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The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Glass OF 1887
Made Wise
Choice
Tests Prove Graham
HollOwell Most Intel
Iectual; Class Above
Average

Members of the class OF 1887 OF
Elizabeth City High School GER
tainly knew what they were do
ing when they elected Graham
Hollowell as the most intellectual
boy in the class, judging from rec
ords released yesterday by Super
intenGent E. E. Bundy.
Graham. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. E. Hollowell of All Cedar street,
was neither valedictorian nor sa-
lutatorian of his class, yet he
made the highest grade on the
Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Abil-
ity Test given to 96 members OF
the class and made the second
high score on the Myers-Ruch
High School Progress Test. HIS
score on the latter was better
than the scores made on the same
test by 90 psr cent of 1900 high
school seniors picked at random
in New York, New Hampshire and
California.
Highest score on the progress
test was made by Alva Brown,
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
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2 Major Bills
To Be Pushed
This Session
Wage.Hour and Slum Clear
ance Are Listed As
Ought Measures

Washington, July %. -W.3-
President Roosevelt is still de-
termined to press for enactment
at this session of congress Of two
major pieces of legislation-a bill
providing for a broad-scale pro-
gram of slum clearance and a
Wage-and-hour measure.
Friends of the president to-
night said they were confident
the rebuff he received from the
senate on his supreme court bill
would not in any way affect the
major objectives Of his second
new deal"
They indicated Mr.. Roosevelt
would continue to press for some
solution to the major problem of
how to eliminate unemployment
and bolster mass purchasing pow
er to a degree sufficient to support
present forms of business.
Sources extremely close to the
president said he hoped these
two legislative milestones would
receive favorable consideration
now although it was learned that
certain of his advisers have Sug-
gested it might be well to let the
wage and hour measure rest until
next year in order to allow the
frayed feelings Of enemies in the
court battle to become assuaged.
The housing measure Of Sen.
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The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Sweltering Heat Strikes
At Both Spanish Factions
Men Move Into Battle Shaded by Umbrellas While
Trucks Rush Cold Beer and Lemonade TO
Cool Off Fron-Lne Warriors

of the Sierra GuadaramaS Is miles
west of Madrid.
Carlists, Fascist volunteers and
even the Moors from Africa fought
stripped to the waist in the lO4-
degree heat. the worst experienced
in the SierraS in years.
A corps of truck drivers riSked
their lives TO bring thousands of
gallons of beer to the troops over
roads peppered with rifle, artillery
and rlachinegun fire.
saw fresh shock troops moving
up to the front lines. rifles Slung
across shoulders gliStening with
sweat-and carrying umbrellas.
Only once before had seen
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Wants Loyalty to the
Country, Party and
Administration
Farley and Keenan,
Demand That Those Off.
cials Return to Duties
of Their Posts

Washington, July 22. (U.H
Vice President John n. Car
ner today warned a group of
senate Democrats who scut-
tied the supreme court reor-
ganization bill that President
Roosevelt still heads the par
ty and appealed to them not
to give the chief executive un-
necessary "kicks in the face"
Garner's plea was made at an
emergency meeting of the senate
judiciary committee which not on
ly reported the court bill unfav-
orably but accompanied its action
with a scalding report which
questioned the chief executives
motives in seeking such sweeping
reform of the nations judiciary.
The appeal was heard by Republi-
can members of the committee,
by Democratic senators favoring
the measure and by Democrats
opposing it.
Another Battle
1t promptly touched off an
other fight within the committee
during which the alleged lobbying
activities of postmaster general
James A. Farley and assistant
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Health Program No,U Up 10
Council Committee
Explained Last Night
by DIR. Fox; New Tri-
County Set.up

The fate of the proposed district
health program to embrace Pas
quotank and neighboring counties
now hinges largely upon the rec
concentrations of a City Council
committee to which the program
was explained in detail last night
by DR.. R. E. Fox, director of coun-
ty health work OF the State Board
of Health.
The committee, composed OF
Fred White, chairman, c. M.
Griggs, J. E. Blades, C. D. Pappen-
dick and Tom Boswell, will take
the matter up with the full coun-
Gil in the very near future, will
discuss it and will make recon-
mendations to the council.
The program outlined by DR..
Fox last night was substantially
the same program outlined before
the board of county commission
ers recently and which was &C
cepted by that body conditional
upon the City Councils willing
ness to split the expense with
them.
The original plans of the State
Board of Health contemplated
two district health departments
north of the Chowan river and AL
bemarle Sound, one to embrace
Chowan, Perquimans and Gates
counties, and the other to en-
brace Dare, Currituck, Camden
and Pasquotank. But Camden,
Currituck, Gates and Perquimans
have turned the proposal down fol
the time being, so DR.. Fox has now
drawn up a proposed set-up for q
Continued on page f1Ve)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
4 Veterinary
Deluxe
That's What DIR. Finck
Is Aiming for; Nearly
Complete

