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Outstanding headline of this week
ras the announcement tha FBI men
1 rounded up twenty-nine persons
ver'the week-end, all suspected ol
Aug spies. Charges are being
reused asrainst them, and some have
Confessed to the crime of espionage.
I Poland lost one of its outstanding
itlzewi this week when Ignace Jan
Paderawski, world-famous pianist,
lied in- New York City, at the age
,t 80. He had spent much of his
ime recently,, working toward the re
formation of his native land.
I The 'possibility of Germany over
running Russia and having complete
sway of Siberia led the United States
to rush to the defense of Alaska.
Plane i and submarine bases are ra
pidly being constructed and weapons
jare being rushed to the northern out
post of this country.
American Legion
Post Meeting To
Be Next Friday
Perquimans Post 126, of the Amer
ican Legion will hold a regular meet
ing next Friday night at the Hert
ford Community House. New offi
cers will be installed at this meeting
and delegates to the State Convention-
held in Durham will make re
ports. B. C. Berry, adjutant of the locai
post, stated that plans for the Le
gion's participation in the National
Defense Program will also be dis
cussed and plans made for the local
post to aid in these projects.
Committee Named
To Advise And Assist
Purchase Programs
Forgery Charge To
Be Heard July 22
By Judge Tucker
Defendant Guilty of
Transporting Draws
$50 Fine
Around 8 Th
ousand
Dollars In Cotton
Stamps In County
Thirteen Merchants to
Participate In Stamp
Plan
State Selective Service officials es
timated this week that approximately
25,00a youths registered for military
service in North Carolina during the
second registration day, July 1. It
was believed that some 27,000 would
sign up during the day, but the fig
urevfell about 2,000 below that number?-
Richard Dixon, of Edenton, was
appointed Special Superior Court
Judge by Governor Broughton. The
appointment, while it came as no
surprise, was well received througn
out this entire section. The eleva
tion of Mr. Dixon to the bench left a
vacancy in the office of Clerk of
Court of Chowan County. E. W.
Spires was named to this post.
That the National Defense pro
gram costs money was brought home
by the news on Tuesday when a par
tial list of new taxes was published
and the amounts expected on eacn
item. ' It is believed that a seven
Der -cent tax will be placed on auto
mobiles, and a 5 .!use' tax will be
leVfwi 'aaainst all privately owned
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tajses oh bowling allies, billiard tab
lestelehonesy candy, jewelry, trana-
v-yhenogr&pns and records, refrigera
tors, etc.
While Germany is busy with Rus
sia on the Eastern front, British air
men continue to blast the invasion-
ports of France and the industrial
sections of Germany. The R. A. F.
has been bombing these points for
the? vast two weeks, and this week
started day-light raids which would
indicate they have the air supremacy
over this section.
:. English General Wavell, who has
had charge of the English forces in
Africa, was transferred to India this
week An unknown, or little heard
' of areneral, Sir Claude Aucldnleck,
replaced Wavell as commander in the
. Near East..
T While the Russo-German war was
I watrhur for the past two weeks, there
-is little to be learned of definite
.-.' gains or losses on either side. The
Naxis have claimed wide gams in
. territory and overpowering of Rus
sian forces, but at the same time Red
authorities deny a greater part of
the Nasi claims. The Reds have ad
mitted certain losses of territory
but claim they have destroyed more
planes and men than the Germans.
. At the present time it would seem
' that the Nazis have done most of
' -their advancing in old Poland and
the smaller States which Russia an
i nexed last year . . . with little time
to make them defensive. The Rus-
sian forces seem to be holding their
lines in Russia , proper. "
.: Joe DiMaggio, slugging outfielder
for the New York Yankees 'baseball
team, this week tied the all-time big
league bitting record when, he hit
for the; 44th consecutive game. Di
' Maggio broke the modern record of
George 1 $iler who . had hit ' in 41
straight games during the early
twenties ; tfa$ .j : v
'L Governor, W. Lee O'Daniel appar-
ently .won 'otit in the Senatorial race
in Texas, which was held last Satur
day. Twenty-seven candidates ran
for the? office left vacant by the
; dValh of Senator Morris . Sheppard,
aid ttye hill-billy music producer
Governor led his nearest opponent by
a thousand votes.
Eight Perquimans County citizens
have been named on committees to
advise and assist in the operation of
the rehabilitation and tenant pur
chase programs of the United iStates
Department of Agriculture.
