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i 4' : -1 - f , J .-St, ' 1 ( i UMANS W ' i A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY Volume IL Number -40. Hertford Perquimans County, Nortii.Crdlina, Friday, October 4, 1935. $1.25 Per Year 7Vv ii ' . 1 j" im 1 rv r 11 - 11 GAMP PRISONER , STILL AT LARGE; THREE CAPTURED Sheriff Winslow Con tinues Searching For James Howell (aJllllllHIIIIMIItltlllinllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIMllHIUIIIMIIItlllllll 3 ! REVIVAL SINGER 1 lHIIIIIHIIIMIIIfllltllllllllllllllllllllll,llllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIMI( IIIHIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllMlntlMl II I Q ! PREACHER AT BAPTIST REVIVAL 5 ! QlHIItlllllHIlltllllllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllttlllllllllllllltlllllllMlliilitliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH,, DURANTS JUDGE CONTINUES STAND AGAINST DRIVINGDRUNK Jail Sentence Imposed On Elizabeth City Man RESIDENTS PRESS ROAD PROJECT Delegation Will Again Appear Before Commissioners H"1 1 '.. STOLE CAR Believed to, Have Cross . ed Convict's Trail Many Times Sheriff J. E. Winslow and his de puties, together with prison officers, have been working day and night on the job of capturing the convicts who escaped from the Woodville prison farm on Monday, September 23. Bloodhounds were used in tracing the men. To date only one of . the des perate criminals who were serving long-time terms when they beat up a prison guard, and escaped,., is at '. large. He is James Howett, serving ' - the shortest term of any of the es capees, 17 years for holdup and as sault. Again and again the officers have crossed the trail of Howell. They believe he slept in an abandoned stable on the Nathan Winslow farm at Belvidere on Sunday night. On Monday night Raymond Winslow's car was stolen from the yard pf the) home near Belvidere- The burned wreckage of the car was found some seven miles away, in the Chappell Hill section of the county. Officers believe Howell to have been the thief. Two of the captured convicts are in hospitals suffering from shotgun wounds received during the manhunt. 2. tug jubit moil vnpiiiucu was xiarry 0 Boss, taken by Sheriff J. K Winslow as he lay on the ground in a cornfield near Sunbury, on Thursday. He was taken back to the prison camp. Boss, together with the other three con victe, had abandoned the car they had. stolen, fro qi the garage of Joel HoUowell, at Winfall, on Wednesday night. Late that night Marvin Parker was shot down as he fled from officers in the' woods near Gum Mill. Parker is still in the Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, f Will Brown, alias Ezzie Steele, I serving a life term for rape, Senv tenced in 1925, was shot when he disregarded repeated commands of officers to halt on Sunday morning, after an all night search had been . conducted in the vicinity of Hickory Cross. Having received wounds from shots fired on Thursday night when Marvin Parker was taken, in addition to the wounds received at the time of his capture, Brown was given treat ment at the Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City andV afterwards car ried to the State Hospital in Raleigh. Fife Prevention Observed Oct 6 to 12 The Fire Department of Hertford, together wita the , flre departments of every town in the United -States, has been asked to cooperate ,,in stressing the matter of fire preven tion next week, the week set apart by the nation as Fire Prevention Week. The proclamation of Governor Eh ringhaus proclaiming Fire Prevention Week in tMs. State ;;?appeartel8e where in this newspaper,, and calls at tention to the lnethodst whereby all (Jitizens as weU as all civic organiza tions may assist In fire prevention, : A bulletin Issued, by the Insurance Department of the'- State qt ' North Carolina sets forth that the ..fir loss in North Carolina in 1934 in pro tected and unprotected reas (the lowest in ten yean) was. in excess of iirht.million dollars: that - not over . A sixty per cent of the1 burned property v . . : was insured; that at least eighty per i : cent of these fires could have-been v..' prevented.1 vi;1v-''":; 't--Si' It is also stated that front informa- tion obtained - in fjthe United States fifty-six pr 1'cent ox-', au flmtt, homes in 1933 started ? In the base ment; that in North Carolina dwell ing fires cargr the greatest joss oi illife by.;fire.--,r U "J -&:::-:;;' j '' n' ' ' "' 7"":" ' High School-tily v r ':li f Jo Get New Teacher iiailv attendance at the Jferquimans v High School may result in the schopl rettinra muchiBiedVteacheri ac its;, areuing it cording to ' ' tsndent ; F. T. Johnson. . . Per;-' ' : j last year. loss v-7 a tacher v s-j-t.