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jvOLUME XXIV
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EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY ,
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'owners of dogs
IN CAnifcKM ARE.
YIOLATINti LAWS
l TV. at An
R.it Few reopic
Act Was lasses "
Unlawful if Dogs Were Not
Vaccinated Each Year Be
tween April 1 and July 1.
-:- Catching Sea Turtles Was Once A Local Industry -:
NO
ACTION LOCALLY
Jn Counties Where There U a Health
Officer it i Hi. Duty to Appoint
Rabies Inspectors for Each Town
ship Upon Instruction From the
Board of County Commissioners.
Many Counties Have Failed to
Comply With Act.
a- ratified bv the 1935 Gen-
i AceemMv on March 26, made it
a law that every dog in North Caro
lina should be vaccinated against
rabies. Owners of dogs must have
them vaccinated each year between
A !! 1 arm .Tulv 1. In Carteret
couJy no dogs have been vaccinated
" (Continued to page four)
BABSON SAYS NOW
ISTIMETOPLAN
With Busiest August in Five
Years, Famous Statistician
Says Now is Time to Make
Plans For Making Money
Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 29 La
bor Day is the real New Year for
tidiness. Vacations are finished,
a Ha I J-' :
vi ) i!0
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1 ::. ", : " "
No Carteret Projects
Have Been Approved By
Works Progress Group
Jamie Styron May Own
Figurehead From bhip
In Blackbeard's Meet
A carved dragon-head which might
head on a Viking
nave uccu l...v- - -
ou.- it ff r.nns Hatteras hundreds
of years ago was found buried deep
Watteras Island a few
j rn. The story is interesting
and figureheads are imeruswi.K,
.i,or hev came from.
Down on Ocracoke Island Jamie
Styron owns a figurehead tnai some
v:.). rioMnre came from the
prow of Blackbeard's ship the Aven-
ger. The carved ngure -woman
and judging from the style of
hair dressing and eyes, n is
rtontoi woman. Pirates loved
their Oriental women and other wo
Diving For A Leatherback Off The Carteret Coast About
1870
.. .. i..: tv,oo cnnM hp gold locally or
About 50 years ago many loea residents made a , ousiness o "- -,r were speared.
on the backs of the reptiles and by c ever maneuve .. t is by P tt.ng weight r p
kept them at the surface and swim back to the boat. 1 he '""' '' "Y"'8 delicacy and it really
though many residents of the Outer Banks on
is. Roy Eubars made the photo 'm d"; species. (Insert)
Piver's Island.. The drawing shows a man diving for Leae" which visitors may see any
Photo of a 275 pound Loggerhead Turtle in LjbjJ 1 S SSllk Engraving Co.).
day they care to take a trip over there. (Kubanks-wews rnoios f'a
their uriemai women , , Ifort for tne purpose oi
men too, , if the tales handed ownthing the county, municipal
through the years are true. BlacK- governments might desire,
beard was a great woman s man ac-clu(w Sundays' there are
cording to stories.
Another belief is tnai aiyron ..g
urehead is one which came off the
clipper ship Flying Cloud mm
ed on Ocracoke Deacn in ioi,
from China or some Oriental port to
New York or Philadeipnia, wun
cargo of fine silks and satins. The
latter story seems to oe mi
tu v,0 former but at any rate
Jamie Stryon's figurehead is a beau
ty and he prizes it very nigmy.
muoator. . -ICap, IW.G()ld BuI.on Qf
riprwav. sales drives are launched,
crops move to market, and this year
new automobile models are being in
troduced. People will now again get
down to the every day business oi
Not satisfied with the present liquor
' tin or the laws eoverning same,
uuvtn me clij ""j ' .
ff. lio" cummer let- flhnrlie Brewer and W. U. BUCK,
maniriK a living v.. , , .... vk;
down. In most lines of business an ac- charged with violating the prohibi
tive fall season means the difference :.tion laws demanded a trial by jury
T C. Iiirv XriS! VHobbv Was Collecting
Many Kinds or oiamps
between red and black ink for the
entire year. This is probably the reas
on why so many have asked me to
give a special summary of general
business at this time.
Tea Indicators Point Upwar
when hailed before the recorder Tues
day and their requests were granted.
Each are under bonds of $?50 for
appearance in Superior Court due to
convene in,,0ctor'5is
: r..U oVianred with violatftll?
First fiet the backgrOBBi rgfght the prohibition law was given a iz
. . I- - .... . v j-: it. n..nnl nn Hio marts.
