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1908 COMBINED WITH THE INDEPENDENT, A WEEKLY ESTABLISHED BY W. O. SAUNDERS IN 1908 1936
,-^T^Tsi ? Total No. 259 pubi^m, c0. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1937 4t ttL^acecil muur"1 ^ 1,1 a* SINGLE COPY 6 CENTS
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Republic
Reopens
?) Plants
u,?K. r Mcturn Thru
Jeering bine of
Pickets
Perkins at Work
Y,?.nj>lov.n Will Resume
Work ;;l Uills As Soon
\. IVoteetion Given
yassillon. O. July 2. ?<U.R)?
jien wen: back to work in two
Republic Steel Corp.. mills here
;av -hrough lines of booing C.
' o pickets who had threatened
o "lick '.he militia" to keep the
y.ru. closed.
\ r r..i ior.al guardsmen pre
...rrcd disorder, but Joseph Mor
on. head of the local Committee
? ' Inci'i.-trial Organization union.
to back-to-work march
Jj .\;d rouble may come later."
A mes: 400 workers entered the
?' mt where normally 4.000 ? are
employed. The entire Canton-Mas
silion area remained tense with |
inkers hostile toward national!
guardsmen who patrolled the pic
ket lir.es protecting those who
rolled to return to work.
Pci kins Busy
In Wa hington. Secretary of j
Labor Frances Perkins said she |
xas working on "indefinite" steps :
a an attempt to bring about a :
:ace-to-face conference between j
the steel masters, who stood firm j
against signing a C. I. O. contract j
and union leaders. The federal i
strike mediation board filed its
it. ral report with Miss Perkins,
reiterating that refusal of the
steel concerns to su down at the
i sj?etabie with C. I. O. men was
a use for the failure of
its efforts.
Vounrstown Sheet & Tube Co..
in a let'cr ti its employes, said it
vas ready to reopen its sheet and
tin mills in the Chicago area as
ioor. as Gov. Clifford Townsend
of Indiana provided protection for
8.000 workers. There was no indi- ;
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Philadelphia
Under Threat
rruek'Holiday'
J
Federation Orders 26.000
Drivers Out As It
Fights C.I.O.
Philadelphia. July 2. ?'U.R1?
The seven daily newspapers
s-rvins the Philadelphia area
suspended publieation flight
as 26.000 truck drivers went out
on a 'holiday'* called by the
American Federation of Labor
to combat inroads made by the
tommittee for Industrial Or
ganization on the teamsters'
field.
Philadelphia. July 2.?(U-R)?'The
A:: * :: ar, F deration of Labor or
r?d 26 000 Philadelphia truck
drivers on* on "holiday" tonight
it concentrated its forces on
attempt ing to prevent the Com
jiuttee for Industrial Organization
from invading the teamsters' field.
All trucking unions were order
their vehicles to gar
a-,s by 5 p. nr. ? EDT?, unless be
??"v used in faking supplies to hos
rphanages. Bakeries,
oairie r.- w.spapers, laundries, ov
Contmued on Page Three)
jftfj They Looked In
|'D7? far Their
tilire s
or so of dancc-lovers
' City who attended
v.i.ual June German at
Mount a few weeks ago
ar.ned the pictures of
in this week's issue of
Pilar pictorial news
but none could find
!?:sciVf's the pictures.
Ju rr'KL'azme featured the
urn- Of; nun this week in its
'?'?ef-kly feature "Life goes
I'J Some 17 scenes taken
Tore during and after the Ger
*n v' :' uiven prominent space
?y ? magazine. but no Elizabeth
'?Ple could be detected in
an:' of them.
Court Compromise
Finds Opposition
1NO PAPER MONDAY
MORNING
Monday, July is to he
observed as a legal holiday
and practically all business
in F, izabelli City being at
a standstill on that date,
i'in- Daily Independent will
take the opportunity to
give its employes a holiday.
