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NUMBER 4
VOLUME XXI
8 PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1932
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Salary Cuts Ordered
For State Employees
Reductions Will Go Into Effect March 1st; Gov
ernor Gardner Takes His Second Ten Per
Cent Cut; Some Not Affected.
By M. R. DUNNAGAN
RALEIGH, Feb. 1 The expected
blow, cuts in salaries of State em
ployees, has come, the Governor and
Advisory Budget Commission approv
ing Saturday, in order to give the
proper notice to make it effective as;
oi marcn i, t..e ...cuu.c
Director Frank Dunlap, of Personnel, '
Henry Burke, assistant budget direc
tor and Governor Gardner have been
at work for several weeks.
The cut of about 10 per cent in
the aggregate applies to more than
1,000 of about 1,250 employees paid
in and through Ralegih, on the De
cember payroll of about $1,725,000,
an annual savings approaching $200
000. Some salaries remain the same,
while a few are slightly increased.
Governor Gardner voluntairly took
a second 10 per cent cut, his salary
and expense allowance of $7,100 now
being $5,751. The Advisory Budget
Commission held that at this time no
salaries over which it has control
should be above $6,000 a year. Gov
ernor Gardner announced the follow
ing cuts: Henry Burke, $6,750 to $6
000; Director Dunlap, from $6,000 to
$4800; Executive Counsel Tyre Tay
lor $5,000 to $4,250; Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, $6,750 to
$6,000; Director A. S. Brower, of
Purchase and Contract, $6,600 to $5
750; Director Chas. M. Johnson Lo
cal Government, $6,000 to $5,400;
Commissioner of Banks Gurney P.
Hood, $7,500 to $6,000; Director J.
W. Harrelson, Conservation and De
velopment $5400 to $4800; Highway
Engineer L. A. Ames, $7500 to $6000
Attorney General D. G. Brummitt
held that salaries of Adjutant General
J. Van B. Metts, Miss Carrie Brogh
ton, State librarian; Mrs. W. T. Bost,
commissioner of public welfare; Dr.
J. M. Parrott, State health officer;
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, State High
way Commission, and Commissioner
J. H. Manning, Veterans Loan Fund,
are not subject to action by the Ad
visory Budget Commission, the per.
sonnel director or the Governor, but
to the boards which elected them.
General fund revenues collected in
January were $630,212.99, as com
pared with $690,765.34 in January,
191, making colections of $8,004,
041.35 for the first seven months of
this year, as compared with $6,193,
00.11 for the same period last year.
Highway fund collections in Jan
uary were $4,535,097.15, showing a
drop of $79,070.27 from January
1931. The seven months' collections
amount to $14,053,382.09, or $1,
494,796.77 ahead of the same per
iod last year.
Hopeful About Schools
Most of the schools that have been
operating eight and nine months in
the State are expected to contine for
those periods this year although it is
estimated that not more than half of
the $1,500,000 State fund for extend
ed terms will be required by the time
the schools close in the spring. How
ever, probably more than $1,000,000
of the fund will be paid out during
the following months, Secretary Le
Roy Martin of the State Board of
Equalization, estimates.
This extended term aids goes, as
heretofore, only to districts needing
aid and in amounts ranging from a
few dollars to as much as three
fourths of the entire extended term
costs. One important difference ex
ists, however. All a district had to do
in previous years to get the State aid
was to "levy" the tax necessary, with
State aid, for the extended term. The
1931 law provided that the districts
must "produce" the necessary funds.
The State will supply its proportion
ate part up to the amount of taxes
actually collected up to the time the.
school closes. Many are expected to
continue the terms for the stated
time, officials arranging to pay teach
ers any balance due as the funds are
realized from taxes and State aid.
Many of the districts are expected to
continue to collect the taxes up to
ward the end of the year, the State
matching them, on the proper basis,
as they are actually "produced."
Previously, in some instances, it. is
stated that districts "levied" the tax
es, but often failed to collect all of
them. They received the State aid,
however, and when this aid and the
taxes colected were used, the schools ' bloom, as -veil as violets and the oth
would close frequently short of the'er smaller flowers.
stated period. I
The State through the State Board About 2,000 Iowa City school chil
of Equalization is in reality "boss" dren have been paid in full the a
of the six months school term sup- mount? they had deposited in two
(Continued on n-.? flvfr br.nk? which closed there.
