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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-25
Hornsby Compromises with S. |.

WD-Dfferences between HOrnsby
manager and the management
after Hornsby surrendered his contract
Tor approximately $1,000
$4,000
by said
for this
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-25
The
Tackle Box
By GEO. r. BUCKLIN

One of the most spectacular tuna,
yellowtail and white sea bass runs
of the season occurred unexpected
ly at the Coronado Islands Thurs
day when the deep sea sport an
Cling fleet from San Diego dis
covered the bluefin in biting mood
on arrival at daybreak.
Forty-two fishermen on the Star
Angler and Sea Angler brought
62 tuna, 81 yellowtail and several
score barracuda and bonito aboard
before the six-hour fishing period
was over. The tuna scaled from
20 to 25 pounds, while the yellow
tail averaged Is pounds each.
Contributing to the excitement,
a dozen large white sea bass were
brought to gaff on the Sea Angler,
the largest tipping the beam at Sc
pounds.
1t was noteworthy that Imperial
Valley anglers waCe present to
reap the harvest of the seasons
most thrilling run. Bill Clements,
prominent FL Centre druggist, add
ed two tuna, pair of yellowtail
and several barracuda to his string,
while his daughter Kay caught sew
eral fighting bonito. J. N. McGillis
and Ed Hall of El Centre, also
brought to gaff many fine trophies.
T. R. Peterson of Brawley was an
other valley fisherman who re-
turned home with plenty of Friday
dinners for the neighbors.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-25
Club Entry Arrangements Complete

Jack Stark completed take the
ball team Flagstaff Thursday
ball tournament The winner of the
pitchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-25

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-25
FLYING SCOUT WINS
NINTH RUNNING OF
ARLINGTON STAKES

90.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Washington Boat Mystery
Definitely One Of Murder
Body Hooked by a Chesa-
peake Fisherman W a S
Wounded and Weighted
Down.

Washington. June /. -(U.R)- A
fisherman trolling the murky wa
ters of Chesapeake Bay today
hooked not a bluefish- but the
body of the mysterious man in the
brown beret!
He had been murdered stab
bed through the neck - and
weighted down with an aSsort-
ment of articles as weird as were
the circumstances surrounding his
almost incredible disappearance
off Potomac river night boat two
weeks ago.
A Jewel Fancier
The body was that of Charles F.
Keene, prosperous real estate bro
ker and jewel fancier who board
ed the steamer District of Colum-
bia in Washington, wearing a
brown beret. When the boat dock
ed next morning at Norfolk, Va,
Kenne's cabin was locked from
the inside, bloodstained and emp
ty, except for his shoes, his wrist
watch and his broken eyeglasses.
White mists, like those which
surrounded the steamer on the
fateful night of May IA, were ris-
ing from the river this morning
south of Point Lookout, where the
Potomac flows into the bay. The
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Plan Addition
W ater St.
Station
Gulf to Spend $4,000
On Local Station; New
Hertford Plant Begun

Work of alterations and addi-
ticnS to the Gulf station on Water
street. at a cost Of approximately
$4,000. will begin Immediately, it
was announced today.
The first step in the proposed
plan of Improvement will be to
alter the interior of The present
station and canopy and to beauti-
fy II with tile, SIucCi and fluting.
The second sep WI be the
construction of a tWo-stall lube
and wash building which will en-
able the station to give the very
best fabrication and wash ser
vice.
The driveways also are 20 be
improved and probably will be
braced by additional piling or
str ngerS.
When the proposed work is
completed, Cuffs Water Street
station will be one of the most al
tractive and best-equipped service
stations in this section.
George Dubose. of KinSSon,
holds the contract for the job and
will probably begin work here in
about a week or 10 days. Mr..
Dubose also holds the contract for
building a handsome new Gulf
station al Church and Dobb
streets, Hertford, on which work
was started yesterday.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Fall Is Fatal
To Worker
AtP. o.
Norfolk IrOn.wOrkcr
Dies After Fall From
Second Floor Annex

Irwin T. Mansfield, Norfolk
iron worker, died at the Albemarle
hospital at 1890 o'clock last night
as a result of falling from the
second floor of the unfinished
east wing of the new post office
annex to The concrete of the first
Tlcor below, shortly before 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Mansfield was in his late 3Os
and was employed as foreman by
the Standard Iron & Steel COM
pany of Norfolk, sub-contractors
for the steel work of the annex.
His home was at 31l6 Perrone
avenue, FairlnouSh Park, in
suburban Norfolk and he is said
to leave a wife and two children.
Mansfield apparently lost his
balance as he was skirting an
aperture left in the second floor
ing and crashed downward a dis
tance of 16 feet to the concrete,
turning in the air and landing
upon the side of his head. He
suffered a fractured skull and
broken neck.
Howard Preston DoWdy, a CO.
worker who was with him at the
time, says that he heard Mans
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Old HighWdy Camp
Site Is Public
Property

