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Evening star., 1937-10-08
Chinese Here
TOGet Church
OF Their O,U1,
Christians Seek $780,.
600 to Buy and Re.
model Mansion.

Chinese Christians of Washington,
who have been worshipping for two
years in borrowed quarters, soon will
have church home of their own, con-
verted from a vacant mansion at 1925
Sixteenth street.
Plans for the Chinese Community
Church were revealed today by DR..
Frank C. English, who is directing
campaign to raise 100000 to buy tie
property and remodel it.
The structure will serve as COM
munity center for Chinese religious,
social and recreational activities. Every
Protestant church in the city is back
ing the project, its sponsors said.
Eliot H. Thomson, Washington busi-
ness executive, who was born in
Shanghai and speaks Chinese, is
chairman of the Building Committee.
The old three-story building, once
the home of the Mckay Smith family,
is just above Scott Circle. The home
already contains small chapel and
this will be enlarged to accommodate
300 persons. The new occupants will
make such other changes in the in
terror as may be found necessary.
Not only will the old residence pro-
vide church home, but it will be
used as social center for the congre-
cation and also will afford facilities
for sports and recreation of Chinese
youth. A large recreation hall will be
established in the basement.
The Chinese Community Church
has been holding services in room
at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Its board
Of trustees is headed by Rev Edwin H.
Pruden. Headquarters for the church
home campaign have been established
in the Offices of the Washington Fed
Grafton Of Churches The services of
the Chinese Christians are interde-
nominational.
Evening star., 1937-10-08
SHIFT ANNOUNCED
AMONG ADM|RALS
lackey Will Take Command
of European Squadron
by December.

The Navy Department announced
today that Rear Admiral Henry E.
Lackey will take command of the Eu-
ropean squadron about December l..
He will relieve Rear Admiral Arthur
P. Fairfield, who will return here for
duyt in the Navy Department.
The assignment WAS one of several
involving changes in Navy commands.
Rear Admiral Joseph r. Defrees,
Evening star., 1937-10-08

to the United States after his fight to
Paris. He was made director Of shore
establishments in 1885.
His flagship Is commander Of the
European squadron will be the cruiser
Raleigh.
Today's announcement represents
the largest shift OF admirals In re-
cent months.
Evening star., 1937-10-08
TRAIN KILLS THREE

BREMEN, Ind, October 8 (P.-
Three men were killed Wednesday
when their automobile was demolished d
by fast freight train at Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad crossing here.
The dead were Arthur Coverstone,
20, Bremen, driver; Frank Newland,
"a, formerly Of Paw Paw, Mich, and
Adrian Daniels, ~, formerly Of Kala-
mazOo, Mich.
The crash damaged the first loco
motive Of the freight, but 1t was not
derailed
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
AegFO in Hospital
nth KRife In
His Brain

l-aa L.mchouser, Negro of the
l'.@.9ca WPA transient camp,
"aa ."cDgcyed consciousness last
~'-'l a, Inc Albemarle Hospital
%-.E following an affray Satur-
.'' nigh. IT. which he received a
:, -,.''1 wound through the center
" Tie forehead.
;. Willie Jackson. 28-year-old
80 o, 500 South Martin street
-"s III The PasquOtank county jail
-,.... -a lad been placed by 10
~. ~ '',.na officers to await the
..,.Aa Vt Lymehouser's injuries
49,, 49,. ""eyo he probably will re-
-., -',,'. 10 lace a charge Of murder
..'.' q .-. CUrrituck Negro fail to
'..',". from MS injury.
".-9.GMg 70 Patrolman C. II.
. "-r made the arrest, Lime
had received a knife
80 s.,,'-- '-" center of the fore
E,, .' all, fill. to the hilt. the blade
r,- 'a,l0G in the Negroes brain.
h, ' alt.dy occurred at the
L., -'..'' street address where Jack
e.-. arrested late Saturday
49,. F-.s.c.ans in attendance on
-. .'.'.rnf expressed consider
g.. COLO. Of his eventual recov-
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Facts About |
ManteO's S
Band
Director German Has
Built Up a Creditable
Forty-Piece Band

Manteo. July 25.- For several
months Gene German has been
working steadily striving to make
the Manteo WPA band one of the
features of the town. During this
time his efforts have been well
spent. He has made of the local
band something that the commun-
ity should be proud of. 1t isn't an
easy job for one to take a bunch
of boys, among which many have
never touched an instrument be-
fore (some in reading notes not
even knowing whether the tone
for a certain note is lower or
higher than the preceding one) +,
and successfully conducting them
into playing well in only three
or four months.
Well, easy or not, this is exactly
what Mr.. German did. In the du-
ration of only a very short time;
that is, to learn to play an instru-
ment, he took a group of local
boys, aided by some boys from the
two camps on the island, and has
accomplished something of much
Importance to the whole COM
munity. The Manteo band is well
enough trained to play for any
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Utilities Co.
Must Pay Four
Million More
Treasury Levies Additional
Tax On the Howard C..
HOpsOn Interests

