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PAGE TWO THE FAVORITE POEM OF RICHARD J. QUIDLEY Richard J. Quidley, Jr., a resi dent of Belhtven for many years, was born April 16, 1878 in Beau fort County. He has brought us his favorite poem. Mr. Quidley’s father, Richard J. Quidley, Sr., was born April 5, 1840 at Hatter as, N. C., and died on January 10, 1916. Amanda Wright Quidley, the mother of Mr. Quidley was born October 7, 1843 in Beaufort County and died November 15, 1923. Mr. Quidley was married in Belhaven November 9, 1902 to Janie Sermons Quidley of Hyde County. Born to this union were seven children, two of which died. He has eleven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. TOM GRAY’S DREAM Tom Gray lay down on the bar room floor, Having drunk so much he could drink no more; So he fell asleep with a troubled brain, To dream that he rode on a hell bound train. The engine with blood was red and damp, And brilliantly lit by a brimstone lamp; An imp, for fuel, was shoveling bones, While the furnace rang with a thousand groans. The boiler was filled with lager beer; And the devil himself was the en gineer. The passengers made such a mot ley crew; Church member, atheist, Gentile and Jew, Rich men in broadcloth and beg gars in rags, Handsome young ladies and with ered old hags, Yellow and black men, red, brown I' KM® Why your promptness is always appreciated Your prompt payment of tele phone bills helps keep down out collection costs. It also helps us pay the 15% to 25% Federal Tax and long distance connect ing charges promptly out of re ceipts instead of reserves. We appreciate your fine coop eration, for it helps us keep serv i ice values high and costs low. The Norfolk <fe Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. Manteo - Elizabeth City - Hertford Edenton - Sunbury Your Printing Requirements Can Be Completely Filled By Us I o Help make your printing dollars do double work by keeping them closer home. Your county newspaper can supply you with everything you need in— PRINTING, OFFICE SUPPLIES, TYPEWRITERS, TICKET BOOKS, ENVELOPES, LETTERHEADS, SOCIAL STATIONERY, SALES BOOKS We are prepared to fill your needs at reasonable prices. There is no job we cannot handle if you give us the time you would give others. We strive to please. i o THE Coastland Times and white, And«all chained together—a horri ble sight. While the train dashed on at an awful pace, And a hot wind scorched them on hands and face. Wilder and wilder the country grew, As faster and faster the engine flew; Louder and louder the thunder crashed, And brighter and brighter the lightning flashed. Hotter and hotter the air became, Till the clothes were burnt from each quivering frame. Then in the distance there rose such a yell, Ha! Ha! croaked the devil, we’re nearing hell. Then oh, how the passengers shrieked with pain, And begged of the devil to stop the train! But he capered about and sang with glee, And laughed and joked at their agony. My faithful friends, you have done my work. And the devil can never a pay-day shirk. You have bullied the weak, you have robbed the poor, And a starving brother turned from your door; You have laid up gold where the canker rusts, And given free vent to your fleshly lusts; You have justice scorned and cor ruption sown, And trampled the laws of nature down; You have drunk and rioted, mur dered and lied, And mocked at God in your hell born pride, You have paid full fare, so I’ll carry you thru, For it’s only right you should get your due; Why, the laborer always expects his hire, So I’ll land you safe in the Lake of Fire, Where your flesh shall roast in the flames that roar, And my imps torment you more and more. Then Tom awoke with an agoniz ed cry. His clothes soaked with sweat, his hair standing high. And he prayed as he never pray ed before. To be saved from drink and the devil’s power; And his prayers and his cries were not made in vain, For he never more rode on the hell-bound train. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE AMATEUR HOUR TALENT SHOW MANTEO H. S. AUDITORIUM at 8 P. M. SATURDAY, FEB. 10 Sponsored by the PTA Audience Applause Will Determine Winners 25c TO ALL COAST GUARDSMAN RECALLS PROHIBITION ERA CRIME By AYCOCK BROWN Sligo. This little Currituck hamlet a few miles west of the county’s Courthouse at the edge of the sound is situated at the in tersection of Highways 170 and 34. Its location is about eight miles south of the Cavalier Ken nel Club’s racetrack at Moyock and 15 miles northeasterly from Elizabeth City. It’s a busy little hamlet because the service sta tion is a frequent change over point for bus travelers coming from down in Dare or enroute from Norfolk of from the south west. Sligo was the home address