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?f THE INDEPENDENT rwi] 50 Ota pT ? ? . _ - ii i ? ZfZxCsO. x': g "~" ELIZABETH Clf07cTFRTDA^PRir2^934. VTVJifxJoT** " SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS president Roosevelt to Receive hvitaiicn to Participate In foanoke Island August Event | p^sh'tnf one! Mr$. Roosevelt will receive an ?. * H>me Com in(j Celebration on Roanoke! jry i.rila;f .4ugnst 1Sth. commemorating the !'???? i: '? 1 // "/ the birth of 1 'irginia Dare, the rh glish went# born in America. Ifc-1 .. - including tn? fo^ i members of I m* -v"". j . Congress will *?**??".' ' What promises ? id most interest s'-" ?.*; .* .;aged on that K2ij:; the folks hid MP-"'" inherit mil 5***' ! jjs j Chamber of * ' i meeting last Sat CC^-" " ? .in organization s^*4^.;hc program. D. 8:ii * r.rm.vn. Meivin R. 5^'W:er 'v c s Meekins. W{ ,.j"n v Meekias and L te -cf these United ? ^.:ed Roanoke Is p'""' was cn Roanoke F* ? ;-.iny oi America the persistent, tho. - fateful attempts of Sir |;.r?9.t.< ..Ionize America, t- - ? ~ r. Spaniards and ? .t- -- v d " ? T-u : colonists could take E.eabeth only a pair bat of potatoes, some jcand 1-. .>'???? -? tobacco was -T-nbii Elutabeth would have Sc aa? interest had the colon is found :>ld But the fact is. ie ten Enghvi settlements in l-i?v- *er. hunted on Ruanc.%.? tort 'aegmiur.; in 1534 and ending nin the lass it t.te Jean Wiai.e ..Oi cv m 153T. For centuries after in: Roanoke Island itself was lost ad forgotten while Jamestown and Spcuih P.ttk ran away with the onors of English set-?x?nt in .his ooi New World. This summer Rtar. k I '.anu will ave 5orne:h.ng tangible to shew i the war o: restoration cf the f ort. ad other buildings that these first jlomsts hetivd out of the wilder-' ess. And President Roosevelt so be lured to Roanoke Island on lagus* 23th. no el?bora:e speech ? be dem.trecu o: him. It will ? entugh for run ;o say a few kxt. gire :h? c.wis his gracious Ed? ar.i ms-ti. ely he will be tnei!?:? : e:i;..;e in the sport s lets 5> well?fi rung. And every amuoce and facility for a suc ssfi ishing t.-.p will be a: his iu?ei It ui ... .j the restoration c- oh ?;r: ?. leigh. it is planned i?-t-i s colony cf Cherokee In |<h2t: Boanoke I-land this sunt pftj re-enar: the manners and fcacso: ilietr prim.tive ancestors, t ngt: to oe a great show. Norfolk Navy Yard Plays Here Sunday :ri by the fcaeal Ao. xu::oa's action in ?fflja ;, y.op Sunday base ? at Btusucker F.tld. Uanagsr "*ol Bar:.- . the local base'caii va Carcttr ?. h is arranged a bw 3 afternon at 3:00 -"?iNavy Yard | ^ tiuca area the second j the Norfolk sec-, ? tiu> year. ^tca~l H.:. \\ .;i probably pitch * '?* bcais The lineup will be i " : - ... . 1 with last Son-j J>3 liatup. "y r Barr. . , jrts that Joe, form-a L*. N. C. ace and I Pitcher ,t local team two J J? *50- v... ?, litre on Sunday,: : * to o'v- tae mound for the Co. 1 V?All bccjo.'l mA^ %w%* ,:|gg| V f 6? r- :.-. r, a *?S feat .iff- j **???.v & APfiiL gjf 22?7 -?* c?ration for a?- j ; ?" ileitis pe:io?*me<i. , i::. uL)l >! 5?-?rn her looinj * v -an U.S.. 13S3. >?S8> *?-! :?:???<??? arrirts from I s*>' V.""rf? to help U.S.. 1777. 26?r.-rt lodge of Odd Fel ooer.s at Washing- J x Un.131). J I*"' ?- ,. I j?|' *??<.. 5 Crar.t. the 18tn | ili ??'?' >r.t. born 1122. [jk fc"? ???/ s!;o-*s only 5.000 ?7" r :.osets in U.S.. 1920. I !&. 2&-c-;.r load: his frr.ous 'j f - ca Wasiaiajtoa, "n sf- *c- *? . - J _ I ? I "Mystery Man" CHARLES TAYLOR C.RAXDY TO mast folks in Elizabeth City, Charles Tavlcr Grandy who died -ttddeniy at his residence here Sun day night was a man of mystery. .1? was ;? .her ar. intellectual whose knowledge -ana vision set him apart from average men. See page 8. 'J Says Burgess Should Be Id Logging Camp Many parents become angry it' their children are whipped in school even tho lii children have done some thing to merit punishment. \ ii luallv all parents become indignant if their children are wiiipp.d in school when they haw done nothing. Many parents of pupils attending the Camden graded school became indignant la-: week a: Principal Dempsoy Burgess. According to the story reaching :h:.; news;caper. Principal Barge s had a m tci spell last Thursday and whipped lift;- or more pupils for no goad reason at all. The pupils cf the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades were playing hide-and-seek on the school grounds Thursday. Some of them h.d themselves in the garage and around the school bust s. The noise made in the vicinity of the garage by the children playing tncraboucs a.tracted Principal Bur gess to the scene. Looking about the [garage, he noticed that a fer.der on one of the school buses was bent. Without investigating to see if the fender had been