Washington, July Is. -U.D-
Treasury officials tonight discloS-
ed they had filed a tax claim for
approximately $4,000,000 against
the Associated Gas and Electric
Company-the heart Of the brawl-
ing utility empire controlled by
Howard C. Hopson.
Hopson, bitter foe of new deal
power policies, was reported to
have spent more than $1,0G0,000
in a futile effort to defeat the pub
lie utility holding company act
and it's so-called death sentence"
The new claim brought the total
pending assessments against Hop
sons power kingdom to $50,000,-
900.
The treasury's latest move fol-
lowed a reexamination of the
books of the Associated Gas and
Electric Company and its 206 sub
salaries which is reported to
have revealed that large sources
of income had not been tapped by
revenue collectors. They included
earnings from sales Of power, coal
and water as we'll as intercorpor-
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-26

Carol prepared to pack his
trunks and leave for Berlin on
his tour of European capitals, re-
buffed by France and Britain in
his efforts to have the French
and British legations at Bucharest
raised to the rank of embassies.
Behind this apparently mnocu-
Gus refusal was a sharp warning
of both governments, and Indirect
ly from Moscow, to stop tamper-
ing with the present balance in
central Europe.
The factual side of the curious
diplomatic rebuke was the blunt
advice to Carol to put Nicholas
TituleScu back in office as foreign
minister and stop playing around" "
Titulescu was the bulwark Of
-Rumanian relations and
as foreign minister was chiefly re-
sponsible for Rumania making
peace with Russia. Russia, nego-
tiating a non aggression treaty
with the Little Entente in 1888,
agreed to let Rumania keep Bessa-
rabia, which was sliced off as
Rumania's share of the terrltor-
ial profits of the war.
In 1884 diplomatic relations
were resumed between Moscow
The daily independent., 1937-07-26

Havana. Cuba, July 25.-Iu'H'-
Col Fulgencio BatiSta, dictator OF
Cuba. revealed tonight a tnree-
wear social, political and economic
plan to regiment almost every
phase of national life.
The plan indicated that the
blunt-spoken former sergeant, VINO
installed and deposed four OF Gu
ba's seven presidents in four years
was determined to continue MS
dictatorship.
The reconstruction plan IN
cludes far-reaching educational
and sanitary projects for estao-
lishment of hundreds of agrlcul-
tural and civil military and rural
schools, regulation OF private
schools, construction of hospitals
enforcement of anti-tuberculosls
and anti-cancer campaigns, regu-
lation of the medical profession
and enactment of pure-food legls-
lation.
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
ABC Store Is
Good
Business
Profits for Quarter
Ending June 80 Re-
ported to Be $lO,359

Pasquotank County's ABC store
made profit of S10,359.61 during
the three months period ending
June 80, according to the quarter
ly audit just completed by the
firm of Bundy & Moran. City and
county will not be enriched by
that much spending money I'M
mediately, however, as $4,000 OF
the amount will be added to the
stores working fund, in order to
furnish the capital encessary for
the carload buying which is now
the practice of the board. After
deducting the $4,000 as we'll as
S517.98, the five per cent allocat-
ed to law enforcement, $3,841 .63
remains for division, the city re-
ceiving S2,113.89 and the county
S1,727.74 on the basis of their re-
spective tax valuations.
A total of 50,261 units were sold
by the local store for $43, ,624.05,
1927 units were purchased at a
cost of S38,995.48 and inventory
at the close of the period was ST.
9O2 units costing $30,345.22.
Of the profit S9,776.O8 was from
sales Of goods, c578.48 in cash dis
counts on purchases and S5.05
fra.+;,o,,od ~, Dooa Tnroal
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Would Extend Paris
Exposition a Year

Paris, July 25.-W,H - Premier
Camille Chautemps tonight asked
Thomas Watson, chairman of the
U. S. delegation to the Paris
Worlds Fair. to inquire whether
the United States would consent
to extension of the exposition for
one year.
Under an international agree
ment, one year must lapse between
expositions. The New York fair
opens in 1889, hence there should
be none in 1888. But French ex-
position buildings still are unfin-
ished and officials want to pro-
long it.
If the United States consents,
the exposition will close in No
vember and reopen next May.
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
.Dare's Airport
Ready In a
Few Days
The Runways Must
Be Rolled and Wires
Moved

