a n flic? Km READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY 1 WATCH Your label and pay your subscription The best advertising mdium published in Ca -?tCo ' THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1927 PRICE 3c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 6 VOLUME XVI 12 PAGES THIS S EEK OUT CRIMINAL CASES OCCUPY TIME OF SUPERIORCOURT Only One Civil Action Was Tried On Account of Big -. Criminal Docket SLOT MACHINES GONE BRIDGE JNTRACT WASI I TUESDAY As stated in the News last week a very large criminal docket was in progress. It was not finished until Friday morning and only one civil ac tion was disposed of before court ad. journed. The slot machine cases excited 'quite a good deal of interest but did not take very much time as the de fedants all pleaded guilty. They were let off with the costs, had their machine destroyed and were put un der bonds to show good behavior for two years. The civil suit of George D. Styron against J. I. Baker and the Ocean Beach Company was finished Saturday about the middle of the day. It resulted in a verdict of $500 for the plaintiff who was suing for $50,- 000 on account of injuries sustained when he was cut by Baker in a fight that took place at the beach resort last 'summer. The tfrinfinl cases jjiisposed of were as follows: W. M. Jones, fraud, pleaded guilty judgment . suspended on payment of costs. t Loujs Guthrie, theft and receiving stolen goods, verdict not guilty of theft but guilty on other charge. Prayer for judgment continued to .March term of court. Defendant put under $400 bond. Willie Green, assault with deadly weapon, carrying concealed weapon and violating prohibition law. Ver dict guilty, got twelve months on roads on the three charges. Henry Salter and Lillian Salter, assault upon Mrs. Ida Robinson. Not guilty as to Henry Salter. Lillian , Salter found guilty and sentenced to " six months in jail or pay Mrs. Rob inson $26 for doctor's bill and Mr. Robinson $10 for auto, hire. Also give bond for $150 to show good be havior for two years. , J. E. Arnold, fraud, passing Worth less check, jury verdict guilty, 8 months in jail or pay costs and give bond of "$300 to show good behavior for two years. Roy Potter violating prohibition law, pleaded guilty, 6 months on Pitt county roads. . Matthew Owens, abandoment, con tinued to next term. Lovey Davis, violating prohibition law and breaking jail. Pleaded guilty .Twelve months on roads. Alfred Wilson, larceny, pleaded guilty. To be hired out to some farmer for three months. Louis Jones, violating prohibition law and larceny, escaped from jail. Noll prossed. Len Harper, violating prohibition law and larceny, not guilty. John Moore, violating prohibition law, broke jail. Noll prossed. George M. Robinson, assault with dearilv weaDon: not a true bill... Mack Runnings, violating prohibi tion law in two counts. Pleaded guilty, sentenced to 9 months on Pitt county roads. Harvey Hunnings, violating prohi bition law, not a true bill. Howard C. Willis, violating pro hihitinn lnw. Case continued to lWprrVi term. . au Mnnrp. receiving stolen property, not a true bill. George Copes, larceny, acquitted. Oneill Gillikin, seduction, case con tinued. Robert Lee Guthrie, speeding auto Tanina issued. Carl Buck, murder; bill found Jan uary term. Continued to March term. Georee Sparrow violating prom bition" law; ' pleaded guilty. Six month, on roads or pay costs and give bond for $300 t0 showgod be havior for two years. Lee Garner, violating prohibition Pleaded euilty: eight months on Pitt county roads. B. A. Barnhill, abandoment; not a true bill. Ansil Chanin. abandoment: not a true bill. Ernest Fenderson pleaded guilty to charge of assault. Got 12 months in iail or trive bond of $300 to show fond behavior for two years, and B pay James Noe $10. - Those who pleaded guilty to op erating slot machines were the fol lowing: Grady Perkins, Geo. W. Dill, J. R. Willis, Mrs. W. H. Barber, R. H. Hill, R. N. Dickinson, , Matthew Owns, T. E. Styron, Claude Martin, George Norcom, C. V. Hill, John Henrv Davis. J. T. White. Sarah Marshall, Will Parker, S. A. Duplaitr P. Shanaroh. Ellis Baxter, Dave Lew is, S. T. Mattliis, C. P. Tyler, J. L. Big Resort Development Plan ned For Bogue Island. Work ' Already Started The letting of a contract here Tuesday for a bridge across Bogue Sound by the AtlanFic Bridge Corpor ation has aroused considerable inter est and from expressions heard by the News is" regarded as an event of great signifificance to this entire sec tion. The contract was awarded to the Davis Constructitn Corporation of Beaufort. The cost of the bridge exclusive of the concrete surface on the fill will be about $110,000. The News is informed by W. A. Mace, president of the Atlantic