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VOLUME XVI
12 PAGES TWO SECTIONS
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 1, 1927
PRICE 3c SINCLE 0PY
NUMBER 42
BRIDGE OPENING
DELAYED AGAIN
Lack of Material Stops Work.
Probably Finish In A Few
Days Now
The public seems to be rather dis
appointed that the highway bridge is
not yet permanently opened but the
hope is generally flt and expressed
that it will not be delayed much
Longer. Opening the bridge on
Thanksgiving day gave a large num
ber 4f people, an opportunity to cross
it and whetted the desire of a great
many others to do the same thing.
A representative of the News was
told Wednesday by District Engineer
R. E. Snowden that he hoped the
bridge could be opened Sunday but
he was not sure that it could be done.
It seems that some material used in
mixing with the asphalt has run out
and nothing can be' done until it ar
rives. This ingredient iS a sort of
lime stone dust -which is put in the
mixture that is used for topping the
roadway. About 200 to 300 yards of
this top remains to be laid and those
in charge say it can be finished in
two days or thereabouts after the
work starts. A car load of the stone
dust was expected yesterday but it
did not arrive. Should it put In its
appearance today the topping may
be finished by Saturday night and the
bridge opened Sunday. Of course
bad weather would inteifere with
the work.
As told in he News last week the
bridge was thrown open to the pub
lic Thanksgiving day. Cars began
crossing after six o'clock and kept it
up until idnight when the draws were
raised. No count was kept of vehicles
but there was a pretty constant
stream and every, thing from Jim
Chadwick and his pony and two
wheeled cart up to the finest limo
ousines went over the bridge. In
fact a great many people, white and
colored walked across. Cars from
as far west as Raleigh were seen in
the procession and there appeared to
be hundreds from New Bern.. Most
of the visitors went down to Davis to
the celebration and oyster roast held
there. Mar.y of these people had
never been east of Beaufort before
in their lives so it is reported. Some
of them were heard to express sur
prise at the fine farming section
through which they passed. A large
crowd attended the celebration at
Davis. Speeches were made by
Congressman Abernethy and others.
Mr. J. W.' Willis Jr., of Morehead
City got up the affair and it passed
off very successfully.
SAYS GAME LAW IS
'PROVING BIG SUCCESS
Tarboro, Nov. 29 County Game
Warden M. W. Haynes reports that
the game law which has been in op
eration in this county for two years
has been a great success in protect
ing and increasing all kinds of game.
"During the two years that the
game laws have been in effect in
this county there has been a won
derful increase in game, especially
squirrels, rabbits, partridges and
turkeys,'' he said. "Three years ago
there were no deer in the county.
New they enn be found within six
mi,les of Tarboro. Two were killed
Thanksgiving Day on the Harrell
farm about six miles from this city
The law has been very generally ob
served and there have been only a
bout a fourth of the violations this
year as compared with other years.
The best people are cooperating in
aiding in tha enforcement of the
game law."
POLICE COURT ITEMS.
As Mayor Jones had gone to New
Bern l'riday afternoon to look at
some fire fighting apparatus Police
Court was postponed until 7 o'clock
that evening. There was not ,much
of it any way. Several cases were
continued on account of the absence
of defendants or witnesses who were
away on the menhaden boats.
Charles Parker submitted to two
charges and was bound over to Su
perior Court on one of them. Charles
Williams claims that Parker made an
assault upon him with a butcher knife
and it was on this that he was bound
over. The other was that of drunk
eness and on this he was fined $5 and
costs.
, BAKERY STILL OPERATING
When Captain G. S. Hancock left
Eeaufort the bakery which he had
been operating for several months
was turned over to Mr. Ivey M. Han
cock. It seems thr.t some people pot
the idea that the bakery wou'd b;
closed and Mr. Hancock -s!:? tV
News to ttate thnt this is not tie esse.
Emergency Hospital
Has Several Patients
Although the Potter Emergency
Hospital is not quite ready to throw
its doors op;n to the public several
patients have been treated there re
cently. The woik of installing the
heating plant is not finished yet but
fortunately the weather has been so
mild that it has not been needed.
Mr. W. D. Davis of Harker's Is
land who was badly injured Tuesday
evening was brought to the hospital
Weanesday. While returning to the
island his clothing was caught by a
pin on the fly wheel of the engine and
he was knocked down. He sustain
ed a laceiation in his back about
fourteen inches or.g, had his right
foot crushed and was bruised up con
siderably. Mr. Davis is 68 years oid.