-?Ti I I I I V 1 1 -"v I : VI I I J fcaffi-Tistow:. . . ii iiiii m Ti'iWiii n ii 1 1 in iiiiiiiiiiiitrnsl W. J. DANIELS W. J. Daniels, of Edenton, who will have charge of the mu sic during the revival services to be held at the Hertford Bap tist Church next week. Bill Jessup Had Red Letter Day At Duke Yesterday was a red-letter day in the life of Bill Jessup, Duke freshman from Hertford. The boy got into Duke's first tilt of the season with Oak Ridge. That wasn't what made the day such a big one for the yearling, but he probably will never forget it. "Af ter the contest, won by the Blue Imps; 19 to 0, Jessup confided to Eddie Cameron, Duke backfield coach: ''I've been playing foot ball four years and, during that time I have played: every ' position ."I've ever been on a. winning team. It sure is a good feeling." Durham Morning Herald. Financial Assistance Offered To Students Funds have been made available for a program of financial assistance for single young men and women between the ages of 16 and 25 who were on relief rolls in May, 1935, and Who are unable to attend school for want of money for text books, car fare, lunch and other essentials, from the beginning of the individual in stitution's fqll term and after Sep tember 1, 1935, to the end of its spring term, not later than June 30, 1936. Four white boys or girls and six teen colored of Perquimans County are entitled to this-aid, according to regulations furnished Superintendent F. T. Johnso by the NYA of Wash ington. . : A total of $120 per month has been allotted to this county for this purpose, each youth' helped to re ceive not more than $6 per month. The regulations set forth that only those" boys and girls who are in earnest and are willing to work for an education will be eligible to re ceive this fund. rAny one wishing to make applica tion for this fund may apply to F- T. Johnson, superintendent of education, who will supply! the necessary infor mation and furnish . blanks for the application. , Aertificate i will be necessary from the proper authori ties that the family of the applicant was receiving; relief from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in May,- 1935.2u ; " Applications will be received until October 12, which date is the dead Robert Riddick Dies SuddeiilylWeay f Robert KdcW'tadd t!t 6 o'clock, Wednesday ; afternoon, October at Ms nome at Nicanor. Mr.' Riddick, who had been in Hert ford, th. day before, was kitting up ttt, a chair when the end eame. ' ,;rFunerai:, services will be held Fri day afternoonJat t o'clock 4 at; the home.H;BuriaJrwill,ake nlc0 , In the family burying ground. , j ' ' "Mr. Riddick, who was a prominent farmer, is survived ; by. , if our A sons, Robert Riddick, :Jr;; JohnrRiddick, Sammia" Riddic and HenrJ Riddick, all M AJio ;county.SI 4- A Silver tsa will be giv by the hdia if X O-ra-lae'.-- ;Hiary of 4 T;:'-"-: 'I Cl-:: on Thursday r.,. h ; 'tl ZZ:t. J: ! - 6 oV TALK TO WOOD Petition Is Signed By About 1,000 Citizens , Of County Among the important matters to be brought before the Board of County Commissioners on Monday is that of the road building project through Durants Neck. The commit tee which appeared before the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion in Raleigh on September 6 willr in accordance withhe suggestion of that body, appear at the meeting of the Commissioners on Monday and ask for the official endorsement of the Board of the project to pave the road from New Hope to Concord, a distance of approximately five miles. This committee, representing the residents and property owners of Durants Neck, appeared before the Board of County Commissioners in August, at which time the Board de clined to endorse the petition pre sented, stating as their reason for refusing that the Board had already endorsed a project to pave the road from New Hope to the State High way leading to Elizabeth City. The statement was made that to endorse the project to build the road through Durants Neck, might result in the Highway Commission's refusal to build any road. . The Durants Neck people were not content to let the . matter rest here and immediately set to work to find out the sentiment of the people of the county in the matter. They went at once to Edenton and interviewed Julien Wood, a member of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, setting forth to him that the proposed road through Durants Neck is a county project and not merely a community project, in that it would give the residents of this section an outlet to New Hope, from which point there is a hard-3urfaced road leading to Hertford. It was pointed out, also, that the residents of Du rants Neck are frequently, in winter, when the weather is bad, cut off from outside communication and unable to reach the county seat A petition asking for tho building of the Durants Neck road and signed by approximately a thousand citizens from all sections of the county was preseited to the State Highway and Public Works Commission on Sep tember 6, at which time the commit tee was told to return to Perquimans and Beoure the official endorsement of the county commissioners before proceeding further with the matter. The individual signatures of four of the five commissioners have al ready been set to the petition, and it is believed the Board will act favor ably in the matter jtext Monday. MRS. T. P. BTRUM DIES