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EVERY THURSDAY
lVOL. XI
THE BEAtJFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922.
' NUMBER TWENTY O:;:
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EXPORT BUSINESS
GETS ASSISTANCE
Secretary Hoover Lending Ev
ery' Assistance to. Those
Engaged in , Developing -v
Export Business ' ; .,:
WASHINGTON As1 a result of
: an appropriation by the Congress of,
approximately 30 pere nt more mon
;. ey for the foreign trade .vision of
'V the. United States -Department? of
- Commerce the activities ot that di
v vision for the coming year will be
appreciably expanded, ' : -
Under the administration of Sec
retary Hoover the foreign trade bu
reau of the Department of Commer-
ce has been given the emphasis and
prominence which it deserves and
" r which is necessary if the United
States is to remain a power in world
and keep pace with her competitors.
As evidence of .increasing interest
7 among American ; business men and
j concerns in foreign trade problems,
the daily umber of inquiries address-
ed to the Department ofComjherce
has increased three-fold within the
last year." j At present from ,800
to 2,000 questions of this character
are, received at the Department of
Commerce every day. " As evidence
of the degree ' to which Secretary
Hoover has "speeded up" his foreign
., trade work it may be stated that the
daily number of reports from - the
' consular service abroad receive by
. the foreign trade bureau has in
creased from' an average of 70 to
an average of t20.
The increased appropriations which
, will be available for this work will
be devoted largely to the stregthen
, ing of existing organization rather
than addition of any new units. An
immediate stregthening will be made
in the foreign field service A num
.ler ,f high grade specialists in Am-
ericas expert commodities wH be
.immediately assigned to such hnport
- ant world commercial centers as Lon
don, Berlin, Paris, Rome and , Mad
rid. . . .
In response to requests by Amer-
lean interests-and foreiign trade an
office, will be opened at Athens,
Greece,' for the purposo of making
first hand close range study of
opportunities for American trade in
the Mediterranean and Balkan sphere
The far East, wi3 be given addition
al atentloa by an increase in foreign
trade expert at various points in
China. East Indies, the Malay, States
Slam and the Straits Settlement, New
offices will be opened at Calcutta and
HongKorg. The personnel now. at
Shanghai,- China and Melbourne, A us
tralia, will be strengthened.
Particular attention will be paiid
to Latin-American trade. Addition
al trade cimnUWoners wjll be sent
to Buenos Aries, Rio de-Jeneiro,
Mexico City and elsewhere In Cen
ral and South America. A new post
will be establish in the republic of
Columbia and the offices at Havana,
Cuba, will be .Increased in Importan
ce so that the trade commissioners
located, tbete will have charts of all
the West Indies.
The personnel of the rsrious dl-.
' visions in the home office a: Washing
tort which come In contact with for-'
elgn trade will be strength"1. This
.'will Induce the division of foreign,',
tariffs, the statistical division,' the
trade information divslon, which em
braces the publicity work, sad the
the specialities division. The latter
will be considerably espanded un
der an escort whoie wide experience
In export business will make hlra au
thority as an 'adviser, to the whole
bureau on matters ef export technl,
que, aierchandislng problems, etc.
All told, the Department of Com
merce eipecta with the-additional
appropriations to not only Increase
. the ouality of serves which It new
fomUhet American eoncern later
ested In' foreign Uade, but Urougb
this Improved serrke It expecU to ae-
slst Amerka te capture Ut rlghu
ful share of, foreign business.
, RIDUCTION tALI, ,
Te ftrtt teJ action sale of ha iusx
sner la Besufert is advert'sed la thf
Ktws this we.k. It U he eondocW
.4 w. tv. ruaufert Barfala Store
us aialmes evsry "thlag their
Urtt Lok Full deUOe et the.
wJe eaa be seen In their doable P
aJrrtietet)t
JURY'S REPORT."
