| /» these columns trill be
I found a fair presentation
I of local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume IX.—Number 4.
f Scrap Iron Week January 23 to 30
*tyertie County Negro Dies
N$ Result of Pistol Shot
Sunday By Sheriff Bunch
First Person Shot By
jjft Sheriff In Eight Years
i In Public Office
EXONERATED
Bullet Halts Man as He
Lunged at Officer
With Open Knife
For the first time in the eight
years he has served as sheriff of
ChovfH County, Sheriff J. A. Bunc ,
on Sut iday was obliged to shoot a I
man, as the result of which Isom
Williams, Bertie County Negro, died
in Tayloe Hospital, Washington, N.
C., early Monday morning.
Williams, about 30 years old and
weighing in the neighborhood of 200
pounds, was accompanying his moth
er, Hanna Bond,__on a bus from Nor
folk to their home near Merry Hill
At Edenton the mother, asked that
her son be held by the police until
she could get home and secure a car,
telling the officers that she was
afraid he would get in trouble on the
bus. From information secured, it
was learned that he had caused sev
eral disturbance? while on the way to
Edenton.
* .After the bus stopped, Williams
proceeded to walk up Broad Street,
and' when in front of St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church just opposite the post
office, 'Patrolman R. L. Pratt, who
- was accompanied by Sheriff Bunch
placed the Negro under arrest. When
he resisted, Sheriff Bunch left the
policy car to assist and as he neared
V/illiams he noticed that the Negro
had an open knife in his hand. The
e Sliecb • warned Pratt to let go, and
as he did, the Negro walked toward
the Sheriff, who gradually backed
back, ordering him to drop the knife.
The ‘Kegro’s only comment was “No,
sir,” and as he lunged toward the
Sheriff, the latter, in order to pro
tect himself, fired one shot from a
.38 calibre revolver into the Negro’s
body. • The bullet entered just above
the wpist and came out at the hip.
Immediately after Pratt released
the Negro, after being told by the
Sheriff that he had a knife, the of
ficer,* from the rear attempted to
kick the knife from his hand, but the
grip tightened and remained so after
he fell to the ground.
It is believed that Williams was
somewhat mentally deranged, for he
■J was' told to drop the knife and was
K told that he would be hurt if he
E didn’t. Despite this warning, how
ever, he moved toward the Sherifi
r' and as he fell almost struck him.
Williams was taken to the Tayloe
Hi Hospital in Washington, where he
died about 10 hours after he wa
shot,
tJipon learning of his death, -
coroner’s jury was summoned, and
after hearing witnesses exonerated
Sheriff Bunch, rendering a verdict
that the Sheriff shot Williams in
self defense. Witnesses who testi
fied were R. L. Pratt, D. B. Liles,
C. H. Wood, Gene Cobb and William
S. Privott. /
The coroner’s jury was composed
of C. T. Griffin, R. W. Stokely, J.
R. Byrum, Allisori Menshew, W. E.
Bond and Raymond Mansfield.
PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALL WU BE
F HOD IN EDENTON THURSDAY, JAN. 21
1
* Affair Calls For Both Square and Round Dancing
x ln Edenton Armory; Music Furnished By
Local Organizations
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W.*s. Privott, chairman of the
Prudent’s Birthday Ball, drew up
plana.with hia committees Wednesday
nlghr in the Municipal Building for
a. holding the ball on Thursday night,
■i-Janukry 29, in the local Armory.
Committees named to work with
plyrrfrott are: Concessions, Mrs. Edna
»Wte, Mrs. D. M. Reaves and Mrs.
|WShertj>n Moore; Decorating, J. Clar-
Wm anqf Leary, H. A. Campen, Kenneth
HmiSfirs and W. M, Perkins; Tickets,
|9r. B. Parrish; Publicity and Adver
-Hector Lupton, C. L. MoCul
■flerfl and 'C. E. Kramer; Square
■T P. Roberson, H. C. Good
i ft win'and Prank Ward.
K Plans call for a square dance to
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
| Coming Again |
Much as daylight saving was
opposed in Chowan County dur
ing the past summer, President
Roosevelt on Tuesday signed the
Daylight Saving Bill, which will
become effective at 2 o’clock on
the morning of February 9. The
order applies to all inter-state
commerce and federal govern
ment activities, and .will, con
trary to last summer, no doubt
become general throughout the
nation.
The law provides that clocks
be moved ahead one hour snd
to continue until isix months af
ter the end of the present war,
unless changed by iCongress.
Berrpan Thanks
Public For Good
Red Cross Work
Contributions Still Com
i ing In, Says Chair
man of Drive
With Chowan County ’bversubscrib
ing Wj quota of $2,500 for the Red
Cross War Emergency Fund, W. J.
