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p?:?J THF IlATTY MT)FPFJVDF,NT Essssss I afternoon thundershowers A Allj JL/ilLLl 11 1 JJLil JjllJJLill 1 ? ^ 1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. O. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936 109?Total No. 284 '*>? i-ubm?n? co.% ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937 Entcrca at City' v c" SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Tope Hatteras National Seashore Passes House Adopted Without Dissent Warren's Bill Pro vides Oceanside Park Area A Ten-Year Limit At Least 10,000 Acres Must Be Turned Over to Purk Service In. That Time Washington, Aug. 2.?(U.R) The house today unanimous ly approved the Warren hill establishing the Cape Ilatter as National Seashore and sent it to the senate. The hill, sponsored by Hep. Lindsay C. Warren, I)., N. C., provides for the setting up of an area of 100 square miles along the narrow strip of seaeoast from Kitty Hawk to Oeracokc Inlet. When as much as 10,(100 acres have been acquired the National Park Service may take over administration. Approved by Ickes The project has been studied for three years and was approved by Secretary of the Interior Har ald L. Ickes and by the budget bureau. The Warren bill provides no appropriation but gives ten years for acquisition of the land. A nucleus exists in the posses sions of the U. S. Biological sur vey. which now owns 2,500 acres in the area, the Wright Brothers memorial at Kitty Hawk, a na tional park covering 350 acres, and the state park at Cape Hatteras, :overing 1,000 acres. The area is rich in historic as (Continued on Page Seven) District Health Board Idea Rejected But City Will Seek Ar rangement for Nurs ing Service With the County Thumbs down on the city's participation in the district health program was the committee re port to the city council in its regular meeting last night, with the recommendation 'that Eliz abeth City combine efforts with Pasquotank county to employ ful time nursing services for the city and county alone. The committee was composed of Fred White, chairman, T. J. Boswell, J. E. Blades, C. M. Griggs, and C. D. Pappendick. The board instructed the same committee to continue its efforts to join with the county in pro curing the desired medical assist ance for indigent citizens. The proposed district program would have brought the city and pounty in collaboration with other (Continued on Page Three) Two New Business Enterprises For City The store at Main and Road streets, recently occupied by D. R. Nixon, will be reopened as a fancy grocery by William Gar rett, native of this city but recent ly of Wilson. A son of Noah Garrett of Elizabeth City. Mr. Garrett has been absent from here for a period of 25 years, dur ing the past three years having conducted a similar business in Wilson. Alterations to the place are in progress, but Mr. Garrett says that he will not be ready to open for business before next month. Another business enterprise will be added to the city this week when Fred Merritt opens an electrical supply business in the New Southern Hotel building on Road street, featuring General Electric devices. rourtVacancy Arouses New Storm In Congress Appointment May Be ! Made Subsequent to I Adjournment yuniininjiTs' Opinion llppoinliT Mii;lit Have to I sj, |? IKihii If (ioufirm I alien I> W itlilield I W.imi lutoii. A1114 r. (U.R) ft ik'u si.>nn over liU' su I Jirokc in Ihe sen I H?'a> after Attorney j I tonier S. Climmings j I President Roosevelt I I . ild name a sueees I e Willis Van De-I I d, regardless ofl I u|>|K-r chamber! ft j; n '11 to confirm it. I .! nv uffr.s ApptiatiMi I - H Vanuenberg. R..J I . ..d a resolution de ft;::*! the senate on rec I recess appointment, I ime the subject I rhen .Sen. Tomi ft,:.:. .:. D. Texas, assailed the I 1 and deienacd the presi-| I delay the appoint - I It 1- r.o: within tne province 1: tell the president I n to make appoint p .... CVnnally. I 7 . Texan was one of the sena-! I . A-tVa: Mr. Roose I plan which would: I ed enlargement of j :;. court, but he clashed 1 I S ard R. Burke. D.. I' igue m tiiat fight. I . aid lie would vote I I :::.ng any person | I uned the judicial robes I ' Continued on Page Three) Currituck Bcl.| Stands Bv I J R*'(|iiest i 11 Wants Transient t am|? MowmI Fro in < oiu jo<-k ? vk. Aug. 2.?Greatly to : . e of many Currituck e;my taxpayers, the board of c---y commissioners today re ? it .draw their order of the National Park remove its Negro tran camp from Coinjock and k county. i been intimated before : rr.- today tha-i those ..-anally petitioned for ; : rlu camp had relent u i.ad mdicated a willing - a the camp to remain 1 Ce.jock. but they actually icier in their protests to ? Continued on Page Three) hrst Hatch Social Security Checks ATrice Here S -cial Security checks 'ank Courr.y arrived at of County Welfare H Outlaw yesterday ? and will be distributed ^ - ? checks, covering pay .