Beach Bridge Corporation, that work will be rushed on the bridge as fast as pos sible and that it is hoped to open it up for traffic before the Summer is over. It is to be a toll bridge and moderate tolls will be charged for use of the stru ture. Work was started on the dirt fill, which will be 4000 feet long, some weeks ago. The trestle and drawbridge will be 3000 feet long. The draw itself will be 60 feet. The new bridge starts at- 28th street, which is a short distance from the present corporate lines of More- head City. Creosote piles will be used and the structure will be a sub stantial one and able to care for the traffic upon it for a good many years. It is expected that thousands of auto mobiles will cross it in the course of a year. It will make easy of access to one of the finest bathing beaches on the Atlantic coast. A hard sur face highway will be built across the island to the ocean and parking fa cilities provided there for a large number of cars. A large pavilion for bathing and dancing will be built. The company expects to spend around a quarter of a million dollars in the big project which it is undertaking. The company owns some 800 acres of land on the island. Thin has been surveyed and platted and lots will be offered for sale tftr the improve ments have gotten well under way. oOo : Realty Company Starts Many Suits The Beaufort Realty Corporation owners of the real estate sub-division known as "West Beaufort" have started a number of suits to collect from persons who have failed to meet their payments on Hts. Attorney Wilson H. Lee of New Bern was in town recently representing the plain tiff in the matter and summonses for 100 persons have been issued. The News understands that abou. 200 more summonses will be issued very soon. The West Beaufort property was bought about two years ago by New Bern capitalists and was put on the market by them. A large num ber of lots were said to have been sold to persons all over the State and elsewhere. 1 0O0 MAY ESTABLISH A PORT COMMISSION Bill Introduced In Legislature To Issue $100,000 Worth ot Bonds For Port Terminal LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES PREPARE FOR ACTION IMPORTANT BILLS Many Bills of Great Interest Have Been Introduced. May Ap propriate Two Millions For National Park. Thirty Millions For State State Highways. Anti evolution Bill Introduced VICE PRESIDENT INVITED. Chr.pel Hill, N.'C, Feb. 7 (INS) Vice-President Charles G. Dawes has been invited to address the an nual meeting of the. National Asso ciation of Alumni Secretaries,- which will be held here April 28-30, it was announced today. 0O0 REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE While there is no boom in real es tate in Beaufort or Morehead City some sales are being made right a- long. Deeds filed at the office of Register of Deeds R. W. Wallace re cently show some interest is being felt in real estate. Those recorded are as follows. W. P. Smith and wife to Geo. J. Brooks, 1-4 interest in tract, Beau fort Township, for $100. C, L. Duncan and wife to Pattie R. Ives, part lot Beaufort for $2750. Beaufort Realty Corp. to R. A. Templet, 2 lots West Beaufort for $360. Richard Felton and wife to C. L, Duncan, Alley-Way, . Beaufort for $1.00. W. T. Pelletier to Willie L. Pelle- tier, 1 87-100 acres Morehead Town ship, for $10. R. T. Willis and wife to James L, Irons and wife, 1 lot Morehead City for $2250. W. C. Willett, Trustee to Oscar F. Mason, 1 lot Morehead City, for $1. Geo. H. Smithson and wife to Richard Springle 1 lot Morehead City for $300. A. I. Schisler to Amma D. Graham, 1 lot Morehead City for $726.(16. Robert W. Taylor to Alethia B. Taylor, 1 lot Morehead City for $10. Robert W. Taylor to Alethia B. Taylor 1 lot Morehead City for $10, W. B. Rowe and wife to J. S. Mil ler, 20 acres Newport Township for $150. E. H. Gorham and wife to Perry Godwin . and wife, 2 lots. Morehead City for $100. S-V Khue to W. H. Hay, 4 acres White Oak Township, for $57. 0O0 t.i: B1KIH OK A SON. Born to Mr.and Mrs. J. T. Blythe, Feb. 7th., a boy, Julian Hart, turns. . A bill has been introduced in the General Assembly by Representative W. H. Bell which provides for the creation of the "Port Commission of Carteret County." The News under stands that Congressman C. L. Aber- nethy" prepared the bill and is advo. eating its passage. The bill states that the commission shall Decomposed of seven business men, citizens of the county, to be ap pointed by the Board of Commission ers of Carteret county. That they shall be paid five dollars a day for their services for such time as they are in attendance upon meetings and expenses. The bill says that when the commission requests the board of county commissioners to do so, they shall issue $100,000 