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Tnr FlATTV TTVT^FPFTVmFlMT -"sssr -Ssrisss- IIUj PaILI illULllLl^l/ijli 1 sraswsssss ? 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 uon and fair weather Tuesday. vol .Vx. t'uM"":"t! Cu- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1937 ^77 the poslofflce it Ellubcth City, N. C.. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS . ??? ??_ ' * u ucoitd cliis mliter. \o More Si 1-0 own S 1 v i k e s ? j)i0v ^;-.ys Lewis Has Is^rod Instructions Airr.inst Them Sourer IsWithheld ( 1 Claims Gov ! J- Sufficient ?.t?;hori!> Now y ? Vfiiv. March 29.?(U.R*? j.i. v.: head of the com riiUt." industrial organiza ron .trn-iht uivlined to con . .. report from \\ :i ' -'t he had udvts ... ;.t :mis to discontinue ' .;s a weapon of industrial warfare. 23.?ili.P>_ - -? D. Tex.. said a L. La wis had in ks C I O. lieutenants to : st rikes and ? .. ? a had been commu ?: -aient Roosevelt. : a.-lmg upon them C : . ?. .. :1 make public .-.heady have done se v ' D:> said. j TVxaas had stated Earlier . Roosevelt h.as suf :... ncy power to sup : -a: :i strikes, despite to the contrary made : labor Frances Per r.ate ma'ority leader 7 1-1 .a-on. D Ark. Vv ."Us Investigation author or a resolution . ???::. -stonal invest ? -c- :. strikes look : -o ... remedial leg I a He said today that if re is any question about Mr. H. authority to intervene 'Continued on page five) Cii\ Lleciion Six "A eeks Off; No Candidates !.! '.ion Ma% ! 11 No Hats lias." Bern i liroo 11 111 the Kini: to Date municipal nly six k ff not sne candidal has : ? ? >ssed his into p >iit it... :.a. but announcements are expected to . ; -. ::: :*another "ek cr two. y a tw ? r three can - make their announce r. nt as eariy as March, but most ? r. . ? about 30 days election date before fil anciidacies. The election ? -fcor.ci Tuesday in . fall on May 11 "ear. . - hat Mayor Jer i. who has served in 1927. will be a ??? : -election. It is "hat all incumbent m n v ill be candidates "r"i them elves. ? council is ccm Nixon and Tom Bos C. M. Griggs and econd ward: Wiley rsejr Sav.ver. third W. Overman and = "tier... fourth ward. r ' ; unlock Dies ' Her Dome Here CVmtock. aged 63. . on Colonial ave.. o yesterday after band. William P. e is survived by a Comstock: five sis Anna Hancock. Mrs. Mrs. Julia Whidbec City. Mrs. Sophie Mr- Edith Dillon of brothers. Monroe I Mm Twiddy of Eliz :.t her mother. Mrs ' :-ir:y of Columbia. ' rvices will be held ne at 4 o'clock this ^ Hi Force Vote On \'Hi-Lynching Bih ' March 29. ?(UR>? : the house, rebellim of the Democratii ?'i sidetrack anti-iynch ? 'i".o tonight complete* n v Inch will force tin 1.ii -.sue to a vote oi Master of the Grange J THIS interesting picture shows Louis G. Taber, Master of the Na tional Grange, in a heated gesture as he testified in opposition to President Roosevelt's court reorganization plan. The testimony was given before the Senate Judiciary committee in Washington. Drainage Disi. Assured Of At Least $8,000 That Murh Relief Already Promised; Halstead Hope?- for More Plans axe now m progress j I whereby landowners in Newland , Drainage District No. 1 in this j I county may soon receive consider- ! ! able relief from their drainage as- i sessments. it was disclosed yester- j day by State Senator W. I. Hal- i stead, who endeavored to procure , such relief by legislative enact- j i ment during the session of the General / ssembly which adjourn ed last week. Mr. Halstead introduced a bill in the State Senate asking that the State Highway & Public j Works Commission take over the ! outstanding bends of the drainage district, inasmuch as dredging of . the drainage ditches had provided , the roadbed for the Acorn Hill road. The bill did not pass, but the committee hearing on it did draw the attention of the highway commission to its moral obligation to the drainage district landown ers. The upshot of it all was that before Senator Halstead left Ral eigh to return here. Chairman Capus M. Waynick of the State Highway & Public Works com mission authorized him to offer : the drainage district landowners a contribution of $8,000 toward i Continued on Page Five) Many Executed For Plot Against Franco ? . , I Hendaye. Franco - Spanish Frontier. March 29.?'U.Ri?Plots against the life of the Spanish Rebel dictator, Francisco Franco, have resulted in the firing-squad executions of nearly 100 soldiers as an aftermath of scattered out croppings of revolt in his armies frontier reports said tonight. The most serious uprising