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I 0 3tate Library I ? ?? ? ?- ? _ : Raleigh N c greatest i I reader interest of I 0 V ^ any i .ocal^weekly j ^ | _^~~~" THIS WEEK if __ ? ? C.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. <330. -__ / f ^??*t feltaibetti City ft n *r *t tbe fatst-officg 1" ' ''"'V JSS2JHESr : ** ( ' 1 "?6- __ SINGLE COPYTFri,^ ?? ^ ? ? ? . i~i . - . tyfoiild Bore Holes in Hyde County To Let The Water Run Out I Vertical J>nunagc Projjosed For The Drying Up ef ibe Wettest County in North Caro lina JrouixJo 1 anlastic, but it Has Been Dene rv rt\ ihvon mcneill M.vh?:> ihr proposed miracle that may or may not k, ??.ltrd ?'"? ?r" proprietors or the New Holland Corporation at l.,p Udi ?>?!??'k'". citiaens of this richest and poorest of f^nlirs ?J??- ,Ju> "Prear rf trying to make a former d,fr ff I axes thai may never have be-n colleeted. have had lwK |.< til? ili"ii;hl of another and equally incredible nciromanry fcninc t" ,!' ,!l" up of IV earth to the end that Mr. (,jrdi> f s H. V(h li\r at-home campaign may havC fruitful ground in ?hhh l? nil her. I:'' I ,1,- ot orpins ? dip-. loci to ? H ? . ; ? n ' Mir ? ipitutely H i;;;: ' ? i;. ? ? into a ( Ki:!-1- : ?,ll,%vin: the K-v mi-nth am i - ( l< . K' til'1 H would H now. Hp.-:- ' -i ?' tate of I ft-, H:;h' >? !v 1 f.'!'- and H H. week. H ?" 1 ' :. ? m s. 8. H Fncinecr Ha-"" '.vh'> has lioen ? days ti\ H w Hind aiwl ' H H else H:- "ver Hcai <i:s m. tailed 'led \ci11 L;k>' a!. rw fa-. mi?- ineu vi i rtiral dnnu;2^ i? :iin;ilicity it*, [If Wn'pr. a ai>vl*>d.v knows, will tin out a h"lf 111 the tloor. if you i>rp ry h')i" IK' 1* water in Hvde hat mi2h' Hi!' >ip hill if von asked . ? to nn u;> In!" S" whv not-bore h'.|p ;n Mir <? if ? end lrt th" a*f- run ow "? "t !i '!i? hole? It Marin >*'??? ?' observing a taid- 'f ? ? . 'If kitchen Dot Ntrh'rtu: l :tn "t vertical . ' would mak? torti: ? H? cei. ul'ecl enci-, e*r- Mr Rceil came down and ?v *ii;ni:sorf boring holes at r.lxnr the county. "TOP ??t!Mtlv ?; ?;< ? v? re ?ilhrl. n'i ia'f- 'is; i down into them. . ;.>r scof tn to r.? i'iea of boring ' oi?-;t. du o .tirir. and Jelling the, r" f* i , always been o .'ni'i something ' ? J"*" y .ti.r: not :i few of his; hftbor* ti.tvc s'-offeri at Mr.; bnr,,.f vcrmal drainage.' ?.p". rii:.? the average j in low the fields' ? i * I'd i or so short j ' and riiat the water ? if. -i hole might I kfh mppi v.rut inng tip out j ?'np h'.>* ui, i rtor the ensuing! would be wetter nr. it had i v hi. The county j !'" ''' I! ? I[ R-r<;; ,to cite ill-| 1 'irillrd into} : ? ined extensive To ix ure the lands some little eleva and a hole sunk . ? would not start! Vk -'if ;.| tr; iallv ill the i TMl? M,- ... . ? hotiuht that it B" I ? i, knows? ? invoked, (ii.nhss Mr K-' ic m the : improb Bb'' ; .m ihrouch has 1 H ? Of - . c:,capc. i ? B B ?' had on ex- j .e>. The i ? i ? tough to ( B surpl'is; its crops' ^B - ;? ^B not ^B ome ? ? < ?i?rdin{? B ^b All rreposed Motel For Mantco Needs Is The Money T T. Nelson. former proprietor of ?ho Southern Hot-1 in this city. i-. promoting ? 3r> room nvxlern tour I'.t and commercial hot'l for Min v?? Roanoke Island. The proposed I >?cl would cost around $35.0|10 Mantoo n"c<is a modern hotel; ronncke T landers are enthitviasJir lor it. "All v.c need is tlic money", >*>y-. Mr. Nelson. Let a 1 You'h Was I n Death Car In S. C. Jrnies Moron. l?-ypar-old" s'?n of Mrs. J E Moran. of We: t Main 6t. is in a Charleston. S. C. hospital as ilie result of an automobile accident Wednesday morning Young Moran wa. riding with his cousin. Jacob H. Parker. 21 or Hertford, v.