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o^.sV in 4T^iofS ^tfl? FlAnV T]\TT^XTT)Tj,1\TT^Tj,"\TT^ I MARITIME FORECAST y. .;?!> generally fair and con- I I I l i I W r-% I I . I I ^ I I il m^ I I H I ml I ISandy Hook to Hatteras: Moderate tinued warm. * H J - ? J / I I I J | | I ^ | J I J I I I southeast or south wind and mostly to/.o r?r**yft?ixTr?r-v ??m,? 1 I / M i J? 1 JL I overcast weather, probably occasional , Chinese Communists Come fo Assistance Of Nanking In Defense Against Japan * I Will Defend North China fo Last, is Kesoive Courting Russia (hiaui-' - ' ? ntral Gov;?rn jiiciil F<?r? Mo\c Into tin' !5nl!I?* /one I . July 15. (U.R) I moved out of I intain? of Shensi I ... nationalist le I Chiang Kai-shek. I defend Pciping I an si militarists ?e?k I ... . C una* richest ter-! I . empire of Manchu-| I ? rn d Japan that she will! I ion by for-j ? r ir. the undeclared! I entral gov I . , ried with a vow to I I una "to the last |r p f Chitu "V blood." I Il.iN t ai o'innrc Defense I c mmunist party I CI tse poHti I . from the National-i I .. . . Chiang Kai I se a .?termina ls:. :. - V; ... last ditch fight li. u Nipponese. I : urn rs riiat the Nan It.:. government was I sian support in! retain control over I ? between the Yel I sorrow ? and I the Chinese Com I issued a manifesto I corn h se demands: | ? . .. o ing Cheh-yuan. I C rr.i. ^ci on Page Three) Bastille Day, or 01)ser\edAmid Riotous Scene Giaot Military Parade Is (Kershadoued !>y Out x Break of Disorder Pa: J;h 14.? 'U.Rj? Gunfire . e and demonstra t*: a: -.i bombs were thrown, a: ' .u k demoli bed. and scor ia v as the na r. . ibrated Bastille Day. the f F :. of July." Paris and Mar eilles "d the government's display of military : j'. :e representatives of : ? -r. ; r-. Supporters of the and Fascist; seized a m opportunity to vent i ?'? ? f? ling with guns, fists inc. imp: mptu weapons. Ca: i:<: taking part in the! u Iron: parade in the east j ::: h d window, in I he line of march, il ir fronters march his s 50 members of ? : ? French Popular Fust: : ? reportedly threw ;j iv.:)- whereupon hand n-ued. A police thers were wound fa by revolver fire. at Maresilles' Pont e Mvaux race course occurred :n ?'1 nurd race, the start 'Continued on Page Three) n ?" , fort Raleigh Turned ^ver to Memorial Association 14. George W. ; WPA administra .. : v ? mod the finished '3 : ')Hct over to the Memorial Asso o? ning ceremon l'1 WPA at the amphi :.i :ht. The project ? d an behalf of the as I) Bradford Fearing, :e ceremonies A. Q x been in charge of Mrs. Mae Campbell Ioa P. Hodges, state and -".visors of women's Howard Bailey, state federal theatre proj 1 aiied upon to speak. 000 persons attended of the symphonic ; urna. The Lost Col a' the conclusion of the Russian Airmen Hang Up A New Long Distanee Record .lover Miles From Moscow Over Top the World and Land In Pasture Near San Jacinto, California; 62Hours In the Air " J | San Jacinto. Calif . July 14. ? 1 (U.R)?Three daring Soviet fliers i riding a red-winged. sing!e-mo or- 1 ed monoplane "ever the tcp of the world" from Moscow, circled ? out of the sunbaked hills south of this tiny desert town today and i. landed in a cow pasture, shatter- ; ing the world non-stop flying rec- h orcl by more than 1.000 miles. j ? The giant Russian plane, which 1 ] fought through Arctic blizzards ' i and buffeting storms over the t Canadian Rockies, was forced to ' land when a leak in a gasoline line sent a spray of precious fuel I spurting into the air behind the roaring flame of its exhaust. The fliers, tired but nappy, > climbed cut of the long-hulled pane wi'h a new mark of 6.663 miles non-stop flying under their belts, surpassing the record of 5, 637 miles set three years ago by j two Frenchmen, Paul Codos and j Maurice Rossi, in a flight from New York to Raykak, Syria. Pilot Michael Gromov, Co-pilot Andrei Yumashev and the navi gator, Sergei Danilin, grinning de spi.e their weariness, found them selves unable to take with any peisons in the crowd which rush ed toward the Soviet plane. With gestures for emphasis, Gromov wro.e: "Sixy-two hours and thirty minutes in the air." That was the elapsed time since the trio of intrepid Russian air men took off from Schelkovo air port, near Moscow, at 8:25 p. m. ?EDT) Sunday. They landed at, about 10:30 a. m. ? EDT>, making I their unofficial elapsed time 62 hours, six minutes. The fliers, lost for hours early today as they roared down the Pacific coast on the home stretch of their trip, had indicated they ? Continued on Page Three) Second Day Of j Futile Search By Lexington MilLon-to-One Chance But Planes Will Scour the Pacific for 5 Davs Honolulu. T. H.. July 14.?