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16 PAGES, TW SECTIONS
VOLUME XVI
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY MAY 5, 1927
PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY
NUMBER 17
RACE QUESTION
CAUSES FRICTION
IN CAPITAL CITY
Raleigh Politicians Register
Negroes And Stir Up Con
siderable Row
OTHER RALEIGH NEWS ITEMS
(By M. L. SHIPMAN)
Raleigh, N. C. May 4 The city
election, the fight over whether there
is graft in the handling of affairs of
the State Board of Health, the efforts
of Governor McLean in . selling the
State bonds and other matters occu
pied the center of Raleigh's stage
during the past week. By far the
greatest interest was in the election
which takes place this week and the
charges and counter-charges touch
ing many phases of the city's activi
ties which grew out of the bitterness
of the contest.
However, there was intense inter
est here in the Mississippi flood situ
ation and it was followed closely by
readers and the contributions for re
lief from this section are continuing
to be received. The return of John
Early, noted leper to the state and
his subsequent escape also attracted
attention as did the ruling with ref
erence to payment of taxes on land.
Race Itsua Raited
The chief contest in the election
was between Mayor Culbreth, and for
mer city clerk Dowell. Mr. Dowell led
the mayor in the first primary but
the other commissioners now in of
fice easily led their opponents. Dur
ing the past ten days there has been
a great deal of fire between the Cul
breth and Dowell forces. The city
commissioners got in bad by allowing
illiterate negroes to register and when
their attention was called to the fact
by the ever-watching editor Josephus
Daniels, they. merely deplored the ac
tion but did not take any steps to
stop , this illegal registration. Mr.
Daniels through his . paper and the
friends of Mr. Dowell have blistered
the mayor for allowing these regis
trations and the general type of ac
cusation is that the administration ex
pects to vote these negroes. 1
Then came an argument on the
cost of city paving in Raleigh. The
administration claimed one very low
price but Mr. Dowell knew better and
when he got the facts on prices and
published them, the rate was shown
to be much higher. The city com
missioners were forced to admit that
they had not published true figures
and the admission has worked against
not only Mt. Culbreth but the other
commissioners who may now have a
hot fight to hold their own in the
election of this week.
On top of this, developers of the
Fair Grounds property into residen
tial subdivisions found out that the
city was extending the sewer and
water pipes into other subdivisions
after refusing to do the same for the
Fair Grounds. This , was protested
against and has not helped the city
commissioners who stand accused of
aiding their real estate friends with
city facilities and barring the Fair
grounds folks from the same aid.
The city fathers said if they had not
extended this aid then smaller pipes
would have been laid but this has not
appeased the wrath of the fair ground
developers who claim that what is
fair for one is fair for all and they
are only asking' a square deal. All
in all it has been, one of the hottest
elections of recent years.
The work of Governor McLean in
selling $20,000,000 of state bonds at
four perecent, the lowest rate receiv
ed in years, has aroused great praise
for the Governor. The New York
folks at first would not buy at this
' low rate but later took ten million
outright and an option on the other
ten million. The Governor's finan
cial strategy will save the state thous
ands of dollars in interest. As a di
rect result of the governor' success,
the World War veterans of the state
will be benefitted, says John Hall
Mannnig, commissioner of the world
war fund for veterans homes. He ex
plained that the next legislature prob
ably will reduce the rate at which
veterans may borrow money as the
state is now able to borrow at a low.
er figure. .
Attorney General Brummitt has
come in for some criticism at the
hands of Dr. Charles O. H. Laugh
inghouse because the doctor says the
charges of graft in the health board
administration of the privy law have
not been investigated in a proper
manner. The witnesses in the mat
ter are ready to testify and it is re
garded as likely that a thorough in
vestigation will be ordered by Gover
nor McLean this week in order to
celp.r the atmosphere. Dr. Laughing
house claims he cannot propeily con-
(Contnued onpage 14)
Moreh'. H City Wants
New .jchool Building
The regular monthly meeting of
the County Board of Education was
held Monday at the office of Super
intendent J. H. Workman. A dele
gation of Morehead City citizens
came before the board and asked it
to approve an appropriation of $65,
000 for a new school building. The
matter was referred to the Board of
County Commissioners with the en
dorsement of the Board of Education.
A year ago the county assumed the
indebtedness of all the schools in the
county.
The board discussed fully the mat
ter of consolidating a number of ru
ral schools in the county and it is
likely that a number of consolida
tions wil be made. Roy Barbour, the
board's machinist made his report
and a number of other routine mat
ters were transacted.
