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PAGE TWO THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C M Since July 4, 1935 The Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coastland of North Carolina, Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport, Healthful Living and Historical Interest On The Atlantic Seaboard. entered As Second Claes Matter At The Postoffice At Manteo, N. C. Subscription Rates: 1 Year 32.50; 6 Months >1.50; 3 Months SI.OO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO., INC, AT 505 LODGE STREET, MANTEO, NORTH CAROLINA VICTOR MEEKINS, Editor CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer Vol. XVII Manteo, N. C, Friday, December 28, 1951 No. 27 THE PUBLISHER’S GOOD WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR We look forward to a good year iri 1952. We believe there will be much travel, and much business throughout this coastland region. The volume of recreation activity in our coastal counties increases from year to year as we become better advertised and our facilities increase for the service of tourists. At the end of a year, we usually like to pause to thank our subscribers and advertisers for their patronage and good will. Without this, we could not get along. We hope for greater business for you as well as for ourselves in 1952. Again we express appreciation, and our hopes for a happier and more prosperous New Year. STUMPY POINT NEWS Rev. and Mrs. A. L. G. Stephen son and children spent Christmas in Aulander with relatives. Mr.and Mrs. Jack Gaskill and children of Elizabeth City spent Christmas here with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hooper. Mr .and Mrs. Guy Best of Nor folk spent Christmas holidays at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Midgett vis ited their children, Faye, Donald and Nita and families in Norfolk during the holidays. Ivey Hooper of Norfolk spent the holidays here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hooper. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wise of Norfolk spent Christmas at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O’Neal and children, Brian Wayne and Peggy, spent Sunday in Elizabeth City. Dr. W. O. Payne of Norfolk and Carol Payne of New York spent the holidays here with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Payne, Mrs. Florine Hooper and son, Major and granddaughter Jackie, spent Christmas in Norfolk with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Bobbitt and children, Nancy and Molly, of Lit tleton are spending the holidays here with Mr. and Mrs. D. L. PIONEER MANTEO, N. C. Week of December 29 SATURDAY JEFF CHANDLER in “SMUGGLER’S ISLAND” SUNDAY : MONDAY MARTIN & LEWIS in “THAT’S MY BOY” TUESDAY : WEDNESDAY ABBOTT & COSTELLO in “COMING ’ROUND THE MOUNTAIN" THURSDAY : FRIDAY “RIGHT CROSS’ with JUNE ALLYSON Your Child y WIIL LIKE THIS NEW COUGH HELP IFor coughs and bronchitis due to colds mm can now get Creomulsion specially prepared for Children in a new pink land bine package and be sure: (1) Your child win like it It contains only safe, proven p (3) It contains no narcotics to dis terb nature’s processes. jt(4) It will aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed throat and nonchial membranes, thus relieving Ebe cough and promoting rest and Heep. Ask for Creomulsion for Chil- Idren in the pink and blue package. CREOMUESION FOR CHILDREN nßows CM|hSt Chert CsMs ( Acwtf BreochiHs A w H| VMAA gns E $2.10 $3.35 MMR|B pinl £ihh WNRjBfIBjwBIB km>m ww » k^< »h*». 3<*% w»i*n. W| * wl * *‘* l '* l J * iri, ‘* Meekins. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Nixon of - Manteo and son, Wade and daugh ’ ter Rennie, spent Christmas here with relatives. I Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Maness t and children, Betty and Anne, of . Durham are spending the holidays here with Mrs. Bettie Nixon. Mr .and Mrs. W. W. Monette and children, Billy and Bobby, of Norfolk are visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Hooper. I Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hooper and children, Carol and Coleen, are visiting relatives in Alabama and Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Meekins and daughter, Avis, of Norfolk spent Christmas here with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Meekins. