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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
BENTON'S CREDITORS
STOP MORTGAGE SALE
Contention M a de That Mortgage Given
Father-in-law on Store Stocks Is Not
Valid On Its Face

Creditors OF {. L. Benton,
bankrupt will question the
mortgage given by Mr.. Benton
10 his father-in-law Hillary
Cartwright last August cover
ing the entire stock OF mer-
chandisc, store fixtures and
good will OF the business con-
Quoted by Benton at No. y
South PoindcXtcr st. Ihcy
will ask the courts 10 declare
the mortgage invalid in its face
Benton gave his notes for S6'3oo
to Mr.. Cartwright, due and payable
on Jan. 1, 1928. The notes were
secured by a chattel mortgage. On
Ian. 1st Mr.. Cartwright closed. the
Rcptou store under his mortgage
and advertised the stock and IN
turcs 10 he sold Friday. Jan. 2Olh.
ON Ian. 7th Benton filed Il petition
in bankruptcy.
Came Jan. 10Th and there was no
ale. Mr.. Cartwright was restrained
from selling and compelled 10 turn
over the keys to ThOS. Z. Lassell'
trustee for other creditors of Benton
whose claims total $t273.73.
The creditors Of Benton will en-
dcayOr to have the mortgage 10 Mr..
Cartwright set aside on legal
technicality. They contend that
under the laws of North Carolina
\ mortgage OH chattelS Is void Ii the
mortgage does not provide that
moneys received from the sale OF
any of the mortSaged articles shall
be applied to the liquidation OF the
mortgage. There WHs no Sucll
proviSion in the mortgage and If the
creditors gain their point Mr.. Cart
wright will kc out Of luck.
II is not contended that there was
ANYTHING in the making of the mort
rage that was not bona fide. Ben
toms indebterness to his father-in-
| law is not questioned: ii is only con-
tended that Mr.. Cartwright's at
t0rney slipped in not drawing up the
mortrarc n 1ccord with the slficS
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27

"MichigHn aint much Of Il place
for lawyers, is it," said the Soda
.JcrkCr 10 the Bank Clerk.
And why do YOU say that: ask
cd the Bauk Clerk.
Il was thinking about that Hotel
linz case" the Soda .IcrkCr C"ntinu-
ed. Alfred Iiotcllins, Il pictiStir
deacon in the church, prayer meet
inw leader, revival ShOutCr aud all
that. kidnlpS Il little girl cuts her
body up with Il razor, throws the
pieces in Il creek.
"Out in Michigan they capture
him one day. fry him the nest day
and then put him away IN IL little
cell all by himself 10 stay for the
rest Of his life and think about his
Nervousness.
"Why if that crime had happened
in New York. Chicago. Los Angeles
or bcrc in North Carolina. IL dozen
lawyers would have wranslcd for
six months and the case would have
been on the front pages Of thc news
papers in poster type from now uu-
til next Armisticc Day. What's the
anSwcr:'
1T is like This" explained tho
Bank Clerk. I'm Michigan capital
punishment has been abolished
Capital felCnS are sentenced 10 hard
labor in solitary confinement foI
life. 1t makes it easier TO get Il
trial and get u conviction. The
fouleSt murdererS have Il lot OF
sympathy if threatened with the
electric chair or the gallUws. Re
move those horrors and no one cares
Il whU0p for them or makes mucl
o = lirL. f. @-Gnl. g they L&G
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
Outlook for Peas and
Beans Is Good Now

The outlook for carly garden
pcas and beans Is more favorable
than in any recent year, in the opin-
in- of the Scott Pred Co. OF this
city. Discouraged by the low prices
of last spring and fall. many farm
crs have abandoned peas and beans
altogether. Others have curtai!ed
their acreage. Those who pant
stand a show TO benefit by a short
crop: unless the idea gets abroad
that everybody is curtailing and
everybody tries TO get ahead OF
everybody else by planting mere
peas than ever.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27

WALLER L. SMALL. Solicitor Of
the First Judicial District and \.
Elton Aydlett have formed a part
ncrship for the general practice OF
law. They will move their Offices
TO Nos. 4O3 and 4O5, in the Carolina
Bank Building on February 1st,
where they will have larger quart
crs. MIR. Aydlett, who is p years
of age, is the son Of \. T. Aydlett,
of Elizabeth City. He was educated
at the University of North Carolina,
10th in academies and law. MIR.
Aydlett has been practicing law in
Hamlet, n. C., for the past two
years. making his early mistakes at
the expense of another community
before settling down to practice on
the folks in luis own home town. And
that was darn nice of Elton, whose
photo appears herewith
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
OHCap inBan
OF The Coast
Guards Dead