bent enroute to I tho school cr in what manner, Principal Burgess blamed the chil dren. stating that one of them must have run into the fender and bent it. No one could tell him how jthe fender was bent', because no one knew. I Angry and sullen. Burgess admin istered whippings to each and every one cf fifty pupils, more or less. Ho warned the pupils that they mint not toli their parents or any one else what had happened. One child told his parents, however, and received another whipping next morning. A patron of tho Camden school, writing to this newspaper, says: "He iBurgers) shcuid learn self-control and reasonableness or be sent off io a logging camp where he can employ his strength in beating up on oxen instead of upon little chil dren." TRAGEDY AT SINBIKY Stark tragedy befell W. K. Parker of Sunbury Monday afternoon when I he heard a .scream as he was driv ing a truck into his yard and stop ped to lind his six-year-old son, James Earle Parker, beneath the wheels of the truck. The boy was rushed to a Suffolk Hospital but died shortly of internal injuries. It i; presumed tlwt he ran out to meet b:s father ami. in attempting to lump cn the running beard of the truck, slipped and leil under the wheels. i FERA CAMPS TO HAKE SPORT FOR NAGS HEAD Nags Ilead suninier resi dents, instead of protesting against the location of a Fed eral Emergency Relief Asso-j eiation transient unit .at that! point, should heartily wel-j eonie the transient camp, ac-| cording to Frank Stick, direc-j tor of the project, for the! camp Nvitl provide consider-! able entertainment for the summer; visitors in the form of baseball j games, boxing matches, dances, glee club programs.etc. Not many folks comprehend what these transient camps are. Mr. Stick says. The chief objectives of the camps are to provide unemployed men with worth-while occupation which will provide them with all the necessities of life and enable thein to maintain their self-respect and runu.n oil charity until industry can absorb them again, and to give these men vocational training which will better enable them to obtain jobs. The men. gathered from the ranks of the unemployed in a number of concentration points, are far above the hobo class. Mr. Stick says there are a number of college men in the unit thai is setting up camp at Nags Head this week. They apply for work at the Transient Bureaus and are assigned, as soon as possbile, (to a camp, where they remain until they have a positive job somewhere cr are wanted in a home where they ' will be no burden upon the com munity. They must pass a physi cal examination before entering a ic&mp. and when a man enters the transcient camp he must be free of social disease and innoculated against communicable diseases. .Liquor addicts are not accepted and iany who take a drink at camp are j promptly expelled. 1 The camps, being under Federal direction, are operated somewhat i along the lines of an Army camp. -group has its sergeant, each, i uarracks has a BAtttenant. and the ? entire unit is headed by a Director. Rupert E. West, well known Moyock 1 sportsman and author, who has been I acting as Director of Camp Pender lea. the pnly Transient Camp in the State prior to the establishment ) Cf the Nags Head Camp within the (past 10 days, has been transferred ?and is now acting as Director of | the Nags Head transcient unit. 1 Will Have Their Own Bathing Beaches There will bo around 200 men en ! gaged in the sand fixation and re ?fc Testation projects on the Dare ! coast. Arcund 125 of these will be stat.oned at Nags Head, their head quarters being at Parkerson's Sea Hawk Inn. The ether 75 men will be stationed at Kitty Hawk, their , headquarters being the Kitty Hawk Coast Guard station, which has not been an active station foi setc.al ycars- u_ ? The~e men win ujl p.u.c ^ w jectionable to summer visitors on the coast. Camp rules are to be very strict. The men will have very j little night leave. A rule that will be impressed upon them is that they must not trespass upon the property of anyone. They will have their own bathing places on the sound and : ocean sides and will not in any way (interfere with the bathing of cot 1 tage-ewners ar.d visitors. ! Since the men work only 24 hours , a week, or not more than 40 hours , in any case, they naturally will have ! much leisure time on their hands. This time will be employed in vari ,ous ways. There will be classes for those who can barely read and write. . There will be a baseball team and ' a boxing team. There will be a glee club. There will toe workshop for j those who are mechanically-minded. 