m EAUFORT Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People's Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. f SEADINGTO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY ) WATCH Your label and pay your subscription VOLUME XVIII EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY JUNE 27, 1929 PRICE 5c SINGLE CO NUMBER 26 NEWS 1 1!!"" RECORDER'S COURT BREAKS RECORDS Court Has Been In Session Three Days; Large Crowd Present Tuesday County Recorder's court has had .. the most business and the biggest at tendance of defendants, witnesses, lawyers and spectators this week that it has had since it started operations some months ago. Harker's Island contributed the biggest crowd and and furnished two of the most impor tant1 cases. Court was in session all day Tuesday, half a day Wednesday and several hours today. A case in which slander was charg ed, involving several Harker's Island people, proved very sensational in na ture. Some of the testimony was of such Elizabethan frankness that it cannot be printed in this newspaper without considerable expurgation. Thos. B. Lewis was alleged to have slandered the good name of Flora Bell Guthrie, a very good looking young woman, the daughter of Stacy F. Guthrie. Attorney C. R. Wheatly appeared for the defendant and So licitor G. W. Duncan looked after the prosecution. The father of the girl was the first witness and he stated hat on June 11 in tne presence oi several otner men the defendant used some very of fensive language attacking the virtue of his daughter. Luther L. Guthrie testified to the same facts and David Lewis did not use the same language but his testimony corroborated the other two. Ivey Scott, Thos. Rose, John W. Rose, Fred Lewis, Alonzo Leewis testified that the girl's repu tation was good. Mrs. F. Guthrie and Mrs. Mary Ann Willis said her reputation was bad. Telford Rose, Ed Rose, Earl Davis, Brady Willis testified that they had heard some bad reports about the girl. They also heard them about other people so they said. Mr. Lewis the defendant went on the stand and admitted having ac cused,, the .girl, of unchasity, ..saying that another man had told him cer tain things about her. After hear ing the argument of counsel Judge Hill decided that the defendant was guilty but did not think he slander ed the young woman maliciously. He suspended judgment on the payment of costs. The sentence seemed to satisfy the prosecution and the de fense did not appeal from it. The other Harkers Island case was that in which Fayette Jones and his son Cicero were alleged to have as saulted with deadly weapons William Willis and his met her Mrs. Ida Willis. A large stick and a brick or stone were said to hove been used. There was also the charge of assault on a female. Mrs. Willis. It appeared that Cicero struck Mrs. Willis accidental ly and so this indictment was dismiss ed. In the other case the defendants were found guilty and fined $10 and (Continued on page eight) Channel Bass Fishing Enjoyed at Ocracoke (By Aycock Brown) Ocracoke, June 26 Fifty-eight channel bass fishermen from various parts of this and other states were here last week for he "Full Moon in June" angling. T. majority of these anglers caught their bass, and some were big fellows. During the full moons, throughout the Spring Summer and Fall Ocracoke is the mec .ca for channel bass fishermen. - The "Captain John A. Nelson" Fisheries flagship, came to Ocracoke this week bringing Capt. Nelson the Fisheries Commissioner, Capt. J. H. Stone of Wilmington, his assistant, W. C. Evving, of Fayetteville, a recent addition to the Fisheries board and the following guests from Fayette ville: Thos. H. Sutton, Q. K. Nim ocks, W. W. Sutton, Fred D. Williams J. C. Cooper and the craft's crew, Engineer Vance Fulford, Stewart Willis and Sailor Willis.. A house party of young folks from Washington, N. C, arrived at the Is land this week for a sojourn of two weeks. They are at Nunnelee Cot- tage and included in the group are: Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nunnelee, Martha Ellen Nurnelee, Margaret Nicholson, Evelyn Erown, Mary Lee Roger, Eilzabeth Nunnelee, Helen Willing ham, Cmv-.otte, Kugler, Margaret El lison and Lou G. Bragaw. One da.,f during the past week, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Edwards were out in the Sound fishing for Channel bass. Six bass were taken, all weigh ing over 30 pounds each. Mrs. Ed wards landed four of the fish, and has the record so far this season for women anglers. A number of yachts, and fast speed boats have been to Ocracoke during the past week. (Woke Re.ort Ha, Record Making Band (By Aycock Brown) Ocracoke, June 26 For the first time in the history of this Island re sort and outfit