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VOLUME XXXIII No. 46
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1944 12 PAGES THIS WEi
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
REV. W.S. POTTER
OH SIXTH YEAR
His Precedent Break
ing Appointment
Requested by his
Congregation
OTHER CHANGES
The Rev. W. Stanley Potter' wad
returned as pastor of the Ann
Street Methodist Church, Beau
fort, for the sixth time by the
North Carolina Methodist Confer
ence in Raleigh.
The Rev. J. H. Miller, pastor of
the Morehead Methodist Church
was appointed Superintendent of
the Elizabeth City District ot tne
Methodist Church.
Other New Bern District as
signments and reassignments are:
J. A. Russell, District Superin-
Atlantic C. M. Mitchell; Auro-J
ra E. W. Downum; Ayden, A. L.
Chaplain; Dover, M. E. Tyson;
Fremont, J. C. Williams; Golds
boro, Leon Russell; Goldsboro cir
cuit, W. C. Wilson; Greenville, R.
W. Bradshaw;
Grifton, R. E. Walston; Grimes
land, C. B. Harris; Hookertou, E.
R. Shuller; Jones, J. R. Poe; Kins
ton, H. I. Glass; LaGrange, J. D.
Autry;
Marshallberg H. G. Cuthreell;
nwoolmH Citv. Luther B. Bndg
ers; Morehead City circuit, to be
supplied; Mt. Olive and aiypso
C. W. Robbins; Mt. Olive circuit
W. E. Howard; New Bern, W. A
Cade;
Newnort J. M. Jolliff ; Ocra
coke and Portsmouth, W. R. Dix
on;
Oriental to be supplied; Pam
lico, R. N. Fitts; Pikerville, W. F.
Walters; Pink Hill, M. E. Coiton;
Riverside and Eridgeton, W. A.
Tew; Seven Suprings, H. L. Har
rell; Snow Hill, J. Bascom Hurley;
Straits, to be supplied; Vancei.oro,
V. H. Brady; Waltsonburg, K. W.
Taylor.
Assignments of former pastors
were: the Rev. L. D. Hayman, re
turned to Whiteville; the Rev. R.
F. Munns, returned to Laurinburg;
'. and the Rev. C. B. Culbreth, re
turned to Benson.
MARINES ATTACK
TAXI DRIVER
Floyd Johnson badly
Beaten by Marines
in auto-steal attempt
Floyd Johnson, Beaufort taxi
driver owner, is recoving from se
vere cuts n his head suffered Sun
day night when three Marines
who boarded his taxi to be taken
to the Highway from Atlantic
Beach, "jumped him."
Mr. Johnson was released from
Morehead Hospital yesterday but
will have to return fo daily treat
ments not only to his head but
for a bruised kidnney and abruised
throat
One of the Marinas in the back
seat struck Mr. Johnson with a
two by four board which he had
concealed from Mr. Johnson when
the trio entered the cab. Anoth
er grabbed Mr. Johnson's throat.
The ar swerved unto the sand
shoulder and as it dial the driver's
door swuung open. Mr. Johnson
fled into the woods, hiding there
until the Marines ceased their ef
forts to extricate the car and
themselves fled.
Mr. Johnson struesrled to the
Highway where he was picked up
by a car driven by a colored man
who took him to the Morehead Po
lice Station. Marine M. P.'s. took
him to the hospital.
The Cherrv Point Provost Marsh
shall has secured fingerprints from
the car and from the board used
in the assault and an overseas cap.
OPTION SECURED
BY BUILDER
L. W. Hassel Farm
May Become Site
j of Second Housing
Project
Co. Clerk Hassell
Hospitalized
County Clerk L. W. Hassell will
leave tomorrow for the veterans
!Ho?!Vp! in Fayetteville to under-
ig-o three major epilations,
i His physical ailments are trace
i able to the months he spent in ths
Fhillipines, 1899 to 1901, during
the Phillipine Insurrection. Mr.
I Hassell admits that he follow?
newspaper accounts of the fiuin
pine fighting with more than us
ual interest because he knowsnvcll
all the terrain over which Ameri
can soldiers are now fighting.
