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?Leinke Is
l\ C o ii r t
?Defender
?frofessor Mo ley Is
? Also Opponent of
? Reorganization
I Errs Sometimes
? lint Farmer-Lawyer Think
? ilci onl 1* Bettor Than
? 1 hat of ("ongress
I : Match 23. ?(U.R>?
I A New Vo:k C:;- professor and a
? *ie dust bowl I
I ndemning Pres
? S tpreme Court
I r before the sen
? ;:e ..c:...':: v :::::iittee and in
I :u:::.::t of the const i
?
? Moley. Colum- I
? ssor of public j
? and one-time I
I metnb original Roosevelt
H bra ribed presi
? 19tii best way'
? nd so-|
I 18 better ways, ?
I amendment of the
President. Not Court
Reekie-faced Rep. William i
lexke P. X D. erstwhile presi
deral candidate of the Union
;i." Mid :: isn't the Supreme
Cert that is standing in the way i
: a! I mslation for the far
re: but hie other end of Penn- j
?ylunia avenue ". He meant the
:-rh;rr.j:i w'no resides at the!
x.ute House.
M u> isseci American gov
n.T.er." with committee members
2 the theoretical plane of the
ass room Lerr.ke. whose un- j
eel appearance turns out on
use inspection to be due to ;
? at tie with,
I istomed to
r
[ The Nortl Dakota represents- [
?Continued on Page Three)
Davies Dines
\\ ar Lord Of
Soviet Union
\nro?liilo\ >u> - \rniies
W ill Diohand (>nl> W hen
IVaee In Europe Secure
M -co-.v Mt. .. 23 - - 3 ? Com
r..-a: of Defense K. E Voroshi
>:v told U. S. Ambassador Joseph
I Dr.:-- ' *hut Russia will
demobilize .. -r .. m army ?the
iarsost ::: the world? when the
a : Eu: : ? .?ppe tr- secure.
Voro-iuloVs statement was made
-? \ r. : : m.-ts during a
?.r.ro. h nor by Am
M: - Da vies at Spa
so House. the elaborate embassy
\bu:lc:::. . was confiscated af
?'f :: from a textile
plum. r
I D--. :.\y returned from
/atom : Ukraine, toasted the
Bed army as "an army of citizen- i
?7 devot' :1 to peace."
Voro.-h:'.ov. replying, said that
-. ..at the Red army
? pmv.-r.t
"The R-c; army." he added, "is j
its uniforms and
.vihan dress just as!
.' . certain that there is
need of those military
B'-* ? then we will be con
l>- pared."
turner. a brilliant affaii ,
Mrs. Davies?the for
'Continued on Page Three)
?Vu Yacht Pier
U Shipyard Now
Near Completion
Barons unforeseen delay, the j
r' pier being constructed;
pyurd on Riverside will
1 ted next week, it was j
? rday from shipyard
officials.
deck stringers have been
riN position, and the laying
of tar reeking can be completed
of days, itts thought.
One deck is laid, a few more
driven alongside and a
put in place, the pier
ready for us?.
;!i make a total of five
' i shipyard and will give
fat ilitics for as many as
*'? wasurc craft at one time.
rnt there are around a
- at the yacht piers with
i-KMsd at aoy rune now.
Scene of Verbal Battle of the Century j
f
A SCENE in J'.adison Square Garden. New York, when 20.000 wildly cheering persons attended the I
anti-Nazi mass meeting sponsored by the American Jewish congress and the Jewish Labor commit
tee. John L. Lewis. CIO head, told the meeting that industrial democracy was the best guarantee
against Fascism. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former N RA chief, launched several blows at Hitler, and
other speakers denounced the Hitler regime.
Waesche Is To!
^isit The Till
Disl. Shorllyi
Goast Guard Commandant
Talks Vi ilh Congress
man barren
Washington. March 23.?Rear j
Admiral R. R. Waesche. Com
mandant of the United States I
Coast Guard service, has com- '
municated to Congressman Lind
say C. Warren hi-s intention of j
visiting the Seventh Coast Guard
district this spring.
The commandant, by the way.
has never set foot in the Seventh |
District.
Conferring with Congressman
Warren for an hour, Admiral
Waesche stated that the proposed
reorganization of the Coast Guard
service which was announced re- j
cently will go through as planned.