was J reported from Morocco?where Franco's rcvoluiion was born last July. Fifty conspirators were exe | cuted there. Slarl Tearing Down Eyesore On Riv erside Old Shipyard Shed Is Be-' ing Demolished; Will Be j Great Improvement Work of demolishing Elizabeth City's Public Eyesore No. One?the unsightly shed on the old Willey shipyard property on Riverside ? got underway yesterday, to the immcn.e relief of all beauty-con scious and civic-minded Elizabeth Citizens. Approximately a third of the shed roof was taken off yester day. and the entire structure prob ably will have vanished within a week or so. Once the shed is out of the way. the piece of property on which it stands is to be leteled and beau tified by the Elizabeth City Iron Work; and Supply company, which bought the property in De cember from the Willey heirs. After the shed has been torn down and the property leveled off. shipyard officials plan to erect a clubhouse on the property for visiting yachtsmen. One addition al yacht pier jutting out into the river from the newly-acquired property i.; now nearing comple tion. and one or two more piers will probably be added a little la- ! ter. When the program of improve ment is completed, the local wa terfront. from the shipyard to the hospital, will present a vLta of considerable beauty. Meanwhile, the removal of the old shed alone will make a wonderful improve ment in the appearance of the wa terfront. Two Army Men Die In Crash of Plane March Field. Cal.. March 29.? (UP'?The incinerated bodies of Lieut. Robert C. Love, 26. and Pri vate Emory J. Parson:, 23. were found late today in the wreckage of an Army "fighter", which crashed in the San Bernardino mountains late Saturday night. Both flyers had been killed in stantly by the impact before the exploding engine ignited the wreckage, searchers reported. ? N While House Egg Roiling I Draws Huge Crowds Washington. March 29. ?(U.RJ? : President Roosevelt confided to part of the 53.180 cheering par . ents and children that participat ed in a record breaking annual | 1 | White House egg-rolling today j > I that he had a very good reason for J I not joining them? "I ate my j eggs for breakfast." The chief executive appeared J . on the south portico at 3 p. m. to | ' greet one of the largest throngs ever to attend the Easter hi-jinks, I - despite cold weather. Casualties l were few and not serious. c They included: - 130 children lost and restored to | 1 their parents. This was an in- j e|crease of 75 over the 1936 egg i rolling party. [ -2 -kiaajd knees, black and bruised shins treated on the spot by Red Cross nurses. 6 fainting cases. Two women?no children? ate too many eggs and were treated for nausea. White Hou.e guards had count ed 42,635 persons who filed thru the gates prior to the time Mr. Roosevelt appeared. The chief ex ecutive said. "I wish I could be out there rolling eggs with you, but I ate all of mine for break fast." Mrs. Roosevelt made three ap pearances and was warmly greet ed by the crowd. With her on one | trip was William Donner Roose- I velt. four-year-old grand;on of the president. He wore a blue inow suit. Mattson Suspect Arrested G-Men Appear to Be On Hot Trail In New Mexico Is From Tacoma Other Detectives Arc Oil Way to Scene From Washington Tucumcari, N. M., March 29.? (U.R)?A man who said his name is Vein Charlton was under ar rest tonight as a suspect in the kidnap-slaying of ten-year-old Charles Mattscn of Tacoma. Wash. Charlton said he lives near Ta coma." "He is unquestionably the man," Alex Street, federal bureau of in vestigation agent who questioned the suspect was overheard to say in a telephone conversation with his Washington. D. C., headquar ters. Other G-men Coming Turning from the telephone after the conversation. Street re portedly said: "There will be a plane load of federal agents here by tomorrow afternoon " Charlton was arrested Satur day. He said he came here a week ago. The arrest was made by Sheriff Fred White who had placed a watch on the man after he had registered at a rooming house and remained in his room for 24 hours. Like Picture The sheriff questioned the man Saturday and later took him to J the courthouse to compare him with an artist's reconstruction of the Mattson kidnaper. He found that the man had a cleft chin, broken nose and thin, black hair on his arms, all of which tallied with descriptions of the kidnaper. The man told Sheriff White that he had worked on a Cali fornia sheeep ranch for "some Russians" for several weeks. He said that he could not write but an unfinished letter was found in his automobile. It was to be compared with the Mattson ran som notes. Sheriff White said. The suspect told Street that he (Continued on Page Three) Soviet Movie Industry Is Self-Scorned Director and Workers Vie In Telling of Its Inefficiency Moscow, March 29.?