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Volume XXVI 8 Pages Including Suppplement The Beaufort News, Thursday, November 11, 1937
5c Per Copy
Number 44
Yacht Ahto Of
E&honia Sails
For Galapagos
Yonthful Navigator
Crosses Atlantic
Nine Times
Galapagos Islands in the South
Pacific, several hundred miles off
the eoast of South America, was the
destination of the 74-foot schooner
yacht "Ahto of Tallinn" Esthonia,
when she weighed anchor in Beau
fort's harbor Monday afternoon af
ter Capt. Ahto Walters her youthful
owner and skipper had taken on a
hatch of supplies purchased from lo
cal merchants.
Twenty-five year old Capt. Wal
ters who is a native of Esthonian
and sails under an Esthonian flag is
not exactly a stranger in Beaufort.
This was his third stop here. Alone
aboard another "Ahto" measuring
only 26 feet in length, he spent sev
eral days here during the Christmas
season of 1934. The tiny vessel
which he was sailing at that time was
a very famous boat. He had with one
or two companions crossed the At
lantic three times in the original
"Ahto" and on his last trip across
following the route which Columbus
followed, he won a race from an
other small sail yacht. As a result of
that trans-Atlantic race he helped
write a book "Racing the Seas"
which was published by Farrar and
Rinehart.
Aboard the 74-foot Ahto hove on
Monday besides the owner and skip
per were Mrs. Walters and their
three months old baby, Philip King
of Norfolk, England and a- steward.
Mrs. Walters is a native of Green
wich, Conn. The new Ahto was built
in Esthonia of sturdy timbers. Sev
eral months ago when Capt. Walters
accompanied by Mrs. Walters, King,
and two other young men and women
sailed from England they encounter
ed a storm in the Bay of Biscay
which lasted several days. It took 28
days to beat against head winds and
make the 400 miles crossing of
stormy Biscay.
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Covering The
WATER FilOXl
By AYCOCK BROWN
UPSTATE during the World War
we seldom heard about lie enemy
warfare going on near the North Car
olina cout . . . But there are plenty
of people living down on the Outer
Bank who can recall the day that
Diamond Lighuhip wai sunk by an
enemy submarine and when the tank
er Mirlo was et afire by a torpedo
aimed and fired by a German lub's
skipper ... In those days it was dan.
gerous to act the least bit suspicious
. . . The Coast Guard, which had be
come part of the U. S. Navy for the
duration of War would arrest you so
quickly for acting suspicoius that
you would not know what it was all
about . . . Even until this day there
re war mysteries which originated
(continued on paee five)
TIDE TABLE
Information as U the tide
at Beaufort is givei. in this
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 ihe inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High
Friday, Nov. 12
2:03 a. m. 8:40
2:25 p. m. 9;09
Saturday, Nov. 13
3:05 a. m. 941
3:26 p. m. 9;56
Sunday, Nov. 14
4:05 a. m. 10:4$
4:25 p. m. 10:49
Monday, Nov. IS
6:01 a. m. -5:20
p. m. 11:30
Tuesday, Nov. 16
5:53 a. m. 11 :40
6:11 p. m. 12:31
Wednesday, Nov. 17
6:43 a. m. 12:30
6:11 p. m. 1:22
Thursday, Nov. 18
7:34 a. m. 1:21
7:6 p. m. 2:13
Low
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. m.
p. m.
a. m.
p. m.
a. m.
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a. m.
p. ra.
New Lumber and Building Supply Firm Opens Here
REPRESENTS INVESTMENT OF $40,C00
The above photo gives a general idea of the size
and magnitude of Lumber and Building Supply Cor
poration's main warehouse located at the intersection
of Live Oak and Cedar Streets on the Atlantic high
way. It dcej net show clearly the dry kiln, nor the
planing mill at the rear of the property which are im
portant additions to this new $40,000 establishment
which was formerly opened this week. Lumber and
a complete iine cf building supplies are carried by
the firm. (At Right) Jack H. Neal is treasurer and
manager of the new corporation, which has no con
nection with Carteret Hardware Company of which
Mr- Neal is also manager. Jack Neal is one of Beau
fort's most successful young business men. He is the
son of Mrs. J. H. Neal and the late Mr. J. H. Neal.
(Eubanks-News Photos).
SHRIMP
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Shrimp! The largest run in
L
years nave oeen wii a
Carteret waters during the past J-
few days. L. C. Davis, local in-
dependent dealer says that a
i-nmerntive estimate of the
number of boxes handled by
X Carteret dealers since last Fri-
f day could be, in his opinion,
X placed at 1000,. Y
X That means that a minimum
V of 125,000 pounds have been
taken and even the trawlers
fwho have been in the fleet mak-
, ing the catches would place
X that figure as a conservative es- J
v timate. Last week end the larg- X
JL est catches were made in Core
Y Sound. Yesterday the largest
! catches came from the ocean .!.
X in the vicinity of the shoals of J
i Cape Lookout. .'.
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Clearing For Rotterdam
The Greek S. S. Tzenny Chandris
heavily laden with approximately
8,000 tons of scrap metal is expect
ed to clear on flood tide today for
Rotterdam, Holland. It was first
reported she would leave Morehead
City last Saturday.