(U.PJ? U. S. Navy seaplanes backtracked , today over the aerial route be lieved taken T>y Amelia Earhart j and Frederick Noonan on their around the world flight which ended in their disappearance in mid-Pacific 12 days ago. As the planes, shooting from the broad decks of the aircraft car rier Lexington, began the second day of their search, it was indi cated they would fly back over at least 600 miles of the 2,550 mile route the fliers followed from Lae, New Guinea. Forty-two planes went out this j morning, to make a final search j of the area immediately around 1 Howland Island, toward which! Miss Earhart was aiming. The planes found no trace of : the fliers or their S80.000 Lock- . heed Electra plane in the morning, j The same number of planes went i into the air in the afternoon. The j Lexington, moving southwestward as the hunt was extended, was at the equator and the international j ? Continued on page two> Pyrethrum Is Skeeters' Doom Test Oil Roanoke Isl and Proves Mosquito Proofing Is Possible As a result of an experiment carried out at Fort Raleigh last week. State health authorities have declared that making large outdoor areas mosquito-proof is now an established fact. The Raleigh New & Observer tells the story thus: When preparations for the Virginia Dare celebration at Roanoke Island got underway earlier this year, these familiar with the region between Manteo and Wanchese began to wonder about the mosquito situation. They pictured huge crowds slap ping the insects from their faces and necks as they tried to watch the evening pageantry at the ex hibition. Some who were connected with 'Continued on page two) Boss Sitdowner Has New Run-in With The Unions Concert Class Will Appear Here Tonight I.O.O.F. Entertainers Will Appear at the Christian Cliureh A varied and entertaining pro gram will be presented at the Christian Church tonight at 8:00 o'clock when the I. O. O. F., Con cert Class of 1937 makes its an nual appearance here. The concert class, which is from the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home at Goldsboro. will combine two programs into one tonight, using some of the numbers from its regular concert program and ?some from the program it uses in churches on Sundays. A quartet, an orchestra, vocal solcists, instrumental soloists, a mandolin ensemble and other features will contribute to the evening's entertainment. The class is composed of the following members: Mildred Cart wright. of Camden: Richard Ball and Shirley Ball of Sulphur Springs, Sibyl and Margaret Blay lock, of Waynesville, Eunice High smith of Mt. Olive. Lillian Rob erts of Hamburg, and Ben, Mick ey and Lorena Wellons, of Jeffer son. No admission will be charged, but a free will offering will be taken at the door. Waller L. Frye Tells Them to Incorporate Before He Will Sign Detroit. July 14.?(U.R)?Walter L. Pry, the nation's number one sit-down boss, tonight announced to the world that there are "too many bosses trying to run Fry Products, Inc." His charge that multiple man agement was interfering with the auto seat cover business he owns was included in a letter to the United Automobile Workers of America in which he suggested that the auto union should. 1. Be legally incorporated. 2. Present its financial state ment. 3. Prove its responsibility and ability to fulfil contracts. "Then," said Mr. Pry, "I shall consider signing your submitted contract." It wa6 Fry's second brush with the youthful auto union. On Feb ruary 19, when 150 of his girls sat-down for higher wages and (Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALEND^K A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation P. M. 8:00 Red Men; Troop 152 BSA; Choir practices Library Houre, 10-12, 2-6. v ' He Looks and Acts Like Abraham Lincoln t L. D. AYDFLOTTE Luther D. Adydelotte who in every day life looks not unlike , George Arliss but who on the ' stage is known from coast to j coaut as the greatest living im- ] persona tor of Abraliam Lincoln will visit the old home town next , week, and while here will give the { home folk an exhibition of his t famous Lincoln impersonation on j the stage of the Carolina Wed- 1 ncday night. July 21. j Mr. Aydelotte is a brother of , N. T. Aydiett. of the