of entertainers who have been playing the 'big-time' vaud eville and who have becom famous as Victor, Columbia and Brunswick record artists are being presented by Captain Bill Gaskill, host and propri etor of the Pamlico Inn. The musical outfit is headed by a former Ocracoke boy who made a name for himself during $he World War in the transport service and becom-famous after the war with his music and unique music makers. This Ocracoke musician is Walter Howard, and his band which plays everything but the kitchen range, is the "Five Harmonicas." These boys in niakirfg their red hot dance music use Saws, Harmoni cas, Guitars, Soup Spoons, Whiskey bottles, Jugs, toy balloons and ev ery other kind of novelty instru ments. The orchestra makes mysti fying sounds and guttural tones with a snappy style of playing that has placed the band in the front rank as entertainers. Eastern Carolina folks will re member this orchestra for one record in particular that they made for Vic tor, and that is "Sadie Green Vamp of New Orleans and Coney Island Washboard" Before returning to New York in the late summer when they will open a 40 weeks run with Keith-Albee, Number one circuit, Howard expects to present his music at various villages along the Banks, not for pecuniary reasons, but be cause he is a native of this Banks country that has made good on Broad way, and he wants to show his folks what he has been doing, since he left home several years ago. Several Civil Cases Gotten Off Calendar covered by this newspaper up to a-i bout midday on Thursday. Court ' lasted until Friday and adjourned at ! 12:30 P. M. sine die. The following, cases which were not reported in last week's issue of the News were! disposed of one way or another: ' Carl H. Dixon against Lillie Hill' Dixon. Divorce granted on statutory grounds. I M. S. Lee and others against Har vey Willis. Defendant gota verdict of $300 which Judge Daniels set aside and allowed both parties time to amend their pleadings. W. J. Parker paid fine and costs amounting to $83.50 and road sen tence of six months was stricken out. David G. Davis versus Jeffreys and Son. Action dismissed plaintiff ap pealed. D. A. Freeman versus Sea Shore Transportation Co., Judgment set a- side and new trial ordered. Luther Hamilton versus George H. Willis. A voluntary non-suit asked by plaintiff was granted. Plott et al versus Morehead Bluffs Inc., et al and Morehead Bluffs Inc., et al versus Mulligan et al. The court named D. H. Bland of Golds-j boro referee in the matter. Day Motor Co., versus Iona Has- kett. Defendant allowed 30 days to file answer. T. W. Brinson versus Beaufort Grocery Co., A petition for receiver. Action dismissed and plaintiff asses sed the costs. BEANS AND CUCUMBERS PROVE PROFITABLE CROPS Truck growers in the Straits neigh borhood, several of them at any rate, have done well on Lima beans recently so the News is informed. Mr. W. H. Chadwick of Straits shipped some beans last week to Philadelphia and he got $5 a bushel hamper for them. If the market stavs un a lit tle while longer considerable money will be made by the Straits neoole on their bean crop. Cucumbers too have been bringing very good prices. The market on them this week has been arourid $3 to $4 a bushel hamper. Unfortunately not very many farmers planted any cukes this year. The News learns that Messrs. G. W. Huntley and K. W. Wright have been shipping a good many cucumbers and getting good re turns from them. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS , Persons who desire to run ad vertising in this newspaper must have their copy in the of fice not later than 10 A. M. Wednesday morning. It is a great inconvenience to handle copy after the newspaper forms are practically made up for the weeKiy eamon. IfllGHWAY PATROL j . Tjrr(n T m ! MAilLUlMiltiir Fine Looking Body of Men Visit Many Towns In The State The new State highway patrol force got a good start here last Sun day morning on their long journed to the western part of the State and back again. Incidentally the News was that it would be made. Under the command of Captain Charles Farmer of Raleigh the patrol men assembled at the county court house Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. After a few minutes wait to have their pictures taken and for a brief rest they set forth on motor cycles and in cars going to New Bern and then to Washington where they were given a fine lunch by Commissioner Kugler. From Washington they went to Raleigh via Greenville, Wilson and other towns along the route. On Monday they started for the western part of the State via route 10 stop-j ping at a good many towns and spend ing the night in Morganton. They went to Asheville and from there to Charlotte, Wilmington