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fnaleish T 0 The Independent r=r ^^1,,:; S?*?den Elizabeth city.~n.~c., Friday, February 16,1934. ^ iuJdX":" " single copy 5 cents tan Drain Dismal Swamp Intojl Knobbs Creek With Canal That! ^lre?: :!y Exists, Say Old Timers |! ... . canal already exists which, when clean- ; , ,-re practical! u the same purpose as the 1 '? die Public Utilities Commission pro- ? ' n round $180,000 of CWA money, is ; given this newspaper by C. E. Over-\ d ranee agent, and Is confirmed by, '?-pens of the town and county. And i'x canal will cost but a fraction of what .. . onsh'uet a new one. I . -'.mission s p an j ? , Sc. ,onu> thrc?j I -free waler at' -x- ques.io.'.: "If I Commission rs I ? v is con:.):;1: ? en begun jus: ? War Biti I was uced by I Lumber Company I mp to Knobbs I crosses Creek I ram town. Hi Dlsm.il I f around two I . o mooned a, I bud:. Trio, I: was, nearly' ?- A* i)rc5?n". I have fallen In-1 I up for mcs:' I t > spend on I :: v can.i!. I; I' K..obb> Cre '< I ion pr: poses I for.une in CWA I clean out I ? Cre?k would I " chance of cor. . . fact. the chances of the SI80.000 no: so good. It ?oved by Mrs. ; 3 State CV/A Ad r'otatnir.g Mrs. ?' - . .simple matter .a.ng the approval . ;e> in Washing A project o: .such : . be approved in . 11 as in Raleigh. 4 y that the gov a ill balk at ap . n expenditure for :fining a salt-free : ? :.r the City of Eliz -? C. largely the work of . hi- State Board of . had it been pre CV.'A officials .it ? > :i necessary to gam Harry C. Lawrence, ineer, before send .-.gh. This Mr. Law ...: have given, in all :? he decs not con to be feasible. This Jted last week that it Mr. Lawrence approved ?vithout scrutiny or in triuh. he had noth h the project. It was ponsorcd by Board of .. ers, and it was not up vreace to judge its ? r-ust H. J. Bryson, wh: .i hudy of local watet trby stratas. is like d to be unfavorabU ? -t now being pushcc ?s Commission. ' ? A oiliciaii are not on i ? :n order to carr: n -i: iy every otho in tins county woult ob.MKl nied. iv'< "i if all will I* 'u_t li .4" ?u ? .'d ej Pare 1wo> Shad Fishing Best in Years And Prices Good; The 1934 shad-fishing season. j which got underway in earnest this i -.veefc. promises to be one of the bast i toasons in years. from the stand rain: cf the fishermen, according1 .o local persons who are in close; touch with condit ons in Albemarle.} Croatan and Pamlico Sounds, which together comprise one of the prin- j cipa! fishing grounds of the ccun- ? try. j The recent cold snap, for one tiling, will contribute to a better1 shad fishing season, for it drove thousands cf shad thru the inlets! into the inland waters of the sounds. Also, the recent snow and rains im-l par.ed just enough fresh water to .he soend; to take the extreme br^ekiohness which the shad do not hke. Already fine catches of had arc being shipped to Northern markets thru this city, and shad-j fishermen are experiencing a feel ing of optimism such as they have no: felt in recent years. Som^ shad nets were ruined by .he ice which formed on them as a result of low tides during the cold snap, but not many of the shad Jj^heratea ltad put out their nets when the ccid weather set in. The ceaeon generally begins between the lO.h and 15th el February. The neak is reached in the middle of March. i Prices paid this week by the Globe F.sh Company cf this city were 18 cents for buck shad and 32 cents 'or roc shad. Black Cat Leaps From Coffin When Opened Wh:n mourning relatives and .'rlcnds ol Mrs. Annie Liverman | who ciled in the County Home last I week. opened the coffin to take a as: look at the deceased. out jump ed a big black cat. Some thought the corpse had come to life. The black cat spread consternatitn , among the mourners and there was | a mad scramble for the open air. The cat escaped in the excitement and took refuge in the ambulance , of the undertaker. The c'j.pfsc had been prepared ? for burial by a local undertaking establishment and the cat somehow go: into the coffin before the lid was screwed on. The Coffin was taken to the home cf a daughter.: Mrs. Penny Godfrey 0:1 Colonial Ave., for the funeral. It was at I Mrs. Godfrey's home that the cat _ ; escaped from the coffin to tho ? i alarm and consternation of all ! spectators. I i All the silver that has ever been | mined in the whole world since the |discovery cf America would only, make a solid cube 115 feet square, j | "Bashfulnes is an ornament to )outh, but j a reproach to old age." FEBRUARY ^ 12?Abraham Lincoln, Great .YtW??. Emancipator, born 1809. ?w *r. <-13?Emperor Pu Yi abdicates the Chinese throne, 1912. I 14?Great gold discovery in ? Australia startles world, '! $ST 185K k t t -1 -'?