of Boatswain Sidney C. Sanderlin, a victim of the internal war this country had back in the Twenties between rum-runners and enforce ment officers. Boatswain Sander lin was one of the enforcement officers who with Robert Webster, a secret service agent, and Ma chinest Mate Victor A. Lamby was murdered in the Gulf Stream between Fort Lauderdale and Bi mini on a Sunday afternoon in August, 1927. Captain Frank Tuten, a resident of Morehead City, was in Boatswain Sanderlin’s crew at the time of the massacre, which in addition to three enforcement of ficers being killed, resulted in the conviction and hanging of James Horace Aiderman, the Miami rum-runner and murderer. Cap tain Tuten told me the story a few years ago following his re tirement from the Coast Guard. “Webster had orders from his department to proceed to Bimini for a conference with certain schooner owners who were sup posed to have important informa tion concerning a recent flood of counterfeit money which had been issuing from the Bahama Island and he made arrangements with the Fort Lauderdale base of the Coast Guard to provide transpor tation aboard the CG-249, a 75- footer,” said Captain Tuten, as he recalled the incident. In addition to Sanderlin, the of ficer in charge, other members of the crew included John A. Robin son, Frank Lehman, Victor Lam by, H. M. Caudle, Jodie L. Hol lingsworth and Tuten. The eighth man aboard was Webster, the sec ret service agent. The trip to Bi mini started as a routine assign ment but it developed into a ren dezvous with death for three members of the party. Reaching a point about 40 miles off the Florida coast Boastwain Sanderlin sighted a suspicion? schooner as he scanned the water through powerful glasses. It was immediately assumed that the vessel was a “rummy”, as the run ners were called in those days. The schooner was ordered to stand by for search but it did not do so immediately. A blank shot was fired across the bow of the schooner from the one-pounder on deck the patrol craft. Twice this was done without results. Then a shot was fired across her bow and the schooner hove to instant ly, and after circling the vessel the patrol craft was lashed to the THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. schooner. Aiderman, skipper of the schooner, claimed to be a fisher man and *aid that he had only some fish aboard. A search was made and 20 cases of liquor in bur lap bags were found. Aiderman and his one man crew, a character named Weech, were taken aboard the patrol craft. As Boatswain Sanderlin picked up the radio tel ephone to report the capture of the rummies to the base back in Ft. Lauderdale, Aiderman with a queer expression on his face stood by. “You are caught with the goods,” said Sanderlin. Then without warning and quick as a flash Aiderman pick ed up a .45 automatic lying in the pilot house and shot Sanderlin, killing him instantly with a bul let in his back before he could transmit the message! “Now I’ve got you dirty Coast Gaurdsmen where I want you,” shouted Ai derman. “I’ll get the whole damn bunch of you before this is over.” Aiderman then told his accom plice Weech to go down into the engineroom and break all the gas oline lines and then set fire to the boat. In the meantime Lamby was shot in the side and, although he lived for several days, he was paralyzed as result of the shot. He had fallen into the engine room when struck by the bullet. Weech told Lamby to get up and go out on deck, that he was going to set fire to the boat. As Lamby could not move, Aiderman gave Weech orders to fire the boat and burn the man alive. “That’s when I spoke up,” said Tuten. “You’re going to blow us all up. If you set fire to the patrol boat, there’ll be an explosion and your schooner will catch fire. We won’t have a chance, and neither will you,” he added, stalling for time and a chance to rush the killer. “I don’t need any help nor any suggestions from you, Coast Guard!” shouted Aiderman. In the meantime Joe Robinson, who had jumped overboard to a void being shot, pulled himself ov er the rail. While other members of the crew screened him he pick ed it up. Aiderman had ordered the engines started on the patrol craft and as it started there was a backfire. This attracted his at tention for a second. As he turned his head, Robin son lunged at him with the ice pick. Taken off guard, Aiderman dropped the automatic, and then the surviving members of the crew rushed him and it was onl<- a matter of moments until they had beaten him into unconscious ness. Weech in the meantime was captured down in the engine room. Webster was killed instantly a few seconds after Sanderlin was murdered. With the criminals overpower ed, a radio report of the incident was transmitted to