- . ' ' 'r"'-""' -i ' I : t 1 ' --v , v .',. . - T I I i - . L-d-i. - i- T -j ; . - A UJ j i 5 l u : j 41 "Lf C THE HOME PAPER 1 : C C READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS, TO THE BODY EVERY, THURSDAY 1 Volume IX. CEAUFORT, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1920. , Number 41 . if . v -v- . ARMY AND NAVY APPROPRIATION, TO BE SLASHED ONLY FEW CIVIL- GASES WERE TRIED Congressional Committee Ex , pectjd to Cut $1,464,000,- - ' . 000 Estimate : RECALL THE WAR , WASTE Washington, D.' C., Oct27.-y : ' There is hard sledding ahead for the 'estimates of th Democratic Admin istration for maintaining the military establishment because of the disclos ures Ynadejof Democratic waste and extravagance. , " " - .; When the army , and navy esti mates -trailing for nearly $1,500,000 were made public today, Republican members of both the Military - and Naval committees - declared " every ithem would be carefully ? scanned , It was stated that "the programme of waste- and v extravagance that characterized the administration of public affairs by-the War Depart Mnent "in .the'; last three s -years has 'jeopardized , the proper maintenance .' of the military establishment in the futuri.?i . The estimates disclose that for. the peace time maintenance of the na tional defence a total of $1,464,000, 000 will be asked of. Congress. This enormous total, which suggests some of the larger, estimates, submitted when America was an actual partlclt ' pant in the world war,' does not in elude sums which the departments will asky later, as deficiency appro priations. , f v-"'-. The navy estimates are ' about $650,000,000, and - the . army . figure runs up to $814,000,000,' or nearly as much as it- used to cost to run the entire government in the pre-war period. '' '"'"' . , , The complete text of the projects contemplated by the War ' Depart ment has not yet been made public, but undoubtedly 'there "are -many meritorious policies included in the list. These are lively, however ,"fce have very hard going when they tun the gauntlet of the Congressional committees. .Racall Airplane Waste The committee, and indeed th entire membership ,of Congress, never ' have been able to recover . from the shock they received wheri total of about 11,000,000,000 was practically wasted and thrown to the, winds in the endeavor to produce aeroplanes as a part of the world war programme. Gen. Menoher, head of the Air. Service, in. talking about his ' experiences abroad recently, recall ed that he used to "scan the air daily for billion dollar airplanes from America that never came." But that is only one instance that comes to the mindi of committee members whenever an ett!mate from the War Depirtment is presented. The vice of the,"'coiit plus" system of lotting constru2tion contracts, which the War Department initiated and employed for many months early . in the war, cast a stigma of sus picion over requetta for appropria tions, and forces committees in both partlei to demand exhstutive analy sis of every item Ji appropriation bills before they will approve them. The "cost-plus" system put a pre tium on hirM i ' ost of construction simply hence the contractsr made jore r-ry in proportion to the Money he (pe.it As the rwlt of this i nvi; t j4tions show thfat in the, build-' lng of training camp, cantonments and emergency quarters of various sorts there was a r.fct orgy rf " vercharg'ng far -.la'wr, materisls and everything e.ite:ing Into the bill which ultimately the taxpayers had to pay.," . , V The War .Department abandoned this system after' the evils of it had reached the. ears of Cong reumen, but by that time the harm was done . and It was too late It do more than -check -the -riot of expenditure 1n other phases of the war programme. Mack WaaUa Estravaf Another factor In the minds ef members of Congres who muit pass upon the eUmates submitted for military project