sufi The Daily Independent shu 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 mS *V' Total No. 257 i??>- Kxc;/'tK1f^^ ^jh. m*?*.* p.mmu.. co. , ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937 enur* ?t mt,. n. o.. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS ' ?? . ? ? j i ? American Shipping Aided In Race With Nations Of for Id By A New Subsidy toiori Replaces Ex njrec! Ocean Mail i (\m tracts Six Months Trial I,,I llrpiar' iucnt Building PniaraiH I* Also Part of Rehabilitation ?V June 30?(U.R1? - ? - administration to ? c: :ook its second step in an ? improve the delino a:: m Merchant Mar ne completion of a j ratmu subsidy structure ; American ship r. an equal competi ;ti a'Hh foreign vessels. CM.: run Joseph P. Kennedy V d Maritime commission r.fa;.a v.at 16 subsidy agree -.criiK a six month ex lerunental period, had been ef :cc .. tl.e old ocean-mail con rict sys-er.i expired. Dilference in Casts S-'ii.tcdy suii 151 American .Id begin operating iir.orr u:\ier these federal : > . pay to sh p own d 'ference in operating r. : ueiun line work ... ? >:;?? :.v - and those of Ameri 3.1 vessels. E rr.er.t of the subsidy ?? ;r. provided in the 1936 Herciiant Marine act which r.mission, followed n. lustration move to rule: up American merchant L:ft I'.??pl.urmrnt Program sent a special mes ccngress last month re ? 'if expenditures to $160 000 000 for 96 new reliant vessels. Simultaneous van announced plans for Continued on page four) Male Revenue Collection Is Ij) This Year Increase of 21.87 Per Fcnt Over 1936 Fiscal Year 5a>.':: June 30?(U.R)?Rev ? o: ? . ivici dramas ever seen on creen will be shown at ^ Carolina Theatre Friday and I this week when the -h conjunction with fork insurance firms, will . ,iid Dix in "The Devil * Drivinsj/' n drama, produced by - boldly pictured background of the ay accidents and iRi" thrilling in a specta ? 7, ?' is also intensely D". ?'??'??ig the part of a who rises to the attorney and ntless war against "2. turns in one of tlomances of his ca sh. / ?nd talented Joafci : opposite him. ' is heartily endors .lowing casualty and L : :,anics here: Citizens & "' V f ncy. G. R. Little. J. t,a: ;r':' Tidewater & Southern Loan & ' ' Dal H. Williams 4- *?ioigan. V f \ At Island Love Feast ??? I THAT picnic planned by President Roosevelt on Jefferson Island, in Chesapeake Bay. was a "good time had by all" affair, without much j of the intended seriousne s. Here is the president as the center of an informal group. Postmaster General James A. Farley is at left, j with Representative Edward L. O'Neill of New Jersey at right. Memorial Day Riot A ireclln Committee Pictures of Police Brutaiity Are Exhibited Washington. June 30. ?(U.R)? Police Captain James L. Mooncy of Chicago testified at a senate inquiry today that in his opinion all persons wounded in the Mem orial Day riot at the Republic Steel Co.. plant were shot by po lice. Mooney and Captain Thomas Kilroy, officers in charge of the squad which fought a group of pickets anc$ strike sympathizers seeking to enter the plant, gave a lengthy account of the riot un der the questioning of Sen. Rob ert M. LaFollette, P., Wis., at a hearing of the civil liberties com mittee. Ten prisoners died as a re sult of the incident. "You are convinced." asked La Follette, "that the men who were shot during the trouble were shot by police?" "That's my opinion," said Moon ey. The two officers testified after two Chicago police officials?Com missioner James P. Allman and (Continued on Page Six) If Another Snake Story Gone Wrong Seagoing Reptile Tak en Off Oregon Inlet W as ISot a Rattler ? Here's another good snake story , ! or fisherman's yarn discredited. The versatile Frank Stick, who j j among other things is a natural- j ! ist and an authority on reptile j life, was in town yesterday ex hibiting the "rattle snake" which Leamon Melson of Williamsburg, j Va.. caught swimming several f miles out at sea off Oregon Inlet, 1 Sunday afternoon. The snake, while resembling j I somewhat a rattler or a water ? , moccasin, was not a rattler at all, I but the most harmless and play- ? I ful of all snakes, the hog-nose | snake, mistakenly called the "puff adder." The hog-nose snake makes a ! I