He has two sons, Stacy and Leslie
Davis; the latter of tne two lives in
Beaufort and is is engaged in the fish
business here.. Mr. Davis seems to
be getting along very well and it is
thoughthe will recover from his in
juries. Cooch Taylor, 17 year old son of
Mr. John Taylor of Sea Level, got
his left leg hurt pretty badly when a
car in which he was riding Sunday
night turned over with him and an
other young man. -He was bioughi
to the hospital and after having his
wounds dressed was able to go home.
Thf first iniant to see the lig;it of
day in the hospital arrived Tuesday
morning at nine o'clock. It is a rl
an J is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gailand Gillikin of Otway.
AQUATIC BIOLOGIST
WANTED AT BEAUFORT
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that it will
receive applications until Decembei
13 to fill a vacancy in the position of
associate aquatic biologist in the Eu
reau of Fisheries of the Department
of Commerce, for duty at Beaufort,
N. C, and vacancies occurring in po
sitions requiring similar qualifica
tions. -. " .i --.-.. .' i: ... , ' ' ' .
The entrance .salary is $3,000 a
year. A probationary period of six
months is required: advancement af
ter that depends upon individual ef
ficiency, increased usefulness, and the
occurrence of vacancies in higher po
sitions. The duties are to plan and conduct,
under general supervision, but with
eonsiderabe latitude for the exer
cise of independent judgment, inves
tigations of biological problems con
cerning fiisheries, such as life his
tories of fishes, habits and migration
of fishes, racial and specific distri
bution, their fluctuations in abun
dance and the causes thereof; to pro
pose measures of conservation, to di
rect the work of one or more assist
ants in the field or laboratory, and
direct biological exploration.
Competitors will not be required
to report for examination at any
place, but will be rated on their edu
cation, training, and experience; and
writings to be filed with the applica
tion. Full information n:ay be obtained
from the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission, Washington, D. C,
or from the secretary of the United
States Civil service board of exam
iners at the post office or custom
house in any city.
W. D. GUTHRIE,
Local Secty.
EEAUFORT HUNTERS
KILL TWO DEER
A party of hunters from Boaufort
had the luck Wednesday to bag two
deer in less than an hour after the
h;int began. The party was compos
ed of H. G. Perkins, J. C. Pake, W.
). Guthrio, Charles Johnson, Steve
Mason. Mr. Perkins' dogs were thf.
stars of thj occasion. The hunting
was done in the open ground?, sec
tion. MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Three permits to enter the state
of matrimony have been granted re
cently . by the Register of Deeds.
They were to the following named
couples:
. John W. Gaskill Beaufort to
Rachel Ann Willis, Beaufort.
Andrew J. Eell to Rosebud B.
Davis, Morehead City.
Thomas Garner to Agnes Earl
Cannon, Newport.
BAZAAR FRIDAY
The ladies of the First Baptist
church upon their baEaar in the old
Beaufort Cafe building, Friday after
noon at two o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Overstreet and
family who have been living in a res
idence on tbz North River road for
some months have returned to town
-nd aie living in the Rice house on
Ciaven street.
DURHAM LAD HURT
WHEN PLANE FELL
Same Plane Had An Accident
Short Time Before. Boy
Will Recover
Durham. Nov. 27 A nose dive
from a height of between 300 and J Court will convene here Monday.
400 feet, the second crash with the Judge W- C. Hairis of Raleigh will
same plane in Durham in the past six I -preside over the court. The list of
weeks, proved almost fatal for Pres- j jurors for the term has been publish
ton Crabtree. 12 year old son of Mrs. 1 ed in a previous issue of the News.
Robert Jones, of the Hillsboro road; No ciiminal cases are to be tried at
a:.d Pilot E. H. Erockenbrough, of 'this term; they will have attention
Lynchburg and Raleigh, yesterday.
The plane was a commercial plane in
which passengers have been carried
for some weeks past on flights giving
the air enthusasts a bird's-eye view
of the city. . 5
The plane, a beautiful, sHver-hued,
graceful "Eaglerock," manufactured
in Denver Colorado, with a wide
wing spread and a biplane modtl, fell
in a tobacco field about a hundred
yards beyond the landing field recent
ly leased to the north of the Hillan
dale Country Club. The crash oc
cured at about 4:30 o'clock Saturday
aft i noon. The plane was return
ing to th? field, which borders the fifth
fairway or the Hallandale golf course,
and the pilot was banking in a turn
in preparation for a landing, when it
i crashed. The pilot could not lift the i
left wing out of the turn and the ma
chine continued in a spiral nose dive
to the ground. ,V
Crabtree Recover Consciousness
Crabtree remained in a semi-conscious
condition ct Watts hospital un
til shortly after nine o'clock last night
his left arm shattered between the
shoulder and the elbow, and suffer
ine severe contusions of the head
and chest. There was some bloocj in
he chest, but it is not believed the
boy has any serious internal injur
ies. His recovery is regarded as as
sured unless tinforseen complications
develop. He will be confined -to the
hospital and his home for some-time,
because of the serious nature of his
arm injury, but his doctor believes he
will regain probably full use of th"
limb.