U the eles de- struttlon of .prcprrty both here and , abroad that could have fben sal vfl. The record of the eommlt tees thst inv'fit-d V. e suiters. Carteret Needs Special Term- Mistrial m Schneider . Case Other Cases Tried The JtimY of , ISuperiar Court was taken vtp last week almost entirely by the criminal tdocket and only few civil matters wero disposed of. It is' the general!opinjpn .that; if the civil' cases oil the -uocket. here are ever tried that it will be; necessary to hold a special, term of court for that purpose. .The principal case on the state's docket was that of Mr. and Mrs. E, G.V. Schneidei4, charged with having slandered Miss i Sallie BushalL. ' This case occupied a day and a half of courtyU A number of witnesses were examined 'and a stiff fight Vwai put up" byl)6th BidesrfAs happened when the case was , tried, before it ended in a mistrial.., The jury stayed out "about twenty j hours W.B. BLADES, SR. DffiS SUDDENLY Prominent Capitalist Passes at Bishopville, Md. Funeral at New Bern . c ' REPUBLICANS TO People in Greene 'and ' Lenoir Counties Said to be Friendly To the Cause -v s New Bern, Oct 27, -William .B. Blades, one of the city's most prom inent business men, died Suddenly at 8 o'clock Sunday, afternoon at Bish opville, Md. He and Mrs, - Blades were4 on a visit to their old home in Maryland. The " remains vjere brought to New Betn" Monday night for interment. ' " - Mr, Blades was 66 years old and besides his wife is survived by two children,. William B. Blades, Jt., of New Bern,' and Mrs. C. O. Rpbinson, of Elizabeth City, Mr, Blades was ; president of the New Bern Banking and Trust Com' pany . and ; prominently, , connected with many other business enterprises here. . He had lived here for many eastern North Carolina au a business man and useful citizen. ' ? 1 v y- REVIVAL SERVICES . 'T ... A revival will begin here on Sun day morning at the Methodist church to be conducted 'by Reverend J. M. Bass, of ' Macon.1 Ga. "4 Mr." Bass has the , reputation of being an ( evange list of unusual ability and it is ex pected that the services will be one ioI great , interest to the -community. Mri M. F. Lifsey, of Macon, who has a fine reputation as a musician, will look after 'the musical' end of the services. ; ' ,; v - - ".,; .; WILL VACCINATE H6CS C .T, Jarvis, , of Straits, , was ap pointed at the last meeting of the board of county- commissioners to vaccinate hogs against choleral ' He is' paid by the county for this ser vice and does, not charge the owners f the swine anything for doing the work. The hog owners have to pay for the Serum used which runs any where from about fifty cents to dollar and half, according the sixe and having failed to agree Judgeiyears and well 'ti known h throughout Bond ordered a mistrial and then or dered the case noil prossedj The de fendants j were Irequired to give ' a personal bond of, $50 to appear at the March term of court' t, The law yers who appeared in this case were A. D. Ward -and Geo. T. Willis of New Bern, and E: W. Hill of Beau fort for the defense and J. F. Dun 6an sC. B. : Wheatly ; and f Solicitor Hortpn for the prosecution.," J '. A few criminal actions not re ported in last 'week's issue of the News were disposed ef as , follows: State against Dr. Leedom Sharp, practicing medicine without license, case dismissed.? Lind Fulf ord, disor derly conduct, case dismissed. Hen-. ry Nash, selling liquor, noli prossed and Nash sentenced to criminal in sane department of the penitentiary. Harvy Morse, having . whiskey . still on his premises, 'six" months' inr jail or to be hired out on Craven1 county roads. ' Dave Dudley, "assault with deadly weapon, fined $25 and costs. Lee. Fulcher, assault with1 deadly weapon, plead guilty, sentenced to sixty days ih 3'T Py costs and pay for his keep while In jail ' i Henry Marshall, ' assault - with deadly weapon, verdict guilt)', fined $10 and