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I a o etota ; ;i. roleigb n c ; 'rr-rrl THE . DAILY INDEPENDENT ?. ?" ^_ 1908 combined with the INDFPFwnFNT 4 WFFKi v pomn 1 1 * ? -i- ^ >l | i , independent, a weeku established by w. 0. saunders in 1908 1936 west w,nos and fair weather monday. ? - - march 29, 1937 am* .t mgm, a.,. ?. c.. single copy 5 cents ilehels Charge 800 4 ericans Joined 1 L oya lis A rmy * ( ro. i rench Fron ;vs !)e Llano ;.i :_-j!o Speech :ing Boat \ ii (iuptured ?'!; !i> ""JlUlirglc ( t)ast v.irch 28. ?(U.R)? Queipo de Llano, n the southern :arged tonight have crossed ??.or to join the broadcasting _ ? radio station d the volunteers nrans" but other id he referred to o United States. \!? i Numeration rbel general's fig rican volunteers arded here as an some credence .:';? in view of dis :'ro::i Port Vendres. ? 11 Americans and - - ore arrested when C a-: Guard Vessel La . a fishing smack at muggle 25 volunteers 7. croup. in addition to the and Canadians, ui > . ti Irish. Roumanian . ..ni recruits oound for . yaust battlefronts. I". S. Passports v re described as carrying A. r. passports, however. . rt described the leader a> Jc. Ballet, who .r. V. and. O.. in 1917. Canadians F: no;-, authorities to in France aboard the - Que r. Mary and He de a rone from Le ;rg to Nar - .. cy auto bus to the ntirr.iva r. ? .re Three) Vi orlil Textile Meelins* Soon C7 In \\ ashinsilon C7 t.niiilitioii* In In.iu-try to B< NuWmmI V ith \ iew 1 c} Maiiflanlization . .. Ml J *r ? . to im for 14. . iaborers will ;?.oncer" world e opening here r.te i.-> expected to ncivoik for possible a'-reements estab 'rsul hour and wage :c industry. A 40 i the major ob- J cf U. S. leaders. From Many Nations ?s of the score of nations will, of social problems ?"? fierce world competi- j ir.ake recommendations i national labor confer at Geneva in June, j ... preliminary ses .vere called by the in- | .. labor organization at t. f John G. Winant. Social Security board j ? ho was a delegate to One-.,-, conference in 1936. expected to represent I'nrr.'T.t at the sessions. World Survey '. ?"will base their exhaustive survey of xti.e industry prepar 'CoctniUfd on Page Three) "(hut In Virginia bare I* all room Tonight at Nine :vcnt that has been : -i ,'cd here for the will be held tonight :oom of the Virginia ! where Don Barters 11 provide the music ponsored by the Jun : club for the benefit Milk Fund. is expected to be one and mast largely dances ever held here. ?? -m at nine o'clock New Aork Has A Mysterious Triple Killing Mother, Daughter a n d a i Boarder Found Slain in An Apartment New York. March 28.?(U.R>? j Ponce tonight questioned the es tranged husband of Mrs. Mary Gedeon. 54, after Mrs. Gedeon. her 20-year-old daughter and a board er. Prank Byrns, 35. were found dead m Mrs. Gedeon'*s mid-town apartment. The daughter. Veronica, a beau- j tiful ash-blonde, was lying on a bed. her body stripped of clothing, j and the mother, fully dressed, was j under the bed. Both apparently had been strangled. Two rooms away the body of the boarder was found. His brain had been pierced by a needle-like instrument which had been driven several times through one ear. Joseph Gedeon. the husband, j was questioned by police after he told detectives he visited the apartment today, accompanied by j a married daughter, Mrs. Ethel j Kudner. 30 .and her husband, i Joseph Kudner. He had been separated from his j wife several months, police said, but apparently was on friendly terms with his family. The three found the bodies when they arrived at Mrs. Gedeon's j apartment for a dinner engage- j ment. Byrns. in his underclothes, lay in the room he rented. His hands were clenched tightly before his C Continued on Page Three) Victim of Camden Cutting Affray In Norfolk Hospital John Gray of Portlock. Va.. who < was given emergency treatment at the Albemarle hospital early Sat urday morning for a knife wound received at the Elizabeth City J country club dance, is reported to , have been taken to St. Vincents I hospital. Norfolk, for further I treatment. Several stitches were j taken at the local hospital to close the wound which Gray charges \ was inflicted by Eddie Hicks, Mill dam resident. He later returned to his home j m Portiock but entered the Nor- I folk institution after his condition took a turn for the worse. Hicks was arrested Saturday j was lodged in the Camden coun- i ty jail. It was he who was arrested several weeks ago on a charge of assaulting Edwin "Pinkey" Fere- j bee at a dance hall on North Road ?street. He is a brother of Billy ' Hicks who was arrested here last ! week after a LaSalle car which he was driving was found to contain ; liquor cans. N Lindy Goes In for Millinery V ' THIS exclusive and unusual picture shows Col. Charles A. Lindbergh tuning up his airplane at Bombay. India, and wearing a hat, wmch is unusual for him. During their air tour of southern European and African countries. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh dodged cameras as much as possible. The hat is a sun helmet. Ilising C oslsi Brings Co-Op Idea To Fore Many Organized During Depression; Priees Are INol Yet at Peak Washington, March 28?(U.R>? The steadily rising cost of living has given sharp impetus to the growth of cooperative associations in which consumers band together to combat increasing prices through mass purchases of essent ial every-day commodities, reports to government departments indi cated tonight. Spawned during the depression by workers and professional men eager to stretch to the limit drasti cally reduced earnings, the con sumer co-operative movement has spread so rapidly that the U. S. Department of Labor, at the re quest of anxious retail merchants, is making its first extensive sur vey of the situation. Larger Agencies * Questionnaires have been sent to more than 3.000 cooperatives including farm and consumer un (Continued on Page Three) Colorado Miners Are Rescued From Ca vein Golden. Colo., March 28. ?<U.R) ?Three miners were rescued to day after being imprisoned for 19 hours by a cavein of a clay mine. The men?Roy Towles, W. J. Foreman and Pete Bauler? were saved by crews of fellow miners who toiled through the night and into Easter Sunday. The entombed men. clothed only in light overall jumpers, suffered only from exposure. They had re ceived a dozen frankfurters and some coffee that was slid down a steel pipe driven through the thousands of pounds of muck and timbers blocking the sloping '?drift". I/enrik Van Loon Won t Dispute W Minister Doesn't t hink Either Party Won hi Change Opinion After Debate New York. March 28. ?(U.R)? Henrik Willem Van Loon, author and artist, abruptly decided -to night that he was "a tired man" ? much too tired to debate evolu tion with an Indiana Baptist preacher, even for the worthy cause of buying two chimpanzees for the Indianapolis zoo. Thus there vanished the possi bility that there might be anoth er Dayton, Tenn., incident, anoth er cause celebre to determine whether monkeys are human or vice versa. The Rev. Verdi Allen, pastor of the Beech Grove Baptist church, Indianapolis, said that Van Loon's book "The Story of Mankind" was being used in Beech Grove schools. He suggested a debate. Van Loon replied: "If the reverend to whom I ex tend my cordial Easter greetings is willing to provide me with cre dentials showing him to be a com petent student of anthropology and that, oratorically speaking, he is not a disciple of Father Cough lin. I am willing to go to Indiana and discuss the matter of man's (Continued on Pags Three) Records Show 2,468 Employes For Pasquotank j This County Has More On List Than Rest of the Albemarle Combined According to records compiled : for 1936 in the office of the North i Carolina Unemployment Compen sation commission in Raleigh, Pasquotank county has more em ployes than all the other counties of northeastern North Carolina taken together. For this county there are 52 establishments listed, with a total of 2.468 employes. Camden coun ty, incidentally, is the only coun ty in the state that lists no estab lishments and no employes com ing under the unemployment com pensation act. Employers of less than eight workers are not under the act but may voluntarily come under it, and thus give the protection larg er employers are required to give their workers of an assured in come during unemployment thru i (Continued ca Page Threes j Texans Hole! Services On School Site Ten Thousand Observe Easter Where Children Died In Terrific Blast r ? New London. Tex., March 28.? (U P)?Ten thousand Texans mass- j ed on a hillside at the ruins of the New London school today in j an Easter memorial service for the j more than 400 victims of a gas explosion. Hardened oil field workers wept during the services in which Gov. James V. Allred spoke by radio and President and Mrs. Roosevelt sent an expression of their sym pathy. A huge cross of carnations was dedicated over the ruins of the school's manual training room where it was believed the explos ion originated. Luther McClure, a surviving member of the school's football team accepted the cross, a gift from the