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T t I THE DARE COUNTY TIMES The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties VOL. IV; NO. 201 STRONG WINDS SPOIL SPORT OF MANY FISHERMEN MANTEO, N, C., MAY 5. 1939 MINNESOTA GIRL JOINS TIMES STAFF; BIRTHDAY SAME AS VIRGINIA DARE Weather Man Conspired Against Crowds of Fisher men Turning Them to Contemplation of History Unprecedented calcties of drum off OreRon Inlet this season, and biting blue-fish further out and fui'- ther down, brought uni)reccd’’ited numbers of sportsmen to Dare county during the past week end,| and tempestuous winds sent them| home again, mostly without having wet a hook in salt water. After one morning’s fishing with Captain Lewark and Captain Perry o.T the Inlet, Congressman Undsav Warren and a party of his col leagues in Congress, including Senator John Miller of Arkansas; and Virgil Chapman of Keiiluckj reluctantly took olT for Washing ton last Saturday morning after visiting Fort Kaleigh about break fast time. Before they were out of the coun ty another parly, this lime headed by George Boss Pou, State Auditor and for eight yeai-s superintendent of the State’s I'rison in Ualcigh during the administration.-, of Gov ernors Morrison and JIcLean, jiut in here, and were iuarlevcd at the invitation of Bruce Ktheridge aboard the “Croatan,” and taking their meals with Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Etheridge. ' -‘i' '' ^ 1 MAYOR’S MUSIC WEEK PROCLAMATION May 7, (o 13, 1939 Mantco, N. C. I \ I BOHN on August l.sth, what year, we have not had time to consult her about, but not long ago. Miss Elaine Johnson, of Jlinneapolis, Minnesota joins the staff of the Times Printing Company, this week. An e.vperionced newspaper woman, and witli majors in Iiistory and English from Macalcstor Col- But Uiere w.as no fishing. Dur-jlegc in St. I’aul, she comes to this ing the day they visited points of interest about the county, including Collington. TRill Devil Hills and the Nags Hoad woods. Later in the day they were joined by another party headed by Oscar Pills, pres ent superintendent of the State’s Prison, and Sheriff Kyle Matthews of Harnett county, who is a cousin of Paul Green. Those parlies departed Sunday afternoon, not being able to wait until the sea smoothed out so they could fish. But others came oil their heels, with .same prospect of good fishing by Tuesday. Then the weather did snmothing that caught all the weather prophets un awares, with hail and sleet and snow and winds and more rain than •has fallen hereabouts in a single day in a long time, with mountain ous seas,—and no fishing. Among the delegations come down from long distances far the (Please turn to Page Eight) county with muc.h c.vpcricncc in newspaper reporting, and office management. Miss Johnson has studied Journalism at the Univer- . sity of Minnesota and advertising - copywriting and typography at the Fishing and Out Doors —By- Aycoclc Brown Authority on Fishing News Minneapolis School of Art. She gained her practical experience with the Minneapolis Jounial, a newspaper with ujiwards of a 150,- 000 circulation, where she did so ciety reporting, hook reviewing and lilirary work. She wrote articles for an Illinois magazine, and other papers. She glows wiLii health, and is full of life, and enthus!“sm for the Cai'olina coast country. .She is five foot, six inches tall, and has brown ksir and blue eyes, ^ ^ Mi.s.s Johnson may'give mitch’of her time to the new seashore news paper to be publi.shed this summer for the Dare County beaches. WHEREAS, the fir.st week in May will bo observed throughout the Nation as National Music Week, and WHEREAS, all lo.ial musical organizations, will cooperate in making this celebration a nota ble and constructive one in ad vaiicemcnt of the art of musii and the promotion of its enjoy ment among the people of .11,in to and Roanoke Island as a whole, and WHERE.