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THIS WEEK'S
Two of the largest battleships en
gaged in the present war were sunk
this week when the German ship
Bismarck, a 35000-ton ship launched
in 1939, sunk the English battle
cruiser, Hood, a 42100-ton ship which
was the pride of the British fleet.
The Hood was sunk on Sunday in the
North Atlantic between Iceland and
Greenland, when the Bismarck fired
salvos into the powder magazine
causing it to blow up. , The entire
Hood, personnel of some 1,300 men
perished. Immediately the British
fleet began a pursuit of the Bismarck
and finally caught up with it Tuesday
morning, sending it to the bottom
of the. ocean.
Arrangements for the release of
the Americans, taken prisoners when
the Germans sank the Egyptian ship,
Zamzam, are being carried on and it
is believed that the men, Women and
children will be released sometime
this week. As yet, no definite in
formation has been received regard
ing Ned Laughinghouse of Wilson,
N. C, who was seriously wounded
when the Zamzam was attacked.
Outstanding this week was the
proclamation of President Roosevelt
calling for the registration of men
on July 1, for military service. This
registration' effects only men who
have reached their twenty-first birth
day since last October 16. It is ex
pected that close to one million
young men will sign up during this
registration.
President Roosevelt on Tuesday
signed a bill providing for govern
ment loans of 75 percent of parity on
the five basic farm commodities. The
bill is designed to raise farmers'
cash incometo the point where they
will have the same purchasing power,
in relation to that of industrial work
ers, that they enjoyed during the
f 1909-1914 base period. It applies to
wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco.
Sniru (C (Tlt To- X7.1n , L.. -M
the 3Dth revision Fort" Jackson,
soutn Carolina, including some Per
quimans County boys, this week be
gan moving toward Camp Forrest,
Tenn., where they will take part in
the "Battle of Tennessee," the larg
est military manouver in this country
this year.
President Roosevelt on Tuesday
asked Congress for an additional
three billions of dollars to be spent
on the manufacture of airplanes.
mis latest request will boost to some
seven billions of dollars appropriated
since last July for warplanes alone.
i Information coming from London
indicates that the "Battle of Crete"
still hangs in the balance. Headlines
tell the story that the Nazis continue
to send parachutists into the fray, al
though it is stated that their losses
thus far amont to some 18.000 dead
The British officials report the loss
of two cruisers and four destroyers
in the battle. However, British Nav
al officials say that the Royal Navy
nas done its job in preventing the
re-enforcements of Hitler to reach
' the island.
Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
of New York, a frequent critic of
President Roosevelt and his policies,
was this week ordered to renort to
Fort Bragg, and into active duty as a
uionel in the U. S. Army.
Britain continues the "mopping-up"
process in Ethiopia. Four Italian
divisions were announced wiped out
and two Italian generals reported
captured in the Soddu area.
N"ewa releases this week from
Turkey point out that the revolt in
Iraq is now collapsing, Due it was
said, to the inability rat the Nazis to
supply the Iraq revolteri with sup
' plies, planes, tanks, etc: The pro
- Natl premier -was reported to have
. been seeking ways of getting out' of
.. the country into German' controlled
' territory. Reports continue that Ger
tnany is sending men and supplies
xnrougn jrtenca Syria.
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: anmana and trance were ' nearer
to the breaking point on Wednesday
after British, planes bombed the
town of Sfax, in French Tunisia.
England has warned France to ex
pect such happenings as long as the
Germans use any part of occupied, or
unoccupied France as a means of
carrying tne war to juogland, and
France continues close collaboration
.with the Nazis, . ; . - - '
President Roosevelt " on Wednesday
stated that he saw no reason for arty
changes in the Neutrality Act, since
it did not infringe upon the nation's
newly .re-asserted policy of insisting
on freedom of -the seas, ' The Presi
dent stated that he believed that the
Patrol system .will, protect war aid
instead of
Perquimans Band To
Have Part In Potato
Festival June 11th
F. T. Johnson, superintendent
schools, announced Tuesday that
of
the
rerquimans Band win take part m
Perquimans Band will take part in
the Potato Festival to be held in Eli
zabeth City on June 11. The band
will hold a practice session at the
High School at 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning, June 3.
Mr. McCallum will have charge of
the practice and Mr. Johnson stated
that it is absolutely necessary for all
band members to be present at this
practice if they wish to participate
in the trip to the Festival the fol
lowing week.