Another batch of modern homes
in addition to the fifty to be built
along the waterfront may be ir.
store for Beaufort.
W. H. Weaver, Greensboro
builder and promoter of the water
front development, has secured
an option on ten acres of land
north of and adjoining the Beau
fort graded school and fronting
an Highway 70.
The Di-onertv is owned by L.
W. Hassell. Carteret County Clerk
from whom Mr. W eaver secured a
60-day option.
Don't Lose Your
Gas Mileage Record
A, B and C gasoline ration mil
eage records must be retained by
every applicant, according to a di
rective from national headquarters
and announced today by the Car
teret County Ration Board.
All B and C book holders will
hare to present the mileage rec-u-ifh
oaeh new request for
gasoline. Thus to save time and
perhaps trouble that can not be
mended, hang on to your mileage
record.
David Woodrow Nelson, S lc.
USX., is now serving with the Am
phibious Operating Unit in the
South Pacific war zone.
He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in
May of 1940.
He is the son of Mrs. Caii.e N.
Willis and the late Paul E. Nel
son of Beaufort, N. C, Route 1.
His wife is, Mrs. Mane Nelson
of Beaufort.
CARTERET BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
JAYCEES WORK
ON PAPER DRIVE
Despite public apathy
Group will continue
Then Efforts
William Earl Guthrie, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Guthrie i-
horn on furlough " after having
completed his Navy boot training
at Bainbridge, Md.
Math Chaplain, CM 3c, a mem
ber of the Sea Bees, is home on a
ten dav furlough. He is staying
with his father John C. Chaplain,
?r M ath exDects to be transferred
to the Pacific area. He has already !
seen 22 months of duty in the fcu
ropean area.
December Court
Calendar Set
After a seven weeks' silence
Graham W. Duncan heard Irom
his eighteen year old son, John
Woodard Duncan azc, oununy
night. The youth telephoned his
father from Boston, Mass., ir
which port he had arrived aboard
his ship, the destroyer escort Eld-
ridge on which he had sailed al
most two months ago out of Nor
folk. Navv secrecy rules prohibit
ed him from saying where he had
been but it is highly likely that he
was where things of fighting sig-
inificance have been happening.
Sailor Duncan found a whole nock
of Christmas presents awaiting
him in Boston.
fink- 400 pounds of waste pa
per were donated to the waste pa
per salvage drive last Sunday it
was reported at the regular din
ner session of the Beaufort Jay-
cees at the Inlet Inn Tuesday ev
ening. This result it was stated does
not justify the personal effort,
the time the consumption of gaso
line and rubber which the Jaycees
individually andcollectively give
it.
Only about one in every 25
Beaufort families contributes and
this those few do regularly.
The Jaycees individually put in
three to four hours every fifth
Sunday afternoon to make the
rounds of Beaufort streets.
The ctoud was unanimous in
stating that it hopesa nd expects
to continue the drive despite tne
disappointments. One half of the
monies received by tne jaycees
from sale of the paper it sens
at 40 cents the hundred weight
is donated to the Scout Building
Fund.
The drivew il continue as usual
this Sunday and the Jaycees again
ask that Beaufort residents tie
their waste paper in bundles and
place the bundles on the curb
sides..
The Beaufort Jaycees will en
tertain the Morehead Jaycees at
dinner in the Inlet Inn the evening
of November 27.
LEGION BANQUET
ARMISTICE EVE
Hears Col. Bain
plead for compulsory
military training
Why is compulsory mil'tary
training one of the salient features
of the American Legion sponsored
"G. I. Bill"?
"If we don't start training our
youth now, not after, there just
won't be any after for us. There'll
just be slavery," Col. Edgar H.
Bain of Goldsboro told more than
100 members and guests of Car
HEW LIFE FOR
HOUSEBREAKER
Judge Webb tempers
Justice with great
Mercy
Samuel Underwood, colored, a
bout 24, stood before Judge Paul
Webb in Court on Tuesday charg
ed with feloniously breaking and
entaring the home of Floyd Chad
wick in Smyrna.
The prosecuting attorney was
Claud R- Wheatly, substituting
for County Attorney Davis.