. JfirSl Iiefc HWJ US1,B(W1" --B ; '"" J" ,
' a' to what business has been doing months sentence on the roaas.
so far this year. Last February tne
Tto Via Art ni n r. xrood at 84. That was
the high point for 1935. (Peak to date J
for the recovery was JUiy, ivao i
SO.) From February until July activi
ty gradually declined to 80. Just
when business should have been inthe
worst slump of the year, it suddenly
turned about in late July and started
moving vigorously upward. The fol
lowing Babsonchart readings will give
jftfcn ftecton was (riven a two
.ntia tmanpnrled sentence for driv
ing an automobile while drunk upon
condition he remains or good Denav-
ior for a much longer period ana
pays the court costs.
T.,cr. Wohh reserved decision in
the case of Cal Whaley which has
u .nntinupri from one court to
Ri-toiv Pond of Davis owns the
collection today and in owning same
he muht have a fortune and not know
it The collection was starieo. oy i.
father, the late Capt. Sylvester E.
Pond who died at Davis in 1920.
Capt. Pond before moving to Carter
et county from his native home,
SrandaiordCon 4n; 138, was mas
ter of sailing vessels. These vessels
touched the ports of many foreign
counties and like many navigators,
who sail the many seas, his hobby was
collecting stamps.
They were bequeathed to his son
Blakely at his death and this week
he brought them to town for interest
ed persons to see. Included in ine nst
are about 40 early American postage
stamps. Some were used during the
days of Pony Express, when mail
was transported by carriers riding
horses across the counxry. timers in-
!
Davis Changed To Gold
Currency Or Hot Money
100,000 TERRAPINS
lowing JJausoncuaib icui6a or.-- anouicr iwi
you an idea of how current business' Co-defendant with Robert Whaley on
compares witn tne late huhuuci y jan assaun witn ucui -
JSSm on pag. s.y (Continued on page four)
Deen conuimcu iwm via- - nuraea atiw
another for many sessions. He was cjue commemorative issues of events
. . 1 1. t- L T1TIm1a avi I. i in .......... am mA orrrt
taking place u yewa w v
Mr. Hayes Seems To Know
A Bit About The Lynching
J I
-I
Planting Diamond-backs
TIDE TABLE
f vernation a to tne tide
a.av ' . ,
it Beaufort it girsn in this co.
TV., flirurai are appro
UD1U. ,
and basaa oa
imaii
..LW. nlaVit hv tot u. B.
GodtU Sumy. iw
' v. mull I or nw
tions in tha wind ad wttJ,
ha locality. taa w
wh.th.r star tht ! of tl
:ha heads of tha twatwa.
Mr Hayes, the nightwatchman
seems to know quite a bit about
Carteret's lynching of 1900 which
Lv,t 5nr.n the limeliirht a few
was uiws" - -
days ago when A. F. Taylor of Cor
tez Fla., wrote Sheriff Elbert Chad
wick and confessed to his part in the
1 intmA .
"The Negro, Louis Patrick, was
captured by two policemen in New
Bern" said Mr. Hayes, "after he had
been tracked from Ocean to Have-
lock and thence to rw am. am
T?;ritw thre different countries
are represented Many of the coun
tries are now non-existam. inciuueu
in the non-existant countries are:
Confederate States of America; Sand
wich Islands; Luxemburg, Germany,
northern States, southern 'states and
Empire ; Russia, and a great many
others. Our personal opinion ' after
looking at stamps is that ' Blakely
owns a fortune in cancelled postage
stamp3 and doesn't know it.
FEDERAL HEARING
SET FOR FRIDAY
Capt. Charles Hatsell, assistant
to Dr. Herbert F. Phytherch is shown
.u.fin torrnnins) in the picture a-
bove. Capt'. Hatsell is an authority
on these reptilian delicacies and he
should be, because back in 1902, with
Dr. R. A. Coker he started propaga
tion experiments with terrapins. Ter
wrm nlaved havoc with first
experiments, but in lu, wun ine
Reports Around Beaufort And
Morehead City Monday in
dicated That $50,000 in Gold
Bullion Had Been Dug up or
Found at Fishing Community
in East Carteret. But Report
Not True
MIGHT BE HOT MONEY
Some of The Resident. Teher Say
That Occasionally Gold Certificates
Are Spent and Cold Money Today
or Any Kind is Hot Money. Rum
Running And Lindbergh Ransom
Angle To Story '
The report that $50,000 worth of
u wiinn had been dug' up or
'KUiU U"'"u"
found in the vicnity of Davis created
a bit of excitement around, ceauior
a m,oV,iH Mondav. And wnen
Davis residents were telephoned for
the story it apparently created a dil j
of excitement in that section. But,
foundation to the
Local Groups Are Now Work
ing on Projects For Carteret
County and it is Believed
That Some Will Get Consid
eration by WPA Officials
WPA PLANNING BOARD
Guthrie, McCabe and Chadwick
Were Appointed by Commissioners
To Serve at County Planning
Board. Heating Plant and New
Jail May be Asked And Also Im
provements for School Building.
u ofinitA WPA nroiects in Car
teret county were offered Director E.
