basement there were ] 'pproximauv- to 000 ubic feet of j air 1 for e of nalur- ' a . .. 6 5 per cent eightiis .:. tint ? s thru Um bas< m the 72 gas radia tors wis left flowing a id ntally' for 17 hours, this maximum ex* 1 Continued on Page Fivei Loyal Iroops Prepare Drive I hi Rebel Base trance ? Men Mate Been Lon e,I Bark 20 Miles - Sinn- I i.|?. | uriietl I M - J Pj? Loy I into new rebel I Guadalajara I and prepared to at 11* . )a>e of Siguenza. d o;. >nt;nued victories, iiist Commander a umea nis newiy 1 and mterna ontinue the of aaainst Gen. Francisco1 : iemonnaires and . ue.s to remove the ? .reat against the capi :;r tn ? north. The rebels I : oack 20 miles so i : ?. army attacked the A ra from three sides Continued on Page Three) ; John J. \\ illiarns And ( ompany Settle Out of Court - of John T. Williams. - i'tisquotank county com auainst the Norfolk n Bus corporation, which . for trial at the pre ' ot tiie United States been settled, it was : uerday. Under the settlement Mr. Wil ; receive $500 and the o ' orporation will assume i "::c court, it war; stat ?ci lams entered suit for fclOV;!) auamst the bus corpora ??u.ng that he had been accused by the dis at Norfolk of being drunk ' ? a condition to ride the ou.>. nil of the case at the last :v'i'ial couit resulted in a 1^,. . i The School That Was a Death Trap HERE is the consolidated school building as it appeared before the explosion that brought death to 426 pupils and teachers. Grammar and the advanced high school grades were merged in the building, largest such school in the world. Clark Defends Court Plan; Chief justice Has His Say Retired Justice Sees Change As Rein# Constitutional San Diego. Calif.. March 22. - (U.R)?John Hcssin Clark, the only living former justice of the United States Supreme court, broke his long silence in public affairs to night to defend the constitution ality of President Roosevelt's ju diciary program. The 79-year-old retired justice, in a speech delivered over a na tion-wide radio network, described as "plainly constitutional"' the president's proposal to have con gress increase the number of just ices on the court he served for six years. Is Impersonal Clarke carefully avoided ex pressing a personal opinion on the plan itself, discussing only the "naked legal question" of the controversy. "The wise men who framed our constitution." he said, "may have had more confidence in the wis dom and patriotism of the con gresses and the presidents which were to come after them, and less confidence in courts than some seem to have today. Whether or not they were wise in entrusting to the congress and to the presi dent such extensive powers over the courts as we have found they possess and have long exercised ?are not questions which are now before us. The single question I am considering is. would a condi tional increase of the number of judges of the Supreme court, by act of congress, as recommended by the president be constitutional or not? Within Powers I think that the answer to (Continued on Page Three) Lightning Rod Augurs Return Of Prosperity Success of Salesmen In dicates Better Times Are Ahead | v - By MRS. J. L. MIRPJtY Mantco. March 22.?Prosperity | has returned to North Carolina. ? and its advent was well demon strated a few days ago along with ; the first signs of spring. Proof of the fact that prosperity is in our midst again was clearly 1 indicated recently, not in grow ing bank deposits only, nor in in i creasea car loadings, but by the skillfully presented...case of the i lightning rod. For molr than half an hour the i proprietor of a general store in a ! rural community let the waiting I customers wait while he listened j to the smooth oratory of the | lightning rod salesman and ex : amined his latest 1937 model, tri ped-supported white porcelain-in sulated nickle-tipped and ball decorated lightning rod truly a I thing of beauty. The customers almost forgot i what they had come to purchase. , they became so engrossed in as sisting the proprietor to decide ' which color ball should decorate his lightning rod and whether gold, silver, blue, red or white 1 should shoo the lightning away from his domain. This rod was a thing of beauty and something to be proud of. a mark of rare dis tinction. proclaiming to all and sundry who gazed aloft to the roof <Continued on Page Three) Letter From Hughes Read Before Sen ate Committee Washington, Mauh 22. ?