The News did not have room last
week for all the matte; which could
have been put in it. Among other
things-the gnd jury's reports
omitted. The renorl in a fnUnwc'l
omitted. The report is as follows:
"We ,tie Grand Jury drawn fojr
the June ,Term of 1922 of ; Carteret
County Superior Cdurt, beg leave to
make the following report: ?. ,
. "Ve have acted, on all bills of in
dictment presented to us
to our best judgement
" We have made presentments of
all cases of lawlessness that have
ben brought to our attention.!.. . .,.
: "We' visited and inspected " the
County Home.- We found the Home
well kept and the inmates well taken
care of. . -:d''pxX zZi- '''
r "We recommended that the three
orphan children now being cared for
at the Home be placed in an Orphan
age at as early (a date as possible.
We also recommended the removal of
Penie Hamilton, a feeble minded in
mate of the Home( to some Institu
tion better suited to one in her condition----;
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"We inspected the county "JaiTand
found it well kept. ' Tfie sewers show
evidence of ; poor drainage and ' we
recommend that JthejJrainpipes be
regraded to correct this trouble,
"We are of the opinion that the
jail itself is out of date, and recom
mend that it be replaced by a more
modern structure, t ' ' " "
"We have inspected the various
offices of the Court House and find
them all clean and well kept.;
"In the Sheriff's office we find a
need for a wicker enclosure to keep
the public away from the private
papers and files.. Also a large safe
or vault. v-' ' '- .'
In the Register of Deeds office
we find fourteen books badly in need
of rebinding. '" , .
"In the Clerk of Court's office we
find them in need -of a cabinet for
filing of papers for which no provi
sion has been , made. , ,
. "In the cloak room adjoining the
Court room we find the' locker doors,
in seed of re-fitting. .
"We recommend that these Im
provement be made."
t Wo with to thank the Judge pre
siding and the various officers of the
Court 'for their courtesies to us
whle we have been In session. ,
POTATOES NEARLY GATHERED
The potato crop in the Beaufort
section has been rather a diissppoint
ment to producers and the public at
large-x Still the results show that
it has not been a complete failure
by arur means. The records of the
railrcad company show so far 18,
000 barrels of potatoes have been
hipped this year and there are still
few left. I( the heey rains hid
not occcred at plantiryr time and
and then again during the, harvest,
ing season the crop would probably
have been fully double what It was
and the potatoes would have been of
a better quality. On account of the
damaged condition of some of the
crop aM Pxr grading, prices have
been rather low. One advantage
the growers here have is that a good
deal of the potato lands will be used
to product a 'second crop of some
sort and this will help th sltustion
consJdrably. ; '
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Only one msrrisf I license Ut been
Issued so Ut this week' by Register
of Deeds Troy Morris. This was to
E. Arthur Mason of Biaofort .sAd
Msry K. Piver f BeUle. '
W1XX WORK FOR THE NEWS.
Was. Dabnejr White of Beaufort
(1 Worn a member of the, staff
of the Beaufort News seat Monday.
Mr. White will pay special attention
to gathering hews of a local nature,
that la of town and eoanty. It has
bea the pvrpose of the News min
agemeot a 'J the time to make the
Doner as laUrestirg to Its subecrib-
W m -
r aa H uoa.'blr eaa and developiog
Its local news department sesna the
way U taect uta reeuiwair.
White ai a stsdeal et the Carvenrity
and haa takes a coarso a jrouraatUat.
I Ab news Items give alas
of aay sort will be appreciated
all eoacerwed.' ' . j
w trM vXK aad three chU4-'.
r of Walagtoa, D. C are here
a vWt to Mrs. liUa WUJ .