(U.R)?Jcsef Stalin's crusade of self-condem nation and demands for a purge of Trotskyist "spies and wreckers" reached out tonight to the Soviet union's motion picture industry. Cinema workers gathered at a ma-ss meeting and bitterly attack ed Boris Shumiatsky, head of the movie industry whom they ac cused of "exaggerating the partial successes" of Russian films in or der to pacify public opinion. Rcdiculed By Workers The workers ridiculed hi-s ad ministration?an administration that heretofore has been too pow erful for criticism. Shumiatsky. however, was the foremost assailant of his own ad ministration and, in a five hour speech, admitted a wide range of inefficiencies. It was an address of self-criticism and a small meas ure of self-defense. The spectacle of a high Soviet official including in "breast beat ing" followed announcement of a vast program of communist reor ganization laid down by Stalin in an attempt to cure Russia of "her (Continued on Page Three) Search For Millions And Find Baby Shoes Philadelphia, March 29.?(U.R)? Searchers combed the ancient brick home of the late Henrietta Edwardina Garrett from cellar to attic today for possible clues to heirs of the wealthy eccentric's $20,000,000 snuff fortune, but found only a pair of baby shoes. A searching committee named by William M. Davison, special master appointed to hear claim ants to the unwilled millions, an nounced that the search of the shuttered, three-story house on the edge of what is now one of Philadelphia's Negro districts, would ts resumed tomorrow. Roberts Turns Liberal To Reverse The Court; Glass Opposes Change I pheld Washington Stated Minimum Wage Law Other Opinions Railway Labor Act and Fra zier-Lenike Measures Also Sustained Washington, March 29.?(U.P)? The Supreme Court today reversed itse'f to uphold constitutionality of Washington's State Minimum wage law for women and, at the same time, broke a "log jam" of cases which have piled up since President Roosevelt proposed re organization of the court. The court ended a 14 year pre cedent of constitutional interpre tation in the Washington State case when Justice Owen J. Rob erts switched from the "Conser vative" group, with which he vot ed a year ago, to the "Liberals." The decision reopened the field of minimum wages, maximum hours and working conditions to state regulation. This ruling was the highlight of a crowded session in which the court: Important Decisions 1. Upheld consitutionality of the railway labor act as amended by the Roosevelt administration in 1934 along the lines of the still to-be-decided Wagner labor act. 2. Upheld constitutionality of the reenacted Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium, de designed to help debt-ridden farmers keep possession of their properity. 3. Took jurisdiction of tests in volving constitutionality of the unemployment tax provisions of the federal social security act. ap parently assuring a ruling before June. A Reversal The minimum wage decision was historic in importance because it (Continued on Page Three) Revolution In Manchukuo Was Put Down Many Were Executed In Suppression of Plot by the Japanese j Tokyo, Tuesday, March 30. ? (U.R)?The government today ad mitted discovery of a widespread revolutionary plot in the Japan sponsored empire of Manchukuo. The plot has been crushed and news of its discovery ha-, been suppressed for months, it was said. Simultaneously headquarters of the Kofu regiment, now on duty in Manchukuo with the Japanese Kwantung army, was advised that 20 Japane.e soldiers were killed in a battle with 500 "bandits" in | north Manchukuo on March 27 and 28. Extensive Disorder It was indicated that the dis orders have been the most exten (Continued on Page Three) [ Spanish War Situation The Spanish civil war Mon day night: Madrid? Loyalists claimed capture of Alcaracejos, strate gic gateway to rich mining area in Cordoba province, and addi tional victories in Guadalajara sector. ? Rome? Mussolini reportedly ' ordered Italian "volunteers" in Spain to win the war and re store Fascist prestige; 10,000 Italians said to be ready to em bark for Spain in case of an other rebel defeat. Henda.vc? Nearly 100 troops reported executed because of plots on life of Rebel Dictator Francisco Franco. 