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hooper and daughter, Betty Jo, of Norfolk spent the holidays here with Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wise. Capt. and Mrs. Russell Nixon and son, Johnny, of Cherry Point spent Christmas here with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Midgett. Oscar Payne of Norfolk spent the holidays here with his family. EAST LAKE PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Ambrose and George Ambrose visited in Elizabeth City Sunday . Mr. and Mrs. Lennon Twiford and Mr. aand Mrs. Herbert Pinner motored to Columbia Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Twiddy and sons of Norfolk are spending two weeks here with relatives. Mr .and Mrs. T. I. Basnight of Elizabeth City spent Christmas here with relatives. Mrs. Myrtle Modlin of Washing ton, N. C., was here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. David McGowan of Elizabeth City spent the week end here. Misses Iva and Pearl Ambrose and Lundy Twiford were in Eliz abeth City Sunday . Kenneth Ambrose and Delbert Ambrose of Norfolk spent the Christmas holidays here with rel atives. Dock Brickhouse and Eugene Smith of Columbia were here Sun day. “Jiggs” Basnight of Norfolk spent the Christmas holidays here with his mother, Mrs. Mariah Mc- Gowan. STORY 1 /Continued from Page One) container had broken loose from floating attachment and disap peared. . . . Gradually luring the next three days we were sailing i against the Gulf Stream currents but always getting closer to land. ... It was very foggy when we sighted the red flashing buoy off the minefield. The crew of nine which had l pitted its skill against the sea and won, with the aid of Lady Luck, reached Ocracoke section base late on December 23. On Christ ! mas Eve a plane from Elizabeth , City CG Air Station picked the ' survivors up at Ocracoke and had ■ them safely at their homes or in hospitals by Christmas Day. The | CGR 3070 was towed into Silver i Lake Harbor at Ocracoke and later taken to Morehead City See l tion Base. HATTERAS PERSONALS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Albrecht, a baby boy, weight 7 lbs. 2 oz., name, Edward Lee Albrecht. In Jarvisburg, N. C., at the medi cal center. Mrs. Lizie Austin gave her Sun day School class a Christmas Par ty at her home Tuesday night. Those present were Ann Burrus, Fern Ballance, Shelia Gibson, Des mond Foster, Gwendolyn Gray, Geraldine Fulcher, Darrell Merrill, Russell Stowe and Bobby Scar borough. Games and singing were enjoyed by all. Refreshments of Cocoanut cake and fruit cocktail were served. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Ballance and children are spending Christ mas with his mother, Mrs. Charlie Ballance. Cpl. Bert Austin and Sgt. James Smart of Arkansas, are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. A. Burrus, Sr. Luke Gaskins and nephew, Ed die Styron are home for Christ mas. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Austin and children, Dianne and Wendell, are spending the holidays here with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Austin and Mrs. Eliva Ballance. Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Ballance are visiting their parents for a few days. ; Mrs. Brittie Gaskill and Mrs. Julia Oden are still In the hospi tal. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Oden left Mon day to visit Mrs. Brittie Gaskill in the Albemarle Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wilson are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Austin. A Christmas program was given at the Church Monday night. The church was so crowded people had to stand. The smaller children gave plays recitations, Intermediates a pageant. An offering of $46.67 was taken. Frank Gaskins played San ta Claus. A lovely Iree decorated the church. A lovely gift was presented to Mrs. Damon Gray, Sr., on her 51st birthday by the two ladies classes and teachers of the Sunday school, for her faithful service as a Supt. for many years. A group of ladies and men visi ted Larry Lane Sunday night and played Santa Claus. He was very happy over seeing Santa for the first time and over the nice gifts he received. After leaving Larry’s home they sang carols for Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Foster. Dalton Burrus is spending Christmas with his family after being on the weather patrolship off Newfoundland for six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Almy Burrus, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Burrus left Sat urday to spend Christmas with their children in Norfolk and Elizabeth City. Norman Quidley is home for a couple of weeks with his family. Mrs. Lizzie Austin is spending Christmas in Norfolk with her children, Marjorie and Monford. Mrs. Richard Job visited her daughter and new grandson in Manteo. Miss Lila Peele, the former Miss Dare County, and Lionel Willis, who has been in Korea for over a year, were married in Elizabeth City last week. Misses Patricia Austin, Valma Austin, Joyce Midgette are home for Christmas. Edward Perry Austin, who is stationed in Arizona, is spending the holiday with his parents, Mr.