There will l)c no issue of
the Daily Independent 011
Monday morning; the next
i s s 11 e appearing Tuesday
morning, July (>. All adver
tisements scheduled f o r
Monday's paper will appear
in the Tuesday morning
edition.
THK EDITORS.
! I J
Barbecue Is
Postponed
A Week
Lotion's Bij; Doings
Now Set for Monday,
July 12th
The big American Legion bar
becue and entertainment that had
been scheduled for Monday, July
5. in lieu of a Fourth of July
celebration, has been postponed
until Monday. July 12, it was an
nounced yesterday by the com
mittee in charge of the affair.
It was deemed advisable to |
postpon the barbecue because of
the large number of people going
out of town for the holiday. It
will be held at then Community
Building on Dyer Street at 6:30
p. m., Monday. July 12. that hour
being set so as to allow invited
guests who work in stores and of- j
flees an opportunity to attend. I
All ex-service men, whether I
Legionnaires or not. all Boy i
Scouts and many friends of the [
Legionnaires will be invited. Pre- ,
parations will be made to take |
care of from 350 to 400 persons.
The menu will consist of barbe
cue. cornbread. potato salad,
pickles, soft drinks, beer and ice
cream.
The Legion Auxiliary is getting ;
up an entertaining musical pro- j
gram to be given in connection
w.th the barbt<. ue.
John Kambis, C. B. Jones and
George Waters are members of
the committee in charge of the
affair.
"We have met with a wonder- J
ful response in our work and wish I
to thank all who have so gener- J
ously helped us." said the com- J
mitte yesterday.
Would Eventually In
crease Membership
to Thirteen
Washington, July 2.?(U.R)? I
Sen. M. M. Logan. D? Ky., today
introduced an administration
compromise to the judiciary reor
ganization bill designed to permit
President Rcosevelt to appoint a
total of three new just ces to the
! Supreme Court within six months
1 and eventually to increase the
tribunal to 13 members.
Fixing the permanent member
ship of the court at nine, the bill
i wou'd permit new appointments
; at the rate of one per calendar
I year in the event that justices 75
j years old faired to retire. Al
! though the b 11 theoretically pro
| vides for a maximum court of 15.
under present conditions it would
| give Mr. Roosevelt only four ad
I ticnal appointments during his
? eccnd term.
Claims Senate Votes
Logan claimed 54 senate votes
j ?Ave more than the necessary
! majority?for his compromise
(Continued on Page Three)
P. O. Receipts
Show Gain
Here
Receipts for Fiscal ,
Year Again Top the
$50,000 Mark
Postmaster W. T. Culpepper
beamed with pride yesterday When
Assistant Postmaster J. L. Need- 1
ham handed him a sheet of paper
carrying figures containing the
good news that the receipts of the i
Elizabeth City post office for the
1936-37 fiscal year had again top
ped the $50,000 mark.
The total receipts for the fiscal
!year just ended were $53,034.49.
second highest year's receipts in
the history of the local post of
fice. This figure represented an
increase of $1,638.38 over the 1935
36 receipts, which amounted to
$51,396.11.
The year's receipts, by quarters,
were: September quarter. $11,
871.30; December quarter, $14.
916.07: March quarter, $13,200.22,
and June quarter, $13,046.90.
Receipts for the first six months
of 1937 totaled $26,247.12. an in
crease of $966.84 over the $25,
280.28 total for the first six
months of 1936.
Since the last two quarters in
variably show an increase over the j
first two quarters of the calendar
year, indications are that the re
ceipts for the 1937 calendar year
may top those of the fiscal year.
Safety Council Gloomily
Views The Glorious Fourth
Gaiety Theatre
A Year Old
Today
Webster Thanks Ne
gro Population for
Patronage, Cond uct
"I am convinced that the Ne
gro population of Elizabeth City
truly appreciate the theatre we
built for their enjoyment a year
ago," said Manager Holland Web
stter of the Carolina Amusement
Corp., last night on the eve of
the Gaiety Theatre's first anni
versary.