MEMORIAL DAY
PLANS ARE MADE
Interesting Program To Be
Given. Hon Josephus Daniels
To Speak
The annual memorial exercises
here in honor of the Confederate
dead promises to beof more than un
usual interest this year. The exer
cises will take place Tuesday the 10th
in the county court house. The
chapters of the Daughters of the
Confederacy of Beaufort and More
head City will have charge of the
event and w;ll take pains to see that
the dead are honored in an appro
priate and interesting manner. Th?
ladies consider themselves fortunate
in thatthey have secured as their or
ator for the occasion the Honorable
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh who is
known personally by many in this
section and by reputation to every
one.
The program for the memorial ex
ercises is as follows:
Selection St. Paul's Band.
Hymn "How Firm A Foundation'
Invocation Dr. G. W. Lay. ,
Quartette Mts.' H. M. Hendrix,
Mrs. Bayard Taylor, Dr. F. E. Hyde,
Mr. M. L. Davis.
Reading The boys of "65 Miss
Emma Taylor.
Introduction of Speaker E. W.
Hill.
Address Hon. Josephus Daniels.
Offertory.
Vocal Solo Mrs. Bayard Taylor.
Carolina.
Benediction Rev. L. L. Smith.
Exercises conducted at the Monu
ment. Club Women Of
Morehead City Meet
(By Mrs. George Henderson)
The Woman's Club met Monday
afternoon with the President, Mrs.
A. H. Webb, with all departments
and with a large number in atten
dance. The meeting was opened with the
collect read by the president.
On account of this being National
Music week, an especial musical pro
gram was rendered which was enjoy
ed by all.
The Junior Music Club was also
present and helped with the program.
As the guests arrived they were
served punch from a beautiful ap
pointed table by Mesdames Herbert
Thornton, Robt. Taylor, George Dill
and Misses Corinne Bell and Mildred
Wallace.
After the rendition of the program
the minutes of the last meeting were
read. Under new business, the
flower show was discussed and it was
voted upon to have the same on May
13th and 14th, the money raised to
be divided equally among the dif
ferent departments that each would
have something in their .espective
treasuries to start off their years
work in the fall.
Much interest was expressed in the
coming event. The idea this year
is to stimulate interest, in growing
flowers and encouraging lplanting
in gardens and lawns.
It was decided that the portrait
of Mr, C. S. Wallace to be present
ed by the club will be presented at
commencement, the one chosen to
present the same to be selected by
the chairman of the Literary who
will also present the portrait of Gov.
Morehead at the Municipal building
at a date to be decided later.
Literary Department
The Literary and Art Department
of the Womans Club met Wednesday
rfternon at the home of Mrs. John
Lashly with Mis. A. B. Roberts and
Mrs. George Henderson as joint
hostesses.
The roll call was responded to by
current events or art subject.
The meeting was lead by the chair
OLD CITY BOARD
EXPIRES FRIDAY
Change Of Administration Will
Take Place At Adjourned
Meeting Tomorrow
The board of town commissioners
held their regular meeting at the city
hall Monday. The board was not in
ssssion long and adjourned to meet
again Wednesday night. A motion
was passed to have the city engineer
lay out sewer and water lines on
Hammock street.
Wednesday evening at 7:30 the
board met again. Those present
were Mayor Thomas and Commissions
Maxwell, Smith and Parkin. Town
Treasurer Stancil who was present
stated that Mr. Russ who has been
auditing the town's iooks would
make a final statement on Saturday
the 7th. A motion was passed to pay
the auditing firm Dixon, Russ and
Carter $1119.75 for their services.
The board passed a motion instruct
ing City Attorney G. W. Duncan to
file an answer in the case of Mason
against the town. Attorney J. F.
Duncan was also employed to assist
him. A bill of attorneys G. W. Dun
can and J. F. Duncan for services in
legislative matters amounting to
$125 was approved. A bill of D. M.
Denoyer for $16.48 was allowed. The
board adjourned to meet again to
morrow (Friday) evening at 7:30
o'clock. At this meeting the town
administration will be transferred in
to the hands of the newly elected
board.
