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?fhe Lost Colony 9 Was
pleasing Even To
j tsAuthor
lyjl (ireen, the Play
I aright. Leaves Aft
I t,r the i remiere
I Yisiiors Rave
11> . .Drama Thrills ami
I lib|?in>: Was Smooth
I ,?r ia.-t Niiiht
I Satisfied after
I miere last night
-drama. "The Lost
P .; Green, noted play
;c;t '".ere today to attend !
I. brunts matters in I
I nd New York.
I t;., irar.at went off without a
? tv.ght. but had Play
I remained thru to
I v . e seen an ev
I performance, for to
I ion of the drama
I smooth than that
I :? d -omc over two hours
I ; :i: pa?eant off last night.
I;.- ? - :t was all over in
I and 40 minutes.
I thly.
I 7V:~ crowd of some 500 or
I . s slim in compari
I or more who saw
I night, but the
I ly as enthusiastic
: ?r.r.v.ters. Naught but
I heard on every
I . Paul Green's
I tirring drama?praise
I .. ..d directing and the
I for the oeauti
I:.;. and choral music?
: ' ire unique and lovely
I tr? and praise for
I lighting effects.
out effective manner
I scenes were pre
I d different stages thru
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(iuurriOpening
I More Steel
Plants Today
?
Oiianl-men \re .Mobilized
!?? I rotcvl \\ orkers 111
t !e\e!and Area
t '.jr.. July 5. ?UR>? Na
-uarGsraen. police and
> totaling almost
r. mobilized tonight to
j. non-strikers may
. 11 to their jobs and
may picket on the
-. steel ,:rtke front.
mills of the Republic
:r. this area will swing
a:es at 7 a. m. Tues- 1
"'"ho desire to go back
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>M:c>be h Citizens
a Safe and
Sane Fourth
-hty. which took on
? a "Deserted Village"
rday, began to
its usual self last
l.' ds of its residents
the beaches and
>llowing a carefree
July week-end.
rtunate enough to
in town over the
i those who had no
-o leave town reported
a;'V quiet Sunday and
d partment had
" 'A Ot-end. with approxi
1 usual round-up of
drunks but no more
usual.
of those who left
? week-end went to
Virginia Beach,
ir points beck
A good many went
? ? Harbor. Roanoke
Oregon Inlet yester- ;
?TiCi S inriav
Sunran . ^
'?'?a sunburn in varying
' acquired by dozens
Citizens over the
^ nc; i
arie Hospital last !
that no accident
description had been
; the week-end.
r a* was broken by
lowers Sunday and
'-Va' a safe and sane
f July here. I
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r " \ I
Formally Opens Celebration
' LET us never forget that it wa; the Anglo-Saxon pioneer. *he Anglo
Saxon character, the Anglo-Saxon determination and the Anglo- j
Saxcn vision that gave as a land where justice and liberty will al
ways be preserved." Congressman Lindsay C. Warren told the crowd |
attending the fir t presentation of " The Lost Colony" at Fort Raleigh
Sunday night.
"We should never give significance to the fact that the colonists;
failed to establish here a permanent settlement." said fhe speaker.
"The hi tory of the Anglo-Saxon is full of failure, but each failure .
has marked a surer and firmer advance. It merely illustrates the j
fiber and tcfhacity of the race. What we should never lose sight of j
is that here was the fir t feeble effort by the English to possess and.
to colonize, which in the fullness of time was to bring forth the
great galaxy of states forming the American Union, and was to!
make the British Empire a place upon which the un never sets."
I
Holiday Death Toll
Nears The500Mark
But Is Far Below Ex
pectations of the
Safety Council
The nation s death toll from cel
ebrating a Fourth of July week
end mourned toward 500 Monday
night.
As thousands returned home
ward by automobile. train and air
plane. crowding traffic facilities
to the inmost, the death list cf
tire three-day Independence holi
day reaehed a totai of 415. Of
the-o 2_o died in traffic crashes.
