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VOLUME XV
8 PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY JAN. 14, 1926
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 2
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PREFER TUNNEL
TO A BRIDGE FOR
CAPE FEAR RIVER
Cost of Bridge Much Greater
Than Tunnel Engineers
Estimate
GOVERNOR TAKES A HUNT
(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
Raleigh, January 11 Nothing out
standing. "uB-standing," or "out
landish" has transpired in adminis.
trattion circles the past week. Gov
ernor McLean has been hard at work
on matters of state, except for one
day's outing with Capt. John A. Nel
son, Fisheries Commissioner, in the
eastern waters. A number of sp
pointments have been announced, a
few paroles granted and many re
jected. Chairman Frank Page talk
ed of the proposed bridge across the
Cape Fear at Wilmington; a confer
ence of demonstration agents was
held at State College ; State health
officers meet for routine matters;
Secretary of State Everett "comes
back" to his office and other news
itenis "bob up" here and there in
and around the Capitol.
Accompanied by Chairman Frank
Page of the State Highwy Commis
sion, Alexander McLean of Lumber-
ton, brother of the'Governor, Martin
F. Gille'n, of New York, and Ben
Dixon McNeill, Raleigh, Governor
McLean spent a dcy with Mr. Jesse
Davis and Capt. John A. Nelson at
the Davis hunting lodge near Beau
fort shooting ducks. The Governor
intended going direct from there to
sign $20,125,000 of State bonds in
New York city for the sate of which
- negotiations were closed some weeks
ago, -but this trip was deferred on
. account of the illness of the State
Treasurer, and for other reasons,
until later in the month.
, Former State Senator George A.
Holderness, of Tarboro, reires from
membership on the Salary and Wage
Commission and is succeeded, by Er
nest V. Webb, of Kinston, and Maj.
W. A. Erwin, succeeds W. J. Brog
den now Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court, as trustee of. the
North Carolina College for Negroes
located at Durham ( Senator Holder
ness goes to Richmond to become
yiee-president. of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company. His suc
cessor on the Salary and Wage Com
mission is said to be especially qual
ified for the duties of the position
to which he has been called by the
Governor, while Major Erwin never
lets anything drag, with which he is
connected.
In the opinion of Chairman Frank
Page, of the State Highway Commis
sion, a circular tunnel under the
Cape Fear River at Wilmington would
be preferable to a bridge across the
river at the point desired by the
city authorities. The General As
sembly authorized a bond issue of
$1,000,000 which is half a million
short of the estimated cost of a bridge
Cost of the funnel is placed at one
million. The Commissioner has or
dered a survey of both pr6positions
with the view to reaching a course
which may prove the wiser. Engi
neers differ as to the cost ot putting
up the steel spans for a bridge and
also as to whether the foundation
will be of sufficient strength to bear
the weight of the huge supporters
that will be necessary to make the
structure 'safe and secure."
From Tuesday until Saturday the
home demonstration agents of the
State Agricultural Experiment Ser
vice have been in acion at the. State
College of "Agriculture and- Engineer-
ing laying plans for the years work.
Farm life in all its phases was dis
cussed by speakers of note from far
and near. The meeting is conceded,
by Prof. I. O. Schaub, dean of the
School of Agriculture, to have been
the most helpful and most important
of any similar gathering at the Col
lege in a long period of years.
The suggestion of Governor Mc
Lean concerning a State owned radio
plant has received the endorsement
of the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra
and the appointment of a committee
J to jnnfer with His Excellency rela
tive to developments of the plan;
the Governor tells a New York invest
ment concern that the State does not
' care to secure postponment cf hT.r
lj in p..ge ..ve,.
WEATHER HAS BEEN
VERY GOOD RECENTLY
Beaufort people have been read
ing in the newspapers recently about
snow and ice in Raleigh, Greensboro,
Asheville and elsewhere but they
have not seen any themselves. Oth
er than a few flakes which some peo
ple claim to have seen there has
been no snow in Feaufoit this win
tcr. A little, crust of lee has form
ed a few times in shallow water but
nothing that would hold up anybody's
weight. For the last two or three
days the weather has been clear and
beautiful and on Wednesday very
few people found it nceesary to wear
overcoats. Winter is not gone yet
though .and there may be some se
vere weather yet. In about four or
five weeks from now truckers expect
to be planting their potatoes unless
the weather is unusually bad.
