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E'-'2ABETH C1TY- N- C- THURSDAY. .MARCH 25. 19.37 .? a. c., snir, r
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1(7/rysler And Lewis Reach Truce In Labor War
German Shock Troops
Replace The Italians
?Stem Tide of Loyalist
? Drive In the Span
I ish Civil War
I Moors Help Also
? Kn :n li !>;s?a.'ii?i?> Credited
I With important Part in
I (ioM-riiiin'iit - \ ietorv
? anco - Spanish |
I German i
I the Mad- I
I . e Italian units
B treat angered |
B ihssimo. Francis
B : tonight
?tesxtec a Loyalist drive
I 7. d. according to j
I replaced the I
? - practically the entire |
I lalajara front
I ::: C:: Ma ezodo. 54
I (icrman Air Forces
I V,.:: ... .need that its :
I : Julio Alvarez
I jeen infomed that :
I .wrland.
I -..route across the
I in Spain.
I rder police and agents
I utrality
.r..T.: " >a;d they had no news
B ilists car- ,
? ':h.e air today j
? ns. most
B r.i'.iv.anr-.r. v.-?:-. killed and
? ' of 40 in
m plc:i> -???? over the
: Guaaala;ara. 37 miles J
I * Via rind r. \>> Arazon road. |
I A u ; nnr. ir.ique said
I whirlwind,
I "ones of the last i
I ?. we been i
Ifulslcad And
lluiilic- l;ound
Bus\ Session
\r|ioii and Litllo
Friction < Juiraeterizod
(.rneral Vvcinbly
I ? v >;qi: of the General
with its
a minimum of friction
. according
' ' s ?or- W. I. Hal
: S ,? m..;> and J. J
City.
- i a harsh word
-;on." said Senator
- who was attending his
st .-.or., and I was told by
- v.at there was less de
ar. a* r.y session that they
distinguished
T- bv oitter-end stand in
k board of education
.i.r out for the nomi
o- members who had
P-it r. m nomination by the
' it ounty. The opposi
r the conference
which the senator
itinueG on Page Six)
Hope For
Duchess of Bedford
-day. March 25.?
T-.v pieces of wreckage be
ll ' >? from the plane of the
Duchess of Bedford
n the North sea near
ram today, adding
? theory that she was
?kb in n crash at sea.
? icf was sent to Nor
? : e identification. It
naf an unidentified
no flying eastward
missing near Nor
Monday afternoon.
uat she still might be
nd vesterday after IOC
? Mr Force planes and 2.00C
: ? rs failed to find a
? duchess, who took
? - -'-M flight three days ago
Killed In the War Against Society
A GANG recently attempted a S30.000 fur robbery in the fur dis
trict of New York City. But before they couid escape with their loot,
police were after them. Two thieves were shot to death and four were
captured. The bodies of Joseph Epstein, foreground, and Julius Rich
man. leaders of the gang, are shown lying in the street.
European Nations
Form Rival Camps
Mussolini's Defiance
Causes Line-up of
Reds vs. Fascists
London. March 24.?<U.R>? The
nations of Europe, confronted by
a crisis more foreboding than any
in post-war times, suddenly spiit
into Communist and Fascist camps
tonight during an angry ression of
the international committee for
non-intervention in Spain.
The long-fermenting enmity be
tween Communist and Fascist
powers on the continent? fanned
1 by Premier Benito Mussolini's de
I fiant speech Tuesday to 250.000
Biackshirts in Rome?burst with
out warning on the neutrality
committee.
Russian Note
| Ivan MaLkv. Russian ambassa
; dor. appeared before a plenary
j session of the committee and pre
sented an official note from Mos
! cow asking that investigators be
sent to the battlegrounds ot
Spain to learn how many Italians
are fighting with the rebel armies.
It was time, he said, that the
committee checked up on the
whole ituation in Spain.
I The Russian note was a sharp
! answer to Mussolini, who sent his
1 ambassador to London. Dino
Grandi. before the committee yes
'Continued on Page Three)
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I
f \
Farley's Peace
Proves
Short-Lived
Microscope Discloses
Lee's Rank Is
Redneed
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Washington. March 24. ?<U.R>?
