North Carolina Newspapers

frf I 5 A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY Volume VII.; Number 21. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, May 24, 1940. $1.25 Per Year. I . . . . . ll' 'll II l II l. T II U I 1 ll ll lixv II ir 4 7) War Situation In Europs lias Reached Critical Stage ' 'Brief, Condensation of Week's War News , . !For Readers Who v Possibly Miss Facts SITUATION 'DARK Devastation of Human life and Property Is General as German Hordes Continue In Swift Advance ' For the Benefit of the few of our readers who possibly do not have a radidor do not get a daily news paper, it occurred to us .tiiat a few facts on the progress of the war in Europe over the past week may come as news . Starting their big push, less than i two weeks ago, the mighty German hordes Tuesday night had dealt the Allies their most severe setbacks in a hundred years. Tuesday night the Nazi war ma v t chine was within 12 miles of the ' ffy English Channel at one point in the two-way drive, and within syp-glass " distance of Paris (69 miles) on a nother front. It is said that Hitler in ten days has advanced further into Allied do ' - mains than Kaiser Wilhelm was able to penetrate during the entire life of , ' the World War. Devastation of human life and property was general as the Ger mans advanced. Untold suffering-is being reported in the invaded coun tries of France and Belgium, while from Berlin comes news- that the populace carries on as usual In peace and quiet.' ? - Berlin claims .hat a million Bt. iff :'(Eeaders bear in mind that this is written Wednesday night; condensed - from daily newspaper dispatches and . from radio bulletins. The whole Eu- "ronean scene, as proven, can shift from one extreme to the other easily in. less than the space of one day). ' .Wednesday night it began to ap pear that the Allies were in a meas ure stemming the tide of the Nazi March to the Channel, and London, thousrh going ahead with fortifica- r tion plans, was not unduly alarmed. Britain was mustering its defenses against invasion; 2,000,000 men are . training and ready to rush against v if possible Nazi attacks. British expe ; ; ditionary forces at the Channel were determined to die where they stood , (Continued On Page Four) Registration List Fcr In Excess Of The Fondest Hopes Perquimans County Re gisters 551 More Than Voted In 1936; Total Is 1,897 . .! " ( Registration' figures from Bethel r Township .have brought thcrreountjrts v v 'i A total registration to a fkrai mA ' above the ones set by the hopes of the county's - most optimistic . pi J f. According .ttf -l lvi.-'-Hollowen, -7 -. chairman -of the "board. "of elections, - the Bethel Township J registration listed; 225 qualified voters, bringing - the county's total to . j Those who ; particularlyM'wanted " , a large " registration, , had x placed r their hopes at 1300 at the 'rery . ; - Apparently Challenge Day passed ' without the removal of one name, or :l -: even without . the question, atx nne voter's, eligibility. ', W . ' This figure is high above 'the total . vote cast in 1936 in the race between . Sheriff J. Emmett Winslow and J. f P. Elliott; : the contest which drew " thef biggest vote that year, 1,346.''. ; ' Those politically informed are of the opirawu that at least 1,650 bal lots will be cast Jn Perquimans County tomorrow (Saturday). The faces they say, are of such diversi fied interest as to attract . the vote of every man c d womam In thb county. - ' , - - . H The polls open at sunrise! 6:10, t-.i clo:e at 7:00. Tl;e weatherfore' i r " a f - - "y unset 'a wave Hearing Wednesday To Settle Winf all Road Controversy Committee Will Be at Court House to Hear Objections to New Road Project Word has been received here by Charles Whedbee, county attorney, that a hearing on the Winfall road controversy will be held in the courthouse on the afternoon of Wed nesday, May 29th, at 3:30 o'clock. Among those expected to be pres ent for the hearing, are the com mittee composed of T. B. Ward of Wilson, chairman, and E. V. Webb and S. M. Bason, and probably D. Collin Barnes, of Murfreeaboro, high way commissioner from this dis trict. At that time every one who wants to be heard will be heard at the ses sion which is open to the public. Those who object to the new course of the prospective road which has been planned for the north end of the causeway to the new Elmwood Farms, will be expected to state their cases. The project was held up until the hearing could be arranged after Winfall residents filed petitional pro tests with the Highway Commission, holding that the new course of Unit ed States Highway 17 would isolate the village. The county board of commissioner? later registered a protest to the Highway Commission in the interest of Winfall and though the new loca tion had been surveyed, actual con struction work did not start pending the hearing. The hearing Wednesday will deter mine whether or not U. S. 17 will follow a new course from the north end of the causeway, or whether it will continue to pass, through the village of Winfall, nuioi oiiuw ii oil Tea At Court House Is Colorful Display Sixty Flower Exhibits Viewed; Tea Served From Three Hundred Pound Ice Cake The histori beauty of Perauiraans County's ancient courthouse was the scene yesterday (Thursday) of the Fifth Annual Flower Show and Tea staged