Captain Ban is dead Capt
Little Bannister Midget, ono
OF the mcst picturesque char
acters ever known to the north
Carolina ;coastland fell asleep
in a chair at the home OF his
son at Bodie Island Coast
Guard Station Tuesday after
noon, Jan. n.
And so, peacefully. ended a life
that had battled with the storms
Of the Carolina COastland for more
than a half century. Capt. Midget
n veteran Of the cid L. S. Life Say
iug Service had in his day partici'
mated in the rescue of so many as Il
thousand lives from scores OF ship
wrecks which he had attended.
lie was Il robust. sinewy. agile
outstanding. fearless swashbuckier
of q type that is rapidly passing
lie was possibly more OF Il hero III
his own eyes in his declining years
than he was in the eyes Of those
who knew him in his more active
days: lie was nevertheless Il brave
and lcvablc soul upon whom God
should smile indulgently when he
struts mp to the pearly gates and
tells the Recording Angel that he
"iust aint cot half the record.
Can't. Midget was rs years old
last May. lie loved his women his
wine and his God. And everybody
loved Captain Ban.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27

REPRESENTATIVE |O:m y. Gar
ner. of Texas, ranking member CT
the House Ways and Means Com
mittec and orc Of the oldest, one OF
the ablC>t and one of the most u,-
ruential nen in Congress pays this
tribute to the young Congressman
from the First Congressional Dis
,rict Of Norti, GarOiiaa. Says Mr..
Garner: There are three attributes
Of a good Congressman: They arc
intelligence, Industry and courage;
Lird>ay Warren possesses all three
in great measure" Representative
Garner voices the opinion OF many
of The older members Ct Congress
vino have CCmr TO iUiGW and enter
tain a high regard for the Repre-
sentative frcm this district.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
HOW SHALL CURRITUCK
SOUND BE BRIDGED?
Private Capital Now Ready and Lager; But
Wouldn't Present and Future Public Inter-
est be Best Served by State Construction?

Shall private capital or the
State build a bridge across
Currituck Sound, from Point
IIarbor to Kitty Hawk. giving
tho State an unbrokne highway
from Manteo to Murphy has
suddenly become a question
! that must be settled pretty
soon.
TEE Currituck and Dare Bridge
Corporation. authorized capital
100000 whose purpose is 10 build
bridge across Curriturw Sound
Vas chartered this week. The in
cOrpcratorS are I. G. Blades s. +.
Parker and VI. 3. Sawyer, Of Eliz-
ateth City.
Hardly had this fact been made
public wheu a meeting of the region
al council Of the Kill Devil Hills
Memorial Association At III" Nir-
Sinia Dare Hotel Wednesday night
took decisive steps to interest the
State Highway Commission and pr
pare to ask the next General Assem-
bly, Of North Carolina To provide It
lermauctlt bridge arrUSS Currituck
Sound.
Local capitalists. appreciatinS the
urgent need of this bridge and hav-
lug satisfied themselves that Il pri-
vately owned toll bridge across Cur
riturk Sound will pay, are eager to
make the investment. Their sur
vcyS have been made. engineering
concerns ar" ready 10 proceed i'm
me-liatrly with construction and
there is Il ready market for the
bonds the local capitalists propose
To issue.
Dut the bridge 10 tc built by pri-
yatc capital Tould br cTcoSotcd
wood structure. the life of whirh is
no: assured for more than ~ or -
years. Ths State doesn't build S'rh
structures; State highway bridges
are built OF enduring cement and
steel 10 last for centuries.
II is ncIrly three miles across
Curriluck Sound. 4 bridge alTo>S
this SmInd would &c approximately
i7rice rs long as Chovan River
Bridge at Etcn,Dn. But It would
not be 50 costly bcrauSs IL would
1 traverse shallow waters requiring
piles approximately only one bali
the length uf the piles used for the
! Chowan River hridS".
JltimatCiy The State will bridge
Curriturk Sound But ii tempo
rary privately owned toll bridge is
built now the State will hardly l."
! interested in bridging Currituck
: sound while the wooden brtdG"
serves the situation reasonably we'll.
; Aud - what Shal! ~. done about
it,: The Xiii Devil Hills Memorial
. Association appointed Il committee
I 10 study the problem and confer
with the State Highway ConImiS-
sion. The committee is Cm0po>cd
nt W. -. Saunders and L. II. Viii
! liamS. Of Elizabeth city: T. :.
White, Of Hertford; Il. l.. Grig"S,
oC Point IarbOr and d. W. Baglcy.
If hOyvC6.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
YOUR EYES At WORK