Look-outs will be retained in [
abandoned stations and the sta- !
tions on each side will be furnish- ?
ed with more men and the best '
motorized equipment. The com- |
mandant assured Mr. Warren that
the stations made inactive would !
not be disposed of and should the !
plan not prove workable they could
then return to the old system.
The active -stations will be rebuilt
and made modern in every respect
and each furnished with a cook
at government expense. Leaves of
the men w'M be made longer.
Admiral Waesche also said that j
the seventh coast guard district |
is not the only one to be reorgan- j
ized. He said ten -stations would
(Continued on Page Three)
Farley Finally
Pleases
Everybody
.New Lee ami Jackson
Stamps .Make Up for
Sherman
Washington, March 23.?(U.R)?
Just as the philatelists of the na
tion were ready to call another at
tack. postmaster-general James
A. Farley turned up today with
some of the prettiest stamps he
has yet issued and thus nicely
averted a crisis.
The new four-cent army and
navy series went on sale and
stamp collectors, who had heard
rumblings that the gray ink used
was not up to standard, were ready
to shout orders for an assault. In
stead of abuse, the postoffice de
partment came in for praise.
Collectors said that the print job
was not only up to the usual
standard but the stamps were ar
tistic beauties which have not
been surpassed for many issues.
The army stamps show Gen.
Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas
(Stonewall* Jackson, confederate
leaders during the civil war. while
the navy issued pictured Admirals
George Dewey, William T. Samp
son and Winfield S. Schley, Span
ish-American war heroes.
Special attention centered on
the army stamps because of the
furore created iast month when
the three-cent denomination went
011 sale with pictures of Generals
Grant. Sherman and Sheridan. It
was Sherman's portrait that out
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Aged Veterans Rejoice
To Hear Home Safe
&
Conference Of
Math Teachers
Here April 6th
lo Gel Acquainted \Jitb
New Textbooks Adopt
ed by the State
A meeting of all high school |
mathematics teachers in North
eastern North Carolina will be !
heid at the Elizabeth City high
school on Tuesday. April 6. it was
announced yesterday by Superin
tendent Edgar E. Bundy.
The purpose of this conference '
which is one of several to be held j
in various sections of the State, I
is to acquaint superintendents, !
principals and teachers with the
i new text books in mathematics
| that have been adopted for use in
I high schools of the state for the
session 1937-38 and following.
Representatives of the publish
(Continued on Page Three)
Charlotte To Have
A Liquor Election
Charlotte. March 23.?(U.R>?The
Mecklenburg board of elections
voted unanimously this afternoon
I to call a liquor election for June
11.
J
Measure to Disband Them
Is Not for Present Appli
cation, They Are Told
Raleigh. March 23.?R>? Six
old men at the Confederate Vet
erans' Home here? North Caro
lina's last survivors of the "thin,
grey line"? were happy again to
day.
The old soldiers had sounded
the rebel yell yesterday through a
protest letter to the General As
sembly and received prompt as
surance they would not be remov
ed from the institution they have
called home these many years.
The legislature last week pass
ed a bill at Gov. Clyde R. Hoey's
request giving the home's board
of directors authority to disband
the small group and provide for
the aged veterans elsewhere.
Following the old soldiers' ap
peal. which asked the assembly to
"put themselves in our position
and pause?before kicking us out."
Gov. Hoey and the board explain
ed the measure was intended to
provide "for the future, when on
ly one or two of the men are left.
We have no intention of removing
the soldiers."
The six old men, all past 90
and living for the most part in a
world of their own which harks
back to the stirring days of the
War Between the States, smiled
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I Prize W inners
Display Much
Originality
I Awards Are Made In the j
j "Name These Business '
Meii" Contest
D. C. Jones, night clerk at the
| Southern Hotel, who has a lot of
j time on his hands, amused him
; self by making up a oook of the
picture ads in The Daily Inde
pendent's "Name These Business
Men" contest. He bound the book
! attractively in a cloth binding. To
I Mr. Jones goes the first prize of
$5.00 offered.
Mardell Swain, 310 W. Fearing j
| St.. also made up a book, attrac
i tively bound. She wins the second
I prize of $3.00.
Mrs. C. E. Overman. N. Road
St.. conceived Vte idea of making
up the pictures in the form of a
telephone directory, with a classi
: fied section in the back, ads on
| the covers, n'everything. She wins
| the third prize of $2.00.