Word was receoved in Hertford on Wednesday of the sudden death of Mrs. T. P. Byrum of Edenton. Mrs. Byrum died suddenly Tuesday morn ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. H. Bradshaw, in Norfolk, Va., where she Was visiting. Mrs. Byrum was the step-grandmother of W. T. Elliott and Mrs. W. C. Dozier, whose father, J. R. El liott, died on Monday. Dwi -Stored Proprietor Puts TaBii()iOii:Tne Slot Machine ;The slot machines .have all been removed from Roberson's drug store in Hertford, and no more of the machines- will b -set up, in tha. place, according to - the proprietor, J. 6. (The- removal of the stoV machines front' the drag storo is not tha result of any action of an officer .v -Aa. mat ters now stand, these machines ard legal, in' f c-r;i':vtii.'-;7vy- v The machines disappeared,; one day last 'week ; from, the store'ahd -when tho pioprietor'l Iwas approachied f or an ; explanation ' he merely replied that he did not wish" to have the machines in the store. Pressed for a more specific statement, Mr. . Robe: son: stated thav'hVdid nof believO the slotf inachhies ; ? represented a : good mpral 4n?Mee ? -am: .iot :f an saint," he slid T don't want you to ret.tht 13 ii Cat I am preaching? ila 'rcit-?ti ,t5ie.','Stat43ent;how'f V i ii did.V'jt.vntitha-alot; r -r, a ti ':-(: t tave 'V..' REV. BEECHER L. RHODES Rev. Beecher L. Rhodes, of Norfolk, Va., a former pastor of the Hertford Baptist Church, who is coming for a series of revival meetings in the church, which will begin next Sunday. Governor's Whereas the destruction of life and property by fire is a matter of concern to every one, and Whereas the reduction of fire waste can be effected in direct proportion to the amount of care exercised by all people, And Whereas the President of the United States for the benefit of the American People as a whole and with the view of arousing the people of the United States to theimportance of eliminating our enormous fire waste, has pro claimed the week of October Fire Prevention Week Therefore, I, J. C. B. Ehring haus, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby pro claim the week of October 7-11 to be Fire Prevention Week in order that people of this State in every community shall indi vidually and through our various 7-11. Filling Station Fire Of Incindiary Origin That the fire which partially de stroyed the Shell service station on the outskirts of Hertford, on the Edenton Highway late Wednesday night was of incendiary origin was evident from the broken locks on the charred doors. Blood hounds were put on the tracks found in the rear of the sta tion near where cigarettes, supposed ly a part of the loot taken from the station, was found, on Thursday morning. The small gas station operated by Anderson Blanchard nearby had been broken into and a carton of cigar ettes was missing. The fire at the Shell station owned by the Winslow Oil Company de stroyed all evidence of what may have been stolen, except the cigar ettes found outside. Gas had been pumped up in the tanks, indicating an attempt ha-J been made to steal gas. The tracks in the rear of the sta tion led into a field. them. The playing of these slot machines has for a long time been a popular sport At. practically all ' hours of the day crowds V gather around the machines, dropping in their nickels, and now and ,then some fellow gath ers m the tesulta df a ;lucky play. There are many v Of these machines iiidrug stores anii filling stations. Tppmion is' ddedas to the influ ence, the . playing;' of these slot - ma chines' "has on'Jtlfe 'young, people. Many insist the're' ii no" harm. ' But many of tiwumpre thoughtful believe that .the effects are1 evil and that no good can : come from training our youth in 'the way 'of trying to get something for nothing, ' to risk a great deal or' a lucky; chance. . It is tiiis element .who believe In the harmful effects of the slot ma chines who are congratulating Mr Coberson On his action In removing the slot machines' from hia drug g;re. 1 , . , ' ; ' t, ' 1 Proclamation organizations, discover and cor rect existing fire hazards, pro mote measures of public and pri vate protection, extend instruc tion in fire prevention among adults, as well as school children and arouse the people generally to the need for habits of greater care, and to this end I appeal to our citizens to thoroughly co operate with tha various fire de partments throughout the State and I request that eve.