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Volume XXVI
Eight Pages
The Beaufort News, Thursday, July 22, 19.A
5c Per Copy
Number 23
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DISCLOSE PLANS
TO BUILD NEGRO
BEACHJNCOUNTY
Mark Mohler Gives Out
Additional Data
About Resort
BUILDING MAY START
WITHIN NEXT 10 DAYS
Mark Mohler of 919 Shore
ham Euilding, Washington, D.
C. either plans to develop Ed
gewater Club as a Negro re
sort or he is running one of the
biggest bluffs Carteret county
has experienced since the fam
ous hoax of the late Eighties
when some newspapermen sent
a dispatch to the Raleigh Re
gister relating a tale about a
child being carried into the air
by a number of toy balloons
and her subsequent rescue by a
crack shot with a rifle who
bursted balloon by balloon un
til she floated in the vicinity
of Harkers Island.
Mohler in Washington, D. C. told
Aycock Brown, editor of The Beau
fort News by long di3tance telephone
early today that he planned to carry
on with the proposal to develop the
property as a Negro resort, as he had
announced while here last week. He
said that he would be in Carteret
county the latter part of this week
at which time he would complete
arrangements with contractors to
build the first unit in a series of
units of bath houses,
will number 200 and while it had
been planned at first to have the
formal opennig of the resort on Aug
ust 15, it "might be as late as Sept
ember 1 before it will be ready for
opening." Mohler expressed sur
prise that any local opposition to the
proposed resort had arisen in this
section. He stated definitely that
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Cocerittff The
W ATER FUON1
By AYCOCK BROWN
I CANNOT SEE where North
Carolina's fishing industry, which
has almost reached the point of be
ing 'no industry' could be helped by
prohibiting the sale of fish taken in
trawl nets beyond the three mile
limits on (North Carolina markets.
And last week I said that to me the
proposal to enact such a law seem
ed cock-eyed. My contention is that
if the fish taken in trawl nets are
not sold on North Carolina markets
they will be sold on the Norfolk
markets and with glutted conditions
there the price for seafood is also
affectod in North Carolina. But that
was only my opinion and not the
opinion of many fishermen along the
coast I am finding out daily.
FROM HARKERS ISLAND came
comments which did not run along
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IIIIVASHIIIGTO;)!
WHAT
UNITED STATES
Stunned by the death of the able
and beloved Majority Leader of the
United States Senate, Joseph T Rob
inson, and with faces stern from
choked emotions and suppressed tears
Senators are prepared to close their
ranks and carry on. Now at his final
resting place in the state which gave
him to the country for long and use
ful service, Joe Robinson would have
wished that the things he left undone
be finished.
Far upon the list of things to which
the Congress must give attention is
the problem of farm legislation. The
President has stressed its importance.
The leadership of both Houses is alive
to the fact that the demands of farm
ers that they share in the benefits
from legislative approaches to crucial
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TAKING
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Skipper Of
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Through the courtesty of The News
and Observer we are reprinting the
above view of Capt. William Pond of
Cambridge, Mass., as he was greeted
in Morehead City last week by Sant
ford Martin, editor of The Winston
Salem Journal and J. L. Home,
editor of The Rocky Mount Tele
gram. The photo is a candid shot
by Charles Parker, News and Ob
Capt. Nelson Reports
Poor Fishing Season
MISS YEATMAN B
BUILDING HANGER
Open Grounds Owner
Making Many New
Improvements
Miss Georgina P. Yeatman, owner
of the Carteret Open Grounds is mak
ing many new improvements in that
area. At the present time she is in
stalling electric lights and also build
ing and airplane hangar. When
completed the hangar will be the only
one in Carteret county at the present
time. Shortly after the World War
Camp Glenn near Morehead City was
used as a base for Coast Guard
aviation and there were two or three
large hangars there. But when the
base was discontpinued the hangars
were torn down.
The Beaufort News did not receive
details about the hangar which Miss
Yeatman is building following the re
port here this week that it was under
construction. It is understood that
the hangar will be used for housing
her private land or seaplanes.
Miss Yeatman is an aviation en
thusiast. It is said that she first saw
The Open Grounds from her plane
on a trip from Miami to Philadelphia
a couple of years ago. She landed
her plane in South River and liked
the locality so well that she bought
not just a few acres, but nearly 30,-
000 acres which make up the Car
teret county area known as The Open
Grounds.
Wisconsin Golfers
Join Gulf Str. Club
Miss Kay Williams and Miss Ruth
Fiddler of Wisconsin who are spend
ing their summer vacation at Swans
boro learned upon their arrival at
the fascinating Bogue Sound Com
munity that Beaufort had facilities
for golf players. As a result they
came to Beaufort this week and took
out summer memberships in Gulf
Stream Golf Club. Both were im
pressed with the layout of the Gulf
Stream Links and plan during their
summer sojourn in Swansboro to visit
the links quite frequently, they told
Capt. James Rumley, resident super
visor of the golf club properties.