costa. Jno. Quidley and Herman lowland, assault with dead ly weapon, guilty; Quidley pay $23 and half costs; Howland to pay, $5 and no costs. Civil actions:' S. P. Hancock vs. Mary - Davis and others, ron suit Daisy Noe vs. Charles Noe, defend ant ordered to pay plaintiff $25 month for support of herself and two children and $25 for lawyer' fee J. F. Nelson vs. Lela Nelson, 'non suit and dismissed, plaintiff to pay costs. ' Judge Bond issued a bench warrant for Otto Rheams, a justice of the , peace and ordered that he give a bond for $500 for his ap pearance at March term of court Justice of the Peace W. J. Smith was required to give a bond of $200 for his appearance at next term of court as a witness in the case agaiast Lee Fulcher and Otto Rheams on charge of bribery. - Judge Bond is sued in structlons to Sheriff Thorns to der.troy all - liquors, Dateman's drops and the like which hi. had In his poa?esion. Court adjourne Saturday evening. - of the animal vaccinated.' A. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS .Transactions in. real estate have been recorded at the office of the,reg- i-. J i . isicr oi. ueeus 4 lonowa: . - ' Mary C Davis to Mattle J: Davis, 50 acres in Beaufort township, con sideration $50. . , ' B. S. Russell and others to L. O, Russell of Wilmington, 100 acres in White Oak township, consideration $25. ; S. P. Hancock and wife to Mrs. A Hoffman, 300 acres on Bogue banks, consideration $1,000. J Crescent Land Co., of Richmond to Mrs. n. liorfman, 600 acres on Bogue banks, consideration $1,000. W. R. Lewis and wife to Ive'y Lewis, 5 ft acres in'Morchead town ahip consideration $1,000. Ivey Lewis to. E. H. Hskher, 50 acres in Mofehead township, consid eration $2,500., P. P. Garner and others to T. F. Mann, 2 lots in Newport, considera tion $3,000. 1 i HENRYAGE MINCES NO WORDS Severely j Criticises , ', Cameron ; , Morrison in Introducing v ' ' Gardner Republicans of Green and Lenoi? counties t are . predicting that their party will make large gains this year in their ; respective counties. ? Al though, lacking 'in the large cam paign funds that the opposition has, they arejpu&hig up a good fight and the eeople are in the main friendly their cause, so they claim. , On last Thursday night McKinley Phit chard .-. of Asheville,- -and : W. G. Mebane of Beaufort, addressed a big audience of . men and women iri the courthouse at Kinston. Those pres ent displayed much interest and in-i terrupted the speakers with , fre quent applause. Friday night Mr. Mebane, wBo is a candidate tor the state senate, spoke in. Greene to a rural v audience and ''j .onV Saturday night , Mr.'Mebaae . and James M. Mewborne of Kinston, also a" nomi nee on the . Republican ticket tor the senate, spoke to a fine audience in Snow Hill, - D. W. Patrick of Greene, that ; Republican war . horse 1 who is always, on the battle front for his party, aided by a-' number of loyal Republicans, is doing good work in his county.- J. L. Phillips of Kin ston, an active and intelligent young Republican! is keeping things on the. move in Lenoir. There seems a very good prospect of electing the Re publican nominee for sheriff in that county, it ' V - r v ,f (Greensboro News) ? ' 1 ' Aberdeen, June 17. Introducing Lieut-Governor O, Max Gardner to a large Aberdeen audience here to night, Henry A. Page, without minc ing, -wrds, tore into .Cameron Mor- rison in no uncertain terms. Mr. Page Said in part: ' ' " " "Mr. Gardner's opponent is a mah superlatively unfitted by nature and lack of grace ' te ' fill the high office to which he ' aspires. I have : been associated with him in various ca pacities, for 80 years. His highest conception of the functions of a po litical party is to capture places of profit, for leaders of the party. : He has riot and never has had any, idea that government should be , adopted for the intimate needs of the peo ple.