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The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Three Firemen
Are Accepted
For Duty
These and One More
Will Make a Total of
Ten Paid Firemen

Three of the -four additional
paid firemen required OF Tia,
Elizabeth City Fire Company by
the Southeastern Underwriters
Association in order to avert a
rise in local fire insurance rates
were approved yesterday.
The three who have been ac-
cepted ar: Dennis Jones, George
Bailey and Ernest Sawyer. Jones
has been a member of the volun-
teer fire company for some time
and young Bailey, whose father
has been a volunteer fireman for
many years, has attended many
fires with the company. The
fourth new man will probably be
selected today.
These four, who will go on du-
ty July /, will bring the compile
ment of paid firemen in the local
fire company up to ten, the mum
ber of paid men required by the
insurance underwriters. At least
six Of these must be on duty at
all times.
Had the Fire Commission fail
ed to provide these additional
men, Elizabeth City'S fire insur-
ance rates would have taken a
squirt. The underwriters associa-
ton has been trying to get the
local fire department to take this
step for some time.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
TrucksNeeded
For r'Arny's'
Picnic
Envoy and Mrs. Cook
Expect 200 Children
at Davis Bay Outing

Envoy and Mrs. Charles Cooke
Of the local Salvation Army post
expect so many as 200 children of
the poor to vail themselves of the
Army's first picnic of the summer,
tomorrow.
The picnic will be at Davis Bay.
Our problem now is to find
enough trucks to transport the
kiddies to and from the picnic
grounds" said Envoy Cooke last
night.
The little picnickers will assem-
BILE at Fire Department headquar-
tiers at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. They will be provided with
sandwiches, pie and lemonade for
lunch. Boy Scouts will go along
to protect them in bathing and
otherwise help them in their play
activities.
The next Salvation Army pic
mic will be arranged for mothers
and small children.
This week the Salvation Army
tent was removed from the High
School grounds on Elizabeth St.,
to the old Kramer mill lot, corn
er of Sheppard St., and Southern
Ave.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

Washington, June %. U.P-The
federal government threatened to
iump down with both feet-and
the law-tonight on tho@e folKs
who try to sell whisky on the
ground that it's a :oothlng, cool
ing hot-weather drink.
That goes for gin. too, and all
ether high-powered beverages. W.
S. Alexander, who, as federal al
cohol administrator, knows al!
about the refrigerating properties
of alcohol on the human frame,
aid they don't exist except IN the
imaginations of liquor statesmen
To every distiller, rectifier and
importer of potent potables in the
land he penned a letter in which
he said it was his studied opinion
that they were breaking the law
ARTICLE vi. cec. 64-A-1 OF Regu-
lation No. 81 every time they ad-
vertised a swig of whisky or gin
or whatever as a good substitute
for an electric fan.
This kind of advertising, unless
checked, he caid may become
more pronounced" as the sum-
mer sun gets hotter and citizens
tongues begin to hang out ano
they're ready to lap up anything
which will bring relief.
If they drink whisky on the
recommendation of the producers
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Three Small Girls
Found MurderedM
The BuId1uin Hills
johnson Faction Asked To
Support Tax Raise
Rattlesnake Caught
Swimming In Ocean

Manteo, June 2S.-It is very
raI.e that one hears of a snake
swimming around in the ocean
in this section. and much rar-
er that a rattleSmake is found
swimming several miles out at
sea. Even so, this very thing
happened Sunday afternoon
off shore somewhere around
Oregon Inlet.
Leamon Nelson. of Williams
burg, Va, formerly of Wan
chese, while, out fishing Sun
day afternoon, caught a thir-
ty-inch rattlesnake about two
and half miles off shore. The
snake was so near gone that
it tried to climb on the back of
a blue fish that Nelson had
hooked and was pulling in and
so to hold itself up. 1t did not
succeed in this venture. How
ever, Nelson lassoed it and
pulled it into the boat alive,
putting it in a large jar in
which it is still Gagged.
1t is a local theory that the
snake is either from the ter
ritory around Manns HaI:bor
or Stumpy Point and that it
had crossed the sound SWIM
ming and was carried through
Oregon Inlet and out to sea by
the tide.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Li0uOr Not Substitute
For Electric Fan

thereof they're liable to feel hot
ter than ever. unless, of cour~e,
they take enough to lay 'em out
cold. AS Alexander put it.
1T is the administration opin-
ion that any advertisement which
creates the impression that the
di-tilled spirits advertised will
have a cooling or refreshing effect
upon the consumer is misleading" ="
He left the liquor men a good
out, though. When whisky is pour
ed over shaved ice in tall glass
in which mint leaves have been
cru-hed, the result is a mint julep.
When properly prepared, tn S
mixture gives off an aura of cool
ness, it surrounds the outside OF
it's glass with a coating of frost,
and it's mighty cooling when it
goes down.
Taking cognizanCe of this phe-
nomenon, Alexander authorized
the whisky men to advertise that
mint juleps hit the spot on hot
day, 60 long as they stress the
julep, complete with sprig of mint
and not the whisky which went
into it.
Alexander also exempted Tom
Collinses and other long, ice
drinks from his summertime ad-
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Conference OF
Officers
'OfC.G.
Commander Sullivan
Holds First Official
Conference In t h e
Seventh District

