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The Independent i ?==? i VOL. XX.; NO. i,022. T loof"" ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927. Fr^y w o siuna^ SINGLE COPY 5 lJWTS> mttjiow I KmER J [0 The State of Your . ?' i* K- ??? ^H.v hi< I.?sr ^B ??**'? ? I ' ' N >r ? . rwl . ._- . ;?..., rhe Mrtvt. r..;i r*vr niw." h?' ? H ^ _ rhaT ?ii! ?i" anything -v s?:n?- r?aii.?one uiau , hi? \v?'tv H[ >. ..?!>:inns To ?.a-vnl rlh-y H . Fi 'I; him. Ft ?-.: !?? ami ??)!? ami ?. !i<?r ^B- ftt ????"? i> ?. r .* ." ?"??ar ??ins ami H1 't i r??: liv?? i; a ?iutu|>. ? ?? ? - ii has ja-ver ? ^B- ? *t;rt?rix*l ^B ? 'I'" >??>:. rlietv ? ' I'' y x- 'lirr ? ami it" ? ? t-v.-ry ? ?? V" men t.. V ; '?? V? Of ^B?; ? ; ? ?;??.? fr.-t:: u h ill tll?\V ? ? ? B" what : 'an want what v??u B . v B-? ii..:;- i.:> r -ft' -I- >',,nr Bi l- II- -i'.:.;. li:n- :I" mii.v lun 1 Y- . ln ikt' ? V' ? ..Its- ?>W!l k" your own |?flJome and Certain Re- 1 lairds (or Ambitious 1 I \oung Women I lvir? faming m ^ I r* l? Slh.im ,jai are po?ible 1 F * ntmiher of nnhitiou^ \ouns I in th? \IWirle ( ountie> I F*? the ne\; few weeks. It 1 r* i*en done a-i(i i> twins done 1 |5*?ns women who Know a I F"t thin- wlien tt\e> >ee it. 1 F'T The Iml. illtl'llt'^ If'' 1 F''"n Trii> ( ampaiun. 1 ftN- ''reat tun. definite re- I and ,t ;tn,i] time ahead for 1 F-^nrher*. or write NV tt. I Kn HiniM lf. 1 A Gates County Prize Winner MRS. F. LESLIE PIEKCX of S:ui hury. winner of the srcoml prize in the contest rcr. atiy rtnulueted hy lhi> newspaper for a : fur the Feikral n:i.n;m?e::! lu <e er.clctl on Kill I)* \ il Hill. !?? on? of the most enterprising ara? mo*t popular jcuni: of r :V. Pcuniy. Mrs. Pierre won llit* prize lor tire nam-. "The VViisht Aero l.isht." She eanie over t> r.lizuia th City Saturday ?i;;Ut ami claimed Irer Jtriie,^ choosing a Ixautiful ladies model IT; pa IT? on Trrarelet watch in place of tire gent's size Klghi which Irnri ix en advertised. The pirtrue of Mr-. Pierre is from a piioto by Hamhlin rf MifToik. ELIZABETH CITY FOLKS . IN WHOLE STATE Division cf Bank Resources and Taxable Wealth Would Give Every Person $2,700 Elizabeth City suddenly <li? covers a new claim to great ue-- that likely camu?t be ' matched b; an; V > v n in Xorth C arolina. T've j> r capita share of bank resource." ami taxable propert'" as listed on the books would give every citizen from the cradle '.<? the grave, a share of $2,700. i 'onipn : i i of the last published ?lat? m ? ? i .?! batiks shows ITli/al fih \ : !i l:cik resources of !.l ?? Ml I i? ? 1 numbers. Fifte; n million debars j- .?? It of mo!:vv for a i"?'i Iimhij people to I <? a Me t ? siiov in i ante rhsonwes. Added to the 12 niilli ? ?! 'liars in ? ixaMe property ll-twl in the elty's t;iX'lMioks ami divided l.y iu.nimi. ? niiTwlvr i f ?! habitants. it woulil . show $2.TM> per enplta. There ?nn !?' t?? qn-stian that the fitrnres over estimate actual wealth of the t'?wn. Tax books liever show m we than th:e.' fourths of the valim the ' rojierty that is listed. .Mui-h property is never listed for taxation. Kverybndy lias S.".I"i e\. a:; ;; n am! nil i f these ex ? iit| lions added together. would [irolml.lv le oiiiivnlen' to all the -rock in le al hanks that is owned our of town. Statements of th" Kliza'ieth City banks will show r? -oiuves of Sl.". ooomn. nearly It.' luiliieiis of tiiis being owned l.y ilie National Hank Croup. eo.nsistin^ i f the First & citizens National l'ank with re souree- of s|.2oO,uihi: the Yirginiu Carolina Joint Stock band Hank, with s7.itnyi.il: the Southern Trust Companv with .>'2.':4.oi'?>. and the At lantic Jiiscoiuit Corporation with SpHI.OOM. 