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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
OLD FOLK BUNK
HAS NO OPLACE In
YOUTHS WORLD.

Woman suffrage and One
Hundred Per Cent American
ism were given a death blow
in a Junior City election i'll the
Elizabeth City High School
Yesterday when the student
body elected VIM. (Mike) Met
trey Mayor over all opponents.
Elizabeth City retail merchants
are staging Il program for Friday
and Saturday. May 18th and 18th
i'm which it is proposed to turn the
CITY over to the boys and girls. The
bows and girls elect their own city
administration and will sit i'll the
various city offices and take an ac-
five part in the business as well as
the political administration or the
town for two days.
of course there were numerous
candidates for the mayorhlty ana
the girls entered into the contest
with Zest The girls turned up their
noses when Mike Mettrey announced
his candidacy at Il late hour. Nike
is son of IN ASSyrian merchant do
in~ business on POindeXter st.
Mike is. Swarthy. has brown eyes.
coarse black hair and is every inch
Il foreigner.
But Mike has h;sh powered nu-
tomohile, is Il leader in athletics
and has made it his aSsiduous bust
ness to popularize himself with the
Scheol StiI. he might not have
had much of show but for the fact
that Billie Melick. campaign man
aver for candidate Helen Wells
made II speech in which she paid
her respects TO foreigners i'll general,
il is said. and paid her respects rs
we'll to all females who would sup
pori Il male for office. Rillle'S
speech didn't set well with the
school: the kids felt that Mike had
been unfairly treated. And the
school turned cut and voted for
Mike.
Mike Mcttrey. %warthY of skin
brown eyed. black haired every inch
n foreigner will sit mp and play at
the businpSS of being Mayor of Eliz-
aheth city Friday and Saturday.
MAY Is and 10. This Hundred Per
Cent AmcricaniSm stuff and Woman
Suffrage don't set well on the stun
micks of Elizabeth City High School
boys and girls.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
IS YOUR NAME ON THE
REGISTRATION cooks

Registration books are open for
the registration Of newly qualified
voters or for the Sc who have chang
oil their residence. The books are
open Saturdays. If you expect to
vote in the June Primary and are
not sure you are on the registration
books. better hunt up the registrar
i'm your ward if yOu live in town.
tr your precinct if You live in the
country. and get your name on the
books.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
DID THE TOXINS
OF WORRY KILL
DR.. NEWBERN?

Did DR.. John NJ. Newbern
wealthy Currituck County ply
sician die of a broken heart?
Something like that is believed
to have been the true cause Of
his sudden and unexpected
death in a. Norfolk hospital
Monday morning.
Worry kills: it is a fact conceded
by scientists as well as mCtaphysi-
clans that worry may effect vital
glandular SecretiOnS in the human
economy. charge the bC>ly with viO-
lent rOisonS and lower the normal
bodily resistance TO disease. Dr.
Newbern was victim of much
worry. He is known TO haze wor-
ried much over his Endorsements OH
certain notes for Il brother wh) had
encountered financial rever.;eS And
then
DR.. Newbern was taken - Nor
folk. Va. hospital last week for what
appeared to be simple case Of
mumps. No one took his hospitali-
zatiOn seriously. He died at five
o'clock Monday morning. The toxins
of 4 physical infection and. the
toxins of worry and humiliation fol-
lowing the scandal in which he had
become invC lved are believed to
have resulted in his death. He was
barely GO years old. apparently In
good health and conservative
liver.
DR.. Newbern bore a good name In
his county: He was for several
years Superintendent of Education
and made Il good job of it with the
means at hand. building new school
houses all over Currituck County.
Lately he was Judge Of the County
Court in his county.
Dr. Newbern was a lone widOwer,
living in Il comfortable home on Il
large farm near harrisburg. To
Grandy. the neighborhoOd just TO
the North of him came W. r. Leary
and wife shortly after the war.
Leary had served in the Word War
and had married pretty English
girl overseas. Leary was Il native
of Old Trap. Camden County. His
peopla had removed to Currituck
and it was among his people that
he brought his war bride.
Leary is sea captain and his
vocation takes him on long trips.
DR.. Newbern treated Mrs. Leary in
IN illness. Leary says that Dr..
Newhern took advantage of his posi-
ton as family physician to make
love TO his wife and win her af-
fectiOns. Many in the neighbour
hood resent the charge and say that
Leary neglected his wife and that
DR.. Newbern sympathized with her
and perhaps befriended her in sonia
ways.
1t is the opinion of some legal
minds that the suit of Capt. Leary
does not necessarily die with the
defendant: the plaintiff may sue
against the estate. And DR.. New
bern is said To have left consider
able estate. But the plaintiff will
get little sympathy and many think
the case will he dropped.
DR.. Newbern is survived by six
brothers. HOratio ID. Newbern. of
PowellS Point. Currituck County,
Nicholas e. Newbern. of Jarvis
burg. Herman Newhern of Cam
den and Tom. Albert and st.
Clair Newbern. of ByerS. Oklaho,
ma: two half brothers. Raymond
and Marshall Newbern. Il half sis
ter. Miss Carrie Newbern. and a
StepmOther. Mrs. J. p. WalStOn
all of Elizabeth City. He had nc
children. but leaves an adopted
daughter. Gladys Newbern.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
YOUR EYES AT WORK