Manteo, July 25.-Dare County's
airport and landing field on Roa-
noke Island is about ready for use
with only about ten days more
work still to be done. The tract
has been cleared of trees and un-
derbrush and runaways cleared
from the highway to the sound.
The road roller will be put on
the ground within the next few
days to roll and smooth the field
and runways.
Telephone lines now running
along the right side of the high
way in the vicinity of the airport
will be put under ground within
the next week and high tension
lines of the Utilities Company,
now on the left side of the high
way, will be moved back some dis
tance. One of the large Ford Tri-
motor transport planes is expect
ed to come down Immediately up
on completion of the field for a
stay of several days to carry pas
sengers and make regular flights.
1t is expected that the landing
field will be in readiness by July
The daily independent., 1937-07-26

and Bucharest after conversations
between Russia's sturdy foreign
spokesman Maxim Litvinov, and
TituleScu.
Since then TituleScu has been
replaced by Victor Antonescu as
foreign minister, and Rumania's
foreign policy has swung sharply
toward Berlin and Warsaw, and
away from the Anglo-Franco-Rus-
sian orbit.
When Carol visited here after
his trip to Warsaw, where new
Polish relations presumably were
cemented, French diplomats made
it plain they wanted Titulescu
back as foreign minister at Bu-
chareSt.
1t was reported the French gov
ernment said: mo more credits
until TituleScu is back"
Carol left Paris for a brief visit
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Wright Memorial Beacon
Presents A Problem
Custodian Tells Why
He Can't Turn 1t On;
Beacon Is Ready

Kitty Hawk, July 25-Horace
Dough, custodian of the Kill Devil
Hills National Monument, indicat-
ed today that it may be several
years before the beacon atop the
Wright Memorial will be set into
operation.
The Wright Memorial, designed
largely as beacon, was complet-
ed in 1881 but the 10000 candle
power beacon which should be
sending it's beams out over the
Atlantic for a distance Of 80
miles yet remains unlighted.
Custodian Dough wrote to the
National Park Service in May
and asked permission to light the
beacon during the nine weeks OF
the Roanoke Island celebration
this summer, darkening it on the
seaward side so as not to confuse
navigation. The request was
promptly sent on to the Commis-
sioner of Lighthouses, who to date
has ignored it.
"I can't understand why the
Commissioner won't grant this re-
quest" said Mr.. Dough. when it
was planned to stage a celebra-
ton on Roanoke Island in 1884, a
similar favor was requested and
was speedily granted. However,
Just a few days before we were to
turn the beacon on, lightning
struck one of the power cables
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
With
Exploiting His
.TwoDaughters
Father Is Held In Florida
Jail On Series of Revolt
ing Accusations

Miami. Fla, July 25.-W.P)-Au-
thoritiCs drew charges tonight
AGAINST a 40-year-old father who
they Claimed admitted holding his
two young daughters in white
slavery and bartering their love to
the highest bidder.
County Solicitor Robert R. Tay-
lor said the man admitted he
forced his two daughters, 13 and
l6 years old. to conduct them
selves immorally.
The county solicitor said he
will file two incest charges against
the father tomorrow, and a third
count charging a crime against
nature"
The father, who works as bar
Der, has indicated he will plead
guilty to the statutory charges. He
was being held in Miami's sky
scraper Jail on an open charge OF
investigation.
According to Taylor, the father
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Probably Last Major
Bill of Current
Session
Others Pending
Wage.Hour and Tax Loop.
hole Legislation May
Be Acted Upon

Washington, July 25.-W WD
A congress anxious for quick
adjournment expects to re-
ceive its last major bill of the
session tomorrow when the
senate judiciary committee
acts on a measure to reform
judicial procedure in the low
er courts.
After Few Months Fight
This bill, drafted by a subcom-
mittee headed by Sen. Pat NC
Carran, D., New, is the net result
of more than five-months battling
over the issue of supreme court
reorganization and will make no
mention of that tribunal. The OPP
position Democrats who dictated
it's terms and the administration
have agreed to join in putting 1t
through.
1t is the only bill, however. that
is generally agreed on. During
the coming week congress prob
ably will decide how much Of pre-
sident Roosevelt's program will be
acted on before the gavelS fall
in senate and house for sine die
adjournment. The bills with the
best chances Of surviving the rush
to 60 home are:
A wage and hour regulation
measure.
The Wagner Housing bill.
Tax Evasion Bill
A bill to close tax loopholeS
which have enabled some wealthy
persons to avoid large payments
to the treasury.
A greatly modified executive re-
organization bill.
Possibly a general farm bill.
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
HertfOrd's Library
Gets Off to Good
Start