-LS, ill our effort.s It promote the commercial growth and pros|ierity of our city anJ Island we are prone to forget the cultural and spiritual activi ties which arc so imiioia.iiit in the life and progress of any coinmiinity, MOW THEREFORE, I, L. D Tarkington, by virtue of the p mer vc.stod in me as Mayor of the 'i'own of Mantco, do hereby proclaim .May 7th through May l.'Uh as Mii.sic Week in Manteo and Roanoke Island and urge our citizen.s to take cognizance of tlie unlimited enjoyment and inspiration to bo deri ed from good music, and to participate in the events planned for this week which will be announced in the local press. Particularly do I call attention to all musical concerts and programs given in our coinmunRy during this Na tional Music Week. IN WITNESS WHEREOF 1 have hereunto set my Iiand and affixed the official seal of the Town of Manteo, this 2nd day of Jlay, 1939. L. D. TARKINGTON, Mayor Town of Mantco, Roanoke Island, N. C. new YORKERS WINS BIG MAJORITY COMING DOWN FOR BIG FISHING [ H-atteras Getting Large I Groups This Week; Many ! Newspapermen Coming • ■ -— ‘PENNSY’ VISITORS DELIGHTED WITH MANTEO AREA Fishing Party Fron,--..;jme- stead Pennsylvania, Re turns For Sport STATE DOESN’T POLL ALL OUR SCHOOL BILLS "Next to Homestead, Pennsyl vania, the home of the greatest and largest steel mills in the world I i Good weather this week end wit- I nesses the arrival of many notable I sport-smon, mostly from New York land New Jer.soy, to take advantage •if tlic good fisliiiig. llatlcras is nl.so attracting many men to its line fishing grounds. At Mantco Wednesday, a large jiarty cn rout llatteias reealled the fine „.ut I ti.-hing of lli.'t.j, wlien Ray 'rrulliti- gcr, and five friends landed more , P an three thousand peund.s of Okie! li'li with rod and reel -c Oregon' inlet. I The party includes L. C. Del- .Mnyor L. D. Tarkington of .Man- niniiieo, and Harry Green, both of teo was re-clcclc-d Tuesday fni two New Jersey, and Rich,aid Moeller yeans, in one of the most spirited and Ray Truilingor. of .Neu York, town elections in recent yea s He’ I.. C Delnmnico is of the famous won -II of the 45 votes cast for the Delmonii-o Restaurant family (al-] office. G. T. Westcott, Jr., was tlioug'h no longer in that Inisuie.ssil named as a new member of the'and one of the country’s champion I Board of Aldermen. Cecil Mannsheet shots. | and W. B. Fearing were re-eloctcd.] Richard Jioeller is a New York! The regular ticket was: L. D. .Stock Exchange member. Han'v Tarkington for Mayor; Fearing,' Green also is a famous skeet .sliot, Westcott and Mann for .Aldermen, he .having just won the N. Y. Mel- A number of other names wore ropolitan championship with a written in during the voting. score of 97x100. The vote was as follows: For Ray Truilingor is rod and gun Alayor, Tarkington 41, and Di L. editot of the New A'ork World-Tel- Russell 4. For Aldermen, We.si-1 egram, and has been a North Caro- cotl 30. Fearing .36, Mann 30. J. 0. lina booster since hitting that amazing blue fish run at Oregon Inlet in 19.35. He shot at the Bodie Island Club for a week last winter and later at Mattamuskeet Lake. All are staying at the Atlantic View Hotel, Hatteras this week. Ray Camp, rod and gun editor of the N. Y. Times_will be down from New York City' today or tomorrow for several days’ fishing. Also Captain Walter Willis, popular Commencement exorcises were New York radio fishing commenta- held in three Dare County school.s tor. Captain Willis and Camp IBce- last night and today high school ly will be accompanied by Bill and grammar school graduates in'Sharpe, of the N. r. Bureau of Wanchese, aHtteras, and Manteo’sj Publicity. Bill Mackey, .spi-retary colored section were pri..idiy e-x-.of the New Jersey State Surf An- hibiting diplpn’"r. te.,'.^'' f g theirigier.s League ah.e w.l. .,’dawi:. schola.stic efforts of past years. ' j Charlie Ferrara, of Seaside •At Wanchese Rev. M.> W.