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VOLUME XVIII
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1929
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NUMBER 31
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Automobile Tragedy Friday
Deeply Shocked Community
One of the most largely attended,
and also one of the saddest, funerals
that has even taken place in Beau
fort was that of Miss Ann Elizabeth
O'Bryan last Sunday afternoon at St.
Paul's church. The funeral services
began at five o'clock but a half an
hour before that time the church
was filled to overflowing with
the exception of the block of seats
reserved for the family, pallbearers
and special friends. People from
Beaufort, Morehead City, New Bern
and other places were present. Many
colored people attended the funeral.
The young girl just blooming into an
attractive womanhood had a wide
circle of friends who were greatly
shocked by her tragic death. She
was fifteen years old on the 21st of
last February.
Reverend J. A. Vache, rector of
St. Paul's conducted the funeral ac
cording to the ritual of the 'Episco
pal faith. A large number of youths
and maidens, friends and school
mates of the young lady, followed the
coffin to the church and the grave. A
profusion of beautiful floral designs
adorned the chancel of the church
and covered the grave. The music
for the funeral was rendered by mem
bers of the regular church choir as
sisted by several members of the
other church choirs in Beaufort. The
hymns sung were "My God My Fath
er While I Stray," "In the Hour of
Trial" in the" church and "Abide with
Me" at the grave. The active pall
bearers were Elliott Ewell, R. S. Sea
well, Sterling Chadwick, Sam Way
Charles Hassell, Cecil Longest, Jack
Neal, James Potter. The interment
was in St. Paul's cemetery where on
July 31st her father was laid to rest.
She was the daughter of the late Al
len D. O'Bryan and is survived by
her mother Mrs. Bessie Taylor O'
Bryan, two brothers Allen and Tay
lor and two sisters Katherine and
Helen O'Bryan. She is also survived
by her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. N.
W. Taylor of Beaufort and sevetal
uncles, aunts "ana'TFouSitoC She was
very popular in Beaufort and her
sudden death deeply grieved the en
tire community.
How The Accident Happened.
The deplorable accident in which
Miss Ann O'Bryan lost her life and
her companion Arnold Webb narrow
ly escaped death occurred Friday
night the 9th at about nine o'clock.
The young man, who is seventeen
years of age, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Webb of New York, form
erly of Morehead City. Mr. Webb
owns a fine summer residence on
Bogue Sound and he and his family
have been there for several weeks.
However at the time of the accident
Mr. and Mrs. Webb were in New
York.
The accident occurred in front of
the Bay Service Station on the State
highway near Morehead Bluffs. Mr.
D. H. Mansfield, proprietor of the
station, and Mr. J. D. Lowry were
eye witnesses to it. According to
their statement it appears that the
car, a La Salle limousine, was com
ing up the hill at a high rate of
speed. When it came to a kind of
bump in the road two wheels ran off
onto the grass covered shoulder. The
car ran this way fti possibly a hun
dred feet and then ca..e back on the
road and turned over. The car, it
seems, rolled over two or three times,
knocked down a smal fence and a
pump in front of the station and
hurled its occupants headlong outside.
Miss O'Bryan fel Ion the concrete
paving and was killed instantly. Mr.
Mansfield who picked her up immed
iately after she fell says he thinks
she was killed before she struck the
ground. The young man landed with
terrific force on the grass in front
of the station. He was rendered un
conscious but no bones were broken.
He was taken to the Morehead City
hospital and is reported now to be
making satisfactory progress towards
recovery.
As soon as possible after the news
of the distressing . occurrence had
spread, Coroner L. J. Noe summons
ed a jury and went to the scene. An
examination of some witnesses was
held and the place inspected. Ow
ing to the condition of young Arnold
Webb who has not yet been able to
testify the coroner's investigation has
not yet bsen completed.
HILDEBRANDS LEAVE TODAY
Dr. Samuel F. Hildebrand and fam
ily left Thursday morning for a mo
tor trip. They expect to go as far
west as Hufchinson, Kansas. On the
return trip Miss Louise will stop in
Indiana where she expects to enter
the State University.
VENERABLE LADY DIES.
Mrs. Mary L. Clawson known and
beloved by a large circle of friends,
died rather suddenly at her home on
Front street yesterday about 1:30.
Mrs. Clawson had just passed her
89th birthday. She was born in Ire
land, coming to this country when
just a very young girl. She married
Charles A. Clawson, and helped him
to build up a substantial bakery and
grocery business, which business is
now carried on by her son, Charles
A. Clawson. Surviving her are six
children, Warren W. Clawson of
Boston, Charles A. of Beaufort, Mrs.
