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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
South Sees Prosperity
As Cotton Demand Rises
Surplus May Be Eliminated
By the Time New Crop
Comes On the Market

Atlanta, March 7.-U.P)-Coal-
black roustabouts, trundlmg
heavy handtrucKs down among
the stacks of cotton bales, today
are singing a song of returning
prosperity for King Cotton" ana
the Deep South.
Millions of dollars have been
added theoretically to the wealth
of Southern cotton farmers dur
ing the past ten days as quota
tions have whirred up S. a bale
to the highest levels since August
1884.
Warehouses here are jammed
with the greatest volume OF quick
moving bales since wartime. The
Negro roustabouts, wheeling 500
pound bales on their handtruckS,
are sweating to clear the sidings
to let new cotton trains into the
terminals.
Textile mills in Dixie are hum
ming night and day. Their opera
tors are crying for cotton and
more cotton.
War talks and fears of imitation
have quickened demand, hurry
ing the movement of dwindllng
domestic supplies. From all sides,
they are demanding Int and the
price is booming.
Climaxing one of the most bull
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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
M,jOhnsOn sLatest
UOre ArOuses Ire
OF Currituck Folk
GrOUcElO Marx
Has Simple
Health Rules
Twin Beds and 4 Four
Hour Work Week
Do Wonders

Hollywood. March I W.D -
Groucho Marx. film &C nedian, TO-
night took a leaf som Premier
MuSSolini'S health book an d
broadcast his own vcrsicn of how
to keep fit at SIS.
Groucho, who has not been sick
for Il week. brought along nurses
and doctors to write out heath
certificates.
AT 55." nc said, 7 would feel
better than MuSsolini, if I was
So"
He said his good health was
due to plenty cf exercise. hard
work and eating meals at home.
Groucho Smothercd a wracking
cough, and explained about eat
ing az home:
Il always cat at home. par
ticularly when I'm invited out. l
find I'm invited out more often
if I eat at home, and the more
I'm invited out. the more l have
to eat at home.
Il finally got invited out so
much I never got home to eat, so
We fired the cook. Now I only eat
between meals"
The comedian added he is an
I inveterate believer in exercise, and
frequently walks to his garage in
the morning, instead of having
the chauffeur back the Car up to
the front door.
Il also walk in my sleep he
said. My love of exercise got such
a grip on me have to wear shoes
/ in bed"
Groucho said he once sent his
brother, Harpo. out to buy a SET
| Of parallel bars. When Grouchc
get home that night, he founc
two saloons rugged up in his draw
ing room.
! Hard work" Groucho explain
ed, never hurt anyone, as Ions
as you don't overdo it. Personally
I'm a believer in the four-houl
week"
However, the real key tt
Groucho'S health, the comedian
pointed out after another shud'
dering cough. is sleep.
Il sleep best" he said, in bed
Usually I have twin beds, So
can sleep twice as good. The frs
y hours I sleep on one bed. Ther
I move over to the other bed.
L once thought Of sleeping II
triple beds, but my doctor sale
that would cut my sleep to eigh
hours in each bed. By using twir
beds. I get my sleep evenly OF
both sides. 1t also gives the maic
a chance to change the sheets.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Government To Set
UpGame Refuge In
Back Bay Section
To Start with 1900 Acres;
Further Enlargement
Is Planned

Another step in the Biological
Surveys long-range program 1or
the protection and conservation OF
migratory waterfowl is to be TAX
en- soon, it having been definitely
decided to buy 1900 acres of land
from the Princess Anne Cunning
Club as the first unit of a wild
game refuge on Back Bay, Prln-
cess Anne County, Virginia.
A total of S65,O00 will be paid
for the land, which will be just
the first unit of great wild lie
reservation on Back Bay.
The Federal Government Will
establish the refugee in coopera-
ton with the State Of Virginia.
and there will be no interference
with present fishing rights other
han that already established by
the state.
Employees of the refuge will be
under a service similar to that of
the Civil Service, and residents of
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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Lewis And Green Plan
Strategy In Labor War;
Textile Drive Is Near
Aluminium Work ers
Desert Federation
For the G.. |. o.
South Is Problem
Unions SO Far Have Had
Little Success In Organ.
izing the Textile Mills

