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r=t| The Daily Independent ? iq<|o rAMDivnn ?r. " ?-?- ?u 1 ? iX ? il 1JV XJ1 1 _M- winds over soUth portion and fair INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 weather Friday. wrl. x -' '" ? * "'wr::^ .Vx.*?. elizabeth city, n. c., Friday, may 21,1937 ****?it ??,. h. 0.. single copy 5 cents ^ ' m ?eooiid c!m? Blatter. Wheeler Attacks \Labor's Attitude I On Court Change Sports of Justice \icKovnolds Quit ting- Denied lomproniise Plans ^.r Man Clashes With vaai n- (Mi I nion Sup port at li?'t?rssaniaatiou * uutton. May 20?(UP.)? K. Wheeler. D.. foe of sup . anization. charg ?gaiuzcd 'abor is! ?nt Rcoseveit's ; the belief ..hat justices it "can o :-v :cr.j.ation" 1\ wants. > ? ? w liberal clashed . executive vice . be: > r.on par-, isan atcrstate commerce eming on pending - His attack feat n which discussion ? supreme cour ?. Van Dcvanter creat r.v re.*, than the pc> ldministra.ion com v prr.uv.- included: Mi?o>nolds Denial that supreme '.it.cs clark Mc v edvised a qucs . ^retard" reporhs that ; jhe capital was rumors over pending s as a result of Vir. D :v-t's ac icn. ? \ ;cr ?"mate major . ic-.: he T. Robinson for the v vacancy grew in cocp.;* Bennett Champ Can " 'h mentioned on r and Rep. John W. pit--, d Va announced he -uh . a caucus of Virginia"u .- cc.-ce t. tomorrow to en C nt.i.ucd in Pari Six) wo Thousand I.an- Thunder Singh Salute c ? ill(?" i x;? v \ ork liep re-riil- ' nilcd Staled a! Spitheari r King's Fleet Proces Sp::;.iad. May 20.?<U.R>? :> of many nations ? espionage operatives j mir?g;cd with loy al . .3 tonight along th c >:ad as ".he mightiest hips ever assembled salute to King y . ... Is came to mingie with '.ho roar of - suns firing a corona - to the new ^'-crowned :n the .urrets of 277 ?;ng Great Britain n nat ens. agents were here to 'it. ' .mg of several "mys riding at anchor in ? u on Page Three) / and Party '?t Inlet for the End May 20. A party of n Washington, D. C : , : Bonner, secre ressaan Lindsay C ved here ton ght tc : with the blues and Oregon Inlet this *"P;* - ? ,. r. with Mr. Bonner are Mr. Adams. Mr ?vi Mr. Ya-.es. All oi government positions . but they are not "ated tonight- that ?id planned to come .:unge his plans at ? i*? due -.o the press ? ' business in Wash ;r;:- ? ???blv the rcl ef bill to come up tomor jJ" ' ay whether Vice Oarner would fish a! "'r' -xt week, as has beer : bir. no aid not deny tht trp" ^f't:ner's party will make "adquarters at Bodie Is ,RC r. "l r Guard station while ? v will return \o Wasli Sunday. Youngest YOUNGEST member cf the 1937, ! pradua ing class cf Elizabeth C. y H gh schc el. v. hteh graduated last night. wr.3 George Frisby. 13-year i old soil of John Frisby cf East1 Church street. When John Frisby. Jr.. who is a year cider than Qe-rao. .'tarred to school. George, like Mary's little lamb, would fol low him to school each day. Ke didn't make any trouble so the teacher let him stay. He displayed an aptitude for learning as quick 1 !y a~< others in the class, so he ! was allowed to enter school at the ag' cf five.?Photo by Frisby criminal, also. Gradual ion Exercises Unique Frcscn! \\ or?I Picture of School Program: 98 Receive Diploma* "A word picture of the hnzab?th City high school program, both ?nir-icJlar and extra-curricular." was given to parents and friends of the 93 graduates of the class ^f 1037 in the school auditorium last night. ; The program, from invocation | *o benediction, was handled by members of the graduating class, jend it was the first time in the |:chop's history that a graduation program was staged without a '-pca'ter from outside the school. Follow ing the processional. Ruth i 3rav gave the invocation and Jim my W.vt\ class president, intro duced th-> program in the follow ing words: "As president of the senior class ;I have the honor to introduce to j night a graduating program some |what different from the usual bac calaureate address. "It is an attempt to give our parents and friends at least a ! word picture of our high school program, both curricula!