frightful hissing noise when at- | tacked, its head swelling to an ! (Continued on Page Three; I Fire Loss Is Held Down To 89c Per Capita Loss for Year $10, 650; Large Risk; a Busy Year for Dept. Elizabeth City's highly efficient semi-volunteer fire department held the local fire loss for the 1936-37 fiscal year down to $10, 550, or approximately 89 cents per capita, despite the fact that prop erty at risk during the year was valued at upwards of $500,000. The annual report, prepared by Assistant Fire Chief Ken Davis and released last night contains many interesting facts. For instance, during the year the department answered a total of 191 calls, consisting of 70 bell alarms, 82 still alarms, nine first aid calls in the city, six first aid calls outside the city, 20 fires out side the city, two false alarms and two courtesy calls (removing cats from trees). The department was in service 75 hours and 36 minutes during the year and 27 hours and 28 min utes of this time was spent on calls outside the city. The pumper worked for four hours, all of which was out of town. The department used 3.950 pounds of oxygen and 584 Vi gal lons of chemicals. A total of 13, 750 feet of hose was laid, and 1,274 feet of ladders raised. Causes of the alarms answered (Continued on Page Six) Salvation Army Obtains New Quarters Former 4Nip Joint' Is New Army Headquar ters Here < I It was an ironical sort of a co- 1 incidence when the Pasquotank County ABC store moved into quarters previously occupied by a troop of Boy Scouts, but almost f as ironical will be the Salvation 1 Army's occupancy today of quar ters which in recent years were occupied by a notorious "nip J joint." | The Salvation Army's new head- j quarters are located at 509 East j Colonial avenue, between Poin- j dexter and McMorrine streets. Envoy Charles Cook stated yes terday that he had been promised that he could move in today and that he would begin at once to clean up and arrange his head quarters. The new quarters will be used only as an office and clearing house and no services will be held there. Temporarily, at least, the ten meet ngs at Shepard street and Southern avenue will continue nightly. ''Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 8:00 Eastern Star; Red Men; Troop 152 BSA; Choir practices Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6. Ford Sees A Plot Of Bankers Says They Want His $6 a Day Mini mum Upset Dearborn, Mich., June 30.?(U.R) Financiers are attempting to force Henry Ford to "accpet an outside party as a wage dictator" so that they may slash the pay of their employes throughout the couny., the Ford Almanac, comp any publication, charged tonight. Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, described the article as "some more typical Ford Motor Company's ballyhoo." Expla ning the automobile manufacturer's attitude in the present national labor situation, the Almanac said that financiers seek to have the Ford minimum wage of $6.00 per day for eight hours work reduced in order that they may lower their pay scales. Keeps Wages Up ??Ford's high wage is the one and only thing that keeps wages up all over the country," the ar ticle said. "If Ford should lower wages?or should any law or agreement restrict his freedom to raise wages?wages would go down all over the country." "With Ford paying $6-a-day, the financiers also are forced to pay high wages in their plants, to attract labor. They want that stopped. That's why they are again trying right now to force Ford to do business their way." The Next Step The Almanac charged that "the true meaning of this drive is to force Ford to accept an out side party as a wage dictator for Ford employes. Next step in the game of the financiers will be wage standardization. All plants of the same kind will pay the same wages. The skilled worker will have lost the benefit of his skill?because lie will then have no market where he can sell it for ?Continued on Page Six) FSCC Bought 215 Cars Here Government Purchase Ended Last Night; 85 Per Cent Crop Sold Upwards of 150 carloads of Irish potatoes were bought from Pasquotank county growers yes terday by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation as gov ernment purchase of spuds went