I Postmaster General James A. Far- |
ley found himself in the hottest |
Philatelic hot water of his career i
tonight?with a postage stamp
the experts claimed insulted Gen
eral Robert E. Lee.
Stamp collectors, southerners in
particular, besieged the post of
; fice department with demand.- for
; explanations of why the new
j stamp shows Lee in the uniform j
of an ordinary lieutenant colonel. |
instead of in a general's. Teh, tch,
j tech!
The post office department said
I somebody must have made a mis
i take at the bureau of engraving.
"Mistake, indeed!" retorted En
; graving Director Alvin W. Hall,
j "We made that stamp from a pho
I tograph of Gen. Lee, as furnished
1 by the post office department.
(Continued on Page Three)
r ? ??? >.
Chemist Turns Detective
To Solve Green Hair Case
\
New York. March 24. ?(U.R)?
Meyer Shulman's green hair.
! which for a while had some of the
| best scientific minds in s dither
' and the hair dressing business in
! a cold sweat, tonight proved to be
j just an old French Canadian cus
| torn.
Meyer, a stumpy little man of
I 51 who is extremely serious about
the color of his hair, appeared in
J a magistrate's court la-st February,
pointed to the top of his head and
; said:
I "Look."
[ There was no question about it.
It was green. Meyer said his hair
got that way after he plastered on
i it some sticky substance from a
) dime bottle of hair polish to make J
(j it straight.
i j He said it made his hair stiaight j
; I all right; but it also made it I
. green. Meyer thought it should be;
1
worth about $1,000 to have green
hair. iJw:.. *"
Judge Edwara A. Wynne said
the figure certainly sounded rea
sonable .and Meyer might have
got more if he had asked for it ?
providing he could prove the hair
polish was the cause of his trou
bles.
The hair polish company said
it would like to have its own ex
pert examine Meyer's hair, so he
bent over amiably while Dr. Jud
son C. Fisher went over his scalp
with a microscope.
"It's green, all right." Dr. Fish
er admitted. "Clear down to the
roots."
"You bet," said Meyer. He said
it had been that way since last
September when he bought the
hair polish.
I
(Continued cu Page Three)
Head Of
Grange Is
A W i tness
Taber and Princeton
President Oppose
Court Change
Four Requests
Thinks Administration Aid
ed Farmer But This INo
Answer to Problem
Washington. March 24.?(U.R)?
Tweedy, pipe-smoking president
H. W. Dodci-s of Princeton Univer
sity and bull-voiced Louis J. Ta
ber. Master of the National
Grange, denied today that there
is any national emergency requir
ing enlargement of the supreme
court membership such as Presi
dent Roosevelt proposes.
If any dangers exist in the pre
sent situation. Dodd maintained,
it is the danger that passage of
the president's bill under which
six new justices could be appoint
ed. would mark "the first step in
a trend" toward dictatorship such
as European nations have seen.
Helped Agriculture
Taber. praising the Roosevelt
administration for having done
"more for agriculture" than any
other in 25 years, nevertheless op
posed supreme court enlargement
on the ground that it raised the
"danger of making the court poli
tical and after all it is no solution
of the farmers' problems."
Dodds was the morning wit
ness before the senate judiciary
committee as opponents of Presi
dent Rcsevelt's bill continued their
attack. He concluded his testi
mony just before 1 p. m., and Ta
ber was called and asked to state
his name.
-Louis J. Taber. Master of the
National Grange. Columbus.
Ohio." he announced in a boom
ing voice. "I've got a statement to
read but it's now one o'clock and
farmers eat at one."
Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, D.,
Ariz., took the hint. He recessed
for luncheon and Taber began
reading his statement at the after
noon session.
Taber said his organization
sprang from the "graes roots. He
(Continued on Page Three)
[. In Hot Spot
NEW and nitherto un jublished
picture of President Albert Lsbrun
of F.-ance. M. Lebrun stands in
the center of vast unrest, as Fasc
ists and Communists clash repeat
edly in his country.