//IS?Battleship Maine is sunk 11 JtojjftJjjl in Havana Harbor, 1898. 15?Hawaii is annexed to I ''rVsfL United States by treaty, f I 1893. , r 'j 17?War of 1812 with England j J ended by treaty, 1815. I 2 I i IS?300th automobile rrjis tered in United Statjs, FLORA BUMS TO i BE RESKILT IN EARLYJPRINO Frozen fire hydrants and a inick freezing temperature of j IS decrees eonfronted Kliz-! ibeth City firemen who an-j ;wered to a two alarm fire inj the old Flora building on the aorthwest corner of Main and. Water Sts. at 11 o'clock Sat-! inlay night. The Flora building was gutted j and its flames '.hooting 30 to 40 feet: n the air showered sparks on everyj building within a radius of a block. 3ut spite of their handicaps, the; city's crack department confined the | names to the building in which theyj originated. But it was a five hour' fight. Josh Munden, soda dispenser, in the Den-W:od Confectionery: Store discovered the blaze at 10:55 j P. M. The entire fir? department, withj its fiye trucks and its 30 or morej men, responded to the alarm. Theyj found that the flames had surged | up thru a skylight in the rear of j the building and had reached thp roof. More disconcertaing was the discovery that the fire hydrants I were frozen. Once the hydrants' were thawed out by fires built around them, the department went into action. Hose lines were brought to play upon the fire from the first, floor, the second floor and the street.; The turret nozzle shot a two and j 5 8-inch stream of water upon the, rcof. which was burning so strongly; that flames shot into the air for a distance of 30 or 40 feet, making the fire one cf the most spectacular! over seen here. I "Fighting with great neroism, against heavy odds. the smoke-eat-1 ers confined the fire to the one| building, despite a multitude of fly-' lag sparks. It was a bad fire toj fight. The start it had when dis-1 covered, coupled wtih the delay oc-( cartoned by the frozen hydrants. I made tho job of the firemen dif- ? flcult. T*hen.' to", the rungs of the' ladders soon were caked with ice; ? the rcof from which some cf thti firemen were making* fight against, the flames was soon as slippery as glass and the meii had to cling precariously to it from s:me time; i and the firemen's coats, boots and' hats soon were frozen stiff a; the water falling up:n them quickly' froze. The fire-fighters took a great" deal of punishment in fighting that fire, but they had it under con-! trol in about an hour. However.1 the last truck d.d not leave the scene until four o'clock Sunday morning. FIcra Damage $30,000 Mayer Fiora estimated the damage to the building at around $30,000.! half of which was covered by insur ance. The building was practically a tttal loss. How much damage1 was done to the stocks and fixtures of the firms occupying the building is not exactly known, altho it rani Into the thousands of dollars. Oc-| cuoants of the building were: Economy Auto Supply Co.. Morri-1 . ette's Shoe Store, Den-Wo:d Con fectionery. A B. Seelcy's Fruit Store. John L. Wells' Print ShopJ end Griffin's Paint Shop. Mayor Flora, who is joint owner of the building with his sister, Mrs. John H. Ha'l. Jr., says they prob ably will rebuild this spring if the i adjustment with the insurance com- J pany is satisfactory. How the fire origmacea is sjuic- i thing of a mystery. Some think it | was set off either deliberately or| accidentally by thieves, but this) theory is given little credence oyj the police or the firemen. Building Not Condemned However it started, whether thru, malice or thru idle spcculatoin, the' rumor that the building had been; condemned as a fire hazard for I .ome time did a great injustice to | Mr. Flora, who in addition to being j Fire Chief is also Mayor and City, Manager and, as such, is building | inspector for the city. Mayor Flora | flatly denies the allegation. "Our building may not have been entirely safe, according to the strict- ' est standards of safety," said he, "but how many buildings here J ere?" "The Flora building was far i i;afer than a number of buildings In the downtown section that are! fully tenanted. Just