The evidence was that Under
lie memDers aim guvc , evidence was mat unuei-
teret Post 99, American Legion, ! od broke throUgh a first floor
. n i in T iinrinil I . . i . i
HUNTERS BAG DEER
Sportsmen in Carteret County
have begun their annual trek to
hunting grounds. Among those
bagging deer last week were: T.
T. Mills, C. T. Cannon, C. M. Hill
and I. E. Pittman.
LIGHTNING KILLS STOCK
Summer Workers
Urged to Keep
Their S. S. Cards
TVio calendar for the December
.c.i.: o: 3'iperior Court with Su
perior Court Judge R. Hunt Park
er presiding is:
Pec. 4 Carteret County vs
348.3S acres of Beaufort land et al
Dec. 5 Bell vs Rhue; Goldman
vs. Carteret Motor Co.
Dec. 6 Hunnings vs. J. W.
Gillikin.
Divorces Carter vs. Carter;
Taft vs. Taft; Rennias vs. Ren
nias; Haid vs. Haid; Wiley vs. Wil
ey; Jordon vs Jordon; Will's
vs. Willis.
Motions Ball vs. Jones; Mason
vs. Edwards.
Lt. J. M. Larrick (husband of
Mm. Florence Smith) who is sta
tioned at Nvwiwt, Arkansas flev;
to Cherry Hint last Sunday ana
returned to Arkansas on Monday.
He spent Sunday after. Mon and
night with Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Smith and family.
MILLER TO ADDRESS
ROTARIANS
Eight cos, one bull and a year
ling, breeding stock of J. M. Willis,
were killed by ligtitning in the
barn where they werec losely hud
dled together in the Mansfield sec
tion last Thursday night during
the heavy electricpl storm.
RATION
BRIEFS
GASOLINE
A-ll good through Nov. 8.
SHOES
No. 1, 2 and 3 "Airplane"
Stamps in Book III good Indefi
nitely. SUGAR
Stamps No. Z$, 31, 32 and 33
Book IV, good for 5 pounds of su
erar indefinitely. No. 40 zood for
5 lbs. canning sugar through Feb-1
ruary 28, 1945.
CANNED GOODS
, Blue Stamps, Book IV, A-8
'through Z-8 good indefinitely.
A-5 through W-5 good November
1st.
MEATS
Red Stamps, Book IV, A-8 thru
Z-8 and A-5 through P-5 good in
definitely. No more red stamps
good until December 3.
FUEL OIL
Period 4 and 5 coupons now
valid for current season will re-
main valid throughout the coming
heating year. Period 1 coupons
for next season are now valid.
NOTICE
Every car owner must write
his license number and State in
advance on all gasoline coupons
in his possession.
Rent Control
t All persons renting, or offering
for rent, any living quarters what
sovere must register each dwell-
ing until with rent control office in
1 their rent area. Persons who feel
that they are being overcharged
for rents may submit compaints
to OPA. Complaint forms ari av
ailable at the local War Price and
Rationing Board if your area does
not have a rent control office.
i
i4
" High School boys and girls who
have been working in business oi
industrial jobs during the summer
were urged today by Mr. N. A.
Avera, Manager of the Wilming
ton Office of the Social Security
Board, to take care of their social
security account number cards.
"Students will need their cards
when they take other jobs during
holidays, during next vacation
and throughout life," Mr. Avera
said. "The card is the key to an in
surance policy with Uncle Sam,
and number should be used bv ev
ery worker throughout life. Wage
credits, on which future benefits
will be based, are posted to each
workers individual ledger sheet
under both his name and number,
since many people may have the
same name but no two can have
the same social security number.
More than one number mav cause
some loss of the wage credits."
BEAUFORT SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL
BEAUFORT'S IN NATION'S EYE
Beaufort enterprises are get
ting in the nation's eye. Associat
ed Press feature service has issued
a full-page mat on the seaweed in
Beaufort. The News also recently carried
a full page on terrapin culture In
dustry of Beauofrt, telling about
"mossing," the experiments at
Pivers' Island, and the processing
at Van Sant's. Acme Newspietures
also released the same story, and
it was carried as a full page in the
N. Y. News a few weeks ago.
THEY CAN COUNT
TOUCHDOWNS TOO
Thi Misses Jean Ball, Elizabeth
Bell and Shirley Lipman of Mrs.