(U.R)? Chief Justice ?ny?les Evans i Hughes said today in a. letter to Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., that President Roo^K-elt's judici ! ary reorganization p$an was like | ly to impair the efficiency of the I Supreme Court. Wheeler read the letter to the senate judiciary committee as op ponents of the plan opened their attack on the measure - In it the chief justice cast doubt pn the constitutionality of dividing an | enlarged court into sections to speed its work, a suggestion made I by administration witnesses. Brandeis Assents Hughes said he spoke with the concurrence of Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Willis Van Devan ter. who arc considered the No. 1 liberal and conservative, respec tively of the court. He added that while lie had not had time to con fer with all members, lie believed (Continued on Page Three) BEST SPELLER WILL RECEIVE A SILVER CUP \\ inner to He Determined In Test; Something Entirely New Elizabeth City High School stu dents have won cups for debating, athletics and other activities, but i this year for the first time in the j history of the school a silver cup is to be awarded for spelling, it i we;j announced yesterday by Sup j erintendent Edgar E. Bundy. The Bright Jewelry Company | has offered to donate a cup. which will be awarded by Superintend ent Bundy either on Class Night or at the Commencement exer cises. The winner of the cup will be (Continued on Page Three) I ~ Frank Vesper's Body Is | Washed Ashore i v _j Eastbourne, Eng., Tuesday, J j March 23.?(U.R)?A nude body j washed ashore near here was j identified today as that of < Frank Vosper by two relatives of j the English actor-dramatist who disappeared mysteriously two j weeks ago from the French liner Paris. The body, washed in from the sea at Seven Sisters Cliffs, be | tween here and Seaford was ! identified by the actor's father. Dr. Percy Vosper of Stanmore, his uncle, M,aj. P. Vosper of j Pevenscy Bay. The father view I ed the body while major Vos ! per identified it from a photo graph. The fact that the body was I unclothed aroused speculation as to what happened to the $25,000 or more Vosper w-as be ; lieved to have been carrying j when he leaped or fell from the | Paris after a gay champagne ' party. _ Army To Fight Cancer Is Being Organized Now Enlistment Campaign On In the Albemarle This Week Columbia. March 22.?The fol lowing 12 captains in the counties of the first congressional district of North Carolina are directing an enlistment campaign this week in the Woman's Field Army for the Control of Cancer, it was announc ed today by Mrs. W. S. Carawan. vice-commander of the district. Miss Margaret Fearing. Pasquo tank; Mrs. Wheeler Martin. Mar I tin; Mrs. B. F. Koonce. Perqui I mans; Mrs. J. C. Mullin, Gates; ! Mrs. B. C. Cuthrell, Camden; Mrs. (Continued on Page Three) WPA Foremen Will Meet Here This A.M. There will be a meeting of all 1 WPA foremen in the counties of I the Albemarle at the Community ; Building on Dyer Street this morn ! ing at 10 o'clock. Mr. Lee Wallace, District WPA director and other district offi cials will be present. Senator Bailey Publicizes Letter To This Newspaper Reprints It In Page Ad In News and Observer ami Daniels Replies Editor's Note: Senator Bailey's letter was published in full on the editorial page of the March 4 is sue of THE DAILY INDEPEN DENT. Raleigh, March 22.?(U.R)?Full page advertisements appeared in several North Carolina daily news papers today explaining in detail United States Senator Josiah H. Bailey's reasons for opposing the judicial reform program advocat ed by President Roosevelt. Senator Bailey, senior member of the upper house of congress from North Carolina, has been se verely criticized in some North Carolina newspapers for opposing the court reform program. The advertisement, "published by friends of Senator Bailey and of constitutional government", was the senator's letter to a critical newspaper editor. To W. O. Saunders, editor of the Elizabeth City, N. C., Indepen dent, the senator states why he has chosen "the hard way" instead of "The Easy Way", in determin ing his position on the Supreme Court issue. "This is a strange picture you paint of me." the senator's letter which was reproduced said in its (Continued on Page Three) Ivnapp's Case Ends InAFizzie Government Makes a Very Sorry Show ing In Court Fines of $1 Each Mr. Knapp and His Co-de fendants Enter a Plea of Nolo Contendere Rather Than Defend Them selves In a Frivolous Prosecution. The government's exultation back in December over the appre hension of five too many ducks in the possession of certain rich men. | and threats to make an example of alleged "malefactors of great wea'th" fizzled in the United States Court here late yesterday afternoon when the case against Joseph P. Knapp. Lee W. Max- j well. Giles Whiting and Isaac Doxey was called. Messrs. Knapp. Maxwell, Whit ing and Doxey were charged with possession of 45 ducks from a day's , kill, in violation of the law fixing the bag limit at 10 ducks per man. Messrs Maxwell and Whiting were guests of Mr. Knapp at Mackey Island, and Mr. Doxey. one of Mr. Knapp's superintendents accom- ; panied the party. StClair Lewark and another deputy game warden confiscated (Continued on Page Three) , No Imported Speaker For: Graduation\ Bund) to Have Graduating Students fur Speakers at Commencement Instead of importing -some edi | tor. minister or college professor I to make the Commencement Ad dress at the graduating exercises j of the class of 1937. of Elizabeth | City High School. Superintendent Edgar E. Bundy this year will in I augurate the innovation of having the graduates make all the I speeches at the graduating exer cises. This idea, which has been em ployed with success in a few schools elsewhere, has never be fore been carried out in this sec [ tion of the State. The general plan is as follows: an outstanding student will make a brief introductory talk and will present the Saluatorian. who will give a talk outlining his or her viewpoints on the school program. The Salutatorian will then intro duce several other students who will give five-minute talks on var ious parts of the school program. The Valedictorian will conclude the exercises. The commencement exercises will be held this year on Thursday May 20. Hack Hroken in Jump From Frisco Bridge San Francisco. March 22.?