01 TANKERS TO BE
BUILT FOR WAR USE
;U. S. to Pay for Arming Ships
Privately Owned.
i Washington. The United States
has begun to move forward toward
'its goal of armed peace by joining
hands with private enterprise, with
out congressional sanction or action,
to meet urgent navy requirements.
Marking a new policy in the na
tional defense program, the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey
has signed an agreement with the
maritime commission to construct
itwelve high-speed tankers which
.could be transformed overnight into
auxiliary fighting vessels.
During times of peace, the vessels '
would go about their own business,
transporting oil. But, in the event
of war, the ships literally would be
'thrown into high gear, guns .' and
navy, searchlights would be mount
ed and the cruising range extended.
' tfnited States Pays for Arming. -
Standard Oil and other oil com
panies probably will take part in the
program has agreed to pay for the
construction and maintenance of the
tankers, with the maritime commis
sion standing the cost of the auxil
iary equipment.
Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of
the commission, announced the
company had awarded contracts to
taling $37,556,004 for the twelve tank
ers to four shipbuilding concerns,
each to build three.
The latest agreement, plus con
struction of twelve high-speed
cargo vessels, for which bids will
be opened February 1, and a mod
ern safety liner to replace the Levi
athan in the North Atlantic, will
bring to twenty-five the number of
ships now a part of the commis
sion's ambitious building program.
JpSSr Jobs for 10,000.
Cost of the ships was estimated
between $60,000,000 and $75,000,000,
unofficially and would give employ
ment to an estimated 10,000 ship
yard workers.
Kennedy pointed out that the
agreement did not represent a sub
sidy to Standard Oil but constitut
ed a step in national defense. The
commission's share in the cost of
vconsirucviua wui ue f xu,uuo,uuu.
' The ships will have a speed of
16 knots fully loaded compared
with 12 knots of the ordinary tank
er. They will have a tonnage of
16,300 tons dead weight, a length of
525 feet and a cargo capacity of
150,000 barrels.-
. Modern in every detail, the horse
power will be stepped up to 12,800,
thus being able to develop 300 per
cent more power than the ordinary
commercial tankers.
Child Marriages Traced
to Three Main Factors
Chicago. Juvenile marriage de-
disposition, the Society for Research
in Child Development has found in
a survey.
In a monograph, psychologists re
ported that regions having an an
nual temperature of 60 to 75 degrees
induce 17.7 per cent of marriages
in the 'teens. A colder climate 35
to 45 degrees brings the rate down
to 7.5 per cent. Warm climates
bring earlier maturity, the psychol
ogists explained.
Only 2 per cent of socially su
perior groups of women marry un
der twenty, it was said.
' The possibility of a girl in the
country marrying younger than her
city cousin is also much greater,
the pamphlet says. This is be
cause of the relatively few women
known to "the boy down the road,"
which makes his choice limited and
therefore quicker.
Women citizens of native parent
age have a 13.3 per cent average
of "younger generation" weddings,
against 6.3 for those of foreign par
entage. Onions and Garlic Found
Useful to Fight Disease
Albany. Dr. Daniel V. O'Leary,
Albany health commissioner, con
tends that onions and garlic are use
ful in combating infectious diseases
because of their immunity to bac
terial attack.
"The chemicals in onions and gar
lic," he asserted, "which bring
tears to the eyes, are now found to
have germ-killing powers." , ,
I The chemicals have been isolated
I by Dr. Richard E. Vollrath, profes
!sor Of physics, and Dr. Carl C. Lind
Igren, chairman of the bacteriologi
cal department of the University of
Southern California, Dr. O'Leary
said. '
Horseshoe of 1847
r Found in Oak Tree
Del Monte, Calit A horseshoe
believed to be more than 90 years
old was found imbedded in the
heart of an ancient oak tree on
the Del Monte golf course. . ' ,
The shoe;, which old-time resi
dents' here believe dates back to
the days when nearby Monterey
was the capital Of Spanish Cali
fornia, was found in the center of
a one-foot thick limb while the
old tree was being cut down.
It was believed generally that
the shoe ' was thrown by a horse1
nearly a century ago; that Its
rider hung it around branch,
and that the limb grew around
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CROSS ROADS
Carl Baber and his aunt have re
turned to their home in Gastonia, af
ter a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Welch, Sr. Mrs. Baber and children
will be here for some time.
Guy Russell Parker, of Washington,
D. C, spent the Fourth with his
mother, Mrs. Belle W. Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott visited
A. T. Belch, at General Hospital, in
Norfolk, Va., Sunday.