Constant use Of your eyes in al
line working all day by artifici
light will lower their efficiency.
is wise to help your eyes with
pair glasses. correctly prescribe
Consult an eye specialist. DIR
J. ID. HATHAWAY, Carolina Bar
RIhlding. I'D
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
THE BEST is CHEAPEST

Breakfast 40c: lunch. meat or fish
with two vegetables, dessert, bread,
butter and coffee 45c; regular din
ner 75c. A room with private lava
tory $500
The Virginia Dare Hotel
Elizabeth City, N. G. adVtf
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04

Some clever thief tapped Il tiny
hole in IA front window of the Jewel
Box. jewpIry store in Greensboro
and used Il hooked wire TO fish OUT
rings. watches and other valuablcS
from the window amounting to 81
OCO No arrests have been made.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04

Both Mr.. Etheridge and Mr.. Law
renee have assured friends In this
city that their franchise holding
will not be employed in the obstruc1
ticn of any bridge building in Curl
rituck and Dare. t
TheO. y. Meekins of Manteo who
was IN the city this week asserts
that 10 one holds an exclusive
franchise to build g. bridge In Dare
County and that Dare will grant y
franchise to anybody and everybody
who wants to build a bridge.
Mr.. NIeekins also states that most
of the-original opposition In Dare td
a bridge being built elsewhere than
between Point Harbor and Kitty
Hawk Landing has subsided. "ltI
really makes little difference I'd.
Dare County where the bridge i;l
built: what we want is a bridge. \
says Mr.. Meekins. N.
And in the meantime the CurriIl
tuck &.Dare Bridge Co., original
promoters of a bridge are at a stand
still because the L. s. War Depart
ment has not yet acted upon thf
company's application for permis
sicn to build a bridge. Consent OF
the War Department is confidently
expected however. +
The talk of a rival bridge acrosi
Currituck Sound comes from Natt
Parker, a young man about tow1l
without capital and without apt
preciable credit, who is close to On{
Capt: Frank, Winch. Capt. Winchs
who is also net known to possestl
either capital or credit, is said to bf|
the man behind Nate Parker. II III
bridge can be built II newspapeII|
talk Mr.. Parker aaG Capt. Wincll
will build 1t. III
In his original announcements M1Il
Parker named r. Bruce Etheridgp|
of 1Ianteo and Wiley Coppersmit
of Elizabeth City as his possibly
hackers. Both OF these met
vehemently resent his having use.I
their names; they disclaim any col
nectlon with him or any sympath Y
with his schemes.
There Is every prospect that \
bridge across Currituck Sound vii
be built this year by rhe Currituc
& Dare Bridge Co. Ills company
is composed of-a local >gpaup. afnoDi
whom are W. G. Gather, l.. ft
Blades, =. Il. Parker. NJ. p. Galloti
and VI. b. Sawyer. all Of whom artt
interested i'm coastal real estate III;
Dare County. They have assurance,
of Il ready sale for their bridei
bonds. their plans are. drawn anI
they haye the interest CT the Staff
Highway Commission TO whose eDglS
ncers their plans will be submittedI
The bridge which these men prd
pose to build will have its terminrtl
OH the Currituck mainland 800 yarfln
from the present Point Harbd5|
ferry landing. 1t is said that TIL
Nate Parker project is 600 yar,
from Point HarbOr and would ELI
actly parallel the proposed Curr.n
tuck-Dare bridge. A few peops
right at Point HarbOr are oppose
to Il bridge any place except at tlt5l
present ferry landing. No one el3Il
seems to be excited about 1t. III
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
A BLACKsMITH'S PHILOSOPHY