Hertford. July 25.-A run on
child lore books predominated on
the opening day of Hertford's first
public library which, under the
auspices of the Woman'S Club, got
underway to a good start Thurs
day afternoon.
Mrs. Brooks Whedbee is the IL
brarian in charge and is on duty
from nine until 1890 and from
1::3O until five o'clock every day
except Saturday and Sunday. The
library is located in the Woman's
Club house on Academy street.
Five hundred volumes now
available include fiction, classics,
children's story books, history and
travel books. A new shipment is
expected shortly from the state
library, according to Mrs. Whed-
bee. Those books already compos-
ing the library were secured thru
donations by the members OF the
Woman's Club. Additions from the
State library will no doubt bring
this one to par with other IL
braries of the section.
The books are loaned for a two
week period without charge, how
ever, penalty goes into effect at-
ter the gratis days expire.
The smaller children are look
ing forward to a story hour which
will begin on Monday and con-
tinue through next week from
1920 a. m. until 11:30 a. m. Con-
Quoted also by Mrs. Whedbee, the
story hour is being attempted for
the first time here. Advance in
dications are to the effect that 1t
will prove popular.
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Dictator Plans Drastic
Changes In Cuba

The agricultural projects in
clude coordination of the sugar
industry and provisions enabling
labor to participate in industry's
profits.
The program provides for regu-
lation of tobacco, coffee, cattle and
mining industries.
Other points include:
Distribution of lands under a
housing plan and decentralization
of the property right.
Extension of the present debt
moratorium.
Establishment of marketing and
consumption cooperatives.
Widespread reforestation and
waterwork developments, includ-
ing construction of aqueducts for
irrigation projects.
Creation of new currency sys-
tenn, establishment of bank issues,
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Fellow Up Recovery
of Brunette With
Mass Attack
Cavalry In Battle
Loyaiisis' Ncwly-Madc En-
trcnchnlcnts Arc Over
whclmcd by Drive

Madrid, Monday, July 26.-U.H
The largest rebel army put into
the field in Spain'S year-old civil
war early today drove to the
heart of the hard-Won loyaliSt
salient 10 miles west of Madrid.
The rebels, led by 10000 Italian
shock troops, through a blazing
pit of ioya.ist resistance in the
Guadarrama GulleyS and ad-
vanced nearly four miles from
Brunette to the gates of Villaneu-
va de Ia Canada.
Brunette, which fell to Gen.
Francisco Francois inSTgent le-
gions Saturday, was the spear
head of the 15-mile Salient driv-
en- by the loyalistS 10 days ago in
the biggest battle Of the war.
The ioyalists admitted officially
that their hurriedly constructed
defcnse lines outside Brunette,
thrown up early today when gov
ernment troops abandoned the
town to the enemy, had collapsed.
The struggle for possession of
Villanueva de la Canada ragged
through the night with an estl-
mated 25O,O0O men involved.
A loyalist communique said the
government defenses north of
Brunette broke before a furious
onslaught of scores of tanks, a
curtain of artillery fire and ex-
ceedingly heavy air bombing OF
the government lines
Loyalist troops, it was explain
ed. retired to the outskirts of Viii
lanueva de la Canada and re-
serves were rushed up from the
rear to help defend the town while
the enemy pressed in from three
IL
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
May
Not Lose
Camp
AT Least Not Just Yet;
Removal Order Like
ly to Be Rescinded

Manteo, July 25.-From sources
close to National Park Service Of
ficials here came a rumor today
that the recent order to remove
the Negro transient camp from
Coinjock is to be reScinded.
According to report, the few
Coinjock residents whose COM
plants had led to the order for
removal of the camp from Curri-
tuck county have buried their
grievances and stated to park SER
vice and WPA officials their will
ingness to allow the camp to re-
main at Coinjock, where it has
been located for over a year
This camp, which is housed on
barges made fast to the canal
bank at Coinjock, carries a per-
Sonnel of around 200 Negro tran
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Park Will Aid
Control OF
Erosion
Officials Think Coast
al National Park Will
Help Erosion Work

Raleigh, July 25.-Department
of Conservation and Development
officials are looking toward the
Department of Interiors move to
establish a Coastal National Park
as a means of bolstering North
Cardinals defense against in
fringement of the Atlantic ocean
along the banks" and in accel-
Grating beach erosion control.
The Department and the U. S.
Beach Erosion Board have worked
Jointly to prevent the slow deS-
truction of the picturesque
banks. Begun some eight years
ago on a modest scale, the SUR
vey and control activities have
been extended to cover a greater
portion of the entire length of the
North Carolina coast, from Kitty
Hawk on the north to Fort Fish
er on the south.
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Interest Is Keen
In the Trial of
Whitehurst
Former Ahoskic Off
ciaI Is On Trial for
Embezzlement