'Bayonnc? France protested ! after rebels fired on loyalist I coal freighter in French waters. Barcelona?Premier Jose Tar | radellas attempted to form new i ? f'atalonian cabinet after Prcsi- j dial Luii Ccinpau: s aiies up. Virginia Senator Is Alarmed at Threat to Democracy "Pack the Court" Election Majority Was Not Mandate to Tamper With the Constitution Washington. March 29?(U.R)? 1 Sen. Carter Glass, peppery Vir ginia Democrat, tonight attacked President Roosevelt's ' proposed court reorganization plan as frightful, evil, and repugnant." and warned that it was the great eat threat to representative de mocracy since the foundation of the republic. Glass leaped to the forefront of opponents of the court program in a speech over a nationwide Columbia Broadcasting system hook-up. It was the second major radio address made by the sharp tongued Virginian in hia long ca reer in public life. He left a sick bed in- the fall of 1932 to make a dramatic appeal for the elect ion of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Charges Packing Court Tonight, again recovering from an illness. Glass faced the micro phones and accused Mr. Roose velt of seeking to "pack the court" with a "lot of judicial marionettes to speak the rentrllo quiams of the White House." He struck furiously at statements by administration leaders that pro paganda had been organized against the court plan. "Propaganda was first organiz ed in behalf of the scheme right here in Washington and has pro ceeded with unabated fury from (Continued on Page Three) Wisps Of Hair Sole Clue To Triple Killer Man Waited for Girl In Apartment After Mother and Boarder Slain New York. March 29. ?(U.R)? Wisps of gray hair tonight fur nished police with their first clue to the identity of the bold, steel i mu .cied man who assaulted two I women and committed a triple i murder in the home of Veronica : Gedeon, a beautiful ash-blonde I model whose face and figure have adorned magazine advertisements for two years. An autopsy revealed that the man? believed to be a sex man iac? had attacked both Veronica and her mother, Mrs. Mary Ged eon, 54, in the weird four hours he spent in their apartment on Easter eve. Sometime in those four hours he drove an ice pick II times into the brain of Frank Byrne.-. 35, a lodger in the Ged eon home. Mysterious Angles How the man got into the apart ment, how he departed, and how he silenced a frisky Pekinese dog while he went about his bloody i business are questions that puz 'zled New York's ablest detectives tonight. The dog still was frisking (Continued on Page Three) Miss Hill Still In Grave Condition K The condition of Miss Evelyn Hill, who was injured in an auto mobile accident near Fentress on Sunday evening is still considered grave, according to her brother | who visited in General Hospital, ! Norfolk, yesterday. Miss Hill is j reported to be in a semi-conscious condition and it has not been de termined whether she suffered a skull fracture or merely concus sion. Miss Hill was one of a party of six in the car, which was oper ated by Dr. G. J. Levin of Norfolk, when the brakes failed to hold and it left the road, crashing into a tree. All of the occupants of the car sustained injuries, those of John Thoma6 Morris of this city and Bob Yinger of Norfolk, being : light. Dr. Levin, Miss Dorothy Dixon and Miss Laura Coleman j were admitted to the Norfolk hos pital. Holt Sees Attempt j To influence Vole '? - West Virginia Sena tor Accuses An Official Washington, March 29.?<U.R)? Sen. Rush D. Holt, D? W. Va.. charged in the senate today that Assistant Attorney-General Jos. Keenan sought to obtain his sup port for President Roosevelt's su preme court reorganization pro gram in return for the privilege of suggesting a nominee for a fed eral judgeship. Keenan admitted talking to Holt but denied mentioning the court plan. "I am at a loss to understand how the extending of the usual courtesy (consulting congressmen on appointments in their constituencies) to the sena tor from West Virginia could have teen misunderstood by him," Keenan said. "There was no ex ception to the usual procedure foiiowed by this office in Senator Holt's case. I never mentioned the president's court plan to Senator Holt in my life or made a direct or indirect reference to him." Black Answers Holt's charge prompted Sen. Hugo L. Black, D.t Ala., to promptly demand that anyone charging that patronage is being used to "bribe a senator be forced to prove it. "for 14 months," Holt coun tered, "I