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'mi] the Daily Independent p== 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. 0. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 ?n *y' ."^TIT'no- ips?Total No. 283 Kutt 1,J> X'.r'x. 1>ubl"hlt"{ ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937 e?t"^ >t * c. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS loyalist Offensive 0 ifailed Tr(H,l>* In Panicky [threat Before the Moors ?f;!"Ke Four Villages ?>';??!- ( laini Thai Many ()f Km- Vrr In Danger of Knt'ireleiuenl u-tP tr.e Nationalists at Teruel, j v 'V - Moroccan cavalry j shattered a loyalist offen .V-r drove to within four riles'of this medieval city where Jt' mumai;;icd bodies of "the lov y-;:ah." have attracted pil J' for too years, nationalist headquarters saiu. "Vv. ;, swinging sabers and reback across the Ara ^7 that have no highways lis. sen: between 4.000 . vyahst troops in to panicky retreat. Mtr.v Killed And Wounded of men of the gov rr:\r." > steel column" that ? : wo weeks to smash ncisco Franco's Teruel r.: du.etly east of Madrid \ . .... have been killed and - ,::dvd t: hand-to-hand fight- j : .fles. bayonets and trench knives. The .avers of Teruel" whose r. :r.:r.:: bodies are in the an il of San Pedro were a and Juan Diego j , Marcilla. They died i u being separated and buried in one tomb. Their : .? with Spanish poets. j si love story, i Take Four Villages N..\ r... headquarters. re- ' w capture of four more I ?. iihucs west of Teruel :.ad been held by 14.000 | Continued on Page Three) | Spanish Govt. Planes Attack Rebel Cruiser Franco Move* I p Forces lor Vuothcr Attack On Madrid J: , Aug. l.?(U.R)?Three - rr.bini: planes today at : ire Rebal cruiser :! the Biscay coast, but .. >.'t by German high r. .m::-aircraft g u n s j -? .. tue Cervera's fore - vernment war min : ' tci Cervcra. leader of Gen. 1 Franco's sea raiding pread a blockade Biscay coast, was sight : j Urdiales north of ; .Sue was accompanied ?ral armed barges. ?list planes dropped - : ugh-explosive bombs her. some so close that j ? d water over the Cer decks, and forced the | steam away in a zig tt. ? .?? tied, the cruiser opened r new anti-aircraft the Loyalist planes out of range. - of the Loyalist air n.mered the Rebels on j front afound Madrid. ' t.ud strafing with ma fire. Rebel troops con b'ontinued on Page Three) 111 hi a Slack Month , lfi the Huilding trades Here permits issued by City '? B Flora during the totaled $6,250 and 1937 total up to $71, to the records in 'v office. u, . issued this year, by . lows; January. $4. :ary. $14,560; March, $11,010; May, $23. $5,550. and July, $6. i d during 1936 to 172 which total will exceded somewhat ? ix'rmits were issued is the building trades seasonal slump. Leviathan Will Be Replaced By Liner * Projected Steamer Will Carry 1,200 Passengers Washington. Aug. 1. ?(U.R)? Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the maritime commission tonight invited bids on a new twin-screw, 34.000 ton passenger liner for the Uni ed S ates lines to replace the old wartime Leviathan which was la d up in 1933. After a scries of conferences in Now York with officials of the line Kennedy worked out details for construction of a 22 knot lin er of the maritime commission's own design to compete with the speedy foreign liners for the rich North Atlantic traffic. The new vessel will be slightly larger than the Manhattan and Washington, the two most mod ern liners flying the American fiag. Iv will be 723 feet in length with a beam of 92 feet, a depth to promenade deck of 75 feet, and will accommodate about 1,200 pas sengers in three classes and a crew of about 630. Bids wiil be opened a. noon Wednesday. Sept. 15. and will re quire that the vessel be completed within two years and four months of the date of award. All of the latest safety devices recommended by the senate safe ty-at-sea committee which inves tigated the Morro Castle and Mo hawk disasters have been incor porated in the design. Most of the lifeboats will be motor propelled and radio equipped. Ample provi sion has been made in the cargo space for transportation of pas senger automobiles. The United States lines com pany agreed to build a vessel to replace the Leviathan when it laid up the old German Vaterland in 1935 on the ground that it was too expensive to operate in com petition with the modern grey hounds of Great Britain, France and Italy. Marriage Licenses Bid Fair