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La gaceta., 1937-06-28
DESDE Ell MADRID HEROICO
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La gaceta., 1937-06-28

Los mineros asturianos hicie-
ron casr en- una emboscada a
los faccic~os en- Ell frente vasco
v mataron a centenares de ellos.
Esos asturianos de la Repdblica
descontados los fascistas de van
guardia y retaguardia, merecen
I'm sitio de honor en- la historic
de la humanidad.
Y la Rep1blica sabra ayudar-
los, de modo que las minas y los
campos de la provincial her6ica
nc caigan en- 7oder de los falan
gistas, los traidores Y demas ca
MALTA.
Else peri6dico senior, contin1a
especializando en- noticias fas-
cistas.
Y es por ESQ que tiene va
tan pocos amigos.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Attempts
Suicides;
Fails
Herman G. Piland
Has Good Chance
to Live; Shot Self
Yesterday

Because his aim was bad, Her.
man o. Piland. manager of the
Berklcy Feed corporation store
here. apparently is going to live
to face the hum liation and ig-
nominy he sought to escape in
an unsuccessful suicide attempt
yesterday.
The Albemarle hospital last
night reported that Piland'S con-
dition looked very good"
Piland, brooding over a misap-
preparation of company funds,
rointed a % caliber repeating
Winchester rifle at his right tenn
pie yesterday morning around
seven o'clock and pulled the trig-
ger, hoping to put an end to his
life. But the length of the rifle
made his aim necessarily awkward,
and the bullet, instead of pene-
trating the brain, went through
the skull and came out near the
bridge of his nose almost in the
corner of his right eye, taking a
part of the eye with it.
A fractured skull and loss OF
the sight of his right eye are FL
continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Teruel Sector
Now Scene OF
Hottest Fight
LOyali,ts and Insurgents
Appear to Be Prepar-
ing Major Battle

Heudaye. Franco-SpaniSh From
tier. Aug. 9.-U.P-Loyalist and
msrgcnt armies concentrated
;heW forces in the sizzling furnace
Of the Teruel sector tonight as
artillery fire of both sides ham
meyed into dust the mud walls Of
no mans land villages around
BcZaS.
Government forces. starting a
surprise movement through the
mountains of southwest Teruel,
a"Oided the highway dominated
By natiOnalists and struck at the
rebel flank. causing temporary
withdrawal of the nationalist
troops to the heights above the
villages of Griegos. Calomadre,
RoyUela and CampiI.o.
Artillery was installed on the
hills above the villages, both sides
pouring heavy fire into the towns,
The nationaliStS were strongly
fortified. dominating Grieigos, and
delivered a deadly bombardment
upon government troops.
With endorsements b e l n g
rushed up for both sides, tanks,
planes. machine guns, and shells
accumulated rapidly. 1t appeared
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Cotton Report Increases
Demand For Legislation
Cotton Futures Go
Down at Bumper
Crop Forecast

Washington, Aug. 9. U.P-Con-
gressional pressure for a tempo
rary loan structure to relieve the
threat OF Sagging cotton prices was
accelerated tonight when the ag-
riculture department forecast a
1887 crop of 1888 900 bales-a
six-year high.
AS cotton futures on the New
York markets broke as much as
$3.50 a bale on the basis of the
government predictions, blocs of
legislators from Southern states
banned under the leadership OF
Chairman Ellison D. Smith OF the
senate agriculture committee, to
demand federal loans to stabilize
prices and keep the excess crop
off the market.
The only immediate prospects
of allaying fear of enormous eX-
cesses was boil weevil damage.
This was cited by Smith who said
that "an extraordinary amount OF
rainfall over the cotton area has
increased the possibility OF insect
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10

simultaneously, reports that
Hoover quietly has been sounding
out sentiment among Republican
leaders toward an early party
gathering which would plot a con-
tinuing and vigorous war on the
New Deal, seek to regain scores
of seats in congress in the 1888
elections, reaffirm G. o. P. prin-
cipals and advance a program for
the national welfare, received a
mixed reception among congress
sional Republicans.
House minority leader Bertrand
H. Smell, of New York, heartily
endorsed the plan. He said 1t
probably will be a good idea to
call attention to the record Of Re-
publicans in congress" at such a
party gathering next winter or in
the spring. Smell said that Re
publicans have been unjustly ac-
cused of responsibility for certain
legislation which was enacted by
the overwhelming Democratic ma
jority.
"A convention of this sort might
be Just the opportunity to put the
entire matter before the country
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Beauty Show
At Carolina
NextW eek
Main Prize a Weeks
Vacation at Nags Head
for the Winner and
Chaperone