Resume Work
On Weeksville
RoadSoonNow
May Slart In Tivo Weeks;
Six Are Required to
Finish Job
After a lay-off of a little over
three months, work will probably
be resumed on the Weeksville road
in from 10 days to two weeks, it
was reported to this newspaper
last night.
Once work is resumed on the J
project, it can be completed in
approximately six weeks, which
will mean that the road will not
be finished before May 15. When
work was suspended in December i
it was stated that it would prob- 1
ably be resumed in March or j
April and that the road would be .
completed around May 1.
Approximately 5.5 miles of sand
asphalt had been laid on the road
prior to tfie time work was sus
pended in mid-December due to
adverse weather conditions. There !
are le.s than two miles of paving
yet to be laid. The unpaved por- j
tion of the road consists of half j
a dozen stretches varying in length j
from a few hundred feet to a I
thousand feet or more. Plank de- !
tours have taken motorists around
(Continued on Page Three)
I
Dieckhoff New
AmbassadorOf
Germany Here
i
Will Succeed Dr. Lullicr In
Washington; Not Mem
ber of Nazi Party
Berlin, Berch 24. ?(U.R>? Dr.
Haa~. Heinrich Dieckhoff, chub
by-cheeked state secretary of the
foreign office and one of a few
high government officials who are
not members of the Nazi party,
announced tonight that he will
arrive in the United States early
I in May as Adolf Hitler's new am
j bassador.
The 52-year-old Dieckhoff. who
I was counselor of the German em
bassy in Washington from 1922 to
1927. will succeed Dr. Hans Luther
who reportedly complained that
he is "fed up" with bearing the
i brunt of recent anti-Nazi inci
dents in the United States.
The U. S. government cabled
that Dr. Dieckhoff would be ac
ceptable and official announce
ment of the appointment proba
bly will be made as soon as Hit
ler returns from an Easter vaca
(Continued on Page Three)
Nineteen Diej
As Bus Burns
Alter Crashing
Only Five of Rollrr-Skat- j
ing Drrby Train Sur
vive Disaster
Salem. 111.. March 24.?(U.R)?
I Nineteen contestants in a roller
skating derby, onroute from St.
j Louis to Cincinnati, burned to
I death late today when the bus in
which they were riding overturn
ed and caught fire.
Five others were seriously in- [
jured, three so gravely that phy
sicians at the Salem Community
hospital feared they would not re
cover.
The accident occurred three
miles west of here when the bus
blew a front tire while crossing a
concrete bridge over a small creek
running through a valley. The
machine turned over on its side j
and burst into flames, trapping
most of the occupants.
No one witnessed the accident
but nearby motorists soon observ
ed the flames and notified au
thorities here who rushed all
available fire fighting and ambu
lance equipment to the scene.
The location of the bus in the
bridge, which permitted an ap
proach from only two directions,
handicapped fire fighters.
Richard Thomas of Chicago,
driver of the bus. was hurled
through the windshield. Four
others apparently seated in the
front near the driver, was rescued.
Survivors told authorities that
the bus "seemed to explode."
The motor was torn from the
framework and hurled clear of the
wreckage. The fire obviously en
veloped the entire bus instantly.
Four bodies, near the door, were
soon recovered. It was hours be
< Continued on Fage Three*
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
7:00 Sunrise service First
Methodist
8:30 Mens Christian Federation
P. M.
7:00 Local institute class at
First Christian
7:30 Red Men: Club Pack
scouts: Eastern Star;
Special services at City
Road
8:00 Special services at First
Christian, "Forgiveness."
| Library Hours: 10-12. 2-6
i
i
C. I. O. Head Agrees To
Evacuation Of Plants
Life In Army Not
AIwaysBed o'Roses
* 1
Especially If the Bed
Is Shared by In
compatibles
Ft. Bragg Scandal
Two Army Officers' Wives
Entertain Judge Meekins
and Spectators With Sen
sational and Vitrolic Tes
timony.
An Army scandal was aired here
yesterday afternoon when Col.