P. T. A. Choral Club
To Give Free Concert
Next Monday evening at eight o'clock
the Parent Teachers Choral Club and
other musicians of the city, will have
a gecular CQnc which'the public
is cordially invited. There will be no
admission charge. Every one is wel
come, and while there will be a col
lection taken if it is not convenient
to givea donation, then don't stay a-
way on tat account. It is your pres
ence that is requested this time, not
your money. The program is as fol
lows: 1. Chorus, (a) Merry Life; (b)
Green Cathedral Denza.
2. Soprano Solo, "Sing me to
Sleep" Edwin Green Mrs. John
Brooks.
3. Tenor Solo, Selected Mr. M.
L. Davis.
4. Ladies uartette (a) 'When the
Sun Goes Down' (b) The Rosary"
Ethelbert Nevin Mesdames Buell
Cooke, G. M. Paul, Claud Wheatly,
Halsey Paul.
5. Soprano Solo "In the Si
lence of night Rachmaninoff
Miss Helen Hendrixi
6. Soprano Solo 'The Lass with
the Delicate Air' Arne Mrs.
Worth Wicker.
7. Chorus, (a) 'Mighty Laka Rose
Nevin (b) 'Morning' Oley Speaks.
8. Soprano Solo, 'O Lovely Night'
Landon Ronald Mrs. G. M. Paul
9. Contralto Solo, 'Till I Wake'
Amy Woodforde-Finden Miss
Virginia Howe.'
10. Male Quartette, (a) 'Sleep
Kentucky Babe Gibel; (b) 'Win
ter Song' Bullard, Messr3. M. L.
Davis, G. M. Paul, U. E. Swann, Dr.
Hyde.
11. Soprano Solo "Estrellita'
Ponce; Mrs. Buell Cooke.
12. Baritone Solo 'Home . on
the Range' Guion Dr. Hyde.
13. Chorus (a) 'Driftin' (b) Sun
down Londonberry Air.
Mrs. Joseph House, accompanist;
Mr. Gibb Arthur, Morehead City,
Celloist.
Chorus: Mesdames Worth Wicker,
Buelle Cooke, G. M. Paul, John
Brooks, Jim Rumley, N. F. Eure,
Halsey Paul, Claude Wheatly F. R.
Seeley, Charles Manson, Misses Hel
en Hendrix, Maybelle Neal, Daphne
Paul Virginia Howe, Ruth Lewis.
Messrs. Jim Wheatly, M. L. Davis,
G. M. Paul, U. E. Swann, Halsey
Paul, F. R. Seeley, Dr. F. E. Hyde.
TEACHERS MEETING CALLED
A meeting of the rural white teach.
ers of Carteret County hat been call
ed by Supt. J. G. Allen in the county
court room Saturday, February 6th.,
at 10:30 A. M. After a half hour's
diicussion of topics of particular in
terest to the teachers in their work,
the prospects for an extended term
will be discussed by him beginnig a
bout 1 1 o'clock. Any trustees, com
mitteemen, patrons, or tax payers of
the county who would1 be interested
this discussion would be heartily
welcome at the 11 o'clock hour.
CITY BOARD MEETING
Due to lack of a quoram the board
of commissioners of the town of
Beaufort did not hold the regular
monthly meeting Monday night.
Those present were Mayor Taylor
and Commissioners Gibbs and Parkin
There was informal discussion of sev.
eral matters and then the board ad
journed to meet Friday the 5th at
7:30 o'clock.
MRS MOORE HAS
CAMELLIA JAPONICA
Mrs. Walter Moore on Ann Street
has a small, but unusually pretty
camellia in bloom. This plant is young
and the blossoms are variegated and
very pretty.
Beaufort yards are lovely. Roses,,
marigolds, gaillardia and snapdragon
have not ceased blooming from fall,
and now the stock, and spring flow
ering bulbs are a mass of bloom. The
early spring flowering shrubs are in
BIG CORPORATION
READY TO START
Work of Extending Aid To In
dustry And Business Gets
Under Way
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Beneath
the glare of powerful lights, members
of the $2,000,000,000 reconstruction
finance corporation today formally
undertook their mission of adminis
tering to the nation's business ills.
As photographers recorded the ere
mony of swearing in the members of
the mammoth enterprise one of the
officers of the corporation, Oden L,
Mills, undersecretary of the treasury
predicted little delay before loans
would be approved. He had just come'
from a White House conference.
Those taking the oath were Eugene !.
Meyer Jr., chairman of the board;
Charles G. Dawes, president if the
corporation, and Jesse H. Jones, of
Houston Texas and Harvey C. Couch
of Pine Bluff, Ark. director Wilson
McCarthy, of Salt Lake City, the oth-1
er director, has not been confirmed,
by the senate.