'i'ln- Savings Itauk ,V Trust Com pany. the city's m xt oldest es lu tnercial I?..i:k. with r -oiirets that ait a'mwi:..: wi I) 'tvaesalons rapid it v. shows n -arh two million dol 1 ic.???riioeel on I'a^o Four) i BRIDGE CELEBRATION A MONUMENTAL SUCCESS Accomplished in a Big Way Everything An Event of This Kind Should Be Designed To Accomplish The Chowan River Bridge celebration participated in bv the counties of the Albemarle region at Edenton Wednesdav. Julv 20 was the most success nil celebration ever staged in the modern historv of the sec tion. My words are deliber atelv chosen. While to some a celebration ??f this kind is just another won! for a big picnic an 1 a meeting of neigh bours anil its success measured by the sixe of the crowds the real worth of rhe event is to In* tneasureil l>y ti e favorahle publicity it secures ami the impression made upon the political powers that have to sit resjiertfully in at the festivities. Now let's see what Mayor Wiggius of Kilenton and his committee ae eomplished. Here was a new and hii|>ortnnt link in a great State Highway and a national highway as well, opened to the pnhlie for the first time. The Chowan liiver Bridge was designed not only to unite the coun ties North and South of Albemarle Sound in one great territory and put the o'UiiMes North of the Sound dirt tly > n the State's great high way system: it was conceived and designed first of all as an important link in a truly Atlantic Coastal Highway extending nil the way from Montreal. Canada to Key West. Fin. Before Chowan River Bridge was huiir. Atlantic Coastal Highway t urist traffic never came near the roast a 1 plains of North Carolina until it renehed Wilmlngt Ji via Richmond and Weldoti. There were no way to route tourists thru the coastal rowns of North Carolina and the Hampton Roads eities of Virginia. hecanse traffie had to make a wide detour miles away from the coast to get away from the un I'ridded waters of the Alhemnrle Sound and Chowan River. Now They Can Come By the Coast The Chowan River Bridge changes all this. diverting Southhound traf fic fr<>m Richmond and Petersburg thru Norfolk. Elizalierh <*ity. Hert ford. Kdenton. Washington. New Hern ami Morehead City, and thence to Wilmington. Norfhhonnd traffic that formerly left the const at Wil mington ami to?k an inland course to Richmond and Fredericksburg may iiow follow the coast all the way from Wiliuingtcii to Norfolk. The true importance of Chowan River Bridge is pro ha My not so ap t aivnt to the general public here in Northeastern North Carolina to day as it was to Mirk Joh Walter Coli on and a few others who first dreamed of it. Now let's see wli.it the t uownii Itiver Bridge Celebration at Eden . T<?!> did this week. Here was the bridge. o|:eii t?? the public and ready t<> serve a great public need. Its value to the ri^rion depends upon the use that is made of it. Every automobile that rolls thru a region leaves ten dollars a day in its trail. The uuml*T of dollars tourist travel brings into a section depends upon the munlier of tourists. The num ber of tourists depends in the main upon the advertising a region gels. The Chowan River Bridge Celebra tion may be conservatively ostium t 1 ed to have given many hundred j thousands dollars worth of effee : tive advertising to the new bridge !.am| the cities it serves. The ?t i tent ion of millions of newspaper readers in several states lias lieeii directed to the new bridge and the Albemarle Region, thru hundreds of columns of newspaper publicity, during the past few weeks, thanks .largely to the effective work of j Ralph Pool, chairman of the puhli j city committee. ? It brought thousands of visitors i to Edenton who will continue to spread the news of the great bridge and the new Atlantic Coastal High I way route. And it brought news paper photographers and motion pic ! tare camera men whose pictures on ! moving picture screens and in j newspapers and automobile and tourist publications will reach mil lions during the next few weeks. "The Virginia Dare Trail" I But that is only one measure of | the success of the celebration at ' Edenton. Another measure of its success is to l?e taken in the impres I sion made iu?on State officials and (Continued on Page Four) i ^ " We offer you a superior service by examining your Eyes aud mak ing glasses for you the same day. 11'RS. J. D. HATHAWAY, Eye Sight HOW KOI DEVIL ANDKITTYHAWK |got their name ?? I ? 