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. 204
MANTEO, N. C., MAY 26, 1939
Single Copy 5c
STORMY PROSPECTS MAY
BE AHEAD FOR SEVENTH
COAST GUARD DISTRICT
ROTARIANS ENTERTAIN A NOTABLE
Government Reorganization Plan Wipes Out
the District; Officers Lost Nothing, Altho
Identity Merged With Norfolk; Just a Fol
low-Up of Body Blows Struck at Service
During the Past Five Years
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Following up the body blows
dealt the shore service of the U. !
Coast Guard during the past five
years, comes news this week that
the 7th Coast Guard District is to
he abolis.hed by the Government re-
prganization plan. Announcemen
is made also that the personnel of
Elizabeth City will not be changed,
^wd that the officers will hold their
tank, the commander in fact re
eeiving promotion if he wishes.
But it was told when the first
great blow was struck the service
hhree years ago in the abolishment
of stations, that nothing would be
iost, the personnel would be main
tained at its former number and
the men would be given more
time for leisure.
History has proven there has
been a decline in the number of
•tten in the 7th District, and no one
oan deny the men aren’t having to
'^'ork harder than before.
So we now see the shore service
finally swallowed up by the cutter
pervice, and the administration of
h transferred and lost with the sea
Service, although the great record
of the Coast Guard is largely due
the noble work of the men on
®hore. It appears to be the case
of one branch getting the upper
h^nd and making the mosli of it.
However, Congressman Lindsay
^Yarren, in whom the men of the
®hore service have great confidence,
pfrikes a reassuring note this week
*n the following statement issued
'^nder his name, and is quoted here
follows:
“.A,s you v/sll know, the Pres’-
fient by reorganization plan num-
hsr two transferred the Lighthouse
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MANTEO’S POSTMASTER
IS APPOINTED FOR LIFE
TERM SUPERIOR
COURT CONVENES
MONDAY IN DARE
Many Cases to Come Before
Judge Leo Carr Next
Week
HEADS COMPANY THAT
HAS HELPED US GROW
Fishing
and all
iOut Doors
—By—
Aycock Brown
Authority on Fishing News
Carolina coastal communities are
fiapiog rewards from the plugging
Oich has been given our salt wa-
^ fishing by the State News Bu-
Under the direction of Bill
^^arpe in Raleigh. Before this
has passed coastal residents
going to see that it pays to ad-
are
Vert^
kubi
ase, especially when a group of
^city experts such as those em-
^^oyed at the State New Bureau
® handling the copy and ideas.
Assistant Director Paul
'y. of the Department of Con-
4 '^a.tion and Development came a
teral report on activities in the
fishing communities along
Coast following a current sur-
follows:
5). ^ore fishermen from other
Mu R* fishing for channel bass,
tbg®fi®h and other ocean fish along
it, o^fh Carolina coast this year,
^ he vicinity of Negs Head, Hat-
fi*o*"^coke. Drum Inlet, Cape
411and Atlantic Beach, and
ti,^‘he Way down to Southport,
tat-f been seen in those
tec •*’ ^ocording to reports being
by the Department of
f't,j,®®'"cation and Development.
Jijj^. ®0’'''eral -weeks now hotel and
accommodations .have
filled to capacity and the res-
^ Pons keep pouring in every
HON. CHARLES R. EVANS, the
largest man ever to serve as post
master of Manteo, was last week
confirmed by the Senate to hold the
office for life. Mr. Evans has been
in business in Manteo for more
than 20 years, and has held the
postmastership at Manteo since the
changes made during the first part
of the Roosevelt administration.
Mr. Evans is the son of the late
Asa V. Evans, for many years a
popular citizen and official of Dare
County. He attended the Univer
sity of North Carolina .and return
ed -home to go in business, running
for .many years one of the leading
stores in Manteo, which he still
owns. He is a genial, capable,
friendly man, and under his admin
istration, the postoffice .has given
excellent service which has met
with general approval, and praise.
