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Elizabeth City Stores Will Close Half-Day On Wednesday Tut? riATTv Tivmr DnvmnvrT CtStETT . V fair, except local afternoon ? ?? ? ? / m ? ? V I 1 I I ll . wT^ W} . I ml I ? Hi , I ml I moderate shifting winds and partly ov lowers Monday and Tuesday: ? 1 B 1 J B //111 J fl 1 I 1 B / I J I i J I 1 B / 1 J I 1 J_ ercast weather, probably local showers ' ?v change in temperature. Monday. ? ? 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 90 ? Total No. 265. llubli5hwl K'"* KTKi!Kh c-?,Tn. J?;Jepenaen, ^bli^n' Co- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. anuri ?t ntj. n. o.. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS peace Agreement I 4 I lows Reopening Of Chicago Plants IVounustown Steel In I l mlerstanding I With Union 17.7(H) Men Affected I iu.| hi Time to Avert the vein- of \ iolenee Be I in-: Ilireatenecl I nap >l:s. Intl.. July 11?(U.R) ? Gov. M Clifford Townsend an I meed .'da: that an agreement I iiau been reached between the I antaing eommit I ?, am; h e Youngstown Sheet & U. :,. m:i[ any and tliat strikers I a. aid return to work in the east I Chicago plants tomor- J I morning. I 7 mnernor's announcement I followed a conference with Van I a. Bittner. regional dii-ector of I the S W. O C.. and Youngstown I officials, and provided for im I :.r resumption of peace ne I 2 I Tirvoenri said Bittner had I 1 order pickets away from I ?-.> plants at once. I 7.700 In Two Plants The asi Chicago plant employs j I n itely 7.700 men and the soutir Cliicago plant. 700. Both ' I to .. ised when the S. W. O. C. j I called its strike nearly two j I T r.vr.sencl said company offi- j I cials agre d to his suggestions in ! I 'iday at east Chi I rai'i m which he was represented I by T1-. )ir.as Hutson. head of the I State D:v. ion of Labor. He was I unable o reach Bittner yesterday I but succeeded in contacting him I by telephone today. | Bittner came from Chicago to , I Ir.dianapolis to accept the agree I ment. I It provides that the company I meet ai. negotiate" with the J I Continued on Page Three) Madrid Drive Costs 40.000 In Casualties Maija - OfiVn>ive M a k e s IVo?rr?- In Improving Position of Capital Henaayc. Franco-Spanish Fron ?r. July 11.?'U.Ri?Loyali* and armies fighting for ? >' ? <r. if Madid tonight were ?ported to have suffered more '??an 40.000 casualties. Five days of battle during which ' : Miaia's loyali ts have - ' vi av Iv to break the rebel steel ring around Madrid, were ; i.ave taken a tell of 1 dead and nearly 30.000 '*f".:nded. T- : : aiist high command. .>t its own'losses, . aid 7 000 loyalists were K-'ti unci 15.000 wounded. and government war T.fiicting "vxtory" but it was evident that - ?' of Miaja were making ir drive through r:a Guadarramus toward 'Continued on Page Three) fr'f. Marshall Mot Showing Signs Improvement ^ virion of thr Rev. O. ^ Ma: all who suffered a stroke ' >? Ricky Mount nine is unimproved, accord .t\'z o, brought back last ?? son. John Marshall. '' ?' he week end in Rocky il' ';; ? -lil never preach again. :ul that he will be 'alk at all." said John, no signs of improve in.... srfP" Marshall. pastor of the Street Baptist Church r:' Mount, was pastor of Shawboro and Saw k Baptist Churches for years before going to " 'r-' " I - int. Lexington Earhart's Last Hope Carrier's Plants In Air Late Today or Tomorrow | Honolulu. July 11.?(U.R>?The, i fat j of Amelia Earhart and her I navigator. Pied Noonan?if they j 11 are alive?depended tonight j on .lie oig aircraft carrier Lexing l ton. plougning southward toward Hov.iand island with 72 long- I range planes. The Lexington was due to ar- i rive tomorrow off Howland island j and loose its planes either late j (Monday or early Tue day over the desolate reef-studded waters below I the equator where Miss Earhart and Noonan were believed forced down ten days ago on a flight | ' from Lae. New Guinea. Meanwhile the battleship Colo rado. with three planes, withdrew from the search tonight and head ed nnrtidkVard toward Honolulu. The Lexington, capable of cov I eing 60.000 square miles a day, is the main hope of those directing the search, however. Not a word has been heard since last Wednesday to indicate whether Miss Earhart and her fly ing companion are still above water. The last signals which ra dio experts believed might have come from the plane were "car (Continued on Page Seven) Ambulance In Three-Way Crash Leslie Walson In Jail Un der 3 Charges