Junior Red Cross of America. Four Clergymen Four clergmen offered prayer at the service, and Allred's address urged that all dedicate themsel ves to providing greater safety for children in the future. "Let us dedicate ourselves to day to the task of making our schools and highways safe for children," he said. "Men can bear their burden. Always they walk between life and death. But who could expect the stunning blow that fell upon the laughter of lit tle children? No tragedy save that of the cross has so stricken hu manity." Word From The President The President's message saia: "I mourn with all those who to day grieve for the victims of the awful tragedy whose horror spread sadness over all the land. To the grief stricken parents and to all upon whom the weight of this dispensation falls with such crush ing force, I offer an assurance of sincere sympathy in which Mrs. Roosevelt joins." The crowd was so quiet that oc casional weeping and sobs could be heard all over the red sandy hill side during lulls in the radio program. Scores of observers took their grief back to the privacy cf their automobiles from where they could hear as well. Two Popular Local Couples In Double Wedding Sat. Night A double wedding of much lo cal interest took place Saturday night at the home of the Rev. W. D. Morris, at 8:30 o'clock, when Miss Elizabeth White became the bride of Bennie Halstead and Miss Beatrice Sawyer became the bride of Leland 'Bingham) Halstead. The ring ceremony was used. Mrs. Bennie Halstead was at tired in a navy ensemble with navy accesseries. She wore red roses and lilies of the valley. She is the charming daughter of Mrs. Mamie Blow .and popular ticket seller at the Carolina Theatre box office. Mrs. Leland Halstead was at tired in a navy lacc ensemble with gray accesseries. She also wore red roses and lilies of the valley. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Sawyer of Camden county. The couples will be at home at the Southern Hotel after a short ft adding trip. ^ lurphy Is' Confident Of P eace Lewis Returns tt> New York; His Subordi nates in Charge j Sunitay Meeting Frankcnstsc:i, Martin and I Pressman Will Carry On Negotiations Lsning. Mich.. March 23.?(J.R) John L. Lewis sped to New York tonight after he had instructed ? uoordinates to carry on negotia tions with Wa ter P. Chrysler in j efforts to settle the Chrysler cor I pcraticn strike that has made 63, 000 workers idle and tied up $50, 000.0C0 worth of property. An Easter Sunday conference between the labor leader and the millionaire motor car manufac turer brought new hopes that the strike, three weeks old tomorrow, would bo settled before Lewis re- i turns to Lansing after negotiating new wage and hour agreements with Appalachian coal operators, whose agreements with the United j Mine Workers expires on March 31. Gov. Frank Murphy, who sue- i ccssfully negotiated the recent General Motors strike, appeared confident that a settlement of current difficulties was in Ine off ing. "Progress is being made and there is hope for an early agree-; mcnt," the red-haired governor explained. "Incidentlly, we will be in constant communication with Mr. Lewis." As he spoke, the chief of the Committee for Industrial Organi zation was speeding to Detroit in the automobile of Oscar G. Olan der. commissioner of the Michi gan state police. He was to board a Michigan Central train for New ; York City at 7:17 p m. Before he left, he called into ' conference Homer Martin, inter national president of the United Automobile Workers; Richard T. Frankensteen, the union's organi zational director and the man who planned the Chrysler strike, and Lee Pressman, CIO attorney, to lay before them his strategy for continuation of the strike negotia tion meetings. Frankensteen and Pressman | will be Lewis' official substitutes i at tomorrow's conference which | reconvenes at 11 a. m.. while Mar tin will be called upon for advice j whenever his views are desired. Local Girl Is In The Norfolk Gen. Hospital Miss Evelyn Hill and John J Thomas Morris In An Auto Accident Miss Evelyn Hill, daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Hill of East Burgess Street, this city, was unconscious in Norfolk General hospital late last night as a'-result of an injury sustained in an automobile accid ent near Great Bridge, Va., late lesterday afternoon. Miss Hill, who is a laboratory technician in Norfolk General hos pital, was on her way here with a party of friends when the accid ent occurred. Meager details were available, but it was understood here last night that John Thomas Morris, of this city, who was driving, lost control of the car on a curve and the car left the highway and struck a tree. Five of the six occupants of the car were reported to be in the hospital last night. Morris' injuries were not serious so far as could be learned. The extent of Miss Hill's injur ies was not known at a late hour last night, but it was surmised that she possibly had a fractured skull. She was formerly connected with the Albemarle hospital here but has been in Norfolk for over a year. She was one of the numer ous nurses dispatched to the flood area this winter. Gangster A rrested In Mexico for U.S. Mexico City, March 28.?