CRAND
BANK OF NEWPORT
WON ITS SUIT
Verdict of Jury is That Bond
-
Cornpany Must Pay
$5000
The Bank 'of Newport won its suit
lT5r , l8:amEt the fidelity Deposit Company
accoraing.,tnd Ge0 w. Rhodes, in Superior
jrvBvciuajr. . iu sniuuni award
ed by the verdict was $5800 but as
the bond given , was for$5000 no
larger amount than that sum can be
collected;? The suit ' grew out of aj
transaction whereur one E.' B. Troy
fraudentfy "secured several certifi
cates of deposit amounting to $17,-
000 some of which were recovered
and the amount due the bank wis fi
nally brought down in that way by
payment i by Mr. Rhodes, who was
cashier, of the bank at the time the
affair occured. ; The case was closely
contested by Attorneys Guion and
Guion for the bonding company and
Messrs,:.!) uncsnr;. Hill and Wheatly
who represented the bank. ""
' The court has been working on
the cjvil docket for about a week
and quite aood-many-leases have
been settled or tried. . One case that
took up considerable tiime was 4hat
of . Blackle,dge and others against
Newby and White. This was a dis
pute about the titles of certain lands;
The jury decided ' that the lands
should be divided equally between
the two parties to the suit and that
the timbef tha had been cut should
be paid for by defendant. The de
fendants took an appeal
The case of the Norfolk and South
era against Morehead City wis set
tled out of court by the defendant
agreeing to pay $500. J.,B. Morton
against the 'American National In
surance Cot verdict of $303 and. In
terest for plaintiff. Blades xMotor
Co. vs I. C: Stalllngs verdict for
plaintiff, $1320 with .interest ....
Two divorce suite were tried in
this court. - The first was that of
Maggie GUlikln against Jesse J. Gil-
likin. The complaint alleged aban-
doment for five yean and the plain
tiff rot the dvorce. Zither Foster
of .Onslow county against J. J. Fos
ter, charged infidelity and plaintiff
was granted the divorce.
Harrell Guthrie of -Morehead City
who plead guilty of trestpsss was
' . . t in fi
ordered sent to tne j season irauiims;
School ehd has been carried there
by Welfare Officer 3. Wallace Mason.
FARM AGENT ARRIVES!
The new Farm Demonstration
Agtnt fon Carteret eounty arrtveai,
here yesterday and, will enter at
once upon his duties. The new mairjUx raU wUi be considerably lncreas-
U Mr. A. H. Harris of Psmllco coun-f)J
tr. He was raised on s urra anai,L . hs new eaulproent. . In so
can plow as good as any body but he
has also had .the- benefit of . four
years Instruction af the A. and E.
Collea-e hi Raleigh. Mr. Harria win
snend some rays retting around the
eounty for the purpose of emgLj1.eaa'7' been auuxtd the property
conditions and getting . acqualflUd j icien 0f this town by the Under
wits the folks. la the meantime he
ssys wool la bringing very good
prices now and If any one haa some;,, to y,, neW water -system bow
wool for sale he would be glad to be V proctM 0f completion. Ai to rais-
notified and ne win neip sou u.
ATTENDED B, Y. P.
U. IN NEW
' BERN
A number of young people 'mMtjon on 0f the Board, 1
Beaufort attended the B. Y. P. Cjthat H really offers encouragement
meeting In New Bern last week snd- pTtMt file company to or
report having a very")ojsble trip, , tfflclent organliation that
TV hot to a tend the next meeting'
... . m . in l rf f L. tv(M
wnlcB wia nt nesa m m iwi..
Those who went to New Bern from
Btaufort wero jMrs. W. U PsoU
Misses ITorence' Parkin, Margaret
imi, Clennlo Paul, Reverend and
Mrs, H. A. Dsy and Newman Lew
ls w--
FARM PROBLEMS DISCUSSED
; A meetiig of a few bualneas men
ronaldcr nialn farm probleass
ws held lst night to the office of
'Amdlar Btaaclt ' C. C.
'girkpatHck of New Bora end O. F.
McCrary 01 WaaWngioa wr
at and dlacusoed Ht stock, cooper-
. i MtUHnf. tnick erowtnff snd
ika the. An sffort wiJ bo snade to
syjgyt the farm deasoasUtloa wott la
' I iwu eounty started ea cerUla
altU ttaee. ? .