The Gaiety, rated as one of the
finest small theatres :n the State
and one of the finest theatres for
the Negro race in the entire
South, opened its doors on Fri
day. July 3. 1936.
Under the capable manage
ment of Roland Spellman. its .
popular manager, the Gaiety has
attracted an increasingly large
attendance from among the col
ored people of Elizabeth City and
vicinity.
"The patronage of the Negro
population here has given the
theatre encourages us to believe
that our investment was a sound
one and that our belief that the
colored people of Elizabeth City
would appreciate a good theatre
has been justified," said Mr.
Webster last night. "And I wish
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Sees 300 Drownings and
500 Motor Fatalities;
Other Casualties
Chicago, July 2.?(U.R)?The na
tional safety council said tonight
that more persons probably would
be killed in the three-day celebra
tion of Independence Day than
during any other period of 72
consecutive hours of the year.
R. L. Forney, council statisti- .
cian, forecast that the weekend
would record approximately 300 i
drownings, 500 motor crash fatali- 1
ties, 75 deaths from falls, and 30 I
killed by fireworks. A typical 4th i
of July heat wave would add to t
the toll in proportion to its sever
ity. he added. i
Forney explained that his con- i
elusions were to be interpreted as i
these of "a statistician thinking
out loud" rather than as positive
'Continued on Page Three)
TODAY'S LOCAL ?)
CALENDAR
A. M. (
8:30 Mens Christian Federation '?
P. M.
2:30 Local 119 AFHW
Library Hours: 10-12, 2-6. j
SUNDAY CALENDAR
A. M. 1
9:30 Church Schools
11:00 Morning worship
7:15 Young People's Leagues,
8:00 Evening worship
Library Closed.
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Appointee
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Photo by Frisby
After waiting a year lor his ap
pointment to the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
Baxter Bell, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Bell of Shawbooro, had
two appointments offered h m f
within a period of 24 hours. He !
was appointed a second alternate
by Congressman Lindsay C. War
ren last July and passed both the
mental and physical tests but the
principal got the appointment.
Meanwhile, his parents had ask
ed Senator Robert R. Reynolds to
try to obtain an appointment for
him. On Monday of this week
Senator Reynolds offered young
Bell the coveted appointment and !
he immed ately accepted.
Next day came an offer from j
Congressman Warren of an ap
pointment. Young Baxter report
ed to West Point July 1. He
graduated from Moyock High
school in 1934. attended Episco
pal High for two years and last
year attended the University of
North Carolina. He is 20 years
old.
Today Begins
Three-Day j
Holiday
J
Fourth of July Week
End Starts; Monday
to Be a Holiday Here
With very little in the way of
hold them at home. Elizabeth Cit
izens today are scattering north,
south, east and west for the
Fourth of July week end.
For many fortunate individuals
?those who do not have to work
on Saturday?it will be a three
day vacation, while to practically
everyone it win be at least two
days of holiday. For almost every !
office and business establishment
in the town has agreed to close i
on Monday and give employes
a holiday.
Besides the retail stores and
most of the wholesale houses, the
banks, the post office, govern
ment offices and the ABC store
will be closed all day Monday.
The post office, according to
Postmaster W. T. Culpepper will
put up box mail and deliver per- I
ishables and special delivery mail
Monday but will make no town or
rural deliveries.
Amelia Ear hart Sought
Over Desolate Pacific;
Believed Forced Down
4
Celebration Opens At Old
Ft. Raleigh Tomorrow
*
Religious Service
First; Speech by
Warren and Pa
geant at Night
v
Man.co, July 2.? Roanoke Isl
and and Manteo are all keyed up
today in anticipation of the for
mal opening tomorrow of the cel
ebration commemmorating the
350th anniversary of the first
English settlement in America.