(U.R)? A man variously described as a "Cuban gangster" and a "New York racketeer" was held on open charges by police tonight for HuKcci States authentic*. [ Leaders of Auto Workers J Ai ixIGHT is Homer S. Martin, fiery president of the Automobile i Workers cf America, who told a huge Detroit crowd that city hall > and the police would respect community rights or "we'll turn them wrongside up." At left is Richard T. Frankensteen. CIO organizer. Mr. Martin, former clergyman, urged workers to vcte tcgethsr. ] E.C.H.S. Boys To Get Course They'll Like Y/i;l Ltiarn to Buthl Plane Models; An Experi ment Course Instructions in plane-modeling, as a preliminary step leading to the addition of shop work in the school curriculum, will be intro duced to interested boys in the Elizabeth City high school tomor row, according to Superintendent Edgar E. Bundy. There will be two classes each day, one in the morn ing and one in the afternoon. Os car Williams, buildings superin tendent. who has long made a study of the technical side of aviation and has actually built a plane, will be in charge of the clauses. "This is an experiment," said Superintendent Bundy," "and if it is successful, that is, if a number of boys take an interest in it and show some aptitude for the work, we will endeavor to carry the work out on a much larger -scale nexc term. "There are a number of boys in the school who never intend to go (Continued on Page Three) Five Killed As Car Is Struck By Train Charlotte. March 23.?(U.R)?Five persons were killed when a -south bound passenger train struck the car in which they were riding at a grade crossing here today. The dead, all of Charlotte: Robert H. Clarkson, 42; his son, R. Brice Clarkson. 17: Mrs. Gertrude Walker, 30; her son, Joe Walker, 10: L. V. Hawley, 28. Easter Parade Turned Out To Be Motorcade Chill .March Wind Kept Would-Be Promenadcrs In Closed Cars The Easter parade turned out to be a motorcade in Elizabeth City yesterday, as chilly March winds kept a majority of the would-be prcmcnaders off the sidewalks and in closed automo biles. There were a good many who braved the cold wind and strut ted their Easter finery along Main Street, but most of the promenad ing was done in automobiles rather than on foot. Many a pretty Easter frock was hidden yesterday beneath a coat. Easter dawned bright and clear and remained that way practically thruout, and but for the chill wind it would have been a beautiful and balmy spring day. The wind, how ever, was just cold enough to keep most of the would-be promenaders in cars or in coats. Judging from glimpes caught here and there on the streets and especially in the churches yester day morning, the 1937 Easter par ade in Elizabeth City would have been one of the most colorful in the city's history but for the chill wind. Many of the feminine sex who were deprived of an opportunity of promenading yesterday will have another opportunity to dis- | play their charms and their Easter corsages at the dance at the Vir ginia Dare hotel tonight. Today is being observed as a , holiday by the local banks, schools , ABC store and city offices. New York Easier Earailc j Tries Out Traffic Squad *_ ' Gladys Swarllioul, Beatrice Lillie and Father Divine Share the Honors New York, March 28. ?(U.R)? A quarter of a million New York ers turned out today in frigid weather to gawk at each qther's spring haberdashery and watch Bea Lillie, Gladys Swarthout and Father Divine take turns tangling up the Easter parade. Miss Lillie, riding in a coach and-four? the first gentleman horses to trot down Fifth Avenue since pre-war dayc?turned in the be. t job of traffic blocking in the silk hat belt, but the day's honors went to Father Divine, Harlem's Negro "God". The bald, beady-eyed prophet of "peace", riding in a limousine with a stuffed duck mounted on the radiator, led 15.000 devotees through mid-Manhattan and , nearly threw his followers into > hysterics by getting lost. A cquad of Manhattan mounted ; (Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club 7:30 Pocahontas; VV. O. W.: Kiwanis Junior Glee Club. Library Hours: 10-12. 