Berryman, chairman, made the fol
lowing statement to The Herald on
Wednesday morning:
“Chowan County has again lived
up to its fine reputation for doing!
worthwhile things in a worthwhile |
w." v. We ’..’ere asked to contribute
$2,500 to the American Red Cross
Emergency Fund asked for by our
President. We are glad to announce
that we have gone beyond the goal
set for us and that contributions are
still coming in.
“The Committee employs this
,means of thanking each solicitor for
the fin spirit of cooperation mani
fested and the good work done in
making the campaign a success.
Therefore, in behalf of President
Roosevelt, the National Chairman,
Norman H. Davis, every physician,
and nurse, and every other adminis
trator of this fund, as well as every
■man, woman and child in America
and the far-flung frontiers of earth
who shaH be aided and comforted by
the American Red Cross in any of
its many ways, of serving, we, the
committee, want to thank every one
who, in any way, contributed to the
success of this undertaking for suf
fering fellow beings. It was a
orthy task—it has been well done.
thank you.”
Chowan Men Called
For Final Examination
Chowan County’s draft board has
received a call for 35 white men anr'
25 colored men to report during
February to New Bern for final phy
sical examination. These men were
registered in the two previous regis
trations which included men between
’l and 36.
be held from 8 to 10 o’clock with the,
music to be furnished by the Bertie
String Band. Round dancing will be
gin at 10 b’clock and continue until
2 o’clock with music furnished by the ;
Edenton High School Orchestra un
der the direction of C. L. McCuU’era.
This year’s celebration on a
local aspect in that no expensive out
side orchestra has been engaged, and
with the admission for spectators be
ing 6nly 25 cents and for those who
dance only 50 cents, it is hoped that
many will turn out to enjoy the af
fair and at the same time help to
raise a creditable amount in Chowan
County in the fight against infantile
paralysis. rs
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 22, 1942.
Automobile Tax
Stamps Now On
Sale In Edenton
Sticker Must Be Dis
played Before Feb
ruary 1
COSTIsS2.O9
Stamps Can Be Bought
At Post Office and Ca
rolina Motor Club
This week the new motor vehicle
tax stamps arrived at the Edenton
post office, where they may and
actually must be purchased and dis
played before February 1. Arrange
ments have also been made whereby
the stamps can be purchased at the
Edfinton office of the Carolina Motor
Club from Miss Goldie Layton,
manager.
The cost of these stamps is $2.09,
and they will be good until June 30 f
the end of the fiscal year, when new
stamps covering a whole year and
costing $5.00 must be bought. The
$2.09 is the pro rata part of the
tax for the remainder of the fiscal
year.
The tax is a new scource of re
venue and is collectable on all motor
vehicles, including passenger cars,
trucks and motorcycles that are in
use on the highways.
The stamp evidences payment of
the tax and it should be affixed to
the instrument panel, windshield or
other oonspicuous place on the vehi
cle. Each owner should write his of
her name across the stamp as a
means of cancellation.
When a stamp is purchased, the
purchaser is given a card which must
be filled out and sent to the Collectoi
of Internal Revenue at Greensboro,
for registration.
Chowan’s Grand Old
Lady Dies Monday
At Old Homestead
“Miss Pattie” Winboriu
Succumbs to Para
lytic Stroke
Miss Martha Warren Winborne,
universally loved throughout Chowan
County and ■ familiarly known as
“Miss Pattie,” passed away at the
old Winborne homestead, “Martin
ique,” about 9 o’clock Monday morn
ing. Deceased was 78 years old and
had been ill only since Sunday a week
ago, when she suffered a paralytic
stroke. She was a daughter of the
late Dr. Robert H. and Mrs. Annie
Felicia Winborne, having been bom
arid -lived all of her life in the house
where she died. f
Miss Winborne was for many years
historian of Chowan County, having
been one of the best informed persons
in the county. She was a teacher in
the public schools for many years
and later taught in a small building
at the old homestead. Numbered
among those who were taught .by
“Miss Pattie” are many of Edenton’s
most prominent citizens. She was
also a devoted church worker, and
had given up her activities only after
she was unable to attend services
regularly.
“Miss Pattie” was the oldest of
the Winborne children and is sur
vived by a sister, Mrs. B. ,S. Skinner
of Durham, and two brothers, Justice
J. Wallace Winborne of Raleigh, and
Richard Winborne of Suffolk, Va.
A number of nieces and nephews also
survive.
Funeral services which were held
at the home Tuesday afternoon at
1:30 o’clock, were largely attended,
with the Rev. C. A. Ashby officiat
ing. Interment was made in the
family cemetery near 1 the old home.
Active pallbearers were P. H.
McMullan, M. S. Elliott, E. N. El
liott, B. W. Evans, A. M. Forehand
and G. E. Nixon.