Richard C. Burleson, post execut
ive of the Fort Bragg military post,
was arraigned before U. S. Dis
trict Judge I. M. Meekins on a
charge of assau'.ting his wife, Mrs.
Mae Eurlescn, and striking her,
beating her, slapping her and lit
erally kicking her out of his quar
ters on the Fort Bragg reserva
tion on January 4, 1937.
Judge Meekins, who heard the
case in the capacity of a commit
ting magistrate, reserved decision
until the testimony could be trans
cribed so that he could study it.
He can decide only as to probable
cause, and should he find prob
able cause the case will bound over
to the U. S. District Court at Fay
etteville, for trial by jury,
Mrs. Burleson, a large, high
strung woman of more than usual
(Continued on Page Three)
Pope Pius To Send
Mexico Encyclical
Vatican City, March 24.?(U.R)?
Pope Pius XI. in his third vigor
ous encyclical in ten days, will
denounce the situation in Mexico
as the third of three major prob
lems confronting the Roman Ca
tholic Church, it was learned to
night.
The encyclical will be dated
Easter day and will follow those
attacking Communism, defending
labor's right to a living wage and
criticizing Germany for violating
the Vatican concordat of 1933.
Despite President Lazaro Car
denas' statement last Sunday that
there was no national religious
problem in Mexico, the papal en
cyclical reportedly will oppose his
stand.
Reckless Fool
Caught Alter
Hot Man Hunt
Captured by Officers After
Hair-Raising Ride In
Stolen Auto
A reckles; young daredevil who
stole an automobile here yester
day afternoon and wrecked it just
outside of town on the Newland
road after striking several auto
mobiles while careening madly out
North Road street was captured
near the Knobbs Creek dam short
ly after 6:00 p. m.. after an ex
citing man hunt.
The captive is one Lister White,
former resident of this city, who
has been living for the past sev
eral years in Norfolk and Phoebus,
Va., where he reputedly has been
engaged in the illicit liquor busi
ness. White, who is around 25
year sof age, is a brother of Mar
garet Elizabeth White who gave
the local police considerable trou
ble a few years ago.
Stole a Ford
White stole a 1936 Ford sedan
owned by Joe Winslow of 518 West
Main St., around 4:45 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, a few minutes
later he drove up to the Main and
Road streets intersection at a rap
id rate of speed and skidded the
Ford completely around. Straight
ening up. he headed out North
Road street. Motorcycle Officer
Walter Spcnce, who \Vas getting
a haircut at the New Southern
Hotel barber shop, saw him drive
past and jumped out of the bar
ber's chair, mounted his motorcy
cle, which was in front of the
barber shop, and gave chase.
Meanwhile, the Ford was car
eening back and forth at a dizzy
rate of speed. In front of the high
school it sideswiped a parked car
belonging to Moody Haskett of
Nixonton. In front of the Black
well Memorial Baptist church, the
Ford sideswiped another car be
longing to W. S. Chesson of Aga
wam Street and again -kidded
completely around. Just after
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Graham And Few Appeal
For A Dry Environment
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University and Duke Presi
dents Want Orange and
Durham to Ban Liquor
Stores.
4
Greensboro. March 24.?(U.R)?A
joint statement was issued today
by the presidents of Duke Univer
sity and the University of North
Carolina asking Durham and
Orange counties to remain dry to
guard students from the influence
of whiskey.
Durham votes on the liquor is
sue April 27. Voting time has not
been set in Orange.
President Frank P. Graham of
the University of North Carolina
and Dr. W. P. Few. head of Duke
University, issued the statement at
the request of the Rev. Dr. M. T.
Plyler of Durham, co-editor and
manager of the North Carolina
Christian Advocate.
The statement said, in part:
"We strongly hope the people of
Durham and Orange counties will
realize their double responsibility
for both universities and will not
add official liquor stores to the in
fluences which damage the phy
sical. intellectual and spiritual de
velopment of the young people
I who come with high hopes to
j Duke University and the Universi
ty of North Carolina."