-. Mr. MorriBon, is wholly , out of harmony with everything (n the state except the machine. Those who wish to do business with him must take along a revenue doodler to be Intro duced. He is incapable v of being more than a cog in a wheel or at most a wheel in w machine. The po litical machine, now coming to Mor rison's aid fought every progressive measure to come befare the legisla ture while I was a member of it" ASIAWEEK OF CMIPAIGN IS ON; . LIVELY INTEREST Speakings, Conferences and Scouting of All Sorts Is ,- Going OnS , BIRTHDAY PARTY BAPTISTS HAVE sVERYf PROS . ' PEROUS YEAR JT ' j Tuesday morning a large delega tion - from the . Beaufort ' Baptist church left' for Swansboro to attend the annual session of the Ne use-At. lantic Association which , was in ses sion October 26 and 27. This asso ciation ie one of the largest assocla tions In tae state, with 61 churches and between-5,000 and 6,000 mem bers. . ' . , , ' The year just closed has been the best financially in the history of the church. . They report for all pur poses; expended 4,004.63, of which $2,125.37 was spent at home and $1,870.26 was used away from home for benevolences. The ; Sunday school raised , during the J year $919.09. During the year 28 new members have been-received, making a total membership of 202, the larg est in the history of the church. The Sunday school is in a flourishing con dition. Under the leadership ef their pastor, Rev. Harry A. DaDy,- they look to the future with bright pros pects, i ' . BUTLER HERE OP FRIDAY- The last week ef the campaign ia on and as the end draws near the interest, of the people ofvthis county"- in political matters shows an in- . crease. Speakings, conferences and ' scouting of all sorts is going on now night and day and both the Republi- , , can and Democratic "organizations - are makingjevery effort possible to - put their candidates under the wire first .. .-, " .".'i ';';. The big event ot the week will be w the speaking - in Beaufort, Friday night,? and a record-breaking crowd wilj,, probably be here at that time. " Former Senator' Marion Butler, who ; spoke twice in the county week be -fore last baa returned and will speak lomcrrow evening. ; at i:ai in tne county court room. ' The Democrats will fire a big gun in the person of Honorable A. L. Brooks of Greens- 1 boro, who recently ran against Lee S. Overman for the Democratic nom-' ination for United States i senator. Mr, Brooks is an able speaker and ; will Uphold the Democratic side as well lperhaps as any man in the state could. The Democratic speaking is to take place at the drug store cor her, if the -j westher t favorable, otherwise it will be held somewhere-,' else. Saturday evening at "&30Con-.; gressman BrinsoTfU billed, here .and., will speck' in the county court room. Besides -4he Beaufort' epeaklng, Senator Butler has a list of ether ap pointments in the county which are as follows j. Bogus, .Thursday at 2 o'clock; Morehead .-' City, - Thursday , evening at 7:30; Atlantic, Friday at noon; Stacy St 2 o'clock and that .; night t Beaufort, ' , - 'John, D. Lan gston Golldhboro, LaBt ' "Monday af ternooh ; Siinio Belle. Willis entertained a number of twenty-five of .her little friends " honor of her. second birthday, at the home of her. parent, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Thomas r Grayer - Willis, on -; Ann street- . .; The house; was beautifully decor ated in yellow chrysanthemums, ferns and pot plants.' j '; & : , The guests arrived about three o'clock, and enjoyed many Interest ing games on the front lawn. ' i - At four-thirty the Jittle iol,wwJap)ke -hexewtWIjTiday,4n. the .court- , . honse- in behalf, of the De ushered into the dining-room, where a delicious ice course , was served, followed by fruit " . ' ' ' The little hostess received many beautiful and useful gifts. The ones that enjoyed the afternoon were: ''Misses Mary Belle Howland, Sella Guthrie, Emily Clyde