the base at Fort Lauderdale and the craft, now under command of Tuten, re turned to that port. The incident resulted in one of the biggest trials of the prohibi tion era. Tuten recalls that much pressure was brought by crooked politicians and others in behalf of Aiderman and Weech. Finally the trial was over. Both men were fopnd guilty. Aiderman was sen tenced to death by hanging and Weech, his accomplice was let off with a year and a day in the federal penitentiary a*. Atlanta. Aiderman, who had come to be known as the “lone wolf of the sea,” was hanged in August 1929. The execution took place in the air base hanger at Fort Lauderdale. It was the only time the Coast Guard ever car ried out a death sentence. “I had no sympathy for Aider man, even though his execution came two years after his murder ous exploits out there in the Gulf Stream,” said Tuten. “I witness ed the hanging—and enjoyed it, because he had killed two of my shipmates.” The story of the Aiderman mur der trial that made front page news during the late Twenties is just about forgotten today—even here in Sligo where one of he murdered men lived. Retail Price 1 ’1.95 ■ RnM I'WF 1’3.15 * * Fifths 86 Proof THE STRAIGHT WHISKEYS NS THIS PRODUCT ARE « TEARS OR MORE OLD. 35% STRAIGHT WHISKEY, M% NEUTRAL SMUTS, DtSTHUD FROM ORAM. mrm i mu urns. mu. uau MANNS HARBOR WOMEN’S CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS The Manns Harbor Women’s Club held its regular meeting Thursday night at the Community Building with the President, Mrs. Jaccie Burrus in the chair. After all reports and a discus sion of old and new business the fellowing officers were elected for the coming year—l9sl-52. Presi dent, Mrs. Forrest Sawyer; vice president, Mrs. Richard Mann; recording secretary, Mrs. T. H. Midgette; corresponding secre tary, Mrs. T. O. Sutton; treasur er, Mrs. Jaccie Burrus; and repor ter, Mrs. Helen Daniels. After ad journment refreshments were ser ved by the education dept, to the 20 members present. Mrs. Thel bert Tillett was chairman of the committee in charge. CHOWAN BAPTIST ASSN. MEETS AT POPLAR BRANCH The Chowan Baptist Associa tion has completed plans for its Missionary and Stewardship Week. Meetings are to be held in Poplar Branch, Swan Quarter, Gatesville, Corinth qnd Edenton, Monday through Friday, Febru ary 19-23. Members of the Manteo Bap tist Church who wish to attend any of the meetings in Poplar Branch on any of the five even ings are urged to notify their pas tor, the Rev. Henry V. Napier, and he will see that transportaion for them is arranged. He may be reached at Manteo telephone 118- W. The distinguished speakers who will bring messages to the meet ings at Poplar Branch are as fol lows: Mon., Feb. 19, Arthur R. Gallimore, for many years a mis sionary in China; Tues., Feb. 20, C. W. Bazemore, one time pastor in the Chowan Association, later missionary in the Roanoke Asso ciation, and now with the Biblical Recorder; Wed., Feb. 21, H. H. McMillian, veteran missionary to China; Thurs., Feb. 22, Ea” 1 ? L. Bradley, general missionarv in Eastern North Carolina; Fri.. Feb. 23, James W. Ray, secretary of the Student Union department in state work. Offerings will be taken at all services o defray expenses of the sneakers. Should there be any sur plus, it will be used in the work of the Chowan associational mis sion program. HYDE COURT MONDAY The regular session of Hyde County Recorders Court will be held Monday, February 12. About 12 eases are on the docket. 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PLAN GUATEMALA TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Carter Dalton, of Pungo Bay Farm, are planning a motor trip to New Orleans and a boat trip from there to Guatemala sometime soon. J. WINTON SAWYER Cemetary Memorials 405 South Road Street Elizabeth City, N. C. GOOD ADVICE: . . . BUY NOW WHILE WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK Mattresses and Springs We may be out of luck on this item soon. The shortage of steel will make springs scarce. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951 WINTER FERRY SCHEDULE? September 11 through June 30 Over Croatan Sound Leave Leave Roanoke Id. Manna Htor, 7:00 A.M. 7:30 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon 1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:30 P.M. .5:00 P.M. 5:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 10:30 P.M. (Wed.&Sat.)ll:oo P.M. Over Alligator River Leave Leave E. Lake Tyrrell Ce. 8:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:00 Noon 3:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:30 P.M. 5:00 P.M. There are more than 11,000 frozen food locker plants now in operation in the United States.
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