Dr.. Victor Finck, local veteri-
marian, is now putting the finish
ing touches on what he claims to
be "the most complete veterinary
hospital in this part of the coun-
try"
Dr.. Finck's hospital, located on
Westover Boulevard in the build
ing formerly occupied by the Scott
Sales Co., is equipped to treat
anything from a pet rabbit to an
1,800-pound horse.
Entering the building, one finds
on the left an attractive office. A
door leads from the office into the
pharmacy room, where the various
vaccines, drugs and medicines used
in veterinary work are kept. From
the pharmacy room another door
leads into the dog operating room,
which is equipped with white
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
The Part The Choir Plays
In THE Lost Colony
Dramatic p POw er of
Pageant Rests Large
ly On Its Music

Manteo, July %. - Recruited
from the ranks of students and
graduate students of the West
minister Choir school at, Princeton,
N. j., the, Lost Colony Choir, dir
rected by Eugene c. Schram, on
leave from the Westminster Pres
byterian church. in Philadelphia,
has become one of the pillars upon
which rests the dramatic power
of Paul Green's symphonic drama
being staged throughout the sum-
mer on Roanoke Island in COM
memoration of the birth of the
first child of English parents IN
America $50 years ago.
Mr.. Green's descriptive phrase is
possibly too new in the dramatic
lexicon to have sharp definiteness.
His idea is to so blend all the ele-
ments of drama that the behold
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The daily independent., 1937-07-23
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

With the NationaliStS Outside
Madrid. July 22.-U.R)-Blistering
heat today struck down more ma
tionalist soldiers than enemy bull
lets as Gen. Francisco Frances
legions beat off repeated loyalist
attacks on Hill No. $50. a foothill
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
on" Want Nd Receivers
Two Bathing Suits

"rc>t~ o. Mrs. Lon NJ. Howe,
r'' /. Vain street. lost two new
D''h'n- ., suits. They thought
'n'' had Dcen stolen from their
~ y BAKED near the corner of
~ nun an! Martin streets. Mrs.
,IONe = rn.rd a want al in The
'' Independent. One time
"a, enough Next day both
' "er" turned by the find
~ VINO had picked them up in
o. ' >'rort. where they had fall
y" -. cut OF The car.
d, '"'>' littlc want ads, the
,"''P'>i iorm of advertising,
w. Performing valuable serv-
D. ''' their users every day.
,r ''''e il22 if YOU wish to try
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

Baltimore. July 22.-U.P = The
Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, parson
who married the Duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Warfield, tonight charg-
ed that the former British king
was driven from his throne in "a
political-religious conspiracy" by
an ecclesiastical cad," the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, and "a
grandmotherly person cald Bald
win"
The former poor mans parSon"
of Darlington, England, who gain
ed international renown when he
married the ex-king and "the
woman that I love-" spoke on
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
So. Pines.
AssO. Is
Alarmed
Raleigh Meeting On
Record Against
Labor Bill
Sees Death Blow
.,Jcr, of State Industries
Hear Prophecies of
Disaster TO South