Parkin, Vivian Mason, Hilda Mae Whitehurst, Annie Mades, Sallie Willis; Winifred Lewis, Alice Lewis, Annie Carolyn Styron, Annie Mason, Aleise Turnage, and, Sunie Belle Willis. Masters Jphn , Mason, Cecil and Charlie Harrell, ' BillTe ' Marshal, Jack Williams Jr.," James, ' Jr.,' ami Frances Atkinson, Preiton snd John Mawn, William Cltarles Smith, Qor don Smith, end Warren Willis. MARRIAGE LICENSES Marrisge permits recently Laue by the register of deeds are as fol lows: ' ; . Jno. II. Haughty and Maude Jones, Wed, of Wildwool. . im GIHIkin and Pcc-li Gillikin, of Otway. Arthur F. Destron and Alice L Willi, of Murehead City. .. Kormaa R.Webb and HstUe T. Brlnson, of Morhead City. Charles Pritchard of Bachelor and CbreUa Ellison, colore!, of Mtrri mon. . ' . " . ' . NICE LOT OF MULLETS Some of the finent inullcts that have been brought to this market this yeir came In on Monday. They Acre large and fat and many of them were roPs. Mot-t of the fih were bought by John M. Lewis and Way Bros. Company, these ' firms taking 10,000 pounds , ,Thcy else bought a fise lot of cero on th rame diy. Some sea bass or black Gh are being brought here now but no very large catches have been made. . . REGISTRATION IS HEAVY More voters are registered this yefjr in Beaufort than ever before in the history ot the town. 1 This is mainly, due to the fact that 's con siderable number ot women have en- October 23, at 3:30 P. M. After a PARENTS AND TAECHERS MEET , The Parent-Teschers ' Association of, the Beaufort Gradej School held its first meeting for the school year 1320-21 h tv.e auditorium, Friday, by Its conduct ef army tales of sur plus army foedf, automobiles, leather snd other vat surplus store. Only yeoterday an Instance . was reported In which the department had let contracts for about 78,000 pIrs of army shoes at high , price. But at the same time aewspaper here, in Ne Yrk, Chlcam, llilla- fdelpMs, and probaLly h nwiy nther partlrularty the committee in Sarfelif ri'Jes are carrying adrertlie ef fofrlg t enpenditurts leaded by menu for the sale of army shoes ERROR IN TICKETS i - Through a typographical error whish was not dkaeovered In printing the county tickets the names have been avoided. ! of three of the candidates were mis- St.ll further splc!on has been j spelled. The name ef J. R. Jinnett, rastTrpon the-present admintstratlorrl candidate for RegUter ef Deed, was candidate for sheriff, waa printed "Willis T. Davie," and Jaa, M. Mew bonify Candida's for the Bute Sen ate, was put duwn as MT. W, Mew berne. Tbee errors were diacov ered snd corrected hut a few ef the Incorrect ticket htd rotten mtied with the ethera. The Foatd of Elac t'ons has decided that If sny of theae tickets ere .voted they will not be diiputei as It la plain enouxh what Reprr'rnUtlve Royal Johrtann, otr(r(orcd) far bebw the pi Ices the' they were Intended to man. There Booth rvkots, -srs-filled wl'Jt la.Wr Dfpsrtmest U pyirg fornesr only s few ef them h ezKteace stances ef v.antJ3 wa;l that could ihcrs tO'luy, rfyway. tolled themHelves on the regixtratioa books. There are 440. women reg istered and 732 men, making s total cf 1,232. No, colored women at all registered here.' As there is only one voting place ia Beaufort it will be necessary for the votlngNto g- on continuously In order to get through by sundown. The vTh will rise en election day at C.S0 and will et at 5.07, thus giving 10 hours and 31 minutes foi; votfng.s , , i - i NORTH RIVER ITEMS Mr. Ralph Nel, wlio has been spending a few days at the Raleigh fair, returned home Friday night Miss Amanda snd Miss Mary Ellen Edwards were the gueits,of Miss Minnie Jones Sunday. , ; , Mr. and Urt'F. M. Edwsrds were the guests ef their daughter, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Sunday. Mrs. Paul Kelson ., went. over, to Morehead City Sunday to see her huahan(. arhn ta tin 111 Mr. J. P. Thomas, who has bees 1)1 for the