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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05

"What'll all the mOOnShln-
ers around East Lake do if the
eighteenth amendment is repeal
ed?" | asked a citizen of Man.
teo, the capital of Dare coun-
ty, when l was there last week.
They'll be out Of luck" he re-
piled. Nobody knows how
many of 'em there are, but my
guess is somewhere around two
hundred. If repeal goes through,
even though hard liquor re-
mains outlawed in North Caro-
lima, they'll be out of luck; for
their market extends far beyond
the state. Their stuff is ship
ped out in boats, and sometimes
in automobiles, to Norfolk and
other far-off places.
''If liquor is legalized they'll
have to go back to wOrk-fish-
ing and farming. At least some
of them will. Others will just
drift into loafing and stealing.
And others will try to keep on
with their blockading, lodging
the government tax and under
selling legal liquor. There are
young men who have grown up
in the business, who've never
known any other way of making
living, and they'll do almost
anything rather than settle
down to the poorly paid toll of a
fisherman or a farmer I'm
afraid they're going to be a
considerable problem for the
county"
East Lake, on the shore of
Alligator river, on the mainland
of Dare County, has become IA
nous as a center of the illicit
liquor industry. It's back coun-
try, great reaches of swamp land
covered with a tangle of under
growth, is ideal for the opera
|tions of the moonshiners. Creeks,
dark and quiet and deep, wind
down to the river-which is not
so much a river as an arm of
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
A Visit to ManteO

Albemarle sound - and along
these are hidden the stills. A
still may be found and broken
up now and then by local or fed
eral officers, but the effect of
these sporadic raids has no Wis
ible effect upon production.
There was a time when a
rather serious effort was made
to thwart the East Lake block
aders, but the authorities have
just about given it up as a hope
less job. One reason for this,
it appears, is that there is no
powerful public sentiment
against the manufacture of
liquor. When the blockaders are
apprehended and hailed into
court they usually get off with
small fines, and sometimes they
get off scot free. gathered
that the country around Roanoke
island was weary of the idea of
trying to combat the liquor in
dustry. Blockading has come to
be part Of what soclologlsts
call the established mOres of the
region.
In Manteo itself and on the
rest of Roanoke island there is
no outward evidence of an out
lawed trade. OF course there is
drinking among the natives and
the visitors, but no more than
in other North Carolina COM
munities. The liquor. is made in
the mainland section of the
county, and most Of it is market
ed without coming near the is
land. Manteo is a placid-easy-
going village, and as well-behav-
ed a place as you'll find any
where.
On this trip | saw eastern
North Carolina blooming like the
rose. 1t was the absolutely per-
feet season. Warm, but not too
warm, and gentle spring breez-
Continued on page t1OO)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
Captain Peel

Captain E. H. Peel, Jere Par
ker, and the Dare county sher-
if, Victor Meekins, all of Man
teo, drove into Chapel Hill for a
short visit yesterday morning.
While Mr.. Meekins attended to
a business errand, Mr.. Parker,
who knows Chapel Hill, took the
Captain on a sightseeing tour
of the village.
Captain Peel is a retired Of
ficer Of the United States Coast
Guard. Born and brought up on
Cape Hatteras, he is famous as
one of the most intrepid life
savers on the eastern seabeard.
He holds medals from the Unit
ed States government and from
the German government for
saving 80 members of the crew
of the steamship Brewster
which was wrecked on Diamond
Shoals before the World War.
The crew were Germans, and
soon after the news of the res
cue reached Berlin the Kaiser
sent the medal to the North Car
Gilman.
Captain Peel is 6S years old,
but he looks hardly more than
so. He is slender and bronzed
and wiry.
In the course of his conversa-
ton with the editor he came to
the subject of beer.
II like it," he said, "and I'm
glad it's been made legal. I've
been reading in the papers about
how Bishop Mouzon says that
Methodists shouldn't have any
thing to do with beer, with
drinking it or dealing in it, if
they want to stay in the church.
Im interested in this because
Pm a lifelong Methodist myself.
If all the Methodists who drink
beer or have to do with the beer
business get out of the church
I'm afraid the church will lose
a large proportion of it's men,
bers, maybe more than half of
| 'em.
Under persuasion, Captain
Peel told Of some of his life
saving exploits. The Brewster
was one of many ships whose
crews he and his men brought to
shore during his long service
with the Coast guard.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
COnnOr President Of Rotary

r. d. w. Connor has been
elected president of the Chapel
Hill Rotary Club in succession
to T. s. McCorkle. George P.
Butler was elected vice-presi-
dent and E. Darlington Smith
sergeant-at-arms. Dudley Mil
Ter remains secretary-treasurer.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
MintOn to Speak Here