8' ? I I COMMODORE \\. j. TATE | | A rich, rare and racy local j flavor all its own attaches to l the latest version of the ori jgin of the names of Kill Devil 'Hill and Kitty Hawk, as given by \V. J. Tate, veteran light keeper of the Carolina coast J who lives at Coinjock. Curri tuck County. The naming off i these unique spots, date so far (back into Indian lore and the days of beachcombing that i they are legends, but they', carry a plausible ring that p Intakes them doubly interesting.; | "It was maybe more than a hun j drod years or more ago that the hill i ? from which the Wrights flew the I world's first snrcessfuul airplane,' j got its nante.' said t'apt. Tate who i was a visitor here this week. "This ' J famous spot was long noted forj j the ntunlicr of luckless ships that (Continued on Page Knur) , CHOWAN BRIDGE MONEY MAKER AT VERY START And Movement Is Already Un der Way To Make It Toll Free Forever At the present rate of tolls and traffic over Chowan River Bridge since its opening on July 1st. the bridge will pay for itself in 15 years. With the increase in traffic that will come with the paving of the approaches the bridge would pay for itself in five years. For the first 17 days in July, with the appr: aches to the bridge on both sides of the river uncom pleted. an average cf lATi ears a day lolled over the bridge, paying a toll of a dollar each. The bridge cost $.">42.12*. The sinking fund provid ing for Interest on and retirement of the bridge bonds calls for $(>"> a day.. An average of 1<W? cars a day nets the State a surplus of $100 a day on the bridge. And the traf fic has only liegnn. Tolls will l>e reduced. Another session of the General Assembly may eliminate them altogether. It was necessary .to make it a toll bridge to start, in order to get it built at all. Hut now that it is built a movement is already under way to make it toll free at ail early date. Chowan River Bridge is a per manent structure. It is built, on pc.".?st? steel reinforced concrete pilings that may l>e oxi>eeted to en dure forever. The material used In the construction of the bridge re ipiired 044 freight ears to move, which if combined into one train would have made a train eight and w half miles long, according to scnne (Continued on I'age Four! Flying to Hill to Meet j First Flight Observers \ . . I Assistant Secretary of the Navy Will Land at Kitty Hawk Friday Morning On Inspection Trip I The eyes of the nation will j [turn toward Kill Devil Hill! [again today when Assistant I , Secretary of the Navy Warner will pay a visit by airplane to the little group of Coast Guard friends who saw Wilbur and lOrville Wright launch their i gliders into space and everlast ing fame more than 20 years ? ago. ? ? ! Secretary Warner is scheduled to alight in Kitty Hnwk Bay at 11 o'clock today, according to a long ? distance message sent Thursday from headquarters to Commander Price of the Seventh Coast Guard : District at this city. He is a mem ber of the commission to determine with the Secretaries of War and , Commerce, a t.vjie of memorial for the first airplane flight and the purpose of his visit is to view the scene and to talk with those who knew the Wrights intimately aud 'saw their flights. The five living witnesses the As- j sistant Secretary is making the trip to chat with are: A. 1). Etheridge. A. W. Drinkwater and J. T. Daniels of Manteo: W. S. Dough of Kill Devil Station, and Johnny Moore of Nags Head. Keeper W. K. Lewark ' of Kill Devil Station will entertain 1 the party today. Perhaps this lltitle hand of well-h [ wishers may hare ideas of what i j they think would lie a good memor- ( iial to their friends the Wrights. At | least they will lie consulted. Coiu I niander Price 1ms sent word to them all to 1h* present, and urging til large attendance of the people in the I coast country to he on hand to show j ! their interest. A large delegation of Elizulieth City i>eople is expected to journey to Point Harlior early Friday morn ing to witness the arrival of the | AssiMtafii Secretary. Commander ! Price and other members of local Coast Guard Headquarters will go [ , down. j ! Plans A Peal Shore | For Davis Bay A tourist camp, boating and (bathing pier, dancing paviliion. r tennis courts and chicken din-j. ners figure in the plans of D. j V. Pritchard who contemplates i turning five acres of his shore ' j property on Davis Bay near; [this city into a pleasure resort. I1 | Mr. Pritchard operates a bis farm ' ] on Davis Bay and part of his prop- [?' 