pa it few days, is better now, Mr, Curt Can-pen returned horns Friday, sight sfter going to K,w Bern to atll tobacco. i, Mrs. J. B. Nel was la Beaufort Saturday, visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred King. Mr. and Mrs. Ceorre Collins of WiUlvood, wt-e the guerti of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Willis Su-day. ' i Mrs. Mary Humming! is quite tUk. ... short program, corixSatlng of primary stories dramatizations and song and a few musical selections, the regular business session , was a ltered Into and the-following officers were elect ed!; President, Mrs.: Thos. -Duncan; Vlce-Preident, Mrs. II. C. Jonei; Secretary, Mrs. A. F. Doane;. Treas urer, Mr. W. V. B. Potter.' A com mittee was appointed ' to ' connlJer what steps could be taken toward beautifying the school grounds.' .Those present . at this meeting were: Nesdames G. v. Duncan, J. W. Chadwkk. I. C. Jones, W. B. Sanford, R. W. Chad wlck Thos. Dun emocratie ticket. He had an audience of about twenty-five persons. ' - Resides the appointments men- . tioned sbove ' tbe Republicans will tend their local speakers to a num- .s ber 'of place! in the county and will keepthe - work going hard until the night before the election. They plan . , to have speaking' here the night be- . fore the election and also In several other places in the county. ? ' ; ' ' While the campaign has been hard -fought in Carteret this year there ' bu not been much h:ttcrnei aroused and it w generally thought) that the election will pass over without any. unpleasant, incidents tsking' place. - , , Of courre strenuous, efforts are guing to be made by. Republicans and Democrats to get their voters to ' the polls and on account of this fact aad the further fact th;it niany wo- " men will vole it is probaW that tbe T total vote polled wHI be1 a record- breikar. In ror.ia Kotl ig precincts ' , like Beaafort' and 'Mprehead Cltyit will le, neve ,ury for the votes to 7 bo po!Jxl .quite rapidly r order that. aii.v.r.o'wr'ii may vole. Sunrise o s'etli jn diy bt-gina' at. C:30. Suh-' ' d-rwn is at 607, atter which no votes ' ;in be polled. . -.".? f ' ' ; V ' KIUED IN TRAIN WRECK ' A telegram was rereived here lax t ThuMdsy by Mr. S. Voffie, annoniic- Ing the tragi drath of Mira Esther lt-scn'h,l of Chic?Ci,' who- U a niece af Mr. YoO. ' . .r .-.i , Ml RaM.-.tSi.! Avss' killed In a rsdrud re. k rnt Erie, Pemuylva- csu. P. B. Lofiin, L. E. Greenleaf, hi! i, rhen enother tiaH ran Into the W. R. White, aarence Guthrie, J. A. enofah was riding n and split the BricVhouxe, Frank King, Chss. Howe,' slperping car. she .was Injnto bslf, John Dill,' J. W. Psrrott, A r.'asrta 6thelf erons were killed and Doane, W. V. B. Potter, Jens, Chad- twenty wounded la the same aeci- wick, MUses Annie Mortotf, Leault Arrington, Mary C. Wllhelm, Nellie RW-harrlwin, .Annls M. Clt-bx," Gladys GslJey, Panay CalUey, BeUio Par ham, Eva Thomas, Mer-trs. John Wi ley, G. II. Fergunon. ' . - - s The esjoclat:n plans to have rt ubr' monthly " meetings ' snd It Is hoped by those who are interested in Ue organisation, that every parent or peraoa iatereoted in work ef our town wdl dent- Mlaa Resepthal- wUUed.' the Vo.fs family her not tuny weeks ego and ls;er$, i.leatntly remem-' bered by a run-ber ef .people' who were greatly heckl at her death. la ted with the SMoclatlon ; EU3HALL-JAC0B5ON, M aa Sall-e 1'uahr.n and Mr. Cirl W. Jaceboriwere married lait Wed heiuay at the borne of bar Barents the school Mr. srd Mrs. Oas. II. Bo,.hrL Th become sT.i- 'cerewefiy wss prfrmd by the Rev; America-i farmers plaaUl 14,000 R. F. t err.ptaa, ef U M. E. thurrh. reserert. -1T bride waa att-'i.Ifd t Mi-s Lottie InceB at bridet- screl i bmp In 1920, Scee-rdliiif la maid STd" Mr. TEH "a Vf' t. he United States Departsawnt ef Af--meii.--- - - riculture. The crop is valued at' They will make tl'eir bo-r.t i fcbut $1,800,000. . '. Vsihlngtoa, K C. V