Mr. A. H. Edwards, Perquimans
County Supervisor for Farm Secur
ity Administration, announced the
appointments made by Mr. Vance E.
Swift, FSA State Director at Ra
leigh, N. C.
The members appointed by Mr.
Swift are: John T. Lane, Dr. E. S.
White, Carson Spivey, Claude Wil
liams, Freeland M. Copeland, Mrs.
Lucius Blanchard, J. W. Ward and
G. C. Buck.
Mr. Edwards said that John T.
Lane, Dr. E. S. White and Carson
Spivey will serve as members of the
subcommittee on the Tenant Pur
chase program; John T. Lane, Dr. E.
S. White and Claude Williams will
serve on the subcommittee for the
Farm Debt Adjustment and tenure
improvement work; John T. Lane,
Carson ISpivey and Freeland M.
Copeland will serve on the subcom
mittee for the rural rehabilitation
program. ' Mrs. Lucius Blanchard,
J. W. Ward and G. C. Buck are mem
bers at large to advise on the va
rious phases of assistance to low in
come farm families.
The Tenant Purchase program
provides funds for the purchase of
family type farms by qualified ten
ants under the Bankhead-Jones Ten
ant Purchase Act. Perquimans
County already has 16 new farm
owners in this program. FSA re
habilitation loans are available to
low income farm families, ineligible
, for credit elsewhere, for the purchase
of livestock, workstock, seed, fertili
zer and equipment, in accordance
with carefully planned operation of
the farm and home. About 60 farm
families in Perquimans County have
already been helped by this program.
The services of debt adjustment
committeemen are available to all
farmers, as well as to FSA borrow
ers. The committeemen will assist
creditors and farm debtors to reach
amicable adjustment of debts
unless rercy Hurqie, JNegro, can
raise a $200 bond he must remain in
the county jail until the July 22nd
term of Recorder's Court for a hear
ing charging him with forgery anu
fraud.
Hurdle was arrested Sunday night
by Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens, af
ter aft attempt had been made to pass
a forged check at the Hertford Bank
on ISaturday. Attempts to hold the
would-be check passer on Saturday
failed when officers were called to
the bank. He fled bf&re the officei
arrived, but was picked up Sunday
night and identified as the man who
presented the check.
Aaron Riddick and fclsie G. Baum,
both Negroes, were released in Court
Tuesday when the State took a nol
pros in their cases. Both were
charged with forgery ad fraud in
connection with the above case.
Rufus Hardy, Negro, was fined $50
for possession and transporting non
tax paid liquor. McKinley Barnes,
who was with Hardy at the time Pa
trolman Jack Gaskill made the ar
rest was found guilty of aiding and
abetting in the transportation and
he was taxed with the costs of court
and placed on good behavior for one
year.
The case of Herbert Chappell was
continued until Tuesday, July 8th.
William Douglas. Negro, plead
guilty to the charge of reckless driv
ing and operating a motor vehicle
without license. He was taxed the
costs of court and ordered to pay
damages done to a car he ran into.
Willie Lee bhannon, Jilegro, was
taxed with costs of court when
found guilty of simple assault.
Ella Mae Jones and Jessie Phillips
were found guilty of simple assault
and ordered to pay costs of court.
Ben C. Riddick and Milton Perry,
Negroes, were found guilty of as
sault with a deadly weapon and sen
tence was invoked on previous hear
ings given the men.
A preliminary estimate based on
the 338 cotton farmers of Perquimans
County who have thus far filed notice
of intention of participating in the
Supplementary Cotton Program indi
cates that local merchants may ex
pect around $8,000 worth of new cot
ton business during 1941.
This information was released on
Tuesday in a statement made by L.
W. Anderson, County Agent, follow
ing a recent check on the indicated
farmer narticipants to date.
Thirteen merchants of Perquimans
have also signified their intention of
participating, and accepting the
stamps for cotton goods.
Mr. Anderson stated that tne
stamps will be released here in a-
bout two weeks, or as soon as they
arrive.
"Naturally," added Mr. Anderson,
alert, merchandising-minded retail
ers who aggressively push cotton
products not only to their stamp cus
tomers but to the general public as
well, will stand to benefit most from
the program."
Mr. Anderson pointed out that the
merchants who vise ingenuity in the
sales promotion of their cotton mer
chandise will not only perform an
important service to their customers
and the nation in helping to solve an
important national problem, but wil
gain profitable business as well.