-Maness, Height.?, N. .L. is heading another linstor of the Old 3’rap Methodist party' of northern a'lglers now fish- Church, delivered the' commence- Jug in the Hatteras area, ment address to the seventh grade ' NEW GARAGE AT WRIGHT MEMORIAL Btisnight 0, Bob O’Neill .5, Mr.?. Lucetta Willis 3, and Mrs. Louise Aleekins 1. EXERCISES ARE HELD IN THREE COUNTY SCHOOLS Single Copy 5c 50 MEN TO RESUME WORK MONDAY ON LOST COLONY THEATRE IMPROVEMENTS Green and Davis to Beg’in Casting Sunday .at Chapel Hill; Bell Gets Tanks For New Hot Water System; Stage Piling to Be Replaced By Concrete; This Season Starts With the Greate.st Prospects of Any MR. BARNES EXPLAINS i Jl' "doy morning on Roanoke Ls- HIS position on ROAD;'-"'’ resumed, with a j crew of u];%v})rdr. of fifty men on , the n-liabilhalioii of L'-^t CMony I theatre prc-pai-alniy to the opening c.f the yiiird annual presentation of I "The Lost Colony’’ opening eight I weeks from Saturday night; and ion .MtiiUiiattan I.sland, Paul Green lai d Harry Davis, author and as.so- I cialp director, will begin holding . .some try-outs for membeis of this I y ear’s profes.sional clement of tho I cast. I Jlaterial and equipment for ex- ] pansion.s of the back-stage facilities of the theatre began arriving here I Thursday when Albert, Beil, who continues as supendsor on behalf 'of the R-oanoke Island Historical I Association, brought down tanks for a h'lt water system that will pro\ide Indians with soniew.here to remove thcir war paint besides Roanoke Sound, which has never I been the pleasante.st of bath rooms County Board Requests Funds; Names Teachers For Next Term The Dare County Board of edu cation this week presented the County Commissioners with a 1939- i40 school budget calling for an ap propriation of $7,712.69. If approved the budget this year will mark an increase of eleven 1 dollars over the 1938-39 appropria- Thanks to such representatives in Uon, Superintendent of Education Congress as Lindsay Warren of the r. jj, Atkinson announced yester- First and Graham Barden of tho jay. Third, our coastal fishing ^ gets Heading the list on the coming plenty of publicity breaks up in the year’s budget is $1,306.00 for trans- nation’s capital. Two or three portation. Next largest single item times th. ear Congressman War- js insurance, calling for an appro- ren.has brought his colleagues to priation of $1,0.09.69. Operation of the Oregon Inlet sector after North school plantSt which includes jani- Carolina channel bass. And this tors’ salaries janitors supplies, and week end if plans carry Congress- electricity' bills, will amount to man Barden will bring down a $(555.00, and adult education costs batch of his colleagues to try the f„r tho year will be $625.00. Ex surf, the bays and deep sea in and ppnses in the Superintendent’s of- adjacent to liis Third District, j travelling (sxiienses for Last summer Congressman Barden niembcrs of the board of education and Assistant Postmaster General amount to $570.00 while the Purdum and a bunch of we local balance of $3,647.00 will go for tho fellows had one s\vell time dowi at costs of building repairs, furniture. Cape Lookout fishing. I think if 1 instructional apiiaratus and heating can hold on until next summer ^ and plumbing. (1940) I will promote a sub^our-; Superintendent Atkinson also re- ney to the second annual N. C. following list of teach- Surf Casting ’Tournament especial- coun/y' schools. The li.st ly for our nation’s law-makers and includes only those tcacher.s who call it the Carolina Co.ast Congres- elected and apiirow-d for sional Casting Derby. It shou d coming vear. .Alanteo: R. 1. attract .a lot of interest-especially jcai-e.D. E. Lithgow, Helen Evlins, home-town interest. ' Amanda Etlieridge, Essie N. West- And speaking of promoting a Isabel Lennon, and Bonnybel fisliing tournament for our repre- sentative.s in Congres.s reminds me Stanley Wahab, who is doing much to put Ocracoke on the mail is plan- ning a Lindsay AVaraen Week on the Isimid during early .Inly'. It ^ ^ p ^ Cald- wiU include plenty of fishing if ^ Caldwell Congrassman Warren and his Wanchese: Lessie friends are there, bccaup if there