Announce Important
Mass Meeting For
Retailers And Clerks
All retailers and their clerks, and
wholesalers of American grown and
manufactured cotton merchandise are
urgently requested to attend an im
portant mass meeting to be held in
the auditorium of the Agricultural
Building at 8 o'clock Tuesday even
ing, June 3rd.
In announcing the meeting, L. W.
Anderson, County Agent, stated that
as far as possible not only merchants
but their clerks should attend this
important discussion of how mer
chants may participate in the bene
fits of the Supplementary Cotton
Stamp Program, soon to be launched
in this area.
He said that in order to be eligible
to accept Cotton Stamps for redemp
tion from the Government, merchants
must first complete a "Retailer's
Statement" form which will be avail
able and fully explained at the' meet
ing.
Mr. Anderson added that $25,000,
uuw worth ot uotton is tamps are
available for distribution to cotton
farmers during 1941, and any mer
chants unprepared to accept these
stamps in trade in the prescribed
manner would be at a distinct disad
vantage. "The simplest way for
merchants to fully understand the
Program," said Mr. Anderson, "is to
attend this meeting. They will learn
how they may get their share of this
additional business; what goods may
be exchanged for stamps; the rules
and regulations they must comply
with in making cotton stamp sales;
and how to redeem the stamps for
cash."
"By aggressive merchandising
methods pushing the sale of cotton
goods not only to those using stamps
but to every family in the com
munity retail merchants will make
a substantial contribution toward
solving the problem of price-depressing
cotton surpluses and under-con-sumption
of cotton goods by a large
part of our people."
Funeral Services
Held Saturday For
A. Ulysses Window
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 2 o'clock for Allen
Ulysses Winslow, 59, of Whiteston,
who died in the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, last Thursday of in
juries suffered while stretching a
barbed wire fence on his farm,
Mrs. Elizabeth White, assisted by
Mrs. Bertha S. . White and John C.
Privette, officiated.
Pallbearers were: Bernard Wins
low, Arnold Winslow, Alton Winslow,
Robert Winslow, Otis J. White and
Gideon Saunders.
Mr. Winslow was believed to have
been struck on the head by a piece
of metal from the wire stretcher
when a post in the new fencing broke.
He was a native and life-long resi
dent of Perquimans County.
Survivors are hie widow, Mrs.
Mary Verna Winslow; five sons,
Matthew Winslow of Norfolk, Va,
Leverette Winslow of Norfolk, Va.,
Crafton Winslow of Belvidere, Em
mett Winslow of Maryland, Alvah
Winslow of Petersburg, Va.j, four
daughters, Mrs. L. R. S tailings and
Miss Clemma Winslow of Belvidere,
Mrs. Herman Wiggins of Sunbury,
Mrs. Vann Stfivey of Hickory, Va.;
four sisters, Mrs. Gideon Ganders
and Mrs. J. H. Winslow of Belvidere,
Mrs. Josiah Winslow of Hertford and
Mrs. Paul White . of Elizabeth tmy,
and three brothers, ' Elisha S. Wins
low, Elmer' R. Winslow and , Charlie
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Services "were ' held, at the i home
and, interment was made in Friends
Cemetery at Whiteston.
The Hertford lions Club' will hold
its regular meeting on June 6, at the
Hotel Hertford. . All , members i are
requested to be present as there will
be important business discussions..
New Registration
Set For July 1st
By President
411 Youths Who Have
Reached 21 Must Reg
ister For Military
Service
President Roosevelt, on Monday,
ordered that all youths who have
reached their twenty-first birthday
since last October 16. or who have
not previously registered for mili
tary service under the Selective Ser
vice Act must do so on July 1.
According to information given out
at the time, local draft boards will
handle the registration of the young
men. Here in Perquimans County it
is thought that a number somewhere
between twenty and thirty young
men will be registered. The new
men siened up in each area, are ex
pected to be put at the bottom of
their local draft lists in an order of
priority among themselves to be de
termined by a new national lottery.
It was stated that the July 1 date
was chosen in order that men regis
tering then would have time to find
out before fall whether or not they
might expect to be called for duty.
This would permit them to plan a-
head for their fall and winter work
or educational schedules.