worth of bonds 11 they prefer they may call an election on the question of issumg the bnds. The money raised by the bond iseue is to be used to ac quire lands, water rights, build piers, warehouses, elevators and the like. The object of all this so the bill states is "to develop the port facili ties of Carteret county." ,The News has not heard many com ments on the proposed port terminal matter as it is not generally known Such comments as have been heard have been unfavorable. The view seems to be that however worthy the project may be the county is so heavily loaded with debt that no mon ey can be raised without materially increasing the strain on the taxpay ers of the county. In fact the bill states that the board of commission ers may levy a sufficient tax to pay the interest on the bonds and the principal also. 0O0 (By M. L. SHIPMAN) Raleigh, February 7 Entering the fifth week of its existence the Gen eral Assembly of 1927 finds itself on the threshold of a new day in legis lative activities. It has barely start ed on that task before it. The big committees are busy whipping into shape important matters for consid eration as the days come and go. The jointccommittee on appropria tions is engaged i na re-draft of the bill passed to it by the Budget com mission and is almost ready to re port it to the Assembly itself. How ever, this is not to be done until the finance committe has completed the new revenue act which is destined to take care of. the appropriations a- greed upon. Probably the oustanding event of the week in legislative circles was the impetus given the proposed Nat ional Park in the Great fcmoKy ffloun- tains in a joint session 01 me houses on Wednesday called tor tne miTTinse of hearing men of national repute portray the scenic beauties of Eastern America and' enumerate tne numerous advantages the establish ment of the park would bring to North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir nia. The speakers were Congressman Henry W. Temple, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the South Appaiician Park Commission, Major William A. Welch, of New York, superintendent n fthe Palisades Park, and A. B. Long Horn Cattle To Be Preserved Washington, D. C. That the long horned, or Spaish breed of cattle, onec s0 numerous in the Southwest, may be preserved from complete ex tinction, the Fcrest Service, United States Depart: nent of Agriculture, will maintain a herd on the Wichita National Forest in Oklahoma, accord ing to an anno'iricement made today by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester. The agriculturfl appropriation bill signed by Pres dent Coolidge on Jan uary 17, carrie an item for their pur chase and maintenance. The' departn ent has for several years urged th necessity for a small herd of these picturesque examples of early pionet r life of t ie Southwest for the benefk and education of fu ture generatiois interested in pionder history, said Oolonel Greeley. The Wichita national forest lies light in the heart of the range of the old southern herds of plains buffalo, and is a part of the region formerly known as the Indian Territory, where' now live more than fifty thousand In dians.' s Here also g) azed some of the pio neer herds of these long-horned cat tle when the livestock industry in the Southwest was in its infancy. There are still a few living mem bers of this onoe numerous breed of Commerer, of Washington, assistant . cattle to be ound in Texag The director of the national park service ; herd for the Government will be se of the Interior Department who had j Jected by expert cattlemen familiar been invited to the State by the North ( with the charac eristics of the cattle Carolina Park Commission headed by and of the southwestern ranges. They Representative Mark Squires. The wij be grazed jn a pastUre immed- tegislative mind was attuned to the , iately adjoining the one occupied by occasion and the visitors experienced j the herd of buf 'alo now established little difficulty in driving home many 1 on the forest salient noints favorable to the cause CITY BOARD HOLD MONTHLY MEETING Appoint Building Inspector. Inlet Inn Tax-Matter To Have Rehearing Monday The regular monthly meeting of the board of town commissioners took place at the city hall Monday with all members present. Fire Chief D. M. Jones came before the board and asked that Mr. J. V. Caffrey be appointed building inspec tor in the fire district. A motion was passed making Mr. Caffrey in spector at the nominal salary of $5 a quarter. Mr. Jones also asked that the license tax be remitted on a con cern operating a merry-go. round and Ferris wheel. The fire depart ment is to receive a share in the re ceipts of the concern. Commissioner Whitehurst made a motion