Following Riverside Collision In default of seventy-five dol lar bond for his appearance in Pasquotank recorders court this morning. Leslie Walson. son of S. J. Walson. local Negro undertak er. was remanded to jail last night under three charges of speeding, reckless driving and driving driv ing while intoxicated. The charges grew out of a double wreck at the corner of Riverside avenue and Hunter ?street in which the ambulance driven by Walson struck a 1934 Ford coach owned by Mrs. T. W. Harrell of route one, and a 1928 Chrysler coach owned by Mrs. (Continued on page five) Tennessee Valley Work Progresses J KICKING up a backwash, here are two old-fa hionecl stern wheelers churning through the almost completed lock at Chicamauga dam. seven miles from Chattanooga. Tenn. The steamers are pushing a barge filled with admiring Chattanoogans. The concrete barrier of the dam. rising 194 feet high, is not due to be completed until 1939. but practical completion of this lock was an occasion of festivity. lckes Launches Blast At Lobbyists On Sugar Bill\ Denounces Attempts at Discriminatory Legislation Washington. July 11. ?(U.R)? Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. in a written statement to night. scathingly attacked sugar lobbyists in Washington and de clared that the administration is vigorously opposed to enactment of sugar marketing legislation which would discriminate against Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Vir gin Islands. This was the second official blast against sugar lobbyists with in a month. President Roosevelt, at a recent press conference, de scribed them as "pernicious" and said they were responsible for de laying legislation to regulate su gar marketing in the United States. "The extreme activity of the carefully chosen cane refiner lob byists." Ickes said, "makes mani fest their utter disrespect of the independent judgment and the sense of public responsibility of the members of congress." Ickes said the present situation with regard to pending sugar leg islation appears to be "that the domestic sugar producers are be ing victimized by their own lobby ists." "I believe that the government of the United States," he said, "has too high regard for its pub lic trust and has had too much ex perience with the high pressure (Continued on Page Three) 'ReformedBurlesque' Replace Strip-Tease V New York. July 11.?(U.R)? Broadway's forgotten ladies?the strip-tease dancers?were on their way back tonight, dressed up with plenty of clothes and a solemn ! promise they won't take them off in public. Seven former burlesque pro ducers. whose shows were closed two months ago after a morals crusade against "indecency" in | the theater, announced they will apply for licenses to re-open to morrow. with a "reformed burles que." The new shows, employing 500 former strip-tease queens, will ! have no stripe-tease dances, no i low-comedy gags and won't even bear the name "burlesque." "It will be refined vaudeville," explained Gene Buck, president of the American society of Compos ers, authors and publishers, who organized the producers under a new "code." There will be the same familiar faces, however, from the ladies of the ensemble of Messrs. Herbert ?and Morton Minsky, self-styled glorifiers of the American girl in the raw and two of the chief tar gets of the morals crusade which closed their showhouses last May. The reformed burlesque? which will pass under the name of "variety revues"?was agreed upon after a confernce of penit ent burlesque managers and city officials. Licenses will be granted tomor row, the producers were assured, -and the new shows, which are al ready in rehearsal, will go into operation tomorrow night. Most of the girls, who lost their jobs when the clean-up wiped out all the burlesque houses in New York, indicated they were pleas ed with the new set-up. Mae Moss, dark-eyed dancer at producer Joe Weinstock's Repub lic theater during the torrid days (Continued on Page Three) f TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR | A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club 4:00 First Baptist Sunbeams 8:00 Pocahontas: Kiwanis Jr. glee club; American Leg ion ; First Methodist board of Christian Education; First Baptist Business Woman's Circle. Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6. ?? J > George Gershwin, Genius Of Tin-Pan Allev, Dead J I Hollywood. July 11. ?