It is expected that something like
1,000,000 young men will be regis
tered throughout the country in the
July registration. The manner of
determining a youth's order number
will be something like this:
Each man will get a registration
number when he signs up. Each ot
the 6,500 local draft boards thus
will have a No. 1, No. 2, etc. One
set of corresponding numbers then
will be drawn in the national lottery,
If "50" was the first number drawn,
that would be "Order No. 1" and
men holding the number fifty would
be the first of the new registrants
called to serve if there was no rea
son to defer their training.
The expectation is that thousands
of the men registered July 1 will be
called ' for pervice within a few
months even though they are put at
the end of their local draft lists.
Officials believe that local draft
boards will be inclined to go quickly
through their older registrants in
order to reach men who have neither
dependents nor essential employ
ment and are at an age which the
Army wants.
Organize Committee
For Cotton Stamp
Plan Program Here
Formation of a Cotton Stamp Com
mittee for Perquimans County to co
operate with the U. S. Department
of Agriculture in the operation of the
Supplementary Cotton Stamp Plan
in this area in the very near future,
was announced Wednesday by L. W.
Anderson, County Agent.
The Committee was formed Tues
day afternoon at a meeting held at
the Agricultural Building. V. N.
Darden was appointed chairman of
the committee. Other members, re
presentative of the Cotton. Trades In
dustry of Perquimans County, includ
ed L. C. Winslow, Simon Rutenburg
and M. J. Gregory. Mr. Winslow re
presents the J. C. Blanchard Com
pany.
Mr. Anderson stated that the main
purpose of organizing the committee
is to assist the government in
helping to acquaint all retailers and
wholesalers of cotton goods in the
county with the manner in which
they can cooperate and pasticipate
in the benefits of the program.
At the meeting Mr. Anderson
pointed out that merchants can not
accept Cotton Stamps for redemption
by the Government until they have
completed a "Retailers' Statement"
form entitling them to participate.
These forms may be obtained from
the County Agent's office.
"I feel sure," said Mr. Anderson,
"that every retailer of American
grown and manufactured cotton pro
ducts in Perquimans County will
want- to cooperate wholeheartedly
with the Government's effort to aid
our cotton farmers and the cotton
industry as' a whole. It's certainly
to their advantage to do so, and any
who do not will be placed at a dis
advantage." CHILDREN'S DAT
PROGRAM SUNDAY
' There will be a Children's Day pro
gram Sunday evening, June 1, at 8
o'clock at the Epworfh Methodist
Church in Winfall. The "Dublic is
cordially invited to attend,
Hit And Run Case
Consumes Much
Time In Court
Few Cases Heard In
Court on Tuesday;
Appeal Taken by Fred
Smith
What appeared to be a short ses
sion of Recorder's Court on Tuesday
turned out to be a long session
when much time was consumed in
the case of Fred Smith, charged with
reckless driving and hit and run.
Robert Holland, of Norfolk, Va.,
prosecuting witness in the case was
a bit late appearing in court and ar
gument was carried over into the af
ternoon. Judge Cranberry Tucker
found Smith guilty of hit and run
and not guilty of reckless driving.
Smith was sentenced to 30 days, to
be suspended upon payment of a fine
of $25 and costs of which $15 of the
fine was to be paid Holland for dam
ages done the Holland car in an acci
dent near Belvidere Sunday. Smith
appealed the verdict to Superior
Court.
James Sawyer and Willis Cain, two
white men, charged with assault fail
ed to appear in court Tuesday and
Judge Tucker ordered their bonds
forfeited. Cain was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon and
transporting. The men were arrest
ed last Friday by State Patrolmen
at Winfall.
Jack Leigh, Negro, submitted to
the Court on a charge of assault on
a female and was taxed with the
costs of court.
Granby White, Negro, entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of as
sault on a female, Mildred Johnson,
Negress, and was sentenced to 30
days on the roads, sentence to be
suspended on payment of costs and
good behavior for one year. How
ever, White will have to serve anoth
er 30 days on the roads for violation
of a suspended sentence given him
in December of 1940.
Fleet Cooper and his wife, Roberta
Cooper, Negroes, were given a sen
taiutewf.w da vs. CooDer was char?
ed with being drunk and msordSfly
and assaulting his wife. Roberta
was charged with being drunk and
disorderly and assault with a deadly
weapon. The sentences were to be
suspended upon payment of costs and
good behavior for one year.
The case of Henderson Peele, a
probable cause hearing on the charge
of manslaughter, was continued to
June 3rd.