Twenty-four Coast Guard oftl-
GERS from such scattered points as
Cape Henry, Oak Island and Cape
Hatteras came here yesterday for
their first official conference with
Commander c. j. Sullivan, who
assumed command of the Seventh
district last Thursday.
Commander Sullivan's purpose
in calling the conference was to
explain to the officers of his dis
trict just what he expects of them
and to outline operations for the
next few weeks or months. Vari-
GUS problems of operations were
discussed.
Commander Sullivan gaid he
held such conferences monthly
when he was in the Sixth dis
trict, his last assignment before
coming here, but the geography
of the Seventh district would
make it unfeasible to follow the
came plan here. Instead of hav-
ing the officers come to head
quarters, he probably will have
to visit the beach, holding one
conference in the northern part
of the district, another in the
central portion, and a third in
the southern portion.
Yesterdays conference was at
tended by the following: Boats
vain H. N. Holmes of Cape Hen
ry; Bos'n. T. j. Barnes of Vir-
(Hoptipra6 or1 poon Throo)
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Harry Sample
Is Director
OF Probation
Hoey Also Appoints COM
mission to Study Prop.
erty Classification

Raleigh, June 28-U.H-J. Har-
ry Sample, Asheville attorney, to-
day was appointed full-time
director of the new state proba-
ton board composed Of parole
commissioner Edwin M. Gill, at
torney general A. A. F. Seawell,
superintendent of public instruct
ion Clyde Erwin. Superior court
Judge Wilson WarlicK, and Pro-
fessor j. S. Broadway of Duke
University Law school.
Sample, as head of the proba-
ton commission, will have charge
of a revised system Of handling
probation work in the state au-
thorized by the 1887 General As
.sembly, which created the proba-
ton commission and authorized a
So, ,60O-S4,500 annual salary for a
full time director. Samples SAL
ary was fixed by the commissiin
at S3,760.
The appointment: which be-
comes effective July IS, was ap-
proved by Gov. Clyde R. Hoey.
Continued on Fage Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

| S Plea a
OF Irwin
Murderer of Thrc e
COnfers With
Aiienist

New York, June 28.-U.P- Rob-
cr> Irwin, bored and apparently
indifferent TO his fate, sta,ked
through police lineup and swift
arraignment today as the state
prepared to rush him to trial for
the bizarre Easter Sunday mur-
ders on Beekman Hill.
The 29-year- old sculptor, who
confessed numbering Veronica
Gedeon. beautiful artists model,
her mother and a lodger at the
Gedeon apartment. while he wait
cd for Miss Gedeon's sister to come
home early last Easter morning, is
expected to plead insanity.
He has been an inmate of an
insane asylum twice, and every
move today by Irwin and his de-
fense lawyer was calculated to fur
ther the theory that he was insane
when he throttled Mrs. Mary Ged-
con, beat and strangled her
daughter and then stabbed Frank
Byrnes, the lodger, IL times with
an ice pick.
An hour after Irwin arrived
from Chicago in custody of two
New York detectives, he requested
the presence of an alienist, DR..
Frederick Wertham of Bellevue
hos pital. who once treated him.
District Attorney William c.
Dodge brushed aside for the mo-
ment the question of Irwin's SAN
ity, and said he would present the
case to the grand jury tomorrow
and ask for three murder indict-
mentS.
However, he sent his staff psy-
chiatrist, DR.. Perry LichtenStein,
down to the tombs, where Irwin
was taken after his arraignment,
to question the accused sculptor.
The state will contend that
while Irwin may have been insane
carrier in his life, or even at the
time of the killings. he was not
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The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Police Department
Praised for It's
Traffic Work

