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The Washington times., 1937-07-03
Calls 'SideIine'
Difficult
Task
Admits No Government
Agency Is Yet
IAII-Wise'

Watchwords in the little publ
cized housing program of the Re
settlement Administration have
been fitting the house to the en-
vironment," a definite statement
Of policy issued today by Secretary
Henry A. Wallace'S Department OF
Agriculture subsidiary revealed in
an article appearing in the June
issue of Architectural Forum.
The statement accompanied the
RAS first portfolio of its accom-
pliShmentS in the field of low-cost
housing which it described as "a
significant contribution in nous.
ing" and "a pattern which private
industry may study for clues to sim
plified standards of planning,
methods of construction and de-
sign"
Communities from which typical
houses were selected varied from
the "rammed earth" and adobe
cottages in Gardendale Home
steads, near Birmingham, Ala, to
the rugged looking IronWood and
Duluth Homesteads built to with
stand the cold winters in upper
Michigan and Minnesota.
Many of the communities are
developing cooperative marketing
programs, which add materially
to their incomes, the report OBJ
served. It added:
Building a house is one Of
the most difficult tasks which
can be undertaken. No archi-
tect, or builder-nO Govern.
ment agency. is today all.wiSe."
In presenting the illustrated
portfolio of small homes recently
completed, the Administration
pointed out that its purpose was
two-fold in that it desired to show
some samples of what it had
been doing in the rural and semi
rural areas and to make avail
able to those interested in small
house design and construction
some information gained from
its experiences in the small house
field.
Housing is not, nor has it
ever been Resettlement's primary
mission, the statement said.
Building of the house itself is
simply an item in the general
farm and home planning 1t
works out with persons who
make their living in towns but
supplement their incomes by
raising certain kinds of agricul-
tural products.
Cost specifications were omitted
from the portfolio, the statement
explaining they would be mis-,
leading because no individual
who tried to build at such figures
could do so due to costs he would
be obliged to meet which the
Government would not incur and
others the Government met
which would not appear on the
bill of an individual builder.
The Washington times., 1937-07-03
Extra Bathroom Used
In Modern Homes

adding a bathroom or making over
an old one will come back many.
fold by making the house more
marketable.
Many old houses have small
rooms or large closets that can
be converted, or some of the ex-
cess hall space may be used to
create an additional bathroom.
An ingenious architect can usu.
ally find some spot that can be
used, and the physical difficulties
Of installation can be overcome
with a little careful planning.
The Washington times., 1937-07-03
Materials and Equipment
For the Home

} posed to the air as compared to the
volume of heated water in the
pipes.
For this reason, just as it is i'm
portant that the storage tank be
insulated, it is also important that,
whenever space will permit, the
hot-water lines be insulated with
any of the several good insulation
materials now available on the
market.
It is probable that the inSula-
ton of the hot-water lines will do
as much to make the operation
of the water heater economical as
will the insulation placed around
the storage tank by the manufac-
turer or the installer.
The Washington times., 1937-07-03

Our ideas Of bathrooms have
changed in the last two or three
decades, both as to the number
required and the finish and equip
ment of the rooms themselves.
Many houses that are otherwise
completely livable and structurally
sound lack sufficient modern bath
conveniences to be eligible for
financing under the terms of the
insured mortgage system Of the
Federal Housing Administration.
Frequently the money spent on
The Washington times., 1937-07-03
New Bridge Color

In addition to its unprecedented
size, there are a number Of other
aspects which make the Golden
Gate Bridge outstanding. One is
it's unusual color "a brilliant
orange vermilion. The color IL
known as international orange"
and is the same color selected q
year ago by the nations Of the
world as the standard for airway
marking purposes.
The Washington times., 1937-07-03
Dutch Colonial Home

If you're planning the exterior
painting Of a Dutch Colonial
home, this color scheme may ap.
peal to you-straw color for the
body with the trim in white; sea
green for the shutters; roof fin.
ished in dark brown shingle stain.
The porch floor may be coated
with a light tan porch and deck
paint.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
.Sheriff's Son
Back From
Hawaii
Marvine Carmine Says
No Place Like Home;
I'm Army Two Years