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April Showers Failed
To Put In Appearance
April . showers weWe conspicuous
by their absence last month. The
month proved to be one of the dry
est on record in this part of the coun
try. Only three quarters of an inch
of rain' fell while the normal' rainfall
for the month is 3.61 inches. There
were 19 clear days; the rest were
cloudy or partly cloudy. The wind
blew frohrthe- southwest 11 .days,
from the northeast 10 days, the south
four days, the north two days, "east
one, and west one day, northwest one
day. The warmest day was on the
7th when the mercury rose to 79 de
grees and the coolest on the 11th
when it dropped to 38 degrees. The
temperature figures for the month
follow:
Max. Min.
1 67 ' 58
2 69 59
3 69 45
4 68 43
5 73 50
6 73 57
7 79 53
8 72 47
9 ,- , 65 42
10-. --L.-56 47
11 61 38
12 - 63 43
13 69 55
14 - 68 48
15 62 46
16 75 54
17 75 57
18 75 53
19 80 54
20 75 62
21 76 62
22 76 50
23 62 43
24 64 43
25 62 50
26 75 49
27 70 57
28 71 52
29 75 57
30 -.75 63
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BEAUFORT RAISES FUNDS
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
At the request of the Red Cross
authorities in Washington, D. C. an
ettempt, which proved successful,
was. made here Monday to raise a
sum of money for the sufferers from
the floods in the Mississippi valley.
The amount asked of Beaufort was
$150 and this was quickly raised. Mrs.
C. H. Bushall, Mrs. T. W. Brinson
and Miss Ruby Respess took the mat
ter in hand and collected 4153. '
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Marvin J. Tatf.l nd Beatrice
Russell, Bogue.
Fairley Styron, Beaufort and
Mary J. Guthrie, Harkers Island.
Earl Rose and Lettie Brookes,
Harkers Island.
man; Mrs. Robert Taylor.
Mrs. Alvah Hamilton read a paper
on St. Cecelia and Miss Wilson gave
an interesting history of De Mary
Martin Shop. A paper on Spring by
Carot written by Mrs. Henderson
and read by Mrs. Robert Taylor
The club will study interior decor
ating next year along wit hthe fam
ous artists.
Before departing, the guests were
served an ice course.
Contest Results At
County Commencement
On account of an unusually large
run of news and advertising in last
week's issue of this newspaper it was
impossible to give the reults of the
various contests held here on County
Commencement day. As this inf or-1
mation is of a great deal of interest
to many people in the county it is
given herewith:
Athletic Contest Winner
The following is a list of the ath
letic events and the winners:
Group I 3rd. Grade
Spelling Bernice Willis, 1st. Hark
ers Island; Orville, 2nd. Cedar Island.
50 yard dash Roy Merrill, 1st.,
Beaufort; Roland Garner, 2nd., New
port. Potato Race Inez Currier, 1st.,
Rhue, 1st. tie. Beaufort, Nora
Kirk, 2nd.
(Continued on page 6)
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JACOB L. GIBBLE
HAS PASSED AWAY
Former Beaufort Resident Died
In Raleigh Monday. Buried
Here
The body of Mr. Jacob L. Gibble,
who died early Monday morning in
Raleigh in his 94th year after a long
illness, reached Beaufort Monday
nightand was carried to St. Paul's
church of which he was until his
death the oldest living member.
Funeral services was held from that
church Tuesday morning at 11:30,
being conducted by the rector, the
Reverend George W. Lay. The Ma
sons, of which order Mr. Gibble was
a member had their special service
at the grave. Mr. Gibble was inter
red in the Episcopal Cemetery by the
grave of his wife. The floral offer
ing were many and beautiful. Hymns
sung by the choir, all favorites of
Mr. Gibble and chosen by him, were
My God, My Father While I Stray,
Jesus Lover of My Soul, Abide With
Me, and Tarry With Me, oh My Sav-
for, , .... . J , v. ...
He is survived by Jwo daughters,
Mrs. W. A. Delamar of Raleigh, Mrs.
Easterday of Balitmore, two sons,
Rev. John B. Gibble, who is rector
of the Good Shepherd Episcopal
church in Wilmington, and Jacob L.
Gibble of Richmond, and several
grand children. Mr. and Mrs. Del
amar, two daughters, Julia and Mary,
and the two sons of Mr. Gibble were
here for the funeral. Mrs. Easter
day was in Californiaat the time of
her father'3 death. Mr. and Mrs.
Delamar and daughters returned to
Raleigh yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Gibble's sons will be here for a few
days.
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PARENT-TEACHER MEETING.
The Parent-Teacher Association
will meet in . the school auditorium
on Friday afternon at four o'clock.
Everybody is urged to attend for
this will be the last meeting for this
school term. The Boy Scouts will
give us a short program.
