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THE CHOWAN HERALD
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King Street, Edenton, N. C.
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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1930.
THE HERALD’S
POLITICAL STAND
.Were it not that quite a few read
ers and friends have asked the editor
of The Herald why the paper has not
thus far editorially supported or op
posed one of the guberantorial candi
dates, probably not a line bearing on
the political situation would have ap
peared in this department during the
campaign.
Take it or leave it as you choose,
here’s one editor, anyhow, who does
not intend to hazard a guess on the
outcome of the June primaries, or
even so much as give you a hint how
you should vote for any of the va
rious jobs at stake whether for gov
ernor or what not. So if you are
going to depend on The Herald for
this sort of help, you are lame be
fore you start
The idea may be a new one, but
it is a sensible one. It just seems
to us it should not be the prerogative
of any newspaper to force its politi
xal convictions upon a reading public
fully able to determine for itself
whom it may favor.
So far as the editor of The Herald
is concerned, a vote will be cast for
Sandy Graham, but that is no rea
son for The Herald to search for as
much infromation as possible that
would tend to show that Graham has
a better chance than the other can
didates to win. The editor remem
bers the days when ward workers and
political bosses could be pretty well
depended upon to herd in a certain
number of votes, but believes that
that time is passed. Voters in this
day, if they are interested at all,
have plenty of means to secure what
information they desire and will vote
the way they see fit in spite of what
newspaper editors or politicians have
to say regarding favored candidates.
Perhaps, it is all right to expose
the shams of a candidate* but to
draw a comparison between one
candidate and another, doesn’t hit us
as foursquare. It should be no edi
tor’s job to voice his own preferences
and feel he is influencing voters to
follow where he may lead. It just
seems to this particular editor that
the one who does this reckons him
self as a pretty superior sort of an
individual, and J. E. B. is not that
kind of a hairpin. In fact he doesn’t
intend to make a dunce out of him
self by assuming he can be a bell
weather for those who condescend to
read his ravings.
Anybody, even the most illiterate,
can strike an average and determine
whether he is happy and satisfied,
and reach a conclusion as to who to
back on a gamble that things will
perk up livelier. That’s the way it
strikes us, anyhow. We need no one
to tell us who to chose as between
Graham, McDonald and Hoey, nor
between John White and Bill Berry
man, nor any of the others. There’s
just enough sand in our make up to
consign anyone to a different clime
if they come around for our suf
frage. Our viewpoint is that pretty
nearly everyone in Carolina, especial
ly in Chowan County or the rest of
the Albemarle, is a decent sort and
would make good in whatever office
he aspires to.
In fact we sympathize heartily
with bigoted editors who declare for
someone on the editorial page and
run straw ballots on Page 1 showing
how silly their prognostications may
be. Os course if we were a Horace
Greeley or Charles A. Dana it might
be different, but if you have read so
fr.r you can readily tell we are neith-
er one of these distinguished old
timers, one of whom went crazy try- !
ing to guess things out politically, |
and the other who never saw his j
guesses bear fruition.
For your editor you have a plain,
unassuming writer who can be inde
pendent as the dickens. The Herald
is in no way aligned with any parti
cular political or group of politicians 1
in Edenton, the County or State, and 1
for that reason doesn’t intend ;
through editorial comment to say
anything that might be detrimental
to ai»y candidate, or on the other j
hand boost another candidate.
The editor of The Herald believes
he has very few readers but who
could do better than he can, but who
tries to do the best possible under
great handicaps .and does not intend
to mar that bulPs eye by showing j
off with advice regarding politics.
However, in the matter of nomi
nating a governor, the one outstand
ing candidate is • . . gosh, the hot
weather has gone to our head.