to amend the resolution of January 19h relative to relieving the Inlet Inn of taxes. The proposed amendment is to read "if the board has the legal right to d0 so." The matter will be taken up for re-hearing at a meeting of the board next Mon. day night at 7:30 o'clock. Chief Longest stated that City Treasurer Stancil had requested him to ask the board to ratify an ordi nance authorizing a bond issue -of $125,000 to fund floating debts. On motion of Commissioner Whitehurst seconded by Commissioner Smith this was done. A napplication t0 relieve Ike Springle of ity taxes was laid over until the meeting of the board Monday night. Attorney J. F. Duncan, represent ing the Standard Oil Company asked for permission to fill in the space south of their property and put wall around it. A motion was passed giv ing the permission. City Attorney G. W. Duncan was instructed to take up with the railroad officials the mat ter of completing their work on Broad street. Some bills were aud ited and the board adjourned. they were here to represent, ine movement advanced to a definite step the following day by the introduction of a joint bill by Ebbs, of Buncombe, in the Senate and by Nettles, of Bun combe and Squires, of Caldwell, in the House authorizing a two million dollar bond issue for the purchase of the acreage and safeguarding the I There was very little business trans State's interests after the land is. j acted in Police Court Monday. Only turned over to the federal govern- two cases were tried. Luther Mason, Carteret County's Taxable Values Are About Twelve And A Half Millions POLICE COURT HAD FEW CASES MONDAY PRISONERS GET LIQUOR AND HAVE BIG TIME Beofore they took their departure from the county jail several of the prisoners there had a right consid erable celebration there last Thurs day. Having found .out that there was some liquor stored there they managed with the help of two boys, who were in the jail but not in the cells, to get into the room where the booze was and got a half gallon of it. With it they had a merry time and soon got to feeling so good that they did not care whether they were in jail or out of it. Judge Cranmer heard of the affair and ordered all the liquor brought to the court room and emptied in the sewer which was done. 0O0 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS HAVE BEEN SECURED ment. Washington makes no appro-1 priation for the purchase of land for j park purposes. Many Bill on the Way Bjlls are "on the way" to allow non-profit insurance companies or ganize in this State on a legal reserve basis, allow North Carolina delegates to national conventions to g0 "unin- structed when not more than one candidate had made a bid for the State's electoral vote; force the teaching of Americanism in' the tax supported schools and colleges of the State requiring at least two hours study of the constitution of North Carolina and of the United States in all state schools for a period of twen ty weeks; change the present law al lowing widows $300 and $100 for each dependent child in the settle ment of an estate to $600 and $200 respectively; to make the "old North State" the official anthem; increase the legal rate of interest to 8 per cent; establish a farm colony for de linquent women too old to be ad mitted to Samarcand; to levy a tax of 22 cents a gallon on lubricating oils for motor vehicles to be used in the construction of county roads; t consolidate state official agencies Superintendent R. L. Fritz of the Beaufort Graded School has begun to make the necessary arrangements for tne scnooi. as commencement ora tor he has secured Professor N. W. Walker of the . University of North Carolina. Dr. Walker is Dean of the School of Education. The com mencement sermon to the graduating class will be delivered by the Rever end Richard Bagby who is the pastor of the First Christian church of Washington, N. C. 0O0 INCOME TAX TIME AGAIN. Baldwin, Alex Ramsey, John Mc Donald, Fern Garner, C. W. Scott, Peter Block, Nick Dembolis. The grand jury ma'de its usual in spection of the county courthouse, offices, jail and county home. They eported every thing in good shape except the jail, which is not strong .nough'to .hold prisoners. Income tax time has gotten around again. Some folks, may have made up their returns but the chances are that a large majority have not dona so. Representatives . of the U. S. Internal Revenue Department start out this week and will visit all the principa ltowns in eastern Carolina. An income tax man, probably Mr. A. T. Gardner, will be in Beaufort Feb :uary 25-26 for the puipose of help ing tax payers to fill out their re- with the view to economy of govern ment and the prevention of duplica tions; to provide for the annual reg istration of all drug