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The Daily Independent Monday. - 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 \Q|.. I' K>ery "ay ny.y|".v ''"h""'"" Co- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, JUi Y 26, 1937 Entered at the poetofflce >t Klizibeth Oltj. N. O., SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS spy Ring Imposed In | ranee ( | Vmateur Avi aii?r Sold Mili tary Hat a i; . nan-Italian r. ) ; ; ami Mans of j i,n,i:??'?* io i-'ion- Disrov ,.rn! 1>\ \iilliorilit?s l?aris. .luiv 2\ tU.R>?A liet u iman ami Italian , l iana's frontiers N ,vx iN (I tonight with the irr.s. ,,i .1 French amateur jvialtir and newspaper re-. Fascist a.Uents are; linit ports on the Mod-] ?, rraiuaii. Aviator Arrested t- aviator. Joan Sellier. was | wdivulging military v- ct .many following his at Patily after months of He was transferred ?o Ciiatanont for questioning by cour.tvt-esptonage agents of the fan: > D ixieme Bureau" of the var ofit T.. Lti'.-t Newspaper Ce Soir repc: u. ' .xistence of a band ?\ itinv to the Spanish :w... a- ? .. as Rome and Ber & .. ? movement of French Sup* and persons between France i.-..; Sya.:i i s home yield- ; v.cience. including a list' - : German aviators who. . re friends of his. A German Consul A. s e..teci corrcspond e ... German consul at 3: collection of aerial yu-iapi-s and maps of the ? ; . Sw>s frontier regions airdromes marked 'Continued on Page Three) j Bui lie Begins Afresh Along Chinese Front liuhliin: KoiiiihmI Between IVi|?ing ami Tientsin; IMaurs In Action litn'. in. Monday. July 26.? ?Japanese soldiers forced Chinese roops out of Lanfang t'xtiv m a dash which renewed lcar\ oi general warfare in North ( hina. After several hours of fight "U Japanese troops occupied the barracks at Lanl'ang. stra- I teg'ca! point on the Peip.'ng Ti< aNn railway and halfway Mttcti the two cities, accord- | ing to the Domei I Japanese! n,"a> agency. M :.u iv. July 26.?<U.R)?j broken out between j Chinese forces at ! ay between Peiping r- 1 on Page Three) V/J'o in Hospital Mith Knife In His I train ( tser. Negro of the ? A"PA transient camp, u consciousness last Albemarle Hospital owing an affray Satur- j ich he received a I ?i ti.rough the center ! tun head. ?'uckson, 28-year-old j 1 -South Martin street !'iotank county jail d been placed by lo- j officers to await the Limehouser's injuries : he probably will re a charge of murder ; iri'.uck Negro tail to ho:n his injury. to Patrolman C. H. :: tde the arrest, Lime i received a knife center of the fore to the hilt, the blade in the Negro's brain. occurred at the address where Jack eted late Saturday ?ans in attendance on expressed consider h Ins eventual recov I Rebels Recapture Much Lost Ground 4* f ^ 1 | Widow j! LoVLLY Marciiesa :?iaiconi. wid ov. of the famed inventor of wire leos who died in Rome. Italy, re- j cently of a heart attack. She is the former Countess Maria Cris titia Be/.zi-Scali. member of an old, Roman family. Marconi was pre- j viously married to the Honorable Beatrice O'Erien of England but the marriage was annuled by the! Vatican in 1905. i I IT Aged Mormon PolygamistIs For The Idea One of Heber Grant's '6 W ives Survives; Has a Family of Ninety London, July 25.? (U.R>?The living personification oi his philo sophy that "you're only as old as you feel", eighty-year-old Heber Grant, white-bearded president of the church of the Latter Day Saints, arrived today for the cen tenary of the Mormon church in England, to be celebrated next week-end. With him came Reuben Clark, former ambassador to Mexico and first counsellor of the Mormon church. Grant, who described the cen tenary as "the one hundredth an <Continued on Page Three) Interest Is Keen In the Trial of Whitehurst Former Ahoskir Offi cial Is On Trial for Embezzlement Winton. July 25.?Interest is running high here in the case of Raymond C. Whitehurst. former clerk and treasurer of the Town of Ahoskie. who is to be tried in Hertford County Superior Court here this week on charges of em bezzling $25,473.04 of town funds over a period of nine years. The outcome of the trial of the former official whose defalcation shocked the county when revealed by an audit of his books last March has become a subject of discus sion and speculation of major pro portions during the past few days. On April 8, when the work of the auditors showed the amount ? Continued on Page Three) Follow Up Recovery of Brunette With Mass AUacK Cavalry In Battle l oyalist/ Newly-Made En trenchments Are Over whelmed by Drive Madrid, Monday, July 26.?