2-6. v 1 Mother Kills Babes; And Self When No 1 Easter Card Comes! t Took Children to Church , for Baptism Before Tak ing Their Lives , / Aurora, 111., March 28.?(U.R)? - Mrs. Jeanette Martin, 28, dressed her three small children in Easter finery today, took them to church where they were baptized, brought c them back home and strangled : them. She hanged herself. I Police believed the mother was ( mentally unbalancd due to the ab- r sence on Easter of her husband, reported to be in Texas, and be- ? cause lie had not sent the children an Easter card. c The bodies were found in the 5 family's small apartment tonight i by Mrs. Martin's mother, Mis. s Elsie Rober, and her sister. Mrs. E. J. Smith, who went to the home ? to visit. ? The children. Betty, 3. Olga. 2 t and Joan, 3 months, still dressed ? in their new clothes, were lying i side by side on a bed. The body of 11 Mrs. Martin, who hanged herself i from a light fixture with a clothes line. was found in the living room. < Police said marks on the chil- t ; < (Continued cn Page Tlnee) ,: I AFLHead Disavows Sit-Down William Green De nounces Tactics of Rivals Dangers To Labor Such Methods Invite En actment of Restrictive Legislation Washington, March 28.?(U.R)? President William Green of the American Federation of Labor to night condemned the sit-down strike as "illegal", warned sharp ly that it would bring "perman ent injury" to trade unionism and called upon workers to disavow it as an economic weapon. In a statement making public for the first time the federation's position on sit-down strikes, Green said bluntly that they would not be supported by public opinion and ultimately would force enactment of legislation providing for com pulsory arbitration, incorporation of labor unions and other "re pressive" laws. Disavows Sit-down "I therefore publicly warn labor against this illegal procedure," he said. "Both personally and offi cially I disavow the sit-down strike as a part of the economic and organization policy of the American Federation of Labor." Qreen's statement coincided with publication of an analysis by the legal department of the Nat ional Association of manufactur ers holding the sit-down strike to be "illegal." The analysis was made, the association said, after Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins publicly had stated that the "sit-down strike has not yet been proved to be illegal." Can't Intervene The federation's position on the sit-down strike was made public by Green fewer than 24 hours af ter President Roosevelt had con ferred with congressional leaders on industrial problems created by sit-downers. Senate majority lead (Continued on Page Three) Sit-Downers Warned Away By Gov. Hoey Pledges Whole Power of the State to Maintain Or der and Protect Rights Raleigh, March 28. ?(U.R)? La bor organizers planning to union ize the textile industry, including North Carolina's 604 mills, today considered Gov. Clyde R. Hoey's warning that sit-down strikes "will not be tolerated" in the state. The North Carolina governor, reviewing labor legislation of the 1937 general assembly in an ad dress last night, said: "Men would have no more right to sit down ina mill and refuse to /acate than an employer would nave to go into a labor union hall md refuse to let the unionists nold a meeting." He said workers had the right ;o work and bargain individually, is well as collectively, and pledged he "whole power of the state" to naintain order and "protect the ights of all the people." F. H. Jeter To Speak To Currituck H.D.A.'s Wednesday, March 31 F. H. Jeter Agricultural Editor, >f State College, will be the prin ipal speaker at the Spring meet ng of the Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs in Currituck "ounty, in Memorial Church Cur ?ituck, Wednesday, March 31st. The meeting will open at 10:30 i. m. The subject of Mr. Jeter's ad iress will be "The People and The Soil." a theme which ho employed n an address at Central High last ipring. Mr. Jeter is a pleasing speaker md as agricultural editor at state College, he has absorbed a vorld of knowledge of agriculture md rural economics which he has ?educed to a workable philosophy vhich he expounds entertainingly ind convincingly. Miss Virginia Edwards, home iemonstration agent for Currituck rredicts a great turning out of Mub members and civic leaders for ..Li. Jct?r s wednevda/.