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r^msi The Datty Independent warmer in interior. ? ? - W -Z. " I I J | J?L l I ^ I J I ? J I ^ I ^ I J I ^ JL southwest winds shifting to west winds:' ^ ^ COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT. A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. O. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 weather somewhat overcast, showerc. li'l ^'y Pwbiahmt i~a ELIZABETH CITY. N. C., FRIDAY". JUNE 11. 19117 ED'er?i u. e*e.tn..^>ruft.it ne. a. c.. ?* SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Ollt foreign element \t.? I ;ev Would Send }i;ui Aliens Out of Country Passfthe House r,.|ar\ of l abor Would p, t,i\<-!i "*oinp Discre tion In Kxemplious t June 10.?(U.R?? today passed and . senate a bill by Rep n , D. Tex., compelling : aliens who. with f.ve years, have been ?. unous crimes. Samuel L. Dick-stein. .; house immigra -,.:a the measure n deportation of racketeers in this daht that preced ai.'.ered or. effor.s to o:.l mors, era a. On Fast Rccc d -- . ' would affect aliens ? . :r.< or violations of - moral turpitude or ....laws. . of labor, however, ..-.r.a: ry features of r.s who had liv Staees contmu ? or who have :i a year and - a.: husband, or liiere would be jn exemptions t...... year's operation B. id 1 500 annually Di lie house that while u r. >t contain all he : presented a com p a step in the right Rep. Joe Staines. D.. b -ucked the bill as not i i.ough 7. is a rc-.reat from our : s." said Starnes. "We are ~ :ns to the ceaseless .: by those who want to .pen our gates to the abor Trouble o\ rsligat ed a Lumber ton > l abor Relation?. Board yn? Hearing On Treat ??nl of ( nion Members r. June 10.?(U.PJ-The rj-> r relations board r.5 charged that Mans Inc.. discriminated -r.ion members in work c~ ment and discharged un on activity, today first hearing in North -?.nee Supreme Court I : the Wagner Act. T Hunt, of Washington. *r:a! examiner, reserv- : - on the motion of Dixon ompany attorney, to charges McNeil con the open ng of the it the issue was purely r and was not with ? 'i'.n of the labor board, charged in the com the Mansfield Mills ? reduced the number ./rated by certain un / rs thus reducing the ?nued on Page Three) "nilSchool To Be t gain .4 s IJhdel City's primary school or used as a model >i:na primary school was announced yes vjperintendent E. E. yesterday received a W F. Credle. director - for the state school I requesting that the '' 'ae interior of the lo [ school which were the Durham conven North Carolina Edu cation in April be an at once for inclusion t Report on Survey of \ ai Units." ady mailed the photo ' night. Women Recruits In the Labor War RESENTFUL girl laundry strikers let loose a barrage of stones in Little Falls. N. J. So effective is their aim that th:y injured the driver and stopped the truck, which tried to run a blockade. Bilbao Drive Scheduled For This Morning! Davila Will Launch the Attack With 50,000 Men and ISO War D lanes In Effort to Break Down the Defenses Ikiulaye. Franco-Spanish Frontier. .tunc 10. (U.R) Fun. .lose Fidel Davila. rchci commander on the Spanish Basque front. is prepared to launch his "death lilow" attains I Bilbao tomorrow mornint* with ."io.noo troops and 180 warplanes. frontier re|Kirts said tonight. * 48-IIour Victory The new insurgent general, who succeeded the la\e Gen. Emil o Moia in command of the Basque offensive, was said to have pre dicted that his troops will smash ' the city's "iron ring'' of defenses within 48 hours. The "iron ring'" stretching in a wide arc a'.ound the bes egrd Ba-soue cap.val. is the last defense barrier for 340.000 terrorized men. women and children. An Argentine diplomat, re turning from Gen. Davila's field headquarters across the frontier. | said the Rebel leader told him i that all plans for the "big rush" | were complete. Weather A Factor It may be delayed, however, if poor weather prevents activity of Dav la's aviation. The aviation, lie said will launch the attack by dumping hundred's of tons of bombs of the "iron ring" defenses along a two-mile froir.. probably near Lemona southeast of Bilbao. Generalissimo Francisco Fran co. it was reported, will hold up all large -scale operations in other parts of Spain