(U.R)? i George Gershwin, the genius of Tin Pan Alley who lifted Ameri- I can "jazz" music from the honky- ! tonk to the concert hall, died to-1 day in Cedars of Lebanon hospi-: I tal after an emergency opera- , | tion. Gershwin collapsed Friday night j 1 while working on musical scores | (for a film production and was j J taken to the hospital, unconscious I | and in "critical condition." He died at 10:35 a. m. <2:35 p. m.. EDT> after an emergency op- I I eration was performed shortly af- j | ter midnight in an effort to save I ! his life. Gershwin was 40. but in spite of I I his youth had contributed more i I notable works than any othe" modern American composer dur j ing a quarter of a century of re | lentless work. His most famous j work was "The Rhapsody in Blue" which catapulted him over j night into one of the foremost po sitions in the musical world. The pale. Jewish youth from i New York's East Side who rose I from the obscurity of a non-musi j cal family to become the most i widely known American composer | of his time, died "in harness." Gershwin suffered a nervous , breakdown two weeks ago while [ working at a film studio on com- ! positions for a new production. At | the hospital it was discovered he j was suffering from a brain tu- j mor. Three specialists were rushed to ; the hospital after his physician, I Dr. Gabriel Segall, discovered the ailment. He was operated on early to day. and later revived from the anaesthetic. Dr. Segall said at that time that his condition was still "critical" and it was "too j early to tell what the outcome may be." Gershwin, frail and ill the greater part of his life, was un-: able to withstand the shock. He i died at 2:35 p. m. <EDT>. (Continued on Page Three) l ummy Aches Loom For | Tonight Legion Has Vast Ar ray Food ami Drink; Good Music Also Stomach aches will be an even greater contributing factor to sleeplessness in Elizabeth City to night than the heat, judging from i the array of food and drink that | has been prepared and is being j prepared for the American Legion get-together at the Community Building at 6:30 o'clock this eve ning. The main item on the menu will be barbecued pig?a mere 175 pounds of it?with corn bread and rolls. But that will but be the be ginning. Two hundred pounds of new Irish potatoes today are be ing converted into tasty potato salad. Then there will be around 50 gallons of ice cold lemonade, an almost limitless supply of ice j cream, close to 1,000 bottles of ; beer, soft drinks and milk, and 400 cakes. What a far cry from the hardtack and beans the Legion naires ate Over There! In addition to all this, there will also be a musical menu, arrang ed by Dr. H. A. Thorson. Dan ' Watson and his Elizabeth City j Aces will be on hand with a plen- , tiful supply of tuneful string mu- j sic, and J. T. Jackson will sing i several numbers. Besides all ex-service men in ! ? (Continued on Page Three) ' Aycock Again To Submit Budget Head of Currituck's Schools Appears Be fore the Board Today Currituck. July 12.?Superin tendent Frank Aycock today will for the second time submit to the board of county commissioners the 1937-38 school budget, which the commissioners would not ap prove last Monday. In turning down the budget last week, W. M. McClannon. chair man of the board, suggested to (Continued on Page Three) Section Swelters Thru 4th Day Heat Wave Electric fans, shower baths and ice manufacturers worked over time yesterday as Elizabeth City and the Albemarle section swel tered thru the fourth day of one of the section's worst heat waves in recent years. The temperature yesterday reached a maximum of 96 here, and the average temperature for the day was 84.0 degrees. Aver age temperatures for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, first three days of the heat wave, were 81.5, 83.0 and 85.0, respectively. The average July temperature is 78.8 degrees. Local soda fountains did a rush ing business in lemonades and ice ! cream yesterday, and nearby j bathing spots had their largest crowds of the current season. Few men were seen wearing ! coats yesterday, and a majority j wore no neckties. t Congress Waits On Result Court Bill * Little Legislation Taken Up Before the Settlement of That Issue. Washington, July 11.?