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\ page fwo THE TYRRELL TRIBUNE THE TYRRELL TRIBUNE 1 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Columbia, N. C. : Thursday, December 11, 1941 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT COLUMBIA, N. C.' ALLEN J. GREEN.. .EDITOR Subscription Rates One \ear $1.50; Six Months $1; Three Months 50c I VOL. Ill DECEMBER 11, 1941 NO. 2 DEFENSE STRIKES ARE SABOTAGE It is time we stopped mincing words in this labor crisis. Those who strike against defense must be called what they are—saboteurs. This is a War of production. It is the performance of industry which will finally decide it. Hitler is fast organ izing the entire continent of Europe into a great slave empire to feed the Nazi military machine. The democra cies must outstrip him to survive. Here in our own country we have greater resources than any other power. We have the coal, the oil, and the other basic materials in abundance. We have the greatest elec tric power and transportation systems on earth. We have the great factories which can produce the instruments of war and peace alike in an ever-increasing stream. We have a type of industrial management which is not equaled for initiative, resourcefulness, daring, efficiency. But all of this will be worthless if labor is determined to sabotage production. Labor has no just grievance which cannot be cured by arbitration. In no nation on earth has so elaborate a gov ernmental machine been established to protect the worker against exploitation. In no nation on earth does labor get so large a share of the fruits of industry. Yet labor strikes —at a time when the very system which has given it so much is in mortal danger! How much longer will labor blindly follow ruthless, self- seeking leaders who think nothing of endangering the very existence of their country? The man on the street is fed up with attempts to push our country around not only by foreign nations, but now by men at home who refuse arbitration and thereby give the greatest possible aid to our enemies by blocking our own defense. j . OUR DEMOCRACY -by Mat WAR ON WASTE IS AID FOR DEFENSE. /TSAS SIMPLE ASTHIS: EVERVBODy WHO PREVENTS A FIRE — iS •/' PERSONAL MENTION REBEKAHS—Mrs. J. G. Midgett Buy United States will on Friday night at eight ’ Stamps and Bonds, o’clock entertain all the past \ DefensI EVERYBODY WHO PREVENTS OR AVOIDS AN ACCIDENT- 4 EVERYBODY WHO CONSERVES OR PRESERVES 4' ; Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Twiford, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Twiford, and son Dewey Norman, 11, of Nor folk were visitors of Mrs. J. S. Creef near Fort Raleigh Sunday. ; The Twifords are well known for mer citizens of Dare County. \ Mrs. Ray Davis, Sr., was a visitor in Norfolk Saturday, i Miss Helen Evans, Mrs. G. T. Westcott and Mrs. Annette M. t,,. , Evans were in Norfolk shopping Saturday. ^ I Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hazen and children. Bud and Faye, returned Saturday from Painted Post, New York, where they spent a week. ' Miss Estelle Meekins spent the week end in Norfolk. | ! Mr. and Mrs. McCov Tillett' spent the week end in Norfolk on I business. j announced todav bv Hvde Miss Anita MidP-»tt recently i-e- ' Countv Farm Agent J. P. Woodard turned frorn Norfolk where she that 73 car loads of lim. vips a student at the Southern ' Nobles Grand of Manteo Rebekah ! BUYING FURS—Mink, muskraij Lodge No. 62 at a party at the lodge hall. All past Nobles Grand are urged to attend. The Manteo lodge held its regu lar meeting Tuesday night, with Mrs. Missouri Midgett presiding. - Officers elected for the coming | term are: Noble grand. Miss j Francetta White; vice grand. Mrs. | Hazel Midgett; recording secre-1 tary Mrs. Rosa Drinkwater: fin-j creomulsion relieves promptly be-| ancial secretary, Mrs. Pattie cause It goes right to the seat of thcl Smith; treasurer, Mrs. Florence j trouble to help loosen and expell germ laden phlegm, and aid naturel home-comimr nartv for nil soothe and heal raw. tender, ln-| nome coming party tor all flamed bronchial mucous mem-l members of this lodge, including j branes. Tell your druggist to sell youl all who have been members in the i a bottle of Creomulsion