99 drowned, and 20 met violent
death from miscellaneous causes,
including fireworks.
It appeared the nation was ex
periencing its safest and sanest
three-day holiday. The death toll
was far below the national safely
council's forecast cf 500 traffic
deaths and 300 drownings based
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killer Caught
At Funeral 01
IIis \ icIiins
Relief Worker Babbles a
Confession of killing
Three Chihlren
'
Los Ange.os. July 5. ??<U.R)?The
! state tonight marshalled a corps
j cf psychiatrists who doomed Rob
' ert S. James, "rattlesnake" wife
; killer; to the gallows, to forestall
; an insanity defense by Dyer.
! shrivelled. 32-year-old WFA work
I er who confessed s trangling three
I tiny girls on Baldwin Hills last
! Saturday.
The slender killer, trapped by
morbid curiosity when he attend
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Lost Colony Drama Staged
Three Times A Week
Manteo, July 5. ? Author
playwright Paul Green was very 1
anxious before leaving here for I
his home at Chapel Hill today
that the general public know
that his "Lost Colony" pageant
drama is to be : taged three
nights each week during the
month of July, that is. on Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday
nights. Performances begin on |
these nights in the big Ft. Ra- '
leigh amphitheatre promptly at
8:15, he pointed out.
In addition to this attention I
was also called to the fact that |
the pageant-drama will also be
staged on ail special days al- !
lotted during July and August
to variou; religious, civic and
patroitic organizations who will |
conduct exercises at Old Fort
Raleigh.
As the celebration reaches its
height during August it is ex
pected that the thousand:; who
visit Roanoke Island will make
it necessary to present the
pageant-drama nightly.
The Chapel Hill playwright
was enthusiastic at the recep
tion his premier performance
of "The Lost Colony" pageant
drama received la't night from
the throng in the amphitheatre
that braved threatening skies
to see all of the 11 scenes. He
plans to return to Roanoke Isl
and within about a week and !
will be a frequent viator here j
while the 63-day celebration is |
in progress.
Supreme
Court Bill
In Senate
Explosive Issue Is at
Last Up for De
bate Today
In Modified Form
Filibuster May Be Resorted
to by Opponents of
the .Measure
Washington, July 5. ?<U.R)?
The six-months old 75th congress
was ready tonight to relinquish its
? do no.hing" record and begin
floor consideration tomorrow of its
most explosive issue when the su
preme court enlargement, bill is
called from the senate calendar.
Debate will begin on a bill con
sidcrab y modified from the form
in which President Roosevelt sent
his request to congress exactly
five months ago today with a spe
cial message asserting the need
for prompt action. In its compro
mise form the measure would en
able appointment of three new
justices within six months and
prevent the president from enlarg
ing the court to more than 13
members iliu'ing his second term. I
The original bill would have per- j
milted appointment of six new
justices 30 days after enactment
if no sitting justice over 70 were
to retire.
Substitute Measure
Administration forces plan to
move substitution of the compro- |
mise measure, introduced by Sen.
Marvel Mills Logan. D.. Ky.. as j
soon as the original bill, sponsor
ed by Judiciary Chairman Henry j
Fountain Ashurst. D.. Ariz., is j
called up. Sen. Burton K. Wheel
er. head of the anti-court bill
steering committee of seven Dem
ocrats. said last week he would not
oppose this move, even though the
administration claims 54 votes ?
more than the necessary majority
?for the compromise measure.
Wheeler's attitude seemed to in
dicate some difference of opinion
among opponents as to the best
strategy. Wheeler denied any in- j
tention to filibuster in order to (
defeat the bill, although Sen. Ed
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W ouldllemove
Transient
Negroes
Currituck Board Asks
for Removal of Coin
jock WPA Camp
Currituck, July 5.?The Curri
tuck County board of commission
ers did not mince words today in
denouncing the WPA floating
transient unit at Coinjock as "a
public nuisance" that has lately
become "intolerable."