DEATH ISSUES
ANOTHER WARNING
One minute laughter and joy,
youthful gaiety and happiness! The
next minute, almost, three fine boys :
and a scholarly and attractive gsrf,
were in Eternity! A grim and leer- 1
ing skeleton, typifying Deatft, had ;
1
Heard and seen
________________ By "BUFF”
Thanks to St. Paul’s Church hav
ing a big diocese convention, some
folks got out of bed early Wednes
day morning to attend church ser
vices. And then I asked a lady if
she had any news, whereupon she re
' plied, “Yes, I went to church this
1 morning and that’s news.” I reckon
she’s right at that because according
to the size of congregations at reg
ular preaching hours quite a lot of
, folks have quit going to church at
I aIL .... » ~,i. 1
■ o
Omigosh! Mr. Wells, please don’t
look for me in your gallery. Last
week I said I’d go in the gallery the
next time I went to the Baptist
Church, and this week a Baptist
. friend told me that only scalawags
• sit in the gallery- Ding bust it all,
; maybe that’s where I belong at. that.
■ And then on the other hand if all
■ the scalawag® sat in the gallery, the
l congregation downstairs might be
• still smaller. Maybe that’s why Pm
> a Methodist—we don’t have a gal
lery. Fact is, we don’t even need a
, few rows of the front seats any
i more.
! —o—
W. R. Horton on the first of the
month started a stunt that would be
• well for all bill collectors to follow.
■ Included in the envelope containing
> the bill of each hotel patron was
• found a package containing head
ache powders. Maybe some of the
birds living at the hotel made good
; use of the powder, and many of us
i need several headache powders along
: about the first of the month.
o
Shirley Temple may be mighty
! cute, but she has to go come to beat
this one pulled off by little Judy
Jones. Judy was attracted into the
■ new Ladies’ Shop in the hotel build
ing by the nice array of new dresses
and in her eagerness to inspect
i them started to feel of the material.
“O-o-o-oh, don’t touch them,” said
Mrs. Jim Daniels, “your hands are
dirty.” Judy yanked back her little
hands, and looking at Mrs. Daniels
. with a puzzled expressionon her face,
said, “My face is clean, may I look
; at them?” She was given permis
sion and had a good look while she
was at it.
o
Mrs. Emmett Elliott had a job on
her hands Tuesday. The Elliott
: fishing nets were taken up for the
season and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott de
i cided to treat their help to a good
- feed. Fish fry! No, siree! They
saw enough fish. The Elliotts kill
i ed a cow and had a regular beef
stew which no doubt tickled the
palates of the employees far more
than would have a herring or so.
Mrs. Elliott was in town prior to the
feed to secure the extra trimmings
to go along with the stew, and while
I haven’t heard from any who attend
ed, it’s no doubt but that they’ll not
have a hard time next year to get
help during the fishing season.
o
The bell hops at the Hotel Joseph
Hewes are now all diked out in new
uniforms of blue coats trimmed in
gold and gray trousers. They add a
big city air to the hotel. And by
gosh some of them are making good
use of the show windows as they
walk down the street. Why in the
dickens don't Mr. Horton put up a
mirror?
o
I sympathize with some of our
school teachers. As the closing of
school is at hand many friends ask,
“Are you coming back next year?”
To which question the answer is,
“I don’t know, I haven’t been asked
to come back yet.”
o
Cal Kramer thinks it just isn’t
fair. At the Rotary fish fry last
week he had the largest pile of
bones on his plate. When reminded
of his huge appetite, he blamed Par
son Ashby for slipping his bones on
the plate. The rest of the Rotarians
were too busy getting away with
fish, sc it’s a case of believing Cal
or the Parson.
o
Maybe we ought to have a church
■! taken the situation in hand and
, | wrought another of its ghastly pun
> ] ishments for violation of the high-
I way laws having to do with speed
, and recklessness!
It’s away Death has in issuing its
I warnings, hut who cares ? Motor
• fatality statistics in North Carolina
; ' respond, “Hardly anybody!” and the
I I grewsome old flesh less cadaver that
stands always between us and the
■ grave, laughs anew and plans for the
next time!
j A great fellow, Death! We get a
! cold, or have the mumps, or shake
| with ague, or run a splinter in our
hands, and we rush to a doctor to
help drive Death away!