A weeks vacation at the First
Colony Inn at Nags Head, with
all expenses paid and the privll-
ege of taking a chaperone whose
expenses will also be paid, will be
the main prize in the beauty con-
test to be staged by the Carolina
Theatre Friday night, August 20
This beauty contest is only one
of the features to be presented
by the Carolina in the celebration
of it's zenith anniversary which
opens Sunday, August Is.
Manager j. Holland Webster OF
the Carolina stated last night that
registration blanks are now avail
able for all who wish to enter the
beauty contest and he anticipates
a lively registration today.
A weeks vacation at the First
Colony Inn at Nags Head with all
expenses paid for the winner and
her chaperone is a prize not to
be sneezed at, especially when one
is permitted 10 select her own
chaperone.
Next week will be red letter
week at the Carolina" says Man
ager Webster, who promises a
number of interesting announce
ments in connection Herewith.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Drugs Found
On Liner
Manhattan

Washington, Aug. 9.-U,H)-
Treasury officials today an
nounced the seizure of S150,O0O
worth of herOin aboard the lin
er Manhattan at its pier in New
York.
Customs officials in New
York advised assistant secre-
tary of the treasury Stephen b.
Gibbons that they had arrested
Johann Murken, steward on the
liner. Murken. according to the
officials, admitted secreting the
% pounds of heroin in a state
room aboard the ship.
The treasury enforcement
agents said Murken told them
that the narcotics had been
shuttled back and forth across
the Atlantic aboard the liner
because close surveillance both
in the United States and Eur
ope prevented efforts to remove
the illicit shipment.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
|BlOOdhOunds
AndLiquorAid
In Recapture
Convicts Who Z scape d
From Durham Camp
Soon Back In Tolls

Raleigh, Aug. 9.-U.D-Prison
disciplinarian L. G.. Whitley re-
ported today he captured two es-
capped convicts late Saturday at
Creedmore, N. c., with the aid of
bloodhoundS imported from Will
son, a series Of phone calls and
half-gallon of whiskey.
The escapes, Fred Lee and
John O'Connor, broke away from
a prison truck near the Durham
prison camp Thursday. Saturday
restaurant proprietor in Creed
more, about 80 miles from Raj
eigh. called the sheriff and re-
ported the convicts had entered
his place demanding food.
The sheriff called state prison
officials in Raleigh, who contact
ed Whitley at his Wilson home.
The disciplinarian Immediately
secured two bloodhounds, drove
by auto to Creedmore and within
two hours after starting had cap
tured the men in the swamps near
the town. The escapes, who were
serving short terms, had begun
drinking a half gallon bottle of
whiskey when Whitley and his
bloodhounds posse surprised them
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Currituck Schools
Get Service Car
And Buses

C,UrituCk, Aug. g. Superinten-
dc, Frank B. Aycock today an
no.Mccd the purchase Of a service
truck which should materially re-
uJcc the cost of operating the
coUtty's school busses during the
coming term.
This service car, which cost
800 with all its equipment, was
p@c Tor Jointly by the State school
commission and the board OF
county commissioners.
Tie car will be equipped with an
air compressor, towing hooks, a
pressure grease gun, an anvil and
0l"rr assorted equipment.
Superintendent Aycock an
AoJnced also that the State has
allotted Currituck county four
new International School busses,
70 De delivered this month.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Temporary Financial
Loss and IncOn-
venience Seen
South Is Opposed
But No Chance Seen of De.
feating Measure With.
out Outside Aid