into the home stretch. The FSCC | closed .out its fiscal year at mid night last night and ended its purchasing of surplus spuds for relief purposes at the same time. Thomas Jackson, FSCC receiv ing agent, and Frank W. Hollo well, member of the county com mittee, spent a hectic day yester day as growers from all over the county sought to dispose of some of their potatoes to the FSCC be fore the buying program closed. There were around 190 carloads of spuds offered to the FSCC here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesnay of this week, while the county's allotment was only 156 cars. FSCC purchases in this county amounted to approximately 215 carloads of potatoes at prices of $1.50 per barrel and 80 cents per bag. Growers, when they received their checks about two weeks hence, should receive upwards of $60,000 from the FSCC for their potatoes. Had it not been for the FSCC purchases, the same growers prob ably would have received $40,000 or less for the same quantity of spuds. It was estimated yesterday that approximately 85 per cent of the 1937 spud crop in Pasquotank county has been marketed, and by the end of this week only about five per cent of the crop will re main. The average price has been around SI.40. which is well below the actual cost of production. ? More Steel Plants Are Reopened Amid Violence I A National Guard Held; In Readiness In Indiana Indianapolis, Ind., June 30? (U.R)?Inland Steel company and the steql workers organizing committee tonight signed a "memorandum of understand ing" ending a month-old walk out of steel workers at the com pany's Indiana Harbor plant. Canton, 0? June 30.?(U.R)? Violence and threat of a general strike here and mobilization of the national guard in northern Indiana featured developments in the steel strike tonight. The C. I. O. pickets crashed au tomobile windows and injured several non-strikers leaving plants of Republic Steel Corp., when shifts were changed tonight. It was the second outbreak of the day here. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of Indiana ordered 3,900 national guardsmen in northern Indiana to mobilize and await further or ders in view of possible violence at Indiana harbor at 8 p. m. to morrow when Inland Steel Corp., and Youngstown Sheet and Tube are scheduled to reopen strike bound plants. Republic opened its plants here this morning, when fifteen work ers were injured by stones. When the shifts changed to night workers drove out of the gates in some 250 automobiles guarded by national guardsmen. After the troops left them three blocks from the gates, strikers be gan stoning the non-striking. The returning army of work men tonight was estimated at 900 (Continued on Page Three) Bldg. Permils Show 45% Gain Tola! for Fiscal Year Is 8122,320, So ihc Records Show Despite a dull June, construc tion in Elizabeth City for the I 1936-37 fiscal year, which ended yesterday, reached its highest to tal since 1929, a study of the building permits records in the office of City Manager J. B. Flora discloses. The total for the 12-months' period was $122,320, of which only $5,550 was instituted during June. Building permits issued during the previous fiscal year, that of 1935 36, totaled only $88,722, and the total for the 1936 calendar year was only $96,172. June was a rather slow month, in contrast to the busy month of May, when 14 permits totaling $23,050 were issued. Only three permits were issued during June, one to the Love Bros., for a new market on Front Street to cost $4,900, another to A. L. Aydlett for a garage to cost $250, and the third to D. T. Bundy for a house to cost $400. Building permits issued during the first six months of the calen dar year total $65,120, distributed as follows: Jan., $4,300: Feb., $14, 560; Mar., $6,650; Apr., $11,010; May, $23,050, and June. $5,550. On the basis of this six-months' total the 1937 calendar year should show about a 10 per cent increase over the 1936-37 fiscal year and a 60 per cent increase over the 1936 calendar year. The $100,000 addition to the lo cal post office for which no build ing permit was required, would have run the total up to close to a quarter of a million dollars. Parker Gets Sentence; Newark, N. J., June 30.?