"This program," he said, "offers
merchants an unusual opportunity to
cooperate with the Government's el
fort xo increase the domestic con
sumption of American cotton by mak
ing everybody conscious of the value
and importance of cotton merchan
dise, as the chosen fabric of both the
society matron and the budgetbalan
cing housewife." .
Committee Expected
To Meet Shortly
After Holidays
In order to work out plans for the
promotion of sales of Defense Bonds
and Savings Stamps, the Perquim
ans Committee in charge of this pro
gram will meet shortly after the
Fourth of July holidays, according to
R. M. Riddick, chairman of the Per
quimans Committee.
The committee will make out a
program for conducting sales of the
bonds and stamps and, also, add to
the publicity program now being con
ducted. The sales of the bonds and stamps
in the county to date have reached a
nice total, but large sums are needed
to carry out the defense program
and every person should take part
in the purchase of the stamps and
bonds to individually aid in the work.
Fifty Youths Signed
For Military Service
By Local Draft Board
Second Registration
Completed Here on
Tuesday By Local Officials
' As a result of proposal made by
Uruguay, the-nations" of this. hem
speher inay become united in even ,
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stronger oonq ox ewperauve ueituive
than heretofore. - ' Uruguay proposes
that, the ZV American Republics
bind themselves not to 'treat as , a
tvelligerent any, Jimerican country
which, Jn defense of its own rights,
should find itself in a state of war
with nations of Other continents, i
an
based on the ability to pay. This
service has been used by 15 tanners
in Perquimans County.
Mr. Edwards said better tenure ar
rangements is one of the most press
ing needs in the rehabilitation of low
income farm families. Farm Secur
ity Administration provides lease
forms for long term leases to en
couraare conservation and better liv
inir on farms. This service is also
available to all farmers in the coun
ty. as well as to FSA borrowers.
Farm Security Administration is
the agency of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture which assists the low
income farm families to take lull aa
vantage of the other services' of the
national agricultural program, such
as soil improvement, diversified farm
ing, and increased production for
home use, Mr. Edwards said. It en
ables the disadvantaged farmers to
make use of the improved farming
practices developed by the Extension
Service and State Agricultural lax-
periment Station.
To Interview Youths
Seeking Employment
Mrs.. J. G. Fearing, Youth Person-
nel Interviewer for this district, will
be at the Hertford Courthouse Mon
day, July tot the purpose of inter
viewing youths between the ages or
18 and 25, who seek employment
Mrs.: Fearing announces that open
ings are available and those who
wish to be placed in positions should
call : at the Courthouse Monday, to
see her. .
Hertford Notary
Club Met Tuesday
The Hertford Rotary Club held, its
regular meeting ' Tuesday'' night at
$he HoteL Hertford. , J,, W. Ward,
newly installed president of the club,
presided. .The Club presented R. S.
Monds, outgoing president ' with a
beautiful gift, -
County Outlay For
Public Assistance
514,637 For Year
Public assistance payments for
Perquimans county's aged, needy and
dependent children totaled $14,637
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
according to Nathan H. Yelton, di
rector of the public assistance divi
sion of the State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare.
Yelton said $10,167 was spent dur
ing the year for old age assistance
in the county with 113 persons re
ceiving grants from this fund during
the month of June.
Dependent children received $4,470
during the year, with 74 being given
checks during the month of June,
Grants in both categories were paid
from combined federal, state and lo
cal funds of which the county paid
one-fourth the cost of grants and ad
ministration, with the state making
up another fourth and the national
government providing cme-half the
total outlay.
Yelton said the total expenditures
for the state during the fiscal year
was $6,416,528.
The public assistance director, who
has managed the program for four
years and two months leaves the
State Welfare Department this week
to take over as secretary of the State
School Commission.
Mrs. W. T. Boat, State Welfare
commissioner, announcea the ap
pointment of R. Eugene Brown, as
sistant to the commissioner since
1930, as acting director of the public
assistance division effective July 1.
Brown will serve as division head un
til a director is chosen from the merit
system register to be set up follow
ing merit examinations this fall. It
Will be the first, prominent post in
the state government to be filled
from a merit register.
County To Furnish
Twenty Men During
Month Of July
Perquimans County
Charged With Two
Fatal Accidents
Perquimans Coonty reported two
traffic fatalities during the first five
months of this year, according to a
five-months summary released this'
week by the Highway Safety Divi
sion. This number represented an in
crease in comparison with the num
ber killed in Perquimans during rtie
same period last year, when no per
sons were killed.