Pilot Brockenbrough was only
slightly injured, suffering rather se
vere and painful cuts about the face,
a badly bruised nose and heavy biuis
es about the body. His nose, how
ever was not broken.
Brockenbrough was still struggling
to right the machine after it went in
to a nose dive, when it crashed. Both
the pilot and the passenger vere
strapped in their seats, but the ter
rific impact tore loose the clasps oi
Wh aafptv holts, nreeinitatinz the
two against the celliod windshields
and dash boards in front of each
cockpit. The boy was seated in tne
front cockpit and the pilot behind.
Blood probably from the cuts on the
aviator's face, was splashed over the
cowl before each seat.
WHOLE FAMILY TAKES
PASTEUR TREATMENT
Goldsboro, Nov. 28 The whole
farnily of F. Barrett, Carolina street,
consisting of five members, one a Lopeiand, I lot L-amp uienn, ior $iu.
baby in arms, are now taking pasteur Walter Long and vife to L. C.
treatment, having been bitten or dan-; Fulcher, Trustee, '100 acres More
gerously exposed to infection, by a 'head Township for $10.
dog that was proved upon examina- j Mollie E. Coleburn and husband to
tion to have rabies. The baby was Charlotte M. Willis 1 lot Morehead
not bitten but saliva from the mad City for $100.
dog s mouth got on the baby's face ' Mollie E. Coleburn and husband
and Wayne County Health Officer L. to Clyde F. Willis and wife, 1' let
W. Corbet advised treatment. ' Morehead City for $150.
Last Group Meeting Was Held At
Newport Consolidated Schoo!
The last of the fall series of group
meetings for Carteret County Schools
was held at Newport Consolidated
School on Tuesday, November 22nd.
The first two grades gave a very
interesting program for the morning
exercises. The band, which was
composed of about thirty members,
dressed in their red and white uni
forms, gave several numbers. James
Hill was leader of the band. Lame
Garner and Fred Qannon sang a
duet. Other special numbers were:
Song by James Hill, accordian solo
by Rosa Jones, harmonica solo by
Owen Gould, and Xylophone solo by
Pattie Perkins.
After the morning exercises Hem
onstration lessons in arithme'' :
taught by Lydia Willis, secc.. feiade;
Annie Haskins, third grade; Berni
James, fourth grade; Epsie Gregg,
fifth grade; and Lucy Fleming, sixth
g-ade. Each lesson showed that
teachers were helping their pupils to
form correct habits in performing
the fundamental operations in arith
metic and that the reasoning side was
also being developed. Problems pre
sented by pupils and analyzed by
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES M0M)AY
A Considerable Number
Civil Cases Set For Trial.
Criminal Cases
Of
No
' A one week ; trm 01 superior
in January.
The calendar of cases for next
week is given below:
Monday
Carteret Co. vs Ward & Wairren.
Duncan and White vs Norris et al.
Morris vs Bogue Development Cor
poration. Hendrix vs Bryan.
Oglesby vs Merrick.
Hardesty vs Munger and Bennett.
Sasween vs Huff et al.
Carter vs Dudley.
Tuesday
Willis vs Willis.
KoiTman Msohine Co. vs Austin.
Carroll vs Piner.
Jones vs Cook.
Town of Newport vs Swain.
Waters vs Tel. Co.
Wednesday
GiKikin vs Duffy.
Quinn vs American Railway Express.-
Newberry vs Willis.
Mason vslTown of Beaufort.
Merrick vs Branks & Howe.
Willis vs Hoffman.
Thursday
Denoye vs Rigsby.
Chapin vs White.
Davis vs Dailey.
Gould vs Sanford & Brooks.
Davis vs Johnson.
Friday
Duncan ard White Vs Norris.
Jabara vs Salomy
American Wholesale Co. vs Eborn.
Motion Docket i
Rnwleigh vs. Willis.
Transit vs Gunerson.
Mr. City Mfg. vs Weeks.
Cole vs Guthrie.
Chalk vs Fulcher.
Jones vs Roach.
Freeman Bros, vs Morehead Bluffs
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Several transactions in real estate
are evidenced this week by deeds re-
corded with the Register of Deeds.