with the un-l oast will he held Friday night derstandlng you must like the way itl December 19 The annual Christ ^ allays the cough or you are I i^ecemoer ine annual Christ i to have your money back. r mas party will take place at the I ^ n Lk III Cl 1^ regular meeting on December 23. j ^ Ix t V iVl U L J I W IN raccoon, opossum, etc. Top marl ket prices, spot cash. W. Cl GLOVER, Elizabeth City, N. C| Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang Oi Lime Orders had been ordered in Hvde. Fourteen car- School of Besutv CiiHure, and IS jogrts of thi.s now emnlo-"od at Your Beauty Shonnp in Manteo. ! I,’Cut. and Mrs. rTijo-k nor haro mnvpd to Rapford. whero T ionf ir» pVio xnro (Ojf a CCC*. f’amn. son, is SDer^^ina* sorn^* time wig'll bis gra^^m^tb have been delivered '■ according to Mr. Woodard. for Coushs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis BUYING FURS—Mink, muskrat,! raccoon, opossum, etc. Top mat'I ket prices, spot cash. W. Cd GLOVER, Elizabeth City, N. C-| FERRY SCHEDULE Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wakefield and Mrs. R. H. O’Neal spent Tues day in Norfolk. Mrs. C. H. Barnette, who has Mrs. .1. G. Midgett.; been visiting in Norfolk, raturnod Fort Landing, East Lake, Roanoke | Island, Manns Harbor Ferries -/5 DOING HIS BIT OR HER BIT. WAR! WAR! WAR! There always have been wars and there always will be wars. Of course that may not be the reason we are having one now, but it is a certainty that our present dilemnia is the result of the European struggle, and our interest in it. War and politics operate much alike; when there is a scrap you just can’t stay out if you want to. One side or the other will put you in it. The destruction the Japanese accomplished this week following their treachery is just another example why Am erica shouldn’t depend on any one but herself. Germany and Japan are in the same boat. They are ruthless na tions seeking conquest. If Germany fails, Japan’s span is limited. Consequently, it wasn’t very difficult for Ger many to persuade Japan that now is the proper time to make a stroke in the Pacific. Had the United States not been so busy sending much of its resources to Britain, it might have been better pre pared in the Pacific, but then had it not been aiding Britain, Japan would not have struck its blow. There is this about it: at best it will be a long period of toil and suffering. In some aspects, the period following will be much worse. We expect the war to continue many years, although we cannot enumerate the principal bellig- erants who may be remaining at the time it closes. But we will not know America again as we used to know it. We will have to tighten our belt, and put up with a lot before it is over. WARS COME FAIRLY REGULAR Between the war of 1812 and the Mexican war, 36 years elapsed. It was only 13 years until the United States be came embroiled in the Civil War. Twenty-seven years later the Spanish American war was fought, and then it was 20 years until America got into the World War. Now after 23 years, we are at war with Japan. MURDERS HAPPENED IN PEACEFUL CAROLINA AS BAD AS ELSEWHERE Misl'Cr. I'.ho Jq in Norfolk, 'ippni- the v-opk en3 in Ma-pi-no his mother, Mrs. B°”lah Mis+or Mrs. H. A. Creef and son. H. A. Jr., spent Sntnrdav in Norfolk, I A, B. Hoonnn and Ceon'rn Pgvne of Stumnv pniTit were visitors in M'’"l'eo Tnesdav. ! Mra. Orlando Burma. Mr. and ;Mna MrCov ’rpiett spent the week en3 in Nm-fo'k. j Misses Marfoorito and Dorothv Drinkwater of Norfolk and Hamn- ton. Va., spent the week end with The Story of a Dreadful Event in Hertford County Some 60 Years Ago, and the Last Lynching There (From the Hertford Countp Herald) October 2, 1889, about 10 o’clock she went to the home of at night at the old Adkins home in Hertford County on the Aulander road about three miles from Ahos- kie, occurred the most brutal mur der and robbery ever pulled off in this section. A full October harvest moon was shining bright from a clear sky. Napoleon Adkins was wash ing his feet on the back door steps of his home, when three Negroes, Kinch Freeman, Mack Jones and kins was lying was almost burned up and her body badly charred. The robbers, who got about $7.50 for their experience, were all gone, , ..L, • 