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The daily independent., 1937-05-14

Pelham Manor, N. Y, May l3.-
Up-"CImb aboard, folks, she's
on her last run"
Skipper Eddy Chaser OF the one
and only honesS-@o-goodneSS
bonneville Trolley, most fam
ols vehicle in the world OF fun-
MES. pulled the frazzled bell coro
as he beloved the invitation.
TonigE3 the skipper was quie'
and he didn't greet the "Tooner-
vile folks" with the usual Smile
and smack of chatter.
inside one Of his pockets was a
notice that the Toonerville troll
lev had loss it's race with progress
that the owners are shelving II
for a motor bus.
The skipper wouldn't talk unHll
the last passenger had left the
ancient vehicle.
There wasn% a protesting voice
raised when the village trustees
voted to scrap the trolley, EooV
said. d
The folks of Pelham Manor ao-
NIT it was not sentiment out d
question of nickles that enoeafeO
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Relief Bill Is
Before House
Without A Cut
Appropriations Committee
Approves Measure for
$780, 600, 900

Washington, May 13.-(U.H)-
The powerful house appropriations
committee Today refused to econo-
mize on relief and voted 2 to IA to
give President Roosevelt the ST.
500,0OO,000 he demanded to care
for the nations needy during the
fiscal year beginning July l.
House leaders, bewildered by the
fury of the revolt in which Mr..
Roosevelt's CCC bill was ripped to
shreds, promptly forecast that the
membership would follow the
committees recommendations and
vote the chief executive the full
amount he seeks. A real fight will
be made in the senate to cut the
figure 10 sl,OOO,OO0,0O0 in the in
terest of economy.
As Mr. Roosevelt sped back to
Continued on Page Six)
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
British Destroyer Is Nine
Victim On Spanish Coast
Makes Port With {
Dead and "a Hurt
by Explosion

Gibraltar, Friday, May IA
U.P>-SpaniSh Loyalist officials
said today that the British de-
strOycr Hunter YaS torpedOed
by a rebel submarine when she
was five miles off the southern
Spanish coast yesterday and
that nine of her crew we're
killed and "a injured.
Government officials at Va
lencia said there were no mines
at Almeria near where an eX-
plosion tore a gaping hole in
the destroyer at the waterline.
First reports had said it was
believed the explosion was due
to a mine.
Gibraltar. May l3.-lU.R)- TIL
British destroyer Hunter was bad
iy damaged, eight of her GREY
were reported killed and "a other
injured today in an explosion, sup
posedly caused when she struck
rebel mine five miles off tn
outhern Spanish coast.
The British admiralty said tn
cause of the explosion was un
known but the loyaliSt Spanlsi
Continued on Page Six
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
DiUOrce Granted In
N. 6. Love Suit

Marion c. Love was given an
absolute divorce from Margaret
Foreman Love. the wife to have
custody of their children, Claire
Foreman and Mary Blade, While
Love was permitted in an order
signed at the close Of the day s
session of Superior court to see
the children for two hours each
week at the home Of his sister,
Mrs. j. J. HugheJ on West Ehrlng-
hauS street.
Loves visits with his children
are to commence Sunday, May l6
and are to take place from three
to five o'clock in the afternoon on
alternate Wednesdays and Sun
days of each week.
Signing of the order yesterday
was a temporary settlement OF the
vi its of the girls to their father,
the case being left open to tha'
extent for permanent determlna-
ton at a later date.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Fair Warning!