He weighs something less than 300
pounds, is yet under forty, and has
never been wifed. A man with a
good life for life, looks like a sure
bet for some bright gal, hut the
Postmaster is a smart man. In all
seriousness, it" is doubtful if in the
entire county, a more popular
choice could have been found for
this rapidly growing office.
The close-up picture by Ben Dixon MacNeill presents first, Roy L.
Davis, president of the Manteo Rotary Club, Leon F. Montague of Kan
sas and Dr. \V. W. Johnston, pa.st president of the Club. Mr. Montague,
representative of the office of the Secretary of Rotary International
visited Rotary in Dare several days ago, was lunched at Parkerson’s
with Mr. Davis, visited with Dr. Johnston, and saw Fort Raleigh with
Mr. M.acNeill. He spoke to Rotary during 45 minutes Monday night
in an inspiring message touching on the cardinal points of Rotary,
vocational, community rervice, club seiwice, and international activities.
Following the meeting he met with the directors of the Club and dis
cussed Rotary objectives for the coming year. He is a Kansas Rotary
district governor, and left the plains of his home state to become .a
member of the staiT of Rotary International. The picture was made
at Fort Raleigh. Charlie Overman was in charge of the program.
SEVEN SURVIVORS OF WELL KNOWN DANIELS CLAN
Judge Leo Carr of Burlington,
will preside at the term of Super-:
lor Court which convenes at ten
o’clock Monday morning. May 29. -
Superior Court, while not expected
to last many days, has on its dock- j
et many cases in which the public'
is generally interested. |
Coming up for trial the third i
time is the case against Jethro
Midgett, Jr., young Nags Head boy
who is charged with the murder of
Mrs. Ethel Drinkwater Hartley
and Winston Green on the highway ’.
near Manteo two years ago. This
case resulted in conviction a year:
ago and a prison sentence for the |
defendant; but his attorneys plead ^
j for a new trial on the ground that'
they had discovered new evidence
that would be helpful to their
client. Judge Everett Thompson!
granted the motion for the new.
trial at the November term of Su i
perior Court, j
Another case which has excited i
great interest is that against Ed
gar Williams of Nags Head for as
saulting Mrs. Stella Whitehurst
and the case in which Mrs. White
hurst is charged with attempting
tc kill Mrs. Williams. The case
happened a few months ago at a
filling station on the beach high- ]
way and was a sensation when,
I heard before the Recorder’s Court j
In the encounter, Mrs. Williams j
[was severely beaten and had many DR.LEMUEL SHOWELL BLADES
I cuts and bruises.
I Another case of much interest is
14 BROADWAY PLAYERS
TAKE IMPORTANT ROLES
IN LOST COLONY DRAMA
Sam Selden Returns From European Trip to
Direct Roanoke Island Play This Summer.
Catherine Cale and Donald Somiers to Re
turn With the Show
1 that of young McDonald Montagna
of Wanchese, who is to be tried for
several counts of burglary and
stealing a boat. Montague con
! fessed to robhing the store of Billy
'Tillett and stealing the motor boat
of Ernest Etheridge and some three
nights later was. caught w'hile bur
I glarizing the store of
I worth.
I Along with the general list of
1 civil actions, most of which have
! been hanging on the docket for a
■ year, are several divorce actions.
MAJOR GE(9. GILLETTE
i FISHES IN DARE WATERS
Newport News and Mrs. Mary Lee j
Dyke and Mrs. Myrtle Prince of I
Newport News. Their anc^estry
lived on Roanoke Island from earli
est days, Capt. Daniels having been
born at Wanchece. Of this group]
I many years. Three of them live on j Capt. E. S. Daniehs is a retired
Roanoke Island and four at New-1 Coast Guard Boatswain. John T.
port News, Va. Capt. John Thomas | D miels a retired surfman of the
HERE THEY ARE, the living sons
and daughters of the well known
j Capt. John Thomas Daniels, who
I died in 1908. They gathered to-
! gether Sunday for the first time in
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LIONEL MIDGETT
DIES OF CYCLE
MISHAP INJURIES
«y.