Christine Moore, Beaufort, Mrs. Chas.
Hatsell, Beaufort; Mrs. Luther Per
ry, South Mills and Mrs. C. L. Short
of Hendersonville, fifteen grandchil
dren and two great grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed at this writing owing
to the fact that the arrival of rela
tives from out of town is not definite
ly known as yet.
Salter Path Figures
In Recorder's Court
The small and generally peaceable
village known as Salter Path occu
pied most of the time of Recorder's
Court Tuesday. Twenty or more
people from that community were in
court in connection with the trial of
Mrs. Aleck Moore accused of damag
ing a house with an ax. The house
according to the testimony of all con
cerned was worth about ten dollars.
The evidence in the case was that
along last November Mr. Moore and
Captain David John Willis made a
trade whereby the former was to pay
the latter $10 for a little wooden
house to be used for opening scal
lops or any other purpose that it
could be used for. Mr. Moore claims
that he paid the $10 and Mr. Willis
says., he did not. . He said that Mr.
Mo6re owed him a store account and
had paid something on that but had
not paid for the house. Mr. Willis
was represented at the trial by At
torney W. C. Gorham and Attorney
Alvah Hamilton appeared in behalf
of Mr. Moore. It took about two
j hours to try the case. The decision
I of the Court was that Mrs. Moore was
not guilty of damaging' the property
land that the house still belonged to
(Mr. Willis.
I J. E. Lewis, a Greek who lives near
Camp Glenn, was in court for the
second or third time, on a bad check
charge. It seems that some weeks
ago he gave a woithless check for
$14 to McLohon and King and got
merchandise to the value of $3.50
and the balance in cash for it. Since
then he has paid something on the
check. Through his attorney Luther
Hamilton, Lewis entered a plea of
not guilty. His excuse was that he
said a man in Kinston by the name
of J. V. Lewis gave him the check
in good faith. Mr. Rasberry, pres
ident of a bank in Kinston, and po
lice officer Cannady of that city,
went on the stand and swore that
they knew no such person in Kinston
as J, V. Lewis. However Judge Hill
had received a letter and a telegram
from some one in Kinston purporting
to be J. V. Lewis and saying that he
had given the other Lewis the check.
The Judge decided that the best
thing to do under the circumstances
was to contmue the case until next
Tuesday so as to give Solicitor Dun
can a chance to make an investiga
tion of the matter.
The case against Herbert Riggs and
Thos. Garner, colored, of Wilson,
charged with driving a car while
drunk was continued to next Tues
day. The case against Mrs. Annie Guth
rie of Salter Path charged with slan
der was dismissed as the prosecuting
witness Mrs. Hettie Ann Willis de
clined to go ahead with the prosecu
' tion. I
i Sam Oden, colored, of Beaufort
i charged with assault on his mother
I Silvia Oden was convicted and got a
I sentence of three months on the
roads.
TWO GIRLS DROWNED
IN BOGUE SOUND MONDAY
Two colored girls Reva Jones and
Annie Bell of the Wildwood section
were drowned in Bogue Sound Mon
day afternoon. They and several
others had gone in bathing in the
sound and it is supposed got into
deep water and were unable to swim
back to safety. The bodies were
found the next day.
SAD ACCIDENT
ON NEW RIVER
Child Trapped in Speed Boat
Burned to Death; Others
Badly Burned
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 10 Trap
ped in a speed boat when it explod
ed and burned on New River off Par
adise Point, three miles below here
this afternoon, Zack Ennis Murrell,
aged three, was burned to death
while his mother, Mrs. Z. v E. Mur
rell, Miss Sallie Arthur and Chas.
Amos were severely but not fatally
burned. The body of the child sunk
with the boat, but was recovered late
this afternoon.
The boat, a swift Chris Craft
speedster, uddenly burst into flames
half way across the river between
Mumford Point and Paradise Point.
Gasoline leaking from the fuel tank
apparently collected fumes beneath
the hatch and the explosion and' fire
followed.
The little boy was in the rear of
the boat and could not be reached.
The fire was heaviest in that quarter.
Mrs. Murrill and her little son had
crossed the river in a small row' boat
to visit friends at Paradise Pofnt, a
brisk wind had made the river tough
for rowing and Mr. Amos, wealthy
High Point furniture manufacturer
who has a summer home at Paradise
Point, volunteered to take herbaek
across the river. Mr. Arthur., the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ar
thur, of this place, accompanied them
between the two points. Thej river
is about a mile wide. The catastro
phe overtook the craft in mid-stream.
