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The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Trans Atlantic Clippers
Blaze Trail Over Ocean
Trip In Both Direc-
tons Made Simul-
taneously by Eng
lish and American
Fliers.

New York, Tuesday, July 6.--(U,P)
Two commercial flying boats were
believed to have passed each 9TH
er late last night on trail-blaZing
flights acrosJ the Atlantic pre-
liminary 10 regular passenger
service between the United States
and Europe.
The Pan-American Clipper III
and the British imperial flying
boat Caledonia were estimated by
officials of Pan-American AirWayS
to have passed each other at 11:06
p. m. (EDT) on their 1,994-mile
dash to the two continents.
The American ship was enroute
from Botwood Harbor. in New
Foundland, for Foynes, Ireland,
and the Caledonia was flying
from the latter point to BotWood.
Pan-American reported that at
the time the hips passed each
other the Caledonia was l.043
miles out from Ireland and the
Clipper III 952 miles out from
Botwood. The American ship was
81 miles north of the British boat.
The Clipper III was flying at
an altitude of 1000 feet and was
,(Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
School Budget Is Rejected
By Cu1rituck Board
McClannon Disap-
proves o f AycOck's
Admitted ''Padding'
of Budget

Crrituck, July 5.-Upon mo-
ton of Chairman w. B. McClan-
non, the Board of Commissioners
of Currituck County this after
noon refused to adopt the 1887
38 school budget submitted by
Superintendent Frank Aycock and
suggested certain changes in the
budget.
This action seemed to surprise
Superintendent Aycock, who said
he would re-Work the budget and
submit it to the board again next
Monday afternoon. The budget
had been officially approved only
a few hours before by the board
of education.
1t had been thought that the
new budget would show a size
able increase over that of the
1936-37 fiscal year because of the
loss of the outside support from
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph P. Knapp,
but it actually was pretty much in
line with the old budget. 1t called
for expenditures of around $4,000,
against the 1867 budget of $6,-
1877. And the approximate $500
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06

Honolulu, July 5.-U,A-Three
vessels, proceeding at full speed.
converged on a point in the Paci-
fic 281 miles north of Rowland
Island late today with renewed
hope of finding Amelia Earhart
and Capt. Fred Noonan.
Faint radio signals from the lost
airplane of the fliers, in which
they came down last Friday either
on the sea or on a reef, gave the
position toward which the Coast
Guard Itasca, the U. S. S. Swan
and the British Freighter Moorby
were speeding.
The Moorby reported she was
1875 miles away at $50 p. m. EDT.
The MineSweeper Swan was about
the same distance away.
Hope for Answer
Smoke poured from the Itascas
tunnels as she drove toward the
pinpoint area. The SNAKE was q
signal when men on the vessel
hoped would be answered by the
bright orange kite the fliers car
ried. Failing in that test and in
efforts to contact the missing ad-
venturers by radio, the Itasca Of
ficers planned to discharge rock
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The daily independent., 1937-07-06
journalistic High-Spots
Of Year Recognized

the U. P. learned from an inside
source of the monarch's irrevo-
cable decision. His dispatch was
more than SO hours ahead of all
rivals.
Formal presentation Of the an
nual awards will be made at the
third annual frolic of the Nation
al Headliners club here Saturday
night. Several of the stories which
were cited for excellence will be
dramatized over the network OF
the Columbia Broadcasting sys-
tenn beginning at $50 p. m. EDIT.
The citations Of the awards
committee were made after con-
sidering nominations submitted
by newspapers, magazines, press
associations and radio stations
throughout the country. They
cover practically all of the big
news stories of the past year.
Other awards follows:
For the best series of dispatches
on a subject of general interest:
Paul Y. Anderson, Washington
correspondent of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch for the coverage OF
hearings before the LaFollette
civil liberties committee.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
observation-disclosures Staged
Three Times A Week