Fittingly, the celebration will
begin with a religious service at
Fort Raleigh. The order of wor
ship will be as follows, beginning
at 11 o'clock Sunday morning:
Prelude: Chorale Prelude "A
Major" (Bach.
Processional: For the Beauty of
the Earth.
Invocation and Choral Re
sponse: Lo. a Voice to Heaven
Sounding <Bortniansky).
Anthem.
The Apostles Creed.
The Gloria Patri.
The Scripture.
Prayer.
Offertory: Bless the Lord, O
My Soul (Ippolitvf-Ivanof).
Hymn: My Country 'Tis of Thee.
Sermon bj Bishop Thomas C.
Darst.
Prayer.
Opening Dates
Tobacco Mart
Are Announced
Old Point Meeting Sets the
<>I toning of Eastern Belt
for August 26th
Old Point Comfort. Va.. July 2.
?(U.R)?North Carolina's eastern
tobacco belt will open August 26
this year, the United States To
bacco Association decided today at
a business session of its 37th an
nual convention.
Opening dates of other tobacco
belts were set as follows:
Georgia belt, July 29; South
Carolina, or border belt, Aug. 10;
North Carolina middle belt. Sept. \
16: North Carolina Old Bright i
belt, Sept. 30; Dark-fired Virginia j
belt, Nov. 29.
E. J. O'Brien, Jr., of Louisville,
(Continued on Page Three)
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C/he<BANK CURK THE SODA dCRK?Rf
THE NAMES OUR VISITORS STRUGGLE WITH
"One of these tourist chaps
just dropped in and asked me for
information about Man-tay-o.
Said he wanted to get there. It
took me the longest kind of time
to figure out where he wanted to
get to, until he said something
about the Lost Colony. What he
wanted was Manteo. We pro
nounce it Manty-o, and here comes
along a guy calling it Man-tay-o
and gets me all bothered." It was
the Soda Jerker speaking.
"Well, don't be ill-mannered
when some stranger come: along'
and mispronounces some goshaw
ful name of one of our towns or
villages. Think what a fix you
would be in if you fell into Ma
marcneck, N. Y.. or Hamtramck
Oity, Mich., or Schuylkill, Pa.?"
said the Bank Clerk.
"After all. we do have :ome out
landish names to confound visitors
to these parts. Think of Moyock,
Zioinjock. Kitty Hawk, Yeopim,
Chicamacomico, Kinnakeet, Kil
kaney!
"And our own folks often as not
ean not pronounce the names they
have tagged on places. For in
stanec, the bog that existed be
tween Sligo and Currituck C. H.,
before the read was paved, had
been given the name of Purgatory.
Nine out of ten natives of this
region called it Perkiterry.
"And I don't know to this day
whether the place I was born in
Perquimans County was Goodwin's
Mill Pond or Goodens Mill Pond.
Everybody called it Gooden's or
Good'ns Mill Pond.
"The names of many town:;,
villages and localities in North
eastern North Carolina are of In
dian origin. I like it. Imagine
all the mystery, romance and poe
try that tourists studying our
road maps can conjure up in
perusing these intriguing names!
And suppose they do fumble some
of them? Better to have captur
ed a visitor's fancy with a pic
turesque name than to have left
him cold with names like New
land, Weeksville, Olds, Spot,
Woodville and Athol."
"What's that last one?" asked
the Soda Jerker.
"Athol," replied the Bank Clerk;
"it is the name of one of the
famous old plantations in Chowan
County."
"Never heard of it," said the
Soda Jerker; "but if there is any
such place the fellow who named
it must have had a hare lip."
Celebration Program
Presented here is the official program of the Roanoke Colony
Anniversary celebration, which will open formally tomorrow morn
ing. The program is subject to possible additions.
July 4?Opening sermon by the Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D.D.,
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina. 11 a. m.. Or
gan recital in the amphitheatre, 4 p. m. Premier performance of
the pageant-drama, "The Lost Colony," at 8:30 p. m., preceded by
j speech of Congressman Lindsay C. Warren formally opening the
celebration.