The wrecked boat sank beneath the
burned passengers, leaving them
in the river. A little boat frith a
stern motor put out from Munjford's
Point and rescued them. Alii three
of the survivors are frightfullj burn
ed but it is expected they willjreeov
er. - '
SERIUOS CHARGE MADE
AGAINST COAST GUARD MAN,
Some fifteen or twenty people from
Harker.'s Island were in. Biaufort
yesterday to attend the . trjj,1 ot-.a
young man from there on the charge
of seduction under the promise of
marriage. Edward Dixon is the
name of the defendant in the case
aad he is a member of the U. S.
Coast Guard Service. Edden Guthrie
the father of the girl in the case
swore out the warrant. The offense
is alleged to have occurred last Oc
tober. The girl in the case Miss
Irene Guthrie, eighteen years old,
was in court with a baby of a few
wetks old in her arms.
A few minutes after Justice H. W.
Noe had called court to order counsel
for the defense, Charles L. Abernethy
Jr., and W. O. Williams decided to
waive examination and permit their
client to be bound over to court. C.
R. Wheatly attorney for the prosecu
tion in the case stated, that he would
be satisfied with a $300 bond and
this was arranged. The offense
charged is a felony and conviction
may mean a term in the penitentiary.
Crops Fairly Good
Despite Wet Weather
RALEIGH, Aug. 13 Taking the
State of North Carolina as a whole,
crops are looking good quite up to
the usual, if not better. The improve
ment since July 1st has been amaz
ing. While the seasons since April have
been abnormally wet, the crops did
not suffer as much as was expected.
Even cotton advanced well (seeming
ly). The growing tobacco crop is
good as compared with the expecta
tion a month ago. The hay and grass
crops are fine, but the production of
hay depends on the weather for sav
ing it. Peaches have been very poor
(wormy), and, though a short crop,
naturally brought a poor price. .Ap
ples are short and are bringing good
prices.
The peanut prospects are quite un
settled. Neither continued dry nor
wet weather is favorable for peanut
production. The crop on August 1st
seemed to be "pegging" very poorly.
The commercial area has suffered
continued wet weather since April.
Pitt county is notably off from its
usual condition. For the first time in
several years, crops look "poorly"
there. This wet damage area ex
tends from Lenoir to Halifax and
Northampton counties. Corn, tobac
co, cotton and peanuts are affected.
An order for supplies sent to a
London merchant by George Wash
ington when he was 27 years old
shows that the young Virginian's
address was given simply as "George
Washington, Potomack river."
MELON GROWERS
HAVE DONE WELL
Good Prices Obtained For
Water Melons; Earl Sweet
Potatoes Sell High
(By Hugh Overstreet
County Farm Agent)
Up to this writing there has been
shipped from Morehead City 77 car
loads of water melons since the first
of July, against 50 cars last year.
Prices have been much better than
they were last season. I was inform
ed by the N-S agent at Morehead
City that these cars averaged more
than 900 melons to the car, netting
the growers forty cents or better.
D. S. Oglesby and Bros, sold a car
early last week for $500 f. o. b.
track. This car contained 800 mel
ons that brought Mr. Oglesby 62
cents each, ,and weighed on an aver
age of 42 pounds. Besides the car
lot shipments there has been thous
ands of melons moved by trucks to
markets within the state. This crop
alone has brought the farmers of
western Carteret County more than
$35,000.
Beaufort has shipped out to date
2500 barrels of early or Jersey Big
Stem sweet potatoes since the middle
of July. Reports from farmers indi
cate that these shipments have sold
at an average price of $7.00 per bar
rel, quite a few selling as high as
$10. M. S. Snowden, David Merrill,
WiHiam Savage and Louis Dudley are
some of the larger .producers of this
crop in the Beaufort section. Glou
cester, Straits and Marshallburg com
munities grow this crop every year
as a part of their regular cropping
syystem. My observation leads me
to believe that our farmers would
profit by planting more early sweets
and less Irish and late sweet potatoes.
This money for early sweet potatoes
comes at a time when most farmers
are not converting any other crop in
to cash.
