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L" JTO NiWS BEAUFORT Largest Circulation In Carteret County The People' Newspaper The best advertising medium published in Carteret Co. ( READINGTOTHE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE BODY WATC label and pay your subscription V EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 42 VOLUME XVIII Jury Choosing Method Attacked Here Monday SPORTSMEN HAVE VERY FINE LUCK Luther Hamilton Leads Hot Fight On The Way County Officials Selected Jurors; Various De- Salisbury People And Party of School Men Make Good Catches Sportsmen who have been fishing in these parts recently say the fish un.. i u:.: 1:1. 4-u.. i A fectS Pointed Out ; I OO Many KepUDllCanS j jn ol dtimes. It is certainly a fact r- Tk I.,-.r F Clrn TKinT. Mattel- Finallv that some fine catches have been jgl a lie uui y a vi vi a y Settled And Court Proceeds. REVIVAL SERVICES i END HERE SUNDAY Evangelist Barker Heard Tremendous Throngs; Big , Crowd Expected Tonight Something of a sensation was cre- ated in the court room Monday when immediately after it convened Attor ney Luther Hamilton of Morehead City arose and stated that he desired to move that the entire jury for this term be abolished. He said that he challenged the jury on the ground that it had not been properly drawn. After some discussion of the matter by Mr. Hamilton and County Attor ney Jas. W. Mason Judge Midyette requested Mr. Hamilton to put his motion in writing. After a short de law this was done and the motion read to the court. Mr. Hamilton was supported in his contention by at torneys J. F. Duncan and C. R. Wheat ly. He said that three, other attor neys also approved of his action. The contention of attorneys who opposed the jury as drawn, was that the list was purged in, August when it should have been done in July, that the list was furnished by the County Auditor instead of the Register of Deeds, that the board did not examine the list carefully, that it had been tampered with and that a large ma jority of the jurors were Republi cans. Judge E. Walter Hill and Mr. E. H. Gorham assisted County At torney Mason in presenting the side of the county board. County Auditor Flint was examin ed first. He stated that he acted as clerk to the board and that his pred ecessor W. L. Stancil had done the same. He stated that he got the list of jjames f or. the jury from the tax books, putting on persons wno imu. paid their taxes. He said the names were put in the box and drawn out for the October term by a little boy and that nothing was said about the clitics of anv one drawn and he CAPITAL CASE IS TRIED IN COURT Henderson Mobley, Morehead City Negro, Gets Five To Seven Years In spite of the fact that no cases were tried Monday, owing to the dis-; themselves "The Dizzy pute about the jury, considerable , who come down here headway has been made on the crim inal docket this week in Superior Court. Several cases remain at this writing to be tried and it seems made. On Tuesday a party composed of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Graf of Salis bury, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Reisher and son of Hagerstown, Md., and P. B. Beard of Salisbury spent the great er part of the day out in Captain Charles Carrow's boat and had splen did luck. In the morning they went up Newport River and in an hour or so caught 77 trout and various other sorts of fish. In the afternoon they went over to Shackelford and did equally as well with trout, sheep's head, flounders and other varieties. A party of school men, who call Dozen" and every year, spent several days here this week stopping at the Inlet Inn. They have bten going out every day with Captain Will Smith and in a boat Education Week To Be Observed In November Rnlpiirh. Oct. 14 As an aid to .teachers and school officials in the i nrpnaration of nroerams for the ob- By! servance of the ninth American Edu cation Week, which has been set a side for the week of November 11-17 nf this vear. the State Sunerinten- J Mr. W. Carey Barker who has Aent 0f public Instruction has issued bjeen speaking to great congregations ! a verv attractive bulletin. A supply eyery night for the past two and a has been mailed to each county and half weeks at the tent located next cjty superintendent of the State for ti the Beaufort courthouse, will give j distribution among the schools. the story of his life Thursday night. The bulletin contains suggestions TOBACCO CROP IS NOT VERY SHORT doubtful if any thing much can beifrom Morehead City and when they done with the civil suits on the cal- ift seemed much elated with the sue endar. In his charge to the jury Judge G, E. Midyette referred to the fact that cess. They