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4s VW.-9SK,".-; H . t ' ."' -v?- -J i a lit r j i i i 3 h r CO WEEKLY "5 H- "i'-is ' 1 H T f A 7I:3KlJYNEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTYi j ,it y Volume IINumber 44. j a, .Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, November 11935. $1.25 Per Year To U : I i Colored xdiith Given f to V'i, t Sentenced as Result of Attack on Little White Girl MANYCASES October Court Docket CrowHed With Minor Affairs Mathew Banks, a fourteen-year-old '"'Negro boy, was sentenced to the Cen tral Prison for mot less than five and not-more than twelve years, by Judge W. C. Harris on Wednesday, after all of the evidence in the ease 'was heard and the defense., had an nounced that it would not resist a verdict. . J. r..- The boy, a son of Sam Banks, who lives near New Hope, was Jndicted by the Grand Jury tMs.weekV charged with assault with intent to commit rape. He had been held in the Per ( quimans County jail since his arrest in July. .-. 1(. S '7 Trial of the case began Wednesday morning, with the State Solicitor Herbert Leary conducting the prose cktion and Kobert B.. Lbwry, of Eli zabeth City, representing the de fense. State's witnesses included Kathe rine Ivy, the eight-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ivey, the alleged victim of the- attempted attack, Bob Ivey, Mrs. Bob Ivey; Sheriff J. E. Winslow, Deputy Sheriff L. L. Wins low, and Vernon Ward. The defense witnesses included Sam Banks and his wife, Susan, father and mothe? of the defendant, Christine Hollowell, Elsie Ivey and John Ross. The defendant was not placed upon the stand. ' Katherine Ivey, small for her eight ' years, was plawdv th tnd.. . The child, apparently very nervous, was unable to answer the questions asked, merely saying "I don't know to most of the questions. She told j her name and said she . was eight years old. She also said she was in the first grade at school and told the name of Her teacher. Mrs. BobIyey testified that she witnessed the attempted attack. Sheriff J. E. Winslow testified that he arrested the boy in. Portsmouth, Va., where he located him after he had failed to find him at the home of his father. He also testified that the boy admitted the crime. Deputy Sheriff L. L. Winslow cor roborated in detail Sheriff Winslow's testimony as to the confession of Mathew Banks. t Sam an Susan Banks testified that Bob Ivey attempted to compromise ' j the matter with them if Sam would pay them fifty dollars. They further testified that Bob Ivey told them their son had flapped their little girl. This was denied by both Mr. and Mrs. Ivey, and Mr. Ivey testified that Sam BankB offered to "help him out a little bit if he would compromise : the case'." "' Sam and Susan Banks both testified that the boy wasn't right bright and said he would often do exactly ; the opposite thing from what he was told to do. They admitted, however, that y he was promoted from the third V grade of school last : year to the fourth. . ":j;.y$,-. First Cases Tried ' Half a dozen criminal ; cases were disposed of during the first two days of the October term ? of Perquimans ( Superior - Court ., which .convened : in Hertford on. Monday, .with Judge W. C. Harris; of: Raleigh, presiding, p ; . . "A plea of no lo contendre was of j.'., State gst ThuiMi :;? '-thefendanV-waS;-equire4 tffiwkfc 'tf'-tiytti'-tili estov ' This casex r?siT.m Kecota 5 jBi. taSin.lT 15ri,lLO' livesr-.at' Enfield ai' alleges to We' beest-'e driver of a truck which was in col lision 'vHth an automobile driven by LeRoy Spruill, colored, on the Hert ford-Elizabeth City highway last summer. ' ., VV ' ''" ' r- The jury f returned 3: verdict of guilty in the 'ease against LeRoy , SpruiU,; colored, charged with . re ceiving stolen property, to-wit an automobile tire. The prosecuting witness,' Percy Sharp who la sahrirg a road sentence for b'.;".-.j tiS tlv in question from the service ststion of Joe & ESI, acknov' :v2ed on the stand that heritsla ts re. and" t':s tified tiiat Lelloy C.iJ'.l bov:-l.t Ci ' tire from him knomL j te had stolon it . , C'rrnce rr"r-", c rti, . vr r-1 ' ' V ' f.t Twelve Years M..iitt(V. i i n itntf n un, w-n' 't PRESIDENT SAYS AAA PROGRAM IS PERMANENT PLAN Never Hi Intention That Act Was To Made It Merely Emergency Operation That the AAA plan is not an emer gency measure to be dropped as soon as the emergency is passed, but is a permanent plan, to be simplified, broadened in scope and made a part of the Federal Government, appears to be the outlook at present. A great many farmers have enter tained the belief