'There will be a camp newspaper, , probably an eight-page mimeograph ed tabloid. In many ways the men ? will be given opportunities for self > improvement. The idea is to make | the camp life as attractive and as i beneficial to the transients as pos : SiblC. The camp baseball team will play games with teams from Manteo, Kitty Hawk. Maple and other com j munities in this section. The camp boxers will stage regular bouts among themselves or with volun teers from the vicinity of the camp. The glee club will put on programs and minstrel shows several times a ! month. There will be a camp or [ chestra, and the camp will stage a i dance about onoe each week, to which outsiders will be invited. There ! may even be a brass band. j I The transients received 30c an 1 hour for a 24-hour week, but they ' are allowed to work as many as i l(i additional hours if they choose.) The first unit on the Dare project will release around $7,000 a month.1 Director West, seeking to promote .a better understanding of the camp (.Continued on page two) W. L. Cohoon May be Indicted Under A Federal Statute U. S. Court Has Concurrent Jurisdiction With State Court in Cases Involving Em bezzlement of War Risk Insurance Funds Walter L. Cohoon, Elizabeth City Lawyer ivho recently escaped a jive year State penitentiary sen-\ tence by a Supreme Court opinion, may not be sure j that this ends the question of his alleged embezzle-'\ ment of $\,662.16 of the estate of the late Joseph Ellis, late World War Veretan. it appears tnat tne unitea states Courts have concurrent jurisdiction with State Courts in the matter of I embezzlement of funds paid under J the War Risk Insurance Act. Sec tion 556. Title 38. of the United] States Code Annotated provides! that: I Every guardian, curator, con servator, committer, or person > legally vested with the respon sibility or care of the claimant j or his estate, having charge j and custody in a fiduciary capa i city of money paid, under the . War Risk Insurance Act, or un l der the provisions of this chap | ter, for the benefit of any minor or imcompetent claimant, who shall embezzle the same in vio- j ' lation of his trust or fraudu lently convert the same to his j j own use, shall be punished by ! fine not exceeding $"\000 or im prisonment at hard labor for a term not exceeding five years, or both. I: would seem that it is only nec essary for some one to press the case against Cohoon with the U. S. Department of Justice to get an other action against Cohoon. And | it appears that Cohocn will never I settle with the Ellis estate or with his bondsmen until some such pressure is brought to bear upon; him. The Money In His Pocket One of the most unfortunate mis-' carriages of justice that has hap ; pened in this city and county, and* I district in many years waA "the I State's failure to make a conviction iin the Cohoon case. The State's j failure was due to the bumble I headed work of the public's proseeut 1 .or. Solicitor Herbert R. Leary. as i explained editorially in this news ? paper last week. j Now here are the facts in the case: ' Joseph Ellis, a World War Veteran | died in May 1930. On May 27. 1930 ( . J Cohoon qualified as administrator] of his estate. As soon as he qualified he board-l ed a boat for Washington and on I May 28. 1930 .received from the U. j S. Government in Washington $5,0001 in government bonds, in settlement! of the dead soldier's War Risk In-J surance. Cohoon immediately converted, these bonds into cash. He could have \ made full settlement with the Ellis! heirs with almost the same speed; that he collected and cashed in I those bonds. The heirs of Joseph Ellis arej Mansc-ur Saliba. of Elizabeth City, I and Mariam, Janfiaf and Yasneen, Saliba, of Beregreen, Lebanon, \ ' Syria. All Cohoon had to do in set- j I tling the Ellis estate was to pay the j expense of Ellis' funeral, deduct j his five per cent commission, and! pay the remaining balance of $4,-! 662.16 to those heirs. It was as simple as that. But Cohoon did nothing of the kind. Cchoon Stubbornly Held Out Remember, it was on May 28, 1930 bhat Cohoon received settlement from the government. He held on to the money. The heirs of Ellis pleaded with Cohoon in vain for the settlement j due'them. Finally after waiting for, more than two years they complain ed to the cle^jt of the- superior court. i&ine or July of 1932, N. Elton ' AVmett <Herk ot the- Superior -Court of Pasquotank County made oral demand upon Cohoon for a settle ment. Cohoon ignored his demand. Again on Nov. 30. 