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f MJF The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY I WaSa Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XIX 10 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930 PRICE 5c SINGLE D. t- NUMBER 21 THE Primary Election Was Big Surprise To Many Judge Nunn Failed To Carry Carteret County; Bailey Gets Large Majority Over Simmons; Will Have To Hold Second Primary In This County. BOYS OUTNUMBER GIRL GRADUATES Morehead City Senior Class Had Seventeen Boys In It At least two people in Carteret County were not very much concern ed with the turmoil of the primary election last Saturday. While per haps a hundred people were in about the Court House Saturday night try ing to determine who won in the elec tion, Miss Mattie Graham, of Beau fort, and Mr. 'M. W. Sawyer, of Elizabeth City, calmly embarked on hut his vote seems to have been con ithe sea of matrimony. Miss Graham Night Of Election The primary election Saturday left behind a good many surprises, con-) . . siderable jubilation and some disap- Couple Married On pointment. Many of the friends of I Senator Simmons had confidently be lieved that he would win and they were much chagrined at his defeat. The defeat of Judge Nunn, who was classed as a Simmons supporter, was a surprise to many as well as a dis appointment. Solicitor Clark came through with a moderate sized major ity in spite of the hard fight that was made on him. Congressman Ab- ernethy defeated his opponent Mr. Hogbs by apparently a large majority siderably less than he received in the general election in 1928. Chief in terest in the primary was in the Bailey-Simmons contest. There were several warm contests for the county offices. It will be necessary to have a second primary in the case of the Democratic candi dates for sheriff. The low man in is the daughter of Mr. C. W. Graham of Newport. The Reverend J. R. Jinnett issued the license and officiated at the cere mony, which took place at about ten thirty o'clock. Messrs. D. M. De- Noyer and H. L. Martin, of Beau fort, and H. S. Gibbs, of Morehead City, were called in from the throng of political observers and served as this race W. H. Bell of Newport drops out and the other two Raymond Ball witnesses, of Harlowe and Elbert Chadwick of , It is odd for a marriage to take Straits will have another round. The f place while most of the folks in the same is true of the Republican can-COuntv were primarily concerned CASES DISMISSED AGAINST SEVERAL Fire Department Saves Road From Burning Up Hamilton And Stancil Acquit ted; Noll Pross Taken As To Others didates for Register of Deeds, Henry O. Piner and Eric Gaskill. Elmer Davis the third candidate drops from the contest. In the first primary Raymond Ball received 957 votes and Elbert Chadwick 852. Republicans seemed to take but little interest in with the returns of the primary election. FINE POTATOES EXHIBITED The dry weather did not prevent some large potatoes from being the primary and did not vote much erown in these parts. In the lobby for anybody. Piner's vote for Reg' ister of Deeds was 214 and that of Gaskill1 was 211. J. W. Bailey's vote in the county was 1750 and that of Senator Simmons was 832. For the first time the Australian ballot system was used in this coun ty. The News has heard a good many expressions of opinion about it and most of them have been favor able. The News has also heard some say that in certain precincts the law was not obeyed. It is charged that politicians followed the voters into the places here the votes were kept and supervised the marking of their tickets. It is. charged that some persons were allowed to vote who had no right to do it. The News does not know how much truth there is in the report but it has been of the Beaufort Banking and J. rust Company are some very fine speci mens grown by. Mr. K. W. Wright aha I T. Noe and Son!' The latter were raised right in Beaufort and from ,one peck of seed 11 bushels were grown of which two potatoes weighed three pounds. The commencement exercises of the Morehead City Graded School came to a close Friday night with the graduating exercises of the sen ior class. An immense crowd was present for the finals. An unusual feature of the occa sion was that there were more boys than girls in the class, there being seventeen of the former and eleven of the latter to graduate. The ad dress to the graduates was made by Mr. J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Eliza beth City who was presented to the audience by Mr. Charles S. Wallace. Mr. Ehringhaus selected as his topic the word "Strength" with especial reference to