Washington, Aug. 9.-U.H
The house labor committee
threw its battle-scarred wages
and hours bill into the con-
grcssional arena tonight with
the warning that it will bring
temporary financial losses
and Inconvenience to some
employers while operating to
cure a tremendous number
of injusticcS."
"Chiseling Employers"
Anticipating the certain floor
fight against President Roose-
velt's latest reform measure, the
house group attacked "chiseling
employers" and sought in advance
to refute charges Of southern con-
servatives that the bill would par
alyze business growth south OF the
Mason-Dixon line. The committee
said there is no one panacea' to
solve the basic problem Of pur-
chasing power and that the pend
ing bill is a modest and conscr-
vative approach" thereto.
The committees report did not
placate the southerners. They will
make their first major counter
thrust against the bill on Wednes-
day when it comes before the rules
committee. If they have sufficient
votes they can bottle the measure
up in that group but the delay
would be only temporary. Should
such an emergency arise, the lead
ership can call a Democratic cau-
Gus and order the bill out to the
floor. Such an order is not mere
ly an expression of democracy's
wishes. It is a command that must
be obeyed.
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Price Of Sweet Potatoes
Is Disappointing
Growers Fear Dupli.
cation of Disastrous
Spud Season

Currituck, Aug. 9.-Sweet po.
tato growers of this county are
greatly disappointed over the price
now being paid for their CROP
and are apprehensive lest swee'
potatoes prove to be as diSap-
pointing this year from a money
standpoint as was the Irish po-
tato crop.
Sweet potatoes are bringing on
ly SIPS per bushel on the North
ern markets today, and Shere is
very little demand for them even
at that low price. The grower re-
ceives less than rs cents per BUSH
ell when the potatoes sell at this
price.
Digging is just getting well un-
der way in this county this week
and growers are beginning to feal
that the price may take a drop
before the week is out. Growers
claim that they can not make
anything on sweet potatoes If they
receive as little as SO cents pei
bushel for them.
Nearly all growers of Irish po-
tatoes in this county lost money
on their crop this year, and many
of them had hoped to recoup their
losses with sweet potatoes. but il
now appears that they may take
loss on this crop also.
The sweet potato crop in Cur
rfSuck loks fairly good this year
with most growers having pretty
stands. Quality and yield seem to
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10

Venice, Aug. 9.-(UD-The next
bride of Prince David Mdiyanl,
last of the three Georgian princes
who became known as the Mar
rying Mdivanis," may be Muriel
Honey Johnson of Bronxville, N.
Y, a tall blue e-eyed blonde.
Friends here said Miss Johnson
met the prince, formerly the hus-
band of the movie actress, Mae
Murray, and fell madly in love"
with him. She arrived at Lido a
week ago.
Although their engagement has
not yet been announced officially,
it appears the prince is anxious 70
marry very soon. Miss Johnsons
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry T. F..
Johnson, however, were reported
to favor an autumn wedding and
may delay the marriage until Oc-
tober.
Parental objection to Mdivanl's
eagerness to marry in haste has
been encountered by the prince at
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Why The CLIO
NJ a y Fail
H ere
Needed Support of
Negro Workers May
Be Hard to Get

Why it is exceedingly doubtful
that the Committee for Industrial
Organization, better known as the
CIO, will be able to obtain higher
wages, shorter hours and better
working conditions for local lum-
Der mill labor was explained yes
terday by a prominent citizen who
asked that his name be withheld
Said he:-
According to newspaper ac-
counts, the CIO will not submit a
proposition to an employer un-
less it has been voted upon by at
least 81 per cent of the employees
of the mill or factory.
AT least rs per cent of the en-
ployes of the local lumber mills are
Negroes, and the union can not
possibly get anywhere without the
support and affiliation of these
Negroes. And it is my guess that
it will be pretty hard to get those
Negroes to part with $500 for an
initiation fee into a union and
S1.O0 a month dues in the same
They Just don't have the money to
spare.
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
New York Senator
Introduces An
Amendment

Washington, Aug. 9.-U.H-
Sen. Royal S. Copeland, D., N. Y,
today attacked President Roose-
yelt as a creator Of Democratic
party discord and then introduc-
ed a proposed constitutional
amendment designed to prohibit
him or any other person from
seeking a third term as president.
Copeland's action emphasized
democratic factional bitterness on
the eve of a scheduled harmony
dinner" tomorrow night, which
Copeland said he would attend
and to which the president has
been invited.
Significant Timing
The proposal for a ban on third
presidential terms, coming from q
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Policeman Killer Gets
A Last Assignment