-ho was killed instantly when the roadster which hn was driving crashed into ih? ro^r of a truck on the Ashley River Bridge. Parker's body has been relumed to Hertford for burial. Young Moran. who has been working at a lumber mill on 6t. John's Island. S. C. since last month, was only slightly injured. Duke Architect Plans Repairs For Albemarle Hospital firorge R Berryman. architect for The Duke Endowment, was in Eliz abeth City this week to make plans and estimates of costs of repairs and improvements. Mr Eerryman completed his tentative sketches yesterday. Dr. Watson S. Rankin, director of the hospital section of the Duke Endowment plans to come to Eliz abeth City about Mai*ch 1. after the architect's plans and estimates are completed and in his hands. Duke funds to complete the purchase of the hospital will not be made avail able until after Dr .Rankin's visit. MYSTERY NOTE IN GRAND JURY PAPER CLEARED "We strongly recommend that the Board of County Commis sioners and the Solicitor insiet upon one of our officials making his deposits at the time designat ed by law. This has been brought to their attention and should be promptly attended to." i The foregoing mysterious item ap iwared in the report of the grand jury in the Superior Court of Pas quotank County this week. Lest all county ofTicials come under suspi cion. it should be stated that the official referred to is J. C. Spence Register of Deeds. The grand jury omitted his name because they be lieved him guilty of only a technical violation of the law and didn't want to embarrass him. The law requires county officals to make daily bank deposits of all collections made by their offices Few officials observe the letter of the law; Mr. Spence has been peculiar ly lax, permitting months to elapse without depositing his collections The Register of Deeds handles com paritively little money, all in small fees that amount to only about $5,000 a year. The Register of Deeds is bonded for $5,000. Mr. Spence has held the office of Register ol Deeds for a total of eight terms and has never failed to settle with the County Auditor; but he has been i lax in depositing his collections ac cording to law and there is a dis crepancy of several hundred dollars in the amount of his collections and 'his bank balance SHE WOULD BE LONELY ? WITHOUT THIS PATER "Inclosrd find renewal of my subscription," writes Mrs. Jean Sawyer, of Stiowden, N. C.. who gees cn to say: "I sure do enjoy Trading The Independent: I look for its coming as I would for a visitor. I read everything in it and would be lonely without it. '/ou may use this in your paper if you like." I Police Search For Deserter of Family Po'i- e of this city ai? attempting to loo* to on a E. Phelps, formerly onnested with th? Pasquotank Motor Co. Phelps Irtt Elizabeth City about three weeks ago, in the companv of two other young men, : leaving no word as to where ha was ? joing. lie left his wife and a child I j here. I ccal police have sent his dercrip ? 1011 to po:ue departments in cities all over the country in an attempt .to locate tiie young man who is wanted for desertion, 'lhe po;i.e think he went to a Southern stst? jiiom which they are unable te t,rt j i o.\tradition i apers. Bootleggers jGet Ail The! jLucky Breaks I Fortune today Smil*s more j ! brightly upon th? bootlegger than j j upon any other class of persons, j ? or so it seems. Rku-k well Barkley. for reveral year's Elizabeth City's j j hading bootlegger, was found j guilty in Superior Court last fall i en a chare* of attempting to i bribe Chief of Police l>eon R. \ Holmes. The Supreme Court this j week quashed the indictment against Barkley. When the case was tried, tjoth C. E Bonders. Sr. and C. E. Bander Jr. had been summoned lor jury duty. iThe name of c. E. Sanders was rall ied to serve on the Jury that heard the Barkley case, but the younger [ Sanders answered the call. The de ' fcnse moved to quash thn Indict ment on the grounds that the jury : was illegally constituted. Judge N. ! A Sinclair ruled thaf both jurors | . had been summoned for that parti- j 1 rular term of court and that neithw I of them had been chosen to serve j especially the first or second week | of court. He said that both were i duly sworn jurors and that it made [no difference which of them served 1 the first week and which the second : week. The case was tried. Barkley 1 was found guilty. Judge Sinclair sentenced him to serve from two to three years in State's Prison. ' The Supreme Court held that Judge Sinclair should