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EAUFORT NEWS The People! Newspaper Largest Circulation In Carteret County Co. f READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATCH Your label and pay your subscription The best advertising medium published in Carteret EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1929 PRICE 5c COPY NUMBER 36 VOLUME XVIII a 1 S r i ; 1 Communist Agitator Is Given a Flogging After Trial Is Halted Because Of Insane Juror Mob Forms At Gastonia; Radical Headquar ters Raided; Three Men Kidnapped; One Whipped. HEAVY DOCKET IN Whiskey Cases Predominate; Several Were Sent To Roads; Two Take Appeals Charlotte, Sept. 10 One man kid napped and flogged, two others kid napped and a quantity of communis tic literature destroyed was the net result of a parade of Gastonians starting out as a patriotic demonstra tion and winding up in raids on Na tional Textile Workers union head quarters in Gastonia and Bessemer City and the International Labor Defense. The kidnapped men were dumped beside a country road 50 miles from the place where they were seized and only made their way back to Char lotte nine hours later. Their appear ance in a police station at Concord, early today and return to Charlotte this morning was the first definite word that any person had been at tacked by the crowd. Today there was no "official" record in any of the places visited by the mob that there had been any disorders. Police blotters in Charlotte, Gas tonia and Bessemer City failed to show any record of there having been any trouble. The only information came from ex-witnesses who saw the mob, although in Charlotte, police and deputy sheriffs doubled the guard about the county jail where 13 men accused of the murder of O. R. Ader holt, chief of police of Gastonia, are held. Parade Turns Into Mob After Judge Campbell, a juror, had suddenly become insane causing a halt in the trial of 16 Gastonia tex tile strikers and strike leaders on charges of murder, it was reported in Gastonia that a communistic meet ing would be held on a vacant lot in South Gastonia. As a counter move ment a parade was formed with the avowed intention of breaking up the meeting at which Sophie Melvin, Amy Schechter and Vera Buch, New York communists, and defendants in the murder case were reported intending i;o speak. The meeting failed to materialize. Then the parade turned into a mob and started for the Old Boyce home in Gastonia whese the communists and union have their headquarters. Arriving there, members of the crowd entered the house and destroy ed a quantity of literature. Some of the men, none of whom were recog nized, were reported to have wanted to burn the house but saner men pre vented this. They then went to Bessemer City and ransacked the un ion headquarters there, tearing up literature. From Bessemer City the procession i started for Charlotte, some of them saying they intended to "get Tom P. Jimison, chief attorney for the men and women accused of the Aderholt murder. They came to Charlotte and staged a demonstration in the Court arcade, in which Jimison's of fice and that of the International La bor Defense are located. It is re ported but not ve rified that the men ' made a search of hotels in which com munists and officials of various organ izations affiliated wi:!1. the Interna tional Labor Defense have been stay ing. Three Men iKdnapped. While Dart of the crowd was raid ing the various communists and un-1 ion headquarters, another section, , said to number 15 men, kidnapped J Ben Wells, union organizer, and C. M. Lell and C. D. Saylers, union members of Gastonia. The trio was , taken to a point five miles north of j Concord on a ldnely road and there) Wells was flogged. The kidnaping party carried with thm a gasoline torch which they set up when the flogging started. But while they were beating Wells, R. B. McDonald, a farmer, and a companion who were possum hunting, came up. Their approach frightened the party . and they fled in three automobiles. McDonald today, telling the story, said that he and another man were hunting a! ing Buffalo creek near Flowe's V re road when they heard three aut : nobiles. The cars stop per! anA i rnnmpnt. later he heard blows an;' cries. "Somebody's being lashed, let's, walk to" the road," McDonald said he told hie companion. Then his friend j called their dogs and immediately j the whipping ceased and the cars : drove away. One of the cars turned from the j main highway into the farm of Frank i Fry, McDonald said, but joined the j (Continued on pp.ge eight) J NON RESIDENT HUNTERS . PAY $15.25 FOR LICENSE In the issue of August 29 theNews stated that non-resident hunting li cense is $25.25. This was an error. It costs non-residents the sum of $15.25 to hunt in North Carolina. The open s'eason for deer begins Oc tober 1 as alreadv stated in the News, for bear the same date and for quail November 20. Rabbits may be trap ped or hunted without gun at any time; with gun the open season starts November 20. The open season tor Marsh Hens is on now and lasts un til November 30. The open season for raccoons is November 16 to Feb ruary 15; for doves the open season is November 20 to January 31. AID FOR SCHOOLS GIVEN COUNTIES Over A Million Dollars Sent to Various Counties For Schools Many Boats Went Out Today After Mullets Up to this writing the usual big run of mullets that occurs about the last of August or the first of Sep tember has not been in evidence. The nearest thing to it that has happened so far was last Friday when some of the larger fishing boats made fairly good catches. The C. P. Dey boats Elizabeth and Edwards were the only ones from Beaufort that caught ""any mullets. Captain Ambrose Roberts in the Elizabeth brought in 24,000 pounds and Captain Ned Lewis brought in 14,000, pounds aboard the Edwards. The netters have been catching some nice mullets right along but at no time has the market been glutted this year as is sometimes the case. However the season is not over and a good run may occur yet. Fisher men have been bringing in some nice mackarel and blue fish and the crab bers and shrimpers have been doing very well recently also. Last night the wind shifted to the northeast and the temperature made a decided drop. This morning a whole fleet of boats big and little are out looking for the much desired mullets. Probably the largest docket since the County Recorder's Court was es tablished confronted Judge Hill Tues day morning. Court lasted all day and then resumed Wednesday morn ing at 9 o'clock. The majority ot the cases involved violation of the prohibition law in some way or oth er Road sentences were handed out to several defendants. The cases of J. E. Lewis and J. V. Lewis, father and son, Greeks, on bad check charg es were continued again. Attorney W. O. Williams prosecuted the dock et for the State in the absence of So licitor Duncan. The sentence of Aleck Taylor, white man who submitted to a liquor charge two weeks ago and was sen tenced to the roads for eight months, was reopened. His attorney Alvah Hamilton submitted a certificate from Dr. F. E. Hyde which staed that the man had a double he' n.a and that it would be dangerous to his life to serve a sentence on a road gang. Also several petitions signed by laylor s neighbors and others including a minister, asking for clemency for the defendant. Judge Hill did not seem to like the idea of ehangeing the sen tence but said he certainly did not desire to cause the death of the man and would under the circumstances change the sentence to a fine of 350 and costs to be paid on or before Sep tember 14. The defendant is also teciuired not to violate the laws of the State for four years and to ap pear in court at regular intervals and show that he has complied with the terms of the sentence. Charlie Brown, white man of the Harlowe section, was in court on a whisky charge. The evidence was that he had a small bottle about half NEW HA. CO FR COUNTY LEADS ALL pTES AS TO RURAL SCHOOLS ssiaem (State Superintendent) Public Instruction Raleigh, Sept 9: Auditor's warrants totaling $1 035,000 have just been sent out to 83 participating counties by the State Department of Public Instruction as the first installment of the State Equalizing Fund appropiat ed -by the General Assembly of 1929 for aiding counties in operating the schools-f or the six months term. The 1U remaining counties have not yet filed statements of their needs, but additional warrants totaling approx imately $165,000 will go forward to th be counties upon the receipt of such statements, it was announced at the State Department. Under the law the distribution of this Fund going out this week is much larger than the first installment has been in former years for two reasons: (1) the State appropriation this year is much larger, and (2) because a greater number of counties started their schools early this year in order to'divide the term at 'eotton picking time. ,. ,, ; The calculations were based upon statements filed from the counties and showing the neccessary operating costs ; to October 1st. In most instances the amounts are sufficient to meet the total sala y need to Oct ober , 1st, . and in