Meekins. Ro- is.one thing the First District rep- ^ jjij. rescntative liad rather do than Midgett. Avon: S. make front page news m Washing- « ton It IS to fish in North Carolina. Le’mmon'd, Irene Baum, Ma- ..... Sector Bailey is another Westcoft Meekins, and Mary fisherman from t^he old school. And h. G. Guth- iie IS a good fisherman too. He . ® „ takes his fishing very serious and Virginia Bea , JY he has made some of the oulstand- Grace Bu^s ‘Tollont* ing catcl.es aboard boats out of A. E. Baum, Clyde Tallent. Morehead City during his vacations Elizabeth ta, Hilda B. Broi^. in the Carterot Ocean port. Bob Annie t^skill, Lucy Tillett, ind Reynolds does not like to fish. He M^ry Styron. Roanoke Color^, 1»> (Pleaae tnm to page eight) Armstrong. graduates. Graduating members of the 'Hat teras high school and seventh grade believe JIanteo to be Uie finest spot ^ight heard E. C. Hollar of I ever visited,’’ declared Attorney East Carolina Teachers College de- Harry E. MeWhinney in an inter-1 liver the commencement address. view with a Times reporter today, J' President of the ,, ,, . . . 'State Normal College in Elizabeth Mr. McWIunney went on to say scheduled to deliver that there was a great difference the commencement address at the wHl in in the two communities. He stated jjanteo Colored School', was taken^ In a letter from Hon. D, Collin Barnes, Highway Commissioner, to the editor of the Times, Mr. Barnes olfei's ills reasons for refusing to join with Mr. Webb of Kinston, in making the road connecting Hyde and Dare a Federal project, and which has been discussed in these columns. We take pleasure in offering Mr. Bernes’ explanation, which is as follows: "I take it, of course, that this has reference to final decision which wa.s mads after a very' fu'' and thorough investigation, that I would not join witli Conimissionei Webb of the Second Division in re quest to have the Federal Bureau designate the road from Engelhard to Stumpy Point a Primary Road. On account of my personal friend ship for Lindsay Warren, our Con gressman, Bruce Etheridge, Com missioner of Conservation, Brad ford Fearing, Meli-in Daniels and after a perf-ormance. Thirty thou sand feel of lumber have been re quisitioned. Looking definitely toward the permanence of the institution of "The Lost Colony”, Bradford Fe.ar- ing and Mr. Bell have deter mined to replace the piling of tlie stage with concrete (liles, sunk deep into the earth upon wiii"h the nation’s beginners land ed. Recurrent storms have not so far done any damage to the stage structure, but concrete will be stronger aad pennanent. TTie work ,wiii be kept going witii stagger- siiifts, through a special arrange ment with "iVP.A authorities. It will amount to virtually a double shift. On Manhattan Island Mr. Green and Mr. Davis will look over appli cants for places in the show, and in Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon, in the big out-door tiieatre there, ap plicants, more than a hundred of them, from North Carolina will be Work has been started on. a new garage adjoining the caretaker’s house on the Kill Devil Hills Reser vation, Caretaker Horace Dough announced yesterday. ^of those whom I have met from ini As yet no people have been defi- Thc new garage, which will be around Engelhard. I was real-.nitefv chosen for any place. Local yourself and a goodly number of! put through their paces. These are other of your citizens, and many (for the secondan.'roles in the show. house a tool room and a Cost of the building, that Homestead was a busy indus- week and was unable toj trial cunimunity whereas Manteo last nicht. Prof. James A.| , -i was a thriving fanning and fishing ciarke. Professor of Science in V’ ^ community and in reality a health state Normal College delivered ,, ! commencement address to the|‘„„, n,„ i„,„„ , ly distressed not to be able to agree casting will be done about the first with -Mr. Webb in making the En- of June, with preference being gelhard-Stumpy Point road a Pri- jrjven to those who have h'ld ex- mary Road, .