Aydlett Pro- ( ducts Co.. of this city, and of Mrs. J. o. Meiggs. A native of j Currituck County, he came to Elizabeth City with his father, the late C C. Aydlett in 1904 and . opened a men's furnishing store. , trading as The Eik Store. The ' business was closed out a few years later and Mr. Aydelotte went first to Norfolk and then to - Chicago, in which latter city he was employed by Marshall Field ' & Co. Later he removed to Buf- j faio. N. Y.. where he is now sales , manager of Kleinhans Co., one of the largest men's stores in that city. In wa, in Bulfalo that he iContinued on Page Three) Loyalist Push Halted Claims Rebel General Franeo Tells Correspond ent That Enemy Drive Has Been "Completely Smashed." By REYNOLDS PACKARD Salamanca. Spain. July 14?(U.R) Generalissimo Francisco Franco, dictator of the Nationalist armies, announced tonight that the Loy alist offensive west of Madrid had been "completely smashed" and that his troops were reorganizing their battered lines. Franco, who received foreign correspondents in his headquar (Continued on Page Three) Bagley Working For Dare and Hyde Projects Raleigh. July 14.?(U.R)?State REA chairman Dudley Bagley prepared to leave for Washing ton tomorrow to make "a special plea" for federal REA loans on three North Carolina rural elect ric projects. The proposed lines are sought for the Hatteras Development company, to extend about 22 miles of lines to Buxton and Avon; the Town Creek Rural Electric Corporation, Edgecombe county, 120 miles; and 30 to 40 miles of lines in Hyde county, from Engelhard to Stumpy Point and Fairfield. T. S. Eaton, head of the Hat teras power company, will ac company Bagley to Washington. Bagley also said the state rural electrification authority would meet again August 5. Green Corn Moving To the Markets With the potato movement from this section all but concluded, green corn is beginning to move to the markets in considerable quan tity. Shipped in bags of 60 ears each, the corn so far has been going north to Richmond. Wash ington, Baltimore and Philadel phia by truck, though a consider able quantity was forwarded by rail last year. Current prices are 12 cents a dozen ears for the Stores' Ever green grade of sweet sugar corn, and 10 cents for the Norfolk Mar ket, early field com. Death Of Senate Leader Precipitates Three-Way Fight For Vacant Place Senator Joe T. Robinson Dies In Midst Of Battle * Temporary Armistice In Court Reorgani zation Campaign But the President Indicates Fight Will Go On Washington, July 14.?(U.R)?Political adversaries sheathed their swords tonight in tribute to renate majority leader Joe T. Robinson whose death while fighting for supreme court reorganization bereft President Roo. evelt of valiant leadership at a critical moment of oattle. So stunned were Robinson s* senate colleagues who witnessed , he vigor with which he opened lie gieatc-st legislative foray of lis career, that Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. D? Mont., called 011 Mr. rtoosevelt to drop the court bat tle' lest he appear to fight against 3od." Whoeler attributed the . Arkansas Democrat's death to iver-exerton accentuated by the sourt fight. But senators who saw the pre sident after a shocked congress had declared a temporary armis tice, said the "fight will go on." Mr. Roosevelt, who received the news in bed this morning, mourn ed the passing of a soldier who fell "with face to the battle." He Kill attend state funeral services for Robinson in the senate cham ber at noon Friday, while vice president John Nance Garner will go from his home at Uvalde, Tex., where he is vacationing, to attend state ceremonies and the burial rites at Little Rock, Robin-son's birthplace, on Sunday. Robinson was found in his apartment across Capitol Plaza from the scene of his 34-year con gressional career at 8:15 a. m., by a maid who had gone to awaken ?rOvt.Ouk'kTo Act About C a in p Vv i 11 Move Coin jock Transients; the Conn- j ty Loses Erosion Work Coinjock, July 14.?Word was received here today from Wash ington that the WPA Negro transient camp which has been located here since last summer will be removed from Currituck County within 30 days, in com pliance with the request of the Board of County Commissioners. The camp, which quarters some 200 Negro transients who have been engaged in making sand fences for use in beach erosion work, is housed on half a dozen floating units tied alongside of j the north bank