many instances in which the counties receive 50 per cent or more of their budgets from this Fund the amounts are sufficient to meet the entire needs for the six months school term to this date. ; The ' State treasurer is making provisions for the second installment of this Fund to be forwarded to the inimripd nbniit. tr,p 1 5 nf Drtnhpi. fThese two- installments will thus save the counties the neccessity of borrow- imiv niAnan bnoincf Vi fav lovr fnr Vip rstnip su . .. . nsro Public ir q RALEIGH, Sep... JOn the basis of the composite score of ten educa tional factors for 1927-28, New Han over County makes the best showing of any rural white school system of the State, and Greensboro makes the highest rank among the 34 largest city systems in this respect. New Hanover County rural school system has held this leading position tor each of the past five years, when the State Department began scoring the several counties on this basis. Currituck County rural white sys tem ranks second which place it has held for the past four years. The Durham County rural white schools rank third among the 100 counties of the State, and Northampton County has fourth place. The Buncombe County rural white system has made outstanding prog ress in its rural white schools, accord ing to the score on the ten factors used. Beginning at 31st place in 1 1923-24 with a composite score of 55.5, this county moved up to fifth place in 1927-28, each year surpass ing other counties and taking a high er rank. Other counties making outstanding progress since 1923-24 are: Pender from 51st place to 16th, Forsyth from 5Cth place to 22dn, Perquimans from 76th place U-34th, Rutherford from 85th place to 36th, Camden from 20th place to 7th, Johnston from 84th place to 49th, and Samp son from 82nd place to 60th place. The ten factors used by School Facts as a basis of these relative po- sitions are: (1) percentage of en rollment in attendance, (2) length j of term, (3) training of teachers, (4) i percentage in hieh school. (5) per centage normal and under age for grade, (6) salaries paid teachers and principals, (7) cost of instructional service, (8) current expense per pu pil, (9) current expense per teacher, and (10) valuation of property per pupil. CAMP GLENN BOY PUT ON PROBATION Charlie Howland, white boy from Camp Glenn, was tried before Juvenile Judge L. W. Hassell Sat urday on the charge of an assault with a deadly weapon upon Joiin Banks. His case had been remanded from the Recorder's Court. The bov's parents it seems live in a house that belongs to Mr. Banks. The elder Howland is in bad physical condition and can do but little work. The boy is said to be the main stay ot the family. After hearing the evidence City Police Court Has Large Business For the last week or so for some reason the dockets in Police Court have been rather large. Last Friday was not an exception to the rule. The court room was well filled with defendants, witnesses and those who 'had just come to gee what was going on. The following cases were tried; Henry Norcom charged with drunk- ness was convicted and fined $.tv full in his possession when Sheriff ippmftoiof the public schools for the n..i- u;,v, Tk cliomff mM kit ivinrithi term. udvn niicaicu mm. nc ongiiii , r, ... l i J aU-. T M n - V, ' h ,,V. ne nau ueeu iiuuniieu time uruwui; , ;. spent most of . his money for liquor, and mistreated his family. ' He safd though that Mrs. Brown denied the report and he doubted that Brown had acted as badly as was reported to him. Prayer for judgment was continued on payment of costs. Montford Owens and Furney Gur kin, two young white men who live in Beaufort plead guilty to the charge of (Continued on nage fiv) REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS T. T. Garner and wife to Atlas Ply wood Corporation, Tract Timber Newport Township, for $10. B. J. Mann and wife to Atlas Ply woo'd Corporation, Tract Timber Newport Township, for $10. Southern Trust Co.. Trustee, Car teret Holding Co., Tract Morehead Bluffs, for $73,500.00. G. V. Cowper Trustee for L. B. West to Eunice H. Borden, 1 lot Morehead City, for $1000. Jos. S. Morse Jr.. et al to Mrs. Emma Morse, Executrix, 121 acres Morehead Township, for $2500. T. S. Southgate and wife to Nor man Gaskill et al. tract, Sea Level, for $800. 