cor1 after The Daily Independent established IN Augs
ooe isneno campaign started predicting an early SS
pension of the paper . , =, ,or orr circl-
1oion territory to risk than months or
maid in advance subscription on this newspaper o,d
~ Toi, Indenendent lived right through January anu
showed steadiy-nceasng volume of advertising and mace
t;hI oin in circulation whispering campaign SuoSlue
pt oia of that whispering campaign is evident by reports
m friends in this and section within the past "eeh
The Daily Independent here and now serves noe u d
unfair, lying hurtfu vicious ana co
omntihIe tactics their actions are direct
t f trade crminaly and cvy actionabe as SUCH oohe
@ a. a i m w have court defend if it is kept up
In the meantime friends OF The Daily Independent o are
~ renort any and instance OF sanderouS and hoelo
.t. n1ode AGAINST this newspaper by the enemy
SCaVeIlell'' Ai" W. o. SAUNDERS.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
(0nSCrNa WALTON
Board DELAYS
H. Decision
: = .iJa"aln Before Let
TN Big State Adver-
q ,n= Contract

Nay I3.-U.2'- Thl
~ Of Conservation &
decided at the close
p today 70 deliberate
GAYS before deciding
advertising agencies
ids il Will select to
adverti ing campaign
-e. newspaper publish
Mount, presided owe
.- -ar as it considered
PEE. ..... Of the advertising
a contract to han
s,rd Of S25O,O00 tt
.s. Carolina.
q he 80 men repre-
25 firm. who haVt
... ms for the contrac'
ITO OF three" Compan-
.... u aw.vded the contract.
g.. g.. board of II members
.CarlngS.
-. .. re- Of New York City,
.. 10 appear before the
" crew from a sealed box
... .E on which was writ
4. .s 81 ..c one. Other slips
- 3v each Of the repre-
. .caicating what order
- appear before the
..... --.h Carolina advertis-
....ns were represented
.. .... .G-. They included w
1 .s Asheyille, Harvey
. Company. Inc, OF
.... .d MaChman-RhodeS
l Agency of Charlotte.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Williamson Radio
Station Almost
Completed

Williamson. May l3-Captaln
Charlie Farmer, of the North Car
Dina State Highway Pa.rol, has
announced that the local highway
catrol radio station will be ready
FOR operation aboG: June !.
Construction work on the build
ing housing the transmitting
equipment and operators is near
ing completion. A wire network OF
fourteen miles of wire is being
placed at The station here this
week to be laid underground.
Painters are still a: work on the
cover which is 303 feet tall.
The transmitting apparatus Will
probably get underway mex. week
explained Captain Farmer.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Workmanship
Test For
.U.S.C.G.
Temporary Shooting Rang
es to Be Set Up On
the Coast

Persons living in the vicinity OF
Kill Devil Hill on the Dare coast
will think they are in the mld1t
of the Battle of the Marne next
week when Coast GuardSmen from
nine stations will gather to stand
their annual craftsmanship tests.
G. H. Cumalat, ordnance and
gunnery officer for the Norfolk
Division of the U. S. Coast Guard
was at District headquarters here
Yesterday enroute to Kill Devil
Hill, where he will set up a tenn
porary rifle range.
The men from all Coast Guaro
stations from Poyner's Hill to
Pea Island. inclusive, will shoot
over this range beginning the mid
die of next week and continuing
until all have finished.
Each man Is allowed $50 rounds
of ammunition, and if a man fails
to qualify aS an expert marksmar
Continued on Page Six
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
MaryHopkins
Is AbIest
SpeHer
Wins Silver Cup; Carol
Vanture Runs Close
Second

After surviving four elimination
rounds, Mary Hopkins, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Becton Hopkins
of Morgan street, was adJudgeo
Yesterday afternoon to be the
best speller in Elizabeth ClIy
high school. Mary, a senior, VII!
receive a oliver loving cup donated
by Bright Jewelry Co., in recog-
milton of her spelling ability.
Runner-up in the contest was
Carol Vanture, a Junior ana the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Vanture. Carol might have won
the contest but for her gooo
craftsmanship. In the fourth elm:
ination round the judges coulo
nit determine whether her "X IN
the word X-ray was a small leI-
ter or a capital letter. They ask
ed her and she said she thought
she intended it for a capital,
which was the correct spelling OF
the word. That one word Woulo
have given her first place in the
contest. but she was not positive
whether she had written the *
for a capital or small letter and
that she would prefer that she and
Mary Hopkins be given another
Get of words. Her wish was grant
ed and Mary beat her out in the
final test.
Third place in the contest went
TO Billy Alexander, son OF Mrs
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Wallis Warfield Will Become
A Duchess Despite Cabinet
But King Will Have
Say About W h ere
Brother and Wifi e
Shall Live.