Honorary pallbeares, which includ
ed some of “Miss Pattie’s” former
students, were: Judge Richard D
Dixon, D. M. Warren, O. M. Elliott,
S. P. Winborne, Dr. Southgate Leigh,
Jr., of Norfolk, Va., William Graham
Shaw, Jr., of Wagram, John W.
Elliott, of Suffolk, Va., Hiller Fahey
Byrum, John A. Bunch, John Dave
Hobbs, A. S. Bush, Lindsay Evans,
R. E. Forehand, J. L. Savage, T. C.
Byrum, Dr. L. P. Williams and J.
G. Perry.
Drive Monday To
Secure Books For
Men In Service
Victory Book Campaign
Canvassers Will Call
For Contribution
COSTS
Shepard - Pruden Mem
orial Library Local
Headquarters
The Victory Book Campaign spon
sored by the American Library As
sociation, American Red Cross and
United Service Associations, with
State headquarters at Woman’s Col
lege, Greensboro, and Chowan County
headquarters at the Shepard-I’ruden
Memorial Library, is asking for
books to be distributed among United
States soldiers, sailors and marines
as a supplement to ’ the library ser
vices maintained by the Army and
Navy in forts, camps, posts, stations
and on ships.
This campaign will be conducted :
: in Edenton Monday, when a canvass j
will be made following the distribu
tion of literature explaining the de
tails, and it is hoped many discarded
books will be contributed for use
among the armed forces.
In order that complete coverage
of the town will be effected, Mrs.
Edna White will canvass the First
Ward, Mrs. J. W. Davis in the Sec
ond Ward, Miss Lena Jones in the
Third Ward, Mrs. C. L. McCullers
in the Fourth Ward, Miss Rebecca
Colwell in the county, C. W. Over
man the Boy Scouts, and colored
citizens will be solicited by Prof.
D. F. Walker.
Everyone is urged to have books
j ready on Monday \\Jien they will foe
| called for, but in event any are
missed or contributions are desired
'to be made later, the books friay be
| taken to the library.
] Camp librarians report that the
following are the types of books in
greatest demand: Applied Psycholo
gy, Current Affairs, Military Publi
cations, Crime and the F. B. 1.,
Police Systems and Finger Printing,
English Grammars, Arithemetic, Ai
gebra, Geometry, Trigonometry. Gal- j
cuius and Tables of Logarithms, up- 1
to-date technical books, accounting, j
shorthand, business and salesman
ship, lettering and mechanical draw-j
tng, photography, cartoons, well il
lustrated books of all types, books
about music, sports, novel and play
writing, poetry and individual plays,
.eography, travel, biography, history
and fiction along the lines of adven
ture, aviation stories, historical
novels, humor, mystery, sports and
western stories.
Annual Meeting Os
B.&L. Will Be Held
Next Monday Night
The annual meeting of the stock
holders! of the Edenton Building and
Loan Association will be held at the
Court House in Edenton on Monday
evening at 8 o’clock. As many
stockholders as possible are urged to
be present ajid for those who cannot
attend proxies, which have been
mailed, should be signed and given to
a member who will attend.
The condition of the Association is
in splendid shape, Secretary R. E.
Leary’s annual report showing that
the net rate of interest earned dur
ing the year is .07826, or almost eight
per cent, which shows an increase
over the previous year’s rate.
ROTARY MEETS TONIGHT
Edenton’s Rotary Club will hold its
regular meeting tonight (Thursday)
at 6:45 in the Parish House. The
program will be in charge of John
A. Holmes and J. Edwin Bufflap,
members of the international service
Committee. All Rotarians are urged
to be present.
District Superintendent
Will Preach Sunday At
Local Methodist Church
At the morning wroship hour in
the Methodist Church next Sunday,
the Rev. Thomas McM. Grant, dis
trict superintendent of the Elizabeth
City District, will preach. Mr.
Grant succeeds the Rev. B. B.
Slaughter as superintendent, and it
is hoped by the preacher, the Rev.
W. C. Benson, that a large congrega
tion will greet the newcomer.
Following the service, the first
quarterly conference of the church
will be held-
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Drive For Junk Expected
To Net 100,000 Pounds of
Metal For War Materials
j Passes Away
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H Mr. , jmm
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“MISS PATTIE” WINBORNE
Following a stroke of paralysis
Sunday a week ago, Miss Martha
Warren Winborne passed away
at the old Winborne homestead.
“Martinique,” in Upper Chowan
County Monday morning.
March Os Dimes
Will Be Observed
At Taylor Theatre
Badges On Sale During
Week of Jan. 22 to 28
To Raise Funds
Jimmy Earnhardt, manager of the j
Taylor Theatre, along with t'hous-]
ands of theatre managers through- j
out this section has pledged his co-
I operation in the March of Dimes in
|, rder to help raise funds in connec-
I tion with President Roosevelt’s dia
| mond jubilee birthday. March of
j Dimes Week will be observed from j
January 22 to 2S, during which time
badges will be sold at the local thea
tre, and every theatre-goer is urged
lo buy one as a small contribution
in the fight against infantile para
lysis.