After the commissioners had
adopted a resolution calling upon
Congressman Lindsay C. Warren
to take steps to have the floating
camp unit removed from Currituck
county. Messrs. A. C. Stratton and
H. E. Weatherwax, representatives
of the National Park Service,
stated verbally that they would
make an effort to move the camp
as quickly as possible.
The Coinjock camp, which was
established a little over a year
ago. quarters around 200 Negro
transients, who have been en
gaged in cutting underbrush with
which to make sand fences for use
in the Beach Erosion Control work
on the Dare county coast.
Currituck residents, and partic
ularly those living in and near
Coinjock. have complained loudly
of the carousing of these men. "It
is a very bad thing to dump
around 200 Negroes into a white
community," said one county offi
cial. "There are bound to be a good
many potential trouble-makers in
a group of that many Negroes ga
thered up from all parts of the
country. Furthermore, their very i
presence is a demoralizing influ
ence in the community."
The county commissioners' reso
lution today was but a follow-up
of a somewhat similar resolution
sent to Congressman Warren last
month along with a petition car
rying the signatures of several
hundred Currituck residents ask
ing for the removal of the Negro
transients from Currituck" county.
Mesrs. Stratton and Weather- !
wax gave no inkling as to what the i
Park Service and the WPA would j
do with their unwanted Negro I
transients. :
Faint Radio Signals Call
Rescue Ships To Point In
Pacific, North Of Rowland
<1
Trans-Atlantic Clippers
El aze Trail O ver Ocean)
Trip In Both Direc
tions Made Simul
taneously by Eng-|
lish and American
Fliers.
Now York, Tuesday, July 6.?(U.Ri j
Two commercial flying boats were |
believed to have passed each oth-1
or late last night on trail-blazing j
flights across the Atlantic pre-1
liminary to regular passenger!
service between the United States
and Europe.
The Pan-American Clipper III
and the British imperial flying
boat Caledonia were estimated by
officials of Pan-American Airway.;
to have passed each other at 11:00
p. m. i EDT) on their 1,994-mile
dash to the two continents.
"the American ship was enroute
fropi Botwood Harbor, in New
Fotindland. for Foynes, Ireland,
and the Caledonia was flying
from the latter point to Botwood.
Pan-American reported that at
the time the thips passed each j
other the Caledonia was 1.043
miles out from Ireland and the I
Clipper III 952 miles out from j
Botwood. The American ship was i
67 miles north of the British boat.
The Clipper III was flying at J
an altitude of 11.000 feet and was
\
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Summary Of
1937 Spud
Season
Tells a Story of In
creased Acreage and
Depressed Prices
Lower prices and heavier ship
ments characterized the 1937 |
marketing of early Irish potatoes i
in North Carolina, according to a '
brief summary of the season pre
pared by the Federal-State Mar
ket News Service of Washington.
N. C.
This summary, released over
the week end, tells the following
sad story of the 1937 potato sea
son in this State:
"The potato acreage in North
Carolina this season was estimat
ed at 43.000 acres compared with
an estimated acreage of 31.000
acres harvested in 1936 and a
five- year average of 32000 acres.
Weather conditions until the mid
dle of May wore generally favor
able for the development of a
good crop. While midMay pros
pects indicated heavy yields, dry
weather during the last two
weeks of the month injured the
crop in many localities, and yields
were lighter than had been ex
pected. The 1937 crop was esti
mated by the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics at 6.235.000
bushels or slightly more than
twice the crop of 3.100.000 bush- I
els produced in 1936 and about
one-third larger than the five
year average crop of 4.529,000
bushels.
"The shipping season started {
nearly a week later than in 1936.
Although the first cars moved on
May 27. very few cars were ship
ped until after June 1. Ship
ments during the week ending
June 5 amounted to 575 cars.