to Set New Record Despite a slight July slump, the marriage license business in Pas quotank County so far this year is well ahead of the first seven months of 1936 and seems likely to set a new record ere December 31 rolls around. Thirty-two licenses were issued during July by Register of Deeds J. C. Spence, this being nine more than last July's total of 23. The total for the first seven months of this year is 259, against a total of 195 for the first seven months of 1936. Last year's total number of marriage licenses was 433, and it J now appears that this year's li cense sales will top the 500 mark, an all-time high. The number of licenses sold this year, by months, is as follows: January. 41; February, 35; March, 36; April, 39; May. 39; June, 37; and July, 32. * ? ? /? Shark h.iils? 40-Pound Drum al Na??s Head An unusual fi:-h story Ls I plated by Edward Griffin, Jr.. who is vacationing: at Nags l.cad .in a letter to his father. YV. E. Griffin of YVest Church Street. Accordvng to young Grif f n's story. Mr. James Leai'V of Ldenton was on the beach several days ago when he happened to sec a shark in the breakers near the Arling ton Hotel. The shark dived and the water at the point where he dived took on a j b oody appeal ance. YY'hrn the shark swam away. Mr. Leary swam out to where the shark had dived and found a large channel bass, or drum, thrashing around in the water. The shark had split the fi urn's stomach wide open. Mr Leary pulled the drum up on the shore and then took him to the Nags Head po t office to be weighed He we'ghed exactly 40'?? pounds. i | Pamlico May Enter Two Boats In Capsize Race at Roanoke Island On Vi ednesday; Arrived Yesterday The Coast Guard Cutter Pam lico will probably enter two boats in the capsize race to be held at Roanoke Inland Wednesday. Au gust 4. as a part of the Coast Guard Day activities, it was an nounced yesterday by Lt. W. P. Hawley, commanding officer of the cutter. The Pamlico arrived here yes (Continued on Page Three) Liquor Arrests Are Result of Fist Battle Hertford. Aug. 1?A drunken I brawl here tonight led to the , revelation of information which led to the arrest of Kermit Lane of Peters Hill and W. H. Curtis of the same locality on charges of possession and sale of illicit liquor. Curtis is out on bail, and a war rant will also be issued for Lee j Turnidge. his foster son, on, similar charges. The fight, which occurred in Lane's front yard, was between him and Haywood, who is in bed recovering from injuries received in the fracas. Information elicit ed by Officer Owens subsequent to the fight led to the seizure of seven gallons of whiskey. 85 empty bottles and a medium sized still on Skinners creek about a half mile from Hertford. Petain Says Arrival Uf Americans Saved Cause Nobody Won War, Persh ing Tells Throng at Unveiling Montfaucon, France, Aug. 1. ? <U.R)? Marshal Henri Petain of France, in tears before a granite shaft above the Meuse-Argonne Plains that are glorified by the blood of 123,000 American dough boys, revealed today that the ar rival of the first U. S. troops in the summer of 1917 saved the Al lies from defeat. Petain spoke at the dedication of the 175-foot Doric shaft, sur mounting the untouched war ruins of Montfaucon. before an audience of 3,000 American war veterans and their families who came from Paris in five special trains. Beside him was his close friend, Jen. John J. (Black Jack) Persh ing. an erect and stalwart figure in khaki despite his 77 years and poor health. Pershing, in a brief speech, painted a graphic picture of the horrors of war by describing the fighting of the Meuse-Argonne. Warning that western civiliza tion cannot survive another great war. Pershing attacked the "un (Continued on Page Three) To Bury Hatchet At Currituck Hearing Currituck. Aug. 1.?A peaceable settlement of differences is ex pected to take place here tomor row when National Park Service representatives appear before the board of county commissioners relative to the Negro transient camp at Coinjock. The commissioners are expected to rescind their previous request that the camp be removed from Currituck County, and the Park Service officials are expected to consent to withdraw their recent order for removal of the camp by August 15. It is understood that the Coin jock residents who formerly com plained about the transients and petitioned for removal of the camp have had a change of heart re cently and are now willing to have the camp remain at Coinjock. Park Service officials already have indicated that they are will ing to withdraw the removal order and that they will attempt to dis cipline the transients more effec tively in the future than hereto fore. U. S. Debt Reaches New Peak Is Ten Billion Higher Than It Was In War Time Spend Two for One Economy League Sees Dan ger Ahead Unless Re trenchment Begins Washington, Aug. 1.?