In these columns will be found a fair presentation of local ana county news of general interest. i folume .'fX. Number 23. mi..i=== » 11 \Bonner And Bailey Win In Landslide Standard Oil Company Host To Over Hundred Guests At Parish HouseTuesday Night K. T. Hammett Defends Company In Series Os Accusations k CITES~CASES ijSays U. S. Benefited By I Peace Time Contracts With Germans V " 1 [ Over 100 people from Bertie and Chowan Counties were guests of the [ Standard Oil Company at a chicken j dinner served in the Parish House I Tuesday night, when the principal ! address was made by R. T. Hammett, i special representative of the Esso | Marketers. J. A. Buglers, general | salesman for Chowan and Bertie 1 counties, presided over the meeting, || calling upon Mayor J. H. McMullan j for a brief address of welcome. 1 Immediately after a splendid din- Ener, the meeting was turned over to Bfr. Hammett, who in detail presented ■Bie circumstances which recently in fvolved his company in a Senate inves tigation and unfavorable newspaper publicity. He went back to 1929, when there was no thought of a war between Germany and the United Spates and both nations were experi menting and trying to improve pe- i troleum products. By agreement, both nations were to benefit by any new discoveries, when it appeared that a death sentence had been issued td the petroleum industry as the re sult of. reports that the natural ’source of the—product'would be ex hausted after a few years. The Germans, said the speaker, i discovered how to extract oil from low grade coal, for which process Standard paid Germany $30,000,000. Likewise, under the contract with the German dye trust, the Germans were to benefit by any discoveries tnatje by the Standard Company, one of which was an anti-knock com pound. Mr. Hammett presented many cir cumstances in connection with what he thought unfair prosecution of the Standard Company, each of which tended-‘to clear his company of any charges of violating the anti-trust laws, helping the German govern ment and even hinderig prosecution of the war for America. He, step by step, expained the development of synthetic rubber, which he said to (Continued on Page Five) 1 Cut Your Weeds^] (With weeds on vacant lots ra pidly growing, notice is today issued to owners to have these weeds cut and lots cleaned up at once. Unless this matter is at tended to by Monday* June 15, Chief of Police G. A. Helms will have this work done and the ex pense will be added to the taxes. Choice Os Chowan County Voters In Saturday’s Democratic Primary Election v I JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY Senator Bailey encountered lit tle dtfficulty in defeating Bkhand T. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, to f- «-«*«- his mat in the United Staten Senate. . THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Lions Club Plans To Be Well Represented At State Convention 16 Express Intention to Go to Raleigh Meet ing June 14 to 16 Unless something prevents, at least 16 Edenton Lions and Lionesses will attend the State Lions Convention to be held in Raleigh June 14 to 16. An incentive for a large local repre sentation at the meeting is due to the fact that the Edenton Club was hon ored this year by having a deputy district governor, Dr. W. S. Griffin, as well as the chairman of the State nominating committee, William S. Privott. The club has been very active dur ing the year, having completed more than two major activities each month ranging from helping to send sick to hospitals and providing baskets of 'food for the poor to buying war bonds. These activities called for an | expenditure of around S7OO. New Speed Zone Set Up In Chowan Speed of 35 Miles In Ef fect Mile Each Side Os Cross Roads Meeting May 21, the State High way Commission added approximate ly 105 miles to the county road sys tem and one mile on the State high way system. This one mile was a conAecting link between N. C. 110 and U. S. 276 near Woodrow, N. C., west of Asheville. The Commission approved 15 new speed zones in Durham, Mecklen burg, Chowan, Wilson, Currituck, Graham, Buncombe and Onslow counties to be added to the 180 simi lar zones already in force in every section of North Carolina. New zones established maximum limits of 40, 35 and 25 miles per hour in army camp and other congested areas. Next meeting of the State Highway Commission will be held June 26. The Commissioners set up a new 35-mile speed zone on N. C. 32 in Chowan County two-tenths of a mile in length one mile each side of Small’s Cross Roads. Other speed zones, numbering some 180, are already in force in every section of North Carolina. In 1918„ Marines fought against the Gernlans at Belleau Woods and | Chateau Thierry. 1 Bp ''^llli^^Bßl ( -jjmj Jilj A • HERBERT C. BONNER Sweeping the entire First Cen grwdonal District, Herbert Bon ner aurrsads himself as Osn- Marvin Blount and Jack Howards, frmrsmsn. easily whoring over • ' i .. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 4,1942. Fund Earmarked To Remedy Drainage In North Edenton , Edenton fls Entitled to $1,894 For Highway | Work Mayor J. H. McMullan this week I was informed by R. R. Roper, district engineer of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, that I $1,894 had been set up in way of I municipal funds for improvements to State highways going through Eden ton. Upon the recommendation of J. Edwin Bufflap, Edenton’s street com • missioner, the fund has .been ear marked for proper drainage of Broad Street going through North Edenton, where considerable inconvenience is caused after a rain and which condi tion has caused much complaint. According to Chairman L. B. Prince, the present national emer gency has resulted in a very decided scarcity of construction materials and equipment and for that reason, no definite time can be stated as to when this work will be done. The fund, however, will be retained for the pur pose in order to be available when it is possible to proceed with the work. Mrs. Dobson Resigns Secretary Merchants Mrs. Jimmy Gibbs Chos en as Successor at Special Meeting Due to the unexpected resignation I of Mrs. Grace Dobson as secretary of ' the Edenton Merchants Association, a meeting of the organization was called Monday night by President Ralph Parrish in order to name a successor to Mrs. Dobson. With sev eral persons under consideration, Mrs. Jimmy Gibbs was selected for the position and assumed her new duties Wednesday. Mrs. Dobson, who has developed into a very efficient secretary, and handled the bulk of the Association’s affairs, has accepted a position with the War Rationing Board as assist ant to the secretary, Miss Willie Love Morgan. Mrs. Dobson entered upon her new duties Monday. Junior First Aid Class Begins Next Monday Organization of a Red Cross junior , first aid class will be effected next Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock, in the school library, when any who are in terested in taking this course should i be present. The class will be taught by Mrs. R. F. Elliott. 41 Jailed In Chowan During Past Month Forty-one persons were confined in the Chowan County jail during the month of May, according to Jailer Shelton Moore’s report. Confine ments ranged from one to 60 days, netting an expenditure of S9B, which •. includes jail and turnkey fees. .. ;«■ - H| HP . . , . E||p jmSSßßmk^ '•:%-:Jsj--- ; - • HERBERT LEARY Though opposed in certain sec tions of the First Senatorial Dis trict, Herbert Leary was Ugh man in a three cornered race for Mm State Senate. Incumbent Eliminates Second Primary By Piling Up Comfortable Majority Over Marvin Blount And Jack Edwards * f I CHOWAN COUNTY’S VOTE | ’gs = - o o >. > E Ik £k &x £ > a CONGRESSMAN: Bonner 297 263 101 117 94 65 937 Blount 153 121 28 17 17 21 357 Edward? 46 46 28 7 6 139 U. S. SENATOR: Bailey 328 344 96 110 91 73 1042 Fountain 94 59 9 11 12 11 196 STATE SENATOR: Leary 445 359 121 123 113 85 1246 Evans 167 159 47 56 68 44 541 Godwin 65 92 33 41 24 14 269 REPRESENTATIVE: White —285 215 99 82 67 54 802 Campen 222 214 72 56 50 33 647 JUDGE RECORDER’S C6URT: Wilson 343 252 72 62 37 ' 77 843 Griffin 162 166 72 74 81 14 569 Chappell Closes Billiard Parlor War Has 111 Effect on Amusement Center Business After operating a billiard parlor in Eden ton for 12 years, Arthur Chappell on Monday morning failed to open the ,door_ papers, Which in most cases were fav orable to his candidacy, and the oth ers with few exceptions, were neutral. He also mentioned the great value of ; the country newspapers as a medium ' for contacting the voters. “I have found for a fact that people read , their home newspapers,” Mr. Bonner said. |Mpr ■: Pl*P, ■. B I > V { : -,v V JOHN F. WHITE IWith a majority of 155 votes, John F. White defeated J. G. Cam pen, who was seeking re election as Representative In the General Assembly. This newspaper it drew- 1 lated in the terrUom I where Advertisers «m I realise good results. $1.50 Per Year. Leary High Man In Race For Seat In State Senate QUIET ELECTION John White and Marvin Wilson Top Campen And Griffin Chowan County voters turned out in greater numbers than was ex pected in the Democratic primary election last Saturday, the voters casting 1,433 ballots in the Con gressional race, 1,449 to decide the county’s representation in the Gen eral Assembly, and 1,412 in the race for Judge of Recorder’s Court. The election was a landslide for Josiah William Bailey to succeed him self as United States Senator, the same condition prevailing throughout the State. Chowan voters cast 1,042 ballots for Bailey, while his opponent, Richard T. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, received only 196 votes. In the State as a whole Bailey was bet ter than 2 to 1. In only one county in the First Congressional District, 1 Martin, did Fountain lead, while in i Pitt he trailed Bailey by only 211 votes. , Congressman Herbert Bonner was accorded a splendid vote of confi dence to succeed himself in a three cornered race, easily eliminating a second primary by securing a com fortable majority of votes over Mar vin K. Blount and Jack Edwards, both of Greenville. Chowan voters cast 937 votes for Bonner, 357 for Blount and 139 for Edwards. In the District, Bonner carried every county, even Pitt, home county of his opponents, where his vote was 751 more than both of the other two candidates. The District voted over 22,000 for Bonner as against over 7,000 for Blount and over 2,000 for Edwards. In the State Senate race Chowan I voters gave Herbert Leary the most votes cast during the day, Mr. Leary receiving 1,246 as against 541 for Merrill Evans, of Ahoskie, and 269 for A. P. Godwin, of Gatesville. (Continued on Page Five) |_Work Or Else--_ Edenton police will begin at once to crack down on vagrants or those loafers who absolutely refuse to work. Just recently Chief of Police G. A. Helms was requested by the local employ ment office to secure 25 colored laborers, but despite the fact that many are available, he could not secure a single one to take a job. Loafers had better beware, for the Police Department intends to put in jail loafers who refuse to work when there is such a scarc ity of labor. M • -Mm || MARVIN WILSON Seeking public office for the first time, Marvin Wilson topped Charlie Griffin for judge of Re corder’s Court, polling a majority of 274 votes.