unt 1 Davila's 1 'Continued on Page Three) S|hhI Market Slicks Al SI.To Growers Watch Mar ket \ii\iousi\ ; Heavy Hi^in^ \ e \ t Week The potato market held firm yesterday at $1.75 per barrel f.o.b. Elizabeth City and nearby load ins points as growers in this sec tion. many of whom do not plan to dig until next week, watched the market with bated breath. It was estimated last night that ap proximately 40 carloads moved out of Elizabeth City during the day and night, while approximately 60 carloads moved from Pasquotank. Camden and Cti.rituck counties. It is thought that a majority of the growers in this county will not dig until next week, with heavy digging beginning on Mon day or Tuesday and the peak be 'Continued on Page Three' ABC Liquor Store Nags Head To Open Saturday Morning At 9 o'Clock + According to I noffi cial Kcjtort; Will He Stocked Today Nags Head. June 1C.?It was ! learned unofficially here today that Nags Head's ABC store, first legal liquor store ever to operate at this resort, will open its doors ! for business Saturday morning at j nine o'clock. A cash register was installed in the store today, and it was re liably reported that the stock, j which has been locked in the Man teo jail since Tuesday, will be moved into the store Friday. The store is located on the west side of the Virginia Dare Trail, across from the Nags Head (Continued on Page Three) Hoey Will Introduce Mrs. F. I). Roosevelt Raleigh. June 10?(U.R>?Gov. Clyde R. Hoey left Raleigh late today to motor to Wallace pre paratory to welcoming Mrs. iFianklin D. Roosevelt to the j strawberry festival there tomor j row. The first lady will arrive at Wallace, strawberry center of ! North Carolina, at 7 a. m. Gov. Hoey will greet her and the pair will motor to the nearby Coasval | plains station for breakfast After visiting the surrounding I countryside. Mrs. Roosevelt and the governor will rev urn to Wal | lace, where Gov. Hoey will intro duce the president's wife to a ! mass gathering at 11 a. m. I W ake Is Aroused Over Voting On Liquor Question Campaign of \V?-U and Drvs for June 22 Elec tion Gets l iuler W ay Raleigh. June 10.?'IIP)? The campaign to win Wake county in the local-option liquor election on June 22 swung into full cry to day as prohibition and control | forces loosed new blasts of ora tory and advertising in the drive for votes. Wake, pivotal county in the series of local liquor referenda, will vote a week from next Tues day to break the deadlock now existing among counties which have expressed a choice on liquor under provisions of the 1937 local option act. Four counties have voted wet. and four have voted dry. In addi tion to breaking this tie. Wake county is expected to chart the course for numerous other "on the-fence" counties in the sur rounding territory which are like ly to be guided by what the Capi tol City does. In a full-page newspaper ad vertisement, signed by upwards of 230 Raleigh and Wake county bus iness and professional men, con trol forces declared their belief that approval of the county stores would "promote respect for law. promote temperance and sobriety and greatly decrease the present illicit liquor traffic in Wake coun ty." Picture Book May Block %/ Pardon Letvil Pictures Druuii by E. E. (Hark Arc Still Id \;mli Here A book of unbelievably lewd pic ture? that has reposed in a vault in the office of the clerk of Pas quotank uperior court since Au gust. 1924. may be brought out .soon for the purpose of thwarting the attempt of a State's prisoner to obtain a pardon, it was learned yesterday. The prisoner is E. E. Clark, for mer Elizabeth City typewriter mechanic, who was sentenced to prison for a total of 165 years in 1924. following his conviction on several charges of immoral and unnatural relations with girls un der ton years of age. Letters from Clark have been received this week by several per sons here. a. king that they write to Governor Hocy in his behalf. Clark, who claims to now be 71 years of age. says he has served 19 years. inclining his earned time. But Elizabeth Citizens who 1 Continued on Page Three) Given Vmlicl Againsl Her C7 Husband Mr-. I.erner Gels8500 \uurd: New Suit Al lege?. Sausage Con tained Glass Mrs. Mildred B. Lerner of West Church street was