"It
we
the best fishing season
Iq a long time (just prior
. market crash in the late 20s
^*0 be
•l0i
exact) one of the fishing
^ reported down on the Banks.
t state fishermen
' Irom New
Jersey and New
ilovC' . Qriite a number are flying
1*1 airplanes. (Three plane
i>Vp> fishermen were in Beaufort
the Week end.)
heavy influx of fishermen
tile'* states is attributed to
V P'^blicity that has been given
(ig|j'''^®tal section by the fine drum
A Of there by the news bureau
ffi ^ of Conservation
ati^ ^®''elopment, and by the rod
editors who have recently
the area and fished for ‘fish-
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Funeral Today at Wanchese;
Roy Davis, Jr., Recover
ing From Accident
Funeral services will be held in
Wanchese today for Lionel Robert
Midgett, 18, who died Wednesday
afternoon from injuries received
last Saturday in a motorcycle acci
dent.
His jaw was driven against his
brain and his skull, chest, arm and
leg badly fractured when the mo
torcycle on which he and Roy L.
Davis, Jr., were riding crashed into
an automobile at the southern end
of the Coinjock canal bridge.
Midgett, driver of the motor
cycle, was taken to the Norfolk
Marine Hospital where physicians
from the beginning held no hope
for his recovery. He had been re
leased from a hospital only a short
time before, following an earlier
motorcycle accident in which he and
Henry Parker were injured.
Twenty-year-old Davis is the son'
of Roy Davis, of Manteo, Dare
County’s representative in the
North Carolina legislature. His
most serious injury was to his knee
which was operated on Sunday at
the Portsmouth Naval Hospital.
His only permanent injury was the
loss of two or three front teeth
and doctors, said he would be able
to return home in about two weeks.
Midgett Is survived by his par
ents, Frank and Bernice Sanders
Midgett; thpee sisters, Freda B.,
Helen W. and Loretta Y. Midgett;
his paternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Midgett, and .his mater
nal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
William S. Sanders, all of Wan
chese.
According to Willis Dowdy, canal
bridge tender, the motorcycle, a
1939 Harley-Davidson, was going
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Daniels for many years ran a boat
between Manteo and Elizabeth City.
In later life he removed to Ports-
Mouth, Va., where he died. His
body is buried in the cemetery at
the old homeplace on Croatan
Sound.
In the group, reading from left
to right are: Edw. S. Daniels and
John T. Daniels of Manteo; Mrs.
Chas. W. Pugh, of Wanchese; Ros-
coe Daniels and O. J. Daniels of
Coast Guard, who aided the Wright
Bros, in flying their first airplane.
All of the daughters are widows.
Mrs. Myrtle Prince has the misfor
tune of losing two husbands under
tragic circumstances unusually ex
treme, Her first husband was a
deep sea diver, and died while at
work. Her second husband, a ma
chinist, died while on duty in the
explosion of the dirigible Roma at
Norfolk in 1922.
HATTERAS LEAPS TO FRONT
WITH MANY SPORTSMEN
DURING FISHING MONTH
Beach Crowded With Rod and Reel Men Seek
ing- Channel Bass and Blues; Tourists
Homes at Cape Hatter as Busy; Hatteras
Hotel Has Many Guests
is a- figure not generally well
known in Dare County, being that
he is a man of retiring and studious
nature, but nevertheless he figures
in Dare County’s progress in a big
way, and is a most interesting and
genial man when you get to know
him. He is president of the Nor
folk and Carolina Telephone and
iohn'^ Cud-1 Telegraph Company, with principal
I offices in Elizabeth City and which
owns all the telephone and tele
graph lines ^commercially used in
Dare County. It has been only a
few years since Dare County was
without commercial telephone fa
cilities. When the Elizabeth City
company came in and established
the local exchange, there were
many people who said it wouldn’t
succeed, because other lines on
Roanoke Island had gone down.
The company’s vision has been
justified, and now it is a heavy tax
payer in Dare County, and its lines
ser\'e the entire coast. It has been
one of the greatest of all contribu
tors to the development of the Dare
County beaches at Nags Head and
Kitty Hawk.