P,,.,gn July 22.-U.P)-Repre-
-, d. several major North
r.rr,.ra industries met here to-
-. denounced the Black-Con-
- r7a.~ 5.,. now before con-
--..s as destructive to industrial
-rr,~,.-y IN The South and made
- =, bring pressure against it.
Tho me tHg. at which represen-
.,--., { lumber. baking, fertil-
-s~ industries and the railroads
IKE wa, under auspices of the
:,mtsm Pines Industries associ-
r,r committee Of New Orleans,
~,., IS sponsoring opposition to
.a bill throughout the South.
KEYNOTE of Meeting
ysvo5.e Of the meeting was that
~ B,ack-C0nnery bill. or any
SIMILAR Hesitation" seeking to
s-,,a.e hours and wages. would
s.s, 2 death blow 10 Southern in
31s,yy
~Ou 1900 10 1000 members feel
ms &c. Wi. cWCail if not destroy
.s industrial, expansion we have
g,a: 25 years building in our Al
grn-.es in eastern North Caro-
Ina y. S. Bartlett. KinSton, pres
lien. Of the Eastern Carolina
Chamber Of Commerce, told the
gathering.
Tie meeting voiced the opinion
ia higher wages and shorter
hours were 10 be secured only
ec-. improved economic con-
De-. I'D no, oy means Of leg
a.@.
= . Hume. secretary of the
Sw.e-u Pines committee, told
J.. -.-uy tia. farmers throughout
Sl"a were being organized to
-~1-1 ..e Dill. He added North
|.l...Ga farmers would be con-
a. cd a, soon as possible.
Judge Guy Elliott. KinSton, at
a.GsG the bill. stating it showed
~..2o -ucy 10 Capitalization in
Washington.
And ROW IS the time to stop
La" he added. L believe in the
,ot I'D doctrine Of states rights"
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Garner Strives To Heal
Mounds OF Divided Party
Supreme Court Change Bill
Gets Formal Deuth-BIO1U

of the victors to permit any face
saving" gestures. Not only did they
refuse to brook any delay in CIV
ing Mr.. Roosevelt the worst re-
versal of his administration. but
they insisted on a roll call vote
indelibly stamping on the record
the stand of each senator.
Repeatedly they demanded of
administration senators that flat
confession bIefore crowded GAL
leries and on the public record
that no attempt will be made in
ICar,tia,1ad ON Raaa nhraaA
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Music To Be
Taught In
Schools
Public School Music
10 Make Debut Here
This Fall

Public school music will be in
troduced in the public schools of
Elizabeth City this fall for the
first time, it was disclosed yeSter-
day by Superintendent Edgar E.
Bundy.
Among the thousands of free
textbooks to be furnished the To-
cal elementary schools by the
State for the 1878 school year
will be $50 music books covering
five different stages of public
school music.
Because there has been no in
Struction given in music in the
local school classrooms hereto
fore, Superintendent Bundy says
it will be difficult to introduce all
five books this year, but that he
Continued on page five)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Hoey Acquires
New Friends
In City
,lops On Way TO Dare and
Win, Firm Supporters
by His Personality

Should Governor Clyde R. Hoey
..s. run .0r the United States
s-@a.- or any other office within
t." III. Of The people. ne will
-4'e the vote Of every last man
-' .-e F9yc sales and service or
sanitation n Elizabeth City.
Governor HOey paused at the
,.a1.-. :. Service Station. corner
Wan and Water Streets. yester-
q. afternoon. on his return from
-. N9..- Carolina day exercises
~ Roanoke Island. to refuel his
T., custom built 1897 Lincoln.
1t y"a.,ec informally with Ed
., ana Leon Lambert, station at
!. ..''.a-.s. and earning that Will
= ,-''' d. Jones. president of Caro-
'''~ Motors owners of the station,
continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
SaysPo Political-Religious Plot
DethrOned Edward n,i

"Once There Was a King" at the
Lyric theater. 1t was the first pub
lie speech of his American tour.
He was bitter in his attack on
the Archbishop of Canterbury but
had only the highest praise for
Edward, saying that the former
king may steer the nations to-
ward the star of peace and for a
time beat back the threatening
clouds of war"
WAS Edward the victim OF a
political-religious conspiracy to
bind him hand and foot and to
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Black Sheep of
Flock Is
Enjoying Life
Mutt, the Outcast, Has
Better Time Than
Twin Sister

Gum Neck. July 22.-Mutt's
twin sister was the apple of her
mothers eye. while Mutt was an
outcast from the flock of sheep to
which his mother belonged. The
forlorn little lamb was adopted
when only one day old by Miss
Hilda Jones, and who fed him
milk from a Hygeia nursing bot
tie.
AS Mutt grew older he became
4 gfeat playmate of some of the
neighborhood children and they
thought there was no better fun
than to have him back off from
them and charge with his head
down. Mutt enjoyed the fun, too;
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Natchmann Does
Well In His
New Role
Switches to Role q, Of
of Raleigh On. Short
u. ....:- ~ .DfH. nt5ai D.?
...,.. ~. Notice ....:,l,.ie