Winton. July 25.-IntereSt IS
running high here in the case Oh
RAYMOND C. Whitehurst, former
clerk and treasurer Of the Town
of Ahoskie. who IS to be tried IN
HertfCrd County Superior Court
here this week on charges OF en-
bezzling S25,473.04 of town funoS
over a period of nine years.
The outcome of the trial OF the
former official whose defalcatlon
shocked the county when revealed
by an audit of his books last March
has become subject Of discus
sion and speculation of major pro-
portions during the past few days.
On April 8, when the work OF
the auditors showed the amount
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Battle Begins
..Afresll Along
Chinese Front
Resumed Between
Peiping and Tientsin;
Planes I'm Action

1ica.ll, Monday. July 60
---ja2ancSc soldiers forced
Chinese troops out of Lanfang
today in 4 clash which renewed
learS OF general warfare IN
North China.
Atlcr several hours of fight
mg, japanese troops occupied
The barracks at Lanfang, Stra-
!'S!cal point on the Peiping-
ITal>in railway and halfway
between the two cities, accord
ms to the DOmei iJapanese)
news agency.
The daily independent., 1937-07-26
AgedMornlon
PoLyganlist Is
For The Idea
One of Heber Grants !
Wives Survives; Has Il
Family of Ninety

London, July 25.-UP'-The
living personifCation OF his phllo-
sophy that you're only as old as
you feel. eighty-year-old Heper
Grant, white-bearded president OF
the church of the Latter Day
Saints. arrived today for the CEN
tenary Of the Mormon church IN
ENGLAND. to be celebrated next
week
With him came Reuben Clark.
former ambassador to Mexico and
first counsellor of the Mormon
church.
Grant. who described the CEN
tenary as "the one hundredth an
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
ATrailerized
Dentists
Office
Serving Coast Guards
men In Dare; Fully
Equipped

Kitty Hawk, July 25.-Un-
known to most of the people in
Dare County, a dentists office
equipped better than the offices
Of 80 per cent of all practlclng
dentists has been located near
here for the past two weeks. This
up-to-date dental office is set up
in an Aero-Car trailer and is sent
out by the U. S. Public Health
Service for the purpose Of provid-
ing dental relief and essential
dental treatment for the men in
the United States Coast Guard
Service.
The trailerized dentists office
has been located at Kill Devil Hills
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The daily independent., 1937-07-26
Charge Amateur Avi-
al2r S0ld Mill
tary Data
GerInan-Italian
p,.o,a.rasi,o and Maps of
rronlirr Regions DiScov-
cred by authorities

p,ri> .Iulv -. UH-A net
,..,rs or German and Italian
,n;.> along Frances frontiers
,.,> revealed tonight with the
,rr..., Of a French amateur
.r;.,p,r and newspaper re-
norr> that Fascist agents are
o.orfr,Iin. ports on the Med
irrrauc0n,
Aviator ArreS.ed
The aviator. Jean Seller, was
.,l~r.a with divulging military
.s,~a., 70 Germany following his
.,-s,. NJ PaI.y after months OF
.~r~-irance He was transferred
= Chaumont for questioning by
,nrts. espionage agents Of the
famous "DeuXieme Bureau OF the
var office.
The Let,is. Newspaper Ce Soir
pvoy.ed the existence of a band
of lp,es reporting to the Spanish
,ebq,> a, we'll as Rome and Ber-
in. On the movement Of French
,s.ys and persons between France
and Spain.
4 search Of Sellers home yield
st much evidence, including a list
D. names Of German aviators who,
Seller said we're friends of his.
\ German Consul
Authorities seized correspond
:gc. VT. the German consul at
B.uss-.<. q biz collection of aerial
ya0,0-.apu> and maps of the
Italian and Swiss frontier regions
r... certain aIrdromes marked
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Judicial Reform Measure
viii Be Presented Today
Rumanian King Warned Not
To Upset European Balance
Carols Political Filtration With Germany
and Poland ArOuses Ire of Men,
bers of the Little Entente

Paris July 25-H-King Rumanla, whose diplomatic
threatened the delicate
politics. tonight apparently had been
udely combined diplomatic Of France
Rritaj nd PuSSi0
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..a,g Monday. July 26.-(U.R)-
s.--,.1- -a- broken out between
sasa1-se and Chinese forces at
-a~,a-- midway between Peiping
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