COAST GUARDS OF
SEVENTH DISTRICT
NEW YORK RACES
Fourteen Broadway actors have
signed for important roles in the
1939 production of ^aul Green’s
historical drama “The Lost Col
ony”, scheduled to begin its third
summer season at the Waterside
Theatre, Manteo, N. C., July 1, ac
cording to an announcement made
today by Harry Davis, associate
director of the new production.
For the past few days Mr. Davis,
of the Carolina Playmaker staff,
and Paul Green auditioned more
than two hundred actors in order
to find the most suitable and pro
fessional talent for the third sum
mer presentation of the North Car
olina drama. Their task was not
only to fill roles which had not been
adequately handled by performers
in the past but to replace actors
unable to return to Manteo.
The following actors will be
“loaned” to the Roanoke Island
Historical Asso.ciation by the New
York City Federal Theatre Proj
ect: Henry Buckley, Beatrice Hen
dricks, Tom Greenway, Whitney
Haley, Robert Donaldson, Boyd
Agin, Robert Lowes, and Julie Ar
den. Violet Lester, who was loaned
last year by the Federal Theatre, is
returning as wardrobe mistress at.
her own request.
Katherine Cale, whose sym
pathetic portrayal of Eleanor Dare
—the First Mother—is well-known
to North Carolina—will return for
a third time to play this powerful
and spirited role. Also returning
are Bob Bowers, who was last seen
on Broadway in “You Can’t Take
it With You,” and Donald Somers,
whose Old Tom is one of the high
lights of “The Lost Colony.”
Announcement as to what roles
these actors are to perform in
‘The Lost Colony” will be made
following -the arrival of Samuel
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Many of the finest men of the
Coast Guard stations of the
Seventh District, most of them
MAJOR GEO W. GILLETTE, the^^®^® County boys, left Elizabeth
Hatteras leaps to the front with
a rgcord attendance of sport fisher
men during the month of May. By
Monday of this week the count had
run to over TOO of fishermen who
had visited from Cape Hatteras to
Hatteras Inlet. On some week
ends the tourist homes at Buxton
were filled to over flowing.
The Atlantic View Hotel at Hat
teras had to send part of its guests
to homes in the neighborhood.
Other homes regularly catering to
roomers were filled up. Most of
the fishermen spent their time surf
casting near the Cape or the town
of Hatteras. Fishermen came from
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Maryland, Rhode Island
mostly, and from a dozen other
states. The hotel alone fed a daily
average of 25 people.
The fame of Hatteras and its ex
cellent boats and guides, as well
as its good fishing, has been spread
ing much of late. The Hatteras
Development Co., Stanley Wahab of
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greatly admired Chief of Engineers
of the Wilmington Division, having
charge of the waterways of eastern
North Carolina, was again a visitor
in Dare County this week, visiting
Hatteras Monday night, and in
Manteo Tuesday night. While on
his visit, he fished at Oregon Inlet,
and left Wednesday for Wilming
ton.
DESK WINS PRAISE AT
RALEIGH NYA EXHIBIT
City the past week end for the
Coast Guard rowing races in the
One of the disadvantages of mod
em life is the stress it puts upon
the human endurance. Easy living
and easy achievement have contrib
uted greatly to making the human
race effiminate, soft and weak.
The cycle of human life may be
Hudson River between the crack | e^Peeted in reason to encompass a
crews of the First, Fifth and I “®nnite amount of pain, of fear or
Seventh District. Elimination con-, anguish, and without experienc-
tests were held earlier in the | these, we might not be so well
spring. Heading the group from j to measure out kindness and
Elizabeth City, where they have un- and charity toward our fel-
dergone intensive training for sev- I®" ®an. ^ Unless one has guts, his
eral days under the direction of
Chief Boatswain Walter Etheridge,
lowman.
capacity for accomplishment is lim
ited. “Guts” means the grim, un-
NEW YORK PARTY MAKES
GOOD CATCH STRIPED BASS
Back to Manteo this week came
a faithful foursome who fish here
several times a year. Dr. D. D.
