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SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS* fate Of New Deal Program Hangs On Choice Of Leader * fenipv rs On Edge and Trend Is Toward Adjournment Barkley-Harrison g;,.. ami Kailey Among W ho Fa >or Mi?>i*>ip|>iaii lV,winter, July 18. ?(U.R>_ is^ceiit Roosevelt's entire legis j.;VC ivio.m program and future *;' o: the Democratic party yV oe vitally affected on Wcd when senate Democrats incus to select a successor to the Majority Leader Joe - Robimon. it was indicated to The 27;h week of the session ids r.etie o: Mr. Roosevelt's erasures enacted into law and - Democratic party shak :> : nidations in a raging er tltv president's supreme cor: reorganization bill. Frayed j topers explode daily in both j rises ar.d tnere is strong agita- j :cr. for early sure die adjourn- I Weather a Factor The ta>k of keeping senators cd congressmen at their desks xnltuii capital weather af or ?. veil before, the court fight t - tried, is one of the chief wor :e> of congressional leaders. It dgurcs prominently in the contest ire: the senate leadership. There are only two candidates Robir.scn s job. Assistant Leader Aiben W. Bark iey. D K;... and Chairman Pat i Samson. D.. Miss., of the senate inar.ee committee. President1 looscveit iias sought to make it! ram that the White House has no ?Continued on Page Three) ft omaiiLawyer Dies After; Being Beaten Actor and Vctress Are Be iug Held Pending An III M^tiuation by Police Los Anse'es. July 18?(U.R>?An actress and actor were held by '??? tonmht. pending an inquest j t'.o the death of Dorothy May ; Garland. 31. well-known woman ' attorney. She died in a hospital ; following a beating at be home. Mr- Kay Tutwiler. 29, who des occupation as actress. *15 detained on the technical booking of suspicion of murder a:"er police were informed she Pommeled the victim in a followed a drink ?? Party. Held with her as a ?Eaterial witness was Luther Al ^ who said he was an actor. Mrs. Garand. a former deputy attorney's and city Ktornev's .,taffs. was admitted to :i0sP-'Hi cist Friday, two days C'r.tinued on Page Three) Police Have a Very Ineventful *eek End ' was the weather, or ?".'?tiling else caused it, 1 fact that Saturday, "'as the first Saturday ' memory of local police m untoward incident ^ recorded on the police blot ' not. the local police irday was as blank face. Not one red. Not even one per /;? ;'as arrested for simple Ferness. almost as quiet yes >t for a colored man v., d for slapping his ? did not make an "E- -!!1 day long able to get out of ay for the week end, p^' - ? left here were so whip 1 by the weather that ^ rJ(' llKe making any ained one police of ' c'T could recall a quieter mtful week end. Japanese Airmen In An Attack Machine Gun Chinese Reinforcements On the Way Shanghai, Monday, July 19 (U.R) a Chinese central news agency dispatch from Tientsin today denied that Gen. Sung Ch'?n-Iuun, commander of the Chinese army at Pciping, had apologized to Japan for incid ents which led to th current North China crisis. Earlier Reports said Sung had tendered a formal apology af ter receiving an ultimatum from the Japanese foreign of fice. demanding full concession of Japanese demands in North China. Tientsin. China. Mondav, Julv 19.?(U.R) ? Japanese warplanes roared southward over the Yel low River today, raking advancing tiainloads of Chinese nationalist troops with machine-gun fire as (Continued on Page Three) E. City Men In Famed Troop Flora brothers Mem bers of 317lh Ambu lance Co.; Will Meet IVext Week Three Elizabeth City ex-dough boys are members of the 317th Ambulance Company, which Gen eral Pershing termed "The most typical soldier troop in the A. E. P.". and which will hold its sec ond reunion since the World War next week. Jerome B. Flora, Howard A. Flora and Edward A. Flora, three brothers, are members of this company, which will hold a re union at the State convention of the American Legion in Durham July 24 to 27. Mayor Jerome Flora is the only one of the three who will attend the reunion. How the 317th came to be call ed the "most typical soldier troop" is an interesting story. When news of the signing of the Armistice reached the company, its men trooped into the cathedral at (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Has New War Plane Of Revolutionary Design Washington, July 18.?(U.R)?The Army air corps today announced development of what its engineers consider the most formidable fighting plane in the world. It is a two-motored "pusher" ! type monoplane of low-wing de sign equipped to carry a crew of five and six-machine guns and ! light bombs, and is designed to ( fight all the way from hedge tops j to the sub-stratosphere. Its "ceil ing" for fighting is "over 30,000 feet," according to the war de partment. I The craft was designed and built ' by the Bell Aircraft corporation. Buffalo. N. Y.. a newcomer among aircraft concerns turning out fighting ships for the army. Its buildings and air corps engineers i and pilots who have inspected the plane, claim for it the destructive ness of the big bomber, the speed f TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation 10:00 County Commissioners P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club 8:00 Pocahontas; W. O. W.; Kiwanis Jr. Glee Club Library Hours: 1012, 26. I of pursuit ships, and the maneu verability of the attack plane. Air corps engineers and pilots who long have believed that even tually the fighting airplane would combine all the functions of the bomber, pursuit and attack planes, announced, upon inspection of the (Continued on Page Three) British Fascist Is Injured In Attack Southampton, Eng., July 18? (U.R)?Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascists, was struck in the face with a stone tonight and slightly injured be fore police rescued hi mduring a leftist-rightish clash. Negroes Arrested On Charge of Theft Rudolph Shannon and Willie Phillips, Green street Negroes, were arrested by local police at an early hour this morning charged with the theft of a box of grapes and one of cherries from the DP store on South Poindexter street. The two boxes were taken from among some merchandise which was unloaded on the sidewalk. 1 f Ready to Defend the America's Cup Xtggl HERE is action of wind and sail aboard the Ranger, as Harold S. Vanderbilt prepared his trim racing yacht to defend the America's cup. held in the United States for 86 years. The challenger is T. O. M. Sopwith's Endeavour II. with the races to begin July 31 at Newport. R. I. Mr. Vanderbilt is shown at the wheel, with Mrs. Vanderbilt beside him. Piccard Safe Balloon Crashes Hill And Burns Stratospherist Sal vaged Equipment; I Got Results l j United Press Staff Correspondent Lansing. Ia? July 18.?(U.R;? Dr. | Jean Piccard, stratospherist, ? crashed his multi-ballooned air ship in flames on a thorny hill side today after reaching an al titude of 11,000 feet, but reported his experimental flight was "en tirely successful." Refreshed by a few hours rest in this little Iowa town's only ho tel, he said tonight that his ex periment proved "conclusively" the feasibility of flight with a multiple arrangement of harness ed balloons. Eighty balloons, each four feet in diameter, supported his snowplow-shaped gondola as it soared from Rochester, Minn., to a farm hill nine miles south of here. The gaunt scientist, his hands and face scratched by a swift de ! scent into a patch of trees, the result of his attempts to avoid plunging into the Mississippi riv er, salvaged most of his scientific I equipment when the craft burn- I ed. The gondola was destroyed. Shaken and unnerved by his ex- | perience, Piccard slept several | hours after the flight, which be- i gan at 2:08 a. m. < EDT> and cov ered less than 80 miles in six hours. "I have learned much on this flight." he said, at last making himself available to questioners. (Continued on Page Three) Colleagues Pay Homage To Robinson At Funeral Little Rock, Ark., July 18.?(U.R) ?Senator Joseph Taylor Robin son came home from hte political wars today to rest in death be neath the red oak trees of Arkan sas. Men from high walks in life, men who had fought with and against him in a lifetime of legis lative conflict stood shoulder to shoulder beneath a summer sun with the people of the Ozarks and the Delta country as the senate majority leader was buried on a rolling tree-studded hillside above the rusty waters of the Arkansas. "He was a fighter," said the Rev. H. Bascom Watts as he eu logized Robinson at funeral ser vices which continued throughout most of the day. "He walked with a firm tread." And none realized how accurate was the description more keenly i than the three score congressmen who pilgrimaged to the Arkansas capital for the funeral and who tonight turned back to Washing ton to renew legislative battles ab ruptly halted by the senate lead er's death. At the graveside, under a hot blue sky, were Senator Pat Harri son. D? Mississippi; Senator Alben Barkley, D.. Kentucky; Senator (Continued on Page Three) May Get 75c For Sweet Potatoes Growers of Currituck Are Hopeful; Will Dig Shortly Currituck. July 18.? The first few carloads of what apparently is going to be one of the best sweet potato * crops produced in this county in recent years will prob ably be dug about 10 days hence. Nearly all growers report splen did stands, and the rain this week-end should make for healthy growth of the crop during the next few days. It i3 estimated that there is an approximate 20 per cent increase in sweet potato acreage in Curri tuck this year, but the increase is not general thruout the sweet po tato growing sections and is not expected to result in a low price. (Continued on Page Three) Fort Raleigh Program Today and Tomorrow Monday, July 19.?Old Fort Raleigh grounds open all day. Foirt Raleigh Museum of rare Sixteenth-century relics open at 1 p. m., free of charge. Band concerts in afternoon by Man teo's 14-picce WPA band un der the direction of Gene Gor man. Tuesday. July 20.?"CCC Day" at Old Fort Raleigh. U. S. Department of Interior officials in attendance. Manteo Boy Scouts cooperating. Concerts by Manteo's 14-piece WPA band under the direction of Gene Gorman. Fort Raleigh Museum of quaint Sixteenth century relics open all day. I v > 1 1 Partners Fall Out Over Treasure Trove Fortune In Gold Bars Found In Lost Mine In Panama - J ! Panama City, Juiy 18. ?