But put us behind a steering wheel,
or some of us, and we reach out with
one hand and lovingly embrace and
help hold Death on the running
board, listening to his Satanic urg
ings “Go faster, go faster,” until
finally we come to an open bridge
draw with a toothpick guard gate!
Through it we slam and plunge into
22 feet of water and face our God in
the twinkling of an eye!
A great fellow, Death! Why ever
waste money on a doctor? Take a ]
ride, for you’ve always got a skele
ton on your running board, and, if
traffic laws mean iothing to you,
you’ll soon be one yourself!
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936.
- convention here every day. As some
i of the visiting rectors arrived in
- town to attend the convention at St.
- Paul’s Church some of the slot ma
s chines suddenly disappeared from
- their usual place. Nope, don’t know
i the reason. By gosh, maybe some
i of the preachers wouldn’t mind play
' ing them. I’m laughing up my
■ sleeve if most of the preachers would
f decide to remain in hewn.
t T,
„(. And quaking o*,, fish fryq re
minds me of the one at Walter Bis
* piug’s fishery last week for the
* Windsor Wee Club. Hec Lupton and
1 I thought we were the only Edenton
J eaters in on the feed when, in pops
c Cam Byrum, West Bynurf'and Paul
3 ols son. It wasn’t fair competition
’ because I was pitted against esters
: like Cam Byrum, A. E. Bowen, John
| Stoks, and Jim Tadlock. And can
' those boys eat? Rock muddle was
5 the main dish on the menu, but be
-1 lieve me, there was plenty of other
things. I’m not going over this
1 week for I’m scared Sheriff Fred
J Dunstan might turn up and get my
name on the Bertie tax books for
5 being in Bertie County so much.
s •
Noah Goodwin must think I’m
; running for office. On Saturday night
3 he politely yanked my Sunday cigar
. out of my coat pocket and went off
> smoking it That’s all right though,
i Noah don’t know I’m figuring on go
s ing out to his farm one of these
r days.
o
All kinds of political letters are
r going through the mails these days,
t but the one to cause the most com
< ment was received by Ernest White
! from a brother barber. The writer
■ said he attended to Clyde Hoey’s
s barbering needs, which due to the
t fact that Mr. Hoey wears his hair
. long, didn’t strike Ernest so compli
-1 mentary, and he answered the letter
s saying he could give a better hair
! cut. However, friends of Mr. Hoey
s were quick to give a good reason for
, the long hair, which is to cover a
: scar received when kicked by a mule
■ as a boy on the farm. Yep, ain’t
* politics sumpin’?
o
And while in a neighboring town
i Sunday a voter told me that the
t people were tired of being bossed
: by a gang of old heads. “We’ve
■ had lawyers in charge long enough
1 now,” said this fellow, “what we
' need for a change is officials with
■ some brains.” Omigosh again; Seems
i to me that if a fellow wants to learn
s his past history all he needs to do
s is run for some kind of an office. I
. don’t even have a history because
! when I ran for councilman I didn’t
i hear a thing—except the result.
! O
And speaking about Town Council, 1
; whoever it is that keeps track of the
; income and expenses must use only
red ink. Here’s a simple warning:
Anyone wanting anything from the
i Town Fathers that costs anything
■ might jus£ as well wait until a new
i budget is made out. They’re a tight
. bunch and I doubt if a fellow could
’ bum a cigar from them while in
session. Joe Habit took pity on
them Tuesday night and presented
: each councilman with an Arrow beer
. ash tray. The tight-wad—why didn’t
he furnish a bottle of beer to go
with it!
o
Today the Edenton High School
baseball team plays for a State
championship at Chapel Hill. The
boys have a fine team and here’s (
hoping they come back with another.