that the present' crop control plan is merely a tem porary arrangement, to be worked out of as soon as possible in the same manner in which the emergency re lief" plan is being carried out. Ap parently, there is no basis for such a belief.. ', In a' statement issued Friday night at the White House, President Roose velt is quoted as saying that the AAA has served the national welfare and that it had never .been his intention nor the idea of the men who drafted and administered the act to make it merely an emergency operation or a static agency. The President stated that the per manent plan embraces the two-fold objective of maintaining and in creasing the gains already made un der the AAA and of giving the farm ers increasing incentives for conser vation and efficient use- of the coun try's soil resources. These objec tives, he said, would follow simplifi cation of present programs with a view to increased flexibility. To this enoV the President said, decentraliza tion of machinery to obtain more ef ficient administration will be con tinued vigorously. Also, he added, the AAA -will work toward the ob Jocfivebi making - only one contract with a-fartner which would cover all crops involved in the- control pro gram, .ft. It was always the idea of the men who planned to Act, said Mr. Roose velt, to pass from the purely emer gency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a long time, more permanent plan for American agri culture. ' The consumer, Mr- Roosevelt add ed, is not endangered ; by moderate increases in food prices, but from collapse of farm income so drastic as to force farmers to strip the soil of its fertility by over-intensive cul tivation in an effort to retrieve loss es suffered from ruinously low prices for their commodities. This, said Mr . Roosevelt, is the real menace to the nation's food sup ply and "lies 'at the root of many serious economic and social problems besetting agriculture." The AAA programs already have made impor tant gains in conservation and re storation of soil fertility, and expan sion of this work will continue, the statement said. Grand Jury For October Term Of Superior Court The Grand Jury which served at this term of Superior Court were as follows: D. J. Pritchard, foreman, and Thos. Deal, John R. Hendren, D. W. Simpson, C. L. Godwin, G E. Benton, Zach Phillips," J. L. Cartwright L. R. Wilson, W. A. Elliott,: J6e Dail, E. ; S. Winslow, Nereus W. Chappell, Herbert J. Winslow, Dockey Cart wright, A.W. Jordan, J. A. Good man; and Dallas Layden. . Funeral Held Sunday i fFcrllirjorie Morris Thvfunerab I3-year-pl j Jarhter of Mr and Mrs. Qi; Morris; was .cpndurteds;Sunday afternoon i at ;foweMock..Mi the WnjadviKe ; Baptist .'CImIcabyipJ.tB;,. H J Fotts, pastor of the first Bap tist ChurchrJof Elizabeth Cityyl f ? . : Mar jorie had been ill about I, three months. ' She was I taken to Duke Herjital,, Durham, about km. eel; ago and xlied there y Saturday. ;V A large gathering of sorrowing friends and rtkikes filled the church. -"Asleep in J; a4'and "The i Old s Rugged Cross," ,were 'Irang by ;s the I choir. "Yes, Jesus Loves Me", was sung by the ccibers jst Marjorie's Sunday School class, of : which she was u a f-Jlfcful member, Her Sunday School c! :a pctd as flower girls. Interment s at lid Iiope. ? , ' 4 r-rvivir are: her parents, Mr. f-J U.rs. .. Q- Morris; Bisters, Mrs. Venn ' i, I!rs. Jc v Eundy : - - ' " i r-i MANY OFFICIALS PLAN TO ATTEND 'MfXtlR Law Enforcing, Officers Convene In Edenton v . OnNov.B STUDY MOTOR LAWS Various Phases of Law Enforcement Will Be Explained The law enforcing, officers of this and neighboringcounties will hold a district, conference in Edenton, Fri toef, ovembeV;$th,vf td 'disotss mu tual, problems and lay. plans for con certed add continuous effort in crime prevention and highway safety. . A total of eight such conferences will be held throughout the State in all. The counties forming this dis trict are Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washing ton. The series is being arranged through the Law Enforcing Officers Division of the Institute of Govern ment by the leaders of city, county, state and federal officers in North Carolina. The Institute of Government, it was announced, has- completed ar rangements for the printing of 250, 000 copies of its new guidebook on Highway Safety. These will be dis tributed to every officer, citizen group, and high school in the State, it was said, forming the basis for safety instruction and promotion by all three groups. ! Among flie topics for instruction and discussion at ihe conference, in Edenton-are rule's ; of evidence- ar rests, searches' jnd seizures,; inyesti fatton; lot. trial, civirservice, politics in law en forcement, and unilorm laws and uni f prm enforcement of the laws-. Along with these will be featured the coordination of all groups of law enforcing officers in the enforcement of the motor vehicle laws, which is one phase of the larger problem of crime prevention and criminal law enforcement. mm Joe White Proves That Where There's a Will There's a Way Don't make the mistake of feeling sorry for Joe White. Be isn't sorry for himself. That state of mind, so common to certain types of less un fortunate folks, is utterly foreign to Joe's nature. In fact, Joe has been too busy all his life climbing over the obstacles in his way to waste time in worry over things he couldn't help. Joe White is a colored man, fifty five years old now. He lives on the farm of Jacob L. White, two miles from Hertford. He has spent most nf his life oh this farm. When Joe lost his right leg, back in his youth, it was a blow. Joe doesn't deny that. It is a considera ble handicap to work, to do manual labor, farm labor,, with one leg gone. The cancer which eaused the leg to have to be amputated ' became inac tive after the" amputation,' and so Joe went -back 'to wprkVHe had always been a good farm hand. The loss of his leg didn't - alter that. It must have been pretty . difficult, but with that peg leg he worked right on. It was some years after the loss of his leg that; from a tiny scratch on his right hand . an. infection spread until Joe's good, right arm had to be taken- off. -r That was mighty r, bad, Joe sayS j? But ;h didn't waste " tcny tints giBgipYer iilieldn't be helped. Werk . was.fmort difficult, of course bufc'rlth:' pinned: but of way-, Joe rejn;;en working;?; Es "held owiv toeV ac cording 1 : to his employer In !jfsU Joe .wsb always;? one oft; the:- best hands, eh tfce farm. ;. I2e always did as much work as aftjbody else dJdV. lie could do anything, too, p)n:v.5ng, hoeinst ' d'tching, luttiiig woc hajv vesting crops, anything. v ,"V"i-. I Working in a saw mill one; day, sawing' wood, Joe got the thumb of hiflone hand caught in the machin ery and it was So man-led it. had to be amputated. ; Now there were just fouf fcers to do everything with- only one land, and on that only four fir rs. The handy thumb was gone Of til Joe's . r..IJ! ortunes, it is doulT-1 if t"7 cf them outweighed 1 icft' t r .:r.b. If Joe had J' ' ' ' ' r Lm-wLo could . i . j v?? Ka did not ROTARIANS HOLD INTER-CITY MEET MONDAY NIGHT William Paxton of Nor-foikWiUBePrinci-H pal Speaker SPECIALMUSIC Club Plans to Assist In Planting of Trees In Town William Mc. Paxton, Governor of the 66th District of Rotary Interna tional, of Norfolk, Va., will be the speaker at the Inter-City meeting of the Edenton, Elizabeth City and Hertford Rotary Clubs to be held at the Hotel Hertford on next Monday night. . Special music will be furnished by the Edenton band. Sixty guests are expected to be present. Plans for the meeting were dis cussed at the regular meeting of the Club on Tuesday night. It was also announced at this) meeting that the Hertford Club is in- vited to near the president of Rotary International, Ed Johnson, wno will speak at the Monticello Hotel on November 19th. A large delegation from this Club will probably attend. A special committee was appointed by President Luther H. Bilker on Tuesday night to offer the services of the Rotary Club to the Hertford Woman's Club in connection with the plans of that body to plant trees on the streets of the town this fall. The committee appointed is composed of R. N. Himts, C. P. Morris and R. T. Brinn. Another committee, composed of Rev. D. S. Dempsey, Silas M. Whed bee and JT, T, Johnson, was appoint ed to construct on a 'suitable location a barbecue "pit. MANY AT TURKEY SUPPER The turkey supper at the Parish House was well attended on Thurs day night. Both from the stand point of a pleasant affair and as a paying proposition, the supper was quite a success. smile is always pleasant, wistful sometimes perhaps, but he smiles he kept right on working. He could still plough, and hoe, and ditch, do anything any other farm hand does. But he hasn't been able to plough much since his last accident. That was almost the finish of Joe. He was working at the oil mill in Hert ford some four or five years ago. Incidentally, Joe always fills in any in between season on the farm with jobs he picks up in town. A freight engine on the mill siding jumped the track one day and pushed in the brick wall of the building in which Joe was working. "Poor Joe," said the sympathetic fellow workmen, who hastened to disr away the fallen brick and mortar and find the body of the unfortunate Joe. It seemed like a shame, they said,, for Joe to be killed in this way. after he had been so game, too, about so many accidents.