Immediately after the ceremony,
G. R. Cooksey, of Washington, D. C.
was named secretary; Hugh Leach, of
Washington, treasurer, and G. S.
Marr, of Salt Lake City, general coun
sel.
Paul Bestor chairman of the feder
al farm loan bureau and a member
of the board also was present at the
ceremony.
Inquiries about possible loans up
to approximately $100,000,000 have
been received by the corporation.
Members of the board, however, do
not expect that amount to materialize
from these inquiries. They will be an
swered as soon as definite procedure
has been decided upon.
Extended School Term
Discussed By Board
The County .Board-of. -Education
met Monday with all members pres
ent. Besides the usual routine busi.
ness the board discussed the ques
tion of the extended school term. N.
W. Taylor, chairman of the Beau
fort school board and Charles S.
Wallace, chairman of the Morehead
City board, were present and took
part in the discussion.
The question of a depository for
school funds was considered. Until
a depository arrangement is made
the board will be without any funds.
The board went on record as disap
proving of the practice of holding
dances in the county school buildings j
and Superintendent Allen is sending 1
out letters to the committeemen to
this effect. As stated elsewhere in
the News there will be a meeting
fcaturday at 11 o clock when Super
intendent Allen will discuss the ex.
tended school term. This meeting
will be in the county court room and
the public is invited to attend it.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ihe Bank oi Morehead City to C.
T. Gillikin, 1 lot Morehead City, for
$5000.
Stephen Buck and wife to A. W.
Pittman, 1 lot Morehead City, for
$10.
William Dunn Com. to L. E. Lan-
caster, S. C. Craven Co,, 5 lots More
head City, for $4000.
S. A. Chalk, Trustee in Bankruptcy
to Gulf Refining Co., 3 lots Morehead
City, for $10,000.
Bramham and Bland Trustees to
General Realty Co. 2 lots Morehead
City, for $1.00.
Carolina Mortgage Co., Trustee to
Central Investment Corp. 1 lot More
head City, for $1.00.
Isaiah Scott and wife to Bennie
Wilson, 1-2 acre Harker's Island, for
$70.
Warren D. Gillikin and wife to L.
A. Lewis, 5 acres Straits, for $200.
Beautification of Bridge
On Beaufort
The Beaufort Garden Club, which haul the shrubbery this week. How
is a part of the Beaufort Community J ever due to the inclement weather,
Club, has undertaken this year as its
project the planting of the Beaufort
approach to the highway bridge con
necting Beaufort with Moreehad
City. The State Highway Commis
sion has put on a program for beau
tification of state highways and sol
icits the cooperation of the various
local clubs all over the State. To this
request the Beaufort Garden Club
responded and has undertaken the
beautification of this approach.
The District State Highway Engi
neer, Mr. Hart of New Bern confer
red with Mrs. Leslie Davis and her,
committee, and had beds dug, and
also offered the use of a truck to
LIGHT DOCKET IN
RECORDER'S COURT
Colored Man Charged With
Threatening Lives of Wife
And Children
Two cases were disposed of in Re
corder's court Tuesday. The first of
these was the case of Moses Fisher
colored. Moses lives on the farm of
Mr. John Sabiston in the Core Creek
community. He was charged with an
assault with a deadly weapon upon
his wife and two of his children.
" The first witness against Mose was
his wife Sarah who testified that he
announced that he was going to kill
her and two of his boys, Earl and
John. One of the boys is about
fourten and the other about twelve
years of age. They also testified a-
gainst their father as to the threats.
Sarah said he got his shot gun and
broke it as if to puta cartridge in
it and that she and the boys got out
of the house. She said that he drank
a good deal and that she did not want
to live with him any longer.
Mose took the stand and said that
he did not make the threats alleged
and had no idea of killing any of his
family. He said he had "seven head"
of children the oldest being fourteen
years old. He admitted that he had
been tried once or twice for being
drunk but said he never expected to
drink any more liquor.
, , After hearing the testimony Judge
Davis asked the woman what she
wanted him to do with her husband.
She did not offer any suggestion ex
cept htat she did not want his life
taken from him. The warrant was a
mended to read simple assault and a
suspended sentence of three months
on the roads was given Mose. He is
;also to pay the costs as soon as pos
sible and must come to court the first
Tuesday of every month for six
months and show that he has been be
having himself. Otherwise a capias
will be issued for him and the sen
tence executed. ,
VThe cast against Alvin Congleton,
Earl Hudgins and Eugene- Springle
charging malicious injury to property
of the town of Beaufort was called.