! They are as follows
W. S. Bell Mortgagee to N. S. Bell,
lot mauiort, ior ?o.o.
Carteret County to W. L. Stan
di, 25 acres Beaufort Township for
Taxes Paid.
Beaufort. Realty Corp. to D. E.
Krimminger, 2 lots West Beaufort,
for $500.
C. T. Giljikin and. wife to Annie
Durham Gorham, 1 lot Cape Look
out for $50.
Cicero Goodwin and wife et als to
J. J.vDay, 9 acres Cedar Island, for
$10.
I Geraldine Oaksmith to EJdia . W.
ether pupils showed both thought and
! originality.
At noon the home economics de-
! partment which is directed by Miss
Louise Kent served lunch. This was
the first time that lunch has been
served by this departent. The food
I demonstrated not only their ability
i to prepare one meal at a time but it
I also showed their ability to prepare
, food for future use. They served
green beans which they canned in
the early fall and pepper relish which
they had also made in thefall.
In the afternoon the elementary
teachers met to discuss the profes
sional work. An individual diagnos
tic test on the fundamentals in arith
metic vas given to one pupil. The
results of this test and the demonstra
tion lessons were discussed. Methods
were compared with those recommen
ded in the books adopted by the coun
ty for p-oi'essional study of arithme
tic. The work n far in arithmetic
indicates that much progress is being
made in the teaching of that subject.
The High School teachers met in a
separate group to discuss special high
! school problems.
Welfare As.cciation
Meets In New Bern i
New Bern, Nov. 29 On Dacember '
8th, the North Eastern District Wei- j
fare Association which comprises
twenty-eight counties will hold its j
conference in New Bern. Every
one who is interested in welfare work '
will be most cordially welcomed anJ
as Carteret county is so near the j
place of meeting this year perhaps,
a large nuirber from there will at- r
tend. !
There are a number of subjects on
the program and among the speak- j The peopla of Ocracoke are in point
ers are Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Judge W. j ical rebellion against the governme-1
C. Harris and Mrs. Kate Burr John-1
son. The Prqblem of Mental Defec- Ocracoke, nearly 100 strong, are
tives by Dr. H. W. Crane of the Uni- prepared to petition the North Caro
versity of North Carolina will be a lina legislature that they be "divorc-
feature, and Mrs. W. B. Waddill, j ed" from Hyde county ana "wea 10
Superintendent of Public Welfare of ; Carteret. These significant state
Vance county will give a description j ments are contained in a letter to the
of Vance county Hospital and San-' Carteret county commission from
atorium an institution which has ere- j John H. Andrews, superintendent of
ated much interest in this state. ! the Ocracoke schools.
The meeting will be held in the) Supt. Andrews states that seven
Court House beginning promptly at j eights of the voters of Hyde's chief
10 A. M. and adjourning at 4 P. M. i island possession are ready to cast
A luncheon will be served at the their bajlots to be separated from
Christ Parish House at 1 o'clock ' Hyde county. 'The complaints he
which will permit a social hour and I makes are first, lack of school super
it is hoped that all who attend the j vision, with scarcely a visit from the
convention will also attend the lun- j county school superintendent; sec-ond
cheon. ' i no pay for the teachers; third, no ex-
As it will be desirable to know penditures by the county for main-the-
number who wish to include this, terance, repairing or construction of
the committee will be glad to reserve j bridge; fourth, no appreciable return
plates for all who request it in ad-j for their taxes; fifth no holding of
var.ee. The price is $1.00 per -plate, i tsacheis' meetings under county su-
j pervision.
j o It is understood here that the peo-
T OUrteen Y UIu Boy j p!e of the quaint little island of Ocra-
If ill l Xl--" Pftirttrncr I colie nave no Political axes to grind
rviliea V. ' """""s j but are interested in only three things
. i Decent government, good schools and
The first serious hunting accident , public improvements. -
cf the season in Carteret county took ! The Carteret county line now ends
place last Saturday afternoon when 1 at Portsmouth, on the Banks; Hyde
Theodore Arthur a boy who lived county begins north of Ocracoke inlet
near Wildwcod was killed. The lad' Geographically, there 'fore there
who was the son of Mrs. Dora Arthur, j wouldl be no objection to Ocracoke
a widow, was about fourteen years of ! being added to Carteret. It would
aSe-
Saturday afternoon he took his
gun and started on a hunt. He fail
ed to return home that night and
fcunday morning a searching party : a realignment in that Ocracoke would
headed by Sheriff T. C. Wade went , be out of the First Congressional dis
to look for him. The boy was found trict, Lindsay C. Warren's and in the
dead m a piece of woods about a mile j third, C. L. Abernethy's. Ocracoke
from home. It appeared that he had : has about 100 votes with a population
stumbled and accidentally discharged j 0f some 600 souls and with an area
his gun. The top of his head was0f 10 miles by one and one-half,
blown off and death was instantan-j In ocai circles Supt Andrews let-0US-
I ter does not occasion as much sur-
. .. ! Prise as it might otherwise as the con-
ATLANTIC FISHERMEN HERE. ditions in Hyde county of late as re-
vealed by the press are anything but
As they often do at this time of ; satisfactory. Thre three former
the year a number of fiishermen from , county managers have been replac
Atlantic are making their headquar- ;ed by new ones and the high sheriff
ters in Beaufort now and fishing at;is under charges of malfeasance and
Cape Lookout. The operate what are;ordered to appear in Beaufort coun
called sink nets, and so far have been Superior cour. Dec. 19.