MANY ACCIDENTS
HAPPEN SUNDAY
Several Beaufort People Hurt
In Wreck On New Bern
Highway Sunday Afternoon
Last Sunday seems to have been
a hard luck day for autoists in Car
teret cqunty. Some four or five
accidents took place in the county
that day but the News has not been
able to get the details of all of them.
The most serious accident perhaps
was that which happned to the new
Chrysler car of Mr. C. E. Graham on
the New Bern highway about three
miles from town Sunday afternoon.
Those in the car besides Mr. Graham
were Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Dickinson
Mrs. Olive Gauss and Mrs. Robert
Hudgins and little son Robert Jr.
Mrs. Gauss was driving the. car when
the accident occurred. The accident
was due to the fact that the road
was soft on account 'of recent rains
which caused the , car to skid. It
left the road, jumped a ditch, hit
a stump and was smashed up con
siderably. The occupants of the car,
except the child, were all hurt more
or less.
They were brought to town by Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Gardner and their
injuries attended to by Drs. Maxwell
and Whitehurst.
Mrs. Dickinson was probably the
most seriously hurt of any of those
in the wrecked car. Two fingers
on the left hand, the ring and mid
dle finger, were, so injured that they
had to be amputated at the first
joint, She also sustained a lacera
tion about an inch and a half long
above the eye and also a laceration
on one of her Mower limbs. Mrs.
Robert Hudjdns had a laceration
over her left eye, a sprcined jrvle
ni.d s'ight inju.'v' t:. a lower li
Mi- Cw.Kf Mist' 'd bru:es on he.'
lower limbs. il Craham had l.
'.i,T li; cut io the' '"xtent that it
cuired several stitches and was
bruised up considerably, Mr. Dick
inson wjs bruised some but not ser
iously huit.-
Another accident Sunday occurred
when a Ford and a Star car had a
collision on the North River road a
few miles fiom town. Jack Eu-
banks and several other young men
were in the Ford car which was bad
ly torn up. Shad Davis a colored
man was driving the Star which was
not damaged very much. None, of
the persons in the cars were hurt.
Another car in which were Wilbur
and Bridges Sabiston ran into 1 a
ditch just out of the town limits.
They were not hurt nad the car was
not hurt either very much. The
News heard that there were one or
two accidents in the eastern part of
th county but did not get the par
ticulars of these.
NEW BUSINESS STARTS HERE.
A new business firm has started in
Beaufort. An advertisement of the
firm, which is the C. G. Gaskill Brok
erage Company,, appears in this is
sue of the News. The office of the
concern will be in the C. L. Duncan
building., Mr. C. G. Gaskill who will
be the manager of the new business
will continue his other business at
Straits where he has lived for many
years The brokerage firm here will
e'eal in produce, -fertilizers and pos
.ibly other trticles.
STATE NEWS
Items of Interest From Various
Parts of State
The lifeless body of Samuel
Jones, white aged 24, of Grantham
township, Wayne county was found
lying in the road Mpnday. Physi
cians who examined the body said
death wos due to alcohol nnd ex
posure to the cold.
Morris H. Silverstein of Gastonia
is being sued for $104,000 on account
of an automobile accident. Last
September his car collided with
another car and resulted in the death
of Mrs. A. A.-icLean, injuries to
Mrs.' A. A. McLean Jr., and A. A.
McLean' Sr The claim is that Sil
verstein was driving recklessly.
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company has made a proposition to
buy the city electric light plant at
Rocky Mount. The board has taken
rhe mntter under advisement. The
company owns a power plant at Ro--nokf
Hapids, N. . and plants in var
ious irginia cities.
.lohn James. 47 year eld Durham
nan, vas accinmtly rhot and almost
instantly killed h;-, his six year oIJ
roil.eK last Sr.iiirday. The boy
picked up a gun rnd while playir.c;
wi li it i;',etl th.' 'ifcger and shot
h;s i:i:i 'c.
Tohi! Dawkitis. a ?-vrro who mm
ciiTvd n l:Hi,idiyii fit1 h .Winston-Sis
lem some months ago, was (-lectio,
cuted at the State penitentiary la.!