(U.R)? Police of Chiriqui province to night disclosed that the discovery of 80 bars of gold, totaling $1,120, 000, in an abandoned mine tunnel had resulted in an attempted mur der. The attempted murder and in trigue among the discoverers?Ar rin G. Thorpe, American; Joanes Van Steck, Frenchman, and An tonio Hill, German?was brought to light by Van Steck in a state ment to the mayor of the Bugaba district. Thirty-five bars of gold were found first. Van Steck admitted he discovered an additional 45 bars of gold, but withheld them from his partners. He said that when he told Hill of finding the original 35 bars Hill suggested they keep it to them selves so they would not have to turn 50 per cent of it over to the government. The Frenchman said Hill was ^Continued on Page Three) Storm Disrupted Power Service Hertford, July 18?Saturday afternoon's electrical storm dis rupted power and light service in the midst of the day's shopping just at twilight. Stores in the principal business district, filled with patrons, re mained plunged in darkness for approxmately an hour. Candles and oil lamps were dusted off and brought into play in several bus iness houses and Saturday's shopping went on as usual, while a few others closed their doors until the service was restored. The trouble was attributed to a lightning that struck power lines near Suffolk. A short but refreshing downpour accompanied the storm at dusk and brought a measure of relief on one of the sultriest days of the summer. 1 ? Desperate Rebel Attack Fails To Win Back Lost Ground Around Brunete * Search For Earhart And Noonan Cost $4,000,000 * Controversy Rages As Navy Prepares to Abandon Hopeless Quest Washington, July 18. ?(U.R)? The government has spent a min imum of $4,000,000 in searching for Amelia Earhart and her navi gator, Fred Noonan, it was esti mated tonight as officials pre pared to write off the costly hunt as a failure. When the search began 15 days ago, naval officials estimated that it was costing the government $250,000 a day. This figure in-1 eluded only fuel and other expen ditures and did not embrace the j wages paid to the sailors and of ficers. As 42 speedy planes from the aircraft carrier Lexington roared over the Howland Island area, where the fliers are believed to have been forced down, in the last stages of the search, a storm over the incident broke in congress. Rep. Byron Scott, D.. Calif., a member of the house naval af fairs committee demanded that the navy, coast guard, and the bureau of aeronautics submit com plete reports to him on what the search had cost, whether it inter fered with other naval duties, who issued permits to Miss Ear hart and her navigator, and why (Continued on Page Three) . Three Fires Kept Local Firemen Stepping ' There was a hot time in the old town over the week end in more ways than one, according to Assistant Fire Chief Ken Davis. The local fire department ans wered three alarms Saturday and Sunday, two of which caused negligible damage. Saturday noon, the department was called to the Foreman Blades saw mill, where sparks from the boiler had caught saw dust in the sawdust conveyor afire. The mill used its own wa ter line in extinguishing the fire and the fire department merely stood by in case it might be need ed. Saturday aftefrnoon at 4:30 o'clock the department was call ed to the Albemarle Laundry, where lightning had followed a wire leading into the building and had started a blaze. This was quickly extinguished. Around 4:00 o'clock Sunday morning, a one-story frame dwel ling owned by Hannah Billups of Bank Street caught afire from an unknown cause and was almost totally destroyed. Due to a delay in receiving the alarm, the fire department was unable to save the dwelling, which was enveloped in flames when the first truck reached the scene. Yes, We Will Do the Mailing There is no let up in the de mand for The Daily Independ ent's souvenir memorial edition of the 350th anniversary of the Roanoke Island Settlements. Nothing we ever published has met with greater approval. We still have a goodly number of extra copies on hand, available while they last at 10 cents a copy. We will mail them for you at 110 extra cost. The Daily Independent Phone 1122 Gas Menace In Warfare Seen Not So Great Modern Air - Conditioned Buildings Believed a Protection Washington, July 18. ?(U.R)? A modern city with its air-condi tioned buildings has little to fear from ? hostile poison gas attack if its citizens are warned that enemy bombers are approaching, according to a report before Pres ident Roosevelt tonight. A section exploding the fear that chemical warfare could wipe out cities in a few hours during the next war was included in the national resources committee's re port to the president on "techno logical trends and national pol icy." Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of Industrial and Engineering Chem istry, included the following con clusions in a discussion of the po tential hazards of poison gas at tacks: "Those in chemical warfare do not foresee the destruction of cit ies by gas from the air, and the experienced military man still prefers the high-explosive bomb and shell for such destruction. They destroy physical equipment like power-houses and factories, bridges and railway terminals, whereas an informed city, espec ially in these days of air-condi tioned rooms and buildings, could rid itself of chemicals, which are in fact liquids or solids, in most cases without great difficulty." Dr. Howe said that chemical warfare in this country had made rapid strides with protective masks and clothing rather than develop ing a super-gas which could kill off all those who might attempt to attack the United States. Chem ists generally believe that the bat tle of brains always carries the offensive and the defensive along (Continued on Page Three) French Government Bans Naughty Postcards Paris, July 18.?