Mrs. J. t. Bareeety Is rpeading
arvrel days ta OrtestaL
REPLY MADE TO
fflJNTLEHIIARGES
Mayor and Members of Board
Resent Criticism of Com
, misiioner Huntley
Editor of the News: ' 4 '
i In last week's issue, of your paper
an article that reflected . somewhat
upon the Mayor and four members
af the board of commissioners of the
town' of Beaufort signed by Commis
sioner GWr Huntley was published
- We ask the privilege of replying to
the same. . ": -''
Mr," Huntley's indictment carries
two1 counts; first that salaries of cer
tain officials bad been raised, second
that we had contracted for a fire
alarm system We, not deny
either charge and state that in both
instances we acted for what, in our
judgment at least, was the best in
terest of Beaufort -
As to the ncrease in salaries here
are the facts, Mr. .'Hill the. -Town
Clerk has i been receiving a salary of
$75 a month, we raised it to $85 a
month ' The duties of clerk are on?
eroua and-the responsibility of - the
position Is considerable. ' The salary
paid Mr. Hill is not . excessive and
we doubt if there is a town is the
State the size of Beaufort thatv is
paying less than BeaufdW It' is
certainly difficult to find a capable
conscientious man such as Mr. Hill
is who will do this workv f or less.
The allowance to police officer Sty-
ron for collecting water and light
bills haa been $7 a month it is now
tlV. Does Htnybody think this is
a high price to pay some, one to walk
all over town collecting these bllsT
-On May 9th the four commission
ers whose names appear below id a
written request, which is on file at
the ' Clerk's office requested -Mayor
Eushall to have oversight of the
very.' important work of laying 'the
tewer and water mains.. He was
narticuiarilr charged to make out
the pay rolls and look after all ex
pendtures. He also looks after all
purchase for the town in all depart
ments. He will give practically his
whole time to the town's work and
will receive for thin $100. Would
Mr. Huntley, take the job for that
nriem or less: Mr. Huntley la
chairman of the Electric Light and
Water. Coramitte. That department
of the town's business hss. been run
ning behind for some time. It is
evidently necesssry for some one to
do something to get It on a paying
haiia and the Mayor will do what
fc ... vunr about that conclu-
The statement was made that the
ta order Mrt cf the pur-
far as this goes, the statement is correct.-
The tax rate will -be increas
ed br a verv small amount, but this
will be offset by W aecreaie in ui
. flra imurance. which have
; wrltri Association, upon the Install-
' Uo9 ot Bew equipment in addl-
In, jv, U1 rtte we can sky wiw
confidence that It wJl'not be neces
sar to advance It more than t cenU
tn the hundred If that much. ; One
. (V. nrlnpin! reasons for this
. nn. v. cr asiittnce In
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fighting fires but at (ha same time
will bring about the organisation
of a volunteer fire , company that
will bo accredit U our towa. We
know of nothing that should require
tho attention and consideration of
the Bosrd, more than the protection
of the Eves snd property of the peo
! which we represent; and we feel
that It wou'.d ) crimlral a;lect 05
our part to fall to provide ths pro
tection. . ...