Manteo, July 22.-1n his 'flrst
appearance as Sir. Walter Ralelgh'
replacing Barry Shannon, who
was called to England to play a
role in movies, Robert Nachtmann,
product of the Carolina Playmak-
ers was a large success. With the
aid of only three days to learn the
part Natchmann played the role
without a hitch, in fact those that
didn't know of the change before
the performance were still ignor-
ant of it at the end.
Nachtmann has starred 1or
l~4:s,od an Daoa Three)
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Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Gentle to
moderate northeast winds becoming
variable; fair weather Friday.
Evening star., 1937-02-21

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 20.-Lead-
ting steels and coppers tipped the
stock market scales for gains Of one
to three points today, but many other
issues were thrown of balance by
profit selling.
As in the preceding session, steps of
world powers to equal armaments
provided the principal buying infiu-
asnce for favorites. Many issues reached
new heights since 1881.
At the same time, brokers said, the
fact next Monday is holiday caused
some traders to shelve commitments.
In addition, others wondered If the
advance in certain categories may
have been bit fast.
+, Besides the improved prospects for
Companies dealing in war equipments
of one sort or another, q supporting
factor was the lift of the domestic
copper price by customs smelter to
Is cents pound, the best level in
about seven years. The principal
producers. though, did not Immediately
follow the boost and quoted the pre-
'vious figure Of IA cents a pound
Anaconda was one Of the most
active jumpers at 64%, but Kenne-
colt ended of a shade at 64A. Beth
lehem Steel shot up to 9412 and
United States Steel ended at 114b.
The days cross currents put the
Associated Press average Of go stocks
back 0.2 of point at 1872. The total
volume of transfers was the best for
two-hour session in five weeks,
amounting to 1.484.730 shares, COM
pared with 1871, ,06o last Saturday.
A few rails reflected growing trafic
improvement.
Conspicuous forward movers were
International Nickel at TAN. American
Smelling 90, Cerro De Pasco rs,
Bridgeport Brass 22&. Phelps Dodge
53a, Mcintyre Porcupine Al, Dome
Mines 4s, Patino Mines 1814. Howe
Sound $685., Electric Boat 157s, Bar
Der Co. 4oA and Federal Mining 100.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
new YORK COTTON
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 20.-Cotton
was steady today with active evening"
up of March contracts featuring the
trading May fluctuated between 12.44
and 1910 and closed at 1912. Final
prices were one point net lower to
five higher.
The market opened one to five
points higher in response to steady
Liverpool cables, although March liqui-
dation limited the gain in the near
month. Active selling Of that position
and exchanging to later months &C
counted for the bulk of the trading.
The Commodity Credit Corp. an
nounced requests for the release Of
250,812 bales of cotton had been re-
ceived at the loan agencies of the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. through
February 49,
This total did not include additional
purchases for which requests are in
transit or in process of completion.
Amount of cotton on shipboard await
ing clearance at the close of the week
was estimated at 157 900 bales. against
100000 last year and 10000 two years
ago.
Evening star., 1937-02-21

BY the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
ST0CKS|RREGULAR
: AT WEEKS CLOSE
SteeIs and Coppers Climb
: ! to 3, While Many
=. Others Decline.

WHAT STOCKS DID
Evening star., 1937-02-21

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Cottonseed Oil.
Cottonseed oil was easier today
under liquidation and selling by for
eign interests. and in sympathy with
the lower grain market. Final prices
were at about the lowest and one to
seven points net lower. Sales, 1oe con-
tracts. Bleachable spot nominal;
March closed 1868; May, 1889; July,
1918; September, 1858; October, 1855.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
CORPORATE EARNINGS.

NEW YORK February 20 dP.-Earn-
ings reported during the week showing
profits. per share. included
Evening star., 1937-02-21

able prime Summer yellow. Io5Oa7O;
prime crude, 9,75. February. I0.2it:
March. 1922: May. 10."2b: July. 1O.29b:
Bid.
Evening star., 1937-02-21

New Orleans Prices,
NEW ORLEANS. February 90 LP-
Cotton futures closed steady at net ad-
yanceS of | to 4 points,
Evening star., 1937-02-21


In
Is,
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
FATE OF Filler
UNKNOWN

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, July %
Q.N.S0.-MrS. Ida Dahl, mother
of Harold Dahl, American aviator
repeatedly shot by Spanish insur-
gents while flying for the loyal
lists, said today she had received
no word concerning her son. She
said:
"AI I've heard Of his being
shot down was what read in
newspaper dispatches"
Dahl. she said. attended a
Spanish flying school several
months ago. He then went to
France for medical attention, she
said. Her last communication
from him was received from
France a month ago, Mrs. Dahl
said. and he stated he was re-
turning to Spain to fly for the
loyalists.
Mrs. Dahl said she did not
know much about her sons wife,
nor could she confirm or deny a
report Spanish loyalists are pay
ing his wife $500 a month while
he is in their service.
Mrs. Dahl said she was living
in the hope that Harold will
come out of it all right"
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
| STRIKE OVER,
LEWIS GLAD