have quashed the indictment. So, at present, young Barkley is free. However, it I is understood that he still is under ' $1,000 bond, for the grand jury at the next criminal term of Superior Court here can bring another in dictment against him on the same charge. [Woman's Club Wages Fight On Illiteracy ? Taking up the fight that is being I. waged against illiteracy thruout the j State, the Elizabeth City Woman's 1 j Club is conducting a night school ? j for the training of illiterate per i j sons who work during the day. .! The classes are being held in the ' high school building on Monday. Wednesday and Friday nights. So I far there are 35 pupils enrolled . these ranging in age from 14 to 70 (years. Some of these can not even i' read and write their names. Most 1; of them work in the mills and either . have had no previous educational ! opportunities or forsook their edu cation to go to work. : The teachers arc Mrs. J. G. Fear . ing, Mrs. Preston Basnett and Miss ? Sallie Bcasley. They are greatly I handicapped in their work because . of the fact that each and every i one of their pupils requires indivi > ] dual attention. With an increase in ' enrollment expected, they are ; broadcasting an appeal for another II teacher to assist them in their work. J I | The whole nervous system of the j human body is affected by eye ?, strain. Let us correct your eyes. I DR. J. D. HATHAWAY. Optometrist Carolina Bank Bldg. adv. First Showing of the Proposed Wright Memorial For Kill Devil Hill in?RE then are the first pictuies of; the proposed Wright Memorial for' Kill Devil Hill, from photographs of the architect's ok etches approved last week by the Joint committee on Library of the Hons? of Representa tives. The architects. Robt. P. Rodgecs and Alfred E. Poor of Nw j York will receive an award of $5,000 for the design The monu-1 merit will cost $*38,000. The ma terial sDcrlfied in the plana Is cement, but Congressman Warren Is working now to have this changed to North Carolina granite. The | monument will be .55 to 85 feet high.! A government reservation of 500 ? acres provided by tlie Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association will be utilized for nn airport. Congress man Warren believes that the ap propriation for the monument will be made within the next few weeks. The Wright Memorial will be one of *ne notable memorials -In Amer ica. eompereble in beauty and his toric interest to the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. Grant's Tomb and Stone Mountain. Permission to make iirst use of the pirtmse shown here was granted this newspaper because of its notable work in behalf cf the memorial. To Congressman Lind i say Warren of the First Congres I sional District of Hoitli Carolina [ belongs full credit for the passage ' of the Wright Memorial Bill in , Congress. Tim great shaft gives the impres sion of giant wings uplifted as If for a tf-ka oft flight from the creel of the great hill. This effect If heightened at night bv flood lights projected from the five points of a star shaped base upon the four sides ol the monument. A beacon tower ! projects an upward beam of light for the guidance of aviators and powerful horizontal beams for the . guidance ot .ships at sea. ' ? 1 ? "'"i JOHN C. JAMES ACANDIDATEl FOR LEG'LATURE J. Kcnyon Wilson, for six years Representative of Pasquotank County in tin* N. C. General Assembly will hove formidable opposition in the coming Pri mary election. John ('. James, of Weeksville, one of the best known and most successful farmers and j business men In Pasquotank County will oppose him. "I have been persuaded to an nounce myself a candidate lor the Legislature because Mr. Wilson hasn't the point of view of the farmer and small business man; ho is first of all a corporation lawyer and there is an uneasy feeling that corporation lawyers In control of out Legislature are not giving us a square deal. I do not impugn their honesty, but it goes without saying that it is the most natural tiling in the world for a man to be loyal to his employers." Mr. James