Raymond Evans, of Florence, S.
C, spent the week-end with his
mother, Mrs. Mattie Evans.
Weldon Hollowell and a friend at
tending summer school at Wake
Forest College, spent the week-end
with the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Sr.
David Byrum was at home from
Wake Forest College to spend the
week-end with his parents, Rev. and
Mrs. J. T. Byrum.
Miss Elise Hines and Robert Wiri
borne, of Suffolk, Va., spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Winborne.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Shaw, Miss
Elise Hines and Robert Winborne at
tended the Lost Colony pageant at
Fort Raleigh on Sunday evening.
W. G. Shaw, of Wagram, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Winborne. He was accompanied
home by Mrs. Shaw and daughter
and Miss Mildred Green.
John Welch has returned to his
home in Washington, D. C, after a
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Welch, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Sr.,
Miss Orene Hollowell and Lindsey
Evans, Jr., visited Mr. and Mrs.
Melton Bateman Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey Evans and
sons spent Sunday with Mrs. Mattie
Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott visited
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Welch, Sr., on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs. Lindsey Evans and
sons visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Privott Sunday evening.
Mrs. S. R. Burch, of Baltimore,
Md., is visiting her mother, Mrs. W.
W. Bunch.
Mr. and Mrs. Drew Welch spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Rob
Bunch.
Miss Myra Bunch and Miss Mar-J
guerite Asbell, students at E. T. C.
C., Greenville, were at their respec
tive homes for the week-end.
Mrs. Alma Boyce and Miss Lillian,
Styron are visiting their parents at
Morehead City.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Bunch called on
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Evans Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Jr.,
and daughters, and Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Perry and children were supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs, W. Al'. Perry
Sunday evening.
Watson Blanchard, of Norfolk, Va.,
spent the Fourth; with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs.' Charlie Blanchard.
Herbert Dail, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.,
and Emmett Pail, of Edenton, spent
the week-end with their parents, Mr,
and Mrs. Herbert Dail.
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott spent
Friday in Tarboro with Mrs. Elliott's
mother, Mrs. Fannie B. ICnight.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hollowell, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward . Hollowell' and
children, Mrs. Gordon Blow and Miss
Annie Hollowell spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Winslow.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hollowell, R.
H.. Hollowell and Norman Hollowell
attended a baseball game at Euro on
Monday afternoon.? 'f
,Miv and Mrs. Ben Goodwin wind
Mrs. Susie Ward, of Elizabeth City,
visited Mrs. R. H. Hollowell Monday
afternoon. ',. -v.ir-rf
.'''Mrs. ' A.'S' Bush and Miss' iLpqlse
Bush .visited Mrs. Lula Rountree, at
HbbbsVille, Sunday afternoon V
Mrs. Lula Bountree, Miss Beatrice
Rountree, Miss Bessie Lee; Hollowell,
Eallett Bountree and Walter' Whr-
gfcs Rountree, of Ilobbsville, spent
FROM THE DAVS
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Bush.
Miss Annie Coffleld spent Saturday
afternoon with Mrs. W. A. Perry.
Mrs. B. W. Evans is visiting Dr
and Mrs. Tiffany Wilson, at Savannah,
Georgia.
Miss Evelyn Byrum accompanied
some friends from Hertford to Vir
ginia Beach and Ocean View Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Riddick
spent Sunday afternoon in Norfolk,
Virginia.
Misses Peggy and Sarah Brown
have returned to their home at Ashe
ville, after a visit with Miss Dorothy
Lee Savage.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell and
son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Grover Hollowell, at Corapeake.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell and
son visited Mr. and. Mrs. R. W.
Leary, Sr., in Rocky Hock, Monday
evening.
J. C. Leary spent the wee-indin
Washington, 1 N. C, wfflr
Mrs. W. D. Welch, Jr. He IQur ac
companied home by Mrs. Leaw,.
Miss Etta Pardee, of Chicago, 111.,
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Frances Evans, of Man&o,
spent the week-end with her sisterji.
Miss Eleanor Small, - of Edenton,
and Miss Mary Moore Hall, of Cape
Charles. Va., spent Friday night as
guests, of the Misses Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Evans and
family visited Mrs. Lillie Wilson, at
J Weeksville, Monday afternoon. .
Misses Willietta, Esther, Helen,
Marguerite Etta and Mary Winborne
Evans attended the pageant at Roa
noke Island Sunday evening.