Wilson p. Minton of the Com
mission of Missions of the
Congregational and Christian
churches will speak in the
United church at 1880 Sunday
evening on "The Sino-Japanese
Situation" He has recently re-
turned from the Orient.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
The Art Exhibition

The exhibition of the North
Carolina Professional Artists
club in the Hill Music hall will
remain open through Saturday,
May 13. 1t is free to the public.
The hours are: 10 A. NJ. to l
P. NJ, 2 to s p. M, and Z to
8 p. M.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
Chapel Hill Chaf

The first keg of legal beer
opened in Chapel Hill blew DR..
B. B. I.loyd's hat off. He was
leaning forward eagerly when
the plug was removed from the
bung-hole. There was more
than the expected volume of gas
in the keg, and the physician,
though he leapt backward alert
ly enough to keep his face out
of the geyser that sprang up
through the hole, was not alert
enough to save his hat. The
geyser caught it under the brim
and sent it whirling. If trust
worthy person had not told me
this | wouldn't believe it. / am
we'll acquainted with DR.. Lloyd's
hat-everybody is; it is one Of
Chapel Hills most celebrated
spectacles-and my notion was
that the brim had neither the
substance nor the area that
would permit even a tornado to
get a purchase on it.
G.. Y. C. Buice was in the vii
lage this week, looking more
like AL Smith than ever. | chron-
icled this resemblance several
years ago, and since then sever
al persons have told me that
they noticed it.
"Do you ever hear this men
toned in your travels" | ask
cd Mr.. Buice when | met him in
Eubanks' store day before yes
terday.
ooh, yes, somebody's always
discovering it," he replied.
"When | was sitting in a hotel
lobby the other day, a man kept
walking past me and eyeing me.
At last he came up and intro
duced himself, and when | told
him my name he said: "Well, |
lust wanted to make sure wheth-
er or not you were AL Smith"
This recalls to me an acquain-
tance of mine in New York thir-
teen years ago, a newspaper man
named Boddington, who resem-
bled closely Prince Henry OF
Prussia. They had the same
pointed beard, tall, slender fig
ure, and lordly bearing. The
Prince came to visit New York
and for days was the most pho
tographed and talked about per-
son in the city. Boddington,
walking along Fifth Avenue and
the corridors of the Waldorf,
was stared at by the crowds, and
heard people saying There's s
Prince Henry" in awed whis-
pers. He enjoyed it immensely,
and his friends charged him
with neglecting his work in or
der to devote the hours to strut
ting for the admiration of the
Dublic.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
Carroll to Speak Sunday

D. d. Carroll, dean of tn"
University's school of commerce,
will speak at the Baptist church
Sunday morning. His topic will
be Changing Conceptions of
God"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05
A DISPLAY of Irises

William L. Hunts collection
of irises is on display in his gar
den on North street near Hen
derson street.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-05-05

Rev. E. McNeill Poteat of Ra-
leigh will deliver the commence
ment address at the Chapel Hill
school Saturday evening, June
3.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
10000 Expected to View
Procession As Capital
SaIutes Recovery
Prosperity is in the air.

Prosperity is in the air.
Tonight Washington will cele-
brate National Recovery Day
with giant parade, brilliant
fireworks display, and a mass
meeting to herald the return of
better times.
Led by Brig. Gen. Hugh S.
Johnson, national recovery admin
istrator, more than 10000 citi-
zens are expected to watch TO-
900 representatives of civil, busi-
ness, labor and military organi-
cations parade to hail the pros
pect of more jobs, more money,
and more happiness.
The parade, originally sched-
uled to require only two and a
half hours to pass a given point,
may not finish in front Of the
reviewing stand until midnight,
it was unofficially said today at
the offices of the parade author
tiles.
Parade Adds Many Floats
Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, gen.
eral chairman of the festivities,
said he hoped to end the parade
by 1920 so the display of fire
works to follow might be finished
at II, but from other sources it
was learned that so many busi-
ness houses are requesting per-
mission today to enter floats in
the parade that it will be much
longer than has been planned.
To overcome this condition,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1933-08-29

that the signal-calling job required
the services Of a journeyman
Stonemason.
An ironworker was put on the
job after much wrangling, and
the stonemasons staged a one
union strike, but it was of short
duration, and they went back to
work. It was then the ironwork-
ers were called out and the others
with them.
About 200 union men, earning
variously from $40 to $14 a day,
are on strike. They are hoisting
engineers, electricians, plumbers,
Steamfitters, ironworkers, cement
finishers and elevator operators.
Officials of the two unions in
volved could not be reached to-
day. Representatives of the B.-W.
Construction Company, of Chi
cago, general contractors, said
they had no idea when the dis
pute would be settled.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
D, c, WORKS GET
HALF MILLION