Washington, March Z. -;U.H)--
President William Green has sum-
moned SO crack organizers of the
American Federation of Labor to
confer with him here tomorrow
on plans for a fight to the finish
against John L. Lewis and his
rebel" committee for industrial
organization, it was learned to-
night.
While Green is meeting with the
men who struggle to carry out the
federation's traditional policy OF
organizing skilled workers into
craft unions, Lewis and his c. I.
o. aides will be in session a few
blocks away plotting new cam
paigns to bring workers in all mass
production industries into large.
individual unions.
Once Friends
The two men, once close per-
sonal friends but now bitter foes
as a result of the upheaval in the
labor movement, plotted their
strategy over the weekend. Green
studied the latest instance of re-
bellion in the federation-the bolt
Of 5000 aluminium workers in New
Kensington, Pa, from the A. F. Of
L. aluminium workers union to the
G. I. O.
I'VE are not disturbed at all by
this incident" Green told the
United Press. In the first place.
this local will not succeed in call
ing a convention. Other locals will
not respond. Secondly, we have
an agreement with the Aluminium
Company of America covering all
of their plants, including the one
at New Kensington."
Brushing aside reports that the
New Kensington bolt foretold of
wholesale desertion of aluminium
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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
A Special
Train For
Ne SOlOns
Entire Personnel of N. G.
General Assembly, In
Guiding Governor and
His Staff 10 Descend On
Ancien! Capital In Body
Thursday al Noon.

The Norfolk Southern Rail Road
will transport the members of the
General Assembly by special train
to EdcntoN Thursday, March IL,
when that body ConvcnCs in the
first capital of the AlDemarle in
recognition of its historic past.
THIS information comes from
Senator w. 1. HalStead who is a
member of the joint committee on
arrangements.
The Norfolk Southern special
will leave Raleigh at 8 o'clock
Thursday morning, arriving at
Edenton at noon. Returning, 1t
will leave Edenton at 8 p. m, ar
irving at Raleigh at midnight.
This may appear to be fast SER
vice for one familiar only with 10
cal schedules on the Norfolk
Southern. but this is to be spec
ial train. making no stops and will
make the trip comfortably in the
scheduled four hours.
The train will be made up Of
Pullmans for the members of the
General Assembly. with a special
car for the Governor and his fam
ily who will travel in state.
All of the clerks, stenographerS,
doormcn. and even, the pages OF
the General Assembly will join the
pilgrimage. 1t will be a great show
and a great occasion for Edenton.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Wouldn't The
Arms Business
Bill Requires that U. S.
Manufacture Own War
ships and Weapons

Washington, March 7. --tU.R)-
The senate munitions bloc plans
introduction of legislation this
week which would deprive private
ship yards and munitions makers
of millions Of dollars annually by
Matchmaking production of war
ships and other armaments, Sen.
Gerald p. Nye, r., N. D., revealed
tonight.
Naturalization is necessary, Nye
said, to end "racketeering" un-
covered by the two-year inveStiga-
ton of his senate munitions COM
mittee which charged that meth
ods used by arms manufacturers
to obtain business threaten world
peace.
The legislation is being drafted
jointly by Nye and Senators Ben
nett Champ Clark. D., Mo-; James
P. Pope, D., Ida, and Homer I.
Bone, D., Wash, to carry out rec
concentrations in a majority re-
port of the munitions committee,
submitted to congress last year.
The program was described to-
night as "capricious" "ineffGctu-
al" and IAN actual war hazardr in
a statement issued by the national
council of American shipbuilders.
1T is to be expected that the
shipbuilding industry will resort
to every possible means to prevent
naturalization" Nye said, but L
do not believe their campaign will
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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
1 Delegation of 200.
Will Move On
Raleigh
Ignores Party Will.
r,bn,on Strikes Two Par
:, NorIincrs From the
lmnibu, Bill and inserts
Two Of Ills Own Choice.

.,..u.,.,.- March Friends of
,.,..,r m C..vyltuck Will send a
'N...,. ...,.,,.,r v.g1ab'y 200 strong TO
$3.50, ..,., us,k TO protest to a
,,,,,.s ,,,,,, .,..m--gc against Repre-
So, z L. JOhnson'S second
....~,~. q, :,.w years to Sieze con-
49,. - ..s public school system
- CIV, ...u.v through a school
S,.rs O.. his own making.
C.~.r leaders all over the coun-
.r ~. aroused TO a fever pitch
~.~ NJ Ig.u>on'S latest tampor-
.~, mr.. -.sly school system.
TIE 5..ua.a. omnibus bill was
r.r,5gcsG II the General Assem-
r.r saturday. Feb. 28. In the ON
r.5y, b.. appeared the names Of
g..-~ c DolS-, G.. c. BoSwOod
md T. Z M@udSn, Jr. the regu-
s- nominees for the Board Of
Education If CmriJuck.
These men were nominated in
..a June primary and their NOM
nation certified by the Currituck
County Board of Elections.
81. III. johnson. who is a sworn
..... 80 -.-, or;,,r3.FrDal SI-StpDo
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Madrid May
Be Evacuated
By Defenders
Report That Miaja l. For
Taking Easier Line
of Defense