At least one Of the strikes in
which John L. Lewis is interested
appeared settled today.
Peculiarly, however, the walk
out in question was not staged by
an affiliate of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, but by a
union connected with it's arch
enemy, the American Federation
of Labor.
Folk who wonder how Lewis
could be involved personally in an
A. F. of L. dispute need only jouc-
ney to Alexandria, Va, and view
the house he occupies there.
They will find painters at work,
slapping brushes all over the
place. Yesterday there were no
painters. Because yesterday the
workmen, all good members and
true of the A. F. of L. Painters
and Decorators Local Union No.
1868, were on strike against every
public and private employer in
Washington and vicinity.
Today the boys" again are ply
ing their trade. since their union
has ordered them to return to
private jobs.
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
Commons Passes
New MARRIAGE Bill

LONDON, July % U.N.S.)-The
strict British divorce laws lam
pooned by A. P. Herbert, novelist
and member Of Parliament in his
book, Holy Deadlock" were vir-
tually relegated to the limbo of
past history today.
The new marriage bill, spon-
sored by Herbert, which permits
new grounds for divorce other than
adultery, was passed by the House
of Commons, which accepted all
amendments proposed by the
House of Lords. The bill is ex-
pected to receive royal assent next
week.
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
WOMEN URGED
TO UNITE IN
POLITICS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July %
U.N.SO-A united front for
women was urged today by Miss
Anita pollitzer, of Washington,
vice chairman of the National
Woman's Party.
She told delegates to the biennial
convention of the National Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs they must
unite to protect their interests or
lose all they have gained through
years of sacrifice and struggle"
Legislation that sets woman
apart in the economic field was
denounced by Miss Pollitzer who
declared:
Restrictions on the hours,
conditions and remuneration Of
labor, when enacted, should ap-
ply alike to men and women.
Two important pieces Of bust
ness, a celebration of the Senate s
repeal of section 213 of the ma
tional economy act and election OF
officers, faced the biennial conVen'
ton.
Section 213 of the NEG has been
a "black-ball" measure of the or
ganization's for five years.
Miss Charl o. williams, fed
Grafton president, stated:
eve feel deeply grateful to
Senator Mcclellan, who intro
duced the bill, and to all those
in the Senate who helped in
passing it."
ELECTIONS TODAY
Close contests are in order for
all offices to be filled today with
the exception of the presidency.
Miss Earlene White, of Washing
ton, D. c., now first vice president,
was the only candidate for presi-
dent for the coming biennium.
Miss Amy Lewellen, of Pullman.
Wash, is up for the second vice
presidency, and Mrs. Carolyn
Weber, of Los Angeles, seeks the
third vice presidency.
Insurance Topic
Hope that insurance companies
might reduce their rates and make
easier conditions under which
women receive health policies was
held today by DR.. Minnie L. Maj
felt, of Dallas, Tex, chairman OF
the health committee.
Insurance companies, DR.. Maj
felt pointed out, would revise their
present attitude if it could be
proved that women were as good
risks as men.
NEW YORK, July % QN.S0
Eight new grounds for divorce
and more stringent regulations on
marriage were advocated for the
State today by the National Di-
yorce Reform League.
Reporting on a six months sur
Vey, in which more than 1000 per
sons in the State were said to
have been interviewed, Theodore
e. Apstein, chairman Of the
leagues legal committee, urged
that divorces be granted after
two years of legal separation
after five years of living apart,
after desertion for three years,
after abandonment and failure to
provide for three years and for
cruelty, habitual drunkenness, in
durable insanity and conviction for
. felony.
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
In Rome on Flight

ROME, July % Q.N.S0.-F. R.
Harris, of Greenfield, Ohio, who
is making an aerial journey around
the world, landed at Littoria Air
port near Rome yesterday after
noon,
The Washington times., 1937-07-23
Powell to Return

HOLLYWOOD, July 23.-Wil.
liam Powell, film star, who col
lapsed after weeks of grief over the
death of his fiancee. Jean Harlow
will be back at work Monday his
friends said today.