London. Friday, May l4.-lU'H)-
Members of the British cabinet
have resigned themselves to the
fact that they are powerleSS to
prevent Mrs. Wallis Warfield from
becoming her royal highnesS, the
Duchess of Windsor, it was re-
vealed today.
Government leaders who fought
Edward when he tried to make the
born divorce his queen
were said by a high authority TO
have been told that she will "au-
tomatically" become royal duch-
e.s the moment she marrieS the
Duke of Windsor.
She will rank, undisputedly, as
the sixth woman in British NOBLE
precedence, ahead OF the Duch-
esses of Gloucester and Kent.
King George VI has sent a stern
royal command to Edward IN
forming him that the royal ldlllliy
will have something to say about
where he and Mrs. Warfield may
live after their marriage.
Edward was told, politely but
firmly. that his royal birth still
binds him fast to some OF the re-
strictions that led him to abandon
mis- throne so that he might tlnd
happiness with "the woman l
love-. -,
The king, a happy monarch with
the adulation of his coronation
day still ringing in his ears turn
ed from the glory to the power
of his crownirg to send the stern
message to his headstrong BROTH
er. ,-
Edward and his American-born
fiancee have leased a honeymoon
villa in the Austrian mountains
but neither the king nor the gov
Continued on Page Six
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
County Officials Go
Before ABC
Board

Raleigh. May 13.-tUR)-Thirty-
five county commissioners appear
ed before the State Alcoholic Con-
troll board this afternoon and pro-
tested against any reduction IN the
price of Whiskey.
The commissioners, headed by
John Skinner of Warren county,
secretary of the State Association
of County Commissioners, urged
that county stores be allowed to
pass at least 5 per cent of the state
liquor tax on to the consumer.
The board meets tomorrow TO
hear from commissioners of 20
counties which have voted Tor IL
quor, and the new uniform price
decision is expected to follow.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
To Be Set Apart and
Dedicated to the
People
No Appropriation
Land Must Be Donated and
a Minimum of 10000
Acres Is Required

Washington, May 13.-(U'R-
Rep. Lindsay Warren, D., N. c.,
introduced in the house today a
bill to establish the Cape Hat
teras National Seashore" a federal
recreational area similar to a nat
ional park.
The first federal "seashore"
would cover an area from Kitty
Hawk to Ocracoke, N. c., and be
under supervision of the National
Park Service. Warren'S bill was
referred to the house public lands
committee.
The Boundries
The bill provides, according to
Warren, that when title to all the
lands, except within the limits Of
established villages and towns,
within bounaries 70 be designated
by the secretary of the interior
within the area of approximately
100 square miles on the islands Of
Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie,
Roanoke and Colington" shall
have been vested in the United
States said area shall be estab-
lished, dedicated, and set apart
as a national seashore for the
benefit and enjoyment of the peo-
pie and shall be known as the
Cape HaSteras National Seashore. l"
No Appropriation
The bill carries no appropria-
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Is Bringing Pictures
of the Coronation
Ceremony