conduct exercises at Old Fort
Raleigh.
As the celebration reaches its
height during August it is eX-
pected that the thousands who
visit Roanoke Island will make
it necessary to present the
pageant-drama nightly.
The Chapel Hill playwright
was enthusiastic a. the recep-
ton his premier performance
of The Lost Colony pageant
drama received la~U night from
the throng in the amphitheatre
that braved threatening skies
to see all of the II scenes. He
plans to return to Roanoke ISL
and within about a week and
will be a frequent Vi-itor here
while the 63-day celebration is
in progress.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
WOuldRenlOve
Negroes
Currituck Board Asks
for Removal of Coin
jock WPA Camp

Currituck, July 5.-The Curri-
tuck County board of commission
ers did not mince words today in
denouncing the WPA floating
transient unit at Coinjock as "a
public nuisance" that has lately
become "intolerable."
After the commissioners had
adopted a resolution calling upon
Congressman Lindsay c. Warren
to take steps to have the floating
camp unit removed from Currituck
county, Messrs. A. c. Stratton and
H. E. WeatherWaX, representatives
of the National Park Service,
stated verbally that they would
make an effort to move the camp
as quickly as possible.
The Coinjock camp, which was
established a little over a year
ago, quarters around 200 Negro
transients, who have been en-
gagged in cutting underbrush with
which to make sand fences for use
in the Beach Erosion Control work
on the Dare county coast.
Currituck residents, and partic-
ularly those living in and near
Coinjock, have complained loudly
of the carousing of these men. 1T
is a very bad thing to dump
around 200 Negroes into a white
community" said one county Off
cial. There are bound to be good
many potential trouble-makers in
a group of that many Negroes ga
thered up from all parts of the
country. Furthermore, their very
presence is a demoralizing influ-
ence in the community"
The county commissioners reso-
luton today was but a follow-up
of a somewhat similar resolution
sent to Congressman Warren last
month along with a petition car
rying the signatures of several
hundred Currituck residents ask
ing for the removal of the Negro
transients from Currituck county.
Mesrs. Stratton and Weather
wax gave no inkling as to what the
Park Service and the WPA would
do with their unwanted Negro
tranSientS.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
County Board Meets
Today, Council
Tomorrow

Regular monthly meetings o:
the city council and the board OF
county commissioner were omit
ted yesterday because Of the holi-
day. The commissioners will meet
this morning at ten o'clock, while
the council has postponed its
meeting until Wednesday night.
The commissioners are antici-
pating a busy session, with the
Social Security budget scheduled
as the major business of the day.
Monthly meetings of both bod
les are supposed to be held on the
first Monday, but with so many
planning to leave town for the
Fourth of July holiday, it was de-
cided to postpone both meetings.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Nags Head Has
Very Busy
Best Weekend In Re-
sorts History Ended
Last Night

Nags Head, July 5.-Nags Head
innkeepers, grocers, service sta
ton proprietors and dance hall
managers checked their cash re-
gisters tonight and confirmed
what they already had surm!Sed-
that today, yesterday and Satur-
day had been the best week end
in the history o. this reSorS.
AS a matter Of fact, business
here was too good this week end,
if such a thing be pCSsible-too
good because there was more OF it
than could be given proper at
tention and service.
BY Saturday morning every
hotel and boarding house on the
beach was filled or had reServa-
tions sufficient to keep it filled
over the week end. Literally scores
of visitors, chiefly Virginia and
upstate, who came here Satur-
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06

Manteo. July 5. Author
playwright Paul Green was very
anxious before leaving here for
his home at Chapel Hill today
that the general public know
that his Lost Colony pageant
drama is 10 be tagged three
nights each week during the
month Of July, that is, on FIJI
day, Saturday and Sunday
nights. Performances begin on
these nights in the big Fl. Ra-
leigh amphitheatre promptly at
8:15, he pointed out.
In addition to this attention
was also called to the fact that
the pageant-drama will also be
staged on all special days al
lotted during July and August
to various religious, civic and
patriotic organizations who will
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Summary OF
1887 Spud
Season
Tells a Story of IN
creased Acreage and
Depressed Prices