Altho the prizes for naming the
(Continued on Page Three)
j
Central Home
"Ee" Girls To
jFete Mothers
Annual Mother - Daughter |
Banquet Tonight at
Ei^ht o'Clock
An event of considerable inter- j
I est is scheduled to take place to- j
night at eight o'clock when the
: Home Economics club of Central |
j high school will entertain at their |
: annual Mother-Daughter banquet, j
A total of 108 guests have been ,
invited, including, in addition to
the club members and their mo
thers. members of the board of
county commissioners, members
of the county board of education. |
members of the Central school
committee and their wives, home
economics teachers fr?m the oth
er county schools and representa
tives of the home economics de
partments of the other schools in
; the county.
j The program is as follows: A
toast to guests, by Pauline Bate
! man, president of the Home Eco
nomics club; toast to friends, by
Edith Pritchard: response, by
Principal Ralph W. Holmes; solo,
by Mr. Will Jackson; "A Country
(Continued on Page Three)
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
| A. M.
coo Sunrise services at First
Methodist
; 8:30 Mens Christian Federation
! P. M.
j 7:00 First Christian Church in
stitute
7:30 Midweek religious services:
Special services at City
Road
8:00 Special services at First
Christian, "Confession"
1 Library closed
! v J
Bombardment
01 Madrid Is
Now Resumed!
Rebels Retaliate for Set
back of Their Drive
On Capital
- ? * ? - /i i o\ it/f -nv
Madrid. Marcn zo.?iu.r.,?mi. , .
persons w-jre 'killed today when
rebel artillery, thundering away in |
the Guadarrama mountains, sent
tons of shells smashing into the
center of Madrid where men. wo
men and children strolled the
boulevards beneath a bright sun.
The bombardment of the capi
tal?the first in nearly three
weeks? spread panic through
streets that a few minutes before
had been serene with children
playing along the curbs.
The screeching of ambulance
sirens mingled with the roar of
bursting shells as the wounded
were carried to first aid stations
set up in subway stations. It was
impossible at first to determine
the number of dead, so great was
the confusion.
The rebel guns, expertly aimed,
gouged great holes in buildings, bit
out chunks of pavement and lit
tered the streets wit 1^ broken
bricks, mortar and glass.
The insurgents unleashed their
bombardment of the capital after
failing to stem the whirlwind ad
vance of loyalist troops on the
Guadaralajara front. 55 miles
northeast, of Madrid.
McElroy Resigns;
Johnston Succeeds
Raleigs, March 23.?<U.R)?Gov
ernor Hoey announced today the
resignation, effective March 27,
of Superior Court Judge P. A.
McElroy, of the 19th district, and
the appointment of Senator A. H.
Johnston of Buncombe to fill the
unexpired term effective the same
day.
Italian-English Break
Threatened As II Duce
Speaks In Angry Mood
Legislature Adjourns
After Record Session
Governor Is Satisfied
With Its Accom
plishments
Backed Program
Much Is Done hv Shortest
Session State Has Had
In Kerent Years
Raleigh. March 23?(U.R)?The
North Carolina General Assembly
adjourned at 5:38 o'clock this af
ternoon with the Governor stand
ing by the senate president's chair,
after the moment had been de
layed for five and a half hours be
cause of controversial measures
popping up at the last minute.
Clocks had been stopped at noon.
During the final session the last
I of the so-called Ickes bills, one
which would have provided co
I operation between municipalities
| and the Federal Government in
obtaining loans for PWA projects
was killed. The last official act of
the senate made all newspaper
I men there "pages extraordinary."
Avalanche Of Bills
During the 66 days 1.803 bills
moved across the calendar.
At the close of a session which
saw most of the administration
measures enacted into law, Gov
ernor Hoey expressed himself as
satisfied with the result.
Many of them found rough sled
ding. Anti-administration forces
on more than one occasion rallied
enough" strength to cause alarm.
And some of the measures were
killed.
But as a whole the legislature
ended by enacting most of the
administration measures into law
and set up machinery for Gover
nor Hoey to carry out his program.