(U.R) ?the ir.rgesi rebel army put into the field in Spain's year-old civil war cany today drove to the hear: of the hard-won loyalist sol.cnt 15 miics west of Madrid. The rebels, led by 20,000 Italian j shocK troops, through a blazing pit of ioya.ist resistance in the I Guadarraina Gulleys and ad- I vanced nearly four miles from I Brunette to the gates of Villaneu va do la Canada. Brunette, which fell to Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgent le gions Saturday, was the spear- : head of the 15-mile Salient driv en by the loyalists 10 days ago in the biggest br.t.le of the war. The ioyalisls admitted officially that their hurriedly constructed j defense lines outsic/i Brunette, j thrown up early today when gov ernment troops abandoned the town to the enemy, had collapsed. The struggle for possession of ! Villanueva de la Canada raged through the night with an esti-! mated 250.000 men involved. A loyalist communique said the i "government defenses north of Brunette broke before a furious j onslaught of scores of tanks, a , curtain of artillery fire and ex ceedingly heavy air bombing of the government lines." Loyalist troops, it was explain ed. retired to the outskirts of Vil lanueva de la Canada and re- ] serves were rushed up from the rear to help defend the town while i the enemy pressed in from three j (Continued on Page Three) Charged With Exploiting His i Two Daughters Father Is Held In Florida Jail Oil Series of Revolt ing Accusations Miami. Fla.. July 25.?(U.R)?Au thorities drew charges tonight against a 40-year-old father who j they claimed admitted holding his two young daughters in white J slavery and bartering their love to I the highest bidder. County Solicitor Robert R. Tay- j lor said the man admitted he j forced his two daughters, 13 and 16' years old. to conduct them- ! selves immorally. The county solicitor said he I will file two incest charges against the father tomorrow, and a third count charging a "crime against nature." The father, who works as a bar ber, has indicated he will plead guilty to the statutory charges. He was being held in Miami's sky scraper jail on an open charge of investigation. According to Taylor, the father (Continued on Page Three) Dictator Plans Drastic Changes In Cuba ) Havana. Cuba. July 25.?(U.R)? Col. Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, revealed tonight a three year social, political and economic plan to regiment almost every phase of national life. The plan indicated that the | blunt-spoken former sergeant, who installed and deposed four of Cu ba's seven presidents in four years, was determined to continue his dictatorship. The reconstruction plan in cludes far-reaching educational, | and sanitary projects for estab lishment of hundreds of agricul tural and civil military and rural schools, regulation of private schools, construction of hospitals, enforcement of anti-tuberculosis and anti-cancer campaigns, regu lation of the medical profession and enactment of pure-food legis lation. The agricultural projects in clude coordination of the sugar industry and provisions enabling labor to participate in industry's profits. The program provides for regu j lation of tobacco, coffee, cattle and j mining industries. Other points include: Distribution of lands under a housing plan and "rationalization" of the property right. Extension of the present debt moratorium. Establishment of marketing and j consumption cooperatives. Widespread reforestation and | waterwork developments, includ ling construction of aqueducts for irrigation projects. Creation of a new currency sys- j tern, establishment of bank issues, | (Continued on Page Three) ' I | Rising j Photo by Frlsby AN up and coming figure in {he field of life insurance in Elizabeth City is Kermit Ackiss. above, who icok over the managership of the Eden ton-Hertford-Elizabeth City territory for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company on July 1. Prior to coming here. Ackiss was with the company for seven years, a part of which time he had put in as assistant manager of the Portsmouth district. He is a son in-law of Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Walker. Coin jock May Not Lose C a in p At Least Not Just Yet; Removal Order Like ly to Be Rescinded Mantco. July 