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-iVohame VII, Number
PERQUIMANS GAVE MAXWELL MAJORITY
BROUGHTON AND HOflTON HIGH IN STATE
Revenue Commissioner
Had 36 Votes Above
. Six Other Candidates
For Governor
1,433 BAIXOTS CAST
JCounty Gave Eure the
" Largest Vote: Pou
flopped Miller; Harris
High For lieutenant
Governor
Just as The Perquimans Weekly
f had indicated from the time he an
l nounced his candidacy until the day
' before the primary, the Allen J.
Maxwell campaign for governor
r swept through Perquimans County
on a surge of ballots that carried
him high above the closest contest
ant and piled up a majority of 39
votes over all six other candidates.
Maxwell, however, was third man
in the State voting. Broughton
, came out on top of the heap with a
clearance of 40,000 votes over Wil
kins P. Horton, who is already lay
ing plans for his second primary
campaign, while Commissioner Max
well is urging no second primary.
In Perquimans County Saturday
night as the tallying got under way,
it was clear early in the counting
that Maxwell was taking the lead.
Only in Nicanor Precinct did Mai
s' well fail to hold his lead. There the
;.? vote went to Horton, with Broughton
second and Maxwell in third place.
Of 1,433 ballots cast for Governor,
Maxwell gathered more than fifty
per cent; 783 votes against 472 for
Broughton, 167 for Horton, 29 for
" Cooge H f or Gravely, 6 for Grady,
u- an&.l$pr.Shiumns.
j ! Ift--lf or4 Township alone, the
Reven&e jpbnraissioner was accorded
839 ballots?; against, 237 for Brough
ton. and 67 or. Horton.
JSure was? grve(r cHeTseavaest wjjorr
"J - for Secretary 6f State 1,091 votes
'v;,v against 137 for Pete Murphy.
Ross Pou topped Miller for State
,!" ' Auditpr by the skin of his teeth, col
) lecting 470 votes against 428 for
v Miller. Dan Boney for Insurance
5 ' Commissioner, took an easy 2-to-l
victory over Oliver with one vote to
spare, 689 against 343.
.7 Oliver lead only in Parkville
! 'i Township, where he topped Boney by
;.; 17 votes.
: Though Kerr Scott lead Wayland
' Spruill for Commissioner of Agri
;i -y culture in Hertford Township, the
county vote went to Spruill and gave
him the lead here; 616 to 570. Bel
videre gave Scott a four-vote major
s: ity, and Nicanor voted two-to-one
J I.' r tt l a a .. . . i . 0 1 1 . i
.:rj- ior ocon, out me rest oi me coumy
went for Uie Bertie County eandi
date. In the race for Lieutenant Gover
; , nor, Harris placed high over Erskine
p Smith who easily lead Martin and
.. - - Tompkins for second place. Harris
' ',:. garnered 486 votes, Smith 319, Mar
tin 148 and Tompkins 76. The high
man drew a blank in Parkville Town
ship, Jut took a heavy lead in Hert--"
ford1 Smith's best support came
, , from Bethel Township where he led
. with 119 votes over Harris with 52,
' r Martin with 15 and Tompkins with 9.
; Nicanor Precinct this time, as
' , with Eure and Boney, was in Sine
- with the rest of the county. Usually
" ,. , it isn't -
v r The lone vote in the county for
Simmons. ' gubernatorial candidate,
L. --,. ame from Bethel Township. Gravely
'"V - -J.- drew blanks in. Parkville, Belvldere,
i". ' Bethel and Nicanor. Grady had no
' 'f ., support in New Hope, Bethel and Ni-
' ; canor; - and. Cooper - nonfc ii( New
Jt - Hope. .
rffc ' . 1 ' M 0t mm . ' ,v
Hera is the schedule of home dem
' onstraticn cV.b meeting in Perquim
ans-County- for ' the first 'week la
; nf?nV
' Maness, emonstraUoa agentf .
'-Tiinsdavi- Chananoke Club meeUI
Tuesday -i- Chapanoke Club meets
;f:.wlth Miss Juanita White,-" , ; ;' -.
Wednesday Winfaffl CWb . meets
"'- with Mrs. Joel Holloweil. -p.
i -(Thursday -Whiteston Club . meets
with Misa, Pearl White.'' ? '
-, v , Friday Home and Garden vClub
r meets with Mrs, H. G. Bardift.', p
i mM'JIm Tamer
' .Balph E. White of the D. Pender
Crocrry Coirrr;', new membor of
the Li;rs Clul, v's elected Lion
T;-r cf t!ie L"l (" b at a meetinsr
t j r " J rr?, I J of Ralph R.
i. j mi w- i VsIsaT j
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DjcJVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
22.