More than half a million dol
lars was allocated to institutions
in the District of Columbia by
the Board of Public Works today.
The money, totaling $522,995,
was a part of $22,874,185 awarded
projects throughout the country.
The Navy Yard receives 1926, 900
Tor improvements to it's power
plant; the National Training
School for Boys, $93,845 for alter
ations and improvements; while
the office of Public Buildings and
Parks is allotted $104,150.
The parks allotment is divided
as follows: For replacing old
sewers, $54, $50; for installation of
an incinerator in the Commerce
Building. $4,000; for changes to
electrical equipment in the In
terror Department, $500.
The Naval Academy at Annap-
oils also benefited by today'S al
1otments, receiving $575,000 for
improvements to it's power plant.
The navy yard at Norfolk received
$465,000 for replacing wooden
launching ways with concrete ones
and for other work.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
BRITISH WOMAN
SPANS CHANNEL
MISS LOWRY

DOVER, England, Aug. %
G.N.SO The first successful at
tempt to swim the English Chan
mel since 1880 was completed TO-
day as Miss Sunny Lowry, British
star, touched the shore of Saint
Margaret's Bay, near Dover, at
1910 a. m. (4:10 a. M, Washing
ton time) today.
Miss Lowry swan from the
coast of France in IS hours and
40 minutes, having taken to the
water at $50 p. m. yesterday.
Meanwhile a mass attack upon
the Channel records was launched
by three England-to-Fran swim
merS competing for a gold trophy
for the fastest time in this direc-
tion. There were two Britons and
an American, Charles Ziebelman,
legleSs Chicagoan.
Ziebelman entered the water
at TIT a. m. G:17 a. M, Wash
ington time) at Shakespeare
Beach, West Dover, and struck
out for the French coast.
He was followed by Miss Mer-
cedes Gleitze, former London
stenographer, and E. H. femme,
London insurance clerk.
At 2:30 p. m. Ziebelman and
the two English swimmers
Mercedes Gleitze and Temme-
were approximately IL miles out
and all swimming strongly,
spend a Dollar and Make 81 Job
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
Strike Over Technicalitv
Forces 200 to Loaf

Approximately 200 laborers who
could be earning $500 a day are
taking an enforced vacation while
stonemasons and ironworkers set
tie a delicate matter Of jurisdic-
ton involving the handling Of
stone on the new city Post Office
annex, North Capitol and G
Streets.
All union men, with the excep-
ton of carpenters, have been
called on a strike in sympathy
with the iron workers. This also
forces the stonemaSonS to quit
work, as there are no hosting en-
gineers to lift their stones.
The fight revolves around
whether a StonemaSon or an iron
worker shall call signals to the
operator of a derrick which is
lifting stone.
The stonemasons had one of
their men signaling the operator,
when the ironworkerS complained
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
10000 In Line, 400 Floats
Join NRA Parade Tonight
NRA Day Program
(Story on Page p

The complete schedule OF
events in Washington'S cele-
brGtion tonight of National
Recovery Day, as announced
By Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries,
general chairman, tollo1DS::
ZOO p. m.-Concert By the
Army Band, at the reUieWing
stand on Constitution Ave-
nue. betDeen Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Streets Northwest.
7::3O p. m.-ErerciSes on
the Ellipse.
7::3O p. m.-PGrGde starts,
1Oith 400 floats, 10000 people,
and % bands marching from
Third Street and PennSyl-
vGniG Avenue to Fifteenth
Street, south to Constitution
Avenue, and West to Seven-
teenth Street, Where it Will
diSperSe.
10 p. m.-DiSplGy of fire.
1DorEs on the Monument
Grounds.
In eUent 1t is raining at
$3.50 p. M, the celebration
WiI be postponed until to-
nn0rrOGO.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
40 INJURED,
COACHES
PILED ON
ENGINE
Southern Pacific Train Hits
Weakened Bridge Span at
Tucumcari, New Mexico