the physical, mental and spiritual meanings of the word. Mr. Ehringhaus lived up to his repu tation as an eloquent and interesting speaker. Just after the conclusion of the program Dr. B. F. Royall presented a five dollar gold piece to Jesse Willis as the best all round student and ath lete in the class. He has made an enviable record as student and base ball and football player. In addi tion to that he is a good singer. The gold piece was donated by the Carteret County Herald. The pro gram of the exercises and the class roll are given below. Selection by School Band G. L. Arthur, Director. Invocation Rev. B. B. Slaughter, M. E. Church, South. Salutatory Address Bernice Wil lis. Piano Solo Sarah Frances , Ful cher. Address Hon. J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Elizabeth City, N. C. , Solo Jesse Willis. Valedictory Address Eleanor Wade. Presentation of Diplomas Hon C. Wallace, Chariman Board of Edu cation,1 ' "V Awarding Honors Supt. H. L. Joslyn. Class Song Seniors. Benediction Rev. A. P. Stephens. First Baptist church. Potatoes Bringing Higher Prices Now Although almost all of the Irish potato growers have harvested and marketed their crops, a few still have some in the field or in the pro cess of marketing. K. W. Wright is digging a tract of twenty acres this week; this is about the largest a mnunt that still has to be dug. The openiy stated mat tne count was un-i weather which has almost unin- iair in at least one precinct, ine . - , second primary will be four weeks from the first. There will be no sec ond registration of voters except such as may have come of age since the first primary. The tabulated list of votes polled appears on another page of this newspaper. BEATTY- LONGEST Miss Anne Beatty, of McKenzie, Tenn., and Mr. Francis Longest of this community were united in mar riage by the Episcopal ministeV in Mayport, Fla., Juna 2. Miss Beatty taueht in the local high school dur ing the past session and was well liked by her students. Mr. Longest is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Longest and is employed at one of the summer fisheries in Mayport. MARRIAGE LICENSES Otis C. Edwards to' Esther M. Garner, Newpor, N. C. M. W. Sawyer, Elizabeth City to Mattie Graham, Beaufort. Charles N. Bennett to Irma Willis, Morehead City. KINSTON NOT REPRESENTED ON LENOIR COUNTY BOARD Kinston, June 11 This city, which pays more than half of Lenoir coun ty's taxes, probably will have no rep resentation on the board of county commissioners as a result of a queer quirk in the recent primary. All nve of the men nominated are farmers. The nea est resides seven or eight miles frc.n Kinston. Herbert E. Moseley, who had rep resented the city on the board for years and was its chairman, was beaten. terruptedly prevailed since the pota toes were planted caused the crop to be somewhat shorter perhaps than it would have been if the weather had been more favorable. Two hundred and three carloads of potatoes have been shipped from here and about forty from Morehead City. This brings the total up to about two hundred and fifty, which is consider ed an average crop. These potatoes although they were not sold for sky-high prices brought moderately pond returns to the farmers. Most of the potatoes were sold for three seventy-five to four dollars and i quarter. One of the county s most successful farmers refused to sell two carloads yesterday for four dollars and a half a barrel. They are now ouoted on northern markets at seven fifty. County Farm Agent Hugh Overstreet says that he thinks the entire crop has averaged something better than four dollars a barrel. A good many farmers throughout the county has raised potatoes this season. The principal growers, how ever, were: W. S. Savage, G. W, Huntley, Gibbs Brothers, M. S. Snow den. and K. W. Wright. About fifty acres of Ford Hook lima beans will be picked around Marshallberg, Straits and Gloucester the last of next week. The dry weather has not injured these much if any. They are now quoted at six dollars a bushel in northern markets, but it is likely that the farmers will hardly receive more than half of this. These beans brought the growers from three to three-fifty a bushel last season, but there are a good many more planted now in other parts of the state than there were last year. G. W. Huntley and W. C. Willet have about ten acres of onions. These have suffered severely from the dry weather: it takes a considerable a mount of moisture for these to thrive. These will very likely be harvested within the next week or ten days. Dwarf Golf Course Will Open Soon In M. City During the next few days a Dwarf Golf Course