State championship tucked under j
their belt. The boys and Coach
Brogden are to be complimented ev
en if they should lose to Burlington.
If all reports are true, and if
Nina Wilcox Putnam would come ‘
through Edenton and drive across
the bridge at the Norfolk Southern
freight station, it's a cinch she
could smell something—and it
wouldn’t be peanuts, either. They
can herring roe in the old cotton oil
mill, you know!
It gets my goat that the only con
tests in the coming election will be
between John White and W. J.
Berryman for Representative, a con
test for the Board of Education, and
constable in the Second Township.
Shucks, the consam office-seekers
won’t have to even notice a fellow
now, let alone talk when passing on
the streets.
Rev. Frank Cale Enters
Bass In Byrum’s Contest
Rev. Frank Cale was the first
angler to enter a fish in the contest
sponsored by Byrum Bros. Hardware
Company. Mr. Cale thia week enter
ed a 22% -inch long bass weighing
five pounds and four ounces. He
was awarded his choice of a bait and
the catch will be recorded in the
contest for the largest fish caught
during the season. Mr. Cale used a
Shakespeare rod and reel and Rain
bow Vamp bait.
Anyone catching a fish larger than
Mr- Cale’B and bringing it to By
rum’s will also be entitled to a free
bait, and an chance at the season's
prize.
Markets seem to prefer infertile
I LENGTHY SESSION
OF TOWN COUNCIL
Principal Business Transacted Was
Approving Contract For New Well
On Fair Grounds Property
Though very few matters came up
for discussion, the meeting of Town
Council extended unteil after 10
o’clock on Tuesday night. The prin
cipal item of business transacted
was the authorization of Mayor E.
W. Spires to execute a contract for
the erection of a new well on the
Fair Grounds property. The entire
cost of the new well will be $11,285
which is complete, and will be drill
ed by ,thp Lane,Atlantic Compapy,
After the well is completed the
i present well on Freemason Street
will be repaired, which will include
regraveling to stop the flow of sand-
The cost-of this project will be S3O
per day, with a maximum amount
set at SI,OOO, the Company promis
ing to complete the work as soon as
possible.
A representative of the State
Board of Health has been in Edenton
to decide where the well could be
located and gave two sites, either on
the Fair Grounds or on town proper
ty opposite Leary Bros. Storage
Company. Due to the high cost to
lay pipe and operating expenses, it
was decided to erect the well on the
Fair Grounds property. It was said
the well will not deface the property
and would not interefere with future
development of the plot.
Representatives of the Daily Ad
vance appeared before the Board in
an effort to secure advertising space
in a special edition, but due to no
allowance made in the budget for ad
vertising, the Counci Imen rejec* j
the request.
John Creecy, colored, appeared be
fore the Board in the interest of hav
ing the Town cut a drive way into
property on West Queen Street.
No action, however, was taken about
the matter.
A letter was also tabled urging
Town Council to join the N. C. Lea
gue of Municipalities.
The condition of ’uie Police De
partment automobile was also called
to the attention of the Councilmen,
who were of the opinion that a new
car should be bought instead of pay
ing for many repairs needed. It
was decided, however, that just ab
solutely necessary repairs be made
at present.
RED MEN HONOR
A. S. HOLLOWELL
IN GREAT COUNCIL
Local Prominent Red Man Elected
Great Junior Sagamore; In Line
For Great Sachem
Chowan County Red Men have just
reason to feel honored in that one
of their members is now in line to
become Great Sachem, the highest
office among Red Men of the State.
A. S. Hollowell on Tuesday at the
meeting of the Great Council of
North Carolina held at Durham was
elected Great Junior Sagamore, third
highest office, and by virtue of this i
honor will automatically become
head of Red Men in North Carolina.
