The Independent from Elizabeth City, North Carolina • 1

I The Independent WTxW 111.: NOL 1 490. NtthM ItBJ Kritlay by K.iz*b?tu ELIZABETH CITY. N. HM6. 5 Guard Heroes to Receive (elated Recognition As Their fateful Benefactors Look On foui- and a half years ayo, IS men of the sea ife engaged in a tremendously dramatic stniqgle the elements.

Friday night these men will Avid-' recall that stirring battle at the Virginia $1 here when 11 of them, members of the U. Guard, ivill receive Congressional Life Saving for their part in the rescue of the crew of the Annie Mae on Diamond Shoals in Decern-1 r. 19-U and five of them, the men who were iwdl look on with pride and satisfaction as! men who snatched them from the very brink of are honored for their heroism. a fearful hair-raising, dramatic battle that took or. Diamond Shcals.

12 miles ifjpe Hatteras. in mid-December, The Anna May. a 53-foot vessel, had run aground on treacherous shoals in a fierce A gale was blowing, and c.u.?o:is seas swept the decks little vessel, making it imfor the crew to stay on There was but one thing the could do. They lashed them. the rigging, high above i ceviv and clung there hoping that help would come.

realizing at the same time that u- next to impossible for a boat reach them. Im Guardsmen on the shore the 1 tie vessel around ten next morning and plight, but the storm terrific and the sea rough were compelled to aban: tesperate attempt to reach Anna May. So the Coast Lnr.en had to content themi. e.h assembling a picked brave and hardy men and everything in readiness so ir speed to the rescue of May's crew the moment tivte he a lull in th? storm. the crew of the boat, res Capt.

Ralph Carmines. master of the vessel: laer Carmines, the John Carmines, father of and Elmer: M. S. Johnson, brother-in-law, and a can by the name of Rideout' at had all but despaired of behaved. Salt spray soaked them, igrr.ed to the bone.

The wind feed around them and threatis to dislodge them. The rigging them, and the mast violently as the rc- over the little For th.rty hours and a half zr to the rigging, hoping that Providence would cc then: Then came the The spars cracked un- he and the five men into the turbulent! thed and dashed over he vicinity of the vesI: would be only a matter of I cr minutes, they realized would oe aasneu 1 or drowned. Then, loomed before them a -Guard l.fe boat. Their pray' been answered in the pronick of time Two Coast crew, had put out to sea in 1 desperate attempt to and save the crew of the 534 Mae and had reached the the most opportune imaginable. The five men pulled into the life anc to shore.

Thus end? most dramatic rescues aistory, a rescue more those conceived by and scenario writers. Belated Honor four years had elapsed before Congress fl its silver Life SavM ip0n heroes of the 1 who risked their own die successful effort to rev of the Anna May. Acre ordered to be and they are to be pnciay night at a J' i dance at the Virginia ginning at 7:30 o'clock, Lindsay C. Warren, Congressional friend of service, will pre? to medals. "vvi-u heroes who will be are: Hernice R.

Ballancc Baxter M. Jcnnctte of Station. tr; mate, first cla Ers: man Sumner M. ScarSm Guy C. Quidley Tommic G.

Meekins Inlet Station. wain's Mate Monroe Station, Boatswain's Mate Thomas Kort Macon Station. hBo atswain's Mate Levene jr.jlUBoatswain's Mate, Frank W. M.llcr of OrcInJ? Station. Richard J.

Scarborough of Oak Island Station. Tao others, John B. Austin and Jim Ketchani, took part in the rescue. Austin retired from the ervice shortly after tiic rescue oocurred, and Ketchani was presented with his medal recently in the Fourth Coaot Guard District, wliere he is now stationed. National Forest visitors in 1935 reached a new peak figure of 58,: 00f i 1 Frisby, Himself THE words "Photo by Fri-by" have appeared under hundreds of pie- turos thai have appeared in thii newspaper Uur.ng the past few years, therefore it is with pride that we title week present a "Photo of l.ih> n.