is 57 years old. a na ! tive and resident of Salem Towa j ship. He was for 20 years secre-1 tary of the Weeksville Ginning Co., |and has been active manager of the) I company for the past four years. The Weeksville Ginning Co. is one of the oldest and most successful I business enterprises in Pasquotank1 County outside Elizabofh City. Mr. James is not inexperienced i in politics; he was for 18 months road overseer in his township; he was for two and a half years a member of the County Board of Education. He resigned from the Board of Education to serve as a County Commissioner and was on the Board of Commissioner for seven years. He has a fair understanding of most of all county departments j j and county problems. As a County i Commissioner he was most highly i J regarded. j "The nominal compensation al-1 ? lowed a member of the General Assembly makes the office unat J tractive to any one except a lawyer," says Mr. James, "but ff happens' t that January and February, the < months in which the General Assembly meets, are slack months with me and my farm is in good ; hands; I can spare the timo and j if the people want me I will serve ! them to the best of my ability." Mr. James' candidacy is expected to be highly embarrassing to Repre sentative Wilson who aspires to be Speaker of the House and who is all set 10 go to Raleigh again in 1S31 , A GOOD SPORT Joseph P. Knapp of Mackay Is land continues to exemplify good citizenship. A frw weeks ago he let it be known that he would breed mallard ducks to help replenish the game supply; now ho offers the State a fish hatchery for the pro pagation of black bass, lie is a good sport indeed who will provide his own kill of game and catch of fish i ir?\ \ d'heSANK CIE&K ^ TUC S'ODA JG.GKE.ft ' WHY WE KELP THE BATTLLESHIPS ' Do you reckon this London naval parley will if suit in the abolition of battleships?" a?ked the Soda Jcrkrr. "Hell, i!0!" exclaimed the Bank Clerk. "I have seen so much chicane, hypocrisy and bunk in in ternational relations that I have learned to expect nothing much to come out of any international parley of big power diplomats. "We have 18 battleships, which is two more than Great Britain anil eight more than Japan; they co.-t us ?10 million dollars a year to keep up and it would cost 20 million dol lars apiece to replace them. And the whole business aren't worth a hurrah in hell in this age of sub marines and airplanes. "One airplane costing $50,000 could sink every battleship we have afloat; a battleship in this year 1030 of the Lord of Battles, is the most glorified pile of junk afloat. Their guns have a range of only 10 to 10 I miles and they couldn't get within la hundred miles of any important coast line to-day before they would i be bombed from above, torpedoed | from below or sent to Davey Jones' j locker by a submarine mine." I "Well, why do we hang onto thorn?" asked the Soda Jerkcr. "For two reasons, mainly." replied the Bank Clerk: "One is the steel i trust; the other is the naval clique. I The building of a battleship means I millions for the steel mills and ship yards and when completed it makes a beautiful floating palace and a i plaything for some high inuck-a murk in the? Navy. And so every itinie you talk about, scrapping a | battleship, the naval officers and (the stepl makers unite and pull the I wires to save their bacon. The steel jtrust supplies the cash and the naval , experts supply the bunk, and the i two powerful and influential groups I working . together convince their I political friends that the battleship must be saved." ; "And so that's the way it works, is it?" gasped the Soda Jerker in wide-eyed amazement. "Yes, replied the Bank Clerk, "and lit is the way almost everything else I works in this dollarized America. 