- and Mrs. Perry Austin. Louis Austin is home for a few days with his mother, Mrs. Mag gie Stowe. Wheeler Ballance left Tuesday for Norfolk where he is on a tug boat, afttr spending Christmas with his family. Mrs. Horton Austin and son, Bil ly, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Gaskins, Mrs. Monroe Stowe and daughter, Eloise! spent a few days in Nor folk last week. Mr.and Mrs. Cecil Austin and family are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Stowe. Beverly O’Neale and Randall O’Neale, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie O’Neale, are home for Christmas. Miss Delma Styron spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Styron. Levin Fulcher is home for Christmas with his family. Charlie Styron has returned from Baltimore where he has been for a treatment. FEARINGS HAVE OPEN HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fearing, Jr., held open house Sunday evening, Dec. 23 at their new home. Callers were greeted by Mrs. Fearing and directed to the dining room where Miss Mollie Fearing poufed tea and coffee. Assorted holiday cookies, date bars and fruit cake were also served. Pine boughs and large red candles were used to carry out the Christmas motif. CAREER (Continued from Page One) Wednesday where Capt. L. H. Baker, district commander, will bid him farewell. Then he expects to come home—and return as speed ily as may be to the occupation of his youth. He aims to do some fishing. He already has a boat, a stand of nets. He is regarded as one of the best surf casters on this island, where the sport was originated three decades ago, an outgrowth of the hand-line cast THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. d. Crime in America By ESTES KEFAUVER United States Senator Twelve of a'Series Detroit: Where Underworld And Business World Merge , An alarming aspect in the pattern of crime in America is that certain manufacturers have deliberately allied themselves with racketeers as a means of controlling labor relationships. In Detroit, the Senate Crime Committee turned up four in stances in which large industrial concerns awarded lucrative con tracts to gangsters or men who had underworld connections. Typical was .the link between Sahto (Sam) Perrone and the Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. The bespectacled, balding Perrone once served a six-year sentence for violating the prohibition laws, and both he and his brother, Gaspar, had been arrested for ques tioning on murder charges, though later released. Ironically r San- to had a license to carry a re-- volver at the time we questioned him. It was promptly revoked by Detroit authorities. Perrone barely can read and write English. He went to work more than 40 years ago as a core maker for the stove works, per haps the largest non-union plant in the area. Perrone insisted he never even had discussed labor problems with John A. Fry, company presi dent, and Mr. Fry testified he nev er had heard of any labor difficulty or any physical violence at the plant Around 1934, however, there was a serious strike when a union made a strenuous effort to organize the stove works. Twelve years later, Fry told a grand jury investigating labor rackets that during the dis pute "I talked with some of the fellows in the plant. Including the Perrones, and I wanted to know whether or not we could get some help to come in, and they said they thought they could. “There was some fights outside the gate on the part of the pick ets attacking the men when they came in to lunch. I think after the first day we had 75 or 80 police men around the plant.” Shortly after this violent strike, Santo Perrone, the coremaker, Was given a contract to purchase and haul away the scrap from the stove works. Thus, the illiterate manual laborer acquired an in come which in recent years has netted him between $40,000 and $65,000 a year. He lives in a luxuri ous mansion, drives a costly car, and has been able to lend large sums of money. The company also took care of Santo’s brother, Gaspar, changing its coremaking department to $ subcontractorship. Using company materials and the same company owned equipment with which he had worked as an employe, Gaspar became the contractor who supplied the factory, with sand