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"~\7)l~. 11. No- 86 ?Total No. 261 vmmZ Kt"r> ".y |n<iep?nd?.t I'ubiuhiuK Co. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937 ia?b,th oiu. n. o.. single copy 5 cents
lloosevelt And Wheeler
fail To Make Terms On
Supreme Court Measure
*
U'iMK1?* oi Opposition
(on iVrs With the
President
l
It's a Finish Fight
*?> Cliarjrrs Court
Inli rurrt- Law 111 I'll- J
natural Manner J
July 6.?(U.R>? j
c nwortty leader Joe T.
today led administra- ,
? ? into hand-to-hand j
? .enemies of judicial =
:i. accusing tiie su
p:vme court of creating many (
legislative problems
trural" construction ^
1
. n called President s
una: six-justice su- t
bin from the senate i
immediately offer
initiation's substitute t
: emit appointment z
.hi.-tices within six e
'A'. a formal vote to '
-t:ongth of the {
:. ".inch have at last
. - : ijayonets after five (
li::nu.-hing. the sen- \
immediate consid
?? :.
Mtv: e at field hearquarters
ti e Waite House President
was conferring with the
i. i of the opposition.
Si. Burton K. Wheeler. D.,
o. totally unexpected
\' . loader would re
: ..is position and it was
would "go to the
d(fled threats of fili- J
.-'vr and said the court had
.'??ice the sphere of law
Continued on page seven>
Militiamen Do
(iuartl Duty As
Plants Reopen
Hirer of Republic's Four
IWIaml Mills Are
In Operation
C .and. July 6 ?(U.R;?Smoke
: .in additional mill
?'ark p.puous Ohio tonight as
un.:... -uardsmen patrolled
-c; steel plants amid
b> determined union- !
ists.
Tliree of the four Cleveland j
>1 Republic Steel Corpora- j
'? nation's third largest
procuc-r. ".ere reopened today!
under uuara of militiamen.
There was no oppisition from
P; '-v: he steel workers' or
! ommittee. whose walk
dgned contraccs at one
*:m( Hi held idle 85.000 men in !
Hates, but S. W. O. C.J
discounted company
of the number of men
back a: work.
plants reopened were
? 'ti-McKinney division,
any estimate of 1.700
n Nut and Bolt di
Truscon Steel. 525. j
' will be made Thurs- i
; 4o reopen steel and ,
Republic division,
unced.
ficials -said that the
? half of the usual 6.
s who returned to j
three divisions were
?perations at present.
? el fabrication was !
' be under way by Fri- I
pments tonight in
:ront included:
Seven of eight Re- ;
?> in the Canton area j
'<1 on Page Three)
I iold Out For
Marshall
? received here last
the condition of the
Marshall, who suffer
ytic stroke at Rocky
irday. has taken a turn
'for and that deflinite
now held out for his re- i
shall, of The Daily j
tit advertising staff, re
work yesterday after j
father's bedside.
De \alera Fails To Win
Majority In Parliament
FSitl New Irish Constitution
Is Adopted by a Con
siderable Vote
Dublin. July 6?(U.Rl?President
Eiamon de Valera's dream of cre
rirff an all-Irish republic tonight
received a staggering blow when
inal return from the Free State
jeneral election failed to give him
i majority in parliament.
The complete returns gave the
\merican-born de Valera's Fianna
"ail party only 69 of the 138 seats
n the reconstituted Dail Eirrean
?the same number won by his
:crr'incd opposition.
As a re ult of the deadlock de
ialert? will be dependent upon 13
aborite members of the dail for
capper"t of his republican program
,o split the last ties binding the
rree State with Great Britain.
In a plebiscite on the new "all
>ut r: publican" constitution which
iccompanied la t Thursday's gen
ual election for the dail the Irish
magna carta" was approved by a
Jiurality of nearly 160.000 votes.
The constitution carried 636.
)42 votes of approval and 528.296
rotes against it.
Observers . aid that although the
EAMON DE VALEKA I
President of the Irish Free State
laborites under William Norton |
probably will give general support I
j lo ae Valera as against the Fine :
Gail United Ire.and party of form
er President W. T. cosgrave. the
' outcome of the election was a . e
|vere blow to de Valera's prestige.