awarded a verdict of $500 in her suit against her husband. Charles Lerner. for damages on account of injuries received in an automobile accid ent. by a jury in Pasquotank sup erior court lave yesterday. Mrs. Lerner entered suit for S5.000 alleging that she had re ceived permanent and disfiguring injuries when the car in which she was riding with her husband ran off the highway last October. Negligence on the defendant's part was alleged. The verdict was returned by a I jury of 11 after counsel on both sides had agreed to go on with 1 the case after a juror. Jesse Car ter. had been taken ill and was J excused by -the judge. In the case of H. T. Weatherly : vs G. C. Dowdy, administrator for I estate of W C Riggs a jury found | that the defendant did not owe j any sum to -the plaintiff, and held on a counter-claim that the lat ! ter was wrongfully withholding j an ice storage box from the de ' fendant. but d;d ncv assess any j damages for its retention. Suit was filed in the office of ; N. Elton Aydlett, court clerk, yes i terday by George W. Spa'th against the Cudahy Packing com pany, asking $500 damages for ; injuries received through negli j gence on the part of the defend | ant. The complaint alleges that the plainViff bought from a local dealer a package of cellaphane wrapped sausages put up by the ! defendant, and when eating them found that they contained a piece of glass which severely cut ; the defedant's -throat and injured his teeth. Publicity Prevents Meeting Kidnapers Parsons Wants Free Hand In Negotiating for the Return of Wife for Whom a $25,000 Ransom Is Asked Stony Brook. N. Y., June 10. ? I (U.R>? Publicity has wrecked his i chances of establishing contact j with the kidnapers cf his wife? Mrs. Alice Parsons, society heiress I ' and "double" of Anne Morrow ( i Lindberg. William H. Parsons. Jr., j her husband, said tonight. He maae his announcement as j I G-Men took charge of the case in ? an attempt to restore the gay. at tractive 36-year-old woman to her home here on the tip of Long Isl- j j and. She disappeared yesterday. ; and conflicting stories were told ; today by persons who saw her get ' 1 into an automobile and drive! away. Whether one or two persons were with her and whether one of them was a man were points on which witnesses disagreed. Be- i i hind was left a note, demanding $25,000 ransom and instructing: Parsons to meet the kidnaper at the Jamaica bus station. "In response to Parson's request that the estate be cleared of po departed except two town police dparted except two town police men who remained at tr.e gates. Federal agents were among those who departed. Earlier. Parsons had planned to go to the Jamaica bus station to- j night, complying in every way with the following ransom note: "Bill Parsons? I have your wife. I Bring S25 000 to the Jamaica bus terminal within 24 hours. My man will meet you and call you by name. Do not bring cope. If you do Alice will never speak to you again." The note was written in pencil ? Continued on Page Three) \T. B. Sanitorium Proposal | Finds Favor Here * Local Leaders Arc Re sponding lo Idea'Ad vanced by This Paper The proposal that the former Elizabeth City country club prop erty be acquired by joint action of six or seven Albemarle coun ties for development as a 'tuber culosis sanatorium with the coop- | oration of the State and Duke j Endowment, advanced by Editor VV. O. Saunders in yesterday's is sue of this newspaper, has re ceived much favorable comment j from local citizens. "The plan is well thought out | ind holds excellent possibilities,"! said W. Ben Goodwin of the Albe- I marie Building & Loan associa tion. "I believe that with join action: of a number of counties the j scheme could be carried out and that many of the holders of bonds on the property would be glad to contribute their holdings." "The plan appears to me to be bvzih sound and practical." said I George R. Little. "The State is not moving rap idly enough to meet the problem j of tuberculosis and something i should be done to care for those afflected by -the disease and who j can now only get on the waiting ' list of state institutions. I have J 110 doubt that 'there are many j who. taken in the early stages of the disease, might by proper | treatment and especially by i schooling in how to care for | themselves and in how 'to protect i (Continued on Page Three) Will Vole On Convention Today - ' Elizabeth City Almost , Sure to Get Eastern Star 193 8 Meeting | 1 Elizabeth City will almost un- - | doubtcdly be selected as the 1938 . I convention city for the annual ( meeting of the Grand Chapter of ; | North Carolina Order of the East ern Star when the matter comes . ; to a vote on the floor of this , I year's convention at Asheville this j I afternoon. It is customary in the Eastern I Stair to vote to meet in the home ( I town. of the incoming Worthy . ; Grand Matron if she asks for the , } convention, and Mrs. W. T. Cul- j ( pepper, who is to be installed to- ( | night as Worthy Grand Matron of ! the Grand Chapter, has made it j | i (Continued on Page Three) Coast Guards ! Figure In Rescue Race Against Death to L Take Sick .Man Off Tanker at Sea News of an exciting race against death, in which Coast Guardsmen | of the Seventh district were play I ing an important role, reached i district headquarters here yester- j jday afternoon. I Many miles at sea, aboard the i Gulf Oil company tanker Gulf- : I star, a man was seized with an! I attack of appendicitis Wednesday. 1 I The tanker sent out a radio mes- v Isage for assistance, and Coast ? ! Guard division headquarters at Norfolk sent back a message tell-1 | ing the vessel to leave her course I * j and head for the North Carolina ? f icoast. Yesterday, another message!1 | from the tanker came through, i I stating that the man's condition c I had taken a turn for the worse., c A Coast Guard seaplane from s Charleston. S. C., and a lifeboat ! k from Cape Lookout Coast Guard !a station were dispatched to Cape i r Lookout harbor buoy to meet the j tanker yesterday evening and take f the stricken man ashore for med- ? ical treatment. The man was to f be rushed to Potter's emergency; t I hospital at Beaufort. No message was received here ; t last night regarding the matter, j v but it was supposed that the life- j a boat succeeded in taking the man' off the tanker and getting him to - f the hospital. j Slot Machines' Are Not All Gone Total of 8850 In Tax es Has Been Paid for the Current Year Pin games and other coin-in- J jthe-slot gaming devices have van- j: fished from Elizabeth City proper, but somewhere in the Albemarle they will be available at least un til the limit of legal toleration, July 1, and perhaps illicitly after-1 wards. A total of $850 in state taxes on each such machine has been paid to Miles W. Ferebee. deputy collector, who did net di- 1 vulge the names of the licensees. ! Another item of Mr. Ferebee's . I total tax collection of $4,124 yes terday, close to a record for a 'day's intake, was S3.233.73 paid by two local beer distributors for sales taxes for the month of May. At the rate of one cent a bottle . the record is that 323,373 bottles of beer were consumed in the | trade territory of the local dis tributors during the past month. While the record shows that only 17 pin games have been re- ' licensed, legal slot machines^such as musical and weighing appa- j ratus, which give a fixed return for the coin inserted, are still con tributing to the revenues of the state, though in smaller degree. Italy and Germany Come Back In Fold ' London, June 10.?<U.R>?One of 1 Europe's worst war scares since 1 Sarajevo's shot was "heard around the world" in 1914 abated tonight when Italy and Germany agreed 1 to return to the international non-intervention committee. Chancellor Adolf Hitler and 1 Premier Mussolini, their war-like anger alleayed by British media- 1 promised to aid the 25 other na tions on the committee in their 1 efforts to "isolate"' the Spanish 1 civil war and prevent it from bursting into a general European ( conflagration. Two Hundred WomenHa ve Attack Mass Hysteria ?aris. Friday, June 11?CU R)?Two mndred women employes of a i actory in Thumeries near Lille rere reported today to have been 1 eized suddenly with fainving and : jystcfia attacks. Doctors were unable to explain \ he incident except as an incom irehensible collective psychopat lological attack. The mass seizure began after ine woman fell unconscious, i others rushed to her aid but as oon as