and are expect ed back in Raleigh tonight. They wil be sworn into office Monday and wil start on their regular duties. A Lieutenant and three men will be as signed to each of the nine districts. Lieutenant Croom will have charge of the second district and will have headquarters in Kinston. The patrol men were well received in their tour over the State and seemed to make a fine impression. In thir neat fitting gray green uniforms they make an ex cellent appearance.They are all young and apparently in fine physical con dition and should make good officers. Mystery Man Sings At Atlantic Beach Paul Turner, famous Mystery Man of the North Carolina Statee Prison, has been eecuieed-by a special arrangement- to sing at Atlantic Beeach Saturday and Sunday after noons and evenings, it is announcfd by the management. He may also sing Sunday morning at the beach. Radio audiences all over the South know Paul Turner for his rich baritone- voice. Thousands of fans have tried to find out his real name, where he came from, the cause of his conviction for manslaughter result of an automobile accident in west-1 ern North Carolina in 1927-- and where he cultivated the voice which has made him famous. But Turner will not tell. He says some day he will reveal his name and tell about the circumstances sur rounding the charge which sent him behind gray prison walls for twenty seven months. During the time he .was in prison in North Carolina, and especially after by pure chance itw as discovered that he possessed a truly marvellous voice, and was versatile musician, many persons interested themselves in him and offered to aid a movement to gain him a parole. He never en couraged any such help, preferring, he indicated, to pay to the State the full measure it demanded for society because he had erred. Paul Turner sings, and speaks four different languages. He has written, while in prison, two compositions which critics pronounce unusual both for sentiment and tone. He is now, between singing engagements, work ing on a third in which he believes, in more than any other way, he is going to be able to convey to the pub lice the impression made on him. Turner will arive in Morehead City next Saturday morning, accom panied by Jack Adams, . his pianist. They will be at the Atlantic Hotel but all singing engagements will be at Atlantic Beach. CARTERET COUNTY MEN HELD ON BAD CHECK CHARGES On warrants issued, by Justice Tom Smith of New Bern, Deputy Sheriff Stanford Gaskill has made two arrests of Carteret county men this week. lioth were charged with issuing bad checks. One of them was Len Mason of Atlantic who was arrested Mon day and yesterday Harold Taylor of w niston was put under arrest. Both, men were sent to New Bern to ans wer the charges against them. BIRTH OF TWINS Mr. and Mrs. Iredell Salter of Morehead City have received many congratulations recently on account of the birth of a son and daughter last week. Mr. Salter is a deputy sheriff and police officer of Morheead City. MANY INJURED IN HIGHWAY WRECK Trying To Avoid Striking Child Cars Come Together; Have Smashup Children playing in the road near the east end of the Morehead City bridge Monday afternoon were ap parently the cause of a very serious automobile accident. Two cars were wrecked and ten persons more or less injured. A car coming from Morehead City in which were Rachard Harker, who is about 17 years old and who was driving, and two boys A. J. Wade and George R. Nelson and two girls Misses Masie Wade and Guslyn Sty ron collided with a car coming from 'Beaufort driven by "Charles Manson Jr., In the Beaufort car with Man son were Hardy Lewis Jr., and Misses Elinor Jones and Katherine Thomas. While no one was killed the occu pants of thenars were all hurt to some extent and one or two serious ly injured. Information that the News has got ten about the matter is that he driv ers of the cars swerved to keep from running over William Willis, four year old son of Ambrose Willis of Morehead City. They ran together and one of them struck the little fel low and fractured his skull. A. J. Wade sustained a fracture in the back of his skull and George Nelson had his shoulder broken and his jaw injured. They and the Willis child are in the Morehead City hospital Charles Manson Jr., of. Beaufort had a rib broken and some injury to his leg. The other Beaufort folks were more or less bruised up. MOREHEAD CITY TO HAVE A JUNIOR ORDER COUNCIL A charter list for a Junior Order Council is now being secured for Morehead City, by T. I. Moore, State Organizer, assisted by Rev. J. A. Sharp of Morehead Ciy. Quite a few members have been secured for this new Council during the last few days. A preliminary meeting will be held Friday night June 2S