Mrs. H. Nl Walters and Miss Doro
thy Walters, of Warrenton, visited
Miss Esther Evans Tuesday morn
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hollowell
and children have returned to their
home at Vanvleet, Miss., after visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hollowell.
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Mrs. Frank Bunch and children
Frances and Elizabeth, of Franklin,
Va., were guests of Mrs. J. . $
Turner last week. T
Mrs. Oscar Parker, of Norfolk;
Va.. was the aruest of her Barents.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Bunch, list
week. Mr. and Mrs. Bunch accott)
panied her home and joined by Mrv,
Parker spent the Fourth on a trip
over the Skyline Drive and visiting"
other points of interest. '-ji
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Lamb, MM
and Mrs, Elbert Bunch, Rosser Bunch,
and Mrs. Oscar Parker, of Norfolk;
Va., attended the funeral of Henry,
T u T7ti:i it. -n j .v.
Mr. and Mrs. ueorge lAha f ans
son, of Newport News, Va7 '. 'dmedi'
with Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Chapnell on
Monday,
Mies Irene Furry has returned
home after visiting friends in Bertie.
County for several days: , .
Mr. and. Mrs. Joseph Hollowell and
two children, Elizabeth and Bernice,
of Sunbury, spent the week-end witbi
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner.
Charlotte Leary, of Edenton, and
Joyce ; Harrell, of Brayhall, spent a
few days last week with their, aunt,
Mrs.:. Cameron Boyce. . . , S;::M
Mr. and. Mrs. ; Raymond v Vfafd
spent the week-end at Ocean View,
fi Mr, and Mrs. Richard Ml Copeland
and son,. Carroll, Edenton, Mr. and
Mrs, J. , P. Byrum nd sons Edward
and Alma, Mr. and Mrs . Joseph
Wolf oweu and two ehildren, V-of . Sun
bury, dined with Mr arid Un. J. S
Turner on Sundayi'v":":'-";
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bunch visited
Mr. and ; Mrs. R. O. s Furry Saturday
evening, l" . ; ,
Mrs. i Bojrj- Parker and I daughter,; of
atesvuie, spent , Thursday with Mrs.
Cameron 3oyce.T',;t-;:'l!VJ:"i;v,;t'.v'.
Mr.' and Mrs.; Emmett Jones, "of
Norfolk, Va., spent Wednesday ni(
with Mrs. Ida Reed.
B. O, Terry is tll9 to be out
NEWS!
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Walston and
Miss Lois Hope Lane are attending
the Assembly at Louisburg College.
Miss Elizabeth White, who is at
tending summer school at Atlantic
Christian College, Wilson, spent the
week-end with her parents, Mr. end
Mrs. E. B. White.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wagner, of
Akron, Ohio, visited Mrs. Wagner's
sister, Mrs. A. L. Hobbs, and Mr.
Hobbs, last week.
Mrs. T. H. Byrum and son, Robert,
spent the week-end with her brother,
Lee Leary, and Mrs. Leary.
Mrs. Eugene Jernigan and daugh
ter, Sylvia, and Mrs. Raymond Ward
spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. T.
H. Byrum.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis and1
son, of Newport News, Va., were
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Ellis on Monday evening.
M Mr. and Mrs. Roland Winslow and j
laughter, Ruth, of Elizabeth City; j
Mr. and Mrd. J. S. Turner and twoi
children, Robert and Peggy, . were
guests of Mrs. J. M. Turner at din- j
ner on Monday.
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PENDER ROAD NEWS
Mrs. Whit Matthews, is spending
this week with her son and daughter-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Matth
ews. Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Berry anil two
sons, Edgar Young and Dan, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George
Spruill, at Long Beach, Chowlan
County, Sunday. ' '
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Basinger and
two daughters, Frances Lane . and
Irene, of Plymouth, spent the week-,
end with Mrs. Basinger's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed Lane. . '
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Harrell and
daughter, Juanita, from near Nbr-
folk, Va., visited .Mr. HarreU'f .par
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ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Harrell,
over the week-end.
Miss Alma Davenport spent last
week with Miss Martha Barber, near
Edenton. 1
v Miss Ann Matthews' returned to
her home Sunday, after visiting Mrs. -W.
W. Hanbury, in Norfolk, Va.
iLloyd Proctor visited his sister,
Mrsw W. W. Hanbury, in Norfolk, Va.,
one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dail and two
granddaughters, Frances and Daisy
Byrum, and Archie Dail, of Nor
folk, Va., were Saturday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. ' Reuben ' Stallings. A.
J. Dail remained over with Mr. and
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