-.'... ''-...-.. 49,. .0T-OhCoh-
iEM.- -pG.-- from Spain tonight
.'." '--. Jose M.aja. supreme
60. 80 .,.',.'.t"0rE IN centraI
~ 20. ..-.7,@2-eo the valencia
''''''. ''- .'s, ne couLo Ao
80 -.'-a--tt tNe Salety OF
S-)-.o De abandoned.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Skippy, As O,Un Judge And
.Ju1.v. VIII Pick His Master
Terrier 10 Sit On Court
Bench and Decide Be-
tween Claimants

North Arlington, N. j., March I.
-UPJ-Skippy, alias Teddy, for
lorn terrier who is just recovering
from a broken leg, slept and ate
we'll tonight in preparation for the
big day of his life tomorrow when
no will come out of the doghouSe
and climb on the bench in police
recorders court to decide who
owns him.
Judge John H. Shields, Jr., will
surrender the bench to Sklppy be-
cause the litigation is so involved
that it cannot be settled by con-
sulting Blackstone and the revised
statutes of New Jersey. Besides be-
ing Judge. Skippy will be a one
dog Jury. and from his decision
there will be no appeal.
It happened this way:
Giuseppe Tore, the plaintiff,
did swear and depose that for five
wears Skippy was a contented
member of his household and that
one month ago said Skippy did
leave his bed and board without SO
much as leaving a paw track on
the kitchen floor.
Albert Della Volpe, the defen-
dant did swear and depose that
one month ago there limpcd into
his front yard a terrier with q
broken leg. Further, deponent
swears that he and his children
nursed the dog back to health,
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Auiation s Newspaper Backs
Petitions TO Return The First
WRIGHT Plane To America
Father Divine
Gets Letter
From Ku Klux
Harlem "God" Calls On
G-Mcn and Hires
a Lawyer

New York, March 7-CUR>-The
u. S. government and it's G-men
having more or less declined to
save God" from the Ku KluX
Klan, Father Divine-who is God,
according to his followers-to-
night hired a lawyer and took
steps to save himself.
The bald, beaming Negro polite
ly declined to discuss Ku KluX
threats against him, so Brother
Lamb, a soft-spoken white man
who is Gods mouthpiece" and
personal secretary in Harlem, did
the talking.
The threat, it appeared, came
through the mail. The Ku KluX-
ers of Atlanta, Ga, objected to
Father Divine supposedly keeping
a white woman and her three chill
dren in his Baltimore, Md, "hee-
ven," and said he better get them
out, or else.
The message closed with a
warning-three of them, in fact
ICop+;p,,od or, paun Thrnn)
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Los Angeles
Is
A Gun Victim
Shot In Arm BY WOuld-bc
Assassins, May Be Ven
geance of Strikers

Los Angeles, March 7.-U'R)-
District Attorney Buron Fits was
shot through the left forearm to-
night by would-be aSSaSsinS who
ambushed him as he drove up to
his fathers home in suburban
Monrovia. according to the sher-
ifs office.
Three man waylaid Fits near
his home as the district attorneys
car drew up to the curb. Several
shots were fired through the
windshield, one taking effect IN
his forearm.
First reports indicated Fits was
not seriously injured.
Three men in small Seoan
started their car toward tlttS as
the district attorney, riding alone
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The daily independent., 1937-03-08
New YOrk's NJ ayOr
LaGuardia First
TO Sign
5000 Sign at Show
British Museum Will Fall
Heir to Americas First
AirpIane If Smithsonian
Regents Don't Acknowl.
edge Primacy of Wrights
While Orvillc Wright
Lives.