Lower prices and heavier ship
mentS characterized the 1887
marketing of early Irish potatoes
in North Carolina, according to a
brief summary of the season pre-
pared by the Federal-State Mar
ket News Service of Washington.
N. c.
This summary, released over
the week end, tells the following
sad story of the 1887 potato sea-
son in this State:
The potato acreage in North
Carolina this season was eStimat-
ed at $4,000 acres compared with
an estimated acreage of $1,000
acres harvested in 1886 and a
five year average of $4,000 acres.
Weather conditions until the mid
die of May wore generally favor
able for the development of a
good crop. While midway pros
poets indicated heavy yields, dry
weather during the last two
weeks of the month injured the
crop in many localities, and yields
were lighter than had been eX-
pected. The 1887 crop was eSti-
mated by the Bureau of Agricul-
tuTal Economics at 6,235,000
bushels or slightly more than
twice the crop Of 100000 BUSH
els produced in 1886 and about
one-third larger than the five
year average crop of 4,529,0OO
bushels.
THE shipping season started
nearly a week later than in 1886.
Although the first cars moved on
May 81, very few cars were ship
ped until after June l. Ship
ments during the week ending
June 5 amounted to 575 cars.
Shipments during the following
week increased sharply to 1852
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
hH-G5eth Citizens
9peRt a Safe and
Sane Fourth

'-.-.~35.. City. which took on
o. ,..- a'.,.n. o. q Deserted Village"
-.',,.,8: ,.,. and yesterday, began to
....' .--s- Ike its usual self last
,,'-.,. as hundreds of it's residents
-.' ~--.@a = from the beaches and
r -...s- points following a carefree
'..~." o, July Weekend.
1..sa unfortunate enough to
-. -,.5 10 STAY in town over the
....' ,..~-v"a and those who had no
-,.''2a,.on .. to leave town reported
Tr,.- =, ~. usually quiet Sunday and
, 1'en 4's the police department had
,,..'. =, ~.',. Weekend, with approx
,-. ,a.s.E The usual roundup of
,Ss ,S,S"-eAc drunks but no more
nan usual.
,,.. i majority Of those who left
Wv, y.@o Tor The Weekend went to
oas ~71 mead. but Virginia Beach.
rr.' -a', 'ts" and other points beck
@.~ ,',.~ -, some. A good many went
r...~ r..,.' d. Point Harbor. Roanoke
<.~ .,-',- ana Oregon Inlet yester-
Va. ard Sunday.
do '',.a~ and sunburn in varying
NJ "erc acquired by dozens
r..t- y tI.zaoe.H Citizens over the
,.-.. ",aemarle Hospital last
60. ,a2o.,ed that no accident
ssr,.. 49, ., any description had been
-. 20 1"eg the weekend.
s,s. d 4" nea. was broken by
gs.... showers Sunday and
F.. Nous" was a safe and sane
u. July here.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
TlUO Drunken Drivers
Arrested In Holidays

Two arrests for drunken driving
were made over the holiday week
end by State Patrolman Louis
Lane.
Claud j. Banks, Culpepper street
Negro was taken into custody on
Monday afternoon while, with
him, was arrested Ted Ralph,
white, on a simple drunk charge.
Dennis Peveto of Norfolk, Navy
man, was taken into custody on a
drunken driving charge Sunday
afternoon.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06

Bill
In Senate
Explosive Issue Is at
Last Up for De-
bate Today
In Modified Form
Filibus.er May BE Resorted
to by Opponents of
the Measure
In Modified Form