<? indigent blind, are action of the emire this county, however. ? eight of the checks S!04. or an average of on. Six of the checks ?Tc- persons and two for .-1' '? tlaw said he does not' i the old age assist ed yo dependent chil ;"ks will arrive here, but expecting them in any T ' ments for the indigent ?andled separately from Social Security pay Latest Developments In Sino-Japanese Crisis TIENTSIN?Motorized Japanese columns continue southward to disperse Chinese concentrations north of the Yellow river alone the T.entsin-Pukow and Peiping Hankow railway: white Russians, allegedly inspired by the Japanese, raid the Soviet consulate general and seize its archives which are being translated: Chinese believe all Soviet institutions in North Ch'na will be closed by the Jap anese who assert they are centers for ant i-Japanese activity and Communist propaganda: Japanese bomb Chinese concentrations in Shantung province; Chinese troops occupy Kalgan. far to the north west of Peiping in Chahar prov ince. SHANGHAI ? Soviet ambassa dor in Nanking protests to Japa nese charge d'affaires against raid on Russia's consulate general at Tientsin; his protest sent to Jap anese commander at Tientsin who reportedly will ignore it: Soviet consulate general in Shanghai guarded: U. S. ambassador arriv es to supervise plans for possible j evacuation of American citizens from danger areas: Japanese re move their citizens from Yangtse valley cities; Chinese, fearing out breaks in Shanghai, flee into in ternational settlement and French concision. MOSCOW ? Russia orders her : charge d'affaires in Tokyo to pro- . test strongly against raid on the 1 {Tientsin consulate general, to de- < clare Japanese government re- i sponsible, and to demand arrest < of the raiders, return of "stolen i property" and compensation for J damages suffered. TOKYO?Japanese fear bomb ouirag.s in Tientsin: parliament , to approve additional expendi- < tures for North China fighting: 1 government moves to curb prof- 1 iteering and speculation. < GENEVA?Chinese to approach I signatories of nine powers treaty, 'designed to guarantee China's ter- I ritorial integrity, in effort to ob- 1 tain support against new Japanese I attacks. 1 i Presidential Itinerary Scanned Secret Service M e 11 Go Over Roads to Be Used by the Chief Executive Piloted by Dare county sheriff D. Victor Meekins. high-ranking I government officials passed through here late yesterday af ternoon makig a preliminary sur vey of the possible routes to be used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on his visri to Fort Ral eigh August 18. State Adjutant-General J. Van B. Metts accompanied the federal operatives headed by Colonel E. W. Starling, chief of the White House Secret Service. Captain A. D. Clark and Colonel Gordon Smhh of the Secret Ser vice were with the party travel ing in a Pierce-Arrow touring car over the roads the president will take when he visits the cradle of English New-World civilisation on Roanoke Island. The government men were met at the Virginia Dare Hotel by 'the Dare county sheriff who was to pilot them over the proposed route of the presidential proces sion. Stating that plans of the chief (Continued on Paee Three) Hyde County Negro Is Drowned Lconirius M o (? r e Is Swept Overboard In Saturday's Storm Stumpy Point, Aug. 2.? The . body of Loenidas Moore, colored, of Hyde county, who was drowned Saturday morning while out in a fishing boat with John Cohoon and Allen Hopkins, had not been . recovered today, despite a wide spread search by local fishermen and Coast Guardsmen from near by stations. (Continued on Page Three) Robert E. Lee Not Available for August 18 \ G. C. Meads, secretary of the ? Chamber of Commerce-Merchants < Association, received word yester- ? day that the steamer Robert E. Lee will not be available for an 1 excursion from this city to Roa noke Island on Virginia Dare Day, August 18. i The Robert E. Lee Staemship Corp.. to which Meads had writ- 1 ven in an effort to obtain a < steamer for the proposed excur- ] sion, stated that the Robert E. Lee had already been chartered for the 18th, and that even were she not chartered it would not be feasible to bring her here because she would not pass 'thru the in land waterway locks and bridges , and would have to come here via the roundabout outside course. Secretary Meads is now seeking to obtain a sveamer from the Bux ton Line in Norfolk. I Queen Elizabeth, Wally And West Set Styles Chicago. Aug. 2.?