1932 Clerk Avd lett made a second demand upon Cohcon for settlement of the es tate. And Cohoon ignored this se cond demand. In January 1933 Clerk Aydlett ? Continued on page two) L?J A" ^ B . i ?' I oJheAANK CLERK TUE SODA JORKE.R "A CAPITALIST GOING OR A PROLETARIAN COMING?" j "Well, it looks as if nature has done for the Irish potato deal what j no human agency could do," said I the Bank Clerk. ' "What's that?" asked the Soda ? Jerker. ! "Curtailed production.' replied the ; Bank C'crk. "Farmers tell me that | two thirds of the early plantings :have rotced in the ground from too I much rain. It's going to be a short ! crop and prices ought to be good. I But it's going to be hard on field I labor. A short crop means short ' work for the potato diggers who i pick up the potatoes in the fields land put them into barrels; it will | mean fewer hauls for the truckmen land fftwer jobs at the loading sta-' i tions. The little stores that depend almost solely upon the trade of the I class that don't read newspapers ' and dont know merchandise will bo I hard hit." I "According to what you are telling1 me. if the farmers had followed the ! advice of the Department of Agr iculture and the farm demonstra Ition agents, and not planted more' j than half a crop this spring! wc ; would have been in for a potato I famine," said the Scda Jerker. ' "I just can't seem to follow the line of thought of the exjerts who: I are trying to run this country. Now! ijust see what has happened: For | millions of years the problem of j humanity was to raise enough to 'eat and it was necessary to have' j wars, floods, famines and pc^til ! cnce to kill off millions of the popu ! lation so as those who lived could have enough food to go around, j "Now everything has changed.! With our knowledge of soils and chemistry, with our labor saving farm machinery, with our- weather bureau and crop reporting systems, insect and blight control, wc are producing enough food and enough textiles lor the human race for the first time in human history. Andj now the legislators, the bankers; gild the economists are literally' beating the crops back into the1 ground to keep 'em from growing. "And what makes it worse, mil- I lions of people are hungry for the ! food that is being destroyed and millions are wearing rags for want I of clothes that could be made from our surplus cotton, flax and wool. It beats the devil!" "Well, what can be done about it?" i asked the Bank Clerk. "Just this can be done about it:" j said the Soda Jerker; "Uncle Sam should take over the whole durned ' works in this country and plan a 1 bran new civilization that would provide work for everybody and food, clothing, decent housing and so forth for everybody. You can't j tell me it can't be done: the only i thing that stands in the way of it i is your blind, stupid, selfish and i colossal failure and fraud CAPITAL- j IBM. that pretends to be the great conservator of rugged individual ism." "Our great president is a product of capitalism and a resplendent ex ample cf the triumph of individual ism." said the Bank Clerk. "I dcn't yield to anybody in my love and admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt," replied the Soda Jerker, "but all the same he strikes me as just running this way and that poking fingers in the capitalist dyke to keep it from spilling out. He has staved off a revolution and is giving the country time to work out a plan of salvation, but if he and his 'brain trusts' have worked out any plans I haven't seen or heard tell of 'em. They're just put ting patches on an old garment that is worn threadbare in the seat and on both knees and ripped in every seam. When he gets a few more patches on it you wont be aJble to tell whether it's a capitalist going of a proletarian coming." | 85 per cent of all people have dc- J fective vision. Are you one of the6e? I Have your eyes examined today. DR J D. HATHAWAY, Carolina Building. ad*. REPORT OF 7S|.' HURT TO EARLY POTATO CROP; EXAGGERATED Reports tliat 75 per cent of the early Irish potato crop in Pasquotank a 11 tl adjacent counties has rotted are gross ly exaggerated, according to County Agricultural Agent Grover \V. Falls, who says There are indications that this year's spud crop will be fully as large as last year's crop despite the damage done by exces sive rain and cold during March. Mr. Falls says it is unlikely that more than 25 per cent of the potato crop has rotted, altho the lass may be as high as 30 per cent. The fall ing of more than 10 inches of rain during the past seven weeks has kept the soil unduly moist, and numerous stands of potatoes., have been ruined thru rotting. However, there are many fine stands of pota- | toes thruout the section. Because about 25 per cent more potatoes were planted this year than last, the production will be just about the same, the loss from rotting notwith standing, if the yield is normal. May peas suffered to worse extent than did Irish potatoes. Mr. Falls, says. Poor stands are to be seen thruout the section, and it is alto gether likely that the crop has been damaged more than 30 per cent. This spring's adverse weather has done more harm than this to the t farmers, however. The early corn crop usually is planted in late'March! and early April, but the continuous rains during that pereiod prevented the farmers from working in their fields with the result that hardly more than 10 per cent of the corn crop has been planted to date. t ??: 1 GOV, X034RSJQ tjovernor Ehringhaus, North Carolina*' th'o so far from Raleigh'that his visits are few and' far between, has consented to speak at the Memorial Day exercises to be sponsored here by the D. H. Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy on May 10. Plans are being made for an in teresting program, in which the' school children of the city will take part. The flower show of the Elizabeth! City Garden Club will be held on that date in the Y. M. C. A build-1 ing. New Country Club to Open Formally With a Dance For j MembersTuesday Nite, May 11 ! Because most of the 100 members of the reorgan-i ized Elizabeth City Country Club are persons who] usually go to work between eight and nine o'clock in j the morning, and became staying up until 3:00 or\ 3:30 a. m. is not easily reconciled with early rising] the dances at the club ivill begin at nine o'clock and\ will end at one a. m., it was announced this week, j TUp tivst dance is to be held on Tuesday night, May 1. j This first, dance will mark tne formal opening of the club under: the temporary set-up. Music will [ be furnished 'by Archie Sanders'! Orchestra. The dance will be strict ly exclusive; positively no one will be allowed to attend except mem-j bers and their out-of-town guests.) The signing up of members came to a close the first of this week.'' and there already are a number of j1 applicants on the club's waiting list.j ^ The membership, as a whole, is com- j posed of a younger crowd?between (! the ages of 18 and 35. i< The club property is now under \ the supervision of Julian Charles 1 Tatka. Cleveland. Ohio, professional,' golfter, and a friend. The power plant has been restored to good con dition, the clubhouse has been thoroly scrubbed and cleaned, fair- < ways have been mowed and rolled, 1 greens have been dragged and numerous other improvements have been made within the past two weeks. State Highway maintenance workers began dragging and scrap-J ing the road leading to the club j < Tuesday and have promsied to have it in excellent condition by the [ first of May. I As is the practice at nearly all country clubs and golf clubs, out-of town guests of members will be re-1 i quired to p ay a greens fee for usej of the golf course. There will be no charge for out-of-town guests at : the dances. j A colored faintly now living on I the club property will care for the) golf course and wiJ keep the club-1 house and grounds clean under Mr. I Tatka's supervision. As soon as I possible, they will be assigned to the task of cleaning up the beach. The showers and lockers are avail able to all members free of charge,; but a small charge will be made for; towels, which can be obtained from - Mr. Tatka. . j 1 The preparation and serving of j 1 food at the club will be in the hands of Mrs. Mary Guirkin. Club members wishing to enter tain at teas, bridge parties, private j dances, etc., will not have to pay! for the use of the club .building. ; Members pay $2.50 a month, [ which entitles them to golf, two! dances a month, bathing, locker and i other club privileges. The $3,000 a year revenue from j membership fees will be used to; pay taxes and insurance, purchase fuel, etc. It is estimated that this amount will easily take care of club expenses and leave something for; improvements. The golf professional i will be compensated thru instruc-! tion fees greens fees and revenue! from the golf shop. That club members may know cx-1 actly what their money is being! spent for, a statement of receipts! and exi?nditures will be posted in! the loeker rooms each month. The | club is fortunate in having as itsj treasurer Harry W. Bundy, a certi-j tied public accountant. Banking Commissioner Hood j j Approved Plans for Re-opening J Savings Bank & Trust Co. 1 But The Young Men Who Were So Hot to Start a New Bank Seem to Have Had Their Enthusiasm Cooled?Funny Busi ness That the "nigger in the woodpile" in the matter of the reorganization of the Savings Bank & Trust Co. is to be found in the person of some one in Eliz abeth City and not in the person of State Banking 'j Commissioner Gurney P. Hood, is a revelation stir red up by the publication of street rumors in this .