(U.R) Ray Woods. 30-year-old St. Louis bridge jumper, received serious in juries today in the first recorded leap from the San Francisco-Oak land bay bridge?A feat which he had said contained ?'absolutely no danger." Physicians at Harbor Emergen cy hospital said his back was broken. At San Francisco hospital it was said he might not walk again. A strong wind caught Wood's body as he hurled from the lower or truck deck of the $75,000,000 span and threw him off balance. TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 7:30 Sunrise service First Methodist 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 6:15 First Baptist YWA 6:30 Kiwanis Club 7:00 Local Institute class First Christian 7:30 Jr. O. U. A. M.; Eureka Lodge Masons; 7:30 Special services City Road 8:00 Special services First Christian. "Atonement" j | library Hours: 2-t. 7-3 Madame Fontanges Says Mussolini Was Her Man Frenchwoman Who Shot Diplomat Whom She Ac cused of Wrecking Her Romance, Says She Was Mistress of II Ducc From April to July Paris, March 22,?(U.R)?Exotic the shooting of tlie Count de Ch hours of unforgettable love" witl told an examining magistrate that April and July of last year. The magistrate asked her, dur ing a two-hour hearing at the Pal ais de Justice, whether she everi had been intimate with Musso lini. "Yes." she replied blandly. "I was his mistress between last April and July." Referring to her last rendezvous with Mussolini in July, she said: "He was tender and sweet with me as he had been on the previous occasions." She described how, last Novem ber, she tried to commit suicide in Rome after Mussolini had jilted her. 'ihc man responsible for II D'tcc's lost love, she said bitterly, war. the Count de Chambrun whom she tried to kill last Wednesday. He violated her confidences, she explained, and caused Mussolini to end their clandestine romance. De Chambrun, she said, shat-1 tcred "my hours of unforgettable I love." The dark-haired beauty, whose I lurid diary of "confessions" threatens to create an internation al scandal if ever made public, told of repeated rendezvous with Mussolini. . Frequently, she said, they met ' in Rome's Venezia Palace. Musso lini's official residence. The 29-year-old woman, former Madeline dc Fontangcs, held for ambrun because he shattered "my i Premier Benito Mussolini, today she was II Duce's mistress between * II Duce's Pet v J MADELINE DE FONTANGES actress and journalist, described the events of her adventurous life and scattered loves up to the point of her attempted suicide. Then the magistrate adjourned the hearing until April 8. (Continued on Page Three) New Honor Is Conferred On The Governor Senate, In Holiday Mood, Appoints His Excellency An Honorary Page Raleigh. March 22.?<U.P>? The senate tonight in holiday mood in anticipation to the close of the session, scheduled for noon to morrow, presented Lieutenant Governor Horton with a silver service and conferred upon Gov ernor Clyde Hoey the office of honorary page of the senate. The senate passed the house bill regulating hours of labor to 55 weekly for men and 48 for women and returned it to the house for concurrence in various amend ments. Also passel on second and third reading was the bill provid ing for a vote on a proposed con stitutional amendment which would establish a department of justice, including a bureau of identification, in the state. A bill was passed under which a commission will visit New York with a view of investigating the feasibility in cooperating in the coming World Fair there. An ap propriation of $2,500 was provided for the purpose and the governor (Continued on Page Three) Thinks Police Got Purse And TheLiquor' Too KIlis W illiams, Inventor of Ingenious Hootch I)is-J penser. Gets 3 Years, f But Wife Not Satisfied. The solemn dignity of the U. S. Court is occasionally relieved by rip-roaring comedy. Ellis Williams old offender of the liquor laws furnished comedy for yesterday's afternoon session of the U. S. Court here. Williams arranged upon evid ence furnished by city motorcycle patrolman Walter Spence. who in company with night officer Geo. Twiddy raided Williams' home and found a gallon or more of moon shine whisky in a ten gallon cask concealed in the kitchen attic. From the keg a rubber hose was run thru the partition wall be tween the dining room and a downstairs bedroom. From holes on either side of the partition Williams could draw liquor from the hidden cask. Williams declared that he had purchased the liquor for his own consumption, because he could not afford to pay the price of legal liquor. The police said they had I. (Continued on Page Three) t ? New Obstacle May Delay Edward-'Wally' Wedding ^ | London, March 22.?