Mr. Hollowell has for a number of
years taken an active part in State
Redmanship, holding a number of
minor appointive offices in the State
organization, and this year complet
ed a three-year term on the Great
Board of Appeals. He has also
served his home Tribe for many
years as collector of wampum, and
has been very energetic in his es-
I forts to build up and maintain inter-
I est in the Order, not only in his
I home Tribe, but in the entire dis
j trict. Largely due to his efforts
Chowan Tribe has enjoyed a steady
growth in membership and at pres
ent the Tribe is in excellent financial
condition.
Three mmehers of Chowan Tribe
attended the Great Council meeting,
Mr. Hollowell leaving Sunday, and O.
H. Brown and W. J. Daniels leaving
Monday morning.
WEEK-END AT HOME
Guy Russell Parker, of Fortress
Monroe, Va., spent the week-end as
the guest of his mother, Mrs. Belle
W. Parker, in the upper end of the
County.
Commencements Begin
Sunday Night
(Continued from Page One)
will be in charge of Evelyn Brown,
giftorian, who will present the grad
uates with gifts, many of which will
reflect characteristics of the recip
ients during their school days or
later in life. The Class Day exer
cises will come to a close with the
valedictory address by Mary Eliza
beth Cates.
Final commencement exercises will
be held Tuesday night at 8 o’clock.
For this occasion the address to the
Seniors will ‘be made by Leon R.
Meadows, president of East Carolina
Teachers College, at Greenville.
There were 30 members in this
year’s graduating class, but a note of
sorrow will prevail among the stu
dents and faculty due to the sudden
demise of Ernie Bunch, one of the
outstanding students of her class,
Who was drowned Saturday night.
Superintendent John A. Holmes stat
ed this week that prospects were
bright for each member of the class
to receive their diploma thie year.
years has this been the case.
Members of the 1936 graduating
class, aside from Miss Bunch, who
will receive their diplomas Tuesday
night are:
Lillian Ainsley, Mildred Alexander,
Elizabeth Britton, Lance Bufflap,
Evelyn Brown, Elsie Lee Carden,
Mary Elizabeth Cases, William Co
field, William Corprew, Foye Cozart,
Edith G ar rett> William Gregory, Eli
zabeth Habit, Julia Henderson, Re
becca Hollowell, Arlene Jackson, Wil
lie Mae Overton, Margaret Satter
field, Lena Smith, Worth Spencer,
Margaret Spires, Vernon Spruill,
, Madeline Turner, Mildred Ward,
Edna White, Evelyn White, Sarah
Elizabeth White, Charles Wood, and
Edward Wozelka.
* Abdut* 70 members of the seventh
grade will also receive their certifi
cates to enter the first year in high
school next year.
The colored school will .'alsa com
plete their commencement exercises
Friday night when 18 are scheduled
to graduate. The members of 'the
class are:
Edith Backus, Constance Brothers,
Martha Emma Blount, Mattie Cos
ton, Mamie Brinkley, Johnnie Felton,
Dabney Percy Holley, Hattie Jerkins,
Claud Sawyer, Catherine Sharp,
Thomas Sharp, Mignon Stallings,
Vivyan Stallings, Mary Satterfield,
Dorothy Turner, Stephen Welch, Car
melia Welch, Gracie Williams.
Though greatly handicapped by
not having a central school since the
building at Cross Roads burned in
the winter, Chowan High School com
mencement exercises will start on
Sunday night at 8 o’clock, when the
baccalaureate sermon will be preach
ed at Ballards Bridge Baptist
Church. Rev. J. T. Byrum will be
the speaker in a program which in
cludes special music, including sever
al selections by the Glee Club.
On Tuesday the scene of activities
will be changed to Rocky Hock Bap
tist Church, where the graduation
exercises will be held. Rev. A. A.
Butler, of Hertford, will make the
principal address to the graduates.
The program will be very interest
ing, being interspersed with special
musical features. The diplomas will
be awarded by P. L. Baumgardner,
principal of the school, with Super
intendent W. J. Taylor awarding the
seventh grade certificates.