Southport, England, May l3.-
U.P)-Dick Merrill, veteran Amer
lean transport pilot, gunned his
twin motored Lockheed mono
plane, Daily Express" OIL the
sand runways at Birkdale airport
tonight on his fourth flight over
he Atlantic.
Merrill, accompanied by his CO.
pilot. Jack Lambie of Birming-
ham, Mich, took off at Alb p. m,
CEDT). bound for New York with
pictures of the coronation OF King
George VI.
Merrill and Lambie arrived at
Croydon airfield, near London,
early this week on a flight from
New York, completing Merrill's
third air trip across the ocean
first flier in history TO span the
Atlantic by airplane that many
CimeS.
A brisk wind whipped across
the runway as Merrill rolled his
plane out after a hitch in deliv-
cry of the films had held up his
departure more than II hours.
Government storm warnings
said there was depression area
200 miles west of Ireland, with
low-lying clouds and rain.
Merrill bucked bad weather all
the way across, making the trip
in slightly less than 81 hours. He
expected to make the return trip
in about the same time, landing
in New York Friday noon.
4 disagreement over neWSree1
pictures apparently prevented him
from bringing back motion pic
lures of the coronation. He SAID
| he had a large number of stills,
however.
Provisions aboard the plane IN
clude TASKS Of chocolate and COT
fee, a packet of chewing gum ano
fruit.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
DIR. Finck's Pet
B ear Is
Dead
Children's FavOrite Meets
An Untimely End After
Life In Captivity

This is sad news for scores Of
boys and girls in Elizabeth City.
Bruno IS dead.
Bruno. as most of the kids in
town know. was DR.. Victor FinckS
pet black bear. Bruno was given
to DR.. Finck about l8 month ago
and was kept in DR.. Finck'S sta
bic on South Pool street, where he
was viewed daily by numerous
boys and girls.
Engaged yesterday afternoon in
moving into new quarters, DR.
FinCk was transporting Bruno in
a trailer behind his automobile
Excited. the l50-pound bear tried
to Jump out and his neck got
hung in the side of the trailer. As
soon as he heard the animal
cries. Dr.. Finck stopped the car
and released the bear, bus it was
too late. Bruno died a few minutes
later. either Of a broken neck or
heart failure.
incidentally. in trying to re-
lease the bear. Dr.. Finck was bit
ten on the right arm several times,
Bruno will be greatly missed by
E!izabe n City kiddies. He will be
missed more by "Snookie'. Dr
Finck's Snookum monkey, which
romped and played with Bruno
every day.
Dr.. Finck says he thinks he Will
have to get another bear for the
benefit of the kids and "Snookle' ",
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
President
TOGO On
Pursuit of New Deal
Aims Scheduled
to Continue
Is Met By Farley
Believe There Will Be No
Let Up On ReOrgani-
Zation Bill

Aboard President RooSevelt's
special train enroute to Washing
ton. MAY l3. - U.P)-PreSident
Roosevelt today renewed his
pledge of allegiance to the social
economic program of unemploy-
mer. relief. farm aid and stable
prices he sc. forth in his campaign
for reelection last fall and prom
ised to fight for its adoption by
Congress.
The drive to obtain his ideas Of
government, the president said,
will sta.,. anew tomorrow when he
returns to Wash ngtcn at mid
morning from a l7-day fishing
Yaca.icn in the Cuff Of Mexico
nc will hold a regular cabinet
meeting in the afternoon.
Campaign Pledge
Mr.. Roosevelt recalled the Wig
orous words Of his closing cam
oaign rally last fall in New York
We have jus. begun to fight
AS ne met. newspapermer
aboard his private car his after
noon to outline again the princi-
oles ne thinks should be adopted
The president granted the spec
al interview as his train spec
through the midwest toward In
) sI!snapois where PoStmaster-Gen'
eral James A Farley joined hin
10 confer on congressional con
liberation of the judiciary reor'
Continued on Page Six
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Few On WeekSUiUe
FoQa Is Nearing
Jd8 limits

3r fair weather. the
Of the F. c. Cline
.l..ng rapidly toward
..... CITY as they pave one
o.. another in the Weeks
[."ntg City road.
-". .. the paving is completed
b. Tor a couple Of hun
III front of the Pritch-
ell property about a mile outside
-- and the stretch in front
3 "..-'.a ice plant. All Of the
a....- Mould be completed by
e. ....u.e Of next week, provided
.. - wuather holds up.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
llcdiators Attempt.
T0 Settle Strike
In Steel Plants S
-.:r, ! Laughlin's S
-. acs0rieS Are
.ut Down
|'2g On Ford
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The daily independent., 1937-05-14
RICHARD c. KELLY DIES