- and ex ; tra-curricular. i "If you will fellow closely the j speeches that are made. I believe I that ycu will observe the stress land emphasis on ih? practical in education. You may also note the | traits cf the modern educational ?Continued on Page Three) Fletch er| Issues A W arning Employers of Labor Must Know About Wagner Act i Law of the Land State Labor Commissioner Is Keeping Touch With the Union Situation Tli? state department of labor today i sued a warning to employ ers to acquaint themselves with provisions of the National Labor I Relations act, the aftermath of two disturbing strike situations in North Carolina and within 24 hours after the Commit.e? for In dustrial Organization hr.cl com pleted fir t negotiations in the state wi h an employer. Major A. J. Fletcher, commis sioner of iabcr. issued th ? warn ing and said as result of a confer- | ence with Gov. Clyde R. Koey his i clepar ment would keep closer | touch wi:h labor disturbances. II" aid the governor had agreed to I sending an inspector from the de partment to the scene of troubled j working conditions as soon as a breach appeared between employ er and employe. Sends Inspector Fletcher has already sent an in I spec or to Ea t Lumberton. where CIO organizers hav? reported they have met with violence. He men | cioned briefly the repor' of crgan ; izcrs at Morehead City, where a j shirt plant was closed indefinitely following an unsuccessful attempt ; o unionize workers. "The Wagner act is the law of j th? land now." Fletcher said, I "whether employer^, like it or not. and it will be a wise thing for them j to learn it and abide by it. It will j help them avoid embarrassing ! mistakes." Meantime, at East Lumberton (Continued on Page Three) Raleigh Girl's New York Visit Served A Double Purpose New York. May 20.?<U.R>?Miss Elizabeth Richardson Park of Raleigh. N. C.. came to New York ! today to wish her father and mo j thcr bon voyage and ended up by i g .ting married at "The Little Church Around the Corner" to Marcus George Lynch of New I York. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. John Park. They will attend the Rotary International convention in France. j P. L. Parker Dies at Currituck Home Currituck. May 20.?P. L. Park j er. 70 .died here \,hhj morning at i 7:30 o'clock. Besides his wife, he is survived ! by four sons. W. A. Parker of Portsmouth. P. L. Parker. Jr.. of Norfolk. Linv.ood Parker of Balti more and Carroll Parker of Cur rituck: three daughters. Mrs. J. ; D. Vandergrift of Curr tuck, Mrs. i S. W. Brumsey of Portsmouth and i Mrs. E. D. Doxey of Belcross. Funeral services will be con ' duc.ed Saturday afternoon. One-Man Crime Wave Has Attractive Offers > New York. May 20. 'U.R)?Joseph 1 Roth, a citizen who knows his > constitutional rights when he sees them, walked up to the informa tion booth in police headquarters . today and said: f "I want to get arrested." ; It would not be exactly accurate ; to say that Patrolman John Daw sen. who was '?information" at ; the moment, was asleep. A pret tier thing to call it would be "si ; esta." but in any event he did ? not leap up immediately and offer ? to arrest Mr. Roth. Nor did he , direct him to the place where the ? arresting was going on. That f TODAY'S LOCAL j CALENDAR J A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation f P. M. 7:30 I. O. O. F.; B. P. O. E.; Daughters of America Library Hours: 2-6. 7-9 v - > made Mr. Roth plenty sore. He hammered the information booth with his fist, shouting: "I'm a citizen and I want some service around here. Why don't you ar rest me? I'm going to kill a fel low!" "What do you want to do that for?" said Patrolman Dawson, violating the police code of great er New York by closing a sentence with a preposition. Mr. Roth made another propo sition: "I'm going to commit suicide and I'm going to fix it so it will look just like Fred murdered me. Fred's my brother. He lives up in the Bronx." "What do you want to do that for?" asked Patrolman Dawson, demonstrating that his repartee has range as well as impact. Mr. Roth looked disgusted and drummed his fingers on the in formation booth. A far-away look (Continued on Page Three) What WPA Labor Can Do j The school building above, con structed by WPA labor, is an out standing example of what such labor, often accused of being in competent. can actually do. In the fall of last year a wind storm demolished 'the Winslow school building in Salem town ship. and the county board of ed ucation applied to the WPA for a project to take apais the re mainder of the oid building, sal vage as much lumber as poss ble and construct a two-room frame building. 