reported good catches every time they went out. This par ty was composed of President Robt. he held court here five years ago and j H. Wright of the N. C. Training Col to his pleasure at being here again. He is a native of Hyde county and lege, Greenville, M. L. Wright, Green ville, W. A. Graham, of Kinston, C, likes the coastal country. The Judge G. Credle, Oxford, P. E. S. Eagle, said that the courts are not inefficient ' Raleigh, E. E. Sams, Kinston, Wr. H. as some people claim, that they are j Pitman, Tarboro, Jule B. Warren, very important and necessary. He commented on the great increase in Raleigh, B. C. Siske, Washington, N. C. J., T. Jerome, Goldsboro, M. R. larceny cases, especially on the part,Traboe, and S. T. Emory,, Chapel of young white people. This he said j Hill, 0. A. Hamilton, Wilmington, is worse than drinking or selling liq-'John H. Cook, Greensboro, Guy Phil uor, bad as they are. He said the lips, Greensboro. people ought to cooperate with the j courts and see that the laws are en- j Charles FenderSOn DieS forced and justice done. He appeal-j .j. i ed to the grand jurors to help uphold j From Gun OnOt WOUndS the laws of the State. C. L. Willis Mr. Barker was a four-letter ath lete during his college days at Wash ington and Lee university and after leaving school was a successful bus iness man of Lynchburg and also a leader in society. Many have already expressed a desire- to hear this mes sage from a man who has been con certed only seven years but since that time has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people and has been in strumental in leading thousands to re consecrate and give their hearts to Jesus Christ. It is expected that the tent will be filled to overflowing for his service Thursday night. j J It is said that at least 2,500 were in and around the tent on last Sun day night. Many are asking if it yas not the largest crowd ever as sembled in Beaufort. The Sunday Schools of the city also felt the ef fects of the special evangelistic ef fort by breaking all attendance rec- 6rds era last Sunday Efforts are be ing made to make the coming Sun day even larger than last. On Friday night, the evangelist will use as his subject, "The Unpar donable Sin." The subject for Sat urday night will be announced later from the platform. Sunday is being looked forward to with hopes that it may be one of the greatest days Beaufort has ever ex perienced in a religious way. Four services will be held in the tent. eleven " o'clock in the morning for suitable programs for the observ ance of each day of the week. Each day's program is entitled as follows: Monday, November 11 Armistice Day. Tuesday, November 12 Home and School Day. Wednesday, November 13 Know Your School Day. Thursday, November 14 School Opportunity Day. Friday, November 15 Health Day. Saturday, November 16 Commun ity Day. Sunday, November 17 For God and Country. SCHOOLS RECEIVE HELP THIS WEEK was appouueu lortnmu iu w ofed man who was shot in the leg-ftf jury and James Glover officer m PlayvIew Beach Monday October 7, charge. j died yesterday afternoon at about 5 The sensational cases of breaking . 0cloc'k in the Potter Emergency Hos and entering and larceny from More- vital. Gangrene was the cause of his head City were taken up at noon to- (pat. knew nothing as to their politics. He day when four 0f the girls in the case As stated in this newspaper last said Republicans were not given the entered pitas of guilty. Mildred and ,week; a fignt occurred after the con- ureference and that notning improp er was done in drawing the jury. Mr. Hamilton read affidavits from former commissioner F. B. Klein, Register of Deeds R. W. Wallace and former sheriff T. C. Wade. Mr. Klein's affidavit stated that he had been present at the board meet ings when the question of politics was raised when jurors were drawn. Mr Wallace's affidavit was in refer ence to turning the jury box over to Mr Plint. Mr. Wade's affidavit stat ed that some of the jurors drawn had not paid their taxes in his opinion. Chairman Bushall was put on the stand and asked about how the juries are drawn. He described the pro cess and said that nothing improp er was done but that in not having the list purged until August is was probable that there was a technical Violation of the law. He said he board overlooked the fact that the law required th list to be purged every two years until it was too late and so it was don in August. He was cross examined bv Mr. Wheatly about the list purging, drawing the jury and so on. He wa also asked if he did not ask Engineer Rosenberg to stay over and go b-fore the grand jury this week. He said he did not. At the afternoon session bhenn Davis was examined, commissioner Denard Lewis and