Friday. Just a few minutes before
he died the man confessed the mur
der. Two persons were injured Sunday
afternoon when the passenger train
on the A. & Y. road turned over near
Walnut Cove. D. S. Strader the
fireman wag badly hurt and taken to
a hospital in Greensboro where he
died the next day. J. D. Powers
engineer on the train sustained slight
injuries. s
Over $4000 were raised in two
hours at Sanford last Thursday for
stock in an oil well. Drillers who
have been at Havelock came there
and are organizing a company to
sink a well. The estimated cost is
$20,000 and work is expected to
start soon.
Vander Sedberry of High Point,
r.ge about 25, took poison Sunday
and is in a critical condition. The
young man swallowed some bichlo
lide of mercury tablets. His p.r
ents think the reason he did it was
because of disappointment in a love
affair.
According to a report of the State
Commissioner of Labor and Printing
Wilmington led six other cities in
the number of persons placed in em
ployment during 1925. The Wil
hrington office found jobs for 7,418
persons and Asheville was second
with 6,846 people employed.
Mrs. Francis1 Frerecks of Salis
bury has donated $16,000 for the en
dowment fund of Thompson Orphan
i:ge at age at Charlotte. The an
nouncement was made at a meeting
of the-board of trustees last Satur
day. A considerable snow fall took place
in piedmont and western Carolina
last Thursday night. Depths of from
two to three inches were reported
and ice thick enough to skate on was
formed in ponds and streams.
POLICE COURT NEWS.
Mayor Thomas had only one -case
for trial before him Monday after
noon. This was the case of Tillman
Bryan, colored, charged with having
assaulted Jesse Wilson with a deadly
weapon, to wit a bottle. Wilson's
wife and sister-in-law testified that;
Bryan knocked Wilson down, took
a shot gun, which was empty, away
from him and. then "cussed" him out
and left. The row took place Sat
urday at about two o'clock at the
home of the Wilsons near the city
power plant. The Mayor reserved
his judgment in the case. Attorney
E. Walter Hill who appeared for
iBryan succeeded in getting him out
of jail on a $100 bond.
NEW BERN MAN '
DRIVES IN RIVER
J. W. Biddle Loses Life Just
As Mitchell Willis and Ne
phew Lost Theirs.
; New Bern, Jan. 9. J. W. Biddle,
local farmer and business man, was
drowned in Trent River here shortly
after 7 o'clock tonight when he
drove his automobile overboard at
the foot of Craven Street. There
were no eye-witnesses to the acci
dent ',
; The crew of a boat docked near
the spot heard the car plunge into
the water and summoned aid. Fif
teen minutes later, James Lee Stew
art dragged the body from the car.
Efforts to revive, the man failed.
JMr. Biddle lost his life at the
same spot where Mitchell Willis and
his 4-year-old nephew were drowned
in a similar manner last summer. A
Crayen jury recently awarded the
estate of Willis $8,000 damages a
geinst the city of New Bern for the
loss of his life, and a second suit
ever the child's death is pending.
The coroner is investigating Bid
die's death. j
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The following real estate transfers
have been recorded by Register of
Deeds Jno. W. Hamilton since last
week:
C. S. Maxwell and wife to C. R.
Wheatly interest in tract, Beaufort
Township, no consideration shown.
B. C. Way et al to I. E. Ramsey
100 acres Hall land near Eeaufort,
for consideration of $1500.
"John J. Day to Pennsylvania Lup
tcn tract Cedar Island township, for
consideration of $5.
fRobt. SHill-et al to Maxwell
and ' lja8on 3 tract- Cedsr Island
township and Hog Island for about
$700.
Barnes Smith to Dave Adams lot
4 block 94 Morehead City for about
$800. v
Sadie C. Webb to Sherman Jones
part lot Morehead City, for about
$250.
F. C. Bell to I. J. Lewis 35 acres
near Hull Swamp Morehead Town
ship for about $1000.
Nathan, L. Finer, and wife to Carl
ton Piner and wife lot 7 block 98
Morehead Ciiy, consideration $800.
L. C. Carroll mortgagee to Bogue
Development Co. 15 1-8 acres near
Morehead City for about $2000.