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 lor 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. Beaufort Schools Are Again In Operation The public schools in Beaufort, for both white and colored races', open ed Monday. St. Paul's School, con ducted here for many years by Mrs. M. R. Geffroy also opened Monday. The first two days of the public schools' opening were given up to registration of pupils, classification and other things of a routine nature. The formal opening ocurred Wednes day and was well attended by parents and others as well as pupils . and teachers. The total enrollment in Making Preparations"' For Coming Meeting The large tent that is to be used for the Evangelistic Services to be conducted under the auspices of the First Baptist church of Beaufort, will be shipped from Franklin, Va., so that it will arrive in Beaufort not later than Friday of this week. Mr. Runnet, who is the regular tent man for Rev. W. Carey Barker, the evan gelist will arrive with the tent and will have it up and well equipped for the meeting when it begins on the 29th of September. The tent will be located on Front Street between Gordon and Fulfojd Streets, facing the water front, lhis location will give ample parking space for hun dreds of cars that will attend these services and at the same time the services will not be disturbed by that of the general traffc pasing the tent. Reverend Mr. Barker and his singer, Mr. W. Plunket Martin are now in a meeting with Dr. J. W. Kincheloe at the First Baptist church of Rocky Mount that will continue through the 22nd of September, ihose m charge " ana cosis as it s ma mat mut "j Judge Hassell decided to put Charlie before Mayor Chadvvick. on probation. w t. Davis parking on wrong side of the street admitted it and was let I off with the costs. County Educators Hold Eugene Springle submitted to a r l 1 I charge of fightmg and was fined Conference This Week $2.50 and costs. 1 Luke Mason, fighting, submitted Carteret Countv Annual Education ! and was fined $2.50 and costs. al Conference is in session this week. George Turner Jr. colored den.ea The principals of larger schools meet that he . was drunk on Sunday night on Thursday afternoon. All teach-, but officer Longest and Holland said " . I A linn Hlo fro Td H 1 YY1 fl ers will oe present hi me mecung uu : -- - - Fridav. The session on Saturday morning is for all of the county edu cational forces sentence of $10 and costs or 20 days on the streets. Esther Simmons, colored, admitted . ' eno-orrinir It! a ficrVlf flnH WAS fined $5 At this conference the program of j 6 6 work for the year will be presented. , The program has been worked out to stregthen the weak places in tne sys tem and to keep pace with the mod ern trends in education. The work will be arranged as far as possible to make the school fit the needs of the 1 instead of trving to make the pupils fit the needs of the school. Different centers ot interest win oe nrnvidpd in the primary grades and large units of study will be used in the' grammar grades. the white school this year so far is KQA n.l.i.Vi .a a iTatn nvar last ira.ai'Q anrAlmant fnr fllo nnpninff wpplf hv I nf tVio r-lnna fnr thp mppHnff in Rpaii 88 pupils. fort are very much encouraged by The chapel program Wednesday ! the fine spirit of co-operation that was as follows: Song America. Invocation Reverend J. P. Har ris. Scripture lesson Reverend L. L. Smith. The P. T. A. Mrs. H. C. Jones. Song Jesus Lover of My Soul. Benediction Reverend J. P. Har ris. ' The enrollment of pupils at the white school this year by classes is as follows: First grade 81; second 67: third 75: fourth 63: fifth 57 sixth 11; seventh 58; enghth 3:54 4:19 4:14 5:08 5:33 5:51 6:14 6:03 ;6:52 j 7:05 7:2. 7:04 S:00 8:1 Friday September 13 A. M. 939 P. M. 10:35 Saturday September 14 A. M. 10:33 P. M. 11:01 Sunday September 15 A. M. H:22 P. M. H:36 Monday September 16 A. M. 12:00 P. M. ' 12:03 Tuesday September 17 A. M. 12:36 P. M. 12:42 Wednesday September A. M. 1:11 P. M. H:22 Thursday September A. M. 1:43 5 1 . M. z:o- M. M. M. M, M. M. M. M. M. M. M. , M. . M , M has been shown in the preparation of this work and the indications are that the services will be largely at tended by people from all sections of the county. Charles Pate, parking wrong, plead guilty and was assessed the costs. Mary Shepherd, charged with disorderly conduct and fighting admit-ted the fighting part and was jlet off with $2.50 and costs. North Sabiston, plead guilty to the charge of driving too fast on the streets of Beaufort and was fined $2.50 and costs. George Fuller, a Negro youth, charged with stealing a pistol from Richard Fulford was bound over At a mpptinB- of representative I i uj sn tn Vio TtarnrAar , i 1.- ylrtoil teacners two wccm agu n. waa Court. . . . ll. . 