- v But Joe wasn't dead. He wae un conscious when they finally got him out Two tedious months in a hos pital followed. The injuries had been pretty severe. . But Joe went on back to work when he. .left the hospital, living with.' the family of his cousin whom be has, alway helped to tup port, --havlngX no dependents of his foe ;cin do as much , work as ;ny bodjr n.the:farm bow," laid Jacob L. White, wnb now;., owns the farm wher Joe has spent most of his life, cept pJwagJdnt! Since the brick wall fell on him, he saidv Joe had not been ; able to plough much, , , . ,; fc.Jtr- White then; told how a he set Joe- to catting fire wood some time aray expecting mm to cut perhaps a foad in a dayi "And don't yon knew he cut a whole cord of .wood that day," he -said. " ; . . Joe was asked to come to town and pose . for f his photograph. He said he would be glad to come if he wasn't too busy. ? It is harvest time in Per quimans and Joe ,1s busy digging and shaking peanuts now, ' , "Joe," a man said,1 "lot of folks who have lost just one leg or just one arm st:? work and get living by beggirj." Thcrs was' -world of pride in Joe's reply, "I never have begged," he said. . Scarlet Fever Causes Closing First Grade JUDGE HARRIS IS VERY EXPLICIT IN CHARGE TO JURY Gives Ruling As To When Person Is Under Influence of Whiskey; Wants Matters Investigated In his charge to the Grand Jury Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleigh, who presided at the October term of Su perior Court which convened on Mon day, departed somewhat from the routine manner in which Superior Court judges some times follow, stating that he always found that there were generally on each grand jury several men who had previously served on grand juries and were familiar with their duties, but re questing that if they desired any in struction or information they would call upon him. He first stated that he wanted the Grand Jury to get the last two grand jury reports made in this county and look over them and see if there were any recommendations made in those reports which had not been carried out. "There is nn sonnp " Vio ooirl in grand juries making recommen- dations and then just letting them be filed in a pigeon hole and nothing done about them." His Honor went on to say that there were sometimes, of course, rea sons why nothing was done about a grand jury recommendation, but that he wanted those reports gone into the first thing. After instructing the body in the proper procedure in preparing and returning bills of indictment, and as to examination of the jail and county home, and the various county offices, Judge Harris said "I want you to see if any administrators or executors have not filed their reports, and whether the guardians of children in this couttky are making their re ports." He further said he wanted the grand jury to look into the mat ter of the kind of guardian bonds that were given. In reference to the justices of the peace of the county, Judge Harris directed the Grand Jury to see if each magistrate in the county had made his proper report. "Each mag istrate should report before each term of criminal court," he said, stating that a report should be made of all cases tried and of the disposition of each case. He stated that sometimes a jus tice of the peace took more jurisdic tion than the Superior Court would take. The usual directions were given as to the urgency of the necessity of looking into the matter of the school busses and the statement was made that much good had been accomplish ed by the examination of the school busses, and that he had found that those in charge always welcomed the investigation. With reference to passing upon bills of indictment in connection with drunken driving, Judge Harris said "A man is drunk under that law if he is under the influence of whiskey or drugs to the extent that he has not pot control of his normal facul ties." Birthday Party Given For Mrs, A. L. Godfrey A surprise birthday party was giv en for Mrs. A. L. Godfrey on Tues day by her children. Mrs. Godfrey celebrated her 41st birthday. The home was attractively deco rated with beautiful fall flowers. A delicious birthday dinner was servea, ana arter dinner ice cream and cake were served. Mrs. Godfrey received many beau tiful and' useful presents. Those nrefient were: Mr. and