They call Hawaii a modern
Eden and a paradise but I'll
take Elizabeth City and the good
old United States any time" said
Marvin Carmine. son of Sheriff
Charles Carmine. upon his arrival
here yesterday after two years of
Army service in Hawaii
Young Carmine indicated. how
ever. that it was not so much
Hawaii as it was the Army's hard
boiled drill sergeants that he dis
liked.
Now 81 years old, Carmine
joined the Army in June, 1885
upon the insistence of his father
who was finding it increasingly
difficult to keep the boy out Of
trouble. He admitted yesterday
that the Army had taken a lot
of the devilishneSS out of him.
Altho he enlisted for three year:
he was able to obtain discharge
on June 26 because the Army nov
rates two years of foreign service
equal to three years of service in
this country. The government
took care of his transportation
back to Richmond, Va, where he
enlisted. He came from Honolulu
to the Brooklyn Army base on an
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Boys Club Plans O.
Formal Opening
Next Month

Plans for big formal opening
loC the Elizabeth City Boys Club
we're discussed last night by the
board members and others, stunts
and entertainment by members of
tAe club, souvenirs and refresh
mcutS.
The building is now undergoing
thorough cleaning, and the club
quarters have just been painted.
Curtains for the windows are now
oeIng made in the WPA sewing
room and should be ready to put
uD by the end of this week.
It Is likely that the public will
d. invited to drop in and inspect
a-e Boys Club quarters PRIOR to
la" formal opening.
Director Chester James attend
au.c report for the month of July
showed a total attendance of g.
w as follows: gymnasium, 286;
OdslS, 0O7, game rooms, $50; play
ground, ITS; group meeting, II;
guests, 141, and miscellaneous
bike race 50.
The director reported that at
tendance in the game rooms had
9een cut down materially during
after part of July because of the
painting being done.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12

New York, Aug. 11.-U.P)- The
battle of sour notes between Jose
Iturbi, fiery Spanish composer
and the American society OF COM
posers, was stalled temporarily to-
night until somebody can find a
translator to explain what Iturbl
meant when he supposedly SAID
American jazz was trash"
Senior Iturbi, pacing his studio
apartment and fretfully moppmg
his forehead, said he didn't mean
anything by it.
"Trash?" he exclaimed. Il do
not even know what the word
means. 1t is ridiculous! 1 have
been misquoted."
Down the street a few blocks
S. C. Mills, spokesman for the
American society OF composers,
authors and publishers, explained
the reason for the Spanish COM
poSer's anxiety.
The society has demanded from
Iturbi an explanation just what
he did say when he cut short a
broadcast at Philadelphia's Robin
Hood Dell the other night while
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Story of the Lost
Colony Travels Far

Raleigh. Aug. 11.-(U.P)-Litera-
ture on North Cardinals celebra-
ton of the birth of English civili-
zation in America at Manteo to-
day was dispatched to "12 little
Americans" in Geneva. Switzer-
land to teach them the ideals of
Americanism.
The story of the celebration and
history of the first English settlers
sent to America by Sir Walter
Raleigh. in addition to other in
formation on North Carolina, was
sent in answer to request by
Miss Helen King Gethman, teach
er of the American National Cul-
ture class of the international
school at Geneva.
Your anniversary celebration
appears to me to be an interest
ing way of presenting the story
of Virginia Dare (first child OF
English parentage in America to
nv II little Americans who have
lived abroad all their lives" Miss
Gethman wrote.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Ten Submit OnLiquOr
Charges; Detectives
Were Too Smart
Used Girls
Detective Says Bootleggers
Are Dumb; Drive to
Be Continued

The PasquC'ank County Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board,
with the cooperation Of a Nor
folk detective agency and the
County Recorders Court, served
notice yesterday that it is more
interested in he control of liquor
tlIan in the sale of liquor.
The notice came in the form of
sentences imposed by Trial JUS
tice w. C. Morse, Jr., on ten of
the bootlegging gentry who had
been shared thru the wiles of de-
tectives employed by The ABC
Board.
The ten defendants, who were
arrested last Saturday on war
rants s''-orn out by F.. G. Jacocks,
chairman of the ABC Board, were: ::
C. D. tKeppy) Ferrell, Claude
Campbell, Fred Long, Adam
(Beefy) Layden, CASTOR CSprouO
Miller, J. T. Farmer, Leslie
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Press Barred
AT Meeting
OF CIO
Few Negroes, Many
Whites Attend the End
Meeting Held In City