Cooperating with Federal agencies,
the Extension Service of State Col
lege has organized the buying of
surplus Irish potatoes in eastern
North Carolina to improve market
prices.
Prep-School! Ship Is
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Conservation Boar d Members Aboard
server staffer. Mr. Martin and Mr.
Home are both members of the
Board of Conservation and Deve
lopment which held its mid-summer
meeting in Morehead City. Capt Pond
conducts what is perhaps the most
unusual prep school in the world.
At certain seasons of the year he
takes a group of his students for
long cruises through inland waters
Director Etheridge
And Board Given
Complete Data
ers of North America. A fund of
Throughout the past season reports
coming from many fishing communi
ties along the North Carolina coast
have indicated that the seafood in
dustry has been far below par. Thi?
serious situation has hit hundreds of
families and thousands of persons a
hard blow. Most complete report of
the situation and the first of an of
ficial nature was furnished Director
Bruce Etheridge and his Board of
Conservation and Development at
their summer meeting in Morehead
City last week by Capt. John Nelson,
N. C. Fisheries Commissioner. We
republish interesting extracts from
his report:
Poor Season
"The past year we experienced
the poorest fishing season since the
creation of the Department in 1915
and the only thing I can contribute
this to is that it was the most unu
sual season I have ever seen. We
were short on shrimp production 1,
148,040 pounds also short on clams
3,250 bushels. " Our oyster season
started out in the beginning to be
one of the best we had had in ten
years but owing to the warm rainy
weather the market fell off. 47,265
more bushels of oysters were handled
by operators this season than were
handled last season which is account
ed for by the demand. And in my
opinion this increase in the demand
was due very largely to the adver
tising campaign put on two years a
go by the Oyster Growers and Deal
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Loftin Motor Company
Building New Addition
Loftin Motor Company is building
a new addition to their plant here.
The improvements to the present
structure when completed will re
present an outlay of approximately
$4,000 when completed it is under
stood. And the present enlargement
of the coastal Ford agency is not the
first. Ever since Horace Loftin first
came to the coast years ago he has
been building his plant larger from
year to year. These various improve
ments have given Beaufort an auto
mobile agency which in size and from
the amount of business done is equal
to any agency in Eastern Carolina.
The present improvements which will,
greatly enlarge the Loftin plant will
be completed in a few more weeks.
F. R. Seely is the contractor doing
the work.
Welcomed
The Polar
is
aboard his 2-masted auxiliary yacht
the Polaris. Shown in the photo is
Santford Martin shaking hands with
Capt. Pond while Mr. Home looks on
from the background. Standing in
the hatchway is Mrs. Pond and in
seats at the afterdeck, two of his
prep-school pupils.
Three vessels each flying the
flag of seperate foreign nations
are now moored at the Morehead .
i yicy Aermiiuu uutiva taking u :
SVJttiy illegal 1U1 OULlUVllV hU b"V
United Kingdom. Latest ves
sel to arrive was the British
M. S. Inverbank, under th9 com
mand of Capt. Elbert Loads
She arrived early today. On
Tuesday the Spanish S. S. Mari
of Bilbao arrived at the More
head City port. The Mari is a
peculiarly shaped vessel of the
'tumble-home type.' last week
the Greek S. S. Leonidas N.
Condylis arrived at the terminal
and will probably sail on Sat
urday with a cargo of 6,000 tons
of scrap. The Norwegian S. S.
Virgrid is due on July 24 or 25,
port officials stated. The
Spanish vessel came direct to
Morehead from Freetown Bri
tish West Africa, the first ves
sel to reach this port direct
from a foreign country.
Growers of cotton in eastern Car
olina report that seed treated with
the Ceresan dust is up to a better
Edgewater Club Makes News
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Will It Become A Negro Resort
Pictured above is Edgewater Club
which according to a sales contract
filed here last week will become the
property of Mark Mohler, of Wash
ington, D. C. after he has paid $125,
000 for the structure. According to
records he has already paid $6,250
and is scheduled to pay $18,750 to
complete the first payment. From
then on, it will be a matter of quar
terly installments. Edgewater Club
building was owned by F. M. Sim
mons who has been living in Wash
ington and Burwyn Md., recently.
On the same day that Mark Mohler
filed the sales contract here he an
nounced that he and his associates
ssATI IDO JUT
NEGRO KILLED!
Wiley Wilson, former North
River Negro who had been liv
ing in Morehead City recently
was killed there this morning
about 2:30 o'clock by a bullet
from a gun allegedly m the
hands and triggered bygone
Rufus Taylor, former Wilson
resident who according to re
ports has been living in Car
teret for the past six or seven
years. Irdell Salter, assistant to
Chief of Police Jimmie Willis of
Morehead City arrived on the
scene, near a cafe in the iNegro
section Morehead City a few
minutes after the slaying, but
Taylor, the alleged slayer had
departed before his arrival,
officers of the county are max
ing an extensive, search for the
alleged slayer today but until
noon had found no trace of him.