Achievements
Outstanding achievements were:
The balancing of the budget by
the passage .in the record time of
four and a half minutes in the
house, of the biggest revenue and
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t:
Ed Johnson's School Board
NomineesApprovedlnSenate
The Independent
Was a Poor
Bottle Wrapper
i J
An attempt to pass a bottle of
whiskey, wrapped in a copy of
THE DAILY INDEPENDENT,
through a window screen to a
friend in the Pasquotank county
jail, yesterday caused the revoca
tion of the probation of Rudolph
Gibbs and his sentence to a year
in Atlanta penitentiary.
"I didn't have no whiskey, I
was just giving him the morning
paper," Gibbs explained to Judge
I. M. Meekins when brought a sec
ond time before that jurist.
Gibbs had bepn convicted Mon
day on a liquor law violation that
netted him an 18-month proba
tionary period, until federal pro
bation officer J. C. Dempsey haul
ed him into the courtroom yester
day for subsequent judgment.
"Make the sentence a year and
a day in Atlanta and revoke the
parole." the judge said and Gibbs
sat down very hard in his chair.
Additional Fire
Protection for the
Hospital Proposed
Additional fire protection fori
Albemarle Hospital was proposed?!
at a meeting of the trustees of the j
hospital last night. There is only
one fire hydrant available in case
of a fire at the hospital, and that
is just outside the hospital grounds
at the end of Riverside Ave. Fools
in automobiles rushing to a fire
at the hospital might create a
traffic jam in that bottle neck
before the firemen could arrive.
It is the suggestion of trustee
Fred White, who is also a member
of the Board of Aldermen, that a
pipe line be run from Carolina
Ave., to the river and two hy
drants be placed on this line, one
on either side of the new hospital
annex. Fire department pumpers
could hook on to such emergency
hydrants and pull sufficient wa
ter from the river to combat any
conflagration.
To install this pipe line and hy
drants involves a material cost of
$426.88 and an estimated labor
cost of $144.00. The city has agreed
to furnish the materials. A com
mittee composed of Fred White, J.
M. Scott and G. R. Little will go
before the Board of County Com
missioners at its next regular
meeting and ask that body to
make an appropriation covering
the labor cost.
T
Hughes Held Out to Last;
Deadlock Delayed Ad
journment; Hope Is Not
Yet Abandoned.
Raleigh, March 23.? Represen
tative E. R. Johnson's attempt to
oust two regularly-nominated |
members of the Currituck county
board of education and insert the
names of two nominees of his own
selection in the Omnibus bill met
with success late this afternoon af
ter delaying adjournment of the
General Assembly for several,
hours.
The Currituck Board of Educa
tion, as finally included in the bill,
is composed of J. E. Munden, Jr.,
Carl White and Mrs. Lucille Mor
gan. The board named in the
Democratic primary last June was
composed of J. E. Munden, Jr., G.
C. Boswood and Henry C. Dozier.
Johnson's board was included in
the Omnibus bill when it passed
the house, but the senate calendar
committee later restored the
names of Messrs. Boswood and Do
zier. after around 300 Currituck
school patrons had registered a
strong protest with the commit
tee during the legislative session
at Edenton. Before the senate
could pass the bill with this
change in it, however, the bill had
to go back to the house for con
currence.
The bill went to the senate con
ference committee this afternoon
and a deadlock resulted when Sen
ator J. J. Hughes of Pasquotank,
held out against Johnson's nomi
nees. After Senator Hughes had
held the deadlock for several
hours, delaying adjournment in
so doing, the deadlock was brok
en by discharging the conference
committee and then appointing a
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Contractor Plans To
Boss Job By Phone
E. W. Grannis, contractor for
the construction of the Camden
Currituck short-cut, will transact
business from a bed in the Albe
marle hospital for a while as he
convalesces from an injury re
ceived yesterday morning while on
the job. A telephone will be in
stalled in his room to facilitate the
work, for, while his injuries are
not considered as serious he will
be forced to keep to his bed for
some time. Mr. Grannis was struck
on the back by a falling fragment
of tree stump which had been
blown into the air during blasting
operations.
t ? -\
Lop-Sided Art Explained
By Philadelphia Painter
s J
New York. March 23. ?(U.R)? I
Emlen Pope Etting, blond young ]
Philadelphia painter, had arty 1
folks of this village in a lather to
night over the question whether 1
pictures of apples, sausages, smok- 1
ed salmon and other bits of deli
catessen should be painted indoors ]
or outdoors. i
Practically all precedent favored i
doing them indoors until Mr. Et- ]
ting hung his pictures on the wall. '
They included, among others, a 1
slab of smoked salmon by the sea- .?
shore, a plate of cold cuts on the
desert and the picture of a young I
man wearing nothing but a pair i
of pants having cocktails with a I
young lady wearing nothing at
all. (
Mr. Etting explained the latter I
picture was not precisely "still I
life". I
"It's a state of mind," he said.