One of the defendants, Alvin Congle
ton, failed to show up. The other two
were present and plead guilty. They,
were required to pay the costs and
pay $18 for damage to property.
They were given 60 days to raise the
money, otherwise must serve a 30 day
jail sentence. The case against Con
gleton was continued.
Organize Golf And
Tennis Club at Villa
There has iu-t been roeanized at
Morehead Villa, a golf and tennis
club. There were about twenv-five
who were interested in the first meet
ing and who gave in their names as
members of the club. Members of
the club are entitled to the use of
the golf links and use of the two ten
nis courts which are now being put
in first class shape, and the use of a
private locker in the hotel. The mem-
jbership fee is only fifty cents a
j month, and any one interested in the
, game may become a member by pay-
j ing the dues. Anyone wishing to play
and who is not a member of the club
jmay do so by paying the small sum
j of twenty five cents a day, for either
golf, or for tennis,
I The golf links and tennis couits be
' long to the hotel, and wil be un.ler
the auspices of the Villa, and all pro
ceeds from the Athletics will be used
on the improvements and upkeep of
the course and courts. The manage
ment also intends to put in a num
ber of practice tees, and hopes to or
ganize a gun club shortly.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
v :imw
Lester A. Perry, Kitty Hawk, N. C.
and Nellie Morris, Moreehad City,
N. C.
Approach
End Has Been Started
the beds only were dug and no plant
ing done. However this will be done
within the next few days. It is the
purpose of the Club to do some real
work on the approach, and also on
the fill, using shrubs, vines and plants
native to the soil and peculiar to this
section.
In this connection, the club would
like to know of any one in the coun
ty who has bear grass, or yucca on
his place that he does not want. The
club has been able to get some plants,
I but a great many are needed and if
those who have it to give away will
let the News know, the Garden Club
of Beaufort would be very grateful.
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iVashington
Snapshots
Taken by The Helm News Service
WASHINGTON,, Jan. 30 The
merits of the Sino-Japanase embrog-
lio is not a subject for discussion in
this column. But a whole lot of us
are indulging in a sneaking idea that
ifl develoDine a wart or carouncie
that ought to be cauterized with ap-
nlication of a vibrating bootjacK on
the south end of her whil she is look
ing north.
Four months of repeated and un
successful diplomatic pressure on Ja
pan, during which she has occupied
all of Manchuria and now threatens
Shanghai, has caused the United
State to propose to Great Britain
some form of economic boycott of the
Japanese Empire. This boycott might
take the form first of cutting off all
passports to American citizens visit
ing Japan. This could be done by the
State Department immediately with
out Congressional approval. It would
also take form, provided Congress
gave its sanction, of restrictions a
gainst Japanese trade.
Whether or not any such action
will be taken is said to be depend
ent almost entirely on British cooper
ation. Secretary Stimson feeling that
the United States could not act with
out the support of what is still the
world's greatest naval power. The
question has been discussed with
Great Britain through the British
Embassy. It also has been discussed
in executive sessions of the League
Council.
Huey Long, irrepresible new Sena
tor from Louisiana, cast aside his re
straint long enough to make his maid
en speech in the Senate and upset sen
atorial traditions of long standing.
As was to be expected, he commenc
ed to upset senatorial traditions.
when be entered the Senate chamber
with a lighted cigar in his mouth and
back-slapped, hugged and breast-tapped
with indiscriminate impartiality.
The new Senator added his voice to
the clamor made against reappoint
ment of William E. Humphrey, of the
State of Washington, to the Federal
Trade Commission. Humphrey, de
spite the objection, was confirmed,
53 to 28.
Undismayed by the reluctance of
House leaders to permit a vote on
prohibition during the present ses
sion, the Republican and Democratic
wet blocs have laid plans for a test
of strength on the question of legaliz
ed beer. A bipartisan committee of
six members was named to study the
various beer bills which have been
offered by individual wet members
and to formulate one measure upon
which the entire wet strength can be
concentrated. The idea of forcing a
test vote on modification of the Vol
stead act to leagilize beer is a sup
plement to the wet plan already an
nounced for compelling the House to
vote on a "home-rule" modification
of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Senator Jim Davis is about to fall
off the water wagoft. Confronted by
(Continued on page five)
TIDE TABLE
Information aw to the tides
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.
High Tide
Low Tide
Friday, Feb. 5
7:15 a.
7:32 p.