Messrs. Bushall and Plint were called back for fur ther questioning. Sheriff Davis said that he was the only person who had a key to the jury box, that he super vised and aided in drawing the jury for this term of court and that there was nothing improper about it. Vnen asked why former commissioner Klein was not in harmony vwm u.c rest of the board he said it was be cause the board declined to appoint C R. Wheatly County Attorney and retain W. L. Stancil as County Audi tor. Commissioner Lewis was asked a bout how the jury list was purged and how the jurors were drawn. He did not r-mebrer that the board scrutinize 1 the list very closely. He describee! the way the jurors were drawn fcr this term of court. Commissioner M. S. Lee, who is a new member of the board, was call ed and told how the jury was drawn which he said was done by a small boy. He did not see anybody mix up the names he said. Auditor Plint went back on the stand but his tes timony was about what it was in the mominfc. (Continued on page eight) Annie Lewis plead guilty to larceny : elusion of a dance at the colored re- and Beatrice Lewis and Mary M. Pin-sort Some Beaufort and Morehead er submitted to charges of prostitu- c;ty men got into a row. The More tion. An effort will be made to get headers went home and got their them all into Samarcand the home shooting irons and returned and a for wayward girls. 'number of shots were fired. Young Solicitor Clark called the case of j Fenderson so it was reported was not John Wolfe, charged with breaking j mixed up in the affray but was an in and entering, larceny and prosti-j onlooker and got shot. He bore a tution, this morning. However j good reputation and there is general Wolfe's attornev C. R. Wheatly re-jreeret at his death. Will Allen of sisted strenuously going to trial to day. He said the man was just ar- Morehead City had a hand in the shooting but is not charged with rested Sunday and that he had not shooting Fenderson. Allen used a pis had time to study the case and get readv for trial. He thought the rights of his client would be jeopard ized by an immediate trial. There was considerable argument and the Judge took the matter under considi eration. At 1 o'clock when court ad journed for dinner no decision had been reached as to when Wolfe would be tried. Other cases disposed of are as follows: Will Allen of Morehead City, Ne gro, having whiskey in his possession found guilty by the jury. Not sen tenced yet. tol and Fenderson was shot with a shot gun. A Negro by the name of James Tucker is suspected of having fired the gun that hit Fenderson and caused his death. Allen has been in jail for several days but Tucker has not been taken at this writing. Nearly A Million And Quarter Dollars To Be Diveded lhis Week (State Superintendent of Public Instruction) Raleigh, Oct. 14 The sum of $1 214,800 is to be sent out on October 15 to the 94 counties participating in the State Equalizing Fund of $6, 500,000 appropriated by the last Leg islature as an aid in the operation of the nublic schools, it was announced At j at the office of the State Superinten- Mr. flont- nf PnVilip Instruction toHav. Barker will speak from the subject, This amount represents the second "A' Shrewd Man." At 2:30 in the installment of this Fund distributed afternoon he is announcing a special j to tne counties and applied to this service for "Mothers." Everyone is j school year's business. On Septem invity to this service but all the j her 5, the sum of $1,156,300 was mail frqf.t seats swill,.be, reserved for moth-j e(j tp the custodians of the . county ers and those remaining for any who tscn00T funds."' "With this installment may, desire them. At 4:00 P. M., or;a total of $2,371,100 will have been immediately following the service for : sent to these officials by the State, mothers, the evangelist will speak to j The State Superintendent also an "Men Only" His subject at this time , nounces that the State Treasurer is will be, in a rrison eii. -j making such provisions as is neces- Unt is expected to be filled with men for this special meeting. The campaign will be brought to a close Sunday night when Mr. Barker brings his last message, "Life's Great est Gamble." Miss Marie Clawson is back after spending two weeks with her broth- Ler Mr. Jas. Clawson and Mrs. Claw- son in Charlotte. Read the county newspaper. Howard Rose of Harker's Island, cribe for the Beaufort Newt. Sub- larceny, of clams, acquitted by jury j after hard fight between Solicitor Clarke and Attorney M. Leslie Dav is. ! Bennie Martin of Morehead City, white youth, plead guilty to selling liquor for R. M. Gaskill. Gaskill has run away. Prayer for judgment was continued for two years. Martin to show good