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The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Today Begins
Three-Day
Holiday
Fourth of July Week
End Starts; Monday
to Be a Holiday Here

With very little N the way OF
hold them at home, Elizabeth Cit
liens 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 Will be at least two
days Of holiday. For almost every
office and business establishment
in the town has agreed to close
on Monday and give employees
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 ali day Monday.
The post office, according to
Postmaster w. T. Culpepper will
put up box mail and deliver per-
ishables and special delivery mail
Monday but will make no town or
rural deliveries.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03

fnolo Dy fTiSpJ
After waiting a year for 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 him
within a period Of "a hours. He
was appointed d second alternate
by Congressman Lindsay c. War
rem 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
Congressman Warren Of an ap-
pointment, Young Baxter report
ed to West Point July l. He
graduated from Moyock High
school in 1884, attended Episco-
pal High for two years and last
year attended the University of
North Carolina. He is 20 years
old.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Z. o. Receipts
Show Gain
III ere
Receipts for F seal
Year Again Top the
$4,000 Mark

Postmaster w. T. Culpepper
beamed with pride yesterday when
Assistant Postmaster J. L. Need
ham handed him a sheet of paper
carrying figures containing the
good news that the receipts of the
Elizabeth City post office for the
1867 fiscal year had again top
ped the $4,000 mark.
The total receipts for the fisca'
year just ended were S53,034.49
second highest years receipts in
the history of the local post Of
flee. This figure represented an
increase of S1,63838 over the 1886
So receipts, which amounted to
S51, ,396.11.
The years receipts, by quarters
we're: September quarter, SILL
8713 80; December quarter, Sl4,-
916.07: March quarter, S13,200.22
and June quarter, $13,046.90.
Receipts for the first six months
of 1887 totaled S26,24712, an in
crease of $966.84 over the S25,-
28O.28 total for the first six
months of 1886.
Since the last two quarters in
variably show an increase over the
first two quarters of the calendar
year, indications are that the re-
ceipts for the 1887 calendar year
may top those of the fiscal year.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
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 Ialso be
incorporated in the deedb to in
sure rapid and desirablef growth
of the beach.
Souvenirs will be given to those
attending the sale, including two
lots, an automobile and many
cash prizes. Music will be furnish
ed by an excellent band.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Court Compromise
Finds Opposition
NO PAPER MONDAY
MORNING

Monday, July ), is to be
observed as a legal holiday
and practically all business
in T. izabcth City being at
1 standstili on that date,
i,hc Daily independent will
ia c the opportunity to
give it's employees a holiday.
There will be no issue of
Ihc Daily Independent on
IIoEday morning; the next
issue appearing Tuesday
morning. July 6. All adver-
iiScmcnts scheduled for
Mondays paper will appear
in the Tuesday morning
THE EDITORS.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Barbecue Is
A Week
Lcgion's Big Doings
Now Set for Monday,
July 18th

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 IL, it was an
nounced yesterday by the COM
m:ttee in charge Of the affair.
1t was deemed advisable to
postpon the barbecue because Of
the large number of people going
out of town for the holiday. 1t
will be held at then Community
Building on Dyer Street at $50
D. m, Monday, July IL, that hour
being set so as to allow invited
guests who work in stores and Of
fees an opportunity to attend.
All ex-service men, whether
Legionnaires or not, all Boy
Scouts and many friends of the
Leg: :onnaires will be invited. Pre-
parations will be made to take
care of from $50 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-
gram to be given in connection
with the barbecue.
John Kambis, G. B. Jones and
George Waters are members OF
the committee in charge OF the
affair.
I'VE have met with a wonder
full response in our work and wish
to thank all who have so gener-
ously helped u.s." said the COM
mite yesterday.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Camden Rural
Library Is
Ready
Travelling Bookshelf
Begins This Week and
Continues Through
August

The Camden County travelling
library will go into service We'd
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
travelling library which will be
operated by volunteer workers on
the following schedule:
Camden, Belcross Communities,
Mrs. Tom Stevens.
Second and fourth Thursday
of every month, Woman's club
2:30 to $50; Mrs. Wib Sawyers
3:05 to 1925; Mrs. J. j. Nash, 1886
to 1855; Mrs. Walter Harrington,
Ais to 4::35; Mrs. George Upton
4:45 to sos; Mrs. Grady Dough,
$40 to $40.
Old Trap, Mrs. E. P. Leary.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Religious Service
First; Speech by
Warren and Pa
geant at Mig ht