stores and phar macies; increase salary of the Sec retary of the State Board of Health from $5,00 to $10,000 per year; in crease the number of judicial dis tricts; authorize the State to refund $29,909.00 to reimburse individuals ($12,000 to former State Treasurer W. H. Worth who replaced the sum stolen by his chief clerk, W. H. Mar tin, along in the eighties, and $17, 909.12 to the estate of George W. El kins, of Philadelphia alleged overpay ment of inheritance taxes in 1920) ; enlarge the powers of the State High way Commissio nin locating roads; issue $30,000,000 of State bonds for extension of highway system) ; uni form game law; definite jurisdiction 0f recorder's courts; amend the State banking law's r prohibit persons under sixteen years of age from driving mo- a white boy, was tried on the charge of the larceny of a pistol. On ac count of his youth and upon the prom ise of his father to send the boy out of the State judgment was suspend ed in the matter. Charles Fender son, colored, was held for Superior court on the charge of seduction un der the promise of marriage. His bond was fixed at $250. Lottie Stanley was the prosecuting witness. 0O0 BUSINESS COLLEGE WILL OPEN HERE MONDAY The effort being made to' organize a branch of the Atlanta Business College is meeting with cdnsiderable success according to field representa tive W. P. Murphy. Mf". Murphy states that school will open Monday and that pupils from Beaufort. Smyrna, Williston, Davis and Atlan tic have enrolled and that others are expected t0 do so. The school will give an opportunity to young men and women to get a business education without having to g0 to the expense of attending some scnooi a long ways from home. A branch school will be started in New Bern also. 0O0 NO MARRIAGE LICENSES. Recently there has been consider able discussion among citizens as to taxable values in Carteret county. Nothing official has been published about the matter in some time. The News has gotten the figures and is herewith making them public. A separate table is given which shows the value of property on the tax books at Sea Level, Atlantic, Cedar Island and Portsmouth. The total is not quite a half million dol lars. Well informed men say that the cost of building a paved road from Davis to Cedar Island would be more than the property is valued at in the places mentioned. A contract has already been let to pave the road to Atlantic and work is going forward on a causeway from Cedar Island to the mainland. The matrimonial market seems to be rather quiet now in Carteret coun ty. No licenses had been issued at the Register of Deeds office up Wednesday afternoon. 0O0 "VIRGINIA DARE HIGHWAY" 1926 Portsmouth Cedar Island Atlantic Davis Stacy Sea Level Williston (Col) Smyrna Straits Harlowe Newport White Oak Beaufort Merrimon Morehead City Marshallberg Hnrkers Island Carteret to Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 7 (INS) A movement is under way here to name the concrete stretch from Edenton, down Roanoke Island to Wanchese, the 'Virginia Dare Highway." The proposal is expected to be placed before the Legislature during the present session. It has been pointed out that the name "Virginia Dare" would be especially appropria ate for the highway. i Portsmouth Cedar Island Atlantic Stacy Sea Level Valuation 13,263 75,591 122,797 136,493 121,880 150,416 3,566 213,713 557,216 351,196 1,002,035 588,061 ' 3,612,211 366,762 4,703,974 169,291 180,706 189,815 $12,558,986 13,263 75,591 122,797 121,880 150,416 $483,947 -9O0- Self Advocate Wider Buster tysburg Memorial Commission; pro hibit the teaching of the theory of ev olution as a fact in tax supported srhnnls hv the State, etc. Either one tor vehicles and requiring all drivers 1 branch of the Assembly or the other to procure a license; provide for the payment o fincome taxes in install ments; prohibit the lending of money to bank examiners by state banks; require fire escapes on office build ings; create the North Carolina Get- Is debating these bills, some of them in committees and others on the floor; Comparatively few measures of importance have run the gauntlet of the two houses, but another week is (Continued on page two) Raleigh, N. C, Feb 7 (INS) R. 0. Self, director of the bus division of the State Corporation Commission, is a strong advocate of the 90-inch width of busses.. According to reliable reports here, an effort probably will bo made dur ing the current session of the Leg islature to increase the width limi tation front 86 to 90 inches. Of the 38 states in the Union wheih regulate the width of busses, only one has a narrower restriction than North Carolina, according t0 Self. That state is Florida. The average legal width in the 38 states was 94 1-2 inches, Self said.