Whereas de Valera's Fianna Fail
? Continued on page seven >
Chowan Votes Wet In A
Close Election
?
\ ?ics 702 to 575 In
Favor of ABC Con
trol; Only One Store
Edenton. July 6.?Chowan coun- I
ty joined the ranks of the wet i
counties in North Carolina today |
by casting a 127-vote majority in
favor of county control in today's ,
liquor referendum.
The voting was heavier than had
been expected, the total vote be- I
ing 1.277. No disorder was report
ed at the polls.
A heavy Wet vote in Edenton
proper was the deciding factor
which threw Chowan county into
the Wet column. The total vote for
liquor control was 702. while 575
votes were cast against liquor con
trol.
Three of the six precincts, all
rural, voted against control, while '
both Edenton precincts and the
Yeopim precinct piled up heavy i
Wet majorities.
The vote, by precincts, was as |
follows:
Precinct For Against
E. Edenton 228 114
W. Edenton 301 159
Yeopim 80 13
Rocky Hock 32 111
Wardville 45 88
Center Hill 16 90
The Chowan County ABC Board
(Continued on Page Three)
Hertford Teacher
Wins In State
Contest
Prof. K. A. Williams
Gets Wrist Watch for
Evening Class Work
Hertford. July 6.?Professor K. '
A. Williams, principal and teach
er of vocational agriculture in the
Perquimans County Training
School, was declared winner in
the State-wide Better Attendance
Evening Class Contest conducted
jointly by the State Department
of Public Instruction and the
Barrett Agricultural Develop
ment Bureau, according to an
nouncement made by S. B. Sim
mons. supervisor of vocational
agricultural education in Negro
schools.
The Barrett Bureau gave Pro
fessor Williams a beautiful wrist
watch for conducting the best
evening class program in the j
state. Other outsanding teachers
in the contest were J. J. Lanier of j
Alamance County, J. L. Bolden of !
Warren County, and C. S. Finney I
of Bladen County.
(Continued on Page Three)
District Health Service Is
Explained Here
Speaker Prefers
Tourists To
Smoke
The Elizabeth City Kiwanis j
club voted a $10 contribution to
ward defraying the expend of
Pasquotank Health Queen, Miss
Maude Ewell Meads of Weeksville
to the annual Short Course at
State College this summer.
At the weekly lunch-eon at the
Virginia Dare Hotel last night the
club was entertained by Robert
Elliott, violinist accompanied by
Miss Emerald Sykes at the piano.
They received applause amount
ing to almost an ovation.
W. O. Saunders was the guest
speaker on the program, speak
ing earnestly and eloo.uently of
the possibilities of the develop
ment of Paul Green's pageant
drama. "The Lost Colony," into
a permanent drawing card for a
great tourist movement to this
region.
"Elizabeth City is not destined
to become an industrial city, but
it can realize more profit and
more satisfactions from a highly
developed tourist business than
from industries whose belching
chimneys would throw off smoke
and fumes to the discomfort of
the populace and the disgust of
tourists passing thru our town," :
said the speaker.
t*
County Hoard Votes
Today; Would Km
brace Four Counties
The Board of Commissioners of
Pasquotank County will vote to
day on a proposed four-county
district health service which was
I outlined before the board yester
I day afternoon by R. E. Fox, di
rector of county health work for
I the State Board of Health.
! The proposed District Health
j Department would serve the
counties of Dare, Camden. Curri
tuck and Pasquotank and would
have its headquarters at Eliza
beth City.
The personnel of the proposed
health department would con
sist of: H) a full-time district
health officer, <2> a public health
nurse for each participating
county, <3) two sanitary officers,
(Continued on Pace Three)
f TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR
A. M.
8:30 Mens Christian Federation
P. M.
8:00 City Council: Midweek
religious services
i Library closed J 1
Developments
Along the
European Front
V J
By UNITED PRESS
Major European developments
Tuesday included:
Rome ? Mussolini speeded
cons!ruction of 60 new airports
in preparation for a possible
Mediterranean war.
Paris ? Premier Chautemps
threatened to open the Franco
Spanish frontier and permit aid
to Spanish loyalists.
Berlin ? News agency Zeit
ungsdienst (i r a f Reischach
charged loyalists were prepar
ing to use poison gas in the
Spanish civil war.