1. i.. Pl,nvnnfal ed to continue the work in Character Education which was started last year Lucius Johnson, colored man, rharo-pA with havine been drunk cuutauuu viin-ii uv-.v-- j ichargeu wren naving ueen uiuur and to use the Honor School System December 28-1929 plead not guilty Special features for the program will be talks by the teachers on spec ial things accomplished last year in their schools., an estimate of educa tional progress in Carteret County Snhnnla hv Miss Annie Morton oi He has been away for some time and just returned recently. He lost his temper and undertook to argue with the Mayor and was sent to Jail to cool off. His case will come up again tomorrow. Furnev Gurkin and Montford MARRIAGE LICENSES Thomas R. Ogleby and Rebecca Robinson, Morchend City. Myron Mason, Atlantic and Lillian Fulcher, Stacy. Ion Lewis, Haikers Island and Nellie Lewis. Stacy. ocuuuia iuioo ...... ... -- f urney uurKin ana luoniioru East Carolina Teachers College and , Recorder-s Court under bon(j 0f $100 i i. : c 4-V.rt T1oe f f Fv. i . - ... i i an expiunauuu i mc i""" " with transporting liqu-or were neiu ior tension Work from University of j Qwens two young wnjte men, charged North Carolina. eacb. Miss Margaret Hayes, County Su-j ' n . : 1 1 r- . I A.rrziori":;Two jailed AS result SISl 1VUS5 Willi vti-v mpntnl meetings for the primary and OF MOTOR ACCIDENT " " Liayton iuurpnv, iwarsnaiinerg, ana 64; ninth 29; tenth 30; eleventh j Eiizabeth Chaplain, Beaufort. MANY BEAUFORT STUDENTS WILL ATTEND THE COLLEGES THIS FALL in education will be welcome 1. i All countv schools will open Monday, September 16th. on Another consolation about getting old is that a giggle doesn't affect you as it did at forty. Twenty-seven students from Beau fort will attend institutions of high er learning and three will enter hos pitals for training -in nursing, the News has so far learned. Of this number, thirteen graduated from high school last June. It is interest- in to note that half the graduating class is going to continue studying, and it is also significant to note tne large number who chose the Unicer sity of North Caiolina. The students and their respective institutions follow: . University of North Carolina: William Potter, Clarence Guthrie, Cecil Sewell, Fred Lewis, William Lewis, Harry Fulcher, Sammy Way, William Way, Cecil Longest, Janus "Wheatly, Frank King, Frank Clawson Clyde Duncan and Jame3 G. Whitehurst; North Car-1 olina College for Women : Eleanor Jones and Margaret Dill; Louisburg Collesre: Elizabeth Haywood and Ll- va Salter; St. Mary's: Gertrude Han cock; Meredith: Glennie Paul; hast Carolina Teachers' College: Susan Eumley, Julia Parkin, and Louise Hudgins; University of Indiana: Louise Hildebrand; Mars Hill College Julia Graham;. Brenau: Helen Ilen ririx; United States Military Acad emy: Ernest M. Snowden; Lenoir Rhyne: Clarence Thomas; Maggie Ar lington will go In tiair.ing in Bost-m, ! Evelyn Chadwick in Philadelphia, ; and Dollie Beil Willis in Rocky Mount Albert Gaskill, University of N. C. county jail awaiting trial pending the outcome of injuries received by Billie Brown, 24, of Princeton, who was injured in a wreck on Highway 10, eight miles west of Goldsboro at 4:30 this morning. Brown was rush ed to a hospital in Kinston where X ray examination was made. Latest re port from the hospital were that he jis internally injured. He was driv- A series of street comer religious i ing a truck loaded with about 3,500 services will be held in Beaufort pounds ot tobacco accompanied oy Open Air Meetings Start Here Saturday soon beginning Saturday evening the 14th. The services are to ne neia under the auspices of the Episcopal church and will continue through the 22nd. Immediately, after the preaching at the foot of Tinner street a further service will take place in St. Faul's church. Open air services similar to the ones to take place here are being con ducted in various parts of the t nit cd States by what is known as the rv,,.,.v Aiinv Vin'iic men have 'open specially trained for the work i conduct these meetings. Captain F. A. Turner and an assistant will come eo Beaufort on the 14th. Similar ?ei vices will be held in Morehead City from the 23rd to the 29th. five Princeton men. Miss Braulda was driving a coach which side swiped the truck turning it completely over. The truck was only slightly damaged but the coach was practically de molished. Miss Braulda is charged with care less and reckless driving while intox icated. The woman made no effort to procure bail. There is some disagreement about the best place for a garden, but the worst place is inside the neighbor s chickens. Did you ever know a fat man who was out of work?