cores. • * • Later, Santo and Gaspar were sent to the penitentiary for illegal ly manufacturing whisky. The com pany kept Santo’s scrap contract in effect for him when he was in prison. Also, while the Perrones were imprisoned, the United Auto Workers, CIO, which previously had been kept out of Detroit-Michigan Stove, was able to organize one of the plants. A UAW organizer said, though, that when Mr. Perrone got out of jail, “the organization dis appeared.” An Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service inspector told us that, while investigating aliens illegally in the United States, he learned that 20 such violators were working at the Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. Gas par was questioned by the commit tee about a speed boat which he owns and operates on the Great lakes between Michigan and Can ada, but he denied that he ever smuggled in any aliens. The Perrone-Stove Works story fits neatly with that of a larger plant, Briggs Manufacturing Co., makers of auto bodies. President Fry of the Stove Works and Presi dent Dean Robinson of Briggs are dose friends. For approximately 20 years, Briggs had contracted with an estab lished firm, Woodmere Scrap Iron, for removal of ferrous scrap from the Briggs plant. In 1945, Santo Perrone’s son-in-law. Carl Renda, 28, suddenly applied for the con tract The contract was taken away from Woodmere and awarded to Renda, despite the facts that he had no knowledge of the business, no equipment and not even a tele phone or office where he could be called. Then, Perrone’s son-in-law turned around and made a subcontract with Woodmere, the old contractor, whereby Woodmere kept right on like a cowboy’s rope. The Meekins home is one of the •show places of Avon and Mrs. Meekins expects that it will be greatly improved now that she has a gardning hand around the place. Their children are all married off and only one lives nearby. Their only son, Lieutenat Manson E. Meekins, who began his officer’s career by being retained at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy as a gunnery instructor, is stationed in New York. The visitor on Hatteras Island looks upon the, retiring surfman with something' of awe and they say “he looks like one,” meaning a surfman. He is well over six feet tall, weights about 200 pounds. His hair and eyes are the same iron gray now. Sometimes visitors may doing the work. But Woodmere paid Renda $2.50 a ton more than he had paid Briggs for the scrap, giv ing him an income which has reached SIOI,OOO a year. As our report commented: "the inference is inescapable that what Rendo was being paid for was the service (‘muscle’) of his father-in-law, Per rone.” • • • Six prominent officials of the Briggs union were badly beaten by unknown persons in the year that followed granting of the Renda con tract. Before going to Detroit, the com mittee explored in the New York- New Jersey area the tie-up between the Ford Motor Co. and the notori ous gangster, Joseph Dota, alias Joe Adonis. Adonis is a principal stockholder of the Automotive Con veying Co. of New Jersey, which transports automobiles away from the Ford plant at Edgewater, N. J. —• • p Because of this, the committee looked into possible relationships between Ford’s plants in the De troit area and other racketeers. We found that the principal haul away operator was the E&L Trans port Co., in which one Anthony D’Anna, ex-convict and former sugar supplier to bootleggers, Wks a 50 per cent stockholder. D’Anna drew a $27,000 salary from E&L but apparently he did nothing to earn it Before acquiring his E&L stick, D’Anna, through negotiations with Harry Bennett, labor boss for the late Henry Ford Sr., had obtained a 50 per cent share of a profitable Ford agency in Wyandotte, Mich. ./ • • • Bennett, now retired, had, as the committee noted, "employed vir tually a private army recruited from ex-convicts and criminals to engage In battles against labor and in other anti-social activity,” Subpoenaed from his California ranch to testify, he was a hostile and difficult witness. When we asked him about the gang factions in Detroit, he snapped: "Do you want me to get my head blown off?” Bennett admitted that, although he was a key man in one of the largest plants in the world, he kept no files, records or memoranda of any kind. "In fairness to Ford,” our re port observed that the company “is taking vigorous steps to disas sociate itself from these racketeer held contracts.” It now is attempt ing to terminate by some legal means its deal with Adonis. Also in Detroit, the committee cleared up the mystery