20 feet deep and 60 feet wire, with cloak rooms. The projecs was approved and I work was started on the project on January 10. The operation of the project rated 100 per cen?? for each period, and the building was | complr.ed on scheduled time. The j construction of the building was J done entirely by relief labor, and j not one of the men who worked on the project had ever con structed a building before, na even the forman, Walter Swain. T. P. Richardson, WPA divis ion engineer, showed the men how to read blue prints and they went ahead and put up a building - hat would be a credit to skilled car penters. The building was com pleted in Apri at a total cost of $2,631.30, of which the board of educa'.ion, sponsors of the project, provided S 1,233.50, the cost of the materials, and the WPA provided labor costing $1,447 80. i Urges Grading | Pea, Spud C r o p s * I Falls Says We .Must .Meet the Competition of California Growers "It is going to be difficult th ng | to work out. but we eventually have got vo grade every basket ?of May peas shipped out of this section." said County Agent Gro ver W. Falls yesterday in discus-, ?sing the drop in the price of May peas this week. "We must grade our peas in or der to meet competition." Mr. j Falls went on. "California grow j ers are banded together in co | operative marketing organiza I tions. Tlicy grade '.heir crops rig I idly and market them under brands which they absolutely I stand behind. In other words, a I buyer in New York or Philadel | phia can buy a carlcad of Cali j fornia peas without ever -see ng ? hem and knew just exactly what i he is getting. But when they buy our peas under present marketing i conditions, they don't know what 1 they arc ge-ling. "The result that our peas do ! not command the price that is (Continued on Page Six) r ^ Hundreds View Body of Veteran Father I , I New Bern. May 20. -^rtJ.R)? | Hundreds of persons tonight | filed by the casket containing I the body of George Isaac 'Dad j dy> Hughes. 98-year-old Con l federate veteran who a tounded | the medical world by becoming the father of two children after he was 94 years old. Hughes, living almost in pov erty here with his second wife whom he married at the age of 23 about five years ago. died to day from the infirmities of old age, accelerated by a weakened heart. He had been barely con scious for several days. He gained national promi nence in December, 1934. when a :.on was born to his young wife. The American medical so ciety investigated the birth and announced the poverty-stricken veteran?who received only SI a day pension from the state? was the child's father. The Hughes christened the boy Franklin Roosevelt in hon or of the president, who follow ed with a personal note of con gratulations on the birth. The second child, a girl, was born in June. 1936. After the second birth Hughes told reporters: "There is noth ing particularly remarkable about my becoming a father again. Doctors examined me when I was 94 and were puzzled that I was healthy. It's simply the result of following 'a simple formula?hard work, regular hours and no smoking." Four ^aclitsi Due Here Today J Are On a Denionslra licn Cruise; INew Mar keting Wrinkle If prospective buyers find it difficult or inconvenient to reach your show-room, take your show I I room to -.hem. This maxim of modern business, manifested :n I recent years by displayed of car ious products in handsome trail ! ers, will take on a new iorm to day when four show boats sent out on a demonstration cruise by a yacht broker at Newport News, Va., are due to arrive here for in spection. The boats are due to arrive here j today at noon and vo remain here ! ! until tomorrow night. The fleet j is in command of Mr. Jul us Herbst. The primary purpose of the I cruise is to show southern yachts-1 | men. who have been unable vo i j visit the show-room of C. P. Am- ' ory, Distributor. Inc., of Newport News, the four yach.s. The yachts are: a 26' Richard son Little Giant, fishing vype; a | 26' Richardson L .tie Giant, standard cruiser: a standard 32' Deluxe A. C. P. Wanderer. At-er leaving Elizabeth City the demonstration ileet will visit Morchcad City and Wilmington. Sitdown In Mine Wilsonville, 111.. May 20.?