Three Belgian youngsters drifted into Elizabeth City Wednesday night, without a dollar in their pockets, looking for work. They had heard there was plenty doing in Elizabeth City, and they hiked almost all the way from Norfolk down here. They came across a month ago, in a galley of a tramp ship, got a job in a hotel in Norfolk, and stayed there a month. They couldn’t speak English, but they ran across J.C. Evans, District Deputy Modern Woodmen of America in this city, who knows French, and acted as an interrogator and interpreter, and got them straightened out. Back in Antwerp, they are known as Vrploot Rane, George Wrte, and Earnest Sprde, and their ages are 24, 21, and 23 respectively.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 9, 1926
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