Says our old friend Miles Jen-
ningS: I'm getting devilish tried Of
seeing these stuffed shirt judges,
full of bonded and imported liquors,
sending a lot of poor little devils to
prison for getting drunk on COM
mon moCnshine liquor"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04

fr1 lilu .''> w ~. rho
,...,niza;ion i kuown as tue
Il' b ,,~rina Produce Growers ',I''
m ,rI i, somewhat >imllI
"'I. ..,.rr shore Farmers A>So-
,l' D, 4. virginia. The idea ori-
a ~, ,,i,b ; Il. Scott. president
5l.s ,, 'r% rn, secretary Of the Eliz-
Il ,,;.r chamber Of Commerce
~ ~ lob was tiitingly made
|'I ...,rr,>urrr NJ. Of the orsaniza-
'''.,', ,5e meeting At Mt. Olive ,
" ,.,,,ia,iou WIS organized
'' il, fir the protection OF the
..."' ., If early white potatoes i'll
/ yorrb Carolina and starts
..1 membership repre>entihS'
mid y per cent Of the early
,,,.,n acreage in Eastern
I ,.,roIimi. EvcutWatly the
t,,i,n plans To- include III It's
r.,.bi, the growers of peas.
rirgrb rrrumher~. lettuce.
.,.- re9rhp>. melons amt
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
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The number Of books to b
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THE INDEPENDENT Z
p. o. Box 387 (
Elizabeth City, N. C.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04

BAUM oUI 4t5.rr,u ~, -,
o wou have thought it? enerprisng Elizabeth city boy!
| mn e agency for an washing machine few months ago
tv are distributors large number Northeasen Nort
;na counties for tile Easy Washing Machine selling washing ma
ho nv fine car load received solid load OF Easy washers
nv last week The Easy washer proving big seller In oot
town and country who thought Of handling the Washing
~ on efore are byng getting lot Of satisfaction
in a,ng te family wash family sud free from the NIX
I'M with eerybody the outside laundry And now they are
ont If t agency class; manufacturers their Appointment
as distributors full page advertisement in this newspaper to-day
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
WOULD NOT HOLD UP
CURRITUCK-DAR BRIDGE
Much Newspaper Talk Creates Uneasy Feel.
ing, But Doesn't Mean Anything, In
Opinion of Responsible Interests

Much daily newspaper talk about the building of any
bridge across Currtuck Sound between Point Harbor Cur
rtuck County and Kitty Hawk in Dare being blocked by
franchise held by R. Bruce Ethedge Manteo banker and
Lawrence construction engineer lightly regarded by those in
position to know what is going .' ~aF .af
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04

How to raise lambs profitably and
safely is explained i'll Experiment
Station bulletin 253 recently issued
by the State College of Agricul.
ture at Raleigh.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
SAUNDERS TO TALK TO
TWO WESTERN GROUPS
Elizabeth City Editor at University cf Mis-
souri, Wednesday and Altus, Okla.
Next Friday Night

w. O. Saunders. editor and publisher of THE lNDEPEN-
DENT goes Missouri and Oklahoma next week to tell two
Western audiences how he has made THE INDEPENDENT
one of the outstanding country weekly newspapers in
America.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-05-04
= PRODUCE GROWERS
HEADQUARTERS HERE
.,;or Formed This Week A Great For
As0'las,0 ss.n IN Eastern North Carolina Truck
salu Fruit Production and Marketing

81. ,r,na produce growers ASSOCIATION with head
rrzabcth City that should ultimately be clearing
a' irut and vegetable grower in Eastern North
@< < r.,. organized at Mt Olive n I, Wednesday, May
pin" "' ,;,ati,n begins TO function at once.
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27

that way must be kept in the con- sciousness of each operator as one of the fixed hazards like the actual construction of the car he oper- ates."
 Highway Belongs to All
 It is also necessary for the pedes trian to understand the importance of the sight line and to exercise common sense and though in all his walking. ''The old idea of prescrib- ing any place in the highway to walk-that is. for example. to say that a pedestrian must walk against traffic-hampers him in the free use of his brain. It is not to be eX- pected that there ever will anything except the most general laws gov erning walking in a highway. The highway belongs to all its users alike.
 Probably the pedestrian cannot be taken care of by safety engin- eering to any great extent. Educa- ton of the pedestrian by experience and study has made people uncom- monly able to take care of them- selves. As general rule judgment is good and when one considers the immense number of hazards to which pedestrians are exposed, the accident rate is singularly low. But in 50 far as it is possible to better conditions it should be done"
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
They Called Her Scrawny But
 Not For Long