(U.R>? I Approximately 500 member.', of the j i progressive miners of America to- j | night began a sit-down strike half j j a mile underground in the shaft I j of a Superior coal company mine | here. They occupied a mine cor , ridor more than 2.000 feet below; j the tipple of mine no. 4. j Former Pasquotank Resident Dies In Raleigh Word was received here late I yesterday of the death of John L. I ! Harris formerly of this county, in j . Raleigh yesterday afternoon at I | 2:00 o'clock at the age of 61. fol- | lowing three strokes of paralysis, j The deceased was born in the Corinth section of Pasquotank county and was a son of the late Miles Granberry Harris and Mary Jane Harris. He gradu&'-ed fiom the S. L. Sheep high school and began teaching school at the age of 18. Teach ng part of the time and studying part of the time he grad uated from the University of North Carolina in 1901 and from I then until 1921 served as princi pal of the schools at High Point, Rocky Mount and Dandleman. In 1912 he went to work for a school supply firm and later organized the Carolina School Supply Co., of Raleigh. Besides his wife. Mrs. Lill an | Hooper Harris, he is survived by | two daughters. Mrs. John Hocutt : and Miss Evelyn Harris, both of I Raleigh; two sons, John L. Har ris, Jr.. and Robert Harris, both I of Raleigh; two sister, Mrs. J- S. | Davis of Edenton and Mrs. J. H. i Ballard of this city: and two I brothers, w. Thomas Harris and Cader P. Harr s, both of this city. Funeral services will be held at Raleigh at 4:00 o'clock this after noon. Economy Forgotten When Vote-Snaring BilVs In Congress ?t? Pacific Air Defense Is Immediate Need V Atlantic Can Wait,! Swanson Tells the Committee Washington, May 20.?(U.R)? Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swaryson informed the House Naval Affairs committee today thav expansion of "inadequate" air defenses in the Pacific .a "an urgent, inmmediate requirement." The need for more and better airplane bases on the West Coast, in Panama and Hawaii should be filled before any p;ans are made for additional air bases on the j Atlantic Ccast, Swanson said in a | letter to comm ttee chairman Carl i Vir.tcn. D? Ga. At Alameda Swanson emphasized the neces sity for prompt development of the proposed naval air station at Alameda, Calif., to complete the j line of three primary air defense bases from Southern California to Washington. Actual work on the Alameda base in San Francisco bay is be ng held up because of a land title dispute. The naval appropriations bill for the 1938 fiscal year car ries 51,000.000 to stait the work. The house approved a bill this week authorizing total expendi ture of $13,500,000 on the station. Complete Chain Navil air forces on the West Coast now arc concentrated at an $18,000,000 base at San Diego, Calif, .and a $2,200,000 siat on at Sand Point 'Seattle) Wash. The Alameda development will com plete the chain of aviation bases 'Continued on Page Three) Rev. I). Clay Lilly Presbyterian Head Moiv.rcat. May 20.?(U.R)?The Rev. D. Clay Lilly, pastor of the Reynolda Presbyterian chiurch, Winston-Salem, N. C.. tonight was elected moderator of the Presbyterian church of she Unit ed States at the opening session of the 77th General Assembly. The Reverend Lilly was elected over Dr. R. O. Flynn, of Atlanta, and Dr. R .C. Anderson, of Mon sreat. Retiring Model ator P. Frar; Price. China m ssionary preacher gave the opening 'sermon tonight. Transferred -?lOto by Frlsby . COMMANDER Jas. A. Price, well- | liked commanding officers of the Seventh U. S. Coast Guard Dis-1 trict. whose transfer to the Sixth i District with headquarters at Jacksonville. Fia.. will become ef fective June 25th. Price Leaves Here June 25th Popular Coast Guard Commander Is Ileing Transferred to Jack sonville, Florida Commander James A Price, popular commanding officer of the Seventh Coast Guard dis trict, has received notice that he is to '.akc over the command of the Second district, with head quarters at Jacksonville, Fla., on ! June 25th. Commander Price will be -suc ceeded here by Commander Christopher J. Sullivan, who is now located at Chincc\eague, Va., as Commander of the sixth dis trict. The Florida district will not be (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. Well hie Is To Rest In Peace Beside Son To H<* Huricti Today; "Drowning With Sui cidal Intent" Mrs. Mary Welibie, whose dead body was found floating in Charles creek early yesterday morning, will be buried this afternoon in a plot in Hollywood cemetery which had been her primary, if not sole in terest in life for over 15 years. Mrs. Wehbie's body was discov ered around seven o'clock yester day morning by Robert L. Saw yer. driver of a bread truck, who noticed the body in the creek as he was driving across the bridge that crossed Charles creek on Southern avenue. Police at that very moment were looking for Mrs. Wehbie, who had disappear ed between the hour of midnight and 3:00 a. m. from the home of her nephew, E. P. Azar, at 702 Southern avenue. Mrs. Wehbie who was 67 years old, came to this country 37 years ago from Syria, first locating in Il linois, where her husband died about 30 years ago. About 17 years ago she moved to this city, bring ing with her her younger son, Tom; her older son, Mike Mettrey Wehbie, and his family, and K. P. Azar, a nephew whom she had raised from childhood. Tom Mettrey Wehbie died in | 1921 at the age of 19. His mother. I who worshipped him, never got I over his death. She had him bur ied in Hollywood cemetery, where j 'Continued on Page Six) Boa-Constrictor Hunting New Brooklyn Sport Effie, Fugitive From Justice, Lassoed By Police v " ? New York, May 20.?