High praise for the local police
force in it's handling of traffic is
contained in a letter received yes
terday by Chief Raymond Madrin
from o. NJ. Woodhouse, captain OF
police for the Southern Railway
at Greensboro. While attending
the funeral of Mrs. Mary E. True
blood, his wife's mother, here,
Captain Woodhouse said that ne
was much impressed by the way
in which traffic was handled at
the funeral.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Russian Executions NOW
Reach Total Of l3z

charged that V. I. Bronsteln,
former head of the port of Lenin-
grad, and N. v. TroflmoV, former
port captain, wrecked 16 ships in
the spring of 1885 by admitting
them to the harbor before ice con-
ditions warranted.
This action, the newspaper said,
revealed the two men as "Trotsky-
ist bandits" and they were found
to have acted under orders of the
Leningrad consulate of a certain
foreign government"
Bronstein, it was said, boasted
of being a relative of the eXiled
Leon Trotsky. Trotsky'S parents
were named Bronstein.
Captain Lonov of the Soviet
ship Kosarev was revealed to have
been discharged for fraternizing
with Spanish Fascists while his
ship was detained at the rebel
port Of Ceuta.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

Moscow, June 28.-(UH-Thir-
ty-seven additional persons con-
victed of participation in an al
legged "Trotskyist- japanese" plot
to wreck Russia's far eastern rail-
road have been executed by firing
squads, bringing the total to l3l'
it was revealed tonight.
The new executions were de-
scribed in the June 20 issue OF
the Pacific Ocean Star published
in KhabarovSk.
Most of the trials were held in
Khabaravsk before a secret mill
tary tribunal of the Soviet su-
preme court.
The Pacific Ocean Stars ac-
count of the trials, carried on the
back page, ended laconically with
the statement, "all sentences were
carried out"
The newspaper Water Transit
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
French Stock
Market Closed
In Emergency
To Prevent Uncontrolled
Speculation During
Financial Crisis

Paris, Tuesday, June 29.-U.R)
Suspension of gold and foreign
exchange payments for CONNER
cial bills and closing of the Sc
curity and commodity bourses
were decreed today by finance
minister Georges Bonnet as the
government of premier Camille
Chautemps prepared to ask par
lament for board powers to cope
with Frances financial situation
The bourses will be closed until
further notice.
The decree was presumed to be
aimed at preventing uncontrolled
speculation when the new finan-
cial measures of the recently in
stalled Chautemps government
are announced in parliament.
The decree read in part:
Article l. Payment Of COM
mere al bills and other CONNER
cial engagements in gold or
foreign currencies becoming due
beginning June 20, 1887 can be
postponed on the written demand
of the debtor. The date Whereup-
on payment can be demanded will
be fixed by decision of the minis
ter of finance.
Article 2. Protest may not be
made before a date fixed by the
decision foreseen in the previous
art Gle concerning commercial
(COntinued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Police Broadcast De-
scription of Def.
mite Suspect
Attacked ,Strangled
Rumor Of Criminals Ar.
rest Raises HOwling Mob
of 200 Persons

Inglewood, Calf, June 28.-UD
Discovery of the ravished and
strangled bodies of three small
girls touched off a statewide
hunt tonight for the man who
lured them into the desolate Bald
win Hills last Saturday.
Police said the No. l suspect was
Othel Leroy Strong of Pasadena.
His photograph was identified by
an elder sister of the victims and
by neighborhood mothers and a
park official as that of the man
last seen with the slain children.
Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wagner
reported that a preliminary ex-
animation showed that the VIC
tims-Melba Everett. 8; her sis
ter, Madeline, 7, and Jeannette
Stephens, g. had been criminally
attacked and then strangled.
Previous Offender
Police were led to suspect Strong
because of a previous arrest on
a morals charge.
On July Is, 1886, he was held
after Mrs. Esther Arthur filed
rape charges against him in con-
nection with an alleged attack
upon her l4-year-old daughter.
Jane. He was released on proba-
tion.
Police Chief Oscar E. Campbell
said Haskell Wright, recreation
director of the playground in Gin
tinella Park where the children
played Saturday, was the latest to
identify a police photograph of
Strong as the man he saw talking
to the girls shortly before they
disappeared.
Photograph Identified
Earlier, Olive Everett, l1-year-
old sister of the two murdered
girls, picked Strong's photograph
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
hed { 0ttOn Bloom
Il D DDeurS At
Beiridere

=. "....''"". June %. CSpeciaD
., / saith prominent planter
-'.'. place, found a red cotton
r.. ". B" MS field this morning.
s,,.a. s...'.'a. tor red bloom to be
r.. '''' 'eiorc the fourth of July.
~. '''m was four days old
e,o .'', blossoms are white the
n, ,..'' . cay after the break, pink
m . I've .A'rd day. changing to red
.a.. .''' fourth day. Mr.. Smith be-
.o.. ... early bloom augurs a
-...1 JrCp this year.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
But Violence Contin-
ucs Along Pick
ct Lines
On Other Fronts
Indiana Truce Is Extended
for 2i Hours I'm Hope
Of Il Settlement