Fourteen students compose the
graduating class, which are as fol
lows:
Lavinia Guthrie Berryman, Homer
Allene Blanchard, Eldna Joyce Cope
land, Laura Elizabeth Monds, Cassie
Edith Nixon, Anna Belle Privott,
Evelyn Ward Smith, Julian Dorsey
Blanchard, David Edwin Byrum,
Herbert Winbome Dale, Jr., Carlton
William Goodwin, Julian Iconius
Hendrix, Josiah Goodwin Perry, and
Carey A. Privott.
Democrats Convene
Saturday
(Continued from Page One)
Davis, vice chairman; E. W. Spires,
C. T. Griffin and John R. Wheeler.
Delegates to County Convention: T.
W. Jones, E. W. Spires, Mrs. Junius
W. Davis, John R. Wheeler, C. T.
j Griffin, J. B. Webb, Julien Wood, W.
I. Hart, Jr., H. It. Leary, Mrs. R. P.
Badham, A. C. Boyce, M. W. Jack
son, W. D. Moran, S. E. Morris, L.
S. Byrum, F W. Hobbs, H. C. Good
win, M. L. Bunch, J. A. Bunch, R. F.
Eliott, R L. Pratt.
West Edenton—Committeemen: J.
L. Wiggins, chairman', Mrs. W. D.
Pruden, vice chairman; William B.
Shepard, John W. Graham, John A.
Holmes. Delegates to County Con
vention: Charlie Belch, Mrs. West
W. Byrum, John W. Graham, John
A. Holmes, Philip McMullan, Jim H.
Morgan, Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Mrs. W.
D. Pruden, William T. Satterfield,
William B. Shepard, Roy L. Spry, J.
L. Wifrjpns.
Wardville—Committeemen: T. L.
Ward, Mrs. E. N. Elliott,
vice chairman; J. J. Byrum, G. A.
Hollowell, Mrs. Belle W. Parker.
Delegates to County Convention: W.
D. Elliott, J. D. Ward, T. A. Berry
man, Mrs. A. D. Ward, J. C. Hen
drix, W D. Welch.
Rocky Hock—Committeemen: W.
H. Pearce, chairman; Miss Myra
Bunch, vice chairman; Mark Bunch,
J. N. Smith and J. C. Haste. Dele
gates to the County convention:' Z.
T. Evans, Mark Bunch, W. E. Bunch,
J. N. Smith, W. H. Pearce.
Center Hill—Committeemen: W.
H. Winbome, chairman; Mrs. R. H.
Hollowell, vice chairman; B. W.
Evans, T. L. Evans, L. W. B.elph.
Delegates to County Convention:’W.
H. Winbome, Mrs. It. H. Hollowell,
B. W. Evans and L. W. Belch.
High School Baseball
Team Invited To Play
For National Honor
- _. 4
Edenton High School’s champion
ship baseball team this week re
ceived an invitation from the Dan
Long Organization to participate in
a national high school baseball
championship contest. The national
winner would receive a cash prize of
SISOO, with SSOO . going to the run
ner-up.
According to information received
the County would be divided into
zones with the winners of each zone
participating in a play-off for the
national championship.
Local school officials appear inter
ested in the idea but are not fully
acquainted with the financial status
£&*SSL" - f
Orphanage Singing
Class Here Tonight
The singing class of Oxford Or
phanage at Oxford, will render their
annual program in the Edenton
High School auditorium tonight
(Thursday) at 8:15 o’clock. This
hour was selected in order for those
who attend Clyde Hoey’s speech in
the Taylor Theatre to have ample
time to reach the school building in
time to hear the entire program.
The class this year is reported tor
have an extremely interesting pr&J’
grom in which 14 children perform,
including a chapel choir, folk songs
and drills. The proceeds of the en
tertainment go to the orphanage,
which not only -provides for orphans
of Masons but includes children of
non-Masons aR oyer the State.