(U.R)?The federal government will have to cut expenditures from $1,600,000, 000 to $3,200,000,000 a year before it can balance the budget and start reducing the record-break ing national debt, Director John C. Gebhart of the national econo my league estimated tonight. Gebhart, making public survey of federal finances covering what he described as the "seven lean years" of deficits, said that if the contingent, guaranteed debt of $4,718,000,000 were added to the direct public debt of $36,425,000, 000 on June 30. the national in debtedness would be found to have reached "the staggering total of $41,143,000,000. Spend Twice Income The survey claimed that since Dec. 31. 1930, when the national debt stood at $16,026,000,000, treasury receipts have totaled $23, 602,000.000 while expenditures amounted to $45,854,000,000. "During that period." Gebhart m said, "we have spent about tf/o" dollars for every dollar taken in. We have increased the public debt until it is now two and a quarter times as large as it was in 1930; it is $10,000,000,000 high er than the peak of the war debt." i (Continued on Page Three) More Russian Reactionaries Under Arrest Charged With Trying to Organize a Reaction ary Movement Moscow. Aug. l.(U.R)?'Thirty persons, including Bishop Inno kentyi Nikiforov. 12 priests and three deacons, were charged at Orel tonight with attempting to organize a counter-revolutionary Fascist Organization among ac tive church members and reac tionary elements. The others included three form er landowners, one former prince, two former nuns and eight once prominent house owners. Among the 30, 16 had been tried before and had served or were serving prison terms. The al (Continued on Page Three) Independent Sets New High Mark v When a single copy of a small town newspaper sells for S4.85, that is news, yet that Is what a copy of The Independent sold for on the West Coast a few weeks ago. A Mrs. Dcrr, of Tulsa, Okla homa, who is visiting here, tells the story. Mrs. Derr ran into a fk-iend recently who had been out on the West Coast, and he related to her how he had come to pay nearly $5.00 for a copy of a "little hick town newspap er." This man was stopping at the Hotel Wagner in Los Angeles one night and a worn copy of The Independent carrying that privy satire was on a table in the lobby. Picking it up, he read the pirivy page and liter ally howled. Other salesmen in the lobby crowded around to see what had struck him so funny, and soon they all were inludg ing in good belly-laughs. There naturally was an argu ment as to who could take the paoer off with him, and they finally agreed to settle the argu ment by selling the papek- at auction. Mr. Segal, Mrs .Derr's friend, finally bought the paper for the grand sum of $4.85. "It's been worth a lot more than that," he told Mrs. Deilr. 1 # Japanese Mass To Attack Chiang's Nanking Troops French Clash With Japanese Forces In Teintsin Tientsin, Monday, Aug. 2.?(U.R) ?More than 30,000 veteran Jap anese troops, including some of the most highly mechanized regi ments of the famous Kwantung army, were massed In the Feng tai-Lukouchiao area southwest of Peiping today read to start a major attack on Ave divisions of the Chinese Central Govern ment's soldiers. The Chinese were estimated to number about 100.000 including remnants of the 29th division and other units driven from the Peip ing-Tientsin area by the Jap anese. The Central government divisions, totalling about 60,000 are German-trained and equip ped with modern weapons. Strong In Air Both sides are well supplied with airplanes. The bulk of the Chinese forces are entrenched around Paoting Fu near the old Imperial military academy. Their advance lines are at Liuliho, about 13 miles south of the Japanese advanced lines (Continued on Page Three) No Protest Is Expected Today On Bond Issue for the Agriculture Build* ing; Hearing This Afternoon Unless some 600 or more regis tered voters of Pasquotank coun ty register a protest today against the issuance of a $20,000 bond is sue with which to finance