25.?From sources close to National Park Service of ficials here came a rumor today that the recent order to remove the Negro transient camp from Coinjock is to be rescinded. According to report, the few | Coinjock residents whose com- j plaints had led to the order for removal of the camp from Curri tuck county have buried their grievances and staled to park ser vice and WPA officials their will ingness to allow the camp to re main at Coinjock, where it has been located for over a year. This camp, which is housed on barges made fast to the canal bank at Coinjock. carries a per sonnel of around 200 Negro tran (Continued on Page Three) Facts About! Manteo's Band Director Gorman Has Built lip a Creditable Forty-Piece Band Manteo. July 25.? For several months Gene Gorman has been working steadily striving to make the Manteo WPA band one of the features of the town. During this time his efforts have been well spent. He has made of the local band something that the commun ity should be proud of. It isn't an easy job for one to take a bunch of boys, among which many have never touched an instrument be fore 'some in reading notes not even knowing whether the tone for a certain note is lower or higher than the preceding one), and successfully conducting them into playing well in only three or four months. Well, easy or not, this is exactly what Mr. Gorman did. In the du ration of only a very short time; that is, to leam to play an instru ment, he took a group of local boys, aided by some boys from the two camps on the island, and has accomplished something of much importance to the whole com munity. The Manteo band is well enough trained to play for any (Continued on Page Three) r 1 TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A. M. 3.30 Mens Christian Federation 10:00 Ministerial association. P. M. 1:00 Rotary Club 1:00 First Baptist WMS; First Methodist Ellen Willis and Belle Bennett circles. 3:00 Pocahontas; Kiwanis Jr. Glee Club; W. O. W.; American Legion. Library Hours: 10-12. 2-6. T Rumanian King Warned Not To Upset European Balance * Carol's Political Flirtation With Germany and Poland Arouses Ire of Mem bers of the Little Entente Paris, July 25.?<U.R)?King Carol of Rumania, whose diplomatic flirtations with Berlin and Warsaw threatened to upset the delicate L^lance of middle-European politics, tonight apparently had been rudely awakened by thr combined diplomatic pressure of France, Britain and Russia. 1 tr\ nQhV 1*11 C 4? J v^aiui picj^aivu iu - trunks and leave for Berlin on his tour of European capitals, re buffed by France and Britain in his efforts to have the French and British legations at Bucharest raised to the rank of embassies. Behind this apparently innocu ous refusal was a sharp warning of both governments, and indirect ly from Moscow, to stop tamper ing with the present balance in central Europe. The factual side of the curious diplomatic rebuke was the blunt1 advice to Carol to "put Nicholas Titulescu back in office as foreign minister and stop playing around." Titulescu was the bulwark of Franco-Rumanian relations and as foreign minister was chiefly re sponsible for Rumania making peace with Russia. Russia, nego tiating a non-aggression treaty with the Little Entente in 1933, agreed to let Rumania keep Bessa rabia, which was sliced off as Rumania's share of the territor ial profits of the war. In 1934 diplomatic relations were resumed between Moscow ?i and Bucharest after conversations between Russia's sturdy foreign spokesman Maxim Litvinov, and Titulescu. Since then Titulescu has been replaced by Victor Antonescu as foreign minister, and Rumania's foreign policy has swung sharply toward Berlin and Warsaw, and away from the Anglo-Franco-Rus sian orbit. When Carol visited here after I his trip to Warsaw, where new Polish relations presumably were cemented, French diplomats made it plain they wanted Titulescu back as foreign minister at Bu charest. It was reported the French gov ernment said: "No more credits until Titulescu is back." Carol left Paris for a brief visit to London without making any definite promise, and almost im mediately Moscow's Pravda, of (Continued on Page Three) *? ??