Louise Pradier during a scuftle
in his car last June 20.
Police Commissioner Louis j.
Valentine indicated that Chal-
mers will not be charged with
first degree murder. He said he
shot her trying to Wrest the gun
from her when she drew 1t, after
he refused to "go away wfSh her"
He told of punching her and
pushing her" in an effort to get
the gun, and police said the story
was fairly we'll substantiazed by
other evidence, pointing to a
crime of passion, not a pre-
meditated murder.
The case against Marks was
clear cur. Twice convicted of as
saults on minor girls, the shifty-
eyed little man, gulping and wip-
ing his bald forehead with a
shaking hand, blurted a detailed
confession of the killing Of little
Paula Magagna in basement OF
her home in Brooklyn.
II don't know why I did it," he
said, lifting his hands over his
head. II don't know. except a
sort of impulse came over me. It
is the first time I ever did such a
thing. I had in mind the Ossidc
case"
Salvatore Ossido, a Brooklyn
barber, is in Sing Sing prison
awaiting exectrocution for the
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Camp May Not
Be Moved
S oon
Park Service Appar.
emily In No Hurry to
Move Coinjock Camp

Coinjock, Aug. 9.-Altho it has
been four weeks since the Nation
al Park Service stated it would
move it's Negro transient camp out
Of Currituck County within a per-
iod of 80 days, no preparations
ostensibly have been made for
moving the camp, and there is a
growing belief here that the camp
will not be moved any time soon.
The letter from Washington
stating that the camp would be
moved within 80 days was dated
July 13, which means that the
camp would have to be moved by
the day after tomorrow, August
II, if the Park Service were to
adhere to the intention set forth
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Meades and Spence
Exchange Jobs

Marion Meades and Walter w.
Spence swapped jobs in the local
police department yesterday,
Spence taking over the duties of
Assistant Chief and Meades, who
had been assistant chief for near
ly two years, taking over Spence's
duties as motorcycle officer.
Meades' demotion was ordered
last week by the Police Commits
sion and notice was served on him
that he is to turn in his uniform
on October /.
No reason was given for his
discharge at last weeks so-called
hearing" before the Police Com
mission, and he said yesterday
that he probably will demand a
public hearing this month.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
COPELAND Demands
A Constitutional
Ban On Third Term
Your Last Chance
To See This Comet

Tonight may offer the last
opportunity for readers of this
newspaper to view Finsler's
comet, q recent visitor of the
northern heavens. Maximum
brilliance Of this phenomenon
Of the heavens is expected to-
night but shortly thereafter the
moon will be in the first quar-
ter and the northern sky will
be too light for a satisfactory
viewing.
Finsler's comet, first discov-
cred on July 5, has a head eight
times larger than the earth and
! tail more than two million
miles long. 1t is now appearing
between the Pole star and the
Big Dipper, but slightly above
the Big Dipper.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Woman 'sCIub
Day Today
At Fort
DIR. Rondthaler Will
Speak; Well.ROunded.
Program Is Arranged

Manteo, Aug. 9.-Dr. Howard
Rondthaler, president of Salem
College, in Winston-Salem, past
president of the State Rotary, and
son of the great Bishop Rond-
thaler of the Moravian crurch, will
be the principal speaker at the
formal exercises to be held in the
amphitheatre at Fort Raleigh,
commemorating North Carolina
Woman's Club Day of the celebra-
ton of the 350th anniversary OF
the first English colony settled in
America.
A well-rounded program has
been arranged by the local senior
and Junior Woman's Clubs, head
ed by Mrs. T. G. Etheridge and
Miss Helen Duvall, respectively.
Some of the high spots OF the pro-
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Interest High
In Liquor
Trial
Speculation As to the
Outcome; Morse Has
Jurisdiction