The old county highway chain
ran" camp site on West Church
.r'"'. extended, is now deemed to
%. The site most likely to be chosen
o" 'u" State Highway & Public
Works Commission for its new
g..a.0H shop and office buildings,
according TO G.. c. Meads. secre-
.e.. OF the Chamber of Com
a. -~.' Merchants association.
'. tile TO the old highway
.'H- al,C was looked up yesterday
b. u.y Attorney Jack Jennette,
~., found that the property is
."a"d Jointly by the city and
rwa...
T. is understood that the city
".j county are willing to donate
..' site to the State, but it is not
s. known whether it will meet
."' States requirements. 1t Is
'-"End tho, that it will be ac-
uH'dD.c, inasmuch as it has two
-..."ay outlets and adjoins
."..raG siding.
"..cral other pieces of proper
u I'D the city were suggested to
2",o.ary MeadS yesterday, and
ID. "..i submit all the data in his
lands 10 Mr.. Charles Ross, gen.
Ia. counsel for the highway COM
". On w'ho is due here this week
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
By WEBB MILLER

MontS, France, June 1.-lU'H-
The Duke of Windsor was ner-
vous bridegroom tonight as ne
toasted Mrs. Wallis Warfield with
a "Wally" cocktail in the library
of the Chateau de Cande.
Invented by Francois, a bar man
in one of the Tours hotels. the
cocktail promEes to become fam
GUS throughout France. 1t Is mace
of equal parts of gin, colntreau
and lime juice and is colored blue
with vegetable dyes.
Guests here for the wedding OF
the Duke and Mrs. .Warfleld re-
ported favorably on the cocktail
after trying one at the hotel. Ihey
reported so favorably on 1t that
the Duke and Mrs. Warfleld
agreed to try it tonight.
The duke who had gone calmly
through countless ceremonies as
Prince of Wales and King OF Eng
land was nervous because IN less
than 48 hours he has to stand
quietly for eight minutes while ne
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
ABC's Sales
(OntIn Ue
To Soar
Already Above S150,-
600 for Fiscal Year;
May Sales SIS, .45

Altho May sales in the Pasquo-
tank County ABC store Jagged a
little behind those of April, they
were -uffcient to run sales for the
first II months of the fiscal year
above the S15O,0O0 mark.
Total sales for the month of
May, according to Manager c. c.
Reid, amounted to SIS, 5,145 AS, an
increase of approximately rs per
cent over the S8,371.35 sales for
May 1886. The May sales, how
ever, were slightly behind sales for
April, which totaled S15,292.25.
Total sales in the local liquor
store for the first IL months of
the 1867 fiscal year amount to
S151, ,327.55. This indicated total
-ales for the full fiscal year of
approximately S165, 900. Sales for
the 1886 calendar year totaled on
ly around S125,000.
During the first five months of
the current calendar year, local
ABC sales totaled $72,29140.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Location Is Found
For Ndgs Head
ABC Store

Nags Head, June 1.-The Dare
County Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board has definitely decided
on a location for the proposed
liquor store 70 be established here
in the near future.
The liquor store will occupy ap-
prox mately half of the space now
occupied by the Sea View Inn,
confectionery, service station and
rooming house located on the
west side of the Virginia Dare
Trail across the road from the
Nags Head Beach Club.
The store will be partitioned off
and the north side leased to The
ABC board.
1t is not yet known on what
date the liquor store VIII open,
but Il is thought that it will open
before July 4.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Congress Overrides Veto
Veterans Insurance Bill
Both Parties Join In
a Rebuff to the
President
5-Year Extension
Would Have Forced Con.
version of War Risk
Term Policies

Washington, June l.-U.H
President Roosevelt suffered
a sharp defeat in congress to-
day when both houses over
rode his veto on an act en-
tending war risk term insur-
ance policies for five years.
The vote in the house was
1868 to 13 and in the senate
SO to II. A twO-thirds vote
was necessary.
1t was the second time MIR.
Roosevelt has suffered re-
vcrsals in congress on legls-
lation affecting World war
veterans. The two houses
overrode his veto last year of
the soldier bonus bill. The
veterans organizations main
tain a strong and efficient
lobby in the capital.
Defeat came for the president
TODAY as Mrs. Roosevelt sat in the
public gallery with a friend whom
she was accompanying on sight
seeing tour. She remained in the
chamber only a few moments and
most members were unaware OF
her presence.
Expire This Year
The bill which Mr.. Roosevelt
vetoed provides that war risk in
surance policies in the hands OF
l9,453 veterans, which are to ex-
pire this year, be extended five
years. The policies were issued
soon after the World war began
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Plug Holes In Revenue
LaWs Urges President
Special Message De.
nOunces Evasion
Practices

