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I I-] j ? t ^ J.*S l? f o t"y Raleigh N C ^ilc~ The Daily Independent , ?- ?~ 1908 rOMRINFn with tuo . uTTinir ? ? JL J-L 1 J?1 il 1 _1_ easterly winds and partly overcast '.. ==?=-? " fHE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN ions 10,n weath" Wednesday. ' II Ni> JO I (?t3l NO. 1 db Published Kret '?-v *-*Trr,,f ^ VI . "? .Icept SnnJty by The InJepeiulent Publishing Cu ^^._____?__ ? ? lh""X" FH^TH CTY. N. C. WTO1)av, march 24 ,?,7 ~^.a.c.. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS ?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 (Continued on Page Three) 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 (Continued on Fa^e Three) 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 (Continued on Page Three) j 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 (Continued on Page Three) 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 (Continued on Page Three) 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.