Washing on, July 5. -tU,P)-
The siX-monthS old 18TH congress
was ready tonight to relinquish its
do no hing record and begin
flOcr consideration tomorrow of its
most explosive issue when the Su-
pGene court enlargement bill is
called from the senate calendar.
Debate will begin on bill con-
Sidtrab.y modified from the form
in which President Roosevelt sent
his request to congress exactly
five months ago today with spe-
cial message asserting the need
for prompt action. III its cOmpro-
mise form the measure would en-
able appointment OF three new
justices within six months and
prevent the president from enlarg-
ing the court to more than l3
members during his second term.
The original bill would have per-
mittcd appointment of six new
justices 80 days after enactment
if no sitting justice over 10 were
to retire.
Substitute Measure
Administration forces plan to
move substitution Of the compro
mise measure. introduced by Sen.
Marvel Mills Logan, D., KY, as
soon as the original bill, sponsor
ed by Judiciary Chairman Henry
Fountain AShrrSt. D.. Ariz., is
called up. Sen Burton K. Wheel
er. head of the anti-court bill
steering committee Of seven Dem
ocrats. said last week he would not
oppose this move, even though the
administration claims 81 votes -
more than the necessary majority
for the compromise measure.
Wheeler'S attitude seemed to in
dicate some difference of opinion
among opponents as to the best
strategy. Wheeler denied any in
tention to filibuSter in order to
defeat the bill, although Sen. Ed
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
PAUL Green, the Play
wright, Leaves Att
er the Fremlere
Visitors Rave
p,s,,nl.Branla Thrills and
Inspires: Was SMOOTH
cr Last Night

,r,r-,a. Satisfied after
ING the premiere last night
\: Nj, D9gesn.-drama. The Lost
.r,,orv Pau. Green, noted play
rras- ,c.i here today TO attend
.r.s,,rr business matters in
rs:4s. HI. and New York.
The drama went off without a
>.--, rs, night. but had Play
~-g.- Green remained thru to-
--. h. would have seen an ev-
N smother performance, for to-
-,..-s Y.e,entation Of the drama
~qs even more smooth than that
|. rs. night.
= required some over two hours
% v,n the pageant off last night.
~- ,,r.g.c :, was all over in
35yw and hour and 40 minutes,
.3m.sss.y and smoothly.
-o..snls crowd OF some 500 or
more people was slim il compari-
s2 70 the 1000 or more who saw
Il. rigea.- .&st night. but the
-c~5 r.as c@U2 y as enthusiastic
q, -. ~S--nigacarS. Naught but
7.a.se could be heard on every
aa.G-rya.Se for Paul Green's
gc,--aEc. stirring drama-praise
:1- the splendid directing and the
32e ac..cc-p-aise for the beautt-
u. organ ana choral music
praise 70. The unique and lovely
|,.ecs. s.de Theatre and praise for
d, m3gC,1cenC lighting effects.
Tie n9re. but effective manner
" which vay.OUS scenes were pre-
e~.eG cu different stages thru
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Holiday Death Toll
Nears The 5OONark
But Is Far Below Elk
pectatiOns of the
Safety Council

The nations death toll from Gel
ebrating a Fourth Of July week.
end mounted toward 500 Monday
night.
As thousands returned horne
ward by automobile. train and air
plane. croWGing traffic facilities
to the utmost. the death list Of
the three-day Independence holi-
day reached & total OF Ais. OF
these. 226 died in traffic crashes,
90 drowned. and SO met violent
death from miscellaneous causes,
including fireworks.
It appeared the nation was eX-
periencing its safest and Sanest
three-day holiday. The death toll
was far below the national safely
councils forecast Of 500 traffic
deaths and 500 drownings based
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Pin Games In
Dare Still
Going
Surprise to Visitors;
Illegal Machines Are
Kept Busy at Resort