because the building happened to be partially vacant, someone put out the rumor that it had been condemned. It's an utterly false rumor." The Flora buliding was construct ed by the late J. B. Flora, father of ihc Mayor, in 1901. It was one of; the town's most imposing structures | ?it the time it was erected. Coinci dentally, the building lhat occupied j the site before (lie Flora building j was destroyed by lire on a bitter) FobL'u^.' night hi.e Jast-1 Saturday nigh. It waj ?Jzo a ooin At The Height of Saturday Night's Blaze | AT the heigh: cT Saturday night's spectacular fire which gutted the! Flora retail store block at Main ar.d Water Sis. and threatened the entire, block. Photographer Frfsby snapped the above picture from his studio window in the Kramer Building. - | Negro Awarded $200.00 Judgment Against White Man Rare in the South are cases wherep J in a Negro obtains a judgment against a white man in a civil uc- j tion. One of these rare cases occur- ; red here this week when a jury in; Pasquotank Superior C:urt award- j ed Henry Pool, well-known colored barber of this city, the sum of $200 in his suit against M. D. Guard, lower Currituck merchant, whom Fool charged with malicious prose cution. Pool was- arrested last year qp a' warranty sworn out by Guard-'. u\ which it-waa charged that m had acted as an accessory to a man' named Bell who had fleeced a num ber cf Currituck people out cf small: sums of money. Bell claimed to be a representative cf a clothing con-' ccrn. He went thru Currituck last! vear taking order- for suits of clothing, which -..ere attractively priced. The customer was required to pay only a small deposit with the order and was told that the bal .anee was to be paid when the suit cidence that another c-f the town's biggest !ire.> was that which, some 15 or 1G years ago. destroyed the other Flo: a building, which was re placed by a modern structure now standing diagonally across from the building burned Saturday night. was delivered. Pool accompanied! Bell a.3 a guide, he said. Bell took a number cf orders, col-! lected the deposits and was not | heard of again for some time. He was finally apprehended and was to j be brought to trial when he showed j signs of insanity and was sent to the Sta.e Hospital. Then Mr. Guard, who had paid the sum of ] $8 as a deposit on two suits, had Pool arres e? Pool was found j guilty in Currituck Recorder's Court and was fined $150. He appealed to the Supreme Court, and the case was nol prossed. Pool, represented by Attorneys C. E. Thompson and Gecrge J. Spe.oce, brought suit against Mr. Guard for $1,000 for maMticus prosecution. The jury on Wednesday afternoon decided in Pool's favor and set the amount of damages at $200. CORN-HOG PROGRAM W. H. Pritehard, who is assisting] County Agent Grover W. Falls in signing up Pasquotank farmers who wish to participate in the corn-hog adjustment program, urges all farm ers who want to take port in this program to communicate with him without delay. He will be in Mr. Falls office daiiy until further notice. John C. James is singnnig c rn-hog contracts in the Weeksville section, and a man is being sought to ass:", in the Newland section of the county. The program is pro gressing splendidly here. ! 1 <n AHrv ^ I (Vh<P<BANJK ClkQK TU? S"OOA JLRKLU A COLLOQUY ON THE BREAD WE EAT I i "What are you c-.ir.in??" asked the Bank Clerk cf the Soda Jerker, | observing that his friend had his | jaws stuffed with food. "I'm eating who'e wheat crack ers," said the Soda Jerker. I "Why whole wheat crackers?" asked the Bank Clerk. "The trouble with the great white race to-day is that it eats bread made from white flour. To make flour white it is necessary to take j all the bran, wheat oil and certain valuable minerals and vitamins out | of it. Result is, white breads with! vital elements of the wheat removed and when people eat white bread they are cheating themselves of 1m-1 portant elements that nature puti in the wheat kernel nad intended I they should eat. I am cutting out j all white bread and eating whole! wheat." "You make me laugh!" said the' Bank Clerk. "It aint a laughing matter," in-! sisted the Soda Jerker; "any scient-i ist will tell you that in the manu facture cf white flour it is neces-, ray to remove important elements! of the wheat." j "True," said the Bank Clerk;! "But I am surprised that it has! not occurred to you that you get all j of the elements