in ' Odd Fellows Hall to arrange for the char ter. Any who may desir-:- to join the Charter List may make their wishes known to either of the above named persons. The two councils in the county will bs represented at the State Council meeting a High Point August ll'th. to 22 nd. Carteret county is one of the very few counties in North Caro lina that is not acively in he Junior Order work. Other Councils will be organized -in the county as the inter est develops. Police Court Items The slippery Lloyd Fenderson. the elusive Negro youth that the police have been trying to catch for several weeks was tried in Mayors Chadwick's court Tuesday on two indictments. Hee was taken by plain clothes officers in Morehead City last week. The first charge against the Fenderson boy was breaking into the Highland Park filling station and stealing a shot gun. The second count was threatening those who saw him wjth the gun. He was held un der two bonds of $250 each on the charges for Superior Court. Mark Washington, a young colored man was fined $10 and costs for con tempt of court to-wit, not answering a summons. James Carter, colored, speeding fined $2.50 and costs. Alonzo Fulford, colored, drunken- ess and assault on a female. He got 10 days on the streets on the drunk j charge and was bound over to Super-' ior Court under $250 bond on the as-! sault indictment. I John B. Congleton on a drunk ' charge was given 30 days on the! streets. CONSERVATION BOARD MEET- ING. . - risnenes Commissioner John A. Nelson informs the News that a meet ing of the N. C. Board of Conserva tion and Development will be held in Morehead City, July 8 at 10 A. M. ihe meeting will be held in coninnp- tion with the Division of Commercial fisheries. SURGICAL TRADE MEETING The Wholesale Surgical Trade As sociation of America held its annual convention this week, beginning Tues day, at the Chamberlin, . Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va. Colonel Fair leigh S. Dickinson of Rutherford, N. J., formerly of Carteret county, is president of the association and pre sided over the meeting. Col. Dick inson was also president of this or ganization from 1P13 to 1916. Rum Runner Cap Near Here 5 ay Sunday afternoon at t 3 o'clock U. S. Patrol boat 'nder. command of Captain Otis 1 is ov erhauled and captured yacht Elois said to be from Miami and bound for New York. The capture was made at sea several miles off shore. About 100 cases of whiskey were found concealed in the forward hold of the vessel. A part of the deck was ripped up in order to get at the liq uor. Peter Nelson of Miami was in command of the Elois. John Nelson and Weber of Cocoanut Grove, Fla., composed the crew. The boat and liquor were taken to Wilmington Monday morning and the men carried there by automobile for a hearing be fore U. S. Commissioner Louis Good man. Captain Nelson said a man by the name of Lane, who lives in De troit, Michigan, was the owner of the yacht. BEAUFORT MAN MAKES HIS TALKING PICTURE OUTFIT Beaufort has talking pictures too, and different from most places the equipment with which thev are Dro- duced is largely home made. For several weeks now the Sea Breeze Theatre has been showine the talk ies and many people who have seen and heard the pictures say they are better than those given in some of the larger towns. W. L. Paul owner of the theatre and who is noted for his ingenuity, rigged up the appara tus that produces the sounds. Large crowds have seen and enjoyed the new talking pictures. CARTERET MAN HURT BADLY IN ACCIDENT New Bern, June 26 Dallas Rob inson of Carteret county sustain ed a broken leg and a fracture of several ribs in an automobile acci dent a few miles this side of Kins- ton last night. He was brought here and is receiving, treatment at St. Luke's hospital. Dr. R. D. V. Jones, ftis physician; stated today . that his condition was not serious. Details of the accident were not available. It was said, however, that the Robinson car was in collision with another. He was accompanied by friends and had been to an upstate hopitai for ar. examination, it was said. R. T. WADE CRITICALLY ILL Mi'. R. T. Wade of Morehead City is ciitically ill ina Richmond, Va., hospital where he .underwent an op eration for stomach trouble a few days ago. Mr. Wade is one of the owners and the manager bf Wade's theatre and for a number of years owned and edited the Morehead City Coaster. He has many friends in this section who regret to know of his illness. Junior Order Council Will Install Officers The local Junior Order Council will install Council Officers at the regular meeting Thursday night, June 27th, 1929 at 8 o'clock Odd Fellows Hall. District Deputy State Councilor, I. V. Stevens of New Bern, N. C. ac companied by