War Letter
Sgt. Roland Bell Kept
In Touch With The
Folks At Home
F. Roland Bell who has many
friends and acquaintances here hav
ing lived in Beaufort for a number
of years, has recently been made a
Sergeant and his friends are pleased
at his promotion. A letter from Ser
geant Bell to the edtior of the News
follows:
Northern France,
July 26, 1918.
Dear Mr. Mebane:
Your letter of June 30th reached
me last night to tell you I was glad
to get it would be putting it mild, ex
ceedingly mild letters are worth
moreto us than money.
When I wrote you last I was at
the rest camp. Since that time I have
taken a 48 hour ride on the trains
practically traveling from one end of
France to the other. Almost every
village and borough has something of
great interest for us to see but as we
are we can only get a flying glimpse.
We are now in a small village in
the foot hills of mountains.
A few weeks ago we went on a hike
covering about sixteen miles to the
highest hill in this vicinity. From
this hill one can look over into Switz
erland and on a clear day with the
aid of strong field glasses can see the
Continued on page four
Red Cross Membership
Drive Has Started
At a meeting of the Beaufort
Chapter of the American Bed
Cross at the home of Dr. F. E.
Hyde on Tuesday afternoon
Membership Drive workers were
appointed and are now at work
securing annual memberships.
Much publicity is being given
the membership drive by news
papers, local theatres and civic
organizations and workers are
having excellent success in get
ting memberships. Mrs. M. E.
Bloodgood is membership chair
man of the Beaufort Chapter.
It is considered a sort of duty
in Carteret county to join the
Red Cross, because the Red
Cross in the past has helped our
Carteret citizens in time of need.
URGE UNEMPLOY'D
TO FILL OUT CARD
Census To Be Taken
Next Week Very
Important
The stage is being set for the
most gigantic census taken in such
a short time that has ever been at
tempted in these United States. Start
ing next Tuesday (Nov. 16) and con
tinuing through Saturday (Nov. 20)
an attempt will be made to take an
authentic census of every unemploy
ed person in the country. There are
hundreds of persons in Carteret
county who are unemployed and who
must fill out the census blanks which
will be distributed by the U. S. Post
al authorities.
A Citizens committee headed by
Chairman Pritchard Lewis and includ
ing Fred Seeley, Julian Hamilton,
Billy Mace and Aycock Brown have
already been active locally in help
ing make preparations for the com
ing census. This committee has con
Continued on page four
"Armistice Day"
We bring you flowers, now, who once went marching
Across a no-man's-land to beat of drums
We fly a flag to show that we remember
"This is the day the end of war has come."
You will not march to blare of bugles
When former comrades pass by in parade;
When prayers are said and words of praise are
spoken
You will be missing from the cavalcade.
The years are slipping swiftly, soldier-boy;
You gave your life that others might remain
Now after all these years we bring a flower
We fly a flag it's "Armistice" again.
. , Virginia Stanton. Beaufort, N. C.
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Jack H. Neal
Tourney Winners
With a considerable handi
cap in his favor Pritchard Lew
is won in the main event match
play with T, McQuaid at Gulf
Stream Golf Club's first Au
tumn tourney which ended last
Sunday. In the Consolation flight
William Potter played two
points better than Billy Mace
and thus was winner of the
event. First prize will be a golf
bag. Consolation prize will be a
dozen golf balls. Awarding of
prizes will be made at an event
to be announced soon.
Local Ship Builder
Goes To Fernandina
Julius H. Whitehurst who has
built some of the finest vessels in
the menhaden fleet operating along
the Atlantic coast left on Tuesday
for Fernandina, Fla., where he will
build three more boats for J. Howard
Smith who owns fish factories from
Long Island to Fernandina. The
three boats he will build are to be
similar type and style to the King
fisher. The J. II. Whitehurst, the
Benjamin L. Bishop, the Charley
Mason and the Mary Ellon are four
boats which Mr. Whitehurst has built
for J. Howard Smith during the
past few years.
SHIPPING RADISHES
The autumn radis'i crop is moving
from the farms of east and noi th
Carteret county to the markets of fie
north at this time. Several hundred
bushels have been shipped since the
first of November. One of the heavi
est shippers is K. Y. Wright who
owns a splendid truck farm just off
State Highway Route No. 101 a few
miles from Beaufort.
Begin Paving; Front Ext.
Workmen this week started pav
ing Front Street Extension, WPA
project which when completed' will
extend to Community Center.
alia ism
Parade And Banquet
Armistice Features
Lumber Jirm
Is Formally
Opened Here
It
Represents An
Investment of
$40,000
J. H. NEAL IS MANAGER
Lumber and Building Sup
ply Corporation, a new estab
lishment for Beaufort, Carter
et county and Eastern Caroli
na generally, which represents
an initial investment of approx
imately $40,000 "was formerly
opened here this week. Jack
H. Neal prominent young bus
iness man who lias managed
Carteret Hardware Company
successfully since it was estab
liViPfl in 1933. is treasurer and
manager of the new lumber
and building supply arm whicn
will carry a complete line of
every type of lumber and sup
plies for the builder.