Nags Head, July 5.-Visltors
from upstate who spent the week
end here expressed great surprise
over finding pin games still in op-
Grafton in Dare County.
I've been thru over 40 counties
in North Carolina since July 1st
and haven't seen a pin game IN
any but this county" said one
man from Charlotte.
why, I thought it was illegal
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Killer Caught
At Funeral OF
His Victims S
Relief Worker Babbles {
Confession Of killing
Three Children

Los Angeles, July 5. -U.R)-The
state tonight r?Grshallcd a corps
of psychiatriStS who doomed Rob-
ert S. James, 'rattlesnake' wife
killer; to the gal!ows, to forestall
an insanity defense by Dyer,
shrivelled, 32-year- old WPA work.
er who confessed strangling three
tiny girls on Baldwin Hills last
Saturday.
The slender killer. trapped by
morbid curiosity when he attend
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
C'lardOpening
/ More Steel
Plants Today
Guard>mcn Are Mobilized
10 i'rO:c"i y 0rkers I'm
Cleveland Area

C,g"e.aGd July ). UP Ma
~.1a, GUa-CSmen. police and
.---.1. deputies totaling almost
>.Iy men modified tonight to
guarantee that non-strikers may
4. ..,,@ peacefully 10 their jobs and
.,.a- s,..ier5 may picket on the
-,-.e.a1c S,ee. strike front.
S.a. ~Gge mills of the Republic
.. .-g. Corp IN this area will swing
..~- .-e.- ga.eS a. 7 a. m. Tues
~"E -, men who desire to go back
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-06
Amelia Earhart a n d
Navigator Are Be-
lieved AfOat
Three Ships Near
Itasca May Be the First to
Reach Spot 28l Miles
From Island Coal

San Francisco, July 5.-U.P)-
The U. s. Itasca, Coast Guard
cutter searching for Amelia
Earhart and her navigator, ad-
vised Coast Guard headquarters
here shortly before $50 (PST)
1:30 a. m. Tuesday EDIT to.
night that she was "very close
to the spot IN the mid-Pacific
where the missing flers reported
their position.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06

THE Rev. O. N. Marshall, former
pastor of the Sawyer's Creek,
Shawboro and Moyock Baptist
churches. suffered stroke in
Rocky Mount Saturday and is re-
ported to be in a critical condi-
ton, his right side being para
lyzed. The stroke followed a series
of mild but similar attacks over a
period of leveral days last week.
Rev. Marshall, who is 60 years
old. was in the Camden-Currltuck
field for five years and is we'll
known throughout this section.
He has been pastor of Arlington
Street Baptist church in Rocky
Mount for the past three years.
His son. John Marshall, of The
Daily Independent advertising
staff. is at his bedside.
The daily independent., 1937-07-06

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The daily independent., 1937-07-06
THE WEATHER

.rdv. possibly local showers in
"a; .i,r and extreme south por-
2Zs ''> >.,....sfav: Wednesday generally
-e" fair.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
RECITAL AT THE TOME SCHOOL
FOR BOYS

The second of series or recitals
arranged by Elizabeth Rowland
Davis, pianist of Baltimore, will be
held in Memorial Hall, Tome School
for Boys on Friday evening, January
22nd, at 500 o'clock. Rita May
Baker 'cellist and Margaret Nc
Dowell, Contralto, will appear on the
program with Mrs. Davis. Miss
Baker is a member of the faculty of
the Peabody Preparatory School and
is we'll known as a soloist in the radio
and concert field. Miss Mcdowell is
soloist at the Brown Memorial Pres
byterian Church. Mrs. Davis has ap-
peared ON many programs of the Bal
timore Music Club as well as the
Maryland Federation of Music Clubs
of which she holds the Office of Sec
ond Vice-President. The first re-
cital of this series was given at the
school on Friday evening, December
4th, 1886 before a large and appre-
ciative audience. The program was
received with enthusiasm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
ATTENDANCE IN CECIL COUNTY
SCHOOLS