will be opened on the lot opposite the Atlantic Hotel in More- head City. For some weeks now it has been under construction. The course occupies about one-third of an ordinary city block. Parham and Ball, the owners have spared noth ing in building it. A green wooden fence surrounds the course, but is low enough for passers-by to observe games. Although the course is min iature, the game is very much like that played on the larger courses. Hills and all of the usual parapher nalia has been built on this course. A log cabin at the southern end will be used for the sale of cool drinks, ice cream and the goodies that usu ally go with such a place of recrea tion. This type of golf has become even more popular than the larger game in practically all of the cities and towns that have heretofore had the larger courses. It is very likely that the tourists and the local people also will avail themselves of the opportunity of tak ing up Bobby Jones' sport in a minia ture way at the Morehead City course All in all the course is a very great improvement because the open lot thut has been growing up in weeds every summer. The Atlantic Hotel just across the street is now being put into shape for the opening week after next. In spite of the rain Monday morn ing a good sized crowd was on hand when court convened at 10 o'clock. The grand jury was soon empanelled and Josiah W. Chadwick of Beau fort was made foreman. Judge Barnhill's charge to the jury was straight forward and to the point confining itself entirely to the du ties and functions of the jury. The Judge said that he doubted if a man on the jury remembered what was said in the oath which had just been taken. He proceeded to tell them what they had sworn to do. The Judge said it was the jury's duty to investigate the affairs of the county and see whether every offic ial connected with it is doing his du ty or not. He impressed upon them the necessity of seeing that the criminal laws are enforced and not to depend entirely upon the county officials in this respect. He called the jury's attention to the fact that magistrates often exceed their au thority in trying cases not within their jurisdiction, such as automo bile cases. He condemned magis trates for using their offices to col lect accounts. He said the bad cheek law ought to be enforced but magis trates should not use it to collect accounts for the purpose of making commissions. He said the jury should do its work without fear or favor and should keep its proceed ings absolutely secret. James Glov er was appointed special deputy in charge of the jury. INDICTMENTS DROPPED The indictments made at the March term of court against several form er county officials and others were dismissed or noli prossed with leave in Superior Court here this week. The first case taken up was that of former County Attorney Luther Hamilton; Charged" with embezzW ment of county funds. This case was tried Monday. The witnesses examined were C. F. Delamar, public accountant, R. W. Wallace Register of Oeeds; W. L. Stancil former County Auditor and G. W. Huntley former member of the Board of Commissioners. Unly a tew ques tions were asked the witnesses. The fact was brought out that delinquent tax certificates amounting to $57, 500.81 were turned over to Mr. Ham ilton for collection and that he col lected and accounted for this amount in cash and returned certificates. Former Commissioner Huntley testi fied that the board had agreed to al low Mr. Hamilton to retain the pen alties collected as compensation Judge Barnhill and Solicitor Clark a greed that the evidence produced did not justify an indictmnt and a verdict of not guilty was ordered. A civil suit against Mr. Hamilton filed May 5 is still pending. Tuesday morning a case charging W. L. Stancil with embezzlement was tried. Attorneys for the defense were A. D. Ward, J. F. Duncan, Lu ther Hamilton and C. R. Wheatly. A jury was empanelled and after some quibbling about admitting the Coun ty Commissioners' minute book as ev idence Register or Deeds R. W. Wal lace was brought in and testified that it was the minute book. Then it was discovered that certain witnesses (Continued on page ten) About two miles of the Merrimon Beaufort road was .oved from par tial or total destruction last Friday when the Beaufort Fire Department went out there and extinguished the fire which was burning in the peat bed on both sides of the road. The smaller fire truck was used for this purpose. When fire gets in peat, it smoulders and burns underground so that its exact location cannot be de termined. Firemen started pumping water from one of the nearby canals about the time