Washington, June 1.-U.R)-A
far-reaching inveStigat on of TAX
evasion and avoidance was Or
dered by the senate today after
President Roosevelt accused a
group of rich taxpayers Of chal-
longing the "decency of American
morals" and Wgeu congress, in a
special message, to plug loopholcS
in revenue laws.
Two hours afycr the chief exc
cutiYe asked congress 10 give the
treasury full power to expand It's
current inquiry into activities of
lax dodgers, the senate approved
a resolution to set up a joint con-
greSSi0nal committee Of II men,
berS TO investigate the crSirc
evasion situation.
Committee OF Twelve
The committee will be cOmpoS-
cd of six senators and six repre-
sen'yatXes. 1t will have broad
congressional authority and will
be in existence until February l,
1888. The resolution was offered
by chairman Pat Harrison. D.,
Miss, OF the senate finance COM
m:ttee. A similar measure was in
troduced in The house by chair
man Robert l.. Doughton, D.,
N. c., of the ways and means
committee. 1t probably will be
considered tomorrow.
The treasury began its tax in
quiry when revenues SlUmped be-
low e3yimateS for the 1878 fiS-
cal year. The income fell 80 far
below treasury expectations that
Mr.. Roosevelt was compelled to
withdraw his earlier prediction of
balanced budget N the 1888 fis-
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Asphalt Plant Is
Being Kept
Busy
CIinc's Plant at Bel
cross Supplying Num-
erOus Projects

Paving material for four diff
ferent highway projects in three
different counties has been mixed
at The F.. D. Cline Cos asphalt
plant near Belcross, in Camden
county.
This asphalt plant, set up III
September, 1885, was used in mix
ing all the sand asphalt for the
Shawboro-Indian Ridge road, IN
Currituck county. the Camden
Shiloh road, in Camden county,
the Elizabeth City-WeeksVllle
road in Pasquotank county, and
Elizabeth street in Elizabeth City.
Cline also holds the contract
for the road project now under
Continued OH Page Tllree)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Landscaping
Canal Bank
Goes On
Er1pioymeni Service
},lcd to Supply La
hor for Resumption

W0-: q landscaping the banks
e. -.a Dismal Swamp canal near
South Mills will be resumed by
.... middle of this month, the To-
Ia. o..re Of the North Carolina
Emg.ovlccnj service hav ng been
-,nt 20 provide % men for the
~..: 1- June p.
Tie office has been Swamped
.-. demands for labor recently.
many people having been suppl
.o .ly pea picking, while there Is
q 9.a demand for domestic SER
-a1's particularly from Nags
HAD and other resort centerS. A
number have been furnished for
work on the Weeksville and
Knots Island highways while a
call .yr ass. stance reached both
Elizabeth City and Edenton yes
.egca" from Tyrrell county where
300 are needed to work in the po-
tao fields. 1t is expected that
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Supreme Court Refuses
To Hasten TVA Rulings
Session Last In Which Van
Devanter Will Occupy
the High Bench

Washington, June 1.-U.n)-
The Supreme Court which has
passed Judgment on more import
AM legislation than any tribunal
since the civil war, began its sum-
mcr recess today after thrice re-
jecting New Deal pleas on Roose-
velt power policies.
Af.er a 45-minute session, only
10 minutes of which was devoted
to decisions, the court adjourned
until noon, october 4. What the
courts personnel will be on thai
date it was impossible to forecast
tonight. There will be at least one
new member replacing Justice
Willis Van DevanSer and poss. bly,
others, appointed either because
OF additional retirements or new
legislation.
The Decisions
The court made its exit on
these three rebuffs TO the govern
ment:
/. Refusal to consider a lower
court ruling ordering the Tennes-
see Valley Authority to stand
tr:.al in an attack by the Ten
nessee Electric Power Co., and
other utilities.
3. Refusal to extract from the
circuiS court docket where it now
pends, a test case involving con-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Coast Guard Insists
On Full 400 Acres