of hoyy. Cleveland gamblers acquired an important block of stock in a vital industry, the Detroit Steel Corp. Max J. Zivian, president of Detroit Steel, told us that in 1944 Detroit Steel merged with Reliance Steel Corp, of Cleveland. Zivian undertook to purchase the Reliance president’s stock for ap proximately $580,000. He said he was in Cleveland when gambler businessman Morris Dalitz, whom he had known slightly, "bumped in to me in the street.” Zivian said he told him that he was attempting to close a big deal but was short SIOO,OOO. Dalitz, without even look ing at a balance sheet, arranged a bank loan for the necessary money. So the Cleveland syndicate acquired 10,000 shares of Detroit Steel stock. Zivian subsequently became friendly with the Cleveland gam bler and once took a trip on Dal itz* yacht Next week: Philadelphia: Police tactics in the City of Brotherly Love. Condensed from the book, “Crime la America,” by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. ItSl. Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Diet General Features Corp.—WNU. see him down on the Point with his boat crew and, seeing him, they know that he is one of the few men left whose handling of a boat through the surf is by instinct. His father before him, and his grand father, S. S. Meekins, who served with the Confederate forces in the defense of Hatteras Inlet in 1962, were boatmen. And, continuing the tradition, his grandson Irvin Gray, now the same age as was his grandfather when he experienced shipwreck, is among the ablest small boat handlers on the Outer Banks. Mr. Meekins will be relieved by Chief Warrant Officer Cyrus Gray, a native of Hatteras Island also, lately on duty at District Headquarters and, since summer, at Oregon Inlet. QOLINGTON PERSONALS The Christmas program held gt the Methodist church on Christmas Eve was highly enjoyed by all present A children’s choir sang several of the favorite carols and recitations were given by the younger children. After the pro gram, gifts and a bag of apples, oranges and candy were distribut ed by 7 the Colington Community Club to all the children present, as well as a bag of fruit to each adult. Santa Claus represented by, Sylvester Perry, was present dur ing the entire program. Mrs. Sel ma Beasley was organist, and di rector of the program. The December meeting of the Colington Home Demonstration Club was held December 19 at the home of Mrs. Louis Meekins, with ten members present. The topic of the meeting was the musical back ground of some of the favorite Christmas carols. Various mem bers gave the history of a carol, and after its origin was given, each carol was sung, the words be ing furnished by Miss Mary Kirby by means of color slides. Mrs. Min cie Partridge won the “Black Horse.” Gifts were exchanged. Mrs. Meekins served cupcakes, fruit cake, ice cream and coffee. Preston Meekins received his draft call last week. He left for his examination in Raleigh on Dec ember 19th. Miss Evelyn Gaimel was home from Kinston to spend the holi days with her family. Mrs. Durward Carraway and her family spent Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Meek ins. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beasley and family visited Mrs. Beasley’s daughter, Mrs. Herman Adylett of Great Bridge on Christmas Day. Mrs. J. L. Beacham of Norfolk visited on Monday with her sister, Mrs. Zenora Midgette. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore had a happy Christmas. Four of their children, living away from Coling ton, visited them over the holi days. Mrs. Ella Tillett of Norfolk, arrived in time for breakfast on Sunday morning; Mrs. Preve Daniels and family of Wanchese arrived later on Sunday; on Mon day Margie Moore of Norfolk ar rived with a 20 lb. turkey, all roasted, and all the trimmings for her parents’ Christmas dinner; and Mrs. Alta Petersen and her fami ly were home on Christmas Day. Mrs. Margie Yeomans, with her husband and children, from Georg ia, and Mrs. Mickey Daniels and family from Wanchese, came home to spend Christmas with their father, Charlie Beasley. Mrs. Sarah Hill is spending the Christmas holidays in Norfolk with her grandson, Colin McPhee and his family. MORRIS (Continued from Page One) other Superior Court judge. We wish to congratulate a good neighbor. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY, FOR SALE: Flat-bottom skiff. 25 ft. long—s ft. wide. 31 inches, deep. Fully equipped with winding rigs for oystering or shrimping— V-8 motor. A-l condition. Phone 184-J2, W. H. 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