Geo. W. Piner to L. P. Kenedy lot
10 block 1 Morehead City for about
$1000. ,
N. C. Lockheart to W. B. Finer
1-2 acre near Camp Glenn for about
$400. I
W. Ashburry and wife? E. Ash
burry 25 lots Asbury Park, Morehe. d
township for ; about $10.00
Henry Simmons and wife to H. K.
Simmons 1 acre, Newport township
for about $735.
Sadie E. M-nn to Lula E. Tolson
tract Newport township for about
$10. I
H. P. Whitehurst et al to Carolina
Coastal Estat,e, 360acres along Bogue
Sound for $10 and other valuable
considerations.
E. J. Becton and wife to Rachel S.
Hill 1-12 interest tract White Oak
township for ubout $900.
E. J. Beet on and wife to E. N.
Dickinson 1-12 interset in tract
White (jak township for about $250.
C. S. Maxwell and wife to Newby
White and While 400 aires more or
less Merrimori township for $500.
and other valuable considerations.
E. H. Meadjows Jr. to John H.
Jona 100 acres Merrimon township
fo.r. about $1500.- ' '
BEAUFOR BARGAIN STORE
CLOSED UP WEDNESDAY
The merchalntile establishment
known as the Betlufort Bargain Store
was closed up yesterday and the keys
turned over to Sheriff Wade. This
was done as. the kesult of a suit
brought by Shaker Doha against E.
Ki Ieuyopp. , Attorneys George Wil
lis of New Bern represented the
plaintiff in the suit; which was tried
before Justice of tfhe Peace H. D.
Norconn A judgment of $600 was
given the plaintiff. An inventory of
the stock of goods' was made and
was found to amount to $550.86.
Last summer the Leader run by the
same people went into the hands of
a receiver but opened up after a
short time.
BEAUFORT BANKING AND
TRUST COMPANY MEETING
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Beaufort Banking and
Trust Company took place Tuesday
afternoon. The former board of di
rectors were all re-elected and some
other business attended to. Reports of
the officias showed that the hank had
last year one) of the most successful
years in its history. It was stated that
the business conditions in this sec
tion are better than they have been
for several years and the bank's
stockholders and officers are expect
ing the year 1926 to be as good or
even better than last year's. As
shown in an advertisement elsewhere
in the News the Beaufort Banking
and Trust Company had resources of
$602,638,67 on December the 31st.
COUNTY SCHOOLS
MAKE GOOD START
A Few Changes Made In Teach
ing Staff. Will Have Music
Contests
The County Schools have started
off nicely since the holidays and
there are only three changes in the
taclr"," personnell.
Mr. Troy Morris, principal at
Barker's Island has been succeeded
by Mr. C. M. Gaskill. Mr. Gaskil
has had this work before and under
stands the situation so thereshould
be no time lost as a result of the
change.
Miss Helen Bailey, teacher of His
tory in the Smyrna High School, was
unable to return after the holidays.
She is succeeded by Miss Beulah
Fitzgerald from Virginia. Miss Ed
na Lynn, Home Economics teacher
at Smyrna High School, resigned or
account of her mother's illness. Mis
Lucy Mae Brim from Georgia wir'
take charge of the Home Economy
Department, Miss Fitzgerald ami
Miss Brim come highly recommended
and should be able to carry on the
work very satisfactorily.
Stat Music Memory Contest
Some of the Carteret County
Schools are getting ready to begin
work on the selections used in the
State Music Memory Contest.
The congest is fostered by the
North Carolina Federation of Music
Clubs, assisted by Miss Hattie Par
rott and is limited to schools operat
ing under the seventh grades inclu
sive are eligible for the contest, al
so high school students. The same
selections are used for the elementary
and high schools but the grading of
sscores will be done separately and
the res-'Its will be treated as sepa
rate contests.
The purpose of the contest is to
give the children "an early apprecia
tion which will ever be a joy to them'
Twenty five numbers have been se
lected for the contest and they may
all be secured on Victor records.
Last year Craven County won the
prize but Carteret County has a
splendid opportunity to win this year
for practically all of the larger
schools have Victrolas and entering
the contest will not make extra work
tut will add interest to the regular
work for it will furnish interesting
and valuable material for Engilsh
compositions and Memory Exercises.