John Fri-by, local photographer, who rcccatiy was, elected district chairman of the North Carolina Photographers' Association. Coming here Norfolk three years ago, Mr. Frisby has rapidly built up a splendid reputation for his phoiogra ph. work. He became the town's only photographer this month upon the passing of H.

Zoeller. One-Fourth Of Veterans Here Get Bonus Money Alcho already felt in business cii here, the veterans' bonus money really just begun to come into Pasquotank County, according to Postmaster W. T. Culpepper. who says only about onefourth of the veterans served by the local office have received their bonus checks yet.

Thru yesterday, the bcuu.s bonds hod been distributed to only around 13'JO veterans thru the local office. I It is estimated roughly that there are as many as 500 veterans in this county, 400 or more of whom are served thru tiie Elizabeth City post office and the other 100 or so thru the Weeki ville office. So apI proxuronely ihreo-fourths of Dhe bends coming thru the local office already have been received and delivered, Hie remainder arq exIpected in the next few days. Of the 300 or more veterans who have received their bonds here. 253 had had their bonds certified and sent to the Raleigh paying office thru yesterday.

Tiie bonds of these 253 veterans wore worth $103,450, or an average of a little over $400, most of the veterans having borrowed hall of the amount due them. The first 100 veterans whose bonds were sent to Raleigh had received checks amounting to $43,400 thru yesterday, ancl other checks are expected on each incoming mail. According to Postmaster Culpepper, the bonus distribution has proceeded very smoothly here, altho the checks have not come back i'rom Raleigh quite as soon as had beta expected. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE SERVICE FOR 6 COUNTIES The State Hoard of Health working thru the Children's Bureau of this Stale under the Social Security Law, is setting up a district nursing service at Elizabeth City for the counties of Pasquotank, Camden, Dare, dates, Perquimans and Chowan. The six county unit is under the direction of Miss Cora Beam, who has had nearly 15 years experience with the State Board of Health, having been associated with its mobile unit of public health nurses in that time.

Miss Beam will have her offices in the Y. M. C. A. building after July 4th.

The expenses of the experiment in public health nursing in these counties will be a State and Federal responsibility for cne year. After one year the counties may arrange to take it over, or they may abandon it. Mrs. Mamie Oxley, the one colored nurse to be connected with the district unit is already on the ground and will have her office in the Negro section of the 'town. White nurses for the several counties are yet to be assigned, and some of them will have to cover two counties.

In fact funds are available only for one colored nurse and her activities will be confined to the counties of Pasquotank and Camden. Currituck is not embraced in this district unit, because Currituck has for several years maintained its own public nursing service. imam ana maiernuy care win oe emphasized and clinical centers will be established at convenient points in all counties for the convenience of the medical profession cooperating with the nurses. The nurses to be employed must be graduates of some hospital having a minimum average daily patient list of fifty patients and she must have had a high school diploma at least before taking 'the nurses training school course. She must be licensed and resigstered in this and she must have had at least three years active experience in a county with a whole time health department, or she must have completed a minimum course of four months in a standard public health nurse training school, such as Peabotlv College at Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. G. M. Cooper, director of the division of preventive medicine of the Slate Board of Health, admits that there is a scarcity of nurses lictl for the program that Is being undertaken. The salary cf the public health nurse is $100 a month, supplemented by a travel allowance of S50.

I Miss Beam, who insists that she will be associated with rather than charge of the district unit, arrived in Elizabeth City on June 15th I and has already gained much familiarity with the field. Plans For July 4th Shaping Up Rapidly Plans for Elizabeth City's Fourth of July Celebration, which is bcing sponsored again this year by the American Legion, are shaping up materially as the date of the draws near. General Manus McCloskey, fam! ous commanding officer at Fort Bragg, thi sweek consented to make the principal address of the day. Other events on the day's pro i gram win iiiciuui: a greased pig contest, a model plane contest, a baseball game bei twcen Elizabeth City and Edenton, a Coast Guard drill at the foot of I Main Street, and possibly a dance at night. I J.