1 rrty is on a Muff eight feet above j, the river. There is no better hath i ing bench in the vicinity of Eliz [alieth City. , His idea is to provide a camping 1 ground for tourists with modern i ? comforts and conveniences and top ! maintain a tent colony as well for:. [townsfolk who caurt get away to i I the mountains or seashore. There;1 j would !?e tennis courts for those I who like to play tennis, swings and ] [easy chairs for those who just want j j to loaf and keep cool, and boats for j hire for those who want to go row-. ! ing or fishing. I Mr. Pritchard is one of the most , !enterprising truck growers in the!, Klizalieth City section and he would 1 j serve old fashioned country hami, and chicken dinners, evenings only, , giving his patrons meat, poultry. 1 milk, butter, fresh vegetables and | fruits from his own farm. RUCKER & SHEELY CO. ANNOUNCE ANNUAL SALE j. A shopping event of immense in-! I forest and the biggest store news, j from the cif.v this week, is the An- j I mini Mid-summer Snle of Ruekerj j& Sheely Company now underway 'nt "Elizabeth City's Best Store," as i the slogan goes. ! The mid-summer clearance of Backer & Sheely Comimny is a popu lar event because it is really a clear- j ; a lice at clearance prices. The store ; doesn't advertise sales every week' or two hut when it does announce! its few seasonal sales, they are. juiet with a hearty response. I ? | "Me and My Flapper Daughters." j ! W. (). Saunders' latest published1 j magazine article appears in the August Issue of The Amen', an Miigu-' j/iuo out this week. I <rt A^rry rw } . eV<8ANJK CIEGK SODA JCRKCG SMITH CAN BE NOMINATED, BUT i "Do von reckon ilic Dcuiocrnts nrcj going: (o nominate and elect. A1 I Suiitli Presidentasked the Soda j Jerker of the Kank Clerk. ?They may nominate him, hut | they'll never elect him."' replied the | Rank Clerk. '? "Then you di n't think he can I overcome the prohibitirci vote audi ilhe anti-Roman Catholic sentiment thritout the country"?" said the Soda ? Jerker. "It isn't that." said the Rank I Clerk. "The Democratic imrty owes too much to the Catholic vote of the icountry to knife Smith on account I of his religion. The Democratic l>arty of Cleveland and Wilson and Josephns Daniels has always hern the Roman Catholic party in the ; T inted States and would have heen! jas dead as Populism years ago hut 'for Tammany and the Roman Cath jnlic vote. One of the vagaries of politics is that after keeping a . political party alive for decades, jthe Catholics get themselves slap lied when they think they ought to) i lie recognized. f "Rut if Smith is nominated, most j of the religious op|K>sitiou to him1 i will resolve itself into a lot of pulpit noise and when the votes are count ed it will lie found that he has ear-, ried the Solid South. This will l?ej assured hy putting a Southern man j oil the tail end of the ticket. There i is already a strong boom for Moody of Texas for the vice presidency. ) "The prohibition vote need not j lie seriously feared. In spite of i their vast, numbers, the moonshin-; ers and Imofleggers are a hopeless | j minority: they would be the chief .opponents of a wet candidate, lie cause they want prohibition just J as it is: to return the country to' anything approximating aui honset degree of wetness would destroy ; their business and deprive them of 'millions of dollars of illicit profits. |A large majority of the electorate j would rote for a wet candidate. "Governor Smith has neither the j Prohibitionist nor Protestant rote 'to feijpr Thev are both one and the L same jiixl their 1 masted lotions are not altogether sincere jiikI can not lie depended ujm'ii by their leaders. "The deadly opposition to Smith will come from the moneyed inter ests of the country who are 111 the siddle to-day