Constant use of your eyes III any
line, working all day by artltlclal
light will lower their efficiency. 1t
is wise TO help your eyes Win i
pair glasses. correctly prescribed.
an eye specialist. l'hS.
J. ID. HATHAWAY, Carolina bank
Building, 2c!
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27
SAUNDERS TO SPEAK
TO NORFOLK LlCNS

W. o. Saunders will talk to the
Lions dub of Norfolk at the weekly
luncheon at the Monticello Hotel
Wednesday, Feb. 2nd. His sub
iect will be: "What's The Mater
With Norfolk" The editor viii
speak for ten minutes ard IN mat
time he can hardly begin t. tell all
the things the matter with Nc--olk.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27

--C;oyprnOr Mclean this week parol-
Cd three State prisoners. And COM
nIuted another. The three pardOncd
we're Il. +. Davis. Lenoir county,
Sherman IIaney, Haywood county
and Paul BlackOwOd, Macon county.
Th" communication went to Minnie
Brown Of Lenoir. All had been con
yicteJ for violating tt. Prohibition
low
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-01-27

WE will pay yen three cents a
pound fcr COOL clean rags, no
ctr;,oc TITr CrT' H''''>
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
GRAND IGLIOO PIONEERS
 EIAECT NEW OFFICERS

Information has reached the Mug get through friends in the First Di- vision concerning the recent cleo tion of grand officers for the Grand Igioo of the Pioneers of Alaska. Eric Forse. of Ketchikan. s3 years of age, was elected Grand President at the close of the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Pioneers of Al aska which met at Ketchikan March 13. The next session will meet February 18th next at Cordova. Thomas Gaffney of Nome was elected First Grand Vice President. Paul Rickert of Fairbanks was elected Second Grand Vice presi- dent.
 George Love. of Valdez. Grand Secretary
 c. NJ. Brosius, of Seward. Grand Treasurer
 Rev. W. p Corser, of Wrangell. Grand Chaplain.
 IeS. fdtuer A. [. hdSHtSdTOu, of Juneau. Grand Historian.
 The question of haying a dis charging officer appointed for the Alaska insane at Morningside Sani tarium at Portland was referred, in resolution to the Secretary of the Interior through Governor Geo. A. Parks. The aim expressed is to have a competent and qualified off cer make discretionary discharges tion if a cure is effected.
 The idea of the discharging off cer or physician originated with Hon. Thos. Gaffney.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
LOCAL NEWS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY HARRISON
 RETURNS BY AIRPLANE

, U. s. District Attorney Fred liar rison arrived in Nome last Saturday evening on Noel Veins Stinson De troiter cabin plane, making the trip from Fairbanks in one day. The plane stopped at Nenana. Ruby and Nulato with mail.
 Mr. Harrison left here on the last boat last fall for treatment Outside. He spent most of the winter at the Neitro Sanitarium on Brooklyn ave- nue. Seattle. and two weeks in Ju- neau under Dr. Barton. chiro- practor, where he says he showed marked improvement in his condi- tion.
 MT. Harrison is somewhat inn proved as a result of his treatment Outside but is not we'll yet. but is still improving slowly
 MT. Harrison saw many friends in Seattle and other towns he vis- ited. but they were so numerous he cannot remember all of them.
 In Ketchikan he saw Hart Hum Der. Geo. B. Grigsby. Judge Vim. A. Holzheimer and others. who are all we'll known in Nome and are all in fine health and prosperity.
 At Juneau he saw J. c. Widstead who was recently appointed to the Alaska Game Commission, vice T. D. Jensen, resigned Widstead is coming back to Nome on the first boat Judge Reed left Juneau for the Outside two days after MT. Har- rison arrived there. He was very sick man. MT. Harrison says, and was on his way outside for treat ment.
 Enroute from Juneau to Fair banks many old acquaintances were met but too numerous to mention.
 At Fairbanks MT. Harrison met many old Nomeites, including Mir. and Mrs Frank Dufresne. who are
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
FINE INCOME PROPERTY

In Alaska's fastest growing city Fairbanlzs-for sale on reasonable terms. Tweavs room modern house, completely furnished. in business district, suitable for boarding hoase Or r0omers. Thoroughly renovated inside and out. New foundatie0 corrugated hOn roo4, steam heat- Fine income property as well as providing splendid homo for owner. including 3 tWo-soom housekeeping Apaxtments. Must sell because of business interests elsewhere. Part payment wfl close deal. Available March 1. Address B0x 1882. An choiWge, :Aiaslka.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
CHURCH NOTES
NOME FEDERATED CHURCH Rev. R. z. Newton. Pastor.