Glucksman, Dr. Nathaniel W’eg, Dr. i
James Chaitovitz and E. J. Grady,
advertising executive. They caught
on Tuesday a fine catch of 39
striped bass off Roanoke Marshes,
fishing with Ira Stowe. Previously
they caught 14 large channel bass
at Oregon Inlet. The party left
Thursday, promising to come back
before the end of summer.
SEVENTH DISTRICT SECOND
Coast Guard races told of else
where in this paper today, were
rowed on the Hudson River Wed
nesday, and the Fifth District
crews won first place, with the 7th
District winning second. This was
a considerable honor for the dis
trict.
A solid oak desk built by the
Dare County’s Boys NYA work
project won high praise at the state
exhibit held last Friday and Satur
day at Raleigh. Mrs. Helen Duvall
D.uiiels, the county NYA super-1 Lookout, Andrew Midgett and Ion
visor, attended the conference, and
stated on her return that P. S. Ran
dolph, state project supervisor, and
Charles L. Hayes, district property
supervisor of the NYA, praised the
desk as being one of the most per
fect and beautiful articles on eh-
hibit. The desk was built under
the supervision of the project fore
man, Marshall T. Tillett of Nags
are the following men: T. J. Har- Blocking determination to succeed
ris. Coxswain of Kill Devil Hills, honor, regardless of the cost.
Clyde Beacham of Nags Head, John '^®^® successes may not be worth
Wise of Virginia Beach, William price, but who is there who may
Hooper of Little Island, Rob Austin j fairly judge?
of Washwoods, Chesley C. Midgett ^ have seen many deserving men
of Oregon Inlet, Erving Gray of i struggle from small beginnings
Ocracoke, Walter Ijewis of Cape | great hardships and re-
_ _ ^ i Ion| ’®”®®®' 1^® found a growing busi-
Lewis of Fort Macon, and Dalton;*’*®®® J®®*- ready to flourish. With
Hooper of A. B. 21 of Elizabeth I prospects wonderfully encourag-
City. Ion Lewis is a motor ma-1 Uke a sailing vessel before a
chinist’s mate and is a brother of '"’'ud, their sails have suddenly
Walter Ijewis. Dalton Hooper and j .Pked across and upset their ven-
William Hooper are brothers and I"®*®’
sons of E. 0. Hooper, formerly
keeper of Gull Shoals Station.
The race course extends two
miles down the Hudson River from
Head, and when returned from Ral-j Grant’s Tomb to 77th street. Each
eigh, it will be used in the office of
Melvin R. Daniels, register of
deeds.
The girls’ share of tlie exhibit
consisted of clothing they had sewn,
and Mrs. Daniels_ stated that the
work of Dare county girls compar
ed very favorably with . articles
from the rest of the state.
TYRRELL’S HOME AGENT
Tyrrell County has a new home
agent after four years. Miss Mary
Blanche Srtickland, of Wake Coun
ty and a graduate of Greenville
Teachers’ College has been assisged
to that County.
racing crew takes its own boat.
R. J.
ALEXANDER NOW ON
PALMOLIVE PEET ROUTE
R. J. Alexander, pleasant, like
able and wide-awake salesman has
recently taken over the sales-pro-
motion job in the northeastern
North Carolina Counties for Col-
gate-Palmolive-Peet, and is now
making his first contacts among the
merchants of this section. He
makes headquarters at Rocky
Mount. While a native of Virginia,
Mr. Alexander is well known
through this section, having worked
the tobacco trade for many years.
So often the world never knows
what little zephyr blew its foul
breath into the man at the helm,
already weak and exhausted from
a long battle.
Maybe he just didn’t have quite
enough grit.
I have seen strong men , shrink
away from the surgeon’s heroic
punishment upon the injured form
of a loved one—men who could
wade into a sea of battle where
death might threaten instantly.
The greatest pain I had ever known
at the time, was to hold my little
boy in vise-like grip when he with
all his childish love and trust ap
pealed to me in his fright, as the
doctor deftly stitched his lip that a
dog had lacerated with heavy claws.
But the child was saved from per
manent disfigurement. I have suf-
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