Kcnyon Wilson is general chairj man of (the celebration committee. Grover Jackson is in charge of the parade, and S. G. Etheridge is handling the publicity. This will be the first Fourth of July celebration held here in two I years, last year's event having been i called ofT due to the impending in; fa-titile paralysis epidemic in the State at the time.

It is believed this year's I celebration will be one of the best ever put on here. Trucks Kill Two I Kenneth Reeves, five-year-old son I I of iMr. and Mrs. Wilburt Reeves of Goklsboro was iastantly killed when i he was struck by an oil truck while I playing in the street in front of his 1 I home. The accident was held to have been unavoidable.

On the i day. Gerald Dean Myers. 7. I son of Mr. and Mrs.

Julian Myers of Thomasville, died of injuries sustained the day before when he I stepped in front of an oil truck that was parsing his home. More Congestion Likely In Local Primary School Because numerous snows, followed by the almost inevitable epimic of bad colds and influenza, cut the average daily attendance in the local schools down a little, the city's schools, particularly in the lower grades, stand likely to be even more crowded during the 1936-37 term, than they were during the term which ended recently, in the opinion of Superintendent J). E. Bundy. The State School Commission ruled last week that there will be no change in teacher allotments for the coming term, and that the system of basing teacher allotments on the average daily attendance for the previous year would again be followed.

The Commission apparently is determined to follow this course despite the obvious unfairness of using last winter's average daily attendance as a basis on which to allot teachers for the next term. If the Commission does hold to its announced position, the elementary white schools of the city will probably lose teacher and the high school will gain one teacher, in Mr. Bundy's opinion. The colored elementary schools probably will lose one or more teachers, tco. During the 1935-36 school term, the average membership and attendance in the local schools were as follows: White: A.

D. M. A. D. T.

Primary 493 453 Grammar 594 565 HigH 483 471 Colored: Elementary 956 869 High 300 294 Judging from these figures, it appears that the white high school, will gain a teacher, while the white elementary grades stand to lose a teacher. The colored schools will: fare about the same. If Mr. Bundy's predictions correct, the local white primary school, which was badly crowed tfyis past term, will be shockingly congested next term. This is, unless there is such a heavy registratioh I and average daily atendance dur 1 ing the first ten days of the 1936-37 term that the School Commission refrain from taking away a teacher here.

According to a report from Ral- eigh, there will be only 70 teachers added to the State's instructional for the coming term as against 259 who were added last fall. 70 new teachers represent the difference between the 170 high schpol to add and the 109 elementary teachers it is proposed to do away with during the next term as com-' pared with the 1935-38 term. i You Are Usually Wrong When You Discuss Weather "Human nature is a funny thing," observed W. H. Sanders, local U.

S. Weather Bureau representative, this 1 week. "Folks here have been com- plaining mightily about the drought this year, while my records show that rainfall here so far this year is well "above normal and is also a- bove last year's rainfall." According to Mr. Sanders' records, Elizabeth City had over 28 itiches of rain from January 1 thru June 22. The normal annual precipitation is 48.29 inches, so our rainfall to date is well above normal.

Also it is well above last year's rainfall for the same period. During the six months from January 1, 1935, Elizabeth City had 23.62 inches of rain. We had four inches more this year thru Monday of this week. This year's rainfall here, by months, has been as follows: January, 7.01 inches; February, 4.88 inches; March 5.50 inches; April, 3.13 inches; May, 2.10 inches, and June Uhru June 22) 4.96 inches. 'Folks like to talk about the weather, and especially to complain about it," said Mr.

Sanders this week. You hear talk about dry years You hear talk about wet years. You hear about cold winters, and you hear aoout hot summers. But if you'll consult the records you'll see that both the average temperature and the average rainfall remain about the same year in and year out. The Law of Averages general holds good.