Mrs. H. Overstreet, Pres.
NEW POSTOFFICE OPENS.
Morehead City, May 4-The new,
postoffice was opened to the public
Tuesday night. This handsome two
story building on Arendell street was
elected by Mr. Duffy Wade. A store
toom in the building will be occupied
by Duncan and Willis of Beaufort
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MET HERE MONDAY
The Board of County Commission-
ers held their regular meeting here
Monday. They were in session sev -
eral hours, part of the time in exe-
cutive session. At 11 o'clock this
morning (Thursday) the proceedings'
of the meeting had not been record
ed in the minute book and so they
were not available for publication in
this newspaper. If they can De seen
they will be published next weeK in
the News.
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MOREHEAD CITY ELECTION
PASSED OFF QUIETLY
Morehead City, May 4 A rather
quiet election took place here Tues-
day. A ticket in opposition to that!
nominated a few weeks ago was
brought out on the day of the elec -
tion but did not get very far. E.
H. Gorham's name was put up for
Mayor against his protest. The re-
suHs of the election were as fol -
lows: For Mayor Luther Hamilton
502; E. H. Gorham 79. For Com-
missioners, Chas. H. Freeman 515,
Durwood B. Willis 405, Gilbert Willis
495, Dr. K. P. B. Bonner 421, W. M.
Webb 512, C. G. Smith 176, N. R.
Webb 192, Dr Ferebee 185.
"Reactionaries " Carry
Municipal Election
D. M. Jones Elected Mayor.
New Men. Chief of Police
Methodist Revival
Began Here Monday
The revival services which start
ed at Ann Street Methodist church
Monday evening have had very good
attendance and increasing interest
is shown in them. Many of those
who have attended have been heard
to express themselves as having been
greatly impressed with the sermons
of Dr. H. M. North, presiding elder
of the Wilmington district. The mus
ical program under the leadership of
Professor Coston of Hendersonville
is a fine feature of the revival. Mr.
Coston himself is a fine singer and
has rendered some very beautiful so
los which were greatly enjoyed by
the congregation.
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Beaufort Ball Club
Victor Over Oriental
Beaufort defeated Oriental in a
losely played contest by the score of
6 to 4 at Oriental Friday.
Numerous successes by both nines
took most of the zest from the
game, the locals making 6 and the
Pamlico team 8.
Oriental did all their scoring in
the first game. Smith getting off
on a bad start by hitting Nelson and
walking Weisigar. Two hits, coupled
with 4 errors sent 4 runs across the
plate and ended the loser's scoring
for the day, Smith settling down, and
with excellent support thereafter
j Pitching steady ball,
- Beaufort scored one marker in he
I 3rd, Whitehurst single, went to sec-
ond on a wild pitch, stole third, and
came home on E. Allen's wild peg to
third. In the 5th inning the score
became deadlocked. Thomas sent out
a terrific hit for three bases, White
hurst singled for the second time,
the forme scoring on an infield bob
ble of Smith's grounder, Whitehurst
counted as did the pitcher a moment
later on two battery errors.
The game was clinched the follow-
ng inning on Kirby's (batting for
j Miller) base on balls and Springle's
j terrific home run drive. At this
juncture Stevens was replaced in the
box by Joyner and held the locals
hitless for the remaining two innings.
Stevens led both teams in batting
with three hits in three times up.
Whitehurst was best for Beaufort,
hitting two out ot three. He also
caught a good game, catching one
man stealing second and two who
were laying just a bit too far offff
third.
By an excellent knockdown of a
hit in the 5th Parkin saved a score,
a man being on third. Midyette struck
out to end the inning. Longest made
a stop and throwout in the last stanza
nn what lnlrpH Hire n euro hit
Skarren and Caffrey (Baufort)
hard hitting outfielder and second
baseman respectivelyt wm out of
th arnp
Beaufort
AB R
H PO A
0 2 2
Chadwick 3b
Hassell, lb
Miller, If
Springle, cf
4
4
2
4
3
3
3
3
3
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
1
1
6
0
0
1
1
0
9
2
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
3
1
0
Parkip, ss
j Longest, 2b
Thomas, rf
: Whitehurst, c
Smith, p
Kirby, If
TOTAL
30 6
Oriental
AB R
1 1
4 21 9
H PO A
0 0 0
Nelson, cf
Weisigar, ss
3
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
0
8
, g. Allen, c
Curtis, lb
Stevens, p-rf
j Midyette, 2b
L. Allen, 3b
11
0
0
0
0
1
Lee, If
, Joyner, rf-p
TOTAL 27 4 6 21 13 8
Score by innings
Beaufort 001 032 0 6
' Oriental 400 000 0 4
! Summary: Two base hits, Stevens;
! three base hits, Thomas. Home run
Springle. Left on bases, Beaufort, 4
1 Oriental, 6. Base on balls, off Smith
I 3, off Stevensl, off Joyner 0. Hit by
pitcher, by Smith 1 (Nelson). Struck
lout, by Smith 8, by Stevens 7, by
; Joyner 1. Hits: off Stevens, 4 in 5
! innings (none out in 6th) off Joyner
0 in 2. Wild pitch Stevens. Losing
pitcher Stevens.