11 but before they left they opened Will Pope armed with specially I j^jr. Adkins’ tmnk and dressed prepared black jacks, beat the 70-, year-old man down in the back I, yard, cut his throat and slashed ^ their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Drinkwater. Thev returned Mon day, accompanied by Mrs. Homer Austin and Mrs. Paul Derrickson, who spent the day in Norfolk. I Mr. and Mrs. Oscoe Basnight and i daughter, Mabel Jean, were in i Norfolk Monday. a man ^ Mrs. A. G. Harris, who has made named Gaskins; but as Gaskins her home in Manteo for about a had no gun he went with her to year, entered Tayloe Hospital in the home of Billie Mitchell where Washington, N. C., last Thursday Jack Vann now lives, and they for treatment. According to last went back to the Adkins house in reports Mrs. Harris is getting time to save if from being burned. ■ along very well. Dr. Harris visit- The bed upon which Mrs. Ad- ed her at the hospital Sunday. to her home in Manteo Tuo.sday. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Shirley Stewart, and her daughter-in-law and grandson, Mrs. Bannister Barnette and Banister Barnette, Jr. Mrs. R. I. Leake is spending sev eral weeks in Rich Square with her mother. Mrs. M. A. Daniels, Mr.s. Louise Meekins and Mrs. Lucotta Willis spent Tuesday in Norfolk shop ping. Norfolk SoutFiern Railroad travel by train for 1 1/2c PER MILE Dallsr aDlly Lv. .Hanteo 5:00 am. Ar. Norfolk 9:00 am. &;20 AM Lv Norfoll: Ar. 6:05 Pll (Bus Terminal) 0:S5 AM 1a. Berkley Ar. (700 S. Main Sv.i 11:17 AM Lt. Elizabeth City Ar. 4:50 Ta. Morning Schedule Lr. Manteo Ar. E. City Ar. Norfolk 9:15 10:05 E. E. Meekins, of Norfolk, spent the week end in Manteo. — 3:14 PM 11.47 AM Lt. Hertford Ar. 2:34 PM 12:12 AM Lt. Edenton Ar. 2:15 PM 1:02 PM Lt. Plymouth Ar. 1:25 PM 2,!06 pm Lt. Washington Ar. 12:15 PM 3:07 PM Lt. GreenTille Ar. 11:17 AM 4:27 PM Lt. Wilson Ar. 9:53 AM 4.52 PM Lt. Bailey Ar. 9:20 AM 5:04 PM Lt. MHdle::^! ar. 9:08 AM 5:18 PM Lt. Zebulon Ar. 8:55 AM 5:28 PM Lt. Wendell Ar. S:45 AM 6:15 PM Ar. Ealeigh Lt. 8:00 AM Buy sound trip tickets and saye 10c on eacl dollar. Special Week-end excursions to Norfolk, vip, rinia Beach, also to Baltimore and WsSUIngtor by Steamer from Norfolk. The railroad is the dejaendable highu'ay serr TRUCK SCHEDULE Ing your community. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY H. T. CRAWLEY, Agent Lv. Norfolk 11:30 am. Ar. Manteo 5:00 pn** Elicabeth City. N. C. Phone 600 co o.tt e Leaving Manteo *7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. U:30 a.m. *1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. *4:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. •Connects Landing Leaving East Lake 8:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Leaving Manns Harbor 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. with East Lake-Fort Ferry Going West Leaving Fort Landing 7:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 4:00 jj.nL SCHEDULE THE VIRGINIA DARE TRANSPORTATION CO.’S BUS In Connection With Norfolk-Southern Buses from Urion B** Terminal, Norfolk, Va., and Bus Terroin»l» Elizabeth City, N. C. 7:00 Lv, Norfolk 7:40 — Lv. E. City 8:35 Ar. Mantel 11:00 Afternoon Schedule Lt. Manteo Ar. E. City Ar. Norfolk 3:00 5:40 5:45 Lv. Norfolk 4:10 — Lv. E. City — 4:20 — Ar. Mont*® — 7:00 NORFOLK SOUTHERN BUS CORPORATION Bus Schedules and Connections his face with a pocket knife. Mrs. Julia Terry, housekeeper for Mr. Adkins, rushed to the door to see what was going on. One of them made a break for her when she locked the door between them, ran in an adioining room, got the gun, and tried to shoot Mack Jones through a window but was so ex cited she could not spring the gun. He grabbed her by the gown and when she broke away from him i tation went to his home and was arrested the next day. Kinch 1 Freeman left on his stolen mule I and a few days later was appre-1 bended in Norfolk, and brought I back to Hertford County. Will Pope left for parts unknown and | has never been heard from since, j A few days later on Christmas Eve night a mob of between 1501 and 200 armed and disguised men struck her across the head with a,went to Winton, secured the_keys. 6.40 6.25 7.15 7.50 9.15 Read Down 11.00 11.50 