-y Mayor issue a proclamation. I earnest ly solicit the cooperation of Chambers of Commerce, Civic and Women's Clubs, and the press. Done at our City of Raleigh, this 21st day of September, in the year of our Lord, on thous and nine hundred and thirty five. J. C. B. EHRINGHAI S, Governor. BAPTIST REVIVAL TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK Rev. Beecher L. Rhodes of Norfolk, Secured to Preach During Series Of Meetings Revival services at the Hertford Baptist Church will begin on next Sunday, when the Rev. Beecher L. Rhodes, of Norfolk, Va., a former pastor of the church, will conduct the services- The music will be un der the direction of Jim Daniels, of Edenton. Prayer services are being held in the church each morning this week, from 7:30 to 7:55. At this writing the congregation has increased each morning, according to Rev. D. S. Dcmpsey, the pastor. Mr. Demp3ey extends a cordial invitation to all praying people to attend these narly morning services. The series of meetings, beginning October 6, will-probably last only one week, according to Mr. Dempsey. There will be two services each day during the week. The morning seivice will begin at 7:45 and close promptly at 8:80. The evening ser vice will begin at 7:30. A cordial invitation is extended to all. One Of Oldest Houses In County Destroyed Fire destroyed one of the oldest houses in the Parkville section of Perquimans County on Monday after noon, when the residence occupied by Mrs. Ella Hobbs and owned by her daughter, Mrs. George Bright, was burned to the ground. The fire originated near a chimney, presumably the roof having caught from a spark which fell from the chimney. Cotton pickers discovered the blaze. Most of the furniture and personal belongings of the family were saved. .;The fire departments of Hertford and Elizabeth City responded to a rail sent in shortly after the fire was discovered. MR. W1LLIFORD VERY ILL 'CV.Wmiford is critically ill at his home at the Hotel Hertford. Mrs. Williford, who ' ha been very tick with an attack of malaria, is some what improvl i CAUSES COMMENT Blames Negligence of Courts to Increase of Violations Reiterating his determination to do everything possible in his court to prevent so much slaughter on the highways, Judge Walter ri. Oakoy, Jr., whose recent action in sentencing to jail a man convicted in Perqui mans County Recorder's Court of driving an automobile while under the influence of liquor has been the subject of a great deal of editorial comment in North Carolina and Vir ginia newspapers, on Tuesday of his week imposed an unconditional jail sentence on A. S. Armstrong upon conviction of a similar charge. "A dangerous pastime, this driving automobiles on the highways while under the influence of liquor," said Judge Oakey in the course of his re marks in connection with the sentenc ing of Armstrong, an Elizuhoh City garage emp!oyee arrested on Sep tember 15 at Winfall, where his car left the read and crashed into a fence as he failed to make a curve. "The citizens have two privileges now," stated the justice, who made the statement at the former trial that it was as dangerous to drive a car while under the influence of li quor as it would be for a man to run up and down the streets shoot ing a gun with his eyes shut- "They have got the privilege to rlrink and they have got the privilege to drive. But the State and society does not give a man the privilege to do both at the same time, because it is dan gerous to his fellow man." Commenting on the fact; that there has been an increase in the drunken driving charges recently, Judge Oakey remarked that he did not know whether it was due to the re turn of legal whiskey or not. "1 believe," he said, "that it is due in a large measure to the negligence of the courts in overlooking ucn things." The judgment of the Court, which was appealed by defense counsel, wa's a fine of fifty dollars, 60 days on the roads, driver's license revoked for a period of six months, the balance of the jail sentence to be suspended upon the defendant serving ten days in jail. Seasons Announced For Hunting Game J. H. Newbold, Game Warden of Perquimans County, has been noti fied by the North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment that, under an amendment to the Federal regulations the open season of shooting doves in North Carolina is from September 21 to January 5. The shooting hours for doves are from 7 a. m. to sunset each day during the open season. Open season for shooting squir rels began on October 1 and will end on January 15. The season for shooting quail be gins on Thanksgiving Day and ends on February 15. The bag limit for squirrels per day is 10, with no limit for the season. The bag limit for quail per day is 10 with a season limit of 150. The season for the shooting of ducks and geese begins Nov. 20 and continues until December 19, with a bag limit of 10 and a possession limit of 10. Hunting license may be secured from the following places in Perqui mans: At Hertford Hardware & Supply Co. and at Joe & Bill's Ser vice Station, in Hertford; at Roy Chappell's, Bethel; at L. J. Wins low's Store, Belvidere; at R. M. Baker's Store, Whiteston; at Mrs. Erma D'Orsey's Store, Chapanoke; at Stephen Perry's Store, New Hope. Club Women Urged Attend Ahoskie Meet Mrs. F. T. Johnson,, president of the Hertford Woman's Club, is very anxious that as many elub women as possible attend, the district meeting at Ahoskie on October -12. and re quests that any , woman desiring to , -go get in touch with her at the ear-': liest possible date- A prise wSl be tiven tie elub with the best repre ; t--"ra at tSa trtt!ss. ? '-v it r Mr'