(U.R)?Effie. six-foot boa-constrictor which is so even-tempered that she won't quarrel over whether her mid-day meal is a man or a woman, came back from the dead today. Last week a sigh of relief swept Brooklyn and stirred the harbor waters when it was reported that the man-eating snake had been found dead on a fence. Mothers turned their children out into the parks again; policemen took their hands off their pistols; Charles Mulle, who had been hauled into i court for allowing Effie to escape, ! figured his legal troubles were' over. Well, just before dusk today Mrs. Catherine Baranoff, who j lives just around the corner from I Mulle, looked up through a sky- j light in her home. Mrs. Baranoff. i who has heard all about Effie and who has a definite prejudice I against becoming a filet de sole, I screamed. Effie stirred lazily in the sun. 'Continued on Page Six) Interior Funds Boost ed Three Million Instead of Cut Flood Work Voted Senate Approves the Presi dent's Plan for a Per manent CCC Washington, May 20. ?<U.R)? President Roosevelt lost a $3,200, 000 economy fight in the "pork hungry" house late today but won an easy victory in the senate to make the Civilian Conservation Corps? his favorite new deal pro ject?a permanent agency. Earlier he had bowed to house Democrats rcjeiiing against his sweeping economy drive, by agree ing to support a $25,000,000 em ergency flood control program for the Ohio valley this year. Thus M. Roosevelt reversed the position he took a fortnight ago when he urged that flood control authori zations be deferred until the next session of congress. See No Relief Change Although the revolting house torpedoed plans of Mr. Roosevelt and its own appropriations com mittee to economize on the inter ior department appropriation bill, there were indications that the Democratic majority would' give the president another blank check for $1,500,000,000 to finance relief during the coming fiscal year. The work-relief bill was placed before the chamber today with a charge by Rep. Clifford A. Woodrom, D., Va., that racketeers are keeping up the cost of federal aid to the dec titute. ' Woodrum. who led a futile fight in committee to slice the appro priation $500,000,000 in the inter est of economy, said caustically that such a reduction would not provide "a liberal allowance if the relief racketeers keep hanging on to the trough?not a liberal al lowance for socialistic or idealis tic experiments." A rattle of applauce and a few ? Continued on Page Three) Mola Hammers At Bilboa's Last Defense Moors, Germans, Italians and Carlists Aided by Aerial Assault H e n d a y e, Franco - Spanisli Frontier, May 20.?(U.fb?Gen. Emilio Mola's Rebels, unleashing a final "death blow" against ancient Bilbao, tonight shattered Basque defenses along a 10-milc front and drove four milts closer to the city. More than 60 black-winged Re bel warplanes riddled and blasted the Basque lines with machine guns and bombs. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting was reported, leaving more than 1,000 Loyalist dead in one sector alone. Scores of fleet Rebel tanks led Mola's troops in the attack which sent the Bilbao defenders reeling back to within four miles of their proud capital. Mcors, Italians. Germans and red-capped Carlists reached the famous "El Gallo" triple ring of defenses along half (Continued on Page Six) Singers Off Today On First Tour Of North Norman's Concert Singers, ac complshed local Negro choral group, will leave here this after noon on their first Northern tour ?a tour which will take them as far North as New York City. The group, sixteen in nu?r?r. will travel by automobile, ar rangements having been made to take four cars on the trip. The singers will travel direct from here to New York, where will present their first concert. Other conceits will be presented in Philadelphia. Washington and other points. The group plans to be en four for a week or ten days. i
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