that have been sub-! traded from your wheat, from the! great variety of other foods that! make up the dietary of a civilized! man. '"The only people who need to eat bread made of the whole wheat are | people who are reduced to such dire| straits that they have to subsist! semdpaii" upon bread. Why. pec-, pie get d<t"*n to a bread diet And | | lililo else, then they need all the nutritive elements of the whole wheat. I should say that men who are reduced to bread lines should be given only whole wheat bread. ' But a person who sets his meat and greens, fish and .fowl, milk and but ? tsr. fruit and berries needn't worry | about the few vitamins and the i little oil that has been removed from I his wheat flour. And as for the I bran, the food value of bran is nil; ' it is a roughage that is beneficial I only as a bowel irritant in cares of constipation. My advice to you is to go back to yoor white bread, it tastes better and ycu don't have to punish your self to eat it. The millions of man-! kind have put their stamp of ap-j proval on it not without reason, j Instead cf worrying about the ab-| sence of the wheat germ in your, white 'oread. I'd advise you to give j more thought to the germs in your: drinking glasses." "That reminds mc," said thsj Soda Jcrker. "I saw a kid poke a: nickel in its mouth the other dayj and his daddy slapped him and told i him not 'to put money in his mouth,' that it had germs on it. "The kids mother didn't like it a| bit because the old man slapped j her youngon'. She grabbed the kid j and hissed at the old fhan, 'You old 1 fool! Don't you know that even a! germ couldn't live on the money | you make!" _______ 85 per cent of all people have de fective vision. Are you one of these? Have your ryes examined today. CP. ,J .!>. HATHA WAY, Carolina I Still Hope For CWA Money For j Primary School! Despite Secretary Ickcs' assertion thru the press this week that no more applications for PWA funds will be received because applications j already on hand will more than | cover all the funds expected to be} appropriated by the present Con-1 gvees, Superintendent Earl H. Hart iC2.ll of the City schools is still hope- j fill of obtaining a $50,000 PWA loan with which to build a new primary schcol here. Local school authorities have been trying for several months to bor row $50,000 from the Public Works Administration with which to build a new primary school building to replace the present antiquated fire trap now used by the primary grades. The matter has been hanging fire, with the PWA authorities reluctant to make the loan because of the conditicn of the finances of the City and County. Then came Secretary Ickes' announcement that no more applications for loans will ,be re ceived ty the PWA. But this, ac-| cording to Mr. Hartsell. probably will not exclude the local applica-! fion, which has never been formally rejected but is merely awaiting an ocher hearing before the technical coard of review. The application was tentatively rejected last month, but PWA au .horities stated that they would per mit the local school officials to gather additional data and present this data before the technical board of review. This data has been asembled, and Mr. Hartsell is seek ing to arrange a nearing either on 19th or on the 26th of this month. Ke expects to hear from Washing ion regarding the date this week, j "I think we have a pretty strong case now." says Mr. Hartsell, "and I believe we can show the PWA that j this loan will be as safe as the ; average one. I am by no means ! discouraged yet." Promise Higher Prices For Cukes I That, cucumbers to be available : for the Helwig & Leitch pickle plant j at Elizabeth City must be grown [ within a radius of ten miles of I Elizabeth City, was announced by \V. M. Kehs, secretary-treasurer of I the company who was open f:r con j fcrences with local growers last Fri jday and Saturday. I Mr. Kehs will be at the pickle | plant again after 10 A. M. Satur day, February 17. Helwig & Leitch I C:rp, will operate what was form erly the Foos plant. Their opera ! tions will call for a larger acreage I and higher prices arc promised for I this year's crop. The plant will 'employ about 25 people in season i and it is planned to make it the ! principal salting unit cf the Balti more firm. I ! Picket Boat, Lost Two Days, Is Found The Coast Guard picket boat from Hatteras Inlet Station which was J reported missing after