Hertford,
Hertford Gains 42 In
Population Over Ten
Years; Total Now 1,956
A preliminary census announce
ment from the office of Denton W.
Lupton, supervisor, in Washington,
N. C, shows that Hertford has gain
ed an increase of 42 persons over the
census count in 1930.
The census report today, subject
to correction, gives Hertford a popu
lation oi l,yob. m the 193U nose-
counting the population was 1,914.
This is the 16th census.
Belgian Surrender
Outstanding War
ottie uountry u o e s
Through One of the
Strangest Hours
Belgian History
In
Continuing the service which it
hopes will prove enlightening to
some of its readers, The Perquimans
Weekly again today gives a brief
condensation of censored news as it
emerges by press and radio from
war-ravaged Europe:
Probably the greatest development
during the current week came on
Tuesday when Belgium surrendered
its army to increasing pressure from
Nazi forces. The Belgian govern
ment set up in France disowned King
Leopold who surrendered to Hitler
18 days after the invasion of his lit
tle country began,
Resources of Belgium, however, it
seems, in muddled leports, are to re
main at disposal,, f tie Allies . . .
though just hwrfftis jfcto be done
uerman nanus isnot quite ciear.
Apparently, the Belgian surrender
effects only the army. It was one
of the Strangest hours in all Bel
gian history the World War not
excluded The country is divided in
two parts; the cabinet legislature
and thousands of refugees in France
and England still at war with Ger
many, a&i millions of Belgians and
soldiers Remaining with their dis
owned king under German occupa
tion. And then, in a "pocket" as wide
as from Hertford to the mouth of the
river and as long as from here to
Virginia Beach are "trapped" 400,
000 British and French soldiers sur
rounded or encircled by Germans and
deserted by their Belgian Allies on
the red fields of Flanders.
Germany is daily promising anni
hilation of' these trapped forces as
30 Allied divisions of some 500,000
men poise for a supreme attack in
Flanders. Another desperate offen
sive from the south to relieve the
trapped forces is being readied.
Upon the outcome of this gigantic
struggle, due any day now, depends
the result of the desperately-contested
battle of Flanders.
Belgium is the sixth country to
fall under Herr Hitler's blitzkrieg
blows in less than nine months. Lon
(Continued On Page Eight)
Final Rites Friday
For Prominent
Bethel Farmer
J,- Maynard Fleetwood
V-Claimed By, Death on
3Wdneda3r $ Widow
And Children survive
v'j, Maynard, Fleetwood, 53,; died at
10. o'clock Wednesday ' night at us
I norae near oewwi, ww,iaaw w
W
ua '? Ufnveuoy ma
wife,' Mm.
Gertrude .Long Fleetwood, - and the
following daughters and sons, Misses
France Gertrude and Kathryne
Fleetwood, J; - Maynard Fleetwood,
Jxt, and Thomas Fleetwood; ' three
sister. Mrs,, A. F.? Proctor, .Mrs. J.
P. Ward and Mrs. M. T. Griffin and
6n6-,brother,. C, "J, Fleetwood, of
Aiempms. - xenn. .' o'uji
Funeral service OiwiH be ,; held -,t
2:30 o'clock "Triday t afternoons, at
Bethel Church and burial will be in
Eethel Cemotery. r , -
llr. Hdetwood .was a . prominent
urmer of Perquimans1 County, and
v- i active in the civic and religious
a rs cf hie county. - ,
UMANS WEEKLY
Perquimans Qbunty, North Carolina, Friday, May
McNider - Benton
In Second Primary
For Lower House
Mattie Lister White
Edged Out In Heated
Contest Between Vet
eran Representatives
J. 1. Benton, incumbent county
representative, is already at work in
order to retain his seat in the Vioukp
for a third term following Saturday's
primary in which he was topped by
Attorney J. S. McNider, who drew a
14-vote plurality.
Benton was second man in the five
pointed race for representative. He
was pushed closely by Mattie Lister
White, who was trailed by Joe Camp
bell and Walter Edwards in order.
It is indicated that incumbent
Benton will ask for the second pri
mary; the only run-off scheduled in
Perquimans County. Mr. Benton has
not been reached for a statement,
but it is said that he is already ac
tively campaigning'.
The Hertford Township vote fav
ored Mrs. White with 188, McNider
with 179, and Campbell with 104.