* KING CAROL OF RUMANIA A'Trailerized Dentist's Office Serving Coast Guards men In Dare; Fully Equipped Kitty Hawk. July 25.?Un known to most of the people in Dare County, a dentist's office equipped better than the offices of 90 per cent of all practicing dentists Iras been located near here for the past two weeks. This up-to-date dental office is set up in an Aero-Car trailer and is sent out by the U. S. Public Health Service for the purpose of provid ing dental relief and essential dental treatment for the men in the United States Coast Guard Service. The trailerized dentist's office has been located at Kill Devil Hills (Continued on Page Three) Hertford's Library Gets Off to Good Start Hertford. July 25.?A run on child lore books predominated on the opening day of Hertford's first public library which, under the auspices of the Woman's Club, got underway to a good start Thurs day afternoon. Mrs. Brooks Whedbee is the li brarian in charge and is on duty from nine until 12:30 and from 1:30 until five o'clock every day except Saturday and Sunday. The library is located in the Woman's Club house on Academy street. Five hundred volumes now available include fiction, classics, children's story books, history and travel books. A new shipment is expected shortly from the state library, according to Mrs. Whed bee. Those books already compos ing the library were secured thru donations by the members of the Woman's Club. Additions from the State library will no doubt bring this one to a par with other li braries of the section. The books are loaned for a two week period without charge, how ever, a penalty goes into effect af ter the gratis days expire. The smaller children arc look ing forward to a story hour which will begin on Monday and con tinue through next week from 10:30 a. m. until 11:30 a. m. Con ducted also by Mrs. Whedbee, the story hour is being attempted for the first time here. Advance in dications are to the effect that it will prove popular. Park Will Aid Control Of Erosion Officials Think Coast al National Park Will Help Erosion Work Raleigh, July 25.?Department of Conservation and Development officials are looking toward the Department of Interior's move to establish a Coastal National Park as a means of bolstering North Carolina's defense against in fringement of the Atlantic ocean along the "banks" and in accel erating beach erosion control. The Department and the U. S. Beach Erosion Board have worked jointly to prevent the slow des truction of the picturesque "banks". Begun some eight years ago on a modest scale, the sur vey and control activities have been extended to cover a greater portion of the entire length of the North Carolina coast, from Kitty Hawk on the north to Fort Fish er on the south. (Continued on Page Three) ABC Store Is Doing Good Bu siness Profits for Quarter Ending June 30 Re ported to Be SI0.359 Pasquotank County's ABC store made a profit of $10,359.61 during the three-months period ending June 30, according to the quarter ly audit just completed by the firm of Bundy & Moran. City and county will not be enriched by that much spending money im mediately, however, as $6,000 of the amount will be added to the store's working fund, in order to furnish the capital encessary for the carload buying which is now the practice of the board. After deducting the $6,000 as well as $517.98, the five per cent allocat ed to law enforcement, $3,841.63 remains for division, the city re ceiving $2,113.89 and the county $1,727.74 on the basis of their re spective tax valuations. A total of 50,261 units were sold by the local store for $43,624.05, 71.927 units were purchased at a cost of $38,995.48 and inventory at the close of the period was 51, 902 units costing $30,345.22. Of the profit $9,776.08 was from sales of goods, ?578.48 in cash dis counts on purchases and $5.05 (.Continued on Page Three) Wright Memorial Beacon Presents A Problem *p Custodian Tells Why He Can't Turn It On; Beacon Is Ready Kitty Hawk, July 25?Horace Dough, custodian of the Kill Devil Hills National Monument, indicat ed today that it may be several years before the beacon atop the Wright Memorial will be set into operation. The Wright Memorial, designed largely as a beacon, was complet- , ed in 1931 but the 30,000 candle power beacon which should be sending its beams out over the Atlantic for a distance of 30 miles yet remains unlighted. , Custodian Dough wrote to the National Park Service in May and asked permission to light the beacon during the nine weeks of i the Roanoke Island celebration this summer, darkening it on the seaward side so as not to confuse navigation. The request was promptly sent