several New Bern Ju niors will be present to officiate in the installation ceremony. All members candidates for membership and of ficers elect are urged to attend this meeting. The following is a list of the of ficers who were elected at thel ast meeting and who will be installed at the meeting above mentioned. D. M. Jones, Past Councilor; B. H. Noe, Councilor; I. M. Hancock, Vice Councilor; O. E. Duncan, Recording Secretary; II . G. White, Asst. Rec. Secretary; C. P. Tyler, Financial Sec retary; J. H. Ives Treasurer; W. I. Loftin, Conductor; M. T. Noe, War den; H. H. Lewis, Jr., and W. B. Longest Jr., Sentinels; Rev. L. L. Smith, Chaplain; C. M. Jones, H. H. Lewis and J. H. Davis, Trustees. NEW COUNTY BONDS SIGNED AND SENT TO PURCHASERS The recent bond issue of Carteret county, to the amount of $517,000, has been signed up and sent to a bank in Cincinnati, Ohio for delivery to the purchasers according to the terms of the sale. Chairman C. H, Bushall and Register of Deeds R. W. Wallace were- several hours getting the bonds signed. There were 517 of them. The new bonds are of the denomi nation of $1000 each, payable in gold and the color of gold and very at tractive in appearance. They bear interest at the rate of six per cent. The bonds were issued for the pur pose of taking up the notes of the county issued by the former board. REVIVALIST MAKES FINE IMPRESSION Large Crowd Last Night Hear Evangelist; Excellent Music Greatly Enjoyed (By L. L. Smith, Pastor) Dr. Luther Bridees who is conduct ing the revival services in Ann Street Methodist Church is making a fine impression as a gospel preacher and Christian gentleman. Mrs. and Luther Jr., are making a splen oma contribution to the sevrices with their help in the music. The mes sages are of a hieh order anA nn doubt will have a far reaching effect. Dr. Bridgers has been honored by the church in such a way as to give him the advantage of seeing and know ing the world as but few evangelists, and he preaches out of a store of knowledge and experience which of course helps to make his mesages in- teresting. Back of it all is his deep consecration and spiritual power which has followed and characterized his ministry through the years. The music is fine and the people are hlp ing with the singing as they seldom have in our community. - . - Brother Harris called off his pray-' er service last evening and he and a number of his people were present. We appreciate the cooperation which we are having by Brother Vache and Brother Harris and their people. The congregations are fine and the inter est good and we are expecting but ter things as we go on through the 9 days before us. A great number of people from Marshallberg have at tended each service and we appre ciate their help. Dr. Bridgers knows this county and the people love him and arep roud of his success for it was here that he received his start; Marshallberg may well be proud of her son. The meet nig will go through next week if the Lord is willing and we urge people of Beaufort to attend and not let this opportunity pass without hearing as much as possible one of our naive sons and an outstanding preacher. The services are from nine thirty to ten thirty in the morning and begin at eight in the evening. We welcome all. DEDICATION SERVICES FOR NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH Morehead City, June 23 A very impressive ceremony took place here today when Bishop Hafey of Raleigh dedicated the first Roman Catholic church erected in Carteret county. At the vestibule, Bishop Hafey blessed the exterior of the church and the congregation after which he entered with the congregation following. The service began at 8;30 with mass at which time the interior of the build ing was blessed. At 11:30 Father Sylvan, C. P., of Union City, N. J., a classmate of Father Egbert, C. P., celebrated sec ond mass. At this service, Bishop Hafey preached. His remarks were confined to thep urpose of the church in ordaining the life of man with the text, "this is aterible place,' verily, this is the house of God and the gate to heaven." The congregation was composed of people from surrounding points in North Carolina, Washington, D. C, and Baltimore, Md. At the afternoon service Bishop Hafey's, instruction was the neces sity of the sacrament of baptism af ter which the Bishop baptized 24. A sermon followed and closed with a solemn benediction. The visiting: priests besides Father Sylvan, were: Father Cornelius, C. P., of Union City; Father Julian, C. L., of New Bern; and Charles J. Goble, of Kins ton, in charge. BIRTH OF SON. Born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Noe, a son at Potter Emergency hospital. ,

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