Benton placed fourth in Hertford
with 103, and Edwards drew 60
votes. McNider and Benton have
each served two terms in the lower
house.
In the total county tally the
count was: McNider 407, Benton 393,
White 366, Campbell 165. and Ed
wards 88.
It was McNider's second place
strength in Hertford that gave him
the nod over Benton who drew the
highest vote in the other precincts
with the exception of Nicanor which
joined with Hertford in giving Mrs.
White a lead.
Mrs. White bozsred down in Park
ville, New Hope and Belvidere, where
Benton and McNider gained their
strength; each doing better than 3-to-1
over the woman candidate in
Parkvillei
The representative race was one
of .the mp$..excjtinjr. Jn y manyan
election year. The fiMt three plafceB
were close and the whole outcome
was in doubt until the final returns
were in. It was this race, probably
more than any of the others, that
helped to get the ..vote to the polls.
The State ticket alone would hardly
have attracted enough enthusiasm.
Fourteen hundred and nineteen
ballots were cast in sthe five-pointed
representative race.
Use Of Dealer Tags
Bring Judgment
To Pay Court Costs
Pasquotank County
Man Uses Plates on
Newly Bought Car
Without Ordering
New Ones
A car bought from a dealer may
be used 10 days with a dealer's li
cense plate provided the buyer has a
receipt to show that the dealer is
getting private license plates for the
new owner, it was shown in Record
er's Court Tuesday.
Raymond Eason of Pasquotank
County, was found guilty in county
court of allowing his automobile to
be operated with improper license
plates. Joe James Key, also of Pas
quotank County, was driving when
Patrolman Louis Lane stopped the
car. .Prayer for judgment as to
Key was continued.
.Eason had bought the car from an
Elizabeth :.CSty dealer on the Satur
toy before: the driver' was arrested
on- Wednesday;- but Eason bad no re
feeipMjC show that be bad .deposited
monej with "the dealer, td 'buy new
license plates' Witta -' ' i '
Cost of the 5car, a 1936 model,
now has mounted by the addad cost
of coart $215, and by the loss of
time on the day of the trial by Ea
son and Key and by loss of the use
of the cat since last Wednesday when
Patrolman. Lane took up the dealer
plates.- ;-
Lane, 'testifying, said that dealer
plates could be used otherwise, for a
period of 24 hours if the operator
was : actually demonstrating the car.
Office Closes June 3
" The Town .Clerks'' office, it has
been announced, wffll W closed on
June third. , Tdwn." Clerk W. G. New
bv and .Mrs. Newby ' will attend
graduation exercises in Greenville,
where their-, daughter, Miss Prue
Collins Newly, will graduate at East
Carolina Teacher . Colleget y .v,it
Leary And Evans
Nominated; Three
flew Commissioners
Holmes, Defeated, Gets
Good Support From
Home County; High
In Hertford Precinct
Voting here Saturday gave the
District two new State Senators and
the county three new members of the
board ' of commissioners.
Merrill Evans, Hertford County
man, and Herbert Leary, former
irst Judicial District Solicitor, top
ped the voting for senators. J. J
Hughes, incumbent senator, has the
right to ask a second primary.
In Perquimans County voting,
Leary with 721 votes, was the high
man. C. R. Holmes, local candidate,
ran next with 644 votes. Gatling, of
Gates County, was third with 332,
Evans fourth with 295, and Hughes
in the bottom spot with 283.
Hertford Township gave Holmes
heavy support; 368 votes to Leary's
274, but Leary led strongly in Park
ville and Bethel Townships. Evans,
one of the two winners, was the low
man in Hertford Township voting
with 108.
In the county commissioners race,
two newcomers nudged aside a cou
ple of veterans with the results that
Charles (Stalk) White will repre
sent Bethel Township after Roy
Chappell's present term has ended,
and. Linford L. Winslow will replace
J. C. Baker as the commissioner
from Belvidere Township.
Winalow, former deputy sheriff
and world war veteran, edged out
over Baker in a hot contest with a
22-vote margin; Baker gathering 719,
and Winslow 741. White's victory
over Chappell was more decisive, 787
to 671.
Incumbent E. M. Perry, uncontest
ed from New Hope Township, was
accorded the highest vote in the
commissioners' race ... an even one
thousand. First Termer Archie T,
sWfi;:ikriSw
In Parkville Township, where three
men were seeking to represent the
heretofore neglected precinct, E. U.
Morgan was able to squeeze out a4
slim 51-vote advantage over young
Irvin Nixon who polled 550 votes.