Valuable Land Owned
By Feeble Minded Man
A proceeding was held Monday
morning before Clerk of the Super
ior Court L. W. Hassell to determine
the mental condition of Irving Page
Martin who lives in the Merrimon sec
tion of the county. The verdict of
the jury after an examination was
made of the man was that he is men
tally incompetent. A number of
simple questions were asked him to
which he made answers that clearly
showed him to be mentally defective.
For instance when asked how old he
was he said he was sixteen; as a mat
ter of fact he is 39 years old. Ernest
Martin, his brother, was present and
stated that Irving had always been
feeble minded and that he takes care
of him. It was the first time in Ir
ving's life that he had ever been to
Beaufort.
The reason for the investigation as
to the sanity of Irving Martin is that
he owns some land in Louisiana, or
did own which an oil company wants
to buy. In order to make the title
good to the property it is necessary
to show that Irving is not capable of
attending to his own affairs now. The
company does not want the question
raised at some future time. If oil
should be found on the land in ques
tion it may turn out to be very val
uable. Ernest Martin is guardian
for his brother.
The first elementary school book
by an American author and printed
in English in this country was: "Ar
ithmetick: Vulgal and Decimal,"
which appeared just 200 years ago.
TWELVE THOUSAND WHITE GRADUATES
IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR YEAR 1929
(State Superintendent
of Public Instruction)
Raleigh, Aug. 12 More than 12,
000 white boys and girls graduated
from the public high schools of the
State at the end of the year just
closed, it is revealed from tabulations
completed and released today by the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction. A total 12,145 finished
this year and 11 278 , the previous
session, or an increase of 867 grad
uates during a year's time.
Of the total number of pupils who
graduated this past year, 7,795 were
from rural schools and 4,350" from
special charter or city schools. The
year 1927-28 there were 7,073 rural
and 4 245 city graduates of white
high schools. In other words, the
number of rural graduates increased
during one year's time 10.02 "per
cent, or exactly three times the per
centage that city graduates increas
Fine Auto Speedsters
In City Police Court
Two speedsters, one white and
one colored, fared rather badly in
Mayor Chadwick's court last Friday.
Marion Dudley, a young white man,
first tried on the fast driving charge
was convicted and fined $20 and
costs. Immediately afterwards James
Battle, a young negro drew the same
sentence. On an additional charge
of disorderly conduct Battle got an
other fine of $5 and costs. In case
he does not pay the two fines he will
have to serve 40 days helping to
clean up the streets. He is also-forbidden
to drive a car in Beaufort
for six months.
Three young Negro women, Nancy
Debix, Mildred Felton and Mary Be
bix were tried on the charge of pro
fanity and disorderly conduct on the
streets. They denied the accusation
but four witnesses were against them
and the Mayor decided they were all
guilty. Nancy admitted having been
in court before on several occasions
and she gota sentence of $15 or 25
days in jail or on the streets. Mil
dred Felton was fined $5 or 15 days
and Nancy Debix drew the same sen
tence. James Ellison, colored, got a sen
tence of $5 and costs for disorderly
conduct last Sunday.
G. W. Duncan for violating a traf
fic ordinance in not getting car out
of way at a fire was fined $1 and
costs.
The case against Percy Marshall
and John Pate for fighting was con
tinued to next Friday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
Many Beaufort People
Live To Ripe Old Age
Perhaps there is no town in the
State that has more old people in it,
in proportion to size of course, than
Beaufort. The climate here, the
mode of living or something else,
seems to be conducive to longevity,
j Mr. M. Leslie Davis, who knows ev
erybody in town probably, has look
ed into the matter and says that
there are 14 white presons in Beau
fort who are more than 80 years old.
I In fact the average age of these men
'and women is 84 years. The com
ibined ages would be about 1168 years
I So far as the News is informed Mrs.
Mary A. Clawson who was 89 years
old last March and who died yester
! day was the oldest. There are many
! people in the town more than 70
years old and there are more than 30
j living here whose average age is 80
! years.
Two Liquor Outfits
Captured Last Week
Two illicit whiskey outfits were
captured by officers last week in
Carteret county. One man was also
gathered in during one of the raids.
His name is George Phillips and the
still was found not far from his home
in the Merrimon neighborhood.
Twelve gallons of whiskey was found
in his barn. The still was a copper
affair and of about forty gallons ca
pacity. Federal Prohibition Officer
McGaskill and Sheriff J. H. Davis
found the still and the man Friday
16. Phillips had a preliminary hear
ing before U. S. Commissioner C. H.
Bushall and was held under a $500
bond.