they reached her, they >egan to shriek and whirl about i is dizzy. Some fainted, others oiled on the floor. Pandemonium broke out in the actory when other women began ' ;oing into convulsions. They ap larently were affected by seeing heir companions. Some women attacked others, earing off clothes, raking faces vith finger nails and keeping up t continuous shrieking. Factory doctors raced in, sus. jecting gas. They ordered the ; >lar?t evacuated immediately. J Men workers were called to get out those women unaffected. The symptons spread amoiu the women even after their re moval, when they saw others writhing as *they were carried out on stretchers. Doctors sampled the factory air and found it normal. Blood tests were given to the victim immediately but they showed no signs of gas or other intoxicants. Doctors declared the symptons and after-effects were typically nervous. They believed it was due to collective hysteria. The women recovered gradual ly, except for four younger ones who complained of severe pains. TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR 8:30 Mens Christian Federation 7:30 IOOF; BPOE; Daughters of America Library hours 10-12, 2-6 v "" Gas And Clubs Used By Poll ce And Workers To Crash Line Of Pickets I Newton Plant, a Subsidiary of the Republic Steel Corporation, Is Reopened After An Intense Hand-to-Hand Fight I Engage In a Twenty-Minute Battle Victorious Non-Strikers Run Down and Beat Defeated Opponents After Gas Fumes Put Tliem In Full Retreat; Six Are In Hospital Monroe, Mich., June 10.?(U.R)?Three hundred special j police and .">(10 workmen smashed a CIO picket line with Mas and cluhs tonight to reopen the Republic Steel corpora j lion's subsidiary Newton mill. The plant had been closed I for l."> days. Strikers Flee It required a 20-minute battle at the plant entrance before the last of the pickets, who included many women, took to their heels. Non-strikers pursued many of them, caught them and pummeled them. Police who had helped break the picket line rescued pickets from irate workers. At least three hundred men and women were affected by the tear gas which hung in a cloud along the road to the mill. Several persons with painful in juries were taken from the scene in automobiles. Six in Hospital At least six of the injured re quired hospital treatment. Three persons, including C.I.O. Organizer Fred Mayberry, were detained by police. Battle lines were drawn at 4 p. *? m.. time set for reopening ttte piant. when 300 special polici marched toward the plant. Four abreast, they carried night iyticks, tear gas bombs and gas guns. Many of them were national (Continued on Page Six) Earhart Flies Over African Jungle, Desert Is Ready for Long Journey Across the Dark Conti nent to Khartoum Gao. French West Africa. June 10.?(U.R)? Amelia Earhart Put nam. completing the seventh leg of her round-the-world flight over 1.140 miles of jungles and desert, slept here tonight. Tomorrow, she announced, she will fly 200 miles down the Niger river to Niamey in her $80,000 ?Flying Laboratory" and prepare for a take-off to Fort Lamy, 1,000 miles eastward. The trim Lockheed "Electra" rarrying Miss Earhart and Fred J. Noonan, her navigator, ar rived at this outpost at 2:40 p. m., ifter a seven hours and 45 minute flight from Dakar on the Sengal ?se west coast. From Fort Lamy she will streak up to Khartoum and then across to Aden on tne uea oea, complet ing the difficult African crossing in four or five days. After Africa (Continued on Page Six) Not Many Enrolling Yet For Summer Session Enrollments for the 1937 sum mer school of the Elizabeth City white schools came in slowly yes terday, according to school au thorities, but a substantial in crease is expected this morning, when the enrollment books are supposed to close. Only 26 enrolled yesterday for the high school courses, approxi mately the same number for the grammar school, and only 11 for the primary grades. According to Superintendent E. E. Bundy. the total number of 'summer school enrollees should be around 150. Among the high school enrollees, | freshmen predominated and alge bra was the subject on which a majority desired to brush up. | The summer school, which will last for six weeks, will open next Monday, June 14.