Mr. HostWy stated that he did
not attend the meeting of tfto noaro
becaute be wss told tiut RotMnr of
ImporUaos weeU come tp. We leave
H to (he pobH to '"1J hether
oTr.rr.i6nr snou.4
frosa ssaiegs' " f'0"4
not, but be that as ft assy Mr. Beat
Wy knew Out the board ti M
gagaiweat at X JO l 0",M
wlta the rtpreaetiUUve of tho Cease-
(CoaUaed oa peg Be)
STORMY TIME AT
. ' CITY BOARD MEETING
' A rather low barometric 'pressure
at a special meeting of the board
of Commissioners Tuesday evenng
developed' into a storm of Some real
proportion peiore tne v sitting was
was to consider the town budget for
the next . fiscal year. ,f .The trouble
grew ; out of discussion of . certain
items of the budget, : ,
According to the new municipal fi
nance act Incorporated towns have to
prepare a statement of their propos"-
ed expenses and after displaying it
to the public ( adopt and stick to " it
erthere'tiier,?At';tbo!:V:Tuesday
night meetng City Treasurer W, L
Standi read,; over -thevarious, items
of expense and 'the members of .the
board decided what to'. ' do r About
them. Those. present; Were'.Mjyor
Eushall, Commissioners Ford; Hunt
ley, Lewis and City Clerk. HMv
The trouble began when the. items
of salaries was reached. Commis
sioner Huntley stated that he object-,
ed to any increase in salaries, partic-
ulary. the Mayor's.; He also objectr
d .to "paying;-the detectives bill for
getting evidence against bTnd tigers
and also the purchase - of the . fire
alarm system. . He was very emphat
ic 1n his , protests and stated that
these things had been done in a sec
ret and dishonorable way and that he
was tired of such actions. Mayor Bush
all and Commissoners . Duncan .and
Lewis responded hotly to Mr.' Hunt- lw and order restored in our corn
ley's statements and for a while 'it munity, Mr. Day and myself prepar-
looked like the Chief of Police would j
have to quell the disturbance. Howev
er the storm blew, over after a while
ad the work was finished at about 10-
80. A public meeting will be held on
Monday July the 3rd at which time
any one who desires to say any thing
about the budget will be permitted
to do so." In the meantime any per
sons interested in , the .matter can
see the budget by calling' on City
Clerk- Hill.' . V ' .'
MAY ORCANlZE ARMY UNITS. .
Major. John, H. Birdsell of Atian
U was here last Friday la the Inter
est of a plan V organiser two reserve
unite for the army. .'-The units art
to be the Headquarters and Service
platoon of the 759th Engineers' Bat
talion and-Ambulance Company noi
818 of the 806th Medical regiment
81st division. These reserve units
are purely war orgsnizations and are
to be: ealled into active service only
In case of war, and after Congress
has called, them out. Reserve officers
In this vicinity are to be assigned to
those unlta during peace times and
, , w c t
also a certain number of non com-
missioned officer, and
are ipecisnsia. vvukui(
ed to have drills, parades or other
sctual training, In peace time , but
every year enlisted men will be
given ,an opportunity to attend a
training Camp for nften dsys.
GETTING READY FOR PRIMARY.
i ' . '
Chairman D. E. Langdale was en
gsged Tuesday in sending out not
ices for the next primary to regis
trars and pollholders. Tth primary
will take place on Saturday, the first
day of July. The object of It la to
decide whether Chaa. L. Abernethy
or Matt H. Allen will bo the Demo-
eratic nominee for Congress. -Tne wtrv any other, way thin pualsh
friends of both men as well ss the , mtn of Ce guilty, whereby ; the
csndldstes themselves are active in , homes of our beloved town mi ght be
for
their efforts to get out their fail
strength and It la expected tha -
large Toe will be polled. Both sMes
are cUlmlr.g that they will win. but
the general Impreulon around here
seems to be that the election will be
close. .
BEAUFORT TEAM WINNING.
The Beafort baseball dob wine
games whenever it gets chanoe to
play but rala has Interfmed con
siderably with playing. A game waa
plsyed last Saturday wi.h Eurgaw
which the local oauU won fcy a score
of t U t Monday lhv c!ea.d up
the Msytvt-le club with e store efjbrotgrt home at a UU hour of th
10 to 0. Yesterday a game wse acoe ;B!gt "dosd" drunk, then b R net the
doled with Morehead Cty 'bat ajUtln.n of sows one e'.Mt
Account of 'rala tt was rsneetted. I fte law' aV -IHrg eJtiMSM of the
OKor HBM are beln arrrJ and ... r - ilrwl, ihe
'"t l"rwilf Uo weather penaiU wiU be frUy-
Prof. C. W. E. Flttiiun, Mr. and
Mrs. M. U Wright aad Mrs-N. F.j
Cere were at WdWorth'lWacsa fer
a tea day casaolaf trip, J
BAPTIST CIILTtCII
' POSITION SHOWN
U. E. Swann LxDlains , How
Resolution was, Adopted
by Church and What it j
, Purpose Was.