J. Hill, of District No. 2, Works
Progress Administration, New Bern,
last Thursday when he came to Beau
fort for the purpose of hearing any-
or vivit
And ex
cluding Sundays' there are only 15
more days before it will De too iaie
to ask for any grants. September 16
is the deadline and n Carteret, tne
towns of Beaufort and Morehead
City or any civic governmental body
" i a.1 1 A
des re to present projects tney nsu
better be getting busy.
At the last meeting of the uoaro oi
County Commissioners, Carl T. Chad
n!A Martin Guthrie and E. Z. Mc
Cabe were appointed as a county plan
ning board for WPA projects, une
project they are extremely interest
ed in securing is a heating plant for
the county buildings and a new jail.
Gary Allen probably has school pro
jects in mind and ivred beeiey, pres
ident of the chamber of commerce
presented plans for the erection of a
cooperative sweet potato curing nouse
Sylvester Gibbs, Mayor oi axoreneaa
City was also present at the meeting
and he will have projects to oner ior
his town.
With only a limited time tp present
the projects the Beauofrt News pre
sents readers with the following news
stoar released; a ::jCew'days ago,frim -
Administrator coan s omce in iuu
eigh. It reads:
In an address before the North
Carolina County Commissioners As
sociation at Wrightsville Beach,
Stars Administrator. Geonre W. Coan
Jr., outlined in simple language, the
plans and purposes of the Works
Progress Administration, that his mes
sage might be carried back to the cit
izens of the counties throughout
Worth Carolina, that thev have a
complete understanding of the gigan
tic program to transfer workers rrom
relief rolls to the security of a jod
(Continued on page two)
ts, out hi v" v"wnnere was buic -
late tl U. Aiier, tnen uncv.ii i-goia siury .v.iu'"o v
. . 1.1 J nil ..
Fisheries J.aDoratory nicy mu .- ports.
. i i i nvTavimoTit nrnv I
otner iriai bhu urcn r--
Durinsr the past Spring
he planted over 12,000 terrapins in
coastal waters and judging irom me
way the 1935 crop are hatching about
14,000 will be planted next season.
I In all since propagation of diamond-
I . i . it 1 -t..
backs started, Cpt. natseii nns piani,
ed nearly 100,000 and thus has savea
them from becoming extinct in North
Carolina waters. (Photo courtesy
Df. Prytherch).
Seth Thomas, United States solic
itor in Washington, D. C, wired Ir
w rt.vU. rexriater of deeds today
for court room space here on Friday,
lock and thence to w "--i August au, to try i. . u' -'jarge motor a oiun
n.. .whant Eliiah WeeksLv.. t vinUtinir the melon law. i
muroercu w. - in itu
who lived upstra B - n is auegeu ma "rr
'method employed was strangulation, mel)n8 lnto sUtes north, without
1 . . ti.H in the bed l : .... Imkw)m. The chare')
nn.:i it ; true that no one nas
TT 1111 c i " .
found any metal gold at Davis, it is
generally known mat some one -
has been spending from time to time,
gold certificates, especially $20 gold
. T i 1 1.1- A MAnQtf WO
certificates, wnetner tne ... j
found or whether it has Deen noa.ucu
Covering The
WATER FRONT
By AYCOCK BROWN
THIS TOWN MAY have laws per
taining to droves of dog3 running the
streets at large, but judging from
conditions the past few days along
Front Street no one would ever know
it. What we need is a first class dog
ratcher. Under the present set up
bv someone who was probably afraid jnothing seems to be done about stray
dogs tnai Decom nui-nvc.
vi m Asm nriTA nr tho remains
XUl W 11CVO a v"pj f
of one. It is a partially demolished
High Tide
Friday .Aug
8:53 a m.
Q -09. t m.
Saturday, Af . 31
9:26 a. m. ;
9:35 p. m. ,8 4d
s Sept 1
Low Tide
2:47 a.m.
8:07 p. m.
3:47
4:19
2
4:15
4:56
m.
m.
10:00 a. m.
10:08 p. m.
Monday, Sept.
10:35 a. m.
lft-4R n. rn.
Tuesday, Sept, 3
4:44
11-11 n. m. 5:37
Wednesday, Aug. 4
11:22 a. m. 6:19 a. m.
11:53 p. m. 26 P- m'
Thursday, Aug. S
no.no . 6:05 a. m
12:41 p. m.
t. -w.j Kin tied to the bed
post and thence around Mr. Week a
..I. a ,,n Uainir a razor the
Neirro sliced off a hunk of 1amr and
- . . nnar
fled, Part of the nam was
Havelock." m
(Continued on pagu c""
----
GOLDSBORO IS AFTER
KAIL, nr."