TUCUMCART, N. Mex, Aug.
20 G.N.S.). - Seven persons
were killed and 40 injured, 10
of them seriously, in a spectacu-
lar wreck of the Golden State
Limited, crack Southern Pa
cific passenger train, east
bound, six miles west of here
early today.
The train crashed through a
bridge, weakened from heavy
rains, the engine and five cars
toppling into the swollen creek.
The engine was completely sub.
merged in nearly 80 feet of water.
The mail car was on top of the
engine, and the remainder of the
derailed cars were partially cov-
cred with water.
Five Unidentified
The known dead are C. j. Croft,
engineer, and Fireman James
Randall; three unidentified women
and two unidentified men.
The bodies of all but Randall
have been recovered.
Only one of the 40 injured had
been identified. He was Quinah
Moore, employe of the Frisco
railroad here. He is the son Of
w. A. Moore, of Memphis, Tenn.
All the dead and injured were
believed accounted for.
Thirty were in the Hotel Ran
die, two in the Borencink Hotel,
one in the Elk Hotel and seven
III Mercy General Hospital.
The train, travelling at a high
rate of speed, crashed through
the east span of the bridge, the
engine catapulting over into the
creek and landing near the oppo-
site bank of Hargis Greek.
Cars Pile Up
The mail car piled on top Of
the buried engine, and the bag
gage car, a day coach, a tourist
Pullman and standard Pullman
crashed along into the creek.
Practically all of the injured
were able to walk out of the
water-covered cars. They were
given first aid and rushed to the
hospital and hotel. Thirty of the
40 are believed not seriously hurt.
The normally dry creek had
risen to a height of 80 feet as a
result of continued heavy rains
throughout yesterday and last
night.
All the doctors and nurses in
Tucumcari and surrounding
towns were rushed to the scene
and the work of rescue got under
way quickly.
The injured were given first
aid treatment and rushed to
Mercy Hospital. The little hos
pital was quickly filled and q
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
COURT REFUSES
MILK PACT BAN
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Declaring a national emer-
gency exists" Justice O'Dono-
hue, in District Supreme Court,
today dismissed a petition of the
Economy Dairy Company and the
Milston Beck Company, of Chi
cago, which sought to restrain
the Secretary of Agriculture from
enforcing the terms of the Chi
cago milk marketing agreement.
Justice O'Donohue upheld the
constitutionality of the agricul-
tural adjustment act and stated
that since a national emergency
at present threatens the welfare
of the people and government,
necessities of life or commodities
should not be subjected to ruth
less competition.
The diaries had questioned the
conStitutionality of the price fix
ing agreement, which raised milk
prices to 10 cents quart. Both
firms claimed they could only sell
milk at six and one-half cents a
quart, since they had no delivery
system. They charged the agree
ment was discriminatory and
would result in them being forced
out of business. The dairies ar
gued that the only legal way for
price fixing was an amendment
to the Federal constitution.
Attorneys for the dairieS indi-
Gated they would carry the fight
to the United States Supreme
Court
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
SPURS
COAL CODE,
IS BELIEF
Final Agreement in "a Hours,
Hope of Johnson; Illinois
Rivals Rap Miners
By International News Service

Operators and union leaders
went into session today to COM
plete the details Of an agree
ment made to bring the 4O0,-
900 employed bituminous coal
miners of the nation under
the National Industrial Re-
covery Act.
The signing of code of fair
competition within "a hours was
believed assured as the policy
committee of the United Mine
Workers, after long session, de-
cided to back the stand of union
officers.
The agreement on basic points
Of dispute, which was announced
last night by National Recovery
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson,
VIII bring recognition to the
United Mine Workers of America
in the largest producing coal
fields. =
Compromise Forced
While the union leaders were
forced to accept a compromise,
the recognition of the union was
hailed by labor officials as the
biggest victory in a quarter Of
century of bitter fighting.
The agreement, if signed, thus
will bring the Mellon controlled
and Rockefeller coal interests,
long operating on an open shop
basis, into a period of coopera-
ton with President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Work.
ers.
The tentative agreement, it
was learned. does not provide for
union recognition in the coal
code. Local unions, however,
would be recognized if the ma
jority of the miners ask for recog-
milton, and the union leaders say
this would happen in every coal
field.
4O-HOur Week Trial Seen
The assent of the Taplin-O Ohio
and the Harrinton-Illinois group
is necessary before the code is
completed. These groups have
backed the union labor leaders.
Frank E. Taplin, of Cleveland,
who operates both union and non.
union mines, said he was conf
dent a satisfactory code would
be worked out"
AS the negotiations continued
it appeared the final settlement
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
ENJOYS JOB
IN CUBA HELD
FINISHED
knowledge of Latin American
Affairs to Be Valuable to
State Department