July 5?National Holiday. Band concerts in the amphitheatre
during the day. Second presentation of "The Lost Colony" at night.
July 7 and 8--Virginia Dare Memorial Regatta in Manteo Bay,
featuring exciting power boat races.
July 11?Sermon by Dr. H. E. Spence. Duke university.
July 14?WPA DAY, with State Director George W. Coan, Jr.,
j and other WPA officials in attendance.
i July 15?Dare County Day. A general homecoming and day of
! get-together for Dare county folks.
July 18?Sermon by the Rev. Rowland P. Wagner, pastor of
Central Baptist church, Norfolk. Va.
July 20?Civilian Conservation Corps Day.
July 21?Virginia Day?with prominent Virginians, possibly in
cluding Governor George C. Peery, taking part.
July 22?North Carolina Day. Prominent North Carolinians from
all parts of the state on hand.
July 23?American Legion Day, with National Commander Harry
W. Colmery and other high Legion officials present.
July 24?D. A. R. Day, with a special musical entertainment
arranged by Mrs. I. M. Meekins. regent of tiie Betsy Dowdy chapter.
July 25?Sermon by C. K. Proctor, superintendent of the Ox
ford Masonic orphanage.
July 28?Aviation Day. Address by Congressman Lister Hill,
chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs. Tribute
paid to Orville Wright, co-inventor of the first successful airplane,
who has been invited to attend.
July 29?National Park Service Day. Officials of U. S. Depart
ment of Interior invited.
July 31?Colonial Dames Day. Mrs. Joseph B. Hutchinson, of
Bryn Mawr, Pa., national president, and Mrs. J. Walter William
son, state president, will speak.
August 1?Sermon by Bishop A. C. Thomason, of Southern Dio
cese of Virginia. ?
August 4?U. S. Coast Guard Day. Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche,
commandant, will speak.
August 8?Sermon by Dr. J. Clyde Turner of Greensboro.
August 10?Woman's Club Day. Speech by Mrs. Howard G. Eth
eridge, of Asheville, president of the N. C. Federation of Woman's
Clubs.
August 14?U. D. C. Day. Speeches by Mrs. John L. Woodbury,
of St. Louis, national president-general, and Mrs. John Huske
Anderson, of Raleigh, state president.
August 15?Sermon by Bishop Thomas C. Darst, vice president
Roanoke Island Historical association and chairman of the Na
tional Committee on Evangelism.
August 18?Virginia Dare Day. Address by President Roosevelt.
Many state and national notables present, including several gov
ernors.
V /
District Health Program
To Be Explained
*
Would Service Cam
den, Currituck, Dare
and Pasquotank; To
Cost $21,210
Manteo, July 2.?Dr. R. E. Fox,
director of the division of county
health, under the State Depart
ment of Public Health, Raleigh,
will arrive in Manteo, July 6, for
a meeting with the Dare county
board of county commissioners to
discuss plans for a District
Health Department.
As planned, the proposed full
time health service will be car
ried out in a district comprising
Dare, Camden, Pasquotank and
Currituck counties, and will sup
ply to the citizens of the district
a 12-months essential health and
sanitation program.
The cost of such a public health
project will amount to $21,210 of
which amount $6,884 will be con
tributed by the four counties, pro
rated as follows: Camden county
$910. Currituck county $1,324,
Pasquotank county $3,750 and
Dare county $900. The remaining
$14,326 will be contributed by the
North Carolina Board of Health
and federal health agencies.
A proposed departmental per
t sonal of a fulltime district health
officer and one clerk in each
county will provide a broad
health program including 30
weeks of dental service to be di
vided among the four counties
of the district in proportion to the
school population under 13 years
of age. This dental service will be
provided through the Division of
Oral Hygiene of the State Board
of Health.