Contact, the national news
paper devoted to aviation, has
launched a vigorous campaign to
bring the first Wright plane back
to America, to enShrine 1t in the
Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington, the proper repository for
American history.
The first Wright plane is now
resting in the British Museum in
London. where it was placed by
Orville Wright in 1928. Mr.. Wright
peeved with the regents OF the
Smithsonian Institution for giving
first place to the Langley plane,
shipped the original Wright plane
out of the country with a VOW that
it should remain abroad if the
Smithsonian Institution did not,
within his life time, make proper
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Mrs. Z. II. Meads Dies
At S j m Ons Creek

Mrs. B. H. Meads, SO, died sud-
denly at IL o'clock Saturday night
at her home on Simons Creek.
Surviving are two sons, A. A.
Meads of Wecksville and B. L.
Meads of Elizabeth City; ono
daughter, Mrs. w. P. Morris OF
Simons Creek, and seven grand
children.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted from the home at 2:30
O'Clock Monday afternoon, and
burial will be made in the fam
lily cemetery.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
md, LO, TUaS Fair
Here Yesterday
For q Change

ls.-" The light is sweet. and
pleasant thing it is for the eyes
I. ''-o.d the sun" Elizabeth Cit
o.'' g. ,".t like singing this line
~'ia lie Songs of Songs ye3ter-
.@' a 'his town enjoyed it's first
''- sabbath Day of 1887.
Inc sun rose yesterday at dawn
,. a,'o s.onc bright and warm the
..''.' day thru, making the day
~ NV "j the pretticSt of the year.
,-. Sunshine was enjoyed and ap-
S'''.a'"d 50 much the more be-
.'.'' Of the fact that the first
sundays of 1887 in Elizabeth
w., .' were rainy days, while the
',.. " Was marred by a snowfall.
.''' one gray cloud marred the
s..'-'l0oSS Of the sunshine and the
=, - Of the sky on yesterday,
.S-.h Sabbath of the year.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR

$3.50 Merj Christian Federation
LOO Rotary Club
300 Christ Church st. Mary's
and st. GATHERINGS guilds
Sis First Methodist WINS
$50 First Baptist Sunbeams
1880 Pocahontas; Kiwanis Jun
iCr Glce club; w. o. W.;
First Baptist board of
deaCoE3; First Baptist
Junior R. A.; Christ
church guild; City Road
Sarah Crawford Mission
airy Society.
500 American Legion.
Library Hours. 1912, 2-6.
The daily independent., 1937-03-08
Leonard dudley Will
Be Buried At ManteO

Manteo, March 7. - Leonard
Dudley, we'll known citizen OF
Manteo, died at 3 o'clock this
morning at the Public Health Ser
vice hospital at Norfolk.
Besides his wife, he IS survived
by one son, Rowan Quidley; and
the following daughters, Mrs. l..
r. Terson, Mrs. Tull Lennon, Mrs.
Henry Twiford, Mrs. Orlando
Midget and Miss Mary Isabel
Quidley, all of Manteo.
Funeral services will be held
from the Manteo Methodist
church at 3 o'clock Monday after
noon.
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Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Increasing
southeast winds becoming fresh and
overcast, followed by rain Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-11
This Business of
Paying Political Debts

Probably no government was ever de-
vised with a paddock strong enough to
keep all patronage-seekers from break
ing in, and helping themselves to the
spoils of victory and political pull.
But We do have valuable safeguards,
like civil service which help keep the
halters on patronage dispensing. Re-
Gently three national reform organiza-
tions united in a drive which they hope
will end with individual merit sitting tri-
umphantly in the saddle, and with poll
teal pull Sinking off around the corner
1t will be interesting to observe what
success they achieve in breaking down
the political patronage racket which, ac-
cording to the Civil Service Reform
league, prizes one billion dollars out of
American pocketbookS every year!
Though the struggle for merit in gov
ernment service has been waged for more
than half century, it has achieved only
moderate success. Today only 90 per-
cent of federal jobs are available through
civil service, and only SO per cent of
state government jobs are under civil
service.
Meanwhile, running government is fast
becoming one of the nations greatest
businesses. Federal, state, and local gov
ernments now employ 3,250,000 civilians.
Their yearly payroll costs taxpayers
five billion dollars.
That prodigious wage-check surely en-
titles citizens to demand that only the
best brains and ability available be ad-
mitted to the government payroll. The
extension of civil service is no wonder
working cure-all, but if it helps reduce
patronage and cut an already enormous
national tax bill, what taxpayer would
MT be grateful?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-11
PROBES BEGUN
IN FIRE DEATH
OF 80 HORSES