and will spend millions lavishly to continue in the saddle, with Oil Coolidge posing for the populace to look at. "Every big business man in New York City is ji supporter of A1 Smith for Governor of New York iNs-ause an honest State government is advantageous to him and he doesn't c:ire a hoot whether it is Hepublican or Democratic. "Kut the same New York business man who would vote for Smith for Governor of his state and who does not take party lines seriously in his own state: this same New York business man has an inborn fear of and contempt for the Democratic party nationally. The nation's big business looks upon the Democratic l?irty as a business wrecking organ ization of populistie. socialistic farmer and labor discontents. They will have none of it. And they will fear it and fight it harder under the leadership of si real leader like Smith than they would under the leadership of a less convincing per sonality. "Smith could never lie elected president: the moneyed interests of the country would see to that: they don't, want a real man in the "White House: they are satisfied with Cool idge who is servile, futile and safe. Under Cal they call run the country ?to suit themselves so Ion? as they keep Cal sufficiently entertained with his per dogs and a squad of newspaper reporters and photo graphers." (Why not get tho book of the Bank Clerk and the Soda Jerker, a choice collection of their rich and racy arguments? 50 cents by mail.) Our service is unexcelled in examin ing Eyes and fitting Glasses. DRS. J. D. 1IATHAWAL, Ere Cight speci ally:. Zi7. Youth No Handicap For Sarah ?J0 MISS SARAH SAWYER* K years old, one of the youngest of all the workers for The Independent's 1927 summer vacation trips was the win ner of the bonus of 20,000 votes for the best work done by any worker in the campaign Lust week. Miss Sawyer turned up a total of 48,000 votes by her work, last week and with the bonus of 20,000 votes is now well on her way toward earn ing her choice of one of the wonder ful vacation trips offered by this newspaper. Zoeller photo. Tell 'Em Every Time You Go Off To Town It may be none of the neigh bours' business, but failure to take your suburban neighbours into your confidence everytime you leave home may lead to embarrassing moments. Dr. J. H. Barkwell. physician at Weeksville. Pasquotank Coun ty. came to town the other he was coming to town. Hut after he g<t to town he de cided to run over to Norfolk. His neighbours didn't know that. I)r. Barkwell himself hadn't anticipat ed the trip to Norfolk. Night came on. Dr. Barkwell had not returned to Weeksville. Some of his neighbours who had come to town that day hadn't seen him in town. Night grew on aimee and the doctor's office and his home nearby were wide open and unpro tected. Weeksville homes don't have to be protected by policemen. Rut the neighbours were uneasy. Wednesday morning it was re [Mirtrd in Elizabeth City that the Weeksville physician was strange ly missing. There was much un easiness. This newspaper sent a man to Weeksville to get the facts of a strange disappearance. There sat Dr. Barkwell < n his front porch smiling. GOVERNOR SMITH'S NORTH CAROLINA EAGLE WAS "100 PER CENT AMERICAN" Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York has been obliged to dispose of the big bald eagle shipped him three week ago by Henry Ross of Fort landing in Tyrrell County. This 100 per cent .\meriran bird wasn't very social with his Roman Catholic owner and snapped viciously at the Governor when he poked his finger inside the cage. The Gov ernor sent the eagle to the zoo along with a pet coon that had rhewed tlie leg of a bear cub. The unruly North Carolina eagle which lived a day at the zoo of the executive mansion of the Governor of New York had a wing spread of seven feet. It was shipped thru Elizabeth City July 1. SEEK TO CANCEL LEASE WITH WM. FOOR CROWD Elizabeth City Hotel Corporation Starts Action Charging Breach of Contract, Against Lessees of Virginia Dare Hotel | An action charging: breach i of contract and seeking a can cellation of the lease and con tract