Salamanca?Rebels announc
ed capture of Castro Urdiales on
the northern Biscay coast and
prepared to attack Santander. i
Gen. Francisco Franco threat- |
ened "economic reprisals"
against European powers unless j
he was granted belligerent j
rights.
Madrid? Loyalists announce |
capture of Brunette, west of
Madrid, and moved to trap reb
els entrenched in Caso de Cam
po on the western outskirts of
city between two fires.
Govt. Agencies
Must Reduce
Expenditures
President Directs That All
Cut Budgets 1(1 Per Cent ;
to Save Millions
Washington. July 6.?(U.R>?
President Roosevelt disclosed to- j
day that he had ordered all re- |
gular and independent govern
ment agencies to save $400,000.
000 or 10 per cent of their appro
priations in order to balance the
1937-38 federal budget.
At the same time and as de- I
linquent tax collections by the
treasury reached a new high, the j
joint congressional committee in- I
vestigating instances of alleged
tax avoidance by some wealthy
individuals, prepared to draft
legislation which would plug the
most flagrantly used loopholes in |
the revenue laws.
Their preparations coincided
with charges from the house floor
by Rep David J. Lewis. D.. Md.,
stumpy, sharp-tongued son of a j
Welsh coal miner, that the fed
eral government has lost $15,
760.000.000 in needed revenues be
cause of "unsound" verdicts of the
U. S. supreme court.
He demanded the injection of
"new blood" into the court so
that "we may get away from these
decisions which impose undue
burdens upon the great majoi'ity
of the taxpayers of the country."
President Roosevelt's disclosure
that he had written all govern
(Continued on Page Three)
Dona tion Had
A Narrow
Escape
Tie \ ole On Contribu
tion to Boys Club Is
Broken by Burfoot
The Board of Commissioners of
this county voted yesterday to in
clude in their new budget a $500
appropriation for the Elizabeth
City Boys club but not until
Chairman Noah Burfoot broke a
three-to-three deadlock and vot
ed for the appropriation.
The request for the $500 con
tribution was made by N. Elton
Aydlett, secretary-treasurer of
the club and one of its directors,
who explained that this request
was in line with the original re
quest made of the board for sup
port of the Boys club. At the time
of the first request, which was
made last winter, the commission
ers voted to contribute $500 to
the Boys club for the year 1937.
this to be paid only in two install
(Continued on Page Three)
Herman Dail Wins
Four-H Award
Herman Dail, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Dail of Bayside, will
get a trip to the annual short
course at Raleigh during the last
week in July as the outstanding
Four-H club boy in Pasquotank
county. Young Dail excelled in all
departments of club activity, with
particular empha'pis on corn |
growing. He has served on the
seed judging teams of the county
clubs for several years.
Navy Assumes Full Charge
Search For Earhart Plane
? ?J.
Fighting Continues Along
Siberia-Manchukuo Border
Russians Lose Men In
Several Clashes
With Japs
Hsinking, Manchukuo, Wednes
day. July 7. ?(U.R)?Japanese and
Manchukuo forces faced strong
Soviet Russian military conting- j
ents at three points along Man- |
chu-Siberian border today in
what appeared to be a general re
newal of border fighting despite
the peace agreement reached be
tween Japanese ambassador
Ma nor u Shigemitsu and Soviet
foreign minister Maxim Litvinov
in Moscow last week.
The Russians suffered "heavy
casualties" in three fights yester- j
day. Japanese military dispatches |
reported.
In each case, the Japanese as-1
serted. fighting started when So- ;
viet border patrol invaded Man- |
chukuo territory.
The Russians denied these J
charges and accused the Japanese
of aggression. They asserted that .
Manchu-Japanese detachments |
occupied the disputed Bol- !
?shoi island group in the
Almur river, which forms part of
the northern boundary between
Manchukuo and Soviet Siberia, in
direct violation of the Shigemitsu ?
-Litvinov agreement.
The Bolshoi group is one of two i
sets of marshy islands in the ;
channel of the Amur ownership
of which is claimed by both Rus
sia and Japan's ally, Manchukuo.
Under last week's agreement So
viet forces were withdrawn from
the vicinity of the islands after
the Japanese had massed a pow
erful army in the vicinity. The
Russians said they withdraw with
the understanding that Japan had
no forces in the region?a state
ment considered as tantamount to
a promise by the Japanese also to
withdraw.