by the Perquimans County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs. - - : - ' ' i ! . ,! i I ; The day began, however, not at the courthouse, but in the Sunday School Department of the Hertford Baptist Church at 2:30 p. m., as Miss Ruth Current, State Home Demonstration Agent, being introduced by Mrs. M. T. Griffln, president of the Bethel Club,' delivered the pricipal address to the Federation meeting. The meeting continued at the court house at four o'clock to the ac companiment of a band concert by the Hertford Band and the drinking of : punch from an unique bowl fash ioned in a 300-pound cake of ice with garlands- of roses frozen in. At the Sunday School, the meeting opened with invocation by the Rev. RV F. Munns, pastor of the Hertford Methodist Church, which was .fol lowed by the roll call of . clubs. Then Mrs. J. A.. Bray ; furnished special . music and Miss Current spoke. f L; 'Following - announcements and, singing, . the scene shifted from the churoh to the surroundings of the - flower-bedecked v r courthouse where each, of - the 12 dubs was dis playiair five . different exhibits" of flowers, ' , . Judging the floral display for out standing exhibits were Miss . - Re-i becca Colwell, Chowan County Agent; Miss, Virginia JBrumsey, Currituck County Agent,, and Miss Josephine Grant,' home - economics teacher in Edenton High School. , . Bishop Darst AtlHoly Trinity Sunday Morning r Bishop Darst will be at-Holy Trinity Church Sunday at the norri ing-yiervice tb administeri th ;Rite of Oonf irmatioiu A The morning se vice begins at 11 o'clock.. . . .. '.. -. A run.ler of people hive been In v;t; .; ty J. ; Granberry llicker, a m . ..' r of the Church Vestry Board, ana i.ra. T..omas fiixon, to ttt-id a -'.' " - ft the home c" ! I ' i n - ---t t3 : 1 J Sponsors Applaud Works Progress At Open House Dinner Inaugural Dinner at Woman's Club House Opens Week Set Aside For Projects About seventy-five people, includ ing WPA workers and supervisors and sponsors who praised the activi ties of the Works Progress Adminis tration, gathered at the Woman's Club House Monday night for the dinner and program which inaugurat ed WPA open house week; the week nationally set aside for visits of the public in general to WPA profession al and service projects. The program, arranged by Mrs. B. G. Koonce, featured, a pageant, "America First," in which two Boy Scouts, a soloist singing the Hymn of Peace, and nine girls carrying red, white and blue candles repre senting Lights of Peace, were the principal characters. After invocation by tbe Rev. R. F. Munns, the group singing by the as semblage and a reading by Mrs. W. E. White and a trumpet solo by Al ton Munns, Mrs. Lucy Elliott gave a "Toast To Our Sponsors." Dinner was served by members of the Woman's Club. Mrs. Charles E. Johnson gave a vocal solo, and then followed re marks from project workers lunch zoom, canning, garden, matron ser vice, records and research, operations division, the library, surplus commo dities, and other projects not opera ting in this county. More special music followed, a vocal solo by Miss Katherine Jessup, and a piano duet by Alton Munns and HarVell Johnson. Remarks came next from the sponsors, Mies Mary Sumner for the Hertford' Grammar School; Superin tendent P. T. Johnson for all county schools; Judge J. Granberry Tucker, for. the. library, and Towp. Clerk W. G. Newby, for the Town of Hertford. The National broadcast, featuring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and National WPA officials, was scheduled for 9 o'clock, but reception was bad be cause of electrical interference and that part of the program was aban doned. The program came to a close with group singing after another reading by Mrs. White, and after a vocal solo by Miss Jean Newbold. Johnson Resigns As High School Athletic Director Superintendent Weary Of Hertford as Prov ing Ground For Tide water Coaches James A. Johnson, Jr., athletic coach at the high school for the past year, handed his resignation to Superintendent F. T. Johnson Tues day morning. Johnson (the coach) says he will accept a position in Portsmouth, Vir ginia, at Woodrow Wilson High School. Johnson (the superintendent) says "I'm getting very weary of Per quimans County acting as a proving ground for Tidewater Virginia, ath letic coaches." Johnson (the superintendent) was thinking of Sidney Hughes and J. R, (Bob Bates," who resigned, after a year each j to take jobs In and around Norfolk.- - Hughes and Bates came from Springfield, ' Massachusetts, as " did Carl Rogers, -who resigned after. a year to go out to the West Coast. Johnson (the coach) came from East Carolina Teachers College, at Greenville, i. The position of coach at the high school has of course not been filled following . Johnson's recent resigna tion,; according ' to Mr. Johnson , , (the superintendent).; : . J , . MINNIE WILSON GROUP MEETS r The Minnie ; Wilso",, Group v of the Methodist tMlssionary Society ! met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Tim Brinn. f. Mrs. ' Charles : Whedbee led the meeting, . and ' Mrs. R. v M. Fowler 'gave" the devotional. -' There were interesting J; readings by Mrs. Henry Stokes rand' Mrs.,' . R. L, KPo-wl'es. i Vv r , Paring the socl:9,houlr afterithl -n end bu3''neoa( meeting, re ..;a were served. H.C. Sullivan And Margaret Dail To Wed