Pas quotank county's share of the cost of the proposed county agriculture building, advertisement of the bond issue will begin this week and construction of the building will soon be started. Under the terms laid down by New York bond attorneys last month, the board of county com (Continued on Page Three) W.O.W. Jamboree At Hertford On August 26th Fraternal Order's An nual 'Log Rolling' In cludes Barbecue and Fish Fry Hertford, Aug. 1.?For the first time in eleven years the Albe marle Camp Number 463, Wood men of the World, will play host to nine or ten hundred lodge members from the Tidewater As sociation, it was decided at a special meeting here Thursday night. The "Log Rolling," lodge term for the annual district jamboree, will be held here on Thursday, August 26, according to informa tion released by the publicity com mittee last night. Members of all the camps in this district will be invited and the district in cludes everything from Rocky Mount east to the ocean. The big affair was held last year in Ahoskie and Thursday night's meeting here was entirely for the purpose of inviting the (Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR A M. 8:30 Mens Christian Federation 10:00 County Commissioners P M. 1:00 Rotary Club 8:00 City Council; Pocahontas, Kiwanis Jr. glee club; W. O. W.; First Baptist board of deacons. Library hours: 10-12, 2-6. f She Says They'll Fight v ? ? CHIANG KAI-SIIEK AND WIFE Nanking, Monday, Aug. 2.?(U.R) ?Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, her dark eyes flashing defiantly, said today in an interview with the United Press that China "will fight and win" her undeclared war with Japan. The American-education wife of China's dictator said on behalf of the nation's women that a state of war against the "foreign invaders" exists and predicted a victory for China's arms. Her declaration that "this is wartime" was made during the course of a stirring appeal to the women of China to support their husbands, sons and sweethearts at the front. An auditorium crowded by women and girls approved the first lady's program for a "society to comfort and support the na tion's defenders." "If the country's women are be hind the government and the army ?and today's meeting af forded ample proof they are?our cause certainly will be victorious," she declared in the interview held after the meeting of the Moral Endeavor association. "We Chinese are prone to argue and quibble sometimes over rela tively unimportant things, but today there is no argument. The spirit of the Chinese women now is the spirit that wins wars. She expressed pride in the coun try's women and confidence in the modern army her husband built in the last decade. No other woman and few men are in a position to know as ac curately as Madame Chiang the I true situation as it affects the ! nation's immediate futpre. ABC Store's Sales Hold Up Well July Business Pleas ing; 7-Months Total Nearly 8100,000 With but seven months of the calendar year gone, the 1937 re ceipts of the Pasquotank County ABC store already are but very little short of $100,000 and are well on the way toward topping the receipts for the 1936 calendar year and the 1936-37 fiscal year. Despite competition furnished by the Dare County ABC stores, the local liquor store's July busi ness was but slightly below the June business and was better than the receipts for July, 1936. (Continued on Page Three) UNC Alumni Committees Named To Assist In Plans for U.N.C. Day Oil Roan oke Island Saturdhy A special committee composed of J. Elliott Cooke, chairman, J. Kenyon Wilson, John B. McMul lan and C. L. Legget has been designated by the University of North Carolina Alumni Associ ation to assist with plans for the U. N. C. alumni rally to be held Saturday in connection with Roanoke Colony celebration. Alumni of America's first state university will gather Satufday on Roanoke Island?site of Amer ica's first English colony?for an alumni reunion sponsored by the Dare County Alumni-Alumnae Club of the University of North Carolina. The day has been of ficially designated as University of North Carolina by D. B. Fear ing. director of the celebration being held this summer commem iContinued on Page Three) v Brutal Slayer Of Child Sought In Brooklyn New York, Aug. 1.?