Nathan Hurdle, the third candi
date, ran a poor third with 197
votes.
The new board, when the commissioners-elect
take office, will be E.
M. Perry, Charles White, Archie T.
Lane, L. L. Winsllow and E. U.
Morgan.
Beauty Queen To Be
Selected At State
Theatre Monday
Mayor Invites County's
Fairest (Overl6) to
Enter Contest For
Potato Ball Queen
If you're female, anywhere over
sixteen years of age, have a figure
pleasing to the eye and a winning
smile, the State, Theatre stage Mon
day night is the place for you to be.
For it is there at nine o'clock that
a group of disinterested judges (or
as disinterested as they can be under
the circumstances) will select a
beauty queen to represent Perquim'
ans Couqty at the Potato Festival in
Elizabeth City on June 6th.
As an inducement to have Per
quimans" County's fairest don even
ing dresses and parade across the
stage before the critical eyes of the
judge, Mb winner will get a free
ride, oaltbe?; float with half, a dozen
beauties .from other counties: sne
win be fetren a ticket to the Potato
Ball Dance for herself and escort and
a hoted room in which to change her
clothes, ber face, her hair or what
have you.
Any girl of passing fair appear
ance may be entered in the contest
simply by getting in touch with'
Mayor Vivian N. Darden or State
Theatre Manager B. L. Gibba.
A motorcade, with the Elizabeth
City High School band, and. Dr. H.
E.' Nuton of "Festivals, Inc.," and
Mayor Jerome B. Flora of Elizabeth
City, were in Hertford at an early
hour Wednesday morning ballyhoo
ins1 the festival, and it was then that
arrangements were made with Mayor
Darden and Mr. Gibba to work out a
nlan tot selecting the oueen. "
...It Is, Understood that. this is the
only 6art '. Ferouimanir-' County will
have' in the ' ' Potato" Festival. ' No
floftt,ls : entered; . for Perquimans
County-or Hertford, v
31, 1940.
HIGHWAY COMMITTEE TURNS DEAF ON
TO "GIVE WINFALL NEW LEASE ON LIFE"
-4
Scout Leaders Held
Meeting Wednesday
Scout Masters and men interested
in Scouting, of Elizabeth City,
Edenton and Hertford met here at
the Hotel Hertford Wednesday even
ing to hear Lewis R. Lester, Boy
Scout executive of Norfolk, Va., ex
plain the work of executive Scouting
committees.
Purpose of the meeting was to
formulate plans for organization of
an Albemarle Council.
Presiding at the meeting was Hoi
land Webster of Elizabeth City .
Constant Offender
Guilty Of Vagrancy
Gets Road Sentence
Will Dennis Harrell,
Languid Goose Hol
low Negro, Not Guilty
Non-Support
Will Dennis Harrell, consistent
Goose Hollow offender, who tangles
regularly with the Daw on charges
ranging from fighting and gambling
to vagrancy and non-support, has un
til tomorrow (Saturday) to scrape
together approximately $40 and turn
it over to the Clerk of Court, or go
to the .roads for four months.
Harrell, charged with failing to
support a four-year-old child sup
posedly his and Addie Webb Har
rell's, his wife, was found not guilty
on this charge but was found guilty
on a vagrancy count which Judge
Cranberry Tucker ordered written in
on the warrant at Tuesday's session
of county court.
Judge Tucker started to suspend
a dU-aay road sentence on condition
"tthart
Harrell naid the cost of court
and made every effort to'flndwork
and support the child and his wife
when he learned that Harrell already
has a three months suspended sen
tence hanging over him and back
costs amounting to $38.50 charged
against him.
"I didn't know nothing about that
sentence," Harrell said.
"You didn't think you had. served
it, did you?" His Honor asked.
Harrell, light in color and con
stantly in need of a shave, replied
that he just "didn't know nothing
about it."
He asked the court to give him a
few days in which to gather together
funds to pay the costs with. It will
be interesting to know how the de
fendant, a vagrant, will get the $40.
Addie, his wife, told a pitiful story.
So did Will Dennis.
Addie said she and her husband
live in the same house, but that he
never speaks to her and squanders
his money in "skin games", a card
game of wide popularity among the
unemployed Negroes.
"She goes to Norfolk or some
where every time I give her money
to buy something for the child and
comes back drunk," Will Dennis
said. He opened his testimony by
saying he had no child to support.
The baby was a year old, he said,
when he and Addie were married.