for the operation of the Virginia Dare Hotel was start ed in the Superior Court of , Pasquotank County this week by summons served upon W. T. Bovard. Southern District Man ager of the Asociated Hotels, j Inc.. at the instance of the board of directors of the Eliza beth City Hotel Corp. The Asociated Hotels Inc., suc cessors to the Wui. Foor Hotel Corp. were the lessees of the Virginia Dure Hotel. In consideration of a long Mine lense given them by the hotel corporation, the lessee* were to have put up n band in the sum of $50,000 as a guarantee of their good faith. I They have never entered into the . IkiiuI and have insisted that they would not give bond until they took over the hotel completely finished. In other words, the directors of the hotel have l>een rushing construction on the Virginia Dare with no as surance that they would have a innjnnger when the hotel opened. The stockholders had to lie pro I tertcd. The hotel will lie completed j on August 25. say the contractors. | The furniture nud carpet men and t decorators will go in immediately and the hotel will lie ready for open ing on or about Sept. 15th. And the opening of the hotel Is not going to lie delayed., The hotel corpora- i tion nas in hand applications from numerous hotel managers. The complaint against the Asso ciated Hotels. Inc., has not lieen filed, attorneys Ehringhaus & Hall for the hotel corporation asking un til August 6 to file their complaint. The nature of the complaint is bare ly indicated, in their, affidavit ask- \ ing for time. . j -> ? i But tliore is u lot l?>liln<l this il?*^ tiou of the directors of Elizalieth City* proud new hotel. When they leased the property to Win. Foot Hotel Operating Corp. nliout a year ago it was upon representations.that the Foor people were high class and exi>ert hotel operators. The con cern had only begun at that time to bi>erate a chfiin of fine hotels in Pennsylvania. Virginia, North and South Carolina alrd Florida. But the directors of the Virginia Dare Hotel have iearned something about these chain hotel corporations within tlie past year. They have seen hotel after hotel wrecked in the hands of chain operators. They have seen a break lietween the Win Foor people and Morebend Villa II<4el at Morehead City. They have seen a break lietween the same j crowd and the Washington Duke I Hotel in Durham. These chain operators have noth ing at stake. They take hotels that communities lrnve built, load them up with heavy expenses and when they get thru with them there is nothing left for the stockholders. They not only put no money into the hotel to liegin with, but actually have the nerve to try to eliminate competition In the matter of pur <1 wising furniture and equipment, designating where everything ahull Ik*. iKinght and taking to themselves' handsome commissions on every pur chase made for the hotel out of the st( ckholders' money. The directors of the Virginia Dare Hotel don't stand for that sort of business; they are determined that Elizabeth City's new community hotel shall be run at a profit, to its stockholders and not as a plaything for non-resident lessees who have numerous high sal aried officials to take care of. It is the purpose of the hotel company to employ Its own manager and ran Its own norei. The action against the Associated Hotels. Inc. would have l?een started weeks ago but for the inability of the directors to catch an official of the leasing cori>omtion In town. Pretending to have entered Into a bona fide lease of the property they have studiously avoided coming tc Elizabeth City at a time when their presence was demanded and it ap pears that they luxve taken no stejie whatsoever in the matter of sub letting any of the shop and store sjtaces on the hotel ground floor. Something hud to be done and done , quick or Elizabeth City was in a i fair wuy to find itself with an empty hotel on its hands an the loth, of Sept. Eye strain are the greatest courre of nerve waste of the body. Have your eyes examine^ by DRS. J. D. I Ei.THC"MV r r? S'yht
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