Shipments during the following |
week increased sharply to 2.692 '
(Continued on Page Three)
Two Drunken Drivers
Arrested Di Holidays
Two arrests for drunken driving
were made over the holiday week
end by State Patrolman Louis
Lane.
Claud J. Banks. Culpepper street
Negro was taken into custody on
Monday afternoon while, with i
him, was arrested Ted Ralph, !
white, on a simple drunk charge. I
Dennis Peveto of Norfolk, Navy ;
man. was taken into custody on a
drunken driving charge Sunday j
afternoon.
School Budget Is Rejected
By Currituck Board
%/
Suffers Stroke
v. J
THE Rev. O. N. Marshall, former
pastor of the Sawyer's Creek,
Shawboro and Moyock Baptist
churches, .suffered a stroke in
Rocky Mount Saturday and is re
ported to be in a critical condi
tion. his right side being para
lyzed. The stroke followed a series
of mild but similar attacks over a
period of several days last week.
Rev. Marshall, who is 60 years
old. was in the Camden-Currituck
field for five years and is well
known throughout this section.
He has been pastor of Arlington
Street Baptist church in Rocky
Mount for the past three years.
His son. John Marshall, of The
Daily Independent advertising
staff, is at his bedside.
Pin Games In
Dare Still
Going
Surprise to \isitors;
Illegal Machines Are
Kept Busy at Resort
Nag's Head, July 5.?Visitors
from upstate who spent the week
end here expressed great surprise
over finding pin games still in op
eration in Dare County.
"I've been thru over 40 counties j
in North Carolina since July 1st J
and haven't seen a pin game in
any but this county." said one
man from Charlotte.
"Why, I thought it was illegal
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McClannon D i s a p -
proves o ? Ayeock's
Admitted "Padding"'
of Budget
Currituck. July 5.?Upon mo
tion of Chairman W. B. McClan
non, the Eoard of Commissioners
of Currituck County this after
noon refused to adopt the 1937
33 school budget submitted by
Superintendent Frank Aycock and
suggested certain changes in the
budget.
This action seemed to surprise
Superintendent Aycock, who said
he would re-work the budget and
submit it to the board again next
Monday afternoon. The budget
had been officially approved only
a few hours before by the board
of education.
It had been thought that the
new budget would show a size
able increase over that of the
1936-37 fiscal year because of the
loss of the outside support from
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kr.app, ?
but it actually was pretty much in
line with the old budget. It called
for expenditures of around $6,800,
against the 1936-37 budget of $6,
187. And the approximate $600
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Nags Head Has
Very Busy
Holiday
Best Weekend In Re
sort's History Ended
Last Night
Nags Head. July 5.?Nags Head
innkeepers, grocers, service sta
tion proprietors and dance hall
managers checked their cash re
gisters tonight and confirmed
what they already had surmised?
that today, yesterday and Satur
day had been the best week end
in the history or this rcsorr.
As a matter of fact, business
here was too good this week end,
if such a thing be possible?too
good because there was more of it
than could be given proper at- I
tention and service.
By Saturday morning every
hotel and boarding house on tire
beach was filled or had reserva
tions sufficient to keep it filled
over the week end. Literally scores
of visitois. chiefly Virginia and
upstate, who came here Satur
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Journalistic High-Spots
Of Year Recognized
Atlantic City, N. J., July 5?(U.R)
Awards for outstanding achieve
ments in reporting and writing
were announced tonight by the
National Headliners club after a
survey of the major journalistic
achitvements of the past year.
Henry Tosti Russell of the
London staff of the United Press
was awarded a gold plaque for
his world beat of' last December
on the fact that King Edward
VIII had made an irrevocable de
cision to abdicate.
Robert Okin of the Trenton,
N. J., bureau of the Associated
Press, won the prize for the best
domestic spot news reporting on
his coverage of the Hindenburg
disaster at Lakehurst.