Hopes that the United States
Coast Guard might require less
than 400 acres originally an
nounccd as a donation, asked
of the community for the es-
tabIishnen. of an air base here,
were blasted last night by a
s2lcgram from Congressman
lindsay c. Warren, received by
Mayor Jerome e. Flora.
The 400 acre is correct ac-
cording to the congressman,
who says that the Coast Guard
will insist upon that figuIr.
Mr.. Warren expects to visit
his home soon and will stop
over here to view suitable sites
for the new air base.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
HOllOll1an Gets
= To 4 Year
Term
Jury Hang In Hooker
Case; May Be Tried
Again at This Term

Randall Hollomon was SentenC-
ed to serve from two TO four years
in prison by Judge ClaWSon Will
liams in Pasquotank superior
court yesterday after the State
had agreed to accept a plea OF
guilty of receiving stolen goods
from the defendant. Hollomon
had been accused of breaking in
to the storehouse of the Copper
smith company here, and steal
ing a quantity of tools.
A non suit was declared in the
case of Billy Hooker, accused OF
breaking into the commissary OF
the Chesson Manufacturing COM
pany. after the jury which had
heard the evidence reported that
they were in hopeless disagree
ment. Il is probable that Hooker
will be tried again on the charge
at this time.
In the meantime, the Judge
withheld sentence on Olin Bal
ance of NeWland and Charlie
Griffin of Williamson, who have
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Mays Temperature
Was Just About
Up TO Par

Those who complained that last
month was an unusually cool May
were suffering from a misapprc-
hension, according to w. H. San
ders, local U. S. weather bureau
reporter.
The average May temperature
here is 67.00 degrees, according to
Mr.. Sanders, and the records show
an average temperature of 66.25
for last month. In other words.
Elizabeth City's average tempera-
ture last month was just a frac-
tion OF a degree below normal.
Lowest temperature of the
month was 80 degrees, registered
on May 4, while the highest tenn
perature was SO degrees on May
%.
Precipitation during the month
of May was far below normal. the
rainfall for the month totaling
only 1.49 inches, against a May
average of 800 inches
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Girl Hurt On
.Chas. Creek
Bird &c
Gertrude Fearing Suf-
fers Painful Injury;
Antiquated Bridge Is
Blamed

Another argument for the re-
placement of the antiquated
ramshackle wooden bridge that
crosses Charles creek where Shep-
ard street and Riverside street
meet was seen in an accident that
occurred on the bridge on Mon
day nighG.
Gertrude Fearing, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E
Pratt Fearing of South Road St.
suffered painful injuries when
she slipped thru a crack in the
bridge around 10 o'clock Monday
night as she was walking home
from a parry at the Weatherly
home on Riverside.
The draw OF the bridge, which
operates on a turntable, does not
close tightly on the Riverside emo
but jams on one side and leaves
an aperture on the other. 1t was
into this aperture that he Fear
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
A Prominent |
A. b. WalstOn Dies at
Age of 90; Funeral at
+ p. Nj. Today

Ambrose Barco Walston. age 66,
we'll known lumberman Of this
city. died at Albemarle hospital
Yesterday at AIS p. m, following
amputation of his left leg on Sun
day.
Mr.. WalSton suffered a stroke
of paralysis about two years ago
and never fully recovered from it.
Taken i'll a little over a week ago,
his condition became steadily
worse until he had to be taken to
the hospital. where an obStruc-
ton in a blood vessel neceSSitated
The leg amputation on Sunday. His
condition improved on Monday
bus took a turn for the worse yes
terday.
He was born in Camden county
in 1871, son of the late w. H.
and Jane Barco WalSton. His
parents moved to this county when
he was a small boy, and he 1pent
the remainder of his days in Pas
quotank. For close to 40 years he
lived in the Weeksville section,
where he operated a saw mill, a
cotton gin, a general store and a
large farm. Moving to Elizabeth
City around 1915, he bought tim
Der for A. B. Houtz for about five
years before becoming an indepen-
dent buyer and seller of timber. He
was widely known thruout the
Albcmarle section.
Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Ada
F. Walston; two sons, Paul F. and
Karl, both of this city; two daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ethel McSwain OF this
city and Mrs. H. c. Winder OF
Norfolk; three grandchildren,
Henry and Bill Sharber and Jean
(Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
5crmans And Italians
Send Ships To Spanish
" aters; Give Warnin g
Amelia EarI,uy't Lands Al
Sdn Juan; Guiana Today
Afterwards Fiicr Will Hop
South Atlantic to Da-
kar, Africa