(Continued on Page Three)
Camden Rural
Library Is
Ready
Traveling Bookshelf
Begins This Week and
Continues Through
August
The Camden County traveling
library will go into service Wed
nesday and will make its rounds
in that county through July and
August at scheduled intervals.
The library is promoted by the
Camden Woman's Club and some
500 volumes are avilable for cir
culation by drawing upon exist
ing libraries at South Mills, Shi
loh and Camden, while others will
be borrowed from Raleigh. The
Camden county commissioners
and friends have contributed
money for gas and incidental ex
penses.
Volumes for both children and
grown-ups are included in the
traveling library which will be
operated by volunteer workers on
the following schedule:
Camden. Belcross Communities,
Mrs. Tom Stevens. j(
Second and fourth Thursday
of every month, Woman's club I,
2:30 to 2:50; Mrs. Wib Sawyers
3:05 to 3:25; Mrs. J. J. Nash, 3:35 (
to 3:55; Mrs. Walter Tarkington, ,
4:15 to 4:35; Mrs. George Upton
4:45 to 5:05; Mrs. Grady Dough,
5:20 to 5:40. <
Old Trap, Mrs. E. P. Leary. ii
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Itasca Begins a 'Nee
dle-in-Haystack'
Search
No Word 8 Hours
With Empty Tanks and a
Smooth Sea, Plane May
Keep Afloat for a Con
siderable Time.
Howland Island, Oceania,
July 2.?(U.R)?Amelia Ear
hart, twice conqueror of the
Atlantic and only woman ever
to fly the Pacific, apparently
was forced down tonight on
the most desolate expanse of
the South Pacific.
Miss Karhart had not been
heard from for more than
eight hours on a 2,550-mile
flight from Lae, New Guinea.
A Few Miles Away
Last radio signals that crackled
faintly through tne air from her
$80,000 Lockheed Electra "Flying
Laboratory" as she gunned It
over the ocean on the home stretch
of her 27,000 mile flight around
the world, indicated she was only
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Joint Action
By France And
Britain Is Seen
Plan to Break Dekdlock
May Mean Unrestricted
Aid to the Loyalists
London, July 2.?<U.R)? Great
Britain and France collaborated
tonight on a plan of "forceful ac
tion," aimed directly at Germany
and Italy, after struggling for
hours to break a deadlock that
doomed the Spanish non-inter
vention structure to virtual col
lapse.
ine rTanco-nrnisn pian, per
haps contemplating unrestricted
aid to the Spanish loyalists, was
mapped in secrecy and may be
"sprung" on Germany and Italy
at a meeting of the 27 non-inter
vention powers next week.
The deadlock in today's lengthy
sessions of the neutrality sub
committee headed by Lord Ply
mouth resulted from:
1?A German-Italian demand
that belligerency status be given
to both the Spanish loyalists and
insurgents? thus proclaiming a
formal state of war in Spain un
der international war.
2?A Franco-British proposal
that warships of the two nations
take over and continue the naval
patrol of Spanish seacoasts on a
two-power basis and that all for
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Big Auction Sale
At Kitty Hawk
Beach Today
The auction sale of fifty desir
able lots at Kitty Hawk Beach
gets underway this afternoon,
commencing at 2:30 o'clock. The
sale will be conducted by the
United Auction Company, of
Wilmington, and Richard L.
Player, its President, said yester
day that each lot would be sold
on easy terms to the highest bid
der.
Many of the lots to be sold ex
tend from the paved highway to
the high water mark, and deeds
will contain riparian rights. Rea
sonable restrictions will jalso be
incorporated in the deedl to in
sure rapid and desirable! growth
of the beach.
Souvenirs will be given .to those
attending the sale, insluding two
lots, an automobile ancf many
cash prizes. Music will be furnish
ed by an excellent band.
There is no form of nerve dis
order that may not be caused or
aggravated by eye strain. For a
thorough eye examination see
DRS. J. P HATHAWAY, (adv.)