leaving Wan-: J chese around noon on Monday was I located near Big Kinnakeet on Wed | nesday afternoon and was towed 1 to Hatteras. The boat, manned by Daily Nelson1 I and Erskine Oden, came to Eliz , abeth City last week to have a new! engine installed. The boat left here Friday to go to Hatteras In-' let. Because the new engine work-! (ed stiffly, progress between here and i Wanchese was slow, and the engine jdid not run fast enought to put a J good charge on the battery. When 1 the two men started to ieave Wan-. chese they found that the battery , was practically "dead" and would ' net start the stiff new engine. A1 ; new battery was sent for. and the \ battery reached Wanchese on Mon jday morning. The boat left Wan-i j chese between 11 and 12 o'clock Monday. , When the picket boat did not i reach Hatteras Inlet in a reason 1 able length of time, a search for, I her was instituted. She was found Ion Wednesday afternoon near Big i Kinnakeet, where she had been held1 up since Monday by ice and cold. The men survived the experience] uninjured, but decidedly cold. ! FIRE AT NORTWEST i The Elizabeth City fire department1 | was called to Northwest Wednesday! j afternoon to combat a blaze which1 j was raging in the cotton gin and, jwas thretaening to spread to near-1 | by dwellings. ] One truck, driven by Charlie' j Seymore, left here at .4:40 and! 'reached Northwest around 5:15 j i o'clock. The gin was virtually de-j stroyed when the local firemen ar-; j rived, and all they could have done I , would have been to extinguish the; smouldering ruins. Falls Appeals to Congressman iWarren For Legislation To! Head Off Share Planting ! . ! Seeking to put an end for once and for all time j | to what he calls the iniquitous practice of share-plant l ing, County Agricultural Agent Grocer W. Falls has written to Congressman Lindsay C. Warren to ask Mr. Warren to introduce a bill in Congress making it' illegal for any commission house, brokerage concern,| or the agents of either, to participate in the plantingj of any crop or crops on shares with the farmer. j Mr. Falls is" particularly interest led in abolishing share-planting of! ' Irish potatoes, the principal cash! j crop cf this section, but he desires | f to see the practice stopped with re- i spect to all crops. The share planters have invaded nearly all truck crops in recent years, and Mr. Falls is anxious to see the farmers delivered from their clutches. Mr. Fails said he is not certain about the constitutionality of a bill to abolish share-planting, but he thinks the practice can be ended by legislative action. And that, he thinks, is about the only method by which this evil can be corrected just now. "The farmers are today deeper in the clutches of the commission houses and brokers than ever be fore,'' says Mr. Falls. The depres sed condition,?of agriculture during the past five years literally drove thousands of desperate farmers to .share-planting as the only means of making a crop. The commission houses and brokers prospered, and the farmers continued to suffer thru starvation prices. The usual inoccxlurc was for the c nnnlssion liouse, or Pa agent, to ofier tlit farmer a cdntjatt vhnreby ! he would be fumithed with so many 1 bags of fertilizer and so many bar rels of seed (in the case of Irish potatoes) potatoes by the commis- j sion house, in return for which he' would agree to deliver so many bar- j l-els of potatoes to the commission house or the broker in a certain time. Another form of contract called for a split between the grow er and the commission man or broker after the cost of the seeds, j fertilizer and other supplies had j been deducted. Whatever the formI of the contract, the farmer is the | loser. By getting his seeds and j fertilizer thru the commission house I or its agents, he has to pay nearly,' double the cash price for the same ! goods. Moreover, his hands are vir-; tually tied and he is just about J compelled to sell his potatoes to the I individual or firm with whem he' share-plants and to take whatever { price they get for him. Share- j planting invariably works to the ad-1 vantage of the man who furnishes the supplies and to the disadvantage of the planter, just as inexorably as Chr slot machine fleeces the fool who plays it and enriches the man who owns it. Gioc-r Falls lias been an a.