The new corporation is located at
the intersection of Live Oak and
Pine Streets on Atlantic Highway. In
addition to the huge warehouse
which has a floor capacity of 12,000
sq. feet, a dry kiln for curing lum
ber quickly and properly, a planing
mill anJa wood working department
is also included in the local proper
ties. Out on South River a stockhold
er in the local properties owns a saw
mill with timber rights on several
thousand acres of land. The South
river saw-mill plant is operated by
Rufus Sewell who is an official of
Lumber and Building Supply Corpor
ation. The planing mill and woodwork
ing department of the firm is undan
(Continued on MJe five(
1,000 DRUM
Capt. Herbert Morris, fisher
man's guide down at Atlantic
told the Editor of The Beau
fort News n Wednesday that
during the past three weeks his
parties have landed over 1,000
chanrel bass with rod and reel
from the surf at Drum Inlet.
Capt. Morris contends that this
is more channel bass than have
ever been taken at either Ocra
coke or Hatteras this entire
season. The fishing at Drum In
let has been exceptionally good
this autumn, and Capt. Morris'
parties have been in on all of
the big catches . . . Back in
1934 Philip Mayer, New York
Sportsman who fished with rod
and reel in waters adjacent to
Ocracoke from April to Nov
ember landed a total of 1,435
channel bass by himself. After
landing he released a large per
centage of his fish.
Plattsburg
Veteran of World War
Grazes On Carteret
Pastureland
Carteret Post 9!) of The American
I, onion will sponsor a parade and cel
ebration in Morehead City today.
The Legion Auxiliaiy will be hostess
es to a turkey dinner honoring Car
teret's 350 or more World War vet
erans in the Legion hut here tonight.
But Plattsburg will observe and
celebrate Armistice Pay in Miss
Yeatman's pasture out in South Riv
er near the Open Grounds.
Plattsburg is a redish black horse
with a white star in his face, who
saw duty with the American Expedi
tionary Forces in Franco and Ger
many during the world war. Today
at the age of 23 this famous horse
which played a role in the War
which at the time was alleged to be
a "war to end wars" is retired from
a colorful career on battlefields with
the U. S. Cavelry, on race tracks
and on Polo fields and is spending a
quiet life with a sway-back Morgan,
a white Percheron and another of
his species which might be kin to
Ocracoke or Cape Lookout banker
ponies in a Carteret county pasture.
This story is not as complete as it
should be. When Forester Price who
(Continued on page four)
Auxiliary Entertains
Vets In Hut Here
At 6:15 P. M.
Legion Is Sponsoring Parade
And Celebration In
Morehead City
One of the biggest Armistice
Day celebrations in several
years has been planned by Car
teret Post 99 of the American
Legion to take place in More
head City this morning and at
the Amreican Legion Hut
in Beaufort tonight. A feature
of the celebration in Morehead
City will be a parade and Ar
mistice Day services at the Me
morial on the waterfront; to
night the Legion Auxiliary will
be hostesses at a turkey dinner
in the hut here and that will
mark the end of the day's fes
tivities. Legionnaire Joe DuBois who is on
the committee for arrangements of
the parade and celebration stated
last night that the parade would
start promptly at 10:30 o'clock this
morning at the Morehead City school
building and follow Arendel Street
through the business section to the
Memorial on the vaterfront. The pa
rade will be led by Carteret Post
Legionnaires, followed by the More
Morehead City School Band and
then the students of the local school.
He did not state definitely last night
whether the students of the Beaufort
School would take part in the pa
rade or not, but expressed an opin
ion that the Beauf .t ;o!.jol band
would be in the parade,
Arriving at the Memorial and with
the blast of whistles at 11 o'clock,
the Services to be conducted by
(Continued on page five)
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Hulling And
ALL OtJTDOOttS
By AYCOCK BROWN
. .Somewhere during the pas?
week we read about a Cero being
caught by an angler fishing out of
Morehead City . . . These game fish
have just about all moved on to
other waters although the Autumn
of 1937 offered plenty of sport with
Cero . . . Forester Price who super
pervises the Open Ground properties
for Mrs. Yateman said that he had
issued about 50 permits to deer hunt
ers in that section . . .If the hunt
ers co-operate with tjie owner of
the property and abide by the rules
set out on the permits, the vast
Open Grounds should become an im
portant sanctuary for wildlife in
general and deer in particular . . .If
poachers insist on driving along the
Open Ground road and shooting deer
(continued on page five)
IN WASHINGTON
WHAT
IS
TAKING
UNITED STATES SENATOR
THERE SEEMS to be a determi
nation on the part of many members
of Congress to make the special ses
sion convening on Monday a strict
ly business session. Many leaders
feel that the country is in no mood
for prolonged discussion of problems
of little vital importance to our peo
ple at the moment. The result may
be a comparatively quiet gathering
of the members of the national leg
islature with little departure from
the program for which the session
was called.
HOWEVER, UNSETTLED condi
tions abroad always have an effect
on Congress and it may be difficult
to avoid frequent discussion of world
affairs.
BUT IF IT IS true, as farm lead
ers contend, that the condition of
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