At the conclusion of the drive the
threatre will report the amount col
lected to the county chairman, who
will later receive 50 per- cent of the
money for local infantile paralysis,
charities in the community.
A goodly number of badges have j
been secured by the local theatre and
Mr. Earnhardt would be delighted to
experience a sell-out.
NAMING OF NEW NAVY TRANSPORT IN
HONOR OF JOSEPH HEWES NOW ASSURED
Name Approved January 9 By Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox, Together With Eight Other
Signers of Declaration of Independence
That one of the Navy’s new trans-1
port ships will be named in honor of!
Joseph Hewes is assured in a letter
recently received by Josephus Dan
iels from Frank Knox, Secretary of
the Navy. Mr. Daniels long fostered
a move for the Navy to name one of
its ships for Hewes, and Knox in his
letter pointed out that with the as
signment of the name Joseph Hewes
for the first of the new Navy trans
ports a new source of names for this
type of vessels was opened.
In writing to Mr. Daniels, the Sec
retary of the Navy said it gave him
great pleasure to advise that under
date of January 9, 1942, he approved j
the name of Joseph Hewes along!
with eight other signers of the Dec
laration of Independence for new
transports recently acquired by the
Navy. Mr. Knox thanked Mr. Dan
iels for his interest in the matter.
Hewes, one of Edenton’s immor
tals, wrote many a colorful chapter
not only in North Carolina but also
in national history. He was one of
North Carolina’s signers of the Dec
laration of Independence. His ambi
tion for a great navy grew out of his
own experience as a large shipowner
and merchant in Edenton. Hewes
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers trill
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
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Every Citizen In County
Urged to Gather
Old Metal
MUCH INTEREST
Farmers Asked to Ob
serve Farm Repair
Week
j Scrap Iron Week will be observed
1 in Chowan County, beginning tonior
| row, January 23, to January 30, dur
i Ing which time it is hoped, to gather
! at least 100,000 pounds of old metal
I now lying useless about homes in
| Edenton and throughout the country
j side.
There is an urgent need for scrap
iron in the national defense program,
all kinds of metal -being in demand
for making materials for use in pro
secution of the war. Systematic ar
rangements have been made for dis
position of the metal gathered during
this campaign, and fair prices have
been scheduled by the government.
The metal should be taken to S. Ho
bowsky’s junk yard on North Gran
ville Street, where it will be graded
and weighed. Prices for ordinary
•scrap iron range from 40 to 45 cents
i per hundred pounds, while aluminum,
• brass, copper and lead will bring
from 2 to 8 cents per pound.
It is not the purpose of the cam
paign to dispose of any kind of metal
which may be of further use, but
| j only that which cannot be used, and
11 is of no worth whatever lyin'; about
the premises. Any metal vriiich can
be used for repairing farming im
plements should be retained, for
there is a shortage in farm machin
ery and repair parts.
In fact, during Scrap Iron Week
an appeal is directed, to Chowan
I County farmers to make a survey of
! repairs which may be necessary
| during 1942, including immediate re
! pair parts as wellas those ordinarily
required during a year’s farming op
erations. Unless some systematic
j schedule is followed relative to buy
j ing or placing orders for repair parts,
there is every likelihood that these
I parts cannot be secured when needed.
So that between January 23 and 30
farmers are urged to either buy re
pair parts or place an order with
dealers so that when the parts are
needed, the dealer may have them
ready for delivery. Apparently every
effort will be made to furnish farm
ers with necessary equipment to pro
duce crops, -but with the government
, having priority over many things
during the war emergency, there will
I most likely be some difficulty ex
j perienced if proper preparation is
! not made in placing orders for con
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j bad ships carrying on a great trade
I with England and the West Indies
before the Revolutionary War start
ed.
The outbreak of war meant a tre
mendous financial sacrifice to Hewes,
but he sitaunchly stood up for the
colonies and signed the famous
Declaration of Independence. He gave
boats and money to ‘ the Continental
cause.
America is indebted largely to
Hewes for the brilliant sen-ice o(
John Paul Jones. Hewes, who was
secretary of the Continental Con
i gress Naval Affairs Committee and
| virtually the first Secretary of the
Navy, was responsible for the eleva
tion of Jones in the. Continental
Navy.
Jones always remembered bis pa
tron, and many letters tell of the
great gratitude of the naval hero for
the Tar Heel.
“You are the Angel of my happi
ness,” Jones wrote Hewes, “since to
your friendship I owe my present en
joyments, as well as my future pros
: poets. You more than any other
■ person have labored to place the in
i struments of success in my hands.”