Traffic fatalities for the state as a
whole totaled 448 persons for the
five-months period, this grim toll
running nearly 49 per cent ahead of
the 301 persons killed in North Caro
lina the first five months of last
year.
Eleven counties had 10 or more fa
talities, these being Alamance, Bun
combe, Columbus, Cumberland, Dur
ham, Guilford, Halifax, Henderson,
Mecklenburg, Rockingham and Wake.
No fatalities were recorded in the
following 14 counties: Alexander,
Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Camden,
Cherokee, Clay, Dare, Haywood,
Hyde, Jones, Polk, Scotland and
Yancey.
Substantial increases were noted
in the area of defense activities, Ons
low County showing 9 fatalities the
first five months of this year against
none for the same period last year,
Cumberland showing 12 against 9,
Columbus showing 13 against one,
With the second registration day
over and the work of signing youths
for ISelective Service finished, the
local draft board will turn to the
selection of twenty men to fill Per
quimans' quota for the month of
July.
The County will furnish twenty
men during the month. Ten Negroes
will entrain for Fort Jackson, S. O.
on July 16th, while ten white men
will be inducted into service at Fort
Bragg on July 23rd.
Due to the new ruling on defer
ment of men over 28 and to pending
appeals, the local board has not yet
selected the men to fill the quota.
However, a tentative list was releas
ed by Mrs. T. B. Sumner, clerk of
the local board, on Wednesday. The
list of Ne'groes who will be selected
includes Aaron Riddick, Elmer Sut
ton, Wilson Lee, William Bowser,
Herman Small, Malickiah White, Ra
leigh Hurdle. James Collins, Fred
Steward and Carlton Felton.
The white men who will fill the
quota for July 23 include Hersey
Grezorv. Joseph Stallings, Walter
King, William White, Ray White,
William Bundy, Clyde Harris, Julian
Hobbs, Murray Pierce and Glennie
Russell.
The July quota is the largest yet
received by the local board, according
to J. R. Stokes, chairman of the
board, and when it is filled Perquim
ans will have furnished some 65 men
for military service under the Selec
tive Service Act
EXTENSION NOTES
By FRANCES MANESS
Pome Demonstration Agent
SCHEDULE FOR JULY 7-12
Tuesday, July 8 Chapanoke Home
Demonstration Club meets with Mrs,
C. P.;Quincy.
.'' Wednesday, July 9 Winfall Home
Demonstration Club meets with Mrs
Claude White.
Friday, July 11 Home and Garden
Home . Demonstration Club meets
with .Mrs. Mark Hathaway.
Officer Arrests
Two Men Wednesday
Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens ar
rested Will Mansfield on Wednesday
on a charge of stealing an axle, hous
ing shaft and other parts of a truck
belonging to J. V. Roache. Mans
field was released on a $100 bond,
pending . a hearing in Recorder's
Court on July 8.
Mr. Owens also arrested Willie
Parker, Negro, on Wednesday. Park
er is charged with forgery m con
nection with the Percy Hurdle, for
gery case which will be heard in Re
corder's Court on July 22.
The President on Monday ordered
900,000 new conscripts for the. army
for the new year starting July l.
These men will replace selectees in
ducted into service during the past
I year.
and New Hanover showing 7 against
four.
Fifty-five of the 100 counties in the
state registered increases, 25 showed
decreases, and 20 held on a par with
last year.
"There has been a constant upward
trend in traffic deaths in this state
since last August, with the result
that we are now running nearly 50
per cent above last year in the num
ber of persons killed in street and
highway accidents," stated Ronald
Hocutt, director of the Highway
Safety Division.
"This trend can be stopped, and
careless motorists and pedestrians
must make up their minds that it
shall be stopped. This carnage is
unnecessary. And it is preventable.
Let's stop it."
Hertford Bank To
Close All Day
Saturday, July 5
R. M. Riddick, cashier of the Hert
ford Banking Company, announced
Wednesday that the local bank will
be closed Friday and .Saturday, July
"4 and 5, in observance of the Na
tional holiday.
Governor Broughton declared both
days as official holidays and all
banks and iState offices will close for
the week-end.
The local bank will re-open Mon
day morning.