behavior or serve six months on the roads. J. E. Lewis plead guilty to bad check charge. He is to pay $118.50 to R. T. Willis by next term of court or go to jail for 12 months 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, thzt is whether near the inlet or at the heads of the estuaries. CITY POLICE COURT HAD SEVERAL CASES Mayor Chadwick warned two young white men who were in his court Fri day afternoon on a charge of fast driving, that the second offense would mean a $50 fine. The two de fendants were Warren Willis and Gil bert Smith. Both plead guilty and were fined $5 and costs. McKinley Godett, young colored man, plead guilty to a charge of drunkeness and was fined $2.50 and costs. John Springle denied that he was drunk on October 4th but officers Longest and Holland said that he was and as it was not his first offense he was fined $7.50 and costs. Earl Moore admitted a charge of drunkenes? and was fined $2.50 and costs. sary m order mat a tnira installment of $1,270,800 may be sent out on December 10. Before January 1, 1930, therefore, it is expected that $3,641,900.00 will be distributed and applied to the cost of the six months school term. As will be noted this total sum excefds the entire amount of $3,250,00 appropriated for the six months school during 1928-29. Under the law the distribution of that part of the Fund applicable to the six months school term is limited to four installments. The fourth in ! stalment of over a million dollars will t be sent out in February or March of I next year. After this payment is ! made, the $1,250,000 fund set aside to aid the public schools running more than six months will be made. Mr. and Mrs. James Biggs motored to Raleigh Sunday. Mrs. Biggs re mained there to visit relatives and friends. Read the county newspaper, scribe for the Beaufort New. Sub- YOUNG MEN AND GIRLS CHARGED WITH ROBBING FINE RESIDENCES A divorce was granted to Rhoda L. ' High Tide Perry from Ray Perry on the grounds of five years separation. A. J. Dixon, Monroe Adams, Ru dolph Salter, J. B. Wilis, Franklin Willis violating prohibition laws. (Continued on page five) Low Tide AN ERROR CORRECTED pro-the In last week's report of the ceedings of Recorder's Court News stated that the only case tried was that of Sam Chadwick for driv ing a car while drunk. In the next paragraph it was said that "Murdock" was under the influence of liquor nad drove the car in a wobbly fashion. 1 11:21 A. This was manifestly an error as. the i 11:20 P. Friday, October 18 7:27 A. M. 1:14 A. 7:46 P. M. 1:39 A. Saturday, October 19 8:05 A. M. 1:40 A. 8:25 P. M. 2:22 P. Sunday, October 20 8:46 A. M. 2:20 A. 9:07 P. M. 3:07 P. Monday, October 21 A. M. 3:02 A. P. M. 3:55 P. Tuesday, October 22 A. M. 3:52 A. P. M. 4:49 P. Wednesday, October 23 M. 4:42 A. M. 5:48 P. 9:31 9:53 10:22 10:47 ths defendant's name was Chadwick.! Thursday, October 24 The Murdocks in the case were only 1 11:51 A. M. 5:45 A. M. witnesses. 1 12:28, P. M. 6:56 P. M. A trial before Mayor Bonner of j found at Wolf's home and other ar Morehead City Monday night result-1 tides were found at the homes of the H in tw liiiidinar over to Superior ! other defendants in Morehead City. Court of a number of defendants on Some of it had been buried in some vtrv serious charges. It was ground. ii i a.., ,! f iho Hpfonii- It annears that about two wee uureti iiiiit v. onto Iwrit-,. in to certain dwelling ago it was found out that somebody hmip in Morehead City and carried had been stealing stuff from the An- awa; a laige quantity of property, derson home and former ti ..u .i tVi t ho primp appi ro iof ueortre .eis: m John Wolfe Jr., of Beaufort, Luke ( City was employed to investigate. He Mf.son of Beaufort, Mildred Lewis, did some good detective worn anu Annie Lewis, Beatrice Lewis and succeeded in getting sufficient ifor- Mary Myrtle Piner of Morehead mation to justity maKir.g tne arrets. City. The girls are all young, their j Sheriff Davis and Chief of Police ages being from thirteen to 17 years. Jim wnns arresteu nuue -a nume Besides the others Mr. and Mrs. xoDe suncay morning i u -iv.. t.u Mr nH Mrs. Rufus Lewis others were rounded up later in the , P,arTPH with being accessories ! day. Luke Mason, who has a long Nearly As Large As Last Year; Eastern Crop Not So Good (Department of Agriculture) Raleigh, Oct. 15 While the North Carolina tobacco crop is generally thought of as being unusually short in yield this season, the various in vestigations and reports made during September indicate a condition of 72 per cent of a full crop, forecasting 496,860,000 pounds, which is about The acreage is 5 per cent more this year. Undoubtedly, the crop in the Cen tral Coastal Belt is unusually poor 3,000,000 pounds