Yesterday's fights were on the
eastern Manchu border, near
Mishan. a hill village to the north
of the important border railway
city of Suifenho-Pogranitchnaya.
which is the eastern terminus cf
(Continued on Page Three)
Would Dispose
Children's
Home
And Use the Honey
to Set Up a Tuhereu
losis Sanatorium
Urged by the State Sanatorium !
to provide a county tuberculosis i
sanatorium, the Board of Com- j
missioners of Pasquotank County j
yesterday hit upon an idea which
may lead to the establishment of
such an institution within the next
few months.
The first suggestion was that
the Pasquotank Children's Home,
which is to be closed August 1. be
converted into a tuberculosis san
atorium. This suggestion was not
seriously considered, tho, because
the large house now on the prop
erty would not provide segregation
and it would be too expensive to
use the house as an administra
tive building and erect cottages
or cabins on the property.
It was Chairman Noah Burfoot
who had a happy idea.
"Why not sell the Children's
Home property and use the funds
derived from the sale to build a
sanatorium at some other spot in
conjunction with several nearby
counties?" he suggested.
And this suggestion seemed to
meet with general approval around
the board.
The Children's Home cost the
county $2,550 some 12 years ago.
and quite a bit of money has been
spent on furniture and improve
ments since that time. Situated
on a large lot on Little River in
Nixonton village, the property
should now bring at least $4,000.
someone estimated yesterday. The
county board of this county ap
pears to favor the establishment
of a district tuberculosis sanator
ium and Chairman Burfoot's sug
gestion may result in definite ac
tion.
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Scene of Russo-Japanese Clash
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THIS map shows the scene of the recent clash between Japan and
Russia in the Far East. The quarrel centered on the islands in the
Amur river, near the Blagoveschensk. though other outbreaks oc
curred elsewhere. The Siberian frontier is heavily fortified, especially
near Blagoveschensk and Vladivostok. Japanese railways are shown.
Father Divine Leads Host
To Promised Land Today
\ '
New York. July 6.?(U.R)?1There i
was bu:tle tonight in all the t
"heavens" of Harlem, for this was t
tlie eve of the great day when t
Father Divine will step out of the (
role of "God" and drape around ir
himself the mantle of Moses for a
march of 100.000 into the Prom- u
i.ed Land. 1
The Promised Land is Kingston, i
N. Y.?a place where chickens are v
always in the frying pan, where s
roasting ears of corn are thickly j
buttered and where only man is a
vile. The purpose of this trip is c
to give father's angels an oppor- t
tunity to participate in "the Prom
Budget To Be;
Acted On ;
Today 1
But Probably No So- j
rial Security Checks
This Month I
The Social Security program
will cost Pasquotank County on
Jly $371.50 for the month of July,
according to the budget present
ed to the Board of County Com
missioners yesterday by A. H.
Outlaw, County Superintendent
of Public Welfare.
The budget, which was approv
ed yesterday morning by the
County Welfare Board, sets up <
$1,055.00 for old age assistance, :
of which the county will pay only i
one-fourth; $204.00 for aid to de- ]
pendent children, of which the I
county will pay one-third, and ]
$104.00 for the needy blind, of ,
which the county will pay one- i
fourth. j
Of the $1,363.00 total, the coun- i
ty will have to put up only $371.50 '
while the remainder will be pro
vided by the State and Federal
governments. i
The original budget for this i
county would provide an average :
of $11.34 per month for 93 indi- ]
gent old people 65 years of age or :
over, an average of $22.55 per
family for nine families with 19 :
dependent children, 13 were white j
and six were colored. Six of the l
I eight blind were white.
This original budget, or esti- :
mate, will be added to later on 1
as other cases are checked and
; investigated. i
A majority of these for whom <
i i
(Continued on Page Three)
sed Land Olympic games" ? a
hree-day celebration that will
combine the adventures of the
ribes of Israel and the ancient
Sreeks. the greatest historical
nerger of all times.
Ten boats and 90 buses will be
ised to transport the Divine fol
owers. and there was much : pec
ilation in Harlem tonight on
diet her "Moses" Divine would
mite the Hudson river with his
taff. causing the waters to part
md allow the buses to drive up a
Iry river-bed. thereby avoiding
raffic lights.