50 Questionnaires
Mailed This Week
By Draft Board
The Perquimans County Draft
Board is rapidly nearing the end of
the job of sending questionnaires to
the men registered under the Selec
tive Service Act. Fifty more ques
tionnaires were mailed out by the
board this week, bringing to a total
of 781 of the forms that have been
mailed.
Classification of the men is pro
ceeding as fast as the forms are re
turned to the local draft offices.
The county board has a total of
1,126 men registered, so one can
readily see that over half of the men
have already received their ques
tionnaires and have been classified.
J. R. Stokes, chairman of the local
board, stated that Perquimans Coun
ty was not called upon for any men,
either white or colored, in call num
ber 13, which was received last week.
Five white men will leave Hertford
on June 3 to fill the quota for the
number 12 call. These men will in
clude Wallace Winslow, Alfonso
Williams, James Pierce, Octavius
Long, Jr., and Haywood Bradfort
Umphlett. ;
It is not known at the present time
whether there will be another call
for men during the month of June or
not. However, when the five men
leave on June third, Perquimans will
have furnished a total of 44 men to
the armed forces since the Selective
Service Act went into effect last fall.
The County's quota up to June 30
was set at 50 men.
Silas Green Minstrel
In Hertford June 7
Silas Green's minstrels, now in its
53rd annual tour, will appear in
Hertford next Saturday, June 7,
showing under a huge tent at the
Toim lot. Advance representatives of
the show say that it is altogether
new and has never been so good as it
is now. ?
The minstrel, which always draws
a capacity , of both white and colored
patrons, will show only one night.
Perquimans Queen
For Potato Festival
Selection Next Week
The selection of a young lady from
Perquimans County to represent this
county in the Potato Festival to be
held in Elizabeth City will take place
at the State Theatre next Friday
night.
Applications of entries for the se
lection are being received by Little
ton Gibbs, manager of the theatre,
who with Mayor V. N. Darden, is
acting as a committee for the selec
tion of a Perquimans representative.
Judges in the selection will be out-of-town
people who will have no in
terest in the choice.
All young ladies wishing to enter
the contest are asked to see Mr.
Gibbs before next Friday evening.
R. D. Elliott Jr. Weds
Katherine Lawrence
At Enfield May 24
The wedding of Miss Katherine
I'ittman Lawrence to Richard Dillard
Elliott, Jr., took place in the Enfield
Methodist Church on Saturday even
ing, May 24, at 7:30. Vows were
spoken before the Rev. R. D. Critcher.
The church was decorated with
white gladioli, lilies, carnations and
peonies against a background of
white sprinkled with green fern,
while the altar was illuminated by
the light of white tapers set in can
delabra. Pre-nuptial music rendered by Miss
Virginia Branch at the organ, includ
ed Bridal Song by DuBois; To a Wild
R-ose, by MacDowell, and Evening
Star, by Wagner. Immediately pre
ceding the ceremony Drink to Me
Only with Thine Eyes was sung by
the vested choir, with E. L. Smith as
soloist, followed by a solo, All For
You, sung by Mrs. Alice Miller, of
Roanoke Rapids. During the cere
mony Miss Branch softly played
Liebestraum by Liszt. Conventional
wedding marches were used.
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her brother, John A. Law
rence, wore a dress of white marqui
sette ancTlace. Her fingertip veil of
illusion fell from a coronet, fashion
ed Dutch style, and caught with a
band of orange blossoms. She car
ried a bouquet of white bride's roses
and Centaurea fringed in fern, with
lily of the valley streamers.
Mrs. W. T. Martin, of Williamston,
dame of honor, wore a blue marqui
sette full-length dress with blue
heart-shaped bonnet, caught with
velvet ribbon to match and blue rib
bon mittens of net. 'She carried a
shower bouquet to match, tied with
yellow ribbon. Miss Mildred An
drews, maid of honor, was dressed in
pink, with appointments matching
those of the dame of honor. She
carried a shower bouquet of pink, tied
with blue ribbon.
The bridesmaids, Mrs. S. F. Pol
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Jane Griffin And
Robert Evans Named
4-H Queen And King
Jayne Griffin and Robert Evans
have been crowned senior 4-H Club
health queen and king of Perquimans
County, P. H. Jameson, four-county
assistant farm agent, announced on
Tuesday.
Peggy Fulton of the Hertford
Grammar School, and Tommie Wil
ley of the Central Grammar School
in Winfall, won junior health honors
in the annual 4-H Club event
Josephine Hunter and Otis Mans
field placed second in the senior
event.