San Juan, P. R., June 1.-U.R)-
Amelia Earhart Putnam, queen of
the airWays, tonight set her $780,
600 Flying Laboratory" down on
the sandy runWayS of the airport
here after a l,181-mile hop from
Miami, F.a.. completing the fir.t
leg OF an eastbound flight around
the world.
She land5d at 2:30 p. m, EDIT,
after a smooth. uneventful flight
from the Florida coast, seven
hours and 54 minutes out of Mia
mi.
tomorrow Miss Earhart plans to
take off for Paramaribo in Dutch
Guiana. 1878 miles away, and the
thnd leg will be ca tward to Natal,
Brazil. a distance of 1915 miles
down he eastern coast of South
America.
After that she will swing over
the Atlantic, headed for Dakar,
French West Africa, on the first
long Overwatcr hop on her 10000
mile scheduled route.
She was accompanied by Capt.
Fred j. NoOnan. former Pan AM
criCan airway, clipper pilot who
also flew with her on the Inflated
star, of her weSt-bound globe cir
cling flight, which ended when she
cracked up her big twin-motored
LCCKheCd at Pearl Harbor. Oahu.
Miss Earhart ~Wung eastward
over the Bahama Islands after her
.ake-Cff from the municipal air
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
More Trouble
Feared In
Chicago Strike

Chicago, June l. - U.R)-
Hundreds of police reserves
were ordered into the territory
surrounding the South Chicago
plant of Republic Steel Corp
grafton tonight.
At 9:15 p. m. (CST) it was
estimated from 900 to 1000
patrolmen were stationed in or
around the plant, scene of Sum
days bloody riot in which six
were killed and 100 injured in
a clash between striking steel
workers and police.
Police captains commanding
in the area refused to comment,
but it was believed a new out
break of violence was feared.
Feeling has run high among
strikers and sympathizers since
the riot, in which they charged
police shot strikers down in
"cOld blood"
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Vets Win In
Washington
County
Wayne County I'm the Wet
Column by Narrow Mar
gin But Mccklcnbcrg Is
Dry.

Plymouth, June Washington
County today Joined the ranks OF
the Wet counties in North Caro-
lina when it weed for liquor con-
troll by a majority of 269 votes IN
a quiet and uneXCiting day OF
ballot ng.
With one precinct missing the
vote &.ood at 532 vets and 263
dry.
Only about one-third OF the
registered voters Of the county
went to the polls Today.
Compete returns gave the Vets
a majority of 269, but a break
down of the county vo.e was not
available tonight.
Washington is the fourIh
Northeastern North Carolina
county 10 authorize the opening
Martin and Dare being the other
three.
Continued on page five)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
President Has
Won Fight On
w Ork Relief
House RecOnsiders Amend.
ments to Which He
Was Opposed

Washington, June l. -(UR)-
The S1,500 ,000, 900 work relief bill,
target of the worst congressional
revolt under the new deal, was
passed by the house late tonight
in a boisterous session.
Final action came in an atmoS-
phere of such intense bitterness
that leaders predicted privately
that the house would not pass an
other blank checque" bill author
izing Mr.. Roosevelt to spend relief
money as he sees fit. Likewise they
indicated that the measure passed
tonight may be the last of the bill
lion dollar relief bills to win con-
gressional approval.
The measure was passed in sub
stantially the form recommended
by the president. He had inter-
vened over the weekend to COM
promise differences with patron
age-hungry and rsbellious Demo-
Gratis who ear-marked $505 .000.-
(Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
Married Fifty
Years Ago
Today
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Pappendick Celebrat-
ing Golden Wedding
Anniversary

1--WE are happy and thankful for
all our blessings and for the
many happy years we have spent
together" said Mrs. C. c. Pappen-
dick of COL West Main street last
night on the eve of her Golden
Wedding anniversary. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pappendick were married on
June 2, 1887, in the First Metho-
dist parsonage by the Rev. j. T.
Whitley.
Mrs. Pappendick, before her
marriage, was Miss Minnie Bell,
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs
G. w. Bell, of this city. She is now
II years old and has lived on
Elizabeth City's Main street all
of her life except for a period OF
three years. She was very active
in church work until few years
ago.
Mr.. Pappendick is one of Eliza
beth City's best known and most
~ ~
The daily independent., 1937-06-02
The Duke OF Windsor A
Nervous Bridegroom

is married to Mrs. Warfield. The
Duke paced the Chateau de Cande,
smoking too many cigarettes, and
taking no interest at all in the war
scare that existed i'll every Eu-
ropean capital.
Mrs. Warfield was said to pc
poised and calm.
All the preparations for the
wedding have been made, and the
tactful suggestion has been made
to Mayor Charles Mercier OF
Monts that he curtail the Gus
tomary speech at the end of the
ceremony. French officials usual
ly 60 into a lengthy Grafton after
performing a civil ceremony.
Continued on Page Three)