Newspaper men were excluded
from the meeting called by G. l,
o. leaders at Labor Hall on Par
Sonage Street. last night to Or
ganize Negro workers in the plant
of the Foreman Derrickson
Veneer Co.
The Negroes were just not there
to be organized, less than a doz-
en- showing up, altho in order to
swell the attendance an invrta-
ton to the Negro workers in the
Major & Loomis Mills at Hertford
had been invited to attend the
meeting.
A tall, black, perSonable Negro
named Alex Wright. a member Of
the National Maritime Union, a
C. I. o. affiliate. was brought out
from Norfolk to talk to the
Negroes. To a reporter for this
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12

Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. IL
W,P)-The dread society of Leop-
ard men, whose members have
murdered scores of natives and
allegedly eaten their hearts, was
debunked by the government to-
night as nothing more than a
"black legion of the Jungle"
The government began an i'm
mediate campaign to eXterminate
the organization, whose members
dress in Leopard skins and are
regarded by natives as supernat-
ural.
They arrested 80 Leopard
Men, among them George Caine,
Americo-Liberian, who was charg-
ed with being the founder of the
society. An Americo-Liberian is a
native Of mixed blood, descended
partly from native jungle tribes
and partly from American Negroes
who established the Republic of
Liberia in The early 1800's.
Gaines purpose in organizing
the society, authorities alleged
was to obtain free labor by ter
rorizing the natives. Thus, it was
charged, a descendant of the
slaves who found freedom in Lib
eria was himself establishing
slavery there.
Intending 10 start coffee farms
the government said, Caine went
to the wild Cape Mount section Of
northern Liberia. But he discov-
cred soon that labor was moi
plentiful, because the natives pre-
ferred their accustomed way ot
life.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Counties Can't
Count OnState
AidAnyLonger
Gov. Hoey Says State Has
Reached Capacity to Take
Over Obligations

Wrightsville Beach, Aug. IL
WP)-Gov. Clyde R. Hoey told
commissioners and accountants of
North Cardinals 100 counties here
today that I'VE have about reach
ed the states capacity to assume
county obligations and perform
county services"
The chief executive spoke at an
annual meeting of the state asso-
citation of commissioners and ac-
countantS, which convened here
today.
In recent years the state has
assumed responsibility for many
governmental agencies formerly
conducted by the counties, thus
relieving the counties Of tax bur-
dens hitherto imposed upon the
taxpayers of the several counties
for such activities as public schools
and public roads the construc-
ton and maintenance of the lat
ter" he said.
THE reason was clear. This
course was necessary II anything
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Meades Bitter
At Summary
Dismissal
Former Assistant Chief
l. Discharged From the
Police Force

No member of the police COM
mission has yet had the CUTS to
tell me or 10 tell the public why
have been fired from the police
department.. and I hereby cha1-
.enge the commission as a whole,
or any member of it, to come out
and tell me or tell the public why
my Job was taken from me-
With this forceful assertion,
Marion E. MeadeS, former Assist
ant Police Chief, who was ordered
to turn in his badge and uniform
yesterday, last night rested his
case for the time being.
The police commission decreed
his immediate dismissal yesterday
for the good of the department. -
When Meades returned from his
vacation week before last he was
requested to hand in his reSigna-
ton on Monday, August 2, to be-
come effective August 15. He i'm
medlaCely wanted to know why his
resignation was desired, and he
called for a hearing before the
police commission.
AT the so-Called hearing, no
Charges were preferred against
MeadeS, but the commission voted
10 discharge him, the discharge to
become effective October l and his
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
ABC Board Cracks
DOlUn On Diues
Faithful Brave
Mosquito to
Attend Service

The devil in the form of mos
quitOes is interfering with the
Good News Gospel tent meet
ings on Parsonage Street, in
the reat of the S. L. Sheep
School.
1t is necessary to burn rags
in pans to smoke the mosquitoes
out, leading some paSSers by
to wonder if smoking Is permit
ted or whether the evangelist
is giving his congregation a
sample of the smoking hell
featured by his cult? Anyway,
the mosquitoes are making for
n slim attendance, only the more
faithful converts Drawing their
StingS.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Congress to lnvesti-
gate Broadcast
ing Systems
Outside Influence
Monopoly Is Also One OF
Allegations to Be
Looked Into

washington. oug. 11.-U'R)-
CONGRESSIONAL investigation OF the
federal communications commits
s-,r and the lldio brOadcaStlng
industry. a probe the adminiStra-
tion is reported earnestly not to
desire. because imminent .oday
when the senate interstate COM
MERGE committee favorably re-
my,cd a resolution authorizing
such an inquiry.
The resolution was sponsored
BY Sen. Wallace H. White, Jr., r.,
Nc. and Authorizes the commit
zee to determine, among other
things whether the acts Of the
commission in broadcaSting cases
have been influenced by matters
no. apparent in the public re-
cords.
Wheeler Chairman
MOntana'S Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler who no longer sees eye
TO eye with the president on New
Deal legislation and who helped
scrap the chief executives cher
ished supreme court reorganiza-
tiou program. is chairman of the
committee.
The resolution authorizes the
comm. lee 10 investigate:
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
County Gets 2 NeW
School Buses