Man.co, July q Roanoke ISL
and and Manteo are all keyed up
today in anticipation of the for
NAL opening tomorrow Of the cel-
ebration commermorating 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 II o'clock Sunday morning:
Prelude: Chorale Prelude "A
Major Bach.
Professional: For the Beauty of
the Earth.
Invocation and Choral Re-
sponse: Lo, Voice to Heaven
Sounding tBortniansky).
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 by Bishop Thomas c..
DarSt.
Prayer.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Gaiety Theatre
"A Year Old
Today
Webster Thanks Ne
gro Population for
Patronage, Cond ct

"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
sitter of the Carolina Amusement
Corp. last night on the eve OF
the Gaiety Theatres first ami
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. 1895.
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 gwen 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
Cropti,,,,pS Op pace Tlre6)
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
|.JOint Action
By France And
Britain Is Seen
Plan to Break Deadlock
May Mean Unrestricted
Aid to the Loyalists

London, July 2.-tUH- Great
Britain and France collaborated
tonight on plan of "forceful &C
tion," aimed directly at Germany
and Italy, after struggling for
hours to break deadlock that
doomed the Spanish non-inter-
vention structure to virtual col
lapse.
The Franco British plan, 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 81 non-inter-
vention powers next week.
The deadlock in today's lengthy
sessions of the neutrality SUBJ
committee headed by Lord Ply.
mouth resulted from:
IA German-Italian demand
that belligerency status be given
to both the Spanish loyalists and
insurgents thus proclaiming q
formal state of war in Spain un-
der international war.
"A Franco-British proposal
that warships of the two nations
take over and continue the naval
patrol of Spanish seacoasts on q
two-power basis and that all for
f1>.k;.,.nI -. Y.o M T1.~AaN
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Would Eventually In
crease Membership
to Thirteen

Washington, July 2.-WR-
Sen. NJ. M. Logan, D., KY, today
introduced an administration
compromise to the judiciary reor-
ganization bill designed to permit
President Roosevelt to appoint a
total of three new just ces to the
Supreme Court within six months
and eventually to increase the
tribunal to l3 members.
Fixing the permanent member
ship of the court at nine, the bill
would permit new appointments
at the rate of one per calendar
year in the event that justices rs
years old faiied to retire. Al
though the b II theoretically pro-
videS for a maximum court of Is,
under present conditions it would
give Mr.. Roosevelt only four ad-
ticnal appointments during his
.ecCnd term.
Claims Senate Votes
Logan claimed 54 senate votes
five more than the necessary
majority-for his compromise
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
District Health Program
TO Be Explained
Would Service Cam.
den, Currituck, Dare
and Pasquotank; To
Cost $2l,2lO

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 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
500, Currituck county $1,324,
Pasquotank county $3.50 and
Dare county 5000. The remaining
S14,326 will be contributed by the
North Carolina Board of Health
and federal health agencies.
A proposed departmental per-
Sonal of fulltime district health
officer and one clerk in each
county will provide a broad
health program including 80
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.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Itasca Begins a Nee.
dle-in-Haystack'
Search
No Word s Hours
With Empty Tanks and a
Smooth Sea, Plane May
Keep Afloat for a Con.
siderable Time.

Rowland Island. Occania,
July 2.-U.P)-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 Earhart had not been
heard from for more than
eight hours on a 2,55O-mile
flight from Lac, New Guinea.
A Few Miles Away
Last radio signals that cracked
family through tine air from her
$4,000 Lockheed Electra Flying
Laboratory" as she gunned it
over the ocean on the home stretch
of her $1,000 mile flight around
the world, indicated she was only
(Continued IN Papo Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
vori,cr5 Return Thru
,Icering Line of
pickets
Perkins at Work
Youngstown Will Resume
Work al Wills As Soon
\. Protection Given

rass;Mou. O.. July ?. -UR)-
Mon wen. back to work III two
,sr,b,.c S.sel Corp. mills here
,o4av through lines of booing C.
q r,ckc,S who had threatened
q lick The militia" to keep the
g.7u closed.
,ers m i5naI guardsnen pre-
~,rtr5 disorder, but Joseph Nor
.or head o: the local Committee
~ Industrial Organization union,
raichcd the baCk-to-work march
and said ",rouble may come later"
Amos. 400 workers entered the
,,3nt where normally 1000 ARE
emp,oycG. The entire Canton-Mas-
agon area remained tense with
strikers hostile toward national
c,aydsmen who patrolled the pic
II, lines protecting those who
Wished TO return to work.
Perkins Busy
IN Wa hingtor. Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins said she
vas working on indefinite steps
N an attempt TO bring about a
!ace-to-face conference between
the steel masters, who stood firm
against signing a C. I. o. contract
and union leaders. The federal
strike mediation board filed its
formal report with Miss Perkins,
ce.terating that refusal of the
Nee. concerns 70 sit down at the
sAaetaole with c. 1. o. men was
the chief cause for the failure of
lis efforts.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co..
II a letter Il its employees, said it
TaS ready to reopen its sheet and
in mills in the Chicago area as
soon as Gov. Clifford Townsend
Of Indiana provided protection for
5000 workers. There was no indi-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Opening Dates
Tobacco Mart
.AreAnnOunced
Old Point Meeting Sets the
Opening of Eastern Belt
for August Goth

