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Vol. 2; No. 61
MANTEO, N. C., FHdi.y, August 28,1936
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MOTHER OF INFANT FOUND
BURIED IN SAND IS $TIL£
UNKNOWN AS SEAROH l ENDS
Many Circumstances are Mysterious in the
Finding of a Premature Child Buried in
Sand Near Kitty Hawk Prison Camp; All
Available Clues Bring Fruitless Search
MANTEO GIUL.IS
MISS NAGS HEAD .i
I:-
By W. CARLTON MASON
Dare county autlioiitlcs have
abandoned the ,search for but arc
still curious about who was the
mother of a prematurely bom
white baby, found beside the road
near the Kitty Hawk prison camp
early Friday morning. All clues
found were traced to their end
without the sliglitcst indication
of what woman might liave been
the mother or whetlicr or not
there was a iwrson or persons
probably guilty of abortion.
Some time between midnight
last Sunday inlght and 7:30 Mon
day morning tlm premature body
of a baby boy was burled beneath
approximately tlircc inches of
sand on the south side of the
Virginia Dare Trail about 300
yards cast of the Kitty Hawk
prison camp, was the firm belief
of Dare County’s Coroner Mar
vin Rogers. Tlic fetus happened
to be found only tlirough the ac
cidental discovery of its shallow
grave by Tom Hutchiiis, negro
cool^of the prison camp, who was
walking around early in the morn
ing. He stated that he was at
tracted to the spot when he saw
a sanitary gauze box and some
FARROWHEIRSTO
LAY A CLAM TO
BURIED TR’SURE
Many People At Avon Will
Claim Share of Any Gold
Treasure Hunters May
Dig Up
A NURSE TO AIDfsPLANS ARE MADE
IALL sick FOLKS:
INi.DAR^COUNTYj
i Miss Minnie G. McI.«inor4
Heads Public Ilcallh Nurs
ing Service Recently Es
tablished
Tliat the treasure hunters who
arc preparing to dig for the re
puted buried wealth of Pharaoh
FaiTow, wealthy mcrcliant of Kln-
nckcct, will not recover any mon
ey without having to divvy up
tliclr spoils is indicated by state
ments made tills week by liclrs of
the late miser.
Tlicrc arc dozens of people at
Avon who arc direct descendants
of the famed Pharaoh of Klnnc-
kcct. They have dreamed for
years of finding the ••eputed chest
of gold. Many have been the
dreams that have been spun by
some of these descendants about
MISS THELMA LEWIS, of M.mlco
and Aydcn, who last S.slurday night
vtas selected as Miss Nags Head at
the Nags Head Beach Club, in a
bathing beauty contest staged by
owners of the Beach Club. Miss
Lewis was presented with a lovely
yellow gold wrist watch.’ Other
contestants were Miss EloLso Bur
ras and Miss Bessie Gray, of Man-
teo, and Miss Pauline Boswell of
Poplar Branch.
COAST GUARDS
FEEDING MANY
FREEBOARDERS
bloody gauze lying near the .spot wliat they would do with the cash
if it ever came to llglit. Tiicro
the fetus was also found.
Shortly after tlie negro discov
ered the grave of tlic infant he
have been new automobiles en
visioned, long trips, fine clothes,
reported tlie finding and Coroner (Improvements to homes, and
Rogers was summoned. Ho un- i countless other things dear to
earthed the Infant and brought
cS--
j’?
it to Manteo where it was exam
ined by Dr. W. W. Jolinston, Dr.
Johnston found that it was pre-
mjiturc to the extent that it was
between three and four months
old and that it had not passed the
stage of viability., Technically it
had not reached the staac of Ui-
jUvidual iltfc^\Fpr.J.^hls,';,fre»floii,.
f ':, Tcoukl not be charts wth murder.
Tiic only charge that could be
brought against her would be
criminal abortion. .The same
would be true, should it be found
that any person or persons had
a part in what Ls commonly term
ed as an illegal operation, should
there have been such.
Coroner Rogers, at random d^-
cussion, pictured two possibilities.
One, criminal abortion, the other,
a natural mishap of nature. In
cither ’circumstance the mystery
of who tlie motticr was leads local
, authorities to believe honorable
.intentions were far from being
foremost in the occurence. Rog-
,ers said that the Immediate loca-
:tion of the grave jvas a clean
|placc from which sand had been
.'hauled and that it might have
been the place where it all took
.place, there in the quiet hours of
•tlic early morning.