SAN MATEO, Calf, Oct. IL W.P)
Two independent investigations
were opened today to determine
the cause of the fire which swept
the San Mateo Gymkhana Club
stables yesterday, killing SO of the
46 horses stabbed there and caus-
ing loss estimated at $4,000
The fire broke out late Saturday
following the opening of the racing
season and swept through the light
ly constructed, hay filled building
before the fire department arrived.
A special meeting of the direc-
tors was called by Mrs. Mon Tue
ker of Hillsborough, president of
the club, and DIR. Harry Hordorn,
manager, said plans were made to
start rebuilding the stables. Horses
will be cared for in temporary
quarters.
The fire was discovered by Hans
Hanson, stableman, who was alone
in the building. He succeeded in
releasing some of the horses and
then lost consciousness and was
carried to safety by nearby resi-
dents.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-11
New York Day by Day BY o. O. Mcintyre

boat men, is one of my interesting
correspondents. He ties up for the
winter at PIT. Pleasant, about four
miles from Gallipolis. Billy has a
hearty philosophy and is bubbling
with the sheer joy Of living. He
is owner of the show boat, head
of the troupe, in fact the whole
works but doesn't mind sickling a
path down the levee for customers,
selling tickets, playing the caliope
and even taking a relief turn in the
pilot house. A disciple of simple
things, Billy likes to sit on the
top deck at eventide and watch the
sun go down, singing the old time
songs as he floats along.
Honest Injun Note: Opie Read,
believe it was, used to tell of a
friend who visited an anthropolo-
gist studying a group of Navajos.
The second morning the scientist
knocked at his guests door and,
finding it locked, observed: Your
valuables are safe. There are no
white men within ten miles OF
here"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-11

melted away" And he speaks Of
hurried bit of oSculation as "a
beewinged kiss" What a glow in
turning out a polished phrase!
Deep tribulation often inspires a
thirst for the why of things. An
example is Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who
has certainly passed through the
sacrificial flames. People who meet
her these days are astoniShed at
her culture. Not the pseudo chop
logic of the cafes, but well-ground-
ed knowledge. She discusses intel
ligently many of the philosophers.
Her English is precise and her vo-
cabulary large. Circumstances how
ever, have made it almost compul-
sorry that she salvage a livelihood
as somewhat of a curio in the night
clubs.
1t was comforting to religionists
that Marconi was repeating the
Lords prayer while drawing final
breath. Science and religion are
frequently reported SO far apart
Although DR.. Alexis Carrell in his
Man, the Unknown" revealed that
great scientific minds were almost
a unit in a belief that back of all
creation was an absolute perfec-
ton. A perfection of mankind calls
by various names - God, Higher
Power, Super Intelligence, etc.
Billy Bryant, last of river show
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-11
News Behind the News
- A Referendum on War

WASHINGTON.-Ihe question whether pop
ular referendum shall be required to take this
country into war will almost certainly be a ma
jor issue on tire floors Of Congress within the
next few months.
Last May, as reported in these dispatches
Congressman Louis Ludlow of Indiana had gath
cred 100 signatures for petition TO discharge
from the House Judiciary Committee his reSolu-
ton for a constitution al amendment which
would require that the people vote on any pro-
posed declaration of war.
Today he has 1876 such signatures. This means
that the proposed amendment, assuming Lud-
low is correct in his assurance that he has
enough additional signatures in sight to make
up the necessary 2lS, will come before the House
by February or March
Subsequent processes of adding it to the Con-
stitution would include passage by two-thirds
vote in Senate and House and ratification by
three-fourths OF the states. House passage would
require 290 votes if all members were on hand.
Heavy drive will be placed behind the pro-
posal. national comm ittee of veterans church.
farmer, labor mother and other leaders is
being formed to lend weight Proponents think
they can NOW down opposition by isisting that
america mustn't be asked to save the world
for democracy again without some democratic
process for deciding whether the American sec
ton of democracy is interested.
Ludlow's amendment wouldn't apply in case
the United States or its territory were invaded
and any OF its citizens killed. But otherwise,
in case of threatened trouble no war could be
declared unless a majority OF citizens voted aye
on the question: Shall the United tsates de-
clare war on-?"
WPA rolls have hit bottom for the current
year and are now expected to increase from
month to month.
Number of persons employed Shrank from this
years peak of 900 in February to l,4450 900
in mid-September There were still 1000 900
WPA workers at the end of May and most OF
those dropped after that date were taken off
because Congress limited WPA appropriations
to S1,500000000.
The extent to which persons will be added to
the rolls as cold weather goes on is uncertain
and depends according to unofficial adviceS,
largely on the extent to which business con-
tinues to recover and expand private employment
Congress provided that the appropriation be
divided in twelve parts but gave no directions
as to how much money should be spent in any
given month. The drastic summer slash in the
rolls was meant to assure enough funds for
winter and spring, assuming business continued
TO improve. WPA may or may not be back at
Capitol Hill for more before the fiscal year is
out.