Greensboro, May 13.-U'R)-
Richard C. Kelly, 81, a vice-presl-
dent of the jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company, died
shortly before noon today.
The daily independent., 1937-05-14
Bill Includes
All Coastal Region From
Kitty Hawk To OcracOke
Merrill Takes off {
ForHopOverOcean
TODAY'S LOCAL
CALENDAR

A. M.
$50 Mems Christian Federation
1000 WINS zone meeting at
First Methodist
P. M.
1880 I. o. o. F.; B. P. o. E.;
Daughters of America
Library hours: 2-6, 7-9
The daily independent., 1937-05-14

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The daily independent., 1937-05-14

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The daily independent., 1937-05-14
MARITIME FORECAST

Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Fresh south.
shifting to northwest or north winds
and overcast weather with showers
Friday
The daily independent., 1937-05-14

in morning followed by clear
..,,ley Friday; Saturday fair
.... .... moderate temperature.
Evening star., 1937-03-23
Left Hooks Swing Verdict.

A THOUGH guilty of butting and
heeling repeatedly, Arcelli scored
often with left hooks to the body.
while the bald-pated Lucas employed
right hand to the head as his most
punlshlg weapon. The Stars score
sheet showed Lucas ahead by q
margin of three points.
La Fond, incidentally, turned in one
OF the smoothest jobs of refereeine
seen this season. Both boys were in
cllned to hug throughout, but Eddie
neatly pried them apart on numerous
occasions and made them make q
fight OF it.
Doug Swetnam, local featherweight
was battered back into minor prelim-
mary scraps by Nick Camarata who
scored technical knockout over the
game but outclassed lad after / min
ute and so seconds of the seventh
round in a scheduled eight-round
semi-final.
A quartet OF pleasing four-rounders
found Joe Letto of Baltimore whip
ping Frankie De Angelo, local feath-
erWeight; Sam Bracala, Baltimore
welterweight, chilling Steamboat Bill
Robinson of Alexandria after l minute
and 80 seconds OF the third frame;
Bill Temes, local lightweight, trim
ming Joe (Palooka) Mathews, and
Joe De Carlo, Baltimore welterweight,
trouncing Norman Cohen of Norfolk
The Turner cash register recorded
SLAP, which was dished out by
1,021 customers.
Evening star., 1937-03-23
H0YAS' LINKS, TRACK
PLANS ARE BLASTED
Petijohn's Illness Balks Golf
Tour, Appendicitis Takes
Green Off RELAY.

INJURIES and illness have put a
crimp in Georgetown's track and
golf plans for the Spring
An emergency appendicitis opera
ton on Leroy Green has cost the
Hoya's crack mile relay team the
services Of its No. man for the sea-
son, while the loss of two golfers pre-
vented the G. U. team from taking a
two-week trip through the South, on
which 1t was to have started yeSter-
day.
Although the golfers lost the serv-
ices Of their captain, Jim Lee, last
week when he broke his arm in an
automobile accident, they were packed
and ready to leave on a trip which
would have taken them through Flor
ida, North Carolina and Georgia. But
Charley Pettijohn, one of the four re-
naming regulars, was ordered to bed
| yesterday because of an intestinal dis
order, and the Hoyas called off the
trip rather than go with just trio
of linksmen.
Before Green's loss, Jim Mulligan's
relay team had hope of hanging up q
new outdoor mile record this Spring.
Only last week it had set new rec
ord in the knights of Columbus meet
in Madison Square Garden, beating
Manhattan, the I. C. "A champion
in the event.
Evening star., 1937-03-23
VANISHING
HERE LAID TO PLOT
Loder, Mcdonald Latest to
Run Out on Ahearn.
Subs Fill Holes.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