Tomorrow T Local Man and Chowan County Girl to Be Married In Edenton Saturday at Four Henry Clay Sullivan, Jr., grand son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jessup, and agent for the Continental Life Insur ance Company, and Miss Margaret Dail. of Chowan County, member of the office force in the local unit of the Farm Security Administration, will be married in Edenton at the Baptist Church Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Miss Dail is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Henderson Dail of Cho wan County, a graduate of the Eden ton High School, and was connected with the FSA in Edenton before the office moved to Hertford several weeks ago. Mr. Sullivan is the son of H. C. Sullivan, of Norfolk, Va., and the late Mrs. Emma Jessup Sullivan. Hei graduated from Perquimans County 'High School in the Class of 1930, and has been connected with life insur ance business for the past four years. The Reverend E. L. Wells, pastor of the Edenton Baptist Church, will perform the ceremony, and the cou ple will leave immediately after the ceremony for a wedding trip to an unannounced destination. Upon their return they will be at home in Hert ford at the Jessup residence on Front Street. Hold-up Negroes Detained For Trial In Superior Court Sentenced to Serve Months Each on Jail Break Charges; Two Not Guilty Golden (Black Man) Bryant, Evans (Tom Payne) Fulton, and Randall Bowser, the three Negroes who es caped from the Perquimans County jail last Wednesday night and were captured Thursday afternoon by De puty Sheriff M. G. Owens, were tried in County Court before Re corder Granberry Tucker, who sen tenced them to serve six months each for jail break. The men were awaiting a hearing on hold-up charges when they man aged the escape by digging bricks from around a second floor window and reaching the ground by means of a rope. They were recaptured within 18 hours of the escape by De puty Owens who was tipped that the men were walking along the Nor folk Southern Railroad tracks in the direction of Edenton. He rushed to a point between Hertford and Edenton, hid in a swamp and stepped out to face the three men when they reached his nosition. They offered no resistance and returned peaceably to jail. The men were alleged to have held up at a gun point, beaten and robbed one George Gill, Raleigh Negro, whose testimony was taken last week at the regular session of County Court. - Grounds for probable cause were found against Bryant and Fulton, and they will be held for trial at the next term of Superior Court. A number of eye-witnesses testi fied as to the robbery with force of arms. Ear d; ,11 Bowser, Luke Bowser and Beatiice Speight, all Negroes, were charged with aiding and abetting in the crime and with obstructing offi cers in performance of their duties. The charges against them resulted from the disappearance of the wea pon used on Gill. The .Speight woman testified that Bryant handed her theTistol imme diately after the robbery and that she handed 4t a to Randall Bowser, who in turn handed the weapon to Luke . Bowser; thereby implicating all three, v The pistol was not. introduced in evidence.','., , The trial; consumed several hours partially-due to the fart that few of the Negroes .concerned are familiar with Hertford.;'uThe Speight woman, Bryant and Fulton, as well as Gill, are from other towns. A ; Locations had - to be established and a hastily drawn 'map was even brought into play; to determine the scenes referred to- simply . "as the street that runs this way" and the "house that stands here." Beatrice Speight and1' Luke Bow ser were found not guilty on the charges against them. :J:C DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TOMORROW; IN HOME STRETCH RESULTS BIG GAMBLE Taking Applications For Tenants Who Want To Buy Next Year Farm Security Administration is receiving applications from farm tenants who want to purchase farms next year. A. Houston Edwards, County Sup ervisor for Perquimans County, an nounced today that applications may be filed now in the FSA office in Hertford. Congress has authorized a fund not to exceed $50,000,000 from which tenants may borrow for the purchase of farms although the money has not been actually appropriated and made available. The loan funds were set up under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act. Experts Instruct In Art Of Making Free Mattresses Agents and Workers of Seven Counties Ob serve Cotton Surplus Decrease By 50 Lbs. Approximately thirty-five Farm Security Administration workers and NYA workers from seven counties were at the Agricultural Building on Tuesday to take instruction in the art of makine- mattresses. Miss Pauline Gordon, home man agement specialist from the Exten sion Service, with an assistant in the person of Eugene Starnes from Ra leigh, manufactured a mattress from raw materials furnished by the Sur plus Commodities Corporation, okayed orders that must be reached teen million bales of carried-over cotton went into tne n.aiang of. s-A mattress that will be turned orer to a member of Perquimans County's low-income farm group for the price of $1.00. One revision has been made in the free-mattress plan since Perquimans County decided to participate. Ap plications will still be accepted from farm families whose annual income totals $400 or less per