on to the Commis sioner of Lighthouses, who to date has ignored it. "I can't understand why the Commissioner won't grant this re quest," said Mr. Dough. "When it was planned to stage a celebra tion on Roanoke Island in 1934, a similar favor was requested and was speedily granted. However, just a few days before we were to turn the beacon on, lightning struck one of the power cables (Continued on Page Three) Dare's Airport Ready In a Few Days The Runways Must Be Rolled and Wires Moved Manteo, July 25.?Dare County's airport and landing field on Roa noke Island is about ready for use with only about ten days' more work still to be done. The tract has been cleared of trees and un derbrush and runaways cleared from the highway to the sound. The road roller will be put on the ground within the next few days to roll and smooth the field and runways. Telephone lines now running along the right -side of the high way in the vicinity of the airport will be put under ground within the next week and high tension lines of the Utilities Company, now on the left side of the high way, will be moved back some dis tance. One of the large Ford Tri motor transport planes is expect ed to come down immediately up on completion of the field for a stay of several days to carry pas sengers and make regular flights. I It is expected that the landing field will be in readiness by July | I (Continued on Page Three) Judicial Reform Measure Will Be Presented Today Probably Last Major Bill of Current Session Others Pending Wage-Hour and Tax Loop hole Legislation May Be Acted Upon Washington, July 25.? (u.R) A congress anxious for (fuick adjournment expects to re ceive its last major bill of the session tomorrow when the senate judiciary committee acts on a measure to reform judicial procedure in the low er courts. After Few Months Fight This bill, drafted by a subcom mittee headed by Sen. Pat Mc Carran, D? Nev., is the net result of more than five-months battling over the issue of supreme court reorganization and will make no mention of that tribunal. The op position Democrats who dictated its terms and the administration have agreed to join in putting it through. It is the only bill, however, that is generally agreed on. During the coming week congress prob ably will decide how much of pre sident Roosevelt's program will be acted on before the gavels fall in senate and house for sine die ?adjournment. The bills with the best chances of surviving the rush to go home are: A wage and hour regulation measure. The Wagner Housing bill. Tax Evasion Bill A bill to close tax loopholes which have enabled some wealthy persons to avoid large payments to the treasury. A greatly modified executive re organization bill. Possibly a general farm bill. (Continued on Page Seven) Utilities Co. Must Pay Four Million More Treasury Levies Additional Tux On the Howard C. . Hopson Interests Washington, July 25. ?(U.R)? Treasury officials tonight disclos ed they had filed a tax claim for approximately $4,000,000 against the Associated Gas and Electric Company?the heart of the brawl ing utility empire controlled by Howard C. Hopson. Hopson. bitter foe of new deal power policies, was reported to have spent more than $1,0G0,000 in a futile effort to defeat the pub lic utility holding company act and its so-called "death sentence." The new claim brought the total pending assessments against Hop son's power kingdom to $50,000, 000. The treasury's latest move fol lowed a reexamination of the books of the Associated Gas and Electric Company and its 206 sub sidiaries which is reported to have revealed that large sources of income had not been tapped by revenue collectors. They included earnings from sales of power, coal and water as well as lntercorpor <Continued on Page Three) Would Extend Paris Exposition a Year Paris, July 25.?(U.R) ? Premier Camille Chautemps tonight asked Thomas Watson, chairman of the U. S. delegation to the Paris World's Fair, to inquire whether the United States would consent to extension of the exposition for one year. Under an international agree ment, one year must lapse between expositions. The New York fair opens in 1939, hence there should be none in 1938. But French ex position buildings still are unfin ished and officials want to pro long it. If the United States consents, the exposition will close in No vember and reopen next May.
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