’ One angle of the investigation
imadc by Coroner Rogers, G. T.
Dowdy, local policeman. Captain
W. A. Etheridge, special Nags
Head policeman, and State High
way Patrolman J. C. Scarborough,
at first iiointed toward John B.
Bateman of Elizabeth City. These
officers were, in this particular
angle of the investigation, work
ing upon a clue reported by El-
woed Dowdy, operator of the Sea
Breeze Inn, a service station.
Dowdy told the o.ficers that Bate
man came to his station about
2:30 in the morning and that his
hands, arms and clothes were cov
ered with sand and that he ap
peared quite nervous. He also
stated that he purchased a bot
tle of beer and that he was per
spiring freely. Later in the morn
ing Bateman was found and
brought to Manteo for question
ing. Dowdy also related a wild
story told to him by Bateman.
'According to Dowdy's story Bate
man is supposed to have left the
, impression that he was tired and
' nervous from a long ride and that
he was from Raleigh. He also
said that he was supposed to meet
a woman on the beach at 12
o’clock and that she had “plenty
:’of money,” Dowdy also related,
g: This Bateman denied when po-
rilccmcn questioned him Monday
. afternoon. He changed his story
saying he was supposed to meet
his wife at IVanchcse. Out of the
entire investigation of the angle
in which Bateman was believed
to bo connected substantial facts
could not be obtained and conse-
.qucntly he was released. He was,
however, charged with operating
an automobile under the influence
*of;liquor and foufid guilty of same
before Recorder W. F. Baum Tues
day afternoon.
Angle Not Investigated
’* One angle of the case which
Thas not been investigated lies in
•the possibility that'the mother of
the human heart.
And now that-there Ls a pros
pect of some of this money
being dug up. they say they will
demand their .sliare. If all tlic
heirs put in their bid, it will take
a lot of money to go around.
Many of them express a willing
ness 'w> help do the actual.work of
diggingt.but they. wiU expect their
DIED WHILE PREPARING
TO MARRY AT AGE OF 82
Uncle Ben Jennetle of Bnton Was
a Fopnlar Figure; Lett Splendid
.Family
A few days ago there died at
Buxton ona of the most loved per
sonalities on the “Banks.” He was
Uncle Ben Jennette, 82 years old,
and he succumbed to a number of
frailties of age that suddenly came
upon him. At the time of his death
he had been making preparations
to marry a woman at Cape Henry
where a son is in the lighthouse
service. Mr. Jennette had grown
tired of living alone, and had been
buying furniture for his new venture
in matrimony, it Is said.
He had long been very active and
alert for a man of his years. He
had been engaged in the mercantile
business. He had reared a splendid
family of children who iiad made
a good name for themselves in life.
Surviving him are four sons and
four daughters as follows: Warren
Jennette of Raleigh, U. S. Jen
nette of Buxton, Utah Jennette of
Cape Henry, Alaska Jennette of
Maryland; and Mrs. C. P. Gray of
Buxton, Mrs. Beulah Etheridge of
Raleigh, Mrs. Etliel Middleton of
Columbia, S. C., Mrs. Frank W.
Miller of Buxton
The passing of Uncle Ben was a
sad event at the Cape. He will be
missed. He was one of those old
time, stalwart, self-reliant figures
that the county can so ill afford
to be without.
the fetus might have died and her
body disposed of. The fact that
local doctors have not reported
having attended professionally,
any woman that might have been
the mother of the fetus leaves a
jap for msytery in the case. The
physical setting of the section
around which the fetus was found
makes an ideal location for the
body of a woman to cither be
buried deep in sand or thrown in
to the swamp across the road.
Another circumstance not en
tirely cleared came out in Bate
man’s testimony about w^iy he
was sandy. He is said to have
told that he got out of his car
and had fallen asleep on the'
ground at some' place in Currl-
Sumclimcg As Many As Forty
Persons At A Single Meal
time Cared For By Surf-
men
Few jicoplD realize the great ex
pense to wlilch the men In the
Coast Guard Stations are put by the
free boarders wlio call at the sta
tions wliile travelling up.and down
the coast and who stop for meals.
Recently, at the noon meal, the men
of Oregon Inlet Station fed a.s many
OS forty guests, who came for it,nch,
-'ow
ners* three times that day.