The presidents pointed out that
' several thousands of students at
j tend full and summer session.
I while athletic contests draw many
j thousands more.
(Continued on Page Three)
i
Mother-Daughter I
Banquet Enjoyed
At Central High
Approximately KM) Pres
ent; Rev. While Main
Speaker of Evening
One of the finest and most en
joyable such affairs ever held in
this county was the Mother
Daughter Banquet at Central high
school last night, or at lea.C tuch
was the opinion of some who at
tended.
Principal speaker of the evening
was Dr. J. L. White, pastor of
Blackwell Memorial Baptist
church, who spoke to both the
mothers and the potential moth
ers present on the .subject of
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Musick Blazes The
New Zealand Trail\
Alameda Airport, Almcda, Cal?
March 24. ?'U.R)? Pan-American
Airways extended its commercial
aviation service across the equa- i
tor tonight when its trail-blazing
Clipper landed at Pago Pago in
American Samoa.
The landing completed the third
leg of Capt. Edward C. Musick's
exploratory flight over a new
Honolulu-New Zealand air line
1 route. ;
Continue Conference
As Soon As Strik
ers Leave
A Return Pledge
Company Will Not Remove
Any Machinery Pend
ing a Settlement
Detroit, March 24. ? (U.R)?
Strike captains in nine Chrysler
plants issued calls for caucuses
to sit-downers tonight in pre
paration for a vote to decide
whether to ratify or reject the
truce made at Lansing.
Lansing. Mich., March 24.?(U.R)
John L. Lewis and Walter P.
Chrysler reached a truce tonight
in a 17-day strike that had closed
nine Chrysler Corp.. plants and
thrown 60,000 persons out of
work.
Face to face in Gov. Frank Mur
phy's office, the chairman of the
committee for industrial organiza
tion and the head of the automo
bile concern agreed to continue
their ? conferences provided sit
down strikers were out of all
Chrysler plants by 10 a. m. to
morrow. Lewis said he would ask
the 6,000 sit-downers to disperse.
Return Agreement
In return, Chryalir agreed that
no attempt would be made to re
sume the production of automo
biles in the nine plants and that
no tools, dies or machinery would
be removed from them. ?
The truce came after eight and
and half hours of negotiations
around the same table at which
Gov, Murphy was able to bring
about a settlement in the General
Motors strike.
Lewis came out of the confer
ence with his hair rumpled and
a tired expression on his face, but
he apparently was pleased with
the truce.
"Our representatives," he said,
"will at once ask the men in the
plants to comply with this ar
frvmt.inupd on Page Three)
Believe Stolen
Auto Intended
To Haul Liquor
Police Think Car Wan to
Pinch-Hit for
LaSalle
That the V-8 Ford stolen late
yesterday afternoon by one Joshua
White alias Lassiter, was stolen
for the purpose of hauling a load
of illicit liquor into Virginia was
the theory advanced in police cir
cles here last night.
Local officers yesterday morn
ing stopped an old LaSalle with
Virginia license plates to test its
brakes. In the rear of the car
they spotted nine five-gallon tin
containers such as are generally
used in hauling moonshine liquor.
They took the car and containers
to headquarters.
The driver of the car was one
Billy Hicks, formerly a resident
of Camden county but lately of
Phoebus. Va. With him was White,
who told police his name was
Lassiter.
Last night when Hicks called at
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Dust Storm Sweeps
Southwest States
Kansas City, Mo.. March 24. ?
(U.R)?Blinding dust churned in the
western dust bowl tonight and
spilled out over the greening fields
of neighboring states in tawny
clouds.
Tons of silt and sand tore at
adjacent sections of Texas. Okla
homa. Kansas and Colorado on a
50-mile an hour wind which cut
into fields like a giant abrasive.
This year's dust bowl includes
the three Oklahoma counties mak
ing up that state's "panhandle",
four adjacent northwestern Okla
homa counties. 22 counties of the
Texas panhandle, three north
western New Mexico counties,
four southeastern Colorado units
and those Kansas counties in the
western part of the state lying
south cf the Arkansas rher.