Give Standardized Teit
Miss Margaret Gustin, County Su
pervisor gave Standardized Tests be
fore he holidays to the first four
grades in the Newport Consilidated
Sehool. x
The results of these tests plus the
teachers' judgment will be used as a
basis for reclassifying the two, two
hundred childdreVi in these grades.
The purpose of this classification fs
to put each child where he will be
able to do his hest.
THE BANK OF BEAUFORT
HOLDS ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
The Bank of Beaufort started an
innovation in Beaufort in its stock
holders' meeting Monday. Instead
of a strictly business affair a very
pleasant social feature was added.
This consisted in the serving of a
nice lunch by the ladies of the Com-
munity Club and speech-making by
several of those present. The meet
ing was held on the mezzanine floor
and was largely attended. All of
the old board of directors and officials
were re-elected for the ensuing year.
SCALLOP FISHING
WILL START SOON
Investigation Shows That Scal
lops Are Scarce. Season
Opens 6n 18th-
(By Bureau of Fisheries)
- As is generally known ; i this lo
cality, late in the summer of 1924
following exceptional rains, a very
heavy mortality occurred among
North CiaMbUna scallops. Fortuna
tely, certain areas where these bival
ves abounded were scarcely, if at
all, affected and excellent . catches
were made during the open season
of 1924-25 over limited areas. Early
in the summer of 1925 it was found
that scallops were very scarce. In
July the Fisheries Commission Board
lequested aid from the Bureau of
Fisheries with the result that Mr.
James S. Gutsell of the Beaufort
Laboratory was assigned to a study
of the scallop problem.
During the summer and early fall, 11
various trips over former scalloping
areas in Core Sound, Back Sound and
Bogue Sound were made by Mr. Gut
sell and Captain Tom' Nelson of the
Fisheries Commission Board. Dur
ing these searches for scallops, so
very few, small or large, were found
that the Eoard thought it best to
close the scallop season indefinitely
and, doubtless very reluctantly, took
such action.
In Massachusetts it has been pret
ty clearly shown that only a small
percentage of adult scallops live
through the winter 'to spawn the fol
lowing spri ig or summer. Although
occasionally old scallops are to be
found locally in the summer, Mr.
Gutsell saw nothing to indicate that
the situation in this regard.,- is dif
ferent in North Carolina from that
in Massachusetts. This corresponds;
in a general waywith the belief of
scallopers that few adult scallops will
live into the next summer." Accord-
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sentation w9 made to Commissioner
Nelson and Chairman Dixon that, as;
soon as scallop spawning was sus
tantially completed, the season might
be opneeKiyithout danger to the scal
lop industry and with whatever bene
fit to the scallopers the apparently
limited quantities oii scallops could
supply. v
To the surprise of the investiga
tor, in mid December the scallops
were still far from through spawn
ing. Thus the effort of the usual
open season in December would have
been to prevent considerable scallop
spawning. Even now some scallops
contain considerable quantities of
spawn. However, of those examined
the proportion is so small that it
seems longer important to keep the
season closed. Accordingly Mr. Gut
sell has recommended to the board
that the season be opned and under
stands action is being taken opening
the season on January 18th. Mr. Gut
sell has also asked that the small
area of scallop flats immediately
west and south of the Laboratory
be kept closed for the purpose of
study. Especially in view of his ef
forts toward an open season, he hopes
that this closing will be respected.
Let cooperation prevail to the bene
fit of all..
In the summer, scallops were to be
found in considerable numbers o l
Oyster Shoal, above the Morehe;ul
draw, and, in November on the flits
south of Town Marsh. Very few
were found off Morehead City. Up
Bogue Sound the m)st were found
about Bird Island Marsh some dis
tance beyond Salter's Path.
It is. possible that, if the season
is' opened, scallops will be found more
widely distributed tmd in larger num
bers than appeared to be the case in
the summer and early fall. J
One hopeful sign isj the increased,
though still small, numbers of seed
scallops to be found.
The report of Cashier Hornaehiy
showed that the bank's business for
t.htt vparr lust enriprl was tlio hpet in
its history ol 2b years.' During the
year the bank's resources increased
$82,17112. Dividends of 8 per
cent were paid to the stockholders
and $1000 was added to the reserve
fund. The stockholders of the bank
expressed themselves at being great
ly gratified at the progress made and ,
are enthusiastic as to the outlook for
the future.