-m. niihnrn Chamber of Com
merce is seeking establishment of of
having same inspected. The charge
" . . . a a a II - J
comes under tne aaa ruungs anu,
must be of a rather serious nature
as considerable publicity has been
given such cases botn here ana ju
Washintgon.
Work Progressng
On Freezing Plant
R. S. Prescott and M. A. Cowell are
to bank same, the Beaufort News did
not learn. Apparently it was tne
tet.
wm TWlev answered the tele
phone when called by a newspaper
reporter and he saia tnai ";."
T. . - A K.illinn He did
v i at . m jo rT i n w vniu uuiiiwi.
Moored Here Today: hint though that occasionally gold
certincates wouia mm f
! had heard of same turning up but had
. . - ti!i.1... iSO-frtnt. L! 1 Annm Tlavis.
The LOCtor orinaicy seen none mmsou. 7
motor yacht hailing from Del Rio, came to the phone and said that there
Texas, stopped at the Texas Oil;wM nothing to the story that if
Docks shortly afternoon today. She tere wa9 any gold money or much of
is bound south after a seven monina any other kind on uavis onore,
cruise off the coast of Labrador and he an1 tne majority of the residents
. i T -1... Um Awnav Tlr n U n .. -
in tne ureait umes. Knew noioing auuui, i.
John R. Brinkley of Del Rio was a-i . Continued on page eight)
board. While on tne uuuviawi
7bu
merce is seeKing esuu.Bmu"" . . .t xt r
fice and yards of the Atlantic and i charge of the offices of the N. C.
a.
P-
a.
P-
North Carolina railroads in that city
when the State of Nortn uaronna De
gins operation of the road. The yards
are maintained in New Bern at pres
ent. Goldsboro declares she snouia
have the division headquarters, Be
cause it is the junction of the road.
&
hViahpriea Inc.. at Morehead City
.-4 or. intorviewirar daily, nsner-
ish to become members of
4-Via Arii-irtDl-flH Uft. The organization
V ax- ' -
oTantPd a charter last Thursday.
,
ir..ij ntnni nf tub TreezinK
'UUllblouivwif w
Calico Creek-, in More
i r ... - - ... i
head City is being rusnea to compiB-
IICBU J " ...
i m : Ltinn K.fnra the biir runs of nsn te-
U S Weather Bureau, Hatteras at;gin. Several refngerator trucks to he
Dr. Brinklev landed a
pound tuna, it was learned of a mem
ber of the party.
The "Doctor Brinkley" is by far
FORT MACON CCC ARE
GOING TO LAUKiwuuKv
enclosure out back of the city
hall. It would not hold a dog at pres
ent but with a hammer anda iew
;! it could be repaired in a hur
ry. The Board of Aldermen at their
meeting Monday night snouid yiye
explicit instructions that any exalt
ing dog laws be enforced. And if
there is not a law whicn promoua
Antra fmm roamino- the streets, to en
act one before they adjourn and
then see that enforcement officials
carry out the letter of the law.
TRISTAM TUPPER THE author in
his book "Adventuring" writen about
14 years ago and which had a local
setting said, "Beaufort is a town of
pretty girls and unpainted houses."
nd a person from out oi town toia
me this week that he thought Beau
fort was still a town of unpainted
vnr Macon CCC bovs are to be
,y iar I ----- " . ,fo con.
, . f Rp-u. transierrea to Lsuimuuig -- tort was stiu a wwn ui uii."'
the largest yacht to call at Deau , announced this weekLws.n 90me of them look shab
fort for several months b an offl:ial of the unit which has b ecially if seen from the back-
gross tonnage of 311, has a depth of ,W restorin. 0ld Fort Macon andJL, did not think Beaufort girls
11 feet, carrying 8 in the crew ", .. imc,rovement3 in the Fort such beauties and he said so. I
,a powereu oy x.vvw u-r -"- i Mftn -.aerTation. The CCC have"
tors. The craft hunt in new . , inh a old
a a v ci,.j ir Dr. 'done
waa nrsi, iiaiiicu tuo uiiauv-
RHnkWa Anr. a. huee St Bernard,
attracted the attention of many who
good job at Old For Macon.
(Continued on page eight
TZ., Wicted N. Eastar. 'ceived at Morehead City this week. sel.
7:26 p. m. 'ings; predicted N. Eastar
Wind Velocity
Wind velocity Beaufort six o'clock
today about 25 miles an hour.
Doctor .Brinkley Sail.
Yacht Dr Brinkley sailed south
from Beaufort about 4 o'clock
Passed inlet 4:25,