’Tlic men in the Coast Guard arc
allowed $15 for their board each
month. If the station mess runs
liigher, it has lo come from their
own meagre clicck. ’Tlie surfmen alt
get an average of less than $100 a
month. Miles of soft and difficuit
sands intervene between each of
the stations. ’There is an Immcase
increase in travel, principally, by
people wlio do not know how to
drive on the beaches. Many of tlidm
are down Just for the sport of fish
ing and sightseeing. Numerous
cars get stuck. All day and most
of the night the Coast Guards arc
called out to pull the cars out of
the sands, to tow them in fo/-re
pairs, and most costly of all, to feed
hot, tired, and hungry men.
Tlie Coast Guardsmen are not
allowed to cliargc for this service
rendered, nor for tlic food tliey pro
vide thasc hungry travellers. Few
of them offer lo pay anyway. But
llic mess bill at the end of the
month tells a pitiful story. When
considerable extra money must be
taken from the pay check so great
ly needed for the surfman’s family.
REQUIRES $15,000
IN GROCERIES FOR
WPA CAMP MEN
Feeding Of A Thousand Men
Calls For Plenty of Chow;
Store Carries Huge Stock
One of the most Important of
recent proj'.cts to be e.slabll.slicd' in
Dare and other counties of Uic Al-'
bciiiai'lc is tlie Piiblle Health Niirs--
lug Service, made possible by the
Social Sccuri’y and Public Hcallh
Services of the United Stales,!
tlirougli tlic North Carolina Board!
of Hcaltli. Dr. G M. Cooper, mem-,'
Ijcr of the Slate Board of H altli
and director of preventive medicine,
is largely responsible for the move-,
ment lo cjtabllsli this service.
Dare County is part of tlie Albe-^
marie district nursing sol-up, as
are abo Camden. Pasquotank, Per
quimans, Cliowaii and Gates Coun
ties. Tlic district b headed by Miss'
Cora Beam. rcgblcr:d nurse who
has been wltii tlic State Board of
Health for a ntmibcr of years. Miss
Minnie G. McLemore will have
cliargc of the Dare county offlees.
Mbs McLemore b a graduate ofi
James Watt Memorial Hospital in?
Wilniuiglon, and lias Just completed
nine montiis of Public Hcaltli, nurs
ing in the Public Hcaltli school ofi
William and Mary .All nurses chos
en for work in this field must bej
Si^iduale nurses, r-gbtered in a
Public Hcaltli nursing school. This,
regulation was adojitcd by the Nat-
iunil nursing organization and;
Public Hcaltli Service, and b.v thd
Nortti Carolin.i Stale Board of
Hcaltli.
Each county in thb district wig
have its own nur.se, and the program^
will be one of generalized healthy
nursing, with emphasb on matern
ity and Infant service. The aim wlU:
be to reach molliers and cliildren'
who do not liave a private physl-'
clan’s wateb-carc. It will be espez-,
lally an instructive program, lii;
which the county nurse will glvejlko'
instructions for nursing care, pro--
vlded the patient or patients XaiiV'
lly.wiU. imve someonejpi^nMii'
GEORGIAN GIRL BRIDE
OF ROANOKE ISLANDER'
FOR REVIVAL OF
SHAD INDUSTRY
Rcsloratiiin uf industry Is
Plunnud by Department of
Conservttlion and Devel
opment •
and the nursing carried on
taught.
The State Board of Health,
through Dr. Cooper, cstablbhcs thb'
service with tho co-operation of lo
cal physicians. The county Physi
cian assbts the nurse in establbh-
Ing her work.
The work in thb dbtrict began
about the first of July and plans
liave been made to carry It on for
at least a year.
’The first meeting of the m.aternlly
and infant' center, will be held oh
Tue^ay, Sept. 1, at one p. m., at
the "Melhodbl parsonage at Kitty
Hawk, and thereafter at the same
hour on the first Tuesday of each
month.
All expectant mothers and
mothers of children under one year
of age, who arc in need of medical
advice, and wlio are unable to pay
for the services of a private physi
cian, who live in Kitty Hawk, Col-
Inglon, Duck, or Nags Head, arc
urged to attend thb meeting.
Ikitcs for‘meetings of the center
at other places will be announced
later.