most of the Beaufort folks were waking up and continued until about six o'clock that after noon. It took great; pressure to get the water to penetrate deep enough into the peat to put out the fire. If this had not been done, it i3 very likely that the road would have lit erally burned up. The rain Saturday night, Sunday and Monday extinguished most of the fire in the Open Grounds, but the peat is still burning in several places. This fire has passed its critical stage however. In the month it has been burning it has brought destruction to an untold amount of game and has burned over between seventy-five and a hundred thousand acres of the Open Grounds and adjacent forest lands. FIRE PREVENTION PICTURES SHOWN GRAHAM ELECTED PRESIDENT U. N. C. Did Not Seek The Position; Is Able And Popular Chapel Hill, June 10 Frank Por ter Graham, professor and one-time marine, prepared today to assume a job he had repeatedly announced he did not want that of president of the University of North Carolina. After balloting for an hour and a half yesterday the board of trustees of the university elected Professor Graham to the post over the head of his department, R. D. W. Connor of the . history department. The vote was Graham AJ, Connor 20, on the fourth ballot, and the selection was then made unanimous. The 44-year-old bachelor succeeds Dr. Harry Wbodburn Chase, who in July will become president of the University of Illinois. Professor Graham, who will become the 11th president of the state uni versity, when notified of his election asked the trustees "Isn't there any thing that can be done" to make Professor Connor president "and leave me free to go back to the classroom." The new university head is a fam ily of educators. His father, Dr. Alexander Graham, of Charlotte, was for 25 years superintendent of the Charlotte city schools and is credit ed with having established at Fayette ville the first public school in North Carolina. He is a cousin of the late Edward Kidder Graham, former pres ident of the university. Professor Graham attended the university from 1905 to 1909, grad uating with an A. B. degree. He achieved prominence in many forms of student activity. His honors in clude that of cheerleader for three (Continued from page four) Large Number of People See Pictures And Hear Lectures In County CHAS. H. HEARN The Educational Truck sent out by the State Department of Conser vation and Development has com pleted the program laid out for this county. There were five motion pic ture showings and lectures given with an average attendance of 220 adults and 65 children. Due to the fact that all schools in the county had closed, only one engagement a day could be made, but this was off set by the large attandance at the night showings which more than made up for overage attendance. The presentation to the people of the work carried on by the Depart ment in Forest, Game and Fish Con servation through the medium of mo tion pictures has been conducted in fifty seven counties of the State. Practically all of the forty-three co operating counties have been cover ed and some of the non-cooperating. In no county covered has the spirit of conservation been more ardently expressed nor has the work met with greater response, than in Carteret county. This county being a non-cooperating county has been severely strick en with forest fires during the past three months. Thousands of acres of young trees have been literally destroyed, the cover and feeding ground of all wild life has been in a large part destroyed, not to mention the destruction of all kinds of wild life itself. Fortunately, there is yet left better than two hundred thous and acres of forest land on which the growth has not been killed out right, besides game in small quanti ty. Considering the geographic loca tion of Carteret county, the fact that hundreds of sportsmen go into the coun ty each season for water-fowl shooting and vacationists go in dur ing the summer for its splendid bath ing and fishing waters; the entire population should rise up and de clare that above everything else no unsightly blot such as is left by a forest fire sbill detract from the county's beauty and wealth. There is a probability that the county will be offered the opportu nity of cooperation this next fiscal year, if such is the case, a great crime will have been committed if is not accepted. In behalf of the Department, I wash to express appreciation for the work being done by the Carteret county chapter of the Isaac Walton League in its constructive work in conservation. Pritchard Winner Of Senatorial Contest EMPLOYEES OF ROSE STORE GIVEN SAIL ON "ROVA FAMOUS