No one seemed to know what
kind of controversy the couple
were in which brought about the
shooting.
BIG BANK BRINGS
ABOUT 2 SHOWS
The Bank at Beaufort Theatre
which increased to $110 this week
because Mr. A. P. Hyman of Newport
News Va., wa3 not there to claim his
$100 has caused Manager Bob Lang
of The Beaufort Theatre to start
showing two matinees on Wednesday
until someone wins the big money.
The Bank next Wednesday will be
$110 the largest amount of any Lank
Night at the theatre since the gift
night was -started;. ' Next Wednesday
trie tirst matinee will begin at 1:30
o'clock.
More Unusual Corn
Brought To Editor
Oddities of all kinds reach
the news desk of a weekly editor.
Most recent oddities arriving
at The Beaufort News office
have been Irish potatoes of un
usual sizes and shapes, and
roasting ears. Last week we
had a story about the collect
ion of 56 ears under one shuck
brought to town by Corbett
Davis of Davis. This week
Jailer M. Chapman brought
the editor 34 ears of corn un
der one mass of fodder and
silks. The ear which came from
the Chapman farm was very un
usual. The silks were two
feet in length and it looked
more like one of Bob Burns
'Mountain Music' relatives than
an ear of corn.
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were planning to establish a Negro
resort on the club properties. While
many people think that it is only a
bluff to hike the price of the prop
erty or bring about a sale to some
one who would use it for other pur
poses, others are viewing the an
nouncements with alarm. By long
distance telephone today Mark
Mohler told The Beaufort News that
he would arrive in Carteret the lat
ter part of this week and that he
would start to work immediately on
the construction of bath houses and
that the resort would be opened to
Negroes by September 1.
Federal Labor Group
Investigating
Charges
REGAL SHIRT FACTORY
AND M. CITY INVOLVED
Hubert Winfleld 5f tiff
Cohen-Goldman Garment Shop
in New Bern was the principal
witness testifying at the Nat
Labor Relations Board hearing:
in Morehead City this morn
ing. The hearing is being
conducted at the city hall by
William H. Griffin, trial exam
iner of the National Labor
Board in Washington, D. C.
"The main object of the
trial," said a government offi
cial," is to determine whether
or not the Regal Shirt Com
pany itself or through city offi
cials is domineering and inter
ferring with an independent
labor union."
Winfield testified that he was a
presser at the New Bern garment
plant. He gave a vivid description
of coming to Morehead City some
time ago at the instructions of a
Mr. Bloomberg of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America to
feel out and investigate the worker
in the Regal Shirt plant and their
attitude towards the organization of
a union. He gave descriptions of
meetings in the home of Mrs. Nel
son and also how he and Leonard
Rice, a co-worker in the New Bern
plant, had been 'ordered from More
head City by Mayor S. H. Gibbs and
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Fishing And
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By AYCOCK BROWN
SPORTSFISHING in waters adja
cent to Beaufort and Morehead City
is up to par during the current sea
son, even though a smaller number
of anglers have been to the coast to
charter boats to take them to tha
fishing grounds. During the past
week the blue fishiner has been ea-
past week the blue fishing hasetaonn.
pecially good in waters off Cape
Lookout.
ON TUESDAY CAPT. Geonr
Lewis, and party aboard his charter
boat Squaky fishing in Cape Look
out waters landed exactely 150 blue
in one and a half hours. In th$
party wer I. J. Sneads of Bassett Va.,
T. H. Self, T. C. Self, M. B. Whitlow
and H. A. Carter of MartinsvilleV
Va. They were using the trolling
method and once the fish started
striking, each man aboard was kept
busy reeling in Blues. Capt. Georg
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TIDE TABLE
Information as W the tide
at Beaufort is given in tHs
column. 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 Low
Friday, July 23
7:56 a. m. 2:07 a. nt,
8:13 p. m. 2:11 p. m.
Saturday, July 24
8:?5 a. m. 3:44 a. mv
8:53 p. m. 3:51 p. ni,
Sunday, July 25
9:15 a. m. 3:19 a. nt,
9:32 p. m. 3:31 p. m,
Monday, July 26
9:56 a. m. 3:55 a. rau
10:13 p. m. 4:12 p. m,
Tuesday, July 27
10:35 a. m. 4:31 a. i.
10:55 p. m. 4:58 p. m
Wednesday, July 28
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11:33 p. m. 6:50 p. m,
Thursday, July 29
12:39 a. m. 6:00 a, mv
12:11 a, m. 6:51 p. m.
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