To Resume Mattress
Project Next Week
County Agent L. W. Anderson an
nounced this week that the mattress-
making project which has been sus
pended for the past several weesa,
due to the inability to obtain ma
terials, will be resumed here next
Monday.
Mr. Anderson stated that 48 bales
of cotton and 4,800 yards of ticking
have been received this week for the
project. The project of making the
mattresses is handled by the NYA
To date a total of 1,160 mattresses
have been made and distributed to
750 low-income families in this
county. r
SUNBEAMS TO MEET
A total of fifty young men, all
but one of whom had reached the ajje
of twenty-one since last October 16,
registered for military service nere
Tuesday with the Perquimans County
draft board.
One man registered late.
He should have been registereo
last October, but was in prison and
somehow overlooked; however, 'he ap
peared before the local board Tues
day to place his name on the selec
tive lists.
Approximately 750,000 young men
all over the United States appeared
before some 6,500 draft boards to
swell the total of men registered for
military service. It is expected that
most of the young men who regis
tered Tuesday will be inducted into
service very swiftly, since few will
have dependents or physical disa
bilities. At the same time officials were
registering the youths on Tuesday,
Brigadier General Lewis B. Hersey,
deputy Selective Service Director, is
sued instructions to draft offices to
defer all men who had reached their
twenty-eighth birthday. Official ac
tion by Congress is expected on a
measure that will make this defer
ment a law.
These are the young men who reg
istered at the Perquimans draft of
fice on Tuesday: Richard Goodwin,
James Stokely, Carroll Chappell,
Lloyd Lane, Willie Morris, James
Benson, Clifton Howard, Wallace
Chappell, James Mansfield, Wil
liam Copeland, Jesse Harrell, Qufn
ton Stallings, STielton Long, Melvin
Rogerson, James Divers, James
Boyce, William Carlton Perry, Mc
Mullan White, William Russell, Ben
jamin Owens, Walter Trueblood,
Peter Billups, Elwood Perry, Howard
Long, Joseph White, Braxton God
frey, Horace Stallings, Charlie Over
ton, Booker T. Coston, William Lane,
Guthrie Jolliff.
Thomas Nixon, Johnnie Lane, Rollo
White, Charlie Chappell, Garfield
Perry, Thomas Johnson, McKinley
Jones, James Mallory, Lloyd Overton,
Bennie White, Ivory Skinner, Jaushal
Lilly, Sim Jones, Robert Barcliff,
Willis Elliott, George Davis, John
Lightfoot, William Ward and Vernon
Brickhouse.
Brickhouse, a Negro, was a volun
teer. He had not yet reached his
twenty-first birthday, but with
parents' consent, he registered
service.
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Vocational Farming
Body Picks Officers
K. A. Williams, vocational agri
culture teacher at the Perquimans
County Training School at Winfall,
will head Negro vocational agricul
ture teachers for the new fiscal year
as a result of elections held at the
annual State conference of vocation
al teachers. held at Dudley, high
school.
Other officers elected include: 3.
A. Spaulding of Clarkton high
school, vice president; Garland Bass,
of Madison high school, secretary; R.
B. Dean, of Roberson County Train
ing School, Maxton, assistant secre
tary; J. L. Bolden, of Warren County
Training School, Wise, treasurer;
Alexander Blaine, of Edenton hfgn
school, parliamentarian; E. C. ISetzer,
of Harnett County Training School,
Dunn, sergeant at arms; A. M. Mc
Coy, of Washington high school,
Reidsville, chaplain, and M. R. Zach
ary, of Waters Training School, at
Winton, reporter.
Other activities in yesterday pro
gram included a report on tne iana
use program in Gaston County by
W. E. Draughan; a discussion of
teaching methods and professional
improvement led by Prof. C. E. Dean
of A. and T. College, and the re
ports of the various committees.
The conference adjourned at noon
Saturday.
The Sunbeams of the - Hertford
Baptist Church will meet iSunday
afternoon. July 6. at 2 o'clock. All
members are urged to be present.
Hertford lions Club
To Meet July 11th
The Hertford Lions Club will hold
its regular meeting at the Hotel
Hertford Friday night, July 11.. The
meeting was scheduled for tonigk?,
but due to the holiday, it was post
poned until next week.
Reports of the (State convention
held recently in Asheville will be
made at the meeting next week, and
the cups won during the past year
will be turned over to the Club ty
Archie T. Lane, who accepted them
at the convention. . '
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