First place winners in both junior
and senior divisions will be formally,
coronated as kings and queens of
health at an outdoor public exercise
to be held at the Courthouse in June.
June 14th has been set as the
date for the Perquimans County
Health Day program. The Health
Queen and King will be crowned dur
ing this program which will take
place at 3:30 o'clock in the after
noon. New Books Arrive
At Library Here
Miss Mae Wood Winslow, member
of the Perquimans County Library
Board, announced this week that the
following new books had been receiv
ed at the library:
"In This Our Life," by Ellen Glas
gow; "Oliver Wiawell," by Kenneth
Roberts; "Hang My Wreath,", by
Ward Weaver; "As I Remember
Him", by Hans Zinser; "New Stars
Burn," by Faith Baldwin; "Letty
and The Law," by Faith Baldwin;
"Still Waters," by Ruby Ayers, and
"The White Cliffs," by Alice Duer
Miller.
The local library is now open
every day except Sunday, the hours
being from' 10 to 12 In the morning
and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon.
President Says
Emergency Exists
In His Radio Talk
Says America Will Re
sist Any Effort to
Control Seas; Wide
Powers Effective
President Roosevelt, in his fire
side chat of Tuesday night, an
nounced to the nation that he had
proclaimed a 'state of national emer
gency" and. that the L'niied States
had always fought for freedom of
the seas and would resist all at
tempts of Hitler to control the seas.
Bluntly, he accussed the Axis pow
ers of an intent to conquer the world
and "strangle the United States of
America"; asserted that the war was
"coming very close to home" and
warned that "we will not hesitate to
use our armed forces to repel at
tack." President Roosevelt referred to the
labor problem in his speech as well.
He stated that this was no time for
capital to make, or be allowed, to re
tain, excess profits. He said that the
overwhelming majority of the people
expected the government to see that
the tools of defense were built.
Under the powers of unlimited na
tional emergency the President may
close or commandeer radio stations,
demand preference for troops and
war materials on any transportation
system, suspend trading on securi
ties exchanges, and take over power
houses, dams and conduits needed
in munitions manufacture.
Any step he may choose to take,
aside from actual declaration of war,
must be done by individual proclama
tion. Only Congress can declare
war.
The President may also do these
things, under his national emer
gency proclamation: Forbid Federal
Reserve Banks: to do business except
under Treasury regulations.
Investigate, regulate or prohibit
transactions in foreign exchange.
Place the Coast Guard und.er the
Navy; refuse clearance to vessels of
a belligerent country which discrimi
nates against Amervan vessels or
citizens.
Empower the Federal Power Com
mission to require temporary connec
tions or the transmission of electric
energy; Suspend the law prohibiting
more than eight hours work in a
day by persons engaged on govern
ment contract.
In his proclamation, the President
stated that the objectives of the
Axis belligerents "include overthrow
throughout the world of existing
democratic order, and a world-wide
domination of peoples and economies
through the destruction of all re
sistance on land, sea and in the air."
"Indifference on the part of the
United States to the ever-increasing
menace would be perilous; and com
mon prudence requires that for the
security of this nation and of this
hemisphere, we should pass from
peace time authorization of military
strength to such a basis as will en
able us to cope instantly and de
cisively with any attempt at hostile
encirclement of this hemisphere."
Rotary-Anne Night
Observed Tuesday
By Local Rotarians
The Hertford Rotary Club held its
annual Ladies Night dinner on Tues
day evening at the Episcopal Parish
House.
The meeting was marked by a 100
per cent attendance. After a chick
en dinner, served by the ladies of
St. Catherine's Guild, entertainment
was provided by members of the club
and their Rotary-annes, and includ
ed ungs by the entire group, a nail
driving contest, a brief quiz program
and a solo by R. S. Monds, president
of the club.
Edmund Harding, of Washington,
N. C, who was previously announced
as the head-liner of the evening's
program, was unable to attend.
County Agent Reports
Crops Not Yet Hurt
By Long Dry Spell
County Agent JL W. Anderson
stated Tuesday that although rain
is badly needed to aid crop growth,
the continued "dry spell" which this
section has had for the past several
weeks has not yet affected the crops
in Perquimans County.
Mr. Anderson said that cotton and
peanuts that as yet have not come
up may be affected somewhat, but
he believed an early rain would erase
any damage to crops.1 V !
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