,rorns,owu. Pa. June 2S.-U'p-
po,r,cnrm S.eel Corp. tonight
announced that its strike-harassed
Cambria plant is "on normal
,Dsrarng basis" Thousands of
rorEers wen, through picket lines
today.
reinforced by 200 coal miners
and railroad men. piCkets beat two
mer. and a group of Negroes
,1reatcned by strikers was es-
,orred back to safety by state
,-covers. Windows in a score Of
rorEers' automobiles were smash
ed.
Production is going forward as
actively as before the strike" a
ssremcu. issued by Bethlehem
said
Strike Is Still On
BIZ, Committee for Industrial
ORGANIZATION leaders asserted that
the strike IS still on" and will
continue until the company is
forced TO sign a union contract.
De plte the tenSeneSs OF the
picket lines. 5000 workers are eS-
rmated to have returned to their
obs this morning and 5000 went
II The mills late today for another
shift. The Cambria works nor
maIy employs $4,000 men on the
three shifts.
James Francis Dewey. U. S. de-
partment of labor conciliator, ar
rived to confer with CIO leaders,
who called the strike June II. He
declined TO explain the nature of
the conferences.
Miners in the picket lines were
from the Bethlehem captive"
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The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Raleigh BO0tleggers
Having a Hard Time

Raleigh, June 28.-fU.D-Capi-
tai city bootleggers- what's left
of them-cast a weather eye about
today and awaited the worst.
Meantime, police, who have
warred relentlessly on the illicit
sellers since the county and city
voted to set up liquor stores last
week, looked about for new
Joints" to raid.
Twenty places were raided yes
terday, five arrests made and sew
eral gallons of whisky confiscated.
In all, some so places have been
closed, while police promise no
let-up until the last place has
been wiped out.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

Italy and Germany, still angry
over refusal of France and Great
Britain to take punitive measures
against the Spanish Loyalists for
an alleged submarine attack on
the Nazi cruiser Leipzig, threat
ened to split the international
non intervention committee, wide
open tomorrow.
The United Press was inform
ed semi-officially in Berlin that
the Nazi-Fascist dictatols, Adolf
Hitler and Benito MuSsol nj,
would oppose a Franco-British
plan to fill the gap left in the
four-power neutrality patro Of
Spanish seacoastS by withdrawal
Of Italian and German warships.
A neutrality patrol by only
French and British warships, it
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Aycock Calls for Unit
ed Front In Asking
New School Budget

Currituck, June 28.-"T The
school budget which is to be sub
mitted to the board of county
commissioners of Currituck Coun-
ty on Monday, July S, is going to
necessitate an increase in taxes,
and I publicly call upon those res
ronsibie for the present situation
in Currituck County to support
this increase" declared Superin-
tendent Frank Aycock today.
"Currituck has been most fort
unate in recent years with respect
to the operation of it's schools, "
Aycock continued. This county,
due to the generosity of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph P. Knapp, has en-
joyed benefits other rural school
systems have not enjoyed, yet
Currituck taxpayers have not had
to pay as much for the operation
of their schools as other North
Carolina counties of similar size.
Mr.. Knapp has, in reality,
been assuming a portion of Cur
rituck's taxes, relieving Currituck
taxpayers of an obligation which
taxpayers in other counties have
had to assume. But such will not
be the case next year. Knapp aid
has been lest to the Currituck
schools and if we are maintain
decent standard in our schools
the county commissioners must
come through with more money
than they have been appropriat-
ing in recent year.
Mr.. Knapp has been contri-
buting something like $4,000 a
(T0ptip,IpS IN pooo TT1oreei
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
TRAIL ESCAPED CONVICTS

BurgaW, N. c., June 28.-(U,H-
Bloodhounds early today took up
the trail of eight Convicts who
made a daring break from the
prison camp here yesterday.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

was charged, would work to the
benefit of the Loyalists, to whose
defeat Mussol:ni and Hitler have
committed themselves.
The British government, serv-
ing an ultimatum that tomorroW'S
meeting of the non-intervention
committee will be last chance"
(Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
Europe Faces Ne1U Crisis
As NOn-InteruentiOn Pact
Nears A Collapse
Italy and Germany Are Expected to Wreck
Efforts of Committee In TOday's
Session at London