PaSquotank County has been al
lotteo two new school buses by the
State School commission, it was
learned yesterday from County
Superintendent M. P. Jennings.
The two new buses will be
FordS and will accommodate
around 60 children each. Mr.. Jen-
nings also hopes to be allotted a
new body for one of the old buses
Meanwhile. the county's 18
school buses are being thoroughly
checked and reconditioned in
readiness for the opening of the
county school in early Septem-
ber.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12

executive has made it quite plain
to the house leaders that he wants
action at this session on the wages
and hours bill. Some Well-inform-
ed Democrats felt that crop loans
would be forthcoming if this
measure was enacted and addi-
tional assurance of action on farm
legislation early next session was
given to Mr.. Roosevelt by party
leaders.
To make such a compromise
settlement possible, the house la
bor committee today removed
any Objectionable provisions
from the Wages-hours bill. The
group agreed to eliminate workers
in retail stores from restrictions Of
the bill; to reinstate workers OF
farm co-operatives; to remove a
provision which would not have
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Flora Named
President
.N.C.F.A.
Local Fire Chief for
20 Years; Is a Real
SmOke-Eater

There was rejoicing at the fire
station here late yesterday wher
word was received from Greens.
boro that Chief Jerome B. Flors
had been elected president of tht
North Carolina Firemen's ASSo-
citation.
1t was the first time Chief
Flora ha dever attained the pres
idency of the State association
and his election. made the loca,
firemen, whose hndying loyalty
and love he has won, extremely
happy.
Jerome Flora, known to the boys
as Rome and Chief, joined the
local volunteer fire department
around 1912 and was elected chief
in 1916. Shortly thereafter he
Joined the army and went over
seas, but upon his return two years
later he again was elected chief of
Tic QcPdl IillCllI, q pOoiOlOii iAS AAeto
held ever since.
A born leader Of men, Chief
Flora has never asked his men to
assume any risk which he himself
would not assume, and he usually
can be found in the forefront
when the. fire department is bat
tling a stubborn blaze, attempting
to reSuscitate a drowned person,
or performing any of its other du-
ties.
Because of a serious illness sew
eral years ago his resistance was
greatly weakened and he was ad-
vised to give up firefighting, but
he still can be found in the thick
of the fight when there is any
danger.
Incidentally, besides being Fire
Chief, Jerome Flora also manages
to hold down the jobs Of Mayor
and City Manager.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
leopard Men OF Liberia
Wiped Out And Debunked
Dread Society That Was Said to Eat the Hearts of
lis Victims Turned Out to Be Murderous
Racket to Obtain Free Labor

Without labor his project was
hopeless and so he gathered a
terrorist band, called it the So
ciety of Leopard men, and raw
aged the entire district, frighten-
ing the ignorant Negroes 20 his
will with weird ceremonies and
savage night raids on their vii
lagos, authorities alleged.
He was so successful that for
months the government itself
feared to enter the district. Fin
ally, authorities decided to act af-
ter two witnesses to the activities
of the Leopard men died under
mysterious circumstances.
Liberals fiercest fighter, Col. t
E. Davis, was ordered to wipe out
the organization. He went to
Cape Mount without revealing his
purpose and slowly gathered the
evidence on which he finally ar
rested Caine and the Others.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12

