Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1937, Page 18

FOR TOMORROW— WEDNESDAY ONLY 'FOOD. SHOPPING CENTER . Sunpride Stringless BEANS 'KIDNAPED COLONY RECALLED BY FETE Roanoke Island Celebrates 350th Anniversary of Vir- ginia Dare’s Birth. Roanoke Island is celebrating a baby's birthday tomorrow. The unusual occasion commemorates Vir- ginia Dare, first English baby born in the new world and the female Peter Pan of American history. Although this is the 350th anni- versary of her birth, she is still remembered as an infant. Her fate is as uncertain now as when she was reported missing by her grand- father, Gov. White, in 1590. The country’s first kidnaping victim dis- appeared with the rest of the “Lost Colony” which vanished from Roanoke Island while the Governor was away on business. The mystery-shrouded infant is a vital figure in the Sum- mer's ceremonies drawing visitors to North Carolina’s coast. “Roanoke Island is the setting of | American history’s most mysterious # | ghost town,” says a National Geo- | graphic Society bulletin. “Fort | Raleigh at its northern end, stockaded reg. box Wheaties | answered wheres, Sunpride Tender Early June PEAS 4 = We Close at | P. M. On Wed. Full No. 2 cans Carnation Evaporated MILK 3 tall cans 1% | them up. log cabin fortress, where Sir Walter Raleigh by remote control tried to transplant England and raise a for- tune, produced only a crop of un- whens and whys concerning its occupants’ fate. Two Groups Lost. “As & matter of record, two groups | | were ‘lost’ from Fort Raleigh, instead | of merely the more famous one. Fif- teen men were left to hold the fort | in 1586. There was no trace of them {in 1587, when the Colony-About-to- | Be-Lost arrived on the scene to pick The missing 15 were in- direct causes, as well as prophets, of | their successors’ fate; when the 1,587 G || colonists paused at Roanok. Isiand | on | forced their rescue mission they were to remain there instead of proczeding farther north to the Chesa- peake Bay region, where English set- tlement attained permanence at Jamestown, 20 years later. “The ‘Lost Colony' settlement was | actually the fourth expedition to Roanoke Island under Raleigh's col- onization scheme, and it was reputedly followed up by five rescue expedi- tions. By then it became apparent that the island must not have the right soil for planting young colonies, and most vessels set their course for farther north. “The mysteriously abandoned Fort Raleigh, described in 1590 by its re- turning Governor as a deserted sham- bles almost overgrown with grass and | weeds, has been restored. Its ‘high palisade of great trees, very fortlike,' THE EVENING in Story By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 17.—Tall fishing tales hooked during the 1937 season were ready for serving today to all who would listen. They indicated story telling was still the logical aftermath of every fishing trip. Here are some of the entries for this season’s mythical fish tale title: Clarence Schuff of Allentown, Pa., caught a blue heron instead of a fish on his hook. The bird dived into a was casting. L. J. Gagnier of Waukegan, TIL, hooked a wildcat on & night fishing trip. The line was baited with liver. The wildcat was hungry. Three Aurora, Ill, friends vouched for Bob Judd's story that a 3-pound | black bass “just jumped” into his boat while rowing on the Fox River. At Buffalo, N. Y., William L. Kirst and Albert Wild showed friends a 12- | pound sturgeon without a hook mark | on him. They were tilting the out- board motor when the fish snapped at it, missed its target and landed help- less in the hoat. Oscar Corter of De Witt, caught & 20';-pound catfish his hands. The fish | | STAR, Contest. caught in a large can which was bobbing up and down in the creek. Collins and his party were proud of a string of 15 bass. But the line came loose and slipped into the lake. Fifteen minutes later Dr. Collins had a strike. Up came the 15 bass, all strung. Mrs. Austin Forkner of Madison, Wis., is still talking about a 20-inch wall-eyed pike she caught. The fish creek and came up with & minnow he | chased her through the water after she hit it with an oar, but she finally caught it with a net. John D. Mueller hooked an 8-pound pickerel in Fox Lake near Chicago. After landing it, the fish squirmed out WASHINGTON, Allentown Fisherman Hooks Blue Heron Instead of Fish Tale of How Bird Dived and Came Up With His Minnow Among Those At Oklahoma City, Okla., Dr. Dale | 10y K6k of his hands and flopped back intp | the lake, but Mueller recaptured it. Nineteen hours later he larned it was & prize-marked fish in a contest and was worth $1,330. At Uvalde, Tex., Carl Wright stuck his index finger in the water. Some- thing bit it. He jerked up his hand and a 3';-pound bass fell on the bank. DON'T TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937. A fish bit twice for Merle Koeppler, 8, of Green Bay, Wis. He had it on the line once, but it got away, hook, line and sinker. To assuage her son’s disappointment, Mrs. Antone Koep- pler, his mother, said: “Never mind, mother will catch it for you.” A short time later she landed a fish with Merle's missing hook and sinker. (COOLING (coSTS! Frigidaire Controlled-Cost Air Condition~ ing gives you the facts before you buy. 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Prominent among WATER- MELONS ¥ | them is the story-and-a-half cabin | of John White, Virginia Dare's grand- | father, who as Governor had to jour- {ney to England for reinforcements | and returned to find his home desolate. | “Of the same match-stem style of architecture is the little log church. | Corners of the walls and of the | steeple, primitive but proud, are | marked by lines of criss-crossed log |ends. Rafters and windows are pure | backwoods Gothic: No arches, but | simple peaks formed where two logs | meet at an angle. Pews are backless wooden benches and all the churchly furniture about the altar is hewn | from wood Two Other Cities. “This resurrected ‘citie of Raleigh'| is now the center of interest on 5 g Roanoke Island, but not the only Shortening DAIRY DEPT, ‘city.” The 25-mile-square island, North Carolina’s largest, has two| | small towns for its present population; | of sailors and fishermen, Manteo on | the northeast and Wanchese on the isauthwesl. joined by the island’s | single highway. The larger, Manteo, 'has & population approaching 600, ‘\harly five times as large as the origi- | nal number of the ‘Lost Colony.’ Names of the towns are reminders that Roanoke Island not only received the first colony from England, but | sent some of the first Indians to Eng- | land. Manteo and Wanchese were the local braves who discovered Europe, | returning with Roanoke Island's Eng- | lish discoverers in 1584. “The island lies between the main- land of North Carolina and the shifting string of sandbanks which S LAw make this one of the most dangerous Tegions on the Atlantic Coast. North b of the island spreads Albemarle . C | Sound, and below it lies the swamp- : | bordered expanse of Pamlico Sound, : | largest body of water in the State. e o SALAD DEPT Our Famous Rich, Creamy | The sandbank bulwarks which pro- tect this region from the Atlantic | Ocean include Bodie Island just east | of Roanoke Island; Hatteras Island, | With its elbow bend to the southwest |of the abandoned lighthouse at the fCtaxae;hnnd Ocracoke Island, candidate or the sixteenth century title of Home-Made § | Crostoan, home isiand of friendy | Manteo and possible refuge for which | the Lost Colony may have headed after abandoning Fort Raleigh.” 'SCIENCE WRITERS " ELECT NEW YORKER Two Washington Men Among Those Chosen to Office of National Association. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 17.—The elec- tion of Waldemar KaempfYert, science editor of the New York Times, as president of the National Association of Sclence Writers was announced today. Other new officers are: Vice presi- dent, John J. 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