E. T. Rawlinson, orphanage chair
man of the' local Masonic Lodge, is
very anxious that a large crowd turn
out to hear the program and that *
creditable amount is raised for this
most worthy cause. " The children
will spend the night in Edenton, be
ing placed in the homes of various
friends.
Convention At St. Paul’s
Comes To Close Tonight
(Continued from Page One)
tion of Holy Communion, and at 10
o’clock listened to the annual address
of Bishop Darst.
Before making his formal address
Bishop Darst paid a lovely tribute to
Rev. Dr. William H. Milton, of St.
James Church, Wilmington, who will
retire November 1. Under Dr. Mil
ton, Bishop Darst said, St. James
“has become one of the great mis
sionary minded parishes in the
American Church” . . , "and he has
been a great preacher, a beloved and
faithful pastor and friend, a wise and
outstanding counsellor and leader
who will leave a lasting memorial in
the hearts of the people.”
In his own annual talk the Bishop
made references to the twentieth
anniversary fund, to the work among
Negro churches, the collaboration oh
the part of parishes in joining with
federal organizations in the exten
sion of welfare annuities, to mission
ary work in the field, the need of a
universal world peace and the better
purification of civic affairs every
where, and to “the utter folly of try
ing to build a civilization on mater
ialism and brute force until we real
ize that enduring values that hu
manity craves grow only out of un
derstanding and love and self sacri-.
fice.”
Reports of the committees of the
diocese were later included in the
minutes, as well as reports of w jfe
University of the South, St. Maiys
School, Thompson Orphanage, the"
Chaplain of the' University of North
Carolina, and other bodies.
Last night Dr. Milton, eulogized
earlier by Bishop Darst, substituted
as speaker for Rev. Carlton Barn
well, of Lynchburg, Va., who was re
tained from attendance by sudden
death in his family. At 7:30 o’clock
this morning Holy Communion will
again be observed, and a brief busi
ness session will precede the bicen
tennial celebration. The convention
will be brought to a close this after
noon.
Four Meet Death At
Chowan Bridge
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and calling wrecking crews from
Edenton.
The latter worked heroically,
pling for the car chassis, while vol
unteers in a boat helped by making
quick dives into the 22 foot deep
water. Smith’® body was first re
covered, then Phelps, and toward
dawn the Newbem car was hauled to
the surface and gave up the bodies
of its two drowned occupant*.
In the meantime probably a thous
and residents of this and Bertie, at
tracted out of curiosity, helped to
jam the bridge, and on both sides of
the span machines were parked two
deep for several hundred yards, in
cluding east and west bound buses
filled with travelers who repined;
the long wait they were obliged to,
endure.
One story of the night had it that|
Newbem and the two girls had beep’
visiting in the Merry Hill
hood, and in returning passed th»
Midway Filling Station Noticed,
Phelps and his companion®. The!
latter quartette are said to ly.ve im-j
mediately given chase ending m
fatality at.the draw. This tale car-'
ried with ft the report that Phelpt
and his three companions were anx
ious to -Overhaul and take the tw<
girls away from the Newbems. j
Toward daybreak, however, Dai
had a talk with Cobb and Freeman,
and while both admitted
and racing prior to the accidents the
asserted they first met up with th|
Newbem party between the Midwaj
Filling Station and Edenhouse poinf
Cobb told Dail that Phelps “steppel
on it” at once and at Edenhouw
caught up with the advance car, an
rowdishly ran into it with a bar
bump.
Lloyd Newbem, the driver of tl
first car, refused to stop, howeve
and went on to the bridge at a grei
rate of speed, according to Cob
with Phelps in hotpursuit. Ha
way between the draw and we
bridge entrance, the back car bunqgf
into the other .again, and when ts
Newbem vehicle stopped at the drai
there were two further hard ‘bumj
before both machines were prerid