Wiliiam Randolph Hearst was
honored for the exclusive story,
obtained by him, definitely an
nouncing the impending marriage
of King Edward.
Two days before the king's ab
dication message was read in
Parliament, and at a time when it
was still generally believed that
Edward hoped to marry Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson and
keep his throne too, Russell of
the U. P. learned from an inside
source of the monarch's irrevo
cable decision. His dispatch was
more than 36 hours ahead of all
rivals.
Formal presentation of the an
nual awards will be made at the
third annual frolic of the Nation
al Headliners club here Saturday
night. Several of the stories which
were cited for excellence will be
dramatized over the network of
the Columbia Broadcasting sys
tem beginning at 9:30 p. m. EDT.
The citations of the awards
committee were made after con
sidering nominations submitted
by newspapers, magazines, press
associations and radio stations,
throughout the country. They
cover practically all of the big
news stories of the past year.
Other awards follows:
For the best series of dispatches
on a subject of general interest:
Paul Y. Anderson. Washington
correspondent of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch for the coverage of
j hearings before the LaFollette
; civil liberties committee.
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Amelia Earhart and
Navigator Are Be
lieved Afloat
Three Ships Near
Itasca May Be the First to
Reach Spot 281 Miles
From Island Goal
San Francisco, July 5.?(U.R)?
The U. S. Itasca, Coast Guard
cutter searching for Amelia
Earhart and her navigator, ad
vised Coast Guard headquarters
here shortly before 9:30 (PST)
(1:30 a. m. Tuesday EOT) to
night that she was "very close
to tue spot in the mid-Pacific
where the missing flers reported
their position.
Honolulu, July 5.?'U.R)?Three
vessels, proceeding at full speed,
converged on a point in the Paci
fic 281 miles north of Howland
Island late today with renewed
hope of finding Amelia Earhart
and Capt. Fred Noonan.
Faint radio signals from the lost
airplane of the fliers, in which
they came down last Friday either
on the sea or on a reef, gave the
position toward which the Coast
Guard Itasca, the U. S. S. Swan
and the British Freighter Moorby
were speeding.
The Moorby reported she was
125 miles away at 9:30 p. m. EDT.
The Minesweeper Swan was about
the same distance away.
Hope for Answer
Smoke poured from the Itasca's
funnels as she drove toward the
pinpoint area. The smake was a
signal when men on the vessel
hoped would be answered by the
bright orange kite the fliers car
ried. Failing in that test and in
efforts to contact the missing ad
venturers by radio, the Itasca of
ficers planned to discharge rock
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Mussolini Is
Improving His
War Machine
And Preparations Are Seen
As a Direct Threat at
Great Britain
Rome, July 5.?(U.R)?Premier
Benito Mussolini, preparing for a
possible war in the Mediterran
ean, tonight revealed a series of
moves designed to make Italy's
position invulnerable.
Extraordinary expenditures of
the current budget were increas
ed by about $10,500,000 for instal
lation and operation of a new
army corps in Libya, while the
official gazette also showed an
extraordinary expenditure of
about $1,950,000 for "technical
supplies, war administration and
works connected with the defense
of national territory." An sfcidi
tional $3,366,400 will be used for
completion of a new anti-air raid
net work and new anti-aircraft
batteries.
II Duce had warned Fascist in
dustrialists that "there is no time
to lose" in putting the empire's
iron and steel output at maxi
mum production and lent omin
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County Board Meets
Today, Council
Tomorrow
Regular monthly meetings ol
the city council and the board of
county commissioners were omit
ted yesterday because of the holi
day. The commissioners will meet
this morning at ten o'clock, while
the council has postponed its
meeting until Wednesday night.
The commissioners are antici
pating a busy session, with the
Social Security budget scheduled
as the major business of the day.
Monthly meetings of both bod
ies are supposed to be held on the
first Monday, but with so many
planning to leave town for the
Fourth of July holiday, it was de
cided to postpone both meetings.