The mathematical problem of
iow 100.000 persons could be put
>n ten boats and 90 buses failed
o dismay father.
"Peace, it's wonderful." was his
inswer to all questions as to
vhether or not someone had not
lecome a little liberal with the
(Continued on Page Three)
County Boards
Of Welfare
At Work !
Assisting In Serial Se
eurity Program; Full
list Is Released
A list of the newly-formed
County Boards of Welfare in the
10 counties of Northeastern North
Carolina has been made public by
Mrs. W. T. Bost, Commissioner of
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare, thru Mrs. W. B.
Aycock, Director of County Or
ganization. These Boards will as
sist in the administration of the
State's social security program,
which became operative on July
1.
The County Boards will serve in
an advisory capacity to the Coun
ty Superintendents of Public Wel
fare in developing policies and
plans. Investigations of applicants
for Old Age Assistance and Aid
to Dependent Children will be
made by the county Welfare De
partments and passed upon by
the county boards of welfare, !
which also will furnish any in
formation requested by the State
Board of Charities and Public
Welfare.
For the first time in the history
of organized welfare work in North
(Continued on Page Three)
Area Southeast How
land Island Now
Objective
No Results North
Colorado With Airplancg
Is Expected at Scene
This Morning
Honolulu, July 6.?^U.R)? The
U. S. Navy, assuming full charge
of the search for Amelia Earhart
and Capt. Fred Noonan, tonight
directed its rescue efforts towards
treacherous coral reefs southeast
of tiny Howland Island after an
intensive ship survey to the north
failed to reveal a trace of the dar
ing fliers on the plane in which
they made a forced landing on the
Pacific more than 100 hours ago.
Concern for the aviatrix and her
navigator increased as the Cutter
Itasca, normally in coast guard
service, but now transferred to
Navy jurisdiction for the emer
gency, advised the 14th naval dis
trict headquarters here that the
search in an area 280 miles north
of Howland was fruitless.
Believed on Reef
Shifting of the search towards
Winslow Banks, an uncharted
area about 200 miles southeast of
Howland near the Phoenix Island
group, was decided upon in belief
that the fliers may have come
down on a reef. George Palmer
Putnam, husband of Miss Ear
hart, advised from San Francisco
that it was his belief that the
flight which started from Lae,
New Guinea, last Friday with
Howland as its objective ended in
that vicinity.
Aboard the Itasca, it was point
ed out that, if any credence is
to be given to reports of radio
amateurs that they have picked
up messages from Miss Earhart,
the plane must be on a reef be
cause officials of the Lockheed
company, manufacturers of the
Earhart plane, radioed that it was
impossible to transmit messages
if the plane was in the water,
Colorado Coming
Tonight the Itasca, short of
fuel, remained north of Howland,
along with the Minesweeper Swan,
awaiting arrival tomorrow of the
(Continued on Page Three)
Rebel Armies
Drawing Close
To Santander
But Loyalists Claim Deeid*
ed Gains In Relieving
Pressure On Madrid
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, July 6.?(U.R)? Generalissimo
Francisco Franco tonight threw
his crack rebel battalions against
the city of Santander in an effort
to trap nearly 100,000 loyalist
troops and end the war on the
northern front with one crushing
blow.
Franco's northern headquarters
at Burgos announced the capture
of Castro Urdiales, Biscay bathing
resort 27 miles east of Santander,
after seizure of the Sierra Castro
Heights and a 10-mile retreat of
the Basque defenders.
Italian volunteers of Franco's
"Black Arrows" brigade were said
to have led the assault on the
Cantabrian heights and Castro
Urdiales.
Another nationalist army ad
vanced to within 10 miles of Riva
de Sella in an attempt to isolate
Santander?its normal 80,000 pop
ulation increased to nearly 400,000
by war refugees from Bilbao and
(Continued on Page Three)
Jail Population Is
Changing Factor
Pasquotank county's jail popu
lation last month stood at 63, ac
cording to the report of Sheriff
Charles Carmine, which shows
that 32 white men, 29 Negroes
and two Negro women had resi
dence there at one time or an
other during the month.
Confined to the Jail on June 30
were at total of 18 prisoners, four
state prisoners and four federal
prisoners awaiting trial, and 10
serving sentences.