Morliead City, Aug. 27—The .slrad
ami tlie rock fbli arc on tlicir way I
,'hack lo the dining table of Mr and |
Mrs. Average Cllizcu, and llie rcs-
itoratloii of what was once a lu
crative industry for Uie fishermen
was planned a' a meeting of a
splendid committee from tlie Do-
Dcpartmciit of Conservation and
Devclopmenl wl.tli Glen C. Leacli,
chief of tlie division of flsli cul-
tme of the U. S. E’vSrcau or Fblier-
Ics. The .sc-sslons here on Tliurs-
day and Friday wore licld-about the
■flagslilp of tlic N. C. navy, the
•John Nebon. and were. attended by
Slate Director Bruce EHicridge and
,hls assistant Paul Kelly, Slate
.Game Warden John Chalk, Slate
Fisheries Commissioner John Nel
son and committee members E. S.
Askew of Ellzabclli City, James L.
McNair of Laurlnburg and J. L.
ilornc. Jr., of Rocky Mount,
f' Evolved 'rom llio conference was
ti pledge of complete federal as.sbt-
Snee for the effort wltliin the stale",
8 inultlplylng by three fold any re
stocking efforts ever uiidert-akcn in
:,the slate. Included in tho plan will
|6e early assignment to tlic eastern
'area of a coiwcrvation and propa-
I^tion ^cclalbt for working out of
jthe offices of the federal govern
ment at Benulorl who b to make
i complete and cxtiausllvo study ol
the shad in tlic streams and sounds.
Snd of tile enemies of tlib nilgra-
^ry fbh. The support of the Nortli
Carolina commission was asked in
Connection with a proposed confer-
iniee of Conservation .offlclab from
iilong the Atlantic seaboard look
ing' to Jhe. presentation of an uni
form'appeal to the next se.Asion of
fabngri^ for regulatory measures
governing migratory flsli, modeled
'zng the lines of the now existing
as respect migratory fowl.
'Tjic,re; wiis dJscu,ssIon ot_ what was
?iSp'M’^i^bn/'’rai ^6’'e'‘)rt 'td
tiff the shad back lo Ctij waters
if 'the state since it was pointed '
out that wllliln the present genera
tion the annual take dropped fron^
ten million pounds to lc.ss than one
million pounds, it being pointed out
that continued periods of poor
catches had rendered the fbher-
men’s per capita wealth to among
the lowest ill the state, and that
an application of federal measures
whatever they might be would have
to' of necessity take this into ac
count. It was for tlib reason that
the planning svas confined to the
dbcusslon stage, although with the
help of federal offlclab It b plan
ned that the committee will pre
sent for adoption one of several ai-
ternatives wlicn tlie entire board
of Conservation and Development
meets for a called meeting at the
Mount Mllchell Reserve early in
October.
SAYS HATTERAS BANKS
WILL BECOME GREATEST
RESORT IN THE SOUTH
Advantages of Modern Highway South of
Oregon Inlet Would Easily Make This
Section Excel Virginia Beach in Wealth,
Dr. Tom Mann Thinks
UNCLE CYRUS ILL
BUT IMPROVES AT
HOME IN SALVO
A RECENT pliolo' of Mrs. Ralph
Etheridge of Manteo and Sullivon'.s
tslaiid. South Carolina, formerly
Mls-s Emma DAulcl of Augusta,
Georgia. Mr, EUieridge b station
ed at Sullivan’s Island Coast Guard
Station. South Carolinfi, and tlicy
recently visited Mr Etheridge’s par
ents. Capl. and Mrs. W. Y. Etheridge
at Manteo,
MANTEO GIRL
RETURNS F R 0 M
EUROPEAN TRIP
L'uiit. Kibhard Hooper of
Avon Is Now Recovered
From Stroke
Tells Intcrcstinjr Travel Talcs
About Invents Happening
In Europe This Summer
Tiiat tlie Hatleras Banks section
of Dare County couUl easily be
come tlic greatest summer rn.sort in
the south, and have greater wealtfi
llian 'Virginia Beach is the bellol
of Dr. Tliomas Mann of Buxton,
provided, thb section could have
tlie advantagc.s of a liard surface
road and a few thousand dollars
lnvq.sicd
Dr. Mann was sweating and oiow-
liig one day this -week from his la-,
bor.s in getting liis Ford to go up’
and down the beach, .os lie went a-
bout the basincss ol treating the
.sick folks in hb .section. Ilb radia-, -
lor w.is boiling from a motor over-'
healed by negotiating the iiot and
soft sands of the scacoast, which
a in&j|3rn-mlnded State has yet
failed to provide with any roatb.