of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal, just east of , the Coinjock bridge. Exactly as those who fought against removal of the camp had predicted, the National Park Ser vice announced that removal of the camp will mean that no beach erosion work will be done in Cur rituck county, altho quite a bit had had been contemplated. (Continued on Page Three) Verdict for Railroad In Ownley Case The case of H. E. Ownley and others against the Norfolk Southern railroad was decided in favor of the defendant by a jury in United States court yesterday afternoon. The plaintiffs had claimed $5,000 for alleged dam age to farm lands in the Okisko section from defective drainage of the railroad's right of way. Hearing of evidence in the case of Ethel Payne of Ehringhaus St., against N. B. Stonestreet, the Elliott Chevrolet company of Nor folk and Kenneth Jarvis, was be gun at the afternoon session. Miss Payne is claiming damages for personal injuries received when the car in which 6he was riding with Jarvis crashed into one driv en by Stonestreet, an employe of the Norfolk concern. The accid ent occurred at night and it is contended that Stonestreet's car was parked without lights on the highway near Shawboro. Griffin Is Re-elected As Secretary To Commission Raleigh, July 14.?Lloyd E. Griffin today was re-elected exe cutive secretary of the state school commission after Gov. Clyde R. Hoey had strongly urg ed hi6 retention at the commis sion's swearing-in ceremonies. Supreme Court Justice George Connor administered the oath of office to 10 members of the com mission, recently named to that group by Gov. Hoey. James Oates, 11th member, was not present due to illness. Racketeer Is Canvassing E. City Uses Sprained Ankle and Hard Luck Story As Her Bait A hold-up artist whose wea pons are a hard luck story and a bandaged ankle has been plying her trade in Elizabeth City for the past week, according to several business and professional men whom she attempted to victimize. The modus operandi of this fe male racketeer is simple? and ob vious. For example: Walking into an insurance of fice, she asks to see the mana ger. "I am Mrs. Cooley," she says by way of introduction. "My mother carries insurance on my two chil ren in Greensboro with your com pany. My husband will be here next week, and as soon as he ar rives I will want to take out a pol icy on him and one on myself al so. Meanwhile, I am in need of a little money in order to pay for some bandages for my ankle. I wonder would it be asking too much of you to lend me forty cents until my husband gets here?" In a farm supply store, she tells the proprietor that her husband bought some equipment there last spring and intends to purchase some machinery in the fall. But she is caught in town short of funds and needs money to pay for a prescription. Could she borrow (Continued on Page Three) r Prettiest Grandmother Is Looking For A Husband ? . ? i New York, July 14.?(U.R)?Mrs. Theresa Caffrey was acclaimed the most beautiful grandmother in New York tonight, and her knit ting needles went click-click-click while she explained that life be gan at 82 and that she was in the market for a husband. She was the winner among 50 entrants in the "three score and ten club's" beauty contest? an epic event which she won by the slender margin of two wrinkles and a fallen arch. Her opponents had the wrinkles. Mrs. Caffrey had the fallen arch and that is why she headed straight for her rocking chair as soon as they gave her the tall silver cup. That is when her secret came out. She not only is a grandmo ther, but a great-grandmother ?a tall brunette lady who subscribes to the theory that you are as young as you feel so long as you are in a rocking chair. From that throne she issued this statement: "The young 'uns are always get ting married. Why shouldn't 1? I have two grandsons and one great-grandson. But I still think I'm young, and I'm looking for a husband." The beauty contest was a sight to see. Mrs. Caffrey is pretty sure that what really put her across was the dance she did. The rest of the grandmothers just went out and looked pretty. None of that stuff for Grandma Caffrey. She went to work on the judges with a flashing smile and a saucy tilt to her chin. Then her feet began to move. "What was that dance you did?" she was asked. Mrs. Caffrey looked a bit coy and everybody thought she was (Continued on page five) SENATOR ROBINSON him. He apparently had been