Sunday School. ........... 11:oo A. M.
 We are having a good Sunday School. Come out and be with us Sunday. Sunday is palm Sunday; next week is known as Passion week" It Is so called because of the suffering and death of Christ. He gave his life for you. What have you given for him?
 All cross words are not puzzles and tennis courts do not furnish all the rackets. but Christ can help in the working out of the puzzle, and delivering from the racket. There is a grace and disgrace. When one comes in the other goes out. Come and worship with us Sunday. Special music. Commun- ion services.
 Church Worship -.----..--,-7:45 PM.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To: C. Sims. your and each of your
 heirs. executors, administrators

To: c. Sims. your and each of your
 heirs, executoFs, administrators
 legal representations and assigns.
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned as CO., owner herein. has expended the sum of one hundred dollars for each Of the fiscal years 1925. 1928. 1921 and 1928 in labor and i'm provement on and for the benefit Of No 9 Above Discovery on Bry Creek Placer Mining Claim. situat- ed in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording District. Territory of AL aska. Location Notice of which is recorded in Vol. POS, Page 23l of the Records of said District. in the performance of the annual labor required by Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States, and supplemental legislation. in order to hold said claim.
 And you are hereby required to contribute your proportion of such expenditure. according to your in terest in said claim, to the under signed co-owner with you therein, within ninety days after the service of this notice on you by publication thereof, or your interest in said claim will become forfeited. and vest in the undersigned, as proyid- ed by said Statute.
 J. ". CHARLES. Co-owner,
 Publish March 10, IT. 24, 3l. April :, IA. 21. 2s, May 5. 12. 1s. 26. June ?. 1928.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

doing we'll.
 Mir. Harrison wound up his inter- view with representative of the Nugget by saying that he expects to visit his ofice daily from now on. He says he spent thirty years in the Interior and this trip Outside cost him one hundred dollars for each year he spent in the Interior.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
NJ. F.. CHURH
R4,y. ". Y. BALDWIN, Pastor

11:0O A. N. Morning Worship and Sabbath School. Good Sing ing. Come out this sabbath, Class es for all.
 FOO P. NJ. Evening Worship. Is Minutes Popular Song Service. Responsive Reading. Prayer. Spec ial Music. Offering and Sermon.
 Meeting for the mothers in the Church Wednesday 200 p. m. un- der the leadership of Miss Strople. All mothers of the Church come out.
 Praise and Prayer Service We'd nesday night at seven.
 Next week is Holy Week. Re member our services on Easter Sunday. The Birthday of the greatest event in the history of the Christian Church.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

HARD TIMES RAIL, \. B. HALL. 9:3O P. NJ. Saturday, March RI Gentlemen Admission Dance Floor S1.OO. Ladies, Dance Floor free Spectators Gallery 50 Cents
 PUBLIC INVITED
 "JAZZHOTNDS"
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

"What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul." Or what shall man giye in ex- e1change.''
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

In Church Edifice. corner of Stedman and Third Avenues at II A. M. Sunday. April 1st. 1928. Subject: Unreality.
 The Public is cordially invited.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31
N o T I 0 E

DiAnks for use in making appti- caklDn for assistance under tho Psuspeetors Aid Bill, can be had 0y sAlling ae the Nome Nugget o0- @. Any bona0de prospector nay rSeeive from tho territory a sum nu& te excesa el6o.ee for trsasoor tak1oa for himself. supplies aad eoutp0ent for prospecting tor min e4aa substances, h the Territory es AlaskA.
 Telephone Your Subscrfptfon to the
 NAgget at Oaee.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-31

Nome is the quitting base for ap Alaska exploring expeditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. % (UP)
- Seven men were killed, three are
dying and six others were overcome
today by lethal acid fumes when the
freighter Steel Inventor, on which
they were stowaways, was fumigated
for yellow fever at Quarantine, off
Hawkins Point.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25