was not even consulted about a janitorship in my state. Then, shortly after the president's plan was announced a high offi cial of the justice department? Joe Keenan?called me on the phone and asked me if I would suggest somebody for a judgeship in West Virginia. "He didn't say that he was of fering me the judgeship in return for my vote, of course, but he knew and I knew what he was talking about." Defends Keenan Black asked why he had not taken his accusation to a grand jury. "I know Joe Keenan," said Black, "and he doesn't do things like that. Besides, I'd hate to ad mit I had such a reputation that people would offer me things like that and get away with it." Holt replied that he made the charge public and that "the whole (Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 5:30 Kiwanis Club 7:30 Jr. O. U. A. M.; Eureka Lodge Masons Library Hours: 2-6, 7-9. Dr.LevMcCabe Funeral Held Here Yesterday Services for Former Resi-| dent Held From Christ Episcopal Church Funeral services for Dr. Lev Mc Cabe were conducted from Christ Episcopal church at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with the Rev. Geo. F. Hill officiating, using the simple Episcopal ritual. Those acting as pallbearers were D. Wal ter Harris, Grover C. Jackson, Harry Sheep, C. H. Ward, Leslie B. Belanga, T. P. Bennett, Frank W. Selig and Dr. Julian W. Selig. There were many floral offerings. Burial took place in Old Holly wood cemetery. Dr. McCabe, whose sudden death took place in Williams, Arizona, when he was returning to his home in Denver from a Califor nia vacation, was 44 years old and a son of the late Joseph T. Mc Cabe and Mrs. Lou Mattie Mc Cabe of this city. A specialist in eye, ear and throat diseases, he had been in the government ser vice for a number of years, hav ing been stationed at Detroit be fore his transfer to Denver. Surviving besides his wife who was Miss Edmonia Bcatty of Richmond, are a sister, Miss Mar garet McCabe of this city, and a brother, Aubrey G. McCabe, of Elizabeth City and Greensboro. Among the out-of-town people attending the funeral were Mrs. McCabe's brother. E. M. Beatty and her father, both of Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Walton and Mrs. Old of Great Bridge, Va. Dicina Raye Gets Balm For A Broken Contract Bui INot the $250,000 She Was to Sue Music Hall Proprietor For London. March 29.?(U.R)?Diana Raye, New York strip tease dan cer who wants $250,000 for the humiliation of keeping her clothes on, settled tonight for six weeks salary and a steamship ticket af ter calling off her pickets around the Palladium Theater. Diana. 20, shapely and olive skinned, was to have unveiled her self and the American art of strip teasing before a first-night au dience of the revue "Swing Is in the Air". Producer George Black, fearful that she might end up in jail, de cided that Great Britain isn't great enough for stripping just yet. He suggested that maybe Di ana might give a modified version of her art. But Diana insisted that it would be "down to the raw or nothing". Early arrivals at the Palladium tonight found six "sandwich" men strolling up and down in front of the box office. "This theater is unfair to strip tease dancers," their placards said. It looked like a publicity stunt. After a half hour the pickets tossed their placards into an ash can and departed. "We were hired only for 30 minutes and we've done our job," one of them said. Meanwhile Diana and her crooner husband, Jimmie Rich (Ccstiausd on Page Fi -e) Minor Diplomatic Shifts Are Made Five Changes May Be Fore runners of a General Scrviee Shake-up Washington, March 29. ?(U.R)? President Roosevelt today order ed five shifts in American diplo matic representatives abroad in what appeared to be the fore-run ner of a general shake-up in Am erican diplomatic posts. The five transfers affected one ambassadorial post and four min isterial positions, but none was considered of first-ranking im portance. Other changes, affect ing some of the larger embassies, and possibly the post of undersec retary of state, are expected to be announced later. The shifts announced today were: Fred Morris Dealing, at present ambassador to Peru, nominated as minister to Sv/eden, replacing Lau rence A. Steinhardt. Steinhardt was nominated am bassador to Peru, succeeding Dear ing. H. F. Arthur Schocnfcld. now minister to the Dominican Repub lic, was nominated minister to Finland, succeeding Edward Al bright. Albright was nominated minis ter to Costa Rica, succeeding Leo (Continued ca Page Three)