"Last October, our rainfall here was only 0.35 inches, which is about (Continued on Page Two) i i Ci JL-J51 I CLCQK TUE dCRKELR SOME OF OUR BIG DEMOCRATS OUGHT TO TAKE A WALK It looks as if Dr. Ralpii McDonald has got Mr. Clyde Hoey backed into a tight corner," said the Scda Jerkcr. "How so?" asked the Bank C'erk. "Well, the Hoey crowd kept up pressure 011 McDonald all last week, demanding that he say whether he would stand on the Democratic platform.

McDonald let 'em rave until Friday night when he came out and reminded them that they had written into the platform a pledge to repeal the sales tax from 'all necessities of told 'cm that's exactly where he had always stood, and then demanded to know if Mr. Hoey was going to stand on that platform. The Doctor has certainly got 'em in a corner, up a tree or on the run. "All thru the first primary campaign Hoey and his crowd were saying that the sales tax could not be repealed. Hoey, Gardner and Ehringhaus controlled the State convention; it was they who drafted a platform pledged to take the sales tax off 'all the necessities of If they do that they will be confronted with the same problem that they said McDonald would face, the problem of raising the revenue from some other source or sources." "I don't think McDonald has Hoey in a corner or that he has him up a tree or on the run," said the Bank Clerk.

"You evidently failed to note that Senator J. W. Bailey, who received the biggest vote in the 1 June Primary, has come out for I Hoey." "Yes," said the Soda Jerkcr; I "Senator Bailey came out for Hoey I after a visit from Max Gardner. (And that don't set so well with thousands of North Carolinians who I voted for Senator Bailey because they admired him for his ence and intellectual integrity. I What the rank and file see in SenI ator Bailey's indorsement of Hoey is that our Senior Senator is, after all, an organization man.

Senator Bailey's stock went down when he let it go out that he was for the Ehringhaus-Hoey-Gardner outfit." I too am lor Ehringhaus. Gardner and Hoey," said the Bank Clerk; "not because I have any love for any of them and not because I don't believe that a general shakeup in our State government be a right good thing. But, after all, we don't know much about Dr. McDonald; are we sure that he would be safe?" "My answer to that Is," said the Soda Jcrker, "That in order to control our State Legislature he must produce a program that will command the confidence and support of both branches of the Legislature. If he can do that he will make a great governor; if he can't do that he will be just another governor, and can do us no harm." "But, what I'm afraid of," said the Bank Clerk, "is that if McDonald is nominated thousands of influential Democrats will walk out of the party in November and cast their lot with the Republicans.

"And that would be one of the best things that could happen in North Carolina politics," said the Soda Jerker. "One trouble with the Democratic party in the South is I that it is so cocksure of its control that it becomes indifferent to the interests of the people. You saw an illustration of that in Ehringhouscs contemptuous refusal to call a special session of the Legislature to back the President's Social Security Program and enact Tobacco Compact legislation. But the worst thing that ails the Democratic party in North Carolina, is the fact that its money backers are men high in the tobacco, textile and world who arc at heart national Republicans and Liberty Leaguers and whose I only interest in the Democratic party in North Carolina is that it happens to be in power in North Carolina, They ought to take a walk." There is no form of nerve disorder that may not be taused or aggravated by Eye Strain. For a thorough Eye examination see.

DR. J. D. UAI UAWAY, 4 potato crop: normal herej price holds With nearly three quarters of in their poekets, safes, socks or hank vaults and nearly a fourth of their crop yet to be'markcted, Irish potato growers of Pasquotank County arc laughing, whistling and singing as tho they meant it for the first time in nine years. According to conservative but fairly reliable estimates, around, 680 carloads of potatoes have moved from here so far this season by rail, water and highway transportation.

Around 564 cars have moved by rail, some over 100 cars by truck, and perhaps 20 cars by boat. This 680 I cars represents a little over 75 per i cent of the total crop for this county, it being estimated that this year's crop will amount to around 875 cars. Last year's total shipments irom i this county amounted to 1,009 This year's total will probably be about ten per cent less. The de- crease, tho, is due to a slight cut i in acreage rather than to a lower yield. This year's yield, contrary to general belief, is just about normal yield, according to Groverj Falls, County Farm Agent.