dead five homy or more, victim of a heart attack when he got up dur ing the night. He was in paja mas. The only survivor is his widow, who was at their home at Little Rock. After communicating with her Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secre tary of the senate, said -she would come here for the state funeral. At 65 Robinson was at the cli max of a political career that be gan in 1894 in the Arkansas gen eral assembly and which, had he (Continued on Page Three) Survey Shows Importance Of Road Engelhard - Fairfield Highway Bears Heavy Traffic There is little guess work about the number of families, the num ber of cultivated farm acres and the traffic and commerce on that 15 miles of N. C. highway No. 264 between Fairfield and Engelhard, in Hyde county. A survey made by R. L. Patrick. W. W. Watson. A. B. Harris and P. E. Swindell in 1935 has just come to the atten tion of this newspaper. While not up to date, it shows what can be done in the matter of assembling important statistics for use in in numerable ways. Hyde county folks are using these figures right now to emphasize the importance of leveling and surfacing the ex tension of 264 from Engelhard to Manns Harbor where Hyde county ' people will find a convenient out let to the Dare Coast, to Elizabeth City and Norfolk. This highway would put Engelhard within ap proximately 50 miles of Manteo, whereas the best route afforded an Engelharder who wants to at (Continued on Page Three) I Barkley, Harrison and Byrnes Are Likely Timber President's Pick Would Probably Be First Named But Court Op ponents to Fight Washington, July 14.? (U.R)? The struggle by conservative Democrats in congress to recap ture their party from the hands of President Roosevelt and his new dealers, was expected tonight to flare into the open when a suc cessor to the late Senate Majority Leader Joe T. Robinson, D., Ark., is chosen. The leadership post is one of power and honor. Its occupant speaks for the White House in the senate; he moulds party policies; combats legislation distasteful to the administration and guides its measures through the upper house. His authority in the cham ber is second to the vice president who is presiding officer. Elected Next Week Early next week 76 Democrats in the senate will go into caucus to select Robinson's successor. On their selection will rest the fate of legislation such as the supreme court reorganization bill, the gov ernment reorganization bill, the wages-and-hours measure already brought forward by President Roosevelt, and future reform leg islation which may be offered. A three-cornered fight for the leadership began weeks ago when Robinson's name was brought for ward as a successor to Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter, retired. The candidates mention ed in connection with the post are Sen. Alben Barkley, D., Ky? (Continued on Page Three) England Ready To Rearm Her Merchantmen Spanish Situation Reaches Critical Stage As Ship Is Captured London, July 14.?(U.R)?Great Britain, reaching the cross roads of peace and war, announced to night that she is massing guns and equipment to arm her mer chant ships in preparation for any "emergency" arising from the Spanish civil war. While Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, made the grave announcement in the House of Commons, grim "war games" started along a 150-mile stretch of the British channel coast to test the island's defense against (Continued on Page Three) Fifteen-Pound 'Cat' Landed On Local Waterfront Local anglers instead of trek king to Oregon Inlet these days are wetting their lines along the riverfront, spurred by the report of the 15-pound catfish hooked and landed at the Globe Fish com pany dock Tuesday night by Wil lie Rogers, employe of the Eliza beth City Iron Works. No fish story, the catch was on exhibition yesterday in the cold storage room of the Globe Fish company, a bullet-headed, bewhis kered "Mississippi cat," 32 V2 inches long and measuring 5Vi inches between the eyes. Rogers was using a reed pole when he hooked the fish, which was landed in a dip net after a struggle of about 10 minutes. Cecil Richardson landed a 5Vi pound cat near the same spot on Tuesday night and there have been previous catches of the fish weighing nine and 12 pounds. The advent of the Mississippi catfish in these waters is said to have oc curred within the past three years.
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