year, but fifty percent of the total need not come direct from farm pursuits as was first announced. The office of the welfare depart ment and the office of the county home demonstration agent are tak ing applications, but orders to date are still far from the goal of 120 okayed rders that must be reached before the Surplus Commodities Cor poration will honor a request from Perquimans County for 1,200 yards of ticking and 12 bales of cotton. Applicants will make their own mattresses, probably in quarters in the Woman's Club House on Aca demy Street under supervision of those who received instruction at the demonstration Tuesday. According to L. W. Anderson, county farm agent, who was the chief engineer in bringing the free mattress system to Perquimans County, the $1.00 charge is to allay expenses connected with hauling and storage of the raw material, stocking the necessary equipment needles, thread, etc. Officers For Year The Hertford Lions Club elected officers at the inter-city meeting held in the Woman's Club House on Academy Street last Friday evening. Named to replace L. N. Hollowell, president of the club since its organ isation in April 1939, was Julian A. White, charter member. Vice presidents are: first, Claude D. White; second, Archie T. Lane, third, J. H. Towe, charter member. Norman N. Trueblood, charter member, was elected to continue as secretary and treasurer. He was appointed in November. v . . Ralph R. White, charter member, was elected Lion Tamer, and W. C. (Bill) . Morgan was elected Tail Twister. . Directors for the year, which offi cially: begins on July lsl, 'are Dr. I. A. Ward,- charter member, ' John O. White, Jr., and Max- Campbell. Plymouth arid Edenton were in on the lnter-city- meeting' with.. Hert ford. " ; -; V . (RED CROSS TOND 5 ' "L A Red , Cross - collection of $9.C5 was taken at Oak, Gr-'e Church on Sunday morning for Lv'.-' i Relief. Maxwell Likely to Be High Man In Per q u i m a n s Balloting For Governor NO PROPHECY Five Representatives Mentioned All In One Breath; Local People Slow to Play Favor ites In Local Races Perquimans County has 1,897 votes to east in the Democratic Primary tomorrow (exclusive of probably two hundred Republicans) and in the home stretch with one sunrise be tween now and primary day, there is still little on which to base an election forecast in more than one race. The lone contest which seems to have whipped itself into a state from which one can in some manner de termine what the final results will be tomorrow night is in the guber natorial handicap. Not a prophecy, but a breakdown of what the man in the street thirjis, is the consensus that Allen J. Max well will be the high man in Per qu',Tians County. Either J. M. Broughton or W. P. Horton is sche duled to follow (closely together) for second and third places. It is doubtful that the four re maining candidates will gather a number of votes to compare with the third man Broughton or Horton. In Perquimans County it is a fair ly safe gamble that Maxwell will lead with Horton or Broughton sec ond and third. If there is a fourth with any amount of support it is Cooper or Gravely. In the race for representative, the five- candidates are mentioned all in one breath. There is absolutely nothing on which to base a guess as to. th,e final outcome. Local w jojle are not as quick to commit them selves on local politics as on the con test for governo-. The names ..however, with the or der of listing having nothing to do with possible iavorites, being taken from the sample ballot, are: J. T. Benton, Walter G. Edwards, Joe Campbell, Mattie Lister White and J. S. McNider. Perquimans County will probably support C. R. Holmes for the Senate, and Hughes, Gatling or Evans or Leary. Anything can happen in the county commission contest where nine are seeking five seats. There is strong indication that three new names are receiving a good deal of support for seats on the .county board. Linford (Continued from Page Four) Canning Genius To Demonstrate Here At School Saturday Can Teach In Kitchen Equipped Only With Stove and Bucket to Hold Fruit Jar Home Demonstration canning leaders are urged to be present at a canning demonstration to be con ducted in the Home Economics De partment of the Perquimans High School Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock (while their husbands . are talking politics). Miss Myrom Clinard, food preser vation specialist of the Educational Department of the Ball' Brothers Company, manufacturers - of fruit jars, will conduct the demonstration. Miss Clinard says she is able to teach people how to can lfthe kitch ens are equipped only with, a stove and a bucket large enough to hold a fruit jar. . . ; Her experience with low income families gives balance to the train ing she had as a student in Home Economics at Teachers College in Murfreeaboro, Tennessee. It is said that Miss Clinard's com bination of sound, scientific training, a rural background, and experience in teaching women and girls how to preserve, their food so that it will kee qualifies her for effective public . work.- 1 fo Further, ; she -expresses hereeflf clearlyr has a- pleasing personality and works with deft sure move i..ents. A feature of her demonstra ' ' -a is - her review, in 'which,, one or v i re members of the audience sum r Izes what she has done. If v.. ft