He explained he was merely do- I
ing to still-life what impression
ists did to nudes.
"They took them into the open <
air," he said. "They decided that 1
if a nude lady looked good in front <
of a -.slvet drape she vould lock 1
twice as good out in a meadow,
picking daisies or looking at the
brook.
"Cezanne was the first to do
that. I merely did to still-ilife what
he did to nude ladies."
He offered a picture called "Still
Life", in which a large slab of
smoked salmon on a lop-sided
dish on a lop-sided table with a
top-sided glass of milk beside it,
was taken out to a lop-sided ocean
with a lop-sided sailboat on a lop
sided horizon.
"I decided keeping these things
indoors made them too stuffy, just
is keeping nudes indoors was stuf
fy."
That brought up the question
af the young lady and her boy
friend. Mr. Etting was asked why
the young man was wearing
pants.
"Then," lie was asked, "why isn't
ihe lady wearing pants?"
Mr. Etting smiled discreetly.
"The picture." he said, "is an
iriginidaioment. It is something
[ remember. But there is nothing
iriginal about it. Hasn't everyone
:scu ux lo.e?"
K
London Told Troops
Will Remain In
Spanish War
Addresses 250,000
Takes Advantage of Fascist
Anniversary to Broad*
east His Rage
Rome, March 23.?(U.P.)?Premier
Benito Mussolini, defying the na
tions of Europe in a fiery speech
celebrating the 18th birthday of
Fascism, today brought Italy to
the brink of an open break with
England.
U Duce, shouting to 250,000
blackshirt Fascists massed in
Venice Square to "remember and
prepare yourselves," denounced
Great Britian in angry terms.
While he berated the British his
ambassador to London, dapper
Dlno Grandi, informed the inter
national non-intervention com
mittee that Italy refuses absolu
tely to discuss recall of Italian vol
unteers fighting with Rebel armies
in Spain.
Won't Leave Spain
Grandi, whose announcement
burst upon the neutrality com
mittee with the shock of an ex
plosion, said it was his "personal
opinion" that not a single Italian
soldier would leave Spain until the
civil war is ended.
The number of Italians serving
with the Spanish insurgents has
been variously estimated at be
tween 60,000 and 80,000.
Lord Plymouth, chairman of the
non-intervention sub-committee in
London, characterized Grandi's
statement as "extremely serious"
and said he would consult with
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Chrysler And
Lewis To Meet
With Governor
Scene of Labor Battle Is
Removed to Lansing
at Murphy's Call
Lansing, Mich., March 23.?(U.R)
?Gov. Prank Murphy will sub
mit three specific plans for set
tlement of the Chrysler Corp.,
strike tomorrow when John L.
Lewis and Walter P. Chrysler
meet him here for a face-to-face
conference on a controversy in
volving 60,000 workers and $50,
000,000 worth of property.
Murphy completed plans to
night for bringing Lewis, chair
man of the committee for indus
trial organization, and Chrysler,
head of the big automobile con
cern, to the same table where
he persuaded capital and labor to
sign a truce in the Oeneral Motors
strike.
Three Proposals
The governor declined to say
what the procedure would be, fatut
from other sources it was learned
that three definite plans would be
offered to Lewis and Chrysler. The
greatest secrecy was maintained
concerning the proposals, and the
concrete terms were unknown. In
Detroit, however, it was reported
that one of them might be along
the lines of the General Motors
settlement.
That gave the United Automo
bile Workers sole bargaining rights
for six months in plants where
(Continued on Page Three)
Massachusetts Is
Against the Child
Labor Amendment
Boston, March 23.?(U.R)?The
Massachusetts House of Repre
sentatives late today voted. 188 to
13. against ratification of the
Child Labor abendment.
The vote came on a motion to
substitute the controversial meas
ure for an adverse report by the
legislative committee on consti
tutional law.
The report "leave to withdraw"
then was accepted and the resolu
tion was killed for this session of
the legislature. It was the 13th
time that Massachusetts legisla
tors had refused to ratify the
measure.