12.10 12.45 2.05 T' 4.35 6.05 8..50 10.15 6.40 "eisb 2.35 3.25 6.be 8.50 10.15 4.15 9.05 10.60 12.20 1.55 11.36 12.35 112.35 I 3.00' 6.40 I Lv. Manteo Ar. I 3.351 7.15 I Lv. Kitty Hawk Ar. 8.201 I Lv. Swan Qtr 4r 110.50] 1-10.201 7.00 6.15 ..9.10 ii'.bb 12.20 1.55 9.57 11.25 6.30111.25 7.00111.55 7.15 12.10 7.50112.45 9.151 2.05 7.20 Lv. Belhaven iLv. Columbia 10.55 ,Ar. Williamston Lv. Read Up 1.05 8.50112.20 Ar. 10.151 1.55 Ar. 8.00111.85 l Ar. 9.16112.35 Ar. 7.00 10.36 lAr. 6.30110.05 lAr. 6.051 9.40 lAr. 5.401 9.16 lAr. 5.55110.10 lAr. Rocky Mt Lv. Raleigh Lv. Washington Lv. New Bern Lv. Windsor Lv. Edenton Lv. Hertford Lv. Eliz. City Lv. Norfolk Lv. Ar. 1 12.30 Ar. 1 1 1 6.50i..2.40'ie r,5 I 1.051 '*.30 11,30; 8.0» 6.15 8.00 8.15 8.50 7.50 2.05|n.40 1.00! 9.15 3.00110.36 3.30110.05 3.451 9.40 4.201 9.16 4.101 7.50 5.55 5.10 "2"4b 1.05 11.30 4.15 ‘ 2!2b 1.50 1.25i 1.001 11.301 8.00 6.50 6.15 12.25 11.00 9.30 8.00 10.16 9.15 10.36 2.40 1.50 1.25 1.00 11.30 7.50 7.00 6j05 5.40 4.10 TIME FOR ACTION American defense is being attacked by more than Nazi submarines today. We are threatened by aggression at home as well as abroad. The “strikes as usual’’ policy of a few stubborn labor leaders, who seem to place personal victory above the national interest, continues to rob us of materials vitally needed for our protection. A recent Labor Department report showed an almost unbroken rise in strikes since we began to produce on a major scale for aid to Britain and national defense in mid-, . 1940. During the month of July of that year strikes cost us 585,651 man-days of lost work. For the four-week period ending last November 21 that figure had risen to 1,252,168 man-aays. The first strike in the “captive coal mines” cost a daily loss of potential coal to make steel for up wards of 16,000 railroad freight cars or 32,000 M-3 tanks. During the second such strike we lost enough steel to build 30 destroyers. , „ , The fact that many of these strikes have been called to force a closed shop suggests that the unions are using national defense to create a labor monopoly with them selves in control of all American employees. Many people fail to understand the threat to our traditional freedoms that such a situation implies. They fail to realize that m a closed shop every employee must be a member of the union and pay dues to it, whether he wants to or not. They fail to realize that his employer must fire him and the union can blacklist him if for any reason his actions offend the union. Once blacklisted, he can’t work again m any union plant. K all the shops in the country were closed shops, he couldn’t work at all. , What has the government done about this current wave of strides ? For one thing, it’s discouraged all attempts to amend tr.j Wagner Act or otherwise to impose any legal responsibility oii unions. It has denied defense contracts to the lowest bidder if he deals with the wrong union. Above all, it has failed to develop a sound labor policy that can deal with strikes. How much longer will America be forced to endure such a situation ? How much longer will we be forced to lose valuable time and materials because of strikes in defense industries? Just as long as Congress fails to pass legis- lation to gain control of the situation. Just as long as it fails to evolve an effective labor policy. The tim^ has come for action. Congress will act once it is convinced that the country demands action—once it hears from the folks back home. Write your Senators and Representatives what you think should be done. They have a right to know your convictions, and you have an obligation to tell them what you think. black .lack which made a bad scalp wound and caused her to drop the gun. She then heard Mrs. Adkins, the 92-year-old Invalid mother of Mr. Adkins, calling her and asking what was the matter. She went in a back room and squeezed through a little window they had left un guarded, evidently thinking a wo man of her size could not get through a window so small. She fell to the ground and was pain fully hurt, but lost no time in get ting herself together. Crawling under the house j'ust in whose feet she could see come to escape from the man running around the corner, she entered the jail and hanged