4 PRIVATE investigation into
" an epidemic of vanishing
~ fighters today was launched
4 "A by Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn,
who waved menacing finger in the
general direction of a mysterious
somebody" in New York, whom he
claims is instrumental in seeking to
oust him from his post here.
Ahearn in the past two weeks has
had the misfortune to book three
fighters with decided Houdini COM
plex. Two boxers, Danny London
and Teddy Loder, who were to have
been featured locally, apparently were
swallowed up in New York, while
Buddy Mcdonald, heavyweight pre-
liminary boy from California, dis
appeared quicker than ice cream at an
orphans outing shortly after arriv-
ing here.
The unnamed New York clique be-
hind the so-called conspiracy, accord
ing to Goldie, has local representa-
tive who is employing such methods
as wedge by which they hope to pry
Ahearn out of business. Goldie being
pretty panicky fellow anyway, it
seems the boys under suspicion are
as inconsiderate as an alarm clock
That bunch tried to get me to put
in fake fights here last year." moaned
Goldie today as he pondered the
numerous angles of the somewhat
screwy situation. well, they found
out play the game down the middle.
SO now they're using this way to
make me look bad"
Evening star., 1937-03-23

bama and he begged Chapman to 60
with him. Ben wavered, said mo"
He later took fling at Purdue, lasted
two weeks and quit to make living
playing ball.
Their trails parted here, seemingly
for keeps, as usually is the way
Chapman went to ASheville of the
Sally League and then to St. Paul.
Sington was the backbone of great
Alabama foot ball teams. winning all
America honors. Then Chappie moved
to st. Paul and to the Yankees where
he shifted to the outfield, became
vital cog in four winning
teams and became one of the few
players to be chosen to play in all
four all-Star games.
Sington emerged from Alabama
with foot ball muscles" in his shoul-
ders. He was a pitcher no longer, so
he turned to the outfield For few
years he bobbed up and down in the
bush leagues like a cork OF. a stormy
Evening star., 1937-03-23
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

- INCE it requires little gray mat
ter and costs nothing to spend
somebody elses money, let's flick
~ the dial on the District Boxing
Commission safe and star distributing
some of that s5 900 which has accumu-
lated since the legalization of swat
here.
Few fans love a referee, but the
arbiters who are associated with the
sport here distinctly are underpaid
In fact. there are 48 States who think
more of their referees, financially
speaking.
Perhaps it is a bit ironical that a
punch-drunk stumblebum must get at
least $40 for four-round preliminary,
while a referee gets exactly half that
whether he works the preliminaries or
main event. There's a clause in the
local ring rules designed to remedy
Evening star., 1937-03-23
Right Out Of a Book.
YOU see, Fred and Ben had dreamed

You see, Fred and Ben had dreamed
OF what has happened Just like
any two kids on any city block, they
grew up together in Birmingham,
played on the same teams, laughed
and fought together and shared mu-
tual dream. Damon and Pythias?
Cobra VS.. MongooSe by comparison.
The story of Sington and Chapman
sounds like something out of the Rover
boys books, only not even their imag-
1native author dared to unbare plot
so fiction-like.
Ben was II and Freddy was 10 when
they became fast friends in Birming-
ham. Chappie was a skinny little kid
and Fred was a tremendous boy who
looked older than Ben. They entered
high school together, and that insti-
tuition suddenly found itself elevated
for four years to the top Of Alabama s
interscholastic sports world.
Chapman was a crack basket ball
player, winning four letters. Sington
was clumsy for basket ball, but he went
out for the sport and understudied
Chappie, winning two letters. Each
played foot ball for four years and
each won four letters, Sington at
tackle and Chapman at end and quar-
terback. Both won all-State honors
every year. Sington won four letters
at base ball while Chapman won three.
Each graduated with two track letters
In all, they won 25 letters in four
years between them.