The other stil captured was a baby
one, quite a small one but made of
copper and capable of turning liquor
out all right. About fifty gallons of
mash was taken with this outfit which
was found on the east side of North
river. "Messrs. J. H. Davis and John
Pate found this booze making plant.
ed.
Comparing this year's figures with
'those five years ago, 1923-24, there is
found a 75 per cent increase in the
i total number of white public high
school graduates. In 1923-24 the
total number of graduates of the
white high schools was nearly 1,000
less than the graduates of only rural
i schools this year.
i mi 1 . . 1 - C L
1 ne largest numoer oi grauutu.es
from the rural schools in any one
county was in Buncombe where 273
boys and girls were given diplomas
or certificates of graduation from
high school. . Johnston County had
a total'of 23 1 white high school grad
uates, and Mecklenburg had 216.
There were only fie graduates of
rural high schools in Scotland Coun
ty, 15 in Chowan and 16 in Camden.
There was not a county that did not
have at least one standard rural high
school sending out its graduates.
FRUIT AND TRUCK
INTERESTS UNITE
Big Organization Will Work In
Harmony With Federal
Farm Board
. New York, Aug. 11 Formation of
the United Growers of America, a
nation wide fruit and vegetable grow
ers' co-operative marketing organiza
tion, to work in harmony with the
agricultural marketing act and in ac
cordance with the policies of the fed
eral farm board, was announced here
today. The association wil have an
authorized capitalization of $50,
000,000. The new organization, with execu
tive offices in New York will have as
members several smaller independent
associations located in various parts
of the country. It will maintain a do
mestice and foreign sales service for
the joint use of the co-operative as
sociations and growers' organizations.
Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the
board of the United States chamber
of commerce, will be chairman of the
board. Other directors include Rob
ert W. Bingham, publisher of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, and a
leader of the co-operative movement
in the south; William M. Jardine,
former secretary of agriculture; Ar
thur H. Rule, executive vice-PresL
dent of the Federated Fruit and Veg
etable Growers, and Gray Silver, of
Martinsburg, West Va.; former lieu
tenant governor of that state, and
long associated with the American
farm bureau. Additional directors
soon will be named.
Plans for the operation of the new
association do not contemplate any
absorption or change in the existing
co-operating growers associations,
the announcements said. The purpose
of the United Growers of America
is to strengethen such local organiza
tions by obtaining for them a more
complete marketing service, adequate
credit and other advantages not now
accessible. The organizations be
coming associated with the United
Growers of America will continue to
function jn their ' respective local
fields.
The announcement said a large
number of co-operative associations,
both national and local in character
have pledged their tonnage and fi
nancial support in the organization
of the United Growers and that
pledges already received provide for
many thousands of carloads of fruits
and vegetables for shipment to the
domestic and foreign trade.
CITY COMMISSIONERS TO
HOLD MEETING TONIGHT
A call for a meeting of the board
of town commissioners has been is
sued by Mayor Chadwick for this ev
ening at 7:30 o'clock at the temDor-
ary city headquarters on Turner
street. A letter has also been dis
tributed by City Clerk T. M. Thomas
Jr. acting on instructions from the
board, which invites citizens to at
tend the meeting. The principal
object of the meeting, so the News
has been informed, is to consider the
proposed town budget for the com
ing year.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Norman Willis. Charlotte HArhnr
Fla., and Edith Guthrie, Harkera Is
land. Lonnie Whitlev and Matt.io Willi
Harkers Island.
Donnie G. Davis. Williston H P..
ta Guthrie, Marshallberg.
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 be made for varia
tions in the wind and also witb
respect to the locality, that is
whether near the inlet or at
the heads of the estuaries.
High Tide Low Tide
Friday, Aug. 16
5:16 A. M. 11:13 A. M.
5:41P.M. 11:01A.M.
Saturday, Aug. 17
6:02 A M. 11:57 A. M.
6:22 P. M. 11:46 P. M.
Sunday, Aug. 18
6:45 A. M. 12:37 A. M.
7:01 P. M. 72:28 P. M.
Monday, Aug. 19
7:23 A. M. 1:14 A. M.
7:37 P. M. 1:07 P. M.
Tuesday, Aug. 20
7:59 A. M. ' 1:49 A. M.
8:11 P. M. 1:45 P. M.
Wednesday Aug. 21
8:33 AM.. " 2:21 A. M.
8:44 P. M. -2:24 P. M,
Thursday, Aug. 22
9:07 A. M. 2:54 A. M.
9:18 P. M. 3:05 P. M.