With the trial set for tomorrow
morning, speculation is running
high in the city and county as to
what will be the outcome OF the
hearing before Trial Justice w. c.
Morse, Jr., of ten individuals al
legged to have been selling liquor
illicitly in four dives just out
side the city limits.
While he naturally can not say
anything before the trial, it is
fairly we'll known that Judge
Morse has long deplored the pres
ence in the county of these dives"
and has longed to see them closed.
Therefore, if the evidence that IS
presented in court tomorrow IS
conclusive enough, it is regarded
as highly probable that Judge
Morse will order the four places
padlocked.
The charges against the ten
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10

New York, Aug. 9.-U'1-TWo
confessed killers-one a hand
some, six-foot husky and the other
a spindly little man with a wax
ed moustache and a hawk nose
sat in adjoining cells at police jail
tonight and chatted about their
killings.
The big man was Arthur H
Chalmers, police lothario who has
admitted shooting his sweetheart
during a "peSting party on Har-
lem River speedway; and he was
doing what probably will be his
last police job-trying to wheedle
full confession from Lawrence
Marks, who strangled an eight
year-old girl ION an impulse"
Police already have Marks con-
fession to that killing, but they
want to know if he also murder
ed two other girls who were
strangled under similar circum-
stances in Brooklyn.
So they gave Chalmers a lasS
chance to give to society the SER
vice he swore to render when he
became a policeman, and tonight
he was carrying out the odd drama
in a dimly lighted cell block.
Chalmers will get little If any
reward for his work. When it is
finished, he will be stripped OF
police rank, discharged from the
department and will go to trial
on a charge of shooting 1rma
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Shanghai In Terror r
As Japan Lands
Bluejackets
Casualties 10000
Fighting Continues Around
Pciping; Thousands
Flee to Safety

Shanghai. Tuesday, Aug. 10,
QlP) The general war which
China and Japan have been
threatening for a month APP
parcnlly broke out today.
There were no formal dec
Iarotions of hoStiliticS b Il t
fighting had spread over so
much of the good earth" of
China that none denied it had
passed far beyond the bounds
Of a local incident.
Land in Shanghai
Japanese bluejackets- burning
10 avenge the death of their COM
rades shot down by Chinese-land-
ed under cover of darkness just
after midnight to reinforce the
permanent naval garrison here.
Terror gripped millions of Chi
neSe in the native city as the col
umn of bluejacketS, bayonetS fix
ed ard wearing steel combat he'll
NETS. moved briSkly through the
streets and took positions in the
Japanese area of the information
al settlement.
Around Peiping
Forces of the central Chinese
government and the Japanese reg
ular army we're engaged northwest
and southwest of Peiping and
south of TientSin while Japanese
naval de,achmentS faced Chinese
soldiers Of the peace preservation
corps at Shanghai, where a jap
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10

and take stock of our situation y
he added.
Senate Republicans, however,
privately frowned on the suggeS-
ton. Chairman John D. M. Ham
ilton of the Republican National
committee said he had heard OF
the above proposal but declined
comment. From other sources 1t
was learned that the former pres
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Flora Brothers at
Firemen's Meet

Chief Jerome B. Flora and his
brother, Howard, are representing
the local fire department at the
annual convention of the North
Carolina Firemen's Association in
Greensboro this week.
Officers for the coming year
will be elected tomorrow, which is
the final day of the convention,
and Chief Flora, who is now vice.
president of the association, is
slated to succeed to the presi-
dency.
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
Last Charging Mdiuani'
To Take Another Bride

least once before. That was when
he went to Hollywood and became
the first Mdivani to marry a
wealthy woman. He met Mae Muir
ray and cabled his father, Gener-
al Mdivani, of his intention to
marry her. The father was shock
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
LandOn And Hoover Will
Plan A Party: Comeback
Republican Leaders Reported to Have Arranged
Conference at Estate of LOwden; Some Party
Men Distrust Idea of Hoover Leadership

Washington 9UREXCo ALT M. Landon, titular head
Republican former President Herbert Hoover
reported the Ill., estate
strategy drives
he G. P
The daily independent., 1937-08-10
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR

A. M.
$3.50 Mems Christian Federation
P. M.
400 First Baptist intermediate
GA.
4:3O Albemarle YPU fish fry
at CartWright's Landing.
Sis First Baptist VIVA.
$50 Kiwanis Club.
800 Jr. o. U. A. M; Eureka
Lodge MasonS.
Library Hours: 2-6, TO.