^s Commissioner ofiperience in the east, among the Is- the First Division composed of 14 j landers and among the members Counties, you can well imagine of the 'ocal CCC camp. I the place. Mr. MeWhinney was one of ajggyg„th grade graduate.? party of seven fishermen who ar-.gg]pred school, in Frof. Bia rived Monday morning and are| stopping at the carkerson hotel.'qe^TIST AT KITTY HAWK Besides Mr. MeWKinney, was hisl THROUGH NEXT VvEEK Attorney R. R. MeWhinney, Edgar | R. May, printer and lithographer: ^ dentist sent out by the State plant proprietor; Leo L. Half, fur-Igg^^ Education will bi at the niture store owner, John C. Forbes, j,jg^ school aH f next department store oiTOer; Bert F.,^^.pek, Countv Superintendent of Kline, publisher of The Homest^d Education R. H. Atkinson an- Daily Messenger and Bert F. Klinc, neu„eed vesteitiay. ■ Jr., advertising manager of The pr. pringle, who has been at the Squirrel Hill News of Pittsburgh. jig,nteo Colored School this week. All members of the party have epend four weeks dpwn the been to Mantco on several previous gf^gr he leaves Kitty Hawk, occasions and declared that even^^ complete schedulerof liis stops the many miles that separate west-, during that month will be an- cm Pennsylvania from this •‘section ^ j^^gr issue of the will not keep them from making at.pgj^ County Times.' least an annual visit here. j g^her schools in ...e • counts- Two or three more men from visited bv a state dentist last Home.ste.ad arc expected to join tho l .g^ Atkin.son announced, party about the middle of the week.} * - Attorney McWlnnncy, who has a.jQ^^ j HUGHES. MGR. large practice in Pittsburgh as well . THREAD CO. HERE as Homestead, is an expenenced ’ fi.shernv.an of many years. He has jphn J. Hughes, naanager of the followed this sport in Canada and Haltimoro division of the Linen many parts of the United .States, -phread Company, well known pur- both fresh and salt water fishing yeyors of nets to tiie fishermen o’’ nnd ho doelares that he nrefers the n r-icir-,,- to Dare The caretaker of the huge na-nj,^^ there' are still many roads' tional monument also announced a really have a prior right to-'guS CATCHES FIRE .5.3 per cent increase in visitors dur- 5,3 added to the Primary- System] NO ONE INJURED ing the first seven months of the .... ' (Please turn to page eight) year beginning October 1st. GLAMOROUS “G-MAN” CAUGHT AFTER NATION-WIDE SEARCH Several Hundred Dollaits Damage From Flames Tuesday Morning Quick action on the part of Vir ginia Dare Transportation Com pany bus driver Sam Midgett re sulted in averting a near tragedy at Maple Tue.sday morning, when uiu % «uiiii,:, W.V3V,. w. vhe jia.sspnger bu.? he was driving gave heartaches to at least t"'”. j. t. Lambert in Ashe-1 caught fire: ing young women and gave ,,gjg Immeiiiately after the cere-' Midgett was heading north on he made out papers giving!his early nioniing run. and at 8:3o (Asheboro Courier) “Lieutenant Richard V. Volmer who trusting headaches to Federal agents, is al On January 27, 1939, he was I married under the name of '‘Rich ard V. Volmer” to Miss Crouch by last in the hands of the G-men whom he claimed to represent. Af ter a nation-wide search he was arrested Tuesday night in Taney- mony. ning a Lindsay Waraen Week on tyliawk:' M. R. Bonner, W. Galen',HOME AGENT RECOMMENpS ' i.s visiting many old friends and MORE VEGETABLES IN' DIET customers of the company in thi= ' .state, as well n.s paying a person.ai Sal.ads were discussed by Mi.ssL.isit to Mr. Midgett at his hom’o in .Sadie Hendley, Home Demonstra-.Mnnns Harber. tion agent, when the Avon cUib| The management and representa- met Thursday afternoon at the tives of tlie Linen Thread Company- power of attorney to W. C. York,'had reached Maple when he first local attorney, and instructed Mr.