The doctor iierspired freely and he
too., was plenty hot, and he had
seven miles more to go. He had
been stalled for hours, and had
missed hb dinner by three hours.'
He paused to get something to eat,’
ana stopped to talk a little before i
he conlinucd on hb way. '
"I wish every member of Uie'
State Highway Commbsion had to^
Uncle Cyrus Gr.iy, beloved rolir-
cd Coa.st Guardsman of Salvo is re
covering after a .serious attack of
illness ]a.sl week. Tho long past
his tlircc .score and ten. lie is very
active and overdid himself during
tile liot weatlf r this month
One of the most miraculous c.xses
of illna’-s among the strong old boys
of tlie Coast Guard, is recorded -at
Avon, whore Capt. Richard Hooper,
retired Boatswain, is now' driving
lib qer, and apnarrntlv n.s well as
ever, following hb almost complete
recovery from a stroke about a year
ago that left lilm completely help
less. He has regained hb strength
so well that he can now lift his I ceme to tlie banks for a week, mnfl
DENNIS R. MANN
DIES OF GUN
WOUND IN N. J.
STUMPY POINT
TO HAVE ICE &
STORAGE PLANT
A moiitii’s supply of grocerie.s for
the men in the WPA camps engaged
in beach erosion'work in Dare coun
ty would rival the combined stocks
of many of the grocery stores of
the county. One large store build
ing b rented in the town of Man-
tco, and a stock valued at $15,000
b kept in It. From time to time
huge loads of foods come by barge
and by truck. The feeding of a
thousand men a day b no small
problem.
The Camp b • known as Camp
Wirth, but was formerly Little Eus-
tb.
Probably the largest assortment of
foods unloaded iii Manteo for the
,, Eustb 'WPA Project since Its In-
tucic before crossing the Currituck cepUon occurred when a shipment
Sound bridge. In contradiction
the texture of sand supposed to
have been seen on hb clothing
and person was said to have been
different from that- texture of
sand natural to Currituck County
west of the .sound.
After Coroner Rogers had Dr.
Johnston examine the fetus it
was turned over to a local under
taker and buried here on Roanoke
Island.
of canned vegetables and fruits
numbering several thousand cases
werp moved from a large freight
bar^ and hauled to Eustian ware
houses,
Thb barge arrived from Skiff’s
Creek, Virginia Just before another
one heavily loaded with building
materbb and supplies was emptied.
Due to the fact that the former
was so heavily loaded, and -was
Dcnnb R. Mann, about 42 years
old, son of 'Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mann
of Manns Harbor, and a member
of the police force of "Wildwood.
N. J.. was found in a dying condi
tion lu the result Of a bullet wound
supposedly inflicted by an attacker.
Dctalb arc beking.
Mr. Mann married 'Mbs Hilda
Burfoot of Elizabeth City. They had
no children. He b survived by his
p-arents and the following brothers
and sbters; Gaston and Guy
Mann of Manns Harbor. Harry
Mann of Oklahoma; Mrs. Ina Wat-
crficld of 'Washington, D. C., Mrs.
Calvin EicaMc'y 'ol Manns Harbor.
Interment will take place at 2:30
p: m., Saturday at Manns Harbor..
A large Icc plant In connccttoii-
with the Pbhcrm’an’s Exchange;
pacl^ng house at Stumpy. Point,
having' ample output and 'storage
facilities capable of taking care of
the needs of that soclion b to be
built shortly, according to Geo. M.
Wbe, proprietor of the Fbhermen’s
Exchange. The plans were com
pleted yesterday.
The venture will have behind It
sufficient capital and the exper-
icliuc Of practical ice iiica. Crdl-
narlly such a venture would re-
qufre an Investment of $25,000.
WiUi the completion of the Manns
Harbor road. It would serve Manns
Harbor, East Lake and Masliocs
fbh'ennsn and homes. Further dc-
taUs will be announced next week.
In a recent interview','Mrs. C. "W.
Barber, of Phlladcphla, formerly
Miss Madge Danleb, of Roanoke
island, told many interesting things
concerning a trip to Europe, Irom
which she has Just returned. Sail
ing from New' York City on the
20tli, of June, Mrs. Barber conduct
ed one of the Brownwcll tours, .ar
ranged by tho Unlver.slly of Ala
bama. The twenty-five people in
hqr-j’rpiip.JandC’i^it’Gla.^nv/^where
they vlcwe? the l«rth wliere the.
giant ocean liner, Queen Mary was
built.