1s your face drawn and rinched7 Your l skin fahhy ? Are "our cheeks sunksh with great holloUs under the eyes? Dc, | your figure show unbecomng angles il
 stead of the softly rounded slimness u youth
 All these conditions rob you of attrar tiyeness and make YOU look old Bu worst of all. these may actually be the symptoms of simple anacma-that dread
 ailment so often suffered by women There's nothing good as Mccoy $ i Tablets to put firm flesh. round out face and figure and build up rich red blood.
 So if you need few pounds of flesh to round out the holows, if you want
 10 ge, back odtme energy and health,
 get a box of McCoys Tablets today
 Just q short treatment will make you
 look and feel like a new person. Mr' oy takes all the risk-Eead this lronclad guarantee. If after taking 1
 sixty 'ent boxes of Mccoys Tablets or
 one Dollar boxes any thin underweigilt
 man woman doesn't gain at least 5
 pounds and feel completely satisfied with the marked improvement in health
 your druggist Is authorized to return the
 rur hase prize.
 Tn" nam" Mccoy's Cod Liver Oil Tab
 lets has been short rtened-just ask for
 McCo.'s Tablets at the Fair Dept. Store or any drug store in America.
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
Night Club Agents in
 New York Are Arrested

New York, Aug. 27 R-Agents for night clubs who injure the fair name of New York are to be gagged by the police.
 Several men soliciting business for clubs have been arrested for dis orderly conductd and the clubs for which they work have been searched for liquor law violations. These fellows make a practice of telling strangers that they can have their pick of the young women who work i'll the night clubs" said Police Captain Edward Lennon. in whose midtown precinct many of the night clubs are located.
 Anyone who accepts the solici- tors advice and goes to the clubs soon finds out that he has been mis- informed, but what hurts New York is that the stranger goes to his home out west and says that New York is wide open town. New York is the cleanest city in the world"
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
Stoeckel Reports Lack of Cooperation With State in Reducing Auto Col lisiOnS.

Hartford, Aug. 27-That there has been no general acceptance ol the necessity for adoption of scien- tlfic safety programs in connection with road conditions on the part ol cities and large towns in Come cti- cut is called to attention in the August bulletin of the state motor vehicle department, written by Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel Particular reference is made te dangerous conditions occasoned by the neglect on the part of those if charge of traffic to see that the so- called sight lines or view conditions for car operators are properly es' tablished.
 Tt may probably be a fact that on most corners and in most loca- tions where attention to this partic' ular traffic feature is directed says the missioner "the actual ob. struction 10 sight line is occasioned by a private individual. This needs to be considered, but it also prob- ably a fact that an active attempt on the part of city officials to get the cooperation of abutting own- CTS would succeed and should it not succeed, probably legislative action giving necessary powers for safety might be secured"
 Analytic Data of Accidents
 Lack of opportunity to secure in- formation concerning accidents which occur within city limits can not be held responsible for failure to study or correct conditions. It Is pointed out that there are avail able in the motor vehicle depart ment files thorough interpretations of all accidents. Where and how and when and why they occur is as- certainable as to every single place and individual. All the statistical data necessary to determine the type and probable cause of any ac- cident may be found. This material is for use; 1t has been offered and the cooperation of the state is ready. by assistance or advice"
 III QiSCusoIllS lIlc Sl6HL llIle, tliS missioner says that it is not fair to expect perfect operation unless it is possible for the operator to see a reasonable distance in every di- rection. He considers that the necessity of the open sight line is we'll understood by authorities hav- ing the matter of traffic direction within their authority. In the policy of the state highway department this principle Is an outstanding fea- ture of safety engineering. Corners are kept clear, warning signs erect cd and bushes are trimmed so that there is proper sight at every in- tersection and curve wherever the apartment has control. The same policy has never been thoroughly applied by the authorities of any city.
 With regard to the operator, Commissioner Stoeckel deems it criminal for a person to interfere with his own sight line If he knows better. and If he does not know bet ter. 'it is apparent that he ought not to be operating This state ment is especially directed at the use Of posters and signs on wind shields and windows of cars.
 Big Towns Accident Ccntcrs
 The seriousness of the situation is readily apparent. 1t is pointed out
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
Cities Ignore Safety Programs.
 Assuring Drivers of Clear View

