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Between the mainland of North Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
Last week's nuptials, involving two pairs of sisters, brought the season's total of weddings among males of the Raleigh crew to 15. A 16th wedding was postponed because Seaman Charles Shapperly of Haw River, N. C. had neglected to post his banns ten days in advance, and the Raleigh sailed for Marseille...
Main feature of Raleigh romances has been that, since none of the brides could speak English and none of the bridegrooms French, all have been conducted in a "sign language," about the efficacy of which, through an interpreter, brides and bridegrooms last week were equally enthusiastic...
...When he asked me to marry him, I understood right away. ..." Said Seaman Shapperly who plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse than one you had here...