From Glasgow the party proceed
ed by bus for the remainder of tlic
•"ur, going througli th^ Tro.5sachs,
the beautiful wooded 'valley made
famous by Sir Walter Scott In his
noveb, "The Lady of the Lake" and
"Rob Roy,” to Edinburgh. Irom
which point they made an c.xcurs-
ioii to Abbotglord,! the lormer
rcsidciico and now the shrine of
the immortal Scott.
From Edinburgh thz itinerary led
through tho beautiful Lakes db-
irlct ill England, to London. There
one of the most Intcrcstiiii: places
vblted by the tourbts W'as the new
Sha'kespcare Memorial Theatre,
where Shakespeare plays are being
produced regularly.
The parly reached Parb at tho
lime tlial John D Rockefeller, Jr.t
was being given an ovation because
of lib generosity in restoring the
palace at Versailles, and ollior
arcliitcctural ruins Parl.s, in Mrs.
Barber's opinion, is much gayer and
happier tliaii five or sLx years ago.
Among other restorations being
made, is that of the beautiful
Bhelms Cathedral, wliicli was part
ially destroyed during tlio World
War. The' stained glass window.s
cannot bq replaced, as the. art of ^
iMklm^itJiemi’.has been lost., lnit|‘j boat^and
oth'er parU of the cathedral will be
restored to'-original design.
^The city of Bntsseb was hi
■mourning, as a memorial on the an
niversary of Queen Astrld’s death.
young Krandchildvcn over hb licaU.
Wliilc mucli younger men wouki
have given up, and maybe have died
long ago. these splendid old boys
hang on and come back. They are
fighters and arc made of tougli fibre
fasliloned through years of strenu
ous patroling of the beach aqd bat
tling with the Sea. It b liard to
find more able men in every respect
than those who have given so much
of their lives to the , services of
others.
TWG^rUAND
SHARK AT FRISCO
WT. 700 POUNDS
Sea Monster First Caujfht in
a Net Attacks Boat, Rip
ping Flank and Finally
landed
Last week Jsnie.s Mitchcll-Hcdgcs,
son of P A. Mllchcll-Hedges. the ex
plorer and big ganic-fishennan, w'itli
ills friend Raymou.i McHenry, both
boy's being thirteen years of ago,
had an adventure w'liich came with
in an acc of being a tragedy. Tow
ing a' row-boat b-hlnd them, they
waded from the Island ol Hatleras
into iliB shallow water of Pamlico
Sound vrnerc they bad tied a sel-
nct in water lliat reached only to
their waists, about a hundred yards
offshtre. Arriving al me not they
began to pick out a. few sma'J fish,
and at tliat moment a triangular
fin cut through Uie water straight
towai'ib them Th6y Jumped *ntoinvestment.
be obliged' to drive twice the lengtli
of the beacli eacli day he was licre,"
the doctor exploded. "I’ll guaran
tee at the end of tlic second day,
tlicy'd vole to do something for the
banks.
•The Stkte is not only doing.our,
people a great InJusUce,” he con-f
tinned, but it is overlooking' a'great!
chance to develop property- values.'
II. we had a rdad, we would’have ah'-
Increase of two or,, three million
dollars In propcity ’’alurs lii a short
tlui'. People., arti.i*
I hi. ocean than a^y’-itlinr place an • >
the coast. It lias a uiuq'ae cJihrm..., V.l.^
and history, and a recreational ap-i '
pcal^hat few'othcr icctlons In'the-V. V i
world arc favored 'with. ^ M I
"Tlio people are denied many ad- - *
vantages in keeping with modern
times they should enjoy. The ^ _
building of a road would provide
them with al least two nc'w .Ih-
dustrles, namely, a dairy and a
bakery. We cannot now get fre.sh
milk or fresh bread. Neither can
we get fresh vegetables, a food so
badly needed, and for lack of which
■we have more, bad, teeth in this
seeMoii than any place I know." '
Rumors at Electric Lights i
One hears rumors on the banks.*.^^ r-ijj
these days that the Virginia Elezr '''
trie and Power Company officials
have had their eyes on this seotlori,
and are considering Uie possibillti'
of extending their lilgli power lines
do'wn the coast to HaUcras. It will
cost $70,000 but it Is believed with
the cooperation of Uie government,
wnich has .so many Coast Guard
and other activities i.i tlib sczlioii,
it would be quite feasible, and m a
fc'A' years would become a profitable
Ihcir little boat Just in time to a-
vold a big .shark The creature, en
raged. la.shcd round w'ith its hill,
missing Uiem by inches, drenching
smashing the bow
tearing the bead
ing off the sides It then m.ide off:
but within a few minutes was back
again with ten other great sharks.