[noticed the smoke. Quickly stop- York to arrange for the payment, ping the bus he unloaded the i>as- of $25,500 to the family of theisengers, grabbed a fire e-vtin^isn- town, Md., where his exposure bride and ta various institutions'er, and went to work on fne fianie,- strained the credulity of citizens and other persons. This money, in the back of the bus, "J'’ who had believed his story. Fed- said t,. !,ave been in a safe deposit that time had been fanned by a oral agents identified him as Peter box in .s'alt Lake City, was to bo breeze from the open door Ihnmgn Chrazastov'ski, paroled convict. sppt to Mr. York imnieiliately. q back window, and were reaching Chrazastow.'ki first was brought x , mor,. eas heard locally of tlie the ceiling upholstery, to the atlenti " of the G-men after'lipp',.pan' until Iiis wife returned Remembering in tlie nick of time abandoning ni Washington tOe.wiL'i t‘ e story that he bad left her that tlierc was a mail bag on the young Moore county woman, Mis> ,p fp, ,it if tlie G-nien's headquar- back .seat, ho run around tse side. Berth,a Crouch, v.hnm he married t,-s ,1 W .ashington while he nen- reached in through the open wiii- i-i ..\shebaro last .lanuary 27, The ip_« de on hu.sin-'ss and that Yolmec daw for the hag f*f mail, bu. lie* t and I n.I not vetovnoH hot h.ad sent a nnnsn of the intense heat was that time ide to Raleigh, but failed to find her tbp nearby Taylor Brothers .store 'lusband there. She returned to'tqisbed out with largo fire^^oxtin- Asheboro and swore-out the war-j jTuispprs, and wnth the adoitional rant which proved the undoing of j,eip of several other volunteers home of Mrs. Rebecca Keaton. Miss Hendley stressed the benefits of us ing more raw vegetables in our diet, particularly in meals for chil dren, and demonstrated the mak ing of a salad and salad dressing. hirs. M. E. Cotton, Mrs. Eva Meekins. Mrs. Lizzie O’Neal, Mrs. Edna Williams, Mrs. Retta Morgan and Mrs. W. P. Keaton attended the meeting. Mrs. Chester Morgan will be the hostess for the club’s next meeting. has alwavs held the.highest esteem and confidence of the North Caro lina fishermen. Net ,'compante.s usually send out reoresentatives of tlie high2.st type. We -were glad to welcome Mr. Hughes. The fisher men may well look upon Ws com pany as a soiT of Santa Claus, be cause it has c'arricd a considerable burden along -with the fishermen during the hard licks that have fallen ution the industry during the depression. ' w had abandoned two wives on the doorstep of J. Edgar Hoover. Fed eral Bureau of Investigation direc tor, had posed as a member of IToover’s forces and had obtained considerable suras of money on his ,, ,i representations. The captivating young adventur er was in ami out of Asheboro for several months during the latte’- part of last year, it is reported, and talked volubly of his noble heri tage, liis property in Poland wliich was endangered by threats of Ger man aggression, and his desire to give large sunus of money among relatives, friends and charitable in- stiturions rather than have it taken by the Nazis, jher husband, The F. B. I. continues the story: “On February 14, 1939, Chrazas- tow.ski, claiming to be a descend-ant of Polish nobility and an employe of the P. B. I., induced a young girl to marrj’ him at Jacksonville, Fla., and using h'S wife’s funds, pro ceeded with her to Portland, Me., where he induced his wife’s family to furnish him with $1,000 for as sistance in securing jobs in Wash ington, D. C., and also to help him defray expenses in connection with an alleged law suit in which he -was engaged.” armed with water buckets the blaze was brought under control. Dam age to the scats, upholstery, and ceiling of the S-ycar-old Buick bus was estimated qt between two and three hundred dollars. The bus was not insured. The Hiotor of the vehicle was not damaged, and the fire, which ap parently started from a TieStSf'cST" the rear of the bus, did not reach the gasoline tank. None of the seven paMengers was injured, and Midgett was at “the wheel of tbe relief bus when it headed north on the TuMday aftenioon run. ' XK
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