(U.R)? Queen Elizabeth, Mae West and the Duchess of Windsor shared re sponsibility tonight for the way Mrs. Average American is going to be turned out. come autumn. Mae's gleaming satins. the queen's native paids and "Wallis" blue tints definitely predominated as models swept on to the fashion stage at the merchandise mart be fore some 5,000 costume buyers. Every other woman in the land will wear a Campbell, MacDonald, Douglas or other Scotch plaid if the fashion experts have their way? all because the -popular queen of England came from Scot land. She also is held accountable for the heavy tweed skirts Ameri can women will wear. The tweed skirt will be topped witfi a suede jacket of bright green, reddish brown or dull red. One brown herring-bone tweed : skirt, with natty sidepocket, was shown with a jaunty red suede jacket made with a high waistline i and fastened with a zipper. Mae West and California divide honors for the "rainbow stripe" 1 taffeta negligee which was easily J the highlight of the lounging ap- ' parel. The lines were Mae's; the "muted tones" were supposed to have been inspired by the hazy : colors of a sunset on the Pacific. : They combined to make a shape ly garment which flattered the i shoulders and bosom, hugged the waist and hips and flared at the hem. The stripes, two inches wide, (Continued on Page Three) r? Japanese Raid Russian Consulate At Tientsin Fighting With Chi nese Spreads Over a Wide Area Tientsin. Tuesday, Aug. 3.?(U.R) ? Russia was drawn into the North China crisis today when Moscow ordered its embassy in Tokyo to protest strongly to the Japanese government against a ?aid on the Soviet consulate gen eral here during which me build ing was wrecked and the consu lar archives confiscated. Demands Satisfaction Moscow asserted the Imperial Japanese government was respon >ib.e for the raid and demanded "satisfaction" including arrest of the raiders, return of the seized consular records, and compensa tion. The protest followed similar ac tion by Russian Ambassador Dmi tri Bogomoloff in Nanking who told the Japanese charge d'affaires there that the Japanese army con nived in the raid. Russians feared all Soviet in stitutions in North China were to oe closed by the Japanese in line with their program of eradicating all Soviet and Communist influ ?nces from areas under their con trol. Hope for Intervention Chinese hoped the incident might lead to Russian military (Continued on Page Three) Program For C. G. Day Is Released Commandant Speaks; Boat Raees Are Aft ernoon Features A program for the Coast Guard Day celebration on Roanoke Isl and tomorrow was released yes terday from Seventh District Coast Guard headquarters here. The program, arranged by Chief Warrant Officer Walter Etheridge, Chief Yeoman Eddie Voeth and D. Victor Meekins, is as follows: 11:00 a. m.? Admiral R. R. Waesche speaks. 12:00 Noon?Dinner. 1:30 p. m.? Beach apparatus drill. 2:00 p. m.? Capsize race be tween the Northern, Central and Southern sections of the Seventh District. 3:00 p. m.?Race between Engi (Continued on Page Three) Bond Issue Finally Is Approved by County Board Advertisement of a $20,000 bond issue with which to finance Pasquotank County's share of the cost of the proposed county agri culture building will be started this week, there having been no protests registered before the board of county commissioners yesterday. Bond' attorneys ruled las't month that not until taxpayers of the county had been given notice and an opportunity to protest would approval of the bond issue be valid. The hearing was set for yesterday, and no one appeared to protest the bond issue, so the board adopted a resolution ap proving the bonds. The same resolution had been adpoted pre viously but had been declared in valid. The bpnds will be retired at the rate of $2,000 a year, beginning in 1939 and continuing -thru 1948. Among other matters, the coun ty commissioners yesterday di rected Sheriff Charles Carmine to prepare to advertise property on which 1936 taxes are delinquent for sale at 'the courthouse door in October. The City of Baltimore In Flames J .VITH the night sky as a background, the Chesapeake Bay liner. City of Baltimore, burns to the Aaterline, about 14 miles out from Baltimore, as a rescue ship stands by. Loyalists Attack Oviedo Capital Of The Asturians sk >jf I Rebel-Held City Hasj Withstood Five Assaults Near Oviedo, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 2.?(U.R)?A torrent of steel fell on this capital of the Asturians today as Loyalist forces attacked Rebel '.roops en trenched in the city's ruins. Air bombs led the way in an attempt to cut the Nationalists' vital corridor between Oviedo and Grado. The ba-.tic -still continued late today, it was announced at gov ernment general headquarters in Gijon. and probably will be decisive. The ruins of Oviedo, long ago evacuated by all but a few male citizens, have been heavily forti led by the occupying Rebels, who (Continued on Page Three) City Plans Cleanup Abandoned Cars Steps toward cleaning up an unsightly aspect of the city were taken by Mayor Jerome B. Flora late last week when he arranged with a Norfolk concern to remove the discarded automobile bodies which have cluttered up vacant lots about town. The company contacted has facilities for crush ing the sheet metal into cubes saleable for junk. Arrangements j have yet to be made whereby the : city would be safeguraded again-st { claims which might arise by the j removal. Bleiiciil Lisl Enlarged , i Hy Board More Applications for Social Security Pay ments Arc Approved Thirty-eight new applications for old age assistance were ap proved yesterday by the beard of i county commissioners upon re- I commendation of County Welfare j Agent A. H. Outlaw. Only two ? applications were refused. The 38 applicants will receive j an average of $9 each per month. In July vhe county board approv ed 93 applications averaging $11.34 each. Yesterday's addi tions make a total of 131 persons in this county who will receive an average of $10.66 per month, one half of which will be paid by the (Continued on Page Three) July We Month Of 193 7 Rainfall 4.11 Inches Above Normal; Tem perature Vi as About Normal Excessive rainfall, and not the heat, was the only unusual feat ure about the weather in Eliz abeth City during the month of July, according to the records of W. H. Sanders, local U. S. Weath er Bureau reporter. As a matter of fact, 'those who thought July was an unusually hot month were sadly mistaken, for the records show that last month's average temperature here was 79.2 degrees, or leas than a half a degree above the average July -temperature of 78.8 degress. But for one or two exceedingly hot days, last month's average temperature would have have been lower than the July average. Hottest days of the month were the 17th, with a high of 97 de grees and a low of 78 degrees, and ?.he 13th, with a high of 98 de gress and a low of 73 degrees. Last month was the wettest month of the year here, the total precipitation for the month be ing 10.21 inches. This was about 65 per cent above normal, 'the (Continued on Page Three) TODAY'S LOCAL CALENDAR 8:30 Mens Christian Federa tion. P. M. 3:30 Suzanna Wesley bible class business meeting. 6:30 Kiwanis club. 8:00 Public utilities commis sion: School board: Jr. O. U. A. M. Library hours: 2-6, 7-8. V J Odd Situation Smoothed Over Assistant Trial Justice Will Try the Walson I Case The board of county commis- , sioners yesterday had to call in ! their legal advisor yesterday when ( they were confronted with an un precedented request to name a j special assistant trial justice to serve in a case scheduled to be ' tried in Recorder's Court next 1 week. The case is that against Leslie Walson. local Negro youth, who is charged with speeding, reck less driving' and driving while under the influence of liquor. Walson was arrested on Sunday night, July 11, after the ambu lance he was driving had crashed into several automobiles parked in front of the Calvary Baptist church on Riverside Avenue. Trial of the case was continued by Trial Justice W. C. Morse, Jr., because the accident occurred al most in his backyard and he was on the scene almost immediately after it happened and several minutes before the police arrived. "What I personally know about the case and the opinion I have formed would make it difficult for me to sit as judge and jury on the case," said Judge Morse. Ordinarily, when the Trial Jus (Continued on Page Three) Will Exclude Public And Press From Hearing * Police Commissioner Says Meades Hearing Not to Be Public The hearing to be given Assis tant Police Chief Marion E. Meades this week by the Police Commission concerning the re quest for Meades* resignation will not be a public hearing, it was dis closed last night by S. G. Ether idge, chairman of the Police Com mission. Chairman Etheridge gave no reason for making the hearing a private one but said that news paper reporters as well as the general public will be excluded. The time of the hearing has not yet been set. Meades yesterday announced his intention of fighting the matter to the last ditch, altho he was dubious as to whether the Police Commission would allow him to have legal counsel. "I must fight this thing thru," said Meades, "because if I should ! resign without a fight, that would | undoubtedly mean the loss of my ' credit and whatever standing I have in the community, as well as my job. "No charges have bee|n pre ferred against me, and I can't un derstand how the Police Commis (Continued on Page Three) Hit-Run Driver Surrenders Himself Rim Over and Killed INegro Near William ston Sunday Night Williamston, Aug. 2.?Edward Norman, 20, of Robersonville, surrendered himself today t o Sheriff Roebuck and admr.ted that he was the driver of the car which last night ran over and killed Gus Williams. 25-year-old Williamston Negro, on the Wil liamston-Everetts highway. Wiiliams was walking in the direction of Williamston when Norman's car which was going in the opposite direction, struck him. He died almost instantly. After striking the Negro, Nor man drove on to his home in Robersonville. This morning he told his father what had happen ed. and his father came here with him to see Sheriff Roebuck. The youth said he had na. stopped after running over Williams be cause he had been afraid. He was placed under a $500 bond pending a preliminary hear-1 ing. '
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