Sumner Wrlles, Uni e d
States ambassador to Cuba,
who was acclaimed for his
handling of the recent politi-
cal uprising in that island ma
tion, will be named Assistant
Secretary Of State to succeed
Prof. Raymond Moley, it was
learned from an authoritative
source today.
Welles is now en- route back to
this country from his diplomatic
post, and it is said that he was
summoned back by the President
to be offered the important place
in the State Department vacated
by Professor Moley'S sudden an
nouncement YESTERDAY that he
was resigning. -.-.....--.assiassamna~..,.,.
Post Offered Him Before
Ambassador Welles was named
Assistant Secretary of State by
President Roosevelt last April.
With a brilliant diplomatic ca
reer back of him, he was consid-
cred by the President more valu-
able in the post of ambassador,
however, and was offered the Gu
ban appointment, which he &C
cepted.
Now that order has been re-
stored in that nation, it was said,
the President feels that Welles is
the man needed to fill the gap
left by the resignation of Pro
fessor Moley, known as the dean
Of the brain Trust"
A graduate of Harvard, Welles
entered the diplomatic service in
1915, remaining in it until 1925
He served in South America and
in the Far East.
Knows Latin America.
Under the Wilson administra-
tion he was chief of the Latin
American division of the State
Department and is thoroughly
familiar with affairs in the Gen.
tral and South American nations.
Welles was married in 1925 to
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, divorced
wife of Senator Gerry of Rhode
Island and one of the social
leaders of the nation.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
ARTIST FOUND
STARVING
IN HOME
Mrs. Ella HartWeII, 88, Near
Death When NeighborS
Effect Rescue

Close to death from lack of
nourishment, Mrs. Ella Hart
we'll, noted Washington artist,
was found in a state of col
lapse in her home in the HOO
block Seventeenth st. N. W.,
today.
Alone in the house, the woman
artist, who is 88 years old, was
unable to drag herself to the door
to summon aid and was in a crit
ical condition when n2ighbors
broke in the front door Of her
home.
The Fire Rescue Squad was
summoned and she was taken to
Gallinger Hospital.
NeighbOrs Aid
The woman's plight was dis
covered when neighbors, who
knew that she was in the house,
noticed several bottles of milk
on the door step.
Realizing that she would have
taken the milk in, if she were
able, they rang the bell and
pounded on the door. Receiving
no response, they broke down
the door to find the aged woman
unconscious.
Other residents of the house
had gone away several days ago,
it was learned, when Mrs. Hart
well protested that she would be
able to look after herself in
their absence.
Food In House
Doctors believe that she must
have been stricken shortly after
she was left alone, as there was
food in the house.
Unable to summon aid, Mrs.
Hartwell remained in a state of
semicoma until assistance was
brought today.
A resident of the District for
many years, Mrs. Hartwell is we'll
known in local art circles, and
had been awarded several prizes
for her paintings.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
ViscOunt Grey W;
EnUOu Here in 1919

LONDON, Aug. 20 QN.SO.-Vis-
count Grey, of Falloden, foreign
secretary of Britain during the
first two years of the world war,
is seriously ill at his home in
Northumberland, it was learned
today. Lord Grey is known to
have suffered from eye trouble for
some time. He served as tempo
rary ambassador to the United
States in 1919,
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
Arrest Ends Joy Trip
Of Baltimore Girls

CHICAGO, Rug. 20 GN.SO.
Their stolen joy trip at an end,
Eleanore Nonemaker, 18, and
Mary Livery, IA, girl adventures
from Baltimore, today languished
in the juvenile home, had regret
ting their folly but admitting they
had nevertheless had "a swell
time while it lasted" The girls
were taken into custody at a Loop
hotel and held on the charge that
Eleanore pilfered 5000 from rela-
tiveS in her home city.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
3 Jap WGrships Go
To FOOChOV Port

TOKYO, Aug. 90 G.N.SD.-
Three Japanese warshipS were
dispatched to Foochow today to
protect Japanese interests from
the approach of Chinese commun-
ist armies, it was officially an
nounced. Foochow, Chinese port
of Fukien Province, lies across
Formosa Strait from the island of
Formosa, which belongs to Japan.
The Washington times., 1933-08-29

Spend a Dollar and Make a Job
The Washington times., 1933-08-29
"COnkey" Whitehead
MGu We'd FrQuLein

PARIS, Aug. 20. GN.SO.
"Conkey" P. Whitehead, Ameri-
can millionaire, recently divorced
in the United States, may"
marry a German girl seen fire.
quently in his company at
Cannes, he said over the long
distance telephone today.