"And she gambles more than I
do," he stated,
Harrell, a gangling darky of
doubtful age, appears beset by eter
nal lassitude. It seemed, almost,
that his lanky frame would fall apart
in the short journey between his
chair in the bar and the witness
stand where he testified languidly
to the trials of married life as they
come to him and Addie.
Charges against Will Dennis usu
ally, concern chicken stealing and
trouble with bootleg liquor and Addie
Webb,
New Una Is Added
To Rural Network
Into Perquimans County's tighten
ing network of rural electric power
lines has been woven another strand
. . , an extension approximately two
and a half miles long from Vernon
Lane's Garage just west of Belvi
dere to Louis Winslow's home. .
The Virginia Electric and fower
Company today: is completing install'
ation to serve W. A. Cartwright, J.
P. Cartwright, J. EL Hunter, George
W. Chappell, William C Chappell,
Clarence Chappell, J.. P. Chappell, P.
SL Chappell, ' & G; Chappell, lu P,
$1.25 Per Year.
Highway Group Reaches
Decision After Two
Minutes In Confer
ence CAN APPEAL
Hearing at Courthouse
Wednesday Leaves
Matter Just Where It
Stood After County
Registered Protest
The Board of County Commission
ers will decide at their regular meet
ing Monday whether or not to lodge
another protest with the State High
way Commission in regard to the
projected new location of United
States Highway No. 17.
The hearing in the courthouse
here Wednesday resulted in the fol
lowing statement from T. B. Ward,
of Wilson, chairman of the commit
tee that came to Hertford to con
duct the hearing:
"The committee has been looking
at this thing all d.ay. It has been
over the ground and decided that the
best thing for the most people con
cerned is to construct the road, in
principal, as it is laid out. That will
be our recommendation to the full
State Highway Commission."
It was a noisy hearing, a large
number of people were in attend
ance, but the decision was not pop
ular with those present.
Charles Whedbee, J. S. McNider,
N. N. Trueblood, E. M. Perry, the
Rev. J. D. Cranford, B. B. Dawson,
had their say on the matter, but the
committee was not impressed, though
sympathetic.
Chairman Ward explained to the
gathering after a question concern
ing the expenditure was brought up,
that the money to make the improve
ment on U. S. 17 at Winfall is Fed
eral money and can not be spent for
any other purpose.
Said Mr. Ward, this H an inter
state road from the Virginia line
to the South Carolina line and this
is a standardization program and.
the elimination of the dangerous
curves at Winfall is a very small
part of a State-wide program.
"If such projects as this are not
put through," he said, "it won't be
long before through traffic deserts
the bad curves and takes to the
standard roads."
"Heavy trucks passing by your
school at Winfall are a constant
hazard to the safety of your chil
dren," he continued, "and when
things like this are stopped here,
they will be stopped everywhere."
Mr. Ward explained, however, that
the commissioners have the right to
appeal from the committee's decision.
The county commissioners, four of
whom were present, did not indicate
what their next action would be.
"Changes like this will continue to
be made," the chairman said. "The
public is demanding it. We must be
shown a feasible route that will be
accepted by the Federal government
before we can reeommend a change
in the plan as it is."
"Then what is the purpose of this
hearing?" B. B. Dawson rose to ask.
"Because the law demands it," Mr.
Ward answered. "Whenever a for
mal protest is lodged, a hearing
must be held."
"Then it is just a formality," Mr.
Dawson concluded.
The committee, composed, of Mr.
Ward and two Highway Commis
sioners from other districts, E. V.
(Continued On Page Eight)
Anderson Layden To
Buy 84-Acre Tract With
Farm Security Loan
Anderson . Layden, tenant farm
er of the Beech Springs Section, re
ceiver notice early this week that
his application for a loan to buy a
farm has been approved by the Farm
Security Administration, subject to
satisfactory title.
Houston Edwards, Perquimans V
County supervisor of the PSA with t:
offices in Hertford, has feMtrmrted ,v.
Mr. Layden to exercise the ontion he
holds on the 84-acre farm he pW-V K
poses to buy and to have the seller
prepare the necesaarv naners. A
cheek will be passed in payment for
uie. property, when satisfactory title ,
has been furnished by the present
The loan to buy this farm, made
possible by the Bankhead-Jones ;
Farm Tenant Act, also includes .mon-', ;
ey for improvements, repairing exist
ins; buildings, erecting a 'new house, -barn
and other out-buldings', and
fencing for pasture. - .
V Terms of the loan provide for at-.
.fcu&l repayments , over a period of ;,
Ai . . ... . . ..... ii ... . ; a. & aaiac .;
years at wee par cent xnterwh
A'