London June of 27 nations to establish sani-
ary Gordon around Spans civil and from touching
off Euope complete collapse tonight the 23d
anniversary of the Saaevo brought the World
The daily independent., 1937-06-29
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR

a. M.
$50 Mems Christian Federation
P. M.
$50 Kiwanis club meets at
Virginia Dare to 60 to
Shawboro for specla |
meeting
1880 Blackwell Memorial WINS
circles
300 First Methodist stewards;
Albemarle Young peoples
union at First Methodist;
Blackwell Memorial w.
M. S.; Jr. o. U. A. NJ;
Eureka Lodge Masons.
Library Hours: 26, 7-9.
The daily independent., 1937-06-29

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Evening star., 1937-09-16
VIEWS HIS REDSKINS
AS AID TO COLLEGES
Will Have Same Effect Big-Time
Base Ball Had on Sandlots,
Declares Marshall.

r EAssURING those who feared
professional foot ball might hurt
the college game here, George Mar
shall, owner of the Redskins, stated
last night that "the presence Of the
Redskins In the District, instead of
cutting into the colleges would result
IN greater attendance at all COL
lege games"
His remarks were made when he
rose to respond to a sumptuous ban
ouet given In his honor by Julius
1ulley, president of Harvey's, and at
tended by leaders in all walks OF life.
The presence of the Redskins will
have the same effect on local COL
leges as the coming of big league base
ball had on the sandlots." he said.
A hearty welcome was rendered by
Frank Dobson. head coach at Mary
land, who said the colleges looked
upon the advent of professional foot
ball with favor.
Lawrence J. Chip Robert. former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and one-time gridder from Georgia
Tech, was POSTMASTER.
Among those dined and wined by
Lulley were Postmaster General
James A. Farley. District Commits
sioner Daniel Sultan, Leslie w Gar
nett, Clark Griffith, Walter johnson
Bucky Harris and Dutch Bergman.
Evening star., 1937-09-16
VALLEE PRESENTS
ENGLISH PLAYLET
Maurice Evans, British
Actor, Is GueSt-Borah
Speaks Tonight.
TODAY'S PROGRAM

n r AURICE EVANS, brilliant
Nu young English actor, is the
V dramatic headliner on Rudy
1 Vallee's variety program to-
night. heard over WRC at o'clock.
His contribution will "Embers," a play
let written for presentation over sta
tions Of the British Broadcasting Co.
The news personality of the week, to
be interviewed by Vallee, is Helen
Stansbury. the first woman to be in
trusted with an executive post in an
airline company.
Other performers to be heard are
Willie Howard, dialect comedian of
stage and screen; the Stroud Twins,
billed as a comedy team, and Tommy
Riggs, whose frequent appearances
with his second voice, Betty Lou"
mark him as another recipient of
Rudys effective "build-up."
nR. FRANK BLACK will conduct
hslf-hour concert of the compost
tions of Arthur Schwartz, composer
of hit tunes for many stage SUCCESSES
WMAL at 7:30.
THE first contest to be participated
in by the Redskins, Washington's
pro" football team. will be aired by
VOL, beginning at BIS. The New
York Giants are the opponents.
CLENDA FARRELL and Francis
Lederer, screen players, and
Dalies Franz, pianist, are the guests
OF Bob Burns in the Music Hall
WRC at 8.
AN ANNUAL celebration held by
fishermen at Luneberg. Nova
Scotia. is to be broadcast by WMAL
at o'clock.
CENATOR WILLIAM F. BORAH
speaks on the Constitution over
WMAL at 9 O'Clock.
DOB STEVENS. tenor, and the
Southern Harmony Four are to
face a microphone as the guests of
Capt Henry-WRC at 8.
THE story OF Hagerstown woman
who nuYsedthe wounded late JUS
tace Oliver Wendell HOLMES y to b
Evening star., 1937-09-16
BOWLING SEASON
GAINS MOMENTUM
One League Opens Tonight,
Two Tom0rroW-C0untry
Club Loop Meets.
OWLING picks up a little m

~ OWLING picks up little more
- speed within the next two
days, with one league set to
- open tonight and two tomor-
row night. A fourth will hold its or
ganization meeting tomorrow.
A new loop, organized by employees
OF the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
Is the one getting under way tonight
at the Recreation Alleys James A.
McDonough has been elected presi-
dent Of the loop, Ellery Colvin treas
urer and John Kolarick official scorer.
There are six mems teams and four
women's teams.
Tomorrow night both the National
Federation OF Federal Employees and
the Clyde Kelly Glass Of Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church will send their
pinmen into action. The Federation
will roll at Convention Hall, while
Clyde Kelly again will use the Be-
thesda alleys. H. G. Nolda is president
of the former, with A. D. Fewell AS
vice president and A. D. Sartwell and
E. T. Collins treasurer and secretary,
respectively.