Mr. Editor: .. ' ; f
There has been much misunderstand-;
ing concerning a resolution or me
morial submitted . to' and passed.
without a dissenting vote, by the , '
Baptist Church, June llh, 1922, iin
.conference, that I wish to submit
herewith an exact copy of the paper," '
Several men and women have made'
t their business, either ignorantly
or maliciously, to go about 'town rv
quoting the paper, and making-it say
many things that were not contain
ed in it and many things which were
never thought of by those who drew ;
the paper. A large number of peo- ,
pie owe to Rev. Harry A, Day an J,
humble apology for th vicious and v
venomous epithets and slanders they,
have heaped upon him in connection
with this matter. '
The facts are as follows: Prompt .
efl only by bur love for the' boys and
girls of our towi and the welfare of
an law abiding citizens, and
our
earnest derfre that we might have
ec ni PaPer. Mr. JJsy dM not pre
sent it to the church, but he call-
ed in. conference t8 consider It as
well as to transact some other bus
iness. The writer read the "paper'
slowly and carefully that all might
hear and understand and then offer- '
ed a motion that It be adopted and '
a copy tent to the Judge, a copy to ,
the Solicitor and a copy to the Ju
rors. ' The motion was promptly see- '
onded by some one in the congrega
tion and Mr. Day, acting as modera- ,
tor of the conference, asked for die
cutsion,. waiting longer than Is cus
tomary for any one to ssy anything':
they wished before the vote was tak
en. No one offered a single objec
tion and when the vote waa taken, it .
was practically unanimous not :a -.'
Single vote being recorded against
It. ' ' - -.
When ths psper was prepared and
passed, no one knew who would bo
foend -guilty - of selling wViskey. '
There Is absolutely nothing in the
paper that can be considered ai per- '
sonsl In the leat. The only pur-
pose end the, whole purpose of the
- tit. r-u-j-A
v . .
'pie an opportunity to. take an open
. m'V V.j
th.'e;mmonItv, lt tllM
come when church people cannot
openly express themselves against
such things when ' their ' Immediate '
surrounding comun'.ty is vitally affec
ted, then-the chuKhes should close
their -doors -la shame, and ,d.sgrsee ,
and meekly admit that they cannot
cope with the forces of the Devil.
For these who srl found guilty
and who were later sentenced by the -Judge,
we all have the dee pert sym
pathy and we believe that every law
jab.drg citizen of the town, would go
out of their way, If necetsary, to do
them a favor, If by favoring them,
the peite and safety of our town'
mlffht not be threatened. If there
iprottcted, then all law abiJT g and
I Christian people would scy give us
'tke substitute,
Tf.o deepest sympathy gves out
to tie loved one who are. In aoeent
but we mut not; In our sympathy,
forget the hundred of homes of our
twos wheie trouble, mirery an4 evea
death lUelf ha been the result ef the
terrible liquor curse. The syaipsk
tMser with lawketfiats says lifts
nobody's bus'neee a hat the ethrr fU
low.iiv Wbej the-t nd tr
mhlsltry runner, uoder t eewr ef
, Bight, 'ia!t:ny n'1 ' J!-';
tempts yeirr b y r I r '. -t to tV ex
tent whtr t r tt tni la
fre ef cr UcUm, Iwt I
te eon, if our offl- t
tVe m '-hs
i 2 b Uoe,
a ' ele
'the conrtnt.iitf ' -
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