Belzoni, Miss, Aug. ll.-'u'h-
Authorities took precaustlons TO
protect H. E. Barnett, cotton
tenant farmer, from an angry
crowd of neighbors tonight after
he had been indicted on a charge
of numbering his 11-year-old son.
Jordan, and exposing the body TO
buzzards.
Barnett, barefooted and his
toil-seamed face beaded With
sweat was led into the Humphrey
County Grand Jury room and IN
dicted on three charges-bigamy
assault and battery on child and
first degree murder.
The crowd muttered angrlly at
Barnett. The country folk said he
always had been harsh to his two
children. He had followed the
buzzards to the body of his son
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
SIe,U Son And Left Body
To The Buzzdrds

after neighbors had threatened TO
search for the missing youth. The
body was badly mutilated.
Before the grand jury look &C
ton, Granny" Richards has re-
ported seeing buzzards flying over
the Barnett farm on Aug. 2, three
day after Jordan disappeared.
81 went to Barnett's on Tues
day morning and told them If
they did not find The boy within
an hour I would follow the buzz
yards to where he was" she said.
Within the hour Barnett led Of
ficers to the decapitated and part
ly decomposed body.
The grand jury first heard teSS-
imony of Levoid Barnett, 15-year-
old daughter of the barefooted
farmer, and Claude Mckee, fore
Continued on page seven)
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Streamlining
of Princess
Is Completed
Juliana of Holland Is
Changed From Fat
Girl to Beauty

Paris, Aug. II. (U.P)-The three
months Job of streamlining Hol-
lands Crown Princess Juliana has
been completed, her California
slimming mentor reported tonight
and the princess no longer is a
fat girl but creature of dynamic
beauty"
Where once she weighed 16O
pounds, her avoirdupois now has
been reduced to a neat 11612.
Gloria Bristol, who supervised
the task of giving the crown prln-
cess body lines more appropriate
to Hollywood than Holland, told
her method in the Paris weekly
Marie Claire" The salary she re-
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Mrs. Emma GOdWin
Dies at Home In
Williamson

williamson, Aug. II. - Mrs.
Emma Goodwin, prominent resi-
dent of this place, died at her
home on Main Street at 3 o'clock
today.
She was the widow of B. F..
Goodwin and daughter of Adam
Clark Wentz. She had lived here
for the past 81 years.
Mrs. Goodwin was II years old
end is survived by five sons, Louis
w. Goodwin of Farmville, DR..
Glover c. Goodwin of Oak Park.
ILL.,, Commander Donald c. God
win of the U. S. Naval Academy,
Vernon B. Goodwin and Charles H.
c. Goodwin of Williamson; a
brother, A. M. WentZ of Roper,
and nine grandchildren.
Plans for the funeral await the
arrival of her children.
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
Japanese Onslaught
Brings the First
Pitched Battle

Marking, Thursday, Aug. 12.-
U.H)-ChineSe armies still were
holding the Nankou Pass nor.h-
west of Peiping today, the official
Chinese central news agency re-
ported.
1t was admitted, however, that
a Japanese cavalry column from
Manchukuo had flanked the
Chinese position and was attack
ing he Chinese right flank from
the rear while the main Japanese
forces battered away at the Chin
csc front lines.
Bomb The Town
Large formations of Japanese
planes have bombed NankoW Cor
NankoU for the past two days, "
the agency said.
Japanese Cavalry regiments
which have occupied the eastern
counties of Chahar province, ad-
jacent to Japan'S base in Man
chukuo, have been withdrawn to
participate in the Nankow often
Sive.
That a general war between
China and Japan is under way
both sides have admitted since
early this week, but there still was
no severance in diplomatic rela-
tions between the two powers and
no indication that such a break
would come soon.
Guard South Sector
The major forces of the Japan
ese army in North China were
battering away a.. NankoW, but
sufficient men were kept on the
southern sector of the northern
front to ward off Chinese attacks
along both the railways leading
from the Peiping- -Tienysin area
to the south.
A Japanese column from Man
Continued on Page Threel
The daily independent., 1937-08-12
War Of The Musicians
Wnits On Translator

two American singers, Jan Peerce
and Lucy Monroe, were Warollng
Tickling My Lips
The song may have tickled their
lips, but it didn't tickle 1turbIs
ear, and he said as much. He IN
sisted the Philadelphia symphony
orchestra, which had been cool
ing it's heels waiting to go on with
Russell Benefits "Adagio Erolca' -
had been Snubbed.
The composers society wants to
know whether Iturbi also called
the American songs trash" and
has threatened to boycott nm II
Continued on page seven
The daily independent., 1937-08-12

House leaders were as confused
as their weary colleagues at the
close of another day of bewilder-
ing developments that found farm
members threatening to block all
legislation until their troubles
with Mr.. Roosevelt are adjusted
satisfactorily. One thing was plain
and that was that Mr.. Roosevelt,
smarting under the licking the
senate gave him on his supreme
court bill, is following different
strategy in his clash with the low
er house.
On the other hand, the chief