<U.R)? With more than 11,000 bills in the hopper, congress embarked tonight on a period of doing vir tually nothing about them until after the senate has disposed of the supreme court issue. Within about two weeks the house is expected to begin a series of three-day recesses ? possibly longer, with the concurrence of the senate? while the lengthy de bate over the court continues. First, however, it will act on a bill to carry out one phase of Presi dent Roosevelt's executive reor ganization program, the interior department appropriation, and a few other measures. Reorganization Bill The executive reorganization bill, which the house may consid er tomorrow, would permit Mr. Roosevelt to have six executive as sistants at $10,000 a year, to help him administer government poli cies. Meanwhile the house labor com mittee, under its new chairman, Rep. Mary T. Norton, D., N. J., will begin executive consideration of the administration's wage and hour bill, reported by the senate committee last week. Considera tion is expected to take at least two weeks. Later the house may act on the measure in the expec tation that a senate vote will fol low disposal of the supreme court issue. Several items on Mr. Roosevelt's legislative program came in for denunciation tonight by Hugh S. Magill, president of the Ameri can Federation of Investors, Inc., in an editorial in that organiza tion's official publication. Magill said that 400 of the 11,000 pend ing bills bear directly on the in terests of investors, including the wage and hour bill, the supreme court bill, the Norris TVA-exten sion bill, and the O'Mahoney fed eral licensing bill. The editorial, entitled "Facing the Terrors of Revolution," said that "sacred human rights guar (Continued on Page Three) Washington Bd Turns Down Aderholt Will Not Approve the Principal Elected by Creswell Committee Plymouth, July 11.?For the first time in years the Washing ton County Board of Education failed to approve a principal elected by a local committee when they did not enter their -approv al to the selection of C. H. Ader holdt as principal of the Creswell schools. The Creswell committee, com posed of Ike Carter, chairman, J. F. Snell, secretary, and J. B. Hathaway as the third member, elected Mr. Aderholdt for his sixth term on May 29, with Mr. Carter and Mr. Hathaway favor ing him and Mr. Snell voting (Continued on Page Three) Local Scouts Had Clean Camp Their Troop's Camp at Jamboree Praised by President's Wife The troop of which five Eliza beth City Boy Scouts were mem bers was complimented by Mrs. Franklin D. Rocsevelt for having the cleanest camp she had seen at the national Boy Scout Jam boree in Washington, D. C., ac cording to Murphy Phelps, local Scout, who returned Saturday from the Jamboree. The 30,000 Scouts attending the Jamboree were divided into re gional groups, according to Scout Phelps, and each Region embrac ed a number of troops. Each troop consisted of 32 Scouts, four (Continued on Page Three) For the Friend Away From Home Maybe you, too, would like to send copies of The Daily Inde pendent's Roanoke Colonies Memorial Edition to friends away from home. Hundreds are doing it. We still have a good ly supply of extra copies on hand at 10 cents a copy. Just bring or send your mailing lisl to The Daily Independent, 4 E. Colonial Ave., with the proper remittance, and we will do the mailing gratis. i J Transients Not Problem At Coinjock Says Petition of Resi dents Who Lay Blame On Bootlegging Joint Coinjock, July 11.?(Special)? Upwards of one hundred residents of this neighborhood have signed a petition to the Board of Com missioners of Currituck county, requesting that body to reconsid er its recent motion requesting Congressman Lindsay C. Warren to use his influence to have the floating transient labor camps re moved from this locality. The petitioners feel that the removal of the camps would be a serious economic loss to the com munity. Nearly $5,000 a month is released here in pay checks and purchases of otherwise unmer chantable timber for use in the beach erosion project in Dare county amount to several thou sand dollars annually. That the Negro laborers housed in the transient camps are a dis orderly lot and a disturbance to the peace of the neighborhood is (Continued on Page Three) Benefit Dance For Norton Tonight Entire Proceeds Go to Orchestra M ember With a Broken Neck Nags Head. July 11.? Members of Newell Campbell's Beach club orchestra and other volunteer can vassers today reported a good re sponse to the sale of tickets for the Bill Norton Benefit Dance to be given at the Nags Head Beach club Monday night. Proceeds from this dance will be used to defray the hospital and medical expenses of Bill Norton, drummer in the orchestra, who broke his