Elizabeth City Stores Will Close Half-Day On Wednesday
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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
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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.
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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
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'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.