(U.R)?The boys back home who always are asking some pal to bring back a collect ion of those "snappy" French post cards will have to be satisfied with a full length nude of the Venue de Milo, the Paris munici pal council decided tonight. Beginning tomorrow a crusade will be started against those swarthy young men who loiter along the boulevards, spot an American tourist and whisper: "Ah Monsieur, very beautiful, very naughty. . .25 frans. . .queeck ze poleece." The municipal council really met to raise $23,000,000 in new revenue by such means as taxing funerals and increasing the cost of cleaning slaughter houses. One thing led to another, and some one mentioned the peddlers of pornographic art. Dirty post cards have been "bottlegged' 'along the boulevards ever since Daguerre discovered the photograph. But no one ever did anything about it. One upright councilman sug gested that the peddlers were be coming too bold, what with thou sands of foreign visitors flooding Paris for the International Ex position. Jean Bacquet, whose alder manic district includes the Rue De Rivoli and the Palais Royale, insisted that something be done. "It's getting so they even try to sell them to young girls," he complained. "Besides, the salesmen usually offer them to people who have stopped to look in a shopwindow and the person is so embarrassed he, or she. rushes on, forgetting all about shopping. "You see, gentlemen, this is prejudicial to the shop keepers of my arrondissement. We must do something to protect our visitors." The secretary general of the prefecture of police listened to the unfolding of Parisian wicked ness and explained that, where ever possible, the peddlers of dir ty post cards were punished. But, he protested, the law on obscenity is full of loopholes and "very, very technical" and most of the culprits escape prosecution. He agreed, however, to organize roving squads of police in the opera district, the Rue De Rivoli and other sections with orders to arrest all peddlers and "worry about the technicalities after wards.'' Men, Planes, Tanks In Biggest Battle of Year-Old War Aerial Dogfight Four Loyalist and 18 In surgent Planes Report ed Brought Down Madrid, July 18.?(U.R)?Be tween 5,000 and 7,000 National ists and Loyalists were believed to have been killed or wounded to day in the largest battle of the year-old Spanish civil war on the central front for possession of Brunete, strategic town about 14 miles west of Madrid. A spokesman of the Loyalist government said the battle was the most deadly and most costly of the war. Thousands of Nationalist fighters, planes and tanks were thrown against the Loyalist lines. At the end of 10 hours fighting the government announced offi cially the insurgents had been re pulsed. The battlefield for miles around Brunete was strewn with bodies of dead and wounded. Hundreds of ambulance units worked far into the night carry ing the wounded to hospitals in Madrid. The tremendous task of burying the dead was expected to start tomorrow. Loyalist officers were high in their praise of the volunteers from the United States, who made a "last stand" against the Rebel in fantry most of the afternoon. The roar of battle rowled over the plains and was heard clearly (Continued on Page Three) Second British Ship Captured Spanish Coast Smuggling of Munitions to Spain Is Reported As Increasing Fast London, July 18?(U.R)?Capture of another British merchant ship by the Spanish Nationalists and reports of widespread smuggling of war materials into Spain to night spurred efforts to find a sol ution fo rthe shattered non-inter vention project. The admiralty announced that insurgent warships seized the merchant steamer Candleston Castle off the Spanish Biscay coast, inside territorial waters, and were understood to be taking her to the Rebel port of El Fer rol. Although it was the second capture of a British ship by the insurgents within five days, it was indicated that the government would make no protest to the Nationalists, inasmuch as British ships have been warned that they enter Spanish waters at their own risk. Last Wednesday the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera cap tured the merchant ship Molton off Santander and took it to an unrevealed insurgent port. (Continued on Page Three) ? Town Turned Into A Velodrome Yesterday Elizabeth Citizdne ? yefcterday afternoon might well have ima gined themselves in a velodrome as 15 members of the Norfolk Motorcycle Club Invaded the city on one of their regular Sunday jaunts. The motorcyclists, most of whom had their girl friends rid ing with them, spent several hours here during the afternoon and attracted quite a bit of at tention as they whizzed around town. Elizabeth City, because it is within easy riding distance of Norfolk, is a popular destination for members of the Norfolk Mo torcycle Club both when they are making individual jaunts and when they are on the regular club trips.
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