neck in the surf last Thursday. A good many tickets were sold at the Beach Club on Saturday night and today all the cottages on the beach were canvassed. The tickets sell for $1, and the entire proceeds will go to Norton, as (Continued on Page Three) Religious Service Held at Fort Manteo, July 11.? The second religious service of the celebration at Fort Raleigh was conducted under the auspices of the Metho dist church at 11 o'clock this morning, Dr. H. E. Spence of the chair of Religion of Duke univer sity preaching the sermon. Under a canopy especially spread to shade the fairly large audience, men, women and chil dren sweltered in the burning heat. Nevertheless, none left and all observed attentively the words of special reference connecting the events of 1584-87 to the present celebration and the application of the same to the modern age. A special chcir made up of members of the Westminster choir and Westminster choir school ren dered beautifully and wholesomely sacred selections that held the congregation for every minute it continued. Among the congrega tion were noted many people from off Roanoke Island, especially were there many from Edenton. Rev. A. E. Brown of the Man teo Methodist church, and Rev. W. N. Vaughn of the Wanchese Methodist church, assisted in the services. FranceTo Issue A Warning Will Open Spanish Border If Agree ment Fails Tuesday Deadline Eden Rushes Back to Lon don to Try and Bring About Compromise Paris, July II.?<U.R)? British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tonight rushed back to England aboard the yacht Princess, can celling plans for a week-end cruise in French waters, when he learn ed of France's refusal to recon sider an ultimatum in the Spanish neutrality crisis. Andre Corbin, French ambassa dor to London, will notify the 27 nation neutrality committee to morrow that, unless agreement is reached by Tuesday on continued non-intervention control, the Freeh southern frontier will be opened. Cancels Trip Eden was aboard the Princess off Deauville when he received an urgent message from the foreign office in London. The yacht at once sailed for Southampton, al though Eden and his party plan ned to procede up the Seine to Rouen. When the yacht reached French waters last night Eden was be lieved to have made contact with the British ambassador to Paris, (Continued on page five) Russians Off On New Polar Flight To U. S. Will Try for a Record, Fly ing As Far Southward As Possible Moscow, Monday, July 12.?(U.R) Throe Soviet airmen took off in a single-motored monoplane early today for a dash over the top of the world to the United States and a possible new world's rec ord for non-stop flight. Headed by the tall and hand some Mikhail Gromov, who was skipper of the ill-fated Maxim Gorky, the fliers will attempt to cut across the north pole route blazed by three "Soviet heroes" last month and fly down the Pa cific coast as far as possible. It was thought their destina tion might be Los Angeles, and if they succeeded in the attempt they will surpass the long-distance record of Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos of Prance who flew 5,657 miles from New York to Syria in 1933. With Gromov was Maj. Andre Yumashev, navigator, and Sergei Daniline, co-pilot. The time of their take-off was 3:24 a. m. (8:24 p. m. EDT Sunday). While the motor of their plane, the Ant 25-1, was being warmed up, Gromov told the little group gathered around the plane that (Continued on Page Three) Travel Group From Va. Journey8 To Dare Today Manteo, July 12.? Representa tives from several tourist and transportation agencies will meet with officials of the Roanoke Col ony Memorial association at luncheon at the Nags Header ho tel at 12:30 o'clock. The occasion will be in the interest of special discussions with respect to the proper advertising for the 350th celebration now going on on Roan oke Island. F. E. Turin, manager of the advertising board of the Norfolk Portsmouth Chamber of Com merce will head the delegation that is coming from the area of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond and other points to the north. D. B. Fearing, chairman of the Roan oke Colony Memorial celebration comreittee, will head the delega tion of officials of the association and the county who go to meet with the out of county visitors. More than fifty in all are ex pected to be present. Mr. Turin will preside at the meeting.
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