Mnr. WaltocOetUi'Mrs. Raymond Ivey, Mrs. H E.' Wardj Mr. and Mrs. Ver- noft Wd : Pd children, Elizabeth and Mary Vernon, Mrs. L. C. Sy mons,: Mrs. Unwood Ward, Mr. and Mrs. A. U Godfrey, Grizelda, Kathe rine, Daphne, Bond, Alpha Bettie, Wilma Frances, and Abe Godfrey, Jr. yj;ir-": - A. L. Skinner Leaves J. C. Blanchard Co. A. I Skinner has resigned his posi tion with J. C. Blanchard & Co., and has accepted a position as salesman with the Hollowell Chevrolet Co. ' Mr. Skinner has f been connected with J, C. Blanchard ft Co. for the past eight years, during which time he was head of the ; grocery and hardware departments. - Mr. Skinner is one of the "widest known and most popular salesmen in the community and enjoys the confi dence of a urge circle of friends. ,Ke expects to take over his new -ttei on Monday of next week. Three Cases of Disease Reported In Gram, mar School ISSUE ORDER Precautions Taken Prevent Spread of Sickness to The first grade of the Hertford Grammar School was ordered closed for this week by the Perquimans County Board of Health at a meeting held last Saturday, as a result of two cases of scarlet fever in the grade. Mollie, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Oakey, Jr., was the first child to have the disease. This case developed two weeks ago. Mary Leland, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Winslow, develop ed the disease last week. Both children at this writing are getting along very nicely. Another case of scarlet fever de veloped over the week-end, the child Moody Mathews, Jr., being in the fifth grade of the Hertford Gram mar School. The Mathews family live in the country. The order as passed by the Board of Health on Saturday, and signed by F. T. Johnson, secretary of the Perquimans County Board of Health, reads as follows: "To the Patrons of Hertford Gram mar School: "At a meeting of the Board of Health held on October 26, 1935 the prevalence of scarlet fever was call ed to the attention of this Board. Dr. P. T. Brinn, County Health Offi cer, reported two cases of scarlet fever in the first grade of the Hert ford Grammar School. In the inter est of the public, the Board, after discussing the situation makes the following order: It is the order of the Board of Health that the first grade of the Hertford Grammar School be closed until November 4, 1935. It is further ordered that any child who lives in the same house with any pupil of the first grade in the Hertford Grammar School be kept at home until November 4, 1935. It is further ordered that the above children be kept away from Sunday Schools, Churches, moving picture shows, all public gatherings, and kept off the streets." Former Resident Buried In E. City Mrs. Lula Waugh Moss, wife of R. R. Moss, died suddenly on Fridav. October 26, of a heart attack. Funeral services for Mrs. Moss were held at Ziegler's Funeral Parlor in Elizabeth City at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and were conducted by the Rev. D. S. Dempsey, pastor of the Hertford Baptist Church. Elizabeth City. Burial took place in Holly wood Cemetery, in Elizabeth City. Pallbearers included R. M. Riddick, W. H. Hardcastle, Cook Winslow, J. E. Winslow, Dr. C. A. Davenport, Thomas Nixon, T. S. White, all of Hertford; Lidius Old, of Great Bridge, Va.; C. H. Ward, Ray Toxey, and Grover Jackson, of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Moss, who was 63 years of age, was formerly Miss Lula Waugh, the daughter of the late John F. and Sarah Harney Waugh, of Elizabeth City. She lived most of her life in Elizabeth City, coming to Hertford seven years ago from Bennettsville, S. C, where she had lived for some time. During her residence in Hertford she had made many friends here who deeply regret her passing. - Mrs.Ttfoss bad been suffering with only a few months ago had been very sick. She recovered : from this at tack, however, and had been annar- ently much improved. She had been slightly indisposed for several days but felt better Friday and had left her apartments and gone to Mrs. J. E. White's boarding-house, where she took her meals, and was at supper when the end came suddenly. Surviving are her husband. R. R. Moss, who is superintendent of the Saw Mill at Major and Loomis Co., and two daughters, Mrs; Aubrey Mc Cabe, of Elizabeth .CStyv and Mrs. Evelyn Walston, of Great Bridge, Va. - i i MRS. HOLMES ELECTED' AS TEACHER IN LOCAL SCHOOL : Mrs. C. R. Holmes has been elected a teacher in the Peniaimans High School. Before her marriage, Mrs. Holmes was Miss Hannali Mai Fleet -wood and was a member of the ' faculty. V " ! ,--. -t i " r . -1 '0