INDIAN COUNTY HAS POPULATION OF 16,150 NOW Asheville, June 11 The popula tion of Cherokee county is 16,150 10Qft no Prtmnnvpfl with 15.242 in icon 'i w announced todav bv ! Yawning in a moving picture thea O. L. Fitzgerald, census suprvisor for j tie, Mrs. Clara Bussis of Evanston, the fifth district of North Carolina. ) 111., broke her jaw. Mr. J. A. Cree took the employees of the local Rose 5 and 10 Cent Store on a sail last Thursday evening on the "Rova," the yacht of Mr. P. H. Rose, president of the Rose Stores. They went up Newport and the In land Water Way canal. Those go ing on this sail were: Mrs. C. P. Ty ler, Misses Lelia Guthrie, Virginia Guthrie, Hazel Noe, Lillabel Phelps, Messrs. J. P. Harris, Harry Tyler, Earl Willis, Henry Whitehurst and John Willis. The guests were enter tained by music by Messrs. Billie King Taylor and Norman Whitehurst. Old songs were sung. At the conclu sion of th merrymaking refreshments were served. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Born to Dr. and Mrs. Manry Mas on of Newport, Friday at Morehead City Hospital, a daughter, Jean. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Charlotte, June 10 Winner over three candidates in his party s pri mary, Congressman George M. Pritch ard, of Asheville, will make the ru;:e against Josiah Bailey, the Democrat ic senatorial nominee, for the Repub lican party of North Carolina next fall. Additional returns today from Saturday's primary removed any doubt that Pritchard might be forc ed into a second primary to gain the nomination. Writh 1,457 of the state's 1,799 precincts reported, his total vote stood at 19,958 with that of George E. Butler, of Clinton, his nearest riv al, at 6.294. The remaining vote was divided 4,152 for Irving Tucker, of Whiteville, and 1,137 for the Rev. H. Grady Dorsett, Wake Forest Bap tist minister. The margin by which Senator F. M. Simmons lost the Democratic nomination as senator to Bailey was indicated as near the 70,000 mark today as additional returns were received. V Roilmr'e vn'o in 1.7(1'' TVPpr.inpt as unofficially reported was 197,078 to 128,081 for. Simmons. That of Thomas Estep, Alleghany county man who ran as a "wet," was 1,645. Florence Graham et al to C. E Oglesby, 1 lot Morehead City, for $10. A. D. MacLean et als. Comrs. to Mfgr.'s Trust-Co. 1188 acres Bogue Banks, for $200,000. Dolly Lewis et al to Harvey Willis, tract Morehead Township, for $100, J. A. Hornaday, Trustee to C. R, vt neany et ai, l lot ueautort, tor $6000. E. A. Paul and wife to Chancey Willis, 5 acres H. Q. Township, for $175. Robert Lupton et al to Hannah Lupton, 12 acres C. I. Township, for $5. RAIN COMES AT LAST The drouth which has orevailed in this section for about two months was broken Sunday and Monday with a hne ram. The farmers say that their crops were greatly benefitted and were very much pleased with the rain. Corn, tobacco and other crops are already showing the benefit they received from the rain. Weeds and grass are growing also. BIRTH OF SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ball June 1, a son, Kenneth Ray. COUNT BOARD GRANTS POWER LINE FRANCHISE TIDE TABLE Information at to the titles at Beaufort is given in this col umn. The figures are approx imately correct and based on tables furnished by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Some allow ances must be made for varia tions in the wind and also with respect to the locality, that is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. A short meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was held Mon- 9 :28 A, day afternoon. Those present were Commissioners Bushall, Edwards and Gaskill. The board passed a resolution granting a permit to the Cape Look out Bridge Corporation to erect an electric power line between Beaufort and Harker's Island. A proposition from the State Department of Con servation and Development to estab lish a fire prevention sevice was dis cussed but no action taken. The de partment offers to pay $1200 a year for this purpose if the county will pay a like amount. No bids were received by the board on a proposed bond issue for $108,000 which they advertised some weeks ago. High Tide Low Tide Friday, June 13 M. 3:20 A. M. 9:44 P. M. 3:07 P. M. Saturday, June 14 10:09 A. M. 3:59 A. M. 10:23 P. M. 3:50 P. M. Sunday, June 15 10:54 A. M. 4:44 A. M. 11:02 P. M. 4:34 P. M. Monday, June 16 11:06 A. M. 5:22 A. M. 11:41 P. M. 5:21 P. M. Tuesday, June 17 11:43 A. M. ' 6:03 A. M. 12:31 P. M. 6:13 P. M. Wednesday, June 18 12:29 A. M. 6:47 A, M. 12:22 P. M. 7:09 P. M. Thursday, June 19 2:13 P. M. 8:06 P. M.
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