(U.R)?More than 100 persons were questioned today in connection with the murder of eight-year-old Paula Magagna, Brooklyn school girl whose nude body was found in the cellar of her home yesterday, garroted with a clothesline, and criminally attacked. Fifty detectives sought the kill er among known degenerates of the district, but police admitted privately that they were "up against a stone wall." No trace even of the red and white checkered sun suit the child wore when last seen alive had been discovered. The tragedy's effect on the Magaga family was evident at their home. Marino, the girl's -5-year-old brother, sat on the front porch all morning, his head j resting in his hands. Her 12 year-old brother, Louis, attended children's mass, relatives said, and prayed that the murderer of his sister would be captured and punished. As Paula's body arrived at her home late today from the Kings County morgue an uncle of the dead girl ran down the steps of the building, placed his bead against the rear door of the hearse and sobbed. He wept as the coffin was carried into the house, outside of which 500 per sons had gathered. Many detectives were in the crowd, scrutinizing faces in the hope that the murderer might have been drawn back to the scene of his crime. The autopsy report of medical examiners Romeo Auer'bach today confirmed that Paula had been strangled and then criminally at tacked after death. | Fight On Wag es-Hours Bill Now Up To House Rayburn Predicts An Adjournment In Three Weeks Senate Fight Vain Measure Passes In Upper Chamber by 2>to-l Vole; South Is Opposed Washington, Aug. l.-(U.R) ? House majority leader Sam Ray burn grew optimistic tonight over prospects for congressional ad journment within three weeks as the senate shunted the wage-hour bill, approved 56 to 28, to the house and prepared to begin work tomorrow on the Wagner housing measure. Rayburn said congress should be able to complete President Roosevelt's flve-point program in three weeks and probably even less time. He said the wage-hour bill, scheduled to come from the house labor committee on Tuesday or Wednesday, would be given right of way as soon as leaders could arrange it, probably reaching the floor a week from tomorrow. In the meantime, Rayburn said, the house will work at top speed on sugar legislation and anything else ready for action. Rayburn Confident Rayburn expressed confidence in the face of a threatened revolt by Southern house Democrats against the wage-hour bill. Their colleagues in the senate, led by the usually faithful administra tion Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., fought the measure but without (Continued on Page Three) War Threats Are Receding On Continent Britain and Italy Seem On Verge of Reaching An Understanding Rome, Aug. 1.?OJ.R)? Italian and foreign diplomats, convinced that tempers have been spent and that the powers of Europe are ready to take a more realistic view of their troubles, said to night that the threat of a general war is diminishing rapidly. The major powers, they believ ed, are in a better frame of mind to isolate the Spanish conflict than at any time during the last 12 months. The international non-inter vention scheme, although totter ing, has not collapsed and may be salvaged despite Russia's refusal to compromise over the granting of belligerent rights to the Span ish nationalists. Most cheering of all develop ments to Italian statesmen was Britain's readiness to reach an amicable settlement on matters affecting Anglo-Italian interests, particularly in the Mediterranean. Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain's note to Premier Benito Mussolini over the week-end in dicated to them the possibility of an Anglo-Italian raproachment. Italian officials, however, won dered how such a raproachment would effect the Franco-Soviet alliance, vastly weakened by widespread execution of high Soviet leaders who had won France's friendship. Chamberlain's letter of friend ship was additional proof that Britain was most anxious to main (Continued on Page Three) Local Drum Corps On Roanoke Island August 18 The Senior Boy Scout Drum <Sc Bugle corps of Elizabeth City will begin practice tonight for its per formance on Roanoke Island on August 18. The local organiza tion has been invited to go to the island on the occasion of the President's visit and every effort will be made to have the corps at the top of its form on the oc casion. All present members and former members are urged to be at the courthouse tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Leo P. Louis is director of the corps and Edward Bell, president.