-ov. - j 'Cor.tui'isd on Page f\Jur; Daughter to Implicate Her Own Mother in Harrowing Criminal Case Next Week Alleges Mother Aided and Abetted Her Hus band Noah Crane in Crimes of Sodomy and Rape Against His Stepdaughter In order to protect a younger sister who has been maltreated and betrayed by her step-father and by her own mother, Mrs. Pennie Hughes, 28-year-old cotton mill employe of this city, will go before the grand jury in Pasquotank Superior Court next Mon \day or Tuesday where she promises to relate a tale $f revolting bestiality which is likely to result in her own mother's indictment on serious charges. - ? *'? u..^UAr M*41 I /?f ? mi a. nuguco hiu m v/nv vi principal witnesses in the sord'.d Crane case, which will be the out standing case on the criminal docket next week. Noah Crane, 49-year old reprobate, who has been held without bail in the local jail since just after Christmas, will face charges of statutory rape and sodomy, felonious and capital crimes. The charges were preferred against Crane on Tuesday, December 20, just after he had been convicted in Recorder's court of assaulting his wife with a pop bottle and had been given 30 days on the roads. Two of his step-daughters, 15-year-old Annie Elveta Dale, and Mrs. Hughes, furnished Prosecuting Attorney W. W. Cohoon with the information upon which the warrants were based. According to the testimony given in the preliminary hearing, Crane married Elveta's mother about five years ago, altho he courted her for several years prior to that time. When Elveta was only nine years old, Crane began to make lewd and obscene suggestions to her. Even tually he forced her to let him held her close to him and become in decently intimate. He told her he would kill her if she ever told cn him. According to Elveta and her niece, Ruby Lee Wells, Crane prac ticed sodomy' on Hts'step-daughter's person on several occasions, and Crane is charged specifically with I having committed this offense on December 1. On Christmas Day. the girl testified, Crane locked Mrs. Crane in his bedrpcjhijmd then took his step-daughter into her own bedroom and there made her dis robe and had his way with her. But this did not begin to tq(l the story of Crane's moral degradation, acording to Mrs. Hughes, who says she held back considerable infor mation because it would have' in volved her mother, to whoitf^she wished to give another chance. Vrs. Hughes' story is far too long, t*in volved and too full of obscenity to bear reprinting, but the high lights of it, briefly, are as follows':* Mrs. Annie Dale was living in Kinston with her husband and her children in 1918, at which time she began to consort with Noah Crane, a ne'er-do-well. Her husband dis covered the affair and a fight en sued, following which Dale left Kinston. Mrs. Dale immediately took up with Crane, who was then engaged in stealing automobile > and selling them. He was arrested and placed under a $1,000 bond, which he skipped and went to New Jersey to live under an assumed name. Mrs. Dale and one of her older daughters, Bertha, were caught shop-lifting in Kinston, and Mrs. Dale had to spend 18 months in prison. She rejoined Crane in New Jersey after serving her sentence and the pair returned to this State. The couple visited Mrs. Hughes several times, and a number of arugments and fights occur red when Crane made advances to his wife's daughter. When a ycung er daughter, Easter, returned home from a children's heme where she had been kept for a number of years, Crane got her drunk and tried to take advantage cf her. but Pennie intervened. In Currituck county. Crane went in for store breaking, and involved two of the Dale boys, who were much young er than he, with the result that they were sent to prison. All t:ld it Is alleged Noah Crane has done irreparable and inestim able damage to practically the entire Dale family. And in it all his wife has condoned him and suffered nim 1 to beat her and abuse, violate an<? mislead her children, pretending or saying that she was afraid to have him arrested. Even now she wants to quash the proceedings against Crane and has made visits to her daughter's home in an effort to per suade Mrs. Hughes and Elvcta Dale not to testify against Crane in court next week. But Mrs. Hughes has resolved to expose the whole sorry mess, even .should it send her in; thcr to prison. When Mi\ Hughes ji?J her youug tr .fcter El "a'4 L'ilt hi'. & h:ncli tCcatlfliiid ea jej^e tiireei
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