In Maine and New Hampshire Par
ty conventions have already been
held, state tickets nominated and
presidential electors secured. In adj
dition to the Party members, many
non-Party sympathizers are helping
in the campaign and several have
agreed to act as Communist electors.
Despite the tremendous difficulties
confronting the comrades in getting
the Party on the ballot in Maine,
they are determined to put up real
battle against the Republican Party
and establish the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party as a militant political
factor in that state.
Connecticut Coming.
Comrade Trachtenberg reported
that District Is, under the direction
of Comrade Charles Mitchell, district
organizer and campaign manager is
sure to be on the ballot. Tho a
small state, Connecticut is the home
of several large industries, and the
population of many cities in the state
is more than so per cent industrial.
The obstacles placed in the way of
getting the Party on the ballot in
Connecticut can be seen from the
fact that tho small, it requires 5000
signatures to get new Party, or
party not legal in the sense of
election regulations, on the ballot.
Over half the necessary number OF
signatures have been already col
lected.
Urge Worker Correspondence.
Those who are collecting sigma
lures are invited by the National
Election Campaign Committee to
write their experiences in the form
of workers correspondence for the
benefit of the readers of the Com
munist Press. Those stories in adj
dition to having intense human inter-
est are excellent propaganda and will
serve to encourage the Party mem
bership as a whole to participate in
this most important campaign work.
The prospects for waging a splen-
did campaign in New England are
bright, Trachtenberg says, and the
probability that all the New England
states with the exception of Ver-
mont, with their tremendous work
ing class population will be on the
ballot, will establish the Workers
+ (Communist) Party in that section
of the country, as the political lead
err and the organizer of the masses
in the class struggle against capital
ism and the capitalist government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25

All members of Section 2 are urged
to participate in the Red Sunday
Drive for the collection of funds for
the Workers (Communist) Party
election campaign. Members should
report to 1874 watkins st. this Sum
daY. at 9 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25

of the meeting as 'hoodlums. ;"
Upon this, the officer had arrested
her.
fairfield Scores.
fairfield next testified as to what
had occurred, stating definitely that
the policeman who arrived in the
nick Of time, after he had been
brutally beaten, made no effort to
prevent the assault. During his tes-
timony court official came
in and whispered in the ear
of Judge Paul U. DAILY. I'm
mediately the Judge walked
out of the court room and recess
was declared for a few minutes.
The nature of the closed-chamber
consultation and the identity of the
person consulted was not revealed.
In finding Rebecca Grecht guilty
Of disorderly conduct, Judge DAILY
refused to consider the circum-
stances of the case, refused to take
into consideration the breaking up
of the Communist meeting and the
assault on the Communist speakers,
refused to censure those responsible
for the assault, and refused to CEN
sure the policeman for failure to
make arrests or even inquiries as to
those responsible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25


The annual picnic and concert OF
the Freiheit Gesangs Verein will be
held sumo day, September 3, at
Pleasant Bay Park An original
program of songs has been arranged
for the occasion.
Tcor'' Concert.
On Saturday night, Sept. 20, at
Town Hall, 1923 West 43rd St, a
concert will be held for the benefit
of Jewish COLOMBIA ton in the Soviet
Union and the new Jewish territory
Brio Bidjan."
office workers Union.
On Monday, Aug. q, at s p, m. the
office Workers Union will hold an
open air dance on the roof garden
OF the Hecksher Foundation.
United Council of working '@yormen
Today the Newark Council $40. /
will hold an open air meeting, at
Springfield and 18th AYES, Newark,
n. J. Joseph Cohen, Eva Shaffern
and other speakers will address the
meeting.
A meeting will be held today
131st st. and It'll Ave. Subject, the
exploitation of Negro women in in
dustry. Speaker to be announced
Brownsville Sncco Meet.
The Brownsville branch of the l.
L. D. will hold a Sacco-V anzetti mem
orial meet Thursday, Aug. 80 at
p. m, at Bristol St and Pitkin Ave,
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25
Mine DISTRICTS
DRIVE FOR union
Leaders Prepare for
Convention
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Continued from Page One
the wage cut that Harry Fishwick,
Lewis and the coal operators are
attempting to force upon them. In
Springfield, Tony Minerich and
John Watt exposed John w. Hind
marsh's dealings in a debate which
has inflamed all Southern Illinois,
Even the children shout labor
fakerw when the Lewis henchmen
mount platform. Illinois, always
in the forefront of miners struggles,
will have a big delegation from
every part of the state at the ma
tional miners convention in Pitts
burgh.
Anthracite Active.
The Silverbrook local in the hard
coal region was the first to receive
a charter for the new miners union.
The anthracite miners know that it
would be fatal to allow themselves
to be split away from the soft coal
miners as some company hired trait
ors in the ranks are suggesting
They know that one united front of
bituminous and anthracite miners
under honest and militant leadership
is the goal of the progressive move
ment. The tri-district will send a
strong delegation to help build the
new union.
The proof of Lewis union-wreck-
ing program is arriving at the Ma
tional Miners Convention Arrange
ments Committee headquarters, in
the form of credentials from the
former union fields of Maryland
Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma,
Kentucky, the southwest and far
west. This proves that the miners
want union and that Lewis has
deliberately broken district after dis
trict. Now these miners are mobil-
izing their forces for to affiliate
them with the new miners union.