Old Point Comfort, Va, July 2
-UR)-North Cardinals 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 %; South
Carolina, or border belt, Aug. 10;
North Carolina middle belt, Sept.
l6: North Carolina Old Bright
belt, Sept. 30; Dark-fired Virginia
belt, Nov. 90.
E. j. O'Brien, Jr., of Louisville,
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
and They Looked In
IQtG f0T Their
Pictures

'"e score or 50 of dance-lovers
:. :. ''. S-|aocth City who attended
- -. ''.1 annual June German at
, ,..s%I Mount a few weeks ago
"a ,S-..E scanned the pictures of
r, , even, IN this weeks issue of
~ ~. popular pictorial news
,Gb.-">!ne, ,bne, but none could find
''Ta'@e."es 81 in the pictures.
h., ..E magazine featured the
,a a.'s German this week in it's
r9p"'as - weekly feature Life goes
has. party Some II scenes taken
rna rn'o'e during and after the Ger
- t :, were given prominent space
o., s,'e magazine, but no Elizabeth
an, any people could be detected in
any Of them.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Safety Council Gloon1ily
Vie1Us The Glorious Fourth
Sees 800 Drownings and
500 Motor Fatalities;
Other Casualties

Chicago, July 2.-U.R-The ma
tional safety council said tonight
that more persons probably would
be killed in the three-day celebra-
ton of independence Day than
during any other period Of u
consecutive hours of the year.
R. L. Forney. council Statisti-
clan. forecast that the weekend
would record approximately 300
drownings, 500 motor crash fatali-
ties, rs deaths from falls, and 80
killed by fireworks. A typical 4th
of July heat wave would add to
the toll in proportion to its sever
ity, he added.
Forney explained that his con-
clusions were to be interpreted as
those of "a statiItician thinking
out loud" rather than as positive
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-03

There is no form Of nerve dis.
order that may not be caused or
aggravated by eye strain. For q
thorough eye examination see
IDRS. J. u HATHAWAY. (adv0
The daily independent., 1937-07-03

Philadelphia, July 2.-(U.P)-The
american Federation of Labor or
aered 26.OOO Philadelphia truck
u'IEerS out on holiday" tonight
d u concentrated it's forces on
attempting to prevent the Com
aL''ee for Industrial Organization
rom invading the teamSters' field.
4" trucking unions were order
" % return their vehicles to gar
ayes oy . p. m. EDIT. unless be-
~ uSed IN taking supplies to hos
%."~ ! and orphanages. Bakeries,
N@'1.eS, newspapers, laundries, ov-
continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-03
Philadelphia
Under Threat
Truck'Holiday'
federation Orders 10000
Drivers Out As 1t
Fights Clio.

Philadelphia, July 2. -tU.H-
The seven daily newspapers
serving the Philadelphia area
suspended publication i(llight
as $4,000 truck drivers went out
on a holiday" called by the
American Federation of Labor
10 combat inroads made by the
committee for Industrial Or
sanlzatiOn on the teamsters'
field.
The daily independent., 1937-07-03

Continued on Page Three)
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Medical Group Swats
Bunk of Peddlers

New York, Sept. % (CNA)-The
rsuedo-scientific claim peddled by
by race "theoreticians" that Ne
groes exude and offensive odor,
peculiar to them elves, received a
resounding swat this week at the
Medical Advisory board of the
Daily Worker.
An Atlanta. Ca, white worker,
who evidently rid himself of this
anti-N egro fiction, sent the fol-
lowing inquiry to the board:
Can you tell me if there is any
difference between the composition
of the sweat of a Negro ard a
white man? | would be grateful if
you would give me this informa-
ton in order to settle an argument.
Nv friend says there is a differ
ence."
The board. which numbers some
If the leading physicians and spe-
cialists in his city among its men,
bers replied:
GAS we have pointed out many
times in the past, science can en-
tirely disprove tire statement made
BY your friend. No difference has
ever been shown in the structure,
function, and excretion of Negroes
and whites.
For that matter, some time ago
we printed an answer to Z question
from two groups as whether Ne
gro skins give off a substance
which has a particular smell.
"The fact is that all skins
Hack and white-g've off the same
smell, and the smell may be rancid
ard offensive if not CROUCH baths
are taken. The simple fact is that
workers cannot take enough baths,
IL they have to live in dwellings,
without bathtubs, showers anil run
ring water.
Millions of workers, white end
Lla~k, in Il IS rich lard, not only
hove nc bathrooms, Tut some even
I've no toilets and have to use out
house Ill the advertisements Of
rlo-ifio1 bathrooms in the luxury
magazines to tie contrary.
"Workers, white or Negro, who
have no proper bathing facilities at
their factories, also smell after a
long day of dirty and hot work"
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Tuskegee Starts A i
New School Year