under last year, and short in weight. On the other hand, the southern central and west ern parts of the State are making unusually good yields, which also in dicate good quality. It must be kept in mind that the tobacco crop has repeatedly been underestimated in previous years. This year's bright leaf belt or flue cured type appears to be 27,000,00' pounds more than last year's 749 000,000 pounds. The average pric of the South Carolina-Georgia cro was much better than last year. Th Virginia crop showed a condition of 82 per cent, as compared with 64 last year, which means last year's poor crop in that area is followed by an extra good yield this year. The South Carolina crop was poorer than the North Carolina crop last year, but is now 8 percent better than their 1928 crop. Georgia's crop is extra good. This tells the story of good prices there. While the general opinion is that the eastern North Carolina "New" Belt prices are far below last year, the September sales figures show on ly a slightly lower average than for the same period last year. Low grades brought better prices tha nlast year. A feature that few people seem to appreciate is that the August and September tobacco prices are usually low, with the peak coming in late Oc tober and early November, following which time' the price gradually "de clines until the end of the season. The effect of the Old Belt prices is going to raise the general average of the State appreciably during Octo ber. This is the fiist real good crop that they have had in several years. The central and northern Coastal Belt, composing most of the New Bright Belt, showed an average of 64 percent condition, the South Caroli na Belt countits showed about 80 per cent, while the Old Belt area shows a condition of about 76 per cent. The mountain counties, where our Burley production is mad?, aver aged about 86 per cent condition. The yield per acre is indicated at 680 pounds as compared with 6S6 last year. In an endeavor to secure more in formation pertaining to the tobacco yield, The North Carolina Crope Re porting Service undertook in August and September to obtain many facts relating to the farmers' individual experiences in this year's crop. These included the number of sticks and the average weight, the number of plants per acre and the number of leaves harvested per plant, the num ber of barns cured, as well as other factors relating to fertilizers, wood used, size of leaves, etc. These re ports indicate a better yield than had been anticipated, even after discount ing the fact that they were from the larger growers. Distinctly the worse area in the State was found from Martin to Le noir counties and from eastern Wil son to Craven counties. In this a rea the leaves were averaging well Lks Chiif of I Morehead after that fact, that is to say receiv ing stolen goods. The houses that were entered were those of Messrs. Selby Ander son and Fred Carr of Wilson, Mrs. WT. L. Brogden, of Raleigh and Frank Davis of Morehead City. Property wna otnlon from the Andersson, Carr criminal record, left for Florida last week and so could not be taken. At torney C. R. Wheatly represented Wolfe at the hearing before Mayor Bonner and waived examination. It is alleged that ."the two young men and girls have made a number of visits to the houses that were pil- I nvpr 100 to the stick, which indicat- the ! ,i i:.l,f ,,.iVit Tlmv vvova fnllllil to be unusually small and papery. Of course, in this same area many farms produced very good crops. Often times only a road divided entirely dif ferent results. Ihe fctate-reaerai tonaccn giau'.Tif work being concreted at SmithfieLl steadily grew in popularity since its introduction early in September, while the weekly price averages show ed a distinct advantage for the official graded sales. The last week of Sep tember showed that 28 per cent of the sales were graded with an average price of $15.81 per hundredweight. This compared with the ungraded av erage of $10.79. This was decidedly the greatest dierence of any prev ious period. and Brogden homes. The articles ; laged and naa punea on some ft taken included furniture, ladies j parties in them. There were signs clothing, bed linen, food and other of much eating, drinking and big things 'The Brogden house is said times generally. The houses are to have been pillaged the most. A owned by wealth people who use them good deal of the stuff has been re-j mainly as summer residences, covered. Considerable furniture was '. U. D. C. MEETING There will be a meeting of the Fort Macon chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Sat urday at 3 P. M. October 19 at the residence of Mrs. P. B. Loftin. All members are urged to attend. Mrs. W. A. Mace, Secretary. I