*jj newspaper last week. ^????? . Th? rnihl;ri.tinn nf st.rPAfc frnssin I. Farmers Who Pay No i Hog Processing Tax \ To Get No Benefits \ ! I That farmers who have not paid the Federal processing tax on hog ] meat sold this year will not be per- | < mitted to participate in the bene-;< fits of the Corn-Hog reduction pro- ] gram is the information given out i < this week by County Agent Grover j ] \V. Falls, who urges all Pasquotank < farmers to pay the .processing tax j 1 at once, as the Corn-Hog program" will close the end of this month, j < The government is willing to pay 1 farmers for reducing their hog pro- - duction during the coming year, .but j! the government positively is not go-! i ing to make any suoh benefit pay- 11 ments to those jipavs who during s < the past hog-kHlbig slason slaughf-j' ered their hogs and sold them in ] the form of. sausages, hams, should- ; ers, etc., without paying the gov ernment processing tax on them. According to Mr. Falls, there are 1 quite a few farmers, in this' county 1 and section who have not paid any processing tax yet. These fanners will be unable to Qbt$tp Cora-HOg ' reduction contracts, unless they ac ment. Mr. Falls says thousands of dollars will be distributed among hog pro ducers in this seotion as payment for curtailing production. He is particularly anxious that those who ! owe a processing tax should pay it at once in order that they might escape a penalty and. at the same time, avail themselves of the Corn Hog benefit payments which will greatly exceed the amount of the j tax they owe. j ind hearsay is not always desirable. jj jut it often serves to provoke 8ome me to make otherwise obscure facts available. Mr. Hoed has made facts ivailable this week that have hither- l( ,o been suppressed. ' |i Conspicuous in the movement to . ' I ?e-cpen the Savings Bank Si Trust | Zo. are Miles L. Clark, local Texaco iistributor and a director in the First & Citizens National Bank; 3raham Bell, manager of the At lantic Discount Corp., and E. L. Zox, Jr.. until this week assistant liquidator of the Savings Bank Si Trust Co. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Sox have indicated to this news paper repeatedly within the past six weeks that they oould get no satisfactory advice from Mr. Hood ' 1 ,n regard to re-opening the Savings ji BaniCJ The silence of these men and others had given rise to the rumors Impugning Commissioner Hood's conduot,- which were aired in this newspaper last week. Mr. Hood Replies Mr .Hood read those rumors Ad ' filed the following telegram to this ;i newspaper under date of April 23rd; ? ?. Raleixh N. fc., ' - ' W ? ? ' Apr. 23.. 1934. jt| W. W O. Saunders, Editor, The Independent, ? ^ [ | Bank and Trust Company about j J March First, virited Elizabeth City T * with John G Allen. State Bank examiner, March seventh or eighth and held meeting with Clark and ethers. Allen returned Elizabeth City morning March 12, spent four days thoroughly checking assets bank from which information plan reorganization was prepared. Plan approved by me March 19th. Mailed Clark same day. Have not heard from Clark since. Letter follows. Gl'RNEY P. HOOD, | Commissioner of Banks. The abeve telegram from Mr. jj i Heed was followed by a letter to W. D. Saunders, senior editor of this newspaper. The letter follows: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Banking Department ) RALEIGH April 23, 1934. Mr. IV. O. Saunders, Editor, The Independent, Elizabeth City, V. C. Dear Mr. Saunders: You will please find enclosed copy of a telegram just sent you, and also copy of a letter written by Mr. John G. Allen, State Bank Examiner, cn March 19, 1934, which explains itself. Wc arc doing everything we can to assist the people of Elizabeth City in reopening this bank, and they have had and will have our full cooperation in organizing a local Institution. With kind regards and good wishes, I am. Sincerely yours, Commissioner of Banks. GLRNEY P. HOOD, GPH:M. And here follows the letter which Mr. Hood says that Mr. John G. Ulen wrote to Mr. Clark on March ,9th: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Banking Department RALESIGH March 19, 1934. . \ f Miles L. Clark, Esq., Elizabeth City, N ,C. Dear Mr. Clark: Herewith. I am enclosing two copies of my report to Mr. Ilood, on the organization of a new bank in your city. Mr. Hood has reviewed this re port very carefully and the entire t proposition meets with his full ap- ? prcval. He has requested me to I ? i forward these copies to you and to indicate to you his thorough sanction of all the plans contain ed therein. Incidentally, he is engaged in directing a "banking school." for all the employees of j { the Banking Department this ' week, or lie would have written this letter himself. ' , Please l?c assured that his De partment ia aui^ic ua to render voe and your associates every possible < Continued on Page Eight)
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