7:57 a.
8:16 p.
8:37 a.
8:59 p.
m. iz:64 a.
m. 1:27 p.
Saturday, Feb. 6
m. 1:25 a.
m. 2:08 p.
Sunday, Feb. 7
m. 2:09 a.
m. 2:44 p.
Monday, Feb. 8
m.
m
m.
m.
9:14 a. m. ' 2:53 a.
9:5(7 p. m. 3:19 p.
Tuesday, Feb. 9
9:49 a. m. 3:32 a.
10:19 p. m. 3:53 p.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Wednesday, Feb. 10
10:25 a. m. 4:12 a. m.
10:55 p. m. 4:26 p. m.
Thursday, Feb. 11
m. 4:52 a. m.
5:06 p. m.
11:00 a
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BOARD CONSIDERS
INDEBTEDNESS OF
CARTERET COUNTY
Board Asks Local Government
Commission To Shed Some
Light on Subject
A. B. MORRIS MAKES DEMAND
The question of Carteret county's
financial condition which the Board
of Commissioners has been seeking
to untangle for a good many months
came up again at the meeting of the
board Monday. After discussing the
matter the following resolution v. as
adopted upon motion by Commission
er Chadwick seconded by Commi.vion
er Carroll:
WHEREAS, at a regular meeting
heretofore had Mr. Bruce Craven
was employtd as special attorney to
represent Carteret County in the mat
ter of funding the County's indebt
edness, and it has been caused to ap
pear to the Board that the negotia
tions respecting the subject-matter
have not been progressing in an al
together satisfactory manner, and it
is the pleasure of the Board to ascer
tain the present status of the nego
tiations in order that it might be the
better positioned to intelligntly deal
with inquiries respecting the County
indebtedness, and at the same time in
order that the Board might know how
later to deal with its said special at
torney, Mr. Craven; now, therefore,,
Be it Resolved by the Board of
Commissioners of Carteret County:
1. That the Clerk to this Board
with advice and assistance of the
County Attorney communicate with
the Local Government Commission
and that detailed information be ac
quired as to whether or not the
plans for refinancing, as previously
outlined by the special attorney, are
being worked out with the approval
and assistance of the Commission;
and if not being so worked out, what
is the cause, and what, if anything,
can the County do to further the
cause; or what other plans if any
can be devised by the Commission, or
does the Commission have in mind
for funding the County's indebted
ness. 2. That the Chairman of the
Board, the County Auditor and Coun
ey Attorney, are hereby authorized
and directed, aftor receipt of fore
going information, to confer with
Mr. Craven, special attorney, respect
ing his further activities and be pre
pared to submit report at the next
meeting of the Board.
A. B. Morris, well known Morehead
City attorney, filed with the board a
letter in which he charged that Solic
tor Llewellyn Phillips is holdnig two
offices of profit and that therefore he
cannot legally act as County Solic
itor. The board directed the Clerk,
Irving Davis, to write Mr. Morris that
it had no authority in such matters
and suggested that he call the atten
tion of the Judge of the Superior
Court to the matter.
Several requests were made to the
board for the admission of persons to
the County Home and some requests
for adjustments of tax valuations
were made as usual.
Motions were passed admitting
Miss Lyda Mason of Beaufort, Wil
liam John Gillikin of Otway and W.
C. Sadler to the Home. A motion was
passed to allow Esther Wilson, color
ed woman from upper North river,
$5 a month for the next two months.
She has several children and her hus
band is now serving a long term in
the penitentiary. A motion was pass
ed instructing County Physician D.-.
W. S. Chadwick to give medical atti-u
tion to Miss Mamie Wade of t'la
North River community. A motion
was passed to pay James W. Mason
$50 on amount due for collecting
back taxes.
(Continued on page eight)
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES HEARD
BY CHAIRMAN MATT ALLEN
Chairman Matt H. Allen of the In
dustrial Commission held a hearing
Tuesday in the office of Superior
Court Clerk L. W. Hassell in the
i case oi w. r vomns. The plaintiff
was injured while working on the
bridge at Broad creek and was seek
ing to recover damages of the State
Highway Commission. Testimony was
heard as to the accident and the
Chairman then took the case under
advisement and will make a report
later.
DOES NOT TRAVEL MUCH
Winston-Salem, Feb. 2 Mrs. Dora
Troxler, of Stocksdale, visited Wins
ton for the first time in her 73 years
and sold a load of tobacco.
It was the first time she had seen
a tobacco sale although she has rais
ed tobacco on her farm most of her
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