Kinch Freeman in his cell. Mack Jones, after being tried and acquitted by a jury in Washington County at Plymouth, tried to make his way to Edenton. That night in some mysterious manner he disappeared from the steamer and was later found dead in Albemarle Sound with a rope tied around him. Mrs. Terry lived 29 years longer, but always carried a bad scar and horrible memories of that awful night. The last five years of her life she was blind. Those most fa miliar with her case believed it was caused by the wound across her head. ■When Kinch Freeman was lynched in Winton jail and Mack Jones fished out of Albemarle Sound each of them were still wearing Mr, Adkins’ clothes. A own heart beating and felt she had almost come to the end of the way. Her head was bleeding profuse ly and her body was in a wrack of pain. She breathed a prayer for Divine guidance, asked the Lord to look down in mercy upon that awful scene, and make possible for her some way of escape. When she saw them peeping under the house for her, she hid in a hole which the dog had scratched out under the back porch near the door steps where Mr. Ad kins was lying—still struggling paused a while for a much needed rest directly under the bed where Mrs. Adkins was lying. She could hear them! dealing the death blows _ „ on her helpless body and co-aid (pair of pants were taten off Jones hear her cries for help as she beg- and carried to Mrs. Terry. She ged them not to kill her. Mrs. identified a patch she had Pnt on Terry said she could now hear her them for Mr. Adkins. The old Ad- kins home is still standing and is in a good state of repair despite its experience with fire that mem orable night and the 53 years of use that has been added since. That was the last lynching and also the last wholesale murder- robbery ever to occur in Hertford County. The colored people since then have gone forward by leaps and bounds away from such bar- barious days. Fifty-three years has brought wonders to the Negro race in Hertford County. They are said now to he the best ednca- ' colored For further information see your local Bus Agent, or write Norfolk Southern Bus Corp., Norfolk, V* NOTE: Bold face type indicates P. M. Light face type indicates A. M. Christmas, go Electric—earlyS between life and death—-when one' ted, fartherest advanced nf the Negroes came running j people in North Carolina, inev around the house and said, “dam Low stand with the white man for you, aint you dead yet?” nicked up Lood citizenship, law enforcement slob, struck him two or three hard and order. After that she heard him a blows, struggle no more. Jones and Freeman were famil- the The basis of Christmas is _ ones a.iu , ,rock, Christ Jesus; its fruits are in- iar with the place. She could hear gpiration and spiritual understand- them in the kitchen getting the oil 1 jng of joy and rejoicing,—not be- can and soon she smelled kerosene | cause of tradition, usage, or cor- oil and could hear fire roaring. Loreal pleasures, but because ot She knew then if she did not get | fundamental and demonstrable away soon she would he burned,-tmth, because of the heaven with- alive. She crawled across the j jn us.—Mary Baker Eddy, back yard through a gate, do-wn a cotton row to find a stolen mule that Kinch Freeman had ridden, tied to the fence. In getting over the fence she fell in a ditch.* Getting on her feet BUYING FURS—Mink, muskrat, raccoon, opossum, etc; Top mar ket prices, spot cash. W. C. GLOVER, Elizabeth City, N. C. ELECTRICAL gifts ring the Christmas bell without wringing the gift budget . . . they combine beauty and utility, they’re thrifty, efficient servants that keep saying “Merry Christmas” long after other gifts are forgotten. So naturally, they’ll be Number One on your Christmas list—and there’s a great variety of hand some, useful appliances to choose from. But — many Electrical appliances are made from the same raw materials which are essential to National Defense. So there is the possibility of a shortage. We urge you, therefore, to go Electric this Christmas—^but EARLY! Remember, electrical gifts are presents with a future! See your dealer ...or VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY
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