Attendance officer Edwin H.
Barnes reports the following attend
ance averages in the various public
schools of Cecil county for the month
of December 1896:
One Teacher Schools - Pierce's
Neck 80, Pilot SO, New Valley, Fair
Hill and Fingerboard 81, Principle
SO, Blake, Chapel and Harris 95,
Charlestown, Pleasant Hill and Zion
"a, Jackson and Liberty Grove 90.
Manor 81, New Bridge and Union 80,
Jefferson, Wesley, Johnson and Oak
wood 80, Town Point 3S, Cherry
Grove and Earleville 81, Rowland
vile So, Warwick IS, Ponds Neck
SO.
Two Teacher Schools-Providence
81, Colora 90, Cherry Hill and Elk
Mills "a, Perry Point 80, Leeds 80.
Graded acknowledgements City
SO, Calvert 90, Rising Sun and Per-
ryville SO, Cecilton 88, North East
81.
High Embellishments "a, North
East and Perryville SO, Rising Sun,
Calvert and Elkton go, Chesapeake
City 81, Cecilton 88.
Colored Schools-Elkton 95, vii.
son "a, Port Deposit and Manor SO,
Conowingo 90, Cecilton 81, Cedar
Hill 83, Cokesbury 81, North East
70, Chesapeake City Is.
Elkton Colored High School IS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED

Union Lodge, A. F. G A. NJ, of
Elkton, has elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Wor-
shipful Master, J. H. McCloskey;
Senior Warden, Harold N. Anderson !;
Junior Warden, Poague R. Paxton;
Secretary, William T. Vinsinger;
Treasurer, Robert J. McCauley.
The new officers elected by the
Elkton Kiwanias Club are: c. A.
Ringgold, President; Edwin s. Dor
Gus, Vice President; H. c. McClin-
took, Secretary; Henry R. Shank.
Treasurer, and Harold T. Perkins,
Immediate Past President. The fol-
lowing will serve with the above Of
ficers as a board of directors: c. Ellis
Deibert, John H. Purcell, Horace B.
Lilley, G. Reynolds Ash and Clarence
Kirk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Personal And Social

Carlton B. Nichols has secured q
position as book-keeper for Wilm-
ington contracting firm.
David Cullen, John Tyson and Jay
Emrey enjoyed an auto trip to points
in Florida during the holidays.
Mrs. Ada Burlington has been en-
joying a visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Donald Dudley, Washington,
D. G.
Elizabeth L. Hall has secured q
position with the New England Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, of
Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. Louise Shook, Miss Edith
White, Wilmington, Del: Miss Mir
lam White, St. Michaels, were recent
guests of Rev. Frank White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Crooks, and
children, Fredericksburg, Va, were
guests Sunday, and Mrs. Annie r.
Marshall and the Misses Reynolds.
DR.. and Mrs. William M. Workman
and two daughters, Adelaide and
Marian, Mount Joy, Pa, were Sunday
visitors of Mrs. Mary w. Cherry and
sister, Miss Louise M. Warrington.
The Society of the War of 1912
held it's annual Jackson Day Dinner
at the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, on
Friday evening, Jan. 8, the anniver-
sary of the Battle of New Orleans.
J. E. Brumfeld, of this town, was
among the members of the Society
to enjoy the banquet and meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sollars, of
White Plains, Md, and their daugh
ter and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowland Bateman and three child
rem Mary Louis, Frances and son, Jr.,
of Waldorf, Md, were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Jones and friends
in and near town over New Years.
They also spent Thursday with Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Wright, of Oak Hill,
Pennsylvania.
Announcement has been made by
Rev. and Mrs. Frank H. Huffman, OF
Englewood, N. j., Of the engagement
of their daughter, Wilhelmina, to
Rev. John T. Galloway, son of DR..
and Mrs. H. X. Galloway, of Akron,
Ohio. No date has been set for the
wedding. Rev. Mr.. Huffman Is
former pastor of West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church, and the coming
bride was born while her parents
lived in Rising Sun.