'And. having looked into the officers' quarters on one of these steel mon sters, and seen how high thnso boys | live, I'm telling you that if I were |commander of a battleship. I'd spent liny last breath shooting propaganda I for battleships. Why, Hertbert Hoover took a trip to South America | on one of them before lie entered joflice as president, and one of the j first things he did after his in auguration was to dispose of the I presidential yacht, Mayflower. Hav ing had a taste of the grandeur and | glory of such a domicile with a I thousand blue-jacketed male serv ants to kow-tow to him. even the I plain old-fashioned Hoover could | never feel at home on a mere yacht {any more. Your naval officers are (determined to save the battleship; it's the softest berth in the war | game." A Good Citizen Looking West JOSEPH HOLDER ETIIERIDGE. one of the ollest and outstanding citizens of Bertie county. no*.v CO years old. Is confined to his room by falling health and does not ex pect to live. Until recently ho was a frequent visitor to Elizabeth City. He is an uncle of S. G. Kfherldge and Mrs. W. A. Worth of this city. , The ancestors of Mr. Etherldge were early settlers In Bertia county; It was his family that named the town of Coleraine, alter the Coltratne Is ? lands off tire coast of England. He ? was a farmer, fisherman, merchant . and active In the social and political life of his country. A graduate of Trinity College, he was a class mate ? I of Senator Simmons. He helped to ' found two Methodist churches In Bertie; was a reformer who once , cleaned up nls town by jailing its ! rowdies, first having to build a Jail j to put the rowdies in. lie helped ito found Bertie's oldest newspaper land for several yearn an editor of jthe Windsor Ledger. lie was al I ways a widely read, interesting and | highly social human. I SQUEALER AND jSPY FIGURE IN COURTCASES I j The (wo most Important cases In the Criminal term of Superior C'ourf here (his week were cases in which the defendants eere be ? t rayed by alleged partners-in ! crime. The first case, that of the ' State against Sherlrick Jackson, Albert Hettrfck and Will Colson, I resulted in conviction; the second | care, that of (he State agonist Buster Evans, Negro, and Dave I Melton, white, resulted In acquit tal because of insufficient evi | dencc. j Jackson, and Hettriek, were found guilty last fall of stealing 22 turkeys from a Pasquotank farmer. Colson pleaded guilty to the same charge. Thurman C. Smith, who was with Colson when the latter was appre j liended as he was crossing Camp I ostella bridge going into Norfolk I with the stolen turkeys, was a liire ? ling of the local police and it was | liis evidence that convicted the de , fendants. Colson, because of his past record and his leadership In the foray, was sentenced to serve not less than 12 nor more than 15 months in the State penitentiary. Jackson and Hettrick received sent ences of from nine to twelve months in prison. The case took all the first day of a two-day term of court and the jury was out overnight be fore it rendered the verdict of guilty. In the other case, Evans and Mel ton were charged with manslaugh ter in connection with the rfpath on August 31. 1926, of William H. Eliis, who was run over and killed near 1 Wecksvillc. Melton turned State's !evidence and the case against him was nol prossed. The prosecution then attempted to convict the Negro Evans, but Judge M. V. nnrnhill directed that he be acquitted of the charge because of insufficient evi dence. INDEPENDENT GROCERS , SUSPECT UNFAIRNESS; Groceis Caught Selling Bootleg Fruit Want' to Know Why A. & P. Stores Are Not Molested !?i ? Prominent Elizabeth Citizens would not believe their ears if they were told that the grapefruit they had for breakfast may have bern purchased fro:n a bootlegger, but that is the i-tartling fact recently ; disclosed. A new kind of bootlegger, the citrus fruit bootlegger, has been discovered here. And in this matter of boo;:eg fruit Uie ;oca; independent grocers, having long nourished a natural and secret grudge against the chain stores, found a chance to take a crack at ; , the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. When the 'Mediterranean fruit fly. a poisonous Insect, mad? Its appear ance In Florida last year, the citrus fruit growers of that State and the whole