Tuskegee, Sept. % amp
Trains, buses and family cars
brought hundreds of new students
to the campus of Tuskegee institute
to begin orientation week activities
to prepare for the opening classes
Of the college and high school de-
partments held Monday.
Orientation week program con-
sisted of physical examination, in
tellgence tests, achievement tests
in arithmetic, English, reading and
spelling, conferences with the per-
sonnet director and his staff, tours
of point of interest about the cam
pus, talks on Tuskegee traditions,
a pep meeting and a moving pic
ture.
On Thursday night at a special
service in the Institute chapel the
new students met DIR. f. d. Patter-
son, president, and DR.. I. B. Der
bigny, dean t administration. DR..
Derbigny was the speaker.
Friday night the entire school
assembled in Logan hall for the
Stunt Night program. This was the
evening that gave freshmen an
opportunity to display their talents
in strumental and vocal music, ae-
robatics and such other entertain
ing talent that one may possess.
Applications already accepted
show a heavy enrolment in the
commercial dietetics courses and in
rural education. Although it is
too early for actual figures the
SSchool Of Agriculture continues to
lead in enrolment Of men students.
The Trade school, with its new at
tractiye offering in non degree
courses, is pressing close, however,
for first place.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
New Magazine For
Teachers Off Press

Washington, Sept. % amp
The first issue of The National
Educational Outlook Among Ne
groes was put into circulation on
September 18th. This new magazine
of digest size is a monthly devoted
TO the advancement of education
among Negroes. 1t has been de-
signed to serve the interests of
teachers on all educational levels.
and in all sections, administrators
OF school and colleges. school pa
tron', students and pupils. The
magazine will serve as q medium
Of expression for those who have
ideas and suggestions for the solu-
ton of educational problems and
as a permanent relord Of the pro-
gress of edulation among Negroes.
Tho magazine is published by
by the National Educational Press,
Inc, Washington, D. G. More than
fifty of the outstanding leaders act
i've in the education of Negroes are
members of its board of consult
ants and staff of editorial advisors
The acting managing editor, T. Ed
ward Davis, has indicated that the
magazine il being gwen n wide re
ception among teachers and other
interested persons, and that its
pages will always be pen to those
who have articles, stories, and pic
lures which are of interest to the
large number of persons engaged
in improving the educational status
Of the Negro race.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Politics Funny In NY.
LaGuarda IN Lead

New Yrk, Sept. % tANP)-New
York isn't New York any more,
said a song writer years ago, and
he was even more right now than
he was then. Shades of Tammany
Hall chieftains. Who ever heard of
n Democratic candidate for Mayor
openly avowing his affection for
for the Republican party. And who
ever heard of a New York Rapubli-
can candidate soliciting Tam
many patronage? Well, that's
what's going on in these parts,
what viii Fiorella LaGuardia prac-
tically assured Of reelection On the
record Of "the best Mayor New
York ever had" And rolling along
with LaGuardia is Special Prosecu-
tor Thomas f. Dewey, with ambi-
tious eyes looking ahead to the
Governorship. Right now, Mr..
BeHtY ~ COhlCCht W VIII 0hI SaS~
ton rs District Attorney Of New
York county. And a moret unpopu-
lar man with crooks and criminals
could not have been found, unless
tho politicians had gone after Ed
gar Hoover to take the job.
Dewey and LaGuardia r an
unbeatable pair say all signs and
Tammany is rushing heller skelter
trying to find some way to defeat
the crushing tide of votes these
two will surely pile up. Harlem has
paid particular attention to Mr..
LaGuardia because, they say Mr..
LaGuardia has paid particular at
tention to Harlem. He has done
greater things for the community
than any of is predecessors and
according to the program mapped
out, he will continue to do things
for Harlem.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22

Dawson, Ca, Sept. % amp
d. w. Holley, who rose from the
dead" about a year ago, died again
Friday and this time for good.
Holley was jailed a year ago on
a charge of stealing a bicycle. He
uttered a "ft' and failed to re
srond to treatment. An undertaken
was summoned and the "body" re-
moved to a mortuary. When the
undertaken returned next morning
the corpse had fled.
He was re%captured but was not
returned to jail because Of his ply
steal condition. He became i'll early
last week and died Friday. Funeral
services were held Sunday.