doing fairly well. There are seven j
of the Atlantic boats here. The men !
aboard them are John Smith and sons ' New Atlantic BllS
Luther and Kenneth, John and Hen-
ry Smith brothers, Elmer Mason and , NOW In Operation
son William, Charlie Mason and son
Lloyd, Alfred Morris and sons Ira j
and Elmo, Howard Mason and son ' The new bus which is to operate
Worsley, Daniel and Irving Morris, between Atlantic and Morehead City
imade its first run Tuesday. It did
COMMISSIONERS MEETING not go any farther than Beaufort be-
cause the bridge has not been open-
The board of county commission-1 opened yet. An application for a
ers had a meeting at the courthouse ' franchise for a bus line between At
Monday. The minute book in which Mantic and Morehead City was made
a record of the board's meetings is : to the State Corporation Commission
kept is supposed to -be kept in the , lecently and it is supposed that this
vault o fthe Register of Deeds office. ,
A representative of the News called
there at 11 o'clock today (Thursday)
to see the book but itw as not there, i
This is usually the case after a com
missioners meeting. This is by way
of an explanation to the readers of
the News why they will have to wait
until next Thursday to see what the
board of county commissioners did
on Monday the 28th of November.
GOLDSBORO NEGRO !
HAS BROOKEN NECK 1
Goldsboro, Nov. 28 Gus Smith,'
Negro employe of the Empire Manu-!
facturing Company, fell some days-i
ago while engaged in his duties about
the plant, and sustained a broken :
neck,, but he is still alive and has a
chance of getting well.
, An X-ray at the hospital revealed
the fracture and Mr. Will Spicer in
the presence of several physicians and
others performed the operation, said f
to be comparatively rare in surgical!
cases. He removed the broken ver-
tebrae in such' a fashion as to relieve '
the pressure on the spinal cord, leav
ing the bone covering so that nature
might rebuild the part. '
COPIES OF BRIDGE EDITION
There are still some extra copies
of the Bridge Edition of the Beau
fort News in the office. Persons who
wish a copy or so for their friends or
to file away can get them as long as'
the supply lasts a: five tents the copy.
OCRACOKE FOLKS
WANT TO JOIN
CARTERET COUNTY
Dissatisfied With Government
qj Hyje County So It Is
Reported
MAy pETmoN LEGISLATURE
: MOREHEAD U1Y, Nov. o
of Hyde county. The voters of
i require action by the state legislature
before the island could be taken from
one county and; added to another.
In national Dolitics there woudl be
will be granted. The new bus has
accomodations for 17 passengers and
is a good looking vehicle,
TIDE TABLE
Information as to the tides
at Beaufort is given in this col
umn. The figures are approx
imately correct. Some allow
ances must b made for varia
tions in the wind and also with
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Tide
Low Tide
Friday, Dec. 2
1:37 A. M. 7:38 A. M.
1:55 P. M. 8:14 P. M.
Saturday, Dec. 3
2:43 A. M
:48 A. M.
9:11 P. M.
3 :02 P. M
Sunday, Dec. 4
3:45 A. M. JhKR A. M.
4 :04 P,
M. 10:16 P. M.
Monday, Dec. S
M. 10:56 A. M.
M. 10:59 P. M.
Tuesday, Dec. 6
M. 11:05 A. M.
M. 11-.53 P. M.
4:42 A
5:03 P,
5:36 A
5:57 P.
Wednesday, Dec. 7
6:28 A. M. 11:51 A. M.
6:50 P. M. 12:47 P. M.
Thursday, Dec. 8
M. 12:41 A. M.
7:3 9 A
7:14 P. M.
1:30 P. M.