in that more than 70 per cent ot all motor vehic.e accidents ill he site occur in cities of 10000 popu- lation or more. Last year. approxi- mately 10000 of the 26.0Oo acci' dents occurred in 33 of the l69 towns Of the state.
 City traffic is important enough, certainly" says the commissioner that not only should compre- hensive traffic plan be made, but every intersection and corner should be studied and written records and recommendations be a part of every city program"
 Effect has been made for long time, he says, to convince city au- thorities of the need for such a policy. In particular he mentions the case of one large city where It is possible today to point to place after place where sight lines are imperfect and where traffic direc- ton would help the individual to manage his problem" Officials there have been in entire agree ment with suggested plans, he says, but nothing has ever been done beyond talk about it."
 There might be constructive criti- cism of this statement, the commits sioner admits. If it were claimed that a woman passenger wearing a picture hat interferes with the operators sight line, within the limitation of the law. It is a fact that a woman on the back seat be- comingly dressed can and does on occasion do just that, but Is seems to be beyond the possibility of sug- gestion or dictation to interfere with human practice and customs, and especially with woman's dress to any extent whatever. so that the hazard, If it be such. occasioned in
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
EASTERN STATIONS
1O2O-WODA, Paterson-2s4

1O20-WODA, Paterson-2s4
 s10-Victory hour
 7-Piano capers
 7:l0-Jimmy Love's music
 7:30-Associated Merchants
 7:45-Safety talk: Smedick. bari
 tone
 S:l5-Arthur Kane, tenor
 s:3o-Silk City Mando quartet
 1l2O-WGCP, Newark-26s
 5-Merchants program
 s-Danny Hopes Play Boys
 s:50-Holly Park ] 7-Imperial Imps 7:30-Philip Harrison program
 112O-WNJ, Newark-26S 1 S:01-Billy Jordan, melody man s:15-Julips and Sebastian
 S:30-Billy Jordan. melody man s:45-Poems of Inspiration 1 9-Orchestra
 74O-WTI, Phiiadelphia-40o 7-"Wealth.' Irving Fisher 74O-WLIT. Philadelphia-4O5 5:05-Childrens twilight hour Q. u " lllid III l tllii SluD PNi'S S-Around the piano S:30-Same as WEAF | 11-Orchestra
 S8O-WlP, Philadelphia-348 6 s:3O-Harmony Kings 6:55-Department of Agriculture 115O-WCAU, Philadclphia-2Gi 5-This and That Revue | 6-Musical menu 1 6:3O-Orchestra | Musical Chefs 7:3o-Snellenburg program S-Hornung hour 9-Same as WOR 11:05-Orchestra f1OO-NPG, Atlantic Ctty-2.3 6:45-Organ recital 1:O5-Dinner concert 7:45-Talk; Hugh Ross S-Dance orchestra s:30-Recital by artists 9-Concert orchestra o:30-Orchestra 10-"The knickerbockers 10:3O-Troubadours ll-DanCe orchestra s8O-WGY, Schenectady-3SO 6-Stock reports: news G;c5-Scores; race results 6 6:30-Orchestra
 7-"Wealth.' Irving Fisher i7:15-OrChestr 7;So-General Electric program Del Staiger. cornetist. Harolo Butler, baritone 8:3o-Samc as WEAF 11-Cavaliers
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
How 10 Remove Automobile Grease
 From Hand.

An easy way to get your hands clean of automobile grease is to wet them and pour on 2 few drops of Sylpho-Nathol. undiluted, and rub in as you would liquid soap. This mar velous antiseptic-deodoran instantly cuts the oil, disinfects. deodorizes Prevents soreness. Keep a bottle of Sylpho-Nathol in the garage. At all dealers.
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27
Through he Static

The dramatic story of Captain
 James Cook, English explorer. and tho tragic fate he met when he dis covered tl1. Hawaiian Islands. will be told 1n ralio drama with q back ground of Hawaiian music. during il program which will be hroaica~t through NTIC al 9:3o. %.lcctions nt European masters will be feaiure during d musical program to b. broadcast through h" same station at $50, th" open ing number being the famous supp" overture Poet and Peasant. which will be followed by th" "qually as famous ''Nalse l5lurttr" of Drigo. other numbers includ" Gri"s $ "Pccr Gynf Suit" No. L. Gounod s
 "Alo Maria" DrlGo's '1;'concilla- ton Polka" Bondixs southern Rev"rie" and popular toN-trot melody.
New Britain herald., 1928-08-27

A descriptive piece, ''In a Bird Store.' by Lake, will be played by a concert band under the direction of Harold Sanford. during a con- cert period to be broadcast through WBZ at o'clock. Other selections include Suppe's Jolly Robbers" Fischers That Stolen Melody" se- lections from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman" Galloway's Gypsy Trail' and Meyers Happy Go Lucky I.ane.'