Tho sharks swam round the little
boat so close that the boys could
but Mrs. Barbar s party w.is fortu- j struck them with Uiclr cars,
iiate enough to arrive there ■when | qj ^ sudden dash
and became enmeshed In the net.
Tlic bays untied the net from the
stake lo which it w.as fixed and,
pii-shlne tho skiff with the oars, be
gan to low the shark, tangled up
a revSev.' of the guards was taking
place, and was present at the dc-
Jlv'crj- of a speech by King Leopold.
In travelling through Holland, a
visit was mads to The Hague, from
which place the party went to I ^ (.he set-net, towards the beacli.
MUSIC CLUB WILL MEET .. .
NEXT TUESDAY NIGUT
J. C. EVANS IMPROVES
' AT BIARINE HOSri'I'Ail
'"John Cole Evans, who was taken
to the Marine hospital in Norfolk
Sunday afternoon, desperately ill.
Is showing a’ slight Improvement
I after a new diagnosis and treatment
at that institution.
The 'Roanoke Island Music..Club,
wlll^hold its regular monthly mcct-
hv^next Tuesday. ■?v?nlhg;. 6ept,/lf:
at' tho h9pic,Qf l)o|;^/4oii»fat
eigh^o'clock. Plans for the district
mee^ng to be held, here . next
month.'; will be discussed, and all
members of the club are urged to
be present.
Germany. In Germany, they made
the Rhine River trip, viewing tlic
famous old castles. They also vis
ited the university at Hcidleburg,
whlcl; is being restored and added
to. part of the funds being contri
buted by former American'students
of the university. Tho wliolo cur-’’
tlcula there has uudcrgoiic drastic
changes, everything now bcln^
taught on a militaristic basis. In
iMiinlcI), the Americans wore more
aware bf, the Hitler regime than at
any other place, ^thp (Hitler head
quarters having been moved there
from Berlin. Nuremberg and Rot-j
The other sharks circled round and
followed them lo within a few feet
of the shore, but they landed the
great brute trluniphaiilly.
There Is no doubt they just psr
caped being killed. Tlie shark
measured' eleven feet in ^fength, the
jaws four feel seven Inehs in cir-
cumferened, diicl It.iyelgjicd apprqxl-i
matcly seveh hundred,, poiiijds.
It isi believed to ^e the i first ih-
stance ' known when ,the .attacking:
sliarjc has been .landodr.by Uiose at
tacked. The boys ■were- much ex
cited, Uiey shot It with a rifle, and
then hooking It w'lth'a large hook
tenburg the two b^t Picsc^^ j ashore and got, they fin.
ally dragged It where It was pholo-
the dock; remaining in the channel
nearby. A crew of 25 men—largely
from Camp Duck—supplied the
manpower necessary to move this
heavy shipment on a lighter barge
to the dock, and there load it on
leaking slightly, it could not feach. trucks .which were waitlsg nearby.
Pirst'Mald (talking about a party
given the day before by her (mis
tress): "And they all came in lim
ousines and had on the grandest
clotiiss, and wore the biggest dia
monds."
Neighbor’s Maid: "And what did
they,.talk about.”
■^st Maid: ’ Us”.
, • ,
medieval cities in Europe, were
points of much interest. These . ^bout ten sharks In all
two cities are still surrounded time. It Is mi
wa is, and if any new structures not before known on the
built, they must be in keeping with .
the style of architecture which has
been used there for centuries.
■While in Germany, the party saw
the Von iHlndenburg, Germanvs
newest airship, starting on a trip
to America. ^
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Rcecntly a minister kissed tho
bride and handed the bridegroom
his money back,—Florida Times-
Unlon.
Tlicre is no doubt but the future
holds great possIbUillcs for'llie de
velopment of this section. That
the Government has given serious
consideration to the ustablUlmjcut
of a great Hatleras National Park,
and a huge migratory bird reffigt:
south of Oregon Inlet, and. Is now
spending much in the activities of
a CCC camp and Is employing
hundreds of 'WPA •workers hi their
camps along the coast, gives rise
to many hopes and conjectures, es
pecially since one may observe the
great improvement made by tlicse
agencies.
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