Several growers have reported yields as high ai 30 to 1, and only those growers who dug their potatoes too early in order to get in on a high market got a below-normal yield. The estimated total shipments of 890 cars from this county will re- present a total of around 180,000 barrels of potatoes, sold at an aver- i age price of around $5.25, means i around $950,000, or close to a mil- lion dollars, for the growers. That the season's average price to the growers here will be as high 1 as $5.25 is doubted in some quarters, but most of the potato men be- licve the price will not' fall far below that amount. The.pricg is stilLHoRIlntr bjf fo-tfralTcfe, despite the beginning of shipments from Princess Anne and the Eastern Shore potato sections. Only twice during the season has the price been below $5.00 here.

Obviously, the 193G potato crop is going to bring very nearly a million dollars to growers In Pasquotank County alone, and to growers in Fasquotank. Camden and Currituck, the potato growing counties of the Albemarle section it should bring close to $1,500,000. DISTRICT WPA OFFICE LIKELY TO STAY HERE I That headquarters of the WPA for the first North Carolina administrative dis triet will remain at Elizabeth City and that there will be no eonsolidation of this district with some other district is the belief of local WPA officials who have had no information to the contrary from either Raleigh or WashingIon. But that there may be minor changes in the personnel of district headquarters and some revamping of departments in the interest ol economy and efficiency is to be anticipated. It is very well known that all expenditures under the new appropriation of 000..00 for work relief bill will be i more closely scrutinized.

la the rush of setting up work projects 'and getting the unemployed to work jin the early stages of the WPA last summer some mistakes were I unavoidable. In many instances towns, cities and counties sponsored projects not suited to the experience and capabilities of the relief labor available. It would take a 'superhuman agency to translate un-1 skilled, frustrated and. in many in- stances, undernourished day labor-1 ers into skilled or even semi-skilled i labor. But the immediate problem was to give work to the unemployed, I relieve their dire distress and plow I back money into the channels of! lanquishing trade.

This WPA did effectually within its meads, There will be revamping of the relief rolls under the changing set'up. Already, and for several weeks past, the employment division has been weeding out those cases no longer eligible for relief. Many new (Continued on Page Two) McDonaldite IT is only natural that young men should flock to the standard of Dr. Ralph McDonald, one of the young- i est men ever to seek the office of Governor of North Carolina. One of Dr.

McDonald's prime assistants H. B. Spruill, above, son of tentative C. W. Spruill of Bertie; County.

Young Spruill is busy these days organizing a Ybttng Democrats' League for MoOonald, with headquarters in Windsor. Spruill crgajuziqg. the young and particularly of North Carolina, in an effort to capture votes cast for Sandy Graham in the first primary. Photo by Frisby. Total Valuation 0' Property Here Drops Slightly Taxes are levied on the basis of the amount of money required and tiie total valuation of the property to be levied As a general thing, taxes go higher when property valuations slump, and taxes arc lower when property valuations increase.

If this principal of taxation holds good, taxpayers of Pasquotank County will have about the aarne tax rate when they go to pay their 1936 taxes that they had this year. The tctal valuation of properly in Pasquotank County, as computed by Tax Supervisor Lloyd S. Sawyer and County Auditor C. C. Pritchard on the basis of this year's listings, is $11,898,235.

This is a third of a million dollars less than last year's total, which was $12,202,470. Assuming that this county will require approximately the same amount of money for the operation of its various departments and functions during the coming year that is meded this wear, the tax rate should be approximately the same in view of the total valuation. The total valuations in Elizabeth City Township. Salem, Newland and Providence are higher this year than last, but these gains arc more than offset by a slight decrease in Nixon ton and a decrease of nearly half a million dollars in ML. Hermon Township.