nation were threatened with j disaster. Every pl"ce of fruit that j the fruit fly bit became infected and the larvae of the perky insect was so 6mall that it was impossib'.ej to see it with the naked eye. It appeared that it was next tc 1 impossible to exterminate ih? fly; j Its spread to all sections cf the country was feared. Th? country war, threatened with a fruit famine J The citrus fruit crop of Florida, the ! economic backbone of that state j was thretaened and the fruit grow- j ors threw up their hands in despair . jTben it woe that Uncle Sam tool1 | 'a hand. ! The Federal Farm Board appro- j prlated enormous sums of iuon?:> j with which to combat the dead'}; Mediterranean frulf fly. The U. 3 ! Department of Agriculture sot uj ? inspection posts in all sections o ! Florida infested with the fruit fly ! A quarantine was placed on Florid/ j citrus fruits slilpped to cny noin I in the Southern part of the Unite* ! j8tates that section in which th? j i fruit fly could thrive, j Every box of fruit shipped to lb I ' j section had to be government In J ispected, sterilized with a chemi a | gas and stamped by the govern I ment Inspectors before it was eve J leaded on the refrigerator cars. I: j was declared unlawful for any frui ? dealer In the Southern states to sel j any fruit that was not thus stamped 1 heavy penalties to be lm.osed a '? any person or persons caught seliin I the unsterfllzed, bootleg fruit i> ! |the South. Virginia was excepted ' Un8terllized fruit is lawful in Vir f | ginla. i ]. j This sterilized fruit has a pecuitai , (chemical taste and is not at al | I popular. Dealers found that the | . could not sell this gassed fruit, thei ' : customers demanding fresh fruit Ij its natural state. So the fruit deal jers were tempted to do just as man I did when the 18th Amendment wa ! passed?they were tempted to boot ?< |leg. And much contraband frui,' i found Its way Into the Southc-r 1, i States. ) I But Uncle Sam was not to b | cheated thus. Millions of collar j have been spent in Florida to com ' bat the fruit fly and the govern J 'meut doesn't want to stand by an (see its work and expense go t 'naught because of these fruit boot ' leggers. So Uncle Sam checked u on fruft being sold In the Scuth. ? North Carolina is a quarantine State but its Northern neighbo Virginia is not. Unsterilized fru can be shipped to Norfolk, just ovc the State line, but it is illegal t jship the same fruit here. Govern ( ; ment inspectors found that bootle fruit had been finding its way fro: Norfolk and Richmond to loci dealers. Forty-two cases of unstoi lllzed tangerines, oranges and grape fruit were seized here. Local wholesale fruit dealers di not handle this contraband frui It was found that enterprlsin; '< truck drivers brought it here frof Norfolk and peddled it oil to loci) ? retail stores. That most of tl" local retailers thus caught v,ce :v wilfully and knowingly bootlesjgin this Florida fruit and that the true j drivers who sold it to them too. i advantage of their ignorance of ti j law governing the sale of such fru lis probable. Every case of Florlaj J i fruit is labeled with a governmei ?' Ipink labol. but the iebei fruit (hat ! to be shipped to the quarantine Southern states is stamped with large S. It is doubtful that loc. retailers were aware of this did ference. It is believed that they w) 'escape with a light penalty, if ar, at all, for the law against this boo legging of fruit deals lightly wit. the retailer, severely with the whold saler and the shipper. Meanwhilj j until the shipments can be trace land the responsibility or blani place upon the proper parties, tl1 seized fruit is being kept on ro ; storage here, to lie used ar, evident if any trials result from the i? i vestigatlons of the government it j spcctors. 1 What the local independent grot ? jcrs want to know is: "Wbv was 01 , i unstamped fruit seized by I lie go> I I eminent inspector when right no ' j boxes of Florida citru. fruit bea, (Continued on Page Two) A I ;,l I .?
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