Mrs. Nelllie Willis' Sixth Grade
made the first period honor roll ot
th Beaufort Graded schools.
Through inadvertency their name?
were not included in the nonor
roll list published last week.
HIGH GIRLS SING
FOR ROTARY
Scout Building Drive
Starts Next Week
The young ladies of the First
Citizens Bank and Trust Com
pany spent their Armistice Day
holiday Saturday by attending the
Duke-Wake Forest football game
at Durham. They left Beaufort di
vided in their football sentiment.
and returned the same way but
haDuv about it. They are the Miss
es Louise Guthrie, Virginia Davis,
Hilma Chadwick, Thelma Willis
and Virginia Chadwick.
SCHOOLS CLOSED ONLY
ON THANKSGIVING DAY
First Class Aviation Machinist
Mate iien Arrington, of Pensaco
la, Fla., is spending a few day.
leave here with his mother, Mrs.
Ben Arrington. His sister is Mrs.
Herbert Prytherch.
Pvt. Levi Lloyd, USA, son of
William Lloyd, Beaufort, RFD,
and late Mrs. Carrie Lloyd, arrived
six hours late for the funeral of
his mother last week. A telegram
telling him of his mother's death
was three days late in delivery due
to troop movements in which Pvt.
Lloyd was participating. He will
return to Ft. Mead, Md., tomor
row.
:i laat,
if
Eugene Garner, AS, U. S. Coast
Guard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Garner of Cedar Street, is now
stationed at Curtis Bay, Md.
Allen Willis, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Willis, spent the
week end here and returned to
Charleston, S. C, Sunday evening.
Clinton Mason, U. S. Merchant
Marine, brother of Mrs. Thomas
Haskett of Newporta hd of Clar
ence and William Mason, also of
Newport, has returned from his
third Mediterranean trip.
Air Cadet, Glenn Aair of Coch
ran Field, Ga., son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Adair arrived Monday night
for a brief visit with his parents'.
He will return to his field Friday.
L. L. Bing Miller, Assistair. Ex ecutive
Secretary of the North
Carolina Tuberculosis Association,
will talk on tuberculosis control at
the dinner session pf the Beaufort
Rotary Club Tuesday evennig at
the Inlet Inn.
The club will have as guests J.
R. Poe of Newport, Earl Davis of
Harker's Island, Sterling Rabin
son of Atlantic, Mrs. Martha Lof
tin of Beaufort and S. A. Chalk,
Stanley Woodland and H. P. Scrip
ture of Morehead City, all of
whom are Carteret County lead
ers in tuberculosis work.
ATLANTIC INFANT DIES
Th Beaufort schools will be
closed only on Thanksgiving Day.
Regular school sessions will be
held on all other school days next
week. Thanksgiving Day, by the way;
will be on November 23. Eight
states will celebrate Thanksgiving
on Nov. 30.
S,rt. James R. Sunders, USA,
who has been spending his fur
lough home with his mother, i.irs.
R. G. Sanders, of Oranga St., re
turned to Fort Bragg Tuesday. Hf
was accompanied by his wife.
Michael, the five-months old son
of the Mr. and Mrs. Guy Taylor of
Atlantic, died Snuday in New Riv
er Hospital to which he had beer,
taken on the previous day. Funer
al services were held on Monday
in the Atlantic Methodist Church
and burial was in the Atlintic
Cemetery. Mr. Taylor is serving
overseas with the Marines.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Four teams were chosen from a
moiii? the membership of the Beau
fort Rotary Club in regular week
ly dinner session Tuesday even
ing at the Inlet Inn to canvass all
Beaufort next week to raise funds
for the Scout building.
A program of songs under the
direction of Mr. and Mrs. Gray
den Paul was given by six Beau
fort high school girl singers.
They are the Misses Esther Bell
Fodrie, Norma Gaskill, Carol Tay
lor, Betty Lou Merrill, Sallia Ma
sort and Elsie Ingram.