(U.R)?Brit ish legal experts warned tonight that Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simp son's first divorce, obtained in the United States 10 years ago, may be invalid under British law. The new complication, they said, may jeopardize the early marriage of the former Baltimore girl and former Kink Edward if the case is brought into British courts. Arthur Berriedale Keith, out standing authority of constitution law, was responsible for the lat est surprise development in the "world's greatest romance." He wrote to the Edinburgh Scotsman saying that Parliament might be obliged to enact special legisla tion legalizing Mrs. Simpson's di vorce. She divorced Earl Winfleld Spencer. U. S. naval officer, at nYafrefiton, Ya. in 1927. A specialist Ui English ' family law" told the United Press that Keith's disclosure were legally sound. He predicted that British law would not accept Simpson's first divorce as valid. If Mrs. Simpson's first divorce were held invalid, her second mar riage also would be declared ille gal and automatically be annul led. She therefore would have to obtain a new divorce from her first husband in England before she could marry the Duke of | Windsor under English law. The warning that the divorce obtained in the little Virginia town not far from Washington, D. C., might not be valid were based on the fact that British courts re cognize only dicorces granted in courts of a state in which the husband lives at the time the suit is filed. Spencer they aid auueared not l to have been a Virginia readeut. I Chrysler Accused Of WithholdingEvidence ?-?? a Not Candid With La Follette Investiga tion Committee Spied On Employes Strikers Have Added the Crime of Burglary to Others, Declares Com pany Man. Detroit, March 22.?>(U.R)? Threat of a general automotive strike in Detroit faded tonight as Mayor Frank Couzens an nounced after a conference with union officials that the police department would not interfere in "peaceful so-called sit-down strikes." Police evictions of sit-downers in small factories through the city had led to a threat by Homer Martin, United Automo bile Workers, president, to call a general strike of automotive workers here. Detroit, March 2.?(U.R> ? Chrysler corporation. nine of whose plants are held by 6.000 sit down strikers, was accused to night by union officials of black listing, labor espionage and of withholding data from the LaFol lette senate civil liberties commit tee. The charges, made by Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, were denied by B. E. Hutchinson, Chrysler finance committee chair man. General Strike Threat Martin, holding the threat of a general automotive strike in De troit over police who have been raiding lesser sit-down strikes, de clared the union had found "irre futable" proof of the charges. Richard T. Frankenstccn. organi zational director for the union, showed newspapermcnt what he said were photostatic prints of Chrysler corporation records to back up the charges. "The charges, to the best of my knowledge and belief are untrue," Hutchinson said. "Whatever evi dence they have can, of course, be handed to whatever public author iContinued on Page Five) Big Navy Bill Passes Senate By 64-11 Vote Gen. Hugh S. Johnson h Witness Before Mili tary Committee Washington. March 22.?(U.R)? Tiie senate today passed the $522. 847,808 "Big Navy" appropriation bill, providing $130,000,000 for ship construction and $29,186,000 for new airplanes during the 1938 fiscal year. The measure was aproved 64 to 11 as administration forces beat down protests that the money for shipbuilding puts this country in to a naval race with Great Britain. It now goes conference with the house to iron out minor differ ences. Meanwhile, the house military affairs committee heard Gen Hugh S. Johnson urge approval of the Hill-Sheppard bill giving the pre sident dictatorial powers to regu late prices and draft the nation's industrial, financial and man (Continued on Page Three) Added Bus Service To Benefit New Bern And More head City Effective Friday March 26. the Norfolk Southern Bus corporation will inaugurate an added bus service, giving through service be tween Norfolk and Elizabeth City. New Bern and Morehead City. There will be two buses leaving the Norfolk union terminal at 4:10 p. m.. one for Raleigh and one for New Bern and Morehead City, both via Williamston. There will be no lay-overs in Washington for bus passengers from New Bern to Elizabeth City and Norfolk. And effective Saturdays and Sundays only, there will bo an extra bus from Columbia. Roper and Plymouth, giving passengers at thcie points a chsite cl Hurts trips instead cI two.