All Members of Board Will Be
Longest Wins Out.
A decided victory was won here
Tuesday by the "reactionaries" a
gainst the "progressives." Or as
most people called it, the new board
against the old one. The present ad-'
ministration, with the exception of
Chief of Police Longest, were all de
feated. D. M. Jones was elected
Mayor over T. M. Thomas Jr. the
present Mayor, by a majority of 99
votes. The candidates on the new
ticket for the board received an av
erage majority of 143 votes.
The toal number of votes polled in
the election was 844, which was con
sidered very good, although more
than 1100 names are on the regis
tration books. The contest was a
hard fought one. Workers were at
the polls before the sun came up and
they stuck to the job until the going
down thereof. In fact some of them
stayed up a good part of the night be
fore the election seeing voters and
making plans. It is reported that
considerable money was used in the
election and there was some evidence,
of whiskey around the polls and else
where. One fight took place early in
the morning between Messrs. Henry
Congleton and Leslie Whitehurst but
neither was seriously hurt. The re
sult of the election seems to be re
garded mainly as a protest of the
people against bonds and high taxes.
Interest in the election was shown all
over the county and in fact to some
extent outside of it. The fight here
was against "the powers that be" in
the town and county. The winners
say that the result shows the drift
of public opinion.
There were 704 straight tickets
voted and 140 scratched ones. The
new ticket got 410 straight votes and
the other side got 294 of them. The
new ticket got a majority of the
scratched tickets. The high man on
the new ticket was E. H. Potter who
got 501 votes and the high man on
the other was Dr. C. S. Maxwell who
received 373 votes. Chief of Police
Longest's majority was 209.
The vote received by each candi
date Tuesday was as follows:
For Mayor D. M. Jones, 470; T. M.
Thomas Jr., 371. Chief of Police,
W. R. Longest, 527, Robert Dunn 318
For Board of Commissioners, E. H.
Potter 501; J. J. Whitehurst, 500;
C. T. Chadwick 497; R. Hugh Hill,
491; Holoway Mason 443; C. S. Max
well 373; John Chaplain 356; H. M.
Parkin 344; W. P. Smith 324; David
Whitehurst 318. Mr. Dunn came in
to the race just a few days before
the election and his friends say that
if he had started a few weeks soon
er he would have given Mr. Longest
i. much closer race. The new Mayor
and other officials will be inducted in
to office Friday night.
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CLINIC DAY CHANGED
TO FRIDAY AFTERNOON
The clinic day for the examination
of babies and pre-school children has
been changed from Saturday after
noon to Friday afternoon 2 to 4 P.
M. This change is made with the
hope that it will be more suitable for
the mothers to bring their children
as well as better suit the convenience
of the physicians. At this same time
time we shall be glad to have any
children desiring the toxin anti-tox
in treatment to prevent diphtheria
come to the Health Department office.
We shall be glad to have any one
desiring any vaccination or inocula
tion come to the office on Saturday
morning 9 to 12 A. M.
T. C. BRITT,
County Health Officer.
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BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD
OF FOUR LEGGED CHICKEN
A chicken that will be a shining
success at a picnic if he lives to be
grown was brought into the News
office Tuesday by Mr. K. A. Merrill
who lives on New Bern road. This
chicken, besides the usual parapher
nalia that any self respecting chicken
ought to have, was provided with an
extra set of legs. Two of the legs
were in the usual place wherea chick
en's legs belong, except after they
are cooked, and the other two were
a little further back. In other re
spects the chick was normal. Mr.
Merrill expects to give the little fel
low the best of care and hopes that
he will one da We a full sized
rooster or hen as the case may be.
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A common Italian salutation in the
morning is, 'God give yoa a good day'