This year's valuation, by towtiships, are as follows: Elizabeth City, Salem, Nixonton. Providence, Newland $723 718, and Mt. Hermon, $741,954. Mi, Herman's previous total was $1,212,074. President To Attend llaywood Robbins, of Charlotte.

chairman of a committee arranging for a seven-state Democratic rally in Charlotte, said this week that he had been advised President Roosevelt will attend. The rally will be held between September 8 and September 12. State and federal taxes on gasoline have increased steadily from 16 cents per car per year in 1919 to the present $30.90 per car per year. Clyde Hoey's Long Tail Coat Covers a Lot of Machine Dirt, Declares McDonald Mincing no words and pulling no punches, Dr. Ralph McDonald, anti-machine candidate for Governor, told an attentive and appreciative audience in the Pasqoutank County courthouse Wednesday night that "favoritism is being shown by the State Revenue Department in the collection of the sales tax for the purpose of strengthening the Gardner-Ehringhaus political machine." "I was brougnt up tn an oia rasnion Presbyterian household and was taught by my father to be respectful to everybody, not to lose my temper when unjustly criticised, to be gentlemanly and to reason with an enemy who maligned mc; but when I encountered some fellow who could not be influenced by gocd manners and reason then, there was only one thing to do, take my coat off and lick hell out of him." And that's what Dr.

McDonald did here Wednesday night, speaking to the largest crowd that has packed the Pasquotank ounty courthouse since the famous Joshua Harrison I trial. Local Arm of The Machine Early in his speech McDonald was given a thunderous ovation when he denounced the attacks made upon him day in and day out by the Elizabeth City Dally Advance, using the word declaring that the editor of The Advance was an arm of the Gardncr-EhringhausHoey machine, on its pay roll for i services that were largely imaginary, and who was paid for the tacks that he is making upon the McDonald' candidacy. 1 And, altho speaking In Ehrlnghauses own home town, McDonald ripped into Ehringhaus mercilessly for his subservience to Gandncrism and the vested denouncing Ehringhaus for his refusal tb call a special session o( the Legislature for the relief 0t the ten efrtfttfir'to okT age pensions uoder the Roosevelt Social Security 1 Act. Max Finds Father Living Away From Homo i When Max Gardner was GovcrI nor he boasted of his Live-at-IIome platform. When he was no longer i governor, ho threw his Live-at Heme platform overboard and went to Washington where lobbyists get $1.00,000 fees instead of the paltry $3,000 to $5,000 fees paid by power companies in North Carolina." That quit) brought guffaws of laughter from the men and squeals of laughter from women in the aud cnce.

"in 1112 nrst primary campaign, stid McDonald. "I did not refer to my opponents by name and spoke of them always as gentlemen and i good citizens. But in the closing days of th2 last primary the Hooy crowd re erted to such malicious and damnable lying against me that I am compelled to strip Mr. i Hocy of his lo.ig tail coat and show to you some of the dirt that it is concealed under it. Lifts llocy's Coat Tail I And then McDonald charged that I an advertisement Inserted in a Negro newspaper in Durham, disI playing his picture, and to imply tthat he would nut Negro children in the same schools with i while children, was paid for by funds furnished by Hoey's State headquarters.

McDonald said he had affidavits from the publisher of the Durham Negro -newspaper in support of his charge. Reprints of ja page of the Negro newspaper was circulated thruout the Eastern counties on the eve of the June 6 primary, to the hurt of McDonj aid's candidacy. "I used to be considered a rather respectable person before the Machine crowd began i to talk about me," said McDonald, i' Forsyth County, where I have cd for eight years, gave me the greatest majority ever given a I candidate for governor in that counI ty. The chairman of the board of education in Cumberland County, 1 under whom I served as a teacher for three years, is my campaign manager in Cumberland County." I Dr. McDonald took a thrust at candidate Hoc-y for making camj paign thunder of the fact that he taught a big men's bible class in his home town.

"It happens that I teach a big men's bible class myI self, but I never thought it was a thing to brag about in politics. I I think to much of my church to drag it into a dirty political campla! gn such as this has developed to." Introduced to a friendly audience i by Mayor Jerome B. Flora, Dr. McDonald immediately took off hfcs kid gloves and sailed into his on Page Five).