ELECTED BY COLLEGE MATES
ri npane Bessent has been
elected by the Methodist Sunday
School girls at Louisburg ionege
to be their representative from
the Juniors on the Central Relig
ious Counsel.;
The C. R. C. is composed of stu
dents elected from the different
organizations who meet to discuss
thep roblems of life on the college
campus and to make any necessary
changes or adjustments.
Miss Bessent is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bessent of
Colon W. Pake, S lc USNR,
who has been receiving treatment
; a Hawaii hosuital. has arrive '
in San Diego, Cal., 'where he wul
receive further treatment. His
wife, Mrs. Marguerite Fake, nas
been notified by her nusoanu.
.Pvt. David Modlin, U. S. Army,
writes from Germany to his friend
Maurice Gar.ier that he is well aua
doing very good but would like to
be home.
Wm. Carl Edwards, Jr., , USNR,
who has been spending his fur
lough homew ith his father, Rev.
Carl Edwards, left today return
ing to Norfolk where he is station
ed. Mrs. Edwards returned with
him.
Ann Street Methodist Church
will hold its annual Thanksgiving
Service at the church on Thanks
griviner morning, Nov. 23rd at 10
o'clock. There will be special mu
sic by the Sunshine Choir and Mr.
Potter will preach.
transferred from Norfolk to San
Bruno, Calif., for six weeks of ad
vanced training. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Rogers of RFD.
Chris Rogers, USNR, has been
Corn. C. Odell Merrill writes his
mother, Mrs. Dave Merrill of Ann
St., that he has been a patient in
an Army hospital in France sine?
Oct., 28th., after having under
gone an appendicitis operation.
He is doing very well and hopes
to be out very soon.
MSgt. Walter S. Moore, 358th
Harbor Craft Co., writes his fam
ily that he has arrived safe some
where in France.
last Friday evening in the Legion
Hut at the Post s annual Armis
tice eve banquet.
introduced bv Post Commander
HntrK Hill, as a winner of the Dis
tinguished Service Cross in World
I, as State Legion Historian, as
Phanlain of the Legion of Valor.
as membership chairman for his
Leerion division Col. Bam describ
ed himself as a director of the
Brewing Industry Foundation for
Self Regulation and as a "Jack-
Leg" preacher who holds forth on
Sundays as a layreader at the
Episcopal Church of St. George's
at fikeville. And he added that
he is ijot a blood thirsty fellow but
only oae who believes that the
"turn the other cheek" philosophy
is subject to an interpretation bas
ed on what may be described as
common sense. i
"The United States has been
lucky. Great Britain and France
fought for us for more than three
years in World War I while we
were getting ready. And almost
single-handedly Great Britain has
fought for us in World War II
while we were getting ready.
"One of these days some other
Hitler, some other Hirohito ivili
take us on first. And that's why
we should start now to train out-
youth," Col. Bain declared.
"Here we are," he told the as
sembled Carteret Lenionaires "cel
ebrating Armistice Day. nd th?
Armistice is over. And, by proxy,
through your sons, each one ot you
is still Over There.
"What's there in all history to
make any one of us believe chat
the end of wars is in sight. The
Bible certainly refutes any such
hope. And thus, why, dream of an
era of no wars when we can train
our youth now and assure peace
through m-enardness. '
Marine Major Harry W. Reed
of Cherry Point told what he coultf
of flying and fighting and dying in
the air, in the swamps and jungles
and on the beach heads of Pacific
Islands.
Major Reed is thirty-one years of
age. Hhis chest is covered with
campaign ribbons. He has the Air
Medal, the D. F. C. and a specific
Presidential citation. He5s had
5300 hours in the air. And he has
led 72 flying missions, the second
highest number in Marine History.
He's one of those fellows who
leads a group of 200 and some
times 2,000 planes into the ene
my's stratosphere.
Right now he is functioning as
Marine ordnance officer, Cherry
Point to Texas as his territory,
and tiching to get back to the bus
iness of fighting.
"You know, I don't supposa I
ought to say this, but fighting bar
baric Japs makes good barbarians
of the best Americans," he said.
"When I was in the Isdancs w
were losing about on out of eve.
six of our pilots. The Japs wv!
losing a whole lot more. But fin
t-istics don't count when your
friend Joe doesn't come back.''
He said that, as a guest of Car
teret Post, he was celebrating tij.
mly Armistice Day but the 16..!'
anniversary of the Marine Corp.
as well. The Marine Corps he sai
increased its fighting personne.
80U0 per cent in the last three
ytars.
Car.eret County U.S.O. Direc
tor Sstr.snn in a brief sneech ask
ed the Legionnaires to help out
with U.S.O. activities. "Don't leave
all the woik for the ladies to do."
Grayden Paul with Mrs. Paul
at the piano led the singing with
favorites of World War I predom
inating. He was assisted by Mihi
Bettv Lou Merrill who sang sev
eral enthusiastically received solos.
Among the out of -town guest?
were L. P. Gardner, Buddie Blow
and Dr. C. F. Stronsnider o
Goldsboro and Mr. and Mrs. Jo
seph Siegel of Columbus, Ohio.
, Mr. Siegel is with the U. S. Public
Health Service.
It didn't require any urging on
See LEGION Page 8
window of the Chadwick home on
th aftpmonn of Nov. 7. turned
the interior upside down and help
ed himself to a wide variety oi
clothing, some cash, a shotgun and
cartridges.
Mrs. Chadwick, on the stand aa
State's witness, told the Court that
her first intimation that her home
haA hem robbed came when, aa
she was driving homeward she saw
the Negro trudging along the roaa
wearing clothes that looked migh
ty familiar .
Her description of the disarray
that assailed her eyes on her ac
celerated arrival there rested an
incontestabls weight of evidence
on Underwood.
He was described in the police
dossier as having migrated from
Jacksonville to work in the Quinn
I Fisheries. -v
And everyone, everyone except
two, in that courroom began to
see another thousand miles of
North Carolina road, every inch
built by Samuel Underwood.
The Court asked Underwood if
he wanted a lawyer. Underwood
didn't. Mr. Wheatly asked him if
he wanted to testify in his own de
fense and hastened to 111 him thai
he certainly didn't have t(?"h a
word about himself, for or a,?air stT""
But underwood said he wanted to
talk.
The colored youth might just as
well have been in a trance for a.l
the effect that the oath taking had
on him. And when he had fumbled
up unto the stand he started off
on a long tale that might have
wound up in a complete revela
tion of the voodoo ceremonies of
the deep jungles had not Mr.
Wheatly cut in with softly modu
lated question about his past.
Those questions, a combination
of Christianity and psychiatry, dis
closed that Samuel Underwo.d is
mentally sick and a child wander
ing in a world he can't, and prob
ably never will, understand.
And where Mr. Wheatly's ques
tions left off, Judge Webb's be
gan. .... , - ji?
The sentence : - '
With Dr. Oliver the County
health officer away and with cer
tain routine to be followed to gain
Underwood's admission into a vet
eran's hospital (he served a year
and two months in the Army)
Judge Webb bound him over for
Superior Court. Just so the col
ored boy will have a place to
sleep until the time when he can
be sent somewhere to be taken
care of perhaps for the rest of
his hazy life.
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tide
at Beaufort is given ir thi.'
column. The figures a.e in
proximately correct and ..
based on tables furnished bv
the U. S. Geod'tic Survey
Some allowances must U
made for variations in the
wind and also wi'.h rewr
to the locality, that is .-. h"t:
er near ths inlet nv
head of the estua: ;-
FICM
: .o
.ay,
rioT.
Fr
10:2-1 AM.
10:47 PM.
Sunday, Not
11:06 AM.
11:30 PM
S:25
4:13
18
4:03
:55
LO
AM. ,
PM.
AM.
PM.
4:
19
4:43 AM.
5:40 TM.
Monday, Nov. 20
11:53 AM.
5:29 AM.
6:28 PM.
21
6:21 